Evening Star Newspaper, June 23, 1935, Page 4

NcR. A DEATH HELD [GNORED BY TRADE No Pronounced Effect Is « Evident, Commerce 2 Unit Finds. “(Continued From First Page.) thé" smaller concerns there was a growing tendency to revert to old wage and hour scales.” Here are high lights from the re- porting cities for the week ended ‘Wednesday: Washington—Department store sales up; building strong. Boston—Department store sales ex- ceed same week last year; cotton goods market quiet; Government contracts expected to support present mill ac- tivity. New York—Despite bad weather, retail sales above last year; wholesale market inclined to lag; buyers gener- ally holding off for possible lower prices. Philadelphia—Business activity up slightly; department store sales under last .year; several new small strikes reported. Cleveland—Retail trade in Summer goods very active; bank debits up 16 | per cent; Ohio crops in best condition in decade. Chicago—Bad weather hit retail trade; mail order sales down from last week, but well over same week | year ago; wholesale trade somewhat better. Atlanta—Retail trade up over last week and same week last year; general employment situation decidedly bet- ter than three months ago. St. Louis—General status of em- ployment unchanged; slightly better | credit demand reported; serious delay | in corn plantings. Minneapolis—Retail sales up in country and steady in city; wholesale | business up; crops good despite rain | | damage. Kansas City—New seasonal peak in | retail trade; wholesale trade also bet- | ter; rains delay crop planting. Dallas Relief Rolls Cut. Dallas—Retail trade over same week last year; relief rolls cut by re-em- ployment; bank clearings up from previous week, under year ago. | San Francisco—Department store | trade slightly better; building permits up 85 per cent over previous week; oil tankship strike ends. | Akron—Retail lines generally better | than year ago. Baltimore—Brisk demand for sea- sonal merchandise. Birmingham — Banking clearings | under last week and same week year ago. Buffalo—Wholesale and retail sales both in upward trend. | Charleston—Retail trade same as| last week, but over same week year ago. | Cincinnati—Department tore sales | show substantial increase. Denver—Sales very active and col- lections good in retail iines. Detroit — Retail trade handicap of bad weather, Houston—An unexpected Summer season slump has arrived. | Rains Hurt Indiana Trade. Indianapolis—Continuous rains hurt | trade and local farm situation. Jacksonville—Retail trade good ex- cept for clothing and apparel lines. Los Angeles—Weekly index highest since low of March, 1933. Louisville—Rise in retail trade con- tinued to exceed last year. Memphis—Retail trade 10 per cent over same week last year. New Orleans—Small retail gain over previous week. Norfolk—Retail trade up 5 per cent from last week and same week last year. Pittsburgh—Bad weather dropped retail trade 17 per cent from previous | week. i Portland, Oreg.—Somewhat better | labor situation, but trade still down. Rochester, N. Y.—Retail trade up, with Summer apparel gaining most. Seattle—Retail trade down, but wholesale encouraging. Wilmington—Retail trade slightly | ahead of previous week and same week last year. — V. F. W. BAND TO PLAY IN SUMMER SERIES New Outfit Joins List of Organi- zations Heard in City’s Parks. Another new band has joined the Bummer season of concerts in the parks, with the announcement yester- day by C. Marshall Finnan, superin- tendent of National Capital parks, that the band of the Veterans of Foreign Wars will be heard this week. ‘Tomorrow from 7:30 to 9 p.m, in the District of Columbia World War Memorial in Potomac Park, the Army Band will play. Also on Monday eve- ning the band of the Veterans of For- eign Wars will be heard at United States Reservation No. 41, at Sixth street and Pennsylvania avenue south- east, playing from 8 to 11 p.m. The Navy Band will be heard on ‘Tuesday evening from 7:30 to 9 o'clock in the District of Columbia World War Memorial. The Com- munity Civic Band will play on Fri- day from 7:30 to 9 p.m. in Garfleld Park, Third street and Virginia ave- nue southeast. The Washington Gas Light Co. Band joined the concert program re- cently and the park officials say that they have promise of the Fox Theater Boys' Band. Regularly in the park system are heard the Army, Navy and Marine Bands, as well as the Com- munity Civic Band. AIR RACE PRIZE BOOSTED 815,000 to Be Offered in Thomp- son Feature at Cleveland. CLEVELAND, June 22 (#)—L. W. Greve, president of the National Air Races of Cleveland, Inc., snnounced today the purse for the Thompson Trophy race has been increased to 815,000 from $10,000 offered formerly. ‘The races will be held from August 80 to September 2. He said efforts will be made for the first time to obtain participation of foreign planes in the race, a 100-mile closed course event. The total of prize money for all events will be $49,450, an increase of about $12,000 over the 1934 tctal, Greve said. overcame | Flyers . Still Grounded. QUEBEC, Quebec, June 22 (P).