Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1934, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain tonight and probably tomorrow; not much change in temperature; lowest tonight about 52 degrees. Temperatures— Highest, 60, at noon today; lowest, 50, The only e‘vening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News service. at 10 p.m. yesterday. Full report on page A-T. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 10,11 & 12 No. 33,083. Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. h WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1934—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. ¢ Foenin ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION o Sftar | %% % *% (#) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 125,705 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved. TWO CENTS. NELSON FOUND DEAD HARRISON OFFERS PART BONUS PLAN AS COMPROMISE Veterans Who Can Show Need Would Receive Cash Payment. SENATOR HAD TALK AT WARM SPRINGS‘ View Not President’s, but Admin- istration in Sympathetic Mood, | Finance Committee Head Says. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Compromise of the issue revolving about immediate cash payment of the soldiers’ bonus by the payment of vet- erans who could show they were in need was suggested today by Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Com- mittee. “If the proponents of the bonus payment could get together,” said Senator Harrison, “and agree that immediate cash payment should be made to ex-service men who are in need, I haven't the slightest doubt that we could agree on legislation without delay.” Talk With President. Senator Harrison, who has just re- turned to Washington after conferring with President Roosevelt at Warm Springs. Ga., on the coming budget. taxes and the bonus, sald he was speaking for himself and not for the President in making this suggestion. He did say, however, sympathetic consideration was being given to the bonus question by the administration. He declined to say whether the Presi- dent was against payment of the bonus. “I am sure” he said, “that the bonus bill could not be passed over | The incoming | the President's veto. Congress was elected to support the President. The President is the leader and whatever he decides is in the best interest of the country in connection | with the bonus the Congress will sustain.” Opposes Tax Increase. The Mississippi Senator said he hoped that there would be no general tax increase legislation. “It is impossible to tell what will be done about taxes until after the Pres- ident shall have sent his budget mes- sage to Congress in January,” he said. He added that the increase in receipts from present taxes was encouraging. In every case these receipts, he said, were in excess of the estimates made by the Treasury experts at the time the last tax bill was passed, except in the case of liquor. “The President in his budget mes- sage to Congress last January es- timated that the total Treasury deficit would reach $9.000,000.000 for the fiscal years 1934 and 1935,” said Sen- ator Harrison. Estimate of Deficits. “The estimate was for a $7,000,- 000,000 deficit during the yearg 1934 and $2.000,000,000 during the’ year 1935 than was estimated. “The deficit for the first four months of the fiscal year 1935. July, August, September and October, is about $1,000,000,000. If this rate should be kept up, the deficit for 1935 will be $3.000,000,000. In other words, the actual deficit for the two years. will be about $2,000,000,000 less than was estimated by the President.” For Old-Age Pension. Senator Harrison declared himself in favor of immediate adoption of an old-age pension system, in which the Federal Government and the States should co-operate. He said he thought this pension should begin at the age of 65 and should be a ‘“reasonable” amount. How much, he did not say, although he declared that “$250 a month pen- sion is an unreasonable amount.” The Townsend old-age pension plan, given wide publicity in the recent Califor- nia campaign, called for $200 a monti 1o begin at the age of 60. Reasonable Works Program. Senator Harrison said that while | there was a large group of able-bodied | citizens unable to find private em- ployment, there should be a reason- able public works program which would provide them with work. He declined to say whether this public works fund should be $4,000,- 000,000 or more or less than that amount, “I don't think that the administras tion has the slightest doubt.” contin- ued Senator Harrison, “that business in the country is on the upgrade. I have no doubt that there has been &n improvement in business. “If we can get business up we will goon have surpluses of revenue in the Treasury instead of deficits.” Senator Harrison said he looked for no immediate move for stabilization of the dollar, nor for any further leg- islation relating to its stabilization, “The President has wide powers now to deal with the currency,” said Harrison. “When we can get the coun- tries of the world together on ke question of currency stabilization and can get agricultural prices higuer than they are today,” he said, “I be- lieve that the currency should be stabilized. Boat Aground, Two Drown. ATHENS, November 28 (#).