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The Washington times., 1933-05-17
ASSAILS
INSTRUCTIONS
To JURORS
Judge Had No Right to Rule
Out Split Verdict, Says
Whitaker Lawyer

A battle will be started to OBJ
tain new trial for Norman T.
Whitaker, "The Fox" who was
convicted with CASTOR B. Means
of conspiring to defraud Mrs.
Evalyn Walsh Mclean out of $685.
900, the money to be used in con-
nection with the safe return Of
the kidnapped Lindbergh baby.
Joseph Turco, attorney for
Whitaker, announced today that
he will file a motion for a new
trial in District Supreme Court
between now and Monday, the
last day possible to make such a
motion.
Challenges Instructions
Turco will base this motion on
instructions given by Justice
Daniel w. O'Donoghue to the
jury that they must find both de-
PENDANTS either guilty or not
guilty, that they could not return
a split verdict.
Turco noted an exception to
this ruling on the part of the
judge. A number of other eXcep-
tions made to decisions also will
be incorporated in the motion for
a new trial.
Means, it was understood, will
not fight the conviction, which
carries maximum sentence of
two years in prison and a fine of
$4,000.
Means already is under SEN
tence of Is years in prison on a
charge of defrauding Mrs. Mclean
of $104,000, which he obtained
from her to ransom the Lindbergh
baby, and it is believed that the
CONTINUED on Page II, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
D. {. EMPLOYE,
GOING BLIND,
ENDS LIFE
Jesse B. Carroll, Health Office
Inspector, Kills Self in
His Automobile

Estranged from his wife and 60
ing blind, Jesse B. Carroll, a san1-
tary inspector in the District
Health Deps-- --cSment, shot and
killed himself early today while
seated in his automobile at the in
tersection of Tenth and Randolph
Streets Northwest.
Police found a 80 caliber pistol
clutched in his right hand. He
had shot himself through the
mouth. On the seat beside him
were two letters to members of
his family. He was SO years old.
'T AM GOING BLIND"
One Of the notes read:
"Dear Bernardo have moth
ing to live for and 1 think I
am going blind. Sooner than
be burden, 1 had better end
it ALL"
He directed payment to three
creditors out of his retirement
fund and asked that the funeral
costs "be kept as cheap as posi-
BILE" The funeral is to be paid
out of an insurance policy and
the balance is to revert to Bern
ard, so requested.
The other note was addressed to
Dear Frank and Bill" and read:
81 am sorry to take this way
out. The pain in my head has
been so severe for two weeks
that / cannot stand it.
81 wish you and Ethel and
Mary Ann the best of luck. l
was in hopes of trying to come
through and be of some use to
you and of seeing Mary Ann
grown"
"CAR NEEDS GREASING"
On the back of that note was
penciled:
"The car needs greasing and
Oiling."
Mr.. Carroll left to Prank and
Bill" an insurance policy and a
bank account.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald,
acting Coroner, issued a certificate
of suicide.
Mr.. Carroll lived in the 200
block Webster st. N. w., and his
wife, Mrs. Emma B. Carroll,
makes her home in the 900 block
Shepherd st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
State Police Remain
With Bonus Veterans

T. Mccall Frazier, irector of
motors vehicles of Virginia and
commander of the State police,
stated today that the SO State
troopers now camped at Fort
Hunt will remain there until the
last members of the bonus army
have left the camp, and that the
State police will escort the march
ers through the State after they
leave the camp.
Frazier, Captain Arnold, OF the
Alexandria police and the chiefs
of the Fairfax and Arlington
county police conferred today re-
garding the routing of the de-
parting bonus marchers.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
BRIDGE GROUP
NEEDSFUNDS

A minimum of $250,0O0 is
needed by the Arlington Me-
mortal Bridge Commission for
completing work laid out when
the commission was created.
This was the estimate today
nv one of it's officials who ex-
Claimed why the commission is
@Jraging along" at present.
The money is needed for a
permament road foundation on
Eolnmbia Island, linking the
Sridge with Hount Vernon High:
nov and for developing plans
Sor O. plaza there.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
NEW NATIONAL
BANK 5 NAME
PONDERED
Central, United and Hamilton
Among Suggestions 0. KID
BY the Treasury

