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MEXICO NEARSEND | OF LAND DIVISION Confiscation of Big Estates for Distribution to Land- less About Complete. By the Associated Press d MEXICO CITY, December 21.—Mex- fco, first nation in recent times to ex- periment with agrarianism—the con- fiscation of big estates for free dis- tribution to the landless the end of its program just as sev- eral other nations are launching theirs. The agrarian law reforms just ap- proved and sent to the President for promulgation are calculated to avoid litigation and delay in the program by denying the right of injunctions to landowners whose land is taken, and they pave the way for speedy comple- tion of the program begun 17 years ago. Francisco S. Elias, new secretary of agriculture and sponsor of the reforms, has pledged himself to speed up the partition plan until all Indians wishing land are provided for and then the plan will be declared suspended once and for all throughout the country. All Indiaas to Get Land. When that happens, the sponsors of agrarianism believe, every Indian will own some land and work for himself. The matters of education, organiza- tion, finance cquipment that go with land o rship hive b2en dealt Wwith only partiaily and will receive greater atten from the government once the act land distribution is accomplished. The fact that prior to 1910 there was no “free” land worth having in Mexico and the condition of the Indian population were prime causes of the Mexican revolution. Settlement of the agragian problem has been hailed by revolutionists as the revolution’s greatest achievement.” Law Passed in 1915, The law was passed in January, 1915. It provides for the expropriation of land from private owners, and its redis- tribution by communal grant to groups of 25 or more’ Indians who have asked for land. The original landowner re- ceives agraian bonds for his losses. The communal group receiving the land grant is expected to till the land co- aperatively Completion of the program, its spon- sors predict, will aid materially in Testoring stability of agriculture and land values and give the Government opportunity to go ahead with its edu- cational and financial aid plans for the agrariansm. Seventeen years of experiment with agrarianism have taught Mexico much which is available for study by other nations, such as Russia and Spain, now launching similar ventures. MILKiPLIiNT BURNS Destruction Laid to Dairy War. nal Other Arson Fires Suspected. SALAMANCA, N. Y. December 21 (P —The main plant of the Steam- burg Dairy Products Co. at Quaker Bridge. 15 miles southwest of this place, was destroyed by fire early yesterday, with loss of $100.000. Police said fire- men found oil-soaked rags in different parts of the building. H P. Scripture, manager of the dairy. said at least five milk plants owned by independent companies in Central and Western New York have been burned recently and that he believes the latest blaze to be another of the series of arson cases resulting from the milk war. The dairy was owned by farmers and business men. Most of the milk and cream brought to the plant was sent to New York City. AUTHOR’S Mrs, to Be Buried in Indianapolis. INDIANAPOLIS, December 21 () — Mrs. Eugenie Kountze Nicholson, wife of Meredith Nicholson, Indiana author, died at her home here westerday fol- !rlwlmz a long illness. She was 64 years old A native of Omaha, Neb., Mrs. Nichol- son was graduated from Vassar College in 1888. At Indianapolis she was ac- tive in the women's suffrage movement and women's club work. During the ‘World War Mrs. Nicholson organized and conducted at the Union Station here a canteen to serve troops passing through the city Funeral services will here_tomorro WIFE DIES Eugenie Kountze Nicholson be conducted 1A THE REGULAR A atockholders of h Conipany, will be neld Company. 2 nd D ‘Washinzton, D t 12 first Monday. be L NOTICES. . MEETING OF THE Washingion Market he office of the streets southwest, o'clock noon on the e 4th day of January, { thirteen directors to r and to transact as may brought_before mecting JOHNSON. Secretarv. ' December ‘21, OFFICE OF THE FIREMEN Compa. h be_proverly ERRY P. 1931 S INSURANCE nd Georgetown Indiana avenue north- west. The stockholders of the Firemen's Insurance Company of Washington and Georgetown will meet at the office on MON- DAY. January 4. 1832. for the purpase of electing thirteen’ directors for the cnsuing Jear. Polls over: from 11 am. to 12 m ALBERT. W. HOWARD. Secretary. 