Evening Star Newspaper, December 24, 1934, Page 2

A—2 osw KEY T0 193 SEEN INNEW GONGRESS Actions to Foretell Men and Issues in Next Election. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Just 18 months from now the coun- try will be in the midst of a presi- dential campaign, as well as another contest in which the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Benate will be up for election. This simple turn of the calendar has in it more potentialities of influence than any other single fact dominating national policy today. For the Congress which meets just after New Year day will author and appropriate public funds or initi- ate measures which will hardly come to fruition at once but will produce their full effect on the electorate in the period immediately preceding the next campaign. 1so, many members of Congress will face primary contests early in 1936 or the lines of battle within their own parties will already be clearly drawn by that time, Roosevelt Seen Winner, President Roosevelt's renomination and re-election are conceded by po- litical observers at the moment on the theory that present conditions will continue and that Mr. Roosevelt's pro- gram of social justice and his drive to bring re-employment will still be the dominant influences 18 months hence. It is beginning to be admitted by economists and political folk alike that the depression will hardly be over 18 months from now and that, while re- covery may be advanced, the feeling of emergency or the fear of changing major policies or leadership will not have been erased altogether, The Republican party has to date shown no real sign of reorganizing and unless the country is made fully aware of the possible benefits of a change 11 administration, it is likely that precedent will be followed In adhering to the policy of not changing, horses in midstream. President Wilson was re-elected in 1916 much more on that philosophy than on the keep-us-out-of-wer slogan, important as was the senti- ment for peace. The idea that a crisis was in the air and that change might be disastrous was the under- lying force for Democratic victory. Virile Opposition, All this is not to deny the possi- bility of a virile leadership arising between now and 1936 from some quarter which will convincingly demonstrate the fallacies in many of the New Deal policies end the possibility that great hardship may ensue from a continuance of unlim- ited borrowing and reckless attacks on_the soundness of the currency. But the fact remains that political parties are not rebuilt in a few| weeks before the nominating con- ventions. If the Republicans really intend to play any part other than making their criticisms a matter of record so as to line things up for 1940, then they are certainly remiss in letting the problem of party reorganization glide along without action. Too many Republican leaders, of course, are much more interested in perpetuating their own lien on cer- tain States or localities, where they have held political sway in the past, to care about national reorganization of the party itself; and the Democrats may win almost by default in 1936 it this spirit of provincialism goes unchanged It was Calvin Coolidge who wrote in an article published after his death that there comes a time when the winning of immediate elections must be subordinated to the state- ment of principles which becomes the hism for triumph in succeeding elec- tions. It is possible, of course, for a re- organized Republican party to cap- ture more seats in the Congress elected in November, 1936, than in the election of 1934. The Democratic party made its greatest gains in 1910, when it captured the House, and then won the presidency in 1912. Also in 1930 the Democrats nearly won the House and this presaged a landslide in 1332. Coming political events always cast their shadows beforehand. Battle Over Turnover. ‘Thus, in a sense, the battle of 1936 may really be a battle for the turnover in Congress that may come in 1938 and possibly be followed by a party change in the White House in 1940. But are all these things far off and academic? Not the congressional election of 1936 nor the presidential campaign of that same year. The | next 18 months, beginning with the all-important four or five months that Congress will be in session starting next week, offer the opportunity for a forum of debate in which principles can be set forth much more effectively than in the atmosphere of the cam- paign itself. Most political