Evening Star Newspaper, March 26, 1931, Page 2

DRY LAW REPEAL UP TO GOVERNOR IHinois - - Legislature Passes Bill Relieving State of Enfercement. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Iil, March 26.—The question whether Illinois isto abandon its proliibition enforcement laws todsy was put up to Gov. Louis Emmerson. Members of the State Senate left the | problem in his hands yesterday by pass- | ing, by a vote of 26 to 24, & bill, already | epproved by the House, calling for repeal of the State prohibition law and the search and seizure act. If signed by him, the effect, oppcnents of the measure contended, would be to leave the matter of enforcing the anti-lquor laws entirely in the hands of the Federal Government. The Governor will receive the bill Inter this w:ek and has 10 days_in which to consider his decision. He has given no indiction of what it will be. It he approvcs it Ilinois will become the sixth State to take similar action. Montana, Nevada, Wisconsin, New York and Massachusetts once had prohibition laws, but repealed them. Referendum Is Beaten. Prior to passage of the O'Grady- McDermott bill, named for its sponsors in the House and Senate, opponents of the measure attempted to ettach a :';lertndurzn‘ clause, but lost by a vote 26 to 24. Republican leaders urged their col- leagues to vote for repeal to fulfill a plank in the party's State piatform, adopted last Fall, pledging its Prohibition giving the referendum as 1,050,004 for repeal and 523,130 against. The deciding vote was cast by Sena- tor Adelbert Roberts, colored, of Chi- cago. Sees U. S. Task Harder, Senator Roberts said he agreed with the wets “that prohibition has been s faflure,” but, he sald, “you haven't be- Let me make n Reception Scheduied Late HARLAND SUBMITS TRAFFIC CHANGES -COVERING 14 PAGES au tween 8 and 9:30, but parking is re- stricted to one hour between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. The third new zone is bounded “At the present time,” Mr. Harland wrote, “it is practically impossible to enforce the one-hour restriction in or thopping to do to fnd & place to park. ““The propesed plan will, it is believed, be in the interest of the majority and will probably postpone the day when it may become necessary to prohibit parking altogether in the central district. “On all the streets where there is a restriction on the flow side from 8 to 9:15 a.m., this has been changed to 9:30, It is believed that this arrangement will improve traffic conditions on through streets and make the restriction easier to enforce.” One fmportant change was to lift the flow side restriction oh Sixteenth street south of Scott Circle. This was partly because of the difficulty of enforcement and partly because Fifteenth street, which has been widened south of Massachusetts avenue since the restric- tion was first adopted, is now carrying 8 much, if not more, trafic than lower Sixteenth street formerly carried. ‘The flow side restriction, however, on upper Sixteenth street north of Scott Circle is still retained. In the third zone, where two-hour parking is allowed, parking is still pro- | of hibited on the flow side of many streets leading into the first zone in order to facilitate traffic. Test Signal Approved. ‘The Commissioners today epproved Mark Birthday | BROTHERS ACCUSED | BY THREE AT TRIAL | (Upper) KING FUAD I. (Lower) ALY ISMAIL BEY. —Harris-Ewing Photos. EGYPTIAN KING'S BIRTHDAY MARKED Today for U. S. Officials and Diplomats. history of his country. He has been | as a policeman took up the chase. ERERTE igg xg- : 5 ; i % 1 & 4 | i s i 3 ggg H 3t g5 § : E i Egypt he was made & command of a large force. Founded Red Crescent. King Pusd abandoned his military career to devote all his time to the cational i s raised funds to estal University and gave the institution a than 18,000 volumes. Royal Geograp! clety, founded by his father 56 years ago, and established the International Bociety for Public Assistance and the PFeminine Industries Institute at Cairo before his accession to the throne. King Puad was crowned October 9, 1917, and was active in organization work during the later days of the World War. His diplomacy gained world-wide recognition for his government. ‘War Declared on Bees. PRINCETON, Ill, March 26 (#).