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Consult this million-dollar for ideas that will get you swing of good times. The National Capital Press TLA. AVE., 3rd and N N, Line. 0000 printing plant ack into the approaches | Criticize BY DORIS MANDELL, Ely Culbertson's Secretary. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 21.—Some of my girl friends, with whom I play con- tract for fun, except during th> great match now going on, have been tele- phoning me and writing me letters ray- ing they never would do such rtupid | things in play as they have noticed have happened at the Chatham. They have ‘urged me to ask Mr. and Mrs. Culbert- {son and even Mr. Lenz and Mr. Jacoby and Mr. Lightner why. The players are too busy, s0 I am {going to try to tell the girls now by comparing things they eriticize with {master strokes I am sure none of the | girls know. Here are plays which have | caused my friends to laugh 1. Mr. Lenz was set two in a four {no trump bid when the hand was & Jaydown for three no trump or five| diamonds. Decides Not to Ask Raise. 2. Mr. Jacoby made game in no trump when the Culbertsons could have taken the first five tricks. I decided then not to ask for a raise in pay. 3. Mr. Jacoby bid one club on less than a working girl's purse contains, Mr. Culbertson passed with five and one-half honor tricks in his hand, and Mr. Jacoby made his one club, although he could have been set. 4. Mrs. Culbertson doubled Mr. | Jazoby’s four spades and then her hus- | band b'd five hearts. He made it, but the spade bid could have been set Mr. Lenz was doubled at | hearts. Mr. Jacoby redoubled. | Lenz was sot three. ; | 6. Mr. Lightner doubled Mr. Jacoby's three no trump. Mr. Jacoby went to 4 clubs and was set one. He would have been set six at no trump. | Here are the explanations Mr. Lenz, through a strange lapse of memory, thought he was playing diamonds when set at no trump. | Each of the Culbertsons feared the other had a short suit in hearts and that to continue playing hearts would | | four Mr. 5 THE EVENING The Why of It Ely Culbertson’s Secretary Explains Master Strokes Behind Bridge Play to Girl Friends Who Experts. perts Ps help Mr. Jacoby make game in no trump. Hoped for Penalty. Mr. Culbertson passed Mr. Jacoby's one club bid in the hope of a very profitable penalty and further bidding. When Mr. Culbertson took Mrs. Cul- bertson out of a double he preferred a game to an honor count and carefully weighed the profit possibilities, . Jacoby's redouble was sound if the previous bidding was sound, but some of it was for the purpose of forc- ing the Culbertsons up. Mr. Lightner had no means of know- ing that his partner was so strong when Mr. Jacoby ' jumped from ao trumps to clubs. Now I want to cite ot ot a few master plays, Which were based on the same | deductions that made superexperfs look amateurish in some cases: 1. Mr. Lenz threw away a quesn of | clubs on Mr. Culbertson’s king on the first trick of the hand. It was the only way possible for Mr. Lenz to have made game and rubber. I have tried g on some of the girls and they have failed in a double dummy test. Mr. Lenz, see- ing only two hands, looked thirteen tricks ahead. Jacoby Prevents Slam. 2. Mp# Jacoby led the 6 from king and 6 originally and thereby prevented a slam by the Culbertsons. Mr. Lenz had the ace. The Culbertsons were set 1. Mr. Jacoby took ths only chance he had. 5 3. Mr. Culbertson made a game in spades when holding only 4 to the 9 spot 4. Mr. Culbertson squeezed Mr. Jacoby by playing trump after trump so that Mr. Jacoby had to discard either a high diamond or a high club. Mr. Lightner took 6 tricks over his book at no trump, although the op- ponents held two aces. . All the players throw leads so often in order to compel an opponent to lead away from a king up to an ace- queen *hat the play is commonplace. SAFETY CONGRESS 10 BE HELD HERE National Council Announces! 