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The Washington times., 1932-11-21
BIC SLASH DUE
FOR BUDGET

A united campaign to slash
Federal Government costs was
under way today with Admins
tration officials and returning
members. of Congress, regardless
of party, pledging their support.
President Hoover had set $780,
100000 as the net economy goal
OF the Executive branch, reached
10y deducting $150,0OO,O0 in fixed
charges from a $700, 1000, 900 cut
in current expenditures.
The presidential budget of four
billion odd dollars, it was re-
ported, eliminates the 1922 200, ,00C
provided for public construction
last year to provide employment
and cuts other construction items.
Many members of Congress in
Sist these amounts be increased
rather than diminished, and they
predicted battle for appropria-
tion of additional funds for di-
rect unemployment relief.
The budget, it was made
known, provides for no reduc-
tionS in the $1,000, 900, 900 outlay
OF the Veterans Bureau.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
5LAY|NG HALTS
: GANG EXPOSE

NEW YORK, Nov. 81 GN.S0.
Francis Anthony Fabrizzo, 40,
Brooklyn, ex-convict, turned anna
teur author to write a manu-
script on How Gangland Works" "
In one chapter he mentioned
the names of racketeers he be-
lieved only recently made his two
brothers victims of brutal sack
murders"
Today police studied the un-
finished manuscript carefully in
hopes some names in it might
prove to be those Of Fabrizzo's
own slayers.
The underworld sought to fore
stall publication of the book by
dispatching Fabrizzo the way of
his brothers.
Three men posing as detectives
went to his home last night
FabriZzo was at dinner with his
father and mother, his sister, a
brother, and several other rela
tives. They told him:
ters."
He put on his coat and went
with them. A few seconds later
shots were heard in the hallway
The elder Fabrizzo rushed out
His son lay dead on the floor.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
LINCOLN STUDY
FARLEY SCENE

The meeting between President
Hoover and President-elect Roose-
velt at the White House tomorrow
probably will take place in the
historic Lincoln study.
The atmosphere of the famous
old study is rather more informal
than the Executive Office-in
keeping with Governor RooSevelt's S
request that the conference be
wholly personal and informal"
Present plans call for the PreSi-
dent-elect to reach Washington at
$3.50 o. m. A White House linn
CUISINE will await him at the sta
ton, and he will go directly to
the White House, entering prob
ably through the familiar Penn
Sylvania Avenue entrance.
It will not be the first meet
ing between the two men. They
saw a good deal of each other
while both were in wartime
Washington, Mr.. Hoover as food
administrator and, Mr.. Roosevelt
as assistant Secretary of the Navy
They met again from time to
time.
Their last meeting was in Rich
mond, Va, this spring when Vir-
ginia played host to the annual
conference of governors. Later
President Hoover entertained the
visiting governors at a formal
White House dinner.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
KICK UP
TODEMOCRATS

Whether Congress will legalize
2.75 or 4 per cent beer seemed
to depend today entirely on the
attitude to be assumed by Demo
Gratis.
If Southern Democrats decree
that 2.75 per cent beer carries
out their party's platform pledge,
then Congress will authorize the
same type of beer sold under the
wartime prohibition act.
If Southern Democrats stand
for per cent beer, then Con-
gress will legalize the mildest
form of beer sold in the old pre-
Volstead days.
This was the situation on Capt.
tol Hill, because the Democrats
carry the balance of power in
both House and Senate in de-
termining how far the Volstead
act will be modified.
Liberal leaders have insisted
there is a wide difference be-
tween 2.75 and 4 per cent beer.
The first figure-2.75-represents
alcoholic content by weight and
the latter per cent-represents
alcoholic content by volume 1ne
.2.75 per cent by weight equals
3.44 per cent by volume swhlle
4 per cent by volume equals 3'zO
ner cent by weight.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
MATHER, PENN
NH|STORY WAR

HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 81
U.N.SO New England an d
Pennsylvania we're making-or
breaking-history today over the
controversial issue of whether
Cotton Mather abetted a plot to
kidnap William Penn during
legend.shrouded colonial days.
The question hinges on the
authenticity of a letter purported
to have been written by the
famed New England Puritan $50
years ago. It is history that
Mather was in on such scheme.
but the belief is by no means
universal.
New England historians have
rallied again to refute the claim
and to defend Mather, and to-
day they seemed destined to
win a concession from certain
Pennsylvania historians.
The tilt may come to a head
tonight when Ross H. Swope,
Harrisburg historian, presents the
results of a personal investiga+
tion to the Dauphin County His
torical Society.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
T|GRESS FIGHTS
DEATH ED|CT

