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The Washington times., 1932-05-27

BOSTON, May 27 GNSO.
Four men we're drowned today
and 81 rescued, among them two
seriously injured, when the Boston
bound passenger steamship City
of Chattanooga rammed and sent
to the bottom in the fog off Block
Island the freight steamship
Grecian.
The bodies of two, Assistant
Chief Engineer Edward Forest, of
Portsmouth, Va, and a steward,
Charles Crowley of Providence,
r. l., were aboard the Coastguard
destroyer Upshur, enroute to New
London, Conn.
A third body was en- route to
New London aboard the destroyer
Porter. 1t was believed to be
either that of zamory Loves, of
Portsmouth, Va, a seaman, or
James MerriWeather. of Phila-
delphia, mesSman.
The Grecian, fatally crippled by
the impact. went to her doom be-
fore her officers and crew had
time to launch their lifeboats.
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L.o.dfing Hints
Stir Ire of
Senator's

Debate on the tax bill in the
Senate was delayed 25 minutes
today while party leaders COM
planned against news paper
stories giving the impression
that Senators were not over
working themselves.
Publication of the fact that
Vice President Curtis was the
only member in the chamber
when the Senate convened at
10 o'clock yesterday reused the
ire of Senator FeSs (RO of
Ohio. He said:
THE impression has gone out
that of all the branches of the
Government, the most useless is
the United States Senate. 1t is
not news that Senators get up
at I in the morning and go to
their offices to work before the
Senate cOnvenes at 10 O'Clock"
Senators Watson (RD of In
diana and Harrison CD OF
Mississippi called attention to
the fact Senators were work
ing in committee when the Sen
ate convened yesterday.
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-Four Dro1un as Steamer
Rams, Sinks Freighter

Thirty-one officers and men,
who leaped into the sea and were
picked up by lifeboats from the
City of Chattanooga, were en-
route into Boston aboard that
liner.
BOSTON, May 81 QN.S0-
The Grecian left Boston late
yesterday afternoon and wac nine
hours out at the time of the
crash. The City of Chattanooga
was en- route from Savannah, Ga,
to Boston, with a capacity list OF
passengers. The crash took place
in the vicinity of the spot where
the City of Rome, sister ship of
the City of Chattanooga. rammed
and sank the U. S. submarine
Ssh in 1925.
NEW LONDON, Conn.,, May 27
G.N.SO The communications Of
flee at coast guard base four here
reported receipt of a message
shortly after a. m, today say
ing three to four bodies sought
following a steamship crash off
Block Island had been recovered.
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'NET DEMOCRAT
SEEN '32 VICTOR

NEW YORK, May Fl N.N.S.).
"a third party of dry Republi-
cans would only serve to insure
the election of a wet Demo
crat."
This was the comment today
of Mrs. Charles H. Sabin, leader
of the women's wet movement,
when informed of the reported
position of Senator William E.
Borah, which is threatening the
solidarity of the Republican
party.
Borah in serving notice of his
fight-to-the-finish against reSub-
mission of the prohibition ques-
ton, is denying the rights of
the people to express themselves"
Mrs. Sabin declared!
eff either of the two parties
are worried about the reSub-
mission plank, they might stop
to consider that there is a large
body of organized anti-prOhibi-
ton opinion which will fight
to the finish, too"
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
MARIE CLASHES
WITH LUPESCU

