Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1937, Page 2

COMMITTEE GETS TAXI LIMIT PLEA Owners and Operators Also Seek Law to Force Riders to Pay. Owners and operators of taxicabs appealed to a special subcommittee of the House District Committee today for legislation limiting the number of | cabs in Washington and giving them a | legal weapon to use on riders who re- | fuse to pay their fares. ‘The pleas were made at a hearing on & bill designed to give the Public Util- ities Commission authority to prose- cute violaters of its orders and regula- tions. The subcommittee also con- sidered a bill increasing the maximum amount under which petty larceny can be charged. Both measures were ap- proved by the subcommittee, but it amended the petty larceny bill to re- duce the maximum figure from $75 to $50. Under existing law, the value of property in excess of $35 brings a charge of grand larceny. A suggestion was made by Chairman Palmisano of the subcommittee that steps be taken to reduce the number of cabs by preventing Government em- ployes from driving these vehicles after regular working hours. Riley E. Elgen, chairman of the Public Utilities Commission, explained, however, that | the commission lacks the authority to restrict the number of cabs, but had | sought such power for several years. Dante Gentilucci, a cab driver, said | he believed the commission should be | given such authority and at the same time stressed the need of legislation which would force riders in cabs to Pay their fares. He cited a number of experiences he has had with riders who | refused to pay. MRS. MARQUART SUCGUMBS IN CHINA Pneumonia Fatal to Wife of Rear Admiral Stationed in Hankow But Week. Mrs. Marie T. Marquart, 43, wife of Rear Admiral Edward J. Marquart and a native of Washington, aied last night in Hankow, China, of pneu- monia, according to the Associated Press. Admiral Marquart had been sta- tioned but a week in Hankow, in ccm- mand of the American Yangtze patrol. Physicians rushed serum to Hankow | by chartered airplane, but it was too late to save her life. Mrs. M. Y. Cohen, wife of Comdr. Cohen, U. S. N., stationed here, un- derstood that Mrs. Marquart became ill on the train en route to Hankow. Admiral Marquart went to nis Yangtze | command from Cavite, P. I, where he was commandant of the navy yard. Mrs, Marquart was born in Wash- ington, the daughter of Mr. und Mrs. Robert Scannell. After an absence from the’ Capital, she returned, when | her husband was stationed at the | Navy Department. The admiral's last tour here was in 1934, BANDITS BORROW CAB AFTER ROBBING DRIVER | Pair Inform Victim Where He May Find Vehicle—Escape With Only $2. Two considerate bandits early to- day robbed a taxi driver of $2 and | were satisfied to merely borrow his | eab. | “Wait a few minutes and go westj on C streets, north on Sixth and you'll | find your cab,” the pair instructed John McBurney, 15 V street northeast, after robbing him in the 600 block of C street southeast. McBurney said he | picked them up at Eleventh and F streets. Police found the cab at Sixth and A streets southeast, about two blocks from the scene of the robbery. Your Income Tax Exemptions Allowed Couples Married Dur- ing Taxable Year. VIIL Taxpayers should note that under the revenue act of 1936 the credit for dependents as well as the personal exemption is required to be pl’orntzdj where a change of status occurs dur- ing the taxable year and that these eredits are allowable not only for the purpose of computing the normal tax but also the surtax. A fractional part of a month is to be disregarded unless it amounts to more than half a month, in which case it is considered a month. For example, a single man and a gingle woman who were married on July 20, 1936, and were living to- gether on the last day of the taxable year may file a joint return. If they file their return or returns on the basis of the calendar year, they would be entitled to a personal exemption of $2,208.34, which is seven-twelfths of | $1,000 for the husband while single, plus seven-twelfths of $1,000 for the | wife while single. plus five-twelfths of 82,500 for the period during which they were married. If separate re- turns are filed. each is entitled to a | personal exemption of $1,104.17, which is seven-twelfths of $1,000, plus one- half of five-twelfths of $2,500. If dur- ing the year 1936 the husband or the wife had the status of the head of & family prior to their marriage he or she would be entitled to his or her pro- rata share of the personal exemption of $2,500 allowed the head of a fam- ly for the period prior to their mar- riage instead of merely that allowed a single person. However, for the pe- riod of their marriage any exemption to which either might be entitled as the head of a family would be merged in the joint personal exemption for that period. The joint personal ex- emption allowable in the case of a couple who were married and living together during the entire year may not exceed $2,500. If a child under 18 eyars of age and dependent on the parent for support reaches the age of 18 years during the taxable year, the