Evening Star Newspaper, December 28, 1930, Page 3

* HOOVER RECEPTION PLANS COMPLETED President and First Lady Will Greet Public and Officials New Year Day. According to the plans completed for New Year reception to be held Thursday by President and Mrs. Hoo- ver, this traditional White House func- tion promises to be as colorful and interesting as heretofore. The program for this reception was formally announced at the White House last night, and it is virtually the same in its nature as programs for New Year day,_receptions during the past decade. The size of the New Year reception erowd will depend largely upon the weather. Last year 4, 471 persons shook hands with the President and Mrs. Hoover. ‘The reception will consume the greater part of the day, and, as cus- tomary, will be devided into two parts. The first part, from 11 o'clock in the morning until noon, will be devoted to the members of the cabinet, the diplo- matic corps, the judiciary, Congress, high-ranking officers of the Army. Navy and Marine Corps and other high offi- clals of the various branches of the Government and members of the various atriotic and civic organizations of the istrict. The second part of the reception will be given over entirely to the public. This part of the New Year day recep- tion always has been the most interest- ing and impressive because of its dem- ocratic and picturesque nature. Any one, regardless of race, creed or color, or position in lifo will be permitted to pass along the receiving line and ex- change greetings. The public line will form at the west gate on Pennsylvania avenue. It will start along the receiv- ing line at 1 o'clock and will be con- tinued until the last person in the line bas filed past the President and the First Lady. The President and Mrs. Hoover will informally receive the members of the cabinet and their families on the up- floor of the White House until 11 s'el:;ock. ‘The ladies of the cabinet will sssist in the receiving. Although they do not take up positions in the line tself, they are stationed nearby in the room, where the President and Mrs, Hoover do their receiving. NEW APPLICATIONS FILED FOR DISTRICT CIVIL LISTS Permanent and Temporary Posi- tions Listed and Draw 16 Per- sons Who Desire Employment. Two new applications for certifica- Bon of eligibles from Civil Service lists fpere filed with Daniel E. Garges, secre- fary of the Board of Commissioners, pesterday. One is for a male clerk- stenographer for the District Work- house, at $1,620 per annum less $80 taken off as the price of one meal per day. The other is for a female clerk in the office of the collector of taxes, s temporary position lasting one month and paying $105. Already 16 applications, including the two mentioned, have been filed. One position has been filled by one of the candidates recommended by the Civil Service n. SPECIAL NOTICES. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO The President’s New Year Reception ‘The President will receive at— 11:00 a.m.—The members of the cabinet, the diplomatic corps and the director general of the Pan-American Union. 11:15 a.m.—The Chief Justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, the presiding judge and associate fistice of Columbia, the chief justice and associate Court of Claims and the chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia. 11:30 a.m.—Senators, Representatives and Delegates in Congress, the Com- missioners of the District of Columbia, the director of the budget, the controller general, the treasurer of the United States, the public printer and the librarian of Congress. 11:35 a.m.—Army, Navy, Maring eral of the District eral Radio Veterans® Associated 1:00 p.m.—Reception of citizens. During the afternoon reception SENATORS T0 AID ATBELMONT HOUSE National Woman’s Party to Dedicate Capital Head- quarters Next Sunday. Exercises marking the dedication of the national headquarters’ of the Na- tional Woman's Party, at 144 B street northeast, will be held next Sunday afternoon. Addresses by Senator Wat- son of Indiana and Senator Caraway of Arkansas will be broadcast as a part of the program from 1:30 to 2 p.m. A bronze tablet bearing the legend “Alva Belmont House” will be affixed the red brick walls of the old Georgian house in honor of Mrs. O. H. P Belmont, president of the Woman's rty and donor of the headquarters. Knsyxmbolic with music, talks and tableaux ‘:nll precede the unveil- ing of the tablet. iconora Speyer, Pulitzer prize win- ner and vice president of the Poetry Soclety of America, will read an orig- inal poem and Doris Stevens, chairman of the Inter-Americal Commission of Women, will pay a tribute to Mrs. Bel- va: mont’s internationally effective work as 1a G the purpose of electing thirteen directors for the ensuing year. Polls open from 11 a. t0 12 m. ALBERT W. HOWARD, Secreta: OF THE STOCK- feminist. Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, na- any | & : tional chairman of the Woman's Party, 1, for.| will make the opening talk and preside over the exercises. Mrys. Marie Moore - | Forrest is in charge of the program and the Capitol Choir will render the . | choruses. andrla, on 11 o'clock am. This meeting is for the election of officers and business transac- tions. ING COMPANY, INC. ROBERT DOVE, Secretary. 6* CE_15 HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE annual meeting of the stockholders of the Capital Traction Com of a boa r and the transaction of such other s ‘may be brought before the meeting will be held at e of the company. 36U nd M sts Washington, D. C.. on 1931, at 10:48 oclock bolis will Be opeh from 11 o'clock ‘clock noon. H.D. CRAMPTON, Secretary. THE ANNUAL MEETING OP THE STOCK- holders of the American Bullding Association I be held at the office of the association, am The am antil year and for the {58 85 mav woperly come before the meet- .. CHABLES H. KINDLE. Secretary. #3000 REWARD, IN ADDITION TO COST of table, for one tilt-top table, painted floral desizn, ‘sold by the late Henry Rosen! and E sts. D.W.. after March, 1929, of information that will lead to locating this table Address Box 435-E. Star_office. I WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY gevty contracted by any one but myself, W . JJOIGT, 11 "Camberiand ave., " Chevy W_W. & E_E THOMP- 12th and G sts. n.w., will to 7 p.m. continuously. GOING TO BOSTON Can save you money on Chase. THE OFFICE OF :n. chiropodists. open 8:30 WE HAVE V. 31 to Jan. 2 for part loads going or coming. 5= York and other ints en route. & TRANSFER CO., CAN YOU BEAT THIS? re linseed oil and metallic roof paint .80 i’!r allorn. BECK] PAINT AND GLASS CO.. 2239 Wisconsin_Ave. West_0057. RENT. s'ux'ruflziz r’o‘x; 10c up per day each: new chairs. D STATES STORAGE CO.. 418 10th tropol 1844, DEC. this New ton. AMERICAN STORAGE Adams_1450. Mciu§§5 WIRED COMPLETE. North 5782, _ ) @WE RENT POLDING CHAIRS POR EVERY | ST oner s CRTNOTES: 635 La Sve. Phope Dist. 8112. s e’ Long Aistance Motine. E ng-distance Moving. N ANTED URN LOADS VAl D 2 DEC. 31 M NEW YORK c. 31 FRO) g NEW YORK . fg BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Rid, 1 DE 0. “Me INITED STATES STORAGE C¢ ‘l. 10th St W - Window Shades S9¢ your roll- | to 367x8'; Hartshorn Holland Curtains on THE SHADE FACTORY machine or H_FLOOR CO. ?’n%am%'irxéfiffin.m - pany. $5%adY siies in Broportion. *'No phone orders. 3417_Conn._ Ave. YORS ND_FINISHED; FLOORS somsras os_poogs; 00 .. 1016 20th st._ IM h. Long-distance moving our ity ) g:lith s Transfer & Storage North 3343. 11 Yoy B van Line Service: 80c nuine $1.50 Rha" ciean: NATIONAL OoP 1213 Eye Street N.W. Fumitunthpaiflnz. g CLAY ARMSTRONG 3235 10th St. N.W. Mctroxollun 3962 low The new home of the Woman's Party was once the residence of Senator Por- ter Dale and has been pronounced by architects as one of the finest |- mens of Georgian brick in the country. Mrs, Belmont also had presented to the organization its former home, referred to as the Old Brick Capitol, which was torn down to make way for the Su- preme Court Building. FRANCE NOW FEELS WORLD-WIDE PINCH OF SLUMP IN TRADE (Continued From First Page.) in effort and in toil will be the best guarantee of the economic relief which can and must be accomplished on the threshold of the new year.” M. Germain-Martin atfributed the "S | world crisis which developed this year to overproduction in agriculture, a gen- eral d‘;«;p in the price of commodities and raw materials and reduction in the purchasing power of consumers—espe- cially rural populations—saying all of this destroyed the economic equilibrium. At the same time he warned the peo- ple of France to beware of rumors which pretend the situation is worse than it really is. The propagation of such rumors, he said, is a criminal of- fense. The finance minister asserted that the economic situation in the republic ran a risk of becoming serious only through lack of popular courage and pular determination to aid in bring- g_improvement. “We cannot fail to remark,” he con- tinued, “that capital is constantly be- ing invested in our country. “This explains the increase in our confidence which foreigners have in our monetary soundness and in our eco- nomic development. Why, therefore, should our people in the interior feel any discouragement?” M. Germain-Martin voiced the opin- ‘ion that forthcoming approval of the colonial loan and national equipment rojects would produce 'e)conomic activity. He promised the government would do everything pos- sible to improve the general situation. PLAN WAGNER PROGRAM | Marine Band Orchestra to Play Tuesday Night. ‘The M!flnehlfllnd Orchelst; will resent a special program of Wagner lgnmposulnns in the Marine Barracks Auditorium Tuesday at 8 pm. Capt. Taylor Branson will conduct. Con- certs scheduled for next Monday, Wed- nesday and Friday have been canceled on account of conflicting official duties of the band. stock of gold and is evidence of the|the constructive | be e Corps, the staff of the commanding gen- Militia, Coast Guard, Public Health Service and the Coast and Geodetic Survey—officers down to and inclusive of the grade of lieutenant colonel and commander. 