Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair with lowest temperature about 30 degrees tonight; tomorrow cloudy with slowly rising temperature, followed by rain. Temperatures—Highest, 46, at ¢ pm. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 7:15 am. today. Full report on page A-14. Closing N. Y Markets, Pages 12 &-13 d as second class matter %gggr:m:& ‘Washington, D. C. No. 33,128. WASHINGTON, D. C, ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1935—TWENTY-SIX PAGES. AMELIA EARHART FLYING/|PLANS DISCUSSED OVER CALIFORNIA AFTER]0 MEET ADVERSE OCEAN HOP FROM HA'W ATI|DECISION ON GOLD L3 Completes Hop of 2,400 Miles Over Water. RACED STORM TO CALIFORNIA Reaches Speed of 150 M. P. H. in Fast Flight. BULLETIN, SAN FRANCISCO, January 12 (#.—The Mackay Radio re- ported at 10:49 am. (P.S. T.) today that Amelia Earhart Putnam, flying freom Honolulu to Oakland, said she had sighted Santa Cruz, 75 miles south of here. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, January 12—/ Half way to the Pacific Coast on her hazardous flight Amelia Earhart Putnam raced with & storm today to keep a rendezvous with the California morning sunshine. Over the last half of the 2,400-mile stretch—one never flown alone before by any fiyer—the 36-year-old blond who “soloed” over the Atlantic, sought to outwit the storm gods. She fought her way steadily along the steamer lanes throughout the night, | seeking favorable winds at one alti- tude and then another. Miss Earhart may stretch her coast- ward dash to Salt Lake City, Utah, if weather and fuel conditions are favor- able, her husband, George Palmer Putnam, announced in Honolulu. The New York publisher, who was staying up all night to receive the cryptic reports of his wife’s progress, explained that in this way Miss Ear- hart might break her own non-stop distance record set in July, 1933, with a dash from Los Angeles, Calif, to Newark, N. J Putnam added at once, however, that the aviatrix intended to stop at ©Oakland and would continue past Osakland only if conditions were “most favorable.” Reassuring O. K. Flashed. At intervals she flashed a reassur- ing “0. K.” The storm gods flooded her take-off fleld late yesterday and spattered her shiny monoplane with the red mud of Wheeler Field as she bumped and swayed down the treacherous run- way. Unappeased, they gathered their forces in the tempest cauldrons off from Honoluly, | Vancouver Island, British Columbia, | and prepared to drench the coast States with rain and snow The weather report at Oakland Air- port, her intended destination, was for clear weather in the morning, but probably rain in the afternoon as the ‘Vancouver Island storm rolled south- ‘ward. At Half-Way Mark. It was anitcipated, however, that Miss Earhart might reach the airport by 9 am, (Pacific standard time) or shortly thereafter, should she hold the steady pace achieved in the early hours of her flight. The aviatrix her- self, after 7 hours of flight, estimated she had come half way. This was in line with the Oakland estimates, She took off on the flight scarcely & month after Capt. Charles T. P. Ulm, George Littlejohn and J. L. Skill- ing were lost in an attempt to reach Honolulu from California. But the woman who set records not only for women but for the world at large by her trans-Atlantic flights, disdained all warnings of foolhardi- ness and took off in spite of the storms. The Winter season, with its unset- tled weather and unpredictable storms; lack of pontoons to permit the plane to sit down on the water; the inaccessibility of the plane’s radio equipment and the unnecessary risks attendant on so long a solo flight, were some of the arguments advanced against the blond air transport execu- tive’s project. Frank A. Flynn of San Francisco, 8 member of the National Aeronautic (Continued on Page 3, Column 5.) I Earhart Log | By the Associated Press. (All times Eastern standard time.) FRIDAY, JANUARY 11: 10:15 pm.—Took off from Wheeler Field, near Honolulu. 10:21 pm.—Heading for Diamond Head, altitude 2,000 feet. 11:15 p.m~—"Everything O. K.” SATURDAY, JANUARY 12: 12:40 a.m—“Flying 8,000. Weather overcast outside.” 1:15 am—Flying 3,000 feet through fog. 3:15 am—“Everything O. K" At 8,000 feet, over low clouds. 8:40 am.—All well, flying at 6,000 feet over low, scattered clouds. 4:19 am~“All O. K.” Thanked husband for broadcast greeting. 4:48 am—~"All O. K." 5:15 am.—"I should be almost half- at with visibility good; 6:50 a.m.