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Evening star., 1937-03-14
THIN MAN HELD
FOR 25 ROBBER|ES
CoIored Man Arrested Last
Wednesday Admits He
Took $4,000 Loot.

Residence burglaries Of more than
$4,000 in jewelry and clothing dur
ing the past year are believed solved
by police following the arrest of VIM
cent H. Samuels colored, 20. known
to Washington underworld as the
thin man"
The man. described by police as
WaShington's No. l burglar, was ar
rested Wednesday by headquarters
detectives on F street between Ninth
and Tenth. He was identified yes
terday by Mrs. Josephine Shou sec
retary to Senator Duffy of Wiscon-
sin. as the man she saw fee from
her apartment short time ago.
Later she discovered that $4,000 in
jewels were missing.
Inspector Bernard w Thompson,
chief of detectives, said Samuels con-
fessed TO 25 robberies in the last year
which totaled more than $4,000
Thompson added that Samuels ex-
pressed his Willingness to point out
at least IS more homes which he had
robbed in the last u months.
Thompson said Samuels had %
unset diamonds in his pocket when
he was arrested He entered and
escaped from the homes he robbed
by fire escapes and windows, police
said
Following double duty police
patrol of the second precinct, where
four Sanitary Grocery stores have been
robbed within the last 10 days. two
men under suspicion in the theftS
were arrested yesterday when they
stopped their car at Twenty-sixth and
P streets in front of a store. Both
men later were identified by the
managers of the four stores as the
bandits who had robbed their places
Of business
Charles c. Williamson. 43. of 626
L street southwest. and Edward Griner,
36. of ll08 l. street. were the men
arrested Precinct Detective Frank
Ashley and Pvt F. R. Cue, who took
the men into custody, said they found
a pistol in their car.
Samuel Rosenberg, proprietor of a
liquor store at 1892 Columbia road,
was robbed of more than $3.50 last
night by an armed bandit who took
the money while three customers
stood by, unaware that the store
manager was being held up. Rosen-
berg said the man escaped in an
automobile, after announcing: Il don t
want to hurt anybody, so keep still" "
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Miss Earhart to Start Today
With 3 aides on Hawaii Ian
Of Clobe-Girdling Air Jaunt
Take-Of Is Planned at San Francisco
AHport-Rodio and Compass Checked
IL, Final Test Trip.

preparation for the globe -circling ad-
venture and will accompany her as
relief pilot as far as Honolulu. She is
now scheduled to start this 2,410-mile
leg on the world trip between 4 and S
pm. tomorrow.
Mantz and Miss Earhart, when they
took her WaSp-motored Lockheed Elec-
ira flying laboratory up today for a
tWo-hour radio and compass check, on
which they went nearly 100 miles out
to sea, discovered that two days of
almost continuous rain had softened
the Oakland municipal airport run
ways to point where they believed
them hazardous for a heavy-load
take-off such as will be necessary on
the trip to Hawaii. Mantz later drove
his car at high speed up and down the
hard-surface apron" in front of the
hangar line on the big field with a
view to its possible use tomorrow, but
found it rough and less to his liking
than the shorter but table-like run
ways at Mills Field
The longest take-off strip avail
able at the latter airport is 1000 feet,
as compared to the 3.696foot apron"
(See EARHART. Page A-6.)
Evening star., 1937-03-14
By the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, March l3.-Mrs.
Helen Wills Love, 81, convicted jeal-
ousy slayer, who said she could will
her own death, reused somewhat today
from the apparently self-inflicted
lethargy which has held her to her
county jail cell cot since Thursday
night.
Asked if she would die, Jail physi-
clan, Benjaman Blank, said: mot a
chance"
DR.. Blank and Dr. Harlan Shoe
maker of the county hospital ex-
pressed belief Mrs Love willed herself
into a coma to avert sentencing yes
terday on a second-degree murder
conviction in the New Year eve
shooting of Harry Love, As, broker to
whom she said she was married
secretly.
Pronouncement of sentence, which
may be from seven years to life i'm
prisonment, was postponed until Mon
day.
Mrs. Love, who had shown few signs
of animation, aroused slightly today
and muttered: Harry, Harry, Harry.
Don't go. Don't CO.
She lapsed into the trance like
condition about $50 pm. Thursday
after she told Jail matron, Vada Sui
livan:
II can sit in this chair or lie on
this bed and kill myself by will power.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
ASK KS2,2O0,0D0,0OO
FOR W.P.A. IN 1893
Eastern Mayors ParIey Says
100000 Emp|oyabIes
Will Require Aid.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA. March l3.-The
Eastern Regional Conference of May
ors adopted a resolution today asking
the Federal Government 20 appropri-
ate minimum of $4,000, 100000 for
Works Progress Administration prof.
ects in the fiscal year 1888
The resolution. passed unanimously,
requested that the appropriations be
made on an annual instead of a
| monthly basis. 1t held that an average
of 100000 employables would re-
quire aid during 1888.
Formula Is Indorsed.
The 80 municipal heads also In
dorsed the formula Of Federal respon-
sibility for employable relief cases and
State or local responsibility for unem-
ployables. They asked the Govern
ment to make additional appropria-
tions for unemployed persons who do
not qualify technically for w P. A..
jobs.
The mayors. discussing the need for
low-cost housing, passed a separate
! iCoOluCioIl dPpiONuiS VIC "dSIIti
housing bill.
The conference named Mayor s.
Davis Wilson of Philadelphia as chair
man of new permanent emergency
committee to serve as clearing house
between cities in time of foods and
other emergencies.
Wilson earlier presented two checks
of $4,000 each to Mayor Neville Mil
lern Of Louisville, KY, as the balance
of relief funds gathered in Phila-
delphia.
Decentralized w. P. A. Urged.
Frank De Bubna, commissioner Of
Federal relations of Cleveland, ap-
pealed for decentralization of the w.
P. A. administration. He said red tape
made it almost impossible to rush
through w. P. A. projects
Mayor Daniel J. Shields of Johns
the map" if it were not for W. P. A.
funds. He said the Government pro-
vided 100000 to help clean up the
city after the 1886 floods
Mayor Cornelius D. Scully of Pitts
burgh, Pa, said relief rolls are increaS-
ing in his city despite an improvement
in business
Mayor Daniel w. Hoan of Milwau-
kee, who presided at the session,
praised efforts toward low-cost hous-
ing and said the solution of this prob
lem had saved several European
countries from revolution"
Evening star., 1937-03-14
2 SISTERS FOUND
DEAD IN CISTERN
Bodies Bound Together and Sui
eide Note in Bottle at
Illinois Home.
B, the Associated Press.

