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Evening star., 1936-05-14
Ferdinand Tallest Quadruplet;;
T,v0 Cain Half Ounce in Day
Babies Haze Good Night, Doctor Re-
ports-Numerous Offers for Quarters
Services Reach Mayor Turner.

closed that it was the 32-year -old Dr.
Jani who induced him to become busi-
ness manager for the tiny but lusty-
lunged quartet.
Turner said Jani convinced Emil
Kasper, the father. that he should
appoint some one TO look out for the
interests of himself and his family.
Then the physician went to the mayor.
II need help" Turner quoted him as
saying. Il cannot do everything, and
must tend first to the babies health.
This man doesn't know what to do
and he neds business manager"
DR.. Jani stood by the bedside as
Kasper and his 36-year-old wife signed
the power of attorney for the mayor.
Turner has found his new duties
require plenty of time,
One firm. which he said, has paid
s5O,0O0 to the Dionne quintuplets. is
now negotiating with him for the right
to feature the Kasper quadruplets in its
advertising. No figure has been set.
the mayor said.
A newspaper contract and a free
will gift of $500 down and 500 a
month from a California woman have
already showered on the babies more
prosperity than their father, with two
other children, has ever known. Kasper
gave up the luxury of basking in their
reflection to return today to his S22-a-
week job. in a railroad round house.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
DIPLOMATS TO TALK
ON FOREIGN TRADE
Economists Also on Program OBJ
serving international
Business.

Outstanding diplomats and political
economists are listed among speakers
at meetings arranged for Tuesday,
Thursday and Saturday Of next week
in observance of National Foreign
Trade Week
The Academy Of World Economics
of Washington is sponsoring the meet
ings, which will be held in the na-
tional council chamber of the Cham
Der Of Commerce Of the United
States.
John Donaldson, chairman Of the
academy, will preside at the session
Tuesday at $50 pm. Speakers will
be John Lee Coulter, former member
of the Federal Tariff Commission.
and Hirosi Saito, Ambassador Of
Japan.
The meeting May 81. at $50 pm.
will be In charge Of william r.
Castle. jr., former Undersecretary Of
State. Don Francisco Castillo Najera,
Ambassador of Mexico, and DR.. Gull
lermo Patterson, Ambassador Of Cuba,
will speak.
Norman e Towson, assistant treas
urer Of the Washington Loan and
Trust Co., will preside over the ses-
sion May %, at $3.50 pm, with e. A.
Goldenweiser, director Of the Division
Of Research and Statistics, Federal
Reserve System, and James Harvey
Rogers, noted professor Of political
economy at Yale University, as
speakers.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
|CKES WILL HEAR
LONEYS DEFENSE
P. w. A. Wood Expert Given
Until Monday Under
Dismissal Order.

Administrator 1ckes disclosed today
he has given Arch w. Loney. P. w. A.
wood expert who figured In the de-
Tense of Bruno Richard Hauptmann,
until next Monday to show cause why
he should not be dismissed with
prejudice" in connection with the way
he filled out his application for p. w.
A. employment.
The order Of dismissal, issued by
Ickes yesterday, however, has not
been recalled.
After the announcement OF the
wood experts dismissal, Loney had
another conference with Ickes and
pleaded for three or four days in
which to present additional data in
the hope Of having his dismissal with
drawn. Ickes explained today that
Loney believed he could "clear up the
matter" so he placed the wood ex-
pert on suspension for the time being.
Takes Responsibility.
Ickes accepted personal RESPONSE
bility for the orders he gave silenc-
ing P. w. A. officials and Loney also
after the first announcement Of the
employees difficulties.
| He said he had issued the dismissal
order because of Loney's failure to
state what the facts called for in his
application blank" and admitted he
referred to Loney's indictment in Pitts
burgh growing out of the failure of his
lumber company.
Explaining the long delay after the
| initial investigation into Loney's rec
ord. Ickes merely stated he had taken
Loney's word and had no reason to
doubt it until recently. when a Pitts
burgh paper published the record Of
his former arrest.
Meanwhile Loney blamed States At
torney David Wilentz for making the
first inquiries that brought light on the
circumstances eventually resulting in
his present difficulties with the Public
Works Administration.
II am just being crucified, that s
ALL" the gray-haired Loney said.
Inquiries in Pittsburgh.
Wlentz made inquiries in Pitts
burgh about the Government expert
and as a result the matter was
brought to the attention of Secretary
Ickes. 1t Is very doubtful, officials
said, If P. w. A. ever would have
found out about the alleged falsifying
of the application blank but for the
spotlight Of publicity that centered on
the obscure wood expert during the
last week Of the Hauptmann trial
When the Construction Lumber Co.,
of which he was president, was forced
into bankruptcy by the refusal of sew
eral firms to pay for large orders OF
lumber, he said his company's bank
deposits were attached. After the ma jor
bills had been paid, some small checks
issued for a total of 1925 we're turned
down for lack of funds. Loney made
restitution and cases pending against
him were nolle pressed.
Reasons For Omission.
II had been working with p. w. A.
for year and half before I was
asked to fill out an application blank, "
he said. There was just space enough
to write yes or no on the line inquiring
into the matter of arrests. Since there
was doubt in my mind If I had been le-
gally arrested In the sense of the
word, and there was no space for an
explanation of the Pittsburgh bank
ruptcy case, I made no mention of
it.
"a constable had merely approached
me and said I would have to take care
Of he checks. which did," he ex-
planned.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
LEADERS PLAN AID
FOR FLORIDA CANAL
Study Of Passamaquoddy Power
Project Also Asked in
Resolution.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate leadership moved yes
terday to provide for the Florida ship
canal and the Passamaquoddy power
project, the congressional authorize
ton which may make their continue
ton possible.
A resolution to authorize the Presi-
dent to name two engineering boards
of three men each, one to consider
feasibility of each project and report
back by June 20. was introduced by
Senator Robinson, Democrat, OF
Arkansas. The measure granted the
President specific authority to allo-
cate additional funds If the boards
report favorably.
The President recently said he would
allocate no further work-relief funds
to the two projects unless Congress
authorized their construction.
Backed by the weight of administra-
ton leadership, quick congressional
action was expected on the resolu-
ton.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
CORRECTION

