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The Washington times., 1933-05-29
COOPER FIGHTS
To BALK BANK !
IN MERGER
Insists U. S. Savings Will Pay
More by His Plan Than by
Joining With Hamilton

While Treasury officials and
Wilbur H. Zepp, conServator OF
the United States Savings Bank,
are prepared to sign the final
papers merging the prime" assets
Of the institution with the new
Hamilton National Bank, Col.
Wade H. Cooper, president and
majority stockholder, is waglng q
"last-ditch" battle to reopen his
bank independently.
Colonel Cooper is conferr1ng
with officials of the staff Of the
Comptroller of the Currency seek
ing last-minute approval Of a re-
opening plan which, he claims,
will release IS per cent OF de-
posits Immediately.
Sees DepOsitor Backing
The merger plan, Cooper con-
tends, offers only so per cent i'm
mediate release of deposits frozen
in member banks, all of which
have been conducted by conSerVa-
tors since the banking holiday.
He said today that he had sub
mitted his plan to the Treasury
officials several weeks ago and
that, if Treasury approval were
granted, he would have no par
ticular difficulty in obtaining the
assent of the required percentage
of depositors.
Zepp For Merger
Zepp, vice president and con-
Servator, has agreed to the merger.
As conservator he is a Govern
ment official and has broad pow
ers. But his decision is subject
to approval by the Comptroller.
The campaign to obtain sub
scriptionS to the $4,000 shares Of
stock which are to provide $1,000
900 capital and $250,000 surplus
for the new Hamilton is expected
to be completed this week.
Officials Of the Franklin Ma
tional are confident that the
campaign to reopen individually
will succeed. They report that
" per CSuG VI G11G TSqIurSu 10
per cent of depositors have agreed
to the plan.
Stockholders to Meet
A meeting of the stockholders
of the Federal-American National
Bank and Trust Company has
been called for 8 p. m. Wednes-
day at which officials of the new
Hamilton National will explain
details Of the merger plan and
urge stock subscriptions. The
meeting is to be held at the
Federal-American Bank Building,
Fourteenth and G Streets North
west.
Creditors of the Commercial
National Bank, which was taken
over by receiver February %,
began filing their claims today,
a short line forming at the banks
windows when it opened at 9 a.
m. Sixty days have been allotted
for filing claims.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
COUPLE SAVED
FROM RIVER

The screams Of an 18-yeat-old
girl saved her life and that of her
husband, H. B. Fury Of the 1700
block West Virginia Ave. after
they were pitched into the
Potomac from a canoe last night.
The near tragedy occurred close
to Arlington Memorial Bridge
where the two had padded from
a Georgetown boathouse. They
were thrown into the water when
they attempted to change seats
in midstream.
Seized with cramps, Fury sunk
and reappeared several times be-
fore his wife's cries for help were
heard by j. K. Williams, night
overseer of Memorial Bridge, and
F. A. Striplin, maintenance man.
The two men went to the Eury'S
aid in a motorboat, rescuing Mrs.
Fury Immediately, but not the
husband until Williams dove over
board fully clothed and brought
him to the surface.
Treated at Emergency Hospital
for shock the couple had recovered
today. Williams is suffering a
badly wrenched back. He will be
commended for his bravery, Lieut..
Col. U. S. Grant, director of
Public Buildings and Parks, said
today,
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
FREE SURPLUS,
N 'LEOD AIM

A bill designed to give the Dis
trict Commissioners a free hand
in spending surplus funds accumu-
lated to the credit of the District
in the U. s. Treasury was intro
duced in the House today by Rep
resentative Clarence j. Mcleod
CRD of Michigan.
Such a surplus may be spent
for any projects of a public ma
ture" which the Board of Com.
missioners may, in it's discretion.
deem necessary and advisable"
Taking into account recent
report that the President was
considering a city manager form
of government for the District,
M Leod incorporated para
graph which gives "the successor
or successors of said Board of
Commissioners" the same author
ity to expend surplus funds.
Mcleod estimated that during
the coming fiscal year there will
be at least a $2,000,000 surplus.
Previous estimates have placed
this at above $4,000,000.
Mcleod, in a formal statement,
pointed out that no matter how
great the emergency the Commits
Sioners under present laws can
not expend money for vitally nec-
essary projects such as welfare
relief, street improvements, gram
mar schools and the like without
action of Congress.
He also called attention to the
fact that only $1,000 is appropri-
ated for any sudden emergency.
such as a calamity which might
arise while Congress is not in ses-
sion.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
BUDGET POWER
DUE DOUGLAS

