Evening Star Newspaper, January 29, 1933, Page 3

THRONG SEES NEW AUTOS ON DISPLAY Crowd at Opening of Show Believed to Have Set First- Night Record. .. The products of the automobile in- dustry for 1933 were exhibited to an enthusiastic public here for the first time last night as the thirteenth an- nual show of the Washington Automo- tive Trade Association got under way at the Auditorium. Dressed up in their most attractive paints and lacquers 28 makes, includ- dng nearly 150 models, were on view to what is believed to have been a record first-night audience. Music and the Holland decoration of the two floors with gieantic tulips and picturesque windmills were added attractions. The first car sold at the show was purchased by J. C. Lord, jr., of Soloman, Md. Besides the cars, many accessory and equipment booths were displayed. These side shows came in for their share of popular interest. The crowds came \early and stayed late. It did not suffice Jdor a mere casual look—a thorough in- spection scemed to be the order of things. In fact. the public did absut everything but drive the various mcdels. Show Ends Next Sunday. The show will be open today from 3 pm. to 10:30 p.m. Tomorrow and the Test of the week the exhibit will be open from 10:30 am. to 10:30 p.m. The display will end next Sunday night, at which time eight automobiles will be given away. A pre-view was given members of the Advertising Club cf Washington yesterday afternoon, following a lunch- eon at the Raleigh at which the club was host. _ At this luncheon, given in honor of the automotive industry and the open- ing of the show, Representative Fred A. Britten_ presided as toastmaster. APrincipal speakers included Secretary of Commerce Roy D. Chapin, Minister Bachke of Norway, Mir Louw of ithe Union of South Africa, Minister Sidarous Pasha of Egypt and Senator iCapper of Kansas. Ministet Veverka of “Czechoslovakia, who was to have spoken, ‘canceled his talk because of the fire at his legation. Mr. Britten, chairman_of naval af- Hairs of the House, described the autc- motive industry as one of the backbones of national defense. He pointed out #hat big guns could be carried on trucks %o aid 1n the defense of the coast. Seccretary Chipin, former auto in- dustrialist. gave a history of the in- dustry and what it represented. He | jpredicted better times, saying, in p2 “The automobile industry is one of the greatest employers and if it, to- gether with a few other large allied ‘businesses, could call back all or a large part of their workers, it would be the start of a movement which would bene- fit the entire country by increasing em- ployment in every section. It has been estimated th2t the manufacture of an| automobile gives a day’s employment to | some 60 workers; transporting it gives work to the public carriers: its retail | sale gives jobs to the dealer organi- zations and additional employment is | created in rendering service of all types. “From those I have talked to on the | subject_there seems to prevail a feeling | that 1933 will be a somewhat better | year than the past 12 months. Let us| hope that this proves true, for when the motor industry again gets into its old- time stride we cin be certain that America is on the road to much better times.” Tribute From Egyptian Minister. The Egyptian Minister gave his trib- ute to the American c2r and declared the history of his own country was being brought to hand by the advent of the American sutomobile. | Minister Louw pleaded against re-| Etrictive tariffs. He said: “The South African trade policy has ' ‘been to keep the door open,” and that | ‘was ag2in demonstrated recently when cur delegation to the Ottawa conference | made it quite clear th2t South Africa | would not be a party to any scheme or | policy which aimed at putting an eco- nomic fence around the British com-| monwealth of nations. Your automo- biles, for Instance, enjoy equal tariff | treatment with those coming {from | Great Britain. WOMAN’S PARTY POETS WILL MEET THURSDAY% —— | Readings and Musical Selections| Will Be Given at Gathering of Council. District Poets’ Council of the ‘Wom party will meet day evening at 144 B street north- . ic was announced yesterday. Miss tle R. Patterson, chairman, will pre- ‘The Naticna ea: Myr s Alice M. Heaven, president of jomen's City Club. will read “A .”"one of her own plays. < Conrad Schwarz, president of ths v of Frec Lance Writers and head | - art department at the Virginia | e Teachers’ Ccllege Summer Schucl.