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Co-operation Between
Branches of Profession
Is Needed. .
More "team play” among the vari
ous branches of social welfare work
was urged at the concluding session
yesterday of the joint conference of
the Washington Council of Social
Agencies and the Maryland State Con
ference of Social Welfare.
Paul Kellogg, pditor of the Survey
magazine, and one of the country’s
foremost leaders in social work, told
the conference delegates that, while
specialization still plays an important
part in welfare work, co-operation be
tween the different activities of the
profession is becoming increasingly
Important,
Kellogg said the fact that Washing
ton has 3,000 employable men and
women unable to obtain either work
or relief should illustrate the necessity
for dealing with the problem In terms
of community needs as a whole. He
added he would like to see the Nation’s
Capital a model city in social welfare
work, as well as in civic government.
Theories Are Described.
Describing the philosophies of sev
eral pioneers in the profession, the
speaker said he does not believe a
merger of these different theories is
highly important, but that each one
should be allowed to develop along
parallel lines. All these philosophies
of welfare work—those dealing with
the Individual, with changing environ
ment or with the administration of
social work—have definite contri
butions to make.
. “All share in the idea of the seam
less unity of social work,” he said. "We
must work toward a program by which
ths resources of this great Nation can
be used to furnish a common footing
of security against the hazards of
modern industrialism.”
Kellogg also emphasized the impor
tance of the interlocking activities be
tween the field of social welfare and
other professions, such as law and
medicine, pointing out that changes
and improvements in a particular field
are brought about by these interlock
ing efforts, and not alone by the work
Of those in that one profession.
Officers Are Elected.
Election of officers of the Maryland
Btate Conference preceded the final
general meeting yestrday morning.
Mrs. Adolf Guttmacher, executive sec
retary of the Jewish Children Society,
was named president. Other officers
chosen were: L. Milton Patterson, ex
ecutive secretary of the Board of Wel
fare of the State Aid Societies, first
vice president; Miss Estella Everett,
probation officer of Harford County,
second vice president, and Howard C.
Hill, executive secretary of the Prison
ers' Aid Society, treasurer.
, A program looking to the future ad
vancement of child welfare was out
lined to the conference by Mrs. Marion
Wade Doyle, president of the District
Board of Education. She stressed
the following five general points as
essential for child welfare;
Juvenile placement service to aug
ment the work done by school de
partments and case workers: greater
lIBphasis on the health of the child
9T the lower grades so that defects
may be corrected before they are re
leased Into Industry: establishment of
a means of checking on children who
ere released on work permits, with
particular attention to those who go
fcto domestic work; awakening of a
• vie consciousness that will prevent
Jjnployment of young girls for do
mestic service at a low rate of pay,
fnd more complete use of materials
available in the Statistical Bureau of
the Labor Department to guide case
Workers.
r Conference Is Summarized.
t? Mrs. Doyle summarized a round-table
fonference held Friday on "Schools
»nd Family Case Work." Others giv
tpz summaries of round-table sessions
fr.d the subjects dealt with were:
* Miss L. M. Engle, chairman of the
Children's Council, "Place of the Insti
tution in a Program of Child Care";
W Marshall Finnan, superintendent of
SM National Capital Parks, "Delin
quency, Child Care and Recreation”;
3?iss Anita Faatz, "Public Health,
Sedieal Care and General Public
instance,” and Harry Oreensteln,
“Unemployment Compensation and
Oase Work."
r Sanford Bates, former Federal direc
tor of prisons and now executive direc
tor of the Boys’ Club of America,
presided at the closing luncheon at
tohich Kellogg spoke. The sessions
were held at the Wardman Park Hotel.
Japanese hunt photos
t*
■-——
* fTOKYO, Sunday. April 18 (/P).—
Several members of the crew of the
Sfcftish steamer Welsh City, includ
ing the chief steward, were arretted
today at Hakodate charged with
tl©ng photographs in the fortified
■onb around that port.
.'"Hakodate is the chief port of the
ifctJhern island of Hokkaido and is
Che center of a military zone in whicza
photographing or sketching is rigor
dtisly forbidden.
nr _
“Flight to Seek
: Wright Plane’s
Return to U. S.
Ch amberlin Bears
t ^ m m • •
Petition Addressed
c to Smithsonian.
jHQcne Associated Press.
