Evening Star Newspaper, December 19, 1934, Page 7

INSULL TESTIFIES ON STOCK MOTIVE Use of Utility Funds Held Not for Selfish Aims, but to Aid Public. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 19.—The fight to defend the family honor faced Martin Insull today. Taking the witness stand in his own defense, Insull's problem was to con- vince a Criminal Court jury that a desire to protect company stockhold- ers and not selfish gain was his motive for using $344,720 of the Middle West Utilities Co.’s funds to purchase stocks. The State called it embezzlement and bent all its efforts to prove it. Although the amount is small—sums ot millions and billions have been discussed in Insull trials—the State regards it as touching on the mental attitude of the Insull group at a critical time. The defense filed a motion for a directed verdict of not guilty yester- day, but it was overruled without argu- ment. NIGHT PARKING BAN HELD UNNECESSARY Logan-Thomas Circle Group Says Snowy Days Too Few for Restrictions. Charging that a night parking ban in the downtown section is unrea- sonable, the Logan-Thomas Circle Citzens’ Association voted against it last night at a meeting at the West- minster Church. Siding with the recent resolution passed by the Federation of Citizens’ Associations to that effect, the civic body held that there is not a sufficient number of snowy days to warrant the ban on night parking nor a sufficient number of alleys to provide garages. Stricter enforcement of traffic reg- ulations was advocated. A request was made that the Federal Government contribute $8,500,000 to the District budget. This is the amount the Com- missioners are asking. A committee, consisting of M. A. Robbins, Edward H. Young and H. M. Fulton, was appointed to consider prospective sites for an airport. The meeting was addressed by S. J. Soloman of the National Airport Corp., who discussed the Washington Airport and Gravelly Point proposals. ICELAND GETS REPEAL Country Dry Since 1913 Voted Wet in Fall of 1933. COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Decem- ber 19 () —Iceland repealed prohi- | bition yesterday, advices reaching here from Reykjavik said. ‘The doom of prohibition in Ice-| land was sealed by popular referen- dum October 23, 1933, when the | little island went wet by a vote of 15.884 to 11,624, Iceland has been a prohibition country since 1913. __ Indicted ATTORNEY CHARGED WITH SHARING URSCHEL RANSOM. BEN LASKA, A defense attorney in the Urschel kidnap trial, who is being held in jail at Denver, Colo., under a Fed- eral indictment charging him and James C. Mathers, another lawyer, with sharing in the $200,000 ran- som paid for the release of Charles F. Urschel. Announcement of the arrest of both attorneys was made by the Department of Justice at Oklahoma City, Okla. —A. P. Photo, YAWN VICTIM SLEEPS WITHOUT SEDATIVES Illinois Woman Well on Way to Recpvery, Physicians Believe. Stricken Eight Days. By the Associated Press, STERLING, 11, News: Mrs. Harold McKee yawned once last night and went to sleep. For more than eight days her strange marathon yawning affliction has necessitated the use of sedatives to bring sleep. But last night the yawn was natural and physicians said they believed her well along the road to recovery. Dr. H. L. Pettit announced that she would leave the hospital today or tomorrow, barring a relapse. She suffered a slight attack, earlier December 19.— last evening, but physicians were not ; alarmed. _— Crow Steals $5,000 Gold. Five thousand dollars’ worth of gold spectacles were found in the nest of a crow, which had stolen them from a jeweler’s shop in India. Suit or Topcoat 822.75 We've made the price low to make room for your overburdened budgets, If the fam- ily doesn't take this hint and buy it for you— give yourself one of these values. 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Because of conflict with President Roosevelt's general world trade plans, a projected cotton barter deal be- tween the United States and Ger- many, involving between $6,000,000 and $30,000,000 is reliably reported to be threatened with collapse. One authority, who declined to be quoted by name, described the Presi- dent as withholding a final decision pending a possible revised plan. Three of his diplomatic advisors, however, were said to have urged that he re- Ject the deal. Held Bad Trade. Secretary Hull was sald to have reported to the Chief Executive that the deal was a “bad trade,” offering THE QALY TRUCK AT the “normal trade” which he is seek- ing to build up through reciprocal agreements. George N. Peek, head of the Export-Import Bank, and some others emphatically think otherwise. As presented for the President's consideration, the barter deal calls for purchase by Bremen cotton mer- chants' of from 100,000 to 500,000 bales at approximately 3 cents a pound above the market price. Lacks Sufficient Cash. Since Germany is without sufficient foreign exchange to pay in cash, the German negotiators have offered 25 per cent in American currency and 75 per cent as a credit in marks in Germany. The marks could be used, however, only for the purchase of German export goods. Synthetic nitrates were scheduled as one of the chief German products to be purchased with the credits and one of the immediate objections sprouted from that suggestion. Ni- trates are the chief products involved in a proposed reciprocal trade agree- ment with Chile and consummation of the German deal would, diplomatic officials have argued, imperil the Chilean treaty. St Ees L Grape Harvest Smaller. Ttaly's grape harvest last season did | aggr: not equal even the 1933 scanty yield. 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BY EDGAR ANSEL MOWRER. By Radio to The Btar. PARIS, France, December 19.— President Roosevelt's promise to sac- rifice the ancient doctrine of freedom of the seas produces in French minds the effect of a paradox. For it is considered that by withdrawing the anclent doctrine and by staying reso- lutely at home in case of European hostilities, the United States would make possible a system of collective action against an aggressor of a really effective type. Hitherto the United States by the promise to consult, if it agreed with the League of Natlons just who the essor was, has gone a small step in this direction, the only one thus far. The new step would mean that two naval powers, Great Britain and France, would be enabled to take active steps to blockade and boycott an aggressor and thereby make League sanctions more than words. In other words, by abstention the United States would really furtho- passively the collective system for 1. - prevention of war as foreseen under the Briand-Kellogg anti-war pact and the League of Nations covenant. This in French eyes overshadows the apparent lcss to peaceful Europe which would be caused by the absence of the American fleet from world affairs. For the Prench do not believe the United States could remain neutral in a new world-wide war if it tried. Therefore, they approve the Roosevelt plan, and trust that its first result will be to enable the British to go a further step in organizing with France really effective measures for the pres- ervation of peace. It is notable that Pierre-Etienne Flandin, French premier, speaking before the Chamber of Deputies yes- terday, answered critics of French military insufficiencies by the state- ment that French armaments were and should remain defensive. 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