Evening Star Newspaper, December 27, 1930, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy; slightly colder tonight; minimum temperature about 27 degrees; tomorrow partly cloudy. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 40, at 10 p.m. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press news service. yesterday; lowest, 34, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page 7. ClosingN. Y. Markets, ,Pages 4,5 and 6 B he Z Iintered as sec post office, No., . 31,651. Washington. ond class matter DE WASHINGTON, 108 C., SATURDAY, DECEMBER WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION pening Star. 27 2 1930 — TWENTY-TWO PAGES. * (#) Means Associated Press. Yesterday’s Circulation, 109,214 TWO CENTS. 2000 DAYS IN JAIL AND 000 IN FINES EIVEN IN DRY CASES 27 Defendants Get Heavy Penalties as Result of Po- lice Court Trials. SENTENCES DECLARED BLOW TO BOOTLEGGING Eight Women Among Those Found Guilty of Prohibition Violations. Some of the heaviest sentences in the history of the prohibition law in Wash- ington were meted out today in Police Court when 27 convicted bootleggers ~ were ordered to pay more than $6.000 in fines or rerve 2,000 days in jail Devid A. Hart ant United States attorney in charge of prohibition en- forcement, declared this the most de- cisive blow to bootlegging in the Dis- trict that has been struck in his careerdp as a prosecutor. Irving C. Ware, 2400 block of Ontario | ‘road, convicted of second-oflense pflb- sesslon, received a sentence of qr 60 days in jail from Judge Ralph Given. Eight Women Convicted. { Eight women were included in the| Qist of those found guilty, the majority ©of them drawing light sentences of $50 | fines or 30 days in jall. Among the | women was Mrs. Margaret Price, 47) lives directly across | wears old, who ®ixth street from Police Court. ordered to pay $100 by Judge Gus Schudlt. Arthur She Iu A col- (Honey Boy) Mason, ored, 1000 block of Twenty-first street, | described by Judge John P. McMahon as one of the “most . persistent law- breakers in the city,” was committed to jail 1o serve a term of 900 days. Ma- son may escape a year and a half of his sentence by paying $1,500 in fines. He was convicted on five counts of sec- | ond-offense possession =nd a charge of | maintaining & nuisance. The case was appealcd. $1,000 or 90 Days. While police in raiding the home of Isaac Chichester, colored, 29, 1300 block | Cedar court, seized only a pint of liquor, it will cost the unfortunte man $1,000 if he cares to avoid a 90-day jail term. This sentence was imposed by Judge Isaac R. Hitt. Chichester was found guilty by a jury through the efforts of Assistant United States Attorney Wil- bur Baughman, who joinea Hart in prosecuting the offense. Hart declared, that almost as many persons, &s were sentenced, pleaded guilty today and will receive their terms next Saturday. The liquor docket, he | said, is almost entirely cleared as all of the cases except those made by \police within the past two days will be pre- genied to juries Monday and Tuesday ‘of next w BROOKHART TO SPEAK ON INJUNCTION BILL Proponent of Legislation Involving | Labor Will Be Heard Over Network Tonight. Senator Smith W. Brookhart of Howa tonight will discuss the anti-in- Junction bill, designed to limit the use | of injunctions in disputes between labor Pend employers, in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington | Star and broadcast over a coast-to- woast network of the Columbia Broad- casting System. - The talk will begin at $:30 pm. Senator Brookhart, a proponent of #nti-injunction legislation, is a mem- ~er of the Republican progressive group, ‘which is also urging the passage with- ‘out further delay of the anti-injunc- tion bill. The measure has been re- ported unfavorably by a majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. mtor George W. Norris of ‘Nebraska, chairman of the committee, however, @s in favor of the bill. LORD MELCHETT IS DEAD Writish Financier Succumhs to Rare | Vein Disease. LONDON, December 27 (#).