Evening Star Newspaper, November 13, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Foracast.) Cloudy and cooler; probably occas- fowest temperature tonight. about 50 de- lowest ure abou - temperatt grees. pera 2:45 p.m. yesterday; a.m. today. 175, at lowest, 59, at 7:30 Full report on page 5. Closing N.Y. Markets, Pages13,14 & 15 he b WITH SUNDAY MORNING RBITION No. 31,972, Entered_as second class matter post office, Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY MAH STILL HOLDING |TEST DISCLOSES EDITH RILEY IS NOT “"LOW-GRADE DEFECTIVE™ SR ey Y TS”S'HAR |N SP"EaChief Psychiatrist at Gallinger Hospital OF JAPANESE DRIVE T0 OUST GENERAL Henry Pu-Yi, Former Boy Emperor, Reported En Route to Mukden to Be Restored to Throne. SOVIET TRAINED TROOPS REPORTED AIDING CHINA Renewed Outbreaks | Along Nonni River Front, With Cavalry Clashes Marking New Disorders—Reds Take Airplanes in Surprise Attack. Reported | By the Assoctated Press. Mah Chan-Shan, Chinese com- mander in Northern Manchuria, “is still holding Tsitsihar against Japanese forces, which, he report- ed, sent cavalry against him un- der cover of artillery fire. He continued to ignore the Japanese ultimatum that he evac- uate Tsitsihar, and he said the attack began before the ultima- tum expired. Japanese sources blamed the trouble in the Tsitsthar area on Chinese aggression and reported that the Japanese right wing had been surrounded by Chinese troops, cutting off communica- tions. Mah has been reinforced by e detachment of Chinese and Korean soldiers trained in Soviet Russia and sent into Manchuria f-om Blagoveschensk, said the Japanese. Henry Pu-Yi, former “Boy Em- - or” of China, was repor on ih: way from Tientsin, where he I>s been a virtual prisoner in t » Japanese concession, to Muk- 1, where it was said the Japa- se intended to enthrone him. ~2n2se - sources deseribed the 27t as “premature.” 2"7ANESE TROOPS ENVELOPED., ¢ T | C. asse Cavalry Reported to Have En- dangered Communications of Foes. (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press.) MUKDEN, Manchuria, November 13. —The Japanese military intelligence ‘bureau reported today that a large force of Chinese cavalry pract en- vel the Japanese right wing in a battle at the Nonni River and that the Japanese position and communications are seriously endangered. Japanese he s said that their detachment had R iibue O s Dohir 2) LEADER OF REVOLT TAKEN IN ECUADOR| Government Forces Reported to Have Paz in Custody in El Oro Province. By the Associated Press. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, November 13. ~—Clotario Paz, leader of a revolt in the province of El Oro, was reported today to have been captured by Gov- ernment forces. A telegrapher at Machala discovered | that the rebels had set up headquar- ters in the Government Building there, he informed the police. A police detachment stormed the building and forced the rebels to sur- Tender. Paz tried to escape, but was captured by an army officer. ‘Telegraphic communication has been | restored throughout the province, a de- tachment of troops is on the way and | the government announced it was in | complete control. QUITO, Ecuador. November 13.—| President Alfred B. Moreno was granted | extraordinary powers by congress today to deal with the revolt in the Province of El Oro. He issued a decree pro- hibiting the assembly of more than five rsons. It was reported the rebels ave cut all communications. REMOVAL OF COLORADO DRY OFFICIAL ASKED Group of Boulder Citizens Sends Letter to Woodcock as Result of Killing by Agent. By the Associated Press BOULDER, Colo., November 13.—Im- mediate removal of John F. Vivian, Federal prohibition adrsinistrator for the district, was asked in a letter for- warded to Amos W. W. Woodcock, na- tional prokibition director, by a group of Boulder citizens yesterday. ‘The letter of protest also requests re- moval of Henry Dierks, Federal dry agent, charged with murder in con- nection with the death of Milford G. Smith, 20-year-old Englewood, Colo., th. mmum died from injuries received when Dierks scuffied with him in an jood hamburger stand over three ounces of wine. EYE SPECIALIST DIES Dr. Norton L. Wilson, “Adrenalin” Coiner, Expires at 70. | the South are for the nomination of Declares Girl H Psychology tests today failed