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Evening star., 1932-04-03
HEADS
| GATHER TOMORROW
Two Dozen Meet at Chicago
to Arrange for National
Convention.
nu.h.Assnciated Press.

Nv the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 1.-Two dozen
democratic leaders will meet in Chi
cago Monday to arrange for the ma
tional convention.
Although much Of the meeting is to
be taken up with the letting Of con-
tracts, approval Of seating arrangements
and other routine, there is possibility
that the keynoter might be selected.
Hurley In Conference.
Conferring with the Arrangements
Committee will be Edward N. Hurley
head of the Chicago citizens group
that obtained both political conventions
for this city. The Republican National
Committee has already approved the
seating arrangemeWs of the Chicago
which starts June IA. 1t is expected
that few, II any, changes will be made
for the Democratic convention. which
begins June 81 in the same building.
Both John j. Raskob, chairman OF
the Democratic National Committee
and Jouett Shouse, chairman of the
Executive Committee, are expected to
attend the meeting Monday.
Farley Will Return.
James A. Farley, chairman of the
New York State Central Committee
said this week as he passed through
| Chicago on his tour in behalf of Gov
Franklin D. Roosevelt that he woulc
be back Monday, although not a mem.
Der of the Arrangements Committee.
If the subject Of a keynoter come,
up there is a possibility of a test o.
strength between the Roosevelt force.
and those opposing the New Yorker:
drive for the Democratic nomination.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
HOUSE VETS SPLIT
ON BEER BILL PLAN
Britten Urges Hesitation in
Forcing Vote to Taxing
ITS Beer.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
House wet bloc leaders are at odds
over whether they should press their
plan to force vote on bill to legal
lie and tax 2.75 per cent beer.
Before the tax bill came up, they
had intended to follow a course similar
to that which brought rejection by a
227-to-ls7 vote Of a proposed new
eighteenth amendment to establish State
liquor control.
Representative Britten Republican,
ulinois) said yesterday he disagreed
with other wet bloc leaders who think
they might harm their cause on a beer
bill by obtaining less than the 1877 votes
cast in favor Of the resubmission pro-
posal.
Sees Bilrs Deficiency.
Sooner or later, we will find that the
tax bill we passed Friday will not give us
enough revenue to balance the budget,
Britten said. IT think that In the mean
time the reasonable, Sound-thinking
members of Congress should keep the
question alive.
Then, when the time comes, we will
and putting $500, 900, 900 to $500 ,000, 900
into the Treasury every year by taxing
beer or cents pint"
Representative OConnor Of New York,
a Democratic anti-prohibition bloc lead
er and co-author of the beer bill with
Britten, said he would ask that the
Republican and Democratic wet group
executive committees meet soon to de-
eide how to proceed.
Vets None Too Hopeful
Next Thursday the O'Connor- Hull
bill will have been on file with the
Ways and Means Committee long enough
for a petition to be filed demanding
that the measure be taken away from
it. Some wet bloc leaders are not too
hopeful of their chances of obtaining
the las signatures necessary on petit
ton to force record vote.
These anti i-prohfbttionists point out
that the beer amendment to the tax
bill was rejected by vote Of 216 to
1872. While prohibitionists got only IL
less than on the resubmission proposal,
the vets were As short Of the record
making 1877.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
INSTITUTE OF P0LITY
WILL OPEN AT EARL HAM
Third Annual Meeting Will BE
Held at Indiana College May
13 and II.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Ind, April 2.-Dr. VIII
liam c. Dennis, president of Earlhan
College, today announced the third an
nual Earlham Institute Of Polity will be
held at the college May 13 and IA.
The institute, as heretofore, will be
devoted to consideration of relations
Of the United States with the nations
Of Latin America and the Orient. II
is sponsored by Chester D. Pugsley
Peekskill, N. Y
President Dennis also said that Mr.
Pugsley has renewed for the next aca-
denlic year scholarship for the son or
daughter Of an American consul or vice
consul of career. The scholarship has
cash stipend of 5000 and Earlham
grants free tuition.
A similar scholarship for next year
has been made available to a member
of the graduating class of the Peekskill
High School.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
BANK ROBBER SEIZED
ON RETURNING HOME
$1,000, Handed Him by Cashier
Found Stuffed in Shirt as He
Steps from Taxicab.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, La, April 2.-Gus
Lea's novel method Of robbing a branch
OF the Whitney Bank & Trust Co. to-
day proved Of no avail.
Police arrested him as he rode home
IN taxicab with $1,000 stuffed In his
shirt.
Nobody paid any attention TO a tall,
slim man In long line of depositors OF
the branch bank. He moved slowly to-
ward teller's window, but when it be-
came his turn he stuck something that
looked like q pistol concealed in his coat
pocket into the teller's face and called
for money.
A big stack Of currency was handed
him and he fed, backing through the
crowd TO the street.
Police learned his identity, waited at
his front door and seized him as the
cab stopped.
He told them he was an unemployed
electric lineman and had robbed the
bank to pay debt OF S400 contracted ir
: epposingr his wife's divorce suit
Evening star., 1932-04-03
STUDENTS TO FIGHT
EDITORS EXPULSION
Columbia U. Publication Heads to
Ask Butler for Reason of
Harris 0usting.
BY the Associated Press.

