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Evening star., 1932-01-20

and Is prepared to do so again, unless
the Federal excise tax which it has
been singled out to bear is permitted
to balk its efforts"
The chamber points out that the
industry has maintained an employed
personnel of more than 100000 in
eXrt citation of the new models just IN
troduced and that values have been
increased and prices cut to stimulate
buying.
Company Heads TO Appear.
Among those who will appear be-
fore the committee are Alfred P. Sloan,
jr., president General Motors Corpora
ton; Alvan Macauley, president Pack
ard Motor Car Co.; Walter P. Chrysler,
president Chrysler Corporation; Roy
D. Chaplin. chairman of the board
Hudson Motor Car Co.; E. L. Cord,
president Auburn Automobile Co.;
Charles w. Nash, president Nash
Motors Co.; Alfred H. SWayne, vice
prsident General Motors Corporation;
Paul Seller, president General Motors
Truck Corporation; Paul G. Hoffman,
vice president Studebaker Corporation;
A. J. Brosseau. president Mack Trucks.
Inc; M. L. Pulcher, president Federal
Motor Truck Corporation: T. r. Dahl,
vice president White Motor Co., and
George Graham, vice president Rockne
Motors.
Evening star., 1932-01-20
j. S. AUTO HEADS
PROTEST TAX
Leaders of Industry to Take
Plea Before Committee
Saturday.

Prepared TO protest the proposed
automobile excise tax, leading figures
In the automotive world will appear
before the House Ways and Means Com
uiittee Saturday to present their case.
The proposal before the House COM
mittee provides a tax Of per cent on
all new automobiles, per cent for
trucks and 212 per cent on tires, parts
and accessories.
1t is estimated that this would mean
an imposition Of s25 for every car, and
this tax, 1t is contended is more than
the budget of the average car buyer can
stand.
Wide Effects Feared.
1.-THE grounds Upon which Congress
will be asked to forego imposition of the
tax begin with the inevitable far
reaching effect it would have upon all
classes In every State" it was explained
In a statement in behalf of the Ma
tional Automobile Chamber Of Com
nerce, which Is in the forefront Of the
Eight.
The automobile industry takes the
stand, it was added, that in past de-
presSions it has led the way to recovery,
Evening star., 1932-01-20
TWO ..ELD FOR TREASON

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, January
90 (P.-Adolf Bestak and Emil Tur-
novsky, Czechoslovakians, have been
arrested on a charge of having tried to
sell the 'ormula for gas mask filter
used by lie Czechoslovakian Army to
an unidentified buyer in Germany.
They were taken as they tried to
cross the frontier in an automobile in
which police found gas mask, but
without the filter.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
DEVICE To END
SEAS|CKNESS

PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 19 Il.
N.S0 An ingenious new stabiliz-
ing device which may Danish sea-
sickness and put modern ocean
travel on a new basis of comfort
has been developed here at the
Moore school of electrical
engineering, University of Penn
Gylvania, it was learned today.
Almost all the motion of larger
ships laboring in heavy seas is a
rolling motion. Seldom does the
pitching" (endwise) motion of
these craft exceed two degrees.
But the sidewiSe motion often ex-
ceeds ten degrees each way in
heavy weather.
This sharp fitting of vessels
from port to Starboard and back
causes SeaSicknesS.
The new device, utilizing shift
ing weights instead of gyroScopic
action as a stabilizing influence,
is expected to reduce, or "quench,"
a ten-degree roll in each direction
to a short, slow roll of two de-
greeS or less.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
COAST GUARDS
RUSH BOATSTO
FLOODZ ZONE
Town of Greenwood, Miss, Hit
BY New Levee Break; Con-
viCtS Help Stem Waters

GREENWOOD, Miss, Jan.
19 (I.N.S.).-Several Coast
Guard units were speeding
toward northwestern Missis-
sippi today to aid in the res
cue of thousands of families
endangered by flood waters.
Under orders from Wash
ington a rescue detail of 26
coast guardsmen, including
five captains, were en- route
from Chicago, bringing six
power boats.
Several Coast Guard stations
along the Gulf of Mexico were
also dispatching rescue crews to
this Delta region, which has been
converted by rising rivers into an
inland sea 100 miles long and 70
miles wide.
Another Levee Breaks
The flood today centered its
fury on Greenwood as the conse-
ouence of a 25-foct rupture in the
Yazoo River leVee.
Bursting through the huge gap,
the water inundated the north
section of this city, swirling into
more than 200 homes and flood
ing numerous business houses.
Business men labored feverishly
in piling sandbags against the
walls of their buildings to prevent
weakening of the foundations.
Convicts Reinforce Levee
A gang of $50 convicts was
rushed here from the State Prison
Farm at Parchman and worked
throughout the night to reinforce
the levee and repair the break.
The most serious situation Gre
ated by the vast flood continued
to prevail in the Tippo Basin
north of here. where more than
1000 inhabitants were marooned.
Hundreds of families, deprived of
food and shelter, are living on
their housetops, awaiting arrival
of Coast Gucrd and Red Cross
boats.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
GRADS FEATURE
WASHINGTON