—Two persons were drowned and several were reported missing today after the As a matter of fact, the deficit | for 1934 was nearly $3,000,000,000 less | Initial Victory 1 Won in Code Suit Against Roberts Co. Justice Bailey Denies Mo- tion of Printing Con- cern for Dismissal. The Government today won a pre- liminary victory in District Supreme Court in its suit to enjoin the W. F. Roberts Co., Washington printers and engravers, from violating the graphic arts code. The company had filed a motion to dismiss the Government suit and this | motion was denied today by Justice Jennings Bailey. He held both the N. R. A. and the graphic arts code are constitutional in so far as they affect the Roberts Co. Two Grounds Given. ‘The motion to dismiss was based on two grounds. First, that the act de- prives them of property without due process of law, and second, that Con- gress, in passing the act, exceeded its constitutional power to regulate com- merce, The Government, through Assistant " (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) BELGRADE BOLDLY ACCUSES HUNGARY | Note Bolsters Charge That Budapest Sheltered Assassins. By the Associated Press. | GENEVA. November 28 —An in- with the assassination of King Alex- ander of Yugoslavia was to be de- | posited late today with the League | of Nations by the Government at Bel- | grade. revealed by an authoritative source, showed that Yugoslavia deems Hun- | gary's responsibility results from the following three points: 1. The choice of criminals was | made on Hungarian territory among | terrorists who were trained for the | execution of such acts; | 2. These criminals were permitted | to leave Hungary freely and were pro- vided with Hungarian passports; | 3. The assassinations were the re- ‘sulz of terrorist action inspired and aided during a year on Hungarian | soil. “Crime School” Charged. the toleration and assistance given by Hungarian authorities, the band was drilled and the terrorists were able to organize a school of crime in Hun- gary. | “From this gang of organizers of murder was selected the executioner,” the memorandum declared, adding that the attitude of Hungary after the murders showed Hungary had | neither interest nor desire “that the | facts preceding or accompanying the crime be cleared up.” | “Faced by an international inquiry, the Hungarian government adopted a policy of systematic negation charac- | terized by evasions and contradic- | tions,” the summary said. Justifies Note to League. Yugoslavia justified its action in submitting the problem before the | League Council, asserting it consid- ered the crime could not be regarded as an isolated and individual manifes- tation of criminal anarchy. | “The crime of Marseille is a nat- |ural culmination of a conspiracy | against Yugoslavia for a long time | organized and nurtured abroad,” the summary declared. Defending its appeal, Yugoslavia charged that against such terrorist action, authorities of one state are powerless to defend themselves effec- tively, and without a “minimum of loyalty or international collaboration, the struggle against this particularly dangerous form of criminality is im- possible.” Claims Plotters Encouraged. “Yugoslavia requested the collabo- ration of the Hungarian government,” the summary stated in conclusion. “Far from according its help in the repression of terrorist plots, the Hun- garian authorities favored them. *“Hungary took no effective measures and it is thanks to her attitude that the terrorist action resulted in the crime at Marseille. The Hungarian government has incurred a heavy re- sponsibility which the government of Yugoslavia deems its supreme inter- national duty to denounce before the highest organ of the international community. “The government of Yugoslavia is entirely conscious of the gravity of its initiative which has only been un- dertaken by it on the basis of facts whose exactitude she has taken care to verify.” —_— SKIES AGAIN THREATEN DELAY OF POST FLIGHT By the Associated Press. BARTLESVILLE, Okla, November 28.—Wiley Post faced another post- ponement of his altitude record at- tempt into the stratosphere here when today dawned murky, with the skies heavily overcast and rain or snow threatened. ‘The famed fiyer an hour after day- break had not even left his bed. B. S. Popi, with 200 passengers aboard, went aground in stormy seas | off the Island of Fleva. The Popi is a | 2,000-ton coastal passenger ship. The 8. 8. Leon landed the survivors here, [4 ‘The heavy clouds give little hope the skies will clear sufficiently during the day for Post to attempt his two- hour hop, which requires almost per- fect weather conditions. | Newspaper DISTRICT FISCAL STUBY PROMISED BY ROOSEVELT Experts of Treasury to Be Used in Efforts to Deter- mine Fair Taxes. ANNOUNCEMENT REPLY TO CITIZENS’ PETITION Correspondents at Warm Springs Told All Facts Will Be Taken Into Account. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Staff Correspondent of The Star. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 28.