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WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy tonight, minimum tem- perature about 36 degrees; tomorrow fair and colder. Temperatures—Highest, 46, at noon to- day; lowest, 33, at 7 am. today. Full report on page B-16. Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17,18&19 Entered as secy No. 33,162 WORKRELIEF BILL LIMIT TO ONE YEAR SOUGHT BY 6.0.P. Senate Republicans Agree on Change in $4,880,- 000,000 Measure. SUPPORT IS REPORTED FOR PREVAILING WAGE Conference Is Divided on Adams Amendments to Reduce Sum by $2,000,000,000. By the Associated Press. Senate Republicans at a party con- ference today agreed to fight for an | amendment to limit the administration | $4,880,000,000 relief bill to one year in- | stead of two. Senator McNary of Oregon, the mi- | nority leader, also announced an | “overpowering majority” appeared to favor the McCarran prevailing wage amendment He sald the Republicans were about evenly divided on the Adams amend- ment to slice $2.000,000,000 off the ap- propriation, that they seemed to favor the Metcalf proposal to give prefer- ence to war veterans in the relief set-up and also the Hayden amend- ment to require uniform wages and | hours on public roads projects and similar State projects. May Seek 10 Billions. | It was said Senator La Follettee, Republican, of Wisconsin would seek to increase the works fund to prob- ably eight or ten billions. As the bill now reads. the money would be available until June 30. 1937. The Republican plan would limit it to June 30, 1936. Meanwthile the bipartisan bloc hoped to have the Senate order the Appropri- ations Committee to slice the measure into its component parts—$4,000.000,- 000 for public works and $880,000,000 for relief—and report the latter to the Senate. The idea, they said. is to pass the $880.000,000 quickly so relief needs can be met, but to take plenty of time on the public works part, which con- tains discretionary powers for the President. $100,000,000 for February. Relief Administrator Harry L. Hop- kins, who places the total number now receiving relief from the Federal Gov- ernment at 20,000,000, said he didn't know where relief money was going | to come from after $100,000,000 al- loted for February was exhausted. This money, he said, would be all gone| about the 19th or 20th of the month. | In passing, Hopkins approved yes- terday of Mayor Fiorello H. La | Guardia's proposal for a $1,000,000,000 work program in New York City. He indorsed it in “principle,” saying it was “in accord with what the President and Congress are trying to do.” | An attack on the American Federa- tion of Labor proposal to pay relief ‘workers “prevailing wages” instead of “security wages” of about $50 a month was made today by the Government | Competition Committee of the Na- | tional Association of Manufacturers. | “For the Government to pay more than a relief wage for work relief will unnecessarily burden the public with taxation deferring true recovery.” said the committee, which is headed by Ray E. Wantz of Rockford, Ill. | Can’t Spend Indefinitely. “The Government,” it said, “cannot keep up the expenditure of billions of dollars $ndefinitely.” | The bonus group, which includes some Easterners heretofore opposed to cash payment, argued that if $4,880,- 000,000 was to be spent it would be better to use some of it to pay the certificates and relieve the Govern- ment of an obligation which will come due in a few vears anyway. President Roosevelt meanwhile had named Robert E. Wood, president of Bears, Roebuck & Co., to head a com- mittee of busin®ss men to advise him on how best to spend the $4,000,000,000 | work fund. CUBAN CAPITAL SHAKEN BY SERIES OF BOMBINGS Little Damage Is Reported, How- | ever, as Result of Explosion of 50 Petards. By the Associated Press | HAVANA, February 15.—A series of petty bombings started before mid- night in Havana and continued until early morning. More than 50 small bombs or petards | exploded with loud reports, but there was little damage and no casualties | ‘were reported. One petard exploded near the home of an American, Frank Steinhart, sr., | president of the' street railway com- | pany, and another near the American- owned department store, La Moda Americana. | Most of the petards were tossed from | moving automobiles and from roof | tops. ond class matter + post office, Washington, D. C. U.S Reduction Plans By the Associated Press. Fear that rising food prices may tun the American housewife against the Agriculture Adjustment Admin- isgration and its crop reduction pro- grams was expressed today by some A. A A officials. ~ With new crops four months away, | ginning to feel the full effect of last year's drought and curtailed farm acreage. Bureau of Labor statistics showed increases in the cost of food ranging from 44 per cent for butter to less than 1 per cent for wheat cereals. Only potatoes, onions, cabbage and bananas showed decreases. Average retail figures for the country, compared with a year ago, showed these increases: Milk, 4.5 per cent; cheese, 10; beef, 17.5; pork chops, 34.2; lard, 70.5; mutton, 18.3; poultry, 16.3; eggs, 234; white bread, 5.1; flour, Ch they said, retail prices are just be- | ¢ Foenin WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION g Star WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 15 1935—FORTY-EIGHT PAGES. ###% Fears Consumer Protests As Food Prices Still Rise A. A. A. Officials Believe Public Will Stand No Further Increases and That ||[[KES DATA ASKED Are Jeopardized. 