Evening Star Newspaper, December 13, 1931, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Cloudy and coider, followed by rain to- night; tomorrow, cloudy and colder, pos- sibly preceded by rain; moderate east winds. Temperature—Highest, 63, at 4 p.m. yesterday: lowest, 48, at 10 am yesterday. Pull report on page 3 e Sund WITH DAILY EVENING EDITION a Star, “From Press to Home Within the Hour” The Star is delivered every evening and Sunday morning to Washington homes by The Star's exclusive carrier service. Phone National 5000 to start immediate delivery. P Mea ns_Associated Pres: No. 1,395—No. 32,002 itered as second class matter En ost office. Washington, D. ( post a 3, D. C, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1 1931—120 PAGES. = FIVE CENTS |TEN CENTS IN WASHINGTON AND SUBURBS ELSEWHERE SHOOT T0 PROPOSE PAYMENT IN SLVER FOR FORELCN DEBTS White House Conference Rc-’ sults in Bill Expected to | Ease Money Situation. KING OPPOSES PLAN AS INVITING DUMPING| Undersecretary Mills Meets Oppe-‘ sition in Seeking Support for Hoover Plan By the Assoctated Press Rebuffed by eongressional leaders on the proposal to revise war debts, Presi- | dent Hoover last night received a coun- ter proposal of relief for the interna- tional debt problem Chairman Smoot of the Senate Finance Committee, after a lengthy conference at the White House, an- nounced he would offer a bill tomor- Fow to permit foreign nations to pay their debts in silver rather than gold as is now required His visit followed an earlier confer- ence of congressional leaders with Un- dersecretary of the Treasury Mills, at which they emphasized their opposition to the President’s proposal for revival of the War Debt Commission to stu sdditional European relief. It was forcefully stiggested that this be not pressed lest it endanger the mora- torfum. Help for Silver Situation. Smoot's proposal was advanced as a messure to help the world silver situa- tion as well as to aid the forelgn na- tions in meeting their obligations be- coming due after the intergovernmental debt holiday expires next July 1 Stlver would go up & little in price, | be said, and by accepting it, “we would | recognize & value to it and show that | we are willing to accept it in payment of obligations.” Senator King, his Democratic col- league from Utsh, held, however, it was not an “effective way to deal with this problem” and “would dump on| the United States a large quantity of | silver without giving it monetary status.” The congressional chieftains made it plain through the day that the m-t ministration must act on its own re- sponsibility regarding debt payments | due America Tuesday. These would be | suspended under the moratorium. The | the time the debts are due. ‘ ‘Would Inform Nations. Mills said that. if the question of these debt payments arose, Secretary form the foreign nations they could | not be held in eriticism for the fail-| ure of Congress fo ratify the sgree- | ment. | Previously House leaders had refused | to sign any letter to this effect. In! addition they told Mills they would accept no responsibility for any state- ment respecting the $125,000,000 in debt payments due the United States on Tuesday. Later, Chairman Borah of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who is supporting the moratorium and who attended the Mills conference, took the administration to task for not having called a special session of Congress to ratify the moratorium “I'am opposed to this conniving at evasion of the iaw,” he said. “We ought to have been here and trans- acted this business. We can't suspend the law by conferences and if the for- eign nations fail to pay on Tuesday they are technically in default so far @s I am concerned.” However, despite the confusion over the Tuesday punyments, no one on Cap- itol Hill expected them to be made, nor was it tnought that the “technical default” would have any effect on the credit of the foreign powers nor on ratification of the moratorium. Reports to President. Late in the day Mills reported to President Hoover his discussions with the congressional leaders. Upon leav- ing, he sald the administration would make no formal statement on the Tuesday payments. Senator Johnson of California, who 1s fighting the moratorium, took