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RESERVE POLICY
Gains of $10 and More Per
$1,000 Are Scored After
: Board Statement.
^ the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 5 —United States
Government bonds advanced sharply
today In the first tangible Indication
oi trader appraisal of the Federal Re
serve Board announcement it would
buy Federal securities in the open
market.
" Some issues shot up immediately
sifter the opening in the New York
Stock Exchange by as much as $10
or more, per SI,000 face value bond.
Sales volume was moderate.
In the stock market, steel, motor and
oil shares moved moderately higher in
active trading.
- Important commodities joined the
advance to higher levels. May corn
futures in Chicago moved up to the
limit of 4 cents a bushel to a new 12
year high and wheat and cotton fu
tures likewise tilted forward.
Rubber, copper and hide futures
pushed to better levels.
With the virtual assurance of the
Federal Reserve Board bids would be
forthcoming should the market show
signs of weakness, it was expected the
flood of offerings which in the past
three weeks had driven most issues to
new low levels for the year would be
less in evidence.
RESERVE BUYING BEGUN.
Purchase Aim Is to Erase Erratic
Fluctuations.
Hi the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board began
tdday a policy of open market pur
chases of Government bonds in an
effort to steady their erratic fluctua
tions.
The board said this would maintain
orderly money conditions and facili
tate efforts of member banks to meet
a 1623 per cent increase in deposit
reserve requirements May 1.
Government bonds slid to new 1937
lows recently, but fiscal authorities
said the new buying program was not
designed to elevate prices or to peg
the market at any particular point.
Secretary Morgenthau has said Fed
eral funds would not be used to jack
lip the market.
The decision to buy for Federal re
serve banks through the board's Open
Market Committee came after com
mittee members held a two-day dis
ctlssion on the Government bond ;
market situation.
In recent weeks, the board had ac
quired $103,000,000 of Government
bonds, disposing of a like amount of
Treasury notes and bills. Despite this !
buying, the bond market has con- i
tinued a downward course.
Explaining the procedure under the
new policy, the board said it would
buy Federal securities for the ac
count of reserve banks “in such
amounts and at such times as may be
desirable.”
The action, it said, will tend to off
set effects of the higher reserve re
quirements by increasing banks sup
ply of cash.
Customarily, the Reserve Board has
used its powder to buy and sell Govern
ment obligations as a device for ex
panding or contracting the potential
supply of credit.
By raising reserve requirements, it
Will "lock up” about $700,000,000 of
idle bank funds. At the same time,
open market bond buying will send a
rew stream of cash into the banks.
Idle bank money forms the basis
of credit expansion. It was to check
a possible runaway inflation that the
board ordered the higher percentage
of reserves which must be held behind
deposits. In all, a 33 ^ per cent in
crease was ordered. Half of this went
Into effect March 1.
Court
f Continued From First Page.)
punishment by a fine of not more than
$300 or imprisonment for not more
than 90 days.
Discussing its refusal to allow Miss
Clawans a Jury trial, the Supreme
Court said:
“If we look to the standard which
prevailed at the time of the Consti
tution, we find that confinement for
a period of 90 days or more was not
an unusual punishment for petty
offenses, tried without a jury.
"Laying aside those for which the
punishment was of a type no longer
commonly employed, such as whip
ping, confinement in stock and the
like, and others, punished by com
mitment for an indefinite period, we
know that there were petty offenses,
triable summarily under English
statutes, which carried possible sen
tences of imprisonment for periods
from 3 to 12 months.
“At least 16 statutes, passed prior to
the time of the American Revolution
by the Colonies, or shortly after by
the newly-created States, authorized
the summary punishment of petty
offenses by imprisonment for three
months or more, and at least eight
others were punishable by imprison
ment. for six months.
“In the face of this history, we find
It impossible to say that a 90-day
penalty for a petty offense, meted out
upon a trial without a jury, does not
conform to standards which prevailed
when the Constitution was adopted,
or was not then contemplated as ap
propriate notwithstanding the consti
tutional guarantee of a jury trial.”
in noicung tnat her rignt to cross
examination of witnesses for the prose
cution was abridged, the court said:
“All (of these witnesses) were pri
vate police or detectives, apparently
acting in the course of their private
employment. Common experience
teaches us that the testimony of such
witnesses, especially when uncorro
borated, is open to the suspicion of
bias.”
The dissenting opinion read In part:
“We cannot agree that when a
citizen is put on trial for an offense
punishable by 90 days in Jail or a
fine of $300, the prosecution is not
criminal within the sixth amendment.
In a suit at common law to recover
above $20, a jury trial is assured. And
to us, it seems improbable that while
providing for this protection in such
a trifling matter the framers of the
Constitution intended that it might
be denied where imprisonment for a
considerable time or liability of 15
times $20 confronts the accused.
"In view of the opinion Just an
nounced, it seems permissible to in
quire what will become of the other
solemn declarations of the amend
ment. Constitutional guarantees
ought not to be 'subordinated to con
venience, nor denied upon question
able precedents or uncertain reason
ing.”
