Evening Star Newspaper, January 15, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy and somewhat warmer tonight and tomorrow, probably light rain tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight about 32 degrees. Temperatures—High- est, 37, at 2 p.m. yesterday; lowest, 26, at 6:15 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N. Y. Markets,Pages 13,14 & 15 second class matter E:stf r;!dl'l:é.. ‘Washington, D. C. No. 33,131. FORGERY OF BRUN WRITING ON NOTES HINTEDASDEFENS REPLY T0 EXPERTS Accused May Try to Show Fisch Was Author of Kidnap Messages—Third Man Identifies Accused. «MYSTERY WITNESSES” ARRIVE FROM EUROPE State Will Present New York Lawyer to Claim Defendant Was Arranging Alibi Shortly Before Arrest in Lindbergh (Question and Answer Testimony, Page A-4.) (Copyright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) FLEMINGTON, N. J.. January 15.— The defense today again brought the dead Isador Fisch inferentially into the murder trial of Bruno Richard Hauptmann with questions pointed toward the possible thesis that Haupt- mann’s handwriting was forged to the 14 Lindbergh ransom notes. The questions were shot at John F. Tyrrell of Milwaukee after he had be- come the third of the State's battery of experts to identify Hauptmann's handwriting as that of the ransom notes. Frederick A. Pope of Hauptmann's defense staff asked Tyrrell if “there is nothing that you could discover as a handwriting expert that would tell you that the author of the ransom note probably copied it from another writing?"” Tyrrell replied: “No, there are too many of those little intimacies in this writing that are reflected in the ransom notes that the forger wouldn’t think of.” Copying From Sample. “I am not speaking of forgery, sir.” “Imitator.” “Nor of imitators; I am merely talk- ing of copying from a sample.” Later Pope asked: “An educated man desiring to dis- | guise or camouflage his handwriting would use words that would hardly be attributed to an educated man some- times, wouldn't he?” ‘Tyrrell replied that in such cases “they overlook something else that is far more significant.” “Yes,” Pope went on, “where they slip in here and there an ungram- matical or crude expression, do they also slip in here and there some strik- ingly grammatical terms? Is that what you mean?” “No, no.” “Well, that would be overlooking something else, wouldn't it?” “Well, if it was that kind of man.” “Well, when you are dealing with a forger or an extortioner, of course you I major was Mountain’s Crown Older Than Body, Say D. C. Scientists Heavy Granite Plateau Believed Pushed Up by Earthquakes. By the Associated Press. PASADENA, Calif., January 15.—A mountain without roots, whose hea is of more ancient material than its body, has been found by investigators some 60 miles north- west of Los Angeles. Its granitic crown, weighing about 123,000,000,000 tons, was pushed up to its 9,026-foot elevation and placed on younger sedimentary rocks by earthquakes, the researchers say. *Prof. J. P. Buwalda, geologist, and Prof. Beno Gutenberg, geophysicist, of the Seismological Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington here, are the authorities for this sur- prising find. It is Frazier Mountain, in the Tehachapis, about 5 miles west of Tejon Pass. It lies near a bend of the great San Andreas earthquake fault, one of the longest and more ac- tive of the world’s known earthquake faults. ‘The cap of the mountain, an un- usual plateau-like formation, is.8 miles |long and 4 miles wide. Seismograph depth tests showed this cap is from 1,200 to 1,900 feet thick. DOOLITTLE FLIES IN RECORD TIME Transcontinental Transport Speed Bests Rickenback- er’s Flight by Minutes. (Wirephoto—Page A-3.) By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, January 15— Maj. James R. Doolittle, noted speed fiyer, established a new transconti- today, touching his wheels at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, 11 hours {59 minutes after his take-off at Los | Angeles. | Doolittle was timed at Floyd Ben- | mett at 8:26 am. (Eastern standard time) and 8!, minutes later he set. the low-winged transport monoplane {down at Newark Airport. Although | previous transcontinental speed flights i have ended here, Doolittle’s time at the New York field was considered for record purposes. His time of 11 hours 89 miinutes broke by minutes the mark sét last November 8 by Eddie Rickenbacker when he flew from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hours 3 minutes 50 seconds. Looking tired but happy, the fiying here by Mayor Meyer C. Ellenstein. Accompai the aviator was Mrs. Doolittle and an oil company official. the fact that he flew off his course. “I didn’t do the ship justice,” Doo- little said. “I lost an