—Before committing himself re- garding what should be the Federal Government's share of the costs of maintaining the District of Columbia, President Roosevelt wants to deter- mine whether property owners of the Capital are being taxed too high or too low on real estate. To arrive at what he terms a fair conclusion the President will very soon have some Government experts study the subject. In announcing this today he said he thought he would use experts from the Treasury Department. This will serve as Mr. Roosevelt's A summary of the memorandum, | The summary charged that due to ! | “evalued” or adjusted tax rate. immediate response to the petition re- ceived by him a few days ago from I irEnentt atl Hungary | inf connection ! citizens of Washington for a return to a more equitable basis of sharing the expenses of the District and between the Federal Government and the Dis- trict government and specific request for a large lump sum. At his confer- ence with newspaper correspondents today the President said that before taking any stand he first wanted to know all the facts. Absolute Fairness Aim. The President gave the clear im- pression that he wants to be abso- lutely fair and that if he can be shown that the Federal Government is not paying its share, he will quickly |act to correct this. In deciding to order a comparative study of taxes paid in other cities the President said he wants the experts to study the tax question in a num- ber of cities larger than Washington and an equal number of cities smaller | than Washington so as to arrive at an average. In other words, in mak- ing this study he wants Washing- ton rignt in the middle of a certain number of cities so as to arrive defin- itely at what he described as an This study, the President said, will show definitely what the people in the cities in_question are paying on Teal estate. Real estate taxes furnish the principal revenues of all cities. He added, however, that some revenue is | derived from licenses and his study | will include license revenues, but he considers such revenue small com- | pared with real estate tax revenues and therefore the inclusion of license Tevenues in this survey will be only incidental. Can Determine Point. The President is satisfied that he can determine whether the property owners of Washington are paying too much in taxes or too little by arriv- ing at an “evaluated” tax rate. He considers an ‘“evaluated™ rate or an “adjusted tax rate” being perfectly simple. The President then went on to ex- plain an “evaluated tax rate” by say- ing that if one city assesses real estate at 50 per cent of its actual or selling value and has a tax rate of $4 the people of that city are not paying any more than the people of a city which assesses property at its full value, and has a tax rate of only $2. Relationship to Determine. In other words. according to the President’s definition of this method, he wants to find the relationship be- tween the assessed value of properly and the true value. When this is de- termined, he explained further, then the actual tax rate of any particular city may be on the basis of the true value. Mr. Roosevelt then gave his rea- sons for thé study he preposes to make by Government experts. According to him, nobody in the District of Columbia has ever agreed whether the people of the District are paying a higher tax rate or lower tax rate than property owners of cities of a corresponding size. Mr. Roosevelt let it be known that he has given considerable thought to the fiscal relationship between the Federal Government and the District. This study has not been confined to the period he has been President. According to the President, it goes back from the time he took up his residence in Washington in 1913 as Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Hit-and-Miss Policy. He made no secret of the fact that as a result of his own observations and study he firmly believes there has been a sort of hit-and-miss policy establishing this fiscal relationship. Without giving his opinion as to whether the Federal Government had been getting the better of the bargain by this hit-and-miss policy, the Presi- dent did say that he thought it could be corrected. tax as Prof. Collier Cobb Dies. CHAPEL HILL, N. C. November 28 (#).—Dr. Collier Cobb, professor of geology in the University of North Carolina and renowned for his work in geological research in various parts of the world, died here tod He was 72 years old, o Christmas to The Public Utilities Commission and the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. today reached an agreement on reduced telephone rates, the immediate | effect of which will be the return of { approximately $1,000.000 to sub- scribers before Christmas. The commission has not yet issued its formal order, but Riley E. Elgen. chairman, announced the substance of it this afternoon. The new rates represent approxi- mately 10 per cent reduction on all ARE You QUITE SURE THEY'RE ALL HERE, SouTn? '$1,000,000 Phone Refund Plan iGiven Final O. K. at Conference ‘New Rate Schedule Cuts 10 Per Cent Off City Costs—Payments Before Average $12. classes of service except multiple pri- | vate branch exchange service. The $1.000,000 represents a 10 per cent re- duction on bills rendered to customers since October 10, 1932. The commission with two