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ACCORD OF BRITISH AND IRISH LOOMING , / ■ . De Valera Expected to Go to London for Formal Reconciliation. (Copyright. 1838. by th« Associated Press.) DUBLIN, Irish Free State, June 33. —Irish Free State and British states men are preparing for a formal recon ciliation, high government quarters Indicated today. President Eamon de Valera, whose recently friendly speeches regarding relations with England started the ball rolling, expects to be called to London soon to discuss political and commercial agreements. Questions Listed. The following questions. It was learned, have tentatively been listed for possible Inclusion in any pact or group of pacts: 1. Elimination of the office of gov ernor general of the Free State and the Inclusion of the title and duties of the office In that of the presidency. 3. A guarantee that the Free State will always help defend Britain and will never give aid In any fashion to any enemy of England. 3. Provision for a plebiscite by which the people of the Free State could determine themselves whether they wish to retain some connection with Britain or have a full repubUc. 4. A pledge by the Irish Govern ment It would never completely sever political relations with Britain un less the people so ordered such sepa ration by plebiscite. 5. The elimination by Britain of jurisdiction it now holds over certain Irish ports. 6. Mutual tariff reductions and preferences. Thomas Remarks Noted. Statements of James H. Thomas, secretary of state for dominions, on the Irish question this week In the House of Commons have been given much prominence here, especially his remark: . .. , “It is only fair to say that the real difference between the Free State and ourselves Is not alone on economic, but also on the political side. But any efforts at a rapprochement that would settle these questions would be welcomed by the British Govern ment." COMMISSION CLEARS SIXTEEN STATIONS Carrying of Alleged Fat-Reduc ing Preparation Program Explained. By the Associated Press. Sixteen of the twenty-one broad casting stations cited recently to show on October 3 why their licenses should not be revoked for carrying a program for an alleged fat-reducing preparation have explained the mat ter to the satisfaction of the Com munications Commission. Evidence was submitted, the com mission said yesterday, that the stations carried the program for very short periods and discontinued It after receiving complaints. The 16 stations are; WGAR, Cleve land; WHEC, Rochester, N. Y.; WIOD WMBF, Miami, Fla.; WIRE, Indian apolis; WKBW, Buffalo; WBAP, Fort Worth; WBAL, Baltimore; WGR, Buf falo; WHO, Des Moines; WIND, Gary, Ind.; WJAS, Pittsburgh; WJJD, Chi cago; WJR, Detroit; WOW, Omaha; WOWO, Fort Wayne, Ind., and KMOX, St. Louis. The five still facing commission citations are WSMB, New Orleans; WTMJ, Milwaukee; KFRC, San Fran cisco; KMBC, Kansas City, Mo,, and KNX, Los Angeles. COMDR. SCHIURMANN’S SUCCESSOR IS NAMED * - Comdr. Ellis Stone Will Assume Secretaryship of General Board at Navy Department. Comdr. Roscoe E. Schlurmann, sec retary of the General Board of the Navy Department, who Is leaving Washington about July 1, will be re placed by Comdr. Ellis Stone. In announcing this yesterday, the Navy Department said Comdr. Schlur mann Is being assigned to duty as commander of Destroyer Division 19. Reporting for duty with the General Board In 1933, Comdr. Schiurmann became its secretary last September. Comdr. Stone has been commanding Destroyer Division 9 of the Scouting Force, but after finishing a course at the Naval War College at Newport, R. I., was assigned to the General Board last year. Stolen Money Pierced. During street fighting In Barcelona, Spain, a bandit was wounded by a po liceman’s bullet, which first pierced a stolen bank note in his pocket. $150,000 Requested To Guard Billions Of Gold in Mints Additional Equipment Held Necessary by Treas ury Technical Adviser, Sr the Associated Press. Extensive safeguards for the nine billion dollars in gold and silver bullion piled up m the Nations four mints are planned by the Treasury Department. An appropriation of $150,000 to pro vide emergency generators, radio equipment, flood lights, electrical and tear gas devices and machine guns is contained in the deficiency bill passed by the House yesterday W. C. Cram, jr„ technical adviser in the Treasury, tola the House