Evening Star Newspaper, November 6, 1932, Page 2

PRESIDENTS HELD EVENING STAR TO GIVE RETURNS TUESDAY NIGHT TO 8 GROUPS. FOES OF DRY LAW Dr. Clarence True Wilson, in Debate With Darrow, Cites Acts of Four. None of the four Presidents in office since the prohibition amendment was | adopted has “taken the law seriously.” 1t was charged last night by Dr. Clar- ence True Wilson, secretary cf the Methodist Board of Temperance, Pro- hibition and Public Morals, during his prohibition “debate” here with Clar- | ence Darrow, noted Chicago eriminal | lawyer. | President Wilson. the dry leader told his auditors at Washington Auditorium. | vetoed the Voistead enforcement &ct.|pneyt Tuesday night, where thousands will gather to hear The Star's election | ‘which Jater was enacted over his veto This showed Mr. Wilson's direct oppos! ‘tion to the law, the speaker con- tended. President Harding. Dr. Wilson con- tinued, placed prohibition enforcement directly in charge ¢f Andrew W. Mel- lon, Secretary of the Treasury and “an outstanding anti-prohibitionist.” Presi- dent Coolidge continued Mr. Mellon in office “and he knew the Secretary of the Treasury was no ‘water-rielon’ by then,” the temperance advocate added. Appointed Wet Cabinet. President Hoover, Dr. Wilson con- cluded, “appointed a wet cabinet and a wet Wickersham Crime Commission and he never took the prohibition busi- ness seriously at any time at all.” Dr. Wilson strove hard to make the “debate” what the announcements had promised, but Mr. Darrow did not con- fine his arguments to prohibition, dis- cussing agnosticism, philosophy _and criminology in typical Darrow fashion. | There were no formal rebuttal speeches and there wes no decision at the con- clusion of the “debate.” Even the offi- cial time limit was overlooked Dr. Wilson opened the arguments with & review of prohibition history. ~He pointed out that 46 States ratified the amendment, and argued that if prohibi- tion s wrong in the face of that m: jority support. “then there is some- thing wrong with our system of gov- ermment " Prohibition, he insisted. resulted in mearly 10 years of unprecedented pros- perity from 1920 to 1929, and contrary to “wet” arguments. n then it was not prohibition. but gambling, “stock market gambling.” which brought the depression. It was in his opening statements that Dr. Wilson charged the four Presidents with failure to take the law seriously. He then praised prohi- bition for outlawing the licensing sys- tem by which the Federal Government received an income from liquor manu- facture and sale. Begins in Typical Style. Darrow began his first speech typical st ’n'-i'hp doctor's a funny fellow.” he be- n, “I've corrected him so many times fiat 'm getting tired of it!” When the laughter subsided the law- yer declared the Federal Government Tever issued a liquor license, but simply placed a tax on the goods “And the law’s the same today as it ever was,” he continued. “Al Capone was given an inhumanely long sentence and thrown in jail, not for manufac- turing or selling liquor. but because he didn't give the Government its share of his profits. The Government’s worse e is!"” ‘hfi;,hwumn ended the “debate” with & jibe at the proposals to raise Federal evenue by taxing beer. This plan, he said, “makes the poor man's throat pay the rich man’s taxes.” INSULL’S REMOVAL FROM JAIL TO GO TO HOSPITAL 0. K.’D been submitted, that a warrant for his arrest was illegal without such proof and that, futhermore, he was ready to submit documentary evidence. of his client’s innocence. All during the argument Mr. Insull #at beside his lawyer, following the pro- ceedings closely, but not understand- ing a word of what was said, for it was all in Greek. “The Cook County authorities do not consider it particularly important to col- lect evidence against Mr. Insull” said the attorney, “they only wanted his ar- rest before November 8. They are run- ning for office and that is election day “My client has made no attempt to evade justice. Indeed he asked the Greek police to protect him from the police in Chicago. Here is the man who asks to be protected from American liberty, under which men are mun‘lzredI by machine guns in the streets. Is such a man as this capable of trying to escape justice?” He® declared that Mr. Insull had| missed none of the developments in his case. that he knew the extradition treaty had been ratified, that his arrest was imminent. that officers had left the United States to bring him back. but despite all this he made no effort to eave Greece. !.Thr attorney general who appeared for the state objected vigorously to the defense counsel’s “entirely unnecessary criticism of the American authorities He ridiculed the implication that politi- cal motives actuated the proceedings. The court’s ruling took the form of upholding Mr. Insull's arrest. The prisoner received newspaper men in the assistant governor's room which has been fitted out as & bed room for Insull. He seemed to have recovered his good humor, tut he had only one eomment to make about his own case. That was that he believed justice even- tually would be rendered by the Greek courts. Then he talked about every- thing except his own affairs. NON-PARTISAN CITIZENS' LEAGUE HEAD GUARDED New York Attorney Is Threatened | With Harm Unless He Ends Political Activity. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK. November 5—A police detall was assigned tonight to guard Edward J. Gould, attorney and presi- dent of the Non-Partisan Citizens' League, an organization of 6,000 en- Tolled members which is sponsored by a number of prominent men, including J. P. Morgan. Gould told police that two men threa ened him with bodily harm yester and again today unless he ended his po- litieal activities. The guard was as signed when Gould reported receiving a telephone message that the men were on their way to his office to carry out their threats. They failed to appear. Gould attributed the threats to his Some of those who will furnish entertainment at the community centers returns. Lett to right: Estelle Wentworth, Maj. C. J. Brown and Jane Wilson. HOUSANDS of people are ex- pected to attend the ‘open- house” programs arranged espe- cially for neighborhood and family groups at eight of the lrading Community Centers in the Dis- trict of Columbia on election night, be- ginning at 7:30 o'clock, when The Evening Star election returns will be received throughout the evening until a late hour Through the interest and co-opera- tion of a number of radio dealers in the various neighborhoods with the Com- munity Center Department, The Star's broadcasting of the fullest retur through Station WMAL will enal everybody attending the Community Centers or Tuesday night to get ac- curate information from every section of the country, the instant it is received by The Star. Ezst Washington Community Center, Seventeenth and East Capitol streets, will offer a program of movies and music beginning at 8:15 o'clock, show- ing early American events and scenes culled from the Yale “Chronicles cf America,” appropriate to the occasion. accompanied with music played by Mrs. Vera Robertshaw at the plano The Boys' Independent Band, Washington's popular, prize-winning organization, under the leadership of Maj. C. J. Brown. will offer a band concert throughout the evening, interspersing the important returns over the air. The radio to be used has been loaned by Principal Charles Hart of Eastern High Schoo! fer the cccasion, co-operating with Mrs. L. W. Hardy, supervisor of the center. Langley Center Invitation. Langley Community Center, First and ‘T streets northeast. invites ail adults and children accompanied by adults. who do not have a fireside or a radio of their own to come to Langley Audi- torium on that evening, when there will be music by the Washington Elks Boys' Band and other features. Basket ball games and card games will be provided for all comers. Arrangements for the evening are being sponsored by citizens' association and parent-teacher associa- tions of this neighborhood, in co-opera- tion with Mrs. D. E. Middleton, com- munity secretary in charge. The Ma- jestic radio will be installed through the courtesy of the F. S. Harris Co., | 2900 Fourteenth street. Roosevelt Community Center. Thir- teenth and Webster streets northwest ill present a program in the new au orium, and Miss Jane Wilson in dance num- bers, accompanied by Harman Nico- demus, pianist; community singing led by Mrs. Forence Yeager, and in the corridors nearby will offer opportunity for contract bridge games, with M Mirabel Lindsay as hostess. Throug tne courtesy of the Philco Co.. & radio featuring Miss Aileen Collins | | | will be installed for this occasion. Mrs. | A. L. Irving, community secretary, has | arranged for all visitors on that evening | to inspect activities at this new center. The formal program is scheduled for 8:15 o'clock. | Southeast Community Center, Seventh and C streets southeast, offers a series of games and athletic contests through- | out the evening under the direction of Jack Haas, athletic director at this center. Beginning at 7:30 o'clock, the public is invited to watch the basket 1 games and special events to be offered by players from the U. 8. 8. Constitution, Naval Reserves, Wolver- | ines, Western Athletic Club, Keller Ath- etic’ Club, Anacostia Business Men's | Athletic Club, Miller Furniture Co., Wheeler Athetic Club, Congress Heights Church Athletic Club and Robert Welsh Athletic Club. The radio to be used will by Julius H. Rieley, Inc., sylvania avenue southeast, Mr. | Rieley being chairman of the Enter- tainment Committee of the Boutheast | Business Men's Assoclation. Mrs. M. W. Davis, community secretary, has ar- ranged for the radio brpadcast and the various contests to take place in the corridors of the buflding. Thomwon Center Program. Thomson Community Center, Twelfth | and L streets northwest, will present | program of songs by members of the | Washington Civic Opera Co. and selec- | tions from Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Pina- fore” by members of the Estelle Went- worth opera groub, beginning at 8:30 o'clock. The music will be interspersed throughout the evening between the an- nouncement of news items received over the radio installed for the benefit of the people of the neighborhood &nd the | public generally by courtesy of the O-Kay Radlo Co. 417 Eleventh street. Mrs. A. C. Driscoll. tommunity secre- tary. has arranged for this program on election night. ‘Three centers in divisions 10-13 will | likewise hold open house on election | night. with The Evening Star returns | as the outstanding features of the occa- sion, interspersed with a variety of stunts, community singing. orchestra | and other music, all programs being open to the public on this evening. The | centers are Banneker, located at Eighth | and Euclid streets northwest, under the supervision of Mrs. Gabrielle Pelham; Burrville. located on Division avenue | northeast, under the direction of Mrs. Carrie J. Knox. and Garnel Patterson, located at Tenth street between U and V streets northwest. under the direction | of Miss Etta