Evening Star Newspaper, February 17, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Rain this afternoon mum temperature about legrees cloudy tomorrow and slightly colder. . ‘Temperatures — Highest, 57, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; lo'nt,'lz, at noon today. Full report on page Clo: and tonight: mini 40 de N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 31,703. No. post _office, Wa. Efitered as second class matte shington, D. C. WASHINGTON, iy 40, ‘WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION TUESDAY, HIGH GAS PRESSURE HELD BILL BOOSTER: CHANGE IS ORDERED Companies Told to Make Ad- justments in Allegedly Dan- gerous Equipment. MUST KEEP OFFICIALS INFORMED OF WORK Pilot Lights Alone, It Is Estimated, Are Costing Washington Con- sumers $4,500 a Month. With information said to indicate that increased gas pressures discovered in a recent survey by engineers of the Public Utilities Commission are re- sponsible to some extent for mounting gas bills, the commission, it was an- nounced today, has ordered the Wash- ington Gas Light Co. to proceed as rapidly as possible to make adjustments in its main and distribution systems to bring pressures within the prescribed Tequirements. The commission also has ordered the company to make a careful check of all appiiances used by the thousands of gas consumers, and adjust them, if neces- sary, to meet pressure conditions. Bert H. Peck, chief engineer of the commis- sion, issued a warning that the high gas pressures may result in inefficient and dangerous appliances because of improper adjustment. Pilots Wasting Gas. The increased pressures, it was said at the commission, affect most serious- ly the improperly adjusted pilot lights on gas furnaces and automatic hot- water heaters, because they are burning continuously. Estimates given the ccm- mission indicate, it is charged, that the pilot lights alone are wasting approxi- mately $150 worth of gas a day. In other words, it is held that the im- proper adjustment of the pilots is unnecessarily costing gas consumers $4.500 a month. No estimates could be made at the ccmmission as to the amount of gas wasted by improperly regulated gas ranges. It was said at the commis- sion, however, that this figure probakly would be lower than that for the pilot lights as the gas ranges are generally used only several hours a day. and when the flame becomes too high they can be observed by the househclder and the flow cf gas cut down. The commission told the gas com- pany that the adjustments to con- sumers’ equipment should be made in co-operation with its engineering de- partment and that it be kept informed as to the progress of the work. Must Increase Facilities. Pressurcs as high as 12 inches, or 100 per cent greater than the 6-inch mfiml“m d‘nin th hynfl“x’:‘uflu . ‘were foun e el survey of the gas-distribution system. The commission in its new order, however, allows a maximum pressure of 8 inches, as recommended by its chief nfim. distribution system. must be increased under the commis- sion’s latest order. In reply to the commission's order, George A. G., Washington Gas arrangements had been ma the pressure during the off-peak hours and that “very serious consideration” had been given the ance situation, especially since the ent of natural gas. Mr. Wood explained that a school had been instituted by the company 1o train & group of men in gas appli- ance adjustment, and within two weeks they would be ready to start fleld work. ‘This inspection service, he said, will gulr:nug good gas appliance adjust- ment. Studying Distribution. “We are most anxious to secure good public relations,” Mr. Wood told the commission, “and will do everything in our power in the matter of proper gas pressures, and in regard to the gas ap- pliance adjustments we will be very glad to co-operate in this matter and make adjustments wherever indicated as being necessary.” Mr. Wood also revealed that the com- pany has arranged with the firm of Day & Zimmerman, consulting engi- neers, to make an exhaustive survey of its distribution layouts in order that the high-pressure conditions complained of by the commission’s chief engineer can be corrected as speedily as possible. ‘The engineer had pointed out that un- less the improvements were immediate- ly undertaken, conditions next Winter will