Evening Star Newspaper, January 26, 1932, Page 5

NEW PLOT FOILED AT BRITISH PRISON Averts Mass Revolt by Con- B8 viots at Dartmoon, mflwhhd Press. OETON, England, January 28.—A plot aiming at a mass escape of con- wiots from Dartmoor prison this after- noon was given by & prison official to- day as the reason for the summoning of 1,000 strongly armed troops last night. | Coming out of the forbidding insti- tution after a 48-hour stretch of duty necessitated by the worst penal out- break in British history on Sunday and followed by extraordinary sprecautions to avert further rioting, this official sald T can't tell you how terrible was the atmosphere in the prison last nigk We heard the hoarse whispers of con- victs talking to one another from their cells, but couldn’t pin the conversations down to any particular individuals Hidden Knives Found. “They just put their hands over their mouths and in loud whispers what purported to be a mas: this afterncon. I attribute t recautior eard of th “Then the 1 t a determined attempt was to be made ) break into the prison from the outside capped the climax. He confirmed reports that an exten- sive organizatior formulated prior to Sunday’s mut , found 10 butcher knives hidden in various cells,” he added, “and in one block I discovered handles of picks and fire bars | and all sorts of improvised weapo The soldiers were hurried from Plymouth last night. Barricades, propped by trestles, were thrown across all roads in the neighborhood of the prison ;\nd‘ each barricade was manned by soldier Police were ordered to stop and ir vestigate all approaching cars and not Yo allow any to pass unless inquiries were answered satisfactorily More Guards Arrive. Special groups of guards were brought from London vesterday and additional forces of police from Plymouth and other Devon towns ¢ An inquiry into the causes of S day's outbreak is under way. One of s consequences, it was reported, might be the abandoning of the prison, partly because of the difficulty. in such a loc tion, of excluding outside interference, because of the facilities the lonely moors offer for fast automobiles. In some quarters the trouble was blamed on a humanitarian relaxation of Giscipline and in others to an increas- ing severity in the regiment. One re- port said the staff had been reduced considerably, by motives of economy. end this made necessary the imposition | ¢ a more strict rule © Preparation of the food also suffered because of chi according to this report. The chaplain was quoted as saying he tasted the por- ridge last week and found it “not fit 1o eat.’ TRIO TO DIE ON BASIS OF HOLMES DECISIO Approval of Borum, Logan and Guy Sentences Follow Justice's Last Ruling. By the Associated Press. Oliver Wend-ll Holr last opinion was the basis of a Supreme Court ruling v upholding a senience of death hree colored men g 50 yeers of service on Justice Holmes wrote: “Cons the verdict is not nececs: \ indictment is 1 f it were a separate indictr With that as a precedent, the court ended the last hope of John Borum, John Logan and Milton Guy to escape exccution ,for killing Lamar W. York prohibition agent, in Washington April 12, 1930; They claimed the jury found them each not guilty of firing the shot which struck York and that their conviction on the count charging they collectively murdered the officer could not stand Justice Holmes had written his opin- fon on January 11 in upholding the sen- tence of James Dunn of Eureka, Calif ntended that since he been acquitted on the charges of selling and liquor, h® could not be con- main ; n nui- keeping Holmes Du court al in uphol Wwhich held a Texas law regulating the shipment of cotton over its road was invalid. Truckers had declared the law tended to give the railroads a monopoly on the shipment of cotton The court recessed until February 15 CONVICTED OF ASSAULT Man Awaits Sentence for Crime Committed 12 Years Ago, NEW HAVEN uary 26 (4) —Harry Angle, 33, of Chicago, W victed yesterd: uperior C on two counts tent tc shooti He wil y Angle was ed with shooting Detective Sergt. James E. Currier and John H. Healey, who v severely wounded when "th to arrest him as a fugitive from Chicago, where he was wanted for jumping bonds U. S. Consul's Widow Dies adelphia EVENING STAR, WASHINGT 1{—F_rom the Front Row l Reviews and News of \Vashingmn‘s Theaters. “House of Connelly Presented by Group Theater. ASHINGTON last night | had its first view of & young and admirable or- ganization which goes by the name of the Group Theater, Inc. While commonly called “the child of the Theater Guild,” this is in reality a totally distinct organization, standing firmly on its own two : feet and in- | debted to its parent _sponsors only in so far as the loaning of the present play and its | ¥ theater is con- cerned. At the Nation:l la night it _pre- sented Paul | B Green’s moving and bitter pano- rama of the col- lapse of a proud Southern _fam- The House | ily | Fesad of Connell FrancholTone. ghich may be | sald to be the last word on the | crumbling of certain American | lineage in the South as O'Neil's | “Mourning Becomes Efectra” was in the North It is a stern, moody fable, handsomely told by Ncrth Carolina’s epic playwright and act:d with