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WEATHER.
<U. S. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair and warmer tonight and tomor
row; lowest temperature tonight about
47 degrees.
Temperatures—Highest, 67, at noon
today: lowest, 39, at 8 p.m. yesterday.
Full report on page 4.
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15
Olj I t/u# post office, Washington. I). C.
BIG BILL THOMPSON
DEFEATEDBYI9I.9I6
VOTES BY CERMAK
Democrat’s Majority Largest
Ever Given for Mayor in
Chicago’s History.
FORMER IMMIGRANT BOY
WILL TAKE OFFICE SOON!
Retiring City Head Says He Will
Continue to Work for Good of j
Municipality.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April B.—The political
career of William Hale Thompson, as
mayor, today lay buried beneath a rec
ord-breaking blanket of votes which
elevated to the mayorship. Anton J.
Ccrmak, one-time immigrant boy from
Bohemia.
■'Big Bill, the Builder," and a past
master of the art of American politics,
was swept out of office by his Demo
cratic opponent by the overwhelming
majority of 191,916, thus becoming the
worst beaten mayoralty candidate in the
history of the city. The vote, Thomp
son, 475,613; Cermak, 667,529, was in
sharp contrast to the previous record
majority of 147,477 by which Thompson
won in 1915.
The result by which the "cowboy”
mayor’s aspirations for a fourth term
were abruptly ended, was haled by his
opponents as a “new deal for Chicago.”
Says City Redeemed Self.
"Chicago," said Robert Isham Ran
dolph, president of the Chicago Associ
ation of Commerce, "has redeemed it
self. We’ve had enough of Nero fiddling
while Rome burned. We had told the
world that we are prepared to regain
our business level and restore our good
came.”
The mayor-elect, who expects to take
office soon—possibly within the next
veek —tock his elevation to the mayor
ship of America's second city quietly,
declaring the “whole world would not
be disappointed in the new administra
tion. He took a nap after the close of
the polls, awakening to find himself
winning. , _ .
"Criminals,” he said, will find no •
hiding place here. Our streets will be
safe. Industry and commerce will find
the highest encouragement. We shall
at once set ourselves to the task of
preparing our house for those who shall
visit us at the century of progress ex
hibition. This truly begids a new day
lor Chicago.”
Bedlam broke loose in the streets of
downtown Chicago as shouts of frenzied
Cermak supporters haled hi* victory
over the master showman. Bombs and
bullets added to the din, but they were
fired harmlessly into the heavens. The
outburst of enthusiasm was cne of the
loudest since the signing of the armi
stice. There were no disorders last night
or during the day’s balloting.
"Big Bill” Smiles.
But for "Big BUI.” who entered the
campaign after a bitter partisan cam
paign fight announcing he would never
seek public office again, there was no
cause for rejoicing. He smiled, con
gratulated his victorious opponent and
then served notice that the vote that
reduced him to the rank of a private
citizen would not deter him in efforts
to aid Chicago.
“I will,” he said, “redouble my efforts
for completion of the waterways to bring
to Chicago a greater prosperity and to
this end I have chartered the Missis
sippi River steamship Cape Girardeau
and will leave on a tour of the Illinois,
Mississippi, Ohio and Tennessee Rivers
April 9. • • * I love Chicago and
believe in the destiny of our city.”
Thus the man who once said he would
"bust King George of England on the
snoot,” greeted the result of the Demo
cratic boom which not only removed
Thompson, but apparently swept into
the council chamber enough Democratic
counciimen to give Cermak a working
majority. The returns indicated the
ratio would be 26 or more Democrats
to 24 or less Republicans.
It was the second big victory for a
Democrat within the past year the other
having been that of James Hamilton
Lewis, elected to the United States
Senate last November, over Ruth Hanna
McCormick. Republican nominee. There
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FOREIGNERSASKED
TO LEAVE MADEIRA
Lisb'n Acts to Safeguard Visitors
Before Acting Against
Rebels.
Br the Associated Press.
LISBON, Portugal, April B.—Evacua
ton of foreign residents of Madeira was
provided for and closing of all ports
of the island group was ordered in an
emergency cabinet decree published to
day.
The decree intimates that all resi
dents of the island who have accepted
posts under the rebel Junta set up there
will be dismissed and tried in special
courts.
