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A—2 wx¥ ATHLETE MYSTERY AT HOEPPEL TRIAL U. S. Seeks to Establish Link in Case Against Representative. For the second time, the Govern- iment made a futile effort today to re- move the cloak of mystery as to what connection George W. Trinastich, George Washington University ath- lete, may have with the case of Rep- resentative John Henry Hoeppel of California and his son, Charles J. Hoeppel, on trial in District Supreme Court for an alleged conspiracy to| gell a West Point appointment. Trinastich was injected into the case soon after the trial opened, but the prosecution was prevented from using him as a witness at that time due to vigorous objection by the de- fense. Again today. with Hoeppel under cross-examination, the Gov- ernment was prevented from question- i8¢ him about Trinastich. James W. Ives, former Olympic lacrosse star, who testified that the younger Hoeppel, under the name of “Charles Alexander,” negotiated with him for the purchase of a Military Academy appointment for $1,000, icked Trinastich from a crowd of {spectators in the court room Monday iand identified him as the man who approached him recently and urged him to drop the case against the + Hoeppels. Testimony Cut Short. What’s What Behind News In Capital Morgenthau Wary Sil- ver Buyer Inflation- ists’ Hopes. BY PAUL MALLON. THE Treasury tried to laugh off the silver break with an aside remark that Secretary Mor- . genthau overslept that morn- ing. When sthe break continued the second day, there were outside sus- picions that he had developed sleep- ing sickness. The unexplained truth of the mat- ter seems to be exactly the opposite. Silver speculators have caught him napping so often in the past that he seems to have developed insomnia on that subject. The result is that, behind his Jeigned yawning, there appears to be emerging a well-studied change in his buying strategy. It does not necessarily involve any change in basic policy. The mandate of Con- gress is still being seriously re- spected within the Treasury. But Mr. Morgenthau seems to have developed intc a wary buyer rather than a good-time Charley who would take in all the silver any one has to offer at any price. Mr. Morgenthau’s purpose (as dic- tated by Congress) is twofold: (a) To increase the price of silver eventually to $1.29, and (b) to accumu- late & tremendous bulk of it, untl it reaches one-third of his gold. These purposes often conflict. (. Afterward Trinastich Wwas sub- poenaed as a Government witness, . but his testimony was cut short by Uthe defense objection. Near the close of the cross-exami- nation of Hoeppel. Assistant United | States Attorney David A. Pine asked him if he knew Trinastich and he ad- mitted he knew a boy reported to be known as Trinastich. The George Washington University athlete was then brought into the court room with instructions not to say anything. Hoeppel looked at him | and identified him. He said he met Trinastich in a root beer parlor on | Connecticut avenue some time this | Year. | Returned to Witness Room. 2z HEYY WAKE UP want to play a game for greenback- ers will try to accumulate as much | silver as he can at moderate prices. He will get as much silver as he can That is, any buyer who does not before finally bidding the price to the top. He will keep his eye on bulk as well as price. A whispered conference at the bench followed between Justice Daniel | W. O’Donoghue and defense and prose- Inflation Purpose. cution counsel. As a result, Trinastich | .y ¢1 e merital error which causes was returned to the witness room 20d | o)) the misunderstandings in the situa- the cross-examination diverted to &n- | yon oo R T The inflationists gther subject. | passed the silver act in the belief that _ The Government also was prevented | {1 Treasury would buy faster than it tipon objection of defense counsel from | 014 gfford, thus forcing it into in- (uestioning Hoeppel about his service | q,4ion The Treasury is following the in the Post Office Department &s poSt- | otter of the law, but not the hopes of master at Arcadia, Calif, from 1923 | ¢.”inaationists. wszlL o diwas siibjcctet oa | Lo e vEprobaly, will continue in arlier, Hoeppel wi status quo until after the next elec- #évere grilling about details of his!ions at least. fy Mrs. Lillilan Maddox (center) Killeen, 1 Maddox (Continued Prom First Page.) in her bed room as Killeen was wait- ing for her on the lower floor. “He shouted to her to come down- stairs and fired through the eeiling at the same time,” she declared. Killeen Barred Visitors. Mrs. Edwards said Killeen wouldn't let Mrs. Maddox have visitors and followed her whenever she went out. On several occasions, she said, Mrs. Maddox was given medical treatment after Killeen had beaten her. The witness also told of one other incident one night last Winter when Killeen came to the apartment and found Mrs. Maddox in bed. She tes- tified the gambler drew a gun and chased Mrs. Maddox, who was clad only in & nightgown, out of the apart- ment house into & snow storm. Montgomery County State’s Attor- ney James H. Pugh brought out on cross-examination that Mrs. Maddox continued to live with Killeen despite court room this morning with her attorneys, Stedman Prescott (left) and Harry Whelan (right), for a preliminary hearing in the killing of Eddie o Mrs. Maddox at Hearing shown entering the Rockville, Md, ~—Star Staff Photo. COTTONBELT ROAD ASKS BANKRUPTCY Files ~Petition Disclosing Obligations Totaling | $24,958,992. By the Associated Press. ST. LOUIS, December 12.