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WEATHER. (U. 8. Wenther Bureau Forecast.) Pair and colder t; tomorrow tonigh Klly cloudy and slightly colder; mod- te west and northwest winds. Tem- peratures—Highest, 54, terday; lowest, 35, at Full report on page Closing N.Y. Markets, at 3:30 p. 7 a.m. toda 9. Pages13,14&15 yes- he Foening Sfar, “From Press The Star’s Sunday’s to Home Within the Hour” carrier system covers every city block and the regular edi- tion is delivered to Washington homes as fast as the papers are printed. Saturday’s Circulation, 115,527 Circulation, 126,332 No. 31996, Priereets “wen d class matter hington, > D. « WASHINGTON, D. (., MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1931—FORTY-TWO PAGES. s»% (#) Means Associated Press. TWO CENTS. —_———— = ‘MARCHERS’ ORDERLY AS CONGRESS OPENS GARNER MADE HOUSE SPEAKER AS DEMOCRATS TAKE CONTROL; WHITE HOUSE BARS PARADERS The New Speaker of the House ?Rebuff_ Follows Texan Re_ceivesi 218 Votes and : Snell, 207. | 2 M J ROW FOR MOSES’ POST IMPENDS Change in Rules to Allow Dry Law Vote Forecast. 1 BY G. GOULD LINCOLN. ! Faced with many economic and domestic problems, the Seventy- second Congress opened today at noon, while an army of unem- ployed marchers milled outside the historic Capitol. The sessions in both Houses were routine, but the-atmosphere was surcharged with excitement. In the House the Democrats took | over control, electing Representa- tive John N. Garner of Texas as Speaker, their first since the late ! Champ Clark ruled over the pro- | ceedings of that body In the voting for the speaker-| ship, Garner received 218 out of 430 votes cast, while Representa- tive Snell of New York, the Re- publican nominee, received 207 votes.. Led by Representative Kvale of Minnesota, the only| Farmer-Laborite in the House, the so-called Progressives cast 5 votes| for Representative Schneider cf“ Wisconsin, although he had not been nominated. Garner, Snell and Schneider | voted present. | There was tension in the Senate| chamber, with the possibility of an| early row over the eleetion of the presi- dent pro tempore, an office now held by Senator .George H. Moses of New | Hampshire By a slender. thread ) icans Tetain control of the . They have only 48 seats, but & in the | opposition ‘gives them a plurality. Their | traditional foes, the “Democrats, have | only 47 seats and ‘the Farmer-Labor | party 1. : Throng Visits Capitol. | } A huge throng visited the Capitol to- | daj, some to watch ihe unemployed marchers as they sought to lay their | petitiony before’ Congress, and others to witness the opening of the Congress, itséll. ‘The galleries in both chambers | were crowded early It was the plan of the House leaders to tackle proposals to amend the rules of ‘that body as soon_ as prganization has been completed. Both the Demo- WITCHELL URGES MR. GARNER OF TEXAS. JURY REFORMS | Asks Congress to Prevent Recurrence of Invalidated Police Indictments. Sweeping recommendations to fmprove | the grand jury and petit jury systems in | the District of Columbia were submitted tc Congress today by Attorney General Mitchell. To prevent & recurrence of such in- cratic ' and Republican caucuses have adopted recommendations for changes in the rules. The proposed amendment in which the greatest amount of inferest is cen- validation of indictments as has oc- curred more than once here, he recom- | mended legislation to provide that if 12 | eligible grand jurors vote for an indict- | —Underwood Photo. BANKHEAD SEATED DESPITE CONTEST Committee Raises Question, but He Is Sworn In With Bailey. By the Associated Press. Legality of the election of Senator Bankhead ©f Alabama was questioned today in an informal report by Chair- man Hasiings of an elections subcom- mittee to Chairman Shortridge of !he! full committee | Despite this informal report, however, | Bankhead took the ‘oath of office, as 1 v thorize 145 members, by | P a T e e 1 {ment the indictment cannot be invali- the House on a motion to discharge a | dated because of the presence of 1 in- committee from the further consider- | engible - stion of any resolution or bill befare it | & 5, "ic Person on the grand jury. Re. did Senator