Evening Star Newspaper, January 22, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and warmer tonight and tomor- row; lowest temperature tonight about 28 degrees. Temperatures—Highest, 33, at 12:15 p.m yesterday; lowest, 20, at 7 Full report on page 3. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14& 15 he Ep TR 0 i (e b R Kntered as second class matter shington, D. C. FESS SAYS HOOVER HASN'T BARREDWAY FOR DRY REVISION Declares Statement Was Only Rejection of Substitute Offered by Law Body. PRESIDENT’S MIND OPEN, LEADER OF PARTY SAYS No Support Found for Assertion Executive Took Hand in Wickersham Report. Br the Associated Press Emphas's was made today by Sena- tor Fess, Republican, Ohio, to the point that President Hoover in objecting to the Wickersham Commission's substi- tute ecighteenth amendment had not closed the door to all revision proposals. Party leaders looked significantly at this statement of Senator Fess, who is chairman of the Republican National Committee and an adviser of Mr. Hoover's. He was at the White House yesterday. ‘The Ohioan, one of the staunch supporters of national prohibition him- self, would not say that Mr. Hoover favored any other revision or had any other idea for modification in mind. “I just simply say,” said Fess, “that Mr. Hoover did not close the door to any revision when he rejected this substitute amendment because it would throw prohibition forever into politics.” Says Hoover's Mind Open. The law enforcement commission said in its conclusions: “All the commission agree that if the | amendment is revised it should be made to read substantially as follows: “Section 1. The Congress shall have power to regulate or to prohibit the manufacture, traffic in or transporta- tion of intoxicating liquors within, the WASHINGTON, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Sfar. D, e, Miss Isabelle Tervis Trap- ped on Second Floor. Neighbors, Flee*as Home Is Damaged. sentative and Mrs. William B. Bankhead of Alabama, and Miss Isabelle Tervis, a housthold employe, from the second floor of the Bankhead home, 1619 Nine- teenth street, after they had been part of the lower floor and a staircase. The Bankhead home and an adjoin- ing house, occupied by Mr. and Mrs, by fire and water. Mr. and Mrs. Mears left their home before firemen arrived. With the temperature hovering at 13 degrees below the freezing mark, th> firemen assisted Mrs. Bankhead down the ladder first. Next Miss Tervis was bundled down and then cam: Repre- sentative Bankhead. The Bankheaas recently returned here from New York, where they w:lcomed their daughter Tallulah, famous actress, who has re- turned from a London stage triumph to enter the movies. Miss Bankhead is making her home in New York. Mrs. Bankhead Sounds Alarm. The Bankh-ads said they retired about 10 o'clock last night, leaving some dying embers in the open fireplace in from the blaze started the fire. A sensation that she was being stified awoke Mrs. Bankhead about 2 o'clock. She hurried to the head of the stairway, which was filled with smoke. Returning to the bed room, aroused her husband. While Repre- sentative Bankhead found clothing to guard them from the bitter cold out- side, Mrs. Bankhead telephoned in a fire alarm and aroused Miss Tervis. The three occupants waited at the front window for the firemen. Representative Bankhead said the firemen were “on time to the minute.” Soon Engine Company No. 9 was stringing hose and Truck Company No. she (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. Mr. and Mrs. L. H. Mears,| TR i Firemen early today rescued Repre- | trapped by flames which had enveloped | Louis H. Mears, were badly damaged | FIREMEN RESCUE BANKHEADS FROM FLAMES IN RESIDENCE Representative and Wife and the living room. Firemen believe sparks | Top: Mrs. Bankhead. Center: Representative Bankhead. Lower: Fireman R. M. Drummond. DRY HEAD DENIES importation thereof into and the ex- portation thereof from the United States | &nd all territory subject to the Jufls-l diction thereof for beverage pu L™ Senator Fess stipulated he had no idea whatever that Mr. Hoover had any modification or revision plan in mind. “I believe the President has an open mind,” expl the Ohioan. “He wants to do what is right.” “I don't want to say that he is keeping the door open for 1 do not want to put him in the position of considering any revision or modification of prohibition. “All I do say and can say is that has simply this particular plan of the commission for the obvious reason that it would place prohibition into politics ver. 1 af& ‘would prohibition the ever- lasting pa; it issue.” U. 5. “ABDICATION’ Answers Wickersham Report, Saying He Will Accept More Agents if Congress