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Evening star., 1936-02-01
THIRD WOMAN IN SENATE.
Mrs. Caraway Glad to Have Com.
pany" in Present Session.

Mrs. Caraway Glad to Have Com.
pany" in Present Session.
BY the Associated Press.
When Mrs. Rose Mcconnell Long
widow of the slain Louisiana Senator
takes his place in the Chamber by
appointment, she will be the thirc
woman to occupy a Senate seat.
Mrs. William H. FELTON, of Carters-
Vile. Ga, was the first. When she
was 81 years old she was appointed
to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Senator Thomas E. Watson
She attended only two Senate ses-
sions, November 81 and %, 1922, be-
fore an elected successor took her
place. Mrs. FELTON, died in 1880.
Mrs. Hattie w. Caraway, the junior
Senator from Arkansas, is the only
woman to be elected to the body. She
was appointed in 1881 to succeed her
husband and the next year was
elected for regular term ending in
1899.
Senator Long campaigned vigor-
ously for Mrs. CaraWay in that cleo
ton. She never forgot it. Her
maiden speech in the Senate was in
praise of him.
She will welcome another woman in
the Senate.
Il think it is very lovely gesture
on the part OF the friends of Sen
ator Long" Senator Caraway COM
mented From what have heard
of Mrs. Long she is very fine woman.
1t will be very nice to have woman S
company in the Senate"
Senator Overton Of Louisiana
termed the appointment "a beautiful
tribute to the memory of Senator
Long
Evening star., 1936-02-01
Mails Are Banned
To'Oyster King in
Fraud of 100000
Violation Of Promise to
Reform After Jail
Term Charged.

BY the Associated Press.
William Lee Popham, known as
'the oyster king" of Jacksonville, Fla,
was dethroned today by Post Office
Department fraud order" charging
him with swindling the public out Of
more than 100000.
Solicitor Karl A. Crowley said Pop
hams Cultivated Oyster Farms Corp.
promised his victims an income of $50
a month on parcels of water-bottom
at Apalachicola Bay, where his cor
poration promised to raise oysters. He
said several thousand persons bought
units" at prices ranging from $l2 to
$500.
Nothing succeeds like success, !"
Popham advertised, but the fraud
order said that when a post Office in
spector asked what return investors
would receive from his 1934-5 crop,
"the oyster king" replied:
What the little boy shot at
nothing"
Crowley said Popham was denied
use of the mails and sent to jail in
December. 1923, as the result of his
operations under the name of the
Oyster Growers Cooperative Asso-
citation and the Apalachicola Land &s
Development Co. Freed from jail,
the solicitor said Popham told author
tiles he had reformed and asked re-
turn of his mailing privileges so he
could sell his own poems.
He professed complete dissertation
from any attempt to victimize the
public in the future" Crowley said,
but added:
"Popham has violated his prom
ise."
Evening star., 1936-02-01

