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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
BY SALLIE ". RI. PICKETT.

with but little more than week re-
manning before Ash Wednesday and the
40 succeeding penitential days, Wash
ington is having its last gay whirl in
society, the program increasing in
speed as the Winter season closes.
After Lent begins there will still re-
main many large and important din
ner parties for the President and Mrs.
Hoover, the Vice President, Mr.. Curtis,
and his sister, Mrs. Gam, but for the
most the program for society folk Will
be of cultural nature, with music and
lectures predominating. The President
and Mrs. Hoover are religiously carry
ing out the schedule for state events
laid down for them earlier in the sea-
son, and besides the brilliant and
SNOWY Army and Navy reception
Wednesday evening of this week-the
change from Thursday night on &C
count of Lincoln's birthday anniversary
causing the first jog in the social ma
chinery of the White House entertain
ments-will be followed Monday night,
February Is, with the reception in hon.
or OF the officials of Government bu-
Eeaus.
Even with her strenuous social pro-
gram still running rapidly along, Mrs
Hoover yet finds time for attending
concerts, looking at pictures and going
through with dozens of the duties that
devolve upon First Lady of the Land.
Wednesday she attended Mrs. Town
sends morning musicale at the May
flower. and Thursday afternoon, &C
companied by a group of friends, heard
Roxy and his gang and Mime. Schu-
mann-Heink at Constitution Hall. Ac-
companied by a White House guest, she
visited the Corcoran Gallery for look
at the water colors of British artists
hung there, and which daily call a
stream of artists and other visitors to
the gallery,
She veas early to the Roxy matinee
and remained late and was an exceed
ingly charming figure in her box, wear
ing a handsome afternoon gown OF
brown velvet, a brown hat and furs.
Like Mrs. Coolidge, she is a most
satisfying guest at concerts, giving her
self up wholly to the enjoyment of the
music. Mrs. Gam, who occupied box
for the Roxy concert in the afternoon
accompanied Mrs. Hoover to the Town
send musicale Wednesday morning.
While the President and Mrs. Hoover
were entertaining the Speaker and Mrs
Longworth at the White House Thurs
day night Vice President Curtis and hi:
sister, Mrs. Gam, were enjoying a par
ticularly friendly reception at the Con-
gressional Club Just as the eve Of the
election of a new president and Pow
officers for the club added zeSt to the
reception given week ago for Presi'
dent and Mrs. Hoover, so that o.
Thursday night showed the result Of
nrst-class women politics In which Mrs
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The Secretary Of State and Mrs.
Henry L. Stimson returned to Wash
ington last evening from their home in
New York, where they have been for
several days.
Representative and Mrs. Frank H.
Foss have visiting them at the RooSe-
welt Hotel for few weeks their daugh-
ter, Mrs o. z. Ringquist. and their
granddaughter, Sibyl Ann, Of Boston.
Mass.
Representative and Mrs. Richard s.
Aldrich have as their guests over Sun
day Mr.. and Mrs. James j. Blaine Of
New York.
Rear Admiral G. l.. Hussey of Itch
field, Conn, former naval attache at
the London embassy, and his family
are at the Hotel Coquina, Ormond
Beach, Fla, for several weeks,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-08
MRS. HOWARD M.
HAMMERS,

With Betsy Ann and How
ard M. hammers, jr., wife
and children of Comdr.
hammers.
Underwood Photo.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
OLD ROTHSTElN GANG ARE STILL
 AFTER VICTIMS
Los Angeles Man Died Last May, Because He Was Pursued and Gang Keeps at Family

Los Angeles, Cal. Sept. 1S.- CUP).-A story of terrorism in which gangsters of the band head ed by the late Arnold Rothstein bounded their victim to death was revealed to-day by District Attor- ney Buron Fitts. When their victim, Leo P. Bergin, former president of the Los Angeles Soap company, died in a hospital here last May after a nervous breakdown. the gangsters continued efforts at ex- tortion upon his family, Fitts de- clared.
 Fitts revealed the search for the gang yesterday when Harry Les lie, an investigator, was shot and seriously wounded by the acciden- tai discharge of his own gun as he lay hidden in the rear of an automobile driven by the Bergin chauffeur, en route to rendezvous with the gang. Search for the eX- tortioners to-day centered in Los Angeles, and Fitts declared he had the names of three New York gang sters implicated in the plot.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Court
 Justice Charged
 As Drunk Driver
Judge E. C. Cakes of Lan= caster, N. H., Had Been Arrested After a Fight With POlice-After Are rest Had Rendered His Resignation

