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rr? THE WEATHER Mostly clear and continued warm tonight; Tuesday pertly cloudy and continued trorm. Pruned report en Fsge 23 EVENING UN 10) Complete Markets 210,917 1'AID ClHCUl-ATJON JULX 302,520 un dat HALTIMOHE, MONDAY. AUGUST 15, 193S EntareA eoond-e)aw mtttei Btltlmore Fwtoffioe 2G MY ASKS COURT TO DISMISS SEC COMPLAIN! WITHOUT HEARING ON U.S. CHARGES Chesnut, However, Permits SEC To Present i Testimony On Allegations Of Fraudulent Practices 4 I. i A i XI i i 1 i i xy I I CtW ft i 7 l' 'i i Attorneys Tell Judge That Lawson Has Closed Office, Paid Creditors, And Quit Business MISS CUBA OVERMAN ONE POINT LANDING Miss Overman, flying over Washington vvilh two passengers, saw another plane whose pilot was waving a wheel in her direction.

Miss Overman, an amateur pilot, got the idea. It was her wheel, lost in midair. liut she brought her biplane down. safely, without injury to herself or passengers. (Story on Page 3.) GEORGE CITES ISSUE OF STATE ELECTION RIGHTS Says Roosevelt Raised It In "Second March Through Georgia" Demands People Be Al lowed To Pick Their Own Candidates Sees Goldsborough Washington, Aug.

15 President Roosevelt arranged a conference today with Representative T. Alan Goldsborough possibly to talk over the Maryland political situation. There has been some speculation that Mr. Roosevelt might indicate his wishc in the Maryland Senatorial primary, in which Senator Millard E. Ty dings is seeking renomination against Representative David J.

Lewis. Tydings has been a frequent opponent of Administration measures. Lewis calls himself a "one hundred per cent. New Dealer." IBy the Associated Pressl Waycrosse, Aug. 15 Senator Walter F.

George said today President Roosevelt's efforts to unscai him made the great issue of the Gergia campaign the question whether the people of this or any other State are "capable of choosing their own servants." "We answered that question once when Federal bayonets stood guard over ballot boxes," he said, amid cheers from a crowd at the auditorium of this tobacco belt city. He made another reference to the war between the States with a description of Mr. Roosevelt's Barnes-ville appearance as "the second march through Georgia." 'Then (Sherman's) It was at least the aftermath of war." Calls It "Uneven Ccntest" Senator George trmed his almost unprecedented conflict with his President and party leader an "uneven contest because we have given to our President enormous powers." "But I have no fear," he said, referring to his race with Lawrence S. Camp, Roosevelt-indorsed New Dealer, who is one of his three opponents. Described by Mr.

Roosevelt as out of touch with "broad objectives of the party and the Government," the Senator declared he had supported "most of the major reform measures of the past six years." As To Tom Corcoran "I want to pause long enough to make it plain that I haven't taken the command of Dr. C. H. Foreman, the interracial representative in our Interior Department, and if fy return to the Senate depends upon the approval of Tom Corcoran, Benny Cohen and Dr. C.

H. Foreman or Drfl Marvin Mclntyre, I don't want to go back to the Senate, he added. "I wear as a badge of honor and will wear it to tho end of my days the condemnation of the Communist party at its tenth annual convention in May of this year. "I wear as a bade of honor the condemnation of labor's non-partisan league so called that Communist group of John L. Lewis." Ho charged the head of the Nonpartisan League "demanded'' he vote Continued On Page 4, Column 3 Vol.

57 MERCURY TAKES ANOTHER JUMP; 1 PROSTRATED BureauExpectsNewHigh, With No Immediate Relief In Sight Victim Of Heat Collapses On Shirley Avenue Sidewalk With one heat prostration reported today as Baltimore's forenoon temper atuxe rose faster than on any othei day so far this summer, the Weather Bureau forecast the hottest day of the season. The mercury hit 95 degrees shortly after noon. Ervin Forscheimer, 35, of 2435 Shir ley avenue, was the first victim of the early morning heat. Collapses On Street Leaving his home for work shortly before 8 o'clock, when the mercury staod at 84 degrees, he collapsed to the sidewalk before he had Rone more than a block, end was taken to the University Hospital in a municipal ambulance. He was treated for heat prostration and lacerations received when he fell, police said.

