Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Mostly cloudy’ and slightly colder to- night, lowest temperature about 16 de- gress; tomorrow fair and colder. Tem- peratures—Highest, 25, at noon today; lowest, 19, at 9:45 a.m. today. Full report on page A-8. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 10 and 11 — No. 33,142, Entered as seco post office, Wa: SURPRISE WITNESS 10 PLACE BRUNOIN BRONX ON NIGHT OF BABY'S ABDUCTION Reilly Announces He Has Written Proof of Talk at; Gasoline Station—Goes on Stand Monday. HAUPTMANN STUDIES RECORDS OF STOCKS \ Defendant, Shaken by Wilentz's| Cross-Examination, Believes | He Impressed Jurors—Defense | Attorneys Inspect Home. | Prosecutor Maps Attack. By the Associated Press. BROOKLYN, N. Y., January 26.— Edward J. Reilly, chief defense lawyer for Bruno Richard Hauptmann, | said today his next witness will testify | he saw Hauptmann at a Bronx gaso- | line station the night of the kid- | naping. i Reilly refused to disclose the identity of his new surprise witness but insisted the man even had written proof of his conversation with Haupt- mann on the kidnaping night. Disclosure of the planned testimony follows Reilly’s assertion that the de- fense would be based in part on an alibi that Hauptmann was not in Hopewell on the night Col. Charles A, Lindbergh's baby son was abducted. On Stand Monday. Reilly said he would place the man on the stand at his first opportunity when the trial reopens Monday. The man’s story, Reilly said, will be that he is a resident of the Bronx, who, on the kidnaping night, went to White Plains in search of a police dog. Returning unsuccessfully from his | quest, Reilly said, he will testify he saw a man in an automobile at a gasoline station with a dog strikingly similar to his own. The witness, Reilly said, will main- tain he approached Hauptmann, who denied the dog was the witness', asserting it was owned by Christian Fredericksen, baker - employer of | Hauptman’s wife. { The man threatened to arrest Hauptmann anyway, Reilly said the man will tell the jury, and demanded his name and address. He will main- tain Hauptmann wrote shem out for him. Remembers Night, Reilly said his witness will say he recalls the night because, after return- ing home, he remembers hearing the first radic announcement of the ab- | duction. He will add, Reilly said, that when he saw pictures of Hauptmann after his arrest he recognized the carpenter | admitted Louis Glavis, Ickes’ ace in- nd class matter shington, D. C. @b WASHINGTON, D. C.,. SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1935—TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. CHARGES OF P. W. A. GRAFT TO BE PROB - Disbursements, ED BY JURY cial District Body to Investigate Acting After Request by Ickes. Prompted by information supplied by Secretary Ickes, a special District grand jury has been summoned to meet February 6 to investigate charges of graft in the Public Works Ad- ministration, it was disclosed today. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett, who issued the call, said the inquiry would analyze “specifically one project, a $4,000,000 project in Texas.” It will be the first special grand jury here since the Fall-Doheny oil cases. Ickes, who as public works adminis- trator, has been much criticized on Capitol Hill, would say only that after “a long and careful study of the Texas project” a full report had been submitted to prosecuting officials “for | such action as they deem proper lo‘ take.” Other P. W. A. officials declined to disclose the project on which the | graft is alleged to have occurred, but vestigator, had been in Texas three | or four times within the last six weeks | and had investigated the case before the report was given to Garnett. Although officials would not com- ment, it was reported the contract for the project in question was withdrawn after investigators assigned to the case by Secretary of the Interior Ickes | had uncovered evidence of an al-| leged conspiracy to defraud the United States. It was said 8 or 10 persons, including | several high P. W. A. officials, are involved in the Texas case. Garnett has assigned his assistant, John W. Fihelly, to present the evi- dence to the grand jury. It was ex- pected the presentation of the Texas case wiil require several weeks, and that the inquiry later will be extended to other projects in various sections of the