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A-2 EXTRA CONGRESS NOW SEEMS SURE Budget Balancing Legislation “.During Short Session Ap- pears Unlikely. (Continued From First Page) administration shouli deem it of price- less_political ve force a session of Congress on President Roosevelt in the early, days of his administration Such a session is a terror to a weak President. But specter can only terrify a feeble, timid, vacillating execu- tive. It brings no menace to a Presi- dent of courage, decision and stamina. Definite Program Forecast. After declaring the country will have Jost some hundreds of millions of dol- Jars in revenue because of delay, Mr. Farley predicted . 3 “The new Congress will function with celerity; new Presid T to them concise, de no prestige. Te will not hav s or apologies when the session is done. The first defigite part of the Demo- cratic program, except the farm bill now before the House, in whichi the President-elect ly' had a hand, since it w evolved in his own house in New York, was the budget balancing plan. 2 Members of the congressional party who York, notwi hstanding led at the income tax to stand by their and support uns on the s they said it the program was their “hope” it would not be neces- sary to enact into law the income tax increases and red 1s in, exemptions. Some of them fell back on the sugges- tion that nothing could be done about revenue legislation until it was learned just how much money would be needed; | until they knew how much money had been cut from the appropriation bills, and some went so far as to say that it | could not be known until after March | 15 income tax returns for the last year have been made. Collier Suggests No Date. Chairman Collier of the House Ways and Means Committee, which initiates all revenue iegislation, could not be pinned down to suggest a date when his committee would meet to discuss the budget balancing revenue legislation He said the committee would “wait & Teasonable time” to learn how much money would be needed. He added he Thoped big slashes would be made in the expenditures for the Government, so it would not be necessary to raise as much revenue from taxation as has been expected. G E “In case we have to raise revenue, said Mr. Collier, “this plan (the New York plan) seems the best; the least inful ” luSpe«ker Garner denied flatly that he had thrown overboard the conference lan for balancing the budget, although Be said there wero toéh" tax plans ) ht be adopted. “?“'f‘fix?sw hould be raised from those who have,” said the Speaker, declaring he always had believed in the principle f the income tax. *fhe Speaker, like Mr. Collier, made | no prediction as to when the Ways and Means Committee could or would begin work on a revenue bill. He said it would be necessary to know as near as possible how much revenue was needed, and that | 1t would be well to know if the beer bill | was to become a law. He made it clear that he expected a veto of that meas- ure by the President, and that it was likely the Republicans intended to force | & special session. Senator Harrison of Mississippi, whe 1s to be chairman of the Finance Com- | mittee in the next Congress, and who | Was one of those who drafted the con- | ference tax plan, defended the plan also. | He said it was his intention as soon as | Possible to call the Democratic members of hid committee together to go over the revenue situation, and that he hoped | 10 work in co-operation with the House Democrats in charge of revenue legisla- tion. Senator Harrison was in conference | with sqme of the House Democrats yes- | terday, and it is believed he urged them to stand firm for the conference plan. “The most important thing done at the conference with Mr. Roosevelt in New Yaqrk,” said Senator Harrison, “was the detérmination to balance the budget at this time if possible, but to balance it whenever the Democrats can do so.” He said the country had been put on notice that the Democrats intended to balance the budget—by drastic cuts if possible in expenditures and by both Cuts and increased taxes if Necessary. “But we are going to balance the budget,” he added. In reply to questions about the income tax features of the conference plan, Senator Harrison said he had never heard of any tax legislation that was “popular”; that the Democrats would have to ‘expect criticism. This was similar to the position taken by Sena- tor Byrnes of Scuth Carolina, another of the New York conferees. Alternatives Mentioned. Senator Harrison and the other con- ferees insisted the as “flexibility” in ure of the budget- plan; that the details of the were not although it had been annou n New York that the conferces had -agreed to increase the e tax rates to 6 and 12 2 to reduce the exemp- r married persons to $2.000 and to keep the exemption for single per- sons at $1,000 mentioned He sa normal t the rates in the | Declares in Jackson Day Talk | | | | | Maryland, was toastmaster. THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, .