President Roosevelt will soon
issue an executive order largely
increasing the powers of Budget
Director Lewis w. Douglas, in or
der to maintain a balanced
budget throughout the Roosevelt
term in office, it was learned
today.
Regular reports will be required
from department heads as to ex
penditures under his supervision,
and Douglas must approve names
of new employees before they are
added to the rolls. Similar sys-
TENS, it is said, are in effect in a
number of large corporations, as
a means of keeping down costs
and eliminating waste.
The aim primarily is to prevent
department heads from spending
more than they are allotted.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
Stolen "Ouanga" Sought to
Stop Bad Luck

There is a wanga-wanga, be-
longing to Capt. John Craige of
the U. S. Marines, at large and
the captain wants it back.
Since the disappearance of his
Wanga, or ouanga, as it is some
times pronounced, Captain Craige
has suffered series of misfor-
tunes. Even as the witch doctor
in Haiti who made it for him
foretold.
Three times has Captain
Craige's house in Virginia High
lands been entered. Twice ran
sacked. His wife believes the
housebreakers, who have taken
nothing, are in search of some
other form Of voodoo magic. The
captain has told the police and
loaded his As.
The ouanga was stolen early
in May from the Craiges' home
in Philadelphia. At the time the
captain put a notice in the news
papers warning the thieves of the
deadly properties of the magic
which, if stolen, brings disaster
and eventually death to the thief.
He received, after the news
paper notice, a number of anony-
nous letters. One, on stationery
of the Waldorf-Astoria, New
York, said:
"My capitaine:
"There is no need you should
look for your Ouanga. I have
mt it where it shall not be
found. In your book you have
insuIt Haiti. So 1 broke into
womr house patriOtically at
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
ROBBER F[EE5
WITH S622

A colored holdup man who
broke in and, hiding in a rear
room, waited until an employe
appeared, early today held up
the Sanitary Grocery Store in
the 5000 block Fourth st. N. w.,
and got the weekend receipts of
1922.
When Hamil L. Compton, the
manager, opened the store the
robber emerged from his hiding
place and covered him with a pis-
tol. The robzber was 6 feet tall
and had a scar on the right side
of his face, Compton said. He
wore working clothes.
A purSe-snatcher drew a knife
last night when a citizen pursued
him after he had robbed Miss
Chloe Dixon, HOO block Six
teenth st. N W., near her home.
The robber, who was leading a
large dog, escaped with his
loot, Sc.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
SWANSON
To SPEAK At
ARLINGTON
President, Wife to Attend May
Rite; Pershing Will Talk
Over Radio at 4 P. NJ.

The President and Mrs. Roose-
welt will attend the annual Me
mortal Day exercises at the Ar
lington amphitheater tomorrow.
Secretary of War George H.
Dern and Secretary of the Navy
Claude A. Swanson will make the
chief addresses. Services will be
held under auspices of the Grand
Army of the Republic Memorial
Day Corporation. James G.
Yaden, president Of the organiza-
ton, will preside.
For Akron Dead
In addition to the Chief Execu-
tive, the list of distinguished
guests will include Gen. John j.
PerShing, Secretary Of the Treas
ury Woodin and Secretary of Agri-
culture Wallace.
At the request of the President
the exercise will include special
tribute to the { ad in the Akron
disaster. Relati of the officers
and men lost with the ship will
attend.
The Arlington services are
scheduled for IL o'clock noon,
and will be preceded by the Gus
tomary veterans parade which
starts at $50 a. m. at Thirteenth
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
Northwest.
Other Services
Wreaths will be placed on the
Continued on Page II, Col. p
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
UPHOLDS
W|NBLEY CASE

The second-degree murder con-
viction of Harry c. Wimbley, who
was found guilty drowning his
wife and baby in 1881, was up
held today by a decision of the
District Court of Appeals.
Counsel for Wimbley sought a
reversal on the ground that the
court had refused to admit evi-
dence that Wimbley shortly be-
fore the drowning had taken out
an accident policy on his wife,
but then allowed representatives
of the insurance company to
testify concerning the transac-
tion.
The Governments case was ar
gued by U. S. Attorney Leo A..
Rover and his assistants, Will
liam H. Collins and John j.
Sirica.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
Wentworth Singers
Plan Outdoor Opera

The wentworth Opera Group
will produce "The Pirates of Pen
zance" as the first of the sum-
mer festivals in the June pro-
grams on the Monument grounds
under direction of the Commu-
nifty Center Department and the
Office of Public Buildings and
Parks. The Army, Navy and
Marine bands will participate in
the programs, which will begin
June Z and 8 with the pirates"
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
Pickett Calls Dry
Control Big Issue