Washington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SOUR NOTE.
THERE is a young woman lawyer
in Washington who is defi
nitely of the opinion that
hostesses and guests at cock
tail parties should be a lot more care
ful with the names in introductions.
Were they to be so, she would not
have made the embarrassing mistake
she made recently.
It was at such a social function
that she fell to chatting with a
large, handsome man whom she re
membered having met when she ar
rived. Music was the subject of their
conversation. Both admitted an in
terest in it and after a few minutes
she thought to ask him what instru
ment he played.
"My Adam’s apple,” the large,
handsome man said with a smile.
It struck the woman as cutely
disarming, nothing more.
Nothing more, that is, until she
asked some one who he was.
"That’s Richard Crooks of the
Metropolitan Opera Co.,” was the
reply. * * * *
TUTOR.
Ray Bell, motion picture publicity
man, recently won a trip to Italy
as you may have read.
Since the award Ray has been
brushing up on Italian under the
tutelage of Col. Angie Ratto, an
associate in the same company.
They had gone hard at the les
son yesterday afternoon, working
particularly on pronunciations,
when after a few minutes on an
especially difficult phrase (but an
important role) Col. Ratto re
marked :
"Don't worry too much about it,
Ray. After all, where you are go
ing no Italian would understand
my dialect anyhow "
* * * *
CLIMB.
TJOLLAND HUNTINGTON, who !
* likes the series of math problems
which has sneaked recently into the
Wayside, called up yesterday to sug
gest another.
“Take a hill a mile up and a
mile down,” says Mr. Huntington, a
pretty big hill to be taking, but what
does that matter. "A man drives up
that hill in his car at a rate of 15
miles per hour. At what speed will
he have to go down the other side to
average 30 miles an hour for both
directions?”
The person blessed with average
amount of glibness will snap out
“Why. 45 miles an hour, of course."
To him we can only say that he
had better figure it with a pencil and
paper.
* * * *
RACE.
DILL BELL of The Star reports a
small crop of silver threads amofig
the gold as the result of an incident
on the plane trip inaugurating Ameri
can Airlines’ non-stop to Chicago
service.
It wasn’t the plane ride that grayed
Bill’s hair, but a 20-mile automobile
ride from a friend’s apartment to the
municipal airport, 14 miles from the j
city. A lagging companion caused Bill
to be late in leaving for the hotel
where he was to Join the party re- j
turning on the plane. It was a case of j
making that plane or else. The plane j
was to leave at 5:05 p.m. At 4:30 Bill ;
and company were 15 miles away and i
afternoon traffic was at its heaviest, j
The driver of the car twisted and i
weaved through the Jam at 40 and 50 j
miles an hour, despite the entreaties j
of his passengers, who pointed out that
they’d really rather miss the plane, if
he didn’t mind, than end their Journey !
in the Chicago morgue. Two miles
from the airport traffic thinned out
and the road lay open and safe. Bill
and the companion responsible for the
whole wild dash sighed with relief at
the seeming certainty of making the
plane, though it was then 10 minutes
before departure time. Their relief
was short-lived, for then came a climax
to cap all climaxes—a flat tire.
Jumping out of the car. Bill stood
virtually in the middle of the road,
thumbing violently. A kind motorist
stopped, listened with sympathy to a
breathless account of their plight and
took the two to the airport. They
arrived minutes before the plane
took off.
* * * *
TOOTS.
j^ RUSSIAN girl recently enrolled
in a local school and having quite
a struggle learning the English lan
guage has found that the youths In
her history class are not the best
guides to proper speaking.
It happens that she is the only
girl in the history class, and the boys,
with a great show of sympathy, pre
tend to give her valuable aid with
her English.
Actually they teach her the latest
dang, as she learned after addressing
a dean on the campus in the fashion
which the boys assured her was the
proper way to greet a person of such
scholastic importance.
She learned that the boys were
spoofing only after startling the dean
out of his academic austerity and giv
ing a girl chum with whom she hap
pened to be walking at the time an
equal shock by exclaiming:
“Hi, Toots!”
* * * *
GAME.
“Four, five, six—pick up sticks.”
Ma Jong had its day—and par
chesi and monopoly and a revival
of dominoes. Now there has been
a temporary swing back to a game
which the Indians were playing
when Columbus arrived. It’s per
haps the "game” feature of the
year and consists simply in picking
sticks off a pile, the winner being
the deft individual who can pick
off the most without disturbing any
of the others.
* * * *
PITTING.
OPEAKING of style and whatnot.
^ The scenery and baggage of a
reoent musical show moved through
here on express cars bearing such
names as Tannhauser. Jenny Lind
and others of an operatic tinge.
And that brings up another ques
tion. Do the same people find names
for express cars who perform this
service for Pullmans?
