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Evening star., 1932-04-26
STORMS CAUSE SIX
DEATHS IN SOUTH
Property Damage Reported in Ten
nessee, Arkansas, Kentucky,
Alabama and Georgia.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 26.-Wind
and thunderstorms struck across the
South yesterday leaving at least six
dead, more than score injured, dam
aged property and tangled power and
communication lines.
All the fatalities were In farming
communities near Memphis. A white
woman and child and four colored peo-
pie were known dead.
The twisters swept into TenneSSea
from Arkansas where property damage
and injuries were reported. Half q
dozen Southern Kentucky counties re-
ported damage.
Hail, winds and rain damaged homes
and crops in Northern Alabama and
sections In Georgia.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
R0MANOFF IMPOSTOR
EXCLUDED FROM u. S.
Ellis Island Bars Harry T. Gergu-
son, Who Slowed Away
on lie de France.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, April 26.-The sauve
well dressed man who arrived as a
stowaway on the liner lie de France
yesterday under the name of Michael
Romanoff was ordered excluded from
the United States by special board
of inquiry at Ellis Island today.
Romanoff, who Is better known to
immigration officials as Harry F. Gergu-
son, mingled with the flrst-class pas
sengers on the lie de France for four
days before it was discovered he was q
stowaway.
He protested that he is an American
citizen, but was unable to prove it. Ellis
Island officials said they were in doubt
regarding his nativity
Gerguson was ordered excluded once
before, in 1928. when he escaped from
Ellis Island by swimming to the Bat
terry.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
"a PER CENT LOSS
/ SHOWN BY STOCKS.
IFS Representative Issues
Drop From $1,457.75 Value
II In 1929 to $91.12 Now.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 26.-The Senate
fno,1irv into the stock market has again
drawn attention to the scope Of the de-
cline in values since the peak OF the
1929 buIl market.
A group of Is representative stocks.
selected at random from the less-tnan-
$40 class, at their closing prices yes
terday were selling at an average price
Of s60S share. At the extreme hlen
pojrt in 1929 they sold at S97.l6.
Assuming a man held one share each
of the IS, their combined current mar
ket value would be S9l.12, against
Sl.457.75 at 1929 top prices.
Sweeping Liquidation.
This sharp depreciation in price
levels, bankers point out, has been &C
companied by the most sweeping liqui-
dation in financial history. The scope
of this liquidating movement has been
furnished by the steady shrinkage OF
loans extended by banks on securities.
At the 1929 peak the brokerage loan
figure stood at $6,804 100000. 1t had
shrunk to $3.424,000,o00 January 2,
1880; was 81 100000 on January 2,
3 of this year.
The low point reached this year was
$4S5 900 900 on April IA. The latest
available figure, April 81, was S504, ,000,-
000.~
From the 1929 peak to the latest
available figure the shrinkage in brokers
loans amounted to $500, 900, or SO
per cent.
Shrink "a Per Cent.
From the 1929 peak the aggregate
price of the is representative stocks
shrunk from $1,457.75 to $9112, or q
decline of $1,366.63, amounting to "a
per cent.
No effort was made to draw any con-
clusion that the SO per cent shrinkage
in brokers' loans brought about "a per
cent decline In market value of the Is
stocks, this closeness of the figures
being described as pure coincidence.
In some of the stocks the decline was
sharper than in others, due to changed
conditions In the industries which these
particular companies serve. Likewise,
it was noted, those stocks which drew
the strongest speculative following IN
1929 were among those which have suf-
fered the severest deflation since.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
VIENNA GARDEN GROUP
HEARS HORTICULTURIST
Standing Committees Are Named
= and Workers on Library
Grounds Are Chosen.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
VIENNA, Va, April 26.-The April
meeting of the Ayre Hill Garden Club
Of Vienna was held yesterday at the
home of Mrs. w. w. Louk. Following a
talk on Soils and Rock Gardens" by
Prof. F. L. Mulford, assistant horticul-
turist of the Department of Agriculture,
the organization held a business meet
ing.
The resignation of the secretary, Mrs.
Richard Pierce, was accepted and Mrs.
w. w. Louk was elected to fill the
vacancy. The following standing COM
mittees were appointed: Membership,
Mrs. Harry Blake; Program, Mrs. At
feck; Conservation, Mrs. w. w. Louk /;
Entertainment, Mrs. Franklin williams,
and Publicity, Mrs. Joseph Berry.
Miss Richardetta Gibson was made
chairman of the work on the library
grounds, with the following as assist
ants: Mrs. Harry Blake, Mrs. William
Denham, Mrs. Ashley Money and Mrs.
w. w. Louk. An appropriation of s25
was made to continue the work on the
library grounds.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
PUBLICITY BANS
CAPONE VISITORS
Lindbergh Case Offers Bring
Order to Admit Only "Ligiti-
mate" Callers.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 26 [P.-The pub
