Evening Star Newspaper, October 29, 1931, Page 2

LIBERAL'LENDING URGED FOR RELIEF Appeal Is Made to Banks in Hoever Committee’s Ten- Point Program. (Continued Prom Pirst Page) fective contribution to the national pro- gram for resumed normal activitles, through assuming as liberal and en- couraging an atiftude as possible toward the credit requirements of their aver- age customer. “In considering extension of credit Nnes, bankers now might give due weight to intangibles to broad condi- tions influencing credit reports and to the related interests of wne country and the general public Puny Laws on Weapons Poliee Lack Legal Backing In Drive Against Crimi- nals—Increase of Crime Coincident With Sale of Guns. guns te | June 30, weapor ;_permit the addition of more than 3,000 unlicensed pistols every 13 | months to the aiready number ’l7lfl hrf:' e amination dh‘l records of the Police Department revealed. { It has been further determined that (legisiati n proposed t> remedy the sit- {uation has been persistently quished | through neglect. the latest efiort quietly expiring in the Senate District Com- ttee after it had passed the House of Representatives- in the last session of Congress An average of 250 sales per month has been reporied to the p._iice for the past iwo years, but only four permits to | carry a gun were fssued this year, and | done with revolvers and 4 with knives. Por - the 1931, includes 61 homicides. 36 com- report 3 mitted with pistols and 16 with knives Reform Efferts Blocked. Despite the ever-mounting toll fatal crimes performed by persons ob- viously wrongly in possession of re- volvers, the tion counsel's office been achieved through its persistent ef- | forts to obtain corrective legislation. | 1, from the bill spon- by Senator Capper, in 1922, to the | highly comprehensive act presented at | the last session of Co: . after care- | ful formulation. by as P. Cam- |eron, assistant corporation counsel. has met the same fate of desth from {less tha: a dogen have been requested |"ECIL, Ll of the present bil. “4. The spreading of available work | during the period in which more than | which is being groomed for another ap- in industrial, commercial and profes- wional enterprises still is the most fruit- ful field for immediate unemployment rellef. Workers have generously shared hours of Jabor, and & substantial pro- Bot and ‘shtocre.co-operstion, but sbundant evidence is at hand that a immediate survey be made by each em- r and that application be made of detalled specific sutgestions set up in another part of this report. Civil Service Ald Asked. 5. As distinguished from private employment, there is a vast group in , State and local public service under civil service appointment, which in general has not felt the pinch of un- employment or been called upon | €000 pistols were purchased. Criminals Can Buy Guns. Meanwhile known criminals, the in- sane and perscns of bad repute can buy 8 revolier or other dangercus weij simply by presenting the purc price. Immediats delivery s itted, Do matter what the state of mind of the purchaser or his past record. The weapons are on display in the windows of dealers and, if anything, are re- garded as a provocation to certain types <f_mentality In a recommendation to the Com- missioners written January 6, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendens of e, urged the adoption of stringent iws regarding weapons, frankly ad- mitting that “at the present time no actual control over the sale of pist.ls | | exists” and pointing out that “the us: { of revolvers in the comm:ssion of crime has grown to such an extent that it is 0 longer an unusual occurrence t> n to | have & crime committed by an armed share their hours of work. If a truly , this rgest u“’i"h:"m ittee upon the comm| nd wwmmu of the 1, State and mun! 1 govern- the heads of all departments praisal of | person. |” The communieation also strikes at the present laws here, which provide no ad- | ditional penalty for the punishment of an offense committed by an armed | person. That is, the penalty fcr armed | robbery is the same as that for the | identical act performed without the | use of & weapon—although the danger | to the victim in the two cases cannot be | fbute to the general objective. Concealed Weapons Banned. | “8. The committee urges that noth- | Carryinga concealed weapon “with un- i be omitted to make immediately | lawful intent” is fllegal in the District, Hable new