Evening Star Newspaper, October 2, 1931, Page 2

THE EVENING BIG BANK MERGER 0.KDBY DIRECTORS National City and Bank of| America Assets to Total $2,329,000,000. L the Associ s NEW YORK, October The Na- tional City Bank, second largest in the United States, and the Bank of Amer- | National Association, awaited to- | only the fulfillment of certain con- bocome a merged institu- | largest bank in the 9 ica, to second tors of both banks approved the : plans yesterday ‘The actual lidation was made conditional osit of 85 per cent of the | of America stock ommittee before Octo- | per cent of the stock | lled by the Transamerica Cor- directors of which approved | the plan vesterday, the deal is re- d as assured of consummation. | ions Sent Upward. reports of the contemplated sent bank stock quota- | d in the closing hours of stock m: ssets of the National he Bank of America X ately $100,000.000 £2,420,000,000 assets of thae | tional Bank, the largest day comb! Forum Speaker G. 0. P. OFFICIAL WILL DIS- CUSS PROBLEMS. ROBERT H. LUCAS. Robert H. Lucas, the executive direc- tor of the Republican National Com- mittee, is to discuss the problems con- fronting the country and the incoming Congress from the Republican point of view in the National Radio Forum, ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over the coast-to-coast net- CHARGE OF POLICE | BEATIG 15 FUTLE Man Accused of Resisting‘ Arrest Shows Broken Arm, but Is Fined $30. The charge that he had been beaten by palice in his arrest failed to help ! James Lester, colored, 1600 New Jersey | avenue, upon his appearance in Police Court today, when the man Was con- victed and fined a total of $30 on charges of intoxication and disorderly conduct. | Defense Attorney Denny Hughes an- | nounced his intention of taking the case to the Court of Appeals, after Judge Robert E. Mattingly had rendered his uecision, and Lester was released on $100 appeal bond. The man appeared for trial with his tleft arm broken and in a cast, a severe cut on his upper Uip, and a shirt, which he said he wore at the time of his arrest, covered with blood and very badly ‘torn. Accuses Twe Policemen. He sald two second precinct police- men broke his arm as they pushed him into the patrol wagon after dragging him from his home last Saturday night. The officers beat him in the wagon, Lester testified, and twisted his injured | arm. The police officers were C. R. Bremmerman and B. C. Thompson He was ordered to wash the blood from himself at the precinct, Lester STAR. WASHINGTON, FRIDAY. EARNSHAW CHOSEN T0 FACE HALLAHAN Clouds and Languorous Weather Make Conditions Suitable for Speed Duel. (Continued From First Page) the St. Louls Cardinals again in the second game of the world series. It was another good day for fast ball pitchers, cloudy enough to keep | the sun in hiding most of the time and | the languorous weather suited perfect- Iy the thousands of shirt-sleeved pa- trons, who poured into the open bleach- ers from the time the “rush seat” sale opened early in the morning. It suited Gabby Street, manager of the Cards, too, for he had “Wild Bill" Hallahan, left-handed conqueror of the champions in one of the 1930 series games, one of the fastest pitchers in the National League, primed to get back the advantage the A's gained yesterday trouncing big Paul Derringer in the opening game. Earnshaw Logical Choice. There was every indication that Connie Mack, off to a Breat start in quest of his third straight world cham- | would His logical answer speed with ionship. - pitcher was “Big soeed. Jarge” Grove. Earnshaw, second only, and not | always that, to the speed King, Lefty | OCTOBER 2 Bits of Action at Series Opener TELEPHOTOS OF INITIAL CLASH FOR WORLD BASE BALL TITLE. IHOOVER CONTINUES STUDY OF U S. ILLS President Again Centering Efforts on Remedies for Nation. By the Associated P: President Hoover is giving intensive study to ways and means of putting the economic structure of the Nation on a firmer foundation. A variety of proposals are under dis- cussion. Wether any of them wil reach the stage of actual fruition in the near future remains speculative. Efforts Continued. The suggestions reach into many di- verse ramifications of the business and economic system of the United States and touch also upon the world depres- sion. It was said at the White House today that no one new plan had been produced as a panacea for the ills of industry. The present effort is a con- tinuation of the studies the President has been making with a view to easing the situation wherever possible. At _home, the President’s efforts re- late to such subjects as the relief of agriculture, the establishment of a bet- ter permanent fabric of employment, and maintenance of the standard of living. In the foreign field, Mr. Hoover is preparing to speak on international trade next week at a meeting of pan- American commercial representatives here. ~He is gathering material also {for his forthcoming