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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
ELIOT CITES FLAW
IN CITY PLANNING
Says D. C. Heads Take Action
In Conflict With Commits
b., sion'S Program.

Revision of the general orders regu-
lating the plating and subdividing of
lands in the District to aid the work of
the National Capital Park and Planning
Commission is suggested by Charles w.
Eliot, I'd. its director of planning, in a
supplement to the annual report made
public today He said the District
Commissioners in approving the dedica-
ton of minor streets or street prohles
entirely at variance with the purposes
of the Planning Commission" interfere
with the commissions work.
Millions of dollars can be saved
through the application of modern
principles of land subdivision, plating
and street arrangement to the problems
within the District of Columbia and the
Washington region" Mr. Eliot believes,
in original development and mainte-
nance of streets.
Savings Outlined.
"These savings are due to ca better
adjustment of streets to the topography,
OBJ longer blocks, (c) adjustment to
property lines, I'D adjustment to trees,
ETC. Mr.. Eliot asserts.
by the preparation and adoption of
major thG-o4ghfare plan the commits
sion has shown which streets, existing
and proposed, are important for the
general circulation of traffic and, by the
same token, which streets should follow
direct routes. Blocking of these thor
oughfares in order to make longer blocks
or the introduction of curves in their
line for minor topographic reasons would
be disastrous to the thoroughfare system.
1.-THE controlling purpose actuating
the commission in approving highway
changes can be, and unfortunately has
been in some cases, negatlved by the
action of the District Commissioners in
approving the dedication of minor streets
or street profiles entirely at variance
with the purposes of the Planning Com
mission. Thus a change of the highway
plan intended to make possible longer
blocks may actually result in shorter
blocks through the acceptance of mi
nor street dedication dividing the long
block.
Controlled by General Orders.
"These matters are now controlled by
general orders regulating the plating
and subdividing of lands and grounds
Issued by the District Commissioners and
administered through the Office of the
surveyor. The regulations were last re-
vised in 1923, before the Planning Com
mission was set up. THY are drawn
without regard to the zor~ng regulations
and set up minimum s,'.ndards which
are too often accepted 90 maximum. A
revision of these regulations would
strengthen the hands OF the surveyor in
dealing with subdividerS and aid in Sc
curing coordination of the aims of the
District officials and of the Planning
Commission"
Mr.. Eliot proposes a new set of lsst-
ting regulations, based on the doel-
ment now in force, but revised in The
light of current practice in other Giles
and to meet new conditions" Details
Of this proposed draft revision are set
forth in the commissions supplement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-13
CITIZEN BODY MEETS
Connecticut Avenue Group Adj
dressed by F. G. Woodhead.

The regular meeting of the Connec-
ticut Avenue Citizens Association was
held in All Souls Parish House, Wood
ley place and Cathedral avenue, last
night. The assembly was addressed by
F G. Woodhead, vice president of the
Washington Gas Light Co
Because of the small attendance no
business was transacted and, as the
December meeting of the body was
not held due to lack of a quorum, Pres
ldsEt Allan Fisher, announced that at
the February meeting a proposal VIII
be submitted to change meeting nights
from one a month to once every three
months.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20

By ROBERT RIPLEY. Creator of "Believe 1t OF Not''
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
TREASURER OF
MISSOURI TO
FACE CHARGES
Assembly Is Expected to
Vote Impeachment of
State Official.
By UniiesPress

By Unitcs Press
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo, Feb. 20.
The most important legislative
program facing the Missouri legis-
lature for years probably will be
sidetracked next week to permit the
senate to sit as a jury in the case
Of Larry Drunk, state treasurer,
charged with twelve counts of mis-
conduct.
The house Of representatives is
expected to vote articles Of i'm
parchment against the treasurer
next Tuesday.
Drunk is accused Of taking part
in two conspiracies, both designed
to enrich himself at the expense Of
the state.
1t is charged he failed to collect
the correct amount of interest on
state money deposited in now de-
funct bank at Aurora, Mo, and used
the unpaid balance to pay of notes
on money he borrowed in 1928 to
conduct his campaign.
Charges also are made that Brunk
allowed bonds to be used by banks,
as security for state deposits, which
had not received the sanction Of
the board of fund commissioners.
II is charged the treasurer &C
cepted $4,000 from the president
of the securities company handling
the bonds after he had recommend
ed their sale to state banks as Sc
curity on state deposits.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
Long Standing
Sore Healed