Omission Of Negative in Report
on Motion Picture Suit Settle
ment Causes Error in State
ment-Defendants Were Not
Guilty.
On Friday, April II, The Star
printed an Associated Press dispatch
from New York reporting the settle
ment Of Government antitrust suits
against 10 corporations and 80 de-
PENDANTS, including the Warner Bros,
Paramount and R-K-O groups of
motion picture producers. begun in st.
Louis over picture bookings.
The final paragraph Of the article
stated: "The action here was begun
after q criminal charge, based on al
most the same set Of alleged facts,
had been brought to trial In st. Louis.
That trial resulted in q verdict of
guilty."
The concluding sentence should
have read: THAT trial resulted In .
verdict of not guilty"
The error was caused by . typo
graphical omission of the negative.
The Star regrets the error.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
DRASTIC WARTIME
TAX BILL READY
Senate Measure Would Levy
Rates Up to 80 Per Cent
of High Incomes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A wartime tax bill intended to
scale down profits during conflict to
point even below peace-time levels
was turned over yesterday to the SEN
ate Finance Committee by subcom-
mittee.
The drastic measure represented
some modification of still more sweep
ing levies on war profits originally
proposed by the Senate Munitions
Committee.
Chairman Connally of the subcom-
mittee said of the new measure:
While the bill does not take all
profit from individuals and corpora
tions-because the committee deter.
mined that it was impractical to do so
if the successful prosecution of war
was TO be hsd-the bill does cut from
the income of individuals and corpora
tions all increased profits attributable
to war and sets very low basis Of
profit as compared with normal opera
tions in time of peace"
The proposed rate structure would
levy income taxes ranging up to 90
per cent Of high incomes.
Personal income tax exemptions.
under the measure, would be reduced
to $1,000 for a married person and
$500 for a single person, with normal
tax rate of 10 per cent. Exemptions
for each dependent would be $3.50
The surtax on net income would
range up to 80 per cent on incomes
over $4,000, while for corporations
q top rate of n per cent would be
assessed against retained net income
of % per cent or more.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
OPPONENTS CALLED
TO TESTIFY ON BILL
Juvenile Court Measure Hearings
by House Group Due to
Close Soon.