VIENNA, May 27 GN.S0 A
dramatic conflict between the
Dowager Queen Marie of Ru-
mania and Nine. Magda Lupescu,
favorite of King Carol II, was
reported in dispatches from
Bucharest today.
The crisis arose when Carol
announced he would spend the
summer with Nine. Lupescu at
Kimpolung Castle in the Carpa-
THAN Mountains.
Queen Marie attempted to per-
Suade the King to pass the sum-
mer months at Sianaia on the
Black Sea, where Princess Ileana,
now the wife of Archduke An
ton of Hapsburg, is awaiting the
arrival of her first baby.
Finding the King admant,
Queen Marie went to Nine.
Lupescu. Her pleas and threats
were all in vain.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
HOOVER COLD
To WETPLEA
FORPLANK
BalkS at Idea in Platform as
Borah Dry Edict Haunts
Him and Party Heads
By GEORGE R. HOLMES

copyright 1882. by International
News Service).
The dread spectre Of pro-
hibition controversy so keen
and so bitter that it will split
the party as it has not been
split since 1912 rose up to
haunt Republican leaders to-
day as they debated pro and
con the wisdom of putting a
resubmission plank in their
1882 platform.
Behind the scenes the contro
versy is raging unchecked, and
the harassed leaders candidly
admitted today they did not
know where it is to end.
Situation Changes
A fortnight ago, after Ohio
had plopped into the wet col
umn and the drys had expert
enced defeats in other normally
Republican States, it appeared
virtually certain that the moist
Republicans would have their
way at Chicago and write into
the party platform plank call
ing for resubmisSion.
Eight members of President
HooVer's Cabinet favored it, and
so did the leaders of most of the
larger States.
President Hoover was variouSly
reported as wavering and as hav,
ing been won over to the idea.
Borah Issues Warning
The situation was entirely diff
ferent today.
For that strangely influential
figure in Republican councils,
Senator William E. Borah of
Idaho. has set his face uncom-
promisingly against it.
Moreover, he has served notice
on the White House and upon
the party leadership generally
that if the party attempts to
deal with the question at Chi
cago by adopting a wet plank,
he will take the stump against
it-and those who stand for it
in the ensuing campaign.
Borah did not go so far to
say he would head or support
third ticket. He didn't need to.
What he did say was that ne
would take off his coat in oppo-
sition to candidates and plat
forms that attempt to deal with
the constitutional question of
prohibition in party conventions.
Slave Issue Cited
1t is the Borah idea that
constitutional question should
not be made a party issue. 1t
has been attempted, he pointed
out, only twice in history-once
on the issue of slavery and now
on prohibition.
Borah'S ultimatum-and it can
be called that-was served upon
Mr.. Hoover personally.
He went to the White House
last week. not upon his own
initiative, but at the Presidents
request, and after a group of dry
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CHILD, 8, KILLS
PLAYMATE, 10

EDO, Ohio, May q
G.N.SD An eight-year-old girl
shot and killed her playmate in
a game of cowboy and Indians"
today and then, driven to de-
spair by remorse, tried vainly to
drown herself, according to police.
June Welker, 10, was the vic
tim. Alice Spaniscewski. neigh
Dor, shot her through the head
with a pistol the children found
behind a wall picture in Alice's
home.
After the tragedy, Alice ran
from her home to nearby creek
and threw herself in. Mrs. George
Venderburg, a neighbor, rescued
her.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Sinclair LeIUis Has
NeU NOUeL ReGdu

NEW YORK. May 27 G.N.S0.
Sinclair Lewis was back in Amer
lea today after a short European
trip and had with him the com.
pleted manuscript of a novel of
10000 words.
Lewis said he would go to his
farm in Vermont in a few days
and return to Europe in late
summer.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
SPEECH.
TO G. D. P.
CITED
Speakers Bill introduced in
House by Rainey; Speedy
Hearings Urged