—Lord Melchett, the former Sir Alfred Mond, one of Britain’s leading industrial financiers, died here this afternoon. He had been ill with phiebitis for | several weeks and recently a relapse caused grave fears that he could not recover. He had been under the con- stant care of his physicians at his Lon- don home for some time. During his iliness Lady Melchett re- mained at his side and Sir Russell Wil- | kinson, Lord Melchett’s physician, spent much of his time at the house. Sen- | IS REPORTED FI | Paris Newspaper Says World | Amputated. EWhereabouts of Military Figure Remains Hid- den During Serious lliness. LOUVECIENNES, France, Docem- of the Army of France, is fighting the greatest battle of his life—not against |an invading army this time, but against | death. The Paris newspaper, le Temps, stated had been amputated. ing when it learned from an official | bulletin that the great soldier, who turned back the German army in the | first battle of the Marne, was danger- ously ill. Although friends announced that he was recelving treatment at his home here, a correspondent of the Associated Press this afternoon found the house ('lose(l The porter insisted that (he War Leader’s Leg Has Been | Famous ber 27.—"Papa” Joffre, grand old man | tonight that Marshal Joffre’s right leg | All Prance was shocked this morn-| 'MARSHAL JOFFRE, MARNE HERO, GHTING FOR LIFE fiaakibvas oo e s |say where he was. Marshal Joffre's aide-de-camp in Paris, likewise declined to reveal the patient’s whereabouts or | to discuss his illness. | The newspaper, le Temps, said the marshal was taken to the private hos- (Contjnued on Page 2, Column 3.) - POWER DISMISSALS - ROW HANGING FRE Chalrman Declmes Comment |- on McNinch Statement ; | on Reinstatements. With a date still to be fixed for the | first meeting of the full Power Com- | mission, and Congress not due back for | |another week, the furore aroused by the seyerance from service of two un- derofficials, Charles A. Russell, solicitor, | and William V. King, chief accountant, through action of a quorum of the com- | mission was in an indefinite stage today. | . Chairman Smith said that there “might” be a statement forthcoming | | this_afternoon after he had conferred with Commissioner Garsaud, the only | | other member of the commission now |in the Capital, but there was no indi- | cation as to what this might emhbody, |unless an approximate date was set for | the gathering of the commission, whose | other three members, McNinch, Draper |and Williamson, are away for the holi- days. Declines McNinch Comment. Nor would Dr. Smith comment on a | statement issued last night in his home, | in Charlotte, N. C., to the Associated Press by Commissioner McNinch, who |said that as a result of a telephone | conversation with the chairman he | hoped when the full commission meets | | all the old personnel under the old | commission, without exception, will be | invited to continue in their respective | | pusts of duty for 30 days, or until the | ‘ne" commission can proceed with de- | liberation to the selection of | ot employes.” } its staff | Action on Russell, King and Prank | ciation throngh George S. Shepard, its . E. Bonner, formerly executive secre- | | tary, was taken in the absence of Com- munloners Wflhlmson and McNinch, have not yet been sworn in, and | Mchnch yesterday, in a letter {0 a friend here, expressed some surprise at | | this, but said he was certain no “dis- | respect” was intended. Dr Smith takes the attitude that | | when three members ot the commission \m«w office the new commission was in | |force and the old commission and all personnel automatically went out. In all cases but those of the three men | concerned the Civil Service Commis- sion was asked to extend their tenure, and inaction in their cases automatical- ly cut them from the pay roll, he hol | sent members of the commission also | take this view of the law, which, how- | | ever, is disputed by both Russell and King. They say that only an engineer- ing office and the-executive secretary- ship were abolished in the new law. Bonner Unconcerned. Bonner, whose troubles with Russell | and King were held responsible for | their severance, is not concerned ap- parently in what may be done in the future, as he contends he “resigned. Independent Republican and Dem cratic Senators who plan to make a motion for reconsideration of the nominations of Smith, Garsaud and Draper said yesterday that they had a promise from a Senator, who is eligible % do s0, to make a motion for recon- sideration. Administration _Senators, |on the contrary, challenge the legality | |of such a move. As another development in the case, | Chairman Nye of the Senate Public Lands Committee said if his commit- | tee_investigates the charges by Ralph | S. Kelley of irregularities in the dis- position of ofl shale lands, given_prominence, that he would em- ploy Russell as an investigator. |an assignment would be accepted by | Russell, it is believed. K. of C. Head Seriousiy Il GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Decembeor 21 (#).