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A—4 % PRICE’ EGOED C0ULD VERDE Jury Foreman Says It Would Have Been Different Had Man Been “Outsider.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 9.—The man in the case was “Prince Michael Ro- manoff” and that. the jury foreman has disclosed, iIs why Mrs. Wilma E. Gould holds a $25,000 verdict for conspiracy damages. Mrs. Gould charged the defendants | had hired the pseudo prince—in real- ity Harry Gerguson, erstwhile pants presser—to drug her and take her to his apartment to provide evidence for a divorce by Edward B. Gould. who married the plaintiff in Chicago 13 years ago. The defendant, who said they would appeal, are Norman J. Gould of Sen- eca Falls, the plaintiff’s brother-in- law and a former representative in | Congress; Ellwood W. Kemp, jr., at- torney; Gerard Luisi, and the Luisi Investigation Co., Inc, which he | heads. | “If it had been an ‘outside’ man | with whom the plaintiff was caught | n the flat, it would have been a dif- | ferent situation,” said Bruce Rey- nolds, novelist and jury foreman. | “But we thought that because the de- | fendants financed Gerguson they | ‘tramed’ her. { “Of course, I'm happy,” said Mrs. | Gould. “T'll return to work. I own @ dressmaking establishment, you know. And I'm a designer, not a | seamstress.” ALABAMA DECLARED | FIRST IN NEW DEAL QGov. Graves Addresses State So- ciety on “Distinguished Per- sonage Night.” Alabama has produced something besides a song hit and wining foot ball elevens, Gov. Bibb Graves told the Alabama State Society at the Willard Hotel last night. , He said the Btate was the incubator for the New Deal. “Long before the New Deal blos- somed forth in Washington, Alabama was living it,” he said. “Alabama always has put human welfare first.” It was ‘“distinguished personage night” at the dinner and dance to do honor to Alabama’s chief execu- tive. Among the speakers were Mrs. Graves, wife of the Governor; Secre- tary of War Dern; Senator McKellar | of Tennessee; Joseph B. Eastman, the railroad co-ordinator; Judge Eugene O. Sykes of the Federal Communica- tions Commission, Senators Bankhead and Black, Horace B. Russell, chief counsel of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board, and Representative Hill The entire Alabama delegation in Congress, with the exception of one. | attended the function. Host and hostess for the entertain- ment were Col. A. R. Brindley end | Mrs. H. O. Sargent. | FEBRUARY BUSINESS SHOWS 4.5 PCT. GAIN Ohio State University Study Dis- closes 7-Point Improvement Over Same Month Last Year. By the Associated Press. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9.—An | indication of impreved business condi- tions in Ohio came yesterday from the | Ohio State University Bureau of Busi- | ness Research. In its monthly report the bureau asserted industrial employment was up 4.5 per cent in February over Janu- ary and 7 per ceat over February 8 year ago. | The bureau attributed the February increase to “a greater-than-seasonal gain of 5.3 per cent in manufacturing and a contra-seascnal increase of 3.4 per cent in construction employment.” JOKE ON MOTHER NETS BANDITS $158 HOARD Five-Year-Old Girl Laughs Glee- fully as Three Men Lock Mama in Closet. CHICAGO (#)—It was a pretty good joke on mama, giggled Mrs. Nora Peich’s 5-year-old daughter. She laughed with glee at the novel sight of her mother being locked in a closet despite her vigorous protests, but she couldn't understand who were the three men who shut mama up. | Mrs, Peich was not so amused as | her daughter by the trio, who made off with $158 after ransacking the apartment. Troubles Multiply. PRATT, Kans. (#).—There are no surprises any more for the Gleason Long family. In two weeks their farm home burned, forcing a flight in night cloth- ing; at a temporary home with neigh- bors Long fell from a windmill and broke his leg; then the stork brought & baby. Merriam :4ccepts Call to Explain Townsend Views Fractious Legislature De- mands His Appearance. Party Torn by Issue. By the Assoclated Press. SACRAMENTO, Calif, March 9.— A showdown on his indorsement of the Townsend old-age pension plan was demanded of Gov. Frank F. Mer- riam yesterday and he promptly ac- cepted the challenge. After an obstreperous State Assem- bly had voted, 61 to 12, to “invite” the, Governor to explain on the floor of the House Monday his stand in the $200-per-month scheme, he said in San Francisco, “I shall be very glad to appear.” For the second successive day, the Townsend plan disrupted the Assem- bly’s routine work and tore asunder all party lines. Even the strongest single bloc in the Lower House, that composed of “Epic” Democrats, was shaken apart by the bitter argument over a Town- send plan resolution introduced Mrs. Wilma Gould being congrat hart, after verdict of $25,000 in her fa VG STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1935. ulated by her attorney, Henry Ether- vor in New York yesterday. She sued her brother-in-law, Norman J. Gould, and two others on charges they “framed” her to secure