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FIANCE RELEASED;
EX-SUITOR ALSO IS
DUE TO RE FREED IN
LORINCJLAYING
Tear Permitted to Leave
Jail After Telling Story to
Officers—Mother to Be
Questioned Next.
INSURANCE POLICIES
OF GIRL TOTAL $4,500
Story of Bridegroom-elect's
Friendship for Jealous Former
Inmate of Hospital Is Denied
by Family—Mother Sees Body
of Daughter.
The investigation of the brutal
murder of Miss Corinna Loring re
sulted in the release this afternoon of
the 26-year-old bride-elect's fiance,
Richard Tear. 29. an attendant at St.
Elizabeth's Hospital, who had been
held for investigation since shortly I
after the body was discovered Satur
day afternoon.
The release was ordered by Lieut.
Joseph Itzel, an ace Investigator of
the Baltimore homicide squad, who
took charge of the inquiry into the
fantastic murder yesterday afternoon
at the request of Alan Bowie. State's
attorney for Prince Georges County.
A former suitor of Miss Loring,
Aubrey Hampton of Washington, 30
year-old Government clerk, may be
released tonight after police have I
completed their check on his alibi.
Written Statements.
Itzel took written statements from
Tear and Hampton with regard to
their movements on the night of No
vember 4. when Miss Loring disap
peared from her home under myster- ,
ious circumstances. Itzel quizzed the
two young men separately for hours
yesterday afternoon and announced
afterward that both appeared to have
told straightforward stories. The de
tective wished to check further on
Hampton's statement before releas- \
ing him.
Comma's mother. Mrs. Frances Lor- ;
ing, was one of the last persons to see!
her daughter alive, but has been in
such a nervous condition as a result
of the tragedy that police have re
frained from questioning her to any I
extent. The mother was prostrated!
and placed under the care of a physi- ;
cian when informed Saturday after- i
noon that her daughter's body had
been found in a pine thicket about a
quarter of a mile from the Loring j
home at 3110 Beech street, Mount
Rainier.
Mother Sees Body.
Mrs. Loring. however, recovered
sufficiently to visit the funeral estab
lishment last night in Hvattsville
with her husband. Georg? A. Loring,
In order to make funeral arrange
ments and to view the body of her
daughter.
Lieut. Itzel was uncertain whether
he w’ould interview Mrs. Loring today
or wait until after Miss Loring's
funeral, set for 2 p.m. tomorrow in I
the Mount Rainier Methodist Episco- j
pal Church.
Lieut. Itzel today visited the thicket j
where Miss Loring's body was found, j
in company w ith the man who made i
the gruesome discovery, Ed Fletcher, j
who lives nearby. Fletcher retold his
story of coming across the body of
the murdered girl Saturday afternoon
while exercising his rabbit dogs.
The Baltimore detective also Inter
viewed George James. 81. who had
been hunting with his rabbit dogs in
the vicinity, he said, and several times
passed near where the body was found.
James is of the opinion the body was
brought there shortly before it was
discovered.
Police Chief Eugene Plumcr of
(See LORING, Page 5.)
TOWNS IN DARKNESS
Mysterious Blast in Illinois
Wrecks Power Lines.
DAWSON. 111.. November 12 (4>>.—
Four towns. Dawson. Buffalo, Illiopolis
and Harristown, were thrown into
darkness last night when three ex
plosions blasted a big steel power line
tower from its foundation. The tower
fell across the tracks of the Illinois I
terminal system, temporarily tying up
traffic.
Dynamite apparently was used, offi
cials said, adding they feared the ex
plosions marked a revival of a labor
war that was waged in Central and
Southern Illinois last Spring.
The tower is owned by the Illinois
Power & Light Corp.
Rail Fire Suspect on Bond.
WAUKEGAN, 111., November 12 (4>>.
—Robert Kick, 19, of Libertyville, was
held under $8,000 bond today on
charges of setting afire a Chicago.
Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Rail
road station and a barn owned by his
grandfather, Prank Day, both in
Libertyville.