The featuring of George Wash
ington and his interest in educa-
ton in connection with the bicen-
tennial celebration for the mid.
year public school graduations was
recommended today by Robert l..
Haycock, assistant superintendent
of schools, as being more appro-
pirate than at the June COM
mencements.
Commencement exercises will
be held at the various elementary,
Junior and senior high schools
January % and 20.
Mr.. Haycock, who will be princi-
pal speaker at several schools,
said he is already planning to
speak on the subject of George
Washington.
The school officials recon-
mended that principals of the
various schools, in formulating
programs for graduation, should
bear in mind the forthcoming cele-
bration.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
TODAY
TESTS LONG

NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan. 19
GN.SO Whether or not the &C
tions and policies of Governor
Huey P. Long, are to be prolonged
was the question confronting the
States Democratic voters today
as they went to the polls to cast
ballots in their party's guberna'
torial primary.
Should the electorate choose o,
K. Allen, chairman of the high.
way commission, as the Demo
cratic nominee, Governor Long
will triumph. Allen is the man
Long supports to succeed him.
Allen has two opponents-Dud
ley Leblanc, member of the rail
road commission, and George
Seth Guion. Both are opposed to
the Long administration and have
campaigned vigorously against AL
len.
Democratic nomination is tanta,
mount to election in Louisiana.
Upon expiration of his term
Governor Long will assume office
in the United States Senate.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19

HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. l9
GN.SO .-Hawaii's territorial legis-
lature today continued in solemn
deliberation over six measures
aimed to reform conditions in
Honolulu that have Mortified the
world.
Meanwhile Mrs. Granville
Fortescue, eastern society leader:
her son-in-law, Lieut.. Thomas H.
Massie of the United States
Navy, and two naval enlisted
men, E. j. Lord and Albert Jones,
remain in custody on the U. S.
WarShip Alton.
They are charged with tht muir
der of Joseph Kahahawai, one OF
five natives accused of criminally
attacking Mrs. Thalia Massie, 20,
bride of Lieutenant MasSie, and
daughter of Mrs. Fortescue.
Six-POint Program
The six measures introduced
call for:
Creation of a police commi-
sion with power to appoint a
chief OF ponce, now elected py
popular vote;
Making public prosecutor an
appointive officer under juris-
ton of territorial attorney gen.
tral;
Making criminal attacks on
women punishable by death or
life imprisonment;
Conferring of merg ency
police powers upon the terri
torial governor;
Prohibition of street lettering
with fines ranging up to $3.50
and imprisonment of from 80 to
80 days as way of breaking up
anggs;
Giving prosecutor equal rights
with defense counsel in jury
challenges in criminal cases.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
KILLERS KNOWN
|. To SECRET SIX

CHICAGO, Jan. 19 GN.S0.
The Secret Six, business mems
crime-fighting committee, has
learned the identity of the three
slayers of Benjamin Rosenberg, a
crusader against racketeering in
the cleaning and dyeing industry,
it was learned today.
1t was said the killers are avail
able for arrest at any time and
that one of them is a "big shot"
in gangland. Investigators ad-
mitted there is much to be done
before an air-tight case can be
established against the trio.
Meantime, Rosenberg'S courage.
Gus widow took part in the cam
paign to avenge the latest ter
rorism in the cleaning and dyeing
business.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
GIBBONS IS SET
FOR AIR TREAT

MUKDEN, Jan. 10 G.N.SO .
Floyd Gibbons, war correSpon-
dent and radio announcer who
has been following the operations
of the Japanese army in Man
churia for International News Ser
vice, was preparing today for his
radio broadcast which will be
heard in the United States and
other countries tomorrow eve
ming.
Gibbons spent several hours
with a Japanese interpreter prac-
ticing the pronunciation of the
names of Japanese and Chinese
generals he met while hostilities
were on in Southern Manchuria.
This radio treat, arranged by
international News Service and
Universal Service in Association
with the National Broadcasting
System, will be presented at 7:15
to 7:45, eastern standard time,
over the N. B.C.WJz network.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
ASKS
LEGAL|ZAT|ON
Of BEER
Rep. SABBATH Declares Chicago
Spends Millions to Enforce
Dry Law