conversations with in | work of the Columbia Broadcasting Co v 1 = * | sa1d. and when' it war discovered he | While an apparently indefatigable Premier Laval of France Charles E. Mitckh d of the National City Bank. is | ted to head the larger orxamza-‘ was explained that the consolida- plan was in confirmity with pro- announced last week by the ransamerica Corporation, which hold a 63 per cent interest in Bank of Amer- ica, under which Transamerica proposed | to divest itself of controlling interests banks. | The Bank of America, which on .June | 30 reported resources of $338,300.313. | s been the second most important | in_the Transamerica Corporation | nies. Transamerica has | operated since formation as a holding | company for the properties assembled | by A. P. Giannini of California, and chief property is the Bank of Amer- | Nat Trust & Savings Bank of | a, a $1.000,000.000 institution Walker. chairman, said that here was no plan_under consideration | at this time for deposition of control | of that institution m One-Sixth in Size. | America is only about | e of the National City | June 30 reported re s 140,595, but it has 35 anches, in New York City, which will substantially augment National City's system now comprising 54 branches. T 7 contemplates the exchange of Nat City stock for Bank of America stock, on the basis of 1 share of the former for 12, of the latter, so Transamerica Corporation will be- come an important minority stockholder in National City. Transamerica holds 63 per cent of Bank of America stock, d the adoption of the plan is con- upon its approval by sufficient stockholders to make a_total cent in favor of it. If by | 17, that percentage has ap- | the plan will be submitted to ai City stockholders When completed, this will be the first Jarge bank merger in New York City since the Chase National Bank ab- sorbed the Equitable Trust Co. early in | 1930, through which it eclipsed the | National City to become the world’s largest bank. proved Nati Among Oldest in City. Eoth the Bank of America and | National City are among Wall Street's oldest banking institutions, Both were founded in 1812 National City, from time to time, has absorbed other New York City banks, and for several years was the largest bank in the United | S It has been anxious to extend | jts branch system in New York City | for some time. In the Autumn of 1929 | its directors approved a plan to acquire | the $300.000,000 Corn Exchange Bank, | which has an extensive branch system, | but the plan was drawn up just before | the 1929 crash in the securities markets | and by the time the National City | stockholders met to act upon it the | values of the stocks of the two insti- | tutions had been so altered that it was decided that the plan was inequitable and it was abandoned A. P. Giannini first became a factor New York ing through acquisi- ion of control of the Bank of America in 1928, which he purchased through the Bancitaly Corp., predeccssor to| Transamerica. _Giannini had previously | acquired the Bowery and Fast Ri Naticnal Bank and the Commercial E National Bank, which were annini, A. P. Giannini's T chairman of the Bank of | America. It is understood that his | us under the merger is as yet unde- is Smaller Bank Sound. In discussing the propesal, Chairman Mitchell of the National City Bank, said that the Bank of America was in very sound and liquid condition, and had an cquipment of city branches which could well be combined with that of the Na- tional City, and it was believed that the union would be beneficial in every way. | pointed out that the | ould give his company a sub- al interest in one of the largest of the country, instead of con-| r 1 & smaller institu- | the directorate had | ation of disposing of the | stock which it would | | i ined that the merged | ild continue under the | the National City | e corporate title of the | r institution would disappear. The Bank of America has outgtand- ing 1,471,012 shares of capital stock of $25 par value. Of the exchange basis of one and two-thirds of these shares for cach share of National City the latter _institution will have to issue 882,607 shares of its stock of $20 par value, which will necessitate an in- crease of capital of $17,652,140. MISSIONARY SOCIETY CLOSES CONVENTION Reformed Synod Group Installs Of- ficers at Closing Session. Yesterday. The three-day convention of the| Women's Missionary Society of the Synod of Potomac, Reformed Church of the United States, closed here yesterday | with & business session and installation of new officers. The final meeting, which was held in the First Reformed Church, Thir- teenth and Monroe streets, was ad- od yestorday afternoon by Judge, nSellers of the District Juvenile Court.” Reports of “the Cause and Cure of War” by Mrs. J. M. Runkle, and on activities of the Home Missions Congress by Mrs, Lee A. Peeler also were heard in the afternoon The new officers are: President, Mrs. John