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Evening star., 1933-08-26
POLICY IS DEFINED
ON j. s. SECURITIES
Reserve Board Indicates
There Will Be No SizeabIe
Decrease in Buying.

BY the Associated Press.
The Federal Reserve Board intends
that its expansion or contraction OF
credit through bank purchases of Gov
ernment securities shall be governed
with a view to accommodating COM
merce and business and with regard tc
the general credit situation of the
country"
Consequently, 1t was held unoficially
today that there is not likely to be
soon, a sizeable decrease in the amount
Of money the u central Reserve banks
spend in open market" operations
purchasing Government securities.
The banks stepped their purchases
up to $35,000,OOO last week from $ll,-
100000 the week before.
Besides issuing this general state
ment of open market policy, the Re-
serve Board in its monthly bulletin took
a look at business conditions in April
May and June-before the NJ r. A. got
well under way. 1t found:
"A rapid rise in business activity and
a sharp advance in commodity and Sc
curity prices /" = industrial production
increased from go per cent Of the 1928
Is average at the end Of the first quar-
ter to d" about 95 per cent IN
July. -"
Work Expansion Slow.
Employment has expanded at 9
much slower rate than production, as
is usual in the early stages of recovery
since giving more work to those already
on the pay roll precedes the hiring Of
new workers. More than 1,500, 900 per-
sons were re-employed during the sec
ond uuarter-but the number still idle
in June approximated 100000.
"The rapid increase in activity was
due in part to anticipation OF further
advance in commodity prices and o1
the effects of such impending develop.
ments as the reduction Of hours anc
wages under the new codes and the i'm
position of processing taxes under the
agricultural adjustment act"
Since this period covered in this re-
port, Hugh S. johnson, national re-
covery administrator, has been seeking
to overcome some of the conditions
found by the Reserve Board.
He decided several weeks ago that
production was going up too fast fol
wages and unemployment. Since ther
many industries have been put under
permanent or temporary agreements re-
ducing working hours. so as to provide
more jobs, and fixing minimum pay
rates.
N. R. A. officials held today that the
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Evening star., 1933-08-26
% ESCAPE CRASH
At WRECK SCENE
PiIedriver Falls Into Eastern
Branch as Crew Leap.
Death Third.

Twenty men, working on pile
driver near the scene of the wreck
OF the ill-fated Crescent Limited. mar
rowly escaped death or serious injury
early today by leaping to safety when
the apparatus toppled into the Eastern
Branch of the Anacostia River.
The pile driver which was supported
on a railroad fiat car, carried with it
into the branch, the only remaining
span on the. trestle, which had been
used by workmen to reach the scene
of the wreck. A boat is now being
used for that purpose.
The collapse of the pile driver marked
the second accident in connection with
the efforts of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road to clear up the wreckage and open
its main line into Washington.
Lineman Is Killed.
A few hours before the piledriver
fell into the stream, Basil Fox, 40
vear-old lineman for the railroad, was
killed near the flood-weakened bridge,
when a pole en- which he was stringing
telegraph wire, snapped off at the
base, crushing him beneath it. Law
renee Peregory, 81, another lineman,
was on the pole with Fox, but he man
aged to leap clear. He suffered serious
injuries, however.
Both men were brought from Balti-
more to repair the telegraph line.
Peregory is in Casualty Hospital with
possible fracture of the ribs and other
severe injuries.
Acting Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald, has set next Thursday as the
date for an inquest, at which an at
tempt will be made to fix responsibility
fer the wreck Railroad officials ano
passengers on the Inflated train will be
called as witnesses.
In the meantime. inspectors OF the
Interstate Commerce Commission, con-
tinued their investigation at the scene
of the wreck. G. v. Lowering, lnspec-
tor in charge of the inquiry, said II
would be a week or 10 days before the
official inquiry is completed.
Four of the 13 men who were injured
in the wreck are still in Washington
hospitals, two in Casualty and the
other two in Emergency. Meyer Black
/ man of Philadelphia and Benjamin
Johnson, assistant Pennsylvania roao
foreman. the most seriously injured
are in Emergency but physicians re-
ported an improvement in their cond1'
ton.
Funeral services were held this
morning for A. H. Bryde, engineer, whit
was killed in the wreck. The body wa!
sent to Culpeper, Va, for burial.
The body of j. H. Faye, fireman, Wht
also died in the wreck. has been sem
to Perryville, Md, for burial.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
HOPEFUL DRYS FACE
SHOWDOWN
Beer and Repeal Victory at
Polls Today Forecast by
Ex-Gov. Ferguson.
BULLETIN.

