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Washington. D. C. 11 14 WORKERS KILLED BY GAS PLOSION INSIDE HUGE TANK Residences Shaken Over Area of Many Blocks at Camden. BODIES ARE RECOVERED AFTER TORCHLIKE FIRE Men.

Elated at Getting First Day's Work in Weeks, Express Happiness Before Going to Deaths. By the Associated Press. CAMDEN, N. March workmen were killed and four injured, two seriously, in an explosion of a purifying tank at the Public Service Electric Gas Co. plant here today.

Officials of the company gave out the following statement: cause of the explosion has not been definitely ascertained, but is believed to have been due to spontaneous combustion. latest information that we have Is that there were at least 18 laborers employed in the purifying box tank. Fourteen bodies have been recovered. Four employes were taken to the hospital. Later two were released.

The Other two men are In a serious At least one man escaped from the tank without injury just before the fjaat. Residences for blocks were shaken by explosion, the scene of which is a from the central city area. The scene of the blast was made harfpwing by the cries of relatives of the doomed men. Police roped off the streets a block from the gas tank. Spectators by the hundreds blocked the thoroughfares beyond the ropes.

A Lremenaous runi buuuuuww accident, while practically the entire force of workmen, many of them earning their first pay in weeks, were trapped below'. A fierce, torch-like flame which followed was speedily extinguished by firemen and then the search within the chambers was begun. Outwardly the tank showed no signs of the explosion because the lid had been removed before the workmen entered. It is a square steel structure. 20 by 20 feet and 15 feet deep raised from the ground on steel girders 15 feet in height.

Within it is separated into upper and lower compartments, braced by many girders, and longitudinally divided into ecst and west chambers. Gas Collects In Sawdust. The metal interior was coated with a mixture of charcoal, sawdust and sulphuric and other acids used in purifying the gas, which is then piped across the street to a distributing tank. In the sawdust composition gas collects. Several times a year it is necessary to clean it and the workmen, who had done this work before, commented today on the unusually heavy accumulation.

On the outside of the tank a stairway like a fire escape and a small open elevator provide means of entry for the the workmen and the removal of the old purifying material. The elevator also is used to carry up the new mixture with which the walls are coated. Rudolf Walker, 40, colored, said he saw a slight flame at the bottom of the tank after he had been working there 20 minutes, indicating the sawdust and sulphuric acid lining had caught fire. He said: shouted to the other men looks Then I ran to get a fire engine. I was near the top of the tank and I climbed out and was running to the comer to sound an alarm when I heard a big explosion.

It made an awful noise. "As I turned around, I saw flames shooting from above the top of the tank "When I sounded the alarm, I ran back to the tank and helped to get some of the other fellows out." Unable to Do Much. Walker joined firemen in removing the dying and dead. able to help he said later, it was so hot and the flames were so big. The first thing the firemen had to do was to put out the fire before they could reach the men who were in the bottom of the Benjamin Plevinski, a grocer, whose store and home are opposite the tank, told of hearing a "terrible as the tank blew up.

"My whole house he said, I know what had happened. I looked out of the window. The flames shooting out of the top of the tank." Samuel Simpkins, a butcher, ran to the tank to aid in the work of rescue. "I knew several of the workmen who had gone into the tank," he said. "They had been unemployed for a long time and were happy at the fact they had finally gotten jobs, even of a temporary nature.

"Some of them had been in my store to tell me they were going to be employed and would be getting their pay again." Tries to Save Relatives. Among the first of the neighbors to Join in the rescue work was Frank Pissitella. At the sound of the explosion he ran from hts home without his coat and climbed up the iron stairway, resembling a fire escape, on the outside of the tank, "My in Pissitella cried. in there too. They went to work this morning." At the top of the tank the flames drove Pissitella back and he collapsed on the stairway.

Firemen carried him down. Ambular ce6 brought plain wooden coffins to the scene, which were carried to the top of the tank on a stairway and then lowered by block and tackle after bodies were placed in them. SCHOONER IN TOW Fishing Vessel Without Rudder or Anchor in Gulf. NEW YORK. March 9 Radio Marine Corporation last night received a report from the steamer Gulfpenn saying it had taken the fishing schooner Snapper King in tow off Pasacagoula.

