Evening Star Newspaper, December 11, 1931, Page 2

RAIL EXECUTIVES . PLAN POOL ACTION Organization of Credit Con- i poration - Authorized by li” 1, C. C. Taken Up Here. > 7 | | | ‘The sAssociation of Railway Execu- fives met here today to discuss plans | for organizing the Railroad Credit Cor- | poration, the ageney to be set up to| administer the freight rate surcharge | Doolauthorized by the Interstate Com- | meree Commission to make advances to | Wheat carriers for meeting their fixed | charges | More ‘than two score railroads, in-|{ eluding the principal lines of this coun- tiy and Canada, were represented by ) their presidents or other executive officers The rail men met in closed session Their discussion was to center around &ny furtber details that may be neces- S5y for setting up the credit corpora- | Yion, whose framework aiready has been | devised, and on the contract to be signed By each of the roads joining in the for- | mation of that organization. Advisory Committee Meets, ‘The Advisory Committee which drew up plans for the corporation met this| morning at the headquarters of the association and th eiation went into session at flower Hotel | Today's meeting presented the first epportunity for the rail men to discuss | formation of the credit corporation since the decision of the Interstate Com- merce Commission permitt he pool to be administered in t form of I %o the needy carrier d distributed as gratuities, as w 1y contemplated While the plan itself has been ac- eepted in principle by representatives | of most of the large roads of the coun- | try, the carriers as a whole have not | had a chance to pass upon it and & pool of all was expected to be made he!nre[ the corporation is brought into ex- | stence. | | | | the May- ad eing as original- Adoption Felt Certain It is felt, howaver, the plan is cel tain of adoption, perhaps 10 days be- mg required to get sdherence by all the carriers, or at least the large ma- Jority that would be necessary to insure $s success. The surcharge pool was offgred as the alternative by the com- mission in denying the 15 per cent in- crease. After the corporation is organized the roads will file application with the In-| terstate Commerce Commission to in- stitute new rates which apply only to eertain commodities. The new charges are not expected to be effective until| January 1, or later, and will remain in effect only untl) March 31, 1933, WIFE DROWNS SELF AS HUSBAND DIES Jumps Into Lake After Spouse Succumbs to Wound, Believed Self-Inflicted. | By the Associated Press GREENSBORO, N. C., December 11. | «=Mrs. Austin Smitb, 60, whose husband died last night from a bullet wound ‘Which police believe was seif-infiicted, drowned herself early today in Pine- etoft Lake, near her home. ‘Mrs. Smith, who was ill, was under the care of & nurse. About 3 a.m. she ped from the nurse, ran from the and Jeaped into the water. Her ly was recovered several hours later. Smith, 65 years old, tile contractor, ‘was found A his shop Wednesday n'ght suffering from a bullet wound. He told | an unidentified man came into the shop and shot him, but police ac- counted the shooting an attempted sui- cide when a revolver which had recently been discharged was found in the shop. Last night Smith died from his RADIATOR ALCOHOL PARTY KILLS THREE| i Five Others Under Observation | After Drinking Bout on Anti-Freeze. By the Associated Press. l WARREN, Pa., December 11.—Thres | men are dead and five are under ob~ servation in the county jeil here es the | result of a party at which some of them drank radiator alcohol, James Evans, 55, died late yesterday, James Reynolds, Warren, died Wednes- | day night and James McGovern was found dead st the home of Henry Steinkamp. Steinkamp, Ed Haley, Robert Ness,| John Graham and Gordon Taylor were | taken to the county jail to await inves- | tigation Coroner Ed Lowrey said h: believed | the radiator alcohol had been pur-| chased without violation of the law. | DOMINIONS BILL APPROVED BY KING| Measure Granting Equality, Years in Process of Making, Be- comes Law. By the Assoctat LONDON, De today gave his of Westminster status of equ: between Great Britain | and her dominions, giving the latter full power to enact legislation inde- pendent of the government at London The royal assent makes the measure & part of the law of the land. It was gre\lnu.sly adopted by both Houses of liament The King also assented to the horti- cultural products bill, which establishes customs duties on imports of such prod- uce as may compete in the domestic markets of Great Britain with home- gTown commodities The statute of Westminster, empower- ing the British dominions to conduct their own internal and extra-territorial affairs without reference to the policies of the United Kingdom, was years in th> making, and, in_ effect, it repeals the Colonial laws validity act of 1865, leaving the dominions free to determine for themselves whether they will accept legislation passed by the British Par- Mament It applies fully to the Irish Free State, but there are certain reservations with regard to India during the so-called transition perfod before India receives 2ull dominion status. aseent ~r PLANK SERVES AS BAR SIOUX CITY, Towa, December 11 (). —How to padlock a liquor dispensary | consisting solely of s 4-foot plank is what afternoon the asso- | f % | she | general meeting of chairmen called for | Colerado avenue. JA THE EVE PANESE STAR AND HIS SON'S WHITE MOTHER MEET ON SHIP P | Sorry for Hayakawa's Wife, Says Girl Who Still Claims Love. California Case Like “Mme. Butterfly” Opera, With Roles Reversed. By the Assoc S8AN FRANCISCO, December 11.