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Evening star., 1931-12-03
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Evening star., 1931-12-03

Owing to the decline in wheat prices
live stock is becoming Hungary's lead
ing export.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
HOME TO BENEFIT
BY ART DISCOVERY
Julius Starrett Estate Includes OBJ
ject Valued at Nearly
$500, 900.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 2l.--The Chicago
Home for the FriendleSs will be the
chief beneficiary OF an art collection
which was discovered by art collectors
and estimated by them TO be worth half
q million dollars in normal times.
The discovery was made after Alfred
J. Mendelssohn, an art appraiser re-
ceived telephone call from an of1cial
OF a bank.
We are in charge OF The estate OF
the late Julius Starrett. retired lawyer,
he was told. Under the terms OF his
vill some art objects are to be sold
and the proceeds given TO charity We
have an offer of $4,000 for the collec-
tion. VIII you visit the Starrett
premises and ascertain whether this is
a fair ofIer?"
A half hour later Mendelssohn tele-
phoned the bank Official.
who had the nerve 10 offer that for
this stuff" he asked. The first thing
! ciapped my eyes on was an Innes
painting worth $4,000. He's got one
teeny little Chinese vase worth 81 600
and there are many OF them"
The discovery was verified by Robert
Grant, an art dealer. who said the coll
lection included two Hepplewhite chairs
once the property Of Francis Scott Key
bought from the Grim collection In
Baltimore Another object. he added
was chair by Chippendale himself.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
FIRE CHIEF KILLED
IN BLAST AT BLAZE
Eight on Roof Hurled Into Flam-
ing Building, but Are
Rescued Unhurt.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
SPRING GREEN. Wis. May 2I.-
Fire Chief Milford Graham was killed,
another man was injured and eight
flremen were rescued today when an
explosion blew the front wall of a
burning building into the street.
The fire destroyed two business build
ings and caused $4,000 loss. Chief
Graham and Nels Dodge, SIS, were
operating a pump In front of one Of
tie burning structures. An explosion
on the second floor hurled the front
wall into the street and buried the
FIRE chief under debris. Fireman worked
for an hour to recover the body. Dcdgc
was struck by flying bricks and suf-
feTed a fractured wrist and bruises.
Eight flremen on the roof of the
building at the time of the explosion
were carried into the blazing structure
when the roof fell, but were rescued
uninjured.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
! EIS5 SEES Ovl0
OUTLOOK BRIGHTER
G. 0. P. Chairman Finds
Conditions improving in
Face of 'Re-EIeCtion Year
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

Prospects for Republican success in
Ohio in the national election next year
are improving, Senator Simeon d. Fess
Of Ohio said on his return to Washing
ton today from the Buckeye State.
The Republican national chairman
said that the outlook for bumper crops
in Ohio are excellent. While there is
still unemployment in industrial centers,
Senator Fess expressed the opinion
that conditions we're improving. Public
building and development of the high
ways. he said, were going forward more
rapidly now and giving employment.
"Ohio is a Hoover State and will be
among the leaders in the reelection
next year of President Hoover" said
Senator FeSS.
The confidence of Senator Fess in
the denomination and reelection Of
President Hoover Is in line with the
views taken by a number OF other Re
publican leaders, notwithstanding the
reports which are now published to the
effect that the Progressive wing OF the
Republican party will make an effort
TO unhorse Mr.. Hoover in the pres1-
Dental primaries next year and In the
Republican National Convention, II the
President is a candidate to succeed
himself
Senator Brookhart Of Iowa has re-
Gently declared that not only Progress
sive Republicans but regular Republic
ans are opposed to the renomlnatlon
OF President Hoover and do not believe
he can be reelected. From Pennsyl-
vania, too, have come~reports that Gov
Pinchot has his Tightening rod up with
the hope that a presidential bolt VIII
strike in his direction next year. Gov.
Pinchot is an old Progressive Republic
an of the Theodore Roosevelt school.
Sees Hoover denomination.
1t is obvious that Senator Fess takes
no stock in this talk of the ProgressiVes
and that he believes President Hoover
will be renominated and reelected.
Republicans generally outside OF the
Progressive group say without heslta-
tion that they believe President Hoo
yer will be renominated. Even some OF
the ProgresSiVes are convinced that the
President can have the denomination il
he wants it, and not few OF the Re
publicans are convinced that they must
win with Hoover or not at all. To WITH
hold the presidential nomination from
Mr.. Hoover would be tantamount to re-
pudiation of the Republican admlnlsCra-
ton, they say. and the nomination
would be of no real value to any otn-
er Republican nominee.
Out in Ohio, in the Cincinnati dis
trict, the Republicans and the Demo-
Continued on Page 2, Column 80
Evening star., 1931-05-21
DIRT DI IMP ON PRIVATE LAND
THREATENS TO PART FRIENDS
Mrs. ]. Borden Hartman and Raymond T. Baker Seek
Adjustment of Neighbor Dispute.

