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"A-=2 @* NILAND DISPUTED - BY MRS. MUENCH Testimony Completed in Kelley Kidnap Case—Jury Soon to Retire. By the Assoctated Press. . MEXICO, Mo, October 4.—Testi- mony was completed today in the trial of Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, once a socially prominent St. Louisan, on trial here for allegedly participating in the 1931 kidnaping of Dr. Isaac D. Kelley, as the red-haired defendant made her second witness stand ap- pearance to deny State testimony. “It is false,” she told the jury today when asked by her attorneys if the testimony of State Witness William Niland, a deputy constable, that he ¢ had seen her with a codefendant, Bart Davit, was true. Niland said Mrs. , Muench told him she was “out hav- ing a good time” with Davit. Her one sentence of testimony com- * pleted the defense case and a brief recess was ordered to prepare instruc- tions to the jury, which probably will * receive the case late today. Testimony eof Neighbor. Mrs. Milton Landau, whose home is | adjacent to the fashionable Muench | { home in St. Louis, testifying for the | * State on rebuttal, said Angelo Rose- grant, convicted Kelley kindaper, had What’s What Behind News In Capital Sinclair Prepares to Put on Shoes of Huey Long. BY PAUL MALLON. ASADENA, Calif., October 4.— Upton Sinclair’s home is a hide- out here on a street that even the taxi drivers do not know. They will charge you $5 to find out. The Rockefeller and the Busch fam- ily (Annheuser) mansions, a mile away, are easily accessible, but inter- views with the political epicurean, are available only by appointment. The street rumor reason for this around Los Angeles is that the man who polled 800,000 votes for governor last year is mow in re- tirement, or semi-retirement. The active leader of his bloc of votes is supposed to be State Senmator Colbert L. Olson. At least Mr. Olson is running the State EPIC movement, whkich now controls most of the State governmental offices except that of the governor. But if you foregather with Sinclair, you will find that he has grander notions than retirement. Selling Campaign. * been a visitor of Mrs. Muench during the week 'in April, 1931, that the throat specialist was held prisoner. The statement corroborated the tes- | timony of Ida Wilzer, former maid in the Muench home. The attractive, 43- | ‘The real reason for the shift of E. P. 1. C. burdens appears to be mn‘ this smart politician has turned his | ind to the national scene since the | death of Huey Long. Sinclair '-'lll: start out on a lecture tour in about | | Mr. Roosevelt are popular. year-old, red-haired defendant, sister | 10 days and hit every large city and | of a judge of the Missouri Supreme &section of the country, selling the Court, disclaimed more than a “very casual” acquaintdnce with Rosegrant, as she denied any connection with the crime yesterday. Mrs, Landau also testified Miss Wil- | ger was employed at the Muench home in April, 1931; Mrs. Muench, from the witness stand, declared the maid was not. in her employ until the Fall of that year. Niland testified that he had seen| ‘Mrs. Muench and Bart Davit, awaiting trial for the kidnaping. together in an automobile in 1933, two years after the kidnaping. Testimony Repudiated. Prosecutars of the woman who, on the eve of her oft-delayed trial, an- nounced the birth of a baby after 22 years of childless married life, were faced at the outset today by direct repudiation of testimony of one of their principal witnesses. Attorneys for Mrs. Muench sur- prised a packed court room yesterday by introducing an affidavit by Mrs. Sarah Jones, a State witness, which directly contradicted her prosecution testimony. Mrs. Jones, former waitress in the Yesort of Adolph Fiedler, where the State contends the kidnaping was plotted, swore in the affidavit that + she had never seen the defendant in the place. In her testimony for the State Mrs. Jones had said Mrs. Muench met there with Rosegrant and Felix MacDonald. Mrs. Muench denied having been in the Fiedler resort. . The State contended that the attrac- ; tive defendant had entertained Rose- grant in her home during the week in which Kelley was held prisoner. Kelley identified Rosegrant as one of the kid- “ napers. —_— GEN. LASSITER TO WED _U. S. World War Hero Files In-' tention to Marry. | LONDON, October 4 ().