experts will agree that the public is far more affected by acts and speeches on current prob- lems between campaigns than during the campaigns themselves. President Roosevelt himself practices that theory, for his fireside radio talks were begun alirost immediately after he was inaugurated and have been repeated at frequent intervals since. Nobody representing the opposition has had the ear of the country and no political personal opposition seems to have grasped the fundamentals of the country’s mood sufficiently to earn a Nation-wide hearing for himself as a leader of the Repub- lican party. Most of the opposition speeches have been critical and many of them have been sound and logical, but the championship of a way out of the depression that will appeal to the masses has not come from any politi- cal leaders of the faith opposite to Mr. Roosevelt. ‘Will this void be filled in the next 18 months? The year 1935 and not 1936 will be the crucial time for Republican reorganization and the chance to capture more seats in the «se . THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, ‘DECEMBER 24, 1934.. srusiatimen o sbe- What’s What Behind News In Capital Roosevelt’s Power Battle Traced to Old Dispute at Warm Springs. BY PAUL MALLON. T IS well known that President Roosevelt is againsi the power companies, but even . the all- observant 8. Claus will be sur- prised when he drops down the White House chimney and finds can« dles on the tree instead of electric lights. Also, the old gentleman may raise his shaggy eyebrows in the homes of the power people when he ‘notes that their cupboards are bare-ish, even if not yet entirely bare. It may be news to Santa Claus, but all Washington has been won= dering about it for months. Many sewing circle stories have been passed around, purporting to ex- plain why the President pursues the power issue with more thor- oughness, energy and glee than he devotes to many another issue. Every one suspects his feeling is based on some personal past experi- ence. One yarn in common circula- tion is that a member of his family lost money on some power company bonds which turned sour. There may or may not be something in that. It does not matter. The real Toots of the President’s present policy may be traced back to a hitherto un- published experience he had at Warm | Springs, even before he became Gov- ernor of New York. Dickers for Rate. In those days the Warm Springs colony received power and light through a small local plant. As the colony grew it was decided better serv- jce was needed. Mr. Roosevelt set about getting it. He conferred with an official of a large Southern utility company. After some dickering, he was told the colony could be served, and a figure was named which Mr. Roosevelt felt was excessive. The power official contended it was the minimum allowed by law, but Mr. Roosecvelt decided to look into it. He got in touch with an engineer, who made a study of the cost of bulding an adequate municipal power plant at Warm Springs. These estimates indicated the community could bde supplied for a lower flgure than the power company wanted. The future President showed the figures to the power officials, where- upon the rpte estimate was reduced immediately. You may find the same thing hap- pening on a much larger scale in New York City shoitly. Suspect Trend in 1910. The conviction thus formed seems to have been strengthened by his ex- perience in the New York State Legis- lature, back as far as 1910. He was strongly impressed by power company efforts to block the St. Lawrence de- velopment. Then, also, hc had an early experience in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, while he was Assistant Navy Secretary. It was just before the war. He found the local power company was charging the Government what he considered to be an excessive rate, so he built a plant for the navy yard. What will happen if Mr. Roosevelt gets sore some day about the telephone bill or the grocery bill should make an interesting Christmas eve analysis for you to work out privately. The man behind the scenes, who helped to work Mr. Roosevelt up about the New York City power situation, is supposed to be a New York publisher. At least insiders give him credit for it. This pub- lisher once used the same tactics in another Eastern city. When he jound the local public utility charging him too much he ad- vocated a municipal electric light plant and when the private com- pany failed to lower its rates the plant was