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The Washington times., 1931-03-19
SLAYER GIVES
ACCOUNT Of
|. STRANGL|NG
WOMAN, 70
Confession of D. c. Crime Is
Made in Los Angeles; Had
No Motive, Man Declares

FingerprintS found on Miss
Kinks glasses correspond with
those of George Pierce Tucker,
who confessed the murder to
Los Angeles police, it was made
known today by police here.
Washington investigators will go
to Los Angeles to check the story
of a man who has just confessed
to the murder, in 1926, of Miss
Emma Kirk, 70, in her umbrella
repair shop at 819 R st. N. w.
The man, who told police that
he is George Pierce Tucker, stum-
bled into the arms of a Los An
geles policeman yesterday, mutter.
ing:
I'm a murderer, a cold
bIOOded murderer. 1 chOked q
helpless woman"
He Tells Of Murder
Taken to police station,
Tucker, who says he also Is
known as Harry Jones, told po-
lice that he committed the MUIR
der which has baffled Washing
ton police for five years.
At first the Los Angeles au-
thorities we're inclined to discredit
the story but they took new in
terest in the case when they
learned Of the murder of Miss
Kirk.
Miss Kirk was found, with her
hands and feet bound, on the
floor of her shop. Fingerprints
were found on her throat indi-
eating the manner of death. Fin
gerprints also were found on the
lenses Of her glasses, which lay
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Royal Filler Pays
Visit to WGshinOtOn

Washington today is entertain
ing q royal flier, Prince Jean
Chica, Rumanian air minister and
daring pilot.
Prince Chica landed his small
red plane at Washington airport
late yesterday after flying from
California, despite stormy weather.
After staying at the Rumanian
embassy for a few days, he will
fly to New York, ship his plane
to Europe and in q few months
make an attempt to set a new
distance record.
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Prince indifferent
POLa'S Divorce Plea

PARIS, March 10 G.N.SO.-De-
cision was reserved today in the
suit for divorce brought by Pola
Negri, film star, against Prince
Serge Mdivani.
Neither Miss Negri nor the
prince was present when the case
was called. The film actress law
yer pleaded indifference" on the
part of the prince, citing Pola's
willingness to abandon the action
and resume marital relations, but
charging Mdivani refused to do so.
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HELD
FOR MURDER

LONDON. March 10 GN.S).-
The murderers of Mrs. Vera
White, of Battle Ground, Wash,
and Mrs. Victoria Miller, of
Spokane, Wash, women mission
aries slain at Yunan-Fu, China,
have been captured, it was stated
in dispatches to the evening news
papers here today.
Both women were attached to
the Seventh Day AdventiSts' mis-
sion. They were murdered with
hatchet blows.
The SlayerS were reported to
have been servants recently dis.
charged on suspicion of theft.
Announcement of the capture
by provincial troops was made by
the nationalist government at
Marking.
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j. s. FL|ER LOST
IN JUNGLE

COLON, Panama, March 10
GN.SO Two hundred Army and
Navy planes secured the jungles
of Panama today in search of a
missing naval airplane piloted by
Chief Aviation Pilot Berne War
rem HarShman.
Harshman took off from the
U. S. S. Langley Tuesday. Ad-
miral j. c. Chase suspended fleet
maneuvers during the search.
1t was feared Harshman had
crashed somewhere in the dense
jungleS.
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CHICAGO UNION
AGENT SLAIN

CHICAGO, March 19 Q.N.SO .
William j. Rooney, business agent
for the Sheet Metal Workers
Union, who has been a storm
center in labor dispute for many
years, was waylaid by assaSsins
and slain today as he left his
home.
The killers drove alongside
Rooney in an automobile. There
was q roar of shOtgunS, and
they sped away, leaving him
sprawled on the sidewalk.
Woman Sees Shooting
A woman living in the neigh
borhood was walking 10 feet be-
hind the union agent when he
was killed. She was taken to
the bureau of Identification in
the hope that she might name
the assassins from their photo
graphs.
An instant before the shooting,
Rooney perceived the murderers.
He made a vain attempt to
escape.
There were either three or four
men in the automobile, the woman
witness told police.
Acquitted of Murder
In 1917 Rooney was tried for
the murder Of Joseph COOney, a
candidate for the presidency of
the Sheet Metal Workers Union.
He was acquitted. The State al,
legged the jury had been fixed"
Rooney's wife was visiting in
Antioch, Ill, today. She was un-
able to give any explanation for
the Staying. Rooney had a son,
8, and two daughters, l3 and 10.
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WoundedMoto1r11an GiUes
Chase to Bandit Pair