—Scattered clouds continue; “All O. K. at 8,000 feet; ‘Am still 0. K.” ‘I'm becoming quite “All is well.” Cat Pulls Wire in Pipe. MONROE CITY, Mo., January 12 () —Dorothy Jones, 14, and her pet cat solved a perplexing problem of how to lead an electric wire through a 40-foot conduit. An Associated Press Wirephoto from San Francisco showing Amelia Earhart examining her high wing monoplane at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, in preparation for her flight across Copyright, A. the Pacific. P. Wirephoto. SOCAL LAY RAFT FTTO ONGRES President to Offer Only Broad, General Plan to Legislators. By the Associated Press. Although President Roosevelt will lay a broad general program for social security before Congress next week, congressional leaders understood to- day he would place on them the re- | sponsibility of drafting the detailed legislation. Under this procedure it will be left to Congress to decide, for instance, whether the pay roll tax to finance unemployment insurance will be 3 or 5 per cent, and whether the fund will be financed entirely by em- ployers or partly by employes. Generally, it is understood the re- port of the Committee on Security, which the President will lay before Congress, will point toward a bill of the kind introduced last session by Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York and Representative Lewis, Democrat, of Maryland on unemploy- ment insurance. Pension Plan Guarded. Recommendations on old-age pen- sions were being even more closely guarded. Speculation has centered on monthly pensions of $40, but there has been no reliable confirmation. The report was said, however, to leave the door open to a system under which the Government would pay either one-half or one-third of the old-age pensions, with the A States paying the balance. Estimates of the cost for the first year vary from $75,000,000 to $100,000,000. With additional proposals for ma- ternity aid, health insurance and an- nuity system for workers, the program was said to involve a long-range plan which would not become fully effective for a generation. Some Workers Excluded. Out of a White House conference yesterday congressional leaders gained these impressions: That the unemployment insurance system will cover only industrial work- ers of the lower wage classes and that agricultural workers, railroad em- ployes, school teachers, domestic help, municipal employes and higher paid workers will be excluded. That employers of 10 or less persons will be excluded. ‘That the Federal Government should be custodian for all funds, with ad- ministration left to the States. Levy on Workers Opposed. Some conferees argued that employes should contribute perhaps 1 per cent of their salaries to unemployment in- surance, but Secretary Perkins, chair- NAZ TEL S TO LEAE SHA Residents Say They Have Been Advised to Return After Vote. | (Copyright. 1835. by the Associated Press.) SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter- | ritory, January 12.—Jewish residents | of the Saar Territory said today they | had been advised to go to Germany | tonight and return next week, after the voting is over in tomorrow's plebiscite. They said they were “advised” to return with passports stamped show- ing they had abstained from voting in the plebiscite. ‘The “advice,” they sald, came from the Nazis. Under the conditions men- tioned, they said, they may escape re- prisals if the Saar returns to Ger- many. “The Jewish population of the terri- tory is small, amounting to only one- half of 1 per cent. Meanwhile Nazis Communists, bitter irreconcilables, looked forward to a supreme test in tomorrow’s Saar plebiscite. For Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler and his followers the balloting will repre- sent the first trial of their policles in a free election. Communists and Soclalists view the vote as a last stand against the European dictatorships which one after another have crushed their power. Leaders of the (Nazi) German front express hope the plurality in favor of the Saar’s reunion with the Father- land will reach 90 per cent. Such a victory, they believe, would strikingly confirm the overwhelming indorse- ment accorded Hitler in the Nazi-con- trolled election last August. The vigorous efforts made by the German front to realize its hopes are interpreted here as an indication of the Brown Shirts’ determination to show the world that elections in Ger- many are not influenced by force. A plurality of only 65 or 70 per cent, some circles believe, would in- dicate strong anti-Nazi sentiment in the territory, for many Saarlanders who are not sympathetic with the Hitler regime are expected to vote for reunion with Germany as a patriotic duty. GARAGE STRIKE PEACE PROSPECT BRIGHTENED 8t. Paul Union Men and Employ- ers Continue Conferences. . Board Again Meets. By the Associated Press. man of the Security Committee, op- | Board posed this. ‘The Wagner-Lewis bill provided for a 5 per cent pay-roll tax from which all contributions to a State insurance | Week fund could be deducted if the State law were approved by the Secretary of Labor. The bill provided a minimum compensation to unemployed workers of $7 a week, or their normal pay for 24 hours of work. Gen. Calles Is Ill. LOS ANGELES, January 12 (#)~— Gen. Plutarco Elias Calles, former President of