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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
MEYER NOMINATION.
IS RECOMMITTED.
Senate Sends Name of Fed
eraI Reserve Head Back
on Brookhart'S Plea.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Senate today recommitted to its
Banking Committee the nomination of
Eugene Meyer, jr., of New York to be
governor of the Federal Reserve Board
The Senate agreed unanimously after
Senator Brookhart, Republican, of
Iowa protested he had not been given
an opportunity to question the NOM
inee and charged that Meyer had
"conspired to cause the failure of Joint
stock land banks"
Brookhart moved to recommit the
nomination. Before a vote was taken
Chairman Norbeck of the committee
asked unanimous consent to have the
nomination referred back. The request
was supported by Meyers friends.
Glass and SmOot Speak.
Senator Glass, Democrat, Virginia,
said he was SaTe Meyer would want the
nomination to go back in view of the
charges.
Senator Smeot: Republican. Utah, de-
clared 1t was perfectly useless to try
to blacken the character of a man like
Meyer" and urged Brookhart's motion
be defeated but he finally agreed to
Norbeck's proposal.
Charges have been made he was in
volved in a direct conspiracy to destroy
joint stock land banks and some of
them were closed as a result of his
policy" Brookhart said.
Cites McFadden Letter.
He also called attention to a letter
written by Chairman McFadden of the
House Banking Committee. to members
of the Senate Committee which Brook
hart said charged the resignation of two
members of the Federal Reserve Board
had been sought in order to make a
place for Meyer.
Brookhart said McFadden's letter
charged former Gov. Young had re-
signed and place of great compensa-
Plat, another member of the board,
had also resigned to open a vacancy in
the board from New York State.
Senator AShurSt, Democrat, Arizona,
characterized the committees refusal
to hear Brookhart the most shocking
proceeding" he had ever heard of in the
Senate.
Ashurst, who described himself as a
supporter of Meyer, said I'VE have
reached pretty pass when members of
committee are not allowed to ask
questions of nominee"
Two Denials Alleged.
Brookhart said he had not only been
denied the right to question Meyer be-
fore the full committee, but also before
subcommittee investigating banking
conditions at which Meyer was schedul-
ed as a witness.
He said the subcommittee had post
poned calling Meyer until after his con-
firmation.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, New
York, said the committee had not
wanted to call Meyer because sufficient
hearings already had been held on the
charges and the committee had not
wanted to "rehash" old proceedings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
REPRESENTATIVE THOMPSON SUED
FOR DIVORCE ON CRUELTY CHARGE
Mrs. Katherine Howe Thompson, 81, Says Husbands
Family Aided in Systematic Abusive Treatment.

Charles ]. Thompson, Representative
from the fifth Ohio district, was sued
today in the District Supreme Court
for a limited divorce by his wife, Kath-
crime Howe Thompson, Tilden Gardens.
The wife charges cruelty.
Mrs. Thompson tells the court she
was married in this city January 6,
1925, and lived happily during the first
years of their married life.
Her husband, she charges, then, with
the aid of various members of his fam
lily, carried on a systematic course Of
cruel, abusive and inhuman treatment
of her, which caused her to become
mentally and physically i'll. BY reason
Of the alleged cruelty, she says, she was
forced to leave her husband December
Is last.
She asserts that beginning in 1927,
the husband gave way to an ungov-
ernable temper and would fly into rage,
cursing and vilifying her with unmen-
tionable epithetS. She is now under q
physicians care, she tells the court.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
DRY HEAD DENIES
|. U. S. "ABD|CATION"
Answers WickerSham Report,
Saying He viii Accept More
Agents if Congress Wishes.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
Prohibition Director Woodcock today
answered the contention of the Wick
ersham Commission that his request
for 500 additional dry agents was too
small with the statement that ''if Con-
gress wants to give us more we will
accept them gratefully"
The commissions report said OF
Woodcock's estimate for increased per-
sonnet that his figure assumes prac-
tical Federal abdication of an import
ant part of Federal Jurisdiction under
the amendment and Federal acquies-
cence In State notification"
Denies Federal "Acquiescence."
The prohibition director said today
there was no such Federal "acquies-
cence," and his workers were trying
their utmost to enlist State co-opera-
ton, even in States that do not have
a prohibition law
THE request for 500 additional
agents. he said, represents my judg-
ment, the Attorney Generals judgment
and the Judgment of the Budget Blu
reau. If Congress wishes to increase
this number We will gladly accept them
AS for the speed with which we can
put these men into the field, that, too
is in the hands of Congress We have
laid plans for calling the bureaus "a
instructors to Washington in June for
a refreshing course of instruction.
viii Be Ready.
They will be waiting in various parts
of the IL prohibition districts on July
/ to begin immediate training of the
500 agents If this number is given us.
If the appropriation is given us before
that date we will see that our plans
are advanced accordingly"
The WickerSham report said that
The slow building up Of an adequate
and well trained force presupposes a
considerable further period of expert
ment during which the deficiencies of
the present situation will continue"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22

