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Awards Made

MERCEDES. June l5.-MrS. Earl
Gamble az Pharr. president al the
Home Demonstration encampment
board OF Hidalgo county, has an
nounced the awards made at the
encampment Of home demonstra-
ton clubs recently held at Weslaco.
In the three departments. special
ling on quilts, rugs and something
from nothing, the awards are as
follows.
Quilt prizes: lst. Mrs. Williams,
B.uebonnet club. McAllen; End
Mrs. j. w Haggard. North Pharr
club. Pharr. 3rd Mrs. W. f. Moss,
Southern Star club. Weslaco.
Rug Prizes. lSt. Mrs. w. T.. Ven
able. Homemakers club. Donna;
End. Mrs. @. McNaliie. Bluebonnet
club. McAllen. 3rd. Mrs. Langley,
Llano Crande club. Weslaco.
Something From Nothing: lst.
Mrs. John Crawford. Llano Grande
club. Weslaco: 2nd. Mrs. l. G.. Bu-
shey. Sharyland club. Mission: 3rd
Mrs. L. NJ Bellew, Southern
Star Club. Weslaco.
Attendance prizes. iSt. Southern
Star Club. Western: End. Just We
Neighbors club. Mercedes; 3rd. La
Blanca Busy Bees club.
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STOP THAT ITCHING

Apply Blue Star Ointment 20 relieve
skin Irrltations. Itching Skin or the
Itch Of EcZcmic conditions. letter.
F-irgwo--uE. Itching Toes. Poison Cat.
and as an antiseptic Dressing for Old
Sores. etc.
Ask your DRUGGIST for
BLUE STAR
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BULLETIN

(First figures. lowest tempera-
ture last night: second. highest
yesterday: third. wind velocity al
9 q. m: fourth. precipitation In
last "a hrS.)
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T

For East Texas: Partly cloudy
Monday night and Tuesday; local
thundershowers In north norton.
Light 10 moderate southerly
winds on the coast.
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Andrew Byers. son % 9. T. Byers
OF This city. who was graduated
from the Presbyterian Theological
Seminary az Austin. the latter part
OF last month. has been called TO
preach at the Presbyterian church.
es az Clifton and McGregor. Tex
as. He left this week To take up
his duties at these places.
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TIDE TABLE

High and low tide at Point Isa-
bel tomorrow, under normal Meteo-
BIOLOGICAL conditions:
High o:44 a. m.
Low $40 p. m.
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RIVER FORECAST

There will be no material change
in the river during the next "a TO
50 hours.
Flood Present 24-Hr. 24-Hr.
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Sixty. seventy. :. eighty miles if
needed. You don't know
there is a sure hand at the throttle!
And just as casually you light a
cHEsTERFIELD-knowing that every
safeguard for its quality, purity and
good taste has long since been per-
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them-you don't have to!

feCted. CHESTERFIELDS are milder
because they're made that way
from ripper, milder tobacco and pure
imported cigarette paper.
You can smoke as many as you like
and you'll like as many as you smoke!
CHESTERFIELDS taste better.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23

CONSERVATIVE law was SHOCKeI IedTH'
ng his brliance his unmpeachable integrity not
toned They could not be. But he radical He
had attacked the established order property and profits
This man. who singe-handed had exposed incompetence
and corruption among insurance companies who had fought
for minimum wage laws for shorer-hour laws for
workers. had opposed railroad monopoly champoned trade
unons womens suffrage workmens compensation and
advanced industrial code be the oympan Supreme
Court of the United States?
Impossible the outcry.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
] JUR|SD|CT|O n
~. RULE MADE

The Court of Appeals of the
District of Columbia today ruled
that persons charged with violat-
ing Federal laws cannot bring up
the question of jurisdiction after
having submitted to a court and
been found guilty.
The ruling was made in the case
Of Herman o. Hagner and Julia
c. Hagner, who were convicted OF
putting into the mail at Scranton,
Pa, certain false accounts re-
ceivable with the intention to de.
fraud.
The appeal of the Hagners was
based on the contention that the
indictments failed to allege any
violation of laws of the District,
but only alleged violations in
Pennsylvania. They claimed that
the District Supreme Court, where
the trial was held, had no juriS-
diction.
However. the Court of Appeals
ruled that as the question of
Jurisdiction was raised for the
first time after the trial had been
held the appeal would have to be
dismissed.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
OK TEAM BRINGS
MAINE TUbERS

