TENNESSEE DOTS
ACCLAIM VICTORY
Prohibitionists to Move for
Repeal of State Law
Permitting Beer.
Ur th» Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn„ September 24. ,
—Tennessee drys today acclaimed their
3-to-l victory in yesterday's prohibi- ]
tion referendum and planned an at
tack on legalized beer while wets in
aisted the advisory balloting was a
“meaningless farce.”
Prohibitionists saw a great “moral
victory” in the results and announced
they would move shortly for repeal of
a statute that permits 5 per cent beer.
The State is one of five whose anti
whisky laws have survived repeal of
national prohibition.
Wets noted, however, that the total
vote apparently would run nearly
100,000 below that cast in 1933 when
the State ratified national repeal, and
claimed the issue ultimately would
have to be settled on a local option
basis.
Majority Is 61,713.
With 1,723 precincts reported out of
3,160 in the State, the count stood:
For repeal, 38,022; against repeal,
99,735. The dry majority was 61,713.
Approximately 500,000 were qualified
to vote.
In the 1933 election Tennessee voted
126.942 to 120,107 for repeal of the
eighteenth amendment.
E. H. Crump, leader of the Memphis
political organization and outstanding
repeal advocate, said: “The light dry
vote throughout the State, after a de
termined effort on the part of the
drys, is conclusive proof Tennessee
will go wet when there is a chance for
• clear shot at local option.” Crump
opposed the referendum and did not
even vote himself.
Called Moral Victory.
“We feel this is the greatest moral
victory Tennessee has had since the
State Legislature voted for State-wide
prohibition nearly 30 years ago,” said
Rev. Robert S. Tinnon, superintendent
of the State Anti-Saloon League.
Repealist leaders had made no ef
fort to organize their forces, contend
ing the referendum was "meaningless"
since a repeal victory would not have
changed the dry laws nor bound the
Legislature to change them.
The recent Legislature killed a liq
uor legalization proposal and then
called the referendum.
500 VIRGINIANS DUE
AT HOLY NAME MEET
Bishop Ireton to Preside at Sev
enteenth Annual Convention in
Harrisonburg Sunday.
Ur the Associated Press.
HARRISONBURG. Va.. September
54.—Catholic men from throughout
the State will gather here Sunday for
the seventeenth annual convention of
the Virginia Holy Name Union.
Approximately 500 are expected for
the convention to be presided over by
Bishop Peter J. Ireton of Richmond.
Among the speakers will be Very
Rev. Thomas F. Conlon, O. P.. na
tional director of the Holy Name So
ciety; Father Arthur J. Taylor, direc
tor of Catholic Rural Life, and Rev. E.
E Brosnan of Richmond, Virginia
Holy Name director.
The convention will open with mass
celebrated by Bishop Ireton at 8 a.m.
Following communion by the conven
tion a breakfast will be served at a
local hotel.
Walter Murphy of Lynchburg, presi
dent of the society, will preside at
business sessions.
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WEIGHTS ASSOCIATION
ELECTS RICHMOND MAN
Arlington Official Chosen Third
Vice President as Annual Vir
ginia Conference Ends.
Bv the Associated Press.
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va., September
S3 —B. W. Ragland, chief of the Bu
reau of Weights and Measures of
Richmond, yesterday was elected
president of the Virginia Weights and
Measures Association at the closing
session of the annual two-day confer
ence at the Cavalier Hotel.
The association voted to petition the
Governor and the General Assembly to
appropriate at least $50,000 annually
for weights and measures work and
$8,000 additional for the immediate
purchase of a heavy scale-testing unit.
Appropriations for weights and meas
ures work in Virginia have never been
sufficient to meet more than 10 per
cent of the needs, a resolution set
forth.
Officers elected in addition to the
president were R. M. Wilson of Mar
tinsville, first vice president; J. H.
Meek, Richmond, second vice presi
dent; E. M. Moreland. Arlington
County, third vice president, and the
following members of the Executive
Committee: C. R. Vaughan, Roan
oke: M. A. Hubbard, Richmond, and
H. G. Twyford, Newport News,
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Modern-Day Miracle.
