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The Washington times., 1931-03-12

A breakdown in the industrial,
financial and political leadership
of America has thrust the nation
into an economic depression
which forces 25,000,000 persons
to suffer in the midst Of plenty,
the national conference of Pro
greSSives was told today by Sen
ator Robert M. La Toilette, jr., at
a round-table discussion Of the
unemployment problem.
A number of hberal-minded
business men, labor leaders and
legislators indorsed La Follette's
Indictment of the nations lead
erS.A
Calling on Progressives every
where to assume leadership in the
economic crisis, La Toilette sug-
gested they draft a program Of
legislative and economic remedies
which would restore prosperity to
the people.
Relief Measures Planned
Among remedial measures sug-
gested by La Toilette and other
speakers were:
Creation of a Federal agency
to plan emergency work to meet
unemployment cycles.
Legislation compelling indus
try to adopt unemployment in
Surance.
Use of Government ownership
Of utilities to check private ex-
tOrtiOn.
Creation Of National ecOnO-
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
DOPE RAID NETS
. IS IN TOLEDO

TOLEDO, Ohio, March IL
1.N.S0.-What Federal authori-
ties described as one of the largest
dope rings in the country was
smashed early today in a series
of raids which resulted in the
arrest of 19 persons, including
seven women, and seizure of thou
sands of dollars worth of mar
coticS.
Names Of 100 other dope ped
dIerS and addicts were learned by
the raiding crew, composed Of 10
Federal agents and more than a
score Of city patrOlmen.
Difficulty was encountered in
transporting the prisoners to the
municipal jail. Police reported
two attempted escapes and de-
clared several of those arrested
made desperate struggles for
freedom. ~
William Reed, so, is alleged to
have been the head of the ring.
Helbrant described him as lone of
the most notorious dope peddlers
in the Middle West"
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
TIRE CLUE
IN Staying

SAN DIEGO, Calf, March IL
1N.S0.-Deputy sheriffs today
found the tire shop that sold the
slayer of Virginia Brooks a re-
treaded tire the tread-marks Of
which are expected to reveal the
slayer'S identity.
John Shelly, owner of the re-
treading company, began check.
ing his books to give authorities
the names Of men who had
bought such retreaded tires.
PICK UP <..
The child's battered and dis
membered body was found
wrapped in q burlap bag on
Camp Kearney mesa Tuesday,
one month after she vanished
on her way to school. AutOmO'
bile tire tracks near the body
may lead to her slayer.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
MEXICO SEXES
PLANE, REPORT

MEXICO CITY, March IL
0N.SO.-The Secretary of the
Mexican air ministry planned to-
day to conduct an investigation
into reports that a large Italian
seaplane, repeatedly occupied by
Americans, was seized in the
harbor of Arepulco.
It was reported the airmen
were engaged in photographing
Mexican ports on the Pacific
Coast.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
PLANET ONLY
AN A5TERO|D

CAMBRIDGE, Mass, March IL
QN.S0 The reported "planet"
discovered by the Italian astrono-
mer, Prof. Lacchini, is really an
asteroid, according to Harvard
observatory officials. Since the
discovery Prof. Lacchini has been
in communication with the Cam
bridge University officials.
Prof. L. Campbell, of the Har-
ward observatory, said:
'There is nothing to get
excited about. Prof. Lacchini,
q noted variable star observer,
who has been making photo
graphic studies Of stars at
Rome, wrote several weeks ago
regarding the finding Of two
asteroids. There being several
hundred asteroids, it is merely
an ordinary feat in finding
them in the heavens"
ROME, March IL UNS0-The
tiny new planet discovered by
Prof. Lacchini, of the Pine Tor
inese observatory at Turin, is the
second astral body to be diScov-
ereda at that institution.
The director of the institution,
Prof. Volta, photographed another
Of similar size two years ago.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
CRIME REPORT.
FAVORS VETS, .
SAYS CHIEF
WickerSham Declares They
Should Be Encouraged; In
sists Board in Agreement