HOUSTON, Tex, August 26 [P).-
Returns from SO precincts in today's
repeal election unofhcially gave for
repeal of the eighteenth amendment
1,127, against 173; for legalization of
beer 939, against 121.
BY the Associated Press.
AUSTIN, Tex, August 26.-Texas de-
cides today whether it favors repeal of
the eighteenth amendment and whether
the State constitution shall be amended
to permit manufacture and sale of 80
beer
The State has been urged by national
Democratic leaders to join the unbroken
line of % which already have expressed
desire that prohibition be abolished
Sale of beer has been legalized in 81
States.
Led by United States Senator Morris
Sheppard, co-author of the eighteenth
amendment, prohibitionists believed
they were on the winning side. Shep-
pard last night concluded a Statewide
tour in the interest of retention of ma
tional prphibition. He predicted that
if Texas went dry it would be joined by
IL other States to block the repeal
drive
Former Gov James E. Ferguson, a
wet leader, predicted victory for repeal.
Many political subdivisions were hold
ing local option elections to decide
whether beer should be sold within
their respective areas if the beer amend
ment IS adopted.
Another State constitutional question
involved in the election was to author
ize the Legislature to issue $40 000, 900
in State bonds for relief of the unem-
ployed.
Advocates of repeal and the bond is
sue predicted victory by majority Of
about 100000.
= A vote of approximately 100000 was
expected. For Texas this would be a
light vote, it being estimated there are
about 100000 of voting age. Thou
sands have been disfranchiSed through
failure to pay poll taxes.
Washington will vote on repeal next
Tuesday.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
ITALIAN AIR OFFICER
HELD ON SPY CHARGE

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, August 26.-An Italian avia-
tfon captain stationed in Rome was
reported today to have been arrested in
connection with an espionage organi-
Zation.
Several arrests had been made pre-
viously in connection with this organi-
zation, which allegedly was led by
former Deputy Umberto Bianchi, who
IS understood to be in custody Two
women, whose names were not revealed,
also were arrested.
The authorities are remaining silent,
but in reliable circles it is believed
that special tribunal will push indict-
ment and trial on the basis of large
quantities of documents which have
been confiscated. Convictions, with two
or three death sentences, are expected
before October.
Bianchi is reported to have admitted
various charges in connection with the
alleged plot after having been silent
for a long time. All told 16 persons
have been arrested.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
HIGHWAY DETOURS NUMEROUS
As NEARBY REPAIRS ARE BEGUN

Highway to Annapolis are being tagged
at Collington and sent over the graveled
State road to Bowie and Laurel.
A wooden bridge over the North
western Branch on the Queens Chapel
road, near Rams Horn Inn, was car
ried away during the storm and had
blocked the road to traffic. The twin
bridges at Riverdale also were affected
by serious washouts around them and
traffic has slowed perceptibly with only
one lane open.
Ferry Wharves Washed Away.
The ferry boat wharves at Colonial
Beach and Morgantown were both
washed away and motorists bound for
the Virginia resort are being routed
through Fredericksburg.
Traffic from Calvert and Anne
Arundel Counties over the Southern
Maryland boulevard was being re-
routed south of Hills bridge, where
$50 feet of the approach was washed
out by high water following the storm,
through Annapolis, and Glenburnie and
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Evening star., 1933-08-26

Traffic in nearby Maryland and Vlr-
einia was moving over many detours
from the main highways today as road
forces of the two States carried on
their fight to repair damage wrought
by the gale that swept the Atlantic
seaboard. It is expected a number
of the roads will be open late today or
tonight.
Motorists driving from Washington
to Annapolis and Anne Arundel County
Bay resorts are being forced to make
a wide detour as result of the washout
of 350-feet of the approach to Priest
Bridge on the Defense Highway be.
tween the District and the Maryland
capital, and the washout of shoulders
and undermining of the road Tor
distance of 1000 feet near the span.
The detour carries motorists out OF
Washington over the Baltimore Boule-
ward to Dorsey and Glenburnie and
down the Grain Highway to Annapolis.
nhicles travelling over the Defense
Evening star., 1933-08-26
WAR VETERAN DIES
IN WARDMAN FALL
Oscar P. Gober Discovered
on Lawn Beneath Bal
cony of His Room.