The new bank being formed
through the merging of several
closed banks in the District is to
be named either the Central Ma
tional Bank, the Hamilton Ma
tional Bank, or the United Ma
tional Bank Of washington.
Decision on the title is to be
made today at a meeting of $50
directors of six banks, four of
which definitely allied themselves
with the merger last Saturday
and the Northeast Savings, which
voted today to join the merger,
and the Woodridge-Langdon Saw
ings and Commercial Bank, which
is considering joining.
These names have been given
the approval of Treasury officials
as having met departmental re-
quirements. An original choice,
the First National Bank of Wash
ington, it was understood, was re-
jected by the Treasury Depart
ment.
S1,H0U,VUV CaplCdA
The capital of the new bank is
to be $1,250,000, it was announced
at the meeting. Of this amount
$25O,OOO will be surplus. Par
value of each share is $40 with
$5 premium. This total was an
increase from the original estimate
of $1,000,000 minimum capitaliza-
ton.
Edwin c. Graham, president of
the, new institution, explained in
detail the organization plan to the
assembled directors and outlined
the requirements, quotas and
tasks of each member institution.
Finish Task Now"
He emphasized that success in
carrying the program through
will be almost wholly up to the
directors and stockholders of the
seperate institutions. His part,
he said, is to guide and coordinate
(Continued on Page II, Col ~
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
KILLER BLAMES
CRIME ON RUM

Testimony supporting the de-
fense contention that Charles
Donaldson, So, former engineer
at police headquarters, was blind
drunk and did not know what he
was doing when he shot and
killed his brother, his niece and
nephew last January 5, was given
in District Supreme Court today.
Donaldson is on trial for his life,
charged with the Staying of his
brother, Silas Donaldson. During
hiSsdrunken rampage, he killed his
niece, Mary Donaldson, Is, and
George Donaldson, 10. The shoot
ing took place in the Donaldson
home, 900 block Maryland Ave.
S. w.
Edward Green, John Mahoney
and Guy Payne, friends Of the
aldsons testified that
throughout the day of the shoot
ing they were drinking with both
the former engineer and his
brother. They said that Charles
Donaldson became very drunk.
Melvin Moxley, colored, testified
he sold the defendant a half gal
lon of liquor on the day of the
shooting.
Donaldson took the stand late
Yesterday and testified he was un-
able to remember anything that
occurred on the night of the
shooting. The case probably will
not be given to the jury until Fri
day. Attorneys Henry Schswein-
haunt and Lucian H. Vandoren
are defending Donaldson, while
Assistant United States Attorney
Irwin Goldstein is prosecuting the
case.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
NO TES' MISUSE
LAID To BANK

The Park Savings Bank today,
in a suit filed in District Su-
preme Court, was charged with
pledging $4,000 in first mortgage
notes belonging to the Robert E..
Lee Chapter, United Daughters Of
the Confederacy, without author,
ity to secure a loan by the Recon
struction Finance Corporation.
The action was brought
through Attorney George D.
Horning, jr., on behalf of the
chapter against the bank, and
Richard L. Hargreaves, its con-
servator. Justice James M. Proc
tor cited the defendants to show
cause on May 26 why they should
not pay the chapter $4,000 in
cash or repay. $4,000 to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank of Richmond,
Va, where the notes are now
held, for redelivery to the chap
ter.
The suit recites that the bank
had custody of the notes for
several years and had collected
interest for the chapter on the
notes from Mrs. Mary Wells, who
made the notes to secure a mort
age on property in the 1400
block Park Rd. N. w.
The notes were kept in a vault
at the bank, in an envelope
marked with the plaintiffs name
The suit alleged that when the
bank negotiated a loan from the
R.. F.. C. last February, the notes
and other securities were taken
from the bank and posted as
collateral for the loan.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
Vacation JauntS
GiUen to 3 in d. e..

Winners of three vacation trips
given by the washington Catho-
lie Radio Hour we're announced
today. Francis A. Mccain, 100
block Eighth st. N. w., won
trip to Atlantic City; Mrs. Theresa
L. Fakler, 1900 block Columbia
Rd. N. w., won trip to New
York, and Mrs. Regina Flannery,
1900 block pton st. N. w., won
a trip to Virginia Beach.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
Man, SO, Fined $50
On Check ChQrQe

In the Alexandria police court
today, w. A. Merchant, SO, of
Washington, was fined $50 and
costs on charge of passing a
bad check on a local merchant
December 8. He pleaded guilty
and stated that he had just fin
ished serving a term at Occo-
guam on a similar charge.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
Capitol Police Doff
Goats as Summer
Draws Near

