Evening star. [volume], February 22, 1937, Page A-11, Image 11

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TOWNSEND TRIAL
OPENSTOMORROW
kYear in Prison and $1,000
Fine Possible in Con
tempt of House.
Charged with contempt of the
House, Dr. Francis E. Townsend,
founder and head of Old-Age Re
volving Pensions, Ltd., will go on
trial in District Court tomorrow
morning before. Justice Peyton Gor
don and a jury.
Conviction might carry a. penalty of
'ft year in prison and a fine of $1,000.
The pension chief, who defiantly
walked out of a House committee
hearing last May, will face the court
alone. His two former aides, Dr.
Clinton Wunder of New York and
John B. Kiefer of Chicago, who were
Indicted with him, pleaded guilty two
weeks ago and were placed on pro
bation.
Leader Is Renounced.
At- that time, they emphatically
renounced their erstwhile leader and
•aid they severed connection with his
organization some six months ago.
Dr. Townsend ' was arraigned the
next day and pleaded not guilty.
Afterward, he told newspaper men
he intended to continue his old-age
pension fight even if it is necessary
to direct the work of his organization
from a jail cell.
Prosecuting him will be United
States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett and
his assistant, Harry L. Underwood.
Defense counsel are expected to be
Joseph A. Cantrel and Elisha Hanson.
Two Charges Named.
The indictment on which Dr. Town
send will be tried is in two counts,
one charging that he left the presence
of the committee without permission,
and the other that he refused to
testify. The committee was investi
gating old-age pension organizations.
Pew witnesses are expected to be
called to the stand, since there is
little dispute as to the facts of the
case. Government counsel estimate
the trial will take a day.
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Glow of Dishonesty.
KANSAS CITY. February 22
Patrolman John Burns could hardly
► believe his eyes when he saw a man
^ walking along his beat, radiating a
»oft green glow.
Burns stopped the man and found
he had a street lantern hanging
beneath his transparent raincoat. The
man told Burns he had picked up the
lantern off a street repair job and was
Carrying it to keep warm.
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CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
, TODAY
Meeting. Fellowship Club, Hamilton
Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dance, Army and Navy Union, Wil
lard Hotel, 9 p.m.
Dance. Alpha Delta Phi Sorority,
George Washington University, Shore
ham Hotel, 4 p.m.
Dance, Iowa State Society, Shore
ham Hotel. 9 p.m.
Dinner, Cypress Club, Lafayette
Hotel. 6:30 p.m.
Dinner, Military Order of the Purple j
Heart, 8 p.m.
Dance, First Division Society, A. E.
T.. Broadmoor Hotel, 10 p.m.
Banquet, Federal Bar Association,
Mayflower Hotel, 7 p.m.
Dinner, B. P. O. Elks. Lodge No. 15,
Mayflower Hotel, 5 p.m.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Civitan Club, Mayflower
Hotel, 12:30 p.m.
Luncheon, Optimist Club, May
flower Hotel. 12:30 p.m.
Meeting, National Fertilizer Asso
ciation, Mayflower Hotel, 10 a.m.
Breakfast, Early Birds, Willard
Hotel. 8 a.m.
Luncheon. Kappa Beta Pi Legal
Borority, Willard Coffee Shop, 12:15
p.m.
Luncheon, Women’s National Press
Club, Willard Hotel, 1 p.m.
Meeting, Board of Lady Managers,
Casualty Hospital, Willard Hotel, 11
a.m.
Dinner, Loyal Order of the Moose,
1414 I street, 5 p.m.
Meeting, Catholic Daughters of
America, Willard Hotel, 7:30 p.m.
Meeting, Hook, Line and Sinker
Club, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, St. Charles’ Lay Alumni
Association, Willard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Washington and Alexan
dria Confectioners’ Association, Wil
lard Hotel, 8 p.m.
Dance, Kentucky State Society, Wil
lard Hotel, 9 p.m.
Dance. Strayer College, Mayflower
Hotel, 9:30 p.m.
Meeting, Good Citizenship Pilgrim
age Committee, Mayflower Hotel, 8
p.m.
Meeting, Society of Colonial Wars,
Mayflower Hotel, 8 p.m.
Meeting, Convention Committee,
Daughters of the Nile, Mayflower
Hotel, 8 p.m.
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INSTANT STARTING
fOR WINTER DRIVING
STOPPED-DP '
NOSTRILS]
dutiocolcli.
Use Mentholatum
to help open the
nostrils and permit
freer breathing.