additional eployment rep- ! but to transport the same weapon from | by public work already author- | one's place of business to one's home | appropriated for, but delayed ; to concesl it there, or to carry a gun | legal obg | from & home or place of business to a | i i enter into an a and to make & ixnlh effort sgs g i ssible. | | vides that commit! | pearance in the a ching congres- ‘ol session, signed primarily to control the future BY BISHOP CANNON Churohman Dares Him to Publish 16 Charges Involving Libel. Citing 16 charges involving himself. for the publication ¢f which by the Lynchburg News or the Lynchburg Ad- vance he promised to sue for libel Bishop James Cannon. jr. last night replied to the recent assertion by Sena- tor Glass of Viriginia that “if it were concetvably possible, in the face of re- cent discicsures, for anybody to libel Bishop Cannon, 1 would not know how | to_go about it” latest addition to the bitter ex- changes between the churchman and the Senator was headed, “Enlightentng the Ignorance of Senator Glass ™ | Then the Southern Methodist church- man’s statement followed “It is really s> amazing for. Senator Glass to confess his inability to do any- pproa reveals that it is de-|thing whatever that I have decided to tell him how he can put his innuendoes sale of dangerous weapons In the Dis-|into piainiy libelous form. | triet and to discourage the gun-wielder | by providing severe additional penalties for the use of a dangerous weapon in the commission of any crime or mis- demeanor. While not as rigid famed Sullivan law of New York State, | requiring that possession of a gun with-|of considerable value, as witness the is illegal under any cir- | cumstances, the statute does incor- | porate a clause which regards the pos- |the enactment of sn offense as prima facia evidence of the intent to use It. Broad Law Proposed. ‘The regulatory system operative in | case the present law is passed will em- |brace features to “control the posses- sion, sale, transfer and use of danger- ous weapons in the District of Colum- !bla: to provide penalties, to prescribe rules of evidence,” as the preamble of the statute announces. n the act pro- In regard to a crime of vio- lence (under which ition is in- cluded assault with a dangerous weapon, assault with intent to rob, assault with intent to maim, robbery, burglary and house , as well as the major crimes) “when armed or hav- ing_avatlable oy dangerous weapon™ shall be punishable by imprisonment for not more than five years on con- viction for the first offense, not more than 10 years for the second conviction, not more than 15 years for the third and not more than 30 years for the fourth offense, all these penalties to be in addition to the regular punishment equally ef- it workers to: Married men with . _reidents in the commu- nity six months or mcre: single men or women with dependents, similarly resident; fing'e men or women, above “iwm age, - without dmmm uzt with no means of support, sim- flarly l-m Surveys Are Suggested. “9. Community and District surveys o determine the extent of made work svailable, whether of industrial, eivic or private origin, and to allocate such ‘work to best advantage In conjunction with other \oe-l| relief Eflwfl«ll. already are mrm.hnc material results. ‘These should be fostered and the en- deavcr made to extend them Siatalning ‘SmpioymOgt theroby devels employment vel- oped but also for themr influence in home to the average citizen his in the “10. As a special :t;f this Winter a survey s! "M’ measure 1d be made Te) shop is 'IIEJM“ for evasion offered un- der ruling were pointed out recently in connection with the arrest of three mien residing at & hotel here, and the inability of the Washington police to hold them on any to arrest and p rather than efforts to prevent such oc- currences. Purchasers of revolvers are now re- quired to give a name and address to the dealer, who, In turn, keeps a record for the examination of the police and makes T ts of sales. No au- be the gun traced if false information is nfl:ln to the dealer, it was pointed oul The consequent ever-growing popu- larity of the revolver as a means of egular report thority exists, however, whereby a sale | '*d fused, tifica violent attack Is disclosed in police | Tecords. Gun Homicides Increase. Concomitant with the inadequate laws governing the sale and possession of deadly weapons, there has been a steady increase in the number of homi- cides committed