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The Washington times., 1929-10-16
FOR BEET
LOBBY HIGH

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Walsh Cd of Montana. Austin said
the 10 of the 80 beet sugar com
panies in this country belonged to
the United states Beet Sugar Asso-
citation. The companies were To-
, Gated chiefly in Utah. Michigan.
Colorado. and California.
Visited Senator SmOOt
Austin said he had visited only
one Senator-Smoot CR.) OF Utah
to discuss tariff legislation. He said
his association was not Certain of
Shoots attitude toward the S240
rate approved by the House.
Are you saying Smoot laid down
on sugar." asked Caraway.
"Oh, no."
Then when you visited him were
you trying to give him a little en-.
thusiasm?"
"Oh. no"
Austin explained he felt there
were four classes of lobbyists.
First. there are the men who
have money invested in an indus,
try and who appear before congress
as stockholders and officers of their
companies" said Austin. Second
there are the organized trade asso-
Citations. also maintain offices here
for the collection and dissemination
of information and look after legis-
latiOn in Congress.
Third. there are the professional
lobbyists who will take any side of
any case for retainer. Fourth.
there are the parasitic type here
who try to blk people by pretend
ing to have influence on Congress. ="
Austin cited as an example Of
his fourth. class. a man who said
''he would slap every Senator on
his back and call him by his first
name"
ANY group nj men guillihl
enough tn swallow that kind Of
bunk. ought to he robbed" oh.
served Austin.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Nurse Who LOUed ScriUener
Remains True to His MemOry

Miss Marley. nurse whom
Scrivener met at Emergency Hos
pital when his mother was operated
on, declines to discuss the killing
with reporters, but says she is will
ing to tell her tory when the Senate
committee investigating police in
efficiency calls upon her. She does
sa' however. that she can think of
no reason the detective could pos
sibly have had foi taking his own
life. as his former comrades insist
he did despite a coro1er's verdict
which declared he came to his
death a. the hands of a person or
persons unknown
The nurse is slender. dark
haired woman. attractive and pos
SCISSOR of a pleasant voice. But she
is determined not to talk at this
time.
Il, seems likely that | shall have
to answer questions again." she
says. But right now | don't know
a thing. II they call me. I'll tell
what 1 know"
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Costello Post Officer Denies
Legi0n Voted Hopper Inquiry

O'Brien added that he expected
to take action toward the end that
Franklin be removed from the post
membership rolls, but he failed to
say when such action would be
taken.
Franklin admitted telling report
ers he had made the address, but
denied giving story to the effect
that the post had taken action.
Captain Hopper disappeared un-
der strange circumstances on April
4, 1921 Ten days later, Maryland
and Washington olice and American
Legion searchers found the body
wedged between the rocks in the
Potomac River, near Great Falls
His coat had been found several
days before near the Falls. Friends
insisted he was robbed, slugged and
thrown into the river. Police, how
ever, called it suicide. although no
motive for self-destruction was ad-
VanCed.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
NEW SEADRONE
SAFE IN WATER
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drome extricated from the dock
until 1t floated gracefully and ex-
actly at the water line alone.
After the seadrome was aflOat, a
miniature amphibian plane was set
upon the runway OF the apparatus
and momentary cessation in the
demonstration was called while news
paper and news reel photographers
took pictures
The demonstration was resumed
when the seadrome. securely
anchored, was subject to high waves
stirred up by power boats armed
with plows fixed at the bow. While
motor craft and even the large
yacht Nydia. belonging to Capt.
Theo Marshall. one OF Mr.. Arm
strong's party, rocked from the
swells. the miniature airport afloat
showed no evidence of rough water
whatsoever. After several minutes
of this. the demonstration was closed
and the seadrome lowed farther out
in the river to firmer anchorage.
Other Tests to Come
During the next three weeks,
Armstrong said. the real value of
the seadrome will become known,
for the model will be carefully
scrutinized by experts seeking to
check its stability, buoyancy. and
tension.
The manner in which the model
behaves under the stress of the
waves of the Choptank and the
Chesapeake Bay will give an accu-
rate comparison to the reactions of
the original seadrome in the major
waters of the ocean. 1t Is said.
An instrumental barge equipped
with anermoeters. dynameters. and
other apparata for gauginE wind
and current velocity. tension, buoy
ancy. stability, and other physical
reactions will follow the miniature
down the Choptank and into the
bay. A corps of naval and aviation
experts will collate the data gathered
during the test period.
. At the completion of the tests.
IL the model reacts satisfactorily
In every particular. construction OF
the first of eight seadrome units,
to be anchored in the Atlantic
Ocean between Europe and North
America. will be started. it Is said
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Men With Artificial
Voices Telephone
5000 Miles

SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 16
N.N.SD.--Articulat speech, in
fact. a two sided conversation had
been achieved, today by the use OF
artificial larynxes over 5000 miles
OF telephone circuit.
The lien who talked to each
other are r. B. Marshall, Call
fornia highway employee, who lost
his speech two years ago, and
Sergius p. Grace, Bell telephone
laboratory official,
Each was equipped with and
used an artificial larynx made of
rubber. Marshall, who has been
mute for some time, started prac-
ticing with the man-made voice
last April.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
5DY|NC WORDS RELATED
=. STORYOF STRUGGLE

that almost her last words were
that murder had been committed
that night.
She died early last January. then
81 wears old. She was truthful II
was said at the home, her word
being accepted by everyone. She
was a light sleeper and did not pull
her shade down. II was believed
that any noise in the alley below
would have attracted her attention.
She had perfect view OF the
scene.
Miss Doering, shaken and nervous
as the Scrivener case was reopened.
yesterday reviewed her. part in the
tragedy.
II was still up" she said, shut
was DOING. ! was awakened, posi-
bly, by the lights OF Scrivener's car
as 1t entered the alley. Later
heard the shot, but thought II was
an automobile, until I went into
the bedroom directly above the
alley.
Then ] heard the groans and
another sound. Believing that
some one had been shot, | thought
the wounded man was trying to
reach the street. and ran to a
front window to see. saw no one,
and returned to the bedroom and
looked from the window into the
alley, where I saw the man lying
still His hat was on his head. !
called my brother and he telephoned
the police"
Miss DoerinS described the sound
she heard as being like baby's
footsteps, faint. scuffling. irregular
She said she believed that If any.
one had been hiding in the alley
when the detective drove In, he
could have seen them with the aid
of his headlights.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Y. NJ. c. A. Delegates Off
For Chicago Conference

DR.. Emmett J. Scott. secretary
treasurer of Howard University. and
a member of the executive board of
the national department of tie Y.
NJ. c. A, and Campbell c. johnson.
secretary Of the local Twelfth Street
y. NJ. c. A. p 'anch. headed a group
of delegates who left today for Chi
cago to attend the organizations ma
tional conference of. colored work.
which opens Friday.
Other delegates include Frederick
Robinson 4. 4. Greene. and Eu-
gene Davidson. The discussion will
center around toniCs concerning the
work Of tie Y. NJ. c. \. In America
and in Af'iCa.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
COlOred Bar to Meet
At Twelfth St. "Y"

The first fall meeting of the Col
ored Bar Association of the District
of Columbia will be held tonight at
IS o'clock at the Twelfth Street
Branch t the Y. NJ. c. A.
Reports of the national bar con-
vention, held several weeks ago at
Detroit Mich, will be made by
Charles f. Robinson, president of
the local association and Judge
James A. Cobb. of the Municipal
Court. Committees to make prepa-
ration for the next bar convention,
to be held in this city in the sum-
1ner of 1880, are to be named.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

Albert Dorm realized after he was
sentenced to one year and a day
in the Federal penitentiary at At
lanta, Ca. by Federal Judge
Thompson. He had offered $1,000
bride to Col. Wilbur F. Leitzel'
deputy prohibition administrator
when arrested with seven other
men during a still raid at Milford
Square several months ago.
Dorm. dubbed Little Able, is
known as a wise money boy in
underworld circles He knew now
to make the money, but became
careless in selecting persons to pass
it out to.
According to Colonel Leitzel. Dorm
and his men were operating an AL.
cohoI redistilling plant when ne ana
his agents raided il. Dom reallH-
inc he was trapped asked the
colonel II he would accept = '"'h''
Man" Dorm was quoted as say
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