‘ on “Th reciation of Art." | Gertrude Russell of Washington and New York, who will sing a group of Ttalian songs, sccompanied by Mrs. Edith Burns Smith, and Arsenio Ralon, member of the National Symphony Or- vill render a group of violin s assisted at the plano by Mrs. Ralon. SENTETCED IN SHOCTING Special Dispatch to The Star. LURAY, Va, January 28.—Claude| Smelzer was given six months in jail by a uit Court jury yesterday for the shooting of Melvin Campbell Jan-| uary 15, 1933. Campbell testified he was fired on by Smelzer, and over 100 shot took effect in his left arm and sid ALONE, WOULD LIKE TO BOARD couple: all pri rage; e as. Ga. RR37 NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS AND ot ing automobile re- " Address Box NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT YOU . 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Price: it the times. 501 Aspen st. n.w. Ga. INVALID ROLLING CHAIRS. FOR e; complete line of new and used chairs: sizes, styles and_adjustments: reduced Prices. Also folding chairs. wood or metal. UNITED STATES STORAGE CO.. 418 10th St. N.W. Met. 1843 DE VALERA VICTORY MASS MEETING. % 1 NW. JANUA! 1933. conere neh Bayirlas of Masea akers: Congressmen Doglas of Masea- enarci Lo Ghnrain of New York snd Charies Edward Russell, lecturer and author. ‘The public is invited, ) | of the House. | ache tablets, | them. i | brushes. $15 for 48 nail brushes, $37.50 | was not spent since referre: xil the interest of s Ann re ) d preferred taxicabs in ing of Asnes Anne Leroi, her frien 57 THE | 10, Provide the $3.000 payment. R | Clague, Clark of North Carolina, Col- The above picture is a view of the display floor for the thirteenth annual Automobile Show, which opened last night at the Washington Auditorium. The show will be open today from 3 p.m. until 10:30 pm. and daily this week from 10:30 am. until 10:30 p.m. Twenty-eight exhibits, comprising nearly 150" new models, are being displayed. —Star Staff Photo. CONGRESSLUXURIES SHOWN IN REPORT Representatives, Like Sena- tors, Cured Their Headaches at Expense of Taxpayers. House members may not be able to get shaves and haircuts free as do Senators, but they did spend $3,238,- | 000 on a pay roll last year—and that | figure doesn't include the more than $4,000,000 they got themselves. These figures were included in the annual report of South Trimble, clerk It showed that—like the | Scnate—the House in the last fiscal | year had some expenses that might | surprise the man who knows nothing | about Congress. | Members of the House, however, though they number 435, can point to the fact that the needs and personal | wants of the 96 Senators, as revealed in the report of Edwin T. Thayer, Sen- ate secretary, called for a much greater expenditure, or $4,116,455. The two reports show members of Congress, spent a grand total of ap- proximately 87,354,455, for most every- | thing from aspirin and mineral water to wild animal life investigators and police whistles. While there is difficulty in_ determi ing whether the Senators or the Repre- sentztives found need for the greatest number of aspirin tablets, headache pills and sedatives, it appears members of the Senate may have had the edge in slaking parched throats. They spent scme $9,000 for mineral water, with ice, while, the House clerk report shows an expenditure of $1288 for ice for water coolers. | As to scme details of the House re- | P ort. thers was $19.80 for 2,400 head- | $13.08 for a carion of fizzy sedative. There was, too, $70.13 for water cool- ers—ice water is supposed to be piped into each member’s office—and $1p- 288.47 for 446,400 pounds of ice to keep | the water ccolers ccol. The paper cups | they drank the water from cost $349. | The towel bill was $3,187.98 the | soap purchases amounted to $524.54. So everybody cculd keep tabs on what was going on “back hcme,” Trimble re- ported $895.92 had been spent for ne pa ers, which are kept in the Speaker’s —papers from all over the ceun- | try, nearly 100 of them. | There were 76 hair brushes that cost | $44.01—and about a third of the 435 House