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TOGIVETESTIMONY «Mrs. McLean Takes Stand Again to Describe Meet- ing With “The Fox.” (Continued From First Page.) Joseph Turco, attorney for Whitaker, ! complained to the court that John M.I Keith had been seen talking to a woman deputy marshal assigned to the jury and to several witnesses yesterday aft- ! ernoon. Keith is a Department of Jus- | tice agent who supervised the appre- hension of Means and Whitaker, and will be one of the Government wit- nesses. Turco, on inquiry of Justice 'Donoghue, declared Keith had made isparaging statements” about the de- i¢ndants. Resumes Testimony. Keith was summoned before the bench tand the court suggested that Turco question him. Keith denied having talked to the deputy marshal,_and the weman herself, Mrs. Maude Ferris, who was in the court room, also denied the reported conversation. Keith also said he had no recollection of having made disparaging remarks to any one. Justice O'’Doncghue then dismissed Keith and} anncunced that the incident was “a closed one.” Mrs. McLean, again gowned attrac- tively in black, took up her story where she left off yesterday afternoon—start- ing with her meeting with Means and Whitaker at her country home in Aiken, | 8. C. Mrs. McLean said that about March 21, a year 2go, Means called her on the telephone in Aiken and told her about a man Wl important link” in the kidnaping case, and that he was known as “the Fox,” and was the “head man” of the gang that kidnaped the Lind- Tergh child. “The Fox"” took the phone and said he would see her the next day at Aiken. Says Means Visited Cottage. She said Means came to her cottage, Cozy Corners, that night and told her that “the Fox” had the baby, that he was a dangerous man, “a killer” and he was “taking no chances.” She quoted Means as saying “the Fox” had | held the Lindbergh baby in his arms within the last 48 hours. X “The next day.” Mrs. McLean testi- fied, “Means brought the man referred 1o as ‘the Fox.' They called about the middle of the day and Means intro- duced me to ‘the Fox.'™ Rover asked the witness if she saw “the Fox” in the court room. “Yes, Mr. Rover,” Mrs. McLean re- plied, turning her head in the direc- tion of Whitaker. “There he sits, at the end of the table. The man wi sses and wearing a grey s r smiled as his attorne Mr: McLean in indicating ‘Whitaker, clutched Whitaker's lapel and pulled him forward. Plan to Return Child. “Means left ‘The Fox' with me,” Mrs. McLean continued. “‘The Fox' looked all around my coitage very carefully. Then he came back and said he had the baby and it was safe and scund. He showed me a little side street near the cottage and said the car with the baby would come there. convoyed by four automobiles with machine guns. 1 told him I wasn’t afraid and I would go there and get the baby. “‘The Fox' asked me about the meney. I told him I had given it to Means. He said that was all right and that they were in it for the money. 1 told him I didn't think he was in it for his health. “*‘The Fox' told me he would have the baby there within 48 hours. He said he would break through the police lines that night and wculd get to Aiken with the baby in about two days, or Thursday.” In response to questions by Rover, | Mrs. McLean said “The Fox" was| dressed in a yellowish polo coat with | a gray soft felt hat and was attired “very nicely.” She said he wore gloves | and she noticed that he wiped off even the doorknobs with a handkerchief iafter he had handled them. Got Telephone Calis. She said Means came back to thel cottage later and had her sign a note | authorizing Means to turn the money over to “Neil Williands,” which was a code name for Whitaker, also alias “The Fox,” and “No. 19.” Sometime after that a voice which she recognized as Whitaker’s telephoned that “something terrible has happened.” She said “The Fox” said he must get hold of Means at once, and she under- stood that Whitaker was phoning from New Jersey. She said she promptly reached Means at his hotel in Aiken, and gave him the message. The next day, she related, Means wired her from Richmond saying he was sending Ler a confidential message. and the day after that a woman telephoned from Wash- ington saying she represented “The | Fox.” The court sustained an objectioft | by the defense to the testimony regard- ing the woman who telephoned from ‘Wa: gton, and ordered it excluded from the record. “On Sunday night,” Mrs. McLean went on, “Means called up and told me | *“The Fox’ was in a very bad jam. That the baby had been hijacked from him, and that he had gotten it back and everything was all right again. About Tuesday or Wednesday of that week Means came to me and explained that hijackers had taken the baby away from “The Fox.’ but that he had managed to get it b and because things were getting so hot for them, it would be necessary ta deliver the baby somewhere el He asked me how about El Paso, Tex.. explaining that after giving the baby to me there the kidnapers could escape across the bridge to Mexico, I said that was all right with me. ‘Went o El Paso. “Means told me that Curtis, down at Norfolk, ‘double-crossing Col. Lind- bergh, and didn’t have the baby at all. (He said ‘the Fox' had it, and was now ready to break through with it. I told him as soon as I got word from him Z would go down to El Paso. Means said he and Miss Nelson, the nurse, would start down ahead of me, and I was to_come on later, upon being noti- fied. Means needed extra money for expenses and ‘I gave him $1,000. He and Miss Nelson started off. “Scmetime later I got a call from Means and Miss Nelson in El Paso, and they told me that everything was fixed, | that ‘the book,” which meant the baby, | was there and was safe, and.that I should come right down. I left for EL Paso at once, and Means and Miss Nelson met me at the staticn. 