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Evening star., 1932-12-08
NAVY OFFICERS WIFE
INJURED IN COLLISION
Mrs. Margaret r. Armstrong in
Critical Condition After
Cars Crash.

Mrs. Margaret r. Armstrong, Is, wife
of naval officer, stationed at the
Naval Academy, was seriously injured
in a head-on collision between two au-
tomobiles on the Bladensburg road,
near Twenty-fourth place, today.
Mrs. Armstrong who was riding with
her husband, Lieut.. ]. N. Armstrong,
%, was removed to Casualty Hospital,
where her condition was said to be seri-
Gus. She is an expectant mother.
Lieut.. Armstrong was cut about the
legs and face. His car and machine
operated by William A. Mulligan, AZ, OF
the 4500 block of New Hampshire ave-
nue. collided as they we're going in op-
posite directions along the highway
Mulligan was only slightly injured and
a passenger in his car, Norman Kogok,
%, Washington automobile salesman,
was slightly hurt.
A car operated by William S. Meter
1900 block of Kearney street northeast
made left turn in front of him just
before the accident occurred, Mulligan
told police. The naval officers car was
bound for Washington from the Acad-
emy and Mulligan and Meter were 60
ing north, it was said Meters car was
not struck and after giving his name he
left the scene.
Police said both Mulligan and Lieut.
Armstrong would be taken to No. pre-
cinct pending investigation.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
SENATE TAKES UP
!. ISLAND AUTONOMY
Passage of Bill by Next Week
{ Expected by Leaders of
Both Parties.

Independence for the Philippines,
pledged by the Democratic party, was
taken UP today as the immediate chief
concern of the Senate.
leaders of both parties looked for
passage of bill by next week. The
measure before them, considered today
under an agreement made before ad-
journment Of the last session, was the
Hawes-Cutting bill, granting freedom to
the islands 13 years after passage. But
changes were forecast, largely because
it conflicts sharply with the Hare bill
passed by an overwhelming majority by
the House last session-which provides
for full freedom in eight years.
Both measures are opposed by the
American Farm Bureau Federation on
the grounds that they fail to provide
the strict limitation desired on free i'm
ports from the islands during the tran
sition period pending full economic and
political freedom.
Both bills restrict free impeTtations.
but continue those same restrictions
through the transition years. The farm
leaders want free entries lessened after
each year They also object to the
island plebiscite in the Hawes-Cutting
bill at the end of 18 years, pending
which full freedom would be withheld.
Independence for the islands was
pledged in the Democratic platform.
While the Republicans did not mention
the subject in their campaign, their
leaders at the Capitol believe a bill
will be passed and many of them are
inclined to vote for it, since 1t has
been separated from the general ques-
tion Of tariff.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
WOMAN S[ASHES
WOODWARD CHIEF
Estranged Wife Refuses to
Give Reasons for Razor
Blade Attack.

