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A—2 x%% GRAND JURY T0 GET EVIDENCE OF STILL Question of Legality of Search Entered Into Lang- don Ligquor Charges. United States Attorney Leo A Rover today directed the submission to the grand jury of the testimony concerning the discovery of a still in the home of Policeman Robert F. Langdon by police officers January 7. Langdon resides at 1282 Oates street northeast, and the officers paid a visit about 2:30 o'clock *in the afterncon and reported the find- | ing in the cellar of implements and; ingredients for violating the prohibition law. Assistant United States Attorney David A. Hart had continued the mat- ter in Police Court yesterday when the question arose as to the 1=gality of the search of the home which resulted in the discovery. Ths charge there was the finding of implements and in- gredients intended for the violation of the national prohibition act which is merely & misdeameanor. Charge May Be Felony. Rover reached the conclusion that | the testimony tended to show a possible violation of the internal revenue law against the possession of an unregistered still, which is a felony. He directed Hart to send the witnesses before the grand jury in the hop: of obtaining a felony “indictment against the police- Mtiaches of the district attorney’s office said that if liquor charges against the suspended policeman were tossed out of court because of illegal entry and search of the home, the evidence obtained by the homicide squad in the same search also might be called illegally received Inspector T. R. Bean and other mem- bers of the vice squad, who went to Hart were sent immediately to the nd jury. gr:}apt? E 3, Kelly, as well as Inspector Bean, said they were admitted to_the Langdon home Wednesday by MIs. Tangdon. At this time the two stills, a half gallon of liquor and a quantity of mash were discovered. It iS ques- tionable to prosecutors ~whether the woman had a legal right to give police consent to search her husband's home. This also will be investigated. Search Is Questionable. An assistant district attorney pointed out that police had no more right to search the Langdon home for evidence that might aid in solving the Limerick murder than they did to look for evi- dence of viclation of the prohibition w. Police were apparently unaware of this when they applied to United States Commissioner Needham C. Turnage for a search warrant both Saturday and Wednesday after finding evidence which led them to believe that stills and mash were in the cellar of the home. The commissioner told them he would not issue a warrant unless there was evi- dence that liquor had been bought in the home. BILLBOARD OWNERS ADMIT ZONE POINT AT BEAUTY PARLEY (Continued From First Page.) of opinion, the committee was instruct- ed to try to persuade those public groups which stayed aw: from yesterday's meeting to join in the next conference. A,_J. Mon! representative of the n Auf for~ America: bile cibly stressed the necessity of ha the absentee groups in attendance i anything is to result from the con- ferences, He particularly pointed out the need of participation by the Bureau of Good Roads and the State highway officials. Members of Committee. In addition to Senator Pepper as chairman, the membership of this com- mittes comprises Mrs. Grace Morrison Poole, General Federation of Women's Clubs; Herbert Nelson, National As- sociation of Real Estate Boards; A. J. Montgomery, American Automobile As- sociation; I, W. Digges, Outdoor Adver- tising Association of America; S. 8. Mc- Closkey, National Grange; Mrs. W. L. Lawton, National Council for Prof tion of Roadside Beauty, and Arthur Newton Pack, American Nature As- sociation. The committee likewise was author- ized to invite the American Civic As- sociation and the American Petroleum Institute to appoint representatives to serve on it. Out of the 28 advertising, commercia} and public groups called to the confer= ence, which was sponsored by the Out- door Advertising Association of America and the National Association of Real Estate Boards, 11 groups failed to at- tend. Besides the three groups already men- tioned, the associations that stayed out ference included the Ameri- Bureau Federation, American um Institute, Association of Bot- tlers of Carbonated Beverages, Depart- ment of Commerce, the Garden Club of America, American Federation of Labor, mal Automobile Chamber of Com- Action Not Binding. During the conference Chairman Pepper made it clear that none of the lusions that might be reached was ization repre- public group had reminded iy could not be the some e ence undoubtedly s toward har- y, it was behalf of the Am Nature Associati-n today that there would be no slackening of activities in the anti-billboard campaign hroughout the country until the bill- board interests transiate into action the verbal admissicn that outdoor adver- tising has no place in some zoned ven though other businesses cf essity type” are id on until M public groups Kleiser, presid:nt of ot Advertising Association of to make it clear that there was Terentiating betwe.n the support of Chair- Herbert Nelson, secre- tional Association of Real Mr. Ki iser was finally on session, proposals which agreement was sought with ervation of roadside beauty, with consideration for the eco- nomic’ interests involved, Chairman Pepper urged the need of expedi-ney in view of preparations for the Washington ) 1 JOSEPH S. McCOY. Government Actuary Expires| Suddenly While Changing Parking Space. Joseph S. McCoy. the Government actuary, whose mathematical calcula- tions- had provided the Government through many administrations with ex- pert, statistics of all kinds on Govern- ment income and expenditure, died sud- denly shortly before noon today in his automobile while driving at Fourteenth street and Ohio avenue. He was 67 years of age. Mr. McCoy, whose wizardry with sta- tistics held the admiration of both Democratic and Republican officials through several administrations, and was called upon by both the executive and legislative branches for expert testimony, had been considered one of the “pillars” of the Treasury Depart- ment. Had Gone to Move Car. He came to work today in apparently good health, and in good Spirits, according to his associates. He chat- ted with his associates and with his daughter Anita, who is employed in his office with him. 4 He had parked his car on the Ellipse and about an hour later went out to get it to drive it to a parking place near the Treasury reserved for him by the de- partment. At Fourteenth street and Ohio ave- nue, with Mr. McCoy the sole occupant, the machine bearing its stricl driver rolled slowly into a parked machine near the intersection and came to a halt. Pdlice of thé first precinct sum- moned an ambulance from the Emer- gency Hospital and the man was pronounced dead by Dr. S. C. Schwartz- bach of the hospital staff upon his arrival. The body was removed to the District Morgue, where an autopsy will prob- ably be ordered by Coroner Nevitt to definitely establish the cause of the man's death. Native of Pennsylvania. Mr. McCoy, who was born in Penn- sylvania, was a graduate engineer, and a lawyer. He entered the Government service in 1887 as a clerk at a salary of $1,000 and ros: through the ranks until he oecupied a position of great mponslbmtl%. in which he received a ute of Technology, at Hoboken, N. J, and a graduate of law at Georgetown University. He resided in_ Beltsville, Md. Mr. McCoy was widely known not only in departmental circles, but also among members of Congress, before whom he hed testified for years. ‘The exact cause of Mr. McCoy's death remained a mystery early this after- noon. He had gone alone to his car. After an absence of about an hour, J. F. Moody, private secretary to Mr. Mc- Coy said, his associates became alarmed, when the police called the Treasury to tell of his death. Had Good Health. In leaving home this morning, Miss Anita McCoy, who came with her father, said they had trouble in start- ing the car. She thought it might have been likely that he had difficulty in starting it again in the cold, and he might have resorted to cranking it. Mr. McCoy, how:ver, never complained of heart trouble, and had been in good heaith, suffering only from occasional colds. News of his death came as a great shock to his daughter in the office, and to the home in Beitsville, where Mrs, McCoy was notified by Mr. Moody. Sur- viving are the widow, Mrs. Ella McCoy; six daughters, Anita, Maud, Nellle, Philemon, Grace and Bessie, and two sons, Joseph 8. 3d, and FPred, all of Wllfiom reside with the family in Belts- ville. Funeral arrangements had made at an early hour this Gl A MORE FORD EMPLOYES T0 RETURN ON MONDAY not_been &tternoon. called in Detroit Area at Be- tween 50,000 and 70,000. By the Assaclated Press. DETROIT, January 9.—Additional employes of the Ford Motor Co., laid off December 18, will be recalled to work in varlous plants of the company in the D-trolt area next Monday. An officlal of the company today estimated the number to be recalled at between 50,000 and 70,000 hundred men returned to work last Monday. For three months prior to the inven- tory shut-down the plants had been operating on a three-day-a-week. basis. No change from this schdule has bsen announced. ‘The normal pay ol of the Ford com- pany in the Detroit area covers approxi- mately 85,000 workers. abutting property owners. In return for whatever property rights the petitioners surrendered, he sald, State highway giving the roadside preferential treat- ment From such zoned stretches reserved as scenic stretches, Mr, Nelson and others be omitted with other businesses, or if necessary, certain kinds of marketing businesses could be allowed to come in and billboards kept out. bicentennial celebration in 1932. Powerful Campaign Document. Mr. Pepper also declared that “a very powerful campaign document prepared with a view to cleaning up the highway approaches” had been prepared by Mrs, ‘W. L. Lawion, chairman of the National Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty. Speaking for the National Association of Real Estate Boards, Mr. Nelson brought forward the question of re- yional zoning as a solution, or at least affording the groundwork of broader legislation. His proposal briefly involved the passage of enabling acts by which stretches of roadside could be zoned either wholly or in part against com- mcice on pelition of 75 per cent of the Regarding this as a form of discrimi- nation against the billboards, Mr. Kleiser fought repeatedly against it, The position of his organization, he said, was made