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of i (Uie Irnnkhju Citizen WEATHER INDICATIONS Partly Cloudy and Warmer Tonight; Showers To-morrow FINAL LATEST LOCAL NEWS VOL. LXXXXVIIL, NO. 99. TTIE BROOKLYN CITIZEN, SATURDAY, APRIL 25, 1936. 16 PAGES.

PRICE TWO CENTS Todd Staff Scrutinizes Suicide Detective's Data RAiBTROLiEY Six More Indictments Due lnWendel Case Next Week; The Record Bill Butler, Ex-boxer, Who Aspire to Congress, Says That Tuomey Backs Him Hardly in Character 1 August Tribunal Has Feathered Visitor. For Drukman Bribe Link Young Parker Eludes Jlunt Woman Shot by Cop Irving T. Bush Charges Collusion in Terminal Reorganization Battle Grand Jury Here Expected t-o Name New Jersey Officials in Kidnap Plot Geoghan Checks on Elder Parker as Eight States Seek Son. Chase Near Death Investigation UpeilS Irving T. president of the Bush Terminal Com- Mrs.

iviargarei wiggens, wue oi a rsrooKiyn department store buyer, was shot in the head early today by one of two Nassau County detectives who her husband believed were hold-up men. At Flushing Hospital, where the--. pany, in an affidavit todav on file in Brooklyn Jrederal yourt, th proper and collusive agreement" 'exists between former Supreme Court Justice James L. an hiclen Walter Randall, who served as trustees and receiver; the attempted ionizations of the Terminal Company and the Preferred Stockholders Committee of the Bush Terminal Buildinjrs Company, headed by Charles Bedford. Mr affidavit was smbmired KENTUCKY TURF LICENSE DENIED Men Thrown from Machine on Way to Sheepshead Bay Blaze Four fire-fighters were taken to Coney Island Hospital with severe injuries this morning when a fire truck of Engine Company No.

24f, crashed into a trolley car at Ocean and Voorhies avenue, while answer-j ing a single alarm blaze in the Gerrittsen Beach area. The four firemen tossed from the truck were' Lieut. Howard Haynes and Firemen John Dos- cher, James Mullin and John Kee- nan All were suffering from possi- ble Internal injuries and dislocated shoulders. Keenan sustained pos- sibie dislocated ribs. richer" wastrglgw" uZ Voorhies avenue when it side swiped a trolley going South on Ocean avenue.

The driver lost con trol and the truck mounted the lawn of the Methodist Episcopal iChurch of'Sheepshead Bay, tossing the firefighters to the ground. The truck remained in an upright position. The blaze was in a two-family house at No. 2783 East Sixteenth street. AWAIT SPEECH BY ROOSEVELT HERETO-NIGHT President Expected to Answer Al Smith in Keynote Address WASHINGTON, April 25.

(U.PJ President Roosevelt invades the bailiwick of Alfred E. Smith and Tammany Hall to-night for what may be the major speech of the pre-convention phase of the New Deal's campaign for re-election. Mr. Roosevlt addresses the National Democratic Club. His voice will be heard throughout the nation on both radio networks.

It was reported that he had been advised to make his speech specifically political, and many believed he would answer the sharp criticism of his erstwhile political and personal' friend, "Al" Smith. The President's speech signalized a quickening of the New Deal campaign. The Democratic National Committee meets in Philadelphia to-day to select a keynote speaker and a permanent chairman for the party's June convention. It has been reported that Senator Alben W. Berkley, Ky would be the keynoter and Senator Joseph Kobinson, the permanent chairman.

Although White House attaches declined to give any hint of the nature of Mr. Roosevelt's address, the impression was left that it will be couched in direct and forceful language, designed to be a "real campaign rouser." The address comes at a time when interest in the national campaigns Is mounting to a higher pitch. Republicans continued their bombardment of the New Deal, indicative of the "big push" to come after the June 9th Cleveland National Convention. Advises Teachers SALT LAKE CITY, April 25 (UFJ. Superintendent L.

John Nuttall, Instructed tenrhura in th Kail vn.iM i v. aPrell a bov he ll become President" he said "and the odds are he'll be disappointed and become a cynic instead." Havana Gunmen Kill Two HAVANA, April 25 UP. Gunmen Bring sawed-off shotguns from aft automobile killed Policeman Patricio Adacio sad an unidentified man early to-day and gravely wounded Lieutenant Ramon Pina of the army. It was believed the attack was in revenge for recent killings of political prisoners. One of the finest men we know is a candidate to succeed the late Steve Rudd as Congressman from the Ninth Congressional District He is Bill Butler, former boxer and a Brooklyn Democrat of the old school.

