Evening Star Newspaper, January 23, 1931, Page 1

§ WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Fair and somewhat warmer tonight; lowest temperature about 32 degrees to- “From Press to Home Within the Hour® The Star’s cairier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion 15 delivered to Washington homes night. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 38, at noon today; lowest, 26, at 7 a.m, today. N . Full report on page 9. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages 13,14 & 15 @h ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ¢ Foening Star. as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,273 Entered as s post office, No. 31,678. nd class matter shington. D. (. WASHINGTON, D. 'C., FREDAY, JANUARY 23, 1931— FORTY PAGES. FHR (#) Means Associated Pre TWO CENTS. SEYMOUR INDICTED WITH CROCER FoE OF SENKTORNORRS Perjury Charged to G. 0. P. Aide and Would-Be Ne- braska Candidate. ACTION RESULTS FROM NYE PROBE TESTIMONY | Others Expected to Be Accused for Part in Move to Beat Incumbent. By the Associated Pre<s LINCOLN, Nebr., January 23.—Victor Seymour, former manager of the West- ern headquarters of the Republican Na- tional Senatorial Campaign Committee at Denver, today was charged with per- Jury in an indictment returned here by ® Federal grand jury. George W. Norris, Broken Bow, Ne- braska, grocer, who attempted to oppose United States Senator George W. Norris in the Republican primary in his race for re-election last year, also was in- dicted on a perjury charge. The indictments resulted from testi- mony given by the two men before the United States Senate Campaign Fund | Investigating Committee here last Fall. Indicted on Eight Counts. The indictment against Seymour con- | tained eight counts and that against Grocer Norris two. Seymour told the committee headed by Senator Gerald P. Nye last Summer that he had not taken an active interest in the Nebraska senatorial campaign and that he had no knowledge of the grocer’s filing as & primary campaign opponent of Sena- tor Norris until a story appeared in Rewspapers. Later the committee was told by Miss Esther Marie Alton, who formerly was employed in Seymour’s Lincoln office, that he had conducted a “straw vote” in Nebraska to ascertain the most popu- lar man to oppose the senior Nebraska Senator in his campaign for re-election in the Republican primary and that a Faces Perjury Charge GEORGE W. NORRIS. FLAMES IN HOMES PARSCASTS ABOLT FOR NEW PREMIE AS CABINETFALL Steeg Beaten After 40-Day Rule in Dispute Over Wheat Price. LOWER U. S. COMMODITY CITED BY OPPOSITION President Doumergue Faces Sev- enth Selection of Successor Dur- ing This Parliament. By the Associated Press. PARIS, January 23.—For the seventh | time in the life cf the present Parlia- | ment President Gaston Doumergue today | cast about for strong, stcady hands to KILL FOUR CHILDREN Three Victims Die Near Ha- at Fredericksburg. Special Dispatch to The Star. HAGERSTOWN. Md., January 23.— Three children were dead here today, the victims of fires which destroyed two homes in nearby towns. ‘Two of the children, Martha, 13, and | Richard, 10, daughter and son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Breckbill were burned to death in the bed room of their home in Mount Alto, Pa., about eight miles from here, shortly after midnight. Mother Also Burned. Mrs. Breckbill, and another child, aged 2, were seriously burned. | The family lived on the second floor | of a frame apartment house. Mrs. Breckbill, alone in the apartment witi | the children, was aroused by smoke. Invest'gating she found the kitchen | aflame. Arousing the older children | and grabbing the baby in her arms the | mother started for safety. John Sprow, who with his wife lnd’ two children occupied the lower apart- | ment, was awakened by the movements | gerstown—Mother and Child | | s possible designates. take the reins of the French government and hold them against the straining of the badly teamed parties of the Cham- ber of Deputics. Conferences were begun with the presidents of the Chamber and Senate and parliamentary committees for a premier-designate to succeed Theodore Steeg, whose ministry fell in the Cham- ber last night, 293 to 283, after a life of 40 days. His was the eighty-fifth gov- | ernment of the Third Republic. Wheat Price Issue. The defeat came on a question of | confidence posed after interpellation on | the efforts of the ministry of agriculture, | headed by Victor Boret, t> fix the price | of wheat in France at about $2 a bushel, | against 60 cents a bushel in Winnipeg | and 80 cents in Chicago. Pierre Etienne Flandin, minister of commerce in the succeeding cabinet of Andre Tardieu, was leader of the fight against M. Boret and the government in yesterday's debate. Pierre Laval and Senator Louis Barthou were mentioned Deputies Are Impressed. Flandin dramatically painted a pic- BUT IT NEVER | RAINS POURS!