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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-10-15
SEN, REED FILES
Hole CHARGES
BY International News Service

A 21-point bill Of complaint
against administration of the
Home Owners Loan Corporation
was submitted to Chairman John
H. Fahey today by Senator Reed
(R.) of Pennsylvania, in response
to Mr.. Fahey's request for infor-
nation which would justify an
investigation.
In his bill of complaint, Senator
Reed declared that files of the
Hole in Washington contain a
letter showing that local Demo
cratic leader in one Pennsylvania
county held 900 Home Loan appli-
cations in his pocket for the pur-
pose of collecting fees.
Legal Action Threat
The applications, it was as
serted, were not surrendered until
legal action was threatened by
Hole agents.
Senator Reed submitted letters
from many Pennsylvania individ'
ualS making charges Of unfair
ness, political influence and SLOW
ness in closing loans.
Fahey Defends Hole
In establishing the Federal
Home Loan Bank system the
Government sis merely fulfilling
a double duty to aid private in
dustry to organize and to protect
a vital public interest; there is
nothing paternalistic in this pro-
gram" John H. Fahey, chairman
of the board wrote today in the
first issue of the Federal Home
Loan Bank Review.
Chairman Fahey recently told
Senator Reed that politics is
banned in the organization and
said that he would investigate
any specific complaints. -
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PRIEST LEADS
PROTEST ON
81 WAGE
Soldiers Guard Shaft Against
Wives As Death Nears for
Ent0mbed Mates

PEGS. Hungary, Oct. IS GN.
S.0.-Joining in the dramatic
challenge hurled from 1000 feet
below the earth by $50 of their
fellow-workers, 1900 Christian
Socialist miners led by a priest to-
day proclaimed their participa-
ton in a hunger strike designed
to force increases in a starvation
wage.
Soon after the striking miners
sent a message from their under
ground tomb reading: BUY $50
coffins; we are prepared to die"
the Christian Socialist supporters
appeared at the mine entrance
and demanded admission to the
shaft. Troops and police dis
persed them.
Miners Hold Hostages
With the $50 self-imprisoned
miners were five emissaries sent
by the government, who de-
scended with an offer to arbitrate
provided violence would be
abandoned-and were rewarded by
being held prisoners in the, foul.
smelling subterranean chamber.
The strike started Friday when
800 miners started the demon
stration. Fire broke out in the
shaft shortly afterward, and sew.
eral hundred rescuers and fire.
fighters quenched the flames and
then joined the strikers in the
mine.
While their women-folk out
side fought guards around the
pit-head, barring them from join
ing and dying with the miners,
there was no sign that the mine
operators would capitulate and
give the men the $3.50 a week
wage increase they demand in
their present So a week pay.
Cult Off the Water
Entombed for four days, the
miners we're believed today to
have only a few hours more to
live.
They are understood to have
finally carried out their threat
to turn off the ventilating ma
chinery and shut off the water
supply.
Without fresh air, they could
not last the day, it is believed.
Five trade union officials, sent
by Premier Julius Gomboes to
negotiate with the miners, face
death with them, for the strik-
ers held the emiSsaries as host
ages.
The Minister Of the Interior
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j. s. EXPERTS
WILL SURVEY
D.C.PR|CES
Report by Jan. | Ordered;
May Mean End to S Per Cent
Salary Slash

