Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1930, Page 4

'MARRIAGE RACKET' QUIZ HOLDS THREE Girl Held Under $2,500 Bail. Admits Taking $400 for CATHOLICS CALLED TOMASS MEETING IScore of Organizations Willl | Co-operate in Charities’ OFFICIALS PREPARE | TOWELCOME DA ;fDeIegates From Nine Euro- ¢ pean Countries Are Feted i in New York. While the delegates of nine European untries to the eleventh annual con- | Sessions Plans. A mass meeting of members of all the | | score or more of Catholic organizations Promise to Wed. | By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, September 16. co-operating in the sixteenth annual| Le Blanc, 21, and bionde, who came Jgress of Pidac are being feted in New Syork today and tomorrow, high eivic fMicials in Washington are joining with he heads of the American Legion and he Daughters of the American Revolu- Bion in preparations for welcoming the alistinguished veterans when they arrive fhere Thursday morning for the open- fing sessions of the congress. ¢ Washington will be gaily decorated in Shonor of the allied veterans, and numer-. fous entertainments, with President joover, members of the cabinet and Gen. Pershing as hosts, are being ar- anged for their three-day stay in the tional Capital Julius I. Peyser of Washington, vice resident of Fidac for the United States, vas a member of the welcoming com- Mnittee that met the S. S. Lancastria esterday as it steamed into New York ng amid a series of deafening whistle lasts. Landed at New York, the allied eterans, acccmpanied by a number of Wistinguished statesmen. vere greeted Fordially by Mayor Wik~ committee mnd then taken on a r-und of enter- Rainments which started (heir visit in Liotham Seven War Generals Included. The delegation, which includes seven war generals, will leave New York 'for Avashington Thursday, at 2 a.m., arriv- dng here at 7:30 o'clock. i The first official act of the delegates will be to place the Fidac gold medal ®f recognition on the Tomb of the Un~ known Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery. At the same time, repre- entatives here of the Portuguese gov- ernment will place the Portuguese Croix de Guerre on the Tomb. " A greup of Gold Star Mothers from Missouri, who will be visiting in Wash- dngton this week, will witness the cere- mony in Arlington and will also attend #n open session of the Fidac Auxiliary, awhich is meeting here at the same time. ¥rincess Alexandrine Cantacuzene of “Rumania is international president of Bhe auxiliary. The delegates will attend luncheons Wt their respective embassies and lega- ifions and then will gather at Conti- fental Memorial Hall for their first lenary session 0. Bodenhamer, ational commander of the America Zegion: Gen. Herbert B. Crosby, frict Commissioner; Mrs. Lowell Hobart, president general of the N: Rional Society, Daughters of the Ameri- an Revolution, and Mrs, Donald acrae, national president of the fAmerican Legion Auxiliary, will make Hvelcoming addresses. ‘Will Be White House Guests. L Following the session the delegates Will be entertained at a White House g{ec?m!nn by the President and Mrs. oover and in the evening at dinner At the Wardman Park Hotel, where Gen. Pershing, commander of the American forces in the World War, will e the guest of honor. © The first day of the congress here il be dedicated to France and spe- cial honors will be paid that nation. iMa). Peyser will act as chairman of the da £ Upon their departure from Washing- ®on Sunday, the distinguished foreign Helegates will be then on a short tour 2 will include the Indianapolis head- iquarters of the Legion, before return- Ang to New York preparatory to their which opens in Washington Thursday. Lower photo shows leading delegates Left to right, rear: Scherley-Pereira of Portugal. Representing more than 9,000,000 ex-service men of the World War, a group of 100 delegates from European coun- tries arrived in New York yesterday to atiend the annual congress of the Federation Interallie des Anciens Combatants, In the upper photo is shown the French delegation standing in front of the battered “40 hommes—8 chevaux” box car which they brought from Paris as a gift to the American Legion. from the various countries. Left to right, front: Col. Milan G. Radossavijevitch of Jugoslavia, Princess Alexandria Cantacuzene of the Ruma nian Auxiliary, Lieui. Col. F. W. Abbot and Mrs. Abbot of Great Britain, Gen. Sir Ivan Hamilton of Great Britain and Lady Edward Spencer of the British Women’s Auxiliary. ¥rs, Joseph Grainier of France, Dr. Virgil Serdaru of Rumania, Col. Josef Vavaroch of Czechoslovakia, Gen. Raoul Pontus of Belgium, Maj. Jan Ludyga-Laskowski of Poland, Col. John Brown