Evening Star Newspaper, October 30, 1935, Page 1

WEATHER. (U. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast.) Partly cloudy, slightly colder tonight; tomorrow fair, slowly rising temperature; gentle northwest winds. Temperatures— Highest, 70, at 3:30 p.m. yesterday; low- est, 57, at 7 a.m. today. Full report on page A Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages 17, 18, 19 -9. Entered as sec post office, W. FRANCO-BRITISH WAR CO-OPERATION PLANS DRAFTED BY No. 33,419, MILITARY CHIEFS Laval Reported Informing Il Duce His Peace Terms Have to Be Submitted to League for Consideration. MORE COUNTRIES JOIN ISOLATION OF ITALIANS Eight More States Give Pledge to Boycott Ttaly, Bringing Total to 37—Same Number Announce Financial Ban, and 20 Adhere to Project of Mutual Aid. By the Associated Press. PARIS, October 30.—Premier Pierre Laval of France was reported today | by circles close to the French foreign office to have let Premier Mussolini of Italy understand peace terms must come from Il Duce and must be sub- mitted to the League of Nations. Simultaneously French officials de- clared British and French navy, army and air leaders were preparing a program of full wartime co-operation in the Mediterranean Sea, to operate under Article XVI of the League cov- ond class matter ashington, D. C. By the Assoclated Press. ROME, October 30.—All was be- lieved ready today for the next big Italian push on the North Ethiopian front toward Makale. An official communique announced that communications, lines of supplies and commissary stores have been so completely organized that the troops may move forward at any time. barren of combat as was the march three weeks ago on Adigrat, Aduwa and Aksum is not certain. The Italians have been placing much | stress on the peaceful character of their invasion. Although the troops | were said to hope for fighting, the | | high command was regarded as quite willing for the present that the un- @b Whether . the advance will be as; | have so consolidated their posts that | they are ready for any contingency. WASHINGTON, ITALIAN ARMY PREPARED FOR ASSAULT ON MAKALE Position Consolidated, Forces Ready for New Push—Leaders Hope for Capture Without Battle. warlike occupation be continued for its affect on opinions at Geneva and abroad. Reports of the massing of Ethiopian forces under Ras Kassa and Ras Seyoum have given rise to the belief that the Italians may meet their first real resistance, however, when they leave their present positions. In any case, the day's official an- nouncement states that the troops Scouting forces on both the north- ern and southern fronts were reported here to have met small bands of Ethiopians ahead of the lines in un- important brushes. The outposts of Gen. De Bono's T (See MAKALE, Page 3.) MALP.P.HILLDIES, 4 OTHERS HURT IN CRASH OF BOMBER | | | | | |Giant Boeing Ship Falls in' President Says Committee| Flames in Test at enant (the sanctions article). They | said French army and air chiefs will | go to London to join French naval| officers there in working out the plan with British experts. Laval in a talk with Ttalian Am- bassador Vittorio Cerruti was reported to have told him Mussolini’s terms for settlement of the Ethiopian war | “might be acceptable” if he made certain concessions. | Modified Demands Sought. Informed sources said 11 Duce w: given to understand that if he sub- | mitted modified demands along “cer- tain lines” to the League’s Committee of Five they could then be discussed at Geneva. The “certain lin were interpreted as being Italy’s acceptance of a sort of “lease” on the outlying territories in Ethiopia. leaving the cities of Aksum and Harar and the interior highlands under the so ereignty of Emperor Haile Selassie. It was stated, however, that the| French view come from Mussolini, as Great Britain is opposed to other nations taking a | cut-and-dried plan to Geneva for sub- | mission to the League. | Laval was quoted as telling Cerruti | Mussolini's demands thus far were not possible. but as adding that certain proposals which 11 Duce had outlined *might be possible.” The French were said to recognize that Britain is unable to agree to any proposals to Italy because her stand is that any negotiations must be within Dayton. By the Associated Press DAYTON, Ohio. October 30.—Maj {P. P. Hill, chief of the fiying branch | | at Wright Field. died this afternoon of injuries received in the crash of a Boeing bomber during a test flxghl“ today. Four others were hurt | The bomber, one of the largest air- planes in the United States, crashed | in attempting a take-off. The plane ! was being tested by the United States Army Air Corps, | Others injured were Lieut. Donald | L. Putt, Leslie Power, chief pilot of the | Boeing Aircraft Co.; John Cutting, | test observer, and Mark Koegler, | Wright Field employe. | The huge ship—105 feet in wing | spread, and capable of 250 miles an | hour speed under full five-ton load— | | had climbed about 100 feet when lh!