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is BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE WALL STREET closing ritWEs 90th YEAR No. 326. a 1 NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1930. 33 PAGES THREE CENTS 45 Are Indicted Billion Dofi Deal er to Floods Peril Paris, Cover 80 Villages In Belgium; 40 Dead Picks Out Prosecutor Took $20,000 Bribes In Women's Court Head Bank Merger Allen, Wagner Plead Guilty in LI. Rank Fraud Filed Fake Report 8 Other Officials Go on Trial for Conspiracy Albert R.

Allen and Edward F. Wagner, both former vice presidents of the Long Island National Bank, pleaded guilty today before Federal Judge Oalston to filing a false report of the bank's condition two years ago with the Controller of the Currency. They may receive a Process-Server Names Six Lawyers Who Paid Him While He Acted for State Magistrate Silhermann Quizzed Former Judge Samuel Sea-bury's investigation Into the Manhattan and Bronx magistrates courts got under way la public today with an acknowl own v. I I Vet '1 I I I INK AT TO HEAD NEW BANK Herbert Case (above) and Walter E. Frew laoWvM9HVtsY iVMaWHK SrU9t Seine Near to Top of Protecting Wall 3,000 Flee Suburbs as Orge Rises Thousands of Belgians Abandon Homes Violent storms and floods swept across western Europe today from Austria to England.

The Elbe River In German and the Seine in France overflowed their banks. The Seine in Paris had risen 19 inches and a part of the city was threat In First Move On Racketeers All Charged With Conspiracy to Violate Drv Law 2 Women Forty-five persons, including two women, were charged today with conspiring to violate the Volstead law In the first indictment returned as a result of Federal Attorney Howard Ameli a investigation of racketeering begun with the September Grand Jury. J. Bertram Wegman. assistant In charge of the case, said that the 45 named did not Include the "higher-ups'" In the bootleg racket here but that voluminous testimony Involving the leaders had been presented to the Grand Jury and that additional indictments might be ex- pecierl.

Not Gordon Named Among those named in the sealed Indictment returned on Nov. 13 but opened only today by Federal Judge Mortimer W. Bvers was Nat Oor- don, said to be a brother of Waxy uoraon, wno was questioned by District Attorney Thomas C. T. Craln in Manhattan in connection with the shooting of Jack (Legs) Diamond.

The indictment sets forth that the alleged conspiracy involves "the smuggling In large quantities of liquor on Long Island and Coney Island, Brooklyn, and the transportation of such liquor throughout the city and to other States by means of trucks and railroad shipments." "Undercover" Men's Work Amelt disclosed that the evidence against the accused was obtained by undercover investigation in which about a half dozen investigators from Washington had participated and that Wegman had been to Washington to confer with high Department of Justice of- Please Tarn to Page Charles II. Markham, Rail Executive, Dies Altadena, Nov. 24 UP) Charles H. Markham, chairman of the board of the Illinois Central Railroad, died at his suburban home here today. Prior to becoming chairman of the board Mr.

Mark ham, who was born in Clarksville, In 1861, was president of the Illinois Central, He had started life railroading on a handcar and at 20 was a section hand for the Atchison Topeka St Sante Fe in Kansas. MacDonald Must Face Conservatives' Attack London. Nov. 24 OP) The Mac- Donald Ministry must face another strong Conservative attack in the House of Commons this week. Stanley Baldwin, Conservative leader, has pressed the government to allot a day for discussion of his motion of censure for Its conduct of the Imperial Conference and its failure to do anything for Empire free trade.

Lord Inverclyde Wins Annulment Suit Point London, Nov. 24 C4) Lord Inverclyde was upheld In the divorce court today on a contention that the English court had no Jurisdiction in a suit brought by his wife, known as "June, the Actress," for annulment of their marriage in 1929. Lord Inverclyde claimed that he and his wife were domiciled In Scotland. Small Damage Done By Texas Dam Break Mathls, Texas, Nov. 24 OP) Neg llglble property damage was reported by ranchmen and farmers along the Nueces River Valley today as flood waters subsided after a break in the recently completed Mathls Dam near here yesterday.