—All the drama of the famous opera “Madame Butterfly,” with the roles reversed, un- | folded itself here today. A ship Sessue country ailed toward Japan, bearing Hayakawa, film actor of that and this, back to his own a hotel other of she did not w In Los Angeles Hayakawa's Japanese wife, held little Yukio, ron of her hus- band and Miss Noble, in her arms. Thus was written another chapter in the dramatic love story unfolded re- cently when Miss Noble sued for recov- ery of the child Ruth Noble. waited—for room white his son, Soon to Return. el in Los Angeles a tor sailed for Japan yagement He then will return to his wife in the Southern eity. Miss Noble the ship, t She vessel too, was knowicdge, he said aled herself to him as the ed San Francisco to assure him sald, she had meant no harm in suing for the recovery of their son The Chronicle said he forgave her, paid her §7.000 and agreed to pay her $150 a month for three vears in sei- tlement of all claims she may have against him Sorry for Japanese Wife. Interviewed at her hol:l here, Miss Noble said the Japanese actor told her he still loved her. She also said she felt sorry for Hayakawa’s Japanese wife, since “she knows Sessue and I still love each other.” It was a different story, however, that Mrs. Hayakawa told in Los Angeles, “Sessue would not hurt me” she averred. “I know he loves me and no RAL UNION HEADS | on Committee of Four Named to Draft Discussions on Proposed Cut. | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 11.—Bhortly before noon today the committee draft- ing into concrete form the discussions of the 1500 railway union chairmen on wage reductions and unemployment adjourned, leaving the task to a sub- committee of four D, B. Robertson, general chairman, said the four would report back later today. Robertson denied last night, when a 1,500 chairmen broke up, that any “defi- nite poliey” had been formulated. The meeting had been called for the pur- pose of crystallizing the sentiment of | the five mejor brotherhoods, so that the today would have something definite on which to work. Despite Robertson’s denial and the | close-lipped secrecy which has guarded all transactions so far, a number of un- | confirmed rumors were heard through the lobby of the hotel where the confer- | ences are being held. One was that a| proposition had been agreed upon and | that the genersl chairman would be | asked to indorse a proposal by which | the rank and file would be asked to accept a 10 per cent reduction, provid- ing the railways consented to a six-hour day or five-day week, in addition to | making other concessions in working | conditions. The Herald and Examiner, however, | said the conference of 63 had decided to make no recommendations cunctrn~‘ ing the wege cut, but had decided to ask that Congress put into effect the thorter working schedule, in addition to the elimination of grade -crossings, half to be borne by the Government and the other half by the railroads. SUICIDE IS JURY’S VERDICT DESPITE PLEAS OF RELATIVE (Continued From First Page) basement garage of his home at 5702 Revived by the fire rescue squad, he was taken to Em- ergency Hospital, where pneumonia de- veloped the following day. Alter the jury announced its verdict, Kizer's brother-in-law, Willlam O. Tufts, 1635 Madison street, asked permission to address the jurors. With the consent of Coroner Joseph D. Rogers, Tufts told the jurors sulcide was “inconceivable” and ‘sought to induce them to change the verdiet “I had known Mr. Kizer for 20 years,” Tufts told the jury, “and I know he was not the type of man who would commit suicide. He was always clean cut and courageous. 