A railroad detective said Kick con
fessed he hated railroads because his
father was killed by a train 17 years
ago and his grandfather never had
given him any money.
Readers’ Guide
Pages.
Amusements.B-20
Comics _B-16
Editorials__A-10
Finance _A-17-18-19
Lost and Found_A-ll
Radio _A-13
Short Story. B-5
Society_B-2
Sports--.A-14-15-16
Washington Wayside_B-9
Women’s Features ...B-14-15
Caspian Recedes,
Stranding Ships,
Fishermen Aver
By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. November 12—Thou
sands of fishermen returning to
Caspian ports today told an astonish
ing story of having been marooned on
the bottom of the sea for five days,
dispatches received here stated.
Equally astonishing was their re
port that at the busiest period of the
fishing season the sea itself retired
from under the fleet.
The sea receded along 150 miles of
the northern shore line, leaving the
boats high and dry several kilometers
from solid earth.
Airplanes dropped food to the
marooned men until the tide flowed
back and allowed them to refloat their
ships.
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U. S. Association President
Cites Passing of
Emergency.
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, November 12.—
Rudolf S. Hecht, president of the
American Bankers’ Association, called
upon the Government today to with
draw from "many fields of business.”
"The emergency is passing,” he told
delegates to the association's annual
convention.
Hecht. chairman of the board of
the Hibernia National Bank here, also
stressed the need for some govern
mental supervision of banks and dis
cussed the public attitude of "re
newed confidence” in financial insti
tutions.
“When we contemplate the extent
to which governmental activities have
been expanded,” he said, "we realize
that a herculean task confronts the
administration in reversing its policies
and reducing the number now carried
on Federal pay rolls.
Socialization Is Seen.
“Unless we take up the battle for
free play of private enterprise and
individual initiative in an energetic
and effective fashion those who want
to transfer still greater powers to the
Government and ultimately bring
about socialization of all business and
credit may gain the upper hand.
“In the last analysis no government
is wiser than the individuals who com
pose it.”
He asserted, however, that “within'
its proper sphere” Government should j
“exercise a certain amount of super- ]
vision over the conduct of our business
enterprises so that we may be sure
they are conducted on the greatly to
be desired principle of social justice
and national welfare."
“The world.” he said, "appears to
have unqualified conference both in
our economic future and in the stability
of our currency.
"Many problems and difficulties
still lie in the path of the restoration
of real prosperity, but, as we survey i
the present situation, we see many!
sound reasons for taking a cheerful
viewr of the outlook.
The banking act of 1935, he said,
“by and large" was "quite a satisfac
tory piece of legislation.”
He urged that the next session of
Congress consider abolishment or
modification of the postal savings
system. He said its “relatively high
interest rate and liberal withdrawal
privileges" were “unfair" to banks.
Earlier, heads of two Government ;
financial agencies urged members of
the American Bankers’ Association to
look forward to shouldering demands
for capital supplied by the Govern
ment, but one cautioned “not too
soon.”
“I feel that banks should make more
courageous efforts to substitute pri
vate for Government credit,” said Leo
T. Crowley, chairman of the Federal
Deposit Insurance Corp., addressing
the bankers.
Chairman Jesse H Jones of the Re
construction Finance Corp. added the I
assertion that he was “as anxious as |
any of you can possibly be that the
Government get out of the money
lending business as soon as possible.”
Then he warned it "should not get out
too soon.”
Roosevelt Sends Greetings.
President Roosevelt conveyed his
greetings to the convention through a
letter read to the delegates by Jones.
The President’s letter follows:
“Dear Jesse,
“Please express'to the members of
the American Bankers' Association in
convention in the beautiful and his
toric city of New Orleans my very best
wishes for a successful and profitable
meeting.
“I have watched with great interest
the continued improvement in banks
throughout the country during the
$>ast two years. The progress which I
< See'BANKERS, Page"3*>
CITY URGED TO SET
EXAMPLE IN DRIVE
FOR CHFUNDS
Allen Sees “Overwhelming”
Need for Success With
U. S. Cash Withdrawn.
$362,804.11 TABULATED
FROM 21,219 GIVERS
Total Contributed in Two Days
Is 19.03 Per Cent of
Minimum Goal.
