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BROOKLOT' DAILY EAGLE WALL STREET closing rmcES it it it it 92d YEAR No. 359 ENTERED AT THE BROOKLYN POST-OFFICE AS 2D CLASS MAIL MATTER. NEW YORK CITY, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1932 30 PAGES THREE CENTS TITE WEATHER V. 9. Wither Barf BAIN THIS AFTERNOON AND PROBABLY TONIGHT Tmprratttrr it 41 Tfr mf cloHd SX Mfn average 10 yvsrt sam S4 Complete Report a Tag 15 ELISABETH MORROW MARRIED TODAY SEABURY'S PLAN FACES SHOWDOWN TEST TODAYi First Action For 'New Deal' By Democrats Harrison to Call for Investigation of Whole Economic Situation Will Dismiss Jury Serving Over 3 Years Uale Murder Body Not Paid Yet-1931 Vice Jurors Also Through TO WED REYNOLDS Fate of Charter Revision Proposal Rests Largely on Vote of Hofstadter, Republican Beneficiary of Tammany Bench Deal 1 1 -Tv i $23, 000 Hastings Note Is Auctioned for $250 Mystery 'Man in Brown' Balks at $300 After Bidding Rises From Initial and Dis-appears After Purchase A gentleman in a brown suit made history In Henry Leake's auction rooms at 18 Vesey Manhattan, this afternoon.

He paid $250 to the auctioneer and got a note for $25,000, ft f' Early discharge of two ancient grand Juries so that the members may receive their pay was forecast I today by District Attorney William I P. X. Geoghan, who announced he I would move early next week to ac- complish the dismissal of one Jury originally summoned In August, I 1928, and the other, which began i its deliberations in August, 1931. None of the members of either Jury has ever received a cent of payment from the city for the reason that the law provided Jurors must be discharged before their remuneration becomes due. The 1928 Jury was continued by 1 County Judge Algeron I.

Nova, on MYSTERY BRIDE 1 i Eaffl Bareaa, C.loraS. Building. By HENRY SUYDAM Washington, Dec. 28 The first concrete move toward the Democratic "new deal" Is made in the announcement of Senator Pat Harrison of Mississippi, who will be chairman of the Finance Committee after March. He says hJ will call for an immediate Investigation of the whole economic situation, with a view to obtaining suggestions from economists, financiers and others as to methods and policies of starting economic recuperation.

Such an investigation would be held under the auspices of the Senate Finance Committee. To some observers the surprising aspect of this announcement Is that the Democrats have postponed such a move until this late date. The plain fact is that up to now President-elect Roosevelt has been preoccupied as Governor of New York, and that no step has been taken for the preparation of concrete legislative projects, either In the present Congress or after March 4. Members of Congress themselves have given almost no practical thought to major economic problems, as these can be affected through the action of the Government. Roosevelt Uncommunicative The Governor appears to have been uncommunicative concerning his ideas for economic legislation.

Whenever a prominent Democrat in Congress expresses an opinion or broaches a suggestion in this field, he is at once interpreted as reflecting Mr. Roosevelt's mind. In private members declare that the Governor hasn't communicated with them on single subject of legislation and this goes for some of the most prominent Democrats in both Houses of congress. The one proposition that has been discussed between the President-elect and the prospective Democratic leaders in Congress is the war debts. On this issue the statement is made in the lobbies that Mr.

Roosevelt, at the -time of his personal conference with President Hoover last month, was inclined toward active co-operation, but warnings of opposition decided him against such a course. Co-operation Mining The lack of co-operation is not confined to foreign problems, nor to the Republican President and the Democratic President-elect. There Is little or no co-operation at the moment between Mr. Roosevelt and Please Turn to Page 8 Englewood, N. Dec.

28 (ft With only relatives and intimate friends attending, Miss Elisabeth R. Morrow, daughter of the late Senator Dwight W. Morrow, was married today to Aubrey Neil Morgan of Cardiff, Wales. Dr. Carl H.