land and she is seeking immediate re-
movaI of the earth. The dumpings,
taken from the excavation for the
Baker mansion, were deposited upon
new top soil. which Mrs. Hartman had
had placed In preparation for the plant
ing of fruit trees and grass.
Blaine Mallan, attorney to whom Mrs.
Hartman referred inquiries, declared
that "amicable settlement" of the prob
lem is under way between Mrs.
Hartman and Mr.. Baker, but, he added,
unless complete restoration of Mrs.
Harriman's property Is effected, illegal
action probably viii eventuate." At
present. Mr.. Mallan asserted, Mr.. Baker
Is highly cooperative in his desire to
see that damage to his friends property
is rectihed. -
Both Mr.. Baker and Mrs. Hartman
are prominent DemocratSendh have been
close friends for years.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
TWO HELD TO Jury
IN SCHOOL DEATH
Coroner's Group Acts Against
Officials of Construction
Firm at Inquest.

Two csactals CT the W. ?. Rose Gen.
struct:on Co., North Carolina ccntrac-
sors. were ne-o .or acc.cn CT The grand
ir'y a. q ce-cnsr's inou:Ss tco4y in.o
1e DEAN c. H&.nAnisl -.A:zo14, cc-c-S6;
2s-7czE-e!6 -&coTer, -.i.4sG w.4su 3 Sea-
fold collapsed st the Stuart Junior
High School.
The men ordered held are Raymond
N. Rouse. superintendent Of construc-
tion, and o. N. Bordeaux, formerly
employed by the Rose CO. as assistant
foreman. A technical charge OF man
slaughter was lodged against them by
Headquarters Detective Charles Mans
field. Bond was fixed at $1,000 in
each case.
The verdict of the coroner's jury was
rendered after more than half an hours
deliberation. 1t was the third session
of the jury in this inquest.
Rouse, who was in general charge Of
the construction work at the school job
when the fatal accident occurred, was
said to have been twice warned that the
scaffold which collapsed and resulted
in the death of Mozon was unsafe.
Bordeaux In Charge.
Bordeaux, whose employment with
the Rose Co terminated suddenly Sat-
urday, the day after the accident, was
in immediate charge Of the hauling
work in which Mozon was engaged with
two other men when the planking Of
the scaffold broke and hurtled the trio
to the ground.
Testimony at the second session Of
the inquest Tuesday by two District
building inspectors was to the effect
that they had warned Rouse and Bor-
deaux that old and split boards on the
scaffold should be replaced before
some one gets hurt"
Joseph Duncan, colored, of 217 G
street northeast, one Of the three men
who fell from the scaffold, told the
jury today that Mozon, Raymond Har-
ris another laborer. and himself were
engaged in wheeling large stone down
a runway from an elevator to the
Scaffold at the time Of the accident.
Heard Boards Crack.
"The first 1 knew Of anything hap
pening," Duncan said, was when /
us fell to the ground with the wheel
barrow and the stone"
Duncan said the stone weighed about
500 pounds. 1t was this piece OF ma
terial which, falling on his head, re-
suited in the death Of Mozon.
Duncan was asked by Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Milford F. Schwartz how
long he was employed with ths Rose
Co. -Four weeks up till last Friday"
replied the witness. I'm now working
with a laundry"
why did you quit your job with
the construction company" asked
Schwartz.
"Well, after the accident / was afraid
I'd get hurt if 1 worked there any
more"
Five other employees of the Rose Co.
were witnesses at this mornings Ses-
sion. They were E. E. Kanode, car
penter's helper: Emmett H. Pope,
carpenter; Charles E. York. carpen-
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column B.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
STRICT VACRANCY LAW
URGED BY GEN. CROSBY
Holds Change Would Give Police
Weapon to Deter Crime-Denies
Cangsters Are Active Here.

