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2i uncior the act of March 3. 1879242 Washington st BOSTON, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 21, 1939 -SIXTEEN PAGES (2) TWO CENTS Copyright, 1939, by THE GLOBE NEWSHAPEK CXJ LI 1 Ret. U.S. Pat. Off.

o) Sr c-7 7 5 The ARTISTIC COWBOY Obscene Plot Nippei Ex-Chorus Girl Willed Third of Ruppert Riches SCIIACIIT OUT IN NAZI COUP Funk as Bank Head for Credit Inflation; Aid for Jews Halted Police of Boston I Timilty Says Printed Matter tllas For Banquet Hits It As Uile, Vicious Attack -i -y II- rvY haiiaftlirliiilhimrMniM I ma iiAHKiiiminnniiw MISS ANNA LANZA OF ARLINGTON AT BOSTON ART CLUB'S BALL. Capital Pared By JOSEPH ALSOP iP I and ROBERT KINTNER Next Investigation on New Deal List WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Unless the Congressional members overrule the investigators, the monopoly committee will soon go into a fight "with its fists flying." The occasion of the committee's first show of toughness will be the insurance study. After the mild early hearings GESET.T. cf the committee, its original purpose has almost been forgotten.

It was "to explore and dramatize the concentration of wealth and economic power." Apparently the idea is that, now the committee has achieved a reasonably good press, it can get on with its dramatizing work. The officials of the securities and exchange commission in charge of the insurance study may suffer from the usual optimism of impresarios, but they promise a very "spectacular" show. One of the first points the S. E. C.

investigators hope to make is that the management of some large companies is self -perpetuating. New York" law" "provides three months before every election of officers, the management must enter a slate of its own with the state superintendent of insurance. Independent-slates may also be entered by petitions signed by 25 or more policyholders. In a large mutual company policyholders are numerous and only few hundred thousand votes are cast, and those chiefly controlled by the management. Furthermore, it is charged by investigators that company agents are used to collect proxies from policyholders.

Thus the managements of the insurance companies are to be pictured maintaining their power by tsrbeatable machine control. Having painted this picture, the investigators will go on to reveal the management's use of their power. The investment habits of a large company intimately affect the economic welfare of the whole nation. Is the Capital Parade Continued on Page 2 MISS HELEN WINTHROPE WEYANT "Col. Ruppert was an old friend of my family I don't know why he did it." Hunt Boy Messenger, Pal; $27,000 Cash, Checks Missing Youths Disappear After One Delivers Securities and Makes Collections BERLIN, Jan.

20 (A. Adolf Hitler dropped his orthodox financial pilot, Hjalmar Horace Greeley Schacht, from the presidency of the Reichsbank today and gave his post to Economics Minister Walther Funk to bring the powerful financial institution under full Nazi control. The startling breakfast-time dismissal was seen in informed quarters as a forerunner of five broad developments in German economy: 1. Acceleration of credit inflation to finance Nazi rearmament and gigantic building programs under 48-year-old Funk, a longtime Nazi. Schacht, who is 61, opposed this course.

2. Crossing off the United States as a possible source of raw materials for Germany. 3. Intensification of Germany's economic drive through the Bal- Schacbt Continued on Page 3 'PUBLIC ENEMY' HUNTINNORTH Dickson Couple Seen at Berlin and Amesbury Couple No. 1 of the crime world the midwstern desperado Benny Dickson and his 17-year-old blonde wife, Estelle eluded capture by G-men and State Troopers last night as they squirmed through traps laid for them in New Hampshire and Maine.

Satisfied that the "public enemy couple" had been seen in Berlin, N. as recently as Thursday and were still in the mountain district of the North Country, Virgil W. Peterson, head of the New England area of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, dispatched a heavily-armed corps of special agents yesterday some to the Berlin area, some into Maine. State Troopers in both Maine Public Enemies Continued on Page 11 Raft Loses His Job and $4250 a Week HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 20 (A.

Paramount movie studio officials said today George Raft's contract had been cancelled because the actor had objected so much to roles as signed to him. For some time Raft has protested being typed as a villain or even a quasi-villain. The show-down came after Raft refused to do the lead in "Magnificent Fraud." "I didn't like the story and I didn't like the set-up," said Raft He added he would freelance. Cancellation of the $4250-a-week contract, which runs until mid-February, was effective today, Paramount said. Police Commissioner Joseph F.

Timilty last night declared that Boston police, with the seizure of 300 allegedly obscene drawings, had intercepted a "vicious and obscene" attack upon Presidant Franklin D. Roosevelt. Asserting that the perpetrators would be shot if the offense occurred in a dictator-ruled country, the Police Commissioner said he has ordered officers to present the matter to the courts today. The cards, allegedly intended for distribution at a banquet held in Boston last night, were seized in an Oliver-st. printing plant by Detectives Stanley Slack and William Crowley, acting under direct orders of the commissioner.

