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Evening star., 1932-04-04
WOlTER QUITS FAST
TO RAISE VEGETABLES
Farm Near Takoma Park Gives
College Trained Hunger
Striker Job.

DR.. Frederic F. Wolter, whose vege-
tartan convictions have overcome his
hunger strike, is going in for vegetables
in a big way.
DR.. Wolter is going to live with a
fellow vegetarian on a produce farm
near Takoma Park, Md
What for?" the doctor said cheerily
today Why, to raise vegetables, Of
course"
Il look forward to the experience, +"
thesdoctor added, with great pleasure!
DR.. Wolter, holder of university and
several postgraduate degrees, who
maintained he must be offered a job
which would employ this learning, or
he would starve himself to death, feels
he has carried his point.
Or at least so he was persuaded by
a woman member of the Seventh Day
.Adventists' Church, however helpful
his book knowledge may prove in an
atmosphere of growing cabbages and
sprouting turnips
In any event. the doctor today ap-
peared to have learned mose about
vegetables in the last "a hours than
during the past 20 years of his vege-
tarianism.
The doctor, he said, is not at lib
erty to disclose the churchwoman' S
name, nor the exact location of the
produce farm.
Incidentally. the doctor added, he
may write a book, but the book for the
time being. will be only incidental to
his new hobby-vegetables and plenty
of them.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
CONVICTIONS OF SIX
IN RUM PLOT UPHELD
Court Rules Men Held in Maryland
Conspiracy Must Serve
Prison Terms.

Six members of an alleged liquor ring
lost their appeals today from convic-
tions of conspiracy when the District
Court of Appeals, in an opinion by JUS
tice D. Lawrence Groner, affirmed the
findings of the jury.
Those who will now have to begin
the service of their terms of iRprison-
ment are Alfred G. Mendelson, Harry
Kushner, Corbin Shields, Milton j..
Lerner, Andrew La Bolo and Jack
Baum.
The appellate court reviewed the evil
dence in the case and reached the con-
clusion the men were engaged in a COM
mon purpose to violate the liquor law
by manufacturing intoxicating liquor in
MARYLAND, transporting it to the Dis
trict and distributing 1t among boot
leggers. There was no error in the trial,
the court determined.
Assistant United States Attorneys
James r. Kirkland and John J. Wilson
conducted the prosecution of the indict-
ment, which originally named % de-
PENDANTS -Four pleaded guilty, four
were not tried, three of them being
fugitives; there was directed verdict
for two. one was acquitted and eleven
were convicted. only six appealing.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
new JUGOSLAVIAN
CABINET RESIGNS
Zivkoviteh's Second Failure May
Give Marinkovic Chance to
Head Government.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELGRADE, Jugoslavia, April A.
The cabinet of Premier Gen. Peter
Zivkovitch resigned today.
Gen. Zivkovitch's cabinet resigned
January 4. following the last Jugo-
slavian elections, but the premier was
requested Immediately to form new
one. which he did on the next day.
An unconfirmed report circulated
after the resignation of the cabinet said
King Alexander probably would call
upon Foreign Minister Vojislav Marin
kovic to head a new government.
Rumors have been going the rounds
for many weeks that elements favoring
greater parliamentary freedom have
been dissatisfied with the way King
Alexander has been handling affairs.
1t had been predicted that there
would be serious trouble If the King
failed to make a conciliatory move on
behalf of these elements, and there have
been recurrent unverified reports that
he was contemplating such step.
But whether the cabinet reorganiza-
ton will be such as to satisfy these ele-
ments remains to be seen. Some of the
Kings opponents even have gone so far
as to demand that Jugoslavians resort
to violence if their protests were not
needed.
Evening star., 1932-04-04