William J. Butler, to give 'him his full name, was born here sixty years ago and now lives at No. 72 Palmetto street. Bill is an elec tion district captain for Jim Tuomey, leader of the Twentieth Assembly having served there in that capacity for more than a quarter of a century. Prior to that he was a captain for fifteen years in the Sixth A.

D. "Jim Tuomey is In my corner for Steve Rudd's job," Bill told us. "After all, Steve came from his district, so the place should go to another Tuomoy constituent." The Ninth Congressional District embraces the Twentieth and Twenty second Assembly Districts in Brooklyn and a part of Queens. The Congressional place will be contested for in the September primaries. But wiJfBUt wishing to gainsay Mr.

Butler, wc should judge that it would be more in character for Jim Tourney to have withheld endorsing anyone for the nomination up to the present. There will bo no interim election for the Rudd place, and as a consequence, Tuomey, Postmaster Frank Sinnott, County Leader Frank Kelly and others concerned will have most of the summer to cogitate, They certainly will refuse to be hurried. Besides, there are several can- uiutvic? iur mo puai, wuum nm Butler might consider extremely formidable. Among them are Roy Rudd, youngest son of the late Congressman; Dr. 'Walter O'Connell, son of the late Rep.

Dave O'Connell, who was Rudd's predecessor, and Harry Eppig, sdon of the old brewing family. Dove of Peace Attorney Murray Bernsilbcr tells thii one on himself. He was heatedly arguing a motion before the Appellate Division recently, when the court received a strange and unexpected visitor. The attorney had just reached his greatest oratorical height and was fervently pounding home his point, when in through the open window flew one of the pigeons which Inhabit the vicinity of Borough Hall. Immediately the great tension due to the heat of the lawyer's arguing relaxed.

There was a pause as all watched feathered animal, and then an almost silent chuckle spread over the court. 'The Dove of Peace," somebody murmured, pointing to the almost white bird. Bernsilber continued his argument after the bird had departed, but In a much calmer, much less vigorous manner. Ready to Flee ROME, April 25 (UR). Dispatches from Djibouti, French Somaliland, alleged to-day that household goods from the imperial palace at Adis Ababa, including the Empress's personal belongings, furniture, fur rugs and the Imperial regalia, had arrived there by railway.

Remember to Put Clocks Hour Ahead on Re-firing Turn your timepieces ahead at a. m. to-morrow when Daylight Saving Time goes Into effect "Spring forward Fall back," la the way to remember the direction. Residents of more than 1.000 cities, towns and hamlets in eleven State, Canada, Hawaii and the Philippines will Join in the mans movement. Many of the localities will observe, the custom for the first time.

Connecticut has repealed its law forbidding the public display of any other but Eastern Standard Time; Rochester, one of the cities which has hitherto refused to make the change, will tarn its collective clock ahead, and in New Hampshire, where an antl-dayllght saving time statute still stands, twenty-one cities will Ignore It, A considerable portion of the world instituted the sun-savlng time from a week to a 'month ago. Great Britain, France and Belgium adopted the schedule last Sunday, and other Continental countries observing It Include the Soviet Republics, the Netherlands and Portugal. "tVahi Dead Officer Vital Figure in Case Home Here Searched by Police for Papers. Even though Acting Detective Sergeant Charles C. Hemendinger killed himself yesterday shortly before he was to appear before the Drukman grand Jury, members of Prosecutor Hiram C.

Todd's staffs are in possession of several documents which they may make the dead officer r. vital figure In the probe of the bribery and angles of the case. His bank accouts have airtaay been subpoenaed, it was learned today, and come of his financial records are already in the hands of the investigaotrs. Others will be received on Monday. They will be subjected to most thorough scrutiny by accountants, with possible significant results.

At the samii lime it was learned that the officer, who was one of the forty detectives sent to the Luck-man Brothers' garage at Moore and White streets on March 3, 1935, when Sam Drukman's warm body was found there, made a statement when questioned lit Todd's offices in Manhattan on Thursday which is considered of prime importance by members of his staff. Questioned as to whether there were any discrepancies in Hemen-dinger's bank accounts, one of Todd's aides replied to-day, "Well, if you question a man and his an swers are satisfactory you don't sumpena his accounts." This Investigator made a similar answer when asked about the im portance of the statement made by the dead sergeant on Thursday when he was interrogated from 5:25 p. to 8:30 p. m. He pointed out significantly that, following the receipt of the statement, Todd issued a subpoena calling for Hemendinger's return for additional questioning in the Man hattan office and before the grand jury.

