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The Washington times., 1932-01-12
EMBASSY RUM.
SALE HOLDS z

Accused of having sold 1O8
quarts of embassy liquor" which
proved to be colored alcohol, two
men today were held for the
Grand Jury under bond of $1,5O0
each on a charge OF sale of
liquor after a hearing before
Police Court Judge Gus A.
Schuldt.
The men gave their names as
George C. Dreyfus, Al, of 1904
Fourteenth st. N. W., and Car
mine Davide, 43, of $500 Con-
rSectiEut Ave. N. W. Members of
the vice squad claimed they made
arrangements with the men to
buy the whisky and met Dreyfus
and Davide at Fourteenth and
Girard Streets Northwest, last
night. Seven 500 bills, were
given for the liquor.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
BEGIN
TOMORROW
IN HOUSE
Framing of Plan to Await
Estimates of Treasury
on Income Return

Democratic leaders of the
House today had tentatively
decided to raise 81. O00,G0O,000
a year in new taxes and ad-
ministrative changes in the
revenue laws, with actual
work on the new tax bid
scheduled to begin tomorrow
by the Ways and Means Com
mittee.
The plan of Democratic leaders
is based upon the huge Treasury
defifit and the prospect that
emergency legislation will cause
appropriations of the present Con-
gress to equal or exceed those Of
last year.
Face Difficult Task
Facing a difficult task in their
efforts to balance the budget,
they will permit the tax hearings
to begin without a bill S basis.
The Treasury plan, to be pre-
sented by Undersecretary Mills,
will be received before the Demo"
Gratis formally prepare their own
proposals.
Said Representative Rainey, OF
Illinois, Democratic House leader:
cit looks as if a billion dol
lars in new taxes will have to
be raised. Much will depend
upon preliminary estimates Of
the amounts to be received
from income taxes in the past
year. They may not be more
than half the previous returns"
Blanks Already Mailed
With millions of income tax
blanks already mailed to taxpay.
ers, required to make their re.
turns and first payments by
March IS, it may be necessary
for Congress to enact a special
resolution extending the time for
filing returns.
The House will receive the tax
bill by February /, Rainey said,
but it is doubtful if it can be
passed in the Senate by March
Is.
The special resolution will be
enacted only if Congress decides
to make the income taxes retro
active upon 1881 incomes.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
FARMERS UNITE
IN AID APPEAL

The three major farm organ
izations, united for the first time,
today appealed to Congress for
new farm.relief legislation.
Edward A. O'Neal, of the Farm
Bureau Federation; Louis j. Ia.
ber. of the National Grange, and
John H. Simpson, Farmers Union,
demanded retention of the farm
board and the present farm-relief
law but asked that it be ex-
panded to include the export de-
benture plan, equalization fee,
cor any other method which will
make it effective in controlling
surpluses."
A new feature in farm relief
was introduced by O'Neal when
he said the equalization fund
could be used to finance CO.
operatives in industrial operation.
1t could be used to build fac
tories to extract starch from
corn. wheat, rice and potatoes.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
|NOONEYREPORT
ISSUE ASKED

Friends of Thomas j. Mooney,
convicted of the San Francisco
bombing outrage, today urged
progressive Senators to cave the
report of the Wickersham Com
MISSIONS experts published as a
public document.
This report virtually cleared
Mooney and Warren K. Billings,
charging they had been convicted
by perjured testimony. The re-
port was obtained by the Senate
from the Department of Justice
and referred to the Senate Judi
ciary Committee, which has taken
no action.
One progressive Senator told
International News Service he
planned to ask the Senate to
authorize publication.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
HEADS
TOLD NEEDS

Important proposals for strength
ening the American financial stu
alton were before the Federal
Reserve Board today following a
meeting of the open market policy
committee, composed of the gov.
ernors of reserve banks.
Undersecretary of the Treasury
Mills laid before it the probable
Treasury financial requirements
for the next six months to deter
mine the volume of securities
which could be absorbed by the
Eeserve banks without upSetting
the Government bond market.
The Government will issue more
than $4,000, 900 900 in securities
before the end of the fiscal year.
The reserve banks ordinarily are
in a position to say in advance
what portion they can take with
estimates of purchases by the
member banks.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
GiSt Blair Mansion,
County Landmark,
Being Raced