Maj. Gen. Herbert B. Crosby. Police
and Fire Commissioner, joined today
with Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintend-
ent Of police. in advocating stringent
Yagrancy law as a crime preventive.
The Commissioners also broke long
standing rule by issuing a prepared
statement, in which he assured the
people Of Washington that the city is
free Of the organized gangster and that
the Police Department is doing its
utmost to prevent his coming.
The pronouncements were inspired by
the recent series Of hold-ups, shootings
and murders, which, Gen. Crosby
pointed out, is in no sense an express
sion of gang warfare, but succession
Of unrelated events.
Evening star., 1931-05-21

Gen. Crosby. however, believes as does
Maj. Pratt, that vagrancy law with
teeth" would place in the hands of the
police and the courts, a potent crime
prevention weapon. What the police
superintendent wants is a law en-
powering the police to round up hood
lums, speakeasy habitues and the re-
mainder of the lawless element in
Washington before the commission of
an covert act"
1.-THE Fire Department has a fire
marshal to prevent fires" said Gen.
Crosby. THE Police Department also
should have an effective weapon for
the prevention of crime. A vagrancy
law, more rigid and exacting than the
one now in force-one that cannot be
rifled with technical avenues of escape
would certainly be of great aid"
Maj. Pratt for several years urged the
enactment of a new vagrancy law, and
Continued on Page 2, Column %
Evening star., 1931-05-21
AUTHOR WINS PROFITS
FROM "VAGABOND LOVER"
Court Grants Request for Account.
ing With Vallee, Publishers
and Recording Firms.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 21.--The 'Vagabond
Lover" was back home today, a court
decided.
The song, which was sung all over
the country, was written, Judge Philip
L. Sullivan decided yesterday, by Jesse
Brown, an attorney in whose behalf he
ordered an accounting from Rudy Vallee
Leon Zimmerman, Leo Feist, Inc, pub
fishers, and two phonograph COM
panies.
Brown said he expected to realize
$4,000 as result OF the decision. He
said he tuned in on the radio one night
two years ago when the song was a
big hit and remembered he had written
IT at a time when he was leading an
orchestra.
Evening star., 1931-05-21

About 5000 tons of red earth threat
ems today to bring about breach In
the long standing friendship of Mrs.
J. Borden Hartman social leader, and
Raymond T. Baker, former director OF
the Mint.
Mrs. Hartman, who about year
ago moved into historic old home on
the point of land between FoXhall and
Reservoir roads, returned recently from
Bermuda to find a great mound of red
earth dumped in the triangular valley
directly in front of her handsomely re-
modelled home. The earth, she found.
had been dumped there by the william
p. Lipscomb Co.. contractors. who are
building $3.50. 900 home for Mr.. Baker.
just north of Mrs. Harriman'S home on
Foxhall road.
Inquiries made by Mrs. Hartman re-
vealed that no authority has been given
for the dumping of the earth on her
Evening star., 1931-05-21
INCREASE IN WHEAT
CROP VITAL, SOVIET
INF ORMS PARLEy
Statement Opposing Nickel
vie Plan Says Development
Bars Reduction.
Definite EXPORT QUOTAS
HELD SURPLUS SOLUTION
Russians Blame Farm Crisis on
Contradictions Within Capt.
talistic System

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May .21.-In formal an
nouncement issued this morning Soviet
Russia's delegates to the World Wheat
Conference said they opposed a plan
suggested by Samuel r. McKelvie, head
of the American delegation, for reduc-
ton in wheat acreage because indus
trial and social conditions in Russia
made increased wheat production i'm
peratiVe.
YESTERDAY" the announcement said
the Americans submitted q proposal
which Is unacceptable TO Soviet Russia
because of conditions in our social sys-
tenn, with extraordinary development in
our industries and the number OF our
industrial workers and in view Of the
increased production which is necessary
to meet growing internal demands. -
"It seems advisable to US to allow
each country to decide for itself
whether to curtail production of agri-
cultural commodities and wheat in par
ticular"
Insists on Quota Basis.
The statement said it was the Rus
sian opinion, drawn from statements
of others before the conference, that
"the principal solution for regulation
Of wheat export ts hxing definite ex-
port quotas"
The announcement dealt with the
Russian views regarding quotas and Sa!6
Russia's pre-w2r status must be constd-
cred in FIXING any quota scheme.
It discussed the necessity for flnanc-
ing any SURPRISES which Russia ra.zns
acla CT the vrlErEet az 4 result g zs--ae-
mn, c1 ana c7-ls Ion o. ss7 cLc 2.
-. IN ar& 81 e :Sssd ir3t Va:s; 8 o.. ;
&c -Icl5 III ~. .-a-% as scCLtl.y tor "acs-
GLGEs credits"
The statement was signed by Tsidore
Lubimotf, head Of the Russian delega-
tion.
Production Outlined.
In a preface Lubimoff outlined the
actual position of Soviet wheat produc-
ton. Last year the crop totaled 29,-
500, 900 tons. Allowing for consump-
ton, the surplus was 100000 tons.
AS for the new crop, the Winter wheat
sowing was 12,600,000 hectares: Spring
wheat, 29,700,00o hectares. The total
area under wheat in 1891 Is at least
AZ, ,000, 900 hectares, with an anticipated
crop of 36.500,00 tons. The hectare is
little less than two and half acres.
Lubimoh said the Russians disaWee
with other delegates regarding the ag-
ricultural crisis, contending that the
crisis is direct result of "contradic-
tons within the capitalistic system"
BACKS SALES AGREEMENT.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
ORATORY F|NA[|STS
WILL VISIT HOOVER
Entertainment for Speakers
in Saturdays Contest
Is Arranged.

