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- (] -~ 2 N ILSLEY SLgveCT FACESEARLYTRAL Crawford to Be Returned From Boston to Answer Murder Charge. George Crawford, 34, ex-convict der indictment in Loudoun Count; charged with the murder of Mrs. cer Ilsley, 42-year-old Middleburg soci- etv equestrienne, and her maid, Mrs.| Mina Buckner, 65, on the Ilsley estate January 13, 1932, probably will go on; trial at Leesburg in the term of court] which opens February 13, Virginia au-| thorities stated today. The suspect, sought throughout the | country since the battered bodies of the | two women were found by Mrs. Ilsley’s | ther, Paul Boeing, now is held by, Besten police who picked him up on a housebreaking charge and established identification through firgerprints on a | circular issued by the Washington Po- lice Department. Said to Admit Identity. Sergt. John McArdle and Special In- ! vestigator Joseph McDevitt of the Bos- ton police announced after an interview | with Cratford that he admitted his| Identity and acknowledged he knew Mrs. | Iisley, but denied knowledge of the crime and said he had not been in Middieburg since September, 1931 The hunch of a fingerprint student in the Beston Bureau of Identification led to discovery that the “Joseph Taylor, alias C! s Smith,” arrested there really was the suspect wanted in Vir- ginia. Trapped by Student. ‘Thomas J. O'Conncr of Worcester, | the student, saw the descriptive circular sent to every police department in the United States after the Iiley slayings| and had a hunch that some d would run across Crawford. Since then | he has checked the fingerprints of every | colored man arrested in Massachusetts. Last week when “Joseph Taylor” was arrested and fingerprinted O’Connor’s intuition ved results When nia officers return with Crawford it is understood he will be lodged in the Alexandria Jail to avoid any possible outbreak of violence. Feeling ran high in Middleburg after the murders last year. It is believed now, however, that no interference will | be cffered when Crawford is brought to | trial | Commonwealth's Attorney John Gal: leher of Loudoun County after a tele- | phone conversation with Boston au- thorities was convinced they are hold- Ing the right man. Galleher will leave for Boston today. armed with requisition papers for Crawford's return. Although a charge has been placed against the suspect in Boston, Galleher expects no difficulty in effecting extradition. The arrest of Crawford climaxed a manhunt spurred by rewards which at one time totaled almost $3,000. Under Galleher's direction, private detectives and police have searched all over the United States for the man who was| linked to the double slaying by a note sald to be in his handwriting. This was found in the car stolen from Mrs. Tisley on the night of the murders, and believed to have been used by the slay- | er in his escape. Expenses Reduce Fund. Expenses of the ‘ investigation have reduced the fund raised by Mrs. Ilsley's wealthy friends, and Galleher said the reward received by Crawford’s captors will be far below the original amount. | Once before during the search Cra ford was discovered in Boston, but un; accountable delay resulted in his escape before police went to arrest him. In the first instance, he was traced through a letter pinned inside the slceve of a coat he mailed to Birdie Neal, a colored woman with whom he had been friendly | | deputy chief of staff of the Army, and GEN. DRUNTS POST Deputy Chief of Staff and Corps Commander to Exchange Duties. Maj. Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, Maj. Gen, Hugh A. Drum, commander | of the 5th Corps Area, Fort Hayes, Ohio, are to exchange commands. Gen. Moscley is being relieved auto- matically, after four years, from his general staff duties at the War Depart- ment on February 22 and will return to active troop duty at Fort Hayes. The deputy chief of staff, who has been Gen. Douglas MacArthur's right-hand man since September, 1930, will not leave Washington immediately, but will re- main on temporary duty in Gen. Mac- Arthur’s office for at least a month after his relief occurs. Prior to being appointed deputy chief of staff, Gen. Moselev served as executive officer for the Assistant Sec- retary of War. Filled Two Posts. During the absence of Gen. M’!