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The Washington times., 1933-08-21
SOVIET BUYERS
MYST|F|ED BY
BREAD PRICE
They Pay 100 Per Cent More
As Famine Is Denied; MuzzIe
Put on Correspondents

MOSCOW, Aug. 81 G.N.S).-A
recent International News Service
dispatch from Vatican City, re-
vealing plans by Pope Plus to or.
ganize a Catholic relief expedition
to aid millions of starving" in
Soviet Russia, was recalled here
today with two significant an
nouncements from the Kremlin.
One put an almost unprecedent-
ed curb on foreign correspondents
wishing to tour the provinces for
a first-hand investigation of the
national situation. The other dou-
bled the price of bread in all gov
ernment cooperative stores.
Famine Reports Secuted
How closely the two announce
ments are linked was a matter for
keen speculation in the foreign
colony. The government has
secuted the Vatican's reports OF
widespread starvation, notwith-
standing the fact that Cardinal
Innitzer, archbishop of Austria,
has issued a formal appeal for
worldwide support of Russian fam.
inc aid.
Government spokesmen f1atly
declined to state what prompted
the announcement restricting jour-
nalistic tours of investigation in
the hinterlands.
Several correspondents who ap-
piled for permission to journey
through the grain-producing re-
gions of the Ukraine and North
Caucasus were refused.
Standing Rule
All were informed they must
abide by a three-year-old rule pre-
venting journalists from touring
the provinces without official per.
mission.
The press department of the
foreign office merely called at
tention to the standing rule,
which has rarely been applied in
recent times.
Hardly less mysterious was the
sudden lacking up of bread prices.
Government officials have fire.
quently spoken in broad terms
of an exceptionally good harvest,
and purchasers are at a loss to
reconcile a bumper crop with a
100 per cent increase in prices.
IRKUTSK. U. S. S. R., Aug. 81
0.N.SD. Vladimir KoslovSky,
chairman of the East Siberian
Public Feeding Trust, and Mich
ael Perevosnikov, vice chairman,
today faced execution on charges
of plundering food stores and
selling the booty in speculative
markets.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
COAL STRIKERS
END WALKOUT

COALDALE, Pa, Aug. 81
0.N.SO.-Promised an oppor-
tunity to air their grievances at
Federal hearings on the anthra-
cite coal code, thousands of
miners, striking for equalization
of working time. returned to the
hard coal fields today.
Their strike, which virtually
paralyzed operations in the entire
Panther Creek Valley. was ended
indefinitely yesterday when 10000
persons submitted to the peace
requests of President Roosevelt
and Gov. Clifford Pinchot.
The truce was brought about
by Howard Colvin, representative
of the NRA, and Ambrose Langan,
mayor Of Pittston and personal
representative of Vernor
IPinchot.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Dollar Ship-GunbOdt
Canal Crash PrObed

CRISTOBAL, P. C. T., Aug. 81
0N.S0 Investigation was be-
gun today into a collision in the
Panama Canal between the Dollar
liner President Wilson and the
United States gunboat Swan.
The accident occurred when
the Swan attempted to pass the
President Wilson in Gaillard cut
The gunboat rammed the passen
ger vessel, damaging four plates
and opening a hole in the liners
hull eight feet above the water
line. Members of the President
Wilson'S crew charged the Swan
failed to signal her intention oi
passing, -
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
BEER HEADACHE
SELLERS ONLY

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Aug. 81.
Philadelphia brewers are having
a series of hangovers these days
trying to figure out how many
glasses are in a barrel of beer.
But the Brewing Industry, trade
paper, has come to their rescue
with a table giving the size Of
the glasses. their number to the
barrel and the return at S cents a
glass.
Beer costs SIG barrel, and the
table shows why generous barten-
ders, offering 1212-ounce
schooner for a nickel, lose out on
the new deal.
Beer sells here at most places at
10 or IL ounces for dime, which
barkeepers say is inadequate by
the time overhead is deducted.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Wilson Pleads
For Sacrifice
In Recovery
BY International News Service

Acceptance by major industrial
groups such as steel, oil and
others, of National Recovery codes
involves real sacrifice on their
part, and is evidence of their de-
sire to help in the present emer-
gency. in the opinion of Dallett
H. Wilson, of New York, indus
trial and legal authority. He
said;
"NO i'm p Ortant industrial
leader in the country but hopes
for success of the recovery pro-
gram. The fact that these codes
involve for most of them prob
lens never before faced in
their business, and in some
cases, If not all, real sacrifice, is
evidence of their interest"
He warned of those that
"chisel" at the expense Of firms
and associations that have signed
up. Wilson is regarded as an au-
thority on legal and industrial
phases Of the present program.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Suspect in Staying
Dies in Gun Battle