Miss. The message said the schooner was In distress, without rudder or anchor, 00 miles east of Ship Shoal Gas Buoy. It added that the presumably meaning the Gulfpenn. was proceeding with its tow toward Port Arthur, Tex. Warning Halts Eating of Stolen Laboratory' Sheep By the Associated Press.

CHARLEROI, March A disease-infected sheep, stolen from a laboratory, was butchered by a needy family which was then afraid to eat the meat. A letter to the CharleroiMonessen Hospital, where the animal was used for experimental purposes, disclosed this fact late yesterday. The note explained the family feared poisoning and rendered the meat. The hospital issued a warning a week ago. when the animal was stolen, that death might result for those who ate the mutton.

SALES TAX IS HELD BEST WAY TO MEET NATIONAL DEFICIT Ways and Means Committee Says No Other Method Has Similar Advantages. By the Associated Press. The House was told today by its Ways and Means Committee that there was no other source of revenue that would yield the amount required for the Treasury as the 2.25 per cent manufactures sales tax is expected to do. In the formal report 02 the new $1,096,000,000 revenue bill which the House will begin to consider tomorrow, the committee says: is no other source of revenue which will yield the amount imperatively required with as little protest, as little annoyance and as little disturbance to business as a manufactures excise Includes Beer Report. The tax proposed by the committee is expected to yield $595,000,000 of the $1,096,000,000 estlmcted return of the bill, and forms the foundation.

The report of 5,000 words explained every provision of the new bill and included the minority views of a group of three committee members who advocated a $5-a-barrel tax on beer of 2.75 alcoholic content by weight. The committee said that in times of doubt and uncertainty even more than In normal times the unimpaired credit of the Federal Government is of paramount national credit structure is bound up with and depends upon not only the belief but the certainty that the Federal Government will meet its obligations when due and will take In advance such steps as will enable it to do It added. Must Maintain Credit. the opinion of your committee the preservation, unimpaired, of the national credit is the most important single Issue facing the country today and it is confidently stated that this is possible only by taking those steps necessary to balance the budget for 1933. task of the committee was to formulate a measure which would put a stop to increase of the public debt in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1932, the fiscal 1933.

Your committee in preparing the proposed bill investigated, it is believed, every conceivible source of revenue and has agreed upon a complete plan for covering the deficit for the fiscal year The report, drawn by Acting Chairman Crisp, explained that while the anticipated deficit in 1932-3 was $1,241,000,000, the committee expected President budget estimates to be reduced $125,000,000 by Congress and that (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) GARRISON REPORTED DOUBLED IN SIBERIA Japanese Consul at Khabarovsk Says Troops There Have Been Increased. By the Associated TOKIO, March Japanese consul at Khabarovsk, Siberia, reported to the foreign office today that the Soviet garrison there approximately had doubled in the last month. Japanese authorities professed not to be alarmed, however, in spite of repeated reports of the sending of Soviet reinforcement troops Into Western Siberia. The war office estimated that the al Russian forces along the Ussuri irontier now is 50,000. It was learned that Ambassador Koki Hirota at Moscow, on Instructions from Tokio, would reply to one of the questions recently asked by L.

M. Karakhan, acting Soviet sar for foreign affairs, that Japan is not concentrating forces in Northwestern Korea as Karakhan alleged. Ambassador Hirota was instructed to say, on the contrary, that the Japanese government learned the Russian forces in the Possiet district have been increased, and consequently if the spirit oi the Portsmouth treaty has been violated the fault Is PRESIDENT BLAMES HOUSE FOR DELAY ON REORGANIZATION Vigorously Answers Charges That He Failed to Co-operate. CITES 20-YEAR FAILURE OF CONGRESS EFFORTS i Says He Instructed All Departments to Aid in Economy Program. In a quick and vigorous response to chargee that he had failed to co-operate with Congress in its economy program, President Hoover today shifted back to the Capitol the responsibility for delay in the proposed reorganization of Federal bureaus.

