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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
CIVIC CLUBS FINANCE
COMMITTEE TO MEET
Montgomery Federation Group to
See Report on County
Expenditures.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The star.

BY Staff Correspondent Of The Star
BETHESDA, Md, November 5.-The
final meeting of the Committee on
Public Finance and Budget of the
Montgomery County Civic Federation,
before the federation's meeting Mon
day night. will be held at the Univer-
sity Club in Washington tonight, Fred
eric P. Lee, chairman, announces.
Final draft of report on the COM
parative expenditures in the county
for the past decade, with charts, will
be presented to the committee. There
will also be a progress report on COM
parative expenditures of tax and bond
money between the upper and slower
portions of the county and between the
western and northern suburban areas.
Other final reports to be received will
include one on the extension of the
period of redemption of property sold
by the county at tax sales and final
draft of a report on the observance Of
standards of safety in bond issues for
the present year.
France estimates that its 1881 wheat
crop will weigh 1000 900 tons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
WEALTHY REcLUSE SLAIN

MEDICINE HAT, Alberta, November
P).-John Goddard. 75-year-old re-
putedly wealthy recluse, lay dead in his
shack today, murdered with an AK
The body was found last night in the
little house on the outskirts of town,
where Goddard had lived for many
years.
Several letters were found in the
shack One, written from Grand
Rapids, Mich. began, Dear Uncle"
Police declined to reveal the name of
the writer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
EXPLAINS CHEAP GIFTS
iy stan Correspondent of The star.

BY a SUM OOfItSDONueIt OF The star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. November
5.--A talk on preparation Of inexpensive
Christmas gifts, by Miss Ethel NJ. Re-
gan. home demonstration agent for
Prince Georges County, featured the
monthly meeting of the women's Club
Of Mellwood District at the home Of
Mrs. Hal B. Clagett.
Mrs. Charles c. Marbury and Mrs.
Bowie Ciagett were admitted to mem
berShip.
An invitation was extended to the
club members to attend a Presidents
Advisory Council of the State Fedora
ton at the Roland Park Club. BaIti-
more, November IT.
Mrs. Frank Scrivener presided.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
BANK FAILURES BLAMED
ON GOSSIP AND HYSTERIA
Official of National Association
Places Responsibility for Half
of Closed Institutions.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASHVILLE, Tenn, November S.
Not errors of bankers. but irresponsible
gossip" and national hysteria' are
blamed by Frank W. SimmondS, deputy
manager of the American Bankers As
sociation. for half of the bank failures
and economic failures of the country.
Here for a South-wide conference to-
day and tomorrow on bank management
problems, SimTondS said the causes of
bank failures would receive their due
share of consideration. but. he added,
that such things could not be blamed
on the bankers themselves.
Fifty per cent of all this business is
caused by national hysteria and ire
sponSible gossip he said.
Simmonds estimated that no fewer
than 500 bankers will attend the meet
ing here.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
BARGE LINES SHOW
BUSINESS ON MEND
Mai. Gen. T. @. Ashburn Declares
Profits Best Since Peak
Year of 1928.
Nv the Associated Press.

NEW ORLEANS, November 5-En
route to the Intracoastal Canal Asso-
citation Convention in Corpus Christi,
Mai. Gen. T. O. Ashburn, chief OF the
Inland Waterways Corporation, said
here yesterday that profits by the Fed
eral Barge Line this year showed
American business is on the mend"
The years earnings were described as
The best since "the peak year" of 1928.
He said Federal Barge Line profits
over operating costs for 1881 were
''about SITS, 900" up to october /.
Ashburn predicted completion Of the
all-water route from New Orleans to
Chicago and completion Of other inland
waterway projects which will bring in
creased business and added prosperity
for the entire United States"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
HUNDREDS RETURN
TO Jobs IN SOUTH
Three Industrial Plants Re-
sumo Operations After
Layoffs.