CARBONDALE, Ill, Aug. 81
U.N.SO-A colored murder suspect
was shot and killed and a deputy
sheriff wounded today in a battle
which resulted from the attempt
to arrest the suspect in connection
with the Staying a few hours
earlier of Night Chief Of Police
L. A. Sizemore, SO. The dead
man was Joe Bronson, 29, re.
puted bootlegger.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Roosevelt Praised
At Catholic Session

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 81. G.N.SO.
Opening the meeting by paying
high tribute to the Administra-
ton of President Franklin Roose-
velt, the Catholic Central Verein
of America was to start business
sessions today, the second day Of
convention.
The simultaneous conclav0
here of the National Catholic
Women's Union makes the reli-
gious gathering a joint affair as
activities Of both groups are in
terVoven.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
Man, so, Dies When
Struck bu EnQine

MARTINSBURG, w. Va, Aug.
21.-David Hook, so, died in a
hospital here Of injuries received
when struck by Baltimore and
Ohio locomotive in the eastern
end of Martinsburg yards. Hook
was seated on the edge Of the
Crossties and failed to hear tho
warning cries of nearby police.
Hook was said to have come
to this city from Virginia sew
eral years ago.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
'Chubby,' in Person
Will ADDeUr at Fair

Chubby is going to appear in
the flesh at the Pet Exhibition
to be held in connection with the
National City Fair which opens
at Bennings September 3.
Chubby, if you don't know It.
is Chubby CLANCY, the fat little
fellow of the "Our Gang" come
dies which have tickled film
goerS for several years.
Chubby's entry in the pet show
will be his monkey, Farina.
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

DuC 90 a Qay). LII lie ever SOeS
to sleep he won't wake up till
Christmas. Here is the best one
that happened in Washington.
All the big oil men of course
were there, and that, Of course,
meant a big poker game. Any
time two oil men meet, they
don't open a filling station; they
open a poker game. Then an
oil man never travels without
his big lawyer. Then in an
other room the lawyers have a
crap game. In the poker game
for the first time it was all cash
on the table, no checks. They
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
D. c: BOAT SAFE
IN SEA GALE
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CONTINUED from Page y
by the Roja II off Cape May, and
they were taken aboard and given
first aid pending arrival Of the
yacht at the resort.
Further details of the rescue
we're lacking, although it was re-
ported that the Lord Jim was
sunk,
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
WILL ROGERS Saus:

CHICAGO, Aug. 21.-My friend Johnson, the code
man, was going too fast for me, so left him. His
code for himself and staff is 35 hours (not week,
The Washington times., 1933-08-21

didn't trust each other That's their new code. The
lawyers used their same old code of cash. They had
never trusted each other.
P.S Now for the big polo game to watch the West
take the East like Huey Long took Louisiana.
Copyright 1884, by McNaught syudcate)
The Washington times., 1933-08-21
CLEARINGS

CINCINNATI, Aug. 21.-Bank
Clearings, $6,266,014.
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CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury balance as Of August
18: $1,226,999 .872.02.
M. I. r., $2.928, 8,408.S6.
Customs receipts, $19.426,s14.97.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
ASSEMBLY BALL
CALLED ORGY

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March "a.
The General Assembly ball last
night was a drunken debauch,
according to DR.. John D. Nico.
demus, Democratic Ere deri C k
county legislator today.
DR.. Nicodemus attended the
dance and remained, he said,
until after midnight. He re.
ported young couples drinking
from flasks, on the dance floor.
He said:
"ThOSe men were endanger-
ing their own lives by drinking
and endangering the lives and
virtues of the young women
they escorted. I would like to
have seen them arrested and
held in jail until they told
where they bought their
whisky"
DR.. Nicodemus has been a con-
sistent opponent Of all beer and
prohibition reform measures as
well as liberalization of Sunday
blue laws. He is past 80.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
INDEX Of LIVING
CLERKS TOPIC

The Governments cost of liv-
ing index will be the subject of
lecture at the educational forum
Of Federal Employees Union No. 2,
at union headquarters, ITO Four
teenth st. N. W., tonight. Myron
E. Andrews. who is doing re-
search work for the union, will
speak.
Ulrey j. Biller, chairman of the
forum and a vice-president of
the national organization, will
lead a discussion of retirement
problems to develop resolutions
for the convention in September.
At 4:45 p. m. today the De-
partment of Labor branch Of the
National Federation of Federal
Employees will meet at the De-
partment building to elect Off
GERS.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
STATE To SEEK
TRUCK TAX