6y the AShOClated EreSS.
NEW YORK, April 2.-Dr. Nicholas
Murray Butler, president of Columbia
University, VIII be asked for an expla-
nation of the expulsion from the uni
versity Of Reed Harris, senior and editor
of the Columbia Spectator, the publica-
tion's managing board announced today.
The full staff of so members Will
meet Monday to decide their attitude
In the situation.
Harris, who was threatened with dis
ciplinary action last November, when
he charged in an editorial that foot
ball at the university was a semi
professional racket" now says he was
expelled by the dean last night without
an opportunity to be heard in his own
defense. ..s as "a
The notice of expulsion said material
published in the Spectator during the
last few days lis the climax of a long
series of discourtesies, innuendoes and
Misrepresentation which have ap-
peared in this paper during the current
academic year and called for disciplin-
ary action" ~->
Evening star., 1932-04-03
DEMOCRAT PLEDGE
/ FIGHT IS RENEWED
,Iexas Dry Leader Files Suit
T for Acceptance of Un-
/ .s. pledged Votes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS. Tex, April democratic
drys of Texas, credited with throwing
the Lone Star State to Hoover in 1928
as a protest against Al Smiths wetness,
today renewed an old fight to obtain
control of the State political ma
chinery.
Thomas B. Love Of Dallas former
State Senator, who led the dry boilers
in 1928, petitioned in District Court for
a writ Of mandamuS against precinct
officers which would force them to ad-
NIT qualified Democratic voters to the
primaries without requiring pledge Of
party loyalty.
Protest Is Uuavailing.
Love protested unavailingly several
weeks ago when the Democratic State
Executive Committee ordered that pre-
cinct voters must accept a pledge to
support the Democratic nominee feS
President and Vice President by voting
for the Democratic presidential electors
Of Texas
Democratic regular" leaders looked
askance upon the court attack, as they
had hoped to harmonic party factions
and send delegation to the Chicago
National Convention pledged to support
Speaker John Garner for President.
Roosevelt-for-Pr President and Traylor-
for-President leaders already had indi-
Gated they would join in the movement.
Successful in 1928.
Love was successful in a similar at
tack upon the party loyalty pledge in
1928. when he obtained a writ of man
damus from the State Supreme Court,
ordring the State Executive Committee
to certify his name on the ballot as
candidate for Governor. Certifica-
ton was granted, although he would
not support the presidential candidacy
of Al Smith.
In his petition today Love asserted
the State Executive Committee had no
authority under the State election laws
to require such pledge.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
SCIENTIST BELIEVES
FAWCETT is DEAD
Says His Inquiries Indicated Elk.
plorer Was Far From Place He
Was Reported Seen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2.-Vincenzo
Petrullo, research associate in anthro-
pology at the University of Pennsyl-
vania Museum, today expressed the
opinion that Col. P. H. Fawcett, Brit
ish explorer, recently reported alive in
the jungles of Brazil, is dead.
Petrullo was a member of an expe-
dition to the interior Of Brazil, which
recently returned here, but made nc
public mention of his opinion because
1t had been generally accepted that
the British explorer, who went into the
jungle seven years ago to seek what he
believed was the original Garden OF
Eden, was dead
However, when he heard of the re-
ports from Brazil that Stephan Rattin
a Swiss trapper had seen Fawcett held
captive by natives, he searched his
notes in which he had entered Incl
dents told him by natives. Petrullo
said that the information he cleaned
from the natives indicated to him that
Fawcett was far from the place where
he was reported to have been seen alive
and that, In his opinion, Fawcett died
Of thirst and starvation.
Petrullo brought back pictures Of ma
tives, who, he said, ferried Fawcett
across the Kuhene River and were the
last men to see him alive before he
entered the jungle bordering the river.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
CHICAGO CIVIC OPERA
HOUSE BOOKS SCANDALS
George Whites Show Will Start
Indefinite Engagement
Next Month.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 2.-The Scandals
are coming to the Chicago Civic Opera
House.
In the huge opera house where many
times the golden voices of Claudia
Muzio. Cyrena Van Gordon, Lucrezia
Bori and others have met the applause
of Chicago's music lovers, there's going
to be the grooming Of Rudy Vallee, the
Gale Quadruplets will sing and dance
and Willie and Eugene Howard will
plug" their jokes while dancing girls
parade upon the stage.
The invasion of George Whites
Scandals" at the opera house for an
indefinite engagement beginning in
May was announced last night after
Herbert M. johnson. manager Of the
opera company, and B. F. Hoffman,
agent for White, signed a contract.
What will this mean to opera?" Mr..
johnson was asked.
1T viii mean more revenue he said.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
Finds $50 Hidden
In Toe of Shoes
That Cost $3.50
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RIDGELAND, g. c.. April a.
Elliott Mitchell, colored, bought a
pair Of old shoes and $50 for
$3.50, but he didn't know the
money was In the purchase.
NeitheN did the man who sold the
shoes.
Mitchell bought the shoes at
secondhand store in Savannah,
Ga, and then he stepped In some
water and got his feet wet. He
took of the shoes to dry them,
pulled a wad of paper from the
toe of one shoe and threw it in
the fire.
But he saw that, although the
wad was paper, it was negotiable.
He pulled it from the flames and
counted $50 in bills.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
GERARD RESIGNS
DEMOCRATIC POST
Former Envoy Quits Duties as
Party Treasurer; Va
Cancy Untitled.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Ready to take an active part In the
coming campaign, but finding his OFF,
clal duties too heavy, James W. Gerard
resigned yesterday as treasurer of the
Democratic National Committee.
Delays Filling Post.
Chairman Raskob of the committee
said in New York that he would name a
successor in due course" but did not
indicate whom he had in mind. COM
mittee officials here expected the place
to be filled within short time, at least
Temporarily, until the committee meets
at Chicago.
The former Ambassador to Germany
who was treasurer eight years, made
clear IN a statement in New York ex-
planning his resignation that he ex-
pected to be busy in the campaign
helping in the financial organization
and participating in the speaking pro-
gram.
FOresees Big Tasks.
Gerard's brief letter to the clerk Of
the House, announcing his resignation
gave no reason. The supplemental state
ment he issued in New York said the
post requires more time and attention
than can give to it." and added:
1T would have been impossible fol
me to devote the time required fol
experimenting all the details of the
financial organization and at the sans
lime bear the burden of responsibility.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
200 NOW ARE ENTERED
FOR BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
More Expected to Enter Federal
Employees Event Next Friday
and Saturday.

