Evening Star Newspaper, April 3, 1933, Page 5

. S r . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, APRIL 3, 1933. N &% A—S m ERAND JURY MEETS | Scene of Plame Crash Which Killed Six | CHECKS RETURNING ™<=rceonc ™ RINEY DISPLOSES i 2 e 1$16,500,000; payments on Pederal Fome | Loan Bank stock, $5,700,000. e report also showed that the Sec- NVODDOD MURDER e TOBUSINESS USE = 552225 R .G LOM REPOR disposition of agricultural surpluses, located to the ‘Secretary of at Wardman Park Theater. Witnesses to Be Heard in | $438,000; all ;Agrlcultu.re for crop production loans, The Catholic Daughters of Amer- ica, Court No. 12, will benefit from the Strange Religious Strangling i of Mrs. Lucinda- Mills. §B7 the Assoclated Press. INEZ, Ky, April 3.—The Martin ty grand jury met here todsy to ear witnesses unfold the story of a trange religious service that culmi- in the sacrifice of an elderly mother in a mountain cabin near Toma- jhawk, a small village in the Eastern Wentucky mountains. Son Held as Slayer. ‘The victim, Mrs. Lucinda Mills, in her late 60s, was found choked to death and her body bound in chains Jast February. Shortly afterward her son, John H. Mills, 33, was bound over at a preliminary hearing as the actual slayer. Eight others, all relatives, were held as accessories. John Mills and Ballard Mills, 19, a grandson of the slain woman, are still in jail, but the o‘..hgra were freed under $10,000 boad each. Should the accused be indicted and ‘brought to trial, S. M. Maynard of de- fense counsel indicated pleas of insanity will be entered. At the investigation that followed Mrs. Mills' death witnesses said the tragedy resulted from a misinterpreta- tion of a divine message telling how to demonstrate “the death of sin.” Others had first been chosen for the sacrifice, Commonwealth Attorney J. B. Clark ‘was told, but all resisted when the final test csme and proved their ‘‘unfitness to die.” Victia Held Willing. The victim herself, others said dur- Ing the first investigation, was willing to make the sacrifice in the belief it would help free her son, Leonard, who fwas sent to an.insane asylum a year ®go. Still others claimed she would have been brought to life three days after her death. Neighbors of the accused termed them #Bible crazy,” according to county of- Hicials, and told of religious services that include shouting and singing and *swording”—passing a Bible across one another’s throat. NEW SIAMESE RULE SET UP BY DECREE Government Power After Quashing of Communist Threat by King. in By the Assoclated Press. BANGKOK, Siam, April 3.—A new Siamese government was in power to- day after King Prajadhipok issued a decree quashing what he regarded as a Communist threat. A cabinet, headed by Phya Mano- pakarana, representing comervativel elements, took over control. Armed forces were placed around the palace when the King's order was announced gekwrdny. removing Luan Pradit, who Jad headed the government since last une. The King declared the Luan Pradit group had convictions “which cannot possibly harmonize with the policy of any nation not wholly communistic.” The action was taken after the group resented an_economie plan to which :fing (;&{ected, was this group of so-called youn idealists who set up the cansntuuonnsl monarchy, ending the historic absolute powers of the King over his subjects when the army and navy rebelled last June 24. Most of the royal family was taken in custody, but the King imme- filtetly approved the change in govern- ent. His manifesto was issued yesterday from the seaside resort of Huahin. It Baid: “A situation exists which would force any government and any coun- #ry to take extraore measures.” A possible counter-revolt was consid- gred unlikely since Luan Pradit is &known as a patriot interested only in bringing relief to the farmers and de- ::l: ng health, education and other atters. GUESTS FLEE BLAZE $mall Early Morning Fire Alarms { Monmouth Hotel Residents. ! Smoke from a small fire filled an faonex of the Monmouth Hotel at 1815 G street early today and caused a hasty jexit of guests, two of whom descended #o the street on fire ladders raised to hird-floor windows. Six or eight other n_ lodgers went down the stairway ter the smoke cleared somewhat. . The fire started shortly after 2 ©'clock near electric meters in the store ;xzm of a restaurant on the ground oor. Firemen searched the smoke- Hilled building for some time before they located the blaze. It was extin- ished after it had caused several undred dollars’ damage. Guests then weturned to their rooms. { NAMED RAIL TRUSTEES ! 