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PERCY HAMMOND,
NOTED ant DIES
New York Writer Attained
Fame in Long Career
in Journalism.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 25.—Percy Ham
mond, 63, drama critic for the New
York Herald Tribune, died at mid
night tonight at Rockefeller Institute
Hospital.
He had been ill since Tuesday of
pneumonia. With him at the time of
his death was his son John.
A native of Cadiz, Ohio, Hammond
had been with the New York news
paper since 1921, when he came from
the Chicago Tribune. His reviews
of the theater had brought him a rep
utation as an informed and urbane
critic and stylist.
Saw First Show in Cadiz.
Hammond traced his interest in
the theater back to 1886, during fair
week at Cadiz, where, as a wide-eyed
boy. he saw a tent show entitled "The
Little Nugget.”
From this beginning Hammond went
to see his first play at the Cadiz
Opera House. After he became one
of Broadway's first-string critics
Hammond enjoyed recalling the days
when he saw Jeffries Lewis in “La
Belle Russe" and Robert Downing in
•"The Gladiator.”
He said he first saw William A.
Brady, producer and actor, at the
Cadiz Opera House in “two parts '—
doubling as a ticket taker in front of
the theater and as Job, the man serv
ant, in "She."
Born in 1873. Hammond was the
son of Alexander and Charlotte Ham
mond. His father was a leading mer
chant.
At 15 Hammond fled from home to
Pittsburgh, where he sold papers to
raise money to see plays. He went
on to Washington, where he ob
tained a job in the Government Print
ing Office through Senator John
Sherman of Ohio. After four years
he returned to Ohio and attended
franklin University for four years.
• Became Editor in Chillicothe.
' After graduation Hammond worked
en the Chillicothe, Ohio, News Ad
vertiser and later became editor.
During this period he engaged in a
circulation war with the Chillicothe
Gazette, edited by George Tyler, now
a theatrical producer and Hammond's
life-long friend.
While in Chillicothe he married Miss
Florence Camehan, who died in 1935.
Later he went to Chicago, obtaining
a job with the City Press Association
at $8 a week.
Hammond was proud of this period
In his career for. as he put it, "I went
through the mill.”
Hammond, his wife and their son
jjohn lived on the $8 salary. He joined
|he staff of the Chicago Evening Post,
Jater becoming dramatic editor. In
J»09 he went to the Chicago Tribune,
succeeding Bums Mantle, now critic
Jor the Daily News in New York.
While on the Post he had a side job
%s press agent for the grand opera
bouse.
Asked for Raise Once.
Once Hammond said of his work.
"I have been a newspaper man for 35
years. I asked for a raise only once
gnd for a job only once.”
From this he concluded, “It Is a
awell racket, but a drama critic's job
Is- best of all."
Hammond became an Institution on
the Tribune as the "apostle of the
drama” in the Midwest.
He was barred from the Shubert
Theater in Chicago for two years!
through a feud with an agent.
During the World War Hammond
went to France as a roving corres
pondent for the Tribune, returning to
Chicago in 1919.
In 1921 Hammond succeeded Hey
wood Broun as dramatic critic of the
eld New York Tribune, which later
.was merged with the New York Herald.
His last pob for the Chicago paper
was covering the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight in Jersey City. He later said he
liked this story best of all his work
"because it was out of my field.”
i COUSE, ARTIST, DIES
ALBUQUERQUE, N. Mex., April 25
i&).—E. Irving Couse, 70, widely rec
ognized painter of Indian and South
western subjects, and one of the
founders of the Taos. N. Mex., art
colony, died here today.
Couse was bom in Saginaw, Midl
and received his art education In
Paris. His better-known ‘ paintings
are “The Forest Camp." "An Indian
Camp” and “The War Pony."
CONVENTION PLANNED
Plans for the Cosmopolitan inter
national convention, to be held here
June 29 to July 1, are well under
way according to an announcement
by Robert W. McChesney, chatter
member of the organization and
chairman of the local committee in
charge of arrangements.
Commodore Q. R. Swink. Interna
lional president, will be in Washington
this week to discuss plans with the
Committee on Arrangements
About 300 delegates from 30 cities
in the United States and Canada are
expected to attend the convention.
C. C. C. Chief Ends
Old Feud’s Revival
By 2 Kentuckians
Descendants of Partici
pants in Hatfield-McCoy
Fray Agree on Truce.
£y toe Astocittsd Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 25.—Capt.
