Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1930, Page 2

Woman'’s Ransom Increased When Sum First Demanded Is Paid. By the Assoclated Press. An estimate, based on a compilation of & Hankow newspaper, that 21 for- eigners are being held by Communist bandits in the Hankow district, was re- ported to the State Department yes- terday ' by Frank P. Lockhart, the American consul general in that city. Those held in the district include an American, Bert N. Nelson of Minneap- olis, and French, lululr:. British, Nor- weglan and Spanish citizens. Lockhart's message said Miss Berglio . Evenson, who has a brother in Seat- tle, and Rev. A. N. Tvedt, a Norwegian, both of the Lutheran United Mission in Honan Province, had bargained for their freedom. Miss Evenson was re- Jeased on payment of $3,000 silver, about $1,000 American, but the bandits were now demanding $30,000 siiver. bout $10,000 Am;rwln. less the $3,000 silver already paid. Nelson, Lockhart reported, has been transferred to the Communist strong- hold at Hwangan, Hupeh. Sister Ramos, & Pilipino nun, is still held at Kian, recently taken by Communists. A State Department announcement consul's message Teit- 5-"33 that Americans in the district had been repeatedly warned to leave for places of safety in recent months. Most of those warned declined to leave. The American consulate at Nanking 1t received a note from ministry for foreign affairs stating that efforts were being made through authorities along the Pinghan Railroad to effect Nelson's rel ) Additional “Red’ by Lockha: the cities of Nanchow, Hunan and Hwayung. Two American missionaries, Miss Masel Todd of Strathmore, Calif. and W. W. More of 237 West School Philadelphia, Pa., who were re- tioned the area, are a , Anwhel Province, and Kuling, HOAX IS ADMITTED BY YOUNG TEACHER Bound Self on Rail Tracks to Get Auto, According to Con- fession. et o PHILIPPINE FREEDOM Camilo Osias Makes Plea for In- dependence Before Round- '~ Table Club. A plea for of the Philip- Islands was delivered yesterday the Round Table Club by Camilo resident commissioner from the Philippines. ‘were he said, of civil govern- in political activ- an economic point of view, turally. “Our ;g;;ggg;gh i ¢ JOSEPH L. GILLOTT DIES SUDDENLY AT AGE OF 72 Retired Policeman and Wife Had Celebrated Golden Wedding An- miversary Last Year. Joseph L. Gillott, 72-year-old retired died suddenly last night at home, 1624 U street southeast. He from lm Metropolitan Police Department 11 years ago. Mr. Gillott had been in Il health for Mr. and Mrs. euln,n celee a year . Bes! mved‘g‘y,m N. Gillott and Mrs. Mable Hesen of this appointed to the Police De- in 1898, and served as a Was partment mounted officer at the eleventh precinct for s number of years. He later was attached to the ninth, fourth and sixth precincts. . MICHIGAN BANKER DIES BY OWN HAND - Benton Harbor Financier Had Been Depressed—Body Is Found in Own Garage. By the Associated Press. Mich., October BENTON HARBOR, 29.—Clayton M. Niles, president of the Parmers and Merchants’ National Bank of Benton Harbor, shot himself to death some time yesterday. His body was his home early yesterday, but not in the rear of his home. . Niles, who was 62 years old and been prominent in financial and clrcles l:eu for zunyb“ytnd = mk ear] yesterday no! Y TAasociates said !‘m had tol atill was grasped in his hand the body was found by Sheriff G. Bryant. Mr. Niles is survived by his widow and @ daughter, Miss Caroline Niles. — Robbed of $40,000 Diamonds. uflm« CITY, I, October 29 (#). sy ‘hhrm"mumma,hmm] {in diamonds in Sheridan road near -~ HOLD 21 CAPTIVES; HE WAS MURDERER Defendant Takes Stand in Own Behalf in Effort to Establish Alibi. (Continued From Pirst Page.) polished shoes, was called to the stand shortly before the luncheon recess of court. Lucian Van Doren, defense at- torney, began the direct examination. ‘Are you the defendant in this case?" “Are you the husband of the Mrs. Ruth Olm‘rbem ‘who preceded you to the stand and the father of Edwin Callahan, who also testified here?” u'rha prisoner replied in the affirma- ve. Gives Account of Day. “Do you recall the day of April 