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Evening star., 1932-04-06
SON Of AMERICAN j.
PROFESSOR SUICIDE
J. B. Gray, Insurance Broker
in New York, Shoots
Self.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 6.-James Bliss
Gray. insurance broker and son of John
H. Gray, professor of economics at the
American University, Washington, D. c.,
shot and killed himself last night after
leaving note saying he was more
than tired of life" He was So years
old
Francis Deak, professor Of political
history at Columbia University, who
shared Gray's apartment, slept along
side the body thinking his friend was
asleep. He discovered the tragedy
when he awoke at 7 o'clock this
morning.
Deak said he entered the apartment
between 1890 and II o'clock last night
and read until /, when he retired. He
noticed nothing unusual. but since no
shot awakened him during the night,
police deduced that Gray was dead be-
fore Deak came in.
His note asked that five persons be
notified. He also had written a letter
to each. These were sealed and
stamped and left on table.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
JUSTICE TELLS D. C. GRAND JURY
TOCONFINE ITS INQUIRY TO CRIME
Proctor Citing Staples Case, Warns Group Not to Probe
District Affairs.

Justice James NJ. Proctor in Grim
inal Devision today instructed the
new grand jury to devote its entire
time to the investigation of crime and
not to become an inquisitorial body con-
cerning the general state of affairs in
the District.
The court referred TO instances where
the grand jury had made special re-
ports. two of which he had a short
time ago expunged from the records of
the court. The two expunged reports
involved the restoration to police duty
of Orville Staples and the criticism
of Capt Edward J. Kelly and former
Asst. SIpt. William S. Shelby
In former occasions" said Justice
Proctor, grand jurors have seen fit to
make reports on the general state of
affairs in the District of Columbia.
Your official functions are TO inquire
into charges of commission Of crime.
You have nothing to do with such
general affairs and I instruct you to
attend only to your official duties as
grand jurors as I have outlined them
TO you"
Howell Peoples. So, OF 1881 Belmont
Evening star., 1932-04-06
OF Today LIMIT
ON WHISKY PRESCRIPTION ASKED
Commissioner of Industrial Alcohol Tells House Com
mittee Ban Has Been Much Criticized.

sentative Sparks, Republican, of Kan
SaS.
mo. sir. I would not go that far, 3"
Doran replied.
Doran made clear that his indorse-
ment of removing the frequency liml-
tation depended upon retaining strin-
gent regulatory powers to curb diver
sion. Asked whether he thought re-
moval Of the frequency limitation would
aid enforcement, Doran replied it would
not be injurious and by meeting the
approval of the medical profession
might serve to better enforcement con-
ditionS.
Removal of statutory limitations on
medicinal whisky prescriptions also was
urged before the committee by DR.. Will
liam c. Woodward for the American
Medical Association.
A number of bills to accomplish this
purpose impend as well as a measure
by Representative GoSs, Republican, OF
Connecticut, to legalize the prescribing
of malt liquors.
Limitations on prescriptions Is "a
prohibition on the patient rather than
the physician" Woodward said.
THE association believes the physi-
clan administering the prescription and
watching its results is best able to pre-
scribe"
Evening star., 1932-04-06
BY the Associated Press.

A proposed amendment to the Vol
stead act, eliminating the Today limit,
on the frequency of medicinal whisky
prescriptions for a single patient, was
Endorsed today by Dr. James M. Doran,
commissioner of industrial alcohol.
He told a House committee that dur
ing his experience as prohibition en-
forcement officer the present limitation
as to the time that a doctor may pre-
scribe liquor for a patient had been
the subject of greatest criticism from
the medical profession. This hmita-
ton Is one pint in 10 days.
THAT limitation" Doran testified,
'was one of the irritating things in
the law that might very well be made
subject to regulation than to statutory
control
with respect to the frequency of
prescribing for any one patient, I be-
lieve that the statutory limitation
should be withdrawn.
IT do not believe We should lose
control of the number of prescriptions
and the quantity that may be pre-
scribed''
Then you would not leave the num-
Der of prescriptions and quantity en-
tirely to the physician?" asked Repre-
Evening star., 1932-04-06