J. H. Knowles told today at quelling
a miniature feud at a C. C. C. camp
between descendants of participants
In the Hatfleld-Taylor and Hatfleld
tfcCoy feud, carried on in the Ken
tucky mountains in the last century.
Fifty-two of the 150 recruits sta
tioned at Bountiful, Utah, were Ken
tuckians. Knowles said young Paul
Hatfield and Paul Clayton were friend
ly until they learned each other’s his
tory. Then harsh words flew. A close
guard was kept to prevent an out
break.
, Knowles asserted one of the youths
attacked him with a knife, slashing
his sleeve, when he attempted to stop
an argument. After several encoun
ters which threatened to Involve the
entire camp. Knowles said he per
suaded the youths to forget their for
bears' difficulties.
, When the camp broke up, the two
left, arm in arm.
A
Trivial Things
That Make
a World
Suicide at 100 Years to
Prevent New Disillu
sionment*.
By the Associated Press.
LONDON.—King Edward ha* con
sented to become a patron of the pil
grims, the Anglo-American Society
whose dinenrs are an important part
of London social life. As Prince of
Wales, he was a member for many
years.
Tires of Life at 100.
WILNO, Poland.—A century of
life proved so disappointing to An
tonina Bieauska that she commit
ted suicide. In a note she explained
that rather than suffer any "new
disillusionmentsshe had decided
to take her own life.
Christening Is Bungled.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland.—
Workmen knocked out the last blocks,
and the 9.000-ton liner Belfast moved
swiftly—all too swiftly—toward the
w%ter.
In the confusion, the christening
was bungled, the bottle of champagne
was unbroken. A motorboat was!
summoned. Officials, with the bottle
of champagne, made a hurried trip in
drizzling rain, caught up with the liner
and fulfilled the bottle-smashing cus-1
tom on water.
Money Thrown Away.
GEORGETOWN. British Guiana.
—Porknockers. or sourdoughs, here
have been throwing away good
money for 21 years and just found
it out.
Since the discovery of gold in
the Potaro district placer miners
have been discarding an alloy called
•potariteThe Geological Survey
has just reported that the alloy is
a compound of mercury and pal
ladium, and has been assayed at
$12 an ounce.
Nuggets of "potarite" are often
found in porknockers’ pans while
they are washing for gold or dia
monds.
Not Old at' 137 Years.
MOUCHE, KURDISTAN. Turkey.—
At the age of 137. Ali Shefky Agah, a
forester, has only one violent dislike;
he hates to be called old.
Turkey's oldest man since the death
in 1934 of Zaro Agha, Ali Agha is in
perfect health. His eyesight is so good
that he has learned to read and write
the new Turkish alphabet.
He has three wives and eleven chil
dren still living, the eldest of whom
is a robust old man with a white
beard.
Ali Agha is confident he will live
another half century.
Prevented From Jumping in GraTe.
BUDAPEST—Hundreds of gypsy
musicians, playing the mournful tunes
of their race, attended the funeral
here of their young “crown prince,"
Lacl Racz, the 15-year-old son of the
Gypsy King Lad Racz XXXVI.
The musicians marched behind the
bier, playing their fiddles, which bore
black streamers. Several famous or
chestra leaders were present. Some,
like Magyari. are world-famous.
The old king, who in this youth!
played before several European rulers
and who toured America five years
ago. had to be held, for he meant to j
throw himself into the grave and be
buried with his son.
“Who now is to be my heir?” he
moaned.
Girls Want to Be Soldiers.
ANKARA. Turkey. — Turkey’s
young girls, ranging in age from 16
to 20, are ready to fight—and they
want to fight like men.
In a petition to the ministry of
education they asked that military
education be given them and that
they be treated the same as the boy
recruits fulfilling their compulsory
military service.
es
French Bronx Cheer.
PAU, France.—The charivari—which
is a sort of a Bronx cheer—still pre
vails in the Basque country despite
modem changes which have done so
much to destroy many other old cus
toms.
When Basque folk decide some one
has merited the charivari, they gather
under the victim's window by moon
light and serenade him with horns,
kettles, drums and satirical songs. The
charivari usually is invoked for such
offenses as Jilting a girl, spreading
malicious gossip, or wife beating.
Insane Musicians and Actors.
ZAGREB. Yugoslavia. — Hundreds
of citizens of Zagreb flock on certain
days to a nearby village to hear con
certs and see plays performed by in
sane musicians and actors.
