Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1933, Page 1

Closing N. Y. Markets. Pages 14,15&16 No. 32,703. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. REDS' MANIFESTO WARNS JAPANESE OF MILITARY PLANS Charges Armed Base Being| Set Up in Manchukuo. Threatens Reprisal. CATASTROPHE DECLARED AWAITING AGGRESSION | Both Moscow and Tokio Issue De- nial of Reported Shooting | | mayor-elect said. Glassford Report Is Without Basis, La Guardia Radios General for Police Commissioner. By the Associated Press. 2 NEW YORK, November 13.—Mayor- elect F. H La Guardia today sent a radio message from the liner Pennsyl- vania, on which he and Mrs. La Guardia are en route to Panama, denying pub- | lished reports that he was considering | | Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford for { police commissioner of New York. “No justification for police commis- sioner story,” the message from the “I gave no statement. Said nothing concerning subject. Ut- terly groundless.” The Sun, in a special dispatch from the liner, said earlier today it was in- Down of Aircraft. | | i By the Assoclated Press. ! MOSCOW, November 13.—Japanese | imperialists are charged with creating | an armed base in Manchukuo in a | manifesto issued by the Far Eastern section of the Communist party. Warning that Russia is prepared to | act quickly in the event of lelneoe’ attempts of aggression in the Far East, | the manifesto sald: “Our alrfleet * * * uprepmdi to deal decisive blows at enemy centers of population. * With such an array of terrible armament, the Soviet Unlon would resdlly kill any desire to compete against our program of peace- ful labor.™ muod November 1.—Two days before to Tokio against the nuend t of J-p.nue Amy pllne! onr Soviet um iphasized into .u “this manifesto, newest develop- ment in extended differences, was dis- cussed, both Tokio mel Moscow govern- ment ' authorities baseless re- ports l.brold that annnue planu had been shot down over Sovi ROOSEVELT SPEEDS LIQUOR TAX ACTION Subject Taken Up at White House to Collect Revenues as Soon as Possible. e o liquor revenues as Bem on ool.laiténx iq A Eu va ‘Whit ouse | ARy 2" the House Com- mittee, unldy at vork i Representative Hill, Den;;crfl. ':‘f the i‘&nm gnbwmmutu that has the task hand, indicated the President wants ‘leplntemllforlevluonvh.\nymd The bill to re income and at.hefl Jevies, including possible repeal of | nuisance taxes, is to be handled sepa- rately, under a tentative plan agreed upon by the subcommittee. Meanwhile, Chairman Doughton an- nounced the full ‘Ways and Means Com- mittee would begin open hearings De- cember 4 on both llquur and m:m revenue revision tax bills, Members of the subcommittee ca c:lled dent to discuss p: ‘v?;'f,"'at“’r‘énnm,“’&mm,, Repub- liean. of New York, and 'Pmdwny Re- publican, of Massach: NEWSPAPER BOMBING CALLS BEING TRACED! Crusading Editor of Mansfield, | Ohio, Threatened Several Hours Before Blast. By the Associated Press. MANSFIELD, Ohio, November 13.— | Two telephone messages received at the home of G. J. Kochenderfer, ditor of | the Mansfield News-Journal and & vigorous campaigner against rackets, were the center of a police investigation today of & bombing at the newspaper "8 | plant. The bomb tore up the newspaper's | mailing room early yesterday. Joyrnal officials estimated the damage | at about $1,000. 'rhe flrst message, “lay off or you‘ll yours,” was received Kochen- der{er eight hours before the . The second, “how did you like the present? ‘We have plenty more of them.” was neesm by his wife several hours after Police adopted a theory that racketeers were rmmlbk for the fifth bombing act directed against Mansfleld papers in five years. ——e Virginia Woman Dm. ‘BALTIMORE, November 13.