The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

Sixty-Ninth Year No 187 LEASED WIRE MEMBER THE associated press BOISE IDAHO TUESDAY MORNING FEBRUARY 28 1933 MEMBER AUDIT BURRUU OF CIRCULATIONS Price Five Cents Two Advisers Mol Drive Underway 5 CONGRESS MYSTERY I RL Hoover Guides Policy SUITCHARGING GRAFT ON TAX 220 Millions Asked for Former Secretary of Treasury and Two Others on Behalf of Government s' WASHINGTON VP) Six Says before he leaves the White House President Hoover Monday received from the executive committee of his party a message that Republican supporters ''will continue to look to him for leadership in these difficult and dangerous Just how this might affect the 1936 political situation immediately became the subject of widespread speculation Many wondered If the executive committee's letter could be interpreted as an invitation to him to seek once more the office he is about to leave Mr Hoover remained silent Witnesses Declare Evidence of Default by Peru Was Kept Secret WASHINGTON (Universal) National City company thrice ignored and suppressed Its own warnings that Peruvian loans were dangerous and participated in the sale of 90 million dollars of them to the public at a net profit for the company of $68101)0 testimony before senate stock market committee Monday showed Repeated secret warnings to the company chiefs from their trusted authorities were censored in the prospectuses mailed possible buyers of three Peruvian Issues witnesses admitted All have now defaulted and are of little market value Hugh Baker resigned president of the company and Victor Schoepperle vice president in charge of foreign loans gave the story of the South American bond venture to be continued at Tues- JAPAN'S long heralded invasion of the Chinese province of Jehol opened with clashes at Chaoyangssu and Kallu Japanese troops occupied Nanling and continued in the direction of Peipiao Kailu was occupied by the invaders Arrows 1 2 and 3 indicate direction of the Japanese advance with Jehol city the objective Dotted line shows territory held and patrolled toy the Japanese Britain Bans Shipment Of Arms to War Sector TO IRRIGATORS Bill Extending Moratorium on Construction Payments ft Goes to President Other Measures Swamped WASHINGTON The senate bill to extend the moratorium to water users on construction payments on federal irrigation pro jects was passed Monday by the house It now goes to the President The standing vote was 11S to 24 It defers payments due in the last half of 1982 and in all of 1988 and involves about 84500000 The rate of interest on the deferred payments was reduced from 5 to 8 per cent per annum A sweeping bankruptcy relief measure providing machinery for individual and farm debtors to obtain extensions or cash settlements and for railroads to readjust downward their capital structures to avoid receiverships was passed by the senate Monday night 44 to 8 Two Bills Differ The bankruptcy bill now goes to the house which has passed a bill on the same subject but radically different The two proposals will be sent to conference for composition of differences but whether an agreement can be reached before March 4 Is uncertain Under the first section of the measure an individual debtor who can obtain the consent of a majority of his secured and unsecured creditors to an extension or cash settlement of his obligations may petition the federal courts for approval of such settlement Mortgage Moratorium Fails The farm debtor could either proceed under that section for relief or band together with 14 other farmers in his county to obtain similar relief through the appointment by the courts of a conciliation commissioner Farm mortgage moratorium legislation was dead for the session Monday firmly killed by the senate after solemn warnings from Borah of Idaho and Glass of Virginia that the loan policies are carrying it Into Socialism So much opposition developed against the Hull-Walcott bill authorizing 600 million dollars In Re- (Continued on Page Three) FORECAST CLOUDY BOISE TEMPERATURES February 27 1933 (From Weather Bureau) I President to Be Roosevell Preparts for Plunge Into Gigantic Tasks Following Inauguration Saturday HYDE PARK (ff) Presi- dent-elect Roosevelt is surrounding himself with his new cabinet in preparation to plunge Immediately Into the titanic task of giving the nation a after inauguration The official cabinet' list neared completion Monday with Mr formal announcement that Senator Swanson of Virginia will be his secretary of the navy and Harold Ickes Chicago lawyer and Republican independent his secretary of the interior Prompt Action Assured The naming of 8enator Walsh of Montana as attorney general Daniel Roper of South Carolina as secretary of commerce and Mls Frances Perkins of New York as secretary of labor is expected in the next two days before he starts