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Tit PUBIS UbtihRi THE WEATHER Cloudy today; probably ihowert and cooler tonight and Friday. Thursday, April 26, 1934. 103rd Year. No. 357 On Guard for Over a Century 28 Pages Three Cents 3nm Mm w.a I av -w rvi a 1 EDITION i WJR Owner Listed by Morgenthau as Silver Speculator Plot Against American Fleet Is Revealed After Censored Voyage Through Canal; Roosevelt to Order More Warships Built Detroit Leading Recovery Gain, U.S.

Data Show Far Ahead of Other Cities in a General Upward Trend Employment Soars in Motor Factories 'Dead' Dog's Bark fill Vessels Pass I Marigold Will the Sailors' Wav A i V1 3 'f 1 I) By Clifford A. Prevost WASHINGTON. April 25 Detroit Is leading the entire nation In recovery gains, data complied by the NRAand the other recovery organizations disclose. The recovery, however. Is not confined to any one section of the country, but is nationwide and applicable to practically every industry, according to figures obtained here today.

Detroit is far ahead of any other city. Employment figures for the transportation industry (dominated by the automobile industry) at Detroit, shows 96.4 per cent, taking the years from 1923 to 1928 as 100 per cent. These years have been selected as the normal years. The chemical industry at Detroit rates 99.8 per cent, iron and steel, 94.7; non-ferrous metals, 104 1 per cent. Leather Industry, 107.5 per cent.

For all Industries the Index figure is 93 per cent or but 7 per cent below normal employment years. Employment 40 Ter Cent Short Detroit's progress during the first year of the recovery program is revealed in the employment figures for 1933, when the average was 59.4, or better than 40 per cent below normal. The Government Investigators who checked all industries at Detroit point to industrial power consumption as one sure sign of the manner in which the City is getting back to normal. The power consumption for March figured at 131 per cent, while department store trade is shown to have grown to 90 per cent and while the average for volume of business in other lines is fixed at 112 per cent. March automobile deliveries from the Detroit plants were greater than at any time since 1930.

With figures incomplete for the entire Country, but practically every state represented, officials of the NRA were satisfied that the recovery was general. Motor plants at Indianapolis reported an increase In employment of 20 per cent over a year ago, while the steel companies of the same city reported plants working at capacity with three eight-hour shifts a day, The compliance board at Memphis, reported a business gain of 54 per cent over last year, with the employment situation better than at any time since 1929. Sioux Falls, S. recorded the greatest business gains since the depression began. Prom the West Coast, the reports I'lftine Turn to Puye 2 Column 6 Navin Field Beer Put Up to O'Brien Meanwhile the Fans Drink It in Stands LANSING.

April 25-The Attorney General's Office Wednesday had before it for settlement the question of beer In the stands at Navin Field, home of the Detroit Tigers. Chairman Frank A. Picard. of the State Liquor Control Commission, asked Attorney General Patrick H. O'Brien whether siich service violates the section of the Control Act declaring that patrons must he seated at a table while drinking.

The company handling concessions at the field is serving beer in the stands pending the ruling. Her decks piled with buoys and a lightship in tow, the lighthouse tender Marigold steamed from her berth at the foot of Mt. Elliott Ave. Wednesday to set out the markeri that will keep Great Lakes mariners clear of shoals and reefs during the 1934 navigation season. The Marigold is working northward through the St.

Clair River and Lake Huron, dropping the big lighted buoy. Police Force Cut in Half at Toledo 20 Keels Planned as an Initial Step Start in 4 Months on $40,000,000 Portion of Job Aimed 75 Additional Craft on Future Program WASHINGTON, April 25 (A. Within four months, the Administration expects to start building 20 of the 95 ships needed to give the United States a fleet second to no other navy in the world. President Roosevelt let it be known today that the blllion-and-a-half-dollar appropriation bill he will submit to Congress shortly would provide money for initial construction In the treaty navy program. That bill, said Rep.