of Great Britain and Capt. Ruy e World Photos. | meeting of the National Conference of Catholic Charities, to be held here Sep- tember 28-October 2, has been called for Monday night in Carroll Hall. Several | thousand of the leading church and or- | ganization -workers of the Capital are expected to be present. | “"This gathering is in response to & | resolution offered at the weekly con- ference of the Executive Committee of the conference in the cabinet room of the Willard Hotel Iast night by John Hadley Doyle, at which George E. Cleary, president of the Particular | Council, St. Vincent de Paul, presided. | 10,000 Delegates Predicted, | A gathering of more than 10,000 del- egates and charity workers in the gym- nasium at Catholic University at the opening session of the convention on Sunday night, September 28, was pre- v. Dr. .john O'Grady, na- ©f the conference, Who harge of the arrange- am At 1 near Wcohington are to send delega- tions of 100 or more of their leading | workers to the conference, and the pas- | tors of all these parishes are co-oper- | ating 100 per cent, according to the reports made by Dr. O'Grady and Re: Dr. Lawrence J. Shehan, assistant pa: tor of St. Patrick’'s parish, who has been making a personal canvass of the pastors. Georgetown University, Catholic Uni- versity, Trinity College and more than 20 Catholic colleges and academies in this vicinity are to be represented by large delegations. Encouraging Reports Received. Encouraging reports were received last night from the following chairmen of committees: Walter D. Beller, parish representation; Miss Mary Boland, reg- | istration; Miss Mary Mattingly, hous- ing: John Hadley Doyle, local speakers; William Normoyle, entertainment; Jos- eph Pitzgerald, transportation; Dr. John R. Devereux, halls and meeting places; Miss Jennie Glennan, music, and John Pellen, reception. Francis A. McGann was secretary of the Executive Com- mittee conference. Heartiest .co-operation of Holy Name men from 48 parishes was pledged by Caesar Alello, president of the Wash- of Holy Name Societies, who brought with him 30 presidents of the local units | to show the earnestness of the organiza- tion in furthering the plans for the na- tional gathering. Veteran Worker Speaks. Patrick J. Haltigan, a veteran worker in the Holy Name, Knights of Columbus, Hibernian, and charity organization work, addressed the meeting, bringing assurances of a record-breaking attend- ance at the opening session of the con- | ference at Catholic University, where it was instituted 22 years ago. At the session in the Catholic Uni- versity Gym on Sunday, September 28, the Elks' Boys' Band will give a con- cert. George O'Connor and Matt Horn will tnlso contribute to the entertain- ment. QUITS WHITE HOUSE W. D. Robbjns Will Resume Diplo- Catholic parishes in and | ington section of the Baltimore Union | Court, Long Island City, N. hungry males by means of a Yo real | help her sick mother. same promise. went there to attend a wedding. Sally Mississippi. | | from the Mississippt cotton flelds 18 | months ago because she had heesd “there was lots of easy money u» North,” was held for the grand jury in $2,500 bail yesterday on a charge of attempted fraud. | sally admitted at her | she obtained about $400 by | herself as a bride to anybcdy who could | pay $1,000 to care for her “aged and helpless mother.” | The trouble was Sally was already married. And besides, she told the judge, her mother was only 43 and not helpless. Held also for the grand jury weie Sally's relatives by marriage. Jack Madeson and his wife, Rose, who are charged with trying to operate a “mar- riage racket,” with Sally as bait. Magistrate Marvin fixed their bail twice Ruth Miller, pretty blonde and 21, shown when she appeared in Magistrate's September 15, on a charge of swindling mate- “marriage racket.” were Jack Madeson, his wife, Rose, and Rose’s sister, Delia Meffier. me appears to be Sally Le Blanc, from a Japanese cook, Sujeki Sukuki, by a promise to marry him for $1,000 to Frank Mangrato had $500 extracted from him by the Sally, alias Ruth, was arrested in New Bedford, Mass., when she With her, awaiting arraignment, Ruth, whose s charged with having swindled $750 used to pick cotton on a plantation in —A. P. Photo. TOMB OF UNKNOWN ENLARGEMENT 0. K.'D. Fine Arts Commission Also Ap- proves Standard 0il | Building Plan, The Fine Arts Commission today ap- | proved the plans for the enlargement | of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier | at Arlington Cemetery. The commis- | |sion acted upon plans submitted by | | Brig. Gen. L. H. Bash, chief of the construction division, office of the | quartermaster general, War Depart- | ment. The projected Standard Oil Co. | | Building, at Third and B streets, was given the commission’s approval, as was the plans for the George Rogers Clark Memorial at Vincinnes, Ind. | The commission was prepared to con- | sider the Leif Ericsson Statue, to be | given to Iceland by the United States. | Plans for the Pan-American Office | Bullding, to be built at Eighteenth and ISQUALLS AND DUST HINDER 27 FLYERS Reliability Air Tour Encounter| Strongest Winds in Experience of Airmen. By the Associated Press. REGINA, Saskatchewan, September 16.