11:40 a.m.—The chief executive assistants of members of the cabinet, the regents and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, the civil service commissioners, the interstate commerce commis- sioners, the members of the Federal Reserve Board, eral trade commissioners, the United States tariff commis- sioners, the commissioners of the United States Shipping Board, the trustees of the United States Shippi Merchant Fleet Corporation, Federal Commission on Law Observance and Enforcement, the mem- bers of the United States Board of Mediation, the United States employes’ compensation commissioners, the members of the Federal Board for Vocational Education, the Federal Farm Loan Board, the United States Board of Tax Appeals, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the Fed: Commission, the director of the United States Administration, the chairman of the American National Red Cross, the chief of the United States Bureau of Efficiency, the alien property custodian, the United States Railroad Administration, the Federal Power Commission, the Federal Oil Conservation Board, the Commission of Fine 3 the heads of the bureaus in the several departments and the president of the Columbia Institution for the Deaf and 11:50 a.m.—The Society of the Cincinnati, the Aztec Club of 1847, the %Iewnns of the War of 1846-47, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, the Grand Army of the Republic, the Medal of Honor Legion, the Union Veteran Legion, the Union Veterans’ Union, Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Society of the Army of Santiago, the Spanish War Vi erans, the American Legion, the Army and Navy Union, the Minute Men, the Society of Colonial Wars, the American Reyolution and the members of the Oldest Inhabitants’ Association of the District of Columbia. the Fed- rd Farm Board, National Dumb. the Sons of During the morning reception persons to be received (unless other- wise idicated fo them). whether in carriages or on foot, will enter and Jeave the White House by the east entrance (opposite Treasury). ests will enter the White House by the north entrance and depart from the east entrance (opposite Treasury). BUSH SEES CHANGE ‘DUEINDEPRESSION Final Housecleaning on and Gradual Trade Recovery Expected. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 27.—Irving T. Bush believes that the business de- pression has at last about reached rock bottom. Mr. Bush, who is president of the Bush Terminal Co. of New York, & director of Bush House, Ltd., of London, and an authority on shipping and for- eign trade, feels that “we are passing through the final house cleaning after our recent speculative debauch.” In a year end statement to the Asso- clated Press he said Now at Bedrock. “Fundamental business conditions are about at bedrock. Early in December it was apparent that there would be & final spasm in the security market, fol- lowed by a period of stagnation in security dealings and values. Periods of depression seldom last than two or two and a half years. Half of this_period is already behind us.” h he described trade - with ‘Russia, India and China as “crippled” and world trade generally as “out of joint,” Mr. Bush said he expected “slowly improving conditions in 1931, and & decided improvement * * * by the end of the new year.” He looks for - world-wide improvement, but ap- pearmng first in the United States. May Be Slow Recovery. “We must not expect too rapid im- provement,” Mr. Bush warned, “for business has been very sick.” He ex- plained that the first half of 1931 would compare with the period of 1930 which preceded the acute stage of the depres- sion, so that comparisons would be dis- couraging unless 'Emperly interpreted. “I have no faith in legislative ‘cure alls,’” he added. “We should learn to spend sanely what we have earned, and not to mortgage the future. A little hard luck never hurts any one, for it builds character.” LABOR RESTRAINTS HIT BY BROOKHART IN FORUM ADDRESS (Continued From First Page.) called “yellow dog” contracts, under which workmen agree to remain out- side of union ranks, holding such agreements to be “contrary to the pub- lic policy of the United States” and not enforceable at law. Other Curbs Sought. Another section would bar courts from issuing injunctions to prevent strikes, or to curb strikers or strike sympathizers from peacefully and law- fully uf:romounx a strike. 