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The Washington times., 1931-09-26
SCREEN.
SEEN IN VETS
WET VOTE
May Have Been Put Forward
to SidetraCk Bonus Fight,
Senator Frazier Intimates

The American Legions demand
for a prohibition referendum con.
tinued to embroil Capital vets
and drys in controversy today.
The national dry organizations
declared the legion program can.
not win in Congress, while some
members of Congress said the
organizations action is a distinct
aid to the anti-prohibitionist
cause.
The charge of DR.. Clarence
True Wilson, of the Methodist
Board Of Temperance and Morals,
that legiOnnaireS INDUCED in liq-
uOr orgies brought condemnation
from the vets and was met by
silence from other nationally
known dry leaders.
Senator Frazier (RD of North
Dakota charged that liquor prop.
agandistS pursue legion conven.
tions, making liqr1 plentiful and
using every meVls to convert
legionnaires to tbs wet cause. He
said:
Liquor is always at these
conventions, both national and
State. do not condemn the
legion membership in general
its conventions are no worse
than many others.
There is another question
arising from the legion conven.
tiOn-whether the liquor ques-
tiOn wasn't pushed forward to
sidetrack the bonus"
Insult, Says Britten
The statement of DR.. Wilson
was assailed by Representative
Britten CR) of Illinois, a wet,
who said:
"Dr. Wilson's deliberate in.
suit to the million who wear
the uniform puts him in q
class with Bishop James Can
non, jr., another whose unrea-
sOnable zeal in favor of an
impossible law has put him into
national diSrepute."
Raped by HansbrOugh
Henry c. Hansbrough, national
chairman of the League for the
Modification of the Volstead Act
said:
81 wonder if the charitable
doctor will be good enough to
tell us what he was doing while
so many thousands of our
Legionnaires were risking life
and limb at the front?
Judging by the h.Ijterical
Outburst by DIR. Wilson, who
has failed so piteOusly to dis
play any of the political acumen
of the late Wayne B. Wheeler,
those who would modify the
VOlstead Act so as to permit an
increased alcoholic content in
beer and light wines are merely
to be dismissed as 'drunks.'"
The Washington times., 1931-09-26

GENEVA, Spet. 26 Q.N.SJ.-1n
face of a difiant attitude by
Japan, the League of Nations
Council today withheld action on
new demands by China for an
official League inquiry of the jap
anese military occupation of Man
churia.
The Chinese appeal, put forward
by DIR. Alfred SEE, was pigeon.
hOled, at least for the present,
while the council waited for Japan
to carry out her promise for with
drawal Of troops from Chinese
territory.
Opinion was expressed the coun-
Gil would not attempt further in
tervention in Manchuria unless a
more critical situation developed.
The Tokyo government has side
stepped reference to the League
proposal 70 send an international
investigation commission to Man.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Hoover Cancels Trip
To RapidGn Retreat
Photo by International
ATTTF

Because of inclement weather,
President Hoover cancelled ar.
rangements for a weekend visit
to his Rapidan River camp, and
invited his guests to remain at
the White House for the week
end.
The party included Senator
and Mrs. Hiram Bingham, Col.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., Gov. and
Mrs. Wilbur M. Buckner, of Mich
igan; Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Wolfe,
Columbus, Mr.. and Mrs. Fred
Shedd, Lawrence Richey, and DR..
Joel T. Boone.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
HILDEBRANT
Gloom Propaganda
Laid to Democrats

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Sept. 26.
Robert H. Lucas, executive direc-
tor of the Republican National
Committee. speaking here,
charged the Democratic party
with spreading gloomy reports Of
hard times as a political move.
He declared:
1--WE are suffering with Il
paralyZing anemia brought on
by a sitting deluge of destruc-
tive Democratic prOpaganda-a
campaign of exaggeratiOn, mis-
representation and manufac-
tured lies"
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
WOOD To SPEAK
Of R|FLED FILE