William F. Franklin. promi'
nent members of the Vincent B.
Costello Post American Legion.
today stood in danger OF being
u drummed out of the post, following
publication in a morning newspaper
of report declaring the post
unanimously Endorsed resoluti IN
asking a Federal inquiry into the
disappearance Of Captain Fred
erick Hopper, millionaire ex-service
man.
The report was branded as un-
true by Richard A. O'Brien. senior
vice-commander of the post, who
declared Franklin had addressed
the post on the subject, but that
the meeting was adjourned fore
a vote could have been taken The
post membership did not discuss
the Hopper disappearance or the
Mcpherson and Scrivener cases.
O'Brien said
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Police Investigation Waits
As Sackett Fails to Return

murder finding in the Scrivener
case in 1925. today denied that he
had made any statements rejecting
upon the police handling of the
tragedy.
Declaring that he had made no
comment on the case, Holmes made
it clear today that he was not
ready at present to give his views
as member of the jury which be-
lieved that Scrivener came to his
death at the hands of another. or
to either defend or reject the
theory upon which the jury arrived
at its finding.
Although Blease has not been in
communication with Sackett, he as
serted yesterday that the subcom-
mittee certainly would Investigate
the mysterious death OF Detective
Sergt. Arthur Scrivener. who Is re-
corded a suicide in police annals.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
SECOND ARREST
IN NJ JEFFERSON
CASE DUE
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apartment in the Park Lane a few
days after Virginia Mcpherson died
and left no forwa ding address.
Just what bearing her testimony
may have on the murder mystery
agents declin, to state, but il il
known she aid Mrs. Mcpherson
were on more or less intimate
terms.
The result Of the examination of
the viscera of the slam nurse proc
ably will be forthcoming from
North Carolina sometime today and
will throw considerable light on the
case. The tissue examination PROB
ably will remove all doubt as 10
whether the nurse died by her own
hand or that of a stranger.
Word was received here from
China Grove. n. c., early tdoay
that agents of the Department OF
Justice who were in charge f the
exhumaton of the slain cody of
Mrs Virginia Mcpherson are pre-
pairing to return to this city.
+. J. Connelley, heading the
agents. left last night for Chapel
Hill 10 visit the University of
North Carolina and obtain the re-
port on the examination of the
vital organs of the dead nLrsc.
The two other agents probao DIV will
leave for Washington this afternoon
and arrive at the Department of
Justice early tomorrow.
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called Scrivener's attention to
him. IF / were in his condition, l
would commit suicide. l said.
Called Suicides towards
- Now. you know you wouldn't
do that, Scrivener said. Anybody
who would stoop to suicide is the
worst kind Of coward. l never
would let anything drive me to IT..
and you know YOU wouldn't
The subject was changed then
and we talked long while about
: his marriage"
I'VE were coming home that
night" Miss Browning said, when
we saw Scrivener. He was sitting
in his car on Wisconsin Avenue.
The machine was headed north. .
MY brother had been arrested
that day on a speeding charge. and
he stopped to ask Scrivener IL ne
could get him off. Scrivener
seemed to be in a fine humor, and
assured him that he could get
things fixed up for him.
Don't worry about it, Scriv-
ener told Joe, I'll meet you in
court in the morning and get it all
Strengthened out.
Shot Leaving Alley
i. Scrivener is supposed to have
gone to a lunch room then, gotten
something to eat and put his car
In a garage across the street from
his home. AS he left the alley. he
was shot.
At the house on Wisconsin Ave
where Mrs Stauff lived at the time
IA home for the aged), it was said
yesterday that she had always in
sisted that she heard two men in
the alley, had seen them earlier
in the evening in the shadows, and
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

With the man she loved lying
dead and another woman wearing
tn diamond engagement ring she
had lately returned to him, Miss
Catherine Marley, ex-fiancee of De-
tective Sergeant Arthur B. Scriv-
ener. murdered in a Georgetown
alley three years ago, heart-broken
AID grie stricken. gave up her own
quarters and moved to those of the
slain officer three days after the kill
ing, it Was learned by the Washing
ton Times today.
- There in the rooms and halls
grown familiar to the Beau Brum-
: nell officer during the II years he
lived with Matthew Walsh and his
wife. Miss Markey lived three years
a. faithful to his memory, while Miss
: Helen Barnes Parker, whom he
Planned to marry a few days after
= the date his death was discovered
wed one of the detectives former
pals a short while after the tragic
killing. Miss Marley left the for
ME" residence of Scrivener only last
Tune
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
MAN DEAD WHO HEARD ROW BEFORE SCRIVENER DEATH
WOMAN CLAIMS
CAPONE SLEW
OFFICIAL

