Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy tonight and tomorrow; probably light rain; not much change in tempera- ture; lowest temperature tonight about 40 degrees. ‘Temperatures—Highest, 52, at noon today; lowest, 32, at 1:30 am. today. Full report on page 5. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 b ¢ Fp ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION ening Star. “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star’s cairier system covers every city block and the regular edi tion i3 delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. 's Circulation, 115,527, Circulation, 123,467, . oy Intered as seco rost office, 31,681. Washington, nd class” matter D WASHINGTON, D MONDAY, JANUARY 26, 1931 HIRTY-TWO PAGES. L L3 (#) Means Associated TWO CENTS. Press. EX.0V. EDWARDS KILLS HIMGELF IN NEW JERSEY HOME Former Senator’s Son Says Father Had Been Ill and Despondent. WOUND INFLICTED LAST NIGHT TAKES HIS LIFE Had Long Career as Banker, Public Official and Builder in His Home State. By the Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N. J, January 26.— Edward I. Edwards, former Governor of New Jersey and former United States Senator, died today from a self-inflicted bullet wound. He shot himself last night while alone in his bed room at his Kensington avenue home. His son, Irving Edwards, said he had been suffering from ill health and despondency for several months, Until a few years ago Mr. Edwards was a power in both politics and fin- ence in New Jersey. In 1920 his as- sertion that he would- make New Jer- sey “as wet as the Atlantic Ocean” caused him to be mentioned as an anti- prohibition hope for the Democratic presidential nomination. But in 1928 he was defeated for re-election to the United States Senate and later he had & falling out with Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City, Democratic leader of the State, that ended his political promi- nence. Had Financial Reverses. His financial position suffered be- cause of the troubles of the New Jer- sey Securities Co., of which he was president. The organization, which owned several banks in Northern New Jersey, went into receivership in 1929 and its chief stockholder, Harry H. Weinberger, subsequently was indicted on_ charges of fraud. Mr. Edwards'’ body was not dis- coversd until today, after he had died. Charles J. Baumgarten, an old friend and legal adviser, had called to con- fer with him. Mr. Baumgarten thought it strange when a servant told him Mr. Edwards still was in bed and with Walter West- fall, a neighbor, he went to the bed Toom. On the floor was'a .38-caliber re- volver from which one bullet had been fired. There was a wound in the left forehead. Police said Mr. Edwards lived several hours after the shot was fired. p . Was Not Feeling Well. ‘The former Senator was in the apart- ment when he killed himself. His son, Edward I. Edwards, jr., was in Caldwell, N. J., and his daughter, Elizabeth, was spending the week end with relatives on Long Island. The son talktd with his father by telephone yvesterday asking him to go to Caldwell, but Mr. Edwards said he was not feeling well and thought he had best stay indoors. ‘Members of the family explained that ¢ ‘ EDWARD 1. EDWARD:! HINES TESTIFIES BONUS WOLLD COST NEAR 3500000000 Sarvey Continues Despite House Protest—Legion Action Considered. By the Associated Press. Veterans’ Administrator Hines testi- fled today before the Senate Finance Committee that cash payment of vet- erans’ compensation certificates would involve $3,412,000,000. This would, in effect, increase the size of the soldiers’ bonus by $1.670,- 000,000. He said immediate cash re- demption of the certificatss on the basis of their present value would cost $1,707,507,000. He was the first witness after the committee had voted unanimously to go forward with hearings on Senate pro- posals, despite insistence of House lead- ers that proposals to pay the certificates was revenue-raising legislation and should originate in that branch. | Senator Watson, the Republican leader, presided in the absence of ‘Sen- ator Smoot, who was ill. Legion Action Considered. The action of the American Legion's Executive Commitiee in Indianapolis yesterday, indorsing the principle of immediate retirement of the -certifi- cates, received the notice of both Sen- ate and House leaders. Republican Leader Tilson said the House Ways and Means Committee had arranged to start studying all con- version bills—of which there are about 50—the latter part of the week. Democratic Leader Garner, author of | a cash-payment plan, said he assumed | “this means action at this session.” His bill would pay the veterans the present Mr. Edwards had been subject to fre- quent fits of despondency because of his health. 