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The Washington times., 1932-01-15
HOUSE BATTLES
To GET CREDIT
B|LLPASSED
Big City Representatives Firm
In Fight for Loans to
Municipalities

The Administration s $2,-
000,000,000 finance corpora
tion bill was expected to pass
the House today after new
battles to force radical changes
in the measure.
The schedule of leaders in
charge of the bill had been
disrupted by fights for amend
ments in which party lines
were broken.
Only one major change had been
made-adoption of the Jones
amendment alloting 10 per cent OF
the capital stock and bonding
power of the corporation to agri-
culture.
Cities Insist On Aid
Representatives of big cities,
chiefly New York and Chicago,
we're planning a new attempt to
write into the bill power to lend
to municipalities after the amend,
ment of Representative Prall (D)
of New York was ruled out of
order.
Refusing to accept the ruling as
final, hackers of the amendment
had devised a new plan by which
they believe they can force vote,
While the House was struggling
with the finance bill, the Ways
and Means Committee continued
to hear witnesses on the proposed
Treasury plan to raise 1920, ,000, 600
a year in new taxes.
Brown AS Witness
Postmaster General Brown was
to appear before the committee to
argue for an increase in postal
rates.
Having defeated an amendment
to the finance bill making it man
datory upon the board to use
$50, 100000 to relieve depositors
of closed banks and an amend
ment eliminating Governor Eugene
Meyer from the board members
named in the bill, the House was
to receive at least 40 more amend
mentS today.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Actions of Double Killer
Confound Authorities

AS investigation of the murder
of Mrs. Spencer Ilsley, noted
sportswoman and social leader,
and her maid, Mrs. Nina Buck
ner, progresses, the mystery Of
the almost unbelievably savage
Staying deepenS.
Various angles of the case, as
presented by those in charge Of
the investigation, and the search
for the suspected slayer, appar-
emily are unexplainable, police
assert.
The suspect, George Crawford,
is believed to have planned the
death of the two women in re-
venge for Mrs. Ilsley's threats to
have him arrested. And yet
Crawford, if it was Crawford,
and his accomplice went to the
house unarmed.
Perplexing Clues
The weapon alleged to have
been used is an iron bootjack
used by Mrs. Ilsley both as a
jack and a jam. It is unlikely
that Crawford was aware of the
existence of the Jack, much less
that he had planned in advance
to use it to murder the mistress
of the house.
The maid, Mrs. Buckner, is now
believed to have been killed some
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hours before Mrs. Ilsley returned
to the house from the anti-prohi-
bition meeting at Upperville.
Crawford could have no special
grudge against Mrs. Buckner, who
had only been in Mrs. Ilsley'S EN-.
ploy brief time. And, assuming
he killed her when surprised by
her breaking into the house, why
would he have taken the risk Of
remaining around the house
waiting for Mrs. Ilsley? The lat
ter might easily have returned
with a group of friends, who GER
tainly would have noticed evi-
dences of the crime.
VaIuableS in Plain View
Again, why did Crawford, hav-
leave the formers valuable rings
on her finger and her purse un-
opened on her desk? The purse
ing killed the mistress and maid.
was in plain sight in Mrs. Ilsley's
bedroom and had not been mo-
Tested. Nor were the drawers of
her dresser rifled or, as far as has
developed, was anything in the
house disturbed.
1t is argued that the muir
derer was frightened and fled be-
fore he had obtained any plunder.
But he was not so frightened but
that he had presence of mind to
take a sturdy spoon from the
kitchen, carefully break open a
garage window and open the back
door of the garage and take the
car in which Mrs. Ilsley had ar
rived home a few hours pre-
viously.
The murderer's failure to take
the victims valuableS, even grant
ing revenge was the sole motive,
is an item in the story that can
not be overlooked. Crawford, it
is we'll known, had been guilty of
a number of housebreaking at
temptS. He must have known
where he could have disposed
even of such damaging evidence
as the rings; evidence certainly
not half so discriminating as the
car with its Identification tags,
etc.
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newspapermen and photographers
out of MiddleSburg.
Society people of New York,
Newport, and all sections of the
North and Northeast attended
the funeral. Approximately $50
persons were in the church when
the strains of the organ broke
into the prelude of Lead, Kindly
Light"
At this signal, the pallbearers,
with the metal casket, weighing
much more than 1000 pounds,
began their trudge across the Lee
Highway from Mrs. Ilsley's big
house" to the church.
10 PaIlbearers
The pallbearers we're Harry
Frost, James Skinner. D. c.
Sands, William Hit, William HUI
berg, George Gather, Birg. Gen.
William Mitchell, DR.. Cary Lang
horne, Thomas Atkinson, Col.
William Clifford.
After the simple funeral serv-
ices the body was started for
Washington where, this after
noon, it will be placed on the
Pennsylvania Railroad train for
Chicago, from whence it will
proceed to Milwaukee, where Mrs.
Ilsley met and was wooed by her
late husband
DR.. Mayors read only simple
Episcopal burial service and when
he made his remarks as to the
beloved character of Mrs. Ilsley,
he carefully refrained from men,
tioning the horrible crime.
Reported Seen in D. C.
Meanwhile some hope for i'm
mediate arrest of George Craw-
ford. 45-year-old negro, suspected
of Mrs. Ilsley's murder, was seen
in a report from Washington to-
day that the man had been seen
in the Capital shortly after the
murder.
A colored woman, whose iden-
tity is being kept secret, was
reported to have said she saw
Crawford at Four-and-One-Half
Street and sSouri Avenue
Southwest, about the time the
car, which had been taken from
the 1lsley garage, was found in
Virginia.
The woman is said to have
told police she had known Craw-
ford for years and that she was
positive in her Identification of
the man.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
COURTS CLOCKS
At STANDST|LL

