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NO. 234. ECONOMIC POGROM LAUNCHED INSANITY MOYJ BY NICKERS! BANKBREAK1 Reported Tucker Will Pleaf Insanity Defense For Hit Operations. A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN? Accused Banker Authorizes the Opening of Safety Deposit Box in Texas. WRECKAGE OF PLANE WHICH PLUNGED TO EARTH YESTERDAY WITH 14 PASSENGERS A report that Tiilman J.

Tucker, alleged Nickerson bonk wrecker, will plead insanity as a defense for the charges against him in connection with the crash of the State Bank of Nickerson, was being circulated at the oouHhouse today. Robert Foulston, of Wichita, widely known KanBas criminal trial lawyer, wna here today and spent nearly two conferring with Tucker.on the fifth floor of the courthouse, It was following this meeting that It was lndloated that Insanity would bo the defene for the former bank cashier. However, Mr. Fouls ton was enrouto back to Wichita this afternoon and could not be reached for a statement. Under Nerve Specialist It Is known that Tucker, prior to his disappearance Feb.

27th, was under the core of Dr. L. C. Bishop, Wichita, nerve specialist, and that the doctor advised Tucker to go to a San Antonio sanitarium. An inkling of the man's defense was gleaned the other day when newspapermen were Interviewing Tucker.

At that time the former Nickerson banker told his interviewers: "Go.talk to the doctors about me. They'll tell you what's the trou- bio with tee." Tucker said after he reached San Antonio he did not like the looks of the sanitarium and refused to enter It To Open Deposit Box. At the county, jail the alleged bank wrecker signed a paper auth- ment to open a safety deposit box 1 he has In a San Antonio bank. I. L.

Perkins, local state banking examiner, secured Tucker's signature on the paper, The appointment of the local law firm of Smith and Claude B. Chalfant as attorneys for the Nickerson bank receivers was expected to be made today by Gov. Landon in Topeka. Arraign Next Week, Tucker probably will not be arraigned until early next week when additional charges will bo preferred against him In connection with the crash of the State Bank of Nickerson of which he was cashier, Max'Wynian, county attorney, said today. He is charged with embezzling about $1,500 from the defunct bank ind the county attorney said his arraignment on that charge would be delayed until additional charges are filed.

Tucker's defalcations In the bank are said to total around $100,000. won't arraign him until additional charges are filed unless he demands it," said Mr, Wyman. Tucker, In the meantime, is being Held In the county Jail. Pope Wieldt Golden Hammer And Brtakt Down Holy Door Vatican City, April UP) Wielding a golden hammer, Pope Plus broke down the holy door rjf St Peter's this morning and Inaugurated tha holy year in commemoration of the 1800th anniversary of the passion, death and of Christ Nearly 30 cardinals, flfyalty, diplomats, the Roman arigjjltfacy, and high prelates froqyHany nations prtHsi'iifrers, Including aU members of the Winnipeg Tollers, Canadian championship basketball teariL were killed or Injured yesterday hen a Hut trl -motored plane crashed In a forced landing near Neodesha. The plane was bearing the patty home to Winnipeg from Tulsa, here It Had been playing an International basketball series.

Six were killed or fatally Injured and the lather eight Injured, three critically, Press Photo). C0B)M0N OF 3 AXE TRAGEDY URVIVORS POOR Chants For Recovey of Eight Mjwi Seen By Physicians At Neodesha. The pi ed by yester and flight condltif: NeoJuFha, April 1 isMble recovery was predlct- ihyslclans hero today of all the survivors of the plane crash which killed six persons lennlnated the homeward it the Winnipeg Toilers. of three of the eight Injured Intiadlan Athletes remained Ian yoolay, captain of the Ill- fated KIM partly regained icon- selousi! during the nightf Ho recjpgn; ei, tfhnrletf. Hyatt, Amertc Jdofcaf fhf fft played an International series ended night before the accident Tul a Team Visits Victims Hyatt and other members of the Tulsa I em came to Neodesha last night I condition was described i at the Wilson county critical but hopeful, uwn, forward of the Wln- tilkod with members 4 guuad who visited him.

