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The Washington times., 1933-05-16
IMPEACHMENT
TRIAL CALLS
VS.. LEAKE
Senate Ignores Plea of Illness
BY Key Witness in LOU
derbaCk Proceedings

Attendance of w. S. Leake, OF
San Francisco, 'key man" in the
Senate's impeachment trial OF
Federal Judge Harold Louderback,
of the Northern California
district, was ordered by the
Senate today after a brief dispute
between opposing counsel.
The Senate directed that Leake,
ailing from a heart affliction, be
brought to washington, accom-
panied by a nurse. Leake was
linked with Judge Louderback in
the Houses charge that the jurist
was guilty of a conspiracy to
charge excessive fees in receiver
ship cases.
San Francisco Politician
Leake was ientified by House
managers as San Francisco
politician, who dominated Louder
backs appointment of receivers
and attorneys for receivers. He
was charged, in the impeachment
papers, with having paid for
Louderback's room at the Fair
mont Hotel in San Francisco.
James M. Hanley, of defense
counsel, raised the issue Of
Leake's attendance. He declared
the man was too i'll to come to
Washington, and asked that a de-
position be taken in San Fran
cisco.
Representative Perkins (R0 of
New Jersey, one of the House
managers, protested, declaring:
ut is of prime importance in
this trial that if the testimony
of this man is to be taken, it
be taken before the trial body"
Question Put To Vote
Perkins then read telegram
to Vice President Garner from
DR.. Russell C. Ryan, San Fran
cisco physician, declaring Leake
quite weak physically due to old
age and a heart affliction. Ryan
added:
"TraveI to Washington is i'm
practical, but if imperative,
Leake should be accompanied by
a nurse"
Garner put the question to the
Senate and on motion of Senator
Bratton CD of New Mexico, voted
to compel Leake'S attendance.
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
64-HOur-Week Laid
To Ldundru Gunner

DETROIT, May 16 G.N.SO.-
The State investigation into labor
conditions of the laundry indus
try here resulted today in issu-.
ance of a warrant charging Rob-
ert Marsh, a laundry owner, with
forcing a girl employed to work
81 hours in one week-10 hours
more than the maximum allowed
by State law.
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
RACKETS ENTER.
KILLING QUIZ

NEW YORK, May 16 GNSO.
Discovering that Lee Weinstein,
secretary to Edward A. Ridley,
eccentric multimillionaire real
estate dealer, habitually spent
more money than he received as
salary gave police a new clue to-
day in. their investigation of the
deaths of the two men.
Ridley and Weinstein were
found murdered last week in the
dark Sub-cellar on the lower East
Side of Manhattan where Ridley
maintained his office, Weinstein
had been shot and Ridley was
dubbed to death with a stool.
Police are now investigating a
possible link between Weinstein
and gambling and bootlegging
interests.
A check of the records in the
musty old office revealed that
Weinstein received a salary of
$3.50 a week. An investigation
of his life and habits revealed
he maintained two homes-one
at a midtown hotel, where Vein
stein lived part of the time under
the name of John E. Lee with
his wife.
He also contributed to the sup
port of the Bronx home where
he lived as a bachelor with his
mother and two sisters, who
were unaware he had been mar
ried eight years ago.
It also was discovered Vein
stein had purchased a $4,000 au-
tomobile last year, paying the
purchase price in cash.
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
DEALS LABELED
A SHAM AS
TRIAL OPENS
George z. MedaIie AssaiIS the
Tactics of Ex-Head of Bank
/ in $959,429 Tax Case