4 “Besides, there was nothing to be grined by his ending his life. He had uly & small amount of life insurance, inly not enough to profit his fam- ily. As a matter of fact, aiter his fu- neral expenses and debts are paid, his wite will have to seek employment.” After rehearing some of the testimony, the jury deliberated the case about 15 or 20 minutes longer and then an- nounced it would stand by its original verdict. Born in Tllinois, Kizer came to Wash- | ington in 1904 and became an expert | accountant in the auditor’s office of the | War Department. He also studied law at National University. At one time he was in charge of War Department accounting files, running back through the entire military history of the Na- tion. Later he specialized in auditing and scrutiny of Government contracts | He was a member of the Mount Pleasant Congregational Church, where he had served as treasurer of the church. He is survived by his widow, a 16-year-old daughter, Ruth, and a brother in Chicago. McADOO VISITS GARNER Former Treasury Secretary Con- { | | | | gratulates New Speaker. Willlam G. McAdoo, former Secretary | of the Treasury., who has been men- | tioned for the presidential nomination, called at the Capitol today to congratu. late Speaker Garner on his election. McAdoo also visited Chairman Col- lier of the Ways and Means Committee He said he was en route to Dallas, Tex., to speak on disarmament, pussling Deputy Sheriff Frank O'Con- no-. He was ordered to padlock the liquor establishment of A. Z. Enoleman, but he found the bar consisted of a plank | Balled between two downtown bulldings ‘There was no other paraphernalia. He wonders whether he should nall a pad- ek ’- the plank. Warrants Total Tenth of City. | CHICAGO, December 11 (#)— | Enough warrants were issued by the Chicago municipal courts in 1931 to arrest one of every 10 citizens, the clerk’s annusl report yesterday showed. ¢ RUTH NOBLE. SESSUE HAYAKAWA. longer loves Miss Noble. Their love affair is dead. The baby is beginning to love me, t00. I shall have an Ameri- can Christmas for him ' Forum Speaker conférence of 63 representitives of the - OGDEN L. MILLS. MILLS WILL SPEAK ON U. 5. FINANCES Radio Forum Talk Saturday Night Will Attract Wide Interest. Undersecretary of the Treasury Ogden floating & billion-dollar bond issue for L. Mills will discuss the vital question | of Federal finances on the National Radio Forum, arranged by The Wash- ington Btar and broadcast over the coast-to-coast network of the Columbia Broadcasting System Saturday night at 10 o'clock, Eastern standard time. With the Government running into a huge deficit, which already this fiscal year amounts to more than $800,000,000, plans have been made by the adminis- tration to mest this diff issue at a time when the business of the country admittedly is still in a depressed con- dition Of interest to every taxpayer in the country s this fiscal program being laid down here at Washington on taxes, and for improving the general business sit- uation. Mr. Mills, as Undersecretary of the Treasury, occupies a key position, from which he is prepared to explain the whole situation clearly to the Amer- ican people. Not only has Mr. Mills held the post of Undersecretary of the Treasury for vears with ability, but prior to that he was & member of the House Ways and Means Committee and as a member of Congress took an active part in framing the tax legislation of thcse days. He 5 thus doubly prepared to address the | $acrifled hi ol | to the entire public people on the of muc today. PRISON SATISFIES CONFESSED SLAYER Danish Woman's Attorneys Seek Release, However, Until Trial for Mother's Death. question which is importance By the Associated Press. CCPENHAGEN, Denmark, Deccmber 11.—Atiorneys for Mrs. Else Wille Bang, who confessed she gave her mother, Baroness von Dueben, a fatal |overdose of medicine, yesterdey asked for her release from prison for transfer to a hospital pending her trial on & charge of murder. A police judge promised to consider the appeal and make & decision Sat- urday. Mrs. Bang confessed to s clergyman lest week that she had given her mother a fatal overdose of medicine to put an end to her suffering from an_incurable disease. The m:ther's y lator was exhumed and investi- getion disclosed that she had not been | eritically ill before she died Several members of the Rigsdag, the Danish Parliament, have protested against keeping Mrs. Bang in prison until her case is decided. Mrs. Bang, however, apparently was not eager for the release today. ' Asked whether she objected to staying lgir\nn. she answered, “New* PHILADELPHIA BARS TAX RATE INCREASE City Council Sends ’32 Budget Back for Drastic Slash After Protests. By the Associated Press PHILADELPPHIA, December 11— The voice of the people was heard and heeded in Philadelphia’s City Council yesterday. Taking warning from a rising city | wide protest against an increase in the tax rate, council surrendered to the will {of the protestants and ordered that |there be no increase in the tax rate | next year. Budget Returned to Be Slashed. In one of the most animated sessions since the femous gas lease fight in 1905 the council referred the 1932 budget back to its Finance Committee with binding instructions te slash it to a point where no increase over the pres- ent rate shall be required The action came after mass meetings last Bunday and Tuesday nights and | & demonstration of 5,000 persons on Clty Hall plaza