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SCIENTIST LOOKS
INTO MOLECULES
Ultra-Microscope Made by
Firing Bullets of Light
Described.
BY THOMAS R. HENRY.
Firing bullets of light at vibrating
targets a million times too small to
be seen, thus obtaining in effect an
ultra-microscope which enables one
to look at the insides of molecules, was
described before the annual meeting
of the Washington section of the
American Chemical Society last night
by Dr. James H. Hibben of the
Geophysical Laboratory of the Car
negie Istitution.
The method, first described eight
years ago by a Hindu phyicist, has
been developed by Dr. Hibben to a
point where it is throwing much new
light on the fundamental structure of
matter, and has far-reaching implica
tions in chemistry and medicine.
Light, as Dr. Hibben explained, con
aists of streams of tiny particles known
as photons which travel at the terrific
speed of approximately 189.000 miles
a second. They move in waves, the
length of a wave depending on the
energy with which the particle .s
•‘fired.” The wave-length, in turn, de
termines the color of the light from
the invisible infra-red through the
visible spectrum of colors to the in
visible ultra-violet and X-rays.
Molecules Are Little Worlds.
AU matter is made up of molecules.
A molecule is a combination of atoms
of different elements which are vi
brating at various rates and in va
rious directions. It is, as Dr. Hibben
explained, a dynamic system of atoms
—each molecule a little world by it
self.
Now when a bullet hits a target
which it cannot penetrate it is de
flected at an angle—or it may be
broken into pieces and the fragments
fly away at various angles. In any
event the bullet loses some of the
energy with which it was fired when
it hits something. It only had so much
energy in the beginning, and part of
this has been used up.
The same thing happens when a
bullet of light, or photon, hits the vi
brating atom in a molecule. Only in
this case less energy means a longer
wave-length—and a longer wave
length means a different color. What
was blue light will turn into green
light and what was green light into
yellow light.
Roman Spectrum System.
This is the basis of the Roman spec
trum system, being used by Dr. Hibben
at the geophysical laboratory. Light
of a single wave-length is fired from
a mercury lamp into a translucent
substance—say a single wave-length
of blue light into water. Most of it
W'ill pass through without hitting any
thing, but some of the blue photons
will hit the hydrogen and oxygen
atoms in the water molecule. When
they do this they will come out on
the other side not as blue photons but
as green, yellow or red photons, de
pending on how much energy the col
lision has cost them.
It is possible to calculate mathe
matically how much energy such a
bullet should lose when it hits an
atom of a specified size, vibrating at
a specified rate in a specified way.
The actual results can be checked
against such calculations, or one
can calculate back from them to
determine just what sort of an object
they have hit.
Up to a few years ago. Dr. Hibben
pointed out the idea of "looking into
» molecule" would have been con
sidered highly fantastic since this
was vastly beyond the possibilities of
any microscope ever dreamed of.
Then it was found that X-ray bullets
could be "fired" and from the "splash
es” on photographic plates which re
sulted fiom the deflections mathe
maticians could figure about where
the different atoms were in the struc
ture of the molecule.
But it was as if they were standing
•till. The X-ray splashes gave no in
dication how they were moving, but
only their special configuration In
relation to each other. The social
activities in the dark world of the
molecule seemed forever hidden. Now,
Dr. Hibben explained, it is as if they
were going on in a glass house, so
long as the substance is one whicn
light will go through.
Minute Differences Important.
The properties of the molecule—
especially its interactions with other
things—depend about as much on how
the molecules are moving with respect
to each other. Dr. Hibben pointed out,
as on their special configuration.
Minute differences often are of extreme
importance.
The changed wave-lengths of light,
Dr. Hibben explained, are recorded
on a photographic plate after pass
ing through a spectroscope which
splits the light into its distinct wave
lengths. The method permits very
exact analysis but a special technique
Is required to read the significance
of the faint black lines which are
photographed.
Not only do the resulting spectra,
Dr. Hibben explained, make it pos
sible to get a dynamic picture of the
molecule, but sometimes provide an
extremely delicate method of chemi
cal analysis, since minute amounts
of impurities strongly affect the pat
tern.
Co-eds like Good Talkers.
DENVER (JP).—Denver University
co-eds listed the qualifications they
desire most in the men they date.