— Bees may soon be has-beens here. Stung by complaints that lawless bees have been buzzing amuck and stinging children, the City Council has decided to legislate against them. State's Attorney Carey R. Johnson was asked to “draft xlmégn to eliminate bee- n Municipal Ordinances” of the Confer- ence on Street and Highway BSafety. ‘The left-turn rule in these ordinances reads: “Approach for a left turn shall be in the lane of traffic to the right of and nearest to the center line the highway, and the Jeft turn shall be made by passing to the right such center line where it enters the inter- section and upon leaving the intersec- tion by passing to the right of the center line of the highway then en- the Yl-t!nfl of an electric “demand” eignel at the intersection of Albemarle street and Connecticut avenue as an experiment. The signal gives the traf- fic on Connecticut avenue & green light constagtly except when automo- approach the n on Albemarle street. The pressure of the auto on an apparatus hidden in the ground then makes a contact which gives the Albemarle street traf- fic a green light and stops the Con- aecticut avenue traffic. A‘list of places suitable for such its, ‘Traffic Director drawn up by Di H; Harland, includes the intersections of South Dakota and Rhode Island ave- northeast, Macomb street and isconsin avenue, Wisconsin and Mas- husetts avenues, Twelfth strest and :fim Island avenue northeast, Georgia and New Hampshire avenues and Sher- fan and New mmkzmn avenues. Wi Rule for Right of Way. ‘The rule governing the right of way at intersections where hicle s rhak- ing & left turn reads: “The driver of 2 vehicle within an intersection in- tending to turn to the left shall yleld to any vehicle approaching from the opposite direction which is within the intersection or so close thereto as to constitute an immediate hazard, but sald driver having so ylelded and hav- ven a signal when and as re- by law may make such left turn, approaching the in- | were the only means he had of pick- THE_EYENING Truck Driver Points Out Al- leged Slayer of Lingle From Stand. By the Associated Pres:. CRIMINAL COURTS BUILDING, CHICAGO, March 26.—A young truck driver who chased a man for several blocks after the assassination last June of Alfred “Jake” Lingle, Tribune re- porter, pointed at Leo Brothers at his murder trial today end said “I think that's the man.” Third Identifies Him. Patrick Campbell was the third person to pick out Brothers as the man who fled from the scene of the slaying. He sald he was half way out of the Ran- dolph street pedestrian tunnel last June 9 when he heard s shot. He had reached the street, Campbell sald, when he heard a cry, “Stop that man” and saw a man running across Michigan avenue. He followed him down Randolph street past the public library and into an alley. He. stopped “And do you see that man in the court room?” he was asked. | “I think that's the man over there,” | pointing to the defendant. | On cross-examination, Campbell said | he received $10 from the State at-| torney’s office for two days he spent at the Detective Bureau looking at pictures of suspects. He said he expected to| get paid for five other days. | The connection, if any, that Prank | Foster, Chicago.gangster, had in the assassination of Lingle became a matter | of speculation today. | Foster, who was captured last July 1| in Los 'Angeles by detectives under | Patrick Roche, chief investigator for the | State’s attorney, was linked with the | ¢ase by the testimony of Otto Swoboda, | a State witness, who said he saw three | men run out of the Randolph street | pedestrian tunnel after Lingle was shot. | One of them was Brothers, he said. | The other was Foster. i Defense is Surprised. The testimony caused a sensation in | the erowded court room since there had | been no intimation of this from the prosecution. The defense was likewise apy ntly taken by surprise. iwoboda, under call for further ex- amination when