Evening Star Newspaper, April 20, 1933, Page 5

RUSSIAN VERSION OF TRIAL S GIVEN Soviet News Agency Relates Procedure Leading to Convictions. (In view of the widespread inter- est in the Moscow Metro-Vickers trial, the Associated Press asked Tass, official Soviet news agency serving all the newspapers in Rus- sia, to transmit its own account of the proceedings and a statement of the Soviet point of view. This is in addition to the complete account cabled to the Associated Press.by its own Moscow correspondent.) MOSCOW, April 20 (By Tass, official Boviet news agency).—The Supreme Court of the U. 8. S. R., sitting in spe- clal session from April 12 to April 18 under the chairmanship of Vassili Ul- rich, examined in open hearing the case of defendants Busev Gregory, Zie- bert, Zorin, Krasheninnikoff, Kotly- arevsky, Kutuzova, Cushny, Lebedeff, Lobonoff, MacDonald, _ Monkhouse, Nordwell, Olyenik, Sokoloff, Sukoruch- kin and Thornton. The court established the followin, In the course of several years, syste- matic breakdowns of separate units took place in big electric stations of the U. S. 8. R. at Moscow, Zlatoust, Cheliabinsk, Ivanovo, Baku and other places. These breakdowns stopped the units for more or less lengthy periods and lowered their power. On the basis of data submitted to &, an expert committee concluded that in all the breakdowns investigated, there was either criminal negligence or direct wrecking activities by the tech- nical personnel of these stations. On the basis of material adduced in the fud\mll investigation, the court established that the cause of the break- was wrecking activity by coun- ter revolutionary groups, consisting of state employes at the electric stations (mostly higher technical personnel) acting in complicity with some em- m the vate English firm, the litan-Vickers Co. The court’s verdict enumerates wrecking acts in four electric stations and gives detailed qualifications of the crimes of those who directly executed g‘ufl wrecking acts and of the English zens. ‘The court established that among the employes of Metro-Vickers, the leading part in the crimes belonged to Thorn- | ton, under whose direction wrecking activity at various electric stations was carried out by engineers of the firm, MacDonald, Nordwell, Cushny and Olyenik. ~Through these persons, as well as directly, Thornton came into contact with counter revolutionary groups and came to terms with them to effect breakdowns, and to conceal de- | fects in equipment supplied by Metrc Vickers; he gave bribes to State em- loyes for criminal actions committed them: engaged in military espionage on territory of the U. S. 8. R, collect- ing through MacDonald, Cushny and Olyenik, secret information of military imj ce; and gave bribes to State employes (Gusev, Sokoloff and others) for information received. The criminal sction against Thornton was in refer- ence to Article 58, of the criminal code, elauses 6, 7, 9 and 11. Monkhouse, a representative of the Moscow office of Metro-Vickers, was in- formed about Thornton’s activities and participated by bribing State employes to conceal defects in equipment sup- plied by Metro-Vickers and also to con- ceal defects in erection work, which led to breakdowns. The criminal action against Monkhouse was in reference to Article 58, clauses 7,.9 and 11 of the cr al code. The executors of the wrecking in- structions of Thornton were MacDonald, Nordwell, Cushny and Olyenik, who ized breakdowns, concealed defects in equipment and collected military in- formation of a secret nature. The ver- dict incriminates Anna Kutuzova in concealing and assisting the criminal actions of some employes of Metro- Vickers On the basis of facts established by the court and of a resolution of the Central Executive Committee of the U. 8. 8. R, on March 14 (which de- clares that since State employes con- victed of wrecking are traitors to the fatherland, they should bear more severe responsibility than employes of private enterprises) the court sentenced Gusev, Bukoruchkin nx;d lr;ob(::zoc ;ofll;;‘ tye;n imprisonment, deprivation of s for five years and confiscation of all their roperty. . The court based its choice of this punishment, rather than execution, on the fact that the criminal wrecking was of local character and did not do seri- ous harm to the industrial strength of | the U. S. 8. R. 8okoloff, Zorin and Kotlyarevsky were | given eight years imprisonment on the same basis. Krasheninnikoff was or-| dered imprisoned for five years. Con- Sidering that Lebedeft was only a tool | in the hands of Lobonoff, the court gave him two years’ imprisonment. Of the employes of the Moscow office of Metro-Vickers, Thornton received ‘three years. In the case of MacDonald, because he was considered to be