The decree affirmed intention of the
government to suppress the revolt which,
apparently instigated by political de
portees. has overthrown the Lisbon
authority in Funchal. An offer will be
made the garrison at Funchal and the
military junta there to allow them to
return to the government fold, where
after, in the event of its refusal, mil
itary measures, made possible by a
large expeditionary force sent to Ma
deira, will be undertaken.
BANDITS ASK $20,000
Negotiations Conducted for Release
of Missionaries in China.
PEIPING. China, April 8 MP).—Ne
gotiations for the release of Rev. Bert
Nelson, formerly of Minneapolis, and
Rev. K. N. Tvedt, American Lutheran
missionaries, who were captured by
bandits in Honan Province last Fall,
were proceeding today.
The bandits are demanding $20,000
for their release. It was hoped the
amount might bo reduced. A letter
frc~i r " ’■> —ir\ received
jjere, said .1. \. - -eli.
ROSENDAHL TO BE COMMANDER
OF NEW NAVY DIRIGIBLE AKRON
Former Los Angeles Skipper
Regarded as Foremost U. S.
Zeppelin Authority.
Is Ranking Officer to Survive
Destruction of Shenan
doah in 1925.
By the Associated Press.
Lieut. Comdr. Charles E. Rosendahl,
who knows more about airships in fair
I sailing and disaster than any other
American, today was named the first
skipper of the Navy's new queen oi
the skies, the dirigible ZRS-4, better
j known as the Akron.
Rosendahl was ordered to the naval
air station at Lakehurst, N. J., Apr:*
15, to bcg.n assembling a crew for th ,;
new airship from the personnel trainee"
aboard the Los Angeles, the dirigible
given to this country by Germany un
der the treaty of Versailles. Trial flights
are to be conducted in July.
Rosendahl is a survivor of the Shen
andoah disaster, and was for three
years captain of the Los Angeles.
The Akron, named for her birth -
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CRAIN FACES PROBE
IN NEW YORK CITY
District Attorney Takes Stand
to Fight Charges of
Inefficiency.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April B.—Thcmas C. T.
Crain, Manhattan's silver-haired district
attorney, took the stand today to fight
charges of inefficiency on which the
City Club demands his removal. He be- 1
gun immediately to answer questions
about his investigations of racketeering.
Commissioner Samuel Seabury, hear
ing the charges for Gov. Roosevelt, pref
aced the proceedings with a statement
that the accusations "do not in any j
respect call into question the honesty
and integrity of the district attorney.”
Hearing Formal and Dignified.
The atmosphere of the hearing room
was formal and dignified. Both Sea
bury and Crain wore frock coats and
1 striped trousers. So did John Kirk
land Clark, inquisitor for the commis
sioner, and Samuel Untermyer, attor
ney for the district attorney.
Attorney Clark's first questions laid
the groundwork for getting into the
record details of Investigations into al
leged racketeering at the Fulton Fish j
Market, in the sale of milk and ether
business enterprises, and the organ,
tion by Crain of a citizens' committee
to look into racketeering last year.
Grand jury minutes in the Fulton
Fish Market investigation were identi
fied and placed in the record.
An investigation of all municipal
affairs has been voted by the Legisla
ture. The members of the Investigating
Committee were appointed yesterday.
Mayor Walker Is continuing prepara
tions for a vigorous defense of his ad
ministration in reply to charges filed
against him with Gov. Roosevelt by
the City Affairs Committee.
Legislative Probers Named.
The legislative committee to investi
gate the city government from street
sweeper to Judiciary and the mayor was
named yesterday.
The Republican leaders of the Legis
lature selected Senators Samuel H.
Hofstadter, New York, and Leon F.
Wheatley, Hornell, and Assemblymen
William J. Lamont of Orange, Abbott
Low Moffat of New York and William
F. Potter of Suffolk.
The Democratic leaders chose as their
two appointees the youngest and oldest
Democratic members of the Legislature
in point of service, Senator John J.
McNaboe, serving his first term in the
Legislature, and Assemblyman Louis A.
Cuvillier, who began his service in the
Lower House in 1907. Both represent
New York districts.
Ex-Informer Threatened.
An attorney threatened to punch
Chile Acuna, ex-police informer, on
the nose.