today under the office y hat window of Mayor Harry A. Mackey had been held Had Planned the Increase. The council last week decided to in- crease the tax rate 35! cents, from 2.77%2 cents to $3.13 for each $100 of assessed real estate valuation. It also | had decided to increase water rates 50 |per cent. It had been sitting for a month paring down the 1932 estimates ari wound up with a budget of $101,- 453,827, The demonstration at City Hall was 8 peaceful ohe. Groups of taxpayers and others gathered from all sections of the city, augmented by a procession from the northwest section of Phila- delphia. ~Speakers at the demonstra- | tion protested against the increase on the ground that this was not th, | to add burdens to the home owne | business general] |KANE TAKES STAND IN HIS OWN BEHALF AT MURDER TRIAL (Continued Prom First Page.) rs and Comfort He said he then went to visit \ Hampton attorney and friend said the morning of the drown- got up early, but that Mrs, In't want to go to breakfast father left. as she did not get very well. He said she whie she came down because n't like the breakfast. They left nedintely afterward for the beach, he added. [ _“It was & hot day and no wind,” Prof. | Kane said. “The tide was high when we got there and I again taught Jenny swimming and diving. When she got nervous she would yell ‘Get me!’ " Once their dog ran off and they roamed down the beach to look for him, Kane said, putting the Gog in their { car on the return. “The only time I believe any one | could have seen us in the car was at | that time,” he said. “About 11 o'clock | Jenny suggasted lunch.” I told her I thought I'd take one more swim and asked her to watch. She was stending close to the ledge of the lighthouse rocks, 1 don't know how far I swem out. It secmed to me when it happened I must have been 200 yards away. | Describes Tragedy. “I was horribly upset and T don't know what I said after the drowning. I think now it must have been about 65 yards. “Jenny shouted ‘watch me’ and slip- ped sideways. I shouted to her to lie on her back. T saw her go down twice, I think, got to her and found her sub- merged. “She grabbed me convulsively. broke her hold and got her by the arm.” “With an arm-and-head hold I swam ashore. I tried to reach the rocks, but they were slippery.T don't know how deep the water was. but it was over my head, It seemed the whole weight of the ocean was pressing against me. It seemed that I would never reach the shore. I staggered in, carrying her.* Kane seid emphatically he did not swim with his wife's head down. When he reached shallow water, he said, he squeezed her around the waist to re- suscitate her and stumbled through the shallows screaming #s loud #s he could. He said he had the accelerator “to the fioor” all the way to the hospital. drove like a devil,” he said {loved the woman I couldn't save. Tt seemed that nobody at the hospital | knew anything about their business and I thought my wife was dying.” Father on Stand. Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane, aged father didn’t e he di b | refused to say he received a harsh let- ter from his son over a refusal to come to Hampton to make an examination of the professor’s wife. Questioning of the prosecution lead- ing up to the “harsh letter” was ol jected to by the defense and Judge Vernon Spratley sustained the objec- [ tion The aged phy: 0! wife, adding that he met her away from her home because he was not on very friendly terms with W. C. Gra- ham. her father. He sald In answer to questions that immediately after the examination, “Did Mrs. Jenny Kane have any heart lesion?” he was asked “I did detect a blowing murmur at my last examination,” he said, Asked if Mrs. Kane had a taoxic goiter, Dr. Kane said several physicians thought so, but that he did not know. Dr. Thomas L. Kane, brother of the professor, said Mrs. Kane suffered from heart trouble and that the professor gave her every attention possible and | sacrified his own comfort to carry out ILLNESS RUMOR DENIED Friends of Prince Nicholas State His Wife Is Entirely Well. BUCHARPST, Rumania, December (#)—FrieAds of Prince Nicholas, ecently incurred King Caral! anger by marrying the commoner, Mme. Jana Beletj, said today there was no truth in reports published abroad that | Mme. Deletj was serfously ill from an overdraught of a sleeping potion, {-‘chr health is entirely normal, they sald. 4 of Prof. Kane, who preceded his son, | ician told of one visit | he made to Hampton to examine his | he returned to his home in Kane, Pa, | Federal Penitentlary at Leavenworth, Kans, from which Warden T. B. White as abducted today by convicts. —A. P, Photo. | 1 | FEDERAL RESERVE POLICES FLAYED Chicago Banker Also Tells Senators Industrial Leaders Ignored Danger Signals. { By the Associated Press. | Policies of the Federal Reserve Board e tim> | and industrial leaders during the spec- | | eriticised before a Senate