THREE FLEE GALLINGER
Police today were searching for
three young colored mental patients
who fled from Gallinger Hospital last
night, bare-footed and clad in striped
nightgowns and pajama pants.
The three were described as Paul
Hill, 22; Raymond Wilson, 22, a
Board of Public Welfare charge, and
Melvin Gay. 15, sent to the hospital
by the District Training School.
a
EX-0. C. LAM
SHOT. WIFE HELD
Gordon Souther Found Dead
of Bullet Wound in Los
Angeles Home.
if! the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. Calif., April 5 —
Titian haired Mrs. Marian Souther,
32. was held in custody today while
police probed the circumstances of
the fatal shooting Saturday night of
her husband, Gordon Sterling Souther.
29. corporation attorney, formerly of
Washington.
A charge of suspicion of murder
detains the widow, who as a nurse
was supporting her husband, she said,
until he could obtain admission to
California bar.
Souther was shot by a .22 caliber
rifle he frequently used in target
practice. It was found lying across
a bed next to that on which he lay
wounded.
Mrs. Souther tearfully told Police
Lieuts. R. N. Davis and C. A. Gillan
of Wilshine Station: “We each had a
MRS. MARION SOUTHER.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
few drinks and I’m not quite sure what
happened, except I do know I never
killed my husband. I had gone up
stairs to some friends to invite them
to dinner. When I returned he was
lying on one of the twin beds.
"At first I thought he was having an
attack of asthma, but when I went to
put a cold towel on his head I saw the
blood on the pillow and I ran for help.
I loved him. We hadn't quarreled. I
don’t know why he did it."
She said her husband's father ended
his own life. She said her husband
was afflicted with asthma and took
almost daily injections of adrenalin.
When she first saw him still on the
bed she thought it was the result of
an overdose, she said.
Both Souther and his wddow are
well known here. Souther’s mother,
Mrs. John K. Souther, 5820 Chevy
Chase parkway, said the couple went
to California a year ago because both
were in ill health.
Souther was graduated from Na
tional University Law School in 1930.
Four years ago. while employed in the
legal department of the Southern Rail
way, he married the former Marion
Scarlett, a trained nurse of »x
andria, Va.
Souther later went to work for a
motor plant in Alexandria. His mother
said he suffered a breakdown due to
asthma, and the couple decided on a
change of climate, since the wife also
was in ill health. Souther had not
found employment at the time of his
death, his mother said.
Souther is survived by two broth
ers here, R. S. Souther of Woodley
Park Towers, and John K. Souther, jr..
of Wisconsin avenue, and a sister, Miss
Mary Taylor Souther of Wilmington,
Del.
Sit-Downs
(Continued From First Page.)
the labor world,” and approval of the
Byrnes proposal might incite "further
breeches.”
Senator Barkley, Democrat of Ken
tucky, said he agreed with Robinson
that the issue should be studied "com
prehensively and deliberately.”
During a series of meetings with
administration chiefs last week,
Byrnes had refused to withdraw his
amendment and bring it before the
Senate separately. This method was
urged by administration spokesmen,
who were unsuccessful Friday in ef
forts to refer Byrnes' proposal to a
committee.
Such delay, Byrnes argued, might
be misconstrued as "a willingness to
condone mass defiance of the law.”
Senator Byrd, Democrat, of Vir
ginia, in a statement supported the
contention of Byrnes and Senator
Bailey, Democrat, of North Carolina,
that there should be no delay in plac
ing the Senate on record against sit
downs.
"Civilized government,” said Byrd,
“depends upon obedience to consti
tuted authority.”
The legislators watched Michigan's
local elections today with tense inter
est, predicting that they might show
the voters’ attitude toward Gov.
Murphy's strike policy. He has con
sistently favored conciliation rather
than ousting the sit-down strikers by
force.
The House was expected to vote late
this week on a demand by Represen
tative Dies. Democrat, of Texas, for
an investigation of the plant seizures.
3,000 CAMP WORKERS
CONQUER 100 FIRES
48-Hour Battle Checks Spread in
Southern Section of West
Virginia,
the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON. W. Va.. April 5 —
A 48-hour battle by nearly 3,000 C. C.
C. workers and woodsmen brought 100
forest fires under control today in
Southern West Virginia.
The fires broke out Saturday in
widely scattered places. Fanned by a
30-mile wind, they swept timberlands
in seven counties. For a time, fire
threatened the famous white oak in
Boone County.
D. B. Griffin, State forester, said a
light shower helped the workers check
the blazes, believed to have started
from brush fires. He said six suspected
incendiaristt had been arrested.
FJ.
ON FRAUD CHARGE
Investment Firm Head Is
Accused of Peculation
Covering 5 States.
A scheme by which it was charged
that investors in the District and at
least five States were fleeced of some
$144,000 during 1933 and 1934 was re
vealed today with the Indictment of
Frank J. Hill, head of Crumpton &
Co., on charges of using the mails to
defraud and violating the securities
act.