'Means- told me on my arrival that everything was ‘O.K. and that things ,would move qui~kly now. Nothing de- veloped that day, and the next day ‘Means said there would begsome delay because the baby was sick. I said ‘My goodness, let Miss Nelson see the child | at once’ but Means showgd me the| name of a doctor who he said was attending the child and thai, anyway, he couldn’t send Miss Nelson there be- cause he didn't know exactly where the baby was. Meets “The Fox” Again. | Means, | them. Miss Poe, | action, went to Mrs. McLean's attorneys | bills, THE EVENING STAR. Means-Whitaker Trial INMATH ABDU[:“UNI Figures in the Means-Whitaker conspiracy trial, sketched in court by a staff artist of The Star. Upper left, Gaston B. Means, one of the defendants. Upper right, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh McLean, principal witness for the prosecution. Lower left. Justice Daniel W. O'Donoghue of the District Supreme Court, who is pre- siding at the trial, Lower 1ight, Norman T. Whitaker, the second defendant. —Sketched by Sudduth. had to protect himself and a lot of | other people. “I told him I could get Gen. Pershing and have the whole fort turned loose on all of them, and I told him I was going back to Washington, and that I thought something had gone wrong at the other end “I arrived in Washington on April 13, and the first thing I knew “the Fox" phoned (I distinctly reccgnized his voice) and said he was very angry with and that Means was double- | crossing him. He wanted to know where Means was, but I told him I had no idea. . Said He Went to Chicago. “Means called up about an hour later, however, and I told him what “the Fox" had said, and Means explained that | |“The Fox’ had sent him (Means) to| Chicago to get the marked money paid | by Col. Lindbergh, and that when he | found it was marked he refused to take | it. and that was why ‘the Fox' was angry. | “Means came to me later in person | at my home here and said he had $49.- | 000 of the marked money and if I would | get $35,000 of clean money he would | get the marked money and give it to me so I could return it to Col. Lind- | bergh. I told him I would get the| money. although I didn't know how I would Taise it.” Mrs. McLean then told how she took her diamond necklace and two bracelets and gave them to Miss Elizabeth Poe, | a friend employed on the staff of the | Washington Post, who was to pawn uspicious of the trans- instead of the pawnbroker and the at- torneys promptly squelched the trans- action and convinced Mrs. McLean that she was being defrauded. Ends Direct Testimony. After testifying that she could not | get the $35000 Mrs. McLean said she asked Means return to her the $100,- 000 which she had previcusly given him | as the child’s ransom. She said she continually, whenever | she saw Means, asked if the baby was | all right and was well cared for and in | each instance was assured that he was. | She said that on Sunday, April 17, 1932, Means assured her that the $100,- 000 was in the hands of his brother in Concord, N. C., and that he would go to Concord and get it and turn it over to Rev. Francis J. Hurney, Catholic priest, who had entered the negotiations | carlier. A couple of days later, she said, | she received a telephone call from | Means, who was in Concord, N. C., and | was told that he had the money. | “I never heard from him after that,” she said. | At about 12 o'clock District Attorney Rover concluded his direct examination of Mrs. McLean and the witness was turned over to the defense for cross- | examination. Code Is Described. Attorney J. William Tomlinson, for the defense, took up the cross-exami- nation, bringing out that Mrs. McLean approached Means to investigate the| case and try to make contact with the kidnapers. She testified that in 1924, or aboul‘ the time of the Teapot Dome oil in-| vestigations, Means was employed by her husband, E. B. McLean, to make an investigation, the nature of which she was not informed of. She said she had known Means since that time and felt that he had acquaintance and con- tects which would help him in tracing the Lindbergh baby. She also described at length the code which was worked out for identification of the various parties, including herself during the investigation by Means. She said the kidnapers were .to be known as “No. 19, herself as “No. 11,” and Means as “No. 28.” The baby was to be known in all communications as “The Book” or “The Manuscript,” and Col. Lindbergh was to be known as “The Author " Conferences Numerous. Before the close of yesterday’s session, Mrs. McLean testified about the numer- cus conferences which Means had with her here, leading up to her payment to him of $100,000 in old, unmarked to ranscm the baby,” and of $4,000 additional for “expenses of the kidnapers.’ Mrs. McLean said Means made re- peated promises to produce the baby, but always explained his failures as due to inability to break through police lines with the child, or other causes. She said Means warned her the underworld crowd he was in touch with was dangerous and would “bump cff” any one who double-crossed them. Mrs. McLean said she replied: “T'll double-cross nobody. I'm nct afraid to have machine guns trained on me all the time. All I want is to get that baby back.” She described a visit she made in company with Means to her Far View residence in Maryland during a raging blizzard, and the plans they made for having the child returned to a desig- nated place in the rear of the house: She said she waited up all night on one occasion to receive the baby, but Means later declared the police lines were too vigilant. Eventually, she said, Means told her it would be necessary for her to go to Aiken, 8. C., where she has a country home, and that the kidnaped infant “The next day Means came to me and said ‘the Fox' was acting very ugly, that he was a dangerous man, and that he wouldn't tell him where the baby was, and it looked like he would have to take the baby away from ‘the Fox.' I gave him some sleep- ing powders and told him to givc them to ‘the Fox,' and take the baby from him. Means said he was going to hava ‘the Fox’ shadowed. told 1 was getting tired and. ded to see “the Fox” myself. In e while “the Fo: g room, and he was 1 He said the baby would be delivered to her there. “Mr. Means told me he would bring to me there one of the real men—the head man in the kidnaping,” the wit- ness related. Jury Is Locked Up. It was at this point in the testimony that court was adjourned until today. The jury was lccked up under guard, with instructions not to talk with any one outside the court room or jury room. Théy will be allowed to read newspapers from which stories of the trial have been cut. Soy e Earlier “yesierday {here Was testimony LOSS OF J0BS SEEN BY EASTMAN UNDER PLAN FOR CARRIERS eliminated by pooling arrangements; extravagance in solicitation of traffic, waste in cquipment repair expense, waste in passenger ticket offices such as could be avoided by combined ticket offices, unnecessary allowances to large shippers for certain services. waste in the use of equipment such as might be avolded by pooling arrangements, change in car rentals, or other mcans of reducing empty return movement of cars and reduction of unprofitable oper- ations and provision of better service by the substitution of motor vehicles for steam service and their use as auxil- iaries in terminal service. Eastman said results would depend largely upen co-operation of the car- Tiers. “If they are disposed to impede and obstruct, the opportunities in that di- rection are great and hope of early ac- complishment may as well be aban- doned,” he said. “My own belief is that they will co- operate, perhaps not 100 per cent, but | in a very large measure. Welfare Is Essential. “I base this belief on their financia! straits, the difficulties which lie ahead of them, even if better times return, and their fear of more radical steps toward the improvement of transporta- tion conditions.” Elaborating on the labor angle, East- man said the Government was faced with the same problem—of reducing personnel in its efforts to balance the budget—but “the welfare of the people of the country is the essential thing.” “The problem of unemployment is the fundamental problem which the country must deal with and solve, if ruin is to be averted. * * * “Clearly, the Government must move | in the direction of the elimination of unemployment. I hope to see an attack of this character made along a wide front, and apparently one is about to in. “A public works program might well include widespread elimination of rail- road grade crossings at public expense. Adds to Handicap. “I would be happy if a practicable plan could be proposed whereby funds could be supplied for the making up of deferred railroad maintenance, now amounting to probably more than one billion dollars, “But it can hardly be that the solu- tion lies in the direction of retaining work which in the final analysis is lost motion and adds to the handicap of the railroads in promoting freedom of crade and commercial intercourse. “Probably the immediate blow to labor can in many instances bz cush- ioned somewhat, and the employes may solace themselves with the thought that the results from this bill cannct defi- nitely be predicted, for the reasons which I have already indicated, and that they may not be in as early or as great danger as some of them may think. “Moreover, one of the first results of any positive improvement of railroad earnings will undoubtedly be increase in the amcunt of maintenance work and labor.” Senator Couzens, Republican, of Michi- gan, suggested amendments to the bill to authcrize appeals to the courts on orders of the Commerce Commission and to give specific authority for States and communities to intervene. Eastman agreed these changes should be made, Texas Church Moved. After 48 years in Sunset, Tex, a church organization was disbanded and the building moved to Chicero, nearby. by Col. M. Robert Guggenheim, Rear Admiral Emory S. Land and Mr., and Mrs. Robert F. Fleming, with all of whom Means held some negotiations apparently preliminary to those with Mrs. McLean, . McLean, Col. Guggenheim and Admiral Land were drawn into the case because of their acquaintance with Col. Lindbergh, the naval officer being a cousin of Lind- bergh's mother. All told stories sub- stantially to the effect that Means had sald he was in contact with the kid- napers, that the