President Hoover got a big kick
today out of a pair of Maine
oxen, carriers of of As bushels
of Names best potatoes for the
White House vegetable bin.
Rod and Line, pet names Off
the blue ribbon Hereford oxen,
strolled leisurely up the south
east path to receive the official
welcome of the President.
The oxen, driven for a Today
trek from Cumberland Center,
Me-, bore a gift of Governor
William Tudor Gardiner, of
Maine, to be presented officially
for White House consumption by
Frank P. Washburn, commissioner
of the Maine Department of Agri-
culture.
Driven by Lenvile Hawkes., 21-
year-old son of the owner of the
Hawks farm at Cumberland Cen
ter, the oxen were yoked to a
century old cart, painted a bril-
liant blue forthe big time in
Washington.
President Hoover gently patted
one of the oxen, JUS before Com.
missioner WashburH made the
official presentation.
The gift, Mr.. Washburn de-
clared, was meant to show the
progress made by potato growers
within the past century.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
EMPLOYEES GET
OPPORTUNITY
TO GIVE
Per Diem Highway Employees
: Barred From Yielding
Three Days Pay

The District Commissioners
met today with the committee
appointed to take charge of
collecting a days pay each
month from District employees
for unemployment relief and
impressed upon the committee
members that the campaign
must be conducted strictly on
voluntary basis.
Commissioner Luther H. Reichel-
derfer said:
"Since this is a Government
enterprise, undoubtedly many
employees will feel under cOmpul.
sion to subscribe. Our effort Is
to reduce that feeling to a
minimum. While some may
give one or two days pay, there
are others who cannot afford
to give at all"
All employees will be given an
opportunity to contribute. It
was pointed out that per diem
workers in the highway depart
ment, who are now working on a
six-hour day schedule, in order to
prevent layoff of fellow-workmen,
are considered to have given
more than three days pay and
will not be urged to contribute
any more.
The committee is headed by
District Auditor Daniel j. Dono-
van and is composed of the heads
Of all District departments.
The employees will be asked to
contribute one days pay during
January, February, and March.
The proceeds will be turned over
to the Community Chest.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
PISTOL GRABBER
JAILED FOR YEAR
Times Staff Photo

William Anderson. colored, who
Sunday morning took Policeman
James Waters gun from him as
he was fingerprinting the man
at the Third precinct station,
was sentenced to a year in Jail
in Police Court today.
Anderson told Judge Ralp h
Given:
"F would have used it on
him If / could have"
Judge Given replied:
"YOu can have a year for
that"
The man had been arrested
during an affray Saturday eve.
ming. Because of threats that
Anderson might make a break
during his hearing. bailiffs and
deputy marshals guarded the
man in court.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
Card Game Stabbiv1g
Holds Girl. 2 Men

A young woman and two men
were held at Second precinct
station i'll connection with the
stabbing yesterday of Norman
Trevatchan. 80, Of 1345 I st.
N. W.. following a quarrel In a
card game.
The melee occurred in the
apartment of Miss Gay Lawson,
1860 Tenth st. N. W. Ire
vatchan was removed to Emer-
gency Hospital. The men held
are William H. Benton, SO, of
1345 L st. NJ. W.. and Jesse M.
Robbins, "a, of 937 K st. N. w.
VIVISECTI0NISTs TO MEET
Local members of the vivisec-
ton Investigation League, Inc,
will meet tomorrow night at 8
o'clock at their headquarters In
the Stoneleigh Court Apartments.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
SHAKE-UP PLAN
WORR|ESU.S s.
VET BUREAU
1000 Fear Transfer to Field
Offices If, DeCentraliza-
ton Is Adopted

Most of the thousands of
employees in the Veterans Ad-
ministration offices here con-
tinued uneasy today over un-
denied plans for decentraliz-
ing large part of the work
being done here, and dfstribut-
ing it together with employees
now performing it, among the
field offices.
Complete decentralization Of
much of the work, particularly
that pertains to compensation, in
surance and burial awards, was
recommended the first week of
November when the Administra-
tion's regional managers met here
Approved by Hines
Director Frank T. Hines at that
time announced that he approved
ten decentralization "in principle, "
but minimized the Importance of
the plan, its scope, and effect on
employees.
Ever since then, however, re-
ports have been gainin gcufrency
through the Administration Off
ceS, that about 1000 employees
would be affected. Various en-
ployes have been questioned by
officials as to their preference
among field offices.
A statement Of Director Hines
today failed to reassure the EN-.
ployes against transfer, but to
some is indication that a whole.
sale divisio nof the work among
field offices is considered.
Plans Considered
Director Hines saySi
"The detailed effect Of the
application Of this policy may
not be stated until definite plans
have been formulated. Plans
for decentralization are now be-
ing considered to see to what
extent they should be developed,
and in what order and at what
rate,
ut Is safe to say that under
any plan Of decentralization we
will have the same volume Of
work to perform, and this vol
ume of work is from year to
year increasing. Consequently
it will be possible to utilize all
present personnel either through
transfer from Washington to
field stations consistent with the
degree and rate of decentraliza-
ton, or through absorption into
central office activities which
activities, under any plan, would
have to continue to a very con-
siderable volume"
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
William Levy WedS
Miss Dora BGSSin

