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The Washington times., 1932-11-11
DISCIPLINE NOW
S. PROBLEM FOR
| DEMOCRATS
by GEoRGE R. HOLMES

by GEORGE r. HOLMES
The breadth and sweep Of the
Democratic victory widened today
as belated returns ironed out
close congressional contests and
sent Franklin D. Roosevelt's popu.
lar vote. to still mounting mil.
lions.
seldom in the history Of the
country has one party been given
such complete and overwhelming
RESPONSIBILITY for the conduct Of
the Government.
MajOritieS Run High
With a half dozen seats in the
new Congress still in dispute, 1t
appeared today the Democrats
VIII have some 314 members Of
the new House, as against Ill
fer the Republicans. The Senate
is pfoportionRtely the same. That
is<pArty responsibility with a ven
geaH1ce. More complete RESPONSE
hility could hardly be imagined.
The very magnitude of the
Democratic majorities may prove
embarrassing, for they are too
large to be disciplined. The Re
publicans had the same trouble
following the election Of 1920,
which saw the beginning Of
''hlUc" formation In both Senate
and House.
More than half the states viii
be represented in the new Con
&resS by solid Democratic dele.
cations. including such States as
Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Ne
/ vadA, Utah, Indiana, Rhode Is
land, Washington, West Virginia,
Delaware and New Mexico.
Program Is Problem
The Democrats have a clear
&w0-thirds majority of the Con.
grNss. They will be able, under
efficient leadership, to put
through their complete program,
including modification of the
VOlstead act preparatory to re.
Deal of the Eighteenth Amend,
ginent.
The principal question con-
Fronting the Democratic leader.
ship today was how much of this
ph0gram is to be attempted dur,
ing the short session of Con-
gfess beginning next month. That
session viii be of only three
months duration, and how much
can be accomplished is con-
jectural. In view Of the normal
and routine business, probably
not much.
The expectation lis general that
PTesldent-elect Roosevelt will have
TO call a special session soon
after his inauguration In March
! to carry out platform pledges
principally prohibition and tariff
reform. Definite decision on that
point. however, must await de-
!. VelOpmentS in the latne-duck ses-
! sion.
The Washington times., 1932-11-11
HGdGssGh to Hold
Card PGrtu NOU. 30

The Washington Chapter Of
Hadassah will give a card party.
November 80, at the Jewish Com.
Enunity Center.
Mrs. Ralph Cohen is chairman
Of the committee in charge. as.
sisted by Mrs. William Kraft, Mrs.
J. l.. Krupsaw and Mrs. Maurice
Milestone.
The party is q feature of the
national membership campaign,
TO be conducted BY the Hadassah
during the week of December 2.
The local campaign committee is
headed by Mrs. Edward Cooper,
Mrs. Ben Madden and Mrs. Jack
Weak.
The Washington times., 1932-11-11
Church Celebrating
TLnO Anniversaries

The Mount Carmel Ba ptist
Church on Monday will conclude
It's, eight-day celebration OF the
GhIrch'S fifty-Sixth anniversary
and the twentieth anniversary of
the pastorate of the Rev. w. H.
Jernagin. President w o d r o W
Wilson attended here during his
administration when the Central
Presbyterian Church used the
bGilding.
Sunday morning DIR. Richard
| Hill Of Howard University will
preach; at $3.50 the Rev. H. A
Tyler of Mt. Airy Baptist Church
viii preach the anniversary ser
non and at night the Rev. Percy
JeFHnagin will preach. A recep
tor and pageant Monday night
Nfll close the observance.
The Washington times., 1932-11-11
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Evening star., 1932-10-09

of treaties through the League of Ma
almost every government in Europe Is
today to disclaim any responsibility
Sir Herbert Russell, one of the best
informed and able British editorial
writer's, says in discussing the situation,
that Great Britain is not going to in
terfere with Japan in Manchuria.
Whatever our be-Leagued statesmen
may say upon the matter, public senti-
ment in this country would not stand
for any proposal of active Intervention.
France positively welcomes the Japan
ese action. Russia accepts it as inevi-
table, and have assurances from the
most authoritative source that a per-
fectly satisfactory understanding has
been established between Toxic and
Moscow. The rest of the European
nations do not particularly care what
happens so long as their own CONNER
cial interests in that part Of the world
are not threatened; more than likely
a distinct improvement in these will re-
suit in pro-Japanese feeling"
The Disarmament Conference and
the League are threatened more seri-
ously today than ever before. To save
them both Ramsay Macdonald is max
ing almost superhuman efforts. He has
called to London the three antagonistic
nations-France, Germany and Italy
in an endeavor to smooth out their
controversies, but it seems, from reports
received yesterday from Europe. that
the writing On the wall is that Mac
Donald will fail
In order to lessen somewhat the ef-
feet of such a failure some results in
the disarmament question are neces-
sary, even if they are of somewhat
platonic character. And the naval
pourparlers between Great Britain and
the United States will have to serve tbs
purpose.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
XTRADITION PACTS SKATER
CRIMINALS SECURITY ABROAD
Martin and Samuel insult Gases Reveal
Penetration of Law to Most Remote
Corners of World.