—Martin H. Carmody, Supreme Knight of the Knights of Coiumbus, is |in a serious condition in a hospital | here with pneumonia. Mr. Carmody, who is 58 years old, is a member of | the French Legion of Honor and is al | knight of the Order of St. Gregory the %rell Mr. Carmody’s home is in Grand tapids | YOU'RE IN BED, LIGHT’S STILL ON, WHIFF OF BREATH, LIGHT IS GONE Device for Sick and Tired People to Be Exhibited by American Scientific Association. By the Associated Press CLEVELAND, Ohio December 27— A device for tired people and invalids | ‘who are unable to perform such a diffi- cult- task as turning out an electric light will be demonstrated at the re- search exhibits here next week in con- nection with the sessions of the Amer- fcan Association for the Advancement ©f Science. Using the device, these persons ‘blow out or turn on an eleeuh: l!iht @ merely with a Whiff of breath. It is an invention of Dr. E E. Pree of New - York, a consulting ©f the Free Laboratories. The device consists of two tiny discs | mounted in a telephone mouthpiece #uul an eightn of an inch apart. hen Lhehrumuhhvnonmmy B . make a contact which operates a re- lay. The relay, in turn, operates the electric light circuit. Another whiff of breath lep-nm the two discs and turns off the current. The gigantic titanothere, a prenis- toric rhinoceros which once foraged in yuwnwm and North Dakota, mln lon. and 16 feet wide ese h:nu wll| be shown in their nat- ural habitat. The Bell Telephone Laboratories at New York will bring to the exhibition 2 model of its standard clock, which | keens time so accurately that it varies at;q one ten-millionth of an hour every ar, Press advices indicate that the ab- | CLASS FARE oUT LEGALIZED INWEST | Two- Cents -a-Mile Rate to Be Allowed in Day Coaches and Tourist Sleepers. e b By the Associated Press. The class passenger widely used on European railroads is finding new advocates among carriers in the Western States. Two lines—the St. Louis-San Fran- cisco and the Santa Fe—have received permission .from the Interstate Com- merce Commission to use second-class the Western Passenger Association, in- dicated today in Chicago a possibility that other Southwestern companies might seek to mcet the 2-cent a mile rate authorized on the Frisco. For Day Coach Travel. Under the commission's order the Frisco is permitted to sell the second- class tickets for use only on day coaches. It is expected to put the plan into effect early next year. The Santa Fe, operating from Chi- cago through . the- Southwest to Cali- fornia, has received permission to sell, after January 1, second-class tickets between points in Arizona, California and New Mexico. It also may cut rates for round-trip tickets between %Anm City and Lawrence and Topeka, | Kans, | Western Rates Cut. The Soufneastern Passenger Asso- secretary, today was authorized by the | commission to use joint low rates from Southeastern points to the Pacific Coast. The rate is based on the regular fares to New Orleans, Memphis, St. Louis and Chicago, with a 2-cent rate | from those gateways to the coast. The | tickets west of the Mississippi are to be good on tourist sleepers. Several Southeastern roads have been selling low-rate round-trip tickets within the range of bus travel for the last year or more. MEETS BUS COMPETITION. Rail Reduction Nearly Halves Charges in Midwest. By the Associated Press. a mile on four divisions as an experi- ment to see if the lowered fare will suc- ' cessfully combat motor bus competition | were made public today by H. E. Pler- pont, vice Fres\dtnl in charge of traffic !m’ the Chicage, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific Railroad. The new rate, he said, would be put into effect January 1 on divisions in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. The present rate is 3.6 cents a mile. None of the divisions is on a main iine. Pierpont said, however, that if the experiment succeeded, it was prob- able that it would be extended eventu- ally to include the main lines. “It is primarily a service to gain the local traffic which the motor bus has caused railroads everywhere to lose,” | Pierpont said. ‘The announcement followed another from the St. Louls-San Francisco Rail- way that a 2-cent rate would be estab- lished on certain sections of its line land a report from the Western Pas- recently | senger Association that other roads were | | also conumplnting a slmunr move. 