no ex- ception yesterday to whatever cour: may be ‘pursued by the foreign gov- ernments on their Tuesday payments, but he did say If the Constitution had been fol- | lowed, if Congress had been called in | session, as it could have been in four days, the whole matter would have | been disposed of in & reasonable time and our people informed. There would | | | STECKER S HERD | season, the Cadets rallied under the | dazzling leadership of Ray Stecker to| score a field goal and a touchdown in | | the second quarter and come back in 0 the final period to cross the goal line | Satirized in the Gridiron fashion egein after Navy's desperate bid in the | and forth across the stage paraded a | third quarter had revived the Sailors’| weird procession of the world’s notables | | in suspense and smashing play all the fraditions of a bitter rivairy that goes | Raskob, Seth Parker, back to 1890 for its inception, A crowd | of 77,000 that all but overflowed the | lon, along with a colorful array of ad- big ball Iatter cannot possibly bc ratified DBY changes o the regiment, then ‘Wwith the corps, on a day that was as warm as early Au- | tum; | | ployed of State Stimson was prepared to in- | ejevens time after a break of f WASHINGTON, Culbertsons Gain 810 Points on Lenz ‘]932 POLITIGS PUT i e | DER SPITGT Lo S A CRORON DR “Official” System 4,840 Ahead. R A Skits Show How Both Sides Could Lose Next Election. Hoover’s Future Aired. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 12—Dou- bles and redoubles were to the advan- tage of Mr. and Mrs. Ely Culbertson tonight and they gained 810 points, al- though losing three of five rubbers to Sidney §. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby their opponents in a 150-rubber test of rival systems of contract bridge After 33 rubbers of the series had been finished, Lenz and Jacoby were 4,840 points ahead of their rivals in contrast to 5650 after four sessions Tonight's was the fifth session At on2 time curing the night the Culbertsons’ deficit was only_ 5 they mads a gaj of 1670 d the second rubbr of the night al It wes during thet rubber, the thirtieth (Continued on Fage 5, Column 1.) | JEFFERSON’S GHOST STALKS DEMOCRATS Advice to Presidential Aspirants and Curtis’ Soliloquy Heard. Notables in Attendance. s play Presidential candidat®s and presi- dential “possWbilities”—not always one and the same—attending the dinner of the Gridiron Club at the Willard Hotel last night received advice, encourage- ment and discouragement at the hands | of their newspaper hosts. The members | of the club successfully demonstrated |to the Republicans and the Democrats | how both sides could lose next year's election through a combination of Re- publican misfortunes and Democratic blunders. With typical Gridiron candor, political future of President Hoover, the guest of honor, was discussed. But Mr. Hoover was by no means the only guest whose presicential possibilities came ‘undrr the spotlight. For there were | present some of the President's strong- | est political enemies, all of them ready, if opportunity arrives, to contest with Mr. Hooter for possession of the White = House. Among them were Gov. Albert effectiveness of thrusting bayonets, C. Ritchie of Maryland, Gov. Gifford Army slashed through the air today to | Pinchot of Pennsylvania, Senator Joseph ferce a raging Navy defense and con-| T. Robinson of Arkansas, Melvin A. gl 4 17 to 7. in a|Traylor of Chiago and Texas, Gov. quer the Midshipmen, © 7. In 8] George White of Obio, Speaker John drama as spectacular and stirring as all N Garner and Senator J. Hamilton the pomp and spiendor of one of sports’ | Lewis of Illinois. greatest pageants. While 1932 politics held the spotlight, Outplayed through the first quarter, | | other subjects of public interest were facing the greatest upset of the foot ball IN ARMY VICTORY Paves Way for 17-7 Defeat of Navy by Brilliant Work. BY EDWARD J. NEIL, Associated Press Sports Writer. YANKEE STADIUM, NEW YORK, December 12.