road, who is employed as district freight
agent of the Southern Railway Co was
selected as foreman of the grand iIrv
Seven women and l6 men constitute
the new grand jury panel.
Other members are: Mrs. Adeline
T. Baker, l438 Montague street; Maurice
Banks. 1912 @ street; Theodore 3 Rog-
ley, 3343 Tennyson street: William q
Chapman, Shoreham Hotel: Charles A
Fetters 1929 Sixteenth street: Robert
D. Fitch, 5709 Nevada avenue: Mrs
Eva M. Flynn. 1928 Hall place: James
c. Groves, 4425 Fourteenth street :.
Byron T. Hayden, 5505 Chevy Chase
parkway: Frank T Henry, 1Ol8i5 sixth
street; George w. Hurst. 24l4 Fourth
street; Mrs. Maude G. Joerns. 573I Utah
avenue; Mrs. Virginia Keller, 8l7 Emer-
son street; Mrs. Madeline l.. Kelley.
1926 Tennyson street; E. LYMAN Kolb
1927 New Hampshire avenue; Mrs NAV
D. Lightfoot 455l Wisconsin avenue:
Mrs Augusta E. Noack. 1923 kansas
avenue; Joseph B. Norris, l434 Fair
mont street; George C. Reaves. IO5
Sixth street southeast: Glister e. Rob-
erts, 36 Q street northeast: Abram J.
Selbin, 4527 Wisconsin avenue. and Mrs.
Margaret E. Smith, 1915 Juniper street.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
EMBASSY R|OT|NG
TRIAL OPENS TODAY
Secretary to Justice Stone
One of Witnesses for
Radicals.

Walter Gellhorn, private secretary to
Supreme Court Justice Harlan F. Stone,
today was prepared to testify as de-
fense witness in the trial of one woman
and three men charged with assaulting
members of the Washington Police De-
partment during a radical demonstra-
ton near the Japanese embassy March 26.
Charles E. Ford, counsel for the four
defendants, Joan Hardy of Baltimore
and Albert Suskin, Ivan Castrow and
James L. Kennedy, all Of Philadelphia,
announced Mr.. Gellhorn had been sub
pOenaed as a witness.
1t is understood the jurist's secretary
volunteered as a defense witness when
he communicated with Ford by letter
last week, protesting against violence of
the police in breaking up the parade.
Mr.. Gellhorn stated in his letter, it Is
understood, that he was present at the
time of the riot, which resulted in the
arrest of Il radicals and the sending OF
one policeman to a hospital for treat
ment. Nineteen of these defendants are
now serving prison sentences or are OH
bail awaiting appeal Of their cases.
Continuance Denied.
Michael F. Keogh, assistant United
States attorney today asked for a con-
tinuance of the cases for one week be-
cause all of the police witnesses had
been assigned to guard duty for the
Army day parade here today. His mo-
ton was opposed by Ford, who urged
immediate trial.
Judge Gus A. Schuldt of the jury
branch of Police Court overruled the
prosecutors motion and ordered all
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1932-04-06
Crying of Babies
And Barking Dogs
Irk Federal Judge
Jurist Also Resents Laugh.
ter While Discussing
Statutes.
Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, w. Va, April g.
Unnecessary noise during his charge to
the grand jury at the opening of the
Spring term of Federal Court here yes
terday kept Judge w. E. Baker busy,
and brought stern repressive measures.
An unidentified spectator who laughed
audibly while the judge was instructing
the jury on the white slave statute
precipitated severe criticism by the
jurist.
A dog. barking on the street three
floors below the court room and ap-
parently teased by some one, brought
direction to the marshal to have the
barking halted and the owner OF the
dog arrested if necessary.
The crying of babies in the arms OF
their mothers near the court room
brought instructions to have these per-
sons go to another floor until they were
needed by court
In addition, Judge Baker reminded
the crowded court room that no 1uStling
of papers or conduct not in keeping with
the dignity of the court would be
tolerated.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
WASHINGTON MEN HELD
IN DIXIE JEWEL THEFT
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALISBURY, N. c., April 6.-Wallace
Scales. "a, member of a prominent
Greensboro family who turned liquor
runner and is alleged to have robbed
Mrs. A. H. Galloway and three guests
in her home at Winston Salem of jewels
worth $4,000, was captured here last
night.
An intensive search had been under
way for Scales since William Pryor, 19,
of Chicago, confessed there a month
ago that he and Scales robbed the Gall
loway home
Arrested with Scales we're two men
who said they were Art Fox of WASH
ington, and John Neel of Washington.
They we're in an automobile containing
120 quarts of whisky.
The Galloway home was robbed in
March, 1880.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
WEIGHT TAX FOES
TO APPEAR TODAY
Hearing Yesterday Touched
Upon Fiscal Relations and
Utilities LeVies.

