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CLAIMS APOSHIAN CHILD DROWNED bhum Says He Saw Death. Doctors Think Crabs Mutilated Body. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, August 7—A playmate of Dalbert Aposhian, the boy whose supposed slayer has been sought for three weeks, apparently solved the mystery of his death by telling Sheriff Ed Cooper the child accidentally drowned in San Diego Bay. + A group of medical experts who re- examined the body said they believed the story told by Dalbert’s companion, FJackie Confar, 9. e Sheriff Cooper, too, and the deputies who have been working on the case Jvere inclined to believe that it was a fase of drowning. Three of the medical experts added Em; it was logical to believe crabs ate Yortions of the child’s body, leading to $he theory that Dalbert had been slain and the body mutilated. Two took ex- Feption. = Jackie, Sheriff Cooper announced after conference with the doctors, had been Wfraid to tell his parents of Dalbert’s -owning. < Yesterday, in a tremulous voice, he ‘®pprised his father of the facts in the gase. The sheriff's office was notified &nd the doctors were called in. * Sitting on the case were Dr. A. F. RWagner of Los Angeles, Dr. John Shea, r. A. D. Butterfield, Dr. F. E. Toomey, n Diego autopsy surgeon, and Cor- bner Chester Dunn. All the medical ¥en except Dr. Toomey and the cor- oner were agreed that death had been ®y drowning. Dr. Toomey could not be ached after he left the conference for a statement and the coroner de- @lined to commit himself. ‘To re-examine the body permission was obtained from Dalbert’s father, George Aposhian, to have it exhumed. . On July 18, the day Dalbert, 7, dis- Sppeared, Jackie told the sheriff, the fwo went to the beach to play and the poshian boy fell off a board walk, used repair crews, Jackie said he watched playmate struggle, sink and drown wwithout being able to help him. gOLICE FIRE 100 SHOTS TO DISPERSE CUBAN GATHERING (Continued From First Page.) 2ERESH -— = ree persons, one of them an 11-year- d boy, were serlously hurt as they &ood on a sireet corner and were shot &t by three mer who sped past in an @utomobile containing a submachine gun % Anatole ‘Tomaselli, Italian charge | ailaires who investigated the shooting Of Giovanni Minervine, 31, an Italian, §id occupants of police cars were #mvolved = In suburban Marianao a crowd stoned & policeman. Several persons were in- fred here when police charged into & group of strikers trying to collect food supplies. Salvador Rodriguez, a chauffeur, told Welles he saw a police- #han shooting Francisco Herrera, 17, who was among a group of strikers stopping a milk truck. Herrera was seriously wounded. B Telephone Wires Cut. * Unidentified persons cut telephone Hnes to nearby Los Pinos. In Santiago the military supervisor and soldiers Broke up a meeting of street car men #nd clubbed five or six of them. In Camaguey a meeting of employes of the Consolidated Railways was suspend- ed by the militia. It was said the a v men had expected to declare ining the strike. Another meet- ing was set for today. Transportation facilities were stopped v the walkout of United Railway Bus and taxi drivers, who began the movement more than a week ago by their demands for lower operat- ing fees, were still out. mong the latest groups to join the e were butchers, barbers, messen- ger boys, truck drivers, dairymen, bakers. reporters, laundrymen, gasoline grocerymen, factory workers, others in the strikes were b: nders, hotel workers and garbage coMecto: Newspapers sus- pended publication. Meanwhile Liberal leaders from all parts of the island were surpmoned to n g tonight, When, it is diatory program will be nd approved d commission working with Welles on the constitu- n program, one delegate eed on a four-year presi- with no provision for re- terms of Representatives be four years, with Senators eiccted for eight. The action of Lib- eral leaders in accepting a cut in Con- grossm terms was sald to have re- moved the last obstacle to immediate on of the reform program to ! ce instructed hospital officials not | the names of persons wound- | shes. It was reported s were shot by the street and one in the | ups in Numerous Cities. ! > movement spread to Oriente vince, completely tieing up commerce | imerous cities, such as_Santlago, | Camaguey, Santa Clara and | ported complete tie-up in | business activities. LIFE GUARDS’ TIME CUT AND NUMBER DOUBLED| Airport Swimming Pool Qualifies Under N. R. A, With 6-Hcur Schedule. Even the life guard has come under of the National Recovery Ad- blue eagle. shington Airport swimming pool has qualified under the N. R. A. blanket code and now its bronzed guards will bask in the gaze of admiring maid- ens only 6 hours a day instead of their accustomed 12. Shortly after the blanket code was promulgated. Bill Levy, manager of the pool. filled 0ix the form necessary to qualify and took it down to the Com- | merce Department. Then he doubled his force, which includes not only life T but engineers for the filtering | plant, ticket takers, locker room at- tendants and the like. Every one there | now but Levy himself works only 6 hours a day and 7 days a week, making ing 42 hours. Each man, however, is allowed to take 2 hours off in the course of a week so as to bring his working schedule down to 40 hours. NAZIS FORCED TO MOVE EMBLEM FROM HIGH CLIFF By the Associated Press. INNSBRUCK. Austria, August 7.