members have shiny pates. For | the more fortunate members, maybe, 144 combs costing $18 were purchased. | The members needed some clothes brushes, tco. so $23.52 was spent for | | $12,544 for Typewriters. Since numerous letters had to ba written, $12,944, went for new type writers and for repairing old Postage. of course, amounted to n ing, since members can send their lot- ters free But telegrams .ve te be paid for. The House last ycar spent $80,091 to speed members’ messages over the wires. The telephone bill was $31.445 So everybody cculd tell exactly time it was, $369 was spent to keep | some clocks running—including the two in the House chamber—and $34 bought 24 cuspidors, $225 got 12 ice picks, $27 went for 18 long-handled bath for matches, $17 for ash trays, $5.22| to repair a vibrator in the Housc Turkish bath. And, too, the House parliamentarian, whose monthly salary is $375, got an additional $1,000 for preparing a spe- cial digest of House rules. Th2 $4,000 allowed for the Speakr’s car. however, Garner said he | economy. The*monthly pay roll in Garner's | office amounted to about $1,735. That included the salaries of the chaplain, the parliamentarian 2nd a flcor mes- senger. On the big pay roll for clerk hire | there were 86 members who had in their office drawing money persons with the same sirname as their own. Total to Last June 30. All of these expenditures were madé between July 1, 1931, and June 30, 1932. Whether members have changed their ways since lost election can’t b2 definitely determined until next Winter submits his report for the curren ar. M:zny members are being bothered now about telegraph tolls. ~One, who sent the text of a law £o a foreign possession, has been told he will have ‘The report, of course, covered partly Republican and partly Demoeratic regime. The Democrats didn’t take control until December, 1931. And t they did when they tock over was reflected by the pay roll. New clerks were hired for many committees, and all the officers of the House were changed. The Republican doorkeeper, to iliustrate, slipped from his $666.66 a month jcb to $235 as a special employe of the minority. Same Name on Pay Roll On the pay ‘roll last June, the fol- lowing members were shown to have persons with the same names as their own working in their offices: Abernethy, Allen, Arentz, Bankhead, Blanton, Boland, Brand of Georgia, Brumm, Burtness, Bucby, Carter of California, Cartwright, Cavicchia, Chindblom, Chiperfield, Christgau, lier, Colton, Connery, Cooke, Crosser, Crowther, Curry, DsRouen, Dickinson, Dominick, Englebright, Fernandez, Fie- | Raine singer, Foss, Freeman, Fulier, Fulmer, Garner, Green, Greenwood, Gregory, Griffin, Hall of North Dakota, Hartley, Hill of Washington, Holaday, Howard, Jobnson of Oklahoma, Kemp, Kunz, Kvale, Larrabee, urow, | been batter | of Pardons and Paroles to save Winnie Lars Maas, M: , Manlove, fleld, May, Montet, afinmdy of Nelson of Dr. Fordney is pre a famous universit sought by the policé of many cities when confronted with particularly baffiine_ cases. This problem has been taken from his case- ook covering hundreds of criminal investi- gations. Try vour wits on it! It takes but ONE His advice is often ofessor of criminology at 3. MINUTE to read! Every fact and every clue necessary to its solution are in the story itself—and there is only one answer. How good a detective are you? Case No. 305. BY H. A. RIPLEY. °* N_th> night of May 21, 1930, Prof. Fordney sat before the fireplace in his Summer cot- tage enjoying a last pipeful of tobacco before retiring. His reverie was suddenly broken by a thud on the porch. Cautiously open- ing the door he was startled to find | a body lying on | his door step. “My wife . . . she's” been . . .