For over 30 years the healing and
soothing power of Peterson'S ONT
ment has quickly banished sores Of
long standing-has brought instant
comfort to folks suffering with piles,
itching skin, burns-has eradicated
worst pinples, blackheads and Ec-
zema in just few days.
And one IS cent box of Peterson's
Ointment at any drug store proves
it-even one application conWnces
you've at last discovered a wonder
working Ointment which won't fail
to give you results you want.
Mrs. Fay Korenchuk of Chicago,
ILL.,, writes: 'T am "a years old and
had a running sore over my ankle.
tried treatments and salves but
failed to heal it. Then got box
Of Peterson's Ointment and in 5
days time it was healing and very
shortly the sore disappeared. "-Ad-
Vertisement.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

freedom under a petition for a writ
Of habeas corpus.
Judge Frank P. Baker will hear
final evidence on the petition this
afternoon. Phillips seeks freedom on
bond.
That Phillips and Mrs. Minnie B.
Short, of Southport, had been go
ing together" more than two years
was the woman's testimony on the
stand Thursday.
Il thought he was a single man."
she said.
Mrs. Short testified Phillips gave
her approximately $700 during the
two-year period and that he had
dates" with her about twice week.
Baker probably will rule on the
petition this afternoon.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
AUTO SHOW CLOSES
Last Night Draws Big
Crowd to Exhibit.

Doors Of the twentieth annual
auto show of Indianapolis closed
Thursday night at the state fair
ground.
The shows last night attracted a
capacity crowd.
E. G. Henry, show manager, fore
cast that attendance figures would
be within several hundred of last
years despite the fact that a six
day exhibition was held instead of
1905 eight-day program.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
In legislature
so Years Ago
By United Press

By United Press
The house committee reporting
to the 1881 legislature on condi-
tons Of the north and south state
prisons was unanimous in de-
nouncing use of the cat" (cat O.
nine tails) as q method Of punish
ment. 1t also was recommended
that prisoners should not be SUBJ
jected to solitary confinement for
more than a week at a time and
that they should be allowed a bed
when secluded.
Another recommendation was
that the practice of Handwriting
prisoners to cell CRATES be abol-
ished.
The south prison was so over
crowded that the warden found it
necessary to place cots and beds in
the corridors for the prisoners. A
new wall also was needed, the re-
port said, to replace the wooden
fence, which was rotting.
One of the first moves toward a
separate insane hospital was made
by the committee when it recon-
mended $4,000 be appropriated to
each of the prisons for construc~
ton of such hospitals.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20

1t is easy to start an argument
in Washington.
/ stopped off there the other
day to take a poll of the City's
cigarette taste. AS usual, masked
the four leading cigarettes with
black bands and then asked
S74 smokers to pick out the ciga-
rette that tasted best.
Did those famous statesmen
give OLD GOLD the same rous-
ing majority it has won in other
cities? No, folks, they did not.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20

Featuring the chic.
black straws i'll the
vatican shape, Off
the-face and brim
styles. Included are
shades of blue, green,
red and sand. Small
and youthful large
head sizes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
TRAMPS OF EUROPE
GATHER FOR CONGRESS
NomadS From All Countries of Old
World to Meet in March.

PARIS, Feb. 2c.-Footsore and
weary, tramps from all parts Of
Europe are assembling in Paris for
their annual parliament, which is
scheduled to open on the Boule-
ward Ney, just outside the city
limits, on the first Sunday of March.
Nomads from all. the countries of
the old world during January direct
their steps toward the French cap
ital for their big conclave.
The parliament meets in the open
air. Delegates appointed to repre-
sent various countries take their
stand or the tribune one after the
other, exposing grievances, ideas,
discussing food, clothing, tobacco,
and, of course, new methods of
mendicancy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
SECRET Love-
AIRED IN COURT
Alleged Wife Slayer Had
Dates Is Charge.