—Striking with the swift not neglected. Economic conditions, prohibition, the Manchurian situation, naval disarmament, Democratic control of the House, Republican insurgency, attempted censorship in Washington and many related questions whre di- vested of their more serious aspects ang | Bac opes. | —Mahatma Gandhi, Senator Borah, | 1t was a thrilling struggle, matching | Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Bishop Can- | non, Senator Simeon D. Fess, John J. | Speaker John | Garner, Secretary of the Treasury Mel- | Tk gasped at the swift | mirals, coctors, diplomats, soothsayers, | fortune, roared first with | detectives and ordinary run-of-the-mine | politicians. ~y | Hoover and Blythe Speak. Charity and the cause of the unem-| The spirit of the occasion was set that brought the two service | forth by the presicent of the club, Jay together last year for the first|G. Hajden of the Detroit News, in his r years, profited | speech opening the dinner. 2 % “We ask of you,” he said, “that for this one night you live in a langd of | illusion. We propose that you deliver | over 1o us all of the cares of state, and we promise on our side to settle every- thing. We will show the way to peace | and prosperity in the world. We will | guide the hand of a beleaguered Con- | gress and still the voice of all of its boll | | " (Continued on Page 4, Column 1.) MAN IN STOLEN CAB IN HOLD-UP SERIES Pseudo Hacker Captured on Four- AT teenth Street After Number DAVIé 's REPORTED of Holdups. IN FAVOR OF BEER| Pennsylvania A series of holdups, believed to have been staged by the armed bandit who shortly after midnight stole a taxicab from L. H. Smith, Capitol Heights, Md., kept headquarters detectives on the run early today | Their quest ended at 2 o'clock when | the man was captured on Fourteenth street by Headquarters Detective | BY the Associated Press Charles Mansfleld, after a block's foot | PHILADELPHIA, December 12—In race reporting an announcement today by = {;{;’Y";’lx“;;‘m’g;fig P the man | State Semator George Woodward that his victims. In none of the three hold- | he may run against United States Sen- ups he staged did he take any money, | ator James J. Davis In the next Repub- and in each instance he scorned small | ycan primary the Record says Davis will seek the renominatior amounts | About half an hour after Smith's ma- chine was taken from him at the point | Davis is preparing a n(r nugug at Fourteenth and Webster | ment, the newspaper says. streets by a passenger, the pseudo | ot & Volste hacker picked Up two -fares’ Lt ing | fOF modification of the Volstead law Aster Restaurant, Fourteenth and H |0 permit beer. The statement will streets, ook them {0 Sixteenth and R | be issued after the first of the year, streets and then held them up. | the paper continues The license tags on the taxicab were | Dp_f: backiie B 3 the same as Smith’s, according to po- | DaVis became Senator after serving lice. | as Secretary of Labor in President A short time later, police said, the | Hoover’s Cabinet. He previously has same car was reported involved in a 2 third holdup at Fourteenth and V| streets. | bition. Senator Declared for Modification of Dry Laws. the | been counted as a supporter of prohi- | | ‘WHo % SISK%"%‘%@DT&!Y THE .- i MournFUL MAHATMAS ARRIVE TOP QF THE 1 mggugfi UILDING AcT | Uncle Sam’s reluctant | FEATURES OF THE DECEMBER DI LABOR RULES DELAY COMMERCE BUILDING AND COST U. S. $200.000 Department Forced to Hold Up Transfer to New Quarters for a Year Be- cause of Union Regulations. BY FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE. | lonized I m working fow 7 - | with which non-unionized labor is con- RO Chak shel Depariment o 000 | AN oy ey Bw Ao e merce is about to take possession of the United States Government's employes completed portion of its mammoth $17,- | for the most part are not affiliated with 000,000, 8-acre Indiana limestone palace, | trades unions. ~ The Department of ] Commerce staff includes some 125 or the inside story can be told of why the | 155" men who constitute ‘its. so-salled building is going to be occupied only on | maintenance crew. It consists of engi- January 1, 1932, instead of, as contem- | neers, firemen, boilermen, electricians, plated, on January 1, 1931, The story |T2SONS, Carpenters, elevator operators and mechanics of various grades. It in a nutshell is a tragi-comic tale of | was planned that these. Moianc, submission 10| men should move over into the first unions. The submission cost the De- |NeW structure, the great central wing, c 's del as soon as Secretary Lamont was ready partment of Commerce a year's delay to occupy it. As originally arranged, in moving into its new headquarters and | this was to have been around January cost the Federal Treasury $200,000 m:;} leg?:l{b ?