the boys we went car he muttered. "Wr hart a bad accident." eyes are swollen to 'a tour of the ollJiflaldj' Canadians made In Good Song May Ring Clear But Stein On Table To Be Missed At Colleges Harrlsburg, April The "good song ringing clear" may be very well, but there'll be no "stein on the table" at the Pennsylvania colleges after beer flows back. With the threc-polnt-two brow just around the corner, that old Heldelbergian chant of "Drink! Drink: Drink!" to the accompaniment of pounding seldcls on wooden, titles has been strictly banned r-y heads of a number of Institutions. Dr. William Mather Lewis, president of LaFayctte college, led the way with a re-statement of an old policy against the use of on the campus, in fraternity houses, or in other student residences.

Similar rulings were handed down by Dr. Thomas S. Gates, president of the University of Pennsylvania, and Dr. John A. W.

Haas, head of Muhlenberg college at Allentown. A special law dating back to 1859 says that "It shall be unlawful for the court of quarter sessions of Centre county to grant a license for the sale of ardent spirits or malt liquors at any place within two miles of the Farmers high school of Pennsylvania." The "Farmers high school," Inol- dentally, now is known as Pennsylvania State College. RAIL HEADS AND Woole by vloU saw the holy "aned yesterday, pope struck I mor of solid crowded close," gendarmes Pope entrance to if brick, loos- iway when the with the ham- great throng lines of papal Swiss guards, penlng of another enormous basilica, an entranoeafcuuauy open only once etW ag years, was synv bollo of thefify tream 0 BeV eral hun- died thousand pilgrims the Vatican iii flow into 8t Peter's during-the fcoly year, he used dated back to the Borgia.pope, bo decreed a holy year The the timi ander In 100 Tokyj report dered bad bi the crpssei tola height Can Ate Released By the Soviet April 1. W) Japanese from Manchuria said today government has aurren- 1,800 seized freight cars to utpment, the report said, withdrawn illegally from (nese eastern rallday which Manchuria and which now operated by Manchukuo believed the return would tel dissipate the latest dispute WwWf lover the conduct of the rail, roftd, Jpfcg a point of issue between Russia after the Chinese of Manchuria. aJsp has t0 i tholr Tulsa hosts, said George Wilson showed great during the night.

It itVjt that his back was 1 crash today, unaware of the im- until he heard owjner of the plane Urlsh, exclaim, "my pi Improved forwm'd of tho iiek consciousness this wisf reported lmprov- AT WHITE HOUSE Emergency Legislation Discussed This Afternoon With President. been lnformod his brother, Joe T. silver- ij-rmarted unchanged to- i) Mfle H. Hakes, 28, Winonni. today 8.iEBgens co-pllot, bodies of R.

H. manager, 1 Joe Dudds and Mike were at an under awulting arrival of 4 conch of the Win ipd tiie private secre- Mayor of Winnipeg wero oxpt'ctlt to arrive here today. KansiKfl night east and and in day. fair, ooli portions. West colder iri Hons, tonight! In south (lenoraliy fair to- Sanday, colder In utli portions tonight reme southeast Sun- Fair, colder In west pofm tonight; Sunday, In east and central Partly cloudy, and north por- ln ranhandle Jjnduy clear, colder purtlon.

April opeld Its month's stay in Kansas: wis mild spring temperatures and 1 showers, with prospects that i week-end will be mild and molstu )ess. Skies wf 5 purtly cloudy over much of th fate.ii) today In typical Aprlly fashi 1 and to the north, south and Kansas, but S. D. Flora, fids a nieteoroloB-rt' 8 dieted fair Weather tonight and Sunday, (rural Mlnununi IfSsllnniTm ol Ut hours-48. Mitt -Jj Washington, April Heads of tho nation's railroad system and labor leaders were summoned to the White House today by President Roosevelt to talk over emergency legislation providing a federal coordinator to bring the carriers out of their troubles.

