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A—2 ¥ CANNON CHARGES | s 1931, _— THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. €., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23 23, YIEIENDRED FACTS Bishop, in Reply, Accuses Committee of ‘*‘Amazing Misstatements.” ciated Press eback to the Nye re- arging him wit violations of tt ct, Bishop James | es the committee misstatements of presented into the Bishop's activities to the Sena Bishop Cennon retorted port “ignores the m tion some of misconstrues th investy Simith pol! terday to and em n's statement follo the Nye Committee ignores Jame- and mis- to them iins many of facts ted rranted other innocent par the the tever in before equested g of the hear s on Feb- it to file a t red to make ever yet had ply to my letter by | hough sending dupli- committee on De- 1in December 17 1 with my attor- such statement as of the litigation Supreme Court of the lumbia to the I shall mak proper in pending 3 District of C YOUNG F;‘I;AN STUDY REPORT SIGNING MEETS DIFFICULTY inued From Fi European The Econon nist is a prominent British edited Sir Wi B! Walter Layton member of the mmitiee at gned, how- Urges Congressional Group. ions conference, “not a member or utive staff, but a delegation, which would be brought face to face with dif- fes from the sense of whose reality Congres present to be so Thopelessly d Contin Jeast if a ican pol ns were to attend the con- ference the hopes of American co- operation, which ran high when this year'’s sun stood at the Summer sol- stice, and which have been sadly med in this Winter of world dis- content, might not wholly be lost.” Frankness Held Demand. e s the belief reorientate its policies opments in the gress and says it might t them 1gress to recog- E “that re- in price: currency policy are contin- were contemplated scttlements were signed position with which debtors best will in the world can no The economist e The refl nice.,” the article will cor that w ludes, must learn, r does not pay. GERMANS HIT CREDIT PLAN Amortization Proposed By Creditors Is Declared Exorbitant. BERLIN. De 23 (P).—Terms 1T k G s creditors fo frozen credits have cceptable by the Ger- learned unofficially yes- committee of problem con- night until arriving at a national ering the last hout agreement nothing was officially an- nounced. it was learned that the rep- tives of German ¢} scttled on a common prog mitted 1t to the Germs After led that *the creditors’| acceptable in view of the 1t. They objected | tion plan which | tant. Rel ecc chiefly to tr SENTENCED TO PRISON | Ex-President Gets 10 to 20 Years on Charge of Embezzling $52,742. By the Assocated Press. DETROIT, December 23--Robert M ent of the defunct | American State Bank, was sentenced to | 10 to 20 vears in the Michigan State | Prison at Jackson for embezzlement by | Judge W. McKay Skillman today. There | was no recommendation of leniency. Simultaneously defense counsel in- dicated they were prepared to offer two motic One asking a stay of judg- ment and the other a new trial. In even these motions are denied the case | be appeald to th Supreme Court, | they said Allan was last week convjcted of em- bezzling $52742 from the American | State Bank. | The original indictment charged em- | bezzlement of $106.565. but before the | case went to the jury the State dropped ell but one of the five counts. MISSING GIRL'S PLEA CAUSES DETENTION Asks Welfare Agency for Help Aft- er Living for a Week on 8$5. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., Missing from her home near Delta, Mo., since December 10, Imogene Hector, 16, has been located here by police. Miss Beulah Woods Fite, probation chief of the Juvenile Court, said the girl was recognized yesterday when she applied to a welfare agency for help. “I walked to Poplar Bluff and then caught a ride to Memphis with an elderly man who said he was a doctor,” Rileys in Court IDEATH CAR DRIVER and was granted | December 23.— i Mrs. Elsie M. Riley and her husba court child, Edith, aged 12. —Sketched by LAND BANK BIL - BOOST SUGGESTED iChairman Carey Urges In croase of $25.000,000 to Aid Delinquents. By Associated Press An addition of $25.000.000 to the $100.000.000 land bank bill. designed specificaily to ailow the banks to be lenient with delinquent borrowers, was suggested today at a Senate committee | hearing It came from Chairman { the banking subcommittee which has the before it. Previously Paul Bestor, Federal farm loan com- missioner, testified that of $1.171.000,- 000 in outstanding land bank loans, | $275.450.000 was delinquent The bill has already passed the House. It is designed to helpsease the pr on the farmers, but Carey | s 5.000.000 would e the banks funds to