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COMMUNITY CHEST EXCEEDS I7S GOAL +{Total Charity Gifts Expected to Be $3,000 More Than Sum Sought. (Continued From First Page.) brought the National Geographic total up to $7,015.70. 736 Speeches Made. A total of 736 speeches, with 115 in- dividuals presenting the Chest message to various organizations during the campaign was reported at Chest heag- quarters by Joseph D. (“Radio Joe”) Kaufman, chairman of the speakers’ unit. “There have been many talks made of which we have no record,” Kauf- man sald. “Many impromptu speeches were made by workers as the oppor- tunity arose. Some of them even went into engine rooms, coal bunkers and all sorts of places where men were at work to acquaint them with the Chest needs. Pastors of both Catholic and Protestant churches also made many presentations not recorded.” Activities of the speakers’ bureau continue the year round, Kaufman said. Suppers and inspection meeting at Chest agencles and camps are addressed throughout the year by the bureau's representatives. Semi-monthly speech clinics are carducted by W. W. Wheeler and J. O. Martin and special prepar- ations are begun for the campaign work as early as June. The Executive Cnmmfléeed sEzanbin r speaking engagemen uring :‘:l’nplple;fl, c‘fmslsted of W. W. Wheeler, J. O. Martin, Vincent Callahan, radio: Louis Rothchild, commercial clubs and associations; Harry O. Hine, schools; Jesse Suter, citizens' associations; Leon | Pretzfelder, fraternal groups: Oscar ! Teonard, Jewish groups; Dr. John O'Grady, Catholic groups; Judge James A. Cobb, colored groups; Mrs. J. N. Saunders, parent-teacher orgun}zations: Mrs, Edgar B. Meritt, woman's clubs; Maj. B. C. McNell, veterans’ organiza- tions; Capt. Sidney Morgan, govern- mental unit; John Dolph, industrial and group solicitation; Wallace Hatch, mis- cellancous; Mrs. S. Bernton, Jewish woman's organizations; John B. Col- poys, labor organivations. i Additional Gifts. | Miss Gertrude B. Taft, secretary of the speakers’ bureau, was assisted by Miss Marjorie Blumenfeld and Miss Bertha Israel, the latter a volunteer. Speakers who made many campaign talks included Lisle Burroughs, Mrs. Leonard B. Schloss, Boyd Hinds, C. L. McCrea and Mrs. Elwood Street. Gifts of $100 or more were as fol- );r. and Mirs. Robert Wood Bliss, $5,000; Col. Stephen L. H. Slocum, $2,500; Washington Kiwanis Club, $1,~ 600; Sears-Roebuck Co., $1,500; Mrs. Louise P. Norman, $1,000; Francis M. Savage, $800; Mt. Vernon Savings Bank, $677.40; Mrs. Alice Wadsworth, $500; Mr. and Mrs. Prank F. Frost, £5 Mrs. Stokes Halkett, $500; Hub Fruniture Co., $500; Mrs. Charles D. Walcott, $500; J. and W. Seligman & Co., $500; Nicholas Longworth, $500: Twentieth Century Club, $450; Percy Lee Atherton, $425; F. W. Woolworth | Co., $400; George C. Pumphrey, $350; | Karl D. Loos, $350; Mrs. Mabel W. Stimson, $350; Miss E. Eustis, $300: Justice McReynolds, $300: Julius Lans- Purniture Co., $300; Mrs. Julia L. Cuniberti, $300; Golden Donaldson, $300; Mr. and Mrs. William F. Hall, $300; National Unlon Insurance Co., $3 Stockett Fiske Co., Inc., $300; Charles A. Douglas, $250; Mrs. Arthur Jeffrey Parsons, $250; R. L. McKeever, $250; Abner H. Ferguson, $250; John E. Lodge, $250; Eastman Dillon & Co.. 4 $250; Mrs. H. A. Sellhausen, $250; Da- # vid S. Barry, $250; Mrs. Richard K. “Tyler, $250; George P. Marshall, $250; ‘Mr. and Mrs. H. Van V. Fay, $250; Harrington Mills, $250; Charles N. Gregory, $250; the Department Bank, $239.66; Mrs. James G. Wentz, $200; ©ar] Toorissen, $200; Collier Inn, Inc., $200; Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Southgate, William H. Donovan, $200; Mrs. 3 bert McClintock, $200; Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Didden, $200; Lord Baltimore Above: SENATOR JOSEPH T. ROB-| INSON. Below: REPRESENTATIVE LOUIS C. CRAMTON. RELIEF QUESTION WILLMEBM[I]?E i Senator Robinson First to| Appear in National Radio Forum. Views at conflict over the manner in which relief sha!l be administered to| drought sufferers and the unemployed will be offered by leaders of opposing factions in Congress in the National Radio Forum arranged by The Wash- ington Star and broadcast over the coast-to-coast network of the Co- lumbia Broadcasting System at 9:30 o'ciock on Saturday night and the| same time a week following. Senator Joseph T. Robinson of Ar- kansas, Democratic leader of the Upper House and author of the $25,000,000 amendment to the Interior Department | bill to buy food for the destitute in all parts of the country, will give his side of the guestion tomorrow night. Saturday night @& week the cause of the opposition will be argued by Repre- sentative Louis C. Cramton of Michigan, leader of the fight for the administra- tion in the House af st the so-called “dole” proposed by the Senate coalition. He has been chairman of the Sub- committee on Appropriations of the House handling the