Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1935, Page 4

TRINIDAD T0 PRESS PLAYGROUND FIGHT Citizens Take Action De- spite Lack of Funds by Park Commission. The Trinidad Citizens’ Association will continue its fight for the estab- lishment of a playground in that area, it was decided last night at a meeting in the Wheatley School, al- though a committee reported no funds are available at this time. The committee, headed by H. E. Shilling, said the National Capital Park and Planning Commission would be unable to purchase the site sug- gested by the association. The pro- posed playground is bounded by Oren Holbrook, Neal and Oates streets. An effort will be made by the com- mittee to secure permission from the owners of the proposed playground for the children to play there tempo- Tarily. Aid of Lawmakers Sought. Mrs. Katherine B. Shilling and a committee will go before Senator Royal S. Copeland of New York and the chairmen of the House and Sen- ate District Committees, seeking and for the playground project. A resolution was adopted suggesting that only residents of the District be appointed to positions in the District government. This action was taken following a request by the Cathedral Heights and Cleveland Park Citizens’ Associations. To relieve the congestion of Fif- teenth and H streets the association recommended to the District Commis- sioners the opening of Seventeenth street from Bladensburg road to Ben- ning road. President George J. Cleary reported the Northeast Conference was backing the request of this asso- ciation for two bridges across the railroad tracks to connect this area with the Woodridge-Brookland sec- tion. Larger Police Force Urged. A resolution was adopted to be sent to the House and Senate Ristrict Committees recommending that 141 policemen be added to the Metropoli- tan Police Department. H. E. Shill- ing told the association the cost would be approximately $300,000. Recommendations were sent to the Highway Department for curbing and & storm sewer at the southeast corner of Bladensburg road and Neal street and a storm sewer near New York avenue and Bladensburg road. | The association indorsed the rec- | ommendations of the District Com- | missioners for an appropriation of ! $100,000 for the replacement of school furnaces. The work of the Washing- ton Housing Committee also was in- dorsed. Shrine Committee Named. A committee was appointed to study | the observance of the legal holidays by the business houses. The corpora- tion counsel will be asked to determine if the District has any law to enforce the closing of the stores. The following committee was named to arrange for the decorations in this area for the Shrine Convention in June: Dr. Charles Rich, Martin G. Stecker, H. E. Shilling, D. A. Fulton, L. M. McVearry, Irwin E. Burneston, J. E. Peck, John Geiger and Virgil Brown. SOCIAL REGISTER FAILS TO INCLUDE M’KELLAR Memphis Publication, However, Lists Brother of Senator, Who Is Postmaster. By the Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., February 26.— United States Senator Kenneth D. McKellar and William Harold (Mem- phis Bill) Terry, manager of the New York Giants base ball team, were among those whose names were not included in Memphis’ first Social Reg- ister, released yesterday. Senator McKellar’s brother, Post- master H. C. McKellar, is among the chosen. So is Walter Chandler, mem- ber of the National House of Repre- sentatives from Memphis. Capt. Z. N. Estes, Memphis attor- ney, included in New York City’s last volume, is not listed in his home-town register. Some of those not listed may have failed to return questionnaires sent to them. No charge was made for the insertion of names. _ ANTI-GOVERNMENT CRY DISRUPTS PARLIAMENT Two Ejected From Gallery Afte!" Scattering Leaflets — 400 Communists Routed. By the Associated Press. LONDON, February 26.—The House of Commons had another disturbance over unemployment relief last night. Maj. Walter Elliot, minister for agriculture, was speaking when two men in the public gallery leaped to their feet and yelled “Down with the unemployment act—down with _the national government!” i They hurled leaflets on to the floor before they were seized and ejected. For a second time police rushed dis- turbers to the street, clearing the lobby when 400 Communists gath- ered in it. The Communists set up a prolonged roar, “Down with the na- tionalist government!” which was con- tinued outside of the Parliament buildings. —_— CHICAGO PRIMARY QUIET Only One Precinct Shows In- terest, and That on Liquor Sales. CHICAGO, February 26 (#).