The change in Turkey is one of the
miracles of modern times. That the
President-dictator, Mustapha Kemal,
should have beer able to persuade
the whole Turkish official class to
Uproot themselves from Constanti
nople, where they had lived in con
siderable comfort, if not luxury, and
to live and work in the new capital,
Angora, is an extraordinary achieve
ment of one man's will power and '
discipline.
“WOMAN IN RED” SUED
ON DESERTION CHARGE
Alexander Sage Claims Nemesii
of Dillinger Left ‘Him
in 1932.
By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 24.—The hus
band of “the woman in red.” whc
rlaimed to have put gangster John
Dillinger “on the spot” for police and
Federal agents, asked for a divorce yes
terday.
Alexander Sage, a railroad car in
spector filed the suit in Superior
lourt, charging desertion by Mrs. Anns
Sage, who was deported to her native
Rumania in April, 1930, as an un
desirable alien because she was con
victed of operating a disorderly house
at Gary. Ind.
The suit said they were married
/ May 10, 1929, in Chicago and alleged
she deserted him February 4, 1932.
There were no children.
Mrs. Sage, 45, left Chicago April 25,
1930, for her homeland after immigra
tion authorities refused her plea that
she was promised immunity from de
portation for telling Federal agents
the whereabouts of Dillinger, who was
shot to death outside a North Side
motion picture theater July 22, 1934.
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Mining companies of Peru are fruit
lessly seeking more workers.
CHANGE IN FEDERAL
TAX SET-UP URGED
Institute of Accountants Submit
Report to Treasury and Con
gress Members.
The Committee on Taxation of the
American Institute of Accountants
transmitted yesterday to Secretary of
Treasury Morgenthau, other Govern
ment officials and members of Con
gress its report calling for changes in
the Federal tax system.
"The repeated shifting in form and
incidence of federal income taxation
has been decried repeatedly,” aald the
report, “but none of the changes ef
fected during the past two decades
have had such a devastating effect
upon business as the corporate surtax
enacted in the revenue act of 1936.
“Taxation has become a bugaboo In
corporate planning, threatening future
stability,” the report declared.
The committee advocated simplifi
cation of the tax system along lines of
“conservative business practices.” de
scribed the present surtax on undis
tributed corporate profits as unsound,
declared the tax burden should be
equalized and the Federal revenue
stabilized. Several modifications were
urged for the corporate surtax "if it
be impossible to obtain its repeal.”
The report was signed by Victor H.
Stempf, New York Olty, chairman;
Wayne Kendrick of Wayne Kendrick
b Co., Washington; J. 8. Seldman,
New York City; Berl G. Graham, Cin
cinnati, and Clarence L. Turner, Phil
adelphia, all members of the commit
tee and members or heads of account
ing firms in their home cities.
Prepare* for Winter.
CHICAGO John Tobin be
lieves that the robber who broke into
his filling station is preparing for a
long, hard Winter.
On a day when the thermom\t*p
reached 90.5 degrees, a robber carried
off $48 worth of anti-freeze solution.
Tobin couldn’t find another thing
missing.
NATIVE TOWN DEDICATES
TABLET TO BILL NYE
Ceremony at Bite of Birthplace
Revives Memories of Humor
ist’s “Clean Wit.”
Br the Associated Press.
SHIRLEY, Me., September 24.—A
tablet In memory of Edgar Wilson
"Bill” Nye was dedicated yesterday, 41
years after the famed humorist's
death, on the site of his birthplace In
this little Northern Maine town.
Dr. Shailer Matthews of Monson,
dean-emeritus of the University of
Chicago’s Theological Sshool, eulogised
th* snnntpw nswenanap
comic-philosophical writings made hIHr~
famous.
Praising the "clean, sane wlt’t of *•
numerous passages he read from Nye’l \
books. Dr. Matthews remarked, "his
humor never was at the expense of
some one else.”
Nye was born August 35, 1850. -
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Tough on the Girl*.
CHICAGO VP). — When Robert -
Gould, who is 28 and married three
times, testified in court that he "can't
help it if the women are always after
him,” Municipal Judge Thomas A
Green said he would help him out.
The Judge sentenced him to on*
year in Jail on a charge of non-support
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