The trial of four vice squadsmen was
going on. Samuel Liebowitz, defense j
attorney, became angered at Acuna’s
actions and declared himself of a mind ,
to lay a punch on Acuna's nose.
Nelson Ruttenberg, fourth deputy po- :
llcc commissioner conducting the trial,
promptly told Liebowitz any more such j
threats would result in Liebowitz's be- ;
ing ejected as counsel.
butler would like
TO BE U. S. SENATOR!
Has Not Had Time to Think It
Over, Marine Corps Gen
eral Says.
' PHILADELPHIA, April 8 UP). —"I
would like to be a United States Sena
tor from Pennsylvania,” said Maj. Gen.
Smedley D. Butler of the Marine Corps
here today.
“But,” he added, “I haven’t had
, time to think seriously about running
for the Senate, and will not give the
matter any consideration until my lec
, ture tour is over on April 15.
“When I retire from the Marine
1 Corps, around the end of September,
my future plans will be definite. There
, is nothing to stop me from seeking
; the nomination in the 1932 Spring pri
, mary, if, after consideration, I decide
that is the thing I want to do.”
i SING SING CONVICTS DESCRIBED
AS PROLIFIC LOVE-LETTER WRITERS
E ! Parole Commissioner Asserts They Give Only Street
Address and "Develop Genius for Expression.”
v .. -
t
i
1 By the Aiiocleted Press.
f NEW YORK, April B.—Convict* at J
’ Sing Sing are prolific and In some case*
3 excellent writer* of love letter*. i
e Bernard J. Fagan, commissioner of
r ‘ the State division of parr!?, told about
1 it at s meeting o* conc?”~-"' !**
The convicts get the the love
Uht Jtbmmn Skf.
\ ✓ J X WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION
WASHINGTON, IX C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1931—THIRTY-SIX PAGES. ***
LIEUT. COMDR. CHARLES E.
ROSENDAHL.
GRIEFMEN RETURN;
PLAY HERE TODAY
Earl Clarke to Be Honored
in Contest With Braves.
Sam Jones May Hurl.
The Griff men are home.
Washington was to have its first
glimpse today of the ball team Walter
Johnson confidently predicts will win
the American League pennant.
A long and unusually successful
training grind at an end, it was a cheer
ful band of athletes that filed through
Union Station shortly before noon out
into a winey Spring day, to be greeted j
i by a sizable group of the “faithful.”
Will Play Braves.
At 3 o’clock they were to meet the
Boston Braves of the National League
In an exhibition contest that was to sea- j
tuer Earl Clarke, a Washington youth !
for whom many have forecast a bril- I
liant career. In honor of him it has i
been designated “Earl Clarke day” at
the ball park and many of his old play
mates of the sandlots were expected out
to give him a "hand.”
Clarke la a center fielder and holds
the all-time major league record for
chances accepted in one game. He
made 12 putouts and 1 assist to beat
a mark which had stood since the
early days of the American League.
Sam Jones was the probable Wash
ington pitching choice. Manager Bill
McKechnie of the Braves was uncer
tain who would be his selection.
Charley Wilson, the Boston third
baseman, got to town a day earlier
than his mates to undertake a bit
of serious business. Charley was mar
ried here yesterday. The bride was
Maureen Collins of Rochester, N. Y.
Tomorrow the Griff men will play
the Philadelphia Nationals here. Al
though not counted among the stronger
teams of their league, the Phillies have
been making It hot for the world cham
pion Athletics in the annual Phila
delphia city series, having won two
games to the Mackmen's one.
President Gets Pass.
President and Mrs. Hoover will be
on hand at Griffiith Stadium April 14
to see the Washington and Philadelphia
clubs open the 1931 American League
season.
Assurance of this was given by the
President today to Clark Griffith,
president of the Washington club, who
called to present to the President a
season pass contained in a morocco
wallet with the President’s initials on
the cover in silver. Mr. Griffith also
left with the President a handsome
wallet for Mrs. Hoover, made of alliga
tor leather, highly lacquered and trim
med in silver, containing an annual
1 pass.
President and Mrs. Hoover have not
missed an opening ball game since they
have occupied the White House and
each year have attended one game
of the world series.