— \T | ARNSTEIN SOUGH IN'$50,000 SWINDLE | | & Suspected of Being Author ofi Plot Causing Woman Offi- | cial’s Faro Loss. ‘ By the Assoclated Press. | CHICAGO, January 23.—The police investigation of the swindle in which Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, Fed- eral revenue official, said she lost Broadcasts Faked f By Yale Student; Space on Air Sold* Wisecracks Are Credited | to Faculty Members ‘ in Programs. ‘ e | By the Associated Press, NEW HAVEN, January 23.—This is Station W-R-1-G-H-T, broadcasting | from Yale University by authority of | student ingenuity and bringing to you nightly the views of famous educators. Your announcer is Graham Cracker. | That, says the Yale Alumni Weekly | JURY PROBES PITTS' DEFENSE WRITINGS Investigation of Requisitions and Receipts Revealed in Dodds’ Commission. The grand jury today began an in- vestigation of allegedly “spurious writ- ings” introduced by the defense at the recent trial of G. Bryan Pitts and two other former officers of the F. H. Smith HODVER ADVSER | TRYTOAVODG.0.. *SPLIT ON REVISON President’s Opposition Only to Wickersham Plan for Congress Control. SIMILAR IN EFFECT TO REPEAL, IS VIEW| Dry Interpretations Cause Alarm That Wets Turn From Party. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Apparently alarmed over the reac- tion of many wet Republicans to the dry interpretation placed upon Presi- dent Hoover's letter transmitting the Wickersham report to Congress, some of the President’s friends and advisers President Hoover has “an open mind” regarding revision of the eighteenth amendment. ‘These advisers of the President insist that Mr. Hoover has turned his back | merely on the revision plan suggested in the Wickersham report, which would give Congress power to regulate or to prohibit, as it sees fit, the manufacture and traffic in alcoholic beverages. Might Take Stand. ‘They do not go so far as to say that President Hoover is for revision; they merely deélare that he has not closed his mind and that he might at some future time be for revision. * The effort is to keep the prohibition issue out of the next political campaign to the extent that it will not hopelessly split the Republican party. . President Hoover is being urged today to clarify his position on this matter and at the same time is being strongly advised to say nothing further about it. In some quarters it was suggested that the President would speak out, perhaps | today. By others this was firmly denied. One suggestion advanced h)dl{n was that in the 1932 campaign the line of demarkation between the Republicans are busy spreading the report that| 1,000,000 MAY NEED RED CROSS RELIEF BY END OF MONTH Appeals From Drought Area Rapidly Mounting, With 587,034 Now Helped. SENATE BILL JAM EASED IN DEFICIENCY FUND 0. K. House Hearing Ordered on $25, 000,000 Appropriation Proposed as Additional Aid. By the Associated Press. Relief calls to the Red Cross for food and clothing during the past few days have been so great that Chairman John Barton Payne today said close to a mil- lion people would need aid by Feb- ruary 1. “Our reports today show we are caring for 587,034,” Payne said. “Our field workers in the one State of Arkansas alone estimate figures 550,~ 000 persons will be on the Red Cross rolls in that State by February 1. This is more than one-quarter of the entire population of the State. Relief in Nearby Area. “Relief has besn extended to a num- ber of counties in West Virginia, Vir- ginia, Alabama and Ohio by the na- | tional organization in the past few days as the local resources of the communi- ties and the chapters were exhausted. “The magnitude of this task for car- ing for drought sufferers, and the acute need for the relief fund of $10,000,000 which the R:d Cross has asked for, can be comprehended when a comparison is made with the relief work by the Red Cross in the Mississippi Valley flood in 1927 “At the very h:ight of that emeggency 600,000 persons were cared for by the Red Cross. Today we are helping : > - within 50,000 of that number and our litical statement released by Grocer ture of the high price cof wheat and | $50,000 loaned her by Edward R. Lit- Co. & emoc: ‘Wor the . 