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The Washington times., 1933-03-14
KENT IS MADE
DOLLAR CAR

NEW YORK, March IA 0.N.S).
Foreign exchange transaction re.
stricted by order of Secretary Of
the Treasury Woodin, were operat-
ing under the rule of a dollar
czar" today.
He is Fred l. Kent, New York
banker and wartime controller Of
foreign exchange dealings. His
appointment was announced by
George L. Harrison, governor of
Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, and his duties are to safe
guard the exchange value Of the
dollar abroad, and to prevent the
flight of gold" from this to for
eign countries.
Coincident with the announce
ment of Kent's appointment, Har-
rison addressed circular letter to
all banking institutions and deal
ers in foreign exchange giving in-
structions concerning all future
dealings in exchange.
All such dealings must be re.
ported to the new dictator daily
on forms to be provided. Dealers
are required to obtain from buyers
of foreign exchange complete de-
tails of the transaction involved.
Exchange may be purchased, 1t
was indicated, for all legitimate,
normal business and for reason
able travel or other personal re-
quirements, but any attempts to
ship large funds out of the coun-
try or to raid" the dollar will be
halted.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
COAL MEN HAIL
POOL VICTORY

Far-reaching effects on Ameri-
can industry will flow from the
decision of the Supreme. Court
holding that formation of a CO.
operative coal sales pool by 1877
bituminous coal operators is not
a violation of the Sherman Anti
Trust Law. it was predicted today.
The decision, regarded as an
extension of the rule of reason"
in past antitrust cases, makes
possible the formation of selling
pools in the oil. agriculture, and
other natural resource industries.
It may cover proposed reorgan-
ization of the textile industry
through the gathering of small
mills into a great sales organiza-
tion.
Representative Kelly (R.) of
Pennsylvania. co-author of the
DaviS-Kelly coal bill, declared the
fight for legislation would con-
tinue. He said:
"The decision is a great sur
prise. It will give arbitrary
power to bituminOus coal opera
tors to combine and fix prices.
"Our contention has been
that a Federal tribunal should
be named to see that such COM
binatiOns operate in the public
interest. We will have to under
take legislation to protect mine
workers and consumers"
The high court, in upholding
the combination, said if in actual
practice it proves restraint of
trade as forbidden by the anti
trust laws, the Department of
Justice may bring suit to break
it up.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
Child's Funeral Is Symbol
Of Quake Zone Grief

! The public funeral for Dolores
Miller, in charges of the American
Legion, focused sympathy on
those killed by the earth'S gesture.
Mother GraHely Injured
The body was found beneath
the wreckage of her home. Her
mother lies gravely injured in one
of the Long Beach hospitals.
There were no funds for her
burial. Friends said that the lit
tie girl and her mother came here
from San Diego in December. The
| father was killed in an automo-
bile accident 18 months ago.
Funerals of other victims of the
disaster probably will be private,
with the bereaved families joining
each other in expressions of
sympathy.
Meanwhile attention was focused
on providing funds with which to
rebuild this and nearby towns,
methods - tested severely and
found satisfactory in Fridays
shock-in an effort to avert SINH
lar cataStrophies in the future.
Governor James Rolph, jr., and
A. w. McMillen, reconstruction
Finance Corporation representa-
tive in Sacramento, have been in
conference to devise means for
relaxing r. F.. c. rules for the ap-
preparation of large sums to aid
the huge task of rehabilitation.
Red Cross Funds Ready
The Red Cross here announced
that some funds were already
available for rebuilding of homes.
Extra precautions were being
taken to guard against an out
break of pneumonia. Hundreds
of persons we're chilled as they
slept-or tried to sleep-Several
nights in the open air.
The city health department di-
rected a virtual house to house
canvass by nurses who gave in.
formation how best to treat sore
throats and colds.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
SOVIET STUDIES
j. 8, HEALTH

NEW YORK, March IA G.N.SJ
DR.. Alex Roubakine, clean shaven
earnest, intellectual looking, leans
toward you and discusses shoes.
DR.. Roubakine is an unofficial
Soviet ambassador to this coun
try, sent to learn how we keep
healthy. To date he says more in
pity than in censure, he has
learned very little. So he dis
cusses shoes:
Before the revolution there
were 15O,O0O,OOO people in Rus
sia. The annual output of
shoes was 100000 pairs.
Roughly that gives good idea
of how our people were clothed.
Today in Russia there are
about 165,OOO,OOOO I~ople and
the annual output of shoes is
1OO,OOO,OOO pairs. That shows
more than an advance in cloth
ing standards. 1t shows that
more people in Russia are at
tanning standard of living
which would not have been
possible in the old regime"
DR.. Roubakine who, very gen.
orally speaking, is a Soviet health
commissioner, is here to see what
he can see, and incidentally to
take part in a lecture tour. He
says that he is puzzled as to the
health program of this country.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
BEER|N AN HOUR
IF BILL PASSES