ANNAPOLIS, Md, March "a
A truck tax of one third of a cent
per ton mile for freight handled
over Maryland roads is proposed,
as a substitute for certain gaso-
line taxes now levied, in a bill
which will be introduced in the
Senate today, under the sponsor
ship of the State administration.
The tax would be collected on
out-of State trucks, which would
be weighed at the State line. The
tax is expected to yield $1,000, 900
and as the upkeep of roads costs
the State about 81, 100000 because
of truck traffic, State officials
favor it strongly.
They point out that few outside
trucks pay any gas tax to the
State because they go through
Maryland without refueling.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
APPROVES
CHARTER PLAN
MRS. TALMADGE

The Democratic organization in
the form of the Montgomery Gov
ernment Club of Takoma Park,
virtually assured legislative &C.
ceptance Of charter amendments
In approving with several changes
last night the proposals Of the
''home-rule" group now in control
; in Takoma.
. Foremost was the adoption OF
q bill that would extend the prln-
ciples of the Corrupt Practices
act, which requires that campaign
literature be signed, to cover the
town elections. Unsigned and
seemingly erroneous circular RS
played an important part in the
last town election.
The body also gave a rising
vote of appreciation to Miss La
vinia. Engle, Montgomery dele
gate in the Maryland legislature,
for her speech yesterday on the
insurance bill.
The club voted to reduce the
interest charges on unpaid tax
installments from 6 per cent to
4 per cent, argued at some length
over a bill that would give Ia
koma. Park a peace justice, and
then accepted the charter changes
with the new tax interest figure.
The measures provide for a two
week caucus in town elections.
referendum on council salaries,
town clerk bonds. installment tax
paying and authority for the
town to buy and hold tax prop
erty.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
Offices Single Entrance
Embarrasses Garner

The Vice President finds the
layout of his suite in the Senate
Office Building quite embarras-
sing. He feels there ought to be
two doors where now there is
only one.
According to his secretary-wife,
the Vice President is anxious to
get moved into his suite in the
new Senate Office Building, where
there will be an extra door
through which he can make his
entrance or exit quite unobserved.
AS it is now Garner must use
the same door as is used by
visitors, and it is quite impossible
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
County Police Seek
3 Men in HOLduDS

Three robbers, one colored,
being sought by Arlington county
police in connection with the
holdups early today of Charles
H. Belcher, 17O0 block Thirteenth
st. N. w.
Belcher told police he was driv-
ing on Glebe Road, between
Mount Vernon Boulevard and
the Alexandria Highway when
the colored man stopped him.
The two white men then came
up and took $50 from him.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
AUDIT L 7 TER
IS BASIS Of
MOTION
Missive Written by State Audi
tor, Commenting on Sur
vey, Was Shown to Jury

Detailed audit of the accounts
of E. Wade Ball, former Arlington
county treasurer, now on trial be-
fore Judge w. T. Mccarthy in
circuit court in Clarendon, Va,
for alleged misuse of county funds,
did not go back beyonf June 80,
1880, Elmer F. Newell, county
auditor, said under cross-examina-
ton today.
The auditor told the jury he had
taken the balance of that fiscal
period and had used it as a base
to determine Balls responsibility.
He said that the only items in the
earlier audit he had brought for.
ward were certain credits which
had not been given the ex'
treasurer.
It was indicated by Frank l..
Ball, brother of the defandant and
chief of defense counsel that his
examination fthe auditor would
be brief.
Crandall Mackey, one of Balls
attorneys, asked mistrial late
yesterday on grounds that a let
ter commenting on the audit
being used as evidence against
the former treasurer, had been
contained in the data shown to
the jury.
It is unlikely Judge Mccarthy
will rule on the plea for mistrial
for several days.
The letter was written by T.
Coleman Andrews. auditor of
accounts for Virginia, to Roy S.
Braden, manager of Arlington
county.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
Probe Opens Today
In Death of BOY, IL

TAZEWELL, Va, March "a.
Preliminary hearing of Roscoe
Cain, of johnson City, Tenn,
charged with being the driver of
car that struck and killed
James Sheets, IL, here yesterday
will be held today.
According to police, Gains car
struck the boy when it swerved
off the road. Cain put the boy
in the machine and started for
the hospital but the youth was
dead on arrival.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
Leave Ruling Notice
Sent to Unit Chiefs