In the order of preference, they
want: A pleasing conversationalist:
an intellectual: an athlete: the matinee
Idol type: one who is quiet and re
served: the fellow with plenty of money
to spend.
At the bottom of the list, co-eds
agreed, is the date who "knows it all”
and doesn’t mind advertising the fact.
Congress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
Considers extension of Recon
struction Finance Corp.
La Follette Committee continues
civil liberties investigation.
Wheeler Committee studies new
chapter in Van Sweringen rail
deals.
Banking Committee takes up
extension of stabilization fund
and President’s power to devalue
dollar.
House:
In adjournment until Monday.
Coinage Committee considers
bill to extend President’s monetary
. powers.
i Appropriations Subcommittees
L continue hearings on deficiency
m and regular appropriation bills.
B Agriculture Committee opens
hearing on crop production loan
bill.
-Ir~"-t
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SAFETY MEN.
HE ways of would-be aviation
inventors are wonderful to
behold. Every airplane acci
dent which makes the front
pages brings to the Commerce De
partment a score of proposed Inven
tions or suggestions for Improving
conditions. Most of them find their
way to the desk of Irving R. Metcalf
in the development section of the
Bureau of Air Commerce.
One of them contained a sugges
tion for the old problem of reducing
the noise from airplane engines and
propellers. The inventor suggested
installing a microphone behind each
engine to pick up the sound. This
would be carried into the fuselage of
the airplane, where it would be “am
plified into a box” of special construc
tion "and there suppressed.”
Another gentleman asked that 24
representative young Americans be
selected to meet specifications he
would supply and proposed to confer
with them in person on means of im
proving the airplane in accordance
with directions which he claimed
were to be found in the Bible. He
was fussy about the conference room,
which he described in detail. Over
the door was to be a large rainbow
upon which his name was to appear.
* * * *
INEARTHED.
Three years ago. Miss Mary
Rome borrowed a book from a
friend.
Recently, she began ux)rk on a
new job—in the same office in
which another woman, who had
borrowed the same book from the
same friend also was employed.
"That woman has had my book
ever since you returned it. Mary."
said the friend. "I wish you’d get
it back for me. Tell her you want
to read it—that I said you could
borrow it."
Well, Mary got the book and,
looking through tt. came across a
poem she had dashed off in pencil
three years before!
* * * *
PUF.
'T'HEY are pretty efficient, these
1 modern chain stores, in the ar
rangement of their merchandise.
However, it takes the elfin innocence
of a puppy sometimes to disclose cer
tain features on which the merchan
dise arrangement is not so sound as
the experts think.
*M6tfry
Doe/
Take, for example, the case of a
little girl and her pup in a Chevy
Chase store the other afternoon. They
went promptly over to the book
counter, where the child stood for a
few minutes scanning the juvenile
literature stock. Beneath that coun
ter. exposed to full view, is the store's
assortment of rubber balls. As the
girl eyed the books, the pup eyed the
balls and although she went out with
out making a purchase, the pup fol
lowed at her heels stumbling over a
rubber ball that he had selected as
the most colorful thing he had ever
laid his teeth on.
* * * *
ONE-PRICE CRIME.
A YOUNG fellow around town was
in a rage the other night
when he came out of a Connecticut
avenue apartment to find his un
locked car pushed half way across a
side street and decorated with a traffic
ticket. Pocketed the ticket mumbling
and went his way.
3omewhat later when he arrived
at an embassy dance, he was even
madder to find absolutely no parking
places within blocks and blocks. He
circled around a bit, then swooped
straight into the space marked "en
trance—no parking.” Got out of his
car, stuck the ticket back on the
windshield and went into the party.
Proving there is at least a law of
averages in the line of justice—noth
ing happened the second time.
SLIPS.
'T'HERE was one man in the women’s
dress department of one of the
larger department stores on P street
the other day. He sat by the door
of one of the booths where, quite
obviously, his wife was being decked
out in something new. For a long
time he was morose and silent, but
moroseness and silence are two other
things that come to an end in this
world.
“May I make a suggestion?” he
finally boomed, his voice carrying
to the distant reaches of the depart
ment. Apparently he was told that
he could.
“Then, shorten the slip which goes
with that dress. Her slips are always
showing.”
Oblivious of the attention he had
attracted, he dropped back into his
silent contemplation of a world full
Of women whose slips show.
* ^ dr «
PRIVACY.