—■ —■■■■ -
3,000 REDS DRIVEN
OUT OF CHINESE CITY
Bombing Planes Dislodge Invaders.
Hwangchow Is Reported
Virtually Destroyed.
| By the Associated Press.
HANKOW, April 8. —Three thousand
Reds who attacked and captured
Hwangchow, 50 miles east of here, were
driven from that city today. Hwang
chow was reported virtually destroyed.
Six thousand Reds attacked Fungkou,
80 miles west of Hankow, but the mil
itary defenders there repulsed them.
The Invasion of Hwangchow was short
but violent. The attackers began an
orgy of looting as soon as the city fell
early in the day. Government bombing
planes were sent from here to dislodge
the Invaders.
Hwangchow, situated on the north
oank of the Yangtse River, is considered
an Important center because of its
proximity to Hankow, Hanyang and
Wuchang, the tri-cities of Central
China. It had a population of 30,000
in 1924.
lorn from matrimonial bureaus and. In
writing, give only the street address of
the prison In Ossining.
“Driven by their loneliness and the
monotony of prison life to express
themselves on paper,” Mr. Fagan said,
“men In prison become prolific letter
-■' i ecreet lines develop a genius
... c.;„" e.laa.”
IfINAL BREAKDOWN
I IN NAVAL PARLEY
SEEN IN LONDON
Intense F-Power Rivalry Ex
pected Unless France
Yields in Demands.
GREAT BRITAIN LINKS
ARMS WITH ITALY
Failure of Conference May Give
Rise to Friendlier English Feel
ing Toward Germany.
BY CARROLL BINDER.
By Cable to The Star.
LONDON, England, April B.—The
Anglo-Franco-Italian naval agreement,
which raised the hopes of peace lovers
throughout the world, Is admitted even
by the British to be dangerously near
final breakdown. Unless the French
admiralty yields—and there is not much
reason to expect this—naval rivalry
may burst out intensely and the United
States and Japan, as well as Great
Britain, may lose the laboriously
achieved limitations and economies of
the London Conference.
The rapprochement between France ;
and Great Eritain, which prospered
during the first days of the mutual re- j
sentment at the Austro-German Cus- j
toms Union, has withered startlingly,
and Great Britain is linking arms with
Italy in stiff resistance to the French
naval demands. Great Britain more
over is showing a friendlier eye to Ger
many, whom she momentarily disliked
for the secrecy over the Austrian pact.
Sharp Contrast Shown.
When this correspondent first dis
closed that the French policy was
threatening naval agreement, the Brit
ish deprecated the report and en
deavored to persuade the correspondents
that the drafting was progressing nor
mally. The Labor government’s passion
for successful conclusion of the pact,
for which Foreign Minister Arthur
Henderson, First Lord of the Admiralty
A. V. Alexander and Robert L. Craigie
! have striven so hard, sustained them
j through many days of wrangling with
I the French.
Now faced with failure and the pos
i sibility of being cbliged to spend large
I sums for additional armament to keep
pace with the French, the British
reveal the real situation from their
standpoint, which sharply contrats with
the French presentation.
The London version portrays the
French navallsts as not only seeking
to scrap the preliminary agreement but
dooming in advance the forthcoming
disarmament conference by striving
for a fleet which in all but capital
ships would be almost equal to the
British and in submarines would be
superior. Not even the Labor govern
ment is willing to abandon Great Brit
ian's historic naval supremacy in that
fashion and the admiralty would not
permit any govemenmt to do so if it
wished.
See Claim for Free Hand.
The British consider the French de
mand nothing less than a claim for a
free hand for construction in the years
1935-1936—the last two years of the
London Naval Treaty. The United
States, Japan. Great Britain and Italy
would thus be restricted by the treaty
terms for six years, while France would
be limited for only four.
Great Britain has flatly notified the
French that it will not entertain such
a project. There must be a six-year
agreement for all or none whatever.
Italy shares this British view.
The British refute the French con
tentions regarding over-age vessels with
the allegation that the British fleet will
also comprise a large proportion of over
age vessels in 1936, which will be re
placeable gradually by building started
after that date if necessary.
Would Open Escape Clause.