^.JTEW YORK. April 17.—Col. Clar
•noe D. Chamberlin, trans-Atlantic
fcS&tor, began a projected country
wide aerial tour today In an effort
fo.iave the Wright brothers’ famous
QfgPnal airplane, the Kitty Hawk,
••turned to the United States from
tB£ British Museum in London.
took off from Holmes’ Airport
«K»1:25 p.m., accompanied by his
in a low-wing Lockheed mono
•taRe. His first stop was to be the
fiSSfievard Airport. Philadelphia.
J^UJirpoee of the flight is to circulate
•-.petition addressed to the Board of
WSents of the Smithsonian Insti
tution, Washington, D. C., urging im
mediate action to correct the Smith
|g|Jan records regarding the Kitty
Jj3B?cording to Chamberlin, correc
ts*! of these records is essential to
wBrn of the Wright plane to the
BBJted States, since Orville Wright
hM provided the plane will become
Q2 permanent property of the British
Museum when he dies Unless he has
previously personally requested It be
ttJfepght back here. Early next week
•jjjmberlln will ask President Rooee
WC to Sign the petition, he said. 1
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Readers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star. April 18, 1817.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
FOREIGN.
Beer party speech by Dr. Luther hits
critics of Nazis. Page A-l
Seals quits Jury of liberals ‘‘trying”
Trotzky. Page A-4
NATIONAL.
Proposal to hike farm Interest rates
starts bitter fight. Page A-l
Senate to* end judiciary hearings by
April 28. Page A-l
Five sent to prison for vote fraud con
spiracy. Page A-2
Hepburn calls on strikers to quit U. A.
W. for peace. Page A-l
Wounded agent messages Hoover he
"did his best.” Page A-l
Federal departments study means of
effecting economies. Page A-12
Sibley urges cut in corporate surplus
tax. Page B-3
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Federation approves six proposals for
increased taxation. Page A-l
Court to decide on father’s right to
spank boy. Page A-l
Five more face gaming charges after
series of police raids. Page A-l
5,000 D. A. R. members gather here
for annual Congress. Page A-l
D. C. man charged with attempting to
drown estranged wife. Page A-l
Another huge crowd expected to see
cherry blossoms. Page A-l
Schroeder's successor sought by Air
Commerce Bureau. Page B-l
Senate group takes small claims court
bill under advisement. Page B-l
Relief action awaits Senate subcom
mittee hearing. • Page B-l
New traffic ticket system goes into
effect here tomorrow. Page B-l
Kennedy to seek D. C. revenue with
out income tax. Page B-l
Hearing Tuesday to air proposed Fi
delity reorganization. Page B-l
McCarran plans to renew efforts for
Government pay raise. Page B-3
Quezon is honored at G. U. Founders’
day exercises. Page B-4
Slack in business index rise is pre
dicted. Page B-4
SPORTS.
Cascarella will pitch opener: Travis
hurt, may not. play. Page B-6
Whopper takes Philadelphia Handicap
at Havre de Grace. Page B-C
Inshore again captures little grand
national steeplechase. Page B-7
Catholic U. beats Gallaudet and A. CJ.
in track meet. Page B-8
Summer for young Scouts of Potomac
filled with romance. Page B-9
Krauss and Clarke will feature first
night in pin tourney. • Page B-10
Inhale has an easy time in capturing
youthful stakes. Page B-ll
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
L06t and found. Page A-3
Obituary. Page A-12
Vital statistics. Page A-15
Traffic convictions. Page A-16
City news in brief. Page A-16
Winning contract. Page A-19
Shipping news. Page A-8
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial article*. Pages D-l-S
Editorials and comment. Page D-2
Civic news. Page D-4
Women's club*. PageD-S
Parent-teacher activities. Page D-S
Military and veterans'
news. Pages D-8-7
Cross-word puszle. PageD-7
Resorts. Page D-8
Stamps. Page D-9 j
Educational. Page D-10
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages E-l-10
Well-known folk. PageE-4
Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-9
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-4
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2
Dick Mansfield. Page F-2
Radio programs. Page F-3
Amusements. Page F-5
Automobiles. Page F-6
Aviation. Page F-S
Children’s page. Page F-7
PART FIVE.
Financial, Clatsified.
Business watches
commodities. Page G-l
Stocks dull and narrow. Page G-l
Wheat and cotton gain. Page G-l
Stock table. Page G-2
Bond table. Page G-3
Curb table. Page G-4
Classified advertising. Pages G-5-16
ADMINISTRATION IS HIT
FOR STAND ON LIQUOR
Methodist Conference Urges That
Any Communicant Aiding
Sale Be Disowned.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 17.—A denun
ciation of liquor drinking and an at
tack on the national administration
were contained in a report adopted
by the New York Conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church today.