(’-‘ Arthur in Eurcpe recently. and during | much of the presidential campaign, | Gen. Moselev filled the dual role 01‘1 acting Secretary of War and acting chief of staff. His record of 53 years in the Army has been one of the most distinguished of the general staff officers. Before the | World War he was a member of the commission which prepared a report on reorganization of the United Stat land forces, whirh was incornorat~! b; President Taft in a message to Con: gress. He served on the Mexican border in 1916 and during the World War was chief of the fourth section of the Gen- eral Staff of the A. E. F. In recogni- tion of his services during the war he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal and was decorated by Belgium, Great Britain, France and Italy. | After the armistice Gen. Moseley con- ducted the negotiations with the Neth- erlands which opened the Rhine for supplies and eventually for the evacu- ation of the Army of Occupation in Germany. He also served with distinc- tion on a mission to the Near East. Served Along Border. Before coming to Washington for his last tour of duty, he had served again along the Mexican border. His successor as deputy chief of staff, Gen. Drum, was appointed to the Regu- lar Army from civil life in 1898. Like' MAJ. GE! WATSON ASKS 41% WORLD ARMS CUT HUGH A. DRUM. Gen. Moseley, he is a graduate of the various Army service schools and served along the "Texas border and at Vera Cruz as assistant chief of staff to Maj.| Gen. F. D. Funston. | During the World War, he served a| year at general headquarters of the| A.E. F. and thereafter through a pe- | riod of active operations under Gen.| Pershing if the St. Mihiel offensive and | later under Lieut. Gen. Hunter Liggett. He became chief of staff of the service of supply in April, 1919. | After the war Gen. Drum was de- tailed to Washington in 1923 as as- sistant chief of staff of the operations until 1926. He was made commander of the 5th Corps Area at Fort Hlyu: BACKERS TO PUSH | CLAIR FARM PLAN Iowans Would Stabilize Prices by Regulation of Quantity Production. By the Associated Press. when he was a servant on the Ilsley estate in Middleburg. | Authorities had watched her mail| closely after the murders, and ore day in March a package arrived which the postmaster recognized as eddressed in Crawford’s handwriting. Sheriff E. S.! Adrian was summoned from Leesburg, | and brought the Neal woman to the post office, where she opened the parcel. A search of the coat in the package re- vea'ed a letter which said Crawfo:d was living in Bosten under the name of | Charles Smith and was employed as a | houseman. He gave his home and em- | ployer's address, and asked the woman | to communicate with him. The autho: ities ordered Birdie Neal to write Craw- | ford, saying she wculd join him soon, | and then released her. Escapes Police Trap. By the time Boston police were notified and weni to th> address Crawford had given he had fled—only a few hours| before they arrived. Mr. Galleher, who had been in charge of the Ilsley in- vestigation from the first day, was not | informed of the letter incident until} several days after it occurred. { Suspected Crawford. Mrs. Tisley and her maid had been living in a smail cottage on the rear of the Ilsley place, while the mansion she had inherited on the death of her BURLINGTON, Iowa, January 18.— Plans were announced last night for or- ganized backing of the “Francis J. Clair | plan” for stabilization of farm prices in | lieu of the domestic allotment bill now | before Congress. | C. W. Bond, secretary of the Burling- | ton Chamber of Commerce, said he had | the tentative support of business men and farm leaders in Sioux City, Des Moines, Waterloo, Cedar Rapids and several Eastern Iowa cities. | The Clair plan calls for price stabili- zation through regulation of the quan- tity of basic farm commodities—wheat, | corn and cotton—marketed for domestic consumption. Surpluses would be used up on the farm of the grower, or dis- posed of for export only, under Federal supervision. a New York cost-production engineer, presented his plan at a meet- jing of 500 farmers and business men | here December 15 By setting a minimum price on each { commodity annually, and allowing the | producers to sell only a given percentage | of their crop, prices could be maintained at a level which would insure cost of | production, Clair contended. To circumvent legislative delay, back- ers of the plan have launched a move- ment to secure its approval by the State Legislatures now in session, and have them memorialize the United States Congress to ratify the program. | husband, Spencer Ilsley. a retired M waukee banker, was rented to Miss Ka trina McCormick, daughter of Mrs Ruth Hanna McCormick. Miss McCormick had stayed at the place during the fox-hunting season, | and had left a few days before the mur- ders took place. When the big house was vacated, Paul Boeing, who had been visiting his sister and living in th small cottage with her, decided to sleep in the other house to guard it. The Summer before, when Mrs. Tisley | was visiting {riends in Milwaukee, her | Jarge house at Middleburg was broken | into and valuables stolen. Shortly after this_robbery, Crawford, who had been employed on the place after his release from a Virginia prison, disappeared.