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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-11
TIDES TOMORROW

MASONS ATTENTION
 Regular meeting Monday evening. Work in F. c. Degree. Visiting Masons cordially invited. -adv,
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-11
FAMILY TO ACCOMPANY
 REMAINS OF MARION GOLDSTEIN TO SEATTLE

MT. and Mrs. Charles Goldstein will leave for Seattle on the Ad- miral Evans tonight, accompanying the remains of their son, Marion Goldstein, who was Killed in an airplane accident near Fairbanks, on Febrary 28.
 Funeral services for the former man will be held in Seat tie under the auspices of the Scot tish Rite Masons of that city.
 I. Goldstein, uncle of the de- ceased, and Mrs. Goldstein are also leaving tonight to attend the services in Seattle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-11
Marine News
Steamer Movements
NORTHBOUND


 . Northwestern is scheduled to . arrive Tuesday. . SCHEDULED SAILINGS g, . Princess Norah scheduled to . sail from Vancouver March { ? Il at g p. m. , Norco scheduled to sail from ( , Seattle March 13 at g p. m. , SOUTHBOUND SAIILNGS , Admiral Evans in port and scheduled to sail south at } II o'clock tonight. , Northland scheduled to sail , south at midnight Sunday. } Alaska is scheduled to sail } south March 16. , LOCAL SAILING5 , Estebeth leaves every Thurs , day night at 6 p. m., for , Sttka and way ports. , Pacific leaves every Thursday , at 10 a. rn., for Petersburg. | , Rake and way ports. , .
The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-11

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WANTED
SELL TO STORES

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1933-03-11

FOR SALE-Columbi air-cell bat
 tery set complete. Cheap. Phone ~,1s3.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
VOICE SPEAKS FROM THE GRAVE
TO REPORT MURDER ATTEMPT
Thugs Fire Casket But Corpse Awakens, Phones Police
and Saves Days Receipts.

Then the face of one of the thugs
appeared at the top of the tube. I
could see him because I got an electric
light down here-and believe you me,
he had an awful tough-looking look. q
big mouthful of chewing tobacco and
all.
He asked for the days receipts,
which he thought had in the casket.
which I didn't. He said that unless I
handed them up pronto he'd pull up
the tube and suffocate me in the grave.
He said that would save me dough be-
cause, being already buried, no funeral
would be needed.
"And, oh, I forgot to tell you the first
thing done was telephone Chief OF
Police Benjamin Kinsey, who rushed
over in his motor car. The thugs
heard the siren and drove away. which
the chief was right behind them, firing
his gun, but they got away. He said
it's q case of attempted murder. They
was awful tough mugs, which would
recognize them q week from today. or
q year even."
Chief Kinsey, interviewed, said it
really was a case Of attempted murder.
Publicity stunt? No, sir. I don't
think so," he said. ''They were all too
excited when got there. If it was, It's
tough on somebody's car. because fired
three shots ct It,. and I seldom miss"
Evening star., 1933-05-16
COMPROMISE MADE
ON STATE QUOTAS
Senate Committee Approves
Considering Efficiency in
DismiSSaIs.