Lancaster, N. H., September IS CUP) = Judge E. C. Oakes committed suicide today while un- der investigation as an alleged drunken driver in connection with an automobile accident at Milton Sunday night.
 The judge took his own life only a few hours after he had resigned as a member of the New Hamp- shire superior court bench.
 The body of the judge was found in a bedroom of his home here by realtives early this afternoon. Ac- cording to police he had commit ted suicide by shooting himself with a revolver.
 After submitting his resignation to Governor John G. WinaHt last night, the judge had issued this statement:
 "I have just sent my resigna- tion as justice of the New Hamp- shire superior court bench to Gov ernor Winant. This will avoid any embarrassment to the governor and the court of which I have ben a member in any further in- quiry into a happening which has assumed momentous importance apparently, in Stratford county where I was holding court"
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
CHINA PREPARES TO GIVE WELCOME
 TO LINDBERCHS
President of National l Party Will Not Be Pres- ent as He Had Import ant Conference

Ranking, China, Sept. 1S-(CP). General Chiang Kai-Shek, presi- dent of the nationalist party, left to-day, unable to delay an inn portant military conference so he could welcome Col. and Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh when they arrive. The Lindberghs had been expected to stop in Fukuoka only one night and residents of Man. king were disappointed when il was learned they would not reach here before tomorrow. Plans for the reception were not changed.
 Col. Lindbergh is expected to bring his plane down on a lake near Ranking because of the Yangtze river floods. Water from tn eriver has swept into the city and the foreign office is under wa ter. Thousands of refugees are or the city walls. General Chiang Jeff for Hankow at 10 a. m. on the gunboat Yungsui. Invasion of Hu' nan province by Cantonese troop: will be discussed at the conference
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

be done this winter"
 Dr Edward T. Devine of New York, another speaker, suggested that the United States abolish the lawless methods he said are now used in law enforcement. "We Americans are lawless race" he said. Grimes of violence and fraud are more common among us than among other people who call themselves civilized. We have no scapegoat-war, prohibition. communism, machine age. urbaLi- zation. or unemployment-we sim ply are not civilized" Devine urg- ed Protestant leaders to seek dis- continuance of such things as the Ku Kiux Klan, vigilance commit tees. police stool-pigeons. the third degree and undercover men.
 Walter w. Van Kirk of New York deplorcd the money spent on armament while people are in want. He said that if revolution resulted the governments stupid fly" would be responsible.
 "When we squander sl.000. 900. 900 . year for land and naval forces while tens of thousands 0i persons are in dire need. then the government must expect whatever may come," he said.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Some Questions Asked
 Sunday School Students

and beer are harmless" Alcohol is q poison." Drinking is not a sin." "The teaching of the Bible is against the drinking of liquor in any form" "The 18th amendment cannot be repealed"
 | Among other words which the pupil Is asked to analyze in ac- able or disagreeable association- and he is warned not to stop to re- fleet. but work rapidly" are: speakeasy, prohibition. drunkard. W. C.. T. U.. home brew. Andrew W. Mellon, social glass. Hoover commission on law enforcement. Jones law. rum running. beer stein. machine gun. and Literary Digest poll"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
CABOT COMPANY
 IN BRUNSWICK
 ROBBED TO-DAY

Brunswick, Me, Sept 1S-(UP) Three masked men, all armed and all clad in overalls, entered the office of the Cabot Manufac- turing company to-day, lined six girl workers against a wall. and escaped with $10,000 payroll. The trio made their getaway in a 1881 model sedan which investi- gation revealed had been stolen in Portland yesterday from Dr Fran els Sugone. Cumberland county medical examiner.
 The daylight robbery was engi- neered swiftly and smoothly with out gunplay. When the three men entered the office of the Cabot company, big rayon concern, the six young women were placing the $10,000 in envelopes. An addition al $6,000 in payroll funds had been locked in a safe only a few min- utes before or that, too, doubtless would have been stolen.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

