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Evening star., 1934-06-13
AstOr's Er.Financee Returns y
Ring, Heirloom, for Apology
Threats Are Retracted ir,
Written Statement to
Miss Gillespie.
100000 32-Carat Dia.
mond Once Property of
Empress Eugene.

| BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June l3.-Young John
Jacob Astor has his ring back-the
100000 32-carat diamond he gave
Eileen Gillespie, society girl, his for
mer f1ancee.
In exchange for the ring. said Miss
Gillespie's parents, the 21-year -old
Astor, one of the worlds richest young
men, delivered a written apology for
"his language to their daughter" and
retracted threats concerning her and
her family"
With the ring, said the Gillespies,
was returned every other article re-
ceived by Miss Gillespie from Mr..
Astor except those of perishable ma
ture. which. unfortunately, could not
be returned"
The transaction was completed be-
hind locked doors IN the office of a
Fifth avenue jeweler. with attorneys
for both sides present to handle the
legal aspects of the bargain.
Wedding Set for Last Winter.
The Astor scion and Miss Gillespie,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence
Lewis Gillespie. were to have been
married last Winter. The wedding
/ date had been set and arrangements
made for brilliant affair. Then came
news that jolted Mayfair The Gill
lespies announced the wedding was
all off.
But Miss Gillespie retained the
ring, an Astor family heirloom, once
owned by the Empress Eugene.
Astor sailed on a trip around the
world ito forget"
He returned last month. said he
was wondering when he would get the
ring back and proceeded to become en-
gagged to another debutante, Ellen
Tuck French, who was to have been
bridesmaid at the Gillespie -Astor
wedding. He gave her another ring
Miss Gillespie and her parents had
| nothing to say. They still kept the
Empress Eugenie stone
Then, yesterday. from her Park ave-
nue. home Mrs. Gillespie announced
the ring and other articles had been
returned.
Text of Statement.
Inc statement Dy Mr.. ana Mrs.
Gillespie follows:
Mr.. and Mrs. Lawrence Lewis Gill
lespie state that their daughter, Miss
Eileen Gillespie, yesterday afternoon
gave back to John Jacob Astor at the
Office of Cartier, Inc, the diamond
ring which he gave her during the
period when she became engaged to
him.
Accompanying the ring was every
other article received by Miss Gillespie
from Mr.. Astor except those of
perishable nature, which unfortunately
could not be returned.
THE return of these articles was
first offered to Mr.. Astor on January
20, 1884, by letter, eight days after the
cancellation of the engagement, so
that Mr. Astor has had all this time
in which to make up his mind
whether he would comply with the
demands of the parents for a written
apology for his language to their
daughter and a retraction of his
threats concerning her and her family.
LAS Mr.. Astor has written this
apology and has said he will never
Evening star., 1934-06-13
D|LL|NGER ALIVE,
TAXI DRIVER SAYS
Chicago Man Says He Saw
Fugitive in st. Paul
tuesday.
BY the Associa ted Press.