court opened today, testified under questioning by Attorney Harry Cantwell of 8t. Louis, t- ing Brothers, that the man he knew as Foster, had been waiting at the subway entrance with Brothers just prior to the shooting of Lingle, and that Foster had lit & cigarette for Brothers, who kept his left ‘pocket. . |turned down and he be Defense attorneys said before court anxious to bring were on his . “Did the man you saw that day have & scar, s red scar ob his face?” Dark in Subway. “Well, I didn't see any. You see it was dark in the subway.” “But not too dark to see the moles?” “No those dark moles showed up.” The witness was asked if the moles ing ouf brothers. “No, I can remember faces when they are as scarred as he was.” The State dismissed Swoboda almost immediately after the defense completed its cross examination. Yesterday he testified he had received about $300 | from the State’s attorney’s office to help | l\lmtout while he was out of employ- ment. FINED $10 FOR SMOKING Drunk Picks Wrong Place to En- joy Cigarette. ‘Three puffs on a cigar- ette cost ymond V. Howard, 26 years old, $10 today when he selected Judge Isaac R. Hitt's police tribunal as a smoking room. Pined $15 by Judge Ralph Given for | being drunk and still under the in- fluence of intoxicants, Howard struck a match and lighted a smoke as he was bel escorted through Judge Hitt's court room into the lockup. He puffed for a few seconds tntil a bailiff snatched the cigarette from his mouth. Judge Hitt, irate, summoned the man before him and ordered $10 fine or 24 hours in jail for contempt of court. Howard, a plumber, of the 900 block of F street southwest, was arrested by | ceptions in Porto Rico and the Virgin | virgin Islands, |BANKERS HIT FOR HOLD-UP STAR., WASHINGTON HOOVER DUE BACK FROM TRIP SUNDAY Battleship Hits Rough Seas on Return Voyage From Virgin Islands. By the Associated Press. U. 8. 8. ARIZONA, March 26— President. Hoover was en route home today with fresh conceptions and fifst- hand information of the problems which the United States faces in her Carib- bean torritory. As he dropped back into the restful routine aboard the Arizona he had pleasant memories of tremendous re- Islands, the latest being that of the which was almost fantastic. Probably one of the oddest parades of all-time passed before the President, who saw venders, school children and native scratch bands side by side in & colorful picturs of insular life. Back aboard e Arizona the President let it be known he had enjoyed it all greatly, but had difficulty in convincing himself it had been real. Rough Sess Encountered. Immediztsly after coming aboard the Arizona at St. Thomas he resumed his rest with a nap before a leisurely dinner and talkics on the deck. Throughout the night the ship pitched somewhat in the heavy ground swells. Weather reports then indicated that there might be rough seas off the Carolina coast. If the weather continues moderately good the Arizona should arrive at Nor-{ folk Sunday. | The only break in the routine was a gun drill in which the big 14-inch bat- | teries swung into position for firing. No shots were fired because the hypo- thetical target was the destroyer pont, several miles to the port side. Weather Cooler Today. ‘The weather was much cooler as President Hoover came on deck for a walk before breakfast. The battleship still was pitching in ground swells as it has been since leaving the islands. ‘The morning weather reports show that a storm area off the Carolina Coast was clearing. H ‘The gun drill was a part of the shake- down cruise which proved that the| Arizona was up to the expectations of the Navy Department. Man Sued on Note Says Robbery Result of Incompetence. LINCOLN, Nebr., March 26 (P).— and securities last Fall. Lorenz, in filing an answer to a suit by the bank to collect & $500 signed by him, sald that he had $2,000 collateral in the bank as se- curity fg: m:‘ loan, ln'dn that the h‘n‘: was guilty of “gross incompetence letting the robbers steal it. . He asked that the bank’s plea be LUMBER SHIP SAVED ed South of Los Angeles. LOS ANGELES, March 26 (#)—Th "'mfi it was on a clay bottom and fa no immediate danger. o the Mackay Radio & Tele- g Co. said the Coast Guard boat ichanan left San Diego at 4 am. to stand by until the arrival of the sal- vage tug Peacock from Los Angeles Harbor, FRENCH TO TAX GEM Claim Jenny Dolly Owes $120,000 on 58-Carat Diamond. PARIS, March 26 (#).