A McKinley High School boy—
we don't know his name, but they
call him "Eddie” and he lives at
105 Rhode Island avenue northeast
—has solved the problem of how
to carry on telephone conversa
tions with his girl friend without
having his family overhear every
word he says—and, perhaps more
importantly, without going out to
a pay booth.
At least, that’s what we make
of what we saw as we walked past
his house the other day. Eddie
was on the front porch, telephone
in hand, with the wire coming
through the bottom of a nearly
closed window. And, as we passed
on, we heard him shout: "Get
away from that window—can’tcha
see I'm talking?”
* * * +
SPELLING.
of names Is purely sec*
uonai—take the word of Mrs.
Polly Hurahm a Ramsay of
I
Prosecutor Asks Dismissal
of Slaying Case Against
Band Leader.
BULLETIN.
NORWICH, Conn., January 15
UP).—Robert A. Simpscn. blond
band leader, was acquitted of
charges of murder and rape today
by a court of three judges.
By the Associated Press.
NORWICH, Conn., January 15—
Prosecuting Attorney Arthur M. Brown
today asked dismissal of murder
charges against Robert A. Simpson,
blond orchestra leader, on trial before
a three-judge court on charges of at
tacking and murdering 17-year-old
Ellen Sullivan.
Brown's request came after the State
had rested its case against the 23
year-old bandsman and during argu
ments before Justices Ernest A. Inglis,
Kenneth Wynne and John R. Booth for
dismissal of both the rape and murder
charges contained in the indictment.
"I do not feel,” said Prosecutor
Brown, defeated Republican candidate
for Governor last November, "that the
State has proved the guilt of Simpson
beyond a reasonable doubt. I there
fore Join with the defense in asking
that your honors dismiss the charge of
murder.
“I have never asked a verdict that I
did not believe in myself. I am not
going to ask one this time.”
"There cannot be murder in this
case unless there is rape.* Brown
previously had said after closing his
case with the testimony of two doctors
as to the jnternal injuries Miss Sul
livan suffered before she tumbled 25
feet to a concrete sidewalk outside a
dance hall at Ocean Beach early in
| the morning of last July 18.
POPE DELAYS RITES
INITIATING ACADEMY
Illness Causes Postponement of
Ceremonies Originally Set
for February 6.
By the A.s.'ocitted Press.
VATICAN CITY, January 15 —
Pope Pius today postponed inaugural
! ceremonies lor the new pontifical
Academy of Science because of his
j illness.
The academy's opening originally
had been set for February 6. although
j the holy father had not expected to
attend.
j Vatican sources said if the Pope
continued to improve he might cele
brate mass in the chapel adjoining
his bed room next Sunday.
The 79-year-old holy father was
lifted again today from his bed onto
a wheeled divan after a restless night,
in which his sleep was broken by in
termittent pain.
He discussed church affairs at great
length with Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli,
papal secretary of state. Vatican
sources said.
Although his fitful sleep was trou
bled with pain during the early morn
’ ing. the Pope's condition was officially
reported as stationary.
Attendants lifted the holy father to
! his wheeled chair—a specially con
structed divan which aUows his vir
tually immobilized legs to remain hori
j zontal—and pushed him into the ad
: joining chapel, where he heard mass.
JOSEPH M. SEMMES
EXPIRES IN MEMPHIS
Man Who Resembled Gen. Lee
Was Born Here—Attended
Georgetown II.
Joseph Malcolm Semmes. 84. native
, Washingtonian, whose remarkable re
, semblance to the Confederate leader
'■ frequently prompted his friends to eall
him “Gen. Lee,” died yesterday at
Memphis, Tenn., it was learned through
the Associated Press.
Mr. Semmes’ father. B. J. Semmes,
was a major on the staff of Gen. Lee.
After the Civil War, Mr. Semmes at
tended Georgetown University here.
Mr. Semmes was a second cousin of
Admiral Raphael Semmes of the Con
federate Navy.
Until prohibition Mr. Semmes was
in the wholesole liquor business in
Memphis. He leaves five sons, one of
whom. J. Malcolm Semmes, jr„ lives in
Alexandria, Va., and four daughters.
The other sons are Granville M.
Semmes, Gary, Ind.; B. J. and Thomas
J. Semmes. Memphis, and George
Semmes, Jacksonville, Fla., and the
daughters are Mrs. Eleanor Semmes
Humphrey, Memphis; Mrr. Fred S.
