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SENATE TO VOTE
ON PAY NEXT WEEK
Treasury Position Made
Clear by Undersecretary
Mills, Hearings Reveal.
The Senate will have its first op
portunity to vote on the question of
whether increases in Government em
ploye salaries within grade of the
classification law are to be allowed next
year, when the Treasury-Post Office
appropriation bill is taken up for action
early next week.
The Senate Appropriations Committee
has cut out the House limitation and
put in the necessary funds to permit
these normal increases, but the Senate
will not take up the question until Mon
day or Tuesday. The hearings held
several days ago by the Senate appro- ;
priatlons subcommittee became avail-;
able today and show that Ogden L.
Mills, Undersecretary of the Treasury,
made clear to the Senators the position
of the Treasury Department on this
question. Mr. Mills testified, in part,
as follows:
."The Department takes the position
that it was our duty in the first instance,
and the duty of the President and of the
tm lig~i latrirr. to submit to you gen
tlemen of both Houses the amounts
that would be actually needed to carry
out the provision of the classification
act enacted by the Congress. If, in its
- wisdom, the Congress decides to suspend
some of these provisions for a given
fiscal year, we, of course, are not going
to question your judgment in the
matter."
Action for Increase.
After hearing the testimony of Mr.
Mills th? Appropriations Committee
voted to allow the increases the Presi
dent had recommended in his budget
message.
Mr. Mills told the Senate committee
that the House restriction would have
prevented departments from using
money left over as the result of resig
nations of persons receiving the higher
salaries within a grade in order to
Increase remaining employes who have
been receiving lower salaries.
Friends of the Government employes
In Congress feel very certain today
that the fight has been won against
the Wood amendment which would pre
vent any salary Increases within grade
during the fiscal year, beginning July 1
k next. House members realize that the
Senate will insist upon striking this
provision out of each and every appro
priation bill as it is brought before
them. There is a growing majority
in the House who believe that the Gov
ernment employes who have been suf
fering an injustice in the salary scale
Mr years should not now be denied the
Increase which the administration
pledged to give them under a three- i
year program to bring under-average
salaries up to the average.
While Chairman Wood of the House
Appropriations Committee, who is the
author of this proposal to prevent any
salary increases during the unemploy
ment emergency, is not ready yet >to
capitulate because he does not yet recog
nize that members of his own com
mittee are about ready to desert him
and vote against the Wood amendment,
other House leaders say that that is
the present situation.
« Favored Impartiality.
Chairman Wood does admit that his
provision should not stick in any of the
appropriation bills unless it sticks in all
of them. He believes that when the
Treasury-Post Office appropriation bill,
in which his amendment was included
when it passed the House and was
promptly stricken out in the Senate.
Pa to conference the question will
thrashed out there and a determina
tion reached which will rule in all the
other appropriation bills.
This question comes up for a vote
again in the House late this afternoon
on the Interior Department appropria
tion bill. It is known that Representa
tive Cramton of Michigan, who is in
charge Os that bill, is not with Chair
man Wood on his amendment and did
not vote with him when the matter i
came up on the Treasury-Post Office |
bill. Chairman Wood, however, claims
that only one member of the Appropri
ations Committee is not in favor of the
salary increase prohibition, that mem
ber being Representative Griffin, Dem- 1
ecrat, of Hew York.
' La Guardi* Confident.
Representative' La Guardis, Repub
lican, of New York Is leading the fight
In the House against the Wood amend
ment and proposes to raise the issue
when that final section in the Interior
bill is reached today.
Representative La Guardia express.-d
confidence today that he will be able to
defeat the Wood amendment. Other
members of the Appropriations Com
mittee were ready to admit that the
vote in support of Chairman Wood s
proposal will not be as strong as it
was on the Treasury-Post Office bill
since members of the House have come
to more thoroughly understand that
such action is a repudiation of the 1
administration's pledge to the employes 1
and that It also rejects President
Hoover's own recommendation.
Whether Representative La Guardia
wins his point today or on some subse
quent appropriation bill, the friends of
the Government employes in the House
feel certain that eventually the Wood
provision will be stricken out on some ]
bill, and that it is the height of ridicu- '
lousness to have such a prohibition
apply to any one department and not
to all, and that it is farclal to continue I
a constant wrangling on this subject on
each of the big supply bills. For this
reason particularly they are inclined to
give as decisive a vote as possible to
day on Representative La Ouardla's ef
fort to strike out the Wood limitation.
NEW FEDERAL JOB
ASKED BY BONNER
AFTER CHALLENGING:
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would not want him to sit as a Jury
man on questions affecting the public,”
Danzlger said.
''His background is such that it is
doubtful whether, in a conflict of in
terests between the general public and
the power concerns, he would be in a
position to do full Justice to the public.”
