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Evening star., 1932-09-25
MISS POWERS FREED
or BAD CHECK CHARGE

Florence Mills Powers, "a, former
secretary for L. A. Congdon d. Co., a
brokerage firm operated here by w. w.
yesterday, and star Government wit
ness in the New York trial Of Easter
day and his associates on fraud charges,
was freed yesterday when brought be-
fore Police Court Judge Gus A. Schuldt
on bad check charge.
Miss Powers admitted that in May,
1880, she gave a $40 check to the Am
b3ssador Hotel. At the time, she said,
she was working for the Congdon Co..
with offices in the 1400 block of New
York avenue, and she blamed Easter
day. who, she said, told her a New York
bank would honor the draft She said
she had received none of her s75-a-
week salary and that Easterday told
her TO write the check on "his New
York bank" and he would see that 1t
was honored.
In 1881 Miss Powers was paid IS q
day for seven months as a witness in
the yesterday trial It was largely due
to her evidence, according to her at
torney. Charles Ford, that Easterday
and others were convicted Of using the
mails to defraud.
Judge Schuldt said in view of her
during the yesterday trial he would re-
lease her providing she made restitution
to the Ambassador Hotel. The case. he
said, would not be closed until the
money was repaid.
Evening star., 1932-09-25
GLASSFORD LEADS
77TH IN PARADE
Nearly 1000 Veterans March
at Gotham Reunion of
War Division.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, September 24-Nearly
1000 veterans Of the 77th Division, led
BY Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford. su-
perintendent Of police at Washington
and wartime commander Of the divi-
sional artillery, paraded from Washing
ton Square to Bryant Park today and
there held memorial services for the
1855 members Of the division killed In
action on the battlefields Of France.
Lieut. Gov Herbert H. Lehman and
Maj. Gen. James c. Harbord were the
principal speakers at the services.
The parade followed the route taken
by the division in its triumphal march
sion of their return from France. The
veterans today wore light blue over
seas caps with the divisional insignia
on the side and marched In regtmental
platoons with a detachment Of disabled
comrades from the Naval Hospital In
Brooklyn accompanying them In = bus
Memorial Wreath Placed.
At Madison Square the parade halted
while q memorial wreath was placed AT
the foot Of the Eternal Light War Me-
mortal there by Maj. George S. McMurty
OF Bar Harbor, Me-. second in command
Of the famous Lost Battalion" Of the
division which suffered terrific losses
during the Battle of the Argonne. He
was assisted by Corpl. Abraham Krotot.
skinsky. a member of that unit ano
the thirty sixth messenger, the only one
who lived. In an attempt to break
through the German lines and bring
definite information Of the battalion
plight. :.
BRYANT Park, were Mai. Gen. Bonnie Z
Nolan, commanding the I'd Corps Area
Rear Admiral w. w. Phelps, COM
mandant of the Sd Naval District; Act.
ing Gov. Lehman and Gen. Harbord
The city was represented by Joseph
Clark Baldwin. Sd, minority leader Of
the board Of aldermen. and George w
Harvey, Queens Borough president
Mayor Joseph v. Mckee having SEM
his regrets.
Peter j. White, chairman OF the Re-
union Committee, presided at the me-
mortal services. which opened with
salute by firing squad from the i4tr
Infantry of Fort Jay, while the 23 Dat.
tie flags of the division were dipped
and a bugler sounded TAPS"
Pleas for U. S. Defense.
Mr.. Lehman was the first speaker
and, after pratsing the war record OF tne
77th. devoted the remainder Of his ad-
dress to a plea for adequate national
defense.
mo one is more strongly opposed 70
militarism as militarism than l.. said
he, but I do strongly. firmly and per-
manently believe in a sound and reason
able degree Of preparedness. ! strongly
believe in a logical degree Of national
dofepee r,,re1y for defense at ALL times
Reasonable but adequate preparedness
is not threat. but a means of defense
which this country should always have
at its command"
He concluded by asserting that the
best means of fulfilling the obligation
which the citizens Of this country owe
to those who gave their lives IN the
World War is by maintaining and
STRENGTHENING its national defense.
Gen. Harbord traced the division:
history and its record overseas and
spoke of the motives which lay behind
the sacrifice made by those who gave
their lives in the struggle.
Evening star., 1932-09-25
ANCIENT MONUMENTS
STUDIED BY 22 NATIONS
Archeologists to Spend Week at
Ravenna, italy, First Meeting
of Kind in SO Years.

