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Evening star., 1933-02-03
SLIGHTLY BURNED
IN N STREET BLAZE
A. Kenneth Armstrong, Foreman Of
Upholstery Establishment,
Is Victim.

One man was slightly burned today
when fire swept the first floor of a
three-story building at GOT N street.
The blaze broke out on the first
floor in an upholstery establishment
conducted by Clay A. Armstrong. His
son, A. Kenneth Armstrong, foreman Of
the shop, was burned about the face
when he attempted to put out the fire
with an eXtinguisher that failed to
function. While Armstrong was using
another extinguisher, Millard Simpson
rushed out and turned in an alarm.
On the second floor were Mrs. Ruth
Volland, owner of the building. and
Mrs. j. B. Montropp, occupant Of an
apartment. Although the front part Of
the floor filled with smoke, the women
remained in the building.
Mrs. Volland estimated the damage
at $4,000, part of which, she said, was
covered by insurance.
Evening star., 1933-02-03
RI. c. LOANS PROBE.
DEMANDED BY FISH.
Representative Also Asks
Resignation of Hecht as
Advisory Chairman.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Representative Fish, Republican, OF
New York. yesterday coupled demand
that Rudolph S. Hecht resign as chair
man of an Advisory Committee OF the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
with an urgent appeal for general in
vestigation of business concerns which
have gone into receivership after OBJ
tanning financial aid from the Govern
ment agency.
Fish took his case first before the
Banking Committee, which has under
consideration his resolution for an in
vegtigation by the Attorney General,
and later placed in the Congressional
Record a statement of his position He
said the facts disclose a rotten mess
that should and must have the search
light of full publicity cast into every
Official transaction"
Cites Failures.
The New Yorker said the Union In
demnity Co. of New Orleans and the
Union Title Co.. its affiliate, received
loans amounting approximately to
$4,000 GOO
The last loan, amounting to s97o,-
600, was made ON December %, 1882,
and the Union Indemnity Co. failed on
January 6. 1888, and the Union Guar
antte Title Co. on January Z, 1888"
Fish's statement said. adding:
The records disclose the fact that
Mr. Rudolph S. Hecht was chairman Of
the Advisory Committee for the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation at New
Orleans, to pass on the loans and COL
lateral for the loans. It appears that
the same Mr.. Hecht is a director of the
Union Indemnity Co., which failed
shortly after receiving loan from the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
1T now develops that one or more
Of the loans made to the Union In
demnity Co.. or its holding company,
was turned over to the Hibernia Bank
Mr.. Rudolph S. Hecht Is president.
In addition, it is alleged that the
security given for loans included bonds
Of the Union Indemnity Co., now
defunct
Huey Long Mentioned.
When Fish was given similar testi-
Mcny before the Banking Committee,
Representative Hancock North Carolina
Democrat. asked If Hecht was not
"closely associated with Senator Long"
Il didn't wish to bring up Senator
Longs name but now that it has been
brought up I want to say have re-
ceived hundreds of letters on the
subject"
In his later statement, Fish made
this reference to LCng:
An attempt was made at the hear
ing this morning by one member of the
Committee on Banking and Currency
to give the impression that there was
political motive behind my resolution,
aimed at Senator Huey Long. I wish
to disclaim any such thought and am
not interested in any political angle
that may Develop"
Evening star., 1933-02-03
Busch's Descendant Wed.

ST. LOUIS. February R.-Miss
Lily Busch Magnus, great-granddaugh-
ter Of the late Adolphus Busch, and Ar.
thur D. B. Preece of Northampshire,
England. and Westbury, Long island.
were married yesterday at the home Of
the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Ed.
ward Magnus.
Evening star., 1933-02-03

bed. There were powder burns on the
pillow. Police expressed the belief she
had been killed as she slept. No
weapon was found.
Raymun registered at the hotel jan
uray % under the name of r. A. Rob-
erts, by which officials said he was
often known in Chicago. Hotel en-
ployes said Raymun paid his bill in
full Wednesday and left a call for 8
am. yesterday. He answered the call
and was not seen leaving the hotel,
they said.
Evening star., 1933-02-03

found them 10 b more resourceful,
better, educated and more adventure
some nan the young men who had re-
mained at home.
This migratory pool Of thousands
Of transient young men is q good
source for criminals to draw on" he
said. These boys need industrial
training in a camp project and the
Government should get them interested
in some occupation for the future"
Evening star., 1933-02-03
WOMAN Is FOUND DEAD;
POLICE SEEK HUSBAND

