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WALL STREET Stock and Curb Closing Price i it it it it BROOKLYN" DAILY EAGLE 92d YEAR No. 134 ENTERED AT TBS BROOKLYN POST-OFFICE AS 3D CLASS MAIL MATTER NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, MAY 15, 1933 28 PAGES THREE CENTS! TIIE WEATHER By V. 8. Weather Pareaa MOSTLY CLOI'DY AND COOLER TONIGHT; TOMORROW SHOWERS. Temperature IS Ml Year ace (clear) as Meaa arerara 10 reari ame Complete Repert en Fate IS SEE U.

BRITAIN, FRANCE UNITED AGAINST BERLIN Ridley's Secretary Paid $2,200 Cash for Car on Salary of $35 Police Mystified as to How Ifc and Wife Lived in Hotel Without Some Other Source Seabury Hints He'll Be Fusion Man for Mayor Smith Silence on O'Brien Aid Worries Tammany McCooey toNameMan Wills Elected As President Of Chamber Predicts United Front by Brooklyn Will Win Local Improvements Chamber Luncheon 'come 3-Power Stand at Geneva Forecast After; Davis' Visit to Paul-Boncour in Paris Re port Germany Quietly Arming Treaty Woes Paris, May 15 (P) A three-Power united front of tha United States, Great Britain Two developments .1 the police Investigation of the slaying of Albert Ec. Ridley and his secretary, Lee Weinstein, only served to deepen the mystery of the murder of the eccentric millionaire. At '1 a sasst fc Left to right Attorney General John J. Bennett William Kennedy retiring president, and Louis C. Wills, newly elected president.

Rivera Harangues Columbia Strikers Tells 500 Students Protesting Henderson's Dismissal to 'Wrest Control From Dr. Butler' Two Arrested for Disorders Five hundred students went on strike at Columbia University today with the result that the campus was in an uproar, two students were arrested and the police emergency squad was cajled to maintain order. Louis Charles Wills, attorney, was i elected president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce at the an- nual meeting and luncheon of that organization in the St. George Ho- 1 today, succeeding William Ken- nedy who had held the office i for two succeeding years. 500 Attend More than 500 were present at the meeting, at which a full list of officers and directors, previously nominated by the nominating committee of the board of directors, was chosen.

Besides President Wills, the officers were: First vice president, Frederick L. Cranford; second vice president; John C. Parker; third vice president, Edward C. Blum; fourth vice president, D. Tilly; fifth vice president, Philip A.

Benson; sixth vice president, Milton Damman, and treasurer, George A. Barnewell. The directors were: Herbert L. Carpenter, W. T.

Jones Rudolph Schaefer, Cary D. Waters, H. L. Wilkinson, Guy DuVal, Raymond H. Fiero, ames S.

Graham, A. J. Gon-noud, Henry R. Kinsey, George Le Boutillier, Mrs. Mabel McCur-rach, W.

S. Menden, Dr. Philip I. Nash, James H. Post, Robert Alfred Shaw, Herbert Todd, F.

C. Weber, H. G. Williams, Frank W. Appleton, Henry Davies Rouston, Mary E.

Dillon, Witt A. Forward, Albert B. Hager and William G. Creamer. Building Awards Two awards were made for outstanding buildings In Brooklyn in 1932 the Dime Savings Bank Building and the ohn Morrell Company Building Webster J.

Caye, as chairman of the building committee, presented plaques to Philip A. Benson, president of the Dime Savings Bank, and B. O. Gibbs, manager of the Morrell Company. Certificates were also issued to Halsey, McCormack Helmerand, to the William Kennedy Construction Company as architects and builders, respectively, of the Dime Savings Bank Building, and H.

P. Henschien and the Turner Construction Company, architect and builder of the Morrell Building. On the Dais On the dais in the grand ballroom of the Hotel St. George, in which the luncheon was held, were: S. C.

