The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

IDAHO MAN BOISE IDAHO THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 23 1933 MEMBER AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Sixty-Ninth Year No 207 rTCARTTTi WIRE MEMBER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Price Five Cents FEDERAL JURY 1700 Persons Cheat Charity House Passes Farm Bill Mortgage Relief Sought Beer Measure is Signed Sirens Scream In Milwaukee New Legislation to Face Rough Path in Senate Gives Wallace Powers AUSTRIA UNITE WITH GERMANY Aspirations Made Public in Prussian Diet French Premier to Visit Mussolini BERLIN (JP) The aspirations of Chancellor Adolf Nazis for a political union of Germany and Austria were emphatically proclaimed Wednesday at the opening: session of the Prussian diet The spokesman for union was Wilhelm Kube the Nazi floor leader Amidst the greatest enthusiasm he saluted eight Akian Nazis who were in the gallery and declared: the leader of the Nazis in this house and on the order of Chancellor Hitler I as a Prussian say that we Prussians are Pan-Germans that we shall continue to be so and that we shall have obtained our goal only when all Germany including German Austria is united with our fatherland in one great state which can then serve mission in the Machine Rniu Smoothly The well oiled Nazi parliamentary machine functioned perfectly disposing within 43 minutes of a diet program that ordinarily would have necessitated weeks of deliberation Wednesday night the only check restraining the Nazis appeared to be the determination of Vice Chancellor Franz von Papen not to let a Hitlerite have the coveted post of Prussian premier Thursday the chancellor will ask the reichstag to approve an enabling act turning the government of the reich over to the cabinet for four years and in effect putting an end to the republican system by which Germany has been governed since the war PEACE PACT STUDIED PARIS UP) A trip by Premier Edouard Daladler to Italy for a direct discussion with Premier Mussolini may be the next move in efforts to organize a four-power it developed Wednesday The meeting apparently depends on the reaction of Premier Mussolini to the conversations in Paris held Tuesday by Daladler and Prime Minister Ramsay Mqedopald of Great Britain The British and French statesmen discussed the Mussolini project which the Italian premier had explained to Mr Macdonald -when the British prime minister was 4n Rome last week end In principle the French have agreed to the Mussolini plan but (Continued on Page Two) Plan to Finance Idaho World Fair Exhibit Advanced Plans to finance an Idaho state exhibit at the Chicago world fair by sale of souvenir silver disks were revealed Wednesday by Will II Simons state mine Inspector who is taking them up with the state and local chambers of commerce said the inspector much the same as the emergency silver currency I suggested to tide us over the bank holiday except that the emergency would have sold merely for the market price of the silver with no profit while these disks probably would be sold for a dollar each "Each disk would be stamped on one side with the state seal and on the other with a view of the capi-toL They could be sold in Idaho In sufficient numbers I am sure to get our exhibit back to Chicago and then there would be sufficient sale among visitors to the fair to bring the exhibit home We estimate there will be a total of $35-000 Simons pointed out that thee would be no state appropriation available and that the state chamber saw no hope of a popular subscription succeeding he said "should have an exhibit at Chicago and this seems a feasible way of insuring one I shall donate the mineral exhibit on the part of this department and I am sure the land and agricultural departments can assemble representative timber and farming MILWAUKEE Wls (ff) This pre-prohibition brewing center bubbled over with activity with the signing of the 32 per cent beer and wine bill Wednesday by President Roosevelt Police were called tomaintain order among thousands who clamored for jobs at doors of eight large breweries Engineers and firemen In the holler rooms leaned on whistle cords to announce that the President had made law of the beer bill The fire department contributed with sirens and bells Motorists pressed horn buttona One large brewery Installed 10 additional telephones to receive ordera And one of the day's orders it was announced was for a trainload of beer Racketeers Will Be Refused Licenses Wine Makers Prefer to Wait WASHINGTON UP) If the man charged with Issuing beer licenses can prevent it there will be no hasty shifting of racketeers fjrom the bootleg beer business into the legal Industry Dr James Doran industrial alcohol commissioner said Wednesday every safeguard would be resorted to in issuing permits so that only those who can show a reputable past will do the brewing after April 6 legalized brewer can manufacture beer and pay the revenue tax at a cost well below that of a gun organization" he declared Can Bottle at Once The alcohol bureau has