The detectives also took into custody the foreman of the plant, against whom a warrant will be sought in court today, charging the printing of obscene matter. If the court deems advisable, warrants will also be sought against three officials of the printing firm, the commissioner said. Timilty Acts on Tip Commissioner Timilty received personal information of the printing of the slanderous cartoons and ordered their seizure. They were stacked, ready for wrapping and delivery, when. the detectives en tered the printing plant, the com missioner said.

The printed cards, of postcard size, are captioned "The Nude Deal." On the right, fleeing in frantic fear, is an unshaven, unclad, poorly-nourished figure. labeled "American Business Man." "American Business Man" is looking back over his shoulder at a jacketless, grinning, unmistakable caricature of President Roosevelt, who is in close pursuit, bearing a huge screwdriver in his hands. The President is quoted as saying: "Just a minute, my good neighbor. I need another term to finish the job." Other embellishments of. the drawing are obscene and preclude their being described in public print.

Sees Attack as Vicious In an indignant statement, issued to the press last night. Commissioner Timilty said: "With the seizure of several hundred printed cartoons, the Boston police have intercepted what I believe to be one of the most vicious and obscene attacks ever made on a President of the United States. "I would not tolerate the insinua-Seizure Continued on Page. 9 "MR. QUORUM" House Page Boy Inquires If He Is Present DES MOINES, Jan.

20 (A. Those six years "out of power" have played havoc with the political terminology of Iowa's younger generation of Republicans. A. C. Gustafson, chief clerk of the state's predominately Republican House of Representatives, sent a page boy to a House committee to see if a quorum was present.

The boy stunned the committee chairman by asking: "Is Mr. Quorum here?" W. P. A. ATTACKS AIRED INSENATE Hopkins Hearing Evokes Eloquent Walsh Plea THE DAY IN WASHINGTON Senate subcommittee recommends that relief fund be held at 0G0 figure proposed by -House Page W.

P. A. bitterly attacked as Hopkins' confirmation is debated in Senate; Walsh attacks abuses. President indorses legislation authorizing naval improvements at Guam. Page By CHARLES S.

GROVES WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Speculation gave way to certainty today concerning the eventual confirmation of Harry L. Hopkins, as Secretary of Commerce, when critics of his administration of W. P. A.

and personal foes rose in the Senate to "announce they would vote for confirmation. The pledges, however, were couched in terms eloquently scathing as Senator after Senator fired oratorical indictments charging politics in relief, while Hopkins was head of W. P. A. personal foes who pledged their votes were Senator Gillette of Iowa, whose renomination Hopkins specifically opposed, and Senator Tydings of Maryland, who was singled out by President Roosevelt for defeat in the last election.

Only one Senator spoke deiense oi nopKins, senaior Norris, of Nebraska. It remained for Massachusetts Senior Senator, David I. Walsh, to present the most eloquent attack on politics in relief, when he declared that if the Constitution permitted he would make it a "treasonable offense" to play politics with such funds. The Bay State Senator, how ever, refrained from personal criticism of Mr. Hopkins, concern ing himself chiefly with a warning against the violation of the integrity of the elective processes.

Norris Blames Colleagues Norris, whose independence is so well-established, voiced his defense of Hopkins with a sweeping gesture. Squarely facing the Democratic side of the Upper Chamber, he charged that the Senate had refused to take politics out of relief and touched upon the Senate's rejection last year of amendments forbidding political activity in W. P. A. "It does not become us now to condemn somebody who has followed the law we enacted," he said.

"I think Mr. Hopkins had one of the most "difficult places ever given to a human being. We strangled him. We refuse'd to put anything in the law to keep politics out. He'd be justified in letting politics creep in, although I don't think he did." Hopkins Continued on Page 2 down a big cat such as the animal Is supposed to be, despite suggestions that night hunting might offer advantages.

Two previous expeditions in the Buckingham sec tion have failed to produce results. Several times in recent weeks. residents here have reported heai ing "unusual noises." and in a few instances a "strange animal" in the section. Warden John H. Smith tonight absolved the strange beast of any suspicion in connection with the killing of a dog here Wednesday night.

The warden said the do had been shot Walter B. Sestro. George Cavanna and Arnold Johnson of Hopewell will hunt the glawackus or not game wardens will take part in an organized search depends on the report of Cam Warden John Smith of Manchester, who has been examining the woods around the end of the blood trail left by a dog believed a victim of the beast. Lieut. Paul Luvin of the Stat Police barracks in Hartford denied today reports State Police were go ing to hunt the animal.