| After a second burglary on the estate! in the Winter of 1931, Mrs. Iisley caused | a warrant to be issued for the colored man. When local authorities failed to get him, she came to Washington to| seek the aid of a private detective. She had returned from this trip only a few days before she was killed. | Heard Her Call Dog. | On the night she was slain, Mrs. Ils- | ley attended an anti-prohibition meet ing in Upperville with friends. She re- turned about 12 o'clock, stopped for a few minutes at the home of Mr. and| Mrs. William Hitt, declined their in- vitation to stay all night, took a woman friend home and then went back to the cottage. A short time later, a neigh-| bor, Mrs. Alice Fouble, heard Mrs. Tisley | on 'the porch of the’ cottage whistling| and calling for her dog. The dog was| in the big house with: Boeing. ‘The next morning Boeing arose about 9 o'clock and walked to the cottage to have breakfast with his sister. When he entered the house hefound his sister | dead, lying in the doorway of her bed- | room, her head horribly mangled. She was clad only in a nightgown. Across the hall, in the maid’s room, lay Mrs. Buckner, also beaten to death. Boeing hastened to the Middleburg bank about two blocks away and sum- moned help. Commonwealth’s Attorney Galleher arrived from Leesburg, after | e2lling washington police to seek their | 8id. Lieut, Sandberg, Lieut. John Fow- | Jer, the department's ballistics expert, | and Detective Sergt. Dennjs J.. Murphy | of the homicide squad responded to Gal- Jeher’s call. . Both Badly Beaten, Within a few hours, police broadcast 8 lockuut for Crwford. A stable exer- cise boy repurted he saw the ex-convict &nd ancther colored man seated beside & fire near town on the afterncon of Bond explained that the Clair plan differs from the domestic allotment bill now before the Senate Agricultural Slash of 5 Per Cent a Year For Next Decade Urged in Senate Speech. ST NOSELEYTOTAKE | [anee Pous | GALLANIS BLANED DR ELLCOT LAUDS {GTON, S s IN GRASH DEATHS D. C. Auto Dealer and Mrs. Mower Killed in Maryland January 10. By the Associated Press. ABERDEEN, Md. January 18.—The death of two Washington persons in a collision of an automobile and a bus on the Philadelphia road near here January 10 was blamed by the investi- gating coroner last night on James E. Callan, driver of the automobile. Callan, a Washington automobile dealer, who resides at Chevy Chase, Md.. and Mrs. Margaret H. Mower, wife of a Washington policeman, were fatally injured in the accident, the former be- ing killed almost instantly and Mrs. Mower dying in a Baltimore hospital. Coroner Fred Morlok, following an inquest at Abingdon, near here, said Callan “came to his death by operating his motor car in a reckless manner,” and Mrs. Mower “came to her death through riding in the car with Mr. Callan.” Willlam A. Fulmer of Philadelphia, driver of the bus, was exonerated from blame by the coroner. Three passengers of the bus were taken to a Baltimore hospital for treat- ment for injuries. None of them was hurt seriously. Callan, who lived at 4512 Stanford street, Chevy Chase, Md. and Mrs. Mower of the 5500 block of Fourth street were reported to have been en route to New York when the accident occurred early on the morning of Jan- uary 10. Cailan, president of Callan Motors, Inc., was the father of two young children. He was 37 years old. Mrs. Mower, wife of Policeman Eu- | gene Mower of the sixth precinct, was the mother of a 10-year-old boy. 6,378 DIAMONDS FOUND ALONG ISLAND HIGHWAY Gems Valued at $40,000 Recovered Where Jeweler Tossed Them in Philippines. By the Assoclated Press. MANILA, January 18.