—The St Louis Southwestern (cotton belt) Railway flled a voluntary petition in bankruptcy under section 77 of the amended bankruptcy act in Federal | District Court today, declaring it could not meet $24958992 in matured and | maturing obligations and stating its desire to reorganize. "The road petitioned the court to take furisdiction over its property and affairs and to make orders necessary for administration of the business inci- | THURSDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1935. FINANCIER DENIES MEEHAN CHARGES “Conspiring” to Manipulate Bellanca Stock Dis- puted by Devoe. By the Associated Press. Raymond Devoe, New York finan- cler, today flatly denied at a Securities Commission hearing that he ever “conspired” with Michael J. Meehan to manipulate the price of Bellanca Aircraft Corp. stock. He was testifying relative to Gov- | ernment charges that Meehan, veteran | Wall Street operator, artificially created a price in Bellanca stock for the purpose of “unloading” it. Devoe's denial came at the end of a long line of questioning relative to prospective purchases of Bellanca stock. Munroe Goldwater, counsel, asked him the question, | Previously, Jacob Gruber, commis- | sion counsel, had proceeded along an | involved line of questioning which, he | said, would prove Devoe acted as Meehan's agent. Replying to Goldwater, Devoe denied this contention. | i The hearing was marked by a num- | ber of bitter disputes among counsel. Devoe denied ever having bought or | sold a share of stock of any kind from | or to Meehan. When asked by Gold- | water if he had been Meehan's “dupe.” he replied he had been in Wall Street | a long time, successfully, and never had been “a dupe of any one.” i Cummings Meehan | turn, considerably higher than any | persons employed today than at any S Ch ‘While politiclans and financiers argue as to whether prosperity is here, on the way or never to be seen again, Washington merchants, as Christmas shoppers throng their stores, dre en- Joying it. The night before Christmas is still 10 solid 9-hour shopping days off, but | one of .the large downtown depart- ment stores has taken on enough rush- season help to bring its pay roll to more than 4,000 persons, an all-time high, not even excepting the banner | years of '28 and '29. Another reported today that its pay roll was 10 per cent | higher than last year, which was, in of the several previous years. A third laconically admitted that it has more time in the last 75 years. The store is 75 years old. Whatever the cause of what appears the best Christmas shopping season since most store owners and depart- ment store officials can remember, store pay rolls are accepted as a care- ful gauge of business. The throngs in the streets and stores indicate that storekeepers’ fondest dreams of this season'’s buying will be realized. Higher-Priced Gifts Sought. Officials of Woodward & Lothrop de- clined to make any forecast of sales | volume beyond agreeing that it is “the | | best in years™ and that more persons | | are employed in the store now than at any time in its history. There are | approximately 40 per cent more than | (Continued From First Page.) Securities and Exchange Commission | have made it perfectly clear that, | pending a Supreme Court adjudica- | tion upon the act, not one of these | companies stands in any reasonable fear of any threatened action of any | Government official.” Standing before Justice Jennings Bailey, Cummings assailed the “tac- | tics” of the utilities in filing scores of injunction suits against the Govern- ment, charging unconstitutionality of the utility lew. “Nothing more in the way of fair- ness could be asked of the Govern- | ment by the industry,” he said, con- tinuing: “In comparison with this attitude of fairness on the part of the Govern- ment, consider the tactics of the hold- ing companies. “Last Summer their representatives assured the Congres that they favored reasonable Federal regulation. Now they are coming into this court of y, before they have even regis- tered. to ask the court to declare the act unconstitutional in its entirety and to enjoin the enforcement of all | sought. cate the shipping department is work- 1n 1931 at this time. They have noted | | that the demand for gifts in almost all | departments is running more to articles in higher price ranges than in previous | years, and that where last year the price was the most important consid- eration, this year quality is being Even at this relatively early ing to capacity, officials reported. At the Hecht Co., Lansburgh & Bro. and the S. Kann