credit of $400 for a dependent is required to be pro- rated in the same manner as the per- sonal exemption. For example, should the child's 18th birthday anniversary fall on June 30, the parent would be entitled to claim $200 credit for the de- |to the right street and Mr. Curtin | bound. he produced the dime, thanked Washington Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. IMPROMPTU. UR Mr. John Curtin was rid- ing a street car out in the far reaches of Northeast ‘Washington one rainy day of late, slightly depressed by the pros- pect of walking a block sans topcoat when he finished his ride. Tram came alighted, to see a small boy standing over by a corner drug store, an open and inverted umbrella resting on the sidewalk beside him. 5 P Mr. C. went over to the lad, said, “Son, if you'll walk down to the next corner with me while I hold that um- brella over us, I'll give you a dime.” “Sure,” said the boy, and they set Off together, comfortably shielded | against the drizzle. When they reached the doorstep of | the house vhither Mr. Curtin was | the boy and said, “Now you can hurry back and take the umbrella to | the perscn you were waiting for.” “Yes, sir,” said the boy, “except I wasn't waiting for anybody and I dunno whose umbrella this is.” * X Kk x ENDING. Looking over the Coast Guard register recently, one of our opera- tives came to the conclusion that unless your name ends in “er” you would stand very little chance of reaching the top ranks of that service. Here is his evidence for the ar- gument: The chairman of the Per- manent Board is Capt. W. H. Mun- ter, the head of the personnel di- vision is Capt. Thaddeus G. Crap- ster, the head of the aviation divi- sion is Capt. L. T. Chalker, the head of the intelligence division is Comdr, Stanley V. Parker, the head of the procurement and supplies division is Comdr. William J. Kees- ter and the head of the communi- cations division is Comdr. Freder- ick A. Zeusler. They are all on duty here, if, er, ah, you want to see them. * X ¥ % THE MILITARY { J IEUT. EUGENE JACOBS, Army | Medical Corps, recently was transferred from temporary duty at| Soldiers'’ Home and Fort Myer to a definite assignment at the Army| Medical Center here. He asked ror“ the use of an Army truck to move | some household goods. The last para- | graph of his orders read: “The travel directed is necessary in | the military service. Transportation | involved is charged to FDP80-0600 A 0410-7 and QM 1600 P61-0700 A 0525-7." , | ‘Which. in the language of the mili- tary, means “O. K.” INSTINCT. 'HIS is about a lady we know who has an Irish setter dog. and she was as proud of it as of anything she owned. One day they were hiking near the Chevy Chase Club, when the setter went into a perfect point, or set, if you like—nose held far out, | spine rigid, one foot poised for the | spring. Our lady called, “Steady, boy!” and let him advance, walking | quietly behind. A small audience, | unaccustomed to such sights in the | populous suburbs, collected and be- | gan to follow stealthily. | The dog worked his way through | | some brush, then suddenly “froze” on | the point. His owner came forwatd | pridefully, ready to kick up the game —until she saw there in the middle of a lawn an abandoned Donald Duck. L CONSOLATION. Flored Glenn, who was mired up in that hearse incident and this column all in one week, was so de- pressed by it all that she went out and bought a new hat. “Ha,” quoth a friend upon see- ing it, “and why the rows of bache- lor buttons for trimming?” “l keep a different bachelor’s telephone number under each one,” snapped Mile. Glenn. * x kX PSYCHIC. “BINO" MATTOX, aide to Senator Robert Reynolds, has the boys back home believing he has become a seer, a mystic and other phenomena too numerous to mention. His fame is being spread by one of Senator Reynolds’ constituents, who came to Washington not long ago for a visit. “Bing” rushed out to the hotel to greet him. They chatted about the home State a few minutes, then came a lull in the conversation. Suddenly “Bing” pointed dramat- ically to a chair, “There,” he said in the sing-song tones of a prophet, “under that chair cushion you will find a bottle of what is known as ‘liquid refreshment.’” They looked. It was there. Visitor never did recover from his amazement. “Bing” passed it off lightly, like a man who finds miracles too trivial to mention. Privately, however, he admits that he suddenly recalled that he had been in exactly the same suite the night be- fore, having rented it to give a party. Being a foresighted host, he had stored away & bottle or two under the chair cushions, forgotten about them until the next day. % x x DEFEAT. Smflsmbenotmn:wthuhvfl supply and demand stuff, so far as the female-vs.