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Evening star., 1937-03-13
.BkTTLESH|P BIDS
TO Be DEFERRED
Opening of Bids for Two
Vessels Delayed Until
Early in June.

Instead of opening bids for two new
battleships Monday, as announced in
January by Secretary Swanson, the
Navy Department has decided to de-
fer this until the first week in June,
it was learned today.
The delay is blamed on various prob
lens entering into the drawing of de-
signs and specifications, taking into
account the latest advances in science.
Some observers believe the recently
announced British naval building pro-
gram for 148 new warships, among
them a number of capital ships, is a
factor in the delay. The American
Governments wants to embody in its
designs the latest and best features
used by any other navy in the world
in its battleships. observers think.
Navy Department officials today
pointed to the problem of embodving
within $4,000 tons space all the lat
est improvements in engineering, gun
merry and other equipment that goes to
make up a first line fighting craft.
1t has been about II years since
the United States built a hattleship.
the last being the Colorado and West
Virginia.
During this holiday in battleship
construction in America there have
been numerous Improvements in
armor, ordnance, engine, and along
other lines. :
Scrapped Ships $4,000 Tons,
Ofi1cials here point out that the
new battleships that were scrapped
just after the World War, before they
were finally completed, because Of the
(See BATILESHIP, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-03-13
PRESIDENT PAYS
VISIT TO HIS FARM
Inspects Spring Flowing
After Swim in Pool at
Warm Springs.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG,

WARM SPRINGS, Ga, March 10
Apparently unconcerned about the
business of Government and the prob
lens back in Washington, President
Roosevelt today is enjoying the warm
sunshine in this remote section of
Georgia.
Spring has come early. Fruit trees
are blossoming, especially the peach
trees. The peach, next to cotton. is
the principal crop of this part OF
the country. Spring plowing is well
advanced, and soon the cotton seed
will be sown
1t was primarily for the purpose of
satisfying himself about the Spring
ploWing at his farm, few miles from
here, that the President made an
inspection trip to the farm today
After his swim in the pool at the
Warm Springs Foundation, where the
water, piped from natural mineral
(See ROOSEVELT, Page A-3)
Evening star., 1937-03-13
CANTON Staying
PUZZLES OFFICIALS
Male Relative of Murdered
Society Matron to Be
Questioned.
PS the Associated Press.