to dis- | clcse any sign of “low-grade defective- ness” in 12-year-old Edith Riley, res- | cued from a closet in her home last | Friday by police who had been in- | formed that she had been kept & pris- | oner for four years. Edith, who has been under treatment | and observaticn st Gallinger Hospital | was examined by Mrs. Edith Sutherland Elmore, chief psychologist at the hos- pital | The test revealed she has a remarka- ble sense of beauty, it was said. She was shown a group cf pictures and | ked to choose the prettiest With_herdly a moment's hesitation, Edith picked out one, saying “Prettiest.” In another test, Mrs. Elmore, who is the daughter of Justice George Suthor- land of United States Supreme Court, showed Edith a picture of two Indians paddiing a canoe. “What is this, Edith?" the psycholo- gist_asked. | The child put her finger on the canoe. | as “Remarkable Esthetic Sense.” “Boat,” she replied distinctly shifting her finger, she said, “The child must have rccsived some training In order to pick out objects of that sort,” explained Mrs. Elmore. “No child, without some education, or at least having such objécts shown to her before, could possibly call them by name.” Dr. Joseph L. Gilbert, chief psychia- trist at the hospital, who is ?ermnully supervising Edith’s case, declared the tests revealed a ‘“remarkable esthetic sense.” “T have never heard of a low-grade defective responding to tests as has the Eiley child,” Dr. Gilbert said. A low- grade defective, he explained, is an im- becile, and rarely has one been founa to distinguish between beauty and ugii- ness or to talk as intelligently as Edith. Dr. Gilbert and Mrs. Elmore are con- ducting an intensive obs>rvation of the child. Her father and siepmoth-r, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Newman Riley, who are under arrest on a cruelty charge, in connection with the case maintain Edith never was a normal child and had " (Continued on Page 2, Column 2.) ‘Then, ater.” ROOSEVELT CAMP WATCHES RITCHIE Visit of Maryland Governor to| Smith and Raskob Held “Stop-Roosevelt” Move. BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. Supporters of the nomination of Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presi- dency next year were aroused tcday by the report of the activities of Gov. Al- bert C. Ritchie of Maryland in New York. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon- tana. one of the Democrats first to an- ncunce his support of the New York Governor for President, said that Gov. Ritchie’s call on former Gov. Alfred E. Smith and Chairman John J. Raskob of the Democratic National Committee in New York yesterday was merely the beginning of a “stop Roosevelt” move- ment on the part of opponents of Roosevelt. The Montana Senator expressed the opinion that Gov. Ritchie weuld not be a strong candidate for President in the West. He insisted that the West and Gov. Roosevelt. ‘Warns of Third Party. “It is my belief,” Senator Wheeler said, “that if the Democratic conven- tion were held today, Franklin D. Roosevelt would be nominated on the | first ballot. As I see it, the present | s0om for Gov. Ritchie is only a part of the movement now on foot to pre-| vent the nomination of Gov. Rooosevelt. This movement contemplated putting a lot of favorite-son candidates into the race in an_etfort to keep votes away | from Gov. Roosevelt. “If the Democratic party does not listen to the voice of the people and nominate Roosevelt or some other lib- eral, a third warty will spring up in- evitably in the next campaign.” Glass Proposes Former Gov. Byrd. The comment of Senator Glass of Virginia regarding the Ritchie boom was: “If we're going to have a Southern man_ for the Democratic nominee for President—and I favor that—let us elect a man with a notable record of achievement. I mean former Gov. Harry Byrd of Virginia.” Democrats of the South end the West are particularly unfavorable to making prohibition the main issue in the coming presidential campaign with the Demo- crats an _extreme wet stand. They feel that if Gov. Ritchie of Mary- land were nominated, prohibition wili overshadow all other issues, because the Maryland Governor has been known for years as one of the strongest op- Pponents of national prohibition. There is, too, a feeling among West- ern Democrats that now is the time ior the party to put into the presi- dential race a progressive candidate. Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt is regarded | by the Democrats in the West as more | progressive than Gov. Ritchie. In 1928 Gov. Ritchie gracefully | stepped aside in the presidential race and threw his support to Alfred E.| Smith for the Democratic no rination for President. Many of his friends be- leve today that because of his action | and his * whole-hearted support of Gov. Smith should throw his influence back of the Ritchie candidacy today. Attack Jews in P;wland‘ WARSAW, Poland, November 13 ().—New anti-Semitic attacks by students occurred in various parts of Poland yesterday, taking on a mass character in Warsaw, Cracow, Vilna and Lemberg, the Jewish Telegraphic Smith, not only in 1928, but in 1924, | Episcopal Church through a designal BULLETIN LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Novem- ber 13 (#.—Mrs. Hattie Cara- way, Democrat, was appointed United States Senator by Gov. Harvey Parnell this afternoon to serve until a successor to her late husband is selected on January 12. SURVIVORS PICTURE TRAGEDY AT SEA Owners of Costa Rican Schooner Died With Three . Others in Storm. By the Assoclated Press. gALBOA, Canal tZm;e. Ng\::mher 13. —Heavy seas are retard‘’ng the progress of the U. 8. 8. 8 steaming toward Coco Solo with the 11 castaways she picked up yesterday from a lifeboat of the Schooner Baden-Baden. ring buj & Tadio message frotn the morn! s radio vessel said she mbnth not ar- rive bel(urer 4 pm. ) A tale of traditions of the sea,@f the two owners of the fll-fated M‘tfll! who scorned lifeb>ats and rafts and went down with their ship, wag_ told by the 11 survivors on board the Swan day. The men were Hans J. Lau of Punta Arenas, Costa Rica, and Adolph Schonek of Hamburg, Germany. When the vessel foundered Monday afternoon |in heavy seas and the crew taok to lifeboats and rafts the owners stayed aboard and sank with the schooner. How three others aboard the schooner lost their lives was not revealed. During a storm along the cosst of Colombia Monday the cargo shifted, the pumps were found to be out of order and the vessel sank in 20 minutes. Without food and with only rain to provide drinking water, the crew drifted for three days until they were picked up by the Swan, They were sighted 20 minutes after the ship went down by an airplane pilot, but could not take them aboard because of the roughness of the sea. When the Swan came alongside, Capt. Hewitt Walters of the Baden Baden, wi was injured, was taken aboard on a stretcher. The members of the crew cigarettes and clothes. Capt. Walters was injured when & | timber fell on his back as he was abandoning the ship 'SYSTEM TO PROTECT WORKERS IS URGED Methodist Bishops Advocate Indus- trial Plan at Harrisburg, Pa., Session. | By the Assoctated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., November 13.— | Building of an industrial gystem that | would protect the worker in times of unemployment was advocated by the Board - of Bishops of the Mnhnd':: spokesman, Bishop H. L. Smith, Chat- tanooga, Tenn., here last night. “Men and women of the Christian church don't understand Christ very weil as long as we tolerate hunger in this land of plenty; as long as there’ wai in a world that knows of God,” Bishop Smith asserted. Bishop Robert E. Jones, New Orleans, scheduled to speak at the board confer- ence last night, contracted a severe cold NY reported. Wednesday and yesterday left for home. Columbia Broadcaster Can’t By the Associated Press. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., November 13— Harvard University today banned Ted Husing, Columbia Broadcasting System radio announcer, from all future Har- vard games in his official capacity. Wil- liam J. Bingham, director of Harvard athletics, said Husing had. referred to the playing of Capt. Barry Wood and Jack Crickard in the Dartmouth game last Saturday as “putrid.” Bingham said, in announcing his action against Husing, that Harvard authorities had been flooded with com- plaints from Harvard alumni and the public at large since the game. The complaints i general branded the al- lezed criticism by Husing as the most unfair and unjust performance ever ELIZABETH, N. J,, November 13 (®). —Dr. Norton