Mexico, must an operation for a gall bladder ailment, Dr. Verne C. Hunt said today. “Gen. Calles will be operated upon,” said Dr. Hunt after a visit to the el- The girl tied the wire to the leg of | derly political leader’s beside late last the cat and called tabby from the night. ‘omrm - ] “His condition is improved. He had a fair day.” Move to Increase Supreme Court Membership Consid- ered Among Senators. GOVERNMENT VICTORY IS HOPE OF OFFICIALS ““Chaos” Stressed Again in Final Arguments if Ruling Upsets Present Order. By the Associated Press. Just in case the Supreme Court should rule against the Government in the momentous gold clause case, some Senators are discussing legisla- tive plans to avoid what one leading advocate of a cheaper dollar called the “ruination of everything.” “There has been discussion and un- doubtedly a program will be ready,” said Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Oklahoma, but he quickly added: “We have every confidence the Su- preme Court will sustain the admin- istration and the Congress. An ad- verse decision would have such a widespread effect it would ruin every- thing.” More Court Members Discussed. Thomas told newspaper men that one idea under tentative discussion, of which he was not the author, would provide for increasing the member- ship ‘of the Supreme Court by two or three to make more certain the re- covery program would “get a new deal” A prominent member of the Bank- ing Committee, however added that the committee had not discussed the impending decision. Upon the decision hang the fate of the New Deal monetary program and the question whether there shall be an increase of some $69,000,000,000 in private and public debts. After Chief Justice Hughes had asked further questions about the Government's rights in relation to contracts, the court heard final arguments yesterday in the last of five gold cases. The complainants challenge the Government’s power to abrogate clauses calling for payment in gold or its equivalent. In brief, the question is whether a $1,000 gold security should be worth $1,690 in the new, de- valued currency, or just $1,000. Officials Silent. President Roosevelt and Treasury officials declined comment, though fiscal officers were known to be watch- ing the case closely. Most officials who would say anything predicted a Government victory. There was much unofficial specu- lation as to what would be done if the decision went the other way. Some thought the Treasury would continue to pay dollar for dollar, face value, in the new currency until Congress ordered it to make a change. Some others suggested the President might take control over the currency, as he did shortly after assuming office, by proclaiming another emergency. The verdict cannot come before February 4, according to those fa- miliar with the procedure of the high- est tribunal. Attorney General Cummings closed arguments yesterday with a suggestion the court might want to order a re- argument. He requested the case be kept open for that purpose. Explains Government Decision. He has contended “chaos” would fol- low an adverse decision and in sum- ming up yesterday asserted: “Permit me to say that what was done was not done thoughtlessly, but after the most careful, painstaking study and consideration and with con- secrated devotion to deal rightfully with all our people. * * * The course (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.) —_— GOLD HIGHER IN JAPAN Exchange Rates Not Affected by Purchase Price Change. TOKIO, January 12 (#).—The finance ministry announced today an increase in the government'’s gold pur- chase price from 295 yen (about :g:g; per gram to 3.09 yen (about The new price, effective today, still is well below the world price, and will not affect exchange rates or interna- tional commerce. The finance ministry action merely means the government is paying more to the domestic producers who ai forbidden to export the metal. - Brisk Business Department store sales in ‘Washington for the month of December were up 20.9% over the same month of a year ago. This increase was the largest for any city in the Fifth Fed- eral Reserve District, in which Washington is locateds Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) Lines. The Evening Star. 49,360 2nd Newspaper. ... 20,039 3rd Newspaper... 15,980 4th Newspaper. .. 15,407 Sth Newspaper. .. 11,537 Total (xéwdisen) 62,963 The thorough coverage of its circulation makes The Star the first advertising choice of Washington mer- chants who are sharing in this increased volume of re- tail sales, U. S. Planting of Vast Tree Belt Start in Spring In Midwest to 4,000,000 Saplings (Copyright. 