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The Washington times., 1934-12-14

when Mrs. w. A. Bell, wife of
the defendants brother, sent
over bowl of salad and some
sandwiches. Deacon Bell went
into the kitchen and again
sprinkled the white powder -
she said, and the salad was taken
to Mrs. Bell, who refused to
eat it.
Nurse Viola Jones yesterday
testified that she tasted the salad
and that it was so bitter she
threw it out.
Also on Grapefruit
On another occasion, Deacon
Bell put some of the powder on
a piece of grapefruit. Mrs. Bell
ate some of the fruit, complained
of a bitter, burning taste and
refused to eat more.
The cook. who has been EN-.
ployed in the Bell home six years,
said that twice she saw Deacon
Bell standing at the ice box, shak-
ing the bottles of meat juice which
was given to his wife.
The day Of the trap" last sum-
mer when a bottle of Mrs. Bells
sleeping medicine was poisoned,
Deacon Bell went down in the
basement, the cook said. There she
heard him knocking on a tin can,
she testified. Then he came up
stairs. and went into his wife's
bathroom. He remained in there
about 10 minutes, she said, then
went into the front room to listen
to the radio.
Charged to Firm
Previous testimony showed that
the bottle of medicine in the bath.
room was poisoned. A tin can Of
cyanide was found in the base.
ment.
One of the highlightS yesterday
came when w. F. Bynum, Rich
mond automobile company official,
testified that Deacon Bell paid for
car purchased by Mrs. McMul-
lin in April, 1882.
Bought Her q Car
Over strenuous objections by
the defense attorneys, Mr.. Bynum
was permitted to testify that his
company received a check for
$705 from the churchman in pay.
ment for an eight-cylinder sedan.
Mrs. McMullin, when called to
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
Library Group
To Hold Parley

The Silver Spring Library Asso'
citation will hold it's annual meet
ing and election of officers dur
ing the last week of January.
A nominating committee com
posed of Mrs. Howard Dozier,
chairman; Arthur L. BlakeSlee,
Mrs. H. H. Hewlett, Allen H.
Gardner and Miss Lillian Schied,
has been appointed to prepare a
slate of officers for election.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
d. G.. Infant Dies
OF Water Burns

Scalded when he fell into a
tub of boiling water December
8, William Brusch. 23-month-old
son of Mrs. Lydia Brusch, of the
700 block A st. N. E.. died today
in Casualty Hospital.
According to Mrs. Brusch, her
son was playing in a back room
of their home, where a large
tub of water was boiling. She
heard his screams and running
to the room found him uncon-
scious in the Scalding water.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
d. C. Lawyer Cited
InU.S. Park Deals

Allegations that a prominent
political figure, a Washington
lawyer, is offering his Influence"
to landowners in the Shenandoah
National Park area to prevent
transfer of their land to the
State, are being investigated by
Federal agents. 1t was reported
today.
Property Of the owners is being
condemned by the Government so
that it can be transferred to the
State and made a part Of the
Shenandoah National Park de-
Velopment.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
Radio, Fee Taken
By Fake Repairer

Miss Margaret Perry, of the
500 block Third st. N. w., told
police today that she had lost
her radio to a fake radio repair
man. The man, she reported,
came to her door posing as a
representative of a radio repair
shop in the 500 block of F St.
N. W., and had failed to return
the instrument. A check by
police revealed that no such re-
pair shop existed. The man also
collected $120 for a fee, Mrs.
Perry reported.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
AUSTRIA

VIENNA, Dec. IA G.N.S)-Fe'
lix Weingartner. noted Austrian
conductor, today was appointed
director Of the Vienna Opera,
succeeding Klemenz Kraus. The
latter left for Berlin to take the
place Of Wilhelm F'urtwaengler
as conductor of the Berlin Phil.
harmonic. Mr.. Furtwaengler re.
signed in a quarrel with Nazi
authorities.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
The State VS.. E. G.. Bell
From the second count of the indictment returned
by special grand jury in Fredericksburg.

