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Evening star., 1935-11-12
MORRO CASTLE FIRE
TRIAL is STARTED
Seven Indictments Face Four
Defendants in Effort to
Fix Blame.

NEW YORK. November II R.-The
Federal Government today began
prosecution Of four defendants in an
effort to fix the blame for the burn
ing Of the Ward liner MORO Castle
September 8. 1884. when l24 passen-
gers and members Of the crew perished
of the New Jersey coast.
Federal District Judge Murray HUI
bert presided.
The defendants were the New York
& Cuba Mail Steamship Co.. 1.-The
Ward Line; Henry E. Cabaud, its
executive vice president: William F,
Warns. who succeeded the master OF
the ship when the latter died sud
denly a few hours before the fire, and
Eben S. Abbott, chief engineer.
In seven indictments they were
charged with criminal negligence. All
have entered pleas of innoncence
Francis w. H. Adams. United States
attorney, heading large legal staff,
moved for two alternate jurors I'm
asmuch as this trial will take the bet-
ter part Of a month" The bench
granted the motion.
Judge Hubert. in an address to the
fury panel, explained the statutes
under which the defendants are being
prosecuted.
"The indictment" he said, Charges
the destruction of the MORO Castle
on high seas with loss Of life. The
statute provides that the captain, the
engineer, or any other officer of the
ship or company. whose negligence
or misconduct causes the destruction,
may be guilty of the crime"
Warns is charged with "unlawfully
and wilfully. by misconduct. negli-
gence and inattention to his duties,
failing to take such steps as were
necessary for the safety Of upward of
200 passengers, and as a result OF his
misconduct, negligence and inatten-
tion to his duties the lives Of upward
of so persons were destroyed"
Evening star., 1935-11-12
FORD TURNS BACK
ON n. R. A. PARLEY
Curt Three-SentenCe Note
Says Advice Was Not
Asked Before.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
Edsel Ford. president Of the Ford
Motor Co., has rejected curtly the
Governments invitation to participate
in a business-labor conference on
needs for a new N r. A.
A letter three sentences long ad-
dressed to George L. Berry, President
F.oosevelts industrial co-ordinator,
said:
I'VE have not participated in such
conferences in the past an our ob-
servation of their effect upon the
recovery Of the Nations economic
health has not convinced us that any
beneficial end will be served by them
now.
Our experience and counsel, to
which your letter refers. are always at
the service of the Government.
Hitherto unqueStionable acquies-
cence and not counsel has been asked"
Berry yesterday made public the
letter from the son of the noted man
ufacturer. The Ford company never
signed a certificate of compliance
under N. r. A. It's rejection of the
December 8 conference invitation
aligned it with the rest of the auto
mobile industry.
In a reply to Ford. Berry wrote that
incredible as it may seem. what
want is counsel and not unquestion-
able acquiescence.'
N. R. A. coincidently said % ac-
ceptances and 10 regrets have been
received to Berry's invitation, while
% were indefinite or indecisive. The
Southern Pine Association yesterday
wrote Berry it felt revival Of N. R. A.
would 'retard industrial progress"
More than 5000 invitations have
been issued to trade associations,
labor organizations and individual in
dustrial and labor leaders.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Radio Tells Story of Flight
Terse Flashes Trace Progress of Ascent Into
Stratosphere and Give Vivid Picture of
Activity Within Gondola.