1 d. Rorris”of"tne” e of ‘his Sing 3. & | oy S (ool of the bulding, rah | Bresd in Faris, while wheat gocs amost | singer, wealthy member of the Cook | 1938Y. is what has been going on in the | Cb. O conspiracy - embesslement | S04 i Demeceats Bold be the ine Clothing ‘and- other "opes of reli i aaidate, for ghe senatorial nomination | up & back porch and rescued ~Mrs, | DeBSINg in the United States and|couney Board of Review, was concen- |Stately halls of old Eli for the past| Charses. teenth amendment and revision of that | almost a milli by Febi 1 was typed in Seymour's office. o~ ; | Canada. His address made a decp im- | COUnty . > Whs: co | The writings in question are a num- | t held that th ot st bt 0 Breckbill and the baby. The origin of | Jolioh upon the deputies representing | trated today on an effort to find |month. Though its perpetrators are | amendment. It was held that the|if calls continue to mount at the rate Financing of Race. W. M. Stubbs, who at that time was | Stat: treasurer and who also was a candidate for the Republican senatorial it he Runced the fing o the groer t anced ] of the grocer and gave Seymour a $500 bond to give T, arrival. the fire was undetermined. Dies in Hospital. ‘The other fire victim was Verna Myers, 7 years old, who died in a local hospital Home of ner parents. meer Middioburs e parents, near 3 was destroyed by fire Monday morning. cover. the cities. Deputies from tne rural dis- tricts voted with the government. ‘Whoever leads the %government, ! the portfolio of Mr. nd, foreign minister, is regarded as essured. Louis Buyat, a fiery Left Centrist, charged the government’s premature BRIAND STAYS IN GENEVA. Jules “Nicky” Arnstein, New York con- | fidence man, suspected of having been | the author of the plot. | Both police and Federal agents were seeking Arnstein as one of the three| a Springfield, i1, hotel. nameless and its effects apparently (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) | ATTORNEY OPPOSES ber of requisitions and receipts intro- duced in evidence at the trial by Pitts |in an effort to justify his taking of various sums of money which the Gov- ernment contended was embezzled. Pitts, former chairman of the Smith $5,000,000 of the company’s funds. | Democrats would take the repeal end of this argument and the would stand for revision. Effect of Repeal. In the final analysis, repeal of existing prohibition, if the re- vision way the manu- Republicans up their minds whether they will sup- established in the past few days.” Gifts Exceed $1,000,000. Contributions to the R:d Cross $10,- 000,000 relief fund were boosted to $1,264,000 today, Meanwhile Speaker Longworth an- He did so immediately. groce: scne ed |imen who “vankned withi .the: $30,0 Co. board of 1 nounced in the House he would refer R s oy jtice that|Her father, who carried her and an- | Soeumtos et vt t e lomored | which Litsinger lent to Mrs. Black- 6 b o directors, was found gulty | facture and sale of alcoholic beverages. R he riceived the as'a |other child”through the flames, when | Suring (he Weck of 40 oents » husdsed. | ldse. collector of internal revenue for | LT g out for reviaion, then the iy Who be. | the S30,000 Cross aj candidate was ruled by the State | trapped in the =building, was stil | yeight on whx Northern Tllinols, and which she said {and Johin H. Edwards, jr., former of.