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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
COURT D|SM|SSES
GAMBLING CASES
Failure of Police to Appear as
Witnesses Given as Reason
by Judge Given.

Negligence on the part of policemen
in failing to appear as witnesses fol
The Government in their cases was the
reason given this morning for the COM
plete dismissal of six "clean-cut'
gambling cases by Judge Ralph Given
in the jury branch of Police Court fol
lack of evidence. Five Of the cases had
been continued five times on account OF
the absence of officers when the cases
were called, and the other case had
ben continued four times for the same
reason.
Written Notices Sent.
Assistant District Attorney John r
Fitzpatrick told the court that two
written notices had been sent to the
officers on each Of the last two occa-
sions when the cases were to have
come up, but that they had made no
appearance to file their papers at his
office at the appointed hour. The
cases date back as far as December
.29.
Inspector Thaddius Bean, in charge
OF the vice squad, appeared at Police
Court shortly following the dismissal
of the cases to ascertain on what
grounds they had been thrown out of
court. He told Mr.. Fitzpatrick that
the officers. we're engaged in District
Supreme Court, which was the reason
they failed to put in an appearance.
Fitzpatrick notices, however, specified
that the officers should be available in
the Police Court at $50 am. while
Supreme Court does not convene until
10 am. Fitzpatrick said the officers
did not put in an appearance at Police
Court at the appointed hour.
Attached to Vice Squad.
The officers involved, all attached to
the vice squad of the Metropolitan Po-
lice Department, are: F. D. billiard,
F. A. Truscott, F. o. Brass, N. o.
Holmes, j. K. Baker, Arthur Ralph Will
liams, e. C. O'Mera and H. G. Bauer
The defendants in the cases were Mary
Ware, colored Tillie White, colored;
Pearl e. Stevenson, colored; John In
nocenti, Joseph and Philip Savia and
Peter Mantos and Louis Pentos.
Judge Given, following the courts
recess, had no comment to make other
CA11L IIldI he AdQ dCIcu III dCCOIudLCe
with the wishes OF the assistant dis
trict attorney.
Judge John P. Mcmahon last week
failed to call cases on the assignment
list when officers failed to appear to
prosecute their cases.
Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent
of police, said he had not been ad-
vised of the action of Judge Given and
declined to make any comment until
he gets an official report from In
spector Bean.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
HERBERT HOOVER, JR., ISSUED
LICENSE AS RADIO OPERATOR
Broadcastng and Aviation Form Irresistible Forces in
Life of Presidents Son.

Radio is an irresistible force in the
life Of Herbert Hoover, jr., eldest son Of
the President.
Although under the doctors care at
Asheville, N. C, he just can't keep away
from his headphones and key. Tuesday
he telegraphed the Federal Radio Com
mission for a license for an amateur
radio STATEN in his name at Asheville.
Today he was notified that the license
has been issued.
Radio, coupled with aviation, is the
younger Hoover's life work In his
twenty-seventh year, he Is president of
Aeronautical Radio, Inc, the Public
Service Aviation Radio Corporation, as
we'll as technical assistant in charge of
communications of Western Air Express,
Inc, of Los Angeles, one of the largest
Of the national air transports
When he became Ill several months
ago and left for Asheville where the CHI
mate was better suited to his health,
the younger Hoover did not relinquish
his duties. Almost every day he talks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28

via long distance with Paul Goldsbor-
ough. vice president of Aeronautical
Radio, in Washington, discussing the
affairs of the new communications net
work
With his new amateur station at
Asheville, Mr.. Hoover will be enabled
to talk with his friends numbered
among the nearly $4,000 amateurs of
the country, and perhaps with amateurs
of foreign countries, for it's an easy mat
ter to maintain worldwide communi-
cation on the very high frequencies.
The license is for both radiotelephone
and radiotelegraph contacts.
Since he attended grammar school
young Hoover has been intensely inter-
ested in radio. A graduate of Leland
Stanford University, the alma mater OF
his father, he holds an engineering de-
gree. Prior to his association with West
ern Air on February /, 1929, his expert
ence in radio had been Of an amateur
nature.
Copyright. 1os1)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
JAMES N. PROCTOR
TO GET JUDGESH|P
Nomination to Succeed Hitz
Expected to Go to Senate
in Few Days.