Trade and civic organizations were
prepared to go before the Senate Dis
trict Committee this afternoon with
their side of the automobile weight tax
question. following the opening session
yesterday at which the discussion
turned to a variety of subjects, includ-
ing fiscal relations, public utility taxa
ton and the automobile parking prob
lem.
Highlights in yesterdays testimony
were:
Thomas F. Murphy, assistant chief
of the Bureau of Efficiency, emphasized
the lack of industrial activity in Wash
ington and pointed out that allowance
must be made for that fact whenever
District tax burdens are compared with
cities which have large taxable in
dustries.
Spokesman for the two street railway
companies, who took the stand to urge
that their busses be exempt from the
proposed auto weight tax because they
pay per cent gross receipts tax, were
as to whether utilities here bear a suf-
ficient share of the tax requirements.
Opposes Parking Tax.
Senator Carey Republican, of Wyo-
ming, inquired as to the feasibility of
tax on those who use the streets for
day and night parking. The suggestion
was opposed by Murphy.
When the discussion turned temporar-
lily from automobile weight taxes to the
basic issue of the Districts tax burden
as a whole, Murphy told the committee
the investigation of fiscal relations
made by his bureau in 1928 showed the
per capita tax in Washington was S57,
which was the same as the average city
tax burden for the IA cities in the
group ranging from 100000 to 100000
population, with which the District was
compared.
He said the State taxes for the other
cities averaged $13, bringing the average
for city and State taxation for the other
municipalities up to $40.
He reminded the committee, however,
that the figure of S57 for Washington
represented only the taxes actually col
lected from residents of Washington,
which has only small industrial de-
velopment to draw from.
He then showed the committee that
Continued on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
FIRST pEREMPTORY STRIKES
USED IN PICKING MASSIE JURY
Each Side Challenges Three Men, Reveal
ing Their Ideas of avorable Panel
for Murder Trial.

3 of their "a challenges and the net
result was that the prosecution had
challenged two white men and one
Chinese and the defense had chal-
lenged two Hawaiians and one Japa-
neSe.
There were other than racial reasons
for each of these challenges. but the
fact that they fell into such a division
is at least interesting as suggesting
what each side has in mind as an ideal
jury.
Before the peremptory challenges be-
gan, the jury box was filled with a
group of men fairly representative Of
the various races of the islands. There
were bankers, plantation men. en-
CONTINUED on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1932-04-06
SCHOONER CLUE FAILS.
Captain Denies Visit by Emissary OF
Lindbergh.