By the Associated Press.
RAVENNA. Italy. September "a
Leading archeologists Of 20 countries
we're gathered here today for a weeks
study of ancient Christian monuments.
They will meet tomorrow in the first
International Congress Of Christian
Archaeology to be held. in 80 years.
Two others have been held, one at
Spalata, Dalmatia. in 1894 and the
other at Rome In 1900
Reports will be read on recent dis
coveries in Palestine. Italy, Greece and
other countries. including finds by
American expeditions. The mornings
will be given over to visiting Ravenna' S
many monuments of interest and on
September 29 the delegates will 60 to
Pola and to Venice. where the congress
will close october 2.
The entire Pontifical Academy Of
Archaeology is here in representation Of
the Vatican. together with various
other church commissions and onlcials.
Yale, Columbia, the University OF Wash
ington and other American centers Of
learning are represented and Germany
has sent IL of her most distinguished
scientists.
Evening star., 1932-09-25
Name Complicates
Race of Elsie Hill
For U. S. Congress
Former Teacher Here
Fights Connecticut Law
Requiring Legal One.
Special Dispatch to The Star
:, Conn.,, September


BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, September
24-Elsie Hill, daughter Of the late
Representative Ebenezer Hill of the
fourth Connecticut congressional dis
trict and former teacher at Central
High School. Washington, was faced
with q ticklish problem today. Miss
Hill, noted suffrage leader and one OF
the moving spirits In the Lucy Stone
League Of America, was nominated on
an independent ticket for Congress
from her fathers district. She has
the alternative Of either ignoring her
sworn Lucy Stone oath to always use
her maiden name in public or possibly
give up the nomination.
"A State law requires all candidates
to use their legal names on ballots.
AS the wife of Prof Albert Levitt, who
Is independent candidate for Governor,
her legal name is Mrs. Elsie Levitt.
Miss Hill, however. refuses to go on
the ballot as Elsie Levitt. MY legal
name is Elsie Hill and I will not as
sumo an alias. will 90 on the ballot
as Elsie Hill or not at ALL"
Prof. Levitt is in sympathy with his
wife's stand. Her name is Elsie Hill
and as such she will go on the ballot" "
he asserted.
Secretary Of State William Higgins
will ask the attorney general for q rul-
ing on Monday. A bitter court fight to
preserve Miss HIPS Lucy Stone status
is forecast.
Evening star., 1932-09-25
Hold Barriers Erected.

Swedish importers can never for
get, however. the shameful aggression
by official England during the war
The many millions of kroner that the
British unscrupulously seized and then
refused to return. in defiance Of the
most elemental rights, has put high
Evening star., 1932-09-25

scribed as one of the earliest and most
momentous publications, contains $50
volumes which are the result of studies
made in each Of the countries en-
gagged in the war.
The publications of the endowment
have been issued by the three central
divisions of the institution, headed by
DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, James
Brown Scott and James T. Shotwell.
The long list includes official German
documents relating to the World War;
texts of many peace treaties. proceed
ings Of the Hague Peace Conference.
classics Of international law. studies OF
Fascism, rights of foreigners in Japan,
present-day Russia and credit stabiliza-
ton
Evening star., 1932-09-25
VAST LITERATURE
ON PEACE LISTED
Carnegie Endowment in 2lst Year
Book Points to 597 Volumes
and 221 Pamphlets.

The beginning of the twenty-first
year since establishment Of the Car
negie Endowment for International
Peace is celebrated by the publication
of the 1892 year book Of the institu-
ton, which reveals that 5s7 volumes
and 22l pamphlets dealing with a wide
range of subjects of different countries
related to international cconfiicts, have
been issued.
The list of publications. subsidiary
activity of the endowment, occupies 26
pages of the new year book, just of
the press.
A history of the World War, de-
Evening star., 1932-09-25
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Evening star., 1932-09-25
Many Forced 10 Agree.