Wishes. By the Associated Press. answered the contention of the Wick- ersham Commission that his request for 500 additional dry agents was too small with the statement that “if Con- Differences Bitter. - As Congress and the country plunged into new phases of the lun{ prohibition dispute today, enough of the inside story of the Wickersham Cos was disclosed to indicate the bitterness of some of its internal differences. There was no authoritative support, | ant part of Federal jurisdiction under |living master of the art of falling with- however, for reports that the disagree- ments of the commissioners arose either from any l..cierence by President Hoover, or frczi 2ny alteration of the commiss zeport after it had been signed by members. In the course of its preparation the wording of the report was changed again and again in an effort to arrive at a draft all 11 commissioners could sign. Had Vigorous Discussions. This process brought to the surface in an emphatic manner the varying views of the membership. It led to many long and vigorous discussions. It shuffied some of the members into positions of determined insistence which their colleagues found difficulty in accepting. In the end, all but one cf the 11 signed. He was Monte M. Lemann of New Orleans who, in a separate report, declared for repeal of the eighteenth amendment. Lemann thus far has de- clined to add any public comment to his official findings, but he may be in- vited along with other members to talk t0_a Scnate committee under an in- (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SOVIET YOUTH TOLD NATION FACES WAR Capitalist Countries Preparing to March Against Socialist Regime, Says Voroshilov. ey By thé Associated Press MOSCOW, January 22.—Soviet Rus- sia is threatened with the greatest war in bhistory, Commissar of War Voro- shilov declared in an address today to the Congress of Communist Youths. ‘The Soviet Union, he declared, must | organize the masses not only for the purpose of defending the country against inevitable intervention, but for victory over “the country which first draws the sword against us.” ‘Three million young Communists are in the Congress of Youths, he said, and 200,000 of them are in the army. He urged the entire membership to be- gin intensive training for defense of the state. “Our country,” sald he, “is a so- clalistic island surrounded by capitalist enemies. These are difficult times, and we must not forget the external factors all about us. The ganger of attack is constantly growing, and it is obvious that the international bourgeoisie are preparing to march against us.” e quoted the German Gen. Luden- dorfl, “The danger of war once a has become real everywhere,” and serted that capitalism, grip of gress wants to give us more we will aceept them gratefully.” The commission’s report said of ‘Woodcock's estimate for increased per- sonnel that “his figure assumes prac- tical Federal abdication of ap import- the amendment and Federal acquies- cence in State nullification.” Denies Federal “Acquiescence.” The prohibition director said toda: there was no such Federal * cence.” y ‘acquies and his workers were trying their utmost to enlist State co-opera- tion, “even in States that do not have a prohibition law.” ‘The request for 500 additional agen's,” he said, “represents my judg- ment, the Attorney General's judgment and the judgment of the Budget Bu- reau. If Congress wishes to increase this number we will gladly accept them. As for the speed with which we can put these men into the fleld, that, too, is in the hands of Congress. We have laid plans for calling the bureau’s 24 instructors to Washington in June for a refreshing course of instruction. Will Be Ready. “They will be waiting in various parts of the 12 prohibition districts on July 1 to begin immediate training of the 500 agents, if this number is given us. If the appropriation is given us before that date we will see that our plans are advanced accordingly.” The Wickersham report said that “The slow building up of an adequate and well trained force presupposes a considerable further period of experi- ment during which the deficiencies of the present situation will continue.” GARSAUD WEDS FORMER Member of New Power Commission and Bride Return to Capital After Ceremony. Col. Marcel Garsaud of the Pederal Power Commission surprised his fellow members of the commission upon his return here today from a brief visit to his nome, in New Orleans, by an- nouncing that he had been married ‘Tuesday. Col. Garsaud's bride, who was Mis Beatrice Deffarge, was formerly his secretary. Col. and Mrs. Garsaud are making their home at the Jefferson Apart- ments. Prohibition Director Woodcock today | MACDONALD