baby was getting to be a “hot brick” on their hands and they were anxious to turn it over to some one who could deliver it to its parents. Admiral Land said he went to Hope- well and obtained permission from Col. Lindbergh for Mrs. McLean to carry on_independent negotiations with “a well known investigator of underworld connections.” - Means had that his name be withheld from Lindbergh. The witness disclosed he bm\fl back from Hcpewell a “means of identifica- tion” that could be used in‘the event the baby were returned. What this means was he did not explain. He said he told neither Mrs. McLean nor Means of this identification plam. Col. Guggenheim, under cross-exam. ination, told of a curious incident that happened at his home the day before ‘Means .met him. He sald he heard some one on the front poreh of his residence in.Georgetown and went to the door. As he opened the door a man with a baby in his arms left the steps in response to' thé béckoning of ‘DUNGEON IS FOUND Police Chief Reports Finding True Hiding Place of Kidnaped Girl. BARNSTABLE, Mass.,, May 9 (#). —Kenneth Buck, alleged kidnaper of Peggy McMath, today exonerated his brother Cyril, also under arrest for the crime, of any part in the abduction. By the Associated Press. HARWICHPORT, Mass., May 9.— Chief of Police Emulous E. Hall today announced he had discovered the true hiding place in which Margaret “Peggy” McMath was kept by kidnapers before her recovery last week. He.said he had found a pit 5 feet deep and 50 feet from the “dungeon” previously pointed out, but under the same rambling va- cant house. A water bottle, a tin cracker case, a jar that had contained cocoa, sand- wiches and fruit; a mattress, a quilt and an old sweater were found, he said, after he and Patrolman Robert Whiteley had crawled 30 feet on their hands and knees under the house. The chief said he expected the utensils found might yleld fingerprints that would be im- portant as evidence in the case. Suspects Quizzed Again. He drove this morning to the Barn- stable Jail and began a further ques- tioning of Kenneth and Cyril Buck, brothers, who have been arrested in connection with the kidnaping of the little girl, daughter of Neil C. McMath, formerly of Detroit. Chief of Police Hall said he was not satisfled with the dark hole that had been pointed out earlier as the place where the girl was secreted. He said it failed to answer the description she | had given, and he set out to make a complete search of the premises last right. No cellar ever had been dug under the house, but, crawling beneath the structure, he said. they came to the pit which he said tallied more closely with the girl's description of the place where she was hidden. Lighted by Small Window. It was lighted by a small window in the foundation of the house, but too high above the bottom of the pit to permit the girl to look out. The place was about 10 feet long and 6 feet wide, and contained a three-quarter size bed mattress, an old yellow quilt and an old sweater, which lay beside the mattress. A bottle filled with water, a jar partly |filled with cocon and a cracker tin, {upon which lay several ham sandwiches | wrapped in paper. were lying in the pit. | 1One end of the paper wrapping of the jsandwiches had been opened and the sandwiches laid back on the cracker tin. This, Chief Hall pointed out, cor- responded with the girl's statement that she had become very tired of her diet of ham sandwiches and could not eat any more. In addition, a banana and two !oranges were found in the pit. “Peggy” today was attempting to re- turn to the normal tenor of her childish ways as two men, charged with her ab- duction, languished in Barnstable Jail. In a low, rambling house on a hill overlcoking Wychmere Harbor, where the child was found aboard a yacht last Friday night, her father and family were trying to forget the sensational events of the past week, in which their names were bruited across the country. Lieut. Detective Ernest Bradford of the State police, in charge of the Cape Cod district, was expected to return here to check certain angles of the case. He refused to discuss his inten- tions, but cbservers were puzzled by discrepancies in the stories of the 10- | year-old girl and Kenneth. Kenneth | was charged with kidnaping and his brother with extortion. Yesterday the Buck brothers were arraigned in Barnstable District Court |at Provincetown. They pieaded not guilty and were held in $100,000 bail each. Their cases were continued until May 22 “Peggy” had said a Negro man or a man with a blackened face had called for her at the Harwich Center School on the day she was abducted, but Ken- neth, although police said he admitted he blackened his face with burnt cork stoppers and then drove to the school to pick her yp, told reporters while seated in the aock of the Provincetown District Court that a blackened face :\"ls not a part of his alleged machina- | ions. Voices Were Different. “Peggy” also said she believed the man who picked her up at the school house was a different person than the one who transported her from the Cran- berry shack to the dingy, low cellar of the house. She said the voices were different. The alleged confession indi- cated that only Kenneth was involved in these operations. Chief of police Hall asserted that the rehearsal by Kenneth of his ac- tions during the kidnaping was not an exact duplication. Kenneth, ac- cording to police, had confessed