Evening Star Newspaper, May 14, 1937, Page 2

HOPKINS SPEAKS 10 COTTON GROUP Manufacturers’ Association Will Call on Mrs. Roosevelt. Delegates to the annual convention of the American Cotton Manufac- turers' Association prepared for a call on Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House today, after listening to a challenge from W. P. A. Administrator Hopkins to seek a wider spread of the nationel income as a means of maintaining prosperity. The visit to the White House was scheduled for 4 to 6 p.m., following addresses by C. §. Ching, industrial and public relations director of the United States Rubber Co., and former QGov. O. Max Gardner of North Carolina, now a Washington attorney. Election of officers was to bring the cpnvention to a close today. Bpeaking at the organization’s ban- QUFt in the Mayflower Hotel last night, Hepkins declared: «T don't see how you are going to keep the mills open unless the people dewn here at the bottom of our popu-~ 1ftlon have some purchasing power. “L dont’ care what means you use. You can abolish this works program if you wish, but whatever you do, it is gOINg to cost mone; Hopkins asserted there are 6,000,000 family units, or 18,000,000 persons, who do not share in the national in- come from wages, dividends or rents. “They have got to be taken care of by. some means,” he said. “If they do not share in the national income, they must have unemployment bene- fits. old-age benefits or relief.” <Estimating there are 5.000,000 more potential workers in the United States now than in 1929, Hopkins said the national income must go 20 per cent above that of 1929 to reduc® unem- ployment to the pre-depression figure. $2,500 CAR FOR ICKES ROLLS THROUGH HOUSE Protest of Ditter Fails as Ap- proval Is Given for Ap- propriation. B the Associated Press. A new $2,500 automobile for Secre- tary Ickes figuratively rolled through the House yesterday over the protests | of Representative Ditter, Republican, | of Pennsylvania Urging that money for the car be eliminated from a pending appropria- tion bill, Ditter declared that Congress { had done enough for the Interior De-1 partment when it provided a “luxuri- ous” office building. " Representative Johnson, Democrat, | of Oklahoma, replied that an ex-| pensive limousine, of dimensions lo[ accommodate the silk hat of former | Postmaster General Brown, had been | requested in a Republican administra- tion. The House turned down Ditter's de- $and. ARMY REPOR.TED READY TO ABANDON AIRSHIPS Activities With Dirigibles Will Cease July 1, Member of House Says. SAN JOSE, Calif, May 14 ().— Representative John J. McGrath sald in a telegram to the Mercury Herald he had been informed by Army Air Corps headquarters that all airship activities in the United States Army | would cease next July 1. The blimp TC-13, largest lighter- than-air ship operating in this coun- try today, will be deflated and stored away if the Army's present plans are earried out, the message said. The TC-13, 235 feet long, is sta- tioned at Sunnyvale near here, oc- cupying the giant hangar at Moffatt Field once used by the Navy dirigible Macon which crashed and sank off the California Coast February 12, 1935. WIDOW IS CONVICTED IN DEATH OF ORGANIZER By the Assoclated Pre. ERIE, Pa. May 14—A jury which had been locked in a court room all night returned a verdict of voluntary mafislaughter today against Mrs. Eliza- beth Sample, 45-year-old Cleveland widow, for the death of John E. Hogan, @ Townsend club organizer. The jury deliberated 10 hours before gignaling a tipstaff at 3:30 a.m. it had arrived at a verdict. Judge J. Orrin Waite had left the court room shortly after midnight, however, and the Jurors were locked in until court con- vened at 9:30 am. Mrs. Sample testified yesterday she eccidentally fired the shot which killed Hogan last March. Convict, Tired, Pays $5 to Get His Foot Cut Off Youth, 19, in Serious Condition After Ordeal by Ax. B3 the Associated Press. HUNTSVILLE, Tex., May 14—A grim account that a 19-year-old con- vict, tiring of work, paid a fellow prisoner $5 to chop off his foot, was detailed today by Harlem Prison Farm officials. Prison Manager O. J. S. Ellingson said William H. Shoemake, serving two years for theft, admitted the self- invited torture. He was in a serious condition. Shoemake, Orville Watson and Eu- gene Wynn were among workers in the farm gardens. From the trio Ellingson