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The Washington times., 1931-11-02
BISHOP At TACKS
ELECTION LAW
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of five lawyers, headed by Robert
H. McNeill. Time was asked in
which to prepare argument on
the demurrer, it being explained
that Harry w. Nice, Of Baltimore,
had just been retained Saturday.
Friday, November 20, was set
by Justice James M. Proctor aS
date for the hearing. Counsel
estimated that an entire court
day would be required.
Claims No Jurisdiction
In the demurrer, the bishop
declares that presidential electors
are State officers, and also that
the Federal corrupt practice act
attempts to regulate contributions
and expenditures made to influ-
ence presidential and vice presi-
Dental electors, and alleges that
the Federal Government Is power.
less to exercise control over either.
The bishop, although carrying
a crutch, appeared ruddy and In
good health. Leaving the court
house, he used the five news
papers and the crutch to shield
his face from photographers.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Six Hour Day. Advocated
To Forestau Dole

q day and to five days q
week"
Such well-known leaders as
Bishop Francis ]. Mcconnell, Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
the Rev. DR.. John A. Ryan, vice
president Of Georgetown Univer
sity; Rabbi Stephen s. Wise:
Andrew j. Kennedy, president OF
the International Association OF
Lithographers; Norman Thomas
John Dewey, Mary Fox, and
Harriet Stanton Blatch are
identified with the committee.
Hoover Regime Hit
Only through the appropriation
of a large sum by the Govern
ment for unemployment relief
raised through increasing sur
taxes on large incomes and
estate and gift taxes, can new
employment be encouraged anc
industrial expansion assured" the
committee declared.
The Hoover Administration was
condemned for misleading the
public regarding the seriousness
Of the problem and for derehc
ton in facing and graphing with
the situation. The COMMITTEES
pointed out:
"The Administration has sp-
pointed the Clifford committee
to urge collecting funds and
doing them out to a pauperizcd
Citizenry. At this moment the
AdministratiOn's officially ap-
pointed committee is braZenly
contemplating the placing Of
nearly 100000 persons on
the most degrading DOLE"
In addition to the six-hour day
and the increase Of taxes on the
higher incomes, the committee Is
program includes:
Construction Of highways, grain
elevators, public works, schools
for rural districts, homes for
workers, as was done for wal
workers by the War Finance
Board; Federal unemployment in
surance and q ban on employ
ment of children under 16.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
PADDOCK SUIT
ST|RS CLERIC

NEW YORK. Nov. 2 UsS.
Blazing denunciation Of Federal
prohibition officials, who linked
the Central Baptist Church with
a speakeasy in paddock proceed.
ings, came from the irate pastor
in a sermon yesterday.
Branding the charge "a horrible
mistake" Dr.. John Falconer
Fraser declared it is "a public
shame there Is no law that can
be invoked to prosecute public
officials who have the effrontery
to tarnish the sanctities Of divine
religion"
DR.. Fraser denied the church
owned any part Of the premises
adjoining the church. where. the
Government charges, a Speakeasy
operates as a bird ctore." The
church was named co-defendant
in q paddock suit last week.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
BUREAU WARNS
Of FREE Gifts

With the approaching holiday
season ushering in the "un-
ordered merchandise practice,
the Better Business Bureau Is
advising the public that persons
receiving such goods throlgl1 the
mails are under no obligation to
return or to pay for them.
The proper procedure for per.
sons who do not want to use or
keep Christmas cards, neckties,
or other merchandise sent 80
them unsolicited, If they wish to
take advantage Of legal tech
nicalities, is to notify the shipper
that the goods are not wanted
and that storage is to be charged
unless the goods are retrieved in
a reasonable time, according to
Louis RothSchild, director of the
bureau.
Recipients of these goods are
not required to return them :
the shipper, even though post
to cover this may be inclc
he said.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Kansas City Charity
Fund Short. SIS. 600

KANSAS CITY. Nov. 2 IN.S0. i.
Kansas City today fell $55. 900
short Of the $1.550,O00 allied
charities fund campaign, which
has been in progress during the
week.
The campaign will not go into
a second week, as it. did last
year, but win depend upon belated
gifts and benefits. such as foot
bali games, to make up the
remainder Of the fund.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Tiny Celestial Body
8 Miles Through,
Really Twins
Copyright, 1891, BY international
News Servicel