in a pledge which he pre- sented in written form. Chairman Pepper took the position that Mr. Kleiser could not be expected to answer for the whole industry a ! hypothetical question about differenti- ating between the billboards and other kinds of businesses. Mr. Pack explained that he had been insistent on obtaining an admission from the billboard group thst they recognize the principle because other- wise he felt it would be useless to try frabned to come into the next meeting. JOSEPH $. MO, 61, DIES DRIVING AUTO Official Estimates Men to Be Re-| Six thousand five | commissions should expend money in | ced the opinion that billboards could | ade other civic groups who re- the local club, in charge o from attending v.hepe.onkrvm TAE EVENING IMUSSOLIN TALKS | | PEACE T0 FRENCH Duce Uses Their Language in Sound Film to Say Italy Doesn’t Want War. BY PAUL SCOTT MOWRER. By Cable to The Star. PARIS, France, Januagd 8.—Premier Mussolini himself in a talkie is now every night in French, which he speaks somewhat more distinctly than English, declaring to huge crowds in the cities of France, Switzerland and Belgium that Italy is a peaceful nation and will never take the initiative in war. All Eurcpe is commenting on the novelty of important diplomatic action taking this modern form. Never before has a statestman used this particular invention for purposes of national pelicy. | In France, where Mussclini's famous Leghorn speech praising cannon and machine guns as being better than! words is well remembered, the crowds listen to his talkie respectfully, and while often a few hoots and hisses fol- low its conclusion, applause is general. Passed By Ministry. This sensational talkie was duly sub- mitted by the French Censorship Board to the ministry of foreign affairs and three days later was authorized without change. There is some curicsity ex- pressed by the French press as to whether the same or g similar dis- course will ever be authorized in Italian for the Italian public or whether Mus- solini’s pacifism is only “for export.” At the same time, it has been learned the French government is contemplat- ing taking advantage of the occasion to offer Italy in Italian some official declaration by a French personage de- claring that France will never take the initiative in war and as animated solely by peaceful sentiments and wishes. The Journal de Geneve, commenting on the Swiss performances of Musso- lini's talkie, says: Ponder His Sincerity. “Mussolini is a modern man and uses most modern technic. We will not dwell on the contradictions which are too evident to be underlined. When is he sincere? We do not know. But it is a big thing that he should ever make such statements. In the future he should avoid fiery improvisations which instantly cross the frontiers. It is un- doubtedly a fact that certain of his previous speeches earned Italy the repu- tation of being a threat to world peace. As a result, bankers were not tempted to place their money in a country which seemed ready to risk adventures. Mussolini has been able to satisfy him- self that, as Americans say, boasting does not pay.” The same newspaper expresses the hope_that other statesmen will not fol- low Mussolini'’s example to the extent of turning movie shows into dull politi- cal meetings. copyriant. 1031) PERSHING BACKED REPORTERS IN WAR AGAINST RED TAPE (Continued From First Page.) sands in the United States still may remember those first vivid stories of an outfit going into the trenches. No matter how many visits it may have received from him earlier, each diviston was thoroughly inspected by | Gen, Pershing a few days before it left for its training area to move forward. This was a vivid demonstration; of his thoroughness. Inspection was a tough day for every- body, especially the division commander. “That man's eyes are wandering,” he would snap. “Order him to step for- ward five paces and stand at attention with eyes straight ahead for half an hour.” ‘Whether it was a major general or the greenest recruit, a friend of years or a man noticed for the first time in uniform, Gen. Pershing made no dis- tinctions when it came to discipline or military efficiency. Sample of Iron Discipline. Once he stepped into division head- quarters. An elderly general, his senior during his West Point days, stepped forward, stretched out his hands and said, greeting him, “John, I am——" “Address your commanding officer as general,” QGen. Pershing’s stern voice cut him short, and the room became suddenly tense and silent. . Each old comrade, and there were many, from generals down, who went to Blois—that purgatory of the A. E. F., where officers who had been tried and found wanting occasionally were given another chance, but oftener were shoved farther into oblivion—brought a pang to Gen. Pershing, but he never hesitated. Friendships could not slow up the win- ning of a war. Friends, Strangers, Alike. If they did not make good, their de- motion was as swift and summary as that of the veriest stranger. The gen- eral staff was never a Pershing staff, though he hand-picked it. “The boys never will call him ‘Papa Pershing,'” commented Heywood Broun, both ‘apt and unconsciously prophetic after one of those days of strenuous inspection. The horrified shavetail censor blue-penciled it then, but it is just as true