Evening Star Newspaper, December 29, 1930, Page 11

“APOLOGY” BY NYE | HTS USE OF FUNDS Senator, in Answer to Nutt’s Demand, Refers to $40,000 “Security” Deposit. By the Associated Press. MIAMI BEACH, Fla., December 29.— Senator Gerald Nye, North Dakota, yesterday issued what he termed his “response” to demands of Joseph R. Nutt, treasurer of the Republican Na- tional Committee, for a public apology for remarks attributed to Nye in re- gard to an alleged campaign “slush fund.” The statement was given out on his arrival here yesterday morning and sai i “It is barely possible that further investigation may reveal that the $40,000 was not a slush fund. How- ever, the committee already has as & part of its record testimony that the money was on deposit as security for other funds which were used for base- Jess and shameful purposes in connec= tion with the fight centering around Senator Norris of Nebraska.” Calls Tt His Apology. Senator Nye was asked if he had any statement to make regarding Nutt's di- rect demand for a public apology. “That is my apology.” he responded. Nutt's demand was made yesterday in & dictated statement to Republican na- tional headquarters from his home in Ohio. The statement said $50.000 was placed in a local bank “merely for book- keeping convenience”; that. $32,000 of it was expended exclusively in congres- sional campaigns, and a detailed report of the expenditures was on file in Washington when Nye called it a slush fund. He said none of it was used to oppose any Senator. Testimony of Cooper. Wade H. Cooper, president of the Commercial National Bank of Washing- ton, testified before Nye's Campaign Fund Committee Mond that Nutt opened a $40,000 account with the bank October 23 for the convenience of Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the National Committee. It was to this sum Senator Nye referred today. Senator Nye's statement as to the placing of money as sccurity for funds ip a campaign agai Senator NoOrTis referred to testimony that the special fund was pledged as security for a per- sonal loan to Lucas, pari cf which went for literature to be used in the campaign against Senator Norris. REFORM PLAN AROUSES RESIDENTS OF TABASCO Governor Proposes Great Co-Op- erative Society and Church Pol- icy Interpreted as Atheism. By the Associated Press. . MEXICO CITY, December 29.—A manifesto of Tomas Garrido Canabal, Governor of Tabasco, outlining intended reforms during his second term, which begins January'l, has aroused a storm in_political circles. In the menifesto Garrido promises that he will strive to make his entire state into a_great co-operative society, in which will be joined agriculture, in- dustry, commerce, cattle raising and “other fountains of national produc- tion.” He promises also to work for the establishment of *“social justice,” greater rights for the poor and to im- plant the “modern school” of religious thought, by which he is understood to mean atheism. Garrido has been the center of press attacks for months because of his al- leged radical viéws and his purported: refusal to comply with the terms of the religious settlement. Numerous resi- . dents have fled the state, claiming per- secution because of opposition to his ideas. ZIONIST REVISIONISTS’ GROWTH IS REPORTED Jewish Majorities in Palestine and Transjordania With Cessation of British Dealings Asked. By the Associated Pr NEW YORK, December 29.—Growth of the Zionist Revisionists of America, | an organization opposed to the Zionist administration, from a mere handful seven wi ago to more than 1,000 members was reported yesterday at the second session of body’s first con: ordecal Danz] ent of the Revisionists, said upon the eventual es Jewish majority in Palestine 2 jordania. We insist that there should be no dealing with the British govern- ment until the white paper is revoked.” Prof. Johann J. Smertenko said the Revisionists would have a in the next World Zionist Cc & new president would be succeed Dr. Chaim Weizmann, resigned. He assailed Dr. Weizmann as a man too easily swayed by British social amenities. M CITY NEWS IN BRIEF. TODAY. Banquet, Sigma Tau Lambda Sorority, Mayfiower Hotel, 7:30 p.m. FUTURE. «Luncheon, Round Table, Club, tomorrow, 12:30 p.m. University Stotaye-acuing ) d Trans- | | | River, at East Capitol street. for Winter sports, PROPOSED RIVERSIDE STADIUM : Drawing showing the west end of the proposed stadiym building, designed to be erected on the banks of the Anacostia This