Meade, Peter A. Carey, Henry Continued on Pate 2 Kozak With 73 Leads Golf PJav By RALPH TROST Staff Correspondent of The Eagle I Cherry Valley Club, May 15 Wal ter Kozak, Long Island open champion, missed automatic qualification in the last National Open championship, but here today, in the sectional trials for this year's championship, which brought out a field of 108 golfers competing for 15 places In the lists, Kozak made qualification almost certain with a first round of 73. It was Just one over par. And with three-quarters of the field finished their first that 73 stands out head and shoulders above all other scores. Two strokes behind Kozak came young Herman Rama, Fresh Meadow assistant, with a 75.

Herman Continued on Page 2 Court Validates Cannon Indictment Washington, May 15 (T) The indictment of Bishop James Cannon Jr. and Miss Ada Burroughs of Richmond on charges of violating the Corrupt Practices Act In the 1928 Presidential campaign was upheld as valid today by the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, and the defendants' counsel planned to appeal the decision to the Supreme Court at once. First was the police announcement that Weinstein, who handled $150,000 in contracts a year for Ridley, was paid a salary of only $35 a week. Second was the doubling by the police of their previous estimate of the value of Ridley's property and security holding. Their new estimate is $3,000,000.

The police said they obtained the information about Weinstein's salary from his wife. At the same time they learned that he bought a $2,200 automobile for cash last December. Recalling that he and his wife paid $18 a week for their room in the Hotel Belvedere and ate In restaurants, they said they could not understand how Weinstein was able to do it unless he had other sources of income. Mrs. Weinstein continued today to refuse to see anybody but the police.

Efforts to communicate with her at her hotel resulted in her referring all inquiries to her attorney, J. B. Kllroe. He could not be reached. The police said it might be possible that Weinstein received an additional $10 or $15 a week in commissions from his employer.

Examination of his revealed only one bank account In his name and this has a balance of only $50. Several keys have been found and detectives are checking to learn whether they may be for safe deposit boxes Check tTp Labor Contacts To facilitate this checkup and the search for possible safety deposit boxes or bank accounts he might have had In names other than Weinstein, 15 additional detectives were added to those already Continued on Page 2 City Pays Gash On Notes Today But Must Borrow Tomorrow to Meet Relief Needs New York City will pay out in cash today to meet maturing revenue bills, but expects to borrow an Identical amount tomorrow, it was disclosed at the Controller's office. The loan, it was said, will be for unemployment relief and will be raised as follows: On certificates of indebtedness, $10,000,000. On revenue bills, $3,000,000. On tax notes, $3,000,000.

Must Be Paid June 10 The new loan, according to present plans, will have to be paid on June 10, the same date on which will fall due $127,646,000 of revenue bills which came due on April 26, but were extended. The Interest rate on the bills due today was 5 percent. It was reported at City Hall that the rate on the new loan would be higher, possibly 6 percent. Mayor O'Brien is reported considering several means of increasing city revenues in anticipation of the reckoning that must come next month. New License Revenues The Mayor today signed the bill which increases the number of businesses and occupations required to have licenses.

It is Intended to add Continued on Pace 2 llausler Wins Move OnChilcMieligion William Hausler, night watchman, of Hlcksville, today obtained from Justice Conway In Brooklyn Supreme Court an order requiring Robert Stegmeler and the latter' wife, of 6947 Cooper Glendale, to show cause Wednesday before Justice Dodd in Supreme Court why they should not be restrained from allowing Catherine Hausler, 7, daughter of Hausler, to receive first communion In the Catholic Church next Sunday. Hausler Is a Port- I estant. MONKEY BUSINESS London, May 15 W) The Earl of Bessborough, Governor-General of Canada, swooped down on his Rowland's Castle estate In Hampshire today in an airplane in an attempt to capture an intoxicated monkey. He failed. The monkey, Signor Tony, VA, recently took to drink, and generally made a nuisance of himself to the Earl's tenants.

The Earl, a former Royal Air Force pilot, sighted the monkey in a cart track and dived toward the earth, but Tony was too quick for him. Tony's father, a sober monkey, accompanied the Governor-General on the flight. 14 Jurors Will Try Mitchell Two Are Sworn as Alter-nates-Openingof Trial A jury of 14 members, including two alternates, to try Charles E. Mitchell, former chairman of the National City Bank, on charges of evading income tax payments of $858,429.69 for 1929 and 1930, was sworn in at 1 p.m. today before Judge Henry W.