exceptions accepted the second proposal for re- duced rates to be made by the com- | pany, after flatly rejecting its first | proposal last Thursday. One of the changes was to reduce | T (Continued on Page 3, Column 7.) ROOSEVELT BACKS LOW-COST HOUSING U. S. Help Will Be Offered Those Unable to Get Private Credit. By the Associated Press. WARM SPRINGS, Ga., November 28 —President Roosevelt has deter- mined definitely upon a policy of Fed- eral obligation to help provide ade- quate, low-cost housing for the people whose standards of living make it im- possible to build. The extent of immediate Federal participation in this sweeping program for slum clearance and rural home construction has not been determined. Help Where Needed. But Mr. Roosevelt has laid down the policy that where the pockeibook of folks is too small to obtain private credit for home construction, the | Government will offer its help. In other words, it was stated very bluntly today at the little White House in the regular press conference in re- sponse to inquiry, that the Govern- ment does not consider itself licked in the case of people who can't otherwise take care of themselves. The broad scale proposition also is regarded by the President as offering |a very definite lift to heavy indus- tries, not only during the construc- tion period, but also later through increased consumption demand by in- creased standard of living. In No Way Competitive. It is in no sense regarded either as competition with private business and whenever the private dollar wishes to compete with the public dollar in home construction the offer is wel- comed. Details and scope of the vast plan which has been advocated by Secretary Ickes will be worked out in the next few weeks. COAL OPERATOR HELD FOR JAIL ESCAPE IN 1924 “Thought Law Had Forgotten Me,” Suspect Says, After Arrest on Federal Charge. By the Associated Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., No- vember 28.—A Colorado Springs coal operator, who said he thought the Jaw “had forgotten about me, after all these years,” was under arrest here today as an alleged escaped convict from the Federal Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kans. He is Jesse Frank McNeely, sought by Federal authorities for more than 10 years. A. R. Gere, Department of Justice agent from Denver, said Mc- Neely admitted he escaped in 1924. Gere said McNeely was accused of raising a $1 bill to $10 and was sen- tenced to & term of two and one-half years. He also said McNeely plans to petition for & pardon on the strength of his > NUMBERS ‘RACKET DECRIED BY OWEN Member of Citizens’ Crime Group Says “Games” Hurt Young. Claude W. Owen, member of the Citizens' Committee on Crime, was | stepping into his car, parked on K | street, when a etranger accosted him. | “You know,” the man said to Mr. Owen, “you ought to play the num- | ber on “Why?” asked Mr. Owen. “Because,” the stranger said, “it's a lucky number, It won today.” This was Mr. Owen’s introduction to the numbers game. Since then | he learned more about it. Now. |afte} reading several articles on the subject, and bumping into runners for the numbers game, Mr. Owen thinks The Star, the Washington Post, Herald and Times, with the aid of the local radio stations, are on the right track in suppressing publi- cation of race track numbers, totaled. Effective Fight Possible. United States Attorney Garnett, in | suggessting this method, believed the numbers game would be dealt an effective blow if the newspapers and radio stopped information at its source. The gamblers, he said, de- pended upon the totaling of race-track numbers to give them authority. The aforementioned agencies agreed to try the experiment. “By refusing to total the race-track numbers, and print them for the bene- “the local newspapers and the radio stations are doing a good work. The numbers game is working havoc, par- ticularly among the young. Students of high-school age are being taught to gamble—and that is bad. Every agency that contributes to this racket, whether consciously or unconsciously, should follow the example of The Star and the other local newspapers, as a matter of principle.” Business Group Hits “Racket.” The Georgia Avenue Business Men's Association, meeting last night in German’'s Hall, 107 Upshur street, voted unanimously to condemn the gamblers and racketeers operating the numbers game. A resolution was adopted asking the police to make every effort to eliminate this game from civic life. Arthur Clarendon Smith, president of the Federation of Business Men's Associations, addressed the meeting, the campaign. With the unenimous vote of approval, Mr. Smith indicated he would seek similar action from all of the 12 member organizations of his federation. There are 2,000 small business men so associated. —_— Alleged Attackers Out on Bond. George Williams and Arthur L. Fountain were released by Judge Isaac R. Hitt in Police Court today on $300 bond pending trial Tuesday on charges of assaulting Lewis B. Smith and Henry F. Clay, heads of the transient reform movement here. The assault is glleged to have occurred at 638 D street last week. This is the second continuance of the case. ] the charge on calls on two-party resi- | fit of these gamblers,” Mr. Owen said, | urging & 100 per cent indorsement of | him WOMAN EXPECTED TONANE VIGTIVS Suffocation Is Believed to Have Caused Deaths of Three Little Girls. By the Associated Press. CARLISLE, Pa, November 28.