Evening Star Newspaper, November 4, 1930, Page 2

- DRIVES REVIVED . FORVOTE FORD. C. Favorable Committee Action at Least to Be Sought Dur- ing Short Session. ‘®@ontinued From First Page.) Tesolution has been referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, before which there has not yet been a hear- In the House of Representatives the resolution has been invariably re- ferred to the Committee on the Ju- diciary, which held several extended hearings upon the resolution, before which committee the resolution is still pending. It is planned by the Citizens® Joint Committee on National Representation to engeavor to induce the members of the respective judiciary committees to take the matter up during the coming session. They feel that a subject of such vital interest to the people of the Dis- trict and so generally supported by its citizens through their organized bodies is deserving of prompt and favorable ac- tion. This proposal has won many friends in Congress and many more friends in the legislatures of the dif- ferent States. The Joint Committee proposes to urge the judiciary com- mittees to act in order that the House and Senate may be afforded an oppor- tunity to pass upon the project. - Then in turn the House and Senate will be asked to act 50 as to permit the State Legislatures to act. Results Are Encouraging. ‘The educational work of the Joint Committee has been farreaching and g.r:ducch‘e of encouraging’ results, This been carried on through newspaper publicity, radio addresses, correspond- ence and addresses before organiza- tlons and conventions. Practically every section of the country has been reached. ‘The number of those acquainted with the anomalous condition at the Nation's Capital is increasing rapidly. Actually to know and realize that such a con- dition exists is usually all that is neces- #ary to enlist the support of the average American citizen. The result is the growing list of national, State and Tegional organizations, as well as indi- viduals of influence who have pledged their support to the Joint Committee. To enumerate the local support is almost to give a directory of the leading organizations of the District. greater unanimity of organized approval of national representation than of any other before Congress affecting the Dis- trict. The petitions ready to be pre- sented at the coming session of Congress contain the signatures of the chief offi- cers of 31 organizations, and in addi- tion the signatures of the Republican national committeeman and the Demo- cratic national committeeman for the District of Columbia. Included in this list is the Central Labor Union, repre- senting 75 organizations; the Federation of Citizens' Associations, representing 62 organizations; the Wi n_Board is|the special Election day assembly at KIDNAPERS FREE Premier Ramsay MacDonald of Great Britain frequently dépends on an airplane for trips about the country. flight during an air pageant held recently He is shown here (left) prepared for & at Croydon Field, London.—A. P. Photo. SPEAKER LAMENTS VOTELESS DISTRICT Jesse C. Suter Tells Business Students Five Methods of Escaping Citizenship. Beginning with death and ending with residence in the District of Co- lumbia, five methods of escaping the duties of citizenship were cited for Business High School upper classmen by Jesse C. Suter, vice chairman of the Citizens’ Joint Committee on National Representation for the District of Co- lumbia, in an address this morning at the school. ‘The unsavory list of “escapes,” which was climaxed by residence in “dis- franchised Washington,” included, be- sides death, moving to another coun- try, becoming a lunatic and adopting the status of the convicted criminal. Methods Unwholesome, “None of these methods is very wholesome,” Mr. Suter declared, “and yet they are the five points which oc- cur to me as ways of escaping the duties of citizenship and of being de- prived of the exercise of the priviieges of Trade, the Washington Chamber of Commerce, the Voteless District of Co- lumbia League of Women Voters, the District of Columbia Federation of ‘Women's Clubs, representing 31 afflli- ated clubs. List Is Announced. ‘The entire list follows: Board of Trade, of Com- merce, Citizens' Advisory Council, Fed- eration of Citizens’ Associations (repre- senting 62 organizations—54 sectional associations and 8 others), citizens’ as- sociations not represented in the fed- eration—East Washington Citizens’ .s- sociation and Northeast Washington Citizens’ Association—Voteless District of Columbia League of Women Voters, Central Labor Union (representing 75 organizations), Merchants and Manu- facturers’ Association, Monday Evening * Club, Bar A;floflnuon. 