Should the French persist in build
ing, the British will be free to do like
wise under the escape clause of the Lon
don treaty. But then the United States
and Japan would be free to increase
their navies proportionately and the
! situation would be as inimical to peace
and economy as it was before London,
save for Anglo-American parity.
The government organ, the Herald,
editorially warns Paris that the “agree
ment must be based on the prinlciple of
applying to France and Italy the limita
tions already accepted by Great Brit
ain, America and Japan or it cannot
be signed by Great Britain.” And with
out agreement, the Franco-Itallan po
litical strife will be resumed,
i All of which intensifies interest in
the visit of German Chancellor Hein
rich Bruening and Foreign Minister
Julius Curtius to London early in May.
(Continued on Page 2, Column i.)
WUPPER SENTENCED
TO 210 YEARS IN JAIL
$1,000,000 Bank Embezzler Also
Fined SSOO Each on 20
Forgery Charges,
i
' By the Associated Press.
WEST POINT, Nebr., April B.—Paul
1 Wupper, w’ho embezzled $1,000,000
| from his bank at Beemer, today plead
[ ed guilty to 20 counts of forgery in
l District Court, and was sentenced to a
1 total of 210 years in prison.
He also was fined SSOO on each count.
He was arrested in Philadelphia a few
days ago for bigamy.
District Judge Clinton Chase sen
, fenced the former mayor and bank
, president, on his plea of guilty, to 20
years in prison on the first forgery
charge and 10 years on each of the
other 19 charges. The sentences are
► to run consecutively. The charges in
volved forgeries totaling $35,000.
Wupper, who is 54 years old, also
was charged with the embezzlement of
$67,000 from the bank, which failed in
September, 1928, but this count was not
i pressed by County Attorney Harvey
f Ellenberger.
The former bank president will be
s taken to the State penitentiary, at Lin
s coin, as soon as his commitment papers
!, are ready.
r When asked by the district Judge If
s he h* ' '•v t’Mrs'j. to say, Wupper
muhulc.l ‘ -hi -or*.”
THE END OF THE SHOW.
FARM AID FAILURE,
! SAYS GRAIN LEADER
'Program Menaces Coming
Crops, Chicago Trade Board
Head Declares.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 8. —President James
C. Murray of the Chicago Board of
Trade declared today that the stabili
zation program of the Farm Board
"has failed completely In the attempt
to maintain the markets on any satis
factory level.” In an address before
the Chicago Association of Commerce
he said the Farm Board's operations
"have only resulted in accumulations
which are a menace to the coming
crops.”
"Passage of the agricultural market
ing act, intended to be of benefit to the
farmer, has admittedly failed of its pur
pose. Ably managed by honest men
interested in the working out of a
definite scheme of farm relief, the op
eration of the act has again demon
strated the futility of interference with
the normal action and reaction to
supply and demand,” he declared.
Others’ Experiences Cited.
Through the act, he said, the Gov
ernment has advanced “large sums for
the purpose of building up co-operative
companies, under obligation to market
their grain through the single channel
approved by the Farm Board.” But it
has been clearly demonstrated in the
experience of other countries that "the
unit system of marketing through one
national channel is not a success, and
that a free and open market, one carry
ing a wide public interest, is the only
sound and safe means of disposing of
staple crops.”
Mr. Murray said the Board of Trade
strongly recommended the following:
“First, that the Government should
at the earliest possible date divest it
self entirely of the business of mer
chandising grain, to the end that the
marketing of the surplus already stored
up shall be handled by the regular
dealers in the domestic and export
trade with the least possible disturb
ance to the marketing of the coming
crops.
Open Market Held Essential.
"Second, that in assisting the devel
opment of co-operative marketing, as
required under the terms of the act.
Government funds should not be used
at lower rates of interest in the mer
chandising of commodities in competi- !
tion with the established trade.
"Third, that the maintenance of a
free and open market for grain, with
a wide public interest, is essential to
the best Interests of the producer and
consumer.
“Fourth, that the market should be
relieved of unnecessary detailed gov
ernmental supervision and bureaucratic
control.”
TWO KiLLEbr3HURT
IN AQUEDUCT BLAST
Explosion 60f Feet Below Street
Level in Bronx Entombs Men.
