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REED NOW SOUGHT INNEW ENGLAND Friend of Matthews Case Suspect Nabbed in Raid at Boston. By 8 Btaff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md.,, December 30.— An intensive search for William B. Reed, 25-year-old alleged Killer, was being made throughout New England today following the capture in Boston last night of a youth alleged to have served as an accomplice in several crimes laid to the young Montgomery County desperado. A “tip” unearthed by local officers led to a raid upon a hotel in the Massachusetts city, but Reed could not be found. Richard P. Stockton, 22, sought in two robberies attributed to Reed, was apprehended in the lobby, however, and police believe the latter 1s in hiding nearby. Meanwhile, it was said that Reed, who 1s being hunted by police and Federal agents for two murders in Maryland and West Virginia and a number of other crimes in both those States and Virginia, is also wanted in connection with a four-year-old kid- naping and attempted extortion at Richmond, Va. At the instance of Department of Justice agents, United States Com- missioner Needham C. Turnage at Washington issued warrants today charging Reed, Lawrence Gingell, 20, and War Joseph Kirby, 21, with kid- naping William E. Brown, Washing- ton taxicab driver, on November 23 and -taking him to Richmond. De- tainers on this charge will be filed with Montgomery County police, but Federal agents will not try to get the defendants away from Maryland au- thorities, they said today. Taken in Raid, A dispatch from the Associated Press in Richmohd stated that Justice Department sleuths seek Reed as a suspect in the futile attempt to extort $7,500 from George N. Davis, cashier of a Lewisburg, W. Va., bank, on August 1, 1932. Two men were cap- tured and sentenced to 18-year terms. | A third escaped. | The arrest of Stockton came within & few hours after G-men joined in the search for Reed, who has been | linked by statements of two confessed | accomplices to two murders, two kid- napings and robberies, thefts of sev- eral automobiles and a hold-up since he was released in October from the| Maryland House of Correction, where he was confined for housebreaking. | Detective Sergt. Theodore Vollten, Police Sergt. Le Roy Rodgers, both of | Montgomery County, and a Federal agent led a squad of 25 Boston police in a raid on the hotel and took Stockton into custody when they found him in the lobby. Earlier in| the night a Cambridge apartment house was raided in another futile effort to capture their quarry. Known As Friends. Stockton, local authorities say, is known to be a close friend of Reed | and is wanted as a suspected accom- plice of Reed in the hold-up of a| taxi driver in Takoma Park last! month and in connection with the hold-up*of W. C. Giddings, Burnt | Mills merchant, several years ago.| Giddings suffered a superficial wound when fired upon during the robbery. It is said that Stockton will be brought back to Rockville by Sergts. Rodgers and Vollten when they return from their hunt in New England. ‘The search for Reed was spurred by two youths under arrest in connection with the murder of Elwood Matthews, well-to-do Montgomery County farm- er, who was robbed and slain Novem- ber 13, and W. Earle Dollman, Phila- delphia salesman, who was killed after being robbed near Sutton, W. Va., on ‘Thanksgiving day. Gingell is held here, and Kirby, un- | der arrest in West Virginia, have linked Reed with both slayings, police say. In addition, officers declare, they have connected him with the kidnaping and robbery of a West Vir- ginia bank cashier last month, the kidnaping of Brown, theft of cars and & hold-up at Oakland, Md. All followed the murder of Matthews, Ppolice said. Sought in Extortion. Capt. H. B. Nicholas, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, also told the Associated Press at Richmond Reed is “unquestionably” being sought by Federal agents in connection with the Davis case there in 1932, Davis and R. K. Robertson, super- intendent of an orphanage at Lewis- burg, W. Va., were picked up in the West Virginia town by two armed men who forced them to drive to Rich- mond. A companion of the abductors followed in another car. Forcing a promise of $7,500 from the 65-year-old Davis in return for his life and freedom, the