The national administration was
charged with failing to carry on a
campaign of education tending toward
temperance, as the churchmen said
was pledged before repeal of the pro
hibition laws. It also was criticized
in the report for appropriating $1,000,
000 for establishment of a distillery
in the Virgin Islands.
Half of last year's 38,500 auto
mobile fatalities were laid to intoxi
cated or drinking persons by the
report
Urging the necessity of total ab
stinence, the report recommended
that any man renting or using his
property for the sale of intoxicating
liquors be disowned as a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church.
FARLEY AGAIN PREDICTS
COURT PLAN VICTORY
Just as Sure of It as He Was ®f
Maine and Vermont, He Says
in Perth Amboy.
Bj the Associated Press.
PERTH AMBOY, N. J., April 17—
Postmaster General James A. Parley
dedicated the city's new Federal
Building today and predicted victory
for President Roosevelt's court re
organization plan.
He deviated from his prepared ad
dress to say, "I am just as certain as
I was about Maine and Vermont that
the reorganiation plan will be car
ried out.”
“When the Senate and House Bntah
their hearings and decide to vote on
the plan, it will be adopted and be
come a law,” he said. "I believe that
the same people who supported Presi
dent Roosevelt last November want
the court program carried out."
HAVANA MYSTIFIED
BY DEATH ON SHIP
Resort Proprietor, Found
Hanged, Reported Marked
by Torture.
B> the Aisociated Prtai.
HAVANA, April 17.—The death of
Joae Cancel*, one of the partners In a
well-known Havana resort, aboard the
Ham burg-American liner Orinoco, to
night confronted police with a
mystery.
Cancels’* body was found hanging
in his stateroom yesterday morning
when the Orinoco arrived from Lisbon.
A piece of his pajamas was used as
a noose.
Officers of the ship told the authori
ties he had shown signs of extreme
nervousness and precautions had been
taken to keep him from jumfhng over
board.
Autopsy Report Puixllng.
An autopsy was performed after
Cancela’s partners told police they
believed he had been killed, and a
report, signed by Dr. Esteban Valdes
Castillo, chief medical examiner, and
two assistant examiners, presented to
the court of instruction.
It said in part: “Lesions on • * •
parts of the body indicate the dead
man was assaulted while alive for the
purpose of torturing him or reducing
his resistance.
“Lesions on his body are character
istic of those suffered In defense and
show that a Aght preceded his
hanging * • *.
"* * * Death by hanging seems to
have been carried out with homicidal
intent.’’
Sailing Block* Ship Prob*.
Police officials unsuccessfully sought
to detain the Orinoco to permit fur
ther examination of officers and crew
members. It sailed at 8:45 pm. for
Mexican ports.
Cancela was a nephew of Jose
Garcia, original owner of the resort
which Garcia turned over to Cancela
and two other employes more than
10 years ago.
Cancela returned to Spain last May
on a pleasure trip and was oaught
there by the outbreak of the civil war.
Relatives and friends said he had fled
from conscription to Portugal, where
he embarked at Lisbon for his return
to Havana.
NICHOLAS DENIES
PLOT ON LEADERS
Ousted Brother of Carol Disclaims
Effort to Create Dis
turbance.
By the Associated Press.
BUCHAREST. April 18 (Sunday).—
Former Prince Nicholas early today
repudiated efforts to create a political
disturbance because of his ouster from
the royal family.
The demoted Prince, in a letter to
Premier George Tatarescu. said he
was not asociated with the militant
Iron Guard, secret Rumanian Fascist
society, and he expressed concern that
reports he was co-operating with some
opposition group might Injure the
state.
His statement, issued early todav by
the Government Press Bureau, was
expected by officials to take the Are
out of the opposition movement, which
for several days has worried the cab
inet.
The letter said:
“Reports have reached me that It
is rumored throughout the country
I am associated with a political move
ment which, were I indeed involved,
might damage the state.
“I »m not associated with any such
movement, and I protest agaiflst such
reports. I beg of you. Mr. President,
to take measures to stamp out such
rumors.”
Officials said an effort to give the
impression Nicholas was associated
with encouraging the revolutionary
guard was started by a student or
ganisation.
Premier Tatarescu's firm precau
tions against a possible Nasi coup al
ready last night seemingly had cowed
the Iron Guard.
CHILDREN’S SIT-DOWN
IN MOVIE HOUSE WINS
—
1,000, Irked Because Feature Is
Denied Them, Boo Until
They Get It.
