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Evening star., 1933-04-28
'LUMBERMEN FIGHT
30-HOUR MEASURE
Opposition to Bill Voiced at Close
of Wholesale Dealers
Session Here.

Opposition to the Black 30-hour week
Dill was voiced by the National -Ameri-
can Wholesale Lumber Association be-
fore adjourning its forty-f1rst annual
meeting yesterday at the Mayflower
Hotel. The convention assembled ap-
proximately $50 wholesale lumber dealers
and representatives of allied interests.
Instead Of increasing employment, I"
resolution stated, this measure would
greatly decrease it by shutting down
mills" The association asked that the
lumber industry be excluded from pro-
visions OF the legislation in order that
its members might negotiate with for
eign interests on an equal basis.
The entire slate of officers headed by
Max Myers of Cleveland, the president,
was reelected. New directors chosen
for varying terms included: Harry N.
Evening star., 1933-04-28
RESTAURATEUR DEAD
L. c. Robins Formerly

Edward L. c. Robins Formerly
Owned Delmonico's.
NEW YORK, April % (R.-Edward
L. c. Robins. member Of family OF
renowned restauranteurs and owner OF
the celebrated Delmonico's from 1915
until it closed in 1923, died of acute in
digestion yesterday at the age of So.
Poor health and adversely had dog
ged him for several years and at the
time of his death he was superintend-
ent of an apartment hotel in which he
once lived as one of its wealthiest ten
ants.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs.
Ethel Hamilton Robins, formerly the
wife Of William Desmond Taylor, the
motion picture director who was slain
in 1922; a son, Samuel Robins; a
brother and a sister.
Evening star., 1933-04-28
BANKER SENTENCED

BORGER, Tex, April 2S (P.-A. p.
Berger, founder of this city and former
president Of the defunct Berger State
Bank, was sentenced to two years i'm
prisonment yesterday on charge OF
accepting deposits knowing that the
bank was in failing condition. The
bank was closed January II. Depositors
have received nothing since.
Evening star., 1933-04-28
WOMAN SHOT TO DEATH
Wife Of Maj. Edwin spiller Be
lieved Suicide.

SAN FRANCISCO. April 20 tP.-
Mrs. Katharine Spiller, 33, wife OF
Mai. Edwin Spiller, U. S. A., was found
shot to death in her home at Fort
Winfield Scott here yesterday and po-
lice said she had committed suicide.
A note addressed to her husband
read: You have given me always ex.
uIisite love and beauty. KATHARINE"
Evening star., 1933-04-28
Bean Crop Delayed
When MOuntaineer
Clings to Whiskers
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOUNTAIN HOME, Ark,
April 28.-The bean crop in these
parts Is going to be a mite late
because Bill Brixey hasn't shaved
his Winter whiskers yet.
Bills beard is a bean barometer.
Every Fall he lets it grow and
shaves in the Spring at just the
right time to plant beans. Folks
down here just won't plant beans
until Bill gives the signal.
He came to town the other day
and started toward a barber shop.
Then he looked at a patch Of
clouds in the north, mumbled
hit amt time yet" and went
back home.
Evening star., 1933-04-28

Anderson, Aberdeen, Wash. L. K
Creason. Kansas City, Mo-; J. A. Currey
New York City; C. A. Goodman Mari.
nette, Wis.,; r. c. Pepper, Springfie d
Mass; w. H. Schuette and o. H. Bah
cock, Pittsburgh; r. P. Shannon, Van
Evening star., 1933-04-28

couver, British Columbia: John c. shep.
herd. Charlotte, N c.: Horace F. Taylor.
Buffalo; j. r. Thames Birmingham.
Ala; J. w. Mcclure, Memphis; E B.
De Voc, Spokane, and Otis N. johnson,
San Francisco.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
AUTO SALES. GAIN
FOR SECOND MONTH
September Figures Up SO Per Cent
Over Corresponding Period
of 1882.