said he pieced together these facts: Shoemake remarked to Watson at lunch time Wednesday he would give him “$5 to chop off my leg.” Watson replied, “Fine.” After lunch the three convicts went betitéen two buildings. Watson placed 8 -briek in position. They discussed twhather one blow would suffice to sever ti foot cleanly, finally deciding it ‘weuld *Shbemake stretched out on the groomd and placed his foot on the trlok,? Ellingson sald. “Wynn swung tHE XL and ran. Watson dragged the bleeding Shoemake from between the elibda’and shouted for help.” o Wayside Tales Random Observations of Interesting Events and Things. DAZE. THEY seem to have covered the coronation too thoroughly in the rest of the paper to have left any angles for Wayside. But they only seem to, for one of our operatives dug out the story of the Washing- tonfan who went to bed with his radio turned on the night before the ceremonies. The coronation was getting on very well without him until one of the early prayers was reached. When it began, he woke up with a start. In that half-daze which precedes real wakefulness, he suddenly fancied him- self in church, thought he had fallen asleep during the prayer and was pretty mortified by it all. Consciousness finally came to him, however, and he realized that his horrible fears were quite unfounded. He will remember the coronation always in those terms, he promises, * X X x HIM, Introducing Senator Arthur Van- denberg at the Women’s Press Club luncheon recently, the president, Mary Hornaday, said: “You have all heard that the New Deal has some opposition on Capitol Hill. We are very glad to have HIM with us today.” This wasn't an intentional joke on the president’s part—just a slip of the tongue. When Senator Vandenberg got up to speak, he looked around at the assembled ladies and said: “I've often wondered how Mrs. Caraway felt in the United States Senate. Now I think I know. It isn’t so bad. I don't think I'll feel sorry ‘for her any more.” Both advertent and inadvertent statements got laughs, but we like the undesigned joke better. * ok ok X CHARCOAL. EV. J. K. MORRIS, rector of the Episcopal Church of the Resur- rection at Kyoto, Japan, now visiting in Washington, confesses that his mastery of the Japamese language was not gained without some em- barrassment—to his listeners as well as himself. 3=\ During his first sermon in Japanese, he says, he thought that he was get- ting along nicely, that he was putting across his ideas clearly. He reckoned, alas, without the fact that there is great similarity between Japanese words having very different mean- | ings. A twist of inflection makes all the difference, he said. ‘“After the sermon,” he said, “one of the officials came to me defferential- ly and cautioned me about my pro- nunciation of the word ‘sin’ in Japas nese. He thought the advice was ae.- essary, he said, because I had just preached a sermon about charcoal.” * ok K ok REVERSAL. 'WO apartments in the 3200 block of N street provide one of the richest sources of Wayside tales. They are the abodes of five bachelor girls (soon to be minus one because of an engage- ment), who seem to be constantly experiencing little domestic episodes which are too amusing to be chuckled over just among themselves and should be shared by the public at large. You may remember we told you about Mary Cowles and the “Boo!" telegram she got from a young man who had taken her to a terrifying movie. Well, now it turns out that was sort of a billet-doux because sub- sequently Mary and the boo-man got themselves engaged. Latest news from this front, how- ever, concerns Dudley Harmon and how she executed a neat right-about- face when a newspaper route agent knocked at her door. “Take the Times?” inquired the caller. “Yup, we take it,” said Dudley in a “get-you- gone” tone of voice. She thought the man was a subscription solicitor and, anyway, Dudley works for the Post and it might be treason to read an- other paper, “Well, I've come to collect for it,” said the man. “Huh? You have? No, we don't take it.” said Dudley, quick like a rab- bit. And “bang” went the door. * % k% WE DON'T know whether the point of this event is in the dilemma of the girl who was going to have the tea or in the embarrassment of the girl at the apartment desk. . Calmly sipping a Saturday after- noon cup in one of Washington's tea time places, a member of the Demo- cratic National