CHICAGO, March IA G.N.S).
Large breweries here and in Mil
waukee today disclosed that a sup
ply of real beer can be hurried to
consumers within an hour after
the bill legalizing 3.2 per cent beer
becomes law.
The leading brewers report they
have supplies of real beer on hand
that can be shipped at once, and
the plants are prepared to double
or treble their working forces to
cope with the increased demand
for brew which passage of the bill
is expected to cause.
Most of the large companies
here have been engaged in max
ing near beer, process which re-
quires de-alcoholizing the real
product.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
Charity Redlignment
Is UrQed bu Citizens

A thorough study of the Com
munity Chest to determine the
necessity Of realigning all Wash
ington relief agencies was advo-
Gated at the meeting of the Ia
koma Citizens Association last
night.
Pointing out that the Chest
affiliations have remained some
what stable the. last four years,
the group declared that new
agencies and other organizations
now existing should be considered
in it's membership. The associ-
alton endorsed William Mckay
Clayton as District Commissioner.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14

AA4NNNASSASOS 4NAS~S
N.N.SD.-A slight earth tremOr
was felt throughout LOF An
geIes and the stricken Long
Beach earthquake area at 4:2O
a. M, today. Weakened build
ings in the beach cities trem-
bled, but there was no dam
age.
LONG BEACH, Cal, March IA
G.N.SO 1.-The clear, piercing
notes of military taps" today
sounded for a funeral and for a
rebirth.
The funeral was that of four
year-old Dolores Miller, symbolic
of the death that Fridays earth
quake left in its wake in the
beach cities of Southern Cali
fornia.
The rebirth was that promised,
after careful planning, for the
beautiful towns that a twisting,
jarring earthquake halted with
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normal course of existence and
plunged temporarily into chaos.
Relief Goes Forward
Meanwhile in Washington,
where Senator McAdoo of Cali
fornia sponsored a $5,00O,O0O re-
lief appropriation, and in Sacra-
mento, the State capital, where
an urgency $4,000 bill for food
was passed, relief plans went for
ward.
Five names were added today
to the list of identified dead.
Twenty-Five of the injured re-
manned in a critical condition,
with more deaths feared.
The new names, virtually COM
pleting the identification of the
121 known fatalities, were:
William N. Johnson, Downey.
Mrs. Betty Helper, "a, of Comp
ton, and her infant daughter.
Rovina.
Elmer M. Hayes, Los Angeles.
Harry Ufen, 48.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
Monument to Navy
Dead Asked in Bill

Representative Stephen W.
Gambrill CD of Maryland, in
troduced bill in the House yes
terday seeking an appropriation
of $4,000 for erection of a suit
able memorial to officers ana
men of the Navy who lost their
lives in an explosion on the U. 8,
S. Tulip, November II, 1864.
The memorial would be erected
on the site where the victims
were buried near st. Inigoes Bay,
Md, under direction of the Sec
retary of the Navy.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
p. u. C.. Denies T0ris
Ad SeLLinU' Ri0ht

The Public Utilities Commits
sion has ruled that Washing
ton taxicabs may not carry pla-
cards or other advertising de-
vices inside their cabs. The &C
tion was was taken after a cab
owner had applied for permission
to sell advertising space in his
vehicles.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14

it a quake worthy of headlines,
But since that heart-stopping
shake of Friday these settling
quakeS seem mild.
All of this takes place in a
world strangely out of focus, but
which these people are already
taking for granted.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
Relief Worker Asks
Citizens COOperQtiOn

Creation of a citizens relief
committee to study relief needs
Of the District, was advocated last
night by Miss Louise MCGUIRE,
District relief worker, at a meet
ing of the Kalorama Citizens AS
Sociation at the Adams School.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
X. of C.. Council Drops
Smoker Durinq Lent

Edward Douglass White Council
No. 2473, Knights of Columbus,
will meet Thursday night at 8
o'clock in the clubhouse on Gar
rison Road, Clarendon, Va. It
was also announced today that
smoker, scheduled for March %,
will not be held because of Lent.
The Washington times., 1933-03-14
Mexico Approves
Choice of Daniels

