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Evening star., 1932-06-25
CHARLES STAPLES
D|ESAT AGE Of 75
Railroad and Utilities VaIua-
ton Expert to Be Buried
Here on Monday.

Charles F. Staples, rs, director Of the
Bureau of Valuation, Interstate Com
merce Commission. and one of the
country's outstanding authorities on
railroad and utilities valuation. died
yesterday at his home, 2035 Park road,
after a lingering illness. Although in
poor health for some time Mr.. Staples
had come to work at his ONCE regularly
until about three weeks ago.
Before coming to Washington Mr.
Staples became known as the man who
bested James j. Hill, the empire
builder" in the famous Minnesota rate
cases.
Native Of Minnesota.
Born in saltwater. MINI. on August
4, 1856. Mr.. Staples was educated in
public and private schools. His first
public Office came in 1s87-91, when he
served as chairman of the Board of
County Commissioners OF Dakota
County. MINI. In 1891 he was elected
to the Minnesota State Legislature and
served In that body until 1900. when he
was appointed to the Minnesota Com
mission of Railroads and Warehouses.
1t was in this latter position that
he was to win the rate case against
the Great Northern Railway, then con-
trOIle0 Dy Elli, WHO at tIldI IlAilc SOal-
trolled not only that road but the
Northern Pacific, as we'll as great
portion OF the Northwestern United
States. The defeat at the hands OF
the State commissioners was great
blow to the prestige Of the empire
builder.
In 1914. while he was still member
of the Minnesota Commission. Mr.. Sta
pies was called to Washington to be-
come a member of the advisory board
of the Bureau of Valuation, Interstate
Commerce Commission, and in 1921 he
was named it's director.
Funeral Monday.
While connected with the Minnesota
group he was active in the National
Association of Railroad and Utilities
Commissioners and served that group
one year as president and five years as
a member of the Executive Committee.
Mr.. Staples was q member of the
Cosmos Club. He Is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Vera e. Staples; two daugh-
ters and q son.
Funeral services will be held Monday
at 8 pm. at the S. H. Hines Co. funeral
home. 290l Fourteenth street, followed
by private burial in Fort Lincoln Gene
terry.
Evening star., 1932-06-25
TWO HELD IN D. c.
BANK HOLD-UP
Baltimore Prisoners, Work
man and Miller, Seized After
Tip on New Plot.

Two men were arrested in Baltimore
today In connection with the recent
$4,000 hold-up Of the Georgia avenue
branch of the washington Mechanics
Savings Bank.
The men, who gave their names as
Edward Workman, 20, and Harry Mil
Ter, 25, both of Columbia, S. c., were
taken into custody by Sergts. Frank
Brass and John Wise of the washington
Detective Bureau, working in co-opera-
ton with nearly dozen Baltimore de-
tectiyes.
Brass and wise, together with the
Baltimoreans, devoted virtually all of
last night TO hunt for the pair, ac-
cording to Inspector Frank S. w.
Burke, chief OF Capital detectives.
Tip on New Plot.
They were sent to Baltimore, In
spector Burke said, following receipt of
a tip that five bandits were planning
to hold up a bank there today.
After conference at the Baltimore
police headquarters, the detectives went
to O downtown hotel in several auto
mobiles, a few Of them parking in front
of the building, while the others en-
tered
With their companions keeping watch
on the outside Brass, Wise and several
Baltimore detectives went to the mems
room, forced their way inside and
placed the pair under arrest. They
took them to headquarters to await q
car sent to Baltimore Immediately by
Inspector Burke. When the machine
arrives, Inspector Burke said, the men
will be brought to Washington.
Automobile Is Seized.
A high-powered automobile belong
ing to Workman and Miller, and bear
inr South Carolina license plates, was
seized by the Detectives and taken to
headquarters.
The men were arrested, according to
Inspector Burke, on a United States
commissioners warrant issued following
receipt Of information they were in
Baltimore.
The hold-up occurred June 10, when
I've men forced the six employees of the
bank to lie face downward on the floor
while they Scooped up $9,03l and fed.
They overlooked approximately 0,000,
however, bank officials revealed later.
Five months previously band Of
robbers held up the East Capitol street
branch Of the bank and escaped with
Evening star., 1932-06-25
GIVEN SEVEN YEARS

