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Evening star., 1934-02-28
Trio Arrested in Boston Confess Raids,
Police Say.

BOSTON, February 20 (P.-A series
Of theater and bank robberies in which
four men, including two policemen
were shot down was charged today
against three young men under arrest
IN Boston and New York, as the re-
suit of what the police termed an "as-
founding confession"
State Detective John F. Stokes said
that the details of the crime wave
for which the trio was held response
bic were given by Abraham M. Faber,
university graduate and United States
Army Reserve officer. Stokes said that
Faber, arrested early Monday at his
home In suburban Boston. confessed
conceiving the plan for criminal op-
erations and implicated his two en-
ployes, Irving and Murton Millen,
brothers, held In New York awaiting
extradition
Everything we did was carefully
planned, and we didn't care how
many lives we took as long as we
accomplished our objective-to get
xich" Stokes quoted Faber as saying.
Faber's confession, Stokes said, ad-
n1itted the trio was responsible for
the $4,000 hold-up of a bank in
Needham, and the Staying of two
policemen during their flight; the
killing of the manager of Fitchburg
sporting goods store when he refused
to reopen the store and turn over
gums and ammunition; the Staying of
Q bill poster at the Paramount The
ater in Lynn, during a $3.50 hold-up,
and several other robberies.
The confession which police said
would challenge police except that
they have verified many of its details
brought to an abrupt halt the murder
trial Of two Boston taxi drivers being
tried in Salem for the staying of the
bin poster. Louis Berrett and Clem-
ent Midway walked out OF the court
afte the Judge directed the jury to
return q verdict of mot guilty"
A storage battery found in the
ruins Of an automobile burned near
Norwood, led to Faber's apprehension
The car had been used by the men
TO make their getaway following the
Needham bank robbery.
I'VE didn't figure when we dumped
the car that police would ever be able
to trace US through the battery.
Stokes quoted Faber as saying. THAT
was our mistake"
Faber's confession, as made known
by State Detective Stokes, included
also the following details:
Plans for hold-ups and getaways
which included days Of pistol practice
% that they might kill If necessary.
The cacheing Of dynamite to be
used to blow up roads should 1t be
necessary to their escape.
Planned raids on armories to &C.
cure q large assortment Of guns and
ammunition.
Unsuccessful attempts to get ma
chine guns at armories In Cambridge
and Quincy.
A recent raid on State police ex-
hibit at the Boston Auto Show to get
nachine guns and ammunition.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
WOMAN SUES STORE

Asserting she was seriously injured
when she slipped on . toy drum on
q stairway in Kresses store at Elev-
enth and q streets, Mrs. Nellie Lowe
Kenney, TOT Massachusetts, avenue
northeast, filed suit In District Su-
preme Court yesterday for t25.o00
damages.
The suit, fled through Attorney
Alvin L. Nevmyer, said the PLAINTIFF
fractured several ribs and, her pelvis
bone.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
ALUMNI PLAN FETE
iowa q. Group in Capital t
Ohservs .AnniverSary.

Warrington alumni Of Iowa State
University will hold q dinner March Z.
In the garden house Of the Dodge Hotel.
commemorating the eighty-seventh
anniversary Of the schools founding.
Senator Dickinson of Iowa will be
the principal speaker and George E.
MacIean, former president of the uni
verstty, viii be the guest of honor.
A broadcast Of the untversity's eel
ehration win be heard ct the dinner.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
nitted To 90 home to his children
Driver Held Temporarily.

mitted To 70 home to his children.
Driver Held Temporarily.
Charles Paul Adams, Is, Of 1883 Co.
lumbia road. whom police arrested as
the driver of the oil truck. was de-
tanned temporarily, then released in
the custody of his attorney pending
an investigation by Coroner A. Ma
gruder Macdonald.
According to police report, Adams
was driving west on Rhode Island
avenue at a speed sufficient to carry
him over the steep hill between Third
and Fourth streets. Mills was driving
north on Fourth street.
Rushed to Hospital.
Both cars met at the intersection,
the heavy truck crashing into the
Mills car on the side on which Mrs.
Mills was sitting. The impact threw
the sedan across the street. into q
lamp post, which was knocked down,
and up on the sidewalk.
Dying, Mrs. Mills was rushed to
Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
May Involve Others.

