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Evening star., 1932-04-27
MITCHELL DECLINES
RAIL MERGER OPINION
Informs Senate Congress Has Never
Passed Law Requiring Him to
Advise Either House.

Attorney General Mitchell has de-
clined to express an opinion on whether
recent railroad mergers or combines
had violated antitrust laws.
His statement was in reply to reso-
luton by Senator King. Democrat, Of
Utah, asking the Attorney General for
an opinion on whether formation Of
holding companies and "other combina-
tions of parallel or competing railroads
were made without authority OF the
law"
THE first two subdivisions of this
resolution request me to give an opin-
ion TO the Senate on the legal phases
of the subject matter Of the resolution, -
Mitchell wrote.
"I feel obliged to refrain from re-
spending to this request"
He cited long list of precedents,
and added:
Congress has accepted this long
standing Interpretation of the law and
has never attempted by law to enlarge
the powers or duties of the Attorney
General so as to require him to give
opinions to either House Of Congress or
to committees thereof.
With the utmost difference for the
request of the Senate, I am obliged to
decline to give an opinion in this case. I"
Evening star., 1932-04-27
LOS ANGELES TO PROBE
RADICALS COMPLAINT
Alleged Communist Organizer
Claims He Was "Oiled and Feath-
cred" After Jail Release.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 27-An inves-
tigatton Of the "oiling and feathering"
Of James Lacey, 35, alleged organizer
for the Communist party, was promised
today by the district attorneys Office.
Lacey was kidnapped late Monday
night when released from the Long
Beach City Jail, where he had been held
for suspicion of criminal syndicalism.
He said he was taken to an isolated
spot, stripped of his clothing, covered
with crude oil and rolled in feathers.
Leo Gallagher. attorney for Lacey, I'M
successfully applied to the district at
torney's office for a conspiracy COM
plant against Detective Sergt. r. L.
Duncan of Long Beach, charging the
officer had released Lacey from jail
directly into the hands" of four men,
who applied the oil and feathers.
Lacey had been arrested Saturday In
an open forum meeting of the Long
Beach City Council chambers after he
had made a speech attacking Gov.
James Rolphs refusal to grant a pardon
to Tom Mooney, convicted San Fran
cisco Preparedness day bomber.
Evening star., 1932-04-27
HITLERlTES ASK PROBE
INTO GERMAN ELECTION
Use of Public Funds for linden
burg Hinted-Ban on Nazi
Troops to Be Protested.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press
MUNICH, Germany April 27-The
headquarters of Adolph Hitlers Ma
tional Socialist party announced today
that a. resolution would be introduced
in the Reichstag when it convenes,
May 9, asking for the appointment of
committee to investigate what, if
any, public funds were spent for the
election campaign Of President Paul
Won Hindenburg.
Motions also would be presented, the
announcement said calling for the dis
solution Of the Reichstag and the revo-
cation Of the emergency decree dissolv-
ing the, Nazi storm troops promulgated
by President Won Hindenburg before the
recent presidential run-off election.
The Nazs also protested to the Fed
eral Election Board, which meets May
to confirm officially President Won
Hlndenberg's election, that the freedom
OF the election was violated by one
sided use of the radio by Won Hinden-
burg and Chancellor Bruening during
the campaign. The radio privileges
were denied Hitler, the protest charged
Evening star., 1932-04-27
.TARDIEU SENDS REGRETS.
BY the Associated press.

PARIS, April 27.-Premier Andre
Tardieu was Ill of laryngitis today as a
result of the strenuous work of his
election campaign and it was announc-
ed he would be unable to participate
in the projected flve-poWer parley at
Geneva next Friday, arranged by Sec
retary Of State Henry L. Stimson.
M. Tardieu's physician ordered him
to quit the campaign and as result
his final speech, scheduled for Belfort
tomorrow, viii be read by one of the
members Of the cabinet
The premier telegraphed Joseph Paul
Boncour, his colleague at Geneva, ask
ing him to inform Secretary Stimson,
Prime Minister Macdonald, Chancel-
Lor Bruening and Foreign Minister Dino
Grand Of Italy, the other members Of
the flve-power group. that silence and
complete rest have been imposed upon
him
When I learned yesterday the de-
sire Of my colleagues to see me at
Geneva" he said, Il replied yes in spite
Of the fact that I was i'll But the
laryngitis has progressed and the doc
tor has forbidden two nights of travel.
am sorry, but cannot get away"
Evening star., 1932-04-27

financial bankruptcy. 1t would con-
stitute moral bankruptcy.