Sons Co., pay rolls were likewise at record high levels. There, too, the demand for better | quality merchandise far exceeds that | | | to be moving fast at the Hecht Co. | ern furniture does not harmonize very STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. : tore Pay Rolls Set D. C. Mark, While Cash Registers Jingle ristmas Sales Volume Leaps; Recall- ing Days of 1929—Larger Crowds Buying More Gifts. of previous years. General managers, metaphorically speaking, were rubbing their hands. Officials of the Lansburgh store drew a somewhat optimistic conclusion from the demand for furniture.” One offi- cial said: | “The demand for furniture has been | felt for several months, but it seems to be more marked during the Christ- mas season. People have to buy clothes and food, but they can always | get along with their old furniture. | In times of uncertainty, furniture is| the first thing they stop buying. They | seem to feel more satisfled now and are beginning to -replace the pleces | worn out with several years of depres- | sion use, which included a great deal | of staying at home.” Furniture in Demand Again, Furniture items were also reported store, with special emphasis on mod- ern styles. “People seem to be furnishing com- plete rooms,” an official said. “Mod- | well with old-style pleces. Some pur- chasers have been living with relatives | and are furnishing small apartments.” Officials at Kann's had the same ex- | perience to relate. As for the Police Department, the struggle is just beginning. Starting this morning, 44 traffic officers will be on duty at downtown corners to aid in handling the holiday shopping crowds. “The shopping crowds are lumng‘ earlier this year than for several | years,” said Assistant Police Supt. L. 1. H. Edwards. “We have been giving our men special training for 10 days | and are putting them on duty down- | town today to give them a couple of days’ practice before Saturday. Be- | sides being Christmas time. Saturday is Government pay day and we expect crowds will be bigger than ever.” And so revolving doors thump mer- rily, cash registers jingle like Santa’s | made to Secretary of Treasury Mor- BITTER EXCHANGES MARK TAX TRIAL Case Against Ex-Revenue Bureau Employes and Con- sultant Goes to Jury. The case of two former Internal Revenue Bureau employes and a New York tax consultant, on trial for con- spiracy to defraud the Government in the so-called McCarter tax case, rest- ed in the hands of & jury of 11 men and a woman in District Supreme Court this afternoon. The jury retired to consider a ver- dict shortly after noon, following an impassioned closing appeal by United SBtates Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and careful instructions from Justice F. Dickinson Letts. Justice Letts advised the jury it must find at least two of the defend- ants guilty of conspiracy in order to make a case against them. If only one is voted guilty of the alleged plot, he emphasized, all three must be ac- quitted. 3 Excerpts Read. Justice Letts read detailed excerpts from the lengthy indictment, which charged John W. Hardgrove, former associate chief conferee of the bureau: Henning R. Nelson, former bureau au- ditor, and Frank B. McElhill, New York tax acountant, with conspiring to divuige official secrets in violation of law, The trial resulted from complaints | genthau by Thomas N. McCarter, New | Jersey public utilities magnate, regard- | ing proposals made to him by McElhiil | in connection with McCarter's efforts to resist a $149,000 tax assessment. Likening the three defendants to “worms that seek to undermine the Government,” Garnett asked the jury for a conviction. “To acquit these defendants,” Gar- nett shouted as he shook his hands at the alleged conspirators, “is to con= vict the Government witnesses of the vilest conspiracy that men ever con- ceived.” Conspiracy Charged. Garnett charged that the “eminent sleigh and elevators are jammed to counsel for the defense” had attempt- capacity. COUNGIL OF CUBA TOPICK PRESIDENT Barnet Holds Edge at Ses- sion Tonight—NMillionaire JURY AGAINPROBE ARMY CONTRACTS Indictment Sought on Old Charges of Department | ed to establish such a conspiracy on | the part of the two dozen witnesses who testified for the Government against the defendants. “We've caught these three defend- ants with the goods on them, and they can't get out of it.” the United States attorney told the jury. “If we can stop the buzzards of the bar and the worms that seek w0 under- mine the Government, no cost is too | great.” | Garnett declared the prosecution had “forged a chain of evidence of double-riveted steel that is unbreak- |able.” He said the evidence proved | the defendants conspired corruptly to trading Military and Naval Academy | the beatings, but Mrs. Edwards said 'dental to financial reorganization. | ol - Vi =il > . kil _ | of its many regulatory provisions. ‘ s | 3 B .ppzo ‘rn:'m eBnL:kP“letha]rl(f,;:;lei; FIePIE" | any ezplanation of Senator Borah's ‘;‘m Sldh:hlltrtror S nu‘\zl:lc]:ir'lm\l\'s 'x'.l“'é"} llh y mv.:d ‘u': Bleeking e of; Taw