Mrs. Thompson charges that Samuel
Craig Thompson, son of the Repre-
sentative by a former marriage, and an
aunt, Mrs. Harriet c. Blum, assisted in
the alleged cruelty. The son, she says,
made false statements concerning her
marriage, asserting that she had mar
ried for money and social position"
and tried to get his father to divorce
her. Although her husband knew, she
asserts. Of the actions Of the son, he
made no effort to curb them.
Thompson, the court is told, published
a notice that he would be responsible
only for debts contracted by himself
when he knew that she had never
abused his credit, she AYERS
The wife says she is 50 years old, has
no private income and is entirely with
out funds, while her husband has
salary Of $4,000 annually and owns real
estate in Defiance, Ohio, and in the
District. She asks suitable alimony in
her petition fled thfUugh Attorneys
Martin y. O'Donoghue and Reeves r.
I4lkJOQs@
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
COMPANY HOLDS PARK
PROJECT HOPELESS
Announces Intention to Resume
Lumbering Operations in Great
Smoky Mountain Area.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ASHEVILLE, N. c., January 22.-As-
serting that establishment of a park in
the Great Smoky Mountains appears
to be hopeless proposition" the
Champion Fibre Co. today served no.
tice it would resume numbering opera
lions in the proposed park area.
The companyS position was set forth
in a letter from Reuben B. Robinson,
president, to Col. David G. Chapman
Of Knoxville, chairman of the Ten
nessee Great Smoky Mountains Ma
tional Park Commission. The letter
was made public here.
A jury of review sitting in Sevierville,
Tenn, recently placed a valuation of
So, 1925, 900 on the 10000 acres of spruce
land owned by the fiber company in
the heart Of the Tennessee park area.
The Tennessee Park Commission con-
tended the valuation was about $780,
900, and announced it would appeal
the jury's verdict.
Robinson, in his letter, says his COM
pany suspended operations in the park
area three years ago "for the purpose
of preserving the property for the BEN
eft of the park. We did this under the
impression that you were going to treat
fairly and expeditiouSly with u.s."
Criticism of the valuation on the park
by the jury was construed by Robin
son to mean that the park commission
intends to delay this matter as much
as possible and to harass US and put
us to as much expense as possible.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
UTILITIES GROUP
IGNORES COUNSEL
Orders Bride to Proceed to
Seek Modification of Power
Rate Decree.

