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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
GETS
CANNON EVIDENCE
District Attorney Not TO Act
on Witnesses Defiance
Now, However.

By the Associated Press.
Notice was taken today by the Dis
trict Attorneys Once of the Senate's
inquiry this week into the disposition
Of 1928 campaign funds by Bishop
James Cannon, ir. but 1t was indicated
no action was contemplated pending
receipt of wcrd from the Senate.
In the absence of District Attorney
Leo A. Rover, his first assistant, Will
liam H. Collins, said he had noticed
the refusal of two witnesses to testify
Miss Ada L. Burroughs Of Richmond
and ]. Sidney Peters Of Newport
News, Va.
He expressed the view, however, that
his ONCE could take no oficial notice
OF this and other events in the Senate
inquiry without "eertifcation" of the
record from either the Senate Cam
paign Funds Committee or from the
Senate
In cases Of contempt of the Senate
the District Attorneys once here Is
notified for possible prosecution.
VIII Meet In October.
Chairman Nye said his committee
would not have chance to come to-
gether again until after the middle Of
october to study the wide variety of
evidence accumulated in the three days
hearings and decide what action 1t
would take regarding the witnesses who
refused to testify.
He added he thought evidence placed
In the record demanded an explanation
under oath by Bishop Cannon, Miss
Burroughs and Peters.
Huston Check Revealed.
Included in the testimony that went
into the record in the last three days
were assertions that q check for 5000,
charged to the account of Claudius H.
Huston, who later became chairman Of
the Republican National Committee,
vas used in financing the anti-Smith
movement in North Carolina. The COM
mittee has subpenaed all the records in
connection with this account.
Conrad Prohst, vice president OF the
Internationl Germanica Trust Co. of
New York, submitted the records of the
account for October, 1928, during which
the 5000 check was paid. He said the
total deposits in the account for the
month were $i83,356 and thousands Of
dollars flowed out Of It each day. Aside
from the 5000 check. there was no
Continued on Page 2, Column a.
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BROWNS REMOVAL AS POSTAL
HEAD TO BE SOUGHT BY MAS
Minnesota Representative
Charges Excessive
Lease Costs.
So, 900 Monthly Rent In San
Francisco Cited in
Charges.
BE- the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 29,-The
Examiner today quoted Representative
Michael J. Mas of Minnesota, who has
been investigating alleged irregularities
in the leasing of privately owned build
ings by the Post ONCE Department. as
saying he would ask for the removal Of
Postmaster General Walter r. Brown
on the basis of the findings.
Mas, who said he had been conduct
ing his investigation quietly. was quoted
as having charged that Jacob Kuip OF
Chicago and Ray Brown Of Indianapolis
had been given . virtual monopoly on
pest ONCE building rentals.
He said the Governments expenditure
OF $4,000, 900 annually for rental of
post ONCE quarters was more than
twice what It should be-
The Representative was represented
as having cited the payment of $4,000
month for the Ferry Post once Build
ing In San Francisco as case in point.
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BRIDE HOLDS SPEED
LAW IS IN FORCE
Takes Exception to Van
Duzer'S Statement ReguIa-
ton Temporarily Out.

BY G. ADAMS HOWARD.

Corporation Counsel William w
Bride decided today that the regula-
tions governing the speed limits in the
District Of Columbia are not null and
void.
Taking issue with the statement Of
William A. Van Duzer, director of the
Department Of Motor Vehicles and
Traffic, that the speed law was tempo
rarily out because he had failed to
designate any limits since the adoption
of the amended traffic act July 10, Mr.
Bride said it was his legal opinion that
the regulations on that subject were
carried over despite the fact that men
ton Of them was not reinserted.
The old regulations prescribing the
% and 80 mile an hour limits he
said. were approved by the present
Commissioners. They have authorized
no change, one way or another. While
the director of traffic has power to
designate new limitations subject TO
the approval OF the Commissioners he
has not done so. Therefore, inasmuch
as the new act also provides that motor
vehicle regulations not inconsistent with
the ones now adopted shall remain in
force, I believe the speed regulations
remain the same"
Judge Gus A. Schuldt, presiding over
the Trafflc Court in Police Court today
in the absence OF Judge John p. Nc
Mahon, stated that he had not gone
into the matter as no questions had
been raised, and would await the recon-
mendations Of the assistant corporation
counsel's office. It was his opinion
that the speed regulations were still in
force
Members of the assistant corpora
ton counsel's Office stated that speed
papers would be made out as usual, un-
less orders to the contrary came from
Mr.. Bride. 1T is not up to U.S." one
official stated, Ito take an initiative
without authority"
Mr.. Van Duzer could not be reached
today. having left town for the week
lCnnfir,r,nA On Para D GnI,,r,nr, ~ n
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EARLY COMPLICATION OPUS.
THIRD DEGREE INQUIRY
SURCED BY GEN. CROSBY
CITIZENS CAN AID POLICE PROBE

