Evening Star Newspaper, January 12, 1930, Page 22

B—6 PRESCOIT HEADS REPUBLIAN CLUB Organization Will Occupy| Residence Now Used by Jap- | anese Embassy Chancery. Samuel J. Prescott, chairman of the Republican Stdte committee in and for the District and chairman of the board | of the Second National Bank, has been | chosen president of the recently formed ! Natfonal Capital Republican Club. | Mr. Prescott, has been one of the leaders in founding the club, which will eperate in the interests of the Re- publican party‘and which is to be na- tional in its scope. He has been identi- fied with the party organization here | for nearly 20 years and for more than 10 years has been in personal charge of all Republican campaign activities in the District. List of Officers. Other officers chosen are: Vice presidents, Edward F. Colladay, John Joy Edson, Charles C. Glover, jr.; John Lewis Smith, Mrs. Virginia White Speel, Thomas P. Littlepage and Myer Cohen: secretary, Alney E. Chaffee, reading clerk of the House of Representatives; treasurer, Cuno H. Rudolph, former chairman of the board of District Com- | missioners and for a number of years treasurer of the Republican State com- mittee in and for the District. These officers and the following will constitute the board of directors: Rob- ert V. Fleming, Willilam Tyler Page, Edgar C. Snyder, Mrs. E. A. Harriman and Joshua Evans, Jr. Will Use Residence. ‘The new club will be housed in the Jarge residence recently purchased at the southwest corner of Sixteenth street | and Scott circle. = The building at present is occupled as the chancery of the Japanese Embassy. In the mean- time the club is making its home at the | headquarters of the Republican State | committee on the sixth floor of the Second National Bank Building, 1331 G street. Within a few days the member- ship committee will be appointed to ob- tain and pass upon members. DR. ROWE INDORSES WORLD RADIO IDEA Pan-American Chief Greets Good Will Programs as Benefit to Nations. Dr. L. S. Rowe, director general of | the Pan-American Union, yesterday in- dorsed the series of weekly interna- tional good-will broadeasts to be earried over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadeasting System, begin- ning January 21. Sir Esme Howard, British Ambas- sador to the United States and dean of the diplomatic corps, will open the series, which will bring all of the Am- bassadors and Ministers to the United | States before the microphone. Dr. Rowe's approval of the good-will programs was given in a letter to Harry | C. Butcher, Washington representative | of the Columbia system, which read as -+ “I am delighted to hear of your plan | for’ a series. of ill broadeasts by the ‘Ambassadors and Ministers accred- | ited to the Government at Washington, and wish to congratulate you on the important contribution that you are| thereby making to closer international understanding. “Such a program will not only be enthusiastically received in foreign lands, but will also serve an important | purpose in enlightening public opinion | in the United States. The development | of ‘public intérest in foreign affairs is| one of the most important needs of the ! pretent day and I am certain that the plan which you have formulated. will make an important eontribution to this great purpose.” CAB DRIVER SHOT; . TWO UNDER INQUIRY Alleged Attack Leads to Action by Police and Investigation of Reports. { | Two white men; who gave their names | as " William Arthur Shannon of the 6709 block of Second street, 27 years old, and Albert Sager, 35 years old, of 1600 block of R street, early today precinet police, after they are said to | have shot and wounded Walter Wood- | colored, 44 years old, of 644 Orleans | street northeast, a taxi driver, who in- sisted that the men and a companion | had threatened to kill him. The third | man escaped. | Woodley told police the trio engaged ( him at Thirteenth and T streets and before he had driven to Sixth and E streets soythwest they had put a prop- ositian up to him that he should go to the vicinity of Good Hope road and assiet in bringing in a load of liquor. Knowing that the fourth precinct was nearby he drove in that direction, po- lice were inforfred, but when he at- tempted to turn into E street the trio foundly protested. . Woodley jumped out of the machine and while running to escape he' was | fired upon and was struck by a pistol | bullet in the left wrist Policemen M. P. Creel. R.. A. Burton and James L. Oppert, who were close by.. apprehended the two men. Woodley was treated at kmergency Hospital. 