| killed!” gasped the | man. “Thank God, I made it . . . had to crawl the| last 100 yards. | She’s in the car| half mile down the | road!” Then the man collapsed. * Under Fordney's ministrations he | quickly revived and | Randall, who supplied food to police | one of thy accompanied the| professor to the| scene. On the way | he explained: His name was Jim| They'd been held up by two His wife had been beaten to refusing to hand over her Trying to protect her he had | inocked unconscious. | Ten minutes later, in the glare of | his spotlight, Fordney was examining | Mrs. Tully’s body in the back seat of | the sedan. The top of her skull had ed and her clothes were | torn and covered with blood. On the | right running board he discovered a wedding ring which he replaced on the dead wcman’s hand. | Fifteen minutes later he and Tully | drove back to the cottage. Tully, the | coat to his well tailored and immacu- late trousers missing, his white mono- gramed shirt torn and op:ned at the throat, sat staring at the fire. His bruised face bore a cut over the right eye. With a quizzical glance at the man, Fordney went to the telephone and, while waiting for his connection, said, “If you didn’t murder your wife, why are you lying?” WHY WAS FORDNEY SUSPI- CIOUS OF TULLY? (See Solution on Page 8.) MRS. JUDDEXECUTION| ON GOOD FRIDAY HIT Arizona Pastors Move for New Date After Prison Beard Grants Reprieve. Tully. By the Associated Press. FHOENIX, Ariz, January 28— Pestors of Arizona churches moved to- dey to inicrvene with the State Board th Judd, convicted trunk murderess, from haneing on Good Friday, April 14. Mrs. Judd, condemned for the slay- and former . house-companion, Wwas granted a 56-cay reprieve yesterday by the Pardon Board to permit it to hear her application fof a paglon or com- mutation of sentence. February 17 had been set as the exescution date by the Stat> Supreme Court. Phoenix clergymen, learning the execution was set for Good Friday, sald they plenned to appear at the meeting March 6 of the Board of Par- dons and Paroles, both to ask leniency for Mrs. Judd and, should that appeal fail, to request that the date of execu- tion be changed. Mrs. Judd's appeal for a pardon or commutation is based on the assertion she killed Mrs. Leroi in self defense and had been prevented from telling the story at her trial. RUSSIA TO BE DESCRIBED Lecturer Will Tell of Conditions for Women and Children. Ella Winter, economist, traveler and lecturer, will speak on “Women and Children Under the Soviets,” under the auspices of the Washington branch of the Friends of the Soviet Union, next Sunday night at the Hamilton Hotel. In private life the speaker is Mrs. Lin- coln StefTens. Among the Washingtonians sponsor- ing the lecture are Benjamin C. Marsh, executive secretary of the Peo- ple’s Lobby; Miss Derothy Detzer of the Womeén’s International League; Mrs. Dora B. Haines, Frederick Haller, Charles Edward Russell end Dr. D. N. Shoemaker. GIVEN ASSISTANGE INDICTMENTS WANDERING FAMILY Parents and 12 Children Get Free Ride After Sleep and Hearty Breakfast. The homeless Aikens family—John, Stella and their 12 children—didn't make much progress yesterday in their hike through Washington en route from Florida to Youngstown, Ohio, but they were all set to go this morning, with a free ride to Frederick, Md. scheduled to follow a good night's slecp and a hearty breakfast. Thanks to the generosity of eighth precinct police and Mrs. Nada I. Gay, 4511 Wisconsin avenue, the family spent last night in comparative comfort—balf of them in the police station and the other half in Mrs. Gay's roming house. At 7:30 o'clock this morning, they | wi slated to leave for Frederick in a | truck provided by H. M. Cernwell, pro- prietor of a tailor shop in the Shore- ham Hotcl—but not until after every | last one of them, even the 2-month-old baby, had been given as much food as they could eat. Get Sandwiches and Soup. About three dozen sandwiches and 2 quantity of soup and coffce were given the family last night by Mrs. Charlotte B. Randall. 3701 Ingomar street. Mrs. and firemen during the last “hunger march,” also sent Aikens several pack- ages of cigarettes. ¥ The Aikens family set out for Youngs- town yesterday, after spending the pre- | vious night, divided into three groups, in the Women's Burcau, the Recn\'\ng‘: Home for Children and the Salvation Army. ‘With Mrs. Aikens carrying the infant, Joseph, in her arms, and one of the | other youngsters tugzing at a toy ex- press wagon containing 21l their worldly goeds, the family trudg:d through the city, shivering as they went. The family decided to return to Youngstown becayee it's their home town and Aikens thinks he may land a job there. He left four years ago, he explained, because he couldn’t find work, but he hasn’t been any more successful anywhere else. With their