Maj Henry Pratt Superintendent Police ordered
that his police department investigation of third degree charges
be dropped No civilians be questioned this would
trfere with Department of Justice Investigators This interior
could be interpreted only desperate police effort
the black sheep of the department and preaanged defenses
against the flood of charges that have been preferred All
panantS have by the that
they will be protected against police reprisals.
is not to be expected that suspected officers will
tnue their frantic efforts protect themselves against the in
quisitora powers of the Federal Despite MAJ
Prats orders individual officers suspicion may continue
to question civilians threaten them with reprsaS
All citizens questioned by police officers of Maj
Pras order that they shall should immediately
port Department of
Justice
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
CLIFFORD ASKS BANE
TO HEAD WELFARE
WORK FOR JOBLESS
Virginia Commissioner to De-
eide Next Week Whether
to Accept Post.

Frank Bane, public welfare commits
sioner for Virginia. has been asked to
take charge Of the welfare work Of the
National Committee on Unemployment
Relief by Walter S. Clifford, the director,
The Star learned today.
Mr.. Bane at his Office in Richmond
informed The star over the telephone
that the post had been rendered him
by Mr.. clifford. but said he would wait
until the early part Of next week to
make decision on acceptance. He said
ne would come to Washington next week,
but expected to notify Mr clifford of his
decision before he left Richmond.
Pennsy Reduces Salaries.
Meanwhile, the Clifford organization
was confronted with an announcement
by Gen. w W. Atterbury, president of
the Pennsylvania Railroad, that while
his company was continuing its sup
port Of constructive measures to reduce
unemployment and restore prosperity,
it has been forced to order a reduction
OF 10 per cent IN salaries Of executives
and general officers.
The company also has been forced,
Gen. Atterbury asserted, to reduce the
working time of employees On account of
the continued heavy loss Of traffic.
The announcement came in Gen. At
terbury's message to Pennsylvania Rail-
road stockholders. accompanying the
regular quarterly dividend. Results for
the first six months Of 1881 indicate
that conditions are still unsatisfactory,
the message said. net operating income
Of the Pennsylvania totaling only S22,-
639, 34i, decrease Of more than so per
cent from the net for the same period
last year.
Pays IS Cents a Share.
The quarterly dividend paid today to
stockholders Of record August / repre-
sents y per cent on the capital stock,
equal to IS cents per share Gen. At
terbury pointed out the Pennsylvania
Railroad stockholders have received q
return on their investment in every
calendar year since IS4i
II also was learned today that Mr..
Clifford had selected most Of the State
representatives who will coordinate in
the local drives throughout the country
for relief funds, commencing October
10. The director plans TO spend the
week end In Washington to finish this
task
Mr.. Bane is nationally recognized as
an authority on welfare work. He was
one Of the first men selected by Col
Arthur Woods when he organized the
Presidents Emergency Committee for
Employment last year, and acted as one
Of the five regional directors. His
work in this capacity was praised both
by public welfare and Government on
Gals
Mr.. Bane is q native OF Snithfield,
Continued on Page 2, Column s.
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ACTIVITY STlRS FEAR
OF IRISH UPRISING
Authorities Take Steps to Protect
Ulster Town as 10000 Of
Orange Group Form.