1t Will Meet in Capital Next October. After a conference today with the Greater National Capital Committee, ‘W. H, Cameron of Chicago. managing director of the National Safety Council, | {announced that the next annual con- | gress of his organiza will be held in Washington the week of October 2, 1932. Mr. Cameron and E. G. Burn: also of the National Safety Council, were in Washington two weeks ago and at that time, with officials of the Greater National Capital Committee, J L. Vandegrift of the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. and Dr. M. G. Lloyd of the Bureau of Standards looked over the convention facilities of the city and found them satisfactory. Attendance at the convention estimated at 6,000 to 8.000. Mr. | Cameron said that the program in Washington will include at least 250 | persons competent to discuss all phases | of the safety question. National Safety | Week will be organized and observed in connection with the congress, and com- mittees will be formed to stimulate in- terest in the National Capital in industrial ~accident prevention, the teaching of safety in the public schools, the organization of public safety work in general, the prevention of street and highway traffic accidents, the opera- tion of employes' benefit association and the scope and direction of in- dustrial health service. A large exposition in which safety devices will be shown will be-conducted in connection with the annual congress. | About 44 firms and individuals of Wash- ington are now represented in the mem- bership of the National Safety Council. is BRIDAL PAR'I:Y IS HELD AFTER CAR HITS YOUTH Girl, Who Figured. in Crash in Tia Juana, Says She Is Ex-Sen- ator's Daughter. By the Associated Press. TIA JUANA. Lower California, De- cember 21.—An elopement and a trafic accident figured in the records of po- which ran down and seriously injured Robert Talanco, 19 Officers said Mary Jean Clark, 19, of a former State Senator of Illinois, related that she had come to Mexico to be married to Allan Whitmer, 21, driver of the car, who fled following the accident. A scarch was under way for Whitmer. Miss Clark, Edith Cutler, 19, of Beverly Hills, Calif., and Francis O'Mera, 20, of Hollywood, were booked for ques- tioning. The accident occurred as the four were driving out of Tia Juana. Miss Clark said she and Whitmer had found they could not be married here last night and were headed for San Diego, whence they had planned to return to Mexico today. AIR JUMPER DROWNS WINTER HAVEN, Fla., December 21 (/) —Donald Aldridge, 34, parachute jumper, drowned in Lake Hartridge here yesterday after he had leaped from a plane at the close of an aerial meet at the Municipal Airport nearby. The accident was not discovered im- mediately and Aldredge had been in the water an hour before his body was recovered. He was from Chambersburg, Pa. Will Rogers DARIEN.—They got a new gag in Europe now to help along their argu- ment that America should cancel the debts. They are appealing to our egotism (and they figure we are not short on it). The new gag is “America won the war and she should pay. We admit that it was America coming in when she did that determined the destiny of the World War, ‘Therefore, she is = Etropean answerable conditiont. 1d put them right.” Now ain'i that a hot one? No matter what veu do, you are wrong. .If yo1 help 'em lose it you are wrong, if you help’ 'em win it you are wrong. There just ain't any such animal as international “good out. CANNON ASSALLS COMMITTEE AGTION Open Letter to Senate Says He Was Not Given Prom- ised Opportunity. e By the Associated Press. Declaring he had not been given a promised opportunity to reply to charges against him, Bishop James | Cannon, jr., asked members of the Senate in an open letter today to with- hold judgment on evidence of his activities in the Anti-Smith campaign of 1928. The letter said that last February the bishop asked and was promised an opportunity to make a sworn statement to the Nye Investigating Committee. He said he later decided definitely to make such a statement when the ad- verse evidence was complete, but that | the committee ended its hearings. drew up a report, and turned the evidence over to the district attorney without | including his _reply. He was in Europe, he said, during the final committee hearings. The report is to be presented by Chairman Nye some time this week. The bishop did not testify in the in- | Guiry, nor did he ask to. Aides of his refused to testify. In the open letter he complained he had received no reply to letters written the committee about making a sworn | statement; that he had decided now (not to make this answer until court action was settled, and “* * * I posi- tively affirm that there is not a single |item of testimony (in the committee |record) which cannot be explained to | the satisfaction of any fair-minded per- son.” Bishop