Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1931, Page 5

U. of Detroit Bars Dice, Cigarettes And Night Singing NEW RECORD MADE BY SUPREME COURT {Tribunal Unable to Announce All Its Decisions in One Day’s Session. Head of College Objects to “African Golf”’ and Nocturnal Tunes. By the Associated Press. DETROIT, February 25.—Rev. John P. McNichols, 8. J.,, president of the | University of Detroit, had four or five | things on his mind, s0 he got the 2,000 students into a mass meeting yesterday and told them about them. For one thing, no more “crap shoot- ing.” Father McNichols said this “crouching _game” originated _ with Southern colored men, went to France with the Army and then came to the colleges. Players and spectators at any future “African golf” at the university will be expelled, he sai Cigarettes and cigars_mustnt be smoked on the campus, he continued. first, rendered by Justice Roberts, hold- | Throwing the “butts” about makes a ing ‘the prohibition amendment valid. | mess. Smoke pipes, he said, and let The court also decided a number of | the ashes fertilize the grass. other cases presenting prohibition con- | Moreover, those who stroll through troversies, and dismissed a suit brought | the campus at night mustn't sing. by Alabama to tax the United States | Father McNichols said he was tired of on hydroelectric power manufactured being waked up by what and sold at Muscle Shoals. | vocal music in the moonlight. It refused the request of Connecti- | - cut to stop Massachusetts from divert- | ing water from the tributaries of the | Connecticut River for use at Boston, | and by a 5-to-4 decision held that Mas. sachusetts was prohibited from im. posing succession taxes on propert St. Louis Commission Men placed in trust by Julia and J. Ran- dolph Coolidge of Brookline, that State, Say Order Against Boycott Hits Business. By the Assoclated Press. The United States Supreme Court yesterday set what its oldest attendants believe to be a record and a precedent. It was unable to announce all the | decisions it had ready in one day and | adjourned to continue the reading of opinions today. Ending 8 three-week recess, con- fronted by 46 cases fully argued and awaiting decision, the court returned yesterday and disposed of 32. The most important decision was the before the law imposing the taxes was enacted. ‘The court also decided that Russian citizens having claims against the Unit- ed States for compensation for prop- erty taken by this Government were entitled to have the claims adjudicated in the courts of this country regardless of the fact that the present Russian | government has not been recognized passes for | THE EVENING - RURAL GONDITIONS Fewer and Better Places of Worship Declared to Be Chief Need. Spiritual needs of approximately 5,000,000 people in rural America living |in communities without churches fur- I nished the basis of recommendations today to the Western Section Confer- ence of the World Alliance of Presby- | terian and Reformed Churches. | Dr. Joseph A. Vance of Detroit drew attention to conditions in rendering the | report of the Committee on Home Mis- sions, | Referring to the careful study made by the National Missions Board of the Presbyterian Church, he said that “in nine-tenths of all rural communities |the problem is to develop fewer and | better churches, with a broader and more intensive service ministry. In the other tenth the problem,” he declared, “is to provide a religious ministry where the church is now doing practically nothing.” Literature Merging Asked. Of special significance, his report pointed out, are the principles of comity adopted and the suggestions for inter- denominational co-operation in pro- | motion as outlined in this study of missions. “The vital matter now is the question of attitude and spirit,” he said. Merging of Sunday school lesson helps and other educational literature of the church now published separately | and competitively by several denomina- tions was recommended as a_practical way toward church union, by Dr. James E. Clarke of Nashville, Tenn,, in a re- port made this morning. Dr. Clarke, who is editcr of the Presbyterian Ad- vance is a_member of the Presbyterian STAR, WASHINGTON, CHURCHMEN STUDY ROUTED KIDNAPERS GIVEN CASH SOUGHT Los Angeles Man Reported to Have Paid $20,000 After Thwarting of Bandits. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 25.