The Public Utilities Commission to-
day decided to ignore the advice of
Corporation Counsel William w. Bride
and to proceed to seek a modification
of the consent decree of Equity Court
regulating electric rates in the District
Mr.. Bride was instructed to proceed
at once to take the necessary steps to
have the decree modified. His advice,
today rejected by the commission, was
that the commission should totally
abrogate the decree.
The matter came up at the commits
sion's regular meeting this morning and
after the meeting was over an attache
gave out the commissions statement,
only six lines long, which read as fol-
lows:
AT its meeting today, the commits
sion decided to make no change in
the request communicated to its gen.
eral counsel to proceed at once to take
the necessary steps to secure modiflca-
tons of the consent decree, In accord
ance with its announcement of the
31st of December, 1880, in finding No.
4 of its order No. 1872"
Keech Opposed to Plan.
Mdo AlOlAl
the Commissioners. Chairman Mason
NJ. Patrick declined to make public the
text of MIR. Brides communication in
which the latter suggested his proposed
course of action.
Mr. Bride was at home i'll and could
net be reached for comment. Peoples
Counsel Richmond B. Keech, who favor
ed the Bride plan, said
This decision is most unfortunate
1t will result in placing upon the COM
mission burden which rightly belongs
to the company"
VIII Abide by Decision.
Mr.. Bride had previously said, how
ever that if the commission decided to
override his opinion, he would be in
duty bound to prepare and file any petit
ton that the commission might direct.
Thus when the case comes up for
trial an anomalous situation will be
presented in which the plaintiff and
its own counsel are in complete dis
agreement as to the merits of the
plaintiffs case. The history of the dis
pute goes back to the public hearings
held at the end of last month to decide
on the electric rates for 1881
Testimony at that hearing by William
NICK. Clayton, representing the Fedora
ton of Citizens Associations, was to the
affect that under the consent decree
which became effective January 1, 1925,
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
SOVIET YOUTH TOLD
NATION FACES WAR
Capitalist Countries Preparing to
March Against Socialist Regime,
Says Voroshilov.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW. January 22.-Soviet Rus
STA is threatened with the greatest war
in history, Commissar of War Voro-
shiloy declared in an address today to
the Congress Of Communist Youths.
The Soviet Union, he declared, must
organize the masses not only for the
purpose of defending the country
against inevitable intervention, but for
victory over 1.-The country which first
draws the sword against US"
Three million young Communists are
in the Congress of Youths, he said,
and 100000 of them are in the army.
He urged the entire membership to be-
gin intensive training for defense of
the state.
Our country" said he, sis a So
cialistic island surrounded by capitalist
enemies These are difficult times, and
we must not forget the external factors
all about US. The danger of attack is
constantly growing, and it is obvious
that the international bourgeoisie are
preparing to march against US"
He quoted the German Gen. Luden-
dorff. The danger of war once again
mas peCOHle real everywhere, anu as
serted that capitalism, in the grip oil
an economic crisis, planes the Soviet
Union for all its misfortunes and Is
preparing for war against us.
THE coming war" he said, will bt
a factory for the humiliation of men
and in such a factory men must not
only be willing TO die, but must bt
qualified to handle the complicated ma
chinery of war. We must face the at.
tack with trained army"
He indicated that preparations fol
defense already were under way, with
the declaration, I'm case of war al
light and heavy industry will be mo-
bilized."
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
MEMBER OF WICKERSHAM GROUP
TO OUTLINE PROHIBITION VIEWS
Frank j. Loesch of Chicago Will Speak at Church of the
Covenant Tonight.

a statement attached to the report proper,
that together with his experience as a
prosecuting officer and from personal
observation he had reached the con-
clusion that effective national enforce
ment of the amendment in its present
form is unattainable.
THE traffic" he reported, "has tran
scended State lines and has become a
matter of national concern. Even If it
we're a possibility of accomplishment in
the near future it would be unwise to
repeal the eighteenth amendment
such repeal would cause the instant
return Of the open saloon in all States
not having Statewide prohibition"
DR. A. J. Mccartney, the pastor. also
will address the audience on the same
subject
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22