extortionists after an all-night drive arrived in Richmond and led Davis into the First and Merchants National Bank. While he was drawing the ransom money a bank official, noticing Da- .vis’ highly nervous state, became sus- picious. He called detectives, and the abductors were seized before they icould draw firearms. ' The pair, Harley Curry, member of & prominent West Virginia family, ‘and William Craft, were sentenced to 18-year prison terms. The third man, who followed them to Richmond, they .named as Harvey Guthrie. This man is believed to be William Reed, the Associated Press said. 60-Day Senator Gets Name Plate, Every parish in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington was represented yesterday at the luncheon tendered Dr. George F. Dudley. Shown in the photograph, left to right, are Rev. Z. B. Phillips, Dr. Dudley, Bishop James E. Freeman and Mrs. Dudley. —Star Staff Photo. Planes (Continued From First Page.) Department pointed out they would violate the spirit of the law, they were withdrawn. Represents Minority, Ninety per cent of ousiness men, he said, had come along with this view, but he declared Cuse’s action repre- sented the other 10 per cent. Mr. Roosevelt explained he looked to thé recent Supreme Court decision upholding the President’s arms em- bargo power to block any damage ac- | tion Cuse might bring if his shipment is stopped. When a reporter mentioned that Cuse contends the airplanes were not for war purposes, the President said | the same plea was made by shippers | during the early stages of the World War. In a statement defending his plans .Cuse said, in part: “Whatever new laws may be passed in the future, the fact remains that my company has purchased commercial awrplanes for shipment to a country with which we are not at war on the strength of and in compliance with the existing laws of our country and the license for their export was granted accordingly.” A call for the State Department to rescind the license or hold it up until Congress can act came from Repre- sentative Rankin, Democrat, of Mis- sissippi. Borah Indorses Embargo. “To hold a peace conference in South America,” he said in a state- ment, “and then permit our nationals | to pour this oil on the flames of a European conflict is like rising from prayer and going to target practice.” Senator Borah, Republican, of Idaho, ranking minority member of the Foreign Relations Committee, in- dorsed “in principle” an embargo on munition shipments to either faction in any civil war. “But in practice i will be very diffi- cult,” he said, “to define a civil war.” Both Borah and Senator Nye, Re- publican, of North Dakota, an advo- cate of drastic neutrality legislation, cautioned against doing anjthing that | might indicate this Government was taking sides in Spain. Asserting “it is unfortunate that any citizen should wish to take ad- vantage of the situation,” Borah said the State Department “did the right | thing” in licensing the Cuse airplane shipment under the present law. Hits “Cash and Carry” Plan. He criticized a proposed “cash and carry” neutrality plan as “a pretty sordid conception of national respon- sibility.” . Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan and some other members of Congress previously had suggested that munitions shipments to warring nations be barred and other trade with them limited to that for which they paid cash and sent their own ships. Support for thé move to extend the neutrality law to the Spanish confict came from Senator Capper, Repub- lican, of Kansas, of the Foreign Rela- tions Committee. He said the present law was “weak” in not mentioning civil strife. “We ought to give the President greater discretion, but at the same time leave no doubt as to the policy of being absolutely against taking part in Euro- pean wars,” he said. Capper said the country was virtually unanimous in its desire to keep out of war and to take the profits out of war. Senator Nye characterized the Span- ish situation as “dynamite” and warned there might be “serious dan- ger” in trying to halt munition ship- ments “at this late date.” “Whatever we do now might consti- tute .an unneutral act to one side or the other,” he said. Another development was a dis- closure by Senator Connally, Demo- crat, of Texas that he would reintro- duce in the new