HOENIx, Ariz., Nov. 81
UN.S).-Attorneys for Mrs. Win
ME Ruth Judd, convicted velvet
Tigress," were to appear before
the State Supreme Court today
in their plea to save her from
the gallows for the murder of
Mrs. Agnes Ann Leroi.
The State charged that Mrs.
Judd killed Mrs. Leroi and Hedvig
Samuelson here and shipped their
bodies in trunks to Los Angeles.
States attorneys, asserting that
Mrs. Judd had had a fair trial,
were prepared to resist oral argu-
mentS of defense counsel.
Mrs. Judd was found guilty of
first-degree murder and sentenced
to be hanged. She now is in the
State prison at Florence.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
Virginia Motorists
Find Inspection
Law Serious

Hundreds of Virginia motor
lists today discovered the new
State Motor Vehicle Inspection
Act wasn't fooling." They all
received summonses to court to
explain why they have not COM
piled with the law which be-
came effective November Is.
All those arrested face posi-
BILE heavy fines. However, there
is one hope left for those who
hold the summonSes. If their
cars are inspected by Saturday,
according to State Highway In
spector Wayne C. Carr, the
cases against them will not be
pressed,
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
P|NCHOT WON 7
AID MARCHERS
staff Photo

HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 81
GN.SO-Gov. Clifford Pincrot
said today that while relief-seek-
ing marchers en- route to Wash
ington would not suffer brutal
treatment" accorded the bonus
army, they would receive no Of
ficial aid from Pennsylvania.
The Governor added that so
long as the marchers obeyed the
laws of this Commonwealth and
provided food and shelter for
themselves, they would not be
molested.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21

e. and get one of these fine large
Turkeys. our big Thanksgiving
Gift.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
"Iggy," Confessed Killer,
Boasts He Is Insane

CHICAGO, Nov. 81 GN.SO
James "Iggy" Varecha, confessed
killer of three men, attacker OF
two women, and perpetrator OF
some 20 holdups, sat in a Jail
cell today, blithely boasting that
the State will never succeed in
giving him the "hot seat" He
said:
"I'H say I'm crazy, I've been
sent to the Dixon Hospital
twice and you can't get around
that. I'm insane"
But the State already was lay
ing the groundwork to combat
any claim of insanity. Already
it had the word of two we'll
known alienists that young Var
echa is not only sane, but "of an
advanced mentality" to boot.
The two psychiatrists, DR.. Harry
Hoffman, head of the criminal
court behavior clinic. and DR.. H,
Douglas Singer, chief of the men.
tai staff of the Edward Hines, ir.
Veterans Hospital, announced
their findings after having the
youthful criminal under observa.
ton for two hours while he re.
cited his amazing tale of offenses
against society.
The psychiatrists said:
"He is cunning, and if he was
ever pronounced fceble-minded,
he slammed that mental atti-
tude."
Captured in burlesque theater
after he had vainly tried to buy
a revolver with which to kill
himself, Varecha, who claims to
be II years old, but who is much
The Washington times., 1932-11-21

older, according to the police,
broke under the strain of 18
hours of continuous grllling to
admit that he was the youth who
staged a reign of terror in the
southwest district last Wednesday
night.
COnfesses Staying
During that orgy of crime, he
confessed, he murdered Frank
Jordan, a salesman, as he sat
beside Miss Emma Dahmke in a
parked automobile.
Then, a half hour later, he
came upon another parked auto
mobile in which Miss Lillian
Henry, &c, sat chatting with
James Guisinger. He bound and
gagged Guisinger, trundled him
into the rumble seat, and at
tackled Miss Henry, a niece of
former Police Commissioner John
Alcock.
Among the other crimes ad-
mitted by Varecha was an as
sault on Helen Brabniak after
abducting her from the side of
a male escort last August 81.
Both Miss Brabniak and Miss
Henry identified Varecha.
Before Grand Jury
The two other murders to
which the young desperate con-
fessed we're the killing of IAN
old man on the Southwest Side"
and Mexican who was one of
a party of 20 of his countrymen
into whose ranks Varecha fired.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
WALKER SEEKS
SOLITUDE

NICE, France, Nov. 81 G.N.S) g.
Former Mayor James j. Walker,
of New York, was in a little old
fashioned hotel near Nice today.
Walker reached the hotel last
night from Villefranche, inform
ing the manager he wished to be
left alone and treated like any
other private citizen. He arose
at 10 a. M, shaved for the first
time in three days, took a walk
along the beach, and visited two
nearby golf courses. He did
not play. He said he wished to
decide which was the best course
before going around.
Miss Betty Compton, actress
and close friend of Walker, is at
the same hotel with her mother.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
BLOOM To. TALK
At SERVICES