— Twenty-seven Nazis were arrested here yesterday and marched. under armed escort, to a mountain, where they were compelled to climb a cliff and remove 8 huge swastika emblem painted at an al- titude of 6,000 feet. ‘The action was taken under a recent decree making all members of the out- What's What Behind News in Capital. Inflation Talk Is Hushed. U. S. Would Net Nice Profit, However. BY PAUL MALLON. ORD has been passed down the line inside for all Gov- ernment officlals to talk down inflation prospects. ‘Those who were whisper- ing a week ago that dollar revaluation was just around the next corner are humming a new tune. They infer that perhaps the N. R. A. alone will pull us out. Also that world prices may come back to a level where artificial stimu- lation will not be necessary. Nothing is being said officially that might prove embarrassing later on, but the tion is obviously trying to stamp out inflation talk without showing its own hand. There is a reason. The stock and grain markets have Just come back o earth after a wild Tight of speculative fancy. The speculation was built largely on er- pectations of invation. Every one knew it. Even the ofiice boys were digging in their socks to drop nickels in the Wall Street slot machine. ‘The administration spparently is de- termined that shall not happen again. It is therefore feeding out information to prevent speculators from starting another fleecing market movement. S ‘These are only surface devel ts. At bottom the inflation -smm not changed. Ohange Talk Only. The only real question about it is whether the recovery atc?l now being taken are sufficient to do the whole job. Nine out of ten insiders in Washington believe more will be necessary. They have not changed their minds, only their talk. You cannot go on with eristing currency conditions forever. Some day some dollar standard will have to be fited. It probably will be a gold standard. If it is the gold con- tent of the dollar will unquestionably be less than it was. If not, it will be a commodity dollar standard. Either way, you get the same result —inflation. ‘The most significant inner devels ment on this subject recently was m unnoticed appointment of a new Fed- eral board of statistical experts. They are to be known as the (geentnl Sta- tistical Board. Their job is going to be to keep Mr. Roosevelt privately in- formed as to how much purchasing | power the N. R. A. is creating. They | will keep their eyes on re-employment and wage figures particularly, Personnel Is Divided. The board has a mixed personnel. Some are strong anti-inflationists, while | others want to keep the ball rolling. They probably will confine them- selves to pointing out the problem rather than giving service on remedies. The most responsible officials leave a neat way out for themselves in their denials of inflation talk. The White House spokesman offered his denials only for the period “until the N. R. A. gets working.” Acting Treasury Secre- tary Acheson made his denial purely personal. He said it reflected only his own view and not that of the adminis- tration. He is a conservative opposed to_inflation. The yarns being passed around that they cannot think of dollar revaluation because it would hurt the Government bond market really is hot weather talk. The Treasury would make such a gold profit out of dollar revaluation that all speculation about budget balancing would be ended. The State Department is not as con- | fident as the President was the Prof. Moley will ultimately return as Assist- ant Secretary of State. Recent callers for Prof. Moley were told that the State Department does not know whether he will be there in the_future. The expression did not come from an underling, but from one of the highest officials. While Moley is turning detective, he and his advisers expect to devote some time to ascertaining who inspired all those stories against him from London. They would like to know particularly who let the fact out that he spent $3,000. It caused all his troubles. Obviously the story came from some one attached to the American delega- tion or the London embassy. No one else knew about it. A Two-Word Volume. The Nobel prize for literature this| year should go to the some unidentified person in State Secretary Hull's London office. He composed a volume in two| words. | After Prof. Moley and his publicity