DEFES COMMONS DEFEAT Loses in Vote on Education,’ Bill, but Will Not Resign as Premier. By the Associatsd Press. | LONDON, January 22—Although de- | feated in the House of Commons by 33 votes on an amendment to its educa- | tion bill, the government of Prime Min- | ister Ramsay MacDonald remained i |office today, considering the issue at| | stake in the amendment of minor char- acter. The vote was 282 to 249. ‘The refusal to resign led Winston | Churchill, Conservative, to comment that Mr. MacDonald was “the greatest | out hurting himself.” H ‘The government accepted the amend- ment, which was forced by one of its own members, John Scurr, a Roman | Catholic, and later passed the amended | bill on its third and final reading by a vote of 256 to 328. Most of the Lib- | | erals abstained in the second vote. | Amendment Is Offered. | The bill provides for raising the age | at which children may leave school from | from 14 to 15 years, with an allowance | of 5 shillings to be made to needy par- | ents whom the law affects. The Scurr amendment authorized a government appropriation to equalize the additional burden that the law would impose on the religious or non-provided schools. In passing the measure over the gov- | ernment’s protest, 34 Laborites deserted to the opposition. The bill now goes to the House of Lords, which may, taking courage from the closeness of the Commons vote, re- | fuse it altogether. In any event, it can- mot. become operative until September, | 1932, Premier’s Second Defeat. It was the second defeat the Mac- | Donald ministry has-sustained in the | House of Commons, a previous adverse | vote having been recorded last March on a minor amendment to the coal mines bill. There have been three de- feats in the House of Lords. The first | MacDonald ministry, in 1924, suffered | several defeats on minor matters before | resigning after a vote on a major ques- | tion. The government faced another hurdle in its trades disputes bill, up for second reading today. Observers believed the government would win by a small mar- gin. |LOVE FOR BROTHER FATAL Eight-Year-Old Sister Falls Dead | When Told of Death. | SAN JUAN, Calif, January 22 (®).| —Physicians said love for her 6-year- old brother, Peter, killed 8-year-old | Amy Senegrin, | Peter died of acute indigestion yes- |terday. Amy was told. She collapsed | without a word and died before a doc- | tor arrive Frank J. Loesch of Chicago an economic crisis, “biames the Soviet mitted to President, Frank J. MEMBER OF WICKERSHAM GROUP TO OUTLINE PROHIBITION VIEWS Will Speak at Church of the Covenant Tonight. In the first speech to be made by a|a statementattached tothe report proper, i | nember of the Wickersham Commis- | that together with his experience as a sion since that body's report was sub- prosecuting officer and from personal observation he had reached the con- .| clusion that effective national enforce- he Union for all its misfortunes and is | Loesch of Chicago will outline his views ment of the amendment in its present ring for war against us. “The coming he said, a factory for the annihilation of men, amll, h;' su'amhl;' hue,way men must not e, Rualinied to handle the chinery of war. We must face the at- tack with a trained army.” He tonight at 8 o'clock in tional Commission on Law form work. Mr. Loesch was one of the commis- indicated that preparations for|sion members who favored revision of the Church of | form is unattainable. ‘will be | the-Covenant, Eighteenth and N streets. | ition to his service on the Na- ce but must be|and Enforcement, Mr. Loesch has taken complicated ma- | a prominent role in Chicago crime re- “The traffic,” he reported, “has trai scended State lines and has become matter of national ;:onum "'!}:l;ln if 1", were a possibility of accomp! ent in the near future it would' be unwise to repeal the eighteenth amendment. “Such ‘would uulem!«heulnltln! a | return of States n. PASSENGER IS SHOT AS ROBBERS LOOT PULLMAN ON TRAIN Six Bandits Board Car at Ohio Coal Stop and Hold Up Those on Board. $3,000.IN CASH AND GEMS TAKEN FROM TRAVELERS Wounded Man Fired Upon as He Shouted From Fright Caused by Nightmare. | By the Assoclated Press. BELLEFONTAINE, Ohio, January 22.