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Evening star., 1934-10-30
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Government itself may be cast
in the role of f"super-consumer" in q
new effort at recovery.
The N. r. A. may suggest, as one
phase of an attempt to boost employ
ment, that the Government contract
to buy some industrial goods for which
there is no immediate market.
Such q plan, it Is disclosed, Is being
studied, although 1t has not yet
reached the ruling Recovery Board
Under the proposal, the Government
would accept on a cost-plus basis ex-
cess inventories piled up over specific
production periods.
Could Employ More.
Meanwhile, factories would be able
theoretically at least, to employ more
men, thus creating more purchasing
power and an eventual market for the
goods.
The Federal purchase proposal Is
being studied only on an emergency
status. If favorably matured. it would
supplement other N. r. A. efforts to
accelerate industrial output by re-
leasing code restrictions on produc-
tions.
A general program for speeding pro-
duction, of which this may be q part
already has received the support oi
the American Federation Of Labor
among other organized groups. Will
liam Green, president, has said q ma
tional 80 per cent increase in produc-
ton levels would put labor to work
and create income to buy the product
Of all"
Such a blanket effort, however, 1!
Evening star., 1934-10-30
WEIRTON CASE UP
TO COURT ON VOTE
Steel Company Offers Evidence
to Disprove Charges of
Coercion. sssz
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WILMINGTON, Del, October 3d.
Contradictions and regulations have
found their way into the records Of
hearings in the Governments injunc-
ton suit against the Weirton Steel Co.
They leave to Federal Court, or to
another election, the question of the
relative strength of rival unions
among the Weirton employees.
The company'S first task Is to eStab-
lish that the so-called company union
at its plants Is not creature of the
management but a medium freely
chosen by the employees for collective
bargaining purposes. Concurrently,
1t is trying to show that the other
union, the Amalgamated Association
Of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, has
no substantial standing among the
Weirton employees.
Weirton counsel are attributing to
the Amalgamated the same charges
lodged against the ompany-intimi-
dation. coercion and domination Of
the steel workers.
The Government suit asks a perma-
nent Injunction to halt the alleged
domination.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fIeSS.
HONOLULU, October 30.-Adverse
winds kept Sir Charles Kingsford-
Smith and Capt. P. G. Taylor
grounded today, awaiting take-off
on the third and last leg Of their peri
lous over-water flight from Australia
to California.
Advised that storm was moving
southwark along the Western Coast
of the United States, the Australian
flyer and his navigator decided to re-
main here until conditions are more
auspicious for the 2,400-mile hop to
Oakland or Los Angeles.
II am not out for record" said Sir
Charles. ut all depends on the
weather"
Good Weather In Prospect.
Indications were that he would not
have long to wait. Advices from the
liner Lurline, $500 miles east Of Homo
lulu, said that although the sky was
overcast, the barometer was high,
presaging favorable weather.
A final decision on the take-o6
probably awaited the word Of Lieut..
E. w. Stephens, Navy meteorologist at
the Fleet Air Base here. Lieut..
Stephens informed Sir Charles that If
he left today he would be forced to
fight head winds most Of the way to
California.
The nyers set down thar blus and
Evening star., 1934-10-30
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Upswing in Business is
Following Along
Seasonal Lines.
BY PAUL MALLON.