Bailey of North Carolina, | against whom a contest was filed by his | Republican opponent, George M. Pritch- | ard, former Representative. ' Two Setbacks . at Capitol a apitol. e o LABOR BUILDING | ~ 7 A W TO BE VISITED Offer to Hand RICH » PRI [ ‘Army’s’ Petition to | J | | Hoover Refused. ‘ The army of 1,500 unemployed ;rellef demonstrators, who ad- | vanced on Washington to make | demands on Congress and Presi- dent Hoover for Federal insurance | for the workless, were denied ad- mission today to both the Capitol and the White House. } Twice rebuffed at the Capitol in | an effort to get a committee into | the building, the marchers pro- | ceeded to the White House, and were again turned down when representatives sought an audi- ence with the President. Discouraged by their failure at the Capitol, the demonstrators appeared to be even more upset when their leader, | Herbert Benjamin, was bluntly refused | admission to the White House grounds No disorder developed, however, at | either the Capitol or the White House over the fallure of the unemployment | relief seckers to get their demands be- | bore Congress and the President. Offers to Present Petition. The 1500 marchers left the Capitol | shortly after 12 o'clock and reached |the White House over a circuitous | Toute, arriving there shortly before 1:30. Lined up on the north side of Penn- sylvania avenue facing the White | House, the marchers chanted and sang | while Benjamin conferred with police | officials and then started for the White | House gate trailed by an aggregation | of newspaper men and photographers. Just outside of the west gate he was met by Richard Jervis, chief of the White House Secret Service, and told | | that neither-he nor other members of | now they are preparing to submit the | the Unemployment Committee could see the President. Jervis, however, offered to submit to the President for Benja- min any petition he might have for unemployment relief, Benjamin told Jervis he was not sat- | isfled With the arrangement and thought | the President of the United States should see the representatives of the | “humble people,” for which he was act- | ing as spokesman. Again Jervis firmly and politely told him he would be glad to submit any written petition or state- ment the workers might have to the President. Confers With Leaders. Benjamin turned dejectedly after this statement from Jervis and said he would discuss the proposal with other members of the committee. In the | middle of Pennsylvania avenue he held | RAIL LABOR WEIGHS PAY CUT PROPOSAL Plea for 10 Per Cent Slash Goes Before Union Chair- men at Chicago. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 7.—Union la- | bor began to deliberate today the pro- posal of the Nation's railroads for & voluntary 10 per cent cut in wages. The rallway world, from Wall Street {to section hand, focused its attention on Chicago as executives of the big | brotherhoods opened the conferences | that are to settle the question—Will or- ganized labor accept a flat 10 per cent | cut for one year? | Some of these same labor leaders have already once answered “No," but | ruestion to 1,500 general chairmen of | the unions of all the railways. The program called for preliminary group meetings between the union rep- resentatives today and tomorrow with a combined meeting of all delegates | Wednesday, at which time a decision { may be reached. Force Is Intimated. Reduction of wages, has been put up { to the employes as something that must | come if the carriers are to escape eco- nomic ruin. And there have been many statements from the employers' side that if the cut were not accepted vol- untarily, the roads would make every effort the men, Labor leaders, on the other hand, to have reductions forced on | Bridge Marath(;n To Start Tonight In Locked Rooam ‘;Culbfrtson and Lenz Con- | test Excites Interest | of Millions. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 7.—A mara- thon game of cards which is exciting millions of people will start tonight. One player, whose methods have given him a millionaire’s income, is so confi- | dent that he has bet 5 to 1. The wager |is that he will defeat another whom | he acknowledges has mno superior in | actual play, whom many acclaim as the | world's best and who, as an amateur | magician with a deek, can give profes- sional gamblers cards and spades. 