WALSH IN MOVE TO SETTLE Heads Home to Present -Flood-Plan to-Aiken Special Dispatch to the Globe WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 Sen ator David I. Walsh, left here tonight for his home in Clinton, where over the week-end he hopes to confer with Gov. Aiken of Vermont and Gov. Murphy of New Hampshire in a determined effort to end Ver mont's quarrel with the Federal Government over the issue of land-taking in connection with the flood control program.

When the Senator returns here Tuesday he hopes to have a plan to present to Secretary of War Woodring that will contain a modification of the compromise proposal that has been under consideration. The departure of Senator Walsh is expected to put off Flood Control Continued on Page 2 latter sum was approved today by the Senate sub-committee. Byrnes Proposes Safeguards At the instance of Senator Byrnes, of So Carolina, however, the sub-committee added an amendment requiring that: The number of relief workers shall not be reduced by more than 5 percent Deiore Apm l. That, regardless of prior restrictions, W- P. A.

mav annortinn th 000,000 over the period between Fh 7 and Jun 30 as it sepa fit. "As it sees fit" is a routine pro vision to get around ine wooarum amendment the original relief Hill whirh trnvems this bill. That amendment provided that all re lief funds must te allocated evenly month bv month.) That if an emergency arises, President Roosevelt may submit a re- Relief Continued on Page 2 BOW Helen Weyant Amazed at News She Often Was His Hostess NEW YORK, Jan. 20 A. One-of- the hundreds of smalltown girls who came to New York in 1920 dreaming of theatrical fame and fortune today was given the real-life role of an heiress to one-third of the vast fortune left by the multi-millionaire bachelor, Col.

Jacob Ruppert. She is Miss Helen Winthrope Weyant, native of Winthrop, a striking brunette in her late thirties, who appeared as a chorus girl in several Broadway productions under the name of Winthrope Wayne. In addition to an outright bequest of $300,000 she will receive one-third of the Ruppert baseball, brewing and building fortune estimated variously at from $30,000,000 to Unofficial estimates indicated Federal and state taxes might reduce the estate to about Col. Ruppert's will, admitted to probate today, named two nieces, Helen Ruppert Silleck (Mrs. Joseph Holleran) and Ruth Rita Silleck (Mrs.

J. Basil McGuire), both of Greenwich, as the other major beneficiaries. The Lenox Hill Hospital was bequeathed $150,000 and the Colonel's collection of art objects goes to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ruppert Will Continued on Page 9 38 UNDER ARREST IN NORWOOD RAID i Police Surprise Betting Spot on Dewing Order Speclml Dispatch to the fllobe NORWOOD, Jan. 20-Acting on orders of Dist.

Atty. Edmund R. Dewing, a detail of State Police from the Framihgham and Wrentham barracks' descended on this town tonight and arrested 38 persons in a raid on a betting establishment on Broadway. Dewing said the place had been under the surveillance of Lieut. William H.

Delay of his office for the last month after many women had complained that their husbands were losing their pay there, the financial situa tion of a number of families was becoming desperate as a result. House Relief Slash Is Backed But Winter Aid Gets No Cut DRESS AS MEMBERS OF THE OPPOSITE SEX More Than 200 Attend Annual Artists' Ball More than 200 members and guests of the Boston Art Club oldest art club in the country attended its annual Artists' Ball last night at the Boston Muesum of Modern Art, 270 Dartmouth The artists and their guests attended dressed as members of the opposite sex, but from that point on their artistic temperament and originality were given full play. Several fine portraits were given away as first and second prizes for best costumes. Prize-winner for men was S. John Hilliard, vice pres ident of the club, attired as an Ha waiian: for women, Mrs.

James C. Drybread won a portrait for her bell-hop's get-up. Miss Anna Lanza of Arlington appeared in a cowboy costume, complete with six-shooter. Harold A. Landy, member of the club's board of governors, was mas ter of ceremonies.

Others present included the president, Eugene P. Carver Edward Pritchard and Miss Gladys Pitcher, members of the board of governors; Mr. and Mrs, Harold Rotenberg, Mr. and Mrs. John Thome, Mrs.

Elizabeth Lamp-son and Misses Anne Hilliard and Mary Evangeline Walker. THREATS TO FAMILY LASTED TWO YEARS Keene Mystery Bared Wrights Were. Targets KEENE, N. Jan. 20 One of the wealthiest and best-liked families in the city has been the target of kidnap and extortion notes for almost two years, it was disclosed today.

The family, that of Mr. and Mrs, John P. Wright, Upper Court has been kept in an almost perpetual state of terror by notes, phone calls and even a volley of bullets, recently fired at the side of the house, while G-men and local authorities strove in vain to uncover the identity of the threateners. Driven frantic by the continual threats, Wright, proprietor of a large silver polish manufacturing company and a trustee of the Keene Savings Bank, last tall, fled to Beemuda with his wife and two children, John, 9, and Thomas, 7, returning to Keene last Thanksgiving. Children Still Guarded With the family's return, however, a new series oi um nc Threat Continued on Page 1 Two 18-vear-old East Boston boys were hunted by Boston police last night following the disappearance of one, a trusted and bonded messenger, with more than $27,000 in cash and checks, the property of the F.

