Evening Star Newspaper, December 1, 1936, Page 6

AGTION DEFENDED BY GOV. SMITH Vermont Chief Executive Says He Acted “With Fi- delity” in Bank Crisis, BY the Associated Press. RUTLAND, Vt., December 1.—Gov. Charles M. Smith, 68, charged with concealing alleged thefts from the bank he heads, maintained today he acted “with fidelity to my duties as a citizen and an officer” of the bank. The gray-haired official was arrested yesterday and released on $6,000 bail furnished by former Republican Com- mitteeman Earle Kinsley, an insur- ance company executive, and his wife, No date was set for arraignment. Smith's arrest followed the convic- tion of John J. Cocklin, 42, former bookkeeper of the bank, the Marble Savings Bank, on a charge of em- bezzling - $124,000 over. a nine-year period, and the earlier conviction of Lathrop Baldwin, bank . treasurer, charged with signing a false state- ment at the time the shortage was discovered. Both Cocklin and Baldwin, free on bail, await sentence. In a sttaement last night Smith said: “In 1932, when the country was ex- periencing an unprecedented number of bank failures. I followed a course of conduct which seemed clearly im- perative for protection of depositors of the Marble Savings Bank and at the same time consistent with good 1 eitizenship. “However, the propriety of that ac- tion has been attacked. * * * At the proper time and place I expect to -make it clear I acted with fidelity : to my duties as a citizen and an offi- cer of the Marble Savings Bank.” * Defense counsel maintained the mis- . prision of felony—the formal charge against Smith—is a misdemeanor and as such should be transferred from . the County Court to the jurisdiction of Municipal Court. The Governor is “completing the last year of his two- year term. He did not seek re-elec- tion, GOV. C. M. SMITH. —A. P. Wirephoto. NAVY FLYERS KILLED Lieut. R. T. Symes and Radioman Crash Into Sea. SAN DIEGO, Calif., December 1 () —Lieut. Robert T. Symes and George F. Cole, chief radioman, were killed instantly yesterday when their plane crashed into the sea off the La Jolia coast, naval authorities reported. An oil slick and fragments of plane | wreckage were found by officers of the light cruiser Milwaukee, who saw the crash and proceeded to the rescue. At nightfall the Milwaukee abandoned the search. The plane was a two-seater attached to Squadron VF-1 of the aircraft car- rier Lexington. Michigan Party Planned. Final plans for the pre-inaugural dinner in honor of Democratic victors in Michigan and also for a December party will be discussed at a meeting of the Michigan-Washington Demo- cratic Club tomorrow night at the Washington Hotel. All Michigan res- idents are invited to attend. :SCOUTS FASCISM IN U. S. "Harvard Government Professor ..Bays ‘Bewildered State’ Lacking. BOSTON, * United States is in no danger, Fritz Morstein Marx, Harvard government professor, sald in an interview yes- terday, of “veering toward Fascism or communism,” because there is no parallel here to the ‘bewildered” ‘#tate of Germany, Italy and Russia . &t the time of their revolutions, In each of those European countries, he said, a government was set up | “relegating the individual to a place “: elearly subordinated” to the oemnl‘ * power. December 1 (#).—The | Round trip rates ‘most parts U.S. 1-3/10¢ & mile! Hot water heat. EXAMPLES | Round Trip Fares Boston ___$10.35 New York_ $6.30 Mia: $26.1 Phone Distriot 5600 819 12th St N.W. &g Jiee W..B. & A. Siation | THE EVENING. STAR, K WASHINGTON, BANK BANDIT TRID FLUDE POLIE T Gunmen Flee Without Cash " After Wounding Boone Mill Cashier. By the Associated Press. BOONE MILL, Va., December 1.— State and Franklin County authorities, who are conducting & wide search, had been unsuccessful last night in ap- prehending three bandits who yester- day invaded the Farmers & Merchants’ Bank here, wounded the cashier, G. W. Bowman, jr., and fled without taking a cent of the bank’s funds. The bandits took flight in & sedan that was stolen from Robert L. James of Bedford, and were reported- to have headed south. 5 Bowman, suffering a gunshot wound in the right leg, was taken to & Roanoke hospital, wheré he was re- ported not seriously wounded. He was wounded when_he attempted to run out of the building upon being ordered to “stick 'em up” by two of the men, who had concealed themselves on top of the vault. Both were masked. The third bandit was waiting outside the building in the car. John H. Nunley, a customer, who was also in the bank when the hold- up occurred, ran from the bullding ‘without suffering injury, although one shotgun load was apparently directed at him The bandits fled from the bank after Bowman was shot and escaped in the waiting car. It was believed the two bandits entered the bank before daybreak to await the coming of the employes. e SOME TURKEY LEFT Sixth of Gobbler for Each Con- sumer 8till Remains. Despite heavy Thanksgiving feast- ing, there’s still. enough turkey to go around. Gobbler experts at the Agriculture Department said today that “each consumer’s quota of this year's crop of turkeys, if they were all divided into equal shares, would be almost one-sixth of & turkey.” DON'T_MISS THESE BARGAINS Red Radiance E. G. ! PINK Los Angeles Briarelift Olympiad Columbia WHITE Double White Killarney K. A. Vietoria. Rev. Hoover Paul Scarlett Climber, Scarlet \ 3= T0c TULIPS, nice variety, 45¢ o dozen; $3.25 o hundred. 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