The Capitol policemen are
enjoying their warm weather
comfort before their comrades
on the Metropolitan force.
BY edict of Capt. Stephen ].
Gnash, the Capitol police have
removed their coats for the
summer, and now they guard
the Capitol in their natty blue
shirts.
Removal of the coats was
delayed a bit this year because
of the unreasonable weather."
it was said.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
ENVOY TO BE HOST

The Spanish ambassador, Senor
Don Juan Francisco de Cardenas,
will be host at the Inauguration of
the Washington chapter of the IN
stitute de les Espanas at the en-
baSSy, Sunday, at 4 p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17

LdlHmeuL, IHe dCLoA "AoAh OANS
nominated for No. post in vaude-
Vile, adding that l doubted very
much whether he would go in
musical shows.
So he went in musical shows, in
dicating his contempt for critics,
however friendly. The attractive
piece Mr.. Woollcott has written
gives me fatherly feeling, for Joe
Cook was the starting point of the
single occasion when Mr.. Wooll-
colt and lunched together. had
met Mr.. Cook; Woollcott wanted
to meet him. Cook was, at that
time, neutral on the subject, but,
as always, very obliging.
My guests got on we'll together,
but nothing seemed to click per-
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
HOUSE 7 D BE
RENOWNED

Miss Genevieve Hendricks, local
interior decorator, will have
charge of furnishing the dilapi-
dated little house on the Govern
ment park at Fifteenth and
Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest,
after it is repaired by the Reno
vize Washington Campaign Com
mittee. The "renovize" will be
in charge of the operating COM
mittee of which Francis Sullivan,
president of the Washington
Chapter, American Institute Of
Architects, is chairman.
Work on the house will be
spread over a period of several
weeks so that the public will be-
come acquainted with each step
of it's reconstruction.
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
True tOType
Lopez (AIias Cook Still Headman
Comedian
Bv GILBERT SELDES

IN the current Cosmopolitan there is piece by Alex
ander Woollcott about Joe Cook, the one-man show
of vaudeville days. the boy who always manages to
mention Evansville in the of an evenings enter
The Washington times., 1933-05-17
SCHOOL DANCE

The Alumni Association of the
Oxon Hill School will hold a
dance in the school auditorium
on May Is.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
BRUNSWICK, ME-,
 WILL BE HELPED
Money Left for Busts of Prominent Men Will GO
 to That Town

Boston. Dec. 19.-(UP) ,-Bos- ton had to delve into pure theory to make practical decision as to how much should be given the Nathaniel Davis fund of Brunswick, Me. under the will of the late Samuel G. Davis. Davis, who named Boston as residuary legatee. had asked that a portion of bis es- tate be used for making busts or six famous Bostonians-W Wendell hillips, George s. Boutwell,. Han nibal Hamlin, Theodore Parker Edwin M. stanton and William Pitt Fessenden. But if the museum of fine arts did not want the busts, the money was to go instead to the Davis fund. pt
 The museum turned down the offer. and as result the question arose"aow much would 1t have cost to make six busts of sufficient artistic merit to satisfy the mu- scum, if the museum had wanted the busts?"
 A monument manufacturing firm told the city that the busts would have cost total of 9,90o if done in fine grain pure Italian marble.
 Mayor James NJ. Curley and the city council accepted the esti- mate., and as result the tnnd, m Brunswick will receive x9-sDO-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
RIPPER INDUSTRY
 THRIVING HERE
Two Concerns of the Five in United States LOcat=
 ed in This City

Connecticut has what almost amounts to corner on the zip per" industry and two of the coun' try's five concerns engaged in man. ufacturing this product are located in Waterbury. The industry is still considered in its infancy but" out of the five "zipper" manufacturing concerns four of them are located in this state.
 !. This fact was disclosed yester- day in Washington, D. C., when a code hearing took place before MIRA. officials. The two local con- cerns manufacturing clippers" are the Shoe Hardware company, To- catedon Brown street, and the Ster- ling Novelty company, located on Maple street in the plant formerly known as the Waterbury Fastener company.
 The other two Connecticut firms are the Prentice Mfg company of New Britain and the Greyrock Fastener company of Stamford. Therefore, the slogan, waterbury Has Something on Everybody, can still be shouted for there are doubt less millions in the United States using Waterbury-ma "Zippers" at the preseat time.
 At yesterdays hearing the Shoe Hardware company was represented by Charles T. Manville, manager of the local plant, and the Sterling Novelty company was represented by A. J. Donahue, secretary of the other local concern.
 The Stamford concern was not represented at yesterdays hearing. The New Britain company was rep resented by A. E. Porter. As re- suit of the hearing in Washington before the NRA officials code suitable to the growing "zipper" industry is expected to develop.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
GERMANY SENDS
 WORD TO FRANCE
Outlines Disarm a m e n f Claims and Proposes
 Pact for 10 Years