'I"e:fim %‘fl:- tury Club, suffrage g y Natives of the District of Columbis, Washington Real Estate Board of the District of Columbia, Advertising Club of Washington, Women's Bar Associa- tion, Women’s City Club, Federation of Wmliuu clu;l ;lr‘enprmnuu 31 t‘mth: ated clubs), Washington section of ive _Education Association, ‘Washington Florists’ Club, Associated Retail Credit Men, Motion Picture Theater Owners’' Association, Newcom- ers’ Club, the Susan B. Anthony Foun- dation, Department of the District of Columbia Veterans of Foreign Wars and Hotel Greeters of America (Charter 31). National Bodies Aiding. The following national bodies have formally given their hearty indorsement of the prflpclz“d lm!ndm!aton and are iving their active co-operation: ‘lch'lmba' of Commerce of the United of | of States, American Federation of Labo; National League of Women Voters, Na. * tional Retail Coal Merchants’ Associa- tion, National Council of State Legisla- tures, _International Typographical Union, National Federation of Federal Employes, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States, American Federa- tion of Soroptimist Clubs, National Camp, Patriotic Order of Americans, and National Council of Jewish Women. Formal Resolution Passed. These State and regional organiza- tions have by passage of formal resolu- tion petitioned Congress for favorable action on the joint resolution and in no uncertain terms assured the Joint Com- mittee their active ald: Connecticut State Federation of Labor; California State Federation of Butchers; Colorado Association of Com- mercial Organizations; Fall River Dot fers and Spinners, Fall River, Mass. Wyoming State Women's Christian Temperance Union; State Council of Pennsylvania Order of Independent Americans; Scandinavian Grand Lodge ©of Connecticut International Order of Good Templars; Lily Dale Assembly, Lily Dale, N. Y.; New York StateRetail Coal Merchants’ Association; New Jer- sey State Camp, Patriotic Order Sons of America; Massachusetts State Coun- cil Jr. Order, United American Me. chanics: ~ Wydhing _ State Teachers' Association; Minnesota State Florists Association; Kentucky State Florists Association; Georgia Real Estate Asso- clation; Montgomery County Civic Fed eration’ of Montgomery, Md.; Arlington County Civic Federation of Arlington, v Inter-Federation Conference of District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia: New York State Council of the International Soclety of Master Painters and Decorators, Inc., and Mon- tana Library Association. Headquarters Maintained. ‘The Citizens’ Joint Committee on Na- tional Representation has for more than & year maintained headquarters at Room 339, The Evening Star Building, from which the campaign is being con- ducted. The officers of the committee are: Theodore W. Noyes, chairman; John Joy Edson, A. Leftwich Sinclair, Jesse C. Suter and Ellen Spencer Mussey, vice chairmen; Robert J. Cottrell, sec- | ¢ retary; Robert N. Harper, treasurer, and the following are chairmen of sub- ttees: nal hearings, C. Brandenburg; conventions, Leftwich Sinclair; finance, Robert 4 uarters, Theodore P. Brown; and bor organizations, John Flood Routs Thousands. VILLAHERMOSA, Mexico, November nds are tem of citizenship.” In his address Mr. Suter, who was speaking in place of T. W. Noyes, editor of The Star and chairman of the joint committee, pointed out that actually Election day is a day of patriotism which su any of the commemo- rative days, including George Wash- ington’s birthday and Independence day. Election day, he said, is marked by more than patriotic fervor because it is the day when the very principles of Americanism are put into effect by the people themselves. “And today,” Mr. Suter continued, “while our fellow citizens of the States are casting their ballots expressing their preference for the persons. who are to govern them. we, here in the District of Columbia, must sit by idle, watching the performance.” Urges Interest of Young. Mr. Suter urged his young audience, however, to interest itself in the results elections 50 as ta_become prepared for the day when perhaps Washington, 