that when he took the child from a cran- berry shack, in which he had first hidden her, to the cellar in the house in which he kept her until he made his final contact, he took a route along the edge of a bog and jumped over a ditch with her in his arms. This happened in the dead of night, according to the 1 confession police released. Hall said it would have been ex- tremely difficult for Buck, a small man, to hold the child in his arms and leap the ditch, 4 feet wide and about 3 feet deep. Therc were two logs laid across the ditch but in the re-enact- ment in daylight, Buck slipped and fell as he attempted to negotiate it alone. Intimates Another Involved. Kenneth at the court house con- tinually intimated there was at least one other person involved in the crime, but when questioned further he refused to elucidate. He did say that he would tell the “whole story” to his lawyer, but officials were little concerned with his_assertions. Cyril had contended that he was innocent of any wrongdoing and that his sole interest in the case was to re- turn the child to her parents. Meanwhile, William Lee, associate of McMath in the boat building busi- ness, had relinquished his position as contact man and started off in his automobile with his wife for Balti- more, Md. Before leaving he obtained a permit to carry a pistol saying he was “taking precautions these days.” MRS. B. W. LEWIS DIES Mother of Cathedral Association Secr'eury 111 Since November. Mrs. B. W. Lewis, mother of Edwin N. Lewis, executive sécretary, National Cathedral Association, Washington Ca- | P2 thedral, died early this morning at the family home at New Britain, Conn. She had been ill since last November. Funeral services will be held at 65 Harrison street, New Britain, Thursday afternoon at 2:30 daylight saving time. Burial will be at Plainville, Conn. e FLIES SOUTH ATLANTIC Polish Aviator Makes Surprise Hop From Senegal. PERNAMBUCO, Brazil, May 9 (#).— Capt. Stanlislaus , a Pole, was flying on to Rio de Janeiro today after an unheralded 2,149-mile flight a woman in a taxicab and the man and | the baby entered the cab and disa He had this incident fresh in lg:dvhm“l:unsl oached him with Pro) o, to. mm&"&mm& v 17 hours and 50 minutes. Capt. James A. Mollison and the late Bert cross the South Atlantic alone, £ WASHINGTON, D. C., A TUESDAY, MAY 9, 1933. Maine Fire Razes 170 Buildings 409 MADE HOMELESS BY BLAZE AT ELLSWORTH. incendiary origin. Gov. tering the refugees. persons homeless at Ellsworth, Me. REVIEW of the ruins caused by a fire that razed moge than 170 dwefllngs and business houses, rendering 400 | Authorities are investigating a possibility that the $3,000,000 blaze was of rann authorized the sending of 300 National Guard tents to Ellsworth for use in shel- —A. P. Photo. PARIS T0 CONTINUE DEBT NEGOTIATIONS Cabinet Instructs Ambassa- dor to Carry on Discussions Started by Herriot. By the Associated Press. PARIS, May 9.—Andre de La Boulaye French Ambassador at Washington, was entrusted with further debt nego- tiations by a full cabinet meeting to- day which confirmed yesterday's de- cision against paying the defaulted $19,000,000 interest unless a mora torium on the payment due June 15 is certain or there is an equivalent de- velopment. The Ambassador also will continue other discussions started by Edouard Herriot, special envoy, on his recent trip to Washington. M. Herriot, it was learned in parlia- mentary circles, definitely recommenced immediate payment of the debt interest defaulled last December, but the cab- inet, presided over by President Albert Lebrun, repected the proposal. Paul-Boncour Backs Payment. Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Bou- cour alone, it was said, supported pay- ment. The breach thus was widened between Premier Daladier and M. Herriot, and the latter’s friends expect him to lead an active fight in the Chamber against the government's view. The rift between the premier and the foreign minister also was accentu- ated. A communique issued after the meeting said the cabinet was “happy to recognize the friendly disposition and spirit of understanding shown by Presi- dent Roosevelt.” The communigue re- newed thanks and congratulations to M. Herriot. The prediction was heard that Her- riot might seek the overthrow of the Daladier government and the premier- ship for himself. Refusal to Pay Explained. M. Herriot appears more than ever convinced the payment should be made. ‘While he acted merely as an observer for the government in the United States, he has reserved the right to raise the debt question. The refusal of the cabinet to approve the defaulted December payment with- out a moratorium on the June install- ment is explained in government quar- ters on the grounds it seemed hopeless to try to induce Parliament to take any other stand. payment would bring diplomatic ad- vantages. . THOUSANDS OF U. S. WORKMEN TO RECEIVE INCREASE IN WAGES | | a long black table and going over mat- | (Continued From First Page.) paid employes. The increase will es- tablish & minimum wage of $1 per Jay for wemen and $1.50 for men. President Obici said the action was taken in line with President Roosevelt's request for improvement, where possi- ble, of wage scales. PHILADELPHIA, May 9 (#).