sure OF 29 millimeters.' Ground
crew computed this as being $4,000
feet-a new record)
Temperature minus degrees CEN
tigrade inside and minus SIS outside
the gondola. The sky is white below.
grading into a bright blue, and over
head it is jet black"
12:23pm: I'VE are starting to take
pictures" Even the sound of the
clicking Of the camera shutter could
be heard over the radio.
l2:l1 pm-"We have just exceeded
the record and everything is going
fine" Record unoficially set by
three Russians in 1884 at 72.l76 feet)
New Record Reported.
12:29pm: I'VE report a new STRAIT
osphere record at $4,000 feet"
1857 pm: I'VE are going to start
our descent shortly"
los pm: We're starting down
now. 1t will take about three hours
We're going to try to come down very
slowly. We want to get the cosmic
ray measurements coming down as
we'll as going up"
1:2o pm: What part of Nebraska
are we over now? We've been too busy
to navigate" The reply was. The
last report placed you near Martin,
S. Oak"
1870 pm-Anderson: We've drop
ped to $1,000 and have some difficulty
in getting the rate Of descent between
800 and 400 feet"
1853 pm: We're down to $1,000
feet"
2:47 pm: Were down to 10000
Everything o. K. We're taking more
pictures"
3:l3 pm: ALTITUDE now $1,000
We're dropping 500 a minute"
In a radio conversation with the
Pan-American China Clipper plane
Capt. Stevens said We are getting
on very nicely. We are more than
half way down now"
1928 pm: The ballon is descend
ing too fast. We're throwing out
ballast low at the 23,000-foot level.
radio communication then ceased
the ground crew explaining the bal
loonists were too busy)
Alb p.m.-The epic flight ended
One report from the White Lake field
where the flyers landed said. mo.
body got scratch
Evening star., 1935-11-12
SALES IN OCTOBER
UNDER SEPTEMBER
But Department Store Total Is
Well Above That of Month
in 1884.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Instead of the usual seasonal in
crease. the Federal Reserve Board
reported today that the value of de-
partment store sales dropped off in
October in comparison with the pre-
ceding month.
However. the months sales were
per cent higher than in October las
year, while the 10-month cumulative
total was per cent higher than il
the first 10 months of 1884
The boards index, which make!
allowance for usual seasonal move.
ments and for differences in the mum
Der of business days, showed October
sales only II per cent Of the 1882;
average during the month, as com
pared with 50 per cent the previou!
month and 79 per cent in August.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
FOUR DEAD IN CRASH

Six Injured When Truck Hits
Stalled Automobile.
DUNCAN, Okla. November IL CP).-
Four persons we're killed last night
and six injured, two seriously. in a
collision between a stalled automobile
and a truck on a highway south of
here.
The dead
Mrs. w. B. Griffin of Chickasha,
Mrs. George Cowart, daughter of
Mrs Griffin.
Juanita Cowart, 4 years old.
Joyce Cowart. 2 years old.
Monk lizard, driver Of the truck, was
arrested.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
COUNT FACES CHARGES

BUDAPEST, Hungary, November u
(F.-Count George Apponyi, one Of
the Hungarian Legitimist leaders,
faced charges today for illegal polit-
teal activities.
The public prosecutor announced he
has started action against the count
on the ground the latter is responsible
fol the distribution of postal cards
bearing a picture of Otto Of Haps-
burg. pretender to the presently non
existent Austro-Hungarian throne.
The pictures were distributed during
D recent election campaign, and were
immediately confiscated by, police.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
LOCKED CONTROLS
BLAMED FOR CRASH
War Department Announces
Findings in Probe of Giant
Bomber's Destruction.

BY the Associated Press.
Locked controls were blamed today
by the War Department for the crash
of the big new Army bomber at Day.
ton. Ohio. on October 80.
The official report was made by a
board of investigation composed Of
officers under Brig. Gen. A. W. Robins
Of the Army Air Corps. commanding
ofiicer of Wright Field, at Dayton.
The findings were based on testi-
mony Of witnesses. as well as the fact
the controls of the huge Boeing plane
were found locked after the fatal test
flight.
The pilot, Maj. p. P. Hill Of New
buryport, Mass, was injured fatally
and four others we're less seriously
hurt.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