Administrator OF Estate Sentenced
on 6mbezzlement Counts.
Fred L. Rohrback, administrator OF
an estate Of which Mrs. Ella c. Jones,
70 years old, was the beneficiary. was
sentenced yesterday by District Supreme
Court Justice F. D. Let's to serve seven
years in the penitentiary. He was con-
victed Of four counts Of embezzlement
and was given q term of seven years on
each 70 run concurrently Assistant
United States Attorney James r. Kirk
land conducted the prosecution.
Evening star., 1932-06-25

$l4,135. During this robbery. bank en-
ployes, toretiier with woman customer,
also were forced to lie on the floor OF a
rear room.
Because of the similarity of the tactics
employed in the two hold-ups, some OF
the detectives working on the cases have
held to the theory both robberies were
staged Ny the same gang.
Evening star., 1932-06-25
INSURANCE BILL SIGNED

President Hoover today signed bill
enabling $1,000 World War veterans to
renew their five-year Government in
surAnce contracts for an equal period
without further medical examination.
Provision also Is made in the bill for
the renewal of expired policies, as of
the date of expiration upon payment
within four months OF back premiums.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
BOLIVIAN NOTE BACKS
OCEAN OUTLET CLAIM
Tells League of Nations 1t Has
Right to Go Through Chaco.
Plans Military Hospitals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, August 26.-Bolivia sent
the League of Nations another note
today in connection with its dispute
with Paraguay over the Gran Chaco.
The communication reiterates that
Bolivia seeks an outlet through the
Chaco to the sea. not only as a neces-
sity, but as right.
Bolivia never upheld the theory that
necessity creates the law" said the note.
1T is the law which creates and i'm
poses upon a country the right to pos
sess what belongs to it. That is Bolivia s
case"
LA PAZ, Bolivia, August 26 P).-
The Senate yesterday recommended i'm
mediate construction of three military
hospitals which would be used in the
event of military action on a large scale
with Paraguay in the conflict over the
Gran Chaco.
A law was adopted to give public en-
ployes called to service so per cent of
their regular salaries.
The general staff announced that
"Paraguayan propaganda" accounted
for reports that Bolivian troops in the
Chaco were suffering from yellow fever
and smallpox. A denial also was is
sued Of reports that a Paraguayan prts-
oner had been lynched.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
CRASH KILLS THREE
ON GRAIN HIGHWAY
D. C. Girls and HyattsviIIe
Man Are Victims Near
MiIlersvilIe, Md.