—An- nouncement of a 10 per cent wage in- crease was made yesterday by the St preme Shirt Co., effective May 12. Officials said the action is in line with the suggestion of President Roosevelt that wage levels be stepped up. John W. Whitehead, president of the Norwalk Tire & Rubber Co., said his company would pay its workers a 5 per cent weekly bonus on earnings. Last Friday the Artistic Shirt Co., Al- bany, N. Y., raised wages of some 2,000 employes 10 per cent. ‘YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio. — Steel pro- duction rose from 33 to 36 per cent of capacity with three additional open hearth furnaces beginning operations. NEW YORK.—Santa Fe.Railroad car- loadis for the week ended May 6 showed a gain over the corresponding 1932 period — the second consecutive week of improvement over a year ago. Total loadings were 21,808, against 21,- 410 last year. ¥ General Motors Covporation reported sale during April of 86,967 cars to deal- ers in United States and Canada, com- red with 58,018 the previous month and 78,359 in April, 1932. DAYTON, Ohio.—E. G. Biechler, president of Frigidaire Corporation, an- nounced the company would more than double its production this month over May, 1932. Biechler said refrigerator orders were greatly increasing. All plants of capaci the corporation are working at . Wil Biechler said. ith 7,500 men employed, six hours each, LORAIN, Ohio.—Seven of the 12 open-hearth furnaces of the Lorain works of the Nagonal Tube Co. are in . of Hinkler the r other to pperation with ition of one.mare Fecavery. were only fAyers ot addi yes! boats are due here 1 | ANGLO-U. S. TARIFF AGREEMENT NEAR, MACDONALD SAYS (Continued Prom First Page.) furtber and make its declaration definite and authoritative. An announcement will be made in Washington in due time when the mat- ter has been further considered and the details worked out, Mr. MacDonald in- formed the House Mr. Davis ®as in the gallery and heard the Prime Minister's announce- ments concerning the tariff truce, for which Mr. Davis has worked so per- | sistently. Mr. MacDonald told his hearers the United States and Britain now clearly understand each other “and are fully determined to do everything they can to make the economic conference a suc- creafter to continue to help from the hearts of the pacific nations of Europe.” X{-Iz- laid great stress on the word “pa- cific.” The British acceptance resulted from conversations earlier in the afternoon between Mr. Davis and the prime min- ister, Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon and Walter Runciman, president of the Board of Trade. From the beginning one of the main British objections to the truce has been that the government already was en- gaged in trade negotiations and did not wish to suspend them. Under today's arrangement she will be permitted “to conclude the negotia- tions already under way, but no fresh initiative would be taken by England or by any country subscribing to the truce. Mr. Davis achieved his victory in a conversation at the House of Commons just befcre the prime minister, the for- eign secretary and Mr. Runciman took their places for the debate on the World Economic Conference. In the short time at their disposal these four reached the agreement and the prime minister went to the floor of the House to inform Parliament. George Lansbury, veteran Labor mem- ber and leader of the opposition, com- | plained at the conclusion of Mr. Mac- Donald’s speech that the House was no wiser concerning the government's pol- icy than it was after the statement Idnade by the prime minister last Thurs- e The speech was simply words, words, words,” Mr. Lansbury said. “There was not a’single concrete proposal.” FORMAL ROME 0. K. NEAR. ROME, May 9 (#).—An official com- munique will be published tonight or tomorrow accepting President Roose- velt's tarifl truce proposal with reser- DAVIS CRITICIZES GERMANY ON ARMS American Envoy Declares Berlin’s Stand on Geneva Parley Obstacle. | By the Associated Press. | LONDON, May 9.—Norman H. Davis, chief American disarmament repre- sentative, is understood to have ten- dered a blunt and sharp criticism of Germany's attitude at the Disarmament Conferencs in a conference here today with Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, Chancellor Hitler's special representative. | Mr. Davis made clear he regarded Germany's attitude as a principal ob- | stacle to the progress of the conference in Geneva, and declared that the United States is opposed to any form of re-! armament. Dr. Rosenberg, chief of the new for- eign division of the National Socialist crganization in Germany, called on Mr. Davis accompanied by Count Bismarck, who acted as an interpreter. Mr. Davis made the American posi- tion regarding disarmezment clear in a protracted interview. Disarmament advocates expressed the | hope this conversation might have the eTect of altering Germany's attitude | a: Geneva. It was reported that Mr. | Davis and Dr. Rosenberg reviewed the | political situation in general Dr. Rosenberg and Count Bismarck had engagements to see Sir John Simon, | the British foreign secretary, and Lord | Hailsham, secretary for war. U. S. COAST GUARD ISSUE. | Propose Counting Personnel as Naval Effectives. | GENEVA, May 9 (#)—The question | whether the United States Coast Guard personnel should be counted as effec- tives in calculating the size of the | American Navy was sent to a_special | Naval Committee of the World Disarm- | vations similar to those advanced by ' ament Conference today. France. The government will stipulate, it was learned, that the truce be based on the | present valuation of the dollar and that Italy be enabled to impose a super- jduty if the dollar depreciates further. It was admitted | INDEPENDENT DEBT TALKS ARE EXPECTED DURING CONFERENCE| (Continued From First Page.) ters Involving trade barrier reduction and, monetary stabilization. It' was learned that Schacht ex- pressed-himself as strongly in sympathy | the equipment and armament possessea | with the American effort to rehabilitate the price of silver and indicated Ger- man support could be counted upon for this project. The German spokesman was smiling as he greeted newspaper men afterwar “I always smile when things are not going very well,” he explained. He quickly addéd that the discussion had been a pleasant one. From the German-American conver- sations at the State Department word filtered out that the Americans had given a full account of the reasons for going off the gold standard, that the Germans had expressed their willing- ness to reduce tariffs and that definite methods for procedure of the World Economic Conference designed to speed its action had been discussed. Consid- erable secrecy surrounded a suddenly arranged White House parley attended only by the President and Secretary Hull in addition to Dr. Schacht. This conference was substituted at the last drnmu!e for one which had been scheduled with the Chinese delegation, giving rise to reports that the Presi- dent had sought this means of inducing Germany to yield on its demands for an army of professional soldiers which virtually has halted progress at the Ge- neva Disarmament Conference. It was learned that at the State De- partment meeting the Americans found 1t necessary at the outset to explain why the United States suddenly pro- hibited the export of gold. ‘was explained, as it has been to previous foreign delegations, as necessitated by domestic conditions. g this week, compared with four a year ago. NEW HAVEN, Conn., May 9 (#)—A 10 per cent raise in wages for employes of the ubber ong R Co., tire manufacturers, benefiting 260 men, ‘was announced today by the concern’s president, James A. Walsh. The announcement said there was t of a further increase. Walsh the years. . ‘The concern is on.a 24-howr working schedule, d. | | Maj. George V. Strong, United States | disarmament representative, argued | against considering the Coast Guard in | arriving at the total naval strength. Leading delegates to the Conference | have failed to reach an agreement on outstanding problems and Arthur Hen- derson, chairman, is expected to pro- pose a recess for several days in the | hope that the deadlock may be broken in private conversation: Count Rudolf Nadolny said Germany wes ready to study standardized army but could pass only slowly from the existing Reichswehr of 12 years’ service to an army of eight months’ service proposed in the British disarmament plan. The reason time is necessary, he said, is that Germany has no trained re- serves. Before accepting the transition | Germany must know something about by | said. |MRS. JOHN H other powers, the Berlin delegate .. HAMMOND GETS HONORARY DEGREE | Doctor of Literature Award Is | Conferred by Berry Schools in Commencement. By the Associated Press. MOUNT BERRY, Ga. April 9.— York was given tne henorary degree of doctor of literature, and Dr. Charles M. Proctor of Boston an honorary degree of doctor of science at the thirty-first annual commencement exercises of Berry Schools today. Dr. Martha Berry, founder of the schools for mountain boys and girls, made the awards. In making the award to Mrs. Ham- Berry described her as a.“philanthropist, lover of literature, writer and apostle of poetry.” Dr. Proctor, professor of oral surgery, Tufts College, Boston, was called an “eminent scientist, distinguished teacher and surgeon.” He is denor of the den- tal ciinic at the schools. Dr! Willilam Preston Few, president of Duke University. delivered the com- mencement address. The high school graduated 90 pupils and college diplo- mes were given to 27. * WINS ORATORY FINALS Bloomington, Ill, Boy Is North- Central Area Champion. Perry of Bloomington, IIL, won the North Central zone finals in the National Oratorical Contest held here last night. John E. McZarty of this city was named alternate. ‘Dor- naus, who will be award i a trip to Europe with five other young orators represmfl;l&l the various zones in the country, n, ingtor will be adoption of a| Mrs. John Henry Hammond of New | mond, a patron of the school, Miss | NUMBERS' PLAYER GETS 1,000-1 0DDS Winning Figure Determined by Winners in Three Maryland Races. (Continued Prom’ Pirst Page. amount of mioney bet on each number. A carbon copy of the slip is given the player as his receipt. Let's assume the -“‘customer” chooses 451 and plays & nickel on it. His next move is to await the race results for that day &t a Maryland track. Other tracks, of course, are used when th® Maryland racing season is closed, but only pari-mutuel tracks are selected. for the reason that in figuring the inner it is essential that the race re- 3Uls contain decimal polnts, as ex- plained later. - This business of calculating the win- | ning number is surrounded with a lot of unnecessary ceremonious mathe- i matics for the purpose not only of con- | vincing the clients that everything is | “on the level,” but of adding the spice of mystery to the game. The method of calculation now pre- vailing is to place in a vertical column | the win, place