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 3.-Search for
Robert Raymun, alleged one-time saloon
proprietor, was begun last night after
woman. identified as his wife Leola.
was found shot to death in q Loop
hotel room.
The body, clad in neglige, lay in q
Evening star., 1933-08-10
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, August 10.-Lieut. Horishi
Yamagishi, leader Of 10 naval officers
undergoing court martial charged with
the assassination of Premier Suyoshi
Inukai and other terroristic acts, tes-
titled today that fears of Americas
ambition motivated the terrorists.
Testimony was produced to show that
Yamagishi commanded the naval
officers who invaded the premier's resi-
dence, and that he gave the command
fire" which loosed the fatal shots.
After he had made his anti-American
statement. the court room was ordered
cleared and the hearing continued in
secret. The proceedings are being held
at the Yokosuka naval base.
The lieutenant declared that he and
the other officers feared the United
states would attempt what he called
further domination of Japan and the
Orient in 1896. when revision Of the
Washington and London naval treaties
is due.
He testified that his group was de-
terlnined to attempt the reconstruc-
ton of the empire before that crisis
arose"
The testimony of the lieutenant
formed the keynote Of all the evidence
heard thus far In the naval trial, OF
which today's session was the eleventh.
The accused men have proclaimed 1t
their. patriotic conviction that the
Japanese leaders who accepted the
naval treaties betrayed the nation and
merited assassination. They declared
the likes OF these Leaders must never
Evening star., 1933-08-10
.MRS.COSTE[L0LhA
.MBUTTA WITNESS
Prosecution to Place Eight on
Stand Today in Poison
ing Case.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALEM, August 10-Jessie B. Cos
tello today prepared for one last bid for
freedom
On trial for the poison Staying of her
husband, she was listed by her counsel
as the last rebuttal witness to give tes-
timony before the Essex County jury
whether she shall spend her life in
prison or whether she will return to her
three children.
The dark-eyed, smiling widow is on
trial for the Staying of Fire Capt. Will
liam j. Costello, who was found dead
stretched across hallway in his Pea
body home on February IT.
Yesterday she sat in Superior Court
listening attentively as her own medical
witnesses gave testimony that weakened
important issues in her defense.
She heard Second Assistant District
Attorney John j. Ryan drone along in
a questioning that elected statements
from Dr. Alexander o. Goettler of
Brooklyn N. Y, and Dr. Francis P.
Mccarthy of Boston that it was their
assumption that her husband died from
deadly poison
Although neither would admit that
there was anything in the testimony to
substantiate definitely the States claim
that the agent of death might have
been administered in a capsule. DR..
Goettler said it was highly improbable
that the poison entered the body by
either inhalation or absorption, as the
defense had suggested.
The defense rested with the conclu-
sion Of their medical presentation.
District Attorney Hugh A. Gregg last
night said he would send eight rebuttal
witnesses to the stand today.
Defense attorneys expected Mrs Co.'S
tello to be their only rebuttal witness.
Evening star., 1933-08-10

duties Of the force at that time will
be to prevent such violations and to
protect the legitimate dealers in this
country.
we will also have the added duty as
a unit Of the Bureau of Investigation
to weld our forces to suppress and
assist in the apprehension of criminals
Of every character in line with the ex-
pressed determination OF Attorney
General Cummings to stamp out racket
eering and gangsters.
We feel that it is the will Of the
peopl. of the United States today to
aid and help us in the discharge OF
this duty and We confidently expect
to be successful in accomplishing this
end
While we will continue to ferret
out and punish all violators of the
liquor law, our principal efforts will
be directed against the organized Grim
inal groups and the large scale Of
tenders, who must be stamped out If
plans for the proper control Of the
manufacture. sale and distribution OF
alcoholic beverages are to succeed when
the eighteenth amendment will be
wiped off the books
Long in Public Life.
Mr. Hurley who is a native. Of Man
chester, N H, was a member Of the
House of Representatives OF his State
from 1918 to 1914. He was a member
of the Board of Aldermen in 1915
From 1917 to 1920 he was secretary to
former Senator Henry F. Hollis of
New Hampshire In 1921 he vas made
city solicitor of Manchester and an
1923 and 1924 served as State Senator
He was chairman of the Democratic
CITY Committee of Manchester from
1927 to 1880 and was an alternate dele
gate to the Democratic National Con-
vention in 1928. At the 1882 conven-
ton he was chairman of the Com
mittee on Credentials. In 1927 Hurley
was elected president of the Total Alb
Stinence Society. a post which he holds
to the present. Mr.. Hurley also oc-
cupied the post of fire commissioner
of the city of Manchester for several
years
Mr.. Hurley was appointed assistant
director of prohibition to assist Mai
Dalrymple in May of this year
Evening star., 1933-08-10

