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Evening star., 1934-05-06
CHICAGO RACKET
Jury ACQU|TS I
All Defendants Freed as
Four Month"; Trial
Ends.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. May 5-A jury which
for four months had heard charges
that four lucrative Chicago trades
we're ruled by terrorism and violence
today brought in blanket acquittal,
clearing all II defendants.
The verdict ended the city's longest
trial. conducted at cost estimated at
S250,0O0 and in continuous session
four months and one day.
States Attorney Thomas j. Court
ney announced Immediately that the
trial had served its main purpose in
spite of the verdict.
Since it started. there has been
no bombing, acid throwing. window
smashing or slugging," he said. The
verdict will not affect the determina-
ton of this office to carry on the
fight against racketeers."
Sapiro Greets Verdict.
The most prominent of the IT de-
PENDANTS greeted the verdict with
satisfaction
This clears me after four months
of persecution" said Attorney Aaron
organizer of trade associations.
DR.. Benjamin Squires. University OF
Chicago economist and head of the
Cleaners Institute. said: They tried
to blacken my reputation, but they
couldn't do it
Sapiro figured in the case as or
ganiZer of the laundrymen.. SquireS as
"czar" of the cleaning industry.
Their verdict reported, the II jurors
in the case broke court like boys out
of school. They have been locked up
since January 19 and out of touch
with their families, their jobs and the
world in general.
Besides Sapiro and SquireS, the de-
PENDANTS were labor officials and busi-
ness men. In long parade of wit
nesses and some 300 documents the
State sought to show that the IL
with Alderman Oscar Nelson. who
won a directed verdict of acquittal
earlier in the trial-conspired to
dominate the laundry. dyeing and
cleaning. carbonated beverage and
linen supply industries by price fixing
| agreements and by violence.
SA1SliidAAy, SNdiIdSC al SdpOllC
and his lieutenant, Murray Hum
phreys. were indicted with the others,
and the State contended the de-
PENDANTS hired the hoodlums to keep
rival business concerns "in line"
One of the jurors said they took
40 ballots in the 81 hours they were
out, but another said they took three.
Ballots for Fun.
Most of them we took Just for
fun" he said. The trial lasted four
months, and We didn't want to come
in too SOON"
With the end of the long drawn
out trial Juror William L. Cullenbine
was reunited with his bride; the trial
interrupted his honeymoon. Juror
Harry La Plant hurried home to see
how his goldfish have managed. He
raised them by phone last Winter.
We've formed some friendships
that will last all our lives,' said
Juror Alfred B. Holdsworth. There
hasn't been one fight all the time
we've been together-believe it or
not
Most of the jurors-locked up while
the defendants we're at liberty
gained weight and all were in good
health. They were four months be-
hnd in the news, having been denied
neWSpa perS
Evening star., 1934-05-06
PARENTS OF COED
PLEAD FOR SLAYER
Youth Held on Second-Degree
Charge After Admission
of Pact.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WAYNE, Nebr., May 5.-A second
degree murder charge was filed
against Ronald Young, 20, today,
despite the wishes of parents of his
dead sweetheart, Nancy Ann Afford,
10, his companion in suicide pact.
Before the filing of the complaint
in County Court. the girls father,
c. R. Afford of Macy, said prosecu-
tion of Young for his daughters
death would not bring her to life.
Young, student at Wayne Normal
School, as was Miss Afford, remained
in a hospital under guard of special
deputy sheriffs. His condition i'm
proved rapidly.
He gave no intimation that he
still wished to die. The girl sue
cumbed early yesterday after they
had slashed their wrists. When she
failed to bleed to death quickly, he
chloroformed her, he told officers, and
cut additional gashes in her arm.
Then he lost consciousness.
Suicide was planned. he said, be-
cause both he and the girl dreaded
the filing of robbery charges as a
result of their implication in thefts
here. Officers said he had confessed
three small robberies.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
RUBI0 SLAYING FIGURE
HELD ON RUM CHARGE
Ex-Deputy Sheriff and Son of
Former Officer Arrested by
Federal Agents.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, May 5.-In-
ternal revenue agents today an
nounced the arrest, on liquor viola
ton charges, of William E. Guess,
former deputy sheriff who was ac-
quilted in the internationally signifi-
cant Rubio slayings of three years
ago, and Raymond Garrett, son of
another former officer.
The agents said Guess and Gar
rett we're taken before a United
States commissioner and charged
with transporting and concealing
non-tax paid whisky. Bond was set
at $4,000.
John T. Burkett, in charge of the
alcoholic beverages unit here. said
agents seized 81 gallons of tax-paid
whisky and 104 gallons of bootleg
liquor.
Guess and another former deputy
sheriff were acquitted at Ardmore,
Okla, of Staying Emilio Cortes Rubio.
young kinsman of the President of
Mexico at the time, and a student
companion.
The two, with a third companion,
were returning to their home in
Mexico from college in the United
States. They had stopped their motor
car on side street in Ardmore.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
S|LVER|TES CLAIM
ROOSEVELT BACKS.
1880 RATIO BILL.
Train ParIey Insures White
Metal Law This Session,
Leaders Say.
PRICE MAY BE FIXED
AT so CENTS AN OUNCE
President Would Be Authorized to
Launch Purchase Program
Under Compromise.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Members of the congressional silver
bloc claimed to have found yesterday
silver lining to the cloud which has
hung over sthem during the present
session.
That silver lining. they said was
based on a changed attitude of Presi-
dent Roosevelt toward their demands
that something be done for the white
metal. They jubilantly predicted last
night that silver legislation would be
enacted before Congress adjourns.
They based their prediction on the
conference which nine of their num-
Der had with President Roosevelt on
board the train which was carrying
the Chief Executive to the funeral of
the former Secretary of the Treasury
William H. Woodin.
They admitted the President had
made them no definite promise. But
as one of the group said after return
ing to Washington, the Presidents S
his attitude two weeks ago as white is
from black
1890 Ratio.
Here is what the silverites hope to
have embodied in the legislation and
also hope to have the President ap-
prove:
l. A declaration of policy that
back of United States currency shall
be reserves of both gold and silver in
the ratio of 10 per cent gold and 30
per cent silver. This may have to be
modified to 1925 per cent ratio.
2 Naturalization of all monetary
silver in the country at a price not
to exceed so cents an ounce. 1t is
estimated that there are 250,000, 900
ounces of such silver available in the
country today. and that it would cost
the Government not more than $l25,-
100000 to acquire it.
g. A silver purchase program, which
would be exercised at the discretion
of the President, which would bring
the silver back of the currency up to
the 80 per cent asserted in the
declaration of policy.
A. The House Dies bill, which pro-
vides for the exchange of American
surplus agricultural products for
silver at a bonus price. This it was
pointed out. would also be permisSive
in character. since the operation of
the proposed act would be up to the
administration.
Bill Is Compromise.
The President has stood out against
mandatory" silver legislation, legis-
lation which would force him to
engage in huge silver purchase
program If the program now ad-
vanced by the silver bloc is agreed to,
the naturalization of existing none
tary silver in this country at price
not to exceed so cents an ounce
would constitute the only real and
immediate departure from this posi-
ton. However, the silver Senators
insist that the adoption of policy
which would call eventually for
ration of 80 per cent silver to 70 per
cent gold back of United States cur
rency would be in reality man
datory," although the President would
be left free to use his Judgment re-
garding the fulfllment of the policy
The bill takes on the nature of
compromise.
The calling of an international
monetary conference, to stabilize cur
rencies and international exchange as
Continued on Page 8, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CORRECTION