'SWANSON MAY FORCE | Such | Virginian to Abide by Delay Un- less Special Session TIs Called. By the Associated Press. Notice was given today by Senator | Swanson, Democrat,” of Virginia, & leader of the World Court forces, that if & special session of Congress is forced this Spring he will demand prompt consideration of the World Court in that session. The Senate Forelgn Relations Com- mittee has voted to defer consideration of the court issue until the next regular session, in December. Swanson sald he would abide by that decision, but he believed such a course was predicnea on the belief that there would be n extra session. “1 do not care for an extra session of Congress in the Spring, and I don't believe the country wants one,” said Swanson today. “We can dllpue of the emergency domestic lems confront- ing us 1n this regular session ending Mmh 4" ——— ‘Will Transport Pigmy Village. NEW YORK, December 27 (P.—The a pigmy village vl at the Chicaga exposition in 1933, . fare system | tickets, and G. J. McGuire, secretary of | CHICAGO, December 27.—Plans to' inaugurate a passenger rate of 2 cents| | DEBATE ON COURTi 'h will be displayed SENATE T0 PROBE GENERAL BANKING SITUATION IN .. Special Committee, Headed by Glass, Is Assembling Data on Subject. SCOPE MAY BE EXTENDED TO STOCK EXCHANGES Virginian's Federal Reserve Reso- lution Will Be Used as Vehicle for Inquiry. ‘The Glass resolution for investigation of the Federal Reserve System, passed at the last session of Congress, will be used as a vehicle for a general investigation of the banking situation by a special Senate committee, it became known today. The inquiry will naturally con- cern itself to a large extent with rea- sons for bank failures or suspensions. Headed by Senator Glass, Democrat, of Virginia, a former Secretary of the Treasury and co-author of the Federal Reserve act, the committee already is assembling data which will not only go into the banking situation, but which is likely also to extend its scope to the stock exchanges. In an effort to get a perfect picture of the situation for a groundwork, the committee has sent questionnaires to bankers and financiers over the country, and plans to circularize even more. H. Parker Willis, editor of the New York Journal of Commerce, former secretary of the Federal Reserve Board and financial adviser to the House Banking and Currency Committee at the time the Federal Reserve act was being drafted, was retained by the com- mittee to assist in its work. Ordered After 1929 Crash. The committee will start to function about January 15. Serving on this special Senate sub- | committee with Senator Glass will be | Senators ~ Walcott _of Connecticut, Townsend of Delaware and Norbeck of South Dakota, Republicans, and Sen- ator Bratton of New Mexico, a Dem- ocrat. The probe was ordered by the Senate after the stock market crash of 1929, |and was intended to deal with the Federal Reserve System, its policies and their relationship to the securities m: kets of the country. It is by virtugof the phraseology of the resolution which allowed the in- quiry into the Pederal Reserve System ’l‘nd “all related matters” that the scope 1o be broadened. The first question to be undertaken, deal with bank ex- it is understood, will aminations. Puls Matter in Open. In announcing the bank probe, Sen- ator Glass has simply brought out into the open a question that is known to have been agitating Government offi- cials, but one that they have been loath to discuss. So many factors, it has been said, can enter into the difficulties in which a bank may find itself that it is not possible to put a finger on any one, or & group, to be held blameable for the whole. However, certain shortcomings in the national banking system as seen by the several controllers of the currency in the past several years, when the num- ber of bank suspensions have reached an_appreciable figure, have been em- ied in the annual reports of these officials, and remedial action recom- mended. A study of the banking situation covering the World War period up to the present indicates that durlnz the war years the banks of this country prospered more than either before or after, and that during the post-war period the trend has been decidedly off. Few National Banks. For the fiscal years ending July 