Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1931, Page 1

WEATI e Wesher B Qenerslly fair with 1ER LI continued high temperature tonight and tomorrow, Temperatures - Higheat, pm. yesterday, lowes as y Pull report on page Closing N.Y. Markets, e No. 31,851, post o . 7, at 230 6 am t, U Pages13,14&15 Kntered as second class matter Mce, Washington, D. C. he Fp WASHINGTON, GERMANY'S BANK 10 REOPEN TO PAY NATION'SPAYROLLS; WAR REFUNDS OFF Bruening May Go to Paris or MacDonald to Berlin to Bring France and Reich to Better Understanding. VON HINDENBURG RETURNS TO CAPITAL TO AID CRISIS Reichswehr Prepared for Disorders as Unemployed Stage Demon- trations—Spokesman Reiterates Bruening's Wish to Meet With, Laval. BASEL, Switzerland, July 15 ¢®.—Germany paid over to the World Bank $51,000,000 today, representing the unconditional renaration «nnuity under the Young pl .. but, in accordance with the Franco- American agreement on the Hoover mora- torium, the entire sum is to be loaned back to Germany im- mediately. Two more matters Temain to be settled before the Hoover debt holiday can go into operation fully. These are credits to the Central European countries and German deliver- fes in kind. B the Associated Press. President von Hindenburg Is back in Berlin to take a hand in straightening out the nation’s financial tangle and the cabinet, by emergency maneuvers, is be-| lieved to have turned loose enough cash so that the banks may be opened to meet the mid-month pay roll. Secretary Henry L. Stimson and ‘Arthur Henderson, the British for- eign secretary, are in Paris, pre- sumably discussing Germany's situation, among other things, with the French government. London, watching developments with anxiety, is preparing for the ‘meeting of Young plan experts on Friday at which that plan will be dovetailed with the Hoover debt suspension scheme. Washington has been advised that| Great Britain, France and Italy, under | the Hoover plan, do not expect Ger- man reparations payments due todsy. Groups of unemployed staged dem- enstrations today in front of employ- ment offices in several parts of Berlin, but they were dispersed with little dif- ficulty TWO CONFERENCES POSSIBLE. ¥our-Cornered Parley in Paris or Mac- Donald Meeting Bruening Seen Possible. BERLIN, July 15 (#).—President von Hindenburg, who remained at his coun- iry place in Neudeck all through the maneuverings of the past two weeks, came back to the capital today to take | « hand in lifting Germany out of its financial crisis. Shortly after he arrived it was learned on excellent authority that the banks temporarily_closed yesterday by gov- ernment decree, will be opened tomor- Jow to meet the mid-month pay roll. Even the Darmataedter und National Bank, which suspended payments at the = (Continued on Page ¢, Column 1) RHEEM CO0. ACCUSED | OF NOTE JUGGLING Orders Defunct Firm Show Why $500 Is Not Returned. Court o Justice James M. Proctor in District Supreme Court today tssued a ruling calling upon the trustees of the bank- rupt estate of Swartzell, Rheem & Hen- | sey Co. to show cause July 31 why they | should not deliver to Mrs. Tone H. Cal- vert, Columbus, Ohlo, & promissory note which they took over among the assets of the company Through Attornevs John Lewis Smith and John Paul Earnest. the plaintiff said she purchased a $500 note of the Shoreham Hotel Corporation on August 2, 1030, through the brokerage concern and left the note in the vaults of the companv for collection and safekeepinx. On January 16 last, she said, while +he company was contemplating bank- the note was re- | moved from the vault and sold to an- | other client for a $300 note which was maturing the next day. Instead of turn- ing over the exchange note to her the ! company merely credited her with $300 on their books. The exchange note was properly secured, the plaintiff said. and should be surrendered to her in place of her note DO-X COMING NORTH Will Leave Rio de Janeiro Next Week for New York. RI1O DE JANEIRO. July 13 (#.—The seaplane DO-X, which has been in dry- dock here since the end of her trans- atlantic flight, will start a leisurely trip to New York at the end of next week, it was announced today. Paul Berner will be in command. and the American, Clarence Schildhauer, probably will be one of the pilots. On the trip Notth she will stop at ®ara, Brazil and San Juan, Porto Rico, hing Miami the first week in Au- Griff-White Sox Contest Postponed; 2 Games Tomorrow Rain, which began to falla half hour before game time and con- tipued its drenching downpour at the zero hour of 3 o'clock, this afternoon, caused the contest be- tween the Nationals and Chicago ‘Wkhite Sox to be postponed. The gzme will be played in a double-header at Griffith Stadium tomorrow, starting at 1:30 o'clock. HUNGARIAN ARMY FLYERS TAKE OFF Endres and Magyar Leave Harbor Grace on Flight to Budapest. By the Associated Press. HARBOR GRACE, Newfoundland, July 13.