Representative Sol Bloom, asso-
ciate director of the United States
Bicentennial Commission, will ad.
dress the Jewish Community
Thanksgiving Day services at II
a. m. in the B'Nai Israel Syna-
gogue, Fourteenth and Emerson
Streets Northwest.
Rabbis Abram Simon, Solomon
H. Metz, Julius P. Loeb, Aaron
Volkman and Cantor Louis No
wick also will participate in the
services.
The Washington times., 1932-11-21
ReU. William La Rue
Holds Anniversary

The Rev. William E. La Eue
Yesterday. celebrated the tnlr'
teenth anniversary Of his ser
vice at the Takoma Park Churcn.
His sermon yesterday was Ine
third of a series of four sermons
on "Great Texts Of the Bible.
Evening star., 1932-07-01
OKLAHOMA AGG|ES
HOG MAT HONORS
Three Ex-CoIIegians Strong
FavoriteS in Amateur
Title Tourney.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
n IEW YORK, July 1.-The Ma
M tional amateur wrestling cham
Y pionships and Olympic semi
final trials swung into the next
to last session today with three former
A. and M. athletes strong favorttes 10
win the titles in their respective divi-
sionS
Arlie Tomlinson. winning his second
successive match by fall last night at
the Madison Square Garden Bowl
Joined Jack Van Bebber and Conrad
Caldwell in the select group of favor
ties. Tomlinson, winner Of the 1929
and 1891 145-pound titles, again is
wrestling in the same division, while
Van Bebber and Caldwell are appear
ing in the l58 and 174 pound divisions,
respectively,
Ninety-six bouts have weeded down
the large field to where the standouts
appear to be Alexander Reile Of New
York and James Abras Of the Univer-
slty of Miami in the l18-pound class,
Fred Perry teammate of Tomlinson, in
the l23-pound division; Zigmund lie
Towt, jr., of New York and Walter Kauf
of Newark, NJ j., among the 1884,
Founders; TomlinSon in the 145-pound
class. Van Bebber in the 158-pound d.
vision, Caldwell among the 174-pound-
ers, Louis Putrin of New York in the
191-pound class and Peter Wiczkowsh
of New York A. c. in the heavyweight
class.
Today's program was scheduled to get
under way at pm. The final bouts
will be held tomorrow night.
Evening star., 1932-07-01
METCALFE SNOWMAN
IN OLYMPIC TRY0UT
Already Qualified, Great sprinter
Out to Embellish Fame in
Central A. A. A. Meet.

CHICAGO, July Ralph Metcalfe,
sprinter. will offer proof again to-
morrow of his claim to a rating among
the great runners of the world when he
performs in the Central A. Al,
Olympic tryouts at NorthwestefH J5fli-
versity. Metcalfe already has qualified
for place in the final Olympic trials
at Palo Alto, but is running at Dyche
Field for the competition and to lend
interest to the event.
Coaches in the Middle West are in
clined at this moment to rate Metcalfe
as the best of the sprint field that in
cludes Frank Wykoff of Southern Cali
fornia, George Simpson of Ohio State,
Eddie Tolan of Michigan, Emmett
Topino of New Orleans Loyola and Bob
Kiesel of California. Metca,fe has the
speed of the others plus an amount OF
endurance and physical power not TO be
found in the average sprinter.
Metcalfe's proponents point to his
work of this Spring. Three times he
has equalled the worlds record of :o9.5
for the 100-yard dash. He was clocked
in that time in the National Collegiate
Games; the Drake Relays and in dual
meet with Wisconsin. In a quadran-
gular meet at Stagg Field and in the
Central Intercollegiate he was timed
at :09.6. Not once has he been over
:O96 in outdoor competition this Spring
and that is a record that cannot be
taken lightly.
The Marquette star also has shown
the same tremendous speed in the 220-
yard DASH He ran that distance in 20.5
in the N. C. A. A. and in 20.4 in an
earlier meet. Add to that his time of
1872 in the 100-meter and 20.3 in the
100-meter runs and the Marquette boy
has plenty of evidence with which to
back up his claims.
Evening star., 1932-07-01
BY RUSSELL J. NEWLAND,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