Time stands still in the Dis
trict Supreme Court Building ro-
tunda, the office of the clerk
of the criminal division or the
press room.
The handsome electric clocks
haven't turned a wheel in two
years.
In the rotunda the clock says
it is 1:30, and refuses to apollo
gize. In the office Of the clerk
of the criminal division it is al
ways 10:48, while the newspaper
men in the press room are urged
by the Shiftless timepiece to be-
lieve it is always 1888.
Several years ago a new electri-
cal control system was installed
to operate the clocks in the court
house, but the three clocks men
toned were left unconnected for
the sake Of economy.
Anyhow, it appears that moth
ing short of an act of Congress
will start the clocks again.
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SOCIETY LAUDS
HAWAII CRIME
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files were not ready, it was said.
Montgomery Winn, defense at
torney, said Lieutenant Massie
was anxious for an early trial
in order to relieve the nervous
strain of anticipation on Mrs.
Granville ForteScue, his mother
in-law, Washington society wom-
an, held with Massie and the
two enlisted men aboard the S.
S. Alton for the revenge killing
of Joseph Kahahawai.
Gov. Lawrence M. Judd mean.
while prepared program of
legislative reform to be intro
duced in the special session of
the territorial legislature in an
effort to clean up conditions on
the islands.
Would ReOrganize Police
The governor also announced
police reorganization bill, under
which he would appoint a police
commission. It was expected,
also, that a bill would be drafted
allowing the governor to remove
the high sheriff of the county,
who is also warden of Oahu
prison. without the consent of
the Senate, as is now needed.
A legislative investigation of
the prison, from which there
have been nearly 80 escapes in
the past five years, also was
expected.
The panel of jurors to try
Mrs. Fortescue, Lieutenant Mas
sic and the enlisted men, Albert
S. Jones and E. j. Lord, has
been drawn. It includes IL
white men, six Chinese, five
Hawaiians and three Japanese.
County Attorney James Gilli-
land, Georgetown University grad
uate, announced he approved CT
the suggestion for outside counsel
to assist in the prosecution.
Mrs. MaSSie in Trance
Mrs. MasSie, watched over
closely by friends at the home of
Lieutenant Lee at the Naval Base,
remained in a dreamy daze, still
apparently incapable Of realizing
the tragic chain of circumstances
in which her loved ones have be-
come involved.
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Capt. Pyne Ordered
To PhiLd. NdUu Yard

Capt. Frederick A. Pyne, as
Sistant to the chief of supplies
and accounts at the Navy De-
partment, has been ordered to
duty as supply officer at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard. He
will also serve the Fourth naval
district in the same capacity, re-
placing the late Capt. David H.
Addison.
Captain Pyne has represented
the Navy Department on the Fed
eral Traffic Board and tn, Fed
eral Purchasing Board, occupying
his present post here since 1927.
He lives at the Chevy Chase Club.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
MITCHELL MAPS
OUT PROGRAM
FOR HIM
Thorough Study Of Law En-.
forcement Conditions on
Islands to Be Made