NEW YORK, May 16 QN.S0.
Charles E. Mitchell, former head
Of the National City Bank, to-
day was charged directly with
deliberately perpetrating two
"fake" stock sales to evade $685.
429 income tax payments in 1929
and 1890.
In the opening address to the
Jury by United States Attorney
George z. Medalie at the trial
of the banker for income tax
evasion, the defendants sale Of
18,300 shares of stock to his
wife" was labeled "a sham and
. pretense."
Paid the Interest
Medalie said:
"TO show how unreal this
transaction Was the 1890
shares of stock were in the
block of $4,000 shares in the
possession of J. p. Morgan &
Co. for a loan of $6,OOO,OOO.
The stock was put up with Nor
gan as collateral, and Mitchell
not Mrs. Mitchell, mind yOu-
paid the interest on the loan"
When Mitchell bought back the
stock from his wife at $212, the
stock was selling for $40 a share
according to Medalie, who added
"And Mitchell claimed a loss
of S2,8OO,OOO."
Through gifts ranging from
$4,000 to $4,000, made by
Mitchell to his wife, the de
fendant managed to make up the
difference between the dividends
and the interest on the 18,30O
shares of stock, said Medalie, ir
his plot to keep from paying in
come taxes.
The Thornton Case
Medalie next took up the al
legged second "sham sale" by
Mitchell.
A picture was painted of "pre'
tense" transaction between Mitchell
and w. D. Thornton, president OF
the Greene Cananea Copper Com
pany. Medalie said:
"The sale, in which no money
was passed, involved $500 shares
of Anaconda copper stock by
which fraudulent sale Mitchell
pretended to sustain loss"
Referring to two transactions
through j. P. Morgan and Com
pany and a brokerage house by
Mitchell in connection with the
copper stock deal, Medalie said
"In this matter Mitchell was
both buyer and seller and
Thornton was merely a dummy"
Must Look Right
Another "subterfuge practiced,
Medalie charged, was in connec-
ton with the failure of Mitchell
to report $666, ,666 in 1929 received
from the management fund of the
National City Company.
The management fund, he con-
tinued, ordered distributed by tht
board of directors of the Nationa
City Company, amounted to ST.
800, 900 in 1929. Medalie sale
Mitchell's share was $666,666. HI
said:
Mitchell at that time was
the National City Company"
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
Traffic Sergeant
Dies SuddenLu

Sergt. Thomas Mcnamara, of
the traffic bureau, in charge of
police automobiles, died suddenly
early today at his home, 440O
block New Hampshire Ave. N. w.
Flags on all police stations were
ordered half stated. Sergeant
Mcnamara had been on the po-
lice force % years.
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
BALTIMORE

BALTIMORE
Beer hi-jackers, active for
the first time since legalization
of 80 brew, kidnapped, at gun
point, three truck attendants
and seized 10 quarter-barrels
of amber liquid, the vehicles
cargo.
Four men hi-jacked the truck,
forced the attendants into an
automobile, and escaped.
CHICAGO
The murder of Rocco (The
Goof) Belcastro, gangster and
public enemy identified as the
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
More Racketeering
- What Are You Going to To About H?-

Following outstanding developments in the racket
uation indicating its spread through various cities:
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
MRS.ROOSEVE[T
To FETE PRESS

Twenty-six picnic lunches are
mo trouble at all'' to Mrs. Roose-
welt.
Tomorrow Mrs. Roosevelt will
go to Stratford, the birthplace of
Robert E. Lee on the Potomac
River, motoring down in her
Eleanor blue" roadster from
Washington. The newspaper wo-
men who attend her weekly press
conferences will be her guests.
Mrs. Roosevelt is taking couple
of friends in the front seat of
the roadster but, there will still
be two seats in the rumble of the
car and she invited any of the
girls" who dared risk a possible
shower to OCCUPY them,
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
c. D. P. STRIVES
FOR DELAY ON
CLASS BILL
Deposit Insurance Feature
Causes Snag; Caucus OF
Party Voices Opposition