Committee | today by Melvin A. Traylor, Chicagc | banker Traylor, who has been mentioned as possible Democratic presidential |8 | no facturers Subcommittee the interest | policy of the Federal reserve binks in 1927 was “at least unfortunate” and sald industrial leaders ignored danger signals. The banker sald the war with its accompanying_inflation was the “un- derlying cause” of the world’s economic troubles, He testified the inflation of credit during the war was in excess of $200.000,000,000. Legislation to provide for economic | planning was urged before the commit- tee by representatives of the Praternal Order of Eagles, who sald it must be | undertaken by the Government. Denles Gold Shortage Factor. | Chairman La Follette, = denied the | world’s economic troubles were caused by gold shortage. | "La Follette asked if American in- | dustry had contributed by too rapid expansion. | ""The degree of intelligence exercised | by all of us in the lock backwards cer- tainly does not entitle us to very much credit as wise men,” Traylor replied. “That is particularly true of industrial leadership, because after all they had the facts of the situation and those facts were conclusive that we couldn't support the volume of business of 1928 and 1929 and couldn’t look for an | increase.” Traylor sald the foreign investment policy of American lenders was not. well advised and was too liberal. | 'The banker said the trends were | clearly discernible before the crash | of 1929 Danger Signals in 1928, “The danger signals were certainly obvious by 1928, he said. La Follette asked why there were no more warnings on the part of leaders. ‘“Just human nature,” Traylor replied. La Follette asked about the wisdom | of American banking policies, “It is perfectly obvious now, and to some it was at the time, that the Fed- | eral Reserve policy of 1927 was, to say | the least, unfortunate. “Some of us believed at that time | that interest rates of the Federa! Re- | serve banks should have been raised stifly. They were reduced in 1927, and from the standpoint of the arguments given for that action it was probably Justified.” Traylor said commercial banking was soundly conducted with reference to market specuiation, but its efforts were nullified by the development of loan- ing direct by large corporations in the call money market and attraction of $3,000,000,000 of foreign capital, |HOROSCOPE READING COSTS WOMAN $30,000 Mother Advises Son to Leave Wif2 and Court Makes Award in Alienation Suit. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 11.—A horoscope reading cost Mrs. Wenonah Sheldon $30,000 yesterday. She testi- fied in Superior Court she had advised her son, George W. Sheldcn, and his wife, Florence, to separate because a horoscope showed the younger woman's fate was “dark.” They separated, Sheldon marrying s wealthy former sweetheart, and Mrs. Florence Sheldon sued her former mother-in-law for $150,000, charging alienation of affections. | The jury returned a verdict for $30,- | 000 damages. | SPANISH RIOTS RENEWED | 8trikers Wound Four Policemen. Forty Agitators Arrested. GIJON, Spain, December 11 (#) — Four policemen were wounded yester- day in a renewal of fighting with strik- ers and 40 agitators were arrested. Two persons have dled in the last two days as a result of the dispute. ZA, Spain, December 11 (®). flf‘ggm ‘was kilied and three were | wounded yesterday in & clash between | strikers and police growing out of the refusal of women factory workers to pay for maternity insurance out of thelr wages. By the Associated Press. Almost under the windows of the White House, an erstwhile aide of President Hoover today had set up an orgenization seeking to defeat his re- nomination by the Republican party. It was Horace Mann of Tennessee, ¥hose directing work in the Southern States had much to do with swinging big chunks of Dixie into the Republican fold. e established headquarters here vesterday, claiming a Nation-wide or- genization, thoroughly grounded on months of preparation, The real strength of the new machin was unknown. “ Mann would not name his associates, nor would he pick out the to back. There are plenty of gnod Republicans, “self-sacri- ficing, patriotic statesmen” from among whom to select & nominee, he said. MANN SETS UP ORGANIZATION : SEEKING DEFEAT OF HOOVER| One thing, he did insist upon. His organization is composed of party “regulars.” . Reports have linked the name of G(flul:g Pinchot with the Mann group, but there is belief that Senator Hiram Johnson of California is the candidate it would like. He has not, however, thrown his hat in the ring. Ambasse- dor and ex-Vice Pressident Dawes ls mfi:gn"‘shfi;m with the President came when the latter overhauled the patron- age-distributing machinery in the | States where the Tennessean had or- ganized the campaign. Ever since | Mann has been a bitter opponent of Mr, Hoover, Now he terms renomina- tion in 1932 an “utterly useless gesture, destined to certain and calamitous de- feat in the November election. ’ ulative period from 1927 to 1929 were | minee in 1932, told a Senate Manu- | ‘Traylor, in reply to a question from | 'WATSON DEMANDS ARMS CUT AS PRICE FOR DEBT REVISION (Continued From Pirst Page.)