The nomination of James NJ. Proc
tor, an attorney of this city, to be
associate justice of the Supreme Court
of the District Of Columbia, to succeed
Justice William Hitz, who has beer
elevated to the Court of Appeals of the
District will be sent by President
Hoover to the Senate probably within
the next few days.
Mr.. Proctor is a native of Washing
ton, and has been a practicing attorney
here for more than Is years, during
which time he has served number OF
years as assistant United States at
torney. Besides occupying an eminent
place in the bar of Washington, Mr.
Proctor has a distinguished military
record. having risen from lieutenant to
ma jor4n the A. E. F. during the World
War.
Recommended by Mitchell.
President Hoover's appointment OF
Mr.. Proctor to the local b7nch is under
stood to have been made upon the
recommendation of Attorney General
Mitchell. The latter is known to have
been greatly impressed by Mr.. Proctor's
record, both as a practiclng attorney
and as an assistant United States
attorney.
Mr.. Proctor was recommended foT
this judicial appointment by the Bar
Association of the District Of Columbia,
by the Republican State COMMITTEES In
and for the District of Columbia, and
a number of prominent individual
citizens and business men. His appoint
ment to this bench will, the White
House and the Department OF Justice
believe, be looked upon with great favor
by the citizens of this city.
Mr.. Proctor was born here 48 years
ago. He was graduated from the Dis
trict public schools. and studied law at
the George Washington University,
from which he was graduated in 1904.
He was at once admitted to the District
bar, and has since practiced continu-
ously. He served as an assistant
United States attorney for this dis
trict from 1906 to 1918. and during
four years of that time was chief as
sistant United States attorney.
Served in Army.
Leaving the District Attorneys Office
In 1918, Mr.. Proctor has since engaged
in the private practice Of law in Wash
ington.
When the United States entered the
World War Mr.. Proctor was married
and the father of two small boys; there
was no probability of his being called
into military service and he was en-
joying a lucrative practice in his pro-
fession. Nevertheless, he Immediately
entered the first officers training camp
at Fort Myer, Va, and in May, 1917,
was commissioned a lieutenant of in
fantry.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
MACDONALD FACES
VOTE CONF |DENTLY
Labor-LiberaI Alliance Ex-
pected to Pass Trades
Dispute Measure.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
LONDON, January 28.-Britain's sec
ond Labor government, approaching its
third year, today faced critical Com
mons vote with confidence that its
master politician, j. Ramsay MacDon-
aid, had unanswered the ministry TO
another victory.
Promised abstention of the rank and
file Of the Liberal party from voting
in the division on the second reading
of the trades dispute bill made it pretty
certain that the government would be
upheld by a majority Of from Is to 30
votes.
The simplest and most plausible ex-
PLANTATION was that David Lloyd George,
Liberal leader, considered that, however
bad Labor ministry, 1t was to be
preferred to Conservative government,
and would lend his aid in keeping the
Labor government in power until the
new electoral reform measure, which
would increase Liberal representation III
the Commons, can be passed.
In the face of this Lloyd
George alliance, mighty effort of Sir
John Simon, leader of one wing of the
Liberal party which is not abiding
Dy The DECISIONS OF MI. blOyQ george,
appeared today to have been futile. Sir
John, in what was characterized as one
of the great speeches of his career, last
night condemned the trades dispute act
as "a thoroughly worthless bill"
The trades dispute bill, one Of the
most bitterly contested measures in
recent parliamentary history, defines as
illegal a strike or lockout "of which
the primary object is an object other
than that of furthering purposes con-
nected with the employment or nom
employment, or with the conditions of
employed in the trade or industry in
which the strike or lockout takes place."
The bill also restores to civil servants
and municipal employees the right Of
joining a political trade union, right
which was taken from them after the
general strike of 1925.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
II RIOTERS ESCAPE
FROM REFORMATORY
Fifteen Boys Injured in Free-for-
All Fight Blamed on Racial
Antagonists.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ANNANDALE, N. j., January 2S.-
State police sought IL boys today who
escaped from the Annandale Reforma-
tory during free-for-all fight in which
Is were injured.
Between so and so boys, ranging in
age from Is to "a years, engaged in the
fight, which occurred during the study
hour last night in one of the cottages
known at the Lower Camp"
The boys fought through the building,
breaking doors and windows, throwing
bricks and chairs.
Four guards, who were unarmed, were
helpless against the rioters and sent for
State Police. A score responded.
After the fight the boys ran out of
the cottage. All but IL of them were
rounded up by the State police
One of the injured suffered fracture
of the wrist and another fracture of
the ankle. The others were treated for
cuts and bruises
Reformatory officials said racial an
tagonisms were behind the outbreaks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
Fl Men Feared Lost
AS Two AvaIanches
Overwhelm Patrol
By the Associated Press.