Et the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, April 17. — One
thousand boys and girls turned a 10
cent children’s matinee into a sit
down strike today until the manager
of an East Liberty district theater
acceded to their demands to see the
feature picture.
Manager George Bronson announced
last week that the children would not
be permitted to remain for the pic
ture which was to follow their
program.
Bronson repeated his announcement
today and was greeted by boos. He
summoned police and the boos in
creased. At the end of an hour and
a half, Bronson explained, he gave up.
STORES’ SUITS TO BAR
PICKETS TO BE HEARD
ST. LOUIS, April 17.—United
States District Judge George H.
Moore refused today to dismiss in
junction suits brought against three
labor unions by two retail firms under
the national labor relations act and
set hearings for Monday.
The suits, filed by the McCrory
Stores Corp. and the S. S. Kresge Oo ,
ask orders against the Waitresses’,
Cooks’ and Clerks’ Unions restrain
ing them from picketing stores of
ths two firms.
Wayne Ely, counsel for the two
firms, declared “no labor dispute
exists, as employes had, without con
sulting officials, formed their own
union and had chosen represent
atives to deal with the company.”
TRAPPED THREE DAYS
MINEVILLE, N. Y„ April 17 OP).—
Trapped for three day* in a 50-foot
pit, Alfred Douglas Lewis, 30, was
hanled to safety by a rescue party to
day, suffering from exposure and
hunger.
Lewis, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Hollis
Lewis of Mlnevllle, disappeared
Thursday. Three of a searching party
of SO persons found him in the pit,
an abandoned iron ore mine in the
Pelfryspire district, and took him to
the Mineyille Hospital.
Although his condition was re
ported serious from exposure, exam
ination disclosed that he escaped in
jury in ths fall.
Will Explain “Spanking”
Robert E. Storm displays to his pet dog the stick with which
he spanked his 11-year-old son Fred. The lad appealed to his
mother. She srvore to a warrant charging the father from
whom she is divorced, with assault. —Star Staff Photo.
MKPARTY
One-Half of Members, Head
ed by Garner, Accept
Invitations.
Ej the Associated Press.
OLD POINT, Va„ April 17.—Sher
rod N. Vaughn, secretary-manager of
the Peninsula Association of Com
merce, said today that Vice President
John Nance Gamer would head a
large congressional delegation on a
visit to the Peninsula next Saturday.
The association official stated that
invitations had been accepted by about
one-half of the 425 members of the
House and Senate invited to come
here.
Three cabinet members— H. H.
Woodring, Secretary of War; Claude
A. Swanson. Secretary of the Navy,
and Daniel Roper, Secretary of Com
merce—are also expected to Join the
party.
A chartered, steamer will bring the
group to Old Point, docking at 8 a m.
Saturday. The guns of Fort Monroe
will boom a welcome.
A guard of honor of the 52d Coast
Artillery will escort the congressional
party from the dock to the Chamber
lin Hotel, which will serve as head
quarters.
After breakfast there will be a
review of the 52d Coast Artillery
and a tour of historic Fort Monroe,
oldest military reservation in the
United States.
Col. Walter L. Weaver, post com
mandant, will direct a bombing dem
onstration at Langley Field, and
lunch will follow at the James River
Country Club .
The group will inspect the air
plane carriers Yorktown and Enter
prise, under construction at the Now
port News Shipbuilding A Drydock
Co., in the afternoon. A banquet and
dance will be held at the hotel
Saturday night.
A tour of Williamsburg, Jamestown
and Yorktown is planned for Sunday.
The steamer will return to Wash
ington at 8 p.ra. Sunday.
MANY WOMEN QUALIFY
FOR PHILIPPINE VOTE
Exceptionally Heavy Registra
tion Indicated—300,000 Need
ed to Obtain Ballot.
By th# Atsocluted Press.
MANILA, P. I., April 17.—Early re
turns today indicated an exceptionally
heavy registration of women eager to
achieve permanent women’s suffrage
in the Philippine Islands.
Today was the last day for women
to qualify in the suffrage prebisclte
to be held April 30.
Filipino leaders predicted the total
of woman registrants would near
600,000. A minimum of 300,000 must
register to retain the ballot.
Open for Business
8T. LOUIS (/P!.—More than 400
visitors inspected the new ninth dis
trict police station, opened for the first
time yesterday. A tenth that number,
not visitors, were brought in for a
closer—and more prolonged—inspec
tion. tff
Spanking
tContinued Prom First Page )
say, ‘Leave the table, Fred, and wash
your face, comb your hair and shine
your shoes. You must always do
that before you come to dinner.’ But
each evening it was the same story.