L. Wilson, noted eye, ear, and throat specialist, generally ge! ord “adren: ital heard on the air, Bingham said. A strenuous complaint against Husing had been forwarded to President Wil- liam Paley of the Columbia system, mfl% i Bingham's _ state o announcer,” = ment said, “can go into the Harvard Stadium and refer to any player or HARVARD BANS BROADCASTER WHO CALLED GRID STARS ‘PUTRID’ Go On Air From Stadium Again for Reference o Wood and Crickard. lay made by any member of either a Harvard team or its opposing team s | putrld’ Mr Husing will not be ad- | mitted to the Harvard Stadium in the | capacity of a radio announcer again.” | Z= Columbia (Surprised. | NEW YORK, November 13 (P).—A | statement was issued at the offices of the Columbia Broadcasting Co. today on the ban placed on its announcer, Ted Husing, by Harvard- athletic au- thorities, in which surprise was ex- pressed at the action and the hope | expressed that | thought” the ban after “more mature o would be rescinded. It is as surprising for Harvard to take the announced action as it would be for Harvard to ban the representa- :’l‘:fio:’ b:c newspaper of a press l':’:t ause it wil Tepresentative’s epet r b l‘ situation had been exhausted.” were hauled in, bathed and given soup, | thy OBLENTZ BLAMES WRECKING OF HS BANKS ON TS {Embarrassment Result of Large Sums Owed on Worth- less Bonds, He Says. ‘[} RETURNS TO S;IZ;\ND TO AMPLIFY TESTIMONY Visit to Smith Company Head in Florida Added $23,000 to Wee, Contempt Jury Told. | Returning to the witness stand at his | own request today, Emory L. Coblentz of Frederick, Md., placed the blame for the recent failure of his chain of Mary- land banks on the shoulders of G. Bryan Pitts, now on trial in District Supreme Court on contempt charges. “Pitts owed my sssociates and me large sums of money which embarrassed and finally ruined us,” Coblentz de- clared. ‘Some of the worthless bonds he gave {us,” he continued, “are lying out in Frederick now in my broken bank.” Coblentz told reporters after leaving the stand that he had been mistaken in saying the bonds were in his bank. Instead, he said, they were in a sub- sidiary bank. Coblentz came back to the witness stand to amplify his earlier testimony. Charge of Deception. He said Pitts had issued instructions to his subordinates not to tell him (Coblentz) the real purpose for whick certain authorizations were being sign- ed. The contempt charge against Pitts is based on the charge that these au- thorizations, introduced in evidence at the recent F. H. Smith Co. conspiracy- embezzlement trial, were spurious and prepared fraudulently a few weeks in | advance of the trial. Coblentz said he went to Florida in | September and November, 1930, in the | hope of making some adjustment of large sums of money owed him and his associates by Pitts. It has been brought out that Coblentz's bank, the Central Trust Co. of Frederick, held the notrs of minor Smith Co. employes for some $400,000. “When I went to Florida,” Coblentz declared, “I was unsuccessful in lqui- { dating this indebtedness. “As & matter of fact, Pitts loaded $33,000 more onto me. He gave me that amount in matured bonds and coupons, requesting that I place in my | bank a credit of $33,000 to his account. ‘This 1 did. He then checked this out in two checks, one to his attorney, { Wilton J. Lambert, and the other, I think, to another attorney, Frank J. Raichle. These worthless securities ::enkly"lnl out there now in my broken Lawyers Seen in Florida. Justice F. D. Letts, who is presiding at the contempt hearing, then asked Coblentz to name the lawyers he saw at Pitts’ home in Florida prior to trial. The witness said he saw Raichle and George D. Horning, jr. there on No- vember 15 He said he did not see Edmund A. Toland when questioned directly on this point by the judge. Justice Letts then inquired whether Horning took any active part in a con- ference held there that afternoon. Cob- lentz testified two days ago that the question of using the authorizations at the trial was discussed at that con- ference. Referring to the court’s question, Coblentz said Horning was there part of the time, and heard part of the dis- cussion, but he was not sure whether the attorney was present while the au- thorizations were being discussed. He asserted, however, that