Committee staff re- membered with a start that she had invited guests for six o'clock tea in her apartment. It then being five she cast a mental eye over the condition of her larder—no lemon for tea and no time to ge’ it from the grocery store. Her escort suggested that she might obtain a lemon from the waiter. After some discussion and explanation, the bewildered waiter, after trying to de- liver sliced lemon on a plate, brought & whole lemon wrapped in paper napkin. Finishing her afternoon snack hur- riedly the prospective hostess rushed to her apartment. A few minutes later the telephone rang. “A telegraph messenger boy has just brought a package for you,” said the voice over the wire. “I'm awfully busy, what is it?" queried the hostess. “Well, I don’t know,” hesitated the young lady at the apartment desk, “it 15 just something wrapped in paper.” So down to the desk went the youhg lady and there was the lemon for- gotten in the rush from the tea room and sent post haste by the escor. All was saved but the apartment desk girl s still shuddering at the thought \ NG STAR, WASHINGTON, $208.500 IN CASH Nephew of Widow Seized at Sea While Guest at Masquerade. Following the dramatic arrest at sea of a 26-year-old Denver Univer- sity medical student, special agents of the Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion have recovered in New York and Chicago more than $200,000 which, they allege, he stole from his aunt, Mrs. Martha Blous, wealthy Denver widow. The student, Joseph Turner Wat- son, was arrested by the captain of the Grace liner Santa Rosa during a masquerade party aboard ship, after receipt of a message from the F. B. I. Watson was dressed as a hula hula dancer at the time. G-men took custody of Watson as the ship landed at Los Angeles last Sunday and found on him $58,600 in cash, it was announced here today. Acting under court order last Wed- nesday, F. B. 1. agents opened a safety deposit box in New York City and found $100,000 more. Yesterday agents in Chicago located another safety deposit box containing $50,000. To- tal recoveries of the alleged loot to date amount to $208,600. Watson is being removed to Den- ver to face Federal charges of vio- lating the national stolen property act, which makes it a Federal crime to transport more than $5,000 of stolen goods across State lines. According to J. Edgar Hoover, di- rector of the F. B. I, Watson is ac- cused of stealing $133,000 in cash which Mrs. Blous had secreted in a tin can in the basement of her home, ard $86,000 in bon” which she had placed in a safety deposit box. The money was left her by her husband, a retired business man. The theft is alleged to have occurred while Mrs. Blous was on a visit to New York City. When she returned she found Watson and the money missing, and immediately notified Federal agents. The F. B. I traced Watson from Denver to Cheyenne, Wyo., and thence to Chicago and New York City. The trall ended at the pier of the Grace Line, where it was learned Watson was en route to California, via the Pan- ama Canal. The arrest at sea followed. . JAPAN INAUGURATES ECONOMIC REGIME Virtual War-Time System of Plan- ning Set Up to Include Manchukuo. B the Associated Press. TOKIO, May 14.—Japan inaug- urated a virtual wartime economic regime today. Emperor Hirohito approved a plan- ning board, under the chairmanship of Toyotaro Yuki, finance minister. The chief problems of the board: Formulation of & joint industrial- military five-year plan embracing Japan and Manchukuo in one eco- nomic bloc and aiming at state control of major industries to insure self- sufficiency in war materials; Creation of a central aviation ad- ministrative organ to improve and expand the empire's lagging aircraft industry; Establishment of a public health de- partment to promote welfare of civil- fans and military and naval forces; Reform of the present election law. Premier Senjuro Hayashi planned simultaneously to establish a central economic council as a parallel plan- ning board to study fundamental problems of economics, industry and natfonal defense. HOLD-UP MAN TRIES TO KISS HIS VICTIM Screams Rout Bandit Who Robbed Young Woman of $1 in Takoma Park. BY & Baff Correspondent of The Star, TAKOMA PARK, Md. May 14— A white bandit who attempted to kiss his victim after robbing her of 31 was being sought by Takoma Park police today. Miss Phyllls Deemer, 213 Maple avenue, told