Evening Star Newspaper, February 22, 1930, Page 6

NUTT DRUG CHARGE VIGOROUSLY DENIED 'I Gonzaga Orator ' D. C. Attorney Declares Re- ported Rothstein Connections; “Absolutely False.” | Rolland L. Nutt, Washington attor- ney and son of Col. L. G. Nutt, deputy commissioner of prohibition In charge of narcotics, issued a statement today emphatically denying charges filed re- cently by a New York Federal grand jury which linked his neme with that of the late Arnold Rothstein in its in- vestigation of alleged violations of nar- cotic laws. Brands Press Reporis False. Mr. Nutt also branded as “absolutely false” press reports that he had beer engaged to represent the New York gambler in connection with alleged op- erations of so-called narcotic drug rings The grand jury made iis presentment last Tuesday, char that Nutt and a brother-in-law, L. P. Mattingly of New York, were allegedly “indiscreet” in_their relations with Rothstein. | “I did not know Rothstein; I never saw him in my life,” Mr. Nutt said.| He indicated that his name was in-| cluded in the grand jury's report at the | instigation of United States Attorney Charles H. Tuttle of New York for! “political reasons possibly.” Mr. Nutt | sald he appeared s & Witness before | the grand jury in answer to a subpoena issued on January 13, based, he claimed. on a tax matter in which he was sup- posed to have represented Rothstein ! four years but in which he ren- dered no service, - Mr. “During my appearance before the crand jury, I was astounded by vicious and unfair implications which appeared | in the New York press linking my name and the name of my father, L. G. Nutt, head of the narcotic division, with that | of Armnold Rothstein. Coupled with in- dications that the information had come | from official sources, several of these Teports stated by direction or indirec- tion that I had been engaged to repre- sent Arnold Rothstein in connection with alleged operations of so-called nar- cotic drug rings. These statements were | absolutely false. “Now press reports state that the grand jury presentment has called me | “indiscreet” in relations with Rnlhshem.l Never Saw Roghstein. i “The facts are these: I did not know Rothstein. I never saw him in my life. I never communicated with him nor did he ever communicate with me on any matter. I am a Washington attorney engaged principally in Federal practice and specializing in income tax. I represent in Washingtoir many out- of-town clients. attorneys and tax con- wuliants before the income tax unit. L. ©. 'fattingly, a brother-in-law of mine, ®ith offices in New York, was a tax eopsultant and is now an attorney. acre Washington conferences were isceessary \I represented many of Mr.‘ Mattingly's clients before the income ! tax unit and the Board of Tax Appeals ! in Washington. In January, 1926, he referred to me the internal revenue re- ports of a proposed additional assess- ment of income tax sgainst Arnold Rothstein, in connection with which, as | required by income tax practice rule he forwarded me a power of attorney running to him and me, authorizing appearance befove the income tax unit n any hearing that might be necessary. filed the power of attorney, but did not appear before th: income tax unit in any hearing relating to this assessment, as I was requested by Mr. Mattingly’s office a month or two later to return the papers to th>m before any. hearing was held. I rendered no serv-| ice in connection with this income tax asscssment. received no fee. and asked none. That is all I know about Arnold Rothstein or any matter with which he was ever connected. And these are all the facts in my so-called relgion ith Rothstein which has been char- acterized as “indiscreet.” “I never have as an attorney or other- wise, in any way. even remotely, been connected with any narcotic matter. WASHERWOMAN SENDS $100 TO SOVIET LEADER | Los Angeles Resident Makes Gift | to Help “Land of Workers.” By the Associated Press. MOSCOW, U. 8. 8. . Pebruary 22, —Joseph Stalin, the rong man of Russia,” yesterday received a gift of $100 from Mrs. Valentine Alexapdrovn Ulmar of Los Angeles, Calif., help “the land of workers which is building the future of the world.” ‘The gift was accompanied by a letter In which Mrs, Ulmar declared she was a hard-working washerwoman, toiling from 12 to 16 hours a day. but was eager to aid the cause of Communism in Russia. The Soviet authorities - showed the gredtest interest in the letter, which was sent to the mewspapers for publi- cation. Will Rogers Says: BEVERLY HILLS.