—After bucking what they described as the strongest winds in their experi- ence, 27 participants in the relibility air tour were here today from Brandon prepared to tackle the next leg of their tour to Moose Jaw. The first plane to arrive was that of Lee Schoenhair, noted American pilot, who made the flight from Brandon in 1 hour and 45 minutes against a wind which at times attained a velocity of 60 miles an hour. He was followed 30 minutes later by the New Cincinnati Harry Russell, leader to date in total points, was fourth, arriving about an hour after Schoenhair. Dust rising to a_height of 5,000 feet and. frequent squalls of rain added to difficulties of the pilots. . as high as Sally's, remarking: “They evidently made Sally do all | the dirty work and then took half the | money.” | . The charge is that Sally accepted a | down payment of $750 from Sukeji | Sukuki, a Japanese chef, gave half of it to the Madesons, and then disappeared. | She was arrested yesterday in New Bedford, Mass. Frank Mangraito also has complained to the police that Bally accepted $500 from him and promised to become his bride. Ends, but Weather Fails to Improve Due to an old American custom the visible supply of farm forage, or hay, in this country became notably larger today. Department of Agriculture officials and those intrysted with President Hoover’s farm and drought relief pro- grams had no comment to make on the subject this morning, but in high eir- cles it was doubted whether the in- creased supply would be reflected in | any increase in the well being of the bucolic beasts of the countryside. Straw hats, in various shapes and sizes, and in many stages of disrepafr, were tossed into the discard in whole- sale lots, and the thing to do today be- came to don a natty, though not so | nappy, felt bonnet in early anticipation of cooler weather. The sun, it seems, wasn't notified of this change of things, and kept on glar- |ing down in that torrid way that has | become so much more a habit this year than in former years. The weather man thinks there will { be plenty more straw hat weather, but | that old American custom clings, end the straw hat has gone. Hatters (they're all mad ones this year because of a growing fad to go hatless) announced today that the con- sumption of straw bonnets this year ! took a notable decline from the figures for former years, partly due to afore- mentioned fad, but mostly to the fact that so much of the country has been so0 Jong without rain that the May hat if it survived the first few weeks of FARM PRICES DROP: session'or veaistarune st | ]-U NEw I_Uw I-EVEIJngnm Includes Highways and BN MAN WHO FEARED £ PFidac, otherwise knosn as the | BT RIS SAN B streets, were up for consideration, as Summer, lasted quite nicely until Sep- were plans for the new Japanese em-| Exports of American agricultural ma- | tember. 'Rain and straw hats, they say, bassy here, submitted by the building | chinery are greater than a year .ago. - are arch enemies. inspector’s office of the District govern- | ment. The commission was prepared to de- vote attention to designs for the Metho- matic Post in Salvadore. Warren Delano Robbins, United States Minister to Salvadore, who for several | | months has been serving as ceremonial | | officer at the White House, laid’ down | | theze latter duties today to resume his nts, has a membership of 9,000,000 eterans and its auxiliary numbers gnore than 350,000 women. Bridges, School Gasoline Tax and Building of Capitol. 125 Official Delegates. Aboard the Cunard liner, which dock- in New York were 125 official dele- tes and guests to the congress from ‘ance, Italy, Great Britain, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Portugal, umania and Poland. War veterans of these countries, together with the American Legion, make up Fidac. 