-, FARLEY ASSAILS B.0.P. LAME DUCKS Forum Speaker They Will Probably Force Extra Session. By the Associated Press i BALTIMORE, January 7.—James A Farley, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, tonight said it will be the strategy of the.outgoing Re- publican administration to force an extra session of Congress upon Presi- dent-elect Franklin D. Rooseveit as soon as he takes office next March. Referring to the problems which await the President-elect in his speech at the Jackson day dinner of the Con- cord Club here, Farley said: ‘“Nobody is smoothing his way for him.” “We already have had a foretaste in the events of the present Congress of what he has to expect from the oppo- sition,” Farley asserted. “The Repub- lican lame ducks have hampered the work of the Congress and apparently will compel a special session. SENATOR HUGO L. BLACK. SENATORHLLBLACK subordination of public duty to partisan | sabotage by the holdovers from the po- | litical renovation of last November is the failure of the amendment designed to put an end to the disastrous experi- ment of national prohibition.” * Farley said ft is “really not extraor- dinary that the dying Republican ad- ministration should deem it of price- less political value to force a session of Congress on_President Roosevelt in the | early days of his administration. “Such a session is a terror to & weak President. There is no question but that the Grundy session of 1929 cruci- fied Mr. Hoover, exposing &s it did the poverty of his leadership and his lack of policy.” Says Duty Transcends Debis. Sponsor of 5-Day Week Leg- islation Will Be Heard Tomorrow. In view of the general interest now being manifested in the propesal to establish a five-day week in industry. Senator Hugo L. Black, Democrat, of Alabama, will speak in the National | Radio Forum tomorrow night. This Eastern standard time. 1t is arranged | by The Washington Star and is broad- ReUring Bl Spee e T enny | cast over & Nation-wide network of the last year- asserted the President-elect’ | National Broadcasting CO'. responsibility to the people of the coun-| = Senator Black already has intro- try “transcends even the obligations of | duced a bill providing for the five-day gratitude.” | week, and it is said this will have the “He should not be hampered in his | indorsement of the American Federa- | selection of the best men possible for | tion of Labor and other labor organi- every office by the insistence of men to ‘zaunn\ of standing, 1!_\ view of the whom he owes a debt of gratitude on | ‘act that the five-day week is expected particular individuals for particular in labor circles to generally enhance places,” Farley added | the welfare of the workers of the Other speakers w United States |Nation. Senator Millard E. Tydings of Mary-| There has been a question in con- land, Gov. Albert C. Ritchie, Mayor | gressional circles as to whether the Howard W. Jeckson of Baltimore and | Federal Government is empowered to Floyd Gibbons. The meeting was opened | pass five-day week legislation effect- by Robert B. Ennis, president of the |ing all the States. Senator Norris, Concord Club, and Howard Bruce, |chairman of the Judiciary Committee Democratic national committeeman from | of the Senate, has appointed a sub- { committee which will begin hearings | January 5 on the proposed legislation. ROOSEVELT MAPS PLANS BUT SHUNS INCOME TAX ROW (Continued From First Page.) | of the five-day week, of which Sen- | ator Black is one, believes that Fed- |industries doing interstate business | Such legislation might effect those in- | dustries and yet could not apply to | industries operating within the borders | of & single State. speculators as the best bet for Secretary | of the Treasury. Sherley, comparatively young and mentation of the five-day week in typo- | graphical unions, Senator Black's speech priations comm.\tl;e. “LL;I m' :)egu)d‘ed!‘ 2 5 B as giving him the qualifications Mr. | Roosevelt is looking for. The President- CUBAN SUCCUMBS elect has wanted a man for the Treas- TO IN]URY N CRASH Treasury in the cabinet of Woodrow | Wilson. | i —Fri i R tne | Dies of Fractured Skull—Friends mind of Mr. Roosevelt for the Atmm;;! in Auto Party Continue Montana. Senator have indicated he prefers to remain in the Senate rathet | By the Associated Press than accept the Attorney Generalship,| PETERSBURG, Va. January 7—Fer- which he is represented to feel is mOre | nando Valdez, said to be a native of James A. Farley. campaigh IMAnager | geg succumbed to a fractured skull, said for Roosevelt, is regarded as a certainty | to have been received when he jumped for Postmaster General—and the onlY | from an automobile, thinking it was certainty so far in the Roosevelt |gafre i t schooled in Democracy and finance, 15 | threabeon (e corouse great interes! ury effice not intimately attached to the big banking business such as Senator QGeneralship. He