Evening Star Newspaper, January 24, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and continued cold, lowest tem- perature about 5 degrees tonight; tomor- row fair. slowly rising temperature. Tem- peratures—Highest, 25, at 3 p.m. yester- day: lowest, 6 at 7:30 a.m. today. Full report on Page A-13. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. l Entered as second class matter post office, Washinzton, D. C. ITEMIZING RELIEF| [ PLAN POSSRLE, Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,415 Some Returns Not Yet Recelved ¢ Toening Star WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION Che WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1935—FORTY-TWO PAGES. INQUISITION" DEFI GIVEN MUNITIONS Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 16,17 & 18 No. 33,140 (P) Means Associated Pr FHH TWO CENTS. IJERSEY -RESTS CASE 'AGAINST HAUPTMANN 'WITH WOOD EVIDENCE NO SIR! | WONT GET RID OF HIM! ‘Inquisition’ RODSEVELT TELLS, CONGRESS IN NOTE Unable to List Purposes of $4,000,000,000 Program at This Time, He Declares in Special Message. REPORT OF RESOURCES ‘ BOARD IS TRANSMITTEDi President Hopes for Annual Ap-; propriation of $500,000,000 for| Orderly Development of Public Projects—H ouse Embroiled | 1 Over Providing Huge Sums. | Text of President’s message—Page A-2 ! By the Associated Press i A Congress embroiled over the issue | of appropriating huge lump sums of } cash for presidential allocation “a.\l told today by Mr. Roosevelt it was “clearly impossible at the moment” to itemize the $4.000.000.000 work ve- lief program. This newest White House op)‘m)-. tion to a determined movement inj both parties to say in detail how the fund should be spent was given in a special message transmitting to the Capitol the report of the Nnumm\‘ Resources Board and the Mississippi Valley Committee of the Public \Vnrks! Administration i Basis of Permanent Policy. Of both reports, which have been, made public previously, the President gaid “These documents counstitute a re- markable foundation for what hope wilt be a permanent policy orderly development in every part of the United States.” i Then referring more directly to the| move for legislative allocation of the! mammoth public-project fund. the! President said | “As I have already stated, it is only because of the current emergency of unemployment and because of the physical impossibility of surveying, | weighing and testing each and every | project that a segregation of items is, clearly impossible at this time Il “For the same reason the consti- | tuting of fixed and permanent admin- {strative machinery would retard the immediate employment objective.” Mr. Roosevelt expressed the hope that “after the immediate crisis of un- employment begins to mend we can afford to appropriate approximately £500.000.000 cach year” for purposes of an orderly development of public projects Lives Out of Balance. Commenting on the two reports, Mr. | Roosevelt said: “Man and nature must work hand in hand. The throwing out of bal- ance of the resources of nature throws out of balance also the liv of men. We find millions of our citi- | zens stranded in village and on farm— | stranded there hecause nature cannot | support them in the livelihood they | had sought to gain through her.” | The presidential message went to a | House in the midst of debate on the £4.000,000,000 fund. The same meas- ure contained $880,000,000 for direct relief pending the gradual transition | from a dole to work relief. e “INSIDERS” LINKED WITH MAIL THEFT| Postal Inspectors Think Four Gunmen Who Got $129,800 Had Information. i By the Associated Press. FALL RIVER, Mass., January 24.— Post office inspectors working on the $129.800 mail robbery here yesterday believe the thieves had “inside” ac- complices. i It was their opinion that the four gunmen who made the rich haul did | not stumble on it accidentally; that they had information that the heavy consignment of cash, checks and .<c~i curities would arrive on the 8:17 a.m. | train from Boston. It was one of the largest postal rob- | surgents said they CLINTON L. BARDO. . P. Photo._ HOUSE THREATENS FIGHT OVER WAGES i l Opponents of Relief Bill Cry| *Scab” as Leaders Strive for Passage. BULLETL The soldiers’ bonus issue was in- jected suddenly into House consid- eration of the $4.880.000.000 relief bill this atternoon when Repre- sentative McFarlane. Democrat. of Texas. served notice he would pro- pose attaching the Patman plan for paying the veierans’ certificates to the relief measure. However, he failed to obtain a ruling on whether such an amendment would be in order By the Ass d Press A fight over wages the Government proposes to pay 3.500.000 persons threatened today as administration | leaders strove to get the $4,880,000,000 relief program