President Hoover has shifted
his position with regard to the
advisability of launching pub
lie works programs since 1928,
when he was a candidate for
the presidency, Speaker John
n. Garner said today in an
swering White House criticism
of Gamers $2,10O,0OO,000 re-
lief program.
In substantiation the Speaker
cited a passage from Mr.. Hoover's S
speech accepting the Republican
presidential nomination four years
ago, in which Mr.. Hoover indorsed
public building as a means Of TAX
ing up the slack in employment.
Quotes the President
Pointing ont that he provided
In his bill for a cnstoIrth Of a
cent tax on gasoline to pay M
terest and retire bonds, Garner in
sisted this made the plan econom-
tcally sound. He said:
81 know when the President
was seeking approval at the
ballot box he indOrsed a pro-
gram of public works to take up
occasional slack in unemplOy
ment."
He quoted from Mr.. Hoover'S
speech of acceptance, August II,
1928, in which the President re-
ferred to rivers and harbors and
public buildings projects, and
added:
"AlI these projects will prob
ably require an expenditure of
upward of one billion dollars
within the next four years. 1t
comprises the largest engineer
ing construction ever under
taken by the Government"
Mr.. Hoover further said:
"TheSe works, which will pro-
vide jobs for an army of men,
should so far as practicable be
adjusted to take up the slack
Garner continued:
"When you provide for in
tereSt and sinking fund you are
on safe and sound grounds.
You do not unbalance the
budget. It IL fatal if you don't
do this. This is the only bill
which makes this provision"
The Garner program was
formally introduced today by
Representative Rainey of
Illinois, Democratic leader,
after House Democrats rose to
their feet in camp-meeting
style at conference and
approved the measure.
$1OO, 100000 Direct Relief
The Garner program provides
for public buildings in virtually
all towns of any size in the
country, extensive rivers and har-
bors and flood control work, gives
the President 100000, 900 for di-
rect reliet and adds 1000, 900 900
to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation with no limitation on
the making of productive loans.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Coal Bill Branded
AZ "SOcinLiStic"

The Davis-Kelly coal bill for
Government regulation of the
bituminous coal industry was de-
scribed as "socialistic" today by
Carl D. Jackson, director of the
American Gas Association.
Charging that the bill was un-
constitutional, Jackson said it
would cause a revolutionary
change in governmental activity,
leading directly, through socializa-
ton, to Government ownership of
industry"
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
SCHI[DKRRUT IS.
WE'D AGAIN

VIENNA, May 81 1.N.S0 .-Jo-
seph Schildkraut, actor, was mar
ried in the town hall here today
to Miss Mary Mackey, of London,
whom he met during function
at the American embassy in the
British capital.
Gilchrist Stockton, American
minister to Austria, was a witness
at the ceremony.
Schildkraut was formerly mar
ried to Elise Bartlett, actress. who
recently sought a termination of
her marriage to Horace Liveright,
the publisher, in New York.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
HO, Hum! S1O,OOO,OOO
In ShabbY Suitcase

CHICAGO, May 27 GN.SD-
An unobstrusive man carrying a
shabby brown suitcase attracted
little attention as he waited for
his train here today. But the
suitcase contained the equivalent
of $10,000,000. Julius A. Sehmahl,
State treasurer of Minnesota. was
taking $10.000,0O0 worth of State
bonds to New York purchasers.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Honor for Sedbury
At w. and J. College

WASHINGTON, Pa, May 27
GN.SO Judge Samuel Seabury,
inquisitor of Mayor James j.
Walker. of New York city, will be
given the honorary degree of doc
tor of laws at the one hundred
and thirty-first annual commence
ment at Washington, and Jeffer
son College here Saturday, June 4.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
HAD
/. DEN|EDHE
BOUGHT
ISSUE
Herrick, Broker, Bares Details
of Purchase; Affair Links
to Bus Coach Company
pictures on Pages 2 and 81.