In the first speech to be made by a
member of the Wickersham Commits
sion since that body's report was SUBJ
mitted to the President, Frank j.
Loesch of Chicago will outline his views
tonight at O'Clock in the Church of
the Covenant. Eighteenth and N streets
In addition to his service on the Ma
tional Commission on Law Observance
and Enforcement, Mr.. Loesch has taken
a prominent role In Chicago crime re-
form work.
Mr. Loesch was one of the commits
sion members who favored revision of
the eighteenth amendment in such a
manner that Congress might have
power TO legislate upon the entire sub
ject of the liquor traffic. He said, in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
WOMAN DENIES AID
IN S5O,OlO SW|NDLE
Money Lost in Faro Game,
Asserts U. S. Revenue Of
fetal in Illinois.
~ the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, H.. January o.
Two Illinois political leaders wire en-
broiled today in dispute that emerged
from $4,000 loan to Mrs. Myrtle
Tanner Blacklidge, collection Of internal
revenue, and the alleged victim of card
sharks.
Edward r. Litsing2r, member of the
COOK County Board of Review, political
friend OF Mrs. Blacklidge and once
Republican aspirant for the mayoralty
OF chicago, charged he was swindled
OF the $4,000 he lent the Federal off,
clal ana said he would prosecute her
Mrs. Blacklidge said she couldn't
understand Litsinger's turning against
her this way.
Denies Self to Callers.
II can't understand so many things
that have happened" she continued.
Everything has gone out-the props
nave just fallen out from under me
don't know what to do
For that reason Mrs. Blacklidge said
she had denied herself to callers-had
even refused to answer newspaper
inquiries.
Mrs. Blscklidge said she was leaving
Springfield for Chicago at 2:3O pm
today.
And when get back" she said. "I
intend to get to the bottom of this
dirty deal"
Lost in Faro Game.
Mrs. Blacklidge said that she had lost
the money lent her by Litsinger in a
faro game in the st. Nicholas Hotel in
Springfield. Litsinger denied this, say
ing that Mrs Blacklidge had borrowed
the money from him on the excuse
that it was needed to settle details of
her late husbands estate.
That's lie, and he knows it is"
she said. Il went to him and asked to
borrow $4,000 for "a hours-no longer.
I promised him that I would give him
$4,000 of my winnings for the favor.
He knew it was for the purpose of
collecting the faro debt. He knew it all
concerned faro. In fact, his nephew
sat in the same room with me while
continued to play faro, and Mr. Lit
singer was in the adjoining room"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
COLLISION SINKS SHIP
IN DELAWARE RIVER
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press. @
PHILADELPHIA, January 22.-The
steamship Commercial Mariner, $500
tens, of the Moore & Mccormack Lines,
sank i'll the Delaware River below
Wilmington, Del, today after colliding
with the steamer San Simeon, $500
tons. of the Quaker Lines.
Unconflrmed reports were that the
chief engineer of the Commercial
Mariner was unaccounted for.
The San Simeon was inbound from
Grays Harbor. Washington State, by
way Of New. York. Her bow was badly
damaged, but she proceeded to Phila-
delphia. The Commercial Mariner was
outbound for Tampa and New Orleans.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
100000 KIDNAPPING
PLOT IS FRUSTRATED
Detroit Police Arrest Four Men
and Woman in Plan to Abduct
Child of H. s. Maynard.
.By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, January ga 500, 900
kidnap plot against one Of the young
children of Horace S. Maynard,
wealthy Detroit business man, was
thwarted by detectives last night with
the arrest of two men, who went to
the Maynard home. the officers said, to
abduct the child.
Later. two other men and a woman
were arrested and the four men were
said by Duncan B. McCrea, assistant
prosecuting attorney, to have made q
full confession. They were held OIL
charges of conspiracy to kidnap. The
woman was held as a witness. Advance
information detectives said, enabled
them to prevent the kidnapping.
The plot, as reconstructed from In
formation received in advance and
from the confessions, police said, was
directed against whichever of May
nard's two children came first to hand
when the kidnapers entered the house.
It was conceived by two unemployed
men who met casually on a bench in
Grand Circus Park week ago, Me-
Crea said, and the other men, also uI1-
employed, were taken into it later.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
MACDONALD DEFIES
COMMONS DEFEAT
Loses in Vote on Education
Bill, but Will Not Resign
as Premier.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED FFeSS.
LONDON, January 22.-Although de-
feated in the House of Commons by SO
votes on an amendment to it's educa-
ton bill, the government Of Prime Min
lister Ramsay Macdonald remained in
Office today, considering the issue at
stake in the amendment of minor char
acter. The vote was 282 to 249.
The refusal to resign led Winston
Churchill, Conservative, to comment
that Mr.. Macdonald was the greatest
living master of the art of falling with
out hurting himself"
The government accepted the amend
ment, which was forced by one of its
own members, John Scurr, a Roman
Catholic, and later passed the amended
bill on its third and final reading by
vote of 256 to 328. Most of the Lib
erals abstained in the second vote.
Amendment Is offered.
The bill provides for raising the age
at which children may leave school from
from IA to Is years, with an allowance
of shillings to be made to needy par
ents whom the law affects. The Scurr
amendment authorized a government
appropriation to equalize the additional
burden that the law would impose on
the religious or non-provided schools.
In passing the measure over the gov
ernment's protest, "a Laborites deserted
to the opposition.
The bill now goes to the House of
Lords. which may, taking courage from
the closeneSs of the Commons vote, re-
fuse it altogether. In any event, it can
not become operative until September,
1892.
Premier's Second Defeat.
1t was the second defeat the Mac
Donald ministry has sustained in the
House of Commons, a previous adverse
vote having been recorded last March
on a minor amendment to the coal
mines bill. There have been three de-
feats in the House of Lords. The first
Macdonald ministry, in 1924, suffered
several defeats on minor matters before
resigning after vote on major ques-
ton
The government faced another hurdle
in its trades disputes bill, up for second
reading today. Observers believed the
government would win by small mar
gin.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
GARSAUD WEEDS FORMER
AIDE IN NEW ORLEANS
Member of New Power Commission
and Bride Return to Capital
After Ceremony.