Carl Vinson, Georgia Democrat, chairman of the House Naval Committee, will carry about $40,000,000 for the first year's work on six submarines of 1,300 tons, 12 destroyers of 1.500 tons and two destroyer leaders of 1,850 ton. "We expect to spend actually only about $37,000,000 the first year." Vinson said, "but the $40,000,000 would provide a safe leeway. Lists Alternatives "The $40,000,000 either will be appropriated directly for naval construction, or the President will be given the right to allocate the money for that purpose." But. said Vinson, it will be 24 to 30 months before these 20 ships can be launched 10 from private and 10 from Navy yards. Meanwhile, he continued, the Government will start building some of the 75 other ships needed.

Of these, 21 will be submarines, 51 destroyers, two cruisers and one an aircraft carrier. Unless present plans are abandoned and unforeseen speed is applied. It would be around 1940 before the United States had a fleet as big as existing treaties permit. The treaties expire on Dec. 31, 1936.

but plans are being made for another1 naval aims conference. Japan already is at treaty limits, and Great Britain is near the maximum. Cost l'ut at $475,000,000 Vinson said that the Navy estimated that all of the 95 ships America needed would cost about $475,000,000 and that about 80 per cent of that would be spent for labor. I he rest would go for ma- terials. The Navy recently has altered Its plans for the ships to be built.

At first it figured that 102 vesseis would be needed. That total 1 Z.Zl 'I iiit-ae wci luuim uuntt loiill lui y. to mnk. nnauihl rtitr rrnialn'r i range ana to provide more stabl submarines, it was decided to increase their size to 1.300 tons. The ships to be down in the first-year program, for which the President expects funds to be supplied soon, would cost around exclusive of aviation.

All-planes, catapults and other such equipment would bring the competed cost of the initial program to $137,000,000. Additional construction soon is necessary, Vinson said, because many ships, especially the destroyers, are becoming over age. Insull to Arrive May 7 NEW YORK, April 25 (U. Samuel Insull will arrive here on May 7 aboard the steamship F.xi-lona, the American Export line announced today. The boat is expected to dock at Jersey City.

Cecil B. DeMille Coughlin Sponsor Held Long Futures G. A. Richards Asserts He Let Contracts for Metal Expire Third Capital Dinner Patron Is Singled Out WASHINGTON. April 25-The Secretary of the Treasury today revealed that G.

A. Richards, own-er of the Detroit radio station which broadcast Father Charles E. Coughlin's silver inflation speeches, had been long on silver to the extent of 250,000 ounces. Richards' name was included in a lift, sent to tha Senate by Henry Morgenthau, the Treasury chief, who yesterday urged an investigate of the speculative silver market nnd Its possible connection with current agitation for a silver monetary standard. Today's list of silver speculators included the name, of another member of the group which gave the Silver Dinner" which was attended and addressed by Father Coughlin Monday night.

The man nnmed was F. P. Keelon, who was shown to hold four contracts to purchase silver on delivery in July. They involved 100.000 ounces of the metal, worth roughly $44,000. Roosevelt Regime Denounced At Monday's dinner, which was given for the silverite congressional hloc, Father Coughlin denounced the Roosevelt administration and said: "The propaganda for gold springs from England, which produces 80 per cent of the world's gold supply." He said thai Congress should "break the bondage of that subservant of the Rank of England, bred in dis-bonesty, matured in deviltry, prospering as the Nation Is faltering on No Longer in Market LOS ANGELES.

April 25- G. A. Richards, of Detroit, owner of radio station WJR. listed by the treasury today as having held futures in silver, said tonight that, his contracts had expired some months ago and (hat. he was not In the silver mnrket at present.

He denied that he had ever held his contracts jointly with anyone. Richards is visiting in Beverly Hills. its knees the Federal Reserve System." A previous list, submitted to the Senate by Morgenthau on Tuesday, hnd revealed that two other sponsors of the dinner at which Father Coughlin spoke had been interested In the silver market. The men involved were Robert M. Harriss and Carl Conway, through iheir companies, Harriss Vose ami Continental Can.