Johnson. At Garnet Pat- terson the radio to be used on Tuesday will be installed by Reid's Corner, Elev- enth and U streets. | These community centers will provide cheerful, comfortable places for “listen- | ing-in" on The Star's election returns | received over the air. BRITISH MARCHERS' By the Associated Prest NEW YORK. November 5 —Herbert | founding of the International Fraternity | Benjamin, secretary of the National Committee of the Unemployed Coun- cils, announced today he had cabled W. A. L. Hannington, leader of the British hunger march, inviting him to speak “at a giant send-off mass meeting to American hunger marchers.” Benjamin said the New York meet- ing to which Hannington was invited, would be heid November 29 and include marchers from New England and New York. He added that plans call for nine columns of marchers from various parts of the country to meet in Wash- ington December 4. Among the “demands” which Ben- jamin said the marchers would press were $50 Winter relief from the Fed- eral Government to supplement local relief and the passage by Congress of the workers’ unemployment insurance bill. ‘The cable to Hanninz(nn.\ nounced by Benjamin. follows “In spite of American masses, interested splendid march of British hungry. We invite you to address hunger march send-off demonstration Bronx Coliseum, New York, November 29. If still detained by MacDonald’s police will wecome other representative. Warm fraternal greetings. Cable reply.” 10,000,000 SEALS ARRIVE FOR SALE Christmas Consignment Received at Tuberculosis Association Headquarters. as an- deeply Announcement of the arrival of 10,- 000,000 new Christmas seals for this vear’s campaign, to finance the con- | tinued fight against tuberculosis, was made yesterday at headaouarters of the District Tubercu- losis Association, 1022 Eleventh street. The seals, ordered from the National ‘Tuberculosis Asso- ciation, will be placed on sale the day after Thanks- organization's activities in behalf of Al- bert Wald. Democratic candidate for the | State Senate from the “silk stocking” district. ROYAL BABY IN AIR 18 - Week - 01d Archduke Stnyhnn’ Taken by Parents on Trip. BUCHAREST, Rumania, November 5 (. — Twelve - weeks - old Archduke Stephan, youngest member of the 900- year-old Hapsburg family, took to the air today. He was flown from Balcik Castle, on the Black Sea. to the capital. by his father, Archduke Anton, accompanied by Princess lleana. The princess, Who 18 the boy’s mother, and sister of King Carol, will participate in tomorrow's fes- tivities here of the Rumanian Girl Scouts, of which she is president. giving, and inten- sive preparations are being made for the opening of the campaign. The new seal wal designed by Edward Volkman, Weehawken, N. J., artist. On it two children are shown standing in & snowy street, with song books in their hands and lustily singing Christ- mas carols. It is lithographed in red, green and blue, with the usual “Merry Christmas” at the top of the double- barred cross in the background. Since 1907, when the idea of selling such seals to raise funds for the battle against tuberculosis was introduced in this country by Miss Emily Bissell, 26 different designs have been created by artists. e Destruction of a bridge by bandits re- cently stopped traffic over the Peiping- l&l:ynknw way, in Chins, for 8. FRATERNITY MARKS HEAD ASKED T0 U.5. Z51H ANNIVERSARY Wanted to Address Send-off Me(_ating for Jobless Com- ing Here. Delta Sigma Pi Chapter to Have Banguet and Dance Tomorrow. The twenty-fifth anniversary of the of Delta Sigma Fi will be celebrated by Mu Chapter, local representative of the fraternity, with a banquet and dance at the Hamilton Hotel tomorrow night. Frederick M. Feiker, director of the | Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Com- | merce, will be the speaker of the eve- | ning, discussing a basis for interna- | tional business ethics. will include Rev. , 8. J., regent of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University: ) William P. Notz, dean of the School of Foreign Service of the same university, and Dr. Thomas H. Healy, assistant a | _John B. O'Shea, headmaster of Mu | Chapter, will welcome the guests. E. A. | Nash, _president of the “Washington Alumni Club and district deputy of the l International Fraternity, will outline the historic background of the fraternity. | A toast to the founders of the fraternity | will be proposed by Robert Vining simul- tanecusly with toasts to be given at | each of 54 celebrations to be held morrow night by. chapters of the fra- | ternity in all partseof the world. | 'HEAD OF LEGION TERMS BYRD “STALKING HORSE” Johnson Sees Effort to Dodge Taxation in Crities of Vet- erans’ Appropriations. By the Assoclated Press. CHARLOTTE. N. C., November 5 — Louis A Johnson, national commander of the American Legion, in an address here tonight denounced what he termed “an organized crowd of clever - nents” of the Legion and of disabled veterans. Saying they are “not disinterested in relieving themselves of taxation,” he charged “they misrepresent facts de- |liberately. They are inciting class against class.” Rferring to Admiral Richard E. Byrd, | president of the National Economy League, which is advocating reductions in Government expenditures, including | the paring of $450.000,000 from veterans' in{m:gm‘ullon!, the Legion chief de- clared: | “Admiral Byrd is a distinguished son |of a distinguished family. I have naught to say against him except that I believe that unwittingly and unin- tentionally he is the stllkm’ horse for, the one