L. Barnhart of Baltimore: first vice dent, Mrs. W. H. Causey second vice president, Mrs. Joseph H Appel of Frederick, Md.; recording secretary, Mrs. Irvin A. Raubenhold of York, Pa.; statistical secretary, Miss Ruth Gillan of Chambersburg, Pa., and treasurer, Mrs. Thomas E. Jarrell of Washington, who was convention chairman, ’ chairman of the | \ Republican, i tion by Ira J. Fulton, | tomorrow at 9:30 p.m., Eastern standard time. The problems before the country and the Congress haye been discussed by Senator Brookhart of Iowa, Progressive and Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee, Democrat. Mr. Lucas, who will speak for the regular Republicans, n charge of the executive direction of the Republican national organiza- tion. He is a Kentuckian, and was for- merly commissioner of internal revenue. FESS PLANS CALL OF G.0.P. MEETING National Committee May Come Here Late Next Month or in December. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN, A call for a meeting of the Repub- lican National Committee in Washing- ton either during the last week in No- vember or the first week of December is being considered by Senator Fess of Ohio, chairman of the committee, Senator Fess, it was understood, is consulting with some of the other mem- bers of the committee regarding the date for the call. Congress does not meet until December 7. and the argu- ment advanced for holding the meeting prior to the assembling of Congress is that it would leave those members of the National Committee who are also members of Congress freer to attend to their congressional duties than if the meeting were called later in December. City and Date Plans. The national committee meeting will select a convention city and determine the date on which the convention shall open next vear. Already a number of cities, including Philadelphia and At- lantic City, have sent delegations to talk with Chairman Fess about holding the convention in those cities. Chicago, Cleveland, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Detroit are among other cities secking the convention, The decision in the matter rests en- tirely with the National Committee. However, there is a fceling that the convention is likely to go to one of the Middle Western cities, perhaps Chicago or Cleveland. Such a location would make it easier for all the delegates to reach the convention city than a loca- tion on either the Pacific or Atlantic coast Notice of the call of the National Committee usually goes out at least 30 days in advance of the meeting. Senator Fess, who is going to Ohio within a day or two, expects to return here by October 15 'and to set the date finally at that time for the National Committee meeting. The Democratic National Committee is to hold a meeting here in Washing- | ton, probably either in December or January. at which it, too, will pick a convention city and fix the time of meeting. SIX BANKS IN FOUR STATES CLOSE DOORS Two Philadelphia and Two West Virginia Houses Lead City Failures. By the Ascociated Press. PHILADELPHIA, October 2.— Two neighborhood trust companies in Phila- delphia closed their doors today. They were the Oiney Bank & Trust Co., Fifth street and Tabor road, with two ranches, and the Jefferson Title & Trust Co.. at Twenty-ninth street and Girard avenue. Their affairs were placed in the hands of the State Bank- ing Department City Without Bank. RICHWOOD, W. Va., October 2 (#). —This town of 6,000 population was without banking facilities today when the First National Bank of Richwood and the Richwood Banking & Trust Co., a State institution, failed to open for business. Notices posted on the doors an- nounced the banks were closed pend- ing reorganization. Last June 30 the Richwood Banking & Trust Co. reported deposits of $599,- 331 and capital stock of $50,000. The First National reported deposits of $533.770 and capital stock of $40,000. STEUBENVILLE, Ohlo, Octobar 2 ().—The Union Savings Bank & Trust Co. of Steubenville suspended business today and was taken over for liquida- State banking superintendent, Directors last night voted to ask the State to liquidate the institution to conserve assets which, they said, had been impeired by a heavy withdrawal of deposits during the past two weeks. The bank last June 30 reported total resources of $4.841,000. It was capi- talized for $350,000 and reported a sur< plus of $275,000. Bank to Liquidate. MUSKEGON, Mich., October 2 (#).