country. After completing the P. W. A. inves- tigation the special grand jury will then inquire into charges concerning the War Department. In connection with the grand jury investigation, Secretary Ickes said: “The Public Works Administration Investigation Division has made a long and careful study of the Texas project upon the direction of the administra- tor (Ickes) and presented to the proper prosecuting officials of the Gov- ernment a full report for such action as they deem proper to take.” Garnett told reporters the step was taken solely at the request of Ickes. Justice Department officials were not aware of the proceeding. For some time, an investigation of complaints that have been received concerning the project has been under way by P. W. A. detectives in charge of Glavis. Officials refused to comment on re- ports that other P. W. A. officials and projects are involved in future grand jury actions contemplated. FLOOD SWEEPS ON, LEAVING 27 DEAD PRESIDENT 10 CONTROL FUND Increasing Loss of Life and Property Feared in Southern States. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) MARKS, Miss, January 26.—As the Midsouth counted its flood dead at 27 today, the Coldwater River pursued its path of destruction further south- ward to raise property damage esti- mates to $5,000,000 or more. With thousands in refugee camps or marooned, relief workers estimated that 25,000 persons were suffering from the Northwest Mississippi ramp- age and the lower reaches awaited in fearful anticipation. Cheered by the arrival of 10 large, | flat-bottom boats, manned by United States engineers, the refugees at| Marks, expected the last of the ma- rooned in this section soon would be brought into safety. There were 21 deaths attributed to the flood in Mississippi, 5 in Tennes- see and 1 in Arkansas. 5,000 Are Menaced. as the man he unjustly accused of possessing his dog. | Rellly also said he had located two | witnesses he deems important to the defense. But for reasons he did not | disclose, he said he was having diffi- | culty persuading them to take the wit- | ness stand in Flemington. | He did not say who the witnesses were or what phase of the defense their stories would support. | Mrs. Hauptmann was with Reilly in | his Brooklyn office. i Hauptmann Studies Records. Hauptmann fortified his defenses today while the prosecution rolled up new ammunition for its savage attack | on his denial that he kidnaped andl‘ killed the Lindbergh baby. | Court was in recess, but it was onlyl an armed truce as the defendant| studied his stock-trading records to account for his affluence after the $50,000 ransom was paid, as his law- yers went to inspect his home in| the Bronx and as State attorneys | studied the weak points in his defense. “He is vulnerable, very vulnerable,” said Attorney General David T. Wil- entz, who hammered at Hauptmann during the murder trial defendant's first half hour of cross-examination yesterday. i “Wait until we get really started,”| the attorney general advised. | Hauptmann was almost contemptu- ous in his remarks about Wilentz. | “It seems that the attorney general | was trying to get me excited,” said ! the carpenter. ' “All T can say to that is that he will have to try a lot harder. I am on to that because I have been told | how the prosecution lawyers act. It Just, won't work. It’s no use.” Believes He Impressed Jury. | Although Hauptmann appeflred; shaken when he left the stand yes- | terday he voiced satisfaction with the impression he made on the eight men and four women who hold his life in their hands. State attorneys expressed confidence that the searching, lengthy cross-ex- amination it mapped for Monday would leave Hauptmann a discredited | witness, his alibis riddled. Through-: out the defendant’s direct examina- | tion the prosecution lawyers and' their various experts carefully noted | each weak point as it appeared. It is with- these notes that Wilentz will go to work Monday. i Hauptmann was spending the week end recess preparing for the clash in which he can expect no quarter. The Jean German turned accountant again. He studied his financial rec- ords because the State will strive to show the jury that the Lindbergh ransom financed the Hauptmann stock jgnarket manipulations. Cross and redirect examination ap- peared certain to keep Hauptmann on the stand all day. Hauptmann’s matter-of-fact recital on direct