Appro priations Subcommittee recently the additional equipment is considered necessary because ‘ we have concen trated in the mints more than we ever had before.” “The values have always been suffi cient to tempt somebody to rob them, have they not?" inquired Chairman Buchanan. “Yes, sir,” replied Cram. “It is ' due more to the phyenologlcai effect, X suppose, that tnese values have " A3 Cram explained the elaborate precautions planned, Buchanan said “evidently you are looking for attack by the Regular Airay.” “You can’t tell what sort of attacks will be made,” said Cram. “We might be attacked by a mob.” 1 Five Generations at Reception When Edward Dade Smoot of Vienna, Va., celebrated his birthday anniversary this week at the home of his great-granddaughter, Mrs. A. Paul Stratton, 230 Madison street, five generations were In attendance. Top. left to right:, Mrs. A. Paul Stratton and Mrs. Harry L. Ticer. Bottom, left to right: Mrs. Emily H. May, Edward Dade Smoot and Evelyn Mae Stratton. —Harris & Ewing Photo. Kansas Governor, Warden Admit It Is 64 Years Old. By the Associated Press. LANSING, Kans., June 22.—The Kansas Penitentiary food, against which 348 convict coal miners pro tested in Tuesday’s mutiny, is cooked in a 64-year-old kitchen—and the Governor and warden agreed yester day the place is insanitary. On one small range, in steam pots and in a 30-year-old oven, meals are prepared for the 1,978 inmates. “The kitchen is in a building that is insanitary and unfit for preparation of food,” Gov. Alt M. Landon said at Topeka. “The Governor is quite right,” echoed Warden Lacey Simpson today. “That kitchen isn’t very sanitary. It was built in 1871. “An addition was made 40 years ago. That's the newest part. We have one range that isn’t large enough to cook all the food we need, so we use steam pots mostly. Our oven is 30 years old and we can hardly bake bread in It” No concessions were made the prisoners after they emerged from the mine following 21 hours of rioting early Tuesday. In addition to better food, they had demanded discarge of the prison physician. Warden Simpson said the 1935 Legislature made an appropriation for a new kitchen and cold storage plant, but did not provide for a new dining room. The money will not be available until after next February. Food is cooked by convicts, under supervision of a civilian steward. “We have a lot of first class cooks,” the warden said. “But the kitchen is so small they bump into each other." SHORT CHANGING BANK CONVICTS GYPSY BIMBO Government Drops Second Charge and Sentence Will Be Im posed Later. Tene Bimbo, a Gypsy, accused of working a "short change” trick for $130, on the Woodridge-Langdcd Sav ings and Commercial Bank, was con victed of grand larceny by a Jury before Justice Letts, In Criminal Divi sion 3, District Supreme Court, yes terday afternoon. Sentence will be passed later. A charge involving $150 alleged to have been obtained from the National Capital Bank was dropped by the Government. The offense was charged in June of last year and Bimbo was arrested in Dallas. The case was prosecuted by Assist ant XT. 8. Attorney Henry Schwein haut AD PRIZE AWARDED Washington Gas Light Co. Wins First Place In Utilities Contest. First place In the gas newspaper division of the Public Utilities Adver tising Association better copy contest for 1935 has been awarded to the Washington Gas Light Co. Wllmot R. Squier, advertising man ager of the Washington company, pre pared the advertising copy which was matched against samples of advertis ing submitted by gas and electric companies throughout the United States. The awards were announced at the Public Utilities Advertising Associa tion convention In Chicago. BANKING BILL CREDIT PROVISIONS DISCUSSED Br the Associated Press. For the first time since It began consideration of the administration banking bill two months ago, the Sen ate Banking Subcommittee yesterday opened discussion on the controversial title placing control over the Nation’s credit In the Federal Reserve Board. No conclusions were reached. "We discussed some of the features of title 2 (credit provisions), but reached no conclusions," said Chair man Glass. "We will meet again Monday." fe REV. R. PAUL SCHEARRER ANNOUNCES SERMON Takoma Park Presbyterian Pas tor to Discuss “The Anti dote for Fear.” Rev. R. Paul Schearrer, pastor of the Takoma Park Presbyterian Church, will preach at the 11 o’clock