n ths hssoclstsd press.
ATT ANITA. Ga November 5-Hun-
nreds of r1en idle for various peTiodf.
vert back on pay rolls in the South
yesterday as three industrial plants re-
Fslfred operations after snutdo~ns
Ia addition. crews Of men we're busy
Al Fort IaudeFdsle. Fla, installing ma
chinery IN hae packing plant 81 tne
pro,vard Citr7la G-owerE Association 70
beoin handing tangerines and grape
fruit BY December ] for the Christmas
trade
Railway shop Opens.
The Cotton Belt Railroad called back
us employees Of i0 locomotive shop at
pine Bluff. Ark, after 30-day lay-
off They were put on six day weak
THE Klirnax overall Co plant began
operati0ns at Athens Ga, with more
than 100 workers The plant recently
Sgaa moved there from Winder. Ga.
The Carr Lumber Co. resumed WORK
fn pisgah Forest near BreVard. n y
after standing idle almost year ABOUT
200 men went 70 work in the WOODS ana
in the mill. ,,,A
Hollywood. Fla.. reported work wo1id
start soon on new $4,000 water M
tration plant In common VIII otLIei
Florida resorts Hollywood was busy pre-
uaring for the tourist season. with ~
hotels and 76 apartment houses ready
for opening. The Winter plant OF uv-
erside Military Academy was ready Tor
the GOO boys and faculty who Will come
from Gainesville. Ga.
steel Plant to Reopen.
Work on a si,75O 900 addition to the
paper manufacturing plant Of the Can
ton Fiber Co. at Canton, N. C., Is under
way The addition is planned to add
10 tons daily TO the book paper output
of the mill, operated as an adjunct to
a large pulp mill and tanning extract
Oficials OF tine Gulf States Steel Co.
have disclosed operations in all depart
ments of the plant at Gadsden. Ala.
will be resumed Monday. Many de-
partments OF the plant have been smut
down for some time and others were
working on reduced schedules.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
Church Class Plans Social.

BETHESDA. Md, November (Spe-
cial) A good-time social will be given
by the Philathea Glass of the Bethesda
Presbyterian Church, at the Battery
Park club house, tomorrow at o'clock.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
Louise Gardner, Ruth Neal, Agnes

Belong to Other Groups.

Louise Gardner, Ruth Neal, Agnes
Deaton.
Belong to Other Groups.
italian group - Jean Otterback,
Josephine Stoulil, Polly Snif1n, Ruth
Stone, Bobbie Boyd. Verona Geraci, Yo-
landa Geraci, Jeanette Barnard.
Hungarian group-Catherine Abbott,
Pauline Cole. Eva Goldenberg. Estelle
Hough, Nancy Linthicum, Grace Svhop-
meyer, Kitty Rupsina. Betty Wilkinson,
Margaret YoSt, Virginia Donnelly, Sara
Lee Greenber.
Polish group-Mariorie Grinstead.
Evelyn Padgett, Jane Lybrand, Charlotte
Nicholson, Betty Royle. Verna Royle,
Martha Stoner, Betsy Katkins, Thelma
Carey, Lorraine Shives, Shirley Rowe,
Polly Wrightson.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
Fire House Work DELAYED.

SILVER SPRING, Md, November 5
Especially Decision to put off until
next Spring the remodeling of the fire
house on Georgia avenue here has been
reached by the Silver Spring Volunteer
Fire Department
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
SILK MILL REOPENS
100 Employees Return to Work Aft
er Four Months Idleness.

ALTOONA. Pa. November (P).-
After idleness OF four months. the VIII
Harrisburg plant of the Lehigh Valley
Silk Co. reopened for business today,
with 100 employees returning to work,
J. J. Foller. superintendent of the plant,
announced.
Foller said that the working force will
later be enlarged TO accommodate $50
workers. The Lehigh Valley Co. is
controlled by Eugene Schwab, brother
OF Charles Schwsb, the steel magnate.
Vending machines In Vienna, Austria,
sold 100000 cigarettes in the last
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
u. S. FARM BOARD
INQUIRY IS SET
MCNary Picks November "a
as Date to Hear All
Complaints.
BY the Associated Press.