FOR the second month since 1929, re-
tail sales of automobiles have shown
an increase over the corresponding
to preliminary figures made public to-
day by DR.. Willard L. Thorp. director
of the Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce.
The tabulation covered sales of cars
In September and was based on fig
ules supplied by the National Automo-
bile Chamber of Commerce. These fig
ures showed an increase of II per cent
in dollar sales or an increase Of &c
per cent in the number of automobiles
sold The, difference is accounted for
In a 5 per cent decrease in the value
of the machines.
The other month to show an in
crease was August, when the increased
sales were 84.7 per cent above those
for the same month in 1882 The drop
from August to September is declared
about the normal seasonal decline.
The percentages announced by DR..
Thorp, he explained, are based on aver
az daily sales figures giving equal
weight to all the days of the calendar
of the months involved. The original
sales data were obtained in the terms
of number of cars sold. In order to
convert the figure to dollar values, an
index of price chanks was prepared
based upon the selling price changes
While September was II per cent
above last year, September OF 1882 was
35 per cent below the same month in
1o3i
Evening star., 1933-10-25
President Conducts
Press Conference
Confined to Bed

President Roosevelt today conducted
his regular press conference from his
bed, and for nearly half an hour chat
ted with the members Of the press, in
between comments upon the news of
the day.
The President is still suffering from
a cold, and, because he underwent an
electric ray treatment, he thought 1t
best not to 60 to his desk in the execu-
tive Office before tomorrow. He is not
remaining idle, however, but is dis
posing of business as well as receiving
members of the cabinet and those
prominently identified with his recover!
program.
Rather than disappoint newspaper
men by canceling his conference with
them today, the President held tbs
conference with committee Of eight
selected by members of the press, in
stead Of receiving the usual crowd OF
100 or more
Following his press conference, the
President arose and dressed and went
to his study, where he will be occupied
throughout the remainder Of the day.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
committee PLANNED
FOR SLUM CLEARANCE
Permanent Advisory Body Will
Assist P. W. A. in Demonstra-
tions in District.

An organization committee. dealing
with the improvement Of District hous-
ing and the elimination of slum areas,
met today in the conference room of
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, in the Navy Building.
drew up a prospective permanent COM
mittee list and outlined its functions.
Under the Craftsmanship of Conlmis-
sioner Luther H. Reichelderfer, the
organization committee, acting as an
executive body. talked over the men,
bership of the permanent advisory body
that will assist the Public Works Ad-
ministration in making housing i'm
provement demonstrations" here.
About 80 members are being invited to
serve on this group and its personnel
will be announced later.
Those present at the organization
meeting included John Nolen. jr., city
planner of the National Capital Park
been designated executive vice chairman
Of the new group Maj. Paul A. Hodg-
William P Richards, assessor for the
District; Melvin G. Hazen. the Districts
surveyor; Arthur B. Heaton and Louis
Justement. representing the Allied Ar
chitects, Inc; John Ihlder, housing eX-
pert associated with the Public Works
Administration, and James Ring. hous-
ing investigator for the Public Utilities
Commission.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
WORKS FUND TO BUILD
ANNE ARUNDEL SEWER
Maryland County Allowed $62, ,0oC
for Work-22 Other Projects
Are Also Aided.

A loan and grant of $4,000 to the
Anne Arundel County, Md. Sanitary
Commission, for construction Of a
sewage system, was announced today by
the Public Works Administration.
The work it is stated, can be started
in one month and completed in three
months, giving employment to 100 men
during construction.
Plans call for construction of an out
fall and lateral sewer and house con-
nections for sewage disposal. OF the
total amount, 80 per cent, or ap-
proximately $4,000 Of the cost of labor
and material is grant, while the
balance is a loan secured by per cent
general obligation bonds.
The Public Works Administration In
all allotted sl,o55 ,237 today for % non
Federal projects which officials said
would provide 7,040 man months of
work.
Ten allotments represented outright
grants of 80 per cent. the remainder be-
ing q loan to be repaid with interest
at 4 per cent. as in the sewer project.
Thirteen were outright grants repre-
senting the 80 per cent with the balance
to be supplied locally.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
ROUNDUP OF POISON
VEGETABLES ORDERED
Health Inspectors Examine Whole
sale Markets for Edibles
Sprayed With Arsenic.

Health Officer William c. Fowler to-
day ordered his inspectors to make a
thorough examination of produce at a
local wholesale market when a guam
tity Of vegetables was found having a
coating of arsenic.
crates Of cabbage, which had been pur-
chased from farmer by wholesale
dealer after chemical analysis disclosed
that white coating on the produce was
arsenic There was a sufficient guam
tity of the poison. he said. to cause
serious illness. but he did not believe
it was enough to be fatal to consumers.
health Office inspector today dis
covered this same merchant had seven
other crates of cabbages which were
coated with arsenic and another mer-
chant was found to have 18 crates
coated with the poison. Health in
spectors also seized quantity Of apples
at the market which were coated with
a poisonous spray. This has been sub
jected to chemical analysis.
DR.. Fowler said that a very mild solu-
ton of arsenic can be sprayed, with
out harm, upon produce to kill insects.
He said. however. the coating on the
cabbage greatly exceeded the permitted
amount and that the farmer selling the
product was liable to prosecution II he
can be identified.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
halloween FETE
PLANS PROGRESS
Gov. Pollard and Gov. Ritchl.
Asked to Attend Celebration
Tuesday Night.