likely to receive under the new tax bill.
This may be because the country was
more prosperous decade ago and could
afford to pay the higher taxes. Yet in
year of depression. namely 1921, the
Government collected nearly $4,000, ,O00,-
900 in receipts from taxation. The next
year, 1922, began the series of income
tax reductions, and the Federal Gov
ernment during the decade not only
paid on approximately $4,000 ,000, 900 of
the public debt, but gave the public the
benefit of several successive tax reduc-
tions.
Where the Money Came From
It is interesting, however, to examine
the trend of Federal revenues over the
last decade to see just where the money
came from and what taxes were the
most productive.
Originally the individual income tax
and corporation tax combined brought
in approximately 1929, 100000. This
sum has gradually declined, so that in
the present fiscal year 1t is doubtful
whether all income tax receipts will
approach even 81, ,000, ,000,8 ,80e. If it were
not for the steadfastness OF the other
forms of taxation, the Federal Govern
ment would today be in worse predic-
ament than it is with its $4,000, 900 900
deficit
Relatively few persons have been pay
ing most of the taxes. Nearly two
thirds of the entire revenue from the
income tax came in 1928, for example,
Evening star., 1932-04-04
CITIZENS COMMITTEE
NOMINATIONS CLOSED
Two Vacancies Will Be Filled at
Chevy Chase, Section 8,
on April 12.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent Of The Star
CHEVY CHASE, Md, April =
Nominations for members of the
Citizens Committee of Section 5, Chevy
Chase, subject TO the annual election
to be held April II, have been closed
and the candidates for the three posts,
the terms of which expire this year,
are engaged in their campaigns
The terms of Committeeman Thomas
w. Perry, James c. Rogers and G.
Wohlgemuth expire this month. The
voting will take place at 204 Raymond
street between 4:30 and 7:30 pm, any
resident of the section who is a quail
fed voter of the State being allowed
to cast a ballot There were 220 votes
cast at the election last year. The
other two members of the committee,
whose terms do not expire this year.
are F. z. Meloy and Paul N. Anderson.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
BANKERS TERMED
ROOSEVELT FOES
CurIey Says Power Interests
Also Are Opposing SeIec-
ton of Governor.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON April 4.-Mayor James M.
Curley, in a speech yesterday. said the
power trust interests" of America and
the banking fraternity were two
agencies bitterly opposed to the election
as President of franklin D. RooseveIt.
Speaking in behalf of Roosevelt s
candidacy, with the Massachusetts prl-
mary only three weeks away, Cufley
said the Democracy of the Nation ap-
parently unanimously favored tne
nomination and election OF Roosevelt
until within the last 80 days.
There are two agencies in America,
he said that are bitterly opposed 10
the election of Franklin d. Roosevelt
and for the sole reason that they nave
been neither able to dictate to him nor
control his actions" One, he said, was
the power trust interests, the other the
banking fraternity.
These two agencies, out OF clear
sky, had developed an opposition to the
candidacy of Roosevelt that Is re-
sponsible for the favorite son movement
in many States of the Union and is
responsible for the stop Roosevelt cry
that has arisen in the Nation.
Under ordinary conditions, the op-
position would be formidable, but the
depression of the past three years has
made the masses of the people in
America not only fearful but
exceedingly thoughtful"
Curley pointed to the success in sew
eral States of candidates for delegates
to the national convention pledged to
Roosevelt and offered that as an answer
to those who might think the people
of Massachusetts, are to be fooled In
voting for the bosses slate hiding be-
hind their profession of friendship for
Alfred E. Smith"
The mayor said he had been informed
every labor leader in the country, from
William Green, president of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, to the presi-
dent of the State branch OF the fedora
ton, was favored to Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
CHEMICAL FOUND
IN GERM cOL.0R|NG
Same Ingredient Is Basic in
HemogIoboin and
ChIorophylI.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April A chemical
constituent of the universal coloring
matter of bacteria has been identified
by DR.. Calvin B. Coulter at the College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Colum-
bia University
The ingredient belongs to the group
of porphyrins, which are the building
stones of hemoglobin and of chlorophyll