Middle West. may result in ramifica-
tions involving additional persons in
the series of colorful sessions held
here and elsewhere by lobbyists, law
yers and factory agents in quest OF
lucrative War Department contracts
Garnett said today he will ask the
grand jury to defer the process of re-
viewing testimony and considering a
report until next week, in view of the
possibility that new witnesses may be
brought here from distant points. In
vestigators must have time In which
to complete certain lines of inquiry
now being followed out. he explained.
ONeil, whose name has been men
toned repeatedly in the pending pro.
ceedings, appeared at his own request
and signed a waiver of immunity, as
other witnesses have done. He was
accompanied to Garnetts office by
Alfred L. Bennett, attorney associated
with John Lewis Smith, former de-
partmental commander Of the Legion
here.
O'Neil Testifies.
Smith has said O'Neil desired to
testify because he had some connec-
ton with matters under investiga-
ton" Witnesses are reported to have
described O'Neil as counsel for Joseph
Silverman. jr.. in the latters repeated
efforts to negotiate clothing and other
contracts with the War Deparement.
Much of the inquiry has centered
around Silverman and his activities
ONen came here from Kansas to
testify.
Robert w. Lyons, New York and
Washington attorney, once prominent
in affairs of the Ku Klux Khan, was
another voluntary witness today. 1t
was said Lyons desired to testify in
connection with motor truck bids sub
mitted by the Fargo company, Chi
cago distributor Of Dodge automobiles,
under the 10000 900 Army motoriza-
ton program. Lyons was granted
permission to make statement after
signing q waiver of immunity.
Bids Caused Complaints.
1t was in connection with the bid
ding on one part Of this motorization
program that several complaints were
received by high congressional and
administration officials about PRO
posals" allegedly of an improper ma
ture, made to them by certain lobby
lists" and agents
These complaints, rapidly accumu-
lating, together with investigative de-
velopments within the War Depart
ment itself, led to the barring of Sill
verman and his associates and repre-
sentatives from the office of Assistant
Secretary woodring and the calling of
a grand jury inquiry. Silverman has
not been called as q witness and 1t is
said the grand jury has expressed no
desire to hear him. Silverman. long
known to Army authorities as dealer
In surplus war materials, has retained
A. Mitchell Palmer, former Attorney
General, aS counsel.
A third witness called today was E.
A. Eldred, credit manager Of the May
flower Hotel, where Silverman and
some other figures In the inquiry re-
side. Eldred testified earlier in the
hearings, purportedly about occupancy
of certain rooms and payments made
therefor.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
BARES WILSON FACTS
Charles Pergler to Tell Of Euro
pean Politics.

Unpublished facts concerning Pres
ident Wilson'S participation in the
development Of the Czechoslovakian
constitution will be reviewed by
Charles Pergler. dean Of National
University, tonight at Q o'clock. His
subject will be "The Fight for Con-
troll Of Europe.
The address will be delivered In the
Graduate School Of American Uni
versity, Nineteenth and = streets.
Pergler u . fermer member Of the
Csechoslovaki9p Parliament.
Evening star., 1934-02-28

an American Oil
Co. tr uck at
Fourth street and
Rhode Isl an d
avenue northeast.
Mrs. Nary. A.
Mills, wife of John
E. Mills, "a, of
2704 Sixth street
northeast. died at
Emergency Hospi-
tai a few hours
after the crash,
which occurred
about l:30 am.
Her husband was
bruised and shak-
an Init. WAS ner.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
.CRASH WITH TRUCK
FATAL TO WOMAN
Mother of Two Dies After
Auto Is Struck at
Intersection.

A 36-year-old mother. on her way
home to her two young children. was
killed early today when the car in
which she was riding was struck BY
Evening star., 1934-02-28
Fear of Dismssing Workers When Funds Run Short
Hampers Task of Removing Snow From Street
Official Solution of 1926
Proves Impractical When
Applied Here.
New York Appropriates
Two Millions for Clean-
ing Job There:

Note-This Is the first of q series
OF articles relating causes OF failure
BY the city authorities to cope sue.
cessjully Uith heavy snowstorn1s.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
.GARNETT EXTENDS
ARMY SUPPLY QUIZ
TO GET MORE DATA
important New Evidence
May Be Given at Next
Hearings.
LOBBYISTS CONTACT
MAN is CHECKED
Witnesses May Be Brought From
Distant Points, q. S. At.
torney Hints.
BY REX COLLIER.

