Evening Star Newspaper, October 13, 1931, Page 27

e ————————————— e ————— VETERANS T SEK FLL BONUS ASH Patman Says Service Men Will Conduct Campaign With Petitions. Representative Patman of Texas to- | groups would conduct a 60-day Nation- | Wide campaign to get 10,000,000 names on petitions asking for full payment of | | adjusted ccmpensation certificates. | " Patman has advocated cash payment since he entered Congress in 1928. He‘ Said he already had received many peti- | | tions for submission to Congress in De- cember, | “Today the Texan will | Darold DeCoe of Sacramento, Calif., | national commander in chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and James |E. Van Zandt, vice commander, on | plans to press legislation calling for full payment, He hes talked with E. Claude Bab- cock, national commander of the Dis- abled American Veterans, who has been designated by his organization to head its_drive. Noting that under the 50 per cent confer with | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTON, D. C.,' TUESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1 1931, to veterans, the Texas Democrat said | it would require $2,000,000,000 to cash the remainder. [Plea He Stole to Avoid Poverty CHICKEN THIEVES JAILED | e | i Fails to Win Man Clemency. , ‘The plea that he stole chickens to stave oft poverty failed to obtain clem- ency for George J. Burgie, Berwyn, Md., when arraigned in Police Court yester- day. He was sentenced to 180 days in jail by Judge John P; McMahon. Burgie, along with John P. Beach, 2800 block of Twelfth place southeast, were charged with having taken 75 | chickens from Amy Farr, 1602 Kenil- worth avenue northeast, on August 11. SKINNER IS NAMED INRED CROSS DRIVE |U. S. C. of C. Secretary Will Head Business Committee in Roll Call Here. D. A. Skinner, secretary of the United J‘mu call here, November 11 to 26. The | roll call this' year will be part of the | Aifticth anniversary_celebration of the American National Red Cross, and every |effort will be made to increase last | year's enroliment. | "Mrs. Harry C. Barnes, director of the | roll cail here, expressed’ gratification at the willingness of business men in the | District to co-operate in the work of en- Irolling new members. No man, Mrs. | Barnes sald, declined to serve when asked to be a member of the Business | Commiitee. Sees Huge Success, Mr. Skinner, in a talk Friday at the first meeting of the committee, pointed out that Census Bureau figures prove the District’s buying power has been | burt less than that of other cities, and the roll call, therefore, should mect day said the Veterans of Foreign Wars, |Ioan value legislation passed by the |Several days later they stole 75 more, | States Chamber of Commerce, has been | with exceptional success. the Disabled American Veterans and |last Congress over President Hoover's | police charged. Beach also drew a 180- | named chairman of the Business Com- | | mittee to participate in the Red Cross | next month to deliver to some of the other former service men's | veto $1,500,000,000 had been ad¥anced | day sentence. e CORNELL CRILLON The committee plans by the first of very business concern in the District material for en-!ot Commerce; G. A. Walsh, secretary, | rolling executives and employes during | Washington Typothetae; C. M. !l'!nl.l;pe ph the drive. The necessary blanks, but- | Potomac Electric Power Co.; tons and other materials are available |Lee, insurance. for distribution at ro’;_lxcalg hdendm::r- e —— ters, 1342 G sireet. Tie headquarters telephone is National 4142, YOUTH CHESS CHAMPION The Business Committee includes: Frank R, Jelleff, Frank R. Jelleff, Tne: Charles T. Clagett, Chesapeake & | Refheveky Defeats Whittaker of Pomm“f Telcgh;ne CO':D!thng}, Ga;n,cl?. D. C., Former Title Holder. R. Keefer, chairman, rict of Co- lumbia Chapter, American Red Cross:[ TULSA, Okla, October Mzs. Harry C. Barmes, director of roll| Samuel Reshevsky, youthful expert yes- call, American Red Cross; edward J.| ; | McGuade, president, Liberty Nationaj | ‘°Fday Won the national champlonship | Bank; Doughis Griesemer, directar of | <f the National Chess Congress, which public information, American Red Cross; | closed its annual seven-day tournament Whitney Leary, president, Washington | here. 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Stone | Is Erected in Illinois T. | Auditorium. | | By the Associated Press. | CHAMPAIGN, Il., October 13.—A {bronze bust of Melville E. Stone, for | many years general manager of the As- sociated Press, presented by directors |of the organization, was placed yester- |day in the lobby of the University of | Illinois Auditorium, where the editors’ hall of fame has been housed tems | porarily. The bust was done Sculptor Francis Savage o = CENTURY $34.50 BELLWOOD $34.50