1935 by the Associated Press.) , Four million trees will be planted | next Spring, it was announced today, as a start on the Forest Service's | | vast shelter belt designed to sweep | from Canada to the Texas Panhandle. | The American Tree Association de- clared that 23 of 30 planting areas had been selected tentatively, each | ! calling for planting of 139,000 trees | in strips 5 miles long and 10 rods} wide. They will be established in! the Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Okla- homa and Texas. Meanwhile, the Forest Service has | | collected sufficient seed of acclimated | species to provide about 100,000,000 | seedlings for planting in 1936. Designed to provide windbreaks for | cultivated land, the project was in- dorsed by President Roosevelt and set in motion with an allotment of $1,000,000 in 1934. When completed | it will provide a belt of trees planted in the 10-rod-wide strips over a 100- | ’mxle-wlde area. | Trees are to be planted in 19 rows with intervals of about 6 feet. The louuide rows will be such trees as| chokeberry, bumac and willow; the | ‘next rows Russian olive or mulberry, ! osage orange or apricot; the next rows Launching Project to Conserve Mois- ture and Provide Windbreaks. | In surveying other areas. tar kR COME ON BILL. WE The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 131,553 Some Returns Not Yet Received. UP) Means Associated Press. l GOTTA GET ON THE TRA'L AGAIN! OURT, s A Will Be Used in of green ash, American or Chinese elm, oak, hackberry, Texas walnut,) black locust or pecan, and the center rows of cottonwood, willows and black locust. Paul H. Roberts, acting director of | the project, said in an article in the Forestry News Digest, publication of the tree association, that plans for | 1935 “provide for planting the favor- able places first, using past experi- ence and study as a guide.” Work next Spring, he added, “will be distributed so as to yield the bext} possible results of a demonstrational | or an experimental nature.” | The association estimated that 140 | man-days of work will be required for each mile, or a total of 21,000 man- | days on the areas contemplated. Ad- ditional employment is expected in nursery cultivation of young trees and “The function of the project is to establish tree shelter belts in the rela- tively treeless Middle West to reduce | the destructive effects of wind, thus conserving moisture, stabilizing the productiveness of the land, developing game and recreational resources and making the countryside a better place in which to live,” Roberts declared. §25,0 DEMANDED IN KIDNAP THREAT Police Reveal Children of | Boston Banker Guarded for Two Months. By the Associated Press. NEWTON, Mass., January 12—A | threat to kidnap the 6-year-old son ! of Thomas P. Beal, president of the | Second National Bank of Boston, was revealed today. Demands for $25,000 and warnings that Thomas P. Beal, jr, would be | “destroyed” unless immediate pay- ment was made, were first received by the Beal family two months ago. An unobstrusive but heavy guard of State and Newton police have been at the Beal home, 47 Lawrence road, in the exclusive Chestnut Hill sec- tion, since receipt of the first threat- ening letter, and special guards have protected the boy and his sister, Ju- dith, 7. Work Secretly Two Months. Federal agents and postal inspectors have been working on the case sec- retly for the last two months, during which telephoned threats, repeating the first written demand, have been received. All police agencies engaged in the investigation were agreed today that the letter and subsequent demands were not the work of cranks. The first letter was said to explain in detail the method by which Beal was to pay the $25,000. The phone calls were reminders of the details contained in the epistle. State police, who revealed the kid- nap threat early today, would not dis- cuss the case further. Both Children Guarded. The 6-year-old son of the bank president is being accompanied by a special guard constantly and is not allowed to leave the family grounds even for school. Similar precautions are being taken for Judith. ts were placed on the roof of the Chestnut Hill home. Every foot of the estate is mch“e:‘ beynt:fi and jperson, mot gmuw‘g driveways, would be im- mediately thrown into relief. Mrs. Beal is_the former May L. Morgan, New York and Boston social terite. Beal is the third member of a fam- ily which has become internationally famous in the banking world. His and his father was once president of the bank Beal now heads. Manufacturer Dies. LIMA, Ohio, January 12 (#)—Frank G. Wright, 63, retired vice president of the Ohio Steel Foundry Co. died here yesterday. He formerly lived at Oil City, Pa., where he was with the American [] A.F.OF L. EXPECTS SLIGHT 1935 GAING | DIONNE INSURANCE { Guardians Report Predicts 1,000,000 of 11,000,000 Jobless Due to Get Work. By the Associated Press. Gradual business improvement in 1935 was forecast by the American Federation of Labor in a report pub- lished today. But it estimated the up- swing would mean jobs for only one out of about every 11 workers