Evening Star Newspaper, January 31, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and not so cold, with lowest tem- perature about 16 degrees tonight; tomor- row mostly cloudy and warmer. Tem- peratures—Highest, 21, at 3:30 p.m. yes- terday; lowest, 12, at 1 a.m. today. Full report on page A-9. Closing N.Y.Markets, Pages 15,16 & 17 ah WITH SUNDAY MORNING Entered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. No. 33,147. WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, EDITION ¢ Foening Star The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 132,177 Some Returns Not Yet Recetved JANUARY 31, 1935—FIFTY PAGES. P Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. 5385 ATTEMPT TO KILL “WITNESS” THWARTED WOMAN OFFERIN AID FOUND AMID BRUNO’S ALIBI IS Bound,Gagged; Rope Around Her Neck. HYSTERICAL ON REVIVAL Husband Believes He Can ldentify Assailant. Witness’ Blushes Admitting “Dates Stir Jury Women By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J.. January 31.—One Hauptmann jurywoman giggled and the other three smiled, while Elvert Carlstrom, young Swede, sat in the witness chair blushing. “Did you spend the hours from 1 to 5 am, March 2, in the company of women?” Defense Attorney Edward J. Reilly had asked him. The fair-haired Carlstrom, who had said he saw Hauptmann in a Bronx bakery the night of the Lindbergh baby kidnaping, said “ves” reluctantly. Mrs. May Brelsford, bespectacled eighth juror, giggled behind her hand. and 278-pound Mrs. Verna Snyder smiled and pursed her lips Mrs. Rosie Pill and Mrs. Ethel Stockton at first kept grave faces but finally smiled too. 1. 5. EASES DRIVE the Associated Press NEW YORK. January nette Rivkin, 4 old proprietress of a Bronx beauty parlor. who had offered to testify for the prosecution in the Hauptmann trial. was found today gagged and trussed in her burn- ing establishment. the apparent victim of an attempt at murder. She was rescued by the superin- tendent of the building. who noticed smoke coming from the beauty parlor, | and entered to find the woman lying | unconscious on the floor, a rope tight | B G STATE PRESDENT UREES FLAMES; FULL U, CONTROL BACKED | [ ARTRANSPON < Man ASSCI‘tS He Sweeping Changes En- } Saw Him ill vnsuoned' l'n Government ‘ Supervision of Service. 1 Bakery. TALK TO WIFE | ~ ON DOG TOLD Wilentz Tries 1o | Discredit Story of Carlstrom. MESSAGE TO CONGRESS Country World Leadership, Roosevelt Says. BY JOSEPH S. EDGERTON. Pointing to progress in aviation and emphasizing the need for more ef- Running account of today’s testi- mony—Page A-6. of transportation, President Roosevelt | - i e | today submited to Congress a report | (Copyrisht, 1935, by the Assoclated Press s e {of the Federal Aviation Commission FLEMINGTON. N.J., January 31.— | which carries 102 recommendations | Bruno Richard Hauptmann's defense ! for permanent Federal aviation poli- sought today to break the State's cir- | cjes cumstantial murder evidence chain | with a third alibi witness to place | if enacted, would result in reorganiza Hauptmann more than 60 miles away | tion from the foundations of every from the kidnaping and murder of ' form of civil and military air control. baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. | The President agreed with all of the . Louis Kiss said he saw Hauptmann | commission’s recommendations except in Christian Fredericksen's Bronx | gne calling for creation of a temporary bakery-restaurant shortly after 8:15 Ajr Commerce Commission. He ob- p.m. the night of March 1, 1932. His SUGGESTS NEW POLICY | | Proposed Program Would Give fective control of this and other forms | und her neck. a metal gag in her mouth and her hands and feet se- curely bound. Revived by Ambulance Doctor. With the help of firemen the superintendent, John Espinosa, put out the fire. Miss Rivkin was revived by an ambulance doctor. but her con- dition was such that she could give ro immediate explanation of what had happened to her. She had ap- rarently lost consciousness when her frantic attempts to loosen the rope around her neck caused it to tighten instead. She was removed to Morrisania Hospital, where police will question her when her condition permits. When she was revived, after nearly an hour's work over her. she started babbling hysterically “I'll say I don't know I'm not going to tell, I swear.” she cried out several times. Two days ago a New York newspaper carried an interview with Miss Rivkin in which she said that Mrs. Bruno Hauptmann used to come to her shop for beauty treatments and that $10 and $20 tips were commonplace with her At Flemington Attorney General David T. Wilentz said he had not yet determined whether he would call Mrs. Rivkin and declined to indicate the nature of her possible testimony. ‘The beauty