3 The former New 'Jersey Governor was one of the wettest of the wets during his tenure in the Senate, but . his opposition to prohibition was solely /* on social grounds. He was a personal abstainer. Wife Died in 1928. 1In 1928 Mr. Edwards went to Houston #as a delegate to the Democratic Na- ticral Convention, but was called home by the critical illness of his wife, who died shortly after he reached her bed- | side | He is survived by a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Edwards. and by his son. Mr. Edwards was one of the men who achieved political prominence in New Jersey in the rise of Woodrow Wilson. | Native of Jersey City. Senator Edwards was born at Jersey ¢ City, December 1. 1863, the son of Wil liam W. and Emma J. Nation Edwards. After his public school entered New York University class of 1884, but quit at the end of his junior year to study law in the office ©of his brother, William D. Edwards. | After determining that the legal pro- | fession did not appeal to him. he ob- tained a minor position in the First| National Bank of Jersey City and while ¢ there devoted himself to the study of | banking and taxation. He left the bank to form a partnership with his brother in the construction and build- ing business, but in 1903 returned to the bank, as assistant to the president. He was advanced to cashier in 1911, to president in 1916 and became chairman of the board in 1925 On November 14, 1888 Senator Edwards married Miss Jule Blanche Smith of Jersey City., They had a son, Edward 1. Edwards, jr., and a daughter, Mrs. Edwards died August 3, 1928. Became State Controller. Senator Edwards began his political career as a_ member of the Hudson County, N. J.. Democratic Committee. He was elected State controller in 1911 He was re-elected in 1914, and at the conclusion of that term went to the tate Scnate. ki In 1910, in a contest for his party nomination for Governor of New Jer- sey, Senator Edwards defeated James R. Nugent, one of the Democratic Jeaders of the State. He then was elected Governor over Newton A. K surrender value of their certificates at their petition. Estimating 60 per cent | would scek conversion, he believed it | would cost $1,200,000,000. Sceretary Mellon has reported to the House Committee it would cost| +$2,000,000,000, more or less.” | Before the Senate Committee, Hines said 3,498,000 certificates had been have made no applications. Loans Increased This Year. The Government has paid out $101,- 000,000 in matured certificates, leaving 3,397,393 outstanding. The loan value of all outstandirg certificates, Hines testified, is $730,- 905,000, or an average of $216. The average amount of indebtedness on each certificate is $181. Loans have been made to 1,384,036 veterans, cent of the face value of the certificates Hines testified 40 per cent of the vet- erans who are eligible have received oans. Tre total value of the fund which the Government is accumulating | to pay off certificates at maturity | amounted on January 1 to $777,550,000. The Government is contributing about $112,600,000 a year to the fund, which should make enough to pay off the certificates in 1945. | The veterans’ administrator testified loans to veterans this year are “far away in excess” of the loans last year. Loans so far this month, he said, have averaged $1,000,000 a dezy, which has ed him to_estimate loans this year will (Continued on Page olumn 6.) NATIVE BAND ROUTED BY ITALIAN TROOPS | By the Associated Press. * | ROME, January 26.—Ttalian colonial troops routed a band of natives in severe fighting Saturday at Et Tag, in {the heart of th Cufra oasis region of |Libya, and hoisted the flag over the town. Two officers and two native soldiers | were killed Sixteen natives were wounded. DEATH OF CAPTAIN AFTER SHELLING OF RUM BOAT PROBED U. S.