president and chairman of the board
of the New Haven. The corporation
now is being liquidated.
Native of Roanoke.
Woodson was born in Roanoke, Va,
the son Of o. p and Clara Meeks
Woodson. He obtained his early edu-
cation there and then studied law at
National University.
Early in his career, he was with the
Southern Railway. He was counsel
for the railroads in accounting revision
hearings. and when chosen for the
Credit Corp. post, was secretary of
the Railway Accounting officers AS
sociation, an international group,
which now is part Of the Association
OF American Railroads. Woodson also
had written extensively on rail ac-
counting procedure, and had served on
advisory committees on the same sub
ject for the Department Of Commerce
and the American Bankers Associa-
ton.
He also was a member of the Royal
osotA'tASdA 1oNiCty Va GiiSidllo, diId tAAC
Controllers Institute of America, of
which he had been chairman.
Along with his wide rail interests,
Mr.. Woodson found time to fill the
chair on wills and administration at
National University Law School and
to take an active part in the local
affairs of the Capital.
Active in Kiwanis Club.
Long identified with the Kiwanis
Club, he was president of the organiza-
ton for short while in 1882. Earlier
he had been vice president and was
designated as chairman on the In
ternational Committee on Vocational
Guidance for the nearly 1900 XII
wants Clubs in the United States and
Canada. Largely through his efforts
vocational guidance programs first
were broadcast weekly over WRC.
He also had headed both the Six
teenth Street Heights and English
Village Citizens Associations.
He belonged to several clubs, in
cluding Arts. University and Columbia.
and was an affiliate of Sigma Nu
Phi legal fraternity.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
EIGHT CONVICTED
IN DRAKE FRAUD
Chicago Defendants Face
Sentences Up to Maxi.
mum of 80 Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Lne ASS0ClAJed FreSS.
CHICAGO, February Eight men
whom Federal Judge Philip l.. Sulli-
van winnowed out Of Al original de-
PENDANTS charged with mail fraud in
the Sir Francis Drake estate case
today faced prison sentences up to a
maximum of more than 80 years.
After almost seven hours delibera-
ton. a jury last night reported the
conviction of seven defendants On
all 18 counts of two indictments and
the eighth on II counts.
Defense counsel entered new trial
motions which the court indicated
would be heard next Tuesday.
Scheme Is Charged.
Government testimony was aimed
to show that Oscar Hartzell, former
Iowan now serving term in Leaven-
worth Penitentiary in connection with
the case, organized promotion
through which 81 100000 was collected
from 10000 Americans on the strength
of q claim that he had found a
previously unknown heir of Sir Fran
els Drake.
The Government charged Hartzell
represented himself as having obtained
an assignment by the supposed heir
of rights to a multi-billion estate al
legedly left by the Elizabethan free
booter. Prosecution witnesses said nc
such estate existed.
List Of Convicted.
Convicted on all counts, including
II of mail fraud and one of con-
spiracy, were Hartzell and his brother
Garfield of New York, Emil r. Roche
of Madison. Wis; Joseph H. Hauber
Lester E. Ohmart. Delmer G. Shor1
and Otto Yant, all of Chicago.
A. r. Gregory of Wenatchee, Wash.
was convicted of all but one mai
fraud count.
On each count of mail fraud the
maximum penalty was five years i'm
prisonment and a $1,000 fine. The
conspiracy count carried two-yeal
prison sentence and $4,000 maximum
fine.
The 80 other defendants when the
trial started November 18 were freed
by directed verdicts.
Defense attorneys painted all the
defendants as dupes of one w. J
Stewart of London, England, and said
even Oscar Hartzell was sucker
for the other man.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
DAWES BANK LOAN
HELD RAILROADED
Former r. F. c. Employe Declares
Examiners Report and Board
0. K. Were Neglected.

b. the Associated Press
CHICAGO. February 1.-Federal
Judge James Wilkerson was told yes
terday the Reconstruction Finance
Corp. loaned $40,000.00C to the old
Central Republic Bank & Trust Co.
without an examiners report or a
Board of Review recommendation.
The witness was Ralph H. Buss,
managing director 1T the Detroit
branch of the Chicago Federal Re-
serve Bank and formerly examiner for
the r. F. c., testifying in the latter's
suit to recover $4,000, 900 from stock
holders of the Central Republic Trust
Co., liquidating shell OF the bank.
Gen. Charles G. Dawes was chair
man Of the banks board.
1t was on cross-examination that
Buss testified the loans. made in
June, 1882. were not made in accord
ance with r. F. G. procedure, but
were rushed through.
He said 1t was not until after July
Z that his report as examiner was die
tated.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
SUSPECTS MURDER
PLOT BY LEOPOLD
Prosecutor Charges Jeal.
ousy of Privileges Prompt.
ed Loeb Staying.
BY the Associated Press.