Frederick Herman Hendricks, 40 years
old, superintendent of the Municipal
woodward, was called outside the Office
of the woodward this morning, near
Fifth and B streets and slashed about
the face with safety razor blade by
a woman who told police she was his
estranged wife.
Hendricks, bleeding from several
wounds, was taken to Emergency Hos
pital, where he was treated. The
woman was detained at the Office until
police arrived. She was being held for
investigation at No. precinct while
police sought to learn If Hendricks
would prefer charges against her.
The woman gave her name as Mrs.
Ruth Hendricks, 35 years old. She
said they had been separated five years
and came here last night from New
York City to see him.
While admitting she cut Hendricks
after an argument in front of the office,
Mrs. Hendricks refused to divulge her
reasons for the attack, but said they
were plenty"
She registered last night at hotel
near Union Station and went to the
woodward this morning.
Mrs. Hendricks said she had no
permanent address in New York and
that she and Hendricks had no children
Evening star., 1932-12-08
ARM AID HEARINGS.
SET NEXT TUESDAY.
Chairman Jones to Introduce
New Relief Bill in House
on Monday.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
Determined to speed relief legislation,
the House Agriculture Committee today
agreed to open hearings on the Demo-
crat farm-aid program next Tuesday
with the intention of concluding them
the same week.
The bill toward which testimony is
to be directed will be introduced by
Chairman Jones of Texas, probably
Monday, after morning conference
with leaders Of the three major farm
organizations-the Farm Bureau Fed
Grafton. National Grange and Farmers
National Union. This meeting will be
held in the office of Representative
Rainey, the Democratic leader.
The decision to expedite hearings and
get bill to the House floor at the
earliest possible date was reached at a
committee meeting called by Jones to
discuss procedure. Democrats and Re-
publicanS alike concurred In favoring
speedy action.
Unless plans are changed, the Demo-
cratic bill Is expected to embody a form
Of the domestic allotment plan to be
administered by the Agriculture De-
partment, not the Farm Board. The
plan would be made effective for two
or three years, taking the nature of
emergency relief rather than a perma-
nent program.
President-elect Roosevelt's close ad-
visers have been in conference with
Jones during the framing of the bill.
1t is not expected to contain, however,
the reforestation plans discussed by the
Governor during the campaign as a
supplement to more direct relief
measures.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
PercherOn's Ghost
Stalks in Shadow of
Reviving Breweries
Milwaukee Plants Hum
With Preparation for
Legal Beer.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MILWAUKEE,, Wis, December g.
In the old Milwaukee the broad-backed
Percheron was a mainstay Of the city's
great beer industry.
Some of the hillside streets still are
paved with cobblestones that have wide
crevices between them. There is ira
dition that the City Council, when its
proceedings still were in the German
language, fixed the width Of the crevices
by ordinance so that the strong horses
would have sure footing as beer was
hauled to depot and dock.
The city now Is hopefully preparing
to swing into its old stride as q leader
In the brewing industry.
In the towering gray stone buildings
where activity has languished during
prohibition, there is a new surge OF
activity. Machinery is being recon-
ditioned. Cobwebs are coming down
in the huge grain elevators and work
men are whistling Happy Days" as
they polish miles Of copper tubing.
Youths with yearning to become
brewmasters are taking books home for
night study and giving studious atten-
ton to the behavior of yeast plants.
Milwaukee had nine large plants In
the heyday of brewing. The four
largest have kept their machinery In
condition, gambling millions that legal
brew would return.
Pabst. Blatz, Schlitz and Miller
names that have hung over hundreds
of thousands of swinging doors-are
ready once more to send their product
to depot and dock. But the broad
back Percheron will be ghost in front
of a gasoline engine.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
BEER RUSH IN EUROPE
DESCRIBED BY HULL
House Member Says He Drank
Four Pints Of 80 Per Cent
Without Getting Kick.

Representative William e. Hull OF
Illinois brought up before the House
Ways and Means Committee yesterday
the all-absorbing question: Do Con-
gressmen like beer? If so, why?
Here is how Mr.. Hull summed up the
situation:
First of all, he said, on q recent visit
to Sweden he drank four pints Of 80
per cent beer and was in no way in
toxicated"
"The reason I did not drink six pints
was because I could not hold any more, "
he avowed.
"You can laugh all you want to"
Hull broke in as the committeeman
smiled, but I know of no better test
than to test 1t yourself"
IF this beer Is not Intoxicating, what
do they want to drink it for?" inquired
Representative Doughton OF North
Carolina.
II don't know whether you were on
the same party I was last Summer" "
Hull said without naming the occasion,
but about 1000 people were there.
Beer of or 4 per cent was served
at about 25 cents a glass and every
Congressman there rushed up to the
bar to drink it.
That's about the best reason know
why people like to drink beer.
1T looks to me as though people want
to drink it."
Evening star., 1932-12-08
.HOMEWOOD GUILTY
OF GIRLS CHARGES
Riding Master Is Convicted as
Jury Deliberates Less Than
Hour on Evidence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW CITY, N. Y, December Sid
ney Homewood, 24-year-old riding in
Structor, was convicted by Supreme
Court jury yesterday of the charge of
seducing Miss Charlotte Gibson, one
of his former students, under promise
of marriage.
Taken to Jail to await sentence De-
cember 13, Homewood faces a possible
maximum punishment of five years, i'm
prisonment and 81 900 fine. His attor-
neys indicated they would seek to have
the verdict set aside, and failing that
would appeal. The jury of married
men deliberated less than an hour.
The girl said Homewood was the
father of the child she expects in a
few weeks. Her father, Robert Gibson.
said Homewood had promised several
times to marry his daughter, but had
always gone back on his word. Gibson
said the last time the riding master re-
fused to marry her, he said he would
support their child
Homewood denied ever having prom
ised to marry Miss Gibson and he said
he never told her that he loved her.
Homewood's face grew red when the
Jury's verdict was announced. His
mother, Mrs. Bertha Homewood, merely
said: 1T wasn't justice. It was a
Show
Evening star., 1932-12-08
SIM0NE, TEA HOUSE
WITNESS, RELEASED
Not Afraid as Result of Turning
States Witness, but Will
Be Careful.
By statr Correspondent Of The Star