The American people must
choose between prohibition and
control of the State by the liquor
trade, DeetS Pickett research sec
retary of the Methodist-EpiScopal
Board of Temperance, Prohibition
and Public Morals, said last night
in a prepared statement.
According to Pickett, "the drink
trade never respected any law
made for it's regulation before
prohibition"
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
APPEALS COURT
BLAMES ALL
PLAINTIFFS
Rules Them Negligent in Not
Keeping Informed of
Any Possible Fraud

Holders of 100000 of promis-
sorry notes purchased from
Swartzell, Rheem g. Hensey Com
pany, in an intricate financial
transaction involving the con-
Struction Of the Shoreham
Building, may as we'll kiss their
money good-by as the result Of
a decision handed down today
by the District Court of Ap-
pealS.
The decision was rendered in
the case of Martha Virginia
Rhoderick, executrix for the
estate of Elbridge P. Rhoderick,
and others, against Swartzell and
Rheem as trustees, the Shoreham
Investment Company, and others,
including former Secretary Of
War Patrick j. Hurley, involved
in the transaction.
Secured by Trust
In 1923 the plaintiffs purchased
from the bankrupt investment
house $1O,50O worth of promis-
sorry notes made by Harry Ward
man and Thomas P. Bones in
connection with the construction
of the Shoreham Building. The
notes were part of a total of
2,790 notes aggregating So, ,25O,000,
which were secured, by a first
trust on the ShorehaIn Building.
The case then went through an
involved financial transaction,
the outcome of which brought
about the retirement of the first
trust on July II, 1880 and trans
fer of ownership of the Shoreham
Building to former Secretary
Hurley and Joseph I. Cromwell.
The trust was retired through a
refinancing of the building and
all but 100000 of the note
holders were paid off before re.
lease of the trust.
Sued for Release
The plaintiffs sued to have the
trust release conceled. The trial
court decided the indebtness was
paid fully in accordance with its
terms.
Sustaining this decision, the
Court of Appeals decided the
plaintiffs were negligent in not
acquainting themselves with the
transactions involved, had sought
relief too late, and if any fraud
had been committed, all parties
were innocent but the plaintiffs
had permitted the fraud and
should stand the loss.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29

wells book, "Gods Llttle Acres,
am pleased by the result.
It weakens Mr.. Sumner and his
Society for the Suppression of Vice,
because it is one of many unfavor-
able decisions, and people who sup
port Mr.. Summers activities ought,
by this time, to understand that he
is more successful destroying filthy
post cards than attacking works of
art.
The very name of this society
makes his activities against books of
serious literature offensive; vice and
realistic novels have little in COM
mon. Mr.. Sumner holds that "crim-
inal prosecutions" such as he begins,
must not be determined by inter-
ested parties having access to the
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
D. C.. Group Hears
PrO-RlISSian Plea

American workers should lead
in demanding recognition of
Soviet Russia, "the vanguard of
social progress and world peace" :"
j. B. Mathews, executive secre-
tary of the Fellowship of Recon
ciliation, said yesterday at a
of the Washington
Friends of Soviet Russia. The
meeting was held at the Airing
ton Hotel.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
ELks Boys Band
To Aid Memorial

Elks Boys Band will march
with Ladies' Auxiliary, Dewey
Camp, Spanish War Veterans, at
9 a. M, tomorrow, and at 1890
will play at exercises at the mast
of the battleship Maine in Airing.
ton Cemetery. The band also will
give a concert at German Orphan
Asylum, at 2 D., m.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29

night and took away your good
luck. Now you will have bad
misfortune for seven years and
will die. Forever Haiti"
The book referred to in the let
ter is Captain Craige's recently
published "Black Bagdad," in
which he discusses voodoo rites
in the Black Republic. He was
for many years loaned by the
United States to the Haitian gov
ernment and served as an officer
of troops in the Haitian army.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
Lvon Parkers Moved
To Tears By Bomb
From Motor Car

Tosed from a speeding auto
mobile, a tear gas bomb early
today caused several residents
of Lyon Park, Va, to foresake
their homes until the fumes
had been dispelled.
Police are seeking the opera
tors of the car.
Edward j. Cost, in front of
whose store the bomb was
thrown, turned it over to
County Policemen Edward Dun
can and William Brown for ex-
animation. It bore markings:
LOT No. 8,OOO-1."
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
BRIDGE PARTY

