Evening Star Newspaper, October 9, 1937, Page 2

T A2 «» S2000 N BONDS STOLENFROMAUTO Life Savings of Minneapolis Man Were Going to Buy a Home in Florida. Stock: and Dbonds representing nearly $20,000 savings, with which he boped to buy a home in Florida, were stolen from his automobile sometime Thursday night, Samuel Taylor of Mnneapolis reported to police yester- day. A rear window of the car was broken while it was parked in the 1400 block of Belmont street and bags contain- ing the papers, most of which were not negotiable, and about $250 worth ©of clothing, were taken out. Tavlor said he and his wife had stopped here to visit with relatives a few davs while on their way to Florida after gelling their home in Minnea- polis. One of the stolen bonds, valued at #3500, was found at Ninth and Q atreets yesterday, lying in the street. It was turned over to police. A davlight hold-up and two purse- gnatehings also were reported to police yecterday. Dwight Floyd, colored, 748 Columbia poad, said a man armed with a revolver Beld him up in the 1200 block of Sev- enth strect at 2:30 p.m., forced him into an alley and robbed him of $28. Half an hour later, three colored bovs snatched a purse containing a diamond ring and some small change from Lulu Fowler, 139 Bates street, 88 she was walking along Third street between N and O streets. Mrs. Mary Lyon, 1450 Fairmont street, reported that a white youth took her purse, eontaining only a small amount of change, last night 8¢ Fifteenth and V streets, s LUTHERANS PLEAD FOR PEACE POLICY Federation of Brotherhoods Finish Two-Day Convention Fearful of War Entanglements, By the Aszeociated Press. MINNEAPOLIS, October American Federation of Lutheran Brotherhnods concluded & two-day eonvention yesterday with a plea that the Federal Government keep the Nation omt of entanglements that may lead to war. | Tt took its stand in ‘adoption of a prich-debated resolution affirming the federation’s devotion to peace. “Under God.” the resolution stated, “we believe that our American people do not want war, and we respectfully but earnestly petition our Govern- 2. —The ment ta avnid and prevent entangle- | ment in such forelgn affairs as may lead to war. “The federation urges upon fits members their full co-operation in the adoption of measures designed to create the will to peace and to this | end ft recommends throughtful and | sug- | praverful consideration of all gested possible methods of minimizing the likelihood of our country being plunged into war.” SEVEN LOSE LIVES AT GRADE CROSSING! Cara Collide on Tracks, Train | Plows Into Wreckage—Four Are Injured, By the Assoriated Press. GARY, Ind, October 9.—A double erash at a flasher-protected, multiple grade crossing left seven persons dead and four injured, one critically, here todar. Twn automobiles collided first at the | erossing in the southwest part of | the citv, and a few seconds later a | Nickle Plate passenger train plowed in- | to the wreckage, throwing the dead, the injured and parts of the cars in all directions. ‘The accident occurred at the junc- #ion of the two heavily-traveled | boulevards and the railroad. All of those involved in the crash were Gary | recidents, The dead: Mrs. G, Edward sv-hmn.{ 36. Mrs. Irene Cass, 40, driver of one ear. her son, Robert Cass, eolored men. A. C. Weatherle; ©of the other car; Perry Brown Spann end Roy Prince, and a Mexican, Sam | Chappa. Mrs. Cass' 18-month-old daughter Judith suffered a possible fractured skull, and Methodist Hospital at- taches held out little hope for the ¢ehild's life. Three other Negroes in Weatherley's ear were thrown clear as the train struck and miraculously escaped ser- {ous injury. e STORE FIRE DAMAGE HERE PUT AT $2,000 Blaze in Seventh Street Dry Goods Establishment Starts in Basement. Fire started by an overheated fur- nace in the basement of a two-story dry goods store at 1814 Seventh street dectroyed more than $2.000 in assorted merchandise early today, according $0 an estmate by the owner, Samuel H. Blumenthal. Blumenthal, his wife, Minnie, and 15-year-old #on Max, were asleep in an apartment on the gecond floor when awakened by dense clouds of smoke. Firemen from No. 7 Engine Com- pany said a pile of cut wood near the furnace evidently became ignited from the intense heat. Flamés ate through into the first floor after damaging crates of merchandise stored in the basement. Chopping & hole through the floor, firemen put out the blaze in about 20 minutes. ——— SHIP COMMISSIONED NEW YORK. October 8 (#)—Uncle Bam added another powerful destroyer today to his rapidly growing Navy— the $4,000,000, 1,500-ton Fanning. ‘The destroyer, last of four built by the United Ship Yards at its Staten Island plant, was commissioned yes- terday at the Brooklyn Navy Yard in & brief ceremony. The Fanning, second American man-of-war to bear the name, was named for Nathaniel Fanning, who eerved with John Paul Jones in the Revelutionary War. The vessel car- ries & crew of 165 men and 8 officers. THE.- EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON WW‘ Uncle Sam’s Battle Line in West {Coast NEGLECT 1S LAID 10 CRUISER PILOT Court-Martial Told Omaha’s Navigator Should Have Used Range Finder. Py the Associnted Press. NORFOLK, Va, October 9 —Lieut. | Comdr. Edgar R. Winckler, U. 8. N, | she grounded on a reef near Castle | Island in July, vesterday heard Lieut. Solomon Isquith, U. 8. N, judge ad- vocate of the court-martial hearing with “neglect of duty defendant failed to determine his posi- | tion with a range finder.” Lieut. Isquith presented his argu- ment for the prosecution shortly after the members of the court reconvened “A reading could have been taken on the light (Castle Island) prior to | the accident.” was the contention of the judge advocate as he continued his arguments which ask for convic- tion of the defendant on “grounds of | neglect of duty and stranding the | Omaha.” “Searchlights were available and were powerful enough to ¥luminate the Castle Island light house had they been used for such a purpose.” Lieut. | Ixquith added in closing his hnef; argument. Comdr. Howard A. Hauser, U. S. N, A& member of the counsel for the de- i | sibility of & special Congress session. navigator on the cruiser Omaha when | charges against the officer, charge him | in that the | yesterday afternoon. | Meetings of the President’s cabinet are the Capital's only big-time get- togethers where the men seat a lone lady in the most inconspicuous seat. But that's the way it was again yes- terday—Labor Secretary Frances Per- kins way down in the left-hand corner of the shiny mahogany table. Prece- dent, not etiquette, put her there. Etiquette, too, hardly stands a show when the topics are such serious ones as the Sino-Japanese War and the pos- Responsibility for ranking must be divided between George Washington and President Roosevelt. Washington appointed the | first eabinet and Roosevelt the first | woman member. The room —smaller than you'd imagine—is a few steps across a nar- row hallyay from the President's of- fice, not 'in the White House proper, but in the executive office building nearby. POISONED PANCAKES KILL TRIO IN WEST Cook and Assistant Mistakenly | Use Insecticide—Dozen Are Made II1. By the Associated Press. WINTERS, Calif.,, October § —Pan- cakes made mistakenly with insecti- | cide were blamed today for the deaths of three Migrant tomato pickers and | Miss Perkins fense. introduced as testimony yester- | day morning a letter he received from | the Imperial light tendent at Nassau, showing that the | waters adjacent to the reef on which the Omaha grounded “were the most | treacherous currents in the Bahamas,” and required the services of a native | pilot. A verdict is expected today. Monday morning Capt. Howard Mc- Cleary, U. 8. N.. commanding officer of the Omaha, will face court-martial on a charge of “stranding the ship.” — C.B.S. 1S ACCUSED OF LABOR VIOLATION Chain and Cincinnati Station Charged With Discharging Writer for Union Activity. By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, October 9. — The American Federation of Radio Artists filed & complaint late yesterday with the National Labor Relations Board charging the Columbia Broadeasting System and Station WKRC, Cincin- nati, with violation of the Wagner act in the discharge of William Seymour, & news writer, because of alleged union activity. Philip G. Phillips, regional director for the N. L. R. B,, said that, to his knowledge, it was the first case of its kind to be flled against a radio chain. Seymour, former Shakespearean actor and once a student at Brown University, Providence, R. 1., was dis- charged from Station WKRC last September 30, the complaint alleges, because of activity in behalf of the union, already active in New York, Chicago, San Prancisco and Los An- geles. He dropped his last name of Eckert upon entering radio and stage work, RUTH ROLAND’S WTLL CONTESTED BY FATHER Charges Husband of Actress Dic- tated Document Giving Him Bulk of $1,000,000, By the Associated Press, LOS ANGELES, October 9.