—Poor old dis- armament conference, even if it does make an agreement with each other, why before they can tele- graph the news back to their countric why the men that made the agreement may be thrown out of office. Zvery one of those dele- gations have to Tead the papers every morning to find if they are still working. Prance just called for another preacher right in the middle of the sermon. There is not even a two weeks clause in any political contract over there. Any time you pull a bad move you are out on your ear, and they throw your hat after you. On account of us being a democracy snd run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years no matter what it does. (Copyrisht. 1930.) TONE TELLS THE | STORY Hear VICTOR RADIO IN Yonur Home— FREE! Ask us! Ultra Radio Service 0. J. De Moll & Co: Nutt's statement said: | s | | | | | mate of Freund, was named as alter- | ¢ { with an oration on “The LOREND FREUND. | THE WEATHER of | contest meets, young Freund expressad | District cloudiness { showers: moderate 50 winds. Maryland-Virgin a—Increasing cloud- followed by shuwers tomorrow ! and in extreme west portion tonight; | y ris ng temperature; fresh south- east, shifting to south winds. West Virginia—Showers late tonight or tomorrow, warmer t-night; colder in | west poriion’ tomorrow. | CONFERENCE SUPPORTS NEW NARCOTICS BILLS] Columbia t; tomorr rising temp-rature; | shifting to south | Civic and Church Authorities Join in Backing Measures Pending in Congress. By the Associated Préss. NEW YORK, February 22.—Pledging | support to bills pending in Congress for | more stringent control of narcotics, civic | and church authorities united yesterday | in demanding an int:nsive fight against narcotics and better methods for re- habilitating addicts. Their action was taken at the closing session of the third annual joint meeting | of the world conference on narcotics education. Inspsctor Edward W. Kunath, head of | the narcotics squad of the Detroit Police | Repartment, said addicls shculd not be released irom jail penniless after a prison term., Such treatment, he said, invariably thrcw the ex-prisonér on th. mercy of cther addicts and narcotics dealers. Representative Hamiiton Fish, jr., of New York urged the conference to back bills he has pending in Congress in- tinded to cope with the narcotics evil. A FACULTY RECITAL. The Washington College of Music presented & faculty program in the col- lege recilal rooms last night. The artists were Sara Becker, planist, and Rome Guaraldi, baritone. - They gave works of merit“with notable points of excellence during the evening. The classics were pianistically por- trayed by Miss Becker in Bach's “Prelude In B-Flat” and Mozart's “Fan- taisie in D-Minor.” Mr. Guaraldi did likewise vocally with “Se Vuol Ballare,” by Mozart; “Hear Me, Ye Winds and Waves,” by Handel, and “In Questa Tomba;” by Beethoven. Artistic stand- ards set by tradition were adequately measured up to by both artists. Miss Becker later played an interest- ing group of contemporary- works with sympathetic tonal coloring. She was last heard in a brilliant r first movement of Grieg's A-Minor,” with Catherine Benson con- tributing artistically to the ensemble at | the second piano. Mr. Guarsaldi, with every considera- tion for the dramatic vein of the “Credo” from Verdl's “Otello,” sang it in fine style and with intelligent vo- calism. | A final group of songs included the | fascinating Sibella setting of a four- { teenth century Ilalian folk song; “Ob- | stination,” by Fontenailles; a serenade by Denza and Manna-Zycea's “Nicha- | vo.” His singing wis enhanced by the accompaniments played by Miss Benson, I pianNos ! ‘Address factory representa- e for interview concerning tory-to-you method of a high-grade piano in alf models, including a famous reproducing grand. Four outstanding char- acter features new to the piano industey - make this sutput the best yet offered at 50% less than “dealers’ prices, . Lowest terms. 30 days’ free trial. 