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Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19
LABOR ORGANIZATION
 MOb|L|ZES ID FIGHT
 PASSAGE SALES TAX

VANCOUVER, B. c. Oct. 19. (49 Mobilization of all labor organi- cations throughout the United States to fight against passage by Congress of a sales tax was ordered by the American Federation of Labor here before it adjourned.
 The Federation, in the midst of it's 51st annual convention, urged restoration of federal gift tax and increase of federal income and State inheritance taxes.
 A sales tax, Federation spokes- men declared, would benefit only two per cent of the people of the United States and saddle the bur den on the remaining 98 per cent.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

Such a happy dessert for all ap- petites - HORLUCK'S Danish Ice Cream. For sale at the Candy Cot tage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19
uI,LIuIu uuEII ILILllh!sU
 ID ASK FOR CASH BONUS

WASHINGTON, Oct. 19 (Ay-- De- spite President Hoovers Emphatic and repeated opposition to 9 cash Bonus, The Veteran of SFOre1gn Wars Saturday laid upon his desk a new demand for immediate pay ment in full
 The president received them with only a nasty glance at the 2,ooo word petition, embodying the Or ganization's complete legislative program, and then stepped outside his office and posted, smiling, for a photograph with the petition bearer.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19
FIRST SNOW

When Seward residents stirred from their SlulnberS this morning they were greeted by the first snow which has covered the ground of Seward this season. Snow began falling Sunday afternoon but was intermittent. During the night, however, it continued until about an inch of the crystal flakes cov- cred everything in mantel of white.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19
SAIL FOR LONDON

ABINGDON, India, Oct, 19, (P1- Nineteen Burmese sailed for Lon- don to sit in the Round Table Conference in November which will decide whether Burma is to be an independent state or an autanomous pAovince within a federation of Indian States.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

William Struve, proprietor of the Struve Apartments, has completed the installation of the latest in heating conveniences. He has in stalled an Iron Fireman" which is run by electricity and automati- cally places coal on the fire and regulates the heat. This does away with the shoveling of coal by hand.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

There is no meeting of the Se- ward Chamber of Commerce to- morrow as the meeting day has been changed to Thursday.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

The coming Saturday is the time committee of the Seward Library is holding their Library Fund bake sale.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

TARTAN SERIES-The books you have always wanted to own-tW0 for the price of one, at the ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

DRUG STORE SPECIAL - One dozen bars Palmolive Soap for Sl.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

When company comes to your house phone for HORLUCK'S Dan- ish Ice Cream. We deliver. Candy Cottage.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

For that individual touch at your bridge parties, try the AL ASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

Now is the time to look over old packs and have new bottoms put on for winter.
 SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19

Something new ill toy blocks for the kiddies. ALASKA SHOP.
Seward daily gateway., 1931-10-19
AT THE HOTELS GILLILAND-ChriS Arnold.

Bill Sherman, of the Forest Sery- ice, was visitor in Seward Satur- day.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
TWO WOMEN AND MAN
OVERCOME BY GAS
Wife and Sister-in-Law of Restau-
rant Proprietor and Cook Re-
vived by Rescue Squad.

Two women and man were over
come by gas and 4-year-old boy and
his father narrowly escaped today,
when fumes from leaking pipe filled a
building at 62l z street
The father, Albert Feldman. manager
of a restaurant on the first floor of the
structure, was awakened by the smell Of
gas He aroused his wife, Mrs. Eva
Feldman, %; his sister in-law, Miss
Rose Gentleman, 81, and his son,
Stanley.
Miss Gentleman was the first to COL
lapse, falling unconscious in the restau-
rant. Mrs. Feldman collapsed a few
minutes later while shopping in a
nearby chain grocery.
While Feldman was telephoning the
washington Gas Light Co, Paul Mason,
a waiter summoned the fire rescue
squad. Both Mrs. Feldman and Miss
Gentleman were quickly revived.
Meanwhile, however, Thomas War
field, rs, colored, cook, had collapsed
in the kitchen. He, too, was quickly
revived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
MORE INDICTMENTS SEEN.
Senator Norris Not Surprised by Grand
Jury Action.