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Tlma I Ml awart Call, Ronald tirav, 'Tha Marq.iiM, Our Johnnr, Donia, tuaonrll and Voltlco aiao ran, xriald. Brooklyn iti Chamber of Commtrc. Havo you lubtcribtd? HAILED IN TOKIO Toklo. Nov. 24 The Honorable Mrs.

Victor Bruce, escorted by several Japanese airplanes, landed today at Tachlakwa Airdrome from Osaka, ending a flight from England to Toklo. A large crowd gave her an enthusiastic welcome. Healy Defense Opens; Move to Dismiss Denied Records Show HeOtTrred to Tell All to Jury-Trial May End Today By WILBUR E. ROC.fRS Unless unforeseen stumbling-blocks arise to hinder present plans, the defense of Martin 1. Healy and Thomas T.

Tommaney to the charge they took 110,000 to make Oeorge P. Ewald a magistrate will be finished this afternoon late. That developed this noon, ai Hiram C. Todd, special prosecutor rested the State's Case, and Supreme Court Justice Philip J. McCook denied motions made by Sydney A.

Syme, defense attorney, to toss the case "out of the Window." The Judge deliberated some time before he denied these motions, however. Then for half an hour Syme presented as evidence some exhibits that would naturally go in later under the usual Jcourse of events. Argument' for Dismissal Syme's motldns to dismiss were based on threeoutstanding grounds. The first ws that the Judge couldn't send the case to the Jury without picking out some particular question involved in the indictment and the Jury to decide that question. The attorney maintained there was no' such question possible for consideration, here.

In his second point, he maintained that If there is any proof at all of any crithe it Is actually a misdemeanor and not a felony, and that the firmer is outlawed by the statute of limitation. His third point was the important one that no evidence has been shown here that there was anything but an inference of wrong, and that there could be no conviction on a mere inference. Rtatemenls to Craln Syme maintained that the statements made by Healy and Tommaney to District Attorney Craln were the meat of the whole rase because they have been permitted Please Turn to Page I Royalties Assemble To Fete King Haakon Oslo, Nov. 24 0 Representatives of the royal houses of Europe were gathering here today for the celebration tomorrow of the 2Mb, anniversary of the ascension of King Haakon to the throne of Norway. Talking Tape Investor Dies in 100-Foot Fall Tunbrldge Wells, Ensland, Nov.

24 P) John Good, Inventor of several wireless appliances and speech -recording devices, was killed today In a fall from the top of a ion-foot tower at his home, Culverdon Csstle. This year Mr. Good demonstrated a new recording process which enables the recording ef music and speech on flexible non-inflammable durable ribbon. He said it was the result of 12 years of research. k'vja Sleepwalker Slays Wounds Two in Home J.

Herbert Case, Chairman of Reserve Board, Here to Direct Huge Manufacturers' Trust CombineWith 3 Others The $1,000,000,000 merger of the Manufacturers Trust Company, the Public National Bank Trust Company, the Bank of United States and the International Trust Company today reached definite form with the adoption of a tentative plan and basis of exchange by the committee representing the four institu tions. The plan, subject to ratification by the directors and stockholders of the Individual banks, will be submitted to the directorates within the next week. J. Herbert Case, chairman of the board cf directors of the Federal Reserve Bnnk of New York, is scheduled to head the new institution as chairman of the board. E.

Chester Oersten, president of the Public National Bank Sc Trust Company, is slated to become Its president. Jonas, Von Elm to Remain Nathan S. Jonas and Henry C. Von Elm, now respectively chairman of the board and president of the Manufacturers Trust Company, re scheduled to remain in im portant positions. The merged bank will be the fourth largest in point of size in New York City and fifth largest in the nation.