}fi }mflt]h':ndb r:orthh“ wtlkrllzs re e finished later, but while they extra pectidly ot outalds oficss irequired |y ey iin el sotig ot IEHea e by for various departmental activities. section was to be a fully functioning The rules which the unions succeeded | branch of the Department of Com- in enforcing are the ones which debar |~ (Continued on Page 2, Column 2. DETECTIVE BUREAU SHAKE-UPISASKED {Demotion of Four Sergeants and Transfer of 18 Men Recommended. KANE IS ACQUITTED OF DROWNING W Accused Professor Takes Verdict Calmly—Jury Out Nearly Four Hours. By the Associated Press. HAMPTON, Va, December 12— The long contemplated plan of In- spector Frank S. W. Burke, chief of de- W'LEE' vb N 5 FINANCIA ) % %, { o {’/f GOT A INER OF T unionized labor from working on a job | ironclad rules of the building trades|completed section of the department's | CorTon Pickers' — 4 L4 == | R | ™| VAOMAR EASY UDGE! HAVEN'T HE GRIDIRON CLUB. DYNAMITE USED N PRISON BREA, |Warden’s Wife Says Hus- : band Ordered Gate Opened After Threat. By the Associated Press. LEAVENWORTH, Kans, December 11.—As guards at Leavenworth Federal Prison were criticized for withholding gun-fire while seven convicts scurried to freedom, the wife of Warden T. B. White tonight said the prison head had ordered the main gate opened in an leffort to save the building from de- stinction by dynamite. | The statement was issued by Mrs. | White for her husband, who is re- celving hospital treatment for severe | wounds received at the hands of the convicts, who kidnaped the warden in making their escape. Three of the fugitives were killed, three others cap- tured. While Mrs. White talked prison guards were being rushed to Winchester, | Kans,, where Earl Thayer, 65, the only one of the desperate convicts who par- ticipated in yesterday's break still at |large, was reported located. Fred | Zerbst, acting prison warden, said he | considered the report reliable, but offi- i hester professed to know | cers at Winc nothing of the matter. Threatened to Blow Up Prison. In her story of the dramatic mo- ments of the Leavenworth break, Mrs. | White said the warden ordered the | big main gate opened only when one of | his kidnapers held a lighted match |near a stick of dynamite and threat- ened to “blow up the prison” if his demands were refused. The dynamite was found later in the warden’s automobile, which the con- victs vainly sought to use in the es- cape, Mrs. White said. While Zerbst, who is also warden of | the penitentiary annex, directed criti- | cism at the several guards on duty dur- |ing the escape, no action had been | punishment as the commission sets. | ed; in 50, they failed, these including | and of MEANS T0 COMBAT POLITIGS 15 SOUGHT BY CIVIL SERVICE Commission Asks Right to Inflict Penalties for Vio- lation of Rules. HOLD RECOMMENDATIONS ARE NOT CARRIED OUT “Court of Appeals” Among 14 Changes Suggested in An- nual Report, The Civil Service Commission is| seeking a more effective weapon to break | up political activity by Government em- | ployes. In its annual report, made public last night, the commission asks the right to fix penalties for violation of the regula- tion on politics, and that the depart- ments be required to administer such At present the commission can only make recommendations in these cases, and it is up to the departments to fol- low them or not, as they see fit. The report says that in the last fiscal vear only 119 employes out of the total of 468,050 in classified service were in- volved in charges of political activity, which was 28 more than in the previous year. List of Charges. The charges were: Serving on elec- tion boards, 2; taking an active part in political conventlons, campaigns and elections, 28; electioneering, 1; influ- encing voters by use of money, 1; be- coming candidate for elective office, soliciting support for political cand dates, 5; holding office in political or- ganization, 6; activity in school con- troversy, 8; miscellaneous (minor of- fenses