Honeymooning in Atlantic city
are Mr.. and Mrs. William H. Levy,
the latter before her marriage
yesterday in Frederick, Md, Miss
Dora BaSSin, SO D st. S. E.
Mr.. Levy is manager of the
Ambassador Hotel swimming pool
and director Of publicity for the
hotel.
The bride is the daughter of
Mr.. arl Mrs. Maurice Basin
and Mr.. Levy is the son of Mr..
and Mrs. Samuel Levy, 1910 Cali.
fornia st. N. w. Upon their re-
turn from their honeymoon the
couple will be at home at 21OO
California st.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
ROVER LASHES
COPS IN JURY
CHARGE
Declares Harker "Beating"
Worst Blot on Police Records
in Quarter Century

The third degree case
against four suspected MEM
bers of the Washington police
force was described in District
Supreme Court today by
United States Attorney Leo A.
Rover as "just about as sor-
did and cruel a situation as
has developed here in %
years. "
Summing up the case OF the
prosecution against James A. Mos
tyn, William Lafflin, w. c.
Grooms and w. T. Burroughs.
charged with assaulting James
Harker in a station house last
August to extort confession, Mr..
Rover said:
"This boy was at the mercy
of mercilesS police officers.
"ThiS case is in no sense an
Indictment of the whole police
department, but against these
men who violated every rule and
regulation of their own depart
ment, the code of every civilized
nation, and every instinct Of de-
cent society"
To Jury Today
Attorney j. A. O'Shea, for the
defense, began his statement to
the jury before the noon recess,
terming Harker a cunning liar
who brought his brutality charges
to escape conviction of a robbery
about which he was being ques'
toned.
The jury is expected to receive
the case for its decision To-Day,
with the likelihood it will reach a
decision tonight.
Mr.. Rover went over the story
as told by his Is witnesses ana
insisted that the four defendants
had more interest in proving
innocence of the charges than
Harker had to escape the rob-
berry case.
O'Shea Cites Record
He said that the testimony
showed Harker entered the First
Precinct questioning room in per
feet physical conditi on, but
emerged with black eye, bruised
shins, and many weltS and stripes
on his back.
Mr.. O'Shea ridiculed the
Harker charges, asking why his
alleged mistreatment was not
called to the attention of the
Police Department officials. He
cited Harker's conviction on
other criminal charges, apd as
serted the boys statements were
lies.
The confession" Of the rob-
berry was not brought about by
forced intimidation Of any kind.
but that the policemen gained
their admissions from Harker by
proving he told them falsehoods.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
U. S. Workers Respond
To Drive for JobIeSS

With the White House Execu-
tive Office reporting 100 per cent
donation of three days pay to aid
unemployment in the District the
campaign among Federal en-
ployes got well under way today.
Other bureaus >eporting favor
ably were the Civil Service Com
mission and the office Of tine
Alien Property Custodian. In
the Department of Justice, Attor-
ney General Mitchell appealed to
solicitors to strive for a 100 per
cent record. Returns from other
departments will not be in until
the end of the week.
The executive committee awaits,
in the meantime, a report of char
ity needs in Prince Georges
county before taking definite
steps to arrange for dividing the
funds with outlying districts. Civil
Service Commissioner Thomas E.
Campbell is in charge of the
drive.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
Tip on Boat Explosion
Wins First Prize of $40

of a local accountant in a duck
blind near Quantico, Va, won
fourth prize of SO.
Six 50 prizes were awarded for
the following stories: Trench
cave-in at Concord and Kansas
Avenues, nearly killing a colored
laborer; plunge of laborer from
the fourth story of the new Agri-
cultural Building: telegraph en-
ploye breaks leg while strolling
through park; closing down of the
Nickel Cab Company; asphyxia-
tion Of a young woman at Vir.
ginia Highlands, Va, and a 9-year-
old boy near Woodbridge, Va, run
over by a truck.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23