—Chi- cago's primary today had voters’ in- terest at fever pitch—in one precinct. The wet and dry question pertain- ing to sales bobbed up in the forty- fourth precinct of the seventh ward, but elsewhere enthusiasm was at low ebb, with Mayor Edward J. Kelly picked by his supporters to ‘“repeat” on the Democratic ticket by an over- ‘whelming majority. The three other Democratic aspirants are Martin Powroznik, James Fred Robertson and John P. O'Meara. Three volunteers represent the Re- publican party, which failed to select a favorite. They are Mrs. Grace Gray, first woman candidate for the post; Emil Wetten, attorney, and Mortimer B. Flynn, coal man. —_— Fruit Packers End Strike. BRAWLEY, Calif., February 26 (®). —The Pruit and Vegetable Packers’ Association announced yesterday that at & meeting its members had voted to return to work in the lettuce sheds of the Imperial, Valley. The associa- tion members walked out 13 days ago in sympathy with a strike called by the PFrujt and Vegetable Workers" Union. ¢ / | | Left: Mrs. Wilma E. Gould, on her way to court in New York yesterday to begin suit against Norman J. Gould; Anna Gould, Elwood Kemp, jr., attorney, and Gerard A. Luisi, a detective. $500,000, alleging they conspired to obtain divorce evidence for Edward Gould. Right: “Prince Michael Romanoff,” known to police as Harry Gerguson, stowaway and night club enter- tainer (left), en route to court, where he denied he plotted against Mrs. Gould. On the right is Luisi, the detec- tive. Gerguson is charged with having doped Mrs. Gould's coffee and carrying her to his apartment so that THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935. Wed 50 Years “Prince” Denies Mrs. Gould’s Copyright, A. P. Wirephotos. Gould could name him as co—respm;dent. MARITAL VILLAINY LA T0 “PRINCE “Mike” Gerguson Accused by Mrs. E. B. Gould of Plot to Compromise Her. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, February 26.—Broad- way and Park Avenue, who knew him “when,” bent a fond ear today to latest accounts of the goings-on of an old-time favorite, “Prince Mike,” the last of the Gergusons. Prince Mike, pretender to Romanoff heritage, but known in official circles as plain Harry Gerguson, a Hillsboro, 1L, boy, is designated the villian in a $500.000 conspiracy suit by Mrs. Wilma E. Gould against her husband’s rela- tives for alleged efforts to break a $450-a-month separation agreement. Gerguson, Mrs. Gould testified in her initial appearance in court, drugged her and carried her to his apartment, where she said he created a compromising situation for the bene- fit of her husband and detectives who burst into the apartment. Her husband is Edward B. Gould, wealthy furniture manufacturer of Seneca, N. Y. Four Are Sued. She is bringing the action against her brother-in-law, former Repre- sentative Norman J. Gould of Seneca; his wife, Mrs. Anna Gould; an attor- ney. and a private detective agency. The ears of “Prince Mike” crim- soned yesterday as he leaned on his cane and heard Mrs. Gould relate what happened after she drank a demi-tasse at dinner with him. “I heard a great noise and knock- ing,” she said. “My head was aching terribly. I found I was all wound up in bedclothes and couldn’t move. I saw Romanoff run to open the door. He was partly undressed. Suddenly the room seemed full of people. They pulled the clothes off me and I heard one man say: ‘Do you recognize this woman as your wife?” Then I saw my husband.” Entered as Stowaway. Gerguson has enlivened life both on Broadway and Park avenue since he arrived here in 1923 as Prince Obolenski, and then in 1932 as a stowaway on the Ile de France, mak- ing a top-deck dog kennel his ac- commodation. Lately he has been busy in night c;ubs and played in a musical com- edy. During the interim he has been the object of constant attention by immigration officials, arrested on nu- merous occasions, indicted by a Fed- eral grand jury for illegal entry into the United States, in jail a couple of times—the last a few months ago on a worthless chaek charge—and wined and dined at odd times as “Russian royalty.” At present he