News Service)
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, Nov. 2.
Telescopes that can bring into
human view the flickering light
of q candle 1000 miles away
have revealed finally that the
celestial body nearest earth, aside
from the moon, is not one but
apparently two bodies.
This nearest independent neigh
Dor Of our world is the asteroid
Eros. Discovery Of his dual ma
ture, so to speak. was revealed
today by Leon Campbell, william
Pickering astronomer at Harvard
Observatory.
Campbell bases his conclusions
on q close study Of hundreds OF
photographs of the asteroid made
with q. high power telescope ap-
paratuS in South Africa.
It seems to Campbell that the
asteroid, which Is only eight miles
in diameter, is really two asteroid
segmentS, rolling side by side
along the elliptical orbit that
brings them within 10000
miles Of the earth. Mars at its
nearest is 33,0OO.O00 miles away.
So closely has Campbell studied
Eros that he now is able to com.
pute It's day. It takes the pair
Of asteroids exactly 5 hours Is
minutes and 1894 seconds to
rotate once on their axis.
TO obtain this obviously precise
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
POWERS TRIAL
TO Be GREAT
"SHOW''
CIarksburg Theater VIII Get
Biggest Drama Of Career;
StarDressing Room for Judge

CLARKSBURG, w. Va, Nov q
QN.s)-Last stand of the legiti-
mate drama here. Moore's Opera
House, today was being prepared
for the biggest and most thrill
packed drama 1t and Clarksburg
ever have known-the trial of
Harry F. Powers, bluebeard slayer,
which will get under way late
this month.
On the stage where such noted
stars aS George ArIiss, Mime.
ErneStine Schumann.Heimk, VIII
liam Faversham, Mistinguette, Lou
Tellegen, and Amelia Bingham
have appeared, and which has re-
sounded TO the thump and tap
Of dancing choruses Of the
Greenwich Village FOllies" and
the Music Box Revue" the trial
Of Powers for the staying Of Mrs.
Asta Eicher, Park Ridge (In.)
widow who succumbed 10 the lure
Of a mail-Order lOthariO, will be
held.
Bizarre Setting
AS bizarre O setting as ever
enfolded q courtroom drama will
be disclosed to spectators when
Powers is brought here from the
State prison at MoundSville, late
in November.
The Harrison county grand Jury
Will meet November 10, and will
be given evidence collected by 20
lice and detectives of two States
in connection with the death of
Mrs. Eicher.
Evidence. bearing on the slay-
ing Of her three children, who
came with her from Park Ridge,
will then be turned over to The
grand Jurors.
Fear for p. o. Business
The opera house was selected
by the Harrison county court for
Powers trial as the only avail
able place here capable of han.
ding the undoubtedly record mum
ber Of newspaper correspondents,
attorneys, and spectators who
will come here for the trial.
Harrison county's new court
house is in process of conStruc-
tion and Federal court room is
too small to hold the crowd.
Government officials believed
holding the trial there would dis.
rupt routine Of pOstOffice bust.
ness.
The STARS Dressing Room"
will be renovated and turned over
to Judge John Southern for use
as the judicial chambers.
And the jury room will be the
room under the stage where, for
nearly Is years. orcheStraS have
tuned up for the overture and
curtain"
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
RAIL MEN OPEN
FIGHT ON RAY
REDUCTION
21 Major BrotherhOOds Gather
in Convention Here; JObIess
Question Is Under Scrutiny

