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Evening star., 1933-06-02
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Evening star., 1933-04-14
JIMMIE WALKERS
DROTHERlCLEARED
Probers Dismiss Fee-Split-
ting Charges but Rap Meth
cd of Naming Physicians.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 14.-Dr. William
H Walker, brother of former Mayor
James j. Walker, and four other physi-
clans were cleared yesterday of charges
that they practieed fraudulently and
deceitfully in connection with fee split
ting in city compensation cases.
The Medical Grievance Committee OF
the state Department of Education,
which Investigated the charges made by
the City Affairs Committee, dismissed
them IN a 32-page opinion as unsub-
stantiated. but ''deplored" the system by
which the physicians were selected by
city officials.
The report also recommended that
"the education law be amended so as
to include unprofeSsional and dishonor-
able conduct as ground for disciplinary
proceedings against physicians"
The charges were made against Drs.
Harris Feinberg. Alfred B. Cassasa, Ed
ward l.. Brennan and Thomas ".
O'Mara in addition to the former
mayors brother
Discussing the methods by which the
physicians were designated TO examine
compensation claims against the city,
the report held that "the system adopt
cd by the city in these matters
is repugnant TO good government and
leads to manifest abuses"
The report criticized Rev. John
Haynes Holmes and Rabbi Stephen S.
Wise, who sought the removal Of Sol
Ullman. assistant attorney general, who
prosecuted the charges.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
MITCHELL ENTERS
NOT GUILTY PLEA
Former Banker Arraigned on
Second Indictment in
Income Tax Case.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 14.-Charles E.
Mitchell, former chairman of the Ma
tional City Bank. pleaded not guilty
today to an Indictment handed up
yesterday charging him with evading
his. 1880 income tax
Mitchell had previously pleaded not
guilty to an earlier indictment charg-
ing him with evasion of his income
tax for 1929.
Trial on the first indictment had
been placed on the calendar for next
Monday but when Mitchell pleaded
today United States Attorney George
z. Medalie announced he would move
on Monday to consolidate the two in
dictments.
Over the protest of Max D. Steuer,
Frank j. Coleman thereupon set April "a
as the date for trial.
Mitchell is accused in the indict-
ments CT evading income tax payments
in 1929 and 1880 by creating apparent
losses, in 1929 by selling" stock to his
wife at figure far below what he paid
for 1t, and in 1880 by the same means,
except that no member of his family
figured in the transaction that year.
In each instance he is alleged to have
bought the securities back for the same
price he sold them after the sale had
been used to indicate that he had no
taxable income asf ac
The indictments charge Mitchell with
evading tax of S573,31281 for 1929
ana OF ,Sl56, ,79l .09 for 1880.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
ARMY ACTS
| TO HALT B0MB|NGS
Drive on Terrorists Begins
After II Explosions.
20 Arrested.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, Cuba. April 14.-Troops
were called to stamp out terrorism today
after II bombs explosions killed one
person and injured three or four.
The blasts came yesterday and last
night on the heels of several anony-
nous letters to police headquarters
warning that yesterday would start
RED week in Havana"
Cavalry was called out after police
had started roundup of persons sus-
pected of terroristic tendencies and op-
position to the rule of President Ma
chado. The mounted troops patroled
Galiano street, while throughout the
city automobiles were stopped at gun
point and searched.
Score Under Arrest.
Police seized a score of youths, in
cluding three unidentified students who
were taken from the fifth police sta
tion to Atares Castle. Police patrols
armed with machine guns guarded
against further outbreaks.
One bomb exploded not far from the
new home of Orestes Ferrara, former
Ambassador to the United States and
now secretary Of state in the Machado
government.
1t was hidden in a fruit vendors
wagon and 1t killed 3-year-olu Jose
Montana. Three men were reported
seriously injured in this and other
blasts.
Shooting started when police said
they found Manuel Garcia, 10, placing
bomb at street corner. Garcia was
probably fatally wounded. The bompings
were attributed by police to political
terrorism and SO quickly did they follow
one another that police and newspaper
men could hardly keep up with them.
Explodes Near Palace.
One bomb did slight damage at the
Church of the Angel, which is near the
Presidential Palace. Father Francisco
Abascal, inside the church, suffered
nervous shock.
Windows were shattered near q jewelry
and photographers shop. A school
building was damaged slightly.
Rifles were issued to the police. Mill
tary censors ordered nothing be pub
lished concerning the bombings.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
THOMAS JEFFERSON'S
BIRTHDAY OBSERVED
Program Held at University Of
Virginia, Followed by Pill.
grimage to Monticello.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLOTTESVILLE Va, April IA
The 190th anniversary of the birth Of
Thomas Jefferson was commemorated
yesterday with exercises at Monticello,
his home. and at the University or Vir-
ginia, which he founded
The celebration was opened with the
founders day program at the university
yesterday morning. Yesterday afternoon
the visitors made a pilgrimage to Mon
ticello. The observance was brought to
a close with the placing of floral trib-
utes on the tomb Of the author of the
declaration.
One of the wreaths was placed by
Capt. Walter Vernon of the United
States Navy, personal aide to President
Roosevelt.
Dr. John C. Merriam, President Of
the Carnegie Institution of Washington,
who was the founders day speaker,
chose for the occasion a discussion of
how the university might make a con-
tinuing contribution to truth and
progress.
John Lloyd Newcomb, acting presi-
dent of the university. announced gifts
to the institution totaling $528,947
Evening star., 1933-04-14
NAMING OF SHOALS
FOR NORRIS URGED
House Committee Asked to Con-
slider Change in Recognition of
Senator's Achievement.