Charges of tampering with the
personal files of George A. G.
Wood, president of the Washing.
ton Gas Light Company, before
they were turned over to hte
Public Utilities Commission in
connection with the local COM
pany ownership hearing, will be
aired on Monday when the hear
ing is resumed.
Mr.. Wood declined to make a
statement concerning the charges
today, but said when he testified
under oath, he will answer any
and all questions dealing with
the file.
Assistant Corporation Counsel
William A. Roberts said he knew
of one important document,
which was missing from the files.
This was a chart showing a re-
organization of the gas company,
with r. H. Morrison, Of Central
Public Service, as comptroller of
the company.
Existence of the personal file
was revealed when the hearing
on pressureS opened September
IA. Counsl Roberts asked the
commission to subpoenae the file
from Mr.. Woods home. Under
threat of subpoena, Mr.. Wood
and his attorneys, Wilton j..
Lambert and Arthur Dean, in
formed the commission the file
would be brought without SUBJ
poena.
But before bringing the file to
the commission, it was reported,
the papers were taken to the Of
flee of Mr.. Lambert.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Facilities to Redeem,
Water Notes ReQdu

With reference to the recent
official announcement by the
Scranton-Spring Brook Water Ser.
vice Company to the effect that
it's AZ per cent serial gold notes
due December is, 1881 have been
called for redemption November
16, 1881 at 100H4 and interest, it
was stated yesterday that ar
rangements have been made
whereby notes of this issue may
be Immediately redeemed through
the offices of Halsey, Stuart g.
Co., Inc, on a 2 per cent true
discount basis to the call date.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Def ISSUED
BY DEFENSE
TOSTATE
They Cannot Prove Motive,
Says Attorney; Professor
Due to Return Tomorrow

HAMPTON, Va, Sept. 26
UN.s0.-The grand jury which
will hear the evidence in the
case Of Prof. Elisha Kent Kane,
charged with drowning his wife.
was selected today.
The IS grand jurors, who will
either indict or dismiss the
charges against the University Of
Tennessee professor, for the most
part are descended from the first
families of Virginia. The grand
jury will meet on october S.
Due Back Tomorrow
Prof. Kane and his, cOusin-law.
yer, E. Kent Kane, are expected
back from Knoxville, Tenn,
either tomorrow or the next day.
The formal arraignment of the
professor on the charge Of murder
is scheduled for Wednesday.
Counsel for the professor
scoffed at the report they had
kept a secret rendezvous with
Mrs. Betty Dahl, generally men,
toned as "the other woman" 1t
was said the professor went to
Knoxville to straighten out his
affairs at the university.
; Percy Carmel, of the defense
legal staff, asserted he was con-
fident the prosecution would not
be permitted by the court to in
troduce testimony regarding let
ters written by Betty to the pro-
fessor, inasmuch as the defendant
had never received them.
Defense Defies State
The contents of the intercepted
letters were referred to in a state
ment given to the coroner by Mrs.
w. c. Graham, mother of the
drowned woman. Said Carmel:
"There is nothing in those
letters, anyway, to show a mo-
tive for the alleged crime and
i defy the prosecution to show
q motive.
Gas for putting Betty on the
witness stand at this time we
are not considering it. There
would be no reason for it, as
she has nothing to refute."
Carmel, in commenting upon
controversy waging in town as 10
whether or not the professor was
treated rightly by the authorities
when he was arrested, asserted
the defendant vas held incom-
municado when taken into Gus
tody and not allowed to wire his
relatives.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Home, Church, School
Discussed RH Ken1p

Fletcher Kemp, superintendent
Of Arlington County public
schools, speaking last night at the
first Parent Teacher Association
meeting of the Westinghouse
High School for this year, dis
cussed the relationship Of home,
church and school.
Mrs. Joseph Shawhan, Mrs. J.
L. Ward, Jr., Mrs. H. E. Rice,
Mrs. G. L. Tabor and Mrs. C. E.
Simmons were elected delegates
to the annual State convention.
which will be held in Alexandria,
october 21-23.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
.GANDH|PLEDGES
AID To BRITISH
MILL HANDS
Mahatma, Heavily Guarded,
Finds CordiaIity Instead Of
Violence in Textile Area