Garssud testified yesterday * that
Hecht had recommended him for gene
eral manager of the New Orleans Dock
Board. He said, however, he did not
know of Hecht's connection with power
interests.
Danziger also questioned Garsaud’s
administration of the <Jock board, con
tending that while he was in office the
board paid larger bills for electric power
v than it should.
Chairman Cousens read to the com
mittee a letter imposing confirmation of
Garsaud from O. A. Cotton, Louisiana
State mansger of the Hoover Campaign
Committee.
Not Criticism of President.
“I do not wish this to be construed
as a criticism of the President, as I
am sure he acted in good faith/' Cotton
added.
A. L. Shusham, president of jthe New
Orleans Levee Board, told the committee'
several members of the Board of Ad
ministration of Tulane University, which
employed Garsaud, were connected with
power interests.
"Do you maintain that Tulane Uni
versity is dominated by the power
Trust?” Senator Hawes, Democrat, Mis
souri. asked.
"No.” Shusham replied.
John McKay, general manager of the
Board or Commissioners of the Port of
followed Shusham.
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Forum Speaker
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SENATOR CAPPER.
CAPPER TO UPHOLD
WORLD COURT PLAN
Speaks Tomorrow Night in
National Radio Forum.
Johnson Week Later.
Radio listeners throughout the coun
try will have an opportunity to hear the
1 arguments in support of American
adherence to the World Court when
Senator Arthur Capper, Republican, of
Kansas, presents the affirmative aide of
the question at 9:30 o'clock tomorrow
night in the National Radio Forum,
arranged by The Evening Star and
broadcast over a Nation-wide hook-up
of the Columbia Broadcasting System.
The speech will be heard in Washington
through station WMAL.
A week later, on Saturday evening.
December 20, the opposition to entrance
of the United States into the World
Court will be laid before the radio audi
ence by Senator Hiram Johnson, Re
publican. of California.
The World Court protocol has become
a timely topic since its transmission to
the Senate for ratification by President
Hoover a .few days ago. The President
recommended that it be given considera
tion as soon as possible after the emer
gency relief and appropriation bills are
disposed of.
Benator .Capper, who will present the
reasons in favor of adherence, is a
member of the Foreign Relations Com
| mittee. to which the question has been
referred. Senator Johnson, who will
give the other side of the problem next
week, also is on the Foreign Relations
Committee.
PRESIDENT ASSURED
SUPPORT OF W. C. T. U.
FOR RE-ELECTION
(Continued From First Page.)
could adapt themselves to the new con
ditions which must be successfully met
if our cause is to win. If change must
take place,” he said, “the quicker the
better.”
Stewart is president of the Flying
Squadron Foundation, an organisation
which sends temperance speakers
throughout the country.
Mrs. Boole’s statement after calling
at the White House immediately pro
voked comment among member: of the
dry leaders' strategy board as to
whether she Indirectly committed the
combined temperance movement to
President Hoover’s support.
Mrs. Boole's authority to speak for
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was not questioned it was said,
I however, that any implication that her
| declaration pledged the National Con
ference of Organizations Supporting the
Eighteenth Amendment to the Presi
dent or to any other possible candidate
would defeat what many of the leaders
hoped was an effort to divorce their
cause from political partisanship.
Respects Paid Woodcock.
Before calling at the White House.
Mrs. Boole and other dry leaders who
have been attending the conferences
here paid their respects to Prohibition
Director Woodcock. Mrs. Boole, ,as
spokesman, pledged their support to
the Government's enforcement effort.
Advised of Mrs. Boole's statement.
Dr. Clarence True Wilson, secretary of
the Methodist Board of Temperance,
Prohibition and Public Morals, charac
terized it as "funny.” Mrs. Boole was
not pledging the conference of organiza
tions to President Hoover, he said.
'We are not in partisan politics,” he
i asserted. "We are supporting a cause.
We supported Mr. Hoover in 1928 be
cause he stood for that cause and his
opponent did not.
"If the Democrats should nominate
i» dryer candidate in 1932 we would sup
port him.” Dr. Wilson, who is a mem
ber of the "board of strategy” named
i b y Mrs. Boole, expressed surprise that
she should declare such a position.
TYRONE BANK CLOSED
TYRONE. Pa , December 12 (A*).—
The doors of the Farmers and Mer
chants' National Bank here were closed
today, and notice was posted that the
action was taken in the Interests*of
depositors. A controller from Washing-
I ton will audit the Institution's accounts.
Other banks of the town were not af
fected.
November Circulation
(Daily.. 111,679
Sunday, 118,215
Dlstiirt of Columbia, s* :
FLFMING NEWBOLD. Business Manactr
of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR. d&I
! fu* ar that lhe number of
° f . the P»»er named sold and dlstrltr
dur!n* V»e month of November, A.D.