Notices to all department heads
of the District government, in
terpreting the decision of Comp
troller McCarl in the matter of
accrued furloughs, were sent out
today by District Auditor Daniel
j. Donovan,
The notices. which quoted the
ruling and added an explanation
OF its contents, directed all de-
partment heads to figure re-
bates due all employees who have
had more than 221a days paw de-
Quoted during the fiscal year and
who have not had more than l8
days leave.
Under Major Donovan's order,
District employees will not have
to apply for their rebates but
will be given them automatically
with their next pay.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
CUMMINGS D. K.
On LEAVE RULE
MRS. WILSON

(Continued from Local Page)
1893, officials and employees
of this department will be al
lowed annual leave with pay
at the rate of Is days for each
calendar year, exclusive Of
Sundays and legal holidays,
and the amount of such leave
unused in any year will be
cumulative and may be used
any succeeding years.
"Such annual leave will be
administered under the regula-
tionS now in force, and except
for the reduction in the
amount of leave allowable there
will be no change in such reg.
ulatiOns.
CURRANT LEAVE
"Officials and employees hav.
ing accrued furlOugh leave will
be allowed to take such ac-
crued leave at any time during
the balance of this fiscal year,
with the approval of the heads
of their respective divisions and
bureaus and when and if their
services can be spared. Such
furlOugh leave is not cumulative
and if not taken will expire at
the end of this fiscal year."
Department officials pointec
out that the memorandum doe
not touch upon the disposition tt
be made of annual leave accrued
during the present fiscal year bu
suspended by the furlough pro
vision.
Whether this may be taken il
the future is the subject of on,
of the queries put up to comptrol
Ter General McCarl as a result o1
the meeting this week of per
sonnel officers in the Fedora
service.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
GUT
IS SOUGHT

ANNAPOLIS, March 24.-Three
bills to cut salaries of officials in
Prince Georges county were intro
duced in the house of delegates
yesterday.
A blanket cut of 10 per cent
would be made in the salaries of
the States attorney, police justice,
police court clerk, police chief,
police sergeants, constables, sheriff
and deputies.
The movement is in line with
promises made by members of the
Prince Georges delegation to a
group Of taxpayers from the
county at recent meeting here.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
County's Bonds Bring
No Bids; Officials
Now Ask Loan

ANNAPOLIS, March 24.-Fail.
ure to receive any bids on a
$750,000 bond issue authorized
by the Legislature has made
it necessary for the commission
ers Of Anne Arundel county to
seek passage of another bill
to save the county from de-
faulting on obligations due next
month.
Under the first bill the bond
issue was authorized to pay off
notes coming due and save in
terest. When no bids for the
bonds were received, the COM
missioners drafted new bill
seeking authority to borrow
the needed sums.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
AdUentiSts to War
On Beer and Whisky

Adventist leaders at the inter.
national headquarters in Takoma
Park yesterday Joined the Amer.
ican Temperance Society, its off.
spring, in planning anew a ma
tion-wide campaign against the
beer bill and for the retention
of the Eighteeth Amendment.
Distribution of Literature among
State bodies yet to act on the
beer bill is the feature of the
campaign.
The Rev. I. H. Evans, second
in command of the church's ac-
tivities, characterized the bill as
a step backward.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
Civic Service Clubs
Hold Fete TOnight

Plans for a surprise supper"
at the Mayflower Hotel tonight
under the auspices of the Fedora
ton of Civic Service Clubs were
outlined to the Cosmopolitan Club
at the Carlton yesterday by L. H.
Brodie, president of the fedora
tion. Henry Schaffert, former
president and organizer of the
federation, told of the events
leading to it's formation,
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
CHOIR SINGS TONIGHT

The Guilford College Choir. Of
North Carolina. will give an A
Cappella concert tonight at 8
o'clock in the National City
Christian Church at Thomas
Circle. The public is invited.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
County Backs Plan
For Street Mamma

Approval of the move to elm.
mate Implications in names of
streets in the metropolitan area
of Montgomery County was voiced
by the Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission
yesterday. The bill is at present
before the Maryland Legislature.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
TALK ON LARGER LIFE

Mrs. Edith Mason Howe, Chris
tian Healer, will lecture tomorrow
night at GIG Sixteenth St. at 8
o'clock, on How to Live the
Larger Life" The public is in
vited.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24

for office attaches to say "The
Vice President is not in" How
can they, when visitors see his
coming in and his going out?
The Washington times., 1933-03-24

MRS. FRED w. REST
THIS WOMAN assisted in
pulling Angel Miaque, sailor
stationed at the Navy Yard
from the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal after he accidentally fell
into the water yesterday. Times
Staff Photo.
The Washington times., 1933-03-24

CENTRAL 9th St strast. Between e W p e
Smoking Permitted in Balcony Only
TODAY-ROBERT ARMSTRONG and
EDNA NAY OLIVER in PENGUIN
POOL MURDER" isperin 6
Shadow No. /. Taxi Boys Comedy.
TOMORROW-Jimm Durante a d
Buster Keaton in what No Beer"
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
METROPOLITAN s s.. Near =. W. 10th

Greatest Dramatic Spectacle of all
Time. CECIL B. DEMILLE'S "SIGN
OF THE CROSS" with Fredric March,
ELISA Landi. Claudette Colbert
and 1000 others
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
AVENUE GRAND s4' s"; 3 = Ave.