adviser, Swope, left London and were at sea. they sent a radiogram to State Sec- | retary Hull's office. It read. “Whlti does the London press say about our departure?” The reply came back swiftly: “Press uncommented.” | Senator Elmer Thomas is conducting | an inner inflation campaign. He re- | cently saw Moley and Chairman Black | of the Federal Reserve, trying to con- vince them. Apparently the most influential Wall | Street people are playing ball with the administration on the inside. They readily took up the new curb on margin accounts. . .the original suggestion is supposed to have come from close to Mr. Roosevelt...also you need not be surprised if the stock exchanges come into Gen. Johnson’s office shortly with a code. It has been in the course of preparation for a week. Banks are not accepting the Recon- struction Finance Corporation’s liberal | policy of purchasing preferred stocks in their institutions. At least, not to the degree that had been hoped. Appar- ently, they fear the R. F. C. will take too big a hand in the operation of banks in which it holds stock. (Copyright, 1933.) MRS. ROOSEVELT 72 OYSTER BAY, N. Y., August 7 ®.— Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, sr., was 72 years old yesterday. She the day quietly at her home, Sagamore Hill In the morning the former First THE EVENING FACTIONS IN MILK WAR CARRY ARMS Governor Has No Intention of Issuing Orders for Troop Mobilization. UTICA, N. Y., August 7~Guns en- tered the New York State milk strike, in its seventh day, today. Strikers and non-strikers carried them. From Boonville came the report that a caravan of 7 milk trucks, convoyed by troopers, fired on 28 times between the village and Lowville yesterday, was the target of a machine gun, not of high- powered rifies, as at first had been re- ported. Nome of the trucks was dam- aged. A Nitional Guard company at Water- town was equipped with tear gas bombs and gas masks and was ready for im- mediate service if needed in the strike zone. ‘The sheriff’s deguuu were guarding all Jefferson ty milk plants. One man was shot, another threat- ened with lynching, two women beaten, a State trooper struck with an iron pi| and several farmers injured by flying clubs and stones yesterday. Most of the outbreaks came when picketing farmers attempted te, dumj milk of non-strikers, although' there were numerous clashes between strikers and State troopers. Virtually every member of the State police was on duty in the strike sectors guarding milk plants and escorting milk trucks from farm to market. Telegrams Plle Up. Telegrams continued to pile up on Gov. Lehman’s desk asking him to call out the National Guard. It was under- stood that he received word from sher- iffs of several counties informing him that they were unable to handle the situation with only local officers and the detalls of State police assigned to them. Meanwhile, the State Milk Control Board was firm in its refusal to aban- don the classified price system and guarantee the farmers a blanket price of 41 cents a quart for their milk— the program’'demanded by the strikers. About 15,000 farmers are keeping their milk at honge. All mjlk trucks passing through the strike areas were guarded by steel-hel- meted State police. In some counties many dairy plants have been closed for several days. Others have had their supplies cut in half. So far, no serious shortage of milk for home delivery has been reported. PEACE PLAN BEING DRAFTED. BUFFALO, N. Y, August T (#).—A new classification plan for milk which leaders of the Empire Dairymen's Pro- tective Association in Western New York hope will end the milk strike will be placed before Gov. Lehinan tonight or tomorrow. The new plan would give the farmer a larger share of the con- sumer’s “milk dollar.” Harold J. Goodmote, secretary of the Empire Association, which helped or- ganize the strike, announced he and C. O. Jorenby of Steamburg, a leader of dissatiasfied milk farmers in Southwest- | ern New York, would complete drafting | the plan today. Goodmote would not reveal details of the proposal, but he said he believed it | would be acceptable to the striking farmers and he hoped the State Milk Control Board would adopt it. Goodmote said Jorenby was an “ex- pert on milk,” that he had helped or- ganize the Wisconsin Cheese Federa- organization in Wisconsin for 12 years. Bank failures, Goodmote said, “wiped out” Jorenby financially and he came East and started anew on a small dairy farm near Steamburg. TROOP PLEAS REFUSED. ALBANY, N. Y. August 7 (®.