11, . s Oa e s aonded. “Yes, " Campl “Will you detall to the jury in your own way just what you on the afternoon of that particular day?” the attorney asked. Campbell then began a detalled story of his activities on the afternoon in question. “Well, to begin with that noon,” the defendant said, “I had lunch at my home in Virginia Highlands about 12:30 o'clock. I went from my home to my office, after lunch, to sign a paint; contract with Barrere (Herman Bar- rere, once held in the case). While I was at the office the telephone rang and it was Mrs. Parsons (Mrs. Gwen- dolyn Parson) calling. I made an ap- t | pointment to meet Mra. Parsons at teenth and H streets at 2:30 o'clock. I started in town about 2 o'clock, making one stop at the Highway Bridge. I met her on the south side of H street, I think it must have been about 2:15 o'clock. ~ “We drove to Georgetown and along M street to the Home Savings Bank, ‘where I stopped for & moment, and ‘we across the Key Bridge to Virginia and out Wilson Boulevard to Ballston, where there was a building operation I wanted to see. I stopped there, but the man I wanted to see was not there bY|and we turned back along the Wilson toward Boulevard to Rosslyn and down the Cemetery road. ‘Walt for Truck to Pass. “As T passed the yard of the Penn Oit Co. I saw two colored men I had sent to get some crank-case drainings to mix with sawdust for my miniature golf course. They were in the yard with & truck and it occurred to me they were gmtrance of Arlington Cemetery, which is the Sheridan gate. There is an old dirt road leading off from the Cemetery across from the gate. This dirt full view of the concrete how long it would be before the men came by from the oil com- ‘were there perhaps half an maybe three-quarters of an hour, exactly. I remember that ining Comdr. Fowler partment. I don't know W me or not. about commonplace car was not parked far It was parked on the About quarter past 5 home. We drove road and over the High- d arrived at her apart- Nineteenth street. I did left her there and then Nineteenth street to go entirely conjecture. and the e i L [ gg £ o i i 5 E f ! i 1 ~3p 5 i 3 i way Bridge. They said: pass Mary Baker's car?’ on me for not leaving the telephone alone” while she was preparing dinner, he said also he overheard Mrs. Camp- bell upbraid his stepson for his failure to dress more promptly to attend a Scout meeting, as she had testified. It was after dinner the witness related that he drove his stepson to the meet- ing. He said it wase7:20 by a street clock when he passed Fourteenth and U streets. “I couldn’t get the car into the curb,” said, “so I parked abreast. I got out and went into the church and as I remember talked to Mr. King a moment or two. And then I went to visit “friends on Hampton street for about 15 minutes. After that I went to the home of Mrs. lnr“.lhhm I reached there at 7:45 gr ¥:50. I stayed until nearly 9 o’clock. ‘The witness deciared he searched for his stepson on his way home without success, returning to Vi of the Highway Bridge. He rived home between 10 and 10:15 p.m. and stayed there all night. It was at this juncture that Van- doren s the line of questioning that brought from Campbell the decla- ration that he “never shot nor choked Mary Baker.” He also said in answer to questions that he didn't know any one who did know the girl; that he never saw her car, and that he was not in the hborhood of Sixteenth and B streets between 5:50 and 6:30 official was about April 20, when he called on by Sheriff Howard B. was . | Plelds of Arlington County, Willam C. to She called me the Monday of the lollowhl&l'eek. She had realized that we had talked telephone. or Tuesday asked if I I told her I hadn't realized passed our car. Later, I called her back and told her I wanted to protect her and that she better not call me at my office about the incident any more, be- cause I thought my wires were tapped.” Campbell then resumed his story. T went to Taishofl’s store. I was in the habit of going there neary every day. I judge it was about 5:20 o'clock. I asked for a cake box and Mr. Taish- off handed me a doughnut box, apol