And then he shot himseli, the aide added. This member of Todd's staff did not consider Hemendinger's death a vital blow at the inquiry but added that he thought the detective's appearance before he grand jury would have been "Interesting." It was also learned that Captain Daniel J. Carey, who was Hemendinger's superior officer at the time of the Drukman murder and who has been a grand jury witness on several occasions, will be called to testify again, probably next week. Carey and Hemendinger, it is known, were old friends. In the meantime, detectives under the direction of Police Commis sioner Valentine were searching the dead detectives home at No.

733 Putnam avenue, this borough and his summer bungalow, where the suicide occurred, for any papers which may shed light on his activities on the Drukman case- Hemendinger is survived by three children, ranging in age from 8 to 17. Funeral services were to be held at his home this afternoon and burial was to follow at Beth David Cemetery, Springfield, Queens. Relatives and friends pointed out that Hemendinger, who had round ed out thlrtv-one vears on the force Wednesday and had an outstanding record, shot himself as the result of constant brooding over his wife's death six months go. This theory did not meet with enthusiasm when presented to one of Todd's aides. He pointed out tne length of time that has elapsed since Mrs.

Hemendinger's death and the fact that ths detective was to have appeared before the jury. Women Demand Rights MEXICO CITY, April is Presldent Lazaro Cardenas received In audience last night sixty women. of whom twenty made speeches de manding votes for women, the right lor women to run for political office, aand equal rights with men under government land (rant laws. TOW.SAUNDERS Ban on Jockey Believed Diie to Publicity in Woman's Death LOUISVILLE, April 25 (UP) Willie Saunders, who piloted Willie Woodward's Omaha to victory in the 1935 Kentucky Derby, to-day was refused a license to ride on Kentucky tracks this season by the Kentucky State Racing Commission. Saunders ij scheduled to have the mount on Hollyrood in the Wood Memorial Stake at Jamaica in New York to-day and was to have ridden ttje Hal Price Headley Color-Bearer In the Blue Grass turf classic here next Saturday.

Although the Commission made no formal announcement of the reason for the license refusal it was believed to be because of the publicity Saunders received following the death of Mrs. Evelyn Slivinski, a party companion, here Oct. 3. 1935. Mrs.

Slivinsky's crushed body was found on a highway in the residential section of Louisville after she had left Saunder's automobile. The car In which she had been a passenger allegedly was driven by Walter Schaeffer, an exercise boy employed by Headley. Sehaffer was indicted for murder and Saunders for accessory to murder. Schaeffer was acquitted Jan. 8, 1936, and the case against Saunders was then dismissed.

ITALIAN TROOPS TAKE KEY TOWN ONHARARROAD ROME, April 25 (U.PJ Authoritative reports said to-day that the Italian army had occupied Sasa Baneh, key position on the way to the vital Harar-Jijiga area in eastern Ethiopia. It was announced officially that the Italians in the north had completed their encirclement of Lake Tana, source of the Blue Nile and of incalculable Importance to Great Britain's Sudan Egypt irrigation project, by occupying Bahr-Dar Ghiogls. at the lake's southern tip. Sasa Baneh is 10S miles southeast yi i i tJJr Five or six more indictments for the Wendel kidnaping will be handed up next week by the Kings County Grand Jury, it was learned to-day as the hunt for Ellis Parker. indicted son of the detective chief of Burlington County, X.

was pressed in eight States. It was believed that at least two of the new indictments would involve elected officials of New Jersey. The name of Governor Harold G. Hoffman of New Jersey became increasingly prominent in the case to-tlay when it was recalled that he had been in New York last February during the imprisonment and torture'' of Paul H. Wendel, disbarred Trenton attorney, in the cellar of a Sheepshead Bay house, two occupants of which, Harry Bleefeld and Martin Schlossman, his son-in-law, have been Indicted jor.

kidnaping and second-degree as sault charges. Pointed Out to Geoghan Hoffman's presence in this citv at that time was to-day brought to the attention of District Attorney Geoghan, who personally is prosecuting the Wendel case. Geoghan, however, attached no particular significance to the dual events. Meanwhile, attempts were to be made by Geoghan to determine whether Ellis H. Parker, Burlington County's detective chief, told the truth yesterday when he asserted in Mount Holly, to Assistant District Attorney Madden that he did not know the whereabouts of his son.

