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BROOKHART URGES $3,000,000,000 CURRENCY ISSUE FOR BOOM
ALSO SEEKING
jPERMANENT
RESERVE
Added 3 Billion Issue Would
] Be Raised by Taxing Wealth;
‘l Would Buy Farm Surplus
A $3,000,000,000 currency issue
to be used to buy up the ex
portable agricultural surplus and
to get a vast public works build
ing program underway was de
manded today by Senator Brook
hart (R.) of lowa as an immedi
ate program for increasing the
purchasing power of the farmer
and giving employment to thous
ands. He said:
“These are small sums com
pared to the financial difficul
ties of our people. We found
137,000,000,000 for the destruc
of war. It would be easy to
find three for the prosperity of
peace.”
No Inflation Risk
Brookhart denied his plan con
templated undue inflation. He
declared there has been an unwar
ranted contraction of currency of
over $3,000,000,000 since Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon took of
fice in 1921.
In addition, issuance of $3,000.-
000,000 in new currency Brook
hart advocated a like stun in
Government bonds to be used as
a permanent long-range public
building reserve. These bonds he
would finance by increased taxes
on the wealthy.
Buy Surplus Products
Os the $3,000,000,000 currency
Issue Brookhart would apportion
$1,000,000,000 to the Federal Farm
Board to buy up the entire ex
portable surplus of American agri
culture at an average cost of
production price plus a co-opera
tive profit. He would also put
an embargo on all like products.
HEIRESSDOPED.
MIE OU IZZED
CHICAGO, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.) .—Po
lice today sought the source of a
mysterious potion which was be
lieved to have overcome Mrs. Flor
ence O’Shea Foley, 34-year-old
heiress. She was in a deep coma
when found in her apartment.
Brought to the police station
for questioning, her 17-year-cld
husband, Chris Foley, was able to
■hed little light on the mystery.
He told police he and Mrs. Foley
have been living apart as the re
sult of a quarrel.
Police said her physician had
Informed them that he had ad
ministered a sedative to the wo
man.
Mrs. Foley inherited $500,000 a
few years ago. Last September
she was married to her youthful
suitor.
Suit for Slander
Seeks Half Million
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—A suit for
slander, asking $500,000 damages,
has been started in Supreme Court.
Manhattan, against Mrs. Edith
Kane Baker, wife of George F.
Baker, jr.. chairman of the First
National Bank. The plaintiff is
Mary Emma Calhoun.
It was set forth that Mrs.
Baker had been evading service.
Attorneys for Mary Calhoun re
fused to divulge the nature of
their client’s charges. Counsel for
the Baker family stated they were
in ignorance of the suit, adding
they had never heard of the
plaintif..
26 Columbia ‘Profs’
Indicted as Killers
Os King’s English
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Twen
ty-six professorc of Columbia
University are indicted for
“murder of the King’s Eng
lish” in an article appearing
in the current issue of the
Spectator, student publication.
An editorial in the Specta
tor declares that letters have
been pouring in from students
who have been shocked by the
poor English used by the peda
gogues and that “eight precise
undergraduates” have demanded
an investigation.
Among errors credited to the
teachers are such infractions of
grammar as:
“The people that—”
“If anyone has any ques
tions. they should ask them
now.”
The editorial accuses one
professor of using “don’t” for
“doesn’t” 17 times in one
lecture.
Diamond’s Kihi Turns Up
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MARION ROBERTS AND DANIEL H. PRYOR
MARION “KIKI” ROBERTS, showgirl sweetheart of
Jack Legs Diamond, notorious gangster, is shown with
Diamond’s attorney, Daniel H. Pryor, in the Albany county
courthouse after she surrendered to police for ques
tioning in connection with the kidnaping of Grover Parks
by alleged Diamond henchmen. She was immediately
released on bail.
HITLER VISITS
HINDENBURG
BERLIN, Oct. 10.—The old and
the new in German political life,
one representing the extreme of
ancient junker conservatism and
the other the ultra-radicalism of
restless German youth, met for
the first time today when Pres-
R'-jnt Paul Von Hindenburg
opened the doors of the pres
idential palace to Adolf Hitler,
fiery leader of the militant
“Nazis.”
For one hour and 15 minutes,
the octogenarian president heard
at first hand the’bitter words of
discontent from the lips of the
man who has inflamed German
youth to desire for a "war of re
venge” upon those who left Ger
many prone after the World War.
For one hour and 15 minutes
the impassioned oratory of ths
Fascist leader echoed through the
aged President’s simply-furnished
study.