0o, Will be represented in its Congress. Mr. Suter was preceded to Business’ stage by Julius Rosen, a junior-class student, who declared that the citizen- ship duties of high school students em- brace the attainment of as good an edu- cation as possible and good conduct in and about school every day of the year. Robert Riley, president of the Busi- ness High School Alumni Association, was chailrman of the meeting; which was opened by Allan Davis, principal, with the crisp remark that “today is Election day.” The program included the salute of the flag, led by Cadet Capt. Ralph Cole. The meeting itself was | pianned through Miss Selma Borchardt, faculty member chairman of the Busi- | uess High School Program Committee. | MOTIVE OF FLYTHE INFORMER DECLARED CHIEF AIM OF POLICE (Continued From First Page.) body would show him a warrant until the search of the home had been com-! pleted. Then one of the squad sat| down at his desk and wrote on the back of the warrant “no arrests, no seizures,” and gave it to him. Gen. Crosby said he is particularly anxious to trace Burke's interest in the affair because of Maj. Pratt’s order to the force not to use paid informers. Little told Crosby that Burke had been employed as an informer by the now Lieut, Oscar J. Letterman, when as Serzt. Letterman commanded the vice squad, but that since the order had gone into effect Burke had not been em- ployed, up to the Flythe case. He said that Burke is not employed by the Fed- eral prohibition forces. Burke told him, he said, that he was tipped off by a stranger, whose ac- quaintance he made in a Pennsylvania avenue lunchroom, but whose name and addrrss Burke did not know. Little| said he had instructed Burke to keep a | lookout for the mysterious stranger and bring him to police headquarters as soon as he was found. The stranger is the one to whom Burke swore Flythe sold the half-galion of whisky. Grand Jury to Hear of Raid. ‘The grand jury, at the direction of District Attorney Rover, is scheduled to hear evidence Thursday morning con- cerning the raid. This decision was quickly reached after the newspaper man had outlined the case briefly to the district attorney, charging that the warrant for the raid apparently had been obtained by “per- jury.” . Mr. Rover declared that, of course, he was just as much interested in run- ning down perjury in such a case as victim of such a liquor raid would be. He add however, that he be- lieved CommisSioner Needham C. Tur- nage, who issued the warrant, must have been convinced of the honesty of the statements of J. M. Burke, the in- orm or he would not have issued the warrant, Flythe told the prosecutor that he never had sold a drop of liquor in his life, and that the only thing in his pos- session which bore the slightest resem- blance to liquor manufacturing equip- ment was a small wooden dnk well and stand, carved to d.{.l‘l;.!'.'e the form of a mountain dew “still. A of the case devel- e pointed out to the attorney that the information filed with Commissioner Turnage by Burke did not state that the informer had made an alleged purchase, but rather that Burke declared he had seen | DETECTIVE SHOOTS SELF AND ANOTHER Pistol Goes Off Accidentally as He Tries to Catch Sing Sing Plot Suspect. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 4.—A detec- tive shot himself and another officer today trying to capture an escaped convict, wanted in connection with last Saturday night's attempted break at Sing Sing. A detective lieutenant and five aides had watched a Brooklyn apartment house from midnight until dawn today for James Nannery, who the police had been informed, planned a recent Broad- way jewelry store hold-up in which gunmen got away with about $100,000 worth of jewels. Nannery, police de- clared, had plotted the theft to finance the Sing Sing delivery and to rescue & “pal,” Edward Ryan, Early this morning the detectives broke into the apartment and arrested & woman identified as Carmelia Olsen. While they were questioning her & key scraped in the lock. = 'n? woman screamed, “The cops are ere!” Detective Ha:ry Swift dashed to the door, drawing his pistol. The gun went off accidentally. The bullet nippsd his left hand and lodged in the shoulder of Detective Robert Dowe. One of the three men was captured on the stairs. Another, who told the E)I!ce he was Carmine d’Angelis, 20, a iborer, was held with the woman. REICHSRAT GIVEN BRUENING BUDGET German Federal Council to Con- sider Financial Reforms Involved. Ll By the Associated Press. BERLIN, November 4.