some 650 field workers and they will be deployed immediately to the various licensed breweries one to each plant at first and later one to every three or four as the situation is stabilized It will be they who stand one eye on the clock on the night of April 6 and give the word for trucks loaded with the foaming beverage to swing out to retail establishments as the deadline hour arrives Millions of gallons of beer in states where its sale will be legal are ready to be bottled Under regulations issued Wednesdas' this bottling may proceed Piped into large measuring vats to which Inspectors hold the key the beer will be tested to ascertain that it is within the 22 per cent alcoholic content The tax on the bottled beverage must be paid then After that it may be removed to other parts of the for bottling or kegging the kegs to bear the revenue stamp 'on the bunghole VINTNERS SCOFF SAN FRANCISCO UP) Enactment of the beer bill with its much discussed clause permitting 22 per cent found California brewers working frantically to get their product ready for sale by April 7 but leading California wine producers were making no move to supply wines or other fermented fruit juice beverages Virtually all the leading vintners said they were not considering attempting to make 22 but would prefer to wait for the legalisation of real naturally fermented wine with an alcoholic content approximating 10 per cent SPEED BEER BILL BATON ROUGE La UP) The Louisiana senate Wednesday night approved -a bill repealing in full the state prohibition law known as the Hood act Action by the house is expected Friday which would permit the repeal to become effective on April 19 POWER BEHIND Idahoan Accuses Makers of Munitions With Fomenting International Troubles to Boost Powder Market WASHINGTON UP) The influ ence of Senator Borah still powerful in international affairs although no longer chairman of the senate foreign relations committee was thrown Wednesday behind the move to give President Roosevelt power to place embargoes on arms shipments in the in terests of peace Borah issued a formal statement supporting the resolution now pending in the house foreign affairs committee to give the chief executive authority to lay down arms embargoes in co-operation with other nations Wise manner in which munitions and arms manufacturers directly or indirectly encourage trouble in International controversies cannot be Borah said "They aggravate in different ways the situation and they should be restrained in every way statement follows in full: embargo resolution now before the house committee is the same resolution which was unanimously reported out by the foreign relations committee of the senate last session and which also passed the senate I think It rests upon a sound and wise policy Interests of manner in which munitions and arms manufacturers directly or Indirectly encourage trouble in international controversies cannot be over estimated They aggravate in different ways the situation and they should be restrained in every way possible think the power given the President by the resolution is such power as may be given under the constitution I cannot see that it transgresses the constitution in any respect The late Senator Walsh was of the same opinion cannot be used as has been said to foment war or make trouble unless there is a deliberate desire to do so Any reasonable use of it would be in the interest of Motorist Beats Train But Passenger Loses YALE Okla UP) Panic stricken by the effort of I Kenworthy Stillwater motorist to beat a Missouri Kansas Texas passenger train to a grade crossing Russell Trump 2 5 -year-old farmer leaped from the Kenworthy car to his death in front of the locomotive Wednesday Kenworthy cleared the tracks and was not Injured Cayanah Quashes Charges Against Fort Hall Indian POCATELLO UP) Federal Judge Cavanah late Wednesday afternoon sustained the motion to quash the indictment as Introduced by counsel In the case of Doty Lewis Indian charged with murder last October of Mabel Sawyer 13-year-old Indian girl Lewis was remanded to the custody of the marshal until April 25 and government counsel given 15 days to file a new Information Action of Judge Cavanah will re suit in the summoning of a new grand jury it was stated The motion to quash the indictment has attracted considerable interest in legal circles as the judge explained his ruling on the grounds that the interpreter used before the grand jury was also a witness for the government Another reason he gave for his decision was that the grand jury was not selected as provided by law The procedure used by the clerk has been a precedent over- a long period of years the clerk having written to clerks of district courts asking for names of 50 citizens who would bq suitable for jury service favored law enforcement and would be fairly disposed to the government and defendants Chicago Takes Steps To End Flea Shortage CHICAGO UP) With courage and swift action this city is meeting its latest emergency a shortage of fleas They are not ordinary man-kind-loving broad jumpers They