Cannon in under indictment for failing to report certain campaign contributions. The case is now pend- |ing in the District Supreme Court. | INCREASE IN VICE FOUND RESULT OF DEPRESSION | Leaders of Four Religious Sects Cite Perilous Position of Jobless Cirls. NEW YORK, December 21 (#) —The leaders of four religious sects united | yesterday in a warning thet jobless Patrick Cardinal Hayes, archbishop: Dr. William T. | Epjscopal bishop: Rabbi Nath; Catholic Manning, an Krass |in a plea for support of the Committee | of Fourteen, whose objective is elimination of New York's underworld. | In reciting the “perilous position of | women and girls who cannot find work,” | they said, “the underworld is showing | increasing activity in taking advantage |of this situation.” HooverAL(.)ses Cuard Of Secret Service In Maryland Drive |President Enjoys Rare Experience on Trip Yesterday. President Hoover, out motoring late yesterday with Mrs. Hoover and Mr, |an¢ Mrs. Mark Sullivan and becoming separated from his secret service guard, had the rare experience for a Presi- dent of traveling abroad without his constant guardians. However, the President enjoyed his ride just as much as when he is being followed by the guard. The only worry- ing was done by the latter The hide-and-seek game started just after the Presidential party had passed through Kensington, Md. and was traveling along a narrow road leading to the Rockville Pike. About midway a closed bridge, being rebuilt, was en- countered, which forced the party to turn back. Because of the size of the White House cars, turning around on & narrow road is no easy task. The President’s car turned first, and by the time the Secret Service car had completed the task the President’s car had shot ahead and wag out of sight. When the main highwdy was again reached, in Kensington, the President’s car took the road to Norbeck, and the Secret Service car headed in another dj- rection. the President had rot decided on the | ride until after 4 o'clock. The approach of darkness only added to the concern | of the searching Secret Service. They d round various roads and having no success In finding the trail of the President, turned back to Washington, arriving at the White House shortly ahead of the President. The latter had to "the Rockvills STAR, WA | It was growing dark by this time, as HINGTON CULBERTSON TAKES ON NEW PARTNERS Baron Von Zedtwitz to Play Tonight and Harold Van- derhilt Later. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 21— Having overtaken the opposition with Jo as partner and then acquired a lead with Teddie, Ely Culbertson will team up with Waldy when his 150-rubber match of contract bridge with Sidney S. Lenz and Oswald Jacoby is resumed tonight. Later he expects to have Harold as partner. Baron Waldemar von Zedtwitz will play tonight instead of Theodore A. Lightner, who has been Culbertson’s partner since Mrs. Culbertson withdrew in order to do her Christmas shopping. The baron was scheduled to play some ments. He is going away on a vaca- tion tomorrow, hence his substitution for Lightner tonight. Lightner will be back in the game tomorrow night to continue until the holidays are over. Then Mrs. Culbertson will return to play at least 27 rubbers. She is sup- posed to compete for one-half of the match. She has played in 48 rubbers. Culbertson has Harold S. Vander- bilt, his wealthy amateur friend, in mind for the last stages of the match. Vanderbilt, the originator of contract, devised bidding methods when the game was younz which differ from Culbert- ‘s, but will play the Culbertson sys- tem. He is regarded by Culbertson as without a superior as a player. Mrs. Culbertson’s Partner. The baron, son of an_ Austrian father and an American mother, is a natu- ralized American citizen. He has re- nounced his inherited title of the Holy Roman Empire, but bridge players all call him “The Baron.” To Culbertson he is “Wadly.” He usually has played with Mrs. Culbertson in competition. Culbertson’s team will be 7.915 points plus when hand 373, the first of rubber 64, is dealt tonight. The total points are 54,845 and 46,930 Culbertson and partner have won 34 rubbers, compared 2 for the opposition m;?oagxpm Tegares the Tead as at all decisive. It might be overcome in one session. Tt was largely accumulated in 15 rubbers. Lenz and Jacoby think it is based principally on favorable cards and expect a turn shortly. There will be sessions tonight, to- morrow and Wednesday nights and Saturday afternoon. Beginning with Wednesday the scene of the match will be changed from Culbertson’s apart- ment in the Hotel Chatham to quar- ters at the Waldor{-Astoria, with Lenz | as host, until the contest is over Jacoby Changes Tactics. The last reform a Jarnl?