— The Peoples’ State Bank for Savings failed to open for business today. A notice stated that the bank was closed for reorganization or liquidation at the direction of the directors and the State banking department. The last finan- cial statement showed total resources of $3,068,480. deposits of $2,286,938 and capital of $300,000. . Cardinal to Leave Spain. VATICAN CITY, October 2 (F)— Former Cardinal Primate Segura Y Saenz of Spain was reported in Vati- can circles today to be coming to Rome soon to become a member of the Papal Curia, was unable to do it without severe pain one cf the officers at the desk assisted him. Later Lester was taken to Freed- men’s Hospital, but refused treatment, demanding his own physician. He de- nied on the stand today that he had been drinking or that he was in any | way disorderly. Resistance Is Charged. The police, in telling their stories said Lester was standing in the hallwa of his home swearing loudly, when they arrived in answer to a telephoned com- plaint. They tried to assist him peace- ably to the wagon, but he wrapped his arms Bbout a porch column, and in several other ways resisted arrest. It | was necessary to struggle violently with | the man to"subdue him, they said. Both omitted reference to the broken arm. The case was decided against Lester when two colored doctors testified that he was apparently intoxicated when they | attended him shortly after the arrest. SAYS CALIFORNIA SOLID FOR HOOVER Mark Requa, National Committee- man, Makes Prediction on Whi e House Visit. California, the home State of Presi- | dent Hoover, will vote for his nomina- tion to be the Republican standard bearer in 1932 and will give him an overwhelming vote for re-election, ac- cording to Mark Reque. Republican national committeeman for California, who is a house guest at the White House. Mr. Requa told newspapermen at the White House today that the President is popular in his State and that he will | have a solid delegation from California at the next Republican national con- vention. Mr. Requa expressed the opin- fon that the President is politically strong also in the other Pacific Coast | | | nals’ States, There is some sentiment among Dem- | ocrats in California for Pranklin Roose- | velt of New York, Mr. Requa said, but| he believes that at the present time ! William McAdoo is the strongest Demo- | crat in that State. He said there is considerable sentiment among Califor- | nia Democrats to run Mr. McAdoo for the Senate in the event he is not a candidate for the presidential nomina- tion in 1932 Mr. Requa is an old friend of the President’s and was associated with him during the food administration days, being_engaged principally in the con- servation of the ofl industry. He be- lieves that the oil situation in this country is in better shape now than it has been for a long time, since there has been an effort made to control the production. He is positive, however, that the oil industry will never achieve success in the matter of production con- | trol until there is an interstate compact | agreed upon. | The economic situation in California | and other parts of the Far West. while | not good, is better than it is in the East, Mr. Requa said. LINDBERGHS ESCAPE AS PLANE CAPSIZES IN YANGTZE RIVER (Continued From First Page.) the second time the famous “We" couple have been in an accident. At Valbuena Field in Mexico City in February, 1929, Col. Lindbergh and the then Anne Spencer Morrow capsized as | they landed their monoplane, which had | lost a wheel in the air. Col. Lindbergh, realizing he would either crash or tip over because of the lost wheel, piled cushions about his fiance and zoomed the plane to such a landing that both were but slightly injured. Reporters and photographers pulled the pair out of their damaged plane. “Are you hurt?” was Anne's first question. “Don’t bother about me. It is nothing. Are you all right?” asked the colonel, meanwhile holding on to his limp right arm. “Yes, I'm all right,” she answered. Took Future Bride Aloft. They were taken to the embassy and later transferred to a hospital, where Lindbergh was treated for a dislocated shoulder. The next day the couple returned to the airport, and the colonel, using but one arm, took his future bride aloft for three 10-minute flights. Observers sald Lindbergh was incul- cating an old Army rule. Whenever a pilot cracks up he is sent right back in the air immediately to overcome any possible loss of confidence that may have resulted from his experience. Miss Morrow was nervous when she made the three flights, but evidently the old rule worked. For shortly after- ward she learned how to fly, and months later was accompanying her husband on his hops from coast to coast. Unseasonable Cold Modifies Heat Ban On Russian Homes By the Assoclaied Press. MOSCOW, October 2.