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Evening star., 1932-09-24
LIBBY HOLMAN REYNOLDS HOPES
FOR APOLOGY IN MURDER TRIAL
Singer, Indicted in Death of
Husband, Expects Vim
dication.
Wife Of Tobacco Heir, Soon
to Be Mother, Grants
Interview.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 24.-Libby
Holman Reynolds, facing the two great
climaxes of her 26 years of life-moth-
erhood and the trial for the Staying of
her huSband-told Ward MorehouSe, in
copyrighted interview, published to-
day by the New York Sun:
God in heaven knows that did not
kill Smith Reynolds"
The interview. obtained by the Sun
writer at the unnamed rustic retreat
where she is awaiting the calling of her
trial and where she is preparing cloth
ing for the baby to be born of mar
riage severed by gun fire early last July,
quoted the former Broadway torch sing
er as saying:
1T is knowing that am going to give
birth to the child of the man I loved
that affords me my only gleam of hap
piness, that gives me any desire to live
at ALL The fact that within four
months I will have child-his child
makes me strong enough to fight for a
complete and absolute vindication."
Wants Complete Apology.
The interview granted the Suns COL
umnist was the first in which the
husky -throated Broadway singer has
spoken for publication since her 20
year-old husband, an heir to the to-
bacco fortune of the late r. j. Rey-
nolds, was found dying from a bullet
wound at Reynolda, the family estate at
Winston-S Salem, N. c., last July 6.
Il didn't shoot Smith," she told More
house. Il loved him as I never loved
any one before or ever will again. The
fullest and richest hours of my life
were spent with him. I loved him
tenderly, dearly and completely, and to
him I meant everything, everything.
When I realized that he was gone,
I didn't want to live. My life was over.
To learn that I, his wife, was actually
suspected of numbering him stunned
and Mortified me, but it didn't matter.
nothing to matter until I knew positive
ly that I was to have a child With
that knowledge, with that gleam of hap
piness. I had something to live for.
something to fight for. And now I want
to go through with the trial. I want
no strings left, no doubts left in peoples
minds as to my innocence. I don't only
want acquittal, I want complete
apology"
Recalls Fatal Night.
Morehouse asked her to tell him of
the happenings of the night of Smith
Reynolds death. The Sun quoted her
as saying:
TT was about 1890 o'clock, believe,
when 1 heard Smith call out my name.
saw him standing beside the bed-our
bed-with a pistol to his temple. I
remember nothing more, though I had
the feeling of holding his head in my
arms and having the warm blood pour
ing through my nightdress against my
skin. I don't remember going to the
hospital. I remember nothing that
happened there"
She described Smith as morbid"
I'D often sit up with him until 6
o'clock in the morning, arguing and
pleading. He had some strange delu-
sion that I was going to leave him.
He'd often disappear for hours at night
and come back weeping with JOY be-
cause I had not fed"
She said he was. never without
pistol"
Evening star., 1932-09-24
counterfeit PLOT
TRACED TO PRISON
Michigan Guard and Convict Have
Signed Confessions Telling of
Molds, U. S. Agents Claim.

BY the Associated Press.
DETROIT, September 24-An alleged
counterfeiting plot which, Secret Ser
vice men said, had its inception within
the walls Of Michigan State Prison at
Jackson, was revealed yesterday with
the arraignment of Irving w. Favorite.
As, prison guard
Investigators said Favorite and Frank
Briggs A, convict, had signed con-
fessions in which they told Of making
molds for spurious 50-cent pieces in
the prison garage, where Favorite was a
guard and Briggs was employed. Both
denied passing any of the coins, Secret
Service men said.
Favorite pleaded not guilty before
United States Commissioner j. Stanley
Hurd today to charges Of making and
possessing counterfeit money, and fur
nished $4,000 bond.
Briggs was placed in punishment
cell and probably will be prosecuted
on counterfeiting charge when his
term for automobile theft expires.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
WILBUR TELLS WEST
HOOVER GAINS IN EAST
Appreciation of Presidents Work
in Depression Found Tagging
in Pacific States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, September "a
Secretary Ray Lyman Wilbur of the
Interior Department said in a news
paper interview here yesterday 'the
wave of appreciation of what President
Hoover has accomplished is sweeping
the East, but it has not reached the
Pacific and Intermountain States"
People out West right now seem to
regard the presidential election as a
sport" he said. They don't seem to
realize just what 1t means" When the
West realizes that President Hoover has
saved it from a shove over the preci-
pice, then it will appreciate him.
On the tour of Gov. Franklin D..
Roosevelt, the Democratic presidential
nominee. Secretary Wilbur said:
Il can't see any program. He runs
in and out"
Evening star., 1932-09-24
ARBITRATION EXPECTED