MEXICO CITY, March IA u.
SO.-The foreign office today
stated semiofficially that the
Mexican government has advised
Washington of approval of 10.
Sephus Daniels as ambassador to
Mexico.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Only One Brewery Is Left
To Slake City's Thirst

Only one brewery in Washing
ton will be ready to slake the
great thirst when the beer bill
rings on the morning of April 7,
or whenever brew is made legal.
That brewery is Abner-Drury.
For 13 years, or ever since the
grand upheaval in American man.
ners, the Abner-Drury Brewing
Company has been true to the
faith. That is, the spirit of Abner-
Drury has lived on in the hope
that beer would come back.
Others Out Of Business
The Christian Heurich Brewing
Company, when prohibition hit it
amidshipS, went into the ice bust.
ness. It was said at the plant to-
day that the Heurich Brewing
Company would continue doing
business at the same old ice
stand; that it would not make
beer, at least until such time in
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
UNIFORM SIGNS
PLANNED HERE

A uniform system Of highway
signs is planned for Washington,
in order to do away with the pres
ent hodge-podge Of markers of
varying shapes, sizes and colors.
The new signs, of new and
more readable type. are being
manufactured at Lorton Reforma-
tory under the supervisio nof
Capt. M. M. Barnard. superin-
tendent of the institution. as
rapidly as possible and will be
installed as fast as they are
turned out.
Signs indicating speed limits
and highway routes will be in
black on a white background,
while other signs will be yellow,
with black letters.
All signs will be mounted at a
uniform height from the pave
ment, either on light posts or
special standards.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Railroads Ask Right
To Cut Rates on Beer

Southwestern railroads today
asked the Interstate Commerce
Commission for authority to es.
tablish. on one days notice, sub
stantial reductions in freight rates
on ale, beer, beer tonic, porter and
stout. They pointed out that beer
will make attractive tonnage for
trucks as well as for railroads, and
if the latter expect to handle it,
they must be prepared to offer
something less than the present
fifth class rates on cereal bever-
ages.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

the future as conditions should
warrant.
Years and years ago the Ma.
tional Capital Brewing Company
sold out to the Garry Ice Cream
Company.
There is still a complete brew.
cry equipment, after a fashion,
at the Garry Ice Cream Plant
but ice cream is what it makes.
Ready to Sell Out
Rumor had it, too, that some
enterprising New Yorkers were
after the Garry Ice Cream Plant
to convert it into its old form
a sort of reincarnation. Ernest
H. Daniels, the president and
general manager of the Garry
Ice Cream Company, says that
all such offers are now off, but
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The Washington times., 1933-03-23
8
Here for Beer
Licenses

Beer license applicants in the
District to date are:
S. w. Wagshal, delicatessen,
100 block Columbia Rd. N. w.
Nathan Shapiro, drug store,
600 block Pennsylvania Ave.
N. w.
Mrs. Nellie Marsal, BARGE
Iona dining room, 1900 block
New York Ave. N. w.
Angelo Jones & Bros, $500
block Fourteenth st. N. w.
William A. Finkel, restaurant,
5000 block Georgia Ave. N. w.
Stephen Jones, restaurant,
1000 block Ninth st. N. w.
James F. Smith, 1900 block
New York Ave. N. w.
Mrs. Martha Lohse, buffet
lunch, formerly a barroom,
Eleventh and E SITS. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
POTOMAC BANK
PUSHESPLANS
AS NATIONAL
U. S. Treasury Approval of
Reorganization Seen Near;
Cooper Meets Opposition