-male situation in Washington is concerned. Since ‘women far outnumber the men there, a girl reporter around town decided that the local “escort and guide” rental bureau should be doing a booming business. She planned to call up, order up a male to sult her tastes (con- fesses she was going to demand a pre- maturely bald lad, 25 years old, with eyes like a panther) and make the rounds with him for a story. pendent child—that is, one-half of $400. The same rule applies to other dependents where a change of status occurs during the taxable year. L) Picked up the telephone and called the only bureau she'd ever heard of in this city. Operator said the telephone hldbeendlmnflfiad. No business. |Evidence of Detective Unit | | unions. STRIKE-BREAKING BYBURNS CHARGED Activity Submitted in La Follette Probe. BY JOHN C. HENRY. Through co-operation of Washing- ton and Philadelphia officials of the | William J. Burns International Detec- | tive Agency, the Tubize Chatillon Corp. plant in Hopewell, Va.,, was supplied | with arms and ammunition obtained from the Delaware State police, it was disclosed before the La Follette com- | mittee today. The armament for as many as 90 plant guards was supplied as a climax | to extensive labor espionage by Burns | operatives in Hopewell, it was brought | out, during a time of union organiza= | tion there in 1934. Called tu the stand, Arthur J. Mel- ville, Washington manager for Burns, said he was a “little hazy” about the gun transaction, but admitted negoti- ations for the arms had gone through his secretary to the Philadelphia man« ager. With Raymond J. Burns, president; W. Sherman Burns, secretary-treas- urer, and J. W. Erb, Philadelphia manager, on tne stand, Senator La Follette submitted reconstructed op- erators’ reports salvaged from St. Louls waste paper, reciting how strike leaders in a Chevrolet plant there had been shadowed for the purpose of in- timidation. In an operation of this | nature is was indicated by the reports, the subject is allowed 0 know he is under surveillance in the hope that he will become sufficiently harassed to cease strike efforts. The St. Louis incident occurred last | year. More direct strike-breaking opera- tions were disclosed by records bear- ing upon three other cases. Drivens Furnished in Strike. First of these was the furnishing of drivers to A. Schoenhut of Philadel- phia during a strike in 1933. In the Summer of 1934 the agency supplied drivers to the Tubize-Chatillon Co. The report on this incident spoke of the higher rate of pay charged for this service. In October, 1935, the agency sup- plied three mechanics to the Pitts- burgh Automobile Dealers’ Association during a strike in one of its member plants. In.each case of today's disclosures the witnesses challenged the inference that supplying workers at higher rates | of pay than guards constituted actual strike breaking. Erb. who was a Pinkerton employe for 20 years before joining Burns in 1929, said the agency placed an un- | dercover man in the Tubize plant dur- ing the labor trouble of 1934 at request of the plant management. Erb ad- | mitted he did not tell the undercover | man that he represented the Burns | agency. Supervised Operation. Erb said he supervised the Tubize | operation while he was Burns' repre- | sentative in Richmond, with the work under general jurisdiction of the Washington office. Some of the op- eratives’ reports, he said, were made directly to the Washington office. Erb at the time was designated as | Washington Operative X-8, while the undercover man in the Tubize plant was known as D-11. Samples of reports submitted by D-11 were concerned principally with union organizing efforts. One of the D-11 reports told of dis- | charges of union members by the | Tubize Corp. With reference to the ' company's intention of “breaking” the union, after persistent questioning by | La Follette, Erb admitted knowing that Burns' information was being used for this purpose. All the witnesses have insisted for the past two days that the agency | never allows use of its services for the purpose of “disrupting” legitimate As yesterday's afternoon session | closed, the committee was question- ing the Burns officials closely about the degree to which they had com- plied with subpoenas to produce in- dustrial records on hand o: received subsequent to service of the subpoenas | last August 12. | Material Believed Withheld. | Although the committee obtained | only dummy reports in so far as op- erators’ labor esplonage records were concerned, two developments of the afternoon made it evident that ma- terial covered by the subpoenas had been withheld. First of these developments was the testimony of David Huston, former Burns detective, that on two jobs after service of the subpoenas he had sub- mitted written reports on lahor cone- ditions ir Pittsburgh plants. Sub- sequently, he said, he had been di- rected to prepare dummy reports. Second development was introduc- tion of the bulky pack of reconstructed records salvaged from waste paper discards of the St. Lous office of the agency. Picked up after service of ! the subpoenas, the records wer pieced together by committee employes. A feature of the afternoon session was the charge by W. 8. Burns that a committee investigator had imper- sonated a Burns detective in asking access to waste paper deposits in the New York office building where the agency is located. Burns said the mis- representation was made to the build- ing superintendent and occurred be- fore service of the