NEW YORK, September "a P).-A
To-day halt in wage conference be-
tween officials Of the United Mine Work.
ers of America and anthracite operators
who desire a wage cut appeared to in
dicate today that the question will be
put before a board of conciliation next
month.
The conference recessed yesterday un-
til October 3. which is two days before
the time limit in which the conferees
can decide the question.
Operators are understood to desire a
20 per cent reduction.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
COL. ROBINS SAFE,
FRIENDS BELIEVE
lukeWarm Search for Miss
ing Dry Leader Held Sign
He Is in No Danger.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpatch TO The Star.
CHICAGO, September 24-Col Ray
mond Robins, who vanished after leav-
ing the City Club in New York City on
September 3 and for whom a general
alarm was sounded from the White
House on September 8. is well and in
no danger, but became will o'wisp for
private and unexplained reasons, friends
here have concluded.
They reached this decision because
of the remarkable apathy with which
Robins associates and Federal agents
are conducting the much heralded
Nation search" for the missing
leader and the remarkable antipathy of
some of Robins intimates for publicity
one of the most effective methods Of
turning up" those who vanish.
Robins was seen twice in Chicago by
those who knew him so well there could
be no mistaking, but it was only be-
cause these people talked before they
were "shushed" that it became public
knowledge.
Last Seen September 3.
Robins was last seen September g.,
when he checked out of the City Club
in New York, leaving as his forwarding
address the Dodge Hotel in Washing
ton. On the following Tuesday. Sep
tember 6, he was to have appeared at
the White House for a conference with
President Hoover
The arrangements had been made in
telephone conversation with Walter
Newton, the Presidents political Sec
retary, on September 2. Robins never
showed up at the White House and the
report spread that the famed Bull
Moose campaigner, reformer and pro-
hibitionist leader had met with foul
play. 1t was intimated that bootleggers
he had fought in Florida might have
been responsible or that Russian Reds"
might have abducted him, but the why
and wherefore were not explained
On September Robins was seen on
a Chicago downtown corner by Mrs. w.
Requa Brayant. an old friend, who did
not get chance to speak to him be-
cause he hurried away. w. w. Haupt
same corner at the same time, but did
not speak to him. Robins hurried
along recognizing nobody Haupt and
Mrs. Brayant were positive in their iden-
tihcationS and others made less posi-
tive identifications. Mrs. Brayant knows
Robins well and told friends about her
Identification and they told the news
papers
Polling Abandoned Hunt.
The White House order for a national
search for Robins resulted in merely
perfunctory action on the part of Chi
cago Federal operatives who seemed
more interested in going through the
motions than finding the man who was
definitely seen in apparent good physi-
cal health here Dr. Daniel A. Polling
national dry leader who few here from
Portland, Me, to aid the search" re-
manned only a brief time before aban-
doning his efforts to locate his friend
Police we're plainly skeptical that Robins
wished to be found"
So these who followed the case con-
cluded that Col Robins. in a perfectly
proper and legal manner, was tending
his own private affairs and the unwel-
come excitement ard Nation wide
search" were merely the result Of his
unfortunate neglect to cancel his ap-
pointment with President Hoover.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
ARMS DELEGATES
USE FOREIGN SHIP
McCarI ReConsiders Ruling
on Travel of U. S. Group
to Geneva ParIey.

American representatives to the
Geneva Arms Conference will sale from
New York on the German liner Europa,
shortly after midnight tonight, and
the Government will pay the bill
Controller General McCarl yesterday
reconsidered his previous ruling to
Secretary of State Stimson that an
American vessel must be used. even
though it would prevent this country's
representatives from being on hand at
the opening session.
Secretary Stimson had maintained
that certain preliminaries must be at
tended to here. and that by the time
they were completed the foreign ship
would be the only one available to get
the delegation to the opening meeting,
where, he said, 1t was necessary they
be.
The law gives the controller diScre-
ton as to whether the use of for
eign ship. in preference to one under
the American flag, is necessary for an
American mission, and he finally came
around to the view Of the Secretary
of State
Norman H. Davis, a delegate and
Allan w Dulles. his legal adviser, are
leaving on the Europa.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
ANT|-SAL0ON FIGHT
ON BOTH PARTIES
League, Says Mcbride, Not
Backing DR.. PoIing's
Tour for Hoover.