Many Swedish importers agreed to
the offer because, they have since said.
of economic distress and hope that
England would settle In full when trade
returned to normal. Others refused to
agree, losing out entirely. More than
that. they assert England made heavy
deductions for storage and unloading
costs.
The association was formed in 1925
and has since striven, Intellectually its
members say, for arbitration by an in
ternational court or for an agreement
of, some sort by the respective govern
ments. England has for number of
years considered the matter closed.
The visit of the Prince of Wales and
the Ottawa imperial conference have
stirred the association to increased
activity.
The Swedish Wholesalers Magazine
said:
We understand very well the Brit
th desires and viewpoint. The visit of
the Prince of Wales Is in line with
similar moves in the past, most Ger
tainly to arouse enthusiasm and sup
port Tor English products.
Evening star., 1932-09-25
SWEDISH GROUP
ASSAES BRITAIN
Importers Association Opens
Campaign as Wales Trade
Visit NearS.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
STOCKHOLM, September 24.-Claim-
ing England owes them 10000 900
kroner (about $7.120,0 ,000) for merchan-
disc confiscated during the World War,
a group Of 100 Swedish importers are
preparing TO do battle for their cause
during the Prince Of Wales tour Of
Sweden.
The Prince of Wales, highest pressure
salesman of the British empire, was ex-
pected to drum up" business here for
Great Britain. as he did on his South
American tour a year ago. But the
importers, known as the Association Of
Swedish creditors Of Great Britain" f"
are determined to check any move he
may make for increased trade until they
have been given satisfaction.
A propaganda campaign was in
augurated by the importers even before
the Prince went to Copenhagen to open
the British industrial exhibition there
on Thursday, September %. Sweden
was his next goal and the campaign
will be speeded up considerably during
his stay here.
Hold Rights Violated.
The Swedish association comprises
importers whose cargoss were held up
and seized by the British authorities
during the war, who insist that Great
Britain violated all rights Of a neutral
nation in making such seizures and
who have fought for years for a settle
ment, claiming that England failed to
make reparatiOns in full.
These men have for years been
Evening star., 1932-09-25

barriers in the path of efforts to shape
the soil for an increased market"
Capt. Axel @. Linder, secretary OF
the association said:
England, today has an association
of creditors Of Russia, In the matter
of British private property seized by
Russia. We have an analogous as
sociation, directed at Great Britain,
and we have dozens Of importers who
have refused to deal with Great Britain
because of this matter"
There are indications England may
have to deal with the association in
efforts to negotiate more satisfactory
trade agreements with Sweden
Evening star., 1932-09-25
Will Serve Fried Chicken.

SEAT PLEASANT. Md, September "a
(SpeciaD A fried chicken supper will
be served in the Parish Hall Of st.
Matthews Episcopal Church on Chapel
road here from O'Clock to 8 o'clock
Thursday evening under the auspices
Of its Ladies' Guild
Evening star., 1932-09-25

angered by the thought that England.
by not making full settlement. tried to
punish Sweden for alleged pro- German
sympathies during the World War.
1t was during the British blockade
Of the North Sea that the Swedish
cargoes found their way into British
ports. Sweden. in company with Nor
way and Denmark, protested, and asked
for redress. When the war ended
Swedish importers sent IN bill for
approximately 100, ,000. 900 kroner (about
S17.800. .000D.
In 1919, the Swedish importers claim,
England made full reparation to Nor
way and Denmark, but offered Sweden
general compensation amounting to
so per cent Of the value of the seized
goods.
Evening star., 1932-09-25