More indictments by the grand jury
investigation in Nebraska into the ac-
tivities of Republican leaders were pre-
dicted today by Senator Norris, Re-
publican, Nebraska, when informed of
the indictment Of Victor Seymour for
perjury.
Seymour was relieved as manager of
the Western branch of the Republican
senatorial campaign after inquiry by
the Senate Campaign Funds Committee
last Fall into the Nebraska Republican
senatorial fight.
1T was perfectly apparent from the
evidence" said Senator Norris, that
such an indictment would follow. 1t
won't be the last one either"
The Campaign Funds Committee pro-
duced evidence which led Chairman
Nye to contend that Seymour was in
strumental in getting George W. Norris,
a Broken Bow grocery clerk, to file for
the Republican nomination against Sen
ator George w. Norris.
Seymour had told the committee pre-
viously he had nothing whatever to do
with the grocer Norris.
Nye turned over his evidence to the
district attorney.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
MAN FOUND HANGING
BY CORD IN HIS STORE
John William Schaeffer, 60, Be-
lieved Dependent Over Deca.
dence of Business

Surrounded by the moldering stock OF
his wallpaper store at 1705 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, which his father started
in 1854, and which since has fallen on
Ill days, the body of John William
Schaeffer, So years old, was found
shortly after noon today hanging from
a cord which had been attached to a
stepladder.
Police said Schaeffer apparently
propped the stepladder against the wall
of his store, looped a cord over its top
and frightened the other end about his
neck by bending his knees He was
found by a brother, John Martin
Schaeffer when the latter came to the
store shortly after / o'clock today.
Without stopping to cut his brother
down, Schaeffer ran out to the inter-
section of Pennsylvania avenue and
seventeenth street, Summoning Of1cer
H. B. Miller, who had been on traffic
duty there Miller went to the shop and
cut down the body.
Schaeffer apparently had been dead
for some time, according to the ambu-
lance surgeon. The wall paper on the
shelves bore mute testimony that few
customers had called in past years.
While the dead man, John, and a third
brother, Ferdinand Schaeffer-had tried
to keep the business going, the press of
modern competition was too much for
them
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
THREE ARE SAVED
IN BURNING HOUSE
Mrs. Mary Allen, 70, and Two
Grandchildren Rescued
From Apartment

A 70-year-old grandmother with a
broken arm and two sick children were
rescued from fire which broke out in
third-story apartment at 3012I2 r
street about o'clock this afternoon.
The grandmother, Mrs. Mary Allen,
whose left arm was recently broken, was
caring for her two grandchildren, Mar
jorie, 8, and George, 6, who had been
i'll in bed from colds, but had just re-
covered sufficiently to sit up. The chill
dren's mother, Mrs. Ella fillmore, was
at work downtown.
The fire broke out in a bedroom OF
the apartment and smoke and flames
spread rapidly. A call for help and the
smell of smoke brought Mr.. and Mrs
Walter Chambers, who live in an apart
ment on the second floor. Mrs. Cham
bers rescued the two children, while
Mr.. Chambers guided the grandmother
down the back stairs through the smoke
and flames and with his own fire ex-
tinguiSher fought the blaze.
The fire soon got beyond control
however, and the fire department was
called. Two alarms brought several
pieces of apparatus. Part of the build
ing next door caught fire but the flames
were confined largely to the third floor
apartment which virtually was Quilted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
Jury PROBES PITTS
DEFENSE WRITINGS
Investigation of acquisitions
and Receipts Revealed in
DoddS' Commission.