—Chancellor Bruening sent to the Reichsrat, or Ger-~ man Federal Council, today for its con- sideration budget estimates for 1931 embodying the financial reforms for which the government has fought tooth and nall during the past few months. Pruning and cleaving knives been wielded on almost , every listed in the new budget, which & balance of income and outgo af $2,496,000,000 and lists besides traordinary” estimates of about 065,520, A considerable amount has been chopped from former totals by slashing of salaries, including that of President Paul von Hindenburg. Reductions in the army and navy staffs total 7,000,000 marks. Appropriation is made for a cenotaph in honor of German war dead. FIFTY CHINESE SAVED FROM $100,000 FIRE Unverified Report Indicates That Two Women Are Missing After Apartment-Store Blaze. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, November 4.— Fifty Chinese, including a mother and her two-day-old baby, were rescued from a burning apartment house and store in San Francisco’s Chinatown early today. The blaze was ex- tinguished after damage estimated by firemen at $100,000 had been done. ‘Whether all the Chinese had escaped the flames was not known. A report said two women were missing, but this could not be verified at once. Officer Carl Carlson, of the Chin: town squad, carried out 15 Chinese and then was overcome by smoke. have item X $57,- Two Aviators Die in Crash. LONDON, November 4 (#).—Two Royal Air Force aviators were killed today when their bombing machine crashed at Manston. Their deaths bring the total in the Royal Air Force for the year to 59, against a total of 42 deaths for all of last year. S i = Italian Envoy Dies in Brussels. BRUSSELS, November 4 (#).—The Italian Ambassador, Marquis Dupazzo, died here today at the age of 51. Notre Dame-Penn Foot Ball Ticket Scalpers Scalped By the Associated Press. PHILADELPHIA, November 4 — ‘They were u:llvtni the scalpers on the University of Pennsylvania to pur- seats for Saturday's -Penn game at almost any price. Scalpers were said to be can- vassing the campus; but the students let it be known that they would much rather see the for seats $3 were Te! fused. Probably in the entire history of the sport in this section no has compelled a ticket-buy- interest equal to this game. chase REAL ESTATE MAN Detroiter Put Out of Auto- mobile in Indianapolis and Makes Way to Toledo. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, November 4.—Inspector John Hoffman, head of the Detroit gollce blackhand squad, said today that ‘harles Kaier, wealthy retired real es: tate dealer, had been released by kid- napers and returned to his home here, Hoffman did not give out details of Kaler's release, but it was learned from other sources that Kaler was put out of an automobile in Indianapolis, Ind. Monday after being given his watch, ring and $2. He made his way to To ledo, from where friends brought him back to Detroit. Kaler was kidnaped last Thursday night by four men who posed as Federal prohibition agents and sald they were taking him to the United States district attorney. Hoffman sald Kailer was ac- quainted th Joseph (Peajacket) ‘Wozniak, ed Ecorse rum runner, who was indicted two years ago on charges of bribing United States cus- toms border patrolmen. Wozniak was said to have brought Kaier home from Toledo. After the retired real estate man had been kidnaped his wife received a de- mand by telephone for $10,000. Tkis later was reduced to $3,000, but when she went to a hotel to pay $2,000 of the ransom the kidnapers’ agent did not appear, apparently fearing a trap. Two taxicab loads of detectives had followed Mrs. Kaler to the hotel, and detectives waited in the lobby near her. Police sald she did not know they had learned of the kidnaping. Detectives under Inspector Hoffman had worked on the theory that Kaler was kidnaped by Ecorse rum runners whose importing business had become more hazardous and less profitable with the passage of the Canadian law against exporting liquor to the United States. YOCUM‘ABDUCTOR SOUGHT. Push Search for Orville Whiskers, Fourth Member of Gang. KEWANEE,, Ill, November 4 (#).