James H. Lane, 42-year-old mo-
torman is in a critical condition
from the effects of a bandits
bullet which he received in fruS-
trating an attempted hold-up by
two youths at Nichols Avenue
and Trenton Place, Southeast, late
last night.
A blood TRANSMISSION was given
the wounded man early today at
Casualty Hospital.
The young men boarded Mr..
Lanes car, held him up at the
point of a pistol, and, when he
refused to submit, shot him
through the abdomen.
The wounded man tried to give
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Naval Pact Experts
Begin Drafting Job

LONDON, March 10 Q.N.S)-
A committee of experts represent
ing Great Britain, France and
Italy met at the Foreign office
today to draft the form of the
naval agreement between the
three nations.
The proceedings, of a highly
technical nature, are expected to
last for several days.
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128 MAROONED
SUCCORED BY:
FOOD-SH|P
Imogene, Sealing Vessel, Is
Victorious in Battle With
Ice FIOe; Injured Are Aided

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland,
March 19.-The seal ship Imo-
gene, bearing food and supplies,
reached Horse Island shortly be-
fore noon today, raising the seige
laid down by winter conditions
which threatened the 1913 Viking
survivors marooned on the island.
The wireless operator aboard
the Imogene wirelessed shortly
before noon today that his ship
had successfully run the gauntlet
of the ice jam with doctors, medi-
cal supplies and food.
First Real Meal
The ImOgene was run in rs
near to the shore as possible and
the survivors of the wrecked Vik.
ing treked out over to the ice to
the ship for the first real meal
they had had since their ship was
blown to bits by a gunpOwder ex.
pl0siOn Sunday night.
After being fed and having
their injuries treated, they were
being sent to the Canadian gov.
ernment steamer Sagona, which
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LOnglUOrth Estate
Sold to J. d. RYGn

Speaker Nicholas Longworth
has sold his estate in the Boston
North Shore district because taxes
were too heavy He finds it
more convenient to spend his
summers in Cincinnati, he said
today.
The five-acre estate. which has
been in the hands of the Long
worth family since 1892, was
taken over by John D. Ryan. son
Of the late Thomas Fortune Ryan.
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chase to the bandits, but col
lapsed in the street. The only
passenger on the car, Lena But
ler, colored, 2341 Pomeroy Rd.
S. E., called the police.
Given First Aid
Carl F. Catlin, 29O7 Naylor Rd.
S. E., placed Mr.. Lane in his auto
mobile and took him to st. Eliza
beth's Hospital, where he was
given first aid.
They'll kill my wife, too"
This was the message that Mr..
Lane gasped out as they were
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$780, 900 Heart Balm Suit
Annoys He-n1an 'Lady"

When a process server at
tempted to thrust the papers"
on Jean, he was much annoyed
and in no dulcet tones told the
representative of the law to "beat
1T or he was likely to be slapped
down." And the process server
"beat it" after thruSting the
papers at Jean.
And hear what Mrs. Malin had
to say laughing right merrily:
"Ha, ha. And then q couple
more ha.has. It's all the bunk.
Louise certainly doesn't know
her Orange-blOSSOms. If she did
she would not be suing my
JEAN" u
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Americans to Sail
For SteeDLechaSe

NEW YORK, March 10 G.N.SO .
The Aquitania will sail tonight
with a crowd of American racing
enthusiasts who will witness the
Grand National Steeplechase near
Liverpool
Most of the Americans are
backing the Whitney horse, EaS-
ter Hero.
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Whipping Post Sentence
Brings Plea for Mercy

BALTIMORE, March 19.-Mrs.
John Kowalski today came to the
defense of her husband, sentenced
yesterday to 30 days in jail and
10 lasheS at the whipping post for
beating her.
At the same time a delegation,
headed by Martin KowalSki, 65-
year-old father Of the prisoner,
started for AnnaapliS to ask Gov
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HOOVER STARTS
s.. VOYAGE AMID
GUNS ROAR
Warship Arizona. off Early
For Cruise Of Caribbean;
Destroyer Acts as Escort

