Evening Star Newspaper, February 10, 1935, Page 2

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, D. BILL 0 PROPOSE SMUGGLING CURB Reciprocal Agreements With Other Countries Aim of Measure. Forum Speaker By the Associated Press, An administration bill which re-| vealed that the United States plans to seek reciprocal agreements with other countries in an effort to end | liquor and other forms of smuggling was made public yesterday by the House Ways and Means Committee. Chairman Doughton said the bill submitted by the Treasury proposed to extend the sea limits over which the customs service has control to areas affected by treaties or agree- ments with other countries. Restrictions Provided. Looking to the pacts with other countries for co-operation in ending | smuggling, the new bill prohibits smuggling offenses against the revenue laws of foreign countries. It also pro- vides for establishment of customs enforcement areas adjacent to the territorial water of the United States “through which the flexible admin- istrative control over the enforce- ment of other anti-smuggling pro- | visions in the bill can be exercised in these areas.” Recalling the I'm Alone case, in which a vessel sank off the Louisiana | coast was held to have been improp- erly fired upon, the proposed law provides “for the search” and, where Justified, the seizure and forfziture of vessels engaged in the smuggling trade and hovering off the coast of the United States | The development yesterday followed | reports to the House Appropriations Committee that from $50.000.000 to $60.000,000 a year was being lost in revenue. particularly in smuggling of 190-proof alcohol. | | | Coast Guard Allowance. | Admitting it had made a bad guess a vear ago when it cut Coast Guard appropriations in anticipation of pro- hibition repeal stopping the 1llicit traffic. the House committee boosted the 1936 allowance for the Coast Guard nearly $4,500,000 Doughton disclosed the proposed legislation resulted from studies of the smuggling question that have been under way several months, President Roosevelt said recently that co-operation with Canada, Mex- ico and other countries had so affected the liquor smuggling trade that, even though liquor was still coming in, he felt the administration had the “bootlegger” licked. LLOYD GEORGE STIRS POLITICAL RUMORS War Leader Believed Bidding for Premiership as MacDonald l Loses Grip. } By the Associated Press LONDON, February 9.—Britain's political pot, which has been bubbling | merrily since David Lloyd George | tossed in his new deal, has produced | some absorbing topics of conversation recently—including one that the white-maned war premier may be on his way into the cabinet with Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald and others on the way out Nothing more concrete than that has developed from the political talk, | however. The eve of the public is upon the next general elections, pos- sibly late in the Fall or early in 1936, Although MacDonald has come under increasingly adverse criticism lately, including some of the severest heckling of his career, speculation has arisen as to whether his physical con- dition might not play a large part— | at least serve as an excuse—should government heads decide on his removal. NEEDY MOTHER GIVES UP | FREEDOM TO GO HOME Confesses Bad Check Charges to Force Chicago Authorities to Provide Transportation. | | By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 9.—A young| destitute mother today sacrificed her | liberty for transportation “back home " Poorly clad and carrying her 4-| year-old son James, Mrs, Louise‘ Grace Freeman, 22, appealed to Town | Hall police today to send them to her mother’s farm, near Niles, Mich. | Informed that they had no funds | SENATOR JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY. D'MAHONEY TALKS ON AIR TOMORROW ‘Forum to Hear Discussion of Taking Postmasters Out of Politics. The administration’s plan to take the postal service out of politics will be discussed by Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Democrat, of Wyoming. in the National Radio Forum tomor- row at 1030 p.m., Eastern standard time. The National Radio Forum fs ar- ranged by The Washington Star and broadcast over a Nation-wide net- work of the National Broadcasting Co Senator O'Mahoney has sponsored the administration bill which would definitely place all first, second and third class postmasters in