And when it was over, Von Hin
denburg nodded his white head
in sympathy and like a father
counselling a fractious son, urged
Hitler and his ever-growing co
horts of “brown shirts” to use
moderation in their battle for
“emancipation.”
Lloyd George Gives
Laborites Support
LONDON, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.).
Flaying the national government
for attempting to “smash the
political influence of organized
labor” David Lloyd George today
entered the election campaign on
the side of the Labor party.
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DAMAGED AUTOMOBILE AFTER CRASH
THE DRIVER of this automobile was injured in a collision at Second and Massa
chusetts Avenue Northwest, this morning. The automobile is reported to have over
turned after the crash-
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
RAFT GIVES IIP 2
SLAIN JI SEA
HULL. Mass., Oct. 10 (1.N.5.).
A gruesome mystery of the sea,
the discovery on Nantasket Beach
of a raft to which two bodies
were tied, confronted Hull and
metropolitan police today.
Authorities were baffled as to
; any explanation of the find made
. by a policeman patrolling the
beach. They believe one of the
bodies was that of a man and
the other that of a woman.
The bodies apparently had been
tied together. Both were in an
advanced stage of decomposition.
Police were inclined to believe
the pair were victims of a double
murder. At first it was thought
they may have been transatlan
tic fliers.
Medical Examiner John Sweeney
was of the opinion the bodies
had been in the water for sev
eral months. z
Alfred University
To Seek $1,500,000
ALFRED, N. Y.. Oct. 10.—A 10-
year program calling for $500,000
in added endowment and $1,000,-
000 for several new buildings and
other improvements to Alfred
University was authorized at the
annual fall meeting of the board
of trustees in New York City,
President Colwell announced.
The board established a depart
ment of finance, with Dr. J. Wes
ley Miller as director, to super
vise the program and conduct a
special finance campaign for
$250,000 in the spring and fall of
1936.
SEABURY GRILLS
HORSE DOCTOR
ON GRAFT
Seeks Names of Persons Who
Shared in $2,000,000 Fees;
Budget Director Is Called
NEW YORK, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.).
Most reticent and recalcitrant of
the Hofstadter committee’s wit
nesses, Dr. William F. Doyle today
continued presenting his financial
records at a private session.
The horse doctor, whom the
committee unsuccessfully had ex
amined previously about the re
ported splitting of his $2,000,000
fees received as special pleader
before the board of standards and
appeals, was examined for two
hours yesterday.
Friends’ Names Sought
Harland B. Tibbetts, assistant
to Samuel Seabury, committee
counsel, sought to wring from Dr.
Doyle names of those who shared
in his vast payments.
Doyle was allowed the unusual
privilege of having his attorney,
Samuel Falk, sit in at the secret
hearing. It was learned Doyle
submitted voluminous records to
Tibbetts.
RITCHIE SHUNS
VOTER PLAN
Governor Albert* Ritchie looks
with disfavor upon the request
of Galen L. Tait, chairman of
the Republican State central com
mittee of Maryland, for a spe
cial session of the State legisla
ture to take up the matter of
enfranchising 50,000 potential
voters of the State who are now
in danger of being refused the
ballot next election.
Mr. Tait made his plea after
W. Preston Lane, jr., attorney
general, had ruled that those
voters who, relying upon an act
of 1929 later called invalid, based
their registration merely upon
affidavits of residence for one
year, must fulfill the original
law and declare their intentions
to vote one year previous to
election.
In his reply to Chairman Tait,
Governor Ritchie stated there is
no basis for assuming that the
same legislature members who
declined to pass the State-wide
repealer of the declaration of
intentions act in the 1931 reg
ular legislature would favor its
passage in a special session.
Kirk Is Exonerated
Os Gambling Charge
Jack Kirk, of Mt. Rainier, Md.,
was found not guilty of a gambling
charge at Upper Marlboro yes
terday when it was disclosed that
he had given Policeman Leonard
Soper a punch board and had re
ceived no payment for it.
According to testimony Kirk
gave the policeman the punch
board upon request. The officer,
it was testified, then sold the
chances and obtained a warrant
for Kirk.
Gas Station Safe
Baffles Cracksmen
An attempt to blow the safe
at the City Service Station in
Potomac, Va., last night was un
successful, according to a report
made to the Alexandria police by
Charles Hall, operator of the
station.
The National Daily
Governor Pinchot Starts Dam Project
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ALENE CARRINGER GOVERNOR PINCHOT
GOV. GIFFORD PINCHOT of Pennsylvania turning the first spadeful of dirt at
the commencement of the work on the Pymatuning Dam across the Beaver and
Shenango rivers near Jamestown, Pa. At Governor Pinchot’s left is Alene Carringer,
Jamestown Carnival Queen, who presented the Governor with the spade- The project
will cost $2,800,000.