—The will of Ruth Roland, star of silent movie serials, disposing of her $1,000,- 000 estate, was contested yesterday by her father, John R. Roland, sr., who was left $100. He charged, in opposing probate of the will dated August 18, 1937, that Ben Bard, husband of the actress, “dictated and suggested the terms of the document and it was not a free and voluntary act.” Bard was left the bulk of the estate. Roland also charged his daughter, who died two weeks ago, “was not of sound and disposing mind.” A - the violent illness of & dosen others. | Sheriff's Deputy Clifford Garrison | house superin- | said Jim Hines, cook at the J. R.|on his automobile, sat in a barber Griffin ranch, where the deaths oc- | curred, told him he and an assistant used the poison in the belief it was flour. Hines was detained on an| open charge. Thirty men sat down to breakfast vesterday at the ranch. Fifteen ate the pancakes. Three of the dozen who continued to be ill today were | under treatment at Yolo County Hos- | pital. Hines said George Martin went to the ranch tank house and returned with a poison used for killing spiders. Hines, Garrison said, debated with his assistant, William Sherman, whether the sack contained flour, finally decided it did, and used it. oRali ot FIRST NEW BATTLESHIP WAITS ON PLAN DETAILS North Carolina Will Be Started at New York Yard in Two or Three Months. Assistant Secretary Charles Edison said yesterday at least two or three months’ further work on plans will be necessary before the keel of the first of the Navy's two battleships can be Iaid. The North Carolina will be started first, at the New York Navy Yard, he told reporters. The same plans will then be used for the Washington, to be built at Philadelphia. Construc- tion is expected to require more than four years. Edison conferred for the first time with a five-man board which will ad- vise the Navy on construction of the vessel, “The design and construction of these ships are of large importance to the country in respect to national de- fense and public finance,” Edison said. “They will be the first ships of their class laid down in nearly 20 years and when completed will constitute vital elements in our first line of de- fense, the United States Fleet.” D. C. WOMAN'S KIN DIES Maj. Carpenter - Holland - Griffith Succumbs in Wales. Word has been received here by Mrs. Leo Kasehagen, 1353 Jefferson street, of the death'of her brother- in-law, Maj. Frederick Carpenter- Holland-Griffith, 86-year-old veteran of the Connaught Rangers, at his estate at Carreglwyd Anglesey, Wales. He died October 5 of a heart attack. His wife was the former Rosemund Higginbotham of Montvale, Va., Mrs. Kasehagen's sister. At the time of his death, the retired officer was pre- paring to go.to his Winter estate, Bid« denham Close, a¢ Bedford, England. Walls are of white plaster. Heavy red curtains drape gracefully about four windows, and a fireplace that doesn’t light rises behind the Vice President’s chair. Sessions are secret and they ordi- narily are held twice a week. No stenographic records are kept of what's said. Discussion generally is in- formal—a sort of exchange of opinions. ‘Three portraits — all Democrats — look out from the pearly walis: Woodrow Wilson from behind the Vice President’s seat at the foot of | the table. Andrew Jackson from behind Secre- taries Wallace and Swanson Thomas Jefferson over the shoulders | of Secretaries Woodring and Morgen- | thau. There’s just one thing wrong with the room—stuffed fish. Though mounted, it hasn't been raised to the wall. With its big eyes turned ceilingward, it's sitting on a small table looking a little sad. Owner’s Plea To Chrysler Gets a New Car News Photographer Nabs Magnate After W hite House Talk. Maurice Lanigan, White House pho- tographer for & news service, who has | been having trouble with the clutch chair this morning and reflected hap- | piness at his meeting with Walter P. Chrysler. The automobile manufacturer had | called on President Roosevelt yester- day and later bustled past reporters