examination had become dull in its last hours. Both jury and audience appeared to be growing ‘bored. Then came an abrupt change. Al-; most before any one realized what | was happening, Wilentz was on his | feet, ripping into the former convict with the most savage cross-examina- tion the trial has witnessed. The attorney general started by ham- mering away at the fact Hauptmann (Continued on Page 4, Column 6.), > | weiler, cutting off road traffic, and The waters receding in Tennessee and Arkansas broken through private levees and protection dykes and roared on down toward the rich Tallahatchie River Basin in this State, menacing 5,000 residents in the low section. Rescuers scurried by boat and train up and down the 40-mile overflow sec- tor rescuing persons from flooded homes, supplying food and clothing and attempting to check outbreaks of influenza and pneumonia among shiv- ering refugees. This little town of 1,200 inhab- itants was a virtual island, with lower sections under several feet of water, but it set up relief stations in public buildings to house its own dis- tressed and those from surrounding sections. 57 More Brought In. Boats brought in 57 more refugees last night, adding to the almost 500 already being cared for here. The story was the same in the suffering communities of Sledge and Darling and others in the section to the north. Practically every hill was dotted with families. Ice still coated the flood waters and boats had to chop their way through. Red Cross workers were rushing in supplies as fast as they could be se- cured, with private agencies co-oper- ating. The Red Cross is making a drive for $50,000 for the stricken area. The flooded area extended from Lost Lakes, near the Tennessee- Arkansas line, a distance of approxi- mately 40 miles, to the section south of here. It was approximately 15 miles wide in spots. Snow Presents Menace. Snow still on the hillsides of the upper section presented another men- ace. As temperatures began to mod- eraie the snow melted and it was feared the fresh water would start a new overflow. Water last night broke over the highway between Marks and Tut- moved toward Glendora and Webb. Private levees between Lambert, 3 miles south of here, and Crowder were leveled and refugees came out by the hundreds. Many residents still re- mained in the area northwest of Marks. Relief workers reported that in some instances the refugees refused to leave and had to be carried to safety by force. MISS EARHART MAKING LEISURELY TRIP HOME By the Assoclated Press. ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., January 26.—"“Just going home and in no hurry,” Amelia Earhart, noted ocean fiyer, and her husband, George Palmer Putnam of New York, had their plane ready for a take-off early today to continue their Eastward air voyage. They landed here yesterday after taking off from Burbank, Calif., and Miss Earhart told airport attendants to make her plane ready for a take- off “at the crack of dawn.” The aviatrix, making her first trip East since her solo flight from Honolulu to California, did not say what route she would take Eastward. “We haven't any itinerary. We're [Roosevelt Is Expected to Handle $4,000,000,000 Works-Relief Program. By the Associated Press. Assurances that President Roosevelt | will personally administer the $4,000,- 1000,000 work relief fund were given thority. As if in reply to congressional oppo- sition to continuing Secretary Ickes as the public works director, word came | that the President will do the job | himself, dealing through existing Government agencies and allocating funds as he believes necessity dictates. This information was made avail- able just as Senate Republicans gath- ered to discuss the big money bill, which includes also $880,000,000 of direct relief cash in addition to the work relief fund. Advisory Group Expected. Authoritative spokesmen said presi- dential direction and allocation would mean that Ickes, who handled the first public works money, presumably will be in charge of only those funds given his department by the President. The same would apply to Harry L. Hopkins, Federal emergency relief ad- ministrator. It was believed that in all probabil- ity the President will have an advis- ory group—composed possibly of cabi- net officers but more likely of technical experts—to make recommendations on the allocation of the funds. No new set-up would be