HMC, was as followa:
DAII.Y.
D *r*- Copies Davr. Copies
♦ !«H2 » ::: misSS
1 J'2'22 111.BSS
J* 11S.au 27 1A1.47A
IS 111.1S1 '*
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Total daily net circulation t.:»1.,;a
i Average daily net paid circulation... lis.<7ft
Daily averace number of roplea for
! service, etc I.ooft
Dally averace net circulation........ ltl,«7ft
SUNDAY.,
D i ,rt : uS!%U u”:
t • m.ets so 1M 741
. Less adjustments
Total Sunday net circulaUon Sftl.a74
Average net paid Sunday circulation 117.*1t
Average number of copies for serv
ice, etc oat
Averaie Sunday net circulation 118.718
| . FLEMING NEWBOLD.
I Business Manager.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
“SUIT Os ,
M Notary Public.
THE EVOKING STAB. WASHINGTON, D. C., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1930.
JEWELRY ROBBERY
SUSPECT IS CAUGHT
Man of Many Aliases Wanted
In Toledo Believed Local
Thief Also.
Sought by police of Toledo, Ohio,'since
May, 1929, In connection with a $250,-
000 jewelry robbery and the shooting of
two men, and believed to have partici
pated in a number of local burglaries,
Benjamin Myerson, alias Joe Berger,
alias Joe Jacobs, alias J. W. Bertson,
alias Edwin Fox, alias D. Cohn, $8
years old, was held under $75,000 bond
in Police Court today pending the ar
rival of officers from the Ohio city.
Three Ohio warrants have been served
on Myerson, charging him with robbery
and assault with intent to kill.
Myerson was arrested Saturday at
Fourteenth and E streets by Policeman
J. L. Rinker after fourteenth precinct
police had Issued a lookout for him
in connection with a aeries of robberies
in the Cleveland Park district.
Grand Jury Indictment Claimed.
The man, according to police, was in
dicted by a Toledo grand Jury in 1929 on
charges of robbing a store of a quarter
of a million dollars In jewels May 7,
1929, and with assault with intent to
kill. Karl Irwin, the Jeweler, was shot
through the mouth. Myerson, police
said, is also charged with assault with
intent to rob Irwin, and with shooting a
Toledo man's eye ouf upon another oc
casion.
Myerson admitted, according to Capt.
E. J. Kelly, being arrested in Las An
geles last year, and boasted that he
"jumped” a $50,000 bond after paying
■fixers” $12,500 to get him out of jail.
The man reported that he had lived
at a local hotel since June. Kelly said
that he admitted participating in two
local burglaries and is suspected of
having taken part in many more here.
He was charged in Police Court with
breaking into the apartment of Miss <
Agnes Marlow, 3024 Tilden street, and
removing SIBO worth of jewelry.
A complete set of burglar’s tools is i
said to have been found in his hotel i
rooms. His automobile carried North
Carolina tags at the time of the arrest.
The lining of the front door had been
cut and a large revolver, wrapped in a
towel, had been inserted into the pocket.
Rinker said the handle of the revolver
protruded from the pocket as if it had
been placed in readiness fer use.
A man who gave the name of Michael
Goldberg of New York, whom police
designated as a friend of Myer«on, was
arrested at the same time and is being
held without bond for investigation.
Fiiaau Sentence Alleged.
Capt. Kelly declared Myerson was
sentenced to serve a year and a day
in Leavenworth Penitentiary after be
ing convicted 'ln District Supreme
- Court In 1915 an a grand larceny
charge. He also served time in Mich
igan Btate Penitentiary for a crime
committed in Detroit, according to
Kelly.
Michael Kehoe. aaaistant District at
torney, announced that due to the seri
ousness of the charges in Toledo Wash
ington would waive claim on Myerson'a
person. Daniel 8. Ring, his attorney,
represented the man in the hearing
before Judge Ralph Given.
NEW JERSEY MAN ~
NAMED TO SUCCEED
D. C. FIRE MARSHAL
_ From Flj-st
service test, but Lauber passed at the
top of the list, and consequently was
chosen.
At the time the Commissioners an
nounced that they wculd use the Civil
Service eligibility list for selection of
District employes, fear was expressed
that this might result In the appoint
ment of non-residents of the District,
in discrimination against those who are
residents. At that time Dr. Luther H.
Relchelderfer,a president of the Beard
of Commissioners, said great care would
be exercised to see that no discrimina
tion occurred.
No Appointments Under Order.
Up to date there have been no ap
pointments made under this order of
the Commissioners.
