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Chaplains Tell Court They
Did Not See Senator at
Lottery Drawing.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 7—The de
fense In the lottery trial of Senator
James J. Davis yesterday sought to
prove that the Pennsylvanian was not
present at Mooseheart. 111., when his
lodge conducted a drawing for charity.
Defense witnesses, including Catholic
and Protestant chaplains and officials
of Mooseheart—the orphans' home of
the Loyal Order of Moose—each testi
fied they did not see Davis in the build
ing where the drawing was held.
Davis is charged specifically with
sending lottery tickets across State j
lines. Theodore Miller is on trial with ,
him. Davis is director general of the j
Moose and Miller is a high official in
the fraternity.
The Senator's sister-in-law, Mrs.
Samuel Davis, who is postmistress at
Mooseheart, testified that she had writ
ten the Senator's wife to have "Jim
come out" from Washington and see
his sick brother. The Government had
sought to show that Davis went to
Mooseheart to attend the drawing.
Drawing Held at Printery.
The drawing was held at the Moose
heart printery. Ernest N. Roselle, su
perintendent of the home, said he and
Davis did not pass the place en route
from the station to the postmistress'
house.
Roselle, asked his salary, said his
“base salary” is $13,000 a year and a
home, but “with depression reductions
It now amounts to $7,200 and a home."
Rev. Donald Payne, a spiritual ad
viser at Mooseheart, said he attended
the drawing and Davis was not there, j
Rev. John Laffey, Catholic chaplain at
the home .also testified Davis was not
in the printery when the drawing was
held.
The defense lost its battle for inclu
sion of evidence that Davis assigned
his lodge organization contract prior
to the alleged lotteries. The prosecu
tion had showed that money received :
from Moose charity balls was shared i
writh the organization department, the !
motive being to attempt to show that ]
Davis, as owner of the department,
profited by the drawings.
Contract Battle Lost.
The defense sought to present evi
dence that the Moose Supreme Council
had approved transfer of Davis’ as
signment of his contract to Joseph
Jenkins and Fred W. Jones in 1930.
The prosecution contended the defense
should produce evidence that an assign
ment was made before it could present
testimony that the council approved it.
The court agreed to admit as evi
dence any discussions of the council
referring to the contract, but in
structed there could be no testimony on
anything Davis had said concerning
the transfer.
Albert Smith, a member of the coun
cil, testified that “members of the coun
cil. after hearing Davis’ statement, said
that inasmuch as his contract was
transferable, there was no need for
the council to act."
The court instructed the jury not to
consider the council's discussion as evi
dence that Davis actually had assigned
the contract.
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Dedicating Memorial to Gompers
Above, general view of the memorial to Samuel Gompers, the labor leader,
as it was unveiled today at Tenth and Massachusetts avenue by James Calvin
MacKay (left), great grandson of Mr. Gompers.
- Below, President Roosevelt as he delivered the dedicatory address.
—Star Staff Photos.
Three Inflation Schemes Hold
Threat of Unanchoring Money
Greenback, Bimetallism and Devaluation
Proposals All Work Toivard Same End,
but With Varying Degrees of Danger.
An increasing number of people
in the United States are apprehen
sive of currency inflation and fear
ful of its results.
Eight distinguished men, repre
senttng both major political parties,
have approved and sponsored a series
of articles presenting their viewpoint
on the money problems of the day
as their contribution toward promot
ing a clear understanding of the
monetary system in the present con
troversy.
The series will appear in this news
paper in 16 consecutive daily chap
ters. The thirteenth is presented
today.
(Copyright. 1!»33. bv North American News
paper Alliance. Inc.)
ARTICLE NO. 13.
"L'nanchored” Currency.
The preceding article dealt with the
first of the four permissive inflationary
powers vested in the President under
the so-called Thomas amendment,
namely, the power to compel the Fed
eral Reserve system to purchase up to
$3,000,000,000 in Government securities
directly from the United States Treas
ury. Today's discussion concerns the
three other powers—the issuance of $3,
000. 000.000 in "greenbacks.'' the adop
tion of bimetallism and "devaluation.”
1. e.. reduction of the gold content of the
dollar.
Precisely what the psychological ef
fect would be of the issuance of irre
deemable paper money is impossible to
predict. The word "greenback.” as we
have seen from our discussion of the
previous experience of the United States
with this form of currency, has come to
have an extremely unpleasant connota
tion. standing for inflation of the most
vicious type—"printing press” inflation.