is under probation from Federal Court. MARINE TERROR REIGN PROBE ASKED BY BLACK | Alabaman Holds Up Confirma- tion of Nomination of Russell as Major General. By the Assoclated Press. A Senate investigation of charges ?;{, a “reign o{;rror” in the Marine S spoke in connection with the pending Senate confirmation of the nomina- tion of John H. Russell, Marine Gorps commandant, for promotion to major general. Black, who has been holding up ac- tion on the nominations of Russell and Brig. Gen. Richard P. Williams, said he wanted the Naval Affairs Com- mittee to inquire into charges that the Selections Board, which makes Black added that it would be neces- sary for the committee to subpoena witnesses, oecause cfficers of the corps said “There is a perfect reign of terror in the Marine Corps and that they could not testify unless called.” HURL ‘MATH’ CHALLENGE West Point Cadets Ready to Take All Comers in Contest. West Point’s “mathletes”—a word coined by the cadets—are ready to meet those of any educational insti- tution in a mathematical contest The chailenge to all comers has |} been posted with Congress by Maj. Gen. William D. Connor, superintend- ent of the Military Acaderiy, who initiated a mathematical confest with Harvard in 1933, which the cadets won, Gen. Connor said it created as much enthusiasm at “the Point” as Army winning ball classic from fhe Navy. He is endeavoring to arrange another “math” contest wjth Harvard this year, s an_annual foot |{ Mrs. Gould is suing for Lie Detector Wins Legal Recognition | By Use at Trial | Judge Permits Findings | | of Machine Be Bared | Before Jury. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, February 26.—The le detector has finally won legal recogni- | procedure. | ings of the lie detector to be used in evidence before a jury in a shooting trial. | | “It is a signal victory for those who | believe in scientific crime detection,” |sald Leonard Keeler, director of | Northwestern University’s crime de-| tection laboratory and inventor of the lie detector. | The Wisconsin jurist was Judge C. F. van Pelt. He presided at a trial in Green Lake County of Tony Grig- | nano and Cecil Loniello, charged with assault with intent to murder Sheriff Robert Roche. | The lie detector was strapped to| Loniello. When asked if he shot the sheriff a violent fluctuation was| recorded. His response to a query as to whether he was driving the car shcwed only a mild fluctuation. Grignano's response to the shoot- ing question showed the ‘“normal” | fluctuation, but as to driving the auto- mobile it was violent. WEST VIRGINIA LIQUOR BILL SIGNED BY KUMP When State Monopoly System Will Be Set Up, However, Still Is in Doubt. By the Associated Press. CHARLESTON, W. Va., February 26.—Gov. H. G. Kump last night signed West Virginia's liquor control bill, creating a State monopoly. ‘The measure, providing for a three- man bi-partisan control commission, is effective March 1. State officials are uncertain, however, when the con- trol system will be set up. President Charles E. Hodges of the State Senate has said sale of liquor will not be effective until the commis- sion actually perfects the monopcly system. Under the bill sales of liquor by the drink are barred in West Virginia, even on dining cars. The commission 1s empowered to establish retail stores and to furnish especially designated agencies with supplies. 1 CLEARANCE $30, 35 SUITS O’COATS 222 NOTHING DOWN—Pay $7.50 IN MARCH $7.50 IN APRIL $7.50 IN MAY Actual $30 and $35 values at $22.50. These Suits and 0’Coats were taken from our regular stock and reduced. All-wool fabrics, splendid] tailored. Newest models an shades. All si 2 tion, and crime experts are looking forward to its increased use in court | A Wisconsin judge allowed the find- | | panies to milk and foodstuffs, dele- UTLTES CNTR BY PUBL URCE Federal Reserve System Mark Parley Closing. Climaxing a five-day conference, | during which they went on record as | favoring public ownership and con- trol of every public utility from the | Federal Reserve, light and power companies, gas, light and water com- | gates to the Public Ownership League | conference last night® banqueted at the Willard Hotel and today were en route home. Following several speeches on the fallacies of the Federal Reserve sys- tem, one of them by former Senator Robert L. Owen, author