—Maj. Gen. | William Lassiter. 68. of the United States Army (retired), and Mrs. Jean- nette Fallon Johnson, 49, a widow, filed notice today at the London reg- istery office of their forthcoming mar- riage. Maj. Gen. Lassiter, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, ‘was chief of artillery of the 1st Corps in the Aisne-Marne offiensive in May, | 1918: of the 4th Corps in the St.| Mihiel offensive in August, 1918, and | of the 2d Army in the Toul sector in| October, 1918. He commanded the 324; Division during its march to the} Rhine and occupation of Coblentz late in 1918 and early in 1919. Thirty Hurt in Greek Fight. ATHENS, October 4 (#).—Thirty persons were reported seriously injured today in a fight of several hours be- tween Royalist and Republican stu- dents at the university here. Poiice restored order. Sunday —in— THE FEATURE SECTION “First World Series Was a Blue Blood Festival” THOMAS HENRY —of The Stars stafl writes of the title tilt between New York and Brooklyn in 1858 which started the ball rolling in the great American game, * ko % “48 Years of Fighting the Capital’s Famous Fires” JOHN JAY DALY —Star feature writer, tells the story of “Chief” Philip Nichol- son’s near half century with These, a Host of Other Features and a Fine ‘Array of New Fiction Will Be Ready for You E. P. 1 C. doctrines. His organization, he says, is now in | 12 States. He has no idea that this| outfit can play any important politi- cal role in the next elections. In fact, | | he is setting up autonomous State | groups, permiting them to do what- | | ever they like in their State politics. Sinclair's game apparently is one of waiting until President Roosevelt | has failed. He will prepare while| waiting. He appears to have no presi- dential aspirations for himself. He | knows too much for that. But he certainly, is scheming to put his “pro- duction for use” unemployment relief scheme into operation nationally through Mr. Roosevelt or any cther political agency which happens to be | available. Feor Roesevelt First. | ‘Therein lies a full understanding of the political enigma, Sinclair, who has been using the Democratic party | | to advance his ideas in this State. He | is for Roosevelt. He will be for Mr. Roosevelt up to the 1936 Democratic | Convention. You may quote him on | | that. (In fact, you may quote him | on anything. He does not talk off the record, professing to have no seerets.) | Prankly, he will say his support of | Mr. Roosevelt is not because he likes | the New Dealer. In fact, he believes for Mr. Roosevelt. i His Epics will put their own | slate of delegates in the Demo- cratic primary here mext year, de- l spite all you may have heard to the contrary. They will contest against the Farley-McAdoo dele- gates, not on the question of Mr. Roosevelt’s renomination but solely to get an Epic plank in the Demo- cratic national platform. Thus, further, you can see where | Sinclair is reaching for the shoes that | were Huey Long’s. | | respect for WAR MAY REVIVE U.3. 1914 TENSION italian Population Seen as Political Force—Free- dom of Sea Menaced. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Pregident Roosevelt spoke the hope of a peace-loving Natiorr when he said America would keep unentangled and free from the Ethiopian-Italian strife overseas. But none the less there is profound disappointment here that the world has witnessed a stinging defeat for the advocates of moral force and the pacific sestlement of international disputes. ‘The implications of what is happen- ing in Europe are bound to affect us for many years to come. For if the voice of reason and the conscience of nations is ineffectual in composing differences, then physical force, big armies and navies, become the ip- evitable protectors of peace-loving peoples and the scale of armament building takes on once more the char- acteristics of rivalry and competition which dragged the whole world into war from 1914 to 1918. Today the sentiments expressed by Nobody wants war, least of all another war overseas for American troops. But, it will be asked, is the course being pur- sued by the United States likely to keep America out of future wars in which she has no primary concern | and in which she is not originally involved? - Brazil Gets Big War Order. Generally overlooked in the dis- patches telling in the last 24 hours of war movements in Africa were the press cables telling of huge orders placed in Brazil and elsewhere for supplies for the Italian armies. The | American Government has not yet is- | sued a proclamation of neutrality be- cause, technically, there has been no state of war. But such a proclama- tion will probably be confined to “im- plements” of war, which means fin- ished munitions and not the materials that go to make them. | Should Great Britain and the | League of Nations decide to apply | economie sanctions in order to secure the covenant of the League, which Italy has broken, it may become necesscry to stop all trade into Italy. Will America then re- main unentangled anc free? Or will America insist on her right to sell food and articles of merchandise to the Italian people? And if the Brit- ish fleet stops American goods from ! reaching Italian forces or Italy itself, will the American people become out- raged and insist on the “freedom of the seas,” which has been a historic American doctrine since the War of 1812? If toe administration here decides to make perfunctory protests about American rights to carry on trade and | American businesses lose opportunities to sell their goods, or if millions of MAN SHOT IN DOCK STRIKE DISORDER Police Reserves Quiet Riot- ing on New Orleans River Front. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS, October 4.—One mean was shot in the leg here today in a clash between working long- shoremen and sympathizers in the dock strike called in New Orleans and three other gulf ports by the International Longshoremen's Asso- ciation. Richard Gordon, colored, 23, re- ceived a pistol bullet wound in the left leg, police reported, when a group of Negroes attempted to halt a truck carrying a rival group of Negro dock workers to their jobs. Police said the shot was fired from the truck by an unidentified man. The clash occurred at Jackson ave- nue -and the river front, but police reserves rushed to the scene quickly quelled the disturbance, one of a num- ber of sporadic outbreaks of minor violence of the last day or two. Loading and unloading of vessels went forward, as usual, with non- I. L. A. workers on the job ‘here, but violence cropped out after police issued an order- for discontinuance of police guards for escorting work- ers through picket lines to the docks. This order was issued last night by George Reyer, superintendent of police, effective today, but, after the shooting, Reyer revoked the order. Three men were seriously injured in clashes yesterday at different sec- tions of the string of docks. Reyer | today instructed his policemen to keep | close watches at intersections of the | streets and the wharf vicinity to keep down further disorders. TOY PISTOL HOLD-UP CHARGED TO YOUTH Police Declare Robbery of News Carrier Is Confessed by High School Student. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md, October 4— | Harry Hunter, 17-year-old Takoma Park high school student, accused of robbing an Evening Star carrier boy at the point of a toy pistol, will be arraigned in the Montgomery County Juvenile Court next week on charges | of hold-up and robbery. A definite date for the hearing has not been set. | Hunter, police say, confessed yes- terday to robbing an acquaintance, | Richard Gibbs, 15, of 904 Sligo ave- nue, Takoma Park, of $18.35 while |the latter was making collections along his news route Wednesday | | night. Hunter lives at 624 Carroll avenue, Takoma Park. The boy was taken into custody at persons of Italian birth residing in|pig home after the Gibbs youngster America should protest. would the | t01d investigators he mgzgm he President heed their cries in behalf of their former eountrymen? Germans Anmxious in 1914. A parallel experience occurred in 1914, when Germans resident in America felt that it was wrong for the United States to export supplies and munitions to the Allies. But the Ger- 90 per cent of the New Deal has failed | man vote was, nevertheless, not cast | Poole, investigated the case, said that or is about to fail. The only Roose- 1‘ against President Wilson in 1916 be- : Hunter readily admitted the robbery velt poliey he supports is T. V. A.