Elmore, pastor of the first Presbyterian Church of Englewood, performs the ceremony at 4:30 p.m., in the home of Mrs. Morrow. Dr. Thomas Guthrie Speers, pastor of Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, will assist. Miss Constance C.

Morrow, sister of the bride, will be her only attendant and Brig. Gen. J. J. Morrow, the bride's uncle, will be best man.

Miss Morrow will be given in marriage by her brother, Dwight W. Morrow Jr. Miss Morrow, a sister of Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh, and Mr.

Morgan met in London in 1930 when she was with her father at the naval conference. The couple's engagement was announced last month. The Morgans will live in Wales. Grim Humor Marks Prospect Park Death motion of then Chief Assistant District Attorney Joseph V.i Gallagher, now a municipal court justice, in order to complete its investigation of the slaying of Frankie Uale, notorious Brooklyn underworld leader, in June of that year. Probfd Uale Killing The trail To Uale's slayers led to Chicago, which city was visited by then District Attorney Charles J.

Dodd, now Supreme Court Justice; Police Captain John J. Ryan and County Dtective John McCarthy who went there on the tip that members of the Capone gang were implicated. Information was said to have been received by the Brooklyn authorities from Parker Henderson, Please Turn to Page 3 Taf Cabinet Table Cleaning Casualty Washington, Dec. 28 (m The famous Cabinet table about which Presidents Roosevelt and Taft grouped their official families. became a casualty today in the cleaning of the White House executive offices, a leg of the long mahogany table catching in a rug and snapping oft while being moved.

Lily Pons 111, Cancel Concert on Friday Lily Pons, Metropolitan star, will not be able to fill her concert engagement Friday night at Carnegie Hall, and all money paid for tickets will be refunded at the box office, it was announced today. She is ill with the grip. Debt Talk Off Until March 4 Paris, Dec, 28 W) Debt discussions are regarded by both American and French official circles as closed now until 4 unless some new circumstances Intervene. United States Ambassadc- Edge will see Premier Paul-Boncour at a diplomatic rereption Saturday morning and will have a rhanre to exchange a few words of greeting, but it Is not expected that he will transmit any further word from Washington. Smith Unable to Go To Mack Funeral Former Gov.

Alfred E. Smith Is still under treatment for a severe attack of neuritis of the shoulder, which confined him to his bed several days last week. Though again appearing at his desk, he Is unable to attend the funeral today in Buffalo of Norman E. Mack. with State Senator John A.

Hastings' name signed to it, and 2,000 shares of American Gas Turbine Company stock. When the auction was over, William M. Greve, president of the New York Investors, had the $250 posted to his credit while the gentleman in brown had the right to go to the retiring Senator and demand $25,000. The Prudence Company, of which Greve is vice chairnwn, originally loaned Hastings the money in 1930. The Senator paid a year's interest on the note and then quit.

Greve made good to the company the face value of the note. Auctioneer Leake rapped his gavel for an extra amount of attention before he put the Senator's promise to pay under the hammer. His audience consisted of a hundred or so professional buyers of such things. "What am I offered?" demanded Leake. $5 Was First Bid There was a silence and from the back of the room came a voice, $5." Leake was obviously taken back.

"Come, come," he admonished the crowd. Then the round little man In brown chirped up, "$100." Some one else shouted, "One hundred and fifty." and it looked 1'ke real business for a moment. "Two hundred and fifty," said the man in brewn. "How about $300?" asked the auctioneer. man In brown shook his head.

A silence settled over the room "Going, going and gone for $250 to the man in brown," said the auctioneer. The man in brown gave his. name Please Turn to Page Alice Brady Is 111, Comedy Suspended Because of the Illness with grip of Alice Brady, actress, performances of the comedy, "Mademoiselle." at the Playhouse in Manhattan, were suspended last night until at least tomorrow. Miss Brady is co-starred in the production witii hrr stepmother, Grace George. A performance of "Little Women" will be substituted for the matinee today.