built, Differences Exaggerated. Differences between the New Deal and the White Sulphur business con- ference program were widely exag- gerated for political and other pur- poses. No one, including the best White House advisers, expected business to go democratic. No White Sulphurite expected the White House to grant all | their suggestions. Both co-operated backstage in de- veloping an honest expression of busi- ness opinion without the usual political bitterness. For instance, the business men asked for a balanced budget “at the earliest possible date.” That is & lot different from balancing it now, as Ogden Mills is demanding, and as many a White Sulphurite would have liked to demand. ‘The sensible co-operative effort may be ruined, however, by the clamor of liberals who always want to use busi- ness men for pin cushions. ‘The correct tip on the situation was in the fact that, among all Mr. Roose- velt's advisers, only Messrs. Hopkins and Ickes ridiculed the business con- ference program. They were liberals not in on the play. Another significant fact is f{hat the congressional crowd arose as one man in mighty wrath against the business recommendation for the dole instead of public works. No Con- gressman likes to lose his pork. next Congress. And what happens in the next three or four months to unfold Republican lines of battle will determine whether the 1936 campaign will be the most one-sided re-electior campaign since the Civil War. (Copyright. 1934.) ——— MAN WHO GULPED KNIFE DIES UNDER OPERATION Farm Worker Failed at Suicide and Then Swallowed 7-Inch Blade. By the Assoclated Press. SIOUX FALLS, S. Dak, December 2¢—Willlam King, 34-year-old Es- mond farm worker, died in a hospital yesterday a few hours after an emer- geney operation had- been performed to remove & .7-inch jacknife, which he had swallowed Thursday after slashing. his. throat. in a suicide at- tempt.” Another Indefinite Demand, Also, the truth is no State Govern- ment is far enough away from bank- ruptcy to handle relief alone. The business demand for that was just as indefinite as the balanced budget idea. But, as between Mr. Roosevelt’s right-hand holders mot knowing what his left-hand holders were doing and Congress mneedlessly Jearing a loss of pork, the whole thing wound up in a mess of con= flicting headlines. The liberals are longing for the good old days of Autumn when busi- ness men called the White House everything they could think of, and vice versa. ‘The funniest part of the whole af- fair was the unobserved change of business front. Two years ago, these same business men were saying a dole would drive the country to ruin. Now they are for it, not only because it is cheaper and less wasteful, but be- cause it helps business. (Copyright. 1084.) ¢ Society Women Gather at Opening of ‘Metropolitan Opera Prominent New York society women arriving at the Metropolitan Opera House Saturday night for the opening of the fifty-second season. “Alda” was sung. Verdi's No. 1—Miss Eileen Gillespie (right), whose engagement to John Jacob . Astor, 3d, was broken after a tiff in a hotel lobby more than a year ago, shown with her grandmother, Mrs. Watts Sherman. No. 2—Mrs. Stevenson Scott (left), prominent social registrite, and her daughter, Miss Marie Scott. GRIEVING WOMA KILLS & AND SELF Maddened by Son’s Death, Nurse Slays Kin on Christmas Visit. By the Assoclated Press PITTSBURGH, Pa., December 24,— The. paper bells and tinsel garlands | that made Walter Dempsey's home | ready for a happy Christmas grace a house of tragedy today, for all but one | of the family of six are dead; slain, police say, by a woman driven mad by the death of her own son. In addition, the woman herself and her sister are dead in the multiple Yuletide tragedy. Coming to the suburban home of Dempsey, her brother, Mrs. Kathryn Schoch, 37, of Dunkirk, N. Y, a trained nurse, made the family merry with gifts for all, but in the night shot them with a pistol and ended her own life with poison. Mother Still Lives. Five of the Dempsey family died in the shootings yesterday. The mother alone still lives. A pitiful note, telling how she could not have her little 7-year-old son with | her to enjoy Christmas happiness, was found by police, who said it held the explanation of the motive for her | act. It read in part: “O, dear God, it‘s“ hard to do all this, but I just cannot | g0 on any longer. Not to feel my darling boy’s arms around me nor hear his precious voice makes living un- bearable.” Sister Found