Evening Star Newspaper, November 3, 1931, Page 6

a & THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C. TUESDAY, 1931. | the sbdomen. Her condition was de- scribed as favorable | Mrs. Runnels and her husband said the shooting was accidental, and su- torities have accepted their statements Mrs. Runnels was formerly Miss Agnes Pogle of St. Albans, W. Va. TWO MEN SOUGHT 'AIDE TO TREASURY'S OFFICIALS WORKS 22d YEAR IN HIS POST INAQUEDUCTBLAST « Norman Thompson Tells Discharged Employe of City Blamed for Dynamiting Troubled Secretaries About Past Policies. of Los Angeles Line. | where he recaived his early schooling, | but came here in 1905 to the Southern | Ratilway. He entered the Government service in April, 1907, in the United States Engineer Office of the War De- partment, and transferred to the Cus- toms Bureau in November, 1909, but | served only one month before changing to the Secretary’s office. He has been in the office of the Secretary 32 years. The Presidents under which Thomp- son has served include Rooseveit, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and Hoover, | while the Secretaries of the Treasury are Pranklin MacVeagh, William G.| McAdoo, Carter Glass, David Housten | and Andrew W. Mellon. The Under- secretaries of the Treasury in Thomp- | son’s time have been Russell C. Lefing- well, 8. P;::-r ?tl!:;m Garrard Wln»’ ston and - Y . By the Associsted Press. Thompson lives at 2922 Cortland place and has two children, William, 18, | _ ST LOUIS, November 3.—8t. Louis a studept in Abbott Art School, and County officials today cast a dublous | Mary. 15, a student in Central High eve on_all five confessions made by 8chool Clars Pish, 19-year-old domestic, in AL it 200 | the rasor slaying of Mrs. Reba Maddux TENNESSEE BANK CHIEF WOMAN SHOOTS SELF Bullet SMALL SIZE GRAND PIANO NOVEMBER Fired Accidentally, Staun- ton Police Are Told. STAUNTON, Va, November 3 () — | . e |Mrs. J. Bdwin Runnels, jr. sbout 37, | Pl Hmotee In Central Illinols it was found that FVE CONFESSONS INDEATHDOUBIED 5 5 e, A City-Wide Sensation! Statement to Clear Up This Week Only at All Our | Woman's Murder. [ | Branches 2 Men’s Suits, or 1 Suit and 1 Overcoat e Anvewr v move 1 this wee Telephone or Write to My Williams CREDIT MANAGER Executive Assistant Has Held Key Post in Department Under Six Presidents. By the Associated P LOS ANGELES charged emplove Angeles who s he would “get ¢ was sought wda the Los Angeles-Cwel ugh the terms of six Presidents and five @ecretaries of the Treasury, W Norman Thompson, executive es- k. in & lonely near here last Thurs- | day, and attempted to obtain still which supplies city with the m 8. who was beijeved to have acted as an accomplice Ranchers Absolved LOW RATES EVERYWH Officials of the Dureau o he it pALTIMoRE HILADELPHIA NEW YORK sct of repri ers for the The aguedust. constructed more than 20 years ago a7 3 cost of $24,000,000, h been dynamited on eight previous o casions. The dynamitings in the past have been blamed on ranchers Twe Sections Blown Up Two foot <o were b vesterda The scene of the e was 180 miles north near Jawbone Canor City officials said there was no dan- ger of a water age near the cit until such tim 'U. S. 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It is to give prompt rel money refunded. |Supreme Court Holds Company | Which Bought Own Securities | Must Pay Levy | i | By the Associated Press | The Government yesterday won in the | Supreme Court its contention that_the | | Kirby Lumber Co. of Houston, Tex.,| should pay income taxes on profits made | by repurchasing its securities' at lower price than they were issued | Government counsel zaid the suit was regarded as a test case and that | $10,000,000 in taxes would be lost if the | court decided in favor of the lumber | concern The company, in resisting the Gov- ernment’s claim for an additional $17,- | 000 for 1923, asserted profits made by repurchasing company securities at & | discount should be credited to capital | The American Tobacco Co. was al- lowed to file & brief in support of the lumber company’s view . The opinion was deliversd by Justice Holmes, oldest member of the bench, who had been absent a week because of {liness. The decision was charac- teristically brief. VISIT HARDING TOMB Ohio Citizens Mark 66th Anniver- sary—Hoover Sends Wreath. MARION, Ohio, November 3 () —A simple ceremony was conducted here Sunday at the tomb of the late Presi- dent Warren G. Harding in observance of his sixty-sixth birthday anniversary A wreath from President Hoover was’ laid at the tomb without attendant ceremony, and later the Sons of Vet- erans of the Civil War in Ohio placed a wreath on the tomb as part of a pro- gram in which speakers extolled Mr. Harding. Today, two uniformed mem- | bers of Cincinnati Boy Scout troops will | 1ay another wreath at his grave. | sistant to the Undersecretary. has car- ried a continuing responsibility as de- partment. precedent and policy officer to mark his twenty-second yesr in such service Thompson is one those