A White House statement, issued in reply to criticism voiced yesterday by Representative Byrns, Democrat, of Tennessee, chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the House, declared Byrns apparently is laboring under a The President is desirous of co-operating to the fullest extent with the House Special Economy Committee, it was announced, and co-operative efforts already made by Federal officials were outlined. Results Expressing on behalf of President Hoover a hope for action by the present Congress, the statement concluded: the country wants and needs is real The President referred to the years of failure of on the part of Congress in connection with reorganization and co-ordination of governmental functions, and pointed out he had asked, in a mesage last month, for authority to undertake the reorganization himself. "The House recognized the importance of the it was stated, "but felt it should be again undertaken directly by the Congress instead of by the President." Text of Hoover Statement. Today's text from the White House follows: Byms seems to be un- der some misimpression. The President, in view of the 20 years of failure of every effort by Congresa to eliminate overlapping and useless functions in the Federal Government for purposes of economy, asked, in a message on Bebruary 17, that authority should be given to him to execute definite of reorganization and economy, subject to the opportunity to the Congress to express its views upon each action.

stated that such reorganization and reduction by the executive should be undertaken gradually, as the result of study and experience gained as the process proceeded. recognized the importance of the matter, but felt that it should be again undertaken directly by the Congress, instead of by the President. They set up the economy committee for this purpose. Ordered Co-Operation. President has been glad that this committee should undertake thla great task.

He at once instructed all officials of the Government, to co-operate in full with the committee, freely submitting their individual views and every possible suggestion to the committee for its consideration, just as they would have been called upon by the President to do, had his proposal been accepted by the House. "Some of these reports or suggestions by departmental heads have already been completed and laid before the committee. Others are in progress. Each (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) NITRATE COMBINE WINS AGREEMENT IN CHILE Final Details of Reorganization Due as U. S.

Group Receives Support of Government. By the Associated Press. SANTIAGO, Chile, March problem of the Cosach nitrate combine, $300,000,000 king of Chilean industries, appeared to be moving toward a final solution today. President Medley G. B.

Whelpley, 39year-old former banker of New York, who came here recently to open negotiations with the government for a settlement, prepared to return by airplane to New York tomorrow to begin the actual reorganization of the huge company, which is controlled by American capital. President Whelpley and government officials have reached an agreement on the general principles on which the reorganization will be based. The government was understood to have given its word it would not try to dissolve or change the makeup of the combine, but would give it all the assistance it needs to surmount the economic and financial barriers which have placed serious difficulties in its path in the last year. PITTS STARTS 14-YEAR TERM AS LONG LEGAL BATTLE ENDS Former Head of Defunct Firm Taken From District Jail to Lorton After Noon Meal. His long fight to escape the penitentiary over, G.

Bryan Pitts, former chairman of the defunct P. Smith was transferred today from District Jail to the District Reformatory at Lorton, to begin serving a 14year sentence for embezzlement. He must also serve an additional year and a day for contempt. With half a dozen other prisoners, the once debonair executive was loaded into a truck at the jail after the noon meal and transported under guard to the Lorton penal institution. There he will meet a former associate, John H.

Edwards, one-time vice president of the Smith company, who is serving a three-year term for conspiring to embezzle funds of the brokerage company and to destroy its records. Edwards, who turned evidence against Pitts, began his sentence December 29. 1930. In leaving the District' Jail, Pitts will part company with another fellowexecutive of the Smith firm, C. Elbert Anadale, also an ex-vice president, who received a nine-year sentence on conspiracy-embezzlement charges.

At the reformatory, Pitts will become "just another of the 860 inmates of the institution," according to Supt. M. M. Barnard. "Pitts will receive no special treatment said Capt.