Raichle was there, and that Raichle told Pitts it would be unwise to introduce in evi- denc:nlily papers signed so‘soon before e trial Plot Stories Objected To. When court opened this morning Dozier De Vane, counsel for Pitts, ob- jected to stories recently published concerning extreme precautions which, had been taken to frustrate an alleged] plot to liberate Pitts. He said these | articles were prejudicial to his client, and asked the court to make an in- vestigation to determine their source. Justice Letts promised to protect Pitts’ interests in this connection. The Government called two witnesses this morning. Louis Loebl, special agent of the Bureau of Investigation of the Dej ent of Justice, and Wesley Gardner, a court clerk. They testified to having had custody of the authoriza- tions, which De Vane tried unsuccess- fully to have ruled out of the case. '$900 PAID FOR FIRST EDITION OF ‘WAVERLY’ Literary Relic of Sir Walter Scott Sold at Auction of MacAfee Li- brary With Other Treasures. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. November 13.—A first edition of Sir Walter Scott's “Waverly” in the original boards, uncut, brought $900 at the auction yesterday of the library of William W. Macafee of Pitts- burgh. ‘The library included 309 items and was sold for '$21,651. .Gabriel Wells, who purchased “Wav- erly,” also paid $520 for Lord Byron's 1 “Don Juan,” Emerson’s presen- tation copy of “Essays” was bought by G. Baker & Co. for $750. Byron's 8- lish Bards and Scotch Reviewers” was| bid in at $475 by Alfred F. Goldsmith. A first edition of Edward Arlington aobul\:fx;“: %rsrt book, “The Torrent and e Nig] efore,” was purchased Edgar H. Wells for $450. v = DEPOSITORS TO GET CASH Defunct Toledo Bank to Pay Off and Quit Business. By the Assoclated Press. TOLEDO, Ohio, November 13—The Industrial Bank of Toledo, capitalized at $200,000, with surplus of $22,500 and undivided profits of $7,618, has decided to invite all its depositors to come and get their money. The bank then will quit business. The bank has deposits of $280,000. Directors approved I - o ST s and called a special meeting of stock- holders for November 24 for a share- holder vote on the plan. C. A. Mauk, president, said the bank cash to pay depositors lnhl:l.u.mm‘ Radio l’xoln-; H'Pl‘; C12 ' £ a TNOV EMUE ening Star. 1, 1981 FIFTY. FRIDAY "EIGHT PAGES. #%% “From Press (#) Means Associated Press. to Home Within the Hour” The ~Star's carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Yesterday’s Circulation, 118,292 TWO CENTS. — WoN START, QOUR D ISTANFORD GRID “WINDED" BY HOOVER'S SPORT| HELD NOT INVOLVED = President Tires Out aged by Strenuous Medicine Ball Game on White House Lawn. ‘The champicnship foot ball team of Leland Stanford, '94, switched its game Yo medicine ball today and joined Presi- dent Hoover in his morning exercise jon the south lawn of the White House. And whatever impressions and recol- lections members of the eleven carry away with them after their reunion with their one-time team manager, it is probable the memory of this participa- tion in the presidential medicine ball game will be prominent. It would have been just as well for these veteran griciron stars if they had stood on their past foot ball glory and refrained from sttempting to compete with Mr. Hoover and his more seasoned medicine ball artists. For they did not fare so well as this sport, particularly when “Bull in the Ring” was intro- duced. More than one of the athletic heroes of tie mauve decade was “winded” or knoccked off ‘his feet, or STARS OF 94 Team HC Once Man-‘ | both, during the 15 minutes of strenu- | ous activity. Mr. Hoover and his “medicine ball ' are very adept at “Bull in the Ring,” and ‘hey saw to it the visitors did not fail to appreciate this. The Stanford stars hiwve only themselves to blame, however, for they were not scheduled to taze part in this morn- ing’s game. But so thoroughly did the President, and the team he helped manage, enjoy themselves at their reunion last night, that Mr. Hoover's parting words were an invitation to return. So most of ! them did, within eight hours after they had departed near midnight After watching the medicine ball tossing for a few minutes this morning, the visitors doffed their coats a: joined the action. For a short time, they threw the six-pound ball fair] well, bfi the weight soon to_tell K on Page 2, Column 6. - TWO MEN FLOGGED AS “RED” SUSPECTS Six Are Seized in Michigan and Pair Whipped After Jobless Meeting Row. By the Associated Press. PONTIAC, Mich., November 13.