person out of 3,000 of our popu- lation, who is against the veterans of America. Johnson seid rehabilitation of dis- abled soldiers is the “first love and duty of the American Legion.” PAINTER HURT BY FALL Congress Heights School Worker May Have Skull Fracture. Julius D, Westcott, 42, 8 painter, of 700 block of N street, suffered a frac- tured arm, brain eoneussion and & pos- | sible fractured skull yesterday, when he fell from a ladder while working at the Congress Heights School, Nichols and Alabama avenues southeast. Westcott, who is employed by the District, was reported to be in a {.l: two | condition at Casuglty Hospital nights K.I READY FOR PUBLIC| EVACUATE LONDON 31st Annual Chrysanthemum Show of Agriculture Unit Opens Today. All is in readiness for & record-break- ing attendance today at the 31st annual chrysanthemum show of the United States Department of Agricuiture. After the doors were closed at 9 o'clock last night a force of gardeners and deco- rators worked for several hours “fresh- ening up” the exhibition for the big day, today. Several hundred new plants that have come into bloom since the show started were brought in to re- place the more bedraggled and those which were dust flecked by the nearby building operations. The doors will be opened promptly at 9 o'clock this morning, to remain open for 12 hours to allow all Sunday sightseers to enjoy the show. Parking space has been reserved in the Depart- ment of Agriculture grounds at Four- teenth street and Constitution avenue. Expert gardeners will be on hand to glve advice regarding cultivation of the different varieties to Interested home gardeners. The attendance yesterday was close to 3.000 and when the doors closed last night upwards of 7,500 persons had viewed this year's show. Visiting flor- ists from 12 States have assured Dr. William A. Taylor, chief of the Bu- reau of Plant Industry, under whose administration the show is arranged, that this is undoubtedly the best “‘mum"” show ever opened to the public on the American continent. They are especlally pleased with this year’s exhi- bitlon because of the wide variety of types such as the monster Japanese ex- hibition blooms, the even wider variety of pompons and singles (or home gar- den varieties), the Aenemone type, the Chinese styles and the dwarf plants and tiny blooms, as well as the innovation of hanging baskets with drooping sprays of “cascade mums.” e BONUS FOES PROBE ASKED OF CONGRESS Legion Chiefs Urge Investigation Into Na- in Pennsylvania tional Economy League. By the Associated Press PHILADELPHIA, November 5—The Executive Committee of the American ion, Department of Pennsylvania, today adopted & resolution demanding a | congressional investigation into the Na- | tional Economy League. Action was taken at the committee’s annual meeting. “There have been too many attacks recently on the American Legion and I think Congress should find out what the intent and purpose of this league is and also who is backing it.” William L. Jenkins, commander of the second dis- trict, said in presenting the resolution. The committee in executive session refused to permit Merion Post No. 545 to conduct an individual poll among vlvania Legion members on the soldiers’ bonus question. BORAH CASTS BALLOT WITHOUT NAMING CHOICE Idaho Senator SBtarts Today for Capital—G. 0. P. Sought In- dorsement in Vain. By the Associated Pross BOISE, Idaho. November 5. —8Senator William E. Borah, Republican inde- pendent, of Idaho, who said in Wash- ington after the Republican National Convention he would not support Presi- dent Hoover on their party’s platform, has cast his vote without naming pub- licly his choice of the presidential can- didates. With annour.cement that the Senator planned to leave Idaho tomorrow for the National Capital, Stephen Utter, Ada County clerk, revealed tonight Borah had entered an absentee ballot in pre- cinct 1. Priends of the President have sought in vain to obtain pronouncement | from Borah favoring him. The principal solace which those seeking & word for Hoover could point |to was his attack on former Gov. Al Smith for his stand on the liquor ques- tion, as outlined in his talk in Newark, and the statement in another address declaring the depression could not be blamed “upon the present administra- tion.” GEM THIEF. RETURNED Convict Who Escaped Auburn, N. Y., Prison, Was Captured Oct. 22. NEWARK, N. J., November 5§ (#).— Arthur Barry, the gem thief who made & spectacular escape from Auburn (N. Y.) Prison in 1929, began his jour- ney back to prison this afternoon, manacled and under heavy guard. Barry left police headquarters in & closed automobile driven by Detective Fallon who, with Detective Carr of Newark, captured Barry on & farm in Sussex County October 22. Carr had a sawed-off shot gun. Be- side Barry in the rear seat were Wardens. McCarthy and Morehouse of Auburn, both heavily armed. Two de- tectives carrying shot guns followed in another car. INDIANS SAVE WIFE OF MAN DROWNED IN LAKE WITH 3 OTHERS (Continued From First Page.) an outboard motorboat for s tourist camp 5 miles from Hester Falls, she sald. A strong wind blew up, the boat was swamped and all its occupants thrown into the cold water. Mr, Peterson and the two girls drowned. Mrs. Peterson managed to reach the island from which she was rescued. Dennis Chabot, former American actor and owner of the camp for which they were bound, was also drowned. He was acting as guide to the party. Mrs. Peterson said she clung to the overturned boat. Her husband snd Chabot each ,took one of the girls and struck out in the darkness. Suddenly she saw all four of them sink. They did not come up again. The boat floated slowly toward the island until Mrs. Peterson, nearly ex- hausted, could pull herself ashore. All night and the following day she found what shelter she could in the low bushes. ‘The Petersons had come up from Chi- cago for a hunting excursion. The chil- dren were about 4 and 5 years old. VICTIM WAS SALESMAN. Eyner Peterson Moved From Michigan _ To Rockford, Ill. ROCKFORD, I, November § (#).