Stoepel and Mrs. Frank S. Van Dyke,
Detroit, and Mrs. Lewis B. Anderson,
Larchmont, N. Y.
Funeral services were held today in
Memphis.
MAJ. CHARLES W. FOSTER
RITES TO BE TOMORROW
Services at Walter Reed Chapel
Canceled—Officer Won War
Decorations.
Burial services for Maj. Charles W.
Poster. 45. U. S. A., retired, who
died last Saturday at Denver, Colo.,
will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow in
Arlington National Cemetery. There
will be no services at Walter Reed
Chapel, as originally planned and
announced, the War Department said
today.
Maj. Poster held the Distinguished
Service Cross and the French Croix
de Guerre, with Palm, for his World
War service overseas.
He was a brother of Mrs. Wallace
De Witt, wife of Brig. Gen. De Witt,
assistant to the surgeon general, sta
tioned at the Army Medical Center
here.
-•
Nickel Plant Started.
Japan's first nickel-producing plant
Is being constructed In Oumma Prefec
ture, where it will have a mine said
to contain 30,000,000 metric tons of ore.
Virginia becomes plain Ramsey in
Maryland.
Mrs. Hurshman denies, however,
that she has a "modern streak of
contrariness” as told in Wayside Tales
recently. She operates "Ye Olde
Ramsay House” on King street in
Alexandria. The house has been
standing since 1748! but despite the
huge sign on the front and a bronze
placque put up by the Virginia Con
servation Society marking it as an
historical site, modern femininity
gone "arty” paints her own signs and
spells it "Ramsay."
I
Workers Alliance Marchers Reach Capital
Some of the 2.000 Workers’ Alliance members, here to seek increased appropriations for relief and works projects, are shoicn
shortly after their arrival this morning to present their cases to Congress and administration officials. —Star Staff Photo.
La Follette
(Continued From First Page.)
ed to Hanna's implication In the flog
ging also was developed by G. C.
Giles, chief of detectives of Birming
ham; Charles J. Benz, oil dealer, and
George M. Brooks, salesman, who un
covered the first evidence leading to
Hanna's identification by Gelders.
After such identification was made,
it was testified. Brooks became fearful
of his life, started drinking and
started carrying a gun for protec
tion. He feared he was "on the spot,”
it was testified.
The committee recessed shortly be
fore noon with the announcement it
would hear testimony on labor poli
cies of the American Bridge Works of
Pittsburgh on Monday unless one of
the witnesses called is still ill.
Both the T. C. I. and the American
Bridge Works are subsidiaries of the
United States Steel Corp,
Sav* Telephone Calls Made,
During Giles' brief appearance he
testified that Chief of Police Hollums
of Birmingham had conferred with
W. R. Sims, in charge of special
deputies of the T. C. I„ after the flog
ging. At times, Giles said, calls were
made from the department to Bir
mingham telephone number 3-2664.
Chairman La Follette then intro
duced a letter from the telephone
company stating that the number was
an unlisted one paid for by the T. C. I.
Lenz then took the stand to tell
of Brooks' fear after becoming In
volved in the case.
"Brooks was pretty nervous." Lenz
said, "after he got involved in this
case and he borrowed a gun. He
told me he was afraid he was 'on
the spot.'"
Asked what developed. Lenz then
j told of Maj. Harry E. Smith of the
i National Guard calling Brooks. After
! that, Lenz testified, Brooks was less
nervous and said he might “take a
vacation."
Brook* on Stand Briefly.
Brooks took the stand only briefly
to confirm the testimony of Lenz.
Haigler then told the committee of
his conversation with Capt. Hanna.
"He asked me where I was and I
told him I was in Clanton. That's
the place they beat the ‘Reds.’ Hanna
1 said, and I told him I didn't think
much of that business.
"He said he'd like to take a base
ball bat to some of them, but I told
S him I didn't think that way.
"Hanna told me he was with the
! T. C. I.”
Cowheid s first contribution was to
tell the committee that the number
3-2664 was Hanna's number at the
T. C. I. plant.
‘'Pal, what are we going to do with
this so-and-so Gelders?" Cowherd
quoted Hanna as saying on the after
noon of September 23, the date on
which Gelders was flogged.
“I'm not going to do anything,”
Cowherd said he told Hanna.