DARWEN, England, Sept. 26
G.N.SO.-A promise to aid Lam
cashire's cotton mill workers,
hard hit by his boycott of British
cloth in India, was made today
by Mahatma M. K. Gandhi in a
conversation with mill hand
selected to lay the workers
troubles before him.
The conversation took place III
a little cottage at Springvale, in
the heart of the mill aera, after
Gandhi had spent most of the
day visiting mills and talking
with workers.
COrdiaIity, No Violence
Heavily guarded by detectives
and police, Gandhi found the
Lancashire area received him with
cordiality and goodwill instead
Of the violence which often had
been threatened.
PICKUP
The Indian independence leader
came to Lancashire from Lon
don to explain to joblesS cotton
workers and their worried en-
ployerS why India wants to spin
her own cotton cloth, and has
placed a boycott on machine
made goods from England.
InduStrialists Hopeful
Lancashire industrialistS hoped
that out Of Gandhi'S conferences
in this region over the weekend
might come some solution of the
distress which has hit the cotton
trade.
Although he did not retire until
after midnight. following a 130-
mile train trip from london,
Gandhi was up at dawn today,
and, after his morning prayers,
had breakfast in the tiny house
of Charles Haworth in the village
Of Springvale.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Paint Trade ShOWs
Less unemployment

Emergency employment measures
in the paint, oil and varnish in
dustry have been successful in
holding employment at a high
level, the Presidents organization
on unemployment relief was in.
formed yesterday by George v.
Horgan, head of the National
Paint, Oil and Varnish ASsocia-
tion.
Two-thirds of the companies in.
the association expect no further
layoffs he said. and added:
Despite sharp reductions in
production, employment has de.
clined only II per cent since
1929"
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Duchess AnQstQsia
Hunts Gear Fortune

NEW YORK, Sept. 26.-Mme.
Anastasia TSchaikowsky, woman
of mystery, who claims she is the
Grand Duchess Anastasia, daugh-
ter of the murdered Car Mich.
olas II of Russia, went to Ger
many a month ago, it was re-
vealed today. Her departure from
the United States was made with
the utmost of secrecy.
The revelation was made from
the -Four Winds Sanitarium at
Katonah, N. Y, where the woman
was patient. It is understood
the Self-styled grand duchess
plans to launch a fight in Lon
don for the hidden fortunes of
the late czar.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Leap From TGricdb
Fatal to Marshall

A coroner's inquest will be held
Monday in the death Of Chester
Marshall, 49, of 613 H st. N. w.,
who died at Gallinger Hospital
last night of injuries received
when he jumped from a moving
taxicab.
Clifford DiggS, %, colored,
driver, was released in care of his
attorney. DiggS told police that
the man leaped from his cab
when he started to take him to a
police station for non.payment
of his fare.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
London Printer Held
As MutinY AqitGtOr

LONDON, Sept. 26 .GN.SO.
Accused of "inciting to mutiny,"
William T. Wilkinson, a printer
employed by the Communist news
paper, Daily Worker, was ar.
raigned today in Box Street po-
lice court.
The proceedings were guarded
and the nature of the. alleged
mutiny unrevealed. Bail was set
at $25,
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
NeW England Visited
BY Wintrv On1enS

BOSTON. Sept. 26.-A blanket
of snow, in some places more
than eight inches deep covered
many sections of the White
Mountains in the first sign of
winter.
Thin ice skinned the ponds
in the neighborhood of the Presi.
Dental range. Temperatures
close to freezing were reported
in New Hampshire and Vermont.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
LAVAL OFF FOR GERMANY
French Premier HOPES
to Bring About
New Accord

PARIS, Sept. 26.-Belief that
some definite act regarding
Franco German rapprochement
would result from his forthcoming
conference with Chancellor Helm.
rich Bruening was expressed by
Premier Laval, of France, in an
interview with the press prior to
his departure for Berlin today.
A crowd of 5000 thronged the
station to bid him farewell.
The French premier Is sched.
uled to visit Washington next
month for conferences with Presi.
dent Hoover.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
Costa RicG Unrest
ArOuSes Worry Here

Reports of serious political and
financial unrest in Costa Rica
reached the State Department
yesterday and caused officials
concern.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26