family grow- ing all the while, the Aikens have wan- dered from coast to coast, finally wind- ing up in Southern Florida last Fall. Leaving Flerida, they tramped up the coast, “thumbing” truck rides when they could and walking when they couldn't. They arrived here Friday. “I don’t know what we’ll do when we get to Youngstown,” Aikens s2id, “and | I don’t care. But we’re on our way." Have Dozen Children. Neither Aikens nor his wife was able to say off hand how many children they had, but.a check-up showed an even dozen: John, 25; Margaret, 24; | Frederick and Dorothy, both 17: Walter, 14; Albert, 11; Harry, 9: Helen, 7; Bertha, 6; Lottie, 4, and the baby. Mrs. Aikens, the girls and the infart spent the night in Mrs. Gay's 6-room heme, while her husband and the boys put up at the precinct. “The irony of it,” said Mrs. Gay, “is that I've been trying unsuccessfully to rent a room for the past two years, and almost as scon as I'd arranged to take the Aikins' in, somebody came along and wanted to pay me a week's rent in advance. Of course, I had to turn it down. “One of the girls—Dorothy, I think it was—helped me with my housewor! and she showed herself to be a good lit- tle worker. I'm glad I was able to meke rocm for them. It's kind of crowded, though, with my husband and our | three boys; but I don't mind.” SOUGHT IN INSURANCE FRAUD Grand Jury to Get Case of Two Former Officials of Illinois Life Con_xpnny‘ By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, I, January 28.—Grand jury action will be sought Monday against former officials of the Ilinois Life Insurance Co, State Attorney Thomas J. Courtney said today. Indictments will be asked against Ernest J. Stevens, vice president of the firm, now in receivership, on the chargz of conspiracy to defraud it of $1,000,000, and against his 80-year-old 'father, James W. Stevens, former chairman of the company's board. Raymond W. Stevens, Ernest's brother, was president of the concern. Courtney sald George W. Reimer, former auditor, and Bert J. Stookey, former cecretary and treasurer, hag been subpoenaed to appear before the county grand jury. So had Clarence C. Walker, an audito: of Courtney’s office. Books and records of the firm probably will be given the grand jury. L L R A DEATH HELD SUICIDE’ Man, 53, Is Found Dead in Room ‘With Gas Jets Open. A certificate of suicide was issued last night by Acting Coroner A. Magruder MacDonald in the cass of James T. | Wisconsin, Commissioner Osias of the| ing Philippines, Patterson. Reavey, Ragon, ey, Rankin, Romjue, Schafer, Sel- vig, Shallenberger, Sinclair, Stull, Swank, Tarver, Temple, Thatcher, Tim- berlake, Turpin, Delegate Wickersham of Alaska, Williams of Missouri, Wil- liams of “l):“' flw%se':.“ Wood of Georgla, Wright and Yal Some have been removed from the { some political implications. HUNT “INSPECTOR' IN BOMB TRAGEDY Philadelphia Police See Po- litical Reprisals in Blast- ing of Home. By the Assoclated Press. PHILADELPHIA, January 28—FPo- lice tonight were seeking clues to an “inspector” who is believed to have planted a bomb in the home of John M. Di Sylvestro, national head of the Sons of Italy, destroying the house, kill- ing his wife and injuring 16 persons. Authorities werg convinced only a bomb or dynamite could have torn house to pieces as did the blast early today. A man, since learned to have been an imposter, made an “inspection” in_the basement yesterday. Mrs. Elizabeth Di Sylvestro, wife of the prominent attorney, banker and supreme venerable of the Sons of Italy in the United States and Canada, ap- paremtly died instantly as the three- story house collapsed. Fall Two Floors But Live. Four children and their governess fell from the third story to the first, but m-p:gso delnlth. They 1‘1"" injured, as were persons living in the neighborhood. ¢ Di Sylvestro was not home at the time. Legal adviser to the Italian con- sul in Philadelphia, he had been con- ferring with an assistapt United States district attorney and was nearing his home when the terrific blast shook southern Philadelphia, Police, recalling a minor bombing at the same place in 1927, favored the theory that political enemies or rad- icals attempted to destroy the Di Syl- vestro family. The father, a friend of Benito Mussolini, has been an active supporter of