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Evening star., 1932-02-26
BETHESDA CHAMBER
SPLITS ON REZONING
Directors and Committee Hold
Different Opinions on Win
field Property.
By staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF CORRESPONDENT Of The Star.
BETHESDA, Md, February ga
difference of opinion as to the de-
STABILITY of re-zoning to allow indus
trial use of a portion of the Winfield
property located near the B. & o.
freight line and Bradley Boulevard
here exists between the board of direc
tors and the Zoning Committee of the
Bethesda Chamber of Commerce.
In a resolution adopted last week the
Evening star., 1932-05-15
u. S. ASKED TO OFFER 100000
FOR LINDBERGH KIDNAPERS
Bill Introduced in House by Douglass of Massachusetts,
Authorizes Attorney General to Act

money have been expended by both
the Federal and State enforcement
authorities to bring about the capture
of those indictable for the KIDNAPPING
and murder of the infant son of Amer
ica's idol, Charles Augustus Lindbergh,
with but futile results; therefore be it
Resolved: 3" That the Attorney
General of the United States is
authorized and hereby directed to offer
a reward of 100000 for information
leading to the arrest and conviction of
the person or persons guilty of kid
naping or causing the death of Charles
Augustus Lindbergh, jr.
There is authorized to be appropriated
out of any money in the Treasury of
the United States not otherwise ap-
propriated the sum of 100000 for the
purpose of paying the reward provided
for In this act such sum when ap-
propriated to be paid to such person
or divided among such persons as the
Attorney General of the United States
may determine
Evening star., 1932-05-15
BLADENSBURG ROAD GAMING
ESTABLISHMENT IS REOPENED
Resumption of Business by Notorious
House Is in Direct Defiance of
Grand jury Edict.

In apparent defiance of the grand
jury's edict that ''it be kept closed for
all time" the notorious gambling estab-
lishment Just across the District line on
Bladensburg road was reopened-"wide
open"-yesterday.
Several automobiles filled with men
were seen to enter the premises In the
afternoon and last night the big
wooden entrance gates were opened for
the first time in many months.
Members of the gambling fraternity
previously had confirmed rumors that
the place was to open and said 1t would
continue to operate ''as long as 1t can" !"
Less than a month ago the county
grand jury called attention to the fact
the place was closed and directed the
law enforcement officials of the county
to keep it closed The report Of the
last grand jury was the first to nsen-
ton the establishment by name.
The forceful language Of the report
met with widespread approval OF the
Evening star., 1932-05-15

county, and only last week the county
commissioners received a resolution
from the County Ministerial Associa-
tion calling upon the authorities to see
that the recommendation of the jury in
regard to all gambling establishments
was carried out
An official of Mount Rainier, the town
nearest the establishment, linked the
reopening with the Lindbergh kidnapping
case last night. He said:
Il had hoped the Lindbergh kidnap-
ing had taught the people of this
county some respect for law"
James A. La Fo1taine of Washington,
alleged operator of the establishment in
previous years, was released from the
Ellicott City jail some time ago, after
his nine-month sentence on charges Of
evading income tax payment had been
reduced TO SO days because of poor
health.
The gambling establishment has been
closed since before La Fontaine went to
jail
Evening star., 1932-05-15
Bachmann Adds Name Call
ing for Showdown Slated
for May 23.
BROWN Is CONFIDENT
OF WET G. o. P. PLANK
Predicts Attempt at Convention to
Satisfy Anti-Drys and Strength
en- Party.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House will go on record Mon
day, May %, on the for-revenue
issue.
The vote was assured yesterday when
Representative Bachmann of West
Virginia, the Republican whip, stepped
to the clerks desk as the 145th signer
of petition to call up the O'Conno--
Hull bill for tax of cents a pint on
beer of not over 2.75 per cent alcohol
by weight.
The bill would declare this percent
age to be Intoxicating in fact"
A burst of applause from anti-prohi-
bitionists greeted Bachmann. Only a
few minutes earlier, Representative
Kvale, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota, who
represents the district once held by
Andrew J. Volstead, author of the pro-
hibition enforcement act, had signed
Marks Second Attempt.
1t will be the second vote on legalized
beer tax this session, but the first on
which the ballots of individual mem
bers will be recorded. Representative
Cullen, leader of the Tammany dele
cation, was defeated in an attempt to
attach this plan to the tax bin by a
216 to 1872 vote.