The forecast for today and tonight cabled for the mercury to hit 93 de- -s dr better, with mostly clear skies continuing into the night According to the bureeu, the minimum temperatures tonight will remain high. 72 degrees being xpected in the suburbs and 73 in the center of the city. Tomorrow will be partly cloudy and continued warm with moderate winds. mas'Jy from the southwest. Hit 94 Before Noom From a minimum early today of 76 cegrres, registered from 3 until 6 A.

the mercury began to rise rapidly. By 7 o'clock it had reached 80. by 8 o'clock, 84 degrees; by 9 o'clock, 90 degrees, and at 10 A. M. the level stood at 54 degrees.

After a brief drop to S3, the temperature got going again and reached the 95-degree figure. Although the city was due to feel plenty cf discomfort during the day, the bureau officials reported that the humidity was 10 per cent, below the normal this morning, and that it probably ould cot get much higher. Wind From Southwest The wariu weather, it was said, I being blown into the city by hot southwest wuiis coming from an area which yesterday haJ a heat "snap." This Is the section from the north-central portions cf the country southward to the Gulf States. The winds are being induced, the Eureau said, by an area of high pressure cow central over the South Atlantic States in conjunction with a low-pressure area over the northern part of the United States. On The INSIDE I'afe Another Eve 10 Anagrams 7 Aunt Ada 8 Comics 12 Cross-Word Puzzle.

17 Financial 20-22 For Bridge Fans 17 For Film Fans 17 Hollywood Talkie-Talk. 17 Horoscope 17 Magazine 17 Maryland, My Maryland 7 Picture Page. 11 Radio 8 Society 10 Sports 18-P.) Today's Short 17 Uncle Wiggily 11 Weather 25 Woman's Page 16 Your Health 5 Race Results and entries will be found in this edition On Page 19 Pages 2 Cents journal entry showed a payment of more than from the Lawson firm to the other company. The witness, Wilson, could not explain the payment. Defense attorneys stated that bookkeepers subsequently would give thm explanation for uch entries.

The auditor then was asked whether records which showed the account of a woman customer of the brokerage firm to be closed actually was paid by accepting a second mortgage on a farm. Th witness responded that the detailj had not been within his knowledge, but that the account had been settled. Insolvency Charged During the cross-examination SEC attorneys claimed the right to go into all both of Lawson individually and his firm, saying to t'n court: "We charge tha William P. Lawson "individually is insolvent. This witness says the books show ths firm has paid ail its debts and that tho individual apparently has advanced the money, but we are charging Wi'-Contlnued On Page 1J Urges House Group S.

Agencies Probe U. Frey Makes Suggestion William P. -Lawson, self -suspended Police Commissioner, today lost a fifrht to prevent taking of testimony before United Slates Judge W. Calvin Chesnut in the Federal Court on the Securities and Exchange Commission's suit to enjoin him, both individually and trading as William P. Lawson from allegedly fraudulent brokerage practices.

Developments followed swiftly in the proceedings: 1. Lawson 's attorneys presented a motion to dismiss the suit, claiming the whole proceedings would be unnecessary. They announced that Lawson business had been liquidated and creditors paid; and further told the court that Lawson had closed his office and had no intention of reengaging in the slock brokerage business, 2. Leonard Weinberg, of Lawson 's counsel, stated "For the purposes of this case, we are willing to stipulate that the Government need not put on any witnesses to support its charges." 3. Judge Chesnut ruled that the motion presented by the defense was not a proper motion to dismiss, and that the Government might present evidence to support its charges.