I tried punishing him by withholding
from him money to go to the movies,
but he obtained It from his mother.
Claims Spanking Humane.
“Recently his teachers at Cook
School told me he was becoming un
manageable in school. He Is a good
boy. It broke my heart to see him
acting the way he was. I wasn’t
cruel to him when I spanked him.
It was for his own good. I spanked
him in a perfectly humane way.”
Mrs. Hoffman said that when her
son came to her home Thursday night
she saw a number of red marks on
his back and a bruise on his arm.
The following day, she said, she went
with the boy to the Woman's Bureau
and was advised there to swear out a
warrant for the arrest of her former
husband.
The marks were gone from the boy's
back last night, but there was a bruise
on his arm where his father aaid he
held the lad while he spanked him.
Storm protested against what he
termed the ‘injustice" of the pro
ceedings which led to his arrest with
out an investigation.
“I can’t understand why this stigma
should be attached to my name,”
Storm said. “What I did any father
would do under the circumstances.”
Storm said he whipped his son with
a slender lath.
He saw his son in the neighbor
hood yesterday. Storm said, but since
he was whipped the lad has been
living with his mother.
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NEW TRADE AGREEMENT
WITH ITALY HELD NEAR
Ambassador Phillips Tells Milan
Commerce Chamber of
Progress.
By the Associated Press.
MILAN, Italy, April 17.—United
States Ambassador William Phillips
told the Milan Chamber of Commerce
tonight that negotiations for a new
commercial treaty between the United
States and Italy were malting prog
ress.
He spoke in connection with the ob
servance of "American day" at the
Milan Fair.
He expressed hope a trade agree
ment also would be reached between
the United States and Great Britain.
WHEAT EXPORT SLOWS
Argentina Reports Most of It*
Surplus Has Been Shipped.
BUENOS AIRES, April 17 (TP).—A
statement by the ministry of agri
culture tonight showed Argentina al
ready has exported most of its avail
able wheat surplus.
From January 1 to April 16. in
clusive, Argentina exported 3.003,741
tons of wheat, and the ministry esti
mated the remaining surplus is only
949,922 tons.
During the same period 2.641,437
tons of maize and 827,554 tons of lin
seed were exported. Remaining sur
pluses were estimated at 8,068,770
tons of maize and 759,863 tons of lin
seed.
Barkley Forum Speaker
ROSPECTIVE industrial and
labor legislation will be dis
cussed by Senator Alben W.
Barkley of Kentucky in the
National Radio Forum at 10:30 p.m.
tomorrow. The National Radio Forum
is arranged by The Washington Star
and broadcast over the network of
the National Broadcasting Co.
For months the country has been
waiting for the administration to
develop its program of labor and
industrial legislation. The recent
decisions of the Suprenje Court have
opened the way, it is believed.
Senator Barkley, a strong supporter
of the administration, has definite
ideas of the lines such legislation
should take.
Senator Barkley is chairman of the
Library Committee of the 8enate and
a member of the Committees on Bank
ing and Currency, Finance, Inter
state Commerce, Expenditures in the
Executive Departments and Govern
ment Organisation.
He has been a member of the
Senate for 10 yean and is noted
as a pobtte qpeakar.
SENATOR BARKLEY.
A
C. 1.1. TELEGRAPH
DRIVE SPREADING
R. C. A. to Be Approached
Next for Bargaining
Conferences.
Sj th« A»oclat<d Press.
NEW YORK, April 17.—Spurred by
the quick settlement of the ship radio
operators’ strike, the C. I. O -sponsored
American Telegraphists’ Association
prepared tonight to move into a
broader field of international com
munications, both cable and air.
Mervyn Rathborne, president of the
newly organized union which yesterday
won an agreement from the Inter
national Mercantile Marine, announced
his organization would approach the
R. C. A.-Communications, Inc., next
week for collective bargaining con
ferences.
Rathborne said approximately 1,000
operators of some 1,300 employed by
the corporation operating radio cir
cuits in United States, Europe, South
America and Asia were members of
the C. I. O. group.
Petition for Poll Filed.
To back the bid for recognition,
Rathborne said the telegraphists'
union had filed with the National
Labor Relations Board a petition ask
ing it to conduct an election among
the operators of R. C. A.-Communl
cations.
"We don't anticipate any trouble
after the labor board poll," he said.