Two hundred persons registered for
the Federal Employees Duplicate Con-
tract and Auction Bridge Tournament
yesterday at the Carlton Hotel. The
event will be staged Friday and Sat
urday, under the auspices of the Fed
era! News, organ Of the National Fed
eration OF Federal Employees.
EntrleS were originally scheduled to
cpse tomorrow at midnight, but will
oe received one day longer. A final list
OF ESQ players is expected.
A. P. Stockvis will supervise the tour
nament. Eighteen gold and silver tro-
phleS will be awarded.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
DOG CHEWS OFF TWO
OF BURGLARS FINGERS
Evidence Left Behind Shows Con-
clusively That Intruder in
Home Was Colored.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. April 2.-The burglar who
got into the home Of L. P. Geibel, in
suburban Midlothian, was eolored.
The intruder's race was easily deter
mined because he left two Of his fingers
behind. They were chewed from his
hand by Sandy, Geibel's airedale dog,
early yesterday morning.
Geibel reported he heard the dog
growing during the night, but turned
over In his bed and went back to sleep.
When he awoke later he found the evi-
dence of the fight.
Sandy was slashed by the burglar
with a knife,
Evening star., 1932-04-03
RAINS HIT NEW ENGLAND
Heavy Downpour in Northern Area
Makes Roads impossible.