getically, saying it was all he had. The box had sugar and grease spots om it, but I took it anyway. “I went a distance of about two or three city blocks to Mr. Lee’s office and turned over to him a check I had col- lected that morning from Mr. Morrow. I didn't sit down in Lee's office. I looked st some pencil tracings of a building he had in front of him. “Then I went out Addison avenue to Mount Vernon avenue and stopped for & moment at my office. Tells of Going Home. “Mr. Norwood was there. I asked him to stick around awhile in the office because I was expecting & couple w0 come out to see about some rooms—it was really an apartment of connecting rooms. I left Norwocd to stay there for & few minutes. He said he'd telephone me at my home if the couple showed up. I don't think 1 was at the office more than two or three minutes. “1 went directly home and Edwin was there, reading on the porch. As closely as 1 can remember, it was possibly 10 minutes of 6 o'clock. I want to say to you gentlemen of the jury that this is just conjecture on my part, based on the time it would take me to follow the route 1 took from the store to my home. Mrs. Campbell was not home peeled some potatoes and cooked a steak. VEdwin called to me that there was & machine out front with some people in it. He was a little disheveled, from school, 1 guess, so he went out of sight. Mr. Green was at the door and he asked if 1 would get some electric light bulbs at the Potomac Electric Power Co. He had a list of white frosted bulbs, he said | he wanted. I asked him if he wouldn't rather have flame-tinted bulbs. He sald he didn’t know. I went to a switch on 'the wall and switched on the lights for him to see how they looked in my house. “He said he liked them very much and that he would call Mrs. Green to look at them. She came in. They were not there long, staying in the hall talking most of the time. While they were still there, Norwood called me on the telephone and told me there was a tele- am for me at Alexandria. The Greens Ef and later I called the Postal Tele: graph Ce. in Alexandria and the mes. was read to me over the phone. Gloth, Commonwealth attorney, and several others. He quoted Fields as having asked him if he thought Barrers had any connection with the case. Visited by Newspaper Men. “You made some reference to having been visited about this time by news- men,” Vandoren began. “Who were they?” * “Peake of the Herald and Beale, who I think was on some newspaper, but he declared himself to be an independ- ent _investigator,” Campbell answered. “What did they say?” “Peak told me they had gotten & good break. He said Mrs. Harrison Smith, the wife of a former secretary of Vice President Curtis had called the Washington Times and told them Bar- rere had told her he had been to dances with Mary Baker.” ‘This line of questioning was abruptly terminated. The defense attorney previously had said he would seek to show that Campbell had been in- fluenced by newspapermen in becoming involved in the case. ‘The witness then told of his employ- ment of Barrere to paint his house. He testified he had Barrere arrested after | another man who was wo on alter- ations within his home had reported seeing Barrere walk out of the house with wearing apparel and other articles owned by Campbell. He said he learned Barrere had “stolen” among other things a bag of candy left in & dresser drawer in which he previously had placed his pistol. ‘The defendant’s testimony was inter- rupted at this point by the noon recess. Boy Scouts Testify. When the trial resumed this morning the first witness was Charles Wenrich of 1349 Quincy street, a Boy Scout. He testified he had seen Campbell walk into the Columbia Heights Christian Church the night of April 11 with his stepson, Edwin Callahan. The witness said records in his possession lggromd his memory by showing young Callahan 1|had been present at the meeting. Simi- lar testimony was given by Charles Morris and William Hunt, also members of the Scout Troop. Collins developed on cross-examination that each of the Socouts were “good friends” of Camp- bell’s stepson. Lawrence E. Roland, a telephone