acting under the direct instigation of his im- mediate chief, Thornton, and because of his sincere confession in court, the judges commuted the punishment re- tred by law and sentenced him to ga years imprisonment. Monkhouse, w'eu and Cushny were ordered e: for five years and must leave in three days. e court, taking into con- sideration Olyenik's dependence on Thornton as an employe of a private firm, gave him three years’ imprison- ment; Kutuzova, a year and a half. The time of the preliminary detention of the de{::dlnf-l will count as part of their sentences. The judges, considering that Ziebert by his after 1931 proved that he sincerely broke with the wreckers, freed him from arrest. Gregory. in view of insuficient evidence, was considered not guilty. The sentences are and mot open to appeal. MRS. JUDD IS SANE, SAYS COUNTY DOCTOR an Testifies That She An- swered Some Questions in Responsive Manner. h By the Associated Press. FLORENCE, Ariz., April 20—O. E. Uttzinger of Ray, Ariz, deputy Pinal County physician and leutenant cdlonel in the Medical Reserve, United States Army, testified at Winnie Ruth Judd’s sanity hearing today he belleves the condemned young woman sane. Dr. Uttzinger testified that when he examined Mrs. Judd at the Arizona State Prison a week ago, she answered some questions in a responsive manner, but “either did not or would not answer any questions pertaining to her present situation.” Mrs. Judd is under sentence to be hanged a week from tomorrow for the murder of Agnes Anne Leroi, one of the two “trunk murder” case victims, .u::unl the sanity jury finds she is e. Prom alienists, officers of the courts The present ot the sanity hearing beg: y yesterday when counsel for the id young woman suddenly rested, mln&:mhnmmmemn\o testimony from immediately available, | |Native of Georgia, Former, New Yorker, Staunch Californian. Man Who Helped Make Roosevelt President Eyes Workings of New Regime. “BY GRACE HENDRICK EUSTIS. Once again the debonair, precisely- dress®d Willlam Gibbs McAdoo is back in Washington. This is an atmosphere which is “meat next to the bone” for the new Senator from California as hz | stretches his long legs under his desk |and watches the new administration | meneuvers. “They must choose their own colors to paint the canvas,” he said, “and let us hope they choose good ones. No one is infallible,” he paused for a mo- ment “except my wife!” Outside of offering a bill for the re- lief of agricultural industry by re- financing existing farm loans so as to provide long-time loans at low interest rates and permitting the repurchase of foreclosed farm lands, Senator Mc- Adoo has busied himself mainly with the problem of California patronage. Lifetime of Work. | This brilliant, vital man, who is 70, and looks a scant 50, has engulfed in one lifetime enough work to keep a army occupied. Born in 1863, in the | wake of Sheridan’s devastation, he spent his boyhood in Georgia. In order to pay for his primary education, he| sold newspapers in Milledgeville. Then | his father was given a professorship | in the University of Tennessee and | there the boy read law and began prac- tice. He tasted his first political blood | when he went as an alternate delegate | to the national Democratic convention | in Chicago in 1884. He married Sarah | Hazelhurst Fleming and they had six| children. | In 1892 he headed for New York. He | went into partnership there with man of his name but no kin, and while he commuted every day on the unwieldy | ferries, he became imbued with the | idea of building tunnels under the Hud- | son River. Although this idea had been previously suggested and lbnn—} doned, Mr. McAdoo worked and prod- | ded and finally succeeded In instigating New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Lehigh, Dela- | ware. Lackawanna and ' the Western | railroads have been able to increase | their transportation immeasurably. | Friend of Woodrow Wilson. | Prom then on his career is too well , known to dwell on. His friendship with | { Woodrow Wilson began in the days when the latter was president of Prince- ton and Mr, McAdoo's oldest and wit- | tiest son was a student there. Find- ing in Mr. Wilson a man sympathetic to his intellectual political taste and | being, as always, on opportunist of the first rank, Mr. McAdoo concentrated THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, POWER, YOUTHFULNESS CLING TO M'ADOO IN SENATE DUTIES SENATOR McADOO. his enormous energies to help elect Mr. Wilson. So hard did he work during the campaign and afterward, that it was no surprise when he was given the portfolio of Secretary of the Treasury. | To “this was added the directorship general of railroads during the war, and two years after the death of his rst wife