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Evening star., 1933-08-11
CRITICALLY INJURED
Charles Sacry Collides With Auto
While Riding Bicycle.

. Charles Sacry, 10. Of 1901 F street
northeast, was in a critical condition
today in Gallinger Hospital, suffering
from injuries received last night when
his bicycle collided with an automobile
at Kentucky and Potomac avenues
southeast X-rays were to be taken to
determine whether he had q skull frac-
ture.
H L. Sheppard, 81, Of the 500 block
of Seventeenth street southeast, was
driver of the automobile, polise said.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
MATTERN PLANS
TOF|N|SHHOP

CHICAGO, July II GN.S0.-A
telegram received here today by
Attorney S. J. Sackett. associated
with H. B. Jameson and Hayden
R. Mills in the attempt of Jimmy
Mattern to make a solo flight
around the world, disclosed that
Mattern is determined to COM
plete his venture.
The wire came from Anadyr,
Siberia. and read as follows:
Both Army chiefs and I have
wired Moscow for Nome ship
permission, but no results yet.
Try hard to get home ship
here. Soviet ship coming up
from PetrOpalOvsk but he is
uncertain. I will proceed to
Nome with him and bring Alex
ander ship back. Great work.
MY intentions are to do every
thing possible to complete solo.
Russians treating me great.
My permission stands o. *.
(Signed) JIMMY MATTERN'
Attorney Sackett said Mattern's
hackers are determined to CO.
operate with the daring flier in
every possible way in any venture
that he may undertake.
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New Kidnap Letter Signed by O'Connel
Reports He Is Safe; Deal Is Pushed

denials that he knew Of a motive
for the attacks.
1t was learned, however, that
he was visited on July S by a
woman who asked him to per-
form an illegal operation and
handed him SIS in marked bills
as an advance fee, with the re-
mark:
'There's plenty more where
that came FROM
When he refused to perform
the operation, the woman fled,
leaving the bills.
His attackers Wednesday rob.
bed him of $500, but scorned the
marked money.
Hedberg and DR.. E. j. Engberg
who were not acquainted with
each other, were lured from their
homes and kidnapped. Engberg
was drugged and placed in an
automobile in the path of a rail
road train when he refused to
perform a surgical excision on
DR.. Hedberg.
The kidnapers, however, failed
to set the hand brake on the
automobile and it rolled off the
tracks and out of the path Of the
train. DR.. Hedberg was shot in
the head and thrown into a road
side ditch.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
O'ConneIls Insert
Code Ads in Press

NEW YORK, July IA 0NSD.
Following the orders of the kid
napers of young John j. O'Con-
nell, jr., of Albany. relatives of the
youth today inserted in code the
names of nine possible intermedi-
aries as advertisements in three
New York newspapers.
There were three separate lists
Of three Intermediates each sub
mitted. All the advertisements
were addressed: Dear Rex"
In each newspaper selected, the
list was signed differently.
The advertisement in each used
the same code with which two
previous lists of Intermediates
were offered through newspapers
of Albany. The letters of the al
phabet were represented by nu-
merals beginning with Il" for the
letter GA"
The message contained in the
advertisement published in the
New York Journal named Syl-
vester Hess, Fred Roma, and Terry
Riley. Hess was one Of the last
to see the late Jack CLegs") Dia-
mond, gangster, alive on the night
he was assassinated in a rooming
house in Albany. The list in the
World-Telegram named Charles
Wachter, Tony Condi, and Nanny
Stewl. That in the Sun listed Jim
O'Connor, Dave Sherman, and Joe
| Curro.
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the careful surveillance Of Gov
ernment agents today, following
a tip-off that the three had been
marked as kidnapping victims.
The gang which kidnapped John
Jake the Barber" Factor and
for IL days subjected him to
mistreatment until $4,000 ran
som was paid is said to be await
ing an opportunity to seize John
D. Hertz, capitalist and former
taxicab and moving picture exec
utive; Otto Lehman, wealthy de-
partment store owner, and War.
rem Wright, rich real estate op-
orator.
Revealed by Factor
That the men are in imminent
danger was revealed by Factor
in an interview with Federal
agents.
Factor told authorities one of
his kidnapers told him while he
was being held prisoner:
"Jake, you can get all the
ransom back by setting up
some of your rich friends for
the snatch
"You tell us who will make
good pickings, show us where
we can seize them, and we'll
split with YOU"
On his indignant refusal, Fac.
tor said, he was threatened by
his captors.
Meanwhile, $50 policemen
combed the northwest section of
Cook county, territory ruled by
the Touhy gang, searching for
Factors kidnapers. Officials are
certain the Touhy mob engi-
neered the kidnapping.
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CHAS. A. JONES
LOAN HEAD
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with hundreds of counties and
several branch offices. rather a
far-flung field force will be neces-
sary to make appraisals and han
die the clerical details of forth
coming loan requests.
Mr.. Jones is prominent real
estate executive and civic leader
In selecting Mr.. Jones, Presi-
dent Roosevelt has chosen an in
dividual who has been actively
engaged in selling and appraising
real estate value in this city since
1909. His career has brought him
into close contact with the values
Of properties all over the city and
in several instances has branched
out to take in the more specialized
field of public utilities.
Mr.. Jones came to washington
as a member of the advertising
staff of The Washington Times
from New York city and Boston.
With Fisher Firm
From 1911 to 1918 Mr.. Jones
was assistant sales manager Of
Thomas j. Fisher Co., Inc, in
which capacity he supervised all
sales conducted through that Of
flee, including large pieces of
property for the Washington
Terminal Co.. B. & o. railroad,
Annapolis Railroad Co., and the
District of Columbia Paper Manu-
featuring Co. In 1918 he entered
the World War and shortly after
his discharge in 1919 became
sales manager of Shannon and
LuchS, Inc. Here, too, he had
entire supervision of all sales
made by that organization, han
ding transactions for Brownley.
Loew, Hecht and others. He re-
signed this position March 9, 1882.
In appraisal work he first ap-
peared as an accredited real es-
tate expert in 1914 in a condem-
nation case involving property
taken for Observatory Circle. Fol-
lowing this he was called num-
berleSs times before the Rent
Commission and later appraised
the properties of the Chevy Chase
Land Company for income tax
purposes. Several times there
after he was appointed real es-
tate appraiser by the District
courts,
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
JOHNSON PICKS
HIGH TYPE MEN
FOR AIDES
All Known As Liberal ConserV-
atives With Sound Views
On Trade Questions