Mr. Roosevelt had before him a carefully worked out program framed by transportation authorities after days of examination and study. He Is ready to act. But he wants first to talk it all over with the representatives ot those most vitally Investors, the operators and tho men who depend op tho roads for a living. The president called to his side the men responsible for drafting tho program of Roper, Joseph B.

Eastman of the Interstate Commerce commission, and W. W. Splawn, and A. Berle, roil experts. Others invited to the White House for the lato afternoon parley included Carl Gray, president of the Union Pacific; Donald Richberg, counaol for the Railway Labor Executives association; Henry Bruere, New York financial authority; Frodorick H.

Prince, and Philip Stockston, of Boston; Raymond Moley, assistant secretary of state and economlo adviser to the president; Robert Jackson, associate of Prince; J. Pelley, president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford; and F. H. Williamson, president of the New York Central. There are more than $11,000,000,,000 in railroad bonds outstanding of which almost halt are held by savings banks and Insurance companies.

The president believes tho government should announce Its Intention to stand back of the for a specified period. But he also wants the roads to readjust top- heavy financial structures. He thinks a federal coordinator should direct the drives for economies to put the national system on a sounder and a paying basis. No White House Physician To Bt Kept By Roosevelt Washington, April The office of White House physician went by the boards today, with the departure for a hew post of Captain Joe) Boone, naval jnedlfial qffi- oer. President Roosevelt'does not Intend to by Captain Boone who has served as medical adviser to three wimdfBte Coolldge and HoOTtr.

Captain Boone's new duty ill'en the staff of the naval and on July I bo becomes medical officer on the V. lief, American naval hospital ityp In PaoUio 1 BIG ADVERTISING ME NEW BOARD SETS ASIDE THE GAS KTE ORDER Newly Appointed Commission Holds Former Order Was Void; Call New Deal. RETURN OF BREW Ten to 20 Millions Likely to Be Spent Daring First Year of Legal Beer. By J. K.

BRACKET? Associated Press Business Writer New York, April eral large advertising schedules are ready for release the day beer Is legalized and soon thereafter, W. A. Thompson, director of the bureau of advertising of the Amorican Newspaper Publishers association, said today. No details as to plans were available, Thompson said. Releases of the appropriations may be somewhat retarded pending clarification of regulatory legislation and the establishment of production facilities.

Thompson made no estimate of what the advertising approprla- might total, but estimates from other sources were between and These in eluded an estimate of by a brewer who would not be quoted; an estimate of between $10,000,000 and $15,000,000 by an. other official, and a $20,000,00 estimate by the Brewers association. The general practice before prohibition was to set aside about 60 cents a barrel for advertising appropriations, brewers said, and on the basis of a 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 barrel produotlon the first year (this is the government estimate), appropriations might be expected to run between $16,000,000 and $18, 000,000, One brewery official held these estimates small because he believed brewers would make unusual efforts to establish their trademarks quickly In the public mind. Among the larger 1983 appropriations was one of Jl.000,000 announced by Anheuser-Busch and one of $600,000 by Jacob Ruppert in New York, "Printer's Ink" dis closed. Both Weh and Dryt See Victory Near in Oklahoma Oklahoma City, April Oklahoma's legislative furor over S3 percent beer was intensified with the Graham-Garland isation substitute on the calendar of the bouse of representatives, put there by a 61 to 48 vote.

Predicting, "We'll win," Mrs. Elizabeth House, state W. T. V. president, announced plana for a big rally of western Oklahoma drys at Cordell Tuesday.