—Apparently nearly all of the thousands of diamonds thrown recently upon a roadside by Emmanuel Strauss, Manila jeweler, have been found, as yesterday's search recovered only 12 gems. The total of jewels found has reached 6.378, with an estimated value of $40,000. The hunt continues. A civil suit for $71.000 was filed | By the Assoclated Press. A sweeping reduction in world arma- ments—41 per cent over the next 10 rs—was proposed today by Senator |and training division, remaining here ] Watson of Indiana as the “first step toward a world-balanced budget Asserting that the four words—arma- ment, war, destruction and debt—"tell | the story of the world’s great worries today,” the Republican leader, in his first Senate speech of the session, sug- | gested the real road to peace and pros- perity was for ail nations to slash arms expenditures 5 per cent each year for | the next decade, which would result in an aggregate of 41 per cent at the end | | of the period. At the conclusion of his address, Sen- | ator Watson introduced a resolution de- | claring it to be the sense of the Senate that the United States initiate a multi- | lateral treaty to carry out the project. | Recalling that no heed was paid Pre- | mier Mussolini’s program for a 50 per cent reduction in world armaments or against Strauss by Estrella del Norte, alleging peculations of this amount. Previcusly authorities had said Strauss would be charged with a short- age of $57,361 in his accounts with a Jjewelry firm fr which he worked. Police asserted Strauss, who aided in searching for the diamonds, had thrown | them along the roadside and reported at first he had been kidnaped and | robbed. MULVEY ON TRIAL IN HI-JACKING CASE Suspect Accused of Assault on De- tetctive Sergt. Howard Ogle Last March. Francis J. Mulvev. 26 of the 1500 block of Sixteenth street, who is said to have been identified yesterday by Baltimore Federal agents as one of the band of hi-jackers which held up a | Government ‘truck near Prince Freder- D... ¢ President, Hoover's suggestion for a 33 | ICk 1ast September, was placed on trial per cent cut in the size of all armies, | today before Chief Justice Alfred A. | in the presence of this great problem? | save a debt-burdened and war-cursed | world from present debts or from future | wars?"” the Republican leader, now serving his | Wheat to answer an indictment charg- sixteenth and and last year in the Sen- | ate, said only “slight progress” was | made at the recent Geneva Arms Con- ference. Ample Defense Assured. “What does the Senate of the United | States propose to do about 1t?" he asked. | “Are we to admit that we are powerless Can we offer any suggestion that will He said the 41 per cent slash would | “leave ample armament for the protec- | tion and defense of every nation and | vet it would largely solve all the prob- lems that grow out of the present arma- ment construction of the world.” ing him with assault with a dangerous weapon on Detective Sergt. Howard Ogle on March 30, last. Through Attorney William B. O'Con- nell, Mulvey waived a jury trial and asked to be heard by the court. Russell W. Smithers, jointly indicted with Mulvey, is also being tried by the chief justice. William Carley, the third man mentioned in the indictment, has not bee;d apprehended. Smithers is represen Attorney b y ey James K. Detective Sergt. Ogle told th how, singlehanded, he had overcome the three alleged bandits, each of. whom, he declared, was carrying a pistol. Mulvey, he claimed, secured possession of Ogle's pistol, and was holding it against the officer’s abdomen when the two fell “It would at once give the peoples of | from the car onto the pavement. A all lands to understand that from this | Nearby resident called police aid. time henceforth armaments are not to| Ogle sald his attention was attracted be increased, and that would mark an | t0 the car, driven by Smithers, with the epoch in the progressive march of | Other two men as passengers, by its civilization,” he asserted. | speeding and forced the car to the curb Also. he added, it would “decrease the | °n Eleventh street, between Q and R annual burden now laid upon the backs | Streets, where the struggle took place. of the people in the form of taxes to| _Assistant United States Attorney equip armies and build battleships, and | John J. Sirica is conducting the pros this most assuredly is a consummation | Committee in that it can be put in oper- devoutly to be wished.” ation overnight with the machinery al- Teady set up. | 3 G MR ard Soulaldet 5t 1n ino Costs $4,000,000,000 a Year. tion under authority of the present! Declaring armement is still costing | agricultural marketing act, he said. | the world each year almost $4.000,000,- TS Al 000, he said this sum \;’ou}l]d' etire most ; : | of its public debt, whether foreign or Curfew Stilled