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The Washington times., 1931-06-16
HOnle-breIU Gets
Youth in Trouble

George U. Carpenter. 81, of
S22 King ST., Alexandria, was
fined 500 and costs and given
q 80 days suspended Jail SEN
tence by Judge Snow in the
Police Court today. He was con-
yicted of possession of home
brew.
The Washington times., 1931-06-16
MRS. PARKS RECOVERING

Mrs. Ethel M. Parks, adver
tising manager for the Palais
Royal, was recovering today at
her home in Silver Spring from
a compound fracture of her left
leg, received Saturday when she
fell into an excavation for her
garage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19

few examples of the unusual values offered treecande lamp
complete with shade hexagon shape regularly $685.
$685. Metal bridge lamp with shade regularly $l3 $04O
Metal dresstck. with round base enmeled lovely
Rose, orchid peach Dainty silk shades match Regularly Sill
$3.50 pair co table lamp red and
matching shade. Regularly SIS; $780,
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EX.MISS0URI U. HEAD
CRITICIZES CURATORS
Dismissed Educators Statement
Blames High Officials
for Injustice"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBIA, Mo, January 1e.-Dr.
Stratton D. Brooks, former president of
the University of Missouri, in a state
ment made public here yesterday, said
he believed he had been dismissed by
the Board of Curators because the
board preferred to do me an injustice
rather than risk serious opposition from
persons in nigh authority" 1t was DR..
Brooks first statement since last April,
when he was notified that he had been
dismissed.
DR.. Brooks said the action of the
Board of Curators has no parallel in
educational history" except in two ma
tionally known cases, where extreme
political activity" or violent personal
prejudice entered into the case"
DR.. Brooks was replaced as president
of the university January by Walter
williams, dean Of the School of
Journalism, after six months forced
leave of absence during which Williams
served as acting president.
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HENRY LELAND. SO. CARRIES ON
TO NEW AUTOMOTIVE TRIUMPHS
Made Rifles for Union SOL
dierS and Plane Motors
for World War.
Friends Marvel at Mental
AIaCrity and Physical
Vitality.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January 1s.-Up on the
twenty-second floor Of the Dime Bank
Building, approaching his 88th birth
day, white-haired and white-bearded
man who made rifles for soldiers in the
Civil War and airplane motors In the
World War is carrying on because his
plans are not yet quite mature" and
because work provides the best fun"
he has.
Henry M. Leland, the grand old
man" of the automobile industry, with
mind as alert as it was back in 1890,
when he predicted the future Of inter-
nal combustion engines, and with a
physical vitality that is the marvel of
his friends and acquaintance, is In his
Office every day but Sunday from $50
am. to $50 pm. To the Office comes
steady stream Of visitors, mostly
would-be inventors who seek his advice
on the merit of certain devices, for this
Is the unfinished business" this octo-
genarian mechanical genius feels called
upon to look after before his retirement.
Birthday Coming in Month.
A month hence Henry Leland wiz
have another birthday. His friends viii
ask him how it feels to be SO years old,
and Henry Leland will reply: I'm bit
embarrassed; you see it's the first time
I ever was 3d.
Coupling an unfailing optimism with
his mental and physical alertness, this
outstanding figure of the automobile
world does not admit such a thing as
defeat.
When he was rs he organized the
Lincoln Motor Co., chiefly for the pro-
duction of the Liberty motors. Some
time after the war the company came
upon financial troubles and it seemed
that a career that had been so replete
in achievement was 10 be capped by
failure. Leland made fighting come
back, however, after the Lincoln Co.
had been taken over at receivers sale
by Henry Ford. A bitter fight, still in
progress, between Leland and his old
friend, Ford, resulted from the latter's
purchase of the Lincoln properties
Leland claimed Ford agreed to reim-
burSe certain stockholders when the
property was taken over.
Introduced Vital Improvements.
It was as head of the Cadillac Motor
Car Co., which he founded in 1902, that
Henry Leland introduced storage bat
terry ignition, electric lighting, electric
starting and thermostatic control Of
engine temperature. Today he is still
thinking Of improvements that can be
made in automobile engines and other
moving parts of the vehicle whose flu
ture he foreSaW when most people
scoffed at the "contraption" some of
them called "the invention Of the devil"
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.BEREAVED FATHER
HELD IN SHOOTING
Parent of Girl Recently Slain
Accused in Death of
Young Man.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORT ARTHUR, Tex, January 10
A. B. johnson, 40, whose comedy 1e-
year-old daughter was shot to death
recently, faced q hearing today on a
charge of Staying Otis Lee Adams, 20,
oil company ambulance driver, who
had been one Of her companions.
Had "GOne With" Girl.
Police Chief M. B. Word said investi-
gators knew that Adams, although
married, had been "going with" the
girl Elizabeth; that her fiance, Robert
Williams, 10, student at the University
Of Texas, had objected, and that an
arrangement Of Williams and the girl
had followed.
Two weapons--one q small rife cut
down to pistol length, and the other
a big Six-Shooter-were grim figures
In Johnson's troubles. The first killed
his daughter, as she sat in a motor car
in front Of the First Methodist Church
here. The second killed Adams Sat-
urday night.
RecOnciliatiOns Prevented.
Those guns, officers were told, pre-
vented two proposed reconciliationS.
Williams, who had driven with Eliza
beth to the church, in whose shadows
she died December %, said he took her
there expecting to have the pastor in
tercede and bring them together again.
When he returned to the car, he said,
he found Elizabeth dead.
Adams, according to his chief, Dr.
James Long, was preparing even as he
was shot down in a pressing shop to
go to Vinton. La, and plead with his
estranged wife for o new under
standing.
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VETERANS TABLE
LUMP BONUS ISSUE
Adjusted Compensation Dis
cussed HeatedIy by goth
Division Association.