through the House be- | fore nightfall. A cry of “scab wages” came from Chairman Connery of the House Labor Committee as he attacked a proposal to pay an average of $50 a month. He served notice he would offer anj amendment to force the payment of wages prevailing in various localities. In administration quarters the plans were defended as aiming at “security” pay which would provide a living for the destitute. President Roosevelt had said the pay should be higher than the dole, but not large enough to dis- courage workers from taking private employment. After winning committee assent to amendments curbing powers which the dole-to-jobs measure confers on President Roosevelt, Democratic in- would fight for further curtailment today before the bill is passed along to the Senate. Speaker Byrns and other adminis- tration leaders were confident the measure would go through quickly, giving the President the $4,800.000,000 to spend at his discretion. An agree- ment on the “lump sum” idea had been reached despite earlier drives to| “earmark” the money for particular projects. Meanwhile, beneath the surface, | word was being passed among some | Representatives that the President | wanted the money without strings, so | that if a necessitv arose. he could spend up to a billion dollars on na- tional defense. Information Source Denied. No member would say for quotation } under his name where the report ong- | inated or how seriously it should be taken, but arguments advanced were that confidential reports from Amer- ican agents abroad indicated some other nations were building up their national defense more rapidly than the United States. Then, these arguments contended, if any other nation should declare war, and the President had no money avail- able for expenditure on American na- tional defense, it would be necessary for him to call a session of Congress. Immediately the rest of the world would say the United States was pre- paring to enter the war. Scme other members, who declined | to let their names be used, interpreted | the talk as a report started to help insure getting the administration blanket authority to spend the $4,- 000,000.000 without earmarking by Congress. Among amendments to which the House Appropriations Committee agreed beries in the history of New England | at the behest of insurgents was one and it was enacted with dispatch that ' generally regarded as aimed at Secre- indicated it had been carefully [ tary Ickes, public works administrator. planned. This amendment would delete the SEVEN DIE IN SPREE ON ALCOHOL MIXTURE| Brooklyn Lodging House Victims Succumb Shortly After “Smoke” | Is Passed Around. By the Associated Press. BROOKLYN, N. Y., January 24.— Seven men had died last night as the | result of a drinking bout in a lodging ' house when “smoke,” a deadly mixture of denatured alcohol and water, was the beverage passed around. Two died last night in Cumberland Hospital, the last victims of the poison. Three of the men were found dead in bed and two died in Kings County Hospital, Amusements . Comics Features Finance Lost and Found.. Radio Serial Story Service Order: Short Story .. Society Sports - ! to abolish or consolidate all agencies clause giving the President power to prolong _any agency until June 30, 1937. The public works act expires next June 16. This amendment had to be acted upon by the House today, as did others. They included proposals to make all types of projects eligible for work re- lief: to restrict the President’s power by writing in the words ‘“emergency agencies,” and to delete a two-year prison penalty for violations of regu- lations laid down by the President. In the face of attacks from some Democrats and Republicans, adminis- i tration leaders defended the relief measure yesterday, calling it a far- reaching plan to end the dole. Chair- man Buchanan of th: Appropriations Committee called it vital to recovery. Taber Attacks Measure. Among Republicans who attacked the measure was Representative Taber of New York, who said: “The admin- istration has no definite program; they just imagine they have.” The statements, by Taber and others, that the Government proposed wages of $50 a month, were based on the remarks of Rear Admiral C. J. Peoples, chief of the Treasury's Pro- curement Division. Before the House | Appropriations Committee, he had said in answer to questions: i “The whole purpose here is for a | security wage rate averaging about $50 a month. * * * I cannot state definitely the details of working out this problem. The Government must be in a position to say (to contractors on relief projects) whatever method or means is followed in carrying out this work.” i PROBE BY BARDO Refuses to Waive Constitu- tional Rights Giving Him Immunity. DENIES ANY COLLUSION IN MAKING