is recognized | Senate colleagues as a Jawyer of highest | Without Him. of an adminisirative office than an | Cyupa, died in the Petersburg Hospital opportunity for the exercise. of legal lasy night of injuries received in an au- cabinet. | Valdez was traveling with friends Farm Editor Considered. | headed for Florida. He was treated in DAVIS IS BELIEVED | - ROOSEVELT CHOICE |Stimson Visit to New York | Held Sign of Selection as Successor. | | BY CONSTANTINE BROW | The invitation extended by President- | | elect Roosevelt to Secretary of State | Stimson, through the medium of the | White House, to discuss the interna-| | tional situation in New York is inter-| preted in well informed quarters as an | | indication that Mr. Roosevelt has finally | made up his mind as to who his next| Secretary of State Is going to be. The | meeting will take place Monday. | The name of Norman Davis, hereto- | fore the spokesman of the Republican administration at the reduction of arms | conference at Geneva, is insistently | mentioned in connection with the choice | of the President-elect. It is true the seiection of Mr. Davis | program will be heard at 10:30 o'clock, | | Proponents of the proposed legislation | | eral authority should extend over all| — |, Coming as it does during the Senate | hearings, and in_view of the experi- & fonmer chairman of the Hotss ARpro- | roUSBoUt the country. Carter Glass of Virginia, & Secretary of standing, However, friends of the abilitles. tomobile accident in Washington. Val- Apparently authentic gossip has pm‘Washinztun for a scalp wound, but his Henry Wallace of Jowa in the Roosevelt cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture. Wallace, the editor of a farm journal, was a strong supporter in the presi- | dential campaign, The speculation on the Secretary of State for the Roosevelt cabinet is very limited. The names of Norman Davis, former Democratic Undersecretary of State and now the Nation's leading negotiator in Europe on disarmament and economics, i5 most frequently heard. Also Frank L. Polke of New York, an- other former Undersecretary, is men- tioned. William H. Woodin, president of the American Car and Foundry Co. of New York, is another almost daily caller on Roosev He is discussed in the speculation as a Secretary of Commerce. The President-elect remained in se- clusion today at Hyde. Park, He re- ceived Admiral Cary T. Grayson of Washington, the chairman of the In- augural Committee, tonight Mrs. Roosevelt and James Roosevelt, cldest son. represented the President- ct at today's funeral services for the t when he iIs in New York City. | | condition became worse and he was placed in the hospital here. His friends continued to Florida. Coroner E. L. MeGill is conducting |an investigation and an inquest will be held later. No Record of Accldent. Police officials here said yesterday there is no record of the automobile ac cident in Washington in which Per- nando Valdez was reported as having been injured. There also is no hospital record of the case. EVIDENCE OF FRAUD IN NEW YORK VOTE IS CLAIMED BY U. S. _ (Continued From First Page.) would meet a certain amount of oppo- sition in Congress. Some wecks ago & Senator very close to Mr. Roosevelt, dis- cussing the question of the possible ap- Ppointment of Mr. Davis in the most im- portant position in the President’s cabi- net, stated Mr. Davis had no chance whatsoever. Last week the same Sen | ator admitted Mr. Davis had more than a 90 per cent chance of obtaining the much-sought appointment. Suggested Co-operation. The reascn why it is assumed in well informed quarters that the Stimson visit Is connected with Mr. Davis' appoint- ment is as follows | . A few days after Mr. Roosevelt's elec- tion, Mr. Stimson declared that in view of the difficult international situation. it would be important for Mr. Roosevelt to designate as soon as possibie the next Secretary of State: Mr. Stimson stated he would very much like the Secretary- designate to come to Washington and work in the State Department. While &l the instructions to the various Amer- {lcan_missions abroad would be sent by Mr. Stimson, he and his successor would work together in order to harmonize the policy of the Amerlean Govern- ment during the remaining three months | with the poliey of the incomiry ad- ministration. Such a thing had b n done before while Mr. Stimson was & retary of War, when he and Mr. G r- rison worked for two months in the closest co-operation. Mr. Stimson’s statement was brought t he attention of Mr. Roosevelt; the clion of the President-elect was re- ported to have been favorable, but noth- ing more was heard about it, Last Thursday, however, House : the White received &n intimation from Mr. | Roosevelt that he would be glad to dis- | cuss the international situation with the | Present Secretary of State. President Hoover agreed to have his Secretary of | | State go to New York, and Mr. Stim- |Son announced that as