divorce evidence. PRSI REFEAL SFEN N CAPTOL Speedy Passage of Dough- ton Bill Forecast in House on Monday. By the Associated Press. With a vote set for Monday on the Doughton bill to repeal the “pink slip” publicity section of the income | law, predictions were freely made in | the Capitol today that the measure would be speedily passed by the House. | House members wishing to be out of the city Monday and wishing to make certain that their position on | the bill would be recorded when the vote is taken, were finding it hard | to locate members opposed to it 50 that their vote might be paired. Meanwhile, Raymond Pitcairn, public, sent Senator Norris, Republi- can, of Nebraska, a message saying that “because you are the Senate’s arch advocate of income tax' pub- licity, the Sentinels of the Republic brings to your attention the uprising of citizens against the malodorous unjust law.” Pitcairn's message added that in- come taxpayers were looking to the Senate “to join with the House in ac- tion for immediate repeal.” At the same time Pitcairn issued a statement that “under the magnifi- cent leadership of Chairman Dough- ton, sweeping victory in the House is assured.” “The organized and individual ef- | forts of all fighting for income pub- licity repeal must be focused on Sen- ator Pat Harrison, chairman of the, Senate Finance Committee, and your | Senators,” he added. AIR TRAFFIC SO THICK CRASHES ARE FEARED Navy Officers Ask Civic Leaders of San Diego, Calif., to Seek Regulations. By the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Calif, March 9.—Air traffic between San Diego and Los An- geles has reached the point where the Navy believes something ought to be done to diminish the danger of mid- air collisions. Describing the air lanes between the two cities as the “busiest in the United States,” two high ranking na- val officers today pleaded with civic leaders to seek air traffic safety regu- lations from the Department of Com- merce. Rear Admiral H. V. Butler, com- mander of Battle Force aircraft, and Comdr. V. F. Grant, operations officer at North Island, suggested recom- mendations for rulings making it mandatory for northbound planes to fly at altitudes of odd numbered thou- sands of feet (1,000, 3,000, etc.), and southbound planes at even numbered altitudes. Such regulations would re- duce the chance for collision, the offi- cers stated. LA FOLLETTE PREPARES OWN WORKS PROGRAM ‘Wisconsin Governor Will Submit Plan to State After Budget Bill Is Passed. By the Associated Press. MADISON, Wis., March 9.—Gov. Philip F. La Follette, standard bearer of the new Progressive party, last night declared the time had come fora fundamental change in the govern- mental policy of meeting the depres- sion and outlined four kinds of pub- lic and private works, he said, would give employment to upward of 350,000 Wisconsin men for one to two years, if done all at once. In a radio address the Governor said he has prepared the plan which would be financed by Federal, State and local governments, but that he would not reveal its details until the Wisconsin Legislature had disposed the general budget bill. R STORM WRECKS FAMILY CHICAGO, March 9 (#).—A tor- nado 15 years ago was blamed for the George Kroeger. Coroner’s jurors wondered why his wife had slashed her throat and that of her daughter, Shirley, aged 7, until he told of the tornado. The storm, Thursday by Assemblyman Lyon, Re- publican, of Los Angeles, as an ad- ministration measure. 4 he said, caused the derangement that resulted in the tragedy. Mrs. Kroeger died. Shirley, doctors said,-would re- cover., ’ chairman of the Sentinels of the Re- | tragedy that came into the life of || Marriage on Dole Justified by Vicar In Defending Poor BROMLEY-BY-BOW, England (P).—Marriage on the dole? The vicar of St. Michael's Church, Rev. Kenneth Ashcroft, believes in it, and adds: “It is no more shameful or un- reasonable for a man to marry on a public allowance than the Duke of Kent. I do not see how any one can deny this unless they are prepared to admit quite frankly that there is one law for the rich and another for the KIANGSU IS SWEPT BY BLACK FEVER | Thousands Reported Dying of Oriental Scourge_ in Chi- | nese Province. | By the Associated Press. | HAICHOW, Kiangsu Province, China, March 9.—A baffling Oriental scourge —black fever—which comes from no- where to wipe out whole villages—is ravaging large areas in this coastal province, As American men and women medi- cal missionaries rallied their every re- source to cope with the emergency, thousands were dying like flies for want of adequate hospital resources. ‘The disease, curable if scientifically treated in time, aflected an area of 25,000 square miles in which 5,006000 Chinese live. Working furiously against time, the American Southern Presbyterian mis- sion here and the American Mission Hospital at Tsingkiangpu, 100 miles to the southwest, where three other American physicians were fighting the epidemic, have converted school bnild- ings into emergency hospitals. Elsewhere in the disease area were other medical missionaries exerting every effort to stem the tide of the epidemic. Few victims, in proportion to the uncounted thousands of sufferers, could be cared for in the American institutions, however, due to their limited facilities. Chinese private “hospitals” springing up through the distressed area only add to the death toll, missionaries here said, by using unscientific methods ACCUSED OF EXTORTION Oklahoma Farmer Arrested in Threat to Mail Carrier. VINITA, Okla, March 9 (P).