4. SEC attorneys announced that while they understood creditors had been paid, one of the largest had accepted a second mortgage and others had accepted Mr. Lawson 's personal promissory notes. 5. SEC Investigator A.

A. Eggolt summarized the condition of the Lawson firm from his investigations of its records, and stated that these records showed the firm had sold securities without authorization from the owners, and in one case had called upon a customer (Police Magistrate S. Ivobcrt Lcvinson) for additional margin after the securities upon which the. demand had been made already had been sold. 6.

"William Cook, St. Taul slrcet mortician and a customer of the firm, testified that lie had never given Lawson or his firm authority to sell or hypothecate securities bought through the firm. Mr. Cook asserted he had difficulty in getting delivery when he sold the securities later through another broker. 7.

Mr. Lcvinson testified that he had not given Lawson authority to dispose of securities without notifying him. He said during the recent liquidation of the firm he had received all the securities duo him, and $750 of $1,500 he had loaned Lawson within the past month, together with Lawson 's personal promissory note for the remainder. 8. SEC attorneys rested their case, stating they "did not feel it necessary to prolong the proceedings," and did not call any of the ten other customers available as witnesses.

9. Defense counsel called Frank L. Wilson to the stand. Wilson, an auditor and accountant employed by counsel to advise in the liquidation of the firm, testified that all creditors had been paid, all rents paid, stock exchange wires surrendered and employes paid off. The move by the defense to quash the whole proceeding Dismissed Postmaster Found Dead Pistol Bullet Through Head Ends Life Of Harry A.

Coy, 48, Of Havre De Grace Havre de Grace, Aug. 15 (A1) Postmaster Harry A. Coy, 48, was dis missed Saturday by postal inspectors for inefficiency. Today his body, a pis tol bullet through the head, was found near the Perry Point Veterans' Re habilitation Hospital. Coy, a World War veteran, was president of the local Rotary Club, a member of the Elks and past commander of an American Legion Post He had been postmaster for four years.

He was unmarried. Appointee Of Tydings During the early part of July, re ports were current in Havre de Grace that Harry A. Coy was to be removed fro mortice. At that time it was reported that Mr. McCoy, an appointee of Senator Millard A.

Tydings, was to be re moved for "cause," a postal inspector having been alleged to have entered a complaint against his administra tion. A short while after the early re ports, David J. Lewis, Mr. Tydings' opponent for the Senatorial nomina tion, is said to have made a flat stand against Mr." Coy's dismissal and re placement by a New Dealer. BRITON DIES, 2 HURT IN RAID ON VALENCIA Ship's Radio Operator Struck While Standing On Dock.

Alicante Jail Bombed Rescued Sailors Landed Gibraltar, Aug. 15 (P) A German ship today landed fourteen crew members from the French steamer Artois which sank in the western Mediterranean last night Officers of the French vessel refused to make any statement and went into conference with British authorities immediately upon landing from the German steamer Theresia Russ. Members of the crew said they believed the 439-ton Artois struck a mine, although they admitted the possibility she might have been struck by a torpedo. The Artois was en route with a general cargo from Marseille to Casablanca, French Morocco, when an explosion rocked her near midnight. She sank an hour later.

The ship had no radio. (Picture on Page 2) By the Associated Press Madrid, Aug. 15 A British vessel's radio operator was killed and two other Britons were wounded today in an Insurgent air raid on Valencia, The operator was R. A. Amery, of the British merchantman Hillfern.

He was hit while standing on the dock and died shortly after of shrapnel wounds. The injured men, neither of whom was named, were th captain and nonintervention observer aboard the British ship Frcdavore. Neither Ship Neither British ship was struck in the bombardment. Sixty bombs were dropped at Alicante, south of Valencia. Six persons v-re injured when a heavy missile exploded in the Alicante jail, causing much damage.