80 much is at stake that the United States Army will take care that things | are according to Hoyle of & latter day. Woman is on the same footing as (Continued on Page 3, Column b.) 1200 PACK COURT \Panel Half Selected at Noon. Man Accused in Slaying Appears Debonair. AT PONERS TRAL OBSERVERS DENY CHNESE WARMOVE iBritish and French Claim Chinchow Is Quiet Despite Reports. | By the Assoctated Press. PARIS, December 7.—Reports from French and British military observers {in the Chinchow area in Manchuria, | relayed to the League of Nations Coun- | cil here, say there is no Chinese mili- | tary activity in the area, as Japanese military circles at Mukden have claimed. “There have been no movements of :Chlnese troops on raflways north of the Great Wall,” the British observer reported. “Japanese reports that the | Chinchow area has been reinforced by |12 to 30 trains of troops cannot be ccnfirmed.” The French observer said, “No ap- preciable change in the situation has occurred since November 27.” Novem- ber 27 was the date the Japanese drive in the Chinchow direction was halted. The British observer reported the situation at Chinchow “normal, except for daily airplane reconnoissances” over the city. Although it was not so stated, it was understood that the | reconnoissances ‘were by Japanese lanes. Drafters of the League's ce pro- | posals discussed the‘?:)miop:l: eof a | neutral inquiry and_evacuation of the area with Nobumn Ito, Japanese legal AMERICAN REJECTS DEBT PARLEY POST: TTALIAN 1S CHOSEN Presidency Given Beneduce After French Oppose W. W. Stewart. |LONG SESSION ON GERMAN CAPACITY TO PAY SEEN Committee Places Go to Holland, Sweden, Switzerland and Jugoslavia. By the Associated Press o BASEL, Switzerland, December 7.— Alberto Beneduce of Italy today was elected president of the Young Plan Advisory Committee studying Ger many’s capacity to pay reparations. The seven committee members se- lected him after Walter W. Stewart, the American representative, had declined the nomination. A proposal to elect Mr. Stewart, it was und , was opposed by the French delegation. Then the committee adjourned to await the arrival of the S and Swedish representatives. M. Colijn and M. Duritsch already are here. Signor Beneduce's election was & compromise after Mr. Stewart had de- cined the nomination and the com- mittee had been unable fo agree on Emile Francqui, the Belgian, question, in the spirit of the munique which followed the recent meeting between President Hoover and Premier Laval of France. Rist, ice ;. lum; Sir Walter Layton, Great Britain: Dr. | Carl Melchior, Germany; M. B. Nohara, i‘c‘fim Prof. Alberto Beneduce, y. M. Francqui is an cld acquaintance of President Hoaver. The members filed behind the golden grill of the World Bank laden with - bundles of statistics. The GEN. SMUTS IS GLOOMY. CAPE TOWN, Union of South Afriea, December 7 (#)—If Germany defaults - on her debts, Gen. Jan Christian Smuts declaréd today, Great Britain is bound to follow sooner or later, “and the fact had better be faced in time.” “There is no use continuing this illu- sion of international debt and repara= tion payments which has upset inter- national finance and poisoned - national relations,” he declared. “The time has come to end. this d farce. If we don't end it we may have social ‘upheavals in which more than reparations and international debts may go by the board.” ‘The necessity for a final solutiop of the whole question is extremely urgent, he asserted. in an effort to have the bill or resolu- | Cently the indictments of several police- | Hastings' report was submitted short- | ®, Whispered -conversation with a group | expert, yesterday, without apparent ) o tion taken up for consideration in the men on charges of brutality were in- House itself | validated by the presence of a Spanish Change in Rules Forecast. | War penstoner on the jury. .This pro- The recommendations of the Repub- | cedure the Attorney General character- licans and Democrats in this TogaTd |ired as “absurd.” differ slightly in method of procedure. 