Evening Star Newspaper, March 13, 1937, Page 1

WEATHER. (U & Weather Bureau Porecast) 8now, possibly mixed with sleet or rain and somewhat colder tonight and tomor- row; lowest temperature tonight about 30 degrees; gentle winds. Temperatures— Highest, 46, at 1:50 p.m. yesterday; low- est, 34, at 3 a.m. today. Closing New York Stocks on Page 11 85th YEAR. No. 33,919. ered as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. ch ON, D WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star . C., SATURDAY, M/ o Jy ARCH 13, 1937— THIRTY- JIGHT PAGES. ## The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s (Some returns not yet Circulation, 142,696 ecetved ) (P) Means Associate d Press, TWO CENTS. COURT IS PICKETE AS CHRYSLER PLEA FOR EVICTION OF SITTERS 1§ HEARD More Than Thousand Men and Women Jam Corri- | dors of Building as Line Is Kept Moving. UNION BAND PLAYS AIRS FOR MARCHERS Counsel for U. A. W. A. Charges Unfair Practices by Company. Hudson and Reo Plants Closed by Sit-Downers—Impasse Con- tinues at Akron, Ohio. BACKGROUND— America’s labor front has been seething with strike trouble since early last Fall, beginning with the Seamen's Union dispute which tied up shipping throughout the Nation After 100 days' duration agreement was reached, only to be followed by another major labor dissension, that of General Motors Corp., in which sit-down method was im- ported from France and introduced into America for first time. Through efforts of Gov. Murphy this strike is now in final settle- ment. Chrysler, Reo and Hudson plants now are centers of contro- versy, intensified by fight of John L. Lewis’ C. I. O. with A. F. of L. BULLETIN. LEBANON, Pa., March 13 (#).— A meeting of workers at the strike- closed plant of the Bethlehem Steel Corp. was held today. A news- paper advertisement said the meeting was to learn how many wanted to return to work. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, March 13.—The United Automobile Workers of America threw a moving picket line entirely about the Wayne County Building today as a circuit judge heard the Chrysler Corp.’s petition for an injunction evicting 5,000 sit-down strikers from its plants. More than a thousand men and ‘women, jammed in a corridor of the building, jostled for positions as doors of the small court room, seating about 50 persons, opened. Many of the men in the crowd said they were members of the United Automobile Workers' Union, whose officers are among defendants named in the petition. The case, along with several others, ot under way before Circuit Judge Allan Campbell shortly after 9:30. Union shop stewards kept a lane open through the corridor and in- structed others arriving to join the picket line around the court building, a few blocks east of the business dis- trict Band Plays for Marchers. A union 12-piece band played mar- tial airs as the pickets marched. Police directed traffic in surround- ing streets and union men undertook to keep a crowd of pedestrians moving on sidewalks. The hearing started after Judge Campbell denied a motion of union counsel for a postponement of the case Opposing the motion, Thomas F. Chawke. Chrysler attorney, said each day’s delay meant losses of thousands of dollars to the corporation and its employes Judge Campbell Bugar, union attorney “What assurance can you give this court that if a writ is issued it will be obeyed” “I have no knowledge whether it would be obeyed or not,” Sugar said. “I may have been overconfident, but 1 have never assumed a writ would be issued.” Charges Unclean Hands. Sugar began his argument by assert- ing the corporation “has not come into court with clean hands and is, there- fore, not entitled to the relief prayed for.” He read from an affidavit signed by Richard T. Frankensteen, organiza- tional director of the U. A. W. A, which alleged that the company had engaged in unfair labor practices pro- asked Maurice hibited by the national labor relations nrysler corporation has sought to render the U Bugar read. “In the last (See LABOR, Page A-3) SNOW, SLEET, RAIN PROSPECT FOR D. C. Week End Also to Bring Falling Mercury—Minimum of 30 Due Tonight. Varied precipitation—snow, sleet end rain—with a falling mercury i the Capital's week-end weather out- look Snow, falling when the forecast was made, is expected to continue inter- mittently this afternoon By tonight, however, the snow pos- #ibly will change to sleet or rain, ac- cording to the forecaster, and continue that way tomorrow The minimum temperature tonight will be about 30 degrees. er.” the change is not expected to be great enough to allow the snow form on the streets. This morning’s “low” o'clock today was 35 Snow Blocks English Highways. LONDON, March 13 (#).