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Show THE LEIII SUN. LE1II. CTA1I News Review Events the Norfolk Boat Builder Confesses Cruel Hoax in Lindbergh Lind-bergh Case Terrible Tragedy at Sea Gossip of National Politics. By EDWARD BREAKING down under long continued con-tinued examination, John H. Curtis, the Norfolk boat builder who had put himself forward as an intermediary In the Lindbergh baby case, confessed to Inspector Harry Walsh of the Jersey Jer-sey City police that his story was ft hoax and 'negotiations 'negotia-tions with the kidnapers kid-napers were entirely entire-ly a fake. He said he never knew such persons as those be named to Colonel W. H. Steveru Lindbergh and to Bieet whom the distracted father made many trips to sea on a yacht in company with Curtis. In his brief written confession of his cruel swindle Curtis said he "became Insane In-sane on the subject for the time being, be-ing, which caused me to create the story In Its entirety," and that he was brought back to bis senses" by a telephone conversation with his wife. ' " ' Curtis activities the night of the kidnaping were being Investigated, lie was locked up and later arraigned ar-raigned on charges of giving false reports that hindered the apprehension apprehen-sion of the persons guilty of the crime. If convicted he. may be Imprisoned Im-prisoned for three years or fined $1,000, or both. lie waived preliminary prelim-inary hearing. Arrested In Brooklyn for abandoning aban-doning bis family, Frank Parzych, a thirty-year-old narcotle addict, told detectives and clung to the story after more than twelve hours of questioning that he was one of a band of seven men who kidnaped the child and that the baby died after the man carrying him down the ladder from the nursery window accidentally dropped ,. him to the ground. The police were Inclined to believe this story was false. The ugh thd authorities of the entire en-tire country are of course hunting for the kidnnpers and murderers of the baby. New Jersey Is still the center of a operations, and the Investigation In-vestigation there Is In the charge of William II. Stevens, attorney general gen-eral of the state, and of Prosecutor Erwln Marshall of Mercer county. Neither of these men Is optimistic, fearing the case will be added to jthe list of unsolved crimes because, as Mr. Marshall said, whatever trail there was Js now, virtually dead. , The necessary excessive caution of the police while the child was still thought to be alive lessened the chances for solving the mystery. ."However, Attorney General Stevens ,by no means gave up. At a conference confer-ence of state, federal and county police and Investigators In Trenton, a plan was established for co-ordinating all activities In the hunt for the murderers. ' ONE of the worst marine tragedies trag-edies of recent years occurred near the entrance to the Gulf of Aden when the new French liner Georges Phlllppar of the Messageries Maritime suddenly burst Into flames and was destroyed. The loss of life Is uncertain at this writing, but probably about 100 persons perished. The. survivors were picked up by several steamships and landed In different ports. Two British vessels took 254 of them to Aden, and they said at least 100 of the thousand odd aboard the doomed ship were trapped In their cabins. Many others oth-ers lost their lives In the stormy sea. From early reports It appeared that Captain Vic and his crew did all in their power to save the vessel ves-sel and Its passengers. PROMINF.NT bankers and Industrial Indus-trial leaders, convinced that public fear and uncertainty have prevented the federal reserve system's sys-tem's policy from taking full effect in the stimulation of recovery of prices ' and of prosperity, have formed a committee of twelve to aid In putting to work the hundreds of millions of dollars being poured Into the market by the system In its program for credit expansion. ' These gentlemen gathered In Kew York at the call of George L. Harrison, governor of the Federal Reserve bank of New York, with Owen D. Young as their chairman. The following statement was Is-aued: Is-aued: "Governor Harrison of the Federal Fed-eral Ueserve bank of New York has called together a committee composed com-posed of bankers and Industrialists for the purpose of considering methods of making the "large funds bow being released by the federal reserve banks nseful affirmatively In developing business. "Its purpose will also be generally gener-ally to co-operate with the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation and ther agencies to secure more coordinated co-ordinated and so more effective actio ac-tio on the part of tke banking and iwj8tr!ji Interests." f 1 ' ? J of Current World Over W. PICKARD SPEAKER GARNER put forth bis own plan for depression relief, re-lief, and it was Indorsed by Representative Rep-resentative Ralney, leader of the house. Its main features are: 1. Appropriation of $110,000,000 to be expended by the President In his discretion for the relief of destitution. 2. Increase of $1,000,000,000 In the borrowing power of the Reconstruction Recon-struction Finance corporation for loans to state and local governments, govern-ments, corporations and Individuals for the purpose of Increasing employment. em-ployment. 