At the Asylum of Stenyevats the
patients are taught to play, sing and
act. Great strides in curing them
are reported, as their minds are oc
cupied from day to day with re
hearsals for their public appearances.
The performances invariably are good.
CORRECTION
— *—
Amount Involved and Number of
Counts in Peter Indictment
Are Stated.
In publishing the account of the
indictment of Edward Peter, former
counsel to the Montgomery County
commissioners, by a grand jury at
Rockville The Star erroneously stated
yesterday that one indictment charged
him with embezzling I21.242.0S in
county funds. The amount set forth
in the indictment was $15,242.05.
It was also stated in another in
stance that Peter was indicted on 20
counts of false pretense and larceny
of nine checks and false pretense and
larceny of $15,242.05 in another in
ilctment. The correct amount of
counts in the second indictment was
19. making a total of 20 counts in
&e two indictments Instead of 31.
Aided Youths
WILLIAM R. GEORGE.
W. R. GEORGE DIES,
FRIEND OF YOUTH
Originator of Juvenile Self
Government Plan
Was 69.
By the Associated Press.
FREEVILLE, N. Y.. April 25.—Wil
liam R. George, founder of the George
Junior Republic, a nationally known
Institution for Juvenile self-govern
ment, died tonight.
The 69-year-old founder of an ex
periment in youth guidance that won
the commendation of Theodore Roose
velt, Thomas Mott Osborne and oth
ers distinguished in philanthropy and
education suffered a heart attack a
week ago.
Funeral services will probably be
held Tuesday, an official of the Re
public said. Services will be con
He is survived by his widow, Esther
George will be buried in Willow Olen
Cemetery.
Survived by Widow.
He is survived by his widow, Esther
Brewster George, and three daugh
ters, Mrs. Eleanor Kirkland of New
York City; Mrs. Donald P. Urquhart,
wife of the director of the Republic
at Freevillg, and Mrs. Malcolm Free
born of Cortland.
Out of the Junior Republic which
George founded here 41 years ago
have grown many similar movements.
Thomas Mott Osborne, a leader in
prison reform, interested himself early
In Geodge's work and the mutual wel
fare leagues in prisons trace directly
to the self-governing principles which
George enunciated.
Led to Student Groups.
Student government in schools and
colleges also has been an indirect
outgrowth of his work.
During the last few years, George
had engaged principally in the estab
lishment of what he called junior
municipalities. In such movements
he advocated giving young people be
tween 16 and 21 civic economic re
sponsibilities through self-government
in schools and colleges.
With only 10 cents In his pocket.
William Reuben George started out
from New York City for upstate New
York country and founded a settle
ment for youth which eventually at
tracted international attention. The
settlement evolved into the George
Junior Republic and grew until it
became the lengthened shadow of a
man’s ideals.
Boys' club work had convinced
George the problem of bettering the
lives of young persons who had to
look to the sidewalks of New York for
recreation or escape from the bonds
of poverty, was being merely scratched
by the old-style settlement house
methods. At first he had no very
definite idea as to how those methods
could be bettered, but as experience
ripened him, he concluded that self
control could best be fostered through
self-support in a self-governed com
munity.
This doctrine began to take shape
in the years 1890-1894. when he took
parties of 200 or so boys and girls
to the country to share hia own vaca
tions. The New York Tribune's fresh
air fund furnished the transportation
and various churches in central New
York as well as in the metropolis
provided shelter, food and needed
clothing.
Feared Pauperising.
But George became appalled at' the
number of these youngsters who took
as a matter of course the contribu
tions of their benefactors and who
seemed intent mostly on getting some
thing for nothing. He believed the
excursions, while beneficial physically,
were really doing more harm than
good by pauperizing of the youngsters.
Almost on the point of abandoning
his venture, he decided to continue it
for one more year and to try the ex
periment of requiring that each young
ster should work part time for cloth
ing, “eats" and housing. So in 1895
he got together 144 boys and girls
from “east side, west side and all
round the town” and took them to an
abandoned farm near his own native
town of West Dryden.
The swarm of city-bred youngsters
started to put the buildings into habit
able shape. Country neighbors, in
terested In the queer venture, sent in
food, clothing and tents. At the end
of the Summer five boys elected to
stay on the farm with George through
the Winter. The next Summer 200
youths of both sexes came back to the
place.
“Republic” Becomes Village.
Thus was born the George Junior
Republic. It's motto from the start
was "Nothing Without Labor” and
that has been the keynote of the en
terprise ever since.
