Evening Star Newspaper, January 7, 1931, Page 2

A2 wgy 6000 GET. J0BS AS FACTORIES OPEN Orders for Rails, Cars, Autos, Steamships' and Many Products Placed. tlv the Assosiated Press. NEW YORK, January 7.—Work and pay for upward of 60,000 persons be- neath. the spreading.smoke of new-built or rebuilt factory fires is ‘industrial America’s new year contribution to em- ployment. Orders for rails, for rail cars, for lo- comotives, for automobiles, for steam- ships, for corn products, for hardware, explosives, plumbing and window glass, as well as dwindly stocks of cnce over- produced textiles, are demanding the laying on of erstwhile idle hands. ‘Advices from industrial sections, tak- ing no account of construction, revealed - some e:u “enough Te-em- loyment . Mnd.mms, Added was the numerous plants about to start or re- start in which no estimate was made of the number of men expected to be employed. Four Steamships Ordered. An order for four steamships from the Panama Mail Co. assured two years ©f work for 3,000 men at Kearny, N. J. 128 g&Fa é& & Chevrolet plants at Atianta 050 m'u:i. them,’ and gy =§? EE ag 11 An order for 40 new locomotives for the New York Central Railroad assured an increase of employment in the Schenectady plant of the American Lo- comotive Co., and reports from Seattle, ‘Wash,, indicated a dozen new plants of varied industries about to start oper- Boeing airplane factory there @ Government contract for 110 10 be filled in the early part of year, Textile Mills to Speed Up, returned to work at the shops of the Central Rallroad of New Jersey at Elizabethport after & shutdown of sev- eral weeks. In Newark about 1,500 men went to work on a city rallway project in which st:am shovels are being re- placed with hand labor in order to ‘Create more jobs. ‘The R. C. A.-Victor Co’s plant at resumed operations ,000 workers after a Camden, N. affecting about month’s suspensio; 700 in Roanoke to Get Jobs. Va. January pany announced today. makes a total of 3,500 men returning 1o work for the road since January 5. 400 Return to Railroads. FORT SMITH, Ark., unu:fi +Four hundred employes of Smith vicinity were back 7 P ¢ | cabin and considered climbing back in- roads in|the Commercial Nal Flyers Survive Real Threat Edna May Cooper, Co-Pilot of Plane Which Has Broken Women’s Record, Describes Thrilling Experiences. Edns Cooper, with Bobbie Trout om Lady Rol which yester- day .th. new ‘::.m nd I{l‘n" r-mr'f. s Tt e feieply, Sl ot ol < erica) lewspaper jance. The two sirl pil ‘will continue in the sir in an attempt. better the men's record. BY EDNA MAY COOPER. Special Dispatch to The Star. LOS ANGELES, Callf., January 7.— ‘We never know where danger lies, which proves the' futility of w After making four refueling con yester- day, which is considered dangerous, we ed a can and some refueling bags in a large bag and sent them overboard fastened to a new-type small para- chute to assure an easy llllfl.l!:l&e ‘The ute landed too soon and 1T"HE - EVENING. STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 7, 1931. RITCHIE MESSAGE - ASKS §71.383.721 Governor Urges Assembly to Appropriate This Sum for State Rule. (Continued From First ) construction at State institutions and 000,000 will be for reconstruction of 82, " | bridges on State highways.” not having weight enough, floated back, of m""" ‘wrapping itself the horizontal We lost partial control of our plane and the bag flapping against the rud- der and the elevators would soon tear both to pleces due to the velocity of the opeller blast. We made an emergency and used wire and tried fish- ing for it, but meanwhile the ’'chute and bag had wrapped themselves around one another. Dangerous to Land and to Fly. around the bracing of stabiliger. It was impossible to keep the plane |sleepy dangerous steady and would be to land. Then I took out the rear wall of our side the fuselage, hoping to be able to untangle them through the inspection window at the tafl. But I saw it was impossible to climb back there without interfering with the con- trol cables. ““flfm“m" and to have a thing like