New York, September IS - UP) - Governor Franklin D, Roosevelt's views on prohibition make him just as unacceptable to dry democrats as presidential candidate as was Alfred E. Smith. Bishop James Cannon, Jr. of the Methodist Episcopal church. South. said last night on his arrival from Europe.
 The Virginia Methodist leader announced his intention of actively opposing the Roosevelt's presiden- tial boom. He also will fight the candidacy of anyone not whole heartedly in favor of the 18th amendment and the Voistead act.
 Cannon's activities against smith in Virginia in 1928 were credited with helping Hoover to carry the state. A senate committee. headed by Senator Gerald F. Nye of North Dakota, has been investigating his use of funds in that campaign.
 'T didn't divert one penny o!l that money to my personal use. Cannon said in commenting on ths Nye inquiry. 'I would welcome
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
WIDOW OF
 SLAIN MAN
 COLLAPSED
Prosecutors Differ on Whether Mrs Ceilings Should Be Called or Not Arrests May Come After Inquest
By SIDNEY B. WHIPPLE United Press Staff CofrespOndeni

United Press Staff Correspondent
 Huntington, L. l., Sept 1S.--- (UP)-A gripping tale of kidnap- ing and murder in aristocratic Long Island Sound was told again to-day in the coroner's inquest into the death of Benjamin F. Ceilings, slain yachtsman, beaten, tied and tossed from his cabin cruiser Pen guin.
 Mrs Lillian Ceilings, attractive young widow of the dead man herself Kidnapped by two pirates" she said killed her husband and attempted to attack her-was not present to testify.
 She was reported prostrated by weeks narrowing questioning and re-enacting the crime, and un- der physicians care at the Col lings residence in the outskirts of Stamford, Conn.
 District Attorney Alexander G. Blue of Suffolk county, in charge of the inquiry into the strange case. said he had been told that Mrs Col lings was fin a state of collapse"
 II have no intention of taking any steps to compel her presence, Blue said.
 Among the witnesses called for | the inquest were N. L. Noteman, yachtsman who found the drifting | Penguin; George Dewald, Harold Bernie and E. N. Knapp, Noteman 5 | guests; Amza Biggs, Jr, police off, cer who found the body of Col lings; Herbert S. Ceilings, brother of the murdered man; Harold Howard, who found Mrs Ceilings after she had been placed on the motorboat Bo-Peep by the "pirates"; and Sergeant Robert Forrest, Cove Neck policeman who
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
THREE ARE DEAD ANOTHER DYING
 BY AUTO CRASH
Two Others Are in Hospi= tai After Stolen Auto Going 75 Miles an Hour Was Wrecked

Westerly, R. I. Sept 1S-UP)- Three persons were dead, one was reported dying, and two others were recovering in a hospital to- day after an automobile crash in- volving a stolen car said to have been travelling at nearly 75 miles an hour. Those killed were Mir and Mrs Alfred Martin of Newport and Bernice Foster. Is, of Brook line, Mass.
 Mrs Mary E. Barlow, 66, of New port, was believed near death at Westerly hospital, where Miss Ruth Webb. 50. of Newport, and Joseph Malloy, 20, of Boston, also were under treatment.
 The accident occurred yesterday afternoon on Nooseneck hill road, 12 miles north of here, when the car carrying the Newport residents was demolished by the stolen ma chine in which the Foster girl Malloy, and Guy Agostino, 19, of Boston were riding.
 Questioned concerning their com panion, Malloy and Argostino said they had picked her up" in front of Boston theater.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
BISHOP CANNON COMES BACK CLUSTERING AS USUAL OVER
 THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE

grand jury investigation to show that I am right. but I haven't been able to get one"
 The Nye committee resumed it's investigation of Cannon's com paign funds over Cannon's protest while he was abroad. It sought to trace. without complete success. thousands of dollars turned over to Cannon to organize southern drys against Smith. Cannon said he was willing to appear before the committee again for further ques- tioning. He declined to speak fur ther of political matters
 Cannon arrived aboard the Mau- retania, unaccompanled by his wife. He travelled tourist third class and his cabin-mates were two college boys.
 He appeared ruddy and greatly improved in health. except TOT lameness. Someone stole one oi his crutehes in Paris, he said, and the other was stolen in London.
 ''I can hardly hobhie around without them" he said. but h nm lame in the feet. am mol lame In the head.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

SALINARDI DISTURBED
 HIS HOME
Ridge Street Man Became Crazed When He Learn- ed of Mothers Death Doctors May Give Him Examination