—Jenny Dolly's 58-carat diamond, worth $160,000, which the Prench customs claims was intro- duced into the country fraudulently from London, will be subject to & tax sult this week. The state claims $120,000 in unpald luxury taxes and fines and interest. The American dancer indignantly says that the accusations are based on an anonymous letter and that she is a model taxpayer. MRS. SARAH BEALES DIES Mrs. Sarah 1. Bealés, 85 years old, mother of La Verne Beales, 4124 Pifth street, chief statisticlan for manufac- ture of the Census Bureau, died at the home of her son yesterday after a short illness. Puneral services will be held tomorrow at Welshfield, Ohlo, where she made her home when not in Wash- ington. She had been spending her Winters at the home of her son, in ‘Washington, for several years, Mrs. Beales was the low of & Civil several years ago. Besides her son in Washington, she is survived by a son, A. C. Beales, in Burton, Oh! ter, Mrs. George Muma Policeman R. C. Redding yesterday afternoon. Wash., and a sister, Mrs. Emma Lown of New York. Clay Bottom Under Vessel Ground- War veteran, Cyrus Beales, who died |the B C. -TH JRSDAY, MARCH Georgetown U. Honors Japanese Envoy DEBUCHI DECORATED FOR NOTABLE CAREER IN FOREIGN SERVICE Left to right: Rev. W. Coleman Nevils, president of Georgetown University; Mme. Debuchi, Katsuji Debuchi, Japan- ese Ambassador to the United States, and the Mcst Rev. Pietro Fumasoni Blozd.l, apostolic delegate w’hhe UnM:Qutu. CONSIDER 3 SITES FOR PICKETT GRAVE Relatives Urged to Move Gen- eral’s Body So Widow’s Ashes May Be Buried. TFive possible sites for burial of Mrs. La Balle Corbell Pickett, widow of Gen. George E. Pickett of Civil War fame, were beng considered today by rela- tives. Mrs. Pickett's body was cremated yesterday and the ashes are at Gawler's funeral parlors pending a decision as to a place of burial. ¥ relatives of Gen. Pickett care to maove his remains from the soldicrs’ section to the officers’ section in Holly- wood Cemetery, Richmond, Va. the ashes of his widow may be interred at cash | his side, Mrs. Sidney Johnston Dudley, | 10" president of the Junior Hollywood Me- morial Association, said. Expresses Indignation. dley, whose nization has charge of the officers’ l::lnlon G the mortal remains of mvmnvb:mthewflemomd thland war leaders wfimmmmmuwhmf In expl the refusal senior ‘Shhociatisn’te Favors Exception. Mrs. Dudley, commenting on this statement, sald an exception could be EORGETOWN UNIVERSITY conferred upon Ambassador Debuchi of Japan the first honors of its newly founded John Carroll Academy of Diplomacy, at its annual Founders’ day exercises last night in Gaston Hall. From the Ambassadors and Ministers of 27 different countries, who com| d accept. ing the honors bestowed upon him, in which hs made a plea for co-operative action among the nations to preserve world ce and accelerate recovery from the world-wide economec - sion. Dr. W. Coleman Nevils, 8. J., president of Georgetown, read the cita- tion, which recalled the envoy’s notable career in the foreign service, and the diploma and acccmpanying decoration ted by Most Rey. Pietro Fumasoni-Biondl, apostolic delegate to the United States. The latter took par- ticular pleasure in doing so, he told the Ambassador. because of his affec- tion for the nation to which he had the honor of being the first apostolic dele- gate appoin by the holy see. Host at Reception. Following ths academic ceremonies, Dr. Nevils was host 2t a reception in the Carroll parlsrs in henor of the Am- bassador and Mme. Debuchi. The en- tire staff of the Japanese embassy at- ded and the diplomatic corps was h2aded by the dean, Ambassador Tellez of Mexico. It was the first time that Mme. Debuchi, a convert of the Catholic A, MADDOK FACES TRUAL AT LEESBURG Hotel Man Denies