subpoena. Committee Investigator Charles Kramer and Secretary Robert Wohl- forth took the stand to deny the charge and Senator La Follette or- dered Burns to supply the name of the building official who had told him of the misrepresentation, ——— Employes’ Meeting Tonight. The recent Civil Service Committee hearing will be discussed at a meet- ing of the United Civil Service Em- ployes at 8 o'clock tonight in the Har- rington Hotel. LENTEN SERVICE Under the Auspices OF The Washingtom Federation of Churches Epiphany Episcopal Church TOMORROW AT 4:45 PM. Preacher: Dr. G. Ellis Williams District Supt. of the Methodist Episcopal Church THE PUBLIC IS INVITED Death_Claims Girl, Tearless In Hand Injury Infection, Following Hip Bruise, Is Fatal. RUTH ANN ODEN. —Star Staff Photo. - | EATH has claimed 3-year-old Ruth Ann Oden, the girl who refused to cry—"because only | sissies cry”—when she caught | her hand in a swinging door at her | home several weeks ago. Ruth died Saturday in Gallinger | Hospital. She apparently had bruised | her hip in a fall some time ago, but | had not complained of the injury| until about a week ago. A septic in- | fection resulted, doctors said, and they | were unable to save her life. Ruth lived at 515 Florida avenue northeast. It was while she was play- ing there with her 4-year-old brother, Beverly, last month that she caught her hand in a door between the kitchen and dining room. | She was unable to free her hand, | and her mother, Mrs. Naomi Oden, 26, found she could not move the door in either direction for fear of crushing | Ruth’s fingers even more. They wait- | ed for more than 15 minutes until the Rescue Squad arrived and forced the door. While they waited, the mother told Ruth to be brave. and the child wouldn't let a tear escape. Ruth was to be burled this afternoon in Cedar Hill Cemetery, after funeral services at her home at 2 o'clock. { Her father, Dudley E. Oden, is man- ager of the meat department of an A. & P. store. TRADE COMMISSION | EXPERTS CALLED BY the Associated Press. In an effort to determine whether American housewives are “gypped” by high-pressure selling methods, the House Judiciary Committee today ' called for the testimony of Federal | Trade Commission experts. The committee is considering a measure that would remove Federal obstacles to laws enacted in 16 States permitting manufacturers of trade- marked goods to fix minimum retail prices. These laws were designed to elimi- | nate the retail merchandising prac- | tice of advertising “loss-leaders” to | attract customers in the hope of then | trict better opportunity to contribute | | selling them quantities of high-priced | goods. Dr. Jessie V. Coles, who said she spoke on behalf of the woman buyers | of the Nation, testified yesterday that in her opinion women were not so gul- | lible as to be “gypped” by these tac- ties. | DR. TANSILL QUITS AMERICAN U. POST Dr. Charles C. Tansill, who has been connected with American University since 1918, has resigned as professor of history, it was learned, but both Dr. Tansill and university officials | denied published reports that his resignation was caused by any pub- lic addresses he has made concerning the Hitler regime in Germany. Dr. Tansill is still “on leave with pay,” until next September. but has not been teaching this semester at the graduate school. where he has been active for years. His instruction there came to a close February 1. Dr. Arthur C. Christie, president of the Board of Trustees of American University, flatly denied that Dr. Tan- sill's resignation was caused by any public speeches made by him. The question of “academic freedom” had nothing to do with the resignation, said Dr. Christie, who saild he had never heard any criticism of Dr. Tan- sill's several public addresses on Ger- many, including one last year broad- cast from Berlin. Dr. Tansill said he had left the university to start a writing career. He already is the author of several books and now has one coming off the press the first week in May, he said, on “America Goes to War.” ALIEN ARTIST BAN EFFECT DISCUSSED restrictions on the influx of foreign actors and concert stars to this country would scarcely tend to improve our relations with other na- tions, according to John Farr Sim- mons, chief of the visa devision of the State Department. It would be “far-fetched,” however, to conclude that passage of such re- strictive legislation would cause & breach with any nation, Simmons to- day told the House Immigration Com- mittee at the final hearing on the Dickstein bill to regulate entry of alien artists. The State Department expressed its opinion in response to a question by Representative William M. Colmer, Democrat, of Mississippl, who suggest- ed the proposed legislation might seri- ously affect international good will at “this critical” phase of world affairs. Simmons told Chairman Dickstein the bill, as drafted, probably would involve rather extensive administra- tive work on the part of the executive D. C, GEORGETOWNROAD WIDENING IS URGED Montgomery Civic Federa- tion Also Approves Teach- ers’ Pay Increase. By a Staf! Correspondent ot The Star. BETHESDA, Md., March 9.