Goddard in Manhattan Federal Court. The court then adjourned until tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. when United States Attorney George Z. Medalie will open the prosecution. For reasons not stated In court, but by agreement between Medalie and Max D.

Steuer, defense counsel, four of the talesmen that had been accepted on Thursday were cused at the opening of today's ses sion. These Included Isldor Amster, foreman; John S. Taber, Edward B. Nisbet and Jerome P. Corvan.

Amster had related that he had lost considerable money in the Bank of United States failure, which case Continued on Pace 2 Court Reverses 'Roxy' Decision The United States Circuit Court of Appeals today reversed the decision of Federal Judge Francis G. Caffey giving the R.K.O. Theater in Rockefeller Center almost exclusive use of the name "Roxy." The vote was two to one. Judge Caffey held recently that the old Roxy Theater, at 7th Ave. and 50th Manhattan, could use the word "Roxy" only In designating the name of the owner, the Roxy Theaters Corporation.

Under his ruling Judge Caffey gave the new Roxy Theater in Rockefeller Center permission to use the words "Roxy" and "Rothafel." Judges Martin T. Manton, presiding, and Thomas W. Swan voted to reverse and Judge Augustus N. Hand to sustain Judge Caffey 's decision. In the opinion of attorneys for both sides, the case will be carried, on appeal, to the United 8tates Supreme Court.

By CLINTON L. MO HER Samuel Seabury, who extracted several large and well sharpened claws from the paws of the Tammany tiger, believes the Democratic organization can be easily defeated in the mayoralty election this Fall. He is so sure of It at the moment that he is not enthusiastic about the prospect of deserting the gardens of his East Hampton country place to campaign this Summer, but, in an informal discussion of the situation today, he gave the definite impression that if he is needed by the Fusionists, he can be drafted for Mayor. Meanwhile, with former Governor Smith out of the picture, the city leaders had tentatively agreed on a ticket headed by Mayor O'Brien and made up of a Brooklyn Controller and a Bronx President of the Board of Aldermen. Seabury, the first choice of the Republicans and fusionists for standard bearer, returned this morning to his law office on the 16th floor of 120 Broadway, Manhattan.

He brought with him some of the calm of the rose gardens and green lawns of his country place. He talked about himself, his availability, Tammany's weaknesses and other phases of the situation but he was not inclined to be quoted. Seabury will issue a formal statement clarifying his views within the next few days. An Example In Calm The urban gentleman who bagged a Mayor and a brace of other public officials on his big game hunt, arrived at his office shortly after 10 o'clock this morning, an example in calm. He wore a dark gray business suit, a soft hat to match and a dark red tie, and he carried a walking stick.

He walked into his Inner office, sat down in a high backed chair before a flat-topped desk and extracted a cigar from a leather case even as Al Smith preceds every discussion with the lighting of a smoke. Samuel Seabury at 60 with the New oYrk City Investigation behind him has modulated his voice to a point where he Is scarcely audible across the room. Like Joseph V. McKee who erased himself from the picture, Seabury has acquired with his years a distaste for the hurly-burly of politics, but it calls for no great stretch of the imagination to imagine him throwing off all that quiet and throwing himself Into the fight. One thing that disturbs him Is the fear that if he allowed himself to be drafted by the fusionists and the Republican Fusion Mayoralty Committee, the cry would be raised that he had staged the city investigation as a prelude to his own nomination.

The Froblem He thinks the ideal candidate should be between the -ages of 40 and SO. He knows of none off hand but feels sure he will emerge from the woods. Thus the problem, as the anti-Tammany forces see it, is Please Turn to Page 3 Stocks Open Down But Recover Late Though opening with general losses, stocks and commodities today made substantial recoveries from the early lows, and numerous stocks In the "whisky," merchandising and miscellaneous groups rose sharply. In commodities, wheat recovered about half Its lass, as did rubber, while corn late was cally unchanged from Saturday's close. Among the features today were National Distillers Crown Cork Seal, Liquid Carbonic and other members of this group, which showed Rains up to 6 points.