8.5; canned corn, 16.4; canned peas, 225; peaches, 109. A A. A officials said they believed the public will stand no further in- creases without vigorous protests. The possibility of a further rise in retail beef prices was suggested, mean- while, by the fact the Government purchased and slaughtered millions of head of cattle to keep them from starving in the drought area. It was recalled that Secretary Wal- lace anticipated some consumer criti- cism of his crop restriction plans last | Summer by asserting that supplies | would not be up to normal, but that | shifts in diet would meet the situa- | ton. In another quarter of the Capital |the increased prices for agricultural® | products were praised today as an! | aid to exports of industrial products. | Oscar Johnson, Mississippi lawyer “(Continued on Page 6, Coluhn 2) HOMER TESTIFIES IN $475,000 OFFER Fee to Aid Gulf Industries on Navy Contract Dis- cussed at Probe. By the Associated Press. Evidence that a $475,000 fee was offered A, P. Homer, Washington ma- rine architect, to aid Gulf Industries of Pensacola in obtaining naval con- tracts was given today to the Senate Munitions Committee At the same time it received what some members considered were intima- tions that the Navy Department had advance information of allocation of ship contracts by P. W. A. to compet- ing private yards. Taking the stand after the commit- tee had waited two weeks for him be- cause of a high blood pressure condi- tion, Homer testified the offer made to him, allegedly on behalf of Laurence R. Wilder, head of the Gulf Industries Co., had not been accepted He also presented further testimony | regarding the activities of Axel P. ravem, Washington attorney. Pre- vious testimony about Gravem has been ordered certified to District At- torney Leslie C. Garnett for inguiry as to whether possible perjury is in- volved. Data on Allotments. A letter written by Homer to W. S. Newell, president of the Bath Iron Works of Bath, Me. carried what some committee members considered evidence the Navy Department knew weeks in advance of public works fund allotments for shipbuilding. Homer commented in the dated May 25. 1933, that “Jerry Land,” whom he identified as Rear Admiral Emory S. Land of the Navy | “feels as you do that when the big program comes through several of the destroyers will better.” Homer declared he was not “pos- itive” in his recollections of Gravem | as the one who offered him $475,000 on behalf of Wilder, but under com- mittee questioning sald he “believed it was.” “Surely you were not offered fees | of $475,000 so often that recall who made them. Clark, Democrat, of Missouri. “It is my recollection it was Gravem,” Homer replied. “He was one who was always waving millions around very carelessly. Recalls Talk About Split. Homer told the committee he re- | called talking to its members in De- | cember about a “split” he had dis- cussed with Gravem of a proposed Wilder fee of $250,000. Previously Gravem had denied hav- | | ing any such discussions with Homer, (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) STRIKE GUARD ENLARGED IN IMPERIAL VALLEY Efforts Made to Prevent Fresh Outbreaks in Fruit and Vege- table Belt. By the Associated Press. : EL CENTRO, Calif., February 15.— Fifty additional deputy sheriffs were on duty today to prevent fresh out- breaks in the strike of vegetable-pack- ing workers in the Imperial Valley. Shippers and packers, alarmed over possible danger to the season vege- table and fruit crops, asked for armed escorts for workers who remained on the job and new recruits brought in when 1,500 employes walked out Mon- day, demanding union recognition and increased wages. Twenty-six persons, including four women, were booked at the county jail here yesterday after two lettuce trucks were overturned and stones | hurled at a packing shed in Heber. Museum, in World Quipu Hunt, Finds One Within Own Doors By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 15—For 10 years the Field Museum had a quipu and never knew it. They searched all over the world for one, and where did they find it? Why, in an old work basket among some weaving material they had owned for a decade. Just to pile thrill on thrill, there is a possibility, mind you, that this quipu may have belonged to a sorcerer. Quipus which