Within the last 40 years commercial
crimes have been made eXtraditable by
all the more advanced powers and
smaller nations have fallen in line with
this policy EmbezZlement and fraud
were first included in an extradition
treaty between this country and Great
Britain in 1890.
The first eXtradltion arrangement be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain was included in the Jay treaty
of amity, commerce and navigation ne
gotiated in 1894 Murder and forgery
were the only two crimes for which
criminals oould be recovered under that
treaty.
$500 Minimum Fixed.
Most extradition treaties provide that
refugees will not be surrendered for
commercial crimes in which sum Of
less than 5000 is involved.
A study of the record of criminals
recovered by the United States from
other countries since 1894 shows that
counterfeiters and forgers have been
more numerous than other offenders.
The Webster r-Ashburton treaty, pro-
claimed by Great Britain and the United
States in 1842, which fixed the north
eastern boundary between the United
States and Canada and provided for the
suppression of the slave trade, was also
an extradition treaty. The clause in
this document concerning eXtradltlon
provided for the surrender of refugees
charged with murder, piracy, arson,
robbery, forgery and utterance of forged
paper.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
DETECTIVES ALERT
TO CURB BANDITS
Headquarters Cruisers and
Precinct Scout Cars Pa
troll Streets.

Two headquarters cruisers and num-
erous precinct scout cars patroiled the
streets last night in an effort to pre-
vent repetition of the wave of banditry
and gunplay of the previous night.
Working under the direction of
Inspector Frank S. w. Burke, chief of
detectives, the cruisers, each containing
two armed detectives, in addition TO
the driver, kept in constant touch with
headquarters as they covered all sec
tions of the city. At the same time,
the scout cars, also containing two
officers each. cruised through the varl-
Gus precincts. on the lookout for
bandits and gunmen.
Bullet Victim Operated On.
Meanwhile, J. Carleton Briggs, 26,
victim of Friday nights gunplay, still
was in a critical condition in Emer-
gency Hospital where he underwent
an operation in which bullet was re-
moved from his abdomen.
Briggs. who lives at 1916 Tenth street,
was shot by bandit who held up a
filling station at Sixth and K streets,
where he is employed.
The shooting occurred a short time
after a gunman had fired upon William
A. Copsey. 81, of 81 Rhode Island ave-
nue. northeast, curing lIle IlOlQ-up Ol d
filling station at Eleventh street and
Rhode Island avenue.
Attempts to Flee.
Copsey, manager of station, attempted
to fee when the bandit turned to kick
small colored boy in the face and
hurl an employe across the station. The
gunman fired. the bullet tearing through
COpSey'S trousers rocket
Two men, arrested last night. were
to be taken to headquarters today for
questioning in connection with the hold
ups. and another arrest was expected
momentarily.
The Investment Pharmacy. Fifteenth
and K streets, was the scene of one of
the four other hold-ups reported during
the night. Two employees of the drug
store, owned by Mrs. Rose Edelman, and
a customer were herded into the rear
by bandit who escaped with $3.50 from
the cash drawer. The robber was chased
by policeman, but eluded him in an
alley
All the other hold-ups were of a
minor nature.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
CASTLE WILL TALK
ON WORLD ARMS
Will Discuss Latest Develop
ments in Forum Address
Tomorrow Night.