3 It is believed, however, such 4 change ‘“ The Attorney General recommended in the rules will be made. The possi- | “Tevision of the present law respecting bility of bringing an_anti-prohibition | the qualifications of grand and ‘petty resolution before the House by this| ! en d t T means during the coming session has | JUYMen and authorizing approved and added copsiderably to the interest sur- | more efficient methods of selecting qual- rounding this proposed liberalization of |ified persons for jury service.” the rules. Cites Instances Here. Action on the proposal to liberalize House rules, which constitutes adop-| Discussing his proposal to eliminate tion of the rules of procedure for the |y, 5 Present session, was deferred until to- | ,"lgm‘m °"'"d’f‘mf“‘s* the Attor morrow and the House adjourned about | DY General said: “Insiances have re- 2:20 o'clock cently occurred, particularly in the Su- Later Speaker Garner said the Crisp | preme Court of the District, where proposal, laid before the House by di- | indictments returned after long and ex- rection of the Democratic caucus, will pensive hearings have been invalidated have the solid support of the Demo- | by the discovery of the presence on the Tats and he expected that from 50 to | grand jury of a single ineligible. juror. Republicans also would vote for | Constitutional requirements are satis- these rules fied if not less than 12 qualified grand Democratic leaders went into confer- | jurors vote -an indictment. If an in- ence late this afternoon on the selection | dictment is voted by a sufficient num- of a Program Committee to confer with | ber of qualified grand jurors, it seems a similar committee of Senate Demo- crats and Speaker Garner, who will be & member of that committee, said he expected the personnel of this commit- tee would be announced tonight Slate Due This Week. The Speaker sald the Democratic members of the Ways and Means Com- mittee constituting & Committee on Committees will be able to report their slate of committee appointments by the end of the present week The attendance in the House today was a record one, only two seats being vacant. Two hundred and nineteen Democrats, the party's complete strength, was on hand to elect Speaker | Garner, and one of the two vacancies on the Republican side was a seat yet to be filled by a special election. . In the Senate 30 newly elected, re- (Continued on Page 5, Column 7 GLASSFORD OBSERVES absurd that the indicoment’ should be invalidated because of the présence on the grand jury of one member who is ineligible because of age or some other such disqualification “Legislation should be adopted appli- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5.) YULE SPIRIT IN EVIDENCE Duties of Less Than $1 on Gift Imports Dropped. SAULT STE. MARIE, Ontario, De- cember 7 () —Customs officials on both sides of the border have entered into the Christmas spirit Goods imported as Christmas presents and upon which the duty would not be more than a gollar, will be admitted free to each country, it was announced. Washington Police Chief Follows Old Hobby in Making Survey of Unemployed Demonstrators. Smoking a long-stemmed pipe, Brig. | Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, Washing- | fon's now police chief, rode through | John Marshall place on a new motor | eycle this moming to observe the un- | emploved demonsirators as they pre- pared for their march to tne Capitol. l Gen. Glassford can ride a motor | ac‘:: with the best traffic cop on the| . having Jearned this art on the | battlefields of Prance during the World War. At that time he developed a sirong liking for this speedy means of transportation. Although his post-war activities have greatly curtailed his motor cycle riding opportunities, he still takes advantage of every chance to indulge this hobby. He admits that he once ran afoul of the law for cutting too y “fancy fiqures with one of the m [ly after former Senator Heflin, who is | contesting Bankhead's election, had | charged before the subcommittee ‘that | the election was “stolen” from him Heflin on Senate Floor, | ate seat as Bankhead was given the | right to the seat he formerly occupled, pending