Senate Republicans decided at
a party caucus today to seek
postponement of the Glass bank
ing reform bill, now on the
Senate calendar.
Senator McNary Of oregon,
party leader, said:
"StrOng opposition to the
deposit insurance feature Of
the bill was expressed at the
caucus. We would like to
have at least a few days time
to consider alternative methods
of protecting depOsitOrS."
The Glass bill, besides setting up
a Federal insurance fund to pro-
tect depoSitorS in Federal Re-
serve member banks, would limit
brokers loans, divorce commercial
from investment banking, and
permit branch banking by Federal
banks in States allowing this
privilege to their own banks.
1t would establish a stricter
supervision of Federal banks and
erect safeguards against the use
of bank funds for speculative
purpose.
Limit On Loans
Some of its provisions would:
/. Authorize the Federal Re-
serve Board to fix limit in
each district on the total loans
secured by stock or bond col
lateral, in order to prevent "un-
due use of bank funds for the
speculative carrying of securi-
ties"
2. Create a Federal open mar
ket committee to regulate the
open market purchases of Sc
curities by Federal Reserve
Banks.
3. Limit the extent to which
member banks may purchase
stock in or issue loans to af.
filiates.
4. Divorce commercial from
investment banking, by prohibit
ing public or private bankers
from engaging in the floatation
or sale of security issues.
5. Prohibit investment banks
from accepting deposits.
The last two provisions would
compel such private banking
firms as j. P. Morgan & Co. to
discontinue either their invest
ment or private banking opera
tionS.
Deposit Insurance
The Morgan firm, noted for
it's handling of huge security
issues, would have to discontinue
that practice or terminate Its
activities as private banker.
The insurance provisions were
regarded as of great import. The
bill would create a Federal bank
insurance corporation to guaran-
tee deposits in member banks
starting two years hence and to
act at any time in liquidating
the assets of closed national
banks. The Federal Government
would start the insurance fund by
a $15O,OO0,000 contribution, to be
repaid later.
Federal Reserve banks would be
required to contribute a fund
equal to one-half of the banks
surplus on January /, 1888. Mem
ber banks would contribute a
fund equal to one-half of one
per cent of their total deposits,
while new member banks would
pay in a fund equal to 5 per
cent of their paidup capital and
surplus. State banks would have
two years time to join.
The Washington times., 1933-05-16

killer Of Francis Holbrook, en-
ploye of an evening newspaper,
was believed near solution to-
day.
Following cafe shooting,
Belcastro's body was found in
a parked automobile and in his
hand he clutched a scent piece,
gangland's mark for a double
crosser."
Witnesses told police they
were in the Del Monte Club
when Belcastro was shot and
from photographs they identi-
fled as the slayer man
already in the custody of
police,
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
Earthquake
Felt on West Coast

SAN FRANCISCO, May 16
G.N.SO slight earthquake
was felt in San Francisco and
bay region cities at 3:47 a. m.
today. Buildings in the business
area trembled. San Rafael, 20
miles north of here, also felt the
shock.
The Washington times., 1933-05-16
CIRCLE PLAN HIT

Mrs. Theodore w. Noyes, pres
ldent of the Garden Club of Amer
lea, yesterday voiced disapproval
OF the proposed alteration of
Thomas Circle. The chief obiec-
ton was that the proposal would
provide an oval parking space in
stead Of a circular one,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
ALL GODS CHILLUN

A REMARK attributed to Secretary of
Labor Frances Perkins, that the south
is an untapped market for American shoes
stirred flood of ford oratory from the SEN
ators of Dixie
Senator Bailey of North Carolina insisted
that none is more handsomely shod than his
own Tarheel state. Why" ne shouted even
the mules in the south wear shoes"
The gentlemen from Georgia, Florida and
Tennessee allowed the same Said Senator
Mcclellan of Tennessee: IT have not seen a
barefooted person in my part of the country
in many years"
Rhetoricaly, Dixies champions were very
convincing; statistically, less so. Georgia. the
senate heard, spends $3.50 per capita on shoes,
South Carolina, S. Alabama, Mississippi and
louisiana 81. This gives about one pair of
shoes year to each of Gods chillun there.
The south should not feel sighted. The
whole United States is an untapped market
for shoes. suits, radios. pianos and whatnot
There are millions too poor to buy enough
good shoes for their feet The south is more
fortunate only because 1t is warmer, and 60
ing barefoot less Furnishing ordeal.
If Secretary Perkins works to restore buy
ing power to the south, the southern cham
pions should cheer.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
A 400-YEAR PENSION

THE Mexican ministry of finance is con-
II sidering abolishing the pension which has
been paid for four centuries to the descend
ants of Montezuma, famous emperor of the
old Aztec empire; and this bit of news is an
interesting footnote to one Of history's most
romantic chapters.
After Cortez had consolidated the Mexican
conquest, the Spanish king granted a per-
petual pension to Montezuma's descendants
number Of them later were raised to the
nobility in the late seventeenth century
Mexican viceroy married Montezuma's grand
daughter and assumed the title of Count of
Montezuma."
And through all the succeeding years the
pension has been paid. When Mexico won her
independence the Mexican government took
over the responsibility.
Now Mexico is wondering if, this hasn't
gone on long enough and the interesting thing
to most of us is the realization that living
relic of the Aztec empire survives in modern
Mexico.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
PEACE IS L. S. PROBLEM