Charges that Alva Phillips, 1897
South Meridian street, alleged slayer
of his wife, Mrs. Mary j. Phillips,
"a, nourished a secret love for an
other woman before the Staying,
were hurled Thursday in criminal
court as Phillips sought to win
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20
H0GUE BURIAL IS SET
Funeral Rites for Former City Con
trOIler to Be Held Saturday.

Funeral services for Joseph L,
Hogue, former city controller, bank
er and business man, who died sew
eral days ago in Lake Worth, Fla,
following an operation, will be held
at Q p. m Saturday.
The services will be held at the
st. Paul Methodist church, followed
by burial in Crown Hill cemetery.
Active pallbearers will be Virgil
T. Furgason, Fred B. Akin, B. F.
Hollingsworth, v. H, Manifold and
Clinton and Robert Devices.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-20

1t was a close squeak. But in
spite of filibusterS, insurgents
and stand patterS, OLD GOLD
nosed out its rivals lin the final
count.
The score was: OLD GOLD, 259;
Brand X, 2O2; Brand Y, PA;
Brand Z, .1S9.
Which goes to show that
not even Congressional b1ocs can
block the nations verdict that
o. G. is the most appealing ciga-
rette easier on the throat.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

As first selectman, Gilyard was also police chief ex-officio and played an important role in the running down and capture of the sextet. s1 Threatening Letters.
 He was said to have received two letters, threatening his life within the last month. The first one, in the first week of April told him he was going to be put on the spot Returning from a meeting of the Ansonia lodge of Elks where he was past exalted ruler, Gilyard was fired upon by passengers in a speeding car. A bullet mark was seen on his car this morning where it was parked outside of his office.
 s The next day, he was reported to have received another letter stating "We missed you last night but we'll get you the next time."
 Call for Help.
 ,s Miss Edith Nayack, telephone op- orator in the local exchange stated she received a call from MT Gill wards office around 7:30 o'clock this morning in which MT Gilyard told her he had just been shot by three negroes and to notify Dr Harvey and the police.
 She said she called Constable Will liam Wierdo. Constable Wierdo hur- ried to Mir Gilyard's office. He found the first selectman lying in pool of blood, near his desk. A bullet which is believed to have caused
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
Shot To Death In
 His Seymour Office
(Continued from Page D

his death was lying beside him on the floor. Constable Wierdo said the bullet had penetrated MT Gil- yards head and gone through his back. Constable Wierdo called Dr E. w. Davis who notified Coroner James J. Corrigan of New Haven. Coroner Corrigap ordered the body removed to the general hospital in New Haven where an autopsy was to be performed by Medical Exam iner Dr M. M. Scarboro.
 Murder Car Seen. A bread truck driver, whose name is withheld is reported to have seen a car containing four negroes speed ing toward Ansonia about 7:45 o'clock this morning.
 Police believe the quartet com mitted the crime. One of the quar- tet, police say, remained in the car with engine running while the other three went into the office of MT Gill lyard. After the shooting thS trio is believed to have dashed out ot the waiting car and disappeared. Faithful to Last. MT Gilyard. officials say, always made it point to be at his office around o'clock each morning. Elm ployes in a nearby factory do not re- port until o'clock. No one was in that vicinity at the time of the shoot ing. police said.
 Gilyard made a reputation locally las an anti-vice and anti-liquor cru
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
Takes Six Months
 to Get License
(Continued from Page D