TODAY-JOAN BLONDELL in "CEN.
TRIAL PARK" Ruth Etting short
and Sport Thrills. TOMORROW
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS JR.. in
PARACHUTE JUMPER" Comedy
The Washington times., 1933-03-24

RuAl m Connecticut Ave. and
AwAEUN Mckinley st., d. C.
TODAY-Douglas Fairbanks. Jr in
parachute Jumper" Charlie Chase
Comedy. TOMORROW-Rando Scott
& Sally Blame in "Wild Horse Mesa"
with Williamson Beneath the Sea-"
Whispering Shadow No. . and Cartoon
The Washington times., 1933-03-24
Warner BROS. THEATERS

TODAY-Edmund Lowe & Wynne Glib
son in The Devil Is Driving" Comedy.
TOMORROW-Spenc Tracy & Marion
Nixon in Face in the Sky" Whis-
pering Shadow No. l. Our Gang Comedy
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
M LEVY IN D. G.,
TELLS PLANS

From roofer to one Of the halt
a dozen Socialist mayors in Amer
lea!
That is the record set by Jasper
McLevy. of Bridgeport, whose
tenth race for the mayoralty Of
Connecticut's industrial center
has just swept him to victory in
the Socialist landslide there.
Mayor McLevy came to Wash
ington to attend the conference
of 500 State and municipal Of
ficials on plans for putting 4,0OO,-
900 men back to work, and to see
Public Works Administration Of
ficials about loans to Bridge
port.
Unassumingly dressed in dark
suit, white shirt, and tilted black
hat, his face lined deeply with the
burrows of those who toll, the
mayor stood in the lobby of the
MayfloWer Hotel and told Of his
plans for establishing a more in
innate contact between the city
government and people of his
home town. He said:
"SOcial conditions are chang
ing. The people want a new deal
in local as well as national af-
fairs. The apprehension caused
by casting a vote for socialism is
breaking down. People are dis
carding the old traditions and
want a larger measure of social
justice. They are crying for a
change and there is no reason
why they shouldn't have SOme-
thing different"
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
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lines at Chevy Chase Circle, where
a fountain was dedicated recently.
The association passed resolu-
tions approving the appointment
of Melvin c. Hazen and George
c. Allen as District Commissioners.
The same resolution also ex-
pressed appreciation of the splen-
did service rendered the outgoing
Commissioners, Herbert B. Crosby
and Luther H. Reichelderfer. A.
Almond introduced the resolution.
TO Survey Signals
The committee on streets and
avenues was directed to survey
stop signals on Connecticut Ave-
nue. and report all necessary
changes at the December meeting.
In accordance with Maj. Ernest
w. Browns suggestion that rep
resentative of the police depart
ment attend all meetings of citi-
zenS associations, a standing invi-
tation was extended Captain
Bowers of the Eighth precinct.
DR.. Paul Everhart, head of the
Child Guidance Clinic, addressed
the association on the Community
Chest needs. 5. J. Sullivan, presi-
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
CITIZENS HONOR
! D, {, HEAD

South washington Citizens AS
sociation, at it's meeting last
night, elected Mr.. and Mrs. Mel
vim c. Hazen to honorary mem
bership. Mr.. HaZen, recently ap-
pointed District Commissioner,
made his home in Southwest
Washington for many years be-
fore moving to Sixteenth Street.
The following standing commit
tee chairmen were appointed by
President Jacob M. Schaffer:
Playground, Andrew Peterman;
membership, William Leisnear;
police and fire, c. H. Knight;
public welfare, Mrs. NAIter S.
Ufford; legislation a1a zoning,
Milton Barrett; publ Aealth, DR.
Leon Gordon; commercial devel
opment, Perry Leishear, program
r. w. Strawbridge; streets and
lights, Myer Chidakel; schools
Mr.. Schstfer, and public library
Mrs. Clara D. Neigh.
Mrs. Ufford asked the associa
ton to cooperate with other
agencies in holding a conference
on relief needs. Mrs. Neigh
spoke on the Community Chest,
to which $25 was donated.
Mrs, Bessie Parish was elected
recording secretary, and Mrs
Ruth White, corresponding secre'
tary.