and show odds of the | first three horses in the first race, add | these figures together and make a note of the digit inmediately left of the decimal point in the resulting sum. Thus, suppose the winning horse in the first race paid $14.40 to win, $5.40 to place and $4.20 to show; the second horse paid $3.40 to place and $3.20 to show and the third horse paid $3.60 to show. The sum of these results is $34.20. Four is the figure just to the left of the decimal. Four, then, is the | figst digit of the winning number, | Addition Process Repeated. | This addition process then is repeated with respect to the second race and | the third race, and the figures arrived at in these calculations become the second and third digits, respectively, of | the winning number. If the second |and third races produce the numbers 5 !and 1, the winning number is said to | be 451—which is good news and good | fortune to the holder of ‘that number. | For his nickel he will be entitled to $30, {less 10 per cent commission, of the | writer, making his net winings $27. | That, it must be conceded, % an in- triguirg return for any investor. | When the clearing house returns were governing the winners several years ago —before some local newspapers discon- | tinued publishing them because of this misuse of them—there was not so much mathematical tomfoolery. The last three figures of the clearing house re- turns-—ignering cents—provided the win- ning number. The temperature chart of the Weather Bureau also has been used in the past. and some operators have determined the number by rolling “night dice”— spacial dice (usually loaded) with enough faces to provide for the digits from zero through nine. All of these methods have been in disfavor since the race result process was devised. The very complexity of the plan appeals to the imagination of | the players. 1,000-1 Odds Remain. The ramifications of the calculations in no way affect the odds of 1,000 to 1 against the player. Mathematicians of Southeastern _University have figured out for The Star that the odds remain | the same just so long as the winning | number ~contains _three digits. One | could divide the distance of the moon from the earth by “pi,” cube the result, subtract the number of fish in the sea | and shake up the remainder in a dozen | silk hats and if the answer was a three- | digit number your chances of guessing |it would be exactly 1 in 1,000, the | savants assert | " “There's nothing difficult about fig- uring that cut,” Dr. James A. Bell, head of Southeastern University, ex- | plained. “If the winning number had | only one digit. you would have one | chance in 10 of hitting it, for there are |only 10 numbers it could be, counting from zero through 9. If the winning ! number has two digits, it must be in- | cluded in the numbers from ‘double | zero' to 99. so that the odds are 1 in 1100. Similarly, if the winning number has three digits, it must lile somewhere between zero and 999, and the chances are 1 in 1.000 of choosing it. Of course, | the method used in choosing a number | has nothing in the world to do with one’s chances of getting it in a lottery.” The worst phase of the “numbers™ situation in Washington is that the game ensnares those who can least af- ford to lose tneir dimes and dollars. | Money that should go for bread is gambled away in the hope of a hand- some reward. Laboring men whose | families are in need of clothing or other necessities are easy victims of the lure— | while women and children suffer. | One insurance agent recently com- ‘plamt‘d to The Star that some of h'1 clients have let life insurance policict lapse in order to use the insurance money for betting on numbers. “Wives of several colored customers have come to me in tears about this waste of money,” he said. “These people work hard for their money and then literally throw it away on ‘numbers.” G, P. O. Draws Gamblers. The Government Printing Office has been a favorite magnet for many pro- fessional gamblers, including the “num- | bers” operators. George H. Carter, pub- lic printer, repeatedly has called atten- Ition of police to suspected gambling | houses in the vicinity of the Govern- | ment’s big print shop, and numerous raids have been made. The gambling still seems to thrive, however. “Writers” have been observed in the past near public schools, . ac- | cording to authorities. They were wait- ing for pennies and nickels and dimes that parents intended for lunches or school supplies. ‘Why this illicit business has not been stamped out by police will be explained in subsequent articles. (This is the second of four articles on the “numbers” racket. The third -cill appear tomorrow.) SENATE COMMITTEE WEIGHS BANK BILL Glass Calls Group Together After Conference at White House. Ry the Associated Press. After a conference with President “Rousevelt at the White House, Senator | Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, called a meeting of his Senate Banking Sub- committee this afternoon to approve permanent bank reform legislation. The Virginian refused to accede to fil‘emtlom by Secretary Woodin that the to mfiy on the long-studied bank bill, Glass was understood to have as- surance from President Roosevelt that he would support action at this session. Found Guilty in Slaying. ROCK ISLAND, I, May 9 (P).— Judge Leonard E. Telleen tcday found Maurice Meyer guilty of ths mur: = of Rose Gendler sentenced him to 99 years in prison.