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D. C, 1932. RAIL HEADS' PAY | THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, CANADIANS LEAVE ‘5 A-2 x CLASH ON RETIRED Educator Dies BUSRES SCOOL PUSE FUNTS N OFFICERY PAY GUT Salaries of Harbord and { ~ Byrd Under Fire of i <L ¥ Senator Robinson. By the Associated Press. The justice of eliminating emergency officers’ retirement pay while continu- ing such benefits o regular officers who have retired to take advantageous pri- vate positions, caused sharp debate to- day before the Joint Congressional Veterans’ Committee. | William Marshal Bullitt of Louisville, | former Solicitor General of the United | States, presented a recommendation on | behalf of the National Economy League to cut $450,000,000 a year in veterans' cost. This included elimination of $7,000,000 pald to retired World War emergency officers. Challenged by Robinson. Senator Robi Republican, of In- diana, challenged the justice of the lat. ter propocal, saving such men as Maj. Gen. James G. Harbord and Rear Ad- miral Richard E. Byrd of the Regular| forces have retired at $4,500 and $6,000 a year. respectively, and both are able to command high salaries in addition. | Robinson said Harbord, head of the Radio Corporation, and Byrd both were members of the Economy League. He asked how they could justify their stand | in cutting off the emergency officers’| ay. 'Fullitt_contended there was a “de- | cided difference” between a man who | served in the Regular Army 33 years | and an emergency officer who may have | served only a year. “But the latter may have seen more actual service,” Robinson put in heat- edly. “The man I have in mind was shot to pieces and can only draw 5100‘ & year.” “We hold,” Bullitt said, “that tmer-' gency officers shouldn't get more than the private who was drafted and m-' jured in the war.” Cuts Proposed. { The specific cuts Bullitt proposed | were: | Elimination of payments to veterans | for cisability incurred since the World War from accidents and diseases in civil life—saving $140.000.000. Eliminating the present laws ‘“pre- sumption that certain diseases acquired in civil life must have had a war origin"—saving almost $100,000,000. Bar reinstatement of War Risk Insur- ance that has lapsed—$40,000,000. Limiting hospitalization to veterans | with service connected disabilities— $42.000,000. Elimination emergency officers re- tirement pay—$7.000,000. Saving in administration, $30,000,000. FINAL STEP TAKEN IN LUKE LEA CASE Formal Notice of Supreme Court’s Refusal to Grant Review Sent to Carolina. By the Associated Press. Formal notices of the action of the Bupreme Court yesterday refusing to re- view the petition of Luke Lea, Tennessee publisher, and his son, Luke Lea, jr, seeking a new trial from their convic- tion, will be matled today, thus enabling the North Carolina courts to proceed toward enforcement of the sentences imposed on them The notices will go to the Superior Court of Buncombe County before which the Leas were convicted and also to the North Carolina Supreme Court which refused to grant them a new trial. The Leas contended they had discovered new evidence and the trial jury had been guilty of misconduct. The defendants had petitioned the Supreme Court to reconsider its re- fusal to review their conviction and | although the highest court yesterday indicated no formal action on 'the peti- tion for a rehearing, the action of the court in declining to review the peti- tion for a new trial was considered by court officials as finally disposing of all questions raised. Luke Lea and his son were convicted of conspiracy to misapply and of hav- ing misapplied funds of the Central | Bank & Trust Co. of Asheville, N. C. Lea was sentenced to six to ten years in prison and his son to three years, | the latter sentence one which can be avolded by the payment of a fine of $25,000. NAPOLEON’S KIN DIES IN CHARITY HOSPITAL | | Penniless Had Played | With Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—The death, penniless, in a city_institution | Saturday of the Countess Castelvechio Frabasilis, grandniece of Napoleon IIT and granddaughter of King Louis of Holland is reported in the World-Tele- gram. Sl The paper said she was removed from French Hospital to the Metropolitan ( Trospital on Welfare Island, a charity | institution, a month ago. She had been placed in French Hospital by friends | who found her suffering from arth- | ritis. She was 68 years old. At 24, the newspaper said, the count-| ess played Shakespearan roles with Sir| Henry Irving and Ellen Terry in Lon- don under the name of Elouina Old- castle. She was on the New York stage for eight years, playing in “Quo Vadis.” | “Romeo and Juliet” and “Trilby,” be- fore her identity became known. She settled in this country after leaving the stage and played a promi- Dent part in French and Italian circles. | Countess Starting Sunday, Dec. 25 “MINUTE MYSTERIES” Detective and mystery story fans! Hefe's the | newspaper feature you've been waiting for. Starting next Sunday The Star will print a “Minute Mystery,” a complete detective story with plot, clues and everything, except the solution. It