| | two left motors cut out, witnesses said. | Hits Earth in Flames. | Its right motors pulling full-out, the is the initiative must | big ship spun in the air and smacked to earth in flames. Reported as costing $500,000 to de- | velop, the huge four-motored craft was offered to the Army at $200.000 | in lots of 25. Tt carried four machine- gun nests in addition to a bombing | load, had retractable landing gear, | was equipped with air brakes and could cruise from 6 to 10 hours under full load at a speed of from 170 to | 220 miles an hour. It was fully| equipped with radio direction finders | and other safety devices. The cause of the crash was not im- BAR RULING ASKED ONLIBERTY LEAGUE NEW DEAL REPORT Requested to Pass On Propriety. BULLETIN. NEW YORK, October 30 (#).— William L. Ransom, president of the American Bar Association, said today that its Committee on Pro- fessional Ethics and Grievances had been asked to give an opinion concerning the propriety of the American Liberty League's Law- yers' Committee in publishing opinions regarding the constitution- ality of certain New Deal legisla- tion. Ransom, commenting on reports from Washington. denied, however, that the Grievances Committee had received any complaints asking that the Liberty Leaguers be dis- ciplined. In Washington, it was stated that the Bar Association Commit- tee had asked the Liberty League group for a description of its pur- poses and activities, preliminary to a meeting of the Bar Associa- tion group November 15, 16 and 17. By the Associated Press. The American Liberty League dis- claimed any knowledge today of pub- lished reports that men.bers of its Lawyers’ Committee had been cited to appear before the Complaints and Grievances Committee of the Ameri- can Bar Association for rendering unsolicited opinions on New Deal legislation. League officials said they had heard ‘WITH SUNDAY MORN D. C, WEDNESDAY, FOE OF COAL CODE DENIED INJUNCTION BY DISTRICT COURT Tax Halting Refused, but Order Issued Permitting Non-Compliance. PLAINTIFF WILL FILE APPEAL IMMEDIATELY Justice Adkins Takes Stand Levy Clause Will Not Injure Firm in Next Few Months. By the Associated Press. Justice Jesse C. Adkins of the Dis- trict of Columbia Supreme Court re- fused today to grant James Walter | Carter, president of the Carter Coal | Co. an injunction restraining the | Government from collecting from the company the 15 per cent “compliance tax” imposed by the Guffey coal-con- trol act. | At the same time, the justice granted Carter an injunction re- | straining his company from comply- ing with the producers’ code pre- scribed by the act, but required Car- | | ter to post bond of $1,500 a day for | | a tentative 10-day period. | Counsel for Carter said an appeal would be taken immediately and court attaches said it would go before the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals as the next step in the con- stitutional test Sees No Tax Injury Now. Justice Adkins said he was not prepared at this time to enjoin Govern- | ment officers from enforcing tax pro- visions of the law because, he said, he saw no way in which these would “injure the company before next December or January.” The tax becomes operative Novem- ber 1. but first pavment will not be due until January 2 | Carter's attorneys argued that both injunctions were necessary to protect the company from financial loss. | The ruling followed protracted argu- | ment over the court's jurisdiction. | United States Classes Case as Test. Government, counsel sought to show the suit was not based on a real con- troversy and had been filed merely to obtain an opinion as to constitu- | tionality of the coal act. Justice Adkins held that a “genuine controversy” existed within the Carter Coal Co., whose directors overruled the efforts of the concern's president to | have the firm resist the coal act. The | Justice expressed belief that Carter did | “everything a prudent man might rea- | sonably do” to have the stockholders | support him in his determination to fight the act. Much significance was attached to! ai announcement that the Bitumi-| nous Coal Commission, set up to ad- minister the “little N. R. A.” which the Guffey act provides for soft coal, has started a legal study of its powers under section 14 of the act. | This section provides that no agency ING EDITION ¢ Foening Star OCTOBER 30, 1935—FORTY PAGES. Now | WONDER |F HE’S TRYINGTO HULL REITERATES WAR TRADE PLEA Statement Comes on Eve of Geneva Session on Sanctions. BY