Cor New York and Washington Keenly alive to the pressing economic situation there is every sign that Mr Roosevelt is preparing for prompt action However he is covering It all up with light-hearted joviality In the presence of callers as he goes about final preparations for the presidency Hull Begins Work Whatever he has in mind and his friends believe it is plenty Mr Roosevelt is guardedly holding his Lire until after he takes the oath on the front steps of the capitol building next Saturday noon The rough outlines of a program hy which the nations might work together to quicken the flow of world commerce were discussed In Washington conferences Monday between Cordell Hull the Roose- hearings under examination I lt secretary of state and the Brit-of Ferdinand Pecora committee French ambassadors Feminine Scream Heard on Night Jean Hubby Died Bathing Suit Two Glasses Found LOS ANGELES (AP) A wet yellow bathing suit a weird feminine scream a mysterious tete-a-tete on the edge of a private swimming pool a clandestine feminine visit and the disappearance of a piece of cake linked Into a strange chain of circumstances that kept the question of who killed Paul Bern film executive a live Issue Monday These unexplained events all occurring within 24 hours of the pistol shot last September 5 that killed the bridegroom of Jean Harlow platinum blonde screen player were told Monday by one of the servants at the Bern residence The scene of all of them said Mrs Winifred Carmichael was the Paul Bern honeymoon home in Beverly IIIlls in Benedict canyon Servant Tells Story It was Widenham foreman of the county grand jury who kept the death story a live mystery when he refused Monday to Join in a scheduled statement from District Attorney Buron Fitts that the second Investigation into the case corroborated the jury verdict of suicide Bern's body had been found Sep' tember 5 with a bullet hole in the head a pistol in one hand and mystic note in a small book Mrs Carmichael servant in the house said Monday she had not been asked about these strange in cidents at the time of the Inquest and therefore did not tell of them until the new probe was made Cake Tnkcn Away She said a strange woman visited Bern about sundown on the day which proved to be his last This woman avoided the servants she aid A mysterious woman's scream sounded in the house that night she said She discovered a wet bathing suit yellow and belonging to some strange woman near the pool of the residence and also two glasses indicating a tete-a-tete at the edge of the pool The cake mystery Involved a piece of devil's food cake she had prepared and left in Jean dressing room Although Miss Harlow had not returned that night the cake was missing in the morn 'nr and Bern she said never ate Cermak Resists Lung Congestion Takes Some Food MIAMI Fla Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago critically wounded by Giuseppe Zangara the assassin resisted the Inroads of pneumonia to the satisfaction of his physicians Monday night Despite his continued grave condition a bulletin at 1 a said Mayor Cermak showed resistance to the pneumonic Dr Snyder said the area of Ihe lung congestion had not increased since afternoon when It was reported to have doubled since first discovered The Chicago mayor had a comfortable day the bulletin said adding that there was no evidence of a failure of vital processes Monday night His heart has been In had shape several days and Monday morning showed continued igns of strain Doctor Snyder expressed satisfaction at Mr increased display of spirit and interest Monday and added: is every indication he will tive through the Mr Cermak took 'more nourishment Monday He ate cereal gelatin and custard Paramour of Carol Gives Birth to Son LONDON (Universal) -1- The Vienna correspondent of the London Dally Express Monday reported rumors that Mme Magda Lupescu favorite of King Carol of Rumania gave birth to a son three weeks ago Japanese See Victory in Next Ten Days Defense Holds CHIXCHOW Manchuria VP) Officers at Japanese headquarters predicted Monday that the armies of Japan and Manchukuo would have the province of Jehol in the hollow of their hand In 10 days By March 10 anniversary of the battle of Mukden in the Russo-Japanese war 28 years ago they said Jehol City will have fallen and the province will be ripe for annexation to Manchukuo That was the prediction but the Chinese defense appeared to be stiffening and there was no relaxation of the bitter weather along the entire front General Heiftiro Mattori with a brigade of Infantry was checked In southeastern Jehol by Chang Chinese regulars fighting their first engagement in this campaign The general reported he had carried part of Shamoshan pass driving the Chinese back but the fighting continued apparently the heaviest since the invasion of Jehol began The column advancing