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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
CANNON'S TRADING
RECORDS OBTAINED
Dealing Accounts to Be Given
Grand Jury in Corrupt
Practices Probe.

Bishop James Cannon's stock market
dealings will be put before a grand Jury
next week when it studies bis handling
of funds for the anti-Smith Democratic
Committee in 1923.
John J. Wilson, assistant district at
torney, said yesterday that records OF
these dealings have been obtained from
accounts of the New York brokere &c
firm with which the Southern Methodist
churchman did business Harry l.
Goldhurst, TIE bishops broker. is serv-
ing sentence for mail defraud.
May Hear Frelinghuysen.
In its study of whether the bishop
violated the corrupt practices act in
he 1928 campaign. the grand Jury likely
will hear Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, for
nier Republican Senator from New
Jersey He said last week upon his re-
turn from Europe that he contributed
100000 to Bishop Cannon's snti-Smith
Committee. Senate investigators say
there is no record Of the receipt or ex-
penditure Of this fund.
The grand jury hearing will be
directed at the financial operations of
Bishop Cannon and Miss Ada l.. Bur-
roughs, treasurer of the snti-Smith
Democratic Committee.
senate PrODe to Continue.
Meanwhile. the Senate Campaign
Funds Committee is preparing to re-
sumo its own investigation of the
charges by Representative Tinkham,
Republican, CT Masss chusetts. that
Bishop Cannon violated the corrupt
practices act in failing to account for
the expenditure of all funds intrusted
to him IS chairman of the anti-Smith
Committee.
The committee has learned of contri-
buttons of S65,300 to Bishop Cannon
personally from Edwin C. Jameson.
New York Republican, and Of $4,000
from Frelinghuysen.
Bishop Cannon reported, in accord
ance with requirements of the corrupt
practices act receipt and expenditure
of $4,000 of the Jameson funds and
made no report of the Frelinghuysen
contribution. He reported the ST. 800
contribution some time after the cleo
ton of 1928.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Science
Brain Defect Fails to Han
dicap Boy.