2 ; HYATTSVILLE MAN GIVEN TREATMENT FOR WOUNDS Nathaniel H. Robinson, about 40 years old, of Hyattsville, Md., was treated at Casualty Hospital last night for stab wounds inflicted, doctors ~were told, during an_altercation with a bus driver at Hyattsville. Robinson received first aid for nine stab wounds in the back, one in the chest and another on the chin, although none was believed dan- gerous. The wounded man declined to re- main at the hospital and returned to ‘his home. Marrlflge Llcen“s. William H._Bsrd. ir. 31. and Naomi Bu- enanar. o REV. Ao Hare TR " Pishman. ililan Browner.. g’"?am of Baltimore, Md.: Rev. Julius. T. Dewey E. Riley, 30. and Annie L. Ran< kins. 21, both of Alexandria, Va.i Rev. A. Toher W 2 g citr, s Eifabeth N 2, Manassas. Ve William R. Kn Sht. 3¢, and Cloetts M. v, James ees & Montgomery. P. Marion Wilkes, 50. th ty. d_Marie Aldrich, 80, Grand Rapi Mi Rev. Palmes Milton' 8. Landy, 36, and Ida B. Deiteh, ent. 18, and Helen M. Mar- ev. William A, Lambeth Timothy Wilson. 23 agd Louise McDeme, v.'J. L. Lewis. m Stephenson, 33. and Hattie W am’ D. Jarvis . 31, ‘and Helen M. Hick 19. both of Riehiond, Va.. Rev. Henry olson n Oscar R. Bernstein, 22, and Grace t‘réu 31, both of Baltimore, Md.: Rev. J. Leo J. Parenteau, 35, and Galls J. Brunell, s 'Gibton: 21 and Massie Mounies Euw e A J | grees have ‘THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, 1930—PART ONE. HIS DEATH BRINGS SORROW The three-legged fox terrier belonging “TAX,” that died yesterday. | to Tax Collector Chatham M. Towers LOCAL“Y" COLLEGE CHANGES TS NANE Becomes Southeastern Uni-| versity as Expansion Pro- gram Is Announced. “The Southeastern University” made | its formal debut in the Nation's Cap- ita} yesterday when the Young Men's Christian Association College announced | a legal change of name, in pursuance | of an ambitious program of expansion. ‘The announcement was made by Huston Thompson, -president of the board of trustees, and Dr. James A. Bell, secretary and director of educa- tion of the Y. M. C. A, who have| comp *ed the necessary legal steps‘ preliminary to the rechristening. The change of name will not involve a change in administration, it was stated. Decision to change the name was reached at a meeting of the board of trustees held recently, it was disclosed. Incorporation papers of the institution have been amended in accordance with the decision, and steps have been taken o have records of the Board of Edu- cation of the District amended so as to authorize issuance of diplomas and granting of degrees in the name of the Southeastern University. The college was incorporated in 1923 and today has an enroliment in excess of 1,000 young men and women. De- 'n granted a total of 1,092 graduates. Southeastern University will com- prise & School of Law, School of Acs countancy and a School of Liberal Arts. Afliated with it are the Washington Preparatory School and the Woodward School for Boys. I Dr. Bell is the administrative head of the university. The board of trustees, | in addition to President Thompson, in- cludes Coleman . Jennings, Dr. A. C.} Christie, John Poole, George W. Offutt, John B. Larner, W. H. Kerr, Z. D. Blackistone, Wilson Compton, Dr. E. M. Ellison, C. L. Harding, Dr. George Otis | Smith, C." H. Tompkins, Clarence A.| Aspinwall, Merritt O. Chance, Willlam S. Corby, W. H. Hill, C. T. Kingsbury, | George A. Lewis, A. W. Defenderfer, | Col. P. M. Anderson, H. Lawrence Choate, W. C. Hanson, John W. Hardell, | A. H. Lawson, Willlam Montgomery and H. L. Rust, jr. WAR DEBT DEMAND SPEEDS UP PARLEY Germans Submit Proposals for Consideration by Credit Powers. | BY the Associated Press. THE HAGUE, January 11.—The | creditor powers at the second Hague reparations conference gave the Ger- man delegation an energetic summons | 1o come to terms this morning after | days of argument about details. The| demand gave new life to the conference, and Foreign Minister Curtis of Ger- many postponed his departure for the | League Council at Geneva to draw up written proposals for further discussion. Premier Tardieu of PFrance and| Chancellor of the Exchequer Snowden of England discovered last night that | the work of the subcommittees had | been held up because the German mem- bers had received no instruction. They were not at all pleased at the prospect of further delay, and in the course of the most animated session of the present