Organizing of the telegraph and
cable companies is progressing rapidly,
Rathborne said, despite the threat of
conflict with the old American Feder
ation of Labor organization on juris
diction.
Closed Shop Protested.
The Commercial Telegraphers’
Union, A. F. L. affiliate, yesterday
protested afly agreement between
Rathbome’s union and the I. M. M.
which would effect a closed shop.
The agreement, which Rathborne
said would be signed formally Monday
by him and John M. FVanklin, presi
dent of the I. M. M., thus far provides
no closed shop.
Provision was made, however, for
immediate conferences to discuss an
election under Labor Relations Board
auspice* to determine which group may
bargain for the employes.
Rathborne announced the union was
making a drive among employes of
independent radio stations here, in
Chicago, baa Francisco and Los An
geles.
DETECTIVE SURRENDERS
AFTER KILLING OF WIFE
On Death Bed, She Turns Face
Away as He Pleads for
Last Kiss.
Ft the Associ»t*c Press.
LOS ANGELES. April 17.—Police j
held Joseph F. Conroy, 32, private
detective and former policeman, to
day on suspicion of murder in the
fatal shooting of his estranged wife,
Mrs. Either Marquis Conroy. 30.
Detective Lieut. J. A. Stambler, boy
hood friend of Conroy, said the lat
ter drove to the Hollywood police
station last night, handed over his
pistol, and said he had shot his wife
jn rage over failure of his attempts
to effect a reconciliation.
Mrs. Conroy was shot from a kitch
en door at the home of 8. R Sear],
stock broker, where she was em
ployed as a maid.
Conroy was brought to the police
hospital, where his wife identified him,
Detective Lieut. Ralph Davis said.
The officers said she told Conroy:
"You ought to be satisfied now.
I'm going—to die.”
"Give me one last kiss,” Conroy
pleaded
But she turned her face away from
him.
$4,000,000 IS CLAIMED
BY ST. LOUIS INVENTOR
Accounting Gone Far Enough
to Show That Much Is Due
on Judgment, He Says.
Er the Aisocisted Press.
ST. LOUIS, April 17.—A claim for
$4,000,000 against the estate of Mrs.
Minnie Morey Howard, widow of Clar
ence Howard, steel manufacturer, was
filed in Probate Court today by A.
Prank Howe, St. Louis inventor.
The claim was based on a judg
ment in Howe's favor In the United
States District Court at Springfield,
111., in 1930 for use of two of his
inventions by the old Commonwealth
Steel Co., of which Howard was pres
ident.
His petition asserted an account
ing, being made in accordance with
the judgment, has progressed far
enough to indicate the inventor would
be entitled to recover from $5,500,000
to $10,000,000 from stockholders of
the company, which was sold for
$35,000,000 in 1929 to the General
Steel Castings Corp.
HUEY LONG’S DAUGHTER
IN POLITICS AT L. S. U.
Leads Two Other Candidates in
Race for Presidency ad
Students’ Group.
By the Associated Press.
BATON ROUGE, La., April 17.—
Rose Long, pretty young daughter of
the late United States Senator Huey P.
long, made an auspicious debut in
campus politics today.
She led two other candidates in a
close race for presidency of the
Women’s Students’ Association, Lou
isiana State University oo-ed govern
ing body.
A run-ofT election will be held next
week. Then co-eds will choose be
tween Miss Long and Miss Ruth Dyer,
Baton Rouge.
In the initial voting, Miss Long re
ceived 303 votes, Miss Myer 246, and
Miss Catherine Cross 168.
MRS. LOVE*TO PRISON
Woman Who Was in Trance Will
Start Sentence Tomorrow.
LOS ANGELES. April 17 </P>.—Mrs.
Helen Wills Love will be taken to
Tehachapi Prison Monday to begin
serving a sentence of seven years to
life for killing her secret husband,
Harry Love, broker, Sheriff Eugene
Bis callus said today.
Mrs. Love recently remained in a
death-like trance for a week after
announcing she could will her own
death. Psychiatrist* said, however,
that the eoma was not self-induced.
W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SELF-SERVICE.
TIM ELKIN8, an Associated Press
photographer here, was down In
Warm Springs, Oa., recently
taking pictures of President
Roosevelt. With several other news
paper men Elkins was housed in a
small cottage, where they reported
three times a day for meals.
Whenever they sat down at table a
colored boy named Howard would come
over, take their orders one by one,
and each time walk over to the
kitchen door and bawl "one steak,
medium,” or "ham and eggs, toast” or
whatever the boys wanted. Then he
would disappear through the door and
return a while later with the meals.