Faced with a decision whether
living costs justify elimination OF
the remaining five per cent cut
in Federal employees salaries by
January 1, President Roosevelt
has asked the Department of
Labor to prepare a detailed re-
port on current living costs.
The report will be prepared
after an exhaustive investigation
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
and will be delivered at the
White House, January l.
Study Covers 81 Cities
December IS, a staff of Is sta
tistical experts will commence a
survey of living costs throughout
So key" cities in the country.
In Washington statistical in
vestigators will visit between $50
and $40 stores carrying goods
which last years report showed
were being purchased daily by
Government employees.
For 10 days, under the dlrec'
tion of DR.. Isador Lubin's new
chief of the Division Of Family
Expenditures Miss Faith vii
liams, Labor Department. h1vesti-
gators will gather statistics. The
remaining week in December will
be required to prepare DR.. Lubin's
formal report, which the Presi-
dent has asked by January /.
Upon that report the President
will base his decision whether or
not the 5 per cent of salaries
should be returned to Govern
ment employees.
Food Costs Up
Some figures already are avail.
able to the Bureau of Labor Sta
tistics. Food prices, for example,
are known to have risen mark
edly since last June, according to
DR.. Lubin.
What the prices are on 200
other articles on the marketing
list of Federal employees, however,
is not yet known. Apparently,
says DR.. Lubin, there has been no
outstanding change in the type
of merchandise being purchased
with Federal pay checks.
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A White House precedent, re-
garding noninterference in con
gressional campaigns, will be
broken by Mrs. Roosevelt next
week when she goes to New York
to campaign for Mrs. Daniel
O'Day, Democratic nominee for
Representative-at-large from New
York State.
Mrs. Roosevelt will make four
speeches, in Buffalo, Rochester.
Syracuse and New York city. The
Buffalo meeting is being spon-
Sored by the State League OF
Women Voters and is nonpar-
tisan. The other three are be-
ing held under the various Wom-
ems organizations.
Joins Fund Appeal
Letters asking funds for Mrs.
O'Day's campaign, already mailed
from her New York office, were
signed by Mrs. Roosevelt.
Announcing today that she
would campaign for Mrs. O'Day,
Mrs. Roosevelt said:
81 know it is unusual for any
one in the White House to take
an active part in a Congress
siOnal campaign"
She went on to explain that she
had been associated with Mrs.
ODay since 1922 in the women's
division of the New Rork State
Democratic Committee, holding
the position of finance chairman,
which position she is resuming in
the interest of her old friend and
co-worker.
She said:
"Mrs. O'Day represents in her.
self the real reason most women
go into poIitics-in order to
achieve certain changes in our
social organization which, they
feel, can only be reached by
Government"
CONSIDERS HER BEST
MRS. Roosevelt said she felt very
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President Calls for Figures on Cost Basis Action Pay Restoration
CaponeAguiin
Loses Fight
To Go Free

by lntefnAuOnaI N6WS SeTV1CO
"Scarface Az Capone, former
overload of Chicago gangdom, to-
day lost his second appeal to the
Supreme Court in an effort to
escape his sentence on charges of
lodging income tax.
The high court, without expla-
nation, denied a petition for re-
view in a habeas corpus proceed
ing, in which Capone's lawyers
contended that the statute Of
limitations prevented his trial.
Thus the high court left unan'
swered the question Of whether
or not Capone'S lawyers made a
fatal error when he was tried in
Federal court in Chicago by not
raising the statute Of limitations
question in the proper way.
Capone was sentenced to a year
in Jail on misdemeanor charges
and 10 years for lodging income
tax for 1925, 1925, and 1927.
At the trial his lawyers moved
for a directed verdict and asserted
that three years had elapsed since
the offenSes. The Government re-
piled that a Six-year statute ap'
piled in Capone's case.
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President Returns
From Fishing Trip

After a weekend cruise down
Chesapeake Bay, President Roose-
welt returned to the White House
last night. The Presidential yacht
Sequoia docked at the Washington
Navy Yard, and the President and
his party, which included Secre-
tary of the Treasury Morganthau
and Gov. George l.. Harrison Of
the New York Federal Reserve
Bank, diSerhbarked. Because Of
the presence of these two men, it
was believed monetary problems
Of the nation were discussed on
the trip. 49,, .,..--.,s,,. ,.,..--
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POinCare Dead at "a;
Five Times Premier

edge of Paris when the end came.
The second national funeral
within a week-Foreign Minister
Louis Barthou was buried Satur-
day-will be held for M. Poin-
care, government officials said.
The decision as to the day will
be made tonight at a cabinet
council.
Premier CASTOR Doumergue.
his face showing the effects of
the worry and strain of the last
few days, came early to comfort
Nine. Poincare. Former Presi-
dent Alexandra Hillerand was an
other early visitor.
M. Poincare's death came at a
time of crisis in the affairs Of his
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Will Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA, CAL, Oct. IA.
There is not going to be any war
in Europe now, for nobody knows
Just who they would fight, ma
lions are not signed up. In the
big war before, they already
had their sides picked and the
war was booked long before
it come off, but since that war
nations have kinder wanted to
do like a lot of our moving
picture stars do, they won't
sign exclusively with one COM
pany. They take a chance on
what we cali "free lancing,"
that is, waiting for the best
offer.
So that's what most Euro
pean nations are doing. They
are going to wait till war starts
then free lance" sit and wait
for the best offer. That's what
France had this king come over
there for, they were trying to
get an option on his services.
France had Poland signed up,
but there was a cancellation
clause, so now Poland is "free
lancing." Yours for all the
European news that's fit to
Print.
Copyright, 1894, by McNauEht
Syndicate, Inc.l
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Wilmington Writer
Kidnapped, Robbed