On the basis of the individual statements of the lour Institutions, the new bank will have deposits of more than $700,000,000 and resources of approximately 11,000,000,000. Application will be made by the merged institution for membership In the New York Clearing House Association The latest statements from the banks showed the Public National to have deposits of 1171,863,527 and resources of the Bank of United States, deposits of and resources of Manufacturers Trust, deposits of $326,875,252 and resources of International. Trust, deposits of $13,450,103 and resources Of $29,861,478. Members of the board of directors of the new bank are expected to include George W. Davison, president of the Central Hanover Bank Please Tarn to Pace 1 Stocks Uneven In Dull Market Stocks followed an Irregular course today in rather dull trading.

An early rally was checked but a midday decline which carried prices down from 1 to 3 points was also halted in the early afternoon and most losses were regained. Prices generally, however, were mixed with losses and gains about equal. U. S. Steel, American Can, West-lnghouse and other leaders moved over a 2 point range.

Consolidated (las and some utilities improved moderately. Oils were under pressure as were coppers and various special Issues. Montgomery Ward continued in active demand and reached a new high on the recovery as did a number of other snares. Announcement that the four-cor nered bank merger was about ready for submission to stockholders was regarded as constructive, but It had little effect on the market News generally was rather uncertain. Traders were Inclined to favor the bear side of the market Stock Table on Pace 35 Miss Nichols Ends First Leg of Flight to Coast Columbus, Ohio, Nor.

24 Miss Ruth Nichols landed at Port Columbus at 11:55 a.m. today from Roosevelt Field. L. I- on the first leg of a planned four-stop transcontinental need fllBht. She Is seeking the rec ord now held by Mrs.

Keith Miller of Australia. Loaves All lo Fiancee And Now He Vanishes Newark, Nov. 24 James Collins, 44, who vanished a day before his Intended marriage after establishing a Joint bank account of $8,000 for his fiancee and making her the beneficiary of his will, was the object of search by police today. The fiancee Is Mrs. Betty Newcomb, 29-year-old divorcee.

THE EAGLE INDEX Cries of Mother, Slashed, ened, while in the suburbs the rising floods already had made many families homeless. Eighty villages and 500,000 acres of farm land were under water In Belgium, with the flood still rising. Thousands were forced to abandon their homes in their night clothing. A gale raged over the English Channel, endangering shipping. The German freighter Louise I.eon-hardt, bound from Hamburg to the United States with a cargo of potash, was reported lost, with her crew of 30, At Frledrlchshafen, the Zeppelin home port, there were three dead and many injured.

Seven other deaths were reported. 1,000 Flee Flood Paris, Nov. 24 OP) A heavy rain early today forced the Seine, already nearly out of Its banks, up 19 Inches, seriously endangering a large quar ter of Paris. Authorities described the situation as "As bad as the floods in November, 1910." Paris was worried. High walls run the length of the city as a protection against floods, but the water was rising steadily toward the top of these embankments.

The Marat Canal was a tangled mass of barges from which produce could not be unloaded. Three thousand residents of Viry-Chatlllon, a suburb on the south east, were forced to flee during the night when the Orge, an affluent of the Seine on its left bank, inun dated the town. Most of the refugees spent the night In the town hall, while soldiers rushed from Versailles to the area. The Seine this morning had a height of 18 feet. The lower sec tions of the city were genuinely Please Torn to Page 11 Infante Carlos Named Successor to Weylci Madrid.

Spain. Nov. 24 UP) Infante Carlos today was appointed Inspector general of the Spanish army, succeeding the late General Weyler. After. Stephrother Is Killed and Girl Cut in Carlton Ave.

House Facing charges that while walking in his sleep he had slashed his young stepbrother to death and critically cut his stepsister and his mother, Michael Filosa, 28, was brought to the Classon AVe. precinct for questioning this morning. He seemed bewildered by maximum sentence of five years imprisonment each on this plea. Sentence was aojonrned to Dec. 3.