CONSTANTINE BROWN. On the eve of the meeting at Geneva where the League of Nations will finally decide the imposition of drastic economic sanctions against Italy, Sec- retary Hull reiterated today his urging to American business men not to deal with the belligerents. In reply to questions by newspaper men, as to whether the administration | 1s keeping in touch with exports to| belligerents, Hull stated | “We have been and are eaeh day giving the most diligent and earnest | attention to this zad other phases of | our situation as it relates to the Ethiopian-Italian controversy. At this stage, I reiterate and call special at- tention to the definite implications and the effect of the policy of this Government to discourage dealings. with the two belligerent nations as set forth in the President's public statement of October 5 and my state- ment of October 10 warning our peo- ple not to trade with the belligerents except at their own risk. Policy Rests On Neutrality Act, “The policy of this Government, as thus defined, rests primarily upon the recent neutrality act designed to keep the Nation out of war and upon the -l Woman Is Reunited To Barber Husband By Child’s Haircut By the Associated Press. READING, Pa.. October 30— Mrs. Lloyd L. Dickinson, 30, taking her 8-year-old son into a barber shop to have his hair cut. found the man with the scissors was the husband she hadn't seen since their divorce in Philadel- phia several years ago. They talked it over between snips. then he dropped business and both left with their son to get another marriage license. “It’s ot a chance.” Dickinson said. “This time it's a sure thing.” LOTTERY RACE WON BY COMMANDER |1 Winner Was 28-to-1 Shot. “Americans Capture Prizes of $2,729,000. By the Associated Press. NEW MARKET, England. October 30. — Commander III, 5-year-old French-bred bay owned by G. R. C. Foster, galloped off with the Cam- bridgeshire Stakes today. The only evening paper in Washington with the Associated Press News and Wirephoto Services. Yesterday’s Circulation, 127,066 8ome Returns Not Ye: Received. s Associated Press. TWO CENTS. OEHMANNCHARGES PLOT T0 QUST HiM FOR EX-ARMY MAN Building Inspector Says He Has Been Deprived of Authority. (OOPER TESTIFIES ON CHARGE DELAY Takes Stand to Explain Continental Interest Action. Taking the withess stand in his own defense, Col. Wade H. Cooper. onc- time president of three local banks, | today defended his acts as president | of the defunct Commercial Nations: | Bank at his trial in District Supreme ‘ Court on charges of misapplying funds | of the bank. | Questioned by Defense Attorney Wil- | liam E. Leahy. Col. Cooper denied he was able to dominate the board of di- rectors of the bank and declared all transactions approved by the board were taken in the best interests of the bank. Referring to interest charges which wiped out earnings of Commercial's afiliate, Col. Cooper said he never heard about the Continental’s earnings.” Reinstated Charges. Then, he said, he ordered the in- terest charges against Continental to stop, pending a study of the ques- tion. Later, he ordered the charges reinstated, he testified. The previous defense witness to- day told the jury that dividend pay- the Government claims would have | the Continental Trust Co..| these interest charges until he began | to inquire “what was becoming of OFFICERS IN DISTRICT JOBS ARE CRITICIZED Charges and Answers of Official Are Heard by Allen and Wheatley. Declaring the District government has been packed with former Army officers, counsel for District Builde g Inspector John W. Oehmann as- serted today charges of improper ade ministration of his office are the re- sult of a deliberate attempt to “get" Col. Oehmann to make room for * other ex-Army officer.” This charge was made by Attorney W. Gwynn Gardiner as Col. Oeh« mann appeared before District Com= missioner George E. Allen and H. Winship Wheatley, president of the District Bar Association, to submit his defense to the nine formal charges brought against him. Attorney Gardiner. his left hand still bandaged from a fist fight with another lawyer in District Supreme Court several days ago, declared Col. | Oehmann has been virtually deprived | of all authority by the appointment of former Army officers to superior jobs. “Col. Oehmann,"” he said, “has been in the District service continuously since 1910, except for a brief period of duty overseas. But as the result of an effort to get him out of the job, starting in 1932, other positions have heen created in the District government and Army officers, edus. cated with Federal funds, have ree signed their service positions to take these jobs. They have been thrown on the taxpayvers of the District at double the salaries they