service tomorrow on “The Antidote for Fear.” Misses Nancy Avery and Marian Quin ter will lead the young people's meeting tomorrow evening. The following left this afternoon for the young people’s conference at Hood College, Frederick, Md.: Elidge Allanson, Esther Dare, Lois Judge, Barbara McClenon, Dorothy Nellis, Marcia Nelson, Dorothy Schearrer and Eleanor Sherburne. The confer ence will be In session for a week. The executive council of the church school will meet Tuesday evening In the church office. KITCHEN, COLUMNIST, DIES IN NEW YORK Author Who Turned Talent to Movie Had Been HI Short Time. Br the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—Karl K. Kitchen, newspaper man, columnist and author died yesterday in a hos pital of pneumonia. He had been 111 but a few days. Bom In Cleveland, he was educated in public schools and was graduated from Cornell University In 1906. For two years he was In the Sunday de partment of the Cleveland Plain Deal er, then came to New York where he Joined the staff of the old New York Evening World, as a special writer. Some time before that paper ceased publication, Kitchen Joined the New York Sun, where he remained until 1933, when he went to California and wrote for motion pictures. In addition to his newspaper work, Kitchen was the author of two books, “The Night Side of Europe,” and “After Dark In the War Capitals.'* He is survived by his widow. SENNETT SLAYER GETS THREE TO SEVEN YEARS Gordon B. Williamson, convicted of second degree murder a month ago in the death of Owen Sennett, was granted a new trial by Justice Proc tor, in Criminal Division of District Supreme Court yesterday, and upon pleading guilty to manslaughter, was sentenced to serve from three to seven years in prison. Williamson fired through a door after being ejected from a rooming house at 513 F street by Sennett, kill ing the latter Instantly. He was represented by Attorney John J. Sirica. Bandit King Warns Execution Brings World Catastrophe Corsican Faces Guillo tine—Last Words Mark ed by Fanaticism, By the Asaoclated Praia. BASTIA, Corisca, June 22.—Andre Spade, one-time tough king ol the Corsican brush and multiple murderer, •trolled causualy to the guillotine yes terday warning the world that ‘'catas trophe will follow my death.’’ The 36-year-old, 110-pound "last of the brigands,” whose reign of terror in the hills stirred France to send an army of 2,000 men after him in 1931, faced the loss of ills head with stoic indifference. "It was never courage I lacked,” be said as they called him on his last morning of life. Religious fanaticism, developing In Spada’s curious mind in the last yean of his bandit reign, led to his capture, and religious fanaticism marked his last words. “I am killed only as an agent of Heaven,” he told his Jailers. “If Heaven had not ordered me tc sur render, hundreds more would have died." Smiling wryly, Bpada refused the customary cigarette and rum proffered those about to die. “I never smoked nor drank,” he •aid, "and Z am uat l i|liinln| sow.” 4 F. LIU TO MEET Garbage Strike Settled, but Long’s Factions Will Get No Funds. By the Associated Press. NEW ORLEANS. June 22.—New Orleans hoped to have its garbage laden streets cleared today as the Fed eral Emergency Relief Administration took over the pay roll of striking gar bage collectors and the men Indicated they would go back to work. At the same time, the F. E. R. A. drew checks for employes of other de partments, thereby taking care of about 1,400 city employes who have not been paid for the last two weeks because municipal funds are tied up in the hectic Huey Long-Mayor T. Semmes Walms ley political battle. Employes of the departments still under Walmsley's control in the city will be paid weekly by the F. E. R. A. under the announced plan, but mem bers of the Police and Fire Depart ments, controlled by long, were prom ised no pay checks. Long was non-communlcative in Washington. “I'm blind, deaf and dumb,” he said. Mayor Walmsley and Frank H. Peterman, Louisiana F. E. R. A. ad ministrator, were in Washington con ferring with relief officials, but Peter man said over the telephone that the action was not taken on application of the city, but because "droves” of city employes had applied for relief. “In view of the great menace to public health and safety now existing, and the destitute condition at the workers,” Peterman said, "I have, at the request