The Anti-Saloon League frowns on
both major party platforms and any
dry organization or individual who sup
ports President Hoover does so with
out the leagues approval, DR.. F. Scott
Mcbride, general superintendent, made
plain today.
DR.. Mcbride was particularly anxious
that the impression should not obtain
that the airplane tour of DR.. Daniel A.
Prohibition, in behalf of President
Hoover, has the backing Of the Anti
Saloon League.
Allied Forces Single Unit.
THE Allied Forces for Prohibition is
in no way league of organizations
supporting prohibition" DR.. Mcbride
declared, but is a single unit. Its
name is misnomer and might give the
impression that Dr.. Polings utterances
represent the united dry stand of the
entire country
DR.. Polling is scheduled to tour 81
States and deliver 201 addresses. He
will travel in a plane to be christened
the Raymond Robins, after the dry
leader who disappeared mysteriouSly
September 8 on his way to call on
President Hoover.
Our position is clear" DR.. Mcbride
said, and is that enunciated by the
Prohibition Board of Strategy the only
body truly representative of all dry Or
ganizations in the country, which re-
fused to indorSe either the Republican
or Democratic candidate"
Meanwhile, the Allied Forces for
Prohibition filed its financial report
with the clerk of the House, showing
receipts during the second quarter of
this year amounting to S26,281, while
disbursements were $21,871. A bal
ance of S6939 on August 81, along
with s48,468 in unpaid pledges, was
shown.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
FATHER HELD IN JAIL
AFTER KILLING SON
Will Keehner, Wisconsin Farmer,
Says Child Was Feeble
Minded.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LANCASTER. Wis, September "a
Having confessed, the authorities
said, that he killed his 8-year-old
son Martin because the child was
feeble minded. Will Keehner. 40. town
OF Hickory Grove farmer, was held in
jail here today on a charge of first de-
gree murder.
Keehner told authorities, they said
that he took the boy en- either Septem-
Der or into woods, beat him to
death with a stone and then buried the
body, marking the grave with piece
of an old chair.
The boy was incurable, so thought
he would be better off dead" Keehner
said. Il tried to get him into an in
stitution but couldn't"
Keehner was arrested yesterday for
questioning after neighborhood gossip
about the boys disappearance reached
officials. He first said the boy had
been taken to an institution. but ad-
mitted the crime when officials de-
manded to see commitment papers.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
ELECTION OF SENATOR
CALLED FOR COLORADO
Successor to Late Charles w.
Waterman to Be Chosen at
Balloting in November.

BY the Associated Press.
DENVER, September 24.-Gov. w. H.
Adams late yesterday called special
election to select United States Sen
ator to succeed the late Charles W.
Waterman in connection with the gen.
eral election November 8.
The Republican State Central Com
mittee designated Karl G.. Schuyler
Republican candidate for the United
States Senatorship term starting March
4, as a candidate for the uneXpired
term of Waterman. The Democratic
Central Committee is expected to name
q Democratic candidate.
Senator Waterman was a Republican
Gov. Adams, a Democrat, has indi-
Gated he will make an appointment to
fill the vacancy up to the time the
man chosen at the special election
takes Office.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
BUTLER FAILS TO GET
UPSHAW DRY CHALLENGE
Columbia q. Head Scorns Proposal
for Debate as Another of
"0ld Tricks"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 24.-Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler. president OF
Columbia University, said today he had
not received challenge to debate the
prohibition issue with. William D. Up
shaw, prohibition candidate for Presi-
dent, and that in no case would he con-
slider accepting such challenge.
That's Just one of Upshaw's old
tricks" he said. He challenges every
SO often. would not even think about
accepting such a challenge"
Dispatches from Knoxville, Tenn,
last night told of such a challenge by
Upshaw, who proposed the debate be
held in Carnegie Hall here.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
A CORRECTION

