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Evening star., 1933-04-12
TRIO IMPRISONED
FOR OBSCENE SHOW
Two Men and Woman Are SEN
fenced After Kensington
Performance.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, April 12.-Ben-
iamin NJ. Livingston, Fred Edwards
Casey and Gertrude Cole, all Of Balti-
more, who were charged in Circuit
Court here with maintaining COM
mon law nuisance by putting on
an obscene show in the Armory at
Kensington the night of March IS, were
sentenced today by Judge Charles W..
Woodward to five, four and three years.
respectively, in the Maryland House OF
Correction.
In passing sentence on Livingston,
who admitted furnishing part of the
talent" for the objectionable show,
Judge Woodward characterized the af-
fair as the most outrageous ever to oc-
cur in the county within his knowledge.
As Judge Woodward finished sentenc-
ing Livingston, the defendants wife
created a scene by dramatically appeal
ing to the jurist in behalf Of her hus-
band and was led from the court room
by Sheriff Richard H. Lansdale and
others.
The appeals of Julius Rosenfeld and
Edmund d. Ault of Washington, who were
recently were found guilty in Police
Court here on charges of being con-
nected with the Kensington show, were
dismissed when Judge woodward was
informed that the fines imposed by
Judge Donald A. Delashmutt In the
lower court had been paid. Rosenfeld
paid a fine of $3.50 and costs and Ault
$50 and costs.
In the case Of Powell Hayener OF
Kensingtcn. who was convicted in Po-
lice Court of participation in the per-
formance, 1t VISA stated that sentence
had been suspended by Judge deLash-
mutt and the appeal in that case also
was dismissed.
Ralph Pines Washington, who also
was arrested in connection with the
show, pleaded guilty in Police Court
; this morning and paid a fine Of $3.50
end costs, imposed by Judge deLash-
mutt.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
CENTRAL HIGH AWARDED
LAFAYETTE SCHOLARSHIP
One of Ten Schools to Get Addi-
tional Yearly Grant of
5000.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special dispatch 10 Inc Star.
EASTON. Pa, April 12-Central
High School of Washington is one of
10 schools to receive an additional
award to be given men en-
tering Lafayette College as freshmen
next year, Lafayette trustees announced
today.
The amount of the scholarship is
5000 per year, renewable at the end Of
each year provided the holder Of it
maintains a satisfactory record in col
lege. The person receiving the award
must be in the upper two-flfths Of his
class in respect to scholastic standing.
must be in genuine need of pecuniary
aid, and must have other qualifications
of character and ability which will per-
NIT the principal of the high scshool
to recommend him for admission with
out qualification.
Each one of the high schools which
have been assigned scholarship have
been asked to submit the names Of two
or three candidates. From these the
college will make its choice and the
winner Of the scholarship win be an
nounced at the high school commence
ment exercises.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
IOWA HOUSE APPROVES
LEGAL BEER MEASURE
Vote of IS to 43, After Stubborn
Fight From Drys, Sends Bill to
Senate for Action.