Charged with breach of the peace and resistance Frank Salin- ardi, 29. of 26 Ridge street was ordered held under bonds of $10,- 900 for a hearing in police court next Tuesday morning. Judge John F. McGrath in view of the accused's past record and the na- ture of the disturbance he created at his home eanrly last evening recommended that the young man be examined by physician as to his mental condition. Salinardi apparently went out of his mind when he returned to his house and was informed that during his ab- sence yesterday afternoon his mother died.
 Word was sent to police head quarters when Salinardi started to wreck the house. Within few minutes the corner of Ridge and Martin streets was the gathering place for several hundred persons. On the first call Patrolmen Charles Mcweeney and Thomas Grady, patrol driver and doorman, start ed for Ridge street En route they picked up Traffic Officer Will liam Green and Walter Ahearn. Shortly after their arrival at the home Sergeant John Bowling and Patrolman James Moore joined the gathering. Salinardi was found in the house yelling hysterically. He
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
RABBI ISRAEL OF BALTIMORE
 AND OTHER SPEAKERS SCORE
 OUR GOVT ON UNEMPLOYMENT

Buckhill Falls, Pa. Sept 1s.- (UP)-The government, in holding that unemployment relief is not wholly a federal problem. is ex-
 pecting patchwork bandages to cover fostering wound" in the opinion of Rabbi Edward L. Israel of Baltimore. Israel. chairman of the social justice commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis. issued his attack on the government relief program last night at the conference on un- employment and crime being held here by national religious leaders. "We are told that the government does not wish to hear more ap- peais for q special session of con.
 gress to do something about the situation," Israel said. "The fact is that they merely want us to appeal for patch work bandages to cover a fostering wound. Any minister who asks his congrega- tion this winter to contribute clothes and food is doing wrong. Any minister who asks aid and does not bear the full force of religious condemnation of so- ciety that forces him to do such q thing Is dereIIet in his divine mis- sion. Yet you and I know it will
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18

Ossining. N. r., Sept 1S-(UP)- Patrick O'Brien, double" of Fran cis Crowley, doomed two-gun kill CT, awaited to-day a decision he hopes will exonerate him of a drug store holdup and bring him free dom from a 20 to 40 year sentence. O'Brien recently charged the hold up actually had been committed by Crowley but that he (O'Brien) had been arrested because of his marked resemblance to Crowley. Crowley, awaiting execution on the charge of killing policeman, has admitted he was the holdup man. General Sessions Judge William Allen moved court to the Sing Sing death house yesterday in order to hear Crowley's story, the first time in the prisons istoryh the death house was used for this purpose.
 Crowley, O'Brien and two other
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Double Of Doomed Killer
 Crowley Seeks Freedom

young prisoners were dressed in grey trousers, white shirts and soft hats and the three victims Of the drug store holdup were brought in. They picked out .O'Brien. They said they did not know the others. Crowley, who has nothing to lose by admitting the holdup. cross-examined the witnesses per sonally. Which one of you fellows tried to get out the back door?" he demanded. "Getzoff," a witness replied. Tt isn't a back door, it's a washroom door," q told him. If you don't stop, I'll plug you" Crowley said.
 While Crowley semed to score a point. another incident he purport- ed to describe could not be recalled by any of the victims. He said one of them had tried to shove his money into a vest pocket, but they could not remember it.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
LOCAL ATTORNEY
 WORKING HARD ON
 OLD AGE PENSION
Lawyer C. E. Hart Recom= mendS Establishment of Office in Hartford With Staff of Aides

Establishment of an office with a substantial staff of aides is ex- pected to be affected in Hartford immediately upon the recommenda- ton of Attorney c. E. Hart of this city, chairman of the state com mission studying the question of old age pensions. Attorney Hart, who is a democrat and a former corporation counsel of the city of Waterbury is now prepared to start preparation of report on the old age pension question so that when the state board of finance and con- trol meet he and his co-workers will be in position to make defi- mite request for an appropriation.
 The special commission, created by the 1881 legislature to study the old age pension question and re- port to the 1893 general assembly, is expected to have its program
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
YOUNG HATHAWAY LOST HIS APPEAL
 FOR NEW TRIAL
Judge Walsh Said Defense
 Attorney Has Not Sub= stantiated One Claim for
 Another Trial