company employe, told the jury official records disclosed a call had been made over the telephone in Campbell’s home, at 5:45 pm., April 11. The next witness, Hassell H. Burgwin of the 1700 block of Massachusetts ave- nue, testified a book entitled “The Golden Dancer,” found with the clothes of Miss Baker, originally had been his property. He said he had not seen the novel since he loaned it to Miss Ruth Capen of the 1700 block of N street in the Summer of 1929. Miss Capen, an employe of the De- partment of Agriculture, said the book was in her car the last time she saw it. She reported a search for the novel in the machine about a week after Miss fense counsel had the prisoner identify a sales slip for the eleciric bulbs, & for the bulbs, a check paid for the and a contract of sale on thi Baker was killed proved fruitless. She was unable to account for the disap- pearance of the book. At this point Vandoren was mhm in the record a stal obtained from Mrs. Frank ent he X, Sum- e added B . MISS MILDRED SPERRY, One of the young women with whom Mary Baker lived. —Star Staff Photo. mer, s resident of Arlington County, who falled to appear when called as a witness He sald Mrs. Summer parked her automobile near the Ciate, War and Navy Building March 20 last. She left in the machine a string of coral beads purchased earlier in the day. When she returned the jewelry was missing. Vandoren quoted the woman as having said a box found among the possessions of Miss Baker resembled the container in which her beads had been packed. Mrs. Campbell then took the stand. She began by testifying she had lived in Virginia Highlands about three years with the defendant and his stepson. She sald she was employed in the Washington offices of the Electric Power Co. The defendant’s wife, speaking in & well modulated voice, sald she went home the afternoon of April 11 on & bus which left Washington at either 5:20 or 5:40 pm. She fixed the hour of her arrival home at 6 o'clock. Pres- ent at that time were Campbell and stepson. She sald Campbell was in the kitchen preparing dinner, while Edwin was in the bathroom. The witness declared she scolded Edwin because he was not dressed prop- erly to attend the Scout meeting. She explained he was afrald he would be late because of the hour and the dis- tance he had to go. She then changed clothes. Tells of Callers. It was at this time, the witness re- lated, that Mr. and Mrs. Harry Green, to whom Campbell had sold a house arrived- to inquire about the t of light bulbs to b installed in their “Mr. and Mrs. Green called,” the wit- ness said, “just about 10 minutes after I arrived home. They left about. 15 or 20 minutes later and I went to the kitchen to aid in the preparation of dinner. We then ate. It was at dinner that Mr. Campbell said he would drive Edwin to the Scout meeting. “They lett home at about 7:10 o'clock.” Mrs. Campbell said the telephone was situated near the kitchen, enabling her to overhear several conversations her husband had with other persons from the time she arrived home until he left. birthday was April 13, the Sun the slaying of Miss She she had asked Campbell to ob- tain & box in which she might pack a WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930 MRS. RUTH CALLAHAN CAMPBELL As she appeared on the witnees stand in the Baker case this morni; —&8ketched by James T. Berryman, Star Staff ng. Artist. cake she had baked to give Mrs. Good on her birthday. She sald Campbell obtained the box. “Was there anything abnormal or unusual in the actions or manner of Mr. Campbell the evening of April 117" Vandoren inquired. “Absolutely not,” the wife replied. “If Mr. Campbell's condition on that occasion had been unusual?” Collins asked in & low, persuasive voice, “would you tell this jury about it?” “I certainly would,” Mrs. Campbell | la nded in an aroused manner. “If he hadn’t returned home on that night would you tell the jury?” “I certainly would.” Mrs. Campbell was followed to the stand by John W. McLean of Falls ‘who said Campbell came to his office in Virginia Highlands on ess “‘some- after 5 o'clock” that afternoon, re- maining 15 or 20 minutes. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green, Virginia Highlands, and Horace Mudd, Alexan- dria, who told of & visit to Campbell's home around 6 o’clock in theevening. ‘Warren Norwood, Aurora Hills, who testified to having been in Campbell's realty office, where he jaw Campbell nboutulls pg\:]umh:; 6 o'clock, and of e ing 2 mesa, - ing a telegram. o Tell of Telephone Call. A. T. Lutz, manager of the Alex- andria_office of the Postal Telegraph Co., who testified regarding the tele- Church, Va. He told of receiving a|gram: telephone call from Campbell on busi- ness at about’ sundown on April 11. Under cross-examination, Collins ined an admissio from McLean that had neglected tell the authorities of the conversation. The witness ex- lained he had sald nothing about it use no one had asked him. Others who testified for Campbell this morning Included Mrs, Anna Good, co- employe of Mrs. Campbell at the Po- tomac Electric Power Co., who testified to having received the birthday cake | nin on April 12 about which Mrs. Camp- bell testified, and Mrs. John W. McLean of Falls Church, who told of the tele- phone call received from Campbell “about sundown” on the evening of April 11. The only touch of levity of the trial occurred while Mrs. Good was on the stand. When the defense turned its witness over for cross-examination by the prosecution, Collins asked but one question. It was: “Was the cake good?” “It certainly was,” Mrs. Good replied, me, | And even the justice smiled. Alibi Is Offered. A veritable parade of defensé wit- nesses testified yesterday afternoon in substantiation of Campbell's contention that he was in Virginia between the hours of 5 and 7 o'clock on the eve- ning of April 11, when the attack on Mary Baker occurred near 17th and B streets. Other witnesses told of his movements earlier that afternoon and later that night. Among the so-called “alibl” witnesses were: s Mrs. Gwendolyn Parsons, who told of ing Campbell on & motor ride n County before § o'clock the and of returning with him to her apartment, on Nineteenth street, where he left her about 5 o'clock. ‘Taishoff, ', who said 11 visif his grocer, store late on the Tnoon in question. Carroll W. Lee, Virginia Highlan John A. Deutermann, ma; of the Clarendon office of the cnfi;'un & Potomac Telephone Co., and Lawrence E. Rowland, manager of the Alexandria office of the company, who were ques- tioned r 'ding time of the telephone u.l_xl‘men loned. omas King, Scoutmaster of Troop 69, who said Oll:lg‘hell brought his step- son, Edwin Callahan, to a Scout meet- ing in the Columbia Heights Christian Church about 7:30 o'clock in the eve- 8. 3 Mrs. Marian E. Stuart, who supported Campbell’s report of a visit to her home on Hamilton street after leaving the boy at the Scout meeting. Charles W. Fastnaught, employe of Schneider's Bakery, 0 confirmed Campbell's story of obtalning a cake box at the bakery, but who could not be sure of the date. Edwin Callahan, the stepson, Wwho told of seeing Campbell come home about 5:30 o'clock and prepare dinner and who gave an account of the trip with his stepfather to the Scout meet- ing in the city. ABENDSCHEIN RITES SET Forty-Year Resident of Capital to Be Buried Tomorrow. Funeral services for George Abendschein, 65 years old, who died sud- denly Sunday at his home, 815 C street southwest, will be held tomorrow after- noon at 2 o'clock at Grace Episcopal Church, Ninth and D streets southwest. Interment will be in Union Cemetery, Alexandria, Va. Mr. Abendschein was & resident here . is survived by his Abendschein; three Louis Saddle horses were used by the Eng- ds, ' lish as long ago @s 631, GOAL FIRM RAIDED FOR SECOND TIME Police Believe Company Is Terminus of Smuggled Guns for Gangsters. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, October 20.