The next day, Cowherd said, he
made a list of six names and handed
them to the head of the Alabama
State Federation of Labor and pre
dicted the names of Gelders' assail
ants were among them.
"Subsequently, three of them have
been identified,” he said.
Testimony involving the two identi
fied assailants, Hanna and Dent
Williams, was presented to the com
mittee yesterday by Gelders and
Sergt. J. W. McClung of the Alabama
State police, who was principally in
strumental in establishing their con
nection with the case.
Invited to Make Defense.
Both Hanna and Williams were in
vited by telegram to appear at the
hearing this week to make any de
fense or explanation they cared to.
Chairman La Follette announced, but
Williams replied with a dental of any
knowledge of the case, while Hanna
did not reply at all.
Dramatically. Gelders, young-ap
pearing crusader, who has been sol
dier. steel worker and professor of
physics at the University of Alabama,
told the committee how he had been
attacked by three men on the night
of September 23, while returning to
his Birmingham home from a meet
ing. Thrown into the bottom of an
automobile and beaten nearly un
conscious, he was driven into the
country, where other men joined the
trio, stripped their victim and flogged
him so severely he lay unconscious
until dawn.
Their explanation before the flog
TO TAKE BACK PAIR
Must Offer Old Jobs to Dis
missed Men, Labor
Board Rules.
By the Associated Press.
The Labor Relations Board ordered
William Randolph Hearst and five
Hearst companies today to offer
Frank M. Lynch and Philip Everhardt
Armstrong their former positions on
the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Discharge of these employes last
Summer led to a strike called by the
Seattle Chapter of the American
I Newspaper Guild and suspension of
I the paper's publication from August
13 to November 25.
The guild complained the dis
i charges resulted from guild activity
on the part of Lynch, a photographer,
and Armstrong, dramatic critic.
After the strike was settled by agree
ment last November, John Boettiger,
a son-in-law of President Roosevelt,
was appointed publisher of the paper,
and Mrs. Boettiger, the President's
daughter, took a position with the
paper's editorial staff.
The board's five-point order called
for the paper to—
< 1» "Cease and desist from in any
manner interfering with, restraining or
coercing their employes in the exer
cise of their rights to self-organiza
tion. • * •”
<2) "Cease and desist from in any
manner discouraging membership in
the American Newspaper Guild. * • •"
(3) Offer re-employment to Lynch
and Armstrong.
14) Give back pay to these employes.
»5) Post a notice in the editorial de
! partment that the board s order would
be complied with.
The order was directed at Hearst
and five Hearst companies because of
their corporate set-up, the board ex
plained.
■ ■ ■ ■ •
VIOLATION OF LAW
1$ DENIED BY A. & P.
Firm Has “Not Consciously”
Broken Any Provision of
Bobinson-Patman Act.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 15.—The
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co., re
plying to charges of the Federal Trade
Commission that the company had
violated the Robinson-Patman act.
said today it had "not consciously”
broken any provision of the law.
The act prohibits chain stores and
other large buyers from receiving spe
cial discounts on purchases.
A statement issued by Caruthers
Ewing, general counsel for the com
pany. said:
"We have not consciously violated
any provision of the Robinson-Pat
man act. but on the contrary have
undertaken to obey it in letter and in
spirit.
"After the complaint is served we
will investigate each transaction men
tioned therein, and the facts should
not be matters of dispute.”
ging began was that he was "med
dling” in their business. Their threat
was that he would be "loaded with
! lead” if he told what happened.
Following Gelders to the stand.
Sergt. McClung told how his superior
had placed him on the case with or
ders to "break it” if he needed every
| man on the force. McClung broke It
! sufficiently, he testified, so, in his
opinion, indictments should have been
returned against Hanna, Williams and
two other men.
Asked his opinion why such indict
ments were not returned, the veteran
officer replied:
"You know. Senator, the T. C. I.
owns about fifteen-sixteenths of that
country.”
Both Gelders and McClung testified
that the prosecuting officer made no
real attempt to convince the grand
juries of guilt of the men, citing cir
cumstances calculated to turn them
against Gelders.
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Workers
(Continued From First Paget
effort to refute claims that "an era
of good feeling" exists. Still other
representatives were scheduled to visit
Vice President Garner and Speaker
Bankhead in an attempt to enlist
their support in the movement for a
continued and expanded relief and
works program.