BY staff Correspondent of The Star
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, December
8.-Thomas Simone. who appeared as a
State witness against John Wallace and
James Zalenski, who were convicted OF
second-degree murder in the Old Colo
nial Tea House shooting, was released
from the Prince Georges County Jail
here today.
Simone became a prosecution wit
ness on States Attorney Alan Bowie's
promise that a murder indictment
against him would be nolle pressed.
After the charge against him was
formally dropped he left for Washing
ton with Deputy Sheriff Tom Garrison
He said he would go to Union Station
and entrain for New York.
I'm not afraid of anything happen
ing to me because I turned States evil
dence," he declared, but I'm going to
be pretty careful for a while, just the
same"
At the trial of Wallace and Zalenski
in La Plata, Md, last week, Simone
named the pair as members of the gang
that staged the hold-up in which Gro
yer Amick, Washington filling station
attendant was slain. The convicted
men were sentenced to 18 years in the
Maryland penitentiary.
Evening star., 1932-12-08

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was 10 per cent under three years be-
fore.
1T is submitted" he said, that if
the restrictions imposed on the rail-
roads are wise and in the public interest,
their competitors should be similarly
regulated"
Parts of the program will be pressed
at the short session Of Congress, Thorn
indicated.
The committee yesterday was told by
A. J. Brousseau, vice president of the
National Automobile Chamber of Com
merce, that railroads we're making a
concerted drive to increase the cost Of
using the highways.
II am much concerned with what Is
apparently drive to increase highway
traffic costs" he said Much of its
support comes from railroad sources.
1t must be costly. More and more
railroad employees are devoting their
time to this drive instead of running
trains. We have not the facilities to
check this drive. We can't afford the
cost
The National Association of Mutual
Savings Banks and the Security Owners
Association Joined in recommending
that all forms of transport be regulated
under the jurisdiction Of a new govern
ment agency.
willard Objects to Plan.
Daniel Willard, president of the Balti-
more & Ohio, said he did not subscribe
to the plan which the carriers had
adopted Of placing the wage question
before the commission, but explained
that he believed there was no doubt that
the temporary 10 per cent reduction due
to expire In February would be extend
ed. He was not sure that further re-
duction beyond the 10 per cent was
needed.
II wish TO take sharp exception to
the statement of Mr.. willard" said w.
r. Cole, president of the Louisville 8,
Nashville
He said that just an extension OF
the 10 per cent redIIetion would not
be sufficient and declared that the
wage question was most important in
restoring national prosperity.
Cole asserted that the wage question
was within the Jurisdiction of the COM
ynittee, while Willard thought it was
matter to be settled between the rail-
road arrangements and the brother
hoods.
Gen. W. w. Atterbury, president OF
the Pennsylvania, added, II wish to
echo every word Mr.. Cole has said
The railroad wage rate is the basis for
wages throughout all industry"
WHITNEY ASSAILS THOM.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band this evening at Stanley Hall, at
$50 O'Clock. John S. M. Zimmerman,
bandmaster Anton Pointner, assistant
March, ''The Emperors' Bodyguard,"
Meinicke
Overture, William Tell" .Rossini
Transcription, THE Voice Of Love-"
Schumann
Excerpts from comic opera, THE
Fortune Teller" .............. Herbert
Oddly, Dance Russo Trepak,"
Tschaikowsky
Waltz suite, "Es War Einmal'
(Once Upon Time) ...... .Knecht
Finale, Echoes Of Seville .Moret
"The Star Spangled Banner" =
Evening star., 1932-12-08
CANADA PROTESTS
SEIZURE OF BOAT
Declares u. S. Exceeded
Rights in Boarding MazeI
Toy; 1.2 Miles Out.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A warning that anti-smuggling CO.
operation with the United States would
become virtually impossible if the lat
ter continues 12-mile-limit seizure of
rum runners has been served upon this
country by Canada.
The Canadian government, through
Minister Herridge, told the State De-
partment that Canada refuses to recog-
nize the right of the United States to
make seizures of suspected rum run
ners outside the three-mile limit except
under the treaty between the two coun-
tries permitting seizure within one
hours sailing of shore.
Unless the United States accepts this
position, Herridge said, "any other
course would tend to frustrate
the cooperation rendered by his majes-
ty's government in Canada
which has provided effective assistance
to your Government in curtailing, and,
In so far as Canadian vessels are con-
cerned, almost eliminating the contra
band traffic on the coasts Of the United
States"
The note was delivered to Secretary
OF State Stimson last Monday, but did
not become public until today when II
was sent to the Supreme Court for
consideration in pending case.
Herridge protested seizure of the
Mazel Toy liz miles of the MaSSa-
chusetts coast. The first Circuit Court
OF Appeals sustained the seizure, hold
ing it valid under the tariff act of 1890,
which authorizes the boarding of YES
sells by the Coast Guard within IL
miles of shore.
The Canadian minister in his note
stated his government was unwilling to
recognize that the tariff act had any
binding force outside the three-mile
jurisdiction of the United States.
The note said it seemed clear that
seizure of British vessels on the high
seas under the tariff act was not justi-
fed by international law.
Evening star., 1932-12-08