Belief that the Potomac Savings
Bank will be reopened next week
as the Potomac National Bank
was expressed today as subscrip-
tions for stock in the reorganized
bank poured in.
The stock issue, which will give
the reorganized bank $50O,00O in
new capital, will be completed
this week, -1embers Of the reor-
ganization committee believe, and
they point out that when this sum
is raised permission to reopen
should be forthcoming from the
Comptroller Of the Currency at
once.
Ratification Certain
A meeting of the stockholders
of the bank will be held to.
morrow afternoon in Alexandria.
where the institution is incorpo-
rated, to ratify the sale Of the
new bank.
Officers said the stockholders
are enthusiastic over the plan as
the best method of protecting
the depositorS and stockholders,
and the meeting tomorrow will
merely be the formality of ap'
proving the transaction.
The Treasury Department to-
day authorized the Franklin Ma
tional Bank to accept new de-
posits. which will be subject to
100. per cent withdrawal at any
time.
Stockholders Balk
Plans for reorganization of the
Commercial National Bank, placed
in the hands of a receiver last
month, were halted when stock
holders protested against transfer
of books and records Cf the insti-
tuition to Col. Wade H. Cooper,
president.
John H. Dwyer, attorney, wrote
to the Comptroller that group of
stockholders was organized to
combat any move Of Colonel
Cooper to obtain the bank rec
ordS.
At the Comptroller's office it
was stated that the records will
not be given out until reorgani-
zation plans have been approved
by the Treasury Department.
Park Probe Goes On
At the Park Savings Bank, Gov
ernment accountants were still
pouring over the tangled affairs
of that institution in an effort
to trace down the exact amount
of shortage in the funds and the
hope that the method used may be
aScertained.
So far the exact amount Of
the shortage has not been learned,
despite rumors that it may run
as high as $1,600,0O0. It will take
several weeks more. it is expected,
before the exact amount can be
determined.
The Government agents are
also attempting to determine if
Robert Stunz, vice president, who
shot and killed himself the day
conservator was appointed,
leaving two notes exonerating
other bank officials from knowl-
edge of the shortage. was assisted
by others in the defalcation.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Jurisprudence Unit
viii Meet March 81

The Institute of Social Juris-
prudence will meet on March 81,
at the offices of the Juvenile
Protective Association, 1400 block
of K Street Northwest, to dis
cuss juvenile courts and their
proper administration. Inas-
much as the selection of a juve-
nile court judge is imminent, the
aim will be to interest opinion
to an expression in the matter.
The present judge is katherine
Sellers. Many candidates for the
place have appeared, and she is
herself a candidate for reap.
pointment,
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
COOL SUDS WAIT
D. {. GOLFERS

Thirsty golfers will be able to
dampen parched throats with
cold beer at municipal golf courses
this summer, Capt. F. w. Hoover,
manager of the Welfare and Recre-
ational Association, promised to-
day.
The associations application
for a license to serve malt bever-
ages at Hains Point Tea House,
Pierce Mill, and at other munich
pal golf courses and tennis courts
is being withheld pending enact
ment of the District beer bill, but
will be filed directly after the bill
is passed, Captain Hoover said.
Whether or not cafeterlaS
operated by the association in
Government buildings will be de-
termined at a directors meeting
next week.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
HARRIS PLACED
IN n. !. ON DAY
Of CRIME
Brooklyn Woman Who Shared
Rooms With Suspect and
Wife Calls Him 'Homebody'

Defense attorneys today began
presentation of witnesses in Dis
trict Supreme Court in an effort
to prove an alibi for Charles
Harris, on trial for the first de-
gree murder of Milton Henry,
local gambler, last April 81.
The first of these witnesses
was Mrs. Frank Bremser, who
shared her apartment with Har-
ris and his wife in Brooklyn, N.
Y, from October, 1881, to June,
1882, according to her testimony.
She said she knew Harris and
his wife as Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
Berman.
Several Aliases
Defense Attorney Arthur N.
Sager told the jury that he would
show that the defendants name
is neither Harris nor Berman.
He said his real name is Charles
Bernstein.
Mrs. Bremser's testimony painted
a picture Of the defendant and
his wife as staping at home "al-
most every night, reading a lot
and when not reading, playing
cribbage together.
She testified that with the ex-
ception of a day or two around
the first of April and another day
or so early in May, Berman, as
she knew the defendant, had been
constantly at the Brooklyn apart
ment.
Assistant U. S. Attorney Julian
7. Richards. by his questioning
on cross examination, indicated
that he would show that contrary
to this testimony the defendant
was for three days, between Osto-
Der and the first of the year, un-
der arrest in Newark, N. j.
Gives April 20 AIibi
Mrs. Bremser said that she re-
membered that Hairs and his
wife were celebrating the begin
ming of the Jewish Passover at
their apartment on the evening Of
April 20.
She said she saw him again
after 1890 when he knocked on
her door to give her a drink. The
concoction made her i'll, she said.
She remembered that particu-
lar evening also because Harris
had brought another man home
to dinner.
Henry was shot to death about
s a. m. April 81, when he drove
his car up to his home n the
3400 block Brown st. N. w. Two
witnesses yesterday said they
could positively identify Harris
as the man seen running from
Henry's car Immediately after
the shooting.
Merchant Supports.
Another defense witness, Abe
Landau, said he remembered
that Harris had come to his
shoe store in the Bronx shortly
before II a. m. on the morning
that Henry was slain. He said
that he, like Mrs. Bremser, re-
membered the date as being the
beginning of the Passover holi-
day.
He said that he first learned
that Harris was under arrest here
in August, and that was the first
time he had remembered Harris
coming to the store on the morn
iYoo of AoTi1 81
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
University Athletes
On Deb1tinQ Team