takes only a minute to read. 1t's up to you to solve ! the mystery. When you decide on the solution, you turn to another page and find out ‘Whether you are correct. Look for the first “Minute Mystery” in next Sunday’s Star Mrs. John Jay O'Connor (left), chairman of the District of Columbia Com- mittee of the National Committee for | which held its first meeting yesterday, and Miss Mary Hawks, the Mobilization of Welfare and Relief, vice chairman, —Star Staff Photo. D. C. RELIEF FUND OF §1.500,000 URGED Monday Evening Club Hears A. F. L. Official Relate Low U. S. Standard. After a dismal word picture of human misery, low standards of lving for almost half the population, and threat- ening national revolt had been pre- sented before it by Edward F. McGrady, legislative representative of the Ameri- | can Federation of Labor, the Monday | Evening Club last night voted approval of the Board of Public Welfare's rec- ommendation of a congressional appro- priation of $1,500,000 for unemploy- ment relief here this Winter. ‘The unprecedented conditions in the United States today, Mr. McGrady told the club, have resulted in “below-the- minimum standards of living for nearly 50 per cent of the people of the Na- tion.” Millions of these people, he said, actually are near starvation and a desperation that may well foster a na- tional revolution has been developed. 1f such a revolt were launched, he de- clared, the labor organizations would be helpless to stem it. Cites Tragedy of Youth. One of the most tragic phases of current conditions, Mr. McGrady con- tinued, is the vast army of youths— boys and girls—who wander homeless and hungry over the Nation. Hundreds of these young people, he said, have been driven to crime and death and the spectacle they preesnt is worse than that made by Russian youths dur- ing the early days of the revolution in that country. Unemployment insurance and a 30- hour working week are two measures which McGrady said would aid in poverty. The American Fed- eration of Labor sponsors the insurance measure, which is to be considered by Congress_shortly, as well as the short week. ‘The 30-hour plan, the labor federation a{mkesmnn contended, would arrest the inroads that machines are making in American labor and thus result in more employment for men and women. $1,500,000 to Be Inadequate. In approving the sum of $1,500,000 for unemployment relief, the Monday Evening Club expressed the opinion that even this amount would be inadequate to meet the District’s needs. On the basis of the known number of depend- ent and needy families, it was pointed out, the total recommended by the Board of Public Welfare would allow only $3.60 per case. Senator Edward P. Costigan of Colo- rado presided. SEEK WAY TO ACCEPT GREEK DEBT FUNDS Treasury Heads Suggest Delivery of Money Subscribed to Athens Minister Here. By the Assoclated Press. A plan that has been proposed for Greeks in the United States to start a subscriptiornt fund and pay the debt in- stallment now owed by their country today set Treasury officials to puzzling out a way by which such money could be accepted. One plan suggested for acceptance of the money was for the originators of the movement to lend the money to their government through the Greek Minister in Washington, who in turn could pay it to the United States. Treasury officials said if the Greek Min- ister made the payment no question would be raised as to its origin. These officiels said such a procedure would eliminate the chief trouble that blocked Greece from meeting the last installment of her debt, amounting to about $290,000—foreign exchange diffi- culties. The subscription fund proposal was made by John Demes, a California property owner, who suggested that 600,000 Greeks in the United States contribute $1 each. FARM LOBBYING PROBE BY CONGRESS IS URGED Representative Hart Presents Res- olution for Activities of Organizations. A resolution directing congressional investigation of farm organization activ- including funds spent in “lobby- ing,” was proposed today by Representa- tive Hart, Democrat, of Michigan. The resolution would have the Speaker name a committee to investi- gate “all organibations purporting to speak for the farmers of this country” and to ascertain the number of their members, the dues collected, the salaries paid organization officials, and any in- come these officials might receive from other sources. The resolution preamble said “actual | farmers constantly deny that they have any representatives in Washington,” and at the same time “so-called general farm organizations maintain hig salaried lobbyists in Washington pur- porting to speak for millions of farmers.” DENIES FRENCH BEAT HIM !Eichmond, Va., Man Relates Dis- ’puta ‘With One Parisian Week Ago. PARIS, December 20 (#).