—George Endres and Alexander | Magyar, reserve officers in the Hun- garian Army, took off in their plane, Justice to Hungary, from the airport at 1:48 p.m. Newfoundland time (11:13 E.8.T.) on a projected non-stop flight to Budapest. Early this morning the two fiyers decided to postpone the flight until later, owing to reports of unfavorable weather conditions, but during the forenoon more promising conditions were reported and they decided to hop | off about noon, as they had originally planned. Dr. Kimball Posts Flyers. | Dr. James H. Kimball, Weather Bu- reau meteorologist in'’ New York, had | been keeping them informed of condi- tlons over the great circle route which | they planned to traverse in their flight | above the Atlantic. He notified them | they would have favoring winds, but that there were low clouds over most of the Atlantic. The plane had been refueled and inspected yesterday and this morning there remained only a final check-up before the machine was ready to take to the air. CEILING 1S DANGEROUS. | Blinding Clouds Reported Over Ocean | by Dr. Kimball. 1 NEW YORK, July 15 (#)—Blinding clouds, forming a dangerous ceiling | over virtually the entire ocean, will menace Alexander Magysr and George | Endres on their Atlantic fiight to Buda- | pest, Dr. James H. Kimball, Weather Bureau meteorologist, sald today shortly | after the fiyers had hopped off. The Hungarian airmen, however, will | probably have favorable winds almost | all along their route and do not seem likely to encounter any serious storm | problems. Dr. Kimball added. He sald he was nob surprised the | fiyers declded to hop off when they did for fear that weather conditions would get worse than they already were. Rains and low clouds have been | gathering from the West,” Dr. Kimball explained. “It is likely that Magyar and Endres will find the entire Atlantic overcast by heavy, blinding clouds. “But from the time they hopped off | until they sight land across the ocean they will probably face no serlous storm problems. Once over Europe, however, it looks lice they may encounter diffi-| cult fiying conditions, for storm weather has been weaving an eastward course from the Atlantic toward Northern | Germany." PAYS “DEBT OF GRATITUDE.” ey | Flint Sausage Manufacturer Backs | Flight te Budapest. FLINT, Mich,, July 15 (#)—In Buda- | pest, Hungary, Emil Salay, retired Flint sausage menufacturer awaits the arrival | of George Endres and Alexander Mag- | yar, Hungarian fiyers, in the plane in which he has invested $30,000 as his payment of what he terms “a debt of | gratitude” to the land of his birth. Salay, 58 years old, met the fiyers in a Detroit Hungarian language news- paper office a year ago and heard of | thelr hopes to make a gesture of patriot- | ism toward their native land by a fiight | irom Detroit to Budapest. | The fiyers lacked funds and proposed | to obtain money by selling picture post | cards and obtaining small subscriptions | from Hungarian Americans. _Salay agreed to underwrite the flight, bought “(Continued on Page 2, Column 4) HELEN WILLS MOdDY WINS IN OPENING NET DRIVE Returns to Eastern Courts as Part- ner of Mrs. Wightman in Brookline Match. By the Associated Press. BROOKLINE, Mass., July 15—Mrs Helen Wills Moody opened her Eastern court campaign here todav by joining torces with Mrs. George W. Wightman, her championship doubles teammate in 1924 and 1928. They met Hilda and Helen M. Boehm in a first-round match and defeated the 18-year-old Malden twins, 6—2, 6—1. TREASURY OFFICIAL, DEAD OF MONOXIDE GAS, HELD SUICIDE ‘Body Found Slumped Over Wheel of Car Running in Closed Garage. IR. G. HAND HAD BEEN ILL OF NERVES TWO MONTHS | Threatened Death, Doctor Says. Family Insists It Was | | Accident. Robert Godfrey Hand, 52 years old, commissioner of accounts and deposits of the Treasury Department, was found | dead of monoxide gas in his garage early today, slumped over the steering | wheel of his automobile, the motor run- | ning. Mr. Hand was clothed only in | pajamss. The doors and windows of | the garage were tightly closed. | Coroner J. Ramsay Nevitt, summoned | by the police, issued & certificate of | suicide after talking to Dr. Willlam M. Sprigg, 1801 I atreet, who said he had been treating Mr. Hand for two months for a nervous ailment. He sald Hand had talked several times of ending his | life in the manner in which he died. However, members of the family and » representative of the Treasury who called at the house soon after Hand's body was found insisted that his death was accidental. Employe Summons Family. Dr. Sprigg pronounced Hand dead soon after John Lambert, colored em- ploye, came to the house, 1331 Gallatin street, about 5:30 o'clock this morning and heard the motor of the automobile running. He summoned members of the family, who found the Treasury of- ficial in the ear. Members of the family said Commis- sioner Hand had virtually retired from | the department two months ago to re- cover from the effects of overwork. They said he had worked 10 d 12 hours & day continuously for years and that his health had broken down. Since he left the department, however, they said, he had returned to work for sev- cral days at a time, but was forced to come home early due to exhaustion. Hand, who entered the Treasury in 1900, came here from Shubata, Miss,, where his family was wealthy and prom- inent socially. Starting as a clerk in the office of the auditor for the War Departmeni, at a salary of $660 a year, he had built up an enviable reputation in the intervening years as a fiscal expert. Directed Government Moneys. As commissioner of accounts and de- posits he kept the accounts of incom- ing and outgoing money and directed the deposit of receipts and disburse- ment of Government moneys through various branches and Federal Reserve banks. His estimates as to the income of the Government and its expenditures were accepted by the Treasury and as the base upon which it made its plans for the future. During the last year Hand had been direct representative of the Secretary and Undersecretary. His figures on con- dition of the Treasury wers on their desks every day. During the war Hand served in the War Loan Office and as assistant treas- urer. He was appointed commissioner n; ‘;cw\rnu and deposits in January, 1920. Two Children Survive, Hand married another native of Shu- bata, Miss Ruby Woolverton. here, June 12, 1907. They had two children, Rob- ert, now 18 years old, and Frances, now 20, who, with the widow, survive. Hand was a2 graduate of Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College. A brother, Dr. Willlam Hand, is now professor of chemistry at the college. Funcral services will be held Frids: with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Dr. Hand, a sister, Mrs. Fannle Beck of Charleston, 8. C., wife of Henry L. Beck, head of the Atlantic Coast light house division, and a brother-in-law, Willlam Woolverton, Birmingham, Ala., attorney, are expected here for the funeral. |NICARAGUA TOWN TAKEN BY SANDINO, SAYS AIDE | Foreign Representative Reports | Capture of Limay, Wiping Out Native Garrison. By the Associated Press. MEXICO CITY July 15.—Dr Pedro Zepeda, foreign ' representative _of | Augustino Sandino, said today iz Ta- | surgent leader had captured the town | of Limay, Nicaragus. with a forcz of | 400 men’ last week wiping out the aative garrison and confiscating g~ gisntities of arms 8ix rebels were killed. POLICE UNCOVER PARKING SPACE ON PUBLIC STREETS Boy’s Arrest Leads to Discovery Machines Are Driven to| RACKET TO SELL Less Congested Area After Owners Pay Fee. Trafic Bureau officials have uncov- ered what they believed to be a wide- spread “parking racket” with the arrest tocay of an 18-year-old ooy on a crarge of driving without a permit. Police said they learned that auto- mobiles parked on several downtown parking lots at a charge of 25 or 35 cents & day have been driven from the lot soon after the owners left and parked on streets or other lots cutside of the congested area, to make room for othsr automobiles arriving lator. Proprietors of the lots, the police that inexperienced drivers have been | used. they belleve. Police investigation of the “racket” |was_precipitated several wesks a when several motorists gave “alibis” for ignoring overtime parking tickets. In a number of cases offenders told police that they could prove they paid to ‘plrk their cars on a downtown lot. Police believe the ticksts were de- stroyed. | ""The youth arrested this morning, | Leroy G. Eakes, 113 C sireet northeast, | when stcpped at Second ard C streets northeast by Policeman F. J. Rowen of the Traffic Bureau, said that he was WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION D. C., WEDNESDAY, | JULY 15, 1931—KFORTY-" Mr. | |Ghost-Like Light M‘EYMGS 'Attracts Crowds to TR'AI_ IS ASSA'LE[]TJam Chicago Traffic Woman’s Figure With Child in Arms on Wall Believed a Reflection. | | Wickersham Commission De- nounces Conduct of Case as “Shocking.” By the Associated Press. | CHICAGO, July 15.