disposition of the contest, Explaining it had been impossible for the subcommittee to make a formal re-. port, Hastings listed four questions which he said some members of the subcommittee felt should be submitted to the full committee and the Senate, They were: “1, Whether the Alabama primary | which_nominated Mr. Bankhead for | the office of United States Senator was | in violation of the laws of the State of | Alabama and was, therefore, void, and if s0, what effect that had upon the general election with respect to Mr Bankhead. “2. Whether Mr. Bankhead ing to his sworn statements | the Alabama law or the Federal law, relative to expenditures and is thereby disqualified to hold the office. |, “3. Whether the facts disclosed by the recount of the b | disregard of the election laws of Ala- bama by the election offictals as to | make it impossible for the Senate to ;ncemxn a definite result accord- violated Violations Raise Doubt, 4. Whether, if the ballots that a; | tainted with law violations should lig | excluded from the count because of the | opportunity offered for fraud in such | violations. there would be sufficent ::Hd ballots let to enable the Senate ascertain the will of the to sscertain | electorate |~ Hastings said the | ballots by the subcommittee did not | show any material change from the re- | sults announced by Alabama election officlals, but the difficulty arose from discovery that election officlals disre. ig-ruecl the Alabama election laws, mere tabulation of ‘Oklflhomnu to Fight, After Chang- | ing Mind About Confessing. | IDABEL Okla., December 7 () Chatles Draper,” 32-year-old gt mountaineer, who changed his decision fo plead guilty o the murder of three nen after e birt] 0] trial here today. | ' * > Bo¢s on Officers said Dr. aper : and Topnir g Draper confessed killing ! Chappel, 56, - dale, Atk Eugene Harhs 55 soiing: Okla., and Jack O'Dell, 18, of Idahel. | Guring ® robbery. " The’ confession s 2lleged o have been made with the un. derstanding he would not. be prosecuted Untll after the: expected birth of fhe After the baby was born, Nov 15, Draper pleaded not gullty, T?..°‘s‘?5§f ings occurre !ust actoss from Ultima. et the State line | Heflin was on the fioor and in a Sen- allots show such a | | TRIPLE §LAY.'NG CASE UP| returned and told Jervis the commit: tee had no written statement for the | President and the marchers would make their plea in another way. | Excitement was tense among the crowd of sevéral thousand persons who | gathered in the vicinity of the White House while Benjamin and Jervis held | their sidewalk conference. William H. Moran, chief of the United States Secret Service, stood directly be- hind Jervis during these deliberations, and 400 uniformed policemen remained on ‘guard around the White House and grounds. Another detail of uniformed officers stood by the big iron gates at the west entrance ready to close them in the event of any disorder. Leaders Make Speeches. After bemng refused admission to the White House, the 1,500 marchers stood in silence while two of their leade: |~ (Continued on Page 5, Column 1.) PN BARBOUR MAY FACE CONTEST IN SENATE Morrow's Death Before Taking Oath Raises Legal Question in Appointment. By the Associated Press. The possibility of a contest against admitting Warren Barbour of New Jer- sey to the Senate arose today as Sena- tor Pittman, Democrat, Nevada, dis- cussed with members of an elections subcommittee whether the Governor of New Jersey had the right to make the | appointment | _Pittman Taised the question whether Dwight Morrow. who was elected to th. Senate for the term beginning last | March 4, ever became a Senator in view of the fact that he never took the oath. He was considering putting before the Senate tomorrow, when Barbour is ex- pected to present himself to take the | oath, the question of whether in view of those facts a vacancy existed which could be filled by an appointment. The -question of whether a Senator- | elect becomes a Senator when his term officially begins or when he is sworn into the Senate has never been decided. It also is involved in the case of Gov. Huey Long of Louisiana, who is holding offiee as Governor, thouzl:l his term as