result in more extended violation of the commission’s pressure regulations, and further unsatisfactory service. President Wood, Wilton J. Lambert, counsel, and Antheny Hyde, publicity agent for the gas company, called upon the Public Utilities Commission this morning and assured the commission that everything possible would be done 1o correct the situation as to “appar- ently increased” gas bills under the new reduced gas rates. _ Mr. Wood said that a_strenuous ef- (Continued on Pag Column COMMITTEE TO OPEN PROBE OF MILK PRICE Capper Group Summons Many Witnesses in Inquiry Into Cost of Food. Milk prices in Washington, as well as in other parts of the country, will be inquired into by the Capper subcom- mittee of the Senate Agricultural Com- mittee when it resumes hearings on its food investigation this afternoon. Among the witnesses who have been asked to testify this afternoon are Henry N. Brawner, jr., of the Chestnut Farms Dairy and A. L. Thompson, one of the members of the Thompson dairy firm, both of this city. Other witnesses t | involving cash president of , New York; F. B. Wi A P nt of the National Association of Milk Dealers,and manager of the Bor- den Co. plant at ‘This is the first auer, the | tives in Wi Goes Home BLEASE FAILS TO WAIT FOR TERM TO EXPIRE. SENATOR BLEASE. Senator Blease, Democrat, South Caro- lina, who was defeated for re-election Jast Summer, has given up his quarters in the Senate Office Building and gone {nome without waiting for his term to expire. Blease was defeated in the Demo- cratic primary by James F. Byrnes. The South Carolina Senator left with little ceremony, merely tacking a notice on his door that mail and telegrams should be left at the Senate post office. He told officials of the post office to for- ward it to his home at Columbia, S. C. 2 MEN FOUND DEAD FROM GAS IN ROOM Police Seek Relatives of Boarders Believed Acciden- tal Victims of Fumes. ‘Two men were found dead today with gas flowing from a heater in their room on the third floor of a lodging house at 233 Pennsylvania avenue, The dead men were Harry Gallatin and George Campbell. Gallatin regis- tered at the rooming house Saturday and Campbell joined him the following night. Their previous addresses are unknown. The men were found by Harley Garri- son, manager of thé ladging house, who traced the odor of gas to their room. g the door hooked on the through the transom with a 'k and unhooked the door. He found one mEv upon loor. 1 n summoned the fire rescue squi and the two men were pro- nourced dead. Members of the squad offered the opinion that the men had accidentally turned the gas heater con- trol too far MM turnln‘n nlll”l'!,m pre- paratory to_retiring Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt was noti- fied and police are endeavoring to learn whether or not the men had any rela- ‘ashington. After examining the heater, Coroner Nevitt declared it was of an old type and added he probably would order an inquest into the deaths. “The case will bear considerable in- vestigation,” he said, “and I won't issue a certificate untll every phase of it has ‘been thoroughly looked into.” The bodies were removed to the morgue. TWO WOMEN AND MAN DIE IN TENEMENT FIRE eral Faint in New York' Blaze. Suspicion Expressed. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 17.—Two women and a man were burned to death early today when flames swirled through a six-story brick tenement on the lower East Side. After the fire had subsided the wom- en’s bodies were found in a fifth floor flat and the man's sprawled over the though he had attempted to flee to the roof. The women tentatively were identified as a Mrs. Mass, 60, and Rachel Rosen, 38. The man’'s name could not immediately be learned. The remaining tenants, clad only in night dress and badly frightened, were helped down fire escapes and aerial ladders by police, firemen and neigh- bors. Eight of them were attended for smoke poisoning and several spec- tators received first aid after fainting. The neighborhcod, highly congested, seethed in near-panic. The location was 84 Clinton street. Deputy Pire Chief James Heffernan 'd that the fire was of suspicious n, expressing the opinion it be- gan in two baby carnages parked un- der the stairs on the first floor. The three upper stories were burned out. but the rest of the building suffered little damage. re] Pindin Garrison climbed upon a chair, reached | ists broomsticl Smoke Overcomes Eight and Sev-| stairway leading to the top floor, as | d¢ NEW DICTATORSHIP | EXPECTED IN SPAIN FROM ARMY COUP Reports Persist Gen. Saro, Rivera’s Right-Hand Man, Will Head Government. POSSIBLE REVOLUTION IS TALKED ON STREETS Confused Situation Results Sanchez Guerra Fails to Form Cabinet. By the Associated Press. MADRID, February 17 (telephoned via London).