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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09
POLICE DENY BLAME
IN KIDNAPPING PROBE
Victim Has Not Reported Incident
of Seizure With Alleged Com
munists, Is Charge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DALLAS, Tex, March 9.-Slow prog
ness in the investigation of the abduction
Thursday of two asserted Communist
organizers, and George Clifton Edwards,
their attorney, last night was blamed
by police on failure Of the lawyer to re-
port the incident.
The avowed Communists, Charles
Coder and Lewis Hurst, have not been
seen since the kidnapping. Edwards was
released after his companions were fog
ged. he said, and warned never again
to represent Communists" The trio
was seized In the street soon after Coder
and Hurst were released from jail, where
they had been roughly handled by
other prisc
Sheriff Hal Hood also stated that no
report Of the kidnapping had been made
to his ONCE and that his frequent att
tempt to get in touch with Edwards
since newspapers reported the abduc-
ten had been unsuccessful.
The Executive Committee of the Dali
las Bar ASS citation Friday adopted q
resolution asking the aid Of Gov. Ster-
ling in experiencing the armed men
who were reported to nave seized the
trio.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09
FRONTIER PRIEST DIES

EDMONTON, Alberta, March 8 CE9.-
Bearded patriarch Of the North, Mgr.
Emile Grouard Is dead today, after
seven decades Of missionary effort In
Canada'S frontier country.
At 81 the Roman Catholic prelate sue
cumbed yesterday 70 lingering illness
at the little hamlet in the Peace River
country named for him.
No living white man, it has been said,
was 30 familiar with the Indian tribes
81 the North. In tending the spiritual
needs Of the frontier natives, Father
Grouard became linguistic expert. He
was able 10 converse nuentIy in q dozen
Indian dialects His experience with the
Indian tribes dated back TO 1862.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09
WRECK DAMAGE 100000
Box Cars Enter Building, Upsetting
Stove and Causing Fire.

SALINEVILLE, Ohio, March Q lP4-
Twenty box cars were derailed and
damaged and two two-story brick and
frame buildings alongside the Penn
sylvania railroad tracks here were de-
strcyed when two cars hurled into the
basement of one of the buildings and
upset coal stove early yesterday.
Damage was estimated at 100000 No
one was injured.
in the middle and buckled, throwing
several cars in the path Of an east
bound ll5-car freight train. Two Of
the cars careened into the basement Of
building where the upset stove started
the blaze
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-09
MAN MARRIED Is TIMES
TAKES HIS THIRD BRIDE
Actor Wed to First Mate on Each
of Is Occasions They Met
on Show Tour.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March g. William
Seabury, vaudeville actor, is honey
incoming with his third bride, although
he has been married is times. She is
Holley Hall, musical comedy actress.
They were married in Hoboken two
days ago, it was disclosed last night.
It's all quite simple. After Seabury
married Margaret Irving. an actress, in
New York, they were married 10 times
more-everywhere their paths crossed
on the road-Port Chester, New York,
Boston, Philadelphia, Buffalo. Indian
apolis, Louisville, Chicago, st. Louis,
Kansas City, Seattle, Fresno and Los
Angeles. It was great fun.
But when Miss Irving decided Sea-
bury's attentions to other women en-
titled her to divorce, she got 1t.
Seabury's first wife was Billie Shaw,
dancer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
MILITARY TRAINING
HIT AT CONFERENCE
Missionary Council Told It Is
Without Justification in U. s.;
Prohibition Considered.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, March 14.-Mili-
tary training and prohibition we're con-
sidered at sectional meetings today by
delegates to the annual conference Of
the Women's Missionary Council of the
Methodist Episcopal Church South.
DR.. Henry T. HoGgkin, director of the
Quaker Center for Study and Research
Philadelphia, said military training of
American SchoolboyS was unnecessary.
Mrs. w. A. Newell, Greensboro. N. c.,
superintendent Of the councils Bureau
Of Christian Relations anpounced the
bureau was making a study of all
phases Of prohibition in the South.
An Englishman, DR.. Hodgkin told a
group discussing international relations
and world peace that we who come to
this country are amazed at the hold
that military training apparently has
taken upon the Nation as a whole, The
idea Of any European country daring
TO attack America or even thinking of
such a step is preposterous, he said
Military training in this country is
without Justification
Education of public school children
IN the effects Of alcohol and inVestiga-
ton OF the extent of social drinking"
are objects of the Christian Relation
Bureaus study. Mrs. Newell said its
findings will be reported later to the
council.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