—De- claring that he had no intention of calling out the National Guard, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman sent telegrams to the sheriffs of the 57 up-State counties in New York State today directing them to appoint as many deputies as they need to quell milk strike dis- turbances. ‘The Governor previously had sent a similar order to the sheriffs of 12 counties where violence had occurred. ‘Today's order was given after a con- ference with Adjt. Gen. Franklin W. Ward, commanding the New York Na- tional Guard, but, the Governor said, the posibility of calling out the Na- tional Guard was not discussed. “I have issued no orders for mobili- zation nor have I given any serious consideration to suggestions, coming from several up-State sources, that I call out the National Guard,” the Gov- ernor said. “The situation may change, of course. It is possible, but not at all likely.” The Governor made this declaration after being informed that some Na- tional Guard units appeared to be mobilizing. WRIT MOTION CONTINUED. CHICAGO, August 7 (#).—A motion for an injunction to restrain the en- forcement of the milk trade code was continued indefinitely today by Federal Judge James H. Wilkerson The continuance was made with the understanding that a bill of complaint in this district would be dismissed as soon as & similar bill was filed shortly in Washington, naming the Secretary of Agriculture as main defendant. The complainant milk dealers, inde- pendents, charged the code discrimi- nated against them, forcing them to charge the same prices for milk called for as that asked by distributors who deliver milk from door to door on a credit basis. * Attorneys for the complainants told the court they were satisfied that the case should be tried in Washington in- stead of here. Lecturer Bitten, Talk on Poisonous Snakes Canceled Attacked by Moccasin While Putting Reptiles in Suit Case. By the Assoclated Press. SUFFERN, N. Y., August 7.—Col. Mar- tin L. Crimmins, U. 8. A., retired, was bitten last night by a water moccasin just before he was to have delivered an address on poisonous snakes. The lecture was canceled, serum was administered at once and two physi- cians who attended the colonel predicted he would recover. Col. Crimmins was transferring to a suit case a chestful of rattlesnakes, cop- perheads and the water moccasin, which he had brought for demonstration urposes. i As he reached for a rattler, his hand brushed a burlap bag containing the moccasin, which lashed out. Its fangs struck the colonel’s hand. ‘The physicians. guests at a dinner I Col. Crimmins had just attended, ap- plied the treatment on which the col- onel was to have lectured. Crimmins, who is 56 years old, has Lady attended Christ Church, Oyster lawed Nazi party responsible for acts committed by unidentified persons be- _Meved to be Nazs. A} y < Bay, and at luncheon, which was at- tended by only a few close relatives, & birthday cake was cut. been working near San Antonio, Tex., extracting venom from rattlesnakes for serum purposes. - tion, now known as the National Cheese | Federation, and that he had been presi- | dent of the largest co-operative cheese | STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1933. ' PREDICTS WET VOTE Two and Half to One Balloting Foreseen by Florida Governor. COLUMBEIA, 8. C, August 7 (P).— Gov. Dave Shoitz of Florida here to review Florida National Guardsmen at Camp Jackson, today predicted his State would join the repeal ranks by a large maj jority. believe,” he said, “that when Flo- rida votes on repeal of the eighteenth amendment October 10, it will go wet by a majority of 2, to 1.” SEEK TRADE PACTS IN LATIN AMERICA President Turns to New World After Breakdown of London Parley. (Continued From First Page.) matter of mappmg out the course to be followed preliminary to the Pan-Ameri- can Conference, to be held in Monte- video, Uruguay, next December. Presi- dent Roosevelt is represented as realiz- ing fully the importance of this forth- coming conference, especially as it bears upon the future trade relations of the United States. Indirect Answer on Tour. It is not known definitely whether or not Secretary Hull will attend the Montevideo conference or whether he will make a so-called good-will tour of Latin America to promote the interests of this country in Central and South America. When Secretary Hull was asked this question before leaving Hyde Park yesterday afternoon to motor back to Washington, he evaded the issue. Mr. Hull, however, did give the im- pression to those who talked with him that when the time came he would go to the Pan-American Conference and that he would be found at the head of the American delegation attending that important conclave. Under the watchful eye of President Roosevelt, informal preliminary discus- | sions looking toward reciprocal trade | agreements have been constantly going on during the past month or so. These have been conducted by Acting Secre- tary of State Phillips, who has had fre- quent conferences in Washington with the diplomatic representatives of South | and Central American countries. Have Accepted Invitation. American countries have accepted the invitation of the United States to ex- plore posibilities of trade alliances, and representatives of these countries have already begun discussions at the State Department. 