THIRD CONVICT
CAPTURED
Mack Fierst, one of five con
victs who escaped yesterday from
Lorton Reformatory, was cap
tured today hiding in a house in
Alexandria.
Sergt. Edgar Sims and Police
man Lawrence Padgett, of the
Alexandria force, made the ar
rest, working on a tip. Fierst
was immediately turned over to
Lorton officials.
Meanwhile, the search for Ed
ward Larson and John Orwin, the
two convicts still at liberty, con
tinued with the posse of Lorton
guards concentrating their atten
tion on a swamp within two
hours after the escape.
Fierst is serving two years on
a grand larceny charge, while
Orwin is under a five-year sen
tence for robbery, and Larkin is
under a four-year sentence for
grand larceny.
Court Will Decide
Who Gets Paintings
A court decision will be neces
sary to interpret the will of the
late Mrs. Julia Van Reuth, of
Baltimore, to determine whether
the District of Columbia is to re
ceive a collection of 22 paintings
which under the terms of her
will goes to “Washington, the
Capital of the United States.”
If the Federal Government gets
the paintings they will hang in the
National Gallery of Art. If the
courts say they were left to the
District the District Commission
ers will be forced to find a place
for them as the District has no
gallery.
Thieves Raid Auto,
Steal Five Topcoats
Thieves early today broke into
the automobile of J. R. Hatfen,
jr„ 1819 D St. S. E., which was
parked at the Kenwood Country
Club on River Road, Bethesda,
and stole topcoats belonging to
Allan L. McAlwee, 434 Thirteneth
St. N. E.f E. W. Kidwell, 2307
Nichols Ave. S. E.; P. B. Smith,
2628 Tenth St. N. E.; G. E. Pen
dleton, 1843 Montrose St. N. E.,
and L. R. McAvoy, 1731 B St.
S. E.
Cleaners' Price War
Starts Trade Boom
CLEVELAND, Oct. 10 (1.N.5.).
Business was “too good” in one
section in Cleveland today.
Involved in a price war, press
ing and dry cleaning shops on the
East Side were swamped with jobs
as word spread that suits would
be pressed at some places for
5 cents, and cleaned for 25.
Other shop keepers announced
that hats would be cleaned and
blocked for a dime.
SATURDAY—OCTOBER 10—1931
Feed Miners, Pinchot Tells
U. S. or Face Civil War
By C. EDWARD MORRIS
(Copyright, 1931, by International
News Service)
HARRISBURG, Oct. 10.—“ U
ncle Sam must feed the hungry
soft coal miners of America this
winter or the nation will reap
a terrible harvest of widespread
civil disorder.”
Gifford Pinchot, Governor of
Pennsylvania, made this state
ment to the writer in the execu
tive mansion here today. He con
tinued:
“The only power strong
enough to meet the emergency
of the coming winter is the gov
ernment of the United States.
Washington alone can act in
time to avert a calamity.
Trained for Hatred
“ ‘The children of Western
Pennsylvania miners,’ the head
of the state police told me the
other day, ‘are being trained to
charge against the Government
the sufferings through which
they are passing. Their com
munistic leaders are teaching
them to hate the Government
under which they go hungry.’
“The hunger of Pennsylvania
miners and of those in other
great coal producing states is a
threat to our institutions. It
supplies the soil for a harvest
for revolutionists.
“The immediate problem is
not to provide work this winter,
for we know already that work
$3,000,000 THIEF IS STRANGE FREAK
Balks at Interview;
Wants Orly to
Be Alone
By MARGARET LANE
CHICAGO, Oct. 10.—I spent
this morning in the Cook county
jail. The man I went to see is
one of the freaks in the history
of crime. He is Walter F. Wolf,
the God-fearing bank clerk, who
has just been sentenced to a hun
dred years—the theft of over three
million dollars.
Turns Face Away
Walter Wolf stood stiffly aloof
in the room I was shown into. He
was with a warder, and turned
away when I came in as if he did
not wish his face to be seen.
“The curious thing about
Wolf.” said the one in author
ity who had taken me in and
was full of confidential theories
about the case, “is that the
money—vast sum as it is—can’t
be traced, and although it’s
easy enough, heaven knows, to
lose money on the stock mar
kets nowadays, it isn’t easy to
lose three million dollars.
“Wolf was frugal and simple
enough cannot be found. The
task is to feed the needy. No
such gigantic problem of relief
has ever before faced the Ameri
can people.”