'The Interstate Commerce Commis- n today added four names to the tanding panel of trustees from which deral Courts throughout the country y select trustees to operate railroads hich take advantage of the new Fed- eral bankruptcy law. W. C. Fankhauser, Allan P. Matthew and Max Thelen, all of San Francisco, and George R. Sykes of Pinedale, Calif., ‘were added to the list. SOLUTION TO THE MURDERER'S MISTAKE. (See page A-3.) ‘While the body had a knife wound in the heart, below the heart and in the pit of the stomach, there were only two cuts HESE Assoclated Press pictures provide graphic views of -the- wreckage of near Neodesha, Kans., resulting in death to six persons and critical injurles to eight others. The accidént termi- nated the homeward trip of the Winnipeg Toilers, Canadian amateur basket ball champions. ) the tri-motored plane which crashed By the Assoclated Pre: BERKELEY, Calif., April 3.—White mice and black, studied in a natural desert laboratory in the Tularosa Basin of New Mexico, may contribute impor- tant evidence in support of Darwin's theory of natural selection. In the Tularosa Basin, an arid sink about 30 miles north of El Paso, Tex., colonies of white pocket mice, burrow- ing rodents of the genus perognathus, live in contentment on dunes of white gypsum sand. A rifle shot away, sepa- rated from the sands by alkali desert, black pocket mice live and thrive on a black lava formation. Dr. Seth Benson, assistant curator of mammals of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology of the University of California, in a monograph prepared for publica- tion by the university, sald the prof tive coloration was result of natu- ral selection. Hundreds of Mice Studied. Benson established a camp in the sink and studied many hundreds of the mice at first hand for more than a month, The rodents, called pocket mice because of the presence of small cheek pouches, are nocturnal animals and much of the work was carried on by ‘moonlight. In an extensive study, which also took into account the possible effect of climate and diet on the mice, Benson eliminated these as factors. Diet, tem- perature and humidity, he decided, had no bearing on the coloration of the rodents. “The lava flows and the white sands CATHOLIC CHARITY MEET TERRORIZED BY GUNMEN Three Bandits Rob Five Secretaries of $2,500 and Make Get-Away. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Kans, April 3.— Three gunmen yesterday terrorized 500 men and women at a Catholic charity society meeting, robbed five secretaries of approximately $2,500 and escaped atter "a revolver fight with pursuing police. The robbers made the rounds of five secretaries scattered about the room at desks, collecting money which had been paid as dues by the members. Leaving the hall, the robbers waved aside a group of children playing about the entrance and opened fire upon Leonard Theno, motor cycle officer. He returned the fire. Other policemen hastened to the scene. A patrol car was disabled by the bullets of the trio. One of the robbers fell, apparently wounded, as they raced to a motor car parked near the society's quarters, but s companions carried him to their machine. Blood was found on the pavement where the bandit stumbled, together with a cigar box containing $226 of the loot. EVIDENCE FOUND TO EGPPORT THEORY OF NATURAL SELECTION Isolated Colonies of Black and White Mice Studied by Scientist Checking Darwin’s Hypothesis. in the basin are sumsounded by and isolated from each other by stretches of alkali desert,” Benson said today. “It seems probable that a concealing coloration has developed as a result of natural selection and isolation. In other words, dark mice, living in the black background, being better pro- tected against the ravages of birds and beasts of prey, survived because mice with protective coloring lived and passed on their protective color characteristics. Perfect Natural Laboratory. “Similarly, mice with white, or partly white, coloring, survived and bred on the white sands. In time this produced & white race, truly a survival of the fittest. “Larger mammals, able to range be- tween the black and white areas did not FLYING ANTS (Termites) Cause $40,000,000 Damage to Wood Work in Homes and Buil GUARANTEED TREATMENT Vacating Unnecessary—Free Inspection Terminix Co. of Washington 1102 National Press Bldg. Phone National 3703 develop protective coloring. The fact that the isolated races have devel such coloration is explained by the fact they are not exposed to interbreeding with animals not subjected to the same sort of selection. “The areas of sand and