The question of adjusted compensa-
ton for World War veterans, through
which the bonus would be paid in
lump sum, was tabled by the Executive
Committee Of the goth Division Associa-
ton after heated discussion yesterday
at the closing session of a two-day
meeting
j. Fred Chase, president of the Wash
ington Post, No. 20. Of the organization.
who, with Dudley Browne. a patent at
torney. represented the District of CO.
lumbia, spoke in favor of the compen-
Sation proposal. Herbert Blizzard Z
New Jersey and other directors gaN1
various reasons why they thought fun
payment of the bonus would be unwise.
calling attention to the fact that Rep
resentative Hoffman of New Jersey
favors only two-thirds of the money
being released at this time.
Action on the bonus question was
postponed until next September when,
the committee decided, the next conven-
ton will be held In Asbury Park. N. j.
Meanwhile, plans are being made to
hold the 1882 conclave in France, CEN
tering it around the $4,000, 900 memorial
now being erected to the goth Division.
The meeting, which was held at the
Arlington Hotel. was attended by repre-
sentatives from Maryland, Virginia and
New Jersey. H. J. Lepper of Newark.
N. j., presided.
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a central office in Paris, eventually en-
oraced practically every endeavor touch
ing the health of the armies.
The Y. M. c. A., with e. G. Carter
in charge, was equally earnest, its prin-
cipal field Of activities being that of
recreation and entertainment Through
bureaus of information it also under
took to provide personal services for
officers and men, both in France and
England. 1t supplied athletic equipment
and encouraged sport; conducted clubs
and hotels, furnishing reading matter
and writing material; cared for the
women of the Y w. c. A. and made a
beginning at education work wherever
possible.
Later on, at my request, the Y. M. C..
A. also undertook to conduct regimental
and regional canteens for the Army.
Although handicapped at all times by
lack of tonnage land transportation
and efficient personnel, this enormous
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
AIR RESCUE HERO WEEDS
NURSE IN YUKON HOSPITAL
z. L. WATSON, Savior of Two in
Frozen North, to Honeymoon
In New York.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia,
January 19.-Everett L. WATSON, "a
year-old hero of the long aerial search
for the missing Burke party in the
frozen Northern wilds of Canada, will
leave here tomorrow night on honey
moon trip to New York via San
Francisco.
He was married last night to Miss
Florence Jones, nurse in the White
Horse, Yukon, Hospital, to which he
took the two men he found starving and
near death in that region two months
after they were forced to desert their
damaged plane.
WATSON, who left California three
years ago to fly q commercial plane
In Yukon Territory, rescued Emil
Kading, plane mechanic, and Bob
Marten, Wrangell, Alaska, prospectOr,
about month ago. but was too late to
save their pilot, Capt. e. j. A. Burke,
who succumbed to exposure. Wassons
engaRement TO- Miss Jones was an.
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task was creditably performed.
These two organizations, the Red
Cross and the Y. M. c. A.. eventually
covered their particular spheres of ac-
tivity without material interference
one with the other, much to the benefit
of all concerned. Supplementary to
the work Of these societies the knights
Of Columbus came later and grew to be
most helpful agency. Later still the
Jewish Welfare and the Salvation Army
we're added to those who served the SOL
diers in their billetS and at the front,
and although on q smaller scale they
rendered valuable service to orr troops.
MISUNDERSTANDING impression of
lack of allied teamwork Is confirmed by
Sir Douglas Haig
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MANS LAST TRICK"
is DOUBLE KILLING
Filipino Magician's Body Found
With That Of Girl For
hidden to Him.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, January 19.-The "last
trick" Of Jose Cruz, 23-year-old Fill
pino amateur magician and butler of
Asa G.. Gambler, jr., was written into
Dekalb County records today as the
murder of Miss Gladys Erik, pretty I9-
year-old stenographer, and his own
suicide.
After the discovery Of the bodies of
the couple yesterday in parked auto
mobile on the Gambler estate, officers
found a note in the Filipino's room,
scrawled on q child's slate, which said,
This is my last trick and hope you
enjoy the performance"
On Cruces body was found an I'M
signed note which said:
ITO whom it may concern:
We, Gladys Erik and Pose Cruz, are
taking our own lives because we love
each other but due to the objections
of Louise Erik SISTER of Gladys and
Mrs. j. T. Clay (grandmother) we can
not find way to be together In peace. u
The corners jury did not believe
there was suicide part, since the note
bore no mark from the girl. Testimony
before the coroner's jury showed that
Miss Frixs parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oscar
Erik, had forbidden Cruz to call at
their home or to see their daughter.
Germany had the greatest number of
exhibits, with the United States second,
at the recent shoe and leather EXPOSE
tiOn In paris
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zionists. Postpons Session.