ABOARD THE U. S. S. ART-
IONA, March 10 ONS)-The
re-conditioned battleship Arizona,
bearing President Hoover and his
Caribbean vacation party, sailed
from Old Point Comfort this
morning for Porto Rico and the
Virgin Islands.
The presidential party, which
travelled from Washington to Old
Point by overnight train, boarded
the big gray battIeship in Hamp-
ton Roads soon after 9 o'clock
this morning, and the Arizona
soon thereafter stuck her nose
toward the sea.
Destroyer Is Escort
The destroyer Taylor accom-
panied gthe Arizona as escort
through Hampton Roads and into
the Atlantic. IN
The Chief Executive climbed
aboard the Arizona Is minutes
before the start. after arriving
from the White House IN the
early hours of the morning.
He was piped over The side in
true navy fashion, but the time
honored ceremony of "breaking
the Presidents flag at the main
was deferred until 8 o'clock, be-
cause of traditional Navy regula-
tionS.
Sharply at 8, the Arl' ona's
eobs lined the rails of the huge
battleship and Saluted as the
Presidential volley was fired from
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Sailors Injured
When SKips Crash

NEW YORK, March 10 U.N.SJ
Seven members of the crew of
the freighter Arminda were in
jured, one seriously, early today
when the Arminda collided with
the freighter Silver View in New
York harbor. The collision tore a
large hole in the bow Of the
Arminda.
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BOY, "A, IS SHOT
BY CHUN, Il

Charles Law, IA, of 217 Cock
eril Ave-, Takoma Park, is in the
Sibley Hospital suffering from a
wound in the groin inflicted by
his pad, Fred Hinkson, II, when
a pistol With which they had been
indulging in target practice acci-
dentally was discharged.
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BOMBS
To STOP
THEM
Stripped to Skin, Convicts
Searched, Yielding Knives,
Saws; Rumor of Dynamite

JOLIET, ILL.,, March 10 Q.N.SD.
Tear-gas bombs were rushed to
the WOmen'S State Prison to-
day at the request Of MatrOn
Bertha Finnegan,. who said a
growing spirit Of rebellion was
evident among the female con-
victs. No actual violence had
occurred, she said, but she
learned men prisoners were sig
Mailing the women from the cell
block, in an attempt to incite
. riot. ..
JOLIET, H., March 19 (1N.S)
The strictest surveillance that &C.
companies martial rule today
kept in check the enraged con,
victs who yesterday mutinied at
the "model'f penitentiary at
Statesville and burned seven new
buildings at an estimated loss of
$500 600.
One convict, Raymond Barney,
%, a negro, was dead and two
other prisoners suffered from bull
let wounds as a result Of the riot
Seven guards were being treated
for bruises. ;.
Search Every Cell
Determined that there will be
no repetition of the rebellion,
Warden Henry C. Hill asked some
of the four companies of National
Guardsmen, under command of
Brig. Gen. John j. Garrity, to
make systematic searcn of
every prisoner within the walls
of both the new and old peniten.
tiary.
Prisoners were stripped to the
skin in the quest for weapons,
The furniture and walls were
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VIENNA FIRE CARNIVAL

VIENNA, Va, March 19.-The
Vienna Volunteer Fire Depart
ment will hold an indoor carni
val at the Fire Hall tomorrow
night and Saturday night. Ar
rangements are being made by
L. l.. Freeman. president of the
company.
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ernor Ritchie to grant pardon.
He was accompanied by so neigh
bors.
At the trial Mrs. Kowalski tes-
titled that she had been beaten
with chair, broomstick and belt
and that as a result she had been
i'll three weeks. The Kowalski's
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C. S. HAS JAIL COOK JOB

Applications for the iob of as
sistant cook at the Federal prison
camp at Odenton, Md, will be
received until April 4, the Civil
Service Commission announced
today. The job pays $1,860 a
year. Applicants must have had
at least two years experience.
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J. A. LudLOW Held
On Perjury ChGrge

ALEX XANDRIA, March 10.
James A. Ludlow was held for
the grand jury today under
$1,000 bond on a charge of per.
jury preferred by Arthur WEIGH.
Welch charges Ludlow failed to
list a lien on truck sold by him
to Welch and signed the title
knowing there was lien on the
vehicle,
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NEW YORK, March 19.-"Oh,
fiddlestickS! Swish it away"

