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I MS HU HARD.
I GERMANS DECLARE
Debt Moratorium Rumored as
i Russia Feels Force of
'Depression.
Wt FREDERICK WILLIAM WILE.
KM the Work! economic crisis at
I length hit Soviet Russia and driven the
Communists Into the capitalistic camp?
This 1s the far-reaching question raised
bjr reports received In Washington from
Europe In the last 48 hours to the effect
that the Moscow government Is seeking
a mc~*torium on some of Its heavy ob
ligations abroad.
The reporta emanate from Oermanla.
official organ of Chancellor Bruenlng's
Roman Catholic Center party at Berlin.
The Soviet authorities have hastened
to denv the stories, which are also
branded aa unfounded by the Soviet
embassy in Berlin. But an attemot by
the Communist government to obtain
■ aa extension of Ite financial commit
ments in foreign countries would be the
logical consequence of recent economic
developments throughout the world.
Hit By British Suspension.
f Foremost in these developments, from
the Russian standpoint. Is the abandon
ment of the gold standard by Great
Britain and the serious shrinkage in the
value of the pound sterling. The Soviet
has Its most favorable balance of trade
in Great Britain, represented* of course,
■ by pounds. The least favorable Soviet
ff trade balance Is In the United States.
i because Russian purchases In this coun
try so far outstrip Soviet exports to
Amdrica. The Communists have to pay
for- their American imports in British
pounds and. of course, must now buy
at or SO per cent more of British ster
f Hag to meet Soviet dollar obligations
■ than would have been necessary prior
to September If, when the British
Went off the gold standard.
The Soviets have planned their ex
tensive purchasing system abroad on
the basis of their export program. This
export program hss received a body
blow and been shattered to its founda
tions through the heavy decline of com
modity prices in all tbs markets of the
world. Yet the necessity remains ln
■ cum bent upon the Communist govern -
■ ment to meet its long-time commit
ments in the United States, Germany
and elsewhere by exports. The stuff
Russia sells abroad, like commodities
from every other country, must now be
disposed of at prices vastly lower then
the Soviet bargained for.
Dependent on Others.
So, despite Bolshevist economic theo-
I lies and gloatings, Soviet Russia is be
ginning to feel seriously the pinch of
depression which has struck the de
spised capitalistic universe. Events are
showing, even to Stalin, that the five
year plan Is to an important degree de-
B. pendent on the outside, non-communist
I world. This «s what Leon Trotsky al
■ ways Insisted would be the case when
Ite opposed Stalin on this issue. Trot
sky said, “You can't build Sovietism in
out country alooc. You can ‘plan’ all
yes pieces within Russia, but it will
lead to nothing Upon have to plan in
a hostile capitalistic environment. You
must at least hate, ahbther highly ln-
I dustrialiasd country within the Soviet
system if you 'r* going to build Bol
shevism on a lasting economic basis.”
It was on this theory that Trotsky
eatne out for his doctrine of "perma
ait revolution,” carried from one
ntry to another, as essential to any
enduring program of building Bolshev-
Jriie net of all this, stripped of non-
I ceiMtiels, Is said by competent Wash
■ ixtaton students of Russisn develop
■ wSwia to b* tfenl the Soviet is beint
byMßimir ssgasast wf • m-a
teVhattenal events to realise that H de
pends os the outside capitalistic unl-
Ussd as Political Capital.
To date Uw Soviet leaders have been
able to capitalise politically on world
wide depression, boasting that It had
not and oould not affect the Commu
nistic state, and thus build up Its mo
rale. but the cyekme sweeping the rest
of the globe hss finally blown across
Russia. The Soviet finds Itself, con
trary to Communistic preachings, hit,
and hit harder, Washington authorities
say. than Moscow 1s as yet willing to
admit.
Stalin will not proclaim the truth till
Its concealment no longer Is possible, It
is said. Prediction is hazarded that
sooner or later the Moscow “man of
steel” will have to come out and say,
“Comrades, we must hold up the five
year plan because the capitalistic sys
tem hss gone bust!”
SOVIET SUBMARINE
SINKS AFTER CRASH;
CREW OF 50 LOST
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X raised the British submarine L-55.
ch was sunk shortly after the war,
and had reconditioned It. The ship
hss been undergoing tests since.
The Grattla left Leningrad this
morning with a cargo of timber for
Baltic ports. When the Grattla was
near the Russian lightship Prlmery,
about 3S miles from Leningrad, the
Russian submarine, which was maneu
vering with other boats, suddenly rose
immediately in front of the steamer.
An order was given on the Grattla
for full speed astern, but the two ships
came together and the submarine sank
immediately.
The British submarine L-55 was sunk
in Kaporsk Bay June 4. 1919, after it
had attaoked two Russian destroyers,
and was raised from the bottom of the
bay in 1928 by the Soviet Navy.
The submarine had fired three tor
pedoes, all of which went wide of their
' mark, then it rose to the surface and
was attacked. A shot hit the L-55, an
explosion followed and the submarine
sank at once with all Its crew.
After it was raised It was towed to
Kronstadt. There it was opened, re
vealing 41 bodies, which were taken
to Sngland and burled with a naval
ceremony.
The raising of the submarine cleared
a British naval mystery of nine years,
for until, then the admiralty had not
known the fate of the lost L-55. which
had been operating in the Baltic dur
ing the war.