LONDON, January 10 (P.-The Jew
ish Telegraphic Agency says that the
Actions Committee of the World Zion
ist Organization has voted to postpone
the World Zionist Congress- which was
scheduled for February "a at Karlsbad
Czechoslovakia.
A date will be announced later by
the Zionist executive.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
DROUGHT RELIEF LOANS
READY FOR DISTRIBUTION
Voucher Forms for Payments to
Farmers Available on $45, 900, 900
Appropriation.
Ry the Associated Pros.

By the Associated Press.
The Government was ready today TO
begin distribution Of the $4,000, 900
for crop production in the majority Of
drought-stricken States.
Voucher forms, upon which payment
will be made distressed farmers in ct
least IS States, dispatched to held
oficess are 20 be available today.
Dr.. c. w. Warburton, director Of
extensio who viii be IN direct charge,
considered IL probable that three Of
The four Disturbing Offices would be
ready 70 receive applications Tor loans
tF9anxn Nfnxn the WaxhiuQtnla WemuniH
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NEW TRAIN SERVICE
one-Day Run Connects Capital
With Memphis Tenn.

A new one-day train service between
Washington and Memphis was inau-
gurated yesterday by the Southern
Railway, representing an addition to
the regular passenger service and the
Memphis Special which has operated
to Memphis via Chattanooga and Knox
vile for many years.
The new arrangement affords trans
portation from Washington each day
at 4:45 pm, passing Chattanooga at
8:15 am. and arriving at Memphis at
$40 pm. the next day, making connec-
ton with fast trains for points in
Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and
Texas,
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Model for Future Guidance.


Having this nucleus, and selecting the
best features Of the French and British
staff systems, general staff organiZa-
ton was created which efficiently met
every demand made upon 1t through
out the war and which remains today
as a model for present and future
guidance.
Not only did @. H. Q. need an en-
cient general star to work out plans
and exercise direction in their execu-
ton under the commander in chief, but
combat units and the various services
also required qualified staff officers. To
provide some training without awaiting
the establishment Of our own schools
Of instruction, the French and British
kindly offered 10 admit our officers to
their schools or attach them to their
units until weM0sild get our own courses
started.
The urgency Of sending ofacers TO
France for instruction and experiences
IN kfR@ duty was presented To the War
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-19
Edict Limiting Bank
Employees to Four
Children Reported

BY the Associated Press
BUDAPEST, January 19.--Az
Est, Budapest paper, says de-
cree has been issued by which
employees Of Hungarian banks
are ordered to have no more
than four children and threat
ening instant dismissal to any
member of a bank staff who
secretly marries.
The paper also says certain
banks have threatened female
employees with immediate dis
missal upon the birth of a child
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These centers Of service later main
tanned dispensartes and provided beds
and bathing facilities for men. travelling
under orders or on leave. When the
necessity arose the Red Cross actively
co-operated with the Medical Corps in
The held, contributing large quantities
.nf supplies and often additional nurses.
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
IS found
BY X-RAY
Times Staff Photo
Glass swallowers are not fakes.

