Evening Star Newspaper, April 11, 1935, Page 16

A—16 CUBA FREES MANY IN KIDNAPING PLOT. Most of $300,000 Ransom Suspects Released, but Police Press Case. By the Associated Press. HAVANA, April 11.—All but 5 or 8 of the 20 suspects arrested in con- nection with the kidnaping last week of the young millionaire, Eutimio Falla | Bonet, were released today, but au- | thorities said they were convinced the crime would be speedily solved. | Police said that among those still in custody they believed they had the nucleus of the gang which forced Falla to pay $300.000 ransom in American currency after he had been | held overnight by the kidnapers. High officials of the government, | it was understood. are pushing the case, with President Carlos Mendieta | assigning his palace secret police m\ aid. The prisoners all were held in- communicado. The ransom paid set a record in Cuba. Only $6,000 of it has been | recovered, Bill Found on Woman. The police said one of the women | held rented the house in the Vedado | residential suburb of Havana where | filed yesterday against four Arkansas |LUMBER CODE SUITS MAY BE ABANDONED Federal Attorney Deplores N.R.A. Decision Not to Enforce Wage and Hour Rules. By the Associated Press. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. April 11.— Federal District Attorney Fred Isgrig not to enforce the lumber code by legal action as “regrettable.” He said it appeared the suits he lumber concerns to forcc them to op- erate under the wage and hour pro- Hershey’s Hershey’s Falla was held. They said the other woman had posed as her maid. | One of them, Isolina Castro, had a £100 bill in her possession at her | arrest, according to the police report. | She declared she drew six $100 bills from the Bank of Boston, paid five of them on a mortgage and retained the one which police discovered. Another of those arrested. Jose | Vazquez. was accused of possessing | geven $100 bills, the serial numbers of which corresponded with those ur the ransom notes. Besides the money taken#from the | prisoners, $4.100 was found in the | Bank of Nova Scotia and $500 in the Banco Comercial. Bank officials said unidentified persons exchanged 4 the bills for smaller ones last Wednesday. + Seizure Occurred in Street. Falla had tcld friends last week that | two automobiles blocked the path of his machine at Twenty-third and | Paseo streets, in the heart of the fash- jonable Vedado Tuesday afternoon. Several men jumped out, he said, seized him, and took him and his chauffeur to a house a block away, where they were held until the ransom g millionaire said he had noticed strangers watching him as he Jeft his hotel office for several days prior to the kidnaping. Although it had been reported Falla had left by plane for Miami. members of his family indicated he sailed for New York aboard the S. S. Santa Paula Letters Received by Family. Police said Falla’s family has re- ceived two anonymous threatening letters, believed to be the work of cranks. A guard has been placed at the residence. Falla is the son of the late Laureano Falla Gutierrez, millionaire sugar man, and nephew of former Senator | Viriato Gutierrez, prominent in inter- national sugar circles and one of | former President Gerardo Machado’s leading advisers. Under Cuban law, kidnapers who extort money under threats of death may be given the death sentence. BUILDING INDUSTRY RECORDS UPTURN Real Estate Situation Better, Trade Livelier, Commerce Department Finds. By the Associated Press. The Commerce Department yester- | day reported “notable gains” in con- struction work in many places and | a “somewhat better real estate situa- tion” in its weekly survey of business | conditions in 30 large cities. | A moderate improvement in some lines of trade and industry was noted, with definite gains in retail trade and bank clearings during the week ended April 6, as compared with the preced- Ing week and the same week a year ago. Wholesale conditions presented a rlightly better outlook. the report said. although New York. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Memphis reported | “spotty” activities. Detroit and New Orleans were the only cities showing | actual declines in wholesale trade. | Industrial conditions remained on | an even keel, with the amomobne, industry again showing gains in pro- | duction and sales. PRINCETON PRESIDENT | PRAISES LIBERALISM Student Federation Will Consider | Resolution Supporting Anti- | Lynching Bill. By the Associated Press. | PRINCETON. N. J. April 11— | President Harold Willis Dodds of | Princeton University told the Na- | tional Student Federation of America | yesterday that he is “an old-fashioned | liberal” who expects to see a revival of | liberalism. He defined liberalism as “an avoid- | ance of class war” in his vxelcoming\ address to the federation as it gath- | ered for its ninth annual conference on the Princeton campus, where it was founded in 1926. Three resolutions were proposed at 2 conference on Government and governmental affairs which its spon- sors hope to have adopted by the con- | vention. One urges support of the\ Nation-wide student strike against | war April 12, another indorses the | ‘Wagner-Costigan anti-lynching bill and a third asks that the new Fed- | eral relief appropriations be assigned “to projects dealing with youth in proportion to the youth population of the country.” Toll House Tavern (Colesville_Pike) Silver Spring Md. “Old House” and Terraced Gardens Splendid Country Dinners, or Mod- ern Plates, “Chic” Teas and Luncheons, Sunday Breakfast Only 20 Minutes’ Drive out 16th St., Route 29, or Take Four Cor- ners Bus Hourly “Choice Wines” Phone SHepherd 3500 Y.1b. bars 3 viewed N. R. A.’s decision yesterday | Co. Chocolate Kisses 1b. pkg. 2lc Mild & Mellow or Mr. Goodbar 25¢ THE EVENING vhim of the code might have to be withdrawn. “If they don't want to go shead with these suits” Isgrig sald, “it's their (N. R. A’s) business. “It's & shame to force these lumber mill laborers to work from sunup to sundown. “The lumber mills here have in- creased hours by 50 per cent since they went off the code. If they con- tinue, it will mean more unemploy- ment.” Isgrig filed suits against the Lee Wilson Lumber Co., the Kansas Shook & Box Co, the Chicago Mill & Lum- ber Co. and the E. L. Bruce Lumber Rare Quake Reported. Irkutsk, Siberia, where earthquakes are rare, was recently shaken by a temblor, STAR, WASHINGTON, ACTRESS, 21, LEAPS 11 FLOORS TO DIE Girl Who Spent Two Years in London Productions Eludes Nurse. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 11.—A pretty 21-year-old actress, Betty Hamilton, ‘who was under the care of a physician and nurse, eluded them last night and jumped from the eleventh floor window of a midtown hotel. Her body, clad in blue silk pajames, struck the roof of a building adjoin- ing the hotel. 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MADISON, Wis., April 11.—A Uni- versity of Michigan student last night told State Senators investigating radi- calism at Wisconsin institutions he believed the National Student League was campaigning to disarm the United States to make it “easier prey to in- ternal disorders.” The Legislative Committee took the ! kry-l" u. volunteered statement of Robert Ed- €ar, 21, of Beloit, Wis., as its first testimony. Edgar, & former University of Wis- consin student, said he had witnessed pacifist activities of the league on both the Wisconsin and Michigan cam- puses and asserted that Cyril Gerber, whom he designated as the organi- | zation’s tlvellng secretary, was “stir- | ring up trouble” at both. The league has “a national hook-up,” bel P,” he sald he Edgar said he regarded the league’s professed work on behalf of mm:u‘ Edgar sald he did not think the University of Wisconsin student body as & whole or its faculty was radical, hut uuz he considered Michigan stu- Lee Tracy Stricken. 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