hour and 8 half by getting off the course and should have been here that much sooner. I guess it was just & case of poor piloting.” are dealing with that kind of man?” “No, not necessarily,” the witness insisted. i “Well, from your experience have | they sometimes endeavored to ward off suspicion by the use of ungram- matical expressions?” The witness said they had. “Educated Man.” Edward J. Reilly, chief of the de- fense staff, replying to a penciled query on the purpose of the questions pertaining to an “educated man,” said: “In Europe a person attending a university is classed as an educated man. A laborer or carpenter like Hauptmann is nothing but a mere peasant or laborer.” Nothing has come out in the trial to indicate that Fisch was either edu- cated or uneducated, but one of the prosecutors declared as an aside today that “we are prepared to tell Fisch's life from ‘A’ to ‘Z’ and show that he had no connection with the kid- naping.” Hauptmann claims Fisch gave him the $14,600 in ransom money which ‘was found in his Bronx garage the day of his arrest last September 19. Fisch (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) BRUNO IS RUMORED READY TO CONFESS Prosecution Hears Accused May Tell Full Story, Paper Reports. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15.—The New York Times today prints the following | from Flemington, N. J.: “Rumors that Bruno Richard Haupt- mann has confessed or is going to confess * * * were in circulation, but could not be confirmed. “In prosecution circles the belief was expressed that the accused may confess because of the weight of evi- dence that the State has presented. The State has no intention of making any deal with Hauptmann during the trial, it was said, but a confession naming other persons might be con- sidered after a verdict is returned. “Edward J. Reilly and C. Lloyd Pisher of defense counsel emphatically denied the rumors.” THREE BOMBERS KILLED Head Wounds Found on Men Who Escaped Jail. HAVANA, January 15 (P).—Police today found three dead men beside an automobile near Marianao Beach. Each bore several wounds on his head and & large bomb, the fuse of which had ‘not been ignited, lay near the bodies. ‘The men were identified as three who escaped from a police station January 12 after being arrested for the possession of explosives and in- ‘eenflhry ‘material, I Mrs. Doolittle, however, sald going astray was the result of “dreadful flying weather.” Weather Held Bad. “The 1ce was bad,” she said, “and weather conditions were awful. It's all right for Jimmy to blame himself, but the weather man should take some of the blame, t00.” Doolittle said the ship, a Vultee transport, powered by a 735-horse- power Wright Cyclone engine, func- tioned perfectly all the way, enabling him to average about 317 miles an hour for the approximately 2,600-mile trip. He left Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif., at 8:27 pm. (E.S. T.) last night. WIFE RESCUES MAN FROM STATION FIRE Proprietor Badly Burned Before Helpers Pull Him From Win- dow After Blast. While his wife and mother-in-law made frantic efforts to save him, J. Frank Allen, 37, was burned perhaps fatally this afternoon when a gaso- line water heater exploded in the filling station which he operates at 1369 New York avenue northeast, set- ting the whole interior in flames. Allen’s wife, Mrs. Nona Allen, op- erates & lunch stand in the same building. After the explosion she ran the few steps next door, but was re- pulsed by the flames which roared through the windows and doors, from which the explosion had shattered the glass. Mrs. Allen and a colored helper of her husband’s found that Allen had taken refuge from the flames in a small anteroom within the filling sta- tion office. Oils and gasoline were burning flercely within the station and, breaking out a rear window, the colored helper and Mrs. Allen pulled the filling station proprietor over the sill, his clothing still ablaze. He was rushed to Sibley Hospital, where his condition was as critical. ROOSEVELT IS REPORTED PLANNING WESTERN TRIP a By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt was reported to- day by callers to be contemplating & trip to the West Coast this Summer. Representative ' Burnham, Republi. can, of California, and G. A. David- son of San Diego invited the - dent to the California Pacific Inter- national Exposition. o Davidson, who is chairman of the board of the exposition to open at San Diego on May 29, said the Presi- dent expressed the hope of getting to California this Summer and of at- propriation for the exposition. @b nental record for transport airplanes ! congressional approval of last June's Doolittle’s mark was made despite § TREASURY HOLDS CONGRESS BACKED PROGRAM ON GOLD Ir\»dorsement of Devaluation Seen in Approval of Philip- pine Currency Act. BRAIN TRUSTERS EXPECT CONSERVATIVE DECISION Amendment to Constitution Dis- cussed if Supreme Court Takes Adverse Action. BULLETIN. NEW YORK, January 15 (#).