Puzzled by Red Cross
Commenting upon the policy of
the Red Cross, whose chairman,
John Barton Payne, has said no
program of relief among the
miners will be undertaken because
feeding them would be regarded
aj taking sides in an industrial
dispute. Governor Pinchot said:
“I am puzzled by and deeply
regret the refusal of the Red
Cross to assist in relieving starv
ation in the coal fields.”
In Pennsylvania, where unem
ployment in the soft coal mines
is 13 per cent greater than it was
last year, relief funds will be
sought from the legislature at an
extraordinary session called for
that purpose.
Mexico Probes Air
Crash Fatal to 4
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 10 (I.N.
S.) .—A ero na u tical authorities
today were investigating the
crash of a Latin-American Air
lines passenger plane in San Bar
tolo, resulting in the death of
the American pilot; Roy Sala
mon, and three Mexican passen
gers. The airplane was en route
from Mexico City to Torreon.
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WALTER F< WOLF
to the end, and always full of
moral reflections on this world
and the next. Some people
thing—and I won’t say I dis-
AGER WOMAN’S
ROOM II ELDS
1909,000
Half Million in Old Money
in Belt Around Body; Hunt
For Treasure Continues
NEW YORK, Oct. 10.—Authori
ties who are slowly and carefully
searching the hotel room of Mrs.
Ida E. Wood, aged recluse, who
was found to have $900,000 in cur
rency in her room, $500,000 of it
iq a belt around her waist, are to
day still revealing priceless treas
ures in jewelry and fine laces as
they sort out old newspapers, gro
cery bags and other rubbish
stacked around the bed of the 93-
year-old belle of the mid-Victorian
era.
Declared Incompetent
The widow of Benjamin Wood,
who owned a long-since defunct
daily newspaper in New York,
has been declared incompetent by
the court, and a nephew, Otis F.
Wood, was appointed to take
charge of her affairs.
Her frequent admissions that
she had much money secreted in
her room were smiled at as an
old woman’s vagary, but after
5400,000 in old bills was found,
the court’s searchers got really
interested. They have just found
a money belt full of 510.000 bills,
50 years old. tied around the old
woman’s waist under her volum
inous skirts. But not until they
put her to sleep with a drug were
they permitted to get it.
She has allowed only a priest
and sometimes a lawyer retained
by her guardian, to enter her
room. The grocery boy, the hotel’s
maid, and others had to talk with
her at the door.
Meanwhile, during the years
she saved every bit of string,
every paper bag. newspapers and
other worthless things, piling
them in her room together with
sheets, towels and soap brought
up by the maid but which she
never used.
Rich Treasures Found
Treasures uncovered by the
searchers include rare old jewelry,
laces, period costumes, two of
which are going into museums
because of their great value. The
five trunks in her room and some
in storage are now being searched,
and more treasures are being
constantly brought to light.
Some articles are found in
cracks, beneath carpets, under
her bedding, and in similar hid
ing places. The $400,000 first
revealed was wrapped in common
brown paper.
MOW
ROLL BT 3,500
Slashes in the Navy’s enlisted
personnel of about 3.000 men and
some 500 from the Marine Corps
have been virtually agreed upon
by the Navy bureau chiefs in a
tentative economy program to
comply with President Hoover's
instructions, it was stated in re
liable quarters today.
The program also calls for lay
ing up approximately one-fifth of
the fleet in a rotation-overhaul
plan, which would keep 20 per
cent of the fleet in drydock or
overhaul stations at all times.
This is part of the Navy chiefs’
plan for economising to the ex
tent of $61,000,000, as ordered by
Mr. Hoover 10 days ago. The
Navy budget was ordered cut from
$401,000,000 to $340,000,000.
HEARJ ABOUFi SEATTLE
Local No. 249, the men’s local
of the Bureau of Engraving and
Printing, met Thursday night and
heard John R. Newman, delegate,
and Elmer H. Bailey, a guest, talk
of the Seattle convention.
Curious Part of Case
Is Money Can’t
Be Traced
agree with them—that he has
much of the money hidden
away. Though when he intends
to enjoy 'it, heaven knows.
“At first some of us thought
he must have been working in
co-operation with another thief,
but now I believe he was play
ing a lone hand—a freakish
middle-class man with nothing
apparently in his life but his
church and family interests. .
and all the time absorbed by his
criminal secret... draining the
bank for spoils that never, ap
parently, saw the light of day
again or did anybody any good.”
Wants To Be Alone
Wolf watched us out of the cor
ner of his eye. His mind was
made up. He was not going to be
drawn into any conversation. He
said:
“I don’t wish to see anyone.
I am prepared to take my pun
ishment and I am resigned to It.
But I prefer to be alone.”
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