The "republic” has become, in fact,
the village of Freeville, almost exactly
the same as any other in the country,
embodying the same social, civic and
economic conditions. The essential
difference is that Its citizens reach
voting age at 18 instead of 21.
The citizens now are boys and girls
of all conditions and classes of society.
Young people can learn a trade there
or prepare for college and ultimate
professional life.
The idea soon spread to other Btatea
and at least seven other junior re
publics were started in various parts
of the country. The Junior Common
wealth of England waa based upon the
Freeville Idea. In France and South
America, too, many of George’s ideas
were put into effect and the basic
principles of self-government and self*
Improvement through rewarded labor
have been adapted to many penal and
reform institutions,
1
RULING REQUESTED
MEMO SUIT
Supreme Court Answers to
Questions on Litigation
Due in Fall.
By the Aasoctited Pres*.
A ruling on Robert A. Taft's cele
brated suit to collect $1.07 In gold
from the United States was asked yes
terday ot the Supreme Court.
Five legalistic questions concerning
the litigation, brought by the son of
the former President and Chief
Justice, were presented to the tribunal
by the Court of Claims.
The answers will be forthcoming
next Fall after arguments are heard.
It Is too late tor any action before
the Summer adjournment.
Taft, head ot the Dixie Terminal
Co. of Cincinnati, holds a $50 Liberty
bond payable in gold with an October
15, 1938, maturity date. It was called
for redemption on October 15, 1934.
Asked Geld Payment.
The bond was presented at the
Treasury on March 11, 1935, by Taft,
who demanded payment In gold, or its
equivalent in devalued currency. The
Treasury refused to pay except in the
face value of present-day currency.
He then presented a $1.07 interest
coupon. The Treasury ruled all bonds
ceased to draw interest after they
had been called. Taft contended the
bonds could not be called in advance
of the maturity date without payment
in gold.
Although the case involves only a
small amount directly, Taft said dur
ing arguments before the Court of
Claims that more than $8,500,000,000
in gold clause bonds had been called
by this administration.
By its action the Court of Claims
shifted the job of deciding the case
to the Supreme Court.
In preparing for the final week of
arguments before the Summer ad
journment, the court, meanwhile, re
ceived briefs upholding constitution
ality of the New York minimum wage
law for women and children and of
the Pennsylvania beverage license act.
Arguments Tomorrow.
Arguments on these will start to
morrow, after the justices announce a
number of decisions which may in- j
elude a final ruling on validity of the
Guffey act to regulate prices, wages i
and hours in the soft coal Industry.
Cases not argued this week will be
postponed until the Pali term, begin- 1
ning in October. Decisions on those ;
argued will be handed down before ,
adjournment in June.
Other activity during the day. which '
ended a two-week recess, included re
• ceipt of a brief from Arthur W. Cut- i
ten. a Chicago trader, asserting the
I Federal Grain Futures Commission
i had no right to bar him from the Na- 1
' tlon's grain markets for two years.
The order was set aside by the Sev
enth Circuit Court of Appeals. The
case will be argued tomorrow or Tues
day.
Wage Law Defended.
The minimum wage law was de
fended by Paul Windels, corporation '
counsel of New York City, who con
tended “industries ought to be self
supporting or quit.” He asserted that
if industry did not pay a living wage,
public welfare agencies had to come
to the rescue.
The statute was held Invalid by
the State Court of Appeals in a case
brought by Joseph Tipaldo, a Brook
lyn laundry manager. Arguments will
be heard Tuesday.
Pennsylvania’s law was challenged
by the Premier-Pabst Sales Co. of
Delaware, a wholesale beer distrib
utor. It contended it had to pay
higher fees than concerns which sold
beer made within the State. A three
judge Federal District Court upheld
the act.
MAY 4 IS DATE
OF WILSON TRIAL
Sutton and McDermott Will Face
Proiecution on Primary
Election Day.
By the Associated Press.
CUMBERLAND, Md.. April 35.—
Albert S. Sutton and Albert McDer
mott of Baltimore, charged with the
"mistaken Identity” slaying of Allen
B. Wilson. Washington newspaper
carrier, will go on trial May 4 before
an Allegany County Circuit Court
jury.
Judge David A. Robb announced
today at the arraignment of the de
fendants that the trial woulg begin
May 4. despite the fact that also 1s
primary election day.