Two of the members of the
American University debating
team who will debate Rutgers
Thursday evening are prominent
athletes. Chet Bowers is quarter
back on the football team and
Oscar Sells is center of the
basketball team. They'll debate
the subject of cancellation of war
debts.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Riding-Hunt Club
SI1OU to End Season

The final indoor horse show of
the winter season will be held at
the Riding and Hunt Club tomor-
row night.
The award Of the 1932-1933
hunter championship to the horse
with the highest score in the re-
cent series, will feature the event,
according to Wilton j. Lambert,
chairman of the committee.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
DRUNK,
GETS 35 DAYS

William G. Coffman was SEN
fenced to pay a fine Of $35 or
serve 35 days in Jail on charges
of soliciting aims and being drunk
by Judge Ralph Given in Police
Court today.
After Policeman S. F. Gravely
told Judge Hit Coffman was
drunk while soliciting aims near
the Interior Building yesterday,
Judge Given said:
"If you were begging for
something to eat, I'd be in
cIined to be Ienient with you.
= But you were drunk and you
wanted money for whisky. So,
therefore, you spoil the chances
of hungry men trying to get
some money for food"
The Washington times., 1933-03-23

with practlcal mans OOJecClOn 10
the dole because it is "frozen labor"
Mr.. Kaufman, not being a poll
tician, but an extremely energetic
merchant, prefers work relief to
dole relief-the dollar paid in wages
to the dollar spent for semi-chari-
table support; but he does not have
to deceive either himself or us. He
knows that however it may be con-
cealed the dole is in operation in
many States aud "there is not enough
taxpaying ability in the country to
continue to carry on the burden of
relief as it now is" This is the
kind of frank speaking to which
the President himself has accus-
toned us during the past two
weeks: and | understand that he
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
CLERKS DENIED.
RIGHT To PILE
UP LEAVE
McCarI Ruling Says Workers
Must Absorb 1888 Time
Before New Fiscal Year

Comptroller Gen. j. r. MCarl,
in his first ruling on the new
economy law, made public today,
has decided that Government em-
ployes who have not used "a days
accrued furlough leave for the
present fiscal year may not take
it during the coming fiscal year,
but that adjustments may be
made on the March payroll to
compensate them for any excess
deductions made from their pay.
Moreover, any furlough leave
due for pay deductions already
made may be taken up to July
of this year.
Question by WOOdin
The question was raised by the
Secretary Of the Treasury, and
was put before McCarl in the fol-
lowing words:
"Where a Government emplOye
who is subject to a deduction
of S1-3 per cent Of his pay un-
der the provisions of the econ
Omy act has (a) through elec-
ton on his part, or (b) through
exigencieS of the service failed
to use the total of "a days fur
lOugh leave accrued during the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1888,
may he use such accrued un-
used furIOugh leave during the
fiscal year ending June 30,
1934?"
That, the Comptroller General
says, is not possible, because the
new economy law eliminates the
provisions for legislative furlough
set up under the old one.
Such furloughs were provided
for only one fiscal year, and there
will be none during the coming
fiscal year.
Decision a Surprise
However, the Comptroller Gen.
eral rules that employees who have
taken deductions in pay without
corresponding time off may take
any such leave due them between
March 81 and July l, without
contravention of the law.
This settles an important point
that has been much under dis
cussion in the Federal service of
late. The decision comes as some.
thing of a surprise, for it had
been generally feared that fur
lough leave not taken by April !
would be lost.
Through the end of March
(the current month"; it is re-
quired that employees shall have
taken deductions of 2212 days
pay, or proportional amounts il
they have not been on duty con-
tinuouSly.
Get 1S Days
They are entitled to 18 days
off for the same period, and #
they have been absent more than
18 days, a deduction of 1A days
pay is required for each addi-
tional day.
Adjustments may be made on
the current pay roll to cover
excess deductions made On ac-
count of legislative furlough, the
ruling says, in case deductions
amount TO more than 212 days
per month, and also more than
1H days for each actual work.
ing day on which the employe
was absent.
The Washington times., 1933-03-23
Worcester Academy
Alumni Will Dine

Alumni of Worcester Academy
residing in the District Of Colum-
bia will hold a dinner at the
Cosmos Club the evening Of
March %, it was announced yes
terday. DR.. o. C. s. wallace, Of
Baltimore, a member Of to class
Of 1881 will speak,