The grand jury today began an in
veStigation of allegedly spurious writ
ings" introduced by the defense at the
recent trial of G. Bryan Pitts and two
other former officers of the F. H. Smith
Co. on conspiracy embezzlement
charges.
The writings in question are a mum
Der of acquisitions and receipts intro
duced in evidence at the trial by Pitts
in an effort to justify his taking of
various sums of money which the Gov
eminent contended was embezzled.
Pitts, former chairman of the Smith
Co. board Of directors, was found guilty
Of eonspiring with c. Albert Anadale
and John H. Edwards, jr., former off,
Gals. 10 destroy records and embezzle
$5,o00,oOO of the company's funds.
Revealed in Commission.
The nature of the inves. igation
started by the grand jury today was
revealed in the commission filed with
the court by Nugent DoddS, newly ap-
pointed Assistant Attorney General
This commission authorizes him to APP
pear before the grand jury to present
evidence gathered by the Government
In support OF their claim that the requi-
sitions and receipts were false and
fraudulent.
Certain of these papers, dealing with
money secured from the Smith company
on acquisitions of the Beverly Building
Corporation, we're identified at the trial
by Emory L. Coblentz Maryland State
Senator and president of the Central
Trust Co. of Frederick, Md. Coblentz
went before the grand jury this after
noon and told the jury how these docu-
mentS were prepared.
At the time of the trial he identified
his signature on these papers, and said
they were designed to permit Pitts to
draw on funds of the Beverly Building
Corporation held by the Smith company
Coblentz testified at the trial that at
the time the money was withdrawn he
was the principal owner and stock
holder of the corporation. Later, he
said, his holdings were transferred to
Pitts. A number of additional requisi-
tons and receipts we're introduced by
Pitts In an effort to justify the payment
to him OF large sums of money by the
Montclair Corporation. He said that
he was the sole owner of the stock of
this corporation.
Prepared Statements.
Both Anadale and Edwards testified
before the grand jury this morning.
Although the exact nature of their testi-
mony was not disclosed, it was under
stood they told the jury of the manner
in which certain phases of their defense
were prepared.
Edwards was before the grand jury
for approximately half an hour. Pros
ecuting officials would not disclose any
phase of his testimony, but it is known
that both he and Anadale have pre-
pared written statements on the ques-
ton OF the defense offered at the trial
Continued on Page 3. Column al
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
ATTORNEY OPPOSES
GRONER ON BENCH
c. B. Brewer Tells Senate
Subcommittee Charges
Heard Against Judge.

Protest against the confirmation of
Judge D. Laurence Groner of the East
ern District of Virginia, to serve on the
District Court of Appeals was filed with
Senate subcommittee today by Charles
B. Brewer, former attorney in the De-
partment of Justice, who based his COM
plant on information he said he had
received regarding the handling of a
trial IN which Judge Groner presided in
West Virginia in 1924.
Brewer was one of the principals in
the famous Bureau of Engraving &
Printing shake-up which several years
ago resulted in summary dismissal by
President Harding of the director and
his staff. Charges of Irregularities
were discredited by investigation and all
the ousted officials were offered their
old jobs back at the Bureau,
The case called to the attention OF
the subcommittee today was the So
called harness case" in which several
persons were tried on conspiracy
charges connected with the disposition
OF surplus war material. At the close
OF the trial Judge Groner directed a
verdict of acquittal
Names Other Informants.
hOSJ VI IIie IledTlIlS TeNOlNeQ dTOuIlO
the testimony of Mr. Brewer that he
had been told that during the progress
of the trial in West Virginia a Gov
eminent agent named Aaron Cohen
had witnessed "a strange nocturnal
visit to Judge Groner at 2:30
O'Clock am"
Mr.. Brewer told the subcommittee
his information was hearSay from
other persons who we're in West Vir-
GINA at the time, and he gave the
subcommittee names of four persons,
who, he said he understood, could give
further information.
One was Richard L. Merrick, an at
torney in the Woodward Building.
Senator Borah announced Mr.. Mer-
rick would be asked to appear before
the subcommittee this afternoon.
Quizzed by Senators.
According to Brewer, Mr.. Merrick
was one of the attorneys for the Gov
eminent in the case and had told
Brewer of the reported visit of some one
to Judge Groner about $3.50 o'clock one
morning.
Brewer was questioned at length by
Senator Borah of Idaho and Blaine Of
Wisconsin, as to what he knew about
the reported nocturnal visit.
Il know nothing about it myself but
know Mr.. Merrick told me about it,
said Brewer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
J SEYMOUR INDICTED
WITH GROCER FOE
OF SENATOR NORRIS
Perjury Charged to G. 0. P.
Aide and WouId-Be Ne
braSka Candidate.
ACTION RESULTS FROM
NYE PROBE TESTIMONY
Others Expected to Be Accused for
Part in Move to Beat
Incumbent.
BY the Associated Press