soon as he re- turned from the funeral of President Coolidge he would see Mr. Roosevelt at his convenience. Final Decision Seen. This reque: fiha Secriq st of Mr. Roosevelt to see ‘b&; ((1 change in Situation, it is stated in L to the President-elcct, = > Cl0s€ It means merely, it is stated, that Mr. Roosevelt has finally decided upon the appointment of his Secretary of State and he is now ready to reply | Lo Mr. Stimson’s suggestion to have the | ‘Socrebary-deslgnale come to Washing- | ton and collaborate in preparation of | the next diplomatic moves of the Amec: | ican Government. | . Mr. Davis is, of course, closer to the | Republican administration than any other man in the Democratic party. ibm(‘e last April he has been for all | intents and purpeses the representative | of Mr, Hoover in Europe and was the moving spirit of the American Govern- | ment in handling the reduction of arms conference ‘as well as the preparations ‘h)r the coming Economic Conference. | He is consequently fully conversant with | what has been dome in the past. If | he accepts the position as Secretary of | State there is little doubt that the pres- ent American foreign policy will be con- | tinued as in the past Of course, Mr. Stimson will take ad- vantage of his conversation with Mr. Roosevelt to acquaint him with the new developments in the Far Eastern situ- ation. ~This situation requires a more careful handling than any of the other | International problems because it is more pressing and contains more possi- bilities of serious developments than any other of the important problems with which the next administration will be confronted. Action in Far East Likely. It is likely that, in view of the possi- bility of Japan occupying Tientsin and Peiping, the present administration should be compelled to take some new | active steps in the Far Eastern question and it is only natural that Mr. Stimson should desire to acquaint the future | President of the United States and his next Secretary of State with what is likely to be done. Mr. Stimson and Mr. been, working in full harmony for al- most 12 months. Their minds run along the same lines, and whatever Mr. Stim- | son is likely to do now undoubtedly will | be followed by Mr. Davis, if the report | that he has been chosen by Mr. Roose- | velt to walk into the shoes of the pres- ent Secretary of State is correct. \GOVERNOR PARDONS tary of State is not caused | the international | Davis have | alleged evidences of fraud. I I | STUNP DYNAMTER HELD I CAR BLAST | |Miss Ida Kirk, Wealthy Vic- tim, Had Angered Suspect, Police Told. | ___(Continued From First Page.) Chaptico with the Leonardtown-Wash- ington highway when the explosion oc- curred. That was about 9 a.m. “Suddenly there was a terrific blast at my feet,” Mrs. Gibson said, “and | the whole bottom of the car seemed to drop out. I could see the ground as| the car continued along the road for some distance. | “Miss Kirk appeared badly hurt. She was slumped over. The car was a | wreck. Someone came by and helped | us from the car. Miss Kirk was taken | to the hospital. I was all right. I have | no idea what caused the explosion.” | The blast blew the hood off the en- | gine, tore the floorboard to pieces, rip- ped open the roof and left a large | darkened area on the road. The gaso- |line tank was left intact. | | Auto Stops in Ditch, ‘The lower part of Miss Kirk's body | received the full force of the explo- sion. Both her legs were horribly muti- | lated and nearly severed. The machine rolled on for about 30 | or 40 yards before coming to rest in | & ditch, tilted against an embankment. | ‘The detonation was heard by Llewel- | |lyn Mattingly, 19, who lives nearby. He ran to the automobile and assisted | | Mrs. Gibson from the wreckage, but it | took the combined efforts of young Mattingly and his father, Hayden Mat- | tingly, to remove the dying woman from | | her “seat, some 15 minutes later. | | The Mattinglys laid Miss Kirk on the | | side of the road and breught pillows | |end blankets from their home. | Llewellyn went to Chaptico in his farm | | truck for aid. i | Daniel Davis, a garage man at Chap- | tico, and Dr. A. C. Welch, jr., also of | | Chaptico. responded in an automobile | and tock' the two women to St. Mary’s | | Hospital here, where Miss Kirk died | | about an hour after arrival. | Mrs. Gibson's Ankle Hurt. | She appeared conscious most of the period before death, but was unable to_make a coherent statement, | Mrs. Gibson was treated for an in- jured amkle. The explosion had torn | a heel off one of her shoes. | State’s Attorney John H. K. Briscoe |of St. Marys County telephoned to Baltimore for aid and the police depart- | ment there dispatched Sergt. William J. | Feehly of the murder squad, and Sergt. | Walter Martin _of the identification | squad to assist Sheriff R. T. Hammett of St. Marys County and State Police- | | man John Wheeler in the inquiry. The investigators made a careful study