We virtually were disfranchised so far
as prohibition was concerned by both
major parties with wet platforms.
'If women had been given, or had
exercised. the influence to which they
as half the electorate, are entitled, they
could have demanded platforms ac-
ceptable to the electorate rather than
to political machines dominated By
men"
Other speakers at the tea included,
Mrs. D. Leigh Colyin and Miss Mar
garet Hamilton. Willis Abbott of the
Christian Science Monitor, and Canon
Sheafe Chase were guests of honor.
The hostesses were, Mrs. Peabody,
Mrs. Jesse w. Nicholson, Mrs. William
L. Darby, Mrs. Richard Yates, Mrs.
Frank Berrien, Mrs. Harvey Wiley and
Mrs. James Shera Montgomery.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
TWO MEN ARE INJURED
In CONDUIT ROAD FIRE
One Burned, Other Hurt in Leap
From Window During Blaze
in Barbecue Stand.

Two men were injured, one when
burned, at $50 o'clock this morning
when fire burned a three-story frame
dwelling and barbecue stand at 5s4o
Conduit road.
Irwin C. Cox, 80, sustained sprained
ankle when he jumped from the sec
ond floor of the structure to escape the
flames after being awakened by smoke.
Peyton Rayford, 10, colored, an en-
ploye of the stand, received burns on
the right hand and knee before he was
able to escape. Both were treated at
Georgetown Hospital.
The fire. of unknown origin, caused
damage estimated at $1,000.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
S300,000 SUIT is HELD
BASED ON ILLEGAL DEAL
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, December 8.-The $780,
600 suit for breach Of contract brought
by James S. Clark of Mount Kisco, KY,
against Norman w. Harris, Chicago
banker, was dismissed today as con-
trary to public policy and based upon
a corrupt, illegal and immoral trans
action.
Counsel for the young vice president
of the Harris Trust g. Savings Bank
objected that Clark had tried to capi-
taliZe on his wife's alleged intimacy
with Harris. The Judge upheld the
argument and threw the suit out of
court
In his ruling Judge John R. Caver-
ley said Clark and his divorced wife,
the former Dorothy Funk of Des Moines,
had operated badger game" against
Harris.
The suit was based on an alleged
contract made by Harris to pay Clark
$500 a month for life, agreed upon
when Clark returned to his Madison,
Wis, home after a trip and found the
Chicago banker with his wife. Clark
divorced her and obtained custody Of
their two children.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
Fingerprinting Goes Begging.

BERKELEY, Cahf., December 8 N).
Berkeley citizens can nave their fin-
gerprints added to police records free
of charge. but no line Is forming. A.
j. Greening. police chief, wishes there
were. Inviting citizens to be finger
printed at the newly created Bureau of
Personal Identification, he said IF
fingerprinted persons get lost, suffer
amnesia attacks or get bowled over In
traflc accidents, We shall be able to
identity them"
Evening star., 1932-12-08
~ RoTEsT against what was called

~ ROTEST against what was called
- the subordinate role allotted to
women under existing political
i set.ups was voiced by Miss Vida
Milholland of New York at tea
yesterday in the Washington Hotel
which preceded the formal opening of
the new Washington headquarters Of
the Women's National Committee for
Law Enforcement in the Kellogg Build
ing.
Miss Milholland was presented by
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, chairman OF
the committee.
Women of all political parties who
believe in the eighteenth amendment, ="
said Miss Milholland, have organized
the United Dry Women In New York
State as a means Of direct political
action to prevent another situation such
as we faced In the recent election, when
Evening star., 1932-12-08
Grounded Freighter Abandoned.