licity "Scarface" AL Capone received in
the Lindbergh kidnapping case is going
to make his stay in the Cook County
jail more lonesome.
United States Marshal H. W. c.
Laubenheimer revealed last night he
has received orders from Washington
to limit issuance of passes for visits
to Capone strictly to relatives or per-
sons with sufficient and legitimate
business.
The order was issued some time ago
by Assistant Attorney General George
A. Youngquist and is directed against
newspaper reporters among others,
Laubenheimer said.
The United States marshal was en-
phatic that overtures to hunt the baby
made by Capone through newspaper
men were responsible for the order and
not the recent reports that the gangster
negotiated with the Lindberghs, guar
anteeing safe return of Charles A., jr.,
If he were released from Jail.
Laubenheimer said Capone was not
being held incommunicado, as a high
official at Washington said last night.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
GOVERNORS VISIT
COLONIAL SHR|NES
Tour Includes jamestown
and WiIIiamsburg-Return
to Richmond Tonight.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JAMESTOWN, Va, April 26.-This
little island in the James River, where
the seeds of a Nation were sown in
1907, today welcomed Governors from
the four corners of the country.
The State executives left Richmond
by automobile to visit jamestown and
Williamsburg, ancient Virginia capital.
The tour of Colonial shrines, to
which an entire day is given on the
program of the Conference Of Govern
ors, included an inspection of the res
toration activities In Williamsburg,
financed by John D. Rockefeller, jr-.
and Washington memorial services at
the College of William and Mary, with
President Francis P. Gaines Of Wash
ington and Lee University as principal
speaker.
Return to Richmond Tonight.
After luncheon at the college, the
Governors will spend the afternoon in
an inspection of restored buildings in
Williamsburg.
They will return to Richmond to-
night to be the guests OF the Com
monwealth of Virginia at a formal
state dinner at which the Governors
of four States will speak. Harry H.
woodring, Governor Of Kansas, will
make the first address and will be fol-
lowed by Gov. William Tudor Gardiner
Of Maine, Gov. George H. Dern of Utah
and Gov. Albert C. Ritchie Of Mary
land.
More than a score Of States execu-
tives made the pilgrimage to Williams
burg after spending yesterday after
noon and evening at Charlottesville,
where Thomas Jefferson founded the
University Of Virginia, and at Ash
Lawn, home of President Monroe.
welcomed by Pittman.
At Monticello, Jefferson's lofty home
overlooking Charlottesville, the Gov
ernors were welcomed by Senator Key
Pittman of Nevada, who told them
there would be no return to prosperity
unless the United States re-established
her foreign markets.
Claude G. Bowers, New York author,
In a speech at Ash Lawn, paid tribute
to the memories of Monroe and Jefer-
son. The occasion was the dedication
of the Piccirilli statue of Monroe.
Gov. George White of Ohio and Gov.
George F. Shafer of North Dakota. who
spoke at banquet given by the Char
lottesville Chamber of Commerce, laud-
ed Washington and Jefferson and urged
a national return to the confidence held
by these early leaders.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
SIX OF CREW INJURED
AS PATROL BOAT SINKS
Veteran Rum Craft Chaser Goes
Down in New London, Conn,
Harbor After Explosion.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW LONDON. Conn, April 26.-The
Coast Guard patrol boat CG-290, vet
eran rum boat chaser, lay at the bot
tom Of New London Harbor today and
six members of her crew. were in a hos
pital as result of an explosion which
demolished the craft.
The explosion, believed to have been
caused by the accumulation of gas
fumes, occurred yesterday in the engine
room while the boat was taking on fuel
Paul Schuler of Pittsburgh, second
class seaman, suffered a skull fracture
The others, including Boatswain A. C.
Cornell, commander, and Andrew A.
Rhude of Scottsburg, Ind, machinist's
mate, were injured less seriously.
In 1929 the CG-290 engaged in a bat
tie with the rum boat Black Duck, dur
ing which three of the Black Ducks
crew were killed.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
SLEEP-WALKING WIFE
is SLAIN BY HUSBAND
He Mistook Her for Burglar and
Fired in Dark, Kansan
Tells Police.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WICHITA, April 26.-James r. Lyles,
AZ, shot and killed his wife, 80, at their
home here early today. He said he
mistook her for a burglar.
The husband said he awoke and heard
some one in the kitchen. He grabbed
a shotgun and saw person standing
near window In the dark room.
Don't move or I'll shoot" Lyles
said he ordered twice, but without re-
sponse.
Then. he said, he fired
AS the form slumped to the floor, Mrs.
Lyles cried, James, you've killed me-"
Police expressed the opinion the wom-
an was "sleepwalking" Coroner d. G.
Hickman said he believed the killing
was accidental.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
TARD|EU BLOCKS
BRUEN|NG PARLEY
Fails to Attend Franco Ger
man Meeting Arranged
by StimSon.
BY the Associated Press.