L. Putnam investment and securities firm, 77 Franklin Boston. The missing youths are George E. Derome of 104 Saratoga the messenger, and Joseph Enos of 105 Marion with whom Derome was last seen in front of the lat-ter's home. Enos, who police said told his mother he was going to Chelsea with Dercme, may be unaware of the hunt for his companion.

Has Handled Large Sums Derome, who for the past year has handled large amounts of money and securities on what are called "street deliveries," left Putnam's early yesterday afternoon to deliver bonds valued at $23,000 to a downtown company. In addition, he had checks from the cash drawer totaling $586.12, which he was to cash. He made the delivery of the bonds and received two certified checks, one for $23,000 and a second for $152 made to the order of the Putnam company. On the way, officials said they learned, he cashed the checks for $586.12, Instead of returning to the Investment firm's office, Derome allegedly went to the State-st. office of the messenger company" by which he is employed, said his sister was ill at a hospital and asked to be ex-Messenger Continued on Page 2 GUIDE TO FEATURES Books 2 Editorials .....10 Burgess Financial ....4.5 Boake Carter 16 Commercial .5 Obituaries ....11 Cross-Word 3 por of Boston 5 Culbertson Radio 16 Death Notices .15) Serial Story ..11 Dr Wiggam 15 i Sports Page 2 -Nardini fined in hit-run case.

Page 3 Birthdav Ball plans. Dismissal of Schacht may indicate early German attack on Western Powers, says Pertinax. Teachers' Federation dinner. Tage 8 News of Greater Boston churches. Community Fund campaign.

Tage 9 Spanish Insurgents capture key towns outside Barcelona. rage 11 "Jug" McSpaden defeats two favorites in 'Frisco golf. Tage 12 School hockey. Roxbury Memorial wins triangular meet; Latin, second; Commerce, third. Page 13 Joan Tozzer's showing makes her favorite to retain national skating title.

American League schedule, Paul II. Shannon is dead. 'Today's Globe Contents' WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 (A. A reduction in relief funds was approved today by a Senate appropriations sub-committee, but with an added proviso that work relief rolls shall be maintained almost intact through the Winter months.

This action, intended as a compromise, was nevertheless followed by definite indications that it had served, if anything, to sharpen the controversy over how much shall be made available for W. P. A. for the remainder of the fiscal year. President Roosevelt asked for $875,000,000.

The House, with a coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats in command, cut the figure to $725,000,000. The Strange, Bloodthirsty Beast Hunted in Connecticut Woods Page 1 Cartoons smearing F. D. seized here; Timilty charges vile plot Hitler dismisses Schacht from Reichsbank. appoints Funk for credit inflation.

Former chorus girl is left third of Col. Ruppert's vast fortune. Two boys hunted; $27,000 missing. Benny Dickson and bride sought as "public enemies" in New Hampshire and Maine. Police raiders seize 38 at Norwood.

Boston Artists' balL Page 2 Governor ponders budget problem and flood control issue. DUMBBELLS MO. YOU LOOK ACT i-r i i 4 1 VlAl I 4 GREAT ATTRACTIONS All Worth While Be sure to read the Rotogravure, Comic, Magazine and Editorial sections of tomorrow's Sunday Globe. Tell your neighbors about the Globe. Advise them to make it their Boston paper.

Advise them to read and use its advertising columns. GLASTONBURY, Jan. 20 (A. Hunters hopeful of bagging Glastonbury's mysterious wild beast, called glawackus for want of definite identification, expect to go forth again tomorrow on the "jungle" trail. County Game Warden Charles Allshouse said today that daytime afforded the best chance of bringing THE WEATHER Forecast for Boston and Vicinity: Saturday increas-i cloudiness with slowly rising temperature followed by light snow in afternoon and night and gentle variable winds becoming southeast or south.

Sunday cloudy followed by rain or snow, much colder by Monday. Weather Report on Pao 9 Tide and Almanac Sack Pag SNOW Tomorrow's Sunday Globe Order your copy today. Be sure to read the advertisements in tomorrow's Sunday Globe. Advertisements may be ordered at the Globe Office or by telephone. Call LAFayette 2000.

Jump to Ground The raiding squad led by Lieuts. Delay and John P. Sullivan of the Framingham barracks, Corp. Henry Eliason and Sergt. Joseph Burke of the Concord and Framingham barracks, respectively, battered down the front door of the large two-story Raid Continued on Page 3.