— Mahlon S. Kemmerer end Alfred Reck, the two Salt Lake City flyers making & 'round-the-continent tour, were still grounded here today, awaiting iavor- able weather conditions before con- tipuing their jowrney to Halifax, Nova Scotia. LS THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, JUNE 23, 1935—PART ON Famous Old Liners May Be Safety Schools MITCHELL FIASCO FOLLOWED BY SUGGESTED PROGRAM TO GIVE THEM NEW LIFE, Above: The George Washington and America photographed at Solomon’s Island, Md. Below: Close-up view of the ships moored in the Patuxent River. | By the Associated Press. ROM the fiesco of the apparent- 1y-exploded Mitchell charges of corruption in the Commerce | Department there emerged | yesterday a proposal for increasing the safety of lives at sea which would give new tasks to three famous old liners. Joseph B. Weaver, director of the Bureau of Navigation and Steamboat Inspection, proposed that the Levia- than, the George Washington, historic | for having transported President Wil- son to and from the Paris Peace Con- fererce, and the America be put to use as training ships for stewards. The purpose would be to give them a knowledge of szamancthip, essential in times of crisis, for 2ll have d.ties to perform in connection with life boats | and other mediurms of safety. Lack of knowledge of these things on the part of the stewards of the Morro Castle played a prominent part 1n the subsequent investigation of that disaster and has heen shown tc have been important in other tragedies of the sea. CLairman Copeland of the Senate Banks (Continued From First Page) per cent for the first nine months of last yéar—only figures available. U. S. Activity Credited. A. F. Lafrentz, president of the bonding firm, told Cummings the drastic curb on bank raids has been due to “continued activity of the Bureau of Investigation, coupled with co-operation by the assureds in pre- venting robbery losses.” A few days ago a committee of the Ohio Bankers’ Association attributed a 50 per cent drop in Ohio bank rob- beries last year to joint operations of the “F. B. 1.” and State officers. The committee reported that 80 per cent of the robbers had been imprisoned or killed. Statistics of the American Bankers’ Association disclose that from a monthly average of 16 bank robberies in 1933 the rate declined last year to 11.1. Here is the official tabulation by months this year: January February March April June (to date) Thus the robbery frequency rate has slumped nearly 50 per cent during the first half of the year, with the trend continuing downward. Have Own Technique. Under the Federal statute J. Edgar Hoover’s men have investigative juris- diction in all robberies of national banks or banks affiliated with the Federal Reserve System. There are 6,442 such banks, with deposits aggre- gating $33,848,400,000. The “G men” have developed & technique of their own in the bank robbery field. Two of their most effective aids in identifying robbers are a special single-fingerprint file for all known bank robbers—more than 5,009 in number—and a modus operandi file which describes and classifies robbery methods peculiar to each criminal engaged in bank hold- ups. A lone fingerprint found on a door handle or money tray is enough to identify a known bank robber whose fingerprints are among the 5,000,000 in the bureau’s collection. A certain distinctive method of effecting a rob- bery may provide the clue which en= ables examiners of the modus operandi Tecords to identify the guilty. The first sentence under the Fed- eral act was given Charles E. Redding, Salt Lake City filling station pro- prietor, who confessed to robbing three Los Angeles banks during lulls in the gasoline business. A witness to one of the robberies obtained the license number of Redding’s car and Federal agents spotted the tags at Redding’s filling station the day after the third hold-up. Redding also ad- mitted committing three prjor bank robberies. He was given 40 years on the Federal charges and 7 years to life imprisonment on State charges. Life Sentences Given Pair. The first life sentences imposed under the Federal law were given Bur- ton Phillips and Homer Binkley for the robbery of a national bank in Lyons, Kans., last November. This pair, unmasked and heavily armed, looted the bank of $2,000 and kid- naped