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THE WEATHER Associated Mean average 10 years, same 58 SHOWERS TOMORROW AND POSSIBLY Temperature, ago Complete TONIGHT; (partly 19 M. Report cloudy) (Eagle CONTINUED on Page WARM 15. BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE Press News 90th YEAR- -No. 284. NEW YORK CITY, MONDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1930.

30 PAGES THREE CENTS WASHINGTON LIBRARY Berlin Fascist cA 9 Riot at Openin CONGRESS Of New Reichstag Parade 'About HOPPING TO COAST ment Building Smashing Windows ard Firing Pistols Into Air -Session Disorderly Berlin, Oct. 13 -Troops of Fascist rioters, storming through downtown Berlin, smashing shop windows and firing pistols into the air, turned the opening of Germany's new Reichstag today into a wild reign of antiJewish rowdyism. The violence of the Fascists and rioting of Communists in t1 the shadow of the Parliament building, at the edge of the famous Tiergarten, taxed police efforts and threw the proceedings of the Reichstag itself into relative obscurity. Windows Smashed On the Potsdamerplatz the rioters, who wore no uniforms and were Identifiable only their shouts of "Hail Hitler!" smashed the windows of the Palast Cafe as well as those of limousines parked outside it. The rioters numbered about 300 and added a Wild West touch to their activities by firing their pistols in the air.

The Reichstag was called into session shortly after 3 o'clock this aftternoon and adjourned until Wednesday at the same hour, so its conflicting party, leaders might have opportunity to reconcile their views on a presiding officer. The brief session today was presided over by the venerable Centrist Herold, whose 82 years entitled him, as oldest member, to that honor. Clashes Expected The session was by no means devoid of incident and today's minor clashes on the floor gave an inkling of what mighters expected when legislative later should come before the body. The rollcall had been started within five minutes after the scheduled hour of meeting. This was interrupted occasionally when the name of some leader particularly disliked by his opponents was called.

Jeers would greet his "present" in such cases. In the midst of the roll call the Communist Torgler shouted, "Outside workingmen are being clubbed to ground. That's the way the Reichstag is opening!" Women Delegates Booed The first real climax came when, at 3:20 p.m., the Hitlerite Goebels. wanted by the police for failure to appear as defendant in a libel suit, entered the chamber and called out to the Communists on the left. "Of course I am sabotaging your bourgeois justice." As the names of the Communist women delegates were called the Fascists vented their contempt for "petticoat politics" with falsetto cries in imitation of roosters' "kiker1kee," which is the German way of saying "cockadoodeldoo." Communists Start Row With the mention of adjournment the Communists raised a storm, insisting that a session be held tomorrow for a vote of no confidence in the Bruening Cabinet, for vote on stoppage of Young plan payments and for revocation of the order outlawing the Red Front Communist organization.

The Fascists joined in, blowing whistles and drowning all police verbal arguments. Both sections of extremists almost went into fistic encounters directly under the Speaker's table, as the Communists were enraged by the Fascist failure to support their motion. Disorder Outside There was plenty of disorder outside, but aside from Communist shouts against Bruening and the Young plan and the Fascist use of whistles, the meeting was more tame than had been expected. During the day the Economic that party they had requested Johannes notified Chancellor Bruening Bredt, Minister of Justice, to resign on the ground that the present cabinet does not represent the will of the electorate. It was understood, however, 'cabinet might remain in the as expert member.

Conditions for Loan Call for Sinking Fund Berlin, Oct. 13 (AP) -The credit of $125.000,000 offered Germany by an international banking group is conditional on the Reichsrat and Reichstag creating a sinking fund. By this fund, Germany's floating debt, which end of 'August stood at 1,250,800,000 marks (about as well as the new $125,000,000 credit, will be redeemed by three annual installments. THE EAGLE INDEX Page Aviation 15 Classified Ads 24-98 Death 15 Dr. Brady, Patri, 14 Editorial Financial Lost and 1 Found, Novel.