Assistant United States Attorney
Cecil Heflin, who Is handling the
case, said a Nation-wide search for
Hill has been in progress since shortly
after his disappearance in the Fail
of 1934.
Hill's activities have been under in
vestigation by the Securities and Ex
change Commission for almost two
years. In June, 1935, the commission
obtained an injunction to prevent
Hill’s office manager continuing his
business.
He is alleged to have obtained
Cities Service common stock from his
customers on the representation that
it would be sold and the proceeds used
for the purchase of Cities Service $6
preferred. Instead of buying the pre
ferred stock, however, Hill is said to
have pocketed what he obtained from
the common stock sale.
Employed 25 Salesmen.
During the 18 months he operated
here he employed about 25 salesmen,
who worked in the District, Maryland,
Virginia, Tennessee, North Carolina,
New Jersey and other States, Heflin
declared. Offices of the firm were in
the Woodward Building. Most of his
customers were outside of Washington.
Hill is said to have come to Wash
ington in 1933 and established Crump
ton & Co., which he described to
those with whom he dealt as an old
and reliable brokerage concern. Prom
his offices here he conducted a mail
campaign, proposing to prospective
customers that they trade in their
Cities Service for $6 preferred, the
indictment charged.
In order to stimulate sales. Hill
conducted or pretended to conduct a
prize essay contest on reasons for ex
changing common stock for preferred,
it was alleged.
The voluminous indictment was in
10 counts, each alleging the sending of
a letter to a customer.
The only one of the alleged victims
named who lived in the District was
Mrs. Anna G. Bean, 3021 Tunlaw road.
74 Indictments Returned.
The indictment was one of 74, com
prising the last report of the current
grand jury. A new jury will be se
lected tomorrow.
Among the true bills was one
charging Charles B. Eliot, former offi
cial in the Works Progress Adminis
tration, with forging three check in
dorsements in connection with alleged
pay roll padding.
Eliot, who is a Harvard graduate
and held a position of considerable
trust in the Federal agency, is alleged
to have placed the name of a ficti
tious person, “Alex Dubois," on the
pay roll over which he had supervi
sion, and to have given instructions
that the pay checks be delivered to
him.
The indictment charges that he
forged the indorsement on three
checks, one for $140 and two for $150,
and then passed them.
Discovery of the alleged peculation
was made during a personnel check
up. Eliot was arrested by Justice De
partment operatives and released on
bail after arraignment before United
States Commissioner Needham C.
Turnage.
Five men were charged with con
spiring to destroy private property as
a result of the investigation into the
so-called barber shop union racket
here. They were Philip Gelfo, said to
be head of a barbers’ union; Sam
Graham Hambrick, business agent;
William J. Wise, Edwin Lowe and
Harry C. Crossley.
The indictment charged that the
five conspired to force non-union
barber shops to meet the union stand
ard by a campaign of terrorism, which
included smashing of windows and
throwing of "stench bombs." The
grand jury alleged in the true bill
that four wrindows were broken and
one "stench bomb” thrown.
Fund Misapplication Charged.
A charge of misapplication of funds
of the City Bank was placed against
Henry Berman, automobile dealer, of
the 2800 block of Georgia avenue, and
Robert A. Wrenn, 1500 block of Thirty
third street, who has been a teller
at the bank since March, 1934.
Wrenn is alleged to have permitted
Berman to “kite" two checks totaling
$1,200 February 7, 1936, after having
been instructed by the bank to refuse
to cash Berman's drafts.
Three homicide indictments were re.
turned. In one, Albert C. Johnson,
31, was charged with manslaughter in
connection with the death October 27
of Lester C. Thomas, 40, at a house
in the 700 block of Sixth street, where
both men roomed. Police said both
had been drinking. Thomas’ skull was
fractured when he struck his head on
a bed, it was stated.
A first-degree murder charge was
lodged against Samuel Jones, colored,
73, who allegedly shot John W. Green,
colored, 54, February 21, in a store
in the 1700 block of Seventh street.
Edward W. Culpeper. 23. colored,
was charged with second-degree mur
der in connection with the fatal stab
bing February 19 of Henry Hutton,
also colored. The slaying occurred in
the 1200 block of U street.
Otner inaicimenis.
Others indicted were Robert R.
Lovett, nonsupport of wife and minor
child; Nelson N. Carter, John White,
Leon B. Edwards, Benjamin Baylor,
Walter I. Reeves and Albert H. Rowe,
joyriding; Prank J. Blackwell, George
W. Andre, William W. Scott. Joseph
W. Petro, James Randsford, Rose
Holzer, James D. Tinsley and Helen
Ryan, grand larceny; Robert Shaw,
William Shaw. John E. Holtzman,
Earl O. Thornton, Lorenso S. Wilson,
Leroy Davis, Vernie Witten, James M.
Cain, James H. N. Waring. Bliss
Plalne, James D. Tinsley and Marion
Tyler, house breaking and larceny;
Alvin Milton, Jacob Wilwit, Aaron
Trachtenberg and Elmer D. Hill, re
ceiving stolen property; Lawrence H.