by Accident. | domestic, in the course of a few years.” | ROCK SPRINGS, Wyo., January 18| "It is no longer doubted anywhere, () —The warning note of the 9 o'clock | he said, “that the destruction of world | curfew, which sent children_ scurrying | Credit and the lessened rate of the flow | home, has been stilled. A wire leading | ©f Mcney are blights brought upon =il | to the steam whistle atop a 75-foot | People as a direct result of the destruc- stack fell down and the City Council | lion and of the waste of the World said there wasn’t any money available | War. * ¢ * So terrible was the after- for the job of putting it back. math of that titanic struggle that the nations have not been abie to lower m;)u' obligations s];nc? flgh:fmu ceats’ed.” . iscussing acceleration of inventions | It was impossible to say which woman | 4nq”gther methods of correcting tech- Mrs. | q £ > g nological unemployment, Watson said: Buckner was struck as she arose from | "C.CECR VRCMPIOVECEL WETOR SUCL bed and started toward the door. One|, ~. 4 Dlow oo fhe Headl roleames. | to correct in’our social and economic The mur- e) v | life, but jt takes long periods of time | derer stepped forward and struck her | ;o€ Nat, ot WS (N8 BEROGS, O point | full in the face with a weapon. In Mrs. Iisley’s room there was a ter- | °f Making corvection possible. Paramount Problem. rific struggle. She was hit about the| head and face repeatedly. Her arms| s “However, there is one thing that | | must be brought to pass in the near | were bruised. Under her fingernails physicians found skin and hair from | her assailant’s head. Analysis showed | future. one thing upon which the peo- | this to be the skin and hair of a col-| Ples everywhere agree, and that is a | reduction of taxes. Let us make a start | in the greatest wholesale reduction | ored man, they said. A bloody iron bootjack found in her room was be- | | ever known by lessening expenditures | for armament.” lieved to be the murder instrument. | “It seems to me,” he asserted, “that | When the women were dead the slayer returned to Mrs. Buckner's room the soluton of all other problems can wait until we take this first step in the and washed his hands in a basin there, police believed. Then he ransacked her bureau and took money and jewelry.| Progressive disarmament of the world. | Nevertheless, robbery was not_believed | Unless the nations of the earth are pre- to have been his motive, for $2,500 in | pared forthwith to stop spending their diamonds on Mrs. Ilsley’s hand, money | income on armament, nobody can pre- in her purse and expensive furs in her | dict the decadence that shall necessar- room were not. touched. iny befall the peoples of the earth. Fied in Stolen Car. | Next the murderer went to the three- | car garage and 1grcke open the door. | The only car inside was locked. Going 5 back to the small house, he broke a| DALLAS. Tex. January 18 pane out of a basement window and | Leonard Bradford, son of the entered the garage. underneath me‘l\hwr T. L. Bradford, yesterday filed residence. There he took a small sedan | Answer to suit brought by the Aetna and drove it out, The car was dis-|Life Insurance Co. seeking to have a covered abandoned near Highway Bridge | Federal Court decide whether he or H. S Ji108 to collect $10.000 o & seticy hed v ote authorities believed X Crlur\‘r:;'!“(;:d“sw’r:w? It was the address| by the late mayor in which his grand- of & farmer near Herndon, Ve, Going ol rIS-L J. Jenkins, jr, is named bene- (o that place, police were told, 8 man V. . r:&nlblu‘:n Crawford. snd & friend| Leonard Bradford was named perma- | stopped there overnight on January 11, | nest guardian of his nephew by a Dal- | took down the address of the farm and | las County court. Jenkins was named ANSWER IN WILL SUIT ®—| late | cution of the two men. The case may be finished late this afternoon. AGRICULTURE-INTERIOR CONSOLIDATION SOUGHT | Senator Bratton Believes Co-ordina- tion Would Save Nearly $50,000,000 a Year. BY the Associated Press. _ Consolidation of the Interior and Ag- ricullure Departments will be proposed to the Senate within a few days by Senator Bratton, Democrat, of New Mexico, who estimates this would save “at least $50,000,000 yearly.” Bratton is preparing a bill for the consolidation, which he hopes to intro- duce this week. It would authorize the President to consolidate, adjust and correlate activities and abolish dupli- cating functions. The New Mexico Senator said he felt that as the major activities of both agencies