'NOIllulutO FIOIIl FlISI FdStD
a result of the expedition into the
thin upper air.
For more than eight hours the two
balloonists. making their third at
tempt to ascend above 10000 feet, were
aloft. and most of the time was spent
in scientific observations.
Often they were so busy with their
instruments they were unable to carry
on a radio conversation with the
ground.
They spent an hour and half at
the ceiling" which Capt. Anderson
estimated at $1,000 to 74000 feet.
The trip. they said, was made with
out any of the troubles that beset
their two previous attempts-in 1884.
when the balloon ripped and they
were forced to bail out" and last
July. when the new bag, Explorer II,
burst before the ascension.
One accident. a 2O-foot fabric rip.
was remedied before the take-off. A
patch, similar to a tire patch, was ce-
mented onto the bag by an expert
from the factory which constructed
the balloon
AS the balloon cleared the Black
Hills fight base near Rapid City. a
down draft of air caught it. making it
necessary to drop 800 pounds Of lead
ballast.
Otherwise the flight was made
without unusual incident.
The bag drifted southeast. follow.
ing the Niobrara River toward Valen-
tine, Nebr.
Begin Descent.
At los pm. the flyers radioed they
we're starting down. Three hours later.
after descending at a rate of 300 to
400 feet a minute. it had drifted
northeast until it landed here.
Under the skillful plotting, the gon-
dola scarcely bumped as it touched
earth. The airmen opened a rip panel
on the balloon and the metal gondols
rolled to one side and stopped.
| Henry Ubel, who was not so feet
from the craft when it landed, said
the gondola came down like a
feather"
There wasn't a bounce" he said.
The big gas bag flattened out as
they opened the rip panel, and the
two captains, apparently 'tickled to
death climbed out. unhurt and not
even scratched"
The captains organized volunteers
to hold of souvenir seekers, and later
went to Kimball, l8 miles away, for a
nights rest.
Elated Over Outcome.
Both we're elated, but neither would
make prediction as to the possible
outcome of their observations.
Boy, did it feel good to be on top
of the world" was Capt. Andersons
comment.
The flyers said they noted a marked
curvature of the earth from the height
of $4,000 feet. They said they were
impressed by the lack of detail in the
earths surface. Larger towns we're
visible. but blurred. they reported.
Capt Anderson said he was conf
dent the balloon could have gone at
least 5000 feet higher. He emphasized
that his calculation of a 73,000-foC
ceiling was subject to check of the
"meterograph" which was suspended
below the gondola.
But We had a pretty good baro-
graph" he added.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
G. O. P. Politicos Call on
Landon and Get Low.
down on Prohibition.
BY PAUL MALLON.

BY PAUL MhLLON.
A COUPLE Of very practical
n and wet Republican politicos
~ from Chicago are supposed to
4 a have dropped in on Gov. All
Landon at Topeka the other day to
flnd out how dry he is.
The sound-out men were distributed
by the inside talk in some wet Re-
publican quarters that Landon's nom-
ination as a presidential candidate
would reopen the dangerous prohibi-
ton question. Also they noted that
New Deal Publicity Director Charles
Nicholson has fired few dry shots at
Landon, as If to Ak the range.
The inquirers Went away Nth
the distinct understanding that
the KanSan believes there are only
t,Do basic national iss,tes now:
fa) Waste and Extravaganza"
and fbj Socialism ps. Democ-
racy." They felt that he conSid-
cred the national prohibition issue
settled and dead; that the liquor
contrnl issue is one for the States
to handle in their oun ,Cay.
There are excellent additional rea
sons for believing that this will be the
official Landon answer to the dry talk
when and If the time comes to
make 1t.
Evening star., 1935-11-12


and that this fellow has been the
inspiration for the greatest series Of
the meanest crimes in the history Of
the world"
WiIentz Held Unfair.
"The summation of the attorney
general" the defense said, "abounded
with Objectionable statements such as
declarations Of opinion as to the guilt
of defendant, comments on facts out
side of evidence, statements Of facts
within the knowledge of the attorney
general only. unfair comments on
prior convictions, unfair attacks on the
character of the defendant although
his character was not put in issue,
insinuations that counsel for defend
ant had tampered with exhibits, unfair
insinuations as to the opinion Of de-
fense counsel as to the guilt Of the
accused and appeals to prejudice by
inflammatory arguments.
THE State court in its opinion
intimated that there was error, but
held that the failure to object waived
the same. The argument on this
point Is that the court should inter-
vene when necessary to Sc
cure q fair trial"
Death Theory Contradicted.
The defense said the State tried
the case on the theory the child died
in fall from the kidnap ladder,
but that Wilentz, in his summation,
charged the child was killed in its
crib by a blow from a chisel.
This. RoSecrans said. injected into
the case an entirely new theory as
to the commission of the murder in
that the State charged wilful. de-
nberate and premeditated killing in
all Of its essentials.
"The defendant was entitled, as a
matter OF absolute law that
the State OF New Jersey be confined
in its summation to the proof OF the
fall of the Lindbergh baby from the
ladder"
Failure to sequester the jury prop
erly, the defense said, resulted in the
jury being subjected to expressions
of popular opinion detrimentar' to
Hauptmann.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
CHEEK-T0.CHEEK DANCE
RULED POOR ETIQUETTE
New York Teachers Society
Holds Fad Is Conducive
to Bad Posture.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 12.-"Cheek.
to-cheek" dancing may be the young
generations delight, but it's poor ball
room etiquette, the New York Society
of Teachers of Dancing decided yes
terday.
Through its spokesman, Oscar
Duryea, the society condemned the
1885 fad of stream Lined" dancing as
contrary to good taste and conducive
to bad posture.
we can't control the public's likes
and dislikes, but the fundamentals
Of dance steps a4a posture should be
remembered" DuIyea said.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Throws Iron at Husband.