Congress a bill au- thorizing Government operation of essential industries in war time and placing a stiff tax on war profits. The hearings in which Vimalert was linked with*the Soviet were held by a special House committee headed by Representative Fish, Republican, of New York. Basil W. Delgass, former vice presi- : ButNo Door for It By the Assoclated Press. Minnesota's 60-day Senator, Guy V. Howard, has a name plate, but no door on which to place it. The Senator, whose special term started after the November election and ends with the convening of Con- gress next Tuesday, intends taking the name plate back to Minmesota as & memento of his brief Washing- ton career. dent of Amtorg, told how the Russian | was known to the Embassy. organization obtained Liberty motors ‘BOARD THE snow TRAIN For a Glorious Day of WINTER SPORTS IN THE ALLEGHENY MOUNTAINS used by the War Department during | and after the World War for aviation | purposes. On November 25, 1930, the record of Delgass’ testimony about the plane purchases said: “Amtorg did not buy from the Government; private persons, Ameri- cans, bought these motors from the Government. They bought altogether, if I remember right, about 400 motors at that time (1927-8). “They repaired them in this coun- try. There was a special organization for this purpose—it was in New Jer- sey. The name of this organization was Vimalert and this man Makhnik- ovsky (identified as the man in charge of Soviet purchases of military ma- terial in this country) had his assist- | ants working with this organization on the repair of these motors. “Later they were shipped to Russia under the guise of different ma- chinery.” The witness developed that at the time the purchases were heing made the export of Liberty engines from the United States was prohibited. Delgass explained: “They (Amtorg) had an organization here, they bought these Liberty motors through private business, by Ameri- cans, who purchased them from the ‘War Department as if for use in this country. They dismantled them, they repaired them, and then also obtained drawings of the War Department as | to the different changes that were | made during these years—the modern- | | ized Liberty motors.” | Delgass identified Makhnikovsky, not only as a Soviet purchasing agent, but | also as the head of the Soviet espionage | system here, working on the premises | of Amtorg, but not officially connected | with that organization. | Ambassador Alexander Troyanovsky authorized the following statement in | the name of the Embassy of Soviet | Russia: “The Union of Socialist Soviet Re- publics is on speaking terms with the Spanish government, but it had noth- | ing to do with this transaction (Cuse’s proposed shipment to Spain.) We are informed that the Amtorg Trading Corp. (New York) had no connection | with the transaction.” It was said on behalf of the Em- | bassy that Cuse is not a Soviet citi- | zen and that nothing concerning him ' SPAIN HAILS U. S. ACTION Legitimacy of Valencia Regime Is Seen Recognized. MADRID, December 30 (#)—/| United States approval of airplane sales to Spanish Socialists was inter- | preted in newspapers today as prov- ing the legitimacy of the Valencia government, The newspaper ABC published a front-page photograph of President Roosevelt, with the Statue of Liberty in the background, alongside Wash- ington dispatches describing the sale’s approval by the Department of State. ENGINES HELD UNSUITABLE. Can’t Match Modern Aircraft, Brig. Gen. Robins Says. DAYTON, Ohio, December 30 (#).— | The Spanish government, if it is the ' §& ultimate purchaser of approximately 150 airplane engines sold by the Army Air Corps last month at Wright Field, is buying engines “not suitable for op- | eration against modern military .air- craft,” Brig. Gen. A. W. Robins, chief of the Materiel Division of the Army Air Corps, said today. Gen. Robins, ranking ' officer at Wright Field, under whose direction the engines were disposed of to Martin Liling, New York broker, said that any purchaser accepting the equipment for military use must be buying it “sight unseen.” T PAINTING You will be surprised at the LOW estimates we will give you on your Painting requirements. We have been giving satisfactory Painting service for 20 years. . FERGUSON # 3831 Ga. Ave. COl. 0567 L DUCE ANNOYED BY U. . ATTITUDE Lack of Appreciation for Italian Fascism Is Deplored. By the Associated Press. ROME, December 30.