is the architects’ concep tion of how the structure would look to one traveling east on East Capitol street and entering the great plaza, arranged to be twice the size of the Place de la Concorde in Paris. This building, planned to seat 15,000 people, would contain t wo great halls, suitable for conventions, use as a drill hall or Plans for this project, submitted to the Fine Arts Com mission and the National Capital Park and Planning Com- mission, were prepared by Allied Architects of Washington, Inc. OLDEST INHABITANTS ALTER MEETING TIME Annual Visit to White House to Start at 11:30 New Year Day Instead of Noon. A change has been made in plans for the New Year day meeting of the As- sociation of Oldest Inhabitants at the Old Union Engine House, Nineteenth and H streets. ; The association business meeting will convene as usual at 10:30 o'clock in the morning and John Clagett Proctor, chronicler, will Tead his chronicles for the year 1930 In past years it has been the custom for_the organization to proceed in a body to the White House to greet the President, leaving the Engine House at noon. On account of a change in the time at which the members will be greeted by the President, however, the association will leave the engine house at 11:30 o'clock, instead of 12 ncon, in order to be at the White House in time to meet the Chlef Executive at 11:55_o'clock. J. Eliot Wright, secretary and treas- urer of the association stated that the change in plans had been made since the sending out of official notice of the meeting. FLORIDA PASTOR DIES Dr. Ward Was One of Founders of Christian Endeavor. PALM BEACH, Fla., December 29 (7). —Dr. Gecrge Morgan Ward, for more than a quarter century pastor of Poinciana Chapel, died yesterday follow- ing a short illness. His congregation here included some of the country’s financial leaders. Dr. Ward was president of Wells Col- ledge in New York for eight years. He was born in Lowell, Mass., May 23, 1859, and studied at Harvard, Dartmouth, Boston University, Johns Hopkins and Andover Theological Seminary, obtain- ing the degrees of A. B., A. M., LL. D, and B. D. He was married in 1896 to Emma Meriam Sprague, daughter of the Rev. Franklin field, Mass. Dr Ward was one of the founders of the Christian Endeavor movement and national organization. 4 Ve ey HITS NATION’S BEVERAGE Bogota Launches Rigid Campaign to Halt Peon Murders. BOGOTA, Colombia, December 29 (#)—As a result of frequent killings in the peon quarters, a campaign was launched yesterday against chicha, the national beverage. The newspaper Tiemp editorially jon of the sales of asked close superv chicha, regarding it as too potent for in- discriminate use. The mild native beers and wines are unopposed. Are You As Well Off and can furnish satis tion. preferred. Your reply should state earning power, education and sideration. M. Sprague, Spring- | . was first general secretary of its inter- | Special Dispatch to The Star. WINCHESTER, Va., December 20.— | A short eulogy from her own pen, but no service, was read today at the Mount Hebron Cemetery graveside of Mrs. E. Smith, one-time wealthy Winchester resident, but now of Washington, who died at the home of her mother, Mrs. Octavia L. Jack, here, following a pro- tracted illness. Her brother, Harry Jack, died only recently. The family had long been identified with hotel in- terests in Berkeley Springs, W. Vi and Winchester. Besides her mother, Mrs. Smith leaves one daughter, Miss Virginla _Heulings _Smith, and one brother, James M. Jac Writing directions for her interment. che said: “Place my worn-out body in an inexpensive case. Buried money ryver sprouts; efore, do not bury what can benefit the living. Hold no services and sing no songs over my flesh and bones. Invite no_ pallbearers to carry my body; spare them such duty—it is the undertaker’s work. Pluck no lovel buds to die for me. Let them live; they, too, have not long to stay. March and wear no funcral expression at my bier. I pray you be of good cheer, and of death have no fear. At my request, then, fling such conventionalities to the wind. Let us hope the orthodox critics intolerance. “At my grave read the following words of mine: neither the depths of their cruelty, nor the heights of their sublimity. are ground between the milestones of coin and convention. Also, death is a great and merciful warden, who unbolts throw me a kiss or a cul which ever you choose. I hope & Kiss; curses are not good souvenirs, for I shall