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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Battle to Retain
SpeakershiP
to Be Close.
FIVE VACANCIES
NOW HOLD KEY
Democratic Success
Would Give 2l7-
217 Tie.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

The death of Speaker Nicholas
Longworth. in addition to remov-
ing from Washington one of the
best loved men in public Office,
creates for the Republican party a
real problem.
1t becomes necessary for the
Republicans to fight in the Ohio
district for the seat in the House
occupied for so many years by
Mr.. Longworth. They must have
it if they are to retain their
majority of one in the next House.
1t also becomes necessary for
the Republicans to select a candi-
date for Speaker in the place of
Mr.. Longworth, who was chosen
unanimously at the caucus of
Republicans held before the last
Congress expired.
The election last Fall placed 2l8
Republicans in the House, 216 Demo-
there have been several deaths of mem
bers elected to the next House. there
has been no change so far in the
political lineup. There is one Repub-
lican vacancy today in Wisconsin. due
to the death OF the veteran Henry
Allen Cooper But 1t is expected the
Republicans will be able to elect his
successor.
Possible Tie in Standing.
Should the Republicans, however,
fail to carry the first Ohio district in
the election Of a successor to Mr..
Longworth and the Democrats should
carry that district the count would be
217 Republicans, 2l7 Democrats and
/ Farmer-Labor member
Last November Mr.. Lcngworth car
ried his district with a majority Of
3,507 over his Democratic opponent.
Two years earlier. in the 1928 Repub-
lican landslide, Mr.. Longworth rolled
eft year" election in 1926, he won by
IS, 800 votes over the Democratic can
didate 1t Is clear that the conditions
in the district politically changed
greatly from 1925 and 1928 to 1880.
Whether another Republican without
the personal popularity and prestige Of
Speaker Lcngworth can win there
against a Democrat remains to be seen.
The names of three members of the
House today we're mentioned as possible
selections for the speakership on the
Republican side of the chamber. They
are Representative John c. Tilscn of
/ Connecticut, who has been Republican
floor leader for years; Representative
Bertrand H. Smell of New York, chair
man of the powerful Rules Committee,
and Representative Will r. Wood Of
Indiana, chairman of the Committee on
Appropriations.
Difficult G. o. p. Problem.
| Mr.. Longworth was frcm the Middle
West. Both Tilson and Smell are from
| the North and East. The Republicans
will have to determine whether they are
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
DITCH WORKER RESCUED
AFTER HOUR UNDER DIRT
Colored Man, Caught by Cave-in
at 111S Fifty-first Place North
east, Taken to Hospital.

Buried for almost an ho1r in cave-in
OF the heavy wet clay Oh q sewer ditch,
Wesley Young. colored, 81 years old, OF
400 Twenty street, was seriously
injured this morning. It was said at
Casualty Hospital, where he was taken
by the rescue squad after being removed
from the ditch, that he is suffering from
fractured ribs on the left side, and cuts
and bruises about the body.
The man was working IN the ditch.
about IL or IA feet deep, with a con-
struction crew from the F. w. Rose Co..
in front of a house at 1118 Fifty-first
place northeast, when the side of the
ditch gave way, burying him under the
rain soaked earth. The fire rescue squad
and an ambulance from Casualty Hos
pital responded, and directed the other
members Of the crew IN rescuing the
worker.
The work of digging the man from
under the clay, which completely COW
cred him, took almost an hour. ]. I.
Deaner Is foreman Of the crew.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
C. H. Owens, Assistant Cash
Ter, Shoots Robber at
Upper Marlboro, Md.
DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED
AS CAPITAL RESIDENT
One of Trio Armed With Machine
Gun-Washington Police Join
Pursuit.