(flcGuTeS OH RACES duu OJ'
COUNTY COURTHOUSE,
NEW YORK, May q (LN.S.).
Mayor James J. Walker paid
$4,000 for 800 shares of
stock in the new Interstate
Trust Company in 1926, it
was testified today by Walter
P. Herrick, park commissioner
of New York city, before the
Hofstadter legislative commit
tee.
Later some of this stock, by
a devious process not fully eX-
planned, found it's way into the
hands of persons interested IN
backing the Equitable Coach Com
pany. which six years ago OBJ
tained a. franchise to operate
busyes il1tne city se::s =, 8 =.
walker Denied Buy
Walker, on the stand yesterday,
had denied he had purchased any
such stock.
All told Herrick bought $50
shares. twenty-five shares were
for himself and Is for broker,
J. Norris Oliphant.
1t was developed by Samuel
Seabury, chief counsel of the COM
mittee, while Herrick was on the
stand that of the 800 shares
which Herrick bought and "sent
down to the City Hall" 200 shares
were subsequently endorsed to j.
Allan Smith, so shares to the
Kincaid Company, Is shares to
Mrs. May Arthur Smith, of Syra-
cuse, N. Y. wife of j. Allan
Smith, and IS shares to Frank
Fageol.
Fageol and Smith were promi'
nent hackers of the Equitable
Bus Company.
Hastings in Deal
Herrick testified that the stock
purchased for Mayor Walker was
bought at $3.50 share.
Seabury also developed that
State Senator John A. Hastings,
close friend of the mayor and
alleged political contact man"
witnessed the Endorsement of the
Kincaid stock, and that, recently,
Federal income tax men Informed
Herrick that Hastings had used
those so shares on a loan he had
made.
Hastings formerly was employed
by the Equitable. He was at one
time office mate of j. Allan
Smith.
Hastings was a strong advocate
of the bus franchise for Equi-
table. The Equitable company
never operated the busses, how
ever, because plans to finance the
company failed.
A motion that all the evidence
relating to Walker "be stricken
from the record" on the ground
that Seabury had failed to eStab-
lish a case, was introduced by
Senator John J. McNaboe when
the Hofstadter legislative COM
mittee resumed its sessions.
The motion was denied by
Chairman muel Hofstadter
after Seabury had vigorously as
sailed it.
Both Show Tempers
Seabury bristled with indigna-
tion as McNaboe read his motion
and launched into a vigorous de-
fenSe of the evidence that had
been produced.
'Tt is in evidence before this
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The Washington times., 1932-05-27
G.. o. P. in Illinois
Tackles Wet Plank

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, May 27
QN.SO Repeal of the prohi-
bition amendment was the center
of interest at the Republican
State convention here today.
The party set to work on a
wet plank under leadership Of
William Hale Thompson, former
mayor of Chicago.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Akron to Perform
In So. California

sUNNYVALE, Calf, May 27
I.N.SD.-The U. S. S. Akron Will
leave here next week for Southern
California to participate in three
days maneuvering with the battle
fleet, according to announcement
from Navy officials today.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Troops Guard Mines
As ReOpening NeGrs

ATHENS, Ohio, May q GN.SO
Protected by Ohio National Guard
troops who have restored order
in the Hooking Valley coal fields.
many operators will attempt to
reopen their mines next week, it
was believed here today.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Britain Continues
HeaUu Gold Buying

NEW YORK, May 27 0.N.SO.
Great Britain today continued her
heavy gold purchases, in we'll
informed quarters held preliml
nary to her return to the gold
standard, with the announcement
in London that the Bank OF Eng
land had acquired 1,233,9l8
pounds of bar gold.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Betty COn1pSOn Sued
For $4,000 Tax Fee

LOS ANGELES, May 81 QN.SO
Attorney Edward Brand today
had on file a suit against Betty
Compson, film actress, for $4,000
he alleged was due him for SER
vices performed in having Miss
Compson's 1923 British income
tax and interest reduced from
$4,000 20 $1,000.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Brdken1dn's Body
Buried Under Coal

OLEAN, N. Y, May 81 GN.S0. .
Buried beneath 1000 tons of coal,
the body of Robert Shaffer, of
Oil City, Pa, Pennsylvania rail
road brakeman, was taken from
the wreckage today after Is cars
of a freight train piled up at
Protection, near here, Wednesday,
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
Reds Bum Rides
To Sit at Convention

CHICAGO. May 81 G.N.SD.
On foot, dilapidated automobiles
and on freight trains, delegates
to the Communist national con-
vention reached here today.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
BrOwne Still Waits
For Favorable Wind