received in the Army. Questions Authority. “Capt. Hugh P. Oram is now over Col. Oehmann as director of inspece tion. “Where,” Gardiner shouted, “is the authority in law to pay his salary? I defy you to show it to me.” The attornev also mentioned the | Engineer Commissioner, his three ase sistan‘- and Capt. H. C. Whitehurst. Although making it clear he ine tended no criticism of the present Board of Commissioners, Gardinen declared this is the second attemps to “get Col. Oehmann.” ] He cited an order of the District Commissioners of January 23, 1932, | approving the appointment of Harold W. Baker, a brother-in-law of tha then Assistant Engineer Commissioner, Donald Davidson, as director of cons struction at & salary of $6.000 a year, Orem, he continued, receives $6,500 annually, while Capt. Whitehurst ig paid $7,500. Oehmann's salary, he the League. nothing of the action and referred all iof the Federal Government shall buy A 28-to-1 shot in the betting, despite | ments, now alleged by the Govern- Conflicts to Be Avoided. France and Britain were reported to have agreed, however, that they will | avoid working at cross purposes at | Geneva, when and if the Italian pro- posals are submitted. | French circles said ' the British | foreign secretary, Sir Samuel Hoare, might suggest at Geneva that the date for application of sanctions against Italy be fixed at November 15. i The conversation between Laval and | Cerruti, following a similar one in Rome between Mussolini and British ' Ambassador Sir Eric Drummond, was | held in secret conformance with the | recent French policy. { Authoritative sources continued to | insist French and British experts are | still studying proposals acceptable to Mhe League of Nations, Ethiopia and Italy. These proposals, the same sources £aid, there might be an suggested (See WAR, Page 3.) RAIL RETIREMENT BOARD APPOINTED | Murray W. Latimer Is Chairman of Group Selected by Presi- dent Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt today named the Railroad Retirement Board of three members with Murray W. Latimer of New York, chairman. Latimer will represent the public on the board, which will administer the new retirement act. James A. Dailey of New York was named representative of the employers, and Lee M. Eddy of Missouri, repre- | sentative of labor. Latimer was given a two-year term, | Dailey, three, and Eddy, four. | | mediately determined. | Investigation Started. Lieut. Col. Frank Lockland, Capt. J. M. Gillespie. Capt. L. C. Craigie and Capt. H. A. Bogart was appointed to conduct an investigation. ‘The plane was brought to Dayton August 21. In a spectacular non-stop flight from Seattle, Wash., it set a record for that time of slightly over nine hours for the flight. ! Wright Field officials said that lives | of the plane occupants probably were saved by the heroic action of Lieuts. Robert K. Giovannoli and Leonard F. Harman. Giovannoli, appointed to the | Army from Lexington, Ky, is a na- tive of Washington, D. C. The two men rushed inside the! burning plane and carried out the five men. The rescuers were burned | slightly. Saw Crash Coming. Lieuts. Harman and Giovannoli, who | witnessed the crash, said a sickening | lurch that ended in a turn of 180 de- grees warned them that the bomber was going to crash. They sprinted toward the spot where they knew it would fall even before the left wing dropped and the plane smashed into the ground. They threw their coats over their heads and with their arms over their faces, clamered into the wreckage. When the ambulance bumped across the field to the wreckage, all of the crew had been pulled to safety. N Japan Accepts Parley Bid. LONDON, October 30 (#).—The British government announced today Japan had accepted an invitation to attend the conference of naval powers here December 2. No other accept- ances had been received up to today, it was said. The Japanese reply said some mem- bers of the delegation would not be able to reach London for the formal opening. Medical Gradua Serves Ethiopia in Hospital By the Associated Press. | ADDIS ABABA, October 30.