Senator began last March. Long has never accepted the pay as Senator, which began March 1, and has contended he is not a Senator until sworn in, Pin;rfln P;le c3 of the leaders and a few minutes later | | willing to accept shorter hours so that | work could be spread, but asserted that | “Labor cannot be called upon to carry |8 dole to idle capital” It is more necessary to maintain the families of | the working men, they contend, than {it'is to pay dividends to stockholders. | ” Since the meeting in New York last | month which resulted in somewhat of a statement between railway presidents ! and union executives, railway news has been plentiful. Pay Cut in Canada. | The Canadian Board of Conciliation, over the protests of the union mem- bers, recommended a 10 per cent cut in wages. The unions said they would not accept, but the reduction was promptly announced by the railroads. The unions. protested to the govern- | ment. | 'The Wabash Rallroad was placed in |the hands of receivers on a petition | that alleged the road's net income dur- ing the past year had been insufficient to meet interest charges on its $150,~ 946,300 funded indebtedness. President Fred Sargent of the Chi- cago & Northwestern quested” union men on his road to consider a “prompt reduction of at least 15 per cent.” Although the roads contend wages i can be forcibly lowered under the rail- way labor act, Attorney Donald R. Richberg, counsel for the Railway Labor Executives' Association, has ad- vised the labor leaders that there is no law under which railway workers can be compelled to work for reduced | wages. ; RAILWAY CUTS WAGES. Ten Per Cent Reduction Announced by Southern Pacific. SAN FRANCISCO, December 7 (#).— | A 10 per cent wage reduction, to affect | all employes of the Southern Pacific ex~ cept those whose pay is fixed by broth- erhood agreements or Federal regula- tion, was announced by the company yesterday. | ‘The announcement said a meeting of | the brotherhoods would be held in Chi- | cago today to determine whether other employes would accept a wage cut. The reduction_aflects every employe, from President Paul Shoup down, the announcement said. PLEADS HOMICIDE GUILT Ohio Woman, First Sentenced to Death, Gets Second Trial. WOOSTER, Ohio, December 7 (#).— Mrs. Julia Maude Lowther, Ashtabula, once sentenced to be the first womi electrocuted in Ohio for murder, pleaded guilty to a charge *of homicide today as her second trial on the murder charge was begun. Mrs. Lowther is accused of kiling Mrs. Clara Smith, 28, Ashtabula, in & plot with Mrs. Smith's husband, have suggested that the men might be | “urgently re- | By the Associated Press. CLARKSBURG, W. Va,, Decémber 7 —With a smile on his face, Harry F. Powers went on trial for his life today. | | Twelve hundred men, women and children packed Moore's Opera House | as the selection of a jury began. 'mey;: had come from all over the West Vir-|a | ginia mining section to hear again the | | story most of them know by heart— | how Powers wooed many women by |c mail and became a small-town Casa- | wculd establish in Manchuria. nova; how two women and three chil dren vanished after being seen with | him; how they were traced to a strange | | building with subterranean chambers| | Powers. had built 6 miles out in the | | country; how thelr bodies were found | | in a ditch nearby and how Powers was | |arrested and charged with killing gl | five in the windowless garage, | | Panel Half Selected. i An hour after the questioning of the |75 talesmen began | had been excused for having convie- | tions that Powers was guilty of the oge | murder for which he is on trial, that | of Mrs. Dorothy Pressler Lemke, North- | boro, Mass. At the noon recess the selection | the jury was more thanhalf completefl. | Thirteen of the twenty who must | qualified had been approved. When t) | other seven have been selected, the | State will eliminate two and the dé- fense six. Powers, debonair, was taken from his cell at 8:40 am. today and led by | circuitous route to the opera h where more than a dozen troopers | with_revolvers hanging from their belts (Continued on Page 2, Column 8.) 