1}')'hese countries are Argentina, Co- lombia and Brazil. Besides these Latin American countries preliminary trade agreement talks have been started with Portugal and Sweden. These talks. as it has been explained here, have been conducted with the view to exploring the possibilities of effecting agreements which would be of benefit to all par- ticipants equally. President Roosevelt looks upon these agreements and the Montevideo confer- ence as being of great importance. President Roosevelt is counting so heavily on the successful outcome of negotiations with Pan-American coun- tries that he has directed Secretary Hull to take over the personal direction of the negotiations when he gets back to the State Department. Forced on America. This concentration on Latin America for trade development is understood to have been forced upon the President by the failure of the major powers at the London Conference to show any desire to co-operate with the United States trade barriers that would work to the detriment of the United States. Because of this lack of co-operation the Presi- | dent has made it very plain that this country has been obliged to seek other markets and therefore has turned to the countries of the New World. There is every indication that as a | result of their talks at Krum Elbow over the week end President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull are in entire accord. Besides talking Pan-American trade at length the World Economic Confer- | ence and the readjustment of American foreign policy necessitated by the fail- ure of that conference to reach concrete results. Hears From Morgenthau. Mr. Roosevelt last night received a first-hand report on the World Wheat Conference from Henry Morgenthau, sr., chairman of the American delegation to that conference. Their conference was held on the wide porch of the home of Henry Morgenthau, jr., governor of the Farm Credit Administration, overlook- ing the Hudson, about 20 miles south of the home of the President. Mr. Roose- velt had gone to the Morgenthau home for dinner and to spend the evening and at the same time to hear Mr. Mor- genthau senior's report. to Krum Elbow. Arrangements are being made for a conference at the Summer White House tcmorrow between the President and George Warren and James Rogers, the twc professors recently appointed by the President to make a study of fiscal operations of the Government. James W. Warburg, financial adviser to the American delegation to the Lon- don Conference, is expected to attend this conference tomorrow at Hyde Park. Back row, left to right: of the Board president of the Mer Already three of the major South | and their insistent attempt to inject %agreements and relations they reviewed | It was about | midnight when the President returned | COSTLLD WIOW CONPLETESTORY Prosecutor Tries to Bring Out Points Regarding Use of Deadly Cyanide. By the Associated Press. SALEM, Mass., August 7.—The cross- examination of Jessie B. Costello, on trial for the murder of her husband, Fire Capt. William J. Costello, was com- pleted today. ‘The completion of District Attorney Hugh A. Cregg’s interrogation of the de- fendant, which had occupied two pre- vious days, consisted mainly of an at- tempt by the prosecutor to bring out the points on which he and Mrs. Cos- tello agreed. At the outset of the day’s examina- tion he had questioned her as to the presence of any capsules in the house, the prosecution having contended the fi:twn from which the fire captain died his Peabody home on February 17 was administered in capsules. Mrs. Costello said there had been cap- sules in the house before the death of her mother and that her husband had filled them with medicine for her mother. “Let's see what we can agree upon,” Cregg said. “You knew that cyanide was poison?” “Yes,” replied the witness. She pre- viously had testified she knew it was poisonous, but not that it was a “dead- ly” poison. He then led her through the events preceding her husband’s death—her visit to a doctor’s office the night be- fore and her claim that she endeavored to get her husband to see the doctor; his stay at a wake that evening and his return home late at night. “You don't know whether Bill Cos- tello took anything from 7:45 p.m. up until the time of his death (the follow- ing morning) ?” he asked. *“No, I do not.” “You did not give him anything?” “No, sir.” He followed with events of the next morning, when Costello was scheduled to act as bearer at a funeral. “You called the O'Neil home and told them Bill would not be at the funeral before your husband was dead?” Cregg asked. “Yes.” SHORTAGE IS FOUND IN FUND AT LORTON Donovan Reveals $1,000 or Less Is Missing From Welfare Account. Investigation of accounts for the wel- fare fund of prisoners at the District Reformatory ‘at Lorton, Va., has dis- closed