—Working with quiet but grim pre- cision, six train bandits routed sleeping Florida-bound passengers from their berths as a Big Four train neared here early today, shot one man and made away with cash and jewelry estimated at $3,000. Evidently timing the hold-up well in advance, the gunmen, all masked and armed, invaded the next to the last Pullman of the No. 9 train, en route from Detroit to Cincinnati. One man who shouted in alarm was shot and critically wounded and the remaining six passengers here marshaled in the brakeman. One robber stood guard while the rest went through the car, snatching money and valuables. As the train slowed down for Bellefontaine, they leaped from the rear car and disap- peared into the darkness. The time between their leap and the arrival of the train was sufficlent for them to make good their escape despite the vigilant search by deputy sheriffs, police and railroad detectives. Victim Seriously Wounded. The man shot was Edwin K. Nelson, jr., of Tampa, Fla. He shouted when aroused and was ordered to ‘“keep quiet.” He shouted again and was shot, the bullet piercing his right arm and chest. He was in a serious condition today with a punctured lung. While the robbers leisurely went through the car Brakeman Morris came through and immediately joined the prisoners. The robbery occupied about an hour while the train proceeded from Carey, about 45 miles north of here, to Belle- fontaine. They disturbed no other car. Railroad detectives thought the robbers probably climbed aBoard while a halt was made at Carey for coal. Passengers and the crew made meager reports when the train arrived here at 4 am. An immediate search was made, but there was no clue. Offi- cials surmised the men had an auto- mobile waiting for them here. Five of the victims did not file indi- vidual reports of the losses or leave their names here, but they estimated |their total lcss at $3,000. After an hour’s delay the train went on to Cin- cinnati, where the robbed car was routed on to Florida. Was Having. Nightmare. Big Four surgeons who attended Nel- son at the Mary Rutan Hospital here said that his condition was so critical that recovery is doubtful. The bullet went clear through his body and was found on the mattress of his Pullman bunk. The wound in the right lung caused profuse bleeding, which added to the danger of his condition, the sur- geons said. . Nelson later said he was having a terrible dream—in fact, a nightmare— just at the moment the robbery oc- curred. He said he was in the second berth from the end of the car and had Jjust reached the point in his dream where he was screaming at the top of his voice when one bandit pulled his curtain aside and shouted “Shut up!” Nelson, still asleep, continued to yell and the next instant the robber shot him twice. Victims of the robbery had excited stories to tell upon arrival at Cin- cinnati. Mrs. L. D. Dearing, Chattanooga, Tenn., said that the first intimation that anything unusual was happening was when she heard loud talking fol- lowed by the shot that wounded Nelson. She thought then that two men were fighting, until a man poked his head into her berth and told her to get out in the aisle, saying “What have you got on you?” She immediately slipped a diamond ring into her stocking and was herded into the parlor car with the other passengers, where the robbers took a $2,500 ring from her. Kept Pearls and Rings. Mrs. E. G. Zacharias, Atlanta, Ga., said that she heard the robbers asking other passengers for their valuables be- fore they came to her berth. She was terribly frightened, she said, and de- cided to give them everything she had to prevent violence. When one robber stuck his head between the _curtains she handed him her purse, which con- tained $60 in cash and a $500 watch. She also thought that she had put a small pocketbook in her purse that contained a string of pearls and sev- (Continned on Page 2, Column 4.) KANSAN FACES TRIAL ON GINGER CHARGES Under Indictment as Distributor, Purportedly Resulting Paralysis Epidemics. in By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 22.—Indicted on a charge of distributing ginger ex- tract beverage throughout the country, purportedly resulting in several paraly- sis epidemics, Ralgh Lewis must stand trial in Topeka, Kans, for conspiracy. In handing down the decision against Lewis yesterday, United States Commis- sioner Edward E. Fay dismissed cases against nine others who were accused of selling industrial alcohol, with which ginger extract was mixed to make an intoxicating beverage. Capt. Dollar Recovering. SAN RAFAEL, Calif, January 22 (/). —Physicians said today Capt. Robert Dollar, 87, dean of Coast ship- gtn‘ men, had won another victory over iness by his “remarkable stamina.” He was operated on Monday for an in- ternal disorder. | drawing room with the porter and a THE THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1931—FORTY-TWO PAGES. ##» ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE WICKERSHAM REPORT WAS ONLY AT Pow! To OWERT 74 - rcunm" aad Gae ~ N | DENOUNCE THE J POWER TRUST AND MEYER NOMINATION 1S RECOMMITTED eral Reserve Head Back on Brookhart’s Plea. By the Associated Press Banking Committee the nomination of Eugene Meyer, jr., of New York to be governor of the Federal Reserve Board The Senate agreed unanimously after Senator Brookhart, Republican, of Iowa protested he had not been given an opportunity ‘to question the nom- inee and charged that Meyer had “‘conspired to cause the failure of joint stock land banks.” Brookhart moved to recommit the nomination. . Before a vote was taken Chairman Norbeck of the committee asked unanimous consent to have the nomination referred back. The request was supported by Meyer's friends. Glass and Smoot Speak. Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia, said he was swre Meyer would want the nomination to go back in view of the | tcl Senator Smeot; Republican, Utah, de- clared it was “perfectly useless to try to blacken the character of a man like Meyer” and urged Brookhart's motion be defeated, but he finally agreed to Norbeck's proposal. “‘Charges have been made he was in- volved in a direct conspiracy to destroy joint stock land banks and some of them were closed as a result of his poliey,” Brookhart said. Cites McFadden Letter. He also called attention to a letter written by Chairman McFadden of the House Banking Committee, to members of the Senate Committee which Brook- hart said charged the resignation of two members of the Federal Reserve Board had been sought in order to make a place for Meyer. Brookhart said McFadden's letter charged former Gov. Young had re- signed and a “place of great compensa- tion found for him.” and that Edmund Platt, another member of the board, had also resigned to open a vacancy in the board from New York State. Senator Ashurst, Democrat, Arizona, characterized the committee's refusal to hear Brookhart “the most shocking proceeding” he had ever heard of in the B . nate. Ashurst, who described himself as a supporter of Meyer, said: “We have reached a pretty pass when members of a committee are not allowed to ask questions of a nominee.” Twe Denials Alleged. Brookhart said he had not only been denied the right to question Meyer be- fore the full committee, but also before a subcommittee investigating banking conditions at which Meyer was schedul- ed as a witness. He said the subcommittee had post- poned calling Meyer until after his con- firmation. Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, sald the committee had not wanted to call Meyer because sufficient hearings already had been held on the charges and the committee had not wanted to “rehash” old proceedings. | PROJECT HOPELESS| Announces Intention to Resume| Lumbering Operations in Great Smoky Mountain Area. By the Associated Press. ASHEVILLE, N. C., January Z?.—As~i serting that establishment of a park in the Great Smoky Mountains appears to be a “hopeless proposition,” the Champion Fibre Co. today served no- tice it would resume lumbering oper: tions in the proposed park area. ‘The companys position was set forth In a letter from Reuben B. Robinson, president, to Col. David C. Chapman of Knoxville, chairman of the Ten- nessee Great Smoky Mountains Na- tional Park Commission. The letter ‘was made public here. A jury of review sitting in Sevierville, Pern., recently placed a valuation of $2,325,000 on the 30,000 acres of spruce land owned by the fiber company in the heart of the Tennessee park area. The Tennessee Park Commission con- tended the valuation was about $650,- 000, and announced it would appeal the jury's verdict. , in his letter, says his com- in the the property for the ben- rk. We did this under the impression that you were 'xolnc to treat fairly and expeditiously with us.” cr&.u:hm of the valuation on the park by the jury by Robin- son to mean Senate Sends Name of Fed- The Senate today recommitted to its | COMPANY HOLDS PARK Gov. Bryan Forms Secret Service to Cut | Nebraska Crime By the Associated Press. LINCOLN, Neb, January 22.— A volunteer force of State secret | | service agents, working without | | compensation from the State, has been organized in Nehraska under the direction of Gov. Charles W. Bryan, brother of the “great commoner.” State Sheriff Michagl Endres sald that neither names of the agents nor the number enlisted will be revealed. “We don't want criminals to know who they are,” he explained. WOMAN DENIES AID N 550,000 SWINDLE Money Lost Ain Faro Gam(;, Asserts U. S. Revenue Of- ficial in Illinois. By the Associated Press. - SPRINGFIELD, ‘M. January 22— Two Tllinols political leaders w:re em- broiled today in a dispute that emerged from a $50,000 loan to Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, collection of internal r;\;fl;\:e. and the alleged victim of card sharks. Edward R. Litsing:r, member of the Cook County Board of Review, political friend of