NEW YORK, July IA G.N.SO.
One of the most encouraging
things about the National Indus
try Recovery Acts adminiStra-
tion is the type of men Gen.
Hugh johnson is selecting as as
sistants.
They are not the big names of
1929, but the younger, hard work.
ing men tested by the depressiv4l.
Those In His Cabinet
To date, his cabinet includes:
William Wilson Cumberland,
noted economist and partner in
wellington & Co.
Edward r.. Stettinius. yice
president, General Motors, and
son of the late Morgan partner.
John M. Hancock, partner of
Lehman Brothers and former
naval officer.
Alexander Sachs, economist
with large banking firms and
the Lehman Corporation, IN
investment trust.
All are known as liberal con-
servatives. Their views are we'll
known to important business in
te-ests and they are sound. Their
records are constructive, and
with men Of the type of DR..
Cumberland as aides to General
Johnson the outlook for the Ma
tional Industry Recovery Act is
distinctly brighter.
DR.. Cumberland, born in La
Verne, Cal, 43 years ago, earned
degrees at Occidental College on
the West Coast, Columbia and
Princeton. His record includes
assistant professorship at Uni
versity Of Minnesota, trade ex
pert to the war board in Wash
ington, economic expert with the
reparation and financial com
mission and the American com
mission at the Paris peace con,
ference.
He followed this up with a
career of foreign service, includ
ing Turkey, governor of the Re
serve Bank of Peru, financial ad
wiser and receiver for the Re
public Of Haiti and financial
expert for the Department OF
State in Nicaragua. Then he
came to Wall Street and a part
nership with wellington & Co.
Hancock a Navy Man
Hancock is an Annapolis man
He served with the Asiatic fleet
and during the war was in
charge of Navy purchasing as
commander of the supply corps
After the war he went into bust
ness, reorganizing the Jewel Tea
Co., and becoming its president
and later its chairman. He is so
native of Emeraldo, N. D.
Sachs is a Well-known Wal
Street economist, who has beer
consulted by both the present
and past administrations. Stet
tinius is rated as one of the
coming young men of Genera,
Motors. He does not have tc
travel on his fathers reputation
or name.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
Banker Luer's Kidnapers
Repeat Ransom Demands