Undersecretary of State Castle will
discuss at 10 pm. tomorrow the ques-
ton of world disarmament. its signifi-
canoe and the developments of the
latest discussions in speech in the
National Radio Forum. This program
is arranged by The Star and broadcast
over a Nationwide network Of the Ma
tional Broadcasting System.
Undersecretary Castle is an authority
or the subject of disarmament. During
the difficult negotiations of the London
naval agreement of 1880 he was sent
by President Hoover as special Ambas-
sador to Japan, where he, by his skillful
handling of the situation in Toxic.
helped materially toward the happy
conclusion of that important treaty.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
FISHMONGER CLAIMS
ROYAL PARENTAGE IN
QUEST FOR S. 900
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wreck of the Merida is found in the
Mexican revolution of 1910, the paper
said. Toward the end of that uprising,
when the revolutionists were about to
overthrow the government of President
Porfirio Diaz, a group Of Mexican aris-
tocrats were reported to have taken
aboard the Merida bullion and jewels
from the Mexican treasury. and among
this treasure, valued variously up to
S6,000000, was believed to be the ia
nous Macmillan jewel collection.
The Maximilian jewels were turned
over to the treasury when that unfor-
tunate Emperor was court-martialed
and shot at Queretaro by Mexican Ma
tionalists on June 49, 1867.
The Merida was rammed and sunk
of the Virginia capes by the steamer
Admiral Farragut on May IL. 1911, and
the hulk has successfully withstood the
efforts of Salvagers ever since.
Birth in Italy Alleged.
Brightwell's story as told to the Dis
patch is that he was born in what is
now Vatican City after the unhappy
Empress Charlotte had besought the
Pope in vain to save the life of her
nuSDdQQ, WHO WIS DcSicSeu az >guclc-
taro. Then there is blank interval.
The paper said that Brightwell was de-
posted as a founding on the steps OF
a London church, and later adopted by
a London grocer, who bore the name of
Brightwell.
The present Brightwell supplies fish
and vegetables to small public houses
in London. The name which his So
licitors give to him is Franz Rudolf
Maximilian.
The glamorous story of the Maxi
milan jewels is that they in part con-
sisted of loot from Burmese temple,
which was raided in the sixteenth cen
tury by Hapsburg ancestor of Maxi
milan, one Count Hermann.
After Charlotte became Empress she
added store of gorgeous emeralds
from an Aztec temple in Quetzacoyatl
to the collection.
Both the Burmese and Mexican Con-
signments in the collection have been
always reputed to bear a religious
curse.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Extradition proceedings against Sam
uel and Martin Insull the former Chi
capo power magnates, have focused at
tention upon marked changes which
have come about of recent years IN the
attitude of governments toward inter-
nationally sought persons charged with
crime.
Wrongdoers have a hard time find
ing a place where they can rest In
security. Even countries which DO not
have extradition treaties now pay heed
to diplomatic requests from Other ma
tions for the arrest of persons charged
with crimes which are not political, and
there is seldom much difficulty IN tore.
ing an offender to face the courts OF
a country in which he is charged with
q serious crime.
Remote Corners Penetrated.
The great improvement in commune
cations and the broad expansion in in
ternational trade have turned the spot
light on the most remote corners OF
the world. Radio and airplanes have
penetrated the Amazon jungles and the
oases of the Sahara, with the result
that they no longer afford security to
unexplained strangers.
Governments say little about their
extradition treaties on the theory that
it is better for wrongdoers to believe
that such treaties exist between all
governments AS a matter of fact the
United States does have eXtradition
treaties with more than 25 powers and
it has little difficulty in recovering
refugees from countries with which it
has no treaty.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
GUNMAN IS KILLED
IN HOLD-UP CHASE
Seven Other Persons Shot or
Injured During Wild Pur-
suit in Traffic.
b. the Associated Press.