_ | I see vived.’ Preparations went ahead for the Fi- nance Committee to investigate foreign security holdings in this country, as or- dered by the Senate yesterday. Senator Johnson, California, Repub- lican, sponsored it as one move in his opposition to the Hoover moratorium. Another opponent of the moratorjum, Representative Rankin, Democrat, Mis- sissippi, today asked the House to con- duct a similar inquiry, Drastic Scrutiny Advised. Senator Vandenberg of Michigan, a ReL?ubhcln member of the Foreign Re- lations Committee, sald the President's | debt. proposal involved a “problem de- | manding drastic scrutiny at every step |and a” warrant that the American Do reason why it should be re- Treasury be not subrogated to any other | interest at home or abroad. “The extension of a live debt is pref- | erable to default in a dead debt upon which we cannot foreclose short of un- | thinkable war. Therefore I can sce no reason why the recreation of the war debt commission, as suggested by the P..sident to share his study and con- clusions, is not a wise provision, partic- ularly from the viewpoint of those who may fear that executive inclinations might be too malleable. “I think we might well wait, however, to let Europe show her good faith on arms reduction and revision of German reparations.” Undersecretary Mills will be called by Chairman Collier of the House Ways and Means Committee to explain Presi- dent Hcover's foreign debt plans either Monday or Tuesday. |s long way in the impending debts | discussion, summed it up: “I am not In favor of re-creating the | World Foreign Dzbt Commission. Thore | 1s no business for it to transact. I dol not see any evidence that Europe pro- | poses to reduce armaments or that she | proposes to adjust reparations upon any | proper basis.” T TAXICAB DRIVERS ARE FOUND GULTY Suspended Sentences Given in “Cruising” Violations as Four Are Freed, Fifteen of 34 taxicab drivers who were | arrested yesterday for “cruising” in a restricted area on Seventh street were | | convicted and given suspended sen- | tences by Judge John P, McMahon in | Police Court afternoon. | Four of the drivers pleaded that they had just been dismissed by passengers and had only driven for a block or two in the restricted area. Judge McMahon | dismissed the charges against these men. The 15 others falled to appear tin court and forfeited $5 collateral | which each had posted. The collateral money was refunded to the convicted ino case was made. Under a regulation recommended by Traffic Director William A. Van Duszer, and later approved by the District Com- missloners, the taxicabs were ruled off Seventh street. The regulation was to 80 into effect December 2,-after the cus- tomary 30 days' notice, but the Traffic Bureau extended the time limit until yesterday. Warnings Cover Month. The last month has been spent in warning taxi drivers to stay off Seventh street between the two avenues., Ves- | terday police changed their tactics to banding out pink tickets, which resulted in booking of t] | headquarters. ;drm Tegulation points cut that taxi ivers will only be allowed | restricted area o " | cific call or wh ger_in their cal The conditi giyinz ing c | directi when answering a spe- !e.n they have a passen- the streets of Washington is hecked by a staff umder the | lon of Ira B. Reynolds, chief en- gineer of the Public Utilitles Com- mission. The cabs must pass the tests having | to do with sanitary condition and me- | chanical operation before the hackers ;;13]1 be allowed to get their 1932 license 5. | 'The order of the ccmmission com- | pelling equipment of all taxicabs with | meters goes into effect January 10, unless stayed as a result of several | court proceedings pending in District Supreme Court. Both the commission and the hackers have filed moticns to :d;nnce the date of the trial, however, N of before the effective date of the order. LITHUANIANS ELECT FIVE YEARS AFTER COUP By the Associated Press, | . [CAUNAS, Lithuania, December 11.— After having been ruled by the Presi- dent for the last five years, following & coup d'etat, Lithuania held an election ay. The President is elected by a special ? 