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The Washington times., 1933-08-02
SLASHED FUNDS
ARE RESTORED
To BUREAUS
Economy Program Is Being
SCrapped as Departments
Dip Into Works Budget
BY International News Service

Revision of the drastic econ
omy policy inaugurated by the
Administration was under way
today IS funds we're provided to
bolster departments slashed by
Congress in annual appropriation
bills.
The huge $3.3OO.OOO,OOo Public
Works fund will be utilized to
supply funds necessary to main
tain many departmental ac-
tivities. Already $4,000. 900 has
been allotted to departments from
the fund, a considerable part of
it for activities scuttled by Con-
greSS.
Job Creation Put First.
While the effect of the policy
is to undo Auch of the laborious
and controversial work of Con-
gress and Director of the Bud
get Lewis Douglas, it is de-
Tended on the ground that crea-
ton of jobs is the keystone of
the Administration.
Latest allotments from the
public works fund include 81
100000 to carry on the regular
work of the Geological Survey.
which was slashed heavily. The
money will enable the department
to- keep many geologists who
were threatened with loss of
jobs. A similar allotment of 81,
100000 was made for the Coast
and Geodetic Survey.
The Agriculture Department
has received $22,893,519 from the
public works fund. Among the
activities it will finance are con-
troll of the gypsy moth and white
pine blister rust.
The Commerce Department re-
ceived $8,676,551, for such actlvi-
ties as repairs to fish hatcheries,
improvement of the lighthouse
service and airways.
$55,542,219 for Interior
The Interior Department re-
ceived S55,542,219, most of which
went to Boulder Dam. Several
million, however. was given the
reclamation service after Congress
denied funds on the ground that
farmers are producing too much
anyway.
Postponement Of the effective
date of several mergers decreed by
President Roosevelt to make for
economy and efficiency is ex-
pected to result in the mainte-
nance of jobs for many Govern
ment workers.
Having set up State organiza-
tions and promulgated rules and
regulations, the public works ad
ministration expected to be ready
to approve many State, county,
and municipal work-producing
projects within 80 days.
The public works administra.
ton adopted a policy of giving
Federal works right-of-way be,
cause they can be started
promptly.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
ALLEN v D NJ AN
GOESFREE

. Attractive 29-year-old Frances
Catherine Allen was given her
freedom today by the District
Grand Jury, which refused to in
dict her for the fatal shooting of
her lover, Arthur Fletcher, "a,
who, she discovered, had colored
blood.
The shooting ended the career
of a man pictured to police as
a modern Casanova. Since t. IN e
shooting several weeks ago half
dozen or more white women WIS.,
tied the Detective Bureau and re-
counted their love affairs in the
past with Fletcher, each firmly
believing he was a white man.
Women Conceal Names
The women declined to reveal
their names.
Miss Aliens affair with Fletcher,
chauffeur for a wealthy banker,
had been going on more than a
year. She discovered he was of
negro blood shortly before the
shooting, when she called at a po-
lice station to post collateral for
him follwoing his arrest on traf-
fic charge.
Mother Told of Trouble
Heartbroken over her discovery,
Miss Allen wrote letter to her
mother telling the story of her
shattered love and declaring if
anything happened to her, the
reason was apparent.
On the night of the shooting,
Miss Allen got in an automobile
with Fletcher in front of her
apartment, 1900 block Twelfth
st. N. w. She told authorities
she was bent on suicide and was
carrying a revolver with her.
Fletcher found out she had a
gun and in a struggle to wrest
the weapon from her he was
shot.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Public to See Famous Frick
Art Collection At Last

NEW