— In the sharpest turnabout in a year the dollar today popped up as suddenly as a released jack-in-the= box. The gold bloc currencies dropped to far below the point at which the yellow metal can be shipped profitably to New York. Gold shares on the Stock Exchange were under pressure that carried leaders off $1 to $4 a share or more, and Homestake Mining dropped more than 30 points. Grains gave up a cent or so a bushel at Chicago. The flurry was attributed to un- certainty over the pending Supreme Court decision on the gold clause. By the Associated Press. Treasury experts contended today that Congress already has, in effect. ratified President Roosevelt’s procla- mation devaluing the gold dollar. Officials busy with plans for action turning on the Supreme Court’s ruling in the gold clause cases held that Philippine currency act represented full indorsement of devaluation. As emphasized by one expert, that vote put the Senate and House “squarely behind devaluation.” The Philippine currency act of last June 19 appropriated money to pay the islands the dollar profits accruing to its gold deposits in this country| through devaluation. Considered Direct Approval. ‘Treasury experts consider this law a direct congressional approval of de- valilation gud cited especially section 3 of the Philippine currency act, which said: “There is hereby authorized to be appropriated, out of the receipts cov- ered into the Treasury under section 7 of the gold reserve act of 1934, by virtue of the reduction of the weight of the gold dollar by the proclama- tion of the President on January 31, 1934, the amount necessary to estab- lish the credit provided for in sec- tion 1 of this act.” Officials declined to predict whether the Supreme Court might take | judicial notice of this law in de- termining whether holders of gold clause contracts under the old dol- lar were entitled now to receive $1.69 for every dollar of investment. Opinion of Solicitor General. Angus MacLean, assistant solicitor general, during his argument before the court referred to the Philippine act. He contended that while the United States reimbursed the islands, this action did not commit the Gov- ernment to a recognition of the right of individuals or corporations to de- mand gold which was on deposit in this country. MacLean said it was an act of amity, in recognition of the semi- sovereignty of the Philippines, and was to aid that country in placing itself on an independent footing. In the meantime, the Treasury said it placed little credence in a published report that “departmental experts” had agreed that a return to the old gold content of the dollar would have “definite advantages” in the event of an adverse decision. It was made clear that if such agreement had been reached the Treasury had not been a participant. With all Washington engaged in an intense effort to figure how the Supreme Court will swing in its $69,000,000,000 gold decision, several of the group known as the younger “prain trust” joined in the forecast- ing today. Their prediction, on which they did not desire to be quoted by name at present, was that the decision would be ‘a “conservative” one, up- holding the New Deal's action in canceling the gold clause in some $100,000,000,000 of public and private securities. ‘They explained the adjective “con- servative” by saying that if the de- cision went the other way, restoring the gold clause and increasing the $100,000,000,000 indebtedness by about $69,000,000,000 in terms of present dollars, the administration and Con- gress would be “forced” to take “drastic and fundamental” steps which might appear to conservatives to be much more radical than any- thing previously done. Denial of “Chaos.” What the steps might be they did not say, but they asserted they woul be it “chaos” in ¢ Foeni WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ROBNSON BEEIS SEMTES DEBTE ON WORLDCOURT Ratification of Protocol for Adherence of U. S. Is Expected. “SPONGER ARGUMENT” ASSAILED BY LEADER Cites Part U. S. Has Played in Promoting Judicial Settle- ment of Disputes. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The drive for American adherence to the World Court was launched in the Senate itself today. Senator Rob- inson, Democratic leader of the Upper House, in charge of the pro- tocol for the Foreign Relations Com- mittee, opened the debate. Ratification by the Senate of the protocol is confidently expected. While there are a number of die-hards, in- cluding Senator Johnson of Califor- nia and Senator Borah of Idaho, who will continue to resist strongly Amer- ican entry into the Court, the sup- porters of the court claim that they have more than the two-thirds vote necessary for ratification. ° Clouded by Misunderstanding. “Probably no subject has been so clouded by misunderstanding as the proposal that the United States accept membership in the World Court,” said Senator Robinson. “Admitting in the beginning that many acute differences between na- tions will not be submitted to the court for decision, there are still numerous issues arising from time to time which strong policy justifies shall be referred to judicial process for settlement. “The assertion has been made that since the United States may now avail itself of the court’s procedure without becoming a member, it is unnecessary for the United States to adhere to the protocol. It is said that we are now entitled to take cases before the | court, and there is nothing further for us to gain,” continued Senator Robinson. “Sponger Argument.” He admitted this to be a fact and added: “This contention merits designation as the ‘sponger argument’ It within our power to retain the pre. rogative of a sponger, but who de- sires that the United States be a parasitical dependent? The sense of ntpmllbung of our citizens has not sunk to such a low level that they are willing to avail themselves of the benefits of a tribunal set up by other nations and deny that tribunal finan- cial support.” Senator Robinson said the right we Ppossess of recourse to the World Court is not one of the so-called “natural rights.” “The right of recourse to this court,” he said, “is only because of the organized efforts of others. If we do not choose to associate our- selves with the other nations in the effort to maintain this court and make it a vital institution for good in the international affairs of mankind, we must not be surprised if others despair of the effort. U. S. Promoted Idea. “The United States has played a prominent part in the promotion of the idea of a World Court to which nations might take their disputes for judicial settlement. We have en- couraged the adjustment of interna- tional controversies by specific meth- ods. We were among the first to propose the establishment of a true international court which would pro- vide a more adequate instrument to this end. “It is decidedly to the self-interest of this Nation to encourage and sup- port the work of a judicial tribunal before which the undertakings of na- tions when in dispute may be taken for determination. “Adherence to the court involves no entanglement, no abandonment of policy or principle. It demonstrates our co-operation and effort to sub- stitute right and justice for force and terror—to substitute law for an- archy in international affairs.” Jurisdiction Limited. Senator Robinson declared the juris- diction of the World Court is limited to cases which the parties involved refer to it, save in the four classes of cases in which they bind them- selves to recognize compulsory juris- diction. He argued that there could be no basis for the assertion that the United States compromises its sov- ereignty or sacrifices its independence in joining the court. He pointed out that after the United States has joined the Court it can take no cognizance of any dispute or controversy in which our interests are involved except at the consent of the United States. ‘There is a provision in the Court statute, he said, which authorizes any state to recognize as compulsory the jurisdiction of the Court in cases in- volvigg the interpretation of a treaty, a question of international law, the existence of any fact constituting a breach of international agreement, or the nature and extent of reparation to be made for such breach. U. S. Exempt From Provision. “But it is not proposed that the United States shall agree to this pro- vision. Therefore the court cannot take cognizance of any dispute to which (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) By the Associated Press. JAMESTOWN, Tenn., January 15.— i | Sergt. Alvin C. York of World War fame is ready to go to war again—but only if § is “necessary” for the de- fense of his country. The man credited officially with said today that were the Government in need of a man to defend it-“T'd cer- ‘ MILLION AND A HALP Two-Cos BLUE BacLes 'QDE CA TRUSTEES FFSE AR CHANGES Board Writes Opposition to Revision in Letter to City Heads. Holding the interests of the public will be served best by continuation of the present board of trustees of the | District of Columbia Public Library, | with undiminished powers, members | | of the board voiced opposition to pro- | posed changes in the organic law of the District affecting the Library sys- tem, in a letter to the District