of various civic and labor organisations, established a project to handle certain functions essential to the public welfare.” NAVY GRADUATES PASS Pifty-Two Approved After Physi cal Re-Examination. Commissioning of 52 members of the Naval Academy class recently graduated, re-examined and found physically qualified, was approved yesterday by Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, chief of the Bureau of Naviga tion, Navy Department. These graduates got their diplomas on June 7 with their class, the de partment explained, but failed to pass the physical standards for commis sioning. On re-examlnatlon, 20 have been found qualified as entrants with out restrictions, but 26 others will be commissioned for a probationary pe riod of two years, at the end of which they will again be examined physically. Woodward & Lothrop IOm|jTnpAND o Streets Phone DIsttuct 3300 Beginning Monday, June 24 Annual Summer Selling Men's Famous Rockmchair * Union Suits Checked __ _ Plaid ^ g g_ “Silky ^ g Nainsook, "7 Jlfurfm, $|«I0 VM,, $ f ♦SO Regularly / C Regularly | Regularly | $1.50 $1.50 $2 Tailored for comfortable fit.. .with the famous side-leg opening and closed seat and crotch. Designed to give unusually free action and comfortable wear. Each point of strain is strongly reinforced. We advise an early selection as our supply is usually quickly exhausted in these special events. Telephone orders, District 5300, promptly filled Tn Mxh’s 6TOO, Bacon Flow. BUSH HOLT SEATED BY SENATE, 62-1T Announces He Will Battle for Regulation of Utilities. By the Associated Frees. Finally taken into the Senate family u one of it* own, bespectacled Rush D. Holt of West Virginia made plain today that when friends and foes of "rugged Individualism" line up for future battles, he will be with the foes. "I haven’t much use for the theory of rugged Individualism,'* said the 30 year-old West Virginia who won his fight for a Senate seat late yesterday after a notable constitutional debate. "As far as I can see, It means that the Individual has got to be rugged to exist under It” Continues Utility Fight. He announced also that he would be an advocate of stringent regula tion, If not public ownership, of util ities. As to legislation of his own. Holt said: “1 haven’t anything for the pres ent—not even a pension bill.” Holt Is expected to give some of his ideas on pending legislation to morrow at 9:45 p.m, when he speaks over WJSV and the Columbia Broad casting System on “The General Leg islative Situation as It Looks to a New Senator.” The 63-17 Senate vote which gave him his aeat yesterday ended flve-and one-half months of waiting for his 30th birthday anniversary, during which he had remained voiceless and voteless In the Senate. Vice President Garner administered the oath to the black haired, grinning youth Immediately after the balloting. Parents in Galleries. Proudly looking down from the gal leries as he was led up the aisle on the arm of Senator Neely, Democrat, of West Virginia, were his admiring parents and his sisters and brothers. Holt is a bachelor and his attractive young sister Jane may be his official hostess In the Capital. A resolution by Senator Hasting, Republican, of Delaware to declare the seat vacant was defeated. In seating Holt, the Senate set aside two established precedents and created a new one—that a person elected to the Senate need not be eligible as to age when his term be gins, provided he reaches the neces sary 30 years during the duration of the term. First Case of Kind. The Holt case was the first in the history of the Senate In which the right of a person elected to It to take his seat was contested on grounds of insufficient age. Three men are known to have served in the Senate before the age of 30— Henry Clay of kentucky, Armlsted Mason of Virginia and John Eaton of Tennessee. They were never chal lenged, however. In two cases in the past the Senate had to rule on eligibility under an other part of the same section—the nine years’ dtieenahlp required to be a Senator. Involved in these cases were Albert Gallatin, elected to the Senate from Pennsylvania in the early days of the Republic, and James Shields, elected from Wisconsin in 1849. Both Galla tin and Shields were unseated, the Senate holding that the nine years’ dtlsenshlp must be attained at the beginning of the term. The roll call on seating Holt follows: FOB THE BILL. DEMOCRATS. 