this happen— it was dangerous to land and dangerous to fiy and we had our hearts set on staying up as long as it is humanely possible. ‘Then our refueling ship arrived and our sRl:lnflm refueling crew, Bud Hussey and ph Derose, looked over the sit- out of sight and returned with a EXCEEDED POWER| 5252 G. 0. P. Treasurer Testifies of Fellow Officer’s Use of Special Account. and went-int account at the Union ‘Trust Co. “1 have since the close of the 1028 campaign kept & fund of $10.00 at the Commercial National Bank in Washing. ton. This is an account which is used bilis et < Baid &t *Washington, 4 are X 3 2 few thousand maximum count at any one time is $10,000. I make all my checks on the Union Trust Co,,_Cleveland. ‘From time to time, as that account | is depleted, I transfer funds from the Chase National Bank, New York, to Cleveland. - conditions that pre- vailed in 1930 made it very difficult to 1 B 50| Mr. Nutt if the estal special sidered a day’s work for a commercial pilot. I am amaszed that we are so fresh. We have no ill effects from our long hours in the air. My“chle( difficulty has been in my nce at nruellng, (Copyright, 1931, by North American New: Daper Alliance.) BIRTHDAY PARTY. Bobble Trout Celebrates Twenty-fifth Anniversary in Afr. By the Associated Press. mark, dless sky. el Committes had distributed its funds to the districts, 1f it were known that more money was being sent to some of the districts, there might be criticism and demands from With the full knowledge. and' spprovel val of 7 ‘the Congressional Senator Nye said that Galen L. Tait, State in $4,000 had been tu: =nem wcgnt. hl: “duth'" em- rrassing him 2.1 e money in certain dumm? . Nutt said that might have been 8o, but that the intended Total Expenditures. or recommended total 890,312.81 for 1932, as $28,375,327.02 for 1930. 1032 estimated cost of State gov- ernment would be raised by $13,389,115 in general funds and $20,854,687.17 in special funds and an esf ted surplus $3,721,669.41 for the fiscal year 1 n 1932 surplus, $12,787.41 funds and $22,498,864.14 funds. year surplus of $1,763,023.64. Among the construction recommenda- Prostburg, $31,000 l'i‘cmrle $100, —At , $31,000; n, 000; Salisbury, $200,000; to the Train- ing School for Boys, and the Montrose School for Girls, $220,000, and a total of $1,300,000 for hcspitals for the feeble- minded. An a?pmprhuon of $900,000 for the new ‘ashington County Peniterstiary ‘was recommended. To this will be add- ed an unexpended surplus from the ap- rovrhmm made by the 1929 session 0 Washington: ounty.. Sther. Sppto: n 3 er appro- priations the v%l for penal in- stitutions to $1,050,000. New Hospital Asked. ‘The Governor recommended appro- priation of $1,500,000 for the construc- tion of a new university hospital in Baltimore, which is conducted as gfcb l.he] University of Maryland ical 001 Construction for the University of Maryland at College Park in the amount of $200,000 was recommended. This fund would be used for improvements to the bufldings at College Park in ac- cordance with a plan to be worked out by the regents of the university. Provisions for a State armory at Chestertcwn and Towson; improvements and repairs for other armories and im- provements to the State Military Camp a Cascade, Md., totaled $250,000. Completion of the marine laboratory at a cost of $10,000, completion of ad- dition to the Annapolis Emergency Hos- pital, to cost 626.(])‘00'. improvements at t the , $10,000; the completion and rebuilding and re- modeling of the State tobacco ware- house, $34,375, and an appropriation of $35,000 for the State Forestry Depart- ment were included in the construction recommendations. Road and Bridge Work. Road and bridge bonds recommended s%romomm of bridges total $2,- State appropriations for schools for 1032 were zmd 8t $5,445,842 and for 1933 at $5,681,550, continuing the grad- mzhm which has continued since Establishment of full-time health offi- cers in each county was recommended to continue the work of the public health forces which, he said, had brought about & significant decrease in the gen- Mr.