The entire American Army
and Navy could not enforce
prohibition in this country,
Representative Samuel Dick
stein (D.) of New York city,
told the Metcalf Senate Com
mittee today.
Advocating legalization of beer,
Dickstein said it's restoration
would mark the end of the boot
logger.
Illustrating prohibitions failure
to prohibit, he said 12,125 men
and women were arrested for
drunkenness on the streets of st.
Louis last year. He said:
"There is more booze in col
leges today than in workshops.
If you offered a girl a drink be-
fore prohibition she would slap
your face; today if you did not
offer her a drink she would call
you a cheap skate"
Chicago's Penalty
Chicago was the most law abid-
ing and most sober city in the
United States before prohibition,
said Representative Adolph Sab
ath CD of Illinois, who further
declared:
Crime has now increased to
such an extent that prisoners
in our penitentiarieS are obliged
to sleep in halls and Railways.
Federal prosecution of crime in
1890 cost Chicago $52,7S6,2O2
and 66 per cent, or S32,S20,55O
was prohibitions cost.
Kansas Cited
He said one reason why Chicago
suffered more than any other
city from prohibition was because
"that large prohibition territory"
Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, and Ne
braska. depends upon Chicago for
the liquor supply. Senator Blng'
ham asked:
"YOu certainly don't mean
Kansas"
ooh, the demand from Kansas
is tremendous"
Calling attention to Anti-Saloon
League gatherings in Washing
ton, SABBATH said the drys had
good reason to make merry and
rejoice, and that they have been
the great beneficiaries of "this
destructive law"
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
4 DUELS AWAIT
ARCHDUKE

VIENNA, Jan. 10 GNSD.-The
Archduke Leopold Salvador of
Hapsburg, descendant of the late
Emperor Franz-Josef, today was
faced with four challenges to duel.
The challenges we're issued by
four noblemen as the result of a
heated quarrel in Viennese night
club.
Counts Arco-Zinneberg, Orssich,
and Rex and Baron Stuckart, all
officers in the former imperial
army, accused Leopold of "be-
smirching" his medals, making
uncomplimentary mention Of Leo
pold's frequent escapades.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
RAIL PAY SLASH
DECISION NEAR

CHICAGO, Jan. 10 GN.S0.
Cautious "give and take" common
to most parleys between labor
and capital, continued today at
the history-making meeting of a
committee Of nine railroad presi-
dents and representatives Of 81
rail unions.
With acceptance of a 10 per
cent wage cut hanging in the
balance, the labor chiefs elabo-
rated on their plans for guaran-
teed employment and eventual es-
tablishment of the six-hour day.
Union spokesmen have asked
this question of the presidents:
''WOuId the railroads agree
to guarantee during the period
for which they have proposed a
pay reduction lone year, to
maintain as a minimum amount
of work not less than the total
man hours worked by each class
of employees in the year 1902"
D. B. Robertson, chairman of
the Railway Labor Executives AS.
Sociation, explained that 1880 was
selected because conditions of
that year were more favorable to
labor than in 1881. However, he
pointed out, employment was still
greater in 1929.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
JOBS
LEGION COAL

CHICAGO, Jan. 10 UN.S0
Members of the American Legion
today opened the first of five
regional employment conferences
by which they hope to put 1,000,-
600 men to work during the next
four weeks.
Henry L. Stevens, jr., national
commander, intimated that as
soon as the first million has
been put to work, the legion
will start on a second million.
According to Mark T. Mckee,
Detroit attorney and publisher,
secretary of the Legion's employ
ment commission, several indus
trial leaders who are large en-
ployers of labor have agreed to
increase their working forces by
10 per cent within the next
month.
Leaders in the legion drive
are advocating a six-hour day
and a five-day week as a means
of putting more men to work.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
GUNMEN F | { T
VICE PROBE

FLINT, Mich, Jan. 10 Q.N.SD.
With a grand jury sitting in
Bay City beginning consideration
today CT vice conditions here,
Federal agents reported an ex-
odus of racketeerS.
The grand jury was called to
consider evidence collected by
Federal agents in a five months
investigation of conditions in this
district. Beer joints were re-
ported paying for protection.
Subpoenas have been issued
for many public officials and
citizens.
Mayor William H. McKeighan
said he expects to be indicted,
along with his police chief,
Caesar j. Scavarda.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
PATRONS SLUG
PROPRIETOR

Charles Carrigan, of Meadows,
Md, was struck with an iron pipe
in a hold-up by two colored men
yesterday in Carrigan's barbecue
lunch-room.
Carrigan said the two entered
his store and asked for cigarettes.
AS he handed the package, he said,
one of the men struck at his head
with the pipe. Carrigan lodged
the blow but was struck on the
shoulder. He said that his dog
frightened the would-be bandits
away before they reached the cash
register.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
MOTOR FEE CUT
SOUGHT IN VA.