55. ADAMS HAYDEN ASHURST LONEROAN bachman long BAILEY MALONEY BANKHEAD McADOO BARKLEY McC ARRAN BILBO McGILL BLACK McKKLLAR BONE MINTON BROWN MOORE BULKLEY MURPHY BULOW MURRAY BYRD NEELY BYRNES O'MAHONEY CARAWAY OVERTON CHAVEZ RADCLIPFE CLARK ROBINSON CQ6TIOAN RUSSELL DIXTERICH SCH WELLENB f CH DONAHEY SHEPPARD DUFFY SMITH FLETCHER THOMAS (Okla.) GEORGE TRUMAN GERRY TYPINGS GLASS VAN NUYS GORE WAGNER GUFFEY WHEELER HARRISON Republicans Far. REPUBLICANS, 6. DAVIS NT* FRAZIER 8CH All. NORRIS PROGRESSIVE. 1. LA POLLUTE FARMER-LABOR. 1. SHIP STEAD TOTALS FOR—62. AGAINST. DEMOCRATS. 4. BURKE i BATCH CONN ALLY ! WALSH _ REPUBLICANS. 13 AUSTIN KEYES BORAH McNARY CAPPER METCALF DICKINSON NORBECK GIBSON STEIWER HALS VANDENBERG JOTOTAL AGAINST—17. Paired lor seating were Senators Thomas of Utah, Reynolds, Pope, Lewis and Logan, all Democrats. Paired against seating were Carey, Hastings, Barbour and White, Repub licans, and King, Democrat. “Baby” Senator Takes Oath After several days of debate, 30-year-old Rush D. Holt yesterday was formally seated as a member of the 8eoate from West Virginia. Vice President Garner is shown administering the oath to the new “baby” solon. —Underwood Sc Underwood Photo. Congress Will Scan Drafts Carefully and Rewrite if It So Desires. Br the Associated Press. Some Democratic Congress mem bers said today that bills drafted by "brain trusters" from now on would be studied closely and rewritten if that was considered necessary. Senator Adams, Democrat, of Col orado, said there was a “growing re volt” against the "brain trusters’ leg islative drafts,” and he added that since the N. R. A. decision by the Supreme Court, congressional com mutes were making a special effort to simplify bills and bring them with in constitutional limits. "It is an indication that Congress is asserting its legislative rights,” he said. “I can see the disappointment of the brain trusters in their eyes when they see their brain children kicked about.” Chairman Dough ton of the House Ways and Means Committee issued orders that all departmental drafts sent to that committee be studied and redrawn before introduction. Other Committee* Instructed. 81mliar instructions were given cer tain other Senate and House com mittees, Democratic chairmen inti mating they did not want their names on bills providing for things they op posed. Doughton’s orders came after his committee, Secretary Morgenthau’s aides and Federal Alcohol Control Ad ministration officials bad a dispute over the department's new liquor reg ulation bill to supplant F. A. C., ended by the N. R. A. decision. The committee scrapped the meas ure providing for a setting up of a new independent agency, and wrote its own, putting the agency under the Treasury and allowing bulk liquor sales over the Secretary’s objections. Mar gen than Draws Fire. It was when Harold N. Graves, assistant to Morgen thau, told the committee that the Secretary opposed bulk sales and having the agency under the Treasury that Representa tive Vinson, Democrat, of Kentucky asked: “When did it ever come to the point that Congress could not have some thing to say about what the duties ot the executive branch of the Govern ment should be?” “Of course, it is recognised that Congress does have the complete authority to determine the allocation of this function," Graves replied. Members of the committee said an future drafts of such legislation would be completely revamped If necessary. They pointed out that they revised Secretary Perkins’ social security bill. Russia Adds Farm Tractors. Ten thousand machine tractors, 9,000 tractor plows and a large num ber of trucks have been assigned to the 420 new machine tractor stations being opened in Russia this Spring, according to a report from Moscow. The equipment will be used on col lective farms. Two hundred and fifty additional stations are to be opened this year, bringing the total number from 3,500 to 4,170 in 12 months. I fl—1_39 __38 - I I Former West Point Foot Bali Star May Take Fight to Roosevelt. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, June 22.