dealt with the country’s land they should be in one unit. DISTRICT JOBLESS ASKED Chairman Norton of the House Dis- trict Committee today received a rpsollg- tion from a civic organization urging adequate school funds for repairs and improvements of school buildings and grounds in order to keep a maximum number of unemployed at work on these District properties. The resolution had been adopted by the Mount Pleasant Citizens' Association and was sent to Mrs. Norton by John 3( La Mater, secretary of the associa- ion. The resolution emphasized that the superintendent of schools had stated at the joint conference in December of the Parent-Teacher and Citizens' Assocla- tions that a number of unemployed men needing relief could be usefully em- ployed in considerable numbers at man- ual labor on school properties. Hynm\;lle Firm Organized. BALTIMORE, January 18 (Special). —The National Capital Manufacturing WEDNESDAY MILK REGULATION Tells Rockville C. of C. Meas- ure Will Place County in Lead in State. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLF, Md., January 18.—In | explaining to the Rockville Chamber of Commerce last night the proposed milk regulations for the county, Dr. V. L. Ellicott, county health officer, declared that when the regulations are approved by the county commissioners, Mont- gomery County will be far ahead of every other county of the State so far |as the sanitary handling of milk is concerned. The regulations, he said, which will apply only to producers of the county who retail their milk within the county, will conform largely to the recommen- dations of the United States Public Health Service and will insure abso- lute cleanliness and extremely low bac- teria count and render virtually negli- gible the danger of infection through the consumption of milk. The proposed regulations. Dr. Ellicott told the chamber, are now in the hands Iol the commissioners. It is planned, he stated. not to have them become effec- tive untfl January 1, 1934 Greater Montgomery County, Inc. Walter Punderburk, chairman, informes |the chamber, is planning to issue and distribute pamphlets calling attention to what he referred to as Montgomery County's “splendid public school sy: tem” and probably alluding to the county’s up-to-date health department and its proposed elaborate park system. The chamber indorsed such a project and pledged its co-operation. Reference being made to a movement by the Bradley Hills Citizens' Associa- tion for improvement of the Seven Locks road from Bradley Boulevard to Conduit road, it was suggested that the thorough- fare should be paved all the way from the Conduit road to Montgomery ave- nue, Rockville, by way of Monroe street, and a motion placing the chamber on record as favoring such improvement was unanimously adopted. Increased public school facilities for service between the county seat and Washington were among other matters given attention by the chamber. The | president, Bernard T. Brosius, announced the appointment of Louis J. Ryan as 2 member of the Executive Committee in place of J. Brawner Nicholson, deceased. HOOVER AGAIN DEFIES NOMINATION EDICT Henry F. Holthusen as Minister to President Nominates Czechoslovakia. | By the Associated Press. Again defying the edict of Senate Democrats that they would oppose rati- fication of any appointment sent to the Senate by the President, Mr. Hoover vesterday forwarded the nomination of Henry Frank Holthusen, New York lawyer, to be the new American Min- ister to Czechoslovakia. Hrithusen is a graduate of Colum- bia University and the Columbia Uni- versity Law School, and was associated before the war with the law office of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft. En- tering the Army as a lieutenant, he was promoted to the post of major. After the armistice he served for a time as judge advocate of maritime affairs et New York and later at Hampton Roads, Va. Holthusen also served for a while as special assistant to the Attorney Gen- leral, and more recently has acted as| counsel in the United States for the Latvian and Esthonian governments. {POSTAL SAVINGS MOUNT $300,000,000 IN A YEAR {Reach $900.328,726 at End of 1932, Though Increase Is Short of Record. Postal savings jumped nearly $300,- {000,000 in 1932, “totaling $900,328,726 | on 'December 31. This is compared with $605,593,749 on December 31, 1931. The increase was not a record, as de- posits for 1931 showed an increase of $361,797,946 over 1930, when they were $243.795,793. Postal savings depositors are limited | to an account of $2.500 and receive 2 | per cent on their money, which the Post Office Department redeposits with banks. For several years the annual report of the Pcstmaster General has| recommended that the limit for de- posits be boosted to $5,000. {U. S. CONCERTS SUCCESS of Scores Hit in Munich Recital. MUNICH, Germany, January 18 (#). —A distinguished concert audience in Town Hall last night took kindly to & program of contemporary American music conducted by Ernest Hoffmann of Boston, including the first perform- ance in Germany of Mackinley’s Ameri- can rhapsody “Masquerade,” Converse's “Flivver Ten Million,” and Woodin's “Oriental Suite.” In another concert Lilian Evanti of Washington, C. a_ coloratura so- prano, scored with a classical program and Negro spirituals Lilian Evanti Washington ARM BROKEN BY AUTO Robert McDougal, 14, Victim of Accident on Florida Avenue. Robert McDougal. 14, of 225 P street, received a broken arm’ yesterday when 1 struck by an automobile. The accident occurred in the first block of Florida avenue. He was treated at Sibley Hos- ital, P rorge L. Collins, 39, of the 1700 block of Eighteenth street northeast, was the driver of the car which struck him, police say. GOVERNOR HAS DAUGHTER Born in Executive Rockville and better bus or street car' JANUARY { SUITS | nated as Stars to Retire MARLENE DIETRICH AND MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN GOING HOME. MAUREEN O'SULLIVAN. /M.\RLENE DIETRICH. a supposed engagement with James | Dunn, actor. By the Associated Press. | wite, at a night club in Hollywood last OLLYWOOD. Calif.. January |night. Maurice Chevalier was among 18—Two of Hollywood’s for- |the guests. eign-born actresses, Marlene | With Miss O'Sullivan it's a case of Dietrich and Maureen O'Sul- | “home sickness,” she said. Friends say livan, today announced their |the young Irish actress has lost all in- intention of saying farewell to the film colony. Miss Dietrich, who has had consid- erable trouble with her studio over se- hat is a sore subject,” Miss O'Sul- lection of stories, as well as a director livan said, refusing to comment further. for her productions, said she would [ “I'm home si “But leave next Spring for her native Ger- |that isn't all. Pictures are too much many to join her husband, Rudolph of a strain. One is never quite one's Steber, German film director. She gave | natural self. What shall T do when I a farewell party for Sieber, returning |get home? Just be a home girl again, to Germany after a brief visit with his I suppose.” BAR BALLOT WON BY CONSERVATIVES W. W. Millan, Treasurer of Association 20 Years, Elected President. { In a spirited battle between groups in the District Bar Association desig- “conservatives” and “insur- gents,” the former stayed in the sad- | dle at the annual election last night at the Mayflower Hotel, putting over, with one exception, their ticket, headed by W. W. Millan. Mr. Millan, who has been treasurer of the association for 20 years and is prominent in church and philanthropic work, being chairman of the Board of Public Welfare, defeated Samuel Mc- Comas Hawken, 271 to 212. | The association also instructed a __ = committee, headed by George C. Gert- S. BAR SELECTS CITY man, secretary, to draft a bill for pres- | entation to the next Congress to per- U‘ = mit absolute divorce in the District for T cruelty and desertion. Statutory grounds | 1933 Convention Will Be Held at now form the only basis. This pro- | Grand Rapids, Mich. posal was sponsored by Mr. Gertman. The only “insurgent” ‘chosen WS | ..\ioy . January 18 (PL—The 11933 convention of the American Bar Walter M. Bastian, who won the post of treasurer over Richard E. Wellford, | Association will be held in Grand Rap- ids, Mich., next August, the Executive 272 to 190, polling the largest vote given | Committee decided at its Winter meet- a candidate. ing here yesterday. The date probably ¥ W. W. MILLAN. Milton W. King was elected first vice president over James A. Toomey, 252 to terest in Hollywood since she broke off | %% A—S AGREEMENT NEAR ONELECTRICRATES |Pepco and Commission Ex- pected to End Differences at Session Today. An agreement on the electric power rate negotiations between the Public | Utilities Commission and the Potomae | Electric Power Co. is looked for at the | third session of the commission and | power company officials, scheduled for | 3 pm. today. An all-day conference was held | Monday and a three-hour session yes- terday in an effort to find some way to | end litigation now going