The Fall upswing is swinging up at
just about a seasonal gait, or perhaps
little better. The situation Is en-
couraging, but nothing to brag about.
II you look into the figures of the
balanced debunked business chart for
this month, you will find the manu-
facturers are showing signs of Au-
tumn life. Employment figures are
being revived after succumbing to
the textile strike. but pay rolls are
still below an equalizing level.
Rail traffic is beginning to show the
effect of the drought. Retail sales
are a bright spot, but building has
just failed to respond to the Govern
ment hypodermics. Prices have stop
ped going up, but apparently they
have stopped only to let the con-
sumers catch their breath.
All in all, 1t is not pretty picture,
but it is a solid one.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
STAbS
HIMSELF TO DEATH
Former Idol of Stage and
Screen Feared He Was
Losing Mind.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, Calf, October 30.-
Lou Tellegen, onetime stage and
screen idol. is dead. the victim OF
seven thrusts Of pair Of scissors into
his breast.
Police said the wounds obviously
were self-inflicted. Friends said the
52-year-old actor, broken in health
and doing bit parts in the movies
feared he was losing his mind.
Half shaven, he vas found dying
yesterday on a bath room floor al
the home Of Mrs. John T. Cudahy
widow of the packing company execu-
tive and benefactress of the actor
She had sent her butler to learn why
Tellegen had not left his room since
breakfast. Scissors lay near his out
stretched right hand.
Begged for Parts.
Tellegen died only few doors from
the pretentious home he had built
for his second wife. Geraldine Farrar
the grand opera star, when he was
at the height of his career.
In recent months Tellegen wan
dered from studio to studio in search
of bit parts. He even resorted to
face lifting in a futile effort to re-
cover a fraction Of his former popu-
larity.
A few months ago Tellegen was
called to Hollywood for a role in
Caravan" but illness forced him to
give up the part. Previously he ap-
peared as a character actor in "A
Call to Arms"
He had had four operations for
cancer in q year, DR.. G. L. Cooper
said.
Married Four Times.
Tellegen was native Of Holland
born ISidor Louis Bernard van Dam
meier. He successfully married the
Countess Jeanne de Bronchere, Miss
Farrar, Isabel Craven Dilworth, who
was known on the screen as Nina
Romano, and Eva Casanova. Miss
Romano, who had son, Rex. now 10
by Tellegen, later married Count S
Danneskield Samsoe of Denmark.
With Sarah Bernhardt in Joan OF
Arc" Tellegen made his stage debut
in New York in 1910 and a year later
they appeared in motion picture,
Queen Elizabeth" The actor re-
turned to the stage, appearing in
THE Great Lover" and The Lady
Refuses"
In 1929 he went through bank
ruptcy here, testifying he had debts
Of $20,9 ,901 and assets Of only $4,000.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
LETTER IN insult
CASE INTERPRETED
Stuart's Counsel Declares
: "BIue Sky" Missive Was
Legitimate.
BY the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, October 3o.-An inter.
probation of Charles B. Stuart's blue
sky letter." entirely different from
that Of the Government was advance
by Stuart's counsel today as more o.
Samuel insults 16 mail fraud code
PENDANTS sought directed verdicts o1
not guilty.
The letter, introduced in the early
part Of the trial, has been regarded
by the Government as one Of its mos
important pieces Of evidence. In il
Stuart. an officer Of the brokerage
firm of Halsey Stuart & Co.. asked il
there were not some way stock in "the
new company" could be sold in Illinois
without violating the States blue sky
law.
Harry 8. Ditchburne, attorney fol
Stuart and three other defendants
claimed before Federal Judge James H
Wilkerson that, properly interpreted
the letter was strictly legitimate.
Directed Verdict Asked.
Ditchburne presented motions FOL
directed verdicts in behalf of Stuart
his brother, Harold L. Stuart; Clarence
T. MacNeille and Frank K. Shrader
the Halsey Stuart group Of defendants
Motions in behalf of three other de-
PENDANTS were presented yesterday al
the conclusion Of the Government
case, and by the close Of today's ses'
sion motions were expected to have
been entered in behalf Of all defend.
ants except Samuel insult and hi
son, Samuel insult, jr.
The insults have announced the!
want to tell their side Of the case ane
will not ask a directed verdict.
The letter, sent by Stuart to Shrader
a director of Halsey Stuart and o
Corporation Securities Co. of Chicago
was alleged by the prosecution to re.
fer to the latter company, then In tht
process Of formation. The Govern.
ment charged that the company wa.
organized to defraud investors.
Sought Secrecy.
IT told my brother I thought w
would make great mistake in listing
either the preferred or common stock
on any exchange" the letter read, In
part. II don't know how Goldman
Sachs and the rest get by the blue sky
law, but certainly there must be some
answer to it. ." Isn't there some
way we can sell In the State Of Illi-
nois on the basis that purchaser &C
cepts it knowing that it has not been
qualified. In this way - would we
not get around the Illinois blue sky
law? In my opinion, the minute we
disclose the assets Of the company, ii
will, in a great measure, defeat the
purpose of the whole thing"
Ditchburne then gave the defense's
Interpretation Of the letter.
"In those wild days Of 1929 the whole
world was watching to see what these
defendants were doing" he said. "As
soon as the public learned what stocks
they were buying, every one would fol.
low suit. Prices would 60 sky high
and defeat the purpose Of the Invest
ment Trust"
Evening star., 1934-10-30
SEEK NEW T|E-UPS
IN S|LKDYE PLANTS
Union Leaders Call for
Strikes in Pennsylvania
and New Jersey.
BY the Associated Press.