today. | The sympathetic touch which makes | a popular hero, even though severe, was lacking. | | | i View on Populérity. A couple of years ago I was in Lin- coln, Nebr, boyhood home of Gen. Pershing, riding with one of its elderly citizens. Another national convention was a few weeks ahead, and he was soliloquizing as to Why Pershing was not America’s most popular hero and ;’hy he was never nominated for Presi- lent. “Well, why?” I echoed, and their theorizing had not been much differ- ent from mine. “And do you know what John did when it was suggested that his severe character seemed unfriendly and un- selfish?” he asked. % “No, what?” I ventured, little expect- ing the surprise, for I had seen many times when the fiicker of emotion had been pardonable. “He cried like a child.” (Copyright, 1931.) RICHMOND, BALTIMORE OPTIMISTS ENJERTAINED Members of Washington Club Are Hosts at Annual Winter Dinnér Dance. mond Optimist Club and of the Balti- more Club were guests of honor at the annual Winter dinner dance of the Washington Optimist Club last night at Men‘dhn Mansions, 2400 .Sixteenth street. ! “The Richmond delegation was headed by Ravee Norris, president of the Vir- ginia Capital organization, and the Bil- umore delegation by Cal Hubbard, president. Gov. Herbert B. Nevius of the six- teenth district, Oplimist Ynternational, | the Senate. | they are so earnestly secking to_bring . about final dispcsition of the Walsh Members of the mewly formed Rlch-' STAR, WASHINGTON. OPEN Leading the bachelors’ cotillion in of the Mayflower Hotel cn January 12 Ambassador to London, and Brig. Gen. Willam E. Horton, retired, president of Mrs. Edward Everett Gann will head the receiving line. the cotillion, BACHELORS’ D. C, FRIDAY, ) COTILLION the grand ball room and Chinese room will be Miss Mary Dawes, niece of the —Harris-Ewing Photo. SENTENCE IMPOSED ON DRY VIOLATOR Year and Day Jail Term, With Fine of $1,000, Is Ap- pealed by Defense. Frank Shore, former proprietor of a tire shop at 1223 New York avenue, who was convicted last November for transporting liquor, was sentenced to- day by District Supreme Court Justice Jesse C. Adkins to serve one year and one day in the penitentiary and to pay a fine of $1,000. Shore was recently sentenced to serve one year in jail for contempt of court for disobeying a pad- lock injunction and the sentence im- | posed tcday is to take effect at the ex- | Ppiration of the jail sentence First Indictment of Kind. Attorneys Lucian Van Doren and James F. Reilly for the accused noted an appeal and Shore was permitted to remain at liberty on $2,000 bail. ‘Th> indictment against Shore, the first of its kind eyer to be tried here, was in two counts, one charging that he had imported illegally three trunks filled with liguor and the other that he | had aided in transporting the liquor | after it had been smuggled into the ! country. The jury found him guilty | on the second count only. The offense carries a possible sentence of two years in the penitentiary and a fine not to exceed $5,000. Importation Proof Needed. The trial attracted attention because | the Government was put to the neces- | sity of showing that the liquor was for- | eign and not made in this country. | Experts told of how they could distin- guish American whiskies from those of | foreign makes and others explained to | the jury the methods employed in| smuggling liquor and other goods into the country. The statement was made that nc permit to import liquor had Tg'z‘n issued to a private individual since 921, Assistant United States Attorneys | James R. Kirkland and John J. Sirica | conducted the prosecution of Shore., - SENATE SEEKING TO END DEADLOCK OF POWER DEBATE | (Continued From First Page.) | a vote before adjournment today, the | question as to whether the Walsh mo- tion can be separated, with a vote fall- ing first on a motion to ask the Presi- dent to send the nominations back, will | be vigorously fought out. Obviously, if | the Vice President is sustained in his| opinion that_the motion must be sepa- rated, with the vote coming first on the motion to ask the President to_send the nominations back, and the Presi- dent should refuse to send fhe nomina- tions back, the Senate might not have an opportunity to vote on the reconsid- eration of the votes by which the com- missioners were confirmed before the Christmas holidays. Senators who have criticized the three commissioners because they let out of office the solicitor and the chief acccuntant of the old commission do | not wish to be left in such.a position. They believe that they have the vote to reconsider the confirmation of these commissioners, and they prop:se to re- consider their confirmation. Today s the fifth day since the Sen- ate reconvened after the Christmas holidays. During that period practi- | cally nothing in a legislative way has been acccmpiished. Senate leaders on | both sides, anxious to avoid a special | session of Congress after March 4, are seeking ways and means to speed up That is one reason why motion on the power commissioners_ be- fore adjournment today. Unless some- thing can be done to speed up the Sen- ate in its daily sessicns, a demand may be made for night sessions next week. KIWANIS HEAD SWORN Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va., January 9. —Hugh D. Scott took the oath as presi- dent of the Fredericksburg Kiwanis Club for 1931, at ceremonies presided over by Rev. Berry Piummier of Hagers- | to Md., governor of Capital District. Rev. R. V. Lancaster of the local organi- zation, was toastmaster. Rev. Plummer delivered the principal address and other speeches were made by Judge Alvin T. Embrey of Fred- ericksburg, and Robert A. Hutchinson of Manassas, lleutenant governor of this district. | signs of weakening today as they passed GRS FIGHT RA, FLYNG 10 RS Hope to Beat Record of Ques- tion Mark, Says Note of Refuelers. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 9—Endur- ance fiying has proved no lark for Bobbie Trout and Edna May Cooper. Nevertheless the girls and their plane, the Lady Rolph, named in honor of the first lady of California, showed no the 106-hour mark at 12:30 am. The perseverance of the fiyers, who for more than 33 hours were dogged by a rainstorm, apparently was reward- ed, for at midnight the rain ceased and the clouds legan to disperse. E Second Storm Since Start. ‘The storm was the seeond since they took off at 2:20 p.m. Sunday. They rode out the first Tuesday night. The weather and a series of mishaps. however, caused Bobbie and Edna to lower their sights. When they began the venture they had them #ained on the 645-hour flight record set by Dale Jackson and Forest O'Evine at St. Louis. Last night, ‘vhile the storm wi eight, they dropped a note say- e want to beat the Question Mark.' 150 Hours Two Years Ago. The Question Mark, a tri-motored Army plane, manned by five of the Army's best, set the first refucling flight record of 150 hours here two years ago. The promise of clear skies and a warm sun today may revive the old ambition. A rip in the fuselage of the Lady Rolph was patched last night. The rip was just one of the seris of mishaps to the girls. The others included foul- ing of the tail conirols by a rope and a small parachute. Trouble was avert- ed through cutting the material away in those cases. Tonight the Lady Rolph will have| tripled the 42-hour woman’s record it exceeded Tuesda YEAR’S PLANS OUTLINED BY EYESIGHT COUNCIL Directing Board Elected by Group Organized to Combat Defective Vision in U. 8. Bearing in mind the result of a sur- vey which is reported: to show that one out of every five men reaching the age of 25 has defective vision and “does not know it the Eyesight Conservation Couneil of America has outlined a com- prehensive plan for carrying on its work | this year, it was announced today from local headquarters in the National Press Building by Proctor L. Dougherty, di- rector. Dougherty also announced the result of the election of the council as follows: Board of Councilors—Senator Davis of Pennsylvania, Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, William Green, president of the American Federation of Labor; Merrite W. Ireland, surgeon general of the Army; John Hays Hammond, Dr. William J. Cooper, commissioner of ed- ucation; Surg. Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, Public Health Service; Dr. Charles R. Mann, directer of the American Council of Education, and Dr. Willlam A. White, superintendent of St. Ellzabeth's Hos- pital. L. W. Wallace of Washington, execu- tive secretary of the American Engi- neering Council, has been chosen chair- man of the council. The vice chairman is Bailey B. Burritt of New York City and the secretary-treasurer is Dr. Mor- ten G. Lloyd, Bureau of Standards. OFFICERS INSTALLED Y. M. C. A. to Hold Joint Meeting in Richmond January 17. Newly elected officers of the ¥'s Men’s Club were installed at a meeting of the club yesterday afternoon in the Ebbitt Hotel. They ere: Fred M. Nettleship, president; Dr. E. J. Grass, first vi president, and Joseph T. Lewis, jr. secretary-treasurer. Decision was to journey to Richmond. Va.. January 17 for a joint meeting | with a group of Y. M. C. A. members there to organize a Richmond club. i | Pl 5 S Challenged to Pistol Match. Police of Montgomery and Arlington Sounties have been challenged to a pistol match by members of the seventh pre- cinct team of the Metropolitan Police Department. ARE WARNED TO | Growth of Airway Traffic Drastic Rule: Airplane traffic between the National | Capital and New York has grown so | heavy that air transport operators, after | consultation with officials of the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce, have put into effect drastic “rules of the airway” to prevent the a member of the Washington Club and Mrs. Nevius headed the receiving line with Wash B. Willilams, president of the enter- tainment program. About 200 Optimists and their wives attended. ETe possibility of collisions. Pllots of Eastern Air Transport and the New York, Philadelphia & Wash- ington Airway Corporation have re- | celved orders to fly well to the right of CAPITAL ANb NEW YORK —PLAI;IES “KEEP TO RIGHT”| Between Two Cities Forces s Into Effect. the airway, as automobiles must keep to_the right of the road. With more than 30 transport planes flying the airway every 24 hours, in addition to numbers of Army and Navy planes and private and commercial air- craft, the situation was becoming dan- gerous, officials of the two lines agreed. ‘There is an air commerce regulation in the Department of Commerce code requiring airplanes “when safe and practicable” to keep to the right of heavily-traveled airways. | Middleburg, Va. JANUARY 9, 1951 HOOVER S BRANDED) FAILURE BY SHOUSE| Democratic Leader Stresses Need for Party Action to Aid Business. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., January Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Demo- cratic National Executive Committee, in a speech delivered here last night called Herbert Hoover “a failure as President” and said it was quite possible “we Democrats shall have to organize both houses of Congress” this year. ‘The Democratic leader called upon his party to find a successful method of dealing with commercial disturbances. He pointed to the Federal Reserve act in the fleld of finance as an example of what could be done. Federal Reserve Act Lauded. “It is doubtful,” Shouse said, address- ing a Missouri Jackson day banquet, “if any administration since the Govern- ment was inaugurated has compassed in two .years so little in constructive ac- aamvllshment as has this administra- ion.” Terming the present economic situ- ation “the Hoover panic,” Shouse said “the crash would not have been so great, the disaster not so deadly and the misery not so long continued had Mr. Hoover not * * * lulled the country into a false sense of security and en- gouraged people to ignore the danger signals that are so apparent in retro- spect. “In all the confusion and indecision of the situation,” the speaker went on, “there has been only one bright spot. “The Federal Reserve Bank system has been of incalculable value in pre- serving the country from innumerable bank and business faflures such as marked every industrial depressicn pre- vious to the adoption of this great financial system, a system conceived by the Woodrow Wilson administration and enacted into law in the face of ve. hement opposition of Republican Sena. tors and Representatives. Even Presi- dent Hoover has been forced to pay tribute to the solidity and efficiency of this great agency, without which the Hoover panic would have surpassed in wretchedness any similar period in the Nation’s history. * * * Predicts 1932 Victory. “If Democratic genius was able to produce this magnificent remedy for fiscal confusion, why should it be deemed beyond our capacity to find an equally successful method of dealing with commercial disturbance?” asked Shouse. Referring to the Democratic gains in the last general election, Shouse pre- dicted “we will take over the Govern- ment two years from now and will re- tain it as long as we deserve to.” JUNIOR HORSE SHOW HAS EIGHT CLASSES Judges at Riding and Hunt Club Tomorrow Will Be Mrs. Old- smith and Dion Kerr. Eight classes will be judged in the junior horse show at the Riding and Hunt Club, Twenty-second and P streets, tomorrow at 2 o’'clock. The classes include: Best ‘rider under 10 years, saddle ponies, best rider 10 to 14 years, hack and hunter, saddle horses, best rider 14 to 16 years and open jumping and hunt teams, The judges will be Mrs. Vernon Old- smith of Washington and Dion Kerr of Entries have been received from Miss Ruth Myer, Miss Margaret Cotter, Law~ rence Baker, jr.; Crosby and Newbold Noyes, jr.; Miss Betty Couzens, Miss Ruth Ellen Coleman, Francis and Hileh White and Mead and Robert Palmer of Fairfax, Va. Other entries have been received from the Wardman Park Sad- dle Club and the Preece Riding Academy. Miss Ruth Ellen Patten is chairman of the committee. Among several who have donated cups fo be awarded are Senator and Mrs. James Couzens, Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Cot- ter and Maj. end Mrs. George 5. Patton, jr. FRESHMEN ARE VICTORS Muscle Shoals Operation Is Colum- bus U. Debate Subject. Demanding Government operation of Muscle Shoals, the freshman team of Columbus University Law School last 2ight won the recond of a series of inter- class debates. The victors were C. A. Giblin and Frank J. O'Connor. They supported the affirmetive of the question, “Resolved, that the Muscle Shoals propect should 9e completed and operated by the United States Government.” Giblin was named as the most accomplished individual debater. Alfred A. McGarraghy and Raymond J. Walters of the Columbian Debating Society were the losers. The judges were Lawrence J. Burby, Maurice Fulton Holmes and James A. Keliher. Wililam E. Ring, president of the Freshman De- bating Society, presided. REVIEW WORK OF YEAR Epping Forest Club Directors Also Outline Future Activities. Surveying the progress made during 1930 and formulating extensive plans for the coming year's activities, the governors of the Epping Forest Club met Wednesday night. Among advancements during the past year pointed out were the building of 20 new cottages, bringing the number in Epping Forest to 114; extension of water mains, electric lines, drilling of a new artesian well, graveling of many of the main roads and substantial im- provements to the club house, featured by the installation of a radio outfit. Plans were made for a series of re- ceptions and entertainments durlgg the coming year, according to Horace Chandlee, president of the club. It is expected the present membership of the club, about 300, will be increased by the Radio Forum Speaker FETT— i i b SENATOR GERALD P. NYE. BOWMAN OFFERS NEW LOAN BILL Legislation Proposed by Russell Sage Foundation and Widely