-Canada Exchanges Are | Expected Following Action of Revenue Officers. " COAST GUARD UPHELD BY TREASURY OFFICIAL | Warning Shots Fired Within 12- Mile Limit to Get Nova Scotia Ship to Halt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 26.—A rum- running drama in which a ship captain was mortally wounded by a one-pound shot and his vessel was captured by a Coast Guard cutter after a 5-mile chase up the lower bay is expected to be the subject of exchanges between the United States and Canada. Capt. William P. Cluett, 39, of Lunen- berg, Nova Scotia, died in the Marine Hospital at Staten Island Sunday morning, though his right leg was am- | putated in an effort to save him. Fair hours before the Josephine K, a two-masted auxiliary schooner of Nova Scotian registry; the scow Brooklyn of Newark and the tugboat Dauntless | VI had been seized by the Coast Guard | cutter 145, together with liquor valued at $100,000 and 19 men. Three Warning Shots Fired. | As reconstructed from the report to Coast Guard headquarters at Staten Island, the cutter 145 sighted the | schooner and three small craft clus- tered about her 4!, miles southeast of Ambrose Lightship, 91> miles oc the New Jersey coast. Before the cutter could reach the spot the schooner east off lines and shot away toward the upper bay, its way to tiac open sea being blocked. A speed pursuit. While the Josephine K was hitting a 14-knot clip and widening the gap, tho cutter fired three warning shots in the air, a summons to halt. Still the pur- sued craft kept on her course and four more shots were fired. the last one tear- | ing away the pilot house and wound- | ing the master. Crew and Liquor Seized. The Josephine K. hove to and a crew from the cutter boarded her, The cap- | tain died without regaining conscious- ness. The crew of five was placed undar arrest after 2,500 cases of Scotch whisky had been discovered in the hold, and the schooner was conveyed to Red Hook Flats. Although the cutter had lost more | than an hour in the chase, she retraced her steps and Coast Guards boarded the slow-moving scow and its tug. Capt. Mario Laudi, his crew of three and 1.- 200 cases of the same content as found | on the schooner were seized aboard tne scow. Capt. John Ambrose and a crew of eight were arrested aboard the tug. . Detailed Inquiry Begun. | The Josephine K is registered out of Digby, Nova Scotia. She is 110 feet long and is equipped with oil-burning auxiliary engines. The scow belongs to the A. & S. Transportation Co., which has a contract to transport to sea the sediment from Northern New Jersey sewers. The tug is owned by the Dauntless Towing Co. Capt. Randolph Ridgley, in command of the local Coast Guard, expressed launch escaped without |issued and estimated 300,000 veterans the belief after a preliminary investi- gation that the commander of the 145 acted according to_instructions _gov- " (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) MAN KILLED AS BLAST SINKS ARMY LAUNCH | amounting to $258.131.516, or 22 per Engineer Corps Vessel Goes Down at Norfolk After Terrific Gasoline Explosion. By the Assuciated Press. NORFOLK, Va, terrific gasoline explosion sank the United States Engineer Corps survey launch Chipeta here today and killed James Robert Herrick, the ship's steward and the only man on board. Herrick’s body, with most of the clothing torn off by the force of the blast, was_recovered from the water January 26.—A | near the !aunch. The cause of the ex- plosion was not definitely determined, but the opinion was expressed that an open light ignited gasoline fumes in the craft’s engine room. | The Chipeta sank in about 20 feet of water. Berenguer Ill of Flu. MADRID, January 26 (#)—The ep- idemic of influenza today struck Pre- mier Berenguer, whose doctors ordered him to bed. The Princess Isabel, King Alfonso’s aunt, also is under a doctor's care. She is 80 years old. 