meeting told the Germans this morning that the creditors could wait | no longer for them to take a definite | position. The chief points at e were | whether military sanctions as a guaran- | tee of German payments under the ! Young ‘plan should continue as part of | the allied reparations policy, the gq H tion of an eventual moratorium and | the maturity dates for installments of | pryments. { . After considering the wri.ten German | proposals on restricting assigned. rev- | enues, on the date for paying instal-; ments, and on. the moratorium, the creditors tonight handed the German delegation a revised proposal on the moratorium, which provides that the interested -parties shall discuss on the | basis of the Young plan any eventual | demand for a moratorium. Disputes will be submitted to arbitration, | CHARGE IS DROPPED. Mexican Attorney General Refuses to Prosecute Pedro. MEXICO CITY, January 11 (— refused” to .maladministration.. of funds of -the {Chamber of Deputies proffered against {Eduardo M. S. Pedro, former acting treasurer of the chamber. He said there was insufficient evidence to warrant prosecution. The charges were made by members the permanent congressional commis- siom, who ousted, Pedro from 'his post last Monday. Jo)-;;n!o;sl s for Orient. SEATTLE, Wash., January 11 (). — Nelson T. Johnson, recently appointed minister to China; sailed on the Presi- dent Grant today. take up his new t. Johnson, who.has had 22 years' service in China, is returning to the Orient after serving two years as an assistant Secretary ai, State. | ai | eritically today, victims of shots fired , by Turner in an attempt to slay the | home of his estranged wife. Attorpey General Enrique Medina today | proceed with charges of | of the “‘white” or.majority group of; here Oklahoman Suggests Gas Tanks to Save Planes When Falling By the Associated Press Airplanes with helium gas tanks aboard to make them safe was suggested in the House yes- terday by Representative Mc- Keown, Democrat, Oklahoma. ‘The Oklahoman said that helium, which is used in Army and Navy lighter-than-air craft, could be carried in tanks and when the airplane “begins to fall it ought to be so fixed sothe pilot could pull & lever and let himself down easy.” After asking McKeown hew large he thought the tanks should be and receiving an answer that “they need not be so large,” Rep- resentative La Guardia, ‘Repub- lican, New York, a World War aviator, said, “Well, you would certainly come down in a terrible hurry.” “Of course,” La Guardia added, “I realize the gentleman is an authority on gas.” TREASURY HEAS FROWN AT WIS Suggested Threat on Fourth| Amendment Calls Down Officials’ Criticism. Official Washington looked askance last night at the statement credited in a_current popular publication to Dr. Clarence True Wilson, general secretary | to the Methodist Board of Temperance, in which he was representsd as con- tending that Washington can never be- come ‘“a model of prohibition enforce- ment,” in line with Presjdent Hoover's wishes, as long as dry agents are barred by the fourth amendment to the Fed- eral Constitution from invading the homes of the Nation. Treasury Department authorities in- sisted that Dr. Wilsol printed 1dea that “a man's home is not any longer his castle” is a misconcéption, as Secretary Mellon's department has fre- quently ruled that home-made spirits which are consumed personally by the maker and are not placed in transpor- tation, sale or given away, do not con- | travene the prohibition law. The dictum of Dr.. Wilson that “Washington must be made bone-dry, and Washington can he made bone- ry" was challenged by the officials, who | objected to the theory that dry agents’ olfactory nerves are .to be authority for invading the “sacred precincts” of the home, indiscriminately. BPR A P SNOWSTORM CUTS OFF ORTIZ RUBIO’S PARTY Mexican President-Elect Without | Communication to Outside World. By the Associated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, January 11.—Presi- dent-elect Pascual Ortiz Rublo of Mex- fco and his party, who have been stop- ping at Grand Canyon, were cut off from communication with the outside world today by the worst snow storm which has attacked Arizona in yea Telephone and telegraph wires down in many sections and snow con- tinues to fall. Just before communi- cation lines became crippled, President- elect Ortiz Rubio's secretary sald the party planned to remain at the canyon until January 15. Prescott was buried under 30 inches of snow today. Traffic was blocked, au- tomobiles being stalled on highways in every direction. In the mountains south and west of Prescott snow has drifted to a depth of several feet. FATHER SHOOTS R SHOOTS CHILDREN Marital Estrangement Brings At- tempt at Murder and Suicide. HOUSTON, Tex., January 11 (#).