Another Soviet submarine of the
Baltic fleet, the No. 9. sank May 22
about 100 miles from Helsingfors, dis
patches from Rigs. Latvia, reported.
The Soviet Government was silent
cm the tragedy, but the reports said
the submarine went down after an ex
plosion, presumably with all hands.
The number of lives lost was unde
termined.
Russia was believed at that time to
a fleet of about 8 sub
marines, 12 destroyers and 3 bat
tleships in Baltic waters.
After the war the L-55 was kept in
Baltic waters by the British while they
were helping the White Russians against
ths^Bolshevlkl.
DISASTERS’ TOLL HEAVY.
Man> Have Lost Lives In Sinking of
Numerous Submarines.
Br the Associated Press.
Submarine disasters, similar to the
one in whirii a Russian undersea craft
sank In the Gulf of Finland Saturday,
have exacted heavy toll In the navies
of the world.
Among the major submarine acci
dents have been the following;
March 34. 1918—United States sub
marine P-4 soak in Honolulu Bay.
Twenty-epogead.
Msi rtffi. 1133— British aufemagute
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ARCHDUKE OTTO. PRINCESS MARIA.
CURTIS 10 REVEAL
PLANS NEXT MONTH
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Vice President at Methodist-
Conference Denies Oil
Czar Offer.
Br the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Oa„ October 24.—Vice
President Curtis said here today he
would issue a statement late In Novem
ber dealing with a much-discussed sub
ject—his future plans.
Reporters bombarded him with ques
tions as he arrived here to preside at a
session of the Ecumenical Methodist
Conference Sunday afternoon.
He was obviously amused st the bar
rage of questions and he shook with
laughter.
As for reports that he was to resign
to become to the Nation’s oil industry
what Kenesaw Mountain Landis Is to
organized base ball, he said he hadn’t
even been offered the job. Tulsa, Okla.,
reports said recently he was to become
the czar of the oil Industry.
Laughs Questions Oft.
He laughed away questions that
sought his views on national political
Issues. Regarding his own, plans, which
have been the subject of much specu
lation in political circles recently, he
said he would issue the late November
statement, and until that time any
thing published would be mere surmise.
"I came to Atlanta to have a good
time and left public and polities! af
fairs behind me,” he said.
The Vice President expressed interest
in the progress of the World-wide
Methodist Conference here. He said he
had been a member of the Methodist
Church since he was carried to a mis
sion in Kansas every Bunday by bis
Indian grandmother.
Interested in Churth.
He has taken an active Interest In
'the affairs of the denomination at To
peka, Kens., and In Washington. He
said he expected to meet a number of
lifelong friends at the conference.
“I know I am going to have a good
time here,” he said. "I always do in
the South.”
The Vice President was accompanied
by Dr. J. 8. Montgomery, chaplain of
the House of who is
also on the cgmerence program Sunday
afternoon. Tb«r were aaetatthe rsU-r
way station by Bishop YE. T. McDowell,
a personal friend of Mr. Chrtla.
LADY MAY BECOMES
COMMONER’S BRIDE
Queen Mary’i Niece Omits “Obey”
in Royal Marriage
Ritual.
Br the Associated Press.
- BALCOMBE, England,. October 24 -
Lady May Cambridge, Queen Mary’s
niece, was jparrled today In the little
village church to a commoner, Capt.
Abel Smith of the King’s Horse Guards.
Her aunt Mary was there, but King
George remained at Sandringham.
Along the road for a mile thousands of
. villagers congregated to watch the pas
sage of the nobility, who crowded the
church for the ceremony.
Lady May wore the same priceless
lace veil the queen wore 38 years ago
when she was married, but she broke
a royal precedent by directing that the
marriage service be that prescribed In
the revised prayer book. It omits the
word "obey.” , A ,
After the wedding Cspt. Smith took
his bride to the home of her father, the
Earl of Athlone, where she used his
sword to cut the wedding cake. They
are to make their wedding journey in
El *?he n bride wore a gown of antique
satin, with long sleeves and a long
train. Princess Elizabeth. 6-year-old
daughter of the Duke of York, was a
bridesmaid.
MAYOR'S NECK SLASHED
AFTER HE ENTERS RACE
Walhalla, S. C„ Official, Seeking
i Re-election, Says Assailant
Tried to Kill Him.
By the Associated Press.
WALHALLA, 8. C., October 24. !
| Twelve hours after Mayor Robert
i Ballanilne announced he would stand
j for re-election an attempt was made to ;
i assassinate him, he told police today,
j Eal!ar,i;r.e said that when he an
swered a knock on his rear door, a man
l sprang out of the darkness and slashed
his neck and shoulder with a razor,
j “You won t get to run this time,”;
i Bailanflne qjoted the man as saying.
The ma: or said he knew of no rea- j
son <or the attempt on his life. His
j wounds are not ser.ous.
, sunk bv another British sub off Gibral
; tar. Twenty-three dead,
j August 21. 1923 —Japanese submarine
■ foundered beside a dock at Kobe, Japan.
Eighty-five dead.
. January 10. 1924 British submarine
L-24 sunk by a British battleship off j
Portland. England. Eighty-three dead.
March 19. 1924—Japanese submarine
sunk by Jaoanese battleship off Sasebo.
Japan. Forty-nine dead.
September 25. 1925—United States
submarine 8-51 sunk off Block Island,
R. 1., by steamer City of Rome. Thirty
three dead.