(#)—Miss Northam, News- | dicated that Gen. Glassford is under consideration. Under consideration with him, the Sun said, was Maj. Gen. James E. Fbehet former_ chief of the Army Air Gen. Glassford was in charge | o Washington police when the bones | army was encemped in the National | Capital last year. The mayor-elect and Mrs. La Guardia are aboard the ship for a rest after the campaign. They are expected to leave the vessel mn Panama and ny back to the Unmd States, llndmg JONES DENIES LOAN HAD SELF-INTEREST esto | Senate Prober Says R F..C. Chairman Welcomed Quiz Based Upon Complaints. By the Associated Press. Motivated by complaints, the Senate Banking Committee, in its recent ex- amination of Jesse H. Jones, was said by one of’ its members today to have railroads. He would not specify any of these ad- vances on which information had been ested. E“Ach member of the five-man com- | country. of indignation. The Senate stock market investi- gators’ records have yielded evidence of loahs of more than $6,000,000 by the Chase National Bank in 1930 to two syndicates in Seaboard Air Line stock in which Harvey C. Couch, now direc- tor of the R. ¥. C. figurea. Third Loan Dllelm«l. The records also disclosed a loan of | | $549,000 in 1920 to a third syndicate in the same stock. All three pool operations were during the year in which the road went into receivership. The records, however, did were organized to dispose of the stock, nor dld they explain any other details! of operation. ‘The hlgmt of the three apparently | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) mo- | FOUR LIE SIX HOURS N PLANE WRECKAGE | Kansas City Doctor and Party, Re- turning From Operation, Crash in Storm. | By the Associated Press | _KANSAS CITY, November 13.—Four | Kansas Citians were injured, three critically, when their private plane crashed into a tree in a forced land- ing in a dust storm near Olathe, Kans., last night. y were Dr. B. L. Sulzbacher. prominent surgeon; his son, Louls Sulz- bacher; Lee Lyon, wholesale fur dealer, and Walter C. Taber, pilot. The men lay in the wreckage six | hours before being found by four searchers. The plane was returning from Mus- | kogee, Qkla., where Dr. Sulzbacher had performed san_operation. Denies He Is Considering | , | or 93.5 per cent: +| SETTLE’S BALLOON Meml signed except with a phrase expressive | not disclose whether me :ynd!cnfu' ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION C., MONDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1933—THIRTY PAGES. The Foening Star REICH CELEBRATES HITLER POLIGIES VICTORY AT POLLS Ch'ancellor Wins Support -of 93.5 Per Cent of Voters * in Plebiscite. |{APPROVAL OF LEAGUE WITHDRAWAL IS SEEN Appeal Even Put to Nation in | Braille in Unpsecedented Election Campaign. By the Assoclated Press. BERLIN, November 13.—Adolf Hitler is armed with the almost unanimous | suppert of his people today to-press his | | bold drive toward a new deal for Ger- many. More than 90 per cent of the quali- | | fled voters cast ballots in yesterday's Reichstag election and foreign policy plebiscite—and well over 90 per cent | of those electors rung up & resounding “ja” (yes)-for the chancellor and his program. Today the entire nation joined in o celebration of the event, hailed by Nazi party leaders as a e o Germany becoming one No sooner hl.d the ruult been in- dicated than Propaganda Minister Goebbels,” whose work figured large in the big turnout at the polls, called for a day-long demonstration. 42,969,562 Vote on Slate. Jubilant Nazis saw Hitler increase the | Dla.xy;.(ollo:\mnx mfl'l-’ to 40 m%’n' vol as y contrasted yesterday" ruulu wlt.h the elections of last got another Reichstag whlch wfll tlke orders willingly. reported by %o ’s Anncy was 39,621, ls'l or nn Er eent of the total ballots cast 3,348,125, or'l.!petmt. WI!I total vote of 42,969,562 Intheplebuduby'mtham- tion approved Hitler's !mfl stand, the count was: “Yes,” 5&0 430, “no.” 2,052,100, or 4.7 per eent. In‘v;udf 789, or 18 per In its nnprwadzmed drive for votes, | (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) EN ROUTE TO AKRON | | Inaugurate Flight Long Postponed. g | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, November 13—The huge | balicon and' gondola in which Lieut., | Comidr. T. G. W. Settle hoped to reach | nhe stratosphere in an ascension from | | the World’s Fair grounds was crated | today for shipment to Akron, Ohio. The projected flight was called off | with the closing of a Century of | Progress Exposition after one unsuc- cessful attempt and