Com- missioners made public today. The board suggested the Library and the public schools be excepted | | from provisions of the proposed bill | ! to enlarge the powers of the Board t the District Commissioners which would give the Commissioners direct- |1y or through an agent, unlimited control over the Library and school systems. The letter from the board, signed by Wendell P. Stafford, vice presi- dent, was accompanied by a copy of an article by George F. Bowerman, librarian, reprinted from the Library Quarterly, October, 1934. entitled, “Shall the Library Board Be Re- tained?” In this article, originally written as a memorandum for the Senate District Committee, Dr. Bow- erman recounts the legislative his- tory of the present Library board and sums up the arguments for its con- tinuance. In his summary, Dr. Bowerman de- clares the best development of the Library “is assured under a board ex- | clusively devoted to its interests.” Text of Letter. The text of the letter from the Library Board to the Commissioners follows: To the Commissioners of the District of Columbia: With your letter of January 2, 1935, the receipt of which is hereby | acknowledged, you have been good | enough to inclose a copy of a con- templated bill “To Clarify and En- | large the Powers and Authority” of your honorable board, and have re- quested us to submit our comments and suggestions touching those parts that seem to affect the Public Li- brary, assuring us that “they will be given consideration in the prepa- ration of the final draft of the bill which will be submitted to Congress.” In response thereto we respectfully submit the following: The parts to which we would refer are: 1. Section A, first sentence. 2. Section A, subdivision 16, para- graphs (a) and (b). Section A, in its first sentence, de- clares that any power or authority (Continued on Page 5, Column 3. AMSTERDAM BROKERS APPEALING OIL RULING Seek Setting Aside Granting Ba- tavia Petroleum Service Right on Depreciated Dollar. By the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, Netherlands, Janu- ary 154-The Amsterdam Stockbrok- appealed to the Supreme Court from an appellate court decision yesterday giving the Royal Dutch Oil Co. and its main operating unit, the Batavia Petroleum Co., the right to meet service on their dollar bonds with depreciated dollars. The court held that the gold clauses in the bonds concerned gold coin and not gold value. The judgment of the appellate court caused several hundred ‘mem- bers of the bourse to sign a petition in Amsterdam asking a further appeal to the Supreme Court, which was then made by the stockbrokers' asso- ciation. | Sergt. York Would Fight Again Only in Defense of Homeland right at our coast when they got ready to get off the “oat. I don’t think any of us would want to go ‘over there’ any more, but we would all be ready to defend our country.” ‘The World War hero gave his views after the introduction by United States Senator Nathan L. Bachman of Ten- nessee of a bill to recognize his feat by appointing him a major in the Army and placing him on the retired list. York sald he would appreciate the commission “very nuch.;. ers' Association as plaintiff today 3 o Sfar . WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, JANUARY 15, 1935—FORTY-FOUR PAGES. ##% IN_ THE LEXICON OF T a0 AS UNEMPLOYED! Hitch-Hiking Era Doomed if Bill Passes Legislature By the Associated Press. LANSING, Mich., January 15. —Upon the thumber and the thumbee alike will the heavy hand of the law descend if the Michigan Legislature acts favor- ably upon a bill introduced in the House last night to end the era of the hitch-hiker. The proposed act would make it a misdemeanor for one to stand at a roadside and solicit a ride and a misdemeanor for an automobile driver to pick up a hitch-hiker. NEW ORLEANS PAY HELD UP BY FIGHT Employes Are Allotted Half of Salaries, Pending Court Action on Finances. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, January 15.— Pending Federal Court adjustment of city finances, employes of New Or- leans, including firemen and police- men, today were allotted half of their semi-monthly salaries, it was stated in official circles. Yesterday Mayor T. Semmes Walms- ley. enemy target of the Huey P. Long dictatorship, declared the city em- ployes today would likely face a pay- less pay day because of Long's court action restricting city disbursements. But today with the city administra- tion and its fiscal bank creditors be- fore Federal Court in a move to ar- | range a readjustment of finances un- |der congressional statute, it was | learned that approximately 50 per cent of the salaries could be paid. The Federal Court move was taken the State suit against the city. GIRL HIT BY AUTO OF DUKE