The grand jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid
do further present that Edward G. Bell in said city, on to-
w.t. the first day of August 1884, did feloniously and
malciousy attempt to administer to one Madge w. Bell
quantity certain poison and posons tow arsenic potas
siu cyanide conium ychnne and other posons the char
poisons might be then and there taken with said food drink
and medicine had been prescribed and prepared for
poisons might then there taken with said food drink
and medicine by said Madge W. Bell, with intent thereby
feonousy and maciousy to inure and kill the said Madge
Bell against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth
of Virginia"
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
WORLD NEWS

blame each other for fatal skir.
mishes between their respective
troops near Ualual Wells in Soma.
liland. the Italian government
announced today that 10 Abys-
Sinian soldiers had been counted
dead in the front lines of the
conflict scenes. Furthermore,
Italian airplane pilots reported
the road between Ualual and Abo
was covered with dead and in
jured soldiers.
Italian troops seized 105 rifles
and 10 horses, and occupied the
entire encampment of the ETH.
opian governor of Scifare, they
reported.
Meanwhile the diplomatic stu.
alton remained tense.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
TREASURY CONDITION

BY International News Service
Treasury balance as of Decem'
ber, IL, $1,611,872,545.76; internal
revenue, 5000, 9,861.79; customs re.
ceiptS, $12,876,7 1869.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
HOPEFUL
FOR FULL j. 8.
PAY JAN. |
A. F. of L. President Spends
20 Minutes With President
Discussing Labor Matters
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CONTINUED From Page y
ton Of the full pay check as
of January l."
President Green declared he
thought there was enough senti-
ment in Congress to insure pass
age of an act that would restore
the pay as of the first of the
year. He said he would seek an
opportunity to lay the matter be.
fore President Roosevelt soon.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14

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FRANCE

PARIS, Dec. IA 0.N.SO.-The
government of Premier Pierre-Eti-
enne Flandin scored a victory to-
day when the Chamber of Deputies
voted the wheat reform bill, 3S7
to ITS. M. Flandin had demanded
passage of the bill to the extent
of warming the chamber he would
take the issue to a general election
if necessary.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14
ITALY

ROME, Dec. IA GN.SO-While
Italy and Abyssinia continued to
The Washington times., 1934-12-14

PARIS, Dec. IA G.N.S.).-An-
other sensation came to light in
France today with the arrest in
GraSse of Johannes Lykkedal
Moeller. Danish financier, who is
accused of real estate frauds
amounting to 2OO,O0O,O0O francs
about $12,0O0,000). Moeller was
alleged to have operated through
IL companies organized in France.
The Washington times., 1934-12-14

PARIS, Dec. IA G.N.S)-France's
note informing the United States
she is unable" to pay tomcrrow's
instalment of her debt was trans
mitted today to Ambassador Andre
De Laboulaye in Washington to be
turned over to the State Depart
ment.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Concert Thursday at
Vireinia Hiehlands

The Skidalto Choristers. Mrs Hugh
A. Allen directing. will be heard in
their initial concert Thursday evening
at o'clock in the Community Hall
in Virginia Highlands. Va. The pres
entation will be benefit affair.
Features of the program will be
chorus of 25 young girls in costume,
called the "Sunbonnet Sues" while
another group of children will sing
Cherry Blossom Time in Washing
ton" composed by Miss Irma Won
Lackey. Additional features will in
clude a group of songs by the Pour
Musketeers" - namely. Mr. Alvin
Thorpe, Mr. Hugh Allen, jr.: Mr..
Donald Sheehan and Mr.. Robert
Sheehan-and a fancy dance by Miss
Elaine Miller Of Alexandria. The
soloists will be Mrs. Frank Townsend
Tracy and Dr. c. w. Shilling, U. S. N.
Mrs. Hugh A. Allen, who is director
of the group, is the choir director at
the Calvary Methodist Protestant
Church in Aurora Hills, Va.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Women in Public Life
Guests of Honor

To the list of women in official life
who will be guests of honor and
speakers at the annual banquet of
Columbian Women of the George
Washington University on Friday,
has been added the name of Mrs.
Harold L. Ickes, wife of the Secre-
tary of Interior, who will speak on her
experiences as a woman legislator.
Mrs. Elwood P. Mercy, president of
the Twentieth Century Club. also will
be a guest of honor The Twentieth
Century Club has co-operated with
Columbian Women in a number of
projects. 1t completed the fund for
the Columbian Women Scholarship,
which is named in honor of the late
Lillian Young Heron, who was an
active member of both groups. Under
the guidance of its garden section.
OF which Mrs. Benjamin Smith is
chairman, the Twentieth Century
Club created the tea garden in the
rear of the University Home Eco
nomics Building
The complete group of honor guests
for the banquet includes Mrs. George
H. Dern, wife of the Secretary of
War; Mrs. IckeS, Mrs. Emily Newell
Blair, Representative Virginia Jenckes
OF Indiana, Representative Marion
Clark Of New York, Mrs. Lucille Foster
McMillin, Miss Fay Bentley, Judge
OF the Juvenile Court of the District
OF Columbia, and Mrs. Morey.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Washington Resident
Attended Lafayette Club