ALTON, ILL.,, July IA U.N.SO.
Persons representing themselves
as the kidnapers of August Luer,
77-year-old Alton bank president.
have sent several demand notes
to the Luer family.
The two official "negotiators"
appointed by the family, Law
renee Keller and o. S. Gait, Of
ficers in two of the Luer business
enterprises, said the persons max
ing the overtures had not COM
piled with conditions outlined by
the negotiators through the press.
The negotiators insist that any
demand letters sent by the kid
napers must contain the bank
er's signature and q few lines
written by Luer stating he is well.
The banker is suffering from
chronic heart trouble and it is
feared he may not survive the
shock of the kidnapping.
Arthur M. Cooper, of st. Louis,
was being grilled by police at
Edwardsville, ILL.,, today in con-
nectlon with the Luer kidnapping.
His 22-year-old son, Arthur, jr.,
was also being held.
Cooper was arrested by st.
Louis police following a telephone
call from st. Louis to Mayor
Thomas Butler, of Alton.
According to Mayor Butler,
Cooper represented himself as an
Intermediary for the kidnapers,
and declared that if one Of the
bankers sons be named on a.
ransom committee and $4,000
cash were ready to turn over to
the kidnapers, Luer might be re-
leased within 18 hours.
Cooper, who is heavily indebted
to the Luer estate. had been
casually suspected and his hotel
telephone in St. Louis tapped by
police. st. Louis police verified
Mayor Buffers announcement of
the call.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
WAVE
DISCUSSED BY
CABINET
Roosevelt Shocked, Asks for
Vigorous Action by Justice
b Department Agents
BY International Nova Service

Virtually reign of terror ex-
listed throughout the United
States today as a result of the
wanton boldness of the "army of
the underworld" which apparent
ly has turned to a large degree
from bootlegging to kidnapping as
q means of accumulating wealth.
Attorney General Cummings
laid the entire situation as it had
developed before the President at
today'S Cabinet meeting.
The President was understood
to have been shocked at the stu.
alton. and to have urged the most
vigorous action.
Needs More Money
It was anticipated that Cum
mings would confer with Budget
Director Lewis w. Douglas within
the next few days to make a plea
for additional funds to carry on
the antikidnaping and racketeer
campaign.
The Department of Justice was
slashed about $1O,000,000 from its
original appropriation by the
budget director, with the prohi-
bition enforcement fund cut in
half and other bureaus reduced.
The department has thrown it's
entire force of agents, including
those inherited" from the de-
funct prohibition bureau, into the
open warfare against criminals,
virtually disregarding the possi-
bility Of effective help from the
State and municipal authorities.
Children Guarded
Immediate establishment of a
special section of the Bureau of
Investigation, headed by J. Edgar
Hoover, designed to investigate
kidnapping cases, was contemplated
by Cummings. The personnel for
such a group already is trained
and familiar with kidnapping
methods. Secret Service opera
tives were guarding "Sistie" and
"Buzzie" Dali, daughter and son
OF Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dali, and
Sarah, the daughter of the Presi-
dents son, James Roosevelt.
"Sistie" and "Buzzie" are at the
mothers summer home in Little
Bears Head, N. H., and Sarah is at
the home Of James and Mrs.
Roosevelt at Rye Beach, N. H.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
FRANCE To PAY.
GREAT BRITAIN

PARIS, July IA G.NS).-The
French government, which is in
default on two foreign debts in
stallments due the United States,
will repay half of a $4,000, 900
pound loan from Great Britain
three months before 1t is due.
This was revealed in a treasury
announcement that the install
ment, amounting to about $59..
100000 at current exchange rate,
would be paid August /. even
though it is not due until Novem-
ber !.
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now mucn 10 pay anu now many,
hours to work, he can hold back
the sun, he can evaporate the
water, but when he demands
that a postmaster be able to
read, that's carrying dictator
ship too far.
When he takes the postmas-
ters out of politics, he is
monkeying with the very funda-
mentals of American political
parties. How is the army going
to fight if it doesn't get any of
the loot?
I tell you, this suggestion Of
hie ic hordo1sinm on 4roocoD
The Washington times., 1933-07-14

expressed to-
day in a tele-
gram sent by
Pre- S i d e n t
Won Hinden-
burg to Chan
cellor Adolf
Hitler.
Replying to
a m e S S a G e
sent by the
c n a n C ellOr
advi S i n g Of
the new con-
S t it u ton of
the German
Pro t e S tant
The Washington times., 1933-07-14

part of the new Nazi party pro-
gram for unifying the Evangeli-
cal Churches, the President
wrote:
ut is a great joy to see your
telegram that the constitution
of the Evangelical Church is ac-
cOmplished.
For your successful work to
restore peace within the Evan.
gelican Church express to you l..
my heartfelt thanks and kind
regards"
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
MoIey Gives President
Report on Conference

President Roosevelt received a
lengthy report of the World Eco
nomic Conference in London today
from his. Assistant Secretary of
State Raymond Moley. Moley,
who went to London as an OBJ
server for the President, would
not comment as he entered the
White House.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14