lava on which the black and white groups of the same family are isolated provided a perfect natural laboratory for the study.” Money in Circulation Drops on March 29 to $6,353,000,000. By the Associated Press. YORK, April 3—The use of checks, rather than actual money, for the conduct of corporate and personal affairs is fast returning to normal pro- portions, is is revealed in an analysis of bank statistics just made public. In the days which led to the banking crisis the demands for cash reached unprecedented proportions. Money in circulation on March 8—the first weekly report following the declaration of the national banking holiday—reached the dizzy peak of $7,538,000,000, by far the most stupendous figures in the history of the country. Money Begins to Emerge. With the return of confidence in the Nation’s fiscal strength, which rapidly became evident following the adminis- tration's aggressive banking reform ies, money began to emerge from g places, and on March 29 the figure was down to $6,353,000,000, a drop of $1,185,000,000. J A study of the records shows that bank deposits in this country in 1929 totaled proximately $57,000,000,000, whereas the aggregate of check clear- ings in that year was more than $700,- 000,000,000, something like 121, times all deposits. But the total amount of money in circulation during that year was only about $5,000,000,000. ‘These figures serve to bring out the fundamental truth, bankers explain, that money is primarily a standard of value in the world of business, but plays only a minor part as the actual means of payment. - Payments Cancel Out. ‘The fact that some nine-tenths of all payment$ are made through checks, which cancel out when brought to- gether, is not a matter of chance under normal conditions. 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Behind Embassy Dairy Products you will find not only modern equipment and methods, but men imbued with sin- cere ideals of SERVICE to the community in which they presentation of the religious drama, “On the Third Day,” at 8 o'clock to- night at the Wardman Park Theater. The drama was arranged by Arthur Bradley. from the play by Belford Forest, and will be presented by the Drama Study League. ‘Tomorrow night the performance will be presented for the benefit of St. Martin's Catholic Church of Gaithers- burg, Md. Drama Study League mem- bers in the cast include Grace Spruce- { bank, Agnes Walter, Romona Raley, Mary Leversedge, Jean Gill, H. Jarvis, Robert Trebor, John Don- nelly, Joseph Day, Luke O'Reilly and Tt Heath. LOS ANGELES, April 3 (#).—Sur- | geons of the Police Receiving Hospital are keeping the spoon Jack Manheim iswallowed. They were skeptical when | he was brought in for its removal, con- tending they had never heard of such a case. An X-ray, however, located the spoon far down in Manheim's throat, wher]edhe said it slipped in treatment of a cold. Ld 0 o Doctors Keep “Swallowed Spoon.” | {Advances Totaling 262 Mil- lions Included Despite Pleas for Secrecy. By the Associated Press, Speaker Rainey today continued the practice of his predecessor, Vice Presi- dent Garner, and made public the Re- construction Pinance Corporation’s monthly report to Congress showing it had authorized advances of $262346,- | 044 in February. Just before Garner ended his term as Speaker, he released the report for January despite numerous appeals for secrecy. _Similar made to Rainey about the first report transmitted to Congress since he be- | came Speaker. | The report showed that during Feb- | ruary, loans authorized by the corpora- tion had been® Financial institutions, | Sorpor of appeals had been | retary of Agriculture had asked $80.- 000,000 of the $90,000,000 authorized for crop production loans for the new crop year. “Funds will be advanced by the cor- poration as the Secretary recuires,” the ion >ald. e loans approved for Nnanciay institutions and raflroads, some of | which had not been disbursed at the close of Pebruary, $89,368,507 went to banks and trust companies, including $3,624,200 to aid in reorganization or liquidation of closed banks, $2,817,000 to building and loan associations, $1,236,- 500 to insurance companies, $31,657,958 to mortgage loan companies, $1,083822 to joint stock land banks, $240,000 to agricultural credit corporations, $20,- 758,400 in rediscounts to regional agri- cultural credit corporations, $33,000 to live stock credit corporations and $19,- 449,922 to railroads. | One of the Jargest loans reported was to the Hibernia Bank & Trust Co. of New Orleans. 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