A compromise under which depart
ment heads would have to consider both
efficiency and apportionment quotas in
selecting employees to be dismissed from
the Government service was written into
the independent Offices appropriations
dill today by the Senate Appropriations
Committee.
This was a partial reversal Of the
action late yesterday of the subcommlt-
tee in charge Of the bill, which voted
unanimously to strike out entirely the
Eouse section which would have re-
Quired department heads to have due
regard for State quotas in making dis
miSsals.
Part Of Injustice Removed.
Although the substitute adopted to-
Cay by the full committee does not
eliminate entirely the consideration Of
quotas, 1t removes some of the injustice
of the House provision by requiring that
efficiency also be taken into account.
The substitute reads as follows:
reductions of personnel shall be
made with regard both to efficiency and
to apportionment of appointments by
States, as provided by law"
This new language was suggested by
Senator Hayden. Democrat, of Arizona
and it was carried, although some
members Of the committee voted
against it.
Voluntary Retirement.
The Senate committee also changed
the section relating to 30-year retire.
ment in order to give any employees who
have 80 years of service to their credit
the right to leave voluntarily and re-
ceive a retirement annuity as provided
in the bill
This was accomplished by adopting
the motion of Senator Byrnes, Demo-
crat, Of South Carolina, to strike out
the word "involuntarily." The House
DNa.,tinInd az, Dana Cal,1rar, \
Evening star., 1933-05-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-A cheerful
voice from the grave phoned the press
of the metropolis before dawn today to
tell Of dark deeds done in the night at
Denville, N. ].
"It's Ray Richards. speaking from his
grave at Denville," said the voice. II
wish to announce that dastards have
Just tried to murder me in my grave"
"Oh, yes?" said the press. You're
the lad who's buried in 7-foot casket
9 feet underground. And Joe Green
berg, who keeps q hot-dog stand Just
above you, charges the folks q dime
apiece for q peep down q tube at you.
Oh, yes. And then he sells the folks
hot dogs Oh my, yes"
This" said the voice hurrtedly, rs
the truth. About $3.50 am, as I lay
peacefully In my grave after a hard
day. woke up suddenly because my
pillowcase and my right cheek was on
fire.
Then heard voices up above. I
hollered for my watchman, Carl Russi,
but there was no answer. Three thugs,
as later found out, had gagged him
and tied him up in the Office (hot-
dog stand to you). They must have
dropped . lighted match or cigarette
down the tube to wake NE. up.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
AL THOMAS, NAT HURLER,
WEDS AT ALEXANDRIA
Justice of Peace Officiates at Mar
rage to Miss Alice c.
Fleming.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star
ALEXANDRIA, Va, May 10
Alphonse Thomas, pitcher with the
Washington American League base baH
team. was married to Miss Alice c.
Fleming, %, by Justice of the Peace
George S. French here at II 80 O'CLOCK
this morning. Thomas gave his age
as 33.
Alphonse Thomas Thomas. jr, SO
years old, was born in Baltimore and
still resides there with his mother at
1918 st. Paul street. He has been in
professional base ball since 1918, when
he started pitching for the Buffalo club
of the International League. He later
pitched for the Baltimore Orioles and
Joined the Chicago White Sox IN 1926.
The Nationals took him from the White
Sox last June.
The bride is Chicago girl whom
Thomas met while playing there with
the White Sox. She came East yes
terday with the pitcher when he re-,
turned with the clcb and stayed with
his mother in Baltimore last night
To-day Moe Berg, who played with
Thomas on the White Sox, and LIE Roy
NcAfee, also Chicagoan, accompanied
their teammate and his bride to Alex
andria for the ceremonies.
The couple will make their home here
~ ths Wardman Park Hotel
Evening star., 1933-05-16
CONSIDER REv|V|NG
TREATY COUNCIL
Versailles Pact Signatories
May Act, Depending on
Hitler Statement.
BY the Associated Press.

PARIS, May 16-The Council Of
Ambassadors, the executive body of
the treaty Of Versailles, may shortly
resume activity as a result Of the con-
troversy over the German arms prob
lem, 1t was learned today.
Paris and London are busily discuss
ing the revival OF the council in an
ticipation of renewed applications OF
the treaty provisions.
The council is presided over by Jules
Cambon, veteran French diplomat, and
the United States Ambassador fire.
quently sat as an observer during the
years Of its activity.
For several years this executive group
has been idle. but it still maintains
its Office.
French Anxiety Allayed.
Resumption of activity by the council
Is being discussed in connection with
two world d-Wide declarations, one by
Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany
and the other by President Roosevelt.
The President, it was said in Govern
ment circles, was urged by Paris and
London to present his disarmament
views with an implied, if not outspoken,
common opposition Of the powers to
German rearmament and its con-
sequences.
The 50-minute talk yesterday Of Nor
man H. Davis, American Ambassador
at Large with Foreign Minister Joseph
Paul-Boncour has allayed French
anxiety over German rearmament.
Preparation of a common front by
the United States, Great Britain and
France against German rearming was
under way as a result of the conference.
whose subject was the Reich's stand
on arms, expected to be outlined tomor-
row In a speech before the Reichstag
by Chancellor Adolf Hitler.
Davis to See Daladier.
The whole German question was up
for consideration by the cabinet today.
Davis, meanwhile, will talk with Premier
Edouard Daladier, and then go to
Geneva to pick up where he left OH
while negotiating the tariff trade pro-
posal in London.
Davis is expected to make state
ment outlining the United States posi-
ton after arrival there.
A spokesman emphatically declared
Davis did not discuss with the foreign
minister sanctions which mights be In
yoked, but he did counsel, 1t was
understood, a mild stand by France
toward Hitler's speech. In that way
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Evening star., 1933-05-16
RANSOM HOAX CASE.
IS GIVEN TO Jury.
Judge Orders Conviction or
AcquittaI of Means and
"Fox" Together.