Under the auspices Of the
Sanctuary Club of st. Michael'S
Church, Silver Spring, a lunch
con and bridge party will be held
Saturday on the lawn of the home
of j. H. CiSSel, Sligo Avenue.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
True tOTyPe
Even Good Sense Fails to Clear Censorship
By GILBERT SELDES-

THE decision of Magistrate Greenspan in the case Of
i John Sumner against the common sense of Ameri-
straight rebuke to Mr.. Sumner; as one of
those honored by being allowed to support Erskne Cad
The Washington times., 1933-05-29

newspapers and interest in public wefare he for
gets the fact that he is interested party with
his interest in public welfare greater than Only
different.
The Washington times., 1933-05-29
AWeak Defender

regret that Mr. Sumner is such a muddled pleader
of his cause, since he makes life difficult for those who
see clearly that the argument against censorship is also
muddled one We can, it appears, defeat Mr.. Sumner
Tour or five times year, but the threat of censorship
will remain until the exact limits and functions of
sorship established. If Mr. Sumner chose his enemies
we'll and prepared his powerfully, might settle
the question once for all.
It is not settled yet Mr. Sumner quoted decision
IN another case which is important: "These matters
must be Judged by normal people and not by the alb;
people were permitted to regulate such matters" And
then Mr. Sumner skifuly suggests that you put the
word "1terat" in that sentence wherever the word
abnormal" occurs, you have "an exact explanation of
the letters reviews and other favorable comment pre-
sented in behalf of this book and it's author
Quite Normal
That is the weakness of Mr.. Sumner that to him
writers OF books (and fear readers of books beyond
the thlrd grade) are in some way abnormal. They
aren't even exceptional Lots of entirely normal and
decent people can read books and like them; and even
writers are, in many ways, like human beings. What
mr.. sumner ought to mean, even If he doesn't is that
questions of this sort must be decided by intelligent
R"nnd men and d. not by the ignorant or the blood
distinction between work which is seriously written
and touches the dirt which, unfortunately, abounds
in human life, and those books written to convey the
sense of dirt-which call pornographic.
Light in Line
The first industry to come under the wire and de-
clare itself ready go into partnership with the Gov
ernment is electrical manufacturing, and what i'm
presses most that national association in pedgng
ITSELF says that it aware of wholy and utterly
lutonary" character of the step taken. The reason
this is impressive is that it against the common
habit of denying the simplest facts if the facts happen
to be dsagreeable. The national industrial recovery
act is the third American revolution and it may come
to be our substitute for the Russian kind saving of
time, of which we Americans very fond.
revolution which has already taken place occurred
in the minds of business during the past three years.
(That is where revolutions really occur and violence
is in o+o\
For instance the counsel for the association said that
the same action had been proposed four years ago "a
storm of opposition would have talked down the bill in
a short time" three-year "storm over America has
cleared the economic atmosphere
Evening star., 1933-06-11
CIVIL SERVICE PROBE
TO BE CARRIED OUT
Adjournment Won't Affect Plans
for Investigating Alleged
Quota Law Violations.

Adjournment of Congress viii not in
terfere with the plans of the House Civil
Service Committee to make an exhaus-
tive investigation of the Civil Service
Commission, it was announced last
night by Chairman Jeffers.
The inquiry was ordered by the
House several weeks ago to determine
the extent of evasion of the quota law
governing appointments in the Federal
departments. Chairman Jeffers said he
would call meeting of his committee
either tomorrow or Tuesday to map out
plans for the investigation He indi-
Gated the work would be delegated to
subcommittee with instructions to go
thoroughly into alleged quota law viola
t1ons and any related questions that
might arise during the investigation.
The Investigating Committee. it was
indicated, may meet sporadically
throughout the Summer at the con-
venience of its members. Chairman JEFF
fers said. however, the report of the in
vestigation would not be ready for sub
mission to the House until the regular
session next January.
Members of the Civil Service Com
mission will be among the first wit
nesses called before the committee.
Representative Hastings, Democrat, of
Oklahoma, who introduced the resolu-
tion calling for the inquiry, also Is to
be asked to testify.
Evening star., 1933-06-11
PENNSYLVANIA AIRLINES
SCHEDULES SPEEDED UP
Flying Time Between Washington
and Chicago Cut to Five Hours
and As Minutes.