— Eyner Peterson, who was drowned wjth his two daughters and a guide in Lake of the Woods, Ontario, had lived here several years. His original home was at Holland, Mich. Peterson was & salesman for the Lehigh Cement Co. He and his family left here Wednes- gnny for an outing near Hester Falls, curred, I} Demonstration Forees: Com- mons Debate, Which Will Resume Tomorrow. By the Assoclated Press. LONDON, November 5.—Disillusioned ‘but good-humored, Britain's little army of 2,000 “hunger marchers” evacuated London today. They left in regular railway coaches provided for them, with banners flying and the crowd cheering and singing. They had failed to attain an increase in the dole or any change in the means test, but their fighting at the very doors of Parliament forced an airing of the unemployment_situation in the House of Commons. The three-day unemploy- ment debate in the House, led by the veteran George Lansbury, will be re- sumed Monday. Most Londoners felt today that the trouble of the last 10 days had been caused by avowed Communist leaders, aided by members of the London un- derworld. Interest of Moscow. ‘This feeling was caused by a letter introduced at the trial of Sidney Job Elias, chairman of the National Un- employment Workers' movement, which tended to show that Moscow had in- terested itself in unemployment agita- tion. It was alleged in court that the letter had been written in Moscow by Elias last September, and addressed to W. A. L. Hannington, leeder of the un- employed march on London, and Emrhys Llewellyn, another “hung marcher” leader. As the marchers left today, some of them declared that only three genuine members of their group had been charged in Police Court. ‘The railways offered to transport the marchers tc their homes at one and & third cents a mile. The National Un- employed Workers' organization raised the necessary sum by public contribu- tions. Three Special Coaches. A larger number left from Paddington 3tation in three special coaches attached to a regular train headed for Western England and Wales The group was escorted through the streets of London early in the morning vefore the thoroughfares were congested. 8t. Pancras and Kings Cross Stations also accommodated parts of the “army.” A group of 700 from Lancashire paraded through the smart Mayfair district to Euston Station, shouting “We want a living wage!” A large Soviet Russian hammer and | sickle emblem was attached to the rear coach of the contingent that left Pad- dington Station. The marchers sang “The Red Flag” as the train pulled out. NEGLIGENCE IN CHICAGO LAKE DIVERSION DENIED Sanitary District Answers Com- plaint to U. 8. Bupreme Court With Reasons for Delay. By the Associated Press CHICAGO, November 5—Denial of negligence, bad faith and wiliful delay in carrying out the construction pro- gram required by the United States Su- preme Court decree in the lake diver- slon case was made by the sanitary dis- trict of Chicago today in a return dis- patched to the court. The return was in answer to & peti- tion by opposing lake States which had asked the court to appoint an offier to see that the terms of the decree were properly carried out. The district acknowledged that its report last July 1 showed no work had been done on the sewage treatment program in the g:fl'iom six months. It explained that the delay was un- avoidable, caused by a number of fa tors beyond the district's control: Lack of funds, inability to market its bonds. a disastrous fire that hampered com- pletion of a sewer, invalidation of the Illinofs “prevailing wage rate” law and delay in acquisition of land. CALLICOTTE‘:‘ABSOLVES" BILLINGS IN BOMBING Portland, Oreg., Man Who “Con- fessed” Planting Explosive Visits Prisoner. By the Associated Press SACRAMENTO, Calif. November §. —Paul M. Callicotte of Portland, Oreg.. who recently “confessed” he unwittingly planted the bomb which killed 10 and injured 40 persons in the San Prancisco Preparedness day parade of 1916, met Warren K. Billings in Folsom Prison today and said he was positive Billings was not either of the two men with I’lhom he dealt in handling the explo- sive. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney were convicted of the bombing and are serv- ing life sentences. Callicotte’'s recent statement started another mocement by Mooney sympathizers for executive clemency—a fight that has been waged unsuccessfully for 16 years. On seeing the Folsom prisoner Calli- cotte said: “Billings is not the man who gave me the suit case in Oakland, nor is the man to whom I delivered it in San Francisco.” — LINDBERGH SEES PLANE START COAST SERVICE Avoids Limelight as New 28-Hour Schedule to West Is Inau- gurated at Newark. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, November 5.