WILMINGTON, Del, Oct. Is,
Walter E. Smith, newspaper re.
porter, now has a chance to write
a personal story about the way
thugs and kidnapers operate.
Mr.. Smith had just completed
covering an assignment at st.
Johns Episcopal Church when he
was "snatched" by three men,
who drove him to Philadelphia,
beat him, and robbed him of IS,
then threw him out of the car
No motive for the attack has
been learned.
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COURT HEARS
HAUPTMANN
TESTIFY
| Suspect Takes Stand in N. Y.
Hearing on Extradition to
N. J. for Trial
By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

NEW YORK, Oct. 15.-Mrs. An
nj Hauptmann, titian-haired wife
Of Bruno Richard Hauptnann,
took the witness stand today at
the habeas corpus hearing at
which her husband is fighting ex-
tradition to New Jersey, and teStl-
fled she was quite positive her
husband-the Lindbergh case sus-
pect-called for her at a bakery
in New York city where she was
working on Tuesday night, March
/, 1892.
That was the night little Charles
A.. Lindbergh was kidnapped from
his crib at the Lindbergh estate
at Hopewell, N. J.
Mrs. Hauptmann was calm at
the start of her testimony. But
under stern croSS-eXamination she
seemed to falter. She spoke with
distinct German accent.
She was dressed in a black dress
and a small black hat. She is
about IS years old. ~
As she t0ok the stand, the third
witness Of the day. her husband
focused his eyes upon her.
Expression ChangelesS
Hauptmann sat at defense coun-
sci table. Ten guards stood in a
row back of him. The prisoner
wore a gray suit and tan shirt. He
was pale. His cheeks sunken and
he was as grim and morose as
ever.
His poker face did not change
an iota as his loyal wife provided
an alibi for him. He was equally
fashionable as the attorneys for
the State Of New Jersey rigor'
ously assailed the alibi.
Mrs. Hauptmann had been pre-.
coded to the stand by Mr.. and
Mrs. Christian Frederickson, own
ers of q bakery in the Bronx, New
York City, where Mrs. Hauptmann
had once been employed. They
testified Hauptmann usually called
for his wife on Tuesday and Fri
day nights.
stress was laid on the fact that
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Race Enthusiast
Dies Awaiting
Track Bus

Fate played a mean trick to"
day on a young man who had
apparently planned to change
his fortunes at the race track.
It killed him IS minutes before
he was to depart for the track.
While waiting for a Washing.
ton Virginia,M Maryland Coach
Company bus to depart for Lau-
rel, an unidineified. shabbily
dressed man in his early thirtieS
was stricken with q heart at
tack. He was removed to the
District Morgue in an Emer-
gency Hospital ambulance.
In his pockets were found
1898, a pair Of field glasses and
q list Of horses.
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Train Hits Auto;
Five Persons Die

CHICAGO, Oct. is Q.N.S0.-A
locomotive engineman at the
wheel Of an automobile on his
day off, picnic bound. failed to
stop, look and listen at a grade
crossing. Five persons died.
The dead: Fred Hochstadter,
Blue Island railroad yardmaster;
his wife, Helen: their children,
Herbert and Jean, and Mrs. Ethel
Patno, wife of the engineman.
chauffeur. Mr.. Patno was critical
injured. The crossing tender said
the gates failed to work.
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strongly that Mrs. O'Day repre-
sents the best type of wamn:in'
politics. She originally became in
terested through her association,
first with Henry Street IN. "
Settlement and later as a member
of the State welfare board. She
has been, Mrs. Roosevelt ex-
planned, an unpaid but extremely
interested member of that board
for 10 years.
The letters, signed by Mrs.
Roosevelt, were sent to women
with whom the First Lady had
worked during her connection with
the State committee. In the let
ter she says:
II am very anxious to see Mrs.
O'Day elected to Congress"
Asked if she was establishing a
precedent in departing from the
White House non-interference pol
icy, Mrs. Roosevelt said she was
not, but that she was not tying
herself down to any promise.
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Physician Denies
Rogers Near Death

NEW YORK, Oct. IS Q.N.S0.
"RidicuIOus!"
With this one word DR.. George
F. Slattery today swept aside re-
ports that Col. Henry Huddleston
Rogers Is critically i'll and that
relatives have been summoned
from Europe. The doctor, who
has been attending the mQlti-mil-
lionaire oil man for 10 days, de
clared Colonel Rogers is well on
the way to recovery from a mild
attack of pneumonia.
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Oxley Discusses
2-DOllar Tags

Maryland motorists deserve the
benefit Of q flat base price for
automobile tags, John E. Oxley
Rockville attorney and Fusion
candidate for the Senate. told the
Automobile Club Of Maryland
today. -.
Oxley said he would work, II
elected, for two dollar tags.
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BritOns, Americans
In Bridge Tourney