—As King Alphonso strove |today to give Span a responsible gov- | ernment all indications were that a new | military dictatorship would be set up. Long-range guns were trained om- inously on the city and machine guns had been placed strategically in prep- aration for any eventuality. Persistent reports gained credence that Gen. Leo- poldo Saro, former chicf of the King's | palace guards, would be the new dic- tator. Censorship was again established to- night. Supplementing the reports that Gen. Saro would take the power were addi- tional ones to the effect that a mili-| tary clique had recalled Gen. Martinez Anido from the Balearic Islands. Gen. Anido was one of the former Dictator Primo de Rivera's right-hand men. Those most_closely acquaifted with | events sald the situation was uncer- tain and fraught with grave possibili- | thes. The streets were thronged with men tonight and with the talk of a dicta- torship was mingled that of a possible | revclution. 1 Sanchex Guerra Fails. The new political crisis was thrust | upon Spain with failure of Jose | Antonio Sanchez Guerra to form a gov- | ernment on a basis of liberal constitu- | tional revision. Sanchez Guerra, designated by King Alfonso yesterday to get together a cab- | inet, went to the palace at noon today and informed the King that he had been unable to secure the collaboration of the Republicans and Socialists, radical left groups, and would have to renounce his He advised the King to call upon Melquiades Alvarez, another advocate of constitutional revicion to limit the pow- ers of the throne, and leader of the “re. formist” group of the Spanish conserva- tive party. Alvarez, if anything, would be regarded as more radical than San- chez Guerra, whose designation by the King yesterday was regarded by Mon- archists as a surrender to the extrem- The development, which came with astonishing suddenness, threw the po- litical sitwation into the utmost con« fusion and made developments extreme- ly uncertain. A large military clique is extremely dissatisfied with yesterday's events, which they consider constitutes an un- necessary surrender by the King of royal prerogative. One story current today was definite- ly disproved. The correspondent visit- ing the military base at Jetafe, where, according to rumor, the artillery de- tachment had risen in favor of the King, found everything there quiet. Officers belleved the rumors to have arisen from a soldiers’ brawl which oc- curred there during the night. Sanchez Had Liberal Program. Sanchez Guerra failed to get to- gether a cabinet on what probably was the most liberal program a premier- designate has advanced since the days of the seventies, Before accepting the King's invita- tion to head a new government to re- place that of Gen. Damaso Berenguer, which resigned Saturday, he exacted a promise from the King to call a con- stitutional convention which would re- write the constitution of 1876 and de- cide what form the future Spanish government was to take. This convention would have had prerogatives superior even to those of the King, and almost certainly would have shorn the throne of many of its powers, if not taking more drastic nc~' tion, QUEEN CONTINUES TRIP. HENDAYE, Spanish fronter, Febru- ary 17 (®).—Queen Victoria of Spain took the Madrid Express from here this morning, continuing her journey to Madrid after a visit with her mother, the Princess Beatrice, who is ill in Lon- | lon. | ALCOHOL KILLS SEVEN CHESTERTOWN, Md., February 17 ()—Seven colored persons, one & wom. an, were dead here today and several others were repcrted to be in a danger- ous condition as the result of drinking wk;:nt the coroner said was poison al- cohol. Several of the victims attended a party Sunday night at the home of one of the men who died, Jake Smith, but the coroner, Dr. Harry L. Dodd, said his information was that not all of those affected were present. Jake Smith, host at the fatal narty, was 60. Others who died were Samuel Sheppard, 60; George Bowen, 58; Lena | Gould, 50; Arbula Fletcher, 35; Her- bert Wells, 36, and John Lomax, 40. TAPE-BINDING REHEARSALS LEAD TO ARREST OF ROBBERY SUSPECTS {Trio Said to Have Confessed After Child Says They Played “Funny Games.