Evening Star Newspaper, May 10, 1933, Page 6

VANNOYS CHARGES DENED BY BOARD Claim of Non-Co-operation With Closed Chicago Banks Refuted. By the Associated Press. Charges by Senator Van Nuys, Dem- ocrat, of Indiana that the Seventh Dis- trict Federal Reserve Board of Chicago has not co-operated with closed banks brought emphatic denials _yesterday from officials of the reserve board. Senator Van Nuys told newspaper men he had visited Secretary Woodin and said the Chicago Reserve Bank was “utterly failing to co-operate” in yeopening closed banks and that he considered “outrageous” their lack of “sympathy.” He said he was speaking also for Benators Vandenberg, Republicans, of Michigan, La Follette, Republican, of Wisconsin and Murphy, Democrat, of Jowa, and that they were “solidly be- Bind him” in his statements. Officials of the Chicago Federal Re- serve Bank answered quickly with a statement that they felt the Indianan's driticism was unjust. “We are working overtime helping banks to take steps for their reopen- ing,” the bank’s statement sald. “Often ‘we take the initiative in presenting plans for them to reopen. We want the banks reopened on a sound basis and we are co-operating to the fullest extent.” Van Nuys said he had supported his contentions to the Treasury Secretary with excerpts from letters from bank- ers and business men. He also criticized A. V. Leybumn, chief national bank examiner for the seventh district, and suggested that s new man be appointed to this post. ‘The entire situation, he maintaine should be examined by the Treasury. Leyburn, French Lick, Ind., d¢ clined to comment. STRIKE IS CALLED FAILURE IN SPAIN Bombings Continue to Damage Utilities for Time, but Quiet Returns Later in Day. By the Assoclated Press. MADRID, May 10.—Several cities re- ported today that bombings continued to cause heavy damage to utilities de- spite a government bulletin that the Syndicalists’ nation-wide general strike was & “complete falluse.” ‘The number of deaths in disorders reached seven, with more than 50 ‘wounded. ‘Three convents in the old Castillian capital of Burgos were bombed, but none of the occupants was injured. A priest, attacked and robbed at Betan- zos, was threatened with burning alive by an angry crowd until he requested clvil guards to release his captured as- sailants. The strike, inaugurated yesterday, is to_end tonight. Later reports today indicated tran- quility was re-established in most parts of the country. Minor incidents were reported in Sestao, Bilboa, Seville and Burgos this morning. Bombings of rail- ‘way bridges at Badalona and of street cars in and Seville occurred last night. JESS— EX-TELEGRAPHER NAMED WESTERN UNION CHIEF B. White Will Succeed New- eomb Carlton, Who Is Elected as Board Chairman. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 10.—A former tele- graph operator will become the head of the Western Union Telegraph Co. on June 1, when R. B. White succeeds Newcomb Carlton in the presidency. ‘White, president of the Central Rail road of New Jersey, was elected to Ca: ton’s post yesterday at the regular meet- ing of Western Union's Board of Direc- tors. Carlton, who has headed the com- pany since 1914, was elected chairman of the board and senior officer. » ‘The Western Union's report of earn- ings for the first quarter of the year showed a net loss of $351443, con- trasted with a net profit of $369,184 in the same period in 1932. Carlton said the improvement of earn- ings, which began at the time of the national bank holiday and the Southern c-‘;llzodmh earthquake, was being main- tal L AMMUNITION SEIZED 76,000 Rounds, Believed En Route to Cuba, Taken in Florida. MIAMI, Fla., May 10 (#).—Seizure of 176,000 rounds of ammunition at Tava- nier, 75 miles south of Miami, by United States customs border patrolmen was, confirmed here yesterday after Sidney Brown, collector of customs at Tampa, made the announcement. The ammunition was of .44 caliber, suitable for pistols or for two types of foreign-made rifles. Federal authorities declined to give out further information, saying they had not completed their work on the case. The Miami Herald said it learned from reliable sources that the ammu- nition was destined for Cuban revolu- tionary forces and that it was about one-fourth of a shipment. MILLS BUY.S RAILROAD CARSON CITY, Nev., May 10 (#)— The sale of controlling interest in the Virginia and Truckee Railway to Ogden L. Mills, former Secretary of the Treasury, was announced by road of- ficials here last night. The concern has been owned in recent years by the Mills and Sharon estates. The sale price was not announced. The road runs between Reno and Virginia City. IPRUDENTIAL| i Bavings Plan Shares 6% Full Participating Shares Money Deposited in the PRUDENTIAL Building Association Under Supervision of the Comptroller of Currency of the United States [reasury WRITE FOR CIRCULAR 1331 G St. N.W. Suite 305, 2nd Natl Bank Bldg. | OVERTON, THE ORATOR, CALLED U. S. SENATE'S Speculation Centers Now on His Moves in Relation to Long. Expert on Flood Control Is Fluent of Tongue, With Keen Legal Mind. BY GRACE HENDRICK EUSTIS. The heavy, black-haired man who sits in the middle of the kindergarten