Pointing out that withdrawal of
Federal relief funds has created “an
overwhelming need for $400,000 from
private sources" to avert suffering in
Washington. Commissioner George E.
Allen today urged 800 Community
Chest campaigners to exert every ef
fort to obtain the additional amount
in their drive for $1,877,900.
Addressing an enthusiastic luncheon
rally of Chest volunteers in the ball
room of the Willard Hotel thus after
noon, Commissioner Allen declared it
to be the “patriotic duty” of Washing
tonians to set an example for the Na
tion in caring for the needy.
“Get in there and fight—and God
bless you,” the Commissioner exorted
the workers, amid tremendous ap
plause.
Immediately thereafter the cam
paign organization tabulated returns
for today totaling $161,681 58 from
12,993 givers. This brought the grand
total to date to $362,804.11 from 21,219
givers The grand total represented
19.03 per cent of the minimum goal.
L’. S. Relief Funds Lost.
Commissioner Allen told of the
“woeful necessity of facing additional
relief burdens" confronting the city
as a result of the cutting off of Fed
eral relief. Hundreds of Washington
citizens who are unable to work, he
said, but are not eligible to benefit
from usual Chest services, are threat
ened with want because of abandon
ment of direct Federal relief. The
Commissioner agreed with a state
ment previously made in the cam
paign by District Auditor Daniel J.
Donovan that people will suffer from
hunger here unless additional money
is contributed to the Community
Chest with which to meet the added
burdens.
The special assignment unit re
j ported today a grand total of *137.411,
I or 23.99 per cent of its quota. $573,009.
| The group solicitation unit reported a
! total to date of $64,371.97, or 16.6 per
cent of its quota, $388,000. The gov
! ernmental unit reported $120,734, or
| 17.8 per cent of its quota of *677.000.
The metropolitan unit reported $39,
322.19. or 17 per cent of its quota of
$230,000. The Capital unit, which is
canvassing colored citizens, reported
! $867.69. or 8.67 per cent of its quota
of $9,900.
McClellan Exhorts Workers.
Dr. William McClellan, general
I campaign chairman, who presided,
! urged the campaigners to redouble
| their efforts during the remainder of
the campaign.
Dr. McClellan took the air last night
in an Army bomber to broadcast by
short-wave radio an earnest appeal for
a "120 per cent campaign" designed to
net the Community Chest some $400.
j 000 more than its minimum goal of
! si.877.900. A total of $200,115 toward
the goal was reported at the opening
i report meeting yesterday.
Brig. Gen. Oscar Westover joined
\ with Chairman McClellan in the novel
broadcast program from the skies.
Expressing appreciation of the “priv
ilige” of the Army to participate in
the Chest drive in a spectacular wa}’,
Gen. Westover said:
"The Community_Chest._in_its
""(Continued on Page 12, Column 1.)
90 REPORTED LOST
WHEN VESSEL SINKS
.
Turkish Steamer Goes Down in
Harbor at Smyrna During
Storm.
By the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, Turkey. November 12.
—The Turkish steamer Inebolu sank
in the Smyrna harbor last night dur
ing a severe storm. Ninety of the
more than 200 passengers and crew
aboard were reported drowned or
missing.
The British freighter Plo rescued
111 persons in the darkness.
Lloyd's Register lists the Inebolu as
a steamer of 1,080 tons, registered
from Istanbul and built in 1892.
“Safety Shoiv” to Be Staged
By Northeast Boys’ Club
Admission for All Parents Will Be
Signed Pledge of Star Council—Boys'
Club of Washington Active in Drive.
Traffic Deaths to November 12—93; Same Period, 1934—108
Taking up the cause of street and
highway safety as a club project, In
co-operation with The Evening Star
Safety Council, members of the North
east Boys’ Club tonight will stage a
"Safety Show" at the club house. 1663
Kramer street northeast. The ad
mission charge, for all parents who
drive cars, will be a signed safe driv
ing pledge of the Star Council.