8till another section would keep Fed- eral courts from issuing either tem- rary or permanent injunctions in any abor trouble unless the complainant is able in open court to prove injury or imminence of injury, pleads he is without adequate remedy at law and that public officers charged with his protection fail or are unable to furnish this protection. In this connection exception is made for the issuance of emergency injunc- tions, valid for five days, but it is pro- vided that those who are enjoined shall recompensed for any damage incur- red should the plea of the complainant be found baseless. The bill also provides for speedy hearing of appeals. It has been unfavorably reported by a majority of the Senate Judiciary Committee. (The full text of Senator Brookhart's speech is carried in the editorial sec- tion of today's Star.) CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. ‘TODAY. Hike, Wanderluster Clyb, meet Chevy Chase Circle, 2:45 p.m. FUTURE. Luncheon, Alpha Delta Phi, Uni- versity Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. DOHERTY DEBUT, WITH HUNGRY IN BLOCK, FLAYED BY NORRIS Senator Declares Money Was Scattered Extravagantly and Unnecessarily at Hotel Function. By the Associated Press. “The debut here Friday night of Miss Helen Lee Eames Doherty was con- demned yesterday by Senator Norris of Nebraska as “extra t and wasteful, particularly in view of the fact that the pe%p:: across the street were hungry.” Nebraskan referred to a bread line which was served In the same block in which the elaborate party was L. Doherty, president it Becvicn. Gorpiesiion, 108 the daughter of his wife by an earlier Mr. IPOWER T0 BE KEPT FACTOR BY NORRIS . Nebraskan Declares Issue Will Influence His Stand in 1932 Campaign. (Continued From First Page.) to send anti-Norris literature into Ne- braska last Fall. Senator Norris said he did not see how it was possible to examine the evi- dence before the Nye Committee and not reach a conclusion that it was the “intention of Lucas when he borrowed the $4,000 and put up this account as security that he iIntended the note should be paid out of the money he put up as security.” Mr. Lucas has declared emphatically that this was a personal loan which he I do not believe, then he is guilly of ;nl.sldxsu of the National Committee’s unds.” ‘The statement issued by Mr. the latest contribution from eif the controversy over tt was side an insistent demand’ by the progressive Republicans for the separation of Mr. Lucas from his present position as ex- ecutive director of the Republican Na- tional Committee. Conferees Called. The water power issue is toming to the fore again in Ceongress as soon as that body meets after the Christmas holidays. Senator McNary, chairman of the Conference.Committee of the two houses, which has the Muscle Shoals bill under consideration, is calling the conferees togethér for a final effort to obtain an agreement. 1If that fails, then a disagreement will be reported first to the House and then to the Senate. If both houses stand pat, the Muscle Shoals matter is likely to go over until the new Congress meets December next. In the present Congress, the House is strongly backing President Hoover's po- sition that the Government should not engage in the distribution of hydro- electric power generated at Muscle Shoals. The Senate is supporting the Norris bill, which provides for just such action by the Government. A compromise proposal is to be ad- vanced, which would have the Govern- ment provide for the installation of four or more main trunk lines to cities in the Southern States, for the trans- mission of power from Muscle Shoals. At the end of these lines the Govern- ment would sell the electricity to municipalities or to private companies as the case might be, for distribution to the ultimate consumer. Senator Norris regards this as an improvement over the House bill, but has not put his seal of approval on it. It is understood that the conferees on the Muscle Shoals bill have agreed, to all intents and purposes, on the whole measure except as it relates to the dis- ition of power by the Government. ‘The House wants the power sold at the switchboard, right at the plant. The Senate wishes the board which will con- trol the project to have the power to build transmission lines and to dis- tribute the power to consumers. A sug- gestion has come from the House that it might agree to give the board such power, but with the understanding that it would have to come back to Congress to get the money for comstructing the transmission lines and for distributing the juice. The Senate, however, taking the Norris view, insists