permit the suggested rium on loans. Carey said his was tentative, new proposal said, was the issions among Senat nterested ief of unfortunate borrowers. Commodity Price Drop Blamed. Bestor told the committee the nu ber of delinquent loans owed the Fe Sanks has increased from ent of the total a year ago 5 per cent this ye: gave the figures in urging ident Hoover's proposal creasing the capital of the land $100.000,000. The bill has s:d the House. fbuted the increase in de- linquent loans to “the fall of com- modity prices rather than v general breakdown in the value of the loans.” | He gave figures to show how cotton, beef cattle, hogs and corn prices have declined in _the last year. In the South, Bestor said, the low price of cotton has had “a very serious effect.” “It is an excellent showing under the circumstances,” Bestor said. “that 76 per cent of our loans are still not de- | linquent, but with 23 per cent delin- quent it seems that in order to fully protect the banks in the future ade- quate provision should be made.’ | s Foreclosure Policy. | The foreclosure policy of the Federal Land Banks was sharply criticized by Senator Steiwer, Republican of Oregon. He said there had been “complainis from the West” that the banks were | foreclosing inexorably on the farmer unable to pay, even to the extent of Carey of measure the Wyoming growth of | in “putting him and his family out into | the road.” Steiwer called attention particularly to a report which he said had been in- troduced into the Congressional Rec- | ord. accusing the si bank of taking away from the farmer | “his essential seed, wheat and feed for | live stock.” Bestor agreed that if this were so it represented a “short-sighted foreclosure or said that so far as he knew ““Have not pursued a rsh proeclosure policy.” The number of loans in foreclosure, is oniy nine-tenths of 1 per e total loans outstanding. and only 5.7 per cent of those delinguent. MAN IS FOUND DEAD FROM GAS IN KITCHEN “the ' Burton C. Rogers, 53, Leaves Note Asking Family to “Think Well of Me.” Leaving a note in which he asked his family to “think well of me.,” Burton C. Rogers, 53 years old, was found dead of illuminating gas in the kitchen of his home in the Coolidge Apartments, at 3100 Wisconsin avenue, today. His mother-in-law, Mrs. near a gas range, ¢ which four jets had been opened, when she returned from a downtown shopping trip at noon. She called the family physician, Dr. Edward Grass, who pronounced Rogers dead Neither_his wife, Mrs. Nicrotia Rog- ers, nor Mrs. Clubb were able to e plain any motive for Rogers' act. Mrs. Rogers said that her husband had been suffering for several days from indige: | tion and did not work for that reason | sterdey. He was employed as a clerk by the Fruit Growers’ Express. Members of the homicide squad found papers stuffed beneath the doors and windows of the kitchen. The notc was left on his wife's bed. Mrs, Rogers was | downtown shopping Wwhen Rogers' body | chine following, and demanded to be let was found. A 12-year-old son, Burton Rogers, jr. was in school. Coroner Joseph D. Rogers was notified. FOULOIS HEADS CORPS New Chief Was Entire Air Force 23 Years Ago. Benjamin D. Foulols, who 23 years ago was the Army Air Corps, today be- came chief of that corps with the rank of major gencral. The ceremony of taking office was simple. He received the ed by F. Trubee Davison, Assistant Secretary of War for Aeronautics, and went to work. BRITISH JOBLESS DROP | 54,722 Given Work During Week Ended December 12. LONDON, December 23 (#).—Great { Britain registered a decrease of 54,722 in the number of unemployed during she told officlals. “I've lived here a whole week for $5, paving 50 cents a day fov.a room and eating at ich eoum,e"’ the week ended December 12. On that date the total was 2,572,602, which was 273,010 more. than at the same time & year ago. New Liner Destroyed by Flames FOUR FOUND DEAD for additional capital | nd, Harry N. Riley, as they appeared in todav to hear a sentence of two vears and $250 fine for mistreating Riley's James T. Berryman, Star staff artist. HARRISONDENANDS S0 SLAS ;Cut in Federal Expenses by Trimming Budgets Urged on Senate. | A Democratic 000,700 slash in was placed yester comand for a $300.- deral expenditures y before the Senate. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, & party spokesman on (ax and gevenue legislation, called for the cut in appro- priations to save increasing ihat amount. He offered a resolution proposing th: Senate Appropriations Committee trim | $300,000,000 Off the budget estimates for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933. They total $3.942,754,614 The resolution was in line with rec- ommendations of the Democratic Policy Committee of the House and Scnate The Mississippian said he would leave the decision as to where the reductions should be made to the Appropriations Committee for investigation. LABOR PARTY SEEKS 1,000,000 MEMBERS An- nounces Recruiting Campaign to Fight for Come-Back. Headquarters in London By the Associated Press LONDON. December 23.