BARDENECCHIA, Italy, Jan
uary 28.-Three army officers, two
commissioned officers and Is
soldiers in an airplane detach-
ment were feared lost today in
two avalanches which overwhelm-
ed the patrol in the valleys of
Dora and Riparia.
Rescue parties we're searching
in the vicinity, but this afternoon
they had found no trace Of the
missing men.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
GANDH| CARRIES ON
FIGHT FOR LIBERTY
Declares Right to Make Salt
and Picket Liquor Shops
Must Be Recognized.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOMBAY, January 28.-Leaving be-
hind him message to midas Nationalist
millions that their fight for independ-
ence must go on, Mahatma Gandhi
today speeded by train toward Ala
habad, central Indian city, where are
gathered most of the Nationalist Work
ing Committee.
At Allahabad. India's "City of God"
located on the sacred Ganges, he will
visit the bedside of one of his dearest
friends, the aged Pandit Motilal Nehru,
father of Jawaharlal Nehru, president
of the all-India National Congress, and
discuss with him Britain's offer of an
eventual qualified dominion status for
India.
Faces Great Welcome.
He faces in Allahabad. when he ar
riveS there tonight a welcome prob
ably as enthusiastic and frenZied as
that which tens and hundreds of
thousands gave him here yesterday
upon his arrival from eight months in
Yeroda Prison. In the crush which
one woman was trampled to death and
81 persons were sent to hospitals.
I'VE can suspend judgment on Prime
Minister MacDonaldS statement to the
round table conference at London" he
declared just before parting from Bonn
bay, but we cannot suspend the activi-
ties of the All-India National Congress
(the organization which has sponsored
the Nationalist civil disobedience move
menD.
Will Continue Picketing.
Even if after our conference with the
delegates coming home from the round
table conference it is found that the
prime minister's statement affords suffi-
Gent ground for the congress to sus-
pend its non-co-operation movement,
the party cannot abandon its right to
picket liquor shops and drug shops and
those selling foreign cloth, nor can the
right of midas starving millions to
make their own salt be given up.
The execution of these three funda-
mental rights is not intended to register
the resistance of the Indian nation to
British rule. 1t is intended to achieve
these ends for all time, regardless of
the outcome of the forthcoming peace
conversations.
But even after the government has
accepted this program the end of civil
disobedience and non-co-operation de-
pendS, Gandhi added, upon settlement
OF midas other grievances.
ppVTTSu DurcS D0Vrurr,x,v
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
BRITISH PRESS DOUBTFUL.
Conservative and Liberal Papers DepIOre
Freeing Gandhi.

LONDON, January 20 pa section
of the British press assumed an II told
you so" attitude today in commenting
upon disorders in India coincident with
release of Mahatma Gandhi and other
political prisoners from jail.
The Conservative Post considered re-
newed rioting as a matter of course, and
said: "Gandhi evidently thinks him
self the master of the situation and
India assumes more and more de-
pressing likeness to a school that has
fallen completely out of hand under
a weak Schoolmaster.
The Daily Mail said: 1.-THE result of
releasing Gandhi has simply been to
encourage lawlesSneSs. The effect OF
the gas and gush of all our sentimental
lists will certainly be disastrous"
The Liberal News Chronicle said:
1.-THE result of granting Gandhi's de-
mands would be to reduce to instant
bankruptcy all Indian provinces and
so cripple the central government that
it would be practically impossible to
carry on at ALL"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
OPERATION ON COWS STOMACH
YIELDS $40 OF $42O DEVOURED
Veterinarian Called Too Late and Bossys Death Under
Knife Is Nearly in Vain.

his stock. the bag was missing. His
search was without success until he
focused his gaze on BoSsy, placidly
chewing her cud. He saw a part Of
what had been a $40 bill protruding
from Bossy's mouth and sent q hurry
call for veterinarian.
In little while Bossy's spirit was
on its way to the happy grazing ground
for cows and the veterinarian had oper-
ated. In one of BosSy's stomachs they
found all that remained of Bills bank
roll-a badly mutilated $50 bill, $40
bill and a tattered canvas bag.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
CIVIL WAR VETERAN DIES

MERGED, Calf, January % (P.-
James L. Pool, SO, said to have been
secretary to Gen. U. S. Grant at the
close of the Civil War, died last night.
Pool came here six months ago from
Shelbyville, Ind, with his wife and
daughter. He enlisted in the 10th Reg
iment, Company K, December 5, 1861,
and was mustered out in July, 1865.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
VOLCANOES ACTIVE
Flame and Smoke Pouring From
Alaskan Mounts Described.