B. the Associated Press.
PRINCETON, Ill, March ia
scribbled note in a milk bottle today
led to discovery of the bodies of two
elderly spinsters at the bottom of a
deep cistern.
The sisters, Bess and Agnes Damn,
aged So and Sc, respectively, were
locked in each others arms and bound
together in death by rope tied
loosely about their waists.
On 8 table in their comfortable
home, Investigators found message
informing their dear friends" they
had been plagued for weeks and
weeks" by constant pain in head and
heart
A milkman found a note in a
bottle on the Damn doorstep Friday
asking him to send police. officers
found no trace of them then, but
Assistant Police Chief Mandus Fred
erickson located the bodies in 10 feet
of water today.
The farewell letter said in part:
I'VE have been taking our medi-
cines religiously but l get no relief
and it is the same with us both.
We have wanted SO terribly much to
get we'll, but as long as that is i'm
possible there is left but one al
tentative now
Peace is all we ask and perhaps
mercy will be granted us, too
"P S.-Won't some one please see
that our cat is put to sleep. couldn't
manage that, too
"(Signed) BESS."
Deputy County Clerk T. A. Senoglio
said he learned from friends the
sisters had spurned advice that they
apply for relief. Both had been i'll
for some time.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Et-MuIe Drirer
To Apply Whip
To Wife-Benter
Cum bprlnnd Sheriff
Has Technique for
10 LasHpS.
Bythe Associated Press.

CUMBERLAND. Md. AiarCh l3-
Sheriff George E Kemp said today
his experience in the coal mines may
give him the technique for applying
10 laShes to Gilbert Crabtree. con-
victed in a magistrates court of
beating
The sheriff, a former coal miner
at FroStburg, said he had used a
whip on the mine mules and knew
the proper method of laying the
LASH He prepared to carry out the
sentence Monday, although Crabtree
has 10 days in which to file an ap-
peal
Crsbtree 45-year-old w. P. A.
worker, was convicted yesterday by
Magistrate Paul M Fletcher of q
charge OF beating his wife, who was
ILL The magistrate sentenced him
(see WHIPPING, Page A-sD
Evening star., 1937-03-14
VENEZUELA ORDERS
48 EXILED AS REDS
Student Leader Jovita Villalba
Among Group Told to Leave
Within Eight Days.