It was not until three days after they
arrived that the camera sleuths dis
covered Howard was both waiter and
cook in their establishment, and was
oleating orders to himself.
QUERY.
Speaking of photographers, we
would like to ask the hocus-focus
boys of our two local morning
sheets fust what happened to De
tective John Caton when he was
shot in that gun fight with a trio
of young bandits recently. One
paper carried a picture of Detec
tive Caton being visited at the hos
pital by Commissioner Melvin
Hasen and others, and in the photo
Caton was seen to be wounded in
the left cheek and the right arm.
The other sheet, with obviously ex
actly the same setting and time of
exposure, showed poor Mr. Caton
with his right cheek and left arm
in bandages.
All we hope is that both of them
are not right.
CTANDING in the store of a down
town coflee merchant the other
day. we were lapping up education,
reading such items as Talleyrand's re
mark that "coffee must be pure as an
angel, strong as love, black as the
devil and hot as hell,” and Disraeli's
observation that "the history of coffee
Is often that of the manners, morals
and politics of the people.” (We
didn’t know big shots went around en
dorsing things in those days).
This was all very Instructive, and we
looked about for more inscriptions.
Found one all right. It said that In
the sixtenth century, a wife’s refusal
to give her husband a second cup of
coffee was considered “grounds'’ for
divorce. Oi oi oi! 1 !
* * * *
'J'HE fellow who located "Wayside,
Va for us now follows up with
the information that there are about
IQ more spots with the same name,
same roadside signs to mark them |
down In the Old Dominion. Some in '
South Carolina too. all being developed
by the National Park Service of the
Interior Department.
The plan is to arrange a few dosen
havens for the weary motorist, where
he may pause, partake of a picnic
lunch, find tables and benches for his
use. drink from a clean water supply
and afterward sit about, stuffed to the
gills, reflecting upon his extraordinary
good luck in not having been smashed
to bits by a 10-ton truck—as yet.
Most of the work on the waysides
is done by relief work (that includes
us), although the one we first wrote
of. near Stafford Court House, was
built by the Civilian Conservation
Corps. For your information, there
are crannies of this description around
Pulaski, Hanover, Amherst, Mecklen
burg, Fauquier and Pittsylvania
Counties.
DOUBLE.
Complicating both their lives is
the fact that Edward V. Murphy
and Senator Walsh of Massachu
setts look very, very much alike.
Mr. Murphy is a reporter of de
bates in the Senate and is forever
being approached by people who
would like to speak to him about a
little matter of Bay State political
business. Senator Walsh, for his
share, is constantly buttonholed by
citizens who want to ask what it
was Senator So-and-So said in the
debate on the Whatsis bill on such
a date. Would he please look in
his notes and find the quotation?
They both are still able to take
these errors in good humor, but,
working at the same plant, have
not as yet been able to figure what
should be done about the future of
the situation.
* * * *
RELATED
Y\/ILLIAM (ABERCROMBIE ABER
’’ CROMBIE) SHIPPER who to
not The Star's racing expert, was a
somewhat disinterested spectator at
Havre de Grace race track the other
day. Disinterested, that is, until a
very long shot named Addis' Abebba,
which was carrying some of Mr. Ship
pen's money, suddenly turned up In
the lead at the top of the home
stretch.
About that time Mr. 6. thought ha
should begin to help out with a bit
of yelling and jumping up and down.
He jumped O. K„ but he couldn't think
of the horse's name. Frantically he
racked his brain for it, whooping
rather inarticulately until he had an
inspiration. Began to scream "Coma
on Haile Selassie! Come on Haile
Selassie! !”
Apparently the horse didn't hear
him. It didn’t win.
* * * *
EASY.
VVfHEN the Zoo's big charma i South
African baboon to all but us
animal lovers) howled with rage and
shook the bars of his cage the other
afternoon, a nervous Zoo employe
walked up to Headkeeper William
Blackburn and said, "Just suppose
that bad actor should escape some
time. Mr. Blackburn, how’d we catch
him?’’ •
"You wouldn’t have to,” said Mr.
Blackburn placidly, “he’d catch you.”
"Others More Guilty Beyond
Polling Places,” Kansas
. City Judge Says.
BACKGROUND—
Charges of widespread ballot
box stuffing in Missouri in the re
cent presidential election resulted
in an inquiry in which the federal
Bureau of Investigation played a
leading role.
Evidence was gathered showing
erasures and. new markings on
ballots.