At the entertainment at the Del
monico on Thursday night, given by
the Club des Annales, under the aus
pices of Judge Walter P. Gardner,
president of the Society TO the Amer
ioan Friends of Lafayette" at which
Comte Rene de Chambrun, great
great-grandson of Lafayette was the
guest speaker, Mrs. G. G. Calhoun of
Washington, who has just finished
her book entitled "A knight of Lib
erty," which is going soon to appear,
was invited to speak and was intro
duced by Comte de Chambrun to the
distinguished audience.
Mrs. CalhounS speech aroused
much enthusiasm and she was i'm
mediately invited to be honorary
member of the association, and the
American Friends of Lafayette have
offered to further the distribution of
her book that they eagerly await.
Mrs. Adolf Ladenburg followed Mrs.
Calhoun by reading some famous
personal letters of Lafayette to her
grandmother and grandfather, whose
guest he was on several occasions.
After the entertainment, Mrs Laden
burg took her guests, among whom
Nine. Villemin, preSidente of the An
males, and Mrs Calhoun to a supper
party, at the home of Comdr. Spaf-
ford, U. S. N, at IA East Sixty
third street, where it was decided
that two garden parties will be
given early in June for the pur-
pose of raising the proper fund in
order to enable two American scholars
to go to France to acquaint them
selves more fully with historical datas
concerning Lafayette. The eligibility
of the scholars to be decided upon
by the Society of the American
Friends of Lafayette
The garden parties should feature
the period of Louis XVI and the
Petit -Trianon.
Judge Gardner further announced
that through the efforts of his So
ciety, the United States Congress will
observe the anniversary of the death
of Lafayette May 20. President
Roosevelt has promised to follow the
example of John Quincy Adams by
making an address on the occasion.
Mrs. Calhoun also promised to ar
range for the garden party at her
home, Rossdhu Castle. early in June.
and other gardens near New York are
now under consideration for New
York.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Historic Alexandria
Homes and Gardens Open

The tour of the historic homes and
gardens in this vicinity, which will
take place this week, commencing
tomorrow, will be under the auspices
of the Alexandria Garden Club. Mrs.
Taylor Burke is chairman of the
Publicity Committee and Mrs. Thomas
B. Cochran is chairman for the tour.
Among the houses and gardens
which will be open to the public for
small fee will be Gadsby's Tavern
in Alexandria, with its fine collection
of Colonial tavern furniture and its
quantity restored garden; Woodlawn,
home of Nellie Gusts, now owned by
Mrs. Oscar w. Underwood: Rippon
Lodge, erected by Richard Blackburn
in 1725, the oldest house now stand
ing in this section Of Virginia, now
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. Wade H.
Ellis; Wellington, home of Tobias
Lear, secretary to Gen. Washington,
now the home of Mr. and Mrs. NAL
colin Matheson; Gunston Hall, home
of George Mason, author of the Bill
of Rights, owned by Mr.. Lewis
Hertle; Holm Hall, owned by Mr..
Harley Payton Wilson, and Ordleigh,
owned by Mr.. and Mrs. William Ord.
Members of the Alexandria Garden
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Benefit Tuesday for
Church Near Waterloo

A benefit concert is planned for
Tuesday evening in Trinity Parish
Hall, near Waterloo. Md. when the
program will be given by Miss Nancy
Byrd Turner, well known author and
poet. and Mrs. Eugenia Arnold. con-
tralto. The program will begin at
8 O'Clock and the concert is sponsored
by Mrs. Claude E. Arnold of 1881
Calvert street northwest and the pro-
ceedS will go to All Saints Chapel
at Annapolis Junction and Trinity
Church on the Washington Baltimore
Boulevard. of which the Rev. H. c.
FOSbroke is rector
Miss Turner is formerly of Vir-
ginia and Maryland and now lives
in Boston, and is a member of the
Peterboro artist colony in the White
Mountains. Mrs. Arnold is a Balti-
more soloist and has the distinction
of being the only contralto of Balti-
more to represent Maryland at the
Sesquicentennial Exposition in Phila-
delphia. She is soloist at the First
Church of Christ, Scientist, and of
the Maryland Avenue Synagogue in
Baltimore.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Music Followed by Tea
Tomorrow at A. A. u. w,