Mrs. Blacklidge and once Republican aspirant for the mayoralty of Chicago, charged he was swindled | of the $50,000 he lent the Federal offi- | clal and said h: would prosecute her. 5 314"‘( B‘I’lc’Ell:gg: uld‘ nh‘e couldn’t inderstan °r's turning against her this way. - e Denies Self to Callers. “I can’t understand so many things | that have happened,” she continued. | “Everything has gon: out—the props have just fallen out from under me. I don't know what to do.” For that reason Mrs. Blacklidge said she had denied herself to callers—had even refus:d to answer newspaper inquiries, Mrs. Blacklidge sald she was leaving Springfield for Chicago at 2:30 pm. a; y. “And when T get back,” she said, “I intend to get to the bottom of this | dirty deal.” Lost in Faro Game. Mrs. Blacklidge said that she had lost the money lent her by Litsinger in a faro game in the St. Nicholas Hotel in Springfield. Litsinger denied this, say- ing that Mrs. Blacklidge had borrowed | the -money from him on the excuse that it was needed to settle details of her late husband’s estate. | “That's a lle, and he knows it is,” | she said. “I went to him and asked to | borrow $50,000 for 24 hours—no longer. I promised him that I would give him $10,000 of my winnings for the favor. “He knew it was for the purpose of | collecting the faro debt. He knew it all | concerned faro. In fact, his nephew sat Iin the same room with me while I continued to play faro, and Mr. Lit- singer was in the adjoining room.” | “ Flour War in Nova Scotia. SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, January 22 (#).—This city is experiencing a flour price war, brought about by chain store cutting of prices. To enable local re- tailers to compete, wholesal:rs have dropped their rates by 30 cents a barrel, with a possibility of further decrease. UTILITIES GROUP [GNORES COUNSEL Orders Bride to Proceed to Seek Modification of Power Rate Decree. The Public Utilities Commission to- day decided to ignore the advice of Corporation Counsel William W. Bride and to proceed to seek a modification of the consent decree of Equity Court regulating electric rates in the District. Mr. Bride was instructed to proceed at once to take the necessary steps to have the decree modified. His advice, today rejected by the commission, was that the commission abrogate the decree. The matter came up at the commis- sion’s regular meeting this morning and after the meeting was over an atiache gave out commission’s statement, :nnly six lines long, which read as fol- 2 “At its meeting today, the commis- sion decided to make no change the request communicated to its &l counsel to proe.“o;d at once to necessary steps to secure modifica- tions of the consent decree, in accord- ance with its ncement of the 31st of December, 1930, in finding No. 4 of its order No. 892.” Keech Opposed to Plan. No _comment was forthcoming from the Commissioners. Ch; Mason in n- text of Mr. Bride's communication in which the latter suggested his proposed course of action. Mr. Bride was at home ill and could not be reached for comment. People’s | Counsel Richmond B. Keech, who favor- ed the Bride plan, said: “This decision is most unfortunate It will result in pl-clng upon the com- mission a burden which rightly belongs to the company.” ‘Will Abide by Decision. Mr. Bride had previously said, how- ever, that if the commission decided to override his opinion, he would be in duty bound to prepare and &z any peti- tion that the commission might 3 Thus when the case comes up for trial an anomalous situation will be presented in which the plaintiff and its own counsel are in complete dis- agreement as to the merits of the plaintiff’s case. The history of the dis- ute goes back to the public hearings eld at the end of last month to decide on the electric rates for 1931. Testimony at that hearing by William McK. Clayton, representing the Federa- tion of Citizens’ Associations, was to the affect that under the consent decree which became effective January 1, 1925, (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) COLLISION SINKS SHIP IN DELAWARE RIVER By the Associated Press. (Y PHILADELPHIA, January 22.