and war profteers, booze profiteers and
the sellers of inflated stocks are cast in
the same mold"
What do you think Of the Wicker
sham report?" he was asked.
1T was in favor of q dry Nation,
wasn't it? That's all that Is necessary
to say"
Diseards Raskob Plan.
"Are you familiar with the Raskoh
plan for State liquor control2"
mo. there's no use to go into it
The Volstead act went through Con-
gress and must be enforced"
The thing for the Government to do
the manufacturer said is TO enforce
prohibition instead of attempting Gov
eminent ownership Of such properties
as Muscle Shoals.
Let the Government stick to the
strict function of governing. That
Is a biz enough job. Let them let bust
ness alone. What is everybody's bust
ness is nebody's business"
Muscle Shoals should be, and eventu-
ally will be, the property of privately
owned electrical companies, in Mr.
Ford'S opinion. As far as q financial
interest in the property is concerned
Mr.. Ford is only q side lines spectator
He Is interested but not participating.
Praises HoOver's Work.
He praised the Hoover administration
for the Presidents efforts Ito conduct
an administration and not a business"
President Hoover is only in for eight
years" he said laughingly as he pre-
dicted another term for the Chief Ex-
eeutive, land We should give him every
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Ford Sees Times Good
PRAISES HOOVER AND PREDICTS REELECTION.

BY the Associated Press.
WORT MYERS, Fla, March IA
- Henry Ford today described the
Nation as prosperous, despite
Il high prices. but unable TO realize
its good fortune.
The manufacturer predicted another
term for President Hoover. He eau
toned the Government not to enter
business through utility ownership,
He said appreciation of present good
times will not come until the people
understand the cause Of the business
depression, which he said was the men
tai dishonesty of q specializing public.
Mr.. Ford declared so-called prosperity
of the inflated values period preceding
the 1929 stock market crash probably
THESE really are good times, but
only q few know It," he said. "The
only thing I see for general enjoy
ment of conditions Is price reduction
and a realization of the cause and ex-
tent of the depression"
Dollars Buying Power.
To prove his point, he said dollar
will now buy from 80 to rs per cent
more than It would before the market
crash.
The average man, however, won't
really do a days work unless he is
caught and cannot get out Of it. There's
plenty of work to do II people would
do it.
so many Of US want to brush the
dust off of old stuff on the shelves,
the merchandise bought at a high
price level, and sell it without chang
ing the price marks to meet altered
conditions.
dishonesty caused the so-called de-
preston. People initiate stocks-that'S
dishonest. People buy inflated stocks
with the hope Of getting rich at the
expense OF some one else. That also Is
dishonest. Persons Of that type are too
gullible. They cannot understand.
They need experience"
The question of wage adjustment to
NEST present-day living demands is
hard problem to solve from q national
has had no difnculty In his own plant,
he added,
No Wage Cuts Made.
I'VE have had no wage cuts" he
pointed out, with more than 10000
men employed"
Mr.. Ford viewed prohibition as a sue
cess. but said big business and not the
Government eventually will be the
greatest factor in enforcement.
Industry will have TO help II IL is to
come from industry. Tho Government
Is working hard toward enforcement,
but 1t must be baek-stopped for COM
plete control.
Manufacturing booze is as de-
struetive and as dangerous to industry
as war.
THE same fellows profit out of both
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
CHILD WELFARE
IS SURVEY TOPIC
Monday Evening Club Discus
sion win Be Held To-
morrow Evening.