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 17.—The prac- uc::;rl the technique of binding and g g victims with adhesive tape led the capture of three men accused today by Assistant State's Attorney Charles E. Lounsbury of 10 robberies, and fewelry valued at $145,000 taken from four banks, iwo m&ll’! stores and four wealthy fami- , including Mrs. Lottie Von Buelow, Harry L, Powell was taken into cus- ‘when e e to ‘“get even” for jilt her. Powell, after vigorously dé’nyln‘un‘ every charge of robbery, was but not -until his former sweetheart's s former sweetheart informed 000 4-year-old daughter pointed at him and told police how Powell played “funny games” in his mother’s home. Powell, the baby said, was joined by two other men. ey took turns binding one an- jpanish Republic in the early H Sam! | could ‘be given, he said, other with adhesinve tape and then struggling to get free. He was shadowed by authorities until irday, when he, George Nelson and wunton J. Randall were captured. They have since confessed to many of was as a $50, theft, but the prisoners said it was much smaller. Radio Programs on Page C-3 “CHICAGO'S MAYORALTY ¢ Foening Star. FEBRUARY 17, 1931—THIRTY-EIGHT PAGES. #¥#% service.. Yesterd () Means Associated Press. The only evening paper : in Washington with the Associated Press news ’s Circulation, 118,868. TWO CENTS. ACCORDING TO FEACH OTHER. WAGNER PROPOSES ORY AW REPEAL Tells Senate Wickersham Re- port Was “Beginning of End” of Prohibition. By the Associated Press. Asserting the Wickersham report was “the beginning of the end” of prohibition, Senator Wagner, Democrat, New York, today proposed a plan for repeal of the eighteenth amendm:nt, calculated to prevent return of the saloon. The New Yorker, in a carefully pre- pared speech to the Senate, advocated repeal of the prohibition amendment with concurrent action by non-prohibi- tion States “to insure the conservation of the one achievement of national prohibition”’—abolition of the saloon. He said his plan, a brand-n:w pro- rosfll for solution of the liquor prob- em, would meet every ultimate require- ment laid down by the Wickersham Commission and would remove the law enforcement group’s single objection to outright repeal. ‘Wagner's , coming on the heels of a warm te on prohibition among Democratic Senators, emphasized the conflicting views within the party which may come to a head when it attempts to adopt a platform for next year's presidential race. Repeal, Order of Day. “Repeal is the order of the day,” Wagner sald, “It is too late for revi- sion. Public opinion has already that post. It is now headed straight for repeal. * * * “I have listened with patience to the repeated assertions upon this floor of the doctrine of impossibility. You tell me repeal is impossible. I answer you, it is inevitable. You tell me that a small minority of the States can pre- vent it. I know they can, but I am sure they will not. “The same succession of events, the e common sense which have per- suaded 11,000,000 voters that national prohibition is a mistake will h: their effect on the rest of our peopl ‘Wagner sald the issue must be faced under “courageous leadership.” “That, unfortunately, we cannot ex- pect from our President,” he added. “With the report of the Wickersham Commission in his hand, Mr. Hoover had a rare opportunity to exercise his prerogative and lead a grateful people out of the morass of criminality, cor- ruption and hypoerisy in which we have been bogged for 11 years. Disowns Commission. “He has thrown it away. He made haste to disown the commission he had himself so hopefully created. It is fairly plain that, irrespective of the avenue of approach the President used, he did not accurately report the views of the com~ mission in his message to the Congress.” Wagner said the Wickersham Com- ! mission would have recommended out- right repeal, if it had followed its own logic, except for fear of the saloon’s re- tu . Assurance that this would not happen by constitu- ional_amendments in_the wet States “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) ASKS SALARY CUT Governor General of New Zealand Requests 10 Per Cent Reduction. WELLINGTON, New Zealand, Feb- ruary 17 (#).