the classi- fied civil service. A similar bill has been introduced in the House by Rep- resentative Mead of New York. cnair- man of the Post Office Committee Under existing law, despite the fact that examinations are held when appointments for made, politics and patronage play a large part. postmasters in the classified civil serv- ice is regarded as a long step forward for the merit system in the public service. Senator O'Mahoney was formerly First Assistant Postmaster General in the Roosevelt administration and has been a strong administration supe porter, GIANT STILL RAIDED ON TEXAS CO0. LAN Huge Plant on 0il Concern's Property Could Supply Boot- leg to Two States. By the Associated Press. ELIZABETHPORT, N. J, February 9.—A gigantic illicit still. described by Comdr. John D. Pennington, dis- trict superintendent of the Federal postmaster are | The proposal to put all | IFATE OF SHEPARD } INJURY'S HANDS Judge Orders Delay in An- nouncing Murder Case Verdict. | ! By the Assoclated Press. { TOPEKA, Kans, February 9.—A jury slept tonight on the fate of Maj. | Charles A. Shepard, facing a possible sentence of death by hanging on the | | Government’s charge that he fatally | : poisoned his second wife. | The jury retired to study the two | weeks’ testimony at 7:03 p.m. but Judge Colin Neblett advised the Kan- sas tradesmen and farmers he would | not receive their verdict before to- | morrow. | “I will be available tomorrow at | any time,” he said. i Hanging Penalty Possible, | The jury, if it agreed with the guilty verdict returned in Shepard's | first trial four years ago, had the | added task of deciding whether the | retired Army tuberculosis expert should be assessed a penalty of life imprisonment or hanging. The pre- | vious jury, at Kansas City, Kans., decided against the death penalty. | While Kansas law forbids capital punishment except in cases of trea- | son, Maj. Shepard's case came under Federal jurisdiction, since Mrs. Ze- | nana Shepard died in 1929 on | Government property at Fort Riley, Kans. After Shepard’s convention the Su-' preme Court granted him a retrial on\ the ground the trial court errone- ously had admitted as a dying dec- | laration the testimony of a nurse at- tributing to Mrs. Shepard the quota- | | tion: “Dr. Shepard has poisoned me." Judge Careful in Summation. ! Evidence in the 6-year-old case— | based on the Government's charge | that the 63-year-old defendant sought | his wife's death in order to wed a Texas blond—was completed last night. Today was devoted to the argu- | ments ol counsel. | Judge Neblett, a New Mexico jurist called to the Shepard trial after both | Kansas Federal judges were disquali- fied, closed the case tonight with a | careful summation of the evidence. * Circumstantial evidence,” the court told the jurors, “is to be considered | the same as direct evidence because | crimes are often done in secret with no witness to the actual deed..” | COMPROMISE ENDS | ROW OVER OIL BILL | House Committee Revamps Con- nally Measure to Ease Fed- eral Control. | By the Associated Press ! After wrangling for days over oil control legislation, the House Inter- state Commerce Committee agreed esterday on a compromise measure. Taking up the Connally oil bill, which passed the Senate, the commit- tee clipped off all but one paragraph | and substituted entirely new pro- visions. Oil men described these as' providing less stringent Federal con- trol than the Connally bill The committee bill merely would direct the President to forbid inter- | state transportation of oil and its | products produced or withdrawn from | Storage in excess of quotas fixed by State laws or agencies whenever he ! | i | Rudy alcohol tax unit, as “large enough to| found excess oil was “an undue bur- | supply all of New Jersey and most den on interstate commerce” by rea- of New York” with bootleg alcohol.!son of causing a “lack of parity be- was raided today by Pederal and State | tween supply and demand.” agents. The Connally bill, in The still, Pennington said, was on!would forbid outright the interstate property of the Texas Oil Co., which | movement of oil and derivatives pro- allegedly had been leased to the duced, processed or handled in ex- Jerome Products Co. of New York cess of amounts stipulated by the City. States. road esu:ling lnz: :q \\’harlu::. s: l;la; A, A, mENDMENTS EXPECTED TO PASS raw materials could be brought in and the finished produce shipped out