of the debris where the explosion | occurred, and later went over the par- | tially demolished car for traces of a| bomb. They could find no remnants of | an infernal machine, but there was a | distinet odor of some explosive, such as dynamite or black powder. | One theory was that an explosive had | been attached to the muffler in such a way that the heat therefrom caused it | to explode. Dynamite, it was pointed | out, does not readily explode from heat- | ing, a percussion cap being required. Said to Have Left in Anger. Police who investigated the possibil- ity of Gross’ connection with the case were told that Miss Kirk ordered the colored man from her kitchen with the words: “I have quarters in the rear for the | scrvants, and I don't want to find you | in my house n.” | JANUARY 8 1933—PART ONE. Top: Wreckage of the coupe in which Miss Ida Kirk, 73-year-old “Angel of St. Marys County,” was fatally injured to Washington from Chaptico, Md., yesterday. Center: View of the scene of the blast, which occurred near Chaptico, as the | wealthy spinster and her life-long friend, Mrs. Elva Gibson, were traveling | toward the Leonardtown-Washington Highway. | William Feehly of Baltimore, State’s Attorney John H. K. Briscoe of St. Marys County, and Detective Sergt. Walter Martin of the Baltimore Police Depart- The investigators are inspecting the roadway, | blackened where Miss Kirk's car exploded. Bottom: Close-up of the wrecked machine, showing the driver's seat, occu- | pied by the spinster at the time of the blast. Mrs. Gibson, who escaped with minor injuries despite the fact she was seated | beside her friend, shook as though it were about to fall apart, and the floorboard | ment’s Identification Bureau. was blown to pieces. | | | FASCISTS IN DRIVE ONLITTLE ENTENTE Insist on Arms Equality for Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria. By Cable to The Sta ROME, January 7.—The Pascist gov- ernment is giving every sign of intend- ing to launch a major diplomatic offensive on the Central and Eastern European fronts in the near future. In- dications of French good-will and the general state of flux and uncertainty on the continet seem to have inspired \the Italian decision to act at this time. ‘This big push apparently will in- volve a gigantic effort to improve Italy's position in relation to France’s in that sector. The major objective of Fascist foreign policy remains the same, how- | ever, and it would not be surprising if | Italy also launches a flanking move- ment aimed at the acquisition of ter- ritory in Africa — most likely the Cameroons. Italy’s pet strategy in Central and ‘Eulem Europe is to weaken the group {of French allles in the Little Entente |and Poland and to strengthen its own friends—Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria. To weaken the Prench group, fascism | would Mke to detach the four allies | from each other and from France and |impair the strength of each ome by | emphasizing any internal divisions | which exist, such'as those among the ‘Senzs. Croets and Slovenese in Yugo- slavia. Insists on Arms Equality, ‘To strengthen their own friends the tactics which the Fascists seem to be employing ngw is insistence equality of armaments, already given in principle to Germany, be extended to Bulgaria, Hungary and Austria. The French sector seems to be the one where Italy will make its next frontal attack. A direct offensive is being prepared for the impending ar- rival here of the new French Ambassa- dor, Henri De Jouvenel. The Facists will try again, through De Jouvenel, to convince the French government that its alliances with: the little entente are costing France the friendship of Italy, and that this friendship would be more valuable to France than the alliances. Ttely argues that the smaller states, especially Yugosiavia, are likely to em- | broil the great powers, as they helped to in 1914, and that France would be wiser to cultivate Italy. To emphasize this point, the Fascist press is engaging in an orgy of attacks on the alleged warlike anti-Italian ac- tivities in Yugoslavia. The moral given here to these supposed plans is that they would be impossible without a Franco-Yugoslav alliance. The Italians’ attacks also serve the purpose of di- verting attention from the real source of trouble between Italy and Yugo- fln\'fla. which now once again is Al- nia. | | Seek Pact With Rumania, | At the same time that Italy is try- ing to persuade France to reduce jts support of the little entente and Poland, |1t 1s trying to woo each one frem | Prance and from each other. The Farcists apparently are asking Rumania to renew the Italo-Rumanian friend- ship treaty for several years. Rumania, however, seems to be holdlxz.mx un til it sees what becomes of the Frani Italian negotiations. Nicholas Titulescu, Rumanian for- eign minister, is sald to intend coming to Rome for Italo-Rumanian conversa- tions. Demeter Gusti, Rumanian min- ister of public instruction, is