Destroy confidence and you dry UP
! credit and paralyZe enterprise. No
measure was ever drafted better cal
culated to destro'' confidence than the
one now before you. Enact it into
law and you will stifle all hope of
any early economic recovery and write
the most lamentable chapter IN Ameri-
can history"
Though he thus dealt chiefly with
the Patman bill for an issue of Treas
ury notes to cash bonus, Mills attacked
arguments Of those who advocate bor-
rowing the necessary funds.
THE financial position Of the Gov
ernment is not such as to permit the
Treasury to meet this demand" he said.
I'VE are faced with an enormous deficit
No additional $2,400,000,000 can be
raised by taxation.
Taking into consideration all of the
elements of the existing situation, no
such sum can be borrowed except at
excessive cost, with serious embarrass-
ment to the Government in meeting its
unavoidable obligations and with dam
age to the public credit"
Consequences Incalculable.
Then. reminding the committee of
his own veteran status and service in
organizing the American Legion, Mills
said:
Nothing will persuade me that the
men who Is years ago stood ready to
give their lives to their country In the
crisis Of war are today, IN crisis which
in so far as human misery and suffer-
ing in this country are concerned far
exceeds anything experienced during
the war years, really seeking this huge
grant of So 100000, the effect of
which will be to impair public and pri-
vate credit, to destroy confidence and
to prolong the depression.
1.-THE passage Of this bill would, In
my Judgment, deal such a severe blow
to public confidence as to make the
consequences almost incalculable." -
When Mills concluded the statement,
Representative Ragon, Democrat, of
Arkansas, asked what amount in securi-
ties the Treasury would offer for sale
this year.
"Over and above refunding operations
about 81 500, ,000, ,000," Mills replied.
To further questions, Mills emphasized
that 'it Is very desirable to expand
credit"
Called Dishonest Device.
"I have no quarrel with any one who
wants to stop the def1ationary process, "
he said. But do have quarrel with
such an essentially dishonest device"
What effect do you think the new
reserve bank policy Of increasing pur-
chases of Government bonds will have
toward enlarging credit?" Ragon asked.
"a most decided effect" Mills said.
Meyer Takes Stand.
Mills was on the stand one hour and
half before Meyer came forward to
testify.
This proposal to inject a larger
amount of currency in the guise of a
bonus is departure from the previous
step this Congress has TAKEN" Meyer
said.
The one thing to endanger world
confidence, he said, would be "tinkering
with the currency Of the United States.
The fear of currency tinkering to-
day. believe, is retarding the restora-
ton Of currency" he went on.
There is nothing so ruinous to the
trade OF a country, internally and ex-
ternally, than violent imitation of the
currency. There is no country that
has tried imitation that does not abhor
it as the devil does holy water"
Evening star., 1932-04-27
SLAYER Of HENRY
REMAINS UNKNOWN
Six Witnesses at Inquest Fail
to Throw New Light on
Gamblers Death.

After hearing six witnesses at the
inquest into the death of Milton w.
(Milsie) Henry, 35-year-old gambler
who was shot to death last Thursday
a Jury decided today he came to his
death at the hands Of a person or per-
sons unknown"
The gamblers widow, Mrs. Regina M
Henry, who, according to other wit
nesses, was among the first persons to
reach the scene of the crime, was
subpoenaed, but failed to appear. Those
who testified were Policeman L. M.
Francis, tenth precinct; Detective Sergt.
John c. Dalglish, who has been in
vestigating the case; George Seitz, 3508
Sixteenth street; George C. MCGEE, 3435
Brown street; Leslie Klingel, 3432 Brown
street, and Dr.. Riley D. Moore, 342l
Brown street.
Testimony threw no new light on the
killing. ~
Continue Investigation.
Meanwhile. headquarters detectives,
under Inspector Frank S. w. Burke,
Staying, checking all information that
bore the semblance of a clue.
Other headquarters men were work.
ing the killing of the middle-aged man
whose body was found in the George
town Channel last Friday. With the
body still unidentified in the morgue
the detectives. continued working on
the theory the man was strangled ano
thrown in the. river at~esome point
farther up the Potomac iand his body
was carried down by Spring freshets.