Opponents Of the Norton bill to
modernize juvenile court procedure
will be given q final opportunity to
express their views at q hearing be-
fore Q special subcommittee Of the
House District Committee tomorrow
at 10 am.
Representative Nichols, Democrat Of
Oklahoma, chairman Of the subcom-
mittee, plans to close the hearings
after the opposition completes its
case. Thus far, the only opponent
has been the Executive Committee Of
the Federation of Citizens Associa-
tions, which contended the bill will
grant too much authority to the
juvenile court.
As soon as the hearings are COM
pleted, Nichols plans to draft . re-
port and submit 1t to the full COM
mittee in time for its consideration
next Wednesday. He indicated q
number of amendments may be
written into the measure to meet
certain objections raised during the
hearings.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
IRIS WINNER CHOSEN

Placing first in six classes and
second or third in six other events.
Mrs. A. I. Foster, o member Of the
Woodbridge Garden Club, last night
was declared sweepstakes winner In
the clubs fourth annual iris show
in the Sherwood Presbyterian Sunday
School Building at Twenty-second
and Rhode Island avenue northeast.
An entry by another member,
winn r. Simmons, was declared the
best iris on display. Entries were
Judged by Col. Charles w. Ayars.
G. II. Casey was chairman Of the show
committee.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Congress in Brief

TODAY.

ScuabCs
In recess.
Finance Committee frames tax bill
Foreign Relations Committee meets
on London naval treaty.
Appropriations Subcommittee hears
testimony on relief bill.
House.
Takes up conference report on
Treasury-Post ONCE appropriation bill.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
VIII consider Wagner bill to encour-
age Federal cooperation with the
States in the development Of parks and
recreation areas.
Finance Committee, executive, on
tax bill. :,
Appropriations Subcommittee. execu-
tive, on work relief deficiency bill
House:
Not expected to be in session.
Indian Affairs Committee meets at
10:30 am.
Special subcommittee Of District
Committee resumes hearings on Juve-
nile Court bill at 1880 an.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
DELIVERY DATE SET
FOR AIRCRAFT MODELS
Entries in Contest Should Be
Turned in at Smithsonian =
Tomorrow Afternoon.

Entries for the annual scale model
contest of the District Model Aircraft
League should be delivered at the Air
craft Building of the Smithsonian In
stitution between $3.50 and 4 pm. to-
morrow, it was announced today. The
contest is sponsored by the District
Department of Fairgrounds and the
National Aeronautic Association.
Only exhibition models built to scale
are eligible. Contestants must be able
to certify that they have built their
own models from working drawings.
photographs or actual airplanes.
The models will be exhibited In the
Aircraft Building. Tenth street and
Independence avenue, and will be
judged Friday. May %. They will re-
main on display until May 28 or 20,
when contestants may reclaim them.
Prizes of tools and model equipment
will be awarded class and group win
ners, with q grand prize for the best
model, regardless Of class q group.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
ARTIST KIDNAPPING
BY GANG G|SFEARED
Prominent Chicagoan Is
Missing From Hotel
in New York.
~ the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, May l4.-Fears Of q
gang kidnapping were expressed to.
day by police investigating the dis.
appearance Of Seymour de Koven. 81,
described by detectives as q wealthy
and socially prominent Chicago artist.
A police confidential alarm" was
broadcast for De Koven last night
after he disappeared from his suite
in hotel, it was revealed today.
Detectives said De Koven was a
nephew of Ely Daiches, Chicago So
ciety man, in the lumber advertising
business. Daiches was kidnapped
about Is months ago, and later ran
somed.
Worked on Daiches Case.
Young De Koven, police said, had
worked on the case and had been in
strumental In rounding up a number
Of persons convicted and sentenced
to long prison terms for the crime.
Detectives were investigating the pos
sibility that underworld friends OF
the convicted men might have ab-
Quoted De Koven in retaliation.
De Koven. police said, had come TO
New York from Chicago last Tuesday
expressing fear of gang vengeance for
his work in the Daiches case.
Body Guard Hired.
He hired a body guard, George
Foster Of Brooklyn. and put up at the
hotel. Foster. police said, told them
he and De Koven went out last evening
returning to the hotel shortly before
midnight. Foster said he then left
De Koven on an errand. and when he
returned to the suite some 10 minutes
later, De Koven was not TO be found.
De Koven was not armed, Foster told
detectives.
A description Of De Koven was i'm
mediately broadcast by police.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Prison
Continued From First Page.)