Coaches Vote Grid Rule Body The Football Coaches Association today voted unanimously to set up Its own rules-making body of 20 members to accept suggestions and formulate requests for presentation to the rules committee of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. No change was sought in their present status of advisory membership on the national body, according to the Associated Press. Warmth Brings Fog and Rain Due to abnormally high temperatures for the season, a grey fog hung over New York today, slowing water and land traffic and making flying impossible. While automobiles crawled along Brooklyn and Long Island highways, rallroid lines reported their trains were running on time. The temperature at 3 pm.

was 42 degrees, 14 degrees below the hleh record for the date set in 1877, the Weather Bureau announced. Rain was nredlrted Inter toriav and through the night, with tomnr- 'jy mrnU'n Hollywood, Dec. 28 P) Frank Clark, movie stunt flier, added mystery today to the elopement and marriage of Elinor Fair, motion picture actress, and Thomas W. Daniel, former Naval flier. The pair was married in Yuma, after a flight from Los Angeles.

"Miss Fair and I were to have been married." said Clark, "and I still think Miss Fair merely made a little mistake. I know why she did it. I hold her in the highest esteem and believe this will be corrected." Miss Fair is the former wife df William Boyd, film actor. Casino Trial Opens in Test Of 'Set-Ups' First Dry Case in This Area on Serving of Liquor Accessories The Government's suit to padlock the Central Park Casino, based on the serving of 'setups" consisting of highball glasses with cracked ice and ginger ale, went to trial this morning before Federal Judge Patterson In Manhattan, who denied a motion by the defense for a Jury trial. The case is the first ln this Federal district based on the serving of accessories to patrons who furnished their own liquor.

Assistant United States Attorneys Arthur H. Schwartz and Earl E. N. Bishopp, who presented the case, ronceded that no evidence of sale of liquor was obtained by the 15 prohibition agents who made a succession of visits before the raid on June 24, 1930. John M.

Harlan, defense counsel, on the other hand, readily conceded that bottles seized from the tables on the night of the raid contained champagne and other liquors. The first witness called by the Government was David R. Hersko- witz, an investigator for the De partment of Justice, who dined ln Summary of Sc'abury Report on rage 8 The first showdown on Samuel Seabury's proposed revision of the New York City charter is scheduled to occur this afternoon when the Hofstadter Committee meets to act on his report, submitted to the committee last night. Democrats and Republicans allka were satisfied today that the Legls. lature, one house ofswhich Is con trolled by the Democrats, will pasl a greatly modified charter revision after killing Seabury's plan.

The plan of the counsel of th Hofstadter Committee, embodying among other things the elimination of city employes from participation in municipal politics, would requlra a two-thirds vote in the Leglslatura and a city referendum on the proposed changes. Depends on Hofstadter The Democrats control the Senat by one vote and the Republicans the Assembly by two votes. The Demo crats in the lower house could block a two-thirds vote there. At this afternoon's meeting, tht result approval or rejection of the report will depend largely, on the vote of Senator Samuel H. HoN stadter, the chairman of the com mittee and the beneficiary of the Steuer-Hofstadter bench deal.

The committee is composed of five Republicans and four Democrats. If Hofstadter voted against hie party and his own committee because of his row with Seabury over the bench Job, the result would be a tie unless Senator John J. Dun-nlgan, Democrat, who has been ill with a cold, is able to leave hla home in The Bronx. As the members of the committee gathered this afternoon in Hof. stadter's law office in the Graybar Building, It appeared at the time that the Republicans would have a 4-tc-3 majority if Hofstadter vote for the adoption of the report.

Hofstadter and the others declined to comment on their prob. able action. Arriving at City Hall this afternoon, his coat collar turned up avoid against his catching a worse cold, Mayor McKee said of the Sea. bury report: "I haven't had time to read It, No comment to make." It was learned today that DunnU gan, who will be the majority lead-Please Turn to Page 8 CuiT Holds Court In $80,000 Suit at Woman's Bedside Special to The Eaglt Mlneola, Dec. 28 Supreme Court Justice Cuff today transferred hie court to the bedside of 86-year-old Sara A.

