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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

sentative Government" headed by Sem
ator Cutting of New Mexico, declared
against the excessive use of money In
elections and for strengthening of the
corrupt practices act 1t declared for
the speedy submission Of the Norris
lame duck" amendment to the Con-
sttution. 1t attacked usurpation Of
legislative power by the courts and
called for the passage Of an anti
injunction law by the next CongreSs.
1t gave support to the direct primary
and criticized efforts being made now
TO return to the caucus and convention
system OF nominating candidates for
public ONCE. It supported q proposal
to have members Of the cabinet appear
before Congress to furnish information
regarding legislation and administration.
It proposed legislation to punish oficial
lawlessness and declared that legislation
should be enacted to make effective the
power Of the Federal Government to
protect the rights OF free speech, free
press and free aSSemblage"
The rights Of minority groups must
be respected" the report said.
The committee also emphasized the
value Of unofficial and non-partiSan
bureaus OF research in the problem OF
government. It recommended a detailed
study Of the following problems: Effec-
tive methods for extending the presi-
Dental primary system and for the abo-
litton of the electoral college; more ade-
quate control by Congress Of policy and
lawnaking hitherto delegated to ex-
ecutive departments and commissions;
the elimination from the floor Of the
houses Of Congress the great mass OF
private, local and sectional bills. leaving
Congress free TO give more adequate
consideration to major measures and
the rules OF the House.
The Committee on Public Utilities
did not submit report to the confer
ence, not having had time TO prepare
report. 1t was announced by Senator
Norris " would prepare such o report
and Lay 1t before the committee which
called the conference, which in turn
would make it public.
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send, the sedan pulled suddenly along
side and crowded him to the curb.
Two young men got out, the hacker
stated, and forced him into their ma
chine. They then drove around the
speedway and through the Monument
Grounds where, West said, he was
forced to hand over his money.
The sedan then sped to an alley
near Thomas Circle. Here, West said,
he was forced to alight and pushed
into back yard. where he was beaten
and thrown to the ground violently
several times.
He said the two young men kicked
him before they ran to their machine
and drove of The hacker said he
then went to the nearest telephone
and reported the affair to police, giving
them the license number of the sedan
ants.
Laurence Auth denied the charges in
the face Of lengthy gTilling by police
today.
In the Summer of 1928 Francis Auth
assisted q girl companion to bell buoy
and swan four miles to shore for aid
after both Of them had been swept
from motor boat in Chesapeake Bay
during q severe storm.
Autn swan Win MlSS MlIbJeao 10 y
bell buoy half mile away and diScov-
ering that there was room but for one
on the buoy he swan to a nearby shore.
Miss Milstead was rescued by Coast
Guard cutter attracted to the buoy
when the buoy bell ceased to ring. Miss
Milstead had purposely stopped the bell
from ringing with the hope Of attract
ing attention.
Auth gained reputation as q stellar
athlete during his four years Mt Mount
st, Joseph's College, Baltimore.
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EASb EdBC'J
cent delay in announcing the decision
has been due to the illness of Gardner
L. Boothe, statutory agent and attorney
here for the corporation, as Judge
Woolls stated several days ago that he
did not want to render the decision
until Boothe could be present.
The annual meeting of the corpora
ton was scheduled to be held here last
October 20, but just prior to the meet
ing Attorneys Kennedy and Barker, for
the plaintiffs. fled suit for the APP
pointment Of receiver and an in
junction to prevent the holding Of the
annual meeting.
In their suit the stockholders COM
mittee, through their attorneys, charges
that Wardman, Bones and HOBBS
fraudulently issued to themselves 22,991
shares Of common stock in the discount
corporation. The assets OF the COM
pany, they claim, are frozen in approx
imately $832,000 worth of preferred
stock in the Wardman Realty Con-
struction Co. It is the stock Of this
latter company which is said to be held
by the Hotel Management & Securities
Corporation, which failed to meet the
interest due March on the $4,000, 900
bond issue.
Wardman and Bones were among the
many witnesses presented during the
long equity hearing. Wardman said on
the stand that he had personally put
S40,O 900 into the defendant corporation,
although plaintiff attorneys showed
stock ledgers to show that only 80
shares Of preferred stock were in Ward
mans name. Wardman further stated
that when the reflnancing of the
Wardman companies involving the $16,-
000, 900 was completed in 1928 he esti-
mated that the companies had $10,-
Oo0, 900 equities in the various prop
critics.
Bones, who preceded Wardman on
he stand, blamed the present condi-
ion on the collapse of real estate
1lues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
MISS RAMSAY NEWT
LOSES TRAFFIC TRIAL