|eral death rate and in the number of EEE' E § A gEd % = i ! i H E g t submitted t was t he himself had h.a the National e = o H 2 B E g g the | men| cases -of communicable diseases. A san- itary district for each of the 23 coun- ties instead of the 10 now in force “1g¢ full-time in all the counties. A vide duced, the Governor said. “For the first time in the history of the State care of the insane in Mary- land A our mental hospitals are not ctowded and are able to care for all patients = needing admission,” Gov. Ritchie declared, but he recommended construction of a 100-bed unit to care for colored feeble-1..inded children, for which there is now no provision, and improvements and additional buudlm at other institutions to cost $1,300, and provide 750 additional State Penal Institutions. Crowded conditions at the State peni- tentiary and the House of Correction were cited by the Governor, who said problem would be created an additional com- | in ‘1934, when the law prohibiting in- . "Lucas received $15,000 as salary nn:l another $10,000 for Cxpln.l.d. Use of Expense Fund. ml:# he sald, is entitied to use ,000 expense money an; he desires mdhmnquhdmugln “"g s same as salary,” sald Mr. utt. Mr. Lugps divide it between salary and expense :wo\lnt.‘;ml'dd Mr. Nutt. “If it were nown we were paying a $25,000 salsry, we t have lost other men who d an increase in Senator Nye and Senator Dill asked for delays in reporting cam; penditures in the States to 'Psc-:h it I:IIL Mr. Nutt said ex- was he did not think , and calied attention to the fact that the time limit for reports is January 10. Nutt Is Excused. collect funds for political uses, and I have throughout the year used éxtreme care to see that no money was wasted or spent needlessly. It has always been my aim to conduct the financial affairs of the n in & clean and business-like way so that there could never be any just criti~ I have personally conmb::nd the financial end.” Discusses Local Account. ‘When he was asked to discuss the es- tablishment of the account in Bank, Mr. Nutt said: “About the middle of October there §a H g%?kfig Bt Natlonal Committee | ; Mr. Nutt was excused by the com-|th mittee at the conclusion of his testi- Incomplete Election Returns In- dicate Sweeping Victory. JERUSALEM, January 7 (#)—In- complete returns of the Jewish elections to the Knesseth Israel-Boday, which ir 121 7-1 .| fees and terstate shipment of prison-made becomes effective. The new pen!wn‘&:dr; in Washington ty, he said, would provide some relief in providing out- door employment in fields, quarries and constru ‘work. Extension of the parole system was advocated by the Governor, who sald that legislation looking to this end would be introduced. = Funds for improvement and better- ment of conditions at the State correc- tional institutions for juveniles were recommended. Amendments to present statutes rais- the exclusive jurisdiction of juve- to 18 years and the right to sit as when there is no juve- ile court-in the counties were favored. ‘The plan for construction of central alms houses for the Eastern and West- ern Shores, study of which was left in the hands of commissions appointed last year, still needs study, he said. At the close of the 1930 fiscal year the State had constructed 3,215 miles of improved roads, which amounted to Er cent of the total mileage in the State, he said, and advocated the construction of new lateral roads in {the several counties, pursuant to the demand of boards of county cpmmis- sioners and the people themselves. 