Is Hunted. Irregularities. ’sce;::mfi!en:upu“ AR sentative Bu - intentions, they got it in his latest | her if s : It would default certain in-| wrpe nolding companies are coming | ing Recalled to the witness stand for speech. He tipped his hand A high spot of the hearing came terest payments, into court in & way calculated to make | B7 {he Assoclated Press. Charges of War Department irreg- | Asserting that the cross-examina- gross-examination, Hoeppel told how = | when Defense Attorney Prescott in- The petition was signed by F. W. HAVANA, December 12—Twice | ularities in awarding of contracts | tion of Internal Revenue agents by he and Burke “swapped” appoint- ments, disclosing that in 1934 there were seven exchanges. Burke, he tes- tified, signed three for him. He said he believed he signed four for Burke. Claims of Ives. ‘ ““One of these appointments went to Ives. Pine also brought out that Hoeppel sought to appear before the grand Jury before his indictment, but the re- guest was denied. Young Hoeppel, according to de- fense attorneys, will not take the witness stand and indications are the trial may end late today and the case | given to the jury. Hoeppel Testifies. =4 - Iways wound up in the corner. It h y- investigation. ‘Hoeppel testified in his own defense | 81Way The statement quoted her as say- ;g ; interest on first terminal and | utility bill with its controverted dis- |Tetary of the interior, and Leonardo from the classics and concluding his late yesterday and emphatically de- |happened too often to have been acci- | ing she had been beaten twice by Kil- | ynitvine mortgage bonds, $202.625; | wluliyon clause for some holding com- Anaya Murillo, secretary of education, | While Justice Department operatives | appeal by reading from a poem which nied the Government's charge. Questioned for an hour by Brig.| Gen. Samuel T. Ansell, chief of de- | fense counsel, Hoeppel said he had never discussed Ives’ appointment | with his son and had never received any money or anything of value for | his support of the athlete. Hoeppel also declared he had never received practically palm up by attacking both President Roosevelt—and Mr. Hoover. The Idahoan has been attacking Mr. Roosevelt all along, but this was the first time he said anything pointed about the hold-over leader of | left nothing to the imagination about the identity of the object of his re- | marks. Mr. Borah's main purpose in life seems to be growing. It is to prevent | the nomination of Mr. Hoover. That goes vice versa. The strangest mystery to Mr. Roose- velt's fellow travelers on his recent trip was the way Gov. Horner of Illinois dental. When Mr. Roosevelt marched into the Chicago Saddle and Sirloin Club for his lunch, he had Mayor Kelly and City Boss Nash at his side. No one took the hand of Democratic Gov. Horner. He marched in behind, and alone. The seating disclosed Mr. Roosevelt flanked by the same Messrs. | 1f the top Republicans wanted ‘ | troduced a confession made by Mrs. | Maddox after Pugh had said he did not intend to submit it. In this statement, made in writing by Mrs. Maddox & few hours after the shooting, the 35-year-old de- | fendant said she loved Killeen, al- his own party. Of course, he failed ' tyough realizing there was “nothing | to mention Mr. Hoover's name, but h€ ;i for her. known the gambler for about 30 years and had been “going with him” since | May 28, 1934. At one point in the statement, Mrs. Maddox said the gambler’s estranged | wife, Mrs. Florence Killeen, had come | to her apartment while she was out. | She said Mrs. Killeen left a note say- ing: “Next time I come here I will blow you to hell.” | leen shortly before the shooting and | had received her fourth black eye at | his hands. She said they engaged in { arguments the Friday night before she killed him and that he fired at her, | “cripple the other leg.” plained Mrs. Maddox had been crip- pled in one leg for some years. She She said she had | announcing he was going to| It was ex- | Green, vice president. The Cotton | Belt is controlled by the Southern Pacific Co. Past due obligations on which the road said it could meet neither interest | | nor principal were listed as: | R. F. C. notes aggregating $17.882 - 250, due December 1, plus $354,705.45 interest; note for $3,500,000 to Chase National, New York, and one for $1.000.000 to Mississippi Valley Trust, | St. Louis, both due December 1; bal- ance of $2€9,800.37 due October 27 on note to Railroad Credit Corp. ] The petition also listed $1,367.875 | due the Railroad Credit Corp. March | 31, 1936, and the following accounts | due January 1: Interest on general | and refunding mortgage bonds, $233,- interest on second mortgage bond cer- | | tificates, $60,850; interest on first | mortgage bonds of two w. olly owhed | | subsidiaries whose bonds were guar- | anteed by Cotton Belt, $60575 for | the Stephenville North and South Texas Railway Co., and $27,125 for | | the Central Arkansas & Eastern Rail- road Co. it virtually impossible for the Depart- ment of Justice and the Securities and | Exchange