The last remnants Of a land
mark that distinguished Silver
Spring in it's early days is be-
ing removed by wreckers.
It is the ancient home OF
Gist Blair. who, about 20 years
ago purchased the site of the
old tavern on Georgia Avenue
that was a popular resort be-
tore the civil war. Mr.. Blair
then constructed what was at
that time the most pretentious
mansion in that section OF
Montgomery county. Business
invaded the section increas-
ingly until last week wreckers
started razing the structure
which has not been occupied
for several years.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
CONNIE UNVEILS
BOYS SECRET

HOLLYWOOD, Jan. IL dN.S0.
Constance Bennett, millionaire
film star, "the best-dressed woman
on the SCREEN" today tore the
veil of secrecy from court pro-
ceedings in which she adopted
a three-year-old boy. She de-
clared her new husband. the
MARQUIS de la Falaise, ex-husband
of Gloria Swanson, had no part
in the adoption proceedings. She
said:
81 had hoped to avoid all
publicity for the baby'S sake.
/ wanted him to have every
chance in life. When brought
him to America from Europe
with me two years ago, 1 made
no effort to conceal facts re-
vealing him. What all the
fuss is about now is a mystery
to me-"
The boy, Miss Bennett said,
was the son of a London couple,
Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Armstrong,
killed in an automobile accident.
Mrs. Armstrong was the daughter
of Miss Benefits aunt, the lat
ter sister of Miss BENEFITS
mother.
Miss Bennett had the boys
name changed from Peter Dennis
Arthur Louis Armstrong to Peter
Armstrong Bennett.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
CLIMBER DRAWS
COURT DELAY

. Arrested as he was climbing a
stepladder to the window of an
apartment house several nights
ago, Richard H. Little, %,
colored, of 1904 L st. N. w., to-
day told Judge Gus A. Schuldt in
Police Court that he was climbing
to the window to look for a
bootlegger whom he believed
lived in the apartment.
Policeman j. A. Phelps. of the
Third precinct, said he found
Little on the Stepladder at 1926
M st. N. w.. on January and
arrested the man on charge of
attempted housebreaking. Judge
Schuldt reserved decision.
Action was also deferred on a
larceny charge against Little. He
is accused of stealing a ham, a
duck and other food from the
home of Elmore w. Coleman,
252O L St. N. W., on December q
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
4 Jailed in Liquor
Cases in M1ruLGnd

Charged with violation of liquor
laws in nearby Maryland, four
men were sentenced to jail in the
Baltimore United States district
court yesterday.
Samuel Wolf, of La Plata, Md,
was sentenced to 80 days in jail
and fine of $1,000. The others,
all from Virginia, received from
three to four months. They still
face charges of assault with intent
to kill, following the shooting Of
Prohibition Agent H. D. McMunn
in Prince Georges county last No
vember.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
SLAM, Ell
JOSEPHINE?

The contract bridge players
dream-a grand slam in no
trump-was held and bid yester-
day by Mrs. Margaret c. Salkeld,
3017 Cortland Pl. N. w.
Mrs. Salkeld was dealt the fol-
lowing cards, fourth in hand:
Ace, King, Queen and Jack OF
Spades; Ace and King Of Hearts.
Ace and King of Clubs and the
Ace, King, Queen, Jack ana Ten
of Diamonds. It was the first
hand of a Lew Rubber and Mrs.
Salkeld bid Seven No Trump, natu-
rally making the Grand Slam, and
a total point score Of 1895. 49,.
The other players were Mrs.
Brook v. Boyer, Mrs. Frank Hurd
and Mrs. Victor Cahill. The bridge
game was played at Mrs. Salkeld's
home.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12

It will be noticed that the cor
rect leader against the contract
of Six Clubs was my husband.
Instead, however, I made a lead
out of turn, the result Of which
was to permit our opponents to
make their contract.
Without this contribution they
must lose One Diamond and One
Heart, and instead Of scoring the
bonus for a slam, they would
have been defeated so points. a
difference of 670 points in the
actual score and possibly a diff
ference IN the morale of our op-
ponentS
The Washington times., 1932-01-12

FOLLOWING is the second of four
articles Wrttten for The Washing
ton Times by Josephine Culbert-
son, 1Oite of Ely CulbertSon, and
with him the originator of the
Gpprodch-torcing system OF bid
ding in contract bridge.
By JOSEPHINE CULBERTSON
Worlds Greatest Woman Bridge Player.
Copyright. 1882, by International
News Service)
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-The
age of chivalry is not dead.
OF this am convinced through
the fact that no one of the many
analysts and critics who discussed
so learnedly the play and bidding
of the hands in the recent match
to test the approach-forcing
system comparatively against the
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
JOHNSON URGED
FOR PRIMARY