Barnard. will be put to work doing what he is best fitted for and will be treated Just as any other of the 860 men confined to the reformatory. likely he will do inside work. He is hardly fit to swing a pick or AS THE PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES OPEN UP! DRIVE ON HOARDING BRINGING RESULTS Campaign to Put Idle Dollars to Work Everywhere Is Gaining Support. With approval of the anti-hoarding campaign coming from many new sources, bank presidents, business organizations, citizens' associations and elsewhere, the drive to bring Idle dollars out of hiding and put them to work assumed larger Importance today as reports continued to show actual results.

Robert V. Fleming, president of Riggs National Bank, added his commendation. believe the campaign will be productive of much he said, in those sections of the country where the people have been frightened by many failures. I believe that, following the emergency measures passed Try is an excellent time for the campaign to be held. I believe it will go a long way toward restoring confidence which will result In good activity in Report on Sales.

From the District of Columbia Association came the first official report of actual sales of the socalled Reporting to the local committee of President Reconstruction Organization, of which Newbold Noyes is chairman, the association showed that on Monday, the first day of the campaign, sales totaled $10,600. Radio continued to lend its aid to the drive to bring dollars out of the safe deposit box, the family teapot and from under the mattress, to go to work. Following three addresses over local stations last night, there will be one speaker tonight, John B. Colpoys. who will address the radio audience from Station WOL at 7:15 Newbold Noyes, speaking over Station WMAL last night, said that the amount of hoarding here in Washington is relatively He estimated idle dollars in the National Capital at from two to five millions, but declared it should be brought cut to go to work furnish employment and restore to America the prosperity for which every sensible and patriotic citizen must today work and Financial Strength Praised.

Edward F. Colladay, from Station WRC. roundly ptaised the strength of financial institutions and invited hoarded dollars back into the 4, Column 6.) YOUNG LAMONT SAILS TO SEE SOVIET OFFICIALS Son of Secretary of Commerce to Have Six Weeks to Decide on Cattle Job. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK.

March 9 P. Lamont, son of the Secretary of Commerce, sailed early today to confer with officials of Soviet Russia regarding an appointment to teach the Soviet how to bring its cattle production to a parity with the United States. He will spend six veeks in Moscow and then decide whether to accept the position. He said the task of increasing Russia'- cattle production to the point sought by the pounds of beef per year per require 20 years to fulfill. a cow he said as he explained he had a ranch in Colorado on which thoroughbred Herefords are raised.

"The cattle business is the greatest in the country and I am interested in anything concerning The United States, with 120,000,000 people, Lamont added, had 65,000,000 cattle and 60,000,000 sheep compared with 35,000,000 cattle and 17,000,000 sheep in Russia, which has 160.000,000 Stop Hoarding! THIS is anti-hoarding week in Washington. The whole city is behind the movement to put idle dollars to work. This does not mean that any one is being urged to extravagant or unnecessary spending. Citizens of Washington are merely urged to bring forth any money which may now be hiding in safety deposit boxes, mattresses or teapots and either spend it thriftily for sound merchandise or home improvement, deposit it in a sound bank, buy sound securities, or becoma the owner of a "baby available at any Washington bank. In a your money where it will bring interest to to and prosperity to the Nation.

Blind Youth Robbed After Robbing Blind Father and Mother By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 9 blind youth, estranged from his family, today admitted engineering the robbery of his blind father and mother. The police found that he had been cheated by his fellow conspirators of all but $1 of his cut in $104 taken. On the basis of his confession, four men, George Mulford, 32; William Mulford, 22; Joseph Murphy, 25, and Joseph Grebik, 19, were arrested and, police said, had confessed the robbery last night. OF HEARTATTACK Noted Catholic Clergyman Expires Suddenly at Holy Cross Academy.

Bishop Thomas Joseph Shahan, rector emeritus of Catholic University of America and one of the Nation's outstanding Catholic educators, died at his home, Holy Cross Academy, 2935 Upton street, early today, the victim of a heart attack. Bishop Shahan, who had been connected with the Catholic University for more than 40 years, served as its rector for 18 years, from late 1909 to 1928. He had been rector emeritus since. He was a founder and one of the editors of the Catholic Encyclopedia from 1905 to 1929, and founder of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, of which he was president for some time. He was also president of the Catholic Education Association for 18 years.