Comics Radio 10 Sermons Seelety 20-22 Theaters, Rian Woman's. Page Ardolph Kline, Former Mayor, Is Dead at 72 Was ex Congressman and Served as Colonel in State Troops Col. Ardolph L. Kline, former Mayor of New York and Brooklyn Congressman for some years, died at 8 a.m. today in the Methodist Episcopal Hospital after a five-day illness.

He was Mayor, of the city for three months following the death of Mayor William J. Gaynor. The former Mayor is survived by his daughter, Mrs. Edward E. Schell of Ackroyd Jamaica.

Colonel Kline had lived with Mr. and Mrs. Schell since the death of his wife, Frances Phalon Kline, several years ago. Colonel Kline at the time of his death was head of the Sea Service Bureau of the United States Shipping Board, 45 Broadway, a post he had occupied since 1923. He was former colonel of the 14th Regiment.

Colonel Kline was born in Sussex County, N. Feb. 21, 1858, the son of Anthony and Margaret Busby Kline, and was educated in the public schools of Newton, N. and Phillips Andover Academy. In 1877 he entered the employ of W.

C. Peet Co. of New York City, neckwear manufacturers. Named by Roosevelt His military career began in 1876 when he joined the 14th N. G.

N. as a private. When the War broke out Spanish lieutenant colonel. In 1901 he was named brevet brigadier genImmediately after the Spanisheral. American War Colonel Kline's long and varied career in politics began with an unsuccessful campaign for sheriff.

On his next try he was elected to the Board of Aldermen from the 51st District. Please Turn to Page 2 Federal Agents Hint New Radio Rum Data Returning from a week's investigation along the Canadian seaboard, agents of the Department of Justice today promised more revelations about the so-called Atlantic coast rum ring, of which Cecil Molyneux, 29, and Malcolm McMasters, arrested Sept. 26, at 53 Avenue Coney Island, on radio violation charges, are alleged members. Assistant Federal Attorney William T. Cowin, who spent several days in Canada on the case, returned from Montreal by airplane Saturday night to register.

3 Customs Patrolmen Face Conspiracy Charge Ogdensburg, N. Oct. (P)- Arraigned on charges of conspiracy, United States Customs patrolmen, Weldon J. Cheatham, Francis L. Coveney and Charles Coolican, today were in the county jail at Canton default of bonds.

They were arrested Saturday by special Treasury agents and arraigned before Commissioner Dallas M. ton. Bonds of $10,000 each were asked Coveney and Coolican and $5,000 for Cheatham. Bishop Stires' Son Accepts Pulpit Call The Rev. Ernest Van' Rensselaer Stires, son of the Rt.

Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Bishop of the Diocese of Long Island, has accepted a call from All Saints Episcopal Church, the leading church of that denomination in Richmond, Va. Mr. Stires is now rector of St. Thomas' Episcopal Church in Bellerose, I.

He expects to take up his new duties on Dec. 1. Edison Industries Picketed by Strikers West Orange, N. Oct. 13-Ten strikers took up their picket early today in the street outside the Thomas A.

Edison Industries here, which is experiencing its first labor difficulties in 16 years. The pickets are members of the Buffers and Polishers Union, who went on strike on the order of union officials after, according to the latter, plant officials had attempted to decrease their wages substantially, Matador Franklin Due Home Today From Sidney Franklin, the Brooklyn Spanish Royal Mail liner Manuel Arnus from season of bull-fighting in Spain in the course of which he was gored by an obstinate bull. Mrs. Keith Miller Indianapolis, Oct. 13 (AP)-Mrs.

Keith Miller, the British aviatrix seeking to lower the women's transcontinental flying record held by Miss Laura Ingalls, left here at 12:35 p.m. (C ST.) hoping to reach Wichita, for an overnight stop. Mrs. Miller is so small that she had to have several cushions arranged behind her to enable her to reach the rudder bar and controls. A package of sandwiches was put into the plane for lunch.

Brazil Rebels Capture Key City on Coast Fall of Florianopolis to Permit Consolidation of Insurgent Forces Buenos Aires, Oct. 13 (P)-Dispatches at Faso de Los Libros, Argentina, from Uruguayan sources today said that Brazilian revolutionary forces had captured the important coastal city of Florianopolis, in the State of Santa Catharina. Florianopolis is a trading center, 240 northeast of Porto Alegre. been under control of the federal authorities since the beginning of the Brazilian revolt and has been used as a for operations against the insurgents. Several naval vessels have been anchored off the Insurgents Pouring to Front The dispatches added that insurgent elements are steadily leaving the various rebel strongholds for the front.