COMETIME in the not distant future the
- American people must make up their
minds just how far they care to go in helping
to maintain the peace of Europe.
That peace is a very unstable thing It
has been, ever since the war. 1t was unstable
for decades before the war. There is nothing
in sight right now to indicate that it is going
to be any more stable in the immediate future.
This is because there has not. for many
decades, been situation in Europe which was
not deeply displeasing to certain important
minorities. Before 1914, France wanted to re-
gain her lost provinces, Polish patriots
dreamed of independence, restless groups in
the HapSburg empire schemed for separation.
Since the war the central powers, particu-
larly Germany, have felt the Versailles treaty
as irksome restriction which some day must
be ended
Hence every nation must be prepared, ulti-
mately, to appeal to force AS a result dis
armament schemes usually come to grief
Those nations interested in maintaining
existing frontiers and treaties will not give up
their military predominance unless they are
assured that such countries as England and
America Will JOIN Jnem IN preventing the dis
contented minorities from kicking over the
traces.
All of which leads up to the question, How
far are we prepared to go in underwriting the
status quo overseas?
If we continue to stand aloof, the dis
armament program must collapse new
war will become more than likely, and we
have no assurance whatever that we shall be
any more able to keep out of it than we were
able to keep out of the last one
On the other hand, if we line up firmly for
existing treaties, we commit ourselves deeply
in quarrelS that are not of our making and we
lend our support to a situation which MANY of
us feel contains great injustices
1t won't be an easy decision. But it is hard
to see how we can avoid making it, one way
or the other
We rapidly are approaching great fork in
the road, and there is no middle course. Be-
fore long we must make one of the most i'm
portant choices in our history
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

which naturally might prevail among any
group Of co-workers.
If all the university professors in the world,
this country included, were willing TO fight at
the drop of the hat for true academic freedom,
the world, this nation included would move
far more swiftly toward happier days And
there can be no doubt that professors in this
country since the Wilson administration have
had more backbone
Woodrow, the professor set a new pace
The various petitions against the Grundy
tariff, in favor of shorter working hours, etc,
which economists in the nations institutions
Of learning have been sending to the
Presidents in the last few years, express this
new courage and a new sense of social
responsibilities comprised in the true spirit
of academic freedom
The professors in far-of Japan have
sounded brave note to encourage the long
repressed faculties of the world
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
SMALLER GIFTS TO COLLEGES

THE day of great gifts to colleges and uni
versities is just about over, if a recent
appeal from President Nicholas Murray Butler
of Columbia university to Columbia alumni is
taken as a criterion.
In this appeal President Butler urged sup
port of the university through small gifts. In
the past, Columbia has been very fortunate
in getting many large donations. But now.
says President Butler:
The great fortunes and the large accumu-
lations which made these benefactions Dos
sibe are either dissipated or destroyed. The
economic and financial crisis which grips the
whole world has made their return quite i'm
possible, certainly for long time to come. if
not forever
Significance Of this change to the privately
institution of higher education hardly
could be overestimated.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
USE ALL OUR POWERS

TT is rather dSmaying to find Washington
Il correspondent reporting that the Roosevelt
administration does not intend to use many
of the extraordinary powers which will be
placed at its disposal through the new in
dustrial bill
This bit of news was meant to be reaSSur-
ing Actually it is the exact opposite. One
hopes that it is not true.
The industrial bill. If adopted in its present
form, would bring to American life the most
sweeping change that has come since adoption
of the Constitution itself.
1t would put industry on an entirely new
basis. and it thereby would change profoundly
the conditions under which the average
American earns his living.
But in spite of those factS-or rather, be-
cause of them-the bill is in many ways the
most encouraging single factor on the horizon.
That we have in Washington a congress
and an executive willing to enact measure
of this kind entities us to hope that we even
tuallv shall work our way out of the depres-
sion and enter a fairer era.
To pass such a bill and then to sit back
and let it gather dust on the shelves trusting
hopefully that the interplay OF natural forces
will carry us on up in such manner that dras-
tic action will not be needed-that would be
n 90 straight back to where we were couple
of years ago.
1t would be to give up the idea of planned
economy in favor of drifting.
Our situation being what it is, we have
nothing to fear from government that is
willing to live up to the Presidents promise
of bold, persistent experimentation" Our
oreatest danger would be a government that
tried too hard to play safe
Commodity prices are beginning to rise.
Factory production is beginning to Increase
tr,,e enough and very welcome signs they are;
but to seek to ride up on these elevators WITH
out putting into effect far-reaching correctiyyes
would be to leave unaltered the tundame' al
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
WHY 1T HURTS
From The New York Times