Mr. Lauber, who will take office Jan
uary S, was bom in 1894, in Ulster
County, N. Y. He served In the-United
States Army as second lieutenant in the
Signal Corps from 1917 to 1919. Before
and since the service he has been em
ployed by the Underwriters’ Laboratories
and the National Board of Fire Under
writers in engineering work connected
with fire departments. His recent work
has been in training men for field in
spection duties for the Underwriters.
Chief Engineer George 8. Watson of
the Fir# Department said today that
the decision to select the new fire mar
shal by civil service tests was based on
a desire to obtain some one thoroughly
qualified by engineering training and
experience to cope with *he many intri
cate problems of fire prevention work
now confronting city fire departments.
He said for several years the work has
been confined to trying to keep rubbish
away from under wood steps and
kindred actlvltlea. and that while these
are important there are difficult tech
nical problems that coma up. requiring
the services of a competent expert.
REPAIRS OF OLD IRONSIDES
TO BE FINISHED IN JUNE
/
Bear Admiral Hock Reports Res
toration of Celebrated Frigate Con
stitution Is Hearing Completion.
The work of restoring the celebrated
frigate Constitution will be completed
next June. Rear Admiral George H.
Rock, the Navy's chief constructor, re
ported to Secretary Adams today.
He explained the work remaining to
be finished consists primarily of interior
Joiner work, the manufacture of cordage
for standing and running rigging, the
design and manufacture of boats, guns
and gun carriages, the Installation of
ground tackle and fresh-water tanks,
canvas work and the fitting out of
storerooms, magazines and other spaces
below the berth deck.
He said $628,781.46 of the $645,889.30
available for the w'ork had been spent.
AIDING BICENTENNIAL
Ad Club Names Promotion Commit
tee of 80 Business Men.
Eighty advertising and business men
have been appointed to the George
Washington Bicentennial Committee
of the Advertising Club of Washington,
According to F. Roger Miller, chairman
of tb? committer. Mr. Miller was
elected chairman of the committee last
Tuesday and he has Just completed the
personnel of the group.
Plans are being made now for the
scope of the committee’s work in pro
moting the bicentennial celebration so
that a tentative schedule may be placed
before the body at its first meeting, to
be held soon.
President Names Amy Cadets.
The President has appointed John
l. nnon, 2121 New York avenue, this
e.ty, and Oeorge A O’Connell. Fort
Leavenworth. Kans, cadets at large at
the West Point Military Academy, sub
ject to qualifications at thejntranee ex
amination in March next, ft,
SENATE COST TAG
BEING PREPARED
f
Toilers in Office of Nye Tab
ulate Sheet Showing Cam
paign Expenditures.
BY LEMUEL F. PARTON.
Toilers in the office of Senator
Gerald P. Nye. chairman of the Select
Committee on Senatorial Campaign
Expenditures, are working on a sheet
which will be a sort of cost teg for the
United States Senate.
When the figures are all added up
they are expected to khow Just how
much it costs to man the Upper House
of Congress. It will set opposite etch
record of expenditures the number of
votes obtained for this amount of
money, thus allowing computations of
the ratio of money and votes. The
total of expenditures for the last pri
mary and general election campaigns
will run into many millions. No final
estimate is now possible, as the in
complete records show only what the
candidates say they spent. The com
mittee , Is compiling additional figures
of its 6wn.
Legislative Remedy Planned.
The writer, noting on Senator Nye’a
sheet entries all the way from Senator
Glass’ 2 cents to Joseph R. Grundy's
$420,701, asked Senator Nye what was
i to be done about it, if anything—
whether this summary of heavy spend
ing would constitute a possible chal
lenge of the direct primary law. In
strument of democracy and the doom
of the bosses.
'We are working on constructive
remedies.” he said, ''and no matter how
many millions the total shows, it will
give no ground for an attack on the
direct primary. Nobody want# the old
bo6s-rldden convention back.”
Senator Nye was asked whether the
remedy would be legislative or edu
cational. %
“Legislative,” he said. "After we
have finished our computation of 1930
expenditures in the primary and gen
eral election campaigns, I will intro
duce at the next session of Congress
a law with teeth in it, governing pri
mary expenditures. It Is perfectly
feasible to do this, and it Is my opinion
that the hugh expenditures of money
and the supposed advantages enjoyed
by rich men In campaigning for the
Benate are due to inadequacy of the
present law.
Ask New Primary Law.
"We will fight for a law to put a
decent limitation on expenditures,
not only by the candidate himself, but
by others in his behalf. We hope to
make it possible to tell where the
money comes from to elect candidates
and Just how It is spent. There is
ample legal and constitutional basis for
such legislation.”
Senator Nye said a number of polit
ical economists on the faculties of
American universities were co-operating
with the committee in preparing the
forthcoming remedial legislation.
The committee Is still holding ses
'■m*- It probed the Pennsylvania
campaign in an executive session today.