—Owing to unseasonably cold weather in Moscow, Soviet authorities have modified a recent decree by ruling that homes may be heated once every three days until the regular heating season begins October 15. ‘The temperature yesterday was in the upper 30s. Citizens previously had been forbidden, as a fuel economy measure, to heat their homes ‘without special authorization. band, strengthened by the addition of a crooner and fortified by ‘an extra day of practice, entertained the bleacher crowd with tricky interpreations of the very latest blues, the gossip filtering about the park concerned this same Grove. The lanky conqueror of the Cardi- nals reported today with a blister on the tip of the middle finger of his pitching hand and there slight chance that the injury might restrict his efforts to relief hurling, at least until late in the series. Coupled with this situation was the report that Earnshaw, generally accepted as the Athletics’ ' starting pitcher today, de- spite the stubborn reticence of Manager Connle Mack, was suffering from a kink in his right elbow. Rube Wal- berg. another fast-ball, fast-curve southpaw, was nominated to take his place by the grandstand nominators Grove, contemptuous of the Cargl power, despite the fact that Re was hit rather hard in his 6+to-2 vic- tory vesterday, had plenty to say about the blister, carefully taped and ban- daged. Admits “Little Blister.” “Yeah, I got a little blister.” he admitted, “but that won't bother me. T'll just bear down narder. Naw. I wasn't pearing down yesterday once in a while when I had to. What was the use?” After the band was dispossessed from seemed a | | | except | its station on the grass of the outfield | and gently conveyed to the sideline: the Cardinals stormed out on the field for batting practice. There was nothing in their deter- mined bearings to indicate that Lefty Grove had fractured any spirits yes- terday as he poured his fast ball down the middle. Old Burleigh Grimes, mair- stay of the Card pitching staff last season, but relegated to a secondary role this year, tossed them up to the batters. One Cardinal after the other—Chick | Hafey, Jim Bottomley, the spectacular young Pepper Martin, chunky Jimmy Wilson, Frankie Frisch —hammered Grimes' curves to the fences. They were very serious about it, and as each man finished his turn at the plate he | joined a group practicing bunts. Rommel Pitches to A’s. Desplte the perfect base ball weather, the covered stands in right field, jammed almest to capacity at this time yester- day, were little more than half filled an hour before game time. The re- served sections, too, were not filling as rapidly as for the first game. but there was every prospect of another crowd close to 38.000. With scarcely perspiring rival hitters, sauntered casually for an hcur of practice. Ed Rommel, the knuckle-ball veteran, was the first pitcher to face the sluggers and Max Bishop promptly saluted him with a clout that bounced off the roof of the covered stands in rightfield. Mickey Cochrane parked a smash in the pavilion seats and trotted around the bases, carefully touching each sack Al Simmons, greatest hitter of the day, followed that same formula in batting practice yesterday and he hit a home Tun seven innings later. Al Trots Around Bases. Apparently believing that what work- cd yesterday should go just fs well to- day, Simmons blasted a ball into_the last' row of bleacher seats in left field. His mates stood at respectful attention as the great one, a wide grin on his features, trotted around the bases. Then, in turn, each right-hand hitter stepped to the plate and hammered one of Rommel's pitches into the distant seats. It was an amazing display of straight- away power and was doubly impressive following the batting exhibition of the Cardinals, who failed to park a single ball outside the field in over an hour cf hitting. The rabid rooters in the sun seats sat in silence as though fascinat- ed, and the only break in the solid bank of humanity came when each little group scrambled for the distance clouts that fell in their sectors. Earnshaw, despite the report of the ailing arm, batted in the pitcher’s posi- tion as the Athletics ran down the bat- ting order against the slants of Lew Krausse, youngest of the A’s togsers. The champions of the base ball world, insolent in their confidence, rose up in thelr might yesterday to come from be- hind and administer a typical Athletics’ thrasing in the opeper to a team keyed to the point of desperation in its quest of victory. It was the old, old story of Athletic power administered with crush- ing effect, steam-rollering the enemy into broken subjection just when hope was beginning to sprout again. 0dds Jump to 4 to 1. Last Fall the Athletics leaped upon these same Cardinals in the world series, blasting them apart at just exactly the psychological moments, to win their second straight world triumph for Con- nie Mack. They entered the first game of the 1931 pageant a natural favorite at 8 to 5. And today, facing the second and last game here, until three matches have been played in Philadelphia next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, they stand out a 4-to-1 choice to gather in their third straight series conquest, something nevir before achieved in the history of base ball. A crowd cf 38529, jamming flag- draped Sportsman’s Park to within a few hundred of absolute capacity, paid $165,161 yesterday to see the Athletics, with absolute ease and nonchalance, smother a situation that had dramatic possibilities as great as any opening contest in the history