BOSTON, April (P.-Heavy rain
fall, in some cases lasting for "a hours,
caused swollen streams and some dam
age, mostly to highways in many cases
in Northern New England yesterday.
In some places, where the rainfall
succeeded an unusally heavy fall of
snow and where the frost had left the
ground to a considerable depth, the
highways became impossible quagmires
and all forms of traff1c was interrupted.
Evening star., 1932-04-03
THREE BOYS DROWNED
High School Students Canoe Goes
Over Dam.

FTNDLAY, Ohio. April 2 (P-Three
high-school students were drowned In
the Blanchard River here last night
when their canoe went over a dam
They were Carl Quick, Robert Rose and
Franklin Strattman, all Of Findlay.
The youths had been padding for
several hours when the accident oc-
CURED. They failed to notice their
approach to the dam aud were unable
to pun away IN the swift current,
Evening star., 1932-04-03
Death Ship to Be Tug.

The Sain Philibert, the pleasure
steamer which, packed with excursion
lists, was caught off the Southern Brit
any coast, turned turtle and went down
causing 800 deaths, is to be converted
into tug. Hauled to the surface and
Evening star., 1932-04-03

Australian footwear manufacturers
expect b,isiness sptrt tl1ls2xeaA
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
IRELAND RINGS
WITH JOY

DUBLIN, March IT GN.S0. +.
The fifteen hundredth annivers-
ary Of the landing Of st. Patrick
on Ireland'S shores was cele-
brated throughout Catholic Ire
land today.
While the age-old custom Of
drowning the shamrock" was
carried out in many homes, hun
dreds of public ceremonies were
held with traditional color.
The principal rites scheduled
were to accompany the turning
of the sod on the Mountain Of
Sieve Willin, at Saul, County
Down, for a giant statue Of the
country'S patron saint.
It was here that st. Patrick
landed in 432 A. D., to begin his
missionary work. An altar also
is to be built here in his honor.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Mellon : DEBT
PARLEY DENIED

Speaking with authority Of
President Hoover, Senator David
A. Reed CR.) of Pennsylvania, to-
day denied in the Senate that
Andrew w. Mellon, the new
American ambassador to Great
Britain, would reopen debt >nego-
tiatiohs with that nation
Reed declared published reports
that Mellon proposed to negotiate
a new settlement on the British
debt, due to declining NBritish
currency, had mot one word Of
truth in them"
His denial was provoked when
Senator Joe r. Robinson, Demo
cratic floor leader, assailed the re-
ported moves as "unwise and
harmful"
Robinson warned the Admin
istration against attempting to
accept repayment of the debts
in deprecated currencies." He
demanded that the Government
''look at the subject from the
standpoint of the American tax
payer rather than from that Of
the British taxpayer"
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
OFFICIAL
KILLS SELF