WILL VETO BILL
Oov. Johnson Believes Fay Meaa
ure Unconstitutional.
COLUMBIA. S. C„ April 25 <4>>.—
Gov. Olin Johnson said today he
would veto a bill to increase the pay
of legislators because It was “un
constitutional.” although he was
"thoroughly in sympathy” with its
purpose.
He based his statement upon an
opinion by Attorney General John M.
Daniel, who said the bill “In its pres
ent form” violated a constitutional
provision that “no General Assembly
shall have the power to Increase the
per diem of Its own members.”
The act increases legislators’ pay
from $10 to $15 a day.
This Shot Cost Photographer His Life
This photograph *of bearded Peter Voiss cost Dr. Jasper
Gattuccio (below) his life. Voiss was leaping to seize his shot
gun as Dr. Gattuccio, San Jose. Calif., dentist, drove slowly by
in his automobile and snapped the photograph. A moment
later the old man fired and mortally wounded Gattuccio.
—A. P. Wirephoto.
Roosevelt Reported Loathe
to Replace Closest Friend
With “Outsider.”
BY J. BUSSELL YOUNG.
President Roc*evelt probably will
leave the secretarial post filled by the
late Col. Louis McHenry Howe vacant,
at least for the present.
In the first place, the relationship
between Howe and the President, be
cause of their long friendship, was
such that there is no one who could
fill Howe’s place.
Secondly, because of his prolonged
illness. Col. Howe had not been active
for more than a year prior to his
death a week ago. So far as outward
appearances are concerned, things
moved along satisfactorily with Mar
vin H. McIntyre and 8tephen Early,
the assistant secretaries, taking over
most of Col. Howe's duties.
The legislative liaison work former
ly done by Col. Howe has long since
been delegated to Charles E. West,
former member of the House from
Ohio, whom President Roosevelt ap
pointed about a year ago as Under
secretary of the Interior.
Outsider Held Unlikely.
Those close to the President believe
it would be inconceivable for him to
select someone on the outside as sec
retary in Col. Howe's plaoe over the
heads of his two present faithful as
sistant secretaries. These two men
have been loyal and devoted to Mr.
Roosevelt since the days when he was
Assistant Secretary of the Navy.
Those who are in a position to know,
also believe the President's relation
ship with both "Steve” and “Mac” is
of such a close nature that he simply
could not pick out one of the two to
promote above the other.
Therefore, the belief is that Presi
dent Roosevelt will let the secretariat
continue just about as it has during
the more than 13 months of Col.
Howe's Illness.
A fact not generally known is that
a certain amount of correspondence
and personal work once done by Mr.
Howe has been taken care of by Miss
Marguerite Durand, who was associ
ated with Mr. Howe as private sec
retary for eight years. Miss Durand
probably will continue in this ca
pacity.
Only One Secretary.
Mr. Roosevelt has never attempted
to explain why he appointed one sec
retary and two assistant secretaries
instead of following President Hoover’s
set-up of three secretaries. Actually.
Mr. Roosevelt has a three-secretary
set-up but only Col. Howe received
the title. McIntyre and Early had the
word “assistant” prefixed to their title
and their salaries designated at $9,500
a year Instead of $10,000. the salary
paid to Col. Howe and the three men
who did the secretarial work during
the Hoover administration.
A situation equally paradoxical re
sulted when Lewis Douglas resigned
as director of the budget nearly two
years ago and the President turned
over the budget task to Daniel W.
Bell, jr., but never appointed him
director of the budget. It has been
explained that Mr. Bell, who has a
civil service status, preferred being
merely acting director. Jefferson
Coolidge stepped out of the adminis
tration several months ago as Under
secretary of the Treasury, but Mr.
Roosevelt has not given the slightest
indication that he has any intention
of filUng this place in the near fu
ture. He appears to be following the
same policy regarding the appoint
ment of a successor to Col. Henry L.
Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, who died a few months ago.
House Built in 1710.
Marlborough House, soon to be the
London home of Queen Mary, was
built in 1710 for Sarah, Duchess of
Marlborough, wife of the famous sol
dier.
Housing Is Forum Topic
WAGNER TO DISCUSS PROGRAM TOMORROW NIGHT.
THE comprehensive new housing
program proposed recently in
Congress will be described by
its author, Senator Robert F.
Wagner, Democrat, of New York, In
the National Radio Forum at 9:30
o’clock tomorrow night.