Phyllis Fergus. composer and chair
man of the music division of the
National Pen Women's League, will
present several members of the COM
posers' group in a musical program
tomorrow at the American Associa-
ton of University Women at 4
O'Clock. Mrs. Karl Fenning will be
hostess of the afternoon and will
be assisted by Mrs. Ernest I. Lewis,
Mrs. Clinton L. Doggett. Mrs. Karl
D. Loos and Mrs. Laurence Radford.
At the tea tables will be Mrs. George
Roth, Miss Ella Given. Mrs. Howard
D. Nichols. Miss Sarah P. Grogan.
Phyllis Fergus has extended to mem
bers of the Washington branch of
the American Association of Univer-
sig Women an invitation to attend
ne two composer concerts scheduled
for $50 o'clock this evening at the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and Tuesday at Barker Hall.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
District Pen League
Reception Friday Night

The District Of Columbia League
of American Pen Women will hold a
reception Friday, April 27, in the
league studio, 1706 L street northwest,
honoring the new national president
of the Pen Women, who will be elected
this week, the national executive
board and the delegates who are in
Washington attending the seventh
biennial convention of the League OF
American Pen Women.
Receiving with DR.. Frances Moon
Butts, president of the District league.
and Miss Catharine Jacobs, chairman
of the Reception Committee, will be
Mrs. Theodore Tiller, DR.. Julia A.
Schelling, Miss Catharine Forney,
Mrs. Estelle Douglas, Mrs. Elizabeth
Burgess Hughes Collister, Mrs. Sade
Catherine Coles, Miss Susan Baker,
Mis- Marguerite Merigold. Mrs. Rich
ard r. Lukens, Miss Clara Mander-
schied, Miss Ruby Nevins, Mrs.
Edward c. Moran, jr.: Mrs. Marshall
Hugh Irish, Mrs. Clarence Lee Miller.
Mrs. Anne Manchester, Mrs. William
Walton Badgley, Mrs. Nina Swain
Clark, Mrs. Erwin H. Shinn, Mrs.
Phyllis Moore Gallagher. DR.. Jean
Stephenson and DR.. Mary Meek
Atkeson Moore. Mrs. Mae Murray
WEIGH and Mrs. Lucia Hanna Hadley,
first vice president, are in charge of
studio arrangements. There will be
a musical program under the direction
of Mrs. Bess Heath Olmstead.
Dr. Wightman F. Melton, editor o<
Bozart and Contemporary Verse and
professor of English at Oglethorpe
University in Georgia, addressed the
poetry group of the league last even
ing at the league studio. Mrs. Edward
j. Moran, jr. chairman of the poetry
group, presided. Other activities of
the District Pen Women for the past
week included a meeting of the dele
gates and alternates to the national
convention held Thursday evening
under the direction of Miss Mar
guerite Merigold, chairman of dele
gates, with DR.. Jean Stephenson,
parliamentarian, as speaker Miss
Mary Hedrick was at home to the
French group Wednesday afternoon
at 1921 N street northwest.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
CURLEY TO SPEAK
TOCATHOL|C BODY
SodaIity Union of Washing.
ton Plans Elaborate Ses.
sion April 80.

Archbishop Curley will be the prin-
cipal speaker at a meeting of Catho-
lie Action in GonZaga auditorium at
8 pm, April 80, it was announced
last night. Elaborate plans have been
made for the session by the Sodality
Union of Washington.
A resume of rural school conditions
in the archdiocese of Baltimore will
be given by Rev. Horace B. Nc
Kenna, S. j., whose church, st. Peter
Claver's, Ridge, Md, burned recently.
Rev. Joseph v. Buckley, spiritual
director of the Sodality Union, also
will speak. His subject will be "The
Maryland Tercentenary."
Brief reports showing the growth
OF Catholic Action in the Sodalfty
Union during the past few years will
be submitted by the various commit
tee chairmen.
Those in charge of arrangements for
the meeting include Mrs. j. Floyd
Maley, Mrs. Harry Kirk, Miss Mary
Walsh, Miss Beatrice Deeds, Miss
Alice White and Mrs. Regina SINH.
A musical program will be rendered
by the Sodality Union Choir, accom-
panied by Miss Margaret Breen at
the piano. An orchestra will play.
Miss Mary Mattingly is president of
the Sodality Union.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Texas Club Closes
Season Tomorrow

The final reception and ball of the
season will be held by the Texas Club
at the Shoreham Hotel tomorrow eve
ming. After a brief business session
and election of officers for the en-
suing year a program of vocal and
instrumental music will be rendered
by Miss Elsie Craft and Mr.. Raoul
Da Costa.
Dancing will begin Immediately
after the conclusion of the program.
The president of the club, Representa-
tive R. Ewing Thomason, extends a
cordial invitation to all Texans, resid-
ing or visiting in Washington, to be
present.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Society of MayAower
Descendants Entertains

The officers and board of assistants
of the Society of Mayflower Descend
ants in the District of Columbia gave
a luncheon Tuesday at the Dodge
Hotel in compliment to the governor
general of the general society of May
flower Descendants, Mr.. Burnham
Standish Colburn and Mrs Colburn
Tuesday evening the society held a
reception in honor of Mr.. Colburn and
the out-of-town Mayflower Descend
ants attending the D. A. R. Congress.
DR.. Thomas E Healy of George
town University addressed the society
on national defense and music was
furnished by a section of the United
States Marine Band.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Tortoise on New Fiji Coin.