on and effect | a reduction of rates. Plans Are Exchanged. It is believed the parties are near an accord, having reached the stage of exchanging written plans for getting | out of court and settling the new rates. The present rates were arranged as |a temporary expedient last February, | designed to reduce the power company’s | profits by $860,000 per annum and to | last until the Court of Appeals could settle a controversy over the commis- | slon’s act in setting aside a decree of | Equity Court signed in December, 1924, by which electric rates had been an- nually adjusted up to last year. | Last month the commission opened negotiations by asking for an agree- ment for further reduction while the litigation is in progress. Huge Costs Foreseen. The present state of the negotiations, however, is understood to contemplate a winding up of the court case by @greement and an immediate reduction | of rates. By cuch a step both sides would save thousands of dollars in costs incidental to litigation People’s Counsel Richmond B. Keech has announced he will not approve any settlement which does not acknowledge the commission’s right to have set aside the 1924 consent decree, and the com- mission is believed to support him om | this point. | MRS. ISRAEL ZANGWILL TO PLEAD FOR PEACE Widow of Playwright to Discuss World Disarmament on Nation- al Hook-up. Mrs. Israel Zangwill of London, widow of the English playwright, will discuss world disarmament late today over a national hook-up from Station WRC. The broadcast is scheduled for 4:45 pm. Mrs. Zangwill is touring the United States in behalf of disarmament under auspices of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. Monday night Mrs. Zangwill ad- dressed the Women's International League ai the home of Mrs. L. Corrin Strong, 2712 Thirty-second street, stressing the supreme power and re= sponsibility of the United States as “the ultimate creditor country.” With- out substantial reduction in armaments, she said, there will be no return in world prosperit; Sl URGES VETERANS’ GROUP | Steiwer Would Appoint Special Senate Committee. The necessity for creating a special committee in the Senate to handle vet- erans’ legislation and to relieve the Pinance Committee of work, was urged last night by Senator Steiwer of "Oxegon in an informal address before | Vincent B. Costello Post, No. 15, Amer- | ican Legion. Senator Steiwer referred briefly to the bonus issue and said if Congress 212 and Henry A. Schweinhaut second | vice president over E. Russel Kelly, 236 | ‘o 211 | | will be set toda: eventually passes some inflation meas- This was the principal matter decided b el ure, the Patman bonus bill represents at the meeting and the only announce- ment made at the close of the session. Mr. Gertman, unopposed for re-elec- | Grand Rapids was chosen in response tion to his fourteenth terms as secre- |to an invitation by a committe of the tary, polled 437 votes. | Three directors also were chosen for | to present it two-year terms. They were: David A.| The National Conference on Uniform Hart, assistant United States attorney | State Laws probably will meet in Grand at Police Court; Alvin L. Newmyer and | Rapids a week before the American Bar Lucien H. Van Doren. Three directors | convention. The Executive Committee hold over. | of the conference is in session here and Van Doren, retiring as first vice pres- (a_definite announcement will be made ident, presided in the absence of Frank |after a meeting date is chose J. Hogan, the president, who 1s 1l | The ballots were counted by E. S.| Bailey, Morris Simon and Stanton Peelle. | Reporting for the Committee on Un- authorized Practice of the Law, Mr. Wellford, as chairman, said the bill to curb this—directed at agencies and in- bar of that city, which came to Tampa | the salest proposal of this sort, because it is definitely limited in scope to obli= gations already acknowledged by Con- gress, Ve BRI N Taxpayers Plan Session. HYATTSVILLE, Md., January 18 | (Special )—A meeting of the Railroad Employes’ and Taxpayers’' Association | will be held Friday night in the police court room here at 8 o'clock. SAVE More, at Peoples dividuals performing certain functions that lie within the province of lawyers —would be introduced again at the next session of Congress. It had been pre- viously introduced, but was not pressed at this session. ODDS and ENDS Sale! THIS WEEK ONLY Profit by These Unusual Values: “First Baby” Mansion at Topeka, Kans. 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