Gen. Plutarco
Gales, former
president Of
Mexico, h a 8
prevented his
departure to
Mexico City.
S u f f ering
t + o m a
serious Stom.
ach ailment,
Gen. Gales
was prevent
ed from re-
turning to the
Mexican cap
ital today by
orders of his
The Washington times., 1933-07-14

of Hungary,
had been ar
r e S t e d b Y
CzechoSlovak-
ian border po-
lice near the
Austrian from
tier, travelling
under a. false
Russian pass
port.
Bella Kun.
police S a j d :,
admitted his
passport and
identificatio n
papers were
false hut. dc.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14

MED his real identity. He
travelled under the name Of
Hahn.
Police charged Bella Kun was
bound for Vienna, where he
planned to organize new COM
munistic headquarters for all
of Central Europe.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
"Revenge" KIDNAPPING
Remains UnS0Ived

ST. PAUL, Mimi, July IA
G.N.S).-The mysterious ere
venge" kidnapping and attack on
two st. Paul physicians early
Wednesday morning continued to
BATTLE police today as DR.. w. H.
Hedberg repeated his emphatic
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
LANGUAGE GROUP MEETS

Teachers and 81 dents OF
languages have been invited to
attend meeting of the Es-
peranto Association tonight at
7:3O o'clock in Central H Ugh
School. The public is invited.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance, 1855, $751;
702.87.
Miscellaneous internal revenue,
$3621. .566.S8.
Custom receipts, $7.18S.951.14. -.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
MARL LBOR0 LICENSE

A. marriage license was issued
yesterday at Upper Marlboro to
Edna Mae Rowdybush, 81, Utah
Apartments, and Gustav Fred
Blank, "a, Occidental Hotel.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14

personal physician.
The Iron man" of Mexico
came here over two months
ago in an effort to regain his
health.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
Kidnap Gang MenaCes
3 Rich ChicaQoans

CHICAGO, July ii G.N.SO.-
Every move of three of Chicago's
wealthiest sportsmen was under
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
Red Dictator Found
With Fake Passport

VIENNA, July IA G.N.SD.
Police today announced that
Bella Kun, former Red dictator
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in code in the Knickerbocker
Press in Albany, and the second
list was published in the Times
Union in Albany.
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
Won Hindenburg Pleased
Over Church Union

BERLIN, July IA G.N.SJ.
Pleasure over unification of the
evangelical Reich churches was
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
WILL ROGERS

The idea of postmaster being able to read It look
like an undemocratic move to favor the college mar
| tell you, he will ruin the Democratic party. w
mustn't let him get away with it.
1sss syndcateD
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
PEOPLE
Who Interest
? You and
I What They
Are Doing
Gales Illness Prevents
Return to Mexico City

ENSENADA, Mexico, July IA
G.N.S0.-For the third time in
the past month the health OF
The Washington times., 1933-07-14
WILL ROGERS Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL. July 14.-This fellow
Roosevelt can close the banks, he tell industry
The Washington times., 1933-10-12

BALTIMORE, Oct. 12.-Pro-
fessional and business men of
Bal imore were criticized last
night by John J. Cornwell, coun-
sell for the Baltimore railroad,
for not strenuously opposing the
proposed merger Of the Baltimore
and Ohio and Pennsylvania sys-
TENS, included in the so-cailed
Prince plan of rail consolidation
Cornwell contended such a
merger would virtually scrap the
local railroad facilities and put
Baltimore on q single track line.
The plan, which is being stu
died by Joseph B. Eastman, Fed
eral railroad coordinator, was
said oy the B. and o. counsel
to have been proposed by Spon-
sors no said they would "sell
it to the Administration and
have it jammed through as an
Administration measure" He said:
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
ATTEMPT
JA|LS TWO

Alfred j. Offord, colored, 81, of
the 1900 block Cedar Ct. N. W.,
today pleaded guilty to charges
of housebreaking, driving without
a permit and attempt to steal an
automobile. He was placed under
$1,000 bond for the Grand Jury
by Judge John P. Mcmahon in
Police Court.
His 15.year-old white accom-
plice, Thomas Hambleton, 1900
block of Eighteenth st. N. w..
was ordered held for the Juvenile
Court. The pair were arrested
yesterday by Policeman Richard
Finch, of the Traffic Bureau,
after having broken into the gar
age of the Warrington Motor
Company, 1000 block of Seven
teenth st. N. w. They were
caught just as they started an
automobile.
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
100000 LEF7 I
|. To D. c. WOMAN