The House Military Affairs Commit
tee was asked today to change the
name of Muscle Shoals to Norris Shoals
In honor of the Nebraska Senator who
has fought for Government operation
OF its wartime investment for more
than dozen years.
The request was made by Edward A.
Collins of New York, who, during the
last campaign, organized and directed
the Roosevelt Business and Professional
League In several Southern and West
crn States.
Senator Norris has always demon
strated q genuine interest in matters
Of National advancement" Collins said
today. "His persistent sponsorship OF
bills that seek improvements in the
Government structure is more than no
table, and the country owes him debt
OF gratitude OF which this gesture of
appreciation will be the payment of but
very small part"
Mr.. Collins has sent letter to Chair
man McSwain of the House Military
Affairs Committee strongly urging that
the Nebraska Senator's work on behalf
of the development Of Muscle Shoals
should be recognized. ~
Evening star., 1933-04-14
BOARDS
EXCEED TEACHERS
Federal Office of Education
Survey Shows Ratio
in II States.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
In IL States the number OF school
board members is greater than the mum.
ber of teachers. For the United States
as a whole, there is approximately one
board member to every two teachers.
These figures were given today by the
Federal ONCE of Education after investi-
CATION of school administration units
throughout the country.
Outnumber Teachers.
The II States where board members
outnumber teachers are Arkansas, Idaho,
Kansas, Minnesota. Mississippi, Missouri,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oregon,
South Dakota and wisconsin
In round numbers there are $4,000
school adninist, atave units In the States.
Control of educational affairs in these
units is vested in approximately 424 900
members Of the boards OF education or
school trustees. These 424, 900 elect
teachers for s3s,s79 positions -approxi-
mately one board member to every two
teachers.
In each of nine States there are
more than 10000 school board men,
bers. These are Illinois, Iowa. Kansas
Michigan. Minnesota, Missouri, Nebras-
ka, Texas and Wisconsin.
The high number of administrative
units In schools throughout the United
States has been the subject of attack
by educational conclaves for several
years, and particular opposition to them
has been voiced during the past 18
months. The annual convention of the
department OF superintendence of the
National Education Association here
last year attacked the system as con-
trary to good economies.
In Rural Communities.
It has been explained at the ONCE
OF Education that many of the instances
Of more school board members than
teachers arise from the situations in
rural communities, where board Of a
dozen farmers sits to control the affairs
of its local school, which is q one
room, one-teacher affair.
In Washington q school board of nine
members controls q system in which
there are more than 1900 teachers.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
OLD PAVING BLOCK
ADDED TO GARDEN
Ancient Granite Stone Is Gift of
Girl Scouts Of New
Orleans.