each year with re- ol In 1923 a report utilized in the an- a ..:soo'r-nm s | quired ‘before the permit i val | provided by law for such pe. | It will be further | person_ever convieted of a crime of violence shall have in his under any circumstances a them. Special dispensa made in regard to dealers and persons carrying dangerous weapons “unloaded and in & secure wrapper” from the place of purchase to his home or to or from a repair shop, etc. Licenses Regulated. Licenses to carry da person’s name, address, gc‘;cr!puon. photograph and nature. Te- declared id. A blank containing the name, finger prints, age, address, full personil data of a prospective purchaser of a danger- ous weapon, as well as description of the identifying features of the in- strument, must be f-rwarded to the lu?fl'lnt!ndenl of police by the seller before delivery is made, the law we uire. The superintendent will then return his decision within 48 hours to the seller. If the sale is appfoved, the weapon may then be handed over, e e tin e _Tules goO of dealers’ licenses and the conditions attached to them require the maintenance of records of sale for the examination of the police, but add a clause novel to the District, forbidding lh; d\lplllyhe of ’::mmrvmhm any- where on where thy can seen from the outside. | Bill Supercedes Previous Laws. | Alteration of identifying marks on | any dangerous weapon, giving false in- formation during purchase or applica- the possibility for transfer of surplus | nual campaign to obtain better firearms | tion for license and sale to minors also Jabor from cities to farms, on a work- or other basis, with a view to supplying help needed m agrarian sec- tions, but unavailable vecause of lack of financial srength, and to relieve pressure upon urban relief agencies.” WORK URGED AS LIEF BASIS. Manufacturers Would Use Funds Only s Actual Payments Due. NEW YORK, October 29 (#.—Un- employment relief should be only upon the basis of Javment for work actually 'ormed. the Employment Relations tee of the National Association of Manufacturers declared today in a report recommending standards for un- ent emergency relief funds. report was made in connection with the Conference on Methods of Relieving and Preventing Unemployment Other specific recommendations were: “A public fund—State, country or city ~—established for emergency unemploy- ment relief should be administered by A committee of representative citizens, without interference from any political machines. Should Apportion Fund. “Where a State fund is established . c;adv.nx State authority should be er to determine the proportion of the total fund which Shou be made available to each locality of the State. “The actual administration of the relief funds and their expenditure should in each community be under the control of & local body, acting un- der the supervision of the central State thority “Rellef of those who would be nor- mally ‘unemployable’ ‘Sach community authority should determine the rate of pay per hour should be provided in its own Jooality for emergency work: State leg- isiation could. however, appropriatel minimum and maximum _dhlf rates where State funds are in- Fund Use Prescribed. ““Where either public or private non- bodies work should be paid out of the funds. in which emergency re- sre engaged preference be given to State labor and State materials. association’s second annual | indicates that during the lendar year 30 homicides were re- , 14 ‘with pistols and 6 with knives. The other instruments of violence ranged from razors to iron p‘p‘l:n( year 1927 saw 39 murders en- acted in the District, 27 of them with guns, $ with knives. Two years later the annual report for 1929 announced that 50 homicides had occurred, 28 | are_forbidden. | The bill if adopted would supercede | a1l past legislaticn on the subject. | If debilitated by another shunt into | oblivion from the Senate District Com- mittee, the law-can only rest on the shelf to await another session of Con- gress, Assistant Corporation Counsel | Cameron points out. leaving the resi- dents of the District exposed to the dangers of the present lax regulations. {J. . Carr, Brackenridge, Pa. and R. 8 | Shainwald, San PFrancisco, Calif Urges Balanced Program. William Ganson Rose of Cleveland urged in an address what he called a balanced labor program “Let every employer of labor in the United States who employs five or more hands, regardless of the nature of the business, promptly figure the average hourly earnings of every one from the Bresident on down to the office boy, and based on, say, an eight-hour day.” he said. “When this is done, establish their pay envelopes or check on the number of hours worked up to the regu- Jar eight-hour day. Next, reduce every employe’s working hours by 20 per cent which will, of course. have the effect of reducing_each pay check by 20 per cent. This will necessitate the hiring Iur approximately 20 per cent more hands without materially changing the cost of the goods made.’ W. Trench. secretary of the General Electric Co. described the General Electric Co’s unemployment plans, which were worked out by a group of workers at the Schenectady plant. The workers themselves. after securing the support of the company in matching dollar for dollar with the | employers, sold the plan to their fellow | workers. Wilmington Plan Cited. Prancis E B. McCan State Di- rector of Employment of Delaware. said of nearly $300.000 expended for unemployment relisf in Wilmington, Del., eiery cent went to the unem- ‘The Rochester, N. Y. unemployment benefit plan was outlined by M. B Folsom. sssistant treasurer of the East- man Kodak Co. Nineteen companies ’lli MMCM(A‘X normally = wa)'lpne,’: 000 persons. approximately cent of the Industrial employes of the city, and varying In payroll size from 45 to 13,000 emploves. have adopted the plan, he said. An annual appropri- ation up to 2 per cent of the payrol de by each concern. of doles is the order in Grand Rapids; for every dollar the city spends in public relief Rapids gets 80 cents in labor on public improvements. Lord Forbes Dies. EDISON’S SONS GET MOST OF ESTATE; WILL IS PROBATED __(Continued From Pirst Page.) capital stock in Thomas A. Edison In- dustries, Incorporated, to Charles and ‘Theodore. His railroad and Government and first mortgage bonds in the Edison Portland Cement Co. are left to the six children for equal division, but other securities are left to the chil- |dren in the proportion of 40 per cent each to Charles and Theodore and 5 | per cent each to the children of the first marriage. The four children of the first mar- riage are Mrs. Marian Osier, Thomas A. Edison, jr.. Mrs. John Eyre Sloane and William L. Edison The will was dated February 1, 1928, and there was a codicil dated July 30. 1931, just before the first serious at- tack of the illness from which Edison ! never recovered The codicll was necessitated by re- organization of the business formerly conducted by the Edison Portland Ce- ;HHH‘C\Y 1 erred capital stock to the two y children and small percentages of cor- tain debenture notes to the others. The only personaj bequests of money were $10.000 to William H. Meadow- corft, Edison's secretary, $10.000 to John S. Ott. who was associated with Edison in his rubber experiments and | who died of shock at Edison's passing, and $8.000 to Ott's brother, Pred, also a veteran Edison employe. Th bequests Charles Edison said shortly a will was filed that the Thomas X,:"z:: son Industires, Inc. has a surplus of $7.000.000. Unofficially, however, it l'L\:"’SflLL:d lh; S)!W‘lufln in its en- rety valud st approxi $12,000,000. ERTEETS Although not stipulated in the will it- self, the Edison estate at Liewelyn Park, on the outskirts of West Orange, N. J., was left by the inventor to his wife. It comprises 13 acres of beautiful coun- tryside and is valued at upward of $200,000. Pilsudski Abandons Trip. The codicil bequeathed pre- | | were no public or charitable as the|which are known to be controlled by 1930, | session of a dangerous weapon during |a successful suit for libel against these larceny, | as i i i 14 | Properties of Value. “The Lynchburg News and the Lynch- burg Advance are both newspapers Senator Glass, and they are properties goodly sum paid by the Government for condemnation of the News-Advance Building in Lynchburg. and damages in papers could probably be collected. | “The simplest way to insure a suit | for libel by Bishop Cannon is for the Lynchburg News and the Lynchburg Advance to print in their editorial col- | umns thle“follcnnl charges, thus as- lumln’ ull responsibility for publica- tion of the same 25 “PFirst. In 1909, when Mr. Glass de- | sired the nomination for Governor of | Virginia. Dr. James Cannon, jr. rep-| resenting the Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, made an ‘unholy alliance’ with the brewers, distillers and the so-called Martin-Flood-Swanson