Sixty Others Escape.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April B.—Two men were
killed, three seriously injured and 60
escaped death last night in an explo
sion in a part of a 22-mile aqueduct be
ing constructed from Yonkers to Long
Island City.
The dead:
Edelmino Fernandez, 27 years old, su
perintendent.
Weiman Moffett, 30, superintendent
in charge of blasters.
The aqueduct, being constructed at a
cost of $44,000,000 and with Patrick J.
McGovern as contractor, has been called
“the Black Luck Tunnel,” because a
dozen workers have been killed in its
construction.
The explosion occurred in the Bronx
portion of the tunnel, 605 feet below
street level. Seventy charges of dyna
mite had been laid.
The dead and injured were buried un
der tons of rock and dirt. Other work
ers were blown from their feet. The
uninjured quickly dug out their com
panions.
The Bronx homicide squad and other
police officers began an Investigation.
Chile Has Light Earthquake.
SANTIAGO, Chile, April 8 (A*). —A
light earth shock was felt here today,
starting at 4:25 a.m. and lasting for
20 seconds. No damage was reported.
Radio Frcgrams on Page C-Z
Cow Saves Own Life
By Flashing Light
To Call Assistance
By the Associated Press.
SAYRE, Pa., April B.—Della, a
Holstein cow, owned by George
Smith of Ulster, was recovering
today from an attack of Indiges
tion because she summoned a
doctor in time.
Every day when the time for
rations arrives, Della pulls an
electric light cord tied to a
stanchion of her stall. Early to
day the light flashed on, and
when Smith hurried to the bam
he found the cow suffering from
indigestion. He called a veterina
rian, who said Della would have
died had she not received prompt
treatment.
COUNTERFEIT BILL
SUSPECTS ESCAPE
Two Wanted for Flooding
Cumberland Valley With
Bogus $5 Currency.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HAGERSTOWN, Md., April B— Two
men, thought to be counterfeiters, who
have literally flooded the Cumberland
valley section with bogus $5 bills, es
caped arrest by a Department of Jus
tice agent by a margin of about 5
minutes here today, when they left
their rooming house just before the
investigator arrived to take them into
custody. Authorities say the men
made their escape in an automobile
bearing District of Columbia tags.
The men. who arrived at the home of
Mrs. Bertha L. Finfrock several days
ago. driving a car with Ohio license
plates, registered under the names of
A. M. Kilburne and Famham Kil
bume, father and son, respectively.
They at first had refused to register
at the rooming house, but at Mrs. Fin
frock's insistence they did so, adding
they were from Baltimore.
The $5 bills, nearly SIOO worth of
which have been turned over to police,
have been passed in various towns
throughout the Cumberland Valley,
starting at Harrisburg, Pa., and includ
ing Frederick and Westminster, Md.
Complaints continue to flow in from all
sections of the counterfeit money.
Mrs. Finfrock informed authorities
that she noticed during the stay of the
men that they kept in their room sev
eral bottles of different colored Ink and
what appeared to be dies. The counter
feit bills are very poorly executed, police
say.
The landlady at the boarding house
said the tags on the machine the men
drove evidently were changed during,
their stay at the house.
LAWLESSNESS SPREADS
i Palestine Government Believes
Crimes Political in Nature.
JERUSALEM, April 8 UP). The
Jewish Telegraphic Agency said today
that lawlessness was spreading in the
neighborhood of Yaggour, near Haifa,
wnere three Jewish workmen were shot
and killed Sunday night as they were
returning home from a nearby cement
factory.
Reports here said that unidentified
persons were demolishing telephone
stations and cutting wires between Acre
and the Arab village Shefaram.
The agency said that the Palestine
government was more and more in
clined to believe the crime political in
nature.
COLLEGIAN MORE "HIPPEROUS”
THAN DAD, SAYS RENSSELAER HEAD
Declares Student of Today Drinks No More Than
Fathers Did, But Must Carry Liquor'on Hip.
Ey the Associated Press.
TROY, N. Y. t April B—After 56 years’
observation of college men, Dr. Palmer
Chamberlain Ricketts, president of
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, finds
students of today more “hipperous” than
those of half a century ago.
That’s the chief difference he has
found. Modem students are as well
balanced and as hard working.
College men now drink no more than
their fathers did, he explained, but now
they have to carry their liquor on the
hip, hence “hipper*’ and “hipperous.”