Commission to give this act the kind of deliberate and thorough- going test which the public interest de- mands for such an important declara- tion of the Congress. It is a matter of common knowledge that the holding companies concerted with one another in their attack on this law. * * ¢ “This kind of an attack is plainly | far beyond the need of the holding company business to protect itself, even assuming the truth of all the ex- aggerated allegations set forth in these complaints.” Near Cummings as he talked were Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Cohen, youthful New Deal attorneys, who were instrumental in drafting the panies. ‘ . The Attorney General said if his re- quest for a “stay” in the injunction | proceedings is granted, “the Govern- ment has no objection to the issuance of a temporary injunction or to a reservation by the’ court of the full right to withdraw the stay if the Government does not prosecute the balked in their efforts to meet, the Cuban Council of State and cabinet have scheduled a session tonight to elect a provisional President. Officers said quorum restrictions would be abandoned and a majority of those attending would name a Pres- | ident to serve until the elections in January, Jose A. Barnet. former secretary of state, who became head of the govern- ment after the recent resignation of Carlos de Mendieta, was mentioned | prominently for the post. | | Others whom the conference may | consider are Andres Domingo y! Morales del Castillo, secretary of Justice and acting secretary of the presidency: Maximiliano Smith, sec- Hunt Pushed for Millionaire. | As the official groups continued to work on plans for the government, sol- | diers and police pushed their search for Nicholas Castano, kidnaped Ha- vana millionaire. | Police said a witness saw two men, one dressed as a soldier and the other which were under investigation by the House Military Affairs Committee during most of 1934, have been placed before the District grand jury in an | effort to seéure an indictment, it was learned today. Testimony of “loans” undue in- fluence and expensive entertainment | of Army officials once before was pre- sented to the grand jury, but on that occasion, early in 1934. no crim- inal prosecution was instituted. Payment to Hide Charged. It is understood that the present inquiry deals specifically with efforts aliegedly made to prevent Frank E. Speicher, automobile tube salesman, from testifying at the congressional sought him for almost a year, Speicher was paid to hide in New York City, it is claimed. The congressional investigators wanted the inner tube salesman to tell them of a $2,000 loan he made to Brig. Gen. Alexander E. Williams back in 1933, when the officer was assistant to the quartermaster general Defense Attorneys William E. Leahy, Leo A. Rover and William H. Collins had served only to “polish the gold of their statements,” Garnett asked “did not the cross-examination by the Government of Defendants Hardgrove and Nelson reveal the brazen falsity of their statements?” The prosecutor referred sarcastical- ly to Hardgrove's quoted statement to McElhill in a wire-tapped tele- phone conversation that he had no time for golf, and declared: “He had lots of time to play the races, how- ever.” He repeated Hardgrove's tes- timony that he won $15,000 on the horses The District attorney soared to or- atorical heights at times, quoting ended “I fear the vermin that undermine the walls of State.” PASTRIES, SICKENING 48, ARE ORDERED ANALYZED v s, Kelly and Nash. The Governor was | a)so ed to Li 's auto- T i i any promises. also said Killeen had threaten Electric Bond & Share case vigorously | 5 & policenman, stop Castano’s a in charge of the transportation Food Contained Metallic Poison Tells of Letter. | seated out in left field somewhere. Jeave her and go to Miami in his boat. | , The bankruptcy P'“"‘““ ":"d e Promptly.” g ¥ | mobile early Tuesday morning. The division. A : Intervention 1d il il el i Py : men, the witness told police, hand- | or Had Decomposed, Phila- Hoeppel told of having received a nierven! ea. Shooting Described. th ad, and Carleton S. Hadle; —— s . » | G Willia: : There wer rts in th i | the road, a Y, | | cuffed Castano’s chauffeur and drove en. ms Convicted. | ¥ letter from Ives requesting the ap- | ere were repo; e pres| In describing the actual shOOUNE.