— Glenn Turner, 40, a night watchman, and his two children were wounded children and commit suicide in the Physiclans believed all three. would die. Mrs. Turner was not at home. A neighbor sald she left the house with the intention of complaining to police of molestation by her husband. | The Turners separated about three | months ‘ago. . Turner was said to have j been despondent over, his inabflity to | éffect a reconcillation, Atlantic Flyer Killed. | . SANTOS, Brazil, January 11 (P).— Vasco Cinquini, who fiAw across the At- {lantic in 1926 as mechanic in the air- | plane Jahu, plloted by two Portuguese | fiyers. Degarros'and Braga, was instant- 11y killed today when a plane he was piloting fell into the sea near the beach | high fn the air. Stricken Prelate Better. BATON ROUGE, La., January 11 (i —Marked improvement in the condition of Archbishop Sebastian G. Messmer of Miflwaukee, Wis., 1l} in a Franciscan | sanitarium, was noted today by physi- cians attepding the 82-year-old €atn- | his foster parents more than made up | | for this lack. He was the pride of the | Towers® household, particularly affec- A wing of the plane broke off TERRIER MOURNED BY MANY FRIENDS “Tax,” Collector C. M. Tow- ers’ Three-Legged Pet Dog Succumbs. “Tax,” the three-legged fox terrier | belonging to Tax Collector Chatham M. | Towers, died yesterday, mourned by & | host of friends, He had been fll ‘°'i about a week. | The history of “Tax" is perhaps | unique in the annals of dogdom. He | first became known to history eight | years ago, when as a 3-day-old puppy he was brought to the tax collector’s | office and exhibited by Poundmaster Smith. “Tax" owed his continued ex- istence to the remarkable fact that he had but three legs, all perfectly formed. There wasn't the slightest trace of a fourth. He was an appealing little figure and_ Mr. Towers adopted him, | christened him and proceeded to bring him up. Descrted by Mother. “Tax" was a bottle baby, his natural mother having cruelly deserted him, but tionate toward Mr. Towers' two grand- ;hlldren, Chatham and Betty Notting- am., His shortage in the matter of legs handicapped him not a whit in the pur- suit of rats, cats and other fair game for one of his breed. He could, and | Con: size bed and vanity. See this this living room su quard give years of real service. Uphol Reduced i Loose cusl olic -preiate. Suffering with a cold and a chronic ailment, he has been threat- ened with pneumonia during the past few days. 329.75 iliness. $1.00 a Week pring fille@l cushions. 3-Pc. Reed Fibre Suite ons, cretonne covered. Fashionable School Expels 5 Girls for Smoking on Train By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. January 11.—The New York World said today that five New York school girls, who celebrated the beginning of their Christmas holidays by smoking cigarettes on a train between Northampton and Springfield, Mass., were dismissed today from the fashionable 8chool for Girls. Northampton Miss Sarah B. Whitaker, co- principal of the school, came to New York and, calling a confer- ence of the girls' parents at a hotel, informed them of the d cision of the school authorities. Four of the five girls accused of smoking arrived with Miss Whit- aker, considerably larger than himself. wore scars of many a battle with a be- coming modesty. Nursed by Children, SEE OUTFIT IN WINDOW big bargain. ed to own in genuine will He Last week he appeared to be alling, something very rare for him. grandchildren refused to leave his side and stayed away from school to nurse him through what proved to be his last Yesterday Chatham broken- heartedly telephoned his grandfather at his office in the District Building that the end had come. Mr. Towers had tears in his eyes as he told his friends of the loss. “It's the same as if one of my family had died,” he explained. was one of the famil frequently did, whip four-legged dogs finest dog that ever liv ‘The “In fact, he | jighter-than-air craft He was the | for Comfortable Coil Spring ~ Handsome 4-Pc. Bedroom Suite of large dresser, chifforobe, full ‘08 HOUSE ADDS FUNDS FOR ARMY HOUSING Amendment Increasing 1931 Outlay 14 to 16 Millions Restores