Two persons were instantly killed
and third fatally injured when a
sedan in which they were riding COL
lided with a truck on the Grain High
way near Millersville, Md, early today.
The dead are
Ellis Umberger, about 81 years old,
Of Hyattsville. Md, driver of the sedan.
Miss Yolanda Sorivi, Is, 1745 Eight
eenth street, Washington.
Miss Ada Murray, 18, 1919 Nineteenth
street, Washington.
State police said the sedan in which
they were riding was in collision with
truck operated by Milford H. Melting
of Severn, Md. The accident occurred
at the intersection of the Grain High
way and the Fort Meade road, just over
the top of hill.
Umberger's car was coming out Of the
fort road, while the truck was travelling
south on the highway. The impact
threw the driver and Miss Sorivi 20
feet and demolished the car, which later
caught fire. 1t was extinguished by
neighbors.
Miss Murray was rushed to Emer-
gency Hospital, Annapolis. in the West
Annapolis ambulance. She died an hour
later.
Melting was arrested on an investiga-
tion charge by Corpl. James o. Shock
ley of the State police force. A cor
oner's jury was impaneled by Justice
of Peace Lester L. Disney and will hold
an inquest at Anderson's Corner. the
scene of the crash, Monday night.
Mrs. Francesca Sorivi mother of one
of the dead girls, said this morning that
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
MEXICAN PRESIDENTS
BROTHER QUITS POST
Resignation as Head of Lottery
Charitable Agency Follows
Hospital Controversy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, August 26.-Presi-
dent Pascual Ortiz Rubio last night an
nounced the resignation of his brother,
Francisco as president of the Benef1-
cencia Publica, government charitable
agency financed by the national lottery.
simultaneously it became known that
all the department heads and many Of
the federal district employees had hand
ed their designations to the President
as the latest manifestation Of discord
in national political affairs.
The chief of the federal district gov
eminent, the equivalent Of mayor Of
Mexico City, resigned recently with the
explanation that he had incurred the
Presidents disfavor by intervening in
the General Hospital dispute. The hos
pital came under Francisco Ortiz
Rubio's jurisdiction. The chief OF the
health department stepped aside in the
argument
Since the disagreement occurred there
have been rumors that the President
and Plutarco Elias Gales, the strong
man" of Mexico, were not in agreement
in the matter.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
WOMAN D|SC[OSES
SHERWOOD CHECKS
Successor in Office Admits
She Deposited His Funds
in Her Account.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, August 26.-Miss
Mildred Day. Office secretary for the
law firm with which Russell T. Sher-
wood, missing accountant, formerly was
associated, testified today at the hear
ing on removal charges against Mayor
James j. Walker that since Sherwood
left, about a year ago, she has de-
posted in her own bank account about
$4,000 in dividend checks that have
come in for him.
She said she deposited the checks
in her account in a bank in East
Orange, N. j., here she lives, and
that it is all there now, part of it
in a safety deposit box and part IN
her account.
"Mr. Sherwood had a bank account
in New York, didn't hep" asked Martin
Conboy, special counsel to Gov. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt, before whom the hear
ing is being conducted.
Eyes, he did," Miss Day replied.
why didn't you put the money into
his account, instead Of in your own?"
Conboy asked her.
never tIOuSLlI VI LIldI, Wdo hAoo
Days reply.
Property Sold for Fine.
Sherwood, for his failure to return
to New York and appear before the
Hofstadter Legislative Committee, was
held in contempt by the Supreme Court
last Winter and was fined S5S0,000.
Since then some of his property has
been sold at a sheriff'S sale to meet the
fine.
Seabury asked Miss Day if the
sheriff had ever asked her for the
1000.
mo" she replied.
While Miss Day was on the stand
Seabury handed her check book.
This is Mayor Walkers check book
he said. do you see on the stubs there
any handwriting except that OF Mr..
Sherwood"
NO" Miss Day answered. THE mayor
never makes out his own checks. make
them out for him now and have since
Mr.. Sherwood left"
Miss Day testified that, following an
attack of tonsilitis and influenza in the
Spring of 1881, Sherwood appeared to
be ION the verge of a nervous break
down."
Saw Him Year Ago.
"The last time I saw him. she said,
"he came into the Office. That was
about August 7, year ago. I urged
him to take a vacation then, because
he looked so miserable. He said he
might"
Miss Day identified severay type
written letters, dated May % and early
in June, this year-juSt after Mayor
Walker was 2 witness before the Hof-
stadter Committee-and signed Russ"
They were brought to her by Sherwood'S
sister, she said, and she turned them
over to the mayor.
II don't think the signature IS in
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
YOUNG SAYS GOAL
Of TRADE PARLEY
IS CREATING Jobs
Hope of Results Before VIM
ter Expressed-Task Called
Non-PartiSan.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Owen D. Young, New York industrial
leader and a prominent Democrat, told
the National Economic Conference today
that the prime purpose Of co-ordinated
drive of business and government was
to make more jobs.
AS chairman of the first of the bank
ing and industrial committees formed
last Spring to bring together the forces
of economic attack, Young related in
detail the organization Of that COM
mittee
I'VE have all learned" he explained,
that it is quite impossible to deal with
this depression in insulated compart-
ments. 1t is obviously hopeless for us
to accomplish much in this country
unless we can unifv and coordinate the
action of these groups in several dis
tricts."
Hopes for Early Results.
He joined emphatically in the decla-
ration to. the Nations business leaders
that it was TO their best interest to see
that the human family had livelihood.
IF we succeed even in small meas
ure in this undertaking and can do 1t
before the Winter comes, Mr.. Chair
man, think these committees will have
rendered a very great service to busi-
ness in the United States.
And not only to business. because
that is secondary, but to men and
women who need food and shelter, and
most of all who need to retain their
own self-confidence and self-respect.
Indeed, not only their self-conf1dence
and self-respect, but what is even more
important than all, to enable them and
us to retain the confidence of the chill
dren who are coming on.
Problem Is Non Partisan.
"A fathers job lost does more than
humiliate the parent 1t does more than
weaken the self-respect of the child. 1t
threatens that stability and that op-
portunity for the future which Is the
basis of our hopes and the impulse OF
our accomplishments
That is our problem here. 1t Is nos
one of partisan politics. 1t is a prob
lem of the perfection for the future OF
a social and economic system which is
the only one having back of it the hu-
man experience of thousands Of years
and, however faulty, it is the one into
which is welded the evolutionary back
grounds of the peoples of the world"
Evening star., 1932-08-26
j. s. ORDERS HALT
ON FORECLOSURES
IN OWNERS BEHALF
Controller Tells Nationa! Bank
Receivers to Delay Action
for Sixty Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Steps to have receivers of national,
State and other banking institutions
grant a 60-day moratorium on home
foreclosures have been taken by the
Federal Home Loan Bank Board
Chairman Franklin w. Fort made the
announcement to the national confer
ence of business and industrial commit
tees that Controller Of the Currency
Pc,e had issued orders to every national
bank receiver to suspend foreclosures
for 60 days.
Later Fort made public a telegram
dispatched to State banking authorities
requesting them to instruct receivers or
other liquidators of closed institutions
to grant similar respite.
Many Banks Affected.
Fort said hundreds of closed banks
would be affected and probably hun
dreds of millions of dollars would be
involved.
The telegram sent to State banking
commissioners and supervisors follows:
we hope to have Federal loan banks
open and doing business on or before
October 15 after whlcn date substan-
tial relaxation in the mortgage loan
market should develop speedily. In the
meantime, we feel that foreclosures
should be prevented wherever possible.
I'VE. therefore, request you to in
strucU the receivers or other lquida-
tors of closed institutions under your
Jurisdiction to withhold or delay fore
closure proceedings for at least so days,
thus offering chance of preserving
equity of owner of real estate.
No Delay in Dividends.
Dividends to depositors or credi-
tors need not be delayed IS the Re-
construction Finance Corporation is au-
thorized to loan to receivers.
Controller Pole of the currency IS
issuing instructions in accordance with
this telegram to ali receivers of ma
tional banks. We earnestly request
your concurrence in your State"
Fort said at the present time there
was no mortgage money in the market
but that he was convinced that at the
end of so days when the home loan
banking system begins to function that
there would be market for real estate
mortgages. He said the 60-day mora
torium would save the homes OF thou
sands of persons, many Of whom had
Continued on Page S, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-08-26
President Seeks
New Initiative
of Leaders.
EXTENSION OF
CREDIT ASKED
Suggests Creation of
More Jobs by
Shorter Hours.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Hoover today told
Americas business chieftainS he
was convinced the Nation had
overcome the major financial
crisis" and asked that they as
sumo new initiative and response
bility to restore labor and agrl-
culture to higher levels.
Speaking to an audience COM
posing one of the most inclusive
gatherings of national banking
and business leaders in history,
the President proposed specifically
that credit be extended to vital
points and that arrangements be
made between employer and en-
ploye for shorter hours and wider
distribution of jobs.
A program looking to the stimu-
lation of business activity and en-
ployment was brought to the con-
ference by Secretary of Treasury
Mills from yesterdays session OF
an Executive Committee composed
of Government officials and the
chairmen of the IL Banking and
Industrial Committees of the Fed
eral Reserve System.
Proposes Central Committee.
Secretary Mills recommended for con-
ference approval the creation of CEN
trail committee of business leaders to
take command of fresh drive to lead
the Nation farther along from the eco
nomic slump.
In the furtherance of business re-
covery President Hoover said 1t is clear
" necessary that there be coordination
of effort in Fastening the return OF un-
employed to employment in their
natural industries. '
1T is doubtful" he added. whether
any action we could take at this time
would SO greatly accelerate our progress,
serve the welfare of our unemployed
millions, or so quickly give us as Ma
ton the benefit of a widespread spend
ing power as further spread of equitable
plans for sharing the available work.
"As matter of national policy, the
shortening of hours is necessary, not
alone to meet the needs of the move
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column -
Evening star., 1932-08-26
BLONDE OR BRUNETTE, IT'S LIKE
TRANSFORMING WATER INTO GAS
Scientist Decides Atoms Simply Rearrange Selves to
Produce Different Characteristics