A jury in District Supreme Court re-
tired at 2 o'clock this afternoon TO de-
eide the fate of CASTOR B. Means and
Norman T. Whitaker, on trial for con-
spiracy to defraud Mrs. Evalyn Walsh
Mclean of S35, 900 in a Lindbergh ran
som hoax
The case was given to the jury after
Justice Daniel w. ODonoghue had in
structed the seven women and five men
Of the jury that they must acquit or
convict both defendants-as unit.
If one Of the pair is guilty, the court
ruled, both are guilty, and if one is
innocent, both are innocent.
Turco Objects Vigorously.
Justice ODonoghue. in announcing
this decision, explained that the Gov
ernment's case had been built on the
hypothesis that only Means and Whit
aker were in the alleged conspiracy.
Joseph A. Turco, counsel for Whitaker,
objected vigorously to the courts in
depreciation and noted an exception to
the ruling.
The jury was led from the crowded
court room to nearby jury room and
locked up. Luncheon was awaiting 1t
at long table in the room. The court
did not take the usual luncheon recess,
in order to facilitate sending of the
case to the jury.
ment witness in the trial Turco. coun-
sci for Whitaker, charged in District
Supreme Court today that Rover was
seeking publicity and official favor in
the hope of retaining his job under the
new administration.
Turco declared it was absolutely un-
necessary for Lindbergh to have been
brought here from California to testify
that his son had been kidnapped and
found dead. He said everybody knew
those facts without Lindbergh's testi-
mony.
why did Mr.. Rover send the De-
partment of Justice to yank Col. Lind
bergh into this court room?" the attor-
ney shouted
wants To Make Impression"
He did this because there has been
a change in the United States Gov
ernment. Roosevelt is President. There
is a new deal on The Democrats are
in power and Mr. Rover is not Demo-
crat. He entered office under the Re
publicans and now he wants to make
an impression.
IF he is to leave the district at
torney's Office in the near future, he
wanted to get all the publicity that is
attached to this case He doesn't care
about the Lndberghs. He thinks 1t
will help him keep his job.
He doesn't care about the bleeding
hearts Of COL and Anne Lndbergh, nor
Of Mrs. Means and Mrs. Whitaker. He
wanted the name of Leo A. Rover en-
blazoned in the headlines. reopenlng
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 2)
Evening star., 1933-05-16
TWO MORE BANKS
MAY Join MERGER
Chevy Chase Savings Also Is
Being Considered as
Member.

The Northeast Savings Bank and the
Woodridge-Langdon Savings & Com
mercial Bank were expected to join the
new central national bank some time
during the day, according to official in
dications In responsible quarters.
The name Of the Chevy Chase Saw
ings Bank also entered consideration
today for the first time as a probable
member of the new merger, although it
is known that this bank has had under
consideration other plans.
Edwin C. Graham. president Of the
new consolidated bank, planned to
confer during the day with the new
controller Of the currency, J. F. r.
O'Connor.
Name Is Suggested.
The name of the new bank has been
suggested, was being carefully checked
today at the Treasury Department and
may be officially known before nightfall.
These were the outstanding develop
ments in Washington's proposed new
large consolidated bank, which was Of
flcially launched Saturday night with
the prospect of gathering into its fold
this week a total Of at least or 9 of
the 13 institutions which have been in
the hands Of conservators since March
IA.
The conservators and officials Of
three of the four banks already in the
merger officially were busily engaged
today in preparing forms to be used
in presenting the whole financial prob
lem to their stockholders and de-
positors.
Four Banks In Nucleus.
The four banks in the nucleus Of the
merger are the Federal American Ma
tional Bank g. Trust Co., the District
National Bank, the Potomac Savings
Bank and the washington Savings
Bank.
Graham, as president Of the new in
stitution, has been in conference not
only with those representatives of the
four institutions already officially in
the consolidation. but today he was con-
tacting officials of the institutions
which it is understood may become
members within a short time.
Graham officially announced that
public reaction to the formation of the
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1933-05-16
PARIS TO DISCUSS DEBTS