Oscar P. Gober, "a, World War
veteran of Jackson. Miss, fell from the
sixth-f floor balcony of his room at Ward
man Park Hotel early today to his
death on the lawn beside the east wing
of the hotel near the pharmacy.
Gober's body was discovered about
5:45 am. by bell boy. John Amis
1888 T. street. Amis notified hotel Off
cials and an ambulance was summoned
from Emergency Hospital The physi-
clan in charge pronounced Gober dead
on arrival.
No one could be located who had
seen or heard Gober fall. The position
of his body almost directly under the
balcony. however, indicated he fell
rather than leaped, it was said.
Withholds Death Cause.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, acting
coroner. and headquarters detectives
opened an investigation early this morn
ing. A certificate of death was with
held by the coroner's Office pending a
further inquiry
Gober had been up late last night
police were told, talking with several
man friends Richard B. Wooton. a
friend of Gobers, who had shared one
of two connecting rooms with Gobel
at Wardman Park for the last six
weeks, went to bed about 30 O'Clock
this morning.
Wooton told investigators he awoke
about am. and through the connect
ing door noticed that the lights were
still on in Gober's room and that Co
Der was lying apparently asleep and
almost fully clothed on a day bed
Wooton went back to sleep, he said
and knew nothing of the tragedy un-
til awakened by investigators this
morning.
Gober's body was clothed except TO,
coat and shoes. He was of heavy
build, weighing about $50 pounds, anc
police were told he was drawing COM
pensation from the Veterans Admin
istration for injuries to his feet sus.
tanned during the World War. Indi.
cations were that Gober toppled owe,
the balcony railing after going out fol
breath of fresh air.
Here to Adjust Record.
Gober, police were told, was ir
Washington to adjust service matters
with the Veterans Administration ant
to seek an appointment to a Fedora
Job. Authorities expected to question
a third man who was in the room with
Gober and Wooton last night before
closing the investigation
Police were told that Gober was moi
drinking man and residents of near.
by apartments said they had heard ne
loud talking or disturbance in Gober'.
room last night. DR.. Macdonald sale
he had developed no information
which might point to suicide.
WAS ASSOCIATE Or pvvp0
Evening star., 1933-08-26
GIRL AT BREAKFAST SHOT
TO DEATH DURING DUEL
Miss Florence Quinn Killed as She
Sits Between Firing of Bandit
and Restaurant Owner.
BY the Associated PresS.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 26.-Caught in a
revolver duel between a robber and a
restaurant proprietor, Miss Florence
Quinn, %, was shot to death today
while eating breakfast in a cafe just
north of the loop.
A single bullet out of several fired
by each man pierced the girls temple
and killed her. Albert Pappas, res
taurateur, was wounded and believed
he wounded the robber, who fled.
Pappas had been suspicious of the
robber and his accomplice and laid
his pistol handy on the counter when
one of the pair started toward the
kitchen door, When the robber called
"This is stick-up' Miss Quinn jumped
from her table, screaming, and was
struck by one of the first shots fired.
She was a grocery clerk.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
ONE-FlFTH OF FAIR BOND
ISSUE SOON TO BE PAID
Yesterdays Attendance of 267 ,4Oe
Persons Sets New Record for
Century of Progress.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 26-Rufus C.
Dawes, president Of Century Of Pro-
gress, announced today that 20 per
cent of the fairs outstanding bond
issues of 100000 would be paid on
or shortly after September l.
His announcement said sum in ex-
cess of $4,000, 900 had been placed with
trustees of the exposition under terms
Of the identure securing the 100000
600 gold note issue.
Yesterdays attendance at the grounds
established q new record when 267, ,408
persons passed through the turnstiles
as cash customers. The previous record
was set exactly . week before when
262, ,556- paid admissions were recorded.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Hartford Arrests Foil Plot to
Seize Wealthy Man in
Massachusetts.
IL TO GO ON TRIAL SOON
IN URSCHEL ABDUCTION
Coloradoan Believed in Hands of
Criminals Mistaking Him for
Kin of Merchant Prince.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, August 26-
Freed from kidnaper who fell dying
in a blaze of gunfire after fatally
wounding an officer in a crowded pub
lie market, william F. Wood, As, q
cousin of the late william Howard
Taft, was under care of physicians to-
day.
Wood, who said he had been held
captive four days, tortured and forced
to walk the streets in silence while ar
ranging for his own ransom, was re-
ported near collapse.
Bank notes, securities and cash ag-
gregating $4,000 which Wood asserted
he had been forced to turn over to his
abductor, were found in the latter's
pockets.
Woods release came with dramatic
suddenness yesterday in the market
where his kidnaper had taken him ''to
buy some walnuts.' The sight OF a
policeman nerved Wood to cry fol-
help.
Kidnaper Shot Down.
Responding to the cry. Patrolman
Michael Mcdonald, 81, received three
bullets in his body from kidnaper's
pistol and fell mortally wounded. He
died several hours later.
The kidnaper, identified as Howard
Stafford Meek, 30, alias Henry Jen-
nings, former ferry boat ticket taker
was shot down by other officers as ne
fed along a street outside the market
Mrs. Ella Bowers, 81. passing by on
her way to court to get divorce. was
struck in the arm by a stray bullet. .,
Wood. a retired business man. tooR
refuge in a grocery department OF the
market as the shooting started. He was
at first taken into custody as sus.
pected confederate Of the slain man, but
quickly explained his identity.
Wood displayed lacerated wrists
caused. he said, by the wire with whicn
his hands were bound at times during
his captivity. His body was bruised
from bettings he said he had received,
He said the kidnapers appeared about
S pm. Monday at his home in Sausa-
Ito. across the bay from San Francisco
I'VE stayed in my house all day Tues
day." Wood added. He constantly
threatened me with that awful gun. He
ordered me to write to my banks and
tell them to send me my safe deposit
box.
zone bank sent me 5000. He got that
Then, Wednesday we came to San
Francisco"
Wood said that during Thursday and
yesterday, prior to his release, he was
twice marched to the bank in which his
safe deposit box was located.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
NOTED BRIDGE PLAYER
GIVES NOTICE OF WEDDING
Theodore Lightner of New YORK
to Wed Widow, Mary Pa
tricia Smith.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 26.-Theodore
Lightner, New York lawyer and inter-
national bridge player has given notice
at a London register Office of his forth
coming marriage with Mary Patricia
Smith, 25-year-old widow whom ne
has known three weeks.
NEW YORK, August 26 P).-Theo-
dore Lightner ranks high in the bridge
world. He is holder Of a number OF
important trophies, author OF num-
ber of books on the game and noted as
authority on its fine points.
He is 40, a graduate OF Yale and the
Harvard Law School. He was at one
time a member of the New York STOCK
Exchange.
He has often been teamed with Mr..
and Mrs. Ely Culbertson in bridge
tournaments, and is a member OF the
Bridge World team which includes the
Culbertsons. He was one OF the Gull
bertson partners in the match between
Sidney Lenz and Culbertson. which was
supposed to have decided the relative
merits of two systems.
He was again on the Culbertson team
when it recently won the Charles M
Schwab Trophy in an international
match in London.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
WAS ASSOCIATE OF BILBO,
Oscar GOber Well Known in Mississippi
Political Circles.

