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Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-07-12
1 HAVE PLEADED WITH
YOU. I HAVE CRIED. 1
HAVE BEGGED. TONIGHT
I'M GOING To MAKE YOU
PAY.
LILLIAN POPE.

"And the young man ignores this?"
.Holcomb questioned.
"Abso lutely e. and I am greatly
alarmed"
At that moment there were sounds
of footsteps out in the hall. Simmons
gathered the letters up and slipped
them behind him. Two masculine
voices reached their ears. Every
thing is all SET" the finer one said.
"You will receive them in the down.
stairs drawing room, wilkins. &.
And be careful, the entertainers up
stairs are to be surprised"
Very good, sir
Raymond Simmons appeared in the
library doorway and paused, in for
NAL evening dress also, tall, brown,
handsome young man.
"Oh, beg pardon"
Monty Simmons jumped hastily
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1930-07-12
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fuses to disclose her address, in
spite of the fact that since the news
paper announcement of his engage
ment to Miss Stantan, the letters
have been downright threatening;
alarming. Here, take look at
them yourself"
From a cabinet smoker Simmons
took a rather bulky little packet OF
letters and passed them over to Hol-
comb. The rubber band was removed
and an inspection began. The con-
tents of the first one made the de-
tective whistle softly. About ten OF
them, each proved to have been
mailed to the Simmons address from
within the confines of the city, with
postmarks on the envelopes dating
back as far as three months or more.
"He keeps Them" Simmons whis-
pered again, hid in his rooms. 1t
was only by accident that dis
covered them. No, he is not aware
tina. I am in possession of them
I don't think. Here, this is the one
that came today"
Holcomb moistened his lips in
az azement. The few pencil-printed
words read:
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
DROOKHART TALKS.
ON i. S. PATRONAGE
IoWan to Speak in Radio
Forum Over WMAL To-
morrow Night.

Federal patronage will be the subject
discussed by Senator Smith W. Brook
hart of Iowa, Thursday, at 10 pm, in
by The Star. The Forum is sponsored
by the Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tenn and will be heard locally through
WMAL.
Senator Brookhart is chairman of
the Senate committee which has been
investigating for more than year
charges that postmasterships and other
Federal offices have been retailed by
influential politicians to the highest
bidder in some of the Southern States.
His committee recently submitted a
report to the Senate. 1t is not, how
ever, a final report and it is possible
that further inquiry will be made into
the whole subject by the committee be-
fore it is discharged by the Senate.
Senator Brookhart believes that
steps should be taken by Congress to
safeguard the Government from the
debauchery of Federal patronage. He
has proposed a bill dealing with this
matter and will seek action on it.
Although the civil service covers a
vast number of employees of the Gov
eminent, there still remain outside of
civil service thousands of appointments
to Federal office. These are dispensed
usually through the influence of Sen
ators, Members of the House and other
persons actively engaged in politics.
Senator Brookhart has gone thorough
ly into the whole subject and is well
qualified to discuss 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
H. v. HAYNES SUED
FOR SUM OF $73, 1856
Woman Charges Former Banker
Should Have Delivered Money
on Stock Investments.

Harry v. Haynes, former president
of the Farmers and Mechanics Nation
al Bank, was sued today in the District
Supreme Court by Mrs. Louise T.
Chambers, Wardman Park Hotel, to re-
cover $73,1s6.s4 which she charges the
former bank president appropriated to
his own use and which belonged to her
as the result of stock transactions. Mrs.
Chambers sued Haynes last year, short
ly after he had been indicted for al
legged embezzlement and making of
false entries on the banks books. In
that suit she charged that she had in
trusted large sum of money to the
banker for stock investments and asked
for an accounting of the transactions.
In the present suit the sum sought
to be recovered is said to represent
profits made on certain stock transac-
tons which should have been paid to
her, but which, she claimed, she never
received. She is represented by Attor-
neys r. e. Walker and Carey E. Quinn.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
PITTS HELD TO FACE
GRAND JURY CHARGES
Former Head of Smith Company
Directors to Answer 100 Counts
in Pending Indictment.