Interior Depart- | ment bill carrying the amendment. The‘ Michigan Representative, one of the| most forceful speakers in the House, has been a member of that body for the last 18 years and is an outstanding | times neu THE- EVENING LINCOLN ASSAILED IN MASTERS' BOOK Called Slick, Crafty Politi- cian, Cold, Mannerless and Even Unkempt. v the Associated Press, NEW YORK, February 6—Another author of note has sought to strip the garments of heroism from anothe famous American. The author is Ed gar Lee Masters, lawyer-poet, and his subject is Abraham Lincoln. In “Lincoln: The Man,” published tod: the Spoon River anthologist treats the martyred President much like Rupert Hughes treated of that_other February-born statesman, George Wash- ington. Lincoln personality tician,” c nterprets as a_political ‘slick and crafty poli- , unkempt, at itious. The Union of Sovercign States, of which Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg, ished with the (Civil) war Ma: ites, and Lincolr m! “w und enough” to see it. , who was born in Kansas 61 years ago and grew up in the Lincoln country near Petersburg, IIl, has re- tired from law and for the past seven years has been living in New York Most noted for his verse, he said his appraisal of Lincoln is a prose interlude, probably his last prose book. He hates prohibition, he sail than anything since abilition” and, a Democrat, he dedicates his book “to the memory of Thomas Jeflerson, the pre-eminent _philosopher-statesman of the United States, and their greatest President.” He abhors war, partly beca rupts “the intellectual life cf the try” by making “colossal and sacred figures of sentimental fame,” who must be touched gingerly. One of these, says, is Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, Maste said, might prevented the Civil War, “one G most colossal blunders in histor Masters calls his book a political anc legalistic analysis of Lincoln’s mind and nature, based on available biographies stern small town,” an interview, “there usually was a boy genius who wore his hair long, thought had superior abilities, studied words and debated. “worse Masters his principal Others were mimicry. . decp-seated antagonism ness, a sort of logic such as you wou ct the village genius to~ develop RECEIVER REFUSED ON HAMBLETON €0 Justice Adkins Denies Plea After Firm Declares Itself Solvent. Justice Adkins in District Supreme Court yesterday denied an application for appointment of a receiver for the Washington office of the brokerage firm of Hambleton & Co The petition was thrown out of court after counsel for the brokerage firm, in answering complaints, filed by Robert E. Funkhouser, 5315 Colorado avenue, denied that the firm was in an_insolvent condition The brokerage house also informed the court that it was removing from Washington property valued at only $500, this being incident to the closing of the Washington office, at 1521 K street, and that due notice of the con- templated closing of the local office had been given to interested parties The firm, through Attorneys Louls Titus and Ralph B. Fleharty, also in- formed the court that it had no inten- tion of attempting td escape paying any damages if and wheh ordered by court Furkhouser in his petition for re- ceivership protested that the firm was about to close its Washington office while there was pending in local courts damage suits amounting to $3,500,000 against Hambleton & Co. MANDATES GIVEN UP of | STAR, WASHINGTO SENATE WOULD CLT DUAL PAY TO VETS Passes Bill to End Disability Check on Salaried Men. Reed Hints Scandal. By the Assoctated Press. | While Veterans' Administrator Hines | was advocating the cut in disability allowances during hospitalization as an incentive to the men to leave the Gov- ernment institutions as soon as they are cured, the Senate yesterday struck |at employes of the Veterans’ Bureau who are drawing compensation as dis- abled men simultaneously with their salaries from the Government. 1t approved a resolution to prohibit Government employes with salaries of $2,000 or more from receiving disability allowances. ‘The action came after Senator Reed, Republican, Pennsyl- vania, termed existing conditions a “widespread scandal” and named a long list of men drawing substantial sums from both sources, including Wil- |liam Wolff Smith, general counsel of the bureau, who, he said, is receiving $9,000 salary and $187.50 a month as retirement pay. Lists Local Payees. Other local men that he mentioned, with their salaries and compensation, | were: |~ Winthrop C. Ames, District of Colum- bia, medical director, $8.000: $150. James W. Donnelly, District of Co- Iumbia, medical supervisor, $5,600; $125. Thomas C. Foster, District of Colum-~ bia, consultant, $5,200: $150. George Coleman Skinner, District of Columbia, chief of division, $6.500; $150. “It is astounding” said Reed, “to find how much kidney trouble, stomach trouble and chronic bronchitis