Dead. At Mrs. Schoch's apartment in Dunkirk, police broke in and found her sister, Mrs. Ruth Dempsey Hughes, dead of a bullet wound. They said she possibly had been slain by Mrs. Schoch before the latter left for Pitts- burgh. Besides Mrs. Hughes and Mrs. Bchoch, the dead are: ‘Walter Dempsey, 42, & welfare worker; Robert, 12; Thomas, 8; Wal- ter, jr., 10, and David, 15 months, all sons of Dempsey. Mrs. Clara Dempsey, the mother, is in a hospital with a bullet wound in the head. Physiclans said she may recover. ‘The father and three of the sons were killed as they slept. Walter, jr., died in a hospital several hours later. The baby, David, was shot while he slept in his crib by his parents’ side. Grief Over Son Blamed. Reconstructing the tragic affair from notes left by Mrs. Schoch and a statement from Mrs. Dempsey, police arrived at the theory that grief over the death a month ago of her son, Jimmy, upset Mrs. Schoch's mind. Carefully pulling and pinning the blinds after the gay and unsuspecting Dempseys had gone to bed, Mrs. Schoch made her way through the plled Christmas gifts in the living room and entered their sleeping rooms about midnight yesterday. George W. Murren, chief of Alle- gheny County detectives, quoted Mrs. Dempsey as saying she was awakened by the first shot, which killed her hus- band. Screaming, she' started to run for help, but was shot by Mrs. Schoch. The wounded woman managed to reach a neighbor's home, but when they returned they found three of the children also were dead, the other dying and Mrs. Schoch lying dead of a poison draught. —_— STRONG MAN WILL GIVE BLOOD FOR CHRISTMAS “Spike” Howard, Famous Phila- delphia Donor, Claims World Record for Transfusions. By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, December 24.— FEdward (Spike) Howard, chain-break- ing, spike-bending strong man and blood donor, will celebrate Christmas day by giving several pints of blood to a hospital patient. It will be his 324th transfusion, records of the blood donors’ registry show, and he claims a world record. “Ill enjoy my Christmas turkey all the better,” he says. “I always eat several pounds of meat after each blood donation and that'll give me s better appetite.” Mexican Veterans Elect. HARTFORD, Conn., December 34 {P).—Lieut. Col. Francis J. Shearer of Hartford was re-elected ler in chief of the Maxican Border Vet- erans’ Assoclation at its annual ‘con- vention here Saturday. STAR’S WIREPHOTO SERVICE IS TERMED SCIENTIFIC TRIUUMPH (Continued From First Page.) for news transmission. At that time Kent Cooper, the assistant to the laie Melville Stone and now general manager of the Associated Press, sought to solve with -~ automatic printers the problem of news dis- tribution to papers in New York City. Reliance on telegraph, telephone and messenger had not sufficed. Printers Doubled Output. These automatic printers, convert- ing electrical impulses into printed etters on typewriting machines in- stead of into dots and dashes, could transmit news at double the maximum of the day—that is, at 60 words a minute. This was revolutionary steps in the mechani- cal development of the modern news- paper. The first printer circult em- braced 20 machines in New York City alone. The first wirephoto cir cuit, by comparison, embraces 24 ma- chines from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific and from Minnesota to Texas. The success of the automatic printers in New York caused a second circuit to be set up from New York to Boston. The syclem has been rapidly extended. Today The Evening Star, for example, is connected with a wire network of the Associated Press, which operates 3,000 automatic printers, carrying a word a second to newspapers in every State, Cuba and Mexico, and linked with a sim- ilar network of the Canadian Press serving newspapers in Canada. Only four Morse circuits remain in oper- | ation. Over this system of wires move more than 200,000 words of news every 24 hours. Inch a Minute Photos. ‘With the speed of news transmis- sion quadrupled and the daily word- age multiplied by 13 since 1900, sev- eral years ago steps were taken to give reality to the longtime dream of transmission of pictures side by side with the news. But an immense amount of arrangement and mechan- ical development were necessary to expand the telephotograph principles and equipment of the 1920s—they were marvels in their day but now seem rather antiquated—into the sys- tem which The Evening Star will in- augurate next Tuesday. This