—Ap- proval of a $100-a-year increase for teachers in the county school system, in addition to the normal increment specified in the present schedule, was requested last night by the Mont- gomery County Civic Federation. The $100 increase, recommended by the School Committee, pending estab- lishment of a long-range program to bring the schedule up to the District scale, was approved after an amend- ment offered by Cary Quinn, Bethesda, to make the increase $200 was voted | down. The Federation also gave approval to the proposed widening of Old Georgetown road by the State Roads Commission, whichs has been urged by residents of that section since last De- cember, when two motorists were killed on the narrow, winding thor- oughfare in a collision with a bus. Widening of Georgia avenue north of the traffic light in Silver Spring and repair of the center portion of Con- necticut avenue from Chevy Chase circle to Chevy Chase Lake was like- wise indorsed on recommendation of the Street and Roads Committee. Budget Boost Looms. The county school budget of $612,- 000 for the current year will be in- creased next year by about $25,000 for additional teachers necessitated by in- creased enrollment and $16,000 for normal salary increments, according to Vernon H. Brewster, chairman of the School Committee. The $100 raise would add $37,700 for the 377 white teachers in the county. The total for the 52 colored teachers was not specifically considered by the committee, as their status is now be- fore the courts, Brewster explained. If their suit for pay equal to that of the white teachers is successful, ap- proximately $32,000 will be required to bring the 52 colored teachers’ sal- aries up to the white teachers’ sched- ule and an additional $5200 would be needed for the $100 increase pro- | posed by the federation, he pointed | out. “To sum up,” the committee's re- port stated, “the county next year will have a normal increase in the amount spent for teachers’ salaries under existing schedules of either ap- proximately $41.000 or $73,000, de- pending on the outcome of the colored teachers’ suit. Seek Parley on Chest. “Your committee’s recommendation that teachers be granted an increase of $100 in addition to the normal in- crement means an additional expendi- ture of either $37,700 or $42,900, de- pending upon the outcome of the col- ored teachers’ suit.” ‘The federation also adopted a reso- | lution urging that the Social Service | League, the agency, District Community Chest before the 1937 campaign in order to afford county residents employed in the Dis- county-wide welfare to the county agency. Thomas W. Pyle, chairman of the Social Welfare Committee, reported that more than $20,000 was realized in the 1936 campaign, an increase over previous years, but that more than $100,000 was contributed by county residents. He estimated that approxi- mately $50,000 would have been turned over to the county had the solicitors co-operated “in a fair way.” Pyle said hundreds of Government employes residing in Montgomery County reported that when they at- tempted to make contributions to the Social Service League, their donations were declined, or persuasion was used to divert them to the Community Chest, or pressure was used to make them divide their contributions, or ai least to make a contribution also to the Community Chest. The federation voted approval cf House bill 116, to amend the motor vehicle law 50 that half the fines col- lected for violations, when the arrest was made by a county policeman, would be turned into the county treas- ury; and disapproved Gov. Harry W. Nice's proposal to divert gasoline tax revenues to the general fund. EDUCATOR TO TALK Dr. Hohman to Address Council of Jewish Women's Unit. Dr. Leslie Hohman, associate pro- fessor of psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, will address the Washing- ton section of the National Council of Jewish Women this afternoon at the Jewish Community Center on “The Stream of Life.” The program is in charge of the Mothers’ Club of the council, with Mrs. William Chase, chairman. A play by the Southwest Council, vocal solos by Mrs. Sylvia Finklestein and & social hour will complete the pro- gram. Congress in Brief TODAY. Senate: Considers Copeland food, drug and cosmetics bill. Agriculture Subcommittee continues study of crop insurance bill. La Follette Committee continues investigation of labor espionage. Joint Committee studies plans for governmental reorganization. House: Begins debate on Guffey-Vinson coal control bill. Foreign Affairs Committee consid- ers Senate neutrality bill Immigration Committee resumes hearings on proposed ban on alien actors. Veterans’ Committee considers leg- islation affecting veterans’ widows and orphans. TOMORROW. Senate: May not be in session if food and drug bill passes today. Judiciary Committee begins hear- ings on President’s court reorgani- zation bill, in caucus room of Senate Building, 10 a.m. Agriculture Subcommittee, hearing at 10:30 a.m. on bill for purchase and sale of farm products. House Considers miscellaneous bills on calendar. Immigration