belonged to laymen are scarce enough, Heaven knows. A quipu, Director Simms explained today, is what the accountants and business men of ancient Peru used in- stead of adding machines. A quipu is a cord, from which dangle a num- .ber of other cords, knotted to stand for ones, tens and thousands. Few museums have anything more than a fragment, and the top for the world in having quipus is probably two, Simms said. “An expedition might spend months working in Peru,” said Simms ex- ultantly, “without finding a trace of one.” The knotted cords were used, it was explained, in counting popula- tion, armies, sheep or anything else which needed counting. This quipu fairly walked in to the Field Museum. It was hidden in an assortment of museum materials purchased 10 years ago from the Chicago Historical Society. Because the basket where this one was found came from a grave Simms and Thompson think it was a sor- cerer’s, and if it was, it may have letter | perhaps fit you | AGTION DEFENDED BY WEYERBACHER |Naval Officer Admits Offer- ing Services to Plane Company. By the Associated Press. To a Naval Court of Inquiry Comdr. Ralph D. Weyerbacher, naval aircraft procurement officer, acknowl- edged today that he and another of- | ficer had offered their services as | technical advisors to the Cairns De- | velopment Co. and Cairns Airplane Co. of Naugatuck. Conn. In a brief he said he made the offer for himself and Lieut. C. B. Harper,| now retired, in a letter to J. L. Liver- | more, Wall Street operator, who then was backing the inventions of Ed- mund B. Cairns. | ~The Court of Inquiry, meeting at the Washington Navy Yard, is mak- | ing an investigation at the behest of ! the House Military Affairs Commit- | tee. Letter Written in May, 1930. | Weyerbacher said he wrote the let- ter in May, 1930, when he was com- | | mander of the nawal aircraft factory at Philadelphia. He insisted he had “no conscious- ness of having committed any un- ethical, much less illegal, act.” Before making a detailed offer, Weyerbacher said he had secured a ruling from the Navy judge advocate | general that it was permissible for | him to serve as advisor to a private | concern if it did not interfere with his Navy duties. The ruling, he added, was trans- mitted through Ernest Lee Jahncke, then Assistant Secretary. Capt. W. W. Wensinger of the Ma- rine Corps, acting as prosecutor for the court, contended that although | Weyverbacher “may have thought his activities were within the law” as long as the Cairns companies were not bidding for Government contracts, the result was such as to bring “sus- picion” and “discredit” upon the Navy. Designs Were Rejected. Weyerbacher said that after his transfer to duty as a procurement offi- cer, the Navy had rejected some of Cairns’ designs. He added that he had told Cairns the Navy was not | interested in the commercial planes the latter was designing. He insisted, however, that he had nothing to do with the rejection, and | denied Cairns’ assertion before a House committee that he had brought about the rejection because the offer of his services was refused. His duties, Weyerbacher said, re- quired that he inquire into the testi- mony of Cairns, but he denied using “unauthorized” methods. He admit- ted having reproached Cairns for his statement, but said he did not know then it was before the House com- mittee. In his brief, Weyerbacher said Cairns was “irrational” and that he had the “obsession” that he was being “persecuted.” He attributed Cairns’ statement to the rejection of some of his designs by the Army Air Corps, adding that (Continued on Page 8, Column 2) Reserve Figures Show Increase Again department store sales in Washington made an appreciable increase, 129% for January over the same month of a year ago. Once more this increase was the largest for any city in the fifth Federal Reserve district, in which Washington is lo- cated. Yesterday’s Advertising (Local Display.) Lines. The Evening Star. 63,870 2d Newspaper. . 3d Newspaper. . 4th Newspaper. 5th Newspaper. 7,954 Total (néwdui) 58,021 The thorough coverage and the steady increase of its cir- culation make The Star the first advertising choice of Washington merchants who . 22,632 . 