westward toward Jehol City from Chlnchow was more successful It took Chao-yang after some resistance then suddenly shifted the attack northwest against the town of Chienping (Continued on Page Three) That war debts and tariffs entered into discussions with Ambassador Lindsay was not denied The Roosevelt administration has agreed to hear' shortly distributed tthe and Pe-1 cora produced photostatic evidence from the files that warnings had been repeatedly given that Peru was not good for the loans A' total 65 million 'of 'the 96 milllpn dollars sunk in the bonds by American Investors went to -retire earlier Peruvian issues some of which were in default and much of which was held abroad or by large corporations here it was shown While Baker was In the witness chair his resignation was accepted by his board of directors meeting in New York Charles Mitchell chairman of the whole National City group whose resignation was made Sun- Protest From Canyon County day night following a week of sen-1 sational revelations before the senate committee sat behind Baker Ifltchell told to remain In Washington until Wednesday fori A strong likelihood that France las well as Great Britain will be allowed to present Its idea for war debt revision was seen Monday ROSSIMINDED OF HIS PLEDGE SENATOR SWANSON upper will be secretary of the navy and Harold Ickes secretary of the Interior announces Roosevelt Hitler Orders Arrest of All Communists Blaze Set in Four Places BERLIN (Tuesday) (Universal) Chancellor Hitler decreed the Immediate arrest of all Communist reichstag deputies early Tuesday as the result of the Incendiary fire set by a Communist which ruined the Interior of the reichstag building Monday night The Communist reichstag members held a meeting In the old government building late in- the afternoon Just before the fire was discovered There were 100 Red reichstag deputies in the last reichstag The fire broke out in four places in the famous six-mllllon-dollar building gutted the assembly hall and caused the collapse of part of the great gilded glass dome before the flames were brought under control A watchman who reported the fire said he had seen men with burning torches racing through the corridors A police cordon' wai swiftly thrown around the reichstag for two blocks to the east along the river Spree around the Tiergarten and Koenlgplatz dames Spread Rapidly Police In armored cars questioned all civilians In the area while the entire fire-fighting force was rushing to the burning government building They arrested a 80-year-old Communist who confessed to setting the fire He had a Dutch passport giving his name as Van der Leuggen Police believe he had accomplices The flames spread rapidly wholly destroying most of the woodwork desks benches and galleries in the plenary hall Part of the glass dome designed by former Kaiser Wilhelm caved in The floor of the plenary hall was under two feet of water at midnight Records Undamaged Chancellor Hitler Vice Chancellor von Papen and Minister for Air Goering rushed into the building as soon as it was safe They found the records and costly volumes of the library undamaged Firemen said the blaze had been brought under control at 10 but at midnight the building was still smouldering The glass dome glowed in a white heat and was visible from roofs miles away when the blaze was at its height while the old structure was covered with' icicles frozen to Its architecture The 40-year-old central structure will have to be almost totally rebuilt officials estimated WASHINGTON VP) Andrew Mellon ambassador to Great Britain and former secretary of the treasury and two former officials of the Internal revenue bureau Monday were named defendants In a 220-mllllon-dollar suit charging alleged connivance with officers of foreign steamship companies to evade just Income taxes Named with Mellon were David Blair one-time commissioner of internal revenue and Alexander Gregg former acting general counsel of the bureau The suit was filed in the District of Columbia supreme court by David A Olson wbo resigned recently as investigator for the senate stock market Inquiry committee after charging that his efforts were blocked by Senator Norbeck Republican South Dakota and others on the committee Based on Old Statute The papers alleged that Mr Mellon not only failed to collect 100 thousand dollars In delinquent taxes from foreign steamship Interests but placed the government in such a position that It was compelled to refund some 10 million dollars to the companies The Identities of the companies was not disclosed in the suit The suit was based upon a statute of 1868 which prohibits tbe defrauding of the government by trickery end makes federal officials liable for double the amount of damages suffered by the government Although filed in name it Is on behalf of the people of the United