as to interest by the Government, the
Treasury Department has ruled that
they may be accepted at par as secuY.
ity against the deposit of public money,
and the Reconstruction Finance Cor.
poration has agreed TO accept them a.
collateral for loans up to 80 per cent
OF their face value.
Meanwhile, the Government itself b
being placed in the position of determ-
ining the stability of the bonds, as the
building and loan associations of the
District have applied to the controller
Of the currency for ruling on whether
the bonds in the custody of these insti-
tutlons will be rated at their face
value or at their market value upon ex-
animation OF the associations assets
Confidence that the Government would
stand behind the bonds was expressed
by spokesmen of the Home Owners Cor
poratlon. who declared the adnlinistra-
ton would not stand by and see the
whole plan for Federal relief for dis
tressed home owners collapse for the
lack of Government guarantee of the
bonds
The District office of the corpora
tion in an effort to offset some of the
misunderstanding concerning the pro-
cedure in making loans and on the
value and exchange of the bond. to-
day prepared for distribution among
financial houses, lawyers and interested
groups memoranda containing general
information on these matters.
Jones said he was obtaining the CO.
operation of mortgage holders in al
most every instance in which it vas
asked. but he could not expect extern
slonS granted to continue Indefinitely.
In many of the States. foreclosures
cannot proceed without court authority
and magistrates are cooperating with
State corporations by granting stays of
from 80 to 60 days
Evening star., 1933-08-10
FEAR OF AMERICAN DOMINION LED
TO INUKAI SLAYING, OFFICER SAYS

again be given power to sign away in
Similar fashion the birthright of the
empire.
The judges admitted such testimony
as they considered relevant and the
newspapers received it sympathetically.
The trial has developed into what is
described as highly effective naval
propaganda promoting public opinion
that is strongly opposed to accepting
anything less than full japanese naval
parity with Britain and the United
States.
Lieut. Yamagishi's Reconstruction"
was extremely simple. 1t entailed the
elimination of parties and cabinets
standing between the Emperor and the
people.
Our guiding principles" the lieuten-
ant told the court, ARE neither faSciSm
nor radicalism. We desire simply to
establish a state in which the Emperor S
subjects all are one national people, be-
coming one nation and all the people
becoming the Emperor's children"
Similar testimony was heard at an
army court-martial in Toxic at which
II army cadets involved in the Inukai
terrorism are being tried The army
court completed hearing evidence and
a judgment Is expected August IA.
Premier Unukai was slain in his OIL
cial residence May Is, 1882, and at the
same time numerous Toxic buildings
were attacked by terroriSts.>
Among these buildings were the office
of the Metropolitan Police Board. the
Cherry Village Gate of the Imperial
Palace, the Bank Of Japan and the I'M
portant MitsuhisM Bank. p.
Evening star., 1933-08-10
WARNING IS ISSUED
AGAINST SABOTAGE
Official Communique States Actions
Opposed to Hitler Will Meet
Ruthlessness.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BERLIN, August 10-A warning of
"the most ruthlessly severe measures"
against attempts to sabotage the Hitler
regime was sounded today in an official
communique.
The warning was directed against
persons with democratic, and especially
nationalist, leaning who Ought to know
better, and therefore will be treated
with exceptional rigor."
Cases for such iron-handed procedure.
it was alleged, have come up In certain
army officers organizations, one of them
being that Of Lieut.. Gen. Won Teich-
mann, president of the Wuerttemberg
Officers Association, who escaped i'm
prisonment at Stuttgart for action in
terpreted as anti-Nazi only because of
his advanced age.
Exclusion orders governing admission
to universities have been extended to
embrace all Socialist or pacifist stu
dents.
Evening star., 1933-08-10
1S ARE ARRESTED j.
IN milk WARFARE.
Gov. Lehman, However
Holds Strike Rapidly Com
ing Under Control.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
ALBANY, N. Y. August 10.-Maj.
John A. Warner. superintendent OF State
police, received reports today that troop
ers had arrested l35 milk strike pickets
last night or today in various parts OF
the State
Some were charged with inciting to
riot others with unlawful assembly and
some with assault. Maj. Warner said.
However. Gov. Herbert H. Lehman,
after studying scores of reports from
many sections of the State, declared
that he believed the milk strike Is
rapidly coming under control"
Says Situation Improved.
1.-THE reports that have come to me
indicate that the strike situation is i'm
proving" the Governor said. "Condi-
tions have improved very greatly in the
last few days. There have been fewer
riots and the milk supply has been in
creasing.
In accordance with my instructions
tc the district attorneys and the SheritiS
throughout the State. there have been a
very considerable number of arrests.
Il have told some of the sheritfS to
put on additional deputies. even when
they had taken on some. The Sherlf1S
are now doing their duties and the dis
turbanCes in their counties have been
reduced as result.
Violence Decreases.
Although violence in the strike de-
creased notably during the past "a
hours. additional counties today hur-
riedly prepared to appoint special
deputies under provisions OF the Herman
bill signed by Gov: Herbert H. Lehman
last night.
The measure, rushed through the
Legislature at the Governors request,
permits SheriffS of counties, now pro-
hibited from doing so, to appoint as
many deputies as they need to maintain
order during the milk strike.
Refusing to call out the State Militia,
Gov. Lehman has already sent word to
all sheriffs and district attorneys that
he expects them to protect the lives and
property OF non-StrlkerS.
The strikers are demanding that the
board abandon its CLASSIFIED price SyS-
tenn and establish a blanket price OF
4l2 cents a quart for all milk leaving
the farm. As the strike entered its
tenth day today, neither the board nor
the farmers had offered to reconcile
their differences.
Albert Woodhead OF Rochester, leader
of the strike, announced last night that
he had received word from the powerful
Wisconsin Cooperative Mix Pool As
sociation that organized, milk producers
would meet at Horizon, Wis, Sunday
to take action extending the strike to
all States which attempt to furnish
milk to the striking New York area.
Telephone and telegraph messages,
chasing each other over the wires into
the executives Offices at the rate OF
three per minute. are helping the Gov
ernor to keep in touch with milk strike
developments.
Evening star., 1933-08-10