- (Sut for revision, then the drys who be- | [} frvige Appropriations 54 Supreme Court because of its belated | N hospital, but is expected to re- she lost in faro game with the trio in | clals, to destroy records and embezzle tee for hearings. | After Miss Alton had told the com- mittee of th: activities of Mr. Seymour, be resigned his position in Denver and Teturned to Lincoln. | Later Walter W. Head, Chicago and | Omaha banker, told the committee h> paid Seymour $4,000 “for taking the straw vote” poll of the State. Robert Van Pelt, * assistant United States district attorney, said attorneys for Seymour and th: grocer had an- nounced their clients would come to the Federal building soon. Grocer Norris, | authorities said, was oma. MORE INDICTMENTS SEEN. Benator Norris Not Surprised by Grand Jury Action, More indictments by the grand jury investigation in Nebraska into the ac- tivities of Republican leaders were pre- dicted today by Senator Norris, Re- publican, Nebraska, when informed of the indictment of Victor Seymour for perjury. Seymour was relieved as manager of the Western branch of the Republican senatorial campaign after inquiry by the Senate Campaign Funds Committee last Fall into the Nebraska Republican senatorial fight. “It was perfectly apparent from the evidence,” said Senator Norris, “that such an indictment would follow. It won't be the last one either.” ‘The Campaign Funds Committee pro- duced evidence which led Chairman Nye to contend that Seymour was in- strumental in getting George W. Norris, a Broken Bow grocery clerk, to file for the Republican nomination against Sen- ator George W. Norris. “had told the committee pre- in | when she poured kerosene on a wood MOTHER AND CHILD DEAD. Pouring Oil on Fire at Fredericksburg | Results in Dual Tragedy. Special Dispatch to The Star. FREDERICKSBURG, Va. January 23, —Mrs. James T. McNeal of Levely, Lancaster County, succumbed in the Mary Washington Hospital here this morning to burns sustained yesterday following an explosion in her home stove fire, Her 2-year-old daughter, Hazel, fatally burned when enveloped by flames from the stove, died en route to the hospital. N:ighbors rushed to the house upon seeing the smoke and extinguished the flames, which entirely embraced the mother and her daughter. FAVORS GIVING STATES PUBLIC LAND RIGHTS Commission to Draft Report to Congress on Surface and Min- eral Resources. By the Associ ized Press. CHEYENNE, Wyo, January 23.— Perry W. Jenkins, member of the Fed- eral Public Lands Commission, has re- vealed the dratting by the commission of a report to Congress recommending both surface snd mineral rights of public domain lands be given to the States in which they are located. The report provides, however, that the mineral rights shall be retained by the French Foreign Minister May Go to Paris Sunday. GENEVA, January 23 (#)—Fall of the Prench’govérnment before a Cham- ber vote at Paris last night created a sensation here, but is not expected to | affect the work of the Council of the | League of Nations. It was understood here that Aristide | Briand, foreign minister in the fallen | government, who is permanent French Tepresentative on the Council, will re- main here today and tomorrow. It is| hoped to finish the agenda of her! Council Saturday night, but if the| meeting should run over the week end M. Briand would probably return to Paris Sunday. It was said on good authority here today that no conversations for settle- ment of the Pranco-Italian naval dis- | pute had been begun at Geneva. THREE ARE SAVED IN BURNING HOUSE Mary:;IeT'l_(l and Two| Grandchildren Rescued From Apartment Mrs. A 70-year-old grandmother with a| broken arm and two sick children were | rescued from a fire which broke out in a third-story apartment at 3012'; street about 1 o'clock this afternoon. | nings. Man Resembled Arnstein. | Reports were circulated that suspicion | was first directed against Arnstein by Federal agents when they learried that he had been sean in Chicago's Loop district last Monday, and that his de- scription tallied in some respects with one of the three men described to the | Springfield police by Mrs. Blacklidge before her return last night to Chi- cago. She said she lost paper win- nings of $207,000 as well as the $50,000 | cash | One of the men, who said his name | was_George Parker, was found to re- | somble Arnstein, aithough there were | discrepancies as to welght and age. | While Litsinger persisted In his statement that he would prosecute | every one involved in the affair, the State's attorney at Springfield, H. E. Fullenwider, said his office would drop the matter. Litsinger sald he knew | nothing of the faro game, but had lent | Mrs. Blacklidge the money to help her obtain $90,000 which she claimed was due her from acquaintances of her late | husband. Her Version