has been found among these men who never saw ance during the war, but were able to show their companions that their diseases came from the Army service |T wonder how these salaries sound to { some poor enlisted man who is drawing compensation of $30 a month and has no job.” Hints Graft in Bureau. | He said there was positive proof the | bureau officials were too liberal in diag- | nosing one another’s disabilities. At the same time, encouragement was given that Hines' request for $10,000,000 for immediate building of 18 new hos- | pitals would pass. House leaders intend to act upon it and get the legislation | before the Senate next week. Also there s good prospect that a compromise would be worked out by the end of this week on the many plans for mak- ing more money from the adjusted com- pensation certificates available to World War veterans immediately. Indications today were that some- thing like a $500.000,000 appropriation | for making increased loans at low in- | terest inst the certificates would be offered Hines' plan for cutting disability al- lowances involved a 50 per cent cut in the maximum allowances, with pro- | vision that in the case of married men | haif taken off would be paid the femilies. In no case would the allow- ance go below $20 a month. | " He admitted the proposal would be | unpopular, but was urged immediately to draw up legislation to carry it out There was little belief today it stood ! any chance of passage at this session. |GOOD’S\ ACTIVITIES | IN 1928 CAMPAIGN LINKED WITH LEASE ( (Continued From First Page.) | recommendation he did it verbally. | said he did not know what reply made. “Would you have condemned property?” Blaine asked. “I felt all along condemnation | ceedings should be started,” the | ness replied Blaine asked if postal inspectors had “tipped off” bidders to property desired by the department. He was the pro- wit- good site we often found options had been taken,” Bartlett replied. C., FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1931 v THE END OF THE RUN ON THE PERPETUAL ASSOCIATION “DERPETUAL” BACK T0 NORMAL TODAY Congratulatory Flowers Bank Offices as Usual Business Is Carried On. (Continued From First Page.) of the financial institutions of the v, and urges all its members to sup- press to the utmost all malicious and unfounded rumors, and to assist the authorities in every way possible to bring to light the source of any de- liberate attempt to undermine the good nzme of Washington banks and finan- cial Institution. As an evidence of the organization’s faith in the Perpetual Building Association we are depositing $1.000 today with that organization.” Mr. Tumuity said he made posit “to give proot of my loyal and my high confidence in the mh ment of this excellent institution ‘Members of my family,” he declared, | “have been assosiated with it as de-| positors for years. They, like myself, have confidence in the fine integrity of those in charge. “This institvtion will grow and pros- per more and more with the passing | | erating. THIS i3 THE END OF THE Ling Five o'clock yesterday afternoon saw the end of the run on the Perpetual Building Association, started Wednesday on a false rumor. Upper left: George G. Webster, a depositor, who is credited with persuad- ing many of the late ones in the line not to withdraw their deposits. Web- ster, a retired electrical store owner, bought out all the newsboys on the cor- ner and distributed the newspapers to the depositors to support with printed facts the lecture advising them to give up the run, Upper right: The arrival of a Treas- ury truck with more than $900,000 also helped convince those in line that the Perpetual was entirely solvent. Lower left: A banner bearing the inscription “The Last of the Line” separated the thin line of persons wait- ing to withdraw their deposits from the hundreds who thronged Eleventh and E streets to watch the run. The sign had a wholesome moral effect, for the run shortly afterward ended. —Star Staff Photos. tor William S. Shelby, chief of detecs tives, frankly admitted that the inquiry would be fruitless, with the sole information _consisting of several anonymous telephone calls. The Police Department, however, had a scare about 3 o'clock this morn- ing when the burglar alarm in the Perpetual Building was accidentally set | off.” Although six heavily armed police- men had been stationed in the build- | ing all night to guard the nearly $2,- { 600,000 in cash in the vaults, all head- | quarters detectives on duty, as well as | reserves from the first precinct and \ the officers cruising in the radio equip- ped police scout cars, responded to the | alarm. Investigation developed that one of the officers on guard in the building had tripped the burglar alarm when | he went to the telephone to call head- | quarters to ascertain when his rclief was to come on duty. | The guard squad was equipped with a machine gun