\i’;s L’»\(‘ll(‘SL, . ess on deliberate sets an e e psychic bids, which had been getting him into trouble. All the players concentrated largely on bidding enough and no more when they had good_ cards On hand 347 Culbertson contracted for five clubs and made six. Both he and Jacoby commented that a little slam was not biddable. The hand: LENZ (NORTH), DEALER. in §—J 5 H—J 917 98743 C—K CULBERTSON (WEST). 5-A Q107 H—4 LIGHTNER (EAST). 596 H—AK 10832 D—K 2 D—A 10 C—Q109532 C-AT4 JACOBY (SOUTH) S—-K8432 H—Q 6 D-J65 C—J 86 The bidding: North. pass; East. one | heart: South, pass; West, two clubs; | North, two diamonds: East, three | hearts; South, pass; West. three spades | North, pass; East. four clubs; South, pass; West, five clubs: all pass. North led the seven of diamonds, Made Five Spades. Hand 351, on which Culbertson con- | tracted for four spades and made five, | follows: LENZ (NORTH) S—A 63 H—8543 D—85 4 C—J 10 4 CULBERTSON | (WEST), DEALER. | S—K 1082 H—A Q106 D—None D-KJ1093 C—K9863 C—Ab52 JACOBY (SOUTH). LIGHTNER (EAST). S—J 954 H—K 5-Q17 | H-J9172 lice, who held three voung Americans women and girls were being fored o | D @ 11582 today As passengers in a motor car | economic conditions into lives of vice, | c—Q 17 ! The bidding: West, one club: North, pass: East, one diamond; South, pass; West, cne spade; North, pass: East, who identified_herself as the daughter and Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick joined | three spades; South, pass; West. four | hearts: North, pass: East, four spades: |all pass. North opened with the eight of diamonds. | FILES DIVORCE SUIT | Sister-in-Law of Tunney Charges | Intolerable Cruelty. | BRIDGEPORT, Conn., December 21 (#)—Mrs. Katherine V. Lauder Dew- ing, sister-in-law of Gene Tunney, for- mer world’s heavyweight boxing cham- | plon, has filed a divorce suit against | Edwin Storrs Dewing of West Hart- ford. She charges intolerable cruelty and asks no_alimony. The Dewings were married in 1923 and have two children. Mrs. Dewing is a sister of the former Polly Lauder, ‘Tunney's Wwif: | RUSH PRINTING EXPERT SERVICE BYRON S. ADAMS I Nove Disggoont™ “See Etz and See Better” i Glasses are one of the most Usefyl Gifts and are lasting. ETZ Optometrist 1217 G St. NW. Ak of the match from the first arrange- session_Friday night saw | D. C MONDAY, DECEMBER 21, 193 IMOTHER OF KIDNAPED GIRL ADVANCES REVENGE MOTIVE Estranged Husband’s Life Had Been Threatened, Wife Discloses. 4,000 Boy Scouts Offer to Aid Search for Cingin- nati Child. By the Associated Press, CINCINNATI, December 21.—A new theory, revenge, today entered the Marian McLean kidnaping case. Although separated, both parents of | the missing 6-year-old girl said Joseph McLean, the : father, now living in | Phoenix, Ariz, had been threatened by | a man for alleged attentions paid to | the latter's wife. | The child’s mother, Mrs. Mildred Mc- Lean, revealed she wrote her estranged husband last October that his life had been threatened. Warned of Enemy. “A man and a woman told me to warn him that a man was gunning for him I was told that the man had accused my husband of associating with his wife,” Mrs. McLean said. Dispatches from Phoenix quoted Mc- Lean saying he believed “some one might have had a grudge against me.” | Police believed Marian might have | been kidnaped by against her fathe; Mrs. McLean told detectives she sep- arated from her husband two years ago. 4,000 Scouts Help Hunt. | Boy Scout executives offered services | of 4.000 Scouts to search the slum dis- | tricts, abandoned buildings and county | huzlhw ys for a trace of the missing | girl. A large detective bureau also offered | a man revengeful MARIAN McLEAN. free services of its entire force to clear up the case. Marian has been missing almost four days. She last was seen accompanying a tall, dark, slender stranger down an alley near her tenement home. A group of boys at a filling station six miles east of Dayton last night told deputy sheriffs they saw a man resembling Marian’s tall, dark com- plexioned kidnaper and a little girl in an automobile. Authorities discounted the report, but gave it serious investigation, as it fol- lowed information that a man and a girl answering the description of the child and her kidnaver were seen near Exenia Saturday. The automobile at Xenia was gray, however, while that seen near Davton was a green sedan Police believe the kidnaper, fearful of the enraged populace here, may have fled with the girl. They are more in- clined to the theory, however, that he is secreting himself. and his victim somewhere in the city. HITS MELLON PLAN OF NEW TAYATION Dr. Clair Wilcox Charges Effort to Shift Burden From | Rich to Poor. By the Associated Press | PHILADELPHIA, December 21.