High pressure was being exerted
today upon Senator Hiram John
son (RJ, of California, to per-
Suade him to enter the North
Dakota primary as an open
opponent of President Hoover'S
denomination.
There was little indication,
however, that the California Pro
gressive would be prevailed upon
to run.
Senators Nye and Frazier urged
johnson to get into the race
and additional pressure came
from other anti-Hoover Senators
in the plains States.
Senator JohnSon's position is
understood to be that it is use
less to enter the lists against a
President strongly entrenched in
the party machinery unless there
is money and organization Suf-
ficient to conduct real cam
paign."
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
CRUSADER SEES
PEOPLE FED UP
ON SHOPPING
Good Brew, Says MaryIander,
Would Curb Drunkenness;
Heard BY Senators

Prohibition agents were
called the Cheka (Soviet Sc.
cret police) of America today
by Edgar Allen Poe, jr.,
Maryland representative of
the Crusaders, militant anti
prohibition organization.
Appearing before the Metcalf
Senate committee hearing on
legalization of beer. Poe said:
"The people resent being put
In the same position as the Rus
slams were by the Cheka. They
are fed ny with the snOOping
and spying.
Good beer would result in less
drunkenness and put $87,OOO,-
900 year into the pockets of
the farmers"
Modification of prohibition
would give employment to count
less thousands of men in various
trades, testified E. j. Roche, of
the Central Labor Union.
Veterans Demands
War veterans demand i'm
mediate modification of prohibi-
ton, l.. s. Ray, vice chairman of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars,
told the committee.
Advocating the Canadian
system of state and provincial
control of liquor sales, Repre-
sentative Clancy CR0 of Mich
igan, said Canada had adopted
the sane method of temperance.
"They know all about demOc.
racy over in Canada" he added.
''They know how to treat the
Facketeers. They smack them
down. There are no gunner
there"
Representative Charles Karch
ND0 of Illinois urged legal beer as
. temperance measure.
"Wettest City in, U. S."
He declared Belleville, Ill, the
SWEET est city in the United
States" and said before prohibi-
ton It had been an almost ideal
community from the standpoint
of law observance.
Clancy's advocacy of the Cana
dian system was supported by
Representatives Wilbur (R.) of
Ohio, who said he had recently
made a personal tour of Canada.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
MICHIGAN MEN
DINE JAN. a

Plans for the list annual ban"
quet of the Michigan State ASso-
citation were announced yesterday
by Rep. Robert H. Clancy, of De-
troit. president of the society. The
affair will be Jan. "a at Ward
man Park Hotel.
Speakers will include Senator
Arthur Vandenberg, Assistant Sec
retary of the Treasury Ferry K.
Heath, Assistant Postmaster Gen.
eral Frederick A. Tilton, Jay G..
Hayden and Eugene S. Legett.
Three new members of the Michi-
gan House delegation, Represen-
tatives Person, Bart and Wolcott,
will speak.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
LAFOLLETTE AID.
PLEA On AIR
-International Photo

The most immediate problem
facing the country is to provide
adequate relief for the millions
of unemployed and their de-
pendents, Senator La Toilette
(R0 of Wisconsin, declared here
in a nationwide radio broadcast.
In pleading for Federal aid,
sought in bills by himself and
Senator Costigan CD of Colorado,
La Toilette said:
Social progress made during
the last so years will be wiped
out unless action is taken
quickly. Social workers, city
managers, mayors from inn
portant industrial centerS have
revealed a condition which, if
permitted to go unchecked, will
undermine our institutions"
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
It's No Place for ChiDalry
Saws Ely's Wife of Bridge

official system pointed out two
plays by me that were extremely
bad and very expensive.
But an intellectual game like
bridge is no place for chivalry.
A woman when she sits at the
bridge table should ask no favors.
Therefore I shall discuss one Of
these costly blunders-in the
twentieth rubber on the first
deal. The hand and bidding
were:
Neither side vulnerable. East,
dealer.
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Culbertson Culbertson
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The Bidding
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1 4 Pass 3 = 3 a
4 4 Pass 5 j. Pass
6 4 Pass Pass Pass
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
RiUerdaLe Police Get
Clue in p. o. RObberV

Riverdale police are looking for
a man believed to be implicated
in the attempted postoffice rob
berry New Year Day.
The robbers we're foiled when
a charge of nitroglycerine failed
to open a small inner compart-
ment of the safe containing Gov
ernment funds.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
Transportation Quiz
Asked of MARYLAND