several months of | waiting for favorable atmospheric con- | i ditions, Comdr. Settle indjcated the fllgbt might be undertaken later from | Akron. A conference Letween Settle and financial backers of the flight was scheduled for wday md a d,e nite an- Rogncement was md by De- cember 15 l Cflfllm'i DfOVldEd {hat the | ht gondola be e T | of Belgium, the first man to Ay Thte r.he stratosphere, { Sponsors of the flight pointed out ‘ that the talloon, 164 feet tall when in- | flated. could be made ready inside the | | Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation’s hi . | hangar at Akron. The hangar is | feet high, 325 feet wide and 1175 teet | lon: Ifiside the hangar, Inflation could be accomplished without the hazard of winds which have prevented Settle from taking off for the past two months at the World’s Fair grounds. Tbe bag cannot be inflated in a wind of more than 6 miles an hour. Settle attzmpted the flight alone last August 14, but a faulty valve cord ar- ‘rlngemem forced the balloon to land bes after a few minutes. Maj. Chester L. Fordney of the Marine Corps will ac- company Settle on any future attempt. | Large syndicate operations in stock of the Washington Gas Light Co. by New York banking jinterests were dis- closed today in evidence made public Ly the Senate Stock Market Investigat- # m mmmwrda of the w‘m at gver a period of s ’gu' m,um were 12 lum tional Bank mmmly here yesterday. nh.umd a home in Westmore- ’ BIG POOL OPERATIONS IN STOCK \OF GAS COMPANY HERE DISCLOSED 1929, | $204,000: 00,000 to|1928, $1549250; November 1 |cf the syndicate: Utilities Power & Light Securities Corporation, Pynchen &ltl:o D. A. Pearson and James O'Don- nel | . 3 $193,240; Novunher u, 1928, $150, $5,000; January 20, - | was appointed by Ickes today to replace | the Tennessee State Public Works Ad- T | visory Board, contained this Inflation in Big Hangar Likely to &raph | with the power of Congress to modify |'this law at any time before pay day. | 1 ask you to visualize in your own mind . \\j\v, L THE MAGICIAN! PUBLIC WORKS ADE S QUSTED BY ICKES Tennessee Engineer Hinted Federal Loans Won't Have to Be Paid. Harry S. Berry, public works en- gineer for Tennessee, has been dismis- sed, it was revealed today by Admin- istrator Ickes, because he sent a cir- | Rresids cular letter to civic organizations in his | be State expressing the opinion that non- Federal public works loans would net have to be paid. 2 In a telegram to Berry on November 9, Mr. Ickes said: ber 25 “To all Clyic tions’ legal security which is htme contracts with the boqynndmd. This security is taken t is expected in ac- earfllnce with the national r:eowry je H. Wells, an ll!lltant at Pub- lic Works Administration headquarters, Weils organized the Public Works Ad- ministration in Mlul.lppl served as a trouble shooter ffi several States and Wwas an engineer on important public works construction in Ohio before being brought to Washington to assist Col. H. M. Waite, deputy public works ad- ministrator. Ickes revéaled tne circular letter, | written by Beery on a letter head of para- “I wish to present a phase of this matter which has heretofore been soft- pedaled: Under existing hv- loans to political subdivision will made only Do contracts datonyeabls ot Towe 1L Cites Tennessee Loans. “Assuming that a number of these loans will be made in every congres- sional district, and they will be made. what will be the possible future action of Congress. We have seen what the Tennessee Legislature ‘did with refer- ence to relieving the counties of their zoad bonds, and we may judge the future by the past "My Pemnnl oplnion is that the ve community that is willing o co-opel h President Roosevelt will recelve a rlch reward and that ‘buck passers and balky hnrsu will get what they deserve —nothing. said the grants of 30 per cent | of TGost of Iabor abd materials made on sone u! the nrojeeu wete outtight Fed- hese were not ex- pecufl e !epl “Public works however, loans {0 be repaid,” he asserted. " BERRY PLANS REPLY. are Ousted Engineer Declares He Answer Ickes. NASHVILLE, Tenn.. November 13 (). —Co:. Harry 8 ITy, Whose removal as Federal Public Works engineer for Tennessce was announced today by Sec- retary Ickes at Washipgton. withheld immediate comment but said he would have an “appropriate zeply” later. sl b 5 s e LINDBERGHS LAND SAFELY, will QUIET CRASH RUMORS % Report of Fall in Spain Belied When Flyers Come to Earth Near Caldelas de Tuy. By the Associated Press. MADRID, November 13.