With al seven National Orstc-tc2l
Contest fnali5ts due IN the National
Capita! cczaorrcw Eao-n.ns, plans zc-
.t1s lifi.ctS' c1tsrts ua1'n. J7'rs wee
coalcI' - 81 c1n-sl. 1saocuA. .ts N
14s GsAr SLLaing .oa2y.
lie 11rSt and InoSt impcrtAAG eve.lt
on the young orators program is their
presentation to President Hoover at the
White House at 1890 o'clock tomorrow
will pose with the six boys and enc
girl for an official photograph.
After the White House call, the ora
tors will be guests Of honor with Wash
ington's entry, Jimmy Moore, at
luncheon at Western High School,
where Jimmy Is student.
Leigh to Entertain.
Members Of Western High Schools
faculty who have been active in promo
tion Of the contest and DR.. Elmer S.
Newton, principal, also will be guests.
Randolph Leigh, director general of
the contest. and Mrs. Leigh viii enter
tain the orators at tea late tomorrow
afternoon at their hSme on Fairfax
road in Fairfax County, Va. Then the
visitors will return TO Washington for
q free" evening.
The only event for their entertain
ment Saturday viii be luncheon given
by Mr.. and Mrs. Virgil Moore, parents
OF young Moore, at the Willard Hotel.
Speakers Saturday will test the acuS-
tics of Constitution Hall in prepara-
ton for the competition that night at 8
O'Clock.
Sightseeing Planned.
For the remainder of the day, the
orators will rest.
On Sunday, the oratorical party will
be guests OF The Star on a sightseeing
tour of the Capital and its environs.
The tour which will start in the morn
ing will include visits to the Lincoln
Memorial, the Pan American Union,
where they will be received by Or. Leo
s. Rowe, director general of the union,
and representative residential sections.
They will go to the George Mason Hotel
at Alexandria for an old-fashioned Vir-
ginia chicken and ham dinner. The
atmosphere there will be strictly in
formal and the young orators who will
be travelling mates on the prize two-
and-one-hal alf-month tour of Europe this
Summer will take that opportunity to
become better acquainted.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
MILLS HINTS WAR
TAX CUT TOO SOON
Mutual Savings Bankers
Given Picture of Reasons
Behind Deficit of Treasury.

Hints that some Of the taxes de-
veloped In the World War period may
have been repealed or modified little
too fast were made by Arthur A. Bal
lentine, Assistant Secretary OF the
Treasury, in presenting an address pre-
pared by Unaersecrctary Ogden Z. Mile,
before ths second session CT the Ma
t.onal Association OF Mutual Savings
Banks, at ths Mayhower Hotel today.
The bankers inferred from this state
ment that 1t may be necessary for the
Government - -2i5s t2::sc n c-Gs- %
rncs. -ccLi:e en:n.-. N coming az -s-
ll1 -, ne lls4SGry ond.jal said:
''4'cr t..s L-c&l year 1s~1 t4.s United
States Treasury will show the rirst
deficit since 1919, the year in which
war financing reached its peak. In the
intervening period revenues have each
year shown a surplus over expenditures;
marked progress has been made in the
reduction of the public debt; expendi-
lures have been reduced from inflated
war levels, and the burden Of taxes has
been greatly diminished. although with
out a corresponding reduction in reve-
nue..
Prospect Of Big Deficit.
"At present." he added, I'VE are con-
fronted with the relatively new ex-
perience OF marked increase in current
expenditures attended by a sharp de-
cline In revenues, and with the pros
pect of a very large deficit.
The change is so abrupt that 1t Is
wei to re-exsmine our present situa-
ton and future prospects in the light
Of the experience of the past few years
and from the standpoint Of the course
which normal expenditures and normal
revenue may follow during the next
few years. We have seen a tax system
which produced some $672, 900, 900 in
1914, expanded to produce 5,72a. 900, :
900 in 1920, the peak year of war levies,
and subsequently contracted through
four continuing reyisicns and one tenn
porary reduction.
There Is nothing extraordinary in
all this, for invariably our experience
with wars has been that the expendi-
lures of the Federal Government mount
Continued on Page I3, Column So
Evening star., 1931-05-21
CASHIER ARRESTED