Glass swallowers are not fakes.
Not if Samuel Bonner, 25, col
ored, of 1924 H st. N. W., is
typical of them, they aren't.
Young Sam has been swallow
ing electric light bulbs and all
sorts of extraneous matter for
eight years, and has only recently
been wondering why he has had
no ill effects.
Accordingly he presented him
self at the George Washington
University Hospital yesterday and
asked for an explanation.
X-rays we're taken under the
supervision of DR.. Claude Moore,
roentgenologiSt of the hospital,
which exposed a quantity of lead
and ground steel in his stomach.
The youthful glass swallower
performed an exhibition yesterday
at the medical school and hun
dredS of students watched him
chew up and swallow a razor
blade. Further x-rays showed an
open safety pin, a key and numer-
GUS coins lying in his stomach.
Bonner, who comes from the
West Indies, has been making it a
paying proposition. He explained
that when he first came to this
country he saw a man in a side
show performing the swallowing
act. Whereupon he set out to do
the same thing and has now be-
come proficient at the art.
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
MAY WILL SEEK
BUS TERMINAL

Notified that he will be required
to abandon the Washington termi-
nal Of the Alexandria, Bancroft
and Washington bus line and the
Washington, Alexandria and Mt.
Vernon street railway, at Twelfth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest, to make way for the
Federal building project, r. L.
May has notified the Public Utili-
ties Commission that he will seek
permission to establish a new ter
minal on E Street, between Thir-
teenth and Fourteenth Streets
Northwest. He will also ask per-
mission to cross Pennsylvania
Avenue with both street cars and
buses.
Mays petition was to have been
presented to the Public Utilities
Commission this morning but it
was not taken up. He is also ex-
pected to seek condemnation pro
ceedings.
In the Federal building program
street cars are not to be per-
mitted to operate south of Penn
sylvania Avenue and east of Sev-
enth Street. The property now
being used as a terminal by the
bus and railways company prob
ably will be needed shortly, after
April
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
WILL ACCEPT
CURTA|L|NG
POWER
Parliamentary Tactics Keep
Measure at Distance; Must
Now Have a Majority Vote

Grimly determined that Con-
gress shall enact a dry law en-
forcement code for the District,
Senator Robert r. Howell (RO Of
Nebraska, today is waiting for
another chance to bring his
drastic measure before the Sen
ate again.
Unaffected by the action of the
Senate yesterday is displaChlg his
biIl, without a record vote, the
Nebraskan is ready to ask for
consideration of the measure as
soon as the parliamentary situa-
ton is such that he would have
the slightest chance of success.
Majority Vote Needed
Under the rules, now that the
bill has lost its privileged status
as unfinished business" Senator
Howell will have to Obtain ma
jority vote in order to have his
bill considered.
The Senator today seemed con-
fident that when the situation is
propitious he will be able TO COM
mand the votes.
More than that, Senator Howell
is confident that he has enough
votes now to pass the bill If he
can ever reach that point.
But he is willing to admit that
tactics adopted by his opponents
are such that he may never get
a vote.
These tactics consist of talking
at great length and of lntroduc-
ing innumerable amendments.
Sure of House
Senator Howell today seemed
more inclined to accept an
amendment curtailing to a linn
tied degree the provisions in his
bill for extending the search
power.
However, he insists that the
bill in final form must contain
an extension of this power be-
yond that contained in the Vol
stead law, if the bill is to be of
any use.
Senator Howell is also conf
dent that if he can get his bill
through the Senate, it will not
be smothered by the big three"
of the House.
He pointed out that the House
leaders are "close to the Admin
istration and that President
Hoover is in favor of a local dry
law for the District"
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
'H|KERS'
SORE At PALS