Continued From First Page)
Of each as they marched to the gate.
George Cheek and Harry Gotz, tow
er guards at the gate, refused to let
the prisoners through.
Captured Men Plead.
Throw down your keys and guns
or we'll kill these men," one of the
convicts shouted.
cope himself then asked the two
men on the tower to throw down
the guns, saying the convicE were
holding knives on them" L. M Mich
OILS. chairman of the State Board of
Affairs, said he was told.
Cheek and Gotz held q hurried
conference and then tossed down two
rifles and two pistols. The gate
swung open.
Outside, the convicts swarmed into
two cars belonging to Gossett and
Powell One convict took a prison
ice truck. A few tried to escape on
foot.
Fence guards rushed to the gate
to keep other convicts In the yard.
They opened fire on the overloaded
cars, from which the escaping men
dropped as they were hit. Gossett,
one of the kidnapped guards. was
thrown of as an automobile careened
around a corner.
One of the cars. carrying the heav-
anI
of shots and sped away. 1t was out
of this car that Powell was thrown
when the car was a mile away from
the prison. It was last seen speeding
through q McAlester side strest.
Fear Felt for Others.
The hands of the two other hostages
were known to be bound with wire.
More apprehension was felt for them
because of the savage way In which
Powell had been beaten before he was
shot
State, county and prison officials
launched pursuit at once and opened
an investigation at the prison.
Ray Terrill, one Of the most no
torious of Southwestern bad men
decade ago, was in the prison hospital
today, an innocent bystander" victim
of the gunfire.
Warden Kenney said the former
bank robber, known among officers
as 1.-The smartest breaker and
locksmith In the State" was not try
ing to escape when he was shot in
the leg. He was caught in an ex-
change of fire.
Terrill, once an associate Of the
AL Spencer and Kimes gangs, now
looks forward to the end Of his term
next September. In his heyday he
developed the technique Of winch
equipped truck to jerk old-fashioned
safes through the front windows Of
country banks, hauling them of to
q hideaway to be opened at leisure.
Later the strong-box specialist de-
veloped o new system for opening
them and increased his income by
becoming consulting safe-cracker
to bank burglars.
Claude Tyler, Oklahoma County
evidence man, said Terrill would
solemnly unpack a mystery box" Of
electrical coils, batteries and bulbs,
spread a tarpaulin over himself and
the safe and demand privacy for two
hours.
Evening star., 1936-05-14

gives him $4,000 900 for public works
he will not be forced to make the cut
Of 1000 administrative employees
threatened last week.
The P. w. A. staff reduction order,
should he be compelled to issue it,
would cut approximately $50 admins
trative employees in Washington from
the pay roll, Secretary Ickes said.
The order is to be released If his plea
for funds fails.
Demands on behalf Of the resettle-
ment agency came late yesterday from
a bloc OF eight Senators. Acting
as spokesman, Senator Wheeler, DEM
ocrat, Of Montana told Adams that
his group wanted you fellows to see
that the work Of the Resettlement
Administration Is carried on"
Others Of Group.
Other members of the group were
Senator'S Black, Democrat, of Ala
bama; Bone, Democrat, of Washing
ton; Murray, Democrat, of Montana;
Schwellenback, Democrat, Of Wash
ington; Bulow, Democrat, Of South
Dakota; Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota. and Frazier, Republican, Of
North Dakota.
The Senate had q report from Tug
well, in answer to q resolution by
Senator Barbour, Republican, of New
Jersey. showing q balance of $102,-
458,112 on April l..
AS the new relief measure passed
the House, it would give the fund
to Hopkins w. P. A., with $685.
500, 900 set aside for rural rehabilita-
ton and relief to farmers" under
Hopkins direction.
Hopkins testified yesterday before
the subcommittee, telling, behind
closed doors. Of w. P. AS needs.
When he was asked by reporters If
the wording of the measure would
jeopardize Tugwell's agency. he re-
piled. There's nothing to that talk" !"
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Woodside Club Elects.

WOODSIDE, Md. May IA (Spe-
ciaD Mrs. Ralph A. Wells was re-
elected president of the Woman's
Club of Woodside at the annual meet
ing yesterday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. I. M. Shumate. Other officers
are: Vice president, Mrs. Carlos
Greenleaf: recording secretary, Mrs.
Henry j. Mehserle; corresponding
secretary, Mrs. Allen H. Gardner;
treasurer, Mrs Eben M Whitcomb,
and director, Mrs. Gerard F. Hub
bard.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
LOSS.

