Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 2

T A—2 ¥» RITES FOR KENDALL 10 BE WEDNESDAY Representative Who Took| Own Life to Be Buried THE BARUCH MAY HEAD PARLEY DELEGATES Suicide Believed Roosevelt’s Choice for International Trade in Myersdale, Pa. Representative Samuel A. Kendall who shot nimself to death yesterday n his suite in the House Office Build- ing, will be buried Wednesday after- noon in his home town, Myers- daie, Pa. Services will be in the Myers- dale Lutheran Church. The following committee was nemed by Speaker Garner to represent the House of Representatives at the funeral ©of Represenative Kendall: ; Represent~.ive Temple, Darrow, Wyant, Camp'2ll, Kelly. Swick, Haines, Wolfenden, Brumm, Rich and Boland. all of Pennsylvania, and Mead of New York., The Senate committee has yet to be named by Vice President Curtis The House adjourned today, on motion of House Leader Rainey, out of Tespect for Representative Kendall and Representative Robert R. Butler of Oregon, who died Saturday at Provi- dence Hospital: In & note found on his desk, Repre- sentative Kendall who has been a mem- ber of Congress for 14 years, gave ina- bility to “throw off my grief” over the death of his wife as the reason for his suicide. The 73-three-old Republican, who was defeated for re-election, was found sitting in an easy chair beside a win- dow of his office about 11 o'clock ves- terday morning. In his right hand which rested in his lap, was a new .38- caliber revolver, and there was a bullet hole above his right ear. Clerk Discovers Suicide. william Whelan, House mail clerk discovered the suicide, the first to occur in either the Capitol or the legislative office buildings. He notified Capitol authorities, who, in turn, sum- moned Detective Sergts. Dennis J. Murphy d Jerry Flaherty. After reading two notes found in the suite and another discovered by the dead man’s son, J. W. Kendall, 2401 Calvert sireet, Deputy Coroner A. Ma- gruder MacDonald issued a certificate of suicide. One of the notes found in the office simply gave the son's telephone num- ber and requested that he be notified ‘The other, addressed to Representative Kendall's “dear children,” said: “My work on earth is completed. The sudden death of your dear mother was the most severe shock of my whole life, and I have bezen unable to throw off my grief. “Every day has added to my sorrow, and I can no longer bear my suffering, ‘which I have kept from you. “Mother has been calling me to join her and little Van in Heaven, and I can no longer resist the call and am going to join them.” The “little Van" referred to was a 4-year-old son, Grant Van Nest Ken- dall, who died in 1913 Representative Kendall's wife, the former Miss Minnie Edith Wiley of Liscomb, Iowa, to whom he had been married for nearly half a century, died last August. Notes Are Identical. The note found at the Calvert street thrcugh (.he depression n‘nv(.i should not: address. where Representative Kendall |S2Crifice value and quallty. lived, was identical to the one describ- ing the Representative's grief. were signed “Father.” Representative Kendall, who served the twenty-fourth congressional district of Pensylvania, went to the House Office Building from the Calvert street ad- dress, where he breakfasted with his daughter, Mrs. Grace M. Angus, at about 9:30 o’clock. | Some time between 10:15 and 10:45 o'clock Representative Hall of North Dakota. and other occupants of the House Office Building heard a report, but did not identify it as the sound of | & gunshot. | Examination of the body by Dr. Mac- Donald disclosed the bullet went through Representative Kendall’s head, emerging near the left temple. | Born on a farm in Somerset County, Pa., on November 1, 1859, Representa- tive Kendall was educated at Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Ind., and Mount | Union College, Alliance, Ohio. He began teaching school at 18, fol- Jowing that profession for 14 years, the | last <5 years of which he served as superintendent of schools in Jeffer- son, Towa. Conducted Lumber Business. Returning to Pennsylvania _after severing his connection with the Jeffer- | son school system, he served in the State Legislature from 1899 to 1903 He also engaged in the lumber business with his brother, with whom he con- ducted the Kendall Lumber Corpo- ration of Roseburg, Oreg. The brother was killed in an auto- mobile accident several years ago. He was involved in the same mishap, but escaped with minor injuries Making his home in Myersdale, he was. elected to the Sixty-sixth Con- in 1919. He was defeated in the ovember _election, but, according to his son, Samuel A. Kendall, jr.. also of the Calvert street address, did not seem to be greatly affected by the defeat. Representative Kendall, a high rank- ing member of the House Post Office Committee, sponsored considerable leg- islation favoring postal workers. Amony the bills he sponsored was one reduc- ing the working hours of postal clerks from 48 to 44 a week INTERMENT OF GOFF TO BE IN ARLINGTO Both West Senator Will Be Buried Tomorrow With Brief Rites. Former Senator Guy Goff of West Virginia, who died Saturday at Thom ville, Ga., will be buried at 2 pm. to- morrow in Arlington National Cemetery Funeral services were held at Thomas- ville yesterday and there will be no serv- ices at Arlington except for a brief com- mittal service at the grave, in the South- ern section of the cemetery No military honors will be accorded, but the