Leading stocks, for the most part, tended to ramein a little below the previous finals. American dollars advanced early then sagged. In the late afternoon sterling, which had gained more than 2 cents in the pound, lost all but a small part of Its rise. Oerman marks were weak. Bonds were iregular, the speculative section selling off.

Oerman bonds were weak, both the Young and the Dawes Issues dropping to new lows for the year. Prices on the New York Curb were mainly steady. (Stock Table on Pace 25) SIGN MORE TRADE PACTS London, May 15 (TV-Trade agreements between Great Britain and Sweden and Great Britain and Norway were signed at the Foreign Office today, TIIE EAGLE INDEX Fara daeeirird Ada tl-21 Death Netleet It Dr. Braar, Dr. radman, It fetle Readen' Frlrate Euhanre tl F.dlterial 1 Financial tS-tT Janler Air Uflen Laat and Feand, Ferennel 9 Navel, Cemlea Radla Sarmani 1 Skip Newt It 'I Sparta li-J Thralere, Art Arthur Weataai fate, Helea and France virtually has been, achieved to face Germany at the Geneva Disarmament Conference Thursday, It waa learned today.

Norman H. Davis, American Am bassador-at-Largc, asked Foreign Minister Joseph Paul-Boncour at a 50-minute talk today to take a mile) stand toward Chancellor Hitler's ex pected disarmament pronouncement before the Reichstag on Wednesday, it was authoritatively said, in order that the United States and Britaia might be able to follow him. The three Powers through dlplo matic channels were understood to be urging the German Chancellor ta be moderate in his Reichstag speech. They were trying to keep the situ ation from boiling over, said an American spokesman, "so that a skillful bridge may be constructed from the Isle of Elba, where Hitler has placed himself, back to th mainland." Sanctions Not Discussed It was Insisted that Mr. Davis and M.

Paul-Boncour had no discussion of sanctions which might be in voked to coerce Germany, and thai the international tariff truce woa merely given finishing touches. French concern about Chancellor Hitler's message to the Reichstag 1 unabated, but a government spokesman said France "does not expeel Hitler to declnre openly that tha Treaty of Versailles is another scrap of paper." Instead, the French believe Ger many Intends to "rearm quietly announcing simply that France'! failure to disarm has violated tha treaty and that therefore Germany, Is a free agent. This quiet rearming, French spokesman said, already has commenced In German factories which are building tanks, big Buns and military airplanes. Hague Action Necessary After conferring with M. Paul-Boncour, the American will rcceiva the latest word of the situation at Geneva from Hugh L.

Wilson, American delegate to the Disarmament Conference, who is coming he-: to help him arrange the background for the next move at Geneva. Wilson left Geneva ye: isr-day. Military action against a rearmed Germany, treaty expert have found, would be possible only Please Turn to Page 3 lIcKcc Steps Out Without Ceremony Aldermanic President Joseph V. McKee today filed his resignation with the City Clerk. The filing was the last step In the departure of Mr.

McKee from City Hall. Most of his office effects were removed on Saturday. All that remained for him today was ta formnlly separate himself from tha city pay roll before going on downtown to assume his new duties president of the Title Guarantee Trust Company. No formal ceremonies were held, although the women of the offica made a farewell presentation to hla secretary, Miss Madeline Cairns, who is going to the financial concern with him. Before McKee left City Hall ha went to see Mayor O'Biien.

After their brief conference, O'Brien said: "I have Just told the president I have the sincerest of best wishes for his new career in the financial world. I feci that It is going ta be a record of achievement Just aa his public life has boon. "The successes can't come toa fast. I also told him welcome ia written on the doormat at City Hall for him." ROOSEVEI.TS TAK'i CRVISE Washington, May 13 W) With Mrs. Roosrvclt and a party of friends, the President yesterday went on another Sunday cruisa down the Potomac.