after the conference with the re- mark: “Nothing to say, absolutely nothing to say.” The reporters took him at his word, but outside the White Housé door waited the more intrepid Lanigan, who had been bursting for months to say to Chrysler: “I haven't had much luck with my De Soto. I can't make it work. I've been having an awful time.” So Lanigan stepped right up and made his speech. Chrysler stopped and listened. He then turned to R. ‘Walter Evans, Washington De Soto distributor, who had been waiting for Chrysler to complete his talk with the President. “Mr. Evans, take down this man’s | haul agenc: name and see that he gets fixed up. And don't forget it.” Evans handed Laniggn his card with instructions to come around to his show rooms at 1021 Fourteenth street and get a new car. Lanigan has had his sedan for six months. Will Mark Anniversary. ‘The 26th anniversary of the Ral- eigh Haberdasher will be eelebrated with a dance starting at 9 o'clock to- night in the Washington Hotel. The entire roof, with the ball room and dining room, has been taken over for the event. A supper will be served. Duck Hunting Season Opens In 18 States By the Associated Press. Gunfire echoing through cool morn< ing air signified today the opening of the 1937 duck hunting season in 18 States. Sportsmen in the Northern zone took first crack at the migrant wild fowl, while those in the Central and South- ern zones will have their shooting in- nings later this Fall. States in which shooting became legal at 7 a.m. were Colorado, Iows, Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Michi- gan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New York (except Long Island), North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dekota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Hunters in this territory may shoot until No- ‘vember 7. ‘The season in the intermediate or Central zone is November 1 to 30 and in the Bouthern gone November 37 to December 26. D. C, Maneuvers S — The big ships of the battle force, “power house” unit of the United States Navy, are shown in column line during the maneuvers off the Southern California coast that took in four days of concentrated scouting and battle drill to test the fleet’s new organi=- 2ation plan by which the destroyers are attached to the battle for ce. shows the West Virginia, Colorado, Arizona, Pennsylvania and other battleships trailing in the California’s wake. The planes in the foreground are part of the California’s complement, Precedent, Not Etiquette, Put Miss Perkins at End of Table This picture, taken from the U. S. S. California, the flagship, —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. PLANE OVERHAUL PROBLEMS CITED Engineer at Naval Base Says. Designers Have Neglected This Phase. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, October 2 —The national aircraft production meeting heard today that overhaul of naval aircraft are prob- lems “too frequently neglected by the aircraft builders,” making it “difficult to design repairss with assurance of | their effectiveness.” F. G. Arnold, aeronautical engi- neer, U. S. Naval Air Station, San Diego, Calif., told the meeting here that naval overhaul organizations are not provided with stress data on planes they are required to service. “The overhaul phase is an uperation with which the designer is generally unfamiliar,”” he added. “Due to this lack of data it is dif- ficult to design repairs or reinforce- ments with any degree of assurance of their effectiveness.” Arnold described corrosion as “the greatest of all bugbears to the over- This is especially true of seacraft because of exposure to salt water, he pointed out. He blamed poor heat treatment of plane parts in the factory for one type of corrosion and said “this may be serious as it may progress within the metal with no outward visual sign whatsoever.” “An almost invisible pimple,” Arnold | explained, “may be observed on the surface of the metal and, if probed | into, will be found to be a shell cov- ering the products of corroson which have been known to extend under the surface for an inch or more. “Thus a structural part, poorly heat treated, may deteriorate beyond safe limits before pected.” RECKORD OR LEWIS SEEN AS SENATE CANDIDATES By the Associated Press, BALTIMORE, October 9.