of the re- serve act of 1913, the conference last night adopted a resolution calling for public ownership and control of the system and the expansion of the cur- rency to the limit allowed by law. The resolution was introduced by J. E. Bennett, city commissioner of Port- land, Oreg., chairman of the league's National Telephone Committee. Earlier in the day, Bennett scored the Federal Reserve and private bank- ing systems. referring to them as “dis- honest and dangerous.” He blamed | the depression on monetary ills and | the unsound banking policies and the | manipulation of the two by private | individuals. { Other speakers at the final sessions of the conference were Representative Willilam Lemke, Republican, North Dakota; Representative Wright Pat- man, Democrat, Texas; F. J. Collins, representing Father Charles E. Cough- lin; John Bauer, director of the American Public Utilities Bureau; Rev. John A. Ryan of Catholic Uni- versity, J. D. Ross of Seattle, Wash., Speeches on Fallacies of 5 Plot Charge NA"[]NAI. DEF[NSF PROGRAM SPEEDED Bills Pushed in Congress to Spend Millions for Armaments. By the Associated Press. America’s national defense struc- ture will be strengthened by more than three-quarters of a billion dol- lars, under & program now being pushed toward completion in Congress. Indorsement was given by the House Naval Committee yesterday to a raeas- ure designed to authorize the Navy to spend $38,000,000 in building up bases from New England to the Pacific Coast and from Samoa and Hawali to the Canal Zone. $26,000,000 for Pacific Area. Last week, the House passed & $379,000,000 War Department supply bill. Planning to modernize the Army by expenditure of $405,000,000, a mili- tary subcommittee laid plans for hearings. The Navy public works bill would permit an expenditure of $26,000,000 on the Pacific Coast and in Hawaii alone. It has been given administra- tion approval. The Army program was sent to Capitol Hill with the hearty indorse- ment of the War Department, but the White House view has not been made known. A bill is yet to be drafted. Smooth Sailing for Navy Bill. The Navy measure is expected to glide through the House with little formidable opposition. A thornier path has been predicted, however, for the Army modernization plan, which would embrace heavy ex- penditures for arms, ammunition, air- craft, coast defenses, the National Guard, mechanization and housing. Military committee members recalled bitter words hurled from some quar- ters as the War Department appropri- nteig.nwbm ran the gauntlet of House e e SCHOOLS ARE CLOSED BY TEACHERS’ STRIKE Third Walkout in Pennsylvania Community in Recent Months Gives 1,100 Pupils Holiday. By the Associated Press, SCRANTON, Pa., February 26— Thirty teachers went quietly on strike in nearby Mayfleld Borough yester- day, closing the public schools for the third time in little more than a year. Eleven hundred children were given another enforced vacation as the teachers remained away from their classes in an effort to force payment of back salaries. The school board blames non- payment of taxes for the situation. Parents have taken no part in the controversy. A local union of the United Mine Workers indorsed the strike. “The strike will continue until our demands are met,” said Miss Sadie Quinn, president of the Teachers’ Association. MAN DISCOVERED SLAIN IN AUTOMOBILE TRAILER Police Attracted to Vehicle by Dog’s Howling Believe He Was Suicide. By the Associated Press. PREEPORT, Il February 26— Attracted by the howling of a dog, police yesterday found the well-dressed body of a man about 45 years old in an automobile trailer which had been parked in a vacant lat here since Friday. and Carl D. Thompson, secretary of the league. Australia Escapes Strikes. strikes in the last year. GIFTS & HOME FU 106 Y 1m ll!g .00 9 in. $1.35 10 in. $1. FAM desserts and salads, L cakes, pound and fruit flga. rice or m. ns | sis SET OF 4 COVERS 75¢ New DEEP- 2Cup 4Cup 6Cop 12Cwp suicide. (BHINGS SINCE 1847 STREET SPRING PARADE DI GENUINE “’ear—Ever’l MINUM &/ SAUCE PAN SET @ Silvery pans of extra hard, thick s sheet Aluminum. PRICE MAY NOT S DOUBLE BOILERS [“3"-T%= more water. Extra hard, thick RES. sheet Aluminum. $1.95 1o § 20 .90 Il’-! $75 'll!m. ."E FRY PANS T 81n.