SHIP BIDS Costs Nearly Uniform Make for Identical Estimates, Hearing Is Told. By the Associated Press. Describing the Senate munitions in- vestigation as an “inquisition,” Clin- ton L. Bardo. former president of the New York Shipbuilding Co., refused today to waive immunity for any “self- incriminating” testimony he might give. Asserting that the committee Te- quest would require him to renounce constitutional rights, the white-haired shipbuilder added that he was “per- fectly willing to testify to all trans- actions of which I have knowledge.” Barbo was president of the ship- building company during a period when the committee alleges the cost of warships nearly doubled. Before anncuncing his refusal to wave immunity in a formal statement, he declared he did not desire to ap- pear “antagonistic or offensive” to the Senate. Text of Statement. His statement, at the committee hearing, said: “T was elected president of the New York Shipbuilding Co. in October, 1928, and resigned November, 1934. 1 am perfectly willing to testify as to any matters or transactions which occurred during my administration. “I know of nothing in which I took part which is in any way reprehensi- ble or in violation of the laws of the United States. “This committee, however. has re- quested that I waive my constitutional rights as an American citizen. and since I am unwilling to do so it seems proper that I should here state my reasons for refusing to comply witn your request. Hearings Are Ex Parte. “In the first place, the hearings be- tor your committee are entirely ex parte. No opportunity is afforded any witness to be represented by counsel nor to volunteer any explanation of evidence which has been taken in such ex parte examination. “From the most innocent transac- tions inferences and innuendos are drawn intended to induce the news- papers to print and the public to believe that sinister influences have dominated the shipbuilding industry and much that is reprehensible, if not illegal. has occurred. “My opinion is that every citizen is assumed to be innocent until proven to be guilty and that the fifth amend- ment to the Constitution and laws pertaining to self-incrimination were adopted to protect citizens against inquisition of the character I refer to. “Feeling as I do, it seems to me that vour request that I sign the waiver submitted is a request that I renounce my constitutional rights, and this I respectfully refuse to do. “I am perfectly willing to testify as to all transactions of which I have knowledge and hope that I may be afforded an opportunity to do so. My decision not to sign the waiver re- quest is my personal decision.” Backs War Profit Cut. Meanwhile, Lieut. Col. C. T. Harris told the House Military Committee the War Department was strongly behind legislation to pare excess profits dur- | |ing a war. He asserted prices must be controlled rigidly. After reading his statement, Bardo was questioned by the committee on matters relating to its assertion that cruiser unit costs in recent years had climbed from about $8,000,000 to $16,- 000.000. The evidence said the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Co. and the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. had bid $9,750,000 for each ship— identical bids. The New York com- papy, it was added, bid $9,515,000 a ship and received the contract. Costs Held Nearly Same. Bardo explained that labor rates, steel prices and other costs were so nearly the same for all that such paralleling of prices was not surpris- ing. The committee then presented & letter from R. H. Haig of Chester, Pa., vice president of the Sun Shipbuilding Co., to Bardo, saying other com- panies had “promised to go along” in ;h; Sun company’s desire to get a ship job. Evidence that the three major ship- building companies had presented al- most identical bids on two ships for the United States Lines in 1930 was presented by the committee, but Bardo declared there was no collusion in reaching such estimates. Numed as willing to “go along” were officers of Newport News Co., the Federal Shipbuilding Co. and the Bethlehem Co. Bardo denied any knowledge of the letter, dated August 19, 1933, or of the construction job mentioned. ALFONSO WINS SUIT Defends Fortune He Amassed in Banks of Italy. MILAN, Italy, January 24 (P).