made except for the advisory group. Senator McNary of Oregon, the minority leader, who summoned the Republican conference, advocated call- ing Secretary Ickes and Relief Ad- ministrator Hopkins before the Ap- propriations Committee to ask them how the money would be spent. Meanwhile Senator Robinson of Arkansas, the Democratic leader, pre- dicted the bill would be passed, though he foresaw ‘“quite a contest,” with many amendments being offered. McNary said: McNary Wants Plans Bared. “We want to find out what they have done and what they are going to do. We want Ickes and Hopkins and the National Resources Board to tell us about their plans for the future.” Many Senators are known to be determined that Ickes, who handled the $3,300,000,000 public works fund, shall not have any major role in the new work-relief agency. They hope to put through an amendment requir- ing that the official the President designates to handle the fund must be confirmed by the Senate. begin Monday. The measure, as it passed the House Thursday, would give the President au- thority to revamp emergency agencies and create a new co-ordinating set-up to take 3,500,000 employables off the relief rolls and put them to work through a $4,880,000,000 lump-sum tund. An indication of the Senate oppo- sition to the vast powers given the President developed in debate yester- day when Senator Couzens, Republic- an, of Michigan, renewed his attack on the author of the measure. He had declared Thursday the man who drafted the bill should be “hanged, not in effigy, but physically.” “I understand,” Couzens said, “that the President denies the authorship, dccording to the press; but I under- stand that the real author is Mr. John Richberg (Donald Richberg is head of the Emergency Council) and Benny Cohen (attorney for P. W. A. and one of the so-called brain trusters).” Couzens said “we have orders to pass the $5,000,000,000 bill.” Glass Shows Discontent. Senator Glass, Democrat, of Vir- ginia, chairman of the Appropriations Committee, who will handle the bill in the Senate, asked Couzens about the orders and then added: “You have orders, but I'm not in that class.” While Glass declined to discuss the measure for publication, he has indi- cated he did not favor the broad power it delegates the President. Hearings, he said, probably would begin Monday. Senator La Follette, Wisconsin Pro- gressive, announced he was going to offer an amendment to increase the just going home and we're in no hurry,” she said, « total of the bill to probably $10,000,- 000,000 3 P . SLATED |today by high administration au-! ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ALLEN GALLS 0UT TROOPS TO CRUSH DICTATOR REVOLT; LONG IN COMMAND Senator Dashes to State Capital to Direct “War” Against Armed Citizens, Who Seized Court House. CHARGES MURDER PLOT; ORDERS COURT PROBE Kingfish Is Heavily Guarded in Hotel Suite—Blames Standard 0il Company for “Uprising.” Claims Conspirators Planned to Kill Him on Highway. BULLETIN. BATON ROUGE, La. January 26 (#)—Huey Long today opened a hearing here at which he charged that “four sheriffs, one district at- torney and possibly one district judge” had plotted the murder of certain officials. By the Associated Press. BATON ROUGE, La., January 26.— | Gov. 0. K. Allen today issued a for- mal proclamation declaring that “con- ditions of violence, insurrection and disorder” existed in Baton Rouge and commanded the State Militia to “pre- serve law and order in the city of Baton Rouge and the parish of East Baton Rogue.” Officials did not in- terpret the proclamation as complete martial law. The Goevrnor, political ally of Sen- ator Huey P. Long, in his procloma- tion accused the Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana with whom Long has been at war, of “fomenting” trouble. The proclamation was issued as the | Senator’s “court investigation” into what he said was a plot to “murder” him was preparing to start in the | State Supreme Court chambers. The proclamation was issued while throngs of uniformed members of the State Militia guarded the Statehouse inside and out. Dashes to Capital. Long reached the capital after a high-speed automobile dash from New suite, which he made the base. From it he proceeded to direct the movements of the National Guard and other State forces. Long’s move followed armed occu- pancy of the East Baton Rouge parish court house here