Representing more than a mil.
lion and q half railway workers,
heads Of the 81 major railroad
brotherhoods gathered in annual
convention here today, prepared
to face the twin spectres of un-
employment and reduced wages.
Detailed reports Of conditions
among rail employees throughout
the nation were ready for exam.
ination.
Wages, Big Problem
The wage reduction problem
was emphasized by the action Of
the New York Central railrOad in
asking its employees to accept O 10
per cent reduction In pay. Prior
to this move, officials Of the
brotherhoods had been wary Of
voicing any sentiment with regard
to threatened wage cuts,
Following action Of the Inter
state Commerce Commission in re-
fuSing the railroads. request for q
Is per cent blanket increase in
freight rates, and the New York
Central move to cut pay, it was
believed the brotherhood heads
would take an open stand on the
matter.
Opposition to Cuts
Sentiment among brotherhood
executives was known to be solidly
in opposition to any steps toward
less pay for railway workers. The
workers feel that the railways to-
day are getting more for their
money in labor than ever before
in history, and that to cut pay
would be unfair to the men.
They pointed out the railroa6s
are withholding trains until tom
mage is piled up in the freight
yards awaiting movement, and
hauling heavy loads with new
high-powered locomotives.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
COURT CLEARED
At BR|TTON
TRIAL
Spectators, Including Press,
Ordered Out; Session From
Now on Becomes Private

TOLEDO, Ohio, Nov. 2 QN.So
In O lengthy decision read when
court was reopened, Judge John
NJ. Killits, presiding at the trial
of Nan Britton's suit for $4,000
damages against, c. A. Klunk, OF
Marion, Ohio, charging libel, to-
day barred oil spectators from the
courtroom.
Judge Killits stated that, ''in
the interests Of public morals" ne
had decided to continue the trial
In secret, and ordered everyone
except those attending in an OF
ficial capacity elected.
Raps the Curious
The election order included
newspaper men, and when the
trial resumed after . 1O-minute
recess, only those persons directly
connected with the hearing were
permitted inside the courtroom.
The court criticized the specta-
tors for attending the trial in
such large numbers, and declared
that they came only to satisfy a
morbid curiosity"
Last week Judge Killits ordered
all minors removed from the
courtroom because of the type Of
testimony to be presented. He
said today that he had hoped
the action in removing the minors
would cause some Of the adults
to refrain from attending the
trial. q,
Trial End Near
The defense already has rested.
It was believed the testimony for
the plaintiff, who charges she was
DETAINED in the book, "The An
Swer to the Presidents Daughter, 4"
allegedly distributed by Klunk,
might also come to an end today
or tomorrow. ....
Before attorneys for the plain.
tiff closed, however, another At
tempt was expected to be made
to place Miss BrittOn on the
stand.
This move was opposed last Fri.
day by defense attorneys, who in
dicated they would object to the
witness II a second effort was
made to place her in the witness
chair. { @.4t
Deposition o Secret
Mystery today surrounded the
contents Of a deposition, filed
late Saturday by the plaintiff. It
has been ordered carfully-guarded
by Judge John M. Killits.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
LASFHES PACFISTS, ADDING FUEL TO HOOVER FEUD
Second Trial
NPantqges
Starts

LOS ANGELES, Calf, Nov. 2
QN.S). = Alexander Pantages,
wealthy retired vaudeville mag
nate, today was to go to court
for his second trial on charges
that he attacked Eunice Pringle,
young dancer.
Pantages was convicted Of the
charge on october az, 1929, and
was sentenced to one to so years
in prison. The conviction later
The Washington times., 1931-11-02

Supporters of the six-hour.day
plan were augmented today by
the newly organized "joint com
mittee on unemployment" The
committee recommended:
Gone way to meet the
present unemployment prob
lem is to reduce the hours Of
labor with shorter work week
without reduction in the total
weekly wage. I'VE believe that
at the present time emergency
laws should be passed limiting
the hours Of labor to six hours
The Washington times., 1931-11-02

was reversed and Pantages was
granted q new trial.
The long-delayed retrial was
set before Judge Marshall T. Nc
Comb.
Chief among the States 81
witnesses was Miss Pringle, daugh-
ter Of a suburban high school
teacher, who has abandoned the
state for a bsuiness career. The
girl said:
81 dread the ordeal of barring
my soul more than the first
time, but I must so through
with it."
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Ducks BGLk Hunter.
Stay in Closed Zones

McGREGOR. Iowa, Nov. 2 (u.S.)
Ducks have all the brains this
year, say Iowa hunters. Thou.
sands Of ducks are sitting pretty
in areas Of the upper Mississippi
wild life refuge closed to hunting.
Elsewhere, are no ducks. and
hunters are returning home with
empty bags.
For the first time, q few fav.
ored slougns of the upper MIS-.
siSSippi in the newly-created tip-
per Mississippi wild life refuge
have been closed to hunting to
help save water fowl from ex.
tinction.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
STUDENT KILLED, 2 HURT