Menwhlle, tentative plans for a seoond beer demonstration In Oklahoma City Monday night were discussed by organ- teed bote! men, Graham of Oklahoma county (Oklahoma sponsoring the pill, described the House vote as "a great victory" and he had "no fear they will be to strike" tho measure UM SM oalandiiift Topeka, April The state corporation commission set auido today the reoent order of. tho abolished public service commission directing Cities Service subsidiaries to fix their domestic gas rateB on a basis of a 35-cent city gate rate for 1,000 cubic feet of main line, town border gas, Instead of 40 cents, the present charge. Void, the Board Holds Tho commission announced the filed March, 13 and directed against cities service subsidiaries oly-100 dtles i to the stale, plainly', void, as no legal notice was given, as the statute requires, and no hearing held upon it." The corporation commission, through Chairman Homer Hoch, Issued the following statement: "By a two to one decision, the court set the order of the former commission fixing a gas rate of 30 cents at the city gate. That case will be appealed to th supreme court. Following the two to one decision, two members of the former commission issued an order attempting to fix a rate of 35 cents.

That order was plainly void, as no legal notice was given, as tho statute requires, and no hearing held upon It. Attorneys employed by the state In the gas case so advised at the time the order was issued, Call For New Deal "We have set aside the 35-oent order, since no valid action could be based upon a void order, and in order to clear the decks. The commission will-give careful consideration to the question of whether we have power upon proper nptlce and hearing to establish an Interim rate somewhere between thirty and forty cents, pending a deoislon by the supreme oourt in the original case." Chairman Hoch announced that both of the other members of the Commission, J. W. Greonleaf and Ernest E.

Btlncoe, joined In today's order. The public service commission 35- cent gate rate order set asldo today specified the directed rate reduction was to be effective until April 15, 1034, or until termination of an appeal to the supreme court from the decision of a threes-judge federal court last January overturning the 30-cent gate rate previously directed by the old regulatory body. Greenleuf Had Voted No The 35-cent order was signed by the two members, of the old commission who were not retained when tho new regulatory body was created by the legislature, Thurman Hill and F. E. McMullau.

Commissioner Greonleaf, who was retained, did not join In the order which also directed the distributing companies to cease to set lip on their books as an expense Item payments made to Henry L. Doherty another cities service unit, under a IK per cent management charge, based on their gross revenue, until proof was submitted "justifying" the expenditures involved. DRY LEADERS OF KANSAS TO WAGE BATTLE Determined to Prevent State Being Dislodged From Its Age-Old Position. BIG MEETING ON MAY 18 Religious and Prohibition Lead' ers to Plan Campaign Against Repeal. Topeka, April of the various dry organisations In Kansas plan to amalgamate their forces into a united group which will endeavor to block any efforts by the wets to dislodge the state from its position as "the keystone In the prohibition structure." Meeting here yesterday, they laid plans for a meeting on May 18 at which will bo perfected the organ Ization of a stato executive committee to direct a campaign against repeal or modification of tho state's anti-liquor laws and against ratification of tho 18th amendment pealer by Kansas.

No definite announcement was made as te where meeting would be held, -was the session probably Would be in Sallna. The Anti-Prohibition Society of Kansas also will meet In Sallna this month to make plans for span soring of wet candidates In the 1934 campaign "for all offices now held by political drys." "Kansas Is the keystone In the whole prohibition structure, George Y. Hammond, superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of Kanns, told the dry group, "and the state Is to be the big battle ground as the wets will try to dislodge it from its position." More than 30 leaders of various temperance and church organizations were at session, ftepresentatlves, or temperance, church and alvlc organizations, and the publlo, will be Invited- to attend the Sallna meeting. Oppose Beer Sole. A resolution adopted by the group declared opposition to sale of beer In Kansas, and commended the state's members of Congress and Roland Boynton, state's attorney general, for their Btand on the prohibition question.

A letter was read from Senator Arthur Capper In which the senior senator from Kansas said "the country will have to stand for beer saloons for a while, but I think there will be a reaction In a year or two." Senator Capper pledged his "continued efforts in support of Asks for Hearing. Meanwhile, Attorney General Boynton in a letter addressed to the three Kansas federal judges requested that state officers be given a hearing before they are restrained from interfering with the sale of 3.2 per cent beer, "It has come to my attention," Boynton told the judges, "that an application may be made ln the United States district court for an injunction against state, county and city officers, to restrain them from interfering with the sale of 3.2 beer In the state of Kansas." The letter was addressed to Judge George T. McDermott of the United States circuit court of appeals and to Judge Richard J. Hopkins and John C. Pollock of the federal district court for Kansas.