—The Eve- ning Sun says either Representative David J. Lewis of Western Maryland or Maj. Gen. Milton A. Reckord, commander of the Maryland National Guard, may seek the 1938 Democratic senatorial nomination on a primary ticket with Herbert R. O'Conor for Governor. ‘The paper said “a spokesman for the O'Conor camp” said only these two have been considered as a run- ning mate for O'Conor, now attorney general. It added that neither had been approached about the candidacy. maintenance and | he fault is sus-| SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1937 J (DAVIDSON MURDER| __ CASE BREAK SEEN Virginia State Police Expect Early Solution of Mystery. Virginia State police today expected an early solution to the mysterious murder of Elmer J. Davidson, 52-year- old research expert for the United States Chamber of Commerce, whose body was found early Monday beside a little-used road in Stafford County, Va. Sergt. E. J. McDermott said he ex- pected a “break at any moment” with- out revealing his reasons for this be- lief. Names of service men found in Davidson's notes have given investi- gators clues to the murdered man's associates after office hours. Pennsylvania State police are aiding the search for a Pennsylvania motorist who picked up the supposed murderer near Triangle, Va., Sunday night after the latter drove Davidson's expensive roadster into & ditch on the Richmond highway, State Policeman Maury G. Sneed of Stafford, Va., today continued his search for the murder weapons he be- lieves were hidden or thrown away in the woods adjoining the Widewater road beside which the body was found. Davidson had been stabbed under the heart and shot through the head. Sneed is convinced the murderer dis- posed of the knife and gun before driving Davidson's car onto the Rich- mond Highway, N Davidson, & bachelor, had been accustomed to taking long rides at night in his roadster. Qn the night of | his death he was believed to have | picked up a hitch-hiker or some | casual acquaintance, perhaps in Wash- ington. his home at 555 Randolph street, MORRIS DOW DIES OF HEART ATTACK Retired Accounting Office Employe Won Distinguished Service Medal. Special Dispatch to Fhe Star. | SILVER SPRING, Md., October 9.— Morris Erskin Dow, 58, an accountant with the General Accounting Office for many years, died yesterday at his | home at 8 Kingsbury drive of a heart attack. He had retired from his posi- tion September 1 because of failing health. A native of Washington, Mr. Dow was the son of the late Jesse Erskin Dow and Clarinda Coppinger Dow At the time of his birth his father was emploved in the office of the Sec- retary of Navy. His grandfather, Wil | liam Coppinger, was consul general {to Liberia and secretary-treasurer of | the American Colonization Society. Mr. Dow attended Maryland Uni- versity and later served with the Na- | | tional Guard on the Mexican border. A World War veteran, he was with | the Rainbow Division in PFrance for | almost two years and was wounded | In action at Chateau Thierry. He was ! |awarded the Order of the Purple | Heart and Distinguished Service | | Medal for his war duty. At the close of the war he mar- |ried Miss Agnes L. Thompson of | Washington and entered the General | Accounting Office. He and his wife |lived in Washington until a vear ago, when they purchased the house on Kingsbury drive. His widow is his only survivor. Funeral services will be held at his | late home on Tuesday afternoon. In- terment with full military honors will be at Arlington National Cemetery, LIVE STOCK BLUE BLOODS IN COLUMBUS EXHIBIT Million Dollars’ Worth of Ani- mals Ready to Be Judged by Collegiate Teams. | By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 9— Curried, combed and marcelled, blue bloods of the animal kingdom went on exhibition here today with the opening of the eight-day National Dairy Show. Lloyd Burlingham, secretary of the National Dairy Association, estimated that a million dollars’ worth of live stock was on exhibit at 8 a.m. when teams from 22 States and 1 Canadian province competed in an international intercollegiate cattle judging contest. Also on today's program was the grading of exhibits entered by 37 State prize 4-H club teams. Results of both competitions will be an- nounced Monday night. Formal judging of dairy cattle and Percheron horses will start Monday. Approximately 1,000 cattle and 300 horses will vie for $20,500 in prize money. An