—Benito Mussolini is annoyed at what he re- | gards as the United States’ failure| Mrs. Dudley and Dr. W. Sinclair | | to “appreciate” Fascism, Count Francesco Mario Guardabassi said today. Count Guardabassi, who has talked with I1 Duce about it, is the husband of the former Rosalind Wood of Prides Corner, Mass, a daughter of the late William H. Wood, founder of the American Woolens Co. He recently made a quick visit to Rome to confer with Mussolini. Afterwards he displayed an American magazine cover as an example of the thing that arouses Il Duce’s ire. Menaces to Labor Shown. The illustration depicted a stalwart American laborer menaced on either side by daggers labeled “Fascism” and “Communism.” “Il Duce cannot understand how Fascism can be so utterly misunder- stood in the United States,” said lhe: “It is absurd to place Fascism count. in the same class with Communism. “Nowhere in the world is labor better protected than in Italy under the Fascist regime. 5 “Mussolini wants to live in peace with the rest of the world. He ad- mires the United States and has great respect for President Roosevelt, but he wishes reciprocal sentiments ‘were more general among Americans.” Count Guardabassi told Il Duce a | propaganda campaign in the United | States would help to correct the “misapprehensions” about Fascism and offered his own services in such an effort. Americans for a more favorable at- titude toward Italian immigrants. During his audience the count gave Mussolini 30,000 lire (about $1578) | to commemorate foundation of the Italian empire. The Duce allocated the money for the construction of Fascist headquarters buildings in Pila, ARCHDUCHESS DIES INNSBRUCK, Austria, December 30 (®).—Archduchess Maria, 35, daughter of Archduke Francis Salva- tor, died here last night in a sanie torium. She was a grandniece of Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, who died in 1916. Buy Now S A Forty years ago, the count | began an independent crusade among | where the count owns much | | property. SALT T gl o Gl 1341 F Street N.W. CLERGY AND LAITY HONOR DR. DUDLEY Over 300 Gather to Honor Pastor of St. Stephen’s and The Incarnation. Dr. George ¥. Dudley, retiring rector of St. Stephen’s and the Incarnation Church, was honored yesterday by more than 300 members of the clergy and laity of the Episcopal diocese of Washington at a testimonial luncheon at the Willard Hotel, Led by Right Rev. James E. Free- man, Bishop of Washington, and Rev. Ze Barney Phillips, chaplain of the Senate and rector of Epiphany Church, the gathering paid .igh trib- ute to the work of Dr. Dudley, who has been rector of St. Stephen’s and the Incarnation parish for A3 years. His retirement becomes effective Pri- day. Bishop Freeman Speaks. Bishop Freeman expressed the hope that Dr. Dudley’s retirement would not mean that he will withdraw en- tirely from the work in the Wash- ington diocese. He declared Dr. Dud- ley's service played a large part in bringing about “a finer spirit of fel- lowship throughout the diocese than we have ever had.” Bishop Freeman also paid tribute to the retiring rec- tor's wife, Mrs. Mary Dudley. Pointing out that Dr. and Mrs. Dud- ley plan to spend a few montls in the South, Rev. Mr. Phillips said every one was glad for them to take a va- cation, “as long as we know you'll be back to continue your work in some capacity.” Lynch Luquer, who spoke in behalf of the church vestrymen, announced that Dr. Dudley had been made rec- tor emeritus. He also discussed the campaign now being conducted to raise $45,000 for the parish. Dr. Dudley Talks Briefly. Dr. Dudley spoke briefly, recalling that when he first became rector of St. Stephen's and the Incarnation parish, the church held only about 1100 persons. He told how he had en- | Joyed his work and spoke of his par- {1sh as “the best I've ever seen.” | Bowen also ;ave brief addresses, after | which two large baskets of flowers | were presented to Dr. and Mrs. Dud- | | ley. | The luncheon was arranged by a | committee headed by Mrs. James E. | Dalgleish. Wages (Continued Prom t Page.) point, by recent decisions of the Su- | preme Court upholding similar devices used for other ends. The President said he did not know | whether the goals aimed