BOSTON, March IL dNS).
Painting the now-famous Law
Enforcement Commissions report
with a wet tint, Chairman George
w. WickerSham said today the
anti-prohibitioniSts should derive
more encouragement from it than
the dryS..
This Interpretation, the first
made by Chairman Wickersham,
was given to the Boston Cham
ber of Commerce in a luncheon
address.
COnfessing he was mystified
by attacks of vets upon the
commission, Wickersham stoutIy
defended it against the charge
Of inconsistency.
Differed As To Remedy
The commission, he said, thor
oughly agreed upon the ills Of
prohibition. The difference is
the remedy to be applied. He
declared:
"CuriousIy enough the most
vehement criticism and the
most abusive articles came al
most exclusively, so far as !
can learn, from the wet press.
/ say 'curiOuSIy' because /
should have thought the VETS
would have derived more en-
cOuragement from the report
and the Separate statements of
the commissioners attached to
it than the 'drys.'" We
"Yet the comments Of the
dry press and Of dry Organixa-
tiOns have been on the whole
friendly to the report and the
(Cortinued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
Beauty Queen Slayer Says
Nirdlinger Choked Her
INTERNATIoNAL1NEWs KEEL

her following a bitter quarrel
which grew out of his unjustified
jealousy. She exhibited red finger
marks on her throat in substan-
tiation of her claim.
No formal charges had been
lodged against Mrs. Nixon-Nird-
linger today. She was held at a
police station, where she was
taken Immediately. after the
shooting. Tonight she will be
taken to prison, and an examin-
Continued on Page 3, Col. -
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
UNWR|T TEN
LAW SAVES
KILLER Of
RIVAL
Tribunals Action Surprises;
Wife Backed Conductor;
Called Shooting Justified

The District Grand Jury today
upheld the unwritten law, ex.
onerating Hurtha Ira Dulaney
who shot and killed William Huff,
25, Monday night when he re-
turned Unexpectedly to his home
at 1917 H st. N. E., and found
Huff in Mrs. Dulaney's bedroom.
Ordinarily the Grand Jury does
not file its report until Tuesday,
and the decision to free Dulaney
was given today as he has been
held in Jail since the shooting.
Dulaney was released as soon as
the legal papers arrived at the
jail.
Speed Record Set
The Grand Jury action set .
new speed record here. The
shooting took place late Monday
night and Dulaney was booked
for murder early Tuesday morn
ing.
Yesterday the Coroner's inquest
was held and Dulaney was bound
over to the Grand Jury. That
body started its inquiry an hour
later and finished today.
Dulaney, who is 81 years old
and a street car conductor, had
begged Huff, who lived in Hume
Spring, Va, to leave his wife
alone, according to evidence
brought out. @
Wife Admits Intimacy
Mrs. Dulaney, who made q
statement to police in which she
admitted intimacy with the dead
man, was not summoned before
the Grand Jury. She had stated
she would refuse to talk on .ad.
vice of counsel.
She also took the stand at the
inquest yesterday but did not teS.
tify there as members of the jury
declared they were not interested
in her story.
She was taken into custody as
a material witness and has
stated that it was entirely her
fault and that her husband
should have shot her rather than
Huff.
Police introduced a bundle Of
letters from Mrs. Dulaney to
Huff at the coroner's inquest,
but these were barred at the
Grand Jury hearing.
Love Notes Shown
These letters, beginning my
Dearest" and my Darling" told
how she loved Huff and how
Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
League Court Action
Urged of President

Maj. Gen. John F. Organ,
chairman of the National World
Court Committee, which repre-.
sents 81 national organizations
interested in American adherence
to the World Court, headed a
large delegation to the White
House today to urge President
Hoover to call a special session
of the Senate in November to
act upon the court protocols.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
Teachers Send Girl to Spy
On Speakeasies, Charge

CHICAGO, March 11-Although
increasing the bond of Guy Mey-
erS, alleged proprietor of a speak
easy, from $50 to $500, for selling
a drink of gin to a 13-year-old
schoolgirl. Judge Edward Hayes,
bitterly excoriated police and
school officials for encouraging
children to become dry Snoop-
erS."
The girl, Monica Henderson. re.
ported to police that she had
visited the flat in Blackstone Ave
enue, near her school and had
no trouble in obtaining a drink.
Judge Hayes said:
II don't like the looks ef this
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
FULL HOLIDAY
ON SATURDAY,
| LABOR AIM
Green Tells Progressives
Drive viii Be Launched for
Clerks at Next Session