—Dr. Dan- iel Mahoney, native of Richmond, Va., and resident of Paris many years, de- nied reports yesterday he had been beaten by an “anti-American mob” in the Montparnasse district. He said he had an altercation about 8 week ago with one Frenchman, but that no damage was DESPERATE PLIGHT OF NEEDY SHOWN District Officials and Social Workers Plead for $1,250,000 Fund. (Continued From Pirst Page.) know how much the agencies spent in salaries and overhead e ises and ‘what proportions were spent in charity and relief work. Mr. Noyes said a very much smaller amount of public charity, as compared with private contributions, is being dis- tributed in the District of Columbia than in any comparable city through- | out the country. Indorses Budget Plan. Mr. Costello told Chairman Byrns he indorsed the budget recommendation for $1,250,000. Mr. Delano also heartily indorsed the recommendation for relief during the coming year and outlined to the com- mittee plans for a much more extensive service which he thought should be | adopted. A resolution recommended by the Executive Comipittee of the Monday Evening Club and adopted by the club last night, urging that the full amount of $1,500,000 asked by the Public Wel- fare Bureau should be authorized in- | the Budget Bureau, will be presented | to the subcommittee tomorrow. Another request for increasing the | Louise McGuire, representing the Wash ‘ington Chapter of the American Asso- ciation of Social Workers. She said | her association, after a very careful structive program of relief work. Relief Plans OQutlined. The first meeting of the District of Columbia Committee of the National | Committee for the Mobilization of Wel- | fare and Relief, was held yesterday at the United States Chamber of Com- merce, | Mr." Taltaterro, Elwood Street, di- rector of the Community Chest, and Dr. George Farnham, member of the Travelers' Ald Society’s Committee on | Transient Boys, outlined the phases of | relief and welfare work in which they are particularly active. Mrs. John J. O'Connor, chairman of the District committee, Who presided, asserted the task of the local group would be to keep before the public the needs of Washington and to work for such portions of the general welfare program as require aid. Mr. Taliaferro reviewed the crisis confronting the Emergency Relief Com- mittee in its efforts to provide aid with the $350,000 appropriated by Congress last year. Allowing only $4.70 a week for a family of four or five, Mr. Talia- ferro said no provision is made, even on this economical basis, for single men and single women in need of relief. Every penny of the fund goes for wages for unemployed, he said, because the District Committee on Unemployment and other agencies provide tools, super- vision and other factors needed in put- ting large groups to work. The Emergency Committee, he con- tinued, received 12,513 applications for ald as of December 10. Of these, 1,- 728 were referred from other agencies | and 10,785 applied direct. On Decem- |ber 3," he said, the committee was | caring’ for 4.167 families, while 6482 | family cases either had been closed ‘out or refused. Difficult to Meet Crisis. “It simply is a day-to-day problem,” Mr. Taliaferro declared in conclusion, ‘Fven if Congress permits the District | to appropriate the $1,250,000 recom- mended by the Commissioners for the calendar year of 1933, the Board of Public Welfare still will have difficulty in_mesting the obligations it faces.” Mr. Street declared the chief prob- lem of the Community Chest was the allocation of a budget that is 20 per cent less than last year, to its 63 mem- ber agencies. ‘There are only two methods of getting additional money, the Chest director explained: The first embraces addtilonal gifts to the Chest fund, and the other is the establish- ment of a public fund for relief and hospital care. This latter point, Street declared, is important, as the District never has paid the costs of the patients it sends to the hospitals, since it pays only $2 a day, while the aver- age cost per patient is at least $4. Mr. Street’s conclusion was a plea for support of the Chest’s social work pro- gram, with its preventive and charac- ter-building agencies. Dr. Farnham asserted the present hordes of young men and boys differ from the former crowds of youthful “hoboes” because many of the present wanderers are college and high school graduates. They are “on the road,” he sald, due to a lack of food in their homes and other factors. The prob- lem these groups present, he insisted, has become more than a local one and now demands a national solution. Such a program, he explained, might be similar to the Travelers' Aid Society. He suggested additional recreational facilities and post-graduate work for older boys in public schools, together with an increase in trade school facili- ties. These latter measures, he said, would tend to keep boys at home. CHICAGO POLICE SLAY 37 CRIMINALS IN 1932 List Includes 19 Bandits and 9 Burglars, While 9 Officers Are Killed in Action. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—Although 9 of their own number were killed in action this year, police today counted 37 criminals slain during 1932 in com- bats with Chicago officers of the law. Listed in the police classification of bandits who fell mortally wounded un- der police gunfire were 19 bandits, 9 burglars and automobile thieves and 9 men who resisted officers. In addition, police said, 26 other criminals were ed by citizens and private police. 