The story of an 1l-year-old boy who
suffers no i'll effects. although one Of
the most important parts of his brain
has been missing, apparently from
birth. is told by DR.. Ellis Freeman of
the University OF Louisville in the cur
rent issue of the American Journal Of
Psychology.
The boy has no occipital lobe on the
left side of his brain. Theoretically,
the right half of each eye should be
useless. Tests show that each eye
functions normally. The eyes them
selves are in good condition and the
boz never has been troubled with eye
sight defects.
The nerve flbers appear to follow
their normal course through the lower
parts of the brain. What happens to
them when they reach the cerebral
cortex cannot be determined. Free
man offers the conjecture that a new
visual projection area has been estab-
lished somewhere else in the brain
or else that in some way the whole
brain has taken over the functions OF
its missing part.
The boy has suffered convulsive
seizures proba bly, associated in some
way with the brain defect.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
.COLL|NGS Staying
MYSTERY UNSOLVED
Failure of Widow to Identify
Florida Pair Terminates
Police Clues.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
! NEW YORK, October 3.-The mid
night pirate" murder of Benjamin P.
J Ceilings appeared headed tonight for
the archives of Long Islands unsolved
death mysteries, after nearly four weeks
of excited investigation extending into
! four States and a dozen cities had left
( the enigma as perplexing as ever.
! The authorities were stripped OF
clues by failure to find a motive for the
killing of the Stamford, Conn, yachts
( man and the inability of his widow,
+ Mrs. Lillian Ceilings, to identify two
men detained IN Florida as even re-
moteiy resembling a pair of pirates
she said committed the crime.
May Repeat Story.
District Attorney Alexander G. Blue
, Of Suffolk County, said the next move
; probably would be to Invite" the young
widow to repeat to a grand Jury on
october 10, perhaps for the last time,
| the details of what she saw and heard
on the little cruiser Penguin on the
night of September 9. This, he said
I would preserve the record for future
| use"
She already has told the story nearly
| a dozen times and has resisted every
! effort to Chell-nge any of its particu-
| lars. Her attorneys were noncommittal
! as II whether she would be willing to
/ have 1t written into the grand jury
minute.
At the conclusion of the inquest q
, coroner's physician testified Ceilings
( lost CONSCIOUSNESS soon after being
! struck by his aSsailants ard could not
have spoken in normal tones.
- Quizzed on Contradiction.
Because this seemed a contradiction
! OF Mrs. Ceilings account of hearing
/ her husband say They are are throw
/ ing me overheard" counsel for the
widow was asked about that phase OF
| her narrative. Her attorney responded
that she had told her story las best
she could and the testimony of the
physician was "a matter of opinion"
Long Islands fashionable North
Shore has been in a furore of excite
ment ever since the young woman was
rescued three weeks ago last Thursday
| from an open motor boat ard told OF
her husbands death and an attack
upon herself.
Having emerged only a few weeks
earlier from the whirlwind investiga-
| ton of Starr Faithfulls death at Long
Beach. which ended in a finding OF
suicide. the authorities pursued count
less clues.
They had in their possession a half
dozen blankets, some broken cas-, a
reconstructed milk bottle bearing nc
flngcrprints, an anchor with its rope
cut. a pair of tennis sneakers ard
/ other pieces of evidence.
Returns From Florida.
Tonight Mrs. Ceilings was on her
way northward from the fruitless jour
ney to Daytona Beach, Fla, where she
cleared two men held there by stating
! they were not the pirates"
A coroner yesterday completed his
inquest into Ceilings death and found
ne died lat the hands Of a person or
persons unknown"
That. seemingly, was the end of the
trail, so far as information in the
( hands of the State was concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
JAPANESE BOMB
CHINESE FROM AIR
Troops Also Occupy New
chwang-NeWs Dispatches
Report 200 Casualties.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SHANGHAI, October 3-The bomb
ing Of a Chinese concentration north
east OF Mukden, Manchurian Capital
city, by Japanese army planes and thu
occupation by Japanese troops OF New
chwang were reported today by both
Japanese and Chinese news sources.
The dispatches agreed with the con-
tention of Chinese official circles that
Japan is not loosening her grip on
Southern Manchuria.
Reuters News Agency said so bombs
were dropped on a Chinese barracks at
Faishan- Chengtse, about 100 miles from
Mukden. which has ceased to be the
official capital since its occupation by
japanese forces sent there for the an
nounced purpose of protecting japanese
lives and investments in the South
Manchurian Railway and other prop
critics.
Chinese news sources said the men
DO rb bed were Chinese soldiers. Japa-
nese news sources called them bandits
Reuters referred to them as Chinese
troops" numbering 5000, and said
there were 200 casualties.
The bombing apparently was in re-
taliation for the recent shooting down
of japanese military plane.
The expedition which occupied New
chwang, Manchurian commercial CEN
ter, was explained by the japanese dis
patches as made necessary by wide
spread lawlesSness" in Southern Man
churis. Chinese authorities said the
japanese were responsible for such
conditions because the confusion
brought about by their occupation had
destroyed the former machinery for the
maintenance of order.
Manchuria in the past decade has
been the best governed part of China,
first under the military dictator, Chang
Eso-Lin, and since his death under his
son, Chang Hsueh-Liang. The latter
is convalescing in a Peiping hospital
from a" serious Illness, where he looks on
helplessly at what he considers an in
vasion of his realm. His power now
extends only as far as Chinchow, a
scsnt hundred miles north of the great
wall on the Peiping -Mukden Railway.
There his lieutenant, Chang Iso-Hsiang.
has established a temporary capital
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
IRISH ORATOR WINS
CONTEST ENTRANCE
County Dublin Youth to Come
Here for Participation
in World Finals.

Thomas Shillington. l8-year-old stu
dent at st. Columbia's College, Rath-
farnbm, County Dublin, has been
chosen to represent the Irish Free
State in the Sixth International Ora
torical Contest here October "a, it was
announced last night.
Young Shillington has as his alter
nate Daniel Aloysius Murphy Of Presen-
tation College. Rathfarnum. who was
awarded tour of Continental Europe.
Irish Contest Held Unique.
Shillington won the right to compete
on The Irish Free State" and an ex-
temporaneous talk in which he dis
cCssed the proposition That State
Lotteries Are Undesirable" A feature
of the Irish finals was the fact that
each contestant was required to speak
eXtemporaneously on the State lotteries
AS in the American contest, each orator
completed his prepared speech and re-
ceived his extemporaneous topic as he
left the stage. Since each contestant
returned to the stage only in time to
speak again. none heard his fellow
orators impromptu speeches before he
himself had discussed the subject.
According to reports of the Irish
finals, the unique sameness of the ex-
temporaneous topics made acute de-
mands on many of the contestants.
These orators had had rather compii-
mentary things to say regarding their
Irish sweepstakes, and to be required,
suddenly. to rsfute their own views, was
a real test.
New Entrant Praised.
The Irish finals we're held in Engi
reers Hall. in Dublin. and the judges
we're Justice J. Greed Meredith. K. c.:
Sir Robert Tate and j. E. Henly, editor
Of the Irish Times. sponsor Of the con-
test in Ireland. DR.. c. B. Armstrong,
Irish contest manager, has advised
Randolph Leigh. contest director gen.
eral here, that the Irish contest was
success in that it produced two out
standing orators for FIRST place and
alternate winners.
Shillington. he said, is an exceptional
orator. He is the son of a prominent
linen manufacturer. In school the
orator is proficient in football, cricket
and swimming. and is ambitious to be-
come a teacher.
The other five participants in the
finals, who already have been an
nounced. are John Thomas Lumsden.
II, of England: Pierre Henri Courtade-
Cabessania, 10. of France; Henri r. M.
van Hoof 16, of Holland; Martin
Krieger. 10. of Germany, and Robert
Rayburn, II. of Newton, Kans., United
States entrant.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
COL. GIBBS TO SPEAK
Will Talk on Bicentennial Before