Extension of Wallace's Power, Fought at Last Session, by either rail of water. Six men seized at the scene werei Now Is Favored. arrested. Pennington said that “while in our opinion higher-ups in the Texas Co. ! may not have known about the still, the company’s employes could not have helped knowing what was going on.” MOROCCO OIL FINDS RAISE FRANCE'S HOPE National Petroleum Problem Still By the Associated Press. Chairman Smith of the Senate Ag- riculture Committee said yesterday that the A. A. A. amendments which caused such a furore last session might be introduced this week and that they were satisfactory in the main, The amendments, which propose to extend Secretary Wallace’s power to enforce the agricultural adjustment Unsolved as Search Goes On. By the Associated Press. contrast, ! PARIS, February 9.—Discoveries of for such purpose, they quoted her as new sources of oil in Morocco today saying: raised the hopes of French engineers “Then you'll have to send me. I|that France's efforts to obtain inde- cashed two bad checks for $8 in Niles | pendent supplies may be successful. & year ago.” | " Oil was reported found near the Capt. Patrick O'Connell said Niles | town of Petit Jean. Engineers de- authorities confirmed that a charge clared the discovery significant inas- was pending against her, so she was much as it shows Djebel Tselfat and taken back in custody. Si Ameur are not the only oil bear- e ing regions in Morocco. |+ With an oil burning navy end al- | most 2,000,000 motor vehicles on her 30 SCHOOLS APPROVED | roads, the problem of oil has worried Gunston Hall on Accredited List | the French for the past 20 years and sion that the administration dropped them. Smith was one of the leaders in the successful attempt to prevent passage. After a conference with Chester C. Davis, farm administrator, and Chair- man Jones of the House Agriculture Committee, Smith said: “With one or two exceptions there {won't be any great trouble about the new amendments as now prepared.” Since rejection last year the amend- ments have been revised. ST. JOHN’S T;-lRIFT SHOP act, aroused such opposition last ses- | - |is still far from solution.” British, for Capital. | American and Dutch companies today handle 57 per cent of local distribution. SUES FOR PENNY Attorney Asks Refund of Tax on 25-Cent Purchase. JACKSONVILLE, Ill, February 9 There are 30 secondary schools and academies in the District accredited by the Commission on Secondary Schools of the Middle Atlantic States of Colleges and Secondary Schools | for the year 1935. instead of 29 as | erroneously published by The Star last Sunday. Gunston Hall School, of which Miss Mary L. Gildersleeve is a principal, | (#).—A suit for 1 cent was filed against is also on the list, according to a| letter received by her from E. D.| Grizzell, chairman of the commis- | sion, at Philadelphia. Gunston Hall | was not on the list of 29 published | last Sunday. | a chain store in Justice Court today by William Hairgrove, an attorney. Hairgrove seeks a refund of a penny he paid as sales tax on a 25 cent purchase. A hearing will be held February 17. The Euvening Star Offers Its Readers The American Government Today BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN —a new book which explains of the Federal Government of the New Deal. the permanent departments and the Alphabet Bureaus Authoritative—entertaining—stimu- lating. Every American should read and own this book. On sale at the Business Office of The Star, or by mail, Price $1 ORDFR postage prepaid. Name s e Street .ot FORM, WILL OPEN ON THURSDAY Proceeds to Benefit Orphanage Fund—New and Used Ar- ticles Offered. The Thrift Shop of St. John's Epis- copal Church, which sell ngw as well as old articles for the St. John's Orphanage fund, opens Thursday at 821 Sixteenth street. Merchandise such as antiques, books, silver, chinaware, glass, blankets, can- dles and many Christmas presents, still fresh and new, are sold when the shop opens for one day each month. Visitors who do not wish to buy are welcomed. The orphanage, located at 1922 F street, takes children from all parishes | and the interest and support it de- serves should be widespread, the com- mittee, headed by Mrs. W. A. Hayes, believes. The shop has been newly decorated and will have many new displays at its opening Thursday. WIREPHOTO EXTENDED NEW YORK, February 9 #).