KANSAS CITY GP.-It was a stormy
night and Mrs. w. D. Kerstann, alone
and nervous, began to iron to calm
her nerves. Suddenly, in a mirror
she glimpsed the reflection Of man
behind her. She turned and hurled
the iron-narrowly missing her hus-
band, returning from q show.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
BALLET TROUPE TURNS
TO OPERA REHEARSAL S
American Company Cancels Tour
After Break With Manage
ment Company.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE
American ballet, its first tour abruptly
halted recently at Scranton, Pa, will
devote itself beginning December is
to ballet portions OF grand operas at
the Metropolitan Theater, Edward M.
NJ Warburg. one of its impresarios.
said last night.
Next year We certainly hope to
make an American tour, but this year
it was too late to 60 under another
management" he said.
Cancellation Of the tour. he said,
resulted from an upsetting OF arrange
ments with a management company
in which all appearance contracts had
been vested.
The troupe Is here rehearsing for
its opera work.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Lunch Room Man Fined.

jeremiah J. Curtin, operator Of q
lunch room at 224 Fourth street
southwest. pleaded guilty to VIOLA
ton of the health ordinance in Police
Court today and was fined SIS by
Judge Isaac r. Hit. He was charged
with failing properly to steriliSe
drinking glasses. .------...-
Evening star., 1935-11-12
BIDS TO BE OPENED

Excavation to Begin on Low-Rent
Housing Project.
Excavation bids for Washington's
first low-rent housing project to be
built with public works funds will be
opened at 3 o'clock this afternoon in
the auditorium of the Interior Depart
ment Building.
A. r. Clas, director Of housing, will
preside at the opening. Langston Ter
race. as the housing development for
colored families Is to be known, will
be located on Benning road northeast
In the vicinity of Twenty-fourth street.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

the ground, when I pulled the rip
cord, releasing all the gas from the
bag instantaneously.
There was no verticle jar, although
the gondola did roll over to an angle
of about 90 degrees. None Of the in
struments were damaged.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
BALLOONIsTs ARRIVE TONIGHT.
Capts. Anderson and Stevens May
Fly Here BY Plane.

Oficials Of the National Geographic
Society were advised today that Capts.
Albert w. Stevens and Orvil Ander-
son, the stratosphere balloonists,
might arrive in Washington by plane
tonight.
They were expected to bring with
them the meteorograph, on which the
altitude attained in their flight yes
terday was recorded for official pur-
poses. It will be turned over to the
society and to the National Bureau
of Standards 5or celebration.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
HELD POLITICAL MOVE.
Spokesman Says Disorder Was Attempt
to Embarrass Congress.

NANKING. China, November IL (P,.
A Chinese government spokesman
charged today that a demonstration
before a Japanese-owned shop in
Shanghai was deliberate attempt
to embarrass the proceedings of the
Kuomintang," opening its congress.
The fifth congress of the Chinese
Nationalist party started with this
capital city swarming with gendarmes
assigned to protect the delegates and
determined to forestall any new at
tempts on the lives of government
leaders.
Chinese sources said one of the prin-
cipal topics to come before the party
was a discussion of increasing Jap
arese pressure.
Evening star., 1935-11-12

