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Evening star., 1934-12-02
GEM DEALER RETURNED
ON NEW YORK CHARGE
Richmond Valves Claim to For
mer Diamond Merchant
Wanted Elsewhere.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December Louis
Roseman, So, erstwhile diamond mer-
chant who, police said, had spent
100000 fortune since 1928, arrived
in custody today from Baltimore to
answer a grand larceny charge.
Authorities charged he took a
$3.50 stone on consignment from At
las Leveridge, sold it and pocketed the
proceeds.
Roseman, however, said he had no
intention of dishonesty and asked the
police to question his associates. He
was brought here upon completion of
a seven months Jail sentence in Bal
timore on a bogus check charge.
Authorities in Richmond, Va, who
had prior claim on RoSeman, with
drew it. Police said the jeweler was
wanted in Newport News, Va; Cleve-
land, Ohio. Fond Du Lac, Wis;
Bloomington, ILL.,; Chicago, Spring.
field, Ohio; Columbus, Ohio, and
Reading, Pa.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
Cutter Kicks 29.Yard Field
Goal to Thrill 10000
in Rain.
DORNIN IS CREDITED
WITH SMARTEST PLAY
Berries Makes Long Gains and
His Tackle Prevents Cadet
Touchdown.
BY GRANTLAND RICE.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, December /.
Navy waited l3 years to beat the
Army to in the swampy quagmire
of Franklin Field today in front of
10000 witnesses, soaked to the mar
row. Thirteen years is long time
to wait for victory, but the reward
came in full when Slade Cutter, big
Navy tackle, drove field goal square
ly between the posts 29 yards away
to bring Navy home in front upon
a field almost as wet as the seven seas
the Middies will have to sail in later
years.
This winning Navy thrust opened
in the first period when the fleet
footed Buzz" Berries returned an
Army kick 19 yards to Army's 36-yard
line A moment later. Bill Clark. a
great kicker and a great foot ball
player, thumped the wet, soggy ball
to the Army's 1-yard line and Bob
bounds on the smartest play of the
day.
Forced to kick out, Jack Buckler of
Army sent the ball only to the 35,
Berries soon fed a shovel pass to
Clark, who rushed to the Army 16.
Navy then crashed almost to the g.
yard mark before Berries was turned
back in an attempt to skirt end. Then
big Slade Cutter broke up the gaudy.
muddy battle with his big right foot
Cutter Has Many Talents.
The winning thrust came from one
of the most remarkable combinations
sport has ever known. 1t came from
Cutter who won his first laurel as
the champion high school flute player
of the United States when a student
at Aurora, III.
From mastery of the flute. and
weighing 212 pounds. Cutter went to
Navy to win the heavyweight boxing
crown and earn additional fame as
one of the greatest tackles in Annap-
oils history. AS musician, boxer and
foot ball star, the story of the game
was written by his muddy right toe
in that opening quarter.
You can get the picture Cutter
standing behind the ball on the 49,
yard line with the goal posts 20
yards away; the ball covered with mud,
heavy as moulten lead and as slip
perry as two creased pigs; 10000 spec
tators looking on a fast-charging Army
line surging in; then from the mass
and the mud the goo and the human
swarm. the coated ball spun almost
midway between the posts.
1t was Cutters fourth field goal of
the year and it was the play that
sent 1000 midShipmen at the end of
the game swarming upon the field
with a rush and a vocal cataclysm of
cheer and JOY that canle near rocking
down the crowded stands
Navy Roar Long Bottled Up.
This Navy roar of victory had been
bottled up a long, long time 1t
broke today with the pent-up fury of
a Caribbean storm And it paid full
tribute to one of the gamest Navy
teams that ever walked upon a field.
1t was a game of many unique fea-
lures where only five first downs were
(Continued on Page Column e.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
ARMY CONTRACTS
PROBE TO REOPEN
Disclosures of Long-Sought
Witness to Be Heard at
Session Tomorrow.