officers she was accosted a few doors from her home by a man Who ordered her at the point of a pistol into a driveway after taking her pocketbook. The man put his arms around her and attempted to kiss her, she said. She screamed and a passer-by came to her ald. The bandit fled. TRUJILLO SIGNS PACTS Generalissimo Rafael Trujillo Mo~ lina, president of the Dominican Re- public, has signed the instruments of ratification of the inter-American treaties and conventions signed at the Buenos Aires conference, it was an- nounced today by the Dominican Le- gation. These include the convention for the maintenance, preservation and re- establishment of peace, additional protocol relative to non-intervention, treaty on the prevention of contro- versies, inter-American treaty on good offices and mediation, and convention to co-ordinate, extend and assure the fulfillment of existing treaties be- tween the American states. — of having to tell a pretty young patron that some one had sent her a lemon. * ok K X COINCIDENCE. After hearing Ben Powell’s story, We think there may be two recent Washington visitors who are won- dering about the validity of @ co- incidence of names. The two visitors, a Miss Shep- herd and a Mr. Winters, were walk- ing down F street with Mr. Powell, when introductions began. Spying an acquaintance and rec- ognizing the human interest side of mutual names, Mr. Powell intro- duced Miss Shepherd to Mr. Shepherd. A few more steps down the street and two more Washington ac- Quaintances and Mr. Powell intro- duced Miss Shepherd to Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd. The couple was not a little sur- prised at the density of the Shep- herd population, but the climaz was vet to come. A half dblock further down the street and Mr. Powell stopped shortly, beckoned to still another passing acquaintance, and thereupon introduced Mr, Winters fo Summers, o Older Generation Cannot Tell Young How to Live, Filene Thinks. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, May 14—Edward A. Filene, Boston economist, today told the Nation’s high school students that, “In these new times of the rapidly rising power of the masses,” his gen- eration of business men was not “equipped to tell the younger genera- tion how to live.” “The world in which we got our experience has passed away,” he said, “and it is up to you to learn how to live in a very different kind of world.” Filene's remarks were contained in an address prepared for a national broadcast as part of the First Na- tional School Assembly program. Questioning the success of his gen- eration, Filene said: “It is true that we developed the greatest and most productive ma- chinery which civilization ever knew— machinery capable of producing so much wealth that, for the first time in human history, it became possible for every family to have a decen: living. v “And then, believe it or not, we were 80 lacking in & social viewpoint that we couldn’t run the machines which we had set up. We couldn't keep them going, so we shut them down and threw millions of honest, industrious and competent workers into unemployment; and instead of security and plenty, we had poverty, misery and fear. * * * “The people of these United States have recently made it plain that they aren't going to tolerate that kind of business success much longer. If we are to succeed in business from now on, the people have decreed that we must do it in a way which will serve the common good: and these are days, we must remember, when power has passed into the hands of the people, and when they speak, therefore, we business men must obey.” D. C. LACK OF CASH LAID TO VOTE BAN Quinn Addresses Washingtonians. Miss Taggart Named to Head Group. The voteless plight of the District was blamed last night by Henry I. Quinn, & member of the Board of Education, for the lack of funds to supply necessary school board needs. Addressing the Washingtonians, a city-wide civic organization, at the Brighton Hotel, Quinn humorously criticized Commissioner Melvin C. Hazen, who was present, for the lack of such funds. Hazen said that even if the proposed auto weight tax be- comes law, automobile owners still would pay less than owners in various States. Thomas C. Lodge, president of the Federation of Citizens' Associations, also spoke, praising the Police Boys' Club. Miss Etta Taggart was elected presi- dent of The Washingtonians; Amelia