Addressing the workers before the
parade got under way, David Lasser,
national president of the alliance, told
them "we inform Congress that the
$650,000,000 appropriation which has
oeen recommended by President
Roosevelt Is utterly insufficient and. in
fact, a repudiation of the mandate
which the American people voiced in
the recent election."
"The people voted on November 3
for an adequate program for unem
ployment relief." Lasser said, "and we
are determined that that program shall
be carried out.
"We are asking that those on W P.
A. projects be continued on those
projects until private industry provides
jobs for them."
Lasser urged the workers to con
duct themselves in a militant but
orderly fashion during the demon
stration, to prove "we can conduct
ourselves on the same plane as those
on Capitol Hill.”
"It is only an accident that we are
not on the Hill and they are not in
our place," he added.
Another speaker at the assembly
was Herbert Benjamin, national sec
retary, who declared "the fact that
2.000 of us have gathered here on
three weeks' notice should be a warn
ing to the men in the Capitol, White
House and, particularly, the Chamber
of Commerce that we will not permit
an era of good feeling to be estab
lished at the expense of misery- and
suffering among the public.”
ine workers arrived here early to
day by trains and busses, coming from
all sections of the country. New York
sent a delegation estimated at more
than 700, while other sizable groups
came from Philadelphia. Boston, other
Eastern cities and many parts of the
South and West.
All of the male delegates wore paper
bands on their hats, on which were
I printed in large blue letters: "W. P. A.
Must Go On."
It was believed at first that a heavy
| rain might disrupt the parade plans,
after many of the delegates arrived at
the auditorium in dripping clothes,
but cheers greeted an announcement
by Lasser that the march would go on
as scheduled.
Following the trek to the Capitol, the
marchers were to reassemble at the
| Labor Department, hear reports from
j their leaders and then depart for
| home.
Meanwhile delegates representing
1 striking seamen also were reported
| descending on the Capital in prepara
tion for a demonstration of their
own, to be staged Monday. Their
numbers could not be accurately esti
mated, but police believed there were
at least several hundred in town.
Twelve seamen picketers have been
marching around the Commerce De
partment Building for several days,
j Many of the Workers’ Alliance
marchers carried banners and placards
| when they arrived, and these also
were used in the parade. A num
ber of floats depicting the progress of
W. P. A. arrived from New York to
take part in the parade, however.
To Counteract Propaganda.
A statement issued from Alliance
headquarters, at 827 Fourteenth street,
said the delegates were “here to
counteract the false propaganda of
the powerful big business interests
and their allies inside the national
administration who want to influence
public opinion and the Government
to curtail and liquidate unemploy
ment relief without liquidating unem
ployment.
“We want Congress to know we
who have been on W. P. A. and simi
lar programs have been performing
useful public work and services.
“We want Congress to know that
there are hundreds of thousands of
us who are now forced to depend upon
inadequate local relief, although we
can and want to do useful work in
private industry or on public works.
“We want Congress to know that
there are millions more who are un
able to secure either work or relief.
"We want Congress to know that
the wages now paid on W. P. A. are
less than sufficient to provide bare
existence, and that the constant rise
in living costs makes existence on the
present wages increasingly difficult.
"That is why we are pressing for a
program that will provide 2,800,000
job*.
“That is why we are pressing our
program for an increase of 20 per
cent in the present W. P. A. monthly
wage and for a minimum monthly
wage of $40 for the South, where wages
are as low as $21 a month.”
The statement, while cautioning the
workers to act in an orderly fashion,
at the same time informed them that
in case of "difficulties with the police
while you are exercising your right of
visiting your Congressman or Senator,'*
a representative of the alliance will
be in the office of the Capitol police
to straighten things out.
Kidnaping
(Continued Prom Pirst Page )
hotter rapidly as sharp-eyed detec
tives swiftly put together the bloody
pieces of the kidnap mystery:
A deserted shack—suspected of be
ing the kidnap lair.
A sack of blood-stained clothing
found inside, both & boy's and a
man's.
A heavy knife—perhaps the one
with which the boy was stabbed in
the back before he was bludgeoned
to death.
A blood-stained automobile, stolen
and abandoned—believed to be the
one in which the nude body was
taken to a point near Everett and
left to freeze in the snow.
A machinist's hammer picked up
npar the spot where a young hunter
stumbled on the victim's body.