Many Automobile Repair Services
are listed today in the Business ser
vice Directory published in the Classi-
fled Section.
The Washington times., 1931-09-26
TREASURY BALANCE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26 GIN.
s.. - Treasury balance as of
September "a, $623,119,857.OS.
Expenditures, $4,22S, 1886. Gus.
toms receipts, $2S,355, ,445 go.
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Organized Reserves

RODS seven hours credit will be given
for each full day Of active duty.
There is an appropriate vacancy
under the peace-time procurement OBJ
jective of the War Department, except
that a vacancy will not be required for
promotion from the grade Of second
lieutenant to first lieutenant
He shall have served a minimum
time in grade as follows: AS a second
lieutenant three years, four years as
a first lieutenant, five years as a cap
tain, six years as a major and seven
years as q lieutenant colonel.
He has. during his service in grade,
completed at least IA days of active
duty training and has received there
for an efficiency report of at least
satisfactory" When, for the con-
venience of the Government, the ON
Ger or the unit to which he has been
assigned has not been ordered to ac-
tive duty, or when his civilian or mill
tary pursuits are such as to qualify
him, corps area commanders NAV
waive this requirement for officers of
the corps area assignment group. The
question of waiver of this requirement
for officers of the general assignment
group and the arm and service as
signment group will, in each case, be
submitted to the adjutant general of
the Army
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

Colored Infantry Reserve officers of
the District assigned to the 428th and
429th Infantry Regiments will leave
today for Camp Devens, Mass, under
the command of Maj. Charles H.
Fearing to undergo IA days of active
duty training. Upon their arrival at
Camp Devens the Washington Re-
servists, named below, will report to
the commanding officer of the Sd Bat
talon, 372d Infantry (colored), Mas
sachusettS National Guard, for train
ing. The Washington officers who will
undergo this training are Majs. Charles
H. Fearing, 2601 Elel enth street, and
Campbell G. Johnson, 1011 o street.
Captains-Alonzo G. Ferguson, 2433
M street; Raymond e. Contee, 1918
Blaine street northeast; Joseph H.
Cooper, 1911 S street; William j.
H. MaZyck, 3031 Eleventh street, and
Robert L. Pollard, s12 New Jersey
avenue.
First lieutenants-Ogd N. Simmons,
Medical Reserve, 1919 S street; Rafe A.
Easter, Medical Reserve, 1927 Forty
eighth place northeast; Arthur w. Fer
guson, 93S T street; Maurice E john
son, 1912 Vermont avenue; James H.
Robinson, 2714 Georgia avenue; Emer-
son w. Browne, 1885 Vermont avenue;
De Royter A. Butler, 1924 o street;
Lyman Y. Chase, 1246 Columbia road,
and Louis H. Russell, 1907 Fairmont
street.
The second lieutenants taking this
training are: Clifton w. Nightingale,
2015 Massachusetts avenue; Stafford L.
Coleman, 507 Second street southwest;
Nolan NJ Atkinson, 1921 T street; Henry
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

Reserve officers in the District Of
Columbia will be interested in the
basic requirements for promotion, as
incorporated in the revised Army
Regulations No. 140-5, governing pro-
motion In the .Ofncers' Reserve Corps.
ALI promotions in the Reserve Corps
are made by the adjutant general upon
the recommendation of the chief Of
arm or service or corps area COM
mander who has assignment jurisdic-
ton in each case. Every Recommended
ton for the promotion of q Reserve
officer submitted to the adjutant gen.
eral must show that all of the follow
ing four conditions are fulfilled:
He holds certificate of capacity
for the next higher grade, indicating
his professional qualifications. An ex-
ception to this requirement will be
made II the officer has demonstrated,
during the five years Immediately pre-
ceding land prior to October !, 1880,
his interest in military affairs by hav-
ing a written record of at least 300
hours of Army extension course work,
attendance at classes, administration
duties in connection with his unit or
active participation with troops on in
active duty training. In computing
the 800 hours credit of 100 hours will
be given for each 14-day period Of
active duty; for shorter or longer pc
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blackboard firing, percussion precision.
axlal; bracket percussion, lateral per-
cussion, time bracket and administra-
tive management of battery. This phase
OF the active duty training will be con-
cluded with conference In prepare
ton Of review and inspection.
The second phase of the training.
that of practical work other than firing
will include service of the piece; stable
management, harness adjustment, etc:
equitation, communications for Field
Artillery, reconnaissance and selection
and occupation of position for the bat
terry; reconnaissance, selection and &C.
cupation Of position for the battalion;
tactical ride, practice march, fire con-
troll instruments, laying Of battery and
pistol practice.
The concluding phase of this years
training will include subcaliber 37-mm.
percussion precision, axial observation;
subcaliber 37-mm. bracket percussion:
subcaliber 37-mm. percussion, lateral
observation; 75-mm. percussion preci-
sion, aXial; 75-mm. percussion bracket;
75-mm. percussion lateral observation,
and 75-mn. time bracket.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