DANVERS, Mass, Nov. 2 q.
N.S0-En route to the TuftS-New
Hampshire football game at Dur
ham, N. H.. Wellington G. Brun-
ham, %. Of Cliftondale, q Tufts
senior, was killed and Miss Irene
Morrison. 81. Of Linden. and
Frank Beckford, -, Of Saugus.
also q Tufts senior, were injured
when their automobile collided
with another car.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Democratic Debate
On Wet Issue Near

Prohibition will be the sub
ject OF q debate at the Young
Democrats Club of Washington
at 1926 New Hampshire Ave.
N. w. on Wednesday night.
Victor Russell, secretary to
Senator Morris Sheppard, and
Miss Louise Hudson. secretary
for the Women'S Organization
for National Prohibition Reform,
will be among the Gebaters.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Cuban Population
Is Put at 4.OOO.OOO

HAVANA, Nov. 2 (US.). A
census bureau announcement Co.
day indicates that the population
OF Cuba is nearly 4,OOO. 900. 10
date 3,S44,921 have been enumer.
ated In the six provinces with
scattered districts not vet ~.
ported. The 1919 census fiRuree
gave the island about $500. .O(lC
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
EROS, SPLIT ASTEROD, NEAREST EARTH
Campbell, Noted Sky
Scanner, Records
Discoveries s-

the observatory in Arequipa.
South Africa, in 1898.
II Campbell can make abso-
lutely certain that Eros is made
up Of two separate asteroids, he
probably viii name the second
Psyche, purely out Of sympathy.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Name Group
Plans Card PUrty

Under the auspices of the Holy
Name Society Of Nativity Catho-
lie Church a card party will be
given tomorrow night in the
church auditorium, 5000 Georgia
Ave. N. W., for the building fund
of the church,
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
WeiInnd Will Speak
On COnSun1DtiUe Aid

The Ladies Auxiliary Of the
Jewish Consumptives Relief 80
ciety. Of Denver, will hold a
luncheon at the Mayflower Hotel
Wednesday at 1890 o'clock.
H. Maurice Weiland, director
Of the Denver society, will be the
guest speaker.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
AUTHOR TO SPEAK

DR.. Samuel D. Schmalhausen,
author, psychiatrist and psychol.
ogist, will be the first speaker
in the sixth annual series Of lee
lures to be started by the Ma
tional Forum Of the Jewish Com
munity Center, on November IL.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
Coal Commission
Suggested to HOOPER

NEW YORK, Nov. 2 (TNsJ
appointment by the President cf
a national coaI commission was
advocated here today by Howard
w. Showalter, president CT the
Continental Coal Company IS
the best means Of stabiiizinr the
coal industry. s-
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
GOODMAN HONOR GUEST

E. Urner Goodman, director of
program division of the Boy
Scouts of America, will be speaker
and honor guest at the District
of Columbia annual scout leaders
conference November % at the
Y, M. c. A, ,.....
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
LGV Violation
Is Laid to Pointers

The Supreme Court today
held the organized painters of
Chicago guilty Of violating the
Sherman antitrust law in refus.
ing to work on buildings In which
kitchen cabinets. painted at the
factory, were to be installed.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
CONDITION or TREASURY

Treasury balances Of October
80. $293, ,S32,641.6l.
Expenditures, Ss.205 .378. 8.s6.
Customs receipts, $34 4,009, 1895 .ig.
The Washington times., 1931-11-02
staff Photo

THE ARRANGEMENT of Bishop James Cannon, jr.
in the District Supreme Court today charge OF
violating the corrupt practices act automatically
postponed when the clergyman filed demurrer to the
indictment The demurrer held that the part of the
corrupt practices act upon which the indictment is
based is unconstitutional
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-26

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Same Porcelain Lined, at $2l.95
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-26

This beautiful snow Unite refrigerator has an
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chamber is under the ice. Interior of rOhite
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-26

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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-26

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

to local field ofIicials that, except for
the red warning lights at its top, the
Monument is as obscure as it ever was.
On ordinary nights, they said, the
red lights are adequate warning to any
pilot who knows that the Monument
is so lighted, but on nights when the
ceiling" or bottom of the cloud layer
is down below 500 feet, they pointed
out, the red lights will be obscured and
will be of no aid at all to pilots who
have to come in below the clouds. On
such nights, the floodlighting would
mark the shaft clearly, they said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
HEALTH
DRIVE PLANNED
Washington tuberculosis AS
ISOLATION Will Discuss Ways
and Means Tonight.