committal service will be con- ducted by an Army chaplain, to be des- ignated by 16th Brigade headquarters. The burisl will be private. Funeral services at Thomasville were conducted by Rev. Robb White, Episco- pal rector, according to Associafed Press dispatches. The funeral was held from the home of Gofl's daughter, Mrs. B Carroll Reece, wife of the Republican Representative-elect from the first con- gressional district of Tennessee Mr. Gofl's death followed a long ill- ness. He retired from the Senate in 1931 because of ill health and his con- dition became acute a short time ago. MAIL ‘CARRIER HELD UP FREEPORT., Ill., January 9 (#)—The robber who interrupted George Fink's mail deliveries today had no desire to offend the Government “It's your dough I want, not Uncle Sam’s,” he said to Fink, & city mail carrier. He took Fink's $1.50 and de- parted. Former Virginia Woman gent to Prison. Lettie K. Hickman, colored, was sentenced today by District Supreme Court Justice Daniel W. O’Donoghue to serve three years in the penitentiary following her conviction of perform- iag a criminal operation on & young Wagan. L3 Conference. Bernard M. Baruch, chairman of the | War Industries Board during the World War, will be President-elect Roosevelt's choice to head the American delegation | at the coming international economic | conference, it was reported here today. | Democratic leaders in Congress, when | questioned about the report, said a better selection could mot be made. Mr. Baruch has had a distinguished | public “career and is cne of the best | known financiers and economists in | the country. In 1916 he was appointed | & member of President Wilson's Ad- | visory Committee of National Defense | and later became chairman of the | Committee on Raw Materials, Minerals | and Metals for the War Board and a member of the commission in charge of all purchases for the Allies On March 5, 1918. he was made chair- | man of the War Industries Board, He later went, abroad as economic advisor for the Arferican Peace Commission. REPRESENTATIVE SAMUEL A. KENDALL, Who shot himseli to death yesterday in his suite in the House Office Build- ing. —Harris-Ewing Photo. TS0 DENY CLAMS OF TECHNOCRACY Leaders in Finance, Industry and Research Declare Ma- chine Age Will Win. Consulted by Presidents. Since the war he has been called in as economic_adviser by each successive President. In 1919 he was a member of President Wilson's Conference for Capital and Labor and in 1922 he was a member of President Harding's Agr | cultural Conference. During their ad- | ministration both President Coolidge and President Hoover have called him | To Washington and consulted with him Mr. Baruch, a Democrat. took an | active and energetic interest in the last presidential campaign. contributing money, time and the fruits of researc and thought A man of wealth and extended ir | terests, be is the suthor of “The Ma ing of Economic and Reparation Sec- By ithe Amoctated Fraen | tions of the Peace Treaty” and several NEW YORK, January 9.—More than | articles on Government retrenchment, 150 leaders of American life in the fields of finance, industry and research have | joined in expressing the view that “the machine age” will ind a way out of the | present economic situation. ‘The cpinions, published today, were contained in messages replying to & telegram from Alfred P. Sloan, jr., pre:ident of General Motors Corpora- | tion, in which he said that “the in-| evitable progress and momentum of America go on in spite cf depressions.” Technocrats Answered. Although the views were not assem- bled with a view to answering opposing expressions from some quarters, notably by advocetes of technocracy, Slcan £2id | that “they may weil be taken as an| answer.” The messages were unanimous in ex- presiing belief that the uninterrupted development of rescarch, invention and labor-saving devices would improve pro- duction and create new needs and that “American industry should unremit- | tingly prosecute research and invention | Two American Committees. ternational Economic ~Conference is composed of two committees, the Organizing Committee and the Expert Committee. On the Organizing Com- mittee are Norman H. Davis, who was in Geneva on the dual mission of American delegate to the Disarmament Couference and a member of the Eco- nomic Conference, and Frederic Sackett, American Ambassador to Germa committee of experts consists of Prof. John H. Willlams of He ty and Edmund E. D. cial sciences in the Rockefeller Foun- dation. There have been two meetings of this delegation this Winter. The Organizing Committee recommended that the.nexc conference be held in London and the Expert Committee discussed the advisa- bility of meeting 2gain to prepare the agenda. Last year COngress appropri- ated $40.000 for the delegation apd it is said President Hoover is going to ask for an additional $150,000 this year. CHINESE REPORTED READY TO DISCUSS TRUCE WITH JAPAN (Continued From First Page.) his statement quoting the replies | Sloan said: “I am a firm believer in the idea that we do not know how little we know about what we can do.” Smith Sees Trade Demand. Former Gov. Alfred E. Smith, one of those replying to Sloan’s telegram, | | said the invasion of Jehol for the pur- | Pose of annexing it to the state of | Manchukuo was set for late February, but might begin sooner in view of Mar- shal Chang’s “offensive.” ” The war office said three of Marshal Chang's brigades concentrating