Doghouse Membership Grows
Knights of the Doghouse of “Kennel 20," in Chicago, initiate
William A. Lang as a new member. While the members are
assembled inside the “kennel," Lang is being led in icith a dog
collar and chain around his neck. —Wide World Photo.
FIGHT BEGUN HERE •
ON WAR AND DRINK
District Horse Racing Also Suf
fers Salvo as Reformer
Opens Fire.
Clinton W. Howard, new superin
tendent of the National Reform Fed
eration, inaugurated his organization’s
drive against the “Siamese twin' of
Satan—war and drink”—here with a
speech at Calvary Baptist Church last
night.
“The time is fast approaching when
the people will rise in rebellion against
the relegalized liquor traffic with its
responsibility for the slaughter of the
innocents and wholesale assassination
on the highways of the Nation,”
Howard said.
He also proposed a program for
world disarmament, to begin in Wash
ington.
Howard localized his plea by stress
ing the added adverse effect of legal
ized horse racing here. Passage of
the bill now before Congress would
“rivet the lid on the social sewers
of Washington,” he stated.
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• Bows Urged for Army.
Guns used by the early Revolution
ary soldiers were so inaccurate and
short in range that in 1776 Benjamin
Franklin advocated the army be armed
with bows and arrows instead.
What I want is
worth waiting
for...a
BUICK!
and
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DROPS Price. 33c
NEW ENGLAND MUTUAL’S
1936 New Insurance
and
Total Insurance In Force
broke all previous records
_A_ _A_
Inert ase
Insurance in Force . • . $1,393,448,000 $64,051,000
New Life Insurance. . . $144,814,000 $1,328,000
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changing economic development of the nation.
Depressions have not disturbed the security of
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Since organization this Company has paid pol
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was policy dividends.
93rd Annual Statement
DECEMBER 31, 1936
Assets (increase $32,000,000) . . $375,650,329
Liabilities (increase $30,000,000) 356,753,224
Surplu8 (increase $2,000,000) . . $18,897,105
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U.S. MANUFACTURE
OF STEEL UROED
Nye for Plan to Meet Re
fusal of Companies to
Make Navy Bids.
By the Associated Press.
Senator Nye, Republican, of North
Dakota, proposed yesterday that the
Navy manufacture Its own armor plate
and munitions as a means of meeting
the refusal of steel companies to bid
on material for the Nation's shipbuild
ing program.
The naval construction plan is seri
ously Jeopardized, he declared, because
the steel makers do not want to
comply with the Walah-Healey act.
(This law requires aU bidders on
large Government contracts to meet
certain wage and labor standards.
Including the 40-hour week.)
President Roosevelt said at a press
conference last week that something
would have to be done in the steel
shortage situation within the next
few weeks. High officials disclosed
that the Navy Department had
blocked a proposal to sell the Gov
ernment’s armor-plate-making plant
at Charleston, W. Va., which has been
idle for more than a decade.
Government agencies, including the
Navy and Labor Departments, have
been endeavoring, meanwhile, to find
some solution.
It was learned that one large steel
company had oflered to set aside a
mill for one week’s run of steel. The
Government, however, decided that
this would not meet requirements,
contending such a "run” would neces
sarily be of one type of steel, whereas
a greatly diversified order would be
needed to meet varying requirements
of the Navy.
M’NUTT SELECTION
PROTESTED BY LIBBY
War Prevention Council Head
Says Philippine Commis
sioner Relies on Force.
By the Associated Press.
Frederick J. Libby, executive di
rector of the National Council for
Prevention of War, said last night he
had made an “earnest protest” to
President Roosevelt against the
naming of Paul V. McNutt as high
commissioner of the Philippines.
McNutt’s name was sent to the
Senate last week for confirmation.
Libby wrote the President that “I
believe that his record as Governor
of Indiana indicates a profoundly dif
ferent attitude” than that of Frank
Murphy, former commissioner and
governor of Michigan.
McNutt, Libby said, “has relied on
force” to settle labor disputes in In
diana, whereas Murphy "has stood in
the Philippines, as he has recently in
the labor disputes in Michigan, for
conciliation, arbitration and a gen
erally friendly policy.”
Mathematicians Give Odds.
CHICAGO, February 22 OP).—
Mathematicians, in convention here,
juggled figures to reach these prob
abilities:
You'd have to deal the cards 615
trillion times before you would get all
13 trumps in a bridge hand.
You have one chance in 18 to roll
a six and a one In a crap game, with
the same odds on a five and a two and
a three and a lour.
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