The guilty pleas were entered when Allen, Wagner and nine other former officers and directors of the bank were called to trial on a conspiracy indictment. This indict ment alleged that the eleven "stole $40,750 of the banks funds" by re taining a personal profit of that amount in two realty purchases for the bank during: 1927 and 1928. Follows Previous Action On motion of Assistant Federal Attorney Henry the con spiracy indictment was then severed as to Allen, Wagner and Frank X. Ongaro, former cashier' of the bank, who previously pleaded guilty to falsifying records of the bank. Trial of the remaining eight defendants on the conspiracy charge got under way shortly before noon.

Conviction for conspiracy carries a maximum penalty of two years Imprisonment. The defendants remaining on trial are: WILLIAM STFBRRCHT lawyer and former president of the bank. FRANK PALLANTE. lormer director. ARTHUR R.

ILLINO, former director. ALBERT P. ORAPP, former director. WILLIAM H. NAST.

former director. LOUIS J. POPZA. former director. HERMAN P.

PLUMP, former director. JULIUS LINK, former dnector. Plain Stealing Charge Opening for the prosecution, Mr. 8inger told the jury that "the Government makes no allegations here that these defendants misapplied, or even embezzled; we charge flatly that they stole the bank's money. "We are going to show you that after they bought the present bank site at 3701 Grand Long Island City, they charged the bank $34,000 more than the $117,000 they paid for it.

This $34,000 was later divided up among the defendants, the money being put into individual envelopes by Ongaro and passed out. "Next we will show you a second Please Torn to Page 1 Awaken Razor-Wielder his predicament and was bare ly able to answer questions put to him by detectives. Early today, in an apartment at 20 Carlton Salvatore De Hall, 16, was killed In his bed. His slsfer, Catherine, 14, and hit mother, Mrs. Anna De Hall, 49, were both painfully cut and had to be taken to the Cumberland Hospital.

Accused by Mother According to Deputy Chief Inspector Thomas P. Cummlngs, Mrs. De Hall said she was awakened by severe pains In the left side, to see her son Michael standing over her bed. According to police, Mrs. De Hall noticed the blood-stained rnsor in the hand of Filosa, her son by a previous marriage, and screamed: "Michael, Michael, what are you doing I It's me, your mother." Mrs.

De Hall, police aald, found that Michael, apparently sound asleep, awakened at her cries and dropped the razor. Cries Bring Neighbors The woman's scream roused neighbors and attracted Patrolmen Frank Orego and Jesse Lewis, who say they fmind Filosa. clad only in his night clothes, standing In the hall. Inside the apartment the policemen found Lalvatore De Hall slashed to death and the mother and Please Torn to Page Alarm, Save dren. Isidore, 12.

and Leon, 7, were sleeping in the bedroom at the rear of the house. Suddenly shortly after o'clock this morning. Peggie and Blackie bounded into Mr. Schultis bedroom, barking and clawing at his bedcovers. He awoke to And the dining a mass nf flames, a barrier between him and his wile's room.

im-Jumped from the window, fracturing his right leg, but dragged himself to the window of his wife's bedroom and awoke her and thetr children, who escaped. Firemen broke down the front door and Peggie and Blackie bounded out, thetr hair singed, panting for air. Damage was estimated at bout $3,000, Section of Western Europe, Including Northern France, Southern Germany and the Channel ports of England, swept by severe storms, causing rivers to flood the lowlands and disrupting Channel shipping. Below is a more detailed map, showing the suburbs menaced by floods as the Seine overflowed its banks. 10 Film Firms Held Trust by Supreme Court Paramount and Others Dreak Law by Binding Exhibitors, Is Ruling Washington, Nov.

24 OP) The Paramount-Famous-Lasky and nine other motion picture distributors were declared by the Supreme Court today guilty of violating the Federal Anti-Trust Law by the uniform standard contracts and the credit system under whlclr they lease films to exhibitors. The lower courts had held the Standard contract was in violation of the Sherman law because It required exhibitors to submit all disputes to compulsory arbitration. The credit rules and regulations, which required purchasers of theaters to assume unexpired contracts made by their predecessors were sustained by the lower courts as a proper method of protecting the distributors. Exhibitors Forced to Rlgn It was contended exhibitors were forced to sign the standard contracts to obtain films thorugh 32 Boards of Trade established by the distributors and handling 98 percent of all motion pictures. The distributors Involved In the litigation were: First Ntlonal Pictures, Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, Metro-Ooldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corporation, Universal Film Exchanges, United Artists Cor-portaion, Fox Film Corporation.

