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OFFICE COPY Not To Taken Otit STAR Wall Street! Close THE WEATHER Cloudy, probably occa-tonal rain and torn fog tonight and Thursday. Detailed report en Pace at EVENING i'aiii circulation december 271,831 Sunday 191,848 Vol. 50 BALTDIORE. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9. 1935 32 Pages 2 Cents at BalUmor Poatofllc A frDrfCin rn nrnr uy ZA uj uj To 1 THE SUN ULru Mae Becomes Governor, Asks $2 Auto Tags Maryland Gets A New FEDERAL AGENTS KILL SUSPECT IN BREMER CASE llllllliW -STAY If y.

LANSDALE G. SASSCER r. i 'i Shoot Russell Gibson As He Tries To Flee From Chicago Apartment BANDIT'S MACHINE GUN FAILS TO WORK Tear Gas Forces Sur render Of Mrs. Gibson And Unidentified Man WIREPHOTO ON PAGE 3 By the Associated Press Chicago, Jan. 9 Federal agents have struck with deadly accuracy again in their war on crime this time lo kill Russell Gibson, 32-year-old suspect in the $200,000 kidnapping of Edward G.

Bremer, wealthy St. Paul banker. Trapped in a North Side apartment last night, Gibson, an ex-convict md reputed member of the abducting gang of Alvin Karpis and Arthur Barker, at tempted to shoot it out with a picked squad of sixteen agents, but his miniature machine gun jammed and he fell mortally wounded. Two bullets from the rifles of the Federal men hit their mark and one of them found a fatal spot, despite the fact that Gibson was wearing a "bullet proof" vest. Gibson died in a hospital early today.

Fired Only One Bullet Gibson attempted to flee out of the back door of the apartment, not far from the spot where John Dillinger was shot and killed last July 22, only to meet the withering fire of the agents Gibson fired as he ran. but was able to shoot but one bullet before his weapon failed him. Meanwhile, the agents had flooded the apartment with tear gas, forcing the surrender of a man and a womaii Continued On Page 10, Column 3 Strange As It Seems Chicago, Jan. 9 (U.R) National Safety Council statisticians compiling 1934 reports to emphasize warnings against carelessness revealed today that some times caution is useless. Uscher Shupack, of Brooklyn, was taken to a hospital through no fault of his own.

He swallowed a tooth brush while hiccoughing. John Bisesky sat peacefully on his front norch. A passing car flipped a stone from the pavement, killing him, A doa fell ten stories in New Jer sey. Albert Barrett's skull was frac tured by the falling animal. On the other side of the picture are the people who have all the luck.

For instance: A Los Angeles man plugged the key holes and turned on the gas. Awaiting death, he lighted a cigarette. The ex plosion blew him through a wall safe A Jersey City automobile struck the baby carriage of Philip Romano. 3 months old. Philip landed unharmed ten feet distant on two pillows which accompanied him through the air.

atf Wo "Br4ftvV; rh GOV. HARRY W. NICE COF. ALBERT C. R1TCIIIE EMANUEL GORFINE HIS ARM RAISED lo iv'j i in 3 rK NICE CALLS FOR SPEEDY AID TO NEEDY NewGovernorTakesOath And Promptly Outlines Program PLANS NEW TAXES FOR RELIEF NEEDS State Roads And Bank Failure Investigations Are Demanded (Full text of Governor Nice's inaugural address on Page 14.) From a Staff Correspondent Annapolis, Jan.

9 Gov. Harry W. Nice, installed this afternoon as the fifty-fifth Chief Executive of Maryland, lost no time going before the General Assembly and outlining, in a rapid-fire message, his views on the work that lies before the legislators and himself. He demanded speed from the Legis lature in the enactment ot financial measures for unemployment relief and told the lawmakers solemnly that their failure to act will forfeit the aid of the Federal Government Plans New Taxes He called upon the Democratic Legislature to invest him with the power to appoint a three-man investigating commission to dig into the affairs of the State departments and into the bank failures of two years tgo. He declared that the State Roads Commission "cries aloud" for an in vestigation.

He warned that unemployment of great masses of the people can no longer be viewed as a temporary or passing problem and that it must be dealt with from current revenues For this purpose, he added, new taxes are obvious, and he will shortly send new tax proposals to the Legislature He outlined an Administration plan for allotting to the State Roads Com mission annually only sufficient funds for the proper maintenance and con gtruction of highways, and for releas ing to the State Treasury any excess of gasoline-tax proceeds above the amount dedicated to road work. Wants $2 Auto Tags He pledged his administration anew to $2 automobile tags. He said that a $500,000 appropriation is a conservative estimate of the amount necessary to rehabilitate the ovster and crab Industries ot Mary land, and called for a three-man Conservation Commission to replace the present single commissioner. He told the legislators that he will seek to set up a bureau of fiscal con- Continued On Page 29, Column 4 On The INSIDE Page Good Evening 18 Anagrams 18 Aunt Ada 22 Comics Full 23 Other Comics 18,22 Culbertson on Bridge 22 Crossword Puzzle 23 fashions 20 For Film Fans 22 Financial 2(5-28 Hollywood Talkie-Talk. 18 Horoscope 18 Modish Mitzi 20 liadio 22 Society 20 Today's Short 18 Sports Uncle Wiggily 13 Weather 2 yVho's News 18 Ships Crash In N.