CHICAGO, Oct. Is U.S)-Al
'Scarfa"e) Capone today was &C.
cused of the murder OF Assistant
states Attorney William McSwig.
gin, In Cicero, in 1926.
This came In a statement made
to the authorities by Mrs. Frank
Perry wife Of West Side hood.
lum. who fell into the hands OF the
police last night.
Accuses Husband
Mrs. Perry also charged that her
husband. Ralph Sheldon and "Po.
Lack Stanley Martin shot down and
killed Ben Newmark. chief investi-
gator for former States Attorney
Robert Grove.
Mrs. Perry married Perry in
Dodge City. Kan. last year, when
he was using the name of Frank
Foto. He had fled Chicago, fear.
ing Capone's wrath after a break In
the ranks of the underworld over.
lord. Mrs. Perry said:
"CapOne was operating the
machine gun used in the Nc
Swigeln fight. Perry has told
me about 1t a dozen times"
Perry was grilIed by the police
but stubbornly refused to talk
hopeful that he would be sprung
on a writ.
Sheldon. Martin and Perry. who
also uses the alias Frank Beige
are known gangsters and were
actually members of Capone's "old
guard" They have been in Gus
tody time after time and in each
case evaded punishment.
Newmark came to his death be
cause Of plot to have Capont
killed, according to Mrs. Perry
She alleges that Newmark Offered
Sheldon $4,000 for the Job and
paid him $4,000 cash and a prom
issory note for $4,000
Capone is alleged to have learned
of the plot and warned his guards
Perry and Louie little New York
| Campagna. to use extra care. Shell
don approached Pe.ry. his wife says
he told heI, and they me to terms
Gunner were to invade Capone' s
hotel. give Perry a flesh Wound, tie
him up and kill Capone and anyone
else who sought to interfere.
Perry received faith" money from
| Sheldon and his gloating over it wai
seen and reported to Capone. Perry
was imprisoned and he implicat tee
Sheldon. For three days Capone helt
| them prisoners and then offered then
! the choice Of "one-wav ride or Il
| tell who was back of the plot asainst
his life. They named Newmark.
Capone's Edict
Mrs. Perry said Capone then de
creed:
You must kill Newmark and
then get out and stay out Of
Chicago"
So one night a grim party Sc
out Perry and Sheldon were il
one car and behind them trailet
another carrying Capone men t
see that they did their job Mrs
Perry says:
Perry told me he shot and
killed Newmark. He said that
sheldon stood guard while he
climbed a soap box at a window
In the room where Newmark was
reading"
Newmark arose from his chair
| There was a roar of a shotgun
and Newmark fell to the floor hi'
body riddled with lead.
Perry and Sheldon hid out" IL
| Cicero for three weeks. his wife
declared, after which Perry wen
South and Sheldon went to New
| Mexico
Perry came back to Chicago las
summer on call of Tony Lombardo
who few days later was sho
to death on Madison Street while
| thousands thronged the streets
She said Lombardo knew he was
| ION the spot" and wanted Perry
| for a bodyGuard but that Perry
| feared Lombardo and skipped
l town.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
u. S. Clerks Meet to Aid
Red Cross Roll Call

Meeting at 10 a. m. today at
headquarters. 1900 block G Ct
n. w, chief clerks of all Federal
departments will make plans for
the thirteenth annual roll call of
the District Chapter, American Red
Cross. Mrs. Julian H. Barnes, Dis
trict drive chairman. will preside.
A tentative goal of $4,000, half
to be reserved for the District and
half to go to the National Red
Cross, has been set. The campaign
is expected to start about Novem.
her
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

Senator Sackett has been absent
from Washington on a visit to his
Louisville home for several days,
and his secretary, Robert P. Green,
assumed that the Louisville newspa-
pers would apprise him Of the pro-
posed investigation.
Green said today, however, that
the Louisville papers carried no no.
.tice of the matter, so he telegraphed
the Senator late yesterday.
: Sackett is chairman of the police
and fire subcommittee of the
Senate District Committee, which
was designated last Saturday to
take up the resolution of Senator
Coe L. Blease. of South Carolina,
asking an investigation OF charges
of corruption and inefficiency among
local officials.
Earl Edward Holmes. member of
the coroner's jury that returned a
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
J. H. Wilson to Discuss
"NegrOes in the Courts