Paths Exchange, F. B. O. Pictures Corporation, Vltagraph, Eductlonal Film Exchanges, Ine. Parasitic Flies Save Connecticut Peaches New Haven, Nov.

24 OP) A few thousand dollars' worth of parasitic flies saved almost 1100.000 worth' of peaches in Connecticut this Tear. This bit of scientific news. Issued at the Connecticut Agricultural Ex perlment Station, forecast a poa stble curb to the Oriental peach moth. The parasltlQ, files were de ve loped by nature, but man's stmt rgy rrranged the' unusual surcew of the Connecticut campaign. Two kinds of flies Were used, which, so to speak.

Caught the moths bnth coming and going. One band robbed the moths'" eggs, younn. 1 the other their edgement by a former process- server in the Manhattan Dis-- trlct Attorney's office that he had received $20,000 In bribes between 1921 and 1929 while prosecuting vice cases In tho women's division of Jefferson Market Court. The witness estimated that "possibly 21" lawyers paid him. me story of accepting the $20,000 bribes was grimly told by John C.

Weston of C89 St. Nicholas Ave, Manhattan, after Isldor J. Krescl, counsel to the Inquiry, had put to gether a detailed picture of Weston's amassed wealth. Bank Account Gave Cine After a lenrthv pxAminntlnn nf finances, Including Weston's salary from the city, which ranged at various times from tl 400 to $2,950 a year, his inheritances, investments and side earnings from the Jewelry trade, the nrrauriltir At $70,500 as the largest fortune the ex-process server could honeftly possess. Then he showed fiat Weston's bank account showed 1e.

posits of $90,700. "What does thl rlifVrpnro nf $20,000 represent, bribes?" Kresel asked. "I am sorry to sav that that ia so," responded the witness. Names Lawyers as Bribers Weston, a medium-sized middle-aged man with considerable urbanity, followed Magistrate Jesse 811-bermann on the stand, and told of "taking It" five or six weeks after being assigned the Women's Court. Alexander Lang, who since died, gave him $25 for "throwing a case." he said, and told him that it would be worth $25 every time one of Langs clients was freed.

The witness named five other lawvers as having paid him for allowing thetr clients to be freed In court. The lawyers named were Abraham Karp. Emmanuel A. Busch, Mark Alter.) Philip Rusco and Joseph. Aaronstein, all with offices near the Jefferson Market Court in W.

10th Manhattan. Karp. according to the witness, ia the successor to Lang, who had about 40 percent of the court cases. Law Hrhnol Graduate Weston told of having been graduated from the New York Law School In 1908 and having been employed as a process server in the District Attorney's office In 1018. Although until he resigned In 1929 he retained the title and the pay of a process server.

Weston said he was sent to the Women's Court In May, 1921. In the capacity of assistant prosecutor. He said he represented the people In that court until his resignation. Please Turn to Page I 0'Shea Gels Evidence Of Teacher Job Sale Evidence on charges that teacher jobs are being sold ma forwarded todsv to District Attorney Brower by Superintendent of Schools William J. OShra.

Dr. Shea would mention no names, but said that he had been Informed by a Brooklyn woman thst another Brooklyn woman had secured a teaching: position by feeing a politician. Snell Faors Trial Of lT. S. Shoals Plant Washington.