A historic granite paving block. which
was brought to New Orleans as ship
ballast during the earliest days Of the
settlement there and which has seen
service for two centuries under four
flags, this afternoon will be added to
the rock garden collection at the Ma
tional Girl Scouts Little House." 1850
New York avenue.
The stone will be presented by Cora
Stanton Jahncke, daughter Of the form
er Assistant Secretary Of the Navy. in
behalf Of Mrs. H. C. Ehrenfels,, Girl
Scout commissioner of New Orleans,
and Girl Scouts of the Southern city.
II win be received by Elizabeth Fish
daughter Of Representative and Mrs.
Hamilton Fish, jr., Of New York.
Among those expected to be present
at the placing of the stone are Mrs.
Ernest Lee Jahncke, associate member
of the New Orleans Girl Scout Council
and wife Of the former Assistant Secre-
tary of the Navy; Miss Adele j..
Jafincke, Mrs. Wayland Magee. Mrs. r..
Bruce Horsfall. Mrs. Frederick Brooke,
Mrs. H. H. Flather, Mrs b. r. Cheath-
am, Mrs. Proctor L. Dougherty, Miss
Marian Stevens, Mrs. Philip Merryrnan
and Mrs. G. l.. Bowernar.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
Girl Student Makes
Bed Under Bridge
To Stay in School
California u. Officials
Stop Practice and
Provide Job.
Hy the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES. april 14.-Ofhcials
Of the University Of California at Los
Angeles lost no time in obtaining Job
today for Gwen Emerson, 1e-year- -old
junior coed, when they learned she
had been living nearly two months in a
ravine beneath bridge.
She explained she was unable to pay
rent, but determined to continue her
education Miss Emerson is trans
fer student from the University of
Minne5ota a
A campus policeman, stopped her as
she was leaving the women's gym
nasium with blanket. The girl told
him she had been forced by lack of
money to leave her lodgings and, with
single blanket, had been sleeping
nights under the bridge.
She lived largely on fruit bought
with dwindling dimes, she said, and
arose before daybreak to make her
toilet and launder her clothes in the
gymnasium wash room while no one
else was about.
Helen M Laughlin, dean of women,
said arrangements had been made for
Miss Emerson to work in return for
board and room.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
FISH RENTS HALL
FOR MASS MEETING
Anti.Soviet Session to Be
Held Despite Failure to
Enlist D. A. R.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative Hamilton Fish OF New
York. who complained last January
that the Daughters of the American
Revolution would not rent him their
hall for a mass meeting against Russian
recognition Is going to have MS meet
ing anyhow.
washington Auditorium. close to the
hall he couldn't get. on the same night
that Mrs William Russell Magma,
b. A. r. president general. is having
her Continental Congress reception.
"I offered the D. A. r. the oppor-
tunity to put the mass meeting on and
they wouldn't take it," said Fish. the
American Legion took 1t up, and 1t Is
going to be one of the biggest events
ever held here. ! expect at least 5,O00
people"
Not Rival to Reception.
Fish said. however, that though Mrs.
Magma turned 1t down." the mass
meeting was in no sense rival to her
reception.
"The date was chosen simply because
the commander OF the American Legion,
who Is speaker, could not come at
any other time" he said.
The occasion on which Mr.. Fish first
spoke on the subject was at Sui
grave Club tea, given by the Princess
Cantacuzene, President Grants grand
daughter, who married noble OF the
old Russian regime.
Her guests were daughters OF the
American Revolution who did not Smy-
pathize with the withdrawal of that
organization this year from the Wom-
ems Patriotic Council OF National De-
Tense.
Prominent among them were Mrs
Lowell Fletcher Hobart and Mrs. Grace
Brosseau, past presidents general of
the D. A. r., in whose regime Mr.. Fish
had spoken from the D. A. r. hall
against Russian recognition.
Supported Fish's Proposal.
All present voted support of Mr.. Fish
in his project to get the hall for a
mass meeting to persuade President
Roosevelt not to listen to pink pro-
fessors' on the subject of Russian rec
ognition.
Fish said today Princess Cantacuzene,
Mrs Brosseau and Mrs. Hobart were
on q committee on distinguished
guests for his meeting.
Mrs Brosseau, attending meeting
against recognition of Russia yesterday,
said. however, that helping along Mr..
Fishs meeting did not mean she was
deserting Mrs. Magna's.
II shall go to both," she said.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
IOWA BEER BILL AWAITS
SIGNATURE OF GOVERNOR
Amendments by State Senate to Be
Returned to House Today
for Concurrence.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DES MONIES. Iowa, April Illegal
beer was on its way back to Iowa today
after an absence of nearly two decades.
By q vote OF 81 to 10, the State Sen
ate added its approval to that of the
House and sped the return Of brew to
the Tall Corn State.
House concurrence in Senate amend
ments, the signing of the bill by Gov.
Clyde L. Herring and publication in
newspapers remained as the only neces-
Sary steps.
A special election for the selection of
delegates to a State convention which
will consider repeal of the eighteenth
amendment, as proposed by Congress.
will be held June 20 The convention
probably will be held between July Is
and 20.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
ROUTS MOB OF FARMERS