Great Made Fest Being Held Today at Dodge City Dodge City, April Kansas Is on parade In Dodge City today. There are about 2,200 high school students from 65 schools over the southwest district here for the annual Fine Arts contest tournament opened, Thursday, with the dramatics contest. Yesterday was devoted to muelo splo events, reading contests and oration contest Today the contests among orchestras and glee clubs are being held, to reach a climax tonight with a program in whioh the awards will be made presented to tba winners, Renews Appeal. Topeka, April the question of licensing the sale ot beer In Kansas has become a matter of controversy, Roland Boynton, attorney general, renewed today his request that the federal government cooperate with the state In preventing sale of the 3.2 per cent brew In Kansas. His request was made in a letter addressed to David Burnet commissioner of internal revenue, Washington.

"The laws of Kansas ss Interpreted by our state supreme court," Boynton stated in his letter, "prohibit the manufacture, possession and sale of beer with an alcoholic content of 3.2 per cent" He pointed out the new fad eral law prohibited transportation of 3.2 per cent beer into states where the sale of the brew was prohibited by state law. The attorney general said the sale of license stamps to retail beer dealers In Kansas would be a "great handicap" to state officers In enforcement of state laws, and that for that reason he was requesting the federal government to give Kansas "the benefit of federal cooperation by refusing to issue licenses to retail in beverages the sale of which prohibited by state law." CHINA enfv is ocoprisD Testifies In Court Helen Huffman, lltycar-old Sunday school teacher of Muncle, Is shown as she appeared In court to testify against the Rev. G. Lemuel Conway, susponded pastor accused ot attempting criminal assault (Associated Frees Fhoto). PRISON CLERK IS FREED BY FOUR WHO MAP HIM Bandits Believed to Have Expected to Find Payroll On Landis.

Lansing, April C. Landis, chief clerk of the Kansas state prison here, was kidnaped on the highway north of Lansing today by four men who apparently vainly sought the Institution payroll, but was released unharmed near Holll day, Kas, a half hour later. Landis telephoned tho prison shortly after 11 a. saying he had been freed nenr Holilday, was un- ha.rrr.ed, and, dinner when ho returned home. Women Not Molested The clerk WBB seized by tho four gunmen, driving a black sedan, as he was returning from Leavenworth in a motor car with his wife, their daughter, Florence, and another young woman.

Landis had gone to Leavenworth to deposit checks In a bank there. He had obtained the prison payroll from the bank yesterday, although ordinarily money 1 brought here on the first of the month. R. D. Tayne, secretary to Wardon Kirk Prather, said Landis did not carry any money today, Mrs.

Landis and tho two young women were unharmed and drovo to Lansing and reported the ing. Alarm Spread Following the kidnaping, which occurred about 10:30 a. the gunmen speeded south on the highway with their prisoner. Police in Leavenworth, Kansas and other nearby towns in Missouri and Kansas wero notified immediately, Prison guards also participated In a search for Landis, patrollng highways In the vicinity of the penitentiary, Roosevelt Orders Cats In Veterans' Allowances Washington, April ident Roosevelt today ordered reductions In veterans allowances totaling approximately $400,000,000, Using the extraordinary power vested In him by the economy not, tho chief executive shortly after 1:30 p. signed the order drafted by Lewis Douglas, director of the budget, and Frank T.

Hlnes, veterans administrator, who were present when he signed. The reduced rates are effective July 1. CRUEL HITLER 1 REGIME BANS JEW ACTIVITY Stores Closed, Semetic ployes Discharged, Professional Men Outcasts. STIR PEOPLE TO FRENZY Nazi Leaders Arouse Bittet Hatred For Jews During Mass ShanhaJkwan, China, April (even of bitter fighting, a Japanese detachment was reported to have occupied ShlfamshchaJ, a city In north China oiojoer. at a.

to. today. 'ssys. Beverly Hills, April To The Hutchinson News: This fellow Roosevelt never gets through surprising us. We just find out now that he sp'eaks French fluently.