—Lord Blebisloe, Governor General of New Zealand, today re- quested that his official salary be re- duced 10 per cent for the public in- terest. Premier Forbes gratefully ac- cepted his offer. The Governor General's salary is £5,000 ($25,000) a year with £2500 allowances, a total of about $37,500. FOCH VS. PERSHING Their quarrel over shipping of Ameri- can man power told tomorrow by PERSHING mn The Evening Star 27 Ex-Service Men Cross Continent to Ask New Bonus Bill Veterans From Seattle Call on Senator Dill After 20-D: Journey. By the Associated Press. ‘Twenty-seven ex-service men who had come all the way from Seattle without a dollar between them today trooped into the office of Senator Dill. “We're not bolsheviks,” said their leader, by way of introduction. “We are just a bunch of former service men who wanted to come here to see if Congress couldn’t do something to help us gat our bonus money. We've come 3,000 miles in 20 days by box car and—" “Well, well,” sald the Washington Senator—a Democrat, ‘‘come in boys and sit down. I wouldn't blame you if you did feel a little bolshevistic after making that trip in box cars. Was it cold?” There followed an arresting tale of how a modern Coxey's army of 120 strong set out from Seattle January 25 and how its dwindling remnants made their dogged way across the mum.rlyullflng on doughnuts or what- ever else came their way. Nearly half of the original 120 were forced to-turn back at Spokane, Taylor sald, after the entire “army” had drenched by a heavy rain on the 400- mile trek from ttle. “Of thoee that came on from Spo- kane,” said Taylor, “44 got jobs on the way. The rest are here.” 2 ELLIOTT SELECTED AS MGARL'S AIDE Retiring Representative Is Chosen to Be Assistant Con- troller General for 15 Years. Representative Richard N. Elllott, Republican, of Indiana, who knocked the “pork barrel” out of public build- ing legislation and fathered much of the program for the develcpment of the National Capital, has been selected by President Hoover to be -assistant con- troller general of the United States, succeeding Lurtin R. Ginn, retired. This was learned from an authorita- tive source today, as the present ses- sion of Congress, in which Mr. Elliott is concluding his service as a member of Congress, draws to a close. He was defeated for re-election to the House. Mr. Elliott’s appointment to the post of assistant controller general is for a term of 15 years, and he would draw a salary of $8,000 as a minimum. The office is filled by presidential appointment, with approval of the Sen- ate. The nomination of Representative Elliott probably will go forward before long from the White House. Confirma. tion of the nomination is expected by Mr. Elliott’s friends. The position of assistant controller eneral of the United States is one of gh responsibility. In the absence of the controller general, who is now J. Raymond McCarl, the assistant con- troller becomes acting. ALEXANDRIA LINE SEEKS TERMINAL Virginia Trolley Company Wants Site Near 11th and E Streets for Station. Formal petition for a new terminal location for the Alexandria street car line here has been filed with the Public Utilities Commission by R. L. May, sole owner of the Mount Vernon, Alexan The pef by following the passage of a resolution by the City Council of Alexandria re- questing that this forma! action be In the ition May requests the Pub- lic Uil mmission to allow his cars and those of the Arlington-Fair- fax Railway Co., which use his tracks, to come up Fourteenth cross Pennsylvania avenue, and establish a terminal between Eleventh on E street and Twelfth streets. May today said that he has been in- formed previously by the Public Util- For. it ve SENKTE ACTSFAS TOBRING P BONS Ashurst Moves to Discharge Committee to Hasten Dis- position of Measure. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Supporters of the scldiers’ bcnus bill moved rapidly in the Senate today to bring the measure up for consideration. Senator Ashurst of Arizona, Demo- crat, gave formal notice of a motion to discharge the Senate Finance Com- mittee from further consideration of the bonus bill, which passed the House yesterday by a vote of 363 to 39. ‘The Arizona Senator sought to have his motion to bring the bill immediately before the Senate, acted upcn today. Senator Fess of Ohio, who was presid- ing, called attention to the rule which makes its necessary to give notice a day in advance before a motion to dis- chas standing committee of further m}enum cf a bill is acted upon. Senator Smoot of Utah, chairman of the Finance ( ttee, insisted that his committee Would act Promptly upon the bill and went so far as to say he [ MOTgu thought the bill could be reported to the Senate tomorrow. He denied flatly any desire on his part to play politics with the bill or to delay its considera- tion. He pointed out that he called a meeting of his committee for tomorrow to consider the bill Can't Uphold Veto. Secretary Mellon is expected to be present and to be heard on the meas- ure, which he has already declared should not be passed. There was no mistaking of the tem- per of the Senate today. Any effort to d‘eshyd the bonus bill will be sharply re- sisted. Before the Senate met, Senator Moses of New Hampshire, the President pro tempore of the Senate, called at the White Hogse. As he was leaving he predicted prompt action in the Senate on the bonus bill and saild that oppo- nents of the bill lack a couple of votes to sustain a presidential veto, if Presi- dent Hoover should ‘withhold his ap- proval of the bonus bill. The New Hampshire Senator did not say, how- ever, that President Hoover intended to veto the bill. A strong impression prevailed at the Capitol, however, that President Hoover will veto the bill. Some of the members of the Senate are fearful that if the bill is not passed promptly and sent to the President, he may attempt a “pock- et veto” at the close of the present ses- sion. The Senate had not been long in session when the soldiers’ bonus bill came into the debate, with Senator Black of Alabama urging the necessity for haste on that measure. Within a few moments Senator Ashurst of Arizona made his motion to discharge the Finance Committee from further con- sideration of the House bill, so that the Senate could take it up immediately. After Senator Fess had ruled that such a motion must lie over a day, Senator Ashurst moved to suspend the rules and then to appeal from the decision of the chair, however, but finally with- drew his appeal. The Arizona Senator insisted that he had no desire to insult or to cast reflection on the Senate PFinance Committee in offering his motion to discharge the committee. Has Called Committee. “It is never an insult for Senators to exercise a right,” S:nator Ashurst said. “Senators have a right at all times to (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) | IURY EXONERATES FOUR SUSPECTS IN LIMERICK MURDER Special Report Recommends Reforms in Investigations by Coroner’s Office. HOMICIDE SQUAD MEN COMMENDED FOR WORK Paddy, Reed, Langdon and Brother of Slain Girl Ordered Released. o The District grand jury today pre- sented to the District Supreme Court a special report exonerating four suspects U..3. ACTS T0 SEIZE (PITTS PROPERTY T0 RECOVER O TAYS Revenue Agents Move to Col- lect $2,000,000—Seek to Take Furs and Jewels. LIEN FILED ON $500,000 VILLA IN PALM BEACH Action Started in Court Also Im- volves Holdings in D. C. and Four Other States. Striking simultaneously in five States and the District of Columbia, agents ih the mysterious death six weeks ago |Of the Internal Revenue Bureau moved of Beulah Limerick and criticizing the coroner’s office for its handling of the cas2. specific recommendations for reform in the methods of investigation used by the coroner’s office, intended to prevent recurrence of “such conditions” as han- dicapped the police in their efforts to find the murderer of the “Sky High ‘Whoopee Club” girl. The quartet against whom the grand jury returned an “ignoramus” because of insufficlent evidence are: Vernon Thomas Limerick, brother of the dead girl; William Edward Paddy, who es- corted her to a dance of the “Whoopee Club” the night before her bullet-torn body was found in her basement room at 18 Nineteenth strect southeast; Rich- ard Sheridan Reed, close friend of the girl and a roomer at her home, and Robert F. Langdon, fifth precinct police- man, who covered a beat leading past her home and who admitted