— Former King Alfonso of Spain today won another legal battle to defend the fortune he and his late mother, Queen Maria Cristina, amassed abroad while | he_occupied the Spanish throne. The tribunal of Milan returned a verdict in his favor in a suit against Banca Commerciale D'Italia and Banco Urgujo of Madrid to obtain certain stocks the financial institutions had in their possession. The tribunal said the sentence of the Spanish government confiscating al:&nso‘s property was ineffective in : 5 G <7 22 AREINDICTED INBREMER CASE Karpis and Barker Chief i Among Those Accused 1 of Kidnaping. The Department of Justice today | disclosed that 22 persons were indicted {in St. Paul. Minn., yesterday for .he 1 5200000 kidnaping there a vear ago | of Edward G. Bremer, wealthy banker ‘i Heading the list of those charged with the actual abduction of Bremer | Fred Karpis, so-called “Public | Enemy No. 1,” who recently shot his way out of a police trap at Atlantic 1 City, and Arthur “Doc” Barker, ar- rested in Chicago several weeks ago by Justice agents. Campbell Also Named. | Harry Campbell, who fled = with Karpis from Atlantic City. also is| named as one of 12 men who kid- naped Bremer in St. Paul and held { him prisoner in Illinois for 22 days before surrendering him for the huge ransom. Two “John Doe” indictments arc | | understood to refer to Fred Burkerl and his mother Kate, who vere shot to death in a gun battle with Justice | agents in Florida a few days ago. Others charged with the actual kid- naping are Volney Davis, Elmer Farmer, Harold Alderton. William | Weaver, Harry Sawyer, William J.| | Harrison and Byron Bolton. Bolton | was arrested in Chicago coincident | with a raid in which Russell Gibson, a member of the Karpis-Barker gang, was killed by the Federal officers. Conspiracy Charged. | | In a separate indictment charging conspiracy to kidnap Bremer the fol- { lowing were named: Dr. Joseph ! Patrick Moran, Chicago physician; | Jobn J. McLaughlin. Chicago poli- | tician and lawyer; William E. Vidley, | | Paul J. Delaney. James J. Wilson, ! | Jess Doyle, Edna Murray, Myrtle | Eaton and a man known only as | “Whitey.” | Four others who are alleged to have | taken part in the conspiracy are dead. ! They are, in addition to Fred Barker and his mother, Fred Goetz, alias | Zigler. who was slain by gangsters in Chicago a year ago, and Gibson. e Conference Held With Company | Officials and Members of Fed- eral Commission. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt renewed his campaign for cheaper power rates in a conference today with power com- pany officials and members of the Should Be Hanged, Says Couzens of W ork Plan Author Launches Blistering At- tack on Measure and House Gag | By the Associated Press | A blistering attack on the Roosevelt work-relief bill was made today by Senator Couzens, Republican, of Mich- igan “If the man is ever found who drafted the $4.800,000.000 work-relief bill he ought to be hung—not in ef- | figy. but physically.” said the Senator during hearings of the Senate Inter- state Comerce Committee on another subject Couzens added that the measure. which is to be acted on today in the House, would be strongly contested in the Senate. He said if he assailed the House on its “gag” rule “the papers wouldn't print it and House members ; wouldn't speak to me.” “It 1sn’t the amount, but the method, that is being criticized,” observed Sen- ator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana. FIGHT THREATENS SECURITY SETP McNary Prepares to Call G. 0. P. Parley on Split Into Four Bills. By the Associated Press A demand that President Roose- velt's economic security program be split into four separate bills took shape today after a series of developments yesterday that pointed the program toward a dispute-marked path through Congress. The developments included: Administration spokesmen assailed the Townsend $200-a-month pension plan as “fantastic” and “ccckeyed.” Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re- publican leader, prepared to call a conference of Republicans either to- | morrow or Saturday to discuss split- | | ting the omnibus security bill into| pight stated that the Japanese near | separate measures to deal specifically with old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, aid to mothers and chil-| dren and public health. Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir- ginia served notice that he would op- pose the granting broad powers to the administrator of old-age pensions by which he could prescribe the re- | quirements that must be met by States to obtain Federal aid in pensioning those over 65. He said the average State would have to boost its taxes 130 per cent to comply with regula- tions of the bill. Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins, Secretary Perkins and other adminis- | tration witnesses during the day out- | lined to House and Senate committees the details of the program. McNary said the Republican con- | ference, in addition to discussing a Federal Power Commission. | move to separate the various sections The group invited to the White | of the security bill into different bills, House included Harvey Couch, head | would talk over the prospect for a JAPANESE PLANES * BOMBING CHAHAR Attack Report Follows Ru- mored Settlement of Dis- puted Points. | | (Copsrisht, 1933, by the Associated Press.) | PEIPING, January 24.