Estimates. By the Associated Press. An amendment increasing the Army | housing program funds from $14,- | 000,000 to $16,000,000 in the War De- partment’s supply bill was adopted yes- | terday by the House, bringing the total | | outlay proposed for the fiscal year 1931 | to_$456,000,000. The amendment restored the budget, | estimates, which had been reduced by the House appropriations ccmmittee In an effort to follow out President Hoo- ver's suggestion for economy in mili- tary expenditures. Another amendment, offered by Rep- resentative William E. Hull, Republican, of Illinois, to increase from $78,000 to $278,000 the allotment for prod of additional lighter-than-air c: Scott Field, Illinois, was rejected. Hull obtained from Representative Barboar of California, chairman of the subcom- mittee handiing the War Department bill, the assurance that it was not the policy of the commities to destroy Scott Field as an Army lighter-than. air_craft base. The House accepted an amendment offered by Representative Jones, Demo- crat, of Texas, eliminating the stipula- lation that no money appropriated for could be used the purchase of helium gas. The Government’s main supply of eq ‘Guaranteed Inner Coil Spring Mattress Mattress Cover 2 Pillows Covered in Ticking to Match 5 , Clean-up Sale O F Refrigerators From Last Year 25% OFF St $6.95 $13.75 3-Door Style. ... i Frame Style Living Room Any one would be more than 598L0 5-Piece Breakfast Room Suites Reduced— sl 6'95 Up Rugs and Felt Base Reduced 8.3x10.6 Velvet Rugs. Seamless. Good patterns. Two-yard-wide Felt-base. F en or bath. Square yard ..... ACHMA “You’ll Always Do Better Here” Corner 8th and E Sts.. N\W. 3 Jones' district. less workers, $24.75 ok 49¢ Warren Defends Coast Guard From Adams’ “Insults” By the Associated Press. Representative Warren, Demo- crat, of North Carolina sald yes- day that remarks made by Sec- retary Adams, now en route to the un‘scs‘n Arms con!erer;ee“.d:n a speech in Boston, were - liberate insult and slur” against the Coast Guard.. ‘Warren read from a newspaper article in which Adams was quoted as saying that the ofilcers who fired on the rum runner Black Duck, killing three men and wounding one, were ‘“not but Coast Guards- men." The North Carolinian said such an utterance was unworthy of a man_ holding the high office occupled by the retary of the Navy and added that Secretary Adams had “exercised his usual propensity for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time.” Warren paid tribute to the Coast Guard, ‘saying that no “braver, truer or mere honorable man than Admiral F. C. Billard, Coast Guard commandant, has ever worn the uniform of an American officer.” | helium is obtained from Representative He pointed out that although the Army has sufficient helium | in storage to meet its fequirements during the ensuing year, there was el- ways & possibility of shortage Qhrc\xflhi destruction. R PR White Belgian coal mines have 26.000 the_production is alm: 000 men & year ago. ual to that of 1 A SRR = COLUNBIA SHOWS SURRLS I 199 Hospital, With 1,192 Births, Cared for 1,945 Patients During: Year. Babies born at Columbia Hospital numbered 1,192 in 1929, when the in- stitution cared for 1,045 patients, not counting the 8,559 visits paid thé pre natal clinic by expectant mothers, a cording to figures made public yester- day at the hospital board meeting by Mrs. Reeve Lewis, president. The board passed resolutions coms mendi the administration of Dr. 8. B. Ragsdale, superintendent, who was creditd with relieving the hospital of the deficit of a year ago, and in addi- tion . with showing & small surplus at . the close of 1929. Members of the board further went on record in appreciation of the assist- ance furnished by the Community Ch-st, and pledged themselves to active support of the new chest drive which opens January 28. It was pointed out that the Com- munity Chest, work at the he natal clinfe, abled to devote his time to administration of the. institution and Iargely was re- sponsible for this year's’ surplus. Th pre-natal clinic, it was said, is regarded by experts as one of the most advanced of its kind in the world. New officers will be elected at-the next board meeting, the date of which will be announced later. Beautiful 10-Pc. Dining Room Suite Buy your new dining room suite now and save money. Ten handsome pieces constructed of genuine walnut veneer. 3 9 Metal Bed, comfortable Rocker. 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