he married the President’s daughter, Elleanor Randclph Wilson. The Senator is a difficult man to ana- lyze. Although he has made a com- fortable income for himself, his two wives and his eight children, before they grew up, he has always professed a dislike of the power of vested interes When he was fighting for the buildi of the McAdoo tubes under the Hudson, his endeavor was to change the motto of William H. Vanderbilt from *“The public be damned” to “The public be pleased.” When he was Secretary of the Treasury he battled against the domination of Wall Street banks over the Federal Treasury. By instinct he seems to be a Jeflersonian and yet he was at one time lej counsel for Ed- ward Doheny. He has a charming, if involved, personality. Organizing California. At present, outside the untouched possibilities of legislation, Senator Mc- not only has the Democrats back of him but also those discontented Repub- licans who cannot manage their wild rose. Senator Hiram Johnson. Alter the coup detat at the Demo- cratic convention last July, when, by some one’s genius, California and Texas, who had screamed for Garner all thrcugh the hot nights, switched to Roosevelt, Mr. McAdoo hopped on the bandwagon. So also did Mr. Willlam Randolph Hearst. Togeiher they waged a yivid campaign against the wet Tubbs and the evangelist Shuler. The State was split 40 ways, but under the Roose- velt banner they won. 1,750,000 SHARES SOLD IN HALF HOUR IN FRENZIED TRADING | | avalanche. Bookkeeping staffs were | swamped and appeared to have long hours of night work ahead of them to | Yring their records up to date. By noon telephone communication with the floor of the Stock Exchange (Continued From First Page.) acted $1 to $2 from their highs—in a few cases more extensively. The turn- | over showed no signs of diminishing. | United States Steel was then selling around $42, while American Telephone had fallen back to $93, a dip of $1.50 | from the high. U. S. Smelting, Refin- | ing & Mining, at $40, was off $1 net, while General Electric, American CM‘[ American Tobacco “B,” Case and Inter- | national Telephone, among others, were | approximately $1 under their . Activity slackened sharply this afternoon and at 1:23 p.m. the ticker | was running even with transactions. Sales to 1:30 o'clock totaled 5,400,000 | shares. At that time yesterday volume amounted to 3,530,000 shares. | WHEAT UP 5% Cents. CHICAGO, April 20 (#).—A maximum jump of 5% cents a bushel was scored | in wheat future deliveries on the open-| ing transactions today. The September | delivery hopped up to 73 cents, a rise of | 53, cents, with the July opening at 70| cents, up almost 4 cents. All other grains followed the sensa- | tional advance in wheat. Corn was fully 3 cents a bushel higher at the start, with the September delivery reaching 41 cents. Oats ranged more than a cent higher, rye was up 3! cents and lard gained 65 cents a hundred pounds. | The rapid advance threw the grain pits into the greatest turmoil seen in many months. | Pandemonium reigned in the pits as| buyers swarmed over the edges and | jammed into a place where they could | buy wheat. All deliveries of wheat, oats, rye and corn, except May corn, soared to the highest levels of the season in a twinkling. At 73 cents a bushel, wheat was the highest since October, 1931, when it was held above 80 cents a bushel for a time by Government operations. The time wheat sold, under normal condi: uo’nl. as high as 73 cents was in May, 1931. CLEAR EYES . VIGOR the answer is: Internal Cleanliness Intestinal stoppage, com- monly known as constipation, is the cause of 80% of all human ills, say many famous doctors. Thousands feel and look old before “their time,” often because of personal neglect. b JE you are not fedling up to par want to regain your old-time energy and really feel good again, follow this_simple. pleasant method of ing constipation. Take one little E-Z Tablet when- ever you feel sluggish, full of cold, e s ek It quickly settles upset stomach, banishes coated tongue and livens lazy liver. cleanses and sweetens the bowels. E-Z Tablets gently but surely and Keep Jour E zr"d',umm' ‘micest bowel and you WvEST 28€ PFOR YOUR NEALTIFS SAXE — AT ALL DRUG STORSS disclosed that prices had roughly re-| L COBLENTZ GRANTED RETRIAL BY APPEAL Bank President's Conviction Re- versed Because of Invalid Indictment. Special Dispatch to The St * ANNAPOLIS, Md, April 20.