parlor is located at 2855 Third avenue, Bronx. Husband Hysterical. Nearly as hysterical as his Simon Rivkin, 43, told Sergt. Dennis King that he thought he could identify the man who made the at- tempt on his wife’s life. “1 think I know who did it,” he as- serted. “I have my suspicions. I can name the man right now. I'll have Wilentz know about this. this very minute.” Mrs. Rivkin was found to have suf- fered no lasting ill effects from her experience and was taken home. She told detectives she turned from a washstand about 9 am. to face a man wearing a wig and false mustache. She was rather incoherent in her account of what happened. She said he seized her, bound her with window cord, stuffed four links of a tire chain into her mouth and put her in a chair, which he set on fire. She escaped being burned by rolling off onto the floor. FIREMEN INJURED IN BUS COLLISION Truck, Answering Alarm, in Smash-up at Thirty-Fourth and Q Streets. Two firemen were injured today when a Capital Transit Co. bas carry- ing 15 passengers collided with a hook and ladder fire truck at Thirty-fourth and Q streets while the truck was answering an alarm. None of the passengers was hurt Pvt. Charles E. French, 30, of No. § truck received a fractured ankle, and Pvt. Charles W. Simpson, 25. wrenched his back when thrown from the tiller's seat across the ladder atop the truck. French, who was riding on the side of the truck that was struck, was taken to Georgetown Hospital. He lives at 1549 Thirty-fifth street. Simp- son was taken to his home at 5423 Seventh street. Pvt. Joseph R. Lyddane, 5533 Sher- rier place, who was on the running board of the truck, was uninjured. The fire apparatus was driven by Pvt. william H. Yonce, 2030 Thirty-seventh street. Kenneth Armacos, 27, of 1012 Sevententh place northeast, driver of the bus, said he did not hear the fire engine approaching. The bus was going east on Q street, | while the truck was proceeding south on Thirty-fourth street, a stop-sign street, when the accident occurred. The alarm that summoned the fire apparatus was turned in when a leak- in gsteam pipe at 3234 N street was mistaken for a fire, police said. Airman Killed in Crash. MEXICO, D. F., January 31 (#).— Kirby Russell, identified only as an| airplane pilot from the United States, wife, T0 SHFT RELEF Security Program Expected to Assume Much of Dole Burden. (Copsright. 1935, by the Associated Press.) The Federal Government, an au- thoritative source disclosed today, has called a temporary halt in its drive to return “‘unemployables” now remain- ing on its relief rolls back to the care of States and localities. Although Federal Emergency Relief Administration officials said the goal of their campaign is in sight, it was indicated officially that the aged, erip- pled and other “unemployables” still left on the rolls would be allowed to remain there until after President Roosevelt's social security program is enacted. Last month, Harry L. Hopkins, mergency relief administrator, said he would seek to remove all 1,500,000 “unemployable” families from the Federal rolls to State and local care. The first deadline mentioned was Feb- ruary 1—tomorrow—but later it was | indicated the transfer would be a more ! gradual process Security Plan Will Aid. The campaign thus has been pro- gressing several weeks. Now, officials said today, only 150,000 families in this classification are wholly depend- ent on the Federal dole. Statistics on how many are partly dependent were not announced. F. E. R. A, officials said that after the President’s security plan is passed | the old-age pensions and aid to de- pendent children provided in it will care for the majority of the unem- ployables. They said also that the $880,000,000 for relief in the $4,880,000,000 work | and relief bill now before Congress will help provide for unemployables until the States, aided by the social security program, can assume the burden. An- other function of this $880,000,000 is to help provide for able-bodied job- less while the Government is swing- ing through its transition from dole to work relief. When the Roosevelt administration announced its decision about the un- | employables in December, there were two reactions. One school of thought hailed it, calling the States and local- ities the proper agencies to do the job; another raised the question whether they were financially able | to do it at present. In an effort to get the work and lrehel bill through Congress quickly, “fl Roosevelt administration has yiflded to demands from some legis- lators for more information on how | the money will be spent. Rear Admiral Christian J. Peoples | was expected to lay data before the | Senate Appropriations Committee to- | day. Peoples, who is mentioned for !a prominent post in the New York | relief set-up, and Acting Budget Di- | rector Daniel Bell were closely ques- | tioned yesterday in a session of the | committee, which is headed by Sen- | ator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia. Glass said Peoples was requested to bring a list of the projects contem- plated and their cost. Indications of | a determined drive by some Senators | to change the provisions'of the bill | which would confer broad powers on mark by Glass that the bill would be | reported “in some form,” probably be- | fore February 10. SR R T | Pope Receives Mrs. Hawes. -VATICAN CITY, January 31 (#).