 II suppose I'm a marked woman now" she said, but I'm free and Pm thankful for the Reno divorce court. heartless and mercenary though some may believe it.
 Ut all happened so quickly I am still in a daze. l don't think l was on the stand three minutes. Fifty or us were turned out of the courts like cans out of a factory. but we were glad to have it that way rather than long drawn out trials that only renew the heartaches.
 My case was set for 3 o'clock. My attorney, Harry Swanson, had so many other cases he couldn't give me much time. But we held dress rehearsal in his office in the morning. He made sure above all else that I remembered the testi- mony about my six-weeks residence here - the reason for the divorce seems secondary in Reno.
 "When we went to the courthouse I had to take my place in line watching those ahead of me get d. vorced by the 10-minute hearing process. Most of the women were in modish afternoon gowns, though two of them wore paJamas. They were nervously puffing cigarettes and I wanted one myself.
 "The rapid fire divorce procedure the quick questioning and hair trig' ger answers, amazed me. l won dered if could do the same. One woman I had seen at the Willows the Silver Slipper and other nigh clubs, drinking and playing roulette was on the stand. chaste and de mure, telling the judge all about 1t Her husband, a bank clerk, scoldet and nagged her and wouldn't give hel spending money. The while sh. made noble self-sacrifices. she said She got her divorce and so did thu next one. who cried most of thu time.
 "When the clerk called Davis VI Davis, I felt a lump in my throat My residence witness and I wer' hurried forward, sworn in and sh' took the stand to testify I had nve' in Reno six weeks. When my al torney motioned me to the stand was so nervous could hardly speak wanted a cigaret more than any thing else.
 Il MT swanson asked me about tw dozen questions as to my residenc in Reno and three questions abou non-support. my grounds for al vorce. I knew just what to say. bu I felt like I was in dream. an answered Derfunctorily. Judg
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

lsader. We went into office on a I"cleanup platform" supported large ly by the womens vote. He was
 said to have been solely responsible
 for the breaking up of gang O1 slot machine hijackers.
 Brother of Dr Gilyard.
 pr Gilyard, Waterbury veterinarian arrived at the Town Hall around III o'clock and discussed the affair
 with officials.
 State police headed by Officer Will |liam Schatzman are in charge of the investigation. They picked up the -four Portugese in Ansonia and brought them to headquarters where they were being questioned by Cor |oner Corrigan.
 In addition to Dr Gilyard, the de- ceased is survived by his wife and four children, John IF, Anne 16, William IA, and Raymond IF. He was prominent in Masonic and other fraternal affairs and in addition to his duties as selectman, was super lintendent of charities and roads.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
Boy Prodigy Is
 Shot to Death
(Continued from Page D

(Continued from Page D and Crafts Institute at Washington, b. C., a former investigator for the department of labor and an author ot several books. She had stuck by her son throughout all his difficult ties.
 Police said the shooting occurred in the Mud Dog Boat club, a Dyke man street cafe, shortly after mid night. Sloane's body was not iden- t;fled until several hours later. His death recalled an assertion he made shortly after his release from prison. When man has seen the worst-and have." he said, life doesn't hold any terror for him." Sloane was convicted six years ago on a charge of stealing an auto ! mobile in Mount Vernon, N. Y. When it was discovered he had served a sentence in Pennsylvania for two similar offenses. he was sent to Sing Sing for ten years.
 Hardly had the gates of the prison shut behind him than this paradox of prodigy and profiigate began to study two exits from Sing Sing. One was through the law: the other, over the walls. His study of the latter " io lHtCi oPtCo OJ eS The keeper, who had received word of an escape plot. searched Sloane's cell and found strangely filed tool, a guards cap and the blue coat of prison band uniform
 The state contended the tool was a set of brass knuckles," possession of which, in Sloane's circumstances constituted a misdemeanor. Sloane maintained it was a key With which he intended to escape.
 Although the youth had been as signed an attorney by the court. ht insisted on conducting his own de fense. Still clad in prison denim Sloane arose in court and an nounced he was ready to prove tn' ambiguous tool was a key if thu prison guards would produce screw driver he had hidden in his cell The guards, who had thought the! previously had removed everything from the cell, searched the cubicl' again and found not only the prom ised screw driver but two chisels al well.
 Blandly. he showed how the too could be used as a key. Then h' rested his case. For six hours th' juniors deliberated. Then the! brought in the verdict that whil the instrument was a key, 1t cOul' , have been used in the manner brass knuckles.
 So seven more years in prisol !. were added to his previous sentence l But on his return to Sing Sing , prison authorities would take m
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