in Rome | now, ostensibly only in order to assist in the inauguration of the new Ru- manian_Academy here. The Polish undersecretary of foreign affairs, Count Bzembek, is due in Rome on Tuesday for a “visit with Premier Mussolini and the foreign undersecre~ tary and to confer with the Italian gove ernment on some interesting problems.” The bonds which united the Serbs, Oroats and Slovenes of Yugoslavia are hopefully believed here to be nat of the strongest, and Italy does what it can to weaken them. It has persistently described the Slavs as an uncivilized and dangerous element of Yugoslavia and tried to appeal to the Croats, whom the Fascists described as a civilized and pe late Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, Mass. LA GUARDIA 1S UNDECIDED. LEAVES HOOVER TRAI New York G. O. P. Representative May Robinson Golden, was charged in the Bloch state- | CONVICTED LEG]SLATOR | ment with trying to “befog the issue of Washington State with a half truth” when Bloch offered | | Freed Shortly After Sentence on Girl's Charge. in a mysterious explosion while en route Left to right: Detective Sergt. The automobile, according to | agal | The man is said to have left the |- home in_obvious anger. Miss Kirk usually was soft-spoken and of a kindly disposition. Wealthy | B. E. F. SPOUSE KILLS i'OAPOI‘JE I{LLY SI.AiN; Stimson Stops in New York for Parley With President-Elect, NEW YORK, January 7 (#).—Secre- y Stimson left the presidential spe- cial train returning to Washington from the Coolidge funeral today, saying he would meet with President-elect Roose- velt Monday. The meeting was arranged at Mr. Roosevelt’s request to discuss interna- t problems which will continue 0 the next administration, ¢ and th from $400 emption from . to $1,800 exemption for dependents to $200 each, it w il 52.000,000 ir ent f sal. except w e of rates to 6 and 8 per ce ble to ok stead of d 00 exemption and left the rate $1,000. for each L at 4 and 8 cent as it is today, we would get $176,000,000 No More Beer Bill Riders. is q 1 not made in the old fight will be waged ents to the beer bil said that a bill would » the House for continu- gasoline tax for another year y other revenue legislation e Senator ine bill it could be e with other features of , if it was desired to amended the reven do so Proponents sales tax las the manufacturers' ht saw in the outburst against the ome tax increases a chance that eventually the Congress might be forced around to support the sales tax in order to balance the budget. “0ld Ironsides” in Pacific. BALBOA, Canal Zone, January 7 (#) «~The frigate Constitution, known as “Old Ironsides” left today for Sam Diego, Calif, in tow of the submarine tender Bushnell and accompanied by the Navy tug Grebe. Arrival of the gtitution at San Diego* set for y 21, of State said today that he had no knowledge of the spe- cific subjects upon which the President- elect desires information, but said he was prepared to answer any questions ut to him On leaving President Hoovef's train here, Secretary Stimson went to his own Long Isiand home for the week end. SUNDAY PAPERS MERGED BY SALE AT CLEVELAND Plain Sunday News and Plans to In- Secretary Dealer Company Acquires corporate Leading Features. By the Associated Press. CLEVELAND. January 7—The Cleve- land Co., publishers of the Cleveland News, today announced the sale of the Cleveland Sunday News to the Plain Dealer Publishing Co., publishers of the morning and Sunday Cleveland Plain Dealer The announcement said the Cleveland Co. will continue to publish the Cleve- land News as an evenin cach week day. however, discontinues publication with tomorrow’s issue. The announcement said: “Beginning with its issue of January 15, 1933, the Sunday Plain Dealer will| The action is subject to confimation by | towed to the docks where ships from | incorporate into its publication those features which, in the opinion of the | editors of both the Sunday News and | the Plain.Déaler, were the best features of the Sunday News.” 1 File Contest in House. Representative Florello H. La Guardia Republican, of New York, was undecided last night as to what steps he would take as the result of investigations by the United States attorney's office, in- dicating he may have been defrauded of victory at the last election. What | action, if any, is started in New York will depend upon the advice of Leonard J. Obermeier, Mr. LaGuardia's counsel in New York, after further examination of the evidence disclosed by Federal Attorney George Z. Medalie. Mr. La Guardia indicated that re- zardless of any legal action in New York he might file a notice of contest in the House itself. He said such a contest could be prepared for at any time this session by notifying the clerk of the House and his Democratic opponent James J. Lanzetta, who has been de- clared elected to the next Congress. “It is no news to me to hear that we |had a fraudulent election in New York,” Ny said Mr. La Guardia. “If