Charge of Driving Under Infiluence of Liquor. Maj. H. C. Maddux, president of Mad- dux Hotels, Inec., is scheduled to face trial before Magistrate George Weaver of Leesburg, Va., Tuesday afternoon on a charge of driving while under the in- fluence of liquor, according to records in Weaver's office. Th collision in which Maj. Maddux figured shortly after 8 o’clock last night. Maddux, who loog has been promi- nent in real estate circles he was arrested, bond, which the record faith, had witnessed the conferring of | Aldle honors upon her distinguished husband by an American university of her own rell faith. She became a Catholic with her husband’s consent about 10 years in Japan. Calom cermmhlm marked the oc- casion. Dr. the the expedition to Bathont achool o the Potomac. " As the mmi"”"n'ufip";‘: ac. Baltimore, Rev. John M. Mc- Namara read names of the found- ers, the archivist of the university, Rev. Timothy J. Barrett, 8. J., tolled the bell of the first church in Maryland. The Founders' names are Andrew made in the case of a general's widow | gg) without sef & dangerous precedent, L Te are perhaps not more than half a dozen widows of Confed: erate soldiers for whom such a claim would ever be made, and I would not deny to any of them a place in the soil by the side of their husbands.” Other burial places under consider- ation are the Arlington Cemetery, Fort coln Cemetery, the Abbey Mauso- leum and T anothe: A Tieut, George E. Plokett. 34, grandson e of the famous Confederate general, said had been informed his dmoth- er's remains might be in Ar- lington, “under certain conditions,” but that the interment could not be beside the grave of her son, Maj. E. Pickett, jr., who served in the Pay Corps until his death, in April, 1911, ML st MRS. OTTENBERG DIES Death Is Attributed to Grief Over Loss of Husband. Funeral services for Mrs. Regina Ot- tenberg, 85, who died yesterday, just & month after the death of her husband, Isaac Ottenberg, will be held at 10:30 Friday morning at the funeral parlors of Bernard Dansansky, 3501 Fourteenth street. Rabbi Abram Simon of the ‘Washington Hebrew Congregation will officiate and burial will be in the He~ brew Cemetery. Mrs. Ottenberg, who, with her hus- band, celebrated the sixtieth anniver- sary of their wedding in January, is believed to have died from grief over e death of Mr. Ottenberg. She is of Washington—and two Mrs. Jennie O. Berliner and | gin‘he Bertha O. Pressler of Washington. Home Bought by Secretary Mellon for Son gnwucluwnummum The . Harland is not VIEW OF ROKEBY, 400-ACRE RACE HORSE FARM chanted the pral of the founders. Address of Welcome. At the opening of the exercises E. Coyne Maloney, ‘31, New York, president of the student body, mede an address of welcome and 3 . Willlam E. Horton, U. 8. A, & Georgetown law uate, read the charter of the col-" v-shol acknow! the honors of the John Carroll Academy, Ambassa- dor Debuchi paid a ous_tribute to the great Jesuit m! ry, St. Francis Xavier, who establisi Catholicism in Japan 400 years ago. The Ambassador traced the history of the Christian ‘movement the 200-year policy of exclusion that followed what he termed the “misinterpretation” given to the “disinterested work of the church.” . The advent of Commodore Perry in ::s’a" ‘however, u:’pened 3 oew ma' ] D8 Deltr prommulgatad ta 1885, B S ous 3 n e de- Clared, Gatholiciam in Japan has de- veloped and will continue to flourish. At present there are 200,000 Catholics, numerous churches and a Jesuit uni- vrsity in his native land, he said. VICE PRESIDENCY NOMINATION HELD PRI ELE TAMMANY CLEANS HOUSE TO ANSWER MUNICIPAL PROBE (Continued From Pirst Page.) fensive role. It was he, then a State Senator and Democratic chief, who led tion, It was not & ley itive action, how- A e y —the ing which resulted in theq Tweed e < Those revelations in 1871 were about by an executive committee of 70, Which finally overthrew Boss T'weed and 3 . Three of the vious State investi- mm cong I‘%'Mfl]h'ug . ‘Tom Platt—"the Essy Bo ~—generaled them. CURTIS’ FOR ASKING | (Continued From Pirst Page. the Spring he wil look over the situ- ation