Just why tortoise should be de-
picted on coin in these times of fast
moving money, is being conjectured
by those who have seen the new coins
of the Fiji Islands. The piece is worth
approximately II cents. The only ex-
PLANTATION given is that the tortoise
lives In the montain country of Fiji
The shilling, valued at about Is cents,
shows a speedy Fijian barque. The
coins are part of a complete new
series.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Church May Lose Shower.

Severe frost and shortage of water
may stop the regular shower given by
the Elton, England, fire department
to the foundation Of the parish
church. The edifice, 600 years old,
stands on bank of clay, which con-
tracts in dry weather and endangers
the foundations. The prolonged
drought in the vicinity has made
waterings frequent. and its continual
ton into the cold season has increased
the problem.
Evening star., 1934-04-22

Club, who will act as hostesses at
these houses during the week, in
addition to Mrs. Burke and Mrs.
Cochran, are: Mrs. Charles F. Hol-
den, Mrs. David N. Rust, Mrs. Louis
S. Scott, Mrs. Frank Mason billiard,
Mrs. Philip Campbell, Mrs. Eliphalet
F. Andrews, Mrs. David Tucker
Brown, jr; Mrs. Rathbone Smith,
Mrs. Andrew Pickens, Mrs. Julian
7. Burke, Mrs. Gardner l.. Boothe,
Mrs. Gardrer L. Boothe, I'd; Mrs.
William j. Boothe, Mrs. D. Mauch-
lin Niven, Mrs. Aldrich Dudley, Mrs.
William B. Lloyd, Mrs. Willoughby
Reade, Mrs. Hugh MCGUIRE, Mrs.
Morris L. Horner, Mrs. Robert M.
Reese, Mrs Clarence c. Leadbeater,
Miss Elizabeth Snowden, Miss Anne
Lewis Jones, Miss Mary Lindsey and
Miss Margery Arden Hall.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
III Policemen Honored.

One hundred and seventy-seven'
New York City policemen were
awarded certificates of honor" re-
Gently by the humane society for
rescuing animals.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Two Nurseries Planned.

The Tennessee Valley Authority
plans to establish two nurseries near
Norris, Tenn, for the study of trees
and shrubs native to that section. :
Evening star., 1934-04-22
Camera Devices to Be Shown.

Time and trouble savers devised for
cameras will be exhibited at the meet
ing of the Washington Photographic
Society Tuesday evening at GIT
TWenty-third street
Evening star., 1934-04-22
String of Beads Long.

One of the longest known strings
of beads, 81 feet, 31z inches, made
of white and red shells, was found
in a prehistoric Indian village in Ari-
zona. "A
Evening star., 1934-04-22
NAVY Has Naming Plan

American battleships are named
after States and navy tugs are named
after Indian tribes.
Evening star., 1934-04-22
japanese Settling.

Japanese are settling in Brazil at
the rate of $4,000 year.
Evening star., 1934-08-09
MONEYS ATTORNEY
PREPARES NEW PLEA
Acting Gov. Merriam to Hear
Famous Bombing Case
Saturday.
By the Associated Press.

By The Associated Press.
SAN QUENTIN PRISON. Calf.
August e.--Leo Gallagher. attorney for
Tom Mooney, announced here yester-
day a new application win be pre-
sented 10 Acting Gov. Frank p. Mer-
Ram Saturday for a pardon for the
man who was convicted of murder
following the 1915 preparedness day
bombing in San Francisco. Ten per-
sons were killed and 40 injured In the
blast.
The application viii be based on
the fact that since Moneys last ap-
pleation for pardon he has been tried
and acquitted on a murder charge
also connected with the bombing
The attorney added, however,
Mooney has little hope that the Gov
ernor viii act favorably on the appli-
cation.
The acquittal referred TO involved
hitherto unused count in the indict-
ment against Mooney on which he
was tried" some months ago. The
State refused 10 present any testi-