Committee meets, 10:30 am. Indian Affairs Committec meets, 10 ‘MW-‘M:NM ' TUESDAY, MARCH 9, Tells of Husband Shooting seek a conference with the | 1931, =3 Angeles. water. Right: As she appeared Mrs. Helen Wills Love, on trial for the murder of her hus- band, Harry A. Love, broker, shown on the witness stand in Los At left: She pauses in her testimony for a drink of just before she collapsed. —A. P. Photo. Reversion (Continued From First Page.) corporation official from the cares of the world just as| before. She bore three children. | As Dr. Tucker tells the strange | story in the sober medical journal | which reprints his report to the! Richmond Academy: “Yes, she must have been beautiful v.uen young, for as one looked upon her one realized that her features were delicately chiseled, her large eyes had a wistful look, her hair al- though turning gray still showed some of the luster of chestnut brown, her skin was thin and transparent in | spite of wrinkles and her teeth, even | although several were missing, were | regular and white. Shielded by Ideal Husband. | “Her husband himself did for her all the chores. He provided for her | a house, servants, comforts and what | luxuries he could afford. He relieved her from all responsibility, smoothed | out her annoyances and managed | her personal affairs, even to details. She told me that she had never bought | a railway ticket, that her husband always procured for her a drawing | room, that he escorted her on every | | trip, that he assisted her in picking out her hats and her dresses and | that, in fact, he had been an ideal husband. | “Then, in life’s prime, he died and she was faced with handling the estate and directing the three, then ado- lescent, children. This situation seemed appalling to her although the estate wa. ample and the children all that could be desired. She began to feel that she should be young in order better to understand the children and be more companionable with them. So, when the usual period of mourning was over, she dressed and decorated herself as a younger woman would. She sought the companionship of young married couples and attempted to take up their activities. “Finding that this still did not com- pound he: with her children she soon became as a young unmarried woman, but always, of course, deporting her- self with decorum. She then entered into her children's lives, went out with them, adopted their friends and dressed as her daughters dressed. | Refuses to Grow Old. “But her children grew older. One of her daughters married and her son went to another State in business. How- ever, she lived with her daughters and her son-in-law, and although they managed the house, attended to the dutifully after her every comfort, she | became dissatisfied, for she found she | could not grow older with her chil- | dren. Still she must belong to them | and be as close to them as possible. “It was not long before she gave | the children considerable anxiety by | | becoming herself an adolescent an | they had to direct her goings out and comings in, to try to persuade her that her clothes were entirely too youthful for her and to induce her to conserse less flippantly. But the | mother continued to get younger at the rate of a year or so every few months. “The patient was sent to she was 6 or 7 years old, -lthouah‘i her actua age was 61. My asso- clates and I worked arduously in lnl endeavor to set back the hands of | her personality clock. She we a nice | little girl in short dresses rocking in her chair. She read simple things, but rather badly. She craved atten- tion. She laughed sometimes and at | others she would cry. She talked childishly pleasant or was mischievous and delighted in trying to plav jokes on or fool the doctors and nurses. She would play with objects as if | they were toys. When her children came to see her she would act as if she were their child. | Reaches Crawling Stage. | “Despite our efforts to the con- | trary, in a few months she was 3 or 4 | years of age. Her enunciation became less distinct, she was careless with her spoon, spilling food and had to be assisted with her feeding. She had ceased to read and would have crawled around on the floor had the nurse so permitted. “In several months more she was in bed, moving her hands and feet aimlessly, often whimpering and cry- ing like & very young child, and the only articulation one could under- stand was her frequent calling for b mamma,” although her mother had passed to the great beyond some 30 years before. The patient would take a towel or any cloth, roll it up and hug it to her as if it were a rag doll. She now required liquid nourishment because she could not chew, and soon she had to be fed liquids with a spoon, taking them with & sucking movement. She alsc would suck the corner of her gown or sheet. She would eat, sleep, make pecullar noises anc cry. She liked to be fon- dled and handled by almos any one. Fer only recognition of her family was an expression of delight when they came to see her. “At about 4 months of age she left the sanitarium, much §9 eur regret, ¢ me when i for this infant has become the pet of the