2 Among the delegates are Gen. Ian $Hamilton, vice president of the British oup; Lady Spencer Churchill, chair- an of the British women's delegation ®nd aunt of Winston Churchill; Gen. Otakar Husak of Czechoslovakia, Gen. oul Pontus of Belgium, Joseph ranier of France, Maj. Jan Ludyga- skowski, Poland; Capt. Ruy Scherly Pereira, Portugal; Dr. Virgil Serdaru,! Rumania; Col. Josef Vavroch, Czecho- Yalovakia, and Col. Milan G. Radossa- Fljevitch, Jugoslavia, | ;. Attended Theater Party. The Reception Committee H in New | ;Wm'l, headed by Edward L. White, gflrmnn of the General Arrangements mmittee for Fidac; Col. Lemuel lles, representing Mayor Walker, and | Peyser of Washington went aboard | Detroit Gunmen Grocer Who Had Hid—De- tective Also Is Killed. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, Mich, September 16.—A he had not long to live was shot to | | death-last night in & new outbreak of | ;1 "the farm price level the gang war in Detroit. | He was Tony Gravina, 39, a grocer, | who has no police record. Police were seeking today to learn if he had any | connection with the gangster warfare which has claimed more than a dozen lives since the first of the year. Gravina was one of two victims of guns in the city last night. The other was Benjamin J. Koles, a detective for the Grand Trunk Railroad, whose ly was found in a railroad yard. he liner at quarantine. At the pler, vhen the ship landed, the delegates ssembled in groups according to na- | fonality and were escorted to their| eadquarters. Yesterday and last night Bhe foreign veterans were guests of | Zheir own consuls general and attended # theater party in the evening. & The Fidac congress in New York was | 20 open this morning with an address By the international president, Lieut. | Col. Fred W. Abbot of Great Britain in the 7th Regiment Armory. A re- i‘;pnon by Mayor Walker at the City | all was scheduled to follow. “NEW YORK GREETS DELEGATES. Extensive Program of Festivities I s Arranged for Fidac Groups. P the Associated Press. £ NEW YORK, September 16.—Repre- ntative of 10 npations and the Jity of New York, extended a cos- Enopolitan welcome = yesterday to 105 foreign delegates to the annual congress |. of Fidac, Inter-Allied War Veterans As- | ciation., who arrived on the Jiner| neastria The municipal tug Macom escorted ghe liner up the harbor to its pier where fhe delegates, some in civilian clothes @nd others in colorful uniforms, as- §embled under their national flags to ceive the greetings of representatives the allied nations. An extensive program of festivities E{u been arranged for their stay in New ‘ork. ‘Tomorrow night they will leave for Washington to attend the business Bessions of the organizations, known by the initials of its name—Federation Interallice des Anciens Combattants. It §5 made up of service groups of nine foreign nations and the American Legion, representing more than 8,000,- 000 ex-service men. Among the leaders of the foreign felegations were Gen. Ian Hamilton, gice president of the British group; Lieut. Col. William Abbott, president ©f Fidac; Lady Spencer Churchill, ghairman of the British woman’s dele- tion, and aunt of Winston Churchill, nd Princess Cantacuzene, head of the umanian Woman's group. ; Gen. Hamilton, 77 years old, who was n supreme command of the Gallipoli flense in 1915-16, and is a veteran of Boer Wars, said his experiences had made him “a man of peace.” ¢ “Since the war” he said, “I prob- ably have unveiled more war' memorials ghan any other man, and at these un- Weilings have seen so many blind and lerippled veterans, orphans and widows, #hat it gave me a turn against war.” | son Tony. lin fear of an attack and that two | The grocer was shot down in front of | his place of business. Two men step- ped out of a large sedan and fired sev- | eral shots into his head. Then they re- entered the car and escaped. The only eye witness was Gravina's 9-year-old Police learned that Gravina had been months ago he closed his store and | went with his wife and four children | to Highland Park. He returned three l!eku( ago and told of threats against his_life Koles' body was found on a track by a trainman, He had been shot through the abdomen. COTTON GIN IS WRECKED | BY DYNAMITE BLAST| By the Associated Press. ‘LAKE VILLAGE, Ark., September 16.