—The Brit- ish Labor party, victim in the last gen- eral election of one of the most devas- tating political landslides in English history, will begin a fight for a come- back in 1932 The headquarters of the party has announced it will begin the new year with a recrulting campaign to secure 1.000.000 additional members. The Executive Committee of the party will meet next month to consider a list of prospective Labor candidates Parliament in_every electoral division of the United Kingdom, and will study methods for reviving enthusiasm in the Labor program. The party has suffered heavy numeri- cal losses “through the depression of rade in Great Britain and the accom- panving lack of funds for political and taxes by | for ! SHELDFOR Y Pilot Faces Manslaughter Charge in Hit-and- Run Case. A coroner’s jury today ordered John Thomas Allison, 26, held for grand jury action on a manslaughter charge in connection with the death of Charles N. ! Gordon, 35, colored, who died at Casu- alty Hospital Saturday night, after he was struck by a hit-and-run automobile. The verdict was given in one of four in- quests at the District Morgue. Gordon, who lived at Lamond, D. C., was hit while standing in a safety zone at Pennsylvania avenue and Twenty- sixth street. He died without regaining consciousness and was identified by his wife, Mary, at the morgue. The, license number of the hit-and- run car was turned over to third pre- cinct police by W. C. Higgins, 2514 L street. who witnessed the accident. The machine was found the following morn- 1ing a few squares from Allison's home at | Rosslyn, Va. Allison was arrested a short time later. Identified From Stand. Higgins, {from the witness stand, iden- tified’ Allison. Other witnesses testified Aliison was drunk. A verdict of accidental death was turncd in the case of Mrs. Agnes Brady, 64, of Mitchellville, Md., who was fataliy injured yeswerday when the automobils , tin which she was riding collided with arse at Alabama avenue and Thirty- eighth street southeast. She died of a broken neck. The hearse, owned by Martin L. Hysong, was criven by Eaward Aufen- berg, 26 The car in which Mrs. Brady was 2 passcnger was driven by her son, Sherman E. Brady, 28, of 2703 Thirty- third street southeast. Death Held Accidental, verdict of accidental death also uned in the case of Horace 40. colored, who was fatally in- rly Monday when he fell from ory window of a house, at * sireet. He died 5 hours later at Freedmen's Hospital A colored man, known only as James Mitchell, was ordered held for the jured ea grand jury In counection with the fatal shooting of Julia Crotter, also colored. The woman, also known as Sm and Mitchell, was shot for | times Decemoer 13 in her home at 611 | Eighth strect. and died four days later at edmen's | Mitchell disappeared after the shoot- | ing and still is at liberty INVESTORS TO ASK U. S. FOR $1,000,000 First Page) bonds, but tt and in stolen.” It is bonds now on e have been disposed of “were actually d, however, the will liquidate at 50 per cent of face value { Admitting. the bondholders’ co | tee has strong 15t the Smith | Co.. the plan proposes a partial subor- dination of the bonds held by the com- pany in favor of those deposited with | | the " com For example the committee holds bonds on a certain apartment house and the company has some of the same bonds, those held oy the committee will be accorded the greater consideration in liquidation, Generally speaking. the company will realize upon the first mortgage bond | it holds, an amount cqual to 50 per | cent of the amount realized by the public or the committee on the bonds of the same issue held by it. That is, in a given case, if $500 is fi ized on a $1,000 bond of a particular issue, the Smith company would realize $250 on a bond of the same issuc held Based on Paul, Minn.. land | Elizabeth | Clubb, found the body lying on the floor | congratulations of his associates, hecad- | settlement would resul realization by the company mately $400.000 with resps mortgage bonds. trade union subscriptions, leaders said. MISSING BOY FOUND AS KILLER IS SOUGHT IN SLAYING OF GIRL g ! (Centinued From First Page.) Operates on Sliding Scale. The percentage of subordination in | the "cace irst mortgage issue is not fixed rates on a sliding seale There are outstanding approximately $8.235,500 of the various first and Te- funding