Owner of Key Station Richards, the Dctroitcr mentioned In today's list, is the owner of radio station W.IR. the key station in Hie independent hook-up over which Father Coughlin's talks were broadcast, Rlchatds was shown to have been long on 10 futures contracts, each for ounces. Today's Treasury lists again showed banks and big corporations to he the principal silver owners. The list was frankly described by 'he Treasury as incomplete. Many cses are still under investigation, Mr.

Morgenthau said. The holdings which are listed by I'lrnur Turn In rttijc 2 Column 6 3 Women Victims of Purse Thieves Purse snatchers Wednesday night rohhed three women pedestrians, knocking one down. Mrs. Norman Appell, struck down by shabbily dressed thug In front of her home at 760 W. Euclid was robbed of $45, her keys and glasses.

Miss Irene Shames, 20. of 618 Mansion was seized by a Negro thief, who attempted to drag her between houses at 515 and 517 Marston and robbed of her purse containing 50 cents. Mrs. Victoria Martens reported to police that, she was robbed of her purse containing 31 cents by a boy shout 14 years old on E. Grand between Forest and Gratiot Aven.

Start the Day Right with the Free Press Pages Editorial 6 Edgar A. Guest, Poem 6 Good Morning 6 National Whirligig 6 The Theater 6 Walter Lippmann 4 Culbertson on Bridge 8 Obituaries 8 Foreign News 8 Windsor News 8 The Screen 10 Manhattan 11 State News 12 Society 14 The Chatterbox 14 Silhouettes 16 Ruth Alden 18 C.rantland Rice 20 Collyer's Comment 21 Radio Programs 21 Financial 22 Crossword Puzzle 25 Comics 27 ''A Vicious Circle," 27 Pictorial Review 28 Around the Town 28 Dr. Joseph Fort Newton fi Quillen' Observations 6 Heartens Science Dr. Cornish Now Believes He Will Find Secret BERKELEY1, April 25 (A.P.) Rolling over for the first time since he was put to death, clinically, 12 days ago, a mongrel dog barked and growled while eating his food in a laboratory here today. Dr.

Robert E. Cornish, observing the improvement in the dog's condition, said that he believed that he might succeed eventually in his experiments to revive human beings after death. "For the first time, the dog got up on his front feet and barked and growled when he was fed liver," said Dr. Cornish, research professor at the University of California. "He is getting stronger day by day, but we can't tell yet whether his brain, the most vital part, la improving.

"The higher, most Intelligent part of the brain doubtless was damaged by death, but we hope that it will show improvement to the extent that consciousness will return. If we succeed in causing the animal to live again and its brain to function, we will be a step nearer our ultimate endeavors to revive persona who have drowned or who have been asphyxiated or electrocuted." Girl Recounts Lore of Islam School's Mohammed Gets Probation The rewrite Job done on the religion of Mohammed by Detroit's "University of Islam," in an apparent effort to put a sock and speculative fillip into it, was described to Recorder's Judge Arthur E. Gordon Wednesday by Sally Ali, fifteen-year-old former Garfield Intermediate School Negro girl. She was taught, in the Islamic New Deal, she said, that if she cut off the heads of four devils devils being unrighteous people she would win a free trip to Mecca and a button of some sort. "I was taught arithmetic and algebra, and that I was an Asiatic girl and cream of the earth," she said.

Taught to Expect a 1934 War "And" prompted George W. Schudlich. assistant, prosecutor. "And that the Caucasians would be put off the planet in 1934 de stroyed. "How destroyed?" "By poison gas and fightin'." The court asked who was going to fight whom.

"You're going to fight to stay here," responded Sally, Impassively, fumbling at her dilapidated fur neckpiece. A semicircle of 19 members of the Islam faculty stood In front of Judge Gordon and listened stoically to the girl recite what was taught in the syncopated Hastings St. institution. They were co-defendants chained with contributing to the delinquency of a minor. Sympathizer Rioted Last Week Rioting sympathizers, at the arraignment of the 19 a week ago, slugged, stoned and knifed 13 policemen who got in the way of their protest march.