faction of the tic party to secure the nomina- tion of Senator William Hodges M: Governor. “Second. Dr. James Cannon, jr., Was | gullty of violating the law against| hoarding flour during the World War. | Paid Agent of League. “Third. In the Richmond Auditorium | in the campaign of 1928, Senator Glass | told the truth when he declared that, | while he was giving his humble services to the cause of prohibition without com- | pensation, Dr. James Cannon, jr.. was the paid agent of the Anti-Saloon e of Virgini | “Fourth. Kable & Co. of New York | operated a bucket shop and Bishop | Cannon ht and sold stock through boug! , | Kable & Co., knowing it to be a bucket shop. | “Fifth. Bishop Cannon violated the Federal corrupt practices act by making a false statement of compaign expend- itures. “Sixth. Bishop Cannon was guilty of a fraudulent conversion to his private use of campaign funds contribuied for | use in the 1928 election. | “Seventh. Bishop Cannon ran away | to 1o _escape being present the hearing of the Nye committee on August 26-29, 1931. “Eighth. Bishop Cannon has sought | to hide his culpability behind the skirts , |of & woman tary. secre! “Ninth. The attorneys for Mr. Gold- | hurst employed as atforney of record Bishop Cannon’s Washington lawyer, a | former professional associate and then office mate of an influential Virginia politician. Party to Bribery Attempt. “Tenth. Bishop Canncn was suffi- clently influential to have the indict- | ments against Mr. Goldhurst cmflded) for the conduct of the case to a former female student of Bishop Cannon. “Eleventh. Bishop Cannon was party to an attempt at bribery of the above-mentioned assistant district at- torney by the giving of costly gifts as an Inducement to pigeonhole the indictments. ti 9 “Twelfth. Bishop Cannon visited New York with one of his attorneys, after which visit all the papers raided and seized In Mr. Goldhurst's illicit bucket- | usual | shop were tightly sealed and access to | them denied by the United States dll—; ct_attorney, even to the referee in | Tuptcy. “Thirteenth. Bishop Cannon and the | Virginia politician referred to in para- | graph nine had an interview with Mr. Goldhurst at a hotel in New York City | and immediately after this interview :m Cannon unexpectedly sailed for “Fourteenth. There was a compact in New York, to which Bishop | Cannon was a party, which promised clemency to Mr. Goldhurst if he would plead guilty in order to avert the neces- sity of summoning Bishop Cannon as a witness in his case. | “Pifteenth. Bishop Cannon was a | party to the removal of Mr. Goldhurst from the Pederal Prison at Atlanta to Fort Meade, near Washington, and was a party to the action taken by the Parole Board in ordering Mr. Gold- hurst's release in April, 1932. Would Sue for Libel. “Sixteenth. If it were conceivably possible, in the face of recent dis- closures, for anybody to libel Bishop Cannon, the News would not know | how to go about it. “If the Lynchburg News and the | Lynchburg Advance will, publish these | statements editorially, thus assumin | responsibility. in the positive form indicated without adopting Senator Glass’ favorite method of innuendo and | insinuation, suits for libel will be in- | stituted against both papers and the facts will be brought out as over against the mnuendoes and insinuations made | by Senator Glass in the frequent at- | tacks made by him upon Bishop Can- | non during the past three years. | “In view of the continued implica- | tion of his fearlessness and courage which pervades all public utterances of Senator Glass, it is certainly to be expected that the above mentioned 16 charges will be printed in the editorial columns of the papers controlled by him, the papers assuming full responsi- bility for said publication.” Bishop Cannon and Miss Ada L. Bur- roughs of Richmond. his associate in the 1928 anti-Smith campaign, are to | be arraigned here Monday on charges that they conspired to violate the Fed- eral corrupt practices act. Arraignment | who will head the defense, gave con- | n | against him” HARD WINTER SEEN FOR D. C. FAMILIES Will Need Most Aid Since Slump Began, Social Work Conference Told. have made their old cmfll do and rations. HE 140-foot Sound freighter City of Stamford photographed as she was sinking in the East River off Welfare lll;! lived on reduced Island, in New York City, yesterday. hull. Shortly after the accident river craft took off the crew of 15 men were no passengers. No