JOLIET, ILL.,, February States
Attorney William R. McCabe and
State Director of Public Welfare A. L.
Bowen. conducting separate inquiries
into the fatal slashing Tuesday of
Richard Loeb in Statewide peniten-
tiary agreed today that Loeb was the
victim of "a deliberate murder plot"
McCabe held a theory that Nathan
Leopold may have put James Day
up to- the Staying of Loeb. The
States attorney charged that Leopold
and other inmates wanted Loeb killed
because of jealousy over his alleged
privileges IN prison.
Leopold was the co-slayer with Loeb
of 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924.
Bowen Balks at Theory.
Bowen, however, said that he did
not believe Leopold had any connec-
ton with the alleged prison plot to
kill Loeb.
Meanwhile third investigation was
conducted by Warden Joseph Ragen,
who did not make public his findings
except to say that several bucketfuls
of knives ard other weapons had
been taken from prisoners.
The warden denied that any "favors
had been accorded to inmates since
took charge several months ago."
"Spare No One"
While members of the Legislature
demanded another and exhaustive in
vestigation of prison conditions in
general, Gov. Henry Horner ordered
Bowen to get all the facts and spare
no one"
Leopold has refused to answer any
questions.
Bowen said he believed Day was the
one who had the razor and that he
initiated the date" in the shower
room where Loeb was slain in a fren-
led battle.
McCabe said his investigation
showed that Loeb was popular with
the other convicts, while Leopold be-
cause of "his supercilious intellectual
snobbery, was generally dsiliked."
Evening star., 1936-02-01

assistance to take larger portions o1
his land temporarily out of produc-
ton for soil improvement and conser-
vation purposes.
"a by-product Of such policy
might prove to be temporary re-
duction of production. The objective
of such program. however, should
be solely that of soil conservation. II
should not seek other purposes under
the guise of conservation"
Agrees With Portions of Bill.
Peek had no quarrel with the first
three objectives as stated in the bill:
To preserve and improve soil fertility
to promote economic use of land and
to diminish exploitation of soil.
But he was critical of purposes
which, he said, seem to underlie the
last two stated aims:
provision for and maintenance of
a continuous and stable supply OF
agricultural commodities adequate to
meet domestic and foreign consumer
requirements at prices fair to both
producers and consumers thereof.
"Re-establishment and maintenance
of farm purchasing power
These two purposes. Peek asserted.
seem to be merely cloak for the
continuation of the policy of crop
restriction in a rather speclous effort
to evade the Supreme Courts de-
cision. This view is pported by the
provisions of the bill which leave the
sole administration of the program in
the hands OF the Department of Ag-
riculture until December 81, 1887"
Soil conservation Is good, he de-
clared, but it Is not the complete
answer to the farm problem.
THE answer lies" he continued,
"in addition to an orderly soil con-
servation program, in shutting down
on competitive agricultural imports
so that the farmer may have the full
benefit of the domestic market, and
in expanding our foreign and domestic
markets for farm products. These
do not require additional legislation.
They do require sympathetic admin
istration of existing laws. The admin
istration has consistently SHE'D away
from this course in favor of policy
of crop restriction, which is bankrupt
economically and constitutionally."
Peek disclosed that he had sent to
members of House and Senate Agri-
culture Committees week ago q
memorandum including his sugges-
lions for farm relief. These included
mandatory use Of funds to pay an
export bounty to stimulate foreign
trade, commodity loans, revision Of
the reciprocal trade agreement policies
and use of direct benefits from excise
taxes II fair prices for farm products
were not obtained through the other
methods.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
CONV|CTS' DEATH
PROBED BY STATE
Coffins Made at State Pris-
on for Charred Victims
of Blaze.
sy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SCOTTSBORO, Ala. February l.
The State began an inquiry today into
the deaths of 20 colored convicts. trap
ned in a flaming truck while guards
fought vainly to save them.
Hamp Draper, head Of the convict
department. and Castor Scott, chair
man of the State Highway Commits
sion, hastened here to conduct the IN
vestigation ordered by Gov. Biop
Graves.
Coffins were made at the State Prison
for the charred bodies OF the men,
burned to death in the cage-like truck
when one of them lighted a piece OF
paper to warm his hands.
Gasoline caught fire, sending up high
flames which prevented rescue work
by the guards.
Warden H. D. Hansard said the dead
prisoners had been serving terms rang
ing from year and day to 10 years.
Survivor Lauds Guards.
One of the two surviving convicts.
Paul Dawson. praised indirectly the
work of the guards. H. NJ Middlebrook
and c. R. Wasson, for their quick work
in attempting to save the prisoners.
Dawson said Middlebrook quickly
stopped the rtuck and opened the door
at the rear.
The convict, suffering burns that
may cost his life, said the two guards
snatched him and John Stokes from
the blazing truck and rolled them in
the snow to eXtinguish the flames.
The truck. which had body of
steel mesh wire. with a locked door
and canvas sides fastened down to
protect the prisoners from cold, was
en- route from the convict camp, II
miles south of her, to rock crusher
. short distance above Scottsboro.
Prisoner Struck Match.
The prisoners had been huddled
together and one of their number,
oblivious to drum of gasoline in
the truck struck match.
The slipping and sliding of the
truck had caused some of the in
flammable liquid to spill on the floor,
and it ran to the front As the
paper was ignited the fumes caught
fire, trapping all but two in the FORE
part of the rolling prison"
P. w. Campbell, editor of the jack
son County Sentinel. and one of the
first at the scene. said spectators were
helpless.
"A few threw futile hands full Of
snow on the blaze" he said. ut
was CHASTITY to stand there and real
lie you were seeing human beings
burned to death"
Evening star., 1936-02-01
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Evening star., 1936-02-01
Swans Frozen Into Lake.