Born in New Hampshire. Bishop Shahan was born in Manchester, N. in 1857, and enrolled ir. Montreal College, Canada, in 1872. He attended the American College, Rome, 4 years, and in 1882 was awarded the degree of doctor of sacred theology from the College of Propaganda, Rome.

A year later he received the degree of U. L. (licentiate of civil and canon law). He studied history at the University of Berlin for 2 years, as well as at the New Sorbonne and Institut Catholique, Paris. In 1927 he was awarded the degree of doctor of civil and canon law (J.

U. by Georgetown University. At the time he studied at the College of Propaganda, Cardinal Bonzana, former papal delegate to this country, was dean of the school. He was ordained a priest in 1882 and served as chancellor and secretary of the diocese of Hartford until 1888. In (Continued on Page 2, Column Yj TEN AMERICAN WOMEN PRESENTED TO QUEEN Group Received by Italian Monarch Includes Mrs.

James A. Kirk of Washington. By thi Associated Press. ROME, March American women were presented to Queen Elena today at the Quirinal Palace by Mrs. John W.

Garrett, wife of the Ambassador from the United States. They were Mrs. James A. Kirk of Washington, D. mother of the counselor of the American embassy; Mrs.

E. R. Warner McCabe, wife of Col. McCabe, military attache at the embassy, and their daughter Virginia; Mrs. Francis M.

Brady of Houston, wife of Capt. Brady, assistant military attache for air; Mrs. Alton B. Parker, widow of the man who opposed Theodore Roosevelt for the presidency; Mrs. Laurence Tomkins, wife of the sculptor; Miss Rita Mitchell, daughter of Charles E.

Mitchell, the banker; Miss Leith Symington of Baltimore, Miss Elizabeth Avery and Miss Anne Bissell of Grand Rapids, Mich. Tip of Nose Worth $15,000. OKLAHOMA CITY, March 9 The tip of at least ore college nose is worth $15,000. That was the judgment affirmed by the Oklahoma Supreme Court yesterday against the Oklahoma Railway Co. in favor of Miss Evelyn Mount, a student at Oklahoma City University at the time she lost the tip of her noee in a bus accident.

Rjrfm Programs oa Page C-S Landslide Over Al Smith in New Hampshire Hailed as Sign of Victory. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. The Roosevelt-for-President movement among the Democrats jumped forward today under the Impetus of smashing victory In New primaries yesterday, where the New York Governor won the entire State delegation to the Democratic National Convention over Allred E. Smith, the Democratic nominee in 1928, with a lead of about 4,500 votes.

Even in anti-Roosevelt quarters It was admitted the New Hampshire result was a boost for the New York Governor and a blow, not only to the Smith candidacy, but the efforts of those anxious to prevent the nomination of Roosevelt. As for the Roosevelt Democrats, they are jubilant. Senator Dill of Washington, one of the original Rooseveltfor-President Democrats, struck the keynote of that group. The Democrats of the country, Senator Dill Insisted, want victory and believe they can win with Roosevelt. That is his explanation of the vote in New Hampshire.

Northwest Result. "It is not that New Hampshire Democrats love Smith said Senator Dill, love victory more. They know that a sure way to victory is to nominate Franklin D. Roosevelt. "just as the first Democratic State convention in the Far Northwest, in the State of Washington, named a delegation to the Democratic National Convention to support, Roosevelt, so the first primary in a Northeastern State has elected a delegation for Roosevelt.

Both Washington and New Hampshire were Smith strongholds in 1928. believe the Minnesota Democrats in State convention today will pick a Roosevelt delegation to the national convention. And in North Dakota next week a delegation for Roosevelt will be elected. Thus Roosevelt victories will have been obtained in all sections of the country. stop-Roosevelt movement is dying before it is really born.