LONDON, Oct. IS Q.N.SO.
With .kibitzers almost eliminated,
the second Anglo-American bridge
match for the Charles M. Schwab
trophy got under way this after
noon.
Last year $4,000 persons wit
messed the battle of cards, but the
present tournament is being staged
behind locked doors, only officials,
press, and royalty being admitted.
Among the spectators were the
Maharajah and Maharanee, Of
Baroda, two of midas leading
bridge fans.
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Experts Separate
Locked Vessels

Under the watchful eyes Of
Coast Guardsmen aboard the U. S.
c. G.. Cutter Apache, salvage ex.
pertS today will attempt the haz-
ardous task of separating two big
freighterS locked together in Ches-
apeake Bay. The vessels, San Vim.
cente and w. w. Bruce, collided
Saturday night on the east side OF
Craighill Channel.
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Score Hunted in Plot

PARIS, Oct. Is G.N.S0.-Be-
tween IS and 20 terroriSts, all OF
whom swore blood vows to assassi-
nate King Alexander of Jugosla-
via, were sought in France today
as qualifications of the plot which
resulted in his death were revealed
by authorities.
Police Commissare Petit, who is
directing the operations at Anne
MaSse, where two of the assassins
were seized, revealed that four or
five separate squads of murderous
terrorists were sent to France to
accomplish the deed.
Petrus Kalemen, since identified
as Vlada Georgieff, chauffeur and
ex-aide to Ivan Mihailoff, notori-
Gus leader of the Macedonian,
Comitadjis, and his assistants,
two of whom have been appre.
hended, comprised merely one of
the murder squads.
Sent From Hungary
It is believed the murder squads
were dispatched to Paris from the
Jugoslavian Emigre camp at Jan
kapustka, Hungary.
M. Petit revealed that. had
Kalemen failed, other of the
assassin squads were prepared to
dynamite bridges over which Alex
ander's train would pass. Had
these attempts all failed, another
squad was waiting in the capital.
Meanwhile, France was in a
critical situation.
Extremists Gain
On top of its other troubles,
the nations illustrious statesman,
Poincare, died this morning. Also
coming today was the final tabu-
lation of Sundays cantonal elec-
tions, which showed a great in
crease in the strength of the
extremist parties at the expense
of the center groups, with Com
munists almost trebling their
votes in previous elections.
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100000 Pay
to
Dead King

ZAGREB, Oct. IS G.N.S0.-1n
view of 100000 silent watchers,
the body of slain King Alexander
was started on it's journey to Bel
grade for burial today.
For hours before the funeral
train pulled out, thousands Of per-
sons filed past the railway station
to pay last homage to JugoslaVla S
aSSassinated ruler.
At Belgrade, hundreds OF police
and soldiers were ready to handle
huge crowds and to guard the
lives of young King Peter and
others of the royal family.
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BY MICHAEL WILSON

PARIS, Oct. is U.N.S0.-Ray-
mond Poincare, Frances wartime
President and five-times Premier,
died at his Paris residence at $3.50
o'clock this morning.
The 74-year-old statesman COM
planned of being i'll, and remained
in bed all day yesterday. Last
night he was stricken with gen.
eral paralysis, and sank rapidly.
He had come to his home in the
Rue Marbeu from his country
estate only a fortnight ago.
Wife at Bedside
His wife, his sister-in-law, Nine.
Lucien Poincare, and a doctor
were at his bedside in the ball
room Of his little home on the
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EX.WORKERS
Of STOLLS
QU|ZZED
Three Discharged Employees
Questioned on "Grievance";;
Fish Camps Searched

Here are the developments to
date in the sensational StOll kid
mapping case:
/. Wednesday, October 10.
Mrs. Alice StolI, wealthy young
society matron, slugged and car
ried off by lone kidnaper from
her home in Louisville, Ky.
2. Note left in StOll home de-
manding $4,000 ransom. Kid
naper promises to make contact
within five days"
3. Thursday, October ii, Berry
StolI announces the $4,000 ran
som for his wife is ready. No
contact with kidnaper yet made
4. Friday, October IL, suspect
arrested in West Virginia. Later
released. Still no word from
kidnaper.
5. Saturday, October IL, $780,
900 ransom mailed to general
delivery in unnamed city. Kid
naper fails to call for money.
s. Sunday, October IA, MRS.
StOll reported seen alive in kid
naper's car. Authorities place
little significance on the report.
Police Withdrawn from Stoll
home to allow contact.
7. Monday, October Is, with
still no contact, deadline of five
days expires this afternoon. De-
partment of Justice agents be-
Iieve Mrs. StOll is still alive.
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Bv DAVID P. sENTNER