A headline in The Star of Fri
day. May 4. stated that fnvesti-
gators had reported to a Senate
Committee that Joseph r. Mutt
was responsible for the failure of
the wrecked Cleveland Trust"
Co. That was an error. The text
Of the article stated that the bank
in question was the Union Trust
Co. of Cleveland.
The Cleveland Trust Co. is to-
day open, being one of the first
in the immediate Federal Reserve
district to receive a license to re-
open after the national bank hol-
iday last year, and is in sound
condition today.
The men named in the report
OF the Senate committee investi-
gators have and have had no
connection whatever with the
Cleveland Trust Co.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
BY the Associated Press.

l
MINNEAPOLIS, May 5.-Three
irate motorists who claimed Repre-
sentative Fred Shoemaker, Farmer
Labor. Minnesota, had driven his car
into theirs, had the Representative
brought to police station here late
today.
Ralph Jacobson said as he slowed
his machine at an intersection an
other automobile hit it in the rear,
breaking bumper. Jacobson told
police the driver backed up and drove
away. Another motorist, w. L. Nc
Comber, drove up. offered to assist
Jacobson and together they pursued
the fleeing car.
When they caught the car, they
said they asked the driver, What's
the idea?" Police were told the
answer consisted of ramming Nc
Combers car and again fleeing. Up
the street the car caromed off that
of N. Haines. He too joined in the
pursuit.
When Shoemaker alighted and
went into house the trio Of motor
Evening star., 1934-05-06
HEIRESS SAYS MARRIAGE
F0LL0WEDLIQUORP PARTY