sys- tem will transmit pictures at the rate of an inch & minute by electrical im- pulses moving 186,000 miles a second from each of 24 stations to all the others in a single operation. Telephotography in the United States has had a long incubation period. It dates back, in fact, to 1875 when the strange properties of the selenium cell first became known to science. Only 11 years ago the apex of such efforts was the “tele- photograver,” a device for coding pic- tures and letters and numbers, which could be transmitted by telegraph. This was not an effort to transmif a photograph, but & means of enabling a newspaper, which had a picture to describe it 50 accurately to a news- paper which wanted it, that the latter could reproduce it faithfully. Hour Needed for Decoding.” Using & principle of analytical ge- ometry, and a checkered chart in which every line was designated by a letter or figure, the sender coded the picture so as to show how a pencil point moved to make a line— where it began, which direction it took, and where it stopped. The codes ran from 300 words up. A small picture could be decoded in an hour. The lines made up by the de- coder, with the aid of a similar chart, formed the outlines of the picture, which was then shaded and com- pleted with the guidance of further code and description. Obviously this somewhat clumsy de- vice had no great possibilities for daily use. Nevertheless the ‘“tele- photograver” during its short lifetime had to its credit several “beats.” One 'was & picture of the Dempsey-Gibbons fight at Shelby, Mont., July 4, 1923, which newspapers from Boston to Los Angeles reproduced the next morning. Another was the first picture of the Japanese earthquake the same year. £ telephotograver operator met the steamship President Plerce in Hono- lulu with the first pictures of the disaster and sent in code to the United States a view of the ruins of the American Embassy in Tokio. ‘The next step was to make reproduc- tion electrically on the chart system, but researchels were increasingly in- terested not in mere mechanical re- production but in photographic princi- ples involving the effect of light on chemicals. At about this time ap- peared a telepicture process enabling transmission of & small picture, with coarse detail, in an hour and & half, but is soon was discarded as im- practical. The first telephotograph system in the United States was inaugurated by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. in 192¢ with sending and recelv- ing stations in New York, Boston, Cleveland, Bt. Lows, Chicago, At- [} ‘s another of the | lanta, San Francisco and Los Angeles. It could transmit a _telephotograph 4!, by 6, inches in 7.2 minutes, but the small dimensions required that most pictures be reduced for trans- mission and they could not be en- larged without revealing the line structure. The electric eye of the telephotograph system read a picture at the rate of 8% inches a second and with a fineness of 65 lines to the inch. The photoelectric cell of the wire- photo, such as will be in use in the Star Building, reads at the rate of 20 inches a second and a fineness of 100 lines to the inch. The elght-city telephotographic sys- tem was closed, more than a year ago, because it had not attracted extensive commercial use. Meanwhile The Evening Star and leading metropoli- tan newspapers elsewhere In the United States had intrusted the As- sociated Press to set up and maintain for them a wire photo system placing pictures abreast of the news and covering the United States with a more comprehensive network than ever had been contempiated before. Incorporating great technical im- provements, the wirephoto machines operate in full daylight, send pictures and receive negatives on a special type of film. ‘The system appears to offer con- siderably better possibilities than those offered, for the present at least, by radio, where transmission is sub- Ject to Interference by atmospheric conditions. —_— SOVIET ENVOY ARRIVES Diplomatic Relations Are sumed With Hungary. BUDAPEST, Hungary, December 24 (UP).—After 20 years' estrangement from Russia, Hungary, threatened a few years ago by the Communists under Bela Kun, yesterday received the first Soviet Minister, Alexander Beksadian. Beksadian, an Armenian, expressed the hope to Regent Nicholas Horthy in a special audience that the two former enemies might henceforth iive as friends. ‘With Hungary's resumption of re- lations with Russia, only one impor- tant nation, Yugoslavia, refuses to recognize the Soviet regime. —_— ARMS PROBE PUSHED Baron Macmillan Reported Lead- ing English Quiz. LONDON, December 24 (#).