D"H0NH II dWdJ'
And thus did Jean Malin, the
big he man who cavortS, pirou-
cites and MARBLES as a female i'm
personator at the Club Argonaut,
today dismiss the 100000 heart
balm suit said to have been
started by Louise Fordham.
For Jean, when he is not wear
ing soft clinging silks of his pro
feSSion," donS pants and is the
head of his household-the other
half being the former Christine
Williams whom he married in
January Christine gave Jean a
Rolls Royce for a wedding
present.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25
BIG INTERESTS
Seen Backing ''Slave" To
baccO Importation

New York City (ILNS)-Here,
where big money flows through the
vaults and caverns of the worlds
financial capital, the suspicion grows
that it wasn't alone the alleged short
age of domestic tobacco that kept the
doors open for the importation of the
forced-labor Sumatra product in de-
fiance of the United States which bars
importation of forced-labor products
after January l.
The suspicion grows that it was the
financial might of the big machine
cigar factories, plus the might of the
makers of cigar-making machinery
plus the might of the importers, that
kept the doors open for the product
of slave labor that is compelled, un-
der force, to work for wages ranging
from 20 to "a cents a day, as COM
pared to 1924 to $5.75 for similar
work in the United States. Another
factor may have been the large vol
ume of Dutch capital invested in trust
factories in the United States.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25
Organized Labor's Bill to Modify
Volstead Act Before Congress-

The treasury ruling, after long
battle, was that domestic production
is not sufficient to meet requirements.
But back of that is the fact that the
cigar-making machines, the backbone
of the non-union cigar business, must
have Sumatra wrapper in order to
operate and turn out their low-priced
product.
1t was proven conclusively to the
tariff commission that there is ample
tobacco of domestic growth on hand
and in sight to supply the American
market for the next two and one-haif
years, but this testimony went by the
board in the most important test case
yet had under the new anti-forced-
labor provision of the tariff law.
Sumatra plantations are operating
now with coolie labor under compul-
sion at the old starvation wage" but
the Dutch colonial administration has
provided for the future by plan
which will gradually eliminate forced
labor. Thus, though the tariff law is
defeated in its purpose of protecting
American workers, it will bring ulti-
mate freedom to workers elsewhere,
precisely as did the seamen's act.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25
Sponsors Expect Measure to Win Early Victory
Bill Takes Beer Out of Intoxicating Liquor Class and
Legalizes Its Manufacture, Sale and Distribution

modification bill will be held at an
early date. Labor, it was announced
IS preparing to make an impressive
showing in these hearings, after
which it expects prompt report and
prompt action in both houses.
Bill Constructive Measure
1--WE are introducing sane, con.
structive, truly American measure, >
said Mr.. Woll and Mr. Ornburn. "Our
close contact with the masses of our
people indicates to us that this meas
ure interprets their active demand. It
is our belief that this measure, when
enacted into law, will not only pro-
duce enormous revenue, stimulate
employment and trade generally, but
will strike a death blow to racketeer-
ing and gangsterism. 1t will end the
farce that has disgraced the nation
It's moderation will commend it to the
overwhelming majority of our people
1t was an extreme measure that
brought our country to its present and
plight. We are seeking to avoid a
plunge to the other extreme, but we
are taking step that is we'll cal
culated to effect vast changes in our
social and economic life and to ac-
complish more toward a return to
social sanity and economic prosperity
than any other piece of legislation
now in prospect. If we can end the
reign of fanaticism we shall have per-
mitted the return of a normal psy-
chology which, added to the tremen-
dous economic benefits, will change
our national life completely and for
the better at once.
Victory This Winter Seen
"The day this bill is enacted wiz
we are firmly convinced, witness a
national celebration comparable to the
celebration of Armistice Day, when
the great war was ended. We call
upon all true friends of freedom and
particularly upon all wage earners, to
lend every possible measure of honor
able support to this bill. We declare
that it can be enacted into law this
winter"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25

II wish to present to you, and
through you to the leaders of con-
gress, most vigorous protest against
any attempt to reduce the modest
wages and salaries paid government
employees. The officers and members
of the American Federation of Labor
could not, under any circumstances,
give approval to such legislative
policy nor could they reconcile them
selves to such action on the part of
congress-"
In reply Congressman Byrns wrote
to Mr. Green as follows:
Immediately upon returning TO
Washington gave an interview to the
press in which | stated that | was
not in favor of considering the ques-
ton of reduction of government sal
aries until every other means of bal
ancing the budget be resorted and
found wanting; that | felt the bur-
den should be upon the higher bracket
incomes which had received substan-
tial reductions. / further said that if
it finally appeared that salary reduc-
tions were absolutely necessary that
those with the high salaries be first
to receive the reduction"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25
New Protests Follow
Entry Of Soviet Timber
Tariff Law Forbids Importation of Convict Lumber and
Penalties State-Aided Products, But They Continue
to be Admitted, National Lumber Manufacturers
Association Tells Secretary of Treasury