peering into her room early on the fatal morn- ing. Four Held by Coroner’s Jury. All four suspects had been held for the grand jury by the coroncr’s jury, following a lengthy and sensational in- quiry conducted in the board room at the District Building. Capt. Edward J. Kelly, Se-gt. John Flaherty and other members of the homicide squad received the com- mendation of the grand jury ?or their work on the case. Pointing out that severa hours elapsed between the time the tol was pronounced dead by a hospital nterne until the cause of her death was de- termined by the coroner, and that in the interim the body had been re- moved to a private undertaking estab- lishment, the grand jury said uu"po- lice were :}r:::rurfi handicapped” in beginnin el . ‘:'l'lhe d?lry ucgmmended that here- after all doctors or internes remain at the scene of crime or any suspicious death until the police and coroner have been notified and have arrived. coroner or his assistant should visit the scene “within a reasonable time” it was stated, and should prevent removal of the body until thorough investigation has been made. Urge Larger Staff. ‘The jury also advised that an inves- t!glthn’ be made of facilities at the e for handling autopsies other work of the coroner’s office, view of testimony that the facilities are inadequate. Enlargement of the staff of the coro- also was recommended. ‘The report, signed by Barton Ewers, foreman, follows in full: “On the 16th day of January, 1931, a coroner’s jury of the District of Collum- bia holding mnizafltuon on the view of the body of E. Limerick, de- termined that Beulah E. Limerick came to her death at No. 18 Nineteenth street scutheast, on December 31, 1930, from a gunshot wound of the head, hemor- rhage and shock, said bullet being fired (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) BLAMES MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR TROUBLE IN COURT Colored Man, Charged With Turn- ing in False Alarm, Says She ‘Was Beating Him. ‘When one’s mother-in-law begins beating him, it is time to summon aid, according to the belief of Willlam H. McPherson, 36 years old, colored, of 530 Forty-fourth street northeast. Hailed before Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Police Court today on a charge of turning in a false alarm last night, Mc- Pherson explained that he had sum- moned a police emergency car and a 1| hospital ambulance because his mother- in-law had been beating him. Due to the absence of the mother-in-law from court this morning, Judge Schuldt or- dered the case continued to give her a chance to testify. McPherson was placed under arrest last night by Officer A. D. Adams of No. 11 precinct, who constituted one- half of the aid called for. The ambu- lance, which also was summoned to the scene, according to police, was not needed, McPherson being given a ride in the police car. Says Gas Bleached Hair. CHICAGO, February 17 (#)—An his daughter’s hair to turn white with- in a’few weeks' time was made by Samuel La Piana in a suit for $100,000, filed against the company which sold him the stove. Escaping gas was blamed by him. ROOSEVELT AND LEWIS DRAWN INTO CORNPONE CONTROVERSY Atlanta Constitution Calls Upon Them to Join Against Gov. Huey P. Long. dria | By the Associated Press. "ATLANTA, February 17.— Huey P. Long, LL. D., Governor and Senator- g:::u'o‘z In!:uhhn'. and thed Atlanta t were el today in a battle of bfllflh‘fim‘e over whether cornpone should be dunked or crumbied in rmkker: Long stands for dunking, while the that Southern what the name might imply, but the certa h argume when the Constitution in an editor’s note questioned Long’s statement that he had dunked ecornpone &)ot".kker for the benefit of visiting bond buyers. ay Long te! the Consti~ Yesterd: legraphed There | tution that he did not object to ques- 2 itical 'y or flery states- the benefit of the uninitiated, let explunag that potlikker is not capacity,” bfim ‘would tolerate no as- on his The | timation that som and | money allegation that a defective stove caused | g | ret; today to seize all available property of G. Bryan Pitts and his wife, Mrs. Incorporated in the report were four j G!8dys T. Pitts, in an effort to col- lect more than $2,000,000 in alleged un- paid tnrcc;:rne taxes. Asserting that it is entitled to th taxes for the years 1926, 1927, IDT!? 