It is quite possible that such a step
would be the signal for a violent flight
of capital—that persons would be so
fearful of the consequences that they
would send their money abroad for in
vestment. Assuming, however, that
this did not happen, and that the
scheme worked mechanically, what
would be the result?
Basis for Credit Expansion.
It would be identically the same as
that produced by the first step, the di
rect purchase of securities. We have
seen, in article 5 of this series, that the
American currency is elastic — that it
expands with the needs of business and
is automatically retired when no longer
needed. That is the answer to what
would happen if $3,000,000,000 in ex
cess currency were arbitrarily introduced
into the monetary picture. The re
dundant currency would quickly flow
back to the member banks, and the
member banks would immediately turn
it over to the Federal Reserve banks,
where it would add, dollar for dollar, to
their reserves. Thus, again, they would
be provided with the basis for some
$30,000,000,000 in credit expansion.
In two essential respects, however,
the direct purchase of securities by the
Federa' Reserve, despite its great infla
tionary potentialities, would be far less
dangerous than the printing of an
equal amount of irredeemable paper
money. In the first place, it would be
less likely to raise immediate fear; in
the second place, it is a reversible
process By selling securities in the
open market the Federal Reserve could,
in some measure at least, act to put the
brakes on inflation. The greenbacks,
on the other hand, can be retired, un
der the provisions of the act, only over
a period of 25 years, or at the rate of
4 per cent a year.
While it, likewise, has serious possi
bilities for harm, the bimetallism pro
vision of the Thomas act probably is
the least likely of the four provisions
to be put to use. It seem altogether
likely that this section represents little
more than a friendly gesture by Senator
Thomas, sponsor of the inflation bill,
h.
toward the “silver crowd.” If interna
tional bimetallism should be established
under this provision, it would present
many practical difficulties, but would
not be an impossibility.
Effort Doomed to Fail.
Any attempt to establish bimetallism
on a national scale, however, would be
doomed to failure. The country would
immediately be drained of its gold and
would become a dumping ground for
silver from the rest of the world. In
cither words, the United States would
find itself, before the episode was ended,
, not on a bimetallic but on a silver
standard.
Quite aside from other practical con
siderations. there is. of course, no pos
i sible reason why the United States
I should abandon gold for silver. The
only excuse that has ever been put for
ward—the excuse of a gold shortage—
has been thoroughly discredited in the
exhaustive study of the gold delegation
of the League of Nations, which shows
conclusively that there is more than
ample gold for the world's monetary
requirements.
As to proposals for reducing the gold
content of the dollar, it is unfortunate
ly necessary to take a realistic view of
the situation and to recognize the fact
that at the moment the paper dollar
stands at a discount of between 30 and
40 per cent in terms of the standard
gold dollar of 23.22 grains. In other
words, it is currently evaluated at be
tween 14 and 16 grains of gold. The
reason for this, as we have seen before,
is the fact that since the imposition
of the gold embargo the United States
has been on an inconvertible paper
money basis. The paper dollar’s dis
count represents fears throughout the
world as to what the country may do
in the way of inflation of devaluation
Devaluation in Effect.
Unless business is stimulated greatly
by legitimate (non-inflationary) meth
ods, so that prices can be maintained
at present or higher levels while the
dollar in turn is strengthening its posi
tion in relation to gold, a return to the
old gold parity might be difficult without
a considerable shock to prices. A mis
take was made, when the embargo was
placed on gold and vast inflationary
powers placed in the President's hands.
The country has already ‘‘-devalued de
facto,” with nothing like the price re
covery that devaluationists promised.”
Moreover, the consequences of formal
devaluation—at current or at lower
levels — are extremely problematical.
Some devaluationists want a 70-cent
dollar, others a 60-cent dollar, and still
others a 50-cent dollar. But suppose
the 70-cent dollar, or the 60-cent dol
lar, does not bring back the price level
of 1926—what then? Must the process
start all over?
This is the great weakness of devalu
ation. Once the step is taken, it is
difficult to prevent its being taken a sec
ond time, or a third time. For the
dollar has then ceased to have any
anchorage. It is a political foot ball;
and as such forfeits the confidence of
every one.
At the moment the important thing
is to get the dollar formally tied up
with gold and kept there. Even if this
involves a moderate devaluation, such
devaluation, unfortunate as it is as a
precedent, is far preferable to the pro
longed uncertainty growing out of the
fluctuations of an unanchored currency.
(The fourteenth articles of this
series will appear in The Star
tomorrow.)
J. Frank Duryea Divorced.
MINDEN. Nev., October 7 OP).—Mrs.