The petition had been lying on the
clerks desk for more than month.
Sponsors attributed large measure OF
their success in obtaining the las sig
natures to the recent Ohio primary.
Had the required signatures not been
obtained yesterday, a vote would not
have been possible under House rules
before the national conventions in
June.
A few minutes before Bachmann
signed, Cullen walked up to Speaker
Garner and In voice that could be
heard in the gallery, said:
Sign that; McAdoo's turned wet"
Gamers name was not on the petit
ton. William G. McAdoo, for years a
leading prohibitionist, has been spon-
soring the Texan for the presidency.
Representative O'Connor, Democrat,
New York, predicted the beer vote will
show greater anti-prohibition strength
than did the 227 to 1877 defeat Of the
Beck -Linthicum submission resolution.
This will be a real test" O'Connor
said.
O'Connor Immediately telegraphed
the House action TO Mayor James j.
Walker of New York, who marched to-
day at the head of the beer parade.
Represent 81 States.
House members from 27 states signed
the petition.
Ten more Democrats than Republi-
cans joined the move. The party divi-
sion was:
Democrats, IT; Republicans, ST; Far
mer-Labor, /.
The States not represented were:
Alabama. Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado,
Delaware, Florida. Georgia, Idaho,
Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada,
New Mexico North Dakota. Oklahoma,
1Ca-,4in1,na AZ, pana D Column II
Evening star., 1932-05-15
LOU REICHERS SILENT
EN- ROUTE BACK HOME
No Further Word Received From
Hapless Flyer on Board S. S.
President Roosevelt.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 14.-Saved from
a watery grave by that hero of many
sea rescues, Capt. George Fried, Lou
Relchers, Newark, N. j., transatlantic
flyer, tonight was homeward bound on
the U. S. liner President Roosevelt.
His plane, badly smashed, was aban-
doned where it fell, 200 miles off Ire
lands south coast.
His family, their first anxiety re-
lieved by news that the daring aviator
had suffered only fractured nose and
shock from being forced down almost
at his first overseas goal, had heard
no further tidingS from him.
Nor had Bernar MacFadden, pub
Usher, owner of the plane, any further
news of the exploit so happily termi-
mated when hope for Reichers had be-
gun to waver.
Mrs. Muriel Reichers, the flyers wife,
remained at her home in Arlington,
N. j., awaiting further details of the
flight and her husbands health. Ear
lier advices from the steamship said
he was under physicians care, and
Capt Fried, in a radio message, said
his hurts consisted of a broken nose
face cuts and other minor injuries.
Evening star., 1932-05-15
THREE NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH
AS CANOE UPSETS IN POTOMAC
Georgetown u. Freshmen Marooned on Driftwood Pile
Until Rescued by Police and Fremen.

The swollen Potomac yesterday after
noon threatened the lives of three
Georgetown University freshmen, who
were rescued by firemen after their
canoe upset and marooned them on a
mound of earth and driftwood, which
was rapidly crumbling in the turbulent
current about a mile below Chain
Bridge.
The trio, Hugh Miller, Edward Cuffe
and william Mclaughlin, all 1s years
old and all from Brooklyn, N. Y,
escaped with a wetting when fremen
strung ropes and made their way to
them in a small rowboat
The students had been padding a
canoe in the Chesapeake 6z Ohio canal
when they decided to carry 1t to the
river and venture out on the swift water
about half mile below Chain Bridge.
The river was overfiowing its banks
at several points In the vicinity and a
Evening star., 1932-05-15
BURGOO KING WINS
PREAKNESS GLORY
Derby Victor Takes Maryland
Classic Head in Front
of Tick On.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, Md, May 14.-Burgoo
King, a royalty bred son of the blue
grass, moved into the select circle of
great thoroughbreds as he capped his
Kentucky victory with a driving tri-
umph in the forty-second running of
the Preakness at Pimlico today.
Coming from behind to nab the de-
cision in the closing strides. the E. r.
Bradley colt equaled the performances
of the mighty Sir Barton and the great
Gallant Fox, heretofore the only two
horses that ever won both the Derby
and the Preakness.
The King. meeting eight crack East
ern 3-year-olds, was a great horse in
his victory. Running over a track at
least a second slow, he came within
one and four-fifths seconds of equaling
the track record, as he reeIed off the
one and three-sixteenth miles in
1859 As.
Tick On Head Behind.