The safety campaign of The Star
also has been given the active support
of the Boys’ Club of Washington, un
der the active leadership of Charles
Fyfe, managing director.
Many of the boys in the club have
already taken an active part in the
safety drive, obtaining safe driving
pledges which they have circulated
among the automobile drivers of
Northeast Washington. Tonight’s
safety show is to come as the climax
of the club activities in behalf of
safer streets and highways.
"The boys of the club appear to be
very much interested in the safety
drive,” it was explained by Otto E.
Nielsen, director of the club, “and
many of them are co-operating whole
heartedly and voluntarily in the
campaign.”
Notices for tonight's meeting were
printed by one of the boys—I*o Bern
hardt—in the club print shop. Be
tween 500 and 600 of these notices
(See SAFETY, Page 4.)
0H'°
(WAKE UP,'
Henry! you’re
\SEEIN’ PINK
'ELEPHANTS’,
JUST FLETCHERIZING!
HAUPTMANN FILES
NEW TRIAL PLEA
IN SUPINE COURT
32-Page Petition Charges
Unfairness and Hearing
Resembling “Circus.”
JERSEY COURT INTIMATED
ERROR, APPEAL STATES
Justices Probably Will Announce
Review Decision December 23,
Attaches Say.
—
B» the Associated Press.
Eruno Richard Hauptmann ap
pealed to the Supreme Court today
to save him from the electric chair
for the murder and kidnaping of
Charles A. Lindbergh, jr.
t\ 32-page petition filed by Egbert
Rosecrans, council for Hauptmann,
asked a new trial on the ground the
s'olid German carpenter had been
convicted after a trial which resem
bled a “circus.”
The petition also contended Haupt
mann's constitutional rights had been
vitiated in the sensation-packed trial
FIANCEE ADMITS
SLAYjNGDOCTOR
Woman Found on Fire Es
cape After Murder Is Dis
covered in Hotel.
(Wirephotos on Page A-3.)
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 12—Dr.
Fritz Gebhardt. 40. was shot to death
in a skyscraper hotel early today, and
police, rushing out to cut off the
slayer's escape, seized his asserted
fiance*, who, they said, admitted
kiling him.
He was found sprawled lifeless in
his room on the twenty-first floor of
the Beekman Lower Hotel, clad only in
a nightshirt
Patrolman John Holden found Miss
Vera Stretz, a striking ash blond,
seated on a fire escape step.
"Did you shoot that man upstairs?'*
he demanded.
"Yes, I did,” Holden said she ad
mitted calmly.
Detectives said they found a pistol
in her purse.
They took the woman to a station
house and questioned her for hours,
but her only assertion, they said, was
that she had become engaged to the
doctor last December.
C'ame From Germany.
Gebhardt had registered at the
hotel from Karlsruhe. Germany, four
day* ago. He used the title doctor,
police learned, because he held a
doctor of philosophy degree in politi
cal Science.
Miss Stretz registered November 4.
police said. She refused to give her
age, which they estimated at 28.
Miss Nan Cannon, assistant man- I
agt of the hotel, who lives on the j
twenty-third floor, heard shots at 2 :35 j
a m. She telephoned police and Leslie
Taite, the assistant night manager.
x'aite went to the twenty-first floor,
where, he told police, he saw Miss
Stretz sitting by the elevator door.
Dr Gebhardt's door was open and
while he went to investigate the
woman disappeared.
A radio alarm brought a squadron
of police cars speeding to the scene,
a fashionable midtown neighborhood
facing on the East River.
Found on Fire Escape.
Patrolman Holden, told that no
one had come down the elevator,
started up the fire escape stairway.
He found Miss Stretz at the third
floor. She was fully dressed and
carrying her purse.
He quoted her as saying after ad
mitting the killing:
“I was on my way to the station
house to give myself up.”