the George Washington Bicentennial at
a meeting Of the Columbia Heights
Citizens Association, Tuesday evening
at the new Amsterdan Hotel, Four
tenth and Fairmont streets.
This will be the associations first
meeting of the season.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
D. c. DELEGATES VOTED DRY.
Fraser Says Legion Men Resent Paid
Reformer's" Charges.

Fraser Says Legion Men Resent Paid
Reformers" Charges.
refutation Of charges by Dr.,
Clarence True Wilson that the Ameri-
can Legion Convention at Detroit was
drunken orgy was made last night
by F. G. Fraser. departmental COM
mander Of the District of Columbia
American Legion, on his return TO
Washington.
Fraser did not mention the general
secretary OF the Methodist Board of
Temperance and Public Morals by
name, but alluded to the statements
made by "a paid clergyman reformer"
we resent such statements that try
to discredit us before the citizens of
our community" the Legion Official
said in q letter given to the press last
night. He attached to his statement
letter from the manager of the hotel
In Detroit where the District Legion
naires made their headquarters. stating
their conduct YVES above reproach."
and that there was mo drunkenness or
rowdyism.
His statement continued:
The District of Columbia delegation
voted as a unit against prohibition at
cur national convention. All members
Of our delegation we're present when the
vote was cast and none<wa under the
influence of liquor. We voted con-
scientiously. feeling that interests in the
service Of God and country will be pre-
served in the establishment Of law
and order. which can come only
through such action as We took at our
national convention"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
METHOD|STS FLAY
LEGION PREAMBLE
CIipsheet, Unsigned by VIII
son, Hits Referendum Plea
on Dry Law Preface.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
DIR. Clarence True Wilson said yester-
day prohibitionistS have no particular
quarrel with the American Legion sug-
gestion for referendum on the dry
question.
The preamble to the prohibition reso-
luton adopted at the Detroit convention
was given as the basis of dry objection
in the weekly Clipsheet Of the Methodist
Board of Temperance, Prohibition and
Public Morals.
Wilson, general secretary did not
sign the statement, but the Clipsheet
attributes all expressions OF opinion, un-
less otherwise designated, to the boards
secretaries.
Preamble Termed Wet.
The statement entitled, The Ameri-
can Legion" said:
The new commander Of the Legion
says that the resolution was not In
! fact wet that it was simply a request
| for constitutional referendum on pro-
hibition In order that the present will
OF the people may be known.
This assurance Is cheering. 1t will
not alter the fact that the preamble
/ to that resolution, apparently most un-
fortunately overlooked by many of those
who voted yea on its passage, records
| an unfavorable verdict on the prohibi-
/ ton law.
1T is the preamble to the resolution
passed to which the drys so strongly
object, and 1t is that preamble which
has done an injury to the Legion it.
! self which we hope is not irremediable .
The statement said the deepest
wound inflicted by this unhappy event
| Is the stepping aside Of the Legion b.
,, make partisan pronouncement of All
issue which cuts athwart every class
and in which feeling Is deep and in
volved; political issues are concerned
! and the strongest social and religious
convictions enter
1t said men from the small cities,
towns and country" we're not at De-
troit, where great delegations from
New York and similar communities
voiced the demand for a blow at pro-
htbition. voiced 1t in disorderly terms
and enforced it by conduct regrettable
in the extreme"
Meanwhile, headquarters of the Ma
| tional Womens Christian Temperance
Union said in a statement. the Ameri-
can Legion idea that the eighteenth
amendment was put over while there
were 1000, 900 American boys overseas
is unjustified in toto"
TIE statement said the prohibition
am t1ldment was guaranteed by the con-
gressional election of November. 1916.
five months before We declared war
much OF the important action was
taken while practically all our 1000.
| 900 soldiers were in the United States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04
Pennsylvania Bank Fails.