that the board shall be empowered to build the trans- mission lines out of funds received from sale of power and fertilizer, which would obviate the need of coming back to for a specific appropriation and thereby starting the fight all over again, with Government operation again an issue. RAILWAY TERMINAL PARLEY IS CALLED Bride Invites Discussion of Con- demnation of Tracks for Federal Program. A conference will be held at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in the office of Corporation Counsel William W. Bride for discussion of a proposed bill to condemn the terminal of the Mount Vernon, Washington and Alexandria Rallway and its tracks east of Four- teenth street in the triangle to be filled with Government buildings as a result of the Federal building program. The terminal is at Twelfth and D streets. ‘The bill proposes that the terminal and the tracks be condemned by the Federal Government and that a con- demnation jury assess the price, with the right of an appeal to the Court of Appeals. No substitute is mentioned for a terminal, although that will prob- ably also come up for discussion. ‘The group which will take up the discussion includes Gardner Boothe, at- torney for the railway, and representa- tives of the National Capital 'k and Planning Commission, the Public Utili- Whttehare: mflnd ting the' Districs , el cf Commissioners. » g FIRM ACTS TO PREVENT COLLECTION OF $350,000 Injunction Sought in Case Involv- ing Alleged Illegal Seizure of Railway in Cuba. J. Ulloa & Co., Havana, Cuba, yes- terday renewed in the District Supreme Court their application for an injunc- tion to prevent Charles J. Harrah, 800 Sixteenth street, from collecting a Treasury warrant of $350,000, which had been awarded by the Republic of Cuba for an alleged illegal seizure of a railway in Cuba belonging to Harrah. Justice Bailey recently denied a pre- vious :flflufion by the Ulloa firm and other claimants to the fund. ‘The plaintiff says the property was sold at a sheriff’s sale and bought in by the firm. The award belongs to them, the claimants assert, and ask the court to so find. Secretary of the Treasury Mellon and W. O. Woods, treasurer of the United States, are also named as defendants, and the court is asked to enjoin them from paying over the warrant to Har- rah. Attorneys H. Ralph Burton and Tench t.'1'. Marye appear for the ARMY ORDERS I Lieut. Col. Corbit 8. Hoffman, In- fantry, has been transferred from the es to the 77th Division, New York City; Col. Willlam F. Herringshat D : C., DECEMBER 28, Leaders of the textile strike at Danville, V: rranged sand children affected by their walkout. Photo shows a celebration. SPONSORS VISIONED FOR THIRD PARTY Wealthy Senate'Liberals and Gov. Pinchot Considered in Financing. BY WILLIAM HARD. In the midst of the talk about a pos- sible new “third party,” the vulgar question gets discussed, “Who would foot the bills?” It happens that there are quite a few candidates for that job. ‘They have not, it is true, announced themselves. They are candidates only in the sense of being the possessors of capacious purses and of progressive consciences. Fabricators of a “third party” hope that the consciences would operate upon the purses. Among the munificent personalities thus erivisaged by the eye of secessionist insurgency are Senator Couzens of Michigan, Senator Cutting of New Mexico, Gov. Pinchot of Pennsylvania and Mr. William T. Rawleigh of Illinois. Rawleigh Highly Munificent. Mr. Rawleigh is munificent in a high degree. He manufactures medicaments and related preparations in an extremely profitable factory in the town of Free- port. He pines for political progressiv- ism. He was a staunch financial pillar of the political performances of the senjor Senator La Follette of Wiscon- sin. He has recently established a “foundation” in Washington. for eco- nomic research and education. It has already issued, from thé pens of Mr. Basil Manly and of Mr. Charles Kelley, an elaborate study of the taxation woes of the farmers. It will find numerous other woes requiring progressive rem- edies. Mr. Rawleigh deals in remedies, physical, political, economic. He la- bored zealously, through the “Rawleigh ‘Tariff Bureau” in Washington, to pro- mote remedies last Winter for the tariff- raising “ tendencies of Senator Smoot and of Representative Hawley. He col- laborated eagerly with young Gov. “Phil’” La Follette of Wisconsin. He has not been much weakened financially by the depression. It is even asserted that he has not been weakened at all. He is an efficient and practical busi- ness man, indeed. He rules his factory with no non- sense from anybody. He is assailed by some trade union elements for main- taining, as they charge, an “open shop” in certain departments of his plant. He nevertheless employes