Given. Mrs. Blacklidge, however, maintained | that Litsinger knew he was lending her1 the money to make good a check she | used so she could collect previous win- Meanwhile, A. P. Madden, chief of the intelligence agents of the Inter- nal Revenue Department, spent some time in Mrs. Blacklidge's office, and it was reported that his examination of the accounts disclosed no irregulari- ties. Northern Tilinois police were certain that Joseph Weil, confidedce man, known as the “Yellow Kid,” had noth- ing to do with the swindle. |ago resulted in summary dismissal by C. B. Brewer Tells Senate Subcommittee Charges Heard Against Judge. Protest against the confirmation of | Judge D. Laurence Groner of the East- | ern District of Virginia, to serve on the | District Court of Appeals was filed with | a Senate subcommittee today by Charles B. Brewer, a former attorney in the Dy partment of Justice, who based his com- | plaint on information he said he had received regarding the handling of a | trial 1n which Judge Groner presided in | West Virginia in 1924, Brewer was one of the principals in | the famous Bureau of Engraving & Printing shake-up which several years | President Harding of the director and his staff. Charges of irregularities were discredited by investigation and all the ousted officials were offered their old jobs back at the Bureau. The case called to the attention of the subcommittee today was the so- called “harness case,” in which several persons were tried on conspiracy charges connected with the disposition of surplus war material. At the close of the trial Judge Groner directed a | verdict of acquittal. Names Other Informants. Most of the hearing revolved around the testimony of Mr. Brewer that he had been told that during the progress Revealed in Commission. The nature of the inves.igation started by the grand jury today was revealed in the commission filed with the court by Nugent Dodds, newly ap- pointed Assistant Attorney General. This commission authorizes him to ap- pear before the grand jury to present evidence gathered by the Government in suport ot their claim that the requi- sitions and receipts were false and fraudulent. Certain of these papers, dealing with money secured from th> Smith company on requisitions of the Beverly Buil Corporation, were identified at the trial | by Emory L. Coblentz, Maryland State Senator and president of th: Central Trust Co. of Prederick, Md. Coblentz went before the grand jury this after- noon and told the jury how these docu- ments were pr:pared. At the time of the trial he identified his signature on these papers, and said they were design:d to permit Pitts to draw on funds of the Beverly Building Corporation held by the Smith company. Coblentz testified at the trial that at the time the money was withdrawn he was the principal owner and stock- holder of the corporation. Later, he sald, his holdings were transferred to Pitts. A number of additional requisi- tions and receipts were introduced by Pitts in an effort to justify the payment to him of large sums of money by the Montclair Corporation. He said that he was the sole owner of the stock of this corporation. Prepared Statements. Both Anadale and Edwards testified hefore the grand jury this morning. Although the exact nature of their testi- mony was not disclosed, it was under- gn the Republican candidate or w-pl] ck a third party candidate who stands for national prohibition. Following up the recommendations of the Wickersham Commission, Senator | Copeland ot New York, a wet Democrat, introduced an amendment to the Vol- stead and Willis-Campbell acts today doing away with the statutory fixing of the amount of medicinal liquor and the number of prescriptions which may be written by physicians. It proposes also to do away with the requirement which compels physicians to specify the ailment for which liquor is prescribed. Three Courses to Follow. In dealing with national prohibition, it was contended today at the Capitol, there are only three courses which may be followed. The first is repeal of the eighteenth amendment and a return of the control of the liquor traffic to the States. The second is revision of the eighteenth amendment, which would place the regulaticn of liquor traffic in the hands of Congress. The third is (Continued on Page 2, Column 4.) MAN FOUND