| poth of St. Louls. was assigned to| { | delphia Doctor Asserts. pointment, written on War Depart- | dential party that the Governor would | the statement read as follows: Juige Clhehs: 3. Divis Tor Rexsing. | Lm's STlu. cooL off with the millionaire. Gen. Willlams later was court-|p ... associated Press ment stationery, which bore a notation | from Col. Raymond S. Bamberger, in | the adjutant general's office. The | notation said Brig Gen. Edgar T. Con- ley was interested in Ives. Col. Bamberger, Hoeppel testified, had befriended him while he was an elilisted man in the Army, and his name on the letter made “a very | favorable influence” on him. He said | the mention of Gen. Conley’s name in- fluenced him likewise, because he hoped to obtain some *consideration” from him. try to see the President during the Jjourney later to Notre Dame. The idea was that he would make an effort for presidential intervention to establish peace in the Democracy of Illinois. Strangely, there was always a crowd around the President during the. trip. ‘The good Governor had no opportunity for anything but comment on the weather. “I wal in bed in the house near Brookmont, Md., and Killeen came in and sat beside me. I started to put my arm sround him and he cursed me and said he was going to kill me. “He picked up a gun from a table beside the bed and T jumped up. Then he hit me on the nose and dropped the gun. I grabbed it and shot him while he was standing up. “1 was sick and tired of him pound- ing on me and calling me names and threatening to kill me. I knew what I was doing, but if I hadn’'t shot him The date of the hearing was not set. | & fresh injury. Pugh also disclosed through Dr. McDonald that Killeen had received a slight bullet wound on the left el- bow. Dr. J. V. Hartley, who assisted in | the autopsy, confirmed Dr. McDon- | ald’s testimony. Recalled by Pugh, Dr. McDonald said he did not notice the odor of | tor James Hamilton Lewis of Illinois, TOWARD RUSSIA Senator Says U. §. Should Have “Bided Its Time"” on Recognition. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 12.—Sena- | who was stricken seriously ill with pneumonia in Moscow, returned today One of Castano’s friends said he had received a letter demanding money | several months ago. The ransom fig- martialed and convicted of “solicit- ing and obtaining” the loan. His sentence of dismissal from the Army PHILADELPHIA, December 12.— Police and Board of Heaith investiga- tors tried today to trace the source of | ure was reported to be between $300.- | was accompanied by the official state- | 000 and $500,000, to be paid through ment that members of the court ““unan- & bank in Mexico. | imously joined in a recommendation The first of the postponed cabinet- | of clemency on account of the long council meetings had been called for| yesterday noon, but was delayed to permit the supreme court to deter- mine the legality of Barnet's ascen- sion to the presidency. | Automatically Would Succeed. | The court decided Barnet could and faithful service” of Gen. Williams. When the first grand jury investi- gation of Army contracts was im- pending, Speicher disappeared from Washington. Because what he could tell the grand jury was considered vital, Justice Department agents im- ! ingredients of pastries they said made 48 persons viclently ill. The cases were reported last night from Roxborough and Manayunk sections in North Philadelphia Dr. Prank E. Wolcoff. who treated several victims, said: ‘Either the food eaten contained a metallic polson, or else it had a bacterial decomposition.” Samples left unfinished by the vie- tims will be analyzed. «Hoeppel testified he made out Ives’ he would have killed me.” alcohol when he examined Mrs. Mad- on the United | legally become acting President be- | mediately were put on his trail, but o N ot A ey ey, Mrs. Maddox showed no signs of the | dox some nine hours after the shoot- | StateslinerWash- | cause he, as secretary of state, auto- | he was not located until long after | 5 Man Hit by C st time June 5. He said the athlets e e e Y e i} hanaia/the fiat polios: | ington. convinced | matically would succeed the resign- the jury's inquiry was fnished. ourteous Man Hit by Car. . Bis ol and he Srestes | een as she c: ge man to reach the house where Killoen | this Nation |ing President. | Finally, when found in New York, he ' BINGHAM. Utah —Cesare Rob- E:"::g’”_.l. i | e | Smith. S SR, He iabiialve: MeBE should ha ve| The second session, called for last| voluntarily accompanied the agents | biano, a courteous gentleman, step- = Hoeppel “mmlva“ "pn::.“ y&‘: e : Nervous at first, Mrs. Maddox mu:i 45 e bons. “bided its time" | night, was canceled when a quorum | back to Washington and testified be- | ped from a narrow sidewalk into St wonlt be' giad 1o/ imeet me, v | WDen the nagly arrived af Hbtre | ERtned confidence as‘she;diacussad the | FEU T tOFL L ERtGEST B debt in recognizing the | of members of the two bodies failed fore the House group. the street to allow two women to pass. Dame, a university where social stand. | Case with her attorneys. Soviet Union, to appear. The call for the third e | AR asdomobile Enocked hhn: dows: cédme to resign.” ing is ignored and all have equal chance, came the crowning touch. A list of those in the presidential party was given out by a publicity man who undoubtedly obtained it from an offi- cial source. The list recited the rnames of the only as “Henry Horner.”