Indorsed. Representative Frank L. Bowman, Re- publican, of West Virginia, today intro- duced in the House a ntw small loan bill for the District of Columbia. He explained that this legislation was pre- pared by the Russell Sage Foundation, | which, he said, ent many years of | research In developing small loan plans,” and the legislative counsel of the Senate, by direction of Senator Capper. Laws of a similar character, Mr. Bow- man said, are in force in some 25 States “where they function perfectly.” The great necessitySfor a law of this sort, he argued, was shown by a sur- vey made by Dr. Louis N. Robinson, which was presented to the District Commissioners last December in which he cited the extortion practices of many | ;’m}nny lenders to defiance of existing aw. High Rates Charged. He asserted they were loaning money | 2t rates in excess of 120 per cent in zovernmental departments and through- out the city. It was shown that the existing Dyer law, which allows 1 per cent per month interest charges, has been on the statute books for many months without a single license having | been granted under it. Representative Bowman described as the strongest feature of his bill the strict supervision over small loan com- panies given to the District superin- tendent of insurance, who requires a satisfactory bond, can reject applicants for licenses unless they are entirely qualified, and can revoke licenses and bonds on failure to observe all of the provisions df the law. Representative Bowman claims that the superintendent of insurance at all times has complete access to the books of all companies and must make a com- plete examination at least once a year. Range of Intcrest Rate. ‘The interest rate fixed by the bill, he said, is the result of a careful ex- amination, ranging from 2!, per cent to 3’ per cent on sums of $100 or less. Representative Bowman stated that the bankers of the District of Columbia have declared that legislation of this character is urgently needed to fill a field which they cannot cerve and that organized labor, through its legislative representatives, has emphatically in- dorsed this bill. A similar bill was introduced by Sen- ator Capper of Kansas, chairman of the District committee. EIGHT ARE OVERCOME BY ILLUMINATING GAS 18 Others Made Ill by Leaking Main That Threatens Whole Baltimore Neighborheod. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, January 9.—Eight oc- cupants of a group of row houses here were overccme and 18 others made {ll | early today as escaping illuminating gas | threatened the entire neighborhood in | the northeastern section. ! Three ambulances brought physicians | and several score residents of nearby | homes were required to leave until the | stealthy pall had dissipated. The illness of Mrs. James G. Trayser led to the discovery of the gas. Her husband aroused neighbors. The source of the fumes later was | traced to an underground main and the gas supply was shut off until repairs | could be made. . CAPITAL MAN'S WIFE SEEKS ANNULMENT | Mrs. Eleanor F. Souther Says She Married Five Heours After Meeting Husband. By the Associated Press. WHITE PLAINS, N. Y., January 9.— Mrs. Eleanor F. Souther, 19, told a Supreme Court judge today that she marricd Gordon Souther, 43, five hours after she met him at the home of friends in Washington, D. C., June 23.| She wants the marriage annulled. was performed at Ellicott City, Md., at | 9 o'clock in the evening and she took | th: midnight train for New York, Mrs. Souther recounted. She js the daughter of Edward J. Lufk of Pelham, N. Y. The bride said her husband informed | new ‘“associate membership” classifica- tion which has been ordered. |SOCIAL WORKER TO TALK Linton B. Smith to Address As- sociated Charities Managers. Linton B. Smith, executive secretary of the Family Welfare Association of America, will speak on “Present Trends in Family Social Work,” at the forty- ninth anniversary meeting of the board of mlnl‘!rfl of the Associated Charities to be held at the Y. W. C. A, Seven- teenth and K streets, Monday evening at 8 o'clock. Coleman Jennings, president, will de- liver the welcoming address. » Mexican Dollar Value Declines. SHANGHAT, January 9 (#).—The Mexican dollar again declined to a new low level today, being quoted at 22.12 gold cents. This was the second suc- cessive day of decline into record low territory, it having established & mark of 23.16 cents yesteraay. her as soon as the ceremony was over | that he had married her | never intended to live with judge said he would hear the husband: story before giving his decision. INFRINGEMENT DENIED |1 NEWARK, N. J., January 9 (P).