GENEVA, April ga joint plan OF
Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson
and Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
Donald of Great Britain to bring to-
gether, in their presence, Premier An
DIRE Tardieu of France and Chancellor
Heinrich Bruening of Germany for an
effort at Franco-German reconcilia-
ton, went awry this morning when
Premier Tardieu failed to show up.
Macdonald and Stimson thought
they had the French premier's promise
to meet them and Chancellor Bruen-
ing at Secretary Stimson's villa at
Bessinge, but M. Tardieu remained in
Paris.
Bruening Attends.
Chancellor Bruening was present,
however. and conferred with Stimson
and Macdonald all morning.
Afterward they said they had talked
only of disarmament. All three agreed
to remain here until Friday. when M
Tardieu will return and the four of
them can get together.
The results of the Diet elections in
Germany Sunday have given cold chills
to the leaders here who are seeking
a solution of international problems,
especially on the eve of the French
elections.
According to we'll informed sources,
Secretary Stimson and Prime Minister
Macdonald agreed the time had come
to bring DR.. Bruening and M. Tardieu
face to face and to say to them, In
effect: Your relations and the Eu-
ropean situation are rapidly approach
ing catastrophe stage. Now what
are you going to do about it?"
Experts at Work.
The Disarmament Conference sus-
pended its activities today and the land,
sea and air commissions went to work
to try to designate which weapons of
war might be considered as distinctly
aggressive.
As soon as the reports of the sub
commissions are ready, the general
commission will resume its sessions and
attempt to apply the principle of
qualitative disarmament by the aboli-
ton of certain offensive arms, as pro-
posed by the British and Americans,
or by their internationalization, as
proposed by the French.
The technical work of the subsidiary
commissions is expected to require at
least two weeks.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at Stanley Hall at
$50 O'Clock. John 3. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster: Anton Pointner, assistant.
March, "a Blaze Of Honor. ). Lincoln
Overture. "Robespierre". LitolR
Entr acte-
Souvenir de Naples" ....... .Gervasio
"Dervishes Tourneurs". ... .Delmas
Scenes from the opera Norma" BellinI
Patrol, Turkish. Beethoven
Waltz suite, Mariana. Waldteufel
Finale, ''Pershing's Crusaders" Paul.
synhe Star spanGled Hannea.s
Evening star., 1932-04-26