'GAY ATTIRE FOR PARTY HOSTS | of Tobriner © GRE/ UNITY CHEST ) AsmNQ us LO ATER! AKE TONS S DROUGHT - UNEMP LOYMENT - INESS DEPRESSION - cAL CHARITIES - MORTEACE GROLP GETS BANKRUPTEY Justice Hits Signs Order Asked by Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey. A petition in voluntary bankruptey for the firm of Swartzell, Rheem & Hensey, mortgage bankers, cne of thé oldest real estate finance houses in the Dis- trict, which has participated in the financing of local developments running into many millions of dollars, was filed in District Supreme Court today by representatives of the concern. Justice William Hitz signed an order adjudging the corporation bankrupt and referred the case to Fred J. Eden, ref- eree in bankruptcy. The order of the court directs that the corporation, through its officers. agents and em- ployes, appear before the referee at a time. to be fixed by him. and to submit to such order as may be made by the referee. No statement of assets and liabilities | was filed with the petition, which fi lowed a meeting of the b-ard of direc- tors held earlier in the day The d-ors of the concern were closed to the public shortly after the decision in bankruptcy was given by the court. The offices are located at 727 Fifteenth street. 23 Years in Same Offices. The petition of the Realty Corpora- tion, filed by Vice President Edmund B. Rheem, tells the court that it was or- ganized under laws of the State o Virginia and for at least 23 years has had offices at 727 Fifteenth street The court is told that the corpora- tion owes debts, the amount of which is not disc which it is unable to pay in full; that it is willing to sur- render all of its property for the benefit of its creditors and desires to obtain the benefit of the acts of Congress re- lating to bankruptcy. Attorney Leon Tobriner of the firm & Graham, appears as counsel for the corporation Takes Advantage of Legal Delay. Under a recent amendment to the bankruptcy laws, it is not necessary to file a schadule of assets and liabilities until 10 days after the filing of the pe- tition. The company by not submitting its schedule today, it is understood, will take advantage of that provision. The firm dates from post Civil War days and the present corporation is the successor of the old firm of B. H. War- ner & Co.. which was prominent in local real estate development activities prior to the turn of the twentieth century. Officers of the corporation besides Mr Rieem, who filed the petition, are Lu- ther A. Swartzell. president: J. Newton Brewer, second vice president; George F. Hunt, secretary; John H. Holmead, treasurer, and Harry T. Doomer, gen- eral counsel. Mr. Rheem, as vice president of the concern, has been regarded as the active head of the concern in the past several years. Mr. Swartzell has not been active in the direction of the concern for some years. CHURCH SEX:TbN HELD AS PAPER RACK THIEF Report Finding Him Carry- ing Gun. Charged with carrying a revolver and taking a newspaper from an honor-sys- | tem.rack. William Richards, colored, 63 sexton of the Metropoliten A. M. E Church, First and B streets southwest, received probation .in’ Police Court to- day. | " Richards southwest Saturday was arrested on B street by Policeman W. In Gets Put on Probation After Police| Shipwreck Becomes Boon to Naturalists Seeking Amphibians | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, January 25.—A | | shipwreck which two naturalists ! | turned into a boon is reported in the New York Times. Gilbert C. Klingel and W. Wal- lace Coleman, both of Baltimore, who sailed for the isolated islands of the West Indies to hunt rep- tiles and amphibians in Novem- ber, encountered a heavy storm and their yawl, Basilisk was wrecked. The naturalists were cast away on the great Inagua Island, an_ inhabited, but unfre- quented isle in the Bahamas. Here, the Times says, the men worked and Coleman returned on the ship Flora with more than 500 serpents and lizards. Dr. G. K. Noble, curator of the Ameri- can Museum of Natural History, said the specimens aided greatly in piecing together the history of the West Indies and Northern | | South America. COMMITTEE VOTES PONER ISSUE TRAL Move to Test Recall of Nomi- | nations of Trio Carries by 8 to 3. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. By a vote of eight to three, the Sen- |ate Judiciary Committee today ordered | a favorable report to the Senate on the | resolution of Senator Walsh of Mon- tana requesting the United States at- torney in the District of Columbia to | institute quo warranto proccedings against three members of the Federal | Power Commiscion, Chatrmian George Otis Smith and Commissioners Marcel Garsaud and Claude L. Draper. The vote in the committee is be- lieved to forecast favorable action on the Waish resolution in the Senate it- | se.f. The right of these three members | of the Power Commission to hold office |is challenged on the ground that the Senate, sub:equent to their appoint- ment oy the President following con- firmation by the Scnate, reconsidered its votes by which the commissioners' nom- inations were confirmed and requested Presid-nt Hoover to return the nomina- | tions to the Senate. President’s Position Given. President Hoover, backed up by an cpinion of the atiorney general, de- clined to return the nominations to the Senate. To do so, he held, would be an invasion of the authority of the exccutive branch of the Government to_remove from office. The Senators voting in favor of the Walsh resolution were Blaine of Wis- consin, Steiwer of Oregon, Walsh of Montana, King of Utah, Stephens of Mississippi, Dill of Washington; Brat- tan of New Mexico and Chairman Nor- ris of Nebraska. The three members |of the committee voting against the resolution were Deneen of Tllinois. Gil- ~(Continued on Page 2, Column 1) FAMED> ALPINE CLIMBER SUCCUMBS IN BOSTON Charles E. Fay, Professor at Tufts College for Sixty Years, Dies. | By the Assoc:ared Press. BOSTON, January 26.—Prof. Charles HOUSE STANDS PAT I PAY-RASE ROW Votes to Sustain Conferees in Opposition to Senate Amendments. By an overwhelming vote today the House voted to sustain the conferees on their opposition to Senate amendments carrying increases amounting to four and a quarter million dollars to bring under- average salaries up to grade as the first | 30 per cent under a three-year program to do justice to underpaid Government emplpyes in accordance with the Hoover 'and Budget Bureau recommendations. Previous to giving this instructiop to the conferees for further insistence on the salary increase question in Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill the‘eld-louu by a vote of 192 to 47 re- Jec! a proposal by Representative La Guardia, Republican, of New York, to recede and concur in the Senate amend- ‘,mcut on the salary question. Sharp Debate Held. This vote followed a sharp debate, during which Chairman Lehlbach of the House Civil Service peatedly insisted that until these sala- ries are paid the Congress is “gyping the employes.” The row in the House broke when Chair- man Wood of the Apj tions Com- mittee, who was pes heading the House conferees in this clash with the Senate, asked that all of the Senate amendments on the salary increase question be considered in a block and moved that the House further insist on its disagreement. Representative LaGuardia made a substitute motion that the House re- cede and concur in the Senate amend- | ments. He insisted that there was a | record vote in the House on the In- terior Department appropriation bill which affirmatively struck out the Wood amendment and thereby carried with it an expectation that these salary in- creases would be put into the bill in the Senate. He said that these appropriations are necessary to carry out the increases which many members of the House ex- pected had been authorized in rejecting the Wood amendment, which, in itself, was a_prohibition against using any of (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) POLICE INVESTIGATOR IS SHOT BY GUNMAN Importance as Grand Jury Wit- ness Blamed for Wounding of Detroit Man. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, January 26.—Harry So- minski, undercover investigator for the police and a present witness of the Wayne County grand jury, was shot and critically weunded by a gunman at 10:30 a.m. today in a drugstore on Linwood avenue. Sominski was shot, the police believe, because of his importance as a jury witness. Prosecutor Harry S. Toy said he had information of vital importance in a graft and vice investigation of the suburb of Hamtramck. FIND NEW BULLETS ENGEDDED N SHE ATLINER HONE Police Believe One Like That | Which Killed Girl in Southeast. GRAND JURY STARTING ITS PROBE OF MURDER| Visit to Death Scene Planned by Body—S8ixty Witnesses to Be Heard. ' Three bullets, one of which is be- | lieved to be of .25 caliber type, have been found embedded in the wooden panel of the ramshackle woodshed di- rectly behind the mysterious dwelling where Beulah Limerick, Sky High | Whoopee Club secretary, was found slain, Since police have not definitely learned just where the