Luncheon and dinner were served on board tha Sequoia. A stop was made at Mt, Vernon. On the Inside JOHN krski.m: opposes t.iritf against foreign artisti aj the wrong method of adjusting present irregularities; Page If. VTillum W'ccr discusses New York's vote on prohibition repeal May 2); Tage If. ooking over the town with Art Arthur; Page 9.

JaSaTSSj. 'Persecution Builder Claims Wittemann Charges Law ycr Kraushauer With WilfulIyConfusingllim Harold E. Wittemann, bankrupt builder, charged directly on the witness stand before Judge Marcus B. Campbell in Brooklyn Federal Court this afternoon that his present prosecution is "persecution" by Meyer Kraushauer, law partner of Congressman Emanuel Cellcr. Wittemann is charged wrth having committed perjury In setting forth in the $4,000,000 voluntary bankruptcy petition he filed Jan.

2, 1932, that he had no assets. Perjury Previously Intimated During a session of the trial last week, the drfendunt had Intimated perjury. And at that time his counsel, Morris E. Packer, had read into the record from minutes of an earlier bankruptcy court hearing an allegation by Wittemann that an allegedly false financial statement given the defunct Brooklyn National Bank had been so given at Kraus-hauer's solicitation, to convince bank examiners that a $80,000 loan to the builder was adequately secured. Kraushauer and Ccller were dlrec- nntlnued on Pae 2 Eilperin Dcfiics Move to Oust Him Gcorgj Eilperin, Republican ilea tne insurgents in nis district in thctr attempt to oust him from the leadership.

"The district county committee ran't function unless I resign or die, and I won't do either," said Eilperin. Louis Zarkln, a spokesman for the forces against Eilperin, has called a meeting of the committee for tonight, at which an attempt will be madi) to force Eilporln's resignation. The fight started when Eilperin fired nine election district inspectors because, he alleged, they were hostile to him and frli-ndly to Benjamin Moskowltz, former leader of the district. Straw Hat Season On Formally Today This Is straw hat day! It is also one degree from being the warmest day of the year. The mercury hit a high of 75 degrees this afternoon.

Here and there straw headpieces w.nfm Mn knKttlnM I of Winter derbies and fedoras. i REPORT CIBAN CLASH Havana, May 15 Government troops. Information reaching here today said, engaged rebel forces at Flnca Las Tosas, near Sanctl splr-itus. 210 miles southeast of here, yesterday, Gang Kills Man At I. Home Accused Extortioner Is Shot Down in Street-Burglars Beat Two Gangster guns mowed down a man Albertson Square, L.

near Mlneola, at 1 a.m. today, and seriously wounded another in Brooklyn late last night. In anothsr early morning crime thugs attacked James Duffy, 61, and wife, Jane, 60, in their home at 4556 Kings Highway. With fractured skulls ai.d both are in a critical condition. The police believe they were struck down by burglars they surprised.

Detectives at 2 a.m. frustrated an Terminal Theater. 4th Ave. and Dean and made four arrests. Max Levlne, proprietor of Levine Smith's department store at 22 Division near the Bowery, Manhattan, was held up In his store at 8:30 o'clock this morning and forced to onen the safe, from which a lone bandit took about $6,000, according to Levine.

The money represented Friday's and Saturday's receipts, he said. Tense drama marked each of the gang shootings. Three Men Made Attack Three men in black slouch hats drove up to a little bungalow in San Juan Albertson Square, and shouted: "Is Johnny in there? We are police." John Bagdonowitz, 29, was awakened as the trio played flashlights Into the sleeping porch. He flung Please Turn to Pare City Official Held In Parents' Death Maysville, May 15 IP) City Prosecutor Andrew Fox, 27, was arrested today on warrants charging him with murder for the deaths April 27 of his father and mother. The parents Claiborne Fox, 60.

and his wife, Emma, 53 were found dead in bed after a fire alarm had been raised. There was evidence that kerosene had been used to drench the bed. Use Tear Gas Bombs On Rioting: Farmers Milwaukee, May 15 C4) Tear gas bombs were flown today Into Waukesha County by airplane to reinforce deputy sheriffs who were forced to use their old supply to break up a fight of 400 farmers in the Wisconsin milk strike. islature of the State of New York should stop the sale and use of these machines. I regret that this Court is powerless to do so." Judge Moscowitzs decree is the termination of a recent suit brought by the Mills Novelty Company of Chicago, slot machine manufacturers, for an Injunction permanently to restrain the police from seizing their machines or interfering with their operation.