mortgage bond issues sponsored by the former management of the Smith company. These bonds were issued to | replace others already on the various properties. In no case. however, were the original issues entirely taken up and they still stand as prior liens. | Of the first and refunding group, ap- | proximately $6.000,000 are represented | by the committee and $411.500 are held by the company. The committee al- ready has filed claims aggregating ap- proximately $4,000.000, growing out of the issuance of these bonds. It is claimed they likewise are subject to subordination, and it is conceded this claim may be well founded A settlement in connection with these bonds also is recommended, providing for a percentage distribution to the committee of all funds realized on the liquidation of the assets of the com- pany, including all amounts to be real- ized by the company on its first mort- gage bonds. The agreement fixes the percentage of the assets to which the committee will be entitled at 40 per cent. black belt were discovered in the room of a relative of BischofT. The relative declared the liquid was |chill and denied knowing hsw the belt came to be in his room. The belt was to be shown to Mrs. Mildred Mc- Lean, mother of the slain girl. Man Grilled on Discovery. Bischoff, still being questioned about bis discovery of the body, said it had not been in the basement Monday night, | | Police and firemen have spread out over the neighborhood in a deter- | mined search for the slayer. It was belicved that Marian_had never been | far from her home. She had not been dead more than 15 hours when her body was found. an examination indi- cated, and died from internal hemor- rhages after being assaulted. Mrs. McLean was heartbroken as she faced Christmas. Her estranged hus- | band, Joseph McLean, however, plan- ned to arrive here tomorrow evening. | | fiying_from Phoenix, Ariz, where he | [ had been looking for work. An air passenger line offered him a free ride.| Distribution Outlined. arian will be buried Saturday after | y . services in St. Patrick’s Catholic Church | con ey ao Cparso, <0ld two dssues of . collateral trust bonds aggregating $2,- in Covington, Ky. scross the Ohlo|Go0000. It 1 recemmeriies ang $2.- River from here. SHE Six of her playmates| claims of the holders of these bonds be er pallbearers. settled by giving them 15 per cent of | all the astets of the company. The settlement agreement, therefore, [ results ‘in the distribution of the as- | ERLANGER, Ky., December 23 (/) — | Sts of the company as follows: Smith | Reports that a man resembling the one ; CO.. 45 per cent; Roosevelt Committee, sought in Cincinnati for the kidnaping , 40 per cent. and Collateral Trust Com- and killing of Marian McLean was in | Mittee. 15 per cent. | this vicinity were being investigated | Included in the miscellaneous assets | today. | of the company are a large number of | | Claude Kendall of Erlanger said he Promissory notes, evidencing loans picked up a man and woman in Cov- | made by the former management, which ington, Ky, last night, when they are classed as “probably worthless." asked for a “lift” and was compelled to | The total value of these assets Is drive speedily away with a revolver | Placed at approximately $50.000. pointed at him. The man, described! It also is proposed to bring suit by Kendall as answering the kidnaper's against Pitts to recover all funds and | | description, said. “They are making it | Property of the company which came hot for me in Cincinnati and I want to 1nto his possession. The letter says “the 'get away.” probabilities are greatly in favor of |~ Kendall reported the man became cventually obtaining and recovering a |alarmed when he noticed another ma- | er¥ | substantial judgment ' against SUSPECT REPORTED IN KENTUCKY |out near here, He disappeared in the | darkness with the woman, Two bus | drivers later reported having seen the couple near Florence, Ky. Seek to Recover Bond. It is pointed out that suit already has been instituted against the Hart- | ford !tr:dcm?