- The Examincer said in a copyrighted story today that E. L. “Zeke"” Caress, “betting | commissioner,” paid kidnapers $20,000 several days affer police had frustrated thelr plans “to cash his checks for $50,000. Caress, his wife, and J. Waca, their Japanese house boy, were kidnaped last December 20 from their Hollywood home by three men. Before they were released, Caress told police, he gave the men checks totaling $50,000 and asked a friend, George L. Bruneman, to ac- company the kidnapers to a gambling ship and vouch for the checks As the four waited on a Long Beach dock they were questioned by police. Shooting began and when the smoke cleared Policeman W. H. Waggoner lay seriously wounded and Bruneman and Ralph Sheldon, former Chicago gang- ster, were under arrest. The two other men escaped, one of them wounded. ““According to information from au- thoritative sources,” the Examiner sa “Caress, four days following the kid- naping, agreed to give his abductors $20,000. And he has paid the sum, all in cash. The money, given Bruneman by Caress, was turned over to agents of the kidnaping gang near the Mexican border at Tijuana.” Caress, the Examiner said, received a telephone call ordering him to pay $20,- 000 or “you will recefve your wife's ear: in the mail” It adds that Caress de- clines to comment on the cash pay- ment, saying, *T have had enough of it D. by the United States. States were held to have the right to impose highway taxes on that por- tion of the income of persons derived from carrying the mails, and that per- sons who borrow money to purchase tax-exempt securities cannot deduct the interest they pay in computing their Federal taxes. AUSTRALIAN LEADER HITS DEBT PAYMENTS Extremist Labor Premier Blames “Overseas Interests” for Com- monwealth’s Plight. By the Associated Press. SYDNEY, New South Wales, Febru- ary 25.—“Overseas interests” are blamed by J. T. Lang, extremist Labor pre- | “at- | tempting to take the bread from the | mouths of our sons and daughters to | mier of New South Wales, for satisfy their insatiable greed.” Speaking in the East Sydney federal by-election, the premier reiterated his demand for repudiation of interest pay- ments on Austria’s external debt until, 25 he put it, “overseas financial inter- ests extend to this commonwealth con- ditions of repayment similar to those accorded Britain by the United States.” He charged that “overseas interests had conscripted Australia’s sons for the battlefields of the Great War. Aus- tralia was in debt, he said, because she had tried to help Britain in her dark days, and the least Britain should do was to extend a helping hand now. Mr. Lang reproached international in- terests for buying Russian wheat and leaving Australian wheat to rot. The Lang policy of repudiation and inflation of currency has been repudi- ated by the Australian federal govern- ment and by every other State premier. Mr. Lang has steadfastly opposed re- trenchment and reduction in wages. 18,500 SKIPS ON ROPE MAKE FAT MAN THIN By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February who would grow thin may get a from a Chicago skipper. Just to celebrate his sixty-first birth- day anniversary, Chester Levere skip- ped a Tope 18,500 times without stop- pine. without any idea of cutting down e waistline. When he started he weighed 149 pounds. At the finish his weight was 142. His time was 3 hours 15 minutes and 30 seconds. “I could have skipped 5000 more times,” he said, as he started eating a seven-course meal, “but I'll do that next year.” It's just an old custom of his to break his skipping record each year. Last year he skipped 15000 times. 25.—Women tip Regul, 11 35, Shorts—4 34's, 2 3 Longs—1 36, 1 44. now aiso. Linen Street Vests Small lot remaining of those $8.50 and $10 Vests—that are quite the fad....... 95‘: By the Associated Press. A court test of the constitutionality jof the agricultural marketing act | threatened today as an aftermath of a | | decision by Secretary Hyde, finding that 40-odd St. Louis live stock com- | mission merchants boycotted Farm Board co-operatives. | As a defense against charges they | | had boycotted the Producers’ Live | Stock Commission Association and the | National Order Buying Co.. the com- | mission men protested the Farm Board | would drive them out of business The Secretary ordered the private operators to cease boycotting the co- operators within five days, and that they be suspended from operating for 90 days within 20 days. However, Hyde reserved the right to cancel or post- pone the suspension order should the respondents prove they had complied with the cease and desist order. At the argument session here in mid- December, attorneys for the respond- ents served