BY the Associa ted Press.
ST PAUL, Mimi, June 13.-The
will-o-the-w -wisp trail of John Dillinger
turned back to the Northwest today
as Federal officers checked a report
seen alive.
Donald Murray. former taxicab
driver in Chicago, reported he had
seen Dillinger in Northfield, Mimi,
As miles south of here, about 3 am.
Tuesday morning. Murray said he
knew Dillinger because he had driven
him dozens of times" in his cab.
Murray's story, not altogether agree
ing with known facts about Dillinger,
was that he alighted from freight
train and approached a parked car
containing four men.
Approached Car.
"T wanted smoke and when ]
saw some one in the car light a
cigarette I walked over to ask for
one" Murray said. When got
within so feet of the car they turned
on the lights inside of the machine
and Dillinger and the driver beside
him in the front seat turned flash
lights on me.
Dillinger asked as I came near.
"'All I want is cigarette told
them
Here's your Gig the driver said.
reached in the car to get it and saw
machine gun lying on the back
seat. I recognized Dillinger and
the other three men looked
plenty tough to me, too. When he
handed me the Gig the driver told
me, Now get out of here
Il didn't stop to argue. and even
started running half block away"
Saw Auto Later.
Murray said he saw the automobile
again, this time empty, on the out
skirts of the city as he started to leave
Northfield Tuesday afternoon.
THE car was parked near a large
building, a hospital or some kind of
institution" he said. Il was going to
hitch-hike to st. Paul, but after seeing
the car, went back and caught a
freight l didn't want to meet those
men again"
The car was new small sedan with
Illinois license plates, he told Fed
eral agents.
Il am positive the man 1 saw was
Dillinger," Murray said. He used to
hang out at Green and Madison
streets in Chicago and I've hauled him
in my cab dozens of times back in
1926, '27 and '28 He had the same
deep wrinkle between his eyes, almost
scar, and a sort of sneer on his
mouth His hair was sort of sandy
red. I understand he dyed 1t red
recently and it looked as If it had
faded. He was wearing a dark brown
suit with no shirt on"
Murray's statement that he had
hauled Dillinger in "l926-27" con-
hicts with records which show Dillin-
ger an inmate of penal institution
in Indiana from 1924 to 1928, but he
was paroled in 1928.
Earlier in the day justice agents
and police officers swarmed through
portions of Minnesota and Wisconsin
on information that Dillinger was
driving through Baraboo, Wis. headed
toward Red Wing. MINI. The license
number, a check showed, was issued
to Mrs. Carl H Nordell of Chicago,
who said her husband, an engineer.
had driven to Madison. Wis. and pos
sibly to Barahoo Her husband later
returned without knowing Of the
search for the car.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
CONVENTION PICKS
M'NUTT PR0TEGE.
Indiana Democrats Select
Minton to Make Race
for Senate.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, June l3.-A 43-
year r-old lawyer and World War vet
eran, backed by Gov. Paul v. McNutt,
Is the choice of Indiana Democrats
for United States Senator.
In State convention yesterday, after
four ballots were taken, Sherman
Minton of New Albany, public coun-
sellor with the Indiana Public Service
Commission, was named to oppose
the Republican incumbent, Arthur r.
Robinson, in the November election.
Peters Led in First Ballot.
Runner-up was r. Earl Peters of
Fort Wayne. who as State chairman
swung Indiana's votes in the last
national Democratic Convention to
the Roosevelt band wagon. Peters led
by % votes on the first ballot, then
fell to second position.
Also defeated was Mayor Reginald
Sullivan of Indianapolis, choice of
Senator Frederick Van Nuys.
McNutt Opposed Peters.
McNutt administration strength
was turned to Minton after the Gov
ernor and Van Nuys had failed to
agree in an all-night conference be-
fore the convention opened. McNutt
had strongly opposed the candidacy
of Peters with whom he parted polit-
ically following the 1892 campaign.
At Indiana University, where he
graduated in 1915, SHAY" Minton
was a varsity foot ball and base ball
player. He received an advanced law
degree at Yale University. served
overseas during the World War as a
captain in the 84th Division. and re-
turned to enter practice Of law.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
CONVENTION PLANNED

Plans for the international conven-
ton of Civitan Clubs at Toronto,
Canada. the latter part of this month
were discussed last night at dinner
meeting of the Washington Civitan
Club at the Congressional Country
Club. Leo Drumwright. chairman of
the Transportation Committee, re-
ported that two Pullman cars had
been chartered for the Washington
party.
Reports were made to the meeting
on the work of 30 boys in producing
gardens this year under auspices Of
the club.
The young gardeners are being in
structed by w. r. Battle. senior hor-
ticulturist Of the Department of Agri-
culture.
Evening star., 1934-06-13

portunities to plan. How we utilize
these opportunities depends upon the
extent to which we embark upon poll
cies of social control. 1t is a great
mistake to regard recent legislation
as in itself economic planning. for if
it is so regarded and then this legisla-
ton fails, many people would consider
the planning idea a mistake, with
out raising the pertinent preliminary
question as to whether planning had
been tried"
Yet DR.. Tugwell says now he does
not believe in national economic
planning It is evident from the quo
tation that four months ago he
advocated 1t. If he can change his
opinions on a fundamental question
so quickly, who knows what his opin-
ions four months from now will be2
After all, are not the acts of men
just as significant as their excuses?
Copyright. 1894, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Inc
Evening star., 1934-06-13

speak of them except with respect, a
return of these articles has been
effected
Should Mr. Astor, after having re-
ceived these articles, fail to comply
with his promise, it will rest in the
discretion of Miss Gillespie's parents
whether they shall then feel compelled
to make public the entire correspond
ence which tool place between Miss
Gillespie's parents and Mr.. Astor dur
ing January, 1884, so that those who
may be concerned in the matter may
be able to judge fully and thoroughly
of the reasons why these articles have
been held until this time.
Owing to interviews attributed to
Mr.. Astor by the press and uncontra-
dicted by him, which were not in ac-
cordarlce with the truth, 1t has been
felt necessary to state these facts"
Evening star., 1934-06-13
TUCWELL 'DEN|ALS'
ASSA|LED BY WRIT
Gary Educator Says brain
Truster" Reverses Self
on Planning.