By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. Mo. .April 17 —
Judge Merrill E. Otis, sentencing five
men to prison and jail for vote-fraud
conspiracy, impressed belief today that
“somewhere beyond the polling placp
that day there were others more
guilty."
| “Those who are really guilty arQ
tnose wnose names do not appear o
the Indictment," Judge Otis said. "Yj
I do not know who they are and ta
defendants have not said.” '
Sentencing of the five convicted Mo
day in the sixth vote-fraud trial clow
the trial series until late next monJ
but the Federal grand jury, whl
already has indicted 108 persons d
ing its investigation of the Novemi
3 general election, will resume i
sessions Monday. 1
Three of the defendants—Chan
Cartello, Democratic judge; Rob
McKinney, Republican judge, and
ward C. Duncan, Republican clej
! were sentenced to two years In LaJ
worth Penitentiary and $500
for each. j
Dan D. Brown, Republican
fm
was sentenced to six months
wm
and fined $200. and Edwaiw J.
Schmidt, Democratic precinct worker,
was sentenced to one month In Jail
and fined $100.
The sentences Increased to la tna
number ordered to Federal peniten
tiaries and reformatories during tha
trial series and to 8 the number sen
tenced to Jails. Six others have been
sentenced to Jail and later granted
probation. Eight women have pleaded
no defense and been placed on a year's
probation.
NAZI ORGANIZER’S
DEATH UNSOLVED
Biedel’a Body Exhumed in Bueno*
Aire*, but No Clue to
Killer Found.
By the Associ»t-a Press.
BUENOS AIRES. April 17.—Police
disclosed today they had exhumed the
body of Nazi Organizer Joseph Riedel,
slain mysteriously last Sunday, but
could find nothing to bear out an
official German belief that a Com
munist was the killer.
The local Nazi organization thanked
Rudolf Hess. Reisfuehrer Adolf Hit
ler's party deputy, for his telegram
of oondolence in the "dastardly mur
der.”
The German Embassy, which re
quested the exhumation, said it had
received reports that "political ven
geance” was the reason for Riedel's
killing. But. police said, no evi
dence was presented.
An autopsy on Riedel's body, eon
ducted In the presence of a German
consular official and the German
doctor, Fritz Reehner, showed he was
killed by a bullet which penetrated
his stomach and liver.
The organizer, a 39-year-old metal
worker. who was the local head of
the Nazi Association of Germans
Abroad, was found fatally wounded
outside his house in San Martin last
Sunday. He was unable to talk to
police and there were no witnesses.
Police had listed Riedel's death as
caused by a robber whom Riedel re
sisted.
YOUTH IS FOUND GUILTY
IN SLAYING OF GIRL, 15
Death Penalty Recommended for
Joe Arridy, 21, by Colorado
Jury.
By tht Assoelslsd Press.
PUEBLO, Colo., April 17—A Dis
trict Court Jury tonight found Joe
Arridy, 21, guilty of the death of 15
year-old Dorothy Drain here last
August and recommended the death
penalty.
The jury deliberated about four
hours. Judge Harry Ieddy deferred
passing sentence.
Dorothy Drain was assaulted and
slain and her sister Barbara, 12. was
beaten while in bed at their home here
the night of August 15.
Arridy was named as the accom
plice of Prank Aguilar. 33, W. P. A.
worker, previously convicted of the
same charge and awaiting death in
the State's lethal gas chamber.
WINE-BEER DIET FORCED
ON 63 ON GROUNDED SHIP
Ocean Water Leaks Into Tank*
of Trench Liner Disabled
Off Colombia.
By the Associated Press.
CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, April 17.
—The 63 passengers and the crew of
the French liner Bretagne had to drink
wine or beer or else go thirsty while
the San Francisco-bound ship was
aground 60 hours on the Colombian
Coast, officers related when the vessel
reached here today.
Ocean water leaked into the fresh
water tanks through a hole made
when the 5,500-ton ship struck bottom
near Puerto Colombia.
The craft was freed early yesterday
after 200 tons of crystal sand, part of
the cargo, had been dumped over
board.
Police May Use
Movie Cameras
To Catch Drunks
Evidence in Driving
Cases Expected to
Be Obtained.
Vs the Associated Press.
KINGSTON, N. Y.. April 17.—The
Board of Police Commissioners today
took under consideration a proposal
to equip policemen with moving pic
ture camera* with which to get evi
dence in drunken-driving cases.
They would be Instructed, it wa»
stated, to have their subjects watcl
both the birdies.