2 POWERROWTO .. Rogers Bares Plan to Block Aluminum Company’s Gain by Treaty. By the Associated Press. Assistant Secretary of State Rogers told the Senate Foreign Relations Com- mittee today he had opened negotia- tions with Canada to prevent giving the Aluminum Co. of America a “vested right” to power under the St. Lawrence treaty and Canada was disposed to agree it was a domestic question. Rogers also denied the United States was giving away in the St. Lawrence treaty a right to divert water at Chi- cago, which oppanents of the pact con- tend was conceded by the Dominion in the treaty of 1909. Protection Asked. Frank P. Walsh, chairman of the New York power authority, told the committee last week the St. Lawrence ‘Treaty might give the Aluminum Co. & “vested right” to power from the St. Lawrence project and asked for protec- tion against this. Rogers at that time agreed to ex- change correspondence with Canada on this question, in order to avoid the necessity for a formal reservation to the treaty. He said today he had opened the negotiations and talked informally with representatives of the Dominion about the matter. “There is every disposition on the part of Canada to agrec with us it is a domestic question,” Rogers said, in- dicating that Canada would agree to any change necessary in engineering plans to prevent granting the power rights to the Aluminum Co., a Mellon concern. Plans Conference. Rogers sald he was going to New York today and while there would con- sult with Walsh in connection with the question. ‘The Assistant Secretary was called before the committee primarily for questioning on the contention of Cleve- land A. Newton of St. Louis, & repre- | soclation, that the treaty of 1909 gave the United States the right to con- tinue diversion at Chicago. “I am satisfied that we can not make that claim,” Rogers testified. “The effect of that treaty was to set aside the diverson question without attempt- ing a conclusion.” stead of the $1,250,000 recommended by | | amount is to be presented by Miss | study, recommends $1,900.000 for a con- | Mr. | between Staunton and the “If there had been anything in that treaty that we could have taken ad- vantage of we would have done 50.” Rogers has tod the committee pre- ‘\'k)usly that in the St. Lawrence treaty | the United States was gaining from Canada for the first time a legal con- cession to divert any water at Chicago. Members of the committee said today, at the conclusion of Rogers' testimony, that the hearings on the treaty were definitely closed and that an executive meeting probably would be held Thurs- day to act on the pact. SHERIFF INTERVEIWS MRS. JUDD IN JAIL Conference in Arizona Prison Is at Request of Doomed Trunk Slayer. By the Assoclated Press. PHOENIX, Ariz, December 20.— Sheriff J. R. McFadden of Mari County returned to Phoenix last night from an interview at the State peni- Judd, confessed slayer of two women in the notorfous “trunk murder” case, who is condemned to die on the gallows next February 17. He declined to reveal the nature of the discussion. O. V. Willson, one of her attorneys, seared in good spirits and had requested that he come to the penitentiary and talk with her. O. V. Willson one of her attorneys, and William Delbridge, prison super- intendent, attended the conference. Dr. W. C. Judd, Mrs. Judd's husband, was not present, but prison officials said she talked with him over long-distance telephone during the conference. TRANSPORTATION LINE WOULD CHANGE SERVICE Hearing on Application Affecting Washington Will Be Heard Before Virginia Commission December 81. Special Dispatch to The Star. RICHMOND, Va., December 20.—The McCoy Transportation Co. has applied to the State Corporation Commission for authority to transfer six certifi- cates authorizing intrastate and inter- state freight service to the Jacobs Transfer Co. A hearing on the appli- cation is set for December 31 at 10 am. Two certificates authorize intrastate service between Richmond and Har- risonburg, via Fredericksburg and Cul- peper, and between Warrenton and Cul- peper, Fairfax and Winchester and Lu- ray and the Virginia-District of Colum- bia State line, with Washington as the destination. The remaining four au- thorized interstate service between Richmond and the Virginia-District of Columbia State line, with Baltimore as the destination; between Staunton and the Virginia-District of Columbia State line, with Washington as the destina- tion, by way of State highway No. 39; Virginia- District of Columbia State line, with Washington as the destination, by way of United States—Virginia highway No. 11, State highways Nos. 37 and 54 and United States-Virginia highway No. 211; between Front Royal and the Vir- ginia-District of Columbia State line, with Washington as the destination, by way of United States-Virginia highway l"lc‘.i 25141 and State highways Nos. 55, 37 and 54. Schools on Honor Roll. LEESBURG, Va., December 20 (Spe- cial). —Two schools in the county are now on the Red Cross honor roll, hav- ing sold all the buttons sent them, and therefore are entitled to a grade of 100 per cent. These schools are Sunny Ridge, with Miss Clara Wood, teacher, and North Fork, with Mrs. Helen Simp- son, teacher. Other