McNight at 10 Overlook Road, Baldwin, to take testimony in Miss McNights suit to break an sRO.ooo trust fund which she esUb. lished four years ago. Miss McNight, a former school teacher, contends she placed her life savings with the Bank of New York Trust Company in the belief that it was going Into a saving account. At that time she signed what is known as a Irrevocable trust agreement with the bank, but she states now that she was Ignorant of the instrument she was signing. Justice Cuff heard argumenU by attorneys for obth sides ln October and decided the case ln favor nr.

i the trust company on a technicality. Ends 21 Years Research, Dies Washington, Dee. 28 after finishing a scientific tr-aMe which represented 21 years of research, W. H. Fry, 44.

soil scien' of the Agriculture Department! ol-lapsed and died here yesterday On his table were the neatly marked proofs of the work to whvn he had devoted nearly half his lite. Dr. H. O. Byers, chief of the Bu- rrau of Chemistry and Soils, sairt Mr.

Fry had "In all. made some 31 lmDorUn' rontrlrjiitiona to the science of the soils. The finished ork summed up his findings. A native North Carolinian. rrr a graduate of the University of North Carolina.

Beer Seizure Bans Whoopee in Prison: Jollet. III. Dec. 28 New Year whoopee will be st a low ebb Iri Joliet Penitentiary. Duards rated eight gallons of home brt ipsde of $ermenv4 potatoes.

Miss Elizabeth McCaw Dillard Of Winston-Salem, N. whose engagement to Richard J. Reynolds eldest heir of the late tobacco magnate and brother of the late Smith Reynolds, was recently announced. M.D. Whitman, Former Tennis Star, a Suicide On First U.

S. Davis Cup Team Thrice Singles King Dives 5 Stories Malcolm D. Whitman, 55, vice president of the William Whitman Company, and national singles tennis champion in 1898. 1899 and 1900, leaped to his death this morning from his penthouse, atop a five-story apartment building at 138 E. 87th to the courtyard of an ad-Joining apartment structure, according to the police.

He had been suffering from a nervous breakdown. Whitman, according to the police, had been under the care of Dr. Menas S. Gregory, psychiatry director at Bcllevue, and Dr. Cornelius Tyson of 37 E.

64th Manhattan. Two nurses, Ella Moore and Carrie Betz, had been in attendance for the last week. Family in Apartment Besides the nurses, Mrs. Lucllla Whitman, his third wile, snd two of her three daughters by a previous marriage were In the apartment when Whitman made his plunge. Whitman, according to the police, at 10:30 a.m.

had taken a bath and emerged from the bathroom in pajamas and bathrobe. Brushing past the nurses, they said, he flung open a French window, climbed to the top of a three-foot parapet and Jumped. The V'hltman apartment is almost dtrectly opposite the E. 67th Street Police Station. In addition to being a business man.

Whitman was a lawyer. He was graduated from Harvard in 1899 and later returned to the law Please Turn to Page if 1 Killed in Clash Near Sofia Palace Soda, Bulgaria, Dec. 28 (T; One policeman was killed and five other persons wounded today when rival Macedonian factions clashed near the Palace of King Boris. by Hugo Connor and his wife, ln flndlnt 0t what there might be to establish the ilrl foundling is of Jewish origin, as the religious faith of the Connors, Sarnowskl said: "We would oppose this application Just as vigorously if it were clearly and definitely estgblishre that this foundling is of Jewish parentage." Rarnowikl told Justice Dodd the police report contained known farts ind circumstances from which In- ferenres could be drsn conrermnc ln subject, now four weeks of ace, but as the fads and clrrnm lances have Pare In this man damns application he would not mnlrit fhm jn ir wir rmilll he Welfare Drpart- mpn, JfWrph A km(n rry for the Connors, said the rule of "this one Catholic, that one Protectant." as applied to found- Please Turn te Paf I Father Lays Suicide to Distorted Views Gained by Education-Son Had Been Chemist Strolling through Prospect Park at 8 today, John Clemmins of 952 St. Mark's Place found the body of Henry L.

