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as 1 94th YEAR No. 346 ENTERED AT THE BROOKLYN POST OFFICE AS 30 CLASS MAIL MATTER NEW YORK CITY, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1934 40 PAGES THREE CENTS This Bridge Lost Its Stance Morgan Firm BUDD GIRL'S SLAYER Rescue Boat Sinks, 12 Die; BRANDED A CANNIBAL; RE-ENACTS HIS CRI1 Victim Scene Confessed Slayer Fish Tried to Kill OUier Children, Say Pel Victim to Questioned About Boy Who Saw Death Tool -Remanded for Trial 'A vtlA vW ft -v 1 a i ill if These golfers in the Miami-Biltmore open encountered an. unexpected hazard in yesterday's play when a bridge collapsed as they crossed to the 17th green. The gallery enjoyed the moist interlude, in which Olin Dutra, ultimate tournament winner, participated, and from the looks of things the players didn't have too many complaints. Casualties: 30 golfers all wet.

'-f ll. I i-l I -srt i'ar-- I War Finance To Be Bared Nye Expects Congress to Give Funds for U.S. Inquiry on Banker 9 The Senate Munitions Committee will investigate J. P. Morgan private banker, it was disclosed today by Senator Gerald P.

Nye, chairman of the committee. Full details of the firm's participation In financing the World War will be sought as soon as Congress votes additional funds when it convenes next month. Senator Nye said that no exhaustive study of the munitions business is possible without a knowledge of its financial agents. Washington, Dec. 14 UP) Pierre S.

Du Pont told the Senate Munitions Committee today that Newton D. Baker, then Secretary of War, plainly indicated to him In November, 1917, that he considered the Du Pont Powder Company "a species of outlaws" because of the terms the concern had insisted on In building a Government powder factory. "Naturally I resented the remark," Du Pont said as he leaned forward earnestly to explain to the Continued on Page 2 $3,500,000 Cut In Sewer Levy But Owners of Beach Areas Are Dissatisfied With Board's Action The Board of Estimate today voted to relieve property owners in the Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Sheeepshead Bay and Coney Island sections of approximately $3,500,000 of the $8,600,000 cost of the Brighton Beach-Coney Island sewer system. The premature Christmas gift coming at the close of a rather acrimonious session of the board caused not even a little howl of glee from the 600 property owners pres ent who made it plain they expect a great deal more. The relief will affect some 22,000 parcels of land, most of which are improved with one and two-family houses or apartments.

The relief is greater in some sections than others. 60 Percent Cancelled In Coney Island and Manhattan Beach approximately 60 percent of the cost originally assessed against property owners will be cancelled. In Sheepshead Bay the assessment is reduced to about 26 percent of the original one. Of the balance of the total assessment about $2,582,230 will be placed on the city and 10 percent on the Borough of Brooklyn. Borough President James J.

Lyons of the Bronx aroused the indignation of both Mayor LaGuardia and Borough President Raymond V. Ingersoll when he declined to vote Continued on 2 Keikart Convicted, Doomed to Chair Mineola, L. Dec. 14 Frank Keikart was found guilty of murder, first degree, here today by a jury before County Judge Johnson. The indictment charged he was one of a gang which held up the First National Bank of Bellmore, L.

on April 4, 1924, and killed Ernest Whitman, a bond salesman, who was coming out of the bank as the holdup gang arrived. The jury reached its verdict after 15 hours. Keikart displayed no emotion. In giving his pedigree to the clerks he answered the question "Where do you live?" by saying, "Leavenworth Jail." "Where Is your real home address?" the clerk persisted. "One hundred and thirty-eight Academy Long Island City," Kiekart replied.

Judge Johnson said he would impose sentence Thursday. The death sentence is mandatory on a first degree murder conviction. L. I. FIRM BIDS LOW Washington, Dec.