Tammany had permitted a clean election, that would be news. My interests are in good hands in New York and what is necessary will be done there. Of course nothing is more important to | me than this election, but X don’t see how I can go back to New York in the | next few days. | lative business, which I don't want to | desert.” VOTE TO ABOLISH TOWN il g of BSavannah, Against Corporation. SAVANNAH, Tenn., January 7 (#) Citizens Tenn., an economy move. Voters in & special election cast 180 ballots in favor of abolishing the cor- poration to 16 against the proposal. | the State Legislature, now in session in Nashville. The population of Savanmah. county seat of Hardin County, was reported as 1,129 o' the 1930 census. since birth, she was widely known and | loved for her many phiian¥hgopies among the needy of Southern Mary- | son G. Robinson, State Representative- |land. Her friends were legion and she elect, sentenced to five years in a re- | was not known to have had an enemy | formatory following conviction upon a |in her long and uneventful life. | morals charge, was given a full pardon | The rambling old home in which her | by Gov. Roland H. Hartley today. broken body lay tonight was her birth- Shortly after Superior Judge Matt L.| place. An only child, she was the | Driscoll pronounced sentence upon the | daughter of William Alexander Kirk, a | Seattle Democrat here, Gov. Hartley | pioneer in St. Mary's County. She was | issued & pardon in the State capital, | the grandniece of Willlam Wilson Cor- | Olympia. | coran, noted financier and philanthro- | The Governor said he was acting upon | pist of old Georgetown, who founded sworn statements that no crime had | the Corcoran Gallery of Art. By the Assoclated Press. | SEATTLE, WASH, January 7.—Nel- 1 am tied up by legis- | been committed in Robinson’s relations with a young girl, upon which the charge was based. He said the state- ments were received from physicians and the mother of the girl. The Governor’s pardon came just two | days before the convening of the 1933 | Legislature. Robinson's conviction left | the House with the problem of deciding | whether it should seat him or declare Mhe office vacant and permit the King County commissioners to appoint a suc- cessor. |BODIES SOUGHT ON LINER; FIRE RAPIDLY ABATING Salvaging of Atlantigue Halted Pending Arrival of Special Inquiry Committee. By the Associated Press. CHERBOURG. France, January 7.— A hunt for bodies aboard the burned | passenger line Atlantigue today delayed | | | salvage operations, which were halted | pending the arrival tomorrow of a newspaper The town of Savannah was voted out of | Special Committee of Inquiry, on which The Sunday News| existence today by ils own citizens as | there are electrical experts. Big streams of water, shot into the | hull throughout the day, diminished the | smoke, and the fire apparently was rapidly abating. The Atlantique was | America arrive. Capt. Schoofs, master of the v which burned Wednesday with a loss 18 members of the crew, said he had seen three bodies aboard the ship. Was Active in Church Work. Sunnyside Farm is a 300-acre estate | about four miles north of Chaptico, on | the road to La Plata. Recently Miss Kirk had acquired another home near La Plata, which she ogcupied alter- nately with her farm estate. | “Residing with Miss Kirk at Sunny- side Farm were Nigel H. Dixon, 32- year-old manager of the farm, and Jo- | seph Dixon Hill and family. Hill as- | sists Dixon in the farm management. Miss Kirk was & member of Christ | Episcopal Church in Chaptico and had been active in church and charitable work for many years. She and Mrs. Gibson bad been friends for about 12 years. Incidentally, Mrs. Gibson was celebrating her birthday anniversary yesterday. Mr. Matthews came here this after- noon and offered his assistance to the authorities. He could offer no clue to the mystery. Funeral services for Miss Kirk will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow from. the Christ Episcopal Church at Chaptico. Her body will lie in the family plot be- side her mother and father at the ceme- | tery church yard in Chaptico. —_— Approves “Lame Duck” Law. BISMARCK, N. Dak, January 7 (®). —The proposed “lame duck” amen ment to the Federal Constitution was approved today by the North Dakota 12:1‘1. Under it the t would an elec- tion instead of in 4 i JESSUPS, MD., GIRL Man, Who Met Bride on Return From Capital March, Dreamed She Was Unfaithful. By the Associated Press. HAMBURG, Pa. January 7~A man | who told police he was an Indian named Chief Running Wolf, shot his wife to death in a jealous rage today and then wounded himself. He is also known, police said, as C. W. Taylor of Kutztown, Pa., where he is proprietor of the Indian Herb and Med- icine Co. He is in a critical condition at a Reading, Pa., hospital. The shoot- ing of his wife, Etta, 27, occurred in a wayside lunch room, near here, where she was a waitress. “I dreamed last night that my wife was at Blue Mountain Service Station and that she had been unfaithful 1o | me,” police quoted Wolf as saying in the hospital. “She wouldn't come back with me, so I shot her.” Police said Wolf declared he was a member of the Berks County contin- gent of the Pennsylvania bonus march- ers and met his wile in a small Mary- land town last Fall while returning from Washington. They were marrie November 10 and moved to Kutztown early in December. ‘The woman is said to be from Jes- sups, Md., a little town near Laurel. Her father’s name is Arthur E. Murray. She was previously married to Arthur M. Hunt, supposed to be living in West Virginia. Chased Doe Caught in Town. HAMLET, N. C, January 7 (P).