—Traffic at South ek | Ashland and Elburn avenues was com- By the'Associated Presa. | pletely blocked last night by a large The Wickersham Commission t0day | royg of persons attracted by the sight denounced as “shocking to ones sense | ;¢ o gim figure in light, resembling that of justice” the laws under Which the | of u woman with a child in her arms, famous Mooney-Billings case WAS CON- | wpich appeared on the cement-covered Sicese. side of an old three-story brick build- Embedded deep in & formal report 10 |- President Hoover on methods of crim- | A the size of the crowd grew some Inal procedure, the commission cited | one turned in a fire alarm. A battalion the case arising from the 1816 Pro-|fire chief examined the outiine on the - | wall, :l's’;d':“o::’l:o e Town" | was s refiection. He was unable, how- new trial “were held inadequate to pre- vent injustice.” 1t made no direct recommendation, however, that the case be reopened. In tRe body of its report, signed by 10 of the 11 members, the commission conciuded that blame should be laid at_the door of "1nncm?etent. weak or ltics-ridden judges” for much of the ‘::nenl complaint against this country’s criminal procedure. Fitness Only Qualification. 1t presented a plea that the public lnslstpupon the complete divorce of the administration of justice from politics and that the selection of judges and | A detall of 20 policemen was sent to the scene. Its members were scattered through the neighborhood and at their requests all lights in nearby buildings | were extinguished. The faint luminous outline, which was about 13 feet high, rem . - It disappeared when a flashlight was turned om it, but re- | appeared with darkness. So the police, certain, like the fire- men, they sald, that the figure was a refiection of light from somewhere, but not knowing where, contented them- | selves with ordering the crowd fto disperse. tes be made ulpon the ground | fcuous fitness alone. °rfi::§2 Lemann, New Orlears lawyer. who declined to sign the commission's prohibition report, likewise refused to sign this document. | dthout sufficlent Tesearch to back up The conclusions resched, l;aq:m :L\;L‘ s “without adequate factual 3 & eralizations by the commission seem Tota] of 335 New U. S. Agents o e e ey brief discussion vel . g : : o ts compurathvely et Homas | Tonight Will Begin Drive J. Mooney and Warren K. Billings for . Centered on Cities. RECORD DRY FORCE mission cited the refusal of the Cali- fornia Supreme Court to grant a mew | trial, despite the discovery of new “evi- dence charging perjury on the p“ln of a material witness for the State. By the Associaled P, Federal prohibition enforcement today embarked on a new era, to b marked ever, to learn the source of the light.| ening Star. VO PAGES. L L “From Press 1, ooy block an tion 1 delivered to as fast as the pape Within the He o Home wr' vl the regular @ Washington homes re are printed Yesterday's Circulation, 109,253 #) Means Associated Pr TWO CENTS. HOLDS RAILROADS CREDITS AT LT Insurance Head Says Loans Will Be Refused if Lines Do Not Show Profit. Br the Associated Press. i Insurance companies and savings | banks added their weight today to the drive of the railroads for a 15 per cent increase in freight rates. Edward D. Duffield, president of the | Prudential Life Insurance Co. of Amer- | ica, told the Interstate Commerce Com- | mission the interests of 50,000,000 life | insurance policy holders and nearly 13,000,000 savings bank depositors were threatened by the decrease in railroad revenues. He urged the increase be granted. | Economies Held Futile. Duffield appeared in the opening ses- sion of the hearings set by the com- | mission to determine whether the in- crease should be granted. Earlier Dr. Julus H. Parmelee. a director of the Bureau of Railway Economics, had told the commission that despite the most rigorous economy the railroads had been unable to make a fair living in the last 10 yvears. The insurance man said that if the credit of the raiiroads could not be con- served the insurance companies and | savings banks weuld have to refuse to | lend further monay to them. H» sald the two now have combined hodings | of $4,700,000,000 of rzilroad bonds. At the openinz of the hearing, the railvoads amended their petition to av- | clnde coal and coke from the inciease. Parmalee Takes Stand. Parmelee took the stand immediately after the carriers had amended their petition to exclude coal and coke Commissioners Meyer, Lewis and Lee, with seven representatives of State com- missions, sat in the hearing. Commis- sioner Meyer presided. Parmelee sald the future ability of the roads to serve the public adequately is seriously threatened unless addition- al income is torthcoming” and