the green coloring matter of plants DR.
Coulter, who has been carrying on his
investigations for the last three years
with the aid of funds from the. Chemi-
cal Foundation, Inc, explains that the
universal pigment Of bacteria is cyto-
chrome, which has been found in all
living cells, plant and animal alike,
that consume oxygen.
This substance was first seen by Nc
Mum, an English physician, in 1886
but has been little studied until recent
years, when the researches of DR.. Hans
Fischer, who received the Nobel prize
in chemistry for 1880, for his work on
the porphyrins, have made it possible to
pursue the subject with understanding
In animals, porphyrin is combined with
iron to make hemoglobin, while in the
chlorophyll of plants the porphyrin is
combined with magnesium.
LII Tic dlpIlLIIcIla UdCllluS, WHICH Hc
has used largely in his studies. DR.
Coulter finds that the porphyrin is
combined apparently with copper and
iron.
"A surprising discovery" it was stated
in report to the Chemical Foundation
is that the amount of this copper-iron
porphyrin compound which is set free
during the development of diphtheria
bacillus culture is proportional to the
amount of poisonous substance of diph-
liberia toxin formed 1t is not known
what toxin is chemically.
These observations offer a new
method Of investigating the toxin, and
may make it possible to estimate its
amount without the use of animal in
oculation. The spectroScope is used in
the investigation of porphyrins, and the
methods in general are those which are
familiar to the physicist rather than to
the bacteriologist.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
ITALY CLEARS WAY
+ FOR TRADE UPTURN
Strict Economic Discipline OF
MussoIini Brings
Improvement.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, April 4.-Mussolinls strlc'
financial and economic discipline Is re-
norted by economists to be putting Italy
in good shape for the long-eXpecteo
business upturn. $500,
Meantime, according to the General
Fascist Confederation OF ltallan IN
dustries, most banks and corporations,
with few exceptions, are able to declare
a dividend" although usually smaller
than in the past and perhaps not
always fully earned Among the ex-
ceptions may be Fiat, which makes
nearly all cars sold in Italy, and whose
export trade last year was reduced by
half. 80,
Plans Well Advanced.
Here are some of the items on
Mussolini's program, already well ad-
vanced in execution:
/. A strong lira.
2. Strong banks.
8. Industrial consortiums to lessen
cut-throat competition and encourage
exports by cooperation.
1. Radical reduction of imports.
5. Continued public construction 70
relieve unemployment.
Reduction and readjustment OF
wages.
There is no pretense that Italy is
prosperous, but it is asserted the people
here are suffering less than in many
other countries.
Physically, it is contended, all are
cared for. The Duce last Fall made II
the duty of every Fascist to look after
his less-fortunate fellows "of whatever
creed or opinion" and every Fascio IN
Italy Immediately began serving free
soup and spaghetti.
The government Is running def1clt
of about $15,00o,00 a month. although
it expects drastic economies to show in
creasing results.
Construction Is Help.
Regardless of deficits, there is tide
of construction. MusSolini considers
work on roads reclamation and build
ings the cheapest form of unemploy-
ment relief because it improves the
country's industrial and social effective
ness. The number of idle. nevertheless,
reached the million mark recently.
To strengthen banks and give them
ready cash there has been for several
years a steady liquidation, consolidation
or removal of frozen assets to newly
formed, government-supervised holding
corporations. This last process recently
was applied to the Banca Commerciale
Italiana. second in size after the Bank
of Italy. The government says the
banking structure now is in good shape
The government and the banks kept
the Ira fairly steady, defeating specu-
lators by thorough support abroad,
which at times was said to involve buy
ing many millions of lire daily. Often
this was expensive, but early in Febru-
ary the process of defense made good
profit.
Gold Coverage Adequate.
There has been constant reduction of
circulation, and the gold coverage is
given as safely over 40 per cent.
Imports for months past have been a
third less than last year, while exports
lost but little Much wheat must be
bought soon, but Italian authorities ex-
press confidence the balance of trade
in the future can be kept better than
for generations.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
CHEVY CHASE FONT
BILL PASSES HOUSE
Marble Memorial to Senator
NeWIands Part of Beauti-
ficatien Plan.