Two persons were killed in a raid on Villa Joyosa, north of Alicante, and two others, both women, in an Insurgent air attack on thi village of Pi-edo, near Valencia. Government dispatches said today twenty-one Insurgent warplanes had been shot down in a bitter aerial bat-tic on the Ebro front in southern Catalonia. Insurgents reported today that Government defenders were driven at bayonet point from the Pandos Mountains, south of Gandesa, endangering the Governments foothold on the west bank of the Ebro river. Capture by the Insurgents of the mountain range broke the militiamen's stranglehold on the city at which they had directed an offensive for three weeks. Only by hand-to-hand fighting were the Insurgents able to clean out the area.

Insurgent dispatches said. HITLER HIMSELF WITNESSES WAR GAMES BY ARMY Watches Maneuvers At One Of Nazis' Biggest Training Grounds Commandeering Of Public Busses Points Anew To Mobility Test Berlin Stocks Down Berlin, Aug. 15 (A?) The uncertainty of the international situation, German newspapers declared, caused another slump today on the Berlin Stock Exchange. Leading industrials lost an average of one per cent. Some drops were as great as three and one-half per cent.

Emphasis in the press on the international situation as a disturbing factor is new so far as Nazi ideology is concerned. Walther Funk, Minister of Economics, in several speeches, has taken the position that Germany was a peaceful island unaffected by events around her. IBy the Associated Press Berlin, Aug. 15 Adolf Hitler looked on today as Germany's reserve mili tary forces started extensive war ma neuvers that are to blanket virtually every part of the nation. Hitler's personal attendance was dis closed in a terse announcement which said he witnessed a military display at Jueterborg, one of Germany's largest military training grounds forty miles south of Berlin.

No details of his visit or of the maneuvers were made known. Believed Speed Demonstration Jueterbog is especially noted how ever as a training crmp for reserve officers such as will direct the first two weeks of the autumn war games for the instruction of German Army reserves, keeping them up to date on tactics and weapons. Putting the nation on a virtual wartime footing, the maneuvers apparently were a demonstration of the speed of motorized army Czech Fears Eased A Bit Dispatches from Czechoslovakia seemed to bear out the belief, which could not be confirmed here, that Britain and France last week made informal inquiries in Berlin about the nature of Germany's maneuvers. Praha reports said the two Governments hud been told that the maneuvers were without aggressive aims, which to some extent allayed Czechoslovak fears. Preparations for the two weeks of reserve training had been noted chiefly in southern Germany, clone to Czocho Slovakia and France, but they ex tended also to the districts around Berlin.

500,000 To 1,000,000 Men There were no official figures on the men participating, but military observers estimated the number at to a possible 1,000,000. Berlin citizens planning week-ends in the country found placards at suburban bus stations announcing that the regular bus service to lakes and other vacation spots had been discontinued "temporarily." It was rumored that the busses had been requisitioned by the army. Reports from Continued On Page 4, Column 5 assured my friends of my innocence. I've told them not to worry, because I'm not worrying." Pays RespecU To Dewey Of Thomas E. Dewey, the New York District Attorney who brought him to trial, Hines merely said: "He is a young man with a duty to do." Hines appeared early in the courtroom of Justice Ferdinand Pecora, of the State Supreme Court.

Half of the 300 dashed forward when Pecora said he would hear immedi-Contlnued On Page 4, Column 4 Says Government Offiqials Sponsor Collection Of Funds For Loyalist Spain Virepholo on Page 11 By the Associated Press After Dies Committeman ton tonight as being sponsored by Government officials "most of whom have admitted they are members of the League for Peace and Democracy." Aiding Loyalists This league, Mason told reporters later, is active now in collecting funds for the Loyalist cau.se in Spain. Mason did not name any of the sponsoring officials, but when Frey sug-Continued On Pag 22, Column 5 INCOME TAX RAISES HINTED BY SENATOR Apt To Be Necessary Unless Business Picks Up Soon, Says Harrison By the Associated Pressl Washington, Aug. 15 Senator Pat Harrison Miss.) said today that unless there was a pickup in bus iness bffore Congress meets it might be necessary to lower income-tax exemptions and increase the levies in the middle brackets. Harrison is chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. An upturn in business, he said, probably would increase Government revenues so that the revisions would be unnecessary.