19,328 8,107 what they called “astrological signifi- cance.” Both seemed' to feel that would make it a quipu among quipus. A are sharing in this increased volume of retail sales. LONG WINS FARLEY INQURY DEMAND: Senate Approves Modified Resolution to Review Investigations. JAMES STEWART & CO. CONTRACTS INCLUDED “Thanks for the Information,” Says P. W. A. Chief When Told of Action. By the Associaged Press At the request of Senator Long, Democrat, of Louisiana the Senate to- i day asked Secretary Ickes to furnish ! all reports of Interior Department in- vestigators referring to Postmaster General Farley. “I will turn over anything we have as soon as I get formal notification from the Senate,” Ickes said when in- i formed of the action. Senator Robinson, Democratic leader, agreed to approval of the resolution calling for the data after Long had consented to a modification. As originally drawn, the resolution called for all reports gathered by Louis Glavis, Ickes' chief investigator, in connection wtih the public building | program. Robinson protested this data would be too voluminous. Farley Only Concerned. As approved, the resolution T quests Ickes to furnish all Glavis' reports “which affect, mention or re- port on James A. Farley, or any con- | cern with which said Farley has been or is now identified.” | It also asked for reports dealing ! with contracts to James Stewart & { Co.. on supplies furnished to that company by the General Builders’ Supply Corp. Long has charged the Stewart | Co. was given preference in public works contracts and obtained sup- plies from the other company, which he said was headed by Farley's brother-in-law. ! In a brief speech today, Long cited | the law on disposition of postage ! stamps and read a House address | about Farley giving unperforated and ungummed stamps to friends. H He said if those claims were true | Farley had given away first-run | stamps with a “souvenir value” of | $80,000. | Failed in Former Efforts. Slashing at Farley for the third | straight day, Long yesterday had been | unsuccessful in his efforts to have | the Senate direct Ickas to make avail- able information which Long said the Secretary had concerning the postal chief. When Senator Clark. Democrat, of | Missouri. objected. Long moved to sus- | pend the Senate rules and then talked | for the rest of the day before with- | drawing the motion. | He repeated the charges listed in | the “whereases” of his original reso- | i lution and asserted Farley had vio- | lated “three Federal statutes and pos- sibly a fourth” in retaining an in- | terest in a building supply company | furnishing materials to firms having Government contracts and in seeking donations from Government employes to wipe out the Democratic party | deficit. Political Support Alleged. He said he could bring witnesses from West Virginia and perhaps from the Senate itself to support his charge that Farley used an application for & Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan from the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad last Fall as the basis for seeking sup- port from an official of that road for Clem Shaver, candidate against Rush D. Holt for the Senate. Senator Clark asked Long if he had read a denial of that charge from John J. Cornwell, former West Virginia Governor and general counsel of the Baltimore & Ohio. Long said he had not, but could furnish witnesses and “some of 'em ain't so far from where the Senator is sittin’.” “Will you be more explicit?” Clark asked. “No,” Long replied, “on advice of ,counsel I refuse to answer.” | Tries to Recall Cicero. Laughter followed this exchange, and was repeated when ihe Louisi- anan snapped his fingers in the mid- dle of a sentence trying to remember something that Cicero said. He finally recalled and asserted: “Cicero said about Cataline, ‘Does he live? Yea, more, he walks in the Senate’ In the case of Farley: Does he live? He supplants the United States Senate. He's the eyes, ears, and if there's a heart left, the heart of the Democratic party.” BOAT DEBRIS FOUND | Wreckage of Sponger Lost in 1933 Found on Sea Bottom. ST. PETERSBURG. Fla., February 15 (#)—Charred wreckage of the sponge boat Xios, last seen in No- vember, 1933, and bones and diving helmets of at least two of the missing crew of five, have been found in 36 feet of water 12 miles off Cedar Keys, ‘ according to word received here today from the sponge-fishing colony at ‘Tarpon Springs. “Montana Rides Again” By Evan Evans A RAPID-FIRE ROMANCE COMBINED WITH ADVEN- TURE IN THE COUN- TRY BELOW THE RIO -GRANDE. Begins on Page C-4 of Today’s Star |House Committee Advances THIS SIXTEEN MILLION 1S GOING ™ RAISE TAXES. The only evening in Washington wit aper the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 1 32,347, Some Returns Not Yet Received (#) Means Associated Press. MR PRESIDENT WHAT ABOUT THAT FouR BILLION For WORK RELIEF? URANERCANSIY LAVS REQESTED Six-Point Program in Probe Report. By the Associated Press. Legislation to protect the United States from foreign *“propaganda” and revolutionary activity was recom- mended to Congress today by a House committee which spent more than a year investigating “un-American” ac- tivities. In {ts unanimous report to the House, the committee, headed by Rep- resentative McCormack, Democrat. of Massachusetts, charged in effect that | Soviet Russia has violated its pledgel against harboring groups which advo- cate the overthrow of this Govern- ment. It reported that tons of Naz propa- ganda have been smuggled into this country and complimented ‘20-odd million Americans of German birth or descent” for resisting efforts “to bring them into the Nazi program.” Summary of Preposals. These recommendations for legis- lation were made: | 1. That all publicity. propaganda or public relations agents of foreign governments, foreign political parties or foreign commercial firms be re- quired to register with the Secretary | of State. 