A crowd of 10000, said to be the
largest in the history of the classic,
saw the chestnut son of Bubbling Over
nab Mrs. Louis G. Kaufman's Tick On,
the favorite, and Walter M. Jefford's
Boatswain, an outsider, in the final
stride. Only a head separated the
King and Tick On at the finish, while
like distance behind was Boatswain
a son of Man o War, which won the
race in 1920.
The victory, carrying with it a purse
Of $50.375, boosted the Kings total
earnings in eight days to $102,690.
BackeEs of the Bradley green and white
silks received $3.50, SIS and 81 across
the board. Tick On paid $3.50 to
place, while a So show ticket on Boat
swain returned $3.50
Tick On, unruly at the post in the
Derby, had no excuse today. He was
beaten by a better horse, but in accept
ing defeat ran the greatest race of his
career Boatswain did not start as a
2-year-old last year, but won two Of
his four starts as 3-year-old, previous
to today.
Earle Sande, seeking his second
PreakneSs victory with Walter J. Sal
mons Mad Pursuit, finished fourth, four
lengths back OF the three leaders.
Continued on Page S, Column %
Evening star., 1932-05-15
BANK HO[D-UP TRIO
CLEAR OTHER Jobs
Confess Falls Church Rob.
berry Among Five Netting
1000 in Loot.

Arrested in connection with the hold
Falls Church branch of the Falls
Church Bank, two Washington men
and Fort Humphreys soldier last
night admitted not only the bank rob-
berry, but four other Virginia hold-ups.
the loot aggregating more than $4,000,
the police announced
The men. William W. Babcock, IS,
of the 700 block of Eighteenth street;
George T. Bellew, 25, of the 1900 block
of Rhode Island northeast, and John A.
Velke. 30-year-old Army sergeant, at
tached TO Fort Humphreys, were taken
into custody here yesterday and turned
over to Sheriff Howard Fields of Ar
lington County last night.
Besides the Falls Church Bank hold
up, in which they escaped with s1,7o0
after beating and tying up the cashier,
A. H. Barbor, the police said the three
bandits admitted:
Holding up an Alexandria bus termi-
nal year ago and robbing the cashier
Of $500; holding up the Clarendon bus
terminal of the Washington Virginia
Maryland Coach Co, and robbing w. S.
Kaylor, night cashier, of s611; holding
up the Lacey, Va, station of the Arling-
ton-Fairfax Transportation Co., and
robbing o. J. Moore, dispatcher, Of
1882, and holding up the Peoples Drug
Store at Fredericksburg, Va, and rob-
ing it of $500.
Encouraged by Success.
They started on their career about
year ago, they told police, and after
the four smaller jobs had been success
Continued on Page 2, Column D.
Evening star., 1932-05-15

strong current caught up the craft and
swept it against the frantic efforts Of
the paddlers into a grove of trees and
piled boulders on the overnown river
bottom.
The canoe, driven against a tree.
swung broadside to the current and
tipped the occupants into the water.
Miller said they all could swim, but
were unable to keep on the surface in
the treacherous current
The boys abandoned their canoe and
houndered to a small island of drift
wood, where they climbed out and
began to call in unison for help. That
was about o'clock and the roar of
the water drowned their cries, while
the boys felt their haven crumbling
beneath them.
The castaways were screened by the
foliage and 1t was only by chance that
James Dodge and Joseph Drother.
soldiers from Boiling Field. heard the
Continued on Page 2, Column 7.J
Evening star., 1932-05-15
.Jafsie Declares
Killer WHBe
Caught.
GANCDESCRIBED
BY NORFOLK MAN
ROsner Also Reveals
Part i'm Effort to
Aid Lindbergh.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL, N. j., May IA
Pages of intriguing details, indie
ative of even more important in
formation beneath the shield of
police secrecy, came to light to-
night in the relentless pursuit Of
the Lindbergh baby killers.
An outline of the two months
negotiations carried on along the
Atlantic seaboard with five
man gang by John Hughes Curtis
became public even as another
Intermediary, the aged DR.. John
F. Condor, asserted the child'S
"kidnaper" was known to him and
would be caught.
Then spoke up the police in the
person of Col. H. Norman
Schwarzkopf:
CAS- has been shown in DR.. Con-
don's own statements he only saw
one member of the gang and the
description given of this man does
not coincide sufficiently closely to
any of those described by Mr..