BY the AsSoclased Press.
NEWRY, Northern Ireland, August
2s.-The assembling OF 10000 members
Of the Royal Black Institution. a wing
OF the orangemen, caused authorities
today to take extraordinary precautions
to forestall possible outbreaks in and
around this Ulster border town.
In view OF the train-wrecking Incl
dent fortnight ago when the Hiber-
mans met at Armagh, officials were TAX
ing no chances. Police were stationed
at every 100 yards along the track
between Belfast and Newry. every
bridge was guarded and hundreds OF
additional police were imported.
A special radio was installed IN police
headquarters so that IN the event OF
disturbances immediate communication
could be established with the military,
who had orders to stand by In barracks.
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RENEWAL OF WMBC
LICENSE FAVORED
Radio Examiner Recommends Com
mission Action After Hearings
on Gang War Funds.
NJ n. Associated Pres.

By the Associated Press.
Ellis A. Yost, chief examiner, recon-
Ynended to the Radio Commission today
the renewal Of the license Of station
wMBC, Detroit. alleged to have been
involved in gang warfare.
The recommendation was made after
lengthy hearings. at which charges were
made that the staten had been used
In q manner inconsistent with the pub
lie interest and for solicitation Of funds
by false representation.
Counsel for the station commended that
no complaints Of irregularity had been
made since the death of Jerry Buckley,
its announcer, who was slain by gang
sters more than q year ago.
YoSt, In his recommendation, said
that while the handing OF relief fund
by WMBC was irregular and the evil
dence was not clear as to the final
disposition of such funds, he could not
say that any part OF the fund was mis-
applied or enabezzled.
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ECONOMIES BEGUN
AS BRITAIN GETS
400 MILLION LOAN
Committees Given ParIia-
mentary Program of StabiI-
ling Nations Finances.
Rv the Asrocintsd Press

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 29-Bolstered by 9
$40O, o00, 900 credit from bankers of the
United States and France. the national
government today placed in the hands
of committees its parliamentary pro-
gram for restoring British finances to
the right side of the ledger.
One committee was discussing the
technical means to be used in balancing
the budget and the other was concerned
with the procedure to be used in push
ing the measures through the House of
Commons. Both will report to the
cabinet Monday, when Prime Minister
Macdonald returns from Scotland to
begin his task anew.
Salaries Of 100000 Cut.
At the same time the Government
put into effect the first OF a number Of
drastic curtailments In expenditures.
The salaries Of 500. 900 civil service en-
ployes we're cut to effect an annual saw
ing OF $4,000, 900 The Royal Investi-
eating Commission had counseled
against such reductions, but the gov
eminent decided to leave no stone un-
turned to achieve economies.
Meanwhile the Seaman Harbor Labor
party. which Prime Minister MacDon-
aid represents in the House Of Com
mons, recommended that he be asked
to resign his seat
This action by the party executive,
which viii be referred to a meeting of
party delegates, followed soon after the
prime minister had been read out of
the party by the Hampstead division as
q consequence Of his participation IN
the new national government. This is
the organization through which Mr..
Macdonald holds his membership in
the Labor party.
1t was evident from yesterdays events
Continued on Page 4, Column 81
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Nailed Box Trick
Fails When Point
Injuries Magician
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASScclated RreeS.
SCRANTON, Pa. August %
Huber the Great" q magician,
has q swell trick. He gets out OF
box nailed shut by spectator
that Is he gets out provided
both he and the box are not
nailed.
Last night brawny member
OF the audience nailed Huber In.
The audience waited breathlessly.
Seven minutes passed and Huber
did not emerge.
Then the box was opened and
Huber lay unconscious from a
wound In the, head, where the
rail cut him.
so they tried II again. and
presto! Huber emerged o. k.
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POLICE GUARD PLANT
AFTER STRIKE BATTLE
IL Persons Arrested in Textile Dis
trict, Including Girl Leader
and Boy.
By the Associated Press.


CENTRAL FALLS. r. l., August %
Every available policeman was on duty
today TO cope with any situation that
might arise as the aftermath of clash
Yesterday between strikers and police In
the district adjoining the General Fab
RIGS Corporation Mills.
Eleven persons were under arrest.
They included Ann Burlak. 2o-year old
strike leader. and a l4-year-old boy
Miss Burlak headed q crowd Of 900
strikers and Sympathizers in the FIRST
violent demonstration the textile dis
trict has experienced for several weeks
The mill reopened last Monday after
several weeks shutdown.
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Draft of Unmarried
Jobless for Public
Works Is Proposed
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand,
August 29.--Plans whereby all
single unemployed men in New
Zealand would be drafted to work
on highway and land develop
ment schemes with only nominal
pay we're being developed by au-
thorities today.
Unemployment relief funds are
overdrawn by about $l,120 900.
Camps would be established un-
der control Qf the Public Works
Department.
The dfaftees would benrovided
with food, shelter and racket
money to an extent not yetde-
cided.
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Locusts Denude Farms.