If Parker knew where his son was, and kept that information from the prosecutor, it was said. he violated the Penal Law and could be held as an accessory to the kidnaping, which makes him liable to a jail term of five to fifteen years. His son, according to Geoghan, was at the house at No. 3,041 Voorhies avenue, Sheepshead Bay, during the entire ten-day period in which Wendel is said to have been "tortured'' into signing a false confession of the Lindbergh baby murder. Geoghan also claims that the younger Parker actually was the "finger man" in the Wendel abduction, pointing out the disbarred lawyer to Murray Bleefeld and Harry Weiss, fugitives from justice on the kidnap indictment, the day Wendel was abducted and taken to the Voorhies avenue house.

Surprise was expressed by thi District Attorney that Parker had eluded four New Jersey State troopers who had been "tailing" him since Tuesday, two days before the Kings County Grand Jury voted indictments against him and four others. "I can't understand it at all," Geoghan said. May Indict Officials Although Geoghan declined to say whether the new indictments would name elected Jersey officials, from other sources close to the prosecutor it was learned that at least two would possibly be Indicted. The others, it was said, will be persons holding Appointive public offices or no public jobs at alL "I do not include elected officials at this time," Geoghan declared. "I don't know yet what the ramifications of this case will be." In the eight-State teletype alarm sent out by Colonel H.

Norman Schwarzkopf, head of the New Jersey State police, young Parker was described as 26 years old, feet 8 inches tall, weighing 160 pounds and having brojrn hair, partly bald, and blue eyes. New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Ohio axe the States throughout which the alarm for Parker's apprehension was snt, 11 woman was reported in a critical condition, District Attorney Martin W. Littleton, of Nassau' County, started an investigation after police officials had declared the shooting was "in the line of duty." Mi s. Wiggens was shot on Upland road, near Nassau boulevard in Little Neck, L. while riding in a car with her husband, Charles V.

Wiggens, and her sister, Mrs. William Pollen, of No. 25 Parade place, this borough. The detectives were Joseph Murray, of the Sixth precinct, Manhas-set, and Matthew Simmons of the Burglary Squad. According to Inspector Harold R.

King head of the Nassau County police and District Attorney Littleton, both detectives fired ino the air once and then Simmons, in an effort to puncture the gas tank of the fleeing Wiggens car, shot low at the automobile, which was then 300 to 500 feet away. Had Been Visiting The Wiggens and Mrs. Pollen had been visiting Mr. and Mrs- Richard Foster at 48-08 Glenwood avenue, Little Neck. They had started to their home at No.

1 St. Paul's court this borough. When nsaring Nassau boulevard, Mr. Wiggens explained, he stopped his car to wait for a party of friends who were following in another car. Just as he stopped, Mr.

Wiggens Is said to have told police, a sedan drove up beside his car and one of the two men in the car asked: "What's the matter? Arc you lost?" These two men were Detectives Simmons and Murray. Mr. Wiggens said that he replied that he was all right, and then the men started to get out of their car. He said he believed they were hold-up men, merely claiming to be policemen as a ruse. Drives Car Off Mr.

Wiggens threw his car -into gear and dashed away. The detectives leaped into their car and started in pursuit. Mr. Wiggens told police he heard a shot and the crash of glass as the bullets tore through the rear window of his sedan. Then his wife screamed: "I've been hit." The Wiggens car sped along Northern boulevard to Middle Neck parkway, where they halted before Patrolman George Ludwig of the 111th New York City precinct.

He accompanied them to the Flushing Hospital and reported the shooting. Polish-Hungarian Relations Strengthened by flew Treaties BUDAPEST April 25 Julius Goemboes and Premier Marjan Kosclalkowski of Poland signed extradition and economic treaties yesterday designed to strengthen Polish-Hungarian trade relations. After the signing they conferred at length on international affairs with the Ministers of Foreign Affairs and justice. Aged Painter Dies EDINBURGH, Scotland, April 25 (UP). W.

Marshall Brown, 73, painter who specialized in sea scapes, died yesterday. He was represented In exhibitions of the Royal Scottish Academy each year for half a century. Fishermen Feel Sanctions VIGO, Spain, April 25 flJPJ. The League of Nations sanctions against Italy are proving tough on Spanish sardine fishermen. More than 300 boat sand 10,000 fishermen are idle because Italians aren't eating Spanish sardines.

