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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Mrs. E w. White announces the mar
riage of her daughter. Elinor Kathryn
to Mr. Ray Landon Hicks. son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. A. Hicks of Evington, Va,
which took place Saturday at Rockville,
the daughter of the late Capt Milton c.
White, U. S. A.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Mr.. End Mrs. Lewis Wood entertained
a small group at dinner at the Shore
ham Hotel last evening. Their guests
included Maj. John Gotwals, the new
Engineer Commissioner of the District,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Nine Paul Lessinoff and her house
guest, Miss Sara Farrar, will be joint
hostesses at dinner tonight at 2439 Bel
mont road The company will later
attend the Bachelors Cotillion, at the
Mayflower.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Mrs. John Thomas Taylor has Issued
cards for a luncheon Thursday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Lady Lister Kaye, who has been in
Washington at the Mayflower month,
has gone to New York, where she will
be at the Ambassador Hotel.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

the Shoreham Hotel Saturday evening,
when their guests included Mr.. and
Mrs. Louis Justement and DR.. and
Mrs. Graham Lamb.
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry H. Laughlin of
Concord, N. H., are at the Carlton for
several days, accompanied by their
daughter, Miss Ledlie Laughlin.
The annual dance and card party
sponsored by the Ways and Means Com
mittee of st. Johns Lodge, Chapter No.
10, Order of the Eastern Star, the Home
Chapter of the Worthy Grand Patron
Brother Theodore C. Lewis, will be held
February 26 at the Wardman Park Ho-
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Valentine Luncheon by
Church Group Tomorrow.


Valentine Luncheon by
Church Group Tomorrow.
Mrs. L. w. Richardson's group Of the
Delta Circle of st. Stephens and In
carnation Church will give a special
Valentine chicken luncheon tomorrow
from IL to 2 o'clock in the parish hall
meeting of the circle was held Thurs
day morning, when Mrs. Charles Ed
wards, who met with an accident sew
eral weeks ago, was able to be present
A night branch was organized, with
Mrs. H. o. Cutting as chairman.
Miss Helen B. Warner and Miss Clair
L. Keim, both of Tarrytown N. Y, are
at the Shoreham Hotel for q stay of
some weeks.
Miss Warner and Miss Keim enter
tanned small company at dinner at
the Shoreham Hotel Saturday evening,
when their guests included Miss Sibyl
Slageo and Miss Mary Wishard.
Miss Frances E. Noll will return to
Washington tomorrow after spending
the week end in Philadelphia with her
cousins, Miss Mary Reese and Miss Vir-
GINA KEGS.
Mr.. and Mrs Fred Louis Volland,
who left last month to spend the Win
ter in Florida, have taken an apart
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Mrs. Walter r. Tuckerman was among
those entertaining at luncheon today
at ,rsha National Woman's Country
Club, when she had with her Maj. Gen
and Mrs. John LOOMS Chamberlain,
Brig. GIN. and Mrs. Dion Williams, the
counselor of the Czechoslovak lega-
ton and Nine. Skalicky, the third Sec
rotary of the japanese Embassy and
Nine Maxi, Nine. Heilmann, Mrs.
Clarence Cary and her sister, Miss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09
SOCIETY
Luncheon at Polish Embassy Today
Honors Polish Musician Here
for Concert Program.

Court. Mr.. Charles Evans Hughes, will
deliver the principal address of the eve
ming. The other speakers will be the
Hon. Hugh Guthrie, X. c., minister OF
justice and attorney general Of Canada
The Attorney General, Mr.. William De
Witt Mitchell, will be POSTMASTER and
the Marine Band will furnish the music
A reception for the distinguished
guests, including members of the cab
met Senate, House and judiciary, will
be held at O'Clock in the Chinese
room preceding the dinner, which will
begin promptly at 8 o'clock.
The guests will include: The Chief
Justice and Mrs. Hughes, the Attorney
General and Mrs. Mitchell, the Secre-
tary of Interior and Mrs. Wilbur, Mr..
Charles A. Boston, president of the
American Bar Association; Senator
Porter H Dale, chairman of the Com
mittee on Civil Service; Senator Sam
uel M. Shortridge, Representative
George S. Graham, chairman on Jul
dietary, and Representative and Mrs.
Addison T. Smith. Mr.. and Mrs. Walter
H. Newton, Mr.. and Mrs. French
Strother, Mr. Frederick w. Dallinger,
Court of Appeals; Mr.. Justice and Mrs.
Robb, former Chief Justice of the Su-
preme Court of the District and Mrs.
Walter I. Coy, Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat and Mrs. Whe3t, former
president of the District Bar Associ-
aticn and Mrs. j. Miller Kenyon; Presi-
cent of the District Bar Association and
Mrs. George P. Hoover, the Hon. Hugh
Guthrie, K. c.. minister CT justice and
attorney general of Canada, and Mrs.
Guthrie; Mr.. Hume Wrong, charge
d'aTaires of Clnade, and Col. George
T. Weitzel, secretary of the Law Insti-
tute.
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Mr. and Mrs. Joseph v. Warning of
Brooklyn, N. Y, are spending a few
days in Washington and are stopping
at the Dodge Hotel
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

