Evening Star Newspaper, May 6, 1930, Page 26

SOVET ACTVTIE | PROBE DENANDED Whalen to Te!l Immigration Group of Communists in New York. Chairman Snell of the House rules eommittee is going to report a resolu- tion to authorize & board of inquiry by 8 special committee to determine whether Soviet propaganda has been circulated in this country in an effort to bring about destruction of the American Government. House leaders were proceeding with plans for the inquiry as the immigra- tion committee was preparing to hear Grover Whalen, police commissioner of New York, discuss information he has regarding Communistic activities. Two resolutions, by Representatives Underhill of Massachusects and Fish of New York, both Republicans, calling for such an inquiry, are before Snell’s com- mittee. The House immigration committee de- cided to eall Whalen for a closed hear- g Priday. At a secret session yester- day with John Farr Simmons, chief of the Visa Division of the State Depart- ment, the committee inquired into the number of passports being granted Rus- sian Soviet nationals. United States District Attorney Tut- tle may appear later. Chairman Johnson of the group dis- laved documents purporting to_bave Been distributed by Russian Soviet agents. Representative Box of Texas, ranking Democrat_of the committee, said the purpose of hearing Whalen was to de- termine whether the committee should conduct an investigation. CLOCK, TAKEN BY UNION SAILORS, TO BE RETURNED Timepiece Was Carried From Home of Confederate General, Thomas B. King, on St. Simons Island. By the Associated Press BRUNSWICK, Ga., May 6.—An an- cient clock that in 1863 peacefully ticked away the hours in the home of Gen. Thomas Butler King on St. Simon’s Island will be returned to the ‘members of the King family today after & sojourn of 67 years in the North. A shawl, in which the timepiece was wrapped when it was taken from the King home by members of the crew of a Federal gunboat during the Civil ‘War, will be presented to the youngest granddaughter of Gen. King. The clock and shawl were sold at auction recently in Attleboro, Mass., in the closing out of an estate. The man who bought the clock, while trying to repair it, found inside an inscription telling how it was taken from the King home. He turned the clock over to the G. A. R. Dining Club of Attleboro, and correspondence planning the return of the clock was started. Yesterday a party of persons representing the G. A. R., veterans of other wars and the Attle- boro Chamber of Commerce arrived in Brunswick with the clock. United States Senator Walter F. of Georgia is scheduled to ac- cept Phe clock uh the part of his hame State, with the presentation address to be made by Representative J. W. Mar- tin, jr., of Massachusetts. WOMAN M. P.’S IN COTTON Simple Frocks Worn to Parliament as Manchester Industry Aid. LONDON, May 6 (#).—Four woman members of the House of Commons appeared in Parliament yesterday wear- ht cotton dresses and lisle stockings in celebration of national “cotton week.” which s being observed throughout England to aid the hard- pressed Manchester industry. ‘The Duchess of Atholl wore ‘:\-:’")? tes, also wore catton frocks of various sizes. Lady Astor, American-born Conserva- tive, was not present at the session yesterday, but she is expected to ap- pear in a cotton dress during the week. s GLOBE FLIGHT PLANNED SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., May 6 (#).— John Henry Mears of New York, holder of the record for the fastest trip around the world until the Graf Zep- pelin shortened the time by approxi- mately two days, landed at Mills Field here yesterday in the airplane with which he hopes to Tegain the record. The plane was piloted by Charles La Jotte. 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Blue-jay {NORWAY FINANCES “A Kiss in the Park” Gives Man Free Room And Board in Jail Mz g By the Associated Press. ° CHICAGO, May 6.—It was Spring and romance hung warm- Iy over the green freshness of McKinley Park, and Miss Cath- erine Casey was charming. How natural, then, that Harry Rossi, 29, and lonesome, should kiss her hand. In Italy, he ex- plained later, it is quite the thing do. “Come with me,” he urged, and I'll buy your dinner.” “Come with me,” she differed, | | “and Il fix you up with plenty of free meals.” How, Rossi wondered as he paid | | a $25 fine yesterday, was he to know that Miss Casey Was a po- licewoman and that the free meals were in jail? DIVORCE FIGHT HERE | Woman Charges Husband Used False Affidavits to Get Chicago Decree. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, May 6 of Norway, by the s making body, is furnishing the finances | for Mrs. Amanda Anderson's fight to | The government | ction of its law- set aside the divorce decree granted her husband here Mts. Anderson charges her husband deserted her and their two children in Norway in 1923 and that through | false affidavits obtained a divorce in Chicago in 1928. He has since re- | married. Yesterday Judge Sabath suggested to Mrs. Anderson that criminal nction would do her no good and that an annulment of the divorce decree would injure Anderson’s second wife and their son. He suggested Anderson make amends by contributing to the sup- port of his first wife and their children. SPROUL IS CHAIRMAN Middlebrook Man Heads County Equalization Board. Special Dispatch to The Star. STAUNTON, Va, May 6—W. W. Sproul of Middlebrook, was elected chairman of - the county equalization board recently appointed by Judge Jos- ept A. Glasgow, and Turner Ashby of | Churchville, was elected secretary. The board met in the board of supervisors’ room in the court house. | At the same time the judge an- | nounced the appointment of Samuel | B. Harvey of Stuarts Draft to succeed E. W. Barger, Waynesboro, who noti- fied the court he would be unable to serve on the board. Mr. Harvey, who is also secretary of the county electoral board, has accepted. Enraged because his relatives opposed his marrying a German girl, a young Polish farmer living near Kattowitz re- | cently killed six of the seven members | of his family with an ax while they | were sleeping. |SUMMER FARES TO CALIFORNIA| | On May 15th reduced Summer fares |to the Southwest and Pacific Coast wi | become effective on the Washington- | Sunset Route. It is an economical and “comrnrubla way to go. Tourists save approximately 50% of sleeping car fare | by using tourist car leaving daily from | | Washington to California without change via New Orleans, Houston, San Antonio | and El Paso. Write today for illustrated | booklet “R,” time tables and rallroad fares. D. D. COFFMAN, Passenger Agent, ‘WASHINGTON-SUNSET ROUTE. Sou ern Railway Executive Office Blds., Me- Pherson Square, Washington, D. 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By the Associated Pre MOSCOW, May 6—Izvestia, official organ of the Soviet government, de- scribed Grover Whalen in anything but mmpliTentny terms yesterday when commenting on charges by the New York police commissioner that documents in his possession indicated a subversive Soviet movement in the United States. “Whalen's attacks bear witness that the New York police commissioner has the possibility to carry out absurd and irresponsible enterprises,” the paper says. “Life guardsmen of capital are adopt- ing new methods of suppressing the revolutionary movement in America, one of their maneuvers being the pub- lication of forgeries, which are aimed to show connection of the American Communist party with Moscow. “Whalen's provocative activities will tallment of trade with the Union of Socialistic Soviet Republics does not | correspond with interest in American Soviet Organ Criticizes New business circies.” The attack, which was personal in spots, was carried under the headline, | York Head’s Interpretation |*Aitempt to Undermine Soviet-Ameri- can Relations—Anti-Soviet Forgeries of New York's Police Commissioner.” BEBE DANIELS TO WED Actress and Ben Lyon to Be Mar- ried on June 14. 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