CAPE TOWN. Union OF South Africa,
August 20 tP1s--Swarnns OF locusts have
done tremendous damage TO crops in
East Africa. The authorities are find-
ing dtfacuity in feeding the natives,
whose lands have been denuded by the
pests. Tomorrow viii be observed as q
DAY Of prayer for relief.
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PARIS NOT PROPOSING
ARMS FARLEY DELAY
Rumored Plan of Taking Initiative
for Postponement Denied
by Foreign Office.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, August 29--The French for
eign once, commenting on rlmors that
France would take the initiative, said
today it had no intention OF suggest
ing the postponement of the general
disarmament conference scheduled for
Geneva in February, 1882.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29
TWO COLORED MEN
ARE LYNCHED IN FLORIDA
Pair Charged With Attacking For
est Ranger Were Out on
Bond.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BLOUNTSTOWN, Fla. August 2s.-
Two colored men were lynched is miles
south of here late last night after they
had been released from jail on bond
They were charged with attacking
Frazier williams, forest ranger.
The men, Richard and Charley
Smoke, father and son, were shot to
death by q fusilIade of rife and pistol
shots A coroner,s investigation early
today held the men came to their
deaths at the hands Of q band Of
masked men.
The men were turpentine workers.
They were hailed out of Jail by their
employer and were said to have been on
their way home last night when seized
by the mob
williams was attacked and beaten By
two colored men last Tuesday.
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AUTOPSY IS ORDERED

Miss Ada Rhodes, Is, Dies After
Two-Day Illness.
Miss Ada Rhodes, 10, died at her
home. in the Ontario Apartments,
Eighteenth street and Ontario road, this
morning after an illness Of two days.
An Emergency Hospital physician,
summoned BY the girls mother. Mrs.
Ada Miller Rhodes, notified Coroner J.
Ramsey hewitt.
The body, according to officials 81
the MorgiIe. was ordered removed there
for an autopsy later today.
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so Held in Berlin Raids.

BERLIN, August 20 (R.-Fifty per-
sens were arrested and SO weapons, in
Guiding pistols and daggers, were seized
today when police conducted q raid in
search for hidden arms near the Buelow
Gently.
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Body Found on Beach in
Maine Had Drifted Back
With Tide.
HAD BEEN DESPONDENT
BECAUSE OF ILL HEALTH
Searching Party Formed After His
Departure From Cottage Clad
in Pajamas.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
BAILEYS ISLAND, Me, August o.
| Alfred P. Dennis, member of the
United States Tariff Commission, COM
mitted suicide by drowning in Casco
Bay here early today.
The body was found on the sand
where 1t had been left by the receding
tide.
Members of his family said he had
been respondent for some time because
of Ill health.
He arose before the rest of the house
hold this morning and, clad only in his
pajamas, wandered about a quarter OF
a mile from the cottage.
The body was found by small
searching party made up of relatives
and friends.
On Commission Since 1928.
Medical Examiner Gilbert M. Elliott
| pronounced death due to suicide by
| drowning.
Dennis, who was 81 years old, was
| appointed to the Tariff Commission
by President Coolidge in March. 1925,
hIlQ Two HlOltIlo ldpcE Was Hdtfleu VICE
| chairman.
He was a Democrat and taught at
Princeton, Wesleyan and Smith from
| 1898 to 1907.
He was commercial attache of the
| American embassy at Rome from 1918
| to 1921 and special representative
| of the Department Of Commerce for
| Secretary Hoover in Central and East
ern Europe during 1922 and 1928. He
was assistant to Secretary Hoover in
| 1924
His widow and two sons survive.
CONSTANT WORRY BLAMED.
Death Of A. p. Dennis is Distinct Loss,
Brossard Says.
| Commissioner Dennis had been in Ill
| health for several years and friends
| here attribute his suicide to constant
| worry over his condition.
| Edgar B. Brossard, member of the
| Tariff Commission, told The Star let
| ter he received two weeks ago from Mr..
Dennis had "a melancholy tone"
He wrote me that he had suffered a
/ Continued on Page 2, Column 50
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summary:
Rams batted ln--Mannsh, Sweeney, Miller,
Oliver.
Two base hits-WaFstIer, Sweeney. Webb.
Home run--Manush.
Sacri6ee-Dufham.
Double nlaya--N1yer 70 Cronln.
Left On baaes--Washington, " Boston.8.
Base on balIs--Marbesry, 3; Durham. 4.
struck out hy Marbrrrys Il Durham. 81
umpires--0rmsby, HIidebrand ana Dineen.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-29

Radio Programs On Page B-l4
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WEATHER.