legal talent to assist Senators who are striving to compose an “anti-injunction” bill fos the curbing of anti-trade union > pulses on the part of judges in labor disputes. His only complaint against some of the progressive Senators is that they are not drastically enough. A new party, it is thought, or hoped, would find Mr. Rawleigh’s purse beaming upon -its cradle. Look to Couzens and Cutting. Christmas tree anticipations of a sim- ilar sort are entertained regarding the surplus funds of Senator Couzens and Senator Cutting. People keep on dying and leaving millions to Senator Cutting. He rewards this liberality by pi liberalism. He is all out for freedom, political, intellectual and economic. He even tries to deprive the policemen in our customs houses of their old duty to censor our importations of litera- ture. He is in physical aspect a very brooding young man. He can preserve long silences. He can preserve them in the manner and with the appearance of a perfectly mant pond. Then from a great depth there are violent phosphorescent lightnings in him that make the beholder realize that here is & young man not only of meditation but of explosive force. Mr. Cutting causes sorrow among those who feel that a scion of economic affluence and of social elegance should have a sense of the fitness of things and be a reactionary. Mr. Cutting and Mr. Couzens together could perhaps buy out all the reactionaries in the next Senate and still have money enough to start a radical party on its way. They should perhaps found a club of radical millionaires in which associate memberships might be granted to Sen- ator Morrow of New Jersey for recon- ciling the Government of the United States to the radical government at Mexico City and to Mr. Owen D. Young of the General Electric Co. for having intimated that corporations will ulti- mately be managed by their own per- sonnel and not by capital. ‘These are days when the rich are asserting their right to be as radical .é'b\m'nsmr' l.lwfl"l‘!y :ln%‘zfiy&nlmr was nst arl wer by the rich when he was Door?olnd more against it when he became him- self rich. Mr. Cutting and Mr. Pinchot have been rich always. Mr. Rawleigh and Mr. Couzens made themselves rich. They are all willing to use wealth to tame wealth. Lacks Oratorical Ability. Mr. Couzens is perhaps temperamen- tally the most vehement of the lot. His capacity for indignation is a fiery furnace. If he had the vocabulary of Senator Borah, he would be the Sen- ate’s most arousing progressive orator. He is no orator at all and, perhaps, therefore more dangerous to the sena- torial conservatives, because he puts his indignation into the quiet, detailed de- velopment of impending legislation for the moral improvement of power com- panies and communications companies. Mr. Couzens every l%:" gets more and lowing his age to abate the progressive enthusi- umaedor his yo;‘llll% Amnew “;pl‘rty H gained him w gain a triumpl not a treasure. Mr. Pinchot long ago evidenced a complete willingness both to join new crusades and to help finance them. He is in personal mdcmennm in the course . Bosserman, Ca k his Va., to Fort Bliss, Tex., and VGharles R. Mise, Pinance spent much money, but can find much more. He could be a progressive angel —and archangel L nmp:s-hmuothm'holfl a new could presumably or MLenwsdlnwhn! progressive | tana, 1930—PART O Hunter Gets Two Deer at Once Even After Gun Jams By the Assoclated Press. HENNIKER, N. H., December 27.—George A. Wood tracked a deer for several miles through the woods yesterday and then pulled the trigger. The cartridge Jammed. Wood pulled the trigger again. The gun misfired. The third try succeeded, and Wood walked up to his doe. He found he had killed two. The bullet had gong through the heart of one and into the back of another he had not seen. DEWEY UNDAUNTED BYNORRIS REFUSAL Third Party Movement Will Go Ahead Without Sen- ator’s Leadership. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Decembet 27.—Dr. John Dewey, who as president of the League for Independent Political Action asked Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska. to withdraw from Republican ranks and head a third party, said today the third party movement would go ahead in spite of the Senator's refusal to align himself with it. He promised at the same time the league he heads would “give its fullest support” to Senator Norris’ intended bill for'a constitutional amendment to abol- ish the electoral college and elect the President of the United States by pop- ular vote. s “Senator Norris,” said Dr. Dewey, who retired from the professorship of philosophy at Columbia_University to head the league of which he is - dent, “has been one of the ablest of that small group that has kept the Re- publican party from being completely the political