reason was given for the collision. The freighter collided with a scow and a great hole was made in her and none was reported injured. There dren under the secondly, ~A. P. Photo. | an originally had been set for tomorrow, | but the postponement was requested | b{;hon'l counsel. by_the rned today that additional It was < \FLEAN REQUESTS | DISHISSAL OF SUIT | ishop Miss Burroughs. Robert H. McNeill, | sultation with other counsel as one reason for delaying the arraignment proceedings. He declined to name the other attorneys. DECLINES PUBLICATION. |Publisher, Reported in Eu- rope, Answers Wife’s Ac- | tion Through Counsel. v | Glass Says He Prefers to Leave Bishop | Cannen to Courts. LYNCHBURG, Va., October 29 (#).— United States Senal Carter Glass stated last night that “for the present” he preferred to leave Bishop James Cannon, jr., “to the courts and the Congressional Committee authorized to inquire into the grave criminal charges Edward Beale McLean, publisher of the Washington Post, through Attorneys Wilton J. Lambert and George B. Fraser, today asked the District Su- preme Court to dismiss the suit recently filed against him by his wife, Evalyn Walsh McLean, on behalf of her three children, asking that he be removed as a co-trustee with the American Secur- ity & Trust Co. of the estate of his| father, John R. McLean, which in- cludes the Washington Post. Mrs. McLean charged her husband The statement was contained in a brief reply to a statement by the prelate that he could have the Senators, the Lynchburg News and Dally Advance, sued for libel by publisning editorially any of 16 charges the bishop listed. The News and Advance pianned to publish the Cannon statement i full with no other comment than that con- tained in Senator Glass' statement. | The statement follows: “Apparently for consumption by the | | field_Hospital, Virginia annual conference of the Methodist Church, in session at Norfolk | a year ago, Bishop Cannon instituted suit for the modest sum of $5,000,000 against a certain newspaper publisher for alleged libel. Collection on account being a little tardy, he now, for appar- ent consumption by the Virginia Meth- odist Conference in session in Lynch- burg, threatens to sue me for an un- designated sum should my newspapers think him of sufficient importance to repeat some of the things that the press and responsible persons from one end of the country to the other have been saying for a long time. I prefer, for the present, to leave this gentleman to the courts and to the Congressional Committee authorized to inquire into m‘; grave criminal charges against FARMER AMPUTATES {OWN HAND WITH KNIFE| By the Assoclated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, October 20.— John Oglesby, 44, a farmer of Williams- ville, today amputated his own right hand after it became Inextricably caught in cogs of a corn husker. Half an hour he tugged at the hand before giving up hope of saving it. Then Wltl; ltl.ll lfi“h:).n:th' :eu I‘l'llo his pocket an ught out & pocket knife. He handed it to Frank , & neigh- bor whom he had been h 3 “Open it,” he said. Then pointing to the hand, “Cut it off.” Sharp balked. Oglesby took the knife and severed the hand at the wrist. An hour later he walked into the Spring- & pipe. “I cut . nand'ol” be sath,© D0 A tempcrary dressing had been put on at Williamsville. PRESIDENT SILENT ON FRANCQUI PLAN ON GERMAN CREDITS ___(Continued From First Page) statssman, visited several New York banks teday. It was understood he discussed plans for the organization of a bank to con- vert Germany'’s short-term international | debts into loans maturing in three to five years. M. Francqui was an overnight guest at the White House on Tuesday, when he and President Hoover were reported to have discussed the project which would provide for the liquidation of some $1,500,000,000 of short-term for- eign commercial credits now outstand- ing in Germany, of which about $600,- | 000,000 is owed to American interests. These credits will fall due in February with the expiration of the so-called standstill agreement. M. Francqui intends to return to Eu- rope shortiy and is expected to have an interview with Premier Laval of France preliminary to completion of the plan. | The success of the project would pre- | vent a default on the part of Germany. French credits outstanding in Ger many amount to about $80,000,000 and British capital so invested approximates $100,000,000. M. Francqui