yesterday in protest against the Senator's attempt to add the parish to his dictatorship. Recognized members of the Square Deal Association of Louisiana held the Court House behind bristling guns for three hours. The court house was taken over without resistance of the Long-Allen forces. The revolting citizens carried shotguns and rifles and instructions were given for them to be prepared “with plenty of ammunition.” The Senator said the court proceed- ings would be civil character, which he did not specifically define, before Judge J. D. Womack, whom he re- cently had Gov. O. K. Allen appoint to the East Baton Rouge District Court bench. Says Allen Called Troops. Long said Gov. Allen had “called out the National Guard to maintain law and order.” Asked if the Governor had pro- claimed martial law, the dictator said: “No, that ain’t necessary.” The Senator accused the Standard 0il Co. of responsibility for yesterday’s armed assembly of citizenry hostile to the Long domination and said his “compromise” with the company over the 5-cent oil refining tax was “off” unless the company “stopped” the vio- lence. “Do you know what all this is about —no you don’t, I'll tell you,” Long told an interviewer. Claims Two Arrested. “Do you know why that bunch met down there? It was because we found out about, and arrested, two men in a murder plot. They found they had traitors in their ranks. 5 “We picked up two men. One of them was going to drive the murder car. “It was all fixed up. He was going to block my car on the highway be- tween here and New Orleans, make it stop and force me in the ditch, and (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) SUIT IS DISMISSED Judge Also Dissolves All Re- straining Orders Against Stetson. LOS ANGELES, January 26 (#).— Mrs. Lucretia Haughman Stetson ob- tained dismissal of her $1,200-a-month separate maintenance suit against G. Henry Stetson of the hat-manu- facturing family yesterday. In dismissing the maintenance pe- tition, which contained some 50 charges of cruelty, Judge Dudley Val- entine also dissolved all restraining orders directed at Stetson. Orleans. He went straight to his hotel |- CONGRESS PUSHES FINANGING BILLS [Measure to Increase U. S. | Borrowing Power Goes to Senate. By the Associated Press. Measures broadening the Govern- ment's power to borrow and lend T today or headed toward it. Backed by Secretary Morgenthau, a bill to increase by $9.000.000,000 the Government's authorization to | issue bonds went to the Senate after being passed by the House yesterday. Administration men—who had said | it was necessary to change existing about $2,500,000,000 more than the total now outstanding—declared the bill was designed for refinancing at lower interest rates and for swinging | recovery expenditures. Fish Ridicules Policy. From Representative Fish, Repub- | lican of New York, came the comment that the only policy the Democratic party knew was “about borrowing, | more borrowing and still more bor- rowing. “This,” he said, “is going to de- lsn'oy confidence.” Representative Dies and Patman, | Texas Democrats, tried to amend the measure to provide for expansion of the currency, but were voted down. Under present law, the Government can issue only a total of $28,000,000,- 000 bonds. It has issued about $25,- 500,000,000, of which $12,000,000,000 have been retired. The law does not permit new bonds to replace those retired. In place of the $28,000,000,000 limit, revolving limit. That means that a total of 25 billion could be outstand- ing at any one time. The bill also permits the sale, through post offices, of “baby bonds” as low as $25 in denomination. The Ways and Means Committee represented Morgenthau as feeling the bill is necessary to finance the Government “in the most economical manner.” Representative Patman said he was opposed to further tax exempt, interest-bearing bonds, which he called “blanket mortgages,” against “every dollar the people earn.” Meanwhile, a bill to extend for two years the life of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation had passed the Senate and headed for the House. Attached to it was an amendment de- signed to broaden the R. F. C.'s power to lend money to industry. Instead of “adequate security,” as at present, the new bill calls for security “rea- sonably” assuring repayment. H. 0. L. C. to Ask Increase. The Home Owners’ Loan Corpora- tion, authoritative