" ERKELEY, Calf, July 1.-For
- the first time in the 56-year-
old history Of the intercol-
legiate track and field cham
pionships. the Far West today was the
scene of this national classic.
In Edwards Stadium, new quarter
million-dollar plant of the University
of California, the $50 athletic repre-
sentatives of some 36 Eastern, Western,
Southern and Far Western colleges and
universities plunged into preliminaries
and semi-finals.
Champions and team championship
we're to be decided Saturday with the
finals holding out the added incentive
of first second and third place men
qualifying for the Olympic games
final team tryouts at Palo Alto, July
Is and l6.
southern Californias powerful Tro-
ian team took the field strong IA
yorite to win its third successive cham
pionship and its fifth title in the last
nine years. fifth victory would as
sure Southern California permanent
possession OF tne l. u 4-A tIOpily.
Coaches and followers OF the sport
generally agreed that Stanford would
pile up sufficient points to claim second
place.
Harvard was rated as the third
strongest squad, with Cornell, Pennsyl-
vania, Yale, Princeton and California
fighting for fourth place and most Of
the remainder of the points.
With the field rated one Of the
strongest in years, five running records
were expected to be shattered, while
marks in such field events as the high
Jump, shotput, pole vault and broad
Jump were threatened.
Observers looked for new times in
the 100 and 440 yard dashes and the
half-mile run today and the one and
two mile runs tomorrow. Rivalry in
these events overshadowed other COM
petition, as they brought together per-
formers whose best times are separated
mostly by split seconds.
The promised duel between Frank
Wykof of Southern California and Bob
KieseI of California stood out in the
100-yard dash Wykoff, defending
champion, is an applicant for a new
world record of "a seconds, while Kiesel
Evening star., 1932-07-01
AZ the Associated Press.

BY lns ASsoClateu FIeses
HHILADELPHIA, July with
- Olympic selections and national
and district championships at
stake oarsmen from numerous
sections Of the country today launched
their feet shells for three-day rowing
carnival on the Schuylkill River
More than 100 crews. from single
sculls to eight-oared craft, are entered
in long list Of events starting at IN
eastern standard time) today and con-
sinuing through tomorrow and Monday.
Five boats to represent the United
States in the Olympic races at Long
Beach, Calf. next month are TO be
chosen in tryouts which start with elm
ination heats for pair-oared shells and
four-oared shells with coxswain. other
Olympic boats to be chosen are the pair
and four -oared shells without coxswain
and the single SOULS
Eight crews are entered in the pair
L cared eliminations today. The list
is headed by Bill Miller and Eman-
slel McGreal of the Penn A. c. Phila-
delphia, the national champions, and j.
p. Thomald and A. Cassedy, former
Harvard stars representing the Union
Boat Club of Boston. other pairs rep
RESENT Tie Nassau DodI OluD VI AsC "
York, the Virginia Club OF Richmond,
the Arundel Club of Baltimore, the
South Side Club of Quincy. ILL.,. and
Princeton University.
The Penn A. c. also is entered in the
four -oared tryouts with a national
championship crew, and competes
against the San Diego Calf. Club;
Cornell Rowing Club, New York A. G.
and the Springfield. Mass, Club.
AHILIxR also win compete for the
lFl single sculls selection and defend
~ national title against such
Evening star., 1932-07-01
Ban Placed Radog of Meeting With Vide
TEN CREWS IN TRY0UTS

PHILADELPHIA. July l lR).-Ten
crews are entered in the final elimina-
tions at Lake Quinsigamund, Wor-
cester, Mass, July to 9, to select the
eight-oared shell which will represent
the United States at the Olympic
games, the American Olympic Rowing
Committee announced yesterday after
entries had been closed.
The final entry, according to George
G.. Melloy, secretary of the committee,
said, was from Yale, whose crew was
defeated last week by Harvard, which
also has entered.
Two boats are entered from the Uni
versity of California, which won the
intercollegiate varsity race at Pough-
keepsie Syracuse and Washington
complete the collegiate entries.
The Princeton Rowing Club has en-
tered a mixed crew, including members
of this years varsity and graduates.
and the Columbia Rowing Club has
done the same The National and In
ternational Penn Athletic Club eight of
Philadelphia is entered along with the
Detroit Boat Club
Evening star., 1932-07-01
BY FRANCIS J. POWERS.