— | Louisville, Ky., will be added to the list of cities on the Associated Press wirephoto network, arrangements having been made today to install equipment there to serve the Courier- Journal and the Times. This will make a total of 26 distributing centers on the wirephoto circuit. It is ex- pected the Louisville wirephoto ma- chine will be in working order in time to transmit pictures of the Kentucky Derby, May & C., FEBRUARY 10, 1935—PART ONE. Guarded From Kidnapers Copyright, A. Jane Mendelson, 15-year-old dat Albany manufacturer, is guarded con: because of anonymous kidnap threats P. Wirephoto. hter of Leon Mendelson, wealthy antly by her body guard-chauffeur received by her father recently. They are shown as they tried to duck the cameraman on a dash from the car to the girls’ academy which little Jane attends QVALLEE LAWYERS AP STRATEGENS 169 CROUPS ASK * POLIE INCREASE SENATE CHANGES ANGERING HOUSE Upper Branch Faces “Spot” on $2,1006,000,000 Bonus Payment Issue. By the Associated Press. House Democratic leaders, irked at the Senate's changes in bills labeled “administration,” have decided—as one of them put it yesterday—to make the Senate “take the rap” on the $2,100,000,000 bonus issue. They may, too, refuse to apply any “gag” rules to future bills, such as pany and N. R. A. extension. House to Pick Bill. As part of that program thev in- tend to let the House members them- selves, by a direct vote on the floor. choose between the American Legion and Patman bills for immediate cash payment of the bonus. The House is expected to send one or the other to the Senate by a substantial ma- | jority. The two bills, which have split the House into factions, are much the same, except that the Pat- man bill would pay the bonus by issuing greenbacks. The other names no specific method of payment. The actions of Senators on two major bills this session impelled House leaders to reach this decision. In both instances, House Democratic chiefs asked their followers to stick | by the administration and succeeded {in putting through the desired bills without change. The first was the independent of- fices appropriation bill. A lot of | House members wanted to restore the pay cut in that measure, but they | yielded to the pleas of their leaders. | The Senate plumped in an amend- | ment restoring the 5 per cent pay cut on April 1. 1‘ Works Bill Passed. | Next was the $4.880.000.000 public | works bill. It passed the House with few changes, and under a rule that | forbade amendments to its key sec- tions. The Senatc Appropriations | Committee has been giving that meas- ure a thorough going over. | The result, House majority chief- | tains charge, is that the Senators get | credit for being free-minded and lib- | eral. while House members are called “rubber stamps.” The intention to let the House | choose between the Patman and Le- gion bills was disclosed by Chairman Doughton, Democrat. of North Caro- lina, of the House Ways and Means Committee. before which both meas- ures are pending. gt FOSSIL MAN OF CHINA OUTRIVALS JAVA “LINK” Another Round in Court Memorial to Congress Voted Dutch Scientist Gives 400,000 Fight Is Scheduled for Wednesday. By the Associated Press NEW YORK, February 9 —Nine lawyers pondered their legal strate- gems today in anticipation of renewed hostilities when the “battle of the Vallees” is due for another airing in Supreme Court Wednesday. Plans of the seven attorneys en- gaged by Mrs. Fay Webb Vallee, who is seeking to set aside a $100-a-week separation agreement with Rudy Vallee, were kept in the®dark and they declined to discuss them. Rudy's counsel awaited the decision of Justice Salvatore A. Costello upon their motion to dismiss the suit, after Mrs. Vallee’s case was rested without her appearing on the stand. From the justice’s flare-up at Ben- jamin Cohn’ of Los Angeles, one of Mrs. Vallee’s lawvers, there arose the possibility that Mrs. Vallee's lawyers may demand a new trial. One of her counsel, however, declared the possi- pility remote. In the event the court refuses to dismiss the suit, it was learned Val- lee's lawyers planned to proceed in an effort to show that Mrs, Vallee ! nad been a “disloyal” wife. Part of their evidence to this effect, | they have declared, consists of phono- | graph records of her allegedly amor- ous conversations with another man. LOS ANGELES, February 9 (#)— | | Gary Leon, adagio dancer, whose name | has figured in the marital litigation of Rudy Vallee and his estranged wife, | Fay