Fog Lifting Here 19,000 -Ton Liner Collides With Freighter City Of Norfolk Steaming In GEI1M.VN I.INKR COLLIDES with freighter in New York harbor; two ships reported missing in fog. (Weather map Page 32) Baltimore was wrapped in a shroud of fog again today. Commercial air service was still suspended. Seven vessels, including the Baltimore Mail liner City of Norfolk, now six days overdue, were delayed by fog on the bay. Last night sailings of passenger boats for Norfolk had been canceled.

But the fog shroud was weakening. according to the Weather Bureau. Rain had weakened it, washed it away in spots. It was neither as general nor as thick today as it was yesterday and Monday, according to the hureau. And conditions are expected to be even less favorable for fog tomorrow.

Dense At Cove Point Mild temperatures and easterly winds had kept the fog thick during the night and Maritime Exchange observers to day reported it still dense at Cove Point and Cap Henry. In the Baltimore area, however, the mist appeared to be breaking away. The City of Norfolk, with nineteen restless, impatient passengers from Continued On Page 4, Column 4) KIDNAP TRIO FREES INDIANA COLLEGIAN Thrown From Car In Chicago, Family Denies Paying $50,000 Ransom Chicago. Jan. 9 im Allen C.

Bnm- berger. 21 -year-old college student from Hammond, Ind was released early today by a trio of kidnappers who forced him. he told police, to write a ransom note to his father de manding $50,000. The youth told police, shortly after he was tossed from an auto near the Federal building, that he had been more than forty-eight hours in captivity. He said he thought his father, Attorney Lowden Bomberger, paid the ransom.

His family, however, and Harold Nathan, of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, denied it. Department of Justice agents were called into the case after young Bom- berger had been kidnapped last Sun day night in Crowfordsville, where he attends Wabash College. Young Bombergcr said there were tvvo men and a woman in the gang and that he would be able to identify one of the men. They seized him, he said, after they had pulled their car alongside him as he walked on a Crawfords- ville street and asked if he wanted a ride. After being bound and gagged.

Bom- berger said, he was driven to a bungalow, which he believed was in Indian apolis, where he said he was forced to write the note. Young Bombergcr said his captors held him prisoner at the bungalow for only about twenty minutes and then drove him to another house, which later proved to be somewhere in Chicago. Conferences R. Barklcy before the house of American Indus try today was the burning issue of price-fixing. Undue Profits Charged Among the arguments of the critics of price-fixing, whether direct or indi rect, are charges that industry has taken advantage of the privilege to fix prices on the production costs of the least efficient units In each line, there by raising profits unduly for the more efficient.

It also said that "open price" pro visions have led to uiform bids, at high Continued On Paga 2, Column 6 CONDON SAYS PRISONER GOT RANSOM CASH Doctor Tells Of Hour's Talk With "John" In Cemetery ASSERTS DEFENDANT IS THE SAME MAN Defense Insinuates Wit ness Is Involved Himself; Asks Mistrial Flemington, N. Jan. 9 (U.R) Lawyers for Bruno Richard llauutniann ripped into (he story told on the witness aland today by Dr. John F. Condon by insinuating himself was involved in the Lindbergh kidnapping.

Defense counsel later moved for a mistrial in (he case heratise of a remark which Attorney-General David T. Wi-lentz made lo a juror, but the motion was denied. Edward J. Keilly, defense counsel, later and in connection with another phase of the case, shot a sizzling question, 'How-could you know that if you were not in (he kidnap conspiracy." at Dr. Condon.

Dr. Condon had been discussing Henry (Red) Johnson and Rcilly asked if he knew Johnson telephoned Hetty Cow (he night of the kidnapping. "I knew (hat on the night of (he kidnapping" Condon began hen Rcilly broke in ith his challenge. Condon then said he had misunderstood (he query. Associated Press.

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(Jafsie) Condon glared at Bruno Richard Hauplmann in murder court today and said he was the "John" who negotiated for and received the $50,000 Lindbergh ransom. The elderly Bronx educator had been on the stand only a few minutes when he waved an extended finger toward the prosecutor who questioned him and said: "'John' is Bruno Richard Haupt-mann." Hauptmann Glares The prisoner, accused of kidnapping and murdering Baby Charles Augustus Lindbergh, three years ago. glared back at the witness, then averted his face. He related in detail the first meeting with the then mysterious "John," when the two talked for an hour in Van Cortlandt Park, across the street from Woodlawn Cemetery. He said "John" was Hauptmann, and that he asked at that first rendezvous: "Will 1 burn if the baby is dead?" Also, he testified, the man declared: "1 am only go-betWjden." 'How am I to know that 1 am talk ing to the right Dr.