An address on Negroes in the
Courts" by John H. Wilson, local
attorney, will feature tonight's ses
sion of the Mt. Bethel Baptist state
convention of the District Of Column
bia, which opened two-day meeting
at the Mckinley Memorial Baptist
Church, Fourth and l. Streets north.
west today.
This meeting has been called to
take up the unfinished business of
the organiza ton. The annual con-
vention was held two months ago at
the Vermont Avenue Baptist Church.
Among the issues to be discussed
are the unemployment of colored
people in this city and the upbuild-
ing Of the Washington Baptist Semi.
nary, headed by the Rev. J. S. l..
Holloman. president Of the Baptist
Ministers Conference
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Will Hold Card Party
At Lyon Park Oct. Is

CLARENDON, Va. Oct. 1.-THE
special committee of the Arlington
County Civic Federation having
charge of the arrangements for
card party met in the rooms of the
Arlington County Chamber Of Com.
MERGE last night and completed its
arrangements. The card party will
be held at the Lyon Park commu-
nifty house. October IS, at o'clock.
Mrs. Arthur Orr is chairman of the
co,1poittoa
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

$400 900. 900 in $4,000 bills from the
Bureau to the Treasury. Ten thou
sand dollar bills are nothing to him
he said with a grin.
After his preliminary school
work. Kennady tried contracting
in Southern Maryland finally end
ing up in the Government employ
When he started work in III" Blu
reau only about 900 were employed
To attend to the printing Of Govern
nent notes and stamps. Now moro
than $500 daily are employed.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

ing, give me a break. I've been
a gunman nearly all my life, ard
this is the first honest job I've ever
done. If you'll let me take the
finished alky from the still you
can have the still to make a show
ing with Colonel Wynne, your boss
ri give you grand-$1 900"
The money was later handed to
Parker Hall, a Federal agent OPP
Grating under Colonel Leitzel. Dorm
stepped right into a trap. State
troopers who were called by the
colonel to assist in the raid, wit
messed the transaction.
Before being led to the United
States marshal's cage. at the Fed
eraI Building. after being sen.
fenced Dorm said: "Jees, / didn t
know that guy was Colonel Leitzel
| lose the grand and get a year.
E"y. oh hoy hut it's a grand old
ra"ket. In the neck"
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Planning Commission
To Convene Tomorrow

The National Capital Park and
Planning Commission will begin it's
monthly meeting tomorrow. Friday
the commission will sit with the
Fine Arts Commission to consider
the progress of public projects here.
Both commissions hope to have
the Mall and Union Station develop
ments and the approach to the Ar.
lington Memorial Bridge completed
by 1882 for hicentennial of George
WashinGton's birth.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
D. c. to Pay Expenses
Of 9 to Road Meeting

A $3.50 appropriation to pay ex-
penses of group of District Off
Gals who will attend the annual
convention Of the American Road
Builders Associa ton at Atlantic
City next January has been ap-
proved by the District Commission
ers.
Those who will attend are Capt.
Hugh r. Dram. Assistant Engineer
Commissioner; Roland NJ. Brennan,
chief clerk of the Engineer Depart,
ment. and L. ?. Robertson. A. S.
Fennell. S. J. Gass, r. L. Burgeois.
G. L. Quinn, J. P. Robertson. and
F. B. Couch of the Highway Depart
ment.
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Currency Watchdog
Is Soon to Retire

examinations and became skilled worker in the Bureau Of
Engraving and Printing On October 81 William kennady,
who will be IS at the end of the MONTH will be retired by the
the of his years his hobby horticulture his
farm Iaural
The Washington times., 1929-10-16

For the past sixteen years Ken
nady. who was born in Howard
county. has handled practically all
the paper money which has been
put in circulation in the country.
His duties have kept him in charge
OF the massive vault in the Bureau,
watching over the shipments, and
attending to the routine matters
of wrapping the currency and see
ing that it reached it's destination.
, The largest shipments he ever
. handled, he said was during the
WaT nsriod. Then he transferred
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
ERGATOCRATs TO MEET

The Ergatocrats' Club will meet
Saturday night at o'clock at 800
block Tenth St. n. w. s. Wallach
will speal, on 'TMarxism in the Light
of To-day"
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
Careless Gunn1an Gets
Year For Bride

PHILADELPHIA, Oct 16-This story has moral 1t is
Don't pull the dough, me until you are sure of your
prohibition
The Washington times., 1929-10-16
PROOF OF ANNOUNCEMENT

tionably murder-cancelled Arthur B. Scrvener bride
groom role October Is, 1926 The above is a reproduc
ton of the announcement, telling of his marriage Miss
Helen Barnes Parker. Mclean, Va, which set up
by Washington printing firm but which never
mailed