DR.. Writ, the Gary, Ind, edu-
Gator tDto became controversial
center When he charged brain
trust" plot to Sovtetize the United
States Government, has the fol-
loDng comment to make on the
Senate Agriculture Committees
examination Monday OF Rerford
G. Tuoi0eH, regarded as the central
figure of this trust.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
LILIES ARE BLESSED
Apostolic Delegate Oficiates at
Rites for st. Anthony.

Apostolic delegate OmclateS at
Rites for St. Anthony.
Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,
apostolic delegate to the United States,
conducted the traditional blessing of
lilies ceremony held annually on the
feast day of st. Anthony of Padua
this morning at the Franciscan Mon
astery. After the ceremony the friars
marched in procession around the
church. chanting hymn in the
saints honor.
With Rev. Cicognani presiding at
the throne, a solemn high mass was
offered for the benefactors of the
monastery, during which the lilies were
blessed and distributed. Low masses
we're celebrated at the saints altar at
g. Z. 8 and 9 am.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
THE WEATHER

District Of Columbia-Fair tonight
and tomorrow, not much change In
temperature; gentle northwest winds.
Maryland-Fair tonight and tomor-
row, not much change in temperature.
Virginia--Fair tonight and tomor-
row.
West virginia-Fair tonight and to-
morrow; somewhat cooler in east and
central portion tonight.
Evening star., 1934-06-13
Report for Last "a Hours.

Record for Last "A Hours.
(F'rom noon yesterday to noon today. }
Highest, II, pm. yesterday. Year
ago, 70.
Lowest, 66, Sis am. today. Year
ago, SIS.
Record Temperatures This Year.
Highest, 95. on May 81.
Lowest, -612, on February Q.
Humidity for Last "a Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today }
Highest, 81 per cent, at $50 pm.
yesterday.
Lowest, 38 per cent, at noon today.
Tide Tables.
FURNISHED by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey.)
Evening star., 1934-06-13
BOYS Father Fined.

Because a boy shot another lad
in the eye with an air gun. in Glas-
COW, Scotland, the father was fined
$40, or 20 days in Jail.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
K|DNAPER
SEEN, REPORT

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Nov. q e.
N.SD.-The home and old haunts
of Tommy Robinson, jr., were
again placed under surveillance
yesterday when police learned
the fugitive youth, who kidnapped
Mrs. Alice Speed Stoll, Louisville,
KY, society matron. and success
fully eluded Department of Justice
agents after collecting $50.000 ran.
som, is hitch-hiking in this direc'
ton.
Information supplied by C. B.
FariS, Donelson, Tenn, led to
questioning Of Startling and Mary
Knight, of Huntsville, Ala, hitch
mixers, picked up by Faris.
According to the couple, they
hooked" ride on Saturday in
company with man they identi-
fled as the abductor, from Eliza
bethtown, KY, to Franklin.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27

pay the adjusted service certifi.
Gates Immediately.
According to them, the Admins.
tration has not heSitated to boost
the public indebtedness by several
thousand millions of dollars for
other purposes. Therefore, they
argue, why should it become so
panic-stricken at the idea of in
creasing it by this comparatively
small sum to meet the needs Of the
former soldiers?
Recitation" Urged
AS matter of fact many of the
leaders of the bonus movement
are ready to contend, and will con.
tend when Congress meets, that
the bonus can be paid without
either raising taxes or increasing
the public debt. They assert that
mild "reflationary" program
would provide the Government
with funds to make the payment
at once.
1t will, however, be more diff
cult to get a bonus bill through
Congress if it is tied up to a new
money proposal" than if the ques-
ton where the money is to come
from is left blank.
Introducing the Probationary"
feature into the bill would give
many of those who have com,
mitted themselves to support Of
the bonus an "out" for which
they will be looking when Presi-
dent Roosevelt throws his support
against the measure.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27

In many districts and States
Representatives and Senators will
be able to make effective use of
the argument that the only rea.
son they went back on the bonus
program, after pledging it their
support, was that they couldn't
stand for "tampering with the
currency"
They couldn't make so much
use of the argument that they
were against raising the public
debt. And they couldn't make so
much use of the argument that
they were against raising taxes,
because it will be difficult 70 con.
vince the public that the taxes
have to be raised to pay the bonus
when they haven't had to be
raised to pay for the great expert.
ments of the New Deal.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
BY FRANKLIN G. sARTwELL