|cause, even though resenting the aid | and said that he used a toy pistol. | However, Mr. Roosevelt is the onmly | given the Allies by American business | The money was recovered, according national figure he can be for, so he is 2nd finance, the fact that the United | to Thomas. States kept out of war with Germany that year prompted many millions of Germans to express their gratitude to l‘h‘, Wilson in voting for his re-elec- tion. Coineident with a 1936 election, the war, if it is going on by then or if mistakes are made now that are re- membered in the next political cam- paign, will become a kind of political The opportunities to remain free and unentangled will not be increased as the situation develops overseas. | For the principles written in the cov- There is one grave technical |enant of the League of Nations are Htieal weakness in the proposed na- | 2 stake. 1f Ttaly can violate the cov- tional Epic expansioin. For the benefit | ¢80t Wwith impunity, so can every of people who may have come in late, it may be related that his plan is to make the unempioyed earn their own | way by self-supporting production for | use. Mr. Roosevelt's way is to pay | the unemployed from the Pederal | Treasury and let them spend the | money wherever they ehoose. Thus the New Deal's money goes into business. Sinclair would deprive business of that income. Sinclair's answer to this is that the business man would not have to pay unemployment relief taxes under his plan, but it is doubtful whether he will be able to sell many business men on that idea. Three-Cornered Bloc. The best that most Republieans can see is that this fifth most important State (electorally) is doubtful. Demo- Perats insist that they would earry it easily today. They claim to have the Epics, the regular Democrats, who hate the Epics, and the Hiram John- son Progressive Republican following. ‘This makes & hard combination to beat, if the economically antagonistic component parts will hang together. Certainly the New Deal support in this State, as in many another, con- tains the most motley assemblage ever gathered together under one banner. i A Los Angeles broker, returning from San Prancisco by boat the other day, took a presidential preference poll of passengers to amuse himself. He wishes he hadn’t. The first-class cabin results showed 51 for Mr. Roose- velt, 14 Republican and 8 Communist. (Which is another indication that Communism is a live cancer in this State.) This Southern California commu- nity, which gave Aimee MacPherson and Bob Shuler to the Nation, has another pulpit politician to offer. She is Rheba Crawford, the pulpit orator at Angeles Temple since Aimee de- veloped a yen for broademing her mind by travel. b Miss Crawford learned her pub- licity by chasing sin out of the sin dens in New York, but mever guite —in— The Sunday Star other nation, and thus the League | and th: Kellogg-Briand treaties would | seem to be resting only on the futile hope that world opinion really amounts to something, when it ap- parently does not. Because of the presence of so many millions of Italians whose relatives and friends are going to be invoived, | it will be necessary for the Govern- | ment here to advise strict neutrality }m word and deed, lest the reper- cussions of the war be felt here and present® unhappy complieations. But the real involvement and danger lies in the fact that trade is usually main- tained during a war and that the naval power of belligerent countries may be used to restrain such trade on the part of neutrals. Cost of War Prohibitive, Europe cannot afford another war at this time. The League can hardly proclaim the use of military force against Italy for her aggression in Ethiopia. Economic sanctions prob- ably will be resented by Italy, but evidently Premier Mussolini has reck- oned on a short, intensive campaign and an enforced surrender by the Ethiopians. Much as they may be disappointed by what has happened and what it may mean to the future peace of Europe when economic con- ditions improve to the point that wars can be financed again, European pow- ers will no doubt strive to keep the Italian-Ethiopian War & local affair. This is the hope and probably the purpose at the moment, but peace cannot be guaranteed when fleets are mobilized and Europe starts inter- preting the meaning of & broken cov- enant as related to the future security of members of the League, large and small. (Copyright. 