DR.. Joseph F. Edward returned yes
terday from Baltimore, where he spent
the week end attending the Radio
logical convention.
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ment and are established in st. Peters,
burg for the rest of the season.
Mrs. Volland Is visiting in Miami this
week to attend a three-day celebration
in honor of the home coming" of Mrs.
Jennie v. Gore. president of the Florida
Rebekah Assembly. Mrs. Volland is one
of large house party at Mrs. Cores.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

Mrs. Lewis L. Annis of the Valley
Vista Apartments will return to her
apartment the latter part of this week
from New York, where she is the guest
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Bruce j. Mansfield
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Alexander Singer
entertained small party at dinner at
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Mrs Edwin T. Meredith entertained
at dinner last evening at the May
flower in honor of the Vice President,
Mr. Curtis Her guests, in addition to
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Everett Gam,
were the Minister of Austria and Nine.
Prochn.k, the Minister of JugoSlavia,
DR.. Leonide Pitamic; the Minister OF
the Union Of South Africa, Mr.. Eric
Louw; Senator Arthur Capper, Senator
Thomas j. Walsh, Senator David /.
Walsh, Representative Ruth Bryan
Owen, Representative Edith Nourse
Rogers the Assistant Secretary of War
and Mrs. Frederick H. Payne, Mrs.
Claude A. Swanson, Miss Mary Patten,
Miss Josephine Patten, Judge John Bar
ton Payne, Mrs B. Frank Kaufman of
Des Moines, Mrs. James Carroll Frazer,
Mr.. and Mrs John Washington Davidge,
Mrs. Sydney A. Cloman, Maj. Gen. end
Mrs William D. Conner, Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter r. Tuckerman, Mr.. Ralph Snow
den Hill Mrs. Gavin, house guest of
Representative Owen; Mr. Witold Wan
kowicz of the Polish embassy and Col.
Wade Cooper.
Mrs. Kaufman, who has been Mrs
Meredith's guest for a few weeks, will
leave today for Ormond, Fla.
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a KME. FILIPOWICZ, wife of the
M Ambassador of Poland, enter
V tanned at luncheon today in
4 4 honor of Mr.. Emil Mlynarski
conductor of the Curtis Sym
phony Orchestra, and Mrs. Mlynarski
of Philadelphia. The other guests were
Mr.. and Mrs. Mieczryslaw Muntz, Miss
Grace Stofford, Miss Emily McCallip,
Mr.. March,ewski Polish consul general
in New York; the counselor of the Ger
man embassy and Frau Kiep, the first
secretary of the British embassy and
Mrs. Shone, the counselor Of the Brit
ish embassy. Mr.. Ronald Ian Campbell;
Mrs. Lawrence Townsend, the members
of the embassy staff and Miss zcsia
Szmidecka.
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and Mrs. Gotwals, and Mr.. and Mrs
Robert Armstrong.
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Federal Bar Association
Reception and Banquet.
The Federal Bar Association will hold
its eleventh annual reception and din
ner at the Mayfower Hotel Thursday
evening in commemoration of Abraham
Lincoln's birthday.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme
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Mrs John B. Henderson entertained
at luncheon yesterday, in her proposed
house, at 2437 Fifteenth street, which
she has offered to the Government as
a home for the Vice President, in honor
of Representative and Mrs. Leoni6as C.
Dyer of Missouri, the latter the newly
elected president of the Congressional
Club
Representative Ernest Gibson Of YER
mont and Dr. Paul Bartch of the
Smithsonian Institution were also pres
ent.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-09