94 Bridges Planned. ‘The Road ion, he said, had completed a survey which called for a program for construction or rebuilding of 94 bridges, at a cost of $3,580,000, of which $2,000,000 was to be asked of is lature. Fifty grade-crossing eliminad , reconstruction and road- addition projects were favored. Highway funds, he said, would come from the usual sources—the license line tax—and the alloca- tion of was split on an 80-20 basis between the counties and Balti- more City. Estimated receipts and ex- penditures of highway funds were set :: 31;.35,60,030 for 1932 and $13,645,811 T . ‘These funds were allocated to utlol:l road construction, grade-crossing elim- ination, reconstruction and widening, maintenance, post-road construction and construction. Recodification of the al motor. vehicle laws to make conform with “uniform laws of the National Conference on Street and Highway Safety, new registration of motor ve- hicle operators, establishment of tistical bureau for classification tor vehicle accidents, readjustment of tion fees and compulsory noti- address by motor (LABOR WINS IN PALESTINE |* represents ‘the Jewish population of | %52 The police Imlmumunflaflnm SRR = bill to | tr! otograph of the squalid room in which ml.hvrhkwnhlunllflll. A bullet dug from a hole DODDS NOMINATED 10 JUSTICE POST Prosecutor in Smith Co. Case to Be Assistant Attor- ney General. ‘The nomination of Nugent Dodds to succeed Supreme Court Justice Oscar R. Luhring as Assistant Attorney Gen- eral in charge of the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice was sent to the Senate yesterday afternocn. Mr. Dodds’ advancement, due in large measure to his work in connectfon with the F. H. Smith Co. conspiracy case, fills a vacancy caused some months ago by the appointment of Mr. Luhring to the bench. His appointment was understood to have been made largely upon the recommendation of the Attor- ney General. Mr. Dodds is 43 years old and a uate of the University of Michigan. t one time he studied law at George- town University. He is a son of former resentative Francis Henry Dodds, 8 ublican. In his new post Mr. Dodds will be in’ charge of Federal criminal cases throughout the country. It is expected that under his direction the forces of the Justice Department will make vig- orous efforts to stamp out numerous organization which make use of the mails to promote fraudulent en- terprises. Mr. Dodds’ first appearance locally was in the Bmulfucl?i mlt:h'mh he prosecuted success! , Wi co- operation of Assistant United States Attorney Nell Burkinshaw. He for more than a year with agents of ‘the department’s Bureau of Investiga- paring the Government's et 15 brought Pederal West and Middle West. TWO FINED ON PLEA OF VETERAN, 94 James J. Allen and Henry C. Her- bert Accused of Striking Henry Myer. Convicted of assaulting & 94-year- old Civil War veteran, James J. Allen, 27 years old, of the 500 block of Taylor street, and Henry C. Herbert, 34 years old, No. 18 :flmu n&ua m t, were orde pay fines xh or serve 50 days in jail in Police Court today. Henry Myer, roomer at the Penn Hotel, 349 Pennsylvania avenue, who sald that he was in the Confederate Army, tottered to the witness stand and told Judge Gus A. Schuldt thé two men broke into his room last night. “They struck me, your honor,’ said Myer, “and made me take a drink of that darned old stuff had. of them almost tore my ch!ome- ofl.” a month ago against a 76-year-old man, who, he said, struck him over the head with an fron bar. After the defendant had said that Myer had stepped on his toes and thus aroused his ire, Judge Robert E. Mattingly ruled that both men were in “second childhood” and refused to pass sentence. ¢ BRADY MURDER TRIAL SET FOR JANUARY 26 First Hearing on Bombing Outrage Resulted in Jury Dis- agreement. The trial of Herman and Le Roy Brady, charged with first degree murder in connection with the Seat Pleasant, Md.,, bombing outrage & year , has been set for January 26, in the Circuit Court at Annapolis, Md., it was learned today. Le Roy Brady was brought to trial in Rockville, Md,, last year on a mur- der charge in connection with the bombing incident. The case resulted in & jury di eement. ‘The bom“‘f wrapped as a Christmas package, was left on a neighbor’s porch in Seat Pleasant and subsequently loded | by unlawful methods.” sta- of mo- | Mrs. t | “Poupee Valsante is one of the important plecés of evidence. GOLF PRO QUIZZED AS POLICE PREPARE FOR GIRL’S INQUEST (Oontinued From Pirst Page. the soene. Several shots were fired through the mattress on which the girl died with a .25-caliber automatic of & which discharged the fatal