c. Bryan Pitts, former chairman of
the board of directors of the F. H.
Smith Co., will be arraigned tomorrow
before Justice william Hitz in Grim
inal Division 2 on a recent indictment
Of 100 counts, in which he Is charged
with the embeZzlement Of $l,156.00o
of the funds of the company.
Pitts is expected to reach Washing
ton tomorrow morning in conformity to
a bail bond of 100000, given Mon
day at West Palm Beach, Fla, for his
appearance here tomorrow. He was
about to board train for washington
Sunday when taken into custody.
After Pitts has pleaded to the in
dictment, It Is expected Assistant United
States Attorney General Nugent Dodds
and United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover will ask that he be required to
give a new bond to await trial. Attor-
ney Wilton j. Lambert will appear for
Pitts.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
SENSATION PROMISED
IN JULIAN PROBE
Indictment Of Three on Bribery
Charge Predicted by Dis
trict Attorney.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Los ANGELES, April 16.-sensa-
tional developments in the grand jury's
new probe Of the Julian Petroleum Cor
poration debacle were awaited today
with the announcement of District At
torney Buron Fits that indictments
charging conspiracy to commit bribery
would be returned against at least three
men prominent in State political and
financial circles.
The names Of those against whom
true bills have been prepared have not
been made public. The company failed
after huge oversubscription of stock.
Meanwhile, Investigators from the
district attorneys Office were conducting
an exhaustive probe into the death yes
terday in an automobile accident of
Robert Bursian, 81, undercover man for
Fits and alleged key-witness in new
phases of the Julian investigation.
Bursian's body, badly mangled, was
found under his wrecked car at the
bottom Of canyon near Beverly Hills,
Evidence gathered at the scene of the
wreck, police said, indicated that Bur-
slams machine left the highway as he
sped around curve at the top Of hill
between Beverly Hills and the ocean.
IF 1t was not foul play, it was re-
markable coincidence" Fits said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
96.2 MILES AN HOUR
UNOFFICIAL BOAT SPEED
Wood Will Not Attempt ofcial
Record Run Today in Miami
Waters.
ny the Associated Press.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, April 16.--Miss
America VIII, 2,200-horsepower hydro
plane with which Gar Wood seeks To
establish q world speedboat record OF
100 miles an hour, SKINNED across the
placid waters of Indian Greek here to-
day at a speed measured by Wood at
e6.2 miles an hour.
The. run was made merely as test
due to illness of ODDS Porter, official
A A. A. timer, who is in Fort Lauder
dale.
Wood announcer today that he has
postponed further attempts to set an
oh1cial world speedboat record of loo
miles an hour until this Summer, when
he plans to race the boat against Time
In Detroit.
This mornings mark of 96.2 miles an
hour would have been a new world rec
ord had 1t been taken by official timers
Wood holds the present mark of 93.l23
miles an hour. Weather and water con-
ditions were ideal during the morning
for the trial.
After the two 12-cylinder engines OF
Miss America VIII were warmed ur
Wood sent the nose of the long white
vessel across the starting line of the
measured course on the test run. From
the shore the boat seemed to be per-
forming perfectly. and Wood substan-
tiated this impression when he landed
after the run.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
BAND CONCERTS.

BY the United States Marine Band
Orchestra this evening. at 8:15 o'clock,
at the auditorium, Marine Barracks
Taylor Branson, leader; Arthur s. Wit
comb, second leader.
"Gralsritter March"
Prelude to "Lohengrin"
Entrance of the Gods in Walhall, "
"Rheingold."
Prelude to "Parsifal."
Cornet solo, walters Prize Song, "
from die MeisterSinger."
Second leader Arthur S. Witcomb,
"Isolde's Love Death"
Overture, 'T. nnhauSer."
Marines hymn, 1.-THE Halls of Monte
yuma"
1.-THE Star spangled Banner"
BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra, in Stanley Hall, to-
morrow evening, at $50 o'clock. John
S. M. Zimmerman, bandmaSter; Anton
Pointner, assistant leader.
March, ION the Farm. Goldman
Overture, THE Impressarue" Mozart
Ca) aye Who Have Yearned
(b) "A Song of India"
Rimsky- Kersakow
Scenes from musical comedy, "A
Connecticut Yankee. .. Rogers
Fox trot, Congratulations" Slept
Valse de concert, Tenderness"
Waldteufel
Finale, "JuSt-Just Me-. Greer
THE Star spangled Banner"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
WORLD BANK NEAR
ACTUAL OPERATION
Paris Office of Preparations
Body Prepares to ReIin-
quish Problem.
BY JOHN GUNTHER.

