Evening Star Newspaper, August 14, 1935, Page 6

PROBELINKS DAV T0 KRELGER DEA Investors Agreed to Pay U. S. Envoy $150,Q00 to Head Protective Group. By the Associated Press. American investors in Kreuger & Toll securities agreed to pay Norman H. Davis, United States Ambassador at Large, $150,000 to represent their interests and head an international protective committee, it was disclosed yesterday at a public hearing before the Securities and Exchange Com- mission. Whether any sum actually was paid Davis was not revealed. The Ambas- sador did not appear personally. The agreement was made, however, to pay the sum in 1933 and 1934 by domestic protective committees out of $310,000 contributed py New York banks which had underwritten secur- ities sold by the late Ivar Kreuger, Bwedish financier. Investigation Completed. The testimony was made public, to- gether with a commission announce- ment that it had completed its inves- tigation of the reorganization of Kreuger & Toll. This reorganization was undertaken after Kreuger killed himself and his international finan- cial empire crashed amid disclosures of bookkeeping falsifications and em- bezzlements. The commission later | will make recommendations to Con- gress. The purpose of the Davis Interna- | tional Committee was to correlate the | work of Kreuger protective commit- | tees of various kinds. Testimony of John Foster Dulles, | New York attorney and counsel for the Murphy Protective Committee, | said the bankers who contributed the | $310,000 included Lee, Higginson & Co.; the Guaranty Co. and the Na- tional City Co. Commission counsel questioned Dulles repeatedly about the bankers’ support, which was described as “very unusual.” Dulles said the bankers felt they had a “moral obligation.” Reorganization Is Incomplete. The agreement was that he would receive $75,000 as a flat fee and $75,- 000 additional if he brought to a suc- cessful conclusion the work of liquidat- ing the securities in behalf of the investors. Tne record did not show whether Davis still heads the Inter- rational Committee. The reorganiza- tion of Krueger and Toll securities has not been completed. The Davis committee was formed | through two other committees. The; first was to protect the holders of Kreuger and Toll security debentures. It was headed by Grayson M. P.| Murphy, New York financier. The | second commiitee was to protect de- | benture holders of International Match Co., Kreuger's subsidiary. A first payment of $170,000 was| made by the three banks on May 11, 1933, and it was publicly announced | January 6, 1934, that the bankers were contributing to the support of the protective committees. Davis Delayed in Work. Commission counsel, noting the intervening period from the contribu- | tion and the announcement asked for an explanation, and Dulles said: “There was a lapse of about seven months between the date we got“the | money and the date the Davis com- mittee was able to furiction, Mr. Davis had been delayed by his public ‘work as a disarmament representative abroad, and his activities were to a considerable extent superseded and | there was no public announcement | that could be made as to the function of Davis' committee until January, 1934." The bankers made a second contri- bution of $100,000 in July, 1934, mak- | ing e total of $270,000 which was contributed to the support of the Davis committee. The additional $40,000, to make the total of $310,000 which was contributed by the bankers, | went to other protective committees. | EX-PUGILIST RIDES CUMBERLAND WINNER Btaff Officer Takes First Money in Initial Race at Mary- f land Track. Bpecial Dispatch to The Star. CUMBERLAND, Md., August 13.— Freddie Kreiger of Baltimore, former boxer, ushered in Maryland's Fall rac- ing season with a victory when he booted Staff Officer, favorite, the property of Mrs. L. H. Nimkoff of New York, five-eighths in .58Y5 to win the initial race of the Cumberland ¥air Association’s 10-day session to- day. When Starter Welter sprang the fatch, Staff Officer stepped backward, - THE EVENING STAR, A. Pachyderm Flapper This “Mae West” of the elephant kingdom will be one of the attrac- tions of the Hagenbeck-Wallace & Forepaugh-Sells Bros.' Circus, which opens tomorrow with two shows at Fifth street and Florida avenue north= east. Two performances also will be given Friday. LBTNNG FLASH FATALTOGRL 18 Baltimore Hit by Vicious | Storm— Four Narrowly | Escape Fall of Building. By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE, August 14.—A cloud- MOTHER IN BEER TAVERN| HELD AS BABES STARVE Five Little Sisters Fed by Police. | Parent Says Father Took Check, Deserted Her. By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, August 14—Five | little sisters, hungry and poorly clothed, were fed by police yesterday, who removed them from their poverty- stricken home. The officers arrested their mother, Mrs. Lillian Griffin, 27, in a nedtby HULL HOUSE IDEAL 10 BE CONTINUED Jane Addams’ Successor as President Pledges Same -Policies. By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, August 14.