Brown, Rudolp Brown, Walter Kelly,
Daniel R. Lewis, William Washing
ton, Robert Hill, Earl Rowe, George
I. Miles and Joseph H. Thomas, rob
bery; Joseph E. Wilson, robbery and
assault with intent to commit rape;
Edward O. Brooks, George Ennett,
Oscar B. Jackson and Thomas Jacobs,
rape; Robert E. Dorsett, Stanley
Wyche and Bonnie McKay, assault
with a dangerous weapon; Hampton
L. Thompson and Harry C. Atkinson,
larceny after trust; William Jeter,
Horace Thompson, Samuel Wallace,
William Brown, James McCoy and
Strike Conferees Wave to Pickets
The Chrysler strike conferees, meeting in the State Capitol in Lansing, Mich., shown as
they waved to union pickets from a balcony. Left to right, James L. Dewey, labor conciliator;
John L. Lewis, Gov. Frank Murphy and Walter P. Chrysler. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Strikes
(Continued Prom First Page.)
big Harvey C. Fremming, Oil Work
men's Association chief and lieutenant
of John L. Lewis.
Moving swiftly, he arranged for a
conference with officials of the Humble
Oil and Refining Co. Its employes at
the Baytown Refinery announced a
majority vote opposing C. I. O.
unionization at the plant.
Pottery Workers’ Pay Raised.
The United States Pottery Manufac
turers’ Association announced today it
had agreed to raise wages of all union
workers in its plants from 9 to 15 per
cent effective May 1.
Strikes for higher wages began at
three veneer plants and a dress factory
in New Albany, Ind, today. Seven
hundred and thirty workers were in
volved.
SETTLEMENT PREDICTED.
Gov. Murphy and Others Again Will
Confer Today.
LANSING, Mich., April 5 (JP).—Gov.
Frank Murphy steered the Chrysler
strike conference today toward a
settlement, with expressed confidence
that the entire labor controversy in
the automobile industry would be
subsequently cleared up.
The Governor, Walter P. Chrysler
and John L. Lewis and their aides
were to resume their conference at 11
a.m. (Eastern standard time).
At the conclusion of Sunday’s parley
Murphy said “there is little doubt that
an agreement in the Chrysler dispute
will be reached. I can't fix the day
or the hour, but I believe it will be
soon. I am very optimistic.”
The Governor explained the Chrysler
negotiations had been prolonged be
cause of discussion of “some funda
mentals of the whole automobile labor
controversy" bearing on the entire in
dustry.
Out of this discussion Murphy said
he expected a general peace to de
i velop.
"I believe the entire labor contro
i versy in the motor industry will be
cleared up briefly,'1 he said. "I think
the threat of violence has pretty w'ell
passed. All news is encouraging and
there is nothing to indicate further
| serious trouble,” he added.
Murphy said it was his intention
“in the next day or two" to call in
representatives of the other automo
bile labor controversies in Michigan,
"particularly those concerned in the
Hudson and Reo strikes.”
"Do you intend to have these con
ferences during or after the Chrysler
settlement?" he was asked.
“After,” Murphy replied.
Realization of Murphy's objective
would put approximately 80,000 men
back at work in Michigan automobile
plants possibly within a week. Ap
proximately 10.000 are involved in
the Hudson strike. 2,000 in Reo and
nearly 70,000 in Chrysler.
FORD EMPLOYES BACK.
KANSAS CITY, April 5 The
first Henry Ford automobile plant to
be involved in a sit-down strike called
workers back to their jobs here today
amid C. I. O. claims of victory and
some confusion as to settlement terms.
The Committee for Industrial Or
ganization also announced agreement
making possible the reopening of an
other strike-closed company here and
a decision to establish permanent
headquarters in Kansas City.
Edward Harris, degredation on private
property.
George H. Jackson and Samuel
Newell, violation of the motor ve
hicle theft act; Cleo Garrison and
Julius Manning, violation of the
gambling law; James Carter, James
McDowell and James Jackson, viola
tion of the liquor taxing act; Melvin
T. Salter, Helen M. Slattery, James
P. O'Connor, John Anton Meyers,
John Hand, Lee Wing and Mark Ging,
narcotic law violation; Frederick
Goldstein, Samuel David Goldfin and
Mae Walsh, violation of the white
slave traffic act; Joseph L. McGuinn,
pandering; Ethel Nash, a postal law
violation; Russell A. Strome, William
J. Nolan, James F. Gallagher and
Benjamin D. Jenkins, forgery and ut
tering; Nolan, Gallagher and Jenkins,
false pretenses and conspiracy to com
mit false pretenses; Jenkins, false no
tarial acknowledgment; Gerald V.
Pershing, embezzlement; Harold Mol
lock and Sol Mollock, sending defama
tory matter through the mails; Ed
ward Gibson, depredation on private
property.