—Dr. Robert W. Hockman, American mis- sionary in Ethiopia, went today to Jijiga, 300 miles behind the southern freat, where he is operating a base hospital for Emperor Haile Selassie. ‘The doctor’s party was equipped with six American-made motor ambu- lances, several stretchers and opera- ting tables, and a great supply of anti-scurvy remedies. Dr. Hockman, & United Presbyterian missionary who already had started inoculation of several thousand Ethiopian soldiers agaiast typhoid, smallpox and cholera, was assisted by Dr. Malaku Bayen, former student at Howard University in Washington, D. C., and one of Ethiopia’s few native doctors. ‘Twelve more physicians and 64 hospital assistants, represeating Egypt's latest war gift to Emperor Haile Selassie, arrived today, bringing the total number of Egyptian doctors, chemists and internes in Ethiopia to nearly 100, Q te of Howard U. ‘They will be employed largely at base hospitals, Ethiopian officials con- sidering it impracticable for them to work on the actual fronts, which are changing constantly. The government announced there was & lull on all fronts broken only by an Italian air raid on Mogolo last Saturday by two planes which failed to do any damage. The government also confirmed the report that small columns of Italians on the northern front are attempting to penetrate southward. It was reported that Ras Guetat- chou, former Minister to Paris and now the Governor of Maji and Kafa Provinces, may replace Ras Mulu- gueta as minister of war. Dr. Malaku Bayen received his medi- cal degree from Howard University here last June and returned immedi- ately to his native town, Addis Ababa. He had previously studied at Mus- kingum College in Ohio and spent four years at Howard, ’ York, chairman of the committee which recently contended the Wagner labor disputes act was unconstitu- tional. Members of the committee include some of the Nation's most prominent lawyers, among them John W. Davis, former Democratic presidential can- didate; James M. Beck, former so- licitor general, and Frank Hogan, Washington attorney. Appointed June 9. Formation of the committee was announced by the league June 9 to advise on the constitutionality of pro- | posed New Deal legislation and “con- tribute its services in test cases in- volving fundamental constitutional questions.” Lawyers conversant with the activi- ties of the Bar Association said, how- ever, there had been discussion re- cently among officers of the associa- (See LIBERTY LEAGUE, Page 2) The Family Auto Has Covered Ground From the Day of the Old Coughing “‘One-Lunger” to the Sleek, Streamlined Super-powered Speeder of Today This year, lookirig ahead to ban- ner-business, the outo industry presents new models that are the last word in modern motoring. See them ot the Auto Show on Saturdey Read all about them on Sunday in The Star’s special auto section With Two Pages of ROTOGRAVURE PICTURES Watch for the latest news of the Auto World Completely Covered —IN— The Sunday Htar inquiries to R. E. Desvernine of New | coal produced at a mine which is not complying with the Guffey code.| Officials said the effect of the sec- | tion “appears to be far-reaching and | will apply to railroads serving the| Government in the transportation of | mail, as well as firms and individuals | contracting with the Government for | the supply of materials.” Railroads are enormous consumers of coal. Of the 358,385.000 tons of | bituminous coal mined in 1934, the class 1 railroads alone consumed 79,.- 493,809 tons, or nearly one-quarter of | the iotal. If these roads, most of which are large carriers of mail, could be compelled to buy coal only from conforming producers, the Govern- ment would have a weapon of tre- mendous power. Employes—Truck 100,000,000 Pounds Each Year. Traffic Deaths to October 30—92; Same Period, 1934—103 The Government Printing Office, Council. the active supervision of Deputy Pub-. lic Printer George Ortleb and Chief | Clerk H. H. Wright the big Govern- ment Printing Office organization has been enrolled in The Star safety drive and special safe-driving pledge cards are being distributed to all officials and employes of the plant who drive cars. | Although practically all of the 5,000 special pledge cards turned over by The Star Council to the Government Printing Office are for the use of em- ployes and members of their families who operate their own automobiles, approximately 30 are for the use of | drivers of a fleet of office trucks which handle the transportation through ‘Washington streets of some 100,000, 000 pounds of paper and supplies each year. ‘The Government Printing Office, which takes care of all printing and bookbinding for the Federal Govern- ment, is one of the most complete and easily the largest plant of its kind in the world. Its employes operate in day and night shifts and as a re- sult are factors in the city's traffic probiem at all hours of the day and night. The decision to put the big print- ing establishment behind the safety campaign is in line with the progres- sive policy which has made the office a leader in the printing and allied crafts. The office is constantly ex- perimenting with new methods of pro- duction and many important advances . §See BAFETY, Page b.) < s | misery. Government Printing Office Joins Star Safety Campaign Pledges Are Being Distributed to 5,000 world’s largest printing plant, but also