The woman's father, Frank Stretz,
taken to the police station for ques
tioning, said he did not knowr Geb
hardt or where his daughter had
been living.
The medical examiner said Geb
hardt had been shot at least four
times, the ballets striking him in the
chest, left shoulder and left arm.
Empty Shells in Pistol.
Four empty shells were found in
the pistol Miss Stretz carried, police
said. In her purse was a box of
cartridges.
She said she had been living at
the hotel intermittently for about two
years.
“Please don’t ask me that,” she
sobbed when asked why she shot the
doctor. “I’ll talk only to my lawyer.”
Deputy Chief Inspector Francis J.
Kear, commander of the Manhattan
homicide squad, took charge of the
interrogation, but he got no further
than the precinct detectives.
Letters in Gebhardt’s room Indicated
that he was interested in the promo
tion of a shoe-manufacturing ma
chine and that he went to Germany
last August, returning about a month
ago.
In Miss Stretz’s handbag purse, be
sides the pistol and cartridges, police
said they found a blood-stained silk
garment which might have been used
as a night dress.
The purse contained also a platinum
engagement ring with a one-and-a
half-karat diamond.
The young woman was calm through
out most of the police questioning, but
occasionally burst into sobs.
GRID GAME POSTPONED
Tech and Western High Schools
to Meet Tomorrow.
Due to a wet held and threatening
skies, today s inter-high school series
foot ball game between Tech and
Western in Central Stadium has been
postponed until tomorrow.
#
Glass-Roosevelt
Clashes Held Like
6Family Disputes*
By the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS. November 12.—
Any differences of opinion between
President Roosevelt and Senator Car
ter Glass of Virginia were likened to
a "family dispute" today by Chair
man Jesse H. Jones of the R. F. C.
Jones, addressing the American
Bankers’ Association, praised Glass’
work on the 1935 banking act, and
said that while the veteran chairman
of the Senate Banking Subcommittee
entertains "decided views on legisla- 1
i tion" those with whom he disagrees
| do not resent them.
"And this includes the President.”
I Jones added. "The President and the
| Senator may have their differences of
; opinion on specific measures, but
I coming between them is a good deal
like intruding in a family dispute.
| "The intruder is likely to get the
] worst of it.”
_
UPPER AIR FLIGHT
DATA ONWAY HERE.
World of Science Awaiting
Result of Study of Strato
sphere Observations.
By the Associated Press.
| WHITE LAKE. S. Dak.. November
j 12.—Examination of rarefied air in
sealed tubes, records of delicate in
! struments and photographic plates.
I obtained by stratosphere flyers 13
i miles above the earth, was awaited
| today by the world of science.
Data gathered by Capts. Orvill A.
Anderson and Albert W. Stevens in
their record - breaking stratosphere
flight yesterday were packed for ship
ment to Washington by officials of
the National Geographic Society, co
sponsors of the project with the Army
Air Corps.
The flight started in the natural
bowl at Rapid City at 8 a.m. (Central
standard time) and ended on the
farm of John Matheye. 12 miles south
of here, at 4:13 p.m. yesterday.
Cosmic Ray Studied.
Valuable information about the cos
mic ray, long a puzzle to scientists,
was sought by the two airmen, who
reached an unofficial altitude of 73,
000 feet, the highest point ever reached
by a human.
Studies of sunlight and skylight,
observations of sky, sun and earth
brightness; studies of wind direction
and velocity, checks of barometric
altitude scales and study of balloon
navigation were some of the scientific
observations recorded by the flyers.
The instruments were reported un
damaged when the huge balloon
landed without even so much as a
bounce.
The flight probably was one of
man's greatest achievements in con
quering gravity, but scientists looked
for even greater accomplishments as
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Great Market Place
Washington stands out as
a market place, not only on
account of the thousands of
new people here, but because
of the high average buying
power of its population.
Washington merchants ap
peal to the daily needs and
desires of this vast audience
through the columns of The
Star.
Yesterday’s Advertising
(Local Duplay.)
Line*.