schools are also sending in good reports. Post Office Gives Economy Honors to Crowded Post Card BY the Assoclated Press. Hailing it as a striking example of economy, the Post Office De- partment today gave honors to & penny picture post card it had Teceived containing 701 perfectly legible words. Officials said it established & record of the number of words written on one side of a card. It was sent to Mrs. H. H. Lee, Haverford, Pa. by D. L* from New Orleans. She for- warded it to the post office to keep as an exhibit “to show what can be done.” Posf said the department would be “glad to retain it for reference.” sentative of the Mississippi Valley As-| tentiary in Florence with Winnie Ruth | CUT PLAN OPPOSED Brotherhoods Against Six- Month Extension of Pres- ent Wage Rates. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—The Rail- way Brotherhoods informed the Man- agement Committee today they were not inclined to accept the presidents’ proposal of & six months’ extension of the current wage rates, 10 per cent under the basic scale, and contin- uance of these rates after next July 31 until adjusted by the Railway Labor Board. But the labor delegates complained bitterly of the degeneration’of the wage conference into an exchange of letters. The latest note, tendered by Alexan- der F. Whitney for the employes to the execuitves in joint conference _this morning, sald the Management Com- mittee was making no effort to ne- gotiate across the table, but merely to write letters. ‘Whitney pointed out today that labor had offered substantially all the terms the rallways have required. Labor, how- ever, still resists the claim of the presi- dents that the carriers—unless they themselves stipulate & definite period— may at any time cancel the temporary cut by serving notice of a reduction in the basic wage. HEARINGS AT END ON FARM AID PLAN Chairman Jones Orders Conclusion for Drafting of Allotment Measure in House. By the Assoclated Press. An intention to close hearings to- night on the domestic allotment farm relief plan so preparation of a bill might be begun was announced today by Chairman Jones of the House Agricul- ture Committee. Jones made the statement as Thomas E. Wilson of the Wilson Packing Co., Chicago, took the stand in opposition to the proposed processing tax on hogs. Jones said the controversy over the | inclusion of hogs had been well cov- ered in the testimony and that appar- ently there was not a great deal of con- troversy over the three other commod- ities included in the bill—wheat, cot- ton and tobacco. Representative Clarke, Republican, of New York, sald he desired to see dalry products included in the measure. ‘Witnesses testified yesterday that the rocessing tax on hofi would be passed Enck to the farmer duced sales prices because they did not believe the market would stand in- creased prices to the consumer. SHORT LINE WINS STAY IN PENNSY INJUNCTION Granted Extension for Replying to Buit Opposing 13-Mile Ohio Railroad. By the Assoclated Press. CLEVELAND, December 20.—The Montour Railroad, racing against time to build a 13-mile line from the Youngstown steel district to the Ohio River, won another legal victory today, when' it and other defendants were given until December 31 to answer an Injunction suit brought by the Penn- sylvania Railroad Co. The extension was granted in Fed- eral court by Judge Paul Jones as the red today the Pittsburgh, Lisbon & Western Railroad and five other defendants to file an answer to the Pennsylvania's suit. ‘The Montour has been working day and night to rush completion of its line from Negley, Ohio, to the Ohio River at Smith's Ferry, Pa. The Pennsyl- vania has asked an injunction to halt the construction on the ground the road has not obtained Interstate Com- merce Commission approval. The fight is the outgrowth of efforts to provide cheaper transportation from the steel district to the Ohio River. FIRE DAMAGES PALACE Left Wing of Royal Residence in Brussels Is Burned. BRUSSELS, Belgium, December 20 (#).—Fire this morning in the left wing of the Royal Palace, damaged only the outer framework and balustrade. Offi- cials said it was due to neglect on the | enlarging Prince | pml of workers' Charles’ ent. King m inaugura werp Tunnel underneath ‘was absent. the Ant- e Schedlt, Bus Passengers Hurt. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 20 ()—Seven passengers on an Indian Coach Lines bus were cut and bruised today in an accident near Shellsville, Dauphin County. ‘The injured, none of whom was seri- ously hurt, included Rita Leaditt, 22, St. Paul, Minn.; David Smarisky, 49, Detroit, Mich., and Rose Weinerman, Detroit. Terms Dishonesty In Finance Cause Of Modern Crime Frank J. Loesch, Velerqn Foe of Lawlessness, Gives 8 Others. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, December 20.