The bill sponsored by Representative
Sol Bloom of New York, national di-
rector of the George Washington BIZ
centennial Commission, to have Chevy
Chase Circle ornamented with a marble
fountain and properly Handicapped as
one Of the important entrances to the
Capital during the Bicentennial year.
was passed by unanimous consent in
the House today.
The marble fountain is to be erected
in memory of the late Senator New
for the development of that section of
the Capital. The design has been ap-
proved by the Commission of Fine Arts,
and the work of setting out trees and
shrubbery in the Chevy Chase Circle
will begin Immediately.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
L|NDBERGH HUNTS
BAY STATE COAST
Fishermen at Cuttyhunk
Positive in identifying
Pilot of Plane.
Continued From First Page.)

ats the Lindbergh baby in Glasgow
The police have even gone 50 far as 70
institute search Tor the cnno.
Mrs. Taylor maintains reticence, now
ever. When informed that the New
Jersey officer would arrive tonlen' she
merely smiled and said:
IT have nothing to say at the mo-
II was stated oficially. however. that
Mai Schoeffel had bound Mrs. Taylor
to secrecy, indicating that his visit nao
been planned in advance.
The London Daily Express found
relatives of Miss Cow at Glasgow 1our
days after the kidnapping of the son Oh
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh
At that time the relatives refused 70
talk of the kidnapping lest 1t provoke
"oanc vengeance" on the young nurse.
They had not heard from her then, ana
the paper quoted Mrs. Taylor as saying:
"She has an excellent position in the
findbergh family and has been WIN
them very. happily since before the BABY
was BORN"
Servants Investigated.
On the same date Scotland Yard re-
ceiyed a request from the New Jersey
police for information concerning per-
sons who formerly lived in Great
Britain, and at Trenton 1t was lnol-
Gated that these persons were Betty
Cow and the Lindbergh butler and
housekeeper.
the Express on March II printed q
setfer said to have been received from
Miss Cow by Mrs. Taylor; In the mis-
siye the nursemaid said she felt
@numbed and terribly lost without that
child and added that Mrs. Lindbergh
was being "very brave about it"
The letter described for the first
time how the nurse discovered the baby
was gone when she went to lit MN at
10 pm. on the night of March !, and
how she had been called to HopeWell
from Englewood by Mrs. Lindbergh be-
cause the baby had a cold.
She said the Lindberghs nao
Sruessed" that the child had been taken
while the family and servants were at
dinner
Evening star., 1932-04-04
CITIZENS GROUP TO MEET

Takoma Park Community League
to Study Government Matters.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
TAKOMA PARK, Md, April AT
the meeting of members of the Takoma
Park Community League tonight at the
residence of President Dana F. Angler,
Maple avenue, number OF matters rel
ative to State and Government matters
will be discussed
The league will also take up the
question of public meeting at which
time DR.. George H. Hallett, jr., execu-
tive secretary of the Proportional Rep
resentation League of Philadelphia, will
outline features as to the method of
conducting and controlling municipal
elections.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
DAMAGED COLLIER MAKES PORT
AFTER BATTLING RAGING SEAS
Walls of Water Sweep Over Partly Filled
Vessel Which Struck Reef-Crew Of
% Exhausted.

man beings and 5000 tons OF coal
safely to dock.
Throughout the night the Coast
Guard cutter Acushnet hovered near
the big collier, having accompanied the
steamer from the time it floated free.
The collier struck the reef, which
Capt. Pearce said was uncharted, yes
terday afternoon. An o S call sent
Coast Guard out to the craft which,
however, floated clear on the rising
tide. Its double bottom was filled with
water, but the ship otherwise was tight
and Capt Pearce decided to continue,
conveyed by the Acushnet.
The wind rose, however, with night
fall, and gales buffeted the limping
steamer throughout most of the night.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
VISITS SCOTLAND YARD.
New Jersey Ohicial Receives Aid In
Hunt.


LONDON, April 4 R.-Maj. Charles
II Schoeffel of the New Jersey State po-
lice, who came here in connection with
the investigation of the kidnapping OF
Charles Augustus Lindbergh. jr., visited
scotland Yard this morning and con-
ferred with high police ofhcials there;
Mai. Schoeffel has been dupneo
ssuaystery man" by host Of newspaper
men who have vainly sought some trace
Of him since he landed In England.
He entered Scotland Yard unrecog-
rized and when he emerged half hour
late he drove away in taxicab stlll
unidentified by large crowd which
had gathered outside.
The New Jersey trooper saw Lord
Trenchard, the police commissioner
and the heads of the Criminal 1nyestl-
cation Department while at the Yard.
The authorities there obviously were
helping him maintain the secrecy witn
which he wished to surround his move
rnents, and all they would say a1ter
the conference was:
"He has been in connection with the
ward but any information regarding tbs
nature of the communication mus
come from the New Jersey STATE
police"
Evening star., 1932-04-04

probably will result in the baby's swift
transfer to his parents home at Hope
well, N. j., before word of his release
by his captors becomes known any
where.
This belief is based on admittance by
John H. Curtis, Norfolk boat builder
and KEY negotiator here for the baby'S
return, a few hours before he left this
city on his present secret trip in con-
nection with the case, and on velled
statements made in an interview today
by Rear Admiral Guy T. Burrage, an
other of the three Norfolk negotiators.
Afraid of Hijackers.
Late Friday, the night before he dis
appeared, Curtis expressed deter
niination to move as speedily and as Sc
cretly as possible in the final overtures
for the return of the child.
After we get that baby. If we get
him. we've got to be mighty careful OF
hijackers," Curtis was quoted today as
saying. There are too many characters
Of a certain breed who'd do anything
they could to get their hands on him,
and we've got to look out for that as
carefully as we would try to keep our
agents from being known
Asked today if it was the negotiators'
plan to deliver the DaDy TO HopeWell
and then announce his recovery, Ad-
miral Burrage declared he honestly did
not know what the plan was.
"A friend Of mine in Washington, y
the admiral said, sent me clipping
from one of the Washington papers.
That clipping said the baby might be
returned to his parents three days be-
fore the public knows anything about
it. Well, now, that's that, and what do
you think of it?"
Curtis Still Absent.
Asked If he knew whether the end
of the negotiations are near, Admiral
| Burrage replied:
Honest to God, don't know-and ]
say that with reverence"
| Curtis still was away from the city
early this afternoon, admittedly in con-
nection with the kidnapping case The
| Naval Air Station at the Naval Base met
al inquiries as to movements of Lieut.
r. j. Richard, u S. N, who is plotting
Curtis on his mysterious trip, with
there are no reports on Lieut.. Rich
| ard" Likewise. Mrs. Curtis still was
away from home, and her mother-in-
law was remaining evenings with the
Curtis two children.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
LINDBERGH RETURNS
Back From Mysterious Trip Away
From HopewelL