By the Associated Press.
DES MONIES, April 12.-The Iowa
House yesterday passed the bill legal
izing 80 per cent beer by vote of
IS to 49,
The measures now goes to the Senate.
The bill provides for the nanufac-
ture and sale, under close supervision,
of the 80 per cent alcoholic content
beverage.
Vote on the bill followed prolonged
debate and stubborn resistance on the
part of the drys. More than score
Of speakers took the floor to debate
the measure, each being limited to 10
minutes.
1t had all the aspects Of party
contest in the speaking. All but one of
the speakers opposing the measure
were Republicans, and all those argu-
ing in its favor were Democrats.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
WILKINS AND BALCHEN
WILL SAIL FOR NORWAY
Plan Departure Tomorrow in Prep
aration for Ellsworth Transat- ,
lantic Plane Expedition.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 12.-Sir Hubert
wilkins and Bernt Balchen will sail for
Bergen, Norway. tomorrow to begin
preparations for the Lincoln Ellsworth
transatlantic expedition.
Ellsworth and others in the party will
meet Sir Hubert and Balchen at Bergen
in June. The expedition will sail for
Dunedin, New Zealand, thence to the
South polar region.
Balchen, co-pilot in the transatlantic
flight of Richard E. Byrd's America" !"
will sail on the liner Stavangefjord, on
which has been loaded the an-metal
monoplane in which Ellsworth as OBJ
server and Balchen as pilot plan to fly
back and forth across Antarctica.
Sir Hubert and Lady wilkins will go
to Southampton on the Empress of Brit
ain, the explorer proceeding on to Der.
gen.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
ANAL YSES SHOW BEER
AVERAGES ITS PER CENT
First Official Report Made to
Bureau of Industrial
Alcohol.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 1.-THE average
alcoholic content of the new beer on
sale in New York was fixed at 81 by
weight and "a per cent by volume to-
day in the first report of the Bureau of
Industrial Alcohol of the Treasury De-
partment on the subject.
The law permits beer of 80 per cent
by weight and per cent by volume.
William B. Moss, supervisor Of the
bureau, announced series of tests
showed the alcoholic percentage of the
various brands ranged from 3 per cent
by weight downward to 90.
The United States Brewers 'Associa-
tion, headed by Col. Jacog Rupert, an
nounced its analyses showed conclusively
the new brew was OF excellent quality.
Health Commissioner Wynne said
1851 additional beer-selling permits
were issued during the day, bringing
the total up to 1888 in the city.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
DEBATE IN SENATE
HITS FARM RELIEF
Hopes for Final Congressional
Approval This Week Are
Dimmed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
One of the sharpest farm relief con-
troversies of the present session was
brewing today as the Senate reached
the Simpson price fixing plan which
has been written into the administra-
ton bill
This threatened storm developed at
a time when the Roosevelt program for
increasing the farmers income and
lifting the burden Of mortgages was
humping along on a rough road sprin-
kled with demands for currency ex-
pansion as a means for restoring agri-
culture.
House Vote Nears.
The mortgage section of the admin
istration bill Is expected to reach a
final vote in the House tomorrow. where
debate has been limited and amend
ments outlawed, except those offered
by the Agriculture Committee. House
approval, Of this section OF the farm
relief program was forecast as certain.
But hopes for final congressional ap-
proval this week of the entire program
were dimmed by the roaring Senate
debate which yesterday included a
heated exchange on President Roose-
velt's efforts so far to achieve economic
recovery.
Senator Robinson Of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader, spoke out boldly for
the administration. saying Mr.. Roose-
veit had lied in the accomplishment OF
more during the four weeks he has
been in Office than has ever been ac-
complished during comparable period.
His speech was provoked by what he
termed unfair" criticism Of the Presi-
dent by Senators Long, Demo. rat,
Louisiana, and Robinson, Republican,
Indiana.
Price Fixing Plan.
The price fixing plan, on which debate
was to be opened in the Senate today,
was written into the administration
farm bill by the Senate Agriculture
Committee. Advocated by John A.
Simpson, president of the National
Farmers Union, it would permit fixing
of a minimum price to insure the
farmer the cost of production on that
part of his crop going into domestic
consumption.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, who
would administer the farm bill, was
understood to be strictly opposed to the
Simpson plan. Democratic leaders who
have been getting only lukewarm sup
port from many in the party ranks
hoped to be able to hold the administra-
tion bill to only those features recon-
mended by Mr.. Roosevelt and Secretary
Wallace
Currency expansion was advocated in
both houses yesterday, but thus far no
agreement has been reached on the
form of imitation to be proposed.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
SLASBEsMAYFORcE'
drive FOR LIBRARY.
"Book Begging" Seen as One
Way to Avoid Closing
Branches.
Continued From First Page.)