1935.) which is a further tip that political Upton Sinciairs study is an old tailor shop bought for $50 and moved from a main street. His house is a combination of several old houses similarly purchased and moved. recognized Hunter's voice when he was confronted at Sligo and Carroll avenues by a youth who ordered him { to “stick 'em up.” The youth, he said, | was atiired m dark clothes and smoked | glasses. | Town Policeman Albert Thomas, | who. with County Policeman Windsor 'MAN, 27, ARRESTED AFTER BOY IS SHOT Olin Bittinger of Lonaconing Held as Police Probe Death of Neighbor. By the Associated Press. CUMBERLAND, Md, October 4.— Olin Bittinger, 27, of Lonaconing, was held in the county jail here today while county authorities probed the ; slaying of 13-year-old William Staup, | a neighbor of Bittinger’s. The youth was shot down near his home last night as he and two com- panions passed near Bittinger's house. The two friends asserted they saw ! Bittinger standing in the doorway of | his home, a rifle in his hands. “The next thing we knew,” they told county authorities, “Staup screamed and fell.” Officers who arrested Bittinger said they found him in bed asieep. They quoted him as admitting firing a shot from the front of his house in the belief some one was tampering with his parked automobile. He asserted, the officers said, that, after the shot was fired, his step- daughter told him “some one” had been hit. He returned to bed, how- ever, police said. A bullet wound was found in the youth’s head. In a clump of bushes in the rear of home au- thorities found a .32-caliber rifie. An inquest was arranged today. RESTAURANT MAN FINED James Mikerso, proprietor of a res- taurant at 1618 Fourteenth street, pleaded guilty to violation of the health regulations before Judge Wal- ter J. Casey in Police Court today and was fined $10 on recommendation of the corporation counsel’s office. Mikerso was charged with having unclean floors, store, cooking utensils, work tables, stock room and back yard. Marriage Licenses. Robert A. Moore, 26, and Margot L. White~ de 24, both ‘.1757 ‘Columbia rd.; Crapie FoBert K, Mattingly, o sn st ]i Bamiston, 25. 1719 Varaum b < m Bailey, 35 and Margie Morgan, 30, both l?’su 4nd st s.w.. Rev. B F. William McLain. 27. 827 4th st., and Alome ‘Attist. 33. 5007 7ih st.; Rev. Mose Hen- derson. Maurice B. Sorrell. 22, 35 Plorida ave, and {u&y C. Butler. 20. 237 Elm st.. George B, ‘Brown. 3. Richmond. Va.. Nery T Wheeler B seomnd‘n;f . C.; Rev, B. O. Clarke. Hariy Rultt, 26, 4520 6th st and Togima (Shristiani, 232,234 G'it. ne. i Ralph O. " 23, 3009 and Helen M. Gibson. E. Barrows, Silverman. 4678 ot st. and z-'zme‘}a.xgn:. 19 668 B si. se; William A Hawkins. 32. 328 Virginia se. an: -f-l'ln Montague., 21, L S O 3 Md.. and n.es . J. ne.; Rev. Louis oL D. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1935. Blind Senator Takes a Hurdle Although blind for 27 years, Senator Thomas D. Schall of Minnesota is an expert horseman, as may be Here he is shown, right, with W. J. Aitcheson, riding instructor at Seven Knolls Farms, Md., noted above. taking a jump near Laurel Park, Md. —Wide World Photo. C. OF C. MAY BACK FIGHT FOR ROUTE Arlington Chamber Members Favor Condemnation for Lee Boulevard. BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star. CLARENDON, Va, Members of the Arlington County Chamber of Commerce are over- whelmingly in favor of condemna- tion proceedings against property owners who are holding up comple- tion of the Lee Boulevard by boost- ing property prices along the right of way, it was revealed today by George M. Yeatman, president. The chamber’s initial Fall meeting will | be held Monday at 8 pm. in the Rucker Building. A special committee appointed to investigate the matter will recommend that the chamber advocate the county board's taking such action, Mr. Yate- man said. lkn:hnuofthemntyi have lost thousands of dollars in rev- enue and real estate developments have been held up because of the delay in compietion of this project, he declared. ‘The sum of $120,000 is available to ' the county for purchase