F. MacFadyen, first vice president; J. B. Dickman, jr., second vice presi- dent; Mrs. J. Edwin Reid was re- elected secretary, and Miss Etta Tag- gart and Mr. J. B. Dickman, jr., were named delegates to the Federation of Citizens' Associations. — OLDEST INHABITANTS ASK TAX HIKE CURB Advise Any Increase Be Limited to Needs for Balancing Budget. The Association of Oldest Inhabit- ants has written to Chairman Norton of the House District Committee that any increase in taxes should be limit- ed to actual needs for balancing the budget. Mrs. Norton also disclosed that the daylight saving hearings scheduled for 10 am. Monday will be held in the caucus room, No. 362, in the old House Office Building, in order to accommo- date the large crowd expected. The G. A. R. has written to Chair- man Norton regarding their Memorial day exercises on May 30, requesting the House District Committee and members of Congress to co-operate in the services. o Fish to Speak Tomorrow. Representative Hamilton Fish, Re- publican, of New York will speak on “Neutality” at 1:15 p.m. tomorrow at & luncheon in the Women's City Club house, 736 Jackson place. Grace Dexter Bryan, chairman of the club's clvic section, will be in charge. D. C, FRIDAY tured at a meeting at D. ative Mary MAY 1 Paying tribute to the memory of the late Dr. Ellen Spencer Mussey, feminine leaders are pic- A. R. Memorial Continental Hall last night. Grattan Doyle, who presided; Dean Grace Hays Riley of Washington College of Law, Represent- T. Norton and Mme. Cantacuzene. AGCORD REACHED ING. M. C. STRIKE 6,300 to Return to Jobs at Fisher Plant in Cleveland. By the Assoctated Press. CLEVELAND, May 14—Lincoln R. Scafe, plant manager of Gen- eral Motors’ Fisher body plant here, announced today g temporary agree- ment had ended a dispute which threw its 6,300 employes into idle- ness yesterday. g Scafe said the men agreed to re- turn to their jobs next Tuesday and that any grievances will be taken up after their return to work. “The men will return to work on |exactly the same basis a3 when work ‘smpped yesterday, and we will discuss the grievances after they are back on | the job” Scafe said. A tentative agreement meanwhile | was ready for submission to G. M. C. union workers at Janesville, Wis., for their ratification. Two thousand seven hundred men were out of work at the Janesville Pisher plant. Ed Hall, & U. A. W. A. vice presi- dent, went to Saginaw, Mich., after the strikers voted against the union’s suggestion that they return to work during conferences to compose the dispute at the Chevrolet Motor Co.'s Grey Iron Foundry, where 5,500 were idle. One hundred and fifty sit-down strikers remained in the G. M. mal- leable iron division at Baginaw, leav- ing 1,500 without work. A General Motors spokesman said the strikes were ‘“sporadic” and un- related. The U. A. W. A. announced that its campaign to organize Ford Motor Co. employes would open “officially” | next week with the establishment of two union offices in suburban Dear- born, site of the company's head- quarters and main plant. The announcement was made by Walter Reuther, president of the West Side local and s former Ford worker, after & conference with Homer Martin, U. A. W. A. president. “Ford workers are anxious to join,” said Reuther. “We will recruit the largest number of members in the shortest time in the history of the American labor movement.” Henry Ford said recently that his employes were “free to join anything” but he admonished them against join- ing labor unions. — MIMIC WAR TODAY Public Views Gas Attacks and Bombing in California. MUROC DRY LAKE, Calif.,, May 14 (®)—The public was invited to ‘“no man’s land” today for a four-hour demonstration of gas attacks and bombing by the Army Air Corps. Tear gas bombs were filled with wa- ter, 8o visitors would not need masks. Muroc has been the main base of defending forces in the Army’'s mimic sky warfare. New Ambassador Arrives Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, new German Ambassador to the United States, shown as he arrived in Dieckhofl. They will reach Wuht_nstou latz z'th‘t.: o New York last night with Mrs, ernoon. Wirep Casual Tunes of Make Classics, Powell Says! Left to right are Mrs. Henry —Star Staft Photo. Common F olk— All Great Music Originates in Simple | Melodies of Every. Tells Arts Federation. The man or woman who hums a makeshift tune at his work or walking