Under instructions to get the
real facts of the Honolulu
law enforcement situation. AS
sistant Attorney General Seth
W. Richardson, named by At
torney General Mitchell to
head the investigation, was
prepared today to depart for
Hawaii.
Action was taken under a Sen
ate resolution directing Mitchell
to make the inquiry. Because OF
the conflicting statements about
conditions in Honolulu, it is neces-
sary that representatives of the
Department of Justice ascertain
the facts by inquiry on the
ground. Mitchell said in letter
to Richardson.
Outlines Program
After describing the judicial and
law enforcement set-up in Homo
lulu, Mitchell suggested inquiry
into the following:
/. Efficiency of the office of
the local prosecutor, an elective
officer, and whether appoint
ment by the governor of the
Territory would tend to i'm.
provement.
2. Organization of the police
force on the Island of Oahu,
now headed by sheriff, an
elective officer, and whether
appointment by the governor
would tend to greater efficiency.
8. The Hawaiian jury system
and methods of selection Of
Jurors.
4. Operations of the island
parole board and whether leg
islation is desirable on the
subject.
S. Efficiency of prosecutions
Of violations of the Federal
statutes.
Mitchell pointed out that
territorial laws provide that no
person shall be convicted of
criminal assault on the uncor.
roborated evidence of the prose
cutrix.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
MRS. FORTESCUE
HAD ROMANTIC
MARRIAGE
Robert Bell Rushing to Hawaii
to Aid HaIf-SiSter Cited
in Brutal Staying

Despite the arrest IN Homo
lulu of her mother, Mrs. Gran
vile Fortescue, Capital society
matron, on a murder charge,
Miss Marion Fortescue will
continue her studies at Ok
ford University, it was learned
here today.
"Rion." as she is affectionately
called, is the younger sister OF
Mrs. Thomas H. Massle, on Wnom
a criminal assault is alleged TO
have been made by young Ha-
Waiian.
Mrs. Fortescue and her son-1r1-
law, Mrs. Massie'S husband, are
being held in connection with the
murder of the native.
Stays at Oxford
It was understood that "Rion"
had sailed for the United States
under an assumed name, but she
dispelled those rumors with a
statement in London that she
plannedn.t9 return to New YORK
when s 10 y completed the sum-
mer tef 81, 4 oxford.
The tVpo other sisters, Kenyon
and Helene, are with their mother
in Honolulu. Mrs. Massie is in
a sanitarium still suffering from
the shock of the brutal attack
which is alleged to have led to
the murder.
The youngest daughter, Helene,
was born in Ostend just before
the World War. Mrs. Fortescue
had a difficult time in escaping
from Belgium with her four little
girls. and when she had seen the
Youngsters safely in the care OF
their aunt, Mrs. Julian Ashton
Ripley (the former Helen BelD'
returned to Warsaw to join her
husband. Maior Fortescue was
a. war correspondent stationed IN
the Polish capital.
Robert Bell Leaves
Grace Bell Fortescue was a
daughter of the late Charles j.
Bell, washington banker and
cousin of Alexander Graham Bell,
inventor of the telephone. Her
mother, a daughter of Gardner
Hubbard, scientist and explorer,
died when she was baby, and
her father married younger sis
ter, the third of the Hubbard
girls. There is a step-brother, Rob
ert Bell, and step-Sister, Mrs. Rip
ley.
Robert Bell is now on his way
to Honolulu to be with his sister.
Mrs. Fortescue was a graduate
of the Mt. Vernon Seminary in
Washington. She was a brilliant
student with generally acknow[
edged executive ability. Always a
leader, she won the admiration OF
everyone who knew her. Her
father, the late Charles Bell, once
said:
"Gracie would have been
president if she had been
man."
Childhood in Washington
She spent her childhood in the
stately mansion on Connecticut
Avenue known as the Bell
House" by everyone in Washing
ton. Twin Oaks, then "far out
in the country" was the family's
summer residence and had be-
1onged to their maternal grand
father, Gardner Hubbard.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
BI-FETE COMMITTEES

The District of Columbia Fed.
Grafton of Women's Clubs will co.
operate with the District Bicen-
tennial Commission in planning
the local observance of Washing
tons birth through the following
committee appointed by Mrs. Ed
gar B. Merritt, president; Mrs.
Charles H. Blair, chairman; Mrs.
H. M. Hunter, Mrs. N. M. Pollock.
Mrs. Nancy Dupre North, Mrs.
Thora Hinshaw Seaton, Mrs. Fred
R. Smith, Mrs. Oscar Bergren,
Mrs. A. B. McManus and Mrs.
T~uce Baird.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Check to Be Urged
On Failure of Banks