in the Peichangying Tze region were a potential menace to Japanese lines of communi- cations. ~ While Japanese here were confident Marshal Chang’s maneuvers were “largely blufl,” they said it was necessary for Gen. Muto to take pre- cautionary measures. A Rengo (Japanese) dispatch from Chinchow asserted Marshal Chang's brigades refused to obey orders to ad- vance any closer to the Manchurian border and at present were compelling inhabitants in that region to build them bombproof shelters. JAPAND DENY BOMBINGS. said: | “Everything we use has been wear- ing out, and there is piling up a back- | log of demand that must soon burst its bounds and be reflected in the manufacturing industry. Those manu- facturers who have stood tiptoe waiting for this to happen and have gone ahead | in their research departments and their laboratories to improve their | product and sell it cheaper are they who will first win the rewards of their | foresight, their initiative and their | courage.” Prof. Willford I. King, economist, of New York University, said: ‘There can be no question but that every improvement which results in increasing the amount of utility ob- tainable from the expenditure of an hour’s labor serves to increase the gen- eral welfare.” Firestone, Jr., Concurs. Harvey S. Firestone, jr., vice presi- dent of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, said “We fully concur with you regarding the extreme importance of keeping up scientific development in time of de- pression. It 1s vital to continue prog- | ress, without which no company can Report U. 8. Agents Seek To Mediate Is Declared False. SHANGHALI, China, January 9 (#).— The Japanese legation today denied reports emanating from unofficial Jap- anese sources that their army planes bombed Chinese troops in the Mon- golian province of Jehol (Jupanese dispatches have reported two Japanese aerial bombing expedi- tions in Jehol, last Friday and again today. The reports sald they were di- rected against 10,000 Chinese troops on hold a place of leadership.” a 150-mile march from Pingchuan, Je- Will D. Hays, president of the Motion | hol, westward to the Manchurian Picture Producers and Distributors of | state’s border.) America, Inc., declared: | Reports that Japanese had occupied “We need pianned recovery as well the seaport of Chinwangtao, 10 miles as planned economy. Every great or- southwest of Shanhaikwan, were de- ganization which through research and ' nied by customs chiefs here. They development is making possible new said the offices in Chinwangtao have and better products, new and greater | been functioning normally. services, new and necessary industries | American authorities here denied is contributing to that end.” Teports that the American Minister, George H. Lorimer, editor of the Sat- Nelson T. Johnson, and the military urday Evening Post attache, Walter Drysdale, have been Research and invention are not out- seeking to inaugurate a means of s moded but are more important today tling the Sino-Japanese than ever before in our history. Progres- over Shanhaikwan. sion and not retrogression’ frcm the sclentific approach will take us out of the depression.” JOHNSON DENIAL REPORTED. PEIPING. China, January 9 ((#)) United States Minister Nelson T. John- son was reported today to have de- nied he has made any move what- ever toward a settlement of the Sino- Japanese controversy in Shanhaikwan Comdr. Taylor, British naval chief at Chinwangtao, was keeping in touch with Chinese and Japanese authorities to insure protection of British inter- ests in that region UNIT TO SENT TO CHIUMENEKOW. CHINCHOW, Manchuria, January 9 (#)—The Rengo (Japanese) News Agency correspondent reported today the Japanese ccmmander here had sent a cavalry regiment to occupy Chiumenekow. “an important pass in the Great Wall 12 miles north of Shanhaikwan, through which the Chi- nese Commander Chang Hsiao-Liang has_been sending troops and supplies to Jehol. CHURCHES UR.GED TOSTOP USEOF COLLECTION PLATE Noted Engineer Says Practice Em- Sarnoff Encouraged. rnoff, president of the Radio an encouraging sign of the time3 that during a period of slackened trade (he march of science and inven- tion has gone forward unceasingiy.” John E. Edgerton, chairman Na- tional Association of Manufacturers, Nachville, Tenn. “Your example of vision and well founded confidence and of increased should and will be inspiring to s. This is the sort constructive leadership manufacturers and units have a right to ex- nation’s largest corpora- tions. We will increzse the speed of recovery as other big concerns like yours give similar evidence of their faith, vision, courage and good sense.” Roger W Babson, economist, Babson Park, Mass. “Believe that ‘salesocracy'—creative selling of improved products, increased per dollar value, more through scien- tific distribution—is the quickest and urest way to get men back to work build up widespread purchasing power and reinvigorate business.’ SZE NAMED ENVOY Nanking barrasses Unemployed Wor- shipers. By the Associated Pre CHICAGO, Jaruery 9 of collection’ plates embarrass unem- ploved church worshipers, Angus S Hibbard, noted telephone engineer, said today in advocating abolition of the practice. The man who invented the “busy signal and designed the blue bell sign suggested as a church official that the Sunday collection be abandoned by all creeds. Disps From An- nounces Selection of Minister. ch Circulation A dispatch from Nanking was re- ceived in Washington today announcing the appointment of Dr. Alfred Sze as China’s minister to the United States. Dr. Sze has been in the Capital for several months acting as the unofficial representative of the Nanking govern- ment. His appointment is welcomed by the State Department where he is weil s ly tries to conceal some small coin as | he gives it,” Hibbard said. “If he gives | nothing he stares fixedly ahead and tries i . to appear unaware. The money getting Special Term of Court Called has spoiled much of the spirit of the COLUMBIA; S. C., January 9 (#).— service and he does not come again Chief Justice Eugene S. Blease mdny‘soon o | ordered a special term of the George- | Hibbard, who is 72, is a member of town Court of Common Pleas February | the Chicago Diocesan Council of the |9 to hear 22 demage suits against the Episcopal Church. He sald a number State Highway Department arising of church leaders had approved his from drownings when & bus crashed plan of voluntary depository of offerings through the Sampit River Bridge in|in a receptacle near the doer upon en- August, 1931, tering or leaving the chi ~ Industries | The American delegation to the In- | “The stranger who is hard up proba- | EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, MONDAY, IR AUTO BLAST " BAFFLES PROBERS ‘Empty Shotgun Shell Is Sole‘ | Clue as Will Fails to Shed i Light on Mystery. BY W. H. SHIPPEN. Staff Correspondent of The Star. LEONARDTOWN, Md., January 9.— The automobile explosion which killed Miss Ida Kirk, 73-year-old St. Marys | County philanthropist, appeared no nearer solution today, as sorrowing rela- | tives and friends gathered for the fu- neral in Christ Episcopal Church at Chaptico, & few miles from the Kirk | homestead on Sunnyside Farm. | While the rural community in which | Miss Kirk lived and died paid tribute | to & generous benefactor, detectives of two jurisdictions sought a ciue to_the blast” which fatally injured Miss Kirk and wrecked her anutomobile Saturday morning as she was driving on the highway near Chaptico, en route to Washington. | Prosecution Reads Will. State’s Attorney John H. T. Briscoe of St. Marys County visited the First National Bank at Leonardiown this morning and read the will which Miss Kirk had left in a safe deposit box | there. Mr. Briscoe declined to state | how large an estate the will disposed | of, but it was estimated at between $100,000 and $200,000 by neighbors Briscoe said the will left small be- quests to “a number of persons” but declined to dis it further until the document is probated, possibly to- morrow. k's_companion on_the fatal Elva Gibson, wife of the rector of Christ Episcopal Church at Chaptico, has been unable to shed further light on the explosion, in which she was uninjured. ’ | Wiil Clue Denied. i Rev. Mr. Gibson was to conduct the | funeral services today, with interment in Miss Kirk's family plot in the church | yard. “Authorities denied today that the will had furnished any significant clue in their investigation of what State's At- torney Briscoe insists was a deliberate murder, with a time bomb or some other type of infernal machine. However close examination of the scene and of the automebile from which Miss Kirk's mangled body was removed, has failed to_disclose traces of a bomb. Miss Kirk spent the night preceding her death with Mrs. Gibson in the rec- tory at Chaptico. A single shotgun cartridge from which the powder had, been removed was found in the rectory vard, near where the sutomobile was parked Friday night. This represents the sole bit of tangled evidence in sup- vort of the bomb theory. Police today continued to hold for questioning John Gross, 45, colored ump blower,” whom Miss Kirk was aid to have ordered from her kitchen about a week ago, when she found him ‘(‘(:n\'ersln[: with her cook. Says He Stayed With Friends. ‘ Gross, however, insisted that he did I not go vut Priday night, but stayed at the house of Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas | Shade, colored, old retainers of Miss Kirk's family, in the servants’ quarters | behind the Kirk homestead. Detectives William J. Feehly of the Baltimore murder squad and Walter Martin of that city’s identification quad, spent yesterday questioning ser- vants of the Kirk household and friends of the deceased woman, in an effort to find if she had any personal enemies. The detective had been requested by State’s Attorney Briscoe and were us- signed to the investigation Saturday night. They learned that Miss Kirk had benefited hundreds of her neigh- bors and the residents of the com- munity. She was beloved by all, and her philanthroplc activities had gained her the name in some quarters of “the angel of St. Marys County.” Harry Gough of Waldorf, a merchant who has had considerable experience with dynamit assisting the inves- tigators today Doubts Dynamite Was Used. Mr. Gough said the absence of traces of a dynamite fuse led him to believe this explosive was not used. He also discounted the possibility tha Miss Kirk’s automobile had run over a loose | bit of dynamite in the highway, throw- ing it into the mechanism of the car. He sald a spark would not set off the dynamite which only can be ex- ploded by a very heavy shock. Detectives yesterday talked to Dixon Hill, the overseer of Miss Kirk’s farm, who lives at the homestead with his family. _Another resident at Sunny- side is Nigel H. Dixon, 32, who had lived with Miss Kirk’s family sinee childhood, and helped