OF KENT Child Slightly Injured as Royal Couple Dashes to Le Bourget Field. By the Associated Press. LE BOURGET, France, January 15. —An automobile containing the Duke and Duchess of Kent knocked down, a little girl and injured her slightly to- day while they were hurrying to catch & plane here for London. The girl, Marguerite Ollier, was crossing the street to school when the car struck her. Bruised, she was treat- ed at a hospital and went home. The duke and duchess were alarmed by the accident, but a member of the British Embassy staff induced them to continue while he remained behind to see that the child was taken to a hospital. He telephoned them at the airfield that the child was not seriously in- HOWE OBSERVES 63D BIRTHDAY WITH FAMILY Doesn’t Have Cake and Candles in View of ‘the Depression and Everything.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 15.—Col. Louis McHenry Howe, celebrated his 63d birthday anniversary yesterday. “I had a pleasant day with my family at Fall River, Mass.—I didn’t see or talk to a politician,” he said. The President’s secretary and inti- mate friend was asked if he had a “They told me it would take too many candles and with the depression and they decided to eliminate it.” e M’ADOO QUITS SIAM BANKOK, Siam, January 15 (#).— Senator Willlam G. McAdoo left for London after a brief visit here yes- terday. He was planning to leave England at once for the United States, to which it was understood he was in haste as a consequence of the action of the Supreme Court in invalidating s portion of the code for the ol industry. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. yesterday on the eve of a hearing on | Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,091 Some Returns Not. Yet Recelved. (UP) Means Associated Press. | BET THE CHAP WHO SAID'TALK 15 *NEVER TWO CENTS. SAAR IN REBELLION ON LEAGUE'S RULE AS NAZI ROUND-UP OF FOES 15 BEGUN Saarbruecken Police Force in Hitlerite Control—120 Anti-Nazi Officers to Be Arrested Today. 90 PCT. CAST BALLOTS CITY HEADS PLAN NEW CRIVEORVE {Police Are Instructed to| “Clean Up the City” in Conference. A renewed war on crime in the Cap- ital was mapped today in a confer- ence of District officials and police high command in Commissioner Hazen’s office. The war will be fought on three fronts — gambling, prostitution and traffic—with the police officers in- structed to “clean up the city.” All precinct commanders, the chief of the vice squad and a number of leading detectives were called into the conference with the three Commis- sioners, Corporation Counsel E. Bar- rett Prettyman, Police Supt. Ernest | W. Brown, Assistant Supt. T. R. Bean, { Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer and Assistant Traffic Director M. O. Eldridge. Harassment Planned. A campaign of perpetual harass- ment was decide dupon, to be partici- pated in by every foot patrolman, every traffic officer and every precinct detective and vice squad member. Closer co-operation between pre- cinct officers and the vice squad will be maintained with a view to re- ducing to a minimum the number of gambling establishments and houses of vice. Suspicious characters on the streets—roving bookmakers, numbers runners and collectors and street walkers—will be rounded up and, if possible, prosecuted as vagrants | or otherwise so harassed as to drive them out of business. Each of the precinct commanders was called upon to explain what he has been doing to rid his territory | of vice and ordered to continue to | “crack down” until the city has be- | come as clean as possible. Little Tells of Activities. Lieut. George M. Little, head of the vice squad, told of the activities of his men and detailed ways in which pre- cinct patrolmen could co-operate Iorl better enforcement of the laws. On the traffic front Van Duzer and Eldridge outlined their plans and the police were ordered to bear down on offending motorists. Corporation Coun- sel Prettyman was instructed to order his assistants in Police Courmto prose- cute offenders to the limit, with rec- ommendations for maximum penalties {nr serious violations of the traffic aws. e STANDLEY RECOVERS Recuperates at Naval Hospital From Minor Operation. Rear Admiral William H. Standley, chief of naval operations and a dele- gate to the recent naval conversations in London, was recuperating today | from what naval hospital attaches termed a “minor” operation. | Standley underwent the operation last week after his return from Lon- don with Norman H. Davis, chief American delegate. He will be back at work in two weeks, it was said at the Navy Departmen KILLING INVOLVES AGENT U. S. Employe to Face Charge, Police Say. MEMPHIS, Tenn., January 15 (#).