two bank officials as hostages. Their automobile had a pouoe-w:v‘; radio with which they listened police broadcasts on their crime, The Ao Commerce Committee which heard Ewing Y. Mitchell, ceposed Assistant | Secretary of Commerce, prafer his charges of irregularities in that de- partment and then heard them denied by Secretary Roper ara his aides, en- thusiastically applauded Weaver's pro- posal. He pointed out that it could be brought about without congressional action. The idea is to place the plan | in operation as part of the work-reliet | program. Of the three liners, all now out of active service, the Leviathan is docked in Hoboken and the George Washing- ton and America are mcorecd off Solo- | mor’s Island, Md., where the Patuxent | River enters Chesapeake Bay. They | have been generally stripped but | Weaver estimated th.at the cost of re- | conditioning them for the service in | question would not be great. His idea was that the George Wash- | ington be sent to San Francisco, as | the expense of preparing that vessel | for the voyage tliere would be least of | the three. He suggested that the America be stationed ai New Orleans and the Leviathen at New York. It appeared yesterday that the Sen- ~—=Star Staff Photos. ate Investigating committee would take no further cognizance of the Mitchell charges. Chairman Copeland dencunced them as “mere interences with no evidence behind them, except for one or two circumstances which might call for criticism.” Meanwhile, Mitchell issued a state- ment saying he intended to stay in Washington and “clean up the De- partment of Commerce.” “If I can get the help of just a few members of the Senate or House, and |1 believe I can, the clean-up of the Department of Commerce will not be a difficult matter,” he added. “It is my intention to furnish indi- vidually to Senators and members of the House of Representatives a state- ment of the manner in which the affairs of the Department of Com- merce have been conducted since the | peginning of the New Deal. “This information will be furnished from time to time in printed concrete form so that all Senators and mem- bers who desire to inform themselves on conditions in the Department of Commerce will have an opportunity to do so.” bank employes were released some miles out of Lyons. Bureau agents traced the robbers to Hutchinson, Kans., by means of serial numbers of stolen currency. Both robbers were | taken there last December and are now serving their terms in Federal prisons. Of the 68 bank robbers convicted under Federal laws, 3 were given life sentences, others were given terms aggregating 1,589 years in prison and 1 was given an indetermine sentence. Fines totaling $34,506 were assessed. Two dozen others have been convicted in State courts in cases in which the Federal men co-operated. | 1In addition, there are in Federal and State custody 63 others awaiting prosecution. e Manville Sails for U. S. NEW YORK, June 22 () —Tommy Manville, heir to the asbestos fortunes, who recently accused his fourth wife of trying to trap him in a raid, sailed today on the Normandie, admitting he will probably be divorced. He said there was no possibility of reconciliation with his estranged wife, who was Marcelle Edwards, former show girl. AVIATION INQUIRY SCOPE IS OUTLINED Senate Group Will Check Al leged Suppression of Plane Safety Devices. By the Associated Press. An investigation into the possibility that alleged suppression of advanced safety patents by aviation companies contributed to the crash of a passen- ger plane recently in Missouri in which Senator Cutting of New Mexico was killed was launched yesterday by & Senate Commerce Subcommittee. “We are concerned,” said Senator Copeland, Democrat, of New York, a member of the committee, “with charges made before the House Pat- ents Committee this Spring that safety appliances were bought up and suppressed by the aviation companies. We intend to find out if that is true, and whether there is a failure to use devices {0 promote safety.” Further, he said, the Weather Bu- reau officials would be called in to discover whether the weather service information was sufficient for the guidance of pilots. time and wrapped This bank has lots of plenty of money for Washing- ton families who are up heart and soul in the busi- ness of getting along. Come In Marris Plan Bank Under Supervision U, S. Treasury THE BANK FOR THE INDIVIDUAL 1408 H Street Northwest Capital & Surplus, §250,000 MRS. WALEY FAILS 10 ESCAPE TRIAL Court Refuses to Accept Guilty Plea—Attorney Sees Her Acquittal. By the Associated Press. TACOMA, Wash,, June 22—An- other tearful attempt by blond Mar- garet Waley to plead guilty in the $200,000 George