‘ Co. on a surety bond | protecting the company against the INDIANA BABY DISAPPEARS. | defalcations of its officers. It ie esti. e e mated a substantial amount will be Musician Finds Wife Unconscious and recovered there. Slfani Ben Wil | _The stockholders are advised that Missing. | proceedings have been instituted to HOBART, Ind, December 23 (#)—, obtain a refund of income taxes pre- David Piper, 4-month-old son of Mr. Viously paid by the Smith company, | and Mrs. Clarence Piper, was sought to- ' on the ground that, during the period | day by Lake County authorities follow- When the taxes were paid, the company | Ing a" report of the baby's mysterious had no taxable income. It is contended | disappearance from his home here. the tax was paid merely to conceal the Piper, who is employed as a musi- true condition of the company’s affairs, cian at a Chicago Heights cabaret, told and it is expected to recover approxi-| officers he | morning and found his wife, Esther, ly- also is on hand a small amount of | ing on the floor unconscious. The radio cash. in the room was turned on and the _The bondholders committee has on lights were burning. The baby was deposit $12,030,700 of bonds covering 31 missing. | issues. The committee expects to sal- Mrs. Piper apparently had been Vage a substantial amount on many of drugged, her husband said. Neither these issues, but declined to make any Piper nor his wife could advance any Specific estimate for fear of giving in- explanation for the disappearance of | formation to speculators. | the baby. . The plan will be voted on by the Neighbors told police they saw a man | stockholders at a meeting in Wilming- and woman admitted to the Piper home | ton. Del, on December 30. about 9 p.m. Monday, but Mrs. Piper o says no one came to the house. She In a one-da ?y‘xhe remembers nothing T sitting | Glasga lown to listen to & radie am. for ex- returned home Tuesday mately $150,000 from this source. There | y street collection In Seotland, $31,830 was raised ers, | “Prosperity | pansion of Fe i building was | tles of business recovery in a program |ance of the depression,” he said. | some indications | today was virtually $3,500,000 SHIP PICTURED DURING BLAZE. The Segovia, $3,500.000 newly completed United States Mail Steamship Co. fire of undetermined origin at her berth at the Newport News Shipbuildir life due to the flame, although two firemen were overcome by smoke T for service between San Francisco and Panama. WOMAN VICTIM OF RADIUM POISONING DIES IN MARYLAND 1 Believed to Have Contracted Fatal Malady While Paint- | ing Watch Dials. Battles Against Disease Sev- eral Years After Specialists Detect Symptoms. BY the Associated P CAMBRIDGE., Md.. December 23— Pauline De Haven Kenton, 30-ye: old victim of radium poisoning, died here today of the malady which, physi- cians belicved contracted painting watch dizls a Chicago factor The woman entered the Cambridge hospital last October 28 in a seriot condition and grew steadily worse. had battled against the poison for sev- eral years, Keeping in the fresh air as h as possible and living on an egg tecth milk diet She co Kenton left the employ of the diagnosed factory nine vears ago. She was tism and licved to have contracted the poison- ing while pointing a fine camel hair sh with her lips. It was not until 1923, however, that she noticed the whill in PAULINE DE HAVEN KENTON. i rst effects of radium poisonin discovered severa cavities di ing th natio; the radi in the bones SEEKS BOND ISSUE. FINDS LEVEE SLAVE OF SSEI00I0 REPORT L7406 A IRVASE La Follette Assails Hoover Gen. Brown D:nies Labor Relief Organization in Own Comnulsion and Discov- Plan to Spur Work. ers No Violence. gr m with the calci A plea for a bonds Reports of “a hidcous the Levee condition of 500.000.000 issue of e for immediate ex- al. State and local made today by Sen , who introduced such a bill 1 founded by Mej. Gen chief of Army Engineers After investigating the of contractors on the C Y contrel job, he found this to be the ation “The! show offere! o Lytle Brown tor La Follet night The Wisconsin Republican, in a state- d the public works report of President Hoover’s Unemploy- ment Relief Organization and said .it left the case for an adequate public works program unweakencd Public works expansion by his bill. La 1-tte sa.d. “embnrdies the only em program which can b: t a long political co: He termed immediate consideration of Congress urgent Offer No Hope, He Says. “The 1ieasures propos>d L ministration are merely a keep us from slipping deeper into the depression and offer no hops of raising commodity and security priccs, which I 3 FTIEBEDak A ohieVadiitiWe: aE 0 ican Federetion of Labor. about quick recovery.” he sa “The best estimates indicate that ex- penditure of $5.500.000.000 for constr e wi T0 SALVADOR REGIME the Unemployment Committee. in its objec exaggerated — Stimson Decides Not to Approve Martinez as President of Republic. labor camp is that no ev an, ence whatever to violence has been contractors or is werking is und as to lador or place “In som~ cases | fiom comm: tion_of employment The wages common labor are in tively low e hours of labor in isolated cases reasonably A further chec div cases reporte] own ¢ and uision or is compelled to issary as a condi- Thi He rganization tion “to such a program the claims of proponents of the public works program. misrepresented