legedly in payment for publicity, Is not
now on the Posts staff.
THE Evening Post, Of course, knows
nothing Of any such transaction" said
Mr.. Renaud. Mr.. White is not now in
the employ of the Post. He is undoubt-
edly in a position to speak for himself"
w. F. Wamsley. named by La Guardia
in connection with his Endorsement of a
check for 5000 while on the New York
Times. left that papers employ at the
end of 1929, the managing editor said.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
PARTY OPENS MEETING
National Farmer-Labor Convention
Held in Omaha.

OMAHA, Nebr., April 26 Dr. The
Farmer-Labor party opened its national
convention yesterday and planned a
public reception for Frank Elbridge
Webb Of San Francisco. mentioned as
its candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation, and for Gen" Jacob S. Coxey
The Platform Committee studied pro-
posal for s3,000.o00 annual Govern
ment fund for employment of labor on
public works.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
HOOVER ORDER DENIED.
White House Says President Has Not
Taken Up Capone Case.

An unqualified denial that President
Hoover has issued orders that AL Capone
be held incommmicado in the Chicago
Jail was made last night at the White
House.
1t was said that no such proposal had
been submitted to the Chief Executive
for action.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
Why Don't You Vote?
Note Left by Davis
Asks Office Callers
Rv The Assnciated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Callers at the Office Of Senator
James j. Davis today were greet
ed by a locked door and the fol-
lowing notice:
To-day, April 26. is primary
election day in the Common
wealth of Pennsylvania. Why
didn't you go home to vote?"
Senator Davis is a candidate
for denomination in today's pri-
mary.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
STAR MAY QUIT SCREEN
James Cagney Will Study Medicine
if Pay Raise Is Refused.

HOLLYWOOD. Calf, April 26 tP-
James Cagney. film star, is ready to
quit motion pictures If his salary de-
mands are not needed by Warner Bros.
Studios, he said today. Film colony
gossip indicates he is asking for an In
crease of $1,000 to $4,000 weekly.
Cagney said if he terminates his
screen career he may seek to enter Co.
lumbia University to study medicine.
MY two brothers are physicians and
they want me to join them," the actor
Evening star., 1932-04-26
MYSTERY sHRowDs MOVES.
Curtis Believed at Sea on Yacht
Couple Cleared of Connection.

HOPEWELL, N. j., April 26 R-
The Lindbergh kidnapping investigation
is still bound up in mystery on its
f1fty-sixth day.
John f. Curtis, one of the Norfolk
Intermediates trying to get the baby
back, was absent from Norfolk. and was
believed to be at sea on a yacht.
A man and woman under observa-
ton at Downington, Pa, were absolved
Of connection with the case by State
troopers who questioned them.
Col. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, head
of the State police, says Col Charles
A. Lindbergh has not reported any new
contact with the kidnapers.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
Plan Tobacco Farley.

LEONARDTOWN, Md, April %
(SpeciaD The business and profess
sional men of the fourth district have
called meeting at Chaptico, Md, hall
Marys County.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
HEFL|N, IN SENATE,
PLEADS FOR SEAT
Argues Before Crowded Gal
Iery on Special
Privilege.
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chief. His face above his flowing era
vat was flushed.
Both Senator Bankhead and Senator
Black, Alabama's other Senator, were
absent as Hefiin began, but Black en-
tered the chamber shortly after.
Hefiin started by speaking slowly,
quoting scripture.
'The Master said, Know the truth
and the truth will make you free" he
said.
"'What is truth said jesting Plate,
but would not wait for an answer"
AS he addressed himself Immediately
to the election contest, Hefiin said he
had been denied the right to take tes-
timony in the middle or southern part
of Alabama
He complimented Senator Shortridge
Republican, California;, chairman OF
the Elections Committee. but criticized
Democratic members on the ground he
had not been given chance to con-
clude his case.
When the committee attempted to re-
fer the case back to the subcommittee,
Heflin asserted, Senator Bratton Demo
crat, New Mexico) and Senator George
Democrat, Georgia. declined to serve.
Then I was called to the State of
my good friend Senator Glenn, Repub-
Iican, Illinois. to speak," he went on
adding that while he was gone Bank
heads friends and Senator Blaine, Re
publican, Wisconsin, got the commit
tee to act.
He reminded that Senator Norris,
Republican, Nebraska, had supported
Gov. Smith and that former Senator
Simmons, Democrat, North Carolina,
supported Mr.. Hoover.
ibid they undertake to read him out
of the party in North Carolina?" Hef1in
thundered. mo, they permitted him to
run.
$50 Senator Simmons was not read
out: Senator Norris was not read out,
but I was read out. Why? Because it
was generally conceded by the Bank
head leaders I would be nominated" :"
This course he termed political as
sassination."
Chamber Is Packed.
The chamber was packed, with long
lines waiting outside the DOORS Mem
bers of the House and others were
standing at the back. Hedin stood just
inside the Democratic side near the
center aisle at the rear of the hushed
chamber. His back was to the Demo-
Gratis almost constantly, as he directed
his appeal to the Republicans, who sup
ported his cause in committee.
His familiar MY God, Senators, think
Of that" rang out with a clap of the
hand as the Alabaman called rotten"
the moves in the Democratic Central
Committee which barred him from the
primary.
Recalling the circumstances of the
Alabama Democratic Committees action
in barring him from its primary in 1880
Hef1in said Senator Black was strong
against the machine then" although
he now supports Bankhead against him.
The resolution to bar him, he said,
was offered by an attorney for the Ala
bama Power Co. and by "Alabama's
railroad attorney"
Every Alabama Power Co. attorney
and the president of the company" he
said, were supporting Mr.. Bankhead
and opposing me-"
Evening star., 1932-04-26
Uriburu Weak in Paris.