The capture of Florianopolis by the insurgents would mean consolidation of their lines between the States of Parana and Rio Grande do Sul, where the rebels' headquarters are located. New Offensive On Rio de Janeiro, Oct. 13 (AP)-Brazilian Federal troops, aided by police of the State of Sao Paulo, today moved into the west portion of Minas Geraes State to attack rebel forces. Most of the Federal operations against the revolutionaries in that region heretofore have been in the southern and eastern parts of Minas Geraes. One important leader from the State of Rio Grande do Sul, which began the revolt, moved to aid the government today.

He is Senator Palm Filho and he left the capital by airplane today for the southern part of the country, saying he intended to raise a volunteer force against the rebels. Additional strength was given the government today by labor unions and other associations of employes in Rio de Janeiro, which issued proclamations urging all members to aid in putting down the rebellion. Rebels Push Sao Paulo Drive Montevideo, Uruguay, Oct. 13 (AP) -A battle for the State of Sao Paulo, richest prize of Southern Please Turn to Page 3 Miami Beach Burglars Rob Tex Rickard Home have taken goods valued Miami, Oct. 13.

(P) -Burglars from the Miami Beach home of the late Tex Rickard. Failing Wind Again Halts Fishing Schooner Cup Race Oct. 13 (A) The for the Lipton Gloucester, Trophy was called off today an hour and a half- after the start, when it became apparent that the schooners had little chance of sailing the course within the time limit. At the time the rivals, the Bluenose and Thebaud, had covered eight miles, or slightly less than a nith of the course, and the breeze was failing. The schooners were racing on nearly terms when the committen signaled them to return to COLONEL DIES Col.

Ardolph Kline U.S. Aims Tax Quiz at Bertini And Tammany $100,000 Trailed as Slush, and Politicians' Records Are Sought Federal Grand Jury investigation into a suspected $100,000 "slush fund," charged in some quarters to have been dealt out by General Sessions Judge Amedeo A. Bertini just before his elevation to the Bench a year ago, loomed today to determine if there have been income tax violations. Assistant U. S.

Attorney Alvin McK. Sylvester, it was learned, has subpenaed the banking and brokerage accounts of Judge Bertini and at least two powerful Tammany chieftains for scrutiny along this line of inquiry. The Ewald Extraordinary Grand Jury in a parallel investigation has for several days been examining the accounts financial transactions of the jurist under fire and of Tammany Leader John F. Curry and Director of the Budget Charles L. Kohler, Tammany district boss of the 10th A.

D. and a tenant of the wealthy jurist in his apartment house at 37 Washington Square West, Manhattan. Ne Demand on Ward Due While the legal holiday was expected to cause the two Bertini inquiries to mark time except for conferences among the prosecuting staffs, a renewed demand from Governor Roosevelt upon Attorney General Ward for copies of the minutes of the Grand Jury testimony affecting Bertini was awaited. The Attorney General -the Governor's appointee to supersede District Attorney Crain in the investigation growing out of the Ewald scandal-is expected 13 follow his chief's orders to the extent of directing Special Prosecutor Hiram C. Todd to present the Executive's letter before Supreme Court Justice Philip J.

McCook tomorrow. But it was not certain that Todd would urge the court that the Governor's request be granted. Although the Governor has intimated that he would call a special Senate session to impeach Judge Bertini if the evidence warrants, Ward's stand has been that to disclose the secret evidence of the panel may injure the chances for punishing any offenders in the case. The Attorney General also has Please Turn to Page 3 Chief Justice Watts Of South Carolina Dies Laurens, S. Oct.

13 -Chief Justice R. C. Watts, of the South Carolina Supreme Court, died early today at his home here. He was 77 years old. Chief Justice Watts was on the Supreme Court Bench for 18 years.