Important new evidence under in
vestigation by the Department of
Justice today prompted United States
Attorney Leslie c. Garnett to continue
into next week the grand jury inquiry
into numerous and varied charges of
irregularity in Army contract negotia-
tions.
Decision to extend the hearings
begun four weeks ago-was reached
coincident with the appearance as a
grand Jury witness of Ralph T. O'Neil,
former national commander of the
American Legion and friend of As
sistant Secretary of War Harry Wood
ring. who concluded lengthy testi-
mony late yesterday.
While the nature Of the new de-
velopments was not disclosed officially,
there were reports that justice agents
were checking the activities of a So
called contact man" for lobbyists.
This mans name is understood to
have appeared first in the investiga-
ton on the pages Of a diary kept in
the office Of the Assistant Secretary
Of War by Mrs. Kate Buckingham,
private secretary to Woodring.
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Today S Science
by DAVID DIETZ :

NNE HUNDRED AND FIFTY scientists are work
~ ing on 81 research projects at the Mellon In
stitute Of Industrial Research in Pittsburgh upon
subjects that range from sugar and cosmetics to
Portland cement and cast iron.
With Dr. Edward r. Wedlein as guide reviewed
these researches visit TO Pittsburgh
In such activity. believes Dr. Weidlein director of
the institute. lies the road out of the depression for
individual business firms and for the nation
Scientific research has progressed beyond the
point where it is chiefly concerned with the mechani
cal side Of industry and the development of labor
saving machinery" he says The chief concern of
scientific research today is the creation of new
industries, of new products and of for old
products
Science has been charged with creating tech
biological unemployment. But today science is
creating employment by creating indus
tries"
DASED a plan of industrial fellowship" the
ID Mellon Institute is unique among scientific in
stitEions in the United States in that is direct
servant of industry.
Its plan of operation was conceived by DR.. Robert
Kennedy Duncan and first tried at the University
of Kansas in 1907. 1t inaugurated at the Uni
versity of Pittsburgh in 1911. In 1918, the Mellon
Institute was established on a permanent basis by
Andrew Mellon and the late R. B. Mellon.
An industrial company or group of companies.
desiring the study of specific research problem,
dows an industrial fellowship at the institute One
or more scientists are put to work upon the prob
lem. depending upon the financial arrangement.
Having contracted to investigate particular
problem for company group, the institute will
not accept a similar task from competitor.
THE Mellon Institute of the first research
centers the United States organized expressly
for technologic research in chemistry and allied
subjects Since its establishment, more than $500
companies have benefited directly. either indi-
viduals members of industrial associations,
from its activities.
Notable Investigations have been carried out by
industrial fellowShipS on bread, by-product cokng,
carbon dioxide celuloSe citrus products composition
flooring corroSion. dental products edible gelatin,
electrical precipitation, enamel ware, fertilizers,
foods fuels glue heat insulation, inks. insecticides
matches. natural gas. nickel petroleum, stove en-
amelS and vitamins 70 name q few
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wear the orange with the purple spots every
day the year and yet in my eyes there really was
substitute
But I mustn't try TO push Mrs. Harrison Williams
cut Of the picture She too. had problems which she
compelled to solve in order to win the title of
best dressed in the world" Some folk who
do not understand the psychology of dress will be
cynical and say that the title goes to whichever little
lady spends the most money at the best shops. will
admit that the odds would be az least or to
against anybody who tried to capture the champion
ship by wearing little things she just up on
the machine in her spare moments. But We can not
dismiss the factor Of good taste Next to good credit
It is almost everything in the matter of being we'll
turned out.
Hl-Informed critics seem to think that it is merely
q matter of many pretty frocks for evening wear
They overlook roughage The well-dressed woman will
come out the grouse moors a Draw day all
bundled up in some sort of windbreaker which a
freshman beer night. There's the art of the good
dressmaker He. or she, make his client look
chic for those occasions where there's some sense in
being chic and hardboed as all outdoors when that
effect IS called for.
For years I have been preaching that dis
sonance dress is not sloppiness but art form.
OF course I not the discOverer of this fact
Herrick mentioned the matter in poem "A slight
disorder in the dress, ETC. ETC. and there used to be
a Bohemian poet in the village who hired a friend
to wear his collars for the first six days But if
YOU want calculated carelessness today you must
pay the price TO those who know how to put creases
in the wrong places.
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She's in the MOneV