December 17. 1927—United States
•übrarine S-4 sunk off Provinretown. i
Mass., by Coast Guard cutter. Forty
\ dead.
. August R. 1928—Italian submarine
F-14 sunk in Adr.ailc Eea In collision
with destroyer. dead.
July 9, 192C—Ericisrt subrnmne H-47
sunk in St. G*org*s Channel, bsiween
Ireland and Wa'cs, in collision with
: submarine L-12. Hcav y death toll. j
May 22, 1931—Russian submarine
. sunk in Baltic Sea during maneuvers.
Heavy death toll.
June 9, 1931 —British submarine Pqtei
. don sunk In collision with merchant
steamer off coast of China. Twenty
l dead.
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THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., OCTOBER 25, 1931-PART ONE.
METHODISTS MOVE
FOR WORLD PEACE
i
Ecumenical Conference Urges
All Nations to Oppose
War.
Br the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, October 24. Methodist
communicants In every land were called
upon today In a resolution adopted by
the denominations ecumenical confer
ence to use their influence with states
men to bring about world peace.
The conference concludes tomorrow
with an address by President Hoover
over the radio from Washington, a
speech by Vibe President Charles Curtis
in person and the adoption of the pro
nouncement on world questions result
ing from the 10-day conclave.
The resolution on peace, concerned
with the February Geneva conference,
also aaid,
"This conference holds that the
treaty at Versailles pledged the na
tions to a policy of general disarma
ment and that the limitation of Ger
man armaments therein contained was
imposed in order to make a beginning
in this general policy, and should now
b 4 carried out to its due conclusion,"
Voice German Sympathy.
Other resolutions expressed sympathy
to German Methodists “In the difficult
time through which they are passing"
and Methodism’s sympathies to Gen.
Chiang Kai-Shek of China and the
Chinese Christian Council on conditions
arising from floods, described in the
resolution as “the greatest tragedy the
world has known In 300 years.”
Rev. C. Ensor Walters of the London
Missions expressed disappointment that
the resolution of sympathy to German
members of the church did not take
a more definite stand on the question
.of World War guUt. .
-v "In ray heart, I do not believe the
masses of German people were respon
sible for the war,” Mr. Walters said.
"They were simply misled by their pol
iticians. Godly German people feel
they are under a slur.”
Bishop Explains Report.
Bishop.W. N. Ainsworth of Birming
ham, Ala., chairman of the committee
that presented the resolutions, said that
particular resolution was broad In scope
. and ki a general way covered the sub
ject of war guilt.
Dr. Otto MeUe of Frankfort. Ger
many, speaking on war guilt, said Ger
many wanted peace and was ready to
make even greater sacrifice* to obtain
it. He said Germany was ready to take
her part of the guilt and her Christian
people* were repenting but did not be
lieve that country should bear all the
blame.
Reports from four group meetings
wars read today, including one which
requested the conference to go on rec
ord as expressing the conviction for
modification of laws whereby citizen
ship Is denied to conscientious objec
tors to participation in war. This part
of the report received applause.
Outlines Divorce Grounds.
The other reports dealt with personal
religion, church life and wider human
relations.
Regarding racial relations, one of the
reports said, "Every human being, what
ever race or color, should have full op
portunity to develop Its personality.”
Another report set up only two
grounds which the church should rec
ognize for divorce, "threat of the in
tegrity of the marriage covenant” and
the 'continuance of life itself.” Racial
differences in marriage, the report aaid
always threatened to destroy marital
relations from the first.
FUGITIVE BANK HEAD
IS SHORT $350,000
Reward for. Chief of Defunct
Chain Raised a* Pecula
tions Are Bared.
By the Associated Press.
HARRISON, Ark, October 24—A
I State bank examiner's report made pub
l lie today attributed peculations exceed
ing $350,000 to A. T. Hudspeth, fugitive
head of a chain of nine Northwest Ar
j kansas banks which collapsed simul
taneously with his disappearance two
| months ago.
The disclosures of the examiner, H.
A Daugherty, were read at a meeting
of a depositors’ association, at which
: plana were made to seek to increase the
, $750 reward for the arrest of Hudspeth,
| whose entire family, except a daughter
recently married. Is missing with him.
Examination of the various institu
tions indicated, it was said, that Huds
i peth took with him or had at his dis-
I posal elsewhere at least $125,000 In
i cash.
The last definite trace of the missing
banker was from St. Paul. Minn., where
i he mailed a letter to Harrison two days
! after his disappearance, saying that "by
the time this is published I will be In
Canada.”
CAPITAL WOMAN HURT
IN CRASH PLUNGE DIES
Mrs. Helen McQuillan, 89, Expires
in Hoapital at Baltimore—Hus
band Still Is There.
Mrs. Helen McQuillan. 29, wife of
; Frank McQuillan, a Census Bureau
employe, died yesterday in St. Agnes'
; Hospital, BMt'more, from Injuries sus
tained vv'.’.'n tiie automobile in which
she was riding crashed through the
guard rail cf the Parkley Avenue Bridge
md fell on t:p of a box car on the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad tracks be
neath last Sundry.
The McQuillin e.uto was in collision
with an auto driven by Harold Fcx. 20, a
student at the University of Maryland.