Fascism, they said. Di Sylvestro was in no condition to be questioned, authorities declared, but gicousln, John J. Sabatino, talked with m. Sabatino said Di Sylvestro believe the bombing to be the “work of l.!n.e: chists who oppose his support of Mus- | Seven Hours Recovering Body. The first police on the scene of the explosion went through holes in the wall of an adjoining house to get out the victims. They found the children and the governess, but it was more than seven hours before firemen re- covered Mrs. Di Sylvestro's body. Marie Guerino, 37, the governess, was the most seriously hurt, suffering a pos- sible skull fracture and concussion of the brain. Helen Di Sylvestro, 14, has an injured ankle as well as cuts and bl’llxiscs. twins, and Arnold, 19, received super- ficial injuries. e shock. Three other children are in school in Florence, Italy. Susie Green, a domestic, told police thatea man came to the house at 1619 South Broad street yesterday and said he was an inspector for the Philadel- phia Rapid Transit Co. Because of subway construction under the street, she said he told her, he wanted to in- spect the cellar for cracks. He was down there scme time. Miss Green said she noticed no package when he en- tered. A check of all such inspectors showed that none was sent there, the transt ccmpany said. Perplexed as to Motive. Judge Eugene V. Alessandroni of Common Pleas Court, whose father was 11 neighbors slightly injured. “We are perplexed as to the mo- but cannot help tut fecl it has ‘There was nothing in Mr. Di Sylvestro’s private or business affairs which would have geaded any one to such violence.” The judge, whe is grand venerable of the Sons of Italy in Pennsylvania, said that although his associate was known caid: tiv 1 as a pro-Fascist, there was little anti- Fascism in this region. Five thousand collars reward will be | paid, Judge Allesandroni said, by the Grand Lodge of Pennsyvania for the conviction and sentence of the perpe- trators of the “outrage. $10,000 EXTORTION CASE RESULTS IN MISTRIAL Threatening Notes Alleged to Have Been Written to Newport News . Shipbuilder. By the Associated Press. NEWPORT NEWS, Va. January 28. —The case of Charles Herbert Young, charged with attempting to extort $10,- 000 from Homer L. Ferguson, president of the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co., resulted in a mistrial here today. The jury was discharged and a new trial was ordered for the March term of the Criminal Court. Prosecution counsel charged Young with writing four threatening notes to the shipbuilder. Police said they found young near a placz where Ferguson had been ordered to leave the money Young denied any implication in the plot. He said he had learned ¢hat some liquor was to be hidden in the neigh- | borhocd and went there intending to “hi-jack” it. PR e DEPUTY GOES TO JAIL Contempt Charged for Blow Struck “in Kentucky's Defense.” HARLAN, Ky., January 28 (P)— Deputy Sheriff Curley Akers, 37, was fined $3 and sentenced to 30 hours in All are suffering from | The Inangural Committee IéMM/me& S . \ W/ Franklin Delano Rovsepelt s Frakidontoftho Unitd St of Armeris and A Fohn Nance Garner o Salinday the forerth of Mrch 2 ‘The official invitations being sent out by the Inaugural Committee. Below, Anita and Gloria, 10-year-old how the tickets to the official stands will look. —Star Staff Photos. SEEK TO CONTINUE LIBERALY' GROUP Progressives Who Aided Roosevelt in Campaign Want Permanent Tie. By the Associated Pregs. An important move lcoking to the perpetuation of the progressive or- ganization set up in the 1932 campaign primarily to elect Franklin D. Roosevelt | and to work for liberal legislation was | undertakens here yesterday by nine Senators, After a conference at the Capitol they appcinted a subcommittee to in- | vestigate the prospects of a psrmanent | and active group. tor Norris of Nebraska, support- | ter of Alfred E. Smith and Roosevelt | | in the last two presidential races, called the meeting. He told the Associated Press afterward that the 1932 pro- gressive set-up probably would be con-| tinued in hopes of achieving whatever liberal objectives are decided upon. Six Republicans Take Part. | | Democrats and the Farmer Labor Sen- ator, Shipstead of Minnesota, part in the conference. was David