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, May 5.-Informed
deposltlons we're en- route here that
she had had only one drink of beer
prior to her marriage to Frank Van
Eiszner. Chicago socialite, Merry Far
ney Pickering Van Eiszner, patent
medicine heiress, declared tonight:
Il don't care who says it or how
many I was under the in
huence of some liquid before 1
married Van Eiszner and I never
lived with him as his wife.
L never loved him, don't now and
besides was engaged to another
man at the time
Evening star., 1934-05-06
RECEIVERS MUST PAY
Closed Indiana Banks. Must Set
tie Property Taxes.

EAST CHICAGO. Ind. May 5 (P.-
Receivers of closed Indiana banks
must pay property taxes on all real
estate held by them, Superior Court
Judge Maurice E. Critics ruled today.
Judge Critics sustained a demurrer
filed by County Attorney George
Hershman against the suit brought by
Harry E. Folk. receiver of the First
Trust and Savings Bank of Hammond.
who contended the taxing of the real
estate and the taxing of the deposits
constituted double taxation.
Attorneys for the receiver said they
would appeal to the Supreme Court.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
STEAMER SEARCH
FOR DILLINGER VAIN
American Consul General at Bel
fast and Band of Detectives
Make Futile Trip.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland. May
5.-Lucien Memminger. American
consul general, and band of detec-
tives tonight searched the liner
Duchess of York for John Dillinger.
but returned empty-handed.
There was absolutely no sign Of
Dillinger," Memminger said. He
definitely is not on the liner. Our
trip was in vain"
Evening star., 1934-05-06
MARINE PLANES LAND
AT PORT AU PRINCE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, May S.
Twenty-one Marine Corps planes,
under the command of Lieut.. Col. Ross
E. Rowell, roared through a heavy
sky to land here at pm. today, end
ing a flight from Guantanamo Bay
Cuba.
The massed landing at the field was
witnessed by Stenio Vincent, President
Of Haiti, and other dignitaries. This
planes will participate in United State
fleet maneuvers in this area in til.
next few days.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Betting on Derby
$353,854, Third
Above Last Years
BY the Associated Press.


LOUISVILLE, KY, May s.
In a copyright story tonight the
Louisville Courier journal said
S353854 was bet on the Ken
lucky Derby this afternoon
through the parimutuel ma
chimes at Churchill Downs. In
the 1888 Derby s229,352 went
through the machines.
Betting on all eight races on
the Derby card totaled s906,906,
compared with s745 SAT last
year, the Courier Journal said.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
TRAINMAN SAVES GIRL
Leans From Locomotive, Plucking
S-Year-Old From Trestle.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo, May
(P)-S. D. Piessey. Santa Fe Rail-
road brakeman. leaned out from the
fender on the front end of a locomo-
tive today and snatched 8-year-old
Ellen Broyles from trestle, saving
her life. Realizing she could not run
to the end of the bridge before the
train struck her, the brakeman
grabbed her as the locomotive sped
by. She was unhurt.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
Cummings Rule S Unpaid
Debts Prevent Sale of
Securities Here.
NATIONS MAKING TOKEN
PAYMENTS EXCEPTED
Other Countries Still Owing
Money Considered Put in
Russia's Category.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Attorney General Cummings decided
yesterday Russia was in default on
obligations to the United States and
was not entitled to receive financial
aid from citizens of this country.
His ruling. which was made with a
view to determining what countries
would be barred by the johnson act
from marketing their securities in
this country or in any other way re-
ceiving financial assistance. said that
Great Britain. Italy. CZechoslovakia,
Latvia and Lithuania. the five ma
tions that have made token payments
on their war debts, were not in de-
fault
The opinion, which was given at the
request of Secretary Hull, cited nu-
merous precedents in international
law but Cummings explained he was
largely guided in his Interpretation of
the johnson act by authorized views
of the intent of Congress. and by
President RooSevelt's statements con-
cerning war debts.
Presidents Statement.
Lie hLIOIlty StlltIdl Cdll6O dLltll-
ton specifically to President Roose-
velt's statement of November Z, 1888.
when, in accepting a token payment
from Great Britain, he said:
Il shall not regard the British
government in default"
Cummings gave no opinion concern
ing Greece, whose debt payments
have been postponed in accordance
with terms of the funding agreement,
or Rumania, with whom discussions
are still under way concerning pay
ment due January 2
In his opinion the Attorney Gen
eral made no mention of other debtor
nations but they-with the exception
of Finland. which has met in full all
payments due-were by inference con-
sidered in default.
Soviet Russia was held in default
by the Attorney General because it
has failed to recognize obligations in
CURED by the preceding CZarist and
Kerensky governments in Russia
Under the Cars bonds totaling $685.
600 900 were sold in this country,
and the Kerensky regime, during its
short life in 1917, borrowed $751;
100000 from the United States
Treasury.
Debt Funding Pact.
Negotiations are now IN progress in
Moscow for debt funding agreement
covering those debts as we'll as claims
of American citizens for property
alleged to have been confscated by
the Soviets through the nationalist
ton of property decree.
Cummings in his opinion indicated
that a successful conclusion to those
negotiations would probably remove
the stigma of "defaulter' from the
Soviets.
The Export t-Import Bank was specif-
ically organized to extend trade with
Russia through granting credits in this
country, and through securing such
credits Soviet Russia would have
escaped provisions of the johnson act
The Executive Committee of the
bank six weeks ago. however, adopted
resolution expressly stating that no
credits would be granted the Soviets
until a debt funding agreement had
been reached.
In outlining what types of transac-
tions the act applies to, the Attorney
General said:
The committee reports recite that
the bill was introduced following an
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1934-05-06
STATE SENATOR DIES
j. Griswold Webb Was Friend
and Neighbor of Roosevelt.