Gov. John Garland Pollard Of Vir-
ginia and Gov Albert c. Ritchie of
Maryland have been invited to partici-
pate in the Washington Halloween cele-
bration Tuesday night. William A. Rob-
erts, chairman of the Distinguished
Guests Committee, reported at the final
meeting of the general Halloween Com
mittee yesterday.
The District Commissioners, Roberts
said will ride at the head Of the pa
rade with the marshals, Col. John w.
Oehmann and Col. p. G. hewitt, and
other guests invited to take part.
Friday noon will be the deadline for
entries in the queen contest. The queen
will be selected Friday at 4:30 pm. in
the Offices of the Greater National Cap
ital Committee. The age limit for the
queen has been lowered to allow girls
between II and Is to vie for the honor.
Many civic associations will take part
in the parade, Thomas E. Lodge, chair
man of the Civic Committee, reported.
Five citizens associations will leither
enter floats or decorated vehicles or
large groups Of costumed marchers, he
said. They are Chillum Heights. Mid
City, Logan-Thomas Circle, Conduit
Road and EilcreSt.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
ONLY 25PER CENT
AVAIL SELVES OF
WATER DISCOUNT
Few Take Advantage of Offer
to Cut Rates for Prompt
Payment.
CONSIDER PLAN TO SPLIT
ANY SURPLUS IN FUTURE
Renters Would Share in Profits and
Department Would Still Be
Ready for Emergencies.

Only about 25 per cent of the more
than 100000 water rent payers IN the
District have taken advantage of the
10 per cent discount allowed on bills
paid within Is days, it was estimated
today at the Water Department
The discount allowance was written
into the current District appropriation
act for the first time, not only as an
mducement for prompt payment III bllls,
but in response to agitation for re-
duction in water rates when Water De-
partment estimates indicated a large
surplus Of rent revenues at the close
of the year.
District officials had figured that 10
per cent discount would save water tax
payers about $4,000 this year. Ihe
actual saving however. due to the 70
per cent of delinquencies. will amount
to $45,000.
The 1885 estimates. now at the Bud-
get Bureau, carry a recommendation
for a more liberal discount in the
coming fiscal year-a Is per cent al
lowance if the bill is paid within so
days In addition, the estimates would
allow water rent payers loo cuplc
feet Of water a year for S8.75, the
amount now paid for $500 cubic feet.
These two concessions are designed to
add another S15O.0oO a year saving to
water tax payers.
Despite these proposed savings which
naturally will reduce the income OF the
Water Department, 1t Is estimated there
vii be a surplus of more than ST 100000
in water revenues at the close Of the
1885 fiscal year on the basis OF the
estimates for that period as approved
by the Commissioners. number OF
proposed projects which would have
used some of this estimated surplus
were eliminated from the Water Depart
ments 1885 Improvement and exten-
sion program by the District Economy
Committee.
Some of the delinquents frankly ad-
mitted they did not have funds to pay
the bills within the 15-day discount
period. Others are believed to have in
advertently delayed payment beyond the
15-day limit
Foreseeing another movement for a
lower water rate in view of the pros
pective huge surplus, District officials
are reported to be considering plan
for an annual discount period instead
of the proposed 30-day period. In other
words, the existing rates would be con-
refund would be made to rent payers
the amount to be determined on the
basis of the surplus
Such a plan, it was said, would assure
the Water Department adequate revenues
to provide both normal and abnorma.
needs, and at the same time guarantee
Q refund to water rent payers in the
years of surpluses.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
Bandits Take Car,
Then Tell OiUner
Where to Find 1t
Machine Is Recovered but
Mo,Orist Is Out $500
Cash.

The bandits who took 5000 and an
automobile from a colored motorist
last night were good enough to in
form their victim where they would
abandon his car.
Morris Garrett, 2700 block of Georgia
avenue, told police two white men
drew guns on him in the first block Of
Quincy street and ordered him into
his automobile. The bandits, Garrett
said, made him drive along Lincoln
road, and, in the rear of Trinity Col
lege, ordered him to stop. They then
took CARROTS $500, driving of in his
automobile.
One of the men called back that
Garrett could find his car near Sol
diers' Home, and police recovered it
there this morning.
Ernest Fairfax, colored, 100 block
of v street, told police he abandoned
his taxicab in the 800 block of New
York avenue last night when fare"
waved a gun at him from the rear
seat and demanded money. The would
be bandit also ran. Fairfax tele-
phoned police from lunch room, and
on returning found his car where he
left it.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
MRS. I'll. M'CANN NAMED
TUSCALOOSA SPONSOR
Heavy Cruiser to Be Launched
November Is at Camden,
N. j., ShipyardS.