“I’ve only been teaching 56 years,”
he rr’f. “rnJ human nature doesn’t
change m so short a time.”
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“From Presn to Homo
Within the Hour ”
The Star's carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi
tion is delivered to Washington homes (
as fast as the papers are printed.
Yesterday’s Circulation, 116,303
OP) Mean* Associated Pre**. T\\ O OEJsTS.
!N[W CLUE FOUND !
IN MURDER PROBE
# .
Bloody Handkerchief Discov
ered Near Grave of Slain
Marine.
A bloody handkerchief found In the
woods In which the bullet-riddled body
of Pvt. Emanuel Thorne, 25-year-old
Marine, was buried in a shallow grave
dug by his slayer, was expected to be
turned over to Prince Georges County
investigators today.
The handkerchief, considered the
most important clue thus far in the in
vestigation of the mysterious murder,
was picked up by a man who was dump
ing rubbish in the woods on March 15.
1 He communicated with Constable Earl
Blackwell of Capitol Heights, Md., who
already had found an automobile be-
I; lieved to have been used by the killer.
Beth car and the handkerchief were
found on the same day, causing Black
well to place the time of the murder as
about midnight, March 14.
Brawl Is Reported.
At that time, Blackwv.il declared to
day, a drunken brawl in which several
shots were fired is known to have oc
curred in a garage not far from the
woods in which Thome’s body was
found.
Blackwell heard of the shooting at
the time, he said, and rushed to the
garage, but was told nothing had hap
pened.
On the night of the battle in the
garage an ambulance was summoned to
Greater Capitol Heights, but the crew
was told the alarm was a false one,
according to Blackwell. The ambulance
returned to Washington, stopping at
Fifteenth and H streets northeast, where
the driver told a curious bystander of
the call to the Maryland town. Black
well has talked with the man who saw
the ambulance, he said, but has been
unable to learn whether the vehicle be
longed to the various Washington hos
pitals or was privately owned.
Since the discovery of Thorne’s
corpse, however, Blackwell has investi
gated the disturbance in the garage.
His probe, he asserted, has convinced
him Thorne was slain in the garage and
that his body was placed in the auto
mobile, carried to the edge of the woods
and dragged from the machine to the
place of burial.
“Only a drunken man would have
made such a botch of disposing of his
victim,” Blackwell declared.
Stain Found on Car.
“The layer of dirt covering the body
was only an inch or two thick and a
sober man certainly would have buried
his victim deeper than that.”
The automobile, found abandoned on
Crystal Spring road, about two blocks
from the improvised grave, bears a
dark brown stain, believed to be blood,
Blackwell continued. The stain, he
said, “looks as though somebody tried
to wash it off.”
Blackwell said he has the names of
several persons who witnessed the fight
in the garage and that he plans to
question them today. He also plans to
interview the man who found the hand
kerchief, which bears no initials or
other mark of identification.
The man claims to have seen an au
tomobile near the woods early on the
morning of March 15, however, and
Blackwell is endeavoring to learn the
identity of the occupants. The machine,
Blackwell said, probably was the same
one which he is now holding in a Cap
itol Heights garage.
Vincent Selbicky, a member of the
Marine Band, in the rear of whose home
Thorne’s body was found, was question
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Dr. Ricketts entered Rensselaer as a
student and remained as an instructor,
eventually to become a directdt, and
finally president.
At 75 he works 10 hours a day. His
relaxation is the reading of horror
stories.
The roster of engineers who have
achieved eminence in their profession
includes the names of many who learned
the fundamentals and the ideals of
their caiHni frewi him. A large share
of
pended upon buildings «nd equipment
at ftensselaer was dona%d by these
former students as a testinmnial of the
'■stm-in In which they IWldiPiC.,” as
1 he Is known on the
LONGWORTH. ILL
WITH PNEUMONIA,
HAS “GOOD NIGHT”
Wife Arrives at Curtis Home
in Aiken, S. C., Where
Speaker Is Guest. n
PHYSICIANS TO ISSUE
TWO BULLETINS DAILY
President Hoover Assigns Personal
Physician to Keep Him
Informed in Case.
By the Associated Press.