NEW BEDFORD. Mass, April 6 (H1.
The schooner Alva. several times
mentioned in connection with the
search for the kidnapers of the Lind
bergh baby, early today was defln1tely
eliminated from any connection with
the search.
She arrived here shortly after mid
night with 1000 pounds of fish. Capt.
Joseph Rocha denied that an emissary
of Col. Lindbergh had boarded his craft
and said that he had been fishing on
Marthas Vineyard since Sunday.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
BURNING LEATHER SMELL
DISCLOSES SHOE THEFT
Policeman Follows Nose and Finds
Man Firing Furnace With
Loot.
Rv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 6.-Police Sergt.
Thomas Harrison Just followed his nose
and thereby helped to solve a great
mystery.
He smelled burning leather yesterday,
Going into a basement from which the
odor apparently came he found Charles
Poske shoveling into a furnace a lot of
brand-new shoes, each Of which was
for the right foot.
The mystery persisted. however, until
David Lipschutz. a salesman for Mil
waukee shoe factory. identified the re-
manning shoes as some Of the $50
samples stolen from his car last Mon
day night.
Poske protested his innocence, saying
some one had left the shoes with him
with instructions to destroy them. He
was locked up nevertheless.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
BABY NEGOT|ATOR
RETURNS READY TO
MAKE STATEMENT
Curtis Indicates He viii Have
Something to Say Later
in Day.
OTHER INTERMEDIATES
CALLED TO CONFERENCE
Return of Lindbergh Infant Near.
RumOrs Persist at Hope
well.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORFOLK, Va, April 6.-John Hughes
Curtis, one Of three Norfolk negotiation,
ior the return of the kidnapped Lind
oergh baby, who had been absent from
his home here since Saturday, returned
thlS afternoon. He Immediately an
nounced he would not be interviewed
until later regarding the progress of the
negotiations.
Mr.. Curtis said he would have no
statement to make until after he had
conferred with the other two Norfolk
intermediates, Dean H. Dobson-Peacock
and Rear Admiral Guy H. Burrage. He
dld not say when he would confer with
them. "A'AA
Evening star., 1932-04-06
HOPEWELL OPTIMISTIC.
Reports Persist That Return of Rahv
Is Imminent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
HOPEWELL, N. j., ApriI
Optimism-unexplain but insistent-
coursed through this hill village TODAY
as reports flew that the LindberQh babv
would be home soon.
Neither police nor any one els, in
authority would sponsor the expectant
feeling. Villagers drew deductions from
the CHEEKY mien Of Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh, as he turned out yesterday.
cedar branch in hand, to help battle a
brush fire that menaced his home ON
Sourland Hill.
Otners recalled that he was cheerful
and unworried shortly before he took
on for Paris and said you couldn't tel
from looking at him when he Is
thinking.
Lights cleaned in the home last
night. The State police force quartered
at the estate was being dismissed, de-
spite an announcement by Col H Nor
man Schwarzkopf, its leader, that no
one had requested withdrawal
The air OF hope rested ultimately.
however, on two mysterious airplane
flights Col. Lindbergh made over
Marthas Vineyard and adjacent wastes
OF the Massachusetts, coast in a re-
ported attempt to establish contact
with small yacht
The fact that lights have been seen
in the nursery from which 21-month-
old Charles A. Lindbergh, jr., was stolen
March l also fed the flame Of hope, as
did the continued absence from his
Norfolk home of John H. Curtis, one Of
three Intermediates who believe they
have established contact with agents OF
the kidnapers.
But police said they were unaware
of any reason to think prospects had
frightened.
The Island of Marthas Vineyard was
a center of interest again yesterday.
Vessels Hover OF Island.
Not many miles offshore five Coast
Guard vessels hovered, while an am
phibian, like the one fishermen said
they saw Lindbergh plotting Sunday.
flew over Nashawena Island.
Later a dragger, believed to be the
Alva, steamed past Marthas Vineyard.
A civilian was said to have boarded this
craft Sunday, and this was linked with
the visit Of the plane.
Mystery still marked the visit to Eng
land of Mai. Charles H. Schoeffen OF
the State police. Instead OF going 10
Glasgow, as he was reported intending
to do, he stayed in London yesterday.
In Glasgow lives the mother OF Betty
Cow. the baby's nursemaid.
Col. Schwarzkopf disclosed that the
investigations abroad showed that none
of the Lindbergh servants had any
criminal record before coming to this
country.
Morning Bulletin Issued.
In his morning bulletin Col. Schwarz-
kopf declared no lights have been
burnt under any unusual circumstances
in the nursery and there are no cir
cumstanceS Of any significance in this
connection" He ignored question
which asked verifcation or denial Of
report the baby was returned to the
home more than day ago.
The rest of the bulletin detailed clues
which had faded into nothing as fast
as they were Investigated.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
ENGLAND WITHHOLDS
IRISH REPLY ON OATH
Intimation of Contents Unlikely
Until 1t Has Been Considered
by Cabinet.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 6.-The reply Of the
Irish Free State government to the re-
cent British note warning against
abolition of the oath of allegiance or
the land annuities was received here
this morning.
1t was considered improbable, how
ever, that any intimation of its con-
tents would be given until it is con-
sidered by the cabinet, after which
j. H. Thomas, secretary for the domin-
ions probably will MAKE a statement
in the House of Commons
Evening star., 1932-04-06
u. S. EMBASSY OFFICIAL
ACCUSED IN SALVADOR
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN SALVADOR. April "a patri-
otic association charged today that
William J. McCafferty, charge daffaires
OF the American embassy here, inter-
vened and succeeded in persuading
President Ubico of Guatemala to refuse
to see a delegation Of Salvadorean patri-
OTIS who sought the support of Guate-
mala for their cause at home.
The patriotic society, whose members
include bankers, business and profess
sional men, charged McCafferty sug-
gested to President Ubico that he turn
a deaf ear to the Salvadorean delega-
ton.
The American representative admitted
the head of the delegation, the society's
statement said
Evening star., 1932-04-06
BY RUSSELL OWEN.
BY Gable to The Star.

BY Gable to The Star.
HONOLULU, April (N.ANA).-
Out of preliminary chaos, the trial
emerged today in the Fortescue- -Massie
case with certain definite trends which
aroused much interest and speculation.
The struggle over jurors to decide
whether Mrs Granville Fortescue,
Lieut.. Thomas H Massie and two en-
listed Navy men killed Joseph Kaha-
hawai- began with the use of the first
peremptory challenges. At the end of
Yesterdays session each side had used
Evening star., 1932-04-06
DANUB|AN PARLEY
OPENS WITH JOINT
LOAN CONSIDERED
France and England Reported
Ready to Prevent Collapse
of Austria and Hungary.
BY Gable to The Star.