Curler was kind and sympathetic. He never once lokoed at the clock, although other attorneys and their clients stamped around impatiently. "While waiting to be called, l was conscious of the combination or scores of different powders and per- fumes. Once on the stand l was mostly conscious of the sweet scent ed breeze floating in through open windows from the nearby desert and gardens.
 "It seemed as though before l was comfortably seated the judge was saying, Judgment for the plain. tiff granted until further order of the court and 1t was all over = was finished product of the mill: Many women kiss the pillar and throw their wedding rings in the river. but I was so excited l for got to do either."
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

chances with the slippery genius. They put him in solitary confine- ment.
 Five times subsequently, he sought to obtain an appeal of his second conviction. Then one day, prison authorities said they discovered that Sloane and two desperate long term prisonres had planned wholesale | break in which his mechanical tall ent was to be used in crippling the prison power plant. Sloane and his confederates were placed in the death house for safe-keeping, pre- caution taken only few times in the history of the prison.
 Despite his complete separation from prison society, Sloane contin- used his bid for freedom by legal means. Finally, the youth won a new trial on the automobile theft charge. He conducted his own case and did it with the shrewdness of a first-rate criminal lawyer.
 He produced two fellow prison- CTS. both long termers. as his main witnesses. They testified they had stolen the car in question and that Sloane had been framed" The jury acquitted him. But the brass knuckles sentence was still against him and he was sent up to Danne- mora, the Siberia" of penitentiartes. At Dannemora, Sloane finally dis covered legal loophole which might win him his freedom. Once again he appeared before the court. He argued that since he had been ac- quilted of his last motor car theft, he was only a first offender under the law. The court of appeals agreed xy-ift, ragPntancl0 on a reduced charge-misdemeanor ito a maximum penalty of one year. Since he already had served four, his release was automatic. Sloane was freed and went to work in New York law office Nine weeks after his return to so- ciety, he was arrested and identified as one of three armed men who held up a manufacturing jeweler Sloane was indicted and was out on bail when the shotgun slugs put an end to his career.
 Sloane was shot to death as he stenped out of 8 waterfront speak easy. Tn his pocket police found a false mustache, a fake police badge and a fake drivers license.
 l The young genius, who spent his prison days studying law in ordel that he might plead his way to free dom, had been drinking in the cafe according to Jimmie Delucia. 1t! proprietor. who was arrested thii morning on a charge of possessing liquor.
 DeLucia said he left his establish ment, known as the Mad Dot Boa Club, at about 12:30 a. m. and tha at that time three young men wer. at the bar with Sloane. The youti
 had been suspicious of the trio. l was said, and told the bartender tha
 he didn't like the looks of them He asked the bartender not to serv' them anything but beer.
 Finally the three men walked ou and apparently got into a sedai
 parked across the street. Sloan
 walked out and the shotguns starte'
 blazing. He was shot in the abdo
 Police believe Sloane had entered
 the rum running business and wa
 put on the spot" by gangsters.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12

rate the kingdom.
 If you must drink, gentlemen" he was wont to say, lat least drink like gentlemen. Go out and peddle your junk and buy good liquor-pay 50 cents a pint for 1t if you must but insist upon genuine, wholesome liquor. otherwise, I assure you, as Shakespeare says. you shall drink no drink other than tears."
 Connolly apportioned parts of the kingdom to his subjects and no claim jumping was countenanced. He collected tribute for the junk which was sold and demanded his subjects keep him in comfortable living quarters.
 But revolts will come and king doms must go. Dumpville is no more, and King Connolly is in volun- tary exile.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-12
Can't PLAY Can't REST
 -chiId needs cs'toris

w HEN a child is fretful and irritable, seems distressed and un- comfortable, can't play, can't sleep, 1t is a pretty sure sign that some thing is wrong. Right here is where Castoria fits into a child's scheme the very purpose for which it was formulated years ago! A few drops and the condition which caused the trouble is righted; comfort quickly brings restful sleep.
 Nothing can take the place of Castoria for children; it's perfectly harmless, yet dIsuoys effective. For the protection of your wee one for your own peace of mind-keep this old reliable preparation always on hand. But don't keep it just for emergencies; let it be an everyday aid. Its gentle action will ease and soothe the infant who cannot sleep. In more liberal doses 1t will