25 years” guarantce. ADDRESS BOX 181.V STAR OFFICE FOR RENT Three rooms, kitch- en and bath, $65 per month. Southern ex- posure. THE MONTANA 1726 M St. N.W. Real Estate Loans (D. C, Property Only) 6% No Commission Charged You can take 12 years to pay off your loan without the expense of renewing. $1,000 for $10 per month, including interest and principal. Larger or smaller Joans at proportion- ate rates. Perpetual Building Association | as a studsnt of high scholastic attain- | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY IGONZAGA STUDENT CHOSEN AS ORATOR L. Lorend Freund Named to] | Represent School in Star’s Competition Area. Th: first school representative to be chosen in The Star's National Oraiori- cal Contest area was named today when J. Lorend Preund, 17-year-old senior of Gonzaga High School, was announced by Rev. J. A. Canning, S. J., | prefect of studies at Gonzaga, as that school's spokesman. Jerome J. Dowhey, 17-year-old class- nate. Freund, who is the son of Mrs. Celia L. Freund, 1724 Seventeenth street, will defend Gonzaga in this year's contest Foundations of the Constitution.” In his six-minute address Freund davelops the basis upo n which the Constitution is founded, with | particular emphasis upon the principle oi “liberty” eument. Commenting today upon the coming as it pertains to sclf-gov- kecn anticipation of the extemporane- ous feature which this year is insti- | tuted as acid test for aspiring orators to pass. | Freund Plans Study Course. 1o student with consid:rable experi- ence in school debating and extem- neous speaking at his school. cund s not frightened at the pros- pect of being called upon 1o speak for anything like four minutes on subject akin to his prepared address. He plans now to study at greater length the various aspects of his topic 50 that when given a new subject he will be able to make a creditable foren- sic_showing. At Gonzaga Freund is popular both ments and as an athlete. He has played well on his school's foot ball squad. An interesting phase of Freund's representation of Gonzaga this year is the fact that he won his school finals to be named Gonzaga spokesman last year also. In 1929 finals, also, young Down:y, son of Mr. and Mrs, L. A. Downey, 3527 Tenth street, was alter- nate., Downey Serves as Substitute, As it happened, Freund was stricken suddenly ill shortly before he was to | take the platform in the group meet- | ing at Catholic University. Downey, who was in the audience of Gonzaga Tooters, was called to the stage without warning and proceeded to win that| meet. Freund's next active participation in | the contest will be in one of the four | or five group contests in the private | and parochial school district of The | Star's contest area. If successful in | that he will compete with the other group winners in the private and paro- | chial district finals and if adjudged victor there he will enter The Star | finals in _competition for the three- | month tour of Europe and the cash | award, together with the right to com- | pete in the national finals, The dates of these coming meetings will be an- nounced ‘later. AIR TRAIL BLAZER DIES. Randolph G. Page Will Be Buried in Arlington. FORT WORTH, Tex, February 22 (#y—Randolph G. Page, 36, vice presi- dent of Texhoma Aeronautical Service, Inc., and air mail trail blazer, died here yesterday after brief illness. Page, who had been an aviator for 15 years, made the first night air mail | fiight in the United States and deliv- | ered the first transcontinental air mail | bags from New York to San Prancisco | in September, 1920. The body will be sent to Washingtoa, D. C, for interment in Arlington N: tional Cemetery. 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Career Recalled. i i v By the Associated Press, Mrs. Robert Marion La Follette, widow | of the Progressive leader, is writing for | publication a full-length word picture | of him as she saw him at home and in | the spotlight of public attention for carly half a century. She said today that the end of her {task is not yet in sight—and she has been giving most of her time to it for about two years. In the past had the assistance of a secretary. The white-haired woman Jooks sack- { ward while her son actively carries fof |ward on the floor of the Sematr the i political philosophy of La Follette, sr.