HANGING BY CORD IN HIS STORE John William Schaeffer, 62, Be- lieved Despondent Over Deca- dence of Business Surrounded by the moldering stock of his wallpaper store at 1705 Pennsyl- i farmers in North and Sout Representative Cramton of Michigan, chairman of the House App: tions Subcommittee, said “full and hear- ings would be conducted, beginning probably tomorrow. Result of Radio Appeal. As a result of the radio appeal last night by President Hoover, former Presi- dent Coolidge, Alfred E. Smith and others, officlals at Red Cross headquar- ters were busy answering inquiries as to where to send money. Chapters scattered throughout the land had telegraphed to Washingtcn concerning the status of drives for funds. The Van Cortlandt Chapter, in New York, was the first to notify Washington it had oversubscribed its quota of $2,000 and “anticipated ability to add to con- tributions. Joseph County Chapter of The St. South Bend, Ind., had been given $626 in unsolicited contributions prior to launching its campaign. Agriculture Bill Passes, The $213,964,000 Agriculture Depart- ment appropriation bill, carrying $125,- 000,000 to be immediately available for road construction, was passed today by the Senate. The bill now goes back to the House and probably will be sent to conference for reconciliation of differences between the two branches. v The bill is the fourth to pass the Senate of the 11 supply bills which must be enacted at this session. None has_been approved finally. The Senate added an amendment to provide for reappropriating about $2,- 500,000 for loans to t-stricken Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Alabama from the viously Be had nothing whatever to do | Government where minerals are known | " Tne grandmother, Mrs. Mary Allen, | oolaqthc, Rockiord Jall accused of & | L W N stood they told the jury of the manner | vania avenue, which his father started Soati 8 ekt Frue e ey W e EroceT oI, vidence to the | In such instances the committee | Whose left arm was recently broken, was | on the report of the faro game &t had witnessed ‘a strange mocturnal | Y Drepamag.n phases of thelr defense | 1564, and which since has fallen on | lood loans last year. PR el recommended that 37%4 per cent of rev- | caring for, her two grandchildren, Mar- | Springfield: id, “that game | omiock am - 08¢ Gromer &t 2:30| Edwards was before the grand jury|lll days, the body of John Willtam | A bill propesed by Senators ggg’e‘» e enues arising from the present Known|jorie, g, and George, 6, who had been |, MY 8oodness he said, L [ for approximately half an hour. Pros- | Schaeffer, 62 years old, was found | Democrat, Georgia. to auhorise i mineral areas shall go to the State, is as old as the Egyptians. Mr. Brewer told the subcommittee |ecuting officials would not disclose any 3 gla, t MAN 521, per cent to the Federal reclama- |1}l in bed from colds, but had just re- Had Been ‘Co-Wetkers. his information was hearsay from|phase of his testimony, but it is known shortly after noon today hanging from | reappropriation for all the States except IWO WOMEN AND tion fund and 10 per cent to adminis- | covered sufficiently to sit up. The chil- - . i 4 Litsinger | Other persons who were in West Vir- | that both he and Anadale have pre.|® cord which had been attached to a c]‘e';mk i o g Lol AT tration, Jenkins said. dren's mother, Mrs. Ella Tillmore, was | | Mrs, Myrtle Blackidge arc Lnecr | ginia- at the time, and e e | pared written statements on the ques- | stepladder. ARl TRt 6 the el ot T OVERCOME BY GAS at work downtown. many years. They belonged to the | who, he said he understood, could give | GOn Of the defense offered at the trial| Police said Schaeffer apparently | State tod: Wife and Sister-in-Law of Restau- rant Proprietor and Cook Re- vived by Rescue Squad. TURKEY TO ACCEPT Ready to Participate in Study of Briand’s Federation Idea. ANGORA, Turkey, January 23 (#).