LEMARS, Iowa, Aprfl IA Op)-An-
drew McClintock still had in his pos
session today a rent note against Alfred
Molzen, after he had routed crowd Of
80 farmers who sought to force him to
give UP the document.
Advised by Sheriff Rippey to use force
II necessary, McClintock dispersed the
farmers by brandishing a shotgun when
He said he had offered to settle with
Mols4n previously for half the face
vAluSs Of the note.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
FORMER INSULL. LINE
LOSES LOAN PLEA
I. c. C. Disapproves Application
of Chicago, North Shore &
Milwaukee Receivers.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
today denied permission to receivers for
the Chicago. North Shore and Milwau-
kee Railroad Co. to borrow S768,000
from the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration. -.
The road, formerly owned by insult
interests, was placed in receivership
after the insult crash in Chicago.
The receivers sought the money to
pay taxes and special assessments, its
portion of the cost of eliminating four
highway grade crossings in Winconsin
and to pay equipment trust certificates.
real estate mortgages and $4,000 due
the Reconstruction Corporation on a
previous loan.
The commission decided the prospec-
tive earning power of the property and
the security offered as pledge did not
afford reasonable assurance of ability
to repay the loan.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
TWO STATES PREPARE
FOR VOTE ON REPEAL
Minnesota Fixes Election for Sep
tember 12; Missouri Date to
Be Set by Governor.
BY the Associated Press.


ST. PAUL, April l4.-Minnesotans
will vote September IL on whether the
eighteenth amendment to the Federal
Constitution should be repealed. Twen-
ty-one delegates elected that day in
Statewide balloting will meet here Oc-
tober 10 to cast formal vote, under
a legislative measure made law today
with the signature Of Gov. Floyd B.
Olson.
Candidates for delegate will be nom
mated by petition names Of the lead
ing 81 vets and 81 drys to go on the
ballot.
One slate or the other will be elected
In its entirety the act provides, since
votes will be cast for drys or vets as
a group and not for individual dele
gates
Evening star., 1933-04-14
$4,000 for Five Minutes.

So that their banner might never be
lowered. In accordance with their prin-
ciples, a religious sect known as the
jams, paid telephone and street car
officials of Calcutta, India. $2,500 to cut
of the overhead wires during the recent
procession of the faithful. The banner
Is CD feet high and always heads their
professions, and must never be dipped
at any time or any place. The sect
traces It's religion back to 600 B.. G. It
has beautiful temples in out-of-the-w way
mountain n s. sPots 9s2 h. Is sns one ro n
Evening star., 1933-04-14
HITCH.HIKER ADMITS
KILLING OF DRIVER
William j. Moore Confesses Slay-
ing of Harold Francis
O'Connor August 80.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOOD RIVER, Greg, April 14-Wil-
liam j. Moore, 81. admitted on the wit
ness stand in his trial here yesterday
that he shot and killed Harold Francis
O'Connor Of Brooklyn, NJ Y, who had
picked him up on the highway. His de-
tense Is insanity.
Tears streamed down Moore's face as
he answered a question Of his own at
torney as to whether he killed OCon-
nor.
Yes, I guess I did" he said. II
don't know where it was that I killed
him. I do not know how far it was
from where the body was found. I took
the travellers checks and the car.
Moore hitch-hiker, had been given
a ride by O'Connor over the old Oregon
Trail O'Connor was shot to death Au-
gust 80.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
INSANE MAN KILLS
THREE AND SELF
Former Inmate Attacks Wife
and chiIdren-Another
Daughter Dying.
BY the Associated Press.

SOUTH RIVER, N. j., April IA
Joseph Kencek, so, released a few
months ago from the State Hospital
for the Insane, today shot to death his
wife and two of his children and then
took poison, from which he died.
The dead. in addition to the man, are
Mrs.. Nellie Kencek, Ana, 20, and
Frank, 18.
Another daughter, Rose. 16, was shot,
probably fatally. She called the alarm
of the tragedy from an attic window
to passing bakery wagon driver. She
was shot in the back.
Three other children, Helen, 10; John.
10, and Mary, Z, probably were spared
death because they were asleep in a
room on the second floor.
Kencek, since his release from the
State Hospital, had been living with a
friend, John Lasch.
Chief of Police Charles Eberwein, in
charge of the investigation, said Ken
eek apparently entered the house by
breaking a window and attacked most
of the victims as they slept.
Rose, however, appeared to have been
chased to the attic and shot before
her father ran from the house.
Kencek was found writhing in ditch
not far from the house. Hospital at
tendants said he had taken a poison
causing great agony. He died Is min
uteS later.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
PARACHUTE RIGGER HELD
FOR. ExTORTION LETTERS