Henry was shot while driving hi.
automobile in the 3400 block of Brown
street, less than a block from his apart.
ment at 1920 Sixteenth street. The
murdered and companion fled in q
dark sedan bearing New Jersey license
plates.
A car of similar type, found aban
doned in the 1900 block of Twelfth
street last night, had no possible con
nection with the Staying, Inspecto
Burke said after painstsking exami
nation for flngerprints and other clues
Il am still of the opinion the sedal
picked up shortly after the shootin,
was the one used by the killers" h
said.
Jersey Clues Run Down.
Detective Sergt. Frank o. Brass wa
back in Washington today after at
tempting to check on the ownership O
the car, which also bore New Jerse,
| tags, and running down other clues il
Camden, N. J. He failed to obtain an,
information of value, however.
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, su
perintendent Of police, and the detec
, tives assigned to the case held a con
ference at headquarters last night
They declined to reveal what phase
of the killing they discussed.
Following funeral services yesterda,
in Hines funeral parlors, 2901 Four
teenth street, Henry's body was sen
to Baltimore for burial. Besides tn
| widow, Mrs Regina Henry, only a fev
| friends Of the slain gambler were pres
ent.
Evening star., 1932-04-27
PEN WOMEN NAME
/ PRESIDENT TODAY
Writer and Composer 0ppos.
ina Candidates in Leagues
Annual Election.

With a writer and composer as lead
ing candidates for the presidency, vot-
ing was " progress today at the con,
yention of the National League OF
American Pen Women at the Willard
Hotel Polls will close this evening and
results of the election will be announced
tomorrow.
The presidential candidates placed In
nomination at the opening of to-day
sessions are Mrs. Clara Hehebower, a
writer, of Cincinnati, and Mrs. Phyllis
Fergus Hoyt of Chicago, the first com
poser placed on an election tlcKeI ID
the history of the league, It was sald.
Opponents of Mrs. Hoyt contend that
only authors should hold once IN tne
league, while her friends point out thal
the membership embraces many COM
posers.
$50 Delegates Voting.
=, About $50 delegates are voting ano
they represent 36 States.
Discussions of writing for juveniles
and of the composition OF the snor'
story were in progress today. speakers
included Inglis Fletcher and E!lzanetn
Burgess Hughes Isabella Gr1fnth FlecR
led a discussion of markets Tor literary
work.
- A choral concert has been arranged
at s O'Clock tonight in Mt. Vernon
M. E. Church, Ninth street an Massa,
chusetts avenue. The convention VII
close tomorrow night.
At the afternoon session yesterday
Mrs. Flora Jesseph Of Chicago, nftr
national vice president and Chairman
of the manuscript service, gave hel
report covering two years service. TINS
was followed by readings by Mrs
Blanche E. Johnston and Elsye Iasr
Safer of Burlington, Iowa. Mrs. James
Hamilton Lewis and Carmea L. Kest-
ing also spoke.
Received at White House.
The convention members were re-
csived at the White House yesterday
afternoon by Mrs. Hoover and were
guests later of the Ambassador OF Po-
land, Tytus Filipoweiz, at the Polish
embassy.
A minor accident befen one OF the
delegates during the reception at tht
embassy. Mrs. Miriam B. Hilton
member of the District branch Of the
league. suffered fractured ankle wher
she slipped on a carpet. Mrs. Hlltor
was admitted for treatment at Emer'
eency Hospital, where her condition
was said to be improved today.
Evening star., 1932-04-27
REPORTER, FIGHTING
CRIME in OHIO, SHOT
BY TWO GANGSTERS
CONTINUED From FIRST Page.9


his life by shielding himself with a
large porch chair, which protected him
against the shotgun slugs.
The shooting came Just six years
after the Staying of Don r. Mellett,
crusading Canton editor, who was
assassinated while waging a newspaper
ton" of the city.
Police Chief Earl w. Hexamer, whose
administration Of the Police Depart
ment has been attacked by the exam
iner many times, took personal charge
of the investigation. He said his men
were tracing an automobile said to have
been used by the gunner.
Bouklias first came into the lime
light in 1923 when he appeared before
Gov. Vic Donahey as a chief witness
in the hearing which resulted in the
ousting of G. c. Curtis, as mayor of
Canton. Curtis again is mayor of the
city.
Bouklias also testified against E. E.