because of the unusual care its leaders take for the health and well-being of more than 5,000 employes, has joined wholeheartedly in the street and highway safety campaign of The Star Safety With the approval of Public Printer Augustus E. Giegengack and under further purpose not to aid in pro- tracting the war. “It is my opinion that our citizens will not be disposed to insist upon | the fact he was runner-up last year, | Commander III defeated Mrs. V. D. | Sainsbury’s Man's Pal by a length and Man's Pal, a 100-to-1 shot in a half. | ment to have been improper, | based on a statement of earnings by Continental which did not take into account the interest charged by Com- transactions to derive war profits at | the petting, was a short head in front | mercial on deposit liabilities assumed the expense of human lives and human | In this connection, I again | repeat that an early peace with the | restoration of normal business and normal business profits is far sounder and far preferable to temporary and | risky war profits.” Normally this restatement of policy | would have been without much significance. But the League of Na- tions meets tomorrow to deal with | the momentous question of sanctions. Some nations, including Great Britain, on which the main burden (See HULL, Page 2.) Drivers Handle famous not only because 1t is the Signers Are Urged To Return Pledges ‘To all signers of safe driving pledge cards: Please see that your card is turned in to The Star Safety Council; that you have a wind- shield sticker and that you dis- play the sticker on your car. If the safety campaign is to have its maximum results, all these things are necessary. The cam- paign is largely psychological and 'the signing of pledge cards and the display of stickers are steps toward building up the nec- essary safety psychology in the mind of each individual driver. Organizations which are hand- ling pledge cards for their em- ployes are asked to make returns, even though some “stragglers” may not yet be in hand. Credit for cards returned will be made to the organization, and when all drivers have signed the or- ganization will go on the 100 per cent honor roll. The request for return of cards does not mean that The Star Safety Council is completing its campaign. Returns are re- quested so that tabulations may be made and also to reduce the possibility that cards may be lost. of Lady Rall favorite. O. V. Watney’'s Wychwood Abbot, which defeated Commander III and 31 others in the 1934 running of the classic, wound up in fourth place and Col. F. T. Halse's Law Court in fifth. The only American-owned thorough- bred, Ralph Beaver Boethius, ran unplaced in the huge starting field of 40 horses, Pegasus Trails in. J. P. Hornung's Pegasus, the favorite for some days before the race, also was among the trailers. ‘Wychwood Abbot was top weight in the field with 133 pounds, while Man’s Pal got in with the “feather” of 91 pounds. Commander III, ridden by the apprentice jockey, T. Hawcroft, carried an impost of 109 pounds. The race, run over & course of & mile and a furlong, carried a purse of £1,000 with extras, but more to the point was that about $6,000,000 i sweepstake prize money hinged upon the outcome of the classic, run for the ninety-sixth time since 1839, Blue Boy Fades. A large crowd was on hand as the big field lined up at the starting gate. Commander III and Lord Portal's The Blue Boy, at opposite ends of the line, ‘were prominent in the early stages of the race with Boethius, Finalist, Law Court and Man’s Pal also close up. ‘The Blue Boy faded out later but Commander I1II maintained his lead and won rather easily in 1 minute 52 seconds. There was a great struggle for second and third place. $2,729,000 TO U. S. i's Finalist, the 6-to-1 Americans Win Approximately 43.5 Per Cent. DUBLIN, Irish Free State, October 30 (#)—American _purchasers of tickets in the Irish Hospital Sweep- stakes added $1,423,900 to their win- nings today when Commander III, Man’s Pal and Finalist finished in that order in the Cambridgeshire race at Newmarket. Today's winners, added to previous “(See CAMBRIDGESHIRE, Page 4) Readers’ Guide Amusements Comics - Editorials Finance .- Short Story-.