8. A bond Issue of $1,000,000,000 for construction of federal public works in the Interest of revival of Industry and increase of employ ment, this expense to be met by a tax of one-third of one cent a gallon gal-lon on gasoline. OUR senators are not yet willing will-ing to give os real beer, even as part of ,a plan to bring relief to the unemployed. By a vote of 24 to 61 they rejected Senator Tydlng's amendment to the tax bliU This amendment would have legalized 2.75 per cent beer with a tax of 24 cents a gallon-upon It which was calculated to yield $200,000,000 annually an-nually for amortization of a construction con-struction bond Issue and 'an additional addi-tional i $200,000,000 to $300,000,000 that would have allowed that amount to be stricken from the tax bill rV ; : . 5 WITH the near approach of the Democratic national convention conven-tion speculation as to the chances of Gov. Franklin " D. Roosevelt for the nomination grows Intense. His pre-conventlon manager, man-ager, James A. Farley, Far-ley, still believes he will be nominated nom-inated on the first roll call. He asserts as-serts that Uoose-veit Uoose-veit will be sure of 601 votes to 4C3 for all other aspirants, -4f "ST t 1 J wv Owen D. Young and that before the tally clerk gets down as far as Wyoming and the territories, enough states will change their votes from favorite sons to put the New York governor across the two-thirds Une-770 votes. " : One of the most prominent of the "dark horses" has taken himself definitely out of the running. Owen D. Young, who had a large and hopeful body of supporters, though he never had been an avowed candidate, candi-date, made the "final announcement announce-ment that he would not accept the nomination If It were offered him. In a letter to John Crowley, publisher pub-lisher of the Times of Little Falls. Young's home town, he said his rea sons for this decision were "so controlling con-trolling as not to be open for argument ar-gument It was assumed the chief of these reasons was Mrs. Young's ill health. A L SMITH has by no means sur- rendered. In a radio address he set forth his personal platform containing planks designed to cure the Ills from which the country Is suffering. The main features were : Balance the national budget. A manufacturers sales tax to meet the $1,500,000,000 deficit. Reduction of national . expendi tures to an "Irreducible minimum. Opposition to a veterans' cash bonus, Repenl of the Eighteenth amendment amend-ment ' Immediate modification ef the Volstead act, to permit wines and beer. . nis previously proposed bond Issue Is-sue for public works to relieve unemployment un-employment the bonds to be amortized amor-tized by proceeds from a wine and beer tax. e Defeat of President Hoover's proposal to relieve unemployment through funds of the reconstruction finance board. Clothe the President with power to extend. If need be, the moratorl urn on international debts "until a real solution can be reached. ; Suppress "all blocs which bedevil legislation." CENATOR WATSON of Indiana. -' majority leader of the senate, does not think congress can possibly get through Its necessary business without a summer session before June 14, when the Republican national na-tional convention opens, so be proposes pro-poses to other leaders of both par ties that a recess be taken from June 4 to July 11. Speaker Garner demurred, believing all legislation can be disposed of before June 11. so a decision was postponed until June 4. If it appears then that congress can end Its work by June 11, the recess plaa will not be pressed. LOU t. REICH ERS, a darlni , American aviator, was the first of this year's crop of would-be transatlantic trans-atlantic flyers, and he failed. Hop- ping off from Harbor Grace, he sought to fly to Paris with a landing land-ing at Dublin. But he got lost In the clouds when nearly across the ocean, came down not far from the south end of Ireland, and was picked up by the steamship President Presi-dent Roosevelt whose commander, Cnptain Fried, and chief officer, Harry Manning, have rescued many persons from death at sea. CAPT. ROBERT DOLLAR, the aged and spectacular dean of the shipping and lumber Industries of the Pacific coast, died at his home In San Rafael, Calif., after an Illness of several weeks. Born In Scotland In 18-14, he began work as a lad In Quebec and rose steadily to the dominant position he held at his death. The coast guard lost Its able commandant when Rear Admiral F. (?. Blllard passed away in Washington, Washing-ton, where he resided. He was fifty-eight fifty-eight years old and had been ill two weeks. ; Dr. B. J. Cigrand, founder and president of the American Flag Day association, died at his home In Ba-tavia, Ba-tavia, III. HENRY L. STIMSON, secretary of state, returned from Geneva, says his conversations there convinced con-vinced him that Europe agrees with the United States on what can and must be done In regard to the far eastern situation and will co-operate with Uncle Sam. He Is certain cer-tain neither Japan nor Russia