LONDON, March II G.NS.,
Z. director of the Esthonian match
monopoly. M. MARCUS, was found
dead at Reval, Esthonia today, ap-
ps.rently a suicide, according to
dispatches from HelSingfors.
MARCUS, whose salary was I'm.
derstood to have been cut follow
ing the suicide of Ivar Kreuger,
Swedish match king, who con.
trolled the industry, also lost
heavily in the depreciation Of his
large holdings of Kreuger & Toll
stock.
MARCUS formerly owned the
ReVal Match Company, which was
taken over by the Kreuger and
Toll firm when the EStonian
Match monopoly was formed
MARCUS in this deal received a
large block Of the shares Of the
new organization.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Grew ABANDONS
/. FLAMING SHIP

NORFOLK, Va, March II
G.N.SJ-Trace of a burning
ship or it's crew, reported to
have taken to lifeboats, was fran
tically sought today by three
Coast Guard cutters which set
out from here to assist in the
rescue of those aboard the vessel.
Radio messages gave the posi-
ton of the flaming ship as so
miles south of Fenwick Island,
near the Delaware breakwater.
The name of the craft was un-
disclosed.
The American tanker Sunoil
reported it saw the ship burning
but did not stand by, as there
were other craft near.
The Coast Guard cutter Pulaski
reported today it was off Fen
wick Island looking for the burn
ing ship.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
CRISP FLAYS
. SALES TAX
I. PROTEST
Manufacturing Costs Will
Absorb Most of Levy,
He Predicts

The manufacturers sales
tax will be absorbed largely
in manufacturing costs and
will touch the consumer only
in few instances, Representa-,
tive Crisp {D.} Of Georgia,
acting chairman of the, Ways
and Means Committee, de-
clared today.
More confident than ever that
the House win approve the new
81. l.O96, 100000 tax bill, Crisp
branded. as false most of the
Arguments made against the
sales tax feature. He said:
serhe most protests / have
had regarding this tax come
from manufacturerB who say I,
they will have t. absorb it Ia
their manufacturing costs.
WOULD ABSORB TAX
"Two delegations have come
to me asking that Congress
require the amount of the
sales tax to be issued Sepa-
rately to invoices to whole
saIerS. They say unless this
is done they must absorb the
tax as q result Of severe COM
petition"
Crisp pointed out that Rep
resentative Bachmann (R0 OF
West Virginia attacked the tax
on the ground manufacturers in
his State would have to pay 1t
while opponents from Oklahoma
and Arkansas complain because
the consumer would bear the
cost.
A.conference of House Republi-
cans was called today to consider
the sales tax provision. following
a demand by 80 Republicans. The
conference will be held tomorrow
night. The movement for a con-
ference was led by Representative
LaGuardia (R) of New York, who
was joined by members Of the
progressive bloc" and some other
Republicans.
The tax bill was broadened to-
day when the House Ways and
Means Committee tentatively
adopted a 4-cents-a-pound excise
tax. on imported copper.
subject to Review
The proposed tax, similar to.
the excise tax voted on foreign
oil imports. is subject to further
review by the committee tomor-
row, when a representative Of
the tariff commission will appear
to discuss it.
The committees action came
as a surprise. as hackers Of q
tariff on copper had not APP
peared during the open hearings
on the tax bill. The rate. of 4
cents a pound compared to a
proposed tariff rate Of 5 cents
a pound.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Gibbons, Sick ofChina War;
Glad He's Coming Home