Demands that the Maryland
Public Utilities Commission inves-
tigate street car and bus trans
portation facilities between the
District Line and Bethesda we're
voiced last night at a meeting of
the Montgomery County Civic
Federation.
Copies of a resolution will be
sent to the Maryland commission,
the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion and the Washington Railway
and Electric Company,
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
Program January 9
For Jackson and Lee

The Confederate Veterans Asso-
citation of Washington will COM
memorate the birth of Gen.
Robert E. Lee and Gen. Stonewall
jackson on the night of Janu-
ary 19. ...-.,... ..........
Gen. w. L. Wilkerson, COM
nander of the association, will
be in charge. assisted by the
Daughters of the Confederacy
and Sons of Confederate Vet
erans.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
DRIVER FINED S51.25

Reckless driving on the Wash
ington-Baltimore Boulevard on
January S, cost Pickett L. Mum
day, 437 Fourteenth st. S. E.,
$51.25 in Laurel police court.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
RELIEF MEET DELAYED

Due to the fact that leaders of
(the United Hebrew Relief Society
are busy with the Community
chest campaign the annu meet
ing of the group has been post.
nored until further notice.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
Mt. Vernon Highway
Undermined bv Rain

Bureau If Public Roads work,
ers are atteil1,. ing to jack into
nlace a .--0-foOt strip of the Mt.
Vernon Memorial Highway which
settled several inc" IS for a dis
tance of 100 feet near The Dy
three n south of Alexandria.
Heavy rains and natural springs
are blamed.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
LAUNDRY JOB OPEN

The position of forelady in
charge of hand pressing at the
quartermaster laundry at Fort
Myer, Va, paying $1,000 a year,
is open, the Civil Service Com
mission announces. Six months
experience is required.
The Washington times., 1932-01-12
International Photo

MRS. BENSON AND HER CHILDREN
THE PROHIBITION 'MUDDLE" should be cleared
for the benefit of her children and the entire younger
generation, according to Mrs Regina Rambo Benson
Marietta (Ga widow, who is seeking congressional
seat for just that purpose She shown with her chill
dren, Regina Ann IL Marceus, a. and Warren Edgar g.
She will favor dry referendum if elected.
Evening star., 1932-02-14
ARMY FLYERS GET
WARNING IN STRIKE
Advised Against Taking Leave to
Fly Planes of Century Air
Line.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
The Secretaries OF War and Navy
were urged yesterday by Representa-
tive Mas, Republican. Minnesota, to
discourage military pilots on leave from
flying Century Air Line planes during
that company's paw controversy.
In letter to ne cabinet officials,
Mas. himself a pilot, said:
In my opinion. the Century Air
Lines put into effect drastic and un-
warranted Slashes in the pilots pay
amounting to 40 per cent at one stroke.
The operators of the line have re-
fused to arbitrate with the pilots or
even to further discuss the matter with
them. The pilots have all been
locked out.
Il wish urgently to request that you
advise all Army pilots against being
enticed by the Century Air Lines to
take leave of absence from the Army
for the purpose Of flying for this line
during the dispute. 1t wonld bring
disrepute upon the Army and in the
end would work irreparable harm upon
national defense.
1T would be a most serious. II not
fatal blow to both commercial and
future military aviation if the pay
scale of commercial pilots is forced
down to the point where it will re-
duce flying from a profession to a
menial trade. Since a pilot when he
leaves the ground is captain of the
ship it requires the highest caliber Of
man and the pay must be adequate TO
attract such men into the field CT
f1ying"
Evening star., 1932-02-14
DEFENSE AIR FORCE
ASKED FOR CAPITAL
Flying Club Tells Representa-.
tive Mas Danger to City
in Case of War.

Declaring the National Capital would
be the first point Of attack in case of
war, the D. c. Air Legion, local private
flying club, yesterday called upon Rep
resentative Melvin J. Mas of Mime
sofa, World War combat pilot and Ma
rine Corps Reserve flyer, to sponsor leg
islation for the creation of National
Guard aviation squadron for the Dis
trict Of Columbia.
In a letter sent to Representative
Mas by George NJ Stone, president of
the legion, 1t was pointed out that there
are nearly 800 licensed pilots in the
District. The legion, 1t was stated, has
$50 active members, rs of whom have
progressed beyond the point Of their
first solo flights and have completed
ground school training.
In his plea for creation Of the squad
ron. Stone explained that the D. C. All
Legion is composed Of members who
banded together to purchase their own
training plane and share the expenses
of learning to fly.
Legion members. he said. wish to be
at the call of their country in case OF
war, but feel that they are entitled to
sufhcient training in military aviation
In making public Stones letter to
Representative Mas, John A. Shaw
chairman of a special legion COMMITTEES
appointed to conduct the campaign fol
creation of the squadron, said:
During the last war, to my own per
sonal knowledge, boys went to the first
line trenches in the latter part OF 1919
no more capable of fighting than I an
of flying the Atlantic.
IF there is anything we of the legior
can do to prevent this from happening
to flyers during the next war, we arr
going to do it."
Evening star., 1932-02-14
RAILROAD RELIEF BILL
SOON WILL BE DRAFTED
House Interstate Commerce Com
mittee Plans Legislation to Lift
1851 ,OOO, 900 Burden.