~fSSONA"
CANTON, Ohio March 13-police
planned to question intensely TODAY a
36-year-old male relative of Mrs. Rose
Gable, slain society matron. as to his
whereabouts when a fatal shotgun
blast tore through the breakfast room
window of her pretentious Canton
home.
The man, held on an open charge
since shortly after the Thursday night
killing, had left the house after a
visit with the 47-year -old church
worker and her aged mother, said
Police Chief Ira Manderbaugh.
Investigators meanwhile made a
hurried trip to Cleveland on q new
clue in the Staying of the wife of
Deuber S. Gable, head of a Canton
contracting firm, The clue does not
involve the man now held" Mander-
baugh said.
We're still in the dark" declared
A. c. L. Barthelmeh, county prosecu-
tor, after he and three Canton detec-
tiVes appeared at downtown Cleve-
land hotel. Il wish some one could
give us motive"
Chief Manderbaugh said that the
suspect had been questioned only in
perfunctory fashion. Heels of his
shoes conformed with footprints found
in the soft ground beneath the break
fast room window, the chief declared
adding that the suspects movements
We're being traced between when he
left the house, 10 minutes before the
blast, and when he was taken into
custody, short time later, in his
downtown rooms.
Police declared that a dozen black
shotgun pellets of the size commonly
known as bird shot" and casts taken
of the footprints were the only clues
in the city's most battling Staying since
the underworld killing of Don A. Mel
let, crusading editor, in 1926.
Neither police nor Gable, head Of
the firm which is preparing the foun-
dations for the Republic Steel Corp. s
new $l5,000,000 strip mill in Cleve-
land, could advance a motive.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 13.-Friends OF
Ernst Franz Sedgwick Hanfstaengel
jr., the Observation-Disclosures erstwhile
intimate of Fuehrer Adolf Hitler. said
today he had gone to Spain on a
secret mission-and might not come
back.
At least, they asserted he no longer
is chief of the foreign press depart
ment of the Nazi party They be-
lieved he was out of the Reich for
good.
The friends best guess is that
"Putzi," who once charmed Der
Fuehrer with his Wagnerian piano
chords, is still in Spain, where, they
said, he went last February IL on Sc
cret orders from Herr Hitler, entrusted
with a secret mission.
Officials surrounded his status with
the utmost secrecy, but Hanfstaengl's s
confidential secretary admitted his
office was in the process of liquida-
ton" Party headquarters said they
tSee HANFSTAENGL, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-03-13
RHODES Jury FAILS
TO AGREE AFTER22
HOURS OF DEBATE
Former Fidelity Head to Go
to Trial Again in Month
on Forgery Count.
MEANING OF "lNTENT"
IS ASKED OF JUDGE
Announcement of Failure to
Reach Verdict Comes Within
Half Hour of Instruction.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
The Fidelity Building and Loan
ASSOCIATION, organized in 1929 to
make loans on property in nearby
Maryland and Virginia, Uas forced
to suspend on July IS, last, after
mushrooming into q $1,000, 900 in
stituf'on NTH 1900 depositors.
The closure ,0as tollo,Ded by the
Indictment of Fred B. Rhodes, uho
mad resigned from the presidency
Jour months earlier. He wds CHARGED
on eight counts NTH forgery, and
20 u'th larceny, and is no,u on trial
on one OF the forgery accusations.
Reporting hopeless disagreement"
the jury debating the forgery charge
against Fred B. Rhodes, former presi-
Gent OF the Fidelity Building e. Loan
ASSOCIATION, was discharged at 1890
O'Clock today, little less than % hours
after beginning deliberations.
Assistant United States Attorney
John j. Wilson Immediately announced
Rhodes would go to trial next month
with the same charge 1t Is based on
the reputed forgery Of a 81 500 with
draWal slip against the account of
Desire A. Irr Fidelity depositor.
The jury, which had been locked I'D
all night, resumed its deliberations at
$3.50 am. At noon the jurors came
oack to court to ask Justice Peyton
Gordon the meaning Of the word
intent under the criminal statute.
The justice explained, and the 10 men
and 2 women returned to the Jury
room
Within half hour they summoned
the bailiff, and, after Justice Gordon
had been called into court, the Jurors
marched In, and Eugene s. Gott, ST.,
the foreman, said they could not agree.
Wilson said the Jurors stood IL to l
for conviction.
Justice Gordon told the jury yester-
day there was no ground to excuse or
exonerate the defendant on the con-
tention that no financial loss had been
suffered by Irr, against whose de-
posit at Fidelity Rhodes is accused
of forging $500 withdrawal slip
I.
Defense Point Noted.
| He said, however, that the verdict
should be not guilty If the jury be-
lieved Rhodes had authority or rea-
sonable grounds to believe he had au-
thority to sign IRIS name, as the de-
fense has said was the case.
The first inkling of the deadlock in
the jury room came Just at o'clock,
when the jurors asked that Justice
Gordon be summoned, and marched
into the court room. Gordon asked if
they were perplexed by some point of
law, and Foreman Gott said no.
Orders Further Deliberations.
Justice Gordon then directed them
to return to their deliberations, saying
that some jury is going to have TO
decide this case"
Again they tried it until the dinner
hour, and after eating went back in
for the third time
Finally, at 8 O'Clock, reporting there
was no verdict in sight, Justice Cor
don, reached by telephone, instructed
they be locked up, and in charge of
deputy marsals the IL we're taken to
the Continental Hotel
Rhodes spent the afternoon and
evening at the court house with men,
bers of his family and friends.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
.NAz|S DENY INTENT.
TO OFFEND j. s. IN
ATTACK BY PRESS
Indignation at La Guardia
Held Understandable"
by Won Neurath.
POINTED PROTESTATION
is PRESENTED BY DODD
Ambassador Believes Realization
by Reich Beclouds American
German Relations.