BIZ the Associated Press.
CARACAS, Venezuela, March 13-
Forty-eight persons considered by the
government to be Communists, includ-
ing Student Leader Jovito Villalba,
Deputy-elect, we're ordered into exile
from Venezuela in a decree published
tonight in the Official Gazette.
The decree ordered the 48 to leave
the country within eight days
Besides Villalba in the list, among
leading figures, were Romulo Betan-
court and Senator-elect Dr. Gonzalo
BarrioS
Villalba. president of the Federation
of Students, is 20. During the die
tatorship of the late Juan Vicente Co.
mez, he spent six years in prison and
later was exiled to Trinidad for crit
icizing Gomez.
The student leader returned to
Caracas, after Gomez death in 1885, to
resume his study of law and leader
ship of the federation.
Evening star., 1937-03-14

ago that yielded many treasures and
valuable jewels.
Alfonso Toro, chief of the archeo-
logical division of the department of
education, said in Mexico City that
codex-worked stone had been found
at the entrance of one of the new
tombs, indicating the contents likely
would be important.
Case on January II, 1882, announced
discovery of an ancient tomb in Monte
Alban which yielded valuable t. cas-
ures in pearls, gold beads and paint
ings and subsequently discovered more
than % other tombs.
A million dollars worth of jewels
taken from the tombs were exhibited
at the Century OF Progress Exposition
IN Chicago.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
FARM HAND, II, is HELD
AS BEATING KILLS BOY, 7
Lad Found Unconscious Beneath
Straw Pile by Brother.
Hammer Nearby.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SARNIA, Ontario March 13.-
Seven-year-old John LuckinS died this
afternoon from the effects of savage
beating, shortly after William La
badie, l7-year-old farm laborer. had
appeared in court on a charge Of
assault to occasion great bodily harm.
Provincial police said the charge
against Labadie undoubtedly would
be changed Monday to murder. They
indicated that the young farm hand
had made a statement, but declined
to disclose what he had said The
youth, who formerly lived at Monroe,
Mich, was employed on the farm of
Thomas c. Luckins, father of the
slain child.
A brother of the Luckins boy
found him unconscious beneath
straw pile at his farm home yester-
day. He was bound with rope and
blood stained rock and hammer lay
nearby.
Labadie had disappeared. He was
found several hours later At the
home of his grandfather, James
Campbell, near Brigden, Ontario.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Lanier Gets New Portfolio.

HAVANA, March 13 P).-Manuel
Gimenez Lanier, secretary OF the in
terror, today took over the additional
post of secretary of the treasury,
succeeding Eduardo Montoulieu, whose
resig 1ation was accepted b, Presi-
dent Frederi"o Laredo Bru. Treasury
officials said Montoulieu, Harvard
classmate of President Roosevelt,
would return to his former post as
director of the special public works
fund of the treasury department.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
INCOME TAX YIELD
NEARS S84O,oDO,O(I)
Washington Office Will Be
Kept Open to Midnight
Tomorrow.

Revenue officials, anticipating in
come tax payments of S840, 900 900 by
tomorrow midnight, the deadline for
filing returns, announced last night
that 100000 persons filed their re-
turns yesterday.
1t was pointed out, however, that
less than half the 100000 returns
expected have been turned in.
If the S840,000,000 Of March re-
ceipts is borne out, it will more than
double last years collections. officials
said they expected the returns would
show the largest number of ST 1000 900
incomes since 1881, when they were
II.
Local Office Open in Evening.
To help out belated Washingtonians
the local Office at Room 1902, Revenue
Building, Twelfth street and Consti-
tuition avenue, will be kept open until
midnight. The filing of returns, how
ever, is expected to reach a peak be-
tween $50 and 10 am. tomorrow.
Corporations, which are expected to
file between 100000 and 100000
returns, customarily wait until the last
day to save interest on their money.
Many individuals with large incomes
also wait for the same reason.
If the usual trend is maintained,
most lower r-bracket income taxes will
be paid in full by tomorroW's dead
line, while many upper-bracket indi-
viduals and corporations will take
advantage of the Government s
"installment plan" This permits
them to remit in four quarterly
payments.
Lower Brackets Pay in Full.
In recent years, about 73 per cent
of taxpayers with incomes of less than
$4,000 have paid in full by March Is
while only So per cent of those with
incomes in excess of $4,000 have paid
in one lump sum.
Several recent changes in the
income tax laws apply for the first
time to this years returns. They
include new undistributed profits
tax. an increase from SO to rs per cent
in maximum surtaX rates on individ-
uals. and requirement that dividend
receipts be subjected to normal income
taxes
officials estimated the revisions
would account for at least Sl50,000,0 900
of the March collections and would
(See INCOME TAXES, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Cordenos Viii Open Old Tombs
Believed Holding Famed Gems
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
OAXACA, Mexico, March l3.-Three
tombs of ancient Mixtec and Zapotec
rulers, found in nearby Monte Alban
and believed likely to yield famous
jewels, awaited opening today by
President LaZaro Cardenas.
Alfonso Case, in charge of excava-
tions and archaeological work in that
region for the past three years, an
nounced discovery of the tombs but
deferred opening them pending ar
rival of the chief executive, now en-
route to Monte Alban on a tour of
southern states.
For three years Case, on behalf
of the department Of education, has
pushed ahead with his excavation
work. He uncovered tombs q few years
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Farmer, Flowing, Strikes Oil.