Clara Duryea was granted a divorce here
Thursday from J. Prank Duryea, whom
she married in 1893, it was learned to
day. Mrs. Duryea charged cruelty. She
established a Nevada residence at Lake
Tahoe* _
CHILD NUTRITION
PERIL IS DENIED
New York Doctor Takes Is
sue With Health Parley
Leaders.
By the Associated Press.
Taking sharp issue with Mrs. Frank
lin D. Roosevelt. Harry L. Hopkins,
Federal relief administrator and others.
Dr. Haven Emerson of New York, yes
terday told a child health conference
here that the youngsters of the coun
try are not suffering from malnutri
tion as the result of the depression.
Dr. Emerson, president-elect of the
American Public Health Association,
declared that no drive against under
nourishment among America's children
is needed, despite the pleas made for
this work by the wife of the President,
the relief chief and Miss Frances
Perkins. Secretary of Labor.
Health Said Improving.
“The evidence is consistent, continu
ous and overwhelming that the health
of the people of this country has been
improving steadily since 1929." Dr. Em
erson said, “and it would constitute a
betrayal of the populace if we use the
threat or fear of ill-health and neglect
of childhood to rouse agencies of Gov
ernment or private groups by an or
1 ganized clamor about child health at
this time.”
Miss Grace Abbott, children's bureau
chief, replied:
"But, doctor, we believe there is mal
nutrition among children.”
To Dr. Emerson's suggestion that
stress needed to be laid on proper
preparation of foods. Miss Abbott said:
"There is no doubt that a well filled
pay envelope and an intelligent mother
to spend it would be the answer to
the problem. But the Federal Relief
Administration has informed me of
communities where whole families are
living on $1.50 per family per week."
Death Rate Low.
Dr. Emerson said the coal miners, the
needleworkers. the cotton pickers and
other “unfavored groups" were in no
worse nourishment situation than they
have been for the past 20 years.
He contended all scientific medical
indexes, such as the death rate, the
infant mortality rate, the tuberculosis
rate and the communicable disease rate,
were never lower than in the past four
years
“The oft-quoted figures of increase
in malnutrition among the school chil
i dren of New York City means just ex
actly nothing, since there is no uni
formity of observation or comparison
of criteria,” said Dr. Emerson, in con
tending that widespread school examin
ations to discover the undernourished
children would be valueless.
Dr. Mary Riggs Noble of the Penn
I sylvania State Health Department,
i challenged his statement, saying that in
Pennsylvania health examinations of
school children had been found of in
estimable value, and had produced defi
nite results.
figures Submited.
Dr. Earle G. Browne, State health
officer of Kansas, said that examination
of 38.000 school children had snowm
I that 25 per cent were suffering from
malnourishment, and that 70 per cent
; of those children in agricultural dis
1 tricts were not drinking milk.
1 Mrs. Roosevelt earlier had suggested
! that one or two women leaders be picked
! in each community to "follow up the
' child in school that is found to be badly
! off back to the family, and study the
: family background, thereby getting atr
the pre-school child.”
Mrs. Roosevelt said: «
“The economic conditions all over
the country have naturally brought
about far more malnutrition than we
have in normal times.”
Hcpkins said that "in a very large
proportion of the whole population, the
standard of living has been reduced to
a pauper level of 50 to 60 cents a day
to live on.”
Leo R. Sack in Cristobal.
CRISTOBAL. Canal Zone, October 7
IA>).—Leo R. Sack, new United States
Minister to Costa Rica, arrived here
yesterday en route to San Jose. He ex
pects to reach Costa Rica today.
Wed 50 Years
ANNIVERSARY PARTY HELD
AT CHURCH.
_2_
MK. and MRS. GEORGE W. BENNETT
Of Lawrence avenue, Kensington, Md., I
who celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of their marriage Tuesday. A party in
their honor was held at the Kensington
Baptist Church. — Harris-Ewlng Photos.
MINERS DEFIANT
FACING DISASTER
Grimly Await Coming of Cruel
Winter Without Jobs,
Without Hope.
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, October 7.—If Win
der comes. . .
Down In the desolate valleys of West
;rn Pennsylvania, once humming with
activity and black with the smoke of
busy mine, and mills, Winter really is
Homing.
Thousands of striking coal and steel
workers and their families know It and
face—they know not what.
The overtures of the operators, the
orders of their own organizations and
the pleas of the Federal and State gov
ernments all have failed.
"We’ll starve first,” shout the dis
gruntled workers.