PORTLAND, Ore, December (P).--
Owners of the 4l0-foot East Coast
freighter Sea Thrush announced yes
terday they had abandoned the steamer,
aground south of the Columbia River
entrance, and had turned over their
interest to the Columbia River Salvage
Co. The freighter went aground in o
dense fog Sunday. All persons aboard
were removed safely
Evening star., 1932-12-08
Oil Man Found Dead.

BASIN, Wyo, December 8 &C..
c, vogel, 81, president of the Torch
light OIL Corporation. was found dead
in his room in hotel here yesterday.
Physicians said he apparently died in
his sleep from heart disease. -.
Evening star., 1932-12-08
WHITNEY AssAILs THoM.
Denounces Taking of Wage Issue Befor,
Coolidge Committee.

CHICAGO, December 8 P)-On the
eve of a wage conference here with
railroad officials the spokesman for rail-
road labor expressed astonishment and
resentment at action Of the carriers
in taking the question of wages before
the National Transportation Committee,
headed by Calvin Coolidge, in New York
today.
A. F. Whitney, chairman of % unions
of rail employees, who will meet with
managers of the roads Monday to
discuss extension of the recent one-year
10 per cent deduction in pay, de-
nounced Alfred p Thorn, general coun-
sci for the Association of Railway
Executives, for his statement to the
committee and also current scales OF
pay.
Thorn told the committee that the
railroads regard the present level Of
wages as unjustified and profoundly in
furious to the public interest"
Holds Wages Too Low.
Whitney replied that the level lis not
sufficient to enable railway employees to
maintain themselves and their families
in ordinary decency
"Seven hundred thousand Of them
are in the breadlines,' he said. "The
railway brotherhoods are astonished to
learn that Mr.. Thorn would undertake
to place the question of wages and
working conditions before the Coolidge
Committee, especially at a time when
the rail labor organizations are handling
the matter with national committee of
railroad executives authorized to speak
for the carriers.
Eve certainly resent any effort on the
part of the carriers to place labor in the
wrong light before the public by sug-
gesting or permitting an unauthorized
tribunal to butt in on the wage ques-
ton"
Whitney sald his group was per
fectly willing" to have authoritative
governmental bodies authorized by Con-
gress investigate wages and financial
structures Of the roads"
Sees Grave Misunderstanding.
"Any effort on the part Of the Cool
idge Committee or any other unau-
thorized bodies to interfere in the
question Of rail wages is bound to re-
suit in grave misunderstanding of in
terests involved and will doubtless be
embarrassing to the railroads as well
as groups which undertake to usurp
such authority"
brotherhoods were working on part
time" and 100000 at greatly reduced
incomes"
Wage cutting and dismissal Of en-
pioyes must be stopped" he said. TOO
many homes already have been
wrecked. Rail labor organizations will
oppose vigorously any further attempt
on the part of industry to destroy pur-
chasing power If it is permitted to
continue it will destroy our social
structure
General chairmen representing the
% unions held separate meetings to-
day to canvass ballots on whether they
had authority to deal with the roads
Monday
President E. j. Manion of the Order
Of Railroad Telegraphers reported he
had authority to negotiate for the
memnersnp ,a--a-z
Evening star., 1932-12-08
November Circulation.
Daily =. 1862
Sunday, 125,338

District OF Columbia, S.:
FLEMING NEWBOLD Business Manager
Of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY STAR.
of copies of the paper named sold and dis
tributed during the month of November. AID.
1882, was as follows:
Evening star., 1932-12-08
RAILROADS PLEAD
FOR EQUALITY IN
TRANSPORTATION WAR

(Continued From First Page.)
Imperial Valley press., 1932-02-02
Daily Report Of
Stock Markets

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2. U.P)-
The market became irregular when
trading became very inactive on
the Los Angeles stock exchange to-
day.
Douglas Aircraft which advanced
sensationally yesterday dropped
back "a to 113i on sales of 100
shares.
The most active stock was Union
Oil which sold 600 shares at lis,
down Is; Standard Oil was down Is
on sales of 300 shares at "a.
Transamerica sold 400 shares at
rs, down a.; Seaboard Bank drop
ped to a new low at 33, where
100 shares sold. Pacific Mutual
gained q when 100 shares sold at
36A.
Southern California Edison 6 per
cent preferred hit a new low at
23l4 before advancing to 23la, up Il,
on sales of 300 shares. Pacific Gas
and Electric sold 100 shares at 33A
down a.
Southern Pacific sold 100 shares
at 33i2, down Il.