Curtis to cause US to draw any
conclusions.
Maintain Outward Calm.
Dr. Condor paid a $4,000 ransom
for Col Charles A. Lindbergh to man
in the dusk of a Bronx (New York City
cemetery on April 2 Curtis and two
negotiations on March and continued
them until Thursday night. when the
body of the child was found.
As these and other revelations were
barred the principals in the tragic drama
maintained an outward calm in their
hilltop home. Col. Lindbergh managed
wan smile of greeting when Prosecutor
Erwin E. Marshall visited the residence
late in the day. Mrs. Lindbergh, an
expectant mother, who wavered close
to collapse last night, regained her
quiet demeanor late IN the afternoon.
The fantastic story of Curtis, supple
uICnbCQ ny d SCd CdptaAlA ACcSAiPt1O1
of the boat trips he made with Col
Lindbergh, even as late as the night
of the finding of the body, set f1otilla
of Coast Guard craft to securing an
area of Cape May, N. j.
Carrying Extra Arms.
Ofhcials at the Atlantic City, N. j.,
Coast Guard station admitted the
searching vessels were carrying more
than the usual number of firearms, but
refused to estimate the number of
boats engaged in the task.
From the Office of the Attorney
General in Washington a formal offer
of vast Federal assistance was dis
patched speedily to Gov. A. Harry
Moore. The Governor indicated he
would accept the proposal.
The New Jersey chief executive, who
personally has followed the baby hunt
since the kidnapping on the night OF
March /, took occasion to praise the
long hours and strenuous efforts de-
Continued on Page 4, Column -
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Aim Is to Adjourn Before Iune
ID, But Completion of
Work Is Doubted.
SENATE VOTES TOMORROW
ON PEAK INCOME TAXES
Earlier Sessions Planned to Speed
Legislation With Meetings at
Night, if Necessary.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN

Confronted with three major tasks,
final enactment into law of the revenue
bill, the adoption of a governmental
economy program and the passage of
relief legislation, Congress plans to
drive ahead at top speed during the
coming week. The purpose of the lead
ers on Capitol Hill is to wind up the
work of Congress and adjourn before
the opening of the first Of the national
political conventions, in Chicago June
IA. With only four weeks before that
date, several members Of the Senate
yesterday voiced their belief it would
not be possible to complete the legis-
lative program and it would be neces-
Sary to have Summer session, lasting
perhaps until Labor day.
Work on the relief programs, initiated
by the Democrats, was pretty much at
a standstill yesterday. But the commit
tee of Senate Democrats appointed to
wrestle with the problem is expected to
meet again tomorrow and make all pos
sible haste in drafting bill
Republican leaders admitted they
were waiting to see what the Demo-
Gratis would bring forth as a relief bill.
However, Senator Watson Of Indiana,
Republican leader of the Senate. de-
clared if it was found impossible to
obtain a satisfactory bill through CO.
operation with the Democrats, the ad-
ministration forces would bring out a
bill of their own. This undoubtedly
would follow in the main the program
already outlined by the President.
Both Programs Under Attack.
The chief bone of contention be-
tween the administration and the
Democrats of the Senate, it appears,
lies in the proposal Of the administra-
tion to come to the aid Of industry
and employment Of labor by loans to
private concerns through the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation. The
Administrations proposal Is o substi-
tute for the Democratic plan for
81, ,000, ,000, 900 governmental construe-
Democratic Senators are looking with
suspicion on the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, and say they are
afraid that 1t may become vast
political organization, or certainly that
It might be used to influence the trend
of the national political campaign.
They argue, too, that it would be un-
fair to loan Government funds to bne
manufacturer and not to loan to all
his competitors.
Republican Senator's on the other
hand, declare they win never stand for
the big governmental construction pro-
gram, which would in the end saddle
q huge burden of taxation on the
people and which would be used In
large part for non-productive public
works that the country does not
really need
An impasse over the relief program
may be reached unless some compro-
mise plan can be worked out. Both the
Continued on Page 6, Column ~
Evening star., 1932-05-15
J. Edgar Hoover
Put i'm Charge
of Units Here.
MITCHELL TELLS
MOORE OF PLANS
Full Coordination
Is Federal Agencies
Purpose in Case.
BY REX COLLIER.