One OF three armed bandits who at
tempted to hold up and rob the First
National Bank at Upper Marlboro, Md,
today was shot and killed by c. H.
Owens, assistant cashier,
Stick EN- up" one Of the bandits
demanded.
Fired Three Shots.
Owens response was to pick up a
revolver and fire three shots at the trio
The man nearest Owens collapsed to
the floor while his two companions fed.
They leaped into their automobile,
parked just outside the bank, and
Thirled away in the direction of the
Capital
A half hour after the hold-up a car
believed to contain the bandits flashed
across the AnacoStia Bridge at Eleventh
street southeast, was fired on by police
who were lying in wait for it and turned
back toward Maryland, over the
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge.
The eleventh precinct patrol car kept
in pursuit of the bandits machine, and
had not been heard from an hour later.
Meanwhile Washington police rushed
a special squad armed with a machine
gun to Brown Corner, Md, in re-
Spouse to reports that the bandits had
been surrounded in a patch of woods
and were ready to shoot 1t out with
Maryland police.
Came From Chicago.
Several customers were in the bank
when the robbers, one of whom was
armed with machine gun, entered.
The man with the machine gun stood
IN, he
strobe toward the cage behind which
Owens and other employees of the bank
were at work.
The wounded bandit, with two bullet
holes IN his chest, was pronounced
dead by DR.. Reverdey Sasccer. He was
identified as Joseph Hayes of the Clifton
Terrace Apartments. Washington, by an
automobile registration card found in
his pocket.
Identification papers found in the
dead mans pocket indicated that he
came here from Chicago, Police scent
ing some connection between the Marl-
boro hold-up and this murder of Mrs.
Elizabeth Jaynes, Garden T Shop
cashier, dispatched detectives to the
Clifton street apartment house to
search for some evidence of Hayes
residence there.
Bandits Waited in Car.
Miss Polly Pollock, proprietor Of a
general merchandise store across the
street from the bank, told Sheriff w.
Curtis Hopkins the bandits automobile
had been parked in front of her store
throughout the morning.
While the eleventh precinct patrol
car was giving chase to the bandit
machine, Inspector William S. Shelby
OF the Detective Bureau, by radio,
ordered the radio cruisers CT the first
and second precincts, the patrol cars Of
the ninth, eleventh and fifth precincts.
motorcycle men and all available foot
patrolmen to the eastern section of the
city to pick up the bandits II they
attempt to enter the Capital again.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
JAPANESE PREMIER
AGAIN OPERATED ON
Resignation of Hamaguchi,
Wounded by Shot Last Novem-
Der, Denied in Toxic.
Fired Three Shots.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April "a Reuters News
Agency dispatch from Toxic said today
there was no foundation for reports
published here that Premier Hamaguchi
of Japan has resigned.
A second operation was performed
last night upon the premier, shot and
wounded last November by young pa
triot who had objected to the govern
ment's espousal of the London Naval
Treaty.
A local anaesthetic was administered.
Surgeons later said the premier was
doing as well as could be expected.
Incapacitated for several months,
Hamaguchi recently returned to his
official duties, only to discover soon he
had not sufficiently recuperated. Late
last night his condition became such
that an immediate operation was de-
cided upon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
ADDRESSES FIREMEN

Brig. Gen. John A. Johnston, former
chairman of the District Red Cross Roll
Call Committee, addressed a class OF
firemen, students in the Red Cross life
saving classes, at engine house No. 20,
Wisconsin avenue and Warren street.
yesterday afternoon. The address was
made at the special request of the Dis
trict Chapter instructor, Ira Lee Law,
and Fire Chief Watson. Gen. Johnston
Will also speak before the next Police
Department Red Cross class.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
MOURNS
FOR GENIAL mick"
Grief Is Deepest for Long,
worth, the Man, Rather
Than Speaker.
By the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOCIATED Press.
Under the mourning for Speaker
Lcngworth there was deeper grief in the
Capital today for the genial Nick" who
was what Representative McDufie of
Alabama called "a natural human be-
ing"
There are a lot Of Republicans we
could do without" McDufie, the
Democratic whip, wrote the Speaker
just few days ago, but you are not
one of them"
The tribute went with hope for quick
recovery from the cold that became IA
tai pneumonia. It accompanied a reso-
luton urging Speaker Longworth to adj
dress the Alabama Legislature. The ges-
ture was proposed by an Alabama DEM
ocratic leader who had talked with the
Speaker for few moments in Nc
Duf1e's Capitol office.
1t was the Nick" of such incidents
who received first tributes up and down
the Capitol. 1t was he who is said
TO have inspired Democratic Leader
Garner OF Texas to refer, once, to
about 200 Longworth votes" which
concededly depended upon the decision
of the Speaker.
Big Man With Smile for All.
He was big man, this Nick" He was
bald and ruddy-faced. uncommonly
healthy. His clothes and the hand
some cane he carried were those OF the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
By the Associated Press.

SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 9.-Rep-
resentative John H. Garner Of Texas,
Democratic leader Of the House, today
deplored the death Of Speaker Nicholas
Longworth
He was my closest and bestowed
friend 1t is a great loss to the coun-
try" said Mr.. Garner, who was informed
of Speaker Longworth's death by the
San Antonio Light over long distance
telephone at his home at Uvalde.
The Representative declined to dis
cusS the political situation in the House.
Messages of coincidence were dis
patched by Garner Immediately. He
said he would attend the funeral
services.
Il was intimately associated with
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
GOVERNOR is AMBUSHED
Mexican and Aides Fight OF Ban
dts With Machine Guns.

MEXICO CITY, April 9 tR1.-Gov:
Agustin Arroyo Of Guanajuato. and
two aides were ambushed by bandits
on a road near Irapuato Sunday night
but fought them of with machine
guns.
The governor and his party were
travelling in an armored automobile,
said dispatch to La Prensa today,
when they were obliged to stop at a
barrier. The bandits opened fire from
behind stone walls on both sides OF
the road, but were driven OF when
the machine guns were turned on them.
None of the governors party was hurt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
WILL DISCUSS INDIANS
DR.. Roy Lyman Sexton to Address
Episcopalian Mems Club.

An illustrated lecture, Forgotten
People Of the Shenandoah Valley" will
be presented by DR.. Roy Lyman Sexton,
under the auspices of the Mems Club
OF the st. Stephen and the Incarnation
Episcopal Church, in the auditorium of
the parish house, at Sixteenth and New
ton streets, at 6:45 o'clock tonight.
The pictures will show the Shenan-
doah, Great Smoky and other Eastern
national parks and game of Indian
ball played by Cherokee Indians. DR..
Sexton will be introduced by Horace M
Albright, director of national parks in
the United States
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
New Requirements
Bring SO Per Cent
Drop in Marriages
BY the Associated Press.

~ Vic EAooVNEutNN 7 NooF
NEW YORK. April 9.-Mar-
riages have fallen of nearly so
per cent at Grace Church since
the rector, DR.. w. Russell Bowie,
frightened" the requirements.
DR.. Bowie noted that the slump
had taken place since he began
requiring newlyweds to sign an
agreement that the tie would
actually bind and also that the
couple join a church.
The church had SIS marriages
in 1929, he said, and 20 in 1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Leaves to Inspect Water Ways.

Maj. Gen. r. @. Ashburn, chairman
IF the Inland waterways Corporation,
left here this mornirW to make an in
spectiola Of water ways In the South and
West, and will return "a this city
May 10.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
PAYNE LEAVES ALABAMA
ON AIR TRIP TO PANAMA
Assistant Secretary of War Takes
OF From Maxwell Field
for New Orleans.
D. the Associated Press.

By The AssOclated Press.
MONTGOMERY. Ala, April e.
Frederick H. Payne, Assistant Secretary
OF War, accompanied by Mrs. Payne
took of from Maxwell Field here today
in a transport plane for New Orleans,
their next stop on a trip to Panama.
The Assistant Secretary and his wife
arrived here late yesterday and spent
the night as guests of Maj. Walter
Weaver, Maxwell Field commandment.
Their plane was piloted by Lieut.. F. H.
Kimble Of the Army Air Corps. From
New Orleans they viii ny TO Kelly
Field. Tex.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
YOUTH HELD AFTER RAID
Charles E. Adams, 19, Arrested as
Police Find Liquor in Apartment.

Raiding an apartment near Thir-
tenth and Euclid streets last night,
members of the police vice squad ar
rested Charles E. Adams, 19, on a
charge Of Illegal possession. Seizure of
So quarts of assorted liquors was re-
ported.
Adams, who gave his address in the
1400 block of Belmont street, is said
by officers to have attempted to escape
by climbing down the fire escape from
the third-floor apartment. He was taken
into custody by a policeman stationed
on the second floor.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Advertising

The only made gain in advertising in March, but
its of advertising for the month exceeded by
only papers the United States York Times and
The Star carries this volume Of adver
Using advertisers appreciate their
Star reach practically the entire community
both the city and suburbs.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Circulation of The Star

Average Net Circulation for the Month of March
During the Past Ten Years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09

in Circulation Daily, 1888 Sunday, 29733
Percentage of Increase. 4" 24% 1882
circulation of The Star has steadily increased during
the past year the highest point the his
tory o both the Evening and Sunday editions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09

One of three armed bandits who at
tempted to hold up and rob the First
National Bank at Upper Marlboro. Md,
today was shot and killed by c. H.
Owens, assistant cashier,
stick EN- up" one of the bandits
demanded.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
Big Man With Smile for All.