BY Radio to The star and Chicago psYly
News Copyright. 1880,
PARIS, France, April l6.--Arrange-
ments have been completed whereby the
work of the PREPARATIONS commission Il
Paris will be taken over by the M
Bank for International Settlements aC
Basel, Switzerland, 1t is hoped, by the
end OF April
There will be no formal ceremony and
the reparations commission, after 10
years OF passive control Of the tangled
subject of postwar financial adjust
ments, will quietly pass out of existence.
The committee will meet some time next
week, when the commission simply will
dissolve itself and thereafter German
payments will be handled, not through
Paris, but directly by the bank at Basel.
Transfer Date Uncertain.
It has been necessary to give notice
Of dismissal to about one-third OF the
commission employees. The rest will be
given Jobs in either the new bank or a
French social insurance organization
which is on the point of formation.
Actual transfer of the functions of
the COMMISSION 10 the DaTk ana the
handling by the bank of reparations
payments cannot officially take place
until all the powers interested have
ratified the Young plan. Italy and
Great Britain have not yet ratified it.
In order to hurry things up, however,
the executive committee of the bank has
scheduled a meeting for April %, under
the Craftsmanship of Pierre Quesnay,
the banks general manager M. Cues
nay is picturesque figure of postwar
financial history. Gates w. McGarrah
Of New York, for instance, American
chairman of the board of directors, is
elderly, being 81, but M. Quesnay Is
| only IS. Like Seymour Parker Gilbert,
American agent general for reparations
| payments, he is so young that the older
bankers cannot get over the idea that
they are associating with sophomore.
First Job to Organize.
The first job facing the bank on April
| % is to organize itself. Then, as soon
as The Hague accords are ratified its
real work will begin. receiving German
reparations and floating the first mobil-
ization loan.
The first issue is expected to be $780,
000, 900, mostly placed in New York,
London and Paris, presumably at 51h
per cent, payable in gold and redeem
able in 81 years, which are the terms
Of the annuities themselves. The issue
price Is not yet known.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
REICHSRAT APPROVES
MONEY FOR CRUISER
Naval Construction Program Re
vived by Germany Through
Appropriation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, April 16.-The question OF
further naval construction by Germany
which seemed to have been disposed of
negatively during the Mueller ministry
has been suddenly thrown into the
foreground of political discussion by a
Reichsrat amendment carrying an ap-
preparation for such a purpose.
The budget estimates prepared by the
Mueller cabinet made no provision for
another cruiser of the Ersatz Preussen
type. The Reichsrat today, however
amended the governments proposed
budget by the introduction of an item
for 100000 marks tabout $725, 000) as
the first installment for an armoreo
cruiser 3D."
The new Bruening ministry, in &C.
cordance with its pledge, recommended
the budget exactly as it was worked
out by former Finance Minister Modem
hauer when he was in the Mueller cabi-
net. However, the Bruening cabinet
because of its makeup and with the
chancellor himself reported in favor OF
the cruiser construction, is generally
believed ready to acceps the Reichsrat's
amendment.
The question will next go to the
Reichstag, which will reassemble after
Easter, and may be expected to provide
stormy scenes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
M'BR|DE DENIES
TINKHAM CHARGE
Declares League Never Paid
Campaign Expenses of
Andrew J. VoIStead.

~ the Associated Press
r. Scott Mcbride, general superin-
,tendent Of the Anti-Saloon League,
asserted in a statement last night That
a charge that his organization had paid
the campaign expenses OF Andrew D.
Volstead was false"
J"The statement of Representative
Tinkham before the Senate lobby IN
vestigating committee charging that the
Anti-Saloon League of America had
paid the campaign expenses OF Andrew
j. Volstead, Knowing that Mr.. Volstead
was to introduce the so-called Volstead
act and was to be chairman of the
committee to which 1t was referred, Is
false" Mcbride said.
Volstead as Representative from
Minnesota sponsored the prohibition
enforcement legislation.
"1n the FIRST place." Mcbride con-
tinued, "the Anti-Saloon League did
not at any time pay Mr. Volstead's cam
paign expenses. In the second place,
the campaign in which Mr.. Tinkham
charges the expenditures were made
was in November, 1920, at least year
after the Volstead act was passed.
Funds Used for Workers.
"The report upon which he based his
charge involved approximately $555 for
Anti-Saloon League expense incurred
in eight congressional districts. In no
case was the expense of any candidate
paid. The money was used for services
and expenses of regular league workers
and included the cost of literature,
postage, telephone and telegraph.
THE Anti-Saloon League does not
pay the campaign expenses of candi-
dates for public office Money raised
to influence the election of members
of Congress is expended for the purpose
Of informing the voters of the record
of candidates and their position upon
the prohibition question. This portion
Of the leagues receipts and expendi-
lures is kept distinct, as required by
Federal election laws, and is reported
to the clerk Of the House of Repre-
Sentatives, as required by law.
League Work Educational
1.-THE major portion of the work Of
the Anti-Saloon League is educational,
informing the people that Intoxicating
liquors are narcotic and habit forming.
In advocating total abstinence and con-
Quoting research upon the social, eco
nomic and moral phases of the alcoholic
liquor problem and in teaching the duty
of the citizen with respect to law OBJ
Servance and enforcement. They dc
not come within the purview of the
Federal corrupt practices act, which
relates solely to money spent to tnflu-
ence the election Of members OF Con-
gress or presidential electors after the
nomination is made"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
BINGHAM DECLINES
CAMPAIGN PROBE JOB
Senator, Named to Committee Post
Refused by Goldsborough,
Will Be Away.