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, making his first formal public appearance in many months, came to Newark Airport to- night to take part in the ceremonies inaugurating the new 28-hour coast-to- coast passenger service of the Trans- continental & Western Air, Inc. Instead of sending off the plane, 8s the announced schedule promised, Col. Lindbergh shunned the spotlight, de- clined to pose for photographers or mo- tion picture men and retired to the shadows of the background “just to watch,” as he put it. ‘The plane was christened the Comet by 5-year-old Walda Winchell, daugh- ter of Walter Winchell, newspaper man. The plane took off at 8:10 o'clock nd is scheduled to reach Los les &t 9:53 p.m. tomorrow. POLLARD CALLS PARLEY ON HIGH CRIME COST Bpecial Conference of Cabinet Bcheduled in Richmond Early This Week. By the Assoclated Press. RICHMOND, Va., November 5.—State offticials today announced that Gov. Pol- lard will hold a special conference of his cabinet early next week to discuss the crime cost situation. Director of the Budget J. H. Brad- ford, Btate Controller E. R. Combs and others have communicated special suggestions. Figures in the budget offices threaten to run the State expenses $800,000 be- tario, near where the tragedy ec- yond expectations, if the increases eriminal costs are mot stopped. 50 FEDERATION ELECTS YADEN PRESIDENT Petworth Group Representa- tive Is Selected Without Opposition. James G. Yaden of the Petworth Cit- izens’ Association was elected president of the Federation of Citizens' Associa- tions last night without any opposition Thomas E. Lodge won a hard fight for first vice president on the third ballot. A. H. Gregory and David Babp again were chosen treasurer and secre- tary, respectively, without opposition. Executive Committee. ‘The following were elected members of the Executive Committee and Ad- visory Council: George B. Bishop, L. A Carruthers, Willlam McK. Clayton. Joseph L. Gammell, George C. Hav- enner, Edwin 8. Hege, Mr. Lodge. W. J. Neale, Mrs. E. C. Rittue, Harry N Stull. George E. Sullivan and W. L Swanton. Mrs. Elizabeth Bullivan was chosen as second vice president The election was delayed by a con- test over the seating of delegates from the Congress Heights Citizens' Associa- ton. J. Lewis Gelbman protested on the floor that the election of E. C. Purdy and Charles J. Benner was accom- plished at a packed meeting. Gelbman who 1is secretary of the Congress Heights Association, refused to certify to their election, but the federation seated them. McLean Leads First Ballot. ‘The fight for the first vice president’s job started out as a contest between Lodge, George E. Bishop of Sixteenth Street Highlands: Marvin M. McLean | of Brookland and Harry N. Stull of Stanton Park. McLean led on the first ballot with 31 votes. Stull received 22, Lodge 21, and Bishop 16. At this point, Bishop's campaign man- | ager withdrew him from the race. and threw their support to Lodge, the other candidate from the Northwest section. Lodge repres versity Park Association. On the second ballot, Lodge ran his total up to 37 votes. to 29 for McLean and 24 for Stull, and won out on the third ballot with 48 votes to 20 for Stull and 19 for McLean. Support From Northeast. Lodge also received some support from the Northeast section, his nomina- | tion being seconded by Thomas Llewel- Ivn of Rhode Island avenue. Mrs. Sullivan was then elected sec- ond vice president by acclaim, and the election of Babp and Gregory followed. Yaden was out of the city. He had gone home to Kentucky to vote. The contest for the first vice presidency revealed the existence of a battle be- tween Mr. Sullivan, retiring vice presi- dent, and Dr. Havenner, retiring presi- dent, over the candidacy of Marvin M. McLean. Sullivan circularized the federation with a Jetter opposing the McLean can- didacy and holding that the views of McLean and his sponsor. President Havenner, fitted in more with the pro- gram of fhe Chamber of Commerce than of the federation. The letter said. in part: The fourth candidate for the posi- tion, Mr. McLean. is being actively sup- ported by Dr. Havenner, for the stated reason that such candidate ‘has always supported me,’ the assigned reason in- cluding the fact that the federation's position on such important public m ters was opposed by said candidate well as by Dr. Havenner. “Rejected Report on Gas.” It will be recalled that the federation was compelled during the past year to reject @ report by said candidate which sought to defend and praise the gas companies for excessive and illegal gas pressures. Dr. Havenner and said can- didate are, of course. entitled to their own views, notwithstanding they ap- parently harmonize more closely with the Chamber of Commerce and Board of Trade than of the federation. “I feel that my genuine and whole- hearted devotion to the welfare of the federation will make manifest my dis- interested purpose in sending this com- munication.” A resolution of regret at the death of E. P. Hazelton, a former delegate from the Bradbury Heights Citizens' !A’noclahon, was adopted by the federa- on. GIRL FREEZES TO DEATH, MOTHER DIES OF SHOCK Woman Joined in All-Night Hunt for Body of 7-Year-Old Child, By the Associated Press. ROCK RIVER, Wyo., November 5.— Weakened from exposure and torn with shock, Mrs. B. F. Marlowe:r died late yesterday at her ranch home here, four days after her 7-year-old daughter Alice had frozen to death. Mother love impelled the woman to Jjoin last Sunday night in an all-night search for the girl, who was lost in a snowstorm while plodding back to the ranch home. 8he was stricken soon after the child’s body was found. POISON FOOD KILLS TWO Two Bick After Eating Chili Pep- per Portion. AZTEC, N. Mex., November B (#).