The Mills firm started It following a police seizure of 36 machines here on April 20 last. At the trial plaintiffs produced as a witness Federal Judge Thomas of Hartford, Conn. He testified that the machines seized here were lden- 8elzrd several months ago. Last March 30 he pemianently enjoined the Hartford police from "seizing the Mills The strike was part of a plan for an all-day protest against the dismissal of Donald Henderson, economics instructor, alleged to have been ousted because of his extreme liberal views. The arrests were made by police from the W.

100th St. station when Leon Diusine of 1500 Brook the Bronx, and Sam Pincus of 2800 Bronx Park East, a student at Cooper Union, painted the word "Strike" in large red letters at 4:30 o'clock this morning on the sidewalk at 116th St. and Broadway, Manhattan. Gag Statue The next event occurred when a mob of students, Ignoring the university rule against assemblages at the Alma Mater statue, met on the library steps and put a gag in the statue's mouth. A feature of the demonstration was the appearance as an orator of Diego Rivera, the artist dismissed from Rockefeller Center.

He urged the students to "wrest control of Columbia from Dr. But- Conllnurd on Page 2 Torrcnee Dies; Star in Movies Ernest Torrence, noted motion picture actor, died at 5:15 this morning, in Lenox Hill Hospital, Manhattan, of complications that developed after a gall-bladder operation. He was 54. For more than a decade he was recognized as one of the great character actors of the motion pictures, among the greatest in Hollywood. Born in Scotland, Torrence was on his way, with Iv on! a vacation in his native country on the Empress of Britain, on which George Bernard Shaw was completing a world tour, when he was stricken III a day before the ship reached New York harbor.

He was removed to the hospital, where an operation was performed, Continued on Page 13 of Cards; Court Holds the same which controls the Brooklyn Federal Court unanimously affirmed Judge Thomas on April 17. Judge Moscowitz pointed out that with the precedents established by these Federal courts, plus testimony adduced at the trial before him and a decision of the Appellate Term, New York State Supreme Court, that the ejection of tokens does not make a gambling device of a slot machine, he had no recourse but to find for the Mills company. "However," he concluded, "the police are not in anywise enjoined or restrained from seizing machines 1. oj i jr iiicM-iiiiin ua.ib.ihk Ha gambling machines or gaming devices. If any machines, Including the Mills, are used or operated for gambling purposes, it is the duty of the police to make arrests and enforce the law and they are not in nywise enjoined by me from so doing." Slot Machine Like Deck Sale Can 't Be Banned, Slot machines were placed In the same gambling category as a deck or cards under the terms of a decree handed down today by Federal Judge Grover M.

Moscowitz. He ruled, in effect, that the machines are gambling devices only when actually being used for gambling. His decree thirteen typewritten pages is unusual in the history of Brooklyn Federal Court legal decisions for the stated reluctance with which granted. He set forth In part: "These machines eject tokens. There Is no doubt that in many instances these tokens are redeemed in cash, merchandise or something of value.

This coastitutes gambling. Holds Court Is Powerless Play Afalnst the Great P. Hal Sims! 1 Send your entry at once for the First Annual Long Island Bridge Championship under the auspices of the Long Island Bridge League, or bring your entry with you tonight to the Hotel St. George for the open pairs contests to continue through Thursday night. Others who will compete, net proceeds to go to the Adopt-A-Family Committee, include Oswald Jacoby, David Burnstine, Dorothy Rice Sims and Sir Derrick J.

Wernher. mis court coma stop the use machine, from arresting the pos-of these machines, it would do so. sessors of such machines and also However, the Court must follow the from intimidating the possessors of law; it cannot enact laws. The Leg- i such machines." The Circuit Court ft.