notice' they would appeal an adverse decision to the courts, arguing the agricultural marketing act which created the Farm Board was un- constitutional in allegedly violating the commerce clause of the Constitution, delegating legislative authority to th Farm Board, and permiiting co-opera- | tives to select members of advisory | commodity committees. | scomep BY sT. Louisax. | Secretary Hyde on Side Against Sound | Business, Says W. A. Moody. | ST. LOUIS, February 24 (P)—W. A | Moody, president of the St. Louis Live | Stock 'Association, said tonight Secre. | tary of Agriculture Hyde, in_suspend- ing for 90 days 40 St. Louis live stock ccmmission men and order buyers “has chosen to stand with those men who are violating every rule of sound busi- mess * * * by abolishing * * the law of supply and_demand.” Moody said the “effort o create ficticious prices for farm products” had | failed and “we think the people have a | right to expect Congress to repeal the | | agricultural_marketing act | _Elgin T. Cash, president of the Order | Buyers' ~ Association, said Hyde had “prejudged the case” before the hearing | held at East St. Louis, Ill, throughou | the month of November. FISHERIES ACTIVE e | ‘Activities of Federal Bureau In- crease Despite Drought. | | _Despite the drought, the | Fisheries Bureau set new high marks | last year in practically all its activities. | | More than 2500,000,000 fish eggs | were produced in Government hatch- | eries, along with 4,766,831,000 fry and | 2,553,481,000 fingerlings. Most of them | were released in waters of the United States and Alaska. | " In addition, 161,000,000 fish stranded by the receding Mississippi were seined | out of pools and returned to the main | stream. | 'Lucky You If your size is among these Suits—you’'ve got a bargain, indeed—for they are Fashion Park and Mode makes—all that remain of the present season’s stock—and regardless of the origi- nal prices they are offered at $22.75 Here are the sizes— 10 36's, § 37 3 38's, 5 40° S's, 1 36, 4 37, 1 3. There are just a few OVERCOATS, too—and they’re $22.75 Alterations will be made at cost. A lot of lar $3.50 and $4 The Mode—F at Eleventh | seminaries. | lege in the development of the United | largest percentage ¥ FRED Federal | | Mode Madras Shirts separate collar and col- attached. Board of Christian Education. As chairman_of the Committee on Education and Literature of the West- ern section, Dr. Clarke also expressed the conclusion in its report that the denominaticns are maintaining entirely oo many theological seminaries. The Joint Committee dealing with the pro- posed union of five Presbyterian churches, the report stated, had re- quested a complete survey of the educa- tional field. College Tmportance Cited. This survey shows there are 97 col- leges and junior colleges attached to these five churches and 23 theological and wiil be glad to forget it." Louis Frank and Ray Wagner, rested recently at Proenix, together with Sheldon and Bruneman, are charged with assault to commit murder in connection with the wounding of Of- ficer Waggoner, Soviet Orders Locomotives. NEW YORK, February 25 (&) American Locomotive Co. has received an order for five locomotives from the Russian railways. “These five churches are making earnest effort to become one church.” Dr. Clarke reported, “vet in this field of educational literature the whole ten- dency is to cultivate separatist attitudes, for there seems to be no excuse for the production of so many different kinds of Presbyterian teaching material un- less it is in order to emphasize points of view which keep these churches apart.” The importance of the Christian col- States and the further necessity of con- tinuing such religious education as a factor in the perpetuation of American ideals were stressed this morning by Dr. David M. Sweets of Lousville, Ky. He is editor of the Christian Observer. Of the 506 colleges listed in “Who's Who in America,” he said, a_small Presbyterian college in Virginia, Hamp- den-Sidney, led the list of American col- leges and universities that have the of living alumni listed in the volume The conference, which is holding ses- sions in the New York Avenue Presby- terian Church, will close tomorrow aft- ernoon. More new automobiles are being regis- tered in Porto Rico than a year ago. Graduate Gt it He'-‘mgm":hflml Eyes Examined DR. CLAUDE S SEMONES Eyesight Specialist Phone National 0721 409-110 McLachlen Bldg., 10th and G Sis. N.W. A | Storage—Packing Moving For 30 years President ang General Manager of Kriex's Express Co. 1s NOW