PATERSON, N. j., October So
Union leaders sought today to extend
their tie-up Of silk dyeing plants to
the Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
centers of the industry.
A strike call to 10000 workers In
Belvidere and oxford, N. j.; Sunbury,
Shamokin, Williamsport and Allen
town, in Pennsylvania, and Provi-
dence. r. L, was issued last night by
the Federation Of Silk and Rayon
Overs and FiniShers of America.
Twenty thousand dyers in the Pas
sale Valley and 10000 others in
metropolitan New York walked out
last Thursday. The Pennsylvania and
Rhode Island workers have been in
vited to strike later this week"
Renewed efforts of strike leaders
and employers to reach an agreement
collapsed yesterday.
Employers have withheld comment
on the situation, but George Baldanzi,
president of the union, spoke out yes
terday against what he termed 'the
insufficient offer of "a cents an hour
for SO hours a week."
Evening star., 1934-10-30

District Court room late last night
heard the verdict of the jury of four
women and eight men who sat on the
case. The immediate question in
volved was whether Mutt and Bald
win had violated the law in pur-
chasing 100000 in Government
securities from the Van Sweringen
Corp, headed by one of the famous
railroad brothers, and then reselling
them to the corporation.
Judge Paul Jones last week dis
missed six counts of the indictment
returned by the Federal grand jury
against the two defendants, charging
them with fraud. Last night the
jury rendered its verdict of acquittal
on six remaining counts, charging
them with false entry on the books
in an effort to deceive the Federal
Reserve Board
The Governments case hinged on
the allegation that the bond transac-
ton was an attempt at window dress
ing" the bank statement of condition
three years ago. A daughter of Bald
win, Mrs Elizabeth Brett of New
York. produced a rabbits foot after
the verdict was read.
She had carried it throughout the
trial, she confessed. The two men
contended throughout the trial they
had acted only in the best interests
of the band in purchasing the bonds.
Nine days after the purchase, they
were resold to the Van Sweringen
Corp, and Mutt conceded that in the
original transaction he prevailed upon
o. P. Van Sweringen to leave the pur-
chase money in the bank as deposit
secured by the bonds.
The sales in the Shuttle transac-
ton were at the same price. Van
Sweringen, on the stand. denied un-
der cross examination there had been
any collusion.
Mutt, assuming major responsibility
for the sales, said he was led to take
the action because of the precarious
position Of banks throughout the
country.
Mutt, Baldwin and Van Sweringen
still face county grand jury indict-
ments incident to the bond deal.
Van Sweringen is named "aider and
abettor" in the county indictment; he
was not indicted by the Federal grand
jury.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
Flowers Stir Interest.

HYATTSVILLE. Md, October 30
Especially .-Forsythia, which bloomed
in this section again this Fall with
perfect leaves and flowers, attracted
much attention at the October meet
ing Of the Hyattsville Horticultural
Society, held In the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Charles e. Holmes, IN Riverdale.
Evening star., 1934-10-30

There Is no inside to the building
situation except that the Government
is still carrying what hod there IS.
Sixty-three per cent Of all building
still is being publicly financed.
The modernization. program Is ac-
complishing something, but not much,
from the vast standpoint Of the ma
tional building industry. A survey Of
776 cities showed that permits for
alterations In September were up II
per cent over year ago. The esti-
mated cost of these alterations vas p
27 per cent. So.
At the same time, the number Of
new building permits was on. That
industry needs q pulmotor bigger than
any yet devised.
(copyright. 1884. ~ Hsal l1snDa.S
Evening star., 1934-10-30
Chart Shows Condition.

You can see the situation for your
self in the following seasonally ad-
justed figures. Each figure represents
the percentage of normal at the time
stated, with the averages for l923-25
being considered normal except for
prices).
The chart is a condensation Of the
private data collected BY various Gov
eminent statisticians and furnishes
the background for Government Off
cials in determining policy. Its au-
thenticity can hardly be questioned.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
PRESENT COOL WEATHER
LAST SEVERAL DAYS
Temperature Drops to 80 Degrees
After High in 5Os-No
Rain in Sight.