LOUIS VILE, KY, Oct. Is
G.N.SO.-Former employees OF the
Stoll Oil Refining Company were
questioned today by authorities to
check the theory that a fancied
grievance may have been the mo"
tive behind the kidnapping OF e.
year-old Mrs. Berry V. Stoll from
her home five days ago.
The husband of the victim Is
one of four sons of C. c. Stoll,
head of the company, which is the
largest independent oil concern in
Kentucky.
Woman Secondary Figure
Mrs. Stoll, the former Alice
Speed, member of one Of the
South's oldest families, was kid
mapped as a secondary victim by
the intruder.
In the ransom note left behind
by the kidnaper, the name OF C..
c. Stoll was crossed out and the
name of Mrs. Stoll inserted before
he dragged the society woman into
his automobile.
The kidnaper also mentioned
wealthy members of the Stoll clan
who might supply the ransom and.
apparently, as an afterthought,
added the name of Mrs. William
S. Speed, the mother of Mrs. Stoll,
CONTINUED on Page 3, Col. ~
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WASHINGTON FORECAST
Fair and warmer tonight; Tuesday fair. Full
Weather Report on Page Is.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
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IN TEMPERATURES
Evening star., 1934-12-19
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK.

States Department Of Agriculture) HOES.
20. 900 including 10000 direct; slow. 10
above 24O pounds. 6.25a35; top, $40; 200
Ss ss1S s.efins sss: Ss Rs RsS
! .ooa5 10; To- light I weight. 10000 pounds
eounds S575as saa heavy eshsh @saht sSo55o
pounds. 6.30a40: packing sows. medium
and good, 275-550 pounds, 525s6 90; pigs.
good and choice. 10o-130 pounds. 2.50a
Cattle. 9.0oO commercial. 100 Govern
ment' calves. $500 commercial. 100 Gov
ernment; slow. weak market on better
grade weighty steers and common and me
dium grade light offerings fully steady:
best iisht steers. @ 10. 90. but very little done
on yearlings. with supply liberal: other kill
ing classes mostly steady to strong 1t be-
siaushter Is si cattle and veaiers steers. good
and choice. $4,000 pounds. 6.50a9. .25;
90O-1., 100 pounds; 6.75s9; IS; I;1O0-1 300
s,75a1o26 common and medium. $50
1000 pounds. 2:75a6.75.
Heifers, good and choice. $1,000
pounds. 5.50aS.50; common and medium,
and medium. q lOa3 so; low cutter and
c@ds so9d sses a.ss 20 s9 ysassE estssE.
good and Choice. 4. .75a6 90; medium. .50a
4.75;. Gull and common. 3.00a3. so. Stocker
and feeder cattle: Steers, good and choice.
5OO-l050 pounds. 3.75a4.75; common
Sheep. 5000; indications fully steady
with Tuesdays late advance or upward
to 7.75 on good to choice slaughter lambs;
best held well above 7.s5; sheep strong
to 25 higher; best ewes quotable. $50;
Slaughter sheep and lambs Lambs. 80
pounds down, good and choice, 7.0Oa7. .s5
common and medium, 5.50a7.15; ewes,
9O-15O pounds, good and choice. .25a
$50; ali weights common and medium.
2 2.OOa2 so; feeding lambs, 50-75 pounds
good and choice, 5.00a6.00.
Evening star., 1934-12-19
RISE CONTINUES
AT STEEL PLANTS
Production Rate Climbs to
35Xa Per Cent, or High
est Since June.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 19.-with
mill schedules being pushed in prepa-
ration for three-day Christmas shut
down, steel production and scrap prices
have moved upward for the ninth
consecutive week, the Iron Age re-
ported today. It estimated the cur
rent operating rate at 35la per cent Of
capacity, gain of az points over a
week ago and the highest rate since
the end of June.
A further rise in scrap made the
Iron Age index for old metal S11.58 a
ton, the highest since the middle of
May.
Mills plan to resume operations after
Christmas and some will run through
the New Year period. according to the
review.
Although part Of the current ex-
pansion in output is attributable to
replenishment of raw steel stocks" it
added, "this Is not the case in all pro-
ducing districts. In one important
center mills have been forced to run
on cold steel to meet the urgent needs
of the automobile trade.
THE long delayed new model pro-
gram of the motor car makers has
now gotten under way in earnest. De-
mand from farm implement and trac-
tor plants, as well as from wide