Fox was Arrested at the time and re
leased In custody of his father, William
L. Fox, cf Baltimore. Police said he
would be re-arrested and charged with
causing Mrs. McQuillan’s death. Mr.
McQuillan is still confined in St.
Agnes' Hospital with injuries suffered
in the accident. m
DUCE’S THIRD ROYAL
MATCH REPORTED
Princess Maria of Italy May
Wed Archduke Otto of
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Hungary. '
By the Aiuoeiatrd Pmi.
BAN ROBBORK, Italy. October 24.
Another royal marriage through which
Premier Mussolini may strengthen his
political alliances In the Balkans ap
peared in prospect today with reports
that Princess Marla. 16-year-old daugh
ter of the King and Queen, will wed
Archduke Otto, pretender to the va
cant throne of Hungary.
It was said that the announcement
would be made tomorrow on the first
anniversary of another such marriage,
that of Princess Giovanna to King Bo
ris of Bulgaria.
ThM hi Twe Tears.
If the wedding takes place this year
it will be the third in two years, the
first having been that of Crown Prince
Humbert of Italy to Princess Maria
Jose at Belgium.
With each marriage the Mussolini
policies, which have established friend
ship with Russia, Germany, Austria,
Hungary, Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey,
have been considerably strengthened,
and this third would greatly astfst the
premier’s acknowledged Balkan policy,
which on one occasion he emphasised
with the statement, “The future of Italy
lies to the east.”
That policy Is to align certain Bal
kan nations under the Influence of Italy
to counteract the French hold over
Jugoslavia and the Little Entente, which
Includes that country, Rumania and
Czechoslovakia.
May Ascend Throne.
With the Princess Maria as his bride
and with the backing of Italy, Otto
might ascend. the throne of Hungary
and bring that country, already friendly,
definitely to the Italian aide.
Marla is here now with her parents,
celebrating their 35th wedding anniver
sary. Giovanna and King Boris are
with them and will celebrate their first
anniversary tomorrow.
Otto, who is a student at Louvain
University in Belgium, is expected to
morrow. It could not be learned
whether his mother, the former Em
press Zita of Austria-Hungary, is com
ing with him.
LEAGUE ADJOURNS
TO WAIT FOR JAPAN
TO RECALL TROOPS
(Continued From First Page.)
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under the terms of the Briand-Kellogg
pact.
These commentators were much com
forted by the belief that this participa
tion marked the abandonment of the
I American policy of 1 Isolation In times
of world crisis and Promised the har
monious operation of the Briand-Kel
logg pact and the League covenant in
the Interests of peace.
Today’s debate produced a degree of
frankpess and “straight talking” not
heretofore known to Council discussions.
Viscount Cecil of Chelwood and
Salvador de Madariaga of Spain con
demned aerial bombing of Chinese
towns by the Japanese. The Spanish
spokesman asserted he was unable to
accept the principle that a nation must
guarantee the security of Its nationals
in a foreign country by military force.
Express Great Concern.
Great concert —almost suspicion—
was expressed by both the British and
Spanish delegates over Japan’s proposed
“fundamental principles” for settle
ment. These principles were not de
fined by M. Yoahlzawa.
The critics intimated they feared the
fundamentals included I Japan’s Inten
tion to compel China to recognize the
validity of existing treaties, and they
cited press dispatches attributing this
view of official quarters in Toklo.
They directed attention to messages
from Toklo representing the Japanese
authorities as saying that since the
League declines to acknowledge the
validity of those treaties Japan cannot
accept the League’s program of con
ciliation. And they made clear that
the council had received no such pro
posal from M. Yoshizawa. intimating
that the Japanese spokesman and
Toklo officials were not speaking with
the same tongue.
It was generally understood that the
reference to existing treaties really
means the so-called Sino-Japanese
treaty of 1915, which the Nanking gov
ernment does not recognise, asserting
it was forced on China by military
pressure in the eourse of direct negotia
tions with Japan. On those grounds
China now refuses direct negotiation.
Yoshisawa Holds Ground.
M. Yoshizawa refused to be smoked
out by the bold tactics of the British
a’-d Spanish representatives declining
to reveal the “fundamental principles”
and declaring they must be discussed
only by the Japanese and Chinese
themselves . „
When the council voted against
Japan, 13 to 1. on the evacuation Issue,
the diminutive Japanese delegate re
tained his complete calm. He even
Joined in the tributes to Aristide
Brland. chairman of the council, for
his impartial, conduct of the negotia
tions.
Gilbert B. .Prentiss, the American
'-epresentative. confined himself strictly
to looking and listening except at the
conclusion of the session, when he
thanked M. Brland and others for
their friendly expressions of gratitude
at American collaboration.
Dr. Alfred Sze. Chinese spokesman,
said after the meeting his attitude
was one of hope.
DICKINSON CLASHES
WITH HARRISON IN
FIERY RADIO TALKS
(Continued From First Page.)
culture but that “buccaneers increased
rates in 179 instances.”
The lowan said when the law was
under consideration In Congress Sen
ator Harrison had the power either to
assist the insurgents to write the kind
of a tarlfT bill that the Demort’at-In
dependent coalition desired or to pre
vent the formulation and passage of the
act as it is now constituted.
“He did neither. After working with
the coalition for some time he broke
tils alliance with this group when such
items as rayon, synthetic camphor, dyes
and medicines, and American valuation
on coal tar products were under con
sideration.”