— Turkey is ready to accept an invitatior to participate with other European na- The fire broke out in a bedroom of the apartment and smoke and flames spread rapidly. A call for help and the smell of smoke brought Mr. and Mrs, Walter Chambers, who live in an apart- ment on the second floor. Mrs, Cham- bers rescued the two children, while | Mr. Chambers guided the grandmother down the back stairs through the smoke | and flames and with his own fire ex- organization of Sehator Charles S. Deneen. Mrs. Blacklidge, daughter of the late Gov. Tanner of Illinois, organized groups of woman voters for Deneen and had charge of woman activities in several important campaigns. Two years ago the organization backed her candidacy for the Republican nomina- further information. One was Richard L. Merrick, an at- torney in the Woodward Building. Senator Borah announced Mr. Mer- rick ‘would be asked to appear before the subcommittee this afternoon. Quizzed by Senators. According to Brewer, Mr. was one of the attorneys for the Gov- Merrick (Continued on Page 2 CITY FASTS TO AID POOR Bottles for Contributions Placed in Lubbock, Tex., Offices and Stores. propped the stepladder against the wall of his store, looped a cord over its top and tightened the other end about his neck by bending his knees. He was found by a brother, John Martin Schaeffer, when the latter came to the store shortly after 1 o'clock today. Without stopping to cut his brother down, Schaeffer ran out to the inter- Deficiency Bill Passes. In a burst of speed the Senate passed yesterday a deficiency appropriation bill which will make $125,000,000 available immediately, much of it useful in fur- nishing employment and in aiding drought sufferers. The bill had to go back to the House for consideration of LUBBOCK, Tex., January 23 (#)— amendments, among them a_$3,000,000 Board. ry 4 e women and & man were over- | tions in consideration of _Aristide | tinguisher fought the biaze Hon for the Gounty ernment in the case and had told |« . | section of Pennsylvania avenue and T"b as and & 4-year-old boy and | Briand’s project for & pan-European "Fhe fire seon ‘got beend control, | ,, Litzinger, serving (is third term on | Brewer of the reported visit of some one BIO:VI“ hungry and ye gave me to eat.” | Seventeenth street, summoning Officer| (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) come by g fafcration hovever, and the fir> department. was | the County Board of Review, has twice | toudc " ¢ re CPEEE, %500 S0IE OO | Bottles bearing that inscription were | H. B, Miller, who' had been on trafhe T e his fdther narrowly escaped today,| “When the commission reconvenes in | called. = Two alarms brought severai, SOUBht his party’s nomination for | morning, placed on counters and in offices for | duty there. Miller went to the shop and - E ' E when fumes from a leaking pipe filled a | the Spring, it was said, the Turkish | pieces of apparatus. Part of the build- | Mayor. He has directorships and other | “Brewer was questioned at length by | a city-wide fast day here today to aid | Cut down the body. PINOH OT |0 R QU R delegate will be either Foreign Minister interests in a dozen corporations and | senator Borah of Idaho and Blaine of | the poor. Schaeffer apparently had been dead building at 621 E street. The father, Albert Feldman, manager of a restaurant on the first floor of the structure, was awakened by the smell of ing next door caught fire but the flames Tewfik Rushdi Bey or Munir Bey, Am- bassador to France. were confined largely to th: third floor apartment which virtually was gutted. banks. FOUR KILLE D IN UPSET Wisconsin, as to what he knew about the reported nocturnal visit. “I know nothing about it myself, but Residents are asked to go without all or part of their meals and to give the money which would have been spent for food. The voluntary fast for some time, according to the ambu- lance surgeon. The wall paper on the shelves bore mute testimony that few customers had called in past years. APPOINTEE’S PLEDGE i I know Mr. Merrick told me about it,” B AR B e used his wife, Mrs. Eva ” 2 - Blans, 7% "2 2| SENATE GIVEN BILL TO REMOVE ON WAY TO FUNERAL| ™ ¥ . |d.a umsien Tr B Jin, | o e gt mi, oo, S WS appticnat tor State Posions Must S, RESTRICTIONS ON MEDICINAL RUM MEASURE TO MODERNIZE | hfmeic Bire tnat tom 51000 to| ekt i S bt | Promise to Support Poliie Miss Gendleman was the first to col- lapse, falling unconscious in the restau- rant. Mrs. Feldman collapsed a few minutes later while shopping in a nearby chain grocery. hile Peldman was telephoning the nington Gas Light Co., Paul Mason, a waiter, summoned the fire rescue squad. Both Mrs. Feldman and Miss Gendleman were quickly revived. Meanwhile, however, Thomas War- field, 76, colored, a cook, had collapsed in the kitchen. He, too, was quickly revived. PHYSICIAN DIES AT 108 By the Assoclated Press. A bill to remove restrictions on the distribution of prescription liquor by physicians wl:‘n introduc toda Followed Only Recommendation ;Board Agreed On, in His Opinion, Copeland Says. - | particulars the causes of resentment on “prosecutions have been necessary from time to time and rlplble evasions of violations come to light continually. “But we are satisfled that in several the part of the medical fession op- erate against a favorable public opinion Two Children Among Victims of 4\1!0 Accident Near Delta Point, La.