French Ambassador and
Nine. ClaudeI in New York.
The Ambassador CT France and Nine.
.Claudel are at the Sherry Netherland
on Fifth avenue in New York and will
return tomorrow
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Mrs. Ella Herbert Micou will enter
tain at luncheon Thursday for the ladies
of the Navy Sponsors Association, who
will be in Washington for a meeting
this week.
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The commandant of the Army War
College and Mrs William d. Connor
will be the honor guests at dinner to-
night of Mrs. Karl D. KIenm.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
vEHL|NG'S AID
IS QU|ZzED BY
GRAND JURORS
Secretary Ordered to Bring
Records of AutopSieS
Before Probe Group.
BY DICK MILLER
BY DICK MILLER

Records of autopsies, inqueStS and
fee claims of Coroner Fred W..
Vehling today were taken to the
county grand jury room by a deputy
sheriff. on forthwith subpoena is
sued by the jurors.
Armed with writs, deputy Ralph
Hitch directed Miss Grace Sartor,
secretary to Vehling, to appear i'm
mediately before the quiz group with
The records.
Miss Sartor was before the grand
jury more than an hour after serv-
ice of the subpenas.
The ledgers obtained by the jul
rors today are additional to a
large amount of documentary evil
dence already presented in the |.
vestigation into alleged illegal &C
tivities by Vehling since he took
Office.
Check Death Cases
The jurors will survey Vehling's
records of eleven death cases, in
which, it is claimed, we're instances
of unwarranted autopsies, and for
which Vehling is reported to have
filed fee claims with county COM
miSsionerS.
The data now before the probe
group includes his requests to the
commissioners and county council
men for an additional appropriation
for performance of autopsieS.
Vehling exhausted his annual ap-
preparation of $4,000 for autopsies
several weeks ago and additional
funds have been refused by county
commissioners.
While the grand jury carried on
its quiz, deputy Sheriffs who were
paid witness fees by Vehling, in al
legged violation of the state law, de-
MED they had demanded the fees
from the coroner.
Admits Paying Fees
Vehling has admitted paying
the deputies for their testimony,
but said he was bound legally to
pay witness fees on demand.
Several deputies claimed they did
not ask Vehling for the money, but
few days after they gave their
testimony, Vehling brought them
checks for the fee.
According to state law, employees
of a governmental unit are liable
to prosecution when they receive re-
Enumeration from more than one
source.
According to records in the Office
of Harry Dunn, county auditor,
eleven deputies collected $21 in fees.
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united freSS stan Correspondent
CHICAGO, Dec. 3.-The doom of
ARusSell McWilliams, lanky
STRIPPING of II, was made virtually
certain today when his attorney said
he would take no further legal steps
to save the youth from the electric
chair.
Friday, Dec. II, a week from to-
morrow, is the time set for the exc
cution.
The crime was murder, under the
sentence pronounced by Circuit
Judge Arthur E. Fisher.
RusSell-no one calls him any
thing but his first name at Rock
ford, Ill, where he lived-will be the
youngest slayer ever to be put to
death in Illinois.
Governor Louis l.. EmmerSon
denied executive clemency WedneS-
day in face of pleas of Clarence
Darrow, famous Chicago attorney;
Julia Lathrop, former head of the
Child Welfare Bureau of America,
and Miss Jessie Binford, executive
of the Chicago Juvenile Protective
Association.
Russell, chatting in his comfort
able cell at the penitentiary, said
Turn to Page 49,
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03

City" quarter back, the star of
his team, a future All-American.
Joe couldn't make the team.
His interest in his studies
waned.
Joseph's parents thought it
would tide over" Things like
that generally do. They didn't
know, though, that the blood of
an All-American coursed through
little Joe's veins.
Il
TUESDAY night his father, a
L letter carrier, found the body
of his son in his room, shotgun
nearby. The stricken parents
blamed the tragedy on an acct
dental discharge of the gun.
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Steals to Save Home