Disgruntled over "desertion' on
the part of some of their "com-
rades" who "scooped" them in
reaching Washington, a group of
IL, foot-weary, World War veterans
from Philadelphia marched along
Pennsylvania Avenue today in a
defiant mood.
Marchers Are "SOre"
They made no secret of the
fact that they were sore" over
the fact that some of their num-
ber took to automobiles and
came to washington a day in ad-
vance of the scheduled program,
thus obtaining glory and publicity
which ought to go to the real
mixers, their leaders say.
Nursing bhstered feet and in
jUred feelings, the infantry"
which came to the Capital today
was in no mood to give immedi-
ate attention to their announced
program of calling upon Presi-
dent Hoover and Invading Capitol
Hill to advance the cause of the
cash bonus.
Their spokesmen. Edmund
Rodgers and Frank Spalaski,
want the local public to know
that their. group alone deserves
the credit of walking from Phila-
delphia to Washington, although
he says they did considerable
hitch-hiking from time to time.
Mr.. Rodgers said:
HikerS Claim Credit
"The boys who got here yes
terday left us in Elkton, Md,
deciding to make the rest of
the journey in automobiles.
Our crowd really did what we
started out to do, march to
WaShingtOn-and we deserve
the credit"
The group of IL real mixers
will stay in the city for two days
or more to work for cash bonus
legislation, which will bring relief
to many veterans who are now
virtually destitute, they declare.
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
COMMISSIONERS
REJECT HOME
RAZ|NG BILL
Senate Committee Receives
UnfavorabIe Report on Pro-
lposaI to Condemn Houses

Following the lead of the Bu-
reau of the Budget, the District
Commissioners today sent an ad.
verse report to Senator Arthur
Capper, chairman of the Senate
District Committee, on the bill to
eliminate alley dwellings through
the purchase of such dwellings
with a $500,000 surplus fund of
the United States Housing Cor
poration.
While admitting that the bill
has much merit, the Commis-
sioners hold that it might be in
opportune to enact the legislation
at the present session of Con
gress, owing to it's conflict with
the presidential program.
Provide Fund Disposal
The bill provides that purchases
should be made by the Housing
Corporation with the surplus fund
and after the alley dwellings have
been razed the ground may be
sold to private individuals and
GIl6 dIllOu41CS LCCCANCO 4AOlA UAAC
sale shall be placed in a revolv-
ing fund.
Conditions Cited
j. Clawson Roop, director of
the Bureau of the Budget, today
informed the Commissioners that
any legislation for discontinuing
alley dwellings which contem-
plated the cost of eliminating the
dwellings through the use of
money not appropriated or from
funds held by the Treasury for
the United States Housing Cor
poration would not be in accord
with the financial program of the
President.
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
GROUP FAVORS
PAY BOOSTS

Apparently unaffected by the
overwhelming sentiment of the
House against granting any in
crease in Government salaries,
the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today reported the appro-
priation bill for the Department
of State, Justice, Commerce and
Labor with amendments provid-
ing for salary increases for $631,-
900.
The action of the Appropria-
tions Committee comes shortly
after the House by an overWhelm-
ing vote, declined to accept SINH
lar amendments in the Treasury
Postoffice bill.
The Senate is continuing to
register it's stand in favor OF
bringing under-average salaries
up to the average by inserting
similar amendments in the War
Department appropriation bill now
under consideration.
AS the Senate goes along in
Serting the salary amendments in
each appropriation bill, the con-
troversy between the two Houses
is being fought out on the Treas
ury-PoStOffice bill.
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
Commissioners VIII
Attend Stone Ldying

Through DR.. Luther Reichelder-
fer the District commissioners will
present their greetings at the lay
ing of the corner stone of the new
Kesher Israel Synagogue at
Twenty-eighth and N SITS. N. W.
at 1:30 p, m. Sunday.
Milton StraSburger will be chair
man and welcome will be extended
by A. Mostow, president of the con-
gregation.
The Washington times., 1931-01-28
Women Extinguish
Fire Without Aid
Of Mere Men

An entirely feminine group of
fire fighters put out a blaze in
exclusive Bradley Lane, near
Bethesda, Md, shortly before
noon today.
Matrons of the neighborhood
saw a fire on the grounds of
the Episcopal Church at the
intersection of wise consin
Avenue and Bradley Lane. They
went to work with brooms and
pals and held it in check
until the Fire Department
arrived.
The women fought the blaze
without masculine help and did
an excellent job of it, spec
tators say.