Webb, will be married Sunday at Agua Caliente, Mexico, to his dancing partner, Marcia (Tut) Mace, Leon sajd. He was divorced Wednesday from Marian Mitchell. .CLAIMANTS 0 F GOLD and Landowners Confer on Settlement. By the Assoclated Press. | ing the “treasure trove” case has been more “full of romance” than any in his recollection, Judge Eugene | O'Dunne ioday narrowed the legal | claimants to a $28,000 gold hoard found buried in a cellar here to two groups—the boy finders and the two women who owned the land. each 16, found the 3,500 coins in Au- gust, 1934. They had a face value of about $11,400, but owning to numis- matic values the coins are said to be worth nearly $28.000. Owners of the land are Mrs. Elizabeth H. French and Miss Mary P. B. Findlay. The boys’ claims have not been ruled upon, the claimants to marathon dance contestants, ruled out claimants who said they were entitled to the money as heirs of the late Andrew J. Sauls- bury, former city councilman. who died about 1873 in the house in which the gold was found. The remaining claimants, mean- while, have been conferring on a pos- sible settlement. O'Dunne has allowed them additional time. —_— STEAMER [S FLOATED Apache Pulls Danish Vessel Off Bar in Chesapeake, NORFOLK, Va.. February 9 (#).— The Coast Guard cutter Apache floated the Danish steamer Lifland this morning. ‘The Lifland stranded early yester- day In Chesapeake Bay, two®miles southwest of Sharps Island. Only the ship’s bow was grounded. according to reports received here, and the Apache, after getting a line to her, pulled the craft into deep water ‘without n'.lmu difficulty. , | Ater Brown Voices Need of Men. A memorial to Congress, asking for an increase of 141 in the personnel of the Metropolitan Police Depart- ment, was voted last night by dele- gates from 17 business, citizens’ and Parent-Teachers' Associations meet- ing in the District Building. The memorial was concurred in by 152 or- ganizations of Washington, it was announced. g Police Supt. Ernest W. Brown. who attended the meeting, explained the need for the additional police and expressed appreciation for the action | of the committee which drew up the memorial. He said the expense of equipping and paying the salaries of the additional men would increase the budget by about $288.127 Burd W. Payne of the Citizens Forum of Columbia Heights, acting for A. R. Swan, president of the Co- lumbia Heights Business Men's As-| sociation, presided at the meeting. | He was chosen to present the memorial to the Senate and House District Com- mittees. At the suggestion of Maj. Brown the delegation voted to send a rep- resentative to testify before the House Crime Investigating Committee. WINNIE MAE FASTER WITH STREAMLINING By the Associated Press. BURBANK, Calif, February 9.— Wiley Post took his improved around- the-world plane Winnie Mae up 10.- | 000 feet today and reported the new | | streamlining had enabled him to fly between 15 and. 20 miles faster than the ship ever had gone before. | | Years as Age of Recently i Found Sinanthropus. By the Assoclated Press. | MANILA, P. 1., February 9.—The Java ape man. long considered the original “missing link,” is apparently a mere child compared to the recently discovered China fossii man, Dr. R. Von Koenigswald, eminent Dutch | paleontologist, told a group of fellow scientists here today. | Dr_Koenigswald. paleontologist for | the Netherlands East Indies govern- | ment, placed the age of pithecan- thropus erectus at a mere 250.000 vears, just half the previous scientific estimate. He expressed the belief the China fossil man, known as sinan- thropus, lived 400,000 years ago. From the scant remains of the two prehistoric creatures. scientists have placed them both as relatives of the ancestors of man, yet neither man nor ape. MOTOR CRASH FATAL Capital Youth Injured in Acci- dent Killing Friend. ALLENTOWN. Pa.. February 9 (# —James Hayden, 21, of Allentown was killed and a friend, Walter Nor- mile of Washington, D. C., was seri- ously injured today when Hayden's automobile plunged through an ele- vator shaft in a public garage from the third floor to the basement. Ncrmile suffered a fractured skull and other injuries. Walter Normile, 21 years old, who lives at 1312 Park road, was on a business trip to the Pennsylvania city. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Normile. social security, utilities holding com-; NARROWED TO FOUR Boys Who Found $28,000 Hoard | BALTIMORE, February 9.