—Col. Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh landed safely today near Caldelas de Tuy, Province of Pontevedera, on a flight across Spain. veu that the Amer- rs, took off from Santona, , for Portugal, had been forced down near the little village at the foot of the mountains. "Ihnelwpyo!yourckcuhx()cw- byt addressed Al Smith to Call On President for Chat Tomorrow | Meeting So Closely Fol- lowing Tammany Over- throw Stirs Speculation. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York is going to drop in on President Roosevelt at the White House tomor- | row for an p(omu chat. An engagement was made today for the “Happy Wurflor" to confer with the lent tomorrow, but the subject to discussed is a matter of conjecture. Following closely on the heels of the Tammany overthrow in New Yoruk', ge e Mr. Roosevelt went to Ne' Yol'k to :ddrul the Catholic Charities conven- WOMAN ARRESTED . INASH SLAYNGS Alleged to Have Tipped Off | %5 Gang, Leading to Kansas City Massacre. By the Assoclated Press. MEMPHIS. Tenn, November .13.— A woman described by police as Mrs. E. B. Connor, under indictment at Kansas | City in connection with the Kansas City massacre, was captured here today. Federal operatives said Mrs. Con- ner is the woman who telephoned from Hot Springs. Ark, to Kansas City to give the gangsters the information that resulted in the massacre in which four officers_and Frank Nash were killed in front of the union station on June 17. Police said they had hoped they would arrest either Charles (Pretty Boy) Floyd or Verne Miller, the Kansas City machine gunner, but if either had been here, they were gone when offi- cers raid on a dinner club oF “Uhe Gutskirts of the city. The arrest was made at 8:30 am (Cenu'ln lt.l.hdl.rrl Mme) Taken into e Nz Gonner, ‘bt police Withneia- ner name. Wil T. Griffin, inspector of detectives, said he had obtained ur- mation some time ago that Mrs. Conner was hiding here, and wrote J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Griffin said he had hoped either Miller or Floyd would show up here. The house in Mrs. Conner was taken has watched several days. George (Machine Gun) Kel.ly o captured here with September 26. Federal operatives said Mrs. Conner was living at Hot Springs when Nash was captured there and taken back to Kansas City. They accuse her of teleo honing gangsters at Kansas City and giving them the exact hour their train was due in Kansas City, together with the train number. The gangsters met the train and Nash and four others were slain in a rain of machine gun fire. She was in- dicted by a grand - jury at Kansas City. Federal apentlves said she was also known as Lou Conner, Conner, Mrs. Ed Conner and Louise Conner. GOLD MINERS LOSE PLEA Wage Increase in Johannesburg Dcniod—qflmph'e Reaps Profits. JOHANNESBURG. South Africa, No- vemlu 13 (#).—The Rand Chamber of Mines has rejected gold miners’ claims !wnw-mnnakmdunmrml The rejection was CLOSED HEARINGS P “From Press to Home Within an Hv-r" Star’s Carrier system mmmmmm tion 15 ntmut.hap.penmpflneed. d Saturday’s Circulation, 114,327 mlfl‘i”l Sunday’s ®) Means Associated Press, TWO CENTS. WHITE HOUSE SEES CLIMAX IN RUSSIAN PARLEY BY FRIDAY Roosevelt and Litvinoff Work Separately Toward Settle- ment of Last Issues. FISH THREATENS FIGHT ON LOANS BY AMERICA Says Advances Will Mean Loss to Taxpayers—Commends Con- duct of Negotiations. By the Zssociated Press. President Roosevelt and Maxim Lit- vinoft worked in their own separate ways today toward solving the problems that stand in the path of United States- Soviet relations, confident the negotia- uulu will reach fruition by Friday, \vhen the l’ruident heads lou'.hmd An expression of made at the !e Houn colnddent with u.notha- .