Developments in the House investi-
CATION of War Department contracts.
including disclosures said to have been
made recently by long-sought wit
ness. Frank E. Speicher, will be dis
cussed by members of House Mill
tary Affairs Subcommittee tomorrow
This will be the first meeting OF
the investigating group since the Sum-
mer recess, during which Department
of Justice agents and representatives
of the controller generals Office have
been digging up important evidence
The new evidence will be studied by
the subcommittee tomorrow, and plans
will be considered for resuming hear
ings in connection with allegations OF
irregularity in awarding of Army con-
tracts and receipt Of 'favors" by some
Army officers.
Meeting Was Delayed.
The meeting. which is expected to
be behind closed doors, was to have
been held 10 days ago. but was post
poned because of absence from the
city of most of the committeeman
Apparently there are but three Man,
bers of the subcommittee in the city
in addition TO Representative John j
McSwain, chairman OF the genera
committee They are Representatives
Paul j. Kvale. Farmer -Laborite. OF
Minnesota; w. Frank James, Repub-
lican. of Michigan, and Numa F. Mon
tet. Democrat. of Louisiana. Repre-
sentative Rogers. Democrat. of New
Hampshire, chairman of the subcom-
mittee, is not expected here for sew
eral weeks =
Speicher. representative here of 9
New York firm which was seeking 9
tire contract from the War Depart
ment. left Washington on the eve Of
a grand jury investigation of Army
business transactions. A subpoena fol
his appearance before the grand jury
never was served. The grand jury
questioned about 40 witnesses anC
concluded its hearings by issuing 9
report condemning lobbying condi.
tions at the War Department. No in.
dictmerts were returned
Located Only Recently.
The Department of Justice con-
Quoted a Nationwide search fol
Speicher at the request of the grano
Jury, but he was not located until q
few weeks ago. Found in New York
City, ne is reported to have given tc
Justice agents a detailed statement
concerning alleged intrigue in con-
nection with lobbying by certain in
terests seeking contracts for Army
equipment.
Speicher's statement was turned
over to United States Attorney Leslie
c. Garnett, who ordered the previous
grand jury inquiry. 1t is understood
Garnett will give the House subcom-
mittee access to the contents Of the
statement. Speicher probably will be
summoned for questioning by the
committee when it resumes its pub
lie hearings.
Other evidence to be brought before
the House group will have to do with
alleged "improprieties" in leasing OF
the Army's Port Newark warehousing
base near Newark, N. j., and accep.
tance by certain Army officers of dis
counts on automobiles from manu-
facturers bidding en- Army contracts
Evening star., 1934-12-02
SON Of j. s. JUDGE
HELD IN Staying
Shooting of 0k|ahoman Is
Linked to Plot to Ex-
tort $4,000.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TULSA, Okla, December Phil
lip Kennamer, 19-year son OF
Federal Judge Franklin E. Kennamer
was charged with murder late today
for the Thanksgiving day Staying OF
John Gorrell, %, son of widely
known Tulsa physician.
County Attorney Holly Anderson
said the youth confessed, declaring
II had to do it," He will be ar
raigned Monday.
The shooting was linked by officers
with a story of attempted extortion
aimed at H. F. Wilcox, wealthy oil
man, through his daughter Virginia
20, intimate friend of young Ken
manner.
Investigating that angle, police ar
rested Wade Thomas, operator OF a
sandwich shop, for questioning.
Judge Kennamer, who has been or
the Federal bench here since the dis
trict was created in 1925. surrendered
his son to the prosecutor. There were
tears in his eyes.
Il never dreamed that such thing
could happen" he said Il always
had tried to teach my boy never te
touch the hair of any mans head
Continued on Page 5, Column A.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
FEDERATION ASKS
LAW ON NUMBERS
Citizens Associations Also
Urge Property Owner Be
Fined $1,000.

The Federation Of Citizens Asso-
Citations last night adopted resolu-
ton asking tor the passage of legisla-
ton making the possession of tickets,
certificates, bills. slips. tokens" or
other methods of conducting the num-
bers racket prima facie evidence of
their unlawful use for the purpose of
gaming or gambling
Additional legislation requested and
aimed at the numbers racket pro-
vided that where the owner of any
property knowingly permits the use Of
his property for gambling. this shall
be a felony punishable by $1,000 fine.
Further, the legislation would make
it possible for property thus knowing
ly permitted by the owner to be used
for gambling to be padlocked for one
year, with the cost of the proceedings
up to $500 assessable against the
property owner
This legislation was submitted in a
report by Thomas E. Lodge, chair
man of the Committee on Law and
Legislation.
Resolution Is Tabled.
Another resolution introduced by
this committee commencing The Star
Post, Herald and Times and all local
radio stations for efforts directed
against the numbers racket, was
tabled after some debate.
T,.x }c
pressing its war on numbers" oper-
ators and other reputed gamblers
here by checking on their income tax,
Guy T. Helvering, commissioner OF
internal revenue, has advised James
G. Yaden, president of the Federation.
Helverings communication was in
answer to one from Yaden inclos-
ing a copy of a law and order report
adopted by the federation in which
the tax check was recommended as
providing one crime prevention wea-
pom.
Prosecution Of Trio Looms.
Helvering pointed out, as reported
exclusively in The Star a month ago,
that his bureau was considering the
prosecution of three individuals on
tax counts, and that close scrutiny
was being given list of other persons
whose names had been obtained from
the police and other sources. He also
recalled four convictions, two OF
which sent the defendants to prison.
DR.. George Johnson, secretary gen.
eral of the Catholic Educational AS
sociation. after making a thorough
investigation into the numbers game
yesterday said that the sponsors are
working havoc with the school chill
dren of the District.
1t has come to the attention of DR.
johnson that high school children are
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-12-02
Mercy Slayer of In'becile Son
To Be Hanged for Her Crime