—Declar- | The performance, he said, confirms | &is belief that he should be able to| hit a clip of about 350 miles an hour | on his projected non-stop, substrato- sphere dash to New York. A new radio compass, earth in- ductor compass and oxygen generat- ing equipment remain to be tried out. Post has been sworn in as an air- mail pilot for the flight and will carry 150 pounds of mail. J ;nuuy Circ;lation Daily ..126,512 Theodore Jones and Henry Grob, | O'Dunne’s latest opinion, comparing | Sunday]30,278 District of Columbia. ss: S H. KAUFFMANN_Assistant Business Manager of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. does solemnly swear that the ac. tual number of coples of the paper named sold and distributed during the month of January. A.D. 1935. was as follows: Days. EEITeEPTR TP Lese adjustments . . .. Total net daily circulation.....3. —_— Average daily net paid circula. tion Dajly averige numbe; for service. etc........ Daily average net circulation. .. 125.407 1.105 126,512 SUNDAY. Coples. Days. 132,389 o Days. 8 20 133687 27 | 538085 521.113 = net pald Sunday circula- Less ad,ustments ‘Total Sunday net circulation. ... 129.550 728 130.278 Average service Average Sunday net circulation. . 8 H._KAUFFMA Asst. Business Manager. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 6th day of February. AD 187 ELMER P. YOUNT, Notary Publie. ) Youths Fish Huge Alligator Out of Sewer in Harlem Animal Believed to Have Been Brought From Florida as Pet. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 9.—An 8- foot alligator, evidently in a bad temper; was fished from & Harlem sewer today by three youths who a iew minutes before had been dump- ing snow on top of the chilled reptile. While the boys examined the rep- tile, he suddenly came to life and snapped viciously at them, narrowly missing Salvator Condulucci, 16. They leaped back and picked up their shovels. They beat the alligator over the head until he ceased to | move. Their purpose, they said. | merely was to stun him, but instead they killed him. | _The boys had been shoveling snow | off the streets. Condulucci was lowered through | the manhole, a rope about his waist. He stood on a ledge and fastened the | rope around the alligator’s neck. “Haul away,” he shouted. Frank Longo, 18, and James Mi- | treno, 19, did. Neighborhood children gathered about them. For a time their catch ignored the close exam- ination. Then the huge jaws snapped and the shovels came into play. There were some who suspected it might have been brought up from the South as a “little fellow” by some | one who could find no other way to get rid of his pet and so dumped him j into a sewer. MELLONTAX SUIT OPENSNEXT WEEK Financier Answers U. S. | i Charge With Demand for Rebate. By the Associated Press PITTSBURGH, February 9.—Just one month under 80, but with step still sprightly and eyes still flashing, Andrew W. Mellon moves into the national spotlight a week hence as both plaintiff and defendant in one of the celebrated Income tax suits of the age | The financier's tax .flairs were to | have been aired at a hearing in Pitts- burgh tomorrow, but a postponement until February 18 was granted be- cause of the illness of cne of the attorneys. The Government charges the three- time Secretary of the Treasury owes $3.075,103.23. including a 50 per cent | fraud penalty, for his 1931 income It says, for one thing, that he sold more than $6.000.000 worth of stock in the Pittsburgh Coal and Western Public Service companies to a family corporation to establish a capital loss for income deduction Mellon Demands Rebate. “Impertinen:, scandalous and im- proper.” was the answer hurled back by Mellon, who demanded a $139.- 045.17 rebate from that year's taxes, in a counter claim. He said the Tax Board had refused to allow him de- ductions for $3,821.000 in gifts. He paid $647.559 in 1931. This claim was made after a grand Jury in Mellon’s home city of Pitts- burgh refused to indict him on crimi- nal charges filed by Attorney General Homer Cummings. At the time, the former Secretary denounced the move as an attempt by Democratic oppo- | ents to “railroad” him to prison. | A “court” of three members of the | Board of Tax Appeals, with Ernest M. | van Fossan, an Ohio Republican, as chairman, will hear both sides here in session expected to last three weeks. Frank Hogan, noted Washington at- torney, who successfully defended Henry L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome scandal case. is chief counsel for Mel- lon. The assistant chief of the Inter- nal Revenue Department, Robert H. Jackson, is in charge of the Govern- ment's case. Attorneys recall that Van Fossan, appointed to the tax board while Mel- lon was a prominent figure in Presi- dent Coolidge’s cabinet, also sat in the well publicized income tax suit in which Mellon, as Secretary of Treas- ury, tried to collect more than 10.