Limerick girl met her death, this new evidence shed | new light on the case and sent the { homicide squad to various parts of the city today for further information. Thirty or more bullet holes were found in the wooden panels of the shed several days ago while investi- gators were combing the vicinity near the murder house. Bullet Test Expected. ‘The bullet which so closely resembled a .25 caliber one has been sent, it is believed, to Lieut. John Fowler, who is expected to make a ballistic test to determine whether or not the bullet could have been fired from the gun which sent the fatal bullet into the Limerick girl’s head. It was further learned that the shots app:rentlg had :fin} i:lM from the mystery house, whicl approximal 100 feet from the woodshed. i The two other bullets, it was learned, were so badly battered they could not be subjected to examination. ‘The discovery of the new evidence wqs made by Inspector Albert J. Headley, Capt. Edward J. Kelly, Lieut. John Flaherty and Detective Sergt. Paul Jones. It is expected now that police will attempt to place the scene of the slay- ing in the b 0} nothing definite as to that plan could be learned. Grand Jury Begins Probe. Meanwhile the grand jury this after- noon began hearing the testimony of nine of the more than &0 wl(nguu- subpoenaed in the case. It was intimated today by Assistant United States Attorney Julian Richards, who 1s to present the case to the grand jury, that the 23 members of the jury will be taken to view the interior of the murder house some time tomorrow. Richards intimated that the trip was T e four suspects ow. betng beld st e four s now the District Jail are Fifth 't Patrolman Robert F. Langdon, now suspended; Vernon Limerick, the dead irl’s brother: Richard ‘Reed, a the death house, and William % a friend of Beulah's. ‘Will Examine Death Cot. ‘When - the jury goes to the murder dweldng the members are expected to examine the cot on which the slain girl was found and have pointed out to them the bullet hole near the cot where Policnan Langdon discovered a 25 caliber bullet. They will also, it is be- lieved, be shown the exact places where the .25 caliber shells were found. Meanwhile police readily admit they have gotten no further with the in- vestigation of the death of the girl than they had on the day of the slay- ing. This morning members of the homicide squad were running down sev- eral “tips” which day by day find their way to the Detective Bureau. The investigation today concerns sev- (Continued on Page-2, Column 2.) 25,000 PERSONS MISSING IN YEAR IN NEW YORK 2,450 Girls and 3,500 Boys Includ- ed in List—Latter Fare Bet- ter, Says Officer. # By the Associated Press. NEW YORK,, January 26.—More than 25,000 persons, including 2450 girls and 3,500 boys, were reported missing in New York last year. So said Capt. John H. Ayres of the Missing Persons Bureau in an address at St. John's Protestant Episcopal Church last night. It’s one thing when a boy runs away from home, he said, but a different matter with a girl. “I have never known of a case where a boy has come to harm through run- ning away from home,” he said. “They are usually self-reliant and self-con- fident. “It is not so, however, with the girls. Girls who run away from home are often liable to become the victims of designing persons. It is dangerous for a girl to cut loose from her home life.” FLIBBERTIGIBBET AND XYLONITE WILL WARM SPELLERS’ TONGUES CHEST WILL START CAMPAIGN TONIGHT FOR $1.950,000 FUND Rally of 7,500 Workers to Se Addressed by Pershing and Others. ;PAGEANT—ON PROGRAM; CHURCHES MAKE APPEAL Red Cross to Share in Total to Ex- tent of $100,000 for Relief in Drought Area. Final instructions will be given the 7.500 workers at a rally opening the Community Chest drive to complete a fund of $1,950,000 tonight at 8:15 o'clock in Constitution Hall. The meeting will signalize the be- ginning of the campaign for the metro- politan, group solicitation, governmental and school units. The Special Gifts Committee, the other outstanding group, began its work a week ago under the direction of Newbold Noyes, chairman. Tonight's program will include a con- cert by the Marine Band, a pageant under the direction of Mrs.p B‘;lfle Moore Forrest and a series of short talks. The speakers will include Gen. John J. Pershing, chairman