—Police Com- missioner Thomas C. Wilcox today led a second surprise raid on the offices of the Capital Coal Co., alleged Detroit terminus of an Bastern and Middle ‘Western machine gun smuggling syndicate. The police claim the company has been the point to which machine guns were sent for distribution among De- troit gangsters. The head of the com- pany is Angelo Meli, reputed gang leader. New York police revealed the syn- dicate several months ago. Chicago, Detroit and other large cities were concerned. The raid was the second since Mon- day, the first having been made by officers acting under secret orders from the Wayne County grand jury. In the first raid a truck load of the company's records was seized for inspection by the jury's investigators. P Today’s raid was made in search of machine guns reported shipped several months ago from New York to the coal company here, . DAUGHTERS T0 FIGHT FATHER’S LAST WILL Claim Estate $45,000, Not $1,000, as Stated in Petition of Stepmother. Mrs. Harrlet R. Trainer and Miss Virginia Root of New York City, daugh- ters of Capt. Charles Stevens Root, & Coast Guard officer, who was killed by CHINA NEAR BREAK AGAIN WITH SOVIET Troops Reported Ordered to Manchurian Line as Rail Parley Totters. By the Assoclated Press. SHANGHALI, October 29.—Chinese press reports from Harbin today sald North Manchurian authorities had ordered troops to the international bor- der near Manchull as a result of the threatened breakdown of the conference {in Moscow seeking settlement of the Chinese Eastern Railway dispute be- tween China and Russia. Commenting on Sino-Russian affairs, the Shanghal Sinwanpao, outstanding vernacular newspaper, said: “Concerning the Moscow conference, the Chinese answer to Moscow's impos- sible demands should be an abrupt termination of negotiations instead of turning attention to military prepara- tions against threatened Soviet incur- sions into Chinese territory along the Northwest Manchurian frontier.” N ‘The dispatches said the Chinese dele- gation in Moscow was preparing to depart “as & result of the Soviets de- manding complete observance of the Khabarovsk protocol, which the Chinese are not able to grant. The resulting conference is doomed to a breakdown.” The Khabarovsk protocol was the agreement between China and Russia which put an end to hostilities over the Chinese Eastern Railway last Fall. Since that time Chinese and Russians have been negotiating in Moscow for a treaty which would permanently settle m:, pmhkfil. ‘ernacular reports to: - rauders within the last :e!rknhfi‘}og;d and burnod‘;lx“-vmu‘ub n;ud killed 300 Kalfeng, Honan, ° i - APPEALS TO WOMEN TO AID IN RELIEF FOR UNEMPLOYED an automobile here August 8, today; filed in the District Supreme Court a caveat protesting against the admission to probate of their father’s will, which names his second wife, Mrs. Louise B. (Continued Prom First B ml:la Clifton street, as sole bene- | I clary. The daughters éharge undue influ- | set, N. J. ence against the widow and assert that taeir father's estate should be $45,000 and not $1,000, as stated in the widow's petition for the probate of the docu- ment. They charge that a large por- tion of the estate is in the name of the widow and assert that their father, for investment, which, they claim, was made in her own name. The court is told that when away from the influence of the wife their father often said that he intended to leave his property to the daughters that he wished to and woul the daughters say, before he came un- der the influence of Louise B. Root, but was persuaded by her, they aver, to discontinue his contributions toward their support. Attorney D. L. Grantham appears for the daughters. —_— e FOG AND RAIN FACED BY AIRMAIL PILOT Walter Shaffer First to Arrive From New York Under Pres- ent Weather Conditions. '.hnllx-uh fog, Tain and mist, Alr Transport through from New York this morning, ]lnfll%.lf- Bolling Fleld at noon. He was first pllot to break througl since the weather thickened early last night. The first northbound 1s expected to arrive here during the aft- erncon. Shaffer, who broke h a bliz- zard last Winter which held up rail traffic and interrupted communications of all kinds, said that today's flight “was not bad.” N. J, where he was forced down by thick weather and delayed for several hours, he sald he was able to see the ground all the way, though visibility Was Very poor. Shaffer brought through the nfl:ll:' shuttle plane, carrying