and two or more charges), 64. In 69 cases the charges were sustain- the single complaint of electioneering influencing voters by use of money. In 38 cases the commission rec- ommended cautions, warnings or repri- mands; in 17, suspensions or reductions in salary; in 5, removal or resignation. quired to desist. Milder Penalty Enflicted. “Sometimes,” the report says, “the departmental officials accepted the commission’s recommendations and took disciplinary action accordingly, but in a number of flagrant violations, for which the recommendation was removal from the service or suspension from duty and pay for periods varying ac- cording to the gravity of the offense, the departments inflicted a much milder penalty, often merely reprimanding the employe and cautioning against further political activity.” The report points out that in some places, notably in Arlington County and Cheverly, Md., resident employes are allowed to take part in municipal gov- ernment. The result is, according to the com- (Continu DEMOCRATS BEGIN FUND DRIVE JAN. 14 Party's “Victory Campaign” Seek to Raise Total of $1,500,000. on Page 2, Column 8.) | to By the Associated Press. s The Democratic party will launch its Nation.wide ‘“victory campaign” to raise $1,500,000 on January 14. Final plans for a concentrated drive for funds to pay off old debts and re- plenish the party war chest for the 1932 campaign were made yesterday at a meeting of State chairmen. John H. Fahey of Boston, presiding, announced that pre-campaign contribu- tions were pleasing. He hoped at least $500,000 would be contributed before the general public is invited to par- ticipate. “Victory dinners” will be held in various cities on the fourteenth. A speech by Jchn W. Davis, the party’s 1924 nominee, will be broadcast. He will speak at a dinner in New York at which John J. Raskob, Jouett Shouse and other party leaders will make ad- dresses. D. . COMMITTEES PERSONNEL ROSTER DECIDED BY HOUSE Representative Cannon of Missouri Heads Group on Appropriations. NAME MRS. MARY NORTON- LEGISLATIVE CHAIRMAN Senator Vandenberg Leaves Senate Body, Deploring Commission- ers’ Lack of Authority. The personnel of both the House Subcommittee on District Appropria« tions and of the House District Legisla= tive Committee was decided late yes- terday. Chairman Byrns of the Appro- priations Committee announced that the Appropriations Subcommittee will consist of Representative Clarence Can- non of Missouri, chairman; Representa- tives William J. Granfield of Massa- chusetts and Thomas L. Blanton of Texas, Democrats, and Representative Robert G. Simmons of Nebraska and Representative William P. Holaday of Ilinofs, Republicans. The two new men are Granfleld and Blanton, the latter having served formerly on the District Legisiative Committee. The roster of the District Legislative Committee was decided on after lengthy conferences of the Democratic mem- bers of the Ways and Means Commit- tee acting as a Committee on Commit- tees and the Republican Committee on Committees meeting with the new Re- publian leader, Representative Ber- trand H. Snell of New York, With Representative Christopher D. Sullivan of New York elected to the House Ways and Means Committee, Mrs. Mary T. Norton of New Jersey becomes the chairman of the District Committee—the first time in the his- tory of Congress that a woman has been chairman of a committee. The hold-over Democratic members, who are reappointed are Representatives Vincent L. Palmisano, Maryland; Rob- ert 8. Hall, Mississippi, and Wright Patman, Texas. Representative Mal- colm C. Tarver of Georgia was in line for chairman of either revision of the laws or elections No. 2, but instead chose appointment on the Judiciary Committee. Democratic Assignments, The eight new Democratic assign- ments to the District Committee are Representatives Howard W, Smith, Vir- ; Lynn 8. Hornor, West it Loring D. Black, New ¥ Eenticky, Bovert o Georgla entucky; Robert 3 Byron B, Harlan, Ohio, and H. Gasque, South Carolina. Representa- tives Gilbert and Gasque were formerly members of this committee. The holdover Republican members of the District Committee who have been reappointed are resentatives Clar- ence J. McLeod of Michigan, Edward M., Beers, Pennsylvania; Gale