quarters in Con- gress were told, is planning to ask Congress to add $1,250,000,000 to its available capital. From many congressional sources there has been pressure to authorize the agency to issue more bonds. Sug- gestions have ranged from $1,000,000,- 000 to $3,000,000,000. Around $2,500,- 000,000 has been supplied the H. O. L. C. for home loans, but with 1,000,000 applications on file and only enough money to take care of 400,000, the corporation on November 13 stopped accepting requests for loans. A special survey by the H. O. L. C. was said to have shown that $1,250,- 000,000 would be the working min. imum necessary to recommend to Congress. Professor's Widow Dies at 95. SAN DIEGO, Calif., January 26 (#) —Mrs. Hettie Payne Winters, 95, a native of New York and the widow of Prof. A. C. Winters of Cook Acad- ;llny. New York, died here after a brief ness. Girl’s Death Probed on Report She Was Beaten by Four Boys By the Associated Press. VALE, Oreg., January 26,—Feeling ran high in this little Oregon town today over the death of 9-year-old Phyllis Westfall, possibly fatally kick- { ed by four boys. Upon the recommendation of Dr. Charles Palmer, who attended the girl, District Attorney M. A. Briggs was preparing to order an autopsy. Dr. Palmer said an examination in- dicated she suffered from catarrhal jaundice, but she had been hit hard enough in the abdomen to cause the {llness from which she died Sunday nighte 4 Dr. Anna Prichett, county health officer, said the girl'’s abdomen, hips and legs were bruised. Four boys her own age, accused of tormenting and beating Phyliss while she was going home from school January 9, vigorously denied they had kicked or beaten her. They were re- leased. Phyliss’ mother, critically ill, told of seeing the four boys kick her The only evening in Washington wit! aper the Associated Press News and Wirephoto services. |Records to Be Scanned | were going through the legislative mill | law which limits bond issues to| the new bill provides a $25,000,000,000 | {ing off in his mail plane into the | | stormy darkness, Pilot Floyd Church. | n Star "DONT MIND EM HAROLD. THEIR BARK 1S WORS TuAN THER BITE! ?Garm*u Asks Books |Of Western Union In Gambling Probe for Evidence of Link With Gaming. United States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett today issued subpoenas for the records of the Western Union Tele- graph Co. in connection with a grand jury investigation of charges that the | company is involved in a conspiracy to | violate the gambling laws. It was understood two undercover | investigators will be taken before the | gtand jury to testify they made bets | on horse races through the telegraph | company. It is charged Western Union agents accepted bets here and then wired them to the Hialeah track in Miami. In the two cases involved, it was an- nounced, the undercover agents were subsequently notified that their bets had not been placed at the track. | The investigation, which will be | handled by Assistant United States | Attorney Roger Robb, is expected to start Monday. MAIL PLOT KILLED BY FALL IN STORM Floyd Church Victim of Crash Near Pittsburgh Airport. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, January 26.—Tak- | 33, of Newark, N. J,, crashed 10 min- | utes later and was burned to death early today. The T. W. A. mail ship, which Church was flying alone, crashed and caught fire in a slag dump a little |more than a mile from the City- | County Airport. The plane and all the mail sacks were destroyed, airport officials said. Church was bound from Newark to Columbus. He stopped at the airport at 2:05 a.m. to refuel and pick up the mail. He took off again at 2:20 a.m., and a few minutes later attendants saw him circling around as if trying to get back to the field. After about 10 minutes in which the plane apparently made no head- way, it went into a dive. T. W. A. officials began an investi- gation, but withheld a statement. that Church experienced motor trou- said the accident may have been caused by ice forming on the wings or controls and this was borne out after investigators said they found the motor “wide open.” Sleet and rain were falling at the time. _— Renounces Title to Be Citizen. PITTSBURGH (#)—No longer is Max von Matthesius, a noble man of Germany. In Naturalization Court he re- nounced his title of Baron Max Holung von Matthesius to become a United States citizen. Baltimore Denies Marriage License To Siamese Twin By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 26.