Physical endurance is qualification
for Government office now. Candidates
are regarded from the standpoint OF
whether they can work 20 hours
day and stand the gaff. Gen. johnson
cannot go on like that indefinitely.
Woodin crumpled early. Observers are
debating the possibilities that serious
errors in judgment will develop from
fatigue of perspiring officials.
One Government bureau has con-
fidential QUESTIONABLE it sends around
to check on the availability Of appli-
cants for jobs One of the questions
is: ITO what extent and in what way
would his wife or other family be an
asset or liability?"
fCopyrisht, 1889
Evening star., 1933-08-10
DISPOSE
Of ABOUT $SDO,0lQ
Wills of Mrs. Minnie Baird
and Albert Fox Filed
for Probate.

Property valued at approximately
S500,000 was disposed of in two wills
filed for probate in District Supreme
Court yesterday.
The entire estate of Mrs. Minnie
Dawley Baird, who died July Is at
Honolulu. was left in equal shares to
her two children, Maj. John Absolom
Baird, u S. A.. and Mrs Cornelia Baird
Hicks. The petition for probate, filed
by Attorney George M. Mckee. stated
she had personal property worth $780,
952 and no real estate.
Albert F.. Fox. who died July 81, left
an estate worth Sl7l, ,154 to his two
children. Edmund K. Fox and Margaret
Raub Fox.
The daughter was given his shares
of stock at the Washington Loan and
Trust Co. the Union Trust Co., the
National Union Fire Insurance Co., the
Columbia National Bank and the Sec
ond National Bank She was also left
four pieces Of real estate, two paid-up
life insurance policies, a real estate
note and the furniture and household
effects. The balance of the estate was
left in trust to the son.
The petition for probate, filed
through Attorneys Arthur Peter. w. H.
Baden and Leonard Marbury. listed
real estate worth $53984 and personal
property valued at $1l7,l70.
Evening star., 1933-08-10