— ‘Pcpe Pius today received Mrs. Harry Barton Hawes, wife of the former United States Senator from Missouri. | Mr. and Mrs. Hawes are guests of Am- | bassador Breckinridge Long. Guide for Readers After Dark . Amusements .. Comics Features Finance Lost and Found..... Radio . Serial Story . crninisioie AR=B=T .A-15-16-1 ..A-9 ..C-2 .D-8 President Roosevelt were seen in a re- | Service Orders .B-14 word supported the testimony given before him by Elvert Carlstrom, 27- year-old carpenter's helper, and Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of the de- fendant. Meanwhile, in New York, a woman who offered to testify for the State against Hauptmann in connection ith his spending of Lindbergh ran- som bills, was found unconscious, bound and gagged, on the floor of her beauty parlor in which a fire had started. She was Fannette Rivkin, Unable to Tell Details. A building superintendent rescued her and she was taken to a hospital, unable immediately to say what had happened to her, or who her assailants were. The witness Kiss was made to ad- mit on cross-examination that he boot- legged rum before repeal, and Carl- strom was forced to resort to a con- stitutional right when Attorney Gen- eral David A. Wilentz asked him about his activity in Brooklyn after he visited the bakery in the Bronx where he said he saw Hauptmann. Carlstrom said the answer would in- criminate him, but later explained he was “in the company of women.” | Both witnesses were closely cross- questioned on dates and places as | the State sought to show they had | poor memories. | Kiss completed his testimony as | luncheon recess was declared. Called Reilly Last Sunday. Louis Kiss, read of Hauptmann's story of | taking Predericksen’s police dog out on the night of the crime, and then he remembered that he had dropped into a Bronx bakery for a cup of coffee on that night. He called Defense Attorney Edward J. Reilly’s office last Sunday to tell about it, he said. Before he took the stand, Wilentz continued and effort begun yes- terday to discredit the alibi tes- timony of Carlstrom and caused that witness to resort to his con- stitutional right not to answer a question which he said would in- criminate him. The question, con- cerning his activity in Brooklyn after he left the Bronx bakery on the night of March 1, 1932, was answered, how- | | Carlstrom explained he was “in the company of women.” Wilentz to Call Larsen. Wilentz indicated in other guestions that he intended to call Arthur Larsen for rebuttal to testify that Carlstrom spent the night of March 1, 1932, in a house at Dunnellen, N. J., and could not have been in the Bronx. Kiss said that when he read Haupt- mann’s testimony in the newspapers the dog, the Bronx and the bakery and the radio reports of the Lindbergh (Continued on Page 7, Column 1) EJECTED DELEGATE Socail Security Representative Criticizes President in Five-Minute Talk. By the Associated Press. A representattive of the National Congress for Unemployment and So- cial Insurance—Herbert Benjamin of New York City—was forcibiy ejected from the House Ways and Means Committee room today when he vig- the administration's social security legislation. Insisting he must have time to ex- press ‘“bitterness and resentment against those who even now are at- tempting to cnact a program of se- curity for wealth a~d profit,” Ben- jamin demanded that he be allowed more than the five minutes given to each witness to express his attitude on the administration’s bill. Chairman Doughton said, however, that “your testimony is developing into a tirade against the committee and the President of the United States, so you have no right to continue.” The chairman called Lieut. D. H. Crook of the Capitol police, who, with the assistance of a plain clothes de- tective took the struggling Benjamin from the committee room. a silk artist, said he ever, on redirect examination when | AT HOUSE MEETING | orously criticized the Presidens and ! jected on the ground that aviation | and all other transportation should be regulated by a consolidated agency ana that the Government should avoid “the maltiplication of separate regu- latory