—Her matrimonial hopes blasted again, Vio- let Hilton and her Siamese twin, Daisy, turned Southward today to continue their trouping. Attorney General Herbert R. O'Conor yesterday turned thumbs down on Violet's efforts to secure in Elkton & marriage license for herself and Maurice Lambert, Keyser, W. Va., musician. The attorney general said he had advised the “gretna green” clerk of court not to issue the license “as & matter of public policy.” The Siamese twins, with their troupe, were stranded overnight in Elkton and left there yesterday. Vio- let applied for license while there. Lambert was not with the troupe, but planned to join it in Savannah, Ga., the twins’ destination after leav- ing Baltimore, where they spent last night. Lambert and Miss Hilton had pre- viously been denied licenses in New | York, New Jersey and other places. i Airport observers said it appeared | ble soon after taking off. They also‘ Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,605 Some Returns Not Yet Received. % BILLIONS FOR WORK) BUT NOT ONE CENT FOR ICKES! E MADDOX, AGCUSED INMASSACRE, HELD, | Only Free Survivor of Gang Reported Named by Byron Bolton. | By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, January 26.—Claude | | Maddox, recently reported named in | | a confession by Byron Bolton as one'1 | of the six men involved in the St.; | Valentine's day massacre of 1929, was | | seized early today by squads from | | the Detective Bureau at his home in | suburban Berwyn. | He was taken to central police | headquarters for questioning by Chief of Detectives John L. Sullivan. | Bolton, held in St. Paul on charges | of complicity in the $200,000 kidnap- ing of Edward G. Bremer, was re- | | ported earlier this week to have con- | | fessed that he acted as “finger man” 1 {in the massacre which wiped out seven members of the George “Bugs” Moran gang in a North Side garage. Was Only One Free. Maddox was the only person named in the alleged confession who is not either dead or in prison. Others Bolton was reported to have named were: Murray Humphreys, once No. {1 Capone henchman, now in Leaven- worth serving a term for income tax | evasion; Fred (Killer) Burke, now in a Michigan prison for the slaying of a St. Joseph policeman; Fred (the brains) Goetz, university graduate, | who turned gangster and was slain a year ago; Gus Winkler, gambler, killed last year, and Maddox. Seized at His Home. Now 35 years old, Maddox was for- mer owner of the “Circus Cafe” where the gangsters were said to have | consorted. He was seized when he arrived at his home early this morning The massacre was said to have been | attributed by Bolton to warfare be- | tween the Capone and Moran mobs | over the profits of a dog race track |at Lyons, I Federal officials promptly denied that Bolton had con- | fessed or that he had been ques- (#) Means Associated Press, TWO CENTS. TOLL OF MOHAWK DISASTER STANDS AT 46 AS FEDERAL MEN OPEN PROBE 35 Bodies Are Recovered. Many Taken From Sea Frozen—Rescue Figure Set at 117. CONBOY MAY OFFER EVIDENCE TO JURY Only Surviving Officer of ‘Char- tered Ward Liner to Be Called as Principal Witness—Skipper of Freighter First to Be Ques- tioned. (Copyright, 1935, by the Associated Press.) NEW YORK, January 26.—Federal inspectors opened with unusual celerity today a deep-reaching investigation into the Mohawk disaster Thursday night, in which 46 persons lost their lives. As relatives completed identification of the 35 known dead—11 persons still were missing—officials opened their inquiry. Capt. Edmund Wang of the Norwegian freighter Talisman was the first witness called. He testified he had held an unlimited master's cer- tificate since 1907. Investigators were informed 117 of the Mohawk's passengers and crew were rescued before she sank. Fifteen passengers and 31 members of the crew drowned or were frozen to death in the frigid waters of the Jersey coast. Captain Missing. Capt. Joseph E. Wood, who some said went down with his ship, was among the missing. The body of Sece ond Officer Malcolm Rigoulot was | found in the sea. Joseph Weaver, chief of the Federal Bureau of Navigation, took personal charge of the Government inquiry. Assisting him were Capt. Karl C. Neilsen and James Smith, New York inspectors, who were on the Morro Castle