nurses and doctors. However, we kept in touch with her and she continued to regress until she as- | sumed the foetal posture, breathing | gently being her only movement. At |she passed on her trip from England Her husband was a “gentleman”—a | this time she was sent to a State hos- | three months ago while the Duke— of considerable | pital where soon she was gathered then King Edward VIII—was wealth who continued to shield her | intg the womb of her Mother Earth.” | nouncing the British throne so he Escapes Mature Troubles. This, of course, isn't quite as mysti- cal as it sounds. Partial reversion is not an uncommon phenomenon in psychiatric practice 1t is generally interpreted as a flight into childhood from the troubles of mature life. A person cannot cope with worries and annoyances and is desperately unhappy. One’s thoughts turn back to happier days when there was somebody else to bear one's bur- | dens. If one could only go crying to mother, and be kissed. comforted | and tucked into bed. Probably, at some time or other, this yearning | has come to everybody. If it is overpowering enough one subconsciously begins to act like a child. This may be the explanation of a good dea! of the childishness and peevishness which grown men and women display everywhere when they are thwarted. 1f it goe: far enough, the individual becomes the patient of a psychiatrist. Unable to Stop at Level. But, says Dr. Tucker in his report, all the cases he had encountered hitherto found the childhood level which satisfied them and stopped there. They might act like children of 10 and. in their clouded minds, think -they were children of 10. That was as far as they wanted to go. In this case the reversal of time got completely out of the victim's control. She couldn't stop, once she had started. When she came to Dr. Tuck- er.she had had no previous history cf 1 extreme elation or depression excess emotion, memory lapses, confusion, | disorientation, morbid ideas, halluci- nations or phobias. Her only inter: the beginning had been to make herself a companion to her children but the backward sweep was irre- sistible. Old age and death are terrible, Dr. ‘Tucker agrees in his report, but in the end how much more merciful than “growing young.” i fil:(;(les SCIR B i e ) neglected and that he had sent Marcus Borchardt over to the association to take his place and that business was falling off and there was need for be all right.” Tre: Knew, He Says. Rhodes also told him that “Treasury officials knew about it and had said it was all right,” Irr said. Answering another question by Wil- losses and naturally I supposed they (the funds) had been restored.” Irr said that nothing was said about the withdrawal slip either on that visit or on another he made to Rhodes in June. On both occasions, Irr said, Rhodes sent for him. that Rhodes had acted as his attorney for several years, but he declared he had never given him power of attorney to sign his name. ‘Taking over the witness for cross- examination, William E. Leahy, chief of defense counsel, brought out that Irr was on close terms with Rhodes and was actively interested in the fight | of the latter to keep open six branches of the Fidelity which the controller of the currency wanted closed. The morning hearing was marked by frequent verbal battles between Wilson and Leahy, who contended the prosecutor was going' too far afield in | his questioning. Directors Told After Resignation. As soon as Leahy finished with Mrs. Horner, who was a Government wit- ness, Wilson resumed his questioning, asking her when the directors first became cognizant of the existence of the memorandum. 2 “Immediately after Mr. Rhodes’ res- " she said. o fomer then was temporarily excused. She had been on the stand since the trial started yesterday. Much of this morning’s testimony revolved around the Southwest Wash- ington branch of Fidelity, which, it was brought out, was owned independ- ently by Rhodes. It was to cancel a trust against this property that Rhodes is said to have made the withdrawal Irr. m;h‘o?:nmmed from Fidelity four months before it closed last July and sold the Southwest branch to the par- ent institution. No money changed hands, however, according to testi- mony, the sale price actually being credited to Fidelity. Defense Objects. There was an attempt by the prose- cution to show this was because of some liablity that Rhodes had—a con- tention that immediately brought ob- Jection from the defense. “I'm pre- pared to show that he (Rhodes) put in { $100,000 of his own money to keep the iation going,” Leahy shouted. “And I'm prepared to show that he ! Irr explained | PARTY ISPLANNED FOR MRS. SIMPSON Windsor’s Fiancee Awaited at New Retreat in Touraine. BY the Assoclated Press. | MONTS, France, March 9.