at could be reached without an amendment to | the Constitution. He conferred yes- {terday with Sidney Hillman, labor |leader and former N. R. A. official, about breakdown of maximum hour | and minimum wage scales set up by | the invalidated N. R. A. | Reiterates Action Needed. When pressed as to what steps | might be taken, the President insisted that all he could say now was that | something should be done. He counseled newspaper men against *“going out on a limb,” as he termed |it, because he said that if he were writing & story he would not know what else could be said. The President told of an instance | in the campaign when a crowd pressed against his automobile at New Bed- ford, Mass. A girl wanted to pass him an envelope, but was thrown back and started to cry. He told his bodyguard, the late | Gus Gennerich, to get the note. Gen- nerich did so and it proved, Mr. | Roosevelt said, to be a plea for some | action to help girls in a sewing factory who had been getting minimum wages {under N. R. A, but had been cut to from $4 to $6 a week. The President added that lots of people had the same idea as the New Bedford girl—that the President had the personal power to restore mini- mum wages. He added that of course he had no such authority. Parking Meters Profitable. Dallas, Tex., second largest city in the United States to install parking meters on a large scale, collected | $138,023 from them the first year. BROS. ING and Save! LE LANGROCK and Other Fine Suits Topcoats, Reversible Topcoats and Overcoats. Were $40, now $32 Were $45, now $36 Were $50, now $40 Were $55, now $44 Were $60, now $48 Were $65, now §52 Were $70, now $56 Were $75, now $60 In the presence of a few intimate friends and relatives, United States Senator Claude Pepper, 36, one of the youngest members of the Senate, was married yesterday in St. Petersburg, - Fla., to Irene Mildred Webster. ture taken as they announced the: They are shown above in a pic- ir intention to wed. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Hitler (Continued From First Page.) ing, “should Italy and Germany alone pull the chestnuts of other powers out of the Spanish fire?"” ‘The German political strategists un- derstood to have been called into con- sultation at Berlin after Der Fuehrer had returned to the capital from his Berchtesgaden retreat to pay tribute at the grave of Gen. Hans von Seeckt, | post-World War organizer of the Ger- man Army, who died Sunday. Neither Hitler nor his cabinet mem- bers were present at the actual funeral services, however, which were held | at the Von Seeckt home and attended by many representatives of the old imperial army and by the venerable | former Czar Ferdinand of Bulgaria. | Mussolini's future policy toward Spanish Fascism was expected in in- formed circles to have great weight in any decision Hitler and his Nazi lieutenants reach on Franco-British demands for a strict non-intervention in the Spanish civil war. How far the Nazis would go to force the Spanish Socialist govern- ment to free a Spanish passenger and freight seized from the freighter Palos while it was interned in Bil- bao Harbor may be settled at the conference. Reprisals Threatened. A foreign office spokesman said re- prisals of some sort definitely would be taken unless they are released. The cruiser Kolen and a torpedo | boat were steaming to the Bay of Bis- cay to. exert further pressure if the Bilbao authorities fail to free the passenger and cargo which was held as contraband of war. The Palos itself was released yes- terday after the cruiser Koenigsberg appeared in Bilbao Harbor and its commander demanded the steamer be turned loose. Nazi warships, Germany warned, may retaliate by searching ships of | any nation destined for Bilbzo. and British note of Sunday demanding assurances that Hitler would halt vol- unteer aid to Gen. Pranco. Also possibly on schedule for the meeting was a reported request from Gen. Franco for additional masses of Nazi troops to help beat down Madrid's | stubborn defenses. Official quarters described the chancellor’s day as filled with “several important conferences.” Before the reports of Mussolini's advice to pull out of Spain, Hitler had been represented as playing for time to consulc the Italian premier and to see the outcome of the present Fascist assault on Madrid. BLUM TO ASK PEACE. Decides to Address New Year Appeal to Europe. PARIS, December 30 (#).