the elderly spin- ster manage her affairs. Miss Kirk's associates, however, were able to throw little light on the investi- gation. Other than the slight unplea: antness when Miss Kirk ordered Gross from the kitchen a week ago, they knew of no incident which might have aroused enmity toward the spinster. Active in Church Work. Miss Kirk was an_only child. Born in the rambling old farm house, she had spent her life in the community and was one of the most ved residents of the surrounding countryside. She had been active in church circles for years and was a close friend of Mrs Gibson, who came to the parsonage more than 12 years ago when her hu: band wes assigned there. She was the grandniece of W. W. Corcoran, founder of the Corcoran Gal- lery of Art. A number of first cousins are prominent residents of Washington, including Corcoran Thom, president_of the American Security & Trust Co.: | Henry S. Matthews, attorney, and Mr. Matthews' sist Miss Emily C. Mat- hews, and Mrs. Louls Mackall, residents of Georgetown. All are expected to at- tend the funeral, BUTLER FUNERAL T0 BE IN OREGON Train Leaves Tonight With Repre- sentative's Body Escorted by Colleagues. ‘The body of Representative Robert R. Butler, Republican, of Oregon, Wwho died Saturday at Providence Hospital. will be taken from the Capital tonight for burial Friday at his home, The Dalles, Creg. No services will be held in Washington for the legislator. A committee to represent the Ho of Representatives at the funeral was named by Speaker Garner this morn- ing. It includes Representatives Haw- ley and Martin of Oregon, Atkins of Illinois, Smith of Idaho, Lovett of Ten- | ness Hill, Johnson and Horr of Washington; Daughton of North Caro- lina, Simmons of Nebraska, Black of | New York and Hall of Mississippi. H The committee was appointed, along | with oce to attend the funeral of Rep- | | resentative Kendall, who shot himself | |in the House Office Building yesterday, after the House had passed separate resolutions expressing “profound sor- row” at learning of the deaths. i | 2 | | Gold Star liothen to Meet. | The Executive Board of Grace Dar- | ling Seibold Chapter of the American Gold Star Mothers will meet tomorrow at 8 pm., at the Evangeline Hote! 1330 L street, | dreds of saloons in the District. * JANUARY 9 When Calvin Coolidge Was Laid to ENERAL view of the burial of tect it from the driving rain, on the grave's edge and hundr ground, and paid their last respects to the Nation's great leader. QUIET DESCENDS AS MRS. COOLIDGE CARRIES ON Calvin Coolidge in hillside cemetery at Plymouth, Vt. Beneath a canopy to pro- the body was gently lowered into the grave while the bereaved family stood eds of sorrowing friends stood at a greater distance, as shown in the fore- —A. P. Photo, 1S, SUED BY ONE ON THE BEECHES Neighbors Describe Widow of Ex-Presi-| UF BONUS ARMY dent, Returning to Simple Routine, | Wonderful Woman. By the Associated Press. ' NORTHAMPTON, Mass.,, January 9. —The old air of peace and quiet that marked the simple everyday life at Calvin Coolidge’s the Beeches re- turned today &s his widow “carried on.” Inside the house Grace Goodhus Coolidge went about the duties neces- sary to the routine of the estate. Outside a lone State trooper paced back and forth beneath the whispering beech trees to shoo away the curious. Northampton’s Main street, which echoed Saturday to the shuffling feet of thousands bent on paying tribute to the former President, was again the bustling thoroughfare of a small Western Massa- community Ccolidge appeared tired as she went about her “chores.” Otherwise, she was her usual thoughtful and kind- ly self. " Her son John and his wife remained at the Beeches. They had not deter- mined the length of their visit, but be- lieved they would stay the remainder of the week. DRY CROUP FIGHTS RETURN OF SALOON Committee of 100 Calls Meeting to Protest Beer | Legalization Bill. Characterizing the Black bill for le- galization of beer in the District “a menace,” the Citizens' Committee of One Hundred, headed by Dr. Everett M. Ellison, served notice today it would “resist with determination” efforts to re-establish the beer saloon in Wash- ington. A public mass meeting of protest will be held at 3 pm. on January 22 in the Masonic Auditorium under auspices of the committee. A special effort is being made to enlist the in- terest of young people in the demon- stration The committee making preliminary arrangements for the meeting includes Ds. Ellison, chairman; Col. William O. Tufts, representing the Washing- ton Federation of Churches; Dr. Har- vey Baker Smith. pasior of the Co- lumbia Heights Christian Church; Dr. Eugene J. Crawford of the Methodist Episcopal Church South; Canon Will- iam Sheafe Chase, Mrs. N. M. Pollock of the Women's Christian Temperance Union; Dr. William S. Abernethy, pas- tor of Calvary Baptist Church: ~Dr. Frederick Brown Harris, pastor of Foundry Methodist Episcopal Church, and Gordon Barnes. “The bill introduced by Mr. Black of New York constitutes a menace to the homes of the District of Columbia,” said Dr. Ellison. “It simply opens the door for the saloon to come back and Warhington doesn’t want it and will not have it. “Many Washingtonians remember the horrible conditions when we had hun- s They remember how the drunkards used to pour out of the Ninth street saloons at closing hour, driving un- offending citizens into the gutter. A great many citizens have not been sat- isfied with conditions