POUGHKEEPSIE N. Y, May S
R.-State Senator j. Griswould
Webb, friend of President Roose-
velt, died tonight at his Hyde Park
estate, adjoining the Presidents
home. Like the President, he re-
covered from infantile paralysis in an
epidemic several yeas ago and gave
some of his blooo to help victims of
the disease
Webb, who was A years old, was
newspaper reporter before he was first
elected to the Legislature in 1928.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
"DIOGENES" IS JAILED

German Confectioner, Seeking
Justice, Gets Months Term.
MUNICH, Germany, May 5 (P).-A
modern Diogenes" today received a
sentence of one months imprison-
ment for his pains.
He is RaimunG 2eisler, a confec-
toner. who created a sensation in
Munich last December by walking
about the streets with lighted Ian
tern and bearing the inscription, Il
Am Seeking Justice"
Around his neck he carried pla-
card criticizing four well known at
torneys who, he said. had been deal
ing unfairly with him.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
10 National Guard
Privates Collapse
In New York Heat
By the Associated Press.

by Tue hSSOCldIeu FTcSS.
NEW YORK, May 5.-Ten
privates of the 7th Regiment,
New York National Guard, COL
lapsed today, presumably from
the heat, while they stood at at
tention in full dress uniform at
the La Fayette Centenary Exposi-
ton.
They were carried inside the
Rockefeller Center Buildings,
where the exhibition opened to-
day, for first aid treatment. The
temperature rose through the day
until at 4 pm. eastern standard
time) it was Sc degrees.
This wasn't a new record. but
it led the mark set on May S,
1919 Yesterday was cold, with
rain and fog. The thermometer
jumped 80 degrees overnight.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CITIZENS CONDEMN
HASTE IN SENATE
Federation Calls Speed in
Passing Welfare Trans
fer Bill "UnseemIy."

The Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions last night condemned the haste
with which the Senate has passed.
and the House District Committee ap-
proved, the bill transferring powers
from the Board of Public Welfare to
the Board of Commissioners. 1t
asked for public hearings before
House and Senate committees before
final action is taken.
Remarking that the Senate had
acted within 10 days from the intro
ductiOn of the bill, the resolution, in
troduced by George E. Sullivan and
adopted, said:
Such unseemly haste in overturn-
ing a long established institution in
this District, originally adopted after
extensive deliberations in behalf of
the welfare Of the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia. is unbecoming in
supposedly deliberative body with
the responsibility of dealing fairly and
intelligently with matters affecting
the disfranchised people of the Dis
trict "
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CLERGYMAN MISSING
Prominent Knoxville Minister
Sought in Florida by Police.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla, May S
R).-Rev. Carl A. Thomas, As, prom
inent Southern Baptist minister of
Knoxville, Tenn, here for his health,
was missing today. police announced.
He was last seen Wednesday leav-
ing his Northside rooming house.
Police said they intend to search
Tampa Bay waters as he may have
become Ill while swimming.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
CAVALCADE WINS
KENTUCKY DERBY
Biggest Crowd Since 1928
Sees Thrilling Race.
Discovery Second.
BY ALAN GOULD.
Associated Press Sports Editor