The Democrats want harmony and victory and they can have both with Wheeler to Aid in West. Senator Wheeler of Montana, another strong supporter of Roosevelt, is slated to leave this afternoon for North Dakota to deliver several addresses for Roosevelt in the wind-up of the primary campaign in that State. In North Dakota the New York Governor is opposed by Murray, Governor of Oklahoma, who has been in the State campaigning for himself. The fear of the Roosevelt Democrats lies not in what might happen if Democrats alone participated in the Democratic primary next Tuesday in Nortn Dakota, but what many of the NonPartisan Leaguers may do. There is no real contest on the Republican side of the fence in presidential preferential primary there.

President name was not entered, although a slate of delegates for Hoover has been put forward. Only former Senator France of Maryland and (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) REPORT OF RECOVERY OF LINDBERGH BABY IS DECLARED FALSE Boston Mayor Had Said Kidnapers Demanded 72 Hours to Flee. JOHNSON IS STILL HELD INCOMMUNICADO IN NEWARK JAIL Mystery Shrouds Rumor of Progress in Case After Police Report and Refuse to Give Details. By the Associated Prees. HOPEWELL, N.

March at the Lindbergh home stated flatly today that the kidnaped Lindbergh baby is not in either the Lindbergh or Morrow homes, and said they knew nothing of a report emanating from Boston that the child had been returned. As soon as it was reported from Boston that Mayor James M. Curley had what he considered reliable information concerning the return the following question was sent to the police headquarters at the Lindbergh home: Curley of Boston has announced that he has received information from an that baby has been returned on Sunday night and that the police had been cleared away from the Lindbergh home to give the kidnapers 72 hours in which to make their getaway. Has the baby been returned? Is Mayor Curley correct in any Mayor Says Child Was Returned Home Last Sunday Night By the Associated Press. BOSTON.

March James M. Curley today said he was reliably informed that the Lindbergh baby had been returned to his parents last Sunday night and that the information had been withheld from the police. The mayor, answering queries arising as a result of persistent rumors, said that his informant was a New York broker, whom he declined to name. The broker, he said, was informed by an Insurance man, whose name he also withheld. Curley said he was informed that the Lindbergh baby was returned to his home after his parents had made an agreement with the kidnapers not to notify the police for 72 hours.

FARLEY INDICTMENT DISMISSED BY JUDGE Ousted New York Sheriff Cleared of Charges of Qrand Larceny. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March indictment charging grand larceny against former Sheriff Thomas M. Farley was dismissed today by Judge John J. Freschi in General Sessions Court.

Farley, recently ousted as sheriff of New York County by Gov. Roosevelt, was indicted as a result of his taking Interest on money entrusted to his care. On the witness stand he denied criminal intent In keeping the money, testifying he did it on the advice of counsel. At the close of testimony yesterday, counsel for the formed sheriff renewed a motion that the charges be dismissed. The court ordered a directed verdict of acquittal.

In his opinion, Judge Freschi said, the central point around which the entire case revolved was the question of whether Farley, in taking the interest, knew he was doing so wrongfully, or whether he believed he had a right to take it. It had been shown, the court said, that many previous incumbents had considered the interest theirs and that Farley had been advised by competent counsel that it belonged to him. While dismissing the charge against Farley, Judge Freschi indicated he thought the contention that the sheriff had a right to interest on funds of litigants was without basis and said he thought that remedy against the time-honored custom might be found by litigants in the civil courts. 177,017 ARE GIVEN JOBS NEW YORK, March 9 total of 177,017 wage earners had regained jobs today as the result of the united action campaign to find a million posts for the unemployed. Yesterday 101 communities reported 6.994 men and women put back to work.

In reports, Ohio led the States, with 1.625. Have You Stopped Hoarding? YOU SHOULD DO SO! It's a Patriotic Duty! $100.00 in gold will be paid by The Evening Star to the D. C. citizen who has returned his or her money to normal channels and who will write the best 100-word account of the reasons why hoarding was stopped. $50.00 in gold will be paid to the writer of the second best letter.

$25.00 in gold will be paid to the resident of the District of Columbia who writes the third best letter. WRITE AND TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE DONE TO FURTHER THE WAR AGAINST IDLE DOLLARS AND FROZEN CREDIT. Letters will be received up until 6 p.m. Saturday. Names will be kept confidential until the victors are announced.