118 electors, who in turn are by assembliss composed of mem- the local government bodies of communes in the pro- "nf 1 elector to every 20,000 in- nts. Antonas Sm sidered etona, incumbent, is con- He s op it cert‘lln of re-e]:ctlag. posed lormer Premier 3 a.lvm-mu. - Birsiskas and P. ONASs. body o elected Will Address Young Republicans. Mrs. Anne Tillery Renshaw, speech Will address a meeting of the Young lab?ubllnnl of the National Capital Republican Ciub tonight at the club hcuse, on Scott circle. Mrs, Ren- shaw, dean of the Renshaw School of Bpeech, ' will speak on ‘“Campai " A business meeting will mzmwtflnmu Senator Borah, whose words will go | drivers as well as those against whom | he 31 drivers at police | in the b on of the 5,000 taxicabs | it is expected the cases will be | ARRESTED AS LY IN GOTHAM THEFTS |Agile Man and Three Others Jailed as Total Lont Passes $1,000,000. By the Assoclated Press, NEW YORK, December 11.—A small agile colored man was formally arrest- ed today on suspicion of being the “human fly” who in the last year has stolen from fashionable homes on Park avenue, Fifth avenue and West End avenue more than a million dollars in cash and jewelry. He was captured last night on the Toof of the Park avenue mansion of George H. Warrane after he had at- tempted to burglarize the next door home of Mrs. John Woodruff Simpson. Attired in a chauffeur’s uniform he described himself as Robert Russell, an ex-convict. Jeweler Also Heid. Booked with Russell were two other | colored men and a white man who had | been taken into custody during the | night. The colored men were charged | with acting In concert with Russell, and | Morris Peltz, a jeweler, was charged | with receiving stolen g . | e most recent gem theft attributed by police to “human fly” methods of burglars occurred Wednesday night last |m the apartment of Howard Beebe, 1whn'e the thieves obtained property | valued &t more than $16.000. Other burglaries Russell was ques- | tioned about today included: Barron G. Collier, $1,000 safe stolen; Adelaide Strauss, $25,000; Walter Lloyd Smith, corporation lawyer, $60,000; Watson, broker, $5000; Roy E. Larsen, pub- lisher, $5.000; George S. Brewster, ex- porter, $80,000; Herbert N. Strauss, de- partment store head, $90,000. Bares Prison Record. The robber, who has specialized in robbing penthouses and apartments above the fifth floor, made use of fire | escapes. Russell admitted he had been sen- | tenced to from two and one-half to five years for burglary in Mic! and that he had a police record in Philadelphia. . FOUR FAINT IN CRUSH OF 800 SEEKING JOBS Two Women Cut as Pane Pushed by Crowd Breaks—Company Needing 150 Hires 225. | | By the Associated Press. ; OLEVELAND, December 11.—Four | persons fainted and trafic on down- | town Euclid avenue .was jammed for half an hour yesterddy, when s crowd estimated at 800 men and women surged in front of the George H. Bow- | man Co. to apply for 150 jobs which had been advertised for the holiday season. Although he needed only 150, Rem- ingicn Peck, manager of the store, hired 225. ‘““We didif¢ have the heart | to_turn 5o many away,” he said. Mrs. Ann Vugrenae, 17, was eut on the forehead and Miss Mary Kostan- , 17, was cut on the hand, when a plate-glass window at the front of the store was broken by the crowd pushing to get inside. TWO SOVIET DIRECTORS ARE CITED FOR TRIAL —_— Both Are Expelled From Commu- nist Party for Shipping Goods Improperly Packed. MOSCOW, December 11 (#)—Two directors of Soviet trusts were expelled {from the Communist party and cited for inal trial yesterday for shipping | produce stuffed ‘in torn bags instead of properly packed in wooden boxes. A. Barinov, commercial director of the Textile Trust, and N. L. Pertsoff, director of the Moscow Confectionery Trust, were summarily dealt with for thelr handling of tea cakes and hand- kerchiefs. A number of others were cited for trial, some were removed from thelr posts and others were warned another offense would bring severe discipline. Nine departments connected with the system of supply for manufactured goods were involved in charges of send- ing greal amounts of commodities to storage instead of distribating them for public consumption. Millions of rubles in tinned foods, tobacco, perfumery, radio parts, cloth and tea were stored by the respective trusts when they should have gone into the open market. | | | GARNER FOREGOES USE OF SPEAKER’S MOTOR CAR Says He an d Wife Don’t Need It and Believe in Setting Ex- ample in Economy. Speaker Garner decided today to forego the special automobile that goes | along with the speakership. | _ Many a quip he and the late Speaker Longworth exchanged in past sessions over “our car,” as Garner called the machine, As minority leader, he often told his friend Longworth that the car, bought the Government for the Speaker’ use, some day would be his to use by & Democratic overturn of the Republican majority. But today, as Garner sat at his desk signing letters, he said: “Mrs. Garner and I don't need the | 2utomobile in the first place, and I be- | lieve in setting an examyle in Govern- | ment economy.” | Named Town Nameless. Nameless, in Laurens County, Ga. ' was given that name because in'a list of several hundred to the post POLICE BRUTALITY TRIAL NEARING END Assault Case Against Two Expected to Reach Jury by Tomorrow. The final stages