Curtis, former safety director under
his mayor brother, who was convicted
of accepting a bribe. Bouklias himself
was convicted of perjury.
Faces Liquor Charge.
Several arrests in liquor law cases
are listed against Boukllas and at pres
ent one such case is pending against
him in Tuscarawas county.
Doctors who examined him at hos
pital said his condition was fair" and
not necessarily critical Approximately
100 shotguns slugs entered his body
Fleming, at Columbus, asserted the
shooting was an effort to intimidate'
his newspaper. He said Bouklias came
to us as former bootlegger who had
helped Federal and State men" at Can
ton and has been truthful In all his
stories" Bouklias Fleming said, was
his Canton reporter and circulation
man.
Fleming himself faces three charges
Of criminal libel and charge of issuing
alleged fraudulent statements about a
national bank at Springfield. The libel
cases were brought by Police Chief
O'Leary Of Sidney, Ed Miller, superin-
tendent of the Shelby Count Home, and
Charles Sauer, Piqua policeman. The
editor recently was acquitted of an
other criminal libel charge at Colum-
bus.
He said "our work will go on in Can
ton, Piqua, Sidney, Hamilton and else
where" 1t is not definitely known In
what city the Examiner is published.
Evening star., 1932-04-27
ROOSEVELT WINNING
DISPUTED DELEGATES
Three of Four Contested Seats at
Large in Pennsylvania
Going to Governor.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 27.-Roose-
Welt candidates for Democratic dele
gates at large held three Of the four
contested positions in the ranking OF
candidates on the basis OF returns from
$500 of Pennsylvania 8,lSl districts
today.
The 2.5Oo-district totals ranked the
delegates at large in this order:
Edward J. Lynett, Scranton, uncon-
tested, 37,287. .....,-..
Guy K. Bard, Denver, uncontested,
33,70S. j..
Robert Gilmore, Muncy, uncontested,
1881.
John F. Short, Clearfeld, uncon-
tested, 26,706,
James j. Campbell, Philadelphia, un-
contested, 26,235.
Judge H c. Niles, York, Smith, rs, ,4l2.
Michael Donohoe, Philadelphia, Roose-
welt, 24.665.
Warren Van Dyke, Harrisburg Roose-
welt, 24,512.
John r. Collins, State chairman,
Smith, 24,245..
Judge Samuel z. shun, Stroudsburg,
Roosevelt, s21.244.
Roland S. Morris, Philadelphia, Smith,
1890.
In addition to the eight male candi-
dates. each with half a vote at the Ma
tional Convention, eight women, unop-
posed, were elected.
Evening star., 1932-04-27
PUBLISHERS OPEN
ANNUAL CONVENTION
Special Discussion Is Held on
Problems Confronting Small
Papers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 27.-The forty
sixth annual convention of the Ameri-
can Newspaper Publishers Association
opened today at the Waldorf Astoria
with a special discussion Of the prob
lens of the publishers Of small news
papers.
Howard Davis, business manager Of
the New York Herald Tribune and vice
president Of the association, delivered
the opening address in the absence OF
the president, Harry Chandler, pub
Usher of the Los Angeles Times. He in-
troduced E. H Harris, president OF the
Richmond 1nd) Palladium Item, who
spoke on the obligation of newspapers
to the Nation.
"The people still have confidence in
newspapers" he said, land they are the
only means through which public con-
fidence may be restored and our tnsti-
tutions be made to survive"
Mr. Chambers annual address will be
read by Mr.. Davis at the opening Of to-
days session. Reports will be heard
from the secretary and the treasurer
and from the committees on freedom Of
the press, radio, press telephone rates
and others.
Evening star., 1932-04-27
WOMEN MAY FACE
DRY LAW BATTLE
Controversial Issues Expect
ed to Be Raised Today by
League of Voters.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, April 27-This is the day
such controversial issues as prohibition
and birth cont-ol will come before the
Biennial Convention of the National
League of Women Voters-h they are
to come up during the current sessions.
General sessions open today and
there were reports that the prohibition
issue might be raised by some members
Of the Michigan delegation, while dele
gates from three States, including New
York, had plans in formulation to pre-
sent proposals for discussion OF birth
control.
Evasions Are Charged.
Speakers In an open forum on politi-
cal issues last night were in agreement
that the major political parties are
seeking to evade the main issues.