ny the AsSoClateu FTeSs.
The searchhght of inquiry is to be
turned on the Farm Board late this
month by the Senate Agriculture Com
mittee
Any and all complaints will be taken
up for airing, Chairman McNary of the
committee informed the board at con-
ferences with 1t this week.
McNary has called the committee to
assemble here November "a. The Farm
Board members were asked TO appear
together with the representatives of
organized agriculture.
win Fight for Continuance.
Organized agriculture is prepared to
hight for continuance of the 2-year-old
board in the face of some threats from
Congress for its abolition. The farm
leaders VIII. however, advocate some
supplementary legislation TO the farm
marketing act. This proposed legisla-
ton viii take the form probably OF ap-
pealS for authority for the board to in
woke either the equalization fee or the
export debenture, two long controverted
forms of relief.
Some Democrats and Republican In
dependents are grooming for thorough
examination of the board members be-
fore the Senate committee.
Loan Details to BE Aired.
AL details as 10 loans made by the
board will be called for. Also there are
indications that the board is going to be
asked to explain its policies In relation
to the millers during the price stabili-
cation period OF 1890 point raised
by Gov. Murray of Oklahoma.
This point involves purported au-
thority given the millers to restock
their wares with world wheat selling A.
lower price than the American mar
ket In order that the millers might
retain their foreign market and sell at
the lower world price.
The boards policies toward cotton
also have been condemned by some
Southern Senators
Senator BrUokhart. Republican, OF
Iowa. who has expressed some harsh
views toward the board, also has been
given permission TO sit with the COM
mittee
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05
Tide Tables.
The Sun and Moon.


Monthly rainfall in inches in the
Capital (current month to date):
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Rheumatism
Kidney Trouble
Acknowledgements

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Year ago. So Lowest. Sc, 6 am. today
Year ago. 46
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FOREIGN.

am, Greenwich time. today
,tton. Tenanerature Weathf
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-11-05

France estimates that its 1881 wheat
crop will weigh 1000 900 tons.
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Death of WOLLberg
Here Held Suicide

A certificate Of suicide by
poison was issued yesterday by
Coroner ]. Ramsay Nevitt in the
death of Alfred j. Wollberg, Of
34O5 Ordway st. N. W.. follow
ing an autopsy at the District
Morgue.
Wollberg who had recently lost
his position as a cigar store CLERK
was found unconscious TuesdaY
in the bedroom of his home b.
his wife
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Campbell to Sail
For Home Tomorrow

NEW YORK, Feb. IL QN.SJ.
Capt. Malcolm Campbell, British
automobile racer who last week
set a worlds record of better
than 245 miles an hour at Day
tona Beach, will sail for England
tomorrow.
He arrived here last night by
plane from Washington, where
he was presented to President
Hoover by Sir Ronald Lindsay,
British ambassador.
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Police Charge CrOWd
At Madrid Church

MADRID, Feb. IL U.S)-The
charging upon a huge crowd, as
sembled in front of the Cathedral
here, by police, and the proclara-
ton of a general strike in Cadiz,
were outstanding events In the
celebration of the anniversary of
the 1873 republic today. Several
were injured in the charge.
The government continued its
announced policy of risking its
fate and that of the monarchy at
the polls next month,
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Attendant at Stable
Charmed With Arson

Charles Davis, SO, colored, was
charged with arson at police
headquarters last night following
an investigation into a fire of
incendiary origin which destroyed
a stable at 2O4O Tenth st. N.
W., early Sunday morning, and
resulted in the death of several
horses.
Davis, according to detectives,
confessed,
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Woman Banker Goes
On Trial for Theft

Dora L. Davis, of Laurel, Md,
former savings department teller
Nt the Second National Bank, was
placed on trial before a criminal
court jury and Justice Peyton
Gordon today on an indictment
charging her with embezzlement
and Justification of bank records.
-Four women and eight men
compose the jury. The trial is ex-
pected to consume the remainder
Of the week.
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Bandit Shoots Self
As Police Trap Him

CHICAGO, Feb .12 G.NSJ.--A
bandit who identified himself as
Louis Topped, AZ was believed
dying today from bullet wounds
inflicted by himself in suicide
attempt when his first hold-up
failed.
Trapped by a patrolman while
fleeing from a clothing store
hold-up, Topped suddenly halted
and fired a bullet into his left eye.
The wound may prove fatal, physi-
clans said.
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Hiker Lost in SnOU;
Search TS Started

SONORA, Calf, Feb. IL QN.SO
Fears were expressed here to-
day that Q hiker, who has not
been identified, perished in a
blizzard when he attempted to
walk over the summit of one of
the high Sierras.
Although the man was warned
of the danger, he insisted upon
attempting the trip, according to
the owners of a resort near here.
A searching party has been
sent out for him,
The Washington times., 1931-02-12
Anthony Foundation
To Hear MrS.HendLeU