— | J. Cullen Baw, 35, a roadhouse em-t ploye, died in a hospital here today of a wound suffered at the roadhouse | last Friday night, and Sheriff W. J.| Bacon said that James B. Keenan, 48, an internal revenue agent of For- rest City, Ark, would be charged | with his slaying. Baw and Willie Cigalina, 25, a truck driver, were wounded, and Keenan was beaten in the roadhouse disturbance, which is being investi- | gated by officers. The sheriff said his deputies were told that Keenan entered the inn and started an argument, and in the en- suing disturbance Cigalina and Baw were wounded by gunfire and Keenan was beaten. Federal officers said they believed Keenan went to the inn on official business. DYNAMITE KILLS THREE MIAMI, Fla, January 15 (P).— Three colored men in a rowboat were | killed instantly today when a quan- tity of dynamite they were laying for blasting in the harbor here exploded. Parts of the men's bodies were blown to the causeway and pieces of the boat were scattered over a wide e Il FOR RETURN TO REICH Vote Is 477,119 for Germany, 46,513 for Status Quo, 2,124 for Annexation to France—Offi- cial Position of Territory Awaits Action by League. (Copyright. 1935. by the Associated Press ) SAARBRUECKEN, Saar Basin Ter- ritory, January 15.—The Nazis, having swept the Saar plebiscite with a poll of 90 per cent of the more than half million votes cast Sunday, today as- sumed full command of the Saar- bruecken police force. They started out to round up about 120 men—all the anti-Nazi members of the blue coats. Thirty of them, and these included some who fled from Reichsfuehrer Hitler's Germany, were said by the Nazis to have been jailed before 1:30 p.m. Sixteen Communists previously re- ported arrested turned out to be policemen. 120 to Be Jailed. The entire 120, the Nazis said, would be jailed before nightfall unless they escape across the frontier. These men formed a special group recruited sev- eral months ago as the day of the plebiscite neared. Although the League of Nations Governing Commission still directed the affairs of the territory, all public services were in virtual rebellion against foreign control on “freedom day.” French officials of the telegraph service said their employes refused to take orders. Telegrams were lying on the counters untouched while the cele- bration continued. Two members of the Society of Friends arrived from London to aid possible refugees. Socialists poured into the Socialist center building here from all over the territory. filling up the great auditorium inside. Outside, however, everything was quiet. Up until early afternoon there had been no sigh of mob action anywhere. So far as could be discovered, the only concerted action had been against the local police. 77,119 Vote for Reich. The Nazi victory was complete. After a full night of tabulation, the plebiscite commission announced the vote to be: For return to Germany, 477,119; For the status quo, 46,513; For annexation to France, 2,124. One of the police arrested had been sent as bodyguard for Max Braun, | leader of the Common Front, organ- ization which fought a return to Ger- many. Braun had expressed fears for his life should the territory re- unite with the Reich. The officer was held for “stealing arms” after their seazure in the Socialist welfare cen- ter, where Braun has lived for months. Braun refused to flee across the frontier despite the insistence of his friends. Two other policemen and & woman were arrested in his sight. The offi- cers had rushed to the Socialist head- quarters for protection, claiming Nazi members of the police force had con- fiscated their arms in a barracks here. Although the city government is strongly pro-Nazi, about 40 members of the Saarbruecken police were said to have favored maintaining the status quo. It was reported that for- mer Police Commissioner Machts of Saarbruecken had fled to France. Will “Shoot From Windows.” Warned that Nazis were “after him,” Braun shouted he would “shoot from the windows” if they molested him. Communists, who bad been called to protest meetings by their leaders (Continued on Page 3, Column 2.) . ROOSEVELT SECURITY PLAN DUE THURSDAY 30,000-Word Report by Commit- tee to Accompany Pro- posals. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt will submit his proposals on social security legislation to Congress Thursday. ‘The program for Federal supervision | of State-controlled unemployment in- surance, old-age pensions and medical aid systems will be accompanied by a 30,000-word report by the special com- mittee named by the President to study the subjects and make recom- mendations. Senator Wagner, Democrat of New York, and Representative Lewis, Democrat of Maryland, are preparing bills to cover the administration pro- gram. 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