and a supply of tear-gas bombs. Persons who withdrew money from | the Perpetual during the run were | warned by the police today to be on the guard against crooks and confi- | dence men. A special detail of plain- | clothes operatives was stationed in the | vicinity of the Perpetual during the excitement, and, while no “dips” or| crooks were observed, it was reported | that several confidence men were op- | IDLE STAGE éURPRISE | Attend Council Meeting as Demon- | | stration Against Demonstrations. | goes | h \DEFENSE EVIDENCE } PRESENTED AT TRIAL BY BISHOP CANNON | __ (Continued From First Page.) | O'Malley, a reporter for the New,York | Journal, a publication owned by Wil- liam Randolph Hearst. Bishop Can- | non now has pending in District Su- preme Court a $5,000,000 suit against | Hearst, based in part on published | statements concerning his family life which he contended were slanderous. The hearing proceeded today with but one observer from the Southern Methodist Conference, before which Bishop Cannon will go to trial in 1934 if eight of the 12 elders hearing the case decide the charges have sufficient merit. He is Bishop W. F. McMurry of Louisville, the other, Bishop U. V. W. Darlington of Huntington, W. Va., hav- ing left last night preparatory to sail- ing for Europe from New York tonight. Facing suspension for three years be- fore going to trial, provided the charges are held sustained sufficlently to war- rant such action, Bishop Cannon has fought with unexpected vigor. Daily Trip on Crutches. Bent almost double by arthritis, he daily from Sibley Hospital, where e is a patient, to the hearing on crutches, and slowly makes his way into the church, leaning on the arm of one of his sons—James Cannon, 3d, as a general rule—and looking neither to right or left. MORE FIRNS AGREE T0 RENOVE SIS American’ Civic Association Given Added Assurance of Co-operation. Further evidence of the co-operation of local and outside firms in the re- moval of advertising signs on highways in the metropolitan area of Washing- ton was received today by the Ameri- can Civie Association. Officlals of the Hamilton Hotel in Washington and the Security Storage Co. of Baltimore notified the associ- ation that they were taking steps to remove or reduce the number of their billboards displays within the designated area. Additional word also was re- ceived at the headquarters of the | Washington Bicentennial Commission {to the effect that the manager of the | Emerson Hotel in Baltimore was coming | to this city soon to make a check on its billboards in the vicinity of the Capital. The assurances of Russell A. Conn, manager of the Hamilton Hotel, were particularly gratifying to the American Civic Association in view, of the fact that local hotels are among the most prolific users of advertising signs on the highways. Mr. Conn stated that arrangements to have the amilton | signs removed have been settled and that all will be taken off the. roads within the next couple of months. Realize Disadvantages. “Although we did not have ns within 2 miles of the city,” !.-l’:;’l:llin ager wrote, “I agree with you that it is very unsightly to have the entrances of the Capital marred by these signs. and hope you will be successful in get- ting the co-operation of all advertisers in removing them.” ‘The Hamilton Hotel has only a comparatively small number of signs in use, but the fact that the manage- ment agrees to the removal of these is an indication that many advertisers are realizing the disadvantages of such displays and are willing to ug! eir attention. Bur- lington Hotel, one of three whose out- SEhLIY Do then, 59 per” 8 more than T cent all the hotel billboards lnpfhe = M- i.;rl e:;e; ‘v.:;k :m&ns tgose ‘which ve e them down within two m’.‘.fi of the "l:lxtrlc?h:lne. il seems us the only ical method is to have a law plmdmmt will give the desired result,” wrote its manager, B. Holland, “and we may say at this time that we should wel- come such a restriction.” The Security Storage Co. of Balti- more notified the American Civic As- sociation that it is in accord with the campaign to eliminate billboard adver- tising within the Washington area. “We have at this time arranged to withdraw practically all of our signs from the State roads of Maryland and in a few months will have them all off the road,” wrote C. J. Hamilton, its president. Mr. Hamilton said the com- any would have removed its billboards fore now but for competition. Old Signs Remain. The association made inquiries of the Security Storage Co. of q“/I.lh.kll- ton, competitor of the Baltimore firm, t&rl le:;: dt;mt it d::es not advertise on e rds, nor s it rtise the side of its building. s o At least three Washington Hotels, it was learned, have billboards on the highways within the Metropolitan area which are out of date. These are the Sterling, Oxford and Potomac Hotels, which have either been closed or torn down to make way for Government building projects. Although the Maryland State > way Commission is said to be po'?