The following cases were ignored:
John J. Saxty, grand larceny;
James Davis and George T. Bonner,
housebreaking and larceny; Vernon
O. Faison and William Tenn, receiv
ing stolen property; Herman Walker,
Jackson T. Desmukes and Benjamin
B. Desmukes, joyriding; Mattie C.
Bray and Jesse C. Jackson, assault
with a dangerous weapon; James Den
nis, rape; George E. Craig. Hampton
J. Brown, Grady A. Miller, Della
'Price, Edna Harris, John Harris, Eliza
beth Gilchrist and Lee A. White
head. homicide: Katheren Demitro,
grand larceny, and Paul Blasangame,
making a false claim against the Gov
ernment.
Gedeon
(Continued From First Page.)
third street, had been found on Long
Island.
I
Byrnes was killed by a needle-like
instrument that penetrated his brain, i
Police officers refused to confirm the
report, insisting that no such weapon
had been found "in this neighbor
hood."
Model’s Diary Found.
The police started their hunt for
Irwin when the art model’s diary,
with many references to her affec
tions for "Bob,” was found yesterday.
Detectives who searched Irwin’s room
at St. Lawrence University, which he
left after being requested to quit
school by authorities March 18 be
cause of "instability,” found diaries
with frequent references to “Ethel.”
"Ronnie's” married sister. Mrs. Ethel
Kudner. resides now on Long Island.
The police said they were no longer
“interested” in Joseph Gedeon. 54
year-old upholsterer, father of "Ron
nie” and estranged from his wife. Ged
eon was questioned for two days by
police before being released, then ar
rested on a misdemeanor charge of
possessing a revolver illegally.
Dr. Blaisdell said he was greatly in
terested in Irwin’s ease at the time the
young man was in the hospital and
talked with him about his ambition
to go to St. Lawrence.
Irwin, living then at the Gedeon
home, walked into Bellevue Hospital in
July of 1933, Dr. Blaisdell said, and
complained that he was depressed, agi
tated and bothered by “mental con
fllctions."
After diagnosis. Dr. Blaisdell said.
Irwin was sent to the Rockland County
Hospital.
Condition Improved.
He stayed there three years. Dr.
Blaisdell said, and his condition im
proved steadily. He had the run of
the grounds and a special room where
he did his art work. His plan de
veloped then. Dr. Blaisdell said, of
going to St. LawTence University and
working his way through theological
school with the earnings of his art
work Dr. Blaisdell said Irwin had
no money other than that he earned.
Irwin wrote occasionally of his
progress at the university and visited
the hospital two months ago.
“He seemed cheerful and in fine
spirits,” Dr. Blaisdell said. “He never
mentioned the Gedeons, except to give
their home as his address, during the
time that he was here."
Hospital regulations prevented Dr.
Blaisdell giving a complete diagnosis
of Irwin's ailment. Neither could the
names be learned of his father, who
lived in Portland, Oreg, until his
death, and his mother, now residing
in Texas.
Parts of Diary Disclosed.
The police also made public por
tions of the murdered model’s diary,
which “Ronnie’’ called “my five-year
diary.” She started keeping it in 1932,
the year before she married Robert
Flower, a marriage later annulled. The
entries ended late in 1934. Among
them were:
“January 29, 1932.—I went to a
dance. Had every dance with a differ
ent boy. Walked home all alone in
the rain, because I wanted to think
about things. Bobby came along
alone. Why not now?
“January 30, 1932—B. loves himself
and nobody else. I saw him tonight.
Is this infatuation or love? I think it
is the latter, who could help it? We
had a fight, as usual. I wonder if he
will call tomorrow'. If he doesn’t, I
will.
“February 1, 1932—I can't be with
out him and I can’t be with him. I
hate him and I love him. I cry when
he is not around and fight when he is.
What should I do? What? Sleep a
forgetfulness. I love Bob.
“First and Last Love.”
“February 2, 1932—Dear God. if
he were only mine for keeps. Also
for ages and ages. I would be happy.
My first love and also my last. If
I am disappointed in this, my whole
life will be shattered, also my heart.
I’d do anything for him. He didn't
call and said he would. Is it great
to be in love? No.
"February 7, 1932—Went to a party
and got drunk. I wanted to forget
Bob for a moment but couldn’t. I
went completely out on 11 drinks
straight. When I was out, I kept
calling for my Bob. Jean put ice on
my head. She told me after.
"February, 1932—Went to a dance
after it. Show mein with Jean and
two fellows. Tried to give me a good
night kiss. Said no. He took it.
Tried to get fresh and I took his new
derby and pushed it in his face. I
ran. Bob will be home soon, thank
God. I’ll be so happy when he comes
back to me.’’
Telia of Hunger.
More random excerpts from the
diary of Miss Gedeon were released
later by police.
The model frequently mentions her
love for “Bob,” her willingness to
marry him, her dissatisfaction with
her home, and once says:
“Mother is so broke she has nothing
to eat and boy, am I hungry."