has been cq | working on the matter for about a year. | Physician’s Bag Stolen. Dr. Millard Ottman, 1151 North Cap- ital street, has asked the police to mfe an effort to recover a physician's bag containing surgical instruments and medicines. The instruments and medi- cines were in a bag which was stolen from his automobile parked in front of his home last night. B e e e L ST TR e | Prize Stories!. .. First Publication! In The Star's Sunday Maga “The Courtship of Surfman Littlepeld” BY CAPT. TRUMAN ORDIORNE Will Appear in L] from thousands each story is complete in itself. Star readers are treated to the very best hitherto unpublished fiction of the In the Magazine of the Magazine The Star's new fiction has been selected zine—The First of a Series of Next Sunday's Star. E of manuscripts; day. Next Sunday's Star neglected the affairs of the estate and | paid attention to other women with whem, she said, he traveled to various parts of the country in his private car. | McLean is reported to be in Europe | and the motion to dismiss is made by | | nis counsel, who claim his wife has no | | authority in equity to institute the suit as next friend of the children, for | whom special guardians have been | |named by the court in the equity pro- | | ceeding "under which McLean was | | named as co-trustee of the estate. Bill Also Attacked. The point also is made that the bill of complaint is improperly filed, in that it appears that the removal of McLean | is sought while the Equity Court still retains jurisdiction over the estate of John R. McLean to determine matters arising under the trust estate, and an 52 fad "in"that procesding by the y the wrdhns ad litem, named by the court the children. Mrs; MeLeast ‘is' represented by At- torneys Prank J. Hogan, Nelson T. Hartson and Albert W. Fox, who also filed & suit for Mrs. McLean for a lim- ited divorce from her husbend. No service has becn obtained on the pub- | lisher in the divorce proceeding, it is reported. Thé American Security & Trust Co., through its president, Corcoran Thom, filed an answer yesterday in which it admitted McLean’s frequent absences have ,prevented persona but said it. has been able in urgent matters to communicate with him through his counsel. The trust company denied it had! asked for McLean's resignation, but admitted it threatened to do so_and requested closer attention to the affairs oP( :ne estate and of the Washington ost. The court was told the trust com- pany has no definite knowledge of the allegations concerning personal con- duct, private relations, business affairs and practices of McLean as set out in the wife’s petition. 'THREE CHILDREN DIE, TWO HURT IN BLAST jExp]mimx Follows Attempt to Start Fire With Kerosene in Ab- sence of Parents. By the Associased Press. INDEPENDENCE, Mo., October 29— Three children were burned fatally and two others were injured in an explosion which accompanied their attempt to start a cookstove fire with kerosene in the absence of their parents last night. A discussion of Halloween stories pre- viously had led the children to lock the | doors of the home, delaying rescue at- | tempts. The dead: Thomas Roy Wright, 6; Kethleen Wright, 9, his sister, and Thomas Brown, 11, a neighbor boy who | was visiting them. | Bdith Nem Wright and Ella Jane ‘Wright, 11-year-old twins, were burned dangerously. The survivors said they had intended to start the fire to drive the chill of late evening from the home. | The father of the Wright children, | | William C. Wright, had gone out to search for a job. He is an unemployed | concrete mixer. The mother was at another home. | W. & L. SENDS APOLOGY FOR AFFRONT TO VIRGINIA | University Told Objectionable Cap-| tion in Paper D. C. Boy Edits Did | Not Express True Sentiment By the Associated Press. | October 29.