of these time- honored duels of the American and National League champions. There was Grove, easing his long, lank frame into ‘the hurling box to oppose a giant right-handed rookie, Derringer, No. 1 man of the Card- inals and the first freshman in the major leagues ever to start the opening world series game for his team. If was a situation crammed with his- tory-making _opportunities, and the great crowd, basking in the warmth of a blue-murky Indian Summer after- noon, caught every bit of the dramatic possibilities. If the 215-pound, 6-foot 3-inch farmer boy, just a few years out of the Kentucky hills, could tame the mighty A’'s with his swee] curves and great speed, St. Louis could go on with every possibility of :otn( into the record books as the club that finally the Athletics a glance toward the | from their dugout | | smashed the American League jugger- | naut. | The big rookie, solid and chilly as a | cld-storage turkey, bent to his task Four of the first six men to face him went down, lunging futilely at his daz- zling curve ball. And in the meantime | the Cardinals, swinging from the hip in | desperation, climbed aboard the mighty Grove. Cards Get to Grove Early. There was something wrong with the | great Lefty’s curve and control. In the | very first inning. after he had fanned little Andy High, substituting in the | Cardinal third-base corner for the in- | jured Sparky Adams, Wally Roettger smacked him for a single. Frisch shot a single into right on the hit-and-run play. and Bottomley, the hitting bust of the 1930 clashes, prompt- {ly drove home the first run with an in- | fleld single . . . and before the inning | was over Martin, the young center fielder, like Derringer a newcomer to this sort of thing, banged a long dou- | ble off the right field screen and the | second run was over. Some of the highest and widest cheering and uproar any series ever saw wafted Derringer out there for the third | inning. His 2-run lead bulked iarge as the grandstands. The winning tide seemed finally to have turned @ the | underdog. | Then it was that the house of Cards ! came toppling down as the champions | turned their power loose cn the rookie who had given too much of his swift ones and benders blotting out the A's in the first two innings. Jimmy Dykes bounced a single over third, first hit off the rookie, and Dib williams, sensational young_shortstop, who ousted the veteran Joe Boley from the champions’ Mne-up, cracked a safe shot into right. Grove fanned for the firsc of three times and Max Bishop's {on third. into left and one run was over. | Cochrane walked. ‘ But there were two out and the big |crowd sat tense as Derringer, his lead | fading, worked carefully on'the out- standing slugger of them all. Al Sim- mons, The big youngster got three balls and two strikes on the major league hitting champion. One more Mule Haas belted a double Mickey could handle it, and Derringer might have come through to hear his name sung today all over the base ball world. or 50 wide. Simmons walked. And the in. Big Jimmy Foxx hammered a vicious single through the infieid, an- game was on ice. meant _little except for the picture value, Simmons plucked off a high, wide ball and planted it in the left-field bleachers. ~Mickey Cochrane, who had singled, scored ahead of him. Der- ringer left the game at the end of the seventh and Sylvester Johnston held the A’s hitless for the last two. Grove, hit, harder than was expected, although the Cards reached him for 12 hits, one more than the A's got off Der- ringer. They hit the big Lefty only Pepper Martin led the Cards with three—two singles and a double. NAVY CLOSES PROBE ther Action in Case of Mrs. Daisy Price. By the Associated Press. High naval officers indicated today that lack of sufficient evidence would preclude further action by the Navy in connection with the death of Mrs. Daisy Price at a San Prancisco hotel on_August 23. The report of a court of inquiry into the death of Mrs. Price, bride of Lieut. Comdr. George D. Price, has reached Secretary Adams. Rear Admiral Frank B. Uphem, chief of navigation, the highest reviewing officer, has recom- mended that no action be taken. The court’s report did not clarify the causes leading to Mrs. Price's death. She either leaped, fell or was pushed from the fourth-story apartment at ;zmg‘\ a party had been held before her. leath. All the evidence tended to show, the report said, that she was alone, how- ever, just before she met her death. All naval personnel at the party was accounted for, it was said, and any ducl'zl‘tnln action would be inappro- grounder led to Dykes being trapped | strike, even a ball hit so that a fielder | |MT. VERNON RAILWAY |Miss Clai;‘e Doesn’t Instead the crucial pitch was an inch | deluge_came with the run he forced | other pair of runs counted and the Later, in the seventh inning, when it | coasted in after the big fourth inning, | railway tracks and other facilities of the | when hits did not means runs, however. | OF WOMAN’S DEATH| Lack of Evidence Precludes Fur-| | Assistant United States Attorney John Upper: “Pepper” Martin, center fielder of the St. Louls Cardinals, as he was thrown out at s~cond base in a double play in the fourth inning. Williams is shown as he threw to Foxx at fitst, catching Wilson. Note the ball. Center: Wally Roettger, Cardinal right fielder, scoring the first run of the game when Bottomley singled. Lower: Part of the crowd that filled Sportsman’'s Park to capacity for the first game. —A. P. Photos. | WRIT PLEA WEIGHED| Adkins Studies Motion for Injnnc-:‘ tion to Prevent Destruction of Tracks. (From Yesterday's 5:30 Edition.) District Supreme Court Justice Ad- | kins took under advisement today | motion of the Mount Vernon, Alexan- | dria & Washington Railway for an in- junction against Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon to prevent destruction of the company within the area bounded by | Twelfth and Fourteenth streets, Con- | stitution. and Pennsylvania avenues. Attorney John S. Barbour for the company pointed out that Treasury cfficials had ruled that Congress, by c.flrev:nng‘l the Secretary to close the | streets, had in effect exercised its right | to repeal the charter of the company | to the extent of the use of those par- ticular streets. He contended Congress lacked power thus to destroy the com- pany's rights in use of the streets with- out’ providing compensation. Attorney J. R. Benney of the Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury and W. Fihelly appeared for the Secretary of the Treasury. Attorney Benney re- lied on the view of the Treasury offi- cials that Congress has the power to repeal the charter and that it displayed an intent to do so in directing the closing of the streets. FLOWER EXHIBITS OPEN ‘Thirty-seven exhibitors displayed about 200 individual entries last night at the opening of the annual Fall flower, fruit and vegetable show of the ‘Woodridge Garden Club at the Sher- wood Sunday School Building, Twenty- second street and Rhode Island avenue northeast. A Jane Cowl dahlig, exhibited by H. G. Goddard, won two first prizes in the judging and the exhibits of Mrs. A. L. Foster won sweepstakes prizes. Judges included Dr. J. B. 8. Norton of Hyattsvillea Md, and Dr. R. J. Haskell of the De nt of Agri- culture. L. M. ke and W. H. Geannoway are co-chairmen of the committee tn charge of the show. Remember Meeting F. W. Naggi Here Actress Says She Wouldn’t Hurt Any One’s Feelings, But She Can’t Recall. ‘The reported engagement of Bernice Claire, stage and screen star, and Frank W. Naggi, Georgetown University aht- lete, is news to Miss Claire, who de- clared she had no recollection of ever having met Naggi. “One meets a lot of people,” Miss Claire explained, in a long-distance tel- ephone conversation from Cincinnati, where she is appearing at the Keith- Albee Theater. “and I wouldn't want to hurt anybody's feelings hy saying 1 never met them. If Mr. Naggi and I ever met, I don't remember it." Informed she was reported to have | accompanied Naggi to the Georgetown senior ball last Spring, while she was making a personal appearance at the Earle Theater, Miss Claire said: “Of course, I attended a lot of af- fairs while in Washington, but I don't Tecall having gone to any college balls of any kind. “I'm learning all kinds of things about myself,” she said. “But the truth of the matter is that I'm neither en- gaged or married and, at present, have no intention being.” Although Naggi likewise denied the engagement, he declared he and Miss Claire were “good -friends” yesterday. He could not be reached today at his home at 3540 S street. CATHOLIC MADE DEPUTY Daniel Spriggs Named in Drive by Knights of St. John. Daniel Spriggs, 1332 W street, has been appointed district deputy. of the | Knights of St. John, national Catholic fiaternal organization. ‘The appointment was made yester- day by William H. Bothen of Dayton, ©Ohio, supreme organizer of the order, as & result of a decision by the Su- preme Commandery’s Executive Board Campaten, “with. deputics "pupervising cam| , leputies supe organization activities in their districts. Mills Is Early Caller. One feature and another of these various topics were examined vester- day at a series of conferences with some of the President’s principal ad- visers on economic subjects. Again to- day, Ogden Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury, was an early caller at the White House Along with all of this, the Chief Executive also is keeping close watch on governmental expendures, so the Government_itself mey help and_ not complicate the situation by its fiscal operations. He, likewise, is much interested in the discussions cf a committee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States, which today recommended creation of a planning board to help keep production and employment on an even keel in times of depressicn. Still