Evening Star Newspaper, February 19, 1931, Page 16

D. € SUBSTITUTE JOBLESS ‘A—16 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, - FEBRUARY 19, 1931. GERMANS TO EXPLORE assistant _secretary of labor to direct the employment service and would allow establishment of Federal employ- The Doak proposal would suthorize | $1,500,000 to be made immediately available for co-operation between the ‘The ‘Wagner bill, passed by the Senate last session, is scheduled to come up for final consideration in the House on PLANS FOR RIVER CONTROL OUTLINED Lower Mississippi Program | Puts Life-Saving First, Gen. Brown Says. By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., February 19.—Efforts | to control the mighty power of the| lower Mississippi River at present in-| clude only the construction of levees | and diversion channels, Maj. Gen. Lytle | Brown, chief of Army Engineers, said | here yesterday. | Gen, Brown addfessed the annual| meeting of the National Drainage, Con- | servation and Flood Control Congress. | He said construction of reservoirs, rg- Torestation and improvement of farming | methods to halt erosion were parts of | the larger problem, but that the Gov- | ernment’s policy primarily was one of protecting lives and property values. | A high tribute to the Mexican mem- | bers of the United States-Mexican | Boundary Commission, which has | evolved a plan of conservation and flood | control of the Rio Grande, was paid by M. Lawson of El Paso, American ber of the commission, | plan_ involves construction of a | great_reservoir above El Paso and the suaightening of the meandering chan- nel. Addressing a joint session of the Na- tional Congress and the Texas Con-| servation Association, George D. Moulton | of Denison, secretary of the Red River ' Flood Control and Navigation Asso- ciation, said a large number of counties along the river were seeking an appro- priation of $35,000,000 from the Federal | Government with which to make the stream navigable. A telegram of greeting from President Hoover was read. Little Rock, Louis- ville, Ky.. and Evansville, Ind., put in bids for the next meeting. B. F. Wil- liams of Austin, vice president, isslated | 1o succeeed W. C. Potter of Chicago as president. me Wedding Fee on Time. ! Installment buying has reached Brit-| ain, and many lines of industry are of- | fering products on the “hire-purchase” plan, as it is called there. Buyers have been quick to take up the idea and think up ways of using it. A London clergy- | man reports that when he told a youth- ful inquirer his wedding fee he was Uncovers History OLD RECORDS FOUND PARIS, IN Searching old papers of the Count de Rochambeau in Paris, Warrington Daw- son of the American embassy has found an eye-witness account of the siege of Yorktown which had been lost for 150 yea —A. P. Photo STONE URGES HEARINGS | ON HIS PAY ROLL BILL Defeated Oklahoman Startling Information on Em- Promises ployment of Relatives. Representative Stone, defeated Okla- | homa Republican, yesterday renewed his| efforts to get action this session on his bill to present what he termed the “pay roll racket” of members of Congress| and Government officials. | In a letter to Chairman Williamson | of the House Expenditures Committee, he urged hearings on his bill which strikes at the employment of relatives by members-of Congress. 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SANTA ANA, Calif., February 19.— Suicide did not save Adele Ritchie, once a musical comedy star, from trial for the murder of her friend, Doris Murray Palmer. Although the “Dresden China Doil” has been®dead 10 months, a trial to de- termine the degree of her guilt was in progress in Superior Court here today. | The case opened yesterday as though | Miss Ritchie, the former wife of Guy | Bates Post, actor, were present as de- fendant. Upon the verdict of murder cr manslaughter, which Judge G. K. Scovel will have in his power to return at the close of the hearing, hangs a contest for $1,500 between heirs of the two women. Miss Ritchie committed suicide last | April, shortly after she shot M Palmer in‘a cottage at Laguna Beach, | a fashionable artists’ colony. Behind the double tragedy a coroner’s jury found a story of a friendship broken by jealousy. The women became rivals in the work of the Laguna Beach Com- munity Theater shortly before their | deaths Attorneys for Miss Van Essa M- | Dowell, principal legatee and adminis- | tratrix of Mrs. Palmer's estate, are! prosecuting the case, W Moresby White, executor of Miss Rilchie’s e tate, appears as her attorney. | The prosecution opened with a state- ment it would prove the actress mur- dered Mrs. Palmer and therefore, under California law, her heirs were not e titled to receive bequests to her in M Palmer’s will. White asserted testimony would show Miss Ritchie was tem- | porarily insane. | Dr. B, B. Mason, called to the scene | of the shooting, testified he found Mrs. | Palmer had been dead four hours. Miss Ritchie had been dead half that long, Dr. Mason said, and beneath her lay a pistol. Birds Seek Clock in Fog. 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Playground Funds Used. Because of the great demand for funds for children’s play centers, the Carnegie Trust in Britain has exhausted all money alloted for that purpose, accord- ing to a recent announcement. In the last 10 years grants for 97 playgrounds, totaling $160,500, have been made by the trustees. In the last two years the ap= plications for funds for the purpose e ceeded all expectations. SMITH BROTHERS COUGH SYRUP €NDS COUGHS THE MEDICAL WAY and clinging to the numerals for hou $169 Genuine Walnut Veneered Dining Room Suite 109 The keen shopper will instantl here is an impelling value. You certainly do not the opportunity fords. walnut veneer on Ten pieces in genuine 2 y realize that want to miss this sale af- gumwood. chief of the Bavarian | BILL TO BE OFFERED Graham Supports Doak Proposal Eliminating Federal Aid Feature From Wagner Plan. Chairman Graham of the House Judiciary Committee has announced that he Wwill attempt to substitute for the Wagner unemployment bill, which provides Federal aid to the States for employment offices operated co-opera- tively, a proposal submitted by Secre- tary Doak of the Federal Departmerit of Labor, which eliminates the Federal aid feature. Assistant Secretary White of the De- partment of Labor was heard in executive session of the House com- mittee yesterday on the Doak su stitute. White read a letter from Doak say- | ing it had been “strongly suggestcd” | that the method of Federal and State | co-operation proposed by ~ Wagner | | “would threaten an improper centrali- | | zation of Federal bureaucratic centrali- | zation through the seductive influence | | of Federal aid.” Immediately Representative La | Guardia of New York, a ranking R« | publican_of the committee, reasserted, off the floor, that “Legislative trickery"” | is in operation against the Wagner | | measure. 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