A movement for a full Satur-
day holiday for Federal employees
will be launched in the next Con-
gress.
This was announced by William
Green, president of the American
Federation of Labor, in a sensa-
tional speech before the national
conference Of progreSsives at the
Carlton Hotel this morning.
The present Saturday half -holi-
day is merely. q fore-runner of
what is to come--a great cam
Iyaign 10 place the Federal Govern
ineut on record as fay0fdng the
fiveday week for all classes Of
WORKERS Iii the nation.
President Green declared:
''The National GOveFnnhent
should take the lead in estab-
fishing the five-day week In all
types Of American industry,
ana its first move in this direc-
tion should be legislation pro
wing for q shorter work week
for an Of its workers.
AFTER tremendous effort, we
have Just succeeded in obtain
ing . Saturday haIf-hOliday, for
Federal employees. But this is
o mere st0p-gap. 1t means
little or nothing at all so far
as modern industrial conditions
are concerned.
'sWhy should the Federal Gov
ernment lag behind and follow
private industry i'm this reform? {
It should. take the lead instead"
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
La Toilette Raps Hoover
For Ignoring JobLess

mic council to advise the PreSi-
dent and Congress on economic
issues.
The Hoover Administration was
asSailed throughout the discus
sion for failing to meet the un-
employment problem.
La Toilette charged the Presi-
dent first tried to minimize con-
ditions and then sought to block
all remedial legislation.
This was an indirect stab at
the Presidential veto Of the Wag-
ner unemployment relief bill and
Continued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1931-03-12

Congress Is just as gond--or
bad-as the people, waoC it,
This estimate was given tc the
Progressive conference here by
Representative George Hrddles-
ton CD of Alabama, in a frank
ard pessimistic talk. Said Hud-
dleSton:
'sWhatever good you find in
Congress is due to the COngEeS& :
The Washington times., 1931-03-12

case at all, and I don't care
what the opinion Of the school
teachers on the matter may be.
You come in here charging the
defendant with contributing to
the delinquency of this little girl
! by selling her liquor. 1t seems
: to me that both the police and
the teachers are contributing to
ner delinquency by having her
.nOOp around these places for
shem."
Police who staged the raid told
the court she had been en-
coursged in her action by school
nfHlninlnL .......-
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
Congress Is What We Make
1t, Progressiues Told

mans constituency, and what
ever is bad is the price he pays
for reelection.
This Government is as good
as the people deserve AMI is as
good as they want.
Whenever they want and de-
serve . better Government they
can have it.
'The trouble Is at home. II
ls with public OPINION i
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
.DENISON TAKES
THE STAND

Former Representative Edward
Z. Denison, of Illinois. took the
stand in his own defense today
and began recounting to the Jury
the baggage mix-up which re-
suited in his trunk containing
chinaware being lost and another
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
SHIP BLOWS UP
KILLING zoo

SHANGHAI, March IL 0NS3.
Two hundred Chinese were killed
today and 100 others rescued
when the steamer Pachi exploded
and sank at the mouth CT the
Yangtze River.
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
BAKERS FATHER DEAD

POTTsTOWN, Pa, March IL
Q.N.SO.-H ward Leopold, 81,
father-in-law Of former Secretary
of War Newton D. Baker, is dead
at his home here today. He died
of pneumonia. t
The Washington times., 1931-03-12

to his room in the House office
Building.
VIII Continue Testimony
= With calm Self-assurance. the
former dry Representative de.
scribed in detail the number of
pieces of baggage which he haC
and the contents of each.
The Government rested its case
shortly before noon.
Attorney E. Hilton Jackson, of
defense counsel, Immediately filed
3 motion for q directed verdict,
lContinnsd on Page 2. Col. -
The Washington times., 1931-03-12
THE WEATHER

Fair tonight and Friday; slowly rising tenn
psrature FridayJ lowest temperature tonight
about 80 degrees; moderate northwest winds,
Becoming central variable Friday. TemPera-
aure yesterday-Highest, 80; lowest, rs.
Full Weather Report Page 10
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this city pubiishnE the news dispatches Of Inter-
national News Service and Universal Service.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
CONVICTED PAIR
WILL APPEAL TO
SUPREME COURT

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4. U.H -
Morris Lavine, former newspaper
man, and Leontine Johnson, private
secretary, today had permission to
carry to the supreme court their
fight against conviction on charges
of attempting to extort money from
Charles Crawford, late boss politi-
clan, and others.
The permission was granted by
the second district court of appeals
which also granted continuance of
present bail.
Lavine and Miss johnson assert
edly tried to collect $4,000 from
Crawford and others through
threats to expose certain political
activities and negotiations in Julian
Petroleum corporation stock.
Under the convictions, Lavine
was ordered to county Jail for a
year and fined $1,000 while Miss
johnson was sentenced to nine
months in the county Jail.
Crawford was shot to death May
20 and David H. Clark, young for =
mer deputy district attorney, has
been charged with his murder. Clark
also is accused of the murder of
Herbert Spencer, newspaper friend
of Crawford, and now is on trial
on that charge.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
TRAINS DELAYED
BY HEAVY RAINS
IN new MEXICO