1, 1914 and 1915, for instance, the total failures in the country were, respec- tively, 117 and 124. From then through the end of the fiscal year 1920 fallures were at a minimum, with 54, 42, 27, 43 and 49, respectively. By far the larger part of these failures were of State or private banks, only 28 national banks being included. | Starting with the fiscal year end- {ing July 1, 1921, however, there was a marked increase, the total that year being 358, and for the years since the failures have totaled, respectively, 397, ' 274, 915, 542, 573, 831, 484, and for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1929, 551. Over that period the ratio was about one national bank failure to every six or seven State apnd private bank collapses. _ The report of the controller for 1930 "~ (Continued on Pue 2, Column 8) 'POULTRY BOYCOTTED BY JEWS IN CHICAGO Ban Issued After Charges of Rack- eteering and Terrorism by Au- thorized Killers. | i | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 27.—The rab- binate, governing body of orthodox Jews in Chicago, has declared a ban effec- tive Monday on poultry, and has or- dained that no fowl found in orthodox Jewish markets shall be kosher after that date. The order was issued in a fight against the shochtim, authorized kill- ers of poultry under Jewish laws, some of whom, it was charged, have violated the holy laws of the talmud and have defied the rabbinate by racketeering, terrorism and other infractions. A formal complaint was made by the Kehilath, or the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations and the rab- binate, it was learned today, sat in judgment on the matter last Thursday. The Jewish laws, it was cited, require each shochet, or killer of poultry, to appear once every 30 days before a board of examiners so he may be tested as to his obedience to the Mosaic law in the killing of fowl. Each shochet’s knife is examined to see that it is in perfect nrder, the lcbohfl.mfl uu Was charged, has ignored these duties. 'nu ll\llllnl of a schochet last week \PI AKING OF UGLY SIGNS! JOHNSON CHARGES licitation of Signatures on Petitions” Is Practiced. By the Assoclated Press. Existence of a ‘“lobbying racket,” worked throughout the country by agi- tators for cash payment of veterans' compensation certificates, was charged today by Chairman Johnson of the House Veterans' Committee. The South Dakota Republican said “commercialized solicitation of citizens’ signatures on petitions to Congress” was being extensively practiced. “Here is a plain case of racketeering,” he added. “It is prospering, like several previously exposed schemes, on Ameri- can sympathy with former soldiers.” Johnson cited about 1,000 petitions bearing about 50 names each. “The organization that got these out required a cash tribute of 10 cents from every person who signed,” he said. “Starting on the West Coast, it worked South and East, through Texas, to this Capital. It advertised employment in newspapers and offered each person re- sponding the opportunity to co-operate in its scheme. Pay $75 for 150 Petitions. “Applicants accepting pay $75 for 150 petitions, or 50 cents each, with the un- derstanding that they circulate the pe- titions, charging 10 cents for every sig- nature sécured for the 50 blank spaces. The $5 realized on each petition is pocketed by the circulators or divided with subordinates they in turn may em- ploy under any financial arrangement they can make.” “There are legitimate citizens who honestly believe that the adjusted com- pensation certificates should be paid in full,” Johnson added. “Of course, they have the right to express their convic- tions to committees and individual members of Congress; that is a right of citizenship. My objection is to, the racketeering.” Representative Patman, Democrat, ‘Texas, who received this group of peti- | tions and forwarded them to the com- mittee, sald he regarded them as lob- | bying, but added: “The fact that a citizen is willing m pay to sign indicates genuine interest in the legislation.” Hawley Voices Opposition. Opposition to the proposal was ex- | pressed yesterday by Chairman Hawley of the House Ways and Means Com- mittee. glon Convention in Boston,” Huwley sald. “The matter was before the con- | vention there and the Legion declined | to take action on it. “We've been working with the Legion all the way through, and so far it has presented nothing of this nature.” When asked whether a change in the