SEWARD. Alaska, January % (E1.-
Word Of renewed activity among vol
canoes of the Aleutian Islands. and
Alaska peninsula has been brought here
by Capt. G. z. Anderson Of the steamer
Starr.
Mount Shushalton, Anderson said,
was hurting sheets Of flame and dense
clouds of smoke at fve-minute inter-
walls. Mount Cleveland, on the Island
Of -Four Mountains and heretofore in
active. sent forth great clouds Of
smoke.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
Petty Racketeer Slain.

CHICAGO, January % CP).-Morris
Berkowitz, said by police to have been
a petty racketeer. was shot and killed
in the Maxwell street district early to-
day. His slayers escaped, presumably in
an automobile. Detectives said the
Staying apparently was connected with
recent series of killings of minor hood
lums on the West Side, but added that
they had no idea of the particular mo-
tive
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
GRoNER REPORT FAVORABLE.
Senate Subcommittee Takes Action on
Court Nomination.

The nomination of Judge G. Lawrence
Groner for the District Court of Appeals
was given favorable report today by the
Senate subcommittee handling the ap-
pointment. The subcommittee was COM
posed Of Senators Borah, Republican, of
Idaho; Blaine, Republican, of Wiscon-
sin, and Bratton, Democrat, of New
Mexico.
At hearings on the nomination last
week, two former Department of Justice
attorneys appeared in opposition basing
their protest on a decision Judge Groner
rendered seven years ago in the trial of
a case in Federal Court in West
Virginia.
Those who testified at the hearing
were Charles B. Brewer and Richard
L. Merrick. The trial was a conspiracy
case, and at the conclusion Judge
(Cnnfinllnd on Page 2 Column 4
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BRIDGETON, N. j., January "a
Gloom as thick as pea soup hung over
the farm of Bill Mattox today, for
Bossy, a favorite COW, lay dead and
Farmer Bin was out $3.50 in cash, plus
BoSsy's value on the hoof.
This is the story as cleaned from Bill
himself:
He drew $420 from the bank to pur-
chase supplies and, for day or two,
carried the money in a canvas bag
in his hip pocket. Then, after feeding
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
Railroad Fare Reduced.

CHICAGO, January 20 (P.-Passen-
ger rates at cents mile, a As per cent
reduction from the regular SO rate, will
go into effect on seven sections of the
Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Feb
ruary 1. c. A. Cairns, passenger traff1c
manager, said the three-month trial on
certain Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota,
Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska
branches undoubtedly will be extended
to other parts of the system If success
full"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
TWO SHIPS IN DISTRESS
Coast Guard Aiding One as Help
Is Sent to other.

BOSTON, January % Up. = One
Coast Guard cutter today was fighting
head winds toward Halifax with a dis
abled steamer in tow and another was
speeding to the assistance of a second
steamer helpless in the North Atlantic.
The cutter Tampa, pulling the dis
abled Effingham, was creeping toward
Halifax at speed of three knots an
hour or less, while the cutter Cham
plain was hurrying to the Shipping
Board freighter West Kyska, which
lost her propeller 1000 miles out from
Halifax
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28
''FrOnt Press to Home
Within the Hour"

The Stars carrier system covers
every city block and the regular edi-
ton j; delivered to Washington homes
as fast as the papers are printed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-28

WEA HEX.
90. 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair ond colder with lowest tempera-
ture about 80 degrees tonight; tomorrow
mostly cloudy and warmer. Tempera-
Highest. 81, at pm. yesterday;
lowest, as, at TAO am. today.
Full report on page 9.
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CONTINUED on Page 2, Column A.
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Coast Guard records produced as evil
dence showed the Josephine K had been
under suspicion as a rum-runner since
1928. She was trailed by patrols 20
times and twice, the records said, was
seen by Guardsmen in the act of trans
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Evening star., 1931-12-18
US. EMPLOYEES GIVE
$4,000 FOR CHEST.
II Branches of Government
Equal or Exceed Quota
in Campaign.