Honychurch, 25, a chem ist of the Brooklyn Edison Com pany, lying on the grass about 500 feet south of the main entrance on the East Drive. When Dr. Miller of Methodist Episcopal Hospital and Patrolman Thomas Mills of the Park station arrived they found in the mans pocket a note written with grim, humor and the meticulous care of a chemist which explained what had happened. Leaves Note to Police Dated Dec. 27, 1932, and addressed "to the police," the note read as follows: "Gentlemen, I am sorry to be such a nuisance, but forget it.

My name is Henry L. Honychurch. "Age 25. Awdress, 2921 Glenwood Rd. Notify My uncle, Charles Honychurch, 950 E.

29th Brooklyn. Telephone, Mldwood 8-9488. "Motive: Just feel tired. Poison: Cyanide of potassirlm. Obtained from Brooklyn Edison Company Laboratory where I am employed.

"Don't get screwy over the druggist. Yours stiff. "HENRY L. HONYCHURCH." The police called the Mldwood number and were told that Hony- Pleaw Turn to Pag I Farrell Named Head of I. C.

C. Washington. Dec. 28 M-Patrick J. Farrell today was elected chairman of the Interstate Commerce Commission to take office Jan.

1. Succeeding Claude R. Porter, he will serve through the next year. Farrell has been with the Commission 32 yean. He was appointed Commissioner by President Cool-Idce in June.

1928. Prior to that he had been the Commission's first chief 'examiner. Farrell formerly lived In Newport, Va. He Is a Democrat. Sailor Killed By Giant Wave On Majestic Liner Arrives With a Smashed Bulkhead Suffered at Midsea The White Star liner Majestic steamed up the bay today with $15,000,000 in gold in her hold and a smashed bulkhead in the forecastle, where a mountainous wave had crashed on to the deck in mid-ocean last Friday.

An able-bodied seaman was killed in a narrow hallway when the rush of water ripped apart iron plates half an inch in thickness, twisted a 100-foot cargo boom and wrecked the scullery where the seamen's food is prepared. The dead seaman was J. H. Johnston, who a wife and two children In Portsmouth, England. Capt.

E. L. Trant, master of the Majestic, told reporters that a subscription of (250 had been collected among the passengers for his dependents. He was buried at sea. British Debt Gold Damage from the wave occurred a few feet aft of the iron-covered forecastle hatch, which was smashed several years ago on the Majestic by a wave.

The gold was shipped by the British Government to be applied on the national debt. An additional $2,500,000 In gold came from Cher- Pleaw Turn to Pa IS Sioux War 'or, 120, Dies in i. nesota Red Wing, Minn Dt '8 iD Indian John, 120-yesr-oV Sioux It dead. More than one 'paleface" scalp hung from his belt, Sioux si'd. 5 Men Holdup Bank Escape With $4,000 Gloucester City, N.

Dec. 28 PlvJ robbers, armed and masked, today held up the Gloucester CUV branch of the Camden Safe Deposit and Trust Company King and Monmouth Sts. here and escaped with about 14.000. Police Data Shrouds Connors9 Baby Fight City Counsel's Aide Refuses to Bare Report on Tiny Suhject as Court Reserves Ruling on Possession of Child Stocks Advance After a Decline; IV2 Point Cains After declining Irregularly for an hour early today, stock prices turned about and advanced briskly, with gains running to about 2V4 points from yesterday's close. There was a brisk demand for rail shares and this served to swing the entire market.

New York Central. Atchison and Union Pacific were in heavy demand and gains in this group ran to a maximum of 3 point rom tne early bottoms. There was a similar demand for Allied Chemical, In the Industrial section. The market became broad and active on the rose, but in late trading, volume was again reduced. Bond prices gained moderately.

Speculative rails were in demand. U. 8. Government issues were not as Strong as recently. Prices on the New York Curb were mainly higher.