Address all communications to the Anti-Hoarding Editor of The Evening Star. HELP THE CAUSE OF YOUR NOW! Confer for Hour. Police conferred for piore than an hour on this and other questions submitted at the same time and then replied to the question about the alleged return: know nothing of Another question as to whether the baby was now in the Lindbergh or Morrow homes the police answered flatly, Earlier, a rumor that something i would happen at the Morrow home caused a flurry of excitement in Englewood, but early this afternoon nothing had materialized there. Police headquarters at the Lindbergh estate continued to maintain strictest secrecy on possible movements of Col. Lindbergh or his representatives and gave negative answers to questions about their own activities.

Henry (Red) Johnson, suitor of the nursemaid, still was held Incommunicado at Newark police headquarters, with authorities refusing to say if he was submitting voluntarily to inquisition. Two Sought at Border. Police of Niagara Palls, N. were seeking J. Norman Beck, dog lace promoter, and a possible companion named at the request cf New Jersey State police, who wanted to know the whereabouts of these men at the time of the kidnaping.

the police said, was discharged from the employ of the late Dwight W. Morrow after serving the latter in Mexico, and had a record ms a smuggler and kidnaper. Buffalo, N. police joined in the search and learned that Beck was last seen there in the Spring of 1930. Authorities of West Chester, seized upon a possible connection between the Lindbergh kidnaping and that of Mrs.

Nell Q. Donnelly, wealthy Kansas City woman, and sought to learn if Martin Depew, former Downingtown, man, was among workmen once employed to level off a field near the Lindbergh home. Scores of crank messages filled the mail of Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh, grandmother of the missing baby, at Detroit. None was considered of importance.

A rumor rippling through Hopewell to the effect that Col. Lindbergh was preparing to fly to Detroit on information that his baby would be returned there was generally discounted. Mountain Cabins Searched. Mountain cabins in the Mingo and Valley Head sections south of Elkins, W. were subjected to police search on the strength of a note which said "the Lindbergh baby is 32 miles south of Elkins in a cabin.

Out of A man in Cumberland, said the note was handed to him by the occupant of a passing auto late yesterday. Two men, a woman and a baby, the latter clothed in a white zipper suit, were reported by a toll collector on a bridge that links Perth Amboy. N. to Tottenville, Staten Island, N. to have crossed in a green coupe on the night of the kidnaping.

This caused a police check at Tottenville. There was no explanation for the delay in the report. State police continued to deny any knowledge of the reported appointment of Spitale and Bitz, purported underworld characters, as go-betweens for the return of the child and payment of ransom. Mrs. Lindbergh, mother of the missing baby, was described again as "bearing up Col.

H. Norman Schwartzkopf, chief of the State police, agreed this morning to meet the reporters at 2 face to face instead of making them get their information solely by telephoning questions to the Lindbergh home. Johnson still was being held lnaom(Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) SEATTLE MAYOR ELECTED BY RECORD MAJORITY John F. Dore, Criminal Lawyer, Defeats Harlin, Incumbent, 72,448 to 41,212. By the Associated Press.

SEATTLE, March Swept into office by the largest majority ever given a candidate for the position. in the history, John F. Dore, SOtyear-old criminal lawyer, is mayorelect. He defeated Mayor Robert H. Harlin by 72,448 vntes to 41,212 in an election yesterday.

Dore carried two new councilman, Frank E. Fitts and Roy B. Misener, into office with him, but saw the third open council seat go to David Levine, a Harlin backer, who was re-elected with 75,185 votes. Dore promised in the campaign to reduce the city's taxes $2,000,000, eliminate political heads of departments, out every official salary of more than $3,000 to that figure and take the door to the mayor's office "off its Senator Harris Better. Senator Harris of Georgia, opera, ed upon yesterday for a bladder was pronounced improving steadily to' day.

He was able to take nourishment and suffered leas pain than yesterday, i.