RICHMOND, Va, Jan. 19.-The
Virginia General Assembly sees
the beginning of a widely sup
ported attack upon the highway
revenue statutes, with the intro
duction of a bill by Delegate r..
F. McMurran, of Portsmouth, to
reduce the automobile license fee
from 10 cents a 100 pounds to so
cents, the minimum to be $40, in
stead of $3.50.
The assemblymen are being del
uged with petitions from the
rural areas for a reduction in the
motor license levieS.
The McMurran bill would cut
the levy on 12-ton and 1-ton
trucks by $5.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
Lieut.. Vdrney Made
Circle Club Member

Lieut.. Frank A. Varney, at
tached to the Second precinct,
was indicted into the Circle Club,
Masonic order, at a meeting at
the Hamilton Hotel last night.
Representative Paul Kvale, of
Minnesota, and others spoke on
plans for dedication of George
Washington Masonic Memorial
Temple at Alexandria in May.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
Washington DriUer
Freed in F1t1Litu

A coroner'S jury impaneled by
Judge George S. Phillips. Of
Berwyn, Md, last night exoner-
ated Walter H. Yost, T24 Third
st. N. W., of all blame in the
death of Philip Joseph Shanahan,
of this city, who was run down
and killed by Yost's car at
Berwyn on the Washington
Baltimore Boulevard on Christ
mas night.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
Helen ForteSCue
Sails for u, S,

HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 19
G.N.S0.-Miss Helen Fortescue,
a daughter of Mrs. Granville For
tesque and a sister of Mrs. Thalia
Massie, sailed for San Francisco
today.
County and City Prosecutor
James E. Gilliland said that Miss
Fortescue was not wanted as a
witness in the forthcoming trial.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
Six-Point Reform Program
Before Hawaii Lawmakers
international Photo

Der Of single men coming to the
islands was creating social
problem worthy of study.
Ethelbert Stewart, chief of the
division of labor statistics, super
vised preparation of the report
covering the period up to 1929.
It showed that from 1925 to
1929, inclusive, 42,186 adult male
Filipinos came to Hawaii to work
in the cane fields and only 1,486
females. In that same period,
1914 Filipino men and 1,769
females left Hawaii. Thus more
Filipino women left than came,
while nearly four times as many
men entered as left.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
CHEST GIFTS MOUNT

Cash donations to Washing.
tons Community Chest yesterday
totaled $1O3,785, according to a re-
port of the special gifts commit
tee. The total of special gifts is
now reported to be $563,98O.
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
Influx of Men Causes
Hawaii Social Problem

Persons here solicitous over the
Hawaiian situation recall that
the Department of Labor a year
ago warned that the large num-
The Washington times., 1932-01-19
International Photos

COFFEY BEATRICE
MRS. BEATRICE BARCLAY PICKERELL, 15-year-
old heress who esranged from her family when she
eloped with New Jersey ruckman rehearses with Rob
ert Coffeyy for her theatrical debut Her husband IS
out of work and storage company has threatened to sell
their household belongings but the young couple declare
they happy and do not intend to ask the brides
parents for help
The Washington times., 1932-01-19

international Photo
MRS. SCHNEIDER AND PRIZE
WINNING DOG
THE PEKINESE held by Mrs.
Charles Schneider, Forest Hills,
L. l., was exhibited at the show
given by the New York
Women'S League for Animals
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1932-08-22
5 HITLER MEN
FACE DEATH

BRESLAU, Germany, Aug. %
G.N.SD Ignoring threatened re-
prisals, a special anti-terrorism
court here today sentenced to
death five of Adolf Hitler's storm
troops" convicted of completely
in the murder of Josef Pietrzuch,
communist.
One other Nazi trooper, tried
on the same charge, escaped with
a tWo-year prison sentence.
Four of the doomed troopers
were convicted of manslaughter
and sentenced to die, and the
fifth was found guilty of arson.
The court, established under
President Won Hindenburg's re.
cent emergency decree, drafted to
combat the wave of terrorism
and political killings which swept
Germany following the parlia-
mentary elections, found that the
troopers attempted to evict Pie
trzuch and his family from their
home.
When the men went on trial.
rumors were current that the
Nazi storm troops would resort
to violent reprisals in the event
of conviction and imposition of
the death sentence.
The Washington times., 1932-08-22
J7rn1ble Bares $40, III, O56R. F: C.. Loans
Stocks Soar
In Brisk
Rally

