Evening Star Newspaper, October 12, 1931, Page 12

A—12 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 193f. MOONEY ASKS U. 5. T0BOYGOTT STATE Letter to Mass Meeting Tell$y Plan to Make California Grant Him Pardon. By the Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, October 12.—Tom | Mooney, whose conviction of the San Francisco Preparedness day bombing | in 1916 resulted in a controversy that has raged since he was imprisoned for 1fe, today sought a world-wide boycott | of California products bzcause of the State's refusal to grant him a pardon. His plan, which also suggested that his many sympathizers discourage tour- ist travel to this State, was outlined in a letter to a m meeting in the Cnml Auditorium here yesterday. The meet-| ing was called to lend added force to, the drive for a pardon. . Mooney was convicted, with Wa i XK. Billings, of planting the bomb wh! i killed 10 persons andl injured 40. Hc! suggested in his letter that an “inten- | sive, world-wide agitational drive should be set in motion at once.” Asks Aid of Working Classes. It eas written from San Quentin where Mooney has been incar- 14 years as the result of what he asserts was perjured testimony. Bil- | lings, also sentenced to life imprison- | ment, is in Folsom Prison. | Mooney attributed his conviction to | “one of the foulest and most diabolical | outrages ev perpetrated,” declaring | the chief instigators were “big business | 3 lements of San Fran-| refused to seek parole. | y ur ; a pardon Mass Meeting Held. He asked that athletic clubs refuse to come to the 1932 Olympic games in | los Angeles “while I, an innocent man, | remain in_prison. Among those who attended the mass meeting were Fred Moore. attorney. who defended Sacco and Vanzetti: Fre- mont Older. editor of the San Fran-! cisco Call-Bulletin: John D. Farry newspaper columnist; Oscar Ameringe Oklahoma labor paper editor, and Mr: Rena Mooney. wife of the convicted man. i Douglas Fairbanks, jr. film actor, flew from Los Angeles to be present.| and Rupert Hughes, author, sent a ! ter. in which he said, “California | needed a scapegoat, and Mooney was it FORMER DRY AGENT SHOT TO DEATH IN JAIL CELL Enters Ken- Thiez Unidentified Gunman tucky Prison and Fir Times—Suspect Seized. October 12 —Five hours in jail here on a EVARTS, after being placed charge of drunkenne: Oscar Simp n, 41, former d ent, was found fa'~ily shot early yesterday. Officials said an unidentified gunman entered the Jail and fired at Simpson as he slept i1 cell impson was arrested Saturdav n. Farly yesterday morning when the officer mace his rounds of the ja found Sim dead on his cot had been sho: thre: one b penetrating his heart. Following an inquest Coroner Re: Farmer ordercd the arresi of J. G. Co: y was told Cox 4 quarreled Sat ibility for the shoo it times, the hets and saw a n from th~ build- A woman living ne coroner she heard thre man in shirt sleeves ing. FIVE IN FAMILY KILLED WHEN TRAIN HITS AUTO: Sixth Passenger Expected to Die After Accident in Towa at R:ilroad Crossing. By the Associated Press. VINTON, Iowa, October members of one family a railroad _crossing aceident yes and a sixth is not expected to live. The dead are John Demmel. 29: his wife, 25, and_three children, Doris, 5 Marguerite, 2, and_ Haz irene, 3 menths. Freder ‘was near death with a e A seventh | passenger. Ch: r, 15, employe ! on the Dem had both arms broken The group was returning from a visit at the home of Demmel's father, Menry Demmel, when its car was siruck by a Rock Island freight train on a cross- ing north of here The occupants evident! or see the approaching train, and the locomotive struck them broac side. | strewing the wreckage and bodics 50 | yards down the right of way. Real Estate Loans | (D. C. Property Only) 6% No Commission Charged You ¢an take 12 vears to pay off your Yoans without the expense of renewing. $1,000 for $10 per month, incliding interd and principal. Larger or smaller loans at proportion= ate r: 12 —Five farm, Iy did not hear Perpetual Building Asscciation Established 1881 Largest in Washington Assets Over $25,000,000 o e "Ends Any Kind of e Costly Bouquet ALL ORCHIDS AND VALUED AT $5 APIECE. | | | | | | FEDERAL RESERVE WATCHDOG ON J0B |Carter Glass, Fiery Guard of | System, Fights Any Plan to Loosen Rules. Special Dispatch to The Sta: NEW YORK, October 12 who framed the Federal —The man eserve act fights any proposal to loosen redis- | count rules which may be incidental to President Hoover’s credit plan. Senator Carter Glass, the “Virginia Snapping Turtle,” as they call him in Congress, is the watchdog of the Fed- eral Reserve act and has harried the ankers in the past with charges that t was being made the instrument of specuintion and inflation. He is the smallest man and the big- gest voice in the Senate. He orates from one corner of his mouth. When he made the speech. which put over | the Federal Reserve act, Woodrow Wil- son said, “He did all that out of one corner of his mouth. what | he could do if he would use both sides!" | He is bored but pugnacious, reddish- ‘ haired, indifferently dressed and speaks | with the Virginia drawl. He started as | a printer's devil, owns two papers at | Lynchburg and a_ nearby dairy farm, | was in the House for 20 years and then became Wilson's Secretary of the Treas- ury and later Senator. He rad no op- nosition last year. He was a dark | horse in the 1924 New York Democratic Convention and may be next year. [ Outside of such matters as the League | of Nations, which he supports, and world finance, his main preoccupation | is a militant conviction that Bacon wrote Shakespeare. (Copyright, 1931.) RETREENCH FOR RELIEF DENVER, Colo., October 12 (#)— | Denver's municipal administration ex- | penses will be reduced about $1,000,000 in 1932, but the taxpayers will not get | | the money. Mayor George D, Begole announced yesterday that city revenue | |to be saved through a rigid economy | | program would be used in an unem- | 1goymcnt relief program to hife mon.‘l | Denver citizens as city laborers.” U. S. SCHOONER SET TO START FOR RAC Gertrude L. Thebaud to Sail Today at Gloucester for Halifax to Challenge Bluenose. By the Assoclated Press. GLOUCESTER, Mass., October 12.— The schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, challenger for the international fisher- men’s trophy, awaited high water today to make her start for Halifax and her | first brush with the title holder, Blue- | nose. 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