A plan to spend almost $4,000 in
1892 on the most extensive program
of community health work ever UNDER
taken by the Washington tuberculosis
Association will be discussed tonight at
a public meeting in the United States
Chamber of Commerce Building on the
eve of the opening of the associations
annual sale of Christmas seals on
Thanksgiving day.
Plans To Be Outlined.
WAYS and means of meeting the In
creasing necessity for anti-tuoerculoSlS
work will be outlined to the meeting
by DR.. Kendall Emerson, managing d.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
MONUMENT LIGHTS
D|SAPPO|NT PILOTS
Flyers Report Capital Shaft
Is Obscure After Flood of
Illumination Ends.

Night airmail pilots who hailed with
satisfaction the announcement the
Washington Monument was to be food
lighted from base to pinnacle are won
out of the lights, which since their in
stallation have been turned of at mid
night.
From nightfall to midnight the
Monument Is a shaft Of silver, visible
to pilots for many miles. After mid
night it returns to its former darkness.
illuminated only by the red beacons
which shine from its top windows.
The mail pilots who go through the
Capital after midnight have reported
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

called to the increasing prevalence Of
tuberculosis among the colored popu-
iation and to the necessity Of more ex-
tensive anti-tuberculoSis measures.
With the help of trained workers In
the field, it was said, a survey OF exist
ing conditions will be made TO pave
the way for more clinical examina-
tons. more hospital facilities and for
the discovery and correction Of tubercu-
lar tendencies by these means and by
an enlarged program of health educa-
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
ASKS $4,000 DAMAGES
Margaret W. Day Sues Chamber

Margaret w. Day Sues Chamber
Official for Auto Injuries.
Margaret w. Day, 2S1S Fifteenth
street, has filed suit in the District
Supreme Court to recover $4,000 dam
ages from Alvin B. Barber, an official
of the United States Chamber of Com
merce, for alleged personal injuries
She says she was riding in an auto
mobile September 16, 1890, at Fifteenth
and N streets, when a machine of the
defendant, driven by his son, collided
with the automobile and caused her
to sustain serious injury. She is rep
resented by Attorneys Mccullough and
Luckett
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
SENTENCED FOR LIQUOR

Thomas o. De Doe, Father of Daisy,
Actress Ex-Aide, Gets $50 Days.
LOS ANGELES, November "a P.-
Thomas D. De Doe, father of Daisy De
Boo, former. secretary of Clara Bow, film
actress, was sentenced yesterday to serve
$50 days and pay a fine of $1,000, fol-
lowing his conviction on liquor possess
sion charge.
He was arrested last October 10 by
vice squad raiders, who found De Doe
with liquor. His daughter is in the
county jail serving a sentence for grand
larceny from Miss Bow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

rector Of the National tuberculosis
Association: DR.. Joseph A. Murphy,
chief medical examiner for the public
schools; DR.. Thomas Kidner, New York
expert in sanitarium construction, and
George Hastings, administrative secre-
tary to President Hoover.
At a meeting yesterday the Board of
Directors OF the local association unani-
mously approved a budget totaling
nearly $4,000. the largest ever set by
that body and the hoped-for goal Of
the Christmas seal sale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

LOS ANGELES, November "a (P).-
A six-pound boy was born yesterday
to Paul N. Boggs jr, son of the oil
executive, and Dorothy Dwan, former
film actress
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24
Health Lectures for Adults.

1t was decided that q program of
health lectures for adults will be ex-
tended to every field of industry, under
a committee headed by John Dolph
general manager of the local branch of
the Metropolitan Insurance Co.
The attention of the directors was
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

The $25 Suits-worsteds, twists serges, and basket
weaves, which will look better and wear longer than
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-24

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