BU OHttCu TfeSS
WEST NEW BRIGHTON, S. L,
Dec. 3.-The pastor and neighbors
of young $30-a-week government
clerk, who stole a $4,000 gold brick
ITO save his own home" today
criticised his employer while the ma
tons chief executive led a cam
paign to make homecoming less of
a financial burden.
Charles A. Muche worked in the
United States assay office ten years
within reach of fortune, and final
ly was tempted to reach for it. He
faces the prison term usually i'm
posed on those convicted of dis
honesty.
"A government that trusts a man
with fortunes in gold and pays him
a wage barely enough to give his
loved ones a comfortable living need
not be astonished or angered when
that man in moment of stress
yields to temptation" Muche's pas
tor, the Rev. c.. G. Cain of the
Methodist Episcopal church, said.
Muche told his story, his red
eyed wife at his side, his children
playing about the floor.
See this house? My wife and
started paying for it eight years
ago. We've sacrificed, half starved
sometimes. Do you know why 1
took that gold brick? So we would
not lose our home after all these
years and after all we put into it.
Il was going to lunch, and passed
the weighing room. There was a
truck loaded with half a million in
gold. Before knew it, one of those
bricks was in my pocket. Twenty
minutes later, I'd have given my life
if l could have returned it," Muche
said.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
CHALLENGE ELECTION
Senate Committee Reports
on Alabama Case.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Chair-
man Hastings of the senate privi-
leges and elections subcommittee
presented today in the presence of
Senator John H. Bankhead and
former Senator j. Thomas Helm a
report which challenged the legal
ity of the Alabama senatorial cleo
ton in 1880.
Absence of Senator Sam G. Brat
ton (Dem., N. M prevented COM
mittee action on the report today.
The committee will meet at 1870
p. m. Friday.
Regardless of whom he voted
for" Bankhead said today, mo
fair-minded man will charge fraud
in that election. The election laws
CT Alabama are so complicated that
I doubt if three supreme court
judges sitting as poll Officers could
comply with all of them"
Helm issued a statement reiter-
ating his charges that Bankhead'S
nomination was illegal.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
MOTHER WINS BABY
Awarded Custody of Child
She Surrendered

A young mother won a court fight
today to regain custody of a baby
she surrendered" nearly year ago,
because she was without work.
The mother, Mrs. Flora Badgley
of indianapolis, appealed to Juvenile
Judge John F. Geckler to force
friends to release the baby to her.
She told Geckler that her hus-
band died shortly after the baby
was born, and that she gave the
child to Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Saltz,
"a Eastern avenue. They gave the
child to Mr.. and Mrs. Otto May of
Anderson, from whom Mrs. Badgley
sought to retain custody.
Mr.. and Mrs. May resisted efforts
of the mother, and we're represented
in court today by Madison county
authorities who argued that the
mother legally could not recover the
child in Marion county.
Judge Geckler overruled the argu-
ment, however, and awarded the
child to its mother.
He ordered the baby held at the
ChilS~en's Guardian home until the
mother obtains work.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03

And he was one of the brightest
students in the Longlois grade
school-always a leader in his
classes.
TIE wanted to be a quarter
Il Il back. He studied every angle
of the game. He knew every one
of Purdue's plays, knew the Notre
Dame system, knew every Purdue
player on sight. Football did
mean more to Joseph than life
itself.
Early this fall, Joseph turned
out for the Longlois team. He
had set his heart upon winning
a FIRST string" berth. Joseph
could picture himself as the "All-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03

of The Indianapolis Times is back
again for 1881, in an effort to give
every needy school child between
the ages of and II one outfit
that viii withstand the attacks of
sleet, snow and rain.
But today, the fourth of the
Clothe A Child movement,
brought the cheeriest back again"
in The Times Office.
A young mustached fellow ap-
preached the Clothe-A-Child edi-
tor with, Back again"
yeah, I'm back again. I was
one Of the 1880 Clothe-A-Child
donors. I .Tant to repeat. Say,
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possible to supply the needs Of the
city's INDECENT and their children.
Eight investigators for the In
dianapols public schools social
service department spent twelve
month helping to keep the city's
school children clothed.
But their work and the work
of the Community fund agencies
must stretch over the year. They
can not hope to break down the
wall of need in its entirety. They
can not hope at Christmas time
to make yearly funds work over
time.
And so the Clothe-A-Child CIV
ers, those whoSoledge to dress one
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03

do you know the kick I got out
of it?"
We yentured to assure him we
could guess.
=
VEAH, but you only know part
Il of it. Say, that little girl we
clothed We took to our home. We
les her battle in our porcelain tub
and, do you know. you couldn't
get her out of that bathtubl 1t
was the first tub bath she'd had
in her life and she was 10 years
old. Give me another like her"
And what is true in the back
again" chat of the young mus
tached fellow will he true in the
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
'RUNOUT'
IN DRY AGENT
GUNPLAY CASE
SIeuth Fails to Appear in
Court; Issue Warrant
for RearreSt.