—Hold- ing the indictment on which Emory Coblentz, president of the Central Trust Co., operating a chain of banks in Western Maryland, was found guilty of acecpting funds in his institution after he knew it to be insolvent to be invalid, the Court«of Appeals today reversed his sentence of 18 months in the House of Correction. Mr. Coblentz, who is also State Sen- ator from Frederick County, was tried in the Alleghany County Circuit Court after the case had been removed from Howard County, where he was indicted. The opinion, written for the court by Chief Judge Carroll T. Bond, and oncurred in by four other associate Jjudges, reversed the judgment of the lower court and remanded the case for further proceedings. The presence in the grand jury room, | before the inquisitorial body had passed | on the indictment, of an attorney, who | had previously represented plaintiffs in civil litigation against the bank- ing institution, was held by the court ere to “have the consequence of in- validating the indictment. The court held, however, that the president of a bank. although he does not manually receive deposits over the counter. “if he participates in keeping his bank open for acceptance of de- posits when he knows it to be insolvent is guilty of the statutory crime.” Card Party at Bowie. BOWIE, Md. April 20 (Special) —A card party will be held tomorrow at Ascension Hall here, for the benefit ot | Ascension Church. The committee in charge is composed of Joseph H. Bau- mann, Stanley Hicks and John Brod- erick. 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In the highest quarters it was learned that if the sentences are commuted Britain will take steps to insure the | continuation of Anglo-Russian trade either by rescinding the embargo proc- lamatfon or by a licensing system. | It was officially stated that the em- | bargo was not proclaimed in the face jof a warning from Moscow that such | | the Soviet government to commute the | sentences of the engineers. ! clared, received no intimation that Mos- cow would commute the sentences. The present situation is that Britain will | continue the firmest possible steps to | protect British subjects in Russia and any opportunity to maintain trade re- ations, ‘The National Joint Council, repre- senting the Trades Union Congress, the Labor party and the Parliamentary La- bor Party, is understood to have de- cided at a private meeting today to protest strongly to the British govern- ment against the emparga. This protest, it was reported, is based on the theory that the embargo would have a most damaging effect on British ‘mdustry and on the employment situa- ‘Hnn. and also on the contention that 1t is a violation of the Kellogg peace pact. Telegram Asks Release. The council also sent a telegram to \!he Soviet Ambasasdor, 1. M. Maisky, Iuklnl for the release of the British | prisoners on the ground of international friendship. The Russians who have been sum- moned home are Ozersky, head of the trade delegation, and his two assistants, | Kharigonoff and Essonov. The Russian Ambassador was re- ported to have informed the British government that its embargo proclama- | | g ! tion has made it difficult for leniency to be shown the imprisoned engineers. | | The hope was strong here that sen. , tences will be commuted to deporta- !tion. In that event, it was expected that the embargo would be revoked. On the other hand, there was a sug- gestion that the Soviet Republic would hesitate to grant the petition now be- fore its Executive Committee, request- ing the commutation, because of fear that Soviet citizens would interpret such action as a surrender to British | intimidation. Minsky Sees Simon. ‘The Herald stated today that Am- |'a construction that has been of inesti- | Adoo is trying to build up a strong, | today) thak A - | Table vaiue. Not only have millions permanent organization in- California, | Gooaaor Malsky told Foreign Sccrctary of people benefited, but the New York, This is made easier for him because he | Sir John Simon the proclamation there- fore made it difficult for the Soviet gov- | ernment to exercise clemency | Moscow dispatches said unofficial circles in the Soviet capital had ex- ! pressed fear the embargo would de- | prive the union of so much revenue it might find itself unable to meet for- eign obligations. which it has prided | itself in paying on time and in full | Thornton, MacDonald and their four associates and co-defendants in trial, which ended early i expected in London Sur them leaving Russia un Soviet authorities. British newspapers today generally approved of the government's action in issuing the embargo proclamation. The Times said: “There is little doubt that the accused who escaped with deportation owe their liberty to ! Copyi " .i.t, 1933, The American Tobteco Company. . action would make it more difficult for | The British government, it was de- | at the same time will take advantage of | the ! n o, Parliament’s passing the import prohi- bition act.” The Financial News, however, sald the embargo was “a hasty step,” likely to diminish chances of the