HOPEWELL, N j., April P)-Coi.
Charles A. Lindbergh became today an
active figure in the hunt for his stolen
baby. =.
His automobile. with the colonel at
the wheel, slid into. the garage at MS
Sourland Hills estate shortly after mid
night, ending a mysterious 24-hour "Trip
which he and the State police decnneo
to discuss.
the whereabouts of any member OF the
Lindbergh family" was the way the
State police put It.
On a back road near the estate the
Iindbergh car had met machine car
rying newspaper men, and stopped:
Are you police ofncers?" Col. Lind
bergh asked.
The reporters identified themselves
and asked him where he had been.
Thank you,". Col. Lindbergh replied
hnd drove on to his home.
The Associated Press had learned
earlier that he left the estate by motor
Saturday night. Where he spent the
24-hour period, however, remained a
secret.
An amphibian landed at Gosnold
island, near Martha's Vineyard, Mass.
YESTERDAY. Three men-tWo described
as elderly and one as young-disem-
barked and made inquiries concerning
a boat they referred to as the Salile.
No such boat had been seen IN those
waters, and after two-hour stop-over'
during which the men lunched, tney
few away. One of the men was ire
qpently addressed as Colonel and one
Of the others as Doctor" Residents
of the island said none OF the men re-
sembled Col Lindbergh.
Significance was attached TO the
planes flight in view OF the fact tnat
John H. Curtis, Norfolk, Va, shlpbufld-
er and one of three Norfolk Inter
mediaries" acting in the kidnapping case,
left Norfolk Saturday on mission be-
lieved connected with the kidnapping
Neither of his two associates, Rear Ad-
nniral Guy H. Burrage and the Rev. Il
Dobson Peacock, would comment.
The possibility that Col. Lindbergh
himself may have been at Martins
Vineyard yesterday was not overlooked,
though it was without confirmation.
state police disclosed they are pur-
suing their search in the belief that
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, jr., Is still
ass-he attitude of the police must be
that the baby is alive and well until
the contrary is proved" said Col. H. N
Schwarzkopf, superintendent. THE po-
lice must persist in the primary objec-
tive. namely, to accomplish the return
of the baby alive and well"
Col. Lindbergh's trip over Sunday
was the first he has made from the
estate, so far as is known, since hi'
baby was stolen the night OF March l
Rumors few early today that tht
baby's nurse, Betty Cow, left the estatt
last night in State police car. Thi.
gave rise to reports that she had beer
taken elsewhere for further questioning
There was no confirmation, however
of any of these reports. The polio,
have stated repeatedly they are salts
fed Miss Cow has told them all sh'
knows.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
PHYSICIANS IN SESSION
18th Annual Meeting of College
Opens in San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 4 GP.-The
sixteenth annual convention of the
American College of Physicians opens
here today, with physicians from the
United States Canada and Europe at
tending.
DR.. S. Marx White of Minneapolis,
Mimi, president of the college, arrived
last night to preside.
The sessions will continue through
Friday Of this week.
Evening star., 1932-04-04
"WET" OPPOSES BEEDY

PORTLAND, Me, April 4 Pl.-Ed-
led an unsuccessful fight on the floor
of the Republican State convention here
Thursday for abolition of the dry plank
in the platform, announced last night
his candidacy for the party nomination
to Congress from the first district.
Chase, who served two terms in the
Legislature and represents Maine on
the New England Governors Railroad
Committee, seeks the nomination on a
wet" platform. He will oppose Rep
resentative Carroll L. Beedy, incumbent
and, an ardent dry" in the June pri-
mary election.