BY a staff Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, September
24.-From information received from
United States Commissioner j. Frank
Parran, The Star stated wednesday
that James Farrell of Hughesville was
charged with manufacture and possess
sion of liquor.
Official records show that the ac-
cused is James Miles Farrell of Ana
costa, D. c. James G. Farrau, a resi-
dent of Hughesville, was not the man
named in the item. ..--
Evening star., 1932-09-24
POLICE DENY SKELETONS
ARE NUNGESSER AND COLI
"There Is No Truth in the Report
Telegram From Curling, New
foundland, Reads.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland, Septen-
ber 24.-Denial of report that skele-
tons found near Curling, Newfoundland,
Yesterday might be those of the long
missing French transatlantic flyers,
Capt Charles Nungesser and Capt.
Francois Coli, was received in telegram
from Police Sergt. Lee Of Curling today.
Nungesser and Coli were lost in an
attempted flight from France to the
United States in May, 1927. The skele-
tons were reported found on Blomidon,
a mountain on the south side of the
Bay Islands.
There is no truth in the report" the
telegram from the police sergeant said,
but it added no further explanation.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
PEACE AGREEMENT
REACHED IN INDIA
Gandhi May End Fast as
HinduS and UntouchabIeS
Sign Pact.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
POONA, India, September "a
Leaders Of the Caste Hindus and the
Untouchables, who have been striv-
ing for three days to draft a compro-
mise plan on the electoral question
which would halt the death fast of
Mahatma Gandhi, reached an agree
ment today.
The agreement followed several anx-
iouS hours in the earlier part Of the
day when a new rift among the negoti-
ators arose at the same time that
Gandhi's physician pronounced his
condition to be growing grave.
Macdonald to Get Agreement.
The plan was to cable the agree
ment to Prime Minister Ramsay Mac
Donald at London Immediately in the
hope it might be accepted by the
British government in time to persuade
Gandhi to end his fast today.
Gandhi's condition grew weaker and
his voice fainter as the day progressed.
He suffered recurrent attacks of ex-
haustlon which prevented him from
drinking water, which has been his
only suStenance during his fast.
Mrs. Gandhi was in constant at
tendance beside the iron cot on which
her husband lay under the shabby
mango tree in the prison yard
physician, who was summoned
from Bombay this morning. examined
the Mahatma in the presence of the
prison physician. Later he said the
ad a Ii el,, a
not be subjected to any further strain
in connection with the political dis
cussions.
Gandhi Approves Pact.
Nevertheless Mr.. Gandhi formally
approved the agreement reached by
the political leaders. removing the last
obstacle to its submission to the gov
ernment at London.
The Mahatma was lying PROSTATE
on his cot when the terms of the
agreement were communicated to him.
He raised himself on his elbows and
with weak smile signihed his assent.
In cabling Mr. Macdonald the
leaders are asking him to withdraw
that part Of the communal award af-
fecting the Hindus SO that Gandhi
may break his fast.
Terms of Agreement.
The terms of the agreement. ap-
proved by leaders of the HinduS and of
the depressed classes and by the Ma
hatma, provide that l48 seats in pro-
vincial legislatures should be allotted to
the depressed classes, for whom a per-
centage Of the seats in the Central
Legislature, to be decided by general
electorates also would be reserved.
The selection Of representatives will
be a system Of primary elections. This
system of reserved seats and primary
elections will cease at the end of 10
years. Representation of the depressed
classes in the public services also is
provided.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
UPTURN is REFLECTED
IN RAILWAY L0ADINGS
L. w. Baldwin, Chief of Missouri
Pacific, Points to Increases in
Traffic as Mark of Progress.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, September "a
L. w. Baldwin, president of the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad. yesterday said
there was tangible evidence" of busi-
ness improvement, "as reflected by car
loadingS and cars received from con-
nections in the last six weeks"
THE increases in traffic have been
steady and gradual, which appears sig
nificant of definite improvement and
sound progress toward revival"
Commenting on Gov. Franklin D.
Roosevelt,s address at Salt Lake City.
Baldwin said the Governors program
lin so far as it affects railroads is, in
the main, satisfactory and construc-
tive"
Evening star., 1932-09-24
CHAC0 BATTLE CONTINUES
WITH LINES UNCHANGED
Col. Ayorao, Former Bolivian Revo-
lutiorary, Is Permitted to
Enter Country.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LA PAz, Bolivia. September 24.-Re-
ports from the Chaco region today said
the battle with Paraguayan forces at
Fort Boqueron, which has been going
on for two weeks, was still in progress
today and that the situation was ''un-
changed"
The president authorized the en-
trance into the country of the former
Bolivian revolutionary, Col Ayoroa. an
now at africa, Chile
Evening star., 1932-09-24

there are polo ground and tennis
court
What appears to be silo is an ele-
waited water tower for care of the lawn
and sunken garden. What looks like a
hen house is really a glass-inclosed hot
house. Few Iowa farmers have a con-
crete swimming pool; Gov. Roosevelt
has two on his farm"
Evening star., 1932-09-24
British Auto Racer Killed.