present- ed statistics to show their serlous situ- ation. He said the vailroads spent nearly 0 | press, asserting that the d! declared, become acquainted with their | working for & man who owned a down- regular customers and know just what!town parking lot and had bsen in- time of day they will return tor their structed to remove the machine to an- automobiles. | other lot and park it. A motorist, officials pointed out. would ~ Checking up on the boy's story, police drive his automobile into the lot at located the owner of the automobile, E. about 8:30 or 9 o'clock in the morning. | W. Praser, 1644 Puller street, who said With his departure, men employed by |that he parked his car on the downtown the lot owners, the police charge, drove |lot and 1t to be left there all the automobiles out of the congested day. section and returned for them a short tigation to determine defi- time before the owner's return. nitely whether the “parking racket” is Police said the machines are some- widespread in the District will bhe times driven through the strests in launched by the TraMc Bureau imme- carsvans of & and 10 u{. and said | diatelgs Urge Adoption of Institute Cede. It cited also the refusal of the trial court of a further application based apon “the ground that the rosecuting attorney had been guilty of fraud In withholding from the trial court in- formation impeaching the testimony of certain witnesses.” W Condemning this “state of law, the commission urged universal adoption of the proposed code of the American Law Institute. This would provide for the granting of a new trial with the discov- ery of evidence which might have al- tered the original verdict, or upon proof that the prosecuting attorney had been gullty of misconduct. The commission appended 14 recom- mendations to the body of its report. Among them were suggestions for & wider use of “administration rathcr than arrest’; a more general use of “summons instead of arrests” in petty prosecutions; walvers of jury trial in criminal cases: examinations of jurors by the court rather than the counsel, and increase in the common law pow=- ers of trisl judges. Considerable space was devoted to the needs of raising the standards of the country’s inferior courts, characterized as “conspicuously the lmn,nmhcwry part of our judicial system.” Cite Suspicieus Atmosphere. ‘The commission sald: “The bad physical surroundings. the confusion, the want of decorum, the un- | dignified, offhand disposition of cases at high speed, the frequent suggestions of something working behind the scenes, involved in casual conferences of magls- | trates and politictan lawyers, not audible to the public in attendance—in short, the atmosphere of the inferior crimin: courts—create in the minds of observers a suspicion of the whole process of law enforcement.” also_criticized the The commission o was enhanced trial in ad- | taining imparifal juries by “what often amounts to vance.” It added that some newspapers have “assumed to setd (on&h in advance the evidence to be adduced.” In his individual report Lemann dis- sented from this statement. as well as one that mcdern business life. coupled with frequent elections and numerous jury terms, “calls for more than the cit- izens may reasonably expecte to do.” uch statements mi ed,” Lemann said, “but to my attention would in_their confident assert Members. of the commission. =prior to their departure from Wash! after writin, p:h‘:ir last _reports, declined to say wh s lengthy report dealing A in, ‘would be e public. gne of a committee of three experts in charge of the preparation of this unpublished document, was Zecharian Chaflee, jr., professor of law st Harvard - Unt 3 i i ay be well found- no facts brought permit me to joln by the biggest force of dry agents yet $7,000,000.000 to increase their efficiency | | | 1.5, MAY EXTEND TIME ON TS LOANS TOWHEAT SECTION Proposed Debt Suspension Brings Suggestion of Aid by Government. | i WATSON WANTS BOARD TO KEEP ALL HOLDINGS | Farmers in Indiana Plan to Feed! Crop to Live Stock, He Says, | at 25 Cents Per Bushel. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Official Washington looked with in- terest today on proposals, emanating trom the Southwest, for a debt mora- torum for wheat farmers Members of Congress and officials of | the executive branch of the Govern ment were unable to see just how the | Federal Government could bring about | such & moratorium, since the debts of ! the farmers have been contracted with | private banks, manufacturers of farm | | implements and other private business | | concerns. | Only in two directions. it was sug gested, might the governmental agen- | | cies help in the wheat farmers' debt situation One was through temporary relief granted by the Federal Farm | Loap Bureau, the farm loan banks and | | the intermediate credit banks. ! Banks May Extend Credit. These agencles, set up bv the Gov | ernment, through’ which credit has been | extended to the farmers. it was said. | might permit extensions of credits | where farmers were unable to meet | either mortgage payvments or payments | on loans extended for live stock opera- | tions or crop production Suggestions already have been made by high officials of the Government, | it was sald, to the Federal Farm Loan Bureau that credits to the farmers be extended where farmers were unable to make peyment of mortgage loans. And the opinion was expressed that policy of the bureau was to deal considerately With the fsrmers as pos- sible. Curtis and Capper Plan. If there is to be & general moratorium for the farmers in the Southwest who are now harvesting or have harvested their wheat, with the prices hitting as Jow as 25 cents a bushel in certain places in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas, the opinion was expressed that such | relief would have to come through the | banks and through the business con- | cerns which have extended the farmers credit and have taken as security liens on_their_crops. Vice President Curtis and Senator Capper of Kansas still are working on |a plan to ald the wheat farmers in their section. The Vice President said | today he had received a telegram from Senator Capper saying it might be a | matter of several davs before he could gather all the Information required and the assent of some of the farming com- munities to make the plan operative. Watson Wants Wheat Held. The Vice President said that under the circumstances he would not at this |time discuss the details of the plan | which he and Senator Capper have in |mind. Chairman Stone of the Federal | Farm Board called upon the Vice Presi- | | dent. ai the Capitol vesterday afternoon. | and it had been the hope of the Vice | President o have in hand at that time all the data necessary to lav the plan before the Farm Board chairman Senator Watson, Republican leader of the Senate. sald today that he still stuck | 1o his original proposal that the Farm | | Bosrd should withhold all of 1ts wheat | from the market for at least the next | four months. | “The announcement of such a policy | by the board,” Senator Waison sald, “is| tne only way in which I sce the wheat | | farmers can be aided now. The troudle | 15 that there is too much wheat. If the | | thrown against commercial liquor law violators. Bureau here was that by nightfall brigade of 335 new agents, bringing the force to about 1900, its highest pesk in history, would be ready for active duty. Officials had word that most of them completed & two-week course of intensive training yesterday, with the remainder to finish today. Drive in Cities Planned. Under present plans the greatest pressure in the new campaign will be exerted in the New York, Philadelphia and Chicago districts. Nearly half of the new force will be stationed in or around these cities. In addition, these sections already have received mor than 65 of 165 agents placed in the gency appropriation by the last Con- gress enabled this many of the 500 new men authorized to begin work be- fore July 1. Nevertheless, Howard T. Jon ing prohibition director, warned against any expectation of an immediate in- crease in enforcement results. All of the freshly trained agents will be re- quired to work with more experienced | men for some time, he saild, making {1t several months before the force is | expanded to its maximum. June Arrests Top May. Recerds of enforcement just complet- ed by the bureau for June, Jones as- rted, clearly illustrate the work being done by the 165 men put into the field before the start of the fiscal year. He explained figures to show that the arrest of more than 7,000 violators and the | | act- and 157,000 gallons of spirits consid- erably surpassed the totals for May. Here is how the Prohibition Bureau plans to distribute the 335 new agents: Thirteen for Maine, New Hampshire, Ver- mont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut; 65 for New York State, 50 for Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey; 16 for Maryland. Virginia, North and South Carolina; 28 for Filorida, Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana and Texas. | of cperation between 1923 and 1930. Re- | board sells anv of its holdings, or if | - i fleld several months ago when an emer- | seizure of nearly 500,000 gallons of beer | ductions in operating espenses due to the betterments, could