—Highways | leg with adhesive tape. If Mrs. Youn between England and Scotland were | should take a turn for the A. W. A ineffective” 10 months Although the forecaster predicted “somewhat cold- w0 was 34 at 3 o'clock, while yesterday's “high” was 46 at 1:50 pm. The reading at 10 Hanfstaengl Out Of Reich, Berlin ' | Friends Believe Former Intimate of || Hitler Thought to Be in Spain. ERNST HANFSTAENGL. BY the Associated Press. BERLIN, March 13.—Friends of Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengel, | \Jr. the Harvard-educated erstwhile | “ intimate of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler, said today he had gone to Spain on a| secret mission—and might not come | back. | At least, they asserted he no longer | is chief of the foreign press depart- | ment of the Nazi party. They be- | lieved he was out of the Reich for | | good. | The friend’s best guess is that | | “Putzi” who once charmed Der | Fuehrer with his Wagnerian piano | | chords, is still in Spain, where, they | | said, he went last February 11 on se- | cret orders from Herr Hitler, entrusted with & secret mission. | Officials surrounded his status with the utmost secrecy, but Hanfstaengl's | confidential secretary admitted his office was in the “process of liquida- | tion.” Party headquarters said they " (See HANFSTAENGL, Page A-2) BATTLESH BIS 10 BE DEFERRED {Opening of Bids for Two Vessels Delayed Until Early in June. | Instead of opening bids for two new | battleships Monday, as announced in { January by Secretary Swanson, the | Navy Department has decided to de- | fer this until the first week in June, | it was learned today. | The delay is blamed on various prob- | lems entering into the drawing of de- signs and specifications, taking into account the latest advances in science. | Some observers believe the recently | announced British naval building pro- |gram for 148 new warships, among | them a number of capital ships, is a |factor in the delay. The American | Governments wants to embody in its | designs the latest and best features | used by any other navy in the world | in its battleships. observers think. | Navy Department officials today pointed to the problem of embodying | within 35,000 tons' space all the lat- | est improvements in engineering, gun- | nery and other equipment that goes to make up a first line fighting craft It has been about 17 years since the United States built a hattleship, | the last being the Colorado and West Virginia, During this “holiday” in battleship construction in America there have been numerous improvements in | armor, ordnance, engine, and along | other lines. Scrapped Ships 45,000 Tons, Officials here point out that the new battleships that were scrapped | Just after the World War, before they | were finally completed, because nf the (See BATTLESHIP, Page A-2) ONE-POUND BABY DIES IN HOSPITAL INCUBATOR Girl, Fed Milk With Medicine Dropper, Could Be Held in Palm of Hand. By the Associatea Press NEW YORK. March 13 —A mite of life prematurely born to Mr. and Mrs Max Post Thursday failed to over- | come overwhelming odds and died at 5:30 am. today in an incubator at a | fashionable midtown hospital | Weighing only 15'; ounces and so | tiny she could be held in the palm of the hand, the girl was fed milk with & medicine dropper while four assist- ants worked to save her life. 3 About two and a half months pre- mature. the baby was named Dorothy | by her parents before it expired. Post s a W. P. A worker. NAZIS DENY INTENT TOOFFEND U. 5. N ATTACK BY PRESS Indignation at La Guardia Held “Understandable” by Von Neurath, |POINTED PROTESTATION IS PRESENTED BY DODD Ambassador Believes Realization by Reich Beclouds American- German Relations. | Bs the Associated Press BERLIN, March 13.—Foreign Min- ister Konstantin von Neurath, sources close to the Withelmstrasse said today, has answered United States Ambassa- dor William E. Dodd’s representations against German press attacks with | the explanation they were not intended | to offend. | Von Neurath, they said, pointed out | the strictures of Mayor La Guardia of New York against the German re- gime and said they created “‘under- standable” indignation throughout the Reich, If some German newspapers ex- ceeded proper bounds in their com- ments, the forrign minister was said | to have asserted, it was because of | their excitement over the La Guardia remarks. Baron von Neurath assured the | United States Ambassador no insult | to the United States Nation was in- tended, these circles said. Spite in Articles Charged. He also called attention, they said, to what he termed spiteful, untruthful | representations of German problems