‘tfi! to remove signs from private property, even though out dated, the Virginia Highway Commission is not so fettered. Th: Maryland commission, however, can take’down signs on the right of way of State roads, and it is with the view to having the billboards of these three hotels removed wherever possible that an appeal will be made to the highway authorities. The Sterling Hotel, which has been closed for some time, has 20 such billbards within the metropolitan area. | | | “When we got ready to take over a years. Its new prosperity will put to| | GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, February | ADVOCATES UNIFORM SIGNS. shame those who ran and deserted it|g () —A demonstration against unem- Filling Stations, $200; Mr. and Mrs. | leader on the Republican side. { BERLIN, February 6 (#).—A War-| "1 think the record In the St. Paul When he appeared for yesterday aft- cas George O. Tenny, $200; Justice Willis | _Senator Robinson represents one of saw dispatch to Telegrafen Union today Van ‘Devanter. $500: Mrs. James W, the States hardest hit by the drought.! ‘Wadsworth, $200; East Washlngwfl‘ Savings Bank, $187.42; Mr. and Mrs.’ Charles E. Langley, $180; Isaac Gans. $170; Charles F. Wilson, $150; Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Birdsall, $150; Charles G. Ab- ter Teishmann, $150; Dr. Gerry Morgan, $150; John W. Fisher, $150; C. L. Justus, $150; Brook and Harry, $125; A. Chester Flather, $125: Miss Minnie | T. Holleriyh, $125; Angus Crowford, $125; Mrs. Maude S. Emory, $125; Patrick Shugrue, $120; Bertram Wise, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. McReynolds, $il Raymond Benjamin, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Bruce E. Clark, $100; Thomas Bones, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Harry N. Rickey, $100; Hydraulic Press Brick Co., $100; Mrs. John R. Devine, $100; Roger O. Donnell, $100; Mr. and Mrs. J. V. Brownell, $100; Dr. Willlam Chase, | $100; Mrs. George Starkey, $100; Barry | Pate, Inc., $100; A. R. Cohen, $100: | Miss Jeanette R. Holt, $100; Mr. and Mrs. William L. Browning, $100; Oliver Rickettson, $100; Henry W. Morgan, $100; Isadore Freund, $100; American Personal Finance Co., | $100; Guy Livingston, $100; St. Aloy- | sius Church, $100; Mr. and Mrs. Charles | P. Smith, $100; Mrs. Louise Herr Mor- gan, $100; Herman Goldberg, $100; Cherles Hausel, $100; Miss Helen Sheckels, $100; Helen A. Connor, $100; Robert W. Longyear, $100; Mrs. Kath- arine H. Brown, $100; Mr. and Mrs. M. H. McIntyre, $100; Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Bowles, $100; Soroptimist Club, $100; the American Oil Co., $100; Robert Lawson, $100: Miss Florence H. Butler, $100; R. E. Quirl, $100; Miss M. Beavans, $100; Mr. and Mrs. H. Bl Phelps, $100; Mrs. Robert Richards, $100; Wilton J. Lambert, $100: Mrs. Kate T. Marsh, $100; James E. Cham- berlin, $100; Dr. W. S. Bowen, $100; | Mr. and Mrs. Swager Sherley, $100; | Mrs. Annie M. Miller, $100; Mrs. John 8. Scully, $100; Munsey, 428, $100; Dr. | C. P. King, $100: Mrs Louise Carr? Becke, $100; Harriman & Co., $100; Engels & Sons, Inc., $100; Miss Alice | E. Johnson, $100; Vernon Kellogg, $100; D. D. Moses, $100; Miss Margaret Eustis, $100; Miss Beatrice Detwiler, $100; Taylor Karmon Oil Co. $100; | Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Willis, $100: Miss Katherine C. Wright, $100; Mrs. B. H. | Deput, $100; Mrs. C. S. Elliott, $100: | Charles E. Bartenback, $100; Mrs. W. M. Simkens, $100; Judge Schuldt, $100; Judge and Mrs. Hitt, $100; Judge Ralph Given, Simon Atlas, Inc., $100; W. C. Sullivan, | $100; Raymond B. Dickey, $100; Joseph A. Burkart, $100; Dr. and Mrs. L. B. Swormstedt, $100; Howard W. Phillips | & Co., $100; Huston Thompson, $100; | the Baumgarten Co. of Washington, $100. LUNCHEON FOR KILLIAN Priends of Frank V. Killian today ve him a luncheon at the Olmsted grfll in honor of his coming wedding. He was presentéd with. many presents. Attending were: Simon Lyon, 8. Percy ‘Thompson, Charles Jacobson, A. F. Jorss, Martin Rittenhouse, Fred Pyle, X Quinn, Willlam L. Bradcliff, food 1s provided the population in areas | hardest hit. The Democratic leader has | been insistent that the Federal Govern- | ment take over steps to provide for !hei peopie in the drought area, and recenily | the measures of relief on which the Senators would insist and threatening to force a special session otherwise. | Since that time there have been | moves to effect a compromise between | Democratic Senators allied with the | progressive Republicans on the one hand | and the House and President Hoover on the other. RED CROSS DROUGHT FUND REACHES $964 More Than Score During Donations Received by Star From" Day Total $135.50. l More than a score of new gifts today increased The Star’s Red Cross drought relief fund to within