expression of the great in- dustrial, banking and public utility groups of this country. “The respouse of Senator Norris to my letter asking him to cast his lot Wwith a new political alignment has not been a surprise. Such a step is not taken quickly and especially when a man is under fire. I hardly expected an affirmative answer at once, but de- sired to emphasize this conflict. ¢ * * America when she moves, moves quickly, and this new party may come sooner than we think. * * * We shall appeal to workers, farmers and all progressives of good will. * * * We are concentrating on the most fertile States and will hold State conferences in Mon- ‘Washington, South Dakota, Idaho, , Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma and Texas, looking forward to organiza- tlon of State committees and eventually State parties in these areas where no effective third party groups now exist.” LIEUT. COL. KINCAIDE SUED FOR DIVORCE Wife Alleges Gambling and Ill Treatment Forced Her to Leave. Lieut. Col. Gerard M. Kincaide, United States Army War College, resid- ing at 2503 Quebec street, was sued Yyesterday in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce by his wife, Helen G. Kincaide, 2902 Porter street. They were married at Port au Prince, Haiti, August 4, 1917, and have three children. ‘While at Parris Island, S. C., in 1920, the wife says, her husband be- gan to gamble and to ill-treat and ne- glect her. She sets forth numerous acts of alleged cruelty and declares she was obliged to leave him last Monday. ‘The husband threatened to kill her last September, she states, and Decem- ber 20 last told her to get out as “she did not mean a thing to him.” Fear- ing for her life, she asserts, she took her three children and left last Monday. Col. Kincade has an income of $578 a month, the wife tells the court, and will shortly get $5,000 from an endow- ment policy on his life. She asks ade- quate support for herself and children. Attorneys H. E. Manghum and Harry 8. Barger appear for the wife. . Back Taxes for Renters. Northern Ireland has a drive against rental agents who induce a tenant to rent a house without info: him of arrears in taxes by the pre- vious tenant, which automatically fall on the new occupant, During the hear- ing of a tax case in Dunmurry recent- ly, George McElroy, R. M., that courts should not grant a decree against such unfortunate tenants. sucker list.” For a new party a nobler designation could readily be invented in their behalf. It is in sum probably true that there never was a time when the finances for a new party could be more expeditiously arranged. (Copyrisht, 1930.) FUR Save at Least 25% to 50% Remodeled Fur Coats, look like mew because they have beem re- sissed and re- modeled, B Your money Back party for Santa Claus’ visit to the several thou- roup gathered around the Christmas tree provided for the —A. P. Photo. PART TAXVICTORY WONBY RAILROADS West Virginia Protest Brings Condemnation of State Adjustment Method. Special Dispatch to The Star. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., December 27.—Passing on the Western Maryland Rallroad protest against a $2,500,000 West Virginia for 1930 valuation pur- posss, Judge D. H. Rodgers, in Circuit Court here today, held the figures for Morgan County fair, but disallowed the 1930 figures for Berkeley County, hold- ing the valuation for the latter should return to the 1929 basis. All the valua- tions were set by the State Board of Public Works for the State as a whole, totaling $12,500,000 for the State, an increase of $2,500,000. The road, in hearings at Keyser and Elkins, ap-, pealed to Circuit Courts in counties where it had property and asked that the figures at least be cut back to the 1929 total. The appeals were heard by “iose. coeile” raioed oote 1 luded coun - "?dd by Rfi:’ road. b udge rs’ ruling is the fir: be'given in the matier it Road Resists Rulings. The decision holds “indefensible” the arbitrary adjustments made by the State Board of Public Works in totaling assessments against the road, and also held as “con to the facts” the board’s assumption that the average mile of the road’s property in West Virginia had the same value as the average for the entire system. The road had resisted both these views of board, presenting testimony that the road in West Virginia was much below the average for the and therefore entitled to lower valuation. Judge Rodgers' comment on the mile valuation in the counties in-which his opinion was involved was “the evi- dence is overwhelming that the average mile of road in West Virginia is worth only a fraction of the average mile in Maryland.” The decision also fails to support the State method of arriving at the valuation, which is predicated o ek o Sl ® point the decision says: - o 0" ‘The equal value of mileage mef cannot, under the evidence, even ap- proximately in the true and actual value of the property trary deductions allowed by the board :ggpe;;u: -lor «the :nrgx;’ which, if . mere coj nce, as evidence shows.” 