Charles G. Isely Of Dodge City, Kans.,
representing business, suggested pro-
portionate cancellation Of war debts In
return for trade with the United
States.
Ray Tucker, Washington political
writer, said the true issues are radical
read 1uStment OF the eXlSJlng social,
economic and industrial order; practical
settlement of intergovernmental debts
and rational approach to world dis
armament
Wants Definite Program.
Dan A. Wallace, st. Paul, MINI,
farm paper editor. said issues should
be framed lin definite and compre-
hensive program that will command
the respect and support of all classes. F"
James Mulenbach,' New York labor
arbitrator, said "the six-hour day and
the five-day week ought to be made a
practical issue for every candidate"
Miss Ruth Morgan, vice president OF
the league, urged as issues abolition Of
child labor, the care of infancy and
maternity, warless world and an or
ganized international world"
Evening star., 1932-04-27
SAYS STATEMENT INCORRECT.
Col. John w. Prentiss Answers Testi.
mony of Representative La Guartiia.

Col. John w. Prentiss Answers Testi-
mony Of Representative La Guartiia.
NEW YORK, April 27 [P.-The mem
ton by Representative La Guardia yes
terday Of a letter sent out by the firm
Of Hornblower & Weeks, which, he
said. "misrepresented the facts" re-
gardiug the proposed stock transfer
tax, brought a statement from Col. John
w. Prentiss, a member of the brokerage
concern.
Congressman La Guardia refers to
a letter issued by me on April 6" said
Mr.. PrentiSs, Gin which, according to
his testimony, he says that I attribute
the decline since March to the pass
ing of his tax on stock transfers. This
Is incorrect.
"As matter of fact, between March
2, and the date of the original letter
issued by Hornblower & Weeks, and
March 8, there was a substantial rally
in security prices and not until March
IA did security prices again reach the
level Of March g.
From then until Thursday, March
81, there was an irregular decline in
security prices. On that day, however,
the La Guardia resolution to tax stock
transactions was passed, and from
MdICn oil uIlJl1 tIlc p1CoC1l6 ddy VIC AAnNC
had one of the most severe declines of
our entire depression. This decline
then attributed and still do attribute
to the jumbled tax bill that came out
of the House of Representatives as a
result of the action of the so-called La
Guardia bloc"
The Arthur N. Plummer. mentioned
by La Guardia in his testimony charg-
ing that financial writers were paid to
boom certain securities, was identified
as under indictment accused of forging
General Motors stock certificates. Seven
men were indicted with Plummer.
He was arrested on January last
and gave mis- occupation as that Of a
publisher. Indictments were returned
against him two days later. He Is now
at liberty on bail of $4,000.
Plummer, while connected with a
financial news service in 1920, was in
dicted for criminal libel on the COM
plant Of Jesse L. Livermore, promi-
nent Wall Street operator. The in
dictment subsequently was dismissed.
Evening star., 1932-04-27

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tirely on circumstantial evidence, there
having been no witnesses to the drown
ing of the mother and daughter.
In so far as Crowder's confession"
to police that Wimbley plotted to mur-
der his wife is concerned, the court
charged, the Jury may consider it as
incriminating Wimbley only II 1t re-
CARDS Wimbleys silence when the state
ment was read to him as evidence OF
guilt"
Didn't Remember Statement.
"You should disregard it altogether
as evidence against Wimbley," the court
said. 'ff you believe Wimbley's state
ment that he was unconscious at the
time it was read to him. If you have
! any doubt whatsoever as to his con-
sciousness, then I think you should dis
| regard it entirely as having any bear
| ing on his guilt or innocence"
Wimbley had testified that he did not
remember" the statement having been
read to him.
Justice Proctor explained to the jury
that in failing to take the stand in his
| own defense Crowder was within his
| AASAAt 0lA0 blA1t 4lAo AC-
fusal to testify could not be regarded
as incriminating.
! Closing the defense argument for &C.
! quittal, Defense Counsel Louis L
Whitestone told the jury:
There is the voice Of some one who
has not testified in this case (Mrs
Wimbley) and it seems to be saying
For Gods sake acquit my husband
Assistant United States Attorney
William H. Collins adapted White.
stones closing remarks to his own ar.
gunnent, adding:
/ "Oh. how 1 would Ike to hear thai
voice that has been spoken Of What
a story of oppression and brutality shs
would tell You, gentlemen"