-cruon of ‘While the pulmn o( Nn an&“a or Ruuun VWS ORED = = Dickstein Acts After Hurriedly Conferring With Roose- velt on Inquiry. -~ By the Assoclated Press. Representative Dickstein (Democrat, New York told reporters today that much of the investigation of alleged Nazi propaganda in this country, to be made by the House Immigration Com- mittee headed by him, will be in exec- utive session. His assertion was made at the White House executive office, where he had Just seen President Roosevelt for a-short time in an engagement which the White House said later had been requested by Dickstein. Stand Not Revealed. 1t was pointed out by assistants to the President that there was nothing to in- said he h.d not completed | ress.’ declined Dickstein a list of witnesses and to give wtlnyanhenmuo(&hmhgpm- Bicksietn has been active in arrang- 1n¢ me lnqul:v as chairman of the Be!m luvlnz the ation Com- mittée room ;‘fl nm men lt..he co bla meet late in the com] lufidr:lntnuon for \‘.hzbu h Dll(l Te were a numl f people around his office o nts, but they also decluud to reveal their in being there. ttee had names or their by Hous> to lfllh the inquiry, Dickstein said he, as man of the righ make the lnvgro“p DL the 'm Dickstein previously had he would seek the deportation of Nazi leaders. here. He is understood to be to foin the “Priends of New Oenmny . an organization in this country. and Bickstein bas asserted. ‘"fiuf"'z to‘llotn heuld,uatold'.bntt-hey United States at from 50,000 to 60,000, D{chhln as pmlnsd o ¢h nho' the e S0 vestigation of his status under the im- L migration laws. BABY BORN TO BRUCES Girl Is Granddaughter of Mellon and Ex-Senator. BALTIMORE, November 13 (#).— Former Senator Willlam Cabell Bruce sald today a daughter was born “sev- eral days ago” to Mrs. David K. Este Bruce and his son, Mr. Bruce, in New York. Mrs. Bruce is the daughter of Andrew W. Mellon. g iy | ] i §8: %, g i E pLi | % ; i g B E added, was “Sunday.” New Instructions Seen, In other administration quarters, was believed likely Litvinoff had rece!ved advices from his Moscow government on points pending when a Saturday aft- State it ad- Journed abruptly uarters of an hour, mdmthewumdwcom- éw-unm decision to the White 1se. There was also a growing impres- sion that much of the negotiations dem with econamic _relations lM lormal recognition, with ‘a chance tha uuunmdsmu advantages. ‘The presence of the Soviet's foremost are | diplomat has given o) discussion of economic (Vontinued on Page # Golumn 6) _|JOCKEY GOES ON TRIAL IN $3,000 THEFT CASE | By the Assoclated Press. OHIO PROFESSORS USE HYPNOSIS TO HELP GIRL RETAIN HER FIGURE notic suggestion,” in which a subject carries out actions upon waking which By the Associated Press. OXFORD, Ohio, November 13.—And pportunity for a Dol i DISCORD ON GOLD PURCHASE POLICY DENIED BY WOODIN | Tells Reporters He Will Back Roosevelt’s Program to the Limit. R. F. C. PRICE INCREASED TO $33.45° AN OUNCE White House Meeting Takes Up Several Moves to Raise Commodity Levels. By the Assoclated Press, A vigorous denial that the Treasury is opposing President Roosevelt's golds buying policy was made today by See~ retary Woodin - Coincident with another increase in the Reconstruction Pinance Corpora« tion purchase price for newly-mined domestic gold to $33.45 an ounce, the Secretary of the Treasury was a White House visitor. Later he called reporters mhhdukattho'rreuurylndnu “The President has been good enough to consult with me in his oy with all “I am heartily in sym| h!upolldumdwlll them to the s move abparenity was csclon by published that =3 which he will hold m-y_hmm:nmmmd mmemmhm,m renewed its downward trend with result that at the with i ! E ) Bg° Izt CHAR i & :o%c n:cokgl%l mble id. wor! omg turn to the gold lhnd“ ; 5 When President Roosevelt intiated of buying gold at a higner umz- llmd he m!nhe be llmlm o uu um mmuxefiouuch aper, some conference repreunt an numm to unite Im"\E first time on a pagtc g of the subjects for dflt'::m'm my - SERRER WOODIN REPEATS DENIAL A revi o!w mofmmolmrukn-um memmmm;mfl‘ he left the White House, » fi”;mzwhhthmt.mm l(yvoaleh - ords are all worn ouy Guide for Readers Pages. Amusements o 10-11 - .A-14-15 A-9