Doubts Profits Tax Change Harrison added in an interview that he believed there would be no need of revising the 1938 undistributed profits tax "unless we have not removed the inequities and hardships that we believed we took out of the old law." He made it plain that he would oppose any return to the higher 1936 undistributed profits tax. Harrison said he thought a constitutional question would be involved In any attempt to tax Federal and State Government securities which are now tax exempt. Harrison said that in any event Congress would have to enact a tax bill at the coming session because socalled "nuisance" taxes on miscellaneous items expires in 1939. He said he believed it would be necessary to extend Continued On Page Column 4 without testimony was on the ground that Lawson already is out Washington, Aug. 15 John P.

Frey, American Federation of Labor leader, bluntly suggested today to a House committee investigating un-American activities that it direct some of its at tention to the Federal Government departments. Frey made that suggestion when Representative Noah M. Mason a member of the committee, commented on a meeting in Washing AIRLINER PLUNGES IN RIO BAY; 9 KILLED Sinks Off Rio De Janeiro; Passengers' Bodies Recovered, Others Trapped IBy the Associated Pressl Rio de Janeiro, Aug. 15 The Syndi- cato Condor flying boat Anhangah fell from low altitude into Rio de Janeiro bay today and sank, killing all nine persons aboard. Five were passengers and four were members of the crew.

None aboard the air liner was a North American. Bursts Into Flames The plane had taken off earlier, but had returned when fog was found too dense. The pilot waited for the weather to clear and then took off again. It was reported some of the passengers objected to the takeoff, fearing disaster. Fisherman said the plane was flying in a sharp circle when it plunged into the harbor, burst into flame and sank.

The bodies of the passengers were taken ashore by harbor police, but all four crewmen were imprisoned in the cabin. Officials said they feared it would be impossible to raise the flying boat. Syndicato Condor 13 an affiliate of the German Lufthansa system. Syndicato Condor and Panair do Brasil, an affiliate of Pan-American Airways, are the two main air linea of Brazil. Both operate along the coast, Syndicato Condor connecting with German planes for air mail service to Europe and Panair do Brasil with American planes for passenger and mail traffic.

Almost Half Of Hines Jury Panel Gets Excused 300 Called, 113 Talesmen Give Suitable Reasons For Not Serving Tammany Leader Says He "Can't Lose" By the Associated Press of the stock brokerage business andl that "his creditors have been paid." Mr. Weinberg asserted to Judge Ches nut that Lawson had liquidated and retired from his business in order to give his full time to his official duties as Police Commissioner. Although Frank L. Wilson, the auditor, said all customers had been paid off, the Government attorneys cros-examined him about the state of several particular accounts. The auditor admitted that when he had referred to "customers" he had not taken into consideration several sub sidiary corporations.

Records Produced Records and books of Lawson's firm were produced by Wilson and Law-son's attorneys at the request of the SEC lawyers. One particular account gone over on cross-examination was that of the Distillers Certificates, Inc That account is not closed, Wilson ad mitted, but shows that the distillert concern now owed William P. Lawson Co. $8,157.54. On July 21 Lawson's firm owed $48,145.05 to Distillers Cer tificates, but on July 30, the date of the filing of the SEC injunction suit, a New York, Aug.

15 With the vigorous assertion: "This is a political battle," James J. Hines, Tammany district leader, went to trial today on conspiracy charges growing out of the policy racket. "This is not the first political battle I have been in," said the 61-year-old politician, as he awaited the selections of a jury from a special panel of 300 veniremen. "I am going to win this battle, too. I can't lose.

"I cannot be convicted on the testimony of a bunch of squealers. I have 1.