$1.25 91081 ous TuiplTesd 3 QT. RING MOLD COFFEE MAKERS acur scw 5185 3925 O Make de- licious coffee. Good House- reaxs keeping Appd. L] 2Cwp 4Cw 8Cw 3165 37 5280 1] $]05 3175 323 Officers said they believed the man's name was Bunde and that he formerly Hved in Knox, Ind. He had been killed by a charge from a shotgun which lay on the floor of the trailer. The cir- Australia was practically free of |cumstances, they said, indicated [FORD BID INVITED ON . C. . CARS War Department Takes Definite Step to End N. R. A. Feud. GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATED HERE. By tho Associated Press. The War Department yesterday sent Henry Ford an invitation to bid on 4,910 trucks and automobiles, to cost approximately $4,000,000. In doing so the department took a definite step toward the long-standing feud between Ford and the N. R. A. Ford for many months was not in- vited to bid on Government purch- ases and his bids were thrown out be- cause he had declined to sign the automobile code. He was definitely invited, along with the code signers to submit figures on the new lot of MR. AND MRS. WALTER E. SMITH Of 31 M street northwest, who are today celebrating the fiftieth an- their marraige at home ACTRESS SAYS MATHER ADMITTED ‘LADY FRIEND’ cars and trucks to be used by the Civilian Conservation Corps. New Code May Ease Feud. In an authoritative quarter it was sald that before March 23, when the bids are to be opened, Army officials expect the N. R. A. to have revised existing code compliance requirements 80 as to make a Ford bid acceptable. Ford recently sold 400 cars the Department of Commerce and smaller lots to other governmental depart- ments, but complications attended other attempted sales. Other “Hold-Outs” Mentioned. N. R. A. cfficials are now working on revised compliance requirerients. These, understood to have tentative approval of President Roosevelt, would permit future bids by Ford, Sears- Roebuck and several other large firms now listed as N. R. A. “hold-outs.” N. R. A. now demands that all bid- ders on Government purchases sign affidavits guaranteeing their com- pliance with existing N. R. A. regu- lations and provisions, and that they will continue to comply in the future. Cocoon Monopoly Formed. China’s monopoly to control cocoon production has been organized. Dorothy Devore Claims S8he Gave Husband $200 Check to “Pay oft” Girl. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, February 26.—Two months after marrying A. W. Mather, wealthy importer, Dorothy Devore, movie actress, gave him a check for $200 to “pay off” one of his former “lady friends,” the actress testified yesterday in the Superior Court trial of Mather’s suit to set aside a $75,000 property settlement he made upon her at the time of their divorce a year ago. “Mr. Mather came to me and said a girl he knew was going trouble for him,” Miss Devo: “and that the only way he stopping it was to give her a signed by me, which would show knew all about it.” In his suit, Mather contends he fraudulently induced to make the property settlement upon his wife’s representation that she had always been “good and faithful” when the truth was she was carrying on an affair with Don Jacobson, s mutual friend. PROTEST ON MILITARY TRAINING ABANDONED West Virginia Students Decide to Carry Fight to Legislature and School Heads. By the Associated Press. MORGANTOWN, W. Va., Pebruary 26.—West Virginia University students have called off their meeting to pro- test compulsory military training and instead will place their case before the Legislature and the University Board of Governors. The protest movement was started after Donald Graham of Darby, Pa., Arthur G. Bishop. Marvin A. Cus Vernon G. Owen Edward C. Baitz. Franklin W. Harper Raymond K. Espey. William H. Dyer. . was expelled because he declined to iy take military training, saying he was DIRECTORS: a “conscientious objector.” Twelve 1934-1935 other students were given warnings and it was said on the campus today they probably will “sign up” before the deadline tonight. George Lambert, chairman of a student committee planning the pro- test meeting, said the students have decided to approach “both the Board of Governors and the State Legisla- ture on the matter rather than take any direct action at this time.” ‘rthur G. Bishop Marvin A. Custis Edward C. Baltz Franklin W. Harper ing money. 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