rxy out, unless stricken items are re-
stored TO the bill by TIE Senate and ap-
croved by the House.
The appropriation far purchase OF
books this year is S54,50c For the 1884
scar the bill as passed by the House
:gFries 5000. If the Sl1,526 could be
transferred from the book purchase
item to the salary item, 1t would cut
1iie present standard of buying books
!rearlr in half, but would allow the
srancEes to stay open.
To mske up some part of the depleted
book appropriations, DR.. Bowern1an said
he would favor a bookkeeping cam
paign. He said he looks upon this
with some distaste, as 1t Is sometimes
almost as expensive to beg books as to
buy them. 1t would mean that grea!
many out. ,,f date badly bound and
that the labor of sorting out the wheat
from the cfiaff would be added to the
now over-worked staff. So
Dr. Bowerman pointed out that in
buying books for library 1t Is often
absolutely essential to buy expensive
books, and the cheaper reprints, sold
after a book has been in print some
time, very often offer no help. A
reader would naturally expect to find,
for instance, all of the published vol
urnes Of the Dictionary of National
Biography as soon es they appear
These books cost $12.50 per volume and
Readers Are Increasing.
Not only is the library confronted
with it's routine problems, but the great
national depression has enormously In
creased the use of books. Since 1929
the circulation of books at the public
library has increased 66 per cent, the
registration of readers entitled to draw
books has increased u per cent and
the staff of library workers but Is
per cent, DR.. Bowerman said. AT pres
ent 1t is necessary to close the library
on all public holidays, and it is pos
sible to open on Sunday only from
to o'clock The main library is
closed Fridays at / o'clock and the
branch libraries on Saturdays at the
same time. Previously all branches
and the central library were opened
every week day from 9 am. to pm.
and on Sunday and public holidays
from to 8 pm.
The great increases in circulation
have come despite the shorter hours in
which the library Is available for use.
The library had $4,000 registered read
ers in 1929, and 10000 in 1882. The
book circulation was 100000 in 1929.
and 2,50O.000 in, 1882 An increasing
number of adult readers, DR.. Bowerman
said, list themselves on their library
cards as having no employment. ,
II the branch libraries are to go,
DR.. Bcwerman said, seven trained
library workers and two janitors would
be thrown out of work. He said that
all of his library workers now, with !
the exception of some pages and Junior /
employees, were graduates of colleges
and library training schools.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Insanity Plea Given
To Save Woman on
kidnapping Charge
Refused to Rent Houses
She Owned, Lawyers
Tell Court.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
20 LOS ANGELES, April 12.-Testimony
that Luella Pearl Hammer, accused OF
kidnapping Mrs. Mary B. Skeele, IS,
once owned six houses, but refused to
rent them, has been presented by her
attorneys in their contention that she
Is insane.
The testimony was given by J. ].
Reimer, her brother-in-law, who also
said she imagines sound detectors have
been placed in her cell to record not
only her speech. but her thoughts.
Three county jail matrons said this
was true. Four alienists testified Miss
Hammer is sane.
She pleaded not guilty by reason Of
insanity. The case may reach the jury
today.
z. H. Van Dorm. a co-defendant,
pleaded guilty and was sentenced to q
prison term Of 10 years to life.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
ADMINISTRATOR NAMED
FOR u. S. FARM LOANS
Morgenthau Selects Francis W.
Peck of st. Paul as Credit
Commissioner.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Henry Morgenthau, jr., chairman of
the Farm Board, announced today that
Francis w. Peck of st. Paul has been
selected to become cooperative loan
commissioner when the new farm
credit administration is established
May 27.
Peck will direct most of the loaning
functions now handled by the Farm
Board. Morgenthau, who is to be gov
ernor of the new credit administration,
will be in charge of the whole farm loan
program.
Peck is director of agricultural ex-
tension at the University of Minnesota
College of Agriculture. He is 48 and
native of Minnesota
Evening star., 1933-04-12