LEECHBURG, Pa, October 3 (P.-
The Farmers National Bank here closed
its doors today
Bank officials said the institution
had capital of $4,000 and deposits to-
falling between 100000 and $500. non
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-04

Municipal elections in Czechoslovakia
are being advanced in order to permit
ballotirg on public works projects to
aid the unemployed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20

sonnet In the last year, there has been
more tran a one-third increase In the
number Of cases made"
The prohibition director declared en-
forcement Of liquor laws should be
more efficient than 1t is today and
urged program of temperance educa-
tie, among the people to aid in stop
pii the Illicit traffic. He said figures
she bureau indicated the present
;,4uor consumption Is 35 per cent of
that in 1914. He urged a scientific
study Of enforcement, asserting there
mas been so little truth told about pro-
hibition."
At present, he indicated. there is a
comparatively small scientific knowledge
Of the subject.
DR.. G. G. johnson, pastor of the Ma
tiona! Baptist Memorial Church, de-
clared in an address that 1.-The Ameri-
| can Legion and several others have
forgotten the tragedy" of the legalized
saloon in America. Asserting booze is
all one family" DIR. johnson declared
If you let beer in, distilled liquor also
will come" He praised the members OF
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20

posed Of Mrs. Maud Howell Smith,
Gideon A. Lyon and Robert Cottrell.
Edwin c. Graham of the Community
Center Council will announce the win
ners and present the cups.
Mrs. Marie Moore Forrest is in charge
of pageantry for the event, Mrs. Edith
H. Hunter is in charge of music and
Harold Snyder is in charge of lighting
and settings. The Washington E,ks
Bows Band, conducted by James E. Kid
we'll. will play. The four groups par
ticipating in the festival are the Greek
Community. the Neighborhood House,
the Lido Civic Club and the American
iZat:on School Association
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20

the w. c. r. U. for remembering the
tragedy of the open saloon"
Without mentioning any names, DR..
Johnson urged the w. C. T. U. to pray
for woman, who had given indica-
tons Of being Frances willard, but
who" he said, lis now slipping"
When asked later to whom he re-
ferred, DR.. johnson declined to men,
ton any names
The convention was called to order
by Mrs. NJ N. Pollock, president of the
w. c. T. U. of the District of Columbia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20
Baltimore Dentist
Asks More Wisdom
On Wisdom Teeth
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. October 90.
"A warning that the policy Of
letting sleeping dogs lie" may
be a dangerous one where wis
dom teeth are concerned is is
sued by DR.. Horace M. Davis of
Baltimore. speaker at the
American Dental Association
convention here.
DR.. Davis maintains the third
molars. or wisdom teeth, are re-
sponsible for more ills than are
usually considered and should be
studied by dentists in the treat
ment of younger patients with a
view to determining how best to
prevent later troubles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20
TEMPERANCE NEED
SEEM BY WOODCOCK
Director Tells w. C. T. U.
Public Needs to Be Edu.
Gated on Dry Law.

Greater efficiency in stopping liquor
traffic and a revival of temperance edu-
caticn are necessary to realize the
Ideal" of prohibition enforcement, Col.
Amos w. w. Woodcock. Federal direc-
tor Of prohibition, told the Women's
Christian Temperance Union at its
fifty-seventh annual convention in the
National Baptist Memorial Church
today.
Col. Woodcock said the limit of en-
forcement has not been reached, as Is
shown by the fact that. with an in
crease of third in enforcement per-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20
CANDIDATES INVITED

Special Dispatch to The Star
BALLSTON. Va, October 20.-Can-
didates as Delegate to the General
Assembly, for commonwealth attorney
and commissioner of revenue have been
invited to attend the open-air mass
meeting on the field grounds at the in
tersection of Wilson Boulevard and
Clements avenue Wednesday evening.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20
FARM BOARD HARDNESS
FUND INCREASES TO $85
Source of Money Is 81 Fine at
Meetings-Used to Buy
Fruits and Sweets.

BY the Associated Press
The Farm Boards minor revolving
fund" has reached s85 and is still
growing.
Unlike the $500, OOO, 900 revolving fund
granted by Congress to aid America n
farmers. the source of the $85 is the
members Themselves penalty f.r
being tardy at board meetings.
The fine is ST..
From the minor revolving fund" is
bought such delicacieS as fruits and
sweets which the members eat as they
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20
Protest Duty on U. S. Autos

MEXICALI, Lower California, Oc-
tobsr 20 R).-A thousand laborites
held demonstration at the interna-
t'onal boundary yesterday protesting
the enforcement of a heavy Mexican
import duty on American automobiles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-10-20

the so-called flexible clause, where the
weighted average of invoices may be
used in determining production costs.
it is very clear that We now have mere
ly a competitive tariff rather than a
protective one"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-09
RENT-FLATS.
WANTED-APARTM,
SALE-APARTMENT HOUSES

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HERE YOU ARE

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