14 P) The Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. of Farmingdale, L. submitted a low bid opened at the Navy Department today of $1,473,722 for the construction of 84 scout planes. JIM 18 Are Saved Lifeboat Capsizes in Midatlantic Storm as Steamer Founders Mackay Radio reported receipt Of a menace from the liner Ascanio, statins that It members of the crew of the foundering British iteamer Usworth were rescued today in heavy seas in midatlantic. Apparently 12 lives had been lost.

All of them went down when a lifeboat from the Belgian steamer Jean Jadot capsized. Battling mountainous midatlantic seas to rescue the crew of the foundering British steamer Us worth, two members of a lifeboat crew from the Belgian steamer Jane Jadot were lost today when their boat capsized, a wireless message to Mackay radio reported shortly after noon today. Two members of the Usworth's crew, the message said, were rescued from the water when the lifeboat was tossed over in the running seas Previously the Jean Jadot's lifeboat had carried five of the Usworth's ere to safety and presumably had gone back to get another load of the SI members of the crew still aboard the sinking ship. The Usworth sent out distress calls before dawn and was answered by the Jean Jadot and the Cunarder Ascania, the latter standing by to lower her own boats shortly after the Jean Jadot's crew made its rescue, says the Associated Press. Messages relayed to Mackay from the Black Diamond freighter Black Gull, reported the Usworth as de scribing her condition "precarious1 and appealing to nearby vessels to "please do your best to get us off." Stocks Irregular; Dollar Eases Up Stocks again pursued an irregular trend today, rising in the morn ing, losing their gains, and rallying In the afternoon.

By :30 o'clock, Industrials averaged a gain of about point, and rails Utilities were barely changed. Numerous individ ual issues showed advances of 1 to 2 points. Some of the merchandising and specialty stocks were strong, as were silvers. Commodities likewise improved after an uncertain morning. Wheat and corn, late, were fractionally up, Cotton, rubber, cocoa and silk were higher.

The dollar eased a little late. Sterling got to $4.95, up cent. Francs were unchanged around 6.59 cents. Gold rose a half penny in London. Bonds were irregular after a good start.

Numerous small gains were shown on the Curb. (Stock Table on Page 32) Asks New Inquiry In Jarnegin Death Los Angeles, Dec. 14 (P) Charging that her song-writing husband, Jerry Jarnegin, was murdered the night of Aug. 19, Irene Franklin. former musical comedy star, today announced she would demand a new investigation of the death which a coroner's jury declared to be a sul cide.

Charles Town Results FIRST RACE Fort, ytrds more than 6 furloms toff 1:49. Won by Khiraon. 109 (Tryon). 17 60, 14.40. 13.00; second.

Wild Dtutnter. 10B (Booker). $9.00, S3.40; third. Csnobie Lake, 109 (Weir). 12 80.

Time. 1:20. Quick Wit, Disruption, Toio, filr Khan. Bright Olrl also ran. Second Raee Six and half furlonts.

Off 2:12. Won by Appear, 107 (Booker) S.1.20. 12.40. 2.20: second. Waiayata, 107 (Murray), $4.80.

third. Miss Fatehei, (PaJumno), jj no. Time, 1:22 4-5. Atoll, Ocean Klst, Tell It, Welch Lass and Winlt also ran. THIRD RACK Snnpron.

first; Grand Rnx. second; Daisy Buek, third. In Today's Eagle raw. Amusements tS-27 Art Arthur Cemlcs Book Pare 15 Brldre IS Classified Ads JJ-SI Death Notices 19 Dr. Brady IS Editorial Jt Financial tt Guild News It Lost and Fovad, Personals, MoTles ts-t? Noyel IS Radio I Real Estate 14 1 Ship Newt 14 I Society 11 Sports tS-10 I Theaters Treasure Hunt S5-M Woman's Paia 14 ON AIM VanitsrWII Hettl AntwH.

It. (tpatu Dm, 92 lor tat season. Advt. Associated Press Photo. The abandoned house on Mountain Elmsford, N.

in which it is believed Albert Howard Fish killed Grace Budd after kidnaping her from her New York home in June, 1928. Lower left A photograph of Grace, taken two weeks before she was kidnaped. Low-' er right Fish (right) being arraigned in Manhattan Homicide Court today on charges of kidnaping and homicide last night while Detective William F. King (left) looks on. Albert H.