Senator Dickinson asserted “the sen
ator from Mississippi split the coalition
to get a high protective on rayon, a
commodity which, as Senator Wheeler,
another Democrat, pointed out. was of
considerable to the Du Pont
and Viscose interests.”
Senator Dickinson said a falling off
in American foreign trade “obviously
was the result of the depression and
not the fault of the tariff law.”
The debates, born of an interchange
of challenges between the Senators, will
continue with an engagement Monday
! night at Omaha, Nebr.
Visit Roosevelts Grave.
OYSTER BAY. N. Y., October 34 (JP).
Daniel Beard. 81, national scout com
missioner, today led 3,000 Boy Scouts
from New York. New Jersey, Connecti
cut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania
on the twelfth annual pilgrimage to the
grave of Theodore Roosevelt. He
Joined the boys after luncheon with the
former President’s widow.
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Capone’s Winter Home in Florida
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An air view of A1 Capone’s palatial Winter home at Palm* Island, near Miami Beach, Fie., agalnsl which the Gov
ernment filed Hens yesterday for $51,49808 to satisfy, its claim, lor unpaid income taxes. The action, in both Fed
eral and Circuit Courts at Miami, followed Capone’s sentence to 11 years in prison for tax evasion. —A. P. Photo.
CAPONE BOND PLEA
ONLY CHANCE LEFT
/
Judge Wilkerson Postpones
Gangster’s Departure to
Prison to Tomorrow.
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could reduce the penitentiary term by
good behavior was three years. At the
end of seven years in Leavenworth,
therefore, he might begirt serving the
jail sentence.
In addition Capone was fined $50,000
and ordered to pay tne prosecution
costs in the case, estimated at SIOO,OOO.
The amount of Income tax which
the Government charged he owed was
$215,000, and that figure was expected
to be doubled by penalties, fines and
taxation on other income, evidence of
which was brought out by the Govern
ment during the gang leader’s two
week’s trial. S
Wife Named In Liens.
Liens filed by the Government at
tached his $40,000 Winter home at
Palm Island, Fla., and three safety de
posit boxes in a Chicago bank. His
wife, Mrs. Mae Capone, was named In
the liens with him.
Government attorneys and Chicago
civic officials were jubilant over the
conviction and sentence.* Capone’s
attorneys had little to say except that
they were “not through yet.” After
his first outbursts of rage, Capone set
tled down in his jail cell and said:
“It was a bit below the belt, but if
we hive to do it, we can do it. I’ve
never heard of any one getting more
than five years for Income tax trouble,
but I guess when they're prejudiced
against you, you’ve got no chance, even
if you have got ’ lawyers.”
The luxury with whiclK Capone lived
on the profits from Jiis rackets was
brought cut in detail "curing his trial.
Scores of hii more elaborate purchases,
including • $12,500 sl3s'
suits, and S3O shirts, were recounted
to the Jury. Then his own attorneys
brought witnesses who testified he lost
$327,000 cn horse-racin# bets in five
years.
“Jast Another Man.”
Climaxing a three years’ Investigation
by under-cover agents, the Government
brought witnesses here from as far
away as Washington, D. C., and Miami.
Fla., to tell of his expenditures and
receipts of money.
Defense attorneys charged Capone
was being prosecuted “to satisfy public
clamor.” The Government character
ized him *s “just another man, a man
named Alphonse Capone, wno tried to
cheat his Government.”
The court of Judge Wilkerson ha#
been a sad place of reckoning for Ca
pone. Today’s sentence was the most
severe jolt the gangster had received !h
that court room, but It was not by any
means the first.
Last February Judge Wilkerson, a
gray-hatred, energetic man of 81, ad
judged Capon* guilty of contempt of
court because he feigned illness to es
cape appearance before a grand jury.
He sentenced the gangster to six
months.
Held Capone’s Bodyguard.
Last July when Capone had pleaded
guilty to the Income tax and prohibition
conspiracy charges on a promise of a
fairly light sentence, Judge Wilkerson
blew up the whole proceeding by say
ing he would not be bound by any
agreement He allowed Capone to
change his pleas.
And during the income tax trial the
court ordered Capone’s bodyguard,
Philip D’Andrra, searched. A loaded
pistol was found In his pocket. Judge
Wilkerson not only ordered D’Andrea
to show cause why he should not be
cited for contempt and held him in jail
without bond, but he 'also Instructed
the prosecutor that If Capone knew his
bodyguard carried the weapon into
court, Capone, too. should be cited.
A district Judge for nine years, Judge
Wilkerson has a knowledge of law that
enables him frequently to anticipate the
arguments of attorneys and say, "Yes,
I know that case.” He Is not without
a sense of humor, but Is a stickler for
dignity in his court. In the recent Ca
pone trial he frequently cautioned the
Government about its references to “Al."
"This is a lawsuit,” he said, “and
here we will refer to him as the de
fendant”
U. S. AGENTS PLEASED.
Chief of Special Unit Says There Will
Be No Let-Up in Chicago Probes.
By the Associated Press.
The Government has f accepted Al
Capone’s sentence as another milestone
in its drive against gang land’s flaunt
ing of Federal laws.
To agents who pit adding machines
against more deadly gangster weapons,
the successful prosecution of Capone
was a new stimulus.