Section 307, that no further legisla-
ton was required, as administrative
regulations would effectively enforce
the intent of the law 1t is held that
the law is, however, nullified in prac-
tice if, by reason of the peculiar cir
cumstances, it is impossible to prove
actual convict production of par
ticular cargo.
The protest states that there is
nothing in Section 307 to sustain the
view that it does not carry with it all
the power necessary for it's enforce
cent. This must be held, it says, to
include regulations necessary to meet
the situation in which avenues of in
vestigation ordinarily open to the de-
partment are closed.
The protest says in conclusion that
while thus far Russian lumber COM
petition has not been severe, the out
look now is that unless proper pro-
lection is Forthcoming there will be
substantial imports of Russian lum-
Der, which will add to the burden of
the present distress of the American
lumber industry by subjeeting it to
competition with "costless" Russian
lumber.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25
Improperly Drawn Bids
Deprive JObless of Work

Washington. Many workers III
Washington and elsewhere are idle
because the officials of the District of
Columbia used legally wrong details
in the phraseology of the call for
bids to erect two incinerators at a
cost of $76O,809.
Congress appropriated the money
in the 1880 deficiency bill. Bids for
the construction were accepted, but
Controlled General McCarl made a
ruling which prevented the awarding
of the original contract. Consequent
ly the appropriation was allowed to
lapse. 1t is expected that the pres
ent congress will make a new appro-
priation, and that work on the in
cinerators will begin next spring.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1931-12-25

washington, ID. {. (lLNS)-With
introduction in both houses of con-
gress on December Ia of labor's
modification bill, the battle to end
Volsteadism has begun in earnest as
one of the major issues of the present
/ session. Labor confidently predicts
that modification will become fact
during this session and more than
that, that it will become a fact this
winter.
Labor's bill was introduced in the
house by James M. Beck, of Pennsyl-
vania, and in the senate by j. Hamil-
ton Lewis, of Illinois, both of whom
have been leaders in the cause Of
modification. Both are confident of
success.
The bill purposes to take beer en-
tirely out of the classification of in
toxicating liquor and to class it as a
beverage Notwithstanding in fact"
and to legalize its manufacture, sale
and distribution as such, with an al
coholic content of up to 275 per cent
by weight
Labor Sponsors Bill
Labor's national committee for
modification of the Volstead act,
specifically directed by the American
Federation of Labor to have charge
of the modification battle, is sponsor
for the bill and is waging a national
campaign in its support. Matthew
Woll, vice president of the American
Federation of Labor, is chairman Of
this committee; l. M. Ornburn, presi-
dent of the Cigar Makers Inter
national Union, is secretary-treasurer.
The bill would become effective sc
days after passage and, according to
the committees estimate, would then
begin producing revenue for the
United States treasury at the rate of
$500, 100000 per year, with enormous
revenues to communities in addition.
1t is pointed out by labor's ma
tional committee for modification of
the Volstead act that Immediately
upon passage thousands of bushels of
grain would begin moving toward
| breweries, with stimulation of trans
portation and many other forms of
industry and labor. The officers of la
! boris committee declared that organ
| izsd labor will stand firmly against
permitting any importation of grain
for malt purposes, holding that the
entire industry should be 100 per cent
domestic.
| Aims of Labor's Organization
In connection with the bill and it's
avowal of the right of states to exer-
else legislative function in determin-
ing the status of brewed beverage,
President Woll and Secretary-T Treas
| urer Ornburn pointed to the objects
/ Of labor's organization as set forth
in it's constitution, as follows:
'It shall use all honorable means to
secure the passage of law by the
congress to modify and amend the
!, Volstead act; to strive through edu-
cayional methods to inculcate in the
minds of the people a spirit OF
American temperance; to promote ad-
herence to and observance of state
rights in all legislation pertaining to
temperance and the personal rights
and liberties of our people, as we'll as
aid in conserving to the people their
constitutional rights and liberties
It is expected that hearings on the