Nothing was given out as to total ex
penditures in that, State, but ft was
learned from a reliable source that:
about $1,500,000 had already been
chalked up. Massachusetts and Colo
rado will be taken up Monday.
The committee, in its travels and its
probing, has turned up money machi
nations which sound like tales of sock
tess Jerry Simpson and the Populists.
They have found *the loose purse
strings about evenly divided as between
the Republicans and Democrats.
O. O. P. Gets Money’s Worth.
There are many interesting deduc
tions to be made from Senator Nye’s
huge sheet of foolscap. One of them
Is that the Republicans seem to know
more about getting their money's worth
than the Democrats. The writer ex
amined the records of 20 States in
which there were contests in both par
ties, making possible a comparison of
money spent and votes obtained in each
group. In the 1930 primary the Re
publican top spender was returned the
winner in 10 States out of the 13 for
which returns are in, with only 3 high
spenders losing. Jn the Democratic
group 5 top spenders won and 10 lost.
Thus, the Republicans scored 76.9 per
cent victories with their high-money
candidates and the Democrats 33.3 per
cent
This, of course, might be construed
as demonstrating the superior economic
efficiency of the Republicans, If good
economics means getting more for your
money, but Senator Nye is not gunning
for either party, and no such compar
isons will appear on the big sheet. But,
all in all, it will be a unique expense
account, from which all sorts of con
clusions may be drawn.
(CoPTriiht. 1920.)
EINSTEIN PASSES
TIME ON "VESSEL
Scientist Will Lunch With Editors
Today—Official Welcome
Tomorrow.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 12.—Dr. Al
bert Einstein returned to his metaphys
ical world of time and space today aftef
a finite hour In the public gaze.
The father of relativity is passing
most of his time aboard the liner Bel
genland, which bore him from Ant
werp yesterday, in spite of countless
Invitations to see America now. With
him are Frau Else Einstein and Prof.
Walter Mayer of Vienna, his assistant.
Only one appointment was scheduled
for him today. He accepted an invi
tation to be the guest of Adolph 8.
Ochs, publisher of the New York Times,
at a luncheon of his editors.
Tomorrow he will be officially re
ceived at City Hall by Mayor Walker
and a citizens’ committee. The cere
monies will be radiocast.
Later in the day he will speak on
Palestine over a National Broadcasting
network. He will talk in German, un
der the auspices of the American Stu
dent Zionist Federation, and his speech
will be translated for American listen
ers. The address will be transmitted to
Germany and England.
DEPORTATION FACES GANGSTERS
LACKING NATURALIZATION PAPERS
Labor Department Co-operates Quietly With Crime
Suppression Agencies—Capone Is Citizen.
By the Associated Press.
The Government is thinking of pre
senting free tickets for ocean voyages
to certain gentlemen much in the public
prints.
The idea is one more relief program,
extended primarily to benefit the neigh
bors of these candidates for foreign
excursions of the one-way variety.
If the Labor Department can find
among the country’s notorious gangsters
some foreign-born who have overlooked
the technicality of becoming citizens
and swearing to uphold the Constitu
tion and laws of the Nation they are
In for some Inexpensive travel.
To be sure that none entitled to free
tickets get overlooked, experts of the
department are conducting .biographical
studies, going over the life histories of
Chicago’s “public enemies’’ and lists of
TREES DESECRATED ON LANGLEY ROAD FOR MORE BILLBOARDS
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at “" »*«• this Virginia trail to Chain Bridge one of the scenic routes around Washington, hot the work of the
ax and billboard advertiser is leaving in its wake destruction on both sides.
. *f"*f Rieture shows how strategically placed signs and filling station, hide from the motorist the beauty that lies
beyond this curve on the same road. Civic forces are campaigning to remove these evidence* of commercial uglinese from
; the highways leading into the National Capital. —Star Staff Photos
CONSULAR INVOICE
RULING DUE SOON
Customs Bureau Takes Un
der Advisement Plea of Im
porters Against Practice.
Decision whether to reimpose con
sular invoices on’ duty free and specific
! duty merchandise entering this country
probably will be reached about the first
of the new year, ft was stated today by
Commissioner of Customs Frank X. A.
Eble. following a hearing yesterday at
the Bureau of Customs.
On representations from several de
partments of the Government, the Bu
reau of Customs reopened the hearing
to hear protests from an array of im
porters. shippers, newsprint companies
and newspaper managers scainst the
reimposition of the consular' Invoice.
This Invoice, which formerly was ap
plied to all shipments, was taken off of
duty free and specific duty merchandise
last August by a Treasury decision Is
sued under authority of the new tariff
law. The charge for a consular invoice
is $2.50, and still remains on ad valorem
duty merchandise.