PARIS, May 16 O9.-The whole debt
problem, the question Of the worlds re-
turn to the gold standard and the i'm
pending Economic Conference will be
thrashed out Friday in the Chamber
Of Deputies, which resumed sessions to-
day after the Easter holidays.
The cabinet threw open the doors to
such discussion in order to give the
Chamber an opportunity to express
what the country really thinks about
these problems. ~,
Evening star., 1933-05-16
HELD IN SUPPOSED PLOT
TO KIDNAP VIRGINIA BABY
Chicagoan Seized In Tying of Girl
to Tree and Attempting to
Get Information.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 16.-Harvey Otis.
%, who said he lived in Chicago. was
held without bail for hearing May 26
in Bay Ridge Court, Brooklyn, today.
Otis was arrested May at the re-
quest Of Virginia authorities. He was
charged with participation in the tying
of 13-year -old Caroline Musante to q
tree at Fredericksburg, Va, early this
month and attempting to get informa-
ton about baby, presumably planning
to kidnap the infant.
Magistrate Sabatino held Otis with
out bail when he was informed the dis
trio attorney had been notified that ex-
tradition papers had been obtained In
Virginia and officers were en- route to
BROOKLYN to take him to that State.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
MOVES
TO SAVE PARLEYS
kilograms Indicate Hitler
Will Throw Down Gaunt-
let to World.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

A statement Of policy as sensational
as the 14-point declaration Of President
Wilson was sent out last night by Presi-
dent Roosevelt to all the nations Of the
world, including Russia.
Realizing that the Geneva Limitation
Of Arms Conference could not succeed
without a spectacular move on the part
of the American Government, the Presi-
dent decided that it was his duty to
take the lead and save from disaster
both the Disarmament Conference and
the London economic parley.
President Roosevelt's declaration to
the world contains three salient points:
1t urges the nations gathered at
Geneva to accept the Macdonald dis
armament proposal. 1t rallies the
United States to the Franco British
thesis that no nation should increase
its existing ornaments over and above
the limitations of treaty obligations,
which means that the United States re-
fuses to accept the German claim OF
equality in arms, and proposes that all
nations of the world should enter into q
solemn and definite pact OF non
aggression.
Motive Of Vigorous Step.
The President decided to take this
vigorous step today because kilograms
from Berlin indicated that Chancel!or
Adolf Hitler was going to throw the
gauntlet down to the world In his decla-
ration in the Reichstag tomorrow. .,
in
declaration with mixed emotions. The
British and the French talked about re-
occupation Of the Rhineland; the Ger
mans were expected to defy them. Un-
less America did something drastic at
the eleventh hour, the situation IN
Europe may have become extremely
grave and all hopes for political and
economic revival would have been COM
pletely jeopardized.
Taking advantage Of this dangerous
state Of affairs, the Japanese troops are
proceeding according to well estab-
lished plan and are close to Peiping
and Tientsin, where there are thousands
of American, British, French and Italian
nationals, to say nothing about the
military forces of these four nations.
Serious incidents might occur at any
moment, and cooperation In that part
Of the world is as necessary as CO.
operation in Europe.
Hanging the situation on the disarma-
ment question, the President gave a
gentle hint to the Japanese: II we ask
what the reasons for ornaments are
- it becomes clear that they are
two-fold: First, the desire, disclosed or
hidden, on the part of governments to
enlarge their territories at the expense
Of a sister nation. I believe that only
small minority of governments or OF
peoples harbor such a purpose. !"
Result Of Conversations.
The Presidents declaration was not
made on the spur Of the movement. It
is the result OF his conversations with
Premier Ramsay Macdonald and M
Edouard Herriot. In diplomatic quar-
lCantin1led On Page Column 81
Evening star., 1933-05-16
"SEAS SOUTH OF JAPAN"
TO WITNESS MANEUVERS
Grand Exercises Will Begin Early
in June, Says Toxic Navy
Office.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, May 16.-The navy office
formally announced today that the 1888
grand maneuvers will be held In seas
south Of Japan" beginning early IN
June.
The first two months will be devoted
tn tactical exercises by separate units
Fleet maneuvers proper will begin early
in August, with practically the entire
navy participating under the personal
command of the Emperor. The exer-
cises will terminate with grand review
of Yokohama August Is.
Admiral Mineo Osumi. naval minister,
has explained that there is nothing
significant" in the fact that the maneu.
vers are being held in waters south OF
Japan.
"Such a big event cannot be staged
on the Sea of Japan owing to the lack
Of space" he said.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
Message to Congress
Concerning Appeal
To World Nations