- HICAGO, July 1.-The West
ern Conference has partially
relieved the financial worries
of the American Olympic Com
mittee by arranging to defray the ex-
spenses Of Big Ten athletes who will
compete in the final trials for places
on the United States team at Palo
Alto July Is and 16.
Twenty-one Big Ten stars have
qualified for the finals at Palo Alto
and from the receipts of the Western
Conference track and field meet and
a little additional aid from the various
members of the conference enough
money was secured to defray the
round-trip expenses of the group. Re-
ceipts from the N. c. A. A. games at
Stagg Field, amounting to $2,177, were
turned over to the Olympic Committee
so that the midlands have not done
so poorly by the United States team.
THE Olympic Committee still is
l. hopeful of securing enough money
to present a full team in each
branch of sport at the international
games. A good turnout at the track
and field trials at Palo Alto and the
boxing tournament at san fTdnclSco
will further insure the financial secur-
ity of the United States team.
The fact that the track and f1eld
and boxing finals will be held so close
to Los Angeles is another help to the
Olympic Committee. Contestants par
ticipating at Palo Alto and San Fran
cisco will have their expenses paid to
those points so that the Olympic Com
mittee will be responsible for the ath-
letes only from the time they qualify
until they are returned home.
IT is admitted that the Olympic Com
L mittee will be unable to reach the
s350,000 goal established as neces-
sary to pay expenses of the American
team. However, with contributions still
coming in plus the amount already
raised and the hopes of large crowds for
the final trials, it is believed that any
Evening star., 1932-07-01
Big Ten to Pay ALI Expenses
OF Il Athletes 1t Will Send
To Coast for Olympic Tests

reduction in the personnel Of the United
States team will be very slight.
The Olympic Committee VIII meet in
New York next Tuesday to determine
if any sort of a reduction in personnel
viii be necessary If such move is
found to be imperative the cut probably
will be made in some of the sports in
which the United States is least pro-
ficient.
There undoubtedly will be no cut in
the track and field team. Many of the
qualifiers will come from California and
the Pacific Coast and the move Of the
Big Ten to assist its own men will
greatly lessen the expense attached to
the track squad. From the standpoint
of public interest the track and boxing
events will have the greatest following
and it is in those sports the United
States will show its greatest strength.
Evening star., 1932-07-01
Many Track Marks Threatened
As |. C.. "A Meet Gets Started;
Southern California Is Favored

has twice raced the distance in 9.5.
The I. C. "A record, made by Wykoff,
is 96.
Ben Eastman Of Stanford. unofficial
world record holder in the quarter, half
mile and 800-meter runs, faced two
strong challengers Karl Warner of
Yale was expected to extend the STAN
ford 6-footer in the 440. while Penrose
Hallowell of Harvard was looked to for
stiff competition in the S80
Trials were scheduled today in the
shotput. javelin, discus, broad Jump,
high hurdles, 100, 440, hammer, $50,
low hurdles and 220-yard dash, with
semi-f1nals also IN the high hurdles
and 100
Evening star., 1932-07-01
Some 200 Athletes Competing
Today on Coast in Semi-Final
Trials for u. S. Olympic Team
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
r ONG BEACH, Calf, July l.
Some 200 track and field ath-
4 letes from seven Far Western
States gathered here today to
compete in the semi-final tryouts for
the United States Olympic team.
Seven members Of the 1923 Olympic
team, one world record holder, two
applicants for world marks half score
of senior National A. A. u champions
and six junior A. A. U. title holders
head the list of stars who seek the
right to move on Palo Alto, Calf,
for the final tryouts July is and 16.
Today's program includes finals in
the hammer throw, javelin high jump
hop, step and jump, 5000 meter
steeplechase and 10,000-meter run, and
preliminary heats in the sprints and
hurdles. Those who place third or
better in the two-day meet qualify for
the trials.
Those who were members Of the
team which competed at Amsterdam
include Lee Barnes. world record holder
in the pole vault; Herman Brix, appli-
Evening star., 1932-07-01
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR.

DOB GROOM, who twice recently
ID pitched washington to VIC
tory over Philadelphia, will try
again today to stop the AS Iron
MAJ. Jack Coombs will hurl for
Philadelphia.
Chic Gandil. the Nationals first
baseman. in the one month he has
been with washington. has driven
in Is runs. Home Run Frank
Baker of the Athletics has driven in
At. to lead the loop in this respect.
Ty Cobb. who often in the past has
set the pace, has 35.
Fireman Jim Flynn is much i'm
proved boxer and is given chance
TO defeat the champion, Jack john
son, in their coming battle.
Evening star., 1932-07-01
100 Crews Start Competition
For Titles and Olympic Jobs

stalwartS as Kenneth Myers of Phila-
delphia, former champion, and Russell
S. Goldman, jr.. of Boston.
One championship, the intermediate
eight -oared event. is to be decided to-
day, with boats from this city. Chicago,
Baltimore. New Rochelle, N. Y, and
New York competing.
The carnival is a combination of
Olympic tryouts, the sixtieth national
rowing championships and the Phila-
delphia district Peoples Regatta, and l8
of the events are on today's program.