—It was reported yesterday that Baron Mac- millan of Aberfeldy had been invited to become president of the royal com- mission being established to investi- gate the armaments business of Britain. It was not known whether. Lord Macmillan had accepted. He was chairman of the royal commission of five which last year investigated the banking system in Canads at the re- quest of the dominion government. Re- SARTORIAL TITLE GOES 70 BROKER Jury of Tailors Decides William G. Loew Is “Best- Dressed” Man. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24—A Wall Street broker was given the dis- tinction today of being America's best dressed man in an informal selection of a jury of tailors. He is Willlam Goadby Loew, whose sartorial excellence is reflected in a dark gray sack coat and striped trousers, with a washable waistcoat and a white carnation. Adolphe Menjou of the films, re- garded by many as the Nation's best male dresser, is only an “also ran” in a list formed from the choices of fivé leading tailors. Film Stars Down in List. With Loew in the favored 10, are: Conde Nast, New York magazine pub- lisher; E. T. Stotesbury, Philadelphia financier; Edsel Ford, Detroit automo- bile manufacturer; Alfred P. Sloan, president of General Motors; Claude Baxter, Hollywood screen star; Douglas Fairbinks, sr, also of the screen; David A. Reed, Senator from Penn- sylvania, and Walter D. Teague, in- dustrial designer. Nast, who once came back from Europe with & wine-colored dress suit, won high rating for his ability to choose the right spats and for his impeccable brown ensembles, Stotesbury was aclaimed for his “leisure clothes.” One fortnight in Florida he wore a different ensemble each day, leading off with a green cashmere coat, white flannels, a green- striped shirt and a paname with & green band. Warner not Flashy. Ford, Sloan and Boettcher won ranking for their business suits. The tall, dark and handsome Warner Baxter was pronounced s good ail- around man—dressy, but not flashy. As for Fairbanks, his lapels are neither too broad nor too narrow. His ap- pearance is that of a well groomed business man. Senator Reed of Pennsylvania was nominated as holding sartorial hon in the Senate. A designervof streal line trains, Teague also affects stream- line stripes. He also always carries a walking stick. America’s best-dressed man is often seen at the Belmont race track in & covert coat and gray derby. It may have been the derby that captured the title. For, sald the tailors, the gray derby is the most aristocratic hat in the world, Life’s Like That THINK YOU 211" You MJY ARE . No. 3—Mrs. Walter P. Chrysler the lobby of the opera house. No. 4—Mrs. Ogden Mills, wife of Youth Eats Torpedo, Throws Gum Wfop Away in Bad Mix-up By the Associated Press. ATLANTA, December 24—A young man was having lots of fun throwing miniature torpedoes here and there. He was eating gum drops, too. As he walked along through the shopping throngs he would pull a gum drop from his pocket and crunch it. Into his pocket again and again—a torpedo, then & gum drop. But, they got mixed. He went to the hospital suffer- ing a badly burned and bruised jaw. He had crunched a torpedo and thrown a gum drop. REPORT T0 CHURCH ASSAILS NEW DEAL “Forgotten Man’” Still For- gotten, Says Professor in Methodist Survey. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 24.—The Rooseveltian New Deal, asserts a survey sponsored by the Methodist Federation of Social Service, has failed to remember the “forgotten man.” Only 10 per cent of the Govern- ment’s heavy spending has returned to “the ordinary man of the street,” the survey stated. The greatest bene- fits, it declared, have gone to bankers. and big business men. The survey was made by Dr. Harry F. Ward, professor of theology at Union Theological Seminary, Colum- bia University, one of the two secre- taries of the federation. Miss Wini- fred L. Chappell, the other secretary, assisted him. ‘Their findings, made public today, included assertions: That the New Deal has lowered the standard of living, brought an arti- ficial scarcity of goods and a “top- heavy” advantage to banks and in- dustries. The federation is a voluntary asso- clation of Methodist Church workers. “President Roosevelt does not want to go left,” Dr. Ward wrote. “He has expressed sympathy for the forgotten man, has promised