— | The baffling mystery that has be- clouded the deaths of three sisters | found on a mountainside near here seemed today to be approaching a | solution. | Investigators predicted the puzzle | would be solved by sundown. They | apparently attached great importance !to the finding of a woman in Phila- delphia who was said to have some | knowledge of the case. It was em- | phasized that she is not under ar- | rest. She will be brought here today | to view the bodies. The finding of the woman was de- scribed by one of the investigators as | the “best break” so far. The part of the “mystery woman" Duncansville, 70 miles away, was de- scribed by an official as “highly im- portant,” but he would reveal no in- formation as to the circumstances under which the woman is held. Lieut. Harry L. McElroy, chief of State police detectives, said that clues are linking the Duncansville and | carlisle cases more and more each | hour. Mrs. Gooden Dill of Langhorne lalso is to come here today to view the bodies. Five Stopped in Camp. Yesterday, after hearing a descrip- tion of the family of five which stopped at her tourist camp last week for several days, State police said it | tallied with that of the slain trio of girls and the adult couple at Dun- cansville. The tourist home stands along the Lincoln Highway about 20 miles north of Philadelphia. | Her story is that the family came November 19 and left November 31. The adults, who gave the names of “Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Malone,” were “very distant” at first but later said they were from Vallejo, Calif. Mrs. Dill saw their black bag, de- scribed as similar to that found near the girls’ bodies, and a washcloth, with a stitched “X,” also like one found there. Vallejo police said no Malone family of that description resided there. Poison Still Sought. Meanwhile, Prof. M. W. Eddy, physi- ologist of Dickinson College, began tests of the stomachs of the girls for poison and a report was expected from Dr. George R. Moffitt, pathologist of Harrisburg. Dr. Moffitt said he believed the children probably were suffocated. Blood found in the noses of the chil- dren and evidences of hemorrhages and intense congestion in the brains, Dr. Moffitt said, led him to believe in the suffocation theory. Coroner Haegele re-examined the children’s heads, but reported he found no evidence of strangulation. Solution of the Duncansville pair's death was no further, apparently, than yesterday when police stood by their “murder and suicide” theory. Larry Carney, Philadelphiz, said a photograph of the man found at Dun- cansville was that of “Horace Hughes,” whom he knew on the Pacific Coast six years ago. He said he saw Hughes in Philadelphia Monday and Hughes said his three children were East with Word from San Prancisco, however, (Continued on Page 2, Colymn 8.) Guide for Readers Amusements Comics Features Finance .. Lost and Found... Radio Serial Story . Short Story . Society . Sports .... in the girl's death, and possibly in the deaths of a man and woman near | AS FORCES \Cowley, Justice Slaying of FEDERAL, ILLINO SECOND AGENT DIES MOBILIZE IN NELSON MANHUNT Inspector, Dies as “Baby Face” Avenges Dillinger. IS AND CHICAGO SHARPSHOOTERS ARE MASSED Officers Ordered to Shoot First in Outlaw Search—Purvis Vows to “Get” Slayer BULL of U. S. Men. ETIN Baby Face Nelson was found dead this afternoon in Niles Center, 111 Attorney General Cummin, gs said the gangster was shot yesterday by Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and Special Agent Herman E. Hollis who were killed in a gun fight with him at Barrington, IIL When the body was found today by Federal men it was found Nelson had been shot five times in the stomach and twice in the chest and five tim es in each leg. The body was found in a ditch clad only in underclothing. The outer garments were found by Department of Justice searchers. Niles Center was described Nelson was considered the N since the death of John Dillin, ago. Dillinger was reported to Finding of the was alleged to have been the Federal agent at the battle of Wisconsin in April. By the Associated Press dangerous killer in America, wa today by massed forces of Gove | police sharpshooters. | Cowley, an ace nemesis of gangl: | drive th. yesterday afternoon on a highw: Barrington and the ninth law e hands of Dillinger mobsters. Co Federal agent who participated Highland Park. Led by four Department of J fany of Lake County and Chief of a squad at dawn swooped down foster son of the socially promin road just north of Lake Bluff. Cowley and Hollis Faced Worst Danger In “Crime Corridor” BY REX COLLIER. Inspector Samuel P. Cowley, killed with Federal Agent Herman E. Hollis in a gun battle with “Baby Face” Nel- son in Chicago, was assigned to clean up the most dangerous sector in the Justice Department’s war on gangland —the Midwestern “crime corridor.” His was a job considered more haz- ardous than any now confronting J. Edgar Hoover's Division