The new theory of Dr. Timeofeeff-
Ressovsky is contrary to the old idea
of many scientists that genes are par
TALLY or wholly destroyed in the pro-
cess of mutation. Instead Of being
destroyed, he holds, their atoms are
merely rearranged. thus producing
some new characteristic in the next
generation. Such a rearrangement Of
atoms, perhaps, gave early fish their
first air-breathing apparatus and helped
turn f1ippers into legs for walking on
land.
Use Of X-rays to cause artificial
mutations in fruit flies is the basis of
the German scientists new theory.
Genes causing certain characteristics,
such as eye-color In the flies, "disap-
peared" under bombardment of X-rays,
but also reappeared under the same
kind of treatment.
A Family tree" of the animal king
dom that shows by blood tests how
closely dogs, horses, sheep, pigs and
cattle are related to each other was
exhibited by A. A. Boyden Of Rutgers
University.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
COOLIDGE WANTS TO AID
HOOVER, TILS0N SAYS
Leader Says Former President Is
Still Undecided on Whether He
Will Speak or Not.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 26.-John @.
Tilson. director of the Eastern Republi-
can Speakers Bureau, today tele-
graphed Eastern campaign headquar-
ters that former President Calvin
Coolidge is willing to do anything he
can to insure the success OF the Re-
publican campaign, but whether he will
make any speeches Is still undeter-
mined.
Tilson lunched with the former Presi-
dent yesterday at Plymouth, VT.
Former President Coolidge" the
message from Tilson said. has ex-
pressed willingness to do whatever
he can to insure the success of the
Republican campaign. The question of
just how Mr.. Coolidge can best help
in the Republican campaign Is yet to
be determined. Mr.. Coolidge. however,
made 1t clear that he was deeply In
terested in the success of the ticket"
Evening star., 1932-08-26
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GALLUP, N. NJ, August 26.-Prayers
of the chief medicine men Of the Hopi
Indians for rain were answered yester-
day
While the medicine makers were
chanting their ceremonial prayers at
Toreva, Mesa village, thunder crashed
from the lowering clouds and rain fell
in torrents, breaking long drought.
The rain area extended throughout
the Hopi country and as far south as
WinsloW, Ariz. One bridge was washed
out on the main highway 10 miles west
Of Gallup.
A crowd Of visitors witnessed the an
nual inter-tribal ceremonials. The
Evening star., 1932-08-26
HOOVER DECLARES CRISIS is OVER,
URGES DRIVE TO RESTORE TRADE;
MILLS OFFERS 6-POINT PROGRAM
Text of Hoover's Speech
President, Addressing Conference, Lkens Victory to
Chateau Thierry, but Warns That "Batfle
of Scissors" Is Yet to Come.