2. That the Secretary of State be empowered to shorten or end the stay in this country of a temporarily ad- mitted foreigner if he disseminates propaganda or engages in “political” work. 3. That the United States negotiate treaties with other nations for the deportation of undesirable aliens to their native lands. 4. That it be made unlawful to| advise soldiers, sailors or Reserves to disobey their laws or regulations. | 5. That United States attorneys be | empowered to prosecute persons who refuse to testify before congressional | committees. 6. That it be made unlawful “to advocate changes in a manner that incites to the overthrow or destruc- tion, by force and violence, of the Government of the United States” | or any State. Mexican Consul Cited. ‘The committee reported it had *“re- cently received evidence which justi- files an inquiry into reports showing interference by a consul of the Mex- fcan government assigned to San Bernardino, Calif., with the religious practices and religious freedom of some of our people.” “This evidence has been submitted to the State Department and assur- ances have been given that an im- mediate inqury will be made,” the committee said. In the 15,000-word, 24-page report, the investigators repeated some of the testimony obtained in hearings throughout the country, and presented separate summaries dealing with Naziism, Fasclsm, Communism, the “Silver Shirts”"—which they said were patterned after the storm troops of Germany—and other organizations. The' committee said Nazis used “all kinds of efforts and influence, short of force and violence,” to ‘“consoli- date persons of German birth and descent” in this country “into one group, subject to dictation from abroad.” Hitler Held Up to Youth. At “youth Summer camps” in dif- ferent localities, the report asserted, children were taught to recognize Chancellor Hitler of Germany as their leader. But the report added that the com- mittee’s disclosure in open hearings (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) — BRITAIN HELPING CHINA DRIVE PIRATES OFF SEA Two War Vessels Enlisted After 8. S. Tungchow Raid Men- aced Children. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 15.—British and Chinese authorities have begun a co- operative campaign to sweep pirates from China’s waters, it was officially announced here today. Intensive effort to clear the seas is the result of the recent pirate capture of the S. S. Tungshow, when mission school children were terrified for three days. It was revealed the plan of action was outlined at a conference between Canton officials and British consular authorites. ‘Two British war vessels are co-oper- ating in the campaign. ] Nazis, Under Guise Of Mourners, Caught Drilling in Austria By the Assoclated Press VIENNA, February 15.—Police believed today they had solved | | the mystery of the sudden pop- ularity for funeral rites in Lower Austria After raids near St. Poelten, | | police explained the funerals were | a clever Nazi plan to circumvent | decrees against illegal gatherings. Members of secret Nazi groups, ‘ they said, were summoned by their leaders to shed a few mock tears while they got in a bit of drill on their way to the burial grounds. Large quantities of propa- ganda materials were seized. A. B. C. BOARD HITS LATE DRINKING Would Ban Practice of Plac- ing Orders on Table to Last After Hours. ‘ The Commissioners moved todav to tighten the control over the saie of liquor, approving an amendment which would make it illegal for a patron of an “on-sale” place to drink alcoholic beverages after the time limit has been reached for sale. The recommendation was made by | the Alcoholic Beverage Control Board which reported that it was a wide- spread practice for customers of on- | sale places to buy orders of drinks just before closing time on sales and then consume these drinks at their leisure. Sale after 2 am. are now forbidden | for week days with exception of Saturdays when the deadline is 12 midnight to conform with the Sun- | day law. Amendment to Be Prepared. Corporation Counsel E. Barrett | Prettyman was directed by the Com- missioners to prepare the proposed amendment to cover this point, and this is to be sent to Congress for consideration. ‘The Commissioners also approved several other recommendations for | strengthening liquor sale control. One of these calls for a stepup in the penalties for persons found guilty of intoxication in public places. The maximum penalty now is a fine of | $100 or a jail sentence of 30 days, cr both. On motion by the A. B. C. Board, the Commiséioners propose that this be the penalty for the first offense and that