are water fleas or daphnia minute fresh water crustaceans small cousins of the lobster Walter Chute director of John Shedd aquarium explained 'the daphnia are the staple food for many varieties of small fish especially -tropical species The creatures thrive in ditches and ponds Industry has moved in and the water fleas have moved out The Shedd aquarium has field men out scouting for daphnia breeding grounds If necessary Chute will lease the land surrounding them SAN FRANCISCO Revelation that 1700 persons receiving community aid in San Francisco have bank accounts was made Wednesday by John Shannon special investigator for associated charities extent of racketeering among people receiving relief from the associated charities and other organizations is almost beyond Shannon said "One man was found with a savings account of $32000 Another had FLOODS LEAVE Danger of Disease Follows in Wake of High Waters Two More Lives Lost CINCINNATI UP) The flood menace of the Ohio river moved downstream Wednesday night while authorities took steps to combat the hazards that follow in the wake of high waters Possible collapse of flood weakened buildings in areas where the waters retreated Wednesday was deemed by authorities the greatest present danger Precaution also was taken to prevent any epidemics of disease In Dayton Kentucky across the river from Cincinnati school children received large doses of cod liver oil to increase their resistance Ebb Brings Cheer Meanwhile the flood waters ebbed away here and although slowly brought cheer to Cincinnati and to other communities more than a hundred miles upstream In that area the Ohio generally marked time held back by th great volume of water that bogged in the tri-state area of Ohio Kentucky and Indiana From the latter district down stream the situation was one of increasing distress It will lie another week the weather bureau said before the worst of the flood is felt in southern Indiana Kentucky and Illinois Grabs Power Wire As it retreated in the upstream area the Ohio and its tributaries snatched two more lives Wednesday Near Portsmouth Ohio Louis Mitchell 15 feared his skiff would sink in a turbulent creek and grabbed at a dangling wire It was a power line and the shock killed him instantly At Zanesville Ohio Mrs Caroline Helnle 65 was found drowned in a backwater These deaths put the known toll of the flood to 12 lives in addition to unestlmated damage to property Tax Collections Gain in February WASHINGTON UP) Erratic banking conditions of the country in February were reflected Wednesday in statistics issued by the Internal revenue bureau showing tax collections for the month The total amounted to $90-715108 an Increase of approximately four million dollars as compared to January due largely to larger income tax receipts The bank situation however caused a drop of $862416 in the tax collected on checks lowering the total to $3122638 while the tax on safety deposit boxes reflected the rush to rent them and increased $24445 to $255849 Jigsaw Puzzle Fans Imbecility NEW YORK (A1) Now Charles Gray Shaw tells what he thinks of Jigsaw puzzle fans Shaw philosophy professor at New York university caused a storm when he said something about whistlers being morons several months ago "The jigsaw like the crossword he declared Wednesday a self-imposed intelligence test by which the puzzler wishes to assure himself that he is not In the moron class tests on a smaller scale are used in determining degrees of imbecility present craze for puzzles is a neurotic condition a symptom of a nervous such manner as the legislature may by law or resolution Acting on this provision the house passed and sent to the senate a concurrent' resolution providing for distribution of sets among the legislators The senate defeated this Then the senate turned around and reintroduced the same resolution It was again defeated As a third attempt the house introduced and passed a house 'resolution providing for members of the house to take their codes home and the senate passed another kind of resolution giving senators the right to retain their copies of the code until the next session and then turn them over to their successors in action attorney general Informs OF TAX FRAUD Attorney Rushes Indictment of Banker Mitchell Who Allegedly Admitted Stock Sale to Cheat Government NEW YORK UP) Racing against the statute of limitations United States Attorney George Medalie laid before a federal grand Jury Wednesday the case of Charles Mitchell who was arrested Tuesday night on a charge of evading a $657152 income tax in 1929 With a painstaking Investigation completed into a transaction by which Mitchell said he sold a block of National City bank stock to his wife at a loss of $2800000 the authorities made speed their watchword In the case of at least one of the charges against the grey-hair-ed banker the statute of limitations will apply in about three weeks Max Steur widely known criminal lawyer was retained late Wednesday to present a stiff defense It was learned that two main arguments will he 'advanced for defense