/ he asked the jury ito arrest the law
little, do little wrong in order to
do a greater good"
Justice GODDARD, in charging the
jury commented that the time may
come when there will be law in
this country that an imbecile may
be sent to a merciful death"
Mrs Brownhill heard the verdict
stoically head erect. Asked If she
wished to address the court, she said,
Il did it in mercy" Many in the
court room wept.
It was testified that the woman had
been told she could live only six
months unless she underwent an ex-
tremely dangerous operation. She
put her son to death painlessly, and
.he next day told her family doctor,
I've just put Dens to Sleep"
That was the answer, she gave, too,
when police charged her with ma
ncious and wilfW murder.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
FIRE CHIEF SUCCUMBS
TO INJURIES IN BLAZE
Nine Others in Denver Hospital,
With One Expected to Die,
After Wall Collapse.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, December CLARK An
drew Mahon, assistant fire chief, was
dead tonight and nine f1remen were
in hospitals, victims of spectacular
downtown fire.
The firemen were caught by the
collapse of 1O0-foot segment of wall
after the interior of the Midwest
Trunk g. Bag Manufacturing Co.
warehouse had been destroyed by the
flames last night.
Physicians held little hope for the
recovery of Firemen M. Behrman and
Eugene Sullivan.
officials estimated the property
loss at between $4,000 and $4,000.
The fire was believed to have started
from an overheated furnace.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
INCREASED FORCE
FOR NAVY URGED
Efficiency of Ships Impaired
by Lack of Men, Swan
son Says.
By the Associated Press.

DS lAIc HoSONAdbcu icoS"
Voicing a firm conviction" that
the United States Navy must be un-
excelled on the seas, Secretary Swan
son said yesterday the efficiency oi
the Nations fighting vessels was i'm
paired by a shortage of officers ano
men.
The Navy Secretary, in his annual
report made it clear that now the
Navy has authority to build to full
treaty power, its next goal is ade-
quate personnel.
TO continue to operate the feet
with an insufficient number Of mer
is serious menace to success in bat
tie in the event of an unanticipated
emergency" Swanson said.
"Combatant ships of the feet
should at all times be prepared tc
meet an enemy"
Progress Is Cited.
Swanson spoke of gratifying prog
ress in naval aviation and in the ship
construction program. He urged Con-
greSs to continue to provide funds
for replacing averaged craft. He op-
posed vigorously proposals for a uni
ned Army and Navy air service.
But through the entire report ran
a theme of more officers and men.
Ship commanders, the Secretary
said, have been pleading for enough
personnel to man essential battle
stations.
1T may be SEEN" he said. thai
under this administration very salts
factory progress has been made
toward building up to the full
strength allotted our Navy by treaty
However. ships are valueless un-
less manned by adequate crews.
treaty navy obviously requires mucf
more personnel than the much
smaller establishment which we have
been operating"
Minimum for Safety.
The minimum level for safety
Swanson said, is IS per cent of full
man power for the larger fighting
vessels This, he explained, will give
the lowest number of trained mer
with which ships can go into battle
with a reasonable chance for sue
cess.
To reach the IS per cent in the
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-12-02

walking along Perry place northeast,
near Fourteenth, when she spied q
new sedan she recognized as her ia
ther's. When she approached she saw
him lying slumped over in the back
seat. The child ran to summon help
Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
and homicide squad detectives re-
sponded. After a cursory examination
DR.. Macdonald released the car to
Mr.. Salb's brothers and ordered the
body removed to Casualty Hospital
He expressed the opinion death was
due to natural causes.
Neighbors said the car had been
parked at that spot since Thursday
night. The body was slumped down
in a corner on the cushion in such q
fashion that it would not be noticed
(Contiuued on Page l. Column ~
Evening star., 1934-12-02
1922 DENVER MINT
ROBBERY SOLVED
Harvey Bailey Drove Car in
100000 Hold-Up, Po-
lice Declare.
BY the Associated Press.