1930 and 1931 from Pitts and his wife, the Government's agents went in the courts today an@ filed liens on all the property owned by the couple in the District, Maryland, Wisconsin, New Yo\‘;vkfiumglw"e and Florida, le Pitts, convicted of a to embezzle funds of the l.m Co., while serving as chairman of fts board, sat in the District Jail, Floridh agents filed a lien on Al Lado Del Mar, his beautiful $500,000 “villa by the sea” at Palm Beach. It was this costly home which the Department of Justice charged had been purchased in part ax’t.h money embezzled from the Smith Washington agents, it - stood, are seeking to seize Jeu!w:. furs and jewelry of Mrs. Pitts, who is }ga‘g‘ at one of the city’s fashionable Millions in Bonds Sought. The agents are also trying to locats several millions dollars’ worth of 'G’.ll!n government bonds which Pitts has been accused of purchasing with a view to leaving this country. The specific nature of the property sought in Wisconsin, New York, Mary- land and Delaware was not disclosed, but it is understood to include real es- th:l‘:l l&d mluu his recent ict Supreme Court Pitts (csu.fledthxthewu'.hfomrvfl County. internal revenue agents ha‘v’e been working under cover for severa mogltlleu in their cflorhwnxfiusmn: ‘gt * o(h:h clumedhnnd to locate prop- e couj i ple upon which they The Government received its first in- h ‘wrong with Pitts’ lncan?t:x‘ ’l’:@" during the trial of Pitts and two associates on the embezzlement-conspiracy At that trial the Department of introduced evidence designed to show that Pitts’ income tax returns were not thomemeste v K S ing to show that he had d-:-l"‘:h w than he could have earned, seek- ing by this means to support their claim that it h.;x been embezzled. nternal revenue agents followed this testimony. It was m;wn at t= time that several tax agents taking These agents followed with particular interest Pitts’ own story of how he En‘tml:l!}y uiammm of dollars on s jewels, furs, automobiles, His own testimony showed that in A rs com was in excess #ullno.nw. Ty i - connection with its action today, the Internal Reve: Tollowing'sta Ve e::m Bureau issued the Liens Filed in Five States. “By virtue of liens filed in the 5 trict of Columbia, Maryland, Wl.leon:ln.m New York, Delaware and Florida, which are public records, the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue, acting through the col- lectors in the States named, took steps to collect income taxes for the years 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930 and 1931 from ‘%reBryln Pitts and Gladys T. Pitts, his 'S , 8ggT the sum of $1,573,600.82, while t;:‘{“l::l for the current years of 1930 and 1931, amount to a total of $446,852.20. “Upon the filing of liens or the issu- ance of warrants, notices of liens or levies untier the warrants may be served against any individual or n supposed to have any assets payer. “Action on the current years 1930 and 1931, was taken under section 147 of the internal revenue act of 1928.” Declare Period Terminated. Under this section, the internal revenue commissioner, if he finds that a taxpayer designs “quickly to depart from the United States or to remove tax- taxable period for the taxpayer im- mediately terminated and shall pro- ceed against him for the collection of the taxes €laimed. It was understood that Mrs. Pitts was named in the proceedings because e and her husband filed joint tax urns. The internal revenue agents refused to divulge what, if any, further action they contemplate taking against Mr. and Mrs. Pitts in connection with the alleged default in tax payments. ir today, however, revived discussion of a suit for $25,000 filed some time ago against Pitts by his former bodyguard, Anthony Senes. In this suit Senes claimed the money for services rendered Pitts in “certain abatements of income tax payments.” In the District Supreme Court James L. Tailt, collector of internal revenue at Baltimore, filed tax liens Mxx fim‘e m sl,g‘no.m it Pitts an rs. 3 o spec] property is named in the liens. Under the law, the filing of the liens are immediately entered as judgments on the court’s docket. SLIDE LIFTS SEA FLOOR Febru- :hcuuh‘; had fitved floor of the sea in this vicinity by 701!hnt'nlde e was a result 4 a of the recent Chicago Publisher Dies, NEW YORK, 17 (P)— isker w, Magiung of Sheuge, B N :‘Nfll‘l 3