agencies in the field of trans- | portation.” | Suggests I. C. C. Division, Mr. Roosevelt suggested that until a permanent consolidated agency is created a division of the Interstate | well | Commission *can needs of air transporta- { Commerce serve the tion™ The recommendations cf the com- | the Unitod States “a pociticu of world leadership” in aeroncutics. They are intended to strengthen air transporta- | tion in the United States and under the United States flag over the seas and in foreign countries. They call | for Government-built airships to en- gage in trans-oceanic service. Merg- ing of the Army and Navy air forces made that both arms be strengthened and made more cffecuve. Reorganization of the airmail sys- tem in virtually every detail, with abo- lition of the contract principle of award and the granting of outright subsidies where needed; establishment of ocean airmail and transport serv- ice by airplane and airship; thorough reorganization of Federal aeronautical activities, including the creation of a new Air Commerce Commission, and strengthening of the Nation's air de- fense organization are covered. Establishment of the relationship between the Federal Government and the aviation industry upon a perma- { position of world leadership in air transport” is proposed Although details of the report have just become public, it is understood that definite steps already are being taken to embody the new state- ments of policy in legislation, and it is expected many of the important features of the report will find their way into national law during the tion of the report suggests a consti- tutional amendment giving the Fed- eral Government authority to regulate aviation within States which do not enact uniform laws governing aero- ! nautics. Fundamental Policy. The report is regarded as the most important statement of a funda: mental national air policy ever drawn. i far-reaching than even those of the { famous Morrow commission, which established the aviation policies under which the Federal Government has operated for more than eight years ‘The commission’s policy recom- mendations call for scrapping of vir- last year, fojlowing the cancellation {of all airmail contracts. It would vest the supervision not only of air- mail, but of all transport development in a new non-partisan air commerce commission with “broad supervisory and regulatory power over civil aero- nautics. and particularly over domes- i tic and foreign air transport.” Finding that the security of do- mestic air transportation is jeopardized by terms of the existing airmail ~ (Continued on Page 3, Column 1.) mission are designed to maintain for | is opposed, but recomn.endations are | ! nent basis intended to “maintain al present session of Congress. One sec- | Its results are expected to be more tually the entire airmail law enacted | | | JiM, THEY 'RE TRYING To GET SOMETHING ONUS, CHAIRMAN STaTE DEMOC N.Y. EA;'{!C ComMMITTEE YDE PARK PARLEY FIXED SHIP DEAL WITNESS CHARGES Wilder Tells Probers “Pres- sure” After Conference Caused Higher Costs. SAYS “BIG THREE” GOT AWARDS AT OWN TERMS Gravem Denies He Offered Serv- ices of “Fixer” to Florida Shipbuilder. By the Associated Press. The opinion that “political pres- sure” applied on the Navy after a conference at Hyde Park had brought naval shipbuilding contract awards in 1933 at greatly increased prices was given the Senate Munitions Commit- tee today by Laurence R. Wilder, a shipbuilder. The commission’s recommendations, | POWER RATE CUT SUTBIIIND.C. ~ forection Asked MEASIIRE FAVORED Utilities Commission Orders tient Needed, as Regular Rules Committee Backs In- New Rates Into Effect at Midnight. A total reduction of $147.821, which is approximately $7.000 more than called for in the company schedules, was ordered today in the electric power rates in the District by the Public Utilities Commission. The new rates will become effective at mid- night tonight. The greatest portion of this reduc- ticn was in the domestic rates. The electric bills of District housewives will be reduced $73.293 as a result of the order. A reduction of $7.092 was made in the schedule C. composed of apart- ment buildings and other hall lighting. Approximately $60.000 was cut from the electric bills of commercial users of electric energy. In the domestic schedule the reduc- tion of $73.293 was applied almost entirely to the users of between 50 and 100 kilowat hours monthly. The company submitted a_proposed schedule of rates which involved a re- duction of $139,894.30 and B. M. Bach- man, expert for the commission, asked for a reduction of $147,500.58. The commission’s rate of reduction as set in the order today exceeded both these | figures. The order stated that an investiga- | tion of the company's property has been going on for several months, and will be continued in an effort to secure accurate information upon which to base future rates. } LIBEL SUIT OF DUCHESS SETTLED OUT OF COURT Defendants to Make Apology and Split Costs, Boston Woman. | Says Former | By the Associated Press. LONDON, January 31.