DENVER. December l-Solution of
the 1922 Denver Mint robbery was an
nounced tonight by police. who said
Harvey Bailey, convicted kidnaper OF
Charles F. Urschel. Oklahoma City
millionaire, drove the car In which the
robbers escaped with $500 900 cur
rency snatched from guards
Five men and two women-all of
whom now are in prison or dead
were involved in the crime which has
baffled the best detective inds in
the country for more than a decade,
Chief of Detectives Albert 2 Clark
said.
Members Of Bandit Mob.
The bandit mob, Chief Clark said,
included:
Harvey Bailey. serving a life SEN
tence on Americas Devils Island"
Alcatraz Prison, Calf for the kid
naping of Urschel.
Jim Clark, serving life sentence in
the Indiana State Penitentiary at
Michigan City for participating in a
bank robbery at Clinton, Ind.
Robert Leon Knapp. known in Den
yer as Robert Burns, now dead, al
not fully known.
Frank Mcfarland, alias the Mem
phiS Kid" also dead.
Nicholas Trainor. alias Nick Sloan,
whose frozen, bullet-ridden body was
found in a residential garage in Den
yer January IA, 1923. more than q
month after the robbery.
Florence Sloan. also known as Flor
ence Thomps IN, the queen" Of the
mob and the consort Of Trainor. She,
too, Is dead.
Margaret Burns, who posed IS the
wife of Robert Burns, whose right
name was Robert Knapp. She is dead.
Women Burned in Auto.
The two women were shot and
burned to death in an automobile
near Red Wing, Mimi, according tc
the discoveries of the officers who
have been working on the final phase
of the case for the last year.
The climax of the search came
from following the thread of evidence
given by a Denver bootlegger in 1928
Clark said.
So completely have Federal inves-
tigators and members Of the Denver
detective department reconstructed
the crime that they know the move
ments of the gang since the Summer
of 1920, when they first began to meet
in Denver.
Afiidavits. testimony from police in
several sections of the country, Fed
eral reports and information from
Continued on Page 4, Column So
Evening star., 1934-12-02
BEAR CLAWS CHILD

The visit of a 12-yearold girl to the
Zoo ended disastrously yesterday when
Phyllis Hood was clawed by an angry
bear.
The child was taken to Emergency
Hospital and her right arm was
placed Immediately in a plaster cast
Physicians are attempting to prevent
infection.
Phyllis had reached through the
cage to pet the beast when it clawed
her arm.
The girl and her sister. Joyce, 9,
came from Corning, N. Y, and are
visiting their grandfather, o. P. Hood,
chronological chief of the Bureau of
Mines. They had been taken to the
Zoo by nurse.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
RiChberq Discusses Plans
for Consultations with
President.
LEGAL DEPARTMENTS
HELD GLARING EXAMPLE
Various Committees and Drafting
Agencies Among Those Eyed
by Co-ordinator.
BY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