of Investiga- tion. Cowley, quiet-mannered young law graduate of George Washington University, was Hoover's “trouble- shooter” for crime’s “hot spots"— wherever they developed. Because of his natural reticence, his dislike of publicity, the public had heard little of Cowley. Yet it was he who was in personal charge of the shooting of John Dillinger and Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd—two of the Na- tion’s most feared public enemies. Melvin Purvis, agent in charge of the Chicago office of the division, was with Cowley on both occasions, but it was | Cowley, not Purvis, who was in com- mand of both expeditions. Agent Hollis, a law graduate of Georgetown University, was almost as | well known in Washington as Cowley | —and as trusted by his superiors. In Field for Months. ‘The long hunt for Dillinger had kept him in the fleld for months, and no sooner had he arrived back at his desk here after Dillinger's| death than the Kansas City massacre | case “broke wide open” with the| identification of “Pretty Boy” Floyd as one of the slayers of Federal Agent Raymond Caffrey in the Un- ion Station slaughter. Cowley has- tily left for the Midwest again. In the meantime, the kidnaping of Mrs Berry V. Stoll occurred at Louisville, and Cowley temporarily turned his (Continued on Page 4, Column 4.) —— ROYAL ROMANCE OVER PARIS, November 28 (#).—Countess Covadonga started today for her home in Cuba, leaving the count behind, after what friends said was a final and futile attempt at a reconciliation. | | The beautiful Cuban, for whom the | prince abandoned his right of suc- cession to the former Spanish throne, was silent as she left for Cherbourg to sail for home. Friends, however, said all hope of reconciliation vanished vesterday when the countess told her husband | that her decision is final. She is| going to Miami and thence to Havana, as 15 miles from Chicago. “Make it clear that our men shot him,” Cummings said. ation’s number one criminal ger in Chicago Several Weeks have been killed by Hollis, gody concluded an intensive 24-hour search for the gangster, former associate of Dillinger, who killer of W. Carter Baum, a f Little Bohemia in Northern CHICAGO, November 28.—His trail freshly blazed with the blood of two Federal agents, George (Baby Face) Nelson, the most s hunted over Northern Illinois rnment, State and metropolitan | The mobilization of manhunters was intensified as Samuel P. and and a leader of the Federal v at brought down John Dillinger, died early today in an Elgin hospital. He was the second victim of a machine gun battle ay in the outskirts of suburban nforcement officer to die at the wley was headquarters inspector of the Justice Department’s Division of Investigation. Hollis Was Killed Instantly. In the brief but furious exchange Herman E. Hollis, another in the death of Dillinger, was killed instantly by Nelson and an unidentified companion. The hunt for Nelson was focused on the back fringe of that exclusive residential area fronting on Lake Michigan north to ustice agents, Sheriff Lester Tif- Police Eugene Spaid of Lake Bluff, on the home of Jack Durand, ent Scott Durands, on Sheridan No Trace of Outlaw. The officers searched the home from attic to cellar and extended their hunt | to the barns. outhouses and woods, but found no trace of the outlaw. From there they went to the Scott Durand | home, where they searched through barns and the great wooded estate However, they did not invade the home. Mrs. Durand said the Federal men told her the Government had informa- tion that Nelson had a hide-out some- where in the neighborhood of the Durand’s Crabtree farm. She said she had told them she was willing to do | anything possible to aid in the hunt. No Net Spread. Purvis said the shooting was not a duplicate of the affray near Mercer, Wis.,, which cost the lives of two | persons. | “There was no net spread or plan | made to capture Nelson yesterday.” i he said. “Frankly, I don't know just what happened. I can't reconstruct this shooting.” In brief periods of consciousness. said Purvis, Cowley tried to spea but only muttered the name “Nelson. Inspector H. H. Clegg of the De- | partment of Justice, who was with | Purvis and Hollis when Nelson es- | caped from the Mercer trap last April, | arrived from Washington today to take charge of the Nelson hunt. Woman May Be Wife. The woman in the outlaw's car, said Purvis, was probably Mrs. Gillis, Nelson's wife. Nelsons real name is | Lester M. Gillis. Sent by airplane from Washington, Clegg was forced to the ground 200 miles from Washington and made the remainder of the trip by rail. Clegg was given a lead in his searci "(Continued on Page 4, Column 2.) . Bank Bandits Get $6,000. WOODBURY, Tenn., November 28 (#).—The Woodbury Commerce Union Bank was held up today and robbed of between $6.000 and $8,000 by three men who entered with a sawed-off shotgun, locked bank employes in a vault and escaped in an automobile driven by a fourth. The Star Expedition Plane Nears Home Read Capt. Kleinschmidt's wire- lessed story describing the last leg of the party's homeward flight with the movies of Santa Claus to be shown at the Metropolitan Theater here tomorrow. ON PAGE 2 in Today's Star