The Evening Star. 30,059
2nd Newspaper_10,610
3rd Newspaper— 10,261
4th Newspaper- 9,825
5th Newspaper- 4,155
Total ( Newspaper*. ) 34,851 I
The circulation of The Star
yesterday was 132,051, reach
ing nearly all of the homes of
the best of all classes of
people.
TRUCK KILLS BOY;
TOLL MES 94
Two-Year-Old David Rosen
berg Struck Down by Truck
on Georgia Avenue.
Two-year-old David Rosenberg was
killed by a truck shortly after noon
today near his home, 4130 Georgia
avenue. His death was the second
traffic fatality since November 1 and
raised the District's total to 94 since
January 1.
Another case In which the cause
may be ascribable to traffic injuries is
being sifted today by a coroner's jury.
The Rosenberg boy was taken in a
| private car to Garfield Hospital, and
was pronounced dead on arrival. He
was the son of Fred Rosenberg, pro
prietor of a tire shop at the Georgia
avenue address. The truck is owned
I by the L. E. Breuninger real estate
I firm. The Identity of the driver was
| not immediately ascertained by police.
Motorman Is Cleared.
Meanwhile, a coroner's jury today
decided a week-end death was due to
traffic injuries.
Judson Lyons. 30. colored, 1833 S
street, died Sunday morning of Inju
ries received November 1. when he
"walked or dived" into a street car at
Fifty-third street and Dean avenue
northeast.
The verdict exonerated Philip S.
Johnson. 1919 Benning place north
east. motorman.
The motorman declared in a state
ment to the jury that as he ap
proached Fifty-third street, going west
! of Deane avenue, he observed the man
darting out from shrubbery just east
of Fifty-third street.
Five Other Injured.
Five persons were injured, one seri
ously. in traffic accidents here early to
day and yesterday.
The most seriously injured was 4
vear-old Kenneth Simpson. 14 Third
street southeast, who suffered a frac
tured leg and internal injuries when
he ran from between two parked cars
in the 100 block of Third street south
east yesterday and was struck by an
automobile driven by Harry Ziggles.
36. of 1110 Fourth street southwest.
At Providence Hospital the boy’s con
dition today was said to be undeter
1 mined.
Auto Crashes Into Viaduct.
Three persons received minor in
juries early today when the automobile
in which they were riding crashed into
a viaduct at Third street and Florida
avenue northeast. They were Thelma
Larribee, 30; Betty Ellingson. 30, wno
lives at the Houston Hotel, and Mar
shall Green, 33, of 2035 Bladensburg
road northeast. All were treated at
Casualty Hospital. George Frye, 455
I street, driver, escaped injury.
John R. Murphy, 52, of 947 Ninth
street, received body bruises last night
when struck by an automobile driven
by James Embrey, 21, of Cherrydale,
Va. He was treated at Emergency
Hospital and later released.
In nearby Virginia a 3-year-old
Washington boy was injured when he
fell from an automobile driven by his
father, Theodore Tolbert, 421 Colum
bia road. The boy, Charles Tolbert,
was taken to Georgetown Hospital and
treated for cuts about the head. The
accident occurred on Wilson Boulevard
near Clarendon.
at Flemington, N. J.
Procedure Is Outlined.
Supreme Court attaches said the
nine justices probably would announce
on December 23 whether they would
review his conviction. That would
give Hauptmann either glad tidings
or mournful news for a Christmas j
present.
If a review were granted, attaches
said arguments normally would be
heard in February or March and a
final decision could be expected a
fev weeks later.
-Sometimes, however, criminal cases
ar“ advanced to expedite a decision, j
Rosecrans said today he would not!
oppose that action.
“Indue Influence*' Charged.
The Hauptmann petition contended
the jury was “unduly influenced" by
the daily presence of Col. Lindbergh
at the trial, by the “inflammatory”
summation of state council, and by
“hysterical mob spirit.”
These points previously had been
raised in an unsuccessful appeal to
New Jersey's highest tribunal, the
Court of Errors and Appeals.