men's release and damage Britain's trade as well as that of Russia.” ‘The Morning Post said the govern- ment took the only step “consistent with self-respect.” ‘ Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express ap- proved the embargo under a heading “Whip for Savages.” “IMPERIALISTS” ASSAILED. British Pretext to Promote Empire Trade Program Charged. ! MOSCOW, April 20 UP)—As the| clouds of economic_war darkened the horizon, Izvestia, official Soviet organ, |lashed out today at “British imperial- ists.” 1t accused them of attempting to use the recent sabotage trial of British en- gineers to promote an empire trade pro- | gram laid down st the imperial confer- ence at Ottawa last year. | Meanwhile a plea for “mercy” for two engineers sentenced to prison was being considered by the Soviet Central | | Executive Committee. Defense counsel had asked that the prison term imposed on L. C. Thornton and William L. Mac- Donald, convicted of spying und wreck- ing, be commuted to exile for life. Three other employes of the British Metropolitan-Vickers Co.—Allan Monk- | house, John Cushny and C. H. Nordwall | —planined to leave Moscow for London tonight, in accordance with their sen- tences of exile. A. W. Gregory, who was tried and acquitted, will leave with them. | The newspaper Izvestia expressed | “surprise” at what it called the efforts | of Britain to prove by means of a| | “boycott” against Soviet goods that the | engineers’ trial w: unjust. The British government, said Izvestia, pledged itself at Ottawa to favor Can- ada at the expense of the U. §. 8. R. in order to keep Canaca from closer re- | | lations with the United States. The pa- | per charged that the trial was being used for this purpose. 30 SEAPLANES MAKE | FLIGHT OVER PACIFIC| Hop 500 Miles From Pearl Har- bor, Hawaii, to French Frigate Shoals. By the Associated Press HONOLULU, April 20.—Thirty naval seaplanes swarmed out of the Pearl Harbor station near here yesterday and | flew 500 miles westward over the Pacific | to land at French Frigate Shoals, tiny dots of rock in the ocean. The return | flight to Pearl Harbor is planned for; April 29 | The flight was without incident. Taking off at 7 am.. the planes arrived at the haven formed by the 13 isles at the shoals 5 hours and 42 minutes later Their course was patrolled by several naval surface craft. but no plane failed to reach the destination. hundreds of miles bevond the most westerly of the Hawailan main group. MUSICIAN SENTENCED - | | SAN FRANCISCO. April 20 (#).—A 10-year prison sen and a fine of $300 was imposed hrre yesterday upon Larry Liebson. New York musician. | | who pleaded guilty to counterfeiting | | charges. His alleged confederate, Zang- | will Engelisher, whose $10,000 bond was forfeited when he failed to appear in court Tuecday, is a fu~itive from justice. THURSDAY, 'APRIL 20. 1933. TEXAS AND MEXICO EXCHANGE PRISONERS U. 8. Youth Once Doomed to Die and Lifer Return to Home Countries. By the Associated Press. EL PASO, Tex., April 20.—Climaxing one of the strangest murder cases in Mexican border history, William Jeffer- son Meers, American youth, once sei tenced to death for shooting a Juarez waiter, was exchanged at the Inter-| national Bridge here today for a Mexi- can serving a life sentence in Texas for anothcr killing. Pardoned in accordance with the ex- change agreement, Meers was brought here from Chihuahua City. Mexican officials took him to the middle of the bridge where the party was met by Sheriff Chris P. Fox of El Paso County, the Mexican prisoner, Jose Carrasco, and Meers’ wife and mother. Meers and Carrasco shook hands and then returned to the countries from which they had been absent for years. %% A—S DOUBLE TAX IS TOPIC | CHICAGO, April - 20 (#) <State | Benator Henry W. Toll of Coloradc | yesterday announced that the Inter- state Commission on Conflicting Tax- ation will meet in Washington to- morrow and Saturday to confer with leg:elators and officlals of the State and Nation in efforts to prevent dupli- cation of taxation by States and the Pederal Government. | _The commission was authorized by | the first interstate assembly consisting th'hmd official delegates from each e and meeting in Washington last February. EBESEEFOOD FOR THOUGHT IS 1seaQUARTOF MILK DAILYfor EACH MEMBER of the FAMILY to keep HEALTH UP and eating coita DOWN ILK is of great importance in the diet of all, whether their work be muscular or mental, because it contains in addition to the elements of other foods, a certain substance in- dispensable to health and efficiency. Aviators are usually heavy Milk Drinkers, —uwith the knowledge that steady nerves, endurance and physical fitness are as vital as i a faultless motor. 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