have finished my little act in the ‘Then, Graduate . McCormick Medieal ~ Glasses Fitte College Eyes Exam! DR. CLAUDE S. SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone National 0721 409-410 McLachlen Bldg.. 10th and G Sts. N.W. Just Think of It— The Star delivered to your door every evening-and Sunday morning at 13¢c per day and 5¢ Sunday. Can you afford to be without this service at this cost? Telephone National 5000 and de- livery will start at once. WHAT DOES 1931 MEAN TO YOU? As You Were in 1929? If not, arld you are a man of character and education tory references as to your integrity, there is open to you a lucrative, permanent position in Washington with the sales organization of a large corpora- Prior selling experience while helpful is not essential, since it is the policy of the corporation to train its men to sell according with its own high standards of dealing with the public. College men, 35 years of age, or under, will be \ briefly your experience, age, general background. Applica- tions containing this information will receive first con- Address Box 292-R, Star Office TALK OF THE TOWN Virginia Smith, former wife of German | no funeral procession behind my body, | will be tolerant, but it is doubtful, for | nothing is more firmly entrenched than | Human beings_realize | They | our prison doors and lets us go free. | EULOGY WRITTEN BEFORE DEATH 'BY WOMAN IS READ AT HER GRAVE Mrs. Virginia E. Smith of Winchester Also Directs Elim- ination of Flowers, Burial Services, Songs and Pallbearers. comedy and tragedy of this sphere. Put on my stone, ‘the sunset is as rosy | as the dawn.’ " MAN HIT BY BANDIT LAUGHS AND LATER DIES Story of Hold-up Told as Joke When Pockets Yield Nothing for $800 Search. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—TIt was a great joke on the hold-up men who tried to rob him the other night, Ar- thur Hagberg, 43, told his sister, Miss |as he told his story. “Just imagine,” ‘he said, “the two emed to think I had $800_in cash Anyway, they searched me, and I didn't have it. They were certainly mad. One of them hit me in the stomach, {and they let me go. It still hurts a little where I was hit, but it's nothing.” Yesterday, however, Hagberg died. LOTHES LEANERS BINCE 1905 OCTOR YERS DRESSES OR COATS Cleaned and Pressed $1.00 SUITS OR OVERCOATS Cleaned and Pressed o Five Convenient Stores 651 Penna. Ave. S.E. 1845 Col. Road N.W. 1755 Penna. Ave. N.W. 513 11th St. N.W, Main Office and Plant 3108 M St. N.W. Anna Hagberg of Evanston. He laughed | Mistook me for somebody else, I suppose. | ONDAY, DECEMBER JURIST'S DAUGHTER AND PUGILIST HELD Fighter Charged With Steal- ing Auto of Pittsburgh Judge. By the Assoclated Press. CUMBERLAND, Md., December 29.— The daughter of a Pittsburgh jurist and a pugilist of the same city waited here today to be taken back home. Acting on instructions from Pittsburgh yester- day, a motor cycle officer apprehended the couple en route here. The boxer said they intended to be married. Miss Janice J. Marshall, 19, daughter of Judge Elder W. Marshall of the Allegheny Court of Common Pleas, spent last night in the Salvation Army quar- ters; Cuddy de Marco, who quit the prize ring only a short time ago, lan- guished in jail, charged with stealing an automobile. Judge Marshall and Pittsburgh officers were en The couple disappeared ing. Police of Pennsylv ginia and Maryland were as for the Marshall automobile. De Marco told police today he did not know the car was taken hout per- mission. The girl drove all the way, he said. 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NEW YORK, December 29 (#).— It’s a long way to Tipperary, but the Condon brothers, -Stephen and Jerry, and their pal, Michael McCarthy, longed for the ould sod for a few moments yesterday. The three men, who came to this country from Tipperary several years ago, got into a big scrap and smashed one of those big restaurant coffee ma- chines, In court late yesterday they prom- ised Magistrate Burke to forego liquor hereafter and spend their evenings in night school—and to stay at a respect- able distance from coffee pots. So sen- tences were suspended. Our Stores Closed New Year’s Day! We Than The year just closing was one of the largest in the history this opportunity and patrons for their liberal s It is a real pleasure to s TWO ASSAILANTS GUARDED IN JAIL Two Women Said to Be Victims of Los Angeles Pair Threatened by Mob. 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