ny the Associated Press
LINCOLN, Nebr, January 23.-Victor
Seymour former manager of the West
ern headquarters of the Republican Ma
tional Senatorial Campaign Committee
at Denver, today was charged with per-
jury in an indictment returned here by
. Federal grand jury.
George w. Norris, Broken Bow, Ne
braska, grocer, who attempted to oppose
United States Senator George w. Norris
in the Republican primary in his race
for reelection last year, also was in
dicted on a perjury charge.
The indictments resulted from testi-
mony given by the two men before the
United States Senate Campaign Fund
Investigating Committee here last Fall.
Indicted on Eight Counts.
The indictment against Seymour con-
tanned eight counts and that against
Grocer Norris two. Seymour told the
committee headed by Senator Gerald P
Nye last Summer that he had not taken
an active interest in the Nebraska
senatorial campaign and that he had
no knowledge of the grocer's filing as
primary campaign opponent of Sena-
tor Norris until story appeared in
newspapers.
Later the committee was told by Miss
Esther Marie Alton, who formerly was
employed in Seymour'S Lincoln Office,
that he had conducted a straw vote"
In Nebraska to ascertain the most popu-
lar man to oppose the senior Nebraska
Senator in his campaign for reelection
In the Republican primary and that
political statement released by Grocer
Norris at the time of his filing as a
candidate for the senatorial nomination
was typed in Seymour's Office.
Financing of Race.
w. NJ. Stubs, who at that time was
State treasurer and who also was a
candidate for the Republican senatorial
nomination, lat.r told Chairman Nye
that he financed the filing of the grocer
and gave Seymour $500 bond to give
the grocer.
The grocer told the committee that
he received the bond. his shling as
candidate was ruled illegal by the State
Supreme Court because of its belated
arrival
After Miss Alton had told the COM
mittee of the activities of Mr.. Seymour,
he resigned his position in Denver and
returned to Lincoln.
Later Walter W. Head, Chicago and
Omaha banker, told the committee he
paid Seymour $4,000 for taking the
straw vote" poll of the State
Robert Van Pelt. assistant United
States district attorney, said attorneys
for Seymour and the grocer had an
nounced their clients would come to the
Federal building soon. Grocer Norris,
Federal authorities said, was in
Oklahoma.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
FLAMES IN HOMES
KILL -FOUR CHILDREN
Three Victims Die Near Ha-
gerStoWn-Mother and Child
at Fredericksburg.
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch to The Star
HAGERSTOWN. Md, January 23.-
Three children were dead here today,
the victims of fires which destroyed two
homes in nearby towns.
Two of the children, Martha, 10, and
Richard, 10, daughter and son of Mr..
and Mrs. Roy Breckbill, were burned
to death in the bed room of their home
in Mount Alto, Pa about eight miles
from here, shortly after midnight.
Mother Also Burned.
Mrs. Breckbill, and another child,
aged 2, were seriously burned.
The family lived on the second floor
OF frame apartment house. Mrs.
Breckbill, alone in the apartment with
the children, was aroused by smoke
Invest eating she found the kitchen
af1ame. Accusing the older children
and grabbing the baby in her arms the
mother started for safety.
John Sprow, who with his wife and
two children occupied the lower apart
ment, was awakened by the movements
of Mrs. Breckbill, and after rushing
his own family out of the building, ran
up a back porch and rescued Mrs.
Breckbill and the baby. The origin of
the fire was undetermined.
Dies IN Hospital.
The other fire victim was Verna Myers,
z years old, who died in local hospital
yesterday from burns received when the
home of her parents, near Middleburg,
was destroyed by fire Monday morning
Her father who carried her and an
other child through the flames, when
trapped in the building, was still
in the hospital, but is expected to re-
cover.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
Presidents Opposition Only
to WiCkerSham Plan for
Congress Control.
SIMILAR IN EFFECT
TO REPEAL, is VIEW
Dry interpretations Cause Alarm
That Vets Turn From
Party.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Apparently alarmed over the reac-
ton of many wet Republicans to the
dry Interpretation placed upon Presi-
dent Hoover's letter transmitting the
Wickersham report to Congress, some
Of the Presidents friends and advisers
are busy spreading the report that
President Hoover has IAN open mind"
regarding revision of the eighteenth
amendment.
These advisers of the President insist
that Mr.. Hoover has turned his back
merely on the revision plan suggested
In the Wlckersham report. which would
give Congress power to regulate or to
prohibit, as it sees fit, the manufacture
and traffic in alcoholic beverages.
Might Take Stand.
They do not go so far as to say that
President Hoover is for revision; they
merely declare that he has not closed
his mind and that he might at some
future time be for revision.
The effort is to keep the prohibition
issue out of the next political campaign