Mrs. Anna E. Hendley will give
radio talk on Susan B.
Anthony, the Woman of the
Ages" from Station WMAL from
$50 to 6:45 p. m. Saturday,
February IA.
The program, is being given I'M
der the auspices of the Susan B.
Anthony Foundation and will
have a national hookup.
Apartments for rent at o reasonable
price can be easily located by turning
to the Classified Ads.
The Washington times., 1931-02-12

Shoes enjoyed the confidence
the public After location they have
closed their and sold their entire stock sensational
them correspondingly low
All Shoes right style and pair bears the
Trademark No other shoS included this Emerson
Shoes only It's the time to stock up and
The Washington times., 1931-07-15
NEW FURNITURE
FIGHT LAGS

Worried over the possibility
that no new furniture will be
available for IL new schools in
September, Jere J. Crane, acting
superintendent of schools, con-
ferred with Daniel E. Garges. sec
retary of the board of District
Commissioners, at the District
Building today.
Mr.. Crane, who recently ex-
pressed the fear that the delay in
awarding contracts for the $1,000
pieces of school furniture would
seriously affect the opening Of
schools in September, said today
that the matter was still ''hang-
ing in air."
Asks for Hearing
Following the conference with
Mr.. GargeS, the school official
said he had learned that the P.
Derby Company, of Boston, whose
contract was Cancelled, had re-
quested a hearing before Comp
troller General McCarl.
The fight for the furniture con-
tract is now being waged between
the Massachusetts, firm and the
John E. Sjostrom Company, Inc,
Of New Jersey.
Bid Turned Down
The New Jersey firm, which
submitted a bid for $4,000, was
turned down because it had failed
to submit samples and the Derby
Company was declared the low
bidder with its bid of $4,000.
The SjoStrom firm then ap-
pealed to the comptroller general.
who ruled the furnishing of sam
pies was unnecessary.
Following this ruling, the Dis
trict Commissioners informed the
Derby Company they had no
other course than to accept the
ruling and cancel the contract.
The Washington times., 1931-07-15
SUED
ON $500 NOTE

The receivers for the Swartzell,
Rheem and Hensey Company, to-
day were ordered by Justice
James M. Proctor to show cause
on July 81, why they should not
deliver to Mrs. lone H. Calvert
a $500 promissory note included
among the assets of the corpora
ton which Mrs. Calvert claims
belongs to her.
Mrs. Calvert had been an in
vestOr with the defunct banking
investment house for a long time,
it is asserted by her counsel,
John Lewis Smith and John Paul
Jones, and owned a $500 note of
the ShOreham Hotel Corporation
last August, which she had left
with the Rheem firm for col
lection.
Last January just prior to the
bankruptcy, Mrs. Calvert says,
officials of the firm sold her
note to another firm in exchange
for another $500 note which ma
tured the following day. The
notes secured by the latter trust
are now being paid off, Mrs. Cal
vert says. She seeks to have
her note restored or an order
for the payment of principal and
interest.
The Washington times., 1931-07-15
RAILROADS OPEN
FREIGHT RISE
CAMPA
DR.. ParmaIee Says They Have
Not Profited in 10 Years,
Despite Rigid Economies

Teh railroads have waged o
continuous battle against econo-
mic odds over which they have
little or no control, DR.. Julius H.
Parmelee, director of the Bureau
of Railway Economics, told the
Interstate Commerce Commission
today at the hearing on the rail-
roads petition for a IS per cent
increase in freight rates. He de
clared:
Despite the most rigorous
economy and the greatest opera
ting efficiency on record, the
American railroads have not
been able to make fair living
during the past decade, and
their future ability to serve the
public adequately is seriously
Threatened unless additional In
come is forthcoming"
Hearing on the railroads petit
ton opened today before Com
missioners Myer, Lee and Lewis,
aided by q battery Of examiners.
State Officials Attend
A group of State railroad com
missioners also took part in the
hearing. Railroad executives con-
tend an emergency has arisen and
that a Is per cent raise in rates
that will net them between $4OO,-
OO0, 900 and $5OO,OO0,00O annually
Is necessary to enable them to
carry on.
On August 81 those opposed TO
the rate increase will be given an
opportunity to present their views.
It is also planned to hold lew
hearings outside of washington
at times and places to be tlxeo
later.
simultaneously with the rate
hearings the commission has also
decided to ascertain whether Ger
tain practices of the railroads
which affect operating revenues
and expenses are lawful and con-
sistent with economical and ELL
cient management.
Directed At Prices Paid
This inquiry, to be conducted
by Commissioners Eastman, Lee
and Lewis, will at first be di-
rected to the prices paid for rail-
road fuel and the practices in
connection with the handling OF
coal at tidewater points, lake
cargo coal, private freight cars,
the spotting of cars at indus
tries, and the construction Of sid
ings for shippers. Other subjects
will be investigated later.
Allied with the railroads In their
attempt to get a rate increase are
large gr> .1S of insurance COM
panieS, savings banks, and other
institutions which fear that many
millions of railroad securities will
become ineligible for them.
Some chambers OF commerce
have also Endorsed the railroads
plea for higher rates, particularly
the Cleveland chamber, which
said it was convinced that an
increase in railroad gross revenue
is the most constructive economic
step which can be taken at the
LreSent time"
The Washington times., 1931-07-15
Mooney Case Injustice Hit
In Wickershan1 Report