Prompt action in telephoning to
The Times a news tip on the ex-
plosion which partially demol-
ished a game warden's power boat
and injured one man last week,
won first prize of $40 in The
Times News Tip Contest.
The story about a 4-month-old
baby being asphyxiated from a
heater won the second prize of
$40.
Third prize of IS was awarded
for the story about employees of
the Veterans Bureau being asked
to work overtime three nights a
week.
The accidental fatal shooting
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
Capitol Hill
BRANDEIS' CAREER SHOWS
TIME Is GREATEST
TEACHER OF MEN
By ROBERT s. ALLEN

THINE is the greatest teacher.
Men argue, protest. threaten, and frequently fight
Then few years eapse What had seemed truth
longer So and what had appeared improbable has to
pass.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
COMPENSATION Cases
UD at Alexandria

Commissioner Parke Deans, of
the Virginia Industrial Commis-
sion, is in Alexandria today hear
ing six cases which have arisen
under the workmerl's compensa-
ton act
Most of the cases arose out of
accidents on Government work
in the State.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23

True history is the endless story of these
revisons in judgment.
Fifteen years ago, Woodrow Wilson, then
in his first term as President of the United
States, sent to the Senate the name of Louis
Dembitz Brandeis, of Massachusetts,, to be a
member of the United States Supreme Court.
The appointment evoked passionate indig-
nation and violent opposition. Seven ex-
presidents of the American Bar Association,
including, Elihu Root and William Howard
Taft, who years later became colleague Of
Justice Brandeis on the. august tribunal,
challenged the startling nomination.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
Will Ornament High Court

ilSon insisted.
The Washington times., 1931-11-23
CIVITANS TO HEAR RIVES

The Rev. J. j. Rives, of the
Francis Asbury Methodist Church,
will be the principal speaker at
the luncheon of the Civitan Club
tomorrow at 1890 o'clock at the
LAFAYETTE Hot -
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Books ReCeiUed

THE MORALIST. BY w. Adolphe Roberts, au-
thor of The Mind Reader" etc. New
York: The Mohawk Press Inc.
THE WAY TO RECOVERY. BY Sir George
Paish, author of The Road to Prosperity"
New York: G. P. Putnam'S SONS.
"A BULwARK OF DEMOCRACY. BY Augur.
author of Eagles, Black and White" New
York: D. Appleton & Co.
GOD AND THE UNIVERSE. The Christian
Position: Symposium. Edited by Lewis
May. New York: The Dial Press.
FATHER COUGHLINS RADIO SERMONS:
October 193o-April, 1881. Baltimore: Knox
& OLeary.
THE IRISH FUTURE: With the Lordship of
the World. BY c. ]. ODonnell London:
Cecil Palmer
THE JEW AND HIS NEIGHBOR: Study of
the Causes of Anti-Semitism. BY James
w. Pa-kes. M A. New York: Richard r.
Smith, Inc
LOOKING THEM OVER. BY Jesse Homer
Barnhardt DID. Boston: The Stratford
THIS MECHANICAL WORLD: An Introduce
ton to Popular Physics By Morton Mott
Smith. PHI. D. Illustrated by Emil Rosa, jr.
New York: d. Appleton g. Co.
THE CASE OF THE JEWS: An Interpretation
of Their Rights Under the Balfour Declara-
ton and the Mandate for Palestine. BY
Louis ]. Grbetz. New York: Bloch Pub
fishing Co.
PARIS AND ALL THE WORLD BESIDES BY
Dobert N. Keely. M. D. Philadelphia: How
ard C. Myers, Publisher.
TALKING YOUR WAY THROUGH EUROPE:
Conversational Aids for Travellers Abroad.
New York: The Mohawk Press, Inc.
WHERE PARIS Dimes. BY Julian Street.
New York: Doubleday. Doran & Co.
CHARLIE CHAM CARRIES ON BY Earl
Derr Biggers. author of Seven Keys to
Baldpate." etc. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-
Merrill Co
NANCY GOES CAMPING BY Jean Henry
Large. Foreword by Mrs. frederick Edey
president Girl Scouts, Inc. New York: D.
Appleton & Co.
HAPPY SINNER. BY Elizabeth Hamilton Her
bert. New York: Farrar & Rinehart.
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laws, why should fellow turn into hick
when he can be bold buccaneer? Just why?
And SO young Chan took occasional Job
with the night riders, behaving like a steady
water-boy of the garden by day. The leader
Of this gang was an italian of true Capone
pattern. So in the course of no very long
time the vivid Latin product developed jealousy.
not of the business alone but of a girl that
as well young Chan thought much of. Fine
girl, too, and but for her he probably never
would have pulled out of the mess into which
that tnferiority feeling was forever getting
him. Just brisk romance of the moment in
debt TO prohibition for its prime agent in both
the business of being in love and of straight
ening fellow out into man at the same
time.
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~ IDA GILBERT MYER
The True Collector andHisSearrhMg- Upton
Smclai'S NeeO Movel, ''7he NET Paude y
HLong Story From an English Writer