first that reputable attorneys assured Mitchell he was within his rights In deducting the loss he claimed second that the transaction was a bona-fide sale Study Special Account Investigators meanwhile delved into a special account of the National City bank from which the resigned chairman of National City testified he and other officers re ceived nine million dollars in three years In addition to their salaries The payments were authorized by the directors but Medalie said there was some question of their legality Mitchell testified to receiving these payments before the senate committee investigating stock market practices at the same time he disclosed the details of the stock transfer to his socially prominent wife Mrs Elizabeth Rend Mitchell To a question from Senator Smith Brookhart sale was just really a sale of convenience to reduce your Income Mitchell replied: No Money Exchanged It was a sale frankly for that purpose where you hoped the buyer would be able to make a profit And It was bought with the idea of making a profit But the accumulated loss was so great that I offered and did buy the stock back this year at what had been paid for it And I hold today that Thomas Dewey chief assistant United States attorney made affidavit however that the sale was not bona-fide on the ground that no money was exchanged between the banker and his wife that the loss of $2800000 which Mitchell claimed on the deal was not a loss in fact and that the banker should have reported a taxable income of $2828405 in 1929 instead of a $48000 deficit Canned Human Blood Used for Transfusion NEW YORK UP) The successful use in Russia of canned human blood for transfusion purposes was related Wednesday by Dr Allen Hlrsch of New York on his arrival here on the liner Europa after spending a year in Russia cannot' use the blood of a person who has died of Doctor Hlrsch said when a person has been killed the blood can be used again with beneficial Doctor Hlrsch said that blood was drained from a man In Moscow and it was sealed In a can Twenty days later he said it was used successfully for a transfusion The blood is preserved with a small quantity of mangeslum sulphate Dr Judd Believes Condemned Wife Is Now Insane PHOENIX Arlz (Universal) Taking the stand in his behalf Dr Judd Wednesday afternoon offered the most convincing testimony since the hearing opened before the board of pardons and paroles on Winnie Ruth plea for commutation of the death sentence in the murder of Agnes LeRoi and Hed-vig Samuelson With apparent logical coolness he summed up the whole case from the time Ruth surrendered to the police of Los Angeles td the present demonstrated the almost impossibility of an inexperienced person dismembering a body as was the body of Miss Samuelson Doctor Judd told the board he was firmly convinced that Ruth is still lying as to that portion of her story and discussed at some length the five different variations of her story that have come out He said frankly he did -not believe her sane This came when the Rev Mr McKInnell father interrupted with the question: in your opinion as a physician and from your experience with mental cases in institutions where you have worked do you think Ruth at this time is of sound mind -answer which he later elaborated on was: I think she is sane at this Rooseyelt Affixes Signature to Brew Legalization With Happy Smile WASHINGTON (AP) With smiles the Roosevelt administration Wednesday formally authorized sale of beer The bill legalizing both the amber brew and wine of 82 per cent alcoholic content became law with the signature of President Roosevelt at 2 "And I hope you got the smile at the he remarked to photographers who recorded the signing in the cabinet room at the White House executive office Wearing a broad grin himself an hour earlier Vice President Garner had affixed his signature to the legislation to send it from congress to the White House Prohibitionists Plan Checks Fifteen days hence or after midnight on April 8 the beer may be sold in the 14 states permitting it The midnight hour applies to the eastern time belt Sales may begin at 9 April 6 on the Pacific ooaat for Instance But the prohibitionists were already at work Wednesday night on plans to halt the beer flow by court action Some were considering seeking an injunction Others were preparing to speed the case to the supreme court for a ruling whether it violated the constitutional mandate against sale of Intoxicating beverages Most Stay on Premises Federal officers charged with administration of the new were just as busy to make sure of its enforcement They ruled that the new beverage must be kept within the breweries or' on the premises until the midnight hour has struck April 6 Trucks may then go their way and early morning celebrations will be legal so far as the federal government is concerned The act authorizing beer became a law in a scene as simple as it was brief Informed that the enrolled measure was at the White House President Roosevelt walked across the hall from his office to the cabinet room where moving picture