—After kidnaping the watchman, a | band’ of men set off three charges of | dynamite at the Gabe Webb Cotton Gin here yesterday, damaging it to the ex- tent of about $8,000. The watchman, G. B. Cokely, was found several hours later by Sheriff Calmes Merritt in a cafe at Dermott. He sald he had been released by his captors' a mile from Dermott. No motive for the dynamiting could be learned. Murder Index Goes Below Depth‘m Plumbed in 1921, Data Disclose. A 3 per cent recession of farm prices from July 15 to August 15 was said {man who came out of hiding three | today by the Department of Agricul- | | weeks ago and told friends he feared | ture to have sent the farm price index below the lowest level reached in 1921 This decline followed a sharp break receding month. As of August 15, the index was 108, compared with 111 on July 15, with 123 on June 15 and 143 a year ago. Prom August 15 to September 10, however, price advances at primary markets outweighed declines, although cotton and wheat failed to maintain their gains into the first part of Sep- tember, The gains have been most noticeable in hogs, cattle, potatoes and butter, the department said. “While the arop between June 15 and July 15 was general for practically al farm products inciuded in the index, the department said, “there were some advances between July 15 and.August 15, but not sufficient to offset the downward trend in other commodities. | prices averaged | higher on August 15 than en July 15, | All grain and hay reflecting the drought conditions. “Hog prices advanced on & lghter volume of marketing, and prices of eggs, butter and wool also advanced from their low levels in July. Consld- erable declines took place in apples and potatoes, which, because of light erops in 1929, had not declined to the same extent as other commodities earlier this year, and beef cattle and sheep and lambs declined to new low levels. The farm price of cotton also was lower by half a cent & pound on August 15.” Ca’pt‘ Pinckney Resigns. The President has accepted the resig- nation of Capt. Gaillard Pinckney, 22d Infantry, who has been under treatment at Waiter Reed General Hospital for several weeks, Capt. Pinckney is from South Carolina and is a graduate of the Infantry School, class 1926. He en- tered the Regular Army as a second lieutenant in_October, 1917, and served during the World War, reaching the grade of captain in July, 1920, Albania, according to the 1930 cen- sus, has a population of 1,003,000. Her to Lie By the Associsted Press. NEW YORK, Ceptember 16.—Helen Kane, boop-a-doop actress of stage and screen, testified yesterday that be- cause she refused to let perjury pass the lips she hac trained to the innocent inflections of baby talk her life was threatened. On the witness stand in a referee’s hearing into the bankruptcy of the Bond Dress Co, Miss Kane testified | Murray Posner, a partner in the firm, visited her in a Chicago hotel and tried to choke her when she refused to agree #nd have seen how they looked while Mwatchin gthe ceremonies, that it gave dme a turn against war.” —_— In the last 12 months wheat and wheat flour exported from Clnld; ’ to give false testimony. She said he told her she must swear that $50,000 he gave her just before the bankruptcy had been placed with him by her for investment in the dress com- As n matter of fact, she asserted, B g e o et LIPS THAT BOOP-A-DOOP DECLINE TO PERJURE DESPITE VIOLENCE Helen Kane Testifies She Was Choked in Effort to Compel in Court. her and he had put it into his own company. Pushing her against the wall of her hotel room, Miss Kane testified, Posner seized her by the throat, but her sec- retary entered the room, called a house detective and had Posner ejected. Posner followed Miss Kane to the wit- ness stand and called her story of vio- lence “ridiculous and absurd.” Miss Kane was brought into the case when it was discovered that before the bankruptcy she received the mone: fiom Posner, a close personal friend, transferred {t to a_bank in Chicago, converted it into liberty bonds and placed them in a safe deposit box. ‘The boob-a-doop baby talker faces & suit by the receiver in bankruptcy, who seeks to get both the §50,000 and aiso of jewelry Posner ,000. worth of says he By the Associated Press. | NEW ORLEANS, La., September 16.— Huey P. Long late yesterday for- | mally called a special session of the Legislature for eight days, beginning to- night at 8 o'clock, to consider legislative | subjects regarded by him as vitally af- | fecting the State. In his official proclamation Gov. Long said that the special session would include in its program legislation for | highways and bridges, a tax on gasoline for public schools and for the ports of Lake Charles and New Orleans, build- | ing of a new capitol, providing funds for the intracoastal canal, for revising | the finances of New Orleans and to| provide an airport in New Orleans. | i Seventh Street diplomatic post in Salvadore. Mr. Robbins will leave Washington late today for Miami, Fla., from which point he will travel by airplane to Sal- vadore. Baths Compulsory in Poland. Poland expects to be the cleanest na- tion on earth with the new “order of the bath” which is being introduced | there. The government has drafted a law under which every inhabitant of the country must bathe at least once a month. 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