down the street may be the father or | mother of s great symphony of the | future, whether he knows it or not. All great music has a simple melody as a central theme taken from some- thing earlier than history—the tune a fellow whistled to keep himself com- pany through the dark or that which was the spontaneous outgrowth of a religious cult or a tribal dance, John Powell, eminent pianist and authority on folk music, told the American Fed- eration of Arts Convention yesterday at Wardman Park Hotel. “Written music in the harmonic | style falls flat when it departs in the- | ory from the tunes you whistle to your- | self walking down the street,” he said. | “All music originates in folk music, the simple melodies of our prehistoric ancestors, changed through the ages | through passage from father to son | and adapted to one environment after | another. “It has never been written down |and is arranged in any one of seven different scales. Irish, Scotch and English reels and jigs, lullabys and simple love songs, adapted to the American environment are outstand- ing examples of our real folk music— the tunes played by the old mountain fiddlers at square dances.” Definition of Folk Music. By folk music, Powell doesn't mean songs like “Massa’s in de Col', Col' Ground,” or “The Last Round-up.” day Man, Pianist These, he said, are crystallized written pleces done by a composer and re- mained unchanged. Furthermore, he emphasized that in | many cases what ps for classical | music is simply a series of beautiful | chords which serve as supports to ! a faulty melody which would not stand alone. | “People may laugh at so-called ‘hill- | billy’ music, but whether they know | it or not, it's the great granddaddy of the world's famous compositions,” he said. Beethoven, he revealed, took as a motif for one of his better-known works “The Mississippi Sawyer,” an old American banjo tune. | SBeven folk musicians illustrated Powell's talk. which was broadcast over the National Broadcasting net- | work. Musicians Presented. Jess Johnston and Uncle Jim Chis- holm played violins and C. B. Wool- ard played the banjo. Mrs. Victoria Morris, Horton Barker, “‘Sailor Dad" Hunt, who sailed around Cape Horn on clipper ships, and Lloyd Fitzgerald sang | “This is a momentous occasion,” Powell asserted. “Today is the first time folk music officially has been recognized by the fine arts. The American Federation of Arts has realized what I have known for a long time, that in all art it is the earthy, the commonplace, the every- day, which makes the beckbone around which everything else is hung.” DU PONT TAX CASE WIDENED BY U. S Federal Attorneys to Air Alleged “Deal” With Raskob in 1931, By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, May 14.—The Gov- ernment attorneys were given a free hand today in the 1929 income tax case against Pierre S. du Pont and John J. Raskob, to go beyond the lim- its of 1929 and 1930 and open up al- leged income tax arrangement be- tween the two industrialists in 1931. Richard L. Disney of the United States Board of Tax Appeals, who is hearing the Bureau of Internal Reve- nue’s charges that Du Pont and Ras- kob made fictitious sales of stock in 1929 and made unwarranted deduc- | tions on their tax returns as a reult | of losses in these sales, overruled the | objections of Du Pon't counsel and allowed the Government to enter into | evidence a 1930-31 transaction be- tween the two multimillionaires. The Government contends the 1929 cross-sales, which enabled Du Pont and Raskob to establish losses totaling more than $7,000,000, were accom- panied by a repurchasing agreement, contrary to the revenue act of 1928. A deficiency of $617,316 on the 1929 tax is sought from Du Pont and $1,026,340 from Raskob. Mason B. Leming, chief of counsel for the Government, made the surprise move of entering into the 1930-31 transactions by recalling Frank L. Garey, Raskob's secretary. Leming said the rules of evidence gave the Qovernment the leeway necessary to show a similarity of in- tent. ‘The 1930 returns of the Wilmington Business Associates are in evidence. They show that Raskob paid no tax for that year and that Du Pont paid a tax of $21,181. The heavy shrinkage in their income for 1930 was primarily due to losses in stock transactions. Smugglers to Pay Up. Chinese firms of Tientsin, China, have agreed to report to ‘the customs authorities all smuggled goods in their stocks and to pay the evaded import duties, and after a certain date the officials will search for and seize all amuggled stocks. Congress in Brief CONGRESS IN BRIEF. Today. Senate: In recess. ‘Wheeler Committee continues in- quiry into rail financing, House: Oonsiders Interior Department ap- propriation bill. Interstate Commerce Committee studies railroad retirement bill. TOMORROW. Senate and House will not be in session., A | b WENDEL TORTURE T0LD BY WEISS “I’ll Do Anything You Want,” Convicted Participant Says He Screamed. By the Associated Press. NEWARK, N. J, May 14.