—Dr. Clair Wilcox. a former economic ad- viser of President Hoover, is of the opinion that the plan of Secretary | Mellon to liquidate the national deficit through “broadening the base of taxa- tion” is an attempt to shift the burden | of taxation from the rich to the poor. | Dr. Wilcox is professor of economics | at Swarthmore College, president of the League for Industrial Democracy and former research director for the Wick- ersham Commission. He participated in a symposium vesterday on Federal taxation with Dr. Willford King of New York University at the Labor In- stitute forum here, | }hcrmlendmg civic responsibility of the izen was dormant unless kept awake by a financial share in running the Government, Dr King urged a luxury tax ratper than Increasing income taxes. “The average citizen” Dr. Wileox said, “is already suffering from wage and salary cuts, losses on investment, bank failures. and acute uncertainty as to the future. He is the one who will be expected to pay off the bulk of the deficit.” He maintained that “rates on estates and on large incomes might easily be | carried higher than the Treasury pro- | s to take them." | ‘Congress should be given to under- tand in unmistakable terms.” he said. ‘that the people will not tolerats the imposition of the wartime nuisance taxes which the administration has proposed to levy. | “The Federal fiscal problem can be and should be solved by substantially increasing estate taxes and income sur- taxes and this is the solution which public opinion must clearly demand.” SETS SPEZDBOAT RECORD LONG BEACH, Calif, December 21 (#).—Stafl Commodore Dick Loynes | of the Long Beach Yacht Club, driver | of thé Gold Cup challenge speedboat | California, broke the six-year-old | American _statute mile straightway | record of 61.77 miles per hour yester- day when he turned 62.29 miles per hour in a race against time supervised ty_the American Power Boat Association. The Westerner and his veteran mechanic, Carlyle Peek, barely slipped in over the required half-mile per hour margin to supersede the mark set up | by Dr. L. D. Vansant of Peoria, Ill., in August. 1925, with the 725-class speedster Docs II on the Illinois River. FOILED KIDNAPERS BLAMED FOR BOMB Home of Cleveland Man, Who Refused $5,000 in Threat, Is Damaged. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND, December 21.—A bomb which police said probably planted in retaliation for a frustrated kidnaping plot today partially destroyed the man- sion of Samuel A. Cowan, prominent real estate dealer. Two months ago Cowan received a letter threatening kidnaping of his eight-year-old son, Joseph, unless paid $5.000, according to Police Chiet W. G. Barrows of Cleveland Heights. Since that time the boy had been under constant police guard and Bar- rows said he believed the bombing was prompted by revenge for the frustrated plot. Mr. and Mrs. Cowan's two older sons, 20 and 23, Josepn and a maid were at home at the time of the explosion, but were not injured. The blast wrecked the porch of the house, located in an exclusive Cleve- land Heights residential section, dam- aged the front and showered plaster and wreckage through some of the front rooms. Ballycastle, Ireland, will push harbor improvement this Winter. its v, TeBROADMAR DELIGHTFUL DINNER Connecticut_Ave. at Porter 8t., “CL. 6900 FIVE COURSES Join those who enjoy better food at the better price. Vi "AND OH WHAT What gift could be ton or two of coal? Yuletide anywhere in 811 E St. N.W. - AREAL PRACTICAL GIFT Not ornamental, but real useful—a gift of warmth. We will deliver such a gift during the per ton less than our regular price. Dependable Coal Service Since 1858 Marlow Coal Co. more practical than a Washington at $1.00 NAtional 0311 A\w(ws HAYS 1237 G Street N. W. 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