Investigating Board. United States District Attorney Martin Conboy, after conferring with Neilsen, said: the evidence should justify criminal proceedings I shall present the matter to the grand jury.” He directed his assistants to attend the hearings. Agents Check Disaster. Frank Fay, chief of the New York Bureau of Investigation for the Jus- tice Department, also announced his men were “checking into” circum= stances of the disaster. Foremost in the subjects under in=- quiry were the condition of the Mo~ hawk’s life-saving equipment, the dis- cipline of her men and reports that her automatic steering apparatus had gone “haywire.” Ward Line attorneys, inferentially denying those reports and the allega- tion of the Talisman's captain that blame rested on the Mohawk, said the cause could not be determined before the investigation. Mackay Radio officials called “in- credible” the reported explanation | tioned comcerning the massacre. | MISSIONARIES” EXODUS GATHERING MOMENTUM Red Horde May Be Forming for Attack in Luchow and Suifu Areas. By the Associated Press. CHUNGKING, Szechwan Province, China, January 26.—Missionaries in the Luchow and Suifu area to the southwest began a precautionary de- parture today as reports indictated a major Red horde pressure may have its spearhead there. Authorities contend, however, the provincial forces along the Yangtze have been strengthened and the ten- sion eased somewhat. The American Baptist Foreign Mis- sionary Society does extensive work in the area. Suifu merchants formed a volun- tary defense league and the public subscribed 100,000 silver dollars for the purchase of arms and ammunition to fight the Communists moving to the west ahead of the Nationalist government's forces under Gen. Chi- ang Kai-Shek. 15 FISHERMEN RESCUED | Steamer Picks Up Japanese After Sighting Flares. SAN FRANCISCO, January 26 (#). —The rescue of 15 Japanese fisher- men in the rough North Pacific off the coast of Japan was told today in a message relayed to Radiomarine Corp. here by the steamer General Sherman from the steamer Roanoke. ‘The Roanoke, bound for Shanghai from Port Arthur, Tex., said it sight- ed flares from the fishing vessel and stood by in heavy seas all night. At daybreak yesterday a lifeboat was lowered and the captain, mate and chief engineer of the helpless fisher were brought on board. COMMODORE DIES BERKELEY, Calif., January 26 (P). —Commodore Claude S. Cochran, veteran skipper of the famous old Coast Guard cutter Bear, now at little America with Admiral Byrd, dtd here last night. In more than a score of voyages to ice-littered Alaskan waters Coch- ran was at the helm. He became commanding officer in 1915 and re- tired in 1929. Burial will be in Arlington, that the Mohawk stopped outside New York Harbor to calibrate her radio cqmpass. “When the ship left her dock the radio equipment, including the radio compass, met with all the Govern- ment requirements,” said a spokesman for the radio company. One Officer Survives. Chief Officer Cort M. Pedersen, only surviving officer of the liner, was slated to be the principal witness. Officers and seamen of the Talisman, as well as Mohawk crew members, also were called. The disaster puzzled mariners. The investigators had this question upper- most in their minds: Why did the two ships, both south- bound out of New York, collide al- most prow to prow? From piecemeal stories of survivors it was learned the port side of the Mo- hawk was badly ripped open by the collision. This brought the possi- bility many of those missing were crushed to death in their quarters or were unable to make their way to any of the vessel's 10 lifeboats. Throughout yesterday into the night Coast Guard craft plied around the scene of the sinking seeking (Continued on Page 3, Column 1) SURRENDERS IN SLAYING Father Charged With Shooting Doctor Operating on Son. MEXICO, D. F., January 26 (P).— Gep. Javier Romo Velazquez surren- dered yesterday to police searching for him for the slay:ug of Dr. Samuel Inclan while the surgeon was operat- ing on the general's young son. He said he understood the doctor to say his son had died. Since three of his children have died in the past year, Gén. Romo Velazquez explained, he became frenzied at the thought of los- ing his last child and shot the physi- cl?‘l;-. The boy will recover, doctors sal Amusements . 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