Nine hundred and siXty-one thousand
dollars has been contributed by Gov
ernment workers toward the 81 200, 900
relief fund sought in connection with
the Forthcoming campaign of the
Washington Community Chest. it was
announced this morning by Thomas
Campbell, president of the Civil Sery-
ice Commission, Who is head of the
general committee in charge
The report included pledges up to
last night from 33 establishments that
have completed circulation of the sub
scription list among their employees. and
p where the returns are incomplete.
Gave 90 Per Cent.
In II branches of government, both
Federal and District, the workers,
called on for three days pay, gave an
amount equal to or exceeding this sum.
In six of these they went over their
allotment. these being the White House,
State Department, Federal Power Com
mission, National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, Federal Reserve Board
and United States MarSharS Office.
Particular attention was called to the
result OF the solicitation in the Ma
tonal Training School for Boys, where
80 employees receive salaries averaging
less than $l,l00 annually; and where
the donation reaching S9O9l9 figured
out SO per cent OF the possible quota,
putting the school well to the front.
The success of the movement was
forecast several days ago, and it was
repeated this morning that several
thousand employees still are to be reach
ed to round out the desired million
dollars.
Subscriptions Reported.
The subscriptions by those establish
ments which have made final returns,
with the percentage that the total
constitutes Of the full three days pay
from each employe, follow:
Evening star., 1931-12-18
KING NAMED PRESIDENT
OF COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
Clothing and Toys for Poor Will
Be Taken to Christmas
PARTY Wednesday.

William L. King was elected preSi-
dent of the Cosmopolitan Club for the
ensuing year at a meeting yesterday in
the Carlton Hotel. Other officers are
Robert McChesney vice president: E.
E. DoWnham. treasurer, and Michael
Schaefer, secretary.
Arthur w. Defenderfer and Edmund
Carl were elected to the board of
directors, while Gordon Bonnette was
named delegate to the international
convention, with George Wyne as
alternate.
The annual Christmas party of the
club will be held Wednesday at the
Carlton Hotel. In the past. members
brought presents for distribution among
themselves, but this year they will bring
clothing and toys for distribution
among the poor. P. A. Davis, chair
man of the Relief Committee, will have
charge Of the distribution.
Evening star., 1931-12-18
ARMY PILOT KILLED
IN FREAK ACCIDENT
Witnesses Say Sailplane Disinte-
grated as It Was Launche
500 Feet in Air.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
HONOLULU, December 18.-TWo freak
aerial accidents within two days killed
one Air Corps lieutenant and injured
another near here
Lieut.. w. j. Scott, holder of the
American glider distance record, was
injured fatally yesterday when his sail
plane AlbatroSs was wrecked as it was
being launched into the air 500 feet
over Gait Glider Airport, Oahu Island
Witnesses said as the sailplane was re-
leased from the tow cable it lost is
rudder and a wing broke loose. Lieut.
Scott died in a hospital.
The day before Lieut.. John H. Davies
was jerked from an airplane near Pearl
Harbor by the opening of his para
chute. He was not seriously injured
The chute's rip cord was believed to
have caught something.
Lieut.. Scott was from San Antonio
Tex. and Davies from Oakland, Calf
The glider distance record set by Lieut.
Scott, l4Ol2 miles, was made here re-
Gently.
Evening star., 1931-12-18
Named Archbishop of Upsala.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, December 18
Po.-Dr. Erling Eidem, professor CT
eXogeticS at the University of Lund has
been appointed Archbishop of Upsala
and primate Of Sweden to succeed the
winner, who died last July.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-09

to Be GUen BY
Jeze,iSh Juniors

Council of Jewish Juniors will
entertain with a supper dance on
Sunday night at Cooper's Grill. A
floor show will be given by members
of the group and supper will be
served at midnight.
Those taking part in the enter
tainment are Miss Betty Station,
from WFBM; Miss Virginia Mar
Gus, tap dancer; Miss Pearl Good
man, singer; Miss Mildred Magid-
son, versatile dancer, and Irving
Arnold and his harmony trio. Miss
Jane SlutSky is in charge of the
show
Members of the ways and means
committee, in charge of the plans,
are Misses Adelaide Cohn, chair
man; Leah Schatz, Dorothy Schatz,
Reva Rudy, Hilda Greenburg, Julia
Goldberger, Dorothy Krish and Ber-
nice Shaw