Passenger air mail and express sched-
ules of Pennsylvania Airlines between
Washington Pittsburgh and Cleveland
are to be changed today to conform to
the new high-speed transcontinental
schedules made possible by delivery of
fast, new multi-motored transport
planes.
Under the new schedule travel time
between the National Capital and Cali
fornia is reduced to 81 hours as against
the previous 29-hour schedule. Flying
time from Washington to Chicago is
reduced from hours and As minutes to
hours and As minutes.
Under the new schedule, passenger,
mail and express planes will leave
Washington-H Hoover Airport for the
West at 9:l0 and 1880 am. and $40
pm. And airmail and expresses plane
will leave the airport at 10 pm.
Passengers leaving Washington on the
first plane in the morning will arrive
in Chicago in the early afternoon and
on the Pacific Coast in time for break
fast the next morning.
Evening star., 1933-06-11
ID. c. WILL SHARE
| S400,0D0,OIlD FUND
FOR HIGHWAYS
Item in Recovery Bill Has Ap-
provaI of House, Senate
Conferees.
AGREEMENT LACKS
ONLY SENATE'S O. K.
Amendment for $5,00O,000 Con-
gressional Library Annex Au-
thorization Stands.

The District of Columbia will share
with the States in the distribution of
the s400,000000 Federal highway pro-
gram in the industry recovery bill If
it becomes law in the form in which
it was agreed to by the conferees last
night
The House adopted the conference
report late last night, with the District
provision in the highway section, and
all that remains to complete congress
sional action is for the Senate to con-
cur in the report. Senate concurrence
was delayed by last nights recess.
New Formula Adopted.
The conferees adopted a new COM
promise formula for distributing the
the highway funds, which would be
somewhat more advantageous to dense
ly populated sections of the country
than the original Senate provision, al
though not as much so as the orig
inal House bill.
The House bill would have allotted
half of the fund on the basis of popu-
lation, fourth according to area and
one-fourth according to mileage of rural
post office routes. The Senate bill
would have followed the Federal high
way law Of 1921. namely, one-third on
population, one-third on area and one
third on mileage Of rural mail routes.
The bill in its final form allocates
seven -eighths of the fund in accordance
with the three elements in the highway
act of 1921 and one-eighth on the basis
of population.
1t Is not known exactly how much
this method Of distribution would mean
in the District of Columbia, but the
District would be assured of the mini
mum allotment of $4,000 900 under
the clause in the highway act of 1921
which provides that no State shall re-
ceive less than one-half of per cent
of the funds to be allocated.
The industrial recovery bill in its
final form also includes the District in
the section providing for grants and
loans for general public works.
Congress Library Annex.
The House conferees also accepted,
and the House agreed, to the Senate
amendment authorizing the construc-
ton of the Library of Congress annex,
for which approximately $4,000, 900
could be advanced under the public
works program.
The site for this building, extending
from Second to Third streets and from
the south side of the Folger Building to
pennsylvania avenue southeast, mas al
ready been acquired
The amendment to the bill giving the
District of Columbia the same treat
ment as the States under the highway
section was supported in the Finance
Committee and in conference by SEN
ator King Of Utah, chairman of the
District Committee, who was also one
of the conferees yesterday. 1t was also
Endorsed by Senator Capper, Repub-
lican, of Kansas.
The justice of placing the District on
a parity with the States in the high
way section was brought to the a.ten-
ton of Congress by the Board of Trade,
through Robert j. Cottrell, its executive
secretary, and Dr. Llewellyn Jordan,
chairman Of the Streets and Avenues
Committee. District Auditor D. j.
Donovan also filed brief in support of
the amendment.
Evening star., 1933-06-11
PHILADELPHIA HOLDS
2.MEN WANTED HERE
Mechanics Bank Hold-up Suspects
Arraigned in $4,000 Rob-
berry There.

Abraham Raifer, "a, and Max Zove,
21, wanted here for participation in the
last Washington Mechanics Savings
Bank hold-up, were held for court with
out bail yesterday when they and two
others were arraigned in Philadelphia
on charges of having staged a 10000
robbery there last December. The
others are Benjamin Berliner, %, who
also is waiting trial on murder charge,
and Herbert Sarnowsky, 25.
Raifer and Zove have been sought by
Washington police since shortly after
the hold-up Of the Washington Me-
chanics' branch at Eighth and @ streets
southeast several months ago.
Following their arrest in Philadelphia
recently, Detective Sergts. Floyd Trus-
colt and Frank Bass were sent there
for them, but the United States COM
missioner ruled they could not be
brought here until July 5. They were
released on $4,000 bond each, but were
rearrested soon afterward in connection
with the hold-up of West Philadelphia
branch of the Pennsylvania Co. for
Insurance on Lives and Granting
Annuities.