Ell PASO. Texas. Aug. a. Up) -
A cloudburst that swept away tracks
and flooded San Antonio, NJ NJ, l68
miles north of here, stopped all
Santa Fe trains out of here today.
A wall of water swept down an
arroyo near San Antonio and flood
ed business places and houses. Much
of the town was covered with Is
inches of water
Residents heard the water ap-
preaching and many took to their
automobiles in order to gain high
er ground.
Little property damage was done
in the town itself but crop damage
in the vicinity was reported to be
heavy. Two years ago the city was
swept by a disastrous flood.
Tracks of the Santa Fe railroad
we're washed out north of San An
tonic and all trains will be about
seven hours late.
Heavy rains were delaying traffic
on the Southern Pacific lines near
Duncan, Ariz.
Northeast of Alamogordo, N. M.
railroad traffic was being delayed
by heavy rains.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
GENERAL STRIKE
TIES UP ENTIRE
CUBAN INDUSTRY

HAVANA. Aug. 4. (U.P)-Industry
was paralyzed throughout Cuba to-
day in a "a hour general strike
which caused one of the worst
labor tie-ups in the recent troubled
history of the republic.
The strike was effective at mid
night. 1t was called in sympathy
with striking street car workers. AT
least 10000 workers in Havana
were affected.
The labor unions indicated they
would continue the strike unless
the street car company complied
with the workers demands.
Troops and police reserves stood
by prepared to handle disorders
and maintain calm. Unions prom
ised cooperation in keeping the
strike orderly.
The strikers went out in Sympa-
thy with the motormen and con-
ductors of The street car company
who have been on strike since last
Friday in protest against the wage
reduction ordered by the company.
Frank Steinhart, an American pio-
neer resident in Cuba, is head of
the car lines.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
RAILROAD STILL
BATTLES TO HALT
SINKING OF EARTH

WATSONVILLE, Cal, Aug. 4.
UP)-Railway repair crews con-
tinued pouring trainloads of crushed
rock into fissures of the earth's
surface today as the unaccountable
ground sinking, temporarily checked,
resumed at a rapid rate.
The mile square area affected by
the strange phenomenon was sink
ing two inches an hour, battling
construction engineers who are
working night and day to maintain
service along the San Francisco
Los Angeles line of the Southern
Pacific railroad.
Residents of WatSonVille who
came to inspect the fissures near
Elkhorn slough reported they had
caught a fresh water variety Of Get
fish, indicating Subterranean
stream may be undermining the
section. Previously it was belieTcd
that salt water from the ocean, a
mile distant, was causing the trou-
BILE.
The ground was falling at the
rate of four inches an hour when
the fist rock was dumped last
Thursday night Later it subsidized
10 one inch an hour but has now
Increased. w. M. Jackie, assistant
engineer of the railroad, estimated
the first rocks are now 35 feet be-
low the surface. He said l25 car
loads are thrown into the section
daily.
Trains still are able to use the
track, proceeding at slow speed.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
NORTHERN FIRES
BREAK OUT UPON
EXTENDED FRONT

MISSOULA, Mont, Aug. 4. U.P)-
Whipped by bowling gales, forest
fires in Montana, Idaho and west
ern Washington leaped their bounds
today, closed roads, destroyed prop
erty and lowered stands of timber
Men and outfits were being sent
to the fire fronts in three forest
regions via every mode of modern
transportation special train from
Kalispell, Mont, motor buses and
trucks from Spokane, Wash, ex-
press cars attached to passenger
limited and airplanes.
Mules, horses, gasoline water
pumps, ploughs, cooks kitchen help
ers, food, telephone stringers, ex-
pert fire chiefs and smoke chasers,
and crews of men armed with shov-
els and axes were on the move.
Creeping northeasterly, the Pent
Orielle fire has spread from Deer
Greek, 20 miles north of Bonner's
Ferry, Ida, to within three miles
of the Canadian border.
llt lAt, WlllCIl lldQ Dttll ouI =
rounded by trenches and was on a
patrol basis, jumped the fire line,
destroyed one fire camp, telephone
service and threatened two other
camps. No report on the two has
been received by regional head
quarters here.
Fire on the Big Arm hill, six miles
west of Poison, Mont, threatened
the Stella Upham ranch on Jetty
Lake. In its path lie several ranches
and a score of summer homes be-
longing to people from cities of
Idaho, Montana and Washington.
The Priest river experiment sta
ton in western Washington was
as blaze more than 20
miles in length and of unreported
width, moved through the Big Creek
area north of Newport, Wash.
Forestry officials said one of the
states finest timber stands was be-
ing burned as the raging wind
driven fire ravaged the area.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
GERMAN
BANKING
RESUMED
Three-Week Holiday Or
dered BY Government
Is brought To Close.
STRAIN RELIEVED
Withdrawals Watched AS
Barometer OF Business
Conditions.
BY FREDERICK KUH
'nited Press Staff Correspondent