of the right of way. Action of the Chamber of Commerce | in recommending condemnation pro- | ceedings would be similar to that | urged upon the county board at its last meeting by the Alexandria-Ar- lington-Fairfax Real Estate Board. Another matter to be reporied on by committee is the question of whether the county should take over mdp-vethzrumolwnyazfihe abandoned Arlington-Fairfax lway on the W strip, containing tracks and power poles, is about 80 feet wide and ex- tends along the center of the boule- KING AGAIN URGES N. R. A. FORCE SLASH i Senator Opposes Any Move to Revive Blue Eagle at Next Session of Congress. Reduction of the N. R. A. force of “leave more than 2,308 employes in the organization at the end of the present year.” “As stated on August 31, there were stil employed 3275 persons, whose annual salaries totalled $7,023220. In ranted—indeed, it should be reduced to a mere skeleton and its work con- period call for some consideration,™ King said. e FORMER WARDMAN MANAGER BANKRUPT 7. Reed Lane Lists Liabilities of $628,094 and Assets of $54,448. J. Reed Lane, formerly conneeted with the management of the Ward- man properties here, was adjudged & bankrupt in District Supreme Court today.. In a voluntary petition, filed through Attorney Preston C. King, jr., he listed a total of $628,094 liabili- ties and $54,442 in assets. Promissory notées payable to Iowa State banks composed the bulk of the debts, although $85,447 was said OTTO W ANDERSON 15 CHAMBER HEAD Full Staff, With Executive Committee and Delegates, Named in Rockville. Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 4. —Otto W. Anderson, county agricultural agent, was elected president of the Rockville Chamber of Commerce at the annual meeting last night. Morris Stern was re-elected vice president and Townsend Howes and Dr. George L. Edmonds were made secretary and treasurer, respectively. The Executive Committee includes Anderson, Stern, Townsend, Edmonds, Dr. V. L. Ellicott, O. H. Perry, Charles M. Jones, Bernard T. Brosius, L. Fletcher Schott and A. E. Partin. State Senator Stedman Prescott, Judge Donald A. DeLashmutt and Edgar Reed were named delegates to the meetings of the Montgomery County Civic Pederation, with Raleigh 8. Chinn, George H. Lamar and Curtis L. Ward alternates. The chamber unanimously adopted & resolution offered by Dr. George L, Edmonds authorizing the president to appoint a committee to co-operate with the Rockville Council and the Montgomery commissioners in an ef- fort to have the Capital Transit Co. remove from Rockville streets the tracks of the abandoned Washington & Rockville Railway line and to re- pave before freezing weather the streets affected. That the Capital Transit Co. plans to substitute a newer type of equip- ment for the busses that have been Von Wuthenau Wedding Halted As Baron Is Denied U. S. Entry, By the Associated Press. |a former rear admiral of the Imperial | ST. LOUIS, October 4 —Unromantic | Austrian Navy. Her fiance is a border officials who demanded a ssoo:nwg: of the Art:suke Franz u’;;m” bond | nan Austria, whose assasina! at | Sox Teadniiasion | of Baroo Alex- | oorejeva precipitated the World War. | ander von Wuthenau into the “m"'di‘l‘hey met last Summer when both States today threatened by their ac- | visited Georg Ahrens, German consul in operation between the District of Columbia line and Rockville was in- dicated by the retiring secretary, S. Murray Hamilton. He informed the chamber that he had received assur- ances another shipment of busses would be received by the company during the present month and would be placed in operation on at least a part of the District of Columbia-Rock« ville system. _ George H. Lamar of the Public Util- ities Committee reported that little or no progress had been made by the October 4.