Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1935, Page 4

ROOSEVELT BACKS HOPKINS IN' OHIO F. E. R. A. Chief Takes Re- lief Reins in State, Charg- ing “Corruption.” (Continued From First Page.) March money, Hopkins released an- other $2,000,000. A like sum, bring- ing the total Federal grant for March to $8,000,000, is due next week. Davey nevertheless renewed his re- quest and rumors sprank up of a “compromise.” Hopkins commented grimly yester- day that “this is the complete answer to any such talk,” and said Charles C. Stillman. a regional director, “will be in Columbus in the morning” to take charge as Federal administrator. He declared the State administrator, W. A. Walls, had “no Federal status,” and that he believed the Ohio Legis- Jature now would be “more likely” to vote additional relief funds. *He said, however, there was a “pos- sibility” State funds would be admin- istered separately. Text of Letter. The text of the President’s let- ter: “My Dear Mr. Hopkins: I have examined the evidence concerning corrupt_political interfereace with relief in the State of Ohio. Such interference cannot be tolerated for a moment. I wish you to pur- sue these investigations diligently and let the chips fall where they may. “This administration will not permit a relief population of Ohio to become the innocent victims of either corruptica or political chi- canery. j “You are authorized and di- rected forthwith to assume entire control of the administration of Federal relief in the State of Ohio.” Hopkins' Letter to Davey. The letter from Hopkins to Gov. | Davey said: “This is to inform you that pur- suant to the order of the President the Federal Emergency Relief Ad- ministration will take over the admin- istration of Federal unemployment relief in Ohio effective at once. “It has come to the attention of this administration by incontroverti- ble evidence that your Campaign Committe shortly after your election proceeded to solicit money from the men and business firms who sold goods to the Ohio Relief Adminis- traticn. “The frank purpose of this shake- down, because it can be termed fairly by no other name, was to help pay off the deficit of your campaign and the expenses of your inaugural. “The further apparent purpose Was to make some of the officers of the Relief Administration solicit these funds in order to retain their jobs. “Evidence Incontrovertible.” “The evidence of this corruption is. I repeat, incontrovertible. Investi- gators on behalf of this administration have secured the signed and sworn confessions of the men who solicited the funds, and the names of the men who paid into the fund which your committee raised. “These affidavits show definitely the sources of an amount in excess of $8,000 which was thus raised by this corrupt solicitation and paid into your campaign committee. “This evidence. of course, not only established the utter unfitness of some of the men who are now in high posi- tion in the relief administration, but it demonstrates the necessity of safe- guarding the expenditure of Federal funds in Ohio. “Under the circumstances there is no alternative for this administration but to take over immediately the responsibility of directly administering the Federal funds available for Ohio relief. Promises Speedy Action. “You may be sure that this will be done at once and that nothing will be permitted to cause delay in provid- ing for Ohio's needy unemployed. “You must also understand, and understand clearly, that this action will not relieve the State of Ohio and its local subdivisions from continuing to contribute its share of the funds necessary to care for the needs of your citizens. “Let rge say further that the evidence which has been secured by this in- vestigation will be available at once to the Attorney General of Ohio and to any of the county prosecutors who may determine what, if any, criminal prosecutions should follow.” TWO NEW INQUIRIES ORDERED BY SENATE Morro Castle and Mohawk Dis- asters and Cotton Slump to Be Probed. By the Associated Press. The always curious Senate yester- day indulged its hobby by ordering two new investigations—en inquiry into the Morro Castle and Mohawk disasters and into the recent drop in cotton prices. It voted $15,000 to inquire into the ship disaster that cost more than 100 lives and then made $10,000 available for the attempt to learn why cotton fell more than $9 a bale on March 11. The funds for the probes were reduced in each instance. For the ship inquiry, $50,000 had been asked and for the cotton study. $25,000. Eager to get under way, Chairman | tween a mountie and a the Southerner is of & warmer na- Barbara Will Divorce Prince; M’Cormic Hunts Wider Game MARY McCORMIC. Opera Star Deserts Her Royal Mountie for Blond Texan. By the Associated Press. AMARILLO., Tex., March 16.