an apparent shortage, estimated at $1,000 or less, Maj. Daniel J. Dono- van, District auditor, revealed today. | A written report was to be submitted to Maj. Donovan and George S. Wilson, | director of the Board of Public Welfare, | today, after which they were to forward | recommendations to the District Com- missioners. Until that is done, Donovan said, he | could not say exactly what was found to be the condition of the accounts. | Investigated Some Time Ago. | The study of the accounts, said to have started several months ago, was made the matter of an official investi- gation July 27. George A. Kidwell member of the District auditing sthfl. and Paul Kirby, assistant director of public welfare, were assigned to the case. | " District officials emphasized that no District appropriation funds were in- volved, since such monies are not handled by the Lorton personnel. The welfare funds and the canteen fund of Lorton prisoners, it was explained, con- sist of contributions and are used for financing athletic programs and as a revolving fund for cigarettes and the like, purchased by the prisoners. New System in Use. Several months ago, Maj. Donovan said, some question about the accounts was raised and it was found the ac- | counting system was not adequate. A | new one was installed. The welfare fund is handled by a clerk, a Distsict employe at Lorton, under the supervision of the head of | the institution. | Capt. M. M. Barnard, general super- intendent of penal institutions, has been in charge of Lorton since the resigna- tion about a month ago of A. C. Tawse, who quit the post after a dispute wit] | his superior over policies. Western Electric to Boost Pay. NEW YORK. August 7 (#).—The Western Electric Co. announced today an 11 per cent increase in wages and salaries of 15,000 employes, effective as of August 1. The announcement said the company | had signed the President's re-employ- | ment agreement under the industrial recovery act and had granted the ény raige to all hourly rated employes and to salaried employes receiving up to $3,240 annually. The increase affects both men and women employes, and will in- crease the company’s annual pay roll $2,250,000. » Italian Middies After Square-Rigger Crossing ‘The square rigger Cristofero Columbo and Admiral Romeo Bernotti (below), superintendent of the Italian Naval Academy. DROP from the fastest to the slowest means of transatlantic locomotion is being exhibited in two Italian -will tours. First, Balbo and his merry avia- tors, and next two sailing ships loaded |down with Italian midshipmen. ‘The square-rigged sailing vessels, the Amerigo Vaspucci and the Cristofero Columbo, are due to arrive in Baltimore tomorrow. Aboaord there are 46 offi- cers, 206 midshipmen and 598 sailors. Admiral Romeo Bernotti, superin- tendent of the Naval War College and the Itallan Naval Academy, is in com- mand. Capt. Tommaso Panunzio has charge of the Vespucci and Comdr. Aristotile Bona of the Columbo. Cn Friday the midshipmen will visit the Navy Department, lunch at the Mayflower Hotel and attend a formal | reception at the Italian embassy. They will go through a round of social func- well. tions at Baltimore and Annapolis l.s1 Coming Here JUSTICE AGENTS TRACK KIDNAPERS [Federal Government Investi- gating Urschel Case Orders Department Aid. By the Associated Press. gating the kidnaping of Charles ¥. Urschel, wealthy Oklahoma City oil man, and has ordered Justice Depart- ment agents to aid in tracking down his kidnapers. Joseph B. Keenan, special assistant to the Attorney General, who is directing the Government's drive against kidnap- ing, said today the agents were working on the case. The request for Federal agents to aid in the case was made by Senator Gore of Oklahoma and Walter Harrison, edi- tor of the Oklahoman, at Oklahoma City. Keenan declined to give any indica- tion of what part his agents were play- ing, but it was learned they were co- operating with State authorities. Justice Department agents also are working to solve other kidnaping cases. and the department formally announced that William R. Delinski had been ar- rested in San Antonio on charges of kidnaping John K. Ottley, Atlanta banker, and that Lillian Chessen and | Charles Chessen had been arrested in Illinois on a charge that they were in- volved in the kidnaping of August Luhr from Alton, IIL MORGAN ADOPTS CODE First Important Private Banking ! Pirm to Take Recovery Action. NEW YORK, August 7 (®)—J. P. Morgan & Co. announced today that the firm had signed the blanket code, in accord with the principles of the National Industrial Recovery campaign. | The Morgan firm was the first impor- tant private banking institution to take such action. Last week 14,000 banks, | members of the American Bankers’ As- sociation, signed a modified agreement designed to allow for certain indivi- dual requirements of the banking ' business. District