additional $1,700 has been posted for horse pulling contests. Five Injured in Illinois Train Wreck Five persons—four passengers and a porter—uwere injured. seriously enough to require hospital He was alone when he left | Kidnaped ERICAN PRIEST HELD IN MANCHUKUO. The Rev. Gerard A. Don- ovan, a former resident of Pittsburgh and a member of BUILDING OF SHIPS WON'T BE DELAYED Naming of Advisory Board Not to Interfere With Construstion. Appointment of a pecial advizory boaxd, comprising noted marine archi= tects and engineers, will not delay construction of the two new battlee ships, North Carolina and ‘Washing« ton, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison declared yesterday. Building of the vessels will proceed according to schedule, he said, al- though he revealed it may require more than four years. The Navy is attempting some way to compens members, at least by giving them expenses, Edison said. It will be at least two or three months before the keels are laid, he explained. The New York Navy Yard is make to find e the board the Maryknoll Mission, who was kidnaped from the sac- risty of the Roman Catholic Church at North Fushun, Manchukuo, the night of Oc= tober 5 by bandits who de- manded $50,000 ransom for his release. —Wide World Photo. SOUTH GETS HALF OF TENANCY FUNDS $4,381,107 of $9,500,000 Total for First Year Allotted in States Below Mason-Dixon Line. By the Associated Press. Southern States received slightly less than half of $9,500,000 allotted by Secretary Wallace today for Govern- ment loans in the first year of the Government’s farm tenancy program. Ten Southern States received $4,381,107 of the total. Congress ap- propriated $10.000,000 for the first | year, but officials said that about | 380,000 would be needed for admin- istrative expenses. The loans are designed to enable farm tenants, laborers and share. croppers to become farm owners. ‘T'nan\ purchase activities will be | directed by Paul V. Maris of Cor- vallis, Oreg., formerly a regional di- {rector for the discontinued Resettle- ment Administration. Allocation of funds by States in- | cluded $213.967 for Virginia. Farm security officials said Secretary Wal- | lace would determine the counties ‘\\nhm the States where loans will be | | made after recommendations from | State committees, |SNITE WILL GO SOUTH IN MECHANICAL ‘LUNG’ Paralysis Victim Will Spend Fall and Winter in Florida—New Respirator Used. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, October 9 -—Prepara- tions were completed today for ths removal of Frederick B. Snite, jr.,| infantile paralysis victim, to Miami. | Fla., where he will spend the Fall and Winter in his new mschanical “lung.” The new artificial respirator, econ- | structed of aluminum and rubber. | permits greater freedom of his legs and arms. It suppianted a heavy | iron one in which young Snite had | been inclosed from the neck down ! since he was stricken in Peiping, | China, 18 months ago. 1 His trip South, start next week, will take him from the hospital for | the first time since he returned from China last June. Snite's father, head | of a loan company. said the family home in Miami had been fitted with | special equipment in preparation for any emergency. HAWAII GREETS PARTY Spending $30,000 in New Plea for Statehood. HONOLULU, October 9 (P).— Hawaii will pay $30,000 for its second | attempt to convince a congressional party it is entitled to statehood. A party of 50, including 8 Senators and 13 Representatives, is here to in- vestigate island conditions. Civic leaders privately admit they expect only & negligible amount of new information to be added to the voluminous data collected during publie hearings here two years ago by a con- gressional committee. However, the visitors will be shown every major island and all phases of the Territory's life. Some observers believe the major bar to statehood lies in Hawaii's strategic importance as a military base. ing detailed plans for the two vessels, and one set of plans will be given later to the Philadelphia Navy Yard, where one of the ships will be butlt, The North Oarolina will be cone structed at the New York yard, while the Philadelphia yard will build the Washington. Each of the ves fully equipped, will cost around $60,« 000,000. To Inspect Details, The consulting board wiil be asked to ook over general plans that al- ready