another subject of constant White House attention is the work of th unemployment commission under Wal ter §. Gifford. BIG NAVY PROGRAM WILL BE PRESSED DESPITE ECONOMY (Continued From First Page.) mittee and a leader in the Republican progressive movement. believes Presi- dent Hoover “could have gone much farther in the way of reducing these (naval) expenditures.” Borah previously suggested a five- year naval holiday. ADAMS AND CHIEFS CONFER. _Becretary Adams today was confer- ring with bureau chiefs of the Navy Department with a view to slashing the Navy's budget for the next fi€e=l year by about. $60,000.000, and it was learned that this program tentatively contem- plates the reduction of the service by between 4,000 and 7.000 enlisted men and the laying up of about ome-fifth of the vessels. Under this schedule, it was said that no officers are to be relezsed at this time. While other savings will' be effected, naval observers believe that the bulk of the slash will come in the drastic reduction of enlisted ‘personnel and the decommissioning of large numbers of ships in order to save operating costs Naval statisticians figured out that at the present time it is costing about $860,000 per day to keep the Navy running ashore and afloat | Based on the suggested savings of | $60,000,000, the cost of operating the service would be about $683,000 da { There are now 79,800 enlisted men | the service. Strength in Vessels. The United States now has 11 first {line battleships operating: second lin: j cruiser, U. S. S. Rochester; 10 light cruisers, 8 heavy cruisers; 3 airplane carriers; 1 mine layer of the second line, U.'S. S. Oglala; 87 first line de- | stroyers: 4 light mine layers: 55 sub- | marines and 1 fleet submarine of the |mine laying type, the U. S. S.gAr- | gonaut; “15 eagle boats; 18 submarine | chasers; 5 gunboats: 8 river gunooats; | 2 converted yachts; 6 destroyer tende 5 submarine tenders: 2 repair ships: store ships; 1 ammunition ship, the U. S. 8. Nitro: 2 aircraft tenders; 10 oflers: 3 cargo ships; 2 transports; 1 hospital ship, the U. S. S. Relief; 23 ocean tugs 28 mine sweepers; 6 submarine rescuc vessels; 6 miscellaneous craft, and 16 unclassified ships. The ships at present out of commis- sion include: Three mine layers, 106 first line destroyers, 32 second line de- stroyers, 10 lignt mine layers, 25 first line submarines, 10 eagle boats, 7 sub- marine chasers, 3 store ships, 4 colliers 9 oilers, 3 cargo ships, 1 hespital ship, 2 destroyer tenders, 2 submarine tend- ers, 1 ammunition ship, 11 ocean tugs, 1 repair ship, 9 mine sweepers and 10 unclassified ships. It is presumed that the contemplated decommissioning would hit various types of vessels and that many of them { would be laid up at Philadelphia and at San Diego, Calif. Officials pointed out ihat the Navy could not depend upon the loss in = | listed personnel through the haliing of recruiting activitics, should the figure between 4,000 and 7,000 reduction finally be decided upon. Some other method would have to be arranged, as the Ma- rine Corps reduction of 18,500 to 16.000, while going on now for several months will not reach the desired figure until the middle of next menth and this has been accompliched largely through the stopping of recruiting. Secretary Adams’ conference today with the bureau chiefs was planned to give each rear admiral an opportunity to indicate where further savings might be made in his bureau. The reduced cost of foodstuffs and clothing had been taken into consideration, it is said, when the 1933 budget totaling $401,000,000 was put up to President Hoover. The current fiscal year's budget is $360.- 000,000, and of this $50,000,000 is for construction of new vessels and the continuing of building those previously started. This means that the Navy a this time is operating its vessels and shore stations on a budget of $310- 000,000. One-fifth of this would be $62,000,000, and this figure is the one naval officials at today’s conference will have in mind as the economy goal. Plans Under Consideration. High naval officials have under con- sideration numerous plars for the ef- fecting of the saving, and tlhese are being discussed at today's session. The basis of the plan will be a program that has been worked out by Admiral Wil- liam V. Pratt, chief of naval operations, who has just returned from the West Coast, following an inspection trip. While naval officials are seriously considering the fleet-reduction policy program, it is known that for a long time the Navy Department has en- deavored to have eliminated a number of shore stations that are now consid- ered obsolete. Political pressure, how- ever, has withstood the wiping off of these stations, which include Charles- ton, S. C.; Philadelphia, Boston, South Charlestown, W. Va.; Key West, Fla., and New Orleans. The closing of these old statlons would effect many millions of dollars in economies, in the belief of naval authorities.