bullet. of. h the mat- by police from the death room were restored as nearly as ible to their original position and Toom photo- graphed. In making the gun tests, the flight of the ejected shells was carefully watched police. They wished to - determine an exploded shell, after a hullet had been fired into the fioor at an angle indicated by a bullet located by - don could have been flicked by the ejector into an room. ‘The police sald the shell flew a few feet and not toward the er room. Langdon found an exploded shell in a coffee cup in the kitchen while he was detailed to guard the death house early Friday He also located ;e:.un“ in the pl under the girl's Club Members Questioned, 2 Cathan “Thitey e and Carlton este: - tioned Earl Aitcheson l{hllrg:zn near ;‘numi:e,“fia whose to the when she was 14 years old, was annulled last month. ‘They. reported their examination convinced them Altcheson knew nothing of the shoot- could furnish little information o:?u’m. de- tectives said. = AYS GOVERNMENT RUNS SPEAKEASY Linthicum .. Charges That Liquor Is Sold to Trap Policemen. By the Associated Press. A dingy room at 1213 East Twenty- second street, Indianapolis, engaged the attention of Congress yesterday as Representative Linthicum of Maryland charged the place was & “Government- owned speakeasy,” used to trap police- men. The ‘leader of the House wet bloc made his accusation on the floor dur- ing deébate on a deficlency bill which than half a ¢arries more rent for the place, but that no liquor was dispensed. It was opened, said the letter, following many complaints of collusion between policemen and speak- easy operators. . - Appropriation Plan Opposed. r‘:mu:er letter from Russell B. Har- n of Indianapols, .son -of President Benjamin Harrison, termed the place & pool room speakeasy,” and charged Wth “buying and sell: booze in order to trap policemen.” e Linthicum attack was the open- ing effort of a wet move to defeat Prohibition Bureau deficiency appro- E-uuon, 1t was sufficlent to cause House aders to mediate passage of the bill. The 1&2& Democrat _told L!:: Haul; i were approved it woul to “establishment of these mxnflu‘o for citisens and of entra) icers throughout this country.” ‘Woodcock Letter Read. ‘The .Woodcock letter read by Linthi- cum said in 3 “The reco; do show the allowance of a small sum of money for the rental of this particular room, which pa; t, I am advised, is entirely lawful. A place for making such contacts is apparently necessary in the development of these cases of conspiracy between public offi- als and those who violate the law. the police of eral case, which conviction of six men. Linthicum previously had the policemen were “poduvely led and enticed into crime,” and were convicted on evi of Federal oper- atives who “were, in fact, their accom- plices.” To this Woodcock replied that neither his information nor the Justice Department files disclosed “that any evi- dence was secured against these officers BAND CONCERT. By United States’ Marine Band Or- chestra this evening at 8 o'clock at the scenes “Polichinelle” JURY HOLDS FATAL FALL ACCIDENTAL William Horgan, Jr., Plunged Into Alley From Fourth- Floor Window. A coroner's jury decided this after- noon that an accidental fall was re- sponsible for the fatal injury of William Horgan, jr., 30 years old, an automoblle salesman of 6264 Thirty-eight street, who plunged into an alley last night Bullding, at 1317 F from a rear window in the fourth floor | rect of the American 115 TLLSIPERA TO M HOUSF Slave - Trading - Acousation Basis for Note Dispatehed by State Department. By the Associated Press. - The Negro Republic of Liberia, _has been told by the United States .to clean’ house if it wants to keep . the world's respect. : . . Slave trafic in which high officials of the government were involved been charged by an investigating eunh.? mission. The accusation was made the basis for a note dispatched by the State Department through the Liberian consul at Baltimore, urging that the trade in human beings be sup- pressed promptly and that those re- sponsible be punished. 