in sections of the American press. The foreign office said no public announcement would be made here, | however, of the conversations yester- day between Mr. Dodd and Von Neu- rath. In so far as the German govern- | ment is concerned, informed quarters | said, the incident is closed. The United States Consulate, mean- | while, succeeded in delaying until March 18 the ejection of Boris Smolar, | Jewish Telegraphic Agency corre- | spondent who had been given three days to leave the country. The Foreign Press Association, also opening negotiations on Smolar’s be- half, communicated with the foreign | office, urging the order against Smolar | and his wife be rescinded. to the foreign office yesterday and called attention to the newspaper re- | | marks which he regarded as ‘“be- | clouding German-American relations.” | The substance of the Ambassador’s | | “oral representations,” a well in- | | formed source said, was that his gov- ernment “was unable to account for the newspaper statements regarded as vituperative and unfounded, and as attacks upon American womanhood | and American institutions.” 1 Further, this reliable informant as- serted, the Ambassador indicated his | government felt that the language of the German press “was probably un- paralleled in its coarse and indecent " (Sce DODD, Page A-2) FIRE ON FREIGHTER IS OUT OF CONTROL — Silverlarch Radios Request for Ships to Take Off Her ! Passengers. BY the Associatea Press. | SAN FRANCISCO, March 13.—The Radio Marine Bureau of the Western Union reported today the British | freighter Silverlarch radioed a fire in her hold is out of control, and asked other ships to take off her passengers. | “Afraid cannot control fire in No. | 3 hold.” read the message; “will ships | take note. Would like to transfer pas- sengers.” The Silverlarch is northeast of the | Hawaiian Islands on her way from San | Pedro, Calif., to the Orient. | ‘ This was the third time the blaze on | the Silverlarch has broken out of con- | | trol since Thursday | The freighter was reported about | 300 miles northeast of Honolulu last | night | | The ship is a 400-foot vessel of 5,122 | tons. ' MOLLISON ASKS DIVORCE | Flyer Seeks Freedom With “No 111 Feeling.” LONDON, March 13 (®).— Capt. James A. Mollison, Australian long- distance flyer, said today he has asked his wife, Amy Johnson Mollison, for a divorce | “There is no ill feeling,” he said. “We are just going our own ways.” | The Mollisons—both noted flyers— | were married in London July 29, 1932. | They announced last October they would separate. Pig'eorl;; Conve y Ti(liligs to Man/ From Wife Sick in H ospital BY the Assoclated Pross TULSA. Okla., March 13 —Swift car- | rier pigeons are winging frequent hos- pital reports on the condition of Mrs. Glenn D. Young to her family, in Sapulpa, 18 miles away. Her husband, an attorney, put the winged messengers to work when Mrs | Young came here for an operation. “A check of time hgs shown the pigeons carry my messages home in 20 minutes,” Young said. “When they arrive home an arrange- ment forces them to ring a bell getting in the loft. Then a member of the family takes the notes fastened to the Worse our blocked by drifting snow today. Some | three sons eould be called from their ‘u)mmumurhs were completely uolnbe'athool work and hurry to the hmpxl‘ o | Young's sons have been raising the carrier pigeons as a hobby for two | years. Their flock now numbers 25. When Mrs. Young was brought to the hospital her husband thought he'd put them to a practical test. | | “At first I'd toss the birds out the | | window,” he said. “They would circle | for a while, getting their bearings, and | then scoop westward for Sapulpa. | “Now they have the lay of the land and head for home at once. I can re- | lease the birds in any part of the| hospital and they aren’t confused | Other patients are intensely interested | windows.” | The latest messages reported Mrs. . Young's condition as 1mprcsd. LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG! BRITISH PROPOSAL 1S SEEN REJECTED Reich’s Reply to Locarno Note Believed Objecting to Treaty Suggestions. BACKGROUND— Germany’s remilitarization of Rhineland, in violation of Versailles and Locarno treaties, upset status quo five signatories to Locarno pact had agreed to maintain in Europe. Since then eflorts have been made by Great Britain to establish another Western European security agreement, with Germany's new militant attitude and Franco-Soviet mutual assistance pact proving stumbling blocks. BY the Associated Press. LONDON, March 13 —Germany's strong objections, backed by Italy, to ent suggested were explained by Ger- man Ambassador Joachim von Rib- bentrop today to Foreign