— Search for Orville Whiskers, charged by the authorities with being the fourth member of a gang of kidnapers who ab- ducted Earl Yocum, wealthy Galva banker, was pushed with added vigor today as a result of the capture of Lloyd Winslow. Winslow, reputed “brains” of the al- leged kidnap gang, arrested yesterday in Detroit, denied any knowledge of the kidnaping, and asserted he would resist efforts to extradite him. Sheriff Charles Nash said that an immediate attempt to bring him back would be made. Two other members of the gang, which attempted to get $200,000 for the banker's liberty, but which subse- quently released him shortly before they were tricked by a dummy ransom pack= age, are also under arrest. They are Harry Whiskers, brother of Orville and Vernon Ahlgren. BLAMES SUSPENSION ON 2 CLOSE FRIENDS Chief Aide to Maurice Campbell | Quoted as Charging They Were Induced to Get Evidence. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, November 4.—The Boston Evening American today quotes James J. Donovan, assistant prohibition direc- tor of New York, whose home is in this city, as admitting he has been suspend- ed for having given a drink to two sup- posed friends, whom he afterward dis- covered had been induced to help get evidence against him. Donovan was chief aid to Maurice Campbell, prohibition administrator for New York, who resigned last Summer after declining to accept a transfer to Boston. Donovan charged, the American said, that Campbell had been “forced out be- cause he enforced the prohibition law | in New York,” and aded “it was only natural that his chief aid would soon follow in his footsteps.” “There is no particular mystery in | this affair, and fortunately there are no scandals which can be preferred against | me,” Donovan said. “The actual charge | against me is taking a drink of liquor | and giving a couple of drinks to Lwo’ men whom I had always considered close personal friends and whom I have | since learned were working for the higher-ups in the department to get evidence that would sustain a charge me.” Suspended Indefinitely. James J. Donovan, deputy prohibition administrator in New York City, has been indefinitely suspended pending an investigation of charges lodged against | m. Howard T. Jones, acting director of prohibition, made this announcement | today, but ‘declined to disclose the na- ture of the charges as well as the iden- tity of those preferring them. 1f the investigation fails to substan- tiate the accusations, he said, Donovan will be promptly restored to duty, with his status unimpaired. GIVEN TIME TO VOTE Employes From Near-by States Dismissed at 3:30 Today. Government employes were given an hour off duty today for the purpose of voting in Maryland and Virginia. By authority of President Hoover, the Government _ departments dismissed Maryland and Virginia voters at 3:30 o'clock, allowing them to go at that time instead of the usual Government closing hour of 4:30. This extra hour :‘ not to be charged against annual eave. | CEILING CRASHES IN DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT __| G CRASHES IN DOWNTOWN RESTAURANT SR S R N TR EUROPE. BUSINESS OUTLOOK SURVEYED Conditions in Principal Areas Dull, Tending Toward Fur- ther Depression. By the Assoclated Press. Europsan business conditions were reviewed today by the Commerce De- partment in & summary of cable and radio reports recelved from all principal countries on that pontinent. “Reports fram European countries generally show continusd dullness with a tendency toward further depression in most countries, especially in Italy where lack of confidence has caused further slackening of business and in Hungary where poor crops have been. added to other unfayorable factors,” the review said. Crops im Norway Favorable. “In Norway, export industries ha been affected by the world depression, but crop returns were favorable, In Czechoslovakia unemployment has reached the highest figure in six years. | The slump in Egyptian foreign trade continues as a result of the unfavor- able cotton market. “In the United Kingdom the depres- sion does not seem to have become in- tensified and slightly better sentiment prevails in a few industries. Increase of unemployment in the Swiss mach- inery and textile industry has been off- set by a seasonal gain in watch manu- factuiing.. The natural tendency toward sea- sonal improvement in the Irish Free State has been retarded by bad crop conditions, Jugoslavia Shows Improvement. “In Jugoslavia although there was a sharp decline in exports during August, trade returns for eight months show a considerable improvement over last year.” Other parts of the-world were touched upon more lightly by the summary with a declaration that there was a “slight tendency toward improvement in South Africa,” no appreciable change in Canada or in the Far East, while in Latin-American countries the prospect was treated as “unencouraging with political unsettlement and business dullness in most countries.” LAID OUT IN OUT IN COFFIN ORDERED DECADE AGO Boonsboro Man Had Walnut Box Constructed by Hand—Burial Instructions to Be Carried Out. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md, November 4.— Ten years ago George W. Main of near Boonsboro, called on Biddle Bros., un- dertakers, Meyersville, Md., and ordered a coffin. “I want one of those hand- made ones, like my wife was buried in 40 years ago, and I want to leave in- structions when I die to be laid out by members of my family.” After much search an old-time coffin- maker was found and the coffin of black walnut made. It was stored away for a decade. Yesterday Main died and the handmade coffin was brought out and dusted off and members of Main's fam- ily were told of the request. His rela- tives laid him out and his last wish that he be buried beside his wife Thurs- day is also to be carried out. Suffolk News Plant Burns. SUFFOLK, Va., November 4 (#).— Fire of undetermined origin this morn- ing burned the upper floor of the Suf- folk News-Herald plant. The blaze raged for several hours before it was con- trolled. No estimate of the damage had been made today. WIFE OF U. S. MINISTER TAKES INVOLUNTARY PLANE JOURNEY Expected Short Ride Over Athens and Was Taken to Rumanian Capital. By the Associated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 4.—Mrs. Robert P. Skinner, wife of the United States Minister at Athens, to- day took an involuntary airplane ride to_Bucharest. Mrs. Skinner, who -thought she was 'was being , tered the plane and took a seat. Pres- ently, to her consternation, she noticed that Athens was fading out of sight. She was unable to make herself heard over the noise of the motor, and the pilot for his part thought that she was & passenger for Bucharest. ‘Three hours later the plane mm.&m [ leanwhile she is a -Minister to Rumania. M guest at the of Charles 8. American rant, 1340 New York avenue, A waitress flapping pancakes on a griddle in the wihdow of Child’s restat- yesterday afternoon was forced to leap for her life when the ceiling directly over her head crashed, showering Samuel de Binber, the cashier, also saved himself from injury by sticking to his cage. None of the patrons was reported injured. rior of the restaurant after the crash. Below: Mrs. and Miss Lula Preston, the waitress at the griddle at the time of the c the place with plaster. The top scene shows the inte- Dora Brown, hostess (at left), rash. —Star Staff Photos. Declaring that it.is fitting that the | anniversary of Armistice day should be | commemorated in a manner to do honor to ‘who served their country, espe- clally to the memory of those who died {in the service, President Hoover in an Armistice day groclnmnlnn issued today called upon the American people for appropriate ceremonies on November 11. The President’s proclamation follows: “Whereas the 11th day of November, 1918, is forever memorable as the day which ended the World War, with its attendant suffering and vast wastage of human life; and “Whereas, it is fitting that the anni- versary of this day should be commemo- rated by exercises which shall do honor to all those who served our country, and especially to the memory of those who died in its service, believing that their |sacrifice was in the cause of ce, | which we thereby are solemnly bound PRESIDENT CALLS UPON NATION TO HONOR MEMORY OF WAR DEAD | Armistice Day Proclamation Declares November 11 Should Be Observed as Tribute to Those Who Served. to do all in oy power to advance and secure; and “Whereas, by concurrent resolution of the Senate and the House of Represent- atives, in 1926, the President was re- quested to issue a proclamation for the observance of Armistice day; Now, therefore, I. Herbert Hoover, President of the United States of Amer- ica, in pursuance of the said concurrent resolution, do hereby order that the flag of the United States be displayed on Government buildings on November 11, 1930, and do invite the people of- the United States to observe the day in schools and