—A deer pursued by & group of Winston- Salem huntsmen found the city was no e Young doe.was ‘captired tnside ot the myynumnig of men after & chase which began at the Hoke County line. | FEAR NEW OUTBREAK 1 Mutilated Body of Ted Newberry Discovered on Lonely Road Near Lake Michigan. | By the Assoclated Press. CHESTERTON, Ind., January 7.—Ted Newberry, ally of the Capones, was re- | moved from Chicago's underworld to- day. | Shotgun and pistol slugs mutilated his head and body, found this morn- | ing on a lonely Indiana road near Lake Michigan. At his waist glittered a clus- |ter of diamonds and emeralds, one of the jewelled belt buckles Al Capone presented his pals. | Metropolitan police feared the death | of Newberry presaged another outbreak between factions fighting for control of | Chicago’s liquor and vice rs | . Obviously, officers said, Newberry had {been slain elsewhere, perhaps in I near Chicago. As in all gangland | rides,” the end came during the night. ‘Then his body was dumped from an au- tomobile, where it was found about 9 am. | 1In Newberry’s pockets officers found a | notebook in ‘which were listed many names and telephone numbers, s " s |SARGENT “MUCH BETTER” LUDLOW, Vt., January 7 (#).—John G. Sargent, Attorney General in Calvin Coolidge's cabinet and friend for years of the late former President, was re- ported as “much better” at his home foday. Mr. Sargent has been confined to his bed with influenza. | Members of the Sargent household | said he had been deeply affected by the death of Calvin Coali and that it “hurt” him not to be able to attend the a.ml rites fc: his friend at Plymouth intelligent people. Venetian Lions Mutilated. Enthusiasm has sometimes gotten this policy into slightly ludicrous pre- dicaments. Recently, for example, the Fascists have been very indignant over the mutilation of stone statues of Vene- tian lions in Dalmatia. Only barbar- ous Slavs could be guilty of such atrac= ities, the Italians have said. The only trouble with this argument is that the places where the “atrocities” occurred are almost entirely Oroatian, with hardly one Blav inside the city limits. ‘The appointment of De Jouvenel as new French Ambassador to Italy is re- garded hopefully here—probably too hopefully. De Jouvenel is a politician and a journalist and is, therefare, ex- pected to approach Franco-Italian prob- lems with a more practical spirit of give and take than a career diplomat might. Also, he is considered to be friendly to Italy. But De Jouvenel has a fatal facility of speech. He talks too much. Six years ago when he was appointed high | commissioner in Syria he began talking in Paris when his appoiniment was announced and talked so garrulously thereafter all the way to gyfla that before his boat landed at Beirut, he had completely destroyed his usefulness. He has begun to do the same thing now. Unless somebody can keep him away from listeners, he may spoil his new job as thoroughly as he spoiled his last one. (Copyright, 1933.) BALTIMORE RAID BARES $100,000 ALCOHOL PLANT Daily Output of 1,500 Gallons Es- timated—One Man Arrested, but Three Escape Agents. By the Associated Press BALTIMORE, January 7.—An alcoho} plant, valued by prohibition investi- gators at $100,000, with an estimated daily output of 1,500 gallons, was raided by Federal agents in a North avenue business block todag. Jack Forhman was arrested, but Wil- liam T. Benson, who led the raid, said three men escaped by climbing to the roof through a trap door a:j sliding down a rope tied to 3 chimney. Forh- man was released on $1,500 bail for a hearing Monday. Benson listed as seized in the raid, s large “jack column” al¢ohol still, 22,600 gallons of sugar mash, 20 mash vats, condensers, & 40-horsepower steam boller, 40 gallons of aleohol, severs! hundred 5-gallon cans and large quan- tities of sugar and charcoal. The first floor advertised an auto re- pair shop and accessory store. School to Graduate One. BEND, Ore, January 7 (P).—With customary ceremanies complete to the baccalaureate sermon and commence- ment address, & one-student sexior will be graduated from Culver High School Jarnuary 13. 'The 15 Lucllle Brown.” Rev. Pmuw of baccalal te Redmand will preach %g.‘:nfld;l-'&:dd .WJ given .E;n %Mlbcmyw-