—With be- ! tween 48 and 58 casualties already listed. Japanese airplanes were re- ported today to have bombed Chinese | treops in Chahar again, although me{ Japanese advance which began Tues- day apparently has been halted by the Japanese themselves. (Chinese National military head- quarters at Nanking announced they were informed that the Chahar dis- | pute “had been settled.’) Rengo (Japanese news agency) at, Hsinking, the capital of Manchoukuo.‘ | stated that Japanese fiyers had; bombed the border again today. but | Japanese authorities in Pieping denied | | this statement. | Until 7 pm. today there had been | no major developments on the Cha- i har border, a Chinese military spokes~ | man declared. | The Japanese military attache’s of- | fice announced: | “The desired conditions within the | sputed area have been accomplished, | therefore no further action is likely.” | ] Although the border has been quiet | | since 7 pm. yesterday. a big fleet of | | Japanese aimored cars was reported | operating in the region between Tulisikou and Kuyuan. Chinese Losses Heavy. The Chinese reported their casual- ties at between 40 and 50 while the 1 Japancse stated they had lost two killed and six wounded. The Chinese casualties were all caused by airplane bombs. The Chinese said the Japanese| threw infantry against their lines at: Tuhsikou, which is inside the Great| | Wall, and declared there were no Chi- | nese troops at Tungchetze where ‘they | | said Japanese airplanes bombed the ! | civilian population. | Chinese dispatches from Kalgan to- | Kuyuan were reinforced today by a | detachment of 500 more soldiers. | “Gen. Sung Chen-Yuan, governor Jor Chahar, was busy today in confer- | ence here with Hoy Ingh-Ching, the chairman of the Peiping Military Council. ; According to the Japanese version, the trouble on the Chahar border be- gan January 22, when the Nagami Regiment, advancing from Shao Chang, encountered Chinese militia armed with machine guns. Fxghlllng followed, and the militia was dis- | persed, with casualties on both sides. On the following day the Japanese sent airplanes into action, following Forestry Expert Declares Kid- nap Ladder Was Not Work of Mechanie. {BRUNO DISPLAYS INCREASED INTEREST AS TRIAL PROGRESSES Pope Seeks to Turn Trail Back to Lind- bergh Home and “Inside Joh” in Quiz on Ladder Dowels. BULL FLEMINGTON. N. Thomas W. Trenchard today de: Richard Hauptmann for a directed murdering the Lindbergh haby. (Copyright FLEMINGTON. N. J, 1935 Januar; against Bruno Richard Hauptmann sh The State was content to end its Koehler. Government wood- expert J.. January ETIN. 24 (P .—Supreme d a motion by coun verdict of acquittal on a cha G for Justice Bruno e of ate rested its after noon todat ence with the testime murder case my of Arthur who testified that one rail of the Lind- bergh kidnap ladder came from Hauptmann's attic and changed his sto in no way on cross-examination. It was indicated that Hauptmann might t though a possibility ez in midafternoon adjournment until tomorrow after ma Counsel for Hauptmann moved soon as court conveaed this afternoon. expert's testimony that Hauptmann's of the ladder and that other lumber in the ladder came from a Brox: yard where Hauptmann had purchased wood ke the stand in his own behaif d e defense would ask for king its opening statement for a directed verdict of acquittal as Also standing without alteration by cross-exami; tion was the wood own plane was used in the fashioning ynber As Koehler left the stand Attorney General David T. Wilentz conferred briefly with his assistant prosecutors. “The State rests your honor,” he announced. Reilly Asks to Re-Examine Sisk. Edward J. Reilly allowed to cross-examine one of the “The State has rested,” Wilentz proclaimed. please.” Premier’s Fondness For Liquor Attacked In Japanese House By the Associated Press TOKIO, January 24 —Premier Keisuki Okada’s frank fondness for liquor was attacked today by an interpolator in the House of Representatives, Kijiro Iwasaki, one of the members, “We frequent said Iwasaki, “see the premier's picture in the newspapers with a sake cup in hand. This is bound to affect public thought and morzals un- favorably. The premier should emulate Roosevelt's and Hitler's eagerness to serve their peoples Premier Okada was present but did not deign to reply. PARK UNIT FIGHTS PRETTYMAN BILL Sultan Joins in Unanimous Vote in Opposition to Wider Powers. Opposition to the proposed Pretty- man bill. designed to clarify and en- large the powers of the Commission- ers, was unanimously expressed today by the National Capital Park and Planning Commission, the vote being