Mrs. Alice Martin Turner,
formerly of st. Louis, but now of
Washington, today became the
mistress of an estate valued at
5000, 900, comprising extensive real
estate in this city and Virginia.
The property, left by Mrs. Mary
PflaSter to her husband, George
PflaSter, upon her death last May,
was eventually turned over to
Mrs. Turner because Pflaster died
two weeks before his wife.
Included in the estate is Blue
mont Farm, lying in Loudoun and
Clarke counties in Virginia, and
real estate on F. Street between
Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets
Northwest, and at Nineteenth and
K Streets Northwest. Michael
Doyle, local attorney, handled the
case.
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
REPORT URGES
!. DRY ZONES IN
WET CITIES

| NEW YORK, Oct. IL 0.NSO.
Widening of State liquor control
authority bodies, establishment of
which is recommended by the
Rockefeller financed survey of
aiquor handling here and abroad,
10 extend the "local option" to
cities was recommended in an
other portion of the survey made
public today.
Raymond B. Fosdick and Albert
Scott, who conducted the survey
ut the request Of John D. Rocke-
teller, jr., pointed out the de-
Sirablity of empowering State
liquor control bodies to establish
~dry zones" within cities, even
Ehough the cities as a whole are
fwet." The report said:
!, "While the liquor business Of
the future will be governed by
Statewide policy, 1t should be
j. adapted to meet the local senti-
ment Of Sm all sections and
communities"
But such adaptation, it warned,
2s "far from adequate to meet
the present demand of the
American people"
Power to establish dry zones
"a cities. the survey said, would
enable cities legalizng liquor by
small margin, to set up dry
areas where wet sentiment pre-
Wailed and to bar liquor sales in
districts where prohibition senti-
@1ent is strong.
|. The survey emphasized the
need of "a far more flexible
phase Of the local option plan to
meet local needs and desires
without "resort to political cam
0aignS and controversies"
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
Hunters Near C.. C.. C..
Told to Use Caution

Hunters who plan to enter the
fields and forests in New England
States during the hunting season
have been warned by Maj. Gen.
Fox Conner, commanding general
of the First Corps Area, Ito take
more than ordinary caution in the
vicinity of the 121 companies of
the Civilian Conservation Corps" "
Approximately 100000 hunting
licenses were issued in New Eng.
land in 1882. General Conner says
that about 100000 men, armed
with shotguns and rifles this fall
will enter fields and forests where
about $4,000 youths of the c. C. c.
are at work. This force, General
Conner said. sis about double that
Of the entire United States Army
at home and abroad"
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
BANK KBOXHOLDS
GANGSECRETS
Of W|NKLER

CHICAGO, Oct. II uNSO.
Federal authorities and police to-
day eagerly awaited the open
ing Of a safety.deposit box be-
lieved to contain documents
which will shed light on the
Staying of Edgar Lebensberger.
gambling czar, and Gus Winkler.
leader Of the North Side Capone
gang dominion.
The safety-deposit box was
found in a downtown bank after
careful search for the records and
personal effects Of the two dead
men. Lebensberger had signed
for it under the name of "G'
Lyons"
Documents within the box,
Federal operatives believe, are
expected to reveal the operations
Of a nationwide ring Of mail
thieves as we'll as the gambling
situation in Chicago, which was
allegedly controlled by Winkler
Lebensberger, and Frank Nitti,
suave "enforcer" for the Capone
gang.
The box, located in a bank
directly across the street from
the loop office building in which
Nitti was shot and seriously
wounded by Police Detective
Harry Lang, was sealed by order
Of Coroner Frank Walsh. Walsh
ordered that the box be drilled
open unless the key is produced
today.
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
Sally Dances
hLacy Indies,
Apologies

g NEW YORK, Oct. 12.-Long,
white lacy undies were worn
by Sally Rand, celebrated fan
dancer, in her stage appear
ance here last night. Commis-
sioner of License Sidney S. Le-
vine had directed that she be
clad in Opaque raiment" in
her dance or be barred from
New York theaters.
Several weeks ago in Chicago
Miss Rand was sentenced to
Jail for dancing in the nude.
When she appeared on the
stage last night to perform her
act she told the audience:
"I've got to apologize for my
costume. Commissioner Levine
has placed me in a difficult
position. I'll try to have some
thing else for you later on"
The Washington times., 1933-10-12
C.C.C. Chiefs Death
LniH tn Accident

BOISE, Idaho, Oct. IL 0N.SO
After investigation, Homer Mar
tin, prosecuting attorney of Ada
county, announced today he was
satisfied the death of Capt. Pat
rick j. Hogan, civilian conserva-
ton corps commander here, was
accidental. Captain Hogan, on the
sixth floor of a Boise hotel,
stepped backward down a flight
of stairs and fell, fracturing his
skull.