- Society - Sports ‘Washington Wayside Women's Features....B-13-14 Strassburger’s | | by the Commercial Bank upon affilia- | tion with Continental in 1930 “Isn't it a fact” Leahy asked | Cooper, “that the earnings of Conti- nental were being eaten up by the interest charges made by Commer- cial?” “That's a fact,” Cooper replied. Cooper Voluble. The former bank executive eppeared at ease in the witness chair and his volubility caused Irving Goldstein, as- sistant United States attorney, to in- terpose an objection. Cooper drummed a pencil on the palm of his hand | during his testimony. § The testimony on the interest charges came from Miss Alice Barber, former assistant trust officer of Con- tinental and, after the affiliation of the two banks, holder of a similar office with Commercial. Goldstein brought out from the wit- ness that Cooper and another officer | of the Commercial Bank had directed her to withhold these interest charges for a period of five months. Later. after a discussion as to the propriety of charging Continental interest, the accrued charges were assessed. Gold- stein pointed out that when the inter- est charges were made there were no earnings left on which Continental could pay dividends. Miss Barber said under cross-exam- ination that all urndivided profits, re- serve and other assets of Continental were held by Commercial as collateral for the deposit liabilities assumed. Tax Statements Barred. In an announced attempt to im- peach Miss Barber's testimony that she did not consider the interest charges against Continental as valid “(See (COOPER, Page 4.) were | added, is $5.800 a year. Assistant Corporation Counsel Ele wood Seal interrupred at this poin§ to demand that Gardiner stata whether he intends to prove these io!ficxals directed the building inspector | to do the things on which the charges are based. Gardiner objected to this and was sustained by Commissioner Allen, who said “we feel we want all of the facts.” Gardiner then pointed out that Oehmann, in 1932, was brought befora Commissioner Luther C. Reichelderfer on somewhat similar charges. Dissension Charged. “Those charges were dismissed.® the attorney said, “and since that time there has been dissension and wrangling in Col. Oehmann's office, Investigators were sent to the homesg of employes of the office to see what they could get on Col. Oechmann. As a result, we have these charges.” All available seats in Commissioner | Allen's office were occupied as Seal | began reading the nine charges against the District official. The charges are: 1. That the office of inspector of buildings on April 9, 1935, iscued ta | Ransdell, Inc., a permit to tear down | five brick dwellings, at 2010 E stree§ and at 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008 Greens court, without charging the | fee prescribed by the Commissioners, | Gardiner pointed out this fee was only | $7.13 and said the failure to charge | it resulted from Col. Oechmann’s mis= | taken belief that the buildings had been (See OEHMANN, Page 4.) 2 Children Missing in { VICTORIAVILLE, Quebec. October 30 (#).—Two children were missing, 21 families left homeless and damage estimated at $75,000 caused early to= day when fire raged through a large block in the center of this Arthabaska County town. The cause of the fire was not immediately established. Fire. | American, Married to Briton, Regretfully Cuts Tie as Citizen For the first time within the mem- ory of court attaches, an American citizen came into District Supreme Court today and renounced her citi- | zenship. But it was with expressed sorrow and regret that the expatriate, Mrs. Margaret Gholson Glasgow Congreve, made the renunciation. Chief Justice Alfred A. Wheat, who has inducted hundreds of aliens into the privileges of American citizenship, suspended court business to” hear her story. Mrs. Congreve, who is prominent socially in London and in New York, said the move was prompted by her marriage last July 30 to a British subject. In a formal statement to the court, Mrs. Congreve, a tall, handsome wom- an, said: “I, the said Margaret Gholson Glas- gow Congreve, was born November 8, 1902, in London, England, where my father had since 1892 been managing partner in the firm of Humphreys & Glasgow, 38 Victoria street, London, southwest, of which successor com- [4 ’ pany he is now chairman and mane aging director. “My father and mother were and are citizens of the United States of America, as were my ancestors for many generations. Therefore, after T had attained my majority, I formally renounced my rights as a British sub- ject and adhered exclusively to my citizenship in the United States, al« though, except for war and minon absences, I have lived in England my entire ¥fe. “I hope and believe that those who know me will agree that I havae served America throughout my life fully as well as if I had been living in the home of my fathers. Such service will not end with this neces« sary renunciation of American citle zenship due to my marriage to Ame brose Christian Congreve, a British subject, at St. Clement Danes, Lone don, England, July 30, 1935.” By her action today Mrs. Congreve automatically became a full British subject. She was represented before the court by Attorneys J. Spaulding Flannery and Caesar Alello,