not, he said, keep The expectation at the Prohibition |up with reductions in revenues caused | | by a sharp drop in traffic. | "He added that she raiiroads have | found it “impossible to match every (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 'MOTHER OF VALLEE DIES WITH SON NEAR | Crooner, Off Air, and Brother Are Present When Death Occurs in Maine. By the Assoclated Prese WESTBROOK, Me., July Charles A. Vallee, mother of Rudy Vallee, | died today at her home here. Members of the family, including the radio crooner and his brother William, v.ho flew here from New York, were with her at the end. Mrs. Vallee was 61 years cld. Vallee left his bride of a week, the former Fay Webb, in New York, when he made his hurried trip to his old | home. |~ The mother had been ill for a year. In addition to her husband and two sons, survivors include one daughter, | Mrs. Kathleen Lunneviile. | 15.—Mrs, | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1. GRACE MOORE MARRIED | TO ACTOR IN CANNES| Singer Weds Spaniard With Noted Colony Members as Guests at Reception Later. CANNES, France, July 15 (#®) Grace Moore, American singer, was | married today to the young Spanish niotion picture actor, Valentine Parara. | The deputy mayor performed the civil | ceremony at the city hall. | The witnesses were Samuel Chotzinoff. | New York music critic, for Miss Moore | and Saa Zedra, wealthy Cuban, for the | bridegroom. | After the ceremony a garden | part | was given at the Hotel Miramar, at | tended by most of the Riviera filmdom and authors. Half the guests were in formal afternoon attire, the other half had just come from the beach in onc- plece bathing suits or pajamas. The guests included Gharlie Chaplin Gloria Swanson and Mrs. Gloria Van- derbilt. Others were Michael Arlen and his wife, Count and Countess Casfel | Barco, Signora Arturo Toscanini, wife of the conductor; Maurice Dekobra, novelist; Mrs. Dorothy Benfamin Caru- 50, W. K. Vanderbilt, Alamo Didur, | Mrs. Lloyd Osborne, Mr. and Mrs. De |Koss of a wealthy Dutch family, | Michael Farmer and Taltaferro Casa- nova. Handsome Sofas and Chair: | | The lobby of the White House execu- |PRESIDENT GETS NEW FURNITURE FOR LOBBY OF EXECUTIVE OFFICES mission Moved Into Wing of White House. 27 for Tennessee, Kentucky, Ohio and | tive offices today had a handsome new | Michigan; 57 for Indiana, INlinois and | Wisconsin; 28 for Tow: Nebrzska, North and South Dakota. Smaller numbers will be sent into the remaining districts. Seventeen will work in Kansas, Arkansas and Oklahoma; 9 in Wyoming, Utah, Col- orado, Arizona and New Mexilco; 12 in California and Nevada, and 13 in Montana, Idaho, Oregon and Washing- ton. —_ 'Radio Programs ea Page C.7 Minnesota, | set of furniture. It came from the recently disbanded Wickersham Com- | mission. A half dozen Ileather-upholstered | sofas and a dozen or more arm chairs | to_match composed %> new additions. | "The $900 mahogany table around | which the commission discussed its findings was not in the group. | It was explained at the ‘White House today that when the Wickersham Com- mission went out of existence. July 1 the office furniture was sen. from the Tower Bullding to the Burcau of Sup- s Left by Wickersham Com- | plies. _Lawrence Richey. one of Presi- dent Hoover's secretaries, hastened to the bureau to commarfdeer the choice pieces thought necessary for the provement of the executive lobby. His selections afrived at the e: tive office today in sevcral trucks consisted of two large leather-co settes and a divan, six easy chairs six side chairs and one or two other chairs. All of these pieces are covered with black grain leather and the wocd is of rich mahogany. ‘The_old lobby furriture was sent to] the office of Lieut. Col. U. 8. Gran*. “d director of public bufldirgs and public . parks, for distribution where needed. ! | business | nor | sale |J. H. Ballard, Editoria $5000000 N STOCK 0FPHONE CONPANY SSODTOAT &T. 'Sale Made Without District Utility Commission’s Au- thorization. AGAIN RAISES QUESTION {OF TRANSACTION LEGALITY Chesapeake & Potomac Manager Files Report of Deal With Board Here. Without the authority of the Public | Utilities Commission the Chesapeake & | Potomac Telephone Co., June 30 last, {sold $5.000.000 of its capital stock to | the American Telephone & Telegraph Co., it was disclosed today. The sale 1aises again the question of legality of he transaction under the provisions of the La Follette anti-merger act. Notice of the sale was filed with the commission this morning by the com pany and at the same time John A Remon, general mapager, issued & stat ment declaring that the transact not constitute a violation of the La Fol lette act and that there had been ne change in the relationship between the sompany and the American Telephone & Telegraph as a result. Previous lIssue Canceled. A previous issue of §2,000.000 in stock to the A. T. & T. was ruled illegal by the commission The company sub- sequently canceled the issue. _The telephpne s.ocs, constituting 50.000 shares was sold at par value of $100 each. The $5,000.000 realized from the sale, it was announced, was applied by the company in discharging to that extent obligations on its 6 per cent demand notes outstanding April 30, last The Utilities Commission last month authorized the company to issue $7,000.