BY the Associated Press
BERLIN, March 13-Foreign Min
lister Konstantin Won Neurath, sources
close to the Wihelmstrasse said today,
has answered United States Ambassa-
dor William E. Dodd's representations
against German press attacks with
the explanation they were not intended
to offend.
Won Neurath, they said, pointed out
the structures of Mayor La Guardia
of New York against the German re-
gime and said they created under
standable" indignation throughout the
Reich.
If some German newspapers ex-
ceeded proper bounds in their COM
ments, the foreign minister was said
to have asserted, it was because Of
their excitement over the La Guardia
remarks
Baron Won Neurath assured the
United States Ambassador no insult
to the United States Nation was in
tended, these circles said.
Spite in Articles Charged.
He also called attention. they said,
to what he termed spiteful, untruthful
representations of German problems
in sections of the American press
The foreign Office said no public
announcement would be made here.
however. of the conversations yester-
day between Mr.. Dodd and Won Neu-
rath. In so far as the German govern
ment is concerned, informed quarters
said, the incident is closed
The United States Consulate, mean
while, succeeded in delaying until
March 18 the election of Boris Smolar,
Jewish Telegraphic Agency CORE
spondent who had been given three
days to leave the country.
The Foreign Press Association, also
opening negotiations on Smolar's be-
half, communicated with the foreign
office, urging the order against Smolar
and his wife be rescinded.
In vigorous and pointed words, Am
bassador Dodd made representations
to the foreign Office yesterday and
called attention to the newspaper re-
marks which he regarded as be
clouding German-American relations"
The substance of the Ambassador
"oral representations" well in
formed source said, was that his gov
ernment was unable to account for
the newspaper statements regarded as
vituperative and unfounded, and as
attacks upon American womanhood
and American institutions"
Further, this reliable informant as
serted, the Ambassador indicated his
government felt that the language of
the German press was probably un-
(See DODD, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1937-03-13
FIRE ON FREIGHTER
IS OUT OF CONTROL
Silverlarch Radios Request for
Ships to Take OF Her
Passengers.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, March l3-The
Radio Marine Bureau of the Western
Union reported today the British
freighter Silverlarch radioed fire in
her hold is out of control, and asked
other ships to take off her passengers
Afraid cannot control fire In No.
3 hold" read the message; will ships
take note, Would like to transfer pas
sengers."
The Silverlarch is northeast Of the
Hawaiian Islands on her way from San
Pedro, Calf, to the Orient.
This was the third time the blaze on
the SilVerlarch has broken out Of con-
troll since Thursday.
The freighter was reported about
300 miles northeast Of Honolulu last
night.
The ship is 4oo-foot vessel of 5,l22
tons.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
PRO-HITLER AMERICANS
CHALLENGED TO ANSWER
Couture League" Asked to Tell
How It Can Back Nazis and
Keep U. S. Oath.

NEW YORK. March 13 R).-An
anti-Nazi league of German -Ameri-
cans, with headquarters in Brooklyn,
today challenged the Hitler sympa-
thizing" organization headed by Fritz
Kuhn of Detroit.
Eugene F. Grigot, member of the
National Executive Board of the Ger
man American League for Culture,
claiming membership of $4,000
Americans Of German origin, dis
patched the following telegram to
Kuhn:
Il invite you and all your followers
to listen to our question which will
be asked publicly in front of the Nazi
headquarters Gin New York; on Tues
day, March l6, at 7 pm.
The question: How can any
American of German origin live up
to his oath of allegiance to Uncle Sam
and raise his arm In Hitler fashion
at the same time without being a
perjurer of the worst sort Be sure
to attend and face US"
Grlgot, who is also executive secre-
tary of the Friends of Democracy, sent
the message on the heels of Kuhn S
assertion that almost 100000 German
Americans in ~ States belong to his
uniformed movement sympathetic
with the Hitler government"
Evening star., 1937-03-13
SNOW, SLEET, RAIN
PROSPECT FOR D. C.
Week End Also to Bring Falling
Mercury-Minimum of 80
Due Tonight.

varied precipitation-snow, sleet
and rain-with a falling mercury is
the Capitals weekend weather out
look
Snow, falling when the forecast was
made, is expected TO continue inter-
n1ittently this afternoon.
BY tonight, however. the snow pos
kibly will change to sleet or rain, ac-
cording to the forecaster and continue
that way tomorrow.
The minimum temperature tonight
will be about 80 degrees Although the
iorecaster predicted somewhat cold
er," the change is not expected to be
great enough TO allow the snow TO
form on the streets.
This mornings low" was "a at 3
o'clock, while yesterdays high" was
46 at 1:5o pm. The reading at 10
O'Clock today was 35
Evening star., 1937-03-13
BANDITS TAKE S18,5OO
IN SECOND RAID ON BANK
Man Held for Questioning by U.
S. Agents Investigating
New Hold-Up.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
KATONAH, N, Y, March 13.-
Three gunmen who apparently gam
bled on a bankers belief that light
ming seldom strikes twice in the same
place left slender clue today for
peace officers trying to solve the
SIS, 500 hold-up of the Northern
WeStcheSter Bank,
A second car which they COM
mandeered after they had disabled
their first one in their flight from
Katonah was found wrecked in
Bridgeport, Conn.
Government agents questioned an
unidentified man for hours, but beyond
the fact they had taken him into
temporary custody, they made no an
nouncement of his possible connec-
ton with the case.
The robbery of the bank yesterday
was the second within IS days. In
the previous hold-up Merle Vanden-
bush, notorious jailbreaker and bank
robber, was seized with two con-
federates by police.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Ex-Clerk in Russian Embassy
Suicide With Car Exhaust Gas