extraordinary finesse by a cast which includes n y of the future’s most promising “s s." which sprang sud- owhere rast Fall in New mong its thespians sev- most_ brilliant_of cur ors. In this play, for which does not by any means include the full measure of the group’s membership, may be | seen Francrot Tone, last season's | lusty-throated singing cowboy of | “Green Grow the Lilacs”; Margaret | Barker, who suddenly won spotlight | attention as a particularly appeal- | ing Henrletta in Miss Cornell's “The Barretts of Wimpole Street”; Morris *| cCarnovsky, whose list of achieve- ments are long and memorable, and Eunice Stoddard, who, according to Jocal reckonings, was last seen here in a Theater Guild production. All of these last night, to a greater and lesser extent, presented them- solves as earnest disciples of the miming muse, speaking their lines with clarity and fervor (and & mo= ment or two of ultra-fervor by Miss Barker) and presenting the thesis of Mr. Green's play with a devotion that smacked mostly of perfection. The play itself will, of course, be argued the length and breadth of the during the week. Its bold denouncement of a situation in the S which has long been Whisperca but never spoken across the footlishts, will resp b-th cheers its progression. Many o ft cold and friend- Lilterness, many were moved by poetry of ils thought, and many ¢ were thoroughly ex- cited by the pattern of its stern reality—which _others claim is not reality at all. Whether it is real or un- reol, it remains, nevertheless, one of the more vital evenings in the cur- rent theater. The plot, which traces the rapid decline of pride and surface re- spectability in_an old Southern family, nes - little explanation. Its hero is a struggling youngster bent on seeing the light, whose mariage to a tenant's daughter is considered the ultimate in savage inclinations There is actually a tzuch of happi- ness to be discerned at the end, but for the most part more suffering than joy is 2pparent through the play's length, and its moods have mostly to do with family hystcria and the sweep of sorrow on what seems to be a downward path. Franchct Tone, one of the top- notch emotionalists in the acting industry, carries the play with him with force and unusual vigor. Miss Barker is most believable in her less stormy moments, and others who contribute vividly to & whole chis- eled with great skill by the entire group include Morris Carnovsky, Mary Morris, Stella Adler, Fannie Bell de Knight, Eliabeth Willlams and many, many others. E. de S. MELCHER. less by i TUBERGULOSIS WAR SPURRED IN CAPITAL More Hospital Beds and Ex- tension of Prevention Work | ‘ Object of Campaign. Spurred by reports of an increased death rate from tuberculosis in the Dis- ington Tuberculosis Association yester- | day launched an aggressive campaign for 1932, with two primary objects in | | view—creation of additional hospital beds for adult patients, and the exten- sion of anti-tubercular work to combat | new sources of the disease. | The directors’ meeting, held in the | | board room of the Equitable Building & | | Loan Association at 915 F strect, was | attended by many public health offi- | cers, hospital executives and prominent | Washington physicians. More Funds Sought. | ' Directors authorized Mrs Erfest R. | Grant, president of the association, to | appoint a special committee to urge before Congress the necessity for ap- propriating funds for additional hos- | pitalization of adult tubercular patients. The committee will be named in the near future by Mrs. Grant It was pointed out that 590 deaths here from tuberculosis during 1931 rep- resents a substantial advance over the previous year HOOVER RANKED FIRST BY JAHNCKE Says He Is “Head and Shoul- ders Above” Other Presi- dential Aspirants. By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 26—President | Hoover last night was ranked by Ernest ges in the kitchen stafl, | trict last year, directors of the Wash- |L. Jahncke, Assistant Secretary of thi Navy, as “head and shoulders abovi all other aspirants for the presidential romination. Jahncke told the annual meeting of the Recpublican Club of Massachusetts hat President Hoover's been “colossal.” He characterized him as one of the greatest Presidents in the history of the Nation and as prob- ably the “best equipped man we could possibly have had in the White House to meet this crisis.” Jahncke's address was & vigorous commendation of the Hoover adminis- tration, making especial reference to the “unique’ economic and credit pro- gram submitted to Congress by the President. Democratic attacks upon President Hoover in which he was charged with responsibility for the economic distress were labelled by Jahncke as “unjust and unreasonable.” Looking to the approaching presi- dential campaign, Jahncke said the| Democratic party is, “as it has been for 70 vears, the party of opposition, of criticism and fault finding without con- The board also took steps to intensify | structive ideas and without constructive the efforts of the ociation to locate | leadership.” and deal with new sources of tubercu- | Summarizing the Jackson day speeches losis and to protect the cominunity | further by enlisting industrial concerns | commercial organizations and Govern- ment officials in some more effective means, of safeguarding their employes | from 1infavorable conditions, This extension program contemplates 1nw establishment of clinics for diag- nosis and prevention work among spe- cial groups of industrial and commer- cial workers. Dolph Heads Committee. The new committee to carry on this work will be headed by John Dolph, a member of the board of the association and for many years active in the life insurance business here Other members of the group, to be known as the Industrial Health Service Committee, are George A. Hastings, ad- ministrative _assistant to President Hoover; Dr. F. C. Smith, assistant sur- geon general of the United States Pub- lic Health Service; Wallace Hatch chairman of the Health Committee of the Chamber of Commerce, and Miss Gertrude Bowling, executive director of the Instructive Visiting Nurse Society. | It was announced that the association will employ an additional fleld worker after February 1 to aid in the educa- tional campaign among the colored population of the city. CHICAGO 0PF:RA’S FATE TO REST ON DONATIONS By the Associated Press. |of the Democratic leaders, Alfred E | Smith, James M. Cox and John W. | Davis, Jahncke said they were the “es- | semee of Democratic philosophy” and provided for “a bond issue to increase | the Government's obligations and the | taxes of the people, a budget to be bal- | anced by Democratic_sleight-of-hand | and an increase in the higher brackets.” | _The Democratic tariff attitude Jahncke said, “is packed full of insin- cerity and hypocrisy.” The Democrats don’t dare attempt to lower the rates he charged, “because they now realize. as the Republicans have always con- tended, that any lowering of our tariff walls at & time like this would invite a deluge of foreign products under whic' the American economic scheme would be imperiled Taxi Drivers Call St’rike. BUENOS AIRES. January 23 (#)— ‘Taxicab drivers declared a 24-hour strike yesterday in protest against the government's new tax on gasoline. They promised to go back to work today. CHICAGO, January 26—No con- | tracts for next season will be made by the Chicago Civic Opera Co. until a guaranty fund of $500,000 is made up, Samuel Insull, president, announced last night after a meeting of the Board of Trustees Of this sum, Insull said, approxi- mately $100,000 is remaining from pre- vious contributions, making the sum to be raised about $400,000. The trustees, the opera president decided tonight to enter into no ommitments of any kind for next sea- son until the money is assured. Solici- ations of renewals for the guarantee fund and new contributions will be ed soon, it was decided IT SMELLS TEMPTING BUT I'LL HAVE TO SAY °NO. COFFEE KEEPS ME AWAKE | SANKA COFFEE .20, , J0U CAN DRINK THIS COFFEE AND SLEEP-1TS SANKA COFFEE 97% OF THE CAFFEIN REMOVED PINEHURST, N. C. 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Scott McBride, general superin- tendent, issued a statement denying “{he impression in some quarters” that | ndoned its opposi- | tion to referenda, or that its new presi dent, Bichop E. G. Richardson of Phila- | delphia, favored such procedure. ! Remarks of Senator Bingham, Re- | publican, Connecticut, in support of his defeated resciution calling for ref- erenda jn the various States, said Mc- Bride, Was responsible for the miscon- ception. He quoted the policy declara- tion of the league and a recent state- ment_by Bishop Richardson to show that both opposed any popular action | on prohibition changes except that | taken through the election of members of Congress and State Legislatures. His statement follows, in part: “Senator Bingham'’s remarks in sup- port of his defeated resoluticn calling | for referenda on prohibition in the va- rious States apparently created the im- pression in some quarters that the Anti-Saloon Lesgue has changed its position of opposition to such procedure The fact is that neither the Anti- Saloon League nor its recently elected president, Bishop E. G. Richardson of Philadelphia. has given any expres- sions favorable to prohibition referenda “Any question of the repeal or the modification of the eighteenth amend- ment should originate in exactly the same way as did the adoption of the amendment. It shoald originate with the people, who. voicing their wishes to their representatives in Conffress and the State Legislatures, elected to rep- resent their views, can retain, amend or repeal any part of the Constitution “The Anti-Saloon League of America has never hesitated and does not hesi- tate today to leave these questions in the hands of the people, to be settled by them in the constitutional way by an expression of their views in the elec- tion of members of Congress and of State Legislatures. “This method provides for the only referendum to obtain the view of the people which is knowa to ths Con- stitution, and this kind of referendum can be held every two years. The An Saloon League of America will oppose any effort to short circuit the regular constitutional process for changing the prohibition statutory law or for amend- ing the Constitution of the United States. 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