BY Gable to The Star.
LONDON, April 6.-The four-power
conference on the Danubian and re-
lated problems in Europe's economic
distress opened in London this after
noon, with an immediate Anglo French
short-term loan to stave off the COL
lapse of Austria and Hungary virtually
decided upon, with what must be ad-
mitted to be at least an "eye-to-eye"
Anglo-French understanding on most
of the points involved and with the
opinions Of Italy and Germany yet to
be heard.
Under the Craftsmanship of British
Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald,
the parley opened with the comforting
powers represented by delegations
headed by Macdonald and Foreign
Minister Sir John Simon for Great
Britain. Finance Minister Pierre
Etienne Flandin for France, Bernhard
w. Won Buelow, head of the Reich
foreign Office, for Germany, and
Foreign Minister Dino Grandi for
Italy.
Anglo-French Agreement.
The six main points upon which the
British and French are already agreed,
as well as the seventh point, upon
which the financial experts are now
trying to arrive at settlement, are
reported to be:
/. The four-power talks should
limit the matter of cooperation to f1Ve
Danubian states-Austria, Hungary,
Rumania, Czechoslovakia and Jugosls-
via-with Bulgaria excluded.
2. These five Danubian states shall
be invited to start negotiations among
themselves, the basis of which shall be
the memorandum drawn up by the four
powers
3. This memorandum shau stress
the necessity of preferential tariffs be-
tween the five Danube states, which
shall not be less than 10 per cent and
not more than IL per cent.
4. Other countries which are in
terested in the INSTRUMENTATION
clause shall have their interests pro-
tected-but none of them should claim
material advantages because OF such
Danubian formation. AS France S
Continued on Page 2, Column D.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
VATICAN EMPLOYE FIRED
Technical Bureau Chief Dismissed
for Building Collapse.

VATICAN CITY, April 6 (Hl.-Fabrio
de Rossi, chief of the technical bu-
reau at the Vatican, was dismissed from
his position today by a special COM
mission formed to investigate the cause
Of the collapse of wing OF the Vatican
library last Winter.
The commission exonerated him from
all civil and penal responsibility for
the crash, however.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
SUES SPOUSE 3 TIMES
Wife Asks Divorce From Man She
Divorced Twice Before.

CHICAGO, April (P).-Mrs Emma
Minoranas of suburban Cicero married
the same man three times.
And the man she married three times
is the same fellow she has sued three
times for separation.
John is his name. She married him
in 1922. In 1926 she divorced him on
a charge of cruelty. Five months later
she remarked him. but divorced him
again in March of 1929 On December
4, 1880, she married John again.
And Yesterday she filed suit for sepa-
rate maintenance, alleging desertion.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
Uncle of Mrs. Tunney Dies.

NIAGARA FALLS, N Y, April 6 (Pl.
Jasper M Rowland, So, chief engineer
of the Hooker Electrochemical Co.,
uncle of Mrs Gene Tlnney and brother
of Henry G. Rowland, the author, died
In hospital here today following an
operation for appendicitis.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
Father Professor Here.

Gray's father is a professor in the
graduate school at American univer-
sity. He was advised by telegram of
his sons death and left at once for
New York to take charge of the body
and make arrangements for the fu-
neral.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
432,46O PUT TO WORK
Drive Officials Announce 9,SS2 as
Yesterdays Total.

NEW YORK, April (P).-Offcials
of the United Action for Employment
Campaign announce that jobs have
been found for 432, 400 persons. The
goal is 100000.
They said that yesterdays reports
brought the total to this figure by
adding 1882 new jobs The campaign
is sponsored by the American Legion,
its auxiliary. the American Federation
of Labor and the Association of Ma
tional Advertisers
Evening star., 1932-04-06
GRAF OFF CANARIES

Stop Flight to Brazil.
HAMBURG, Germany, April s (P.-
The Hamburg American Steamship Line
that the Graf Zeppelin. Ger
man dirigible, which is on a non-stop
flight to Pernambuco, Brazil, was over
latitude 80 degrees, minutes north.
longitude IA degrees, l minute west: at
S am, Greenwich time. this morning
q am, Eastern standard time).
This position is near the Canary
Islands.
Evening star., 1932-04-06
WEATHER.

~. o. Weather Bureau Foreeast)
Fair; cooler tonight; minimum tenn
perature about AZ degrees: tomorrow in
creasing cloudiness slowly rising tenn
perature. mperatures-Highest, Sc, at
o pm. yesterday; lowest 46, at 80 am.
today. Full report on page 5.