in business at J. 904 10th St. N.W. KRIEG‘ Cal Distict 9115 Telephone ational 5000 For immediate delivery of The Star to your home every evening and Sunday morning. The Route Agent will collect at the end of each month, at the rate of 11 cents per day and 5 cents Sunday. EMILE MassE, oPPirics.s beauty artit of renown, whose clients number aristocrats from all over Europe. ECHTEN, of Budapest who advises two daily cleans- ings with a lather of Palme olive Soap. splendid patterns— ats JacossoN, of London warns against soaps not made of olive and palm oils—and erefore ap proves most hears= ily of Palmolive, ar- | says that soap and water cleanliness is C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1931. “hemists’ Manage SCIENTISTS' SOCIETY CHOOSE:! CAPITAL MAN. S ' | DR. CHARLES L. PARSON | Internationally known chemist of Wash- | | ington, who has been appointed first | | business manager of the American | Chemical Society. The post has been created as a development of the society’s reorganization policy. Dr. Parsons has been secretary of the society since 1907 He is an alumnus of Cornell, Univer: | of Maine and University of Pittsburgh. He is an officer of the French Legion | of Honor and of the Crown of Italy.| NEW COMMIS.SIONER SEEN| Sir Claud Jacob to Get Palestine Post, News Agency Hears. LONDON, February 25 (#).—The | Jewish Telegraphic Agency hears that | Fleld Marshal Sir Claud William Jacab, | secretary of the military department | of the India office since 1926, and | for nearly 40 years a ranking officer in the Indian ‘army, is to be named high commissioner of Palestine as suc- cessor to Sir John Chancellor. | “The telegraphic agency has believed for some time that Sir John will resign Sir Claud is 67 vears old. If he is appointed he will be the fourth | high commissioner of Palestine, Sir John having been preceded by Sir | Herbert Samuel and Lord Plumer. Sir John was appointed in 1928 | | that when ENDS LIFE T0 GIVE FAMILY INSURANGE Cincinnati Man Had Policies for $1,500,000—Calls Act “Sacrifice.” By the Associated Press. CINCINNATI, Ohio, February 25 Describing himself as a “sacrifice” that Feminine Pronoun 1 Omission May Save| Woman Condemned | Attorney for Mrs. Hattie Evans, Alleged Slayer of | 2, Cites Law “Defects.” | By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., February 25 —Con- | tending that the omission of the femi- | | nine forms of the personal pronoun his family might receive life insurance | worth $1,500,000, Lawrence Ach, 45, former broker and one-time associate of his father in the wholesale millinery business here, committed suicide last night. He was the son of Samuel Ach, Hamilton County commissioner. His Cincinnati brokerage associations severed more than a year ago. Ach went to New York, from where he re- turned six days ago to plan his death carcfully. He shot himself through the head in the downtown office of Max Stern, a friend. Ach left four letters, all addressed to relatives, in which he cited financial | reverses brought on by “wild specula- | tion” as a contributing cause for ending his life. ‘The insurance policies, he wrote, would pay obligations of more than 0.000 and afford a future for his widow and children. He cited large premiums soon due on the policies as part of his debts. One letter, addressed to his brother, Ernest Ach, itemized his debts and said suicide scemed “the best way to get out of life and leave mone; which his widow and children could use for their future. “Try to think,” he wrote his widow. “that this is a sacrifice we are making for our children and our children’s future. You are losing me, but in place of my companionship you are getting independence for yourself and them.” His brother, Ernest Ach, was told in another letter that he was “sorry, ter- ribly sorry, not for myself, but for those to whom I shall bring grief and sorrow. But I should have thought of 1 embarked on that wild speculation again.” Miss Louisa Fletcher Dodgson, the 96- vear-old sister of “Lewis Carroll,” who died recently, left $27.820, and Miss Dorothy ~ Gertrude Maria Dickens, from the New Jersey execution law ex- empts women from electrocution, coun- sel for Mrs. Hattie Evans plans a fight to save her from the electric chair, ‘The attorney, Ira F. Smith, pointed out that throughout the law the mascu- | line forms of the pronoun are used, “he, | him and his,” but never “she, her or hers."” In' support of hifs contention, he said, that the law in effect prior to 1906, | which prescribed hanging as the mode of execution, employed both the