are read, and forgetting the crusaders ststisti-
cal material, it may be looked upon a Thor
oughly good story-a little old fashioned with
the Ten Nights in a Bar Room" theme but
interesting nevertheless. c. z. N.
ALBERT GROPE BY F. O. Mann New
York: The Book League of America.
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STOCKS IRREGULAR
ON LIGHT TURNOVER
Traders Continue to Hold
Down Commitments Pend
ing Credit Farley.
BY GEORGE t. HUGHES.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

OpeCldl DlSpdiCll W 4Ec OldI
NEW YORK, July 23.-Trading in the
stock market today was significant only
in a negative way. Prices opened lower,
but hardened subsequently and the net
changes were unimportant either way.
1t was, however, fair deduction that
the news, even interpreted as unfa-
vorably as were the cable reports today,
no longer permanently unsettled stocks.
Among the issues better supported
than the average in the late trading
were Eastman Kodak. General Motors
and some of the a. erchandising shares.
one of which was Gateway Stores Buy
ing OF the latter was said to be coming
from Cincinnati Volume Appropriated
the low of the year.
That the German outlook was still
greatly involved and that the situation
was critical no one was disposed to
deny There was no incentive to buy
stocks in the tenor of the cable dis
patches, and Wall Street opinion was
that little had been accomplished by
the London Conference. Then before
the opening came the announcement
of rise in the Bank of England rate.
The early trading in bonds revealed
further weakness in the German de-
scriptions. On this set-up a declining
stock market was to have been expected.
Early quotations Tor the Leaders were
all lower, but not more than point
or two. Trading was extremely dull.
1t was a convincing demonstration of
the sold-out condition existing in stocks.
The constructive news of the day was
the General Motors report. 1t is no
mean achievement for corporation of
the size of General Motors to report
larger per share earnings for the second
quarter this year than in 1880 and at
the same time strengthen its balance
sheet position. That the stock did not
respond was, of course, due to the gen.
eral market conditions, but the showing
was the subject Of favorable comment
all day.
Not so much was heard today about
the shock that second-quarter reports
were supposed to threaten only week
ago. Such statements as have come
to hand have almost invariably been
better than anticipated. Certainly that
was the case with General Motors.
There is still the hurdle Of the United
States Steel dividend action next Tues
day to be taken. but with that out of
the way it is safe to say that the do
mesic business background will grow
steadily brighter What will happen
abroad is another matter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-07-23
GENERAL MOTORS NET
IN SUBSTANTIAL GAIN
Corporation Reports $1.22 a Share
Earned in Second Quarter;
Six Months $1.83.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, July 23-Reflecting IN
creased demand for its lower priced
cars, General Motors Corporation re-
ported larger net earnings for the
second quarter of 1881 than for the
same period of 1890.
The total was SIS, 122,767, equivalent
after preferred dividends to $122 a
share on the common stock. During
April, May and June of last year net
from operations alone aggregated $50, :.
386, 1853, or SLIT a share, but in addi-
ton the corporation IN that period had
enough homecoming income to swell
the per share return to S134.
Net for the first six months of 1881
was S84.122,176, or $183 share on
the common. compared with operating
profit of 500, 355 ,355, or $2.15 a share
year ago. With the addition of the
special profit, which represented sale
of common stock TO General Motors
Management Corporation, per share
net in the first half of 1880 was 1882.
The company improved its cash
position by nearly $67,000,000 in the
initial six months of this year. Total
sales of cars to dealers showed a gain
of 81 per cent in the second quarter,
whereas profits rose 3.3 per cent. The
latter were Influenced, President Alfred
P. Sloan, jr., explained, by a trend to
cheaper automobiles.