%. Continued From First Page)
Meyer, including Angus Mclean, for
mer Governor of North Carolina.
Stewart Mentioned.
The New York Herald Tribune, prior
to announcement cf Meyers resigna-
ton, stated this morning that reports
are current in Wall Street that Walter
W.. Stewart would receive the appoint
ment.
Stewart is chairman of the Board
of Case, Pomeroy & Co., investment
firm. The Herald Tribune also said
Wall Street reports mention Stewards
name in connection with an appoint
ment as Under Secretary of the Treas
ury.
In 1881 Mr.. Stewart served as the
American member of the Special Ad-
visory Committee of the Bank for In
ternational Settlements at Basel to in
vestigate Germany's ability to resume
reparations payments under the Young
plan.
From 1928 to 1880 he was economic
advisor of the Bank Of England and in
1922 he began a three-yeaF term as
director of the division of research
and statistics of the Federal Reserve
Board.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
CONTINUES SPEED FLIGHT

ORAN, Algeria, April IL (P).-Capt.
William M. Lancaster, a British Air
Force reserve officer, who is trying to
establish a new record for the England
Capetown flight, arrived here at pm.
last night and continued toward Gao at
midnight.
He seeks to better the time Of 4 days,
6 hours and SIS minutes set by Mrs. Amy
johnson Mollison.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
COLORED ASSOCIATION
OPPOSES BUDGET CUTS
Woman's Washington Chapter Asks
Congress to Refuse to Adopt
Drastic Reductions.

Congress was petitioned yesterday by
che National Association Of Colored
Women, Washington Chapter, to re-
fuse to adopt the drastic cuts recon-
mended in the District budget.
The reductions. the petition stated,
would throw 5000 laborers and mechan-
les out Of work; would impair to dam
gerous degree the efficiency of the Po-
lice apd Fire Departments and seriously
hamper the work of the public schools,
Office of Public Buildings and Public
Grounds, public libraries. Fairgrounds
and community centers, the Tubercular
Hospital and Children's Sanatorium
and other agencies.
In conclusion, the organization re-
quested an opportunity to be heard.
The communication was addressed to
Senator Elmer Thomas, Democrat, or
OklanOma.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
ACTRESS WINS DIVORCE
Eleanor Boardman Granted Decree
From King Vidor.

LOS ANGELES, April IL (R.-A di-
vorce was granted yesterday to Eleanor
Boardman, film actress. She testified
she found her husband, King Vidor.
movie director, in another woman's
apartment in his dressing gown and
slippers.
She said Vidor earns never less than
$50. 900 a picture" and makes two or
three pictures year.
Ina property settlement Miss Board
man was allowed approximately $500 a
month for upkeep Of her Beverly Hills
home and $500 a month for support of
the couples two children, Antonia,
and Belinda, 2.
The couple married in September,
1926, and separated last June.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Mexican Trains Collide.

MEXICO CITY, April IL GR-Sev-
eral persons were shaken up late Men
day night when a freight train ran into
the rear end OF the night international
pass niger train so miles outside Mexico
City and demolished the observation
car.
The tr in carried Pullmans for San
Antonio, Tex, and st. Louis, Mo.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Moroccan Troops Desert.

PIRMASENS, Germany, April IL
Np)-Several Morcccans belonging to
the 22d Algerian Sharpshooters' Regi-
ment deserted to German territory yes
terdsy, complaining of bad treatment.
They were taken into custody. tPirma-
sens is in the Rhine palatinate, near
the French border.)
Evening star., 1933-04-12
TWO HELD IN SLAYING
Houston, Mo-, Farmer Killed by
Shot Fired Through Window.

Shot Fired Through Window.
HOUSTON, Mo-, April IL (R.-Two
men were charged with first degree
murder here late yesterday, accused of
fatally shooting George Clark, 50-year-
old farmer, as the climax of a feud of
several years standing.
Clark was killed Monday night as he
was playing game of checkers in his
home with his son, Covert.
The murder charges named Sam
Shelton and Date Pamperien, a neigh
bor; They are being held without bond
in the county jail
Sheriff A. p. Johnson said Shelton
admitted firing rifle at Clark through
q window after being urged to do so by
Pamperien.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
Detective Adams Quick Perception.

plished now, may I
ask?"
The professor
chuckled good ma
t u r e d lv. You
know how I've
drilled tie impor-
tance of obserW-
ton into them
well, the Carter ar
rest was the result
of that. It wasn't
a serious affair,
but it might have
been.
I'D e t e C tiv e
Charles Adams and
Bill Jefries were
driving their squad
car toward the sta
Evening star., 1933-04-12
SLEEP THROUGH FIRE
Man Undisturbed as Blaze Burns
Wall Only Few Feet Away.