Legion’s attitude would modify his po- sition, Hawley said, “That is a ques- tion for the future.” The Oregonian sald he plans no hearings by his committee on pending bills for cash payments on certificates. His committee would act in such meas- ures. Meanwhile Representative Fish, Re- publican, New York, has started a drive to get the American Legion on record on his plan for a payment of one- fourth the face value of the certificates. Pish said local chapters have already j unanimously indorsed his measure and National Comdr. O'Neil of Kansas has been asked for his opinion. Prepare for Loans. Officials of the Veterans Bureau to- day were preparing for 250,000 appli- cations from former soldiers for loans upon their adjusted service certificates, which increase in value with the new e Apprcxlmltely $18,000,000 is expected to be handed to the quarter-million, and during the year, the bureau pre- dicts $125,000,000 will be loaned upon the certificates. Two hundred and fifty employes are being added to the bureau staff to care for the rush in January, which is the peak month. Seventy-five will work in ‘Washington, with the remainder in the regional offices. 80 BURMESE KILLED LONDON, December 27 (#).—Burmese legraj the Thara where British light infantry, and machine gun units had been to quell disturbances which ate ruled that any shochet, mn 'l'he and | who kills poultry after Monday, would be forever barred from his profession. mnfl of eong:nuanl were asked to co-ope: t no shochet would uked m kill during the period of the Boyeort, i [ 4 virtually the entire district over Christ- ent forest and at lcllt four policemen have kil.hd by the maraus Burmese while first-aid stations have treated 20 policemen for wounds. The disturbances center about 70 miles north of BONUS LOBBYING R A Asserts “Commercialized So- “I am standing by the American Le- | 'MIDDY WHOSE ELECTRICAL FLAIR UPSET ANNAPOLIS RESIGNS Hall—All Is By the Associated Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., December 27.—A midshipman who converted his quarters into a conning tower from which he controlled with wires clocks, lights, tele- phones and elevators, has resigned, and life in Bancroft Hall, the dormitory at the United States Naval Academy, has Teturned to normal. No longer do the corridor lights turn from bright to dim. No longer does the elevator, used by the privileged first cll&men shoot to the fourth floor when the third floor button is pressed and then drop the seniors suddenly to the basement. And no longer does the timepiece of the departed student tick in unison with the master clock on the first floor. Ceased During Cruise. Mystery reigned in the walls of the dormitory for a long time before the secret of the queer wiring system was discovered. Irregularities were daily occurrences while the students were lving in their quarters, but in the Sum- mer, during the regular cruises, they ceased. Controlled Clocks, Lights, Telephones and Elevators From Room in Bancroft Quiet Now. It all came to light as an inspector heard the click of an electric clock be- hind the door of the midshipman’s room. Investigation led to the uncov- ering of a labyrinth of wires running through one entire wing of the building. Some extended to the floors above and some to the floors below. A wire ran from the clock to the master time- piece on the first floor. Tapped Telephone Lines. Others were attached to the lights and some ran to the second floor, where the telephones are located. House lines were tapped and a receiver was found hidden in a waste basket with con- venient clips to permit instant connec- tions and disconnections to the wires. One of the lines tapped extended to the outside world. Called before the officials of the school, the student, a sophomore, whose name is eld, was unable to give a plausible explanation and was given to understand he might resign. His roommate was able to convince the authorities he had played no part in the eccentricities, but was given de- merits for failing to report the presence of the laboratory. BROOKHART SPURNS AID T0 DEMOCRATS |Withdraws Offer to Help | Party Because of Lack of Definite Program. By the Associated Press. Democratic leaders have not adopted | a program, sald Senator Brookhart, Re- publican, Towa, today, which will induce | him to vote with them in organizing the | mext Senate. Brookhart had offered to vote with ,the Democrats if ‘they would co-operate | to put an end to what