Miss Ramsay N. Z. hewitt, daughter
taxicab business as q bad Job last weet,
but she did not give up driving.
In spite OF her emphatic denials In
TRAFFIC Court today that she disobeved
a signal light. as charged by Policeman
w Q: Lewis, Judge Gus "A. Schuldt con-
vlcted Miss hewitt on the charged, al
ioWeo suspended sentence and took
olfense
the coroner's daughter was arrested
on New Jersey avenue yesterday for
running through red fight, She
yellow light.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
TWO FAIL TO DEATH
AT CHICAGO HOTELS
A. H. ReveII, Furniture Deal
err, in 9-Story PIunge-An-
other Drops From 18th.
Dy the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 13.-Alexander H
Revell, one Of Chicago's leading furni-
ture dealers, leaped or fell to his death
today from his apartment on the ninth
floor Of the Drake Hotel. His wife, who
was in the apartment with him, was
hysterical when hotel employees reached
her and was unable to answer questions
Revell was IS years old.
Revell was born In Chicago and be-
came president of the Alexander H
ReveIl Co. in 1879 and in later years
was chairman of the board.
He was active in civic organization
particularly in reform movements. He
was q member Of the Executive Com
mittee of the Worlds Columbian Expo
Sition in 1893. He was at one time q
member of the Chicago Board of Edu-
cation and also trustee Of Northwestern
University.
Prominent in GOlfing.
His furniture store at Lake street and
Wabash avenue, the northeast corner
of the Loop, is one Of the largest in the
downtown section.
Revell was prominent in golfing cir
cleS, having organized the Illinois Senior
Golf Association and being q member
Of Onwentsia and Old Elm Clubs He
once won the amateur championship Of
Germany.
Miss Louise johnson, secretary to
Alexander H. Revell, jr., who succeeded
his father as chairman of the board OF
the Revell Co. six months ago, said the
elder Revell had been having trouble
with his eyes for several months, and
that she believed he fell from the win
dow accidentally.
Attended by Nurse.
Because of his poor health Revell was
attended constantly by a male nurse.
He had just been given bath by the
nurse this morning and was not fully
dressed. The nurse stepped out Of the
room for q moment and when he re-
turned Revell was gone. His body was
found on the roof Of the hotel res
taurant.
Besides his widow and Alexander
Revell, jr., the furniture man is sur
vived by two other children, Mrs. Loring
r. Hoover and Richardson Revell.
Leaving note directing that the
Philadelphia Trust Co., his admins
traitor" be notified of his death, Alfred
Mase of Philadelphia leaped or fell to
death from a room on the nineteenth
floor of the Y. M. C. A. Hotel today.
MaSe registered at the hotel March
and asked for the highest vacant room
in the building Detectives examining
papers in his suit case found indications
he was formerly a street car conductor.
There was no mention of relatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
EinStein Escapes Interviews.

Prof. Albert Einstein will be- spared
the ordeal Of being interviewed by
newspaper Len when he lands at Cux-
haven this evening on his way home
from his American visit.
At his own urgent and repeated re-
quests, reporters were denied today
their customary privilege Of riding to
Cuxhaven on the boat train to inter-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
VIRGINIAN ELECTED
Skinner PRESIDENT
Stanley W. BrinSon Takes Charge
Of North American Group
at Miami Conclave.


MIAMI, Fla, March 13.-stanley W
Brinson, Portsmouth, Va, was elected
president of Shrine Directors ASso-
citation Of North America in CONCLUDING
sessions of the groups annual conven-
ton yesterday. He succeeds William T.
Macdonald, Oakland, Calf
Nashville, Tenn, was selected for the
1882 convention, set for February 1913.
Other officers named today were sgd
ney A. Gaines, Wichita Falls, Tex, first
vice president; Robert z. Osborn, Hast
lngs. Nebr., second vice president; Louis
c. Fischer, Charleston, S. c., was re-
elected secretary-treasurer
Elected TO the board of governors
were William Asnip, Philadelphia: Earl
Glover, Harrisburg, Pa, and George p,
Sengel, Louisville, KY.
Many Of the approximately 1000 per-
sons attending the convention left for
Havana today. Others took trains for
their homes.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
GUIDE BROS. co. WINS
PRIZE FOR ADVERTISING
Local Florists Again Get First
Award for Best Copy
to Newspapers.