MO story of the rousing victory of Mrs Harrison
Y Williams would be complete without mention
OF the gailantry of the runner-up. Princess Sixte
de Bourbon Parma lost by less than a length Her
handicap is discreetly mentioned in a United Press
dispatch which SAYS:
The Princess Sixte whose husband died recently
still Is in mourning. but this spring will gray and
black and white. The mourning is of the
smares kind and she distinguished in it as she
was in her former gay attire"
You can understand her problem. Indeed in fan
tasy 1 am sitting by the transom of the boudoir
Stella, the French maid has just gone into the
closet and come out with something done in black
ostrich feathers jet beads and small pink bow on
the right shoulder. Madame is furious.
Non non. Stella" she says in perfect French
I would be more triste"
1T looks pretty sad to me-" says Stella in her
blunt. Gallo way
My heart is breaking says Princess Sixte with
great dignity and already am late for my fitting
Anything at all will do and particularly that little
knick-knack which came from the shop this morn
ing" And with that she flounces out.
You've got to hand it to the Princess Sixte de
Bourbon Parma Under strain like that think she
did msgnihcently to finish in the money
Copyright. 1880
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The Poor Little ThinqS

A T any rate, the blends are tender little things
Awith heart-shaped faces and the standard chassis
is such that a member of the NRA jury charged
with the duty of eliminating thousands of them.
must feel that he is being great every time he
finds it necessary to turn his thumbs down.
Up to this time there has been no attempt to
say what is to become of them after they have been
eliminated
With the surplus potatoes, corn and cotton it
was different. The natural instinct, even the re-
hg1ouS principles of millions of people shocked
by such deliberate waste and out of the South there
came reports of opnionated field mules which re-
fused to tread the to pillow the cotton under
and had to be dubbed to it by their masters their
superior wisdom.
Nevertheless the fields we're plowed under though
often with heavy heart, by farmers who bowed to
a strange necessity never anticipated by the teach
ingS of the human race.
1t was the to the little pigs whose ca
reers were Cancelled abruptly in the great pig-pre-
vention project
But the country can not be so far gone as to con-
sent to any comparable plan for dsposng of the
little blond extras with the heart-Shaped faces They
need sympathy and kind treatment to say nothing
of steak and onions and the problem which they
present will not be solved by the act of striking
their names off the roster of eligibles.
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there was little doubt. Col Lind
bergh ordered packages of ransom
money, totaling $4,000, prepared,
and gave DR.. Condor full author
ity to act.
A series of further ransom
notes, in reply to advertisements
published in various newspapers,
including the Bronx Home News.
came to DR.. Condon-who had
used his initials, j. F. G. to invent
a signature for himself and thus
became noted as "Jafsie"-and
eventusted in a dramatic meeting
with the professed kidnaper near
a Bronx cemetery
There are five of us in the
thing" the extortioner told Jafsie,
and we will have to have $4,000
more than the original $4,000 we
asked"
TAFSIE argued long over the
- wretched business, but said he
would do what he could. But he
insisted that the kidnaperS must
prove they had the child in their
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OF ransom notes. Inc note,
stamped with the characteristic
red and blue rings, with the pin
holes forming a duplicate of the
triangle discovered on the original
note left in the baby's crib, "ac-
cepted" DR.. Condon's offer to act
as an Intermediary, and advised
him to get in touch at once with
Col. Lindbergh to obtain official
sanction for his actions.
From Mr. RoSenhain's res
taurant, DR.. Condor attempted to
telephone to Col. Lindbergh. But
when the connection was put
through, he was too overcome by
emotion to talk, and so it was his
friend, Max Rosenhain, who told
the colonel what the note con-
tanned.
Get a fast car and come to
Hopewell at once" the colonel di-
rected.
THROUGH the night, DR.. Con-
Il don, Col. Lindbergh, Mr..
Rosenhain and the colonel's adj
visers discussed the note. That it
was genuinely from the kidnaper
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not pay, but that she does not
consider it worthwhile even to
enter into any discussion of the
subject.
ORANGE is due to pay S22, 300,-
Il 900; Poland, $6,616,O0O; Bel
GUM, $3,100,000; Italy. $2,141, 900;
Czechoslovakia, $1,600,O00, and Es-
thonia, Latvia, Lithuania. Hun
gary, Rumania and Finland vary
ing sums to make up the above
total.
Officials here are divided on the
course to pursue. Some advocate
settlement on the best terms
possible. They want to remove this
stumbling block from the road to
world recovery. The old Congress,
however, went on record demand
ing payment of the last red cent.
What the new Congress will do is
still a question.
President Roosevelt is expected
to take hand in the matter. He
is known to be dissatisfied with
the present status and to be anx-
ious for satisfactory settlement
if such a thing is at all possible.
Old line politicians fear there is
dynamite in the problem. Others
are convinced the President to-
day so thoroughly has the conf
dence of the people that any So
luton he advocates would not be
taken as matter of course by the
vast majority. These believe he
will soon take steps to settle the
war debts on a strictly business
basis.
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ST. CECILIA PLAYERS
TO PRESENT COMEDY

Dramatic Club Starts Work on
Production.
The st. Cecilia Dramatic Club.
reorganized, will soon present '.The
County Treasurer" for which it
has begun rehearsals.
The Rev. John Joseph Brogger,
@. F. NJ, is spiritual director and
treasurer of the club; Edward Eek
stein, president; Anthony Lauck Jr.,
vice-president; Miss Marie Casper
and Miss Josephine Lawrie, secre-
taries, and Charles Lauck, dramatic
director
The board of directors includes
Miss Helen Doerr, Frank Scherrer,
Frank Mckinney, Frank Gantner,
Lawrence Schludecker, and James
Hulsman.
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BY SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE
United Press STAN correspondent
Copyright. 1884. BY United Press

gladly sl000my life
DR.
reporter
Condons to
intermediary other and perhaps personages
publicly their willingness
Dr. John rier Hbten president of Princeton University
president of Columbia, similar
Sunday,
o
He acquaintance
ship of thousands
the people of that section benevolent
gentleman who had made life practice of"doing
into
the restaurant of his friend Max Ronhan the
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CCC REGISTRATION
TO BEGIN MONDAY
All Indiana Counties Will
Enlist Younu Men.

Registrations for admission to the
next Civilian Conservation Corps
camps will be received in all Ind
lana counties starting Monday, it
was announced today at the Office of
the Governors Commission on I'm
employment Relief.
Marion county young men may
register at the Indiana State EN-
ployment Service, so w. New York
st after l Monday or between l and
4 each week day afternoon there
after, excepting Saturday. In all
other counties of the state relief
supervisors will receive applications.
To be eligible for enrolment, ap-
plicantS must be between Is and Is
and must be members of families
receiving, or who are in need of, re-
lief. The Indiana quota is 1888.
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PARADERS GREET
PROSPERITY TRACTORS
Special Train Bearing 400 Machines
Arrives in City.

Special Train Bearing 400 Machines
Arrives in City.
A special train of AZ cars bearing
"Indiana's first prosperity trainload
of farm tractors" arrived at the
Maple-rd station of the Monon yes
terday afternoon.
The tractors, 400 in number, were
sent here by the International
Harvester Co., Chicago. Celebrat-
ing the arrival of the train, pa
rade started from the harvester
company's branch at 319 S. Mis-
Souri-st.
The welcoming party, made up of
company officials and Indiana deal
ers for the company held a
business session following the pa
rade, and the days activities were
concluded with a dinner at the
Antlers at which dealers, farmer
guests and company executives were
present.
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EIZnough
BY
WESTBROOK PEGLER

THERE is something brutal in the method by
which it is proposed to reduce the surplus Of
moving picture extras in Hollywood, but up to now
nobody has offered any better suggestion. AS the
idea has been explained in dispatches jury of ex-
pertS, will view the extras hand, some
1900 in all, and eliminate about $4,000 of them.
Whether the 1900 extras include males with
forty miner boards and scrawny spnster types with
with the typical spnSters pun of hair, the reports
from Hollywood have not made clear. 1t appears.
from the news pictures. however that the Hollywood
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credentials. But in the United
States, criminal can take an air.
plane in Los Angeles one night
and be in New York the next
afternoon without disclosing his
identity.
Cummings, however, holds that
American traditions of liberty are
too important to be infringed upon
and that crime must be eradicated
through public crime conscious
ness the part of the public.
Copyright 1884, by United Feature
Syndicate, Inc.)