The excerpts in the order released
by police:
February 22, 1932—“Went to Mary’s
house with Bob. Had a pretty good
time. Went out at night and nearly
fell asleep, was so bored. Came home
and mother gave me h-for getting
in at 11 o'clock. I hate him and told
him so.”
February 22. 1933—“Rest, made up
—had a quarrel with Bob in the morn
ing. He should realize my condition.”
February 23, 1933—“Feel sick and
lousy. Didn't go to school. If Bobby
gets a good job that pays good I'd run
away with him and get married. Any
thing to get away from this family.
I love Bob. He was swell. I am
crazy, nutty, buggy, etc."
February 24, 1932—"Dave met Pearl,
the three of us. B. D and I went to
a show. I hope that Bob gets that
job. If he makes enough—who
knows?”
February 24, 1933—"Bob still not
working. I wonder when he will be
gin? I place all my hope in him. I
know he will.”
Tells of “Odd Millionaire.”
February 25, 1932—"Went out with
Bob and Dave. Don't know how I feel
about Bob. Sometimes I am crazy
about him and other times not so
crazy about him. That is a sure sign
that I am getting over it.”
March 10, 1932—"I am losing weight.
I look terrible. I feel terrible. Half
of me says ‘yes,’ half of me says ‘no.’
This heavy feeling can’t go on. I'm
going nuts—crying, etc. I am so
dumb “
March 10, 1933—“Mamma is so
broke she has nothing to eat and, boy,
am I hungry. Dave has a very fine
nature. I like it. Bob is so funny.
I don't know at all how his family
stands him. I am getting so sick
and tired of it all. Him, my family
and myself for being dumb. Went to
Loews Lexington with Rose and Bob,
saw the ‘Match King ’ It was lousy.
Went over to an odd millionaire's
apartment. He was a homosexual and
erratic.”
Plane
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radio, it was fully equipped with all
other devices for navigation, including
radio direction finders and blind fly
ing instruments.
Bad weather was reported Saturday
over Arizona.
WEATHER REPORTED BAD.
BURBANK. Calif., April 5 —A plane
carrying eight or more persons was
missing today along a route marked
by bad weather.
The plane, a Douglas transport,
hopped of! here at 10 a.m. Saturday
morning and was being ferried across
the country to be shipped from New
York to Holland for delivery to the
Royal Dutch Air Line. It was equipped
with a radio sending and receiving
set. The pilot, Glen Moser. 30. had
no scheduled stop, except Kansas
City.
Bad weather was reported over Ari
zona.
T. W. A. records indicated eight per
sons besides Moser and Co-pilot Joe
Wolfolk. 32, were aboard, but George
W. Stratton, assistant to the Douglas
Corp. president, could give only the
following list, besides the two flyers:
E. R. Moser, 55. father of the pilot.
Merle Estey, 29, Douglas engineer.
Mrs. Lucille Estey, his wife.
Bernard Troy, jr., 33, parking sta
tion operator.
George Kent.
Mrs. B. R. Uderlin, mother of a
Douglas employe.
Kent and Troy were guests of the
pilots.
Mrs. Moser expressed hope her hus
band had grounded the ship in one
of several emergency fields in South
ern Arizona, New Mexico or Texas.
Since more than a day and a half
had elapsed since the takeoff, Douglas
officials did not think this probable.
The twin-engined, all-metal ship
had a wingspread of 95 feet and a
speed of 200 miles an hour. It car
ried radio direction finders and other
safety aids and bore the marking
P-H-A-L-P, a foreign designation.
Ferrying of ships sold in Europe
across the continent is a regular pro
cedure with the Douglas Corp.
Pilot Moser had been flying four
years, three of them as an Army
officer.
At Albuquerque, Erie L. Hardy,
meteorologist, said that about the
time the plane was due between Win
slow and Amarillo low clouds and
snow squalls covered much of the
area, but he did not believe icing
conditions were severe enough to in
terfere with flying. Kingman, Ariz.,
residents reported seeing a strange
plane pass over there Saturday morn
ing.
Ready to Join Search.
Maj. A. D. Smith, district opera
tions superintendent for Transcon
tinental and Western Air, said at
Albuquerque he is ready to join a
search for the missing airliner “when
we are asked to take part.”
The veteran of many aerial hunts
considered it likely the plane would
have stopped there had it got that far.
He pointed out, however, the flying
range of the big ship would have car
ried it far beyond Albuquerque if the
pilot wished to avoid landing.
Two Former Business Asso
ciates of Imprisoned Auto
Dealer Also Held.
William J. Nolan, head of the bank
rupt Nolan Motor Co., who is servin'
a prison term for bribery, was indlctt a
today, along with two of his formei
business associates, in 23 counts on
charges of forgery, uttering, false pre
teases and conspiracy to commit false
pretenses.