jobs, social se- curity, restoration of business. The people have indorsed this program. But at the same time he clings to & belief in the profit system. “Business men use suesion and threats against his big spending pro- gram. He talks now of turning the Job back to the business men. The same mixture is in the minds of Mussolini and Hitler. Even they are sincere in wanting the good of their people, but because they don't know what’s wrong with the system they don't show how to get what they want.” _ SANTA CLAUS TO VISIT QUINTUPLETS TONIGHT Plenty of Gifts Await Dionne Youngsters, But They Will Be Denied Turkey. By the Associated Press. CALLANDER, Ontario, December 24—Santa Claus, who travels around the world and sees many strange sights, drops in tonight on quintuplets for the first time. ‘When he slides down the chimney at the Dionne Hospital he will see five little baby sisters, all healthy, but & little too young to get excited over the annual visit from the North Pole. ber'l‘hey ‘will be seven months old Decem- 28. Plum pudding, cake and cookies are in the Dionne larder for the Christ- mas dinner, along with turkey, but the sisters—the five yourng ones, thank you—will have milk and cereal. Flowers and presents in profusion came during the week end for the quintuplets. to remain outdoors for a long while, although the thermome- ter was about 10 degrees below zero, Comio Strip Artist Dies. BOSTON, December 24 (#).—Frank- 1lin P. Collier, 83, creator of the comic character “Otto Grow” and one of Toston's best known newspaper car- toonists, died yesterday aftsr a heart . " (left), with Mrs. Beatrice Bixby, in the former Secretary of the Treasury. A. P. Photos. SENDER OF BOOKS 10 JURORS SOUGHT !New Panel Asked in Lind- bergh Case After Satire Is Distributed. By the Assoclated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, Decembei 24.—Federal authorities, called in by the prosecutors of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Lindbergh kidnap-mur- der suspect, today sought to locate the person who sent copies of & pamphlet called “No. 2310, criminal file exposed; aviatcr's baby was never kidnaped or murdered,” to the 150 prospective jurors for the German carpenter’s trial on a charge of mur- der next week. Both prosecution and defense con- sidered the possibility of applying for a new panel. The Btate is “not interested in who wrote it, but who sent it,” a high offi- clal source said in announcing that Department of Justice agents and postal authorities in Chicago were in- vestigating the maliling of the pame phlets, Effort to “Tamper.” Sending of the pamphlets to ke men and women, 12 of whom were to decide the guilt or innocence of Hsuptmann, was described by Prose- cutor Anthony M. Hauck as “malicious and deliberate effort” to “tamper” with the jury. Mrs. Mary Belle Spencer, Chicago lawyer, author of the booklet, called it a satire, written two years ago “to poke fun at the asininity of our po- lice and court system as a whole.” STATE COURT MATTER. U. S. Says It Has Not Been Asked to Investigate, The Department of Justice ex- pressed interest today, but said it was taking no part in an investigation of the sending of pamphlets to venire- men for trial of Bruno Hauptmann. At the office of the Attorney Gen- eral it was said: “Recently we with- drew, giving word that we wolld assist if we were asked by the New Jersey authorities now handling the case. We have not been asked to assist in connection with the pamphlets. “It is purely a State court matter. The State court handling the case has authority to call a new panel or to discipline attorneys or take whatever other action appears necessary.” 114-HOUR WORLD HOP PLANNED BY PANGBORN Proposes Non-Stop Flight With Refueling at New York, Moscow and Chita. By the Associated Press. SEATTLE, December 24.—Circum- navigation of the world by air in 114 hours is the latest ambition of Clyde Pangborn, veteran of the long-distance sky lanes, who arrived here yesterday from Los Angeles to spend the Christ- mas holidays with his mother. The proposed non-stop flight, which Pangborn hopes to start about July 1 from San Diego, calls for refueling in the air at New York, Moscow and Chita, Siberia. Pangborn will be accompanied on his 17,000-mile trip by Bennett Grifip of Oklahoma City as relief ptiot and Reeder Nichols s radio operator and alternate pilot. Nichols served as radio operator with Pangborn and Col. Ros- coe Turner on their recent London-to- Meltourne flight. MERRY CHRISTMAS