Mrs. T. L. McCann, 1927 wyoming
avenue was designated today by Act
ing Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt to
be sponsor for the heavy cruiser Tusca-
loosa.
Rear Admiral William D. Leahy, chief
of the Bureau of Navigation, said the
Tuscaloosa would be launched at the
shipyards of the New York Shipbuilding
Corporation at Camden. N. j., on NO
vember Is
Mrs. McCann is a native of Tusca-
loosa and spent her early life there.
she is the niece of Representative Oil
YER Democrat, of Alabama, who has
long taken a prominent part in naval
affairs.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
HOAX IS ADMITTED
AS MAT|N FAILS TO
RE-ENACT Staying
Golf Instructor Breaks Down
Under Questioning at
Headquarters.
DID EVERYTHING WRONG,
SERGEANT DECLARES
Furniture Misplaced in Rearang.
ing Room and Error Made in
Spotting Bullet.

After failing in secret re-enactment
OF the Beulah Limerick murder, Isadore
Matin, 22-year-old Philadelphia golf
instructor, broke down under question:
ing at police headquarters today and
declared his confession Of the crime was
hoax.
The re-enactment, it was revealed by
Detective Sergt. George E Darnau. act
ing chief of the homicide squad, was
staged behind locked doors at head
quarters yesterday. after an intensive
two-hour grilling had failed to shake
Mathis claim that he was the long
sought murderer.
In the presence of Acting Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald, who performed
the autopsy on the body of the 19-year.
old theater usher Matin was asked to
show Darnall and other members of the
homicide squad how the crime was
committed.
Arranged Furniture Wrong.
Using table as substitute for the
bed on which the slain girl was found
on the morning of December 81. 1880,
Matin permitted to use chairs and
desks to represent furniture in the room
in which the killing was perpetrated
He arranged all the furniture wrong"
said Darnal. and he showed complete
ignorance of most of the known facts
in the case. played the part Of
Beulah and he was asked to shoot me
in exactly the same way as he claimed
TO have shot her. He put the bullet
into the wrong part of my head-in
fact, he did everything wrong"
Although convinced that Matin was
innocent of the crime to which he
sought to assume responsibility Darnall
TNl, - IT.
decided TO question him again today
before disclosing the results of the secret
re-enactment.
Unable to Find House.
They took Matin from his cell at the
fifth precinct, where he had been held
since his return from Philadelphia last
Monday night, and asked him to show
| them how he went to the murder house
at l6 Nineteenth street southeast, on
the night Of the killing. He failed In
| his attempt to direct them to the dwell
| ing. detectives said
The confession was the second Matin
has made since the Staying. Shortly
| after the murder he sent two kilograms
/ to Washington police advising them
anonymously to look for Ted Martin
! in Philadelphia
He was picked up by Philadelphia
police shortly thereafter and made a
detailed confession. Under questioning
by Darnall, however, he retracted the
confession, explaining he had arranged
for his arrest in the hope the resulting
publicity would help him land job as
professional golfer"
No more was heard from Matin until
last Sunday, when he and step-brother
approached Philadelphia traffic police
| man. After telling the officer he wished
to give up for a murder" he was taken
to headquarters, where he made the
second confession.
! Asked why he had retracted the first
confession. he said:
That was just carefully thought
out scheme to avert all possibility of
suspicion in the future"
Since then, however, he said. he had
been haunted" by the memory Of the
killing.
Evening star., 1933-10-25

men from under the overturned truck,
where they were all but buried in a
mass of broken milk bottles. and called
police.
A doctor who arrived with police
pronounced Love dead. and Compton
and Hall were taken to Georgetown
Hospital in patrol wagon, Compton
later being taken to the seventh pre-
cinct station, where he will be held
pending a coroner'S inquest.
Love, who had been with the dairy
for number of years, is son of A.
Kingsley Love. prominent Leonardtown.
Md. attorney. and is member of a
well known Southern Maryland family.
He is survived by his widow, Lillian, and
a 5-year-old son. James w. jr., as well
as by two brothers. Philip and Melvin,
and a sister. Mrs. Linda Montedonico,
all of Washington. His father at one
time was chairman of the Maryland Re-
publican State Central Committee. and
has been candidate for Representative
from that district. The family home is
at Loveville. Md, named for the dead
mans grandfather.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
BUS-TROLLEY TRANSFER
PLANS NEAR COMPLETION
Schedules Resulting From Merger
of Two Lines Will Be Known
in 10 Days.