—Premier Leon Blum determined today to ad- dress a New Year eve appeal to Eu- | rope for peace. Blum decided to broadcast his plea while the French Parliament rushing through a budget of 48,146,- 525,573 francs ($2,247,000,000), 64 per cent of which was devoted to war expenses. Meanwhile, foreign office sources showed impatience over the delay of replies from Germany and Italy to de- mands for- stricter neutrality in the Spanish Civil War. Blum, it was announced, would broadcast over all government radio stations Thursday at 7:30 p.m. (12:30 p.m., Eastern standard time). A Moscow reply to the Franco- British neutrality demand giving qual- ified approval failed to relieve pessim- ism in official circles over prospects of an answer from Berlin and Rome. The Russian reply promised to ban volunteers from Spain if other powers would do likewise and strict control were established. Quake Destroys Statue. The bronze statue of the sun god Helios of Rhodes—the Collossus—was was | *% A—S POLIGE INTERRUPT MAN OPENING SAFE Intruder in Drug Store Ar- rested After Watchman Gives Alarm, A 24-year-old man, who said he had once studied for the ministry, was are rested last night attempting to open a safe in the Peoples Drug Store at Fif« teenth and H streets northeast, police reported today. Pat Shean, night watchman in the vicinity, noticed a panel had been cut out of a side door. He notified the ninth precinct and Sergt W. F. McDuffie and Patrolmen D. A. Higgins and W. A. Fiefield re- sponded. J. A, Milisap, The intruder, who gave his name as John A. Millsap, 24, of Gastonia, N. C., had dragged the safe into the back of the store and knocked off the knob when he was interrupted, po- lice said. He is being held for inves- ‘ugatlon. while a second man reported | to be connected with the case is be- | ing sought. ‘Two suspects were being held in the hold-up of John 8. Reid, 21, of 513 | Second street southeast, night attend- ant at a filling station at Sixth and C streets. Reid told police he was walking home with about $35 of his night's re- ceipts when he was attacked by four colored women, two of them armed with knives, in the 300 block of Sec- ond street southwest. Two Women later were arrested. Two colored men are being sought | for the hold-up of Pearl Cole, man- ager of an ice cream store at 806 | Upshur, last night. Miss Cole reported that the men, who had been frequent | customers during the past week, en- tered the store last night and, after ordering a pint of ice cream, drew weapons and rifled the cash register of an undetermined amount of bills and change. | Julius C. Holmes, 2323 Wyoming | avenue, reported theft of $220 worth of jewelry from his home, and Dr. Paul O'Donnell, 5313 Thirteenth street, the loss of jewelry valued at | $75. G. C. MURPHY & CO. PAYS EXTRA BONUS 327 Employes of Two Stores Here to Draw Up to 413 Weeks’ Salary. Payment of an extra bonus of at least a week's salary to employes of more than a year's service in its two Washington stores was announced yesterday by G. C. Murphy & Co. The extra bonus, totaling $150,000 for 3,500 workers in 196 stores, will | go to 327 employes in Washington. It | supplements the annual Christmas | bonus. which has been disbursed for 10 consecutive years. Today's disbursement will scale | from a week’s salary to employes of | & year's service up to 413 weeks’ sale |ary for those with more than four | years' continuous service. T. V. Ganey, superintendent of the Washington district for the Murphy | Co., said the additional bonus “is one | of the finest displays of appreciation | any company could possibly pay their employes.” Pupils’ Hearing Defective. Statisticians say that more than 3,000,000 public school children of The conference of Nazi chieftains thrown down by an earthquake about 24,000,000 in the United States have may mean an early reply to the French 224 B.C. HOLDS ITS HEAD HIGH 4 e Y (ompary ) The goodness of Senate Beer is not something happens. that just It is brewed with ' some defect 1n hearing. Enjoy skiing, tobogganing and ice skat- ing at Meyersdale, Pa. Train carries comfortable Individual Seat Coaches and dining car. Rest rooms and refresh- ment facilities available during day. 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