Weyerhaeuser kidnap- ing was blocked today after her attor- uney expressed belief she could not be convicted. “In my opinion,” said Stephen J. O’Brien, appointed by the court to defend the 19-year-old wife of Kid- naper Harmon M. Waley, “she could not be convicted if she went to trial I think a trial would be the best thing, after talkiog to her husband.” Sobbing and unkempt, the remorse. ful young woman, whose husband pleaded guilty to “Lindbergh law” violation yesterday and was sentenced to 45 years’ imprisonment, was denied permissica to plead similarly by Fed- eral Judge E. E. Cushman. The judge announced a date would be set Monday for Mrs. Waley's trial on the same charge on which her husband was sentenced. Lost Without Husband. ‘Without her swaggering, gum-chew.. ing ex-convict husband whose last word in court was a plea in her be- half, the girl-wife seemed lost. Waley's attitude and “bullying” by Sale! 79c¢ and $1 Wash Frocks 59- Sheer prints and fine organdies in one of the finest groups we have ever seen at this price! They are honestly sensational news . . . in this great June sale. Youll find all the new Summer styles. Regular and extra sizes. Street Flaor—Bargain Booth Wash Fabrics Denied Plea Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MRS. MARGARET WALEY, “G-men” were blamed by O'Brien for Mrs. Waley's insistence on' pleading gullty. Outside of court O'Brien sald Mrs. Waley had refused to plead not guilty because she feared her husband and knew he wanted her to “take the rap” with him. ‘The attorney asserted Mrs. Waley knew nothing of the kidnaping until two days after the abduction, when she heard the voice of the Weyer- haeuser boy in an automobile. Judge Cushman asked O'Brien to say whether Mrs, Waley assisted in transporting the 9-year-old boy across & State line, a violation of the Lind- bergh law. O’Brien said it was his opinion she did not. Said Judge Cushmen: “From statements made yesterday by Mr. O'Brien and the co-defendant, ‘Waley, with the apparent approval of this defendant, the court finds the defendant stands mute and directs the entry of a plea of not guilty.” As Mrs. Waley was returned to jail at Olympia, her 24-year-old husband ‘was at McNeil Island Federal Peniten- tiary, where he was taken last night. The couple, arrested at Salt Lake City when Mrs. Waley was caught trying to pass a $5 bill from the ran- som money, parted tearfully. Pub- licly, at least, they made no further mention of the fugitive William Ma- han, whom they implicated in their original confessions. WILL BAN POLITICS Georgia Press Association Acts After Talmadge Incident. CARROLLTON, Ga., June 22 (#).— The Georgia Press Association today | unanimously adopted a resolution to ban political and other controversial questions from future sessions. The resolution was presented by | John G. Herring, editor of the Tifton Gazette, following the furore caused by the renewal by Gov. Talmadge of his attack on the Roosevelt adminis- | tration at the opening session of the | MOVE BEGUN TO BUY WINNIE MAE FOR U. S. Oklahomans Draft Bill to Pur- chase Globe-Girdling Plane for Smithsonian. By the Assoctated Press. A bill to put Wiley oPst’s globe~ girdling stratosphere plane, the Win= nie Mae, in the Smithsonian Institu- tion was drafted yesterday by Sen- ator Thomas and Representative Lee, - both of Oklahoma. At Lee's office it was said Post had agreed to sell his plane to the Gov= ernment for that purpose for $25,000. It was added that Lee had talked with a director of the Smithsonian and had been informed that the offi- cials there “would e pleased” to have the plane. The bill would authorize an appro- priation of $25,000. CAMP HEAD IS NAMED Appointment of Capt. Ben C. Downs as director of the child health camp of the Volunteers of America at Treasure Cove was announced yester- day by Lieut. Major H. Mills Eroh, District commander of the Volun- teers. ‘Work on preparation of the camp site near Fort Foote is nearing com- pletion and Lieut. Eroh has an- nounced the first contingent of free guests will be taken to the camp July 10. Each group, numbering about 75, will remain at the camp for two convention. Sale of $2.00 Formosa Panamas Brims of every width in beautiful quality hats. There are fifteen of the latest shapes from which to choose in youthful and youthful matrons’ models. A hat for every one! Street Floor—King’s Palace Eyelet Dresses $1 .88 Jumbo and zig-zag eye- let embroidered frocks of really unusual quality and “styling in navy, brown, white and cool looking pas- tels. They’re very inex- pensively _priced. Buy yours while our assort- ments are complete. Sizes 14 to 20, 38 to 44. 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