ferent districts over other areas
where they may be adaptable, TO
coordinate private and govern
mental agencies, to initiate steps
for organization of groups to un-
dertake special and immediate prob
lens in credit, in industry, in agrl-
culture and in employment as they
arise in the different districts. In
other words. this is meeting not
to pass resolutions on economic
questions but to give you the op-
portunity to organize for action. 1t
is not proposed that you shall nave
authority from the Government, but
that you should join in stimulation
of organized private initiative OF
America.
The reason for calling this con-
ference at this particular moment
is that we are convinced that we
have overcome the major financial
crisis-a crisis in severity unparal-
leled in the history of the world
and that with its relaxation conf
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Evening star., 1932-08-26
By the Associated Press.

ITHACA, N. Y, August 26-The
frst blonde to appear in a race of
blunettes resulted from process much
like changing water into gas, 1t was
revealed today by a scientists new
picture of how evolution works.
A new idea OF what happens inside
genes, the microscopic units of heredity
that carry such traits as blond hair,
blue eyes. or snub noses from mother
TO daughter. was presented before the
International Congress of Genetics by
Dr.. N. Timeofeef- -Ressovsky Of Ger
many.
He said experiments show a gene is
probably a large molecule, or bundle
of atoms, a single physico-chemical
unit like a molecule of water The
change, or mutation" such as would
be necessary to produce the first blond
in race of brunettes, would be rear
rangement of the atoms in the gene
molecule, just as atoms in a water
molecule are rearranged when the water
S-1anges to gas.
Evening star., 1932-08-26
RECEIVERS NAMED
FOR INTERBOROUGH
Equity Proceeding Based on Claim
of Brake Shoe and Foundry
Concern.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 26.-Eqlity re-
ceivers were appointed today for the
Interborough Rapid Transit Co., which
operates subway and elevated lines con-
Meeting four of the city's five boroughs
Judge Martin T. Manton of the
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
appointed former Justice Victor j
Dowling and Thomas E. Murray equity
receivers.
The application for the receivership
was made by attorneys for the Ameri-
can Brake Shoe & Foundry Co., a
creditor, and was consented TO by the
1nterborough.
The I. R. T. is the largest subway
operator in New York, but not the
only one. The Brooklyn Manhattan
Transit Co. also operates a subway sys-
TEN connecting Kings, Manhattan and
Queens boroughs.