Paris. Dec 19--(UP)-The for eign, office received q note from Berlin today, outlining Germany's disarmament claims an proposing {. Franco German pact of non-ag- gression to last ten years.
 The note was delivered in Berlin yesterday to Andre Francois Pon- cet, French ambassador, in re- sponse to a request for written claritication of the German de- mands. It was understood to con- tain four principal points: 1. Germany asks authorization tct increase her army to 100000 men to be enlisted for a one-year period by obligatory conscription.
 2. Germany agrees to submit emi-military organizations to ing ternational supervision if other na- tons do likewise.
 3. France is asked to abandon the 1885 Saar Plebiscite.
 4. Germany offers a non-ag- gression pact.
 A bitter debate was held in the chamber today on the government project to meet the deficiency in army conscripts of the classes from 1886 to 1940, because of diminished births in the war years. The government proposes to ease the deficiency in those years by spreading part of it over 1884 and 1885.
 Andre Tardieu, former premier. attacked the project. declaring it weakens the army for the next two years, coinciding With period when France must pay the great est attention to security.
 Edouard Daladier, minister of war, retorted by flaying the panic mongers" who were trying to force France to increase her conscript service term from one year to two because of the "Hitler menace"
 "Whatever emergency arises, France can be calm," he said. We are prepared for all emergencies"
 He and Tardieu shouted at one another repeatedly in the heat of the debate Daladier said France has an active strength of 47O,00O men plus 50O,000 reserves.
 "These men would not be swept aside as was the army of 1914" he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
PICK STREETS ON ! WHICHCOASTINC
 IS PERMITTED
There Are Twenty-four of
 Them and Other Places Are Forbidden (

l Twenty-four ,streets. throughout the city of Waterbury upon which children may coast during the win. ter have been set up and have met with the approval of the members of the board of aldermen, 1t was learned today. In view of the fact that one fatality has occurred from coasting in Waterbury alreadg this season, the list is expected to be of special interest to the parents of the hundreds of youngsters who use public thoroughfares for their winter sports.
 The list issued today is similar to the one previously adopted by the aldermen. In picking out the streets for coasting the aid of the police department was used so that all angles of safety might be con- isidered.
 The list, which will go down on the aldermanic records as suitable for coasting, is as follows: Ayers street, Branch street. Fourth street, Frederick street. Giles street. Grandview avenue, West Main street to Bunker Hill avenue: Griggs street, Highland avenue, north end, Liberty street, from Baldwin to Mill streets.
 Luke street. Pearl street, Rail- road Hill street, south end, Ridge street. Rose street, Seymour street, Highland avenue to South Wilson street, Silver street, South street, Temple street.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
AIRPORT SITE IS VERY LIABLE TO
 60 WOLCOTI
Mt TObe Seems to Be Side tracked Despite Orders
 Given Mayor Hayes <

Waterbury's proposed airport may not be located at Mount Tobe in Greystone. Although Mayor Frank Hayes was asked. to recofn- meEd the Mount Tobe site to the aldermen at their next meeting, Aviation Commissioner Charles L.. Morris was scheduled to arrive in Waterbury this afternoon for the purpose of inspecting the land of William Mccormack < in WOic0tt. Therefore, it is expected that the mayor will hold up his recominen- datiOns until he hears the results of the latest tour of inspection.
 The road from Wolcott to Bris- tol Is now being constructed out of ! CWA money. Whenit is complete ! ed 1t will give Waterbury an excel- lent route to Hartford by way of Bristol and cut the. travel between here and the Capital city down $ '. few miles.
 As CWA money will also be used in developing the Waterbury air ' port 1t has been deemed advisable ! to give the Mccormack site an- other study as the road to the Mount Tobe site in GGreystone IS not in the best of condition.
 1sF The McSOEIudChs StlS.i SAinS ssAtS Mount Tobe land, has been men, tioned very frequently In recent years as a suitable landing field for Waterbury. With the road condi- tions being bettered by. the CWA money 1t is highly possible that the Wolcott site may be chosen and the approval of the Mount Tobe land withdrawn. All this. at this present time, however is in a doubtful sate. < X.
 The CWA will give $32,000 to- wards the development of a Water bury airport as soon as the alder men approve of the place where the landing field, is to be located. A decision on the Wolcott land may be forthcoming tomorrow. Tn the meantime Mayor Hayes will Withhold any official sanction. '
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
MORE TROUBLES
 COMING IN CUBA
Widespread Strikes Fear ed as New Law for Em=
 blowers Is Published