3 The American action only now has come to light, but it was taken on No- vember 17, two weeks before the resig- nations of President King and Vice President Yancy were annoynced . at the Liberian c:ml. Monrovia. . The two_had been tly involved in the trafic the report of .the commis- sion. e latter was of one investigator represen: e of Ni her tro%t‘;“ the m The American memorandum was & lengthy paper, reviewing in detail the charges against the African country. It reached Monrovia before the resigna-~ tions of the executives were announced. At that time the State partment made known it had instructed its diplo- matic representatives to proceed with extreme caution as it viewed with un- certainty the ment and the presidency. The mem Qquate” the steps ernment up to that time recting conditiops, and no proceedings those responsible. HOUSE COMMITTEE 0. K.’S SUBSTITUTE ON PAVING LEVIES (Continue from mrst Page) proval of the principle of assessin abutt &mpeny ‘owners, but iendatiofis for remedial tion to make the law more table. assessments are to be continued. . ; Clayton’s suggestion that let the law die a natural death the court dec rendered Little Left Assessable. ., * At the outset of the hearing Assista: nt Corporation Counsel - Vernon . E. - West, answering a estion Chairman have to be met.in some other way. . ¥ Mr. West, Capt. H. C. . | high lose i ‘window. parked automobile ll::)g A. Nasahal of 3500 th street.. ‘The impact caved in the hood and > & fender down on the tire. lorgan was removed Emergens ‘Hosphtal in No. 1 brecincs 24 1 precin did not.regain constionanegs 0" HE e85, ‘The janitor insisted that Hq alone in the building at the ged from the window. ‘The window, n&necrthow which had a wide sill e floor, was closed when he last saw it, f Williams said. It was in , the door to which was , pol ipposed t Horgan had fi window for a breath of m‘r’."!xi’,’ s over the sill as he did so, survived by his father and Mr. and Mrs. wnuxéu;n Horgan, was notified as soon Hflnl’ could be determined. MRS. A. 0. TALBOTT DIES AFTER SHORT ILLNESS Funeral Bervices to Be Held Fri- day Afternoon, With Interment in Glenwood Cemetery, Mrs. Adelaide Octavia Talbott, 71 m ‘;ld.a :‘l‘%‘:l'd of Johlr:‘lAlhn ‘Talbott, H 1 after a short flln!‘l.om e Mrs. Talbott, who resided at 1934 T street, was a native of this city.. She ;"Et::r?.u'gul‘:l ol]gl’;: late Col. Barnett " an e late Mrs. Sarah A. Bryan Swart. 3 She is survived by two Dr. John Allan’ Talbott, of this. eity, and Lieat. Barnett T. Talbott, U. S. N.; a daugh- ter, Mrs. J&n L. Robe;'.‘s of New York; ister, . Sallie M. Danenhower, and a brother, Fratik B, Sware, services will be' conducted n Gawler's chapel, 1754 Pennsylvania avenue, Priday afternoon at 2 o'clock. S e S By S50 St 3 3 ficlate. Interment will be in Glenwood Cemetery. mother, &r. His as his Nine Drown Under Ice. 1 (®P)— 2y were crossing near Tartu o the ice. January wdrowned .when -the | the United States are usi the National Capital, ln‘ an n was | urged G e he | other assessments have been contested in the courts. 1,500 Claims on File, phase of the matter, Bride said .there are -about 1500 claims on file at-the ice | District Buiiding growing out of con< tested Borland assessments. He stated Yop-| that as soon as it is definitely knpwn what Congress is disposed to do regard- ing the future of the Borlnd law all of these cases will be taken up for ad- justment. Without predicting on what basis these claims will be settled, Mr. Bride said he felt sure the sioners would adjust them fajrly. Senator Capper said that whilé e one could say what Congress will do, it was his opinion, that there is no probability it will repeal the law. He asked various id the original law, but opposed the principle of Wirect, assessment for streets. cind Mr. Sullivan suggested that the ob- jections the courts have expressed to e present law could be raised against the pending bill if @ The Federation of Citizéns’ Associa~ tions urged that if the bill is to be d sults except that. those with situated similarly to the case, _decided the. Commissionets Tor s 3