— | tion to delay fruition of a romance| which flowered among the gardens of | the Imperial Austrian Court. cathedrals there. At Maryville College of the Sacred | Heart here, Rachelle von Catinelli Edie von Obradich-Bevilacqua con- tinued her duties as instructor of art and watched with anxious eye ap- proach of October 30, when she and | von Wuthenau are scheduled to be married if he manages to get here. Miss von Catinefli is a daughter of at Mexico City. ) | committee toward securing a reduction Von Wuthenau, who resigned his | from 15 to 10 cents in telephone rates | spent mest of his time since in New last Spring and that, when he sought to re-enter the country, September 22, he was halted at El Paso. Von Wuthenau’s mother, according to Miss von Catinelli, was the late Countess Chotek, a sister of the Arch- duchess Sophie, who was assassinated with the archduke at Sarejevo. Miss von Catinelli has been teach- ing here four years. n Boulevard between | Hatfield Station and Clarendon. This | HOOVER TO CLIMAX iGIRL SCOUTS HONOR WEST 6. 0. P. RALLY| MRS. F. H. BROOKE First Strietly Political Speech Capital Woman Re-elected Diree- Since Presidency to Be Made J tor—Mrs. Herbert Hoover Tomorrow. Chosen President. | By the Associated Press. Mrs. Frederick H. Brooke of this OAKLAND, Calif., October 4 —Re- ' city tcday was re-elected a member- | | publicans of 11 Western States opened | at-large of the Girl Scout Board of | today s rally thst will move to a | Directors, according to word received climax in the first strictly ponr‘aul‘wha'e from San speech delivered by former President | Francisco, where - Hoover since he left the White House. | the twenty - first | Mr. Hoover speaks Saturday night | annual con ven- | at a banquet. | tion of the Na- National party leaders were pictured = tional Council is | by rally leaders as having an ear to | J0_session. the ground to detect the reactions of | Mrs. Herbert this group on the subject of issues in | Hoover was elec- the 1936 campagin. {ted president, Potential eandidates. while not pres- | succeeding Mrs. ent personally, were said by conven- | Frederick Edey tion managers to be “in touch with | of Bellport, Long proceedings.” | Island, who was named first vice Mexico City against a background of | secretarial post 18 months 8go, has between Rockville and Washington, but that there is still hope of an Von Wuthenau, former secretary of =Mexico, where he has been interested | adjustment without a fight. In that the German Embassy in Washington, | in restoration of the reredos of the connection, was in Juarez, Mexico, today, unable | cathedral at Santa Fe, Miss von Cati- | mayor of Rockville, stated that he to convince Federal immigration offi-| nelli said. Early this Summer he went | personally did not object to the 15« cers he should be allowed to re-entzr"m Mexico to photograph cathedrals cent charge, but felt that the teles the country after a trip to the south- there. The St. Louis art teacher said phone subscribers of the community ern republic to study reredos of old she learned his passport had expired should be given better service. Douglas M. Blandford, {ABSOLUTE DIVORCE | DECREE IS SPEEDED | Precedent Set Here as Show-Cause Hearing Is Followed by Court Order. A precedent for simplification of the procedure for obtaining an ab- solute divorce was set in District Su- preme Court today by Justice Jen- nings Bailey in the case of Mrs. Mare garet M. Pester, 2032 Belmont road. Mrs. Pester had obtained a limited divorce from Bert R. Pester on June 15, 1925, and was given alimony and custody of their minor son. Today, Justice Bailey signed an absolute de- eree, following a hearing on a rule, issued August 22, to show cause Why the limited divorce should not be enlarged. Under the ordinary pro- cedure heretofore it would have been | necessary for Mrs. Pester to file a | new bill asking for an enlargement of her limited decree. This suit then would have had to take its place on | the regular equity calendar and prob- ably would not have reached s hear mng for many months. Attorney John J. O'Brien, who rep- resented Mrs. Pester, successfully con- tended the wording of the statute gave | 8 rule to show cause the same effect as a new suit. The new divorce law permits an absolute divorce two years publisher and close friend of Gov. Alf M. Landon of Kansas, prominently mentioned as a possible candidate, was on the program for a speech. patterned closely after the Springfield, principally with issues, leaving the sparring over candidates to informal buttonhole conferences. Indictment of the Roosevelt admin- was the subject of one con- ference, set for tomorrow, with Mark L.