churches and other suitable places with appropriate ceremonies, giv- ing expression to our gratitude that this year past has seen the agencies of peace sensibly strengthened, and that our re- lations with other peoples are firmly grounded in amity and concord. “(Signed) HERBERT HOO! e 40-YEAR TERM GIVEN {AUTO STATION SLAYER | Second Colored Man Sentenced in | Death of Jack Bittner—Third Man Gets Minimum, Joseph Hardy, colored, was sentenced | today by Justice Peyton Gordon in | Criminal Division 1 to serve 40 years in | the penitentiary following his plea of guilty of murder in the second degree in connection with the killing of Jack Bittner, manager of a filling station at Sixth street and Rhode Island avenue, Thanksgiving night, 1928. Hardy fled, and was only recently located in Balti- more and returned here. Joseph E. Crawford, colored, one of his companions in the homicide, is serv- ing a life sentence for the crime, and a third member of the party, Benjamin Branson, colored, escaped with the minimum punishment of 20 years be- cause he testified for the Government. BOWIE LIBRARY NEEDS TEN MORE MEMBERS Contributors at $1 Each Necessary to Buy Books to Establish Institution for District. Special Dispatch to The Star. BOWIE, Md., November 4—Ten more members at $1 each are needed before books can be bought for the newly established Public Library of Bowie district. Fifty members so far have been secured. Those desiring to join should communicate with Mr. H. C. Kuhl, treasurer. > Paul E. Huffington has been named to succeed resighed. Present members of the library in- clude Miss Bessle Henkel, Mr. Huffing- ton, Miss Margaret Flory, Miss Ger- trude Trott, E. L. Harman, Luther Bell, Mr. Trott, Dr. George Lancaster, Noah Joffe, Jacob Berlin, Mrs, J. Guy Mrs. ‘Willilam H 5 L MISS JOHNSON HONORED BY ALL-STATES SOCIETY Minnesotan Re-elected President at Annual Meeting—Representative Esterly New Third Vice President. Miss Bede Johnson, president of the Minnesota State Soclety, was re-elected president of the All-States Society at the annual business meeting last night in the Willard Hotel. society is composed of the officers, past present, of all the State socleties in the Capital. Representative Charles J. Esterly of Pennsylvania, president of the Penn- sylvania State Society, was elected third vice president. He is the only new member of the group of officers. The society will give a ball in Jan- uary and named James Lee Bost, for- merly vice president of the North Caro- lina Society, as chairman of a general Committee on Arr: ments. vard J. Lang, treasurer of the Connecticut Soclety, was named chairman of the Music Committee for the event. Other officers re-elected were W. E. Hoftheins, former ident of the West Virginia Society, first vice president; J. M. Otterness, secretary of the South Dakota Soctety, second vice president; Miss Gertrude M. Louis, former secre- tary-treasurer of the Iowa Soclety, as secretary; Thomas W. Cain, first vice president of the Alabama Society, treas- urer, and A. R. Balley, vice president of the Illinois Society, historian. Lee Lamar Bail dent. LAND TO BE CONDEMNED FOR SHENANDOAH FOREST Suit Filed in Federal Court at Lynchburg to Acquire 348.69 Acres. Special Dispatch o The Star. LYNCHBURG, Vi November 4.— Suit has been filed here in the 1 X of land lying in Rockingham and Augusta Counties, for inclusion in the Shenandoah area of the national forest. ‘The land belongs to Frances R. Grattan, Rockingham County, and W. M. Viar, Augusta County. n|ROAD MEETING DEFERRED Specisl Dispatch to The Star. f JONES' AUDITOR = ADMITS MISTAKES Witness for Accused Ore phans’ Treasurer Says 71 of 79 Items Were Wrong. By the Associated Press. RICHMOND, Va., November 4~—J. M. Culbreth, defense accountant in the embezzlement trial of J. P. Jones, for- mer treasurer of the Virginia Methodist Orl , yesterday afternoon admitted that his audit of the Jones orphanage books was in error in 71 instances, amounting to $7,594.13, which he had erroneously credited to Jones. On the basis of hypothetical questions propounded by Commonwealth's Attor- ney Dave E. Satterfield in cross-exami- nation, Mr. Culbreth figured that Jones owed the orphanage $21,185.26. When he began his testimony as the principal defense witness Friday he asserted that orphanage owed the former treas- urer more than $24,000. Jones Is charged with embezzling $37,000 of the orphanage funds. ‘The