~ 000 worth of common stock, which would have brought its capitalization up to $20,000,000. The authority, however, did not extend to selling (he stock to the A. T. & T. which owned up to June 30 all of the then $13.000.000 common stock of the Washington company. Court Test Indicated. The Utilitles Commission _did state what action it would take if company sold tie stock to the 4. ot T. & T., although there weve indicatiors th it would bring action in court in t che validity of the sale under t a Follette aci. ‘This act forbids the pur- cnase of more then 20 per cent ot the -apital stock of = local public utilitv oy = foreign public utility or nolding vcorporation. Counsel for the eommis- sion_has previously held the A. T. & T, to be both a foreign public ntility corporation and s forelgn holding ecor- poration with in the meaning of the act. The statementi issued by Mr. Remon regarding the sale of the stock, follows: “The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. is today filing the report re- quired under formal order No, 928 of the Public Utilities Commission of the | District of Columbia, authorizing the issuance of additional common stock by the telephone comgpany The report sets forth that capital stock in the amount of $5.000,000 hss been sold to the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and the proceeds used to retire short-term notes. Not Merger. Before this stock was issued the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. was owned entirely by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. After this stock was issued the Cheasapeake & Potomac Telephone Co was owned en- tirely by the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. It was no more merged after the issue of the stock than it was before. The relationship of the two companies is exactly as it was for the five vears before the La Follette anti- merger act was passed and during the 18 years since it was passed. There has been no merger. There has been a continuation of the same ownership. The Chesapeake & Potomac Tele- phone Co. has been doing a telephone in the District of Columbix for more than 45 years. Neither before after the enactment of the La Follette anti-merger act has it done anything in any way to circumvent or attempt to evade any law, and the of- ficers of the company feel definitely that it is not so doing by the issuance of this stock to the American Tele- ! phone & Telegraph Co.” Notice Fulfils Order. “The company’s formal nolice of the prepared by H. C. Grets, general auditor, was filed with the commission in compliance with its general order (Continued on Page 2, Column 7. 82-YEAR-OLD WRITER KILLS SELF IN GOTHAM of World-Telegram, Fires 8hot Into Temple. By (he Associaled Prese NEW YORK, July 15.—J. H. Ballard, 82 years old, editorial writer on the World-Telegram. committed suicide in his apartment last night by shooting himself through the temple. Mrs. Ballard, 76 years old, received a cut on the head as she fainted when her husband rushed into the bath room and said, 1 am not going alone. I'm 80INg to take you with me.” Mr. Ballard, one of the oldest acti: newpaper men in New York, was personal friend of James Gorden Ben- nett, and his connection with the old Herald and Telegram dated virtually to his boyhood. He had been a Telegram editorfal writer more than 30 years. He introduced the paragraphing style of editorial comment on the evenini Bennett edition and continued it until the properties were sold to the Munsey interests Mr. Ballard's carcer began with » position on the London Echo in 1867. Four years later he joined the staff of the Montreal Gazette, which he left after a year and a half to become secre- tary of the British consulate at Singa- pore. He served there durin inese civil wars, later going to work on the Inter-Ocean, W served for 22 years, 11 of them as city editor. He came to the New York Tel in 1898, starting as head of the copy desk in charge of Spanish-Ameriean War news. He then bec?me editorisl writer.