The Supreme Court also was asked
to permit the taking of additional j
testimony, a request denied by the
New Jersey court.
Rosecrans’ petition will be served
on the State of New Jersey within
the next 10 days. The State will have
20 days thereafter to answer. The
court will decide without oral argu
ment whether to review the case, and
may hand down its decision late In
December or early In January.
Should the court refuse to review
the case. Hauptman would die in the
electric chair nearly next year unless
the New Jersey Court of Pardons
commuted his sentence to life impris
onment. If the review is granted, the
Supreme Court would probably hear
oral arguments next term. Execution
has been stayed pending disposition
of the Supreme Court appeal.
Trial Held Unfair.
Hauptmann's appeal charged:
1— The "Intemperate and objection
able" summation of Attorney General
David T. Wilentz violated the com
mon law and constitutional right of
Hauptmann to a fair and impartial
trial.
2— The attorney general ••bullied" j
and argued with Hauptmann on
cross-examination.
3— The attorney general's summa- j
tion injected into.the case a "material
variance" of the death theory.
4— The charge of Justice Thomas W 1
Trenchard to the jury was "argument
ative and not dispassionate "
5— The jury was not properly se
questered and was subiect to coercion.
The defense, seeking to show Wil
entz's summation was irregular, cited
many excerpts from it. among them
that Hauptmann was “public enemy
No. 1 of this world," that he "will be
thawed out when he hea::- that switch"
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SEARCH WILL CONTINUE
FOR KINGSFORD-SMITH
Crews of Planes Return to Ran
goon and Report Hunt Is
“Virtually Hopeless.’’
By the Associated Press.
RANGOON. Burma. November 12.—
Crews of the planes seeking Sir Charles
Kingsford-Smith and his co-pilot, Tom
Pethybridge, lost on an England -
Australia flight, reported today that
the search was ‘‘virtually hopeless.”
Two Royal Air Force flying boats
arrived here from Singapore. Straits
Settlements, w'here the Australian
pilots were due last Friday, after a
fruitless search over a wride area off
the coast and over the Bay of Bengal.
Officials announced, nevertheless,
that the hunt would continue.
D. C. Christmas Savings Banks
Soon Will Pay Out $5,279,575
Owing to a substantial gain in the
number of Washingtonians who en
rolled in the Christmas Savings Clubs
this year, banks in the Capital will
pay out an aggregate of *5,279,575
late in November, which will be avail
able for Christmas shopping and a
host of other purposes.
The number of Capital residents
enrolled in the 1935 clubs in the
banks maintaining this type of thrift
aggregated 66,154, as compared with
55,307 member* In 1934, a gain of
10,347 or about 20 per cent, records
Show.
At the same time the total sub
scription of *5,279,575 in this year’s
clubs, against *4,362,160 in 1934, re
veals an increase of *917,415, or a
jump of 21 per cent over last year.
Of course, a few members have not
kept up all their payments.
The Washington average shows
*79.60 pledged per member while the
average for the whole United States
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this year was only $42.60 per member.
Eighteen of the 22 local banks have
maintained the clubs during 1935.
Christmas Savings Clubs were first
started in Washington in 1912 by a
few banks. The idea soon leaped
into popularity, and since 1912 these
club funds have been an important
factor in the sum total of Yuletide
spending recorded here.
Records indicate that by far the
larger proportion of these savings are
used for Christmas purchases, Wash
ington bankers placing the figures
at about 42 per cent. For permanent
savings and investment about 26 per
cent is used, while for other year end
commitments the figure is placed at
8 per cent and for taxes, 12 per cent.
Other uses Include mortgage interest,
insurance premiums, education, travel
and charity. Payments are usually
distributed during the last week of
November.
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ITALIANSTHREATEN
10 QUI1 LEAGUE III
SANCII0HPR01EST
Penalties Are Held Acts of
Hostility, Justifying
Reprisals.
ROSSO PRESENTS COPY
TO STATE DEPARTMENT
Sanctionists Are Requested to
Reveal Nature of Measures
They Are Planning.