commonwealth resorted to hypo- thetical examination when Judge John L. Ingram ruled that figures in the line of questioning could not be used with the particular denominations involved in the case. ation Mr, to take In the hypothetical exas Satterfield asked Mr. Culb: into account his own erroneous figures, an amount corresponding to the $23,000 for which Mr. Jones has made a settle- ment, figures amounting to $14,000 paid the orphanage by Jones since the audit began, figures equaling $18,000 in un- identified disbursements which he had credited to Jones without knowledge of what bills were pald with the money and other items set forth in the audit of F. L. Worcester, the accountant em- polyed by the orphanage. ‘When_cross-examination on the first exhibit had been finished, Mr. Satter- fleld asked him if it were not true that 95 per cent of the items listed in that exhibit were inaccurate. Culbreth re- plied all but seven or eight were wrong, and admitted thaf thirds of the i ‘were cash book. CO-OPERATIVE GROUP MEETS WITH WILBUR Committee of American Council Takes Steps Toward Establishing Permanent Headquarters. By the Associated Press. TRke Executive Committee of the Amerkan Council of Intellectual Co= operation, at a meeting today with Sec~ retary Wilbur, chairman, completed its 2..'.',1“’"""‘”1.;4 -and wo:‘:nt’epa toward u; ishing maintaining permanen headquarters. ‘The council is & branch of the Inter- American Institute of Intellectual Co- operation, which was created by the sixth pan-American conference at Havana in 1928. In completing its organization the committee named Dr. James Brown Scott, secretary of the Carnegie Endow- ment for International Peace and presi- dent of the American Institute of Inter- national Law, as secretary. ‘The organization was completed with a view to the preparation of plans and suggestions for work to be undertaken under the Interamerican Central Coun- cil of Intellectual Co-operation, which will have its permanent offices at Havana. The program is to be executed in‘co- operation with the various National Councils of Intellectual Co-operation to be established in each of the American cs. Their formation grew out of the ex- change of students and professors be- tween the United States and various countries of South and Central Amer~ ica, as well as the exchange of scien tific and cultural data. SECURITY PLANT FIRE CAUSES $50,000 LOSS Two Buildings of Maryland Cemeng ‘Works Destroyed With Box Cars—Output Ruined. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN, Md., November 4.~ Two buildings at the Security Plant of the North American Cement tion were destroyed by fire early today, entailing a loss which E. 8. Guth, super- intendent, estimated at $50,000. The buildings burned were bag cleane ing and storage house and stock house, as well as two Western Maryland Rail- road box cars on a siding. Many tons of cement were ruined by water. The fire will throw approximately 50 workers out of wark for some time. SUICIDE TAKES GAS WHILE UNDER BLANKET Young !;ncuon ‘Worker Discovered by Fellow Lodger, Who Smells Escaping Vapor. Slipping a tube from an illuminating ey serves as honorary presi- | G, geas jet into his mouth early today, John Garner, 25-year-old helper at a street raflway car barn, crawled under some heavy blankets and placed his head at the foot of his bed in the second floor back room which- he rented at 653 B street southwest. Shortly before 8 o'clock this morn- ing the occupant of an adjoining room, J. M. Heeter, ed down the cor- ridor and smelled gas. = He found arner dead. Members of the fire rescue squad said Garner had been dead some hours be- fore their arrival. They summoned an ambulance from Emergency Hospital and the young man was pronounced dead by the doctor in charge. The rooming house is operated by Heeter’s mother, Mrs. Alice C. Heeter. iR KA TSRS TWO AUTOISTS HURT Car Strikes Culvert at Hunting Creek Bridge at Alexandria. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va., November 4.— Two men were injured when the auto in which they were riding failed to take the turn at Hunting Creek Bridge here this morning and struck the culvert. James l(um{ of Richmond, Va., re- ceived lacerat! to the forehcad and cheek and other cuts, while J. T. Bur- hs, also of Richmond, received in- riding in an auto- 8. Crump of Rich- accident damaged. Both of the men were treated at the Alex- Irishman 115 Years Old.