photographers had set up their machines Shephen Early a secretary handed the bill to the President who was seated at his regular place at the head of the long narrow table With pen in hand Mr Roosevelt scanned the six pages then folded over the last one and reached for the ink He used four pens in completing (Continued on Page Two) H7 LASHES JF OF LIFE (By the Associated Press) Witnesses Go On Strike WILKES-BARRE Pa Called to testify in the Casey-Turpln congressional election -contest a group of witnesses refused' to' take the stand until their fees were paid Their action brought 'the hearing to an abrupt halt Boy Solves Holiday Problem RUSSELI Ky An ingenious schoolboy opened the flood traps in the basements of the grade and high schools flooding both School authorities dismissed 800 puplle as a result and classes may not be resumed for several days Women's Rights LOUISVILLE Ky Workers evacuating families from districts threatened by floods met delays here Five men were held up by a 5-year-old girl until she found a penny she had lost in a chair A woman refused to be moved until she had finished ironing would the neighbors think she asked A Whale of an Idea MARSHFIELD Postmaster Duncan Douglas received a letter from a young woman in Indiana asking confirmation of a story whales come into Coos bay are fed hay are milked and the milk made into cheese Douglas said before anything like that happened have to train dogfish to do the herding Life of a Country Doctor FAITH For more than a score of years Dr Dyrkee has been answering 'distress calls from the sick and Injured and when he looked over his account books he found the amount due l)lm In fees was approximately $29500 After cancelling aU the bills he said: as you go and save a dollar for a rainy day If you have more divide it with the poor and thank God that you have health and are a citizen of the United States of She's a Fighter SEATTLE At the age of 71 with her life savings swept away Mrs Marion d'Arnoux a widow Is staging a a she says smil- CHARLES MITCHELL gray-' haired banker faces trial on charges he had Income of millions in 1929 Instead of deficit he reported DIVORCE SURE Famous Out Dining With Betty Compton as Wife Wins Decree MIAMI Fla (Universal) Mrs Janet Allen Walker late Wednesday was assured of a divorce from former Mayor James Walker of New York Thomas Dowdell' grand master in chancery who heard Mrs plea recommended to Dade county circuit court that the divorce on grounds of desertion be granted It is the custom of the court to carry out the recommend ations The decision of Dowdell said: has been' guilty of willful obstinate and continued de sertlon of complainant for more than one year is entitled to the relief applied for The court decrees her bonds of matrimony be dissolved and absolute divorce REMARRIAGE PONDERED CANNES France (Universal) Former Mayor James Walker of New York was out to dinner with Miss Betty Compton New York actress and her mother Mrs Florence Compton when word reached here Wednesday evening that a divorce for Mrs Janet Allen Walker had been recommended in Miami It was pointed out here that certain formalities will have to be ful filled should Walker carry out an oft-denied and as often rumored plan to marry Miss Compton who has been his companion on the Riviera Both must have birth certificates or affidavits visaed by the Ameri can consulate and the foreign office Both must have an Ameri can certificate similarly visaed that certain New York legal requirements can -not prevent a ceremony' Both must also have lived SO days in the town where the application is made and then after filing all documents bans must be posted in the town hall 10 days be-f or the ceremony if there I4 in this case to be one Walker only Tuesday-refused to discuss the report Irene McLaughlin Says Pigs Unhappy WAUKEGAN 111 William pigs coughing and appeared to have when Mrs Irene Castle McLaughlin visited them in December 1930 she told a jury here Wednesday Schroedfer a1 Morton Grove farmer is suing famous klnd-ness-to-anlmals crusader for $10-000 charging false arrest "There were tin cans wagon wheels 'and' other debris all around she said "As for the pigs they looked very starved-looking guided us into a barn and we went Into the basement Over In a dim dark corner a pile of hogs were lying in the mud Some of them looked as if they were dead All were Louis Khieger an agent of the Anti-Cruelty society accompanied Mrs McLaughlin on one of her visits and- testified that treatment of the pigs Was short of mental CREDIT UNTTS UPHELD WASHINGTON UP) The plea of western stock raisers that the regional agricultural credit units of the Reconstruction corporation be kept in their present state was laid before President Roosevelt Wednesday' by Senators Carey- and Hefldrick of Wyoming WASHINGTON (AP) A fourth giant display of Roosevelt strength Wednes- day sped a new remedy for farming ills through the house to a more doubtful senate future Two days of debate bristling with criticism of the drastic farm-aid plan mustered only 98 opposition votes when the