For some time his health had been poor. He was unable to attend Supreme Court Sessions last spring and spent several months at a Georgia resort taking treatments. Quest for Bob Shifted to His Montauk Home Neighbors Tell of Food Deliveries at Summer House Believed Closed Search for Charles V. Bob, promoter and mining engineer, missing since last Thursday, when he mysteriously dropped out of sight in Chicago, turned today to Montauk Point, L. I.

District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk County ordered two of investigating staff to go to the summer home, one of the Boba show places of Montauk, to check on reports that neighbors had seen large quantities of groceries delivered last Saturday to the house, which had been closed for the summer. Secret Return Held Probable The reports gave rise to the theory that Bob may have returned secretly to his summer home. Assistant State Attorney General Watson Washburn also ordered his aides to carefully sift the stories reported told by Montauk residents. Washburn has been trying unsuccessfully since last Monday to subpena Bob for questioning in connection with his operations in the stock of two companies, Metal and Mining Shares Inc.

and Rainbow Luminous Products Company. Washburn said the matters on which, he wants to question Bob "involve $200,000,000." His Associates Confer Associates of Bob met yesterday in his office at 120 Broadway, Manhattan, behind locked doors and are reported to have attempted to establish the status of his various financial activities through such papers as were available. Bob's two sons, Arthur L. and B. W.

Bob; his engineer, R. S. McClellan, and George L. Johnson, president of Metal and Mining, are reported to have been among the conferees. Whatever they found was kept secret.

Mrs. Bob, who talked over the long distance phone on Wednesday with her husband, said he told her he was leaving by train for New York that day. "I am sure he is in I some way held up," she said. Heckscher Loan Verified George F. Thompson, counsel for August Heckscher, confirmed the that Bob recently borrowed report, sum from Heckscher, but said the amount was less than the $750,000 reported.

Bob had pledged $50,000 to the Broadway Temple, skyscraperchurch which is being erected at Broadway and 174th Manhattan, and also had promised to install a $100,000 beacon for the guidance of aviators when the structure was completed. The Rev. Dr. Christian F. Reisner, who is building the church, said he did not know offhand how much of the $50,000 pledge Bob had paid, but it was reported the amount was not large.

Nothing has been done about the proposed beacon. Defying Quarantine, Preacher Is Jailed Carrollton, Oct. 13 -The Rev. W. W.

Woodson, 50, proclaiming the end of the world was at hand, defied medical science in the form of a city-wide infantile paralysis quarantine yesterday in conducting prayer services with a "surrendered band." He was taken from the pulpit to the county jail building, wherein Bonnie Jean Schnapp, 8-year-old daughter of Sheriff O. B. Schnapp, died Saturday of infantile paralysis. The services went on in private last night at the church parsonage. Supreme Court Justices Are White House Guests Washington, Oct.

13 -The Supreme Court, headed by Chief Justice Hughes, called on President Hoover at the White House today. It has long been the practice of the highest tribunal to pay its respects to the President on the day it begins its new term. President Hoover, however, was not in Washington last Monday when the court met and the call had to be postponed. ED A. TIPSON DIES Lexington, Oct.

13 (P)-Ed A. Tipson, 75, for many years president and general manager of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Association, died at his home here today, Dry Weather Blamed for Noise Of Rattling Subway Planks One more plague on suffering hu-1 manity has been laid at the door of the drought. Engineers who have been making a careful study of the annoyance caused by the rattling of the planks in the decking over the subway excavations along Fulton St. have reported to the Board of Transportation that one of the principal reasons tihs noise has been accentuated to the unbearable point along Fulton St. is the extreme dry weather of the last few months.

The hot, drying suns, with no moisture to counteract the heat, shrink the planking, pulling loose the spikes and allowing "play" between the boards just sufficient to permit the racket. The contractors, on orders of the Board of Transportation, sent out extra gangs last week to respike the planks, but even this gave only partial relief. So now gangs of men, armed with sledge hammers, are going along the decking driving wooden wedges down betwen every fifth or sixth plank in an effort to pack the timbers tightly together by taking up the shrinkage caused by the drought. This helps somewhat, in the opinion of engineers, but real relief, they say, can come only from a good soaking rain that will swell the wood and bind the spikes. Two Kinds of Hay Fever--Page 14 Yacht Here for Arctic Adventures--Page 17, RUM WAR HERE SEEN IN DIAMOND SHOOTING; HOTEL MAN IS SOUGHT GANGSTER VICTIM AND HIS COMPANION Jack (Legs) Diamond and Marion Strasmick, known on the stage as Marion Roberts, who is held as a witness in the Diamond shooting.