BROOKLANDS. England. September
"a L4N.-Clyde Dunfee. well known auto
mobile racer, was killed today when
Woolf Barnato's Bentley, which he was
driving, crashed over an embankment
during a 500mile track race here. The
event was the fourth annual British
Racing Club drivers contest.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
Sought Teachers Position.
Hyattsville Seniors Elect.

HYATTSVILLE, Md, September "a
(SpeciaD Edward Koch of Riverdale
yesterday was elected president of the
senior class of Hyattsville High School.
Charles Shirley was chosen vice presi-
dent: Robert Bradley. secretary, and
Carol Goodmen treasurer.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
PURCELLVILLE MAN DIES
John T. Grubb Was Loudoun Ma

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PURCELLVILLE, Va, September
24.-John T. Grubb, "a, prominent citi-
zen of Purcellville, died at his home
in Purcellville last night. He was a
native of Loudoun County.
He was formerly connected with the
Y. M. C. A. in Hagerstown, Md, and
for many years was superintendent of
the Bethany M. E. Sunday school, in
Purcellville.
He is survived by his wife, who was
Miss Gregg; one daughter, Dora, at
home. and son, Julian, in Washing
ton, D. c.
Funeral services were to be held this
afternoon at the Methodist Church
here. with burial in the Hillsboro Gem
etery.
Evening star., 1932-09-24

tSOllIllllcO TlOIIl TliSI IdSC-J
paign matters with Postmaster General
Brown. During his talk with the latter,
the President took up with him the
arrangements being made for the corner
stone laying here next Monday for the
new Post Office Building, the cere-
monies for which call for an address
by the President.
Iowa Topics to Be Varied.
Those who have discussed the Des
Moines speech with the President say he
will not conf1ne the address to the farm
subject, as has been reported, but will
discuss variety of vital matters. There
is reason to believe the President will
take great pains in the preparation of
the address because of the significant
bearing it will have upon hiS'campaign.
Upon completion of this speech Mr.
Hoover will begin drafting the address
he is to make to the women of the Ma
ton october 7, which will be delivered
from the White House and broadcast by
radio.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
LABORER HANDLES JOBS
Man From Ranks of Unemployed
Directs City's Relief.

HOBART, Okla, September "a P).-
Hobart's efforts to relieve unemployment
are being directed by a man selected
from the ranks of the jobless-Arthur
Anderson, who has worked as common
laborer most of his life.
Civic authorities are convinced the
selection was a happy one. pointing out
that under AnderSon's leadership most
of the city's unemployed have been put
to work.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
Fall Proves Fatal,

Charles Grant, 81, colored, of the 1900
block of New Hampshire avenue. died in
Emergency Hospital last night from in
jurics received yesterday when he fell
three floors to the pavement while
painting the front Of the building where
he lived. .-.-....----
Evening star., 1932-09-24
GLASSFORD IN NEW YORK
D. C. Police Chief Attends Re-
union of 77th Division.

NEW YORK. September "a CP.-
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. GlasSford, su-
perintendent of Washington, D. c., po-
lice, was in New York today to par
ticipate in the parade and reunion Of
the 77th Division. Gen. GlaSSford at
one time commanded the SD Field Ar
tillery Brigade of the 77th.
He will speak at reunion banquet
tomorrow night and then return to
Washington.
Evening star., 1932-09-24
FLOOD ENGULFS COUPLE
Texas Autoist Found in River as
Search Is Made for Woman.

KERRVILLE, Tex, September "a
P).-Fred Tullos. 36, was drowned, and
Miss Cleo McCallum. 49, probably met
similar fate, when their motor car
was swept off a bridge near here
Thursday night by flood waters Of the
johnson Fork of the Guadalupe River.
Tullos' body was recovered yesterday
about two miles downstream. The car
was found about half mile below the
bridge, battered into wreckage. An in
tensive search was being made for Miss
McCallum