SEATTLE, Wash, May n
0N.SO Lack of a south wind
today continued to hold on the
ground Nathan Browne, former
New York aviator, delaying for
nearly a week his hop off on a
projected nonstop flight to Tokyo.
The Washington times., 1932-05-27
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as of May 25,
S434,637 ,047.30; eXpe n ditures,
$1l.294.423.12; customs receipts,
$14,925,6l9.98.
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BY MARGUERITE CARTER

THE zodiacal sign Taurus (April
i % TO May 20). according to
astrology. rules the throat. Jupiter
in that sign is very apt TO give one
a finely modulated and sympathetic
speaking voice.
1t is. interesting to consider the
fact that this planetary position
existed at the time Sarah Bern
hardt and Geraldine Farrer were
born. Women born when Jupiter
was in Taurus are devoted mothers
and natural home builders and in
the business world are successful in
activities connected with children.
They also frequently are success
full as interior decorators. People
born between Dec. 81 and Jan. 81.
April q and May q. and Aug. 81
and Sept. 81. prove fortunate in a
business way to those having Jupiter
in Taurus and undertakings which
lead up 70 them at these times in
any year usually stand a coed
chance OF succeeding or prove 10
be connecting links TO greater
things later on.
Real estate or land usually proves
70 be the safest form OF investm0lt
for them. A child born today can
work well near rivers. but should
not live too near the ocean or other
large bodies Of water.
II is said in the case of those
born on this day that the son viii
succeed to his fathers business or
trade. while a woman can achieve
personal prominence as an artist,
singer. executive leader or in fnan-
cial work.
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utes and found him guilty Of
piracy and murder on the high
seas. When he was sentenced to
be hanged until death on Bedloe's
island, the pirate looked at the
courtroom ceiling and smiled
family.
NTAITING for his execution,
w the stanch Mr.. Hicks had
a good time. He composed ribald
drinking songs and called the
shocked warden to write them
down for him. Hicks could not
read or write.
When his visit TO the gallows
was but week in the future. he
called newspaper men to his cell
and confessed.
He walked about the cell, smok-
ing a cigar and illustrating his
confession with theatrical ges-
lures.
They should have known bet
ter than to shanghai me-" he said.
I don't stand for no such non
sense. 1t outraged my Self-respect
to be shanghaied aboard a. dirty
oyster sloop.
That night it was my turn to
steer. The captain and one of
them Watts brothers were asleep.
The other brother was on look
out at the bow.
About midnight. when the seas
were running high. dashed the
steering wheel to keep the sloop
on her course. Then I got a
capstan bar and tiptoed forward.
Just as l got to the man on
lookout. he turned and screamed.
let him have it. He didn't say
no more. The other young fell
low came on deck. I fixed him.
Then I got me an AK and went
below to have a few words with
the skipper.
He sat up in his bunk when I
came in. I stood there and leaned
on my AK for a moment and
looked at him. Then I told him
l didn't stand for no such non
sense.
Il stepped over and attended to
him. Then 1 threw them over
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the side. They should have known
better than to shanghai good,
honest sailor.
I took the captains money
and tore up things bit. I
searched them fellows before 1
threw them in the sea. I fixed a
little snack for myself.
Then I had one Of the cap
tsin's cigars. It was not a good
cigar. gentlemen. Then I headed
the sloop for Staten island. We
was about fifty miles out. I came
ashore in a rowboat and let the
sea have the filthy sloop."
n
TWO days before the execution
Il Phineas T. Barnum. the phil
osophical Snowman, paid Hicks
SIS and two boxes of five-cent
cigars for the privilege of making
a plaster cast of his head for
Barnum's Famous American
Museum.
After holding out for the cigars
the pirate complained that he
would not have time to smoke
them before his execution.
On July II, 1860. he was
hanged on Bedloe's Island. Just
before a doctor pulled the black
mask down over his Sowing face,
Hicks looked at the hangman,
placed his thumb against his nose
and made casual gesture of con-
tempt.
While he mounted the gallows,
peddlers sold hot corn and
dainties and 10000 persons
watched from the decks of excur-
sion boats. It was a gala day.
He was buried in Calvary ceme-
terry, and on the waterfront it is
rumored that he was not cold in
the ground before ghouls robbed
the grave and sold his corpse to
medical students for $3.50.
Some authorities say the ghouls
received $3.50.
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Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported 10 police as stolen
hcionr TO
C. y Grav. s2i East Eleventh street.
Ford roadster. from 1000 Prospect street.
Lillian Brooks sos North Senate avenue.
Ant a Auburn sedan 5S-572 from Senate
avenue and North street.
william Robinson 1921 Iowa street
Chevrolet coupe. 66-225 from 1909 KapDes
street.
Herman r. Fletcher 1882 North New
Jersey street. Nash conne. ioa-043. from ~
front Of 1872 North New Jersey street
Harry Iourh. 1924 North Capitol ave-
nue. Chevrolet sedan 66i-16s. from IN
'front.' Of lil7 West Market street.
Martin J. Nadine Jr Sheibvviue Ind.
Chrvsler sedan. from CAPITOL avenue and
Market street
T. g. Haston. sssa winthrop avenue.
Chrysler coach S6-s9s. from Delaware
ana Vermont streets.
Mrs. N J. Dieu. 7ois North Meridian
street Auburn couuc fl-fes from In front
o. 3oiS North Meridian street.
Robert n Jennings. Newcastle Ind.
chrvsler coupe $3.50. from Greenoastie.
Ind
West Side Chevrolet companv. 2fia west
WASHINGTON street. Chevrolet coune. Mii22
from IN front OF 2tis West Washington
street
Harry Monn.nger r II. BOX All
Ford Tudor. S4-lfi. from 5000 West Wash
ircton street
o c. Copeland 1923 west washington
street. Buick coach. ~ 1900. from 1928
West Washington street.
Mrs susie Sanders 24ss Mariindale
Leah schndmeier i2s East Vermont
street Oldsmohile sedan 63-qi2. from
rarare ~ go East New York street.
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G. 0. COLEMAN,
Ex-H0OSIER
ARTIST, DIES
Man Who Studied Here
Gained Fame in
New York.