—Mrs. Adena Miller Rich, named president of Hull House, where she worked and lved for 20 years, today promiseds to con- tinue the traditions and policies of its famous founder, Jane Addams. Selected by Miss Addams to be her successor as head of the internation- ally famous welfare settlement. Mrs. Rich was formally named president by the Board of Directors. She will take office October 1. “Jane Addams was more than the president of Hull House—she was a mother to us all,” Mrs. Rich de- clared. “Any program that I might arrange for operation of the house will naturally be based on a continu- ation of the humanitarian principles on which she founded the institu- tion.” Took Over Work Early. Tall, alert, with kindly blue eyes and a manner of spesking and act- ing which denoted years of close association with the homeless and friendless who appeal for aid at Hull House, Mrs. Rich said, “Miss Adams’ health was failing—she wanted re- lief from the load she had borne so willingly and cheerfully. Nearly three years ago she asked me to suc- ceed her as president. “She was ill. She wanted to resign and wanted me to take her place. Then she became better and renewed her work at Hull House. But she fre- quently talked of that promise and of her plans for the future.” Miss Addams’ death was & stunning blow to the workers at Hull House, | Mrs. Rich said. Says Work Just Begun, Mrs. Rich recalled a statement made to her by the warden of Toyn- bee Hall in London during a trip abroad, “in the face of this new lei- sure the day of settlements has just oy Mrs. Rich, for several years Miss Addams’ secretary, has been for 10 years director of the Immigration Pro- tective League of Chicago, with head- quarters at Hull House. She said today that she would re- burst, wind 2nd electrical storm struck | beer tavern, charging her with aban- | tain that position. suddenly here last night, leaving in its wake one person dead, several nurt and the occupants of a sailboat miss- ing. PFour tourists Boston narrowly | escaped death when a 75-mile-an-|he returned recently, took her $13 | Labor Department’s Children's Bu- | donment and neglect of minor chil- | dren. | The woman, who will be given a | linked with the problems of those | | hearing today, said her husband, Jo- | Hull House attempts to aid,” she said. | seph Griffin, deserted her. She said | “The problems of the foreign born‘ which the league handles are closely Grace Abbott, former head of the hour gale collapsed a huge brick-and- | weekly relief check and announced he | reau, will succeed Mrs. Rich as first steel building housing valuable relics of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad at| Halethorpe. The building blew down‘ few moments after they had stopped to examire its historical exhibits. Girl Is Killed. Katherine Lipscomb, 18, a farmer's daughter, was killed when Jightning hit the kitchen sink at her Alberton home. Three persons in or near the | city were stunned by lightning, and water men said they feared for the safety of a group in a sailboat re- ported to have capsized a mile out in Chesapeake Bay. Downtown Baltimore traffic was almost paralyzed by blinding sheets of rain. Lightning struck buildings in several sections and a bolt which hit a street car momentarily stunned its two passengers and set the car on fire. ‘The Boston fans who escaped death in the building collapse were Harold | H. Coburn, professor of engineering at Wellesley Cqllege; Mrs. Coburn, | her mother, Mrs. R. W. Wilkinson, | and her brcther, James 8. Wilkinson. Feared Steel Roof. “When the lightning began to flash,” Coburn said, “I decided it wouldn't be safe to stay under that steel roof, so we went out to the car.” He said he drove the machine 50 yards from the building and halted to wait until the storm abated. A moment later, he said. he heard a deafening crash and the walls and roof of the building they had just left collapsed. Man Prey to Over 100 Pests. Man is preyed upon by about 35| species of worms, about 25 species of | protozoa and various insects, spiders and other parasites. would take care of the children. vice president of Hull House. gy ETHOLINE PERFORMANCE BETHOLINE At the New Low Price Gives you more mileage per gallon— .Honlnllupotdb r — Betholine's Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. ADENA MILLER RICH, Photographed in her Hull House study at Chicago shortly after she had been appointed president of the settlement house founded by Jane Addams. The appointment was announced by the directors in Washington. FOUR FLYERS PERISH Pilot Decapitated by Broken Pro- pellor and Plane Crashes. MURCIA, Spain, August 14 (#).— | Their pilot beheaded by & broken pro- | pellor blade, four military flyers per- ished in the crash of a hydroplane on the Mediterranean sea coast yesterday. 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