Tow in the august Senate chamber is, to date, a mystery man. His name is John Overton of Rapides Parish and he is the junior Senator from Louisiana. He comes from a family that has been intermittently prominert in national affairs since the War of 1812. He himself has built up the largest law practice in the central part of his State. So far, however, he is nationally known mainly th the sensational hearings conducted the Senate Committee on Campaign Ex- penditures in their investigation of his election. This is a thick cloud for him to have to break through, because what is the least attractive side of Louisiana politics has been given such broad publicity that any one on Huey Long’s side is covered with a little tar, whether they deserve it or not. Future Moves Watched. It is a debated question whether Senator Overton will be able to move independently in the Senate or whether he is “hog-tied” to the Kingfish. Those that know him say that there is a very harmonious and independent relation- ship between the two men, that Huey Long reveres Mr. Overton's gift for oratory and detached legal point of view and that Mr. Overton feels about Huey Long very much as an uncle might about a brilllant but uncertain nephew. The Senator was born in Marksville, La, in 1875. He was given his B, A. at the Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge and also won a medal for oratory. Then he studied law at ‘Tulane University and got his LLD. When he graduated he settled i3 Alexandria, hung out his shingle and acquired a splendid practice. Since 1912 he has worked spasmodically in politics. He is particularly admired for his silver tongue and made the keynote addresses at the opening meetings for Govs. Parker, Long and Allen. In 1916 he ran far United States Senate, but though he carried two-thirds of the parishes (the Louisiana name for counties) in a tri-cornered race, he lost the city of New Orleans, which con- tains one-fifth of the voting gflp tion of the State. In 1931 he was elected to fill the unexpired term of James B. Aswell in the Seventy-second Congress. Overtons in Public Life. Other members of the Overton family have preceded him in public life. Gen. Walter Overton served as a Representative from Louisiana in the twenty-first Congress from March 4. 1829 to March 3, 1831, and made a name for himself by fighting for a sugar tariff and urging the support of the many veto messages transmitted to Congress by the fiery President Jackson. He also had a great uncle named Thomas Overton, who served as second to Gen, Jackson in his duel with Dickinson. The Senator is a big, pleasant- mannered man, with a face furrowed likke a bulldog's and enormous slow- moving eyes. He is not a back-slapping politiclan, being for one thing too absent-minded to remember all the necessary jimjams. He is respected in his State for his fluent oratory and his legal ability. He is an expert on flood control. This became a problem to him from the day when, still a student MYSTERY MAN SENATOR JOHN OVERTON. at the State University, he had to swim the muddy Mississippi above Baton Rouge and the river, due to a flood, was more than a niile wide. He is serv- ing on the Senate Committees of Ir- rigation and Reclamation, Manufactures and Appropriations and Commerce. legislative program will probably conservative. RAILWAYS TO CUT - CIRCUITOUS ROUTES Roads Announce Plan, Beginning Jnly 1, as Economy /' Measure. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 10.—Announce- ment that Eastern railroads propose to eliminate “a large number” of eircul- tous routes, beginning July 1, as an !the road from the MYSTERY SHROUDS PROBE Inquest Conducted All May Yes- USES CRUTCHES AT TR'AL terday to Be Continued Through Today. By the Associated Press. Oflflfllfi N. H, May 10—Mystery surrounds the investigation of the dis- sppearance eight days ago of 2-year-old Sarah Walker. After a day-long inquest, conducted by Assistant Attorney General Thorn- ton Lorimer yesterday, at which Mrs. All O'Brien, her chauffeur, Frank Schwab, and William Myron aj authorities refused Frwell. it any, had been made he case, but stated that the inquest would continue today. Mrs. O'Brien and Schwab live across school house mrle economy measure, was made yesterday|the child was last seen on Ma; by D. zr. Lawrence, chairman of the|Myron, & 50-year-old bachelor, T“tmc Executive Association for the East. The proposal meets un objection raised by the National Tranportation Committee, headed by the late Calvin Coolidge, which asserted a waste arose from sending freight over roundabout routes in order to retain as much of the “hl\lll as possible for individual com- panies. Will Serve Beef Dinner. GAITHERSBURG, May 9 (Special). —A hot roast beef dinner will be served in the Masonic Hall here tomorrow eve- ning from 5 to 8 o'clock under the auspices of Pentalpha Lodge, A. F. and A. M, and Pentalpha Chapter, O. E. 8 Beats. . as it Sweeps.. as it Cleans World's Leading Electric Cleaner NOW HAS HEDLITE for Better Cleaning See the electric light on the Hoover pictured above? That’s the new Hedlite—a cleaning convenience that only ‘The Hoover has. 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