during the past 10 years, but certainly they don’t want the conditions of the old saloon days and they expect to make their opinions in regard to the matter known." RAILROAD HEADS ASKED STAND IF BEER PASSES Canvass to Be Made by Radio Edu- in View of Abstinence Rules. With_railroads now requiring com- plete abstinence from liquors by their employ s. Willam Tilton, _vice chairman of the Radio Education Com- mittee has anncunced a canvass is to be made of railroad presidents to ascer- tain their attitude on allowing their employes to drink beer if it is legalized She said the committee_of which Dr, Richard C. Cabot of Cambridge, Mass.. is chairman. had sent a letter to its members asking them to write the rail officials in their States and ask them “whether, when and if 4 per cent beer by volume secomes legal, they will change their present rule which Te- auir's complete abstinence from all tiquors by their emvloyes and sllow their «ngis-cers, for example, to imbibe freely of beér before making their runs.” Mrs, Tilton added that “the general public is naturally concerned to know what railroads might treat beer as a soft drink.” | BYRNS CONFINED TO HOME | | cation Committee Tennessee Represeptative Unable to Work Because of Influenza. Representative Byrns of Tenmme‘[ chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, today was confined to his home with' influenza. | Dr. George W. Calver, the Capitol | physicitn, sald that barring complica- | tion=. he should be 2ble to return to the Capitol in about five days. r | By the Associated Press. | report ;Robertson, Head of Califor- ‘nia Delegation, Asks $10,000 for Service Injuries. Harry Ross, more a companion thanl a secretary to the former President, | worked at putting the Coolidge affairs | in_order. | Mrs. Coolidge was uncertain concern- ing the future. She may make a brief trip to Plymouth, Vt. to visit her hus- band's grave. After that there was talk of her visiting her son's home in Connecticut. Or she may take a sea voyage. She bore up remarkably well after her trying week end. The magnificent courage that has al- ways been hers buoyed her during the events of the last few days. She was caim, though greatly affected. last Thursday, as she called to Harry Ross to tell him her husband was dead. And that calm remained with her during the funeral services last Saturday and the long trek to Plymouth, Vt, where Calvin Coolidge was buried. Today, as she went about her work | with a kindly word for visiting trades- men, she seemed, indeed, as one neigh- bor described her, “a very wonderful person.” LOS ANGELES, January 9 (#).—Ten thousand dollars for “service injuries” allegedly received in the World War is demanded in a suit filed in the Federal district court here against the United States Veterans' Bureau by Royal W Robertson, one of the leaders of South- ern California’s bonus marchers to Washington last year. He said he enlisted in the Navy in 1918 and was injured in a fall from a hammock. bei charged for disa- bility. The s' Burcau, the com- plaint said, once listed him as totally disabled, but several years late: trarily and without notice or test; changed his listing, holdi that his injuries were not 1eceived while he was on active service and discontinuing his compensation. Robertson said he incurred the dis pleasure of the Veteran's Bureau through his activity in organizing vet- erans and because he assisted “comrades in airing their grievances.” Roy W. Robertson is remembered in Washiugton as the leader of a band of California bonus marchers who in tuted a “death march” around the Cap- itol when it became apparent the bonus payment bill was doomed. 72 hours Robertsol his neck in a brace, led his “army” around the plaza in a “snake dance,” which ended only when radical bonus marchers under the command of John Pace demanded the plaza to hold a demonstration of their own. Genial despite his affliction, Robert- | son came here for “action,” he an- | nounced on arrival, and declined to be DRY PARLEY SEEKS CONTROL O LIOUOR Leaders Hold Prohibition Must Not Be Scrapped Un- til Substitute Is Found. | “stuck over in Anacostia, where noth- | |ing's going on.” After the “death march” had ended Robertson disap- | peared from Washington, some of his | men going with him and others re- maining to become affiliated with the B. E. F. under the command of the less spectacular Walter W. Waters, NEW YORK, January 9.—Progressive reduction of “the demand for and the consumption of intoxicating liquor” was given yesterday as the “one central ob- jective” to emerge from the three-day conference which ended at Atlantic City Saturday. The meeting, known as the “consul- tation on the liquor problem” and at- tended by about 75 “industrialists, edu- cators, leaders of youth movements. clergymen, social workers and other men and women of affairs” was in executive session. A rcport of the conference, have been adopted unanimously, was issued yestercay, signed by John R Mott, president of the International Missionary Council and chairman of the consultation; Frank E. Gannett of the Gannett newspapers, Rochester, N. Y., vice chairman of the consultation; Henry E. Wilson, recording. secretary and W.*Roy Breg, executive secretary. TWO HELD IN FORGING OF POSTAL ORDERS Arrests in New York Follow Theft of Papers in Midwest aidito] Cities. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, January 9. 