- No Sherlock Holmes will be re- quired to find whose elbow did the pushing, The collective wings of Messrs. Kelly and Nash probably would be proud to confess. The facts lend confirmation to the old story that they will put some one into the nrimary mext time against their own party Governor. The Farley national organization Early American settlers used friendly Indians as messengers. SHOPPING DAYS TO (HRISTMAS FRIENDLY Indians were frequently the favorite private messengers of will contend coyly that it is keeping out of the Ilinois Democratic organi- play hands under the table with the Kelly-Nash crowd. The American Liberty League does not know it yet, but New Dealers will conduct a congressional investigation of its activities, and its backers at the coming session of Congress. (Copyright, 1935.) Licensed at Arlingtons ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va., zation situation. Equally coyly it will | State’s Attorney Pugh based most of his case on the testimony of Wil- son Payne, a Bethesda, Md. police- man, who was first to reach the scene of the shooting. Police Sergt. Theodore Vollion said Killeen had Heen under investigation formation in an effort to show Kil- leen was a dangerous character. Voll- ten said he knew him as a gambler. Desires Preliminary Hearing. Mrs. Maddox, accompanied by her attorneys, entered the court room at 10:10 o'clock. She wore a burnt orange dress and stood calmly while Judge Smith read the murder charge and ascertained that she desired a \ preliminary hearing. State's Attorney Pugh' called Dr. ‘William S. Murphy as his first wit- ness. Dr. Murphy described the bullet wounds that caused Killeen's death. Mrs. Maddox, her head bowed, held a handkerchief to her eyes as Dr. Murphy demonstrated on himself the course taken by the bullets. He said one bullet entered the right front side of Killeen's body, while the other penetrated the back just below the right kidney. He said Kil- leen was killed by the bullet entering through the front, causing an ab- dominal hemorrhage sufficient to kill he asked. “Is he drun “No,” he quoted Mrs. Maddox as replying, “I | shot him because he abused me.” Later, according to Payne, she said Killeen had threatened to kill her and that she shot him as he was | getting off the bed. “She said they had been drinking all day,” Payne testified in response to a question from Pugh. Asked for his entire conversation with Mrs. Maddox, Payne said: “Mrs. Maddox asked if Killeen was dead. When he told her he was, she said she hadn't meant to kill him, but that he had been beating her.” On cross-examination, the officer said Mrs. Maddox was calm when the police arrived, but broke down “a little bit” when she learned Killeen was dead. Payne denied Mrs. Maddox told him Killeen apparently had been going in- sane for six months. He also denied Mrs. Maddox told him she had tried to get away from the gambler. “Did Not Mean to Kill Him.” Policeman E. R. Jones, after con- firming the testimony given by Payne, sala the woman told him she loved Killeen and did not mean to kill him. He added, however, that she said she fired as Killeen was going toward the dresser—when his back must have ‘William C. Bul- litt, the Ameri- | can Ambassador to Moscow, re- turned on the same ship for the Christmas holi- Bullitt sald, “you find profound ad- miration for President Roosevelt, for his administration and for what it is trying to do.” Aside from this, the envoy said he didn't want “to discuss political af- fairs.” 3 “Fully Recovered.” Senator Lewis said he was fully re- covered from his illness. “I received the best of treatment in Moscow,” he said. | ‘The Senator was opposed to recog- nition and shortly before he left for Europe several months ago he sald recognition should be withdrawn if the State Department found proof of allegations that Russia had violated its pledges of “hands off” in American internal affairs. (Such charges, made after the sev enth Congress of the Communist In- ternational in Moscow, resulted in a warning being issued by the State De- partment.) Sees Trade Threat. | been harmed by her daddy or there session tonight and abandonment of | the quorum rest-ictions followed. | Plans for the general election Janu- ary 10 have not been changed. For- mer President Mendieta moved from the presidential palace to his country home near Havana. (Continued From First Page.) her father's life, Skeen said that even | granting that these threats were made | they could not be considered more than | “rather unguarded, silly remarks.” “These remarks, if made,” he said, | “came from a girl who fancies she had had been some mistreatment by her father.” Says Defense Gambied. O. M. Vicars, who replied for the prosecution, sald the defense had “gambled” for either acquittal or con- viction of first degree murder, thinking that the jury would be persuaded to free the young woman. : His statement was ih reply to the defense contention that the court erred in not instructing the jury as.to the lesser degrees of guilt other than first degree murder. GREEN SAYSA.F.OFL. MAY GHANGE SESSION Drinking All Day. President, Jim Farley, Prank Walker (i connection with the shooting of s, MM S6id, b days. By the Associated Press. and several others. Last on the list | Allen B. Wilson, newspaper route| Payne sald M, “Every place William G resident of the | bro 2 was on & bedside table. Semator Lewis. s cele \ m Green, president