Careful Study Promised.
The proposal now to reimpose the
Invoice on duty free and specific duty
merchandise will be considered care
fully, Capt. Eble said today, in the light
of the lengthy testimony presented yes
terday. At a previous hearing several
representatives of Government depart
ments interested in the reimposition of
the invoice told why the invoice was
needed, for obtaining statistics on im
ports, for protecting the source of pure
food, preventing the smuggling of nar
cotics and other purposes.
The questions of whether the con
sular invoice could be relmposed on a
limited group of merchandise and
whether the administration has au
thority to reimpose the consular In
voice without charging the $2.50 fae
were raised. An Informal proposal was
made to place the invoice back in ef
fect, with a more nominal fee, such as
$1 or without a fee at all. The au
thority of the administration to do this
will be investigated by the Customs
Bureau, Capt. Eble said.
Situation Is Reviewed.
In closing the hearing! Capt. Eble re
viewed some of the advantages which
certain Government departments feel
accrue from the consular Invoice, He
pointed out that the Important and
valuable work of the Department of
Commerce in preparing reliable records
of Imports and exports would be ren
dered increasingly difficult and less
reliable by the elimination of the con
sular invoice.
By the Treasury decision of last
August the invoice is removed from
roughly 65 per cent of all merchandise
imported, the commissioner said.
During the hearing it was explained
by Capt. Eble that the Bureau of Cus
toms was Inclined to leave Canada and
Mexico in the present status, without
the Invoice on the two groups of mer
chandise. But several questions of au
thority and international equity and
law will have to be looked Into before
decisions are reached.
Deceased Veteran Honored.
Posthumous sward of the Distin
guished Bervice Cross, has been made
to Braxton B. Harville of Edgewater,
Ala., former corporal, 167th Infantry,
42nd Division, A. E. F., for extraordinary
heroism in action at Georges, France,
October 15, 1918. The medal will be de
livered to his next of kin, a brother,
Llewellyn B. Harville of Clinton, Tenn.
prominent “plneapple-and-rod" men of
New York and other large cities.
The work is being pushed by the
new Labor Secretary, William N. Doak,|
but was initiated by his predecessor,
now Senator Davis of Pennsylvania. It
is one of the quiet ways for Federal
co-operation in the suppression of crime
which the department found usable
without infringing on States’ rights.
But the more affluent racketeers, Doak
pointed out, can and do combat depor
tation with the mqst expert legal
maneuvering. They do not step up and
ask for the free ticket.
Incidentally, the number one plan on
Chicago's famous list is apparently not i
among those entitled to Government- !
financed travel. The best information is ,
that Al Capone did take the oath to up
hold American
Dead Senator
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LEE 8. OVERMAN#
— .
SENATOR OVERMAN
DIES AT AGE OF 76
AT APARTMENT HERE
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man of the Senate committee to In
vestigate German propaganda and his
advocacy of the espionage act are re
minders of the service he was called
upon to render during the war period.
Hanking Committeeman.
At the time of his death Benator
Overman was ranking Democrat on
three Important committees—Appropri
ations, Judiciary and Rules., Because
of the length of his service, he had
served on 16 major commutes during
his senatorial career, including Military
Affairs, where he rendered valuable
service in the days when preparedness
was a live issue.
Born in Salisbury, N. C., January S,
1854, Mr. Overman was graduated from
'trinity College, North Carolina, in 1874,
taught school for two years and then
became private secretary to Gov. Z. B.
Vance. He remained with Gov. Vance’s
successor, Thomas Jarvis, for one year,
after which he resigned to begin prac
ticing law in Salisbury.
Overman was a member of the North
Carolina Legislature in 1883, 1885, 1887,
1893 and 1899, during which time he
served as Speaker of the House. In
1895 he was the choice of the Demo
cratic caucus for the United States Sen
ate, but was defeated. He was presi
dent of the Democratic State conven
tion lm 1900 and in 1911, presidential
elector for the State at large in 1900,
and was elected to the United States
Senate in 1903. to be re-elected in 1909.
He began his third term in 1914, when
he was the first United States Senator
to be elected by a direct vote of the
people of his State. He was re-elected
Jd 1920 and in 1926.
One of Overman’s first acts on be
coming a Benator was to obtain an ap
propriation for appointment of com
mercial agents to be sent abroad for
the exploitation and extension of Amer
ican commerce, especially cotton. From
time to time he obtained additional ap
propriation* for this work.
Interested In Education.
In the House of Representatives Over
man’s work attracted wide attention.
He seldom made long addresses, but ex
pressed his convictions eloquently, for
cibly and at times vehemently.
His interest in education endeared
him to the State. In 1885 he brought in
a bill for an annual appropriation for
the State university. The bill met keen
opposition, but the eloquence and tact
of the legislator was successful and his
bill became a law.