'Wo men for whom, postal inspectors said, police of several Western cities have been searching, were under arrest today in connection with the forging and cash- ing of postal money orders stolen from Station 9, Oak Park, Ill, early last See Growing Perils. month “This group unanin y Dbrlieve the repori said, “that the present sys. tem oi liquor control must not be aban- doned until a constructive substitute acceptable to the large majority of the people has beren developed. Whether we chould have prohibition or some other form of control of the liquor traf- fic is admittedly a controversial ques- tion, but there are few persons who do not recognize the growing perils arising from the use of intoxicating beverages in our increasingly mechanized and complicated society. “We are unreservedly committed to one central objective, namely, to reduce progressively the demand for and the consumption of intoxicating liquor. No method of dealing with the liquor prob- lem is worthy of support unless it is de- signed actually to diminish the demand for and the consumption of intoxicating liquor. h. The arrests were made in a midtown hoiel yesterday and the men were ked on charges of forgery, but the acts were not disclosed until today. The men were booked as Eimer Boucher, 4l a man, of Chicago, and Wesley Davis, 40, of South Bend, Ind Postal inspectors said Boucher was a friend of a Lillian Hall, who was ar- rested in Chicago December 17 on charge of cashing several of the stolen money orders, part of about 200 blank { orders which cculd be made out for an | aggregate maximum amount of $20,000. | On December 7, postal inspectors said, a few days after the Oak Park theft, a similar number of blank orders were stolen from Station 42, in St. Louis. | __Postal authorities said Boucher and Davis drove here from Chicago last Friday, with a number of empty hand bags, which they used to register with- out paying in advance at several hotels Postal inspectors charged Davis would enter a hotel with cne bag, register, go to his room an s later cash one of the stolen o s at the hotel, leave the hotel a short time and repeat the performance at another hotel. The arrests resulted from a telephone call from a hotel which cashed an order. The t office to inquire whether the order was gaod and learned it had been stolen Severd! postal inspectors then began a tour of hotels and found the two men early Sunday. MINISTER OF FINANCE OF GREECE RESIGNS By the Associnted Press ATHENS, Greece, January 9—M. Angelopoulos, minister of finance in the Tsaldaris cabinet, resigned today cause he opposed insertion in the budget of the ecuivalent of $2,631.000 for pay- ment to foreign creditors instead of the abolition of certain tax Spyros Loverdos, & banker, was con- sidered his probable successor, or pos- sibly M. Pesmazoglou | M. Angelopculos submitted his resig- nation once before, on December 15, when the cabinet decided to pay 30 per cent of the debt due to foreign bond- holders under the Varvaressos agree- ment. Today's report indicated he had withdrawn his previous resignation. Wealthy Sportsman Dead. Would Test Legislation. “We believe all liquor legislation should be tested by this clear principle. We are open-minded toward any method which would conserve and strengthen values already won and further reduce the consumption of liquor. * * ¢ “A progressive program of education grounded in research is indispensable to the achievement of our major ob- jectives. Such a program must be con- ducted primarily among the successive generations of youth, for only through them can there be developed either a willing obedience to law or an informed public’ opinion that will bring about a progressive reduction of the demand for intoxicating liquor.” To carry on such an educational campaign and to “conserve the values of this consvltation,” the group au- thorized the chairman and vice chair- man to appoint a “continuation com- mittee” of about 15 persons to report in due time to a second “consultation.” RENT REPORT UP TODAY Meets Executive Session. Senate Subcommittee in The Senate subcommittee which handled the District rent investiga- | tion is scheduled to meet in executive session this afterncon to draw up a for Submission to the Senate | The meeting will be presided over by Chairman Capper. ‘ The task before the subcommittee is| to decide what action it will take on| BRUNSKICK, Ga. January 9 (#).— the recommendations made by the sub- ‘ ‘Walter Jennings of New York, president committee counsel, Oscar H. Brinkman, | of the Jekyll Island Club, died at his and the arguments submitted in reply | home on the island early today. He by officials of the Washington Real | had been a member of the millionaire Estate Board and the board's attorney, | club for years and its president for five Roges J. Whiteford. The report is e: years. He had been a director of the pected to be made to the Senate to- | Standard Ol Co. of New Jersey since MOTTOW. 