Muffing his head in blanket next
to the exhaust pipe of an automobile,
Gregory M. Trousseneff, As, clerk at
the Russian Embassy before the World
War, ended his life today in a garage
in the 1900 block of Nineteenth street,
where he had been employed.
A certificate Of suicide was issued
by Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald.
Members Of the homicide squad who
investigated said they found an un-
addressed note in the mans pocket,
which read, PLEASE excuse me for my
mistakes" Police said they understood
Troussenen was divorced and that his
wife had plannedneo return to Russia
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Pigeons Conuey TidH'gs to Man
From Wife Sick in H0spital

Youngs sons have been raising the
carrier pigeons as a hobby for two
years. Their flock now numbers 25
When Mrs. Young was brought to the
hospital her husband thought he'd
put them to practical test.
AT first I'd toss the birds out the
window" he said. They would circle
for while, getting their bearings, and
then scoop westward for Sapulpa.
Now they have the lay of the land
and head for home at once. can re-
lease the birds in any part of the
hospital and they aren't confused
Other patients are intensely interested
and ask to release the birds from their
windows"
The latest messages reported Mrs.
Younss condition - imprcaed.
Evening star., 1937-03-13

Troussene1 was a petty oficer in
the Imperial Russian Navy when he
was made member OF the embassy
clerical staff prior to the United States
entry into the World War.
After the Russian revolution and
the subsequent severance Of diplomatic
relations between America and Rus
hia, he found work as a mechanic In
garages here. He had been living at
1929 M street.
The ignition was turned on, but the
engine Of the automobile had stopped
running. police said, when Trousenef9's
body was found on the floor OF the
e"~"oe hr the Ener, G~-o-~y shlopak
Evening star., 1937-03-13
ONE-P0UND BABY DIES
IN HOSPITAL INCUBATOR
Girl, Fed Milk With Medicine
Dropper, Could Be Held
In Palm of Hand.

Es the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. March IA mite of
HE prematurely born TO Mr.. and Mrs
Max Post Thursday failed to over
come overwhelming odds and died at
$50 am. today in an incubator at a
fashionable midtown hospital.
Weighing only 1871 ounces and SO
tiny she could be held in the palm of
the hand, the girl was fed milk with
a medicine dropper while four assist
ants worked to save her life.
About two and a half months pre-
mature. the baby was named Dorothy
by her parents before it expired. Post
is a w. P A. worker.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
BY the Associated Pres

TULSA. Okla, March l3.-Swift car
rier pigeons are winging frequent hos
pltal reports on the condition of Mrs.
Glenn D. Young to her family, in
Sapulpa, l8 miles away.
Her husband. an attorney, put the
winged messengers to work when Mrs.
Young came here for an operation.
"A check of time he's shown the
pigeons carry my messages home in 20
minutes" Young said
When they arrive home an arrange
ment forces them to ring bell getting
in the loft Then a member Of the
family takes the notes fastened TO the
leg with adhesive tape. II Mrs. Young
should take turn for the worse our
three sons could be called from their
school work and hurry to the hospital.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Windsor Income
Threat Scored
As "Meu,,ness''
Lloyd George to On.
pose Cancellation.
as ScandaIOus,
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, March 13.-David LLOYD
George, Britains World War prime
minister. championed the Duke of
Windsor's financial future today with
the assertion that cutting him IF
from the royal purse would be "the
height Of meanness."
The News Chronicle said the elder
statesman would protest to the COM
mittee compiling the Kings civil list,
an outline Of prospective financial out
lays against any lack of provision for
the abdicated monarch.
The duke is in Enzesfeld, Austria.
self-exiled and awaiting the day when
Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson will be
free to marry him.
Lloyd George, who will be member
OF the Civil List Committee, said 1T
is scandalous If the former King is
left out" adding:
"All the members of the royal family
have been provided for except the for
mer King, who. it is generally admit
ted, behaved very decently.
He abdicated in order to make no
difficulty for the reigning King; if
there is made no provision of any sort
for him-well. it is the height of mean
ness. There is touch of vindictiveness
about it."
The duke, meanwhile, was reported
to have decided to purchase a 100000
airplane after selling a plane bought
when he was Prince of Wales. The
old plane, which has flown 25,00C
miles, cost s25,O0O In 1898.
The new ship is being tested at
Portsmouth by Capt. Edward Hedley
Fielden, who was captain of the
Kings fight" when Edward was King
It will have maximum speed of PIC
miles an hour and 700-mile cruising
range.
1t is British-made cabin monoplane
with two engines and seats for six.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
"MUHARREM" ARRIVES
Jerusalem in Bedlam on Annual
Moving DaY