Every Winter for many years pair
OF swans have settled on Esthwaite
Water, near Hawkshead, England. One
has been found dead recently after a
night of piercing frost. The other was
frozen into the solid ice, and could not
be rescued before it, too, perished from
cold.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
BY the Associated Press.

Manifesting impatience because the
carriers had not taken his broad hints,
Co-ordinator Joseph B. Eastman pre-
| pared today to use big stick to force
railroad unification projects.
The transportation chief declared he
soon would compel the unification OF
| terminal facilities in II cities as one
factor in drive to save what he de-
scribed as a $4,000 900 annual waste
in terminal operations.
He said he was prepared for "other
steps of increasing magnitude"
Eastman declared he had tried to
persuade the rail chiefs to unity vol
unfairly, and found that many were
unwilling to act.
while the co-ordinator would much
prefer voluntary railroad action East
mans statement said. "he is convinced
that the time has come to use the
authority which the act gives him"
Under the emergency transportation
act of 1888, the co-ordinator Is granted
wide powers to order the carriers to
follow his planned projects, If no VOL
untary action is taken.
Collective Action Lacking.
collectively" he said. they have
thus far failed to act. He added that
the roads could not be blamed for
taking time to study the unifcation
plans" but the failure to act goes much
beyond any such justification"
The unifications will be ordered for
Worcester, Mass; Mechanicsville,
N. Y: Grand Rapids, Mich; Jackson
vile, Fla; Montgomery, Ala; Meridian.
Miss; Freeport, ILL.,; Des Moines and
Council Bluffs, Iowa; Beaumont, Tex.
and Ogden, Utah.
Prior to the issuance of such orders.
under the law, the co-ordinator must
notify regional co-ordinating commit
tees, regional labor committees and
State authorities. Eastman plans also
to notify commercial interests in the
II cities.
Directors may appeal to the Inter-
state Commerce Commission, Of which
Eastman is member, and later may
take their case to the courts.
When the orders go out to the rail-
roads using the terminal facilities in
the cities named. the sites and other
arrangements will have been worked
out. The carriers then will be required
to conform to the plans set forth by
their representatives and Eastman's
Office. The co-ordinator estimates the
railroads will be saved S80O,o to
100000 annually in operations in the
affected cities.
Want Own Formulas,
Railroad spokesmen in the past have
argued they should be allowed to work
out their own formulas, and that they
could do so more efficiently and rapidly
than would be possible with the Gov
ernment's hand in the enterprise.
Coordination officials said there
was no immediate way to determine
the number of terminal employees to
be affected by the current plans. It
would depend, they said, on arrange
ments worked out between manage
ment and labor and in part on the
operation Of the act. This specifies
that workers on the pay rolls in May,
1888, cannot be dismissed or denoted
because of any coordination prof.
ects. It also prohibits more than a
per cent annual cut In the number
of workers
. Unless extended by Congress, East
mans Office will expire in June. He
mas recommended that it be continued
at least five years.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
Haupt1llalln
Continued From First Page.)