CONTINUED on Page 8, Column g.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09
WEATHER.

Gu 8. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow;
somewhat warmer tonight.
temperatures Highest. 50, at noon
today; lowest, AZ, at 6:45 am. today.
Full report on page 8.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-09

Mr.. Longworth was from the Middle
West. Both Tilson and Smell are from
the North and East. The Republicans
will have to determine whether they are
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-02
DEPRESSION BLAME
PLACED BY SPEAKER
Trade Unionist Tells Teach
ers Unsoung Distribution of
Wealth Is Cause.
~ the Associated Press.

Rv the Associated Press
CHICAGO, July John P. Frey
trade unionist and representative OF
President William Green of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, told the
American Federation of Teachers last
night that the present business depres-
sion was due principally to an eco
nomically unsound distribution of
wealth in 1922.
Some 80 years ago" he said, "a
radical change in our methods of pro-
trained engineers left their laboratories
end entered Into personal contact with
production. Macs production was born
as a result OF their efforts
I'm 1928 VIZ produced goods valued
at $50 500 600 0O0 or $4,000, 0o0,0 600
more than IN 1923. The total volume
of wages for all earners, however. be-
gan to decrease in 1927 and grew less
each year until the depression over
whelmed US"
Quoting Dr. julius Klein, Assistant
Secretary of Commerce, he emphasized
that while wage earners' real pay had
increased IS per cent during the seven
years. the returns to industry had
had grown 70 per cent and dividends
paid stockholders 265 per cent:
This depression" he concluded from
the figures, us due to the fact that while
the Nation was creating wealth more
rapidly than before. there was great
or failure to pay wages in proportion
to the wealth being created"
The convention will vote today on
the election of Miss Mary Little OF
Memphis. Tenn. or DR. Henry B. Lin
vile. president of the Teachers Union
of New York City, as president
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-02
INTERNATIONAL LOAN
FOR ZIONISTS URGED
Colonization Fund Lacks SIS.
100000 Yearly, Report of
Editor Says.

+" the Associated Press.
BASLE. July "A project for the
raising of an international loan with
the assistance of the British govern
ment or of the League of Nations to
further Jewish colonization in Pales-
ne was outlined today before the
Zionist Congress by DR.. Chain Arlo-
Soroff, editor Of the Jewish Labor Union,
9 monthly published in Tel Aviv, Pales-
ne.
DR.. Arlosoroff'S suggestion of the in
tornational loan, the Jewish Telegraphic
Agency said, was incorporated in his
report on the economic situation in
Palestine. He emphasized that during
the last decade world Jewry had spent
S90000000 in Palestine in bringing 90
900 immigrants into the country, or an
average of 81 900 per person.
Pointing out that at least 10000 peo-
pie must be coloniZed annually, prof.
est involving $2o,000,000, DR.. Arlosorof
stressed the fact that the Keren Haye-
sod, the Jewish agency's chief financial
instrument, and the Jewish National
Fund the Zionist and-purchasing
agency. were not sufficient because they
can bring in only maximum of S.
100000; hence he said an international
loan is imperative.
DR.. Arlosoroff'S report also suggested
further reductions in Zionist eXpendi-
lures and the transfer of the Zionist
educational system in Palestine to the
local Jewish community.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-02
British Rails Show Loss.