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Evening star., 1932-09-25

While a policeman was swimming in
a London municipal bath recently his
clothes were stolen from q locker.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
STATE RESTS CASE
IN VIRGINIA Staying
Witnesses Tell of Finding
Body of Farmers Wife
Near Winches ster.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special DlSpetch 10 Ine star.
WINCHESTER Va, September Il
The State rested its case today against
Kermit Orndorff, young mountain
farmer. accused of Staying his wife,
Mrs. Frances Nicholas Orndorff. last
December 30. The State examined 25
witnesses. Defense testimony was to
begin after a conference between Judge
Philip Williams and counsel for both
sides
The State sought to prove that let
tefs written to Sheriff Luther Pannett.
last Spring. asserting that Mrs. Orndorf
was alive and all right we're in the
handwriting of Orndorff who Is
charged with dismembering her body
and burying it in two graves. J. H.
Yost. bank cashier, testified as to the
handwriting.
Norman Clark. who moved to the
Orncorff house last Spring, told of
seeing buzzards hovering over the pre-
misses and of finding a human hand
inst under the surface and then Of
unearthing leg and arm bones Laurens
Jones undertaken. told of finding a
foot, and other bones. a tooth, decayed
flesh and bloody fertilizer sack in the
grave. He found in another grave the
skull, a portion of the trunk and leg
bones.
DR.. B. 3. Dutton testified it would
have been impossible to place the body
in such small grave without frac-
turing the spinal column. and examina-
ton showed it had been hacked in
several places
Mrs. j. w. Crider. Strasburg. Va,
half sister Of Mrs Orndorff. said the
hair on the head was like that Of her
sister
Defense attorneys said they would
undertake to prove Mrs. Orndorff had
attacked her husband with a shot
gun during domestic quarrel although
admitting he struck her on the jaw
with the butt Of the gun.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
IMPROVED BUSINESS
ASSURANCES GIVEN
President of the Cotton Textile In
stitute Calls Upon Presi-
dent Hoover.

President Hoover was given assur-
ances of greatly improved business con-
ditions today by George A. Sloan OF
New York, president Of the Cotton Tex
tile Institute, and j. c. Penney. New
York chain store operative, both OF
whom conferred with him at the White
House.
MIR. Sloan, who stressed that stocks
on hard at present are the lowest in
four or five years in the textile in
dustry, had called at the White House
at the Presidents request. Following
his conference, he said he had dis
cussed ways and means to continue
the steady and substantial improve
ment which has taken place In the
.otton textile industry in recent months
According to MI. Penney, drop in
commodity prices has resulted in a
greater volume of unit sales In his line
of business.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Washington's Last
Hope Fades, Due to
Brawner's Defeat
Co1umbia's Star Bows to
SOmerville After Win
ming Play-Off.
BY WALTER r. McCALLUM,

BALTIMORE, September 14.-wash-
ington's last hope to win the national
amateur golf championship vanished
today as John F. Brawner, jr., Of Co
lumbia Country Club, succumbed in
the first round Of match play to C. Ross
Somerville of Toronto, Canadian anna
teur champion.
Brawner lost to the imperturbable
Canuck by sands margin.
Nowhere near the form he displayed
in qualifying yesterday to reach the
play-of and win over william Turnesa
Of Elmsford, N Y. this morning for last
place. Brawner was an easy victim for
the chunky Canadian.
Out in a., against 38 for Somerville,
the Washington golfer turned 4 down.
He won the tenth with q par 4 and
Clipped in from on the green for a
birdie 3 to win the twelfth, but that
was his last stand.
He dropped the next three holes in a
row to two brides and a par, to lose on
the fifteenth green. 5 and 3.
At the second hole, Somerville jumped
a stymie to win.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Bingo party, Liberty Council. No. 6,
Daughters of America, Pythian Tenn
pie, 8 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, Transportation Club. Raj
eigh Hotel, 1880 pm.
Luncheon. Advertising Club, Raleigh
Hotel, 1880 pm.
Luncheon. Phi Gamma Delta Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Cornell Club, University
Club, 1880 pm.
Luncheon, Department Of State. Uni
versity Club, 1880 pm.
Smoker, Delta Sigma National Fra
ternity, Jefferson room, Mayfiower Ho-
tel, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1932-09-14