JACKSON, Miss, August 26 R.-
Oscar Gober, 33-year- r-old Jackson at
torney. killed early today in a fall
from the balcony of a Washington Ho-
tel, was well known in Mississippi
political circles
Gober, relatives here said, went to
Washington with former Gov. Theodore
Bilbo several months ago and was
said to be engaged in Government
work there
During the Bilbo administration Co.
Der served on the State Board of Xrus-
tees for the university and colleges,
was member of the State Board of
Bar Examiners and the State Barber
Board and served as colonel on Gov
BilbOS staff.
He attended the University of Mis-
sissippi, where he was an outstanding
foot ball player.
He served in the Navy during the
World War;
Gober is survived by his widow, three
brothers, Edgar, Wilburn and Howard
Gober, all of Jackson, and his mother
Mrs. A. E. Blailock of Camden, Miss.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
CHINESE AID ASKED
TO SAVE AMERICANS
Eight Missionaries Believed to Be
Trapped in Yuanchow, Seven 9th
ers in Fukien War Zone.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HANKOW, China, August 26.-Hav-
ing failed to establish communications
with eight American Catholic mission
aries trapped IN Yuanchow after two
months of effort, American consular au-
thorities today sought help from Chi
nese military officials here.
The Americans, sent from Pittsburgh
by the American Passionist Mission
were in Yuanchow, 400 miles southeast
of here, when the town was taken by
rebels June o. They have not been
heard from since.
Evening star., 1933-08-26

was a captain with the Sd Kentucky
Infantry and during his early service
with the Marines participated in ex-
peditions to the Philippines, Panama,
Cuba, Puerto Rico and in the occu-
patton of the City of Vera Cruz. Mexico.
During the World War he participated
in all the major engagements in which
the Marine Corps had part. After
the war Gen. Feland commanded the
I'd Brigade of Marines in Santo Do
mingo and in Nicaragua. For Nicarag-
uan service he was twice awarded the
Distinguished Service Medar Star in
lieu of the Distinguished Service Medal
already held.
The President of Nicaragua awarded
him the Presidential Medal of Merit,
the Medal of Merit of Nicaragua and
the Ribbon with Star Of Nicaragua.
He returned to the United States in
April, 1929, and shortly thereafter
commanded the Department OF the
Pacific of the Marine, with headquar-
ters in San Francisco. He has served
from time to time in Washington.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
80 WOMEN At .JOBLESS CAMP
ARE GIVEN GAINFUL POSITIONS