BY the Associated Press.
Appointed today to serve on the Sen
ate campaign funds investigating COM
mittee, Senator Bingham, Republican,
of Connecticut declined because of the
necessity Of leaving the country this
Summer on the Samoan Commission.
This left vacancy in the committe
role originally assigned to Senator
Goldsborough, Republican, of Mary
land, who resigned today.
The committee has been called by
chairman Nye to meet late today for
organization.
Other members are Patterson, Re-
publican, Of Missouri; Din of Washing
ton and Wagner Of New York, Demo-
Gratis.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16

James Cannon, jr, of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South, that he would
be given an opportunity to appear be-
fore the committee to reply to charges
made by Representative Finkham, Re-
publican, Massachusetts,.
Bishop Cannon had written Caraway
that he would be glad to appear If
there was any information the commit
tee desired concerning activities of the
Southern Methodist Board of Temper
ance and Social Service of which the
bishop Is chairman.
Caraway replied that he could appear
any time that was convenient. He had
indicated that the best Nttne for his
testimony would be between April %
and May q
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
| DAVID H. BLAIR MAY RUN
FOR SENATE NOMINATION
Former Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue Considered for North
Carolina Race.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated SreSs.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., April 16.-The
Charlotte News today says it has learn
ed from authoritative sources that David
H. Blair, of winston-Salem, former
commissioner Of internal revenue, will
seek the Republican nomination as
Senator from North Carolina. The
Republican State convention will be
held here tomorrow.
Blair has been mentioned as a posi-
BILE nominee, but has refused consistent
ly to say whether he would seek the
nomination or accept 1t If rendered to
him by the convention.
Representative George Pritchard of
Asheville, George Butler of Clinton,
and Rev. II. Grady Dorsett of Wake
Forest, are seeking the nomination and
may force primary despite whatever
action, If any, the convention takes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
CAPITALIST IS PUZZLED
BY TTNKHAM CHARGES
New Yorker Says he Does Not
Know What Statement on Con-
tribution Is Cali About"

ny the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 16.-E. G. Jane
son, New York capitalist, said today
that he had. no idea what charges by
Representative Tinkham of MaSSachu-
sets, that part of contributions made by
Jameson in the last presidential cam
paign through Bishop James Cannon, jr.
had not been accounted for were al
about.
Representative Tinkham told the Sen.
ate lobby committee yesterday that
$65, 300 Of $l72,00o contribution made
by Jameson to the Hoover 1928 CAM
paign fund had been paid TO Bishop
Cannon, who was chairman of the anti
Smith committee of Virginia, and that
Q report had been made OF only $4,000
Of the amount.
Asked to comment on the charges, Mr.
Jameson said:
81 cannot answer your questions, be-
cause have no idea what It's all about. y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
PATIENT is RETURNED
Youth Escaped From Gallinger in
Borrowed" Car,

Hugh Gray, 18-year-old mental pa
tent, escaped from the observation
ward Of Gallinger Hospital late yes
terday afternoon and made his getaway
in borrowed" automobile, only to
be halted by Maryland State police at
Ellicott City and returned to the in
stitution.
The automobile, which Gray took
from its parking place in front Of Gal
linger after he had escaped unob-
served by attendants, was returned 10
the Board of Public Welfare.
Gray, an inmate of the Reform
School here, where he was sent for
stealing an automobile, was taken TO
Gallinger for mental observation be-
cause Of his peculiar actions at the
school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
LAKE ERIE OUT OF BANKS
Residents Forced to Use Boats to
Reach Homes.