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 15.
Myer Edison Bristow, State COM
missioner of insurance and bank
ing, is expected to appear at
legislative committee hearings to
advocate new measures designed
to prevent as far as possible or
minimize bank failures. Mention
has been made here of a law
providing penalties for circulat'
ing reports calculated to cause
bank runs and failures.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
BELL SEES FEW
. SHOALS BIDS

A prediction that mo respon
sible company" will bid for the
leasing of the $125, 900, 900 Muscle
Shoals plant, was made today by
w. B. Bell, president of the Ameri-
can Cyanamid Company, which
has considered leasing the project
for six years.
Bells statement was made after
he discussed the Muscle Shoals
situation in closed session of the
House Military Affairs Commit
tee.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
POLicemen's Trial
To Resume MOndQU

Trial of Hollis H. Clark and
Charles r. Bremmerman, Sus-
pended policemen, charged with
beating a colored prisoner, will
be resumed in District Supreme
Court Monday morning. The case
was postponed late yesterday be-
cause Justice F. Dickinson Let's
had to preside at lunacy hearings
to69V
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chot, yester-
d y warned
against in
cipient efforts
of w a ii
Street" a n d
international
bankers" to
kill off a
$5,OO0,OOO,000
Federal aid
bond is S u e
S h e believes
will be pass
ed at tn e
present S e S.
sion of Con-
PrnSS-
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Crippled Children
Push Safety MOUe

A group of crippled children
last night rallied to the safety
first movement with a play at
the Weightman School under the
auspices of the parent-teacher as
sociation.
The children, all students at
the school, presented play under
the direction of Mrs. Buelah
Drake, principal. Edwin F. Hill.
representing the Kiwanis Club,
spoke.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Models of Bridge
Statues ReceiDed

Two miniature clay statues,
models of equestrian figures,
which will be erected at the
Washington end of Arlington
Memorial Bridge, were received
today at the office of Lieut.. Col.
U. S. Grant, Sd. executive officer
of the Arlington Bridge Commits
sion.
The models represent the
"vo1orc Of war"
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Wiley Post Chosen
For Aero Decoration

PARIS, Jan. Is GN.SO Wiley
Post, American flier. will be nomi-
mated to receive the annual gold
medal of the International Aero
Federation for the most distin-
guished service to aviation during
1881. The American delegation
will nominate Post for his flight
with Harold Gatty around the
world last summer.
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tratrix of the
estate of her
missing huS-
band, former
S u p re m e
Court Justice
Joseph Force
Crater.
She asked
S u urrog a tie
Foley for $50
a week for
her own sup
port and the
right to con-
tinue to live
in the Fifth
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Teacher Fractures
Hip in Cellar Fall

Miss Oreon Bruce, 56-year-old
Alexandria school teacher, Suf-
fered a fractured hip yesterday
when she fell down the cellar steps
at her home, 312 South Fairfax
st. She was taken to the Alex.
andria Hospital.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Blocking Highway
Costs SIS PendLtu

c. H. Malcheski, employe of
the 'Ratke Construction Company,
was fined IS and costs in Airing
ton County Court yesterday when
he pleaded guilty to blocking the
ond-Washington Highway
and leaving trash and mud on
the surface of the road.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
SpGniGrdS Batter
Priests ASSniInnt

MADRID. Jan. Is USO DE
vout SpaniardS today beat a man
who rushed into a church during
a requiem mass to knock down
the priest and throw the chalice
to the floor. Police declared him
insane.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
EMPLOYEES DROPPED

Two employees of the Arling-
ton county engineers office have
been dropped from the payroll,
effective February /, in accord
ance with County Manager Roy
S. Braden's economy program.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15

In a radio broadcast here,
Mrs. Pinchot attacked the "big
bankers" who floated interna-
tional bond issues and who she
said are now sitting pretty"
while purchasers of the issues
are "on the rocks"
The Washington times., 1932-01-15

y II d II Len-
porary allie
vi a tion Of
S u if e rim G
t h r o u G h
e m e r g e ncy
a i d, M RS.
Franklin D.
r 90 S e v el t
told the New
York City
u e a g u e OF
Women Vot-
ers.
The We ry
necessity of
e m e r g e ncy
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
Crater Widow Seeks
$50 Weekly of Estate