striking distance of the thousand-dollar mark. The day's donations aggregeted $135.50 for a grand tota} of £954.50 i hey 1 Previously acknowledged Anonymous Winifred M. Pugh.. Mis_G M. Beck w: 23 scpus0222 Mr..2nd Mrs. E. S. S Joseph A. Golder. Mrs. W i . N. 8. vo Mrs. T. H Mitchell Cash .. < Mrs. May H. Amick. . E P H..... e F. C. Snyder . C. W. Van Wagner Sunshine -and Communit. clety.. . R, t A, Beott.. Somewmoo= s Bad y ‘So- 13 e S e S Viole A G C.. ‘ R. E. Clayton.. coooe 2823232 28388 88333888338238238 |28 Total S o b s HDENN In addition the following Community Chest_contributicns were sent direct to | The Star: . . | Previously acknowledges W. H. Brown Mrs. M. R. 8 R G. Joseph A. Golden H. P. Norman..... Mr and Mrs. E. 8. Cash . . - a 2 pengler. » 8388838835 e U JOTOTeTey pere Judge A Lynn Chap! R 32 3 Henry I Ringold Hart, John Dolph, Dr. O. Hugh L Binger, frh':‘rlu ‘f:mn fer, Dr. James Sharp, ur May, Edward Kinkle, Dr. L. Lewellyn Davis, : :g:vw Jenkins, H. H. Snodgrass, oJ Praiiin Kendrick, Kilian Kendrick, wnum. R. B. H. Lyon and Peter 1 24 Miss Margaret H. 82832 33328583335 aSwad . 827 8 8 ‘When loud noises assail the ear a de- crease in the field of vision of the eye is sajd to result. 4 said that three members of the govern- | His purpose particularly is to see that ment block in Parliament had surren- dered their mandates presumably in protest at alleged ill treatment of Ger- mau minorities in Upper Silesia re- cently. ; | The three members were the Univer- bot, $150; Bernard Herman, $150; Wal- | {squeq a statement from the Democratic | sity Profs. K | conference of the Senate setting forth | Nowak zanocswki, Lechnicki and Both Warsaw and Cracow University professors recently published protests at the Upper Silesian incidents. Over the Top shows Kulp had an option on the location.” Jacob Kulp of Chicago was the les- sor in the St. Paul case Asked About 1928 Trip. Blaine questioned Bartlett about trip he had made to St. Paul in 1928. Recalling Good was at that time ‘Western campaign manager for the Re- publican party, Blaine said, “Was it Good who asked you to be sent to St. Paul?” “He didn’t ask me. If he asked any one it was the Postmaster General, Bartlett replied “Who sent_you?” | “If you call it sent, it was the Post- { master General.” | “Don’t you know Good was Western { manager of the Republican campaign and this matter was being aired and the fear was expressed that if the lgrand jury investigating the St. Paul lease convened on August.7 it might blow up the campaign in the Norin- west, and that it must be stopped at all hazards? Can you say you didn't know it was going or a I didn't know they feared the situ- ation,” the witness replied. Blaine brought out that while Bart- lett was in St. Paul he announced con- demnation proceedings had been started looking to a new post office. Bartlett | said he did not remember. “Didn't_you know that in order to stop the grand jury investigation?” | Blaine asked “I knew as a matter of consclence I would have nothing to do with a grand | jury.” Bartlett replied. Blaine said the record showed that just before L. K. Drill became the new United States attorney at St. Paul on August 1, he received a_telephone call from Good at President Coolidge’s Sum- | mer home in Wisconsin. | Good talked with Drill, Blaine said, about_indictments in_connection with the St. Paul lease, but Drill said he wes not yet familiar with the case. Blaine ‘also said John S. Pratt, spe- cial assistant to the Attorney General, celled Drill and told him not to tuke any action until he had conferred with him. Bartlett said his concern over a new office was “strictly a business prop- jon.” DENEEN TO BE FETED I Society Will Give Farewell Dinner for Senator February 21. A farewell dinner and reception for Senat°r and Mrs. Charles S. Deneen will be held by the Illinois State So- cicty on Saturday night, February 21, in the Willard Hotel. Judge Thomas S. Williams, president of the soctety, said & program of music and dancing would follow the dinner. SELMA, Ala,, February 6 (#).—Chief of Police’ Norman Stanfill today said he had a sighed confession by Irby J. Trawick- of . Chiiton County, Ala., which purported to relate how he had slain W. T. Long with a hammer near Nevada, Mo, four months ago and left the body in an open fleld. Stanfill sald Trawick claimed in his confession he drove to Alabama in Long’s automobile because he wanted to see his family and “to have some way to take them around.” He was arrested near Clanton, Ala., & week ago. “None of that talk was held with me. | when in a moment of passion they be- came the victims of cruel propaganda.” Two Events Credited. Two events which Perpetual officials credit with aiding in breaking the run occurred yesterday afternoon—the cer- emonious * delivery of the $900,000 in currency by the Treasury and the action of George G. Webster, a retired electrical dealer, and depositor, in