7 g Arbitrary Cuts Condemned. Judge Rodgers condemned the “arbi- trary reductions” made in valuation. The board, in vllueu"o ssoooeodoo'&h ptux’i-mlwm ,000,000, s and then made an arbi ar reduc'fi‘a’n of 6 per cent, or $5427,372, on account of excess value of terminalis and other properties outside the State. ‘The road’s valuation also was arbitrarily reduced, the decision pointed out, by $2,952,252 ':n m‘d it into line with the Ji ctions, “made capriciously and for no reason standpoint of the other of the State.” b Morgan County’s assessment for the year 1930, including the increase, is $407,303. The figures allowed for Berkeley County were $35,950, which is the 1929 figure, as against the board’s 1930 valuation of $47,900. Each judge of the joint courts will render his own decision applicable only to his own counties. STATE DEBT $537,074,601 Figures Compiled by North Caro- lina as of June 30, 1930. RALEIGH, December 27 (#).—North Carolina’s total State debt, incurred by counties, local and State governments, aggregated $537,074,601 on June 30, 1930, and an average state-wide tax levy of 96 cents must be collected by each county to meet debt repayments and interest charges of local govern- ments alone for the next 12 years, the Tax Co re) mmission port says. During the next 10 years, the report states, reg:ymenu in the State, plus interest charges, will total more f.flnn $40,000,000 annually for State and local governments. be Regular Delivery Over 100,000 families read The Star every day. The great ma- Jority have the paper delivered irly every evening and Sun- day morning at a cost of 1% cents daily and 5 cents Sunday. If you are not taking advan- tage of this regular service at this low cost, telephone National 5000 now and service will start tomorrow. COATS increase in valuation of its property in | agin n 3 Days'if Not 922 F Street N. ' /. € A-S STRIKERS TIGHTEN. : LINES AT DANVILLE Finish Fight for Recognition of Textile Union Is An- nounced Decision. By the Assoclated Press. DANVILLE, Va.,, December 27.—Thia week end, the thirteenth of the Danville textile strike, will see a tightening of _ defense lines by the strikers, who, through their spokesmen, have expressed an unflagging determination to con- ' tinue “the fight to a finish” to win . recognition of their union from the management of the Dan River and Riverside mills. : Meetings tonight and tomorrow are being devoted largely to discussing the -. strike situation and encouraging strikers for the renewal of activities Monday after the Christmas holidays. A closed membership meeting was held tonight to lay plans for next week. The usual Sunday afternoon meeting will be held tomorrow. C. W. Bolick, strike man- - ager, and W. R. Gaylord, contact man, - are expected to speak. Tuesday Wil- liam Green, president of the American Federation of Labor, will speak here at hon Teadere sald chief nion leaders sa ht the feature of their plνm?ur strike activities next week was emw- - on the work of holding the union 3 It was indicated that the ramified inters + union system of checking against dew . sertion from the union would be in full = operation by Monday when the mills open again after a three-day Christmas « shutdown. The first death connected with the strike occurred today when First Lieut. fig::?.g .Yl;hnxon orb'éhde Virginia Na- ° uard succum! to toxaemis il tro] Dan Wwhile on patrol duty at the at Schoolfield. ~Lieut. Johnaonmm" struck last Tuesday night by a street - car when he stepped backward onto the tracks in giving maneuvering commands * to a patrol. A train passing Schoolffe at the time is said to have drowned out the sound of the approaching car, ARCHITECT WILL SPEAK - ON 1933 WORLD’S FAIR Harvey Wiley Corbett, chiu;fi - Commission Head, to Lecture at Community Center. Harvey Wiley Corbet! 3 R wy T nt, designer -of e Was] Me- morial at Alexandria and chai . the Architectural cammlnmnkno,f“tg» 1933 Chicago World Fair, will deliver 8 lecture at the Central Community Center, Thirteenth and Clifton streets, tomorrow night at 8:15 o'clock. Mr. Corbett, . who was also architect for the Navy and Marine Memorial of this - c:lt;. will describe plans for the.coming - L.' M. Leisenring, Wi archie « tect and president of mfi. will introduce the speaker. Mr. Corbett.. is the nephew of the late Dr. Harvey w. . distinguished ch ing his stay in Was| the guest of his aunt, Mis. Wiley. Plans for the world fair at Chicago~ contemplate the greatest exhibition ever to be held in this country. —_— WIFE SUES L. A. 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