—Harry Weiss, admitted participant in the kidnaping and torture of Paul H. ‘Wendel to force him to confess falsely that he kidnaped the Lindbergh baby, testified at the Parker kidnap con- spiracy trial today that Wendel agreed after his torture in Brooklyn to “do anything you want.” | “I'll talk, Il talk. I'll do anything | you want” Weiss said Wendel | screamed after being “spread-eagled” and beaten following his seizure in Manhattan February 14, 1936. Weiss, who is serving 20 years to life in Sing Sing on his conviction in Brooklyn and who pleaded guilty to a Federal indictment here, was a wit- ness against Ellis H. Parker, sr., Bur- lington County detective chief, and his son, Ellis, jr, who the Government charges plotted the kidnaping. Recalled to the witness stand by the Government, Weiss, reiterated that before the abduction the junior Parker told him and Murray Bleefeld, who also pleaded guilty, that Wendel was a fugitive from justice and had been suspected as the Lindbergh baby kidnaper for four years. Wendel was taken from Brooklyn to the senior Parker's home in Mount Holly, February 24, after “confessing” that he kidnaped Charles A. Lind- bergh, jr. Weiss said Wendel was anxious to be taken to Mount Holly and often sald Parker, senior, was “my friend.” From Mount Hilly Wendel was taken to the New Lisbon Colony for feeble- minded males, remaining there until March 28, when he was turned over by Parker as the Lindbergh kidnaper. ‘BIG BILL’ TH'OMPSON TO DEBATE WATERWAY Faces Milwaukee's Mayor Hoan for Discussion of St. Law- rence Treaty. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, May 14.—William Hale (Big Bill) Thompson faced Mil- waukee's Socialist Mayor, Daniel W. Hoan, in what was billed as an im- promptu debate on the merits of the proposed St. Lawrence waterway to- day. The former Chicago Mayor, foe of the seaway treaty with Canada, ane nounced he had been “waiting 15 years for this chance to meet that guy.” Mayor Hoan is a leading pro- ponent of the waterway. ‘They will meet at a hearing before the Waterways Committee of the TNiinois House of Representatives in the City Hall here. The committee is considering a resolution to memoralize President Roosevelt and the United LATE DR. MUSSEY Local Leaders Honor Noted Woman Lawyer and Educator. Impressive tribute was paid last night to the late Dr. Ellen Spencer Mussey, “patriot, educator, lawyer, feminist,” by a distinguished gathers ing at D. A. R. Memorial Continental Hall. Representatives of many national patriotic, legal and educational organ« izations heard six speakers trace the life history of the woman who learned law in middle life and forged ahead in her profession to a place of prome inence and distinction. She was varie ously praised as wife, mother and lawe yer for her ‘“courage, indomitable will, humanitarianism, and devotion to the highest ethics of her profession.” The occasion was & civic memorial tribute, arranged by a Memorial Com= mittee, of which Mrs. Henry Grattan Doyle was chairman. She presided, explaining that yesterday would have been the 87th birthday anniversary of Dr. Mussey. The memorial was de- signed not only to pay ute | Mrs. Doyle, but to inspire Mrs sey's friends to “carry forward as w as you can some of her inspiration, her spirituality.” The story of Dr. Mussey's life was briefly sketched by Dean Grace Hays Riley of Washington College of Law, who spoke on “The Educational Lead- ership of Dr. Mussey." Born in Ohio, the daughter of Platt R. Spencer, who invented the Spencerian svstem of writing, Ellen Spencer came to Wash- ington in 1869, Dean Riley said, to take up teaching in a business coliege, As a member of the Board of Educae tion here for six years and vice presie dent for three, the speaker said Mrs, Mussey was chairman of the Commite tee on Elementary