Fish, house painter, was ar-vsried in Homicide Court, Manhattan, today, for the adduction and killing, in June, 1S'ia, cf Grace Budd, then a child of ten. He was ordered held wtwout. bail and Magistrate Stern ad. o-in, th proceedings for a week eo tee u-thorities might decide whether bring him to trial in anliatfan, where the girl was kid iapj, or in Westchester, where she was Lnitaiiy killed and where parts of tfc.e dismembered body was fe-md. Possible Adult Victim One aspect of the police into the Fish caa pointed tt the possibility of an adult victim slain in the same way as was little Grace Budd.

That developed when police found a bone about 10 Inches long In the basement of the house in Westchester where the Budd child was killed and near which the girl's skull was found yesterday and other parts of the skeleton today. Dr. AmosO. Squire, medical examiner, said the bone was probably -from a human body but certainly not a child. Police recalled that nearly four years ago tK; by of a woman, about 20 yean vw found in the woods about away.

She is still Residents In the neighlv.rioad recalled that Fish had be; ea 'u the vicinity In the woman they thought to 1 bis wiij On one occasion a your uov r.ws with them. Divorce d20 Tears No relatives of Fish's i aid him, but at 4-29 Ast rt Bftv-vard, Astoria, Mrs. An tVmiti-" revealed that she had dht iis wilt but divorced him 20 yeai ao. fliv giving birth to six child; vx The eldest of these, fcbm Tjui Jr, commented, "The cid kt'nk. 1 knew something like thii hxj pen sooner or later." Arc' then lie asked, "What was the lmaie of -little girl he Is accused it VVi.niV When told it was Gra Suit, exclaimed, "My God! tiie name he used to scream out when he awoke out of his sleep up oil Amsterdam Ave.

Beenacts His Cnrtu Fish, who led the p.i:c io tte scene of the killing steriay, repeated his confession ctU.y at the police line-up and rr-eucted his crime, with vivid gestures before a group of three District Attorney Coyir oi VrVst-chester, who will probt havs the duty of prosecuting hhn lor natier With Coyne in the Mlwlng Persons Bureau at police at the time were Capt. it Mr J. McQuillan of Greenburgh, the. Westchester town where Fish had pointed out the burled skull of the slain girl, and Acting Capt. John Stein of the Missing Persons Bu- Continued on Page Cocoa Cola Shares Jump 114 Points Surprised gapes and momen-.

tary illusion that the good old da' of 1929 were back agwn. appearance on th kh tickers today of Coca 01 Ix.iera-tional stock. It had jumped 114 irvn its last sale, on July 12. 1935. Today's price was $314 a jial SO shares were traded.

Fights Reynolds Trust Settlement Winston-Salem, N. Dec. 14 OP) Mrs. Annie L. Cannon of Concord, mother of Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith and co-guardian of her grandchild, Anne Cannon Reynolds 2d, today asked the Forsyth Superior Court to decline the attempted settlement of the Bmlta ftoynrnw trust fortune, and to anwlr.t a lister to take testimony and in the validity of the Ren dtvwca between Smith Reynol and her daughter.

On the IiisH 3 Home Port of the Seven Seas: Brooklyn, jrachtine center, by O. R. Pilat; Page 21. The story behind Mr. Roose velt edict on war profits, by Paul Mallon; Page Ralph Trost describes the healthy financial condition of L.

I. Golf Association; Page 29. Non-Resident Law Is Killed Estimate Board Voids Measure to Force City Aides to Live Here The Board of Estimate, sitting as the upper branch of the Municipal Assembly, today voted 8 to 5 to kill the local law which would have required city employes to live within the city. The bill, sponsored by Borough President Lyons of the Bronx, received the votes of Lyons and Borough President Levy of Manhattan, Harvey of Queens and Palma of Staten Island. The opposition voles were cast by Aldermanic President Deutsch, Controller McGoldrick and Borough President Ingersoll of Brooklyn.

Mayor La Guardia did not vote. Opposed by Ingersoll During a sharp and noisy debate between Lyons and Ingersoll and Deutsch, Ingersoll explained: "I am going to vote against the bill. There are many city employes who own homes in Nassau and Westchester because of the high cost of living in the city. They can't dispose of them now. The bill, if passed, would create feeling against the city in the surrounding territory." Deutsch said that the law would hit particularly those city employes who had been encouraged by the Continued on Page Downey Convicted In Strangling Girl Special to The Eagle Riverhead, L.

Dec. 14 A Suffolk County Court Jury after three hours and 50 minutes deliberation early today found Patrick Downey, 31-year-old carpenter of Central Islip, guilty of first degree murder for the strangling of 7-year-old Rita Lazarrl in Islip, Sept. 23, last. Downey had pleaded temporary insanity at the time of the crime because of drunkenness, but Dr. Edward Hicks, chief of staff of the psychiatric division of Kings County Hospital, testified at yesterday's session of the trial that Downey was mentally competent at the time.

Judge Richard W. Hawkins remanded the prisoner to await sentence next Tuesday. First Reports Back Cotton Control Act Atlanta, Dec. 14 (P An overwhelming verdict for retention of the Bankhead Cotton Control Act for another year was recorded from the first reports today In Georgia on the cotton control referendum. BANK ROBBED OF $10,000 Toledo, Ohio, Dec.

14 (P) Three robbers escaped with more than $10,000 today after holding up two employes of the Woodville (Ohio) State Savings Bank, near here. Associated Press Pholo. W.C.T.U. President Eats in a Saloon Washington, Dec. 14 OP) Some one at the next table ordered two beers.

Mrs. Ida B. Wise Smith of Des Moines, Iowa, national president of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, looked on in dismay as they were served. 1 "Here I sit in a saloon!" she declared. "But what else can' I do? I have to eat somewhere." Conditions since repeal are worse than they ever were be- fore, she observed as she paid her check and.

left the restaurant to preside over a meeting of representatives of 42 prohibitionist and temperance organizations. Bruno Realty In Court Fight Fawcelt Seeks to Get Mortgages for Fee He Says Is Due Hhn A hot fight for two Queens County mortgages for $3,750 each that were owned by Mrs. Anna Hauptmann, wife of Bruno Richard Hauptmann awaiting trial in the Lindbergh baby-murder case, developed today before Justice Wenzer in Supreme Court. This action, brought by James Mark Fawcett, erstwhile counsel for Hauptmann, followed close on the heels of a statement by Fawcett to the effect that he has a lien on certain papers in the Hauptmann case to the extent of a $4,221.57 balance which, he says, is due him for his legal services and disbursements. The mortgages are mentioned in his statement as having been offered in payment.

Directed Against Whitney Fawcett today secured a hold on one of the documents when Justice Continued on Page Dies 15 Days Before Her 104th Birthday Washington, Dec. 14 iP) Mrs. Jane Ann Reed May. granddaughter of David Reed, a Colonial squire, who, tradition says, fined George Washington for swearing, died yesterday, 15 days before her 104th birthday. St.

Mary's Hospital Fire Quickly Halted Muffling their engines and working quietly, firemen early today en-tinguished a small fire in the sewing room of St. Mary's Hospital at 1298 St. Mark's while most of the 120 patients slept. Few patients were aware that there was a fire. Epsom Downs Results FIRST RACK Dark Woman, first; Busy Storm, second; l.urkr Knok, Ihlrd.

College medical authorities will take over certain beds at Kings County Hospital and provide special instruction for students and young physicians in surgery, medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology. Four directors will take charge of these branches. Dr. Frank L. Babbott, president of the Long bland College of Medicine, has co-operated with Dr.