Few Have Any Savings.
Few of the strikers have any money
and most of them—and families—have
little In the way of clothing.
The N. R. A. made possible more of
the jobs which they now scorn, but It
also brought about Increases in the
prices of clothing and foodstuffs.
Most of the strikers live In company
houses and many of them even now live
on the credit extended by the opera
tors’ stores. The operators themselves
have been hard hit and cannot afford
to help indefinitely. If the miners re
turned to work the company stores
would reopen again, but this suggestion
invariably brings that shouted reply:
"We’U starve first."
Pinchot Extends Relief.
Gov. Pinchot has extended the State’s
"disaster” relief and other relief
agencies stand ready to help as much
as possible, but these sources, of neces
sity. may be cut off.
Through the Summer, wives and
children tilled struggling gardens on the
sunny hillsides, but Pennsylvania Win
ters are severe—nothing can be grown
beneath snow and sleet.
Pood and clothing will not be the
only problem. There is heat to be con
sidered.
Shivering children, even as in other
times of stress, may gather odd pieces
of coal from about the mines and mills,
but with most of the mines closed
there will be little of this precious
commodity available
And so the strikers face the Winter
with little money, little clothing and
few of the other necessities of life.
Will they go back to work? The ques
tion brings the same shouted reply;
"We'll starve first.”
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PRESIDENT PLEADS
FOR UNITED NATION
IN LABOR ADDRESS
_(Continued From First Page )_
putting unselfish patriotism first. That
would have been the order of Samuel
Gompers if he were with us today.”
Convention in Recess.
The federation convention, under way
five days, recessed over the day for the
services, fine delegates setting aside con
vention disputes to join in the dedica
tion of a memorial to which all had
contributed.
Telling first how Gompers. bom in
England, later became the "chieftain"
of workers in the United States, Green
continued in his prepared speech:
"Today labor places a new value upon
his wise counsel, his sound ’udgment
and his foresight.
"The principles of collective bargain
ing, of co-operation, increased purchas
ing power through high wages, the lim
itation of the hours of employment
suitable to the manufacturing and eco
nomic needs of industry, though re
garded as revolutionary when first pro
claimed during the early period of Mr.
Gompers' career, are now accepted as
a fixed part of our governmental poli
cies * * •
"It is no exaggeration to say that
these principles and the plan provid
ing for co-operative human relations
in industry, formulated and recom
mended by Mr. Gompers, are embodied
in principle in the national recovery
act.”
Headed A. F. of L. 40 Tears.
The central figure in the monument,
done by Robert Aillcen. sculptor, is
Gompers. seated. Behind stand three
allegorical figures signifying unionism,
fraternity and brotherhood.
Gompers was president of the A. F.
of L. 40 years. In 1924 he went to
Mexico for the inauguration of Presi
dent Calles, a few weeks after an ardu
ous federation convention.
Stricken with a heart attack in Mex
ico City, Green reminded today, "he
begged his friends to help him reach
the border of the United States so that
he could breathe his last in the land
of his adoption."
Gompers barely got into Texas.
His memorial was authorized that
same year. Up to last August 31. A. P.
of L. members had donated $132,827
for the monument.
Member Drive Voted.
A vigorous continuation of the organ
ization campaign that has brought it
many thousands of new members since
the N. R. A. began functioning was or
dered unanimously yesterday by the fed
eration.
Without a dissenting vote, the con
vention approved a section of the Ex
ecutive Council’s report saying:
’’We urge upon all organizations of
labor and their individual members to
support and co-opater in every effort
which may be made in their localities to
organize the unorganized and to build
up and strengthen the existing organ
izations.
“We recommend that the organizing
campaign which is now being carried
on, be continued in a broad, vigorous
and progressive way so that all workers
may be accorded the widest opportunity
to organize and become affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor.”
Some delegates forecast that al
though the convention by this action
already had indo sed the federation's
present method of organizing it would,
next week, object to continuing the en
listment of new members qualified for
trade unions Into Federal industrial
unions.
A proposal that colored organizers be
employed to seek new members for
unions was sent to the Executive Coun
cil.
A. Philip Randolph, colored, repre
senting the Pullman car porters, asked
organizers for his race, saying it had
been reported to him that “employers in
shipyards have been playing colored
against white workers so as to weaken
them.”
Special Services Listed.
Two special services will be held lor
the delegates tomorrow.
At 10 o’clock in the morning there
will be a high mass at St. Patrick’s
Church at which the speaker will be
Dr. John A. Ryan. At 4 o’clock in the
afternoon, services have been arranged
at Washington Cathedral, at which
President Green will address his asso
ciates in the federation.