the ec nic *pos and counseled Nation to to a policy inaction and despai of Assails Wage Cuts. “The President’s Committce seemingly views with complacency & Policy Of By the Associated Press continued wage cuts and of @ TedUC Tho American Government has re- tion 'of standards. of Mg to WM ucq” (0" coenine e pevonvions levels, e S0+ the President’'s com- |Tegime of President Martinez in Sa mittee seemed “concerned less with dis- | vador, passionate examination of the possibili- BB Slath et today structed the legation at San Slvador to advise the regime it could not be * recognized under the terms of the Cen- tral American treaty of 1923. which established rules for recognition in Central America. The reasons given were that the | regime had come to power throuzh a revolt and had not been constitutionally reorganized It was added that, even if the gov- iernment had been constittuionally re- | organized, President Martinez conld not be recognized under a clause barring | from the presidency persons who had | held office in the previous government. Guatemala. Honduras and Costa Rica have withheld recognition for the same reason. The decision was reached by Secretary Stimson after a lengthy report on the status of the new regime from Jefferson | Caffery. Minister to Colombia. who was sent to El Salvador recently to make an inquiry. e BRETONS HONOR DEAD AT CHRISTMAS TIME n, weather forecaster, By the Associated Press. jon today as he SUr‘| AypaAy prittany, France.— The i wever, show ' _~ cg&;\o%he Nation | Fisher-folk about this litile port, where are of snow With | Benjamin Franklin landed about Christ- Western moun- | mas time in 1776 as the envoy of the tais \ Continental Congress, commemmorate Weightman sald Christmas would be | their dead on Christmas as well as the a fair, mild day in the Atlantic region. | nativity. Ee was uncertain whether rain would | Groups of singers go from cottage to dampen the Ohio Valley, lower lake cottage along the shore, knocking at region and Tennessee region | each and asking permission to give their Forecasts far the Far West indicated | program. If met with silence, they pass probably snow in parts of ©Colorado, |on. If not, they enter, chafit their Montana, Wyoming, Northern Nevada carols and, at the end, are offered and Idaho tomorrow. | Breton cider and small sums of money. Rain and snow are due in Washing- | ~The proceeds are divided. Half goes ton and Oregon and rain is in prospect | for fees for saying masses on behalf of for Southwestern California. estemlflshermen lost during the past year. Th: \Louisiana, Northwest, ppl, | other half s to the carolling was: Eastern Arkansas 13 ?fl- of public works than with the problem of plausibly defending the administra- tion's refusal to do anything cxcept hos- pitalize the economic casualties of the depression.” A “The committee apparently is more anxious to protect the income taxpayer than to prevent catastrophic continu- Green Christmas Promised in East; | Rains Indicated Fair, Mild Day Forecas for Atlantic Region; Snow in Far West. By the Associated Press. 1t will be a green Christmas east of the Mississippi. R. H. Weightn made the predi veyed his charts the exception of hi sailers, to brighten their Christmas eve. & Dry Dock Co e Segovia was to be delivered on January 30 The photo shows the Segovia as she burned and sank at her pier —Wide World Photo. SENATORSDELAY. MAPES BIL TLDY IN'VATIGAN DEBRIS 15,000 Volumes, Many frre- placeable, Buried by Crash of Library Roof. VATICAN CITY. December 23 housand volumes of the Vati- collection irreplaceable, T mass of wre left by the collapse of the roof over a 200-loot wing .es- terc Late today the body of a fourth vic- tim of the accident was recovered by workmen tunneling through the debri e was one of al workmen whe had been engaged on a job on th ground floor of the ient building Wwhen the roof fell in and was crushe: under a pile of stone d timbers Marco Vatasso, voung Italian attor ney. was lifted from the ruins late la night. and early this morning the bo of two workmen T nd. Search was proceeding for the re maining one of tfie group of four work men believed to have been caught i the collapse vessel. was wrecked Sunday morning by plant. There was no loss of | t had buried under the debris Debris 50 Eleven hour ! m o reach formed early v of the bo t word eves Pope Expresses Grief. worke they With Congress in recess until Ja uary 4. further developments on the Mapes bills, relating to District taxa- tion and fiscal relations, will await the next meeting of the Senate Di trict Committee, some time during the second week of January. | At that time Chairman Capper will discuss with his colleagues on the com- mittee the