—The libel suiv brought by the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough against distributors of an American monthly magazine was settled out of court today. The duchess, the former Gladys Deacon of Boston, Mass., alleged the magazine contained a lampoon” on her character. Counsel for the duchess later an- nounced that “the terms of the settle- ment are that every one of the defend- ants offer an unqualified apology in the broadest and most public terms possible and that every one of the defendants agree to contribute certain sums toward costs and damages.” — Lupescu Banishment Talked. BUCHAREST, Rumania, January 31 (#).—Unconfirmed rumors were heard today that a royal agreement had been reached to banish Mme. Lupescu, King Carol's friend, from Rumania. A Coast Guard airplane and cutter sped today to the rescue of a Biologi- cal Survey game agent, marooned for 10 days and believed starving on ice- locked Holland Island in Chesapeake Bay, near the mouth of the Potomac. As Lieut. Comdr. Carl C. von Paul- sen of the Coast Guard took off from Anacostia Naval Air Station shortly before noon with food for the agent, the cutter Apache was making its way through the ice from Norfolk in an effort to reach the island. A thick sheet of ice formed over the bay after Cornelius Wallace, 29-year- i old deputy. United States game man- agement agent, went to Holland Island in a light motor boat from his home at Fishing Creek on Maryland’s East- ern Shore. Wallace had food supplies for four days and no immediate alarm was felt was reported in a dispatch from Ma- zatlan today to have been burned to death in a crash near San Ignaciq ! gwhile fiying supplies to a mining cam) .B-11 Short Story Scciety .... Sports Benjamin was held in the Capitol | for his safety. As time passed and the police station for a few minutes and |ice piled up in the shallow waters then released, ‘ about the island, huweverdz became . e * Ship and Plane Speed to Aid Man Marooned in Chesapeake apparent that Wallace could not break through with his light boat. The agent’s failure to report to his headquarters at Cambridge, Md., was communicated to the Washington office of the Biological Survey, and immediate rescue efforts were launched. A small Coast Guard air- plane happened to be at the local air station undergoing radio tests. Food was stowed aboard and Comdr. von Paulsen left with the intention of dropping the provisions to Wallace. Wallace had gone to the island to investigate reports that hunters were poaching on the haunts of migratory birds in that vicinity. At least one small shack is on the island, although officials here said it was without windows. The island af- fords enough firewood for warmth, but fears were felt that Wallace had ex- hausted his stock of food in the first few days. Holland Island is about 12 miles southwest of Crisfield, Md., and Is comparatively small, “scurrilous |Blood for Child | To Check Throat ' Recent Streptococcus Pa- Transfusions F Blood from some person who has | recently recovered from streptococcus | infection or a severe sore throat is | needed for a transfusion for a patient at Children’s Hospital. The child there, Patricia Carlisle, 1351 Montague®street, is stricken with this kind cf sore throat. Regular transfusions have failed to effect an improvement. Volunteers, who will be reimbursed, can get in touch with the superin- tendent at Children’s Hospital. SENATE A MEXICAN POLICY Borah Resolution Protests Religious Program and Proposes Inquiry. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, today introduced a resolution which would put the Senate squarely i YRAP | “The awards were made exactly as bid,” Wilder testified, referring to previous assertions that the “big three” companies had asked about $12,000,000 each for building cruisers, although one of the companies pre- viously nad undertaken construction of {one of the craft at $8,300,000. D. C. CRIME PROBE e quiry, | | Juvenile Court. 