PARIS, April 26 (P.-Former Presi-
dent Jose r. Uriburu of Argentina was
still weak today after an emergency
operation on Saturday His doctors de-
ctded to perform Q blood TRANSMISSION
this afternoon.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
PAPERS DENY RESPONSIBILITY.
Men Named in Probe No Longer or
Times or Evening Post.

NEW YORK, April 26 CP.-Ralph
Renaud. managing editor Of the Eve
ming Post, announced today that VII
liam White. who was named by Repre-
sentative La Guardia as one Of many
financial writer's indorsing checks al
Evening star., 1932-04-26
Horticultural Society to Meet.

HYATTsvILLE, Md, April 26 (spe-
ciaD.-The Hyattsville Horticultural
Society will meet Thursday night at
the home of L. L. Powers, president, at
8 o'clock
Evening star., 1932-04-26

BARRIERS in Doctors Glass.
A new Florida law makes BARRIERS
professional men, placing them in the
same class with doctors.
Evening star., 1932-04-26
LA GUARDiA HOLDS
FINANCE WRITER'S
WERE SUBSIDIZED

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Evening star., 1932-04-26

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The Washington times., 1932-02-19
SCHOOL BUDGET
GUT ASSA|LED

Oisproportionate reduction in
tlle appropriations for school
Buildings and grounds for colored
children in the budget for 1888
and the proposed transfer Of the
Old Business High School for col
cred elementary pupils. were cr1ti-
ci1ed at o protest meeting under
the auspices of the local branch
0e the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored Peo-
y1ie at the Garnet-Patterson Junior
nigh School last night.
Representatives of churches,
schools, civic organizations and
pArent-teacherS associations joined
With the inter-racial committee Of
the association in registering pro-
test.
According to the association
statistics at the Franklin Building
reveal that 65 per cent Of the
children enrolled in the public
schools are white and 35 per cent
ere colored. Appropriations for
buildings and grounds for white
schools is $1,365, 900, or 80 per
cent. while that for the colored is
@334, 400, or 1913 per cent.
Because the building has no
Tire escapes, non-fireproof con-
steuction, proximity of boulevards
and lack of playground space are
among the issues which the assoc
Ciation bases its protest against
the use of the Old Business High
School for colored children.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19

Maj. Gen. Paul E. Malone,
commanding Third Corps Area,
U. s. A., will be the guest Of
honor at George Washington's
Birthday exercises to be held
today by the r. o. T. c. at the
University of Maryland.
General Malone will be greeted
on his arrival at the university
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
GEN. MALONE HONORED

by a salute of 13 guns fired from
the schools 81 nm. field piece.
The university's crack com.
pany will act as the generals
guard Of honor, and with the
band, will escort him to Presi-
dent Raymond A. Pearson's Of
flee and then to the Ritchie
Coliseum where the exercises viii
be held.
The Washington times., 1932-02-19
State Asked to Pass
On N. Y. Stock Lists

A petition asking that all Securi
ties offered for sale in Virginia
through the New York Stock Ex-
change be investigated by the
state corporation commission, was
presented that body yesterday by
Charles Forney Norfolk manufac-
taaref,
Evening star., 1932-12-17
The Young Scientists.

A civilization in miniature went on
display recently at the American
Museum Of Natural History, New York
City, when the. fifth annual Children's S
Science Fair was opened for public in
spection. More than seven thousand
boys and girls had been working since
last Spring to complete the four hun
dred and eighty-one exhibits listed.
The show affords a cross-section of
scientific progress. 1t is to be COM
mended to the notice Of pessimists who
presume to imagine that twentieth
century youth is degenerate.
Science always has had vast attrac-
ton for children, realists as they are,
but the striking fact about modern
youngsters in this regard is their ca
pacity for invention and Interpretation
on their own account. Parents and
teachers shave given them the funda-
mentals OF ''organized common sense" !"
as Huxley called it, but the children
themselves have dealt with facts and
theories according to their own instinct.
In this way, they have made contri-
button to the sciences which have at
tracted their interest. They have SIM
plified and dramatized what they have
been taught. In the current exhibi-
tion the solar system is represented by
a black cotton umbrella, with white
marks identifying the consultations.
The Mendelian law af heredity Is dem