N. L. R. A. Army Organized Washington’s N. R. A. campaign organization was set up at a meeting in the Board of Trade headquarters today. Photo shows a group of trade and civic leaders who attended the meeting. Francis G. Addison, jr., head of the Better Business Bureau; Robert J. Cottrell, secretary of the Board of Trade; E. J. Roche, representing the Central Labor Union; Dorsey W. Hyde, jr., secretary of the Washing- ton Chamber of Commerce; Louis Rothchild, director of the Better Business Bureau; Edward D. Shaw, secretary of the todav or tomorrow. Merchants & Manufacturers’ Association, and Russell 1. Whyte, representing the Department of Commerce. Front row, left to right, are Thomas P. Littlepage, of Trade; James G. Yaden, president. of the Federation of Citizens’ chants & Manufacturers’ Association. dent of the Chamber of Commerce; Claude Owen, president Associations, and James E, Colliflower, ~—Star The Federal Government is investi- | GRLADDSNOLLE INSHNBERN EATH Blond Fiancee Says She Saw ! Rail Executive Day Before He Vanished. By fhe Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 7.-Miss Magn- | hild Almskaer, 27-year-old blond fiancee | of Henry F. Sanford, was questioned for three hours today, but authorities said she was unable to throw any light | on the mysterious murder of the so-| cially prominent railroad executive, | whose body was found in a shallow | grave near Bayside, Queens, late last| Saturday. | “Our questioning of Miss Almskaar has not produced any clue to the crime,” said Inspector John J. Gal- lagher, in charge of Queens County de- tectives. . | "“I am positive that she was in no way implicated in the crime. Naturally | she is much upset by the death of her | flance, but she answered all of our | questions without hesitation.” | | ” Gallagher said the girl told him she last saw Sanborn July 16, the day be- | fore the executive disappeared, at a ‘Summer camp in Connecticut. | He also quoted her as saying she and | Sanborn were to have been married July 30, but that the wedding was post- poned until September “by mutual con- | sent.” She also said Sanborn’s family approved of the match. | Questioning to Continue. Gallagher said the questioning would be continued this afternoon, but that ! he did not believe any more information | ‘xurroundlng the disappearance of the | high-priced executive would be obtained from her. | | Miss Almskaar was found this morn- |ing and voluntarily accompanied au-| thorities to the office of the Queens’ | district attorney. | | "She was found in a downtown | Manhattan office in which she worked as a stenographer and voluntarily ac- companied authorities to the office of the district attorney of Queens in Long Island City. Police said she was not under frrest and that they hoped merely to find out ! from her some of Sanborn’s move- | ments before he disappeared. An autopsy disclosed that the executive had been shot twice and that he died | about three weeks ago. | At the rooming house in which Miss | Almskaar lived, other roomers said the girl had been greatly upset since San- born was reported missing and that she spent the past week end away from home. Room to Be Examined. While questioning of Miss Almskaar went forward Manhattan police pre- | pared to examine the $27.50 a month room in the Y. M. C. A. in which the| wealthy executive had lived. They said | Herbert MacKennis, Sanborn’s attorney, | had given permission for the rcom to| be_opened. i Mrs. Grant Van Sant, a sistér of the} dead man, said today previous reports| that the family had attempted to pre- vent authorities from visiting the room | | were in error and that, as a matter of | | fact, detectives searched the humble | quarters shortly after Sanborn's dis- | | appearance. | Police also have cabled authorities in France end Italy in an effort to| locate Bancroft Mitchell, a close friend | of Sanborn, who is thought tc have | been with the railroad man shcrtly be- fore his disappearance. Mitchell sailed | for a vacation late last month. U.S. TO ACT IN MOVIE AND HOSIERY STRIKES! By the Associated Press. Dr. Leo Wolman, chairman of the strikes would be taken up by the new + conciliation board as soon as it met. Wolman, also a member of the new conciliation board, created Friday by President Roosevelt to end strikes that were interfering with the recovery pro- gram, said the board would meet late | Wolman said the procedure probably would be the appointment of subcom- | mittees to take up the hosiery and strikes. Staft Photo. Hollywood « | France and Great | ment. HUSTRA WO STRENGTHEN ARHY Petitions France, Britain and Italy for Shorter Period of Enlistment. By the Associated Press. ROME, Augugt 7.