Beginning Monday, the federation will
buckle down to work on the many im
portant issues treated in resolutions
which now are being handled in com
mittee.
Some Flirt, Arthur.
SEATTLE OP).—When Arthur Perry
wants to get into a show free, he Just
winks at the cashier and walks right in.
Arthur is 3 years old.
After police had been notified he was
"lost,” he turned up safely at home.
He'd "winked,” be said, and got into
the show.
Text of Roosevelt Speech
President Lauds Patriotism of Gompers and His
Devotion to Cause of Labor at Monu
ment Dedication.
I -
THE text of President Roosevelt’s
address at the dedication of the
Samuel Gompers Memorial
Monument follows:
It Is fitting that in the Capital
of the Nation a statue should stand
through the ages, to remind future gen
erations of the services to that Nation
of a patriot who served his country
well. It is fitting that the Government,
through its representatives, should
take part in the dedication of this
monument. It is fitting that I should
appear here in my official capacity:
but it is also fitting that I should be
here in my personal capacity, as one
who has always been proud of the per
sonal friendship which he held for
many years with Samuel Gompers.
I knew him first when as a very
young man I came to New York City
and received his fine support in the
establishment of pure milk stations for
the feeding of undernourished babies.
From then oq, we had many mutual
tasks. It is, I think, a commentary on
the progress toward social justice which
we have accompl 'hed in a short space
of time when i tell you that in the
year 1911—only 22 years ago—Samuel
Gompers, Robert F. Wagner, Alfred E.
Smith and I were labeled as radicals
when we fought for and finally suc
ceeded In passing a bill through the
New York State Legislature limiting
the work of women m industry to 54
hours a week.
Point* to Victor!**.
These early struggles for social bet
terment—struggles which in large part
were Initiated by him—have met with
growing success with every passing
year. I like to think that Samuel
Gompers is today, and at this moment,
aware of the fact that through the
quick and practical action of the na
tional recovery act, child labor in the
United States has at last come to
an end. .
During the vears of the Wilson ad
ministration, the friendship between
us grew and strengthened. I need not
speak of his great service to organized
labor in its relations with private em
ployers; but I can speak rightfully of
the splendid co-operation which at all
times he gave to the sympathetic ad
justment of problems relating to work
ers for the Government itself. He un
derstood well the fact that those who
serve the Government serve the people
as a whole.
Recalls War Program.
It was in the fulfillment of this prin
ciple that he approached the whole
subject of the relationship of labor to
the Government at the outbreak of the
World War. As a member of the Ad
visory Committee of the Council of Na
tional Defense, he was a part of the
great organization which met the crisis
of war. But more than that, it was
his patriotic leadership for the unani
mous mobilization of the workers in
every part of the Union which supple
mented the mobilization of the men
! who went to the front.
The keen analysis of President Wil
son made this reference to Mr. Gom
pers. in November. 1917:
“If I may be permitted to do so. I
want to express my admiration of his
patriotic courage, his large vision and
his statesmanlike sense of what has to
be done. I like to lay my mind along
side of a mind that knows how to pull
in harness. The horses that kick over
the traces will have to be put in a
corral.”
In those few words President Wilson
summed up the splendid national serv
ices of Samuel Gompers. and at the
same time preached a sermon that ap
plied to capital and labor alike.
Praises Labor of Today.
That sermon is just as good today as
it was in 1317. We are engaged in an
other war, and I believe from the bottom
of my heart that organized labor is
doing its share to win this war. The
whole of the country has a common
enemy; industry, agriculture, capital,
labor are all engaged in fighting it. Just
as in 1917, we are seeking to pull in
harness; just as in 1917 horses that
kick over the traces will have to be put
in a corral.
Mr. Gompers understood and went
along with that thought during the
years of the war. and we have many
evidences of his acceptance of the fact
that the horses pulling in harness were
the horses of the employes and of the
employers as well. In those years a
few, happily a very few, horses had to
be lassoed—both kinds of horses, and
today the conditions are very similar.
In the field of organized labor there
are problems just as there were in the
Spring of 1917—questions of jurisdiction
which have to be settled quickly and
effectively in order to prevent the slow
ing-up of the general program. There
are the perfectly natural problems of
selfish individuals who seek personal
gain by running counter to the calm
judgment of sound leadership. There
are hot-heads who think that results
can be obtained by noise or violence,
there are Insidious voices seeking to
I instill methods or principles which are
wholly foreign to the American form of
democratic government.