procedure to be followed in | considering the measures, including h suggestion that the Bureau of Efficiency be asked to study and report on the sev- eral bills Capper Withholds Comment. Pending committee consideration of the bills, Chaitman Capper has r irained from commenting on their de tailed provisions. but has indicated he ants all the light possible on them when they are taken up in committee Early in its deliberations last year, ce of the House re- sive report on fiscal Efficiency Bureau bills recently passed House had not been drafted Urged Higher Contribution. and d before - plored The over t liby coli~y Hundr the closing asionall; section The barrows t A day onl A. by at that time th: walls are rations which secondary im- ez eral contribution should be $10.183 AL the present time, it is $9.500,000, the aim of the House program i arious new taxes share to $6 ecommer io Burcau considered the liab cdcial Government as a m payer and the loss of reve District by reason of the fac is the Netional Capita paring Wi ot e explained h should was f R SWEENEY GETS 3.YEAR COTTON MIL.LS TO RUN ‘TERM IN DAY SLAYING Sentence Imncsed by Justice Proc- | tor After Plea of Guilty to Mznslau TEN WEEKS FULL TIME | Twenty-one Yarn Plants in North hiter Charge. Carolina to Resume Operation » a_charge on January 1. e OB idoril By the Associated Pre GASTONIA. N. C.. December Fuil-time operation for the 21 mills in the chain of Textiles, assured for 10 or 15 weeks. January 1. officials of the here today. My 23.- varn Inc beginning in said reme Ste- rtrand Jus- ild he spent Sweenes ge of first- s and J. H. Separk, execu- combine. said business or for delivery after Januar the belief that beginning e new year there will be a d in the textile business cau ‘ny of the orders now waiting to be filled came by telegraph, indicatir uyers wanted speedy actios e ecided | they said. Myers and Separk issued & joint atement, in which they said tt s and shelves are depleted st be repleniched. Retailers. m ufacturers and jobbers have been b ing from hand to mouth and now nd themselves with low stocks and empt; shelves | “HORSE COLLAR” CURE BRINGS 90-DAY TERM Washington Man Sentenced in g0 e Sniernational siars fo 3 London. Dur his 53 years of ma New York for Selling Alleged | ,2fioh 12"k ‘nost of the erown Panacea. | heads of Europe BAND CONCERT. By the United States Marine Band this evening, at the auditorium. Marine Barracks, at 8 oclock. Capt. Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur S. Witcomb, econd leacer March of the Toys.” in Toyland” | Yuletide fantasie, IMPRESARIO DIES Lionel Powell, N Staze Manager Expires. LONDON. December 23 ).—Lion: 1 Powell ol best known im presarios died here today after a br Powell |and traveled | with fagous United States ted Europe nds und He of concerts the world visited the 40 times and brought By the Associated Press NEW YORK, December 23-—Howard B. Drollinger, manufacturer of “horse collar” apparatus which was widely ad- vertised by radio as a panacea, was sen- tenced today to serve three months in the work house for the unlawful prac- tice of medicine. Justice Henry W. Herbert character- ized Drollinger as a flagrant offender who had caused ignorant purchasers of the “horse collar,” an electrical appara- tus, to delay recourse to recognized medical treatment while the ailments were becoming more complicated, | Drollinger, who is 48, and gave his address as 1320 New Hampshire avenue northwest, Washington, was president of the I-oni-zir Corporation and also of Dr. Drollinger’s Ionizer, DENIES $43,000 THEFT | Californian Enters Not Guilty Plea in Salem, Mass., Court. SALEM, Mass, December 23 (4).— Willlam H. Hood, alias Tilden, of Long | Beach, Calif., today pleaded not guilty to an indictment "charging him with the larceny of $43,000 from Lillian A | Pield of Brookline. At the request of | his counsel the case was continued for two weeks, and in default of $15,000 bail Hood was committed to jail. Hood was brought back to Massa- chusetts recently by District Attorney Hugh Cregg, who informed the court ' that since the indictment was returned in 1929 Hood had engaged in business | in California and had “gone straight.” Counsel for Hood said he had made $1.000 restitution and had attempted | to repay more of the money. It was | alieged that Hoed obtained the meney through plyc!,!c methods. from “Babes .......Herbert “Christmas Bells, Rapee “Yesterthoughts” .. .Herbert “Punchinello Herbert Solo for harp. “Silent Night". " arr. Tyler Muscian Joshua M. Tyler, Noel,” from “The Seasons.” Tschaikowsky Tone poem, “The Bells" ..Scharbau Overture, “Carneval”...........Dvorak Marines' hymn, “The Halis of Monte- | zuma." “The Star Spangled Banner.” e e