dis- tributing more than 100 copies of The Evening Star to the worried depositors in line, pointing out that the directors of this paper had the unmost confi- | dence in the soundness of the institu- ticn. Webster also pointed out the news story on the front page calling at- tention to the reassuring statements of the association’s condition by Washing- ton's financial and business leaders. Webster bought all the papers he could from the newsboys in the vicinity of the Perpetual Building, and then went to The Star office for an additional supply. The man’s act was praised by Frank D. Addison, jr., president of the Security Savings & Commercial Bank, who had remained in the Perpetual Building throughout the day calming the fears of skeptical depositors. It was not long after Webster di tributed the papers that the line in the vicinity of the Perpetual Building began to diminish perceptibly. And shortly afterward an armored Treasury Depart- ment_truck, escorted by a motor cycle patrol and secret service men, arrived with the $900,000 in currency and de- | livered it to the association. peared to again reassure the worried and a number of others dropped out of | the line, and when the association closed its doors, every depositor who wanted to withdraw had been paid in full. | | This ap- | Lecturer Talks to Crowd. When the currency arrived, Mr. Baltz and Miss Janet Richards, Washington | leclurer and a depositor at the institu- tion, mounted the counter and pointed | to the pile of crisp new bills, telling | those inside the building that the money | was there if they wanted it. Miss Richards also declared that the de-| positors would be “foolish” to take their | money out of an_institution as safe| and sound as the Perpetual. | “Where are you going to put it after you draw it out?” she asked. “In your | stocking I suppo: She said she had $12,000 on deposit in the association and intended to leave it there | News of the Perpetual’s return to normalcy spread throughout Washing- ton today as quickly as did the false rumers on Wednesday, and hundreds of persons telephoned their congratula- tions to officials of the institution. A number of others said it with flowers, and the Perpetual Building was a myriad of roses, carnations and tulips. In addition, the District Building Council, through its Executive Commit- tee, sent a message announcing that it had gone on record expressing ‘‘com- plete confidence” in the financial sta- bility of the association and in the “ability and integrity of its officers and directors.” The council s the repre- sentative body of all the 24 building ang loan associations in the District, having a total capitalization of $65,000,000, all of which, with the exception of cash re- serves, Is invested in first trusts on dwellings in Washington. None of the funds are invested in notes or securities of other business enterprises. The search for the origin of the false rumor about the Perpetual was contin- ued today by secret service agents, and headquarters detectives, but no definite lead has yet-been developed. Inspec- ployment demonstrations was held last | night by unemployed wards of the city. | who marched in a body to City Hall |and attended a meeting of the City Commission. The counter-demonstration, which | followed by a week one in which com- | plaints and demands for more assist- |ance were set forth, took the commis- | sion by surprise. A spokesman for the demonstrators, most of whom were in- | mates of the city’s Social Service Center, | which provides food and shelter fo unmarried unemployed, addressed the commission and commended its telief | efforts and condemned dissatisfied per- sons who demanded more. City Manager Welsh responded with | an address of thanks. [COME TAX FACTS. No. 5. Fajlure to understand that sec- tion of the retenue act which relates to the apportionment of the personal exemption cf per- | | sons who were married during the taxable year has resulted in numerous errors in income tax returns, usually to the disadvan- tage of the taxpayer. The act provides that if the marital status of a taxpayer changes during the year his per- sonal exemption shall be deter- mined by apportionment in ac- cordance with the number of months he was single or married. | | The fractional part of a month is disregarded, unless it amounts to half a month, in it is considered a | | more than | | which case | month. For example, a couple married on October 14, 1930, may file a joint return and claim an exemp- tion of $3,125. which is nine. twelfths of $1,500, or $1,125, for the husband while single, plus nine-twelfths of $1,500 for the wife while single, plus three- twelfths of the $3,500 for the period they were married. Should they file separate returns, each is entitled to an exemption of $1,562.50, which is_nine-twelfths of $1,500 plus cne-half of three- twelfths of $3,500. In no instance may the total personal exemption