Elmer E. Irey, chief of the fnternal
Revenue Bureau’s special intelligence
unit, said he was "pleased and satis
fied” with the sentence, and added:
"There will be no let-up in Chicago.”
Mitchell Still Silent.
Attorney General Mitchell refused to
break the silence he has promised to
maintain as long as the Capone case
is in the courts. More legal fencing is
expected with an eventual appeal to
the Supreme Court, to which Ralph
Capone, the racketeer’s brother, has
taken a sentence of four years for in
come tax evasion.
Irey. who personally conducted the
investigation of Capone’s ease, said that
with the criminal prosecution com
pleted special efforts would bs directed
toward building up the civil case
against the gangster.
Already a lien has been ordered
placed against Capone’s Florida man-!
sion ana other property will be at
tached. Though the present tax claim
against the gang chief
GOVERNMENT HAS TURNED DOWN
CORNERS OF AL CAPONE’S MOUTH
. • •
Lien on Gangster’s Palatial Home Transforms Him From
Suave Figure to Sullen Public Enemy.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, October 24—The Govern
ment has turned down the corners of
Al Capone's smiling mouth.
It wasn't the shock of the sentence
nog the weight of the fines imposed
upon him today for Income tax viola
tions that transfigured the
grinning gangster to the sullen and
downcast “public enemy.” _
He left the Federal court room in
custody of deputy marshals, cool and
resigned to his punishment, but a
deputy internal revenue collector stay
ed his exit.
He bore papers informing Capche
that the Government claimed poesesslon
of his palatial $51,000 Florida home
and safety deposit boxes to a Chicago
bank, believed to be hiding much of
his wealth.
The pudgy face of the gangster grew
livid. He cursed and moved toward
the official, but two deputy marshals
pulled him back.
No longer complacent, he angrily
elbowed his way through the same
crowds whose greetings an hour before
he would have answered with a broad
.smile and a friendly wave of his hand.
' Capone took the sentence without an
outward change in expression, but his
massive shoulders dropped perceptibly.
He .rose almost hastily at Judge
Jam.fß H. WUkerson’s summons and
stepped quickly before the bench..
His feet wide apqrt, hands folded Ip
agents expect R to be greatly Increased
before the investigation is concluded.
Six Others Convicted.
Since the Capone investigation start
ed On October 18, 1928, seven Chicago
gang leaders have been convicted. Be
side Al and his brother Ralph, they in
clude Jack Guzik, Frank Nuttt; Sam
Guzik, Tfcrry Druggan and Frankie
•■Lai#. 1 » ■
Meanwhile investigations of Income
tax frauds Ere progressing in New York
City and Pittsburgh. Officials have
declined to disclose the identity of
those under investigation beyond say
ing gangsters, racketeers and some
politicians are involved.
While gratified over their success
against tax dodgers, officials were quick
to reiterate today that Federal law
violations are relatively minor in com
parison with the flagrant disregard of
State laws Involving capital offenses
and that Btate and municipal officials
must co-operate to wipe out gang
crime. «
LIENS FILED ON HOME.
Action to Attach Property In Florida
Taken in V. S. and State Conrts.
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., October 24 (A*).
—The Federal Government today
blanketed Al Capone’s lavish Winter
place hero with a lien of $51,498.08 in
Its figl\L to. collect $215,000 unpaid in
come taxes from the gang leader.
The barricaded white mansion of the
gang chief entered court litigation for
the third time as officials of the United
States internal Revenue Department
filed liens in both Federal and Circuit
Courts In Miami, naming Capone and
his wife, Mae Capone, as transferees.
Eighteen months ago it was the sub
ject of padlock proceedings brought .n
Criminal Court in Miami after a raid
by county officers netted a quantity of
fine liquors.
. Vincent C. Gfblin and J. F.- Gordon,
at that time Capone’s Miami attorneys,
placed the gangster and other .witnesses
on the stand and defeated the padlock
sots.
Later GlbUn and Capone disagreed
over attorney’s fees, and the lawyer at
tached furnishings, variously valued
from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO, in the man
sion. A reported settlement out of
court halted the proceedings after some
of the furnishings were removed to a
storage warehouse.
It was to the Palm Island home, sur
rounded by a high, thick wall, that
Capone brought his family to seek
Winter respite from the rigors of cold
weather.
After buying the residence for $50,-
000 cash, Capone was lavish in his ex
penditures for improvement. Inside the
high walls he built a tiled swimming
pool' and planted expensive shrubs and
flowers. Inside the house, he carried
out the ideas of interior decorators
until the total cost of furnishings and
improvement was estimated at more
than $50,000.
Internal revenue officials said the
action in filing the lien today would
not hamper accupancy of the house in
any way for the time being.
RUSSIAN FOOD OFFICIAL
IS SHARPLY DENOUNCED
r
Order That State Farms Hold
Back Milk and Vegetables for
Price Baise Withdrawn.
Sy the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, October 24.—M. Metelev,
president of the milk and vegetable
trust, has learned that it won’t do to
attempt bourgeelse business methods in
this country.
An order he issued August 11, pro
posing that state farms hold, back their
produce until increasing demand forced
prices higher and thus realize a great
er Income, drew aharp condemnation
today from the commission of execu
tion. which labeled his action as hav
ing “merchantlike tendencies.”
The commission directed attention to
the violation of orders to supply the
government with all such things at
fixed prices and declared “the act la the
deepest violation of the directions of
the party and the government; the or
der is politically as well as economically
incorrect.”