~. 8. weather Bureau Forecast).
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
cooler tonight
temperatures Highest, 81. at 4 pm.
yesterday; lowest CO, at 745 am. today.
Full report on page 16.
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CONTINUED on Page 2, Column Sd
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-20
Department Store Buying
 Rush Starting in Nev York

vertising manager of Wanamaker's said sales during the past two weeks had, for the first time in two years, shown encouraging signs of returning to a normal basis.
 An official of McCrory Stores Corporation, large retailers of low er-priced merchandise in the Met ropolitan area, said the holiday trade has started, and happy days are here again.
 Officials of Saks' Fifth Avenue believe things look very encourag- ing" while a spokesman for Fred erick Loeser, large Brooklyn dry goods house, noted stead improve nent, part of which he attributed to individual sales campaigns.
 Similarly optimistic reports were received from other store heads.
 Consensus was that as soon as the initial boom incident to the sudden change in weather falters, stores will begin to feel full ef- fleets of the holiday buying season expected shortly with Christmas only a few weeks away.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-20
Ribbons, Metal Spheres
 ReuOIutiOnize Electricity

NEW YORK, Nov. 2O.-A revolu- 5ionary electrical discovery an nounced as promising sufficient power to realize the theorists, dream of commercial transmuta tion of the clements has been made public by the American Institute of Physics.
 With apparatus costing only S90 this discovery produces 100000 volts of the same kind of electricity as lightning. It will be built up to 100000 to 20,0O0,O00 volts im- mediately and has ultimate possi- bilities of a 50,00O,OO0-volt energy
 The discovery is an idea of a young scientist, R. J. Van de Graaff, who was graduated from the University of Alabama in 1922
 He has joined the staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech nology, where he hopes to de- velop sufficient power to disinte- grate atoms.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-20

NEW YORK, Nov. 20.-The an- nual department store buying rush which promises to put millions of dollars into circulation, has begun in the worlds largest shopping center.
 The first spell of wintry weather coupled with the lowest prices in a decade has sent people swarmin2 into aisles of larger stores, they re- ported
 A canvass of the leading stores serving the New York district led to predictions that the volume of sales this year may exceed last year.
 The best news comes from Will liam H. Howard, advertising man. ager of R. H. Macy & Co.,, largest cash retailer in the world. Howard, said that with seasonable weather, the purchase of winter garments for men and women has resulted in an exceptional increase in sales during the past week.
 Equally optimistic news came from John Wanamaker & O., vet eran retailers Joseph Appel, ad-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1931-11-20
SECTIONS FROM CANADIAN LINE
 SOUTH ARE HIT
Blizzard Descends, Snow Is Piled in Drifts
 Traffic Delayed
TWODEATHS REPORTED FROM SEVERE WEATHER
Thirty Road Workers Are Caught in Cascades
 Fears for SafetyFelt

SEATTLE, Nov. 20.-Snow lay today in various sections of the Pacific Northwest in the wake of blizzards which swept over wide section from the Canadian line to Southern Oregon, Southern Idaho, the Inland Empire country in East ern Washington, and throughout the Cascade Mountain sections
 Washington and Oregon were hit the hardest.
 At Wallace, Idaho, IS inches of snow fell and was then blown into drifts, paralyzing stage and rail travel.
 Two deaths, attributed to the weather, have been reported.
 Concern is felt for the safety of 30 road workers caught high in the Cascades in Oregon. The road workers were attempting to break a trail between Blue Lake and Suttla Lake
 The property loss over the bliz- gard swept area has not been es- pecially severe and the damage caused included wires down and numerous buildings wrecked by the high winds.
 Highways are blocked or made dangerous to travel.
 Two Oregon rivers have been swollen into flood state.