have been made and to ine spect details as they develop in con- struction. Justifying the naminz of the board, which is patterned after the Naval Consulting Board set up during the World War and presided over by the Assistant Secretary’s father, Thomas A. Edison, the ine ventor, Secretary Swanson's assistant said the Navy felt the weight of ree sponsibi in building the new bate tleships, e first constructed by the American Government in nearly 20 years. Edison likened the naming of the board to the c: of a surgeon call- ing in consultants before undertake ing a difficult operation. He said the Navy wanted these eminent outsiders “to reinforce our judgment and knowl- edge with the experts.” Edison's pronouncement came after the board had held its organization session at his office at the Navy De- partment. The board will meet peri- odically as its duties require, officials said. Of Large Importance. “The design and ruction ef these ships are of large importance to the country in respect to national defense and public finance. Th will be the first ships of their clas: laid down in near when completed will constitute | elements in our first line of def the United States Fleet,” Edison Members of the board are John F. Metten, president of the New York Shipbuilding Corp.: Joseph W. ell, dent of United Dry Docks, Inc.: W. F. Gibbs, president of Gibbs & Cox. Inc, of New York City; Prof. William Hovgaard, professor emiritus of naval eonstruction, Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technolozy, Cambridge, Mass, and Admiral Jo- seph Strauss, U. 8. N, retired, who lives here at 2208 Massachusetts ave- nue, ordnance expert. P R BIG DROP IN STOCKS ASSAILED BY JONES R. F. C. Head Says There Seems No Good Reason for Going So Far, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, October 9 -—Holding the Nation seldom has been more prospere Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. said last night “there seems no good reason” for the decline in the stock market to have gone as far as it has We have not caught up with six years of neglected construction,” he said in a speech prepared for delivery at the annual banquet of the Na- tional Association of Supervisors of State Banks “There is no power. Yet shortage of buyinz during the last few weeks we have been witnessing a continually falling securitics market. “Ask a dozen men for an explana- tion of this falling market and you are apt to get as many different an- swers, but they will all include ‘fear ' Fears that run all the way from the national administration to the boll weevil, “There are, of course, many con- tributing reasons, but are they suffi- cient to warrant so much pessimism? I do not believe so. The market might have been too high. But there seems no reason for it going as low as it has." National income, he said, “is still definitely on the increase. Such economic factors as may be tempo- rarily out of line, due to new and new conditions, will be adjus ed.” GROUP OF 81 GERMANS VISITS U. S. BUILDINGS Ambassador Dieckhoff Entertains Architects, Engineers and Builders Today. Fighty-one German architects, en- gineers and builders, on a two-day visit to Washington, inspected a num- ber of Government, buildings today, The group started at the new Zoo buildings and then visited the Gov- ernment Printing Office annex, where lunch was served. Other buildings were inspected during the afternoon. A reception at the home of Am- bassador Dieckhoff, 2929 Massachu« setts avenue, was set for 5 pm. Off- cials of the Treasury Department's procurement, division and of other Federal agencies and local business leaders acted as guides for the visitors. HITZELBERGER CLAIMS NEW EVIDENCE FOUND By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, October 9. -—Edward L. Hitzelberger, police lieutenant, con= victed of malfeasance, has asked & new trial. His appeal to the supreme bench automatically stayed his sentence and he gave bond pending action. Hitzelberger's motion claimed new evidence had been discovered - and charged errors by the court and in- attention when seven cars of a Pennsylvania passenger train were derailed near Vandalia, 1il., yesterday. The three rear cars fell against a eoncrete retaining wall. ' —Copyright, A. B, Wirephoto. A sufficient evidence at his trial A jury convicted him on {hree counts of an indictment for mal- feasance.