| {She was the first woman to graduate { from the University of Wisconsin's Law | School. Meeting at College. She was just 16, a blue-eyed brunette, when she went to the university from i her home in Baraboo, Wis. That wa: in 1875. Bob La Follette more. Two years of teaching school | after graduation, preceded their mar- | riage, Then, while living in Madison and following his career as district at- | torney, she completed the law coursc | that enabled her to enter fully into the professional side of his left, | had it in mind right along | said with reference to the biograph | adding frankly. “I want to tell the whoie | story of his life, from my point of view | Because of her professional equipment | she could follow with understanding, the LA FOLLETTE'S | | | 29 Zay CHICAGO ADOPTS WAR-TIME METHOD ‘Four-Minute Men” Who Sold | Liberty Bonds to Make Drive for $74,000,000. b ! By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, February 22.—The “Four- who sold nearly $750,- 000,000 worth of Liberty bonds during the war, heard the call to action again | today, this time to raise money for a city. Through this Liberty Loan or- | ganization the Silas H. Strawn ecitl- | zens' committee expects to raise $74- | 000,000 to keep the local governments | | running. Mrs. Robert Marion La Follette. political backgrounds of his course from the House of Representatives. back to | the governor's mansion in their own | State, and into the Senate in which he | spent four terms. Corroborating Details. | The perspective cleared in the years | since his death in 1925, she is cor- | roberating details of the picture by | numerous papers, personal and public. | Her picture of the man will be one not only of th: leader who received 25 votes for the presidential nomination in 1908, but also of the personality that lived within. Rarely does she go-to Congress LOW. even {o listen to young Senator La xo lette emb:llishing his first full Term by numerous spiritcd debates. Work- | ing steadfastly, she is occupled most of the time on the biography. While La| Follette, sr,, lived, she was a regular | contributor to his magazine, and she | wrote many articles that she sold to | | magazine and news syndicafes: OLD LETTER SHOWS WASHINGTON FAIR First President Wrote Family Ties Were Not Means to Preferment. By the Assoclated Press. BOSTON, February 22—The Chris- tian Sclence Monitor, in a dispatch from Vienna, yesterday said-that among the important _documents possessed by George Freiherr von Washington, las member of the European branch of the Washington family, were records of the family history written by his grand father, James Washington, and & letter from _President George Washington of the United States. Von Washington died recently in Graz the capital of the Austrian province of Styria. The letter from President Washington Greenwich, Conn., August 2i [to James Washington revealed that the “father of the United States” was frani | in stating that family connections were not a means to public appointments. | After informing the recipient of the letter that there was little doubt that they both descended from the samestock, | President Washington said: “The regu- Iar course of application for military appointments is to the President of the United States, through the Secretary | of War—but it would be deceptious not | to appraise you beforehand that it does | | not accord with the policy of this Gov- | ernment to bestow offices—civil or mili- | tary—upon foreigners to the exclusion | of our own citizens." Actress Granted Divorce. | | CHICAGO, February 22 (#).—Alicla | Cripps, known on the stage as Lea Smith, was granted a divorce yesterday | from James Cripps, whose name in the | cast of “Jarnegan” a year ago was given | |as- Kernan Smith. Desertion was charged. The ccuple were m:rged in! 19322, NUT Nearly $12,000,000 is needed imme- | diately to pay the overdue salaries of | s 43,800 public employ In two days only half this sum has been subscribed. | Call Made for Action. | The S O S to the “Four-Minute Men" | was sent out late yesterday by Strawn | when it appeared evident that monies | he had hoped to obtain were not | promptly forthcoming. He prevailed | upon Philip R. Clarke, president of the | Central Trust Co. of Illinois, to or- | ganize the “Four-Minute Men” for a| drive in the manner so successful in | the sale of Liberty bonds. Clarke at once began selecting chair- men for the 25 committees, one to each trade, and called them together today. | Despite the holiday, he expected to have | the drive started by nightfall. He in- | formed the trust company -that he would be “off duty” four days. by the end of which time he plans to have ob- tained the necessary subscriptions. Three Hampering Factors. Strawn said three factors had arisen | to hamper collection of the money b the citizens’ committee. Many large | taxpayers believe public officials should | be compelled to curb expenditures be- | fore receiving private aid, he said. Still others resent lack of formal prom- | ise from the city and school board offi- | clals that they will co-operate on legis- | lation to prevent a recurrence of the present conditions. Thirdly, the sensa- | tional reports of sums already received have created a general feeling among many taxpayers that their aid is no, | needed. POLOIST 4 DAYS IN COMA. Condition of Eugene Byfield, Chi- cago, Becomes Alarming. CHICAGO, February 22 (#).—Eugene ! Byfield, well known man-about-town | and vice president of the Hotel Sher- man Co,, entered the fourth day of con- tinuous coma today, and attendants for | the first time expressed alarm over his | condition, | Byfield was thrown from his polo | pony Tuesday. The longer the period of his unconsciousness, doctors said, the | more serious the case becomes. | CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Delta Phi Sigma Sorority will hold a dance tonight in the ball room of the Cairo Hotel. FUTURE. League for the Larger Life will give | Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps, No; “Gllontal party” this evening a 9 | meets Monday evening at 8 o'clock ' o'clock at its town house, 1628 K1!the G. A. R. Hall, 1412 Pennsylvania street, | avenue, ¥y N street, versary of the fo Wanderlusters “will have’ an _old- | A benefit luncheon and supper will iy fashioned country dinner this afternoon | served in St. Dominic's Hall, Sixth and t their club house in Franklin Park, | F streets, next Thursday afternoon and Va., 1:30 o'clock. | evening. " Dancing from 9 to 12 o'clock District of Columbia Department, | BAN[("ER FOU"D_D_EAD. United Spanish War Veterans, will hold | a five-hundred party tonight at North- | Skt G Alabaman’s Body, Pistol Nearby, Discovered in Woods. east Masonic Temple. Ohio Girls’ Club will hold a Celonial costume dance tonight at the Colonial Hotel, Fifteenth and M streets, 9| PRATTVILLE, Ala., February 22 ), o'clock. Members and their friends| _Raiph Moore,’ president of the Am- tauga Bank & Trust Co. here, was found dead just outside the city yesterday aft- ernoon. A pistol was found lying invited. Bethany Chapter, Order of the East- | emn star, will give its annual dance and | T8 card party tonight at 9 o'clock at the | Pearby. Raleigh Hotel. Mrs. Nellie A. Cogan, |, Weter, Mewitt, Colored, tramping chalrman; Mrs. Ruth B: Lelghton, 88~ | gng “notified Prattville authorities, Sheriff R. H. Weeks, after a conference with Coroner Dickinson, announced there was no evidence of crime and tant chalzman. Electa Chapter, No. 2, O. E. 8, is| that no investigation would be made. Surviving are his widow and two holding its annual Colonial bazaar and turkey dinner at the Scottish Rite Ca- thedral, Third and E streets, today. children. Dance of La Fayette Chapter, No. 37 ©. E. S, tonight will be held at the Hillcrest, 2800 Thirteenth street, and not at Fourteenth and Kenyon streets, as announced previously by the chair- man. Do You Know How to Make the Necessary Adjustments for Marri A new class at the Y. W.C. A, 17th and K Sts. Conducted by a Physician Resister Now Education Dep RzzZzz277222222722 2 2 2P | WINDOW SHADES, DRAPERIES SLIP COVERS All made to order at factory prices. Wi ATE? MAY WEESTIN i McDEVIT Ttk ? Daughters of America will hold a dance tonight at the Raleigh Hotel Cabaret entertainment features, ‘The exhibition of drypoints by Rod- uey Thomson and Benson B. Moore, which has been dispiayed at the N tional Museum during the last three wesks, closes tomorrow afternoon. Last showing tomorrow from 1:30 to 4:20 o'clock. 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