LONDON, July . CP).-Traffic re-
ceipts for the four main English rail-
ways show a deficit in the last six
months of nearly s40,000,000, it was
reported TODAY
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
South Sea Film
Playing Tonight

The man who was behind the di-
recting of Trader Horn" "Whi5e
Shadows OF the South Seas" and
The Pagan" w. S. Van Dyke, was
also the directing genius for Never
the Twain Shall Meet" which plays
tonight only at Fox Imperial Air
dome.
This romantic drama Of the South
Seas marks the first starring piece
for Conchita Montenegro, the fa-
nous Spanish actress, who in eight
months has mastered the English
language and assumed a Leading
place in the film world.
The picture tells the story of a
wealthy white youth who falls in
love with a beautiful native of the
South Seas, who disrupts his ro-
nance with one of his own kind
and nearly drags him down to the
beachcomber level Love proves
stronger than passion, however, and
he is regenerated through the in
fluence of his sweetheart.
Leslie Howard is seen in the role
Of the youth, and others in the cast
are Mitchell Lewis. Hale Hamilton,
Karen Morly, Clyde Cook, Joan
Standing and c. Aubrey Smith.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
THIS WOMAN NOT
AFRAID TO HAVE
MICE COME FORTH

SPRINGFIELD, Mo, July l. U.P)
There is at least one woman in
Missouri who would not leap to a
tabletop if she saw a mouse scut-
tie across the floor. Mrs. H. B.
Sutter of Springfield has 1000 of
them.
Mrs. Sutter not only does rot fear
mice-she loves them. And we'll she
might, for the tiny animals bring
her a fine income She shipped
5000 little white mice to a firm in
New Columbia, N. Y, last week to
be used for experimental purposes.
There still are almost as many left
in the clean little building where
Mrs. Sutter feeds and cares for
them.
1t takes a lot of mice TO eat 100
pounds OF rolled oats every other
day, not to mention a few hundred
pounds If cheese each week. When
they grow to a marketable weight
of 16 to 20 grams, off they go to
market, where, according to Mrs.
Sutter, they shoot dreadful germs
into them.
Mrs. Sutter is not worried a bit
about a scarcity in the supply of
mice. They are unusually prolific,
she says, producing litters OF from
seven to 10 every five weeks. They
mature in a month.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
Traffic Cases
In Local Court

Traffic tickets brought two de-
PENDANTS before Judge Kendall B.
Perkins in police court this morn
ing. and one yesterday afternoon.
Albert Frey of CaleXico was fined
SIS for failing 20 make a boulevard
stop, and driving with one hand.
John M. Frasher of Brawley was
fined $40 for speeding on Main
street. George p. Fleming changed
his not guilty plea of yesterday
morning to one of guilty to follow
ing a fire truck to a fire, and was
fined 50. ei
Jose Shapiro, 40, was sentenced
to pay a fine Of SIS or serve 25 days
in jail for disturbing the peace.
Everett Gallon, 35, was sentenced
to 30 days for petty theft.
James MCGEE, so, colored. asked
for time. TO enter a plea to a charge
of disturbing the peace. His case
was continued until tomorrow
afternoon. A part OF the charge
against him is he threatened his
wife's life with gun.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-07-01
ALIENATION SUIT
VERDICT IS WON
BY DEFENDANT

After only 30 minutes Of delibera-
ton, a jury in Judge A. c. Finney's
department of the superior court
Yesterday afternoon decided Luther
Weaver, truck driver, is not entitled
TO damages in his alienation of af-
fections suit against G.. Roy Farr,
Brawley cattleman and business
associate of his father, Riverside
banker.
Weaver asked $4,000 from Farr,
charging that the latter alienated
the affections of Mrs. Sue Weaver.
The Brawley cattleman, Weaver as
serted, bought hotel in Brawley
for Mrs. Weaver, and caused her
to divorce him.
1t was only after two days of
hectic testimony the jury was given
the case. Only 80 minutes of argu-
ment behind closed doors gave the
jurors their decision that Farr did
not cause Mrs. Weaver to divorce
her husband.
Only two witnesses were called by
Harry Horton, defense attorney,
after W. E. Abraham had an
nounced the plaintiff rested. The
testimony of these witnesses, how
ever, is thought to have had direct
bearing on the finding of the jury.
The witnesses were A. N. Stahl
and Enda Russi. Both testified
Weaver at one time told them. he
would not live with Mrs. Weaver
again, and he wanted her to get /
divorce.
Witnesses who played principal
part in presentation of the plain
tiff's case were Mrs. Weaver,
Weaver, Farr, and Mrs. Elnora Mac
key.
Mrs. Weaver testified yesterday
morning she had taken a trip to