F.. Binford, Howard University; Clinton
C. Burke, jr., 1919 Kingman place
Donald F. Cardozo. box 281, Eastern
avenue northeast; Roy F. Greenwood,
1910 Kenyon street; Robert w. Hams
worth, Howard University; John C..
Harlan, 1718 Montello avenue northeast;
Douglass l.. Monroe, IT'S Florida avenue;
James H. F. Taylor, 2724 Eleventh
street, and William L. Tignor, 1872
Eleventh street. The above officers will
arrive at their homes in Washington on
August Z.
Majs. Andres Lopez and w. A. Jones,
both Infantry officers on duty at Wash
1ngton Reserve headquarters, will leave
today Tor Fort George G. Meade, Md, in
connection with the training of the School
OF Arms, which will be held at Fort
Meade Tor all Infantry officers assigned
to the Infantry Brigade of the both
Division, Of which the 32Oth Infantry.
a Washington unit, is a part.
The 1891 training objective of the
officers OF the 3l3th Field ARTILLERY
Reserve Regiment, which will be trained
at Fort Hoyle, Md, during the period
OF August 2 to Is, with a unit of the
6th Field Artillery is to prepare itself
10 operate efficiently in combat. both
as separate unit and as a part of
larger units. The training program this
summer will include instruction both
IN offensive and defensive situation.
The training will be divided into three
separate phases, namely theoretical in
STuction, practical work other than
fring, and Artillery service practice.
The theoretical instruction will include
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

Mount Rainier, Md. The chairman Of the
excursion to Marshall Hail on July 20
announced that mock inltiations Of the
Oriental degree would be given through
out the day.
The Junior Order United American
Mechanics will hold their annual ex-
cursion to Pen-Mar Park August 8.
Special trains over the B. 81 o. will
leave the Union Station at 8 pm.
j. Morgan Read Council was pre-
sided over by Councillor A. S. Bovey. A
delegation from Star Spangled Banner
Council, led by State Warden E. M.
Garrett, paid this council o fraternal
visit. Deputy State Councillor Allan g.
Witherite installed the officerS.
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Policeman-Artist Dead.

E. T. Jones, who became famous as
an artist while serving on the police
force of Leeds, England, has died there,
aged 81. Many Of his paintings were
hung in the Royal Academy. He spent
all his vacations in painting, chiefly in
North Wales.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-26

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Montana oil journal. (Great Falls, Mont.) 192?-1931, 1931-02-14

fPete RoIeum wrttes % secre-
tary wnburl
Dear Secretary Wilbur:
The World war ia oversee
Il the civil War-and also the
spanish-American automobils
have practically displaced horses
as 4 means OF transportation and
they're flying a bit in airpianes
now, too-paddle-wheel steam
boats are now used chiefly Tor
racing up and down the Miasia-
sippl-slavery IL the South has
been abolished corsets no longer
surround feminine contours--and
strestsweepine skirts vent out
Of style some years agoukel-
eles have gone back to Hawaii,
that is, taking It for granted
that they came from thereand
1t was generally understood some
time ago BY clear-thinking and
fair-minded Americans that con
servation Of national recources
as q constructive argument ap-
Piled to the petroleum Industry
in the United States was also an
tiquated and neither does q bur-
lap sack hold water catch ont
Respectfully yours,
PETE RoLEUM.