he called “Mel- lonism.” The offer, made after the elec- | tions, attracted considerable interest be- | cause of the close line-up in the next | Senate. He, and another Republican or ‘Farmer-uborlv,e. could give control of the Senate to the Democrats. | Announced No Program. | Brookhart said today the Democratic imny apparently has “the same sort of leadership as the Republican party.” He added he did not propose to “jump out of the frying pan into the fire.” “So far they have announced no pro- gram,” he said. “The Democratic party | seems to be wanting to avoid responsi- bility, and the country will not trust any party that wants to do that.” Brookhart sald the much-talked-of co-operation between the Republican and Democratic parties “is simply bi- partisan Wall Street rule.” Same Co-operation. “It is the same we have had all along,” he said. “Nearly all laws which are oppressing the people today were passed by this bi-partisan co-operation. “Party regularity is me same proposi- tion in both parties. Elm‘l party above country and I t.hln is treason to the country. Party policy should al- ways be subordinated to national policy.” —_— STRANGER GIVES BLOOD TO SAVE WIFE OF PEER Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, Seriously Il in London, Gains Strength After Transfusion. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, December 27.—A stranger’s blood has been used to save the life of Lady Alexandra Metcalfe, wealthy granddaughter of the late Levi Leiter, Chicago and Washington merchant. Lady Alexandra has been seriously ill for six weeks, but after the trans- fusion today was llid to be gaining to the c\:;:)m l.n unidentified even to Lady Alex- andra; who has been kept in her bed since the birth of twin daughters No- 'vember 14. Lady Metcalfe is the daughter of the late Lord and Lady Curzon, and is a sister of Lady Cynthia Mosley, whose husband is'outstanding in British So- clalist vouflca, Radio Prog;um on l’qe B-10 | php®, m’i.fif HOOVER TO ATTEND HARDING CEREMONY in 1931 May Draw Cool- idge as Well. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. President Hoover plans to go to Ohio early in 1931 to dedicate the monu- mental memorial to Warren Gamaliel Harding, late President of the United States. Mr. Hoover hopes to be accom- panied by his predecessor in office, Cal- | vin Coolidge, who succeeded Mr. Hard- ing in the presidency in 1923. Accord- ing to present arrangements, both at the dedicatory exercises in Marion and honor the memory of the man of whose administration each was a part for two and a half years. Thus is about to come to a happy ending a controversy which has raged ever since the completion of the $750,- 000 tomb erected to commemorate Harding more than two years ago. For various reasons, first Mr. Coolidge and then Mr. Hoover declined to go to Marion. Feeling has run high in Ohio over their reluctance to do the honor at the memorial. Resentment crystallized last Fall, on the eve of the recent con- gressional elections, in formal action by the Republican State Convention at Co- lumbus. Wanted Nation's Leaders. On the motion of Fred Warner, a member of the State Central Commit- tee, the convention adopted a ringing resolution declaring it to be the sense of the Republican party of Ohio that the Nation's leaders—meaning, in par- ticular, President Hoover—had the sol- (Continued on Page 2, Column 6.) Dedication of Memorial Early' Messrs. Hoover and Coolidge will speak | INUTT DEMANDS NYE APOLOGIZE FOR HIS ‘SLUSH-FUND' TALK G. 0. P. Treasurer Denies Latter’s Charge Money Was to Fight Senators. HAS CANCELED CHECKS FOR EVERY CENT, HE ADDS Norris Proposes Election Reform Before New Liberal Party Is Organized. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Joseph R. Nutt, treasurer of the Re- publican National Committee, today jumped into the fray which has arisen between National Committee officials and the Nye Senate Campaign Investi- gating Committee, In a statement bristling with indig-, nation, the treasurer of the National Committee demanded an apology from Benator Nye of North Dakota for say- ing that a special fund set up by the committee in the Commercial National Bank was a “slush fund.” Nye's state- ment followed the recent revelation be- fore his committee that Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican Na- tional Committee, had pledged part of this special fund as & guarantee for his own personal note in the bank for $4,000, part