~ ORE in sorrow than in anger,
m a wayside operative reports
V that Washington has been
/ i denied the spectacle Of spec
tacles, dance team tap dancing on
q 30-inch disc attached to the top Of
the hagpole Of local hotel.
The team, with lots Of newspaper
clippings explaining that they are
Jack Rich Allen and Mitzie Rich
husband and wife in spite of the diff
ference in names-came to town to
put on their act only to run afoul Of
police regulations which say no to
that kind of artistic expression.
One of the clippings says Jack
danced for 13 hours and 13 minutes
on a flagpole disc 325 feet above the
streets for New Orleans. No safe
guards were used.
The team, which left town pretty
disappointed with our smugness,
claims to be the only one In the
country which has merged marathon
dancing and flagpole sitting. retain
ing the best features of each.
y ~
HAVEN.
The Senate Restaurant has be-
come a place OF refuge and peace
for those beSieged solons tDhose
Uorking hours are interrupted on
occasion, epen 10hen protected By
three secretaries and seperdl closed
doors.
A rigid rule excludes all but Sem
atorS from the restaurant during
meal hours. Page boys, telegraph
messengers, job seekers or political
bosses are stopped at the door.
4 \ X X
ENCHANTRESS.
IF THERE Is no such thing as love
at first sight, a certain Washington
newspaper man gave perfect por
trayal Of what 1t would be like 1
there was.
He was on a street car the Other
morning when a combination ol
Heloise. Isolt, Cleopatra and a few
others of history's most breath-takinf
women climbed aboard. The scribe
gasped and kept on gasping until fal
past the corner where he should have
left the car. The girl finally got of
at downtown intersection. The en-
chanted one did likewise.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Robs. Then Asks Leniency.

BUFFALO, N. Y, May IA R.-
Albert r. Pellow, 16, was on his way
to the State Vocational School at
Coxsackie because he came back to
plead for leniency from the woman he
later admitted robbing.
Mrs. Donald D. Servoss testified that
Pellow returned and began to plead for
marcy lust - the police arrived.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Extradition Refused.

PARIS. May IA R.-A French
court yesterday refused the German
governments request for. the extradi-
ton of Max Brauer, former Socialist
mayor Of Altona, Germany, who has
been living in France since the Nazts
assumed power. The court decided
Brauer was being sought merely for
political yeAsous."
Evening star., 1936-05-14
HITLER AND PHIPPS
CONFER IN BERLIN
Discuss British Questionnaire on
Locarno Crisis-Von Neurath
In on Discussions.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
BERLIN. May l4.-Reichschancellor
Hitler and Sir Eric Phipps. the British
Ambassador. today discussed the
British QUESTIONABLE on the Locarno
crisis.
(The QUESTIONABLE. among other
things. asked Germany II she now con-
siders herself ready to conclude binding
treaties)
Der Fuehrer and Sir Eric also were
closeted with Baron Konstantin Won
Neurath, Reich foreign minister. There
was no statement concerning the Ger
man response.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Man Dies After Award.

John Merry. decorator, aged Il.
died In Eastcote, England, after hv-
ing for seven months with q broken
spine, caused by o bicycle accident.
Nine days before his death he had
been awarded ell,2S0 eompersatton.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Suicide Note Greets Coroner.

CHICAGO, R.-Sidney Jacobs, -,
was found shot to death in q park.
On his chest lay Q note: "How do you
do, Mr.. Coroner. Please make this
case as short as possible and spare the
feelinp Of my wife and childrsn."
Evening star., 1936-05-14
Canals Cost 1915. .00O. 900.

At completion the Panama Canal
had cost $375, 600. 900, including $l0.-
000, 900 given Panama for construc-
ton rights and $4,000, 900 for the
rights and property Of the French
company which had started the canal.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
LONE MAN FIGHTS FIRE
IN BIG GASOLINE TANK

Smother Flames Started by
Lightning in New jersey.
BY the Associated Press.
SOMERVnLE, N. j., May IA
George Creely, public service employe
and volunteer fireman, used his coat
to smother flames atop q tank loaded
with 10000 gallons Of gasoline after
the tank had been struck by lightning
In a thunderstorm yesterday.
The tank, owned by the Public
Service & Gas Co, is so feet high.
Creely, working nearby. saw the
fuel start to burn after lightning
bolt had spread seam around the
top. He climbed up the side and
had almost extinguished the fire with
his coat when firemen arrived and
helped him finish the job.
Evening star., 1936-05-14
MORE PAY SOUGHT
BY PEACE VETERANS
Restoration Of Pension Rates
Closer to Allowance Before
Economy Act Asked.

Economy Act Asked.
BY the Associated Press.
Men disabled in peace-time service
in the Army, Navy and Coast Guard
said today they are seeking restoration
of pension rates to bring them closer"
to the disability pay allowed them
prior to the 1888 economy act.
Walter johnson, commander Of the
Regular Veterans Association, said:
I'VE are the only group Of men actual
ly disabled in service in line Of duty
whose pensions have not been re-
stored"
The veterans group is seeking q
hearing before President Roosevelt,
johnson said, after failing. 50 far, to
reach an agreement with the Veterans
Administration.