NEW YORK, Jan. Is G.N.SO.
Mrs. Stella M. Crater yesterday
had made another effort to be
appointed temporary admins
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AVENUE apaTI-
ment from which Crater nys-
teriouSly vanished II months
ago.
The value of the estate was
estimated at $4,000.
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aid shows MRS. KoOSENELr
something wrong with our type
of civilization, something out OF
joint with the world" she said.
and these problems must be
studied and solutions found.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
DRUGS HISTORY TOLD

Thomas Waters, Rockville drug
gist, spoke yesterday on THE
History of Drugs" at a meeting
of the Rockville Rotary Club.
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Pinchot's Wife Flags
Big Banker Tactics

HARRISBURG, Pa, Jan. IS
N.N.SO.-Cornelia Bryce Pin.
chot, wife of Gov. Clifford Pin
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Mrs. Roosevelt Urges
Economic Panacea

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-There
is need for something more
The Washington times., 1932-01-15
WRITE ABOUT IT,

1t isn't hard job. All that is
required of contestants is that he
or she express in fifteen words or
less why it pays to use Classified
Ads in The Herald and Times.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-26
Overlapping Governments

No doubt. as Artemus Ward observed long ago. I've are governed too much" A hafzssed lawyer in Ohio complains of the
 absurd spectacle" presented in bis com munity. Within the limits of the county" he finds. ''are l2 separate city governments. 43 village governments and eight township governments. The jurisdictions. rights and duties of these overlap. and there is no CO., ordination or cohesion in local government. If those responsible for the present system had embarked years ago upon plan having for its end spectacle of confusion in gov ernment, they could not have done better job than to create the present situation"
 Such governmental organization was all right in pioneer days, with small and scat tered communities. It becomes more and more awkward as communities spread out. erowding and overlapping. The political organization of the county in such cases no longer corresponds with the business organi- zation. The two must harmonize for the sake of peace. order and continued growth.
 Thus there is growing tendency toward borough or county government, legally join ing communities already joined in working and living. leaving local autonomy in small things but providing metropolitan govern ment in the general essentials. The ten dency seems especially strong just now, as move for public economy through elimina- ton of duplicated services.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-26
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 Old Dan DrufY

l am 32 years old and have had dandruH ever since I can remember. I am blonde, and It doesn't show SO much as 1t does on dark hair, but would like to get rid of 1t. Miss T. c. FJ
 Answer-The best treatment is course of sulphur linunctions. This self-treatmeht Is tedious but 1t gives more lasting benefit than any other remedy. Send 6 stamped envelope bearing your address and ask for instructions, mentioning your trouble. Occasional applica- tons of solution of 10 grains of resorcin in one ounce of alcohol your favorite toilet water, a few drops rubbed into the scalp night and morning, will control the trouble fairly weIlz in many cases, though resorcin may Sesm very blond or gray hair reddish h-yeliow sxfter prolonged use.
 Orifces Are Outlets
 Are there minute openings in the human skin called "pOrcs"? If this is not true, how does the precipitation penetrate through the skin? Can you explain why dictionaries and home medical books define pores as minute orifccs In the skin? (R. O. N
 Answer the only-openings or orifces in the skin arc the outlets of the sebaceous and sweat glands. Precipitation does not penetrate through the skin. Sweat flows out through the orfces of the sweat glands. Dictionary mak- CTS and home medical book writers do not know what they're talking about if they imply that anything can enter the body through the pores Neither do coroners or physicians who offer such an explanation for fatal poisoninss such as shoe dye poisoning. Trouble with . lot of these policital accidents Is they imagine thsir bald assertions make a thing so--and this same ailment Is prevalent among our medical professors and wouid-be medical authorities,
 (Copyright John r. DIlle Co.)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-05-26
Spelling For the Few?

It is cheering to learn that spelling is still studied in schools here and there. In pri- vatc school for boys where a gold medal is awarded annually for proficiency in spell ing. the contest has just been held The boys did well. too. even with such tricky words as "fuchsia, "hyaeinth. 'permis- sible," and Conscientious.
 There have been complaints recently from college professors that students come to them from high schools unable to use the simple tools of the English language. They are weak in the fundamentals of grammar as well as in spelling. High school teachers have been heard to utter the same criticism Their pupils are held back in high school subjects because they have not acquired in the elementary grades a proper proficiency in matters of sentence structure and spelling
 All this raises a natural query. Are spell ing and language study now worked on the same principle as competitive athletics, with chosen teams getting all the training and glory while the rest of the pupils merely look on and applaud9 It is fine to stimu- late interest in spelling by means of con- test and a gold medal. but the youngsters who fail to achieve even third place must need good deal of special attention and ad ditional drill.