Associated Press sports EdltoT-
CHURCHILL DOWNS, Louisville
Ky, May 5.-Cavalcade. the mighty
record breaking colt bred in Old Eng
land but foaled in America. broke the
hearts of two renowned queens of the
turf today and raced to sensational
victory in the siXtieth Kentucky
Derby.
Heavily backed to win at the short
odds of 3 10 2. Cavalcade justified the
confidence in his speed and thrilled a
crowd of $4,000 spectators. the biggest
in six years, with a glittering stretch
drive that easily beat off his gallant
Eastern rival, Discovery. and left the
two fleet fillies, Mata Hari and Bazaar.
struggling in the rear.
Owned by Mrs Isabel Dodge Sloane,
New York and Florida sportswoman.
who was on hand to see her colors
triumph after being out of the hos
pital only a short time. Cavalcade's
victory was worth S28.l75 net to his
owner and gave Eastern turf followers
their first smashing thrill since Twenty
Grand came home in front three years
ago in record
Cavalcade broke slowly and was
carefully ridden by the veteran Mack
Garner, astride his first Derby win
ner in IL attempts. Once he took COM
mand in the stretch, however, the
beautiful brown colt, son of Lance
gaye. hastily left no doubt about the
result. Paying tribute to long line
of great British thoroughbreds, includ-
ing many winners of the English
Derby. Cavalcade flashed a finishing
burst of speed that left Alfred Gwynne
Vanderbilt's Discovery three full
lengths back.
Agrarian Edges Out FilIy.
Closing fast. another colt. Agrarian.
owned by Mrs. F. J. Heller of New
York, came up to take third place by
a half length from the fast-tiring
Mata Hari. the highly regarded filly
of Charles T. Fisher of Detroit. After
setting dizzy pace for the first half
mile for her gentlemen rivals, and
threatening to duplicate the famous
victory of Regret, only filly ever to win
the Derby, Mata Hari yielded first to
Discovery and then to Cavalcade in
the critical closing stages.
Fractious at the barrier. Mata Hari
was chiefly responsible for a delay of
Continued on First Sport Page)
Evening star., 1934-05-06
School Bill Disapproved.

Much debate centered around bill
to allow the District to sell to St.
AIMS Parish the ground on which
the Tenley School stands, but finally
a report of the committee on educa-
ton was adopted, disapproving the
bill by a vote Of 80 to Is.
The question of approval of
Federal manufacturers sales tax also
came before the federation, but de-
cision was postponed until the next
regular meeting In report from the
Fiscal Relations Committee. L. A.
Carruthers, chairman, showed why the
people of the District of Columbia
have every reason to be interested in
and to express their views on such
proposed national legislation
He pointed out that under Article
.. Section l, of the federation's con-
Stitution. it is stated that: The OBJ
ject of this federation is to obtain the
expression of the general public senti-
ment upon matters of special interest
to all the citizens of the District and
Continued on Page 4, Column ID
Evening star., 1934-05-06
SETS ALTITUDE MARK
italian Woman Flyer Reaches
HEIGHT of 17.712 Feet.

GENOA. Italy, May (P.-The
aviation ministry announced today
that the Marquise Carina Negrone di
Cambiaso had broken the woman's
hydroplane altitude record by reach
, ing l7,712 feet in a Breda plane pow
cred by 100-horsepower Isotta Fras-
chin motor
The previous record. the ministry
reported. was held by Miss Marion
Eddy Conrad who flew to 13,457
feet at Port Washington, N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-05-06
S0viet-Polish Pact Extended.

MOSCOW. May S (P.-An exten-
sion of the Soviet-Polish non-agres-
sion pact for 10 years was announced
tonight in a foreign Office commu-
nique
Evening star., 1934-05-06
War Opposition Asked.

Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-05-06

Showers today and tomorrow; some
what cooler today; gentle shifting winds.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, 80, at a pm.
yesterday; lowest, Sc, at am. yester-
day. Full report on page A-9.
Evening star., 1934-05-06

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