Among the missing pieces of the ■
puzzle were the 1936 license plates I
on the car when it was stolen from j
an Arlington, Wash., resident.
Information that little Charles, ap- ;
parently at the dictation of his cruel |
abductor, wrote three letters to his
family, was reported in a copyrighted
story by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
It quoted a source "above question."
Mayor Raps G-Men.
At Portland, Seattle's Mayor, John
F. Dore, asserted in an interview ' we
could have caught that guy who stole
the Mattson boy If It hadn't been for
the G-Men but the Government says
hands off until the victim is re
turned.”
(Dr. W. W. Mattson, the boy's
father, requested cessation of all po
lice activities at the time, fearing the
, Kidnaper might become terrorized and
kill his son.)
Investigators sought new clues In
Brushlands near Everett.
Federal agents refused comment on
the numerous clues, reports of arrests
or any other developments.
Mrs. Melvin Smith, who recently
moved to San Jose, told Sheriff Lyle
she recognized a newspaper photo
graph of Haynes as the man who
rented the cottage on the Everett
• Highway.
She said the man and a woman
deserted the cottage in December
after failure to obtain lower rent.
Sheriff Sends Information.
It is about 20 miles south of the
abandoned shack where the blood
stained clothing was found. Sheriff
Lyle relayed the information here for
study.
In its story on the "inside” of the
negotiations, the Post-Intelligencer
said the last of the boy's letters ap
peared six days after the boy was
stolen from his Tacoma home. Five
days after the last note. Dr. Mattson
made a futile attempt to contact and
pay the kidnapers in response to tele
phoned instructions.
Told of the story. Dr. Mattson said,
"There is nothing to it.” Gus B.
Appelman, a family spokesman, said:
"Some of it is right. Most of it
isn't.”
The Seattle Times quoted a close
friend of the family as saying Dr.
Mattson, attempting to pay his son's
abductors, saw two men in an auto
mobile. one resembling the swarthy
man who seized Charles. Both were
frightened away by an accident to an
oil truck.
Hoover * Remark t,,iieo.
This and similar reports, including
a remark by J. Edgar Hoover, chief of
the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
indicated officers were seeking two
men. rather than a lone kidnaper.
“We won't discuss the case until
we catch him," Hoover said in Wash
ington. D. C., then added hastily, “I
don't mean him—I mean him or
them.”
Federal Court officials here said the
“John Doe" warrant tiled Wednesday
to make the kidnaper legally a fugitive
from justice under the Lindbergh law
could be interpreted to mean two or
more persons were involved.
More than 50 patrolmen and almost
as many Federal agents, aided by local
officers, continued today to check foot
by foot the wooded area for several
miles around the spot where the body
was found.
Washington State patrolmen found
what was believed to be a 10-year-old
boy’s clothing in the shack, 5 miles
from the underbrush which shielded
the body.
Authorities were believed to have
found fingerprints on the ransom note,
on ransom letters sent to Dr. Mattson,
on the automobile, on Charles' body
and in the shack. A woman’s lipstick
was reported picked up near the aban
doned car.
Muriel and William Mattson, sister
and brother of Charles, who witnessed
the kidnaping, have not looked
through police pictures ot criminals
to find the likeness of the abductor.
An authoritative source said this
fact might indicate the agents know
the kidnapers’ identity.
Federal Court officials said it was
virtually certain the death penalty
would be sought under the Lindbergh
law. Two other bare possibilities are
first-degree murder trial under the
State homicide law or under the State
kidnaping law. Death would be the
penalty in any case.
t <
AIREDAT PROBE
Guaranty Trust Co. Board
Head Tells of Loan to
Van Sweringens.
By the Associated Press.
Evidence that a J. P. Morgan bank
ing syndicate “rescued" the Van
Sweringen empire in 1930 was Un
folded today before the Senate Rail
road Investigating Committee.
William C. Potter, board chairman
of the Guaranty Trust Co. of New
York, testified that part of a $39
500.000 loan made by the Morgan
group was used to close out a $19 -
000,000 Van Sweringen account with
Paine. Webber & Co., New York stoci:
brokers.
Describing the situation as “very
delicate,” he said this action kept thi
Van Sweringen interests from "dump
ing a million shares of Allegheny Corp.
stock on the market" to protect their
margin requirements.