112,407 REPATRIATED MEXICANS RETURN HOME Total for Year Expected - to Reach 150,000. By the Associated Press. greatest immigration movement in ree cent Mexican history, 112,407 Mexicans repatriates have returnéd to this couns try this year, most of them from the United States. If the December figureg reach the government's expectation, the total for the year may exceed 150,000. Government figures released today res veal this unusually large total for the first 11 months of the year. l‘(:st of the Mexicans are return by %ay of Laredo and El Paso, Tex. The figures seem to indicate that not man; of them are ing California, but thaf the movement'§-very heavy from border States, progress. Bombers Kill Council that Japan make a separate eservation regarding the right to sup- press banditry in tne proposed Chin- derstanding _that no _counter-reserva- | MOTHER CONFESSES | Mrs. Hazel Bullard, Held With | five of the panel | MEXICO CITY. December 7.—In the | JAPAN REVEALS STAND. 300 Chinese as Army Is Prepared fo Move. TOKIO, December 7 (B).—It was uthoritatively said today that the Jap- nese government s prepared to acoept suggestion by the League of Nations how neutral zone which the League This, however, would be on the un- | (Continued on Page 2, Column 1.) OHIO BANK ROBBERY Two Men, Reveals Hidden Money and Guns Used. | By the Associated Press TIFFIN, Ohio, December 7.—Mrs. Hazel Bullard, 31 wyears old, of Carey, | mother of two children. confessed today f | that she led three men in the $2,061 hold-up of the Bettsville Banking Co. |at Bettsville Saturday, Prosecutor Paul Flynn announced. The woman also revealed the hiding place of the money and of the guns which the bandits used. Under a rain barrel at the home of John Wilcox of Carey, who admitted having plotted the robbery, according to Flynn, were found $900 in new bills. Alva Wilcox, 23, John's son, and John Terry, 43, of Upper Sandusky, who are | beld with Mrs. Bullard, denied having taken part‘in the hold-up. MRS. CARAWAY WAITS TO TAKE SENATE 0ATH Cereniony to Be Held Tomorrow After Resolution on Hus- band’s Death. By the Associated Press. Mrs. Hattie Caraway, the first woman to be appointed to a regular term in the Senate, decided shortly before Con- gress met today to defer taking the oath of office until tomorrow, awaiting adoption by the Senate today of a reso- lution of sorrow over the death of her late husband, Senator Thaddeus Cara- way Dressed in mourning, Mrs. Caraway came to her office at the Capitol today for the first time since her appoint- ment several weeks ago. She con- ferred with her colleague, Senator Rab- inson of Arkansas, who was prepared to call the attention of the Senate ta the death of her husband during the Tecess. It was Mrs. Caraway’s plan not even to aitend the opening session, which | was to adjourn almost immediately out | of respect to her late husband and Senator Dwight W. Morrow of New Jersey. Mrs. Caraway, just recovering from the shock of the sudden death of her husband, received only members of her immediate family at her office during the morning. With Mrs. Caraway were her three sons and a sister, Mrs. Mosle Abbott. Plans of the League of Women Voters to have Mrs. Caraway pose on the Capitol steps in a ceremony marking another step in the advance of fem- inism in politics were called off at her request. By the Associated Press | HAMMOND, Ind, December 1. A1 triple line of motor cars at State stnetl apd Holman avenue, Hammond's busiest | corner, paused last night when Traffic Pollsemnn Henry Eckstein held up his hand. Slowly there moved across the street @ shiny new baby carriage, pushed by a timid but fatherly looking gentleman. ‘The policerran held up his hand agaio as ' the man turned ‘and proceeded oroes the avenue, having already ul |OCCUPANT OF PERAMBULATOR, Majority Going Back From U. 8.1 HALTING TRAFFIC, BARKS THANKS “What’s the Idea,” Asks Policeman, and Owner Explains Cold Prevents Pet Taking Exercise Afoot. crossed State street in perfect safety At the curb the gentleman 10. m"llrte :1’: go d of a poodle . 50 t! y head of a from behlndthebllnmfn?m : in the officer’s face. 5 ‘The threw his enice "into, Bigh " sect, - Ocer w 3 L by ke i the idea?” “Well,” upm tleman, “you see it was ‘wife me take, busey.