—One Is Injured. By the Associated Press. DELTA POINT, La., January 23.— Four persons were killed and another was critically injured near here early today as an automobile turned over en route to a funeral. One of the bodies was tentatively identified as that of Mrs. Ida Hogan and another as that of a man named Caves. Bodies of two children were found in the wreckage. Caves' wife was taken . BATTLESHIPS APPROVED House Naval Group Acts on Senate Bill to Authorize Expenditure of $30,000,000. By the Associated Press. The House Naval Committee today approved the Senate bill to authorize $30,000,000 for battleship modernization. It provides for work on the New $3,000 would be obtained. modern competition was too much for them. GRAPE CONCENTRATE REJECTED AS TOO POTENT IN MAKING JELLY Oklahoma Grocers Said It Would Make Whoopee ahd Judge Orders Compromise. of 1930. By the Assoclaed Pre HARRISBURG, Pa., January 23.— Gov. Gifford Pinchot announced today that all persons who apply for appoint- ment hereafter must sign a pledge to “defend and obey the Constitution of the United States and loyally support the policies approved by the people of this commonwealth in the election of 1930.” to such an extent as to outweigh the the Navy Secretary of a new ail ine | By the Associated Press. company said the shipment had fer- & to a hospital in a serious condition. It | janaine devi The Governor said the appointments ad es to enforcement. nding device for the ships and will| MUSKOGEE, Okla, January 23.— |mented and contained 15 per cen frective or in the course of being SELMA, N. C., January 23 (#).—|mission had been able to agree upon— o ition to recommending that the | Was thought all resided in this com- | a5k jts use on the three battleships if : = 2 " cent of | now e ve James Clarke Briggs, who gave his age as 108 years and claimed to be the old- For 15 years he was head of the Veterans' Home at Johnson City, Tenn. - as far as he could see. profession. 'While profession have undoubtedly begnmuulmu in adherence to the law,” Teport said, statu fixing of the amount of liquor wbewprr’enflbn:dehmhmben - munity. Authorities learned the party was tests prove it feasible. recommended also “leav] as h* s 2 o - Tt et a8 Rdio Prograss o Page A-10 emmngm the work on the will cost $29,793,750, tares vesels Pacific Factors, Inc, sold many cases ‘The the exhibit yesterday, and 5 :.ellpl.'l'iedflflyi alcohol. made effective through issuance of com- Prior to submitting suggestions con- The bill was passed by the Senate|Of grape concentrate to the Griffin made eno est physician in the United States,|cerning control of mn:d.ldnll liquor, the 3 recommended | €n route to Birmingham, Ala. to at-|ast week. It would provide for the in- | Gre Co. here, and said it would th tiff .‘.'fi', died here today. commission concluded the removal of | abolition of the requirement of “specify- | tend the burial of a relative. A search |stallation of new turbines, better de-|make jelly. a.” P Beginning his medical career as a|present restrictions would remove | ing the ailment for which liquor is pre- | for kinsmen of the dead was begun by | fense against submarines, new airplane| The Grifin company, recelvln,¥ it, said bjected that gurgcon in the Confederate army, Dr.|“causes of resentment on the part of | scribed upon & blank to go into the | Officials in hopes of more definite iden- |launching and’handling facilities, 5-inch | it would make whoopee, and refused to ncentrate Y Briggs practiced for 63 years before | the medical iR ) public files.” tification. ainti-aircraft batteries and increased |pay. Pacific. Factors brought suit in el 3 " the bulk of It elevation of turret Federal