—A | dcision in favor of the Warner-Quin. lan Co. has been given by Federal Judge Runyan in a suit by the Texas Co. alleging infringement of patented methods of cracking ofl, The suit, covering a year and 23 days with 75 days of actual tria], was one of the longest on record in the New| Jersey courts. Final argument was| made October 24, 1929. Ribs Fractured in Fight. | Investigating Committee, 1t|o NVE WL IS~ CAMPAGN FUNDS Probe Committee Chairman Speaks in Radio Forum Saturday Night. “The Influence of Money in Political Campaigns” is the subject which will be discussed by Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, chairman of the Senate Campaign Investigating Committee, in the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Washington Star and byoadcast over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System at 9:30 pm. Saturday, January 10. Senator Nye's committee has made investigatiorr of senatorial primary cam= paigns and general election campai in many of the States, including Iili- nois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Colorado, Tennessce, North Carolina and New Jersey. It turned up large expeditures in some of these States. It is expected that the information obtained by the committee will be used in drafting legis- lation which seeks in-some measure to regulate the expenditure of money in campzigns for senatorial elections. In recent weeks the Nye committee has been much in the limelight because of a controversy with Robert H. Lucas, executive director of the Republican Na- t'znal Committee, who, the committee ascertained, sent campaign _literature into Nebraska to be used against Sena- tor George W. Norris in his campaign against the De rat, Gilbert M. Hitch- cock. Earlier the committee and its chairman were given wide publicity in connection with the inquiry into the expenditures in the Illinois primary, where Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick was victorious over Senator Deneen. Senator Nye is chairman of the Senate Public Lands Committee, in addition to being chairman of the special Campaign and is in- cluded in the group of Republican pro- gressives now in the Senate, — MILITARY SCHOOL PLANNED FOR INDIA Round Table Conference Told Labor Government Would “Indianize” Army. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, January 9.—Establishment of a national military school in India and “Indianization” of the Indian army are a part of the Labor government's Indian ‘policy, J. H. Thomas, dominions minister, announced at the Indian Round-Table Conference today. A mili- tary school, such as that which is - posed, would correspond to America's West Point and England’s Sandhurst. Indidnization of the army would not be necessary, he said, before an Indian government is achieved, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Nationalist leader and president of the All-India Moslem Leagte, belittled this new prom- ise, asserting that resolutions for In- dianization of the army had been passed for 25 years, but that at the present rate accomplishment of such a project would take centuries Mr. Thomas replied that practical steps toward the realization of the army change would te taken as soon as the round-table conference is over. HURLEY BACKS MILITARY TRAINING IN COLLEGES War Secretary Protests With- drawal of Federal Support to In- stitutions That Give Courses. By e Assostysed Pres, Secretary Hurley today opposed any legislation designed to withdraw Federflsl aid from schools and. colleges giving courses in military training. In a letter to the House Military Com- mittee he reported adversely on bills by Representatives Browne, Wisconsin, ard Welsh, Pennsylvania, Republicans, proposing discontinuance of War De- | partment aid for educational institu- | tions other than those essentially mili- tary, and a measure by Representative Elixz:éalr. R;Délbllffln. North Dakota, to vithdraw Federal ai miltary schooe, - 1 o compulsary All the bills, Hurley wrote, “would eliminate the annual production of sey- eral thousand young men now being well trained as officer candidates and in the duties of non-commissioned officers to meet the needs of a national Chairman 3 i irman James said no hea: be held this session on the thrx:eniiu‘:.ln —_— WILL SPEAK ON INDIANS _Dr. R. Lyman Sexton will give an illustrated lecturc on “The - Moun- taineers in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia and the Cherokee Indians of North Carolina” at a meeting of Joppa Ledge, No. 35, F. A. A. M., Mon- day, at the lodge temple, 4209 Ninth street. Clyde Wendelken, new master, will be in charge of the meeting. Archeologist Expires. SAN FRANCISCO, January 9 (&).— Dr. Ernest Forbes, 61, archeologist, died here yesterday. Through his familiarity with Central America, where he owued veluable properties, Dr. Forbes often aided United States officials in deter- mining policies relative to countries of that region. He was born in Calcutta. Rear Admiral Usher Dies. POTSDAM, N. Y., January 9 (#)— Rear Admiral Nathaniel R. Usher, re- tired, died at his home here early to- day. He had been in poor health for come _time. December Circulation Daily...110,391 Sunday, 118,188 District of Oolumbia. ss: LEMT. v usiness M VENING AND SUNDAY STAR, ddes nlv swear that the actual number of the paper named sold and dis‘rib- nted during the AD he month of December. 1930, was as foll Days. s Daily average net circulation. SUNDAY. Davs. .. 120981 31 . D14 28 Davs! e Less adjustments......... Total Sunday net circulation.... .. §78.3 Average et pald Sunday ciréulation 11,588 Average number of copies for cerv- James H, Sinclair, 36 years old, of 1415 Pari voad, was treated at Freed men's pital las for two frac- tured #ibs recived in on £eventh streef near S street, accoMiing to po- lice. He: refused to reveal%pis adver- IC?:I{‘ police said. ' Average Sunday net circulation. + FLSMING NEWSOLD, usines ] Subseribed and_swoin' to. befors me this o) o Jienr, RRCE e eal. . YOUNT, Notary Publlé.