By the.Associated Press.
ROME. November 12.—Italy today
implicitly threatened her withdrawal
from the League of Nations by a note
protesting against the invocation of
sanctions.
Italy, the document informed sanc
tlonist nations, "has not wished until
now to dissociate herself from the
Geneva institution despite Italy's op
position to the procedure followed to
her damage, because she desires to
prevent a conflict, such as that now
being considered, from leading to
more vast complications.”
Cites Gravity of Consequences.
Therefore Italy, the communication
added, is “calling attention to the
responsibility” in the sanctionist
measures and the "gravity of their
consequences.”
nte note stated that these sanc
tions were undertaken without Italy's
participation in the deliberations and
without any information as to their
nature being communicated to her.
• The decision to impose sanctions
against Italy was made by the Leagu*
of Nations at Geneva.)
Italy warned all nations participat
ing in sanctions against her that such
action constitutes a “true act of
hostility, which amply justifies in
evitable Italian counter measures.”
Identical copies of the protest were
sent to countries adhering to the
Geneva proposals for action against
Italy for its campaign of conquest in
Ethiopia.
• Italian Ambassador Augusto Rosso
last night presented a copy of the
protest to the State Department for
the information of the American
Government The United States is
not a League member and no reply
is called for from Washington.)
The protest ,the text of which was
made public heer today, also demand
ed of the nations addressed informa
tion as to the nature of the measures
they planned to take to make sanc
tions effective.
Cites Gravity of Action.
“The Italian government, while it
has taken every disposition to prevent
the situation thus created (by sanc
tions) from developing any further
dangers, believes it to be its duty to
call vigorously the attention of the
governments of members of the
League of Nations to the responsibility
implied in the measures, in the course
of application and to the gravity of
their consequences,’’ the note said.
“The Italian government will be
pleased to know in what way the
governments involved intend in their
free and sovereign character to con
duct themselves in view of the restric
tive measures proposed against Italy,"
the note concluded.
The text of the protest note cov
ered five type-written pages. It re
viewed in detail each sanctionist
measure included in the Geneva pro
posal and commented on the signifi
cance of each.
The document was prefaced with
comment on the League of Nations
deliberations preceding the imposition
of sanctions. Italy's contention that
these proceedings were illegal and ill
considered were reiterated in the pre
face
Two Italian Contentions.
"The Italian government," the not#
set forth, "contends, first, that tho
reasons adduced by the Italian mem
orandum were not given adequate ex
amination and, secondly, that the pact
of the League had not been applied
in sections applicable to the situation
involved.”
Existence of slavery in Ethiopia and
the measures taken by Italian mil
itary authorities to abolish it wero
cited in the note.
Raising of the arms embargo
against Ethiopia. Italy asserted, can
only aggravate the menace to her East
African colonies, which the memor
andum to Geneva denounced.
"This measure, far from speeding
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$197,000 AWARDED
IN CHRYSLER CASE
British Jurist Rules on Long
Drawn Fight Alleging
Conspiracy.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON. November 12—Justice
Atkinson of the Kings Bench Division,
today awarded judgments totaling
£39,500 (about $197,000) and Interest
to the British plaintiffs in the long
drawn out Chrysler Motors shares case.
Included in the award was £3,500
and interest for Arnold De La Poer
against Walter P. Chrysler, the Amer
ican automobile magnate, and his as
sociates, Stephen D. Briggs. Bernard
E. Hutchinson, Joseph Fields and the
Chrysler Corp.
There was also a judgment of £36,000
and Interest against the same defend
ants on behalf of the Suffolk Invest
ment Co., Ltd.
Justice Atkinson also gave a judg
ment in favor of Charles Lomax
(against whom the plaintiffs, after the
case began, said they did not ask
judgment) but did not award any costs.
Atkinson stated there was not the
slightest foundation for the counter
charge of fraud which the defendants
had brought against De La Poer.
A further argument by the counsel *
regarding the precise form in which
the judgment should be entered will b*
heard by Justice Atkinson tomorrow,
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