of the gov- ernmental unit; Judge John Barton Payne, chairman of the American Red Cross: Right Rev. John M. McNamara, auxiliary bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Baltimore; Rev. James Io. Freeman, Church; Rabbi J. T. Loeb of the Tem- ple Chev Sholom,’and Dr. Kell; of Howard University. e Pageant to Be Given. Entitled “The Heart of Washington,” the pageant will comprise a march of uniformed Chest organization workers, @ mass tableau and several songs. Nu- merous rehearsals have been held and special lighting effects arranged. Edward F. Colladay, sampaign chair- man, will give the solicitors last- minute information essential to the success otl Lh:h‘ dg'llveA Original e: ts explain the ac- tivities of the various chl.rlub‘{bla insti- tutions affiliated with the Chest went on display today in 32 store windows throughout the business district. As the Red Cross is to receive $100,000 from the Chest, a display depicting that organization's work in the drought area has been placed in the Garfinckel Building, at Fourteenth and G streets. Special Gifts Swelled. Seventy-six additional pledges today creased the fund of the Special Gifts Committee to $732,546.24. Today's contributions, announced at a luncheon in the Willard Hotel, totaled :‘509’,.::40.12. Num:‘:’m increased dona- were reported. was widespread as the wlkm% for- flwfl.flm to reaching their goal of $1,000,- The high point of today's meeting came when Mrs. Sidney F. Taliaferro, & team captain, announced Mrs, Regi- nald Huidekoper had obtained gifts to- taling $12,370 from persons who gave only $7,000 last year. Mrs. Taliaferro's 13 ' pledges revealed today totaled $16,795. The largest individual contribution of today was $12,500 from th> Chesa- peake & Potomac Telephone Co. This was among 11 pledges for $20,365.12 reported by E. J. Murphy, chairman of the corporations ‘team. Numerous sermons were devoted to the Chest and the Red Cross as “Com- munity Chest Sunday” was observed in various churches yesterday. A letter from Archbishop Michael J. Curley of Baltimore, urging - support for the movement, was read in the Catholic churches. It follows: Backs Appeal Third Time. “For the third time I am asking our Catholic people in Washington to come to the support of the Ccmmunity Chest with_all of the zeal and sacrifice of which they are capable. The present is a_critical year—never was there so much suffering abroad in the land. This situation presents a serious chal- lenge to the wealthy especially, but also to those in comfortable circumstances. How can the Catholic who a su- perabundance of the things of life stand by unconcerned while thousands of poor families are suffering from serious want? T am sure that the spirit of Christian love that grows so nat- urally from our faith will shine out with a new luster in these trying times. ‘We must give, even when giving means “Through the Community Chest we have entered into an arrangement with the other social and charitable organi- zations of Washington to make a joint appeal for funds. We have agreed to do our part to make that appeal a success. In this arrangement we are on trial be- fore our fellew citizens. In aiding the Chest we are really aiding our nine Catholic charitable institutions and or- ganizations. Failure on our part to support the Chest and to respond gen- erously to its appeal will mean suffering and privation for our own poor, our sick, our dependent and neglected children. “We are participating in the Com- munity Chest of Washington because we feel that it is the most effective method of supporting our Catholic char- ities. The Chest does not interfere with our autonomy: it does not dictate our policies. _We still_carry on_our own (Continued on Page 2, Column 3.) SMOOT IMPROVED Phantasmagoria of Paraphrastical Verbiage Prognosti- | cated for Wednesday Night. C. Curtis of the fourth precinct. | searching the man at the precinct, po- | lice reported finding a 32-caliber’ pis- | tol. Judge Gus A. Schuldt referred the Veteran G. 0. P. Senator Is Re- ported “Out of Danger.” Bugbee, Republican. i In addition to his connection with | the First National Bank of Jersey City, Senator Edwards also served as vice IS CONSIDERED BY TAILORS E. Fay. 84, internationally known Alpin- ist end an instructor in mathematics r at Tufts College, Med- B s Merchants' Nationai | Tuxedo of Blue, Purple or Bank and was a director in a number | 2 2 of commercial corporations. | ventional Suit of W | s A SERVED ON D. C. COMMITTEE. e e By the Associated Press. Edwards Helped Draft District Legisla- | PITTSBURGH, January 26.