(Continued From Page ~
the ground that the prosecuting
attorney had been guilty of
fraud in withholding from the
trial court information inn
peaching the testimony of GER
tain witnesses for the State,
also was denied upon the
ground that under the CalifOr-
mia practice the court had no
power to grant such a motion.
"The Supreme Court of that
State held there was no judicial
remedy open in such case. The
only remedy was the exercise
of executive clemency.
"Such a state of the law is
shocking to ones sense Of
Justice"
A slashing indictment of the
Nations inferior courts"-thoSe
presided over by magistrates
police court judges, and justices
of the peace, and before which
citizens are hailed for traffic VIC
lationS anG petty offenSeS-Was
contained in the report.
Politics Flayed
The brochure was Surcharged
with condemnation of the evils
of politics as it affects selection
of judges and influences upon
prosecuting agencies.
The commissioners said:
apart from all other con-
SideratiOnS," arbitrary methods,
incompetent magistrates, tri-
bunaIS governed by petty
politics, and SlOvenly proceed
ingS, at the point at which the
great mass of the population
comes in contact with law en-
fOrcement, give a bad impress
sion of the administration of
justice as a whole and most
seriously affect respect for and
observance of law generally.
Taking the country as a
The Washington times., 1931-07-15

whole there has been and con-
tinueS to be scandal in cOnnec-
ton with these inferior tri-
bunaIs in noteworthy contrast
with the almost uniformly
clean record of the superior
courts during a century of i'm
merSiOn in politics"
Lemann DiSSentS
OF the IL members Of the
commission, one dissenting voice
was raised against the report.
Monte M. Lemann, of New Or
leans, signed a minority state
ment, the burden of which seemed
to be Ahat the commission had
not made adequate factual in
Quiry.
Mr.. Lemann opposed, among
other things, the allegation that
newspapers "in a majority of
jurisdictions" undertake to try
cases in advance and thus i'm
pede proper dissemination of
justice.
Without calling them by that
name, the commission urged
widespread impanelling Of blue
ribbon jurieS."
The rural system of paying jus
tices of the peace and arreSting
officers through fee system was
criticized roundly.
Substitution Of q summons fol-
an arrest in petty prosecutions
particularly traffic caSeS-waS pro
posed with the observation that
"indiScriminate exercise of the
power of arrest is one of the most
reprehenSibIe features Of Amer
lean criminal Justice"
Still another recommendation
was that judges, and not counsel
should examine prospective Jurors
to determine their qualifications
The Washington times., 1931-07-15
Hoover Moratorium
Saved Young Plan

Germany. on the brink of fl
nancial ruin. today was saved
paying into the Bank for Inter
national Settlements 136,700,000
ReichSmarks in reparations be-
cause the Hoover debt holiday
was in effect. This sum repre-
sents this months payment.
The Government was officially
advised today that the Bank OF
International Settlements has re-
ceived notices from the treasures
of Great Britain, France and
Italy that they do not expect
payments that would otherwise
be due today. Some conditional
payments will be made to the
B. /. S., but they will be i'm
mediately loaned back to Ger
many.
Acting Secretary Of State Castle
declared that if the Presidents
proposal for the debt holiday
had not been made, and Ger
many had been unable to make
the payments, 1t would have
meant q breakdown of the Young
plan.