Jerusalem in Bedlam on Annual
Moving Day.
JERUSALEM, March l3 (P).-Bed- :
lam reigned in the narrow streets Of
this ancient city today as vast guam
titles of furniture were moved by men,
donkeys and motor trucks.
1t was "Muharrem," the first day OF
the Mohammedan new year 1856 and
the traditional moving day for Arabs,
Jews and Christians alike.
Under Ottoman laws, buildings are
rented from one "Muharrem" to the
next.
"Muharrem" comes earlier each solar
year and the landlords gain an en-
tire year once about every 80. Ten
ants tried TO have the Western calendar
recognized for rent-paying purposes
but without success.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
BY the Associated Press.

bS the Associated PreSS.
Senator Pittman, Democrat, of
Nevada. Judiciary Committee mem
ber supporting President Roosevelt's
court BILL proposed today that the sug-
gested increase in the size of the Su-
preme Court be unconditional and
permanent.
His proposal, the first from an ad-
ministration leader for a change in
the Presidents bill. would enlarge the
tribunal to Is members even if justices
over 10 retire.
Mr.. Roosevelt recommended an in
crease only in the event older justices
remained on the bench.
Pittman said if his amendment to
the bill was approved, he would offer
a constitutional amendment to prevent
the court from being enlarged beyond
Is members. He forecast it would
eliminate some of the opposition to
the bill.
Committee in Recess.
The Pittman suggestion was ad-
vanced as the Judiciary Committee
took week end recess in the hearings
on the court bill Senator Wheeler,
Democrat. of Montana, will open op-
position testimony Monday
Demands for curtailment Of the
hearings came from both friends and
foes of the bill Some committee
members on both sides already were
expressing disapproval of repetition of
arguments.
Pittman, discussing his proposal,
said.
Il have no desire to induce the
present judges to retire. In fact, I
would like to have the new members
OF the court have the benefit of the
arguments and opinions of the present
Justices
He noted that he had sounded out
Attorney General Cummings on his
idea during the hearings this week
and that the cabinet officer had no
objection
THE court ought to be increased to
at least Is members" the Senator
said. There are three reasons:
First. it would bring into the court
new blood-men who are mentally
free and not bound by and confused
by prior precedents they may have
established themselves
Second, it would relieve a psyche
(See COURT. Page AL
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Boy, II, accused
Of Killing Child
In Practical Joke |
Said to Haze Shot Cy-
clist, 8, in attempt
to ''Scare'' Him.
Ply the Associated Press.

~ tIIt HosUCIdI IFU FIVSS.
REDLANDS. Calf, March l3.-Po-
lice Chief w. H. Morrison said today
he had a confession from James Sim
mons, IL, that he killed Robert Lopez
8, during an attempt to scare" him
The Lopez boy was shot in the back
as he rode his bicycle past the Sim
mons home yesterday.
Morrison said the Simmons boy told
him he aimed his older brothers .22-
caliber rife ahead of young Lopez and
fired. Neither boy knew the other.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
MOLLISON ASKS DIVORCE
Flyer Seeks Freedom With "No
Ill Feeling''

LONDON, March Is up. -- Capt.
James A. Mollison, Australian long
distance flyer, said today he has
asked his wife, Amy johnson Mollison,
for a divorce
There is no il! feeling" he said.
we are just going our own ways"
The MolliSons--both noted flyers
were married in London July 20, 1882.
They announced last October they
would separate.
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Snow Blocks English Highways

LONDON, March 13 (P),-Highways
between England and Scotland were
blocked by drifting snow today. Some
communities were completely isolatesl
Evening star., 1937-03-13
Summary of Today's Star

Racing service manager charged with
gaming conspiracy. Page Ala
Motion for new trial for Bishop Can
non considered Page Ala
Schafer blocked on racing bill in
House. Page Ala
Senate to take up civil service res
olution. Page ALA
Evening star., 1937-03-13
P|TTMAN FAV0RS
G MORE IN COURT
Permanent Bench of IS Is
Urged in Advocating
Change in Bill.
BACKGROUND

Fear OF setting dangerous prece-
dent has motipated many stanch
Democrats opposing Roosevelt court
reorganization plan, advanced after
Ne,u Deal measures failed to suruiue
Supreme Court test. Opposition
Senators assert future Presidents
may tolloU Roosevelt example and,
by increasing the number OF justices
at uill, make court tool of major
political parties.
Leaders OF opposing force hare
been seeking satisfactory middle
course and are expected to agree
soon on some form OF constitutional
amendment to change lau rather
than personnel OF court.