He is to report developments in writing
once a week to the Governor.
Col. Schwarzkopf wrote to the Gov
ernor after discussing the latest turn
in the case with Attorney General
David T. Wilentz, who headed the
prosecution stan at Hauptmann's
Pennington trial.
las has been repeatedly stated"
Wilentz said, every bit of evidence
that has come to the attention OF
prosecuting officials has pointed to
the guilt of Bruno Richard Haupt-
mann alone. and this situation has
not been changed by theories, pub
lished reports or statements, no mat
ter from what source they emanated.'
Hoffman Claims Proof.
Hoffman, in lengthy statement,
presented yesterday what he said was
"lncontrovertible proof" that Haupt-
mann was not alone in the KIDNAPPING
and collection of the futile $50,000
ransom paid for the babys return.
He referred to an opinion expressed
recently in magazine article by
Or. John F. (Jafsie) Condor. the ram
som intermediary, that Hauptmann
was not alone.
Condor, on vacation in Panama. was
quoted by Fulton Oursler, magazine
editor, last night:
Gov. Hoffman to his teeth in the
Governors Office, but my womenfolks
won't let me-"
Cites Discrepancies.
Il know 1t would be tough Oursler
further quoted Condor as saying. i
know there would be men enough to
overpower me, but even SO l would
give them a fight. even at my age"
The Governor has directed the State
police to check. among other things,
discrepancies ne said he found in the
statements of DR.. Condor, the alleged
gang" contacts of John Hughes
Curtis. Norfolk shipbuilder. and the
mysterious ~. j. Faulkner" deposit
slip.
Death Can Wait Until March II.
Speculation on how long the Gov
ernor could stave of death for Haupt-
mann, whom he has granted 30
day reprieve, was set at rest by the
executive himself
He said he interpreted constitu-
tional and legal provisions to mean
that he could delay the execution by
reprieves until March u, 80 days
after Justice Thomas w. Trench
ard, Hauptmann trial Judge, fixed the
death date after State and Federal
courts had declined to disturb the
conviction.
The present 30-day reprieve expires
February IA, leaving the Governor %
days to extend the death penalty. At
the end of the total reprieve period,
the prosecution will request Justice
Trenchard to fix a new execution
date. This would fall at least four
weeks from the end of the final re-
prieve.
Hauptmann Not Informed.
Col. Mark o. Kimberling. State
prison warden, said Hauptmann had
not yet been informed of the reopen
ing of the investigation.
There was speculation on what di-
rection the inquiry would take in
finding answers to the questions raised
by the Governor. Asked whether Col.
Charles A. Lndbergh would be re-
quested to return from Wales for
questioning, the Governor replied sub
sequent findings in the case might de-
termine that.
The Governor said also it would be
highly desirable" to question Dr..
Condor on his return from his cruise.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
WOMAN, 108, SPENDING
LAST DAYS WITH SONS
West Virginia Resident Saws She
Is "Feeling Right Well"
Now in Infrmary.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. ALBANS, w. Va, February l.
Mrs. Emma Zeena Rucker, who says
she is 108 years old, is spending the
last of her days at the KaAlawha
County 1nfirmary with her two sons.
Mrs. Rucker declares she Is feeling
right we'll"
I'm IS and feel fine" said Zeb
Strickland, her oldest son.
I'm 70 and still feel like working"
said his brother George.
George proves his assertion by la
boring daily around the infrmary
grounds.
Mrs. Rucker. born in Logan County,
came to Kanawha County at the age
of 8.
Evening star., 1936-02-01
PAY ROLL FIGURES UP

CHICAGO, February l (P).-Pay
roll and employment figures for 1885
in Illinois showed slight gains over
1884, the State Department of Labor
reported today
Taking the 1925-27 figures as 100,
the report indexed employment dur
ing 1885 at TAO and pay rolls 58.3.
In 1884 comparable figures were TIA
and 526 for all industries.