States so that any damages awarded would revert to the treasury department Payments Refused Olson through his attorneys alleged that the federal authorities wrongfully permitted the foreign companies to make amended tax returns based on the revenue act of 1921 instead of the acts of 1916 1917 and 1918 It was contended that the companies had refused to make tax payments on the latter three years The papers said that Mellon conferred with steamship officials during March 1927 the purpose of assisting said companies in attempts to defeat the claim of the United Olson a New York Investigator was retained by the senate stock market Investigating committee to pursue its inquiry in New York He served only a brief period however before resigning with a statement asserting be was being check-mated In moves to obtain all the facts he deemed necessary irr LASHES JT OF LIFE i i (By Associated Press) Tall Girl Wanted CUSHING Okla George Kennedy Cushing bookkeeper is feet 10 Inches tall and unmarried He says the girl he weds must be able to kiss him without using stilts spaghetti and string Is his reply to how he got that way Ride 'Em Cowboy BRISBANE Queensland-An unarmed man captured three sharks The sharks which were shovelnosed and from six to nine feet long had entered a bathing pool Roy Wilson swam to one of the sharks and scrambled onto its back Then he hooked his legs around ts body and it as It dashed frantically up and down the pool Finally the shark gave up ex-lausted Two others were caught by the same method Impossible Your Honor CHICAGO Henry Endler faced the court and heard his wife complain that he drank 68 gallons of wine in seven weeks The judge looked astounded He (Continued on Page Three) 23 degrees was anticipated for Tuesday morning Meanwhile to the southeast all earmarks of mid-winter clung with a vengeance It was 4 below at Blackfoot Saturday night and only 8 degrees warmer Sunday night Although main highways have been cleared travel Is difficult One-way traffic is In vogue on several stretches On' side roads sleds are used Cars are unable to buck the drifts Mounds of snow five feet high line both sides of main arteries Snow reports from higher altl tudes showed favorable figures fot irrigators Pilot Peak had 116 inches Other stations were: Mammoth mine 96 Lownan 48 Casner ranch 52 Idaho City 42 Cottonwood 41 Twin Springs 43 Atlanta 45 Prairie 45 Vienna mine 77 Feathervllle 48 Several points revealed a falling off since last week but the melting has been slow and the snow Is still well packed Of Course We Know What Reckless Murderers Most Drivers Are but the Average Pedestrian Entirely Blameless Borah Stops Embargo by France Is Willing LONDON VP) A -virtual embargo on the shipment of arms and ammunition to Japan and China was announced Monday by Sir John Simon the foreign secretary in the house of commons There is one condition orders and contracts already placed by the two countries will be completed and shipped with the sanction of the government Coincident with his announcement the foreign secretary stated that in no circumstances would Great Britain allow herself to be drawn into the conflict It was felt that In this statement lies the key to the whole policy of virtual embargo It was said unofficially that should an actual state of war between China and Japan come about the Japanese navy easily would -be able to seize shipments of arms to China and that if sometime that shipment happened to he In Brit-sh bottom it would be very difficult to escape involvement It Is believed that both countries are about equal in war orders already placed but Japan is thought to be well stocked with finished material and well provided with means to finish materials Her chle need is raw material This latter is not necessarily affected by the Simon policy MOVE FAILS WASHINGTON The powerful opposition of Borah of Idaho was raised Monday against American participation in an embargo on arms shipments to the Orient To piit an arms embargo on China and the chairman of 1 he foreign relations committee told newspapermen to' take sides with Japan under -the conditions and circumstances that now exist' Others who have taken the same view as Borah have contended that Japan is already well-equipped while China must seek war supplies abroad Borah spoke after Democratic house leaders had blocked for this session action on President Hoover's proposal to empower the chief executive to place embargoes on shipments of arms and munitions to countries in conflict France also was understood to be ready to participate in any arms embargo proposed by the league of nations for the Far East provided the United States and Great Britain also participate PRISON PLOT FAILS SACRAMENTO VP) Armed with two home-made pistols that worked 5 rounds of hand-made ammunition and a knife Lloyd Sampsell and Martin Colson long term