Little change during the next sew.
eral days in the present crisp weather
was forecast today by the Weather
Bureau.
No rain was in sight, the bureau
said, and clear weather would prevail
at least for several days.
Last night the temperature went to
36 degrees, having reached the high
SOS about 4 pm. yesterday. Slight
snow flurries were reported In the
Virginia mountain country, reaching
nearly 2 inches at one placs,
Evening star., 1934-10-30
Son of Hauptmann
To Celebrate First
Birthday Saturday
Manntried Will Observe
Anniversary in To,Un
of Pending Trial.
1y the Associated Press,


PENNINGTON, N. j., October 30
Mannfried Hauptmann will celebrate
his first birthday in Flemington. where
his father awaits trial for the murder
Of the 20-month-old Lindbergh baby.
The infant son Of Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, who, in his cell in the
Hunterdon County jail. looks forward
daily to visits from his child, will be
one year old Saturday. Mannfried's
mother plans modest first birthday
party at the home in Pennington
where she has established living quar-
ters.
Mrs. Hauptmann said she would in
vite her niece, Mrs. Hans Muller. Of
the Bronx to attend. and perhaps
Mannfried would see his first birth
day cake-with one candle on 1t.
Mrs. Hauptmann went back to the
Bronx today to get Winter clothing
and a teddy bear for Mannfried,
which Hauptmann himself suggested
she bring to the child.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
Seasonal Lines Followed.

The striking thing Is that every
thing has been following seasonal
lines at fixed level for the past four
months. The level has been fairly
well established. Declines which
started last Spring have been stopped.
The strong improvement in business
confidence during the past few weeks
Is, of course, not yet reflected in the
figures. 1t certainly should be during
November and December. In other
words, it looks as If we were beginning
to get out of four months rut.
The first sign is in industrial
production. The first supersedsonal
increase in that line since April is
shown this month. However, that
sign is not as important as it
sounds, because it is due largely
to the rebound in TEXTILES after the
strike.
Inside figures indicate automobile
production in October will be 80 per
cent below September. The motor
boys are getting ready for new models.
The temporary decline does not mean
much, because total automobile pro-
duction so far this year Is about 40 per
cent above last year.
Iron and steel are showing no real
improvement. Lumber is not doing
anything Its Code Authority is think
ing about a Is per cent reduction in
stocks for next year. Electric power
production improved in October, re-
flecting new activity in smaller
factories.
The industrial production situation
still screams for attention to the bog
ging heavy goods industries.
Textile Strike Hit Figures.
What happened to employment In
September was the textile strikes.
Secretary Perkins has already done
the abiding for the low figures. She
pointed out that textile employment
dropped 246,000, while all other en-
ployment increased 10000.
That is true, but what Secretary
Perkins did not say was that the in
crease in all other employment was
due mainly to the increase in retail
trade. That line improved per cent.
The plain fact of the matter is
that halt OF the industries sho1Ded
employment decreases in Septem-
Der.
In other words, Miss Perkins had to
beat long way around the bush for
her favorable factor. In fact, she had
to leave the factory employment bush
entirely and 60 into the retail trade
rose garden.
Drought Yet to Be Felt.
The inside on the price situation is
that the psychological effect of the
drought influence has been passed, but
the real drought influence has not yet
begun.
The peak passed the week of Sep
tember 8. when the level was 77.8.
Farm and food prices are still up, but
others are decreasing. There has been
strong pressure on manufactured
goods, due to the breakdown of the
N. r. A.
The real effect Of the drought on
food prices will be felt later in the
Winter, when shortages develop in
certain lines, particularly meats. Your
beef and pork chops are going to come
high.
Evening star., 1934-10-30

the books of the
bank of W hic h
they were Off
GERS.
Mutt, former
chairman of the
board of the in
S t i t u tion, the
Union Trust Co.,
now defunct, is a
former treasurer
of the Republican
National ON =
mitttee. Baldwin
was the banks S
president prior to
its closing. in
March, 1888.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
MUTT AND BALDWIN
CLEARED Of FRAUD
Former G. o. P. Committee
Treasurer and Banker Ac-
quilted in Cleveland.
By the Associated Press.

CLEVELAND, october 80. Two
men prominent in the financial life
Of Cleveland, Joseph r. Mutt and
Wilbur M. Baldwin, were free today
of charges that they perpetrated
fraud or were guilty of false entry on
Evening star., 1934-10-30
Driver Fined 2 Cents.

Commandant Cronin, the new leader
of the Free State Blueshirt organiza-
ton, was fined cents for negligent
driving Ia Maryborough. England.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
NEW ITALIAN Plan
| PROVES INVOLVED
Cooperative State Likened
to N. K. A. With Greater
Powers.