H. Stalker, New York; Prank L. Bowman, West Vir- ginia; Patrick J. Sullivan, Pennsylvania; James L. Whitley, New York, and C. B, McClintock, Ohio. Representative Frank R. Reid of Illinols and Repre- sentative Frederick C. Loofbourow of Utah were relieved of further service on the District Committee. The two new Republican members appointed to the District Committee are Representatives Frederick M. Davenport of New York and Pehr G. Holmes of Massachusetts. The former has already served eight years in the House, and the latter was selected because he was for- merly mayor of his home city, Worces- ter, Mass. Vandenberg Quits. Meanwhile in the Senate Senator Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan made known yesterday that he has asked to be relleved of his assignment on the District Committee, and in doing 50 he urged passage of legislation that Wwould permit the Commissioners to ‘handle some of the local problems that now claim the attention of the con- gressional committees. The complete schedule of changes in Senate committees will not be an- nounced until tomorrow, but it was (Continued on Page 3, Column 6.) TODAY’S STAR PART ONE—36 PAGES. General, News—Local, National and Foreign. i ind described the bandit as| Woodward's announcement was con-| Elisha Kent Kane, University of Ten- | tectives, for increasing the efliciency of | tagen sgas’ shem Shouse. Wwho is chairman of the now be no occasion for the representa- tives of the administration frantically running around the Capitol, to obtain some ‘leaders’’ consent to a new declara- tion, carefully concealed from all the Tepresentatives of the American people.” Over in the House, Representative Ayres, Democrat, Kansas, proposed | that consideration of the moratorium be deferred until assurances have been received from Europe on arms limita- tions To Oppose Revision of Debis. Representative Rankin, Democrat, said he would offer an | 1t to the moratorium resolu- | ing against reduction, re- | { cancellation of the debts in e House Ways and Means Com-‘é where the legislation is to be | handled. will hold an organization | meeting tomorrow, and on Tu expected to begin hearings o moratorium. Secretary of the Treas- ury Mellon, who was in Europe to help neer the debt agreement last Sum- will be one of its principal wit- nesses. Representative Collier of Missis- sippi, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, has expressed an opinion that his committee would be ready to report to the House before the close of the week and that con- sideration of the moratorium resolution would be begun mer SENATE MAY GO ON AIR Dill to Intr:iu—ne BxlT(or Installa- tion of Microphones. A definite move to put the Senate on the air will be made tomorr:w Senator Dill of Washington said yes- terday he would propose installation of inconspicuous microphcnes in the walls or cefling, so important debates might be_broadcast. Experiments conducted in the cham- ber Priday by radio engineers “worked & well dressed man, about 30 years old, | tained in an issue of the Pennsyl. who had accosted him near the Wash- | yania Legislator, a small folder in ington Auditorium. The robber made | which he presents his views on publis no demand for cash, he said | questions “every so often . |~ “I shall be a wet and not | wrote, adding that he had Berlin Reds Seized. | tatively to oppose Davis BERLIN, December 12 (/).—Thirty | “sloppy letter” to Gov Communists Wwere arrested tonight in | in their recent fal groups of two and three in different | ployment relief. parts of Berlin for attempting street| Woodward said he would run demonstrations contrary to the holiday | however, if George Wharton Pepper, political truce decreed by the govern- | Willlam 8. Vare or Gen. Smedley D, ment. | Butler enter the race MINISTER GETS LIFE IN SON;SW foggy,” he cided ten- of his Gov. Gifford Pinchot ling out over unem- not SLAYING FOR INSURANCE MONEY; Rev. J. M. Williams, Former Rochelle, Ga., Pastor, Weeping, Protests Innocence—Will Seek New Trial. By the Associated Press AUGUSTA, Ga, December 12.