Secretary | Anthony Eden. The German envoy calied at the foreign office shortly after a plane from Berlin brought the long-awaited Locarno note reply—Germany's an- | swer to proposals for a new pact to replace the agreement nullified by re. occupation of the Rhineland Hopes for a similar pact, to bolster the peace of Western Europe, seemed dashed by unofficial reports of the nature of the replies Germany and Italy handed to the British Ambassa- dors in Rome and Berlin simultan- eously. Contents of the notes will not be disclosed officially, however, until the British foreign office has had time to study them. The Franco-Soviet mutual assist- (See EUROPE, Page A-2.) “MUHARREM” ARRIVES Jerusalem in Bedlam on Annual Moving Day. JERUSALEM, March 13 () —Bed- lam reigned in the narrow streets of this ancient city today as vast quan- tities of furniture were moved by men, donkeys and motor trucks. It was “Muharrem,” the first day of | the Mohammedan new year 1356 and the traditional moving day for Arabs, Jews and Christians alike - Under Ottoman laws, buildings are | rented from one “Muharrem” to the next. “Muharrem” comes earlier each solar year and the landlords gain an en- tire year once about every 30. Ten- ants tried to have the Western calendar recognized for rent-paying purposes but without success. Summary of Page. Amusements_C-16 Artied B-3 Books B-2 Comics - A-13 Church News, Obituary Radio Real Estate, C-1 to 8 Short Story. A-9 Editorials A-6 Society A-9 Financial A-11 Lost & Found A-3 SUPREME COURT ISSUE. Roosevelt backer proposes court amendment Page A-1 Three Democratic Senators join in court plan attack. Page A-2 LABOR SITUATION. Court hearing Chrysler eviction plea picketed by workers. Page A-1 Carnegie-Tllinois steel workers meet to | Page A-3 | discuss contract. FOREIGN. Britain’s treaty proposal believed re- jected in Reich reply. Page A-1 Nazis deny intent to slur Amenea in press Page A-1 NATIONAL. President visits his farm after swim at Warm Springs. Page A-1 Amelia calm awaiting hop tomorrow or Monday. Page A-2 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Jury discharged in trial of Fred B. Rhodes. Page A-1 | Verdict for $2,200 rendered against Thaw. Page A-3 Traffic safety slogans are painted on street. Page A-3 £ and ask to release the birds from their | Board of Investigation to probe Navy Yard fire, Page A-8 | Retirement. law restriction asked in Maryland House. 'sz:c A-10 - | trees. Boy, 11, Accused | || Of Killing Child | | In Practical Joke [ Said to Have Shot Cy- ! clist, 8, in Attempt to ““Scare” Him. PY the Associated Press REDLANDS, Calif., March 13.—Po- lice Chief W. H. Morrison said today | he had a confession from James Sim- mons, 11, that he killed Robert Lopez. | 8, during an attempt to “scare” him The Lopez boy was shot in the back as he rode his bicycle past the Sim- mons home yesterday. Morrison said the Simmons boy told | him he aimed his older brother's .22- caliber rifle ahead of young Lopez and fired. Neither boy knew the other. OENT PAYS | PRESIDENT In vigorous and pointed words, Am- | participating in a new Western Euro- | | bassador Dodd made representations | pean security pact along lines at pres- | | i ! | | _— | | Inspects Spring Plowing After Swim in Pool at Warm Springs. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG, Stafl Correspondent of The Star WARM SPRINGS, Ga., March 13. —Apparently unconcerned about the business of Government and the prob- lems back in Washington, President Roosevelt today is enjoying the warm sunshine in this remote section of Georgia. | Spring has come early. Pruit trees | are blossoming, especially the peach The peach, next to cotton, is | the principal crop of this part of | the country. Spring plowing is well | advanced, and soon the cotton seed will be sown. | It was primarily for the purpose of satisfying himself about the Spring | plowing at his farm, a few miles from | here, that the President made an inspection trip to the farm today. After his swim in the pool at the Warm Springs Foundation, where the | water, piped from a natural mineral " (See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3) VISA FEES CUT TO $2 IBrhnin and U. S. Conclude Pact for Reduction. LONDON. March 13 () —Great Britain and the United States con- cluded an agreement today for the | mutual reduction of visa fees from $10 to $2 Today’s Star | Racing service manager charged with gaming conspiracy. Page A-14 | Motion for new trial for Bishop Can- | non considered. Page A-14 | Male Relative of Murdered | with two engines and seats for six. | perfunctory | downtown rooms. | the underworld killing of Don A. Mel- | cans, with headquarters in Brooklyn, | Kuhn