—A series of floggings last night, with sus- pected Communist sympathizers as the victims, was seen by authorities as an aftermath of a recent unemployment demonstration, in which more than a score of persons were arrested after a brush with officers. At least six men were seized last night. Two of them returned to re- port they had been blindfolded and whipped, while nearby screams indicated others were receiving the same treat- ment. One man said he had convinced his abductors he was not a Communist, and that he was released without a beating. Two Men Whipped. Leo Fortin was taken from his home, his hands were tied, a bag was thrown over his head, and he was beaten with a whip. As his three or four assailants plied the whip on him, he said he heard another man screaming. He was found, dazed, walking near the edge of the city. “T have attended unemployment meet- ings and suppose I was beaten for that,” he said. Clarence Sherman was seized at his home by six men. Early today he re- turned with a report of being beaten with the butt of a horsewhip. Walter Hardy and a man named Shelby were taken from their homes and Vendal Muha is believed to have been seized while on his way to a meeting. They are sought. A group of men called at the home of Clarence Bra@ley, 21, but he was not_there. “We are not Communists, we are hungry men looking for work,” Bradley sald. Only one Tried on Disorders. Hardy spoke recently at a meeting of unemployed at W] officers of the law, the American Legion and various fraternal organizations were denounced. Of the persons arrested following the brush between unemployed demon- strators and police several weeks ago, only one, Willlam Reynolds, Commun- {st organizer, has been tried. He was convicted of disorderly conduct and sentenced to serve 90 days in jail. His appeal is pending. The others are at iberty ‘under bond. Police Deny Participation. e Stykoff, 38, also was abducted lle':ek wuylenvlng a meeting, but said he was released without mistreatment when he convinced his kidnapers he was not a Communist. Sherman, who has been a leader in a movement for increased relief allot- ments for unemployed, said he believed the men who took him from his home were policemen. At police heaglquar- ters, however, it was denied that mem- bers of the department had partici- ted. p'---n:e men wore police raincoats,” Sherman said. When he was finally released, Sher- man said, he found he d been whipped on the base ball diamond of a State park at Cass Lake, near here. He walked 4 miles to his home, he said, in h{l stockinged feet. —_— Four Die in Plane Crash. APE TOWN, South Africa, Novem- ber 13 (M)—The pilot and three airmail plane crashed at Gordons Bay, near here. YOUNG ALLEN HELD IN' SLAYING PROBE Coroner’s Jury Lays Donald- son Death to Brother of Girl Accused by Father. By the Associated Press. NQORRISTOWN, Pa., November 13.— |Edwin E. H. Allen, 23-year-old society man, was held for the Montgomery County grand jury today after a coro- ner's jury decided he was responsible for the death of Prancis A. Donaldson, 3d, also well known in social circles. The shooting of Donaldson with a shotgun by Allen in the Green Hill Farms Hotel last Monday night and events that led up to it were described by Albert Gallatis H. Lucas, friend of Donaldson and the only eye-witness to the killing. Miss Rose E. W. Allen, 18-year-old sister of the slayer, over whose love Donaldson lost his life, did not testify. She was not at the inquest, nor was her father, Horace Allen, who suffered a collapse at the home of friends. Tells of Fist Fight. Lucas was the principal witness. He testified that young Allen struck Don- aldson twice before Donalison hit back. He tcld in detail of Donaldson and him- self going to the Allen apartment to bring about peace between the girl and her father and brother. She had told Donaldson that she had been driven from the apartment. This the father denied, according to Lucas. Lucas also testified that Mr. Allen (the father) had admitted to him that he had threatened to kill