mas- culine and feminine forms of the pro- | noun He also pointed out that the election laws were changed to include feminine pronouns_after the adoption of the women's suffrage amendment to the National Constitution. Mrs. Evans is under death sentence as an accessory to the murders of her ! husband, Robert Evans, and Albert Duffy, LAST ELECTED MAYOR ENDS TERM IN HAVANA By the Associated Press. HAVANA, February 25—When the clock struck noon yesterday Mayor Miguel Mariano Grmez, last mavor of Havana municipality, handed over the key to the century-and-a-half-old building used as City Hall and took his place as an ordinary citizen once more. The City of Havana at that time be- comes a federal district with mayors named by government appointment in- stead of popular vote, Mayor Gomez, son of Cuba’s second President, became Havana's twelfth mayor four years ago at the age of 37. Cn the eve of his departure frcm of- fice he told the Associated Press he was “very happy to have it over with. The government announced that | President Machado had nam~d as mayor | of the new Havana federal district Tirso | Mera, related by marriage to Clemente granddaughter of the great writer, left ' Vasquez Bello, president of the Cuban only $310. Massé tells how Parisian beauties have adopted this olive and palm oil method of cleansing . . . advised by more than 20,000 beauty specialists the world over. *Aid your beauty expert by using Palmolive,” says Massé. “I advise all my clients: ‘Never use any soap except Palmolive.” And those who follow that ad- vice show the greatest improve- ment as a result of our own treatments. Every woman should aid her beauty expert by using Palmolive. Its vege- table oil content is safe, sooth ing, non-irritating.” 16 Rue Daunou, PAris well-known leagues, too, for that mat- .. . has helped Paris find the way “'to keep that schoolgirl complexion.” ter a PEzzA, of Naples essential 10 beauty. Paris— center of beauty Here, of all places, beauty experts are in de- mand. Experts like Massé, who is invited often to attend royalty; who once journeyed all the way to Cairo to give a beauty treatment to a well- known American lady; who has won prize after prize for his artful beauty treatments. Paris, where lovely ladies seem even lovelier because the whole atmosphere is charged with beauty! Paris, where experts like Massé actually receive visits from reigning queens. Where royal ladies, aristocrats, world renowned artists of opera and the theatre ask: How can I keep my beauty? What can I do, when I leave beauty-wise Paris, to keep my skin lovely? 57 the famous and all his Parisian col- table oils. Gop thak 8 | Senate. The exquisit * A-S 2 WOWEN ACGSED N POSON DEAT Lumberman’s Ex-Housekeep- er and Neighbor Charged With Murder. BY the Associated Press LOS ANGELES, February 25.—Two women stood accused of murder today in the poison death of August Lind- strom, 81, once wealthy Arizona lum- | berman, February 9. Mrs. Esther Carlson, 61, Lindstrom's former housekeeper in a Los Angeles suburb, and Mrs. Anna Erickson, 42, a neighbor, were charged with murder yesterday by the district attorney, fol- lowing the coroner's jury verdict that the Jumberman had died from poison “administered with homicidal intent by a person or persons unknown.” The jury recommended the women be held. Check on Other Deaths. Deputy District Attorney George Stahlman said he planned to send in- | vestigators to Hemet. Calif,, today to check up on the deaths of Mrs. Carl- son’s husband and of A. Ahlzen, 80 Ahlzen. Stahlman was informed, died in the Carlson home there nine years ago, presumably of heart disease, after stim- ulative tablets containing poison had been prescribed for him. Carlson died a year later, with the cause of death given as cancer. Deputy Sheriff Harry Brewster testi- fied at the Lindstrom inquest he had found an empty poison bottle in a sew- ing bag belonging to Mrs. Carlson and she told him she had not opened the bag since she left Hemet in 1925, Poison Found in Body. body exhumed a Lindstrom’s was | week ago at Willlams, Ariz, at the re- quest of a son, Peter Lindstrom, Chi- cago meat packer, who said he found Mrs. Carlson had withdrawn $2,000 from a joint bank account held with his father. Examination disclosed poison in the body. The death certificate showed he had died of heart disease. Mrs. Erickson, who is recovering from poisoning, testified she became violent- Iy il a week after Lindstrom's death when she drank a cup of coffee pre- pared by Mrs. Carlson. 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