—The steamship Commercial Mariner, 2,500 tens, of the Moore & McCormack Linss, sank in the Delaware River below ‘Wilmington, Del., today after colliding with the steamer San Simeon, 5,500 tons, of the Quaker Lines. Unconfirmed reports were that the chief engineer of the Commercial Mariner was unaccounted for. The San Simeon was inbound from Grays Harbor, Washington State, bLy way of New, York. Her bow was badly damaged, but she proceeded to Phila- delphia. The Commercial Mariner was oytbound for Tampa and New Orleans. REPRESENTATIVE Charles J. Thompson, Representative from the fifth Ohio district, was sued today in the District Supreme Court for a limited divorce by his wife, Kath- erine Howe Thompson, Tilden Gardens. ‘The wife charges cruelty. Mrs. Thompson tells the court she was married in this city January 6, 1925, and lived happily during the figst years of their married life. Her husband, she charges, then, with the aid of various members of his fam- ily, carried on a systematic course of cruel, abusive and inhuman treatment of her, which caused her to become mentally and physically ill. By reason olthzulefimelty.nhennnbem ?;road to leave her husband December She asserts that beginning in 1927, an FOR DIVORCE ON CRUELTY CHARGE Mrs. Katherine Howe Thompson, 62, Says Husband’s Family Aided in Systematic Abusive Treatment. THOMPSON SUED Mrs. Thompson charges that Samuel ‘The , & son of the Repre- Craig Thompson, sentative by a !or:ng marriage, an (®) Means Associated Press, should totally 000, Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,084 TWO CENTS. HEARINGS SOUGHT 10 KILL SENATE'S DOLE’ RELIEF PLAN House Administration Lead- ers Would Delay Action on $25,000,000 Fund. $1,000,000 RAISED IN RED CROSS CAMPAIGN Tour of Three Drought States to Stage Benefits Started by Rogers BY the Associated Preps. Seeking a means of killing the Sen- ate's $25,000,000 apropriation for Red Cross drought relief, House administra~ tion leaders today planned hearings on the proposal before taking action. They decided to have the Interior Department supply bill, to which the appropriaticn is attached as an amend- ment, referred today to the Appropri- ations Committee for investigation, The committee would give Red Cross clals who are opposed to the appro- priation an opportunity to testify and make recommendations on whether the amount voted by the Senate is neces- sary. The Red Cross today reported $1,127,- 000 had been contributed in its cam- paign for $10,000.000 for the relief suffering in the drought area. It -fi the of the fund was much slower that of past campaigns. President to Speak, President Hoover, as presiden American Red Cross, o % Invitation to pcrtlclgne in the special program arran; and the Nlblon‘:ld Sadcasting be broad cast _tonight from o'clock, E. 8. T. The ' President will White House. te use to more than $6,- Thirty carloads of flour, L Yy of corn, pota- airman M. Patrick declined to make public the | drought i Th: bill provides for the e: of the appropriation under direc- tion of the United States Public Health Service. Surgeon Gen. Hugh S. Cumming, assistance was testified Federal necessary. Meantime, bound for Little Rock, Ark., where he *| he'd at least find warmer weather,” Will fa- mous comedian, took off from the Naval Alr Station at 8 o'clock this morning, and a few minutes later had from sight in one of the Navy's fastest fighting planes. The ship, for the personal use of David S. Assistant Sec- retary of the Navy for Aerona ioaned to for a vaude tour of Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas for ER R ok apt. Frai wks, was flying the plane. Proceeds for Red Cross. Rogers will give a series of enter- tainments in the three states, the pro- Cross going to the local Red chlncen"ter distribution. will bring Alfred E. Smith, Mary Pickford, Mrs. August Belmont, John Barton Payne, Frieda Hempel and Amos 'n’ . They will participate from half a doz- Zn cities_over the networks of the Na- ional ting + Com and Columbia systems. i Last night's session of -the Senate (Continued on 2, Column 1.) $100,000 KIDNAPING PLOT IS FRUSTRATED Detroit Police Arrest Four Men and Woman in Plan to Abduct Child of H.'S. Maynard. By the Assoclated Press. DETROIT, January 22.—A $100,000 kidnap plot against one of the young children of Horace §S. Maynard, wealthy Detroit business man, was thwarted by detectives last night with an|the arrest of two men, who went to the Maynard home, the officers sald, to r | abduct the child. Later, two other men and a woman were arrested and the four men were sald by Duncan B. McCrea, assistant ¢ w:‘n: attorney, to have made & conspiracy to was construed that the park commission | ernable tem; Vintends to “delay this matter as much as possible and to harass us and put us to as much expense as possible. defense already were under way, with |the eighteenth amendment in such a the dechr:lucn, ‘;: case '1{‘ ::r all mnm: (n‘hfimmmmfl‘ h-:z light and hea us mo- power to legislate upon the entire sub- bt s = Ject of the liquor traffic. He said, in not havi Dr A J. the will address the audi subjeck ence o0 the ‘same R, giy Progra open saloon State-wide probibitio . with . tionable epithets. She is now under & Pphysician’s care, she tells the court. fia on Page C-3 1 ¥ +