For the second consecutive time
Guide Bros. Co.. local florist, was awarded
first prize for the best series Of general
newspaper ads on flowers, the pres
entation being made at the annual
National Flower Show sponsored by the
Society of American Florists and Order
of Horticulturists and recently held at
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The award was a large original
painting In oil.
The Guide Bros. Co. advertising ac-
count is planned and handled by NAL
colin D. Lamborne, local advertising
writer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Ancient Cemetery Found.

JERUSALEM, March IS R.-A burial
ground in which bodies were inferred
nearly 1000 years ago has been discov-
cred on the site of old Jericho by an
expedition under Prof. John Garstang
Of Liverpool University.
Prof. Garstang said the graves ap-
peared to belong to the Bronze Age of
about 1000 BIC. Many pottery vessels
and other objects were unearthed in
the burial ground.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
CAL VERT CASE DELAYED
IN DURHAM, N. c., COURT

BY the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. c., March 10. - Trial
of a charge of violating the State hotel
laws, lodged against Charles B. Calvert.
Mount Rainier, Md, attorney. following
the suicide last Saturday of Mrs, Truce
Daniel Of Nashville, Tenn, was contin-
ued until March ~ today.
The continuance was granted az 1ha
request Of attorneys for Calvert. Who
did not appear in court.
Mrs. Daniel leaped from a window of
her tenth floor hotel room after her
husband discovered Calvert, partiaIiy
disrobed, leaving the room.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
PATHE VALUE SOUGHT

NEW YORK, March Is (R).-Appoint-
ment of three appraisers to fix the value
Of the stock Of Pathe Exchange was
asked in Supreme Court yesterday by
Joseph H. Basker Of Boston. He con-
tended assets were worth $4,000, 900,
with prospects of future increase, when
Pathe was sold TO dio-Keith- Orpheum
last December for t4,630,7eo.
Basker said in his petition that the
last annual report of Pathe. made in
1929, showed the assets to be valued at
81, $40 1884.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
SEA AIRLINE PLANS
WAIT ONCONGRESS
ECkener, Silent, Leaves D. c.
as Builders Say Only
Studies Proceed.

As result Of the failure Of Congress
to act on the McNary-Parker merchant
airship bill during the past session,
American efforts to establish transit
lantc airship service, in cooperation
with DR.. Hugo Eckener, German air
ship industry leader, have come to q
halt until the necessary enabling legis-
lation Is passed.
No steps will be taken to acquire q
site for the proposed American airship
terminal or 70 build the necessary air
ships until Congress sees At to act on
the McNary-Parker measure, which
probably will be remtroduced as soon
as the new Congress convenes IN De-
cember.
Information received by The Star
from officials Of the Goodyear Zeppelin
Cooperation of Akron, Ohio, the Amer
lean half Of the International Zeppelin
Transport Corporation, in which DR..
Eckener Is interested, indicated that
only the technical studies are TO be
continued until next December. These
studies will include further investiga-
ton Of the American terminal site.
Site Study Nears End.
Investigation of sites has reduced the
number Of available areas to four, one
Of which is at Hybla Valley, near Alex
andria, Va, on portion of the old
George Washington estate. 1t had been
| anticipated that the final selection
| would be made this month. An eight
month study of weather conditions at
the Hyhla Valley field now Is being con-
cluded, q daily meteorological record
having been kept during that period.
In letter to The Star oficials of
the Goodyear Corporation, which now
is building the worlds two greatest air.
ships for the Navy, said:
THE failure Of the McNary-Parker
bill to reach the floor at the session
Just concluded will prevent any definite
forward steps being taken before the
December session starts.
Eekener Silent.
cit appears likely that with some
impetus being given to public interest
the completion and launching and trial
flights of the new Navy airship here
this Summer the project Of establish
ing an American airship- building in
dustry and an American carrier Ene
may present itself to the next Congress
more effectively"
DR.. Eckener and his assistant, r. W.
Won Meister, left the National Capital
today by rail for New York after two
days spent here in conferences with
naval aviation ofncials and other
aviation people.
DR.. Eekener refused to comment on
the airship situation in the United
States resulting from the failure Of the
McNary-Parker bill, but indicated that
he VIII have an important announce
ment to make before leaving the United
States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
CARS DIVE IN RIVER
KILLS EX-ARMY MAN
Capt. Harvey J. Silverstone, Re.
tired, Dies as Auto Sinks
at Portland, Greg.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg, March 13.-An
automobile sped down hill and plunged
into the Willamette River here. carry
ing Capt Harvey j. Silverstone, retired
Army officer and insurance underwater,
to death late last night.
Investigating authorities expressed
the belief that Silverstone did not know
the steep grade ended at the river bank.
The identity Of the driver was learned
when the machine was recovered from
the water with graphing hooks today.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
Bogota Gets City Palmer.