President Roosevelt's message to
Congress concerning his message to
the sovereigns and presidents of the
principal nations in the world par
ticipating in the Disarmament Con-
ference and World Economic Confer
ence follows
ITO the Congress:
For the information Of the Con-
gress I am sending herewith a mes
sage that I have addressed this
morning to sovereigns and presi-
dents of those nations participating
in the Disarmament Conference and
the World Monetary Economic Con-
ference.
Il was impelled to this action be-
cause it has become increasingly
evident that the assurance Of world
political and economic peace and
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1933-05-16
SENATE APPROVAL
OF SHOALS DUE TODAY
House Action on Norris Proposal
Before Nightfall Also Re-
garded as Possible.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Senate approval Of the long ag1tated
Muscle Shoals proposal OF Senator
Norris, Republican, OF Nebraska. was
expected today.
First on the list OF Senate legislative
business was the conference agreement
on the Tennessee Valley-Muscle Shoals
development plan with its big corpora
ton to produce and distribute power
and manufacture fertilizer. A vote on
the measure was expected almost i'm
mediately.
Quick Senate action on the confer
ence report might permit the House
to give its hnal indorsement before
nightfaU.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
DERN WILL DISCUSS
PROBLEMS ON FORUM
Secretary of War Will Be Seventh
Member of Cabinet to Talk
in Series.

Problems facing the War Department
will be discussed by Secretary of War
Dern tonight at $50 o'clock in the Ma
tional Radio Forum. sponsored by The
Washington Star and broadcast over a
Nationwide National Broadcasting Co.
hook-up.
Secretary Dern will be the seventh
member of the Roosevelt cabinet to
speak over the Forum in a series of
talks that have attracted national at
tention.
Because Of many important question
affecting the Army and national defense
growing out of the economy program.
the address tonight Is awaited with ex-
treme interest. It will be Secretary
Derns first public expression of activ-
ties going on at the War Department.
Station WRC will carry the program
here.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
MAIL FLYER FORCED
TO EARTH IN FOG
Bill Griffith, Caterpillar Club"
Member, Descends in Al
falfa Field.

Bill Grifith, Pennsylvania Airlines
mail pilot, who joined the Caterpillar
Club" when he left his plane by the
parachute route on the Washington
Pittsburgh mail route early Sunday
morning, was reported forced down on
the Washington Cleveland mail route
near Hagerstown, Md, early today.
Grifhth's mail plane was reported by
the Associated Press to be down in an
alfalfa field near Hagerstown. The re-
port stated Griffith was caught in a
heavy fog and had to bring his plane
down. It was not damaged.
Griffith left Washington shortly be-
fore midnight Saturday night with his
usua! load of mail for Pittsburgh, and
was iorced to leave his plane in the
darkness over the mountains near Pitts
burgh when his motor failed. The
pilot, who has been in the mail service
flying out Of Washington for about a
year, was uninjured in both mishaps.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
ROOSEVELT ASKS WORLD PLEDGE
TO GIVE UP OFFENSIVE ARMS;
SOVIET RECOGNITION REVIVED
ROOsevelt's Arms Statement
Message to Heads of 81 Nations Calls for General
Agreement Not to Send Any Armed
Force Across Frontier.

called two great world conferences.
The happiness, the prosperity and
the very lives Of the men, women
and children who inhabit the whole
world are bound up in the decisions
which their governments will make
in the near future The improve
ment OF social conditions, the preser-
vation of individual human rights
and the furtherance of social JUS
tice are dependent upon these de-
cisions.
The World Economic Conference
will meet soon and must come to its
conclusions quickly. The world can
Continued on Page 8 Column p
Evening star., 1933-05-16

CARMEL, Calf, May 16 R.-Car-
mel artist colony went 80 per cent
wet as the voters expressed themselves
Monday in favor Of permitting sale OF
the beer which Congress has legalized.
The vote was $50 in favor of beer to
259 against.
Evening star., 1933-05-16
BANDITS BIND FOUR

PENNINGTON, Mimi. May 16 R).
Three robbers who entered the First
National Bank before it opened today,
overpowered four employees as they
came to work and fled with $4,000.
The victims were threatened with
submachine guns as they arrived and
forced into the basement, where they
were bound with wire and rope and
their mouths closed with adhesive tape.
Mrs. Millard Whittier, bookkeeper,
freed herself and liberated the others.
The Brcelyn, Mimi. bank was robbed
Of $l,500 Saturday by one man.