Don- aldson. Also in reply to other questions, Lucas_said Donaldson had told him that he had been guilty of miscon- duct with Miss Allen. Lucas did not AMERICAN CONSULS Officials Not Under Suspicion in Alien Smuggling, Labor Department Says. The Department of Labor today noti- fied the State Department it has “no information that any consuls of the United States” are involved in allen smuggling schemes and expressed re- gret for published reports that consuls are under suspicion. Second Assistant Secretary of Labor Husband, in a memorandum to Assist- ant Secretary of State Carr, said: “The Department of Labor has noted a story in a part of the press of today to the effect that theress suspicion that somd United States consuls are FEDERAL WORKERS 10 PEN DRIVE FOR RELEF FUND SOON Government Workers to Be Asked to Contribute Three Days’ Pay for Charity. CAMPAIGN WILL START FORMALLY NEXT WEEK Million Dollars to Be Sought Among Federal Employes—Plans Virtually Complete. The million-dollar drive among Gov- ernment employes for the Washington Community Chest will be formally launched next week and efforts will be made to have pledges for the entire amount in hand by December 12. ‘This was announced today at noon by Thomas E. Campbell, president of the Civil Service Commission and chairman of the special committee formed at the suggesticn of President Hoover to enlist the full strength of the Federal workers in the impending Chest campaign, where needs have been intensified by unem- ployment. Each Government employe is to be asked to contribute three days’ pay, making monthly installments beginning j January 15. They may give more if de- sired. Details Worked Out. The money will be transferred direct- ly through Government division chair- 'é‘fi“ to the treasurer of the Community est. Details virtually were cleared up this morning at a conference at the War Department, in which everv depart- ment and independent establishment in the executive branch of the G.vern- ment was represented as was the judi- ciary of the District of Columbia. ‘While the President’s call was de- signed only for the executive branch of the Government, including the munic- ipal establishment, Chairman Campbell also to enlist support from the So far as the last named is concerned, delay will be encountered, Mr. Camp- bell wuse the ization of there is no one with po this is settled, he additional strength will be movement. “The Department of Labor has no| e information at all that any consuls of the United States are ennnay i an; such practice. It da!'plz such erroneous statements should have reached the public.” Hisband Bad Reld 8 Jongbay. tephonis us] eld a conversation with Murray W. Garsson, assistant to Secretary Doak, in charge of allen smuggling investigations. Garsson, who was in New York, was quoted by Labor D“e‘m;unwt officials as denying the publ report. At the same time, Labor officials clamped a censorship cn licity concerning _evidence sel smuggli raids. It was admitted that Garsson had seized important evidence in a raid in Chicago several days ago. MINNEAPOLIS LEADER NAMED GUARD CHIEE Former Mayor George E. Leach Succeeds Everson in War Bureau Post. t ub- in By the Associated Prers. The job of running the National Guard was placed today in the hands of George E. Leach, a former mayor of Minneapolis. . Secretary of War Hurley announced his selection to become chief of the Militia Bureau to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Maj. Gen. - William G. Everson, famous “fighting preacher.” Gen. Everson, an ordained minister, has resigned, effective November 31, to return to the ministry as pastor of a Denver c egation. A brigadier general in the Minnesota National Guard, Leach has served more than 26 years in that division of the service. His specialty is Artillery. In the World War he commanded a Minnesota Field Artillery regiment assigned to the Rainbow Division, win- ning numerous decorations, including the French Croix de Guerre and Legion of Honor and the American Dis- tinguished Service medal. Gen. Leach, who is 55, and a native of Cedar Rapids, Towa, will have com- plete charge of co-ordinating national defense relations between the States and the War Department and supervising (Continued on Page 2, Column 7.) all National Guard training and