Plans FOR transfers between various
elements of the Capital Transit Co., re-
sulting from merger Of the Washington
r. ilway g. Electric Co. and the Capital
Traction Co., which will be consum-
mated December l. will be completed
in about 10 days, it was announced
today by j. E. Heberle, official of the
new compalJ.
The matter was discussed yesterday
afternoon at conference between
Heberle, J. H. Stephens and w. B.
Bennett Of the Capital Transit Co., and
Riley E. Elgen, acting chairman of the
Public Utilities Commission
There will free transfers between
street car and street car Many addl'
tional points of transfer will be estab-
lished after merger is effected. In many
special cases, however, where charge
now Is made for transfer between the
buses and street cars Of the COM
panies there will be a charge after
the merger.
Traction officials now are planning
possible rerouting of car lines, but Heb
erie said today he did not expect any
such changes would be effected at once,
since the matter requires careful study
Evening star., 1933-10-25
D. c. RUM CONTROL
PLAN READY SOON
House Committee Members
to Have Measure Drafted
When Congress Meets.

Representative Mary T. Norton Of
New Jersey, chairman Of the House Dis
trict Committee, and Representative
Palmisano of Maryland, chairman Of a
special subcommittee to draft legisla-
ton covering alcoholic beverage and
liquor traffic in the District, have been
giving much study to control law for
the National Capital when the eight
eenth amendment to the Constitution
has been repealed. They expect to have
a measure drafted ready for preSenta-
ton as soon as Congress meets
Representatives Loring Black of New
York, Jennings Randolph of West Vir-
ginia. Mrs Virginia E. Jenckes Of In
diana Ambrose j. Kennedy Of Mary
land. Wright Patman of Texas. Thomas
j. O'Brien of Illinois, Carl M. Weide-
man Of Michigan. James G. Scrugham
of Nevada are other Democratic mem
bers Of the House District Committee
who have been giving special study to
this important question pressing for the
earliest possible legislative action.
Among the Republican members OF
the District Committee who have also
been seeking advice regarding the ques-
ton of regulation and control of the
LIQUOR traffic in the District are Repre-
sentatives Gale H. Stalker. New York;
James L. Whitley. New York; Michael
j. Muldowney, Pennsylvania; Everett
NJ. Dirksen of Illinois and George Burn
ham. California.
All OF these members declare their
| intention of taking an active interest
| in this legislation and their determina-
ton to have strict law that will live
up to the Democratic party platform
''as will actually promote temperance,
| effectively prevent the return of the
saloon and bring the liquor traffic into
the open under complete supervision
and control" They emphasize that
| with Congress acting as State Leg1s-
| lature for the District of Columbia
there should be a model law in the
National Capital for liquor traffic.
Dealers Plan Code.
Plans for drafting Of suggested code
! of regulations for handling Of liquor
sales in the District after repeal OF
the eighteenth amendment were dis
cussed at a meeting of local beverage
dealers yesterday.
The code will be drafted for preSen-
tation to the District Committees Of the
| Senate and House. Efforts will be made
to enlist the support of all dealers now
holding licenses for the sale OF beer
for the proposal.
An organization was formed. under
the leadership of Bert Olmsted, with
the intention Of requesting affiliatior
with the National Association Of Retail
Beverage Dealers meeting will be
held next week, to which all license
holders will be invited. Members o.
the Senate and House District Commit
tees will be invited to address the meet.
ing on problems facing the Distric
after repeal.
The new organization will appoint 6
committee to wait on the District Com
missioners and Corporation Counse
W. W. Bride to ask that the proposed
program of the organization be con-
sidered before any recommendation or
the part of the local officials be sem
| to Congress.
Evening star., 1933-10-25
DONOVAN AGAIN C0NFERS
WITH BUDGET OFFICIALS
Auditor Believed to Be Helding
Preliminary Conferences on
New D. C. Estimates.

Mai. Daniel J. Donovan, District
auditor and budget officer, today for the
third consecutive day conferred with
Budget Bureau officials.
There was no comment from officials
about the conferences, but 1t was under
stood at the District Building Maj.
Donovan was holding preliminary con-
ferences on the estimates for the Dis
trict government for the next fiscal
year, recently placed In the hands OF
the Budget Bureau.
While it has not been announced
that Budget Director Douglas will grant
District officials hearings on the esti-
mates, 1t is expected this will be done
before the bureau completes its action
on them.