BY FhANhLlN u. SAhI"ELL
Indications that the Administra.
ton will insist that If legislation
for immediate payment Of the SOL
diers' bonus is passed by the new
Congress 1t be accompanied by
acts which will provide enough ad-
ditional revenue to meet the ex-
penditure, already have been dis
counted by probonus leaders.
They regard the calling Of Sena-
torial leaders to Warm Springs
with the intimation that they were
to talk of raising taxes to pay the
bonus as simply a strategic move
on the part of the Administration
to stave off what is coming to be
regarded as the inevitable enact
ment of a bonus payment law.
Tax Scare Raised Before
Whenever the question Of imme-
diate payment of the bonus has
been raised in the past-and that
has been frequently-the occupant
of the White House always has
brought up the point that addi-
tional taxes would have to be
levied to make the payment.
The leaders of the veterans be-
lieve President Roosevelt is simply
running true to form" in thus
raising the question now.
Supporters of the immediate
payment plan are not at all averse
to increasing the public debt by
the approximately 1000 million
dollars that would be required TO
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
WORLD OF MUSIC
Old Operas Revived
in New York for
Winter Season

Operas forgo item for these
many years are being revived in
New York this season, and two
of them will be presented next
week.
Noses" a Rossini opera which
has not been given for almost
three quarters of a century, will
be offered unoer the direction Of
Alfredo Salmaggi, who has pro-
duced opera here several times,
and it is possible that If the pro-
duction is we'll received he may
bring it here.
First sung in Naples in 1918,
the opera was revised and sung
in Paris in 1927, and at the
Academy of Music in New York
in 1860.
Ambitious plans are announced
for the New York production,
with an orchestra of $50 under
the baton of Eugene Plotnikoff Of
the New York Civic Orchestra,
a chorus of zoe and ballet of 800.
1t will be presented at the
Coliseum which has stage large
enough for a cast of this size, on
December l and 2. Alessandro
Puglia will be in charge of the
stage direction.
Another opera long since for
gotten in Ve1di'S Il Vespri
Siciliani," which will be produced
by the Imperial Grand Opera
Company in Brooklyn at the
Academy of Music.
This opera was first produced in
Paris in 1885 and in New York
four years later.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
FEEDING To END
HUNGER STRIKE

BRIDGETON. N. j., Nov. q
G.N.S0 Forced feeding may be
resorted to as a means of saving
the life Of William O'Donnell,
who is on his fourteenth day Of
a hunger strike IN the hospital
ward of the Cumberland county
jail, it was indicated in Trenton
by Gov. A. Harry Moore.
Governor Moore acknowledged
the appeal of O'Donnell's wife,
who asked her husband be re-
leased from Jail. He pointed out
he has no power to pardon the
man, but said:
However, l have made ef-
forts to see the prisoner be
scientifically fed in order to
save his life."
The Governor said he had
learned that DR.. Vincent Giaca-
lone, of the Vineland State
School, was well qualified to
feed the prisoner through a
tube"
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
BANQUET
FORGOVERNOR

COLUMBUS, Ohio. Nov. 81 G.N.
SD.-Gov. George White Of Ohio
will eat his Thanksgiving Day
dinner in a hunting lodge in the
Pennsylvania wilderness, if affairs
of state permit him to leave.
He has been invited to the
private game preserve Of N. v. v.
Franchot Olean, N. Y, capitalist,
40 miles from WilliamSport, Pa.
Governor White said his accept
ance hinges upon whether the
legislature recesses for the holiday
in time to permit him to make
the trip
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
46 CARRIED OUT.
Of BLAZING
HOSPITAL

ST. MARYS, Pa, Nov. ~ GIN.
SO.-Forty-six patients, including
two mothers and their newly born
babies, were carried to safety
when flames swept through the
Andrew Kaul Memorial Hospital
here today, causing damages that
will amount to several thousands
of dollars.
The fire, believed to have been
caused by defective wiring, started
on the second floor of the four
story stone structure and ate its
way rapidly to the attic and roof.
While the entire fire depart
ment of st. Mary'S battled the
flames, the wheels of industry and
transportation ceased and work
men lent their help in rescuing
patients and saving the institu-
tion's equipment.
The 46 patients were placed in
temporary quarters established at
st. Joseph'S convent.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Mother of Former
FOllies Star Dies

FAIRFIELD, Conn.,, Nov. 27
G.N.SO Mrs. Marie Fuqua Cover
dale, Ct, member of an old Phila-
delphia theatrical family and
mother of Mrs. Minerva Coverdale
Haggerty, former ziegfeld Follies
principal, died at her home yester-
day following a long illness.
Mrs. Coverdale gained prom
inence in recent years for her
beautiful garden here.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
Inventor Files Suit
Against HOude Co.