the maximum be a fine of $200 or jail sentence of 60 days, or both; and that for the third offense, the maximum fine be $500 or a maximum of six months in jail, or both. The A. B. C. Board would be given power to suspend licenses for viola- | tion of the liquor rules or law under another proposed amendment ap- proved by the Commissioners. The board now has power only to revoke a permit or to take a case to Police Court for a fine, and Police Court offi- clals were reported to be unwilling to continue to co-operate by acting on fines for violations. ‘There would be no appeal from a decision to suspend a license for 30 days or less, the action of the board on any question of fact to be final and conclusive. In cases where the sus- pension is for more than 30 days the license holder would have an appeal to the Commissioners. A provision of this amendment is that the notice of suspension must be posted prominently on the premises of the license holder. Explains Stand. To justify the suspension plan, Chairman George W. Offutt of the A. B. C. Board said: “In some cases the penalty of revocation is too severe. In order to take care of these cases the board has been obliged to enlist the good offices of the Police Court to levy fines which have been pro- posed’ by the board. The Police Court has indicated its unwillingness to further co-operate with us, and it is absolutely essential, in order to pro- duce the rule of conduct which the board insists upon from each of its licensees, to have this additional authority.” The Commissioners approved an- other proposed amendment which would identify champagne as being “any effervescent wine.” Supreme Court Meets. ‘The Supreme Court met at noon to- day without announcing any action in the gold cases. The sessions today GOTHAM GANGSTER SOUEHTINCAPTAL Hunted for Questioning in Use of Mails to Defraud Numbers Gamblers. Dodging police investigators who might question him and members of his gang regarding the use of the United States mails gamblers with a new racket which would “break the bank™” in the num- bers game, a New York racketeer and his henchmen are believed to be in ‘Washington muscling in on gambling operations here. This was indicated today when in- vestigation proved the Wall street ad- | dress given local numbers game players in a yellow circular letter was ficti- tious. A promoter who fitted the de- scription given police, however, was known to have operated from the Wall street address in New York. which is a vacant warehouse, but he cleared out shortly after his henchmen went to work on the new racket last Tues- day night and came to Washington. Circulars Distributed Here. Hundreds of circular letters, sup- posedly sent to a “few reliable gamblers,” were distributed here Tuesday night, promising that if $5 were wired the promoter at his New York address, “positive winners"” would be wired gamblers by operatives of the racketeer, who would “control the racing mutuel machines twice a month,” manipulating them so his number would come out two and a half hours before the first race was run at various major race tracks Leslie C. Garnett, United States at- torney for the District, immediately put Lieut. George Little’s special vice squad to work on rounding up any suspects in the racket. but no arrests were made. Further investigation showed the gangster had left New York Tuesday night, leaving a Wash- ington address where messages were to be forwarded. Those who fell for the ruse wired $5 to the promoter in New York, but the money bounced back to the sender| with the terse notation, “Ficticious address, unclaimed.” Messages Must Be Prepaid. Although telegraph companies will forward messages, no money sent over the wire will be relayed unless prepaid by the sender. New York promoter was defeated by his own ignorance in overlooking minor details. Employes of a cafe next to the vacant warehouse in the first block of Wall street, New York, said the upper offices of the warehouse were vacated Tuesday night.\ Until that time, however, the unnamed gangster had been receiving telegrams and “special dispatches” containing large sums of money at various offices in the vicinity of that address. A message to New York was sent by the leader of the racketeers from {a Washington telegraph office in the | " (Continued on Page 5, Column 3.) Guide for Reader: Amusements Comics . Features Finance . Lost and Found Radio Serial Story Service Orders . Short Story Society . Sports . to defraud local | Overlooking this, the | TWO CENTS. HAUPTMANN AIDE REPORT DENIED ON EVEOF DEATH CELL TRIP TOMORROW Lawyers Work on Bid for Writ of Errors to be Sub- mitted for Hauptmann. Trip to Trenton Planned. |DEATH WARRANT SEEN IN SHERIFF’S OFFICE Bronx District Attorney Says All Evidence in His Possession Pointed to Prisoner as Alone in Crime—Public Funds Plea Made. By the Assoclated P: | FLEMINGTON, N. J., February 15.