Wnat LanQOn is supposed 10 nave
told them substantially was this: He
was the first Governor of Kansas in
the 81 years since prohibition was
adopted to say publicly that the peo-
pie of Kansas had a right to vote on
whether they wanted to retain their
prohibition amendment; that he so
recommended to the Kansas Legisla-
ture and the Legislature submitted
the amendment to the people last No
vember.
Opposed Repeal.
He opposed repeal OF the amend
ment when it was submitted, and also
opposed repeal Of the eighteenth
amendment in the 1882 campaign
But it was repealed and the only open
question now, in his opinion. is what
each State wants to do about it.
He was inclined to think that the
attempt to revive national prohibi-
ton in 1886 as an answer to criti-
cism of the New Deal would be re-
ceived by the public as ridiculous and
unimportant.
There are inner indications that
the State Department is embark
ing on campaign to educate"
the public along the line OF in
creasing the Presidents discretion
ary poUer to prohibit all trade
NTH Darring nations.
The purpose behind it is to bring
pressure on Congress in January. The
New Dealers want their neutrality
powers broadened. They know Con-
gress will not agree unless public pres
sure is whipped up. The first whip
was raised on the radio recently by
State Secretary Hull
What the otherwise mild -mannered
Hull wants to do is to get the diplo-
matte power to threaten the aggres-
sive nations with a severance of trade
relations. Also, he wants to permit
free flow of munitions and trade to
the nation threatened by aggression.
1t is his theory that these dire dip
lomatic threats will prevent war. But
some of the members of Congress
think he might involve us in war.
What the members of Congress also
have in the back Of their heads is an
appreciation Of what real embargo
would do to cotton and wheat prices
and exports. 1t will take lot of pub
lie education" to make them change
their minds.
Charging the Ether.
A backstage carpet is already sup
posed to have been laid for Secretary
Pettey of the Federal Communications
Commission to step over to the Demo-
cratic National Committee to handle
radio activities in the next campaign.
He did it in the last campaign. The
plan is either to have him resign or
obtain a leave Of absence. Repub-
licans have drawn in their breath for
a large scream about an official Of the
F. c. c. doing such work.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Machine.Age Mines.

In more than half the mines OF
England coal Is cut by machinery and
carried underground by electric con.
veyors.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Irwin s. Cobb
Says:
Trousers Take One Step
While Prince of Wales
axes Two.

SANTA MONICA, Calf, November
12.-All is excitement in London. The
Prince OF Wales has adopted a new
style in trousering called the straight
Evening star., 1935-11-12
ARMED PRESSURE
ON CHINA IS SEEN
Toxic Government EnvisionS
Action as Result OF Anti.
Japanese Incidents.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, November 12.-Japanese
authorities gave indications today
that at least some sections OF the
Toxic government envisioned possi-
bility of armed pressure on China as
a result of anti-Japanese incidents
in Shanghai.
Police circulated an order forbidding
newspapers and news agencies to
publish anything concerning naval or
air forces which may be sent to
China" except official communicates.
Vernacular newspaper dispatches
from Shanghai reported an increas-
ingly tense situation.
The foreign office insisted. however
that no military action for the present
was contemplated.
Frequency Of Incidents Cited.
A foreign Office spokesman said,
however, the number and frequency Of
anti-Japanese incidents in Shanghai
might compel the Toxic government
to deliver a stern warning to the
Chinese nationalist capital of Nanking
He said the Japanese government
hoped the series of incidents-the
Staying of a Japanese marine, raid
on Japanese-owned shop and al
legged attacks on japanese women
might be settled quickly through local
Shanghai negotiations.
The relatively mild attitude of the
foreign Office contrasted sharply to
japanese press dispatches from Shang
hal, reporting that japanese naval
and diplomatic officials and residents
there favored drastic action to term
mate the wave OF anti-Japanese man.
ifeStations.
Evening star., 1935-11-12
'Hauptnlann

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1935-11-12

and that this fellow has been the
inspiration for the greatest series OF
the meanest crimes in the history OF
the world"
Evening star., 1935-11-12
Flight

Continued From First Page.)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-21
GRIPPING RAGE, AGAINST DEATH
 COMES TO END
Rail Speeder Takes Tal- keetna Woman to
 Anchorage Hospital AIRPLANE, AUTO FAIL IN RACE WITH STORK Mother Recovering After Take-off Crash on
 Mercy Flight

ANCHORAGE Alaska, Nov. 21.-- An emergency call on maternity case came last night from Talkeetna, 90 miles north of here. and Pilot Don Hedge and Dr. A. s. Walkowski, Acting Chief of the Anchorage Hos pital, hopped off immediately in a sleet storm
 They flew under an altitude of 150 feet along the railroad tracks until they came to Talkeetna, where it was found that the patient, Mrs. Ole Dahl, needed an emergency op- eration.
 She was placed in the plane, but it hit a hummock on the take-off and crashed through the ice, break ing wheel.
 An automobile was ordered rushed northward from Anchorage. but it broke down a few miles out of the city. A special gasoline railway speeder was then sent out into the storm, and finally arrived at the hospital here after an all-night trip Mrs. Dahls baby was delivered still born, but the mother is now recov- ering.