Col. Marcel Garsaud of the Federal
Power Commission surprised his fellow
members of the commission upon his
return here today from a brief visit to
his nome, in New Orleans, by an
nouncing that he had been married
Tuesday
Col. Garsaud's bride, who was Miss
Beatrice Deffarge, was formerly his
secretary.
Col and Mrs. Garsaud are making
their home at the Jefferson Apart
ments.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
KANSAN FACES TRIAL
ON GINGER CHARGES
Under Indictment as Distributor,
Purportedly Resulting in
Paralysis Epidemics.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 22.-Indicted
on a charge of distributing ginger ex-
tract beverage throughout the country,
purportedly resulting in several paraly-
sis epidemics, Ralph Lewis must stand
trial in Topeka, Kans., for conspiracy.
In handing down the decision against
Lewis yesterday, United States Commits
sioner Edward E. Fay dismissed cases
against nine others who were accused
of selling industrial alcohol, with which
ginger extract was mixed to make an
intoxicating beverage.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22

LOVE FOR BROTHER FATAL
Eight-Year-old Sister Falls Dead
When Told of Death.

SAN JUAN, Calf, January % Up.
Physicians said love for her 6-year-
old brother. Peter, killed 8-year-old
Amy Senegrin.
Peter died of acute indigestion yes
terday. Amy was told She collapsed
without a word and died before a doc
tor arrived
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
Gov. Bryan Forms
Secret Service to Cut
Nebraska Crime
By the Associated Press.


LINCOLN, Neb., January a.
A volunteer force of State secret
service agents, working without
compensation from the State,
has been organized in Nebraska
under the direction of Gov.
Charles w. Bryan. brother of the
great commoner."
State Sheriff Michael Endres
said that neither names of the
agents nor the number enlisted
will be revealed. we don't
want criminals to know who
they are" he explained.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
Flour War in Nova Scotia.

SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, January %
(P)-This city is experiencing a flour
price war, brought about by chain store
cutting of prices. To enable local re-
tailers to compete, wholesalers have
dropped their rates by 80 cents barrel,
with a possibility of further decrease.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22
Can't. Dollar Recovering.

SAN RAFAEL, Calf, January %
P).-Physicians said today Capt. Robert
Dollar, 81, dean of Pacific Coast ship
ping men, had won another victory over
illness by his remarkable stamina" He
was operated on Monday for an in
ternal disorder.