Forty-one Negro rioters were arrested then. A swarm of policemen, armed with riot sticks, waited in the police earaee Wednesday morninsr for any recurrence of last week's bel-i ligerence, and admittance to the i Recorder's Court Building was re-; fused to anyone not having business (here. I Five other Negroes of the All girl's age were in court to testify, but she was the only one examined. Classifications of Devils She changed over to the cult university from Garfield School, she said, because she wanted to. No one per suaded her, she asserted.

Sally said that the school taught her not to take much stock in the American flag. "They taught me to believe In i justice and freedom, he volunteered. Elijah Mohammed, who said that he was the pastor of the university, cleared up the point as to devils. "Does the prophet teach you that only white people are devils?" he asked Sally. "No, all wicked people are devils." The girl also said, In response to Elijah's quiet questioning, that she carried a card of membership as a registered Moslem and that It Please Turn 1o Vnqc 2 Column 9 Bond Propaganda IsO.K.inFordson At a meeting of the Ford-ion District School Board Wednesday evening, Harvey H.

Lowrey, superintendent of schools, wag instructed to proceed with the distribution in the schools of some 9.000 leaflets advocating authorization of the $38,000,000 bond Issue which voters will be asked to pass on April 30. The leaflets, distributed throughout the schools of the State, ostensibly by the Employment Recovery Council of Lansing, bear the imprint of the official State printer. Because of controversy relative to the ethics of distributing propaganda in schools, Mr. Lowrey said he had held up the distribution, although Paul F. Voelker, State superintendent of Public Instruction, had informed him that, he deemed such distribution not objectionable if don without comment Under Big Guard Secrecy and Speed Combined to Thwart Mystery Threat Commander Elated by Trip's Success COLON.

C. April 25 (A. At the United States fteet of lit vessels completed its forty-eight, hour transit through the Panama Canal today it was learned warlike conditions obtaining during the movement were made necessary by fears that attempts might be made to interfere with the maneuver. Authorities received information from the Army Intelligence Service several months ago that a conspiracy seemed in progress to thwart the swift passage of tha fleet through the locks. Consequently, heavy guards of soldiers patrolled the locks during; the transit.

A smaller force will remain indifinitely. it was ssid, to supplant the guards stationed at the vital parts of the Canal lata In March. Hitherto the locks have been without protection, and anybody has been able to approach them day or night. (entH.rxlilp la Invoked In view of the reported plot. Naval officers withheld their announcement of plans to send the ships through in a hurry until tha last moment.

Censorship was invoked as an extra precautionary mensuie. Only one minor mishap occurred, however. The aircraft carrier Saratoga knocked down two concrete lampposts at the Pedro Miguel locks. Rear Admiral David F. Sellers, fleet commander-in-chief, expressed himself pleased wWh the clocklik work of men and ships, "The continuous transit of th Canai by the fleet as a unit ha been a very valuable experience for all hands and it Is believed that very useful data has been obtained," he said.

"Tha successful accomplishment of this evolution, which so far as Is Known is wnnoiu preceaem, www possible only through the erncieni organization of the Canal and the splendid co-operation of all hands." Passage Completed First to go through the Canal was the airplane carrier Lexington, which left Balhoa at 5:11 a. m. Monday. The Melville, the last, cleared Gatun Locks at 5 a. m.

today. Officers had hoped that tha movement could be completed in haif that time, but a heavy rain, the first of the season, contributed to the delay. A strict censorship on cables and dispatches during the passage was Immediately lifted when the Mel-vllle was through. Never before had such conditions heen imposed in the Zone on the sending of news. The Pacific side of the Canal was without Naval ships todav; the special service squadron ordinarily based on the other aide Is now at Havana.

Commercial vessels tied up since, Sunday awaiting a chance to enter the locks started their transit last night. Many still await transit, but canal officials hoped shipping would be back on a normal basis by Thursday night, Secretary of Navy Claude A. Swanson in Washington described las a remarkable performance tha ISu the fleet, and declared or 1hr. dava gured that it, would take two He expressed high praise for tha fleet's personnel and canal authorities, adding. "We wanted to see how quickly the fleet Could go from one ocean to another." Trotzky Is Believed to Be Off for Turkey raRBIZON.