— Mary McCormic, opera singer and erstwhile Princess Serge Mdivani, is after wilder game. “Man-hunting is too tame” she confided today as she prepared for a hunting trip on her father’s ranch in Northern New Mexico. “I want to rough it out close to nature. I want to hunt deer, coyotes and animals that are really wild. Men are get- ting too sissy; he-men are disappear- ing—becoming a bunch of softies.” The thrice-married, now-blond diva said her latest heart interest was a “tall, blond Texas ranger.” “He has crowded, but not entirely replaced, my royal mounties,” she said, referring to the Canadian policeman whose name was linked romantically with hers several months ago. Southerner “Warmer.” “All all, the only difference be- nger is that ture,” she explained. Miss McCormic boasted of a royal mounted police badge, which she said was given to her by her Canadian friend. Asked if—like the mounted police—she “always got her man,” she replied laconically: “I always have.” The operatic star said she would be accompanied on the hunting trip by only one man. Whether that man was her grocer-father, J. H. Harris of Amarillo; the “tall, blond ranger.” or some one else, she declined to say. Rests in Texas. Miss McCormic cafhe to Amarillo | after withdrawing from a concert troupe on the West Coast to “recuper- ate from the effects of laryngitis and a strenuous tour.” The first day after her arrival she was in & “most unromantic mood,” having substituted “sweat baths for romance.” The next day she was thrilled by a telegram from George Givot, whom she described as her latest and only fiancee. The next found her talking romantically of a Texas ranger,’and by tHe fourth she had decided that men were a bunch of softies. CHACO PEACE PLAN REPORTED ACCEPTED Paraguay May Allow Other Na- tions to Pursue Course for Settlement. By the Associated Press. BUENOS AIRES, March 16 —Ad- vices from Asuncion tonight said it was learned on good authority that Paraguay has accepted the good offices of Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru to settle the Chaco war. ‘The new formula sponsored by Ar- | gentina and Chile, which f§ based in part on the League of Nations plan,; rejected by Paraguay, meets with the approval of the Paraguayan govern- ment, it was asserted. However, official circles in Asuncion were described as unwilling to con- sider any plan put forward by the League of Nations, from which Para- guay has withdrawn, until the League’s arms embargo against her is lifted. (A dispatch from La Paz yesterday quoted the war ministry as saying Bolivia would accédpt no peace plan except the League's, and that only with the provision that the warring forces withdraw to the lines occupied at the time the plan was put for- ward.) - EYE-OPENER DECLARED - VALUABLE FOR SENATE Glass Says Hayden Counted Sight Unseen Vote on Relief Bill Phase. By the Associated Press. Some members of the Senate believe some of their colleagues need an eye- opener. Carter Glass of Virginia contended yesterday that when Senator Hayden, Democrat, of Arizona, who was presid- ing, counted the votes on an amend- ment to the rellef bill he had his Copeland, Democrat, New York, of the Commerce Committee named himself, Fletcher of Florida and Shepherd of Texas, Democrats, and Johnson of California and White of Maine, Re- publicans, to take over the ship dis- aster investigation, beginning tomor- row, B BOMB WRECKS BRIDGE WILKES-BARRE, Pa, March 16 (#).—A railroad bridge and several homes were dynamited tonight as vio- lence broke out anew in the coal mine strike in which 29 union officers were jailed several hours earlier for con- tempt of court. The explosion which virtually wrecked the bridge followed by less than an hour a dynamiting that dam- aged six miners’ homes in the Empire section of Wilkes-Barre. No one was injured in either blast. Police said owners of five of the dwellings were members of the United “Anthracite Miners of Pennsylvania, the striking union. Insurance Man Dies. KANSAS CITY, March 16 (P).— James P. Somerville, 70, general agent of the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co.. and president of Co-operative In- ternational in 1921, died today of heart disease. * eyes closed. Senator McNary, Republican, of Oregon, later moved to reconsider the vote on the amendment. “I think it should be reconsidered,” Glass , “because I don’t think the chair used both eyes when he counted.” S MAN AWAITING DEATH PLAYS IN PRISON BAND By the Associated Press. LANSING, Kans., March 16.—Con- demned to the gallows, William Quinn, 51-year-old colored man, sounds no notes of fear as he toots a horn in the Kansas State Prison Band. He'll never hang—thanks to a strange twist of fate and technicalities of the law. For 30 years, the man has been held under a sentence of death for a murder in Wyandotte County. ‘The law required he be kept at hard labor one year before his execution. He toiled a year in the prison’s deep coal mine. ‘The execution date came and went and Quinn continued to dig coal. Ed- ward W. Hock, then Governor, chose not to sign the death warrant. Then the Legislature abolished capital pun- ishment. Last week the re-established capital punishment, but the new law is not retroactive, A ‘ THE SUNDAY BARBARA HUTTON. T Heiress Hides in London | After Maid Makes Announcement. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March 16.