of the trial of tw: ninth precinct policemen, charged witt 8 feloneous assault on Henry Johnson 8 colored laborer, were reached toda; in District Supreme Court. Indications were that the case aginst Vivian H. Landrum and John Sirola would go to the jury later in the day or tomorrow morning. The trial began Wednesday. Both Landrum and Sirola took the witness stand late yesterday and de- inied statements of Government wit- | nesses that they struck Johnson with a 3-foot club on entering his home au 1734 Montello avenue northeast, Au- gust 5, last, on the complaint of his wife that he appeared to be tempo- rarily insane. The policemen both said they did not strike Johnson until he resisted arrest and attacked Landrum with the club, which has been introduced in evidence. Landrum said he struck Johnson with his nightstick while Sirola said he hit the man with his fist and nothing else Johnson previously testified one ot both of the policemen entered his home and beg>n beating him without provo- cation. He sald he was knocked un. conscious with the club. He deni:d h¢ had been drinking, as reported by other witnesses. E€everal other Governm:n! witnesses, however, corroborated John- son’s story that he was not intoxicated Motions Postponed, Hearing of the motions for new trials filed on behalf of James A. Mostyn precinet detective; William Laflin, pa- trolman, both of the first precinet, angd Robert J. Barrett, headquarters detec- tive, convicted of simple assaults in police brutality cases, was postponed to- day by Justice James M. Proctor until the next motion day, probably Satur- day, December 19. Mostyn and Laflin were held to have beaten James Harker, a prisoner charged with housebreaking, while he was detained in the first precinct. A Jury found Barrett guilty of a simple assault on a suspect, ‘George B. Baber, in the latter’s apartment. United States Atiorney Rover con- ducted the prosecution of Mostyn and Laflin, who were defended by James A. O'Shea and John H. Burnett. Assist- ant United States Attorney Julian Richards prosecuted Barrett, who was defended by Attorney S. E. Russell Kelly and Harry Whelan. TRIAL OF WOLFENDEN STARTS AT MANASSAS Most of Morning Is Devoted te Jury Selection—Coroner First Witness, | Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. MANASSAS, Va, Décember 11— With the little court room filled to suf- focation and crowds milling about the court house grounds, the triai of Wal- ter Wolfenden, chm;red with the mur+ der of Goodwin Miller near Kopp on September 35, got under way today. Most of the mornihg was devoted tc the selection of a jury. ' Seven were ex- cused as having discussed the case or formed an opinion. Six were excused as opPond to capital punishment. The completed jury took the box at noon. The opening statément for the com- monwealth was made by Thomas H Lion and for the defense by Prederick P. Flynn of Alexandria, who is asso- clated with T. E. Bidlake, defense counsel. The first witness called was Dr. G. H. Marsteller, county coraner, who viewed the charred remains on the night fol- lowing the fire. —_— PRESIDENT GIVES $5,000 TO JOBLESS ENGINEERS Chairman of National Relief Com- mittee of Four Societies Re- ceives Hoover Check. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 11.—Presi- dent Hoover, himself an engineer, has given $5,000 to aid in relieving distress among unemployed members cf his old profession. His check was received yesterday in 8 letter to H. De B. Parsons, general chairman of the Professional Engineers’ Committee on Unemployment. The four naticnal engineering societies are co-operating in the relief work, which is to be done on a national scale. . Hoover said in the letter that he imposed “no particular restrictions” <n the gift and was certain it would be “well admiristered and used to the best advantage, not only in finding eful employment, but by relieving in- dividual cases with small loans under liberal terms.” The latter plan, he said, appealed to him particularly. POLICE HEAD PROTESTS AMOS ’'N’ ANDY LINES Third-Degree Impersonation Held Serious Handicap to Law Enforcement, By the Associa ted Press. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., De- cember 11.—In his capacity as president of the International Associztion of Chiefs of Police, Hugh D. Harper to- day protested against the portrayal of police methods as given by Amos 'n Andy over the radio. The Colorado Springs chief, in a tele- gram to the sponsors of the radio pro- gram, said: e “I 'wish to protest in the strongest terms against the misleading and totally false impressions that are being im- planted in the minds of the ‘people everywhere by the attempts of "Amos and Andy to impersonate the so-called third degree. Such propaganda cannot help but seriously handicap I&W en- forcement officers in the prosecution of crime. No up-to-date officer ever uses the methods as exemplified in 7 you radio program.” | "