The Monday Evening Club. composed
OF social workers. will hold q round
table discussion Of the proposed sur
vey of the child welfare needs Of
Washington tomorrow evening in the
gridiron room of the New willard Hotel.
The club was Spurred TO this action
oy the Mcleod resolution calling on the
District Commissioners for a survey Of
the situation, and by the appointment
of an official committee headed by DR..
William G. Fowler, health officer, and
including Judge Katherine Sellers of
the Juvenile Court, George S. Wilson.
director Of public welfare. and DR..
Frank W. Ballou, superintendent Of
public schools.
The meeting will also discuss the re-
cent conclusions and recommendations
of the White House Conference and will
anticipate the forthcoming report of
the American Public Health Association
for the Council of Social Agencies, now
on the press, as we'll as the Dr. Prehle
survey, made for the Bureau Of En-
cheney.
Viola r. Anderson, chairman of the
Maternal and Child Hygiene Committee
of the club. who is acting secretary Of
the tuberculosis Association, and Miss
Agnes Hanna, chairman Of the Com
mittee on the Care Of Dependent and
Delinquent Children, who Is the diree-
tor of social service for the Federal
Children's Bureau Representatives OF
the Council of Social Agencies and of
other agencies connected with the Com
munity Chest are expected to take part
in the discussion. Arthur Deerin Call
director of the American Peace Society,"
is to be the chairman Of the evenings
program.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
BOOK RECOMMENDATION
BRINGS D. C. MAN So, 900
Former idaho Governor Also Ad-
mits Giving Publishers Names
of Lincoln League Members.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1G.-David w.
Davis, former Governor of Idaho, in
formed the United States attorney to-
day that he had received more than
$4,000 for speaking we'll of q H.
volume life Of Lincoln and for fur
nishing the publishers with a list Of
members of the National Lincoln
League. Inc, of which he is president
Davis, now a resident Of Washing
ton, D. c., was questioned in connec-
ton with an investigation into the
publishing house Of Parke, Austin g.
Lipscornbe, Inc, which put out the set
with the understanding that part of
the proceeds were TO go to Lincoln
Memorial University. The university,
the Federal prosecutor said, gets 5 to
10 per cent of the sales and thus far
has received between $4,000 and
The National Lincoln Leaeue. Davis
explained, is engaged In making
the United States Lincoln conscious.
United States Attorney George q.
Medalie said no charges had been made
and that the investigation was to de-
termine If illegal acts had been COM
nlitted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
RICH FARMER FOUND DEAD
UNDER ODD CONDITIONS
Badly injured in Lonely House.
Doors Locked and Snow Shows
No Sign of Intruder.
~ n. Annotated Pres.

zANCONA, Ill, March l4.-In house
with every door and window locked and
a mantle Of unmarked snow outside,
Charles Ramme, IS, wealthy farmer,
was found dead in bed with fractured
spinal column, punetured liver and
crushed chest.
Last night Livingston County au-
thorities postponed indefinitely an In
quest in order to investigate the case,
which they view as a murder. They
held he could not have inflicted the in
iuries on himself, and under no con-
dition could have crawled into bed
without help.
But in pursuing a theory OF murder,
they said they found all windows un-
opened and most Of them covered with
dust, while the snow which fell over
the week end bore the tracks only OF
those who discovered the body in the
lonely farm house.
Along with the investigation au-
thorities learned that Ramme had Sc
cretly been wed 10 a woman known as
Anna Arnol6s. She procured a mar
Rage certificate from the room where
he was found. She and Ramme's
brother Otto found the body Wednes-
day night.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
RED CHARGES KAN
IN BEATING OF TWO
Dallas Business Men and Po-
lice Held Party to FIogging
of Organizers.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, March 14.-Paul
Cline, Communist party district organ
iser. today charged members of the Ku
Klux Khan with abducting and hogging
of Lewis Hurst and G; ]; Cooler, Com
muniSt organizers at Dallas, Tex, last
Thursday. He alleged the police had
connived with the mob
Cline said Hurst and Cooler had
reached Kansas City yesterday and
were under the care of q physician in
private homes here, recovering from a
beating administered by ia armed
Klansmen" who, he said, kidnapped them
as they were released from Jail.
s"Coder and Hurst state that the mo-
tive behind the attack was the hatred
of the KlanSmen aroused by the Com
muniSt speeches against -crowism,
lynehing of Negroes and race discrimi-
nation" Cline said.
Both men intend to return to Dallas
to continue their work, the organizer
declared, aS soon as they have fully
recovered.
Coder and Hurst had been jailed in
Dallas for organizing a street demon
stration and were beaten by fellow
prisoners when they made talks advo-
eating tIltermarriage Of Negroes and
whites and racial equality.
George Clifton Edwards, Dallas at
torney, obtained their release and re-
ported that he and his clients had been
kidnapped as they left the jail. Edwards
said they were taken into the country,
where he was released, unframed, after
being warned against again represent
ing the Communists.
In a statement issued in the name of
the Kansas district Of the International
Labor Defense, Cline said the two or
ganizers were taken miles from Dali
las, beaten with doubled ropes and left
at the roadside, their hands
tied behind them.
emo effort is being made by authori-
ties TO round up members OF the gang,
number of whom are well known
business men," the statement said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
BLAST IN FIRE WRECKS
BUILDINGS IN VIRGINIA
Stannardsville Shaken as 400
Pounds of Dynamite Explode
in Warehouse.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
STANNARDSVILLE, Va, March Il.
Several buildings were destroyed
others were seriously damaged, and
hardly structure in this little town
Of 400 inhabitants was left unmarried by
a fire and explosion occurring early to-
day.
The blaze originated from an I'M
known cause in the warehouse of @. l..
Bickers & Son. It destroyed that build
ing, two stores. the Christian Church
and colored Odd Fellows Hall, and
damaged the Methodist Church, county
Court House and clerks and treasurer's
office buildings
Four hundred pounds of dynamite
stored in the warehouse exploded, caus-
ing conclusion which knocked out
window panes as far away as 8 miles,
one man suffered cuts on the head
when hit by a piece Of timber.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
REBELS PLEAD BETRAYAL
IN REVOLUTION TRIALS
Spanish Officers Face Death Penal
ty and Long Sentences for
Part in Uprising.
~ the Assoclatsd Press.