Federal authorities are not trying
to run out from under" charges
against Patrick A. Currie, federal
dry agent, that he was drunk and
disorderly when he shot up a barbe-
cue on the Rockville road, Charles
P. Britt, deputy prohibition admin
istrator, said today.
Currie now is subject to rearrest
by indianapolis police, because he
failed to appear in municipal court
in answer to charges Wednesday
afternoon. Warrant for his arrest
was issued this morning.
The shooting occurred at the
Happy Hour barbecue, near the
county line, Oct Is, when Currie,
after testing bootleggerS' wares in
Hendricks and Putnam counties for
several hours, participated in an
argument with an employe of the
barbecue.
American Legion members gath
cred in the barbecue witnessed the
argument and subsequent shooting.
Denies Notice Received
Neither Currie nor any one else
in this office received notice that
the trial was to be held Wednes-
day." Britt stated. 1--WE are not
trying to run out from under the
charges. Currie is out of the city
and will be back in day or two.
when they want him down there
he'll be there
At police headquarters officers
said Currie will be brought before
the court Immediately after his re-
arrest.
Despite evidence laid before the
deputy Sheriffs in the case, which is
known to federal officials, no steps
have been taken either to suspend
or discharge Currie from duty.
Charged With Gunplay
According to deputies who in
vestigated the shooting, Currie
started an argument with the bar
becue stand employe over a pur-
chase of gasoline.
Members of the Legion jnter-
coded for the employee, and Currie
is alleged to have fired his revolver
during the ensuing Scufae.
Evidence also has been obtained
that Currie, after arrival of deputy
sheriffS, ransacked the barbecue in
search of liquor. He did not find
any. however.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
HOOvER'S AIM
IS nation OF
HOME OWNERS
President Voices Stirring
Plea to Aid Families of
Small Means.
OFFER FINANCING PLAN
Initial Resources of 20 to rs
Per Cent Called Safe
Risk.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-DeIegates
from all over the country started
serious work today in an effort to
figure out a practical financing pro-
gram by which every person in the
United States who wants to can
own his own home.
The delegates - group of
financial and building experts-set
to work under the inspiration of an
unusually eloquent, and at times
distinctly emotional, address de-
livered by President Hoover at the
opening Of the conference Wednes-
day night.
The President told the gathering
OF delegates and others who packed
Constitution hall that he wanted
them to do something practical to
permit every American who so de-
sires to build and own a home.
Housing Is Vital Problem
Next to food and clothing" he
said, the housing of nation is
the most vital social and economic
problem. We have, in very credit
able manner, solved every other seq
ment Of our credit structure more
effectively than We have solved this
one"
The President spent two months
thinking over his speech and pre-
pairing for its delivery to that audi
ence. Home ownership, he has re-
iterated time and again, is one of
the things closest to his heart.
The conference he addressed is
known as "the Presidents confer
ence on home building and home
ownership" 1t was his own idea
and he pleaded that something prac-
teal come out of it.
The President referred to his
home financing plan, made public
recently, to establish twelve banks
in various sections of the country
to ease credit, enable home owners
to meet their obligation, and others
to take on such obligations.
Called Good Risk
Our cnleI problem IN finances,
he said, relates to those who have
an earnest desire for a home, but
whose initial resources run to only
20 or Is per cent. Such people are
a good risk. To find a way to meet
their need is one of the problems
you have to consider"
The conference is composed of
thirty separate committees on va
riouS special phases Of the home
owning problem. Most of the
groundwork has been completed in
the last six months, and the con-
ference is to hear and act on re-
ports expected to hold the germ of
a practical plan that will bring
home ownership within the reach
of every one except the extremely
poor.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-12-03
THREATENS SCANDAL
0uSted South Bend Official
ASSaiIS Mayor.
BIZ Times Snecinl

By Times Special
SOUTH BEND, Ind, Dec. s.
Rudolph Ackermann, ousted as city
controller by Mayor w. R. Hinkle
as the climax to bitter political war
fare in the city hall, sent a letter
to the city council today offering to
give the facts if impeachment pro-
ceedings are instituted against
Hinkle.
Ackermann's letter said in part:
Il stand ready to present to the
council written charges, according
to law, as a basis of investigation
and action, involving official miscon-
duct of Mayor Hinkle and A. M.
Long, member of the board of pub
lie safety