The forum program is arranged by
The Washington Star and broadcast
over a coast-to-coast network of the
National Broadcasting Co. Usually
broadcast at 10:30 p.m., the change In
time is due to the daylight saving sys
tem going into effect today.
Federal assistance to stimulate con
struction by private enterprise of slum
clearance projects and homes for
families in the low-income brackets is
one of the basic objectives of the pro
gram. The Federal Government Itself
would build .only limited demonstration
projects, to be disposed of as quickly
as possible.
The measure contemplates loans
and grants to State or local housing
authorities and to halted dividend
corporations. Increased activity in the
durable-goods industries also Is one
of the alms of tbs program.
SENATOR WAGNER.
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NEUTRALITY POLICY
XHT BY LOPEZ
Formulation of Joint Plan
for Americas at Argentine
Session Proposed.
Formulation of a joint neutrality
policy for the Americas at the forth
coming Pan-American Conference at
| Buenos Aires was proposed last night
| by Don Miguel Lopez Pumarejo, Min
ister from Colombia, in appealing to
American statesmen for greater faith
and frankness in treaties.
Senor Lopez addressed the Ameri
can Society of International Law at
its banquet at the Carlton Hotel,
closing a three-day session of the
' thirtieth annual convention. Other
; speakers were Senator Elbert D.
; Thomas. Democrat, of Utah; Dr. E. A.
Walsh, S. J., regent of the Georgetown
Foreign Service School, and George
S. Messersmlth, American Minister
i to Austria.
The Colombian diplomat emphasized
the necessity for preparation for neu
trality during peace, and cited the dlf- j
Acuities experienced by Colombians as i
neutrals during the World War,
Co-operation is Urged.
“It is universally recognized,” he
declared, “that while a large, powerful
nation acting alone may be partly
successful in safeguarding neutral
; rights, the measure of success will be
I greatly increased if neutral policies
; can be promulgated and protected by
| joint co-operation.
“If war unfortunately comes on a
large scale in other parts of the world,
our joint interests and our duty to
mankind demand that we stay out of
it, and this means to be prepared for
neutrality. The prime purpose of a
joint neutrality policy of the Amer
icas would be to keep the nations of
the Western Hemisphere out of any
world conflict.”
Dr. Walsh denounced the “unreal
and exaggerated claims of certain
peace movements” as a threat to the
cause of international peace.
While commending their high and
; laudable idealism, he considered that
' they often "set a standard impos
sible of swift achievement, and which
should have been preceded by a
! generation of patient and laborious
; education to higher standards of
IntamatlAnal mnralitv **
I '
Canada Invited.
Senator Thomas called upon Can
ada to occupy the place left vacant
; for her in the Pan-American Union,
j and urged that she do so before the
convocation of President Roosevelt's
peace conference at Buenos Aues.
He claimed for the Dominion the
status of an American republic as the
result of the statute of Westminster.
Messersmith, who is visiting the
United States on leave from his
I Vienna post, painted a picture of
present-day Austria as the outgrowth
of the war and the resulting treaties.
Contrary te the beliefs of econ
omists in the early post-war years.
Austria has proved that she can
exist and. in better world condi
tions, even prosper, he declared
Dr. James Brown Scott was elected
president of the society for the eighth
consecutive term yesterday morning.
Elihu Root remains honorary presi
dent. Honorary vice presidents chosen
were Newton D. Baker. Philip Mar
shall Brown. Charles Henry Butler,
Frederic R. Coudert, James W. Gamer.
Manley O. Hudson. Charles Evans
Hughes, Cordell Hull. John Bassett
Moore, Jackson H. Ralston, Leo 8.
Rowe. Henry L. Stimson. Charles
Warren and George Grafton Wilson.
Active Vice Presidents.
Active vice presidents chosen are
Chandler P. Anderson, Senator
Thomas of Utah and Jesse 8. Reeves.
George A. Finch was elected secretary,
Lester H. Woolsey treasurer and Mr.
Butler chairman of the Executive
Council.
The Executive Council la composed
of Charles O. Fenwick. Francis Colt
de Wolf, Edwin D. Dickinson. H. M.
Colvin, Howard Le Roy, Robert R.
Wilson. W. R. Valance and Herbert
Wright.
Simultaneously with Don Lopez's
proposal for a joint pan-American
neutrality policy, it was indicated in
informed circles last night that the
State Department will welcome at the
Pan-American Peace Conference this
Summer the presentation of a solid
front by the Western Hemisphere on
neutral rights and duties.