Providence, R. l.. Sept 1S-(UP) Elliott R. Hathaway, Massachu- sets legislators son facing a life sentence for strangling Verna k. Russell, student nurse, to-day lost the first skirmish in his fight for d new trial.
 Judge Charles A. Walsh, the trial justice, issued a 13-page decision denying the new trial motion he heard argued here gently.
 The 28-year-old defendant, at the county jail in Cranston, was un- moved when informed of the ad- verse decision. He indicated that he had held slight hope of Judge Walsh granting the motion.
 Defense attorneys announced inn mediately they will carry the case to the Rhode Island supreme court.
 Hathaway was convicted by a
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Governor Cross Picks Waterbury
 Men Delegates
John H. GOss and Att0r- ney Thomas F. Moore Named for International Recreational Congress, Which Will Open at Toronto Next Month

John H. Goss. vice-president and general superintendent of the Scovill Manufacturing Company, and Attorney Thomas F. Moore; trust officer of the Citizens and Manufacturers National Bank, have been named by Governor Wilbur L. Cross as delegates to the International Recreational Con- gress scheduled to be held at Tor onto, Ontario, from october 5th to 9th. MT Goss and Attorney Moore will be part of delegation of 20 who will represent Connecticut at the session.
 The United States and Canada will be represented at the congress Frank W. Brodie of Watertown and Harris Whittemore, Jr, and Harold Chittenden of Naugatuck' were also named on the Connecti- cut body by Governor Cross. Other Connecticut delegates will include Charles F. T. Seaverns and Mrs
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The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
TRUCK DRIVERS
 OF THIS STATE
 ASK PROTECTION
Gangsters of New York
 Made Attacks on Them,
 Because Conn Firms Wouldn't Hire N. Y. Men

Hartford, Sept 1S-(UP)-State police have been asked to protect Connecticut trucks and truck dri- vers from alleged terrorization of New York gangsters, 1t became known today.
 Harry c. Wallenberg of Hartford manager of the largest trucking firm operating on regular schedule to New York, declared the attacks occurred after eight or nine Con- necticut firms refused to agree to employ New York union drivers on Connecticut trucks in New York.
 Harry Ingersoll of Stamford was dragged from his truck by 12 thugs in New York Tuesday and beaten. A truck owned by Stand ard Truckers of New Haven was burned in Brooklyn Wednesday. Wallenberg asked for state police protection after one of his drivers was followed from New York to Milford by car full of suspected gangsters. Police protection was given a convoy of Hartford-to-New York trucks last night. Connecticut officers were relieved at the New York state line by New York state troopers.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
Flyers Moyle And Allen
 Have Started For Home

forced down on an uninhabited, unnamed island. Waiting until the storm abated. they took off again and headed northwestward. finally being forced down by lack of fuel at Maino Pirgino. near Cape Navarin.
 Moyle added that he hoped his message would reach John Buffe- lin, Tacoma capitalist, who owned their monoplane Clasina Madge- formerly the City of Tacoma II and aided in backing the flight.
 St Paul's Island, Alaska, Sept 18-(UP)-The naval radio station here reported to-day that 1t had in- tercepted a fragmentary message from the Russian steamer Buriat stating that Don Moyle and Cecil R. Allen planned to take off Satur- day from Maino Pirgino for Nome. en route to Seattle, weather per hitting. It said that the weather in the vicinity was clearing.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-18
BOSTON SOCIETY
 WOMAN RELATES
 BLACKMAIL PLOT
Mrs Quincy Adams Shaw McKean, Artist and Sculptress, Says Ver- mont BOOtlegger Is in Plot

Boston, Sept. 1S.-(UP).-Mrs. Quincy Adams Shaw McKean. Bos- ton society woman. artist and sculptress, and her husband have confided to authorities details of 8 biackmaiI plot they think ver- mont bootlegger is planning against them. The suspect reportedly call ed the, McKeans by telephone at their summer home in Pride's Crossing Wednesday. According to police he neither demanded money nor made threats at that time, but the McKeans feared he was lead ing up to such a step.
 In coming here for a conference with Boston officials the McKeans brought an undeveloped picture of the suspect. Where they obtained it was not revealed. The film de- veloped and some 500 pictures in the rogue's gallery were checked with it but no likeness of the man found. The bootlegger recently at- tempted to blackmail the pro- prietor of a Back Bay hotel, but the plot was exposed by bell boy who refused when asked to sign an afiidavit against his employer. 1t was reported.