—Frank J. Loesch, veteran foe of lawlessness, says he believes there are nine specific causes for present-day crime and he includes among them “dishonesty in high finance.” He gave his list last night before the National Institute on Mercenary Crime. In addition to dishonesty in high finance, he sald the other eight causes were: “The financing by prohibition and the prohibition enforcement laws of ordinarily petty criminals on a gigantic scale. “The decline of religion and suthority as restraining influences. L unassimilable fc immi. “Largel oreign mmnu from Eastern and Southern “r'l(zg: existence of the slum districts in our larger cities. “Incompetent, corrupt and politician- ridden police. “The automobile, providing not only a new outlet for criminal activities, but the criminal with a val- escaping detection and appreh ension. “Incompetent and inefficient prose- the form of re- | for the Montour, | COURT F. WOOD. CURRY BID SEEN AS STATE LEADER New York Parley Regarded as Effort to Seize Party Control. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—Demo- cratic leaders from the five boroughs of Wew York and several up-State countles who met yesterday with John F. Curry, leader of Tammany Hall, | emerged with the formal announcement | that legislative committee chairman- | | ships had been discussed, but local | | newspapers termed the meeting a bid | of Curry’s for Btate leadership of thei | M. William Bray, Lieutenant-Govern- | | or-elect, who was replaced by James A. | Farley as State chairman a year ago, | remarked: | | “The democracy of the State is happy in the leadership of John F. Curry.” Mesting with Curry were mostly those | leaders who stood with him against the nominations of Franklin D. Roosevelt for the presidency and Herbert H. Leh- | man for the governorship. Among those present were four New York City Democratic lefid‘eéfl. Some of the leaders said privately that legislative chairmanships was tne only item up for discussion. other mat- | ters being left to future meetings, the | first of which may be called by Curry | next week. | | John H. McCooey, Brooklyn leader | and national committeeman, affirmed the existence of harmony between the national and local leaders. The only announcement of what tran- | spired at the meeting was contained in | a brief statement to the effect that the | conference “was called for the purpose of considering the organization of the | State Senate and discussing the avail- | atility of the different members for | | chairmanships of the various commit- tees.” | The American credits the confreres | with being in a position to advance or block any proposal made by Herbert H. | | Lehman as Governor and says the meet- ing was interpreted as a notice to Leh- | man that he would be expected not to exercise the State leadership usually ac- | corded the Governor. | The American says further that the | | combination of leaders at the meeting | ! means that President-elect Roosevelt's | control over the State party is at an| end and that former Gov. Alfred E.| Smith will not be permitted to dictate | | State policies. {MARY NOLAN ARRAIGNED i AS MINNEAPOLIS FUGITIVE !‘Stlge and Screen Star Facing | Charge of Passing Bad Check for $304.48. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, /December 20.—Mary Nolan, stage and screen actress former- ly known as Imogene Wilson, was ar- raigned today on a charge of being a fugitive from justice in Minneapolis, | where she is accused of having passed a worthless check for $304.48. | Her bail of $1,500, fixed when she | was arrested in her dressing room last | night, was continued and she will be given a hearing December 30. “An outrage” exclaimed Mary Nolan, stage beauty, as she prepared | | today to answer the charge of being a | fugitive. | Just as she was finishing her matinee performance of a playlet yesterday, a detective arrested her. She said she went to Minneapolis to keep @ theatrical engagement. but there were difficulties and she did not go through with the plan. “I told the hotel manager I had no money. I offered to give him a note. They insisted I sign a check, with the understanding I'd make it good later. When the detective walked into the theater I was astounded.” INSULL DATA IS SENT GREEK PUBLIC ATTORNEY Riganakos of Court of Appeal to Receive Extradition Docu- ments Shortly. By the Associated Press. ATHENS, December 20.—The min- 1stry of justice sent documents relating to the extradition case against Samuel | Insull, wanted in Chicago on embezzle- ment and larcency charges, to the pub- lic attorney today. Attorney Riganakos of the Coart of Appeal said he expected to receive the documents shortly. He will study them and submit them as soon as possible to the council of the Court of Appeal. He hoped hearings on the case would start this week. Riganakos will occupy the attorney’s chair during the trial TOY WAGONS HOLD LOOT cthmdr 3 Decembe‘x;l li% (fi).