Overman figured in another hotly
contested legislative battle which cen
tered around the leasing of the North
Carolina Railroad, in which the State
held a majority of stock. The question
of leasing the road divided the party.
Overman clung tenaciously to the policy
of leasing, despite severe criticism of
many newspapers. He finally won his
battle and was elected president of'the
road.
Overman was a descendant of Maj.
James Smith, who fought with the
American forces in the Revolution. In
1878 he married Mary P. Merrimon,
daughter of United States Senator A. 8.
Merrimon. He was for many years a
member of the boards of Trinity Col
lege and the University of North Caro
lina, both of which Institutions honored
him with the LL. D. degree.
CAREERS NEARLY PARALLEL.
Overman’s Death Three Months Be-*
fore Simmons’ Retirement.
Br the Associated Press.
I The almost parallel careers of the
, two veteran Senators from North Caro
lina ended with today’s death of Lee I
IS. Overman just three months before ’
ARCHITECTS FAVOR
BAN ON BILLBOARD!!
Local Chapter to Support
Any Plan to Clean-up
Nearby Roadsides.
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portrayal of the*- unsightly scenes
around the approaches to Washington.
Many women came to Mrs. Lawton after
the meeting, which was held at the
Y. W C. A, and volunteered to act as
committees of one in using th- stickers
which the American Civic Association
circulating in the campaign against
the billboards particularly. The stickers
are a reminder that the user “favors
products not advertised on the land
scap?."
Coleman Jennings, president of the
Assaelated Charities, who was also a
speaker at the meeting, spoke on "The
Adventure of Social Service" and urged
that young people should be taught the *
joy of giving themselves to this service
Mrs. Lawton is leaving Washington
next week to make similar surveys of
roadside conditions in other sections of
country. Before her departure she
will describe the distressing conditions
affecting the Washington entrances at
'’lncheon meeting of the Women’s
Club next Tuesday at
the Willard Hotel, one of the few hotels
n Washington that has refrained from
landscape advertising. .
Meanwhile, Miss Harlean James, ex
thc American Civic
Association is going ahead with plans
to present the campaign purposes before
««K CiV w *7 U I? of Washington and
nearby Maryland and Virginia.
Nearby Road Is Cluttered.
Again she stressed today the im
portance of public co-operation in the
0t sl *ns recently
erected on private property without the
.consent of the owner. Many such signs
are cluttering the highways and are
more numerous within close proximity
to the District line.
She urged that residents and asso
clations co-operate with the highway
officials of Maryland and Virginia in
their efforts to tear down these signs.
Especially in Arlington County Va.
much headway is being made in this
direction.
* Bt * r ywterday sent a photog
rapher out along the beautiful stretch
known as the Langley road,
lewis through the Virginia hills to
Chain Bridge. He discovered workmen
cutting down trees on one point of the
road to erect huge billboards that add
to the conglomeration of «ign« that
already are cluttering up this scenic
highway. Most of these billboards, it
was learned, were erected when it was
announced that the Virginia Legisla
ture would act to restrict the erection
of roadway signs.
the retirement of Pumifold Simmons
Simmons End Overman were bom
in January, 1«54. in North Carolina:
were graduated from the same uni
versity, Trinity (now Duke), and for
the last 28 years have served together
in the Senate, where both sat on the
center aisle.
Simmons preceded Overman to the
Senate by two years, entering in 1901,
but Overman was the older, having
been born January 3, and Simmons
January 20.
Two years ago this close union
parted politically. Simmons declined
to support the presidential candidacy of
his party’s nominee, Alfred E. Smith.
He led a successful fight against
Smith, but this year he was defeated
for renomination for a sixth term. He
leaves the Senate on March 4 after 30
years’ service.
Overman supported Gov. Smith’s
candidacy in 1928, but their differences
over this contest failed to break the
firm bond of friendship.
Work was Senator Overman’s diver
sion.
“He got to the office about 9 o’clock
every morning," W. W. McDonald, a
member of his office staff for 11 years,
said today, “and he didn’t leave until
about 6 o'clock in the evening. His
energy was a continual source of amaze
ment to me and to everybody about
him.
“He would go home, read the news
papers and chat with his family while
he listened to the radio. That was his
routine day after day when the Senate
was in session.
“He was one of the kindest men I
ever knew and sometimes he mixed his >
good deeds with a keen sense of humor.
"One of the hottest days of last Sum
mer I wanted to play base ball. It was
over 100 in tbs shade. The Senator
said to ms: ’Come over to the office,
I’ve got gome work to do.*
“I went over and we sat %ere chat
ting tor a couple of hours. I kept
wondering when the work was to begin.
Finally the Senator looked at his watch.