Glenn o. Coleman. ~ who
through a quirk Of fate, became an
artist insteaS Of a musician. and
who spent his student years in In
dianapolis. died Sunday in New York
where he had won his greatest fame.
A native Of Springfield. o.. Cole
man came TO Indianapolis as a
young man and worked in the art
department OF an indianapolis
paper. He was a skilled pianist and
music might we'll have been his
vocation. In. those years he was
pointing for a concert career and
using his brush for bread and
butter.
Aided by Chase
He had no serious intent to be-
come an artist when, as still
young man, ne went east. News
paper and commercial drawing was
his only aim. although he had
studied here under Otto Stark at
the Manual Training high school
and shown marked aptitude.
Setting ou:, obscure and fairly
penniless. for the Hudson river
Bagdad, he carried a letter Of in
PRODUCTION to another Indianian
we'll up in the world Of art. William
Merritt Chase.
Chase and Robert Henri, under
both of whom he studied, pointed
to him his future in art, and the
piano, except for personal pleasure.
which it always remained, was
abandoned.
Won Many Prizes
A bedraggled little street in
Greenwich Village called Minetta
Lane, brought Mr.. Coleman his
greatest fame and recognition. His
painting of Minetta Lane was
bought by Paris Luxembourg gallery,
and with the death of its Greater
it becomes eligible for hanging in
the Louvre.
Mr.. Coleman had won many
prizes and his work has been hung
in the Whitney Museum of Ameri-
can Art. New York, the Brooklyn
museum and others. His "Comen-
ties Slip" a waterfront study, is in
the Newark. N. j.. museum.