allowed hus- band and wife living together on the last day of the taxable year exceed $3,500, irrespective of whether separate returns are filed or not, If. for example, a per- son mhrried on October 14 was from January 1 to October 14 the head of a family, he or she would be allowed a total exemption of $3,600, and the other spouse, though single during that period, would be allowed no exemption. The provision relating to ap- portionment of the personal ex- emption applies also to the head of a family. A taxpayer who on October 14 ceased to be the head of a family—the support in one household of one or more rel tives having been discontinued— is entitled to an exemption of $3,000, which is nine-twelfths of $3, plus three-twelfths of $1,500. With respect to the $400 credit for a dependent, the taxpayer's status on the last day of the taxable year determines this credit. If his support of such dependent ceased before the end of the taxable year he is not en- | ernoon’s session he found awaiting him a huge basket of flowers from local well- wishers. The actual presentation was made by S. W. Cockrell, and evoked a brief expression of appreclation from | the recipient. 'FINAL BONUS ACTION EXPECTED SHORTLY House Committee Likely to Re- port Bill Increasing Loans on Veterans’ Certificates. By the Assoclated Press. | Chairman Hawley announced today | final consideration of bills to provide |cash on veterans' certificates would be given Tuesday by the House Ways and | Means Committee. | _“I believe the committee will act | promptly,” he said. | Republican leaders privately expressed | anticipation of a favorable rcport on a bill to increase loans on the compensa- |tion certificates, similar to a proposal |advanced by Owen D. Young, chairman |of the board of General Electric. This | proposal, Young estimated, would cost | some $300,000,000 to $500,000,000. | It was generally declared among Re- | publican spokesman that the $3,400,- {000,000 fuli payment plan was out of | the picture. 17 MORE RED CROSS GIFTS MAKE $87,754 | Donations to Drought Relief Fund Range From $2 to $50, D. C. Chapter Reports. Seventeen contributions for $205 to- day boosted the drought relief fund of the District Red Cross chapter to $87,- 754.18. The donations ranged from $2 to $50. The latest subscriptions: Previously acknowledged Dr. Paris E. Brengle. . Mrs. Bessie W Brawner. Mrs. Orlena B. Hiller. John E. Stauffer . G. B. Puller.... Sadie Weinstine $87,549.18 10.00 Luther M. Cornwall. W. Neal Fight... Mrs. Fred C. Hays. Marion Smith . Anonymous Anonymous . Miss Caroline Longfellow (ad~ ditfonal) Mrs. L. L. Gunther ‘Total ...$87,754.18 ‘The National Union of Woman Ordinance Regulating Boards and Re- quiring Tax Payment Suggested. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. VIRGINIA HIGHLANDS, Va., Febru- ary 6.—A uniform board upon which small signs advertising local business could be placed was advocated at last night’s meeting of the Hume Schoo! and Civic League by Miss Gertrude Crocker, tea house operator. Miss Crocker’s suggestion, which was in the form of a motion that was adopted by the association, was that Frank G. Campbell, veteran billboard opponent and member of the league, prepare for presentation to the board of county supervision an ordinance elim- inating the hundreds of small direction signs now to be found along the high- ways of the county and providing the boards upon which tea house, real estate offices and other business of a local nature point to their places of business. ‘These boards would be placed at principal intersections and the users would pay an initial license fee to cover the cost of erection and an annual tax for maintenance. If the suggestion is carried out the boards would be of artistic design and more on the order of the historic markers now in use by the State than as billboards. The association is solidly against regular bilboard advertising and is lending every effort toward its elim- ination, but feels that more good than harm could come from the consolidation of the direction signs. January Circulation Daily... 114,464 Sunday, 119,830 District of Columbia, ss. FLEMING NEWBOL! G Busi ND SUNDAY does solemaly swear that the actual number of coples of the paper named sold end distr:b- uted during the month of January, AD. 1931, was as follows o H Coples EEESomanmwen, 16 z Less adjustments.......... Total daily net circulation.. . . Average daily nst paid circulation. Daily averag 1 service, etc. Daily average net circulatio SUNDAY. Coples Days Ty Is 121124 25 Da; ] u Less adjustments.. Total Sunday net circulation.... ... et Sunday circulation 119,200 of coples for serv- Teachers of d recently passed a resolution chers with 10 to six titled to this credit. years' sergle ngfhs with pay for or studge - Average Sunday net circulatio: FLEMING N Business Manager. Subscribed and_sworn_to before me this of Pebruars. AD. 1031 ELMER F. YOI