— sald today that a telegram of apology | | was sent to the University of Virginia student body after Ring-Tum-Phi, stu- dent newspaper, appeared Friday with the caption, “To Hell With Virginia.” The issue came out on the day before | the annual foot ball game between the two_universities. The telegram assured Virginia stu- dents that the sentiment expressed in the was not ive here. Ppaper representati RAIL EXECUTIVES WORK ON POOL PLAN Advisory Committee, Study- ing Proposal, Confers With I..C. C. Members. The Advisory Committee named last week by the Association of Railway Executives to study the surcharge pool- ing plan proposed by the Interstate Commerce Commission continued today its study of the suggestion in an effort to formulate a decision on the matter, which must be given to the commis- sion by December 1. The plan was advanced when the commission re- jected the carriers’ plea for a 15 per cent freight rate increase. The committee started its session vesterday, and late in the day four members conferred with the commis- cion for the purpose, it was understood, of sounding out changes. Administration Is Issue. mmnlnuuellumlabenm ing the administration of the that would be set up under the pool- plan, which would levy extra charges on certain commodities. The more prosperous roads want the money that would go from the fund to roads needing funds to pay inierest on their bonds to be a loan and not a gift. ‘There was no word fort! as to the conference with the Commission, or whether the executives would seek further conversation. Whatever de- cision might be reached, it was said, would not be made public carriers had a chance to pass uj This, it was thought, would be when the American Railway meets in Chicago next Wednesday. There is much preliminary work to be done with regard to the both from an accounting traffic standpoint, it was The conferees with the yesterday were' W, R. Cole, of the Louisville & Nashville, H. Scandrett of the Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific; J. J. Pelley of th= New Haven. and Alfred P. Thom, coun- sel for the railway executives. Hoover and Couzens Confer. While the railroad leaders were meet- | ington, 1 conferences, | Thel ing some of his legislative plans met the views of Mr. Hoover. Senator Couzens, chairman of the Interstate Commerce Committee, is favor of holding up pro; dations in the East unt That efforts will -be ln“ld“chfihh ‘Win. ter to modify or strengthen laws regu: al uug. ral nd nator ns’ Grenville Clark, New York, Charles Evans Hughes, jr., for security holders in the rate case, called on Walter H. Newton, a presi- dential secretary, to discuss T legislation. The commission has asked repeal or modification of several sections of the law under which it acts. This applies particularly to the excess income re- ca) provisions, which the rail tribunal has held impossible of proper administration. PRESIDENT MAY ASK STRONGER U. S. LAWS Changes Proposed at Conference of Judges to Speed Up Courts. By the Associated Press. President Hoover may embody in his portant recommendations fcr strength- ening the Federal laws and expediting proceedings in the Federal courts. Chief Justice H recently pre- si.%ed over m‘n ul:‘n ference of circuit Jjudg=s at which changes were proposed in the present laws, particularly those relating to bankruptcy. The confer- ence urged something be done to ex- pedite the handling cf bankruptey suits and to discourage fraud and waste in ;he settlement of bankruptcy proceed- ngs. district judge- m asked that it be given al to make recommendations directly to Congress cn all quiring additional legislation, which in its judgment should be enacted to im- prove conditions in the Federal DR. J. NELSON MYERS Dr. J. Nelson Myers, 65, & here for more than 20 years, died yes- terday at his residence, 146: street, after to work. Miss Katharine F. Lenroot, assistant chief of the United States Children’s Bureau, said “appropriations must be gotten from the next Congress if homes are to be held together.” She urged social ki to ‘workers m'tgfl:emmn Reports Increasing Demands. mr lfiulre said the it de- ession caused more Washington Kmmu to fall back on social agencies than ever before. She said the increas- ing demands on charitable organizations . This number,u:he said, is » considerably higher ratlo than in ite in the country. n g think the District needs to sider seriously just what can be = r.h!ldnn"lfl-‘nl‘flm among 5 adding that in her opinion a non-sec- tarian D equipped and staffed, should be established to t children. She now con- done dependen! pointed out there was no agency operated solely for child welfare pur. An al the system for lm“u’r:nw cal Lo gt sions of the ?hlldren': Chaxrter, M. Beyer, director of ustrial division of the Soc " Declares Six Not Observed. Six sections of the charter are not ing observed by the school en she said, Section cal every the discovery individual abilities, life; section 11, pro and fail] il % 2 3 £1 ;E it i £z #s858 ernment and citizen parental responsibility. ‘Communities as parents ind! ask the public authorities for the kinds of help