WARM SPRINGS, Ga, December
lin an unobtrusiye manner Presi-
dent Roosevelt is effecting a Govern
ment reorganization which may de-
velop sweeping proportions. At present,
however, the program calls only for
certain consultations.
This is being conducted at present
under the supervision of Donald Rich
berg, chief co-ordinator of the New
Deal recovery program and is de-
signed to trim the normal running
expenses and, if possible. extraordi-
nary expenses, and to promote eff
cheney.
What Co-ordinator Richberg has
done and is doing in this respect, and
what his plans for the immediate
future are, were discussed during his
visit with the President today at the
little White House"
Sees Flagrant Waste.
Mr. Richberg. after the conference,
said they discussed certain contem-
plated consultations He said that
since he started the study of this sub
ject he was astonished to find many
agencies of the Government dupli-
eating work. The wasted effort and
expense are so fragrant that something
must be done to remedy matters. he
said
While mentioning today how he
already had discovered so much over
tapping and duplicated effort in the
departments and independent bureaus,
Mr.. Richberg singled out the legal
departments of the Government as a
glaring example.
He called attention to the fact that
there m1st be a consolidation of some
of the interdepartmental committees,
because some have outlived their
usefulness.
The President is keeping a close
eye on the work Mr. Richberg is do
ing in this respect.
To Merge Map Agencies.
Since coming to Warm Springs the
President has made it known that
the almost countless number of map
making agencies of the Government
are to be merged and their work di-
vided so as to remove duplication and
waste. He said also that the inter-
departmental committee having to do
with merchant marine matters has
been designated as subcommittee of
the Emergency Council, over which
coordination Richberg presides.
In mentioning the legal departments
of the Government as being in line
to feel the heavy hand of the CO.
ordinator, Mr.. Richberg did not dis
cuss details.
The overlapping OF the legal
branches is understood to figure
mostly in connection with the host
of emergency agencies 1t is believed
that the legal branches of the reg
ular departments have specific duties
and that duplication there is not so
great.
Confusion in Overlapping.
Because of the overlapping Of the
various emergency agencies there has
been not only waste of public money.
but confusion and no end of embar-
rassment. The embarrassments have
resulted mostly from disagreements be-
tween legal officers Of separate agen-
cies having a certain relationship in
their functions.
Mr.. Richberg was only one of a
group of President Roosevelt's closet
advisers in conference with him to-
day in the cozy living room of his
Continued on Page 8, Column 2)
Evening star., 1934-12-02
COMPOSER OF MOVIE
SONG HITS SUCCUMBS
Roy Turk Was Author of when
the Blue Of the
Night"

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf. December
Roy Turk, writer of many popu-
lar songs, died today after long ILL
ness.
Among Turks many compositions
are When the Blue of the Night
Meets the Gold of the Day." Walk
ing My Baby Back Home" Con-
tented" Mean to Me" Love. You
Funny Thing" and Others
Evening star., 1934-12-02
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LEEDS, England, December l.
Mrs Mary Brownhill. 81 years old,
gray haired and frail-today was
sentenced to be hanged for the mercy
murder" of her imbecile son.
A jury, which needed only min
utes to find her guilty. recommended
that she be shown mercy.
The woman, after 80 years nursing
her imbecile son, Denis, gave him 100
sedative tablets and turned on the
gas when she learned she faced an
operation which might cost her life.
She feared that Denis, left alone,
would suffer what a physician called
"veritable living DEATH" it was
testified
Norman Birkett, one of the ablest
pleaders before the British bar, rep
resented the tiny mother.
She showed no hate, Birkett argued,
only undying devotion, and therefore
Evening star., 1934-12-02
Boston Socialite Divorced

RENO, New, December l (F).-Mrs
Isabel @. Minor was awarded a di-
vorce on grounds of cruelty here to-
day from Francis Minot of Falmouth
Mass, Boston social registrite
They were married April 80, 1914. in
New York City and have two minor
children.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
IN COMA 80 MONTHS,
GIRL READS MESSAGE
Eyes Focus on Slate and Hand
Raises-Mental Powers
Returning.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, December 1-Conscious-
ness is returning to Patricia Mcguire,
Oak Parks sleeping beauty"
Her eyes focusing slowly on a slate
before her. the girl who has been in
coma since February, 1882, raised
her hand today.
And with this encouraging improve
ment in the girls condition her FAM
lily disclosed that during the past week
she has followed other simple written
directions.
Her case is believed to have broken
all existing records for protracted
sleep. Serums, artificial fever, blood
transfusions-all have failed. She has
survived two attacks of pneumonia
and for several months has been in
good health"
ST. LOUIS, December P.-
Emmett v. Thompson, jr., %, un-
conscious for six months as result
of injuries received in an automobile
accident, died tonight at the St.
Louis County Hospital. He was a
member of prominent st. Louis
family
Evening star., 1934-12-02
EIGHT KILLED IN STORM

Damage in Australian Deluge
Passes Million Mark.
MELBOURNE, Australia, December
/ R,.-A terrific rain and windstorm
out of the southern seas today had
brought death to at least eight per-
sons and caused property damage of
more than 81 1,225, 900.
Scores of small boats were hurled
ashore and inland seas mile across
have been created in many cases over
night.
Latest estimates place more than
1000 homeless. 1t was feared the
death toll may mount.
Evening star., 1934-12-02
WEATHER.

o. s. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair, colder today, followed by rain to-
night or tomorrow; moderate to fresh
west winds. Observation-Disclosures, 68.
at 10 am yesterday: lowest, 43 at 10 pm.
yesterday
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1934-12-02

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Evening star., 1934-12-02

The Star is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to city and suburban
homes by The Stars exclusive carrier serv-
ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery.
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