of the was an unidentified person, designated | 38¢nt. Prescott brought out this in- | the gun mater T you go in Europe, Maxwell American Federation of Labor, | awaited reports today from the presi- | dent of the Florida federation on the alleged beating of three labor men in Tampa before deciding whether | the next A. F. of L. convention should be held elsewhere. ‘Unless those guilty of the “alleged acts of violence and brutality” are prosecuted, Green said, the federa- tion may meve its November, 1936 convention, to a city “where working men and women are properly pro- Green's statement followed a con- ference with Rev. James Myers, in- dustrial secretary of the Federal Council of Churches, and Murray | Baron, representative of the Labor | and Socialist Defense Committee. | They conferred with Senator | Fletcher, Democrat, of Florida, who said he would talk over the matter with Gov. Scholtz of Florida. | Christmas Seals fracturing his skull Irvin S. Cobb Says: Polygamous Wives in Clutches of Arizona Law Have Suffered Enough. CULVER CITY, Calif, December 12.—Hollywood sentiment is that those | alleged polygamists now on trial over | at Kingman, in Arizona, should be |penalized for |breaking the rules. You see, the curious col- ony up there in the desert favorsf baving a lot of wives all at once, whereas the Hol various wives, one at a time, which prevents confusion and works out to the . him in 30 seconds. He was unable 3 fying the first European colonists in Amer< | December 12 (Special) —Marriage 1i- ound was in- | been turned. He sald he found In Russia “the im- Y jca. The unsettled condition in the|censes have been issued here to the. :;:z wuly apich waes m She wasn't drunk, Jones said, but | pression that they want to cultivate H"_LMAN Is ROBBED high scores. country during that period made the following: Under cross-examination by Pres- the friendship of the United States.” Why 1 Buy Them—a State- But no matter how the law may safe arrival of letters problematical. Henry Benjamin Long, 24, and | cott, however, along.” ‘Within the next few years, Senator i serve those Arizona husbands, I would "The Indians, fajthful and speedy, had | Esther Frances Brokamp, 23, both of | Heved the. bulles entesing foom the | He said four guns were found in | Lewis continued, “Russia wiil become | SPRINGFIELD, Mo, December 12 ment by Maj. Ernest put In & plea for the female code- great endurance and knew the coun- | Brooklyn, Md.; Thomas L. Bright- | front was fired first. In -response to|the house. Prompted by Mrs: Maddox, | a serious competitor to the United | (#)—Fred H. Hillman, who offered B fendants charged with marrying ‘em try perfectly, so that correspondence | well, 37, of East Falls Church and|another question from Prescott, he | Prescott asked if she hadn't shown | States and Great Britain in trade.” membership in a national anti-crime 2 - d so coplously. For I've just seen some carried by them was more certein to|Carrie Dobyns Perry, 41, of Claren- |said Mrs. Maddox had numerous | police where the guns were. Lewis said he had given no attention | association with subscription to | “Because they help police tubercu- | newspaper pictures of the w:‘m be delivered. Letters preserved since | don; Talbot Wegg, 31, of Washington | bruises on her body, a swollen nose | Jones said he didn't know. to the Illinols political situstion. His | magazine he represented, has suspend- | losis, which, like a killer in the night, | oners. Gentlemen of the jury, ¥ that time frequently mention the de- | and Elizabeth , 20, of | and two black éyes when he examined | Prescott received negative answers|term expires after the next Congress. | ed operations temporarily. attacks unsuspecting victims who live | be true likenesses, those poor neare livery of mail by friendly Indians. | Clarendon; Frank Jennings Webb, 18, | her on the night of the shooting. A | when he asked if Mrs. Maddox said| “I don’t know anything about a con- ( He told police yesterday all of his | or work in close contact with persons | sighted women already have suffered They were still used to carry letters | of West Falls Church and Ivy Bell | subsequent examination indicated her | her husband had left her and that|test,” he said. “If there is any one | supplies were stolen from his parked | suffering from this communicable | enough. Talk about being more sinned in the Colony of New York for a con- | Santmyer, 16, of Clarendon: Preston | nose was broken, Killeen had been desertéd by his wife | looking for my seat, I haven't heard | automobile—including door emblems | disease.” Signed, against than sinning. siderable time after regular mail serv- | Bugene Dewey, 50, and Mary Pugh brought out that some of before she “started going” with the|about it. But I have given no thought | to warn thieves away from members’ MAJ. ERNEST W. BROWN, B e i~ T ice was, established. _ " 'Tnomas, 39, both-of Clarendon, | bruises-were #t-least 24 hours- gambler, . . oo ) yet-ssto-whether I will Tun again.” ' homes, - . - . ’ Chief of Police. G, LN Y i . [ ) ¢ 4 [ ) L 4 (4 !