Sterling sagged fractionally today. v.n-h franc mrrm steady. Cana dian dollars rose one-half cent, to B8 cents. Wheat rose a little, then sagged. Cotton gained 40 cents a bale, (Stork Table en Pag 21) City Workers Take Pay Cut in Hoboken Hoboken city employes will return 8'j percent of their salaries to the city after Jan.

1. This applies to all except scrubwomen and street clean ers. It Is expected the refunds will total $193,000. THE EAGLE INDEX Pat tit IS 14 II II 5 7-: tt i 1 i 11 1 11 11 rla.lf All Death N.lltr nr. BrSr, Dr.

CiSiaaa, F.lrt Ead Hon OillS MlOrlal facia ttilm' Print El.aann financial Jttnl.r Air J.nler tailt and Fann4. frnal. Ma.le Karri, C'amlra Hall Nrwl Sarin Iarl THaalara, Art Arlaar ana's Faa Hatra the Casino on April 26, 1930, with I He then decided to hear Miss Mc-James K. Pettltt, another agent, and Night version and, upon motion of a woman companion. He said they her attorney.

James Wilkinson, took had dinner and one round of set- stenographer with him to her tips st a charge of $1 each for the home. Tie battle being waged of 1560 Ocean Parkway, for possession of the baby gin iui! ujr net uii me pujLii ui nis rjrotner nome, niierea through a legal argument today before Justice Dodd In Brooklyn Supreme Court. Free Students Who 'Crashed' Dch Party Via Fire Escape Charges of disorderly conduct Invitations were only sccepted up to sgainst four collrge student, grow-! that hour. Ing out of their sttempt to 'J'TT "il 7 r. nl decided they would the swsnky Thinnsgiving Eve ue-, lh, pflrt re ewarje.

ginger ale, snd that their bill was 1 In a volved. discussion of the Isw tn-Harlan Indicated to the Pleate Turn to Page persons living In the neighbor- hood spied their gleaming shirt- Lr.0ntJ'.onl.,h!!.r!0, 57 ln the Casino, snd telenhoned the nollre nunuws iaier me ncighfcor-' hood was thrown Into an uproar an shrieking poilre rrs converged on inr mrnr. infl voturu sriowen rneir invitations and estnblLihrd their Identity but thev were locked up on a disorderly conduct charge, In court today Magistrate Brill Mid- "Case dtAmiMed." and then added. with a smlie, sg sia," "Slid don do it 1 He was asked for a mandamus compel! the Department of Wei fare to lay aside Its rules snd regulations and relinquish the foundling. A shadowy, unrevealed chapter remained hidden when Assistant Corporation Counsel A.

Sarnowskl, opposing the mandamus application, pointed to a bulky police report protruding from his pocket and told Justice Dodd he would not dl vulge t's content because It had no materiality to the nrrvnt legal proceeding. Questions Connors' Stand "What I there about this par tlrular child that makes the Con nors nuns wrv nave in iinnv ki over ana 4 .11 -hit. a. anded at one dren?" dem point In his argument. "Mrs.

Con nor has taken the attitude that it Is h'r rhlld snd she has got to hav. When JusUoe Dodd expressed ta I On the Inside Personality Sketch of Mayor-elect John P. O'Brien, by Harvey DourI.iss; Page 17. Arthur Pollock Reviews New Radio City Music Hall Show; Page 11. Ld Hughes Finds Governor-elect Lehman Keenly Interested in Sports Vi'orld; Page 20.

butantes' Ball In the Heights casino were riiwnl.wed In Adums Rt. Court i this morning by Magistrate Jeanette nrlll, 1 nnl" arnPld Ending Man- hattan College; Ocrald McAllister, tnw minimi, ai, cn. dwuii vr ijiiKiii T. Stafford, attending Georgetown ynlversitf, and Henry O. Howlev of the Park Chambers Hotel, Man- hattnn.

All four had invitations to the affair, hut as th'v arrived few I minutes alter o'clock the doormin demanded, that itch psy lot i.