Evening Star Newspaper, March 27, 1931, Page 28

CROWLEY HEADS MERCHANT FLEET .rormer Seaman Appointed President by Federal Ship- REGISTRATION BILL WINS IN ASSEMBLY Measure Affecting Baltimore and Allegany Counties Advanced E Despite. Fight. By the Ax-o‘cl-kd Press. ANNAPOLIS, Md., March 27.—The House of Delegates yesterday passed to the State, as a frankly admitted move of the Democrats to cut the Republican majority, which was in ratio of about 2% to 1 over the Democrats. Senator J. Glenn Beall, Republican Senator from g the amendment, inelu the bill defeated, but lost, the six Republican members of the dele- ment in the lower branch, but were voted down on three te occasions on strictly party lines. e charge that the House of Delegates would not listen to an appeal of “home rule” was di- rected by the Allegany COL. LUKE LEA LOSES SUIT AGAINST PAPER Court Holds Service in $100,000 Libel Action Was Improper. Boy Was Given Summons. By the Associated Press. ISONVILLE, Tenn., March 27— MAD]! Judge Pat Quinn, in Circuit Court here yesterday, ruled that proper sérvice of not the agent of the newspaper and therefore service on the Times had not been legally accomplished. The plea to sbate the suit against Judge W. B, Swaney, co-defendant, was taken under advisement by the court, as was also the demurrer filed by young Masortthat he did nob know what the m contained and therefore was not The case is the outcome of & publica- tion in the Times of an intervi Judge Swaney. Yo —_— While Stewart Heather and Thomas Lucy were seel work at the Beckton, 1TS FINAL REHEARSALS| There will be a number of protessional radio artists, as well as dancers, who will take part in the performance. The Costello Post Show Monday Will | vt iy Raise Funds for Purchasing |of over 100 voices, mostly n_‘u-".'. i te Apollo Club of Wi . Drum Corps Equipmen n;;m Sub o nh'.lln'm Final rehearsals are now in progress | to purchase equipment for the minstrel operetta Tevue to be g)rt-hecatfiohn presented by Costello Post of the | ™ American Legion Monday evening at the Washington Auditortum. e Miss Gertrude Borzi and Joseph | wine does not ping Board. el ek third reading, over the objection of a delegates in their solid Allegany County delegation, a bill |.fight, against -the bill R calling for new registration in Baitimore R SO and Allegany Counties during 1932. Advertisements in the newspapers en- The bill, originally drawn as an en- |abled Joseph Jones, 44, a Vvisitor from abling act for a new registration for |the United States, to find his sister, Baltimore County, was amended before | Mrs. Ivin of Wlitshire, England, of it passed the Senate to include the [whom he had not heard since he emi- county in the extreme western tip of ited 34 years ago. Gte PALAIS ROYAL G STREET AT ELEVENTH. TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400. 1,800 Men’s New Hand Tailored Silk-Lined $1, $1.25 and $1.50 Bruno, vocalists, have been added to | wine that is the cast of the “Songland’s Romance.” | usually will grow worse as a sult for $100,000 for alleged libel by Col. Luke Lea, Nashville publisher, against. the Chattanooga Times, had not been made and the defandant’s plea in abatement was sustained. The service had been made on Gamon Mason, 14-year-old carrier for the Times, and the court held he was d, gas they were struck & scaffold pole and km{d. S Elmer E. Crowley of New York, who followed in the footsteps of his for- bears gnd started life before the mast, today was charged with the duty of g the commercial shipping activities of the Government. Crowley, former seaman, mate and master, late yesterday was chosen presi- dent of the Merchant Fleet i tion, the selection. being made by the Shipping Board commissioners, acting as trustees of ;the Fleet Corporation. He will draw $18,000 annually. Second Time in Job. T¢ will be his second experience in this post, where he served a few months five years ago. He now succeeds John R. Gordon, who died last August. ‘Crowley, for the past six months, has been director of the corporation’s North Atlanwic district, with headquar- ters at New York. During his previous term as president from October, 1925, ta July, 1926, when he resigned, Crowley figured prominent- 1y in a controversy over the sale of the American Oriental Mail -Line’s - fleet, running out of Seattle to the Orient. to the Dollar interests, & sale made against his recommendation. Master of Vessels. Crowley is a native of Somerset, Mass. After 12-years as a seaman and mate, he obtained command of a ship and continued as master of vessels until 1815. For eight years he held a series of executive shipping positions and then joined the Fleet Corporation as ohief surveyors, later becoming special as- sistant to the president. For a few in 1925 he left Government service to join the American Export Lines, ht.‘:' returned to head the Fleet Corporation. 'r“r):: Merchant Fleet Corporation, the Government’s _ship-operating _agency, has diminished in size since just after the World War, when it directed nearly 2,000 ocean-going ships. Today its activities embrace only 13 lines, among which are apportioned 161 Government-owned ships totaling 1,- 439,020 deadweight tons. This fieet is expected to be still fur- e e aperating 10 Soips. three lines operal 3 Du; the year ending June 30, 1930, the Government ficet duced by 100 ships aggregating 646,000 deadweight tons. —_ — G STREET AT ELEVENTH TELEPHONE DISTRICT 4400 ELMER E. CROWLEY, Appointed president.of the Merchants Fleet Corporation. VCLCANO SENDS SHOWER OF ASHES ON FARM LANDS Japanese Fear Damages to Mul- berry Trees—Slight Quakes Felt at Tokio. By the Assoclated Press. 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