Supreme Court Refuses Ruling On Jones Law Validity Challenged by Missourians Bay Ridge Tax LevyUpheld Washington, Oct. 13 (P)--The Supreme Court today refused to pass on the constitutionality of the Jones Law providing heavy maximum penalties for prohibition violations. The validity of the law was challenged by Hugh McElvogue and William J. Brown, who had been convicted of violating the dry laws at St. Louis, Mo.

The men were charged in the indictment with selling small quantity of whiskey. McElvogue was sentenced to the penitentiary for one year and one month, and Brown, who was also convicted of maintaining a nuisance under the prohibition law, was sent to the penitentiary for four years and fined $250. Trial Judge Rapped The prison sentences were imposed under the Jones law. In both cases the constitutionality of the law was challenged as an illegal delegation of the legislative power. had unlawfully taken upon himself The men contended the judge to decide the meaning of phrases used in the Jones law, such as what, in his discretion, constituted "casual or slight violations," "habitual sales" and what were "attempts to commercialize violations of the law." The Court also refused to pass on the authority of the Secretary of the Interior to fix the minimum price at which oil taken under lease from Government land may be sold.

In July, 1928, the Secretary of the Interior announced that the Government royalty on all oil produced in the Oregon basin oil field would be based on a minimum price of 85 cents a barrel. The Cody Company had contracted to sell its oil to Texas Company at the mouth of the wells Please Turn to Page 2 Philadelphia, Oct. 13, (P)-The practice of some hospitals in permitting young medical graduates, who are not competent, to perform surgical work was criticized- today by Dr. C. Jeff Miller, New Orleans, at the hospital conference of the Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Miller followed his criticism with the prediction that eventually there will be added to the requirements for admission to the College of Surgeons a clause that the candidate "shall have served a surgical apprenticeship and that all of his operations for a specified period of time shall have been done under the tutelage of an experienced surgeon." Operations by Unskilled Scored by Surgeon KINGSFORD-SMITH IN INDIA Karachi, India, Oct. 13 Wing Commander Charles KingsfordSmith, who is attempting a record flight to Australia, arrived here this afternoon, days out of London. This is a new record for the distance by London-to-Australia fliers. 15 Justices Hit For Awards in Land Seizures City Affairs Committee Charges Held Unfair in Statement by May Five Supreme Court Justices, four in Brooklyn and one in Queens, today were under fire for "most inde(ensible condemnation awards" in a report issued by the recently organized City Affairs Committee, charging that the city squanders $33,000,000 a year in acquiring land by condemnation, The five jurists named are Mitchell May, Harry C.

Lewis, James A. Dunne, Burt Jay Humphrey and Norman S. Dike. Justice May called the charges "unfair" and Justice Dike said he would welcome a probe. School Awards Scored The report of the committee.

which is headed by the Rev. Dr. John Haynes Holmes, asserts that $9,221,799 was paid by the city from 1925 to 1929 for condemned school sites in Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens which were assessed at $2,803,000, and attacks Corporation Counsel Arthur J. W. Hilly for his selection of real estate experts to testify for the city at condemnation proceedings and the alleged high fees paid for this testimony.

The report followed by a week Mayor Walker's appointment of Leonard M. Wallstein, counsel to the Citizens Union, as Special Assistant Condemnation Counsel with carte blanche to investigate condemnation abuses. Judge "McCooey Protege' Wallstein, who has promised thorough inquiry, is directing his first efforts at overthrowing allegedly excessive awards granted in the Rockaway Boardwalk and Libby Hotel condemnations. One Justice, the report of the Holmes group declares, "Is a portege of John H. McCooey (the Brooklyn Democratic leader) and repeatedly awards five, six and seven times the assessed value of acquired property to land owners in Brooklyn and Queens." Urge Bank Account Probe The report suggests that "a thorough investigation be made of the bank accounts of city real estate ex- Please Turn to Page 3 German Tennis Stars Condemn Ranking List Berlin, Oct.