BEIHAVEN, N. c., May 2l R-
THE Farmers Bank of Belhaven did
not open today by order of the State
hank department. and w. j. Justus,
cashier and vice president. was charged
WITH nissappropriation of funds and
arrested.
a warrant was sworn ont for w. c.
Harnes. assistant cashier. but he could
not be found. Justus was Jailed in
default of bond.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
CALENDAR REFORM PLANS
FROM u. S. FORWARDED
Suggestions to Be Considered by
League of Nations Committee
at Geneva June 8.


ROCHESTER, N. Y, May 21.-More
than 100 American plans of calendar
simplification, submitted in the last
two years from all parts of the country,
were mailed 70 the League Of Nations
today by George Eastman, chairman
of the National Calendar Committee
for the United States
They were sent for the consideration
of the International Preparatory Com
mittee, which is to meet at Geneva
June in anticipation of the Inter
national Conference on Calendar Re-
form convoked by the League for Oc-
tober 26.
The material includes plans for 10,
IL and 10 month fixed calendars, leap
week" and leap month" calendars,
calendars with six and five day weeks
and various other arrangements of the
days, weeks and months. Included are
AZ suggestions sent to Mr.. Eastman
for the name of the additional month
in the proposed 13 equal months fixed
calendar.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
WIVES CHARGING JOBLESS SpOUSES
WITH DESERTION TO BE JAILED
Uniontown, Pa, Prosecutor Also Will Not Imprison
Unemployed Game Law Violators

Robinson said he caught the turtle 10
feed his wife and five children. He has
no Job.
Adams said that no one out Of a lob
In his district would be tailed for vioIas
tton OF the game and fish laws.
i have no sympathy for an officer
who invokeS the law which win prevert
the head OF . starving family from at
tempting TO feed hungry mouths with
fsh and game that belong 70 the
people" he asserted.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
18 PER CENT FOOD DROP
SINCE APRIL, 1890
Bureau of Labor Statistics Report
Is Based on Survey in
81 Cities.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A decline OF 2 per cent in retail food
prices during the month ended April IS,
and l3 per cent since April IS, 1880, was
reported toaay by the Bureau of Labor
Statistics.
The compilation, based upon reports
from 81 cities, showed declines in prices
OF "a foSd proIucts and increases on
but 6. Those costing more were DO
t9toss, onions. hens, oranges. pork
chops and legs Of lamb
Evening star., 1931-05-21
SEVEN INMATES FLEE
VETERANS HOSPITAL
Two Attendants at Leeds Over
powered by Demented Patients
in Scaling Wall.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NORTHAMPTON, Mass, May 21.--
seven mentally deranged patients of
the United States Veterans Hospital at
LEEDS, including one who is considered
dangerous. escaped last night, hospital
authorities revealed today.
Shortly after o'clock last night. DR..
william M. Dobson, director of the
hospital, said, the men overpowered two
sttendents. After taking keys from one
OF the attendants. with which they left
the building, they scaled a high wall
and fed into the woods.
The State police were notified and
troopers were sent out to search the
countryside.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
ABANDONED COAL MINE
USED FOR DISTILLERY
200 Gallons of Alcohol and Distil.
ling Apparatus Found in
Illinois.
az The Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May 2I.-After rsiding
an abandoned coal mine near La Sale,
III. where distilling apparatus and 200
gallons of alcohol we're seized and one
man arrested. Federal prohibition agents
from Springfield today searched the hill
country for additional outlets from the
mine through which other moonshiners
might flee.
Last night six prohibition agents en-
tired the main tunnel OF the mine. A
long string of electric lights led them
10 the still. Carl Smith. whom they
found 1T the still, was taken to Ottowa
70 be arraigned.
Evening star., 1931-05-21
By the Associated Press.

UNIONTOWN. Pa, May 2l.-Prose-
cutor J. B. Adams went 10 bat for the
man out Of a job today.
First he served notice that, where
fects warrant. he will Jail for the costs
any woman tho files desertion and nom
support charges against q husband out
Of work.
Next he ordered the release of Victor
Robinson. sentenced TO 25 days in jail
for catching turtle out Of season