— ‘Two persons are dead and two others were ill today of food poisoning. Physi- cians sald they had eaten improperly prepared chili pepfir. B e dead were Mrs. Mike Hale and Von Wiltbank of Bloomfield. N. Mex. Mike Reinhart and Mrs. Wiltbank, also of Bloomfield, are seriously %mt phy- sicians said they probably the American Uni- The newly elected officers of the Fed- eraticn of Citizens' Association are pie- tured in the above grous with the exception of the new president, James G. Yaden (below), who was out of the city. In the rear row above are David Babp, secretary (left) and A. H. Gregory, treasurer. In the front row are Thomas E. Lodge. first vice presi- dent. and Mre. Elizabeth Sullivan. sec- ond vice president. —Star Staff Photo. PROPOSE RETURN TOGOLD STANDARD {World Economic Parley Ex- perts Agree at Final Com- mittee Session. | | By the Associated Press. GENEVA, November 5.—Monetary experts preparing for the World Eco- nomic Conference reached unanimous agreement today upon the desirability of a return to the gold standard by the nations which have left it. This wes the last session of the Pre- paratory Committee, although formal adjournment will not be taken until | Monday. The deliberations will be re- sumed perhaps in January. | Return to Gold Uncertain. | There were differences of opinion as to when and how the return to goid | could be expected. The League of Na- |tions Financial Committee strongly recommended an early return several | months ago. and it was understood that | many of the experts today supported that report. Others were said to have held that tariffs and international debts present | problems which must be soived before | the money question can be settled sat- | isfactorily. They were represented as contending that obstacles to trade must | be removed and gold must be more | equitably distributed in the interest of world recovery. This first stage of the Preparatory Commission gave an opportunity for thorough discussion of economic and financial problems and for the presen- tation of the views of the governments concerned. The experts will go home now to report. The second session may bring a definite agreement on the con- ference program. U. S. Representatives Reseryed. ‘The American representatives, while they were said to have spoken freely in committee, were extremely reserved in talking for publication, taking the view that the political situation in the Ugjted States imposed such an atti- tude for the present. An economic subcommittee found itselt in such wide disagreement on spec:al problems of wheat. timber and 8ol at they postponed decision as to Wwhether these matters would be placed on the conference program. MANIAC TERRORIZES GIRLS IN CONVENT Former Employe Runs Amuck and Slays Janitor—Troopers Take His Life. By the Assoclated Press. HIGHLAND MILLS, N. Y.. November 5—A former employe, turned maniac, came back to the Jesus and Mary Con- vent today to settle a grudge. He killed one man, terrorized girl students and nuns for four hours and was finally killed himself by State troopers. ‘The man, believed to have been An- thony Chiacarelli, came to the convent at 7 a.m. Since leaving his job there he had been an inmate at the State insane asylum at Middletown, but he remembered the arguments he had had with the convent janitor. Going directly. to the basement, he killed the janitor and then barricaded himself with a rifie and ammuntion. About 20 girl students and half a dozen nuns were in the convent. The nuns tried to reach a telephone, but the man kept them away by firing up tnrough the floor. Word finally reached State troopers and s detail from the Monroe, N. Y., post was led by Lieut. Haggerman. Tear gas bombs only made the manizc more enraged. through a tunnel and charged his hid- ing place. The maniac fired two shots which did not take effect. Quinn killed bim with one shot at close range. At the closs of 1931 there were 366 coal mines operating in Kentucky. ‘Troopers Brennan and Quinn crawled | HOOVER GAINS SE THROUGHOLT U. S Many States Once Certain for Roosevelt Are Now in Doubtful Column. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. ‘Three weeks ago Franklin Roosevelt had won this election by what seemed to be landslide proportions. Within the last three weeks there has been an un- mistakable trend toward Hoover. It has made States doubtful that were reason- ably sure for Roosevelt. It has made prophecy about some States a mere con- Jecture by people in those States who have watched political trends for & generation or more. Fully 150 telegrams received in the last 48 hours from editors in all im- portant States indicate even those who have been in the habit of observing presidential elections are somewhat puzzled in specific instances and are cautious about trusting their own judg- ment. All this may sound surprising in the face of straw votes and polls that have consistently given Roosevelt the benefit of the tide that has been running in nearly every State against the adminis- tration on account of the bellef that President Hoover and the Republicans “brought bad times” or somehow should have found a way to cure them. But while it seems incredible that Hoover could possibly win all the States that are showing some inclination toward him—for he would have to get all the “breaks” to achieve victory—still the writer cannot ignore the fact that in !both the Fast and West Hoover has | been gaining ground Elections Run in Tides. Elections run in tides. They are rately spotty. If the President, for instance, is making gaws in Nebraska, he should be gaining also in Utah or in South Dakota. If he is pushing for- werd in Illinois his fortunes should be rising