participated in by Col. Daniel I. Sul- tan. an ex-officio member. This was announced by Thomas S. Settle. the commission’s secretary, who said the measure infringes upon | the power of the commission and might hamper it in its work. Indors- ing the action of its chairman. Fred- jeric A. Delano, who opposed the bill ! in its present form as a private cit- izen. the commission appointed its Legislative Committee to further into the subject. the Commissioners a veto power over, the commission and could overturn the Mall development program, inter- fering with purely Federal functions such as the acquisition of land in the George Washington Memorial Park- way. The commission was definite in its objection to the restrictive fea- tures of the proposed legislation. It them up with artillery, and the sphere of battle widened. Jdpanese reports stated that no more hostilities were expected. The Chinese reports of today’s al- leged bombings said airplanes dropped explosives on Tuhsikou and Tung- chetze again. of the Arkansas-Louisiana and Mis- | sissippi Power Cos.; G. R. Groesoeck of the Electric Bond & Share Co., W, Willkie, president of the Common- wealth & Southern; David Lilien- thal, director of the Tennessee Val- ley Authority; Chairman McNinch of the Power Commission and Vice Chairman Manly. The President has preposed that | the Federal power development in the | Tennessee Valley be used as a yard- stick for rates by private companies. Some of the power officials, including | Wiilkie, have promised co-operation | in the effort to reduce rates. | { move to make the Federal contribu- tion to States for pensions larger than $15 2 month. The Republican leader said he favored splitting the bill. Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Com- mittee already had voiced his op- position to such procedure. Byrd said that if the estimate given the Finance Committee by Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York was correct the Federal Government would have to contribute $630,000,000 yearly for pension matching purposes after 1all the States had enacted pension aws. Wallace Seeks Quick Means For Changing Constitution By the Associated Press. A pew, swift means of changing the Constitution to provide ‘“economic democracy” for America was proposed today by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, one of President Roosevelt's principal advisers. Wallace, writing in Collier's Weekly, suggested an economic council of four men “to determine by direct referen- dum the will of the people on key questions of national policy.”” The council would submit questions to the people, and the electorate’s decision would become the law of the land, which “could not be held unconstitu- tional even by the Supreme Court.” Direct amendments to the Consti- tution, Wallace suggested, could be initiated by the council and ratified “by referendum, upon, say, a two- thirds vote of the people.” Coming at a time when the New Deal’s monetary policies are being tested in the Supreme Court and soon after an oil section of N. I. R. A. was ruled unconstitutional, Wallace’s article was received with wide interest. He declared that with economic events moving fast, it takes a “peril- ously long time” to amend the Con- stitution under present provisions. The economic councillors, Wallace said, would be “persons of a character and repute utterly above partisanship or class narrowness,” who would form a “compact. continuing staff * * * as | (Continued on Page 2, Column 4., i KUYUAN IS OCCUPIED. Reuters Reports 30 Miles Are Added to Manchoukuo. LONDON, January 24 (#).—Japanese troops are now occupying Kuyuan, on the Chahar-Jehol border, as a result of yesterday's fighting, Reuters (Brit- ish) News Agency dispatches from Peiping said today. The same agency's reports said that 30 square miles had been added to the Japanese-advised State of Man- choukuo following yesterday’s military operations. A semi-official report from Peiping said about 50 persons, mostly civilians, had been either killed or wounded dur- ing Japanese aerial bombing. BATTLESHIPS COLLIDE British Naval Giants Sustain Heavy Damage Off Spain. LONDON, January 24 (P).—A col- lision between the world’s largest battle cruiser, H. M™S. Hood, and the battle cruiser Renown was re- ported today by the admiralty. Both warships, the admiralty said, received slight structural damage in the collision, which occurred yester- day during maneuvers off the coast of Spain. The vessels later continued on to Gibraltar in accordance with previous Apluu.‘ £ Y contended the present measure would affect street closings, highway and the acquisition of park areas, Settle said. PACIFIC AVIATION PLAN STIRS TOKIO Sensation Created by News of Navy Department's Develop- ment Project. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, January 24.—The disclos- ure of Claude A. Stvanson, American Secretary of Navy, that the Navy De- partment is considering establishing aviation facilities on Wake and Mid- way Islands, in the Pacific Ocean, cre- ated a newspaper sensation here to- day. Asahi featured the story, covering half its front page with the headline, “America Planning Air Base on Wake Island Which Fortifications Agree- ment of the Washington Treaty Cov- ers.” ‘The Washington naval treaty of 1922, which Japan denounced last De- cember, provided that the United States should not add to the fortifica- tions or naval bases which existed at that time in its insular possessions in the Pacific Ocean. Similar limitations were accepted by both Japan and Great Britain. 14 BELIEVED LOST GRIMSBY, England, January 24 (P). —After drifting badly damaged and helpless in a violent gale off the rocky coast of Iceland, the trawler Jeria was believed to have gone down today with its crew of 14, chief of the defense staff, imr inquire | Settle pointgd out that the Pretty- | man bill as now drawn would give | pleaded to be State’s witnes 1 may call whom you ** Reilly wanted to question Thomas H. Sisk, a Department of Justice agent who testified for the Statc. and Hilde- garde Olga Alexander, Bronx dress model, who said she saw Hauptmann shadowing Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Con- don in the Bronx during the period of negotiations for the $50,000 Lind- bergh ransom. Wilentz a little later decided to call Miss Alexander back for the defense questions. but asserted he wanted no delay in the defense's case. Justice Trenchard ordered that she be called after the luncheon recess, which was taken shortly before 12:30 p.m. The court deemed it unnecessary for the State to recall Sisk, since he would be available to the defense at any time. Cross-Examination Brief. Cross-examination of Koehler was briefer than was expected and was directed chiefly toward showing that the kidnap ladder, down which the State charges Hauptmann carried | baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., from { his crib to his death, was constructed by an amateur. whereas Hauptmann is supposed to be an expert carpenter. The essentials of the State’s case and the witnesses who brought them out were: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, mother of the slain baby: That the child was stolen from its crib on March 1, 1932 and that it wore a sleeping garment which she identified Col. Lindbergh: That the body found in woods of Mercer County two months later was that of his stolen child; that the voice of Hauptmann was the same as that of a man he heard say “Hey Dok-tor” in St. Ray- mond's Cemetery, the Bronx, when Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon paid over the ransom money. That the first ransom note was left on the nursery window sill. Betty Gow, the baby's nurse: That a metal thumbguard found by her a hundred yards from the Lindbergh home a month after the Kidnaping was worn by the baby on the night it was stolen. Garment Taken Off Baby. The prosecutors claimed the kid- naper stripped the baby's clothing from it as soon as he found it was dead. the stripping occuring where the thumbguard was found. This would be in Hunterdon County, where Hauptmann is on trial New Jersey police officers: That a broken extension ladder found near the scene of the crime fit marks in the mud beneath the nursery window and scratches on the paint of the Lindbergh home Dr. John F. (Jafsie) Condon: That Hauptmann responded to his adves tisement. negotiated for the ransom and received the ransom from him in St. Raymond’s Cemetery, the Bronx on the night of April 2, 1932 Joseph A. Perrone, Bronx taxi driver: That Hauptmann gave him $1 to deliver a ransom note to Dr. Condon Amandus Hochmuth, aged former Lindbergh neighbor: That he saw | Hauptmann in a dirty green automo- bile with a ladder, turning into the road that leads to the Lindbergh estate in the forenoon of the day of the crime. Miliard Whited, timber man, Lind- i Haupt- | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 3.) FILIPINO LEADERS FAVOR MACARTHUR Reported for Him if Murphy De- clines Post of High Commissioner. By the Associated Press. MANILA, January 24.—The Manila Tribune says Filipino legislative lead- ers favor the appointment of Gen. Douglas MacArthur as high commis- sioner under the proposed Commone wealth government in case Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy declines the post. Gov. Gen. Murphy, now en route to the United States to present a | generally optimistic report on Philip- pine affairs to President Roosevelt, | has stated he does not want the poss. However, many well informed leaders | believe he may change his mind.