here and they will bleed to death any.
way I then started to rescue some OF
the victims myself Only when daylight
came did We feel safe from another
attack"
Other victims arrived here stripped OF
their clothing. including their shoes.
Many of them were suffering acutely
from injuries.
Henry Kinney, American public rela-
tions director for the South Manchuria
Railway, once resident Of San Fran
cisco and Los Angeles. arrived clothed
in a pctato sack and a fragment OF a
canvas tent He had narrowely escaped
kidnapping He was being marched
from the wreck. naked. by group OF
brigands when he slipped away in the
dark and hid in some bushes.
Sees Chance to Escape.
At that moment the Manchukuo po-
lice began firing and the brigands were
scared of, giving Kinney chance to
escape.
He was on his way to Geneva in be-
half of the Manchukuo government
with George Bronson Rea, American
adviser Of the Manchukuo regime, who
now is en- route to the United States.
The Manchukuo authorities at the
behest OF the Japanese, declared martial
law in the vicinity of Kirin today as q
result of repeated attacks by Chinese
irregulars.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
TYP0GRAPHICALUNION
CONVENTION STARTED
Five-Day-Week Policy to Be Dis.
cussed at Committee
Deliberations.
BY the Associated Press.

LONG BEACH. Calf. September IA
With 70 propositions before the con-
vention, half of them concerned with
relief for unemployment and extension Of
the five-day week, the international
typographical Union at its seventy
seventh annual meeting began COM
mittee deliberations yesterday.
Some definite policy relating to the
flve-day week is scheduled to be adopt
ed. and means will be found for limit
ing the old age pension outlay which
last year was $1,466,897. President
Charles Howard said The fund had
been depleted to S2,480, ,466.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Suave Bandit Gets 81, 600.

BIRMINGHAM. Ala, September ID
R.-A soft-spoken bandit locked two
employees in the vault and robbed the
Exchange Bank Of 81 900 late yesterday.
Robert D. Russell, the cashier, used
telephone inside the vault to sum-
mon cid, and he and Miss Lillian Crib
bon, a bookkeeper, were released within
10 minutes. .---...---. -
Evening star., 1932-09-14
EXCHANGE MEET ENDS
Lieut.. Walter Hinton of This City
Among Vice Presidents Elected.

SYRACUSE, N Y. September IA lF1.
Election of John H. Awtry Of Dallas.
Tex, as president, and selection of Nil
waukee, wis, as 1923 convention city
today brought the annual convention Of
the National Exchange Club to close
Other officers include:
Vice presidents, Lieut.. Walter Hinton
Washington, D. c.; William H. Beck, jr,
Grifin Ga; and Bert Beasley. Indian
apolis, Ind: treasurer, Robert F.
Nitsche, Terre Haute, Ind.ss secretary,
Harold M. Harter, Toledo, Chio.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Wales Flying to London.

PARIS September IA P). - The
Prince Of Wales flew here from Biarritz
Yesterday and after spending the night
viii continue to London. An extra air.
plane went along to carry the baggage
and hplf sticks he had used during his
vacaUsa at the French resort.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
Chu Chin Chow Composer Dies

LONDON, September IA @.-Percy
Fletcher, composer of the score OF the
operetta "Chu Chin Chow" which ran
for i've years more than a decade ago,
died yesterday at his home in Farm
borough, Hampshire. He was So years
old.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
BOYD FUNERAL HELD
Former Naval Reserve Lieutenant
Commander Rests in Arlington.

Funeral services for William Young
Boyd, former lieutenant commander OF
the Naval Reserve who died August
in Panama City, were held today in
Arlington National Cemetary with full
military honors.
Capt. Sydney X. Evans Of the Navy
Chaplain Corps, officiated. Lieut.. Comdr
Boyd served in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
in 19l7-18 in charge Of cable censor
ship and as assistant Of the naval
attache.
Evening star., 1932-09-14
MANCHUKU0 ASKED
TO CURB BRIGANDS,
TERRORISM is TOLD

Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1932-09-14

second over the green into the edge of
the woods. He went clear over again,
came back nicely. but missed his putt
They halved the eleventh, Ouimet
barely missing a 20-foot putt. also the
twelfth in orthodox As. The champion
then bagged his sixth birdie with a
4-foot putt for deuce on the thir-
teenth hole to settle the match, and s.
The Washington times., 1932-08-19
Many Combinations Being
Picked by Ruth Fans

There be quite difference in opinion among the
letters received by your contest editor in this years great
Babe Ruth AllAmerica contest
The Washington times., 1932-08-19
VILLAGERS SEEK

Ciro's Villagers want action.
Phone Manager Burruto at Met
ropolitan 1859.