—Rev. J. M. Williams, former Rochelle, GA. | goptember 6, at Rochelle, as he rrp minister, was sentenced to life im-| prenaraxllons gor serL\hlces at his church prisonment today after a jury had|He resigned from the ministry of the found him guilty of murdering his| Methodist Episcopal Church, South, | shortly afterward saflor son for $2,500 insurance. | The father had obtained a specfal Sitting with his weeping family, he| furlough for his 19-year-old son to repeated his protestations of innocence. | VI3t & sister reported ill in Rochelle, Evidence of the State was lary 1 His attorneys announced a motion| circumstantial. Prosecutors prrxiugcbeé for new trial would be filed Monday. | testimony that the tires on Williamer The sentence was mandatory under 2utcmobile corresponded with tracks found near the body. Maurice O'% the verdict, which recommended mercy. | New Orleans, ballisiics expacs R The insurance money, which officers | fied the bullets that kille sald ‘Willlams nceded to cover cotton |liams bore markings si market Icsses, was the only motive for | made by a pistol whi the killing advanced by the prosecu- | n | Navy pharmacist's mate after a fur- lough at his father's home The elder Williams was arrested milar to those ch other Staf witnesses said Willlams had borrowezie. This was his second trial. Another The son, Raiford Grady Willlams, | jury disagreed last August and a mis- was found shot to death in a lumber | trial was declared. out amazingly well,” he said, and im- & number of Senators with the ity of the plan, mill yard near here late in August.| The son's young widow, He was killed as he was about Kittery, Me., -~ & resident of mmwhuputmnwymultxmo Was & spectator at the d young Wil- | nessee professor, jury tonight of a charge of murdering Bay last September. The verdict came after the jury had been out three hours and 45 minutes. Prof. Kane.took the verdict calmly, standing with his father on one side of him and his brother, Dr. Thomas L. Kane, on the other. Hands Twitch Nervously. The accused stood as the jury filed into the crowded court room, his hands twitched nervously, but otherwise he showed little effect of the grueling | strain, The jury foreman, when qugstioned by Judge Spratley, said that a verdict had been reached, but adced that it had (Continued on Page 4, Column 6) | $11,172 FOR CHARITY FROM ALABAMA TILTS and Holds G. U. and G. W. U. Scoreless. Charity benefited $11,172 or more | from yesterday’s foot ball extravaganza at Griffith Stadium, in which the Ala- bama Crimson Tide, last year's Rose Bowl champlons, defeated Catholic University, 7 to 0, and held George Washington and Georgetown to score- less ties in three 20-minute games. A gross gate receipt of $14,672.50 was received from the lO,l:Bd vexr;:ss swl::; attended. It is expected e: e the game will total less than the $3.000 which was fixed as a maximum cost of the affair. The latter sum has been underwritten with the personal check of Dr. Cloyd Heck Marvin, president f G Washington University. ' Detals ‘of the game will be found in the Bports was acquitted by a| his wife by drowning her in Chesapeake | effectiveness of the Detective Bureau,| - The guards tfoessedhthe ‘;}e“fi they | was submitted yesterday to Brig. Gen.;,":"“}gm‘;“lef:&’"f‘?f Al T Pelham D. Glassford, major and super- | s Crimson Tide Beats C. U. by 7-0| _I intendent of police. The reorganization contemplates the demotion of four detective sergeants and the transfer of 18 men to the vari- ous police precincts where they would contineg to work on Detective Bureau cases without losing their identity with the bureau The four officers recommended for | demotion are C. E. Mansfield, Howard Ogle, O. W. Mansfield and C. P, Stepp. All of them, with the exception of | Stepp, have been on general assigy- Stepp has been attached ment work. to the clothing squad. Slated for Promotion, Officers recommended for promotion to succeed the four Inspector Burke 1is for demotion are A. of the seventh precinct, E. F. Lewis of the thirteenth precinct, H. G. Wana- maker of the special squad, and E. P. Hartman, now on ;]pec\ll assignment in the office of th | ives sla ted for transfer to the ed on P: age 3, Column 3,) . ZAMORA CIBINET QuITS Rift Between Conservatives and Socialists Blamed. MADRID, December 12 (#).