Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 12

A—12 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1931. BATTLES GIANNINI FOR TRANSAMERICA Elisha Walker Appeals to Stockholders for Proxies i? Campaign. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 11.—Elisha | Walker, chairman of the board of the Transamerica Corporation,;appealed to day to the “common sense of the stock- holders” to support his fight against the campaign of A. P. Glannir California financier, to regain control of the cor- poration Walker accompanied his message to 245,000 stockholders e proxies he requests, with the announcement that the annual meeting of the corporation has been advanced from March 31, | 1932, to February 15 to provide an early deciston in the battle of proxies. Dropped From Board. | Giannini, who with assoclates was dropped from the board of the company & few months ago, has criticized Walker and his associat has himself proxies 500,000 g Mr. Glannint's quest | by Bancitaly Corporation to the Univer- sity of California to establish the Gilannini Foundation and for the build- ing of Giannini Hall, making $5,200 000 in all,” Walker wrote. Stock Was Supported | In another point of attack Walker charged that when the market began to decline at the end of October, 1929, the stock, at Glannini’s direction, was “maintained at a high and artificial level, from which it fell when the sup- port 'was moved.” | James A. Bacigalupl, president of | Transamerica, who recently broke with | Giannini after many years of close &s soclation with the Californian, joined Walker in the letter. | students Most GIRL HONO! AT MEREDITH COLLEGE. Vv orsatlle RED BY STUDENTS Tells Probe of “Blue Cards”| to Mark “Respectable.” By the Associated Pre NEW YORK magic a certain proprietors of New described yesterday GOTHAMPOLIGEMAN BARES PROTECTION “blue card” holds for | known as the Liquor Dealers legislative committee investigating city | If there was a complaint, he asserted, aflairs. they usually made a charge of “‘posses- Earlier in the day Samuel Seabury, |sion” or “a sale charge, if it was too committee counsel, charged that Charles hot.” | . Kerrigan, assistant to Mayor Walker, and others in the administration wcre‘ attempting to “whitewash” the charges | : turned up by Seabury. He named At- | committeeman, accused Frederick of be- John J. Bennett as|longing to a “ring” and of co-operating to Tammany Hall, but | With the blue card holders. said he was “mys- | kIr I belonged to that, :'\xdb]l"rrgcrr- i | ick, amid laughter, “I'd’ probably be a ERAERT IS chnee magistrate or something.” Raids on Clubs Taboo. Prederick said he knew all the speak- Frederick, called to tell about liquor | €asy proprietors by their first names, Reply Brings Laughter. | torney _General “ultra friendly” Bennett, in Albany. Senator John J. McNaboe, Democratic | | because his lieutenant took him around and introduced him. Any place having a blue card, he reiterated, was ‘“re- | spectabfe.” farine Corps Orders Maj. William S. Harrison, on Decem- | ber 20, detached recruiting district of Pittsburgh to 2d Brigade, Nicaragua, via the S. S. Santa_Cecilia, scheduled to sail from New York on or January 22. Maj. Joseph D. Murray, detached Mare Island, Calif, to headquarters | Marine Corps, Washington, Dnl]s Well hy Hand. Charles Artonowski, of Little Falls, Minn., recently drove a well by hand By three days of constant pounding with a sledge hammer, he had sunk a washer point and pipe 30 feet into the ground, beating the time of a ma- | chine drill nearby. Speakeasies other things, that raids on political clubs were taboo, whether they were Democratic, Republican or Socialist “You were non-partisan on that, any- way,” Samuel Seabury commented. | His principal testimony, however, | concerned the “blue cards” issued by the Liberty League, which, he said, was | Associa- tion in the Bronx before prohibition. If a speakeasy proprietor had this card, \he said, it meant that “you had to see | conditions in the Bronx, asserted, smang | & - &> 2 2 58, December 11.—The York speakeasies was by Patrolman Rich- ard A. Frederick before the Hofstadter the lieutenant” before making an arrest "TARY LEE, Daughter of Mr of Florence “most s. senior, presiden ment organizat | dent chaperons chosen R CAPD versatile” at Ral and Mrs. T. O. Lee C.. has been chosen by Meredith Colleg leigh, N. C. She is a jon and or by o 2 the fa A. P. Photo. NE “3346" ON PRISON LABOR Shoveling Part of Duties of Chicago Public Enemy, Gang Chief’s Brother. By the Associated TACOMA Wash Press. December 11.- | Ralph Capone, Chicago’s public enemy GIANNINI SEEKS CONTROL. BAN FRANCISCO, ~—A. P. Gian: collar 5 leadt: December 11 i, founder of the bil mericaCorporation 1t to the finish io the group he racketeers With the fortunes of thousands of Californians at Giannini night jumped foremost fight after a letter had been sent to| termed stockholders which he said was an at- | through the usu tack on his “personal honesty integrity | The letter, mailed to stockholders by | here from Leavenworth, Kans, Elisha Walker, chairman, and James A. Bacigalupi, president of Transamerica, | in an effort to secure proxies for the | stockholders'’ meeting scheduled here | February 15, 1932, claims $5,200,000 was | placed {0 Giannini’s credit during the | three-year period 1927-1930, and that Transamerica’s founder peg the price of Tr during the 1929 marke crash with $68,- 000,000 of company funds To all of which Glannini, given & copy of the letter at Salinas last night, replied “tommy rot! “After sear g my years as a banker,” he declared, they can say is that I tried to keep up the price of Transamerica stock when the market was falling, and that I was credited with a $3,700,000 bonus. When 1 retired from Transamerica I was en- titled to 5 per cent of about $83,000,000 of profits which I did not take. There are five of us in the Giannini family, | end our total wealth desn't come to a million.” " attempted to america stock | record of 27 PRELATES ATTEND RITES || All Mexican Archbishops Among | Those at Guadalupe Shrine. MEXICO CITY, December 11 (#).— Twenty prelates, including all the arch- bishops and all except two of thel bishops of Mexico attended a high pon- tifical mass in the basilica of Guada- lupe yesterday. More than 200 masses are being said daily in the anniversary festivities at the Bhrine of the Virgin of Guadalupe, who is supposed to have appeared mi- | raculously 400 years ago. ARMY ORDERS ‘ Col H. Chambers, Dental Corps, at Corozal, Panama, has been ordered his home in the United | retirement Ellis, Quartermaster Corps, the War Department has been detailed as a member of the board | investigating the battlefields of the commemorative pur relieve Col. W. C er Corps. | edd, jr. Coest d' from duty William Col. Artillery, has been relie on the War Department general staff and ordered to Hawali for duty with troop; Maj J. Kentzkow, Medical | Corps, ! Colo., to the Army Medic: i Maj. H. A Kirkk from Fort | Douglas g Ga; | Capt. E rmaster Corps 4 'f!rfl umv (D. C. 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