TOLEDO, April Is R.-Driven by
sharp northeast winds, Lake Erie and
Maumee Bay were bullying over their
banks today, causing extensive damage
to property.
The water began TO come in late yes
terday when many buildings were awash
and waves were smashing over break
waters. The water subsidized slightly,
but again today it appeared to be get
ting higher.
Several homes were surrounded by
water and Easements were flooded.
Residents returning from work last
night were forced to use boats to reach
their homes and had to leave the same
way this morning. Lakeside and Lake.
wood, Mich, Summer resorts IL miles
north Of Toledo, suffered heavy loss
from the storm.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16

warriors, have gotten out of hand.
When Gandhi decided to begin his
civil disobedience campaign he OBJ
tanned a promise of support from the
Sikh leader with the only restriction
that he and his followers did not be-
lieve in passive resistance. In yester-
days riots, when street cars were
burned and troops were called, the
cartmen were supported by Sikhs, who
form 80 per cent Of Calcutta's cab
drivers.
The Sikhs, who were Joined by jute
workers. paraded through the town the
whole night trying to penetrate the
European quarter. They succeeded in
reaching the Presidency Hospital for
Europeans. The patients were irnmedi-
ately removed under the protection Of
armored cars and tanks.
Reinforcements Of British troops have
been sent to Calcutta, where a ,dra-
matte situation may develop in the
course of the week.
BOMBAY UNREST SERT0rs
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16

person known to have associated with
her in the last few years, as well as
all others whose names were mentioned
in the correspondence.
One question which Is still puzZling
the investigators is why Miss Baker re-
manned in her car near Seventeenth
and B streets, engaging in an argu-
ment with the man who Is believed to
have murdered her, instead of getting
out of the machine If she had any fear
of imminent danger. The officials be-
lieve that when Miss Baker was OBJ
served struggling with the man in the
parked car she was making an effort to
take the keys to the car from him.
Even though she failed to get posses
sion of the keys, the officials pointed
out, she would have had no difficulty
In leaving the machine.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
BOMBAY UNREST SERIOUS.
Trouble Looms as March Is Begun to
Raid Salt Pans.

BOMBAY, India, April I6 R.-The
exchange Telegraph Co., in a dispatch
from Bombay, said there was danger of
serious trouble there later this evening"
three hundred Nationalist volunteers
maTcned from Congress House at noon
Win the deliberate object of raiding the
Wadal, miles away. 1925 ~
=, IL was reported from Navsari TODAY
That Mahatma Gandhi had postnone1,
MS visit to Bombay for a week and
might arrive April IS. anu
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
Unclad Man Runs
After Clothes Thief,
Regaining Apparel
~ the Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY, April 10
Lauro Nunez was asleep last
night when a thief entered his
bedroom, stole all his clothing and
fed.
Lauro awakened in time to see
the intruder speeding down the
street and took after him despite
the fact that he was completely
unclad. The chase ended when
the thief and victim encountered
a policeman, who loaned Lauro
his overcoat until they reached
the station. There Lauro donned
his recovered apparel and re-
turned home to finish his sleep.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
Woman Plans to Practice Law.

FRANKFORT, KY, April l6 (P. -
Mrs. John David Allen. Lexington, can
didate for the Republican nomination
for Congress from the seventh district,
is one of the more than so applicants
for license to practice law in Kentucky,
who today began taking the State bar
examination.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-16
PAPERS GIVEN HOOVER
Documents Bear Signatures o
South American Heroes.

Original documents bearing the sig
natures of South Americas two great
heroes, Gen. Simon de Bolivar and Gen.
Antonio jose de Sucre, are now valued
possessions Of President Hoover.
The second, a military order signed
by Sucre, the liberator, Bolivars assist
ant, In freeing five of the South Ameri-
can Republics from Spanish rule, has
been given the United States Executive
by DR.. Homero Viteri Lafronte, Minister
of Ecuador. A letter autographed by
the liberator himself was presented to
Mr.. Hoover by the government OF
Ecuador when he was in Guayaquil az
President ELECT about year and q hall
ESQ.