BY the Associated Press.
Legislation to lift a 1851 ,000, 900 bur-
den from the Nations railroads soon
will be drafted by the House Interstate
Comm cree Committee.
This amount is involved in repeal Of
the transportation law provision author
izing the recapture of exceas carrier
earnings being due from the railroads. in
addition the Interstate Commerce Com
mission has $l0,600, 600 already paid in
which would be returned to the roads.
Chairman Rayburn announced yes
terday that bill embodying recapture
repeal and revamping the rate-making
provisions Of the law will be the first
of three-fold program to better rail-
road conditions that will reach the
House this session
The committee this week win receive
testimony on the Rayburn bill to give
the Interstate Commerce Commission
supervision Of railroad holding COM
panies.
The third step in the program would
set up Government regulation of Inter-
state notorious transportation. 1t is
expected the House will pass the same
bill 1t sent the Senate last year.
Evening star., 1932-02-14
ATTACK ONlNE[L0N
DROPPED IN HOUSE
Impeachment Move SheIved
Without Debate or Rec
ord Vote.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The House yesterday formally drop
ped Impeachment charges against An
drew w. Mellon as Secretary Of the
Treasury.
Without debate or a record vote, 1t
adopted a Judiciary Committee recon-
nendation to discontinue further con-
sideratiOn Of allegations that the vet
eran flnancier engaged In private busi-
ness contrary to law during his II years
in the cabinet.
Summers Presents Report.
Chairman Summers presented the re-
port saying that before completion Of
the committees investigation of the
charges filed by Representative Pat
man, Democrat, Texas, Mellon had Va
Gated his Treasury post to assume the
ambassadorship to Great Britain.
1t was read to the House by the clerk,
together with q minority report signed
by four members Representatives La
Guardia, Republican, New York, and
Browning Of Tennessee; Condor of
Rhode Island and Tarver of Georgia,
Democrats.
The minority said 1t concurred with
the ma jority in the belief that the Pat
man charges were based on law pro-
viding for action in the nature of an
custer proceeding" but added:
Oppose Continuance.
1T is Cur view that Andrew W. Mel
Ion, the former Secretary of the Treas
ury, having removed himself from that
office, no useful purpose would be
served by continuing the investigation Of
the charges filed by Wright Patman.
I'VE desire to stress that the action
Of the undersigned is based on that
reason alone, particularly when the law
in question is not applicable to the
Office now held by Mr.. Mellon"
The House was only sparsely attended
when the report was adopted, and the
attitude of the members was in sharp
contrast with the tenseness which pre-
vailed when Patman stood on the floor
month ago and made his accusations
The Texan silently sat beside Sum-
ners during the few minutes required
to read and adopt the report.
Evening star., 1932-02-14
NAZI WILL OPPOSE
Won HINDENBURG
President Refuses to Sacrifice
Bruening for Support Of
Socialists.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, February DENOMINATION
of . National Socialist candidate to run
against President Paul Won Hindenburg
in the next German election was indi-
Gated tonight by Nazi announcement
that the President had declined to ac-
cept q demand of right wing parties
that he sacrifice Chancellor Heinrich
Bruening as the price for their sup
port
Leaders Of the "Steel Helmet" o.
ganizAtion conferred with President Won
Hindenburg ostensibly to renew the
Nationalist insistence that he would
have to dismiss Chancellor Bruening
from the government If they agreed
to an extension of his term. He was
reported to have said that he consid-
cred himself the sole candidate Of all
parties save the Communists.
In view of his reported decision not
to be a candidate II the Nationalists
put up cne. definite pronouncement
from the President as to hts plans was
anxiously awaited.
Several names have been mentioned
in political gossip regarding likely Nazi
candidates, including Prince August
Wilhelm, fourth son Of the former
Kaiser.