Secretary of State Hull is looking
ahead to a formal modernization of
the status of neutrality in interna
tional law. In fact, thia will be one
of.the chief objectives at the con
ference as far as the United States is
concerned, according to disclosures
made In tentative discussion of the
agenda.
R. R. A. ToTe DISCUSSED
The Reporter Plan Group of the
Democratic Women’a National Count
ell will present its survey of the Rural
Resettlement Administration at a
meeting tomorrow after 6:30.o’clock
dinner at the Admiral Club, 1640
Rhode Island avenue.
The Absentee Voters' Group of the
council will meet at the^ Admiral Club
at 7:30 pm. Friday to discuss voting
laws. Mrs. 8. J. Aibury is conducting
the voters’ bureau.
Policemen Fire on Car When
Driver Speeds Away,
Fearing Robbers.
By the Associated Press.
FLUSHING. N. Y, April 25 —Mrs.
Margaret Wiggens. 32. wife of a
Brooklyn department store buyer, was
in a critical condition tonight as the
result of a bullet wound suffered early
today when her husband mistook two
Nassau County detectives for hold-up
men and failed to stop his automobile
at their command.
An operation was performed, but
the bullet, which penetrated the brain,
was not removed. Physicians hold lit
tle hope for her recovery
District Attorney Martin W. Little
ton termed the shooting a ‘ most un
fortunate accident,” and promised a
thorough investigation.
The detectives, Joseph Murray and
Matthew Simmons, claimed they iden
tified themselves as officers when they
pulled alongside Wiggens' car. which
was parked. Wiggeas sped away, fear
ing the men were robbers. Mrs. Wig
gens, who was on the back seat with
Wiggens' sister-in-law. Mrs. William
Pollen, was shot as the officers fired.
Nassau County police officials ex
plained there had been a number of
robberies in the neighborhood where
Wiggens stopped his car and the police
had been on the lookout for suspicious
automobiles. The suspected robber, ;
police said, used two women seated in
the rear of the car as decoys.
D. C. ASKED TO BUY
HYDRANT SHOWERS
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Devices to Be Used by Children
in Summer Suggested to
Playground Unit.
Purchase of shower attachments for
fire hydrants to be used by children
of the city during the hat Summer
months was suggested to the City
Wide Playground Council at the Dis
trict Building Friday night by Senator
Shipstead of Minnesota.
Shipstead. who has taken an active
interest in the development of play
grounds in the Capital, said the de
vices could be purchased for about
$15 each, and 50 should be bought.
Condition of the city's playgrounds
he described as a disgrace, and said
children who play on them go home
filthy from the loose dirt. He sug
gested-the showers be turned on late
each Summer afternoon, because
many of the children return to homes
not equipped with bath rooms.
Miss Sibyl Baker. District director
of playgrounds, told the council the
city has adequate lar for play
grounds. but improvemei. are sore
ly needed. Her department, she
said, was handicapped even in the
W. P. A. playground projects, be
cause of an insufficient number of
skilled workmen to do required work.
The council, which was organized
about a year ago, adopted a constitu
tion which enlarged its memberihip
to include representatives of citizens’
associations and other civic organiza
tions. in addition to local playground
councils.
CAPITAL “TRAIL RIDERS”
TO EXPLORE THE WEST
At least a dozen Washingtonians
will be among 200 outdoor enthusiasts
who will explore several isolated wil
derness areas in the West next Sum
mer under auspices of the American
Forestry Association.
The excursionists are members of
the newly-organized Trail Riders of
the Wilderness Club and will travel
in parties of 25, each accompanied
by naturalists and foresters.
Sections to be visited include the
Flathead-Sun River wilderness of
Montana, the glacier uplands of the
Wind River Mountains of Wyoming,
the Gila wilderness of New Mexico,
and the Olympic wilderness of Wash
ington State.
Among members of the "Trail Rid
ers" group is James D. LeCron, assist
ant to Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace.
k
fl/hite Woman Declared
Forced Into Prostitution
in Colored Houses.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 35.—Federal
agents joined an official drive today
to smash commercialized vice In New
York City, arresting three colored men
and five white women they described
as members of a “ruthless and In
human’’ group with Chicago affilia
tions.
Ball for the men was set at (7,500
each and for the women, as material
witnesses, at S3.500 each, until a
Federal grand Jury Investigates.
The group maintained six apart
ments In the city, assistant United
States Attorney Seymour Klein as
serted at the arraignment, and also
operated houses in Boston and Cleve
land.