—Austria has pri- vately petitioned the governments of England, France and Italy to permit her to increase her military strength, it was declared today on good authority. To grant the permission would have a drastic effect on the enforced dis- arming of all of the former central powers, commentators predicted. Under the treaty of St. Germain uni- versal compulsory military service wag abolished in Austria and the army wa limited to 30,000 men. Officers must do active service for 20 years and the enlistment period for non-commis- sioned officers and privates must not be less than 12 years. Austria now wants a much lower enlistment period in order that a greater number of men can serve in the army in successive classes. Thus the trained military would be many times larger without actually increas- ing the army strength beyond 30,000 in any one year. Lessens National Spirit. In making her request Austria ex- plained to England, France and Italy that the fact that the army was small, professional and long term had kept the vast majority of young men from Jjoining, thus lessening national spiriv among the youth. A more rapid army turnover, the Vienna government contended, would increase the national spirit and would render Austria more independent, thus preventing the spread of tendencies to- ward Anschluss or union with Ger- many. In well informed circles the belief was expressed that England, France and Italy would favor granting the Austrian Tequest because of the effect that ap- | proval might exert on the Anschluss movement. The question rises, if the request is granted, whether the permission. nust not also be extended to Germany, Hun- gary and Bulgaria, which are in the same mu]auon as Austria. ancellor Hitler of Germany i known to favor abolition of the lyonsf :grmr:tt:xx_::imtg army of the Reich and % 2 oy universal compulsory Czechoslovakia, it was understood, has interposed objectio - trian request. 5 S France and Britain Alarmed. Tension between Germany and Aus tria has become so great recently that Britain have in- structed their Ambassadors to make Tepresentations at Berlin. The French and British acted under the recently-signed four-power peace treaty, to which the other partics Italy and Germany Rome dispa indicate that the Italians have no formal action, although they watching developments carefully The French and British ol are based on speeches and leaf culated in Austria and alloge nating from Germany, wh Vl]cinnaEgu\'fi:"mev:' headed oy C! cellor Engelbert Dollfuss has 2 tacked. Bl There is an Austrian Nazi which has been cutlawed fuss government. In Go: ) officials of the Eitler governmernt declared union with Austria to be | of their ultimate objectives. BORDER GUARD SLAIN. Austrian News Agency Describes Attack Near Kufsteim as Ambush. INSSBRUCK, Austria, August 7 () —Fascist auxiliary policemen on bo:uer gfltmlvnear Kufsteim was killed today Y uniformed men wearing steel hel- mets. The Austrian official news agency described the attack as an ambush by | 15 men resembling members of a Ger- man voluntary labor battalion in near- by Kiefersfelden. The agency said the bullets came from German Mauser pistols. Other members of the Austrian patrol returned the fire, but whether any of the attackers were wounded was not known. Fascist police reinforcements occupied the border. Members of the Austrian Fascist Heimwehr recently were made auxiliary police to aid the government in its fight against the Austrian Nazis, who desire union with the German govern- ment of Chancellor Adoif Hitler. e RELIEF STRIKE FAILS Workers on Unemployment Jobs Return as Leaders Are Arrested. OKLAHOMA CITY, August 7 (). —A threatened strike of workers on unem- ployment relief projects faded today as police arrested leaders of the move- Instead of striking the workers went to their jobs. Agitators had de- manded a minimum of 10 six-hour days a month at 40 cents an hour. The men now get $1.25 a day and work from one | to six days a month. Bob Gladneck and W. M. Williamson, described by police as the principal agitators, were arrested with five minor figures. Police Chief John Watt said ltiheiyt.s would be escorted to the city mits. Twins in Beauty Contest. PHILADELPHIA (#).—If Hilda and Eleanor Hettmannsperger of Riverton, N. J, reach the finals in a forthcom- ing bathing beauty contest it is going to be tough for the judges. The 18- year-old entrants are identical twins. Safe Driving Hint Backing Here is a neat little trick used by many drivers who find it mighty helpful in backing. Notch or mark the steering wheel so that you can tell by its position when the front-wheels are abso- lutely straight. This will help you out of many a tight hole. Always sound your horn before backing. If your car is not equip- ped with a backing light, you can use the stop light by press- ing your foot on the brake pedal Just hard enough to make the light glow. Keep your rear window clean and your rear-view mirror in good pesition. Needless to say, you must al- ways be sure the way is clear of other cars and pedestrians before backing up. 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