and Night Schools, and interested in schooling of defective children, sanitation and hygicne. It was largely through her efforts, Dean Riley explained, that the first approe priations were made here for kindere gartens. She was active in estab) ing playgrounds and she was known as the “mother” of the compulsory education law. Founded College of Law. In 1896, she and Miss Emma M. Gil- lette founded Washington Cc ege of Law, primarily for women, but co-edu« cational, which was characterized by Dean Riley as “a noble monument to her memory.” Dr. Mussey dean of the college fo: m of Dr. praised by Mme. Canta tional president of the Dames: Loyal Legion of the Unit speaking for many ct was a mema ber. Characterized as ‘“one of ths outstanding patriotic leaders of the past generation,” Dr. Mussey was praised by the speaker as standing for the “old democratic forms of gOV~ ernment, stability, balance of power and belief in the rights of the indie vidual.” “If she were here,” said Mme. Cane | tacuzene. “she would eall on every man and woman to fight for the preservation of American freedom as she knew it, that government of, for and by the people be made safe and passed on.” As one of the pioneers and charter members fo the American Red Cross, Dr. Mussey not only took an active part in Washington, according to Walter Davidson, assistant manager of the Eastern area of the American Red Cross, but she went to Galveston when it was swept by a tidal wave, There, in her capacity as third vice president of the American Red Cross, | she discovered the needs and ordered from New Orleans surgical and medis cal supplies for the stricken city. She was characterized by Davidson as & “practical idealist.” Soelal Legisiation Efforts. William Clark Taylor, speaking of Dr. Mussey's legal attainments and her contribution to constructive social legislation, declared she had been “ab- solutely faithful to the ethics of her profession, energetic and devoted to the interests of her client.” She was praised for her prominent role in ob- taining several new pieces of legislae tion to benefit women and children. Among these were laws to give mothers the same legal rights as fathers in | relation to children, to recognize a wife's rights to her earnings and to permit a man to marry a girl without assuming the debts she had contracted prior to marriage. In the early days of the law, when she was a pioneer, Tayior said Dr Mussey faced “more than her share of sneers, contempt and hatred” whicin fell to the lot of progressive women fighting for the ballot and for legsl rights. With her example before them, the speaker predicted modern women lawyers would push forward to estabe lish still greater justice in America. Chairman Mary T. Norton of the House District Committee, declarinz that in these ‘“changing times"” it re- quired courage in public office, paid tribute to the “pioneer courage” of Dr Mussey, and said it would prove an inspiration to the women leaders of today. Massing of Colors. The program was opened by a con- cert by the Marine Band Orchestra There was an impressive massing of the colors by color bearers, color guards and representatives from organizations with which Dr. Mussey was affillated. Mrs. Charles Carroll Haig and Mrs. Hester B. Warner were marshals. The invocation was by Rev. Paul Sperry, pastor of the Church of the New Jerusalem. The Department of Agriculture Chorus and the Farm Oredit Administration Chorus sang, with Robert Frederick Freund, direc tor, and Edna Lee Preund, accom- panist, The ushers were from the Washing- ton College of Law and the Ellen Spencer Mussey Tent, No. 1, Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War, The memorial committee, headed by Mrs. Doyle, included also Theodore W. Noyes, vice chairman; Miss Selma M. Borchardt, vice chairman; Miss Florence C. Bell, secretary; Miss Laura Berrlen, treasurer; Miss Rebecca Blaine, Mary O'Toole, Dean Riley and Mrs. Ernest Field Parkinson. Mrs. Doyle introduced Mrs. Mussey's relatives, who were among the guests on the platform: William H. Mussey of Chicago, a son; Miss Dela P. Mussey of Brattleboro, Vt., daughter, and Del avan 8. Mussey of New Kensington, Pa., a grandson. 12-Sided Coins Confusing. Britain’s new 3-penny coins are causing some confusion because they Btates Senate in opposition to the treaty ratification. are 12-sided instead of round, as are all other British pleces. §