BERLIN, Aug. 4. U.P)-All yrivate
banks today resumed transfers on
a normal business basis after
three weeks enforced bank holiday.
The various emergency morator-
ium measures adopted by President
Paul Won Hindenburg gradually
have been relaxed and the reopen
ing of the banks was regarded as
a long step toward resumption of
normal economic life in Germany,
torn by financial uncertainty.
Private depositors and corpora
tions began withdrawing from cer-
tain banks and transferring deposits
to others in which they had more
confidence.
Unlimited public drawing from
bank balances will be recommended
tomorrow, the government indicat-
ed, when the paying counters re-
open.
Interest today, however, centered
in observing from which banks
funds were being taken and to
which they we're transferred, as
we'll as the extent of these trans
fers.
The outcome of today's transfers.
it was emphasized, will be baro-
meter of the financial nervousness
or confidence of the general public
after three weeks of intense strain.
Early advices indicated no unex-
pected heavy runs on any banks.
| The heaviest Withdrawals were re-
ported on the Danat and the Dresd-
ner banks, both affected by the re-
cent crisis.
The bank holiday was decreed
by the government three weeks
ago in order to give the country a
breathing SPELL and permit the
! people to regain waning confidence
in the country'5 national and pri-
vate banking houses.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
Lawyer Edits
Prison Paper

SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Cal,
Aug. 4. (U.P)-Cromwell L. Ormsoy.
former attorney for Aimee Semple
Mcpherson, made his debut today
as editor of the convict publication,
The Bulletin.
Ormsby, convicted of part in
the Oakland paving graft scandals,
brought out the August issue of the
bulletin with an editorial he wrote
protesting the use of the term "ex-
convict"
ITO the average citizen the word
stands for something low and de-
PRAYED, someone with wicked heart.
twisted nature and faithless code"
the editorial said. This is unjust,
for the average convict is simply
one who made a mistake and was
caught at it,"
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
CONCENTRATE IS
LIFE SAVER IN
GRAPE INDUSTRY

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4. tu.P)-
The sale of grape concentrate has
flourished in the midst of the gen.
eral business depression and de-
velopment of this by product,
which turns to wine in the home,
was described today as life saver"
for the entire grape industry of
California.
Ralph P. Merritt, here to arrange
with the federal farm board for
further financing of grape and raj
sin cooperatives, said the concen-
trate, which also benefits from fed
eral aid, had been "a very great
help" in rehabilitation of the in
duStry.
1T certainly has been a life
saver,' Merritt said. He expected
the grape industry to be back on
its feet by November, its surpluseS
largely cleared away. Manufacture
of the concentrate has taken many
grapes that otherwise would have
been a drag on the market.
The sale of grape concentrate has
developed so briskly that Fruit In
dustries, Inc, the cooperative han
ding it, is giving franchises for sec
tional service.
When the concentrate has been
sold. representatives of the company
have supervised bottling the wine
in the home. The producing COM
pany is planning to withdraw large
ly from this follow up" service,
leaving it in the hands of regional
organizations.
Imperial Valley press., 1931-08-04
FINANCIAL CRISIS
FOLLOWS CLOSING
OF MEXICO BANKS

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4. UP; "A
financial crisis was imminent today
it was feared as a result of the
temporary closing" of two large
banks in the capital.
The failure of the Credito ESpanol
dc Mexico, a Spanish bank, yester
day was followed by the closing of
the Banco Nacional de Mexico. The
directors announced the latter in
stitution was closing temporarily to
preserve order in a crowd of depos
itors seeking to withdraw their
money.
1t was announced that the Banco
Nacional de Mexico, however, would
open as usual, possibly today. 1t
was reported depositors withdrew
100000 pesos yesterday prior to
suspension of payments.
The government, it was recalled,
recently instituted a new monetary
law removing gold from circulation
and placing the country practically
on a silver basis. Protests from
many quarters have resulted.