—Lieut. Henry A. Sebastian, former West Point foot ball star facing dismissal from the Army because of his secret mar riage while still a cadet, today based hope of averting discharge on an ap peal which may be carried to Presi dent Roosevelt. He said he would appeal the verdict of a court-martial, which found him guilty of swearing falsely while a cadet that he was not married when he returned, from leaves on September 20, 1933, and May 8, 1934, although be had been married secretly to Har riet Hagman, former Vanities dancer. Discharge Mandatory. The verdict, announced yesterday by MaJ. Gen. Lucius R. Holbrook, commanding the first division, carries mandatory discharge from the serv ice, although it must be reviewed by Gen. Holbrook and War Department officials and finally confirmed by the President. Lieut. Sebastian said he thought the sentence "for so trivial a matter was unjust.” "I did not have any intent to de ceive the authorities when I swore I was unmarried," be said, “because I thought my marriage in 1931 was il legal.” Believed Marriage Illegal. His defense at the trial last week was based on the contention the 1931 ceremony was illegal because he used an assumed name. A second marriage was performed in June, 1934, after Canonist of New York Arch diocese Declares He Should Be Punished. By the Associated Frees. NEW YORK, June Rev. Ed ward V. Dargln, canonist for the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York and an authority on church laws, chargee In the July Issue of the Ecclesiastical Review that Father Charles E. Coughlin violated canon law in his political utterances and In the organisation of his National Union for Social Justice. Dargln says in the article that Bishop Michael J. Gallagher of De troit has “the right and duty to for bid” political activity by ecclesiastics and that Father Coughlin “can and should be punished" for disobeying. Defender of Marriage Bond. Rev. Mr. Dargln is pastor of St. Joseph’s Church, Croton Falls, N. Y. He holds the degree of doctor of Juris canonlci and is defender of the mar riage bond of the archdiocese. His duties as the latter have been com pared to those of an attorney general. “It is the opinion of this writer,” Dargln writes, “that the activities of Father Coughlin constitute direct vio lation of canon law. Whether his activities are or are not political la a question of fact. “It is my conviction that they are political and this conviction is based on his organization of a Nation-wide league, with a direct and open threat to use its voting power for or against certain national policies, laws and elective officials. Cites Law in Case. “The direct law governing this matter is contained In No. 83 of the third plenary council of Baltimore. This legislation expressly commands priests to abstain from public dis cussion of political or secular matters, either in or outside of a church and forbids clerics to inject themselves in Judgments of the faithful in questions of a civil nature.” Father Dargln said that canonical law empowers Father Coughlin’s bishop with "the right and duty to forbid, by precept, political activity of ecclesiastic,” and be added that offending priests “can and should be punished—according to the sacred can mis.” He said that the Holy See “fre quently in recent utterances has warned the clergy of various coun tries against political activity.” LASSEN PEAK ACTIVE MINERAL, Calif., June S5 <*»).— Lassen Peak, only active volcano In the United States proper, staged a show for tourists yesterday. It emitted a puff of steam from its crater, while two earth shocks were felt simultaneously in the surrounding area. The steam puff appeared at 1:40 am., Pacific standard time (12:40 pm., E. 8. T.). Both needles were knocked off the seismograph at Man sanlta Lake, lessen Volcanic National Park, by the earth shocks, which Sebastian had been graduated from West Point. The secret marriage was disclosed when Mrs. Sebastian filed suit for separation after a drinking party on Governors Island on April 6, during which, she charged, Sebastian beat her. I HATE TO THINK HOW NEAR I CAME TO NOT BUYING A G-E! "Bit now I know this Automatic Oil Fnraaco means peace in my mind and money in my pocket every day" OTHER automatic furnace an be like this. Nothing dee will do for you all the amasing thing* k does. Although the finest kind of home heating, owners report 20% to 50% fuel saving. 03—cheap oil—is burned a dif ferent way. It moves down from the top in a gentle, quiet flame. No roar, no soot, do odor. The chimney exit, at the bottom, trap* the heat usually lost by natural draft. The domestic hot water unit is buflt in. Summer and winter, you get water that is H-O-T. 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