—A large house party in chateau-studded Tou- | raine looked forward today to the ar- | rival of Wallis Warfield Simpson and her Riviera friends, Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Rogers. The Chateau de Cande, where | Ar.erican-born Mrs. Charles E. Bedaux will welcome her guests, was deco- rated with 10,000 franc ($450) worth of flowers in prepartaion for the ex- pected visit of the bride-to-be of the Duke of Windsor. Some members of the party hinted a “very distinguished person” may | Join the party. They declined to dis- close this person’s identity. Some mention was made that it might be “one of the duke's entourage.” Such a house party, at which the servants will wear full livery, raised speculation as to whether the former British King might join the group later. Residents in this little town, ap- proximately 10 miles south of Tours | expressed hope the wedding of the duke and his flancee would be cele- brated in France if Mrs. Simpson's divorce does become final April 27— as is expected. | STICKS TO WEDDING PLANS. | TOURS, Prance, March 9 (#).—Mrs. Wallis Warfield Simpson turned today to the seclusion of a wooded estate in the Touraine chateau country to | while away more of the time until she is reunited with the Duke of Wind- sor. The move carried her back to the | historic countryside through which re- | might be free to wed her. She was awaited momentarily at Chateau de Cande, the property of Charles E. Bedaux, an industrial en- gineer and naturalized American, now in New York Mrs. Bedaux, the former Fern Lom- bard of Cleveland, Ohio, was expected to receive Mrs. Simpson and Mr. and Mrs. Herman L. Rodgers, who ac- | companied Mrs. Simpson when she left their villa at Cannes yesterday. May Have More Privacy. The American-born Mrs. Simpson had been a guest there since she left London at the height of the abdica- tion crisis. , Possibly in the new retreat she sought a privacy more complete than that afforded by the Riviera. Friends in London said Mrs. Simpson had no intention of altering her plan to be married as soon as her divorce | from Ernest Aldrich Simpson becomes final, probably late in Apri Local residents. large-scale preparations for Mrs. Simpson's com- ing, including reinfo.cements of the chateau servant staff and the delivery of many flowers, speculated she mi wait for Edward in the castle high above the valley of the Indre River and that they might be married there. It was more generally accepted, how- ever, that Mrs. Simpson was only a temporary guest at the chateau. Rogers Villa Being Altered. (Bedaux, in New York, said the guests would stay several weeks—until alterations on the Rogers villa were completed.) Chateau de Cande, near Montes, 10 miles south of Tours, is not far from Blois, where Mrs. Simpson halted for a few sleepless hours at a hotel the night of December 4 while en route to the Riviera. Just to the west lies the famous Renaissance chateau of Azay-Le-Rideau, once a Summer home of Louis XIV and now a national museum. The province. Indre-Et-Loire, con- ‘smulmg roughly, the former prov- | ince of Touraine, is rich in the archi- | tectural glories of another century. |~ Several persons. among whom was | believed to be Mrs. Bedaux, arrived at the estate. The others were thought to be fellow guests for a house party Mrs. Simpson and the Rogerses were expected in time for dinner. She, the Rogerses and an escort be- lieved to include a French detective | ready cash and that he had used some ' and a Scotlanc Yard operative, sped finances and looked affectionately and | ¢ my funds because he knew it would from Cannes in two automobiles yes- terday, preceded by 12 trunks COL. J. A. 0'CONNOR T con e s, ooy v mia ou | GETS BELVOIR POST Will Relieve Col. Johnson as Com- [ manding Officer of 5th Engineers. Col. James A. O'Connor, Army Corps of Engineers, has been ordered relieved of duty as district engineer at Buffalo, N. Y. about August 10 and transferred to Fort Belvolr, Va. | where he is expected to relieve Col | William A. Johnson as commanding | officer of the 5th Engineers. Capt. Samuel J. Adams, finance department, finance officer at Fort Belvoir, will be relieved of that post | about July 31 and will go to Atlanta. Ga., for duty as property auditor, 4th Corps Area. The War Department also has an- nounced that Capt. John M. Harman, Corps of Engineers, will be trans- | ferred from duty with the 5th Engi- neers at Belvoir about August 15 to New York for duty as assistant to the district engineer, first New York dis- trict. Maj. F. Russel Lyons, Army Corps of Engineers, upon completion of his present course as a student at the Army Industrial College here about July 1, will be transferred to New York as instructor to the Engineers New York National Guard. Orders also have been issued trans- ferring Maj. Hugh C. Gilchrist, In- fantry, from the 34th Infantry to the 16th Brigade at Fort George G. Meade Md. didn't put in $100,000 of his owr money,” Wilson retorted. “Well, we're not going to get any place talking back and forth,” Leal said. Justice Peyton Gordon, pres ing, broke up the colloquy with recess. Earlier, Wilson had questioned Mrs Horner on a visit Irr made to Rhodes | office in the National Press Building after Rhodes had quit Fidelity, ask- ing her if she knew whether tht | question of the withdrawal slip hac | been taken up. She thought it had | because it was for that reason tha' | Rhodes, who practices law in tht Press Building, had made the en- gagement with Irr. ’