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CLEVELAND, Ohio, October s-Two
gunmen attempting to rob downtown
jewel house were run down by police
today and one of them was killed after
a mad 3-mile automobile chase across
town, in which seven other persons in
cluding a mother and her daughter.
were shot or injured
The dead bandit was identified by
the Bureau of Criminal Identification
as Norman Townsend, "a, of Detroit.
suspected bank robber.
The injured are:
Herbert Quinlan, 3s, jeweler. shot
through abdomen, condition feared
fatal
Patrolman Fred Blazier, shot through
abdomen, also believed fatally injured
Miss Beverly Martin, IS, injured when
she jumped from a careening comman-
deered bandit car.
Mother Hurt in Crash.
Mrs. Florence Martin, mother of Bev-
erly, injured in crash of bandit car.
Detective Roy Heisley, shot in jaw.
Francis Mack Bush, captured ban
cit and convicted bank robber, injured
in jumping from bandit car. bush,
police said, has a record of II arrests
in Detroit)
Edmond S. Quinlan, jeweler, father
of Herbert Quinlan.
The chase extended from East
Seventeenth street and Euclid avenue
through heavy traffic up Euclid avenue
to East Seventy-third street, where the
bandit car failed to make the turn into
Seventy-third street and rammed into
a stone wall
Sidewalk crowds scattered for safety
from spattering bullets. and croSs-town
traffic was demoraliZed as the bandit
car and the police car. its siren wailing
crashed red light after red light at busy
intersections.
Shot by One Robber.
Herbert QuinIan was shot by one OF
the robbers who entered the Jewelry
store when his father offered resistance.
Slugging the elder Quinlan over the
head, the pair then fed into the street
n 44uC anu Wy wac Ao4S%N
by employees of the building,
Bush was captured in a parking lot,
having landed himself in a jump from
retaining wall to the lot.
Townsend ran up to the automobile
driven by Mrs. Martin, waiting for
traffic signal, and ordered her out of
the drivers seat. Patrolman BlaZier
seeing the action, rushed up to the
car, only to fall under a point-blank
volley from Townsend's pistol
Police Shoot at Car.
It was then that the chase began
in earnest, police cruiser picking
up the Martin car. Detectives in the
police car riddled the rear of the auto
mobile with bullets, but feared to shoot
too high because of Mrs. Martin and
her daughter.
Before reaching Seventy-third street,
Miss Martin fell into the street in an
attempt to escape. and when the
bandit car crashed, Mrs. Martin was
injured.
Townsend, after the crash, opened
fire on detectives, but went down under
volley from sawed-off shotguns and
police revolvers, dying en- route to the
hospital
Evening star., 1932-10-09
AL SMITH TO MAKE
SPEECH IN NEWARK
Address in Favor of Democratic
Ticket Scheduled After Mid
die of Month.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEWARK, N. j., October 6-Alfred
E. Smith will speak in Newark Armory
in behalf of the Democratic ticket some
time after the middle of the month. 1t
was learned today
Democratic leaders announced the
speech after it was learned that Smith
would speak in New York, Massachu-
sets. Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Earlier in the week Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City and Commission
er William J. Egan he'd discussed
Smiths prospective appearance in New
Jersey and at that time Hague gave
Egan assurance that if Smith spoke
anywhere he would speak in New
Jersey
Hague was leader of the Smith forces
at the national convention which nom-
mated Gov. Roosevelt. Egan was on
the Resolutions Committee and saw
adoption of the repeal plank he ad-
vocated
Egan said Smiths speech would win
thousands of New Jersey votes for the
Democrats.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
GRAND JURY SUMMONED.
Copies Of Coded Messages Sent insult
To Be Examined.

SUpitS VI SuuCu VAcsodScS oSht
To Be Examined.
CHICAGO, october CF).-An Ex-
traordinary session of the grand jury to
examine copies of four coded cable
grams sent to Samuel insult in Europe,
was summoned tonight.
Copies of the dispatches-two sent to
Milan and two to Turin, Italy-Were
called for in a subpoena duces tecum
issued by Chief Justice Thomas j.
Lynch Officials Cf the telegraph COM
pany refused to surrender them to As
sistant States Attorney Charles Bellows,
but offered to have them ready for
grand jury inspection.
Senoing of three of the cablegrams
was first disclosed in foreign dispatches
last night States Attorney John A
Swanson said he had learned CT the
fourth only today and that it was sent
within the last "a hours to Milan"
Swanson planned to assign experts to
decipher the missiveS.
The prosecutor said he was especially
interested in determining identity of the
sender and how he happened to know
that insult, after disappearing mysteri-
ously from Paris hotel several days
ago, intended going to Italy, where he
was reported today to have been seen.
Some Of the cablegranls, he said, were
not signed.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
BRITISH LINER C0LLIDES
WITH NORWEGIAN SHIP
Latter Believed Sinking After
Crew Is Removed-Other Yes
sci Seriously Damaged.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. Sunday, october 9.-The
Blue Star liner Africstar and the Nor
wegian motorship Charente were IN
collision at 1:47 am today off Dun
geness, Kent, in the English Channel.
The Africstar Immediately took
aboard the crew of the Charente and,
herself seriously damaged, proceeded
toward Dover slowly. She was showing
distress signals and Dover lifeboat
was keeping by her side.
The Charente was believed sinking.
The collision occurred as the Afric-
star was setting out on a voyage to
Buenos Aires.
Evening star., 1932-10-09