—Barbara Hut- ton is getting ready to divorce her Asia Minor prince, Alexis Mdivani, | after all. | A laconic announcement tonight llrom her hotel suite, where she has been in virtual seclusion since she | arrived from Paris this week, said her | lawyer has been instructed to insti- tute divorce proceedings. Only Thursday the Woolworth helress, whose fortune has been esti- | mated as high as $42,000,000, had is- sued another of her many denials that her marriage was near a break- | up. | . “We are very happy.” she said then, | “and have had no quarrel.” | She said definitely she would rejoin | ! her prince in London or Paris “within | about two weeks.” | Just why she is divorcing Mdivani, whom she married in Paris June 20, 1933, her brief announcement did not | say. | Heiress Is Upset. | Her maid and masseuse was all the | company “Bobby” had at her hotel, | knew only that “she is apparently | very upset and has acted very strange- |ly since coming here.” “She very seldom leaves her room,” the maid said. The heiress came to London alone. she said Thursday, “instead of tag- ging after” her husband to Spain. Tonight the prince was reported either in Barcelona or en route there in company with his sister, Mme. Sert, the wife of the Spanish painter. Although it was considered unlikely | that Barbara and her prince would | get together within the specified “two | weeks” in view of her statement that he was also going to Venice to ar- | range for reopening of their home | there this Summer, the heiress in- sisted in her interview Thursday that they would not be separated longer. Woolworth Heiress. Barbara, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Franklyn L. Hutton and heiress to a large share of the Woolworth 5-and-10-cent-store millions, was married to Prince Alexis in Paris on | June 20, 1933. { Less than a year later her father was steaming toward London to coun- sel the princess in a rift that had de- veloped between her and her husband. | Since then reports of an estrangement | have cropped up frequently, and have | been almost as frequently denied. Last November the couple celebrated the princess’ twenty-second birthday anniversary with a lavish, all-night pll;lly in Paris and next day the prince said: “I hope every one will now realize we are happily married and love each other.” Shortly afterward, however, they were traveling in different directions, the princess toward New York and the prince toward India. | Prince M'Divani is a son of the | late Prince and Princess Zakhari. | | His father was an aide de camp and | general at the court of the Czar of | Russia. | His first wife was the former Miss Louise Astor Van Alen, from whom he was separated by divorce in 1932. | —_ $8,623,124.55 OIL SUIT : WICHITA, Kans, March 16 (#).— Alleging discrimination designed to drive it from business, the Derby Oil Co. of Wichita, sued the Universal Oil | Products Co. of Chicago today for | $8,623,124.55. The Universal company, owner of | the famous Dubbs oil cracking process under which many refineries nperate on a royalty basis, is accused by the | Derby company of charging 1t twice | the royalty charged larger oil com- | panies. The suit was brought in United States District Court under the Clay- ton act. Universal, alleging infringement of patent, has instituted scores of law- suits at various times against refineries throughout the country. Must Wear Uniforms. Bulgaria has decreed that all judges and other court officials must STAR, WASHINGTON, PNEUMONIA VICTIM Retired Naval Officer, 89, Dies Here—Funeral Tomorrow. Rear Admiral Willard H. Brown- son, U. 8. N, retired, whose career ! took him from hand-to-hand fights with pirates to command of American ships in virtually all waters, died yes- terday at the Mayflower Hotel from pneumonia. He would have been 90 years old next July, and had lived here since retiring from the Navy in 1907. Three weeks after Admiral Du Pont’s victory at Port Royal Sound— in 1861—Browning, a youth of 15, was appointed to the Naval Academy. During the Civil War he served as & midshipman aboard the flagship of the North Atlantic Squadron. His first command was the yacht America, which won from England the cup that afterward took its name. He was in charge of the old ship, now tied up at Annapolls, Md.. while it was in the United States Naval serv- ice during the Civil War. Commanded Cruiser Yankee. In the Spanish-American War, Ad- miral Brownson commanded the con- verted cruiser Yankee, which cap- tured a fort on Guantanamo Bay. Earlier he had commanded the cruiser Detroit in the Rio de Janeiro blockade during the revolution of 1893-94. Admiral Brownson was superin- tendent of the Naval Academy about 1902 and commanded a division of the Atlantic Fleet in 1906, afterward commanding the Special Service Squadron and then the Asiatic Fleet. He was chief of the Burezu of Naviga- tion at the time he retired. Born in Lyons, N. Y., the son of Morton and Harriet Brownson, Ad- miral Brownson spent his boyhood there, attending local schools and re- ceiving a private education. Rowboats First Command. His first command was that of six rowboats that chased a band of pi- rates 25 miles up a small river in Mexico. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Isa- bella Brownson, and two daughters. Funeral services will be held tomor- row at 2 p.m. at the Covenant-First Presbyterian Church, followed by burial in Arlington National Ceme- tery. STERILIZATION PROBE TO AWAIT EVIDENCE| California Prosecutor Action if Reports Involving ‘Women Are Verified. By the Associated Press. | MARTINEZ, Calif, March 16—A| thorough investigation of reports that sterilization cperations were performed to decrease the relief burden of desti- tute families was promised today by District Attorney Francis Healey. He said legal action would be taken if any act warranting prosecution had been committed, but added no evidence of illegal operations had been un- Promises not concluded its inquiry,” Healey said. Healey previously announced the Con- tra Costa County grand jury had been seeking information on reports that a number of women, including an 18- year-old unmarried girl, underwent op- erations on the advice of Mrs. Ruth McCord, former county social welfare director. ADMR. BROWNSON || GEORGE KIRKPATRICK. U. S. AGENT SHOT IN LIQUOR RAID ON MOONSHINERS (Continued From First Page.) fleeing moonshiner, but the latter of their 1935—PART ONE. comrade, Federal agents last night were scouring the woods in the vicinity. Capt. W. R. Sayles, assist- ant deputy commissioner of internal revenue in charge of the Alcohol Tax Unit, left here on being notified of the shooting and took charge of the manhunt. He was aided by State A. B.C. , members of the Alex- andria police force and local officers. The still in Charles County, near Morgantown, Md., was destroyed late yesterday by a blast of dynamite to cut off a source of bootleg rye whisky which it was believed had been sup- ing Virginia, across the Potomac, and probably Washington. This still had been under observa- tion for some time by alcohol tax in- vestigators under L. G. Mitchell. With four of his men, Mitchell descended on the place’ yesterday and catching the plant in operation took into cus- tody two colored men, James Hicks of Shiloh, Md., and “Bat” Middletown of Rock Point, Md. ‘They were taken to Upper Marl- boro where they will be arraigned to- morrow before J. Frank Parran, United States commissioner, on several charges of violating the internal reve- nue laws. The men claimed they did not own the still, but were working there. ‘The plant was operated by steam from a wood-burning bofler producing double distilled rye whisky from a combination of rye meal and rye “chops.” It was & crude affair with the condensing pipes run under a pool of water from a nearby swamp. At peak capacity, it would turn out about 135 gallons a day. Unrest Depresses Trade. Labor and political unrest have de- pressed business in Mexico this year. SENATE PLAYING T0 HUGE CROWDS Buzz in Gallery Has Been Headache to Members and President. ‘The depression which has hit the | show business throughout the coun- try has had a reverse effect on the exhibition put on by the United State Senate. | ‘This august body is playing to rec- | ord crowds for the early stages of a session. The circumstance has been something of a headache to Sena- tors who are disturbed by the gallery buzz and to the presiding officer who is forced frequently to admonish the galleryites that they are guests of| the Senate and must remain orderly to keep their places in the gallery. | Jurney Keeps Order. | Most of all, however, it has been | a headache to Sergeant at Arms Chesley W. Jurney, who is respon- | sible for having the galleries policed | and kept orderly. Mr. Jurney's most potent assistance comes from four | plain clothesmen from the downtown police force, who are scattered through the visitors' galleries. Any | disturbing demonstrations above the | head of the “world’s greatest delib- erative body” are sure to receive prompt attention from this strong- arm squad. In addition, a Senate attendant is stationed on the inside of each gal- lery door to marshal the visitors on the inside, while another attendant holds his post outside each entrance to maintain order there. Reviving a custom of several years ago, these attendants now are giving each vis- itor a slip, on which is printed a warning that spectators must re- frain from any demonstration, and pointing out they are subject to re- moval if any such is attempted. Few Vacant Seats. Not including the press gallery, the total seating capacity in the Senate “grandstand” is about 950, divided betweern. several sections of different classification. Attendants are allow- ing utilization of standing room, however, so that the guest population often reaches about 1,500. Even the press gallery, reserved exclusively for working newspaper workers and special writers, has shown few va- cant spots during most of the daily battle hours of 12 to 6 p.m. wWE PERFORA A e kT MOTOR OIL BAYERSON OIL ngKS coLumMBIA 522 Maple Has Come Into Its Own . Always a favorite to be reckoned with where distinctive furnishing was under considera- tion. 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