— en’s ress wagons, 0] the street today by two men Who gave their names as Stanley Martin and Elmer Sanford, contained, police said, $2,500 .worth of stolen cutlery and watches taken in a robbery of & hard- ware store. Police became suspiclous of the men and searched the wagons. BAND CONCERT. the United States Soldiers’ Home B-..hyn this evening at Stanley Hall, at 5:30 o'clock. John S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; Anton Pointner, assistant. March, “A Signal From Mars”..Taylor Overture, “The Hand of Pelanlhlpé';“! | Policeman Harry Lang. FOUNDER 15 DEAD Court F. Wood, 75, Started Career by Tutoring Small Classes. Court F. Wood, 75, who developed | one of the first business schools in | Washington from his self-appointed task of tutoring one or two puplls in | his home after office hours, died yester- | day after a long illness. | Ho has been actively engaged in the | aflairs of Wood's Commercial School, | 311 East Capitol street, since he first | organized it in 1885 until his retirement, two years ago because of ill health, Graduates of the school include many | prominent Washington merchants and | business men. | Held Postal Position. Prof. Wood came to Washington from Michigan, and was appointed an auditor in the Post Office Department, It was while there that he tutored several students, and later developed such a following he resigned to devote his full | time to the school, which he first founded at Sixth and F streets. | When it became necessary to enlarge | his facilities he moved to Fourth and East Capitol streets, and later to the school's present home. Born in Addison, N. Y., Prof. Wood | was educated in the Michigan public schools, and received the degree of LL. B. and LL. M., from old Columblan Coilege, now George Washington Uni- versity. He held the honorary degree of doctor of laws from Arkansas Nor- mal College, and was a member of the bar of the District Supreme Court. Son Will Take Charge. He was the son of the late Foster Pulaski Wood, a Civil War veteran His wife, Mrs.' Anna May Wood, active church and ciub leader, and one time president of the Pederation of Women's | Clubs, died some years ago. Future management of the school will be under direction of his son, Fos- ter Wood, Washington attorney, and Miss Mae E. De Freitas, a member of the school teaching staff. Besides his son, Prof. Wood is sur- vived by a daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Moran of Ohio, and two sisters, Mrs. Mary B. Taft of this city, and Mrs. Willlam Bright, of Newport News, Va. Funeral services will be held tomor- row at 2 p.m., from the Zurhorst fune; al home, Third and East Ca; E Interment will be in Congre Cemetery. NITTI NEAR DEATH AFTER GUN BATTLE Policeman Wounds Gangster Accused of Ordering Ca- pone Foes Slain. | By the Associated Press | CHICAGO, December 20.—They said Frank Nitti was a “tough guy.” | But Nitti lay in the Bridewell Hos-| pital today, felled by police bullets. | Doctors said it was only a matter of hours until he likely would die. | Police called him the “enforcer"—the | heir apparent to the throne of the | liquor, vice and gambling syndicate | vacated when Al Capone, gangdom's | overlord, went to the Federal prison at Atlanta for violation of the income tax laws. Nitti won his sobriquet in police circles for_his reputation for giving or- | ders to “rub out” enemies of the Capone gang. Police said more than a score of persons were killed at Nitti's orders. Nitti was one among seven hoodlums | in a downtown office when police | dropped in yesterday. Everything went | peaceably until Nitti whipped out a| pistol. A bullet pierced the arm of | In the subse. quent pistol duel Nitti went down, struck by three bullets. | Nitti dropped, police said, as he tried to chew up and swallow a piece of | paper. The paper was in police hands today and authorities sought to decode | the ~writing thereon. Possibly, they said, it carried the names of othwers next | in line for the “enforcer's” activities. addition to the chewed paper, police found other interesting data. There were, they said, messages in code and bills indicating large orders for “wheat and oats.” The prosecutor's force took over the messages for trans- lation. Also was found some black powder, which was sent to North- | western University’s crime school for analysis. $5,661,248 ESTATE LEFT BY W. EMLEN ROOSEVELT By the Assoctated Press. NEW YORK, December 20.—W. Em- len Roosevelt, cousin and financial ad- viser of the late President Theodore Roosevelt, left an estate appraised yes- terday at $6,351,017 gross and $5.661,- 248 net. Mr. Roosevelt died at his home on May 15, 1930, at the age of 73. His estate included securities valued at $1,827,106, and $2,759,281 as his in- terest in the firm of Roosevelt & Son, | which specialized in transportation and | communications financing. The widow, Mrs. Christine Griffin Roosevelt, receives personal effects val- | ued at $3,145, an interest of $1,250 in a legacy and a life interest in the resi- due of $4,883,103. Three sons, G E., John Kean and Philip J. Roosevelt, received $250.- 000 in cash each, an interest of $1.250 in & bequest and the residue when Mrs. Roosevelt dies —_— Police Crib on Examinations. BOSTON (#).—Police Commissioner Hultman is determined to eliminate cribbing by policemen attending the police schools. Henceforth all exami- nation papers must be in the handwrit- ing of the bluecoats submittng them. The commissioner says there were too many carbon copies handed in last year, many of them with identical answers. De Valera to Seek Payment of Irish Debt to Americans By the Associated Press. DUBLIN, December 20.