of Detroit. Schafer blocked on racing bill in House. Page A-14 Senate to take up civil service res olution. Page A-14 Sports ._._C-9-10 | Woman’s Pg. .B-8 | EDITORIAL AND COMMENT. | Editorials. Page This and That Page | Enswers and Questions Page | Stars, Men and Atoms Page David Lawrence. Page Paul Mallon Page Mark Sullivan. Page Jay Franklin Page Delia Pynchon. Page MISCELLANY. | Vital Statistics. Young Washington Service Orders. Traffic Convictions. Crossword Puzzle. Dorothy Dix. Nature’s Children. | Bedtime Story. City News in Brief. Letter-Out. SPORTS. Lanahan may earn berth as starting pitcher. Page C-9 Tigers to be real flag factors if pitch- ers deliver. Page C-9 Michigan seeks fourth consecutive track title. Page C-9 Columbia choice to win I C. 4-A track crown. Page C-9 | 8t. John's, beaten in Dixie, girds for | tourney here. A Page C-10' P2 PEEEEEB>> -6 -6 -6 -6 -7 -1 -7 -7 Page A-4 Page A-5 Page A-5 Page A-10 | Page A-13 Page B-8 Page C-5 Page C-8| Page C-11 | Page C-11 CANTON SLAYING PUZZLES OFFICIALS Society Matron to Be Questioned. B3 the Associated Press. CANTON, Ohio, March 13.—Polic® | planned to question intensely today a 36-year-old male relative of Mrs. Rose Cable, slain society matron, as to his’ whereabouts when a fatal shotgun | blast tore through the breakfast room window of her pretentious Canton home. The man, held on an open charge since shortly after the Thursday night killing, had left the house after a visit with the 47-year-old church worker and her aged mother, said Police Chief Ira Manderbaugh. Investigators meanwhile made a hurried trip to Cleveland on a new clue in the slaying of the wife of | Deuber S. Cable, head of a Canton contracting firm. “The ciue does not involve the man now held,” Mander- | baugh said. | “We're still in the dark,” declared A. C. L. Barthelmeh, county prosecu- | tor, after he and three Canton detec- | tives appeared at a downtown Cleve- | land hotel. “I wish some one could | give us a motive.” | Chief Manderbaugh said that the! suspect had been questioned only in| fashion. Heels of his| shoes conformed with footprints found | in the soft ground beneath the break- fast room window, the chief declared, adding that the suspect’s movements were being traced between when he left the house, 10 minutes before the blast, and when he was taken into custody, a short time later, in his Police declared that a dozen black shotgun pellets of the size commonly known as “bird shot” and casts taken of the footprints were the only clues in the city’s most baffling slaying since let, crusading editor, in 1926. Neither police nor Cable, head of the firm which is preparing the foun- dations for the Republic Steel Corp.’s new $15,000,000 strip mill in Cleve- | land, could advance a motive. TEAIE PRO-HITLER AMERICANS CHALLENGED TO ANSWER “Culture League” Asked to Tell | How It Can Back Nazisand | Keep U. 8. Oath, NEW YORK, March 13 (#).—An | anti-Nazi league of German-Ameri- today challenged the “Hitler sympa- thizing” organization headed by Fritz | Eugene F. Grigot, member of the | National Executive Board of the Ger- | man-American League for Culture, | claiming & membership of 115,000 Americans of German origin, dis- patched the following telegram to | Kuhn: | “I invite you and all your followers to listen to our question which will | be asked publicly in front of the Nazi | headquarters (in New York) on Tues- day, March 16, at 7 pm. “The question: ‘How can any American of German origin live up | to his oath of allegiance to Uncle Sam | and raise his arm in Hitler fashion |at the same time without being a perjurer of the worst sort.” Be to attend and face us." Grigot, who is also executive secre- tary of the Friends of Democracy, sent the message on the heels of Kuhn's assertion that almost 200,000 German- | Americans in 42 States belong to his | uniformed movement ‘“sympathetic | with the Hitler government.” sure | BY the Ass | said. Windsor Income Threat Scored As “Meanness” Lloyd George to Op- pose Cancellation. as Scandalous. ciated Press. LONDON, March 13.