France. April (A. Leon Trotzky was believed today to be on his way to Mar seilles to board Turkey. a ship bound for 1000 in CASH PRIZES Cornp'ete Details in the new Screen Radio Weekly with SUNDAY'S FREE PRESS Older your copy nou). PHONE HOME DELIVERY DEPT.

RANDOLPH 8700 TOLEDO, April 25 (A. for the removal of 201 policemen and 196 firemen to cut the two departments in half were' issued bv Mayor Solon T. Klotz to- nu llllll. IIC iCUULUUlia QIC ciicuvc as of May 1. The Mayor's orders will necessl- fate the closing of half the City's 24 fire stations and half a dozen nolice ubstations.

In-i iiiwiiici Atlii V. I Ij Tlll J-M" 1 officials, will be required to donate i at least two months' pay. The order was given to have Toledo operate within its available revenues for the remainder of the year. Girl, 6, Kidnaped in Arizona Town Suspect Seized After Ransom Is Asked TUCSON. April 25-(A.

June Robles, six-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mis. Fernando Ftob- les and granddaughter of Hernabe Robles, one of Pima County's; wealt hiest citizens, was kidnaped I as she was returning home from Envoy to fokio Demands Data CaiS OH OD Oft tCial tO Explain 'Doctrine' TOKIO. April 26 -(Thursday (A. United States Ambassador Joseph C.

Grew visited Foreign Minister Koki Hlrota at 12:30 p. m. today to discuss Japan's recent de- deration of policy concerning China. The visit was in accordance with Instructions from Secretary of State Cordell Hull In Washington. Previously It was understood that the State Department had asked the United States F.mbassy In Tokio for a careful translation of Toklo press statements, hut no official request had made for formal diplomatic representation.

European Ministers Confer with Hull Regarding Policy WASHINGTON, April 25 (A. Japan's warning that foreign aid to China would be consider ed as endangering peace In the Far East has resulted In a series of informal conferences between Secretary of Srt Ciirriell Hull Undersecretary vviliiam Phillips and diplomatic rep-i r.NentaHvft of aeveral of the coun tries signatory to the Nine-Power TI(atv Willie ruiunc muajr. London Awaiting Reply LONDON. April 25-(A. troubled European scene was tem-j porarily forgotten today as Oreai dlcations that China will sound out another Japanese "diplomatic victory" were given tonight.

A charge that Japan seeks to dominate Asia and the Pacific was I i i New Free Press Magazine Acclaimed in Hollywood school here this afternoon and held president Roosevelt let it be for $15,000 ransom. known that he expected to confer Late tonight police arrested a with Hull on foreign affairs, Includ-suspect whose description tallied, i ntf 'he Japanese manifesto, but the they said, with that of a man who I Secretary of State did not go to the Sheriffs Vote to Retain Jobs Decide the State Can't Do Without Them FLINT. AdHI 25 With an eve on 1 inn nm.li.ri. next fall some i r. flrt its LUnu Ivv that they were not in favor of constitutional amendments to consolidate and possibly abolish sheriff departments.

The organization decided that the business that they had traveled many miles to discuss was not an affair for the public, or the press. The secretary gavs an impromptu and informal statement after the meeting. In the debate on the proposed amendment the sheriff's marshaled statistics to convince themselves that they are an economy and a necessity to the taxpayers of their counties and that the State Police, which would presumably have the law enforcement problem if the sheriffs were abolished, is more costly 'per man than the present system. They Find a Friend George Cook, veteran Flint attorney, assuaged the wounded feelings of the sheriffs in an address at the organization banquet at the Knickerbocker Gardens, Wednesday night. Cook declared that economists and efficiency experts were attacking the extravagance problem of government at the wrong end.

"We have had this system for a hundred years," Cook declared. "Until governmental expenditures went beyond reasonable bounds and the people encouraged extravagance there was no tax problem." Thomas Lovett, sheriff of Jackson County and president of the Association, presided at the sessions in the memorial room of the Court House. Prosecuting Attorney Andrew J. Transue was toastmaster at the banquet that concluded the meeting. He introduced the three Genesee County Circuit judges.