NEW YORK, Aug. % G.N.S0-
The stock market today gave a
demonstration of strength remi-
niscent of those in the broad re-
covery movement two and three
weeks ago.
Stocks started off confidently,
as if the irregular trend of last
week had improved their position.
With only momentary pauses, the
advance continued as the day
wore on and by early afternoon
leading stocks we're up from l to
more than 4 points.
Strength in the rails continued
to be the backbone of the rise.
Along with this was a demonStra-
ton in the steel stocks on the
increase in operations for the
week, the first rise this month.
Rail stocks jumped from l to
more than 3 points. AtchiSOn was
outstanding despite a decline in
it's carloadings for the week. N. Y.
Central was taken up 2 points in
heavy volume. Union Pacific was
up sharply and the lower-priced
carriers were strong.
American Telephone was the
bull leader with rise of more
than points in heavy dealings.
The Washington times., 1932-08-22
FARM BLOCKADE
EXPANDING

SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. %
0N.SD East st. Louis and Chi
cago-two of the largest agriCul-
tural markets in the country
are soon to feel the farmers
strike now in effect in Iowa, it
was announced today by Clinton
P. Savery, organizer for the Far
mers' Holiday Association.
Blockades to keep shipments of
farm products will be thrown
around both cities as soon as
blockades around Sioux City and
Omaha have been made 100 per
cent effective, he said.
The announcement was made
following an organization meet
ing at which SaVery was Cheered
by nearly 1000 farmers at Dun
lap, Iowa, whom he eXhorted to
join the strike and whom he
assigned to picket duty outside
Omaha, latest objective of the
striking forces.
Savery. who called the meeting
at Dunlap, warned that the
blockade would be impossible. He
ordered:
'Let no trucks pass, regard
less of the amount of moral
persuasion it is necessary to
uSe,"
The Washington times., 1932-08-22

Wilton Lackaye, famous Wash.
ington actor, who had followed
the spotlight of theatrical love
as a dramatic actor since 1888,
died today at his home in New
York city from heart disease fol,
lowing a critical illness Of several
days. He was SO years old.
During his manv ars on the
stage he had created many pop.
ular roles. His success started
when he created the SVengali role
in "Trilby" which rs 80 be-
ginning of a career of stellar roles
that brought great fame and for
tune. He retired from the stage
five years ago following a severe
illness.
Lackaye was a native of Wash,
ington. His stage success was the
outgrowth of training in the old
Lawrence Barrett Dramatic Club
at the Georgetown University. He
received an honorary degree of
master of arts from that uni
versity.
The Washington times., 1932-08-22
KILLING RING
BLAMED IN
z DEATHS
Pair Tortured, StrangIed the
Same Way That Bazzano
Was Slain

NEW YORK, Aug. %
(IN.S.). - The "trade mark -
Of the national killing syndi-
cate that slew John Bazzano,
of Pittsburgh, today linked
two murders of Brooklyn gang
sters in Harrison, N. j., to the
intercity gangster war that
caused Bazzano death two
weeks ago.
The latest victims are Andrew
Fadrizio, 26, Of Brooklyn, and
Vincent Boccio, alias Joseph
Dimaio, also of Brooklyn and
also 26 years old.
Slugged, Strangled
They we're found behind a
garage trussed up so that their
knees were under their chins-as
Bazzano had been tied:
Their necks we're CirCled with
rope, just as Bazzano had been
garrotted.
Their heads had been beaten
with hammers or pistol butts
until their skulls had been frac-
tured-as Bazzano's head had
been crushed.
Their bodies were stabbed
through and through with some
thin blade, like an ice pick or
stiletto-as Bazzano had been
stabbed.
Finally each body was wrapped
in burlap Sacking and tied in
bundle with heavy cord-as the
Bazzano package" had been
wrapped"
Capt. John MCGOWAN, of the
Brooklyn homicide squad, said:
"Gangster killers have tech
nique peculiar to themselves.
The simiIarities in the wounds,
wrapping, and body positions of
the Harrison victims and of
BaZzanO are too near alike to be
mere concurrence.
MCGOWAN is satisfied that the
two new victims we're killed in
Brooklyn and then taken by auto,
either through the Holland tunnel
or by ferry, to the point where
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