to the extent that it will not hopelessly
y.
President Hoover Is being urged today
to clarity his position on this matter
and at the same time is being strongly
advised to say nothing further about it.
In some quarters it was suggested that
the President would speak out, perhaps
today. BY others this was firmly denied
One suggestion advanced today was
that in the 1882 campaign the line of
demarkation between the Republicans
-
between outright repeal of the eign-
tenth amendment and revision of that
amendment. 1t was held that the
Democrats would take the repeal end of
this argument and the Republicans
would stand for revision.
Effect Of Repeal.
In the final analysis, revision means
repeal Of existing prohibition, if the re-
vision legalizes in any way the manu-
facture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
II the Republicans as suggested come
out for revision, then the drys who be-
lieve in national prohibition must make
up their minds whether they will sup
port the Republican candidate or Will
back q third party candidate who
stands for national prohibition.
Following up the recommendations of
the Wickersham Commission, Senator
copeland OF new YORK, wet Democrat,
introduced an amendment to the Vol
stead and Willis-Campbell acts today
doing away with the statutory fixing
of the amount of medicinal liquor and
the number of prescriptions which may
be written by physicians. 1t proposes
also to do away with the requirement
which compels physicians to specify the
ailment for which liquor is prescribed.
Three Courses to Follow.
In dealing with national prohibition,
it was commended today at the Capitol,
there are only three courses which may
be followed. The first is repeal of the
eighteenth amendment and return of
the control of the liquor traff1c to the
States. The second is revision of the
eighteenth amendment, which would
place the regulation of liquor traffic in
the hands Of Congress. The third is
Continued on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-23
.ARNSTE|N SOUGHT
|. IN S5O,O(O SW|NDLE
Suspected of Being Author of
Plot Causing Woman OFF,
CiaI'S Faro Loss.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, January 23.-The police
investigation of the swindle in which
Mrs. Myrtle Tanner Blacklidge, Fed
eral revenue official, said she lost
$4,000 loaned her by Edward r. Lit
singer, wealthy member of the Cook
County Board of Review, was concen-
trated today on an effort to find
Jules ''Nicky'' Arnstein, New York con-
fidence man, suspected of having been
the author Of the plot.
Both police and Federal agents were
seeking Arnstein as one of the three
men who vanished with the $50 900
which Litsinger lent to Mrs Black
iidge, collector of internal revenue for
Northern Illinois, and which she said
she lost in faro game with the trio in
a Springfield, Ill, hotel.
Man ResembIed Arnstein.
Reports were circulated that suspicion
was first directed against ArnStein by
Federal agents when they learned that
he had been seen in Chicago's Loop
district last Monday, and that his de-
scription tailed in some respects with
Springfield police by Mrs. Blacklidge
before her return last night to Chi
cago She said she lost paper win
nings of $207 900 as well as the $50, 900
cash.
One of the men, who said his name
was George Parker, was found to re-
semble Arnstein, although there we're
discrepancies as to weight and age.
While Litsinger persisted in his
statement that he would prosecute
every one involved in the affair. the
States attorney at Springfield, H. E.
Fullenwider, said his Office would drop
the matter. Litsinger said he knew
nothing of the faro game, but had lent
Mrs. Blacklidge the money to help her
obtain $4,000 which she claimed was
due her from acquaintance of her late
husband.
Her Version Given.
Mrs Blacklidge, however, maintained
that Litsinger knew he was lending her
the money to make good a check she
used SO she could collect previous win
ningS.
Meanwhile, A. p. Madden, chief of
the intelligence agents of the Inter-
nal Revenue Department, spent some
time in Mrs Blacklidge'S Office, and it
was reported that his examination OF
the accounts disclosed no Irregular
ties
Northern Illinois police were certain
that Joseph We'll, confidence man,
known as the yellow Kid" had moth
ing to do with the swindle.
In the Rockford Jail accused of a
confidence game, the kid" commented
on the report of the faro game at
Springfield:
MY goodness" he said, that game
is as old as the Egyptians"
Had Been Workers.
Mrs. Myrtle Blacklidge and Litsinger
have been co-workers in politics for
many years. They belonged to the
organization of Senator Charles S.
Deneen.
Mrs. Blacklidge, daughter of the late
Gov. Tanner of Illinois, organized
groups of woman voters for Deneen and
had charge of woman activities in
several important campaigns. Two
years ago the organization backed her
candidacy for the Republican nomina-
ton for the County Board.
Litsinger, serving his third term on
the County Board of Review, has twice
sought his partys nomination for
mayor. He has directorships and other
interests in a dozen corporations and
banks.