roll was called on a bill virtually identical with that sent from the White House last week White and Coffin of Idaho were among the 815 voting for it The measure would confer upon Secretary Wallace unprecedented powers to deal with the farm situation He could apply any of several methods of controlling surpluses and reducing acreages including features of the-domestic allotment plan rental of lands to retire them from production and the Smith plan of reducing cotton plantings by giving in exchange options on government-owned cotton Refinancing Next While the house chamber echoed with debate it was made known that within the week the administration would have ready its second step in the farm field a plan for refinancing agriculture and home mortgages at lower rates of interest and amortization Senator Robinson of Arkansas the Democratic leader said he planned to have this new administration- plan attached to the relief bill in the senate Hundreds of amendments to the relief bill were in preparation In the senate to back the many demands for revision Nevertheless the Democratic leaders were confident of getting the measure through in a form acceptable to Mr Roosevelt Fearful of 1 The ranks of those demanding revision were joined Wednesday by Chairman Smith of the senate agriculture committee who said he was drafting a substitute bill Charges of and were hurled at the measure in the house Wednesday "If the hill becomes said Claiborne Democrat Missouri (Continued on Page Two) Governor Punches Notorious Full of Holes FOrty-slx "state of Idaho treasury went through the big cancellation machine Wednesday morning putting an end so far as the state Is concerned to the Wenger forgery case The notes were the products of the facile pen of Ray Wenger who Tuesday was sentenced to serve 1 to 14 years on his plea of guilty of forgery An attempt was made to pass them in Omaha leading to the capture of Wenger: The cancellation which renders the notes forever worthless even If they should fall Into unauthorized hands was carried out under the watchful eye of Governor Ben Ross who Incidentally pumped the handle of the machine wanted me to burn he said taking no chances At least as long as governor be available so nobody can say that a few were saved out of the furnace This Is the proper way to do After carefully testing the cancellation machine the Governor instructed that each note be punched twice producing eight cancellation perforations on each note Ills stenographer then shoved the notes into the machine the Governor pumped the handle and the process continued until all had been punched Following the cancellation the Governor called newspaper men to witness as the notes were counted then placed away for safe keeping But was what Bonneville said and Wednesday the sun climbed over the eastern hills and shouted to the populace that spring was here again as it was a century ago To Governor Ben Ross it meant just another day of work are you going to take your a reporter asked him never take a he replied laughing persisted the reporter said during the legislature that when this thing war over you were going to take a weel off and rest The Governor grinned a springlike grin and said VOh sometime" but the thought was put into his (Continued on Page Two) 1- Spring Comes Again to Bathe Les Bois in MeUow Sunlight State Turns Indian Giver and Solons Must Return Law Books Tuesday It was cold in Boise and new spring suits brought out tot the first showing hung limp and lifeless in the frigid rain laden wind but Wednesday it was spring in the Gem capital A bright sun climbed up over the rocky eastern hills from where Captain Bonneville on a warm spring day 100 years' ago first sighted the tree strewn valley Bois Les he and his comrades shouted as they stepped to the point where the Boise valley could be seen Soon the name Boise applied to the city and the valley although under other circumstances the valley might have been named along with at least two other towns in Idaho and perhaps a half dozen in neighboring states for the river valley was strewn with cottonwood trees Legislators who took home with them their shiny new 1932 codes did so in violation of law said Franklin Girard secretary of state Wednesday intimating that they would be asked more or less gently to return them at once An old law provided that legisla-tors were to be furnished as their own property one set of the compiled statutes and a copy of the session laws of the session in which they served But when the act was passed providing for recodification there was Included a provision that the secretary of state should keep on hand 125 copies for the use of the legislature and the remainder were to be distributed among county and district officials Any copies left over after this distribution was made the law provides should be distributed lJepther TO dec AST PARTLY CLOUDY BOISE TEMPERATURES (From Weather Bureau) 2 a 27 2 m40 4 a 26 -4 42 6 a 2d 6 40 8 a 36 '8 -m 88 10 a 87 10 p' 38 12 noon 89 12 midnight 85 (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) N) 5-.