—David Lloyd | George, Britain's World War prime | || minister, | Windsor's financial future today with championed the Duke of the assertion that cutting him -ff from the royal purse would be “the height of meanness.” The News Chronicle said the elder statesman would protest to the com- | mittee compiling the King's civil list, an outline of prospective financial out- lays, against any lack of provision for the abdicated monarch. The duke is in Enzesfeld, Austria, self-exiled and awaiting the day when Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson will be free to marry him. Lloyd George, who will be a member of the Civil List Committee, said “it | is scandalous if the former King is | left out,” adding: “All the members of the royal family | have been provided for except the for- mer King, who. it is generally admit- ted, behaved very decently. “He abdicated in order to make no | difficulty for the reigning King; if there is made no provision of any sort for him—well, it is the height of mean- | ness. There is a touch of vindictiveness about it.” The duke, meanwhile, was reported | to have decided to purchase a $30,000 airplane after selling a plane bought when he was Prince of Wales. The old plane, which has flown 25000 miles, cost $25,000 in 1933. The new ship is being tested at Portsmouth by Capt. Edward Hedly Fielden, who was “captain of the King’s flight” when Edward was King. It will have a maximum speed of 210 miles an hour and a 700-mile cruising range. It is & British-made cabin monoplane PITTMAN FAVORS b MORE IN COURT Permanent Bench of 15 Is Urged in Advocating Change in Bill. BACKGROUND— Fear of setting dangerous prece- dent has motivated many stanch Democrats opposing Roosevelt court reorganization plan, advanced after New Deal measures failed to survive Supreme Court test. Opposition Senators assert future Presidents may follow Roosevelt example and, by increasing the number of justices at will, make court a tool of major political parties. Leaders of opposing force have been seeking satisfactory middle course and are expected to agree soon on some form of constitutional amendment to change law rather than personnel of court. BY the Associated Press Senator Pittman, Democrat, of Nevada, a Judiciary Committee mem- ber supporting President Roosevelt's | court bill, proposed today that the sug- gested increase in the size of the Su- preme Court be unconditional and permanent. His proposal, the first from an ad- ministration leader for a change in the President’s bill, would enlarge the tribunal to 15 members even if justices over 70 retire. Mr. Roosevelt recommended an in- | crease only in the event older justices | remained on the bench. Pittman said if his amendment to the bill was approved, he would offer a constitutional amendment to prevent the court from being enlarged beyond 15 members. He forecast it would eliminate some of the opposition to the bill. Committee in Recess. The Pittman suggestion was ad- vanced as the Judiciary Committee | took a week end recess in the hearings on the court bill. Senator Wheeler, Democrat, of Montana, will open op- position testimony Monday. Demands for curtailment of the hearings came from both friends and foes of the bill. Some committee members on both sides already were expressing disapproval of repetition of arguments, Pittman, said: “I have no desire to induce the present judges to retire. In fact, I would like to have the new members of the court have the benefit of the arguments and opinions of the present Justices.” He noted that he had sounded out Attorney General Cummings on his idea during the hearings this week and that the cabinet officer had no objection. “The court ought to be increased to least 15 members,” the Senator “There are three reasons: First, it would bring into the court new blood—men who are mentally free and not bound by and confused by prior precedents they may have established themselves. “Second, it would relieve a psycho- (See COURT, Page A-2.) discussing his proposal, at Ex-Clerk in Russian Embassy Suicide With Car Exhaust Gas Muffing his head in a blanket next to the exhaust pipe of an automobile, Gregory M. Trousseneff, 45, clerk at the Russian Embassy before the World War, ended his life today in a garage in the 1200 block of Nineteenth street, where he had been employed. A certificate of suicide was issued by Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald. Members of the homicide squad who investigated said they found an un- addressed note in the man's pocket, which read, “Please excuse me for my mistakes.” Police said they understood Trousseneff was divorced and that his wife had n‘unnew return to Russia. | Trousseneff was a petty officer in the Imperial Russian Navy when he was made a member of the embassy clerical staff prior to the United States’ entry into the World War. After the Russian revolution and the subsequent severance of diplomatic relations between America and Rus- hia, he found work as a mechanic in garages here. He had been living at 1829 M street. The ignition was turned on, but the engine of the automobile had stopped running, police said, when Trouseneff’s body was found on the floor of the prraae by the @vnov, G+-2-~y Shlopak. RHODES JURY FALS 10 AGREE AFTER 22 HOURS OF DEBATE Former Fidelity Head to Go to Trial