prisoners subdued guards and staged a spectacular but futile attempt to force their way out of Folsom prison Monday her cage to fill the water pan He had done the same thing many times before but Suriday for some undetermined reason she Jumped upon him threw -him to the floor clawed and bit him and tried vainly to reach his throat with her fangs Wisely Leppert burled his head In his arms and 'pulled his overcoat about his head as best he could while spectators brought clubs an ax and a bucket of water to the scene The cougar released her keeper when the water was thrown in her face and this gave the rescuers an opportunity to drag Leppert from the cage you go into the cage Leppert was asked Monday! I he said fight shy of her for a while anyway at least till she has a chance to forget about it" auxr pretend Ybtr OOMT HU THEM COMING 0EARE AMO Foaua (Continued on Page Three) ft-l III1 OFFICER THAT MAN SEueeBATELYTCJCDTb tPN OVER AND HLL MY UTTLE WILLV ARREST HIM HEflBOKEMV MAMMA 8LAH-AH A telegram branding alleged In the state budget shams and urging that the house pass the senate bill for reduction of state salaries signed by 50 taxpayers of Canyon county was delivered to Governor Ross Monday The signers Certified themselves as residents and taxpayers business men and fanners of Canyon county The telegram follows: advise you that It has come to our attention that the senate bill reducing salaries of state employes in the aggregate amount of approximately $250000 for the biennium having passed the senate by a sub-satntlal majority Is now being held in the house sifting committee with the evident Intention of preventing the bill from ever reaching the floor of'the house Notice Small Change Invite your attention to your campaign promises preceding your first election consisting largely of talk about reducing state expenses and relieving the burden of taxation On examining our tax notices we observe no appreciable reduction in the levy for state purposes 'The new state budget shows that the state income from all sources including federal aid is In excess of million dollars in spite of which we are advised that in recent weeks it has been necessary for the general fund to borrow from the endowment fund large sums of cash with which to pay current expenses we Invite your attention I to your campaign promises prior to your second 'election consisting mostly of talk about the reduction of state expenses in relief of the taxpayers yet we find that the relief from taxes if any is again negligible Can't Find Redaction the budget Indicates some reduction in the general fund yet when we examine closely the system of fees collected by various departments we are unable to detect any appreciable reduction We therefore urge you to prove your good faith by using your Influence to force the house sifting committee to bring senate bill No 129 to the floor of the house that the public may be advised of the Intents and purposes of the bill and we further urge you to use your great personal and administrative influence to the end that the bill do Senate bill No 129 referred to in I the telegram was reported out of the house sifting committee shortly before noon Monday I as i wellweli- ODE GRUNTOV VA wo? rwui'Re VMER Neither Lamb Nor Lion Slated To Greet Arrival Here Injured Zoo Keeper Willing To Let Surly Cougar Young March will arrive In Boise moderate temper neither lamb-ike nor lionlsh but with qualities of both to remind citizens that winter has not gone and that spring is not far away February gave Indications Monday of bowing Itself out of the picture with a snow storm and cloudy skies Occasional snow Is forecast 5y the weather bureau The second month of the year will not depart without leaving its imprint on records of the Boise station' however A record low temperature for the month was established when the mercury sank to' 13 degrees below aero With spring not due for 22 days the sun was kind to the valley Monday -drying roads and streets and removing coat from ground long burled under the snow Little chapge in temperature Is expected for several days A low of Stiff and sore from the mauling suffered Sunday when he was attacked by the big mountain lion at Julia Davis park George Leppert keeper of the park zoo was recovering at his home Monday from his injuries He seemed unruffled by the incident and appeared to accept it as a part of his work course I was badly shaken he said "I have scratches and 'bites -all over my head and face and my back is bruised in hundred places where the claws ripped through my clothing" Leppert said Monday it was the first time he had ever been attacked by the cougar She had recently lunged at one of his assistants he said but because the man had Just reached the outside of the cage no damage was inflicted The lioness attacked Leppert Sunday afternoon when entered 1988 i.