1 but Exempts A resolution giving the Special Crime Investigating Committee of the | House formal authority to make a! sweeping investigation of vice and gambling in the District was ordered favorably reported today by the Rules Committee. The Crime Committee already has | started its inquiry and held several | hearings, but without authority to subpoena witnesses and records and | place v itnesses under oath—a power | which the resolution is designed to grant. At the insistence of Lehlbach, an! amendment was agreed to which will | prevent thc committee from inquiring into Judge Bentley’s action in that case or delving into the reason for any decision of a District judge. The resolution introduced by Repre- | sentative Randolph, Democrat, of | West Virginia. chairman of the In- i Protest Charged. Wilder, stalwart 6-foot chairman of the Board of Gulf Industries of Pensacola, declared he had heard the Navy protested the award A conference was held July 29, he said he was informea, at which rep- resentatives of the “big three” and the Secretary of the Navy discussed the bids on a 27-ship program. Subsequently, he said, two admirals, S. M. Robinson and Emory S. Lsnd, went to Hyde Park On August 3, 1933, after the visit to Hyde Park, Wilder continued, the awards were made. “The awards were made exactly as bid, no reduction,” Wilder declared, rising to his feet to emphasize his statement. Before Wilder left the stand he tes- tified he had made an offer to the Navy Department to build two or three of the cruisers at $10,000.000, or about $2,000,000 below the level at which the awards were made. “I think the Navy was coerced. forced by political pressure to make these awards,” he testified. He said “tremendous political pres- sure” had been applied on the Navy Department on naval construction, “beginning in the post-Spanish War period.” In the period between the Spanish Navy | vestigating Committee, was discussed | and World Wars, he said, the Navy | a result, in detail by the Rules Committee. As several amendments wers Department was “forced to put ail he armor plate possible on ships, | adopted, one of which will require | whether it wanted it or not.” | | on record as protesting “the anti- ! | religious campaign and practices of | the present rulers of Mexico.” The Senate, under the terms of the resolution, would condemn the “cruel- | ties and brutalities” that have accom- panied the campaign against the pro- | fession and practice of religious belief | by Americans of all religious faiths | now living in Mexico. It calls upon the government of Mexico to halt | this campaign, and finally the resolu- | tion provides that the Foreign Rela- tions Committee conduct hearings and | persecution in Mexico “for the pur- | pose of determining the policy of the United States in reference to this vital problem and in what way we | may best serve the cause of tolerance and religious freedom.” Referred to Committee. | The Borah resolution was referred | to the Foreign Relations Committee. Several Senators have been looking paign of the Mexican government. tion, on behalf of the group. Senator Walsh, Democrat, of Massa- chusetts, said today in discussing the matter: “For some time past, a group of United States Senators has been giv- ing attention to the large number of protests originating with religious, fra- ternal and interdenominational so- cieties of all sects directed against the anti-religious policies of the present Mexican Government. “Many resolutions of protest have been received indicating the existence of serious abuses against members of Mexico. * * * “Attention was given to devising | some method by which the continu- |ance of these anti-religious practices | might be curbed, and as a result of several conferences, participated in by members of this senatorial group and interdenominational and religious so- cieties, including the national officers of the Knights of Columbus, Senator Borah was selected to submit a reso- lution of protest to the Senate de- signed to investigate the conditions | complained of, with a view, if pos- sible, to taking some affirmative action for their eradication.” Senator Walsh has been chairman vorable action on the resolution. In! that event hearings will be held soon. Anti-Jewish Boycott Spreads. MUNICH, Germany, January 31 .—The .renewed anti-Jewish boy- spread to Bavaria. Pickets ing in front of Jewish stores today exhorting Munich residents to Borah was picked to offer the resolu- | various Christian faiths domiciled in | | had grown at an “alarming rate,” and | receive evidence relating to religious | | of the Nation. | into the alleged anti-religious cam- | buy “only from A’Ifll." | should take the lead in law enforce- Randolph to make a report on the results of the inquiry to the House during the present session of Con- | gress. Under the original phrase- ology, the committee could have made its report any time during the Sev- enty-fourth Congress. Purposes Outlined. | Randolph and Chairman Norton of | the House District Committee steered ! the resolution through the Rules Committee by outlining the purpose | of the investigation, and the hopes of | the committee to make Washington a | model for the Nation in law enforce- ment. Mrs. Norton and Randolph told the : committee the inquiry was inspired by | a marked increase in crime in the | District. Randolph declared crime | that Washington led all cities in the | country last year in the number of | murders, and stood second on the list | in robberies. So far this month. he | said, there have been three murders. | Chairman O'Connor of the Rules | Committee agreed with Mrs. Norton and Randolph that Washington ment because the Capital is the shrine | Fear was expressed by Representa-, tive Lehlbach, Republican, of New | Jersey, that the resolution might give the Investigating Committee too much | authority. He said he did not believe the committee should probe into ques- tions of “judicial discretion.” Boys’ Case Referred To. Lehlbach had reference to the re- cent action of Judge Fay L. Bentley of the Juvenile Court in sentencing two 15-year-old boys to the National Training School on a charge of “joy- riding” in a stolen automobile. Lehlbach declared he could not! understand why the committee would want to inquire into the judicial ac- tivities of a court “that sends boys| to a parental home.” | Representative Sabath, Democrat, of Illinois, suggested that the committee inquire thoroughly into the gambling situation because he believed it was responsible for some of the crime con- ditions, He pointed out that young men who lost money gambling might be influenced to “cheat and steal” to make up their losses. Sabath also urged a thorough in- vestigation into the parole system after Mrs. Norton had pointed out that District records showed there were few convictions in comparison with the number of crimes committed | and that a large number of criminals had been paroled in recent years. An increase in the Metropolitan Po- lice force was urged by Representative Smith, Democrat, of Virgiria, as one of the most important crime deterrents. Mrs. Norton agreed with him. Randolph revealed during the hear- |ing on the resolution that Repre- sentative Blanton, Democrat, of Texas, had requested permission to testify be- fore the Crime Committee when hear- ings are resumed tomorrow at 10.30 am. Says Navy Is in Vise. “I feel the Navy is in a vise con- troled by these three yards.” Wilder declared, listing the New York Ship- building Co.. the Bethlehem Ship- building Co. and the Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Co. “How do they apply this force?” Senator Bone, Democrat, of Washing- ton asked Wilder then said an official of the Electric Boat Co. had threatened to have a commander Welsh removed from his post at the company’s yards if he refused to approve certain boats sought by the Navy. Flat denial that he had offered the services of a “fixer to get naval build- ing jobs for shipyards” for a con- sideration was made by Axel B Gravem before the committee. Gravem Shows Emotion. Gravem, slender, pale faced and wearing spats, testified in a voice emphatic and filled with emotion “I did not,” he said, in reply to a committee question whether he had offered the services of a “fixer” to Wwilder to get him naval shipbuild- ing contracts for his Gulf Industries, which the company had failed to get by regular bidding. Wilder testified yesterday such a proposition had been made him by Gravem on behalf of the “fixer.” Gravem said he had offered Wilder the aid of Arthur P. Homer in prepar- ing designs and “possibly to get finan- cial aid” in setting Gulf Industries in order for bidding on naval jobs. Asked whether he had cited a figure of $250,000 for services of Homer as a “fixer” in having the shipbuilding program extended in 1933 so Wilder would get business, Gravem bounded to his feet shouting “Ridiculous and preposterous.” Gravem later said Homer was a naval architect with a distinguished (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) BODY OF FLYER FOUND IN SUBMERGED PLANE Lieut. Robert C. Hazen's Mother Listed as Resident of Ballston, Va. The body of Lieut. (Junior Grade) Robert C. Hazen, United States Navy, whose mother is shown in naval rec- ords as residing in Ballston, Va., was found today by divers in the cockpit of his submerged plane in about 25 feet of water in Linkhorn Bay, near Virginia Beach, Va. Lieut. Hazen had been missing since his plane crashed about 7 p.m. Tues- day during night flying maneuvers. Piloting a bombing plane of V. B. Squadron 5, attached to the new air- craft carrier U. S. S. Ranger, the lieutenant had been operating with the Fleet Air Detachment, Naval Air Station, at Norfolk. Lieut. Hazen’s mother, according to In a signed statement given to a | naval records, is Mrs. Cora Hazen. He representative of The Star recently, | was born in Carrington, N. Dak., April Blanton charged that Washington po- | 9, 1906, and qualified as a naval lice were plomctr law violators, aviator in llq& -