° Requa, Republican national com- mitteeman for California and close political and personal friend of Mr. Hoover, as the > Gov. Frank P. Merriam of Cali- him as a “favorite son” candidate for President or Vice President, will speak at noon tomeorrow. VOTERS OF HERNDON DEFEAT BOND ISSUE Proposal to Finamce Sewerage System With Loan Loses, 101 to 110. HERNDON, Va., October 4—The to issue bonds amounting to $48,000 for installation of a sewerage here was defeated by 9 votes system in a special election yesterday. The count was 101 in favor of the issue and 110 against. As a result of the refusal of resi- dents to support the project, an ap- plication for $40,000 of P. W. A. funds for this purpose will be automatically rejected. Defeat of the proposal was ascribed bonds. BURGLARY CONVICTION DRAWS HEAVY TERMS Special Dispatch to The Star. ROCKVILLE, Md., October 4—Ru- dolph Jackson, colored, formerly of fornia, whose admirers are proposing | president. | Mrs. Brooke | has long been ! active in Girl Scout work, having held | many offices during the past 17 years | | 8he has been a member of the Wash- | gton Girl Scout Council since 1918, | and chairman of the National Field | Committee since 1930. She also served as vice president of the national o ganization in 1925 and has been a member of the board of directors and Executive Committee for five years. Other officers elected today were the following vice presideats: Mrs. Arthur Osgood Choate, Pleasantville, N. Y. Mrs. Vance C. MeCormick, | Harrisburg, Pa.. Mrs. Willlam M. | Chester, Milwaukee; Mrs. Herbert H Lehman, wife of Gov. Lehman of New York; Mrs. Louis Guerineau Myers, | New York; Mrs. Arthur W. Hartt, Brookline, Mass.; Mrs. Louis Burling- ham, St. Louis; Mrs. Stuart McGuire, Richmond, and Mrs. George Burnham, San Diego, Calif. RULING CLASSIFIES UNDERTAKERS’ CARS Utilities Commission Decides Such Vehicles Are Not in Class With Taxicabs. ‘The Publie Utilitles Commission to- day ruled formally that cars of under- takers are not to be classified as taxis, and that, therefore, the prescribed uniform zone rate for taxis do not apply to them. The commission found also that “vehicles for hire” used for weddings, receptions and the like are not taxi- cabs under the meaning of the law. An issue was raised over the ques- tion recently when the Commissioners ruled that funeral and wedding cars were vehicles for hire, requiring their owners to take out the $25 annual Neense. Edward W. Thomas, assist- Mrs. F. H. Brooke. and wedding cars would have to be operated on rates fixed by the Utilities ‘The P. U. C. ruled there was a dis- tinction between “vehicles for hire” and “taxis,” and Thomas is leaving enforcement to police. COLONISTS ENTRENCHED ANCHORAGE, Alaska, October 4 (A).—The Matanuska colonists are now | after signing of the limited decree. CAPITAL GIRL TO WED Miss Itie MacGregor Bride-Elect of Yonkers Man. NEW YORK, October 4 (A.—An- nouncement was made here yvesterday of the engagement of Miss Itie Selleck MacGregor, daughter of the late Judge and Mrs. Rob Roy MacGregor of Yankton, S. Dak., to Norman J. Beau- drias, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore J. Beaudrias of Yonkers, N. Y. Since the death of her parents Miss MacGregor has resided in Washing- ton. Her flance is a graduate of Princeton University. | Irvin S. Cobb Says: Who Said Arkansas Is Known for Democrats and Hog-Callers? SANTA MONICA, October 4—If they crave to get om the front page, the Italians make a grave mistake by starting s war when there’s a world series on — espe« | i cially one where 4 L you find two op~ ? ' posing star pitch= i L ers from the same chief products of Arkansas were Democrats and champion hog, throw straight and move Where he comes from, when the family's out of meat one of the | youngsters runs down a buck rabbit |or slips out before breakfast with a lpocketlul of rocks and comes home with & mess of squirrels. If they'd only let him take off his shoes In the next game, he could move around that Infield even faster. Also, it “comes natchell” as they say in his country and mine, to nurse one quid in the right cheek all after- noon. I was 16 years old befare I knew there was any other salad course except chewing tobacco or that oys- ters didn't grow in & can. Well, this evening Detroit may be leading in something besides auto= m (Orpyright. 1936, by the North Americas | tast?