BOGOTA, Colombia, March Is (R).-
/, land Bartholomew, city planner, of
st. Louis, Mo-, arrived today to advise
Bogota on civic Identification and bet
e. .cnt of living conditions.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

Two hundred new motion picture
theaters were opened In Britain last
year.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13
WARDMAN FINANCE
CORPORATION PUT
IN RECEIVERSHIP

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AUTHS ARE ACCUSED
OF TAXICAB ROBBERY;
BOY TO BE QUIZZED

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HACKED BROTHERS
TO AVENGE SLAVE
SALE, SAYS CHINESE

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-13

The committee on the tariff, headed
By Senator Costigan of Colorado, criti-
cized the Smoot-Hawley tariff act, as
serting that 1t had failed TO give jus
ttce 70 the farmers, and that IL had
increased instead of lowering duties on
many articles, thereby increasing prices,
and that it had contributed TO the de-
preston and distress in the country to-
day. It proposed revision Of the tariff
law and said:
Administrative and other tariff
changes should include more certain
standards for the prompt and ef1cient
determination of excessive tariff rates,
ana the reeapture by Congress of the
tariff changing powers now exercised by
the President. A genuinely impartial
tion-partisan and efficient Tariff Com
mission, aided in its investigations by
an able and expert peoples council
should directly report to Congress its
recommendations Of tariff changes, sub
jeet TO the safeguard for ohviating log
rolling, that legislative changes relating
20 such recommendations shall be ex-
pressly confined TO the subjects dealt
with In such reports cf the Tariff COM
Ths committee On Return to Repre-
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1931-08-01
Try to Frace IL
R. |. Mill Strikers

PAwTUCKET, r. l. July 81
Eleven strikers cases came up in
court here this morning before
Judge R. A. Mcmahon. The judge
announced that the capitalist gov
eminent wanted the cases contin-
ued two weeks. The defendants got
up one after the other and de-
nounced this anti-labor tactic of the
Judge to keep the workers bail tied
up.
The defendants we're: Albert Nail,
AIoysius Hull, Rose Okulsk, Jennie
Braek, Frank Bezak, and Frank
Donkowski. These seven workers
were in an automobile returning to
their homes from a strikers mass
meeting. The police stopped their
car, as they have done in hundreds
Of cases, in attempting to terrorize
the workers and residents here.
The police are trying to frame-up
these workers on a charge of throw
ing stones in the homes of Scabs
They are being held on "disorderly
conduct" charge. The eleven cases
also included the case of Abe Har-
field. district secretary Of the T.U.
U.L charged with refusing to
move" and EstelIe Greb, Stella O!ev-
itch and Andrew Goolich who were
arrested while picketing the Royal
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AKRON, o, July Sc. Louis
Alexander, Negro worker, against
whose brutal persecution by Barber
ton police, thousands of colored and
white workers have protested in mil
itaat demonstrations throughout the
State Of Ohio, is in Akron, O. he
went before the Summit County
Grand Jury today N the fake inves-
tigation Of that body into the police
reign Of terror In Barberton. He has
Identified several Of his police as
sailants.
Following his brutal treatment b.
the police who had ordered him out
Of town on two different occasions,
Alexander went to his home in Ala
hanla to recover from his injuries
On accounts Of the militant state
wide protests led by the Interna-
tional Labor Defense, Alexander's
case has received wide attention. The
capitalist press has been forced to
admit the existence of widespread
police terror against Negro and white
workers in Barberton. The "Cleve-
land Press" reporting the return Of
Alexander, says:
"AIl the Negroes who testified
that Barberton police beat up
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Fresheit Gesangs Vsrein
Rehearsal at headquarters, 106 E,
I'll ST., 10 pm.
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What's On
SATURDAY