BUFFALO, Nov. 81 GN.SO.
Charles w. Manzel, Buffalo in.
ventor, has filed suit in Federal
Court for an unnamed amount
against the Houde Engineering
Corporation, manufacturers Of
Houdaille shock absorbers, for al
legged infringement of his pat
ented automatic ride control" I"
Albert R. Henry, attorney for Mr..
Manzel, said the suit would in.
YolYe about 100000.
The Washington times., 1934-11-27
HOUSTON GETS POST

RICHMOND, Va, Nov. 81 (Spe-
ciaD Harry R. Houston has
been named associate director Of
the Federal Housing Administra-
ton for Virginia. He is former
speaker of the house Of delegates
and also former commissioner of
fisheries.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
Shop Paper Forced Use of
Safety Device in Gary Mill

crane. This enables them to get
along without a regular crane OPP
orator. The result is that Hender-
son gets the cables all tangled up
endangering the lives Of the
workers.
Fellow workers, demand that
regular men be employed. Fight
against the bosses operating other
mems jobsl
In the Open Hearth Depart
ment, the big shots threaten the
workers not to pay for off heats in
all open hearths. There is talk that
the company may raise wages, but
in return they will refuse to pay
tonnage on the off heats cheats of
the incorrect analysis until they
are able to sell the heat to some
other company which wants to use
such type steel. In plain English
this means the men won't get paid
for off heats and will have no way
Of checking up when their heat is
sold. 1t is wage-cut on a grand
scale.
Open Hearth men must fight
against this proposal Of the COM
pany, and fighting the conpany's
proposal means to organize into the
fighting Steel and Metal Workers
Industrial Union. Unless the work.
ers do this they cannot fight back.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
On VenereaI Disease
(ConcIuded)

It has been estimated that there
is loss of $84,000,000 in wages
every year due to venereal disease.
The medical bill has been estimated
to be about $15,0O0,000; allowing an
average of eight treatments per
case of gonorrhea at one dollar for
the dispensary and at four dollars
for private practice, and % treat
ments for syphilis at two dollars
and eight dollars, respectively. In
public institutions the cost Of
syphilis to the various state gov
ernments is eleven million two hun
bred and seventy thousand dollars
($11, 270,000) annually.
Besides this economic loss of over
$110,000,000, the life expectancy Of
the syphilitic individual is cut to
exactly half of the non-infected
one. A lot of this waste could be
avoided by proper education. While
there are a number of books to be
found in a bookstore on sex in gen
eral, there is very little anti-ven-
ereal education. Keep them in
ignorance and they can't go wrong"
the slogan of capitalist sex morals,
is mainly responsible for the appal-
ling spread Of venereal disease, its
terrific economic losses and the
horrible suffering of the infected
individuals.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-04-10
PARITY LIFE
Correct Work in Shop Won
"a for Party, IA for Y.C.L.
Delegate to Eighth Party Contention Tells HOsU
Threat of Strike Forced Higher Wages

not for the work of the Party.
Our Unit is divided into three
groups, one leader to each group,
which we have developed in order
to cover all our political work in
this shop.
We received much help from the
Section Of our Party. We have
Comrade leader, appointed by the
Section, who helps us in our prob
lens, and who shows US how to
fight in a political way, because we
are new Party members. myself
am only five months in the Com
munist Party. We try to teach the
workers that the Party is the leader
of the workers. In our strike, six
months ago, we had Socialist Party
chairman and we exposed him, and
with the help of our trade union,
he was removed as chairman and
lost his prestige among the workers.
A proof of the rehabilitation of
the workers in this shop, is the
fact that in spite Of the ISLANDERS
of the capitalist press of New York,
accusing the striking cab drivers
of being Communists, our shop
unanimously voted to help those
workers and gave them 500. This
situation was handled very wisely
by our Trade Union Organizer.
When the boss saw our leaflets
Zone on his desk he said he was
not dealing with the Communist
Party but the union. Nevertheless,
we recruited "a Party members and
IA Young Communist League mem
bers, and even if the boss does not
want to deal with us, We are not
going to slow down in our activities
until we have painted that shop
red.
SHOP DELEGATE TO atn
NATIONAL CONVENTION.