mail to Phila- delphia, Baltimore and Washington from the transcontinental line. During the night the weather along the At- lantic Seaboard was' so thick the mail was trained all along the line. None of the air trai rt lines out of the Capi was able to operate _this morning, though it was anticipafed service to New York would begin early this afternoon. CAPITAL STUDENT HELD SUICIDE IN FRANCE Body Taken From Seine Thought to Be That of Austin B. Blair of Washington. (From the 5:30 Edition of ay's Btar.) ‘The supposed suicide in Paris of Aus- tin B, Blair, 31, law student and a nephew of Fred J. Blair, formerly an assoclate marketing specialist in the Agriculture Department, was reported today in Associated Press dispatches which said a body identified as that of Blair was taken from the River Seine. ‘The home address given to Paris po- lice* was 1443 Belmont street, Wash- ington. Fred J. Blair, who was retired | his from Government service about two months ago and traveled to Florida for of & few the Post Office Departms Dlace ‘138,480 additional persona o While the campaign moved forward appeals for work the commit- tee_as_well as offers .of. assistance. 8. B Y t of the Civi Club at West wrote: Pa, in a letter “I appeal to to give as help omunnm west end of kill County, where thrown out of employ- by the closing of the mines.” After leaving Trenton, | oo b Where employment ma found, are the mm%nr- of Co{ Wood’s staff whom he recruited in New York and who met with him here today. 0% 3 i e LAWYERS LIMITED IN TALKS ON POLICE Commissioners Hereafter to Re- ceive Briefs Only in Appeals From Trial Board. The District Commissioners have ruled that lawyers who appeal to them in the future frohn decisions of the Police Trial Board must confine them- selves to written briefs and leave off oral arguments. Secretary Daniel E. Garges, who is a lawyer, recommended the change after he noticed, he explained to the Com- missioners, that the lawyers after read- ing their written briefs added little orally that assisted the Commissioners in making their decision. Attention was especially focussed on the matter by the request of Attorney E. Russel Kelly for permission to state case orally to the board in the ap- the Winter, lived at that address for |him many years. Young Blair was graduated from Harvard University in 1921 and had studied at the Harvard Law School in 1921 and 1922, —— MONTREAL. IS NAMED FOR HEALTH MEETING Dr. Cummings to Be Installed as President of American As- sociation. By the Associated Press. . FORT WORTH, Tex., October 29. ‘The American Public Health Associa- tion will meet next year in Montreal, the executive board and mlmln{ council announced today, as the #nnual convention drew to a close. Dr. Willilam C. Hassler of San Pran- cisco, Calif., was chosen president for 1931-32, Dr. Hugh S. Cumming of ‘Washing , D. C., surgeon general of the United States, elected president for the coming year at the 1929 conven- tion, will be installed at a banquet tomorrow night. . Other officers glected ta ~Dr. Rafael Mexich, Oty Hrst v ent' exico City, first vice m ) J. W. 8. Mc@ullough of % ada, second Vice president; Dr. A. W. Flickwir of rt Worth, Tex., thi vice president; Dr. Louis I. Dublin ol New York, tre Dr.-W. 8. Rankin of Charlotte, N. chairman of the Executive Board. the Commissioners. Mr. confine himself to s written support of his appeal. OHIO OFFICIALS MEET FOR RELIEF OF JOBLESS By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, October 29.— ‘While unemployment relief programs are under way in many cities in the East and Midwest, two meetings in the State were scheduled today to further plans for solving Ohio’s un- employment_situation. Fred C. Croxton, Columbus, special assistant in the Industrial Relations Department, and Dr. R, M. Gries, con- struction expert of the Federal Depart- ment of Commerce, were here today. for mee! with Gov. Cooper and 14 superintendents of State-city employ- ‘ment offices and other Ohio employment. agencies. Recently loaned to President Hoover as & member of the special commission. ounty employment committees for ing men in positions as rapldly as