—At last tion for Several Years. | the pesky problem cf how, at all stages While a member of the Senate former Of the party, to distinguish the host Senator Edward 1. Edwards, Democtat | from the headwaiter, members of the of New Jersey, was a member of the orchestra or the guests is about to be District of Columbia Committee and | solved. helped in the drafting of local legisla- From now on, the host a la mode will tion for several years. He was defeated | don his host suit. And what a suit! for re-election in 1928 and finished his Delegates here from the convention term of service in the Senate March 4, | of the National Association of Merchant 1929. Tailors, opening today, whisper that lyou Tan Will Differ From Con- aiters and Orchestra. they'll discuss the general idea—some- thing like this: It will be a sort of tuxedo on generous |lines, with trousers wide and slashed’ with satin. There will be a sprightly sash amidships, and a jacket of vivid hue. And there will be a shawl collor faced with bright silk. The suit will be of blue, purple, brown, tan, maroon— anything but biack. In addition, the other 14 suits the |tatlors” think the well dressed ‘man should have will be discussed | case to the court probation office. William Johnson, colored, of Knox- ville, Tenn., arrested a few minutes after Richards, for taking a paper from | the same rack, was fined $10 today. - King's Aunt Breaks Arm. LONDON. January 26 (#).—Princess Beatrice, 74, aunt of King George and | mother of the Spanish Queen, fell in her room at Kensington Palace vester- day and fractured her left forearm. Her attending physicians did not issue | a statement on her condition. | Radio Programs on Page B-6 and profe: ford, for 60 years, died yesterday at the Massachusetts General Hospital. He underwent an appendix operation a week ago. He was born in Boston. His interest i1, mountain climbing be- gan after he had reached the age of 50. He took up the sport as a recrea~ tion, and soon became famous for his exploits in (he Rocky Mountains. He founded the Appalachian Mountain Club and the American Alpine Club, and his writings on mountain climbing were_recognizea throughout the world. The Canadian government named Fay Mountain, near Banff, after him. It will be a free-for-all for the spell- ing championship of the District of Columbia at the Mount Pleasant Li- brary Wednesday night, February 18. The Capital City Spelling Club, in preparation for this spelling match, has made up a list of about 300 easy words, which prospective contestants can test themselves out on. They will be used to start the contest, after which more and more difficult words will be intro- duced until all but one participant is eliminated. The “starters”’ include only simple words which any amateur can be ex- pected to spell—such, for instance, as Are Needed More Than Ever Before This Year in the vinaigrette, xylonite, rodomontade, cat- afalque, spinnaker, phantasmagoria, sciolist, periphrasis, metathesis, worsen- ing, parallelepipedon, paraphrastical, picaresque, mormoreal, hypochondriacal, bowdlerize, oleaginous, odalisque, ergo- tocracy, simulacrum, pharmacopoeia, diaconal, _flibbertigibbet, calcareous, catechetical, silhouette, authenasia, ha- boob, litterateur, babiroussa, ophthalmia, fuliginous, sansculotte, pasquinado, peristalsis, escutcheon, supererogation, phalangeal, pejorative, oriflamme, aceph- naA“?':e“"t‘;:z’"l?fl ’:nd ‘loruhce. T the list of words to get real “high-bow.” i Staff of the today—his fifty-first birthday anniver- sary—after a week's illness with influ- enza. By the Associated Press Senator Smoot of Utah was pro- nounced “much better” today from an attack of influenza. Members of the family of the veteran Republican Senator saia he was wus 3{ Doctors ordered the Senator anger. to :emnn in bed another week, how- ever. Another Senator—Glass of Virginia— fell victim to a’'cold today, but, aside from a slight sore throat, was said to be feeling fit. Gen. Douglas MacArthur, chief of . returned to his desk Community Chest ‘and Red Cross