- 000,000 from his outspoken senatorial foe, James Couzens of Michigan. Couzens was victorious in this case. DIVORCE THREAT - DAZES SCARLETT Cooke Chauffeur Retains Lawyer to Meet Action, Former Life seemed difficult last night for 21-year-old George S§. Scarlett, 3d, | who retained an attorney after he was notifled that his runaway bride | of two weeks would seek an annul- | ment or divorce. \l In the brief time following his | elopement with the former Jane | Cooke, 20, young Scarlett has been in an automobile collision with a switch engine, jailed in Georgia, re- turned under arrest, cleared in court of alarcenry-after-trust charge brought by his mother-in-law, deserted by his bride, and finally notified of a cone templated divorce action. | Late yesterday the former Cooke family chauffeur was ready to admit he was in something of a daze and anxious to place his tangled marital affairs in the hands of an attorney. Thus he retained Paul A. Thompson to represent him at pending confer- ences with his wife's attorney, Alvin L. Newmyer. Bride “Disillusioned.” | Thompson said this action was taken after Newmyer telephoned the bridegroom for an interview, explain- ing Mrs, Scarlett had retained him with the intention of ending the mar- riage by divorce or annulment. The bride explained to her attorney that she was “disillusioned”; that | young Scarlett had misrepresented his financial standing. and that she haa | determined to leave him before they | returned to Washington together Thursday morning. Spokesmen for Scarlett pointed out that he could scarcely have misrepre- sented his financfal standing in view of his employment as a chauffeur for | the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Howard de Walden Cooke of Chevy Chase, Md Mrs, Scarlett told newspaper men at Union Station Wednesday morning that she and her husband “were very much in love” and she would stick to | him “1f he didn't have & shirt to his | back.” i “Never to Return” | | The girldisappeared, however, while Scarlett was facing charges in Rock- ville, Md., Police Court. Mrs. Cooke had accused the former chauffeur of making off with $5,000 worth of ner jewelry. Cleared of the charge, Scac- lett_hurried to rejoin his bride, only to find she had left his wedding ring and a note saying she was leaving and “would never return to Washing- ton.” Mrs. Scarlett was back last night at the home of her aunt, Mrs. John J, Madigan, in the Broadmoor Apart= ments. She told friends she had kept her whereabouts secret in order to avold an interview with her husband. Twenty-two-year-old Anne Cooke, who accompanied her sister and brother-in-law when they eloped to the South in Jane's automobile, also was stopping with Mrs. Madigan. Dogs Lost in Shuffle. The three young people took along Jane's two pet terriers when they left Washington, after cutting the tele- phone wires at the Cooke residence. It was learned yesterday that the body of one of the pets had been found near the scene of the automo- bile accident at Savannah, when Jane’s car was demolished, and that the other dog is still unreported. Thompson said he would not know whether Scarlett would contest the threatened annulment until the pe- tition was filed. He did say. howe ever, that his young client “had been subjected to great mental harassment and humiliation through his incarcer- ation and subsequent return here un- der arrest.” As for the bridegroom. he admitted things “had about gotten him,” but declared he still loved his wife. WINDOW BREAKER SHOT Policeman -Sl_ays Man Who Got Empty Liquor Cartons. CHICAGO, February 9 (P)—A shabbily dressed man gazed at a liquor display in a West Side tavern window today, then smashed the window, seized two whisky cartons and fled. Policeman Theodore Pierce pursued An order to halt was ignored. Pierce fired. The man fell dead, a bullet in his head On the bottom of the two cartons was printed: “Dummy cartons—for | window display only.”