real bad happens to the n1pper.
Everybody in Shanghai says
that all these generals and adj
mirals just couldn't bear seeing
their victories and strategic re-
treats cut down to slug heads
and buried in the want ads, so
they just called off the war until
Charlie, Junior, gets that tousled
head of his back on Anne's arm.
Gibbons Ordered Home
I sure hope it is soon.
Along with the dawn Of this
st. Patrick's day came cable or.
ders for my return home and
I can't tell you how much that
word means. spent 8Thanks-
giving in Mid-Pacific, Christmas
in a rat-infeSted dump in Yin.
kow, and New Years eve in
Koupangtze, all in Manchuria,
and here's auld st. Pats day in
Shanghai.
I'm hoping to grab the big
Continued on Page p Col. 81
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
SWEDEN To RUN
KREUGER FIRMS

STOCKHOLM, March IT
QN.S0 The Swedish govern.
ment plans to take over the
Boldien Mining Company, one Of
the concerns operated by the late
Ivar nreuger, a member Of the
Swedish Riksbank announced to-
day.
Other Kreuger interests also
are expected to be assimilated by
the government.
With the Stock Exchange still
closed. Kreuger shares were
traded in unofficially today.
They were extremely weak at
the outset, but gradually gained
strength as they day progressed.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
Brother of MeLLett
Held in Li0lIOr Plot

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, March
II U.N.S0.-Mayor Jesse H. Mel
lett, Of Anderson, Ind, a brother
of Don r. Mellett, crusading edi-
tor aSSassinated at Canton, Ohio,
in 1925, was one of the % Madi-
son county persons indicted by
the Federal grand jury here
March 5 on liquor conspiracy
charges, it was revealed in Fed
eral Court today when 278 de-
fendantS assembled for arraign.
ment.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17
DOCUMENTS
SEIZED. BY.
RAIDERS
Rifles, Ammunition Captured;
Plan Was to Overthrow
All Police Power

BERLIN, March II Q.N.S.).
Documentary evidence that
Adolf Hitler's brown-shirted
national socialist h OR d e $,
several hundred thousand
strong, planned a march on
Berlin, :" was seized today in
a series of raids on Nazi
(Fascist) headquarters in Ber-
lin and Munich.
Carl Severing. Prussian Min
ister of the Interior, announced
that the raids were made to fore
stail an attempt py the Hitlerites
to seize power Ia Germany BY
force.
Were to Seize Power
Several hundred thousand of
Hitler's storm troops" Severfng
said, had been outfitted with
rifles, ammunition and first aid
kits. The original plan, accord
ing to the minister, was to seize
police power, if Hitler was elected
president in the elections last
Sunday, and thus head off Re-
publican resistance to the Brown
shirt leader.
Large quantities Of arms and
ammunition we're seized, as well
as detailed plans for occupation
Of public buildings, bakeries and
foodshops and the disarming Of
Republican police.
All arrangements had been
made, he said, to launch the
march on Berlin at a moments
notice. A telegram reading
Grandmother Dead" and signed
'Max" was to have been the
signal for the nationwide coup,
dispatched from Fascist head
quarters in Munich.
Raids Are Denounced
National Socialist Spokesmen
denounced the raids, which
totaled in the neighborhood of
300, characterizing them as an
election manoevre." A protest
was lodged with Minister of De-
tense General Wilhelm Groener,
and a Nazi spokesman said an
appeal would be taken to the
Supreme Court.
The series of raids was one
Of the most extensive in German
history.
The Washington times., 1932-03-17

FLOYD GIBBONS what we'd do if
the Japs did this and what might
happen if the Chinks did So-and-
so-Why doggone it. all they've
been talking about since the kid
naping is what they'd like to do
to the low down heel, who pinched
Lindy's kid.
Gee, how tough this is on
little Anne" they're saying, and
wondering whether the kids get
ting the right kind Of chow and
what ought to happen to those
double blank-blanks ( anything