13 (P) -An appeal to abolish the national ranking list was made today to the president of the German Tennis Association by Germany's 12 best women tennis players with the exception of the yot star, Cecile Aussem. Among many reasons given for the request were charges that it is injurious to German tennis, deprives the players of pleasure in the sport, endangers comradeship and hampers development of skill. Marine Recruiting Stations Closed in Economy Drive Washington, Oct. 13 (P) -The Marine Corps, like the Navy, has instituted a personnel retrenchment program in line with President Hoover's request to effect economies in Government departments. It may result in a decrease in the enlisted personnel of 18,000 by several hundred.

New enlistments have been suspended, effective this month. Reenlistments are to be continued. however, provided the men enroll within three months. "The Marine Corps does not. plan 'Legs' Planned to Invade Brooklyn Beer Racket, Police Hear Papers Traced as Missing Hotel Man Is Sought -Show Girl Is Held Timetable of Delay In Notifying Police, Legs Diamond shot--between 11 and 11:30 a.m.

yesterday. Dr. Howard Babcock called- "about 11:30 a.m." Removed to Polyclinic Hospital-about 12:25 p.m. W. 68th St.

police notifled by p.m. Police headquarters notified p.m. PEA Dr. Babcock said this afternoon: "When I arrived at the hotel was given to understand it that the police already had been notifled. Some time later I also called the police.

That was from the hotel." At the W. 68th St. station it was said there was no record of a call from the surgeon. Jack (Legs) Diamond lay in a private ward of the Polyclinic Hospital this afternoon, his body riddled by four bullets fired by "a coupla guys" who came to "talk business" with him Sunday morning in his Monticello Hotel room and fled down the hotel stairs after the shooting. He had received the last rites of the Church and he had spoken no word which would aid the police in identifying or running down his assailants.

But in two boroughs police and prosecutors worked overtime to run them down. Manhattan detectives questioned Miss Marion Roberts, show girl "sweetheart" of the wounded man, from whose room in the hotel he went, dressed in purple pajamas, to see the "coupla guys," and sistant Chief Inspector John J. Sullivan sent word to State troopers at Acra, N. where Diamond had a summer home, to hold Jacob M. Ginsberg- they can find him there--the hotel manager and Diamond's friend.

Ginsberg disappeared shortly after the shooting. Death Trail Followed Here Meanwhile in Brooklyn another investigation was started by Acting District Attorney William F. X. Geoghan, on a theory that it was Please Turn to Page 3 State Commerce Body Invites Hoover Here Washington, Oct. 13 (AP)-President Hoover was invited today to speak Nov.

20 before the New York State Chamber of Commerce. He took the invitation under consideration. It was extended by Franklin Q. Brown, president of the Chamber; J. Barstow Small and Charles T.

Gwynne, Jimmy Hennigan Wins Marathon by a Mile Manchester, N. Oct. 13 (P) Jimmy Hennigan of the Medford, A. A. won the annual Knights of Columbus Marathon race from Concord to Manchester this morning.

finishing more than mile ahead of Joseph B. Quick of the Dorchester, Club, who WAS second. The Greatest Home Market in New York City Is BROOKLYN and the favorite newspaper in most of the best homes in Brooklyn is the EAGLE port. Bluenose, having headed Thebaud for the first time since the 'series opened, led Thebaud at the six-mile mark by half a minute. The first two miles of the second leg were sailed with the schooners bow to bow and so close the crews tossed apples back and forth and exchanged words of banter which carried far over the water.

It was most serious bid for rulership of the North Atlantic Fishing Bank since the series opened, and her chances of victory today were much improved. to turn out any of the present men," it was announced. It was added. however, that the only way in which economies could be effected was through a decrease in personnel. In that connection, Marine Corps has closed its recruiting stations at St, Paul, Denver, Seattle and Dallas as well as all substations connected with them.

The Navy Department announced last week it would slow up its normal recruiting by 200 men a month for two years,.