—Im- mediately after the Dail assem- bles on February 1, the De Valera government will propose legisla- tion for repayment, at the rate of $1.25 on_every dollar borrowed, of the Irish Republican loans ra in the United States in 1918 and 1920. De Valera explained last night that payment will be made either in stock or cash, amounts already paid to be regarded as partial payment. Paymen on $10 and $25 bond certificatés will be in cash and on certificates of higher de- nomination in stock backed by the Free State and paying inter- est at 31> per cent a year, ma- turing in five years. The total amount owed on these loans is about $5,000,000 at par. WHO SHOT DEPUTIES Gunfight With Colored Men in Alabama JIs Fatal to Farmhand. By the Associated Press. TALLASSEE, Ala, December 20.—A heavily armed posse, closely guarding its destination left here early today toward Reeltown, Tallapoosa County, where four deputy sheriffs were wound- ed and at least one colored man was ku{xfid vesterday and last night Sheriff J. Kyle Young of Tallapoosa County and Sheriff T. A. Riley of Macon County headed the posse which moved out in 20 automobiles. Reports stated they were en route to Reeltown, Fired On in Serving Writ. It was near Reeltown v 2 Deputy Sheriffs C. S. Elder, D Aa}“/'l:xi': J. H. Alford and J. M. Gantt were fired o = they sought to serve a writ of attachment on some mules e > of CIiff Jeans. k0.8 the on ‘The deputies were wounded, they sa, by colored men gathered at the Jeans home, after Elder had been driven away. Authorities last night attributed the disorders to agitators who have been working quietly in Tallapoosa County to reorganize the “Share Croppers Union,” which was credited with caus- ing & similar disturbance in July, 1931, in which one colored man was killed, Sheriff Young seriously ‘ed and & deputy sheriff hurt. L paper men "‘:re refused permise sion to acco: ¥ the posseme: moved out today. Ressmenias they Body Is Not Moved. The body of Jim McMulle (aThe body of Jim McMullen, colored home las on the floor The situation was tense throughout | Tallapoosa County todsy. Photogra; taken of possemen were Sa1d o statement woud b soronne mz‘:':(m: possemen until his retumn. rature of the “Share Cro * Union,” seized by authorities, urge%pgxse members to demand social and political equality and officers said men and women Q( both races attended meetings at which spea alvays referred wo the Scottsboro case, KEYSTONE BUDGET MAKERS RIVAL SANTA City Laboratories Busy Polishing Off Important Christ Presents of Year. By the Associated Press. HARRISBURG, Pa., December 20— As busy as Santa Claus in his North Pole workshop are the municipal budget mfl:r; of Pennsylvania. their widely scattered laboratories they are polishing off some of the most )uenponam Christmas presents of the vear. For weeks the city fathers have toiled over masses of figures and esti- mates under the spotlight of publicity. The details which received passing no- tice in former years have been blazoned across the first pages and have been read avidly, by the majority of the local population. In Wilkes-Barre an association of property owners submitted a budget to save $406,792 and reduce the tax rate m;m 1254 to 115 mills. _At Erle a delegation of dissatisfied citizens gave the council a budget yese terday substituting a general 20 per cent cut in salaries for the eouncil’y proposed 10 per cent cut. Mayor and councilmen at York have agreed to return 10 per cent of their saiaries to the city treasurer: two as- sistant city inspectors were dropped tQ save an n}idl'lonal $3.400 annuall‘i' Philadelphia lopped about $10,000,000 from the $88,000,000 budget estimates submitted by the city and county de- partment heads. Half the saving was effected by salary and personnel cuts and the balance in maintenance and supply items. More than 3,000 Jobs were eliminated. Harrisburg, shearing about $200,00( from its budget, has reduced its. toe millage from 16 to 14. All salaries have been cut 10 per cent. TWO NEWSPAPERS SOLD Brush Moore Publications in Ohioe to Be Suspended. CANTON, Ohio, December 20 (). — Sale of the Mansficld News and Lorain Times-Herald to the Mansfield Journal and Lorain Journal, respectively, was announced here today by officials of Brush Moore Newspapers, Inc. S. A, Horvitz of Cleveland, owner and pube lisher of the Mansfield and Lorain Jour« nals, was the purchaser. The News and the Times-Herald will ie::‘;_:;nsd gu‘blxcatlan after today’s issues, ut one newspaj the fields. e -— URGES MORE WORK Federal Judge Cites Case of Re- turning Confederates. MUSCOGEE, Okla., December 20 (). —Federal Judge Robert L. Williams thinks the farmer vorl Tarder. could work a bit “I remember,” he said in court, “whej the Confederate soldiers came back tg Alabama. A fourth of them had an arm or leg shot off, but they went on working in the fields and would have shot any one suggesting they needed charity. “They are distributing Red Cross flour to the poor now. Thase old-timers knew little about flour. They used corn. The women knew how to cook then.” Tut’s Tomb to Be Shown. ALEXANDRIA (2 —Howard Carter, noted British archeologist, has gone to Luxor to aid the ministry of education in arranging for the opening of the smen to_tourists. £ 3 a Shopping Days