K. Niles of Boston, who was organization director of the Na- | tional Progressive League, the official | title of the organization under whose | auspices many of the Senators spoke | in_the 1932 campaign. | Norris said while no definite con- | clusions were reached, a subccmmittee | of three was appointed to determine and report back later whether the pros- pects warranted making the organiza- tion a continuing body. Senators named to the subcommittee are La_ Follette, Wisconsin, and Cut- | ting. New Mexico, Republican Inde- | pendent supporters- of Roosevelt, and | Wheeler, Montana Democrat, | | Besides those mentioned, the con-| | ferees included Nye and Frazier, North | isconsin, Repub- and Costigan, | Independent | Colorado Democrat. Talk With Roosevelt. LaFollette, Costigan and Cutting are sponsors of an wmemployment relief bill | | just introduced calling for an outright | grant of half a billion dollars of Fed- |eral funds to the States to be raised |'by Reconstructicn Corporation borrow- |ings and disbursed by a separate or- ganization to be appoinied by the p { President, i | " LaFollette and Cutting recently dis- | MRS. KAHN DENIES R.F.C. BANK CHARGE Says California Institution Is Not Controlled by Foreign- ers’ Syndicate. Representative Florence P. Kahn, Re- publican, of California, denied on the | House floor yesterday that the Bank of America was controlled by “a syndi- cate of foreigners.” She attributed the statement to that effect to Representative Howard, Demo- crat, of Nebraska, sponsor of the reso- lution that required the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to make public its loans during its first five months of operation. 000 shown to have been authorized and advanced to the San Prancisco Bank of America. Mrs. Kahn said she presumed Howard had made that statement because the head of the bank is A. P. Gianini “and because the Bank of America is a suc- cessor to the Bank of Italy.” “Mr. Giani she said, “was born in California_and has lived there all his say that 80 per cent of it is owned by residents of the State of California.” Howard replied that he was informed the loan went to “a syndicate largely composed of foreigners” and that he “had no thought of injury to any man or to any institution.” A Ser}a!e subcommittee to investigate Rec uct Finance Corporation loans to railroads, in considering the Couzens resolution to suspend such ad- vances, was named by Chairman Nor- beck of the Senate Banking Commit- ee yesterday. Senator Couzens, Re- publican, of Michigan, heads the sub- whose other members are Goldsborough, Republican, of d: Blaine, Republican. of Wis- . Democrat. of Florida, and Wagner, Democrat, of New York. Card Party Planned. CLARENDON. Va.. January 28 (Spe- clal) —The Catholic Woman’s Club of Arlington County will sponsor a benefit card party Tuesday evening at 8 p.m. There will be prizes and refreshments. The proceeds will be used to the expenses of the school. Mrs. Childs, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, is in charge. Among these was $64,000,- | * A3 ROOMS ARE NEEDED FOR MARGH GUESTS Only 5,000 Listed So Far. Inaugural Committee Seeks 70,000 More. A warning that the Committee on Housing and Hospitality of the General Inaugural Committee is meeting with disappointing results in its efforts to provide accommodations for the host of visitors here during the week of March 4 was given in a radio address last night by Guy Mason in the Wash- ington Chamber of Commerce Forum broadcest from Station WMAL. Despite the fact the committep is en- deavor to provide accommodations in private es for at least 75,000 vis- itors, Mr. Mason said, it has listings which, to date, will accommo- date only about 5,000 persons. we bestir ourselves,” he said, “w find ourselves on March 4 in the posi- tion of having invited strangers into our midst and unable to take care of them.” Guests Able to Pay. He urged all those who have rooms to rent, furnished, of course, whether in apartments or homes, or entire apartments or homes to rent, to com- municate with the Committee on Hous- ing and Hospitality in Room 126 of the Willard Hotel. “The committee,” he declared, “is not seeking free rooms. From the tenor of the inquiries received by the General Committee and the Committee on Housing and Hospitality, Washing- ton's visitors on March 4 il not be hunger marchers, though they come, as stated, with hope for better times; they will expect and be zble to pay for their accommodations.” 