Again in Month on Forgery Count. MEANING OF “INTENT” IS ASKED OF JUDGE Announcement of Failure Reach Verdict Comes Within Half Hour of Instruction. to BACKGROUND— The Fidelity Building and Loan Association, organized in 1929 to make loans on property in nearby Maryland and Virginia, was forced to suspend on July 18, last, after mushrooming into a $5,000,000 in- stitution with 18,000 depositors. The closure was followed by the indictment of Fred B. Rhodes, who had resigned from the presidency four months earlier. He was charged on eight counts with forgery, and 20 with larceny, and is now on trial on one of the forgery accusations. Reporting “hopeless disagreement,” the jury debating the forgery charge | against Fred B. Rhodes, former presi- | dent of the Pidelity Building & Loan | Association, was discharged at 12:30 | o'clock today, a little less than 22 hours after beginning deliberations. Assistant United States Attorney John J. Wilson immediately announced Rhodes would go to trial next month with the same charge. It is based on the reputed forgery of a $1,500 with- drawal slip against the account of Desire A. Irr, a Fidelity depositor. The jury, which had been locked up all night, resumed its deliberations at 19:30 am. At noon the jurors came back to court to ask Justice Peyton Gordon the meaning of the word “intent” under the criminal statute. The justice explained, and the 10 men and 2 women returned to the Jury room. | _Within a half hour they summoned the bailiff, and, after Justice Gordon had been called into court, the jurors marched in, and Eugene S. Gott, sr., the foreman, said they could not agree. Wilson said the jurors stood 11 to 1 for conviction. Justice Gordon told the jury yester- | day there was no ground to excuse or exonerate the defendant on the con- tention that no financial loss had been suffered by Irr, against whose de- posit at Fidelity Rhodes is accused of forging a $1,500 withdrawal slip | to cover an overdraft. Defense Point Noted. He said, however, that the verdict should be not guilty if the jury be- lieved Rhodes had authority or rea- sonable grounds to believe he had au- thority to sign Irr's name, as the de- fense has said was the case. | The first inkling of the deadlock in the jury room came just at 5 o'clock, when the jurors asked that Justice | Gordon be summoned, and marched into the court room. Gordon asked if they were perplexed by some point of law, and Foreman Gott said no. Orders Further Deliberations. Justice Gordon then directed them to return to their deliberations, saying | that “some jury is going to have to | decide this case.” | Again they tried it until the dinner | hour, and after eating went back in | for the third time. Finally, at 9 o'clock, reporting there was no verdict in sight, Justice Gor- don, reached by telephone, instructed they be locked up, and in charge of deputy marsals the 12 were taken to | the Continental Hotel. | Rhodes spent the afternoon and | evening at the court house with mem- | bers of his family and friends. 'BANDITS TAKE $18,500 /IN SECOND RAID ON BANK :Mnn Held for Questioning by U. §. Agents Investigating New Hold-Up. BY the Associated Press. KATONAH, N, Y, March 13 — ‘Three gunmen who apparently gam- | bled on a banker's belief that light- | ning seldom strikes twice in the same | place left a slender clue today for | peace officers trying to solve the 1$18,500 hold-up of the Northern | Westchester Bank. A second car which they com- mandeered after they had disabled their first one in their flight from Katonah was found wrecked in Bridgeport, Conn. Government agents questioned an | unidentified man for hours, but beyond |the fact they had taken him into temporary custody, they made no an- nouncement of his possible connec- [ tion with the case. The robbery of the bank yesterday | was the second within 15 days. In the previous hold-up Merle Vanden- | bush, notorious jailbreaker and bank | robber, was seized with two con- | federates by police. U.'S. BATTLESHIP CHOSEN TO ATTEND CORONATION New York Will Participate in Naval Review—Admiral Rod- man to Be One Representative. ‘The battleship New York will go to England early in May in connec- tion with the coronation of King George VI, the Navy Department ane nounced today. The New York will participate in the naval review on May 20, after the coronation. During the World War the New York was the flagship of Admiral Hugh Rodman, who commanded the American battleships that operated with the British Grand Fleet. Ada miral Rodman, now retired, lives hers at the Westmoreland Apartment, 2123 California street. He has been desige nated as one of the American repree sentatives at the oere- moniss. ’