All the accusations involve allegedly
spurious conditional sales contrail
discounted to the Universal Credit C
for approximately $30,000. Assistar,
United States Attorney John J. Wil
son, who presented the cases to the
grand jury and will conduct the pros
ecution, said there are 45 such con
tracts.
Charged along with the automobile
dealer were Benjamin D. Jenkins, 2809
Thirty-fifth street, office manager and
assistant treasurer of the Nolan Mo
tor Co., and James F Gallagher, 3145
Mount Pleasant street, secretary of the
concern.
An additional indictment charged
Jenkins, alone, with six violations of
a statute which makes false acknowl
edgements by a notary public a felony.
Jenkins is a notary.
The maximum penalty for false
pretenses is three years, for forgery
and uttering 10 years each, for con
spiracy two years, and for false no
tarial acknowledgment 10 years. The
last named charge carries a minimum
of one year. There are no minima
for the others.
The sentence Nolan is now serving
is for four months to a year and a
day and was imposed following his
conviction of bribing two witnesses in
the divorce suit brought by his wife,
Mrs. Alice M. Nolan.
All the new charges will be dis
posed of before the Summer recess
of the court, unless speedy trfals are
precluded by dilatory defense motions,
Wilson said.
Jenkins and Gallagher, both of
whom are married, are at liberty under
bail, having been arrested about two
months ago.
The conspiracy count, which, in
effect, is a summary of the other
allegations, charged that the three
man sold 45 bona fide conditional
sales contracts, executed by C. B.
Ryan as president of the Yellow Cab
Co. of the District of Columbia, to the
Munsey Trust Co., and then sold
spurious contracts for the same auto
mobiles to the Universal Credit Co
The second set purported to be for
the sale of automobiles to the Minute
Cab Co., which Ryan also headed,
Wilson explained.
Three charges of forgery, 3 of
uttering and 16 of false pretenses were
predicated on these transactions. The
accusations concerning Jenkins’ al
leged misconduct in his capacity as a
notary were that he falsely certified
that Ryan acknowledged six contracts
for conditional sales to the Minute
Cab Co. The Government contends
Ryan knew nothing of the contracts.
Three of these six contracts were
involved in the alleged forgeries.
Nolan. Jenkins and Gallagher were
charged with forging the contracts
and with uttering them to Francis A.
Norton, credit manager of the Uni
versal Credit Co.
The period of the alleged conspir
acy was said to be from November 1,
1935, to November 1, 1936. Fourteen
overt acts were set out.
Fascists
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struck west against Blazquez and the
other moved due south on La Gran
juela. last village before the mines
themselves are reached.
The fifth column, almost midway
between the left flank pivot and the
right flank thrust, moved directly
against the mines at Penarroya itself
! from Villaneuva del Duque.
The turning movement was momen
, tarily the most important phase of the
' campaign raging on 13 fronts, from
i the southern tip of Spain to the Bay
! of Biscay.
The first touch of Spring found the
Government forces taking the major
! portion of the offensive action for the
1 first time in the eight and one half
months of the war.
| Around Madrid the government army
was making slow but steady progress
| on the Guadalajara front to the north
east, penetrating deeper into Avila
Province to the northwest and push
| ing the enemy back frqcn the Corunna
highway cutting through the Guadar
rama Mountains.
On the far southern coast the in
surgents were reported being pressed
back, while in the north the Basque
miners were on the offense in the
Asturias and a strong army was ad
vancing against Burgos, one-time capi
tal of the insurgent regime.
MOLA’S FORCES NEAR Dl’RANGO.
VITORIA, Spain, April 5 (>P).—Gen.
Emilio Mola's northern army ad
vanced to within 6 miles of strategic
Durango, insurgent headquarters re
ported today, in its powerful drive on
the Basque capital of Bilbao
Insurgent columns stormed the
mountain peaks ringing Bilbao after
occupying Ochandiano, commanders
declared, and took control of the
villages of Olaeta. Verderin and Mon
chategus.
The thrust carried the -insurgent
front line 3 miles farther toward
their immediate objective of Durango,
from which Mola's army could roll lfi
miles down hill toward Bilbao over
paved highways.
An official report from insurgent
headquarters gave these details of
the war action:
2 WOMEN FOUND DEAD
IN GAS-FILLED ROOMS
_
Two women, one despondent over
domestic trouble, and the other an
unemployed waitress, were found
dead today and yesterday in gas-filled
rooms in their respective rooming
houses.
Mary Elizabeth Whitesel, 35, was
found dead today at 409 I street
northeast. A tube attached to a gas
jet was under her pillow. Police found
a note telling of domestic trouble.
Glade Outlander, rooming house
proprietor, found the woman when he
entered the room through a window
after smelling gas.
Breaking into a room at 406 Second
street when he smelled gas, William
Smith, a roomer, yesterday found
Ruth Lantz, 27, had committed sui
cide by gas. A tube attached to a gas
pipe was lying across her body on a
bed. Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald issued a suicide certificate.