Nov. 24 Vt Clialr-msn Snell of the House Rules Committee said todsv "If this country is going to eiperlment with Government operation of poaer projects, I know no better place at which to trv It than Muscle Shoals The New Yorker, a poer In House-ranks, hss opposed Government operation. Delighted LJNIIKN MT IV i ml r-w'h, a. I ttnytn r-nM lipprr part at hiv rrnoitM frr. tiv hoti tvis ef profPfciirmAl lonin prtTvrrrd.

low "I am ays Mr. Irving Ulatt. 212 Knicker-bockrr "with the results frum my advertisement in the K.igle. I am happy to av tliat my two-room apartment now ri'UNrl, Your paper limuirht a liirire numter of replK's end maiie jt very easy to fill this vacancy." Why lose income through Im nf tenants? You ran do ss ni.inv others are doing-fill vour vacancies promptly hv advertising in the Kagle. Here is an efficient renting; agent at a negligible cost.

Kor convenience telephone an ad-taker at Main 6000. Alleges Peculations Involve Tax Cashier Mlneola, L. Nov. 24 District Attorney Elvin K. Edwards of Nassau County today disclosed an inves tigation into the ofSce of the Hemp stead Town Receiver of Taxes upon the complaint of the receiver, Jo seph H.

Foster, that peculations amounting to $2,900 and alleged to involve the cashier, Vernon Wright, 40, have been uncovered. Edwards expects an indictment tomorrow. Paderewski to Be Guest Of President and Wife Washington, Nov. 24 Ignaee PaderewskL. who comes to Washington tomorrow for a concert Wednesday night, will be the guest of the President and Mrs.

Hoover. Wife of Archduke Back At Home of Parents Belgrade, Nov. 24 WV A dispatch from Subotica, Yugoslavia, says the former Irene Lelbach, wife of Archduke Albrerht of the Royal House of Hapsburg, hss arrived there to reside with her parents. Her return Is taken as confirmation of rumors that the couple are planning a divorce. Pet Dogs Give Pardon Near, Franco Flees Spanish Prison Hero of Many Air Exploits, Sentenced as Anti-Government Agitator, Escapes From Cell on Outskirts of Madrid With Eduardo Reyes Madrid, Nov.

24 (VP) Major Ramon Franco, Spain's premier aviator, who Friday was sentenced to eight months Imprisonment for alleged seditious utterances, today escaped from the cell where he has been lncarceratd for more than a month Schultz Family From Fire The transatlantic aviator, who is the idol of the Span lsh populace and the hero of the army air service, forced the window of a section of the old prison In which he was held, making his getaway some tune between a.m. and dawn today. Another aviator, Eduardo Reyes, escaped with Franco. Prison authorities said that neither had been watched very closely and that both had given their word of honor not to attempt a breakaway. The authorities had intended to Include Franco in the list of Christmas pardons.

Now. If he Is captured, new and more serious charges are likely to be preferred against him. Ford Sees 2 Employes Killed As Experimental Plane Falls Two little pet dogs, Peggie and Blackie, are heroes today, having saved the Schults family, who occupy the four-room apartment on the first floor of a two-story brick dwelling at 231 Pay 41st from posNible death by fire. Harry Hchultii. 3S.

the father. sbrplng In the front bedroom. His wife, Fsnnl'-, 29, and two chll- Send Tour Check Today Brooklyn Emtrieacy Committee 21S Montagu St. Detroit. Nov.

Two em- r.r AHalln It rulft4 ntk Klt is nr. rr, rir. rmiiH is MMaml tl rmrii int rtfiS. Frttl rmlet ami ti SNMM it rtrtf SMrtt t- Tktllm, ai Jama tS WMMta'i Pas I P'ovrs or the Ford Motor Com-I puny were killed hen their trt-mo-I torcd experimental plane crashed In The two mon had been in th air for about an hour and ere returning to the airport alien their ship caujht fire. Zeller manured to bring the plane to earth nearly at the center of the field after their flaming descent had been witnessed by hundreds of persons.

Including Henry Ford. V. Dickstcin Reviews the NcvFilmi Page 23 Patri on ChilJren's Conidence Page 18 names on the Ford Airport at Dearborn at 1 1 05 a m. today. The dead are Myron E.

Zeller. 24. of Dearborn, the pilot, and Carl Wensel. 30, of River Rouge, the mechanlo..