200,000 Visitors Expected. The railroads, steamship lines and the American Automobile Association, Mr. Mason said, are co-operating in the movement to Washington. It is antici- pated, he said, that Washington will have close to 200,000 visitors. The Committee on Grandstands, of which Daniel C. Roper is chairman, he said, has completed plans for seating 60,000 people. Frection of the grand- | stands will begin tcmorrow. The Com- | mittee _on Grandstands is located at | 535 Washington Bullding, and the prices for seats range from $2 to $7. {LOCKED-IN CHILDREN “SAVED” BY FIREMEN | Maj. Archibald King, U. 8. A, Summons Aid for 3-Year-01d and Smaller Sister in Room. Firemen were called upon yesterday to rescue the two small children of | Maj. Archibald King, U. S. A. after | the youngsters locked themselves in a | room on the second floor of their home, | 1518 Twenty-eighth street. The children—Robert, 3, and Mar- | garet, 18 months—were playing in the | room, Maj. King explained, when the ! girl locked the door. Despite the fact their mother gave them detailed instructions as to how to unlock the door, the children were unable to release the lock, so their father turned in a silent alarm. Firemen raised a ladder to a window of the room and showed the youngsters what their mother meant. YEGGS ROB OFFICE Obtain $125 Cash and $100 Checks in Dupont Circle. Safe-cracksmen who entered the | Dupent Circle office of the Postal Tele- graph Co. during the night obtained $125 in cash and almost $100 in checks and drafts from a small safe, | which they forced open by chiseling | off the ccmbination, it was reported to police yesterday by Harry Clear, branch manager. The robbers entered the building by going thrcugh a sidewalk trash pit into | the basement and forcing an inside door. They took the small safe to the | basement, STRICKEN ON TRAIN |Dr. H. Inberg of Danville Is De- | clared Dead Here. | Dr. H. Inberg. Danville, Va., who was stricken on the train between Monroe | and Charlottesville, en route to Wash- i ingten, shortly after midnight yesterday | reached Washington Terminal. was pronounced dead when the train |$1 JAMES’ | Special Chicken Box Whele Fried Chicken Fruit Cuj Potato Salad. Apple Sauce and Hot Rolls Enough for Fe Delivered Hot in Decatur 1914 13th St. NW. Six Republican Indepencents, two | life. * * * The stock of the former Bank | of Italy and the Bank of America is | took | owned by the Trans-American Corpora- | Also present | tion, and it is not an exaggeration to| T 20 Minutes. 4601 BAM. to 8 PM. PAINTING Any Car or Color 15152 Quick Service ACE GARAGE iaip on a contempt of court charge to- | cussed the propostion with President- | Sacrificing Our Entire Stock of FASHION SHOP day after an altercation in County Court_here. Akers struck Frank Cravens, a West Virginian, after Cravens remarked that “all Kentuckians are noted for being outlaws.” Sheriff John H. Blair sep- arated the men erd County Judge H. H. Howard charged the deputy with centempt of court. Indians Get $240,000,000. More than $240,000,000 has been col- lected by Osage Indians from oil .on their - allotments, compilations show. The 2,227 head-rights of the tribe have drawn about $110,000 each, and the lands are far from depleted, says George Beaulieu, hegd of the cil and gas de- artment of the Osage Agency, Paw- uska, Okla. . | elect Roosevelt at Warm Springs, Ga., | and reports were they found him sym- ‘pathenc to the general principles of | the legislation. | Just what the group hopes to accom- | plish, now that Mr. Roosevelt is about to enter the White House, was ot made | plain, although Norris insisted nothing definite was decided and the subcom- mittee of three would canvass the sit- uation. | Resaline Greene & Years “On Air.” Rosaline Greene Friday night will celebrate her ninth anniversary as a broadcaster, going back to the station from which she started, WGY, at Schenectady, N. Y. It will be a special program of outstanding roles she has played cn the air. Funeral Sprays Created by Master Florists 1407 H St. N.W. 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