“ ‘I knew you might get sunstflMce if
you stayed base bsll,’ he smlledX we
old fellows have got to watch oA for
you wild youngsters, ’"
NEW YOI MOVES ■
TO SAVEDEPOSITS
Bank of United States Is
Closed With $1,500,000
-of City’s Money.
By th» AwnltUd Ptm.
NEW YORK, December 12.—The City
of New York moved today to recover
by legal action deposits of $1,500,000 in
the Bank of United States.
After a conference of city officials
yesterday. Mayor Walker directed Cor
poration Counsel Arthur J. W. Hilly to
exhaust every resource in the matter.
The bank has been closed by Joseph A.
Broderick, State superintendent of
banks.
City Chamberlain Charles A. Buckley
revealed that the city had about $8,000,-
000 in the bank within the last month,
but most of it had been withdrawn to
meet current expenses.
The $1,500,000 is needed to meet a
$40,000,000 issue of short-term notes,
but other funds will be drawn on to
carry over the emergency.
Post office officials said $164,927 In
postal savings was deposited in the in
stitution, but it is protected by $220,080
collateral, secured by Government bonds.
The bank has no connection with the
Government.
MeFADDEN EXPLAINS BANK NAME.
Emphasizing that the Bank of United
States Is a New York State bank,
operating under the banking laws of
the State of New York, and is in no
wise connected with the United States
Government. Chairman McPadden of
the House Committee on Currency and
Banking today warned other countries
of the world that they should under
stand this fact.
"I want to make it perfectly clear
and definite.” he said, “that the Bank
of United States is incorporated under
the laws of the State of New York and
U a State bank. As a State bank, it
holds membership as a member bank
in the Federal Reserve system. Its
name originated when the charter <was
granted to it to begin business on the
East Side in the City of New York,
since which time it has grown from a
very small beginning to a bank with
assets in excess of $200,000,000, with
66 branches operating exclusively with
in the limit of the City of New York.”
CONFESSES THEFT”
, OF MILLIONS FROM
* LOAN INSTITUTION
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termined until exhaustive audits had
been made.
The confession bearing Beeamyer’s
signature said he made the
without coercion.
It said that since he became manager
of the association nine years ago he
had had full charge of its records, in
cluding all entries of depfeit. all loans,
and all withdrawals.
The confession said:
“I farther state that throughout al)
of the above period I have, without the
knowledge or consent of any of the di
rectors or officers connected with the
association, falsified and altered to the
extent of several million dollars the
books, entries and records of the asso
ciation. X further state the difference
between the actual amounts deposited
and the amounts as shown by me to
have been deposited was used by me
personally without the knowledge or
consent of the directors or officers.
“I further state that I falsified the
records of the North American Bond
& Mortgage Co. and the Guaranty
Holding Corporation and misappropri
ated large sums of money belonging to
said institutions for my own personal
uses.”
Native of Hollywood.
Beesemyer Is a native of Hollywood,
having been bom in the film capital
in IMS. He attended local schools ani
the Southern California Business Col
lege. In 1908 he married Matilda W.
Fisher. He is the father of one son, t
Elmer G. Beesemyer.
Entering the banking and finance
business immediacy after completing
his studies, Beesemyer began to special
ise in building and loan association
work in 1921.
A civic and social leader of Holly
wood, Beesemyer is a member of many
clubs.
The Guaranty Building A Loan As
sociation operated in Hollywood. Los
Angeles, Beverley Hills, Santa Monica,
Pasadena and Glendale.
COMPOSITION CYLINDER
WILL IS PLACED ON FILE '
By the Associated Press.
DBS MOINES, lowa, December 12.
A composition cylinder used In a re
cording machine on which were repro
duced the spoken wishes of the testator f
was among the wills on file In the Polk
County Court clerk's office.
The will was dictated by Theodore
Mantz, Des Moines attorney, In 1919.
following an argument with friends as
to its validity. The cylinder also re
corded-statements of witnesses.
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PUPILS GIVEN SERVICE
In jui article in The Star on Tuesday,
in which was outlined the proposal tc
establish an experimental bus line for
the school children of Bradbury Heights,
it was incorrectly stated that at present
there are no “public transportation
facilities” by which they may reach the
Randall Highlands School, more than
two miles away. ~
The Washington, Marlboro and An
napolis Motor Line, Inc., states that Its
coaches provide 15-mtnute service on '
the route which the Bradbury Heights
children might take to the nearest ex
isting school.
EXPECT AIRPORT REPORT
A report on the subject of a munici
pal airport for the Washington metro
politan ar?a is expected to be made at
a meeting of the Interfederation Con
ference at the United States Chamber
of Commerce Monday night. The meet
ing will be under the chairmanship of
Col. A. B. Barber.
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