Find Vice “Manual.**
He described to United States Com
missioner Isaac Platt a “manual”
written in longhand which detailed
methods of forcing the women into
prostitution and keeping them there,
to earn as much as (200 each weekly.
The Federal men’s activity came on
the heels of the round-up by Thomas
Dewey, special rackets prosecutor, who.
is holding 13 men under a total of
$1,075,000 ball for trial May 11 on
charges of compulsory prostitution.
The ace of his defendants, Charles
"Lucky" Luciano, languished in prison,
unable to provide bail of $350,000.
Dewey calls Luclana, who earned
his nickname by returning from what
was intended to be a one-way ride,
“the No. l racketeer of the Nation.”
More than 90 women accused as
employes of the ring are held as mi
venal witnesses.
Members of the ring were accused
of operating a bail bond agency In the
shadow of Women’s Court.
Call “Manual” Vicious.
The Government agents described as
“vicious" the manual they said was
used as a guide in trapping the white
women. It suggested, they said, that
women be arrested on false charges to
obtain power over them, involve them
in debt, take them to foreign countries
where they do not speak the language,
and obtain political protection for
them.
Two of the men and four of the
women were arraigned today. The
others were arraigned last week, it
was disclosed. They were Leon Smith,
36; Garland Patton. 44; Robert Smith,
36, colored; and Catherine Boosey, 23;
Betty Parker, 32; Mrs. Leon Smith, 30;
Dorothy Moritz, 31 and Betty Tobin,
35.
Within the last year city police have
made raids on apartments and have
arrested Chinese men on charges of
operating disorderly houses with white
women as Inmates.
REPORTER APPEALS
CONTEMPT VERDICT
David Lee Sentenced for Reveal
ing Secretly Reached Decision
in Lyddane Cate.
By tte Associated Press.
David Lee, a reporter for the Wash*
ington Herald, appealed to the Su
preme Court yesterday to set aside a
90-day jail sentence for contempt of
court Imposed after his newspaper
had published a verdict reached se
cretly in a murder conspiracy trial bv
three judges of the Montgomery
County, Md.. Circuit Court.
Lee’s attorneys contended he had
been “deprived of his liberty with
out due process of law.” They said
he was tried without a charge, in
formation. or indictment: was denied
the presumption of innocence. and
was convicted and sentenced on “no
evidence legally tending to prove an
offense.”
Pat Frank, another reporter, also
was sentenced to 90 days, but his
conviction was reversed by the Mary
land Court of Appeals. American
Newspapers. Inc., publisher of the
Herald, paid a $5,000 fine.
The news story involved was pub
lished in connection with the trial
at Rockville. Md.. of John Martin
Boland on a charge of conspiring wltn
Mrs. Francis H. Lyddane to murder
her husband.
LINEMAN INJURED
J. E. Allen Severely Burned When
He Touches Cable.
Joseph E. Allen. 31, a lineman for
the Potomac Electric Power Co., re
ceived severe burns to his left arm
and right foot when he touched a
high-tension cable while working on
a pole at Gallaudet street and Cen
tral avenue northeast yesterday. He
was taken to Casualty Hospital. Allen
lives at 501 Second street northeast.
Railroads Forced
By Deer to Find
New Anti-Freeze
Many Animals Are Run
Down While Eating Salt
Poured on Switches.
So many deer were killed by rail
road trains in Montana and the
Northwest last Winter that the United
States Forestry Service is busy con
cocting a denaturant for salt.
Salt is universally used by rail
roads to prevent switches from freez
lng. and the deer, driven from the
high areas of the mountains and cut
off from their regular salt-watering
places by the deep snows of the past
Winter, flocked to railroad switches
that have become salt licks.
Unaccustomed as they were to the
thundering monsters, the poor deer
■sometimes fled down the railroad
tracks and were run down. Sometimes
they simply stood still, paralyzed with
fright, and were crushed to death or
knocked Into oblivion as they sought
to satisfy their craving for salt, a
most necessary item In the diet of
every berblverous animal.
The loss has not been large enough
to threaten extinction of the deer
In the Northwest accordng to Walter
L. Dutton, head of the division of
range management of the Forestry
Service.
Several score have been killed, how
ever. by trains while licking the salty
switches and plans are now being
made to eliminate the hazard by put*
ting some denaturant. probably kart*
sene, on the salt to make It unpalat
able.
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