President Hoover yesterday Gre
ated in effect a great central de-
tective agency under ]. Edgar
Hoover, director of the United
States Bureau of Investigation,
for the pooling and o-ordination
of all Federal investigative forces
in an unprecedented manhunt for
the murderers of the Lindbergh
baby.
This is said to be the first time
such a drastic move has been
made except in time of war.
Even as this national, centrally
directed undercover organization
was being organized, its services
were being rendered by Attorney
General Mitchell to Gov. Moore of
New Jersey, with a view to corre-
lation of Federal and State activi-
ties.
Mitchell advised the Governor
of the Presidents action in let
ter, the contents of which were
read over the telephone in order
to expedite delivery. Moore is ex-
pected to reply after a conference
tomorrow with prosecuting Of
flcialS, according to the Associated
Press.
MitcheH's Letter.
"As a result of the recent develop
ments in the Lindbergh case" the At
torney General wrote land by direc-
ton of the President, I desire to re-
new the offer of the Federal authorities,
who hold themselves at the disposal of
the authorities of New Jersey, to render
every possible assistance and the use
OF our facilities to aid you in ap-
pretending the guilty persons.
I'VE recognize. of course, that the
Government, and that the Federal au-
thorkies have no police jurisdiction
over the case, but there may be ways
in which the various detective agencies
Of the Federal Government may be OF
assistance to the police of your State
Several Of the executive depart
ments of the Federal Government have
investigating forces whose aid you de-
sire to invoke, and In order to avoid
confusion 1t has been suggested that
Mr.. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the
Bureau Of Investigation of the De-
partment Of Justice. coordinate such
service as the Federal agencies are
called upon to render.
IF you will advise me what police
official in the State of New Jersey is
to have general charge and control OF
the investigation, Mr.. Hoover will get
in touch with him"
All Forces Modified.
The police oficial designated will be
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, the As
sociated Press said Gov. Moore has in
dicated.
Under the White House plan all of
the Governments manpower and ma
chinery for law enforcement and crime
detection are being modified in re-
lentless effort to see that these Grim
inals are implacably brought to JUS
tice"
Augmenting the expert corps of scien-
tific investigators of the Bureau of In
vestigation will be veteran detectives
of the Secret Service, special intelli-
gence agents of the Internal Revenue
Bureau, experienced operatives of the
Postal Inspection Service and agents of
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-05-15
PITTSBURGH MAYOR
SEEKS new TRIAL
Moves to Appeal Conviction Call
ing for Removal, One Year Term
and $500 Fine.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BUTLER, Pa, May 14.-Mayor
Charles H. Kline of Pittsburgh tonight
faces one-year imprisonment, removal
from office and $500 fine.
The dapper. affable mayor, who has
rendered many keys to the city to Wis
iting notables in Pittsburgh and, in
turn, has been knighted and feted
abroad, was convicted today of NAL
feasance in Office Bertram L. Succop,
former Army colonel whom he dis
charged as city supplies director, also
was convicted.
The charges resulted from an inveS-
tigation of city buying methods Kline
was convicted on one count and Succop
on 29 The law provides a maximum
penalty of one-year imprisonment and
a $500 fine on each count. Removal of
the accused from Office Is mandatory.
The defense moved for a new trial
and arrest of judgment. The mayor,
meanwhile, will remain in office.
Mayor Kline testified at his trial that
his many duties forced him to entrust
city purchasing to subordinates. The
law holds him responsible.
The trial was held in Butler on a
change OF venue.
Evening star., 1932-05-15
SENT NORTH
FOR JAPANESE AlRMAN
Yoshihara Expected to Start Soon
From California to Native
Land Via Alaska.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, Wash, May 14-Carrying
supplies for Seiji Yoshihara, Japanese
airman planning a flight from Oak
land, Calf, to Japan via Alaska, the
Coast Guard cutter Northland sailed to-
day for Alaskan waters.
The supplies included so cases Of
gasoline, benZol and lubricating oil,
which will be distributed along Western
Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.
Yoshihara is expected here May 20
from California in his all-metal sea-
plane. From Seattle he will fly to VAN
couver. British Columbia; Albert Bay,
Prince Rupert, Juneau. Seward and
over Western Alaska and the Aleutians
to Japan.
Last year the japanese airman was
unsuccessful in attempts TO fly to the
United States from Japan.