wnnts war," and he Indicates that the great powers will strive to keep the Manchurlan trouble localized, at least for the present ' However, the authorities at Washington are rather rath-er alarmed by the military situation in Manchuria because of the contin ued concentration of troops along the frontier. JAPAN Is In a state of ferment and the occidental mind can scarcely figure out what the results may be. Premier TsuyoshI Inukal was assassinated by a group of young army men and . at the same time mill tary terrorists raid ed and bombed va rious buildings and 5V did other damage in lokyo. T h e s e events signalled Jho i. ' ! ft a. s outbreak of an ac tual military revolt against the existing government and it3 T. Inukal course in national and especially International affairs. Inukal's cabinet resigned and plans were made to Install Kisaburo Suzuki, new president of the Seiyukal party, as premier. But the representatives of the army served notice that a national cabinet cab-inet must be formed not based on political parties. The vice chief of staff declared the army would re fuse to approve any nomination for war minister In a party cabinet The constitution provides that the war minister must be a general of the army, so the army can prevent the formation of any ministry that it disapproves. Late dispatches from Tokyo Indicated that the army woum nave us way, ana an over the world there was speculation as to what might be the effect on Japan's relations with China and especially with Russia.' Prince Salonjl, last of the elder statesmen, was called to Tokyo to try to effect a compromise. TJARRY J. LEIK, superintendent of Mount McKinley National park in Alaska, and three compan- ions climbed both peaks of the mountain, the first time this ever had been accomplished, and discovered that tragic disaster had befallen a group of scientists headed by Allen Carpe who had attempted to scale the mountain for the purpose of measuring cosmic rays. Carpe himself him-self and Theodore Koven lost their Allen Carpe lives. Koven's body was found on Muldrow glacier, and It was cer tain that Carpe had fallen Into crevasse. The lost leader was re garded as the ablest mountaineer In America. He was working under the direction of Prof. Arthur H. Compton of the University of Chi cago, who was expected to Join him in Alaska to continue the cosmic ray study. iwo ether members of Carre's party. E. P. Beckwlth and Percy T. Olton. Jr both of New York, were safe, encamped on the glacier, Leik reported. Beckwith was seriously ill with fever and was rescued by airplane. N. D. Spadevcockla, also of the party, had left the camp to seek aid and was missing. DOPE PIUS XI Issued an encycll- cal entitled "Charitas Christi" In which he called the world to prayer, penance and mortification to save Itself from "the peril of terrorism ter-rorism and anarchy and "the still graver evils that are threatening." For this purpose be set aside a period pe-riod of eight days for "reparation" on the octave of the feast of the Sacred Heart, beginning June & (O. 1131. Westara Newspaper Vnlo. I) lntermotintain News -Briefly Told for Busy Beaden XTVE AT HOME" AD0TT 7TH CHILD SNAKES AT $1 EAC1I PICNIC IS PLANNED CONVICTS TLAY BALL riiTTwr-TT.. IDA. 30 rattlers have been shipped to the Seattle zoo from this city. The snakes were purchased for $1 each by the too. patfttr. IDA. Thousands of Trtnhn and flreeon dairymen gath ered at Payette for the seventeenth annual meeting of the tanners cooperative co-operative creamery. JEROME. IDA. Mr. and Mrs. J. Morgenson living in the country near Jerome have had their family Increased by a baby which they found left on their doorstep. The child was but a week old and a f i note said that its parents were both dead, the mother dying at the birth of her child. The Morgensons al ready have six adopted children. BOISE. IDA. The Idaho peni tentiary baseball team has issued a challenee to any baseball aggrega tion in the world. The only require ments for scheduling games with the nenitentiary team is that all rames must be played In tne state nrison and the warden's approval must be secured by the visiting club. TfSAV. TTT. Rov A. West of RuDert. Idaho, a graduate of Utah State Aericultural College is one of 22 graduate students in agricultur al economics and rural sociology awarded fellowships by the Social Research Council of New York. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Cash receipts from corporation franchise taxes and individual income taxes has passed the $320,000.00 mark. " PRESTON, IDA. In lieu of the annual Black and White day in Franklin county, - a summer picnic will be held at Franklin some time during the latter part of July or the first part of August At the picnic special instructions will be given on Judging, feeding, and prob lems concerning dairy cattle, farm work and record keeping. LOGAN, UT. The annual Farm ers encampment will be replaced this year by Utah State Agricul tural college participation in county farm bureau days, the Uintah basin Industrial convention, and other of the same bind of gatherings, it Is announced by the college extension department It Is planned to furn ish