CLOVIS, N. Mex, April IL (P.-Ros-
coe Starners Is sound sleeper.
Flames burned q hole in a wall only
a few feet from his head without awak-
ening him. He was still asleep when
f1remen entered his house and brought
the blaze under control.
Evening star., 1933-04-12
ORDER OF DOCTOR
SHOWN BY P|ERSON
Police Official Introduces Pre-
scription at Trial for
Intoxication.

After two high police officials had
admitted an officer has the right to
drink whisky on the prescription Of
reliable physician. medical testimony
was introduced today at the trial Of
Capt. Joseph w. Pierson that he showed
no signs of intoxication an hour after
he had been suspended from duty
March IA for alleged drunkenness.
Dr. LA Cornet, 1927 North Capitol
street, told the Police Trial Board he
examined the suspended second precinct
captain an hour after Assistant Supt.
L. I. H. Edwards and Inspector Trad
deus r. Bean had called at his home
and suspended him, and that he showed
no symptoms of intoxication.
Prescription introduced.
Both Edwards and Bean admitted
under cross examination that it Is not
in violation of the police manual for
an officer to drink prescription. O'Shea
then introduced in evidence pre-
scription given the police captain by
DR.. Samuel NJ Sacks, 1000 M street,
the morning of March IA.
INSPECTORS Edwards and Bean, accom-
panied by DR. w. H. r, Brandenburg,
police physician, visited Persons home,
43 T street, after Supt. Ernest w.
Brown had received an anonymous call
that the captain was in bed drunk, ac-
cording to their testimony. Pierson had
been on sick leave for two days under
orders of DR.. Brandenburg, they said.
He was suffering from a bad cold and
grippe.
Character Witnesses.
Fourteen character witnesses testified
in behalf of Capt. Pierson, including
Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford,
former police chief: John F. Costello,
Democratic national committeeman for
the District; Assistant Supt. OF Police
Frank s. w. Burke and two retired po-
lice officers Inspector William H. Har-
rison and Capt. c. H. Bremmerman.
The trial board is composed of In
spectors William G. Stott, Ogden T..
Davis and James F. Beckett. Assist
ant Corporation Counsels Robert E.
Lynch and Edward NJ Welliver are in
charge Of the prosecution.
Evening star., 1933-04-12

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Evening star., 1933-04-12
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Dr. Fordney is professor of criminology at
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confronted with particularly banning cases.
This problem has been taken from his case
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-12-11
Dramatic Grid Career Is
Ended With Roper'S Death

ing dressing room talks between
halves-talks that transformed APP
parently beaten elevens into fight
ing teams.
Football is 80 per cent fight" he
insisted. He drilled this into his
teams; also the axiom: "A team
that won't be beaten, can't be
beaten"
Although there we're no rules
against running with fumbled ball
in his day, it was the custom for
players to fall on a funbled ball
and cling to it for dear life. Roper
changed this at Princeton. Don't
fall on it," he would shout. Pick
it up and run run! rum"
Born in Philadelphia, of Virginia
stock, Roper attended William Penn
Charter school here, later attending
Princeton. There he was end, played
varsity baseball and was basketball
captain.
Soon after graduation in 1902 ILL
ness forced him to go south. He
went to Virginia Military Institute,
where he coached football with
great success. Later he returned to
Princeton as end coach, remaining
in that capacity until 1909, when he
went to the University of Missouri
as head coach. He was back at
Princeton as head coach in 1910.
From 1912 to 1919 his time was so
occupied with politics, he gave up
coaching. He returned to Princeton
as head coach in 1919, and held ths
post until 1890