keep them in contact with employment
conditions in New York City.
Six OF the thirty-three girls obtained
clerical Jobs, five factory jobs, seven
housework jobs. The other is had
work in department stores, counselor
positions, vaudeville and modelling,
Most Of the openings were permanent.
The total operating costs of the camp
since June have been $4,376, the report
said. The total average cost per per-
son per month is S15.75, and the total
per person per day, 81 cents. Those
figures include camp directors salaries,
office equipment and all operating ex.
penseS.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, August 26.-Thirty-
three of the 200 women at Camp
Terra, New York States experimental
camp for unemployed destitute wom-
en-, have obtained jobs since June,
it was announced today by the State
temporary relief administration.
Operated at the request of Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and Miss Frances
Perkins, Secretary>of Labor, the camp
was established to give homeless women
. home in healthy surroundings and
Evening star., 1933-08-26
CHACO MANDATE SOON
ACCEPTABLE TO ABCP
Brazil Notifies League of Nations
Negotiations Are Nearing
Satisfactory End.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
GENEVA, August 26.-The League
of Nations today received message
from Alfranio Mello-Franco, Brazilian
foreign minister, saying that the ABCP
nations hoped to be able to accept q
league mandate to seek peace in the
gran chaco warfare between Paraguay
and Bolivia.
The nations, Argentina, Brazil, Chile
and Peru, are still negotiating, the min
lister reported, and expect to give .
} definite reply soon.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
PEACE PACT NEARS

Italy and Russia to Sign Non
Aggression Treaty.
ROME, August 26 P).-Negotiati
for non-aggression pact between
Soviet Russia and Italy were officially
reported today to be nearing consum-
nation.
Final touches will be given the
project early next week and the sign
ing is due after Premier MuSsolini re-
turns from northern Italy.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
TWO JAILED IN HARTFORD.
Seized Day Before Kidnap Plot Was to
Have Been Executed.

HARTFORD. Conn, August Is R.-
An unflagging pursuit was maintained
today in the investigation which Con-
necticut authorities said had thwarted
kidnapping plot on the very eve Of its
execution.
With two men in the Hartford County
Jail under S25,000 bond each on
charges of conspiracy to kidnap, and
two others held as material witnesses,
the authorities said they sought seven
more men.
States Attorney Hugh NJ. Alcorn and
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Report of Plan to Wed Mime.
Lupescu Denied at Bucharest.N

BUCHAREST, Rumania, August 26
P1-Court circles ridiculed reports
published abroad today that King Carol
and Nine. Magda Lupescu will marry.
1t was pointed out such a marriage
would be absolutely forbidden for
dynasty reasons and King Carols atti-
tude in this connection is best illus
trated by the fact he did not recognize
the marriage of Prince Nicholas, his
brother, to Nine. Jana Lucia Deletj,
a commoner
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Seven Others Menaced.

FOOCHOW, China, August 26 R).-
United States consular officials today
were concerned for the safety Of seven
American missionaries within the field
of hostilities between government troops
and Communists in Northern Fukien
Province.
-Four of the Americans are in Yen
ping, one in Kienning and one IN Kien-
yang. The whereabouts of the other is
unknown.
Evening star., 1933-08-26
BREAD PRICE INQUIRY
IN CAPITAL is ASKED
Consumers Counsel of A. A. A.
Urges Probe of Increase of Cent
on One-Pound Loaf.

DR.. Frederic Clemson Howe, con-
sumers' counsel for the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration, today
asked Henry Stude, president of the
American Bakers Association, to make
an investigation of increases in bread
prices in the National Capital
In q letter to Stude asking for q
report, Howe said he had been in
formed the wholesale price of bread
has been increased in Washington by
cent q pound loaf. He said there was
question whether this increase was
justified
Evening star., 1933-08-26
Priest Murdered.

SHANGHAI, China, August 26 R.-
The Spanish Augustinian Mission re-
ceiyed word today that Father Abilio
GalIego, member of the mission, who
was kidnapped by bandits while travel
ing near Yochow, in Human Province,
August %, has been murdered.