The truth seems to be that President
Roosevelt desired to straighten out the
Cuban mess Immediately after his IN
auglratioE. That is why he switched q
tirst-claSs man like WelleS from the
little cabinet to an apparently minor
amEassadorship
No pre-conceiued notions Uere
then harbored about Machado. Ad-
miniStration officials did not like ms
rruys, but they mould haze played
ball rith him A telc 1ceekS after
Weles Qrriped in Cuba he found it
could not be done He GdriSed OIL
cials here confdentidlly of that tact.
Machado heard about it and tired
to undermine WelleS. He tried TO
get Welles in bad nth Mr.. RooSereH,
That simplitied the problem. 1t
showed Washington officials all they
wanted to know. They realized Cuba
needed liberalizing now more than be-
fore the Spanish American War.
Nature Takes Its Course.
This does not mean We fomented the
revolutionary spirit in Cuba or had
anything to do with disturbances. Our
officials are not SO stupid as to get IN
volved in anything like that.
Rather. they just let nature TAKE lts
course They may have helped nature
here and there. indirectly. but never IN
any reprehensibie way Sometimes
more can be accomplished by passive
inaction than by intervention.
1t was a beautiful inside job. Every
one but Machado will applaud it.
After Machado. the tlro most
po1UertM men in Cuba are State Sec
retdry Orestes Ferrara aud Public
Works Minister Carlos Miguel Ces-
pedeS. Insiders here rate them thus:
,FerrQrd-Hds the disposition OF top
sergeant OF Marines: personally am
bilious: not pery popular in Cuba be-
cause OF his Italian birth: rery eH-
cient: 1r0uld not mourn the passing
of MachadO or play tCith him after
he is gone. CeSpedes-A Machddo
henchmdn: raised in the Mdchddo
school: more popular than Ferrara
uith the Cuban rank and tle; ca
pdble:: probably lDould forget Nd
chado after he has been gone tceek.
Haitian Agreement.
Diplomats here chuckled in their
sleeves when they found the Haitian
understanding recently signed at Port
au Prince was an executive agree
ment," not a treaty. The joke is on
the Haitian Senate.
Evening star., 1933-08-10

We negotiated a regular treaty with
Haiti some time back. 1t included just
about the same things as the current
executive agreement. Financial ar
rangements were somewhat more strict,
but not much. The Marines were to
get out January /, 1885, instead Of
October l. 1884. as now provided.
The Haitian Senate declined to rati-
fy the treaty. Indeed, it indicated
clearly it would not ratify any similar
treaty No treaty can go into effect
without Senate ratification.
Executive agreements can.
This latest agreement means The
Senate can argue itself blue in the
jace 1cithout effect The tact that
treaties previously ratified by the
Senate are altered by the agreement
makes no difference.
There is no criticism of this in any
quarter here.
Every one seems to realize that the
Haitian Senate is somewhat like our
own. 1t does not always do what is
best for the Haitian people.
Will Have Good Effect.
The agreement will have good ef-
feet throughout Latin America. The
administration is rebuilding its bridges
in that part of the world.
Those who listened in on Mr.. Roose-
velt's recent Hyde Park conference
with his monetary advisers say it
sounded like congressional debate.
Apparently the Professors Rodgers
and Warren and James Warburg were
of three different opinions.
Wall Street thought it meant early
imitation and sent the market up.
They later received priudte iDord that
Mr.. Roosevelt iDas not ready to shoot
yet.
Wherever you see any Of our diplo-
matte officials these days, they say:
Isn't it too bad about Machado?"
Then they smirk.
Senator Hiram johnson has not
sought any patronage. but recently
another Senator obtained Johnson S
signature indorsing certain California
woman for a job. When the indorse-
ment reached Mr.. Roosevelt's desk.
he noted Johnson's signature and said:
That is very good recommendation.
The appointment was made.
Evening star., 1933-08-10
FISH WOULD BACK
ANY CUBAN MOVE
PRESIDENT TAKES
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Affairs Committee I could assure him
of united support on whatever action
he takes in Cuba" Representative
Fish declared that the first step which
must be taken in Cuba is the obtaining
of the resignation of President Ma
chado. Nothing can be done until
MachadO gets out and he must get
out" said the New Yorker.
Il do not believe armed force is con-
templated or is necessary" he said
II have the fullest confidence in Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Ambassador Welles." :"
Fish expressed confidence that the
situation would work itself out under
the present program. He said the next
move undoubtedly would be withdrawal
of recognition of the Machado admin
istration and an embargo on arms eX-
ports.
incidentally, Mr. Fish said he would
favor early downward revision Of
tariffs ON all products imported from
Cuba, and all other North and South
American countries. He said he did not
discuss this with the President.