of which was used to send campaign material to Nebraska to b used against Senator George W. Norris last Fall. Mr. Nutt in his statement, which was dictated from Cleveland, his home, to national committee headquarters here today, declared that l! the time Senator Special und, the Tacts iy spec e regare this fund were on file in public rggr‘ds the Capitol where che Senate Gnmmn- tee was sitting. Fund Was $50,000. Mr, Nutt said that the fund was a $50,000 fund, not a $40,000 fund as hitherto described before the Nye Com- mittee. He added that of this fund only $32,000 had been led during the campaign. He that not l dollar of the fund was used to op any Senator. Senator Nye had l.mplled that the fund was set up to use secretly against progressive Republican Senators vlhom the administration did not care to see re-elected. The Republican national treasurcr said that every dollar of the $32,000 expended had been accounted for, and that he was in possession of all the cancelled checks covering the whole llflm.ll'ld t, which was sent into 11 States congressional for use wlefit h‘g nglonll " ugh a detailed report regarding expenditures from the special campaign fund which I set up in the Commercial National Bank the last cam the clerk of the House as law,” sald Mr. Nutt in his Resents Nye Statement. “Chairman Nye of the Special In- vestigating Committee, has seen fit to express his opinion that this was a ‘slush fund.’ I can not too strongly resent this action of a Senator sitting in almost a judicial capacity. The facts regarding the disposition of this fund were easily obtainable by Senator Nye from public records on file in the Capitol, where his committee has been sitting, and certainly if he had desired to proceed in fairness he would have | made no such statement to the news- paper torrespondents without first mak- ing some investigation. “Every dollar spent out of this fund was spent in congressional races, and not $1 of it was used to oppose any Senator. The facts about it are very | simple. Late in October we became | concerned about the congressional situa- tion and since we had advanced to the Congressional Campaign Committee the full quota allotted before the campaign and we thought that additional monies should be expended in certain congres- sional districts we set up a special fund upon which both Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the mruxmcnn gatlonnl Committee, and myself might raw. How Checks Were Drawn. “The checks were drawn by Mr. Lucas after full donsultdtion with Representa - tive Will R. Wood, chairman of the Congressional Campaign Committee, and they were sent into districts which were designated by Mr. Wood and othe: party leaders who were consulted from time to time regarding the congressional races. ‘‘Here are the facts about this fund. On October 23, 1930, $40,000 was trans<- ferred from my regular account in Cleveland and placed in th: Commercia’ (co'ntmued' on DIES IN MOLTEN METAL DORTMUND, Germany, Decembe: 27 ().—After years of labor at tho | blast furnace of the Dortmunder Steel Works, Robert Germann came to feel a great affection for the furnace. To- day he told companion workers that it seemed to be calling him. Later they saw him jump into the white-hot molten steel. = No motive beyond the fatal attraction of the furnace could be ascribed to the act. tement. | | By the Assoclated Press. CHICAGO, December 27.—A shiny red eight-cylinder automobile was stand- ing in front of the City Hall yesterday at 1:06 pm, when George B. Warner, an elevated railway guard, off duty, happened along. George had nothing in particular to dn. 80 he ho) hour. :rowded P mn s room. he bore down theTr:: and shot m George e then mo!. m.l ting increasing JOY-RIDER IN FIRE CHIEF'S AUTO GETS WHOLE POLICE FORCE OUT Roared Up to 86 Miles an Hour Through Chicago Streets Before Capture. inches. All the while he kept the auto hnrn going. 6:30 p.m. practically the whole Cmcm lice force was looking for him, but Y:" e was always miles ahead of where he was last reported. ally, on his fourth stop for gas, “the police closed in on him. “You are wanted,” they said, “for ;nu.k.\n[ all t.h‘-;. :nmc laws there are, for car, for smashing ning board, for hdn;k- maniac, ud for impersona the Fire anlmnmt of the clty of Chi Do you happen to know that you have been burning up the pavement with the per- sonal car of Assistant Fire Marshal Michael Buckley?” smiled. chmmnmnhmmm have nipped it up to 95.”