wheel- horses of the Government whose energies and vast stores of knowledge accumulated from one administration to the next enable him to continue under the civil service status of a non-politi- cal office. as an invaluable part of the Treasury Department It is men like Thompson who enable the Government to function rhxnafh such _kaleideoscopic changes as a shift administration when all the princi- pal chieftains are new. For the wheels of Uncle Sam's great machine must of | not stop moving, money must be col- lected. accounted for, and paid to meet the stupendous expenses of the Federal Government. Some major policies may change as the Government shifts from Democratic to Republicen or back again, but the great machine goes for- ward in its regular work without halt or fail It is Thompson, known as “Tommy" to his intimates, who advises the Undersecretary and assistant secretaries and heads of the Treasury activities as |to precedents with a view to insuring | uniformity and continuity of action in like cases. Likewise, he advises with respest to past policies and the inau- guration of new polictes, all in line with iniform, efficient and economical ad- FACES NEW ALLEGATIONS Superintendent Under Fire Accused of Vielating Constitution in Appointment. By tHe Assoctated Preas. NASHVILLE, Tenn. November 3.— Additional allegations of official miscon- duct were flled yesterday against D. D. Robertson, State superintendent of banks, as the hearing opened in Chan- cery Court on a motion to suspend him pending final disposition of the ouster proceedings brought by 12 Carter County citizens. An amendment to the original bill charged the superintendent violated the constitution by appointing 8. 8. Mec- Connell as liquidating agent for both the Bank of Tennessee and the Liberty Bank & Trust Co, allowing him $200 a month for each position. The consti- fution, it was set out, provides that no State emplove shall Rold more than one lucrative office at the same time. Also, the amendment declared, McConnell's appointment to both posts violated the letter and spirit of Tennessee laws, which expressly limit salary of such liquidating agents to $200 per month.” W. NORMAN THOMPSON. —A. P. Photo ministration, thus fusing the work of one administration into another. He is of comparatitely slight build and outwardly calm demeanor. -Few except his close friends know that he has controlled physical disabilities of a nervous order by a supreme command of his iron will. ' 'To_the general public, to Senators and Representatives, to members of the diplomatie corps and to the representatives of the press Thompson always presents the same calm, unruffied and unperturbed pleas- antness of manner, no matter what the situation of the national exchequér or of his own nerves may be. It is truthfully said of ‘him that he is the source of Tresdury precedents and the guide, philosopher and friend of troubled bureau chiefs All matters flowing to_the Secretary of the Treasury pass through his hands, and as executive assistant to the Under- secretary he occupies a key post in the management end of the- department. He has knowledge of vital problems in all parts of the Treasury | Brazil is developing its graszing in- iompson was born in Newark, N. J, ' dustries. fool yourself but you can’t fool BAD other statement from her which would | | clear up numerous alleged discrepancies. i The girl, held in the county jail at Clayton without bond on a first-degree | murder charge, continued to insist she told the whole story in her final state- | ment—that she lured Mrs. Maddux to | the woods, anesthetized her, and that Walter Maddux, the woman's husband, | killed her in order that he might be | free to marry Miss Fish, a roomer in | the Ma#ddux home in suburban Webster | Groves 5 Maddux, held in the same jail as a | “suspect of murder,” steadfastly main- tained Miss Fish “is lying” in impli- | cating him. Maddux was taken to il | Iate yesterday after he attended the funeral of his wife. | Chief of Police George Schroeder of | Kirkwood, near where the alaying oc- curred, said he placed little credence in the confession implicating Maddux. Dr. C. E. Barnett, county health com- missioner, saild it was a “physical im- possibility” for the slaying to have oc- curred as the girl related in her last contession. She said she administered ether to Mrs. Maddux before 4 p.m last Thursday and that Maddux went to the woods after 7 o'clock that night and slashed her throat with a razor. | The woman would not have remained | unconsclous for more than an hour, Dr. Barnett said. Only 600,000 of London's 8.000,000 people took out radio licenses this year. Cleaned and Pressed $1.50 Men'’s or Ladi 814 14th Street 1631 13th Street 1418 Park Road ) 3402 18th Street N. 420 H Street N.E. 1731 Columbi 3500 Georgia 1749 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W. 2515 14th Street N.W. 2002 Georgia Avenue N.W. 4302 Georgia Avenue N.W. Felt Hats Cleaned and Blocked. . 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