Because Comrade Metelev realised
his mistake and subsequently counter
manded his order, ha was let off with
la farnjtag.
i
the beck and head erect—a character
istic poee—he looked straight at the
deliberate jurist with unwavering eyes.,
But as the weight of the punishment
dawned on him, his almost placid ex
pression changed to one of bewilder
ment. He turned appealingly to his
attorneys, who also appeared astonished.
He moved aside as his counsel stepped
to the bench to argue motion after
motion to keep him out of Leavenworth
pending appeal. *
Then a look of futility cameover
his face as each move was denied by
Judge Wilkerson. He strode over to
Attorney Michael Ahem, his chief
counsel and tapped him on the shoul
der sharply, interrupting the proceed
ings.
“Well I guess it’s all over,” he
snapped huskily.
He motioned to United States Mar
shal Harry C. W. Laubenheimer to take
him away, his face again immobile.
But the sally at the deputy collector
broke his composure and ft was not nls
only show of emotion.
A half hour after he entered the Cook
County Jail the second outburst came—
directed at a newspaper photographer
who trained his camera on the gangster
with bars as the background.
“Don’t do that," Capone asked, “think
of my family.”
But the shutter clicked.
The gangster seised a water bucket
and moved to hurl it at the camera
man.
Guards intervened and led the fum
ing Capone to a cell, the first in Cook
County ever to receive the mighty gang
ruler of yesterday.
SMITH LAUDED
BY GOV. 100SEVELT
Praised for “Honesty and Ef
ficiency” at Dedication
Qf Hudson Span.
Br ths Associated Press. p
NEW YORK, October 24.—Praise for
the “honesty and efficiency” of former
Gov. Alfred E. Smith was voiced to
day by Gov. Franklin D. Rccsevelt,
whose $20,000,000 reforestation pro
posals twice were sttacked by his fel
low Democratic leader during the last
two weeks.
The Governor’s laudatory remarks
were made at ceremonies opening the
new $60,000,000 George Washington
Memorial Bridge over the Hudson River,
and aroused speculation among politi
cal observers as to whether Mr. Roose
velt sought to close any possible breach
occasioned by Mr. Smith’s opposition
to the forestry program.
”S should like to mention that this
bridge was originally planed when a
very famous New Yorker was a bridge
commissioner,” Mr. Roosevelt said, “and
that the work was inaugurated during
his governorship of Npw York Btate.
Alludes te Ex-Governor.
‘"Die honesty and efficiency which has
marked .this enterprise are characteris
tic of all projects with which he has
been associated. I allude to former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith.”
The reference to Smith, whom Mr.
Roosevelt nominated for the presidency
in 1925, followed upon the Governor’s
allusion to George Washington as the
demonstrator of three ‘‘vital principles”
which he felt were represented in the
creation of the new bridge, the World’s
largest suspension span.
“There,” the Governor said, “are the
worth of integrity, the need for intel
ligence and the fact of our interdepend
ence.”
Gov. Roosevelt's address was one of
several after Secretary of the Navy J
Charles Francis Adams, in the presence
of Gov. Morgan F. Larson of New Jer
sey and Mayor James J. Walker and
other officials, snipped a silken ribbon
to open the bridge linking New York
and New Jersey. ,
2,000 at Ceremony.
The cheers of 3,000 persons who
crowded bunting-draped
speakers* stand at the center of the
colossal apjyi mingled with the rear of
the guns of the U. S. S. Louisville,
anchored in the river below, as the rib
bon fluttered to the concrete roadway.
A squadron of Army planes reared
overhead. Regiments of New Jersey
and New York National Guardsmen i
came to attention. The bands played
'The Star Spangled Banner.”
The bridge forms a vital artery lead
ing from the congested metropolitan
area to inland Jersey points, and link
tag the New England interior with the
New Jersey coast resorts.
It has an unprecedented span of 3,500
feet, nearly twice that of the Delaware
JJtver bridge linking Philadelphia with
Camden, N. J., and is considered a new
record in suspension bridge eon
«fuetton. More than 107,000 miles of
wire and 120,000 tons of steel, stone
s°® concrete were fashioned into the
huge web.
“OLD IRONSIDES” DOCKED
Vainoue Frigate Berthed at
Baltimore for Exhibit.
. BALTIMORE. Md.. October 24 HP).—
Old Ironsides," the United States
frigate Constitution, immortalised dur
ing the was of 1012 and rescued from
* **t«ry grave four years ago by school
cftlkiren’s pennies, was towed up Cheea-
J**** Bay and berthed at Baltimore
*°<»y. She will remain here until early
nextmonth, when she will visit other
Northern
HOOVER JOB RELIEF
HEARTILY BACKED
Organizations Throughout
Country Rally to Promote
Winter Work.
The President's Organization on Un
employment Relief yesterday said from
the virtually unanimous response re
ceived by its committee on Co-operation
With National Groups and Association
no room is left for doubt as to whether
it will have the wholehearted 00-opera
tion of all groups in its effort to pro
mote unified action to meet the relief
problem incident to unemployment this
Winter.