— County Attorney Frank Haymes filed charges of extortion yesterday against Glen Nading, 30, farmer, after officers said they saw him pick up currency left in response to a death-threat note. The note was addressed to William Neill, mail carrier, who got it from Nading’s box during a tour of duty. The note read: “We want you to leave $500 in $20 bills tomorrow or we will Kl you” Bhe Forning Ftae B o Is an Authorized DVERTISENENTS f ReCEIVED HERE Dupont Pharmacy—1905 Mass. Ave. N.W. EXPEDITE WORLD BRAINTRUSTPLAN Americans Go to Paris for Talks on Economic Commission. / By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 9.—Immediate steps were taken today to carry out the recommendations of the unofficial international conference, designed to create an international brain trust to advise the world on methods of re- storing economic confidence and se- curity. Peter Molyneaux, editor of the Texas Weekly, and Henry Haskell, repre- sentative of the Carnegle Endowment for International Peace, which spon- sored the 10-power conference which closed here Thursday, went to Paris early today. Confer on Commission. They will confer with United States | and French representatives of the In- | ternational Chamber regarding the | creation of a commission proposed by | the conference. | This commission was urged “to make a comprehensive and exhaustive survey of international economic rela- tions to the end that a better under- standing of these relations by the peoples of the world may be pro- moted.” “We want the best men available,” said Molyneaux, “not necessarily offi- cials of the endowment or the cham- | ber.” | Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, presi- | dent of the foundation, who directed | the proceedings at Chatham House | here, expressed gratification that the | conference came to specific conclu- sions as to what steps should be taken for the settlement of governmental | debts, lowering of the tariffs and the stabilization of currencies. Close Co-operation Sought. He said recommendations for the strengthening of the League of Na- | tions and the Treaty of Paris were | “especially directed at getting closer co-operation of the United States, Japan and Germany in the family of nations,” and “big arms appropria- tions by the United States and Britain were discussed from the viewpoint that they are complicating rather than simplifying a solution to economic problems.” | Dr. and Mrs. Butler will sail for New York Wednesday. —_— NEWSPAPER READING - URGED UPON STUDENTS Dr. Dennis, President of Earlham College, Advocates Practice in Address. Newspapers should be read more extensively by college students, in the opinion of Dr. William Cullen Dennis, president of Earlham College, in In- diana. % Speaking before the Earlham Alumni Club at the American Asso- ciation of University Women’s club house last night, Dr. Dennis said students were being urged to read the papers in a new course now given &t Earlham on “The Daily News.” “Students ought to make the world better,” he said, “and if they are to do that they must be trained to be | intelligently aware of what is going | on in the world.” On resignation of Carroll Ken- | worthy as secretary of Earlham Club here, James H. Ronald was elected to succeed him. A committee on con- stitution and by-laws was appointed including Dr. D. N. Shoemaker, presi- dent; Mr. Ronald, Mr. Kenworthy, Miss Margaret Stanley and Miss Ada Eiseman. —_— SAN ANTONIO CLUBMAN SLAIN, WOMAN ACCUSED Shooting Is Described as Accident | During Scuffle Over Pistol. By the Associated Press. HOUSTON, Tex., March 9.—Mrs. Jeanette Shelton, 30, pretty San An- tonio widow, was charged yesterday | with the murder of Fred Spencer, | 46-year-old San Antonio clubman, | who was found dying of a pistol wound | in a hotel suite bath room here Thurs- day night as Mrs. Shelton screamed | frantically. Unaware Speucer had died, Mrs. Shelton described the shooting as an accident. “We were scuffling over a pistol,” she was quoted as saying, “and I was trying to take it awsy from him.” SEA AIRLINE PLANNED SANTA MONICA, Calif, March 9 (#)—With the announced purpose of eventually exploring the South Sea Islands to determine the feasibility of an interisland air service, the South Seas Commercial Co. was granted & permit yesterday to issue stock. Donald Douglas of the Douglas Air- craft Co. is head of the new company. Associated with him are T. C. Mec- Mahon, Harold Gatty and Moe M. Fogel. Star Branch Office - 'UST think of talking to practically every- body, in and around Washington at once. 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