Condon testified he asked "John." "The baby was held in the crib by safety pins' John said that," Jafsit continued. Pleaded With Him He related that he pleaded with the man. calling upon him to ponder what his mother would think of his actions, and offered to give him an overcoat because his own seemed thin. "He coughed," said Jafsie. "It was what they call a hollow cough." The two of them sat on a bench near a shack in the park as they talked, "Jjhn" claiming to be only the emissary for others and expressing fear the leader "would smack me up," assuring the aged educator Mrs.

Lindbergh would get her baby back. The baby then lay dead In woods near Hopewell. Jafsie related that when "John" coughed he (Jafsie) remarked to him: "The inroads of pulmonary diseas seem to start: let me go over and get you some medicine." Defense Plant The defense is expected to seize upon the cough and the remark to bear out a contention that "John" was not Hauptmann. but lsadore Fisch, who died of tuberculosis in Germany. Hauptmann claims that Lindbergh Continued On P8 IS.ColumnJJ JUDGE CARROLL T.

BOND HARRY Y. the Senate chamber. KENTUCKIAN KILLS SEVEN AND HIMSELF George Collett Takes Own Life After Murdering Wife, Relatives And Neighbors tBy the Associated Pressl Mount Vernon, Jan. 9 George Collett, who went berserk during the night and shot to death seven persons, killed himself today rather than surrender to a posse. Collett killed his wife and four of her family, then killed two other persons and wounded an eighth before making a frantic effort to escape from the Copper Creek community.

A family quarrel over land was blamed at Sheriff D. Clark's office for the killing of Mrs. Collett's kin. Officers believed that the other two killings were due to attempts to block Continued On Pagi 2, Column 4 pledge allegiance to the State of Maryland, Mr. Nice is graph in the act ot becoming Governor.

He subscribed to the oath before Chief Judge Bond in a packed Senate chamber. The lower picture shows the new and retiring Governors taking the walk from the Governor Mansion that Crowd Stands To Cheer Nice Inaugural 2,000 Fill Hall For Start NICE shown in the upper pholo- DECIDES FOR CANADA IN I'M ALONE SINKING Commission Holds U. S. Should Apologize And Pay Do-minion $25,000 lAtsociated Prem. Copyright, 19351 Washington, Jan.

9 The United States-Canadian commission to arbitrate the controversy resulting from the "sinking of the rum runner I'm Alone off the Louisiana coast In 1929 held today that the United States should apologize for sinking the vessel and should pay Canada $25,000 as compeasation. The decision was given by Justice Van Dcvanter of the United States Supreme Court and Chief Justice Dufl of Canada. Claimed $386,000 Damages In the long-drawn-out case, Canada had claimed damages of $386,000. The commission reported today that Continued On Pag 6 ended at the rostrum of In Rain M. O'Neill The Evening Sun the city and thousands of unidentified plain citizens.

Mr. Nice quickly ran through the remainder of the inaugural program. He retired to the Executive Offices, accompanied by Mr. Ritchie, and appointed Thomas Dawson, of Rockville, to succeed David C. Wincbrenner 3d as Secretary of State.

He then went to the chamber of the House of Delegates and launched into his inaugural address. Crowd Stands In Rain A demonstration delayed the start of the speech for a minute, and staccato outbursts of applause interrupted it at intervals. The address was carried by amplifiers to standees unable to crowd into the State House, who Mood in an intermittent fall of rain to hear it. Following the address, Governor Continued On Page Column 1 By Thomas Staff Correspondent Annapolis, Jan. 9 Harry Whinna Nice became Governor of Maryland at one minute past noon today amid a demonstration that matched for noise, enthusiasm and display the outstanding inaugurals of the past.

At exactly one minute after the noon hour, Mr. Nice affixed his signature to the testbook of Governors preserved by the Court of Appeals and at that minute replaced Albert Cabell Ritchie as the Chief Executive of the State. Mr. Ritchie looked on while his successor completed the formalities of Inking over the office Mr. Ritchie held for fifteen years-longest in the history of the State.

Thousands See Ceremony Others wlio watched or sought places from which to watch the ceremony included all the high officers of the State, representatives of all the counties mi Of NRA By Frederick Washington, Jan. 9-The NRA as a recovery measure may be dead or dying, as some believe, but it managed today to pack more than 2,000 intent business men into the Commerce Department's great auditorium for an experience meeting reminiscent in size of its first grand conclaves of nearly two years ago. Today's hearing was the first of a series of mutual heart searchings "with respect to the functioning of our industrial system under codes, and the relation of the Government thereto." And the particular subject 's.