also in Indiana and Ohio. There is a sameness about the attitude of people in neighboring agricultural States which, barring some local diffi- culty or factional fight, shows the way the tide is running. Iowa and Illinols were definitely in the Democratic column a few weeks ago. Today a number of editors who know those States well have telegraphed a belief that Hoover may carry them. The same change has occurred in In- diana and to a lesser degree in Ohio. One Democratic editor who for many weeks belleved Roosevelt would carry Ohio by 500,000 now revises his esti- mate down to 200,000. But the sum total of information from that State rather leaves one in doubt. for plurali- ties are big in the Buckeye State and the recent reversal in the rural districts lxs of unknown proportions Minnesota has been doubtful, but is leaning toward Hoover and he was there last night making a speech that his managers think will cinch the State’s electoral vote. California is close, but Hoover has the edge in the opinfon of some in- ifm'mlnu in both the northern and southern sections. New York presents a problem Tammany politics. If Tammany doesn't take revenge for the Walker investigation, then Roosevelt will come out of Greater New York with 800,000, which is more than enough to offset any up-state majority, if indeed there is such a thing in the Empire State this year with'the low totals of regis- tration in the upper end of the State. But can Hoover win without New York? He could—but it is doubtful if he will, extremely doubtful. And if election night the returns indicate the President is losing New York then indeed is his cause dealt a body blow. Here is & table which sets forth Hoover's best chances and after reading it one must examine its weak spots to determine whether it is a useful guide in any respect. If the table falls down in an particular in appraising his strengt! then the Hoover chances are dashed to the ground. If it seems 100 per cent convincing then the President can be said to have better than an outside chance. The estimate from such & viewpoint follows: . Table of Possible Votes. California, 22; Nebraska, 7 Hampshire, 4. Massachusetts, Oregon, 5; Colorado, 6; Michigan, 19; Indiana, 14: Pennsylvania. 36. Dela- ware, 3, Vermont, 3; Montana, 4; Kan- isas, 9; Wyoming, 3: West Virginia, 8; New Jerse; 16; Connecticut, 8: Maine, 5; Utah, 4: Illinois, 29; Minne- sota, 11: Towa, 11: Ohio, 26. Total, 270. Necessary to elect, 266, But in the foregoing table Minnesota is shaky, and so is Ohio. Either one would shatter the set-up. It may be, however, that New York with 47, which is not in the above group of States, will furnish & surprise if Tammany really does not deliver its vote to Roosevelt. Any such happening would enable Hoover to lose Illinois and Ohlo. whose total vote is 55, and then if he picks up Rhode Island with 4, he would still have 266. This presupposes that everything else besides Ohio and Illinois in the above table will stand pat if Hoover did carry New York. Well, the table of Hoover chances isn't as stanch as it looks. Ne- braska and Kansas are weak spots, and <0 are Minnesota and ITowa. Can Mr. Hoover carry every single State in the above table? There are five that he must carry—California, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa. He may carry two of them or even three, but he is lost unless he gals five out of five. It is possible, but not probable. Having demonstrated that the Presi- dent has only an outside chance and then only if he has the “breaks'— which means that the tide of the last two weeks must mount higher than it has already—the next thing to deter- mine is what minimum there is from s Roosevelt viewpoint. It matters little how the final electoral votes come in Just so long as the 266 is assured. It is more important to see if a definite prediction can be made on the outcome of the election rather than to attempt an exact mathematical table when there are 50 many combinations - sible. The interest is in who Wflro;l the next Persident, and few people re- member the exact way the electoral votes are tallied after 268 is reached. Minimum for Roosevelt. ‘The frreducible minimum for Roose- velt is as follows: Alabama, 11: Arizona, 3: Arkansas, 9: Colorado, 6; Florida, 7; Georgia, 12; Idaho, 4; Illinois, 29; Ken= tucky, 11; Louisiana, 10; Maryland, 8; Mississippi, 9: Missouri, 15; Nebraska, 7 Nevada, 3; New Mexico, 3; North Caro=- lina, 14; North Dakota, 4; Ohlo. 26; Oklahoma, 11: South Carolina, 8; South Dakota. 4: Tennessee, 11: Texas, 23; Virginia, 11: Washington, 8; Wisconsin, 12. Total. 270. Necessary to elect, 266. It will be noted that by the foregoing Roosevelt wins without New York, Cali- fornia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mas- sachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, or West Virginia and the writer belleves that Franklin Roosevelt has better than an even chance of carrying at least five out of those nine states. Hence the final electoral table may look quite dif- ferent from either one given but. it must be noted that the second table is not so much a forecast of the wa: the States will line up as it is & dem- onstration of the ge ter pro os Roosevelt than ver victory, X (Copyright. 1932.) —_— ASKS DIVORCE AT RENO Edward G. Vanderlip, formerly of the 3900 block of New Hampshire ave- nue, filed suit for divorce from his wif Evelyn L. Vanderlip, at Reno, N yesterday. according to an Assoclated Press dispatch. The sult was based on m;,‘h 'lvlvmdld olu “cruelty.” e Vanderlips were married here on March 16, 1820, . l