1903. ¢ ~ For nearly | ECONOMY LEAGUE REFUSES REPORT |Director Tells Committee Congress Not to Get List of Donors. | By the Associated Press. | Henry H. Curran, director of the Na- | tional Economy League, told the Joint | Congressional Committee on Veterans' Legislation today the league had no in- | tention of filing with Congress any report of its financial supporters or of its_activities. Curran’s statement was made after Senator Robinson, Republican, of In- diana had intimated he thought the league, with a “purpose to influence | legislation,” came within the corrupt practices act and had asked him if it | intended filing & report. Urged Veterans’ Aid Cut. The league previously had urged be- fcie the committee reductions of ap- prozimately $450,000,000 annually in veterans' expenditures. Robinson termed the league “a lob- bying organization,” which Curre promptly denied. _ Curran contended the corrupt prac- tices act “refers to political commit- tees” and said the league was not one, but that its purpose “is to get the facts before the people and I believe they will influence legislation.” Curran and Robinson wrangled then over Curran’s salary. When Robinson asked him what he received from the league, Curran said: “My salary is about 40 per cent less than it used to be and your’s is only 10 per cent less.” X “Present Salary $15,000.” After Robinson appealed to Chairman McDuffie, Democrai, of Alabama, to make Curran answer, Curran said, “My present salary is $15.000.” adding that while connected with the Asscciation Against the Eighteenth Amendment it was $25.000 a year. He told Robinson that Admiral Byrd received no salary, and had been paid about $900 last year for expenses of making speeches for the league. Robinson asserted the league’s “whole movement is an effort to relieve the big income taxpayers, isn't it?” Curran retorted: “That’s not true and you know its not true. You just want to get that in the papers again.” Currzn said that $35,100 of the or- ganization’s income last year came from 17 contributors, headed by $6,000 from E. Roland Harriman. H> listed con- tributions of $5.000 each from Edward S. Hatkness, George W. Naumburg and John D. Rockefeller, jr. He said the late Calvin Coolidge was a member of the Advisory Council at the time of his death. Names Other Donors. Curran mamed other contributors of $1,000 or more as: Grenville Clark, $1,500; W. R. Coe, $1,10¢; Mrs. H. P. Davison, $1,000; Mrs. E. Marshall Field, $1,000; Mr, and Mrs. Marshall Field, 2d, $1,000; Mr. and Mrs. Childs Frick, $1,000; Mrs. Daniel Guggenheim, $1,000 y It tleson, $1,500; Harold I. P 000; H. H. Rogers, $1,000; Mr. M:s. Carll Tucker, $1,000; Mr. and M::. Har- | rison Williams, $1,000. Robinson exhibited a copy of a pub- lication issued by E. I. Du Pont de Ne- mours Co., in which there was an article indorsing ‘the league’s work, and asked Curran if the Du Ponts were contrib- utors, Curran said he did not know of any contributions from any member of that family. 'PRESIDENT WEIGHS ' FILIPINO MEASURE | Cancels Visiting List to Consider Insular Independence, Opposed by Stimson and Hurley. By the Associated Press. President Hoover canceled- his visit- | ing list today to give consideration to the Philippine independence bill, which has been opposed by his chief advisers | on the subject, Secretaries Stimson and | Hurley. | The Chief Executive has until Satur~ | day to approve or disapprove the meas- ure, unless he chooses to let it become law without his signature. Unless he | overrides the opposition of Stimson and | Hurley, the President will send a veto message to Congress upon it before the | week end. The official report of Hurley on the measure probably will be given the President either today or tomorrow. The President had before him a pile of routine governmental affairs that nad | accumulated during his absence Satur- | day to attend funeral services for his predecessor, Calvin Coolidge. White House aides denied published reports that the President was prepar- ing a special message to Congress upon | fiscal affairs, saying neither a message nor a public statement upon budget matters was in couzse of preparation. DENIES AGREEMENT ON DEBT CHANGE BY: HOOVER AND LAVAL (Continued From PFirst Page) were based solely on the capacity of each individual debtor to pay as it might be affected by the depression. No cancellation or revision of either debts or reparations was proposed by either side. No assurance or commit- s on such subject was either asked ¢ or given. The communique given cut at the close of these discussions Was an accurate statement of the dis- cussion in all these respects. “Sincerely your: “Henry L. Stimson.” Change Is Unjustified, “I can ithout qualification,” wrote Mills, “that there is no justifica- tion for any assertion or belief that during the course of those conversa- tions any assurance, direct or implied, was given that there would be a re- vision of French debt obligations to the United States in consideration of a re- vision of German reparations such as subsequently took place 2t Lausanne. In fact,” the letter continued, “No commitments were made and the com- munique issued at the time is a strictly accurate recital of the nature of the Discussion The ccmmunique referred to said in part as foilows “An informal and cordial discussion served to outline with greater pre- cision the nature of the problems. It has not been the purpose of efther of us (President Hoover and Prime Minister Laval) to engage in commitments bind- ing our governments, but rather, through development of fact, to enable each country to act more effectively in its own field.” —_— TROTSKY SERIOUSLY ILL Secretary Goes for Foreign Special- | ist—Nature of Illness Undisclosed. | ISTANBUL, Turkey, Jan — Leon Trotsky, exiled num-nmmn' (13“ was reported seriously ill today at his | residence on Prinkipo Island, s secretary, Jan Frankel, has gone | to Europe to bring back a foreign spe- cialist to treat Trotsky. The nature of the malady was It was known that Trotsl n e k7 was remaining tn |