Herewith Is presented the third
and last of three articles on Penito
Mussolini's cooperative state tDhich
IS to be indugurated November 10.
Evening star., 1934-10-30
Chilean Radio Powerful.

Chiles new radio broadcasting sta
ton at Valparaiso can easily be heard
throughout the country.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-29
It's Hard to Lire With a Secret

Il SUPPOSE the whole theory of the amateur ath-
lete is based a belief that the leisure class has
higher ideals of craftsmanship than those which
prevail among their less fortunate fellows. Now
certainly international cup racing is a game of the
very rich. Here one might expect to find all the
graceful gestures which have been associated, in
legend at least. with the quality folk.
But what happened in the waters off Newport?
Some reporters suggested that if there is to be
another it might we'll be between battleshipS.
I know too little Of yachting to have opinion as
to which commended was in error. Yet it must be
obvious that somewhere along the line somebody
Numbered in the matter of common courtesy.
To me the most curious thing about the Haupt-
is that the arrest came so long after the
crime itself. 1t to me that the officials are
dealing with person of palbaoly neurotic type.
Without prejudicing Hauptmann admittedly
have a man who suddenly came into a large of
money mysteriously. He quit his job but strangely
enough seems to have lived much in the
ner as he did before his new-found affluence. He
remained sedate. respectable, inconspcuous a most
ordinary sort of individual But he had a secret
So far nothing has developed about his boaSting
except A reported remark at the gasoline station
when his attention called to the gold certificate
believe Hauptmann said to have answered
"Oh. have many more" words to that effect.
am not an amateur sleuth but will wager that in
quiry among HauptmannS casual acquaintance will
reveal or have revealed cryptic utterances of
his from time to time Even a man who is fearful
in discovery finds it extremely difficult to live with
a secret.
Copyright. 1884. BY The Tmesl
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-29
Today S Science
BY DAVID DIETZ

TIANT radio tubes. capable of handling the cleo
~ trical energy needed to citys street
system the latest wonder of science They at
tracted the attention this week of delegates to the
convention of the American Transit Association in
session in Cleveland.
The new tubes were installed recently by the
Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company
in the airport substation of the Cleveland Railway
Company.
Within your radio set is tube known as the rec
tier It's function is to turn the alternating current
with which the power company supplies your home
into the direct current required for the operation Of
your radio set.
Like your radio set, street system requires
direct current But as you can readily imagine,
there's difference between the amount of current
needed to run your radio and needed to run flock
of street
Each of the two rectifers installed in the sub
station in Cleveland is 100000 times powerful
the tubes in your radio SET These rectifer tubes
do job which otherwise would require motor
generator SET The motor generator is essentially
alternating current motor driving direct current
generator.
The mercury arc rectifiers have no moving parts.
They function in absolute silence.
THESE rectifiers take alternating current, received
Il from the Cleveland Electric Illuminating Com
pany either 1900 1000 volts and with the aid
of auxiliary transformer equipment, convert it into
direct current 625 to 672 volts for the operation
of the street cars.
Unlike the radio tube, the mercury rectiher
is not enclosed in a glass tube In this case, the
tube" is steel tank surrounded by water jacket.
Every trace Of air has been removed from the tank
In the bottom of the tank pools Of mercury
When the rectider is in operation, jets Of mercury
vapor are shot up from the pools. These jets Of
mercury steam condensed when they strike the
water-cooed walls Of the tank falling back to the
floor Of the tank in the form Of drops of liquid
mercury.
Over and over again, the recti1er Is operated,
the jets of mercury steam rise from the pools, only
to fall back again in the form Of mercury rain.
In the top of the tank are iron electrodes. Now
when the tube is in operation the mercury vapor is
ironized That is, many Of the atoms Of mercury lose
eectrons These atoms then become positively cleo
trfed The electrons, which set free, are mega.
lively electrified.
TINE eectron stream moves in only one direction.
Il 1t goes from the pool to the iron electrodes
Consequently, it constitutes oneway bridge for the
electric current.
The alternating current supplied by the power
company reverses the direction of its flow sixty times
second That is why it is called sixty-cyce current
But since the electron bridge will only allow current
to flow in direction. the current which comes
out of the recers is direct current Its flow is all
ways in the direction. This Is the sort OF cur
rent required by the street car motors.