loroug] ore rmhm‘ Aan; a5 to what Jhis ourse Decision in Own Hands. As was pointed out today by some of the mmm leaders, the decision is enure'z within _his own hands. It is true that the President of the United States, who is a candidate for re-elec- tion, can pretty well pick the candidate for Vice nt to run with him, pro- vided, of course, that the President is be renominated himself. No Re- e it Hoover would have the power to select some other runnin, mate than Mr. Curtis, it was today by Republican leaders Hoover will not undertake to side- track Vice President always been a s and regular man, and who did much for the et during the 1928 campaign. g&' lowever, snnouncement uum.mnm‘o-mmcu buy no wheat of the 1931 crop dispose d that it would seek to of 50 200 million bushels, which has thrown a scare into publicans of the Middle West. done with this wheat T il it Mr. | iny Curtls, who has | shorte: be led the ation,” was in 1921, leyer investigation.” SCANDALS CAPITALIZED. Chicago and New York Situations Pro- vide Food for “Handouts.” By the Associated Press. . Accusations of lidc-fi'p%in' “camouflage” occupied Republicans ::g Democrats today in their discussions of ;l:ylt they believe is Jrosg, with the New York City. - Difficulties when the Repub- ittee said Demo- York (cllty is a lican National cratic-controlled No;fi corruption.” ‘hairman he Democratic National “sink hole of Execut Mco‘mmmu plied ve re] it was “easier and safer” for Republicans to talk about New York City than Presi- dent Hoover's accomplishments. He Teferred to the “Big Bill Thompson- Al %-p;nv munag:n" in the Chicago G. 3 3 Last night Senator Jones gton expressed the belief tha ¢ | here ht | be GANDHI CONDEMNS RIOT AT CAWNPORE Says Killing of 80 and Injur- ing of 250 Will Retard Lib- erty in India. By the Associated Press. . India, March 36—Ms~ hatma Gandhi today condemned and deplored communal rioting Tuesday and ‘Wednesday in Cawnpore, where 80 were killed and 250 injured before the dis- turbance was suppressed. He declared that such riots were a menace to the Ppeace between the Nationalists gathered here for their annual meeting, and the government. 8 “I am grieved and pained at such an orgy of hatred and bloodshed,” Gandhi said. “I can only hope that the poison will not spread. At this delicate junce ture of our relations with the govern- ment the slightest thing will disturb our mental balance. such fanatical strife makes progress toward our ultimate goal of liberty in- creasingly diffi . cult.” Cawnpore 1t was that From reported the central portion of the city has been cleared, but sporadic rioting uing in the outlying areas. The serious phase of the trouble appears to be over. SUIT AGAINST RASKOB DROPPED BY OFFICER Capitol Policeman, Asking $50,000 for Auto Injuries, Aban- dons Action, 30 Edition of Yesterday's Star.) Dismissal of the took place Mans Hill, in Maryland, when Raskob's ing returned to he week end visit to his home %% | U, 3. WATCHES PACT ON TARIFF CLOSELY; INTEREST INDIRECT the opposition to the Meyer investiga-|Me! protocol After settling its policy on the e Ehcultics enconmmared encoun drmg.hun":xxtnlwelmo- French-] naval arrangemen From Ber! . governments Were represented as firm in their inten~ tion to carry out plans to which most of the nations of Europe have taken Bruening, a government statement said, told the British Am- bassador that tha"grvpued customs accord was within the bounds of the Geneva protocol and the treaty of St. May Take Three Months. ‘The chancellor informed the Ambas- sador, however, that such was the de- tail connected with the accord that it bably would be two or three months fore it could be made effective. The gw‘.\::il of the League of Nations meets y. He further stated that if other gove ernments wished to examine legal as- ;i'-l of the accord, Germany and Aus- would not object, since there was no reason for them to fear the outcome of such examination, but that the ace cord was purely economic and that the German considered it e I T 12:20 to 1:00 O’Clock Speaker ‘Tomeorrow: Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo