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TOtTHER. By 0. I. Wnthw Bireta PROBABLY LOCAL TH11NDEBSH0WEM THIS AFTERNOON OR TONIGHT TFXL' STREET Stock and Curb Closing Pricey it it it it it A TN IT 1 iAbrJL Tempertlnr. 18 Vnr ac (cloudy) Men tnntt 10 jeri, in 4le.

.57 511 93d YEAR No. 129 ENTERED AT THE BROOKLYN POST-OFFICE AS 2D CLASS MAIL MATTKR NEW YORK CITY, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1934 38 PAGES THREE CENTS Daily to urn wrr Nurse Carries On in Fight to Save Twins TRAIL FLATBUSH GANG TO BOSTON Mayor Would Cut Milk Price, Let City Sell WomanDeadon Table; Doctor Unconscious Thayer Guilty Of Crime, Says Quiz Counsel But Senator Asserts He Would Do It Again at Power Investigation Albany, May 10 Senator Warren T. Thayer, Republican whip, was charged with commission of crime by Paul J. McCauley, counsel to the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is Investigating Thayer's public utility affiliations. McCauley contended that Thayer violated the general corporations law when he accepted from the Chasm Power Company, stock corporation, approximately $900 rs a reimbursement for expenditure In the 1927 and 1928 Chateaugay village elections.

Eafl Bureau, Capitol Buildlni. Albany, May 10 Approaching conclusion of the testimony on which he hopes to be cleared of charges of official misconduct, Senator Warren T. Thayer, Republican whip, today told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he had killed bills affecting public utilities and would do so again. In the next breath he Insisted Young Wife Believed to Have Died While Undergoing an Operation-Physician Had Taken Sleeping Powder, Police Say-Placed Under Arrest A young woman was found dead on the operating table in the office of Dr. Julius Phillips at 325 Bradford near Belmont shortly after the doctor was found unconscious in the bedroom adjoining the office at 1:30 p.m.

today. The dead woman was iden- lip, 3 ii fii ilt If paiiip'iiiiiiii PUZZLES COURT Police Were ISO Feet From Bank as Bandits Raided It, Inspector Says Blames Caution of Employes for Failure to Capture Band Deputy Inspector Vincent Sweeney, head of Brooklyn detectives, announced this afternoon that he had sent several men to Boston on some "good, hot clues" there to the identity of the fiv machine-gun bandits who on Tuesday held up the Flatlands branch of the Prudential Savings Bank and escaped with, more than $23,000. He would not reveal the natur of the clues, but he said that tht five were evidently professionals, who had carefully planned and car ried out the holpup. Coats Found in Car He revealed further that two coat had been found in the second ban. dit car, found last night, and that these coats had special pockets cut in them to hold machine guns.

Tht plates on the car had been stolen from a car formerly owned by Pa trolman John Flumach 0f 441-35 43d Long Island City, attached to the Bureau of Criminal Identiflca-tion. Flumach reported his car stolen three weeks ago. Meanwhile both Sweeney and Deputy Chief Inspector Edward J. Bracken, in charge of Brooklyn po. lice, indicated that they blamed the too great caution of the bank em ployes for the eas with which tht gunmen got away.

Radio Cars Near "If they had given the alarm there would have been two or three radio cars there in two or three minutes," said Bracken. "The best thing to do in such a case is to giv the alarm to he police, They hat all kinds of buttons and pedals. Nurse Beatrice Johnson reviving one of the twins, Roy, In his adjacent crib in the Barry home at 1629 8th Ave. jjhki-i jjs Crisis Near for Twins In Battle for Life Tireless Doctor and Nurse Will Know Tonight if Labors Have or Have Not Been Vain-Slight Hope for One Baby 111 of Pneumonia 2 Quarts for 15 Cents City Into Aim if Forced Distribution Mayor LaGuardia today served notice that if the present milk price difficulties are not settled and the city is "forced Into the milk business," It will undertake to distribute loose milk at two quarts for 15 cents. The situation is still deadlocked as far as the companies are concerned on the cent a quart milk price rise.

Conferences are in progress and a settlement is looked for following a hearing scheduled for next Tuesday before the State Milk Control Board. The Mayor said a representative of the Sheffield Farms had conferred with him and offered to sell loose milk at 8 cents a quart. Would Better Price "This offer involves city distribution," the Mayor commented In the City Hall interview, "and if we are forced into the loose milk business we will strive to do better than that. We'll sell loose milk at two quarts for 15 cents." Reminded that the public health authorities are opposed to the sale of loose milk in any form and asked whether he favored its sale, the Mayor replied: I can see germs everywhere. I can pick a politician quickly, but I'm not so good on bacteria and germs." IL S.

Jury Scans Bank Failure Vom Lehn Is Quizzed on Lehrenkrauss Case Action in Criminal Evidence of crimes connected with the $30,000,000 collapse of the House of Lehrenkrauss was given today to the Brooklyn Federal Grand Jury. It was presented by Federal Attorney Howard W. Amell and Assistant Federal Attorneys Henry Singer and Maxwell Parnes. What indictments are being sought no official would" say, nor' would any reveal how long the presentation is expected to take. Indicate Two Courses As Department of Justice accountants and investigators who "work up" for jury presentation evidence of concealment of assets In bankruptcy and one postal Inspector were among the score of witnesses to go today into the Jury room, indications are that both fraudulent bankruptcy and mail frauds indictments are among the Federal prosecutor's objectives.

Several bookkeeper of the defunct firm and Richard Von Lehn, Flat-bush builder, were in today's list of grand Jury witnesses. Vom Lehn Grilled Vom Lehn did all appraising of properties on which Lehrenkrauss mortgages were put during the last five years and together with Julius Lehrenkrauss, now in Sing Sing, bought and sold many properties independent of the House of Lehrenkrauss operations. The rest of today's witnesses, perhaps a dozen in all, were persons who had "invested" in Lehrenkrauss securities. One Killed, Several Injured in Rioting Paris, May 10 UP) The motorists of Paris, victims of repeated attacks in connection with Communist outbreaks, finally have retaliated. One Communist is dead and several lie wounded and injured as a result of rioting last night in which motorists repulsed a Communist attack at Livry Gargan, a suburb.

Showers Promised Later in the Day Although the day dawned crystal clear this morning, the weather man forecast clouds and showers later, to be followed by fair and cooler weather. The mercury stood at 78 degrees at 2 p.m. KidnapersTake RicIOil Man Pair Seized After Party in Swimming Pool at California Estate Los Angeles, May 10 IP) Two masked men brandishing pistols snatched William F. Gettle, 47, wealthy oil man, from his newly purchased estate in the foothills district of Arcadia at a midnight party last night, declaring "This is a kidnaping." James Wolfe, a Westwood furniture dealer, was left bound and gagged and strapped to a tree on the estate. His wife freed him.

Abducted After Party Gettle was abducted after a nnrtv of 10 entertained at the estate by Mr. and Mrs. Gettle, who are resi dents of Beverly Hills, had left a swimming pool. Eight members of the party entered the house, while npttlp onrf Wolfe stopped in a small Summer nouse 10 pull on trousers and shirts over their swimming suits. As they bent over they were startled by a voice, which exclaimed: "Stick 'em up and be quick about it!" No Soft Stuff They glanced up into the faces of two men and the miirzlpa nt Inn pistols.

Wolfe attempted to remon strate out me men cut him short. "No soft stuff," one snarled. "We're here for business. This is a kidnaping." The two men bound and irntrirerl Gettle and Wolfe, marched them outside the small house and stopped Desiae a tree. Lashing Wolfe to the tree, thev hurried nettle tn sn eight-foot wall, pulled him up and uver li, ana spea away down a rear driveway.

Station Wrecked By Burglars' Blast Farmingdale, May 10 (A) Safe- blowers practically wrecked the Long island Railroad station today In a misconducted and not very profitable robbery. They used too much explosive. The safe was blown into many pieces, windows were smashed, a table was demolished and small coins were scattered over the prem ises. The loot was about $60. Damage to the station was estimated at sev eral hundred dollars.

titled as Mrs. Virginia Allen Ball, 21, by her husband, Thomas Ball of the Empire Hotel, Manhattan, at 2:30 p.m. He said his wife had been missing since last luesday and that he had come to the doctor's office believing that she may have been there. Doctor Arrested Meanwhile, Captain McGowan or dered the arrest of Dr. Phillips on the homicide charge.

The doctor was found by his son, Arthur, 26, who immediately summoned police. Captain McGowan expressed the opinion that Dr. Phillips had taken an overdose of a sleeping tablet. The woman, he said, apparently died during the course of a criminal operation. Taken to Hospital Dr.

Phillips, who is past 50, was ordered to Kings County Hospital by an ambulance surgeon from Trinity Hospital, Police of the Homicide Squad immediately began an investigation. Macy Opposed ToM'Goldrick urgert Jiayor to iame Kin gsRepublican-May Cause Primary Row By CLINTON L. MOSHER Mayor LaGuardia and Republican State Chairman W. Kingsland Macy were in sharp disagreement over the appointment of Deputy Controller Joseph D. McGoldrick, independent Democrat from Brooklyn, as Controller, The Eagle learned today.

The Mayor is understood to have told Macy that he intended to advance the 32-year-old expert on municipal finance to the place made vacant by the sudden death last Saturday of Maj. W. Arthur Cunningham. Sought Republiran Macy, so The Eagle has been Informed, told LaGuardia that he be-lived the job should go to an organization Republican from Brooklyn. Macy is said to have pointed out that the G.

O. P. has supported the Mayor both at Albany and locally despite his refusal to give them any sizable share of the patronage, and that the wise thing for LaGuardia to do would be to pick a new Controller from the party ranks. Macy then recommended the ap- Continued on Page 11 Savings Banks Seek Big Fund A deposit insurance fund calling for initial subscriptions aggregating over $10,000,000, for an additional $10,000,000 on call and for yearly subscriptions of $5,000,000, is proposed in a plan designed bv savings banks in New York State for the exclusive protection of their own deposits. By creating this fund, the State mutuals intend to give their depositors greater protection than is now afforded under provisions of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Should the proposed plan secure the required approval, including the sanction of State Superintendent of Banks Broderick, as Continued on Page 29 at Avenue ami E. 14th Manhattan. Admires Roosevelt "I'm an admirer of President Roosevelt, but it would surprise me, nor, sir; it wouldn't surprise me a bit if I were running against him in the next election." Flatbush's Republican Congressman of 1921 and 1922 kept a running fire of talk on his comeback plans in the shack as he checked wagon and truckloads of material in and out of the receiving depot in the rear. The 69 yean in which he has gone Their breathing artificially administered through oxygen tanks rushed by police, six-months-old Ross and Roy Barry, twins, were striving valiantly today to keep their tiny sparks of life burning against the ravages of pneumonia. If the oxygen, the prayers of the family, the constant attendance of a nurse and physician who have not slept in 36 hours, and the will to live possessed by even the tiniest mites prevail up to this evening, the twins will have passed the crisis.

They will live, In the belief of their doctor, if all these things hold out against overwhelming odds. And there will be happiness and a ray of hope, for the first time in two years, for the unfortunate family of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Barry, 1629 8th Ave. Lost Girl Twins Two Years Ago But if all these things don't hold out, tomorrow will bring just despair.

It was Just two years ago tomorrow that the Barrys lost their twin baby girla, Eileen and Verva, who had Just passed their first birthday, of pneumonia. Mr. Barry, a clerk, has been unemployed for eight months, and would be hard pressed to provide burial'. This morning Mrs. Vera Barry, their mother, dressed Ronald, Marie, 7, and Robert, 3, in their best clothes and sent them to church to pray.

Mr. and Mrs. Barry were too busy to go with them. Babies in Same Room In the living room of the very modest Barry apartment on the ground floor of an old three-story brownstone building, Roy occupied a crib and Ross a made-over bed Continued on Page 11 Drought Threatens Crops of Mid-West Chicago, May 10 (ft Drought etched gloomy lines Into the nation's farming picture today, especially in the mid-West. Some agricultural officials went far as to predict grain yields would approach the low points of 1894 and 1930 called by some "famine years.

that his opposition to many of the measures was a matter of conviction, and had no connection with the fact that they were opposed by the Associated Gas Electric Company, to which he sold his Chasm Power Company in 1925 for substantial sum. During the course of the hearing today Paul J. McCauley, counsel to the committee, formally cleared two members of the Legislature, and a former member, of any impropriety, although their names were mentioned in letters from Thayer to utility officials, made public by the Federal Trade Commission, Absolves Others McCauley gave a clean bill of health to Senators Walter W. West-all of Westchester and Charles H. Hewitt of Cayuga, both Republicans, and to former Assemblyman Eberly Hutchinson of the Fulton-Hamilton district.

Urged to do the same for former Assemblyman Willis H. Sargent, new president of the Syracust Common Council, McCauley said It may be necessary to bring Sargent to the hearing. "If that Is not necessary," he added, "I shall gladly place upon Continued on Page Grains Rise, Stocks Recoup Stock and grain markets worked at cross-purposes today. Two violent selling attacks forced prices of stocks down an average of about 3 points and caused individual losses running to 5 points before the slump was checked. But wheat, with shorts and traders almost panicky on crop destruction and conainued drought, rushed the full 5 cents a bushel permitted under the rules, and corn jumped more than 2 cents a bushel.

In the afternoon good recoveries occurred in stocks, about two-thirds the maximum loss being recovered by 2.30 o'clock. Trading was substantially in excess of 2,000,000 shares, the largest volume in some weeks. Dollars were a trifle firmer. Sterling ruled around $5.11, off cent, and francs were off point at 6.62 cents. The price of gold was up one-half penny in London.

Bonds were a little lower but some of the TJ. S. Government Issues and foreign were moderately strong. Curb prices rallied after sharp reaction. (Stock Table on Page 28) ORR MEMORIAL SERVICE The annual Ascension Day memorial musical service for Alexander E.

Orr will be held tonight at Christ Episcopal Church in Clinton directed by the orttnntst. Robert Gay-ler. The Orr family, by whom many valuable memorials have been placed in the church, has arranged this service each year since the death of Mr. Orr. In Todays Eagle Anicto Patrl tl Art Arthur St Rrldnt SI daunted Ada IS-S5 Comlfi 87 Death NoticM IS Dr.

Brady 31 Dr. Cadman SI Dr. Hajr'i Diet Systen SI Editorial tf Financial tl-SO Guild IS Helen Worth Lost and Found, Personal Movlea Novel SI Radio Rhlp'l Newa Jfl Society porta M-t Theaters Woom's Fa II while the other, Ross, rests Criminal Law Change Sought Roosevelt Asks Study by Institute to Adapt Needs to Present Day Washington, May 10 (President Roosevelt suggested to the American Law Institute today that it study America's criminal law with a view to recommending how it could be adapted "to meet the needs of a modern complex civilization." The President, in a message to the Institute, congratulated it for the work along similar lines it has done with civil law. "I wish, therefore," he said, "to take the liberty of suggesting that, while you continue to carry forword the clarification and simplification of what we lawyers call the private civil law, serious consideration should be given to whether you should not now begin an undertaking of equal importance in the field of substantial criminal law. "There is an urgent need for Intelligent, painstaking and patriot-c work in this field." An appeal to the public to insist upon law enforcement was made by Chief Justice Hughes in an address to the Institute.

"I need not point out to you," said the President, "that the adaptation of our criminal law and its administration to meet the needs of a modern, complex civilization is one of our major problems. I believe the American Law Institute Is in a position to make important contributions to the sol'ltion of this perplexing problem." Woman Is Ruled Off Jamaica Race Track Mrs. Marie Curry, 28, an attractive brunette who refused to give her address or the name of her husband, has, by her own confession, the record of being the first woman ruled off the Jamaica race track since the return of legal betting. Jamaica Selections By W. C.

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Oilomtr, Ool. OrD. Folia. EH-Hrtoi alio jrto, Los Angeles, May 10 W) The sudden announcement that R. C.

(Dapper DanV Dowling had married the complaining witness in a kidnaping charge against him left furrows on legal brows today. Judge Fletcher BowMn pf Superior Court took time jt to decide whether to dismiss the charge based on Mrs. Marjorie Crawford Wellman's accusation that the studio dance director had forced her to accompany him to Yuma, against her will. Hold Taxi Man In Ace's Death Bail Fixed at $3,000 for Negro as Broker Dies After Punch Charged with striking the blows that brought death to Tyler Cook Bronson, 35, World War aviator, Princeton graduate and social regis-terite, John Porter, 26, a Negro cab driver, 63 W. 139th Manhattan, was arrested on a homicide charge shortly after midnight this morning.

The driver, ever since the alterca tion on Monday night, had believed only that he had punched a man who called him names, not that he had killed him. Blows Are Fatal But Bronson, who went through the war unscathed, who had brought down five enemy planes, one a member of the famed Richtofen Squadron, succumbed to the blows. He died at noon yesterday in Mere dith House Hospital, 30 E. 76th Manhattan, of a fractured skull and Continued on Page 2 Latest Grandchild Of President Named Fort Worth, Texas, May 10 UP) The fifth grandchild of President and Mrs. Roosevelt has been named Ruth Chandler Roosevelt.

The name given the daughter born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Elliott Roosevelt, son and daughter-in-law of the President, was selected "some time ago," the father said last night. Both the mother and dauehter were reported "doing nicely." up and down rest easily on the relief worker and he could pass for a decade younger. 'No Fusion Stuff But the man who plans to come back appeared more interested in the opportunity for an up-and-comer to become Controller after the November election than in any other ohange of his job.

"But mind you. if I run, there won't be any of this Fusion stuff," he said. "I will run as a straight Republican. Fusion is just a cloak for the big bankers and 070010." didn't they? That's what they art supposed to be for." He added that the branch bank at 1972 Flatbush Ave. was "merely a store, with a rail that anybody can step right over." Inspector Sweeney added: "They could have given the alarm easily enough.

It was a matter of moving a knee an inch or so, and the gunmen would not have known who did it. Of course, there wa some danger that they would havt fired anyhow. But it is a matter of record that there was a radio car at Kings Highway and Flatbush 150 feet away, at the time, and an alarm would have brought it there at once. There were two other rars in the vicinity. "At any rate, if the alarm had Continued on Pare -3 Free Second Wife From Dr.

Fowler The second wife of Dr. Russell a Fowler, eminent physician and sur. geon, was today granted a decree of divorce by Justice Edward J. Bryne in matrimonial branch of Brooklyn Supreme Court. She is Mrs.

Sophie Konrad Fowler, of 39 Plaza to whom he was married in 1927, lest than a month after his first wife, Mrs. Nellie Sammis White Fowler. obtained a divorce in Paris. Sophie Konrad was a nurse in Wyckoff Heights Hospital, where Dr. Fowler had been chief surgeon for more than 30 years.

Besides the decree, she was awarded $300 a month alimony and the custody of their child. Russell 6 years old. Dr. Fowler may visit the child at reasonable times. Dr.

Fowler lives now with hil third wife, who was Miss Rose Beauchesne, at 78 Prospect Parle West. Just a few steps from' the second wife's home. He married her after getting a decree of divorce from the Mexican court at Morelos in August of last year. WOMAN, 76, LEAPS TO DEATH Mrs. Evelyn M.

Burke, 76, jumped or fell to her death early this morn, ing from her bedroom window in the apartment of her son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Haves, on the eighth floor of 30 70th Manhattan. The body landed in the rear courtyard and was identified by Hayes.

Police of the W. 68th St. station listed the case as a suicide. On the Inside The Hay Diet; Page 31. Post can tear Vm down and build Vm up, by Guv Hickok; Page 21.

Selection of Nusstein to coach Davis Cup team discussed by George Currie; Page 26. LaGuardiaWas Better Looking. So Laura Ingalls Shunned Court Kissel, a $21 Relief Worker Now, To Race Mr. Roosevelt, Perchance Miss Laura Ingalls, who recently flew 17,000 miles through South American wilds, appeared before Magistrate Marvin in Flushing Court today to answer to a charge of driving her auto past a red light in Corona. Miss Ingalls said she was 31 years old, an aviatrix by profession.

Incidentally It developed that Miss Ingalls got into court while a court officer was looking for her to serve her with a warrant. Miss Ingalls received the summons from Patrolman William J. McClernahan of the Newtown precinct at 6:55 p.m. May 4. It was returnable May 8.

Miss Ingalls did not A warrant was Issued. Today she zoomed, in a manner of speaking, into the courtroom, smiled at the magistrate and said she was very sorry to be late but that somebody she had mixed her dates and didn't know she was expected in court on the 8th. "You should know," Magistrate Marvin admonished her a bit gently. "It is a serious matter to ignore ft summons, you know." "Your Honor, if the officer who gave me the ticket was as good-looking as the Judge with whom I had the date, I never would have disappointed you." After listening to Miss Ingalls' explanation the Judge gave her a suspended ttntenc. Through rose-colored glasses former Congressman John Kissel.

once prosperous owner of Brooklyn orcwery. toaay contemplated a comet-like political comeback from his present estate of a $21-a-week relief worker in a lower East Side project continued from the CWA. Next Fall may see the former Congressman tossing his hat In the ring for the Republican nomination for State Senator from Flatbush, but he is just as likely to run for Controller. 'And why not Washington?" he queried an Eagle reporter in the wort snacjc in which be holds forth!.