demonstrations, exhibits and speakers on the "Live at Home" project being sponsored by the ex tension division this year. The goal of this project is to have the farm produce sufficient food for the family and feed for its livestock. BOISE, IDA. The Old Oregon Trail between Boise and American Falls Is to be resurfaced this sum mer. . nit-1, iv. Announcement of a 46-day shutdown by Nevada Con solidated copper company will re sult in almost a complete stoppage of mining work in this district it is believed, due to the fact that the copper company handles practically all ore taken out ia the district at Its mill and smelter in McGill. In cluding the output of Consolidated Copper mines corporation at Kim- berly. BOISE, IDA. The phases of the administration tax program Involv ed in the power tax and the income tax have been approved by the Judicial Ju-dicial authorities. The power tax has been approved by the United States supreme court The income has had the sanction of the Idaho supreme court and the'work of the last legislature is apparently going to stand up under fire. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Sixty- nve per cent of the boys between the ages of 14 and 20 living on farms in Utah are attending school, according to the report re ceived by Dr. C. N. Jensen from the federal board for vocational ed- ucation. This Is the highest rank given to any state in the nation. In the western division, Washington was the second highest with an av erage of 59.6 and California, 58.1. The table, based on the 1930 census. shows that Utah had 9,785 boys liv ing on farms between the ages of 14 and to 20 and of these, 6,328 were attending schooL PR0TO, UT. Oscar Mann, 66, suffered the loss of both feet when he was .knocked down and run over by some freight cars at the local railroad yards. SALT LAKE CITY, UT. Life in surance policies Issued in Utah 1931 represented a sum In excess of $02,000,000 as compared with $72,- 433,702 for the year preceding. iJUlbE, IDA. The bureau of highways has advertised for bids on oiling 24 miles of the Idaho-Montana Idaho-Montana highway south from Du bois toward Roberts. The remaining section of the road between the jon ana laono talis Is on the program for oiling this year. BRIGIIAM CITY, UT.-Tomato plants by the thousands are being planted In Box Elder county this year ind most of the tomatoes will c picked green and shipped out of me rate. C ocenes tuiu .7U IJLMlIf x 1 QnoMni ncnnnmv committee of -a i,v.v.. wnrsM nf the JaDanese Olympic games equestrian team being unloaded trnm - J. l.Deef m Soviet's Greatest Engineering Project Opened A group of Soviet workmen gazing at the completed dam at Dneprostroi which was dedicafed ereat fanfare. May L in the presence ect of the Soviet state, and many distinguished visitors. The creation of the dam ani hydrAe! tion will make a large portion of the river navigable; will be a source of water power openly? nrnsnuHg fn tha Inliistrir nnd njrrlrnltnrA nf the TTbrfline. and will mprhnnlzn tho Anrit , .) which are to be erected. MAX IN TRAINING Max Schmeling, Germany's heavy .eight champion of the world, wheeling a load of firewood up a till as a part of his Intensive training train-ing at Greenkill lodge, Kingston, N. Y., In preparation for the big clash with .Jack Sharkey on June 21. FIRST KI WAN IAN Joseph G. Prance of Detroit, rec-"gnized rec-"gnized as the first Kiwanlan, who ill give a welcome to the thou sands attending the sixteenth annual an-nual convention at Detroit, June2G to 30. Kiwanis was founded in De troit In January. 1915. This vpnr'a convention will be a return to the birthplace after 15 years, to plan for a still greater service organization. organiza-tion. Sound Saxo-Phony "A chan I know," cnntfnrft1 a - uiivi a Long Islander, "asserts that a saxophone sax-ophone is as useful. In its way, as a cow. Isn't the addled comparison of an alleged musical Instrument ana a moo-cow simply asinine and rfbsurdr he asks the North Shore Journal t "Sure Isi croons the editor. ed-itor. -A cow makes the same nois as a saxophone and gives milk be-sades. r rn E Ary. pm. r': r "f' . x ' UP AM 4-fck A m S,1 1 ciaviia m uie current N mwv i'. v .v.v . "Oft the senate at work, with Senntn t . . - - -wvmv. uuut-M nr of thousands of men who worked on this, the neatest .w Daring Aviator Rescued From n4 - '--.- . J. 5 Lou Belchers, bold aviator, photographed 3ustWi his attempted flight from Harbor Grace, N. F, to M" i ing his way amid clouds, ne came oou ( near Ireland and was rescued ny tne sieauiaun Mrs. Herbert Hoover at Woostr C'-1 i fit fr1 t i " -7' : i ' 1 f " .,., was tw i Mrs. Herbert Hoover, wife of the i Preu" during the celebraUon at Wooster, O conferred . j X. j Atnf of humanities was rf? j university. She is seen above with Miss v color- day, and others. Good Average Speed Sir Malcolm Campbell, the famous fa-mous motorist who held the world s speed record, once stated that he regarded re-garded 28 miles an hour a good average speed for an ordinary motor mo-tor Journey, traveling by day under average traffic conditions la n average car.- Aft V y.i m .v rvi tit Ilton. StiUJ erations I same date considered n1 """TT COW-" v |