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for conspiracy, of which he served two
before the parole came. Four charges
OF aiding an escape and one of assault
to kill we're stricken.
Indiana tried to send him to the
penitentiary, with similar luck. Nc
Eralne vert to Crown Point. Ind, in
May, 1924. on one of the drunken orgies
that became regular item on his pro-
gram In latter years. In a road house
there he was alleged to have shot to
death Thad Fancher, an attorney
Some of his companions on the party
were sent to prison. but McErlane dis
appeared, and before he was captured
and tried the States star witness. Frank
Cochran, was found dead, his head
Dashed in with an ak. McErlane was
acquitted of the Fancher murder.
It was a woman who first got" him.
Marion Miller. his common law wife,
protested his advances with bullet
The gangster, by this time listed as
public enemy" with the other
notorious leaders of Chicago gangdom
went to the hospital with broken leg
He was lying there, the leg in cast
suspended from pulleys, with weights
holding the bone in place. when visitors
came. He must have been expecting
them.
Had Pistol IN Bed.
A fusillade Of shots cracked out. shat
tering the silence of the hospital cor
ridors, bringing screams of terror from
the patients Three bullets found their
mark in McErlane's body. nearly finish
ing him. before he felt under his pillow
for the pistol he had ready; whipped it
out and sent his aSsailantS away. Walls
and windows were spattered with lead.
In the last few years his reputation
as drunken, mad. quick-triggered gun
man grew. Once he was taken in for
psychopathic examination. given
rather dubious report, but allowed to go
after week. Once his car brushed
tenders with another, and in fit of
rage he emptied his revolver into the
body of the other automobile.
A year ago today his wife was found
dead of four bullet wounds in their car.
Witnesses had seen him with her the
night before. The interior of the au-
tcmobile was pock-marked with bullet
holes fired wildly, and on the ground
nearby lay dead two dogs. Police were
certain it was another of McErlane's
crazy cummings. No other, they rea-
soned, would have brutally fired on the
dogs after Staying the woman and
splotching the car with lead.
He came back after while, but the
police said they could pin nothing on
Frank
So he went down to the old houseboat
on the river at Beardstown. Occasion
ally he would try to show another side
of his nature. dispensing bits of charity
from the savings of his criminal career.
But toward the end his gangland friends
and foes left him to himself And when
death came there was only one remain
ing with him, a woman-supposedly his
mother.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
ARREST ASKED IN PARIS.
Request Presented by United States EN-
bassy After insults Departure.

PARIS, October 8 LP,.-A request for
the provisional arrest and detention of
Samuel insult, who is wanted in Chi
cago in connection with larceny and
embezzlement charges growing out of
the collapse of his utilities interests, was
presented by the American embassy to
the foreign office today, but it came too
late.
So far as could be determined Mr.
insult no longer was in Paris. The en-
bassy understood that he was on his
way to Rome, but his present where
abouts were unknown.
1t appears that after learning he had
been indicted in Chicago. he left his
Paris hotel by service entrance Tues
day night and shortly afterward took
train for the frontier None of the
hotel staff saw him CO.
A cabled request for Mr.. Insults ar
rest, pending extradition proceedings.
was received last night from the United
States. When it was transmitted to
the foreign Office the French authori-
ties undertook a search for him in this
country.
In the event that Mr.. insult is found
in another country, it will be neces-
sary for the United States Government
to repeat the process of requesting his
arrest.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
OIL CONCESSIONS VALID

CARACAS, Venezuela, October Up.
The validity of oil concessions covering
millions of acres and held by the
Caribbean Petroleum Company and the
Venezuelan Oil Company, subsidiaries
of Royal Dutch Shell, was upheld today
by VeneZuela's highest court.
The contracts had been in dispute
between the Royal Dutch Subsidiaries
and other interests on account of al
legged overlapping concessions.
Evening star., 1932-10-09
GERMANY ACCEPTS BID.
Agrees in Principle to Farley in
London.

BERLIN. October 8 P).-Germany
today accepted in principle the British
invitation to conference in London,
to be held some time after October II,
at which the Reich'S plea for equality
in ornaments would be taken up.
The German charge d'affaires in
London had instructions, it was init
mated in official circles, to elucidate
verbally to the British foreign office in
brief German note on the subject
which he delivered today It was en-
phasized that the note laid down no
peremptory conditions, but merely
stated the German view of how an
agreement might be reached.
The note did not mention the ques-
ton of participation by other powers
in addition to France, Britain, Italy and
Germany, and no negative attitude
toward such participation was implied.
Whether the conference materializes,
German officials asserted, depended on
the other participants, and Germany
will await definite new invitation.