It was incidentally the first visit of Judge Edward D. Black, dean of the Genesee bench and arch foe of alcohol, to a beer garden, Just Waiting for John "What to Do Until Dillinger Arrives," was one of the topics of discussion by the sheriffs. With a first-hand account of the tragedies that follow In the wake of the Indiana bandit and his gang! from Sheriff William Van Antwerp, of Port Huron, the organization ad-j vocaied extra precautions or sarety if Dillinger invades Michigan. Special protection for outlying banks and safety precautions for deputies were approved when reliable reports trace Dillinger in Michigan, Wallace Beery Dying HOLLYWOOD. April 25 (A.

Mrs. Rita Beerv wife of Wallace Reery, motion picture star, was near death today in a hospital, where she has been confined the last two months with heart disease. Beery wag at his wife-s bedside constantly. early in the evening had offered a newsboy $10 to take a note tu the child's father. Police would not divulge the name of the suspect.

Neither were they ready to say whether HoIIywood has stopped making pictures to talk about Detroit. The announcement that the Detroit Free Press will add a complete Screen Radio Weekly magazine to each copy of its Sunday paper has created more interest than any other innovation publishing has brought to the picture town. Every copy of next Sunday's Free Press will include a copy of the first edition of the magazine. Hollywood heard the news Wednesday and within an hour telegrams began to arrive in Detroit. The first was from Cecil B.

DeMille, who wired: "Please accept my congratulations for your new Screen Radio Weekly. It is cheering to note this new venture of yours as an indication of the interest your readers take in what ne was me same man wno Britain turned its attention to the earlier had given a boy 25 cent, (,,.,. over Japn into take a note to The Robles Elec- toward China, trie operated by her father. While several London newspapers That note, roughly printed, de-l frerHHt ominous developments in tailed Instructions for payment Orient, the Government made the ransom and warned Robles i no commitment as it awaited a re-not to reveal content of the mls-jpv t5 request for amplification sive to authorities. of Japan's recent statement of Barney Kengla, six-year-old policy.

cousin of the kidnaped girl, told police that she was walking a short i Toklo World Ambition Seen distance behind him en route home, frnm He anw "Utile black! GENEVA. April 25 A. P. 1 I n- car drive up and heard the driver ca 11 to June. The girl, he said, went! 'he United States and other slgna-the car.

and he saw her get In -ie of the Nine-Power Treaty to and watched the car drive away, oerermine i against Japan would have their sup-1 I port or would merelv result in Bottled Note Returns Alter Year VOyBge traveling for more than a year in a corked bottle a note bearing the name of Fred Slaby. Femdale, was I Afi-, mane uy v.ni lai riu, v-nrnfue ifter to Switzerland, who even drew we are doing in Hollywood. I shall be happy to co-operate with you in any way within my power whenever you may wish to call on me." B. P. Schulberg, president of B.

P. Schul-berg independent producer for Paramount, wired as follows: "It is indeed gratifying to see a metropolitan newspaper like the Detroit Free Press adopting a photoplay and radio magazine with its Sunday paper. Such enterprise deserves the wholehearted backing it will assuredly receive from all Detroit and Michigan newspaper readers. I want to be one of the first to congratulate you for taking a new step in journalism." Charles R. Rogers, independent producer for Paramount, stressed a similar point in his telegram.

He wired: "The Detroit Free Press to be congratulated for setting a pace that will surely be i a P'' of Japan dreaming I of Agreement Looms on Railroad Wage WASHINGTON, April 25-(A. An agreement between railroad managers and their employees on the wage question appeared possible tonight when union chiefs extended for 24 hours the period in which mediation must be asked under the Railway Labor Act. The time for invoking mediation would havt expired at midnight. returned to him Wednesday by Jules Wauquier. of 4757 Bar ham Detroit, who reported finding the bottle floating on the Detroit River at the foot of Grand Marias Grosse Polnte Park.

The message was dropped in a sewer in Ferndale on April 17. 1933. Slaby at the time was employed on the Ferndale Water Board. It was found by Wauquier, according to a message on the reverse side of the note, on April 18. one year and one day after it had been et afloat.

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