“Unloading" of such a huge block r
stock might have started a gener
market declme, Potter explained
“It might have wrecked • lot r'
banks and brokerage houses?” aske
Chairman Wheeler.
“If you emphasize the word 'might,'
decidedly so,” Potter answered.
Earlier, Francis Ward Paine of
Paine. Webber & Co. testified that the
Van Sweringen accounts made up "20
to 25 per cent” of the firm’s total
business, and that they were “in a
state of unusual tension” in 1930.
Wheeler said yesterday a Van 8wpr
ingen corporation used proceeds of a
$30,000,000 note issue to buy "specu
lative securities" of other Van Swer
ingen firms.
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UPDIKE WILL APPEAL
TRAFFIC CONVICTION
Bill of Exceptions Filed by For
mer Representative*
Attorney.
Former Representative Ralph E Up
dike of Indiana today filed a bill of
exceptions before Police Judge Ed
ward M. Curran to his conviction on
a reckless driving charge Decem
ber 19.
The bill is to be used in an appeal
which has already been noted through
Updike's attorney, Robert I. Miller.
Updike was convicted by a jury
after he is alleged to have struck a
truck at Twenty-first and I street No
vember 13. causing the truck to crash
into a house and injuring the driver
and a passenger,
Updike was sentenced last Monday
to pay a fine of *100 or serve 30 days
in jail, but was released on a *100
bond to await the outcome of his
appeal.
MORGAN MAY HEAD
DISTILLERY GROUP
Treasurer of Democratic Commit
tee Considers Proposal to
Supervise Industry.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. January 15 —W. Forbes
Morgan, treasurer of the Democratic
National Committee, said today he was
considering a proposal to become su
pervisor of the liquor industry as head
of the Distilled Spirits Institute, Inc.,
self-regulatory body set up by the in
dustry.
Morgan said he was attracted by the
opportunity for public service that the
offer involved. He said he would con
tinue his work with the Democratic
committee, for which he receives
*15,000 a year, even if he accepted the
liquor trade offer.
Morgan stated he had had the mat
ter under consideration for some time.
A retired Investment banker, he for
merly served as secretary of the Dem
ocratic committee and as deputy gov
ernor of the Farm Credit Board.
MRS. MARY C. CHAMBERS
EXPIRES AFTER ILLNESS
Widow of Union Army Veteran
Dies in Hospital at
Age of 91.
Mrs. Mary Charlotte Chambers. 91,
of 1920 S street died yesterday in Gar
field Hospital. She had been ill since
Tuesday, when she fractured her hip
in a fall in her home.
Mrs. Chambers was, the widow of
Benjamin Dill Chambers, who was a
Point of Rocks, Md„ business man and
Union Army veteran. Mrs. Chambers
moved here from Point of Rocks sev
eral years ago.
She was a member of St. Margaret s
Episcopal Church and the Daughters
of the American Revolution. She was
a sister of the late Dr. Edward Oliver
Belt, one of the founders of the Epis
copal Eye. Ear and Throat Hospital.
She is survived by three sons. Rev.
B. Duvall Chambers, rector of the
Westover Episcopal Church at Rox
bury, Va.: John Wesley Chambers and
Alfred Coke Chambers, both of this
city, and two grandchildren. She also
leaves two sisters. Mrs. L. A. White
and Miss Julia Belt, and a brother,
McGill Belt, all of Dickerson, Md.
Funeral services will be held at 9:30
a.m. tomorrow at the home of her
sons. 2822 Thirty-ninth street. Burial
will be In St. Paul's Cemetery, Point
of Rocks.
MRS. SPIES BURIAL
TO BE HELD IN IOWA
Revenue Bureau General Counsel
Secretary Was Member of
Eastern Star.
Funeral services for Miss Ethel Daw
son Spies, secretary in the office of the
general counsel for the Internal Rev
enue Bureau, were held yesterday in
Hysong's funeral parlors, 1300 N street.
Rev. Dr. William 8. Abernethy, pastor
of Calvary Baptist Church, officiated.
The body was taken to Remsen. Iowa,
for burial tomorrow.
Miss Spies, who lived at 1722 Nine
teenth street, died suddenly Monday.
She had been a Government worker
for a number of years. She was a
member of the Order of the Eastern
Star and the Baptist Church. The
funeral was attended by many of her
friends, including a large contingent
from the Internal Revenue office.
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