SHERIDAN, Ind, March 13 LP).-
G. R. Ballard, plowing on his farm
near here, struck Oil, but discovered
today it came from a broken pipe
line that leads from the Texas fields
to Detroit.
Fire that started in pool of oil
from the broken line swept Ballard's
corn field. The oil caused consider
able damage to the land.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
MADRID PROTESTS
'UNDECLARED' WAR
Tells Geneva Rebels Plan
ltaIo-German Drive on
Capital and Coast.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Charges and counter accusations
made By loyaliStS and rebels in
the Spanish ciuil 1Odr hare insisted
soldiers and supplies OF foreign
po10erS are participating in the
struggle. Indignation among ma
tionS named as friendly and actiue
gaUe place to international moues
to aUoid spread OF 1Oar BY forcing
neutrality upon all allegedly I'M
plicated. Sea coast patrols haze
been allotted.
BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, March l3-The Spanish
government, in a new protest to the
League of Nations, today set forth de-
tails of purported insurgent plan
for Italian troops to capture Madrid
while Italo-German squadrons ad-
vanced against the costal cities of
Barcelona and Valencia.
The protest formally accused Ger
many and Italy of Waging undeclared
war in Spain with regular land and
sea forces
A telegraphed statement declared
warshipS of both nations in the new
European neutrality patrol will at
tack Barcelona and Valencia under
preteXt of guarding the coast" while
Madrid is under fire by land forces.
Another note, making the same
charges, was presented to British
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in
London with the Spanish govern
ment's request that the Neutrality
Committee investigate with the least
possible delay"
German troops in Spain, the pro-
test TO the League asserted, include
tank and machine gun corps and
flame protector companies, all mo-
torized divisions.
Italy, it said has landed four di-
visions of her regular arm. three di-
visions of blackshirts and regular
army commander in Spain, all under
the leadership of a Gen. Mangini"
with headquarters at Algora.
The Spanish government charged
the presence of foreign troops was
"scandalouS violation" of interna-
tional law and the covenant of the
1see SPAIN, Page A-lo)
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Mexican Politician Slain.

MONTERREY, Nuevo Leon, Mexico,
March l3 (P.-Roberto F. Garcia,
former Mayor of Matamoros and can
didate for the House of Deputies, was
shot and killed in restaurant here
last night.
A man identified as Manuel Morales.
who had been sentenced to prison at
Matamoros during Garcia's term as
Mayor, was arrested.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, March 13-Ernst Sedg-
wick Hanfstaengl. jr.. Harvard grad
uate and once prominent Nazi worker,
some of his friends guessed tonight
is hiding out in the Alps rather than
carry out a supposed secret mission
to Spain.
One former associate of the So
year-old pianist asserted Hanfstaengl
remarked upon his departure Febru-
ary II:
Il am afraid there is something
phoney about that special mission OF
mine
He departed, friends said, on Sc
cret orders by Hitler with whom he
j. believed to have bee out of favor
for some time).
No Word From "Putzi."
They haven't heard from "Putzi'
since he left, several intimates said
but they were confident he never
(See HANFSTAENGL, Page A-9)
Evening star., 1937-03-14
DELAYED BY STORM

Mrs. Roosevelt Hour Behind
Schedule on Tour.
OKLAHOMA CITY. March l3 (P).
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt Travelled
an hour behind schedule today as her
entourage battled wintry storm from
Alva to Ell Reno.
She spoke briefly at Ell Reno, where
she dedicated National Youth Ad-
ministration center, then came here.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
d. c. WOMAN SAFE.

Escapes With Shock and Cold, She
Radios Relatives.
Mrs Katherine Grenfell, a native
of the District. one of the eight pas
sengers rescued from the burning
British ship Silverlarch radioed to a
(See SHIP, Page A-21)
Evening star., 1937-03-14
Committee Split Even.