Cites Resistance to Change.
On the part of employers, there are
some who shudder at anything new.
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There are some who think in terms of
dollars and cents instead of in terms
of human lives; there are some who
themselves would prefer government by
a privileged class instead of by majority
rule.
But it is clear that the sum of the
recalcitrants on both sides cuts a' very
small figure in the total of employers
and employes alike, who are going along
wholeheartedly in the war against de
pression.
You of the Federation of Labor and
its affiliations are in the broad sense
giving the same kind of fine co-opera
tion to your Government which Samuel
Gompers and his associates gave to
that same Government in the old days.
Even as in the old days when I was
in the Navy Department, Mr. Gompers
and the federation were at all times
on a footing of friendship and co-oper
ation with me, even so today President
Green and his associates are working
with my administration toward the at
tainment of our national purposes.
The overwhelming majority of the
workers understand, as do the over
whelming piajority of the employers of
the country, that this Is no time to seek
special privilege, undue advantage, or
personal gain, because of the fac' of a
crisis. Like the duly constituted officials
of your Government, we must put and
we are putting unselfish patriotism first.
That would have been the order of
Samuel Gompers if he were with us
today.
RESEARCHER DISCOVERS
LOST INDIAN LANGUAGE
Half-Breed Woman Interprets
Miluk, “Missing Link'’ Speech
of Northwest Aborigines.
By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, October 7. — A lonely
Indian woman, speaking a strange lost
language. Miluk, a "missing link” in the
list of Pacific Northwest tribal lan
guages. has been found by a University
of Washington anthropologist.
She is Mrs. Annie Petersen, well over
70, a half breed living in North Bend.
She was discovered by Melville Jacobs
on an expedition studying ancient
Indian culture.
I While talking with a group of 10
I Indians who speak Hanis, another
i language which is fast passing out of
' existence. Jacobs said today, he was
1 startled to discover that one of the
' group—Mrs. Petersen—also was speak
I ing a tongue that none of the others
knew.
"On my queries she translated her
‘private language’ to me,” Jacobs said,
"and sang a number of Miluk folk
songs, which she had learned as a
child.”
The researches were sponsored joint
ly by the University of Washington and
Columbia University.
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NET STAR WINS CHILD
Mrs. Gudrun Boll Awarded Custody
of Youngster in Suit.
OAKDAND, Calif., October 7 (&).—
Mrs. Gudrun Roll, former Danish ten
nis star, won her fight for custody six
months of each year of her son, Wil
liam. 7. here yesterday.
Superior Judge G. M. Ogden ruled
an agreement made in Denmark be
tween -Mrs. Roll and her husband, Wil
liam Roll, former United States vice
' consul in Copenhagen, was valid in this
country.
Roll filed a suit for divorce here yes
terday. Mrs. Roll announced through
her attorney, Robert Littler, that she
plans to remain in the United States.
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MRS. W. B. BRYAN
DIES SUDDENLY
Heart Attack Fatal to Wife of
Wilhelmus B. Bryan, Former Real
Estate Editor of The Star.
Mrs. Emily P. Bryan, 1330 Eighteenth
street northwest, a resident of Wash
ington since her early girlhood, died
suddenly yesterday afternoon following
a heart attack while on a shopping
tour. She was the wife of Wilhelmus
B. Bryan, retired newspaper man noted
for his Interest in and knowledge of the
history of the Federal City.
Mrs. Bryan was the daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Andrew Watson Pentland and
came to Washington as a small girl
from Pittsburgh, Pa. Mr. Bryan was
for more than 30 years a member of the
staff of The Evening Star and for a
long period was its real estate editor.
Following his retirement from his pro
fession in 1912 he devoted his time to
compiling his authoritative book "A
History of (he National Capital.”
Funeral services will be held at 2
o’clock Monday afternoon at the resi
dence. Rev. Dr. Albert J. McCartney,
pastor of the Church of the Covenant,
with which both Mr. and Mrs. Bryan
have long been ic':ntified, will officiate.
Interment will be private.
Besides her husband, Mrs. Bryan is
survived by three children: Miss Eliza
beth E. Bryan of this city, Brantz M.
Bryan of Montclair, N. J., and Rev.
Wilhelmus B. Bryan, jr., director of the
Westminster Foundation. Princeton, N.
J., and by four grandchildren.
Would Force Marriages.
Compulsory marriage for all men and
women before the age of 30 is one plat
form of a new political party in Brazil.
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