SATURDAY
Attention Medical Workers
All medical workers are to assem-
Bile today at I o'clock at z. 18th st.
from where they will march to Union
So. for the Anti-War Demonstration.
IMPORTANT
YCL members and Pioneers in full
uniform. including all comrades TAX
ing part in the Aug. list Pageant are
to meet IN front of the platform in
Union Square 1870 pm. today.
International Workers Club
will meet for the August LIST Anti
War Demonstration with the Schma-
lein Band workers Defense Corps in
Madison SIX. Park between gath and
25th St, Fifth Ave, 1880.
Sunday the Harlem Progressive
Youth Club will meet at headquar-
tiers, 1892 Madison Ave, to go as a
body to the huge. T.UU.L Picnic in
Pleasant Bay Park. Meet at IL, noon.
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TO come cut and whip Ralph Cray
and the leaders Of the meeting.
There Was 10 meeting going on
Thursday night. They come OFT, the
waite folks aid. Landowners and
their pollce-Ed. Daily Worke-jo
looking for certain co-ored men to
beat 'sn Up. Ralph Gray had h.s
shot gun and YVES ready When they
turned Into his lane he halted them
and The white folks began the shoot
ing, and Ralph shot it out with
them.
"'Yoa see. Ralph lived on MS own
place, tended to MS own business
was respected, AND the white fol@4
here in Dadawle don't Ike black
man who holds 10 for himself ana
keeps his gals cut of the reach of
the white men,
All Out IN Protest To-day!
Negro end white workers. Rally to
the defense OF these robbed and per-
secuted troopers! Defend the arrest
ed troopers facing imprisonment and
possible legal lynching on franed-up
charges concocted by the Alabama
bosses and supported by their MA.
A.C.P. toolsl Protest the attack on
the Share Choppers Union! Defend
the right Of tho troopers to organ
iza and fight against landowners
robbery! Defend the nine innocent
Scottsboro boys facing electrocution
on framedup chargesl Demand the
right Of selfdetermination for the
Negro majorities Of the South, with
confiscation Of the land of the big
landowners and boss lyncherS for the
Negro and white workers who work
the land! Fight against the bosses
war preparations! Fight against boss
terror and starvation of the workers.
Defend the Soviet Union! AL out on
the streets today! Demonstrate
against the capitalist lynch system,
against starvation and boss war!
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ocoNvTN UED gHos PAGE ONE

GCCHLIN UG1e sEDH rASA ONEf
charges, anu place a fine against
chem ont TO The different farmers
70 work i out. clg the boys and
men has left around here. 50 they
amt enough to do much In thai way
any longer.
"Eers asked about the meeting
which WIS being held Thursday
night when the trouble started. She
said:
= YES, ST., Y &na coming 10 that If
you let me. Ralph he spoke 70 my
old man about the sheriff had told
him. He said he asked TIE sheriff if
ne didn't think the work was " orth
more than fiIyt cents day around
here, when the big farmers over il
Georgia were paying a dollar and q
half and two dollars for the same.
And the sheriff he told Ralph that
the white folks was not going to
stand for Negroes setting prices Of
labor in TalIapoosa County.
Says Gray Called Meeting.
$50 Ralph he invited all the men
and boys around to meet down at
the church wednesday night and
they voted to not work for less than
two dollars a day for the men and
dollar and half for women folks.
The white folks was eayesdrop-
ping the meeting and come in and
thew guns on the men and broke up
the meeting, this was Wednesday
night.
Gray Defends Himself and Family.
Thursday word came to us that
they was organizing the white folks
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Brighton Beach Miners Relief Com.
Dinner served at 140 Neptune Ave.
from 8 o'clock until late in the eve
ming. All proceeds will go to the
striking miners relief.