dis- bursements. Surgery or Removal From Efforts to subdue nocturnal cries em- anating from the Zoo have been balked to a large extent by the value and num- ber of the worst offenders—a full score of expensive cranes, at least half of which are highly audible. The crane run, unfortunately, is but a scant two blocks from large apart- ment houses on Connecticut avenue— a circumstance which has given rise to_numerous complaints. It isn't insomnia, the residents con- tinue to write, which keeps them awake nights, yet Zoo officials point out that the crane run is advantageously lo- cated and removal to a more remote spot in Rock Creek Park would involve an outlay of several thousand dollars. A patient investigation extending over several weeks convinced Kkeepers that the noise eannot be localized to any one bird. Long and strident out- cries, they say, are general with the T One of several birds might be be- on other zoos, less centrally are loath to part stowed huted.bntgdlll CRANES TOO EXPENSIVE TO HUSH FOR RELIEF OF SLEEPY CITIZENS | o ich case ' Zoo Suggested, but Nque Problem Is Considered Unsolved. with the whole flock —about $3,000 worth of cranes at current prices. The birds are valued at from $100 | It has to $200 each. been suggested a tonsil operation might incapacitate the vocal apparatus of the nolsiest crane, but officials are not kindly dis- posed to this idea. For one thing the cranes are too valuable to experiment with, and for another, such “measures might invite opposition on humane grounds. Reports that Senator Costigan of Colorado, a resident of a nearby apart- ment house, had complained of the nuisance were denied today by his sec- retary. ‘The Senator made inquiry of Zoo offi- cials, however, when his neighbors ha brought numerous complaints to him of having been disturbed by the birds. After the situation was explained, his said, the Senator’s sympathies Meanwhile, the officials themsel ves were frank to solved. were cranes.” that| | & | It ment some of raising the necessary money. Chairman Campbell will out & letter to all concerned, the wntmmnmmm"g esday at ‘Then subscription blanks will be pre- sented to every worker, on which this pledge will appear: ki that ynemployment throughout the Unhl::g States has mcr:lud an emergency Wl requires as- sistance of all our people, and dmlrlni to do my part in every way possible, hereby pledge myself to contribute one day's pay a month for three months, to become a part of funds raised for un- employment_relief for the Winter of 1931-32 in the District of Columbia and for the other activities sponsored by the Community Chest of Washington, D. C., for the year 1932. It is understood that the first payment on my pl e will be due and payable on or befnr‘:gz (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) RUM ‘BUSTER’ FAILS, RAIDERS SEIZE THREE Two Men and Woman Arrested When Evidence-Destroying Contrivance Jams. Leo Scarnegie’s “automatic buster” failed at its first crucial and all-impore tant test yesterday, police said, and al- though the pressure of an electric but- ton released the “battering ram” it jammed and failed to descend with full force on the storage of alleged liquor, with the result that raiders confiscated several intact bottles. Scarnegie’'s “buster” was rigged up in a house in the 5200 block of Wiscon- sin avenue, according to police, and was unquestionably designed for just such an emergency as that which descended upon the household ‘vesterday. The cache, the officers reported, was stored in a cement box in the cellar. As the ralding party entered, some one started the contrivance working, but it failed to fully accomplish its purpose. e‘,’ who is 29; his wife, Ma- at $500. AMENDMENT TO KING'S SPEECH IS VOTED DOWN Labor Party's Measure Regarding Industries, Banks and Agri-. culture Defeated in Commons. By the Associated Press. LONDON, November 13.—The Labor party amendment ‘to the King’s speech iament was beaten'in the pelicy. for co-ordinating principal industries, including and agriculture, state ownership or control; the speech from the throne had made no mention of “unjust economies im- upon the unemployed.” U. 8. Consul Chief Sails. LONDON, November 13 (#).—Consul General Albert Halstead sailed today on the steamer Albert Ballin for a short visit to the stead is at g