Havana, Dec 19-(U.P0-Wide- spread strikes, bringing threat of more violence, were feared to-day in protest against law requiring employers to hire at least 50 per cent native Cuban workers.
 Spanish and other foreign work CTS were agitating for a halt in business and industry in an effort to force the government to modify the decree. They joined with that protest another against the con- tinued imprisonment of several hundred workers accused of anti government activities. The local stret car. company moved to fore stall paralysis of it's lines by ar ranging for the greatest possible number of native Cubans to be ready to man cars in an emergen- cy service. Casual disorders con- tinued in the capital. Half a dozen bombs were exploded in the streets during the night. One wounded five persons.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
YOUNG STUDENT KILLED FARMER
 IN NOVEL CASE
Victim Tried to Drag Young Woman From
 Auto and Got Bullet
BY MEADE c. MONROE United Press Stan COrrespondent)


 . Cleveland, Dec 19-U.P.) - A semi-hysterical young college girl told police to-day how her law student escort shot and killed a middle-aged, retired farmer who she said attempted to molest them as they parke dalong a lfttle-used suburban road in Pepper Pike vil- lage.
 Britton T. Young, 21, third-year law student at Western Reserve University and nephew of Con- gressman Stephen M. Young. was held under technical arrest in con nection with the shooting of Carl Melting, 48, killed as he returned home from bible school at his church.
 Authorities had not definitely de- cided whether charges would be preferred against the youth.
 Ruth Better, 19. sophomore at Flora Stone Mather College and daughter of prominent Canton, O, physician, came to police head QuaIIGTS OI AcT OWh dSSOtu to WI how Melting approached their car as it stood along the road. attempt ed to pull her from tho machine, and then was shot by Young.
 The girl was to hysterical to be questioned last night but when she told the story of the shooting to police to-day, her version tal- lied in minute detail with that re- lated by Young, law student, it was announced.
 In preliminary statement to police, Young told how he and Miss Better were driving around" late last night, and later parked their car alongside Bellcourt road. a paved highway in a suburban sec ton containing few residences. He turned out the lights, he said. and sat talking with his companion.
 Glancing out of a rear window, Young said he noticed another au- tomobile had pulled up a short distance behind. A man got out, he . 3sa3gf3 ffsNx. A,sfse,A AT, oa uo kN 9pNs.i
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
SIN CLAIR LEWIS HAS |LIMELIGHT
His Behavior at Banquet Given to Nobel Win-
 ners Questioned
CONDUCT CALLED VERY INSULTING
And the Banquet Loving Public Have Made
 Direct Charges

New York, December 19 = (UP) The banquet-going public of New York consid- cred four questions today rel ative to the behavior of Sin clair Lewis during a dinner given to four winners of the Nobel prize, including him. self, at the Hotel Roosevelt last night. They were:
 1. Did Sinclair Lewis walk out on the dinner, huffing and puffing that he "didin't see why the hell he should have to be photographed? ?"
 2. Did he return, modified, 20 minutes later, after fellow diners. newspaper reporters and photo graphers had besought him to re- sume his place of honor.
 3. Were his fellow prize winners embarrassed by the incident and was Owen D. Young. face red?
 4. Was it all a mistake and did such Q thing never happen at all?.
 MT Lewis's wife, who writes un- der her name Dorothy Thompson. and who sat five chairs away from the author, says it never could have happened; that "Mr Lewis was never away from the table for more than two minutes-if at all" and that there was "no such scene as described"
 MT Lewis, somewhere in New
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-12-19
Lindberghs Are
 Safe Back Home

New York, Dec 19-(UP) -The Lindberghs came home from their greatest aerial tour to- ay to celebrate Christmas with their infant son, Jon. whom they had not seen since they started a 30,- OOO-miles flight around the Atlantic oceans.
 Col and Mrs Charles "A. Lindbcrgh landed at 2:40 p. m., EST, after staging a spec tacuIar "dOdging dueP in the air with pursuing craft carrying photographers. The 'duel',. in which Lindbergh. . was pursued by other ships was similar to his aerial en- counter with photographers at Miami. Fla, last Saturday. Lindbergh landed Off College Point, On Long Island Sound. The couple thus ended a tour of 31 countries and colonies and four continents.