—The cabinet of President Alcala Zamora, headed by Premier Manuel Azana, re- signed today. Formation of a new cabinet was post- poned until tomorrow, Senor Azana said, when the President and congressional leaders will confer in an effort to select 2 new ministry. An_effort among certain Conserva- tive Republicans to eliminate Soclalists from the government was understood to be a principal issue, with the Soclalists ?re‘lhl:mng to oppose the government 'y Wwere eliminated from the cabinet, 0 investigation | e ited States attorney for the District. | nue and shown they had not displayed any lack | of courage. | Tower Guard Criticized. | Humbert Gray, the guard who was in a tower commanding the prison steps, | was taken to task by Zerbst for nof | shooting when the escaping convicts | marched out the main gate. Deputy Warden Fred Morrison took " (Continued on Page 5, Column 4.) party’s Executive Committee, said® the campaign would be the “opening gun” of the 1932 campaign. Cermak on Way Here to Speak. CHICAGO, December 12 (#).—Chi- cago's Democratic mayor, Anton J. Cer- mak, left tonight for Washington, D. C., to speak tomorrow before a meeting of the Republican National Committee, ‘Mayor Cermak will urge the Republi- cans to bring their National Convention to Chicago in 1932, POLICE LOCATE | Herbert Almond Birch, 60, of 1211 | Emerson street, a foreman in the Post | Office Department, was struck. and killed almost instantly last night by & hit-and-run automobile occupied by |two white men. The tragedy occurred |less than half a block from his home. Birch, returning from his office at the Union Station Post Office, had just alighted from ‘a street car at Georgia avenue and Emerson street and started toward his home when he turned and | walked back toward a corner store. A roadster speeding northward on Georgia evenue struck and carried him 40 feet before coming to a stop. Two white men riding in the ma- chine jumped to the street and re- moved Birch’s body from between the left front fender and headlights, placed him in a passing car driven by James J. Nutwell of 4425 New Hampshire ave- Nutwell o carry HIT-RUN CAR KILLS MAIL FOREMAN; |Herbert Almond Birch, 60, Driver Traced to Filling Station. FATAL MACHINE Hurled to In;tant Death. the man to Walter Reed Hospital. ‘They then fled in their machine, witnesses told police. Maj. E. C. Pratt and Capt. D. S. Kellogg, physicians at the hospital, pro- nounced Birch dead upon his arrival there. A skull fracture and internal ‘fiifi”“ were suffered by the man, they said. Three witnesses to the accident, John Lambert, 2525 Minnesota avenue south- east; James Kline, 4801 Seventh street, and John Mose, 4503 Eighth street, furnished thirteenth precinct police with the license number of the hit-and- Tun machine and it was found parked in the 1200 block of K street less than an _hour later. Detective Sergts. Denis J. Murphy Schools and Colleges—Page B-5. At Community Centers—Page C-2. | Spanish War Veterans—Page C-2. Army and Navy News—Page C-3. Veterans of Forelgn Wars—Page C-3. News of the Clubs—Page C-T. PART TWO—8 PAGES. Editorials and Editorial Features. D. A. R. Actlvities—Page 4. Y. W. C. A. News—Page 4. Public Library—Page 4. . Parent-Teacher Acitivies—Page 5. Serial Story, “City Girl"—Page 5. PART THREE—16 PAGES. Society Section. Kathleen Norris' Article—Page 11. Women of Diplomacy—Page 12. W. C. T. U. Notes—Page 13. PART FOUR—8 PAGES, Amusement Section—Theater, Screen and Radio. In the Motor World—Page 3. Aviation—Page 4. American Legion—Page 4. {Organized Reserves—Page 4. Marine Corps News—Page 4. District National Guard—Page 5. Disabled American Veterans—Page 8. Fraternities—Page 5. Radio—Pages 6 and 7. PART FIVE—4 PAGES, Sports Section. PART SIX—12 PAGES. Financial News and Classified Adver- tising. Naval Reserves—Page 11. PART SEVEN—20 PAGES. Magazine Section, Notes of Art and Artists—Page 14. Reviews of New Books—Page 15. News of the Music World—Page 16. The Bridge Forum—Page 17. Cross-word Puzzle—Page 18. The Boys' and Girls' Page—Page 19, Those Were the Happy Days—Peage 20. and Floyd A. Truscott traced the own- ership of the car to a man living in the 1200 block of K street. They ar- rested a brother-in-law of the alleged owner and a woman for investigation when they went to the K street ad~ " (Qontinued on Page 2 Column 6, GRAPHIC SECTION—8 PAGES. ‘World Events in Pietures. COLOR SECTION—S PA( GES. Moon Mullins; Mr. and s