Assurances of full co-operation have
come from a wide variety of groups, in
cluding churches, fraternal orders, com
mercial and business associations, labor,
agricultural and service organizations,
character building groups and many
others, accordng to Eliot Wadsworth,
chairman of the committee. •
Wadsworth reported that the com
bined membership of these co-operating
organizayons runs well into mUHnn*
He they have been active both
nationally and through their local units
in the general effort to meet the prob
lem growing out of unemployment. The
aim of the President's organization, he
explained, is to make these activities
even more effective by stressing the Im
portance of unified effort in each com
munity in the matter of mobilizing re
lief resources, the wise administration
of relef, and the promotion of employ *
ment of all practical ways.
Groups Aiding Work.
In the religious and character-build
ing field organizations actively aiding
the President’s organization include the
Federal Council of Churches of Christ 4n
America, the National Catholic Welfare
Conference, the Central Conference of
American Rabbis, the Young Mens
, 'Christian Association, Young Women s
Christian Association. Knights of Colum
bus, the Boy scouts of America, the
i Girl Scouts and others. Letters have
come in from many church dignitaries r
I and individual ministers of all faiths
■ pledging utmost co-operation and tskl
i tog of. activities already under way.
Outstanding organizations in many
■ other fields have lined up actively in the
> co-operative movement to bring maxi
i mum support to community effort ade
> quately to meet the relief problem wnat
; ever It may be.
National Bodies Join Drive.
The Chamber of Commerce of the
United States, National Automobile
Chamber of Commerce, Aeronautics!
Chamber of Commerce of America,
! American Railway Association, Ameri- >
can Bankers’ Association, and American
Chemical Society are among the many
i Co-opereting organizations closely re
lated to business and industry. ** .
Various professional groups indicating
their intention to actively support the
movement include the American society
of Civil Engineers, American Engineer*
ing Council. American Institute of Mfei
• tog and Metallurgical Engineers, Ameri
can Forestry Association, medical, and
other groups.
The American Federation of Xsbee
1 and other labor organizations are giv
ing active co-operation. Agriculture is
'■ represented by the National Orange and
| various other organizations.
. RICH MAN INVOLVED *
IN TRUNK SLAYING
BY ACCUSEO WOMAN/
<Continued From First Page >
H. Halloran. Phoenix lumberman, had
been brought prominently into the case
for the second time by Mrs Judd’s
statement in the county Jail that "ha
knows all about it.” >
At Phoenix, Halloran, found on g
golf course, was summoned to the
county attorney’s office for questioning.
Oiiaef ihtiAil n a e M - .
Halloran. early in the week dns
questioned regarding a party preceding
the shooting, at which authorities btete
he aroused Mrs. Judd’s anger by •Man-'
tlons to Mias Samuelson and lfn/Xe
Mrs. Jtidd refused to aay what Hal
liran knew.
She was told by a reporter who had
returned from Phoenix that Halloran'
had sent a message requesting her to
clear his name.
Her eyes flashed, and she snapped:
“Halloran couldn't have sent such a
message. He knows all about It.”
Deciphering of the letter, retrieved*
as almost a pulp by police from the
plumbing in the met room, wws a deli
cate and laborious task.
It tended to place the. time of the;'
killing as last Saturday morning, Oc
tober 17, instead of the previous eve
ning as originally conjectured.
Mrs. Judd denied writing the letter
or attempting to destroy one, but au
thorities declared the handwriting was
precisely similar and that the missive
contained a mass of Information which
could not possibly be known by any
other person.
Note Also Found.
The letter was found as defense knd
prosecutor prepared for legal struggle
over the determination of Arizona au
thorities to remove Mrs. Judd speedily
to Phoenix.
In addition to the letter to Dr. Judd,
the polios recovered a brief note to a
Los Angeles physician asking that he
deliver the first message to Dr. Judd.'
The note was signed with Mrs. JUdd's
name, followed by Dr. Judd's Santa
Monica address. „
The first part of the letter recounts
an episode when Mrs. Judd, then Ruth
McKinnell, 16, disappeared from her
home at Oiney, Ind., and was found.
| several days later in a hayloft, clad.
I only in a gunnysack. She said she had
i been kidnaped, and action was started
egainst a young man. Eventually the
matter was dipped.
The letter confessed the writer falsely
represented the occurrence and declares
the accused youth was innocent.
"This is the first time I have ever
told this,” the missive states. "My
parents think this boy was wicked. 1
did it all myself."
LAVAL LAYS WREATH
ON TOMB OF WILSON
Premier of France >,Pay« Tribute
i
to U. S. War President
at Cathedral.
Premier Laval of France honored
the memory of Woodrow Wilson late
yesterday when he went to Bethlehem
Chapel of Washington Cathedral to
lay a wreath on tbe tomb of the war
President.
The memorial wreath consisted es
yellow chrysanthemums, pink rooes and
Autumn leaves, tied with the tri-color
of France. The wreath carried In gold
letters the inscription: “Au President
Woodrow Wilson le President Du Con
seil Des Ministres De France.”
Premier Laval arrived at the cathed
ral at 5:10 p.m., escorted by Warren
Delano Robbins, chief of the division
of protocol of the State Department,
and two of Hn own staff of secretaries.
The party was welcomed by the Bishop
of Washington, Right Rev. James E.
Freeman. >
After the French premier placed the
wreath and then stood In silence for a
moment before the tomb. Bishop Free
man, with Mr. Robbins acting as in
terpreter, wished great success for his
mission to this country.
Premier Laval replied! "I trust your
good wlshui will facilitate mi dgjpm*