Parrish in developing the plans. He Beat Boy Models, They Beat Him Fish Newark, N. Dec. 14 Police here today recalled that Albert Fish, the man held in connection with the murder of Grace Budd in Westchester County, had been arrested in Newark in 1930, had served ten days in the local jail as a vagrant, Slain Couple's Infant Is Safe Shanghai, Dec. 14 (IP) A report from Tsingteh said tonight that little Heren Priscllla Staml three-months-old daughter of the murdered American missionaries, Mr.

and Mrs. J. S. Stam, had been found alive and was being taken to Wuhu, mission headquarters. Wuhu reported that the Rev.

George Birch of Canada, a member of the China Inland Mission and stationed near Tsingteh, had the infant and was carrying it to safety. There was no indication as to the health of the child. Japanese Detain U. 3 Photographer Shanghai, Dec. 14 OP) Alexander Buchman of Cleveland, Ohio, a reporter for a local Chinese-owned English-language daily newspaper, was held for three hours today by a Japanese naval landing party because he had photographed the Japanese naval headquarters in the Shanghai International Settlement.

The Japanese released Buchman after United States consular authorities intervened and he permitted the landing party to take the films. McADOO IMPROVES Manila, P. Dec. 14 UP) Senator William Gibbs McAdoo of Califor nia, suffering from "an irritation of the Intestinal tract," Is improved, physicians said tonight. He will remain under observation in Army Hospital here several days.

and had then been turned over to United States post-office inspectors, who took him to New York City. Fish was arrested on May 2, 1930, at a boarding house at 202 Plane Newark. A Negro maid had put an advertisement in a newspaper for a job and Fish had answered it. His answer was of such a strange nature that the girl turned the letter over to her employer, who notified the police. In Fish's room police found a new axe, a long, sharp knife, four sets of skeleton keys, lock picks, a brace- and-bit and many letters from women.

In Fish's letter to the Negro maid he said he was an artist and that 40 boys and young men were his models. "When the models misbehave I beat them with a cat-o'-nine-tails that hangs in the pantry," Fish wrote. "When I am away you would be in charge and you would beat the models. But on Saturdays, between 11 and 4, the models have a holiday. Then I pose for them and they beat me with the cat-o'-nine-tails.

It is great fun and I hope you will like the job. The salary Is $85 per month." Machado Eludes Police in Germany Hamburg, Germany, Dec. 14 UP) Gerardo Machado, former President of Cuba, repeated his New York disappearance act here today, leav ing town witn nis entourage just a few moments before German secret police called at his hotel. The Cuban Government is seeking his extradition. WALES WEARING GLASSES London, Dec.

14 The Prince of Wales has taken to wearing horn-rimmed glasses, although becoming, they make him look much older. MOUNT BECOMES ACTIVE Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Dec. 14 UP) The upthrust of Mount Erapuca and its transformation into an active volcano was reported today by Governor Santarosa of Copan Province in a telegram to the Federal Government. extreme nervous strain due to caring for an ill husband and a 9-year-old son, who is a diabetic. The case is unmatched in medical history known to Dr.

Petit and his consultants. sne yawns 10 to 12 times a minute. She is able to obtain nourishment when she Is aroused from her artl ficially induced naps, but Dr. Petit Is concerned over her ability to en dure the protracted strain. Greets the Dawn Six Morns With Yawns That Never Stop Plan Medical School Branch In Kings County Hospital BULLETIN Hitler Train Kills 13 Round Grove.

Ill, Dec. 14 (P) Mrs. Harold McKee, 35, greeted the dawn with a yawn. She has been yawning continuously since 4 p.m. Sunday, except for brief respites induced by the influence of opiates.

Early today she had approached her 110th hour of protracted yawning and doctors are at a loss to know how to make her stop. Dr. H. L. Petit could assign no reason for the yawning other than Kings County Hospital and Long Island College Hospital and Medical School authorities have worked out a plan for a branch of the medical school to function in the city hospital.

It was disclosed today. The plans await the aapproval of Hospitals Commissioner Goldwater. According to Dr. Paul Parrish, chief of the medical staff at Kings County Hospital, the Long Island Berlin, Dec. 14 UP) An express train in which Reichsfuehrer Hitler was riding killed II persons at 7 o.m.

tonight when it struck an autobus near Verden..