—Bruno Richard Hauptmann, cone victed murdered of Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, jr. will go to the death house of the State prison some time tomorrow. His attorneys worked to- day on an application for a writ of error which they may submit next Monday. A published report that Federal authorities had evidence of an ac- complice was denied in Washington | by J. Edgar Hoover, head of the De- partment of Justice’s Division of In- vestigation The district attorney of the Bronx, where Hauptmann was indicted for extortian, said all the ewidence was to the effect that Hauptmann was alone in the crime. | Reilly Upholds Theory. Edward J. Reilly, Hauptmann's de- fense chief, said he hadn't heard the police had ever worked on an accomplice angle, and added that eventually the police might find truth | in his own theory that the kidnaping and murder was the work of & gang | of at least four persons. Sheriff John H. Curtiss of Hunter- don County said he planned to re- move the condemned man some time |after daylight tomorrow under a guard consisting of himself and four jor five deputies and a detail of State troopers. As he detailed this plan briefly he exhibited Hauptmann's death war- |rant, signed by Justice Thomas W. | Trenchard, Prosecutor Anthony M. Hauck and Court Clerk C. Lloyd Fell. Tomorrow Definitely. “We are going to take him down tomorrow. That's definite,” said Curtiss. Pressed by newsmen for some defi- | njte information as ®o what time Hauptmann would start on the 20- odd-mile journey. he said | “It won't be before daylight.” | ‘The sheriff said he. together with four or five of his deputies and an unspecified number of State police, would accompany the manacled prisoner on the trip. “I plan to get in touch with Col. (H. Norman' Schwarzkopf some time today to arrange the final details of the State police escort which will ac- company us.” The sheriff said the State police de- tachment tomorrow would be under the command of Lieut. Allen Smith, the slight officer who has had charge of Hauptmann's State police guard ever since the alien carpenter was brought here from the Bronx four months ago. Details Withheld. ‘The sheriff was noncommital when pressed for further details of Haupt- mann's removal. “I am not going to tell you too much. You will see us when we go." To a question whether a prison | van would be used for the transfer, | Sheriff Curtiss replied: “We'll use | our own cars,” referring to county automobiles. | " They will be closed cars, he said, |and “there will not be too many cars | in the procession.” | The sheriff stated that he would | ride in the same car with Haupt- | mann, and added: “I have the death warrant here signed by the judge. the | prosecutor and the court clerk.” | He produced the slightly soiled sin- | gle sheet of paper, on which was typewritten Hauptmann's name and with the various dates filled in in ink. It bore the signatures of Supreme Court Justice Thomas W. Trenchard, who presided throughout the trial; Anthony M. Hauck, prosecutor of the pleas of Hunterdon County, and C. Lloyd Fell, the court clerk. The sheriff refused to permit the warrant to be copied. Silent on Arms. The sheriff was asked whether the transfer procession would be heavily | armed, and whether machine guns | and shotguns would be carried by the guards. He replied that such matters depended on State police plans. Inquiries were made (Continued on Page Hauptmann Keeps Fortitude On Eve of Removal to Death Cell By the Associated Press. FLEMINGTON, N. J, February 15 —Bruno Hauptmann's fortitudeamazed his guards as the time drew nigh for his transfer to the death house. His outburst of weeping immediately after being sentenced for the Lind- bergh baby slaying passed, and his features again became the emotion- less mask so noticeable during the trial. He was once more the stoical carpenter. “He has obviously been shaken by the outcome of the trial,” said one of his guardians. “He shows remarkable control.” Hauptmann became quieter. He read hardly at all, rested on his cot more frequently, but still devoted con- siderable time to restless pacing of will be the last the court will hold this week. the 30-foot bullpen outside his cell. - 1 Despite the harrowing experience of | hearing the death penalty imposed, he was not averse to talking about his impending appeal with his counsel and to talking for the first time yesterday to newspaper men in his cell. Sheriff John H. Curtiss, changing his mind, permitted Hauptmann's wife, Anna, to visit him yesterday. Orders were issued that the infant son, Mann- fried, should not be taken again to his father. With Hauptmann in the State prison at Trenton, the sheriff pointed |out, arrangements can be made for | visits by s wife and child. | Food failed to interest the con- |demned man as much as before his conviction. He ate virtually nothing yesterday until suppertime. Then he had three beef sandwiches, an orange, & cup of coffee and some cookies. 4