Chairman Ashurst admitted he
might have trouble getting the bill
favorably reported out of his COM
mittee at this time. The commit
tee, he said, seems to be divided 9 to
3, on the measure. He hopes time
will cure this division and give him
= majority in the committee.
The support of the Presidents
court bill is at its peak today, in my
opinion, and if vote were taken now
In the Senate that part affecting the
Supreme Court would fail" Senator
Wheeler of Montana, liberal Demo-
crat and one of the leaders of the op-
position, declared
There are from AZ to 46 Senators
opposed to granting any increase in
the membership of the court" con-
tinued Wheeler, land a ma ajority of
the Senate against granting an in
crease of six, or even an increase of
four, Some of the Senators included
In this group might support straight
out proposal to increase the court by
two. I am opposed to any increase
under the present circumstances.
AShurst said he does not take much
stock in the proposal of Senator Pitt
man of Nevada, who wants to amend
the court bill so as to make the addi-
tion of six members of the Supreme
Court mandatory instead of condi-
tional upon the failure of justices who
have reached 7ola years of age to
retire.
The Arizona Senator said that
whereas his mail from his own State
had at first been strongly in opposition
to the bill, he is now receiving more
letters in support of it than against.
The mail from all parts of the country
Is still running more against the
measure, he admitted. But, he said,
whereas at first the letters ran so
to I against, now the letters are very
much more evenly divided
Senator Carter Glass of Virginia,
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-03-14
LPSHELD H|DEOUT
Of HANFSTAENGL
Hitler Aide Believed to Have
Fled Rather Than
Go to Spain.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Ernst S. HantStdenel. 1r., came
into prominence in the neuS
shortly after Hitler's rise by his
frank, often termed o6ensiue, ad-
uocacy OF Mai DOCTRINES His
alma mater, HARVARD. ttCice refused
$1,000 scholarships he offered,
fact blamed on his Nazi connec-
tionS. He once 1CGS close to Hitler
and played Vagnerian concerts for
the chancellor.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
BY c. B. ALLEN.
Special Dispatch to The Star

OAKLAND, Calf, March 13-A
shift in Amelia Earhart's take-off
plans whereby she will start her 27 ,000-
mile round-the-worl flight from Mills
Field, San Francisco's new municipal
airport, instead Of from Oakland's
older and larger flying field. was
announced today. This decision fol-
lowed final test flights of her ship
and careful examination of runways
at both airports by Paul Mantz, who
has been her technical adviser in
Evening star., 1937-03-14
BACKGROUND

KGROUND-
Amelia Earhart has prepared in
recent months for round the -1oorld
fight OF $4,000 miles to tollotU
equator as nearly as possible. Pur-
pose OF flight to test human en-
durance and reueal effect of fatigue
on human body in long flights.
Much OF trip 1Oill be ouer I'M
chdrted air routes, and she 1OiH
cross equator four times. Starting
from California, flight 1UiH take her
oDer HoDland Island in Pacific
Australia, Philippine Islands, India,
Africa, South America and Merico.
Evening star., 1937-03-14
ASHURST PREDICTS
DELAY ON COURT.
VOTE UNTIL JULY
Judiciary Committee Chair
man Expects Hearings to
Run Into April.
ARIZ0NAN SEES TIDE
RISING FOR PRESIDENT
II Am for Bill as It Is-Even to
Split Infnitives," He
Declares.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Democratic hopes OF smooth leg
tSlnttDe sailing 1Uith an ouerUhelm-
ing Senate majority began to fade
Immediately after February 5, aUhen
President Roosevelt asked congress
sior1al authority to name sir new
justices to the Supreme Court un-
less present incumbentS ouer 20
retire.
Although administration leaders
forecast early passage, some Demo-
cratic Senators baked at the pro-
posal and mapped plans to defeat
it if possible. As result, regular
Senate business has dWindled to
the Uanishing point, Nth little like
lthood OF returning to normdlcy
until court controversy has been
settled.
Evening star., 1937-03-14

alVpuItHts |" tuHlfnues
Consequently, the proponents of the
measure, who presented witnesses last
week. will continue their testimony
Tuesday. James M. Landi; chairman
Of the Securities and Exchan~ Com
mission, who is resigning to become
dean of the Harvard Law Cchool may
be called in support of the bill,
The opponents now plan TO begin
testimony March %, and will pre-
bent long list of witnesses, includ-
Ing many Democrats and liberals
Senator Ashurst based his predic-
ton that the bill will not be voted
on in the Senate before July, on the
expectation that debate on the floor
may run through May and June and
Into July.
Asserting the hearings of his COM
nittee would be continued "as long as
possible" he added;
When the bill came up we were
Ut the bottom of the well, but the bill
Is now moving upward. I may be
licked, but have been licked before
We want this whole thing buckled up,
and we ought to get rid of it one way
or the other before We 60 1t is like
hangnail and nobody likes to handle
4 blanket with a hangnail If neces-
earv we should remain until July for
4 final vote"