That's the second linguistic surprise he has handed us. The other was when the banks were closed. We knew he could speak English, but we didn't know he could talk "American" till that night In fact, he has three speaking accomplishments. He is the guy who can talk "turkey" to the Senate, Kvery map gels an opportunity once In a lifetime. That little country banker lp New York named Morgan has his now.

If be just steps up to the Senate witness stand and shows the boys where he has a business and. not a racket, why be can step dowp a hero. But If be the boat Wednesday. Youra Berlin, April busiest business streets bora a boll- day aspect at 10 o'clock as brown-shlt'tod Nazis busily to and fro, pasting signs of Identification on Jewish stores, standing guard or picketing before and driving through streets In tor cars, displaying boycott slgnsi On many publlo squares and market halls, the Nazi hands: made the air reverberate with snappy military marches. Narf swastika and Imperial flags were displayed on all street oars.

Shops, whose owners were Nasi party members, flew especially large swastika A one-day boycott on the moansj of livelihood of all in Germany began at 10 a. m. today. Tho Gorman Stores Union issued an appeal to all coming under the boycott ban to close stores for the day. Must Cease Campaign Abroad Dr.

Joseph Goebbels, cabinet minister of propaganda, keynotcd the campaign with a warning that unless "the foreign atrocity campaign! ceases absolutely" the boycott will be resumed next Wednesday, He promised, however, "a return to normal" if this condition was fulfilled. A government order shrank tba National Socialist party's proposed Indefinite boycott to one day's dureV tlon for the time being and it remained to be seen which ot opposf log groups in the government -ana end. Only small comfort derriabty from the present limitations for half a million distracted Jews who; to all practical purposes already are ostracized socially and professionally. Cruelties Involved There were so many traglo aspects to the situation that the boycott was only another bitter draught Such pormanent measures as bar- ring Jews from legal practice, removing them from courts, hospitals, and publlo Institutions havo beon Issued. Doom were being closed to them all around.

Jewish shop owners yesterday were, ordered to discharge Jowlsb employes; The big Karstadt department: store firm announced the resignation of Jewish of the directorate and the dismissal of Jewish, employes. Ban Professional Men The National Socialist FhyeiR dsns' noolety issued the) jollowinsr 4 German. T9ps(. wef; go Jewish doctor again' for' or buy at Jewish Is untrue' that Jewish tioitSrsi; fists and ble or'bettei; than The Municipal Relief Inawanca society a statemsnj forj'loi ding members from receiving 1 ment from Jowish patronising Jowish' druggists, tlolans, dentists and masseurs' pjl Jewish owned medicar x-rajj institutions and i Dr. Goebbela' further; warned that "If New "York, nnd London cotts German goods," ment will "take its off" hi handling the Jewish problem.

Hitler Chancellor). Hitler's government, which had remained silent white the.boycott ntens formulated by the party, was placed in the position of endorsing the action when Dr. Goebbels, read a government pronouncement last night at a packed meeting of Nazis, He whipped them Into a frenzy of antipathy for the Jews and shouts of "hang them" broke into his attack. He accused the JOWB OI robbing German of their bread by inciting an international anti-German boycott He admitted the Nasi government leaders were determined to carry out their long plnroised measures against Jews but, declared the question would not have arisen so soon if it had baan for-world-wide Jewish activities. WUt BeiaUabi "When American and Bngiiab.

attack thsf ment we cannot binder Qturouut people from attacking Garmnn he said, Declaring ho hoped no) further reports of alleged atrocities would be published In tba United aud other countries during tba) next few mserted days would determine, fctaf boycott to Wei Cooaohagen, Denmark, J- UPii-AlJ entering were crowded with fleeing fcom the boycott nuaared..