,0 jU(jsp Robert A. Inch at a he, I im, in Federal Couit vesterdav 'an attempt to block the effints the Bedford committee to have th Terminal Company thrown hack into the court litipation from which it was dismi sed tentatively or. March 25. The Eush Terminal Buildings Company i.s a subsidiary of the Bush Terminal Company. In his decision of March 25 dismissing the parent concern from reorganization proceedings in his court, Judge Inch said that he would not the order puttinu his decision into effect without giving interested persons an opportunity to oppose it.

The Bedford Committee is attempting to obtain rehearings on the motion to dismiss the parent concern from the jurisdiction of the court. Counsel for the committee told the court yesterday that the firm is not in a proper corporate condition to be released from the reorganization proceedings. The committee's lawyers asked that further hearings be held and that witnesses be called to determine the question of the company's fitness to be dismissed. Mr. Bush, in his answering affidavit, alleged that the receivers and the Bedford Committee are not working for the good of the company and its common stockholders.

He said that in March, 1934 the receivers told him that his services as an adviser were no longer desired and that he would not be reelected as a director of the Buildings Company. He was offered $5,000 at that time, he charged, to withdraw. The offer was made, he alleged, "providing I would resign and say nothing unpleasant." Judge Inch reserved decision on the motion of the Bedford Committee for rehearings on his previous decision dismissing the company from reorganization proceedings and also from a suit in equity brought against the company. King Fuad Sinks Fast As Physicians Despair Of Saving His Life CAIRO, April 25 (UPJ. King Fuad key figure In the fight of Egyptian politicians over relations with Great Britain, was sinking rapidly to-day, so desperately ill that physicians despaired of his life.

Unofficial reports that the King had died brought an official bulletin that he was still alive. The bulletin said that a severe hemorrhage had been stopped and that the King passed a quiet night, but that his weakness continued. Force 25 to Disrobe BARCELONA, Spain, April 25 UR. Three gunmen, traveling outside Barcelona, held up twenty-five passengers last night compelling the passengers to disrobe and took their clothing and valuables. They left the victims bound and gagged and escaped in the bus.

Fly Over Addis Ababa ADDIS ABABA. April 25 UP. Two Italian three motored bombing airplanes Be wover the city for half an hour to-day, descending within a few hundred feet of the wireless station and theairport. They left for the north. DEMOCRATIC KEYNOTES SENATOR ALBEN BARKLEY PHILADELPHIA.

April 12 (UP) Senator Alben W. Barkley, was chocen to-rday to make the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention, beginning here June 23. At the same time Democratic leaders recommended Senator Joseph T. Robinson, to be permanent chairman of the convention. The selections were made at a conference of National Committ-tee Chairman James A.

Farley and other party leaders. Following the brief business session the committee on convention arrangements left to inspect Convention Hall, scene of the 1936 conclave. Later to-day the party chieftins planned to discuss convention derails with the Philadelphia general convention committee. 2 MINE VICTIMS ARERESPONDING TOTREAMTENTS HALIFAX N. April 25 UR Alfred Scadding.

victim of the Moose River mine collapse, appeared to be responding to special treatment today and doctors at Victoria General Hospital hoped they could prevent gangrene from developing in his feet. Dr. D. E. Robertson, noted Toronto surgeon and only other survivor of the disaster, was "greatly improved" today, the doctors said.

"He ate a hearty breakfast and seemed to enjoy it," they said. Robertson still is suffering from weakness and a head cold but is expected to be able to leave the hospital in a few days. Scadding's condition is more serious. Chief concern was for his feet, which are swollen and somewhat infected, and in which doctors so far have been unable to restore proper circulation. He was treated todya with a pavaex or "glass boot," a glasss device which enclosed the feet.

The pressure in the device is raised and seconds. This helps to restore cir- lowered automatically every three culation. The "glass root" was rushed from Toronto by airplane yesterday. The puot, juaj. siuart uraham, was forced down by a sleet storm near Moncton, K.

and came the last 250 mile by automobile, arriving about II p. m. The treatments were started at once. oi j.j.K,u.. luc tarmvao r.GirTLake gchools never to tell a boy northwara.

It is not a town, really, but viiauy imponani group or water wells, and thus the center of a large region In the Ogaden country-To-day's report was a sequel to reports last night, that the Italians had taken Daggah Bur, some twenty-two miles north of Sasa Baneh. Unofficial, though authorized, reports said that a motorized column under Gen. Vlttorio Verna took the town. Verne commands the Tevert division of Fascist militiamen, which Includes many Italians who came from the United States to volunteer. 1.