WHY is it that publication of the pre-
ferred list of j. P. Morgan & Co.
caused so much surprise and regret? We
speak not here of the excited and inflam-
matory cries which have risen in various parts
of the country
That very bad impression has been made
no one can doubt. part of it is due to ig-
norance and unfounded suspicion. But another
part-the really important part--goes with the
sense of gross improperly having been COM
mitted by a firm of which no one would have
expected anything of the kind.
The favors which it passed out to friends
and customers had no faint of illegality.
Things of that kind have been done for years
by many brokerage houses and promoting
syndIcates But something more delicate and
more disinterested, more in accord with fine
consciousness of responsibility and trusteeship
and the standing of great company COM
monty were associated with the name of
Morgan.
Here was a firm of bankers, perhaps the
most famous and powerful in the whole world.
which certainly was under no necessity of
practlcing the small arts of petty traders
Yet it failed under a test of its pride and
prestige
By mistake which had with the years
swollen into grievous fault it sacrificed
something Intangible, imponderable that has
to do with the very highest repute The mem
oers OF such partnership forgot that they
not only must be beyond reproach in their
financial dealings-as they doubtless are-but
always must appear to be So
They have given even their warmest friends
cause Tor feeling that somehow the whole
community. along with numbers of men whom
all had delighted to honor, has been involved
in sort Of public misfortune.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
Played Santa Claus

MIR. L.-Calvin has lost that job
WI he had writing a daily column
for the Trib. Outside of being
chairman of the National Transpor-
tation committee, he's got practic-
ally no work at all.
Mr.. M with an expansive ges-
ture) we-er-do some
thing?
Mr. Don't be gross, j. P. Re-
member he once was the President
of the United States.
Mr.. MO be sure. Just after
Warren Harding. The dignity of
the Office and all that I apologize.
But couldn't we pretend to be bust
ness men and organize some sort Of
company, just for the fun of it?
That would give us a chance to help
Mr.. Coolidge without his ever sus-
pecting anything.
Mr.. Lit would have to be digni-
fed What do you suggest?
Mr.. MI think food is very
dignified. Coffee and tea and yeast
and Eddie Cantor on the radio.
Surely Mr.. Coolidge couldn't object
to making money out of a setup like
that.
Mr.. L.--Done and done, j. P.
The scene fades. old Folks at
Home" grows louder, and Carter
Glass in blackface and full livery
comes before the footlights and an
nounces, And that's how Standard
Brands was born
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-05-31
1t Seems
to Me
by HAYWOOD BRoUN

NEW YORK. May 81 read in
4 rapid succession yesterday the
comments of Mr.. Walter Lippmann,
the New York Evening Post and the
Daily Worker upon the case of the
House of Morgan. There seems to
be a difference of opinion. 1 almost
felt the need of some orchestral &C
compartment to resolve the diSson-
ance.
AS I perused the Post, it was as If
stately old lady in black jet
dress were playing "Old Folks at
Home upon the harpSichord I
fear the Post is trying to break my
heart and the hearts of all the
members of that little group of will
full men which constitutes It's cir
culation.
In the eyes of this journal. the
chief fact elected by Mr.. Pecora
about the House of Morgan is that
1T had tried to help a much beloved
eX-PreSident of the United States to
make little money for his old age.
I can almost see the preliminary
scene which must have occurred be-
hind the blinds of % Wall Street.
Mr. Lamont is the first speaker.