now un- employed. It placed the number of jobless at 11,459,000 and said there was prospect them. Adoption of the proposed 30-hour week throughout industry would pro- vide work for another 4,000,000, the federation’s monthly report of busi- ness conditions said. It added that President Roosevelt’s program aiming to employ 3,500,000 on Government projects was the only other immediate hope of reducing unemployment. The report found that business was better in 1934, but labor made no “sig- nificant gains.” “Industrial profits increased, busi- ness failures decreased and the busi- ness community was in a better posi- tion to carry on profitable business activity at the end of 1934 than at the beginning,” said the summary. It found that general recuperation “un- questionably is progressing through- out the business community.” On the other hand, it reported, aver- age workers’ real wages were lower than at the start of last y2ar, at which time individual income was described as still being $813 below the amount needed to keep a family “in health and decency.” Railroad Official Dies. . PATCHOGUE, N. Y., January 12 (#)—Hal B. Fullerton, 79, retired ag- ricultural director of the Long Island Railroad, died yesterday. He was & | for employment of only 1,000,000 o(i native of Cincinnati, Ohio. NG PENSIN A HALTEDBY COR Interlocutory Injunction Is- sued Against Law in Suit of Standard Oil. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, January 12.—Fed- eral District Court officials announced here today that an interloctuory in- junction had been issued by the court | restraining enforcement of the Huey Long dictated legislative act which| authorizes State supervision of indus- trial pensions. ! The order was directed against the State attorney general, Gaston L. Por- | terie, on suit brought by the Standard | Oil Co. of Louisiana, which operates an extensive refinery business in, Baton Rouge, and the Standard Pipe- line Co. an afiiliate of Standard Oil. Hearing on the company's applica- tion for a permanent injunction was set for January 19 before a special three-judge Federal court to be com- posed of two district Federal judges | and one circuit judge. The act, passed by the.last special legislative session of 1934, provides for supervision of the pension system by a State committee and was declared by Long to be aimed at companies who “discharge employes a short time | before they are eligible to receive pen- | sions.” REFUSED BY LLOYDS | of Quintuplets Re- ported to Have Sought Offer After Refusing Others. By the Associated Press. TORONTO, January 12.—Lloyds of London, which underwrites everything from ocean liners to the weather, has refused to insure the Dionne quin- tuplets, it was reported here today. ‘The guardians of the famous infants were reported to have approached Lloyds after turning down offers of several Canadian and United States companies to insure them for $100 each, the limit allowable under the insurance laws. Attorney General A. W. Roebuck, however. has expressed himself as opposed to insurance for the children. If they live, Roebuck says, insurance will be of no use to them and if they die it will not be needed. MIAMI FIGH’I:S GAMBLERS Bookmakers’ Places Are Closed After Slaying. MIAMI, Fla, January 12 (#.—Only “curbstone” handbooks operated here today as bookmaking establishments, driven to cover last week by the “heat” TWO CENTS. DEFENGE 10 CLAIM FISCH WROTE ALL KIDNAP NOTES AND REGEIVED RANSOM Handwriting Experts for Hauptmann Work on Mis- sives to Lay Blame at Door of Dead Friend. STATE SAYS TYPES ARE ENTIRELY DIFFERENT Prosecution to Attempt to Prove Defendant Was Spending Lind- bergh Cash Before He Met For- mer Partner, Whom He Claims Left Money at His Home. By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, January 12, —A contest of German handwriting experts was drawn up today for the trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann, both prosecution and defense an- nouncing they have engaged such authorities to determine the author of the Lindbergh ransom notes. The defense said it would attempt to prove through its expert that the writer of the ransom notes was Isador Fisch, the German furrier from New York City who died early last year in Leipzig. The prosecution announced that it has engaged Joseph Schulfhofer! a German expert now residing in Birmingham, Ala., in an attempt to prove that the script was written by Hauptmann. Edward J. Reilly, chief counsel for Hauptmann, said his expert, Augustus Streicher of Stuttgart, Germany, will arrive Tuesday aboard the Ile de France to match Schulfhofer's testi- mony. Reilly also said he will have on hand a wood technologist durihg the coming week. The wood expert was not identified, but Reilly said that he would be ready to testify in the event that the prosecution again strives to introduce as evidence the ladder which the State avers was used