odell c. Boyles Indicted for
Threatening Abduction of Manu-
facturers Son and Granddaughter.
BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, Ga, April 14.-Extortion
letters received by Joseph r. Cannon.
wealthy North Carolina manufacturer,
demanding sac, 900 and threatening ab-
duction of son and granddaughter of
the manufacturer, formed the basis for
a Federal indictment returned yesterday
against Odell c. Boyles, parachute rig
ger here, charging sending threats
through the mails.
The threats we're directed against
Joseph F. Cannon, jr., student at
Darlington High School in Rome, Ga,
and Ann Cannon Reynolds, 2year-old
daughter of the late Smith Reynolds.
tobacco heir.
Boyles' wife, arrested with him sew
eral months ago, was not mentioned in
the indictment handed down today.
She has been free under small bond.
The parachute rigger had been held
in Jail in default of S25,000 bond since
he was arrested in an AtlTnta suburb
by Federal and city officers who set a
trap for the writer of the extortion
letters.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
BEER BOYCOTT PLANNED

Stores dispensing beer, in the Dts
trict will be boycotted by Baptists. II a
plan adopted by the Baptist Ministers
Conference of Washington and vicinity
this week Is carried out.
At q meeting of the conference 1t
was pointed out more than. 80 churches
with a constituency Of 10000 and 25.-
900 are represented. resolution was
adopted recommending that all Bap-
lists refrain from patronizing any
stores dispensing beer and other alco-
holic liquors as beverage"
Evening star., 1933-04-14
0'NEILL'S PLAY GIVEN

LONDON (N.A.N.A.).-A very inter-
esting production of Eugene O'Neills
"All Gods Chillun Got Wings" has re-
Gently been given at the Little Embassy
Theater at Hampstead, with Paul Robe
son and Flora Robson in, the principal
parts. 1t was particularly interesting
to English audiences to see Mr.. Robeson
in the part he created in America, and
Miss Robson. who is likely to become
very great actress II she goes on as
she has begun, gave an unusually SEN
sitive performance as the neurotic
white girl. The play will probably be
transferred to the West End.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
IDAHO WILL TEST LAW
F0RBIDDING NEAR BEER
State Supreme Court Grants Writ
to Force Ruling on
Dry Statutes.

By the Associated Press.
POCATELLO, Idaho, April 14.-The
Idaho Supreme Court yesterday granted
q writ of habeas corpus, feturnable in
Boise May IL, in a test of the States
prohibition. law, heretofore interpreted
as forbidding the sale of near beer.
The writ was granted on petition of
attorneys for j. Howard Speer of Twin
Falls, arrested in connection with the
sale Of near beer.
Evening star., 1933-04-14
PENNSY TO INACCURATE
STORE-DOORS SERVICE
Zones Within Two Miles Of Near
est New York City Freight
Station to Be Covered.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 14-Store doors
service to shippers in the New YORK
metropolitan district will be inaugu-
rated by the Pennsylvania Railroad on
May !, 1t was announced yesterday.
The service will cover zones within z
miles Of the nearest freight stations
On less-than-carload freight of first
class and lower, the charge will be 10
cents per hundred pounds, with min
imum Of 81 per shipment. On carload
lots the charges will range from cents
hundred pounds on $4,000 pounds
and over to 20 cents hundred on lots
OF 10000 to $4,000 pounds. Special
rates will prevail on certain com.
moditieA
Evening star., 1933-04-14
THEATERS WILL REOPEN
WITHOUT UNION LABOR
Owners Reject Proposal to Hold
Disputed Salaries in Escrow
Pending Agreement.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 14-Owners OF
27 of the Al motion picture theaters
which were closed in Kansas City We'd
nesday because of a wage disagreement
with union operators said they would
open tonight with non-union labor.
The decision followed rejection by the
theater owners of proposal by H. r.
McElroy, city manager, to hold in escrow
the salaries demanded by the operators
in order to permit resumption Of oper-
ations while the negotiations for set
tlement continued.
Two of the theaters to be reopened
are located downtown and the other rs
FIRST run" house.