AIKEN. S. C„ April B.—Nicholas
Longworth, for six years Speaker of the
House, lay seriously ill here today from
pneumonia. Mrs. Longworth was at
his bedside.
The former Alice Roosevelt, daugh
ter of President Roosevelt, arrived her*
to be with her husband this morning
at 10:20 o’clock. She was summoned last
night after physicians attending Long
worth revealed a heavy cold he had had
for 10 days developed Into pneumonia
Monday night.
Dr. R. H. Wilds of Aiken, said there
had been no change in Longworth’*
condition since late yesterday, but
added that Longworth had a ‘good
night.”
Confer With Mrs. Longworth.
The physician and his associates on
the case. Dr. Thomas G. Brooks of
Aiken and Dr. V. P. Sidenstricker of
Augusta, conferred with Mrs. Long
worth soon after her arrival.
Although they had said there would
be an official bulletin on Longworth’s
condition after the conference, none
was issued immediately.
Later, Dr. Wilds announced the first
formal bulletin would be issued at 8
p.m. today. He said bulletins would be
issued tomorrow at 9 a.m., noon and
9 p.m.
He said Longworth rested comfortably
during the morning. Longworth’s pulse,
he said, was 110, his temperature 101
and his respiration 23. He said the
patient’s blcod pressure was satisfac
tory.
Dr. Wilds said Longworth had lobar
pneumonia. Only the right lung Is af
fected.
Crisis in Three to Five Days.
“A crisis, if there is one,” Dr. Wilds
said, “will probably come in from three
to five days.”
Mrs. Longworth brought Miss Eliza
beth Nelson, a nurse, of Baltimore, with
her from Washington this morning to
attend Longworth.
Longworth is at the home of Mr. and
Mrs. Curtis of Washington. He
was here for a vacation when he be
came ill.
An oxygen tank was used in treating
him yesterday. His physicians said it
was used solely as a precaution.
Longworth, a Republican, began his
service in Congress in 1903. He repre
sents the first Ohio District.
HOOVER SHOWS CONCERN.
Assigns Personal Physician to Keep
Him Informed.
President Hoover, in his concern re
garding the condition of Speaker Long
worth, has requested that he be kept
posted as to the progress of the lat
ter’s illness.
This morning Mr. Hoover had hi*
personal physician, Capt. Joel T. Boone,
make inquiries by long-distance tele
phone regarding Mr. Longworth's con
dition. Capt. Boone reported that hi*
advices were that the Speakers’ illness
was substantially as reported In the
papers today.
MACHADO MOVES
TO AVERT CRISIS
Grants Three Important Conces
sions to Opposition Trying
to Oust Him.
By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, April 8. —Presiden* Mach
ado, in an effort to avert wha‘ appear*
to be an almost unavoidable Ais is la
the Cuban political situation, has de
cided to make three important conces
sions to the opposition which is trying
to oust him.
They are:
First—Agreement to permit return
to Cuba of more than 60 political pris
oners recently transferred to the Isl*
of Pines Prison from Principe Fortres*
here.
Second—Granting of liberty to Col.
Aurelio Hevia, Nationalist chieftain,
who has been held somewhat as hos
tage by the government for many
weeks.
Third—Agreement to liberate Maj.
Manuel Espinosa, former presidential •
aide .de camp, who was court-martialed
on charges of an attempt against the
President’s life, and reaccused yesterday
by a palace guard as having been an
anti-administration plotter.
The first concession is expected to
placate the students, and the second
is considered a compromise move in
the direction of the Nationalist Union,
principal organized body seeking Gen.
Machado’s removal. The third is ex
pected to block criticism of the public,
which- has been given to understand
that the court-martial trying Espinosa
found him.. innocent.
Two general amnesty proclamation*
published in the official gazette today
pardon persons charged with offense*
through the medium of the press
against election judges of the electoral
law.
MURDER l§ MYSTERY
Doctor Called to Office — Finds Man
Stabbed to Death.
CHICAGO. April 8 (/P).— Dr. James
Patejdl was enjoying an evening home
last night when the telephone rang. He
answered.
“There’s an accident case in your of
fice,” said the caller, who failed to
reveal his identity.
Hurrying to his office he found sit
ting In his chair William Lewi*, 35
dead from a knife wound In his side.
surrounded the slaying-