in the commis- sion of the Lindbergh kidnaping. ‘Taking advantage of a week end recess in the trial, the defense author- ities also sought flaws in evidence presented by the State that the notes were written by Hauptmann himself. Reilly said: “We will prove that Fisch not only collected the ransom but also wrote the ransom notes.” Ever since his arrest. the Bronx carpenter has insisted that the $14,600 in ransom money found in his possession was given to him by Fisch, his former business partner, who died obscurely in Germany. “The State produced evidence of extortion against Hauptmann,” Reilly said, “but so far there is no evidence of murder.” Denies Extortion. The burly attorney said the defense expects “to prove Hauptmann inno- cent of extortion as well as murder. He nferely received, unwittingly, some of the ransom money from Isador Pisch.” Anthony M. Hauck, jr., Hunterdon County prosecutor, said, “the State is ready to refute any charge that Fisch had anything to do with this case. We are prepared to break down com- pletely Hauptmann's alibi involving Fisch as the man from whom he ob- tained the ransom money.” State’s attorneys, discounting the in- jection of Fisch to the fore of the case, said handwriting authorities have pro- nounced his script dissimilar to that of the ransom missives. Hauck asserted witnesses could be produced to show Hauptmann was spending the ransom money before he met Fisch. Federal agent Frank Wilson testified yesterday that the first bill turned up five or six days after the ransom was paid April 2, 1932, and Hauck said the State could prove that Hauptmann and Fisch did not become acquainted until August of that year. After Agent Wilson testified that he had no knowledge of any ransom money being located since Haupt- mann’s arrest, another of the Lind- bergh bills was located in Gettys- of en investigation into the slaying iyyrg pa. of a gambler, gave up the struggle as the authorities jammed down the lid. At the same time, State Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne and his three special assistants went into the back- ground of bookmakers' strife and its connection with the “one-way” slay- ing of George “Skeets” Downs, pro- fessional gambler. Police forces bore down on estab- lishments who braved official ire by remaining open and took into cus- tody not only operators but customers. PRESIDENT MOTORS It was paid by Mervin E. Tipton, proprietor of a shoe repair shop, to his landlord, and after both men noticed it was drawn on the Hunter- don County National Bank, it was found that the serial number, A001005, tallied with that of one of the ransom notes. Unable to Trace Bill. Tipton was unable to shed any light on the source of the $10 bill, and the Department of Justice was notified. While defense experts pored over the ransom notes and samples of Hauptmann's hand in the writing ex- hibits, under the watchful eye of a member of the prosecution at Tren- Roosevelt Leaves White House for Short Auto Trip. President Roosevelt left the White House shortly before noon today for an automobile ride into the nearby coun- try with the intention of returning to the White House in time for dinner. Pilot Fights Off Insane Man As Plane Hurtles Through Air By the Assoclated Press. LIMA, Peru, January 12—The story of how an air pilot fought off a mad- man who attacked him while a pas- ¢ | senger airliner was speeding high in the air was told today by passengers who witnessed the struggle. Just after Reserve Capt. Carlos Martines de Pinillos had taken from Chiclayo with a load of passen- off | the deranged the horrified passenges watched fear- b Pilot de Pinillps tried to beat off the attacker with one hand while he guided the ship with the other. He sent the big plane roaring through the air at top speed in an attempt to reach a landing fleld in time to avert disast ter. He finally succeeded in subduing passenger and brought the plane down safely at its destina- gers for Picasmayo, one of the occu- | tion. pants, s man named Prancisco Sam- ane, was seized with a fit of 5 He Tushed to the pilot’s com connected Steel Foundry Co. and started. belaboring the pilog y Samane, who had boarded the plane with his wife, had to be placed in shackles when police took him from the airlinez at the end of the trip, ton, the old Hunterdon County Court —scene of the trial—was virtually empty. Sheriff John H. Curtiss ruled that his men had enough to do during the week, handling the capacity crowds, without showing sightseers about during the recess. Still the visitors came, to see the town—and perhaps the eight men and four women of the jury, out for a consti- tutional or going for a bus ride. Wood experts planned to examine the kidnap ladder to develop a refu- tation of State testimony tracing the (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) Amusements Churches Comics . Features Short Story . goclety .