~ tHe ASboCialSu EIebb.
JACA, Spain, March 14.-Death Tor
five and life imprisonment for sc OF the
army officers implicated in last Deem
ber's short.lived rebellion here was
asked yesterday as courtmartials OF ~
officers began.
Defendants who testified at this first
session said they had been betrayed by
the leaders of the revolt. They were
assured, they said, q republic had been
proclaimed at Madrid and the repub"
lican movement had succeeded in other
key cities. Otherwise they would not
have joined the rebellion.
Capt. Fermyn Galan and Capt. Car
cha Hernandez, who were shot for their
part In the uprising, were the real
leaders of the rebellion, the witnesses
said.
The court room audience today was
made up mostly of the defendants and
their families. The rainy streets were
quiet and townspeople unexcited
Among the townsfolk the opinion pre-
vailed that while some death sentences
and several long prison terms might be
pronounced, . government decree Of
clemency and communication probably
would diminish the punishments or
dered by the ceurtmartial Board,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
EGYPT0L0GIST DELIVERS
TALK AT G. w. u. HALL
Charge d'Affaires and Wife Hear
DR.. George S. Duncan's illus
trated Address.

1.-THE Egyptian Pyramids and Their
Inscrtptionsd was the subject Of an II"
Illustrated lecture given last night IN
Coreoran Hall, the George Washington
University, by Dr.. George s. Duncan,
brofessor Of Egyptology at American
University. DR.. Duncan spoke under
the auspices Of the Art and Archaeol"
ogy League. :,
Egypt is the mother Of civilization"
the speaker said, tracing the develop
nnent Of that country, when other coun-
trjes were gtill IN the barbarism Of the
stone age. The speaker also discussed
modern Egypt, and paid high tribute
To the present King. Faud ]. The
charge d'afTaires Of Egypt and Nine.
Aly Ismall Bey were present, IS well as
members Of the legation. DR.. Duncan
was introduced by Lieut.. Comdr. Lewis
=. Clephsne.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
LANDSLIDE IN FRANCE
CAUSES EVACUATION
Hamlet Buried-Highway Blocked
and Two Die-Homes in Peril
Are Abandoned.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
cHAMBERY, France, March A.
Residents continued to flee from their
homes tonight as landslide, which was
started by heavy rains and snow, con-
tnued to descend and buried a farm at
the hamlet Of Oranges. The hamlet of
Requins and part of Motteenbeauges
have been evacuated.
Three hundred workmen were work.
proach Of the slide, which had moved
several hundred feet an hour. Two VII
lagos already have fallen before it.
1t was learned from Moutiers, also in
Savoy, that a block of stone became
detached from the mountain at st.
Marcel and fell on a house in the
valley, killing two inhabitants. The
highway was again DISTRACTED between
Anne and Bourg st. Maurice.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
MISSING DRIVER HUNTED

HANOVER, Va, March IA DR.
Search for j. T. Simmons Of Richmond,
missing since last Tuesday night after
the wreck of his automobile near here,
was extended today into King william
County territory after three days of
dragging Duggan's Lake had failed in
the discovery Of body.
Cooperation of Richmond police was
sought today by Commemorative At
torney Andrew J. Ellis Of Hanover
County.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

support we can. It's a big Job with an
institution of the greatest magnitude.
IF the head Of q great private in
dustry did not get more support than
the President has had in the past, his
business would be a failure.
Mr.. Hoover Is doing the best he can
to make the Government an administra-
tive force. He has been highly success
full so far.
Industry has not done It's part, but
the natural trend eventually will COM
pei participation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

sistance of play
wrights Vincent
Lawrence nd
Max M ar c n
have concocted
as strange q bit
of newspaper
history as has
ever been un"
folded.
In the hrst
nainuts Of this
hlna, Q reporter
is seen climbing
in q window and
robbing q moth
er Of the pic
lures Of her boy.
who has Just
committed sui
eide. In the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
TWO ARE FOUND GUILTY
IN DOCK STRIKE TROUBLE
Longshoreman Given Six Months
in Jail for Violation of Federal
Injunction.
BY the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS, La, March IA
jess Hutton, a colored dock striker, to-
day was found guilty Of violating the
Federal injunction protecting the port
in the longshoremen's strike. He was
sentenced to serve six months in Jail.
Hutton was charged with firing a
pistol into a group of dock workers
February 26 and firing at a patrolman.
William Coles. another colored striker,
was sentenced to serve so days In Jail
for shooting at workers.
Herbert Sylvester was found not
guilty OF assault in strike disturbance.
The cases grew out of violence on
the river front, where the strike has
been on for nearly three weeks, since
four steamship companies placed their
hourly wage scale below the union scale.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
Clergyman Dies.

BOSTON, March IA lP).--The Rev.
Thomss van Ness, prominent Unitarian
clergyman, died suddenly here today.
EIe was II. He had come here last
Wednesday from Baltimore, where he
had made his home with 3 daughter,
MS, carroll Merriam.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
LAWYER TO TESTIFY.
District Attorney Offers Expenses II
Men Return.

NACA ASEbAAhs
DALLAS, Tex, March IA R.-
George Clifton Edwards, attorney, kid
mapped last Thursday with his two
Communist clients, Lewis Hurst and
c. j. Coder, who were reported to have
been logged, today said he would
testify Monday before the grand jury
investigating the affair.
Edwards would not say whether he
could identity his abduetofs.
District Attorney William McCraw
said he would personally pay the ex-
penses Of the Communists If they
would return to testify before the grand
jury and would furnish them q guard
during their stay
Chief Of Police Trammell said he did
not believe any police ofileer was con-
neeted with the kidnapping, but IL It
developed any Of his men had a hand
in It they would be discharged and
prosecuted.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
YOUNGSTOWN CASHIER
KILLS HIMSELF IN BANK
Worry Over Health and Deaths Of
Brother and Mother Held Cause
of Shooting.
BY the Associated Press.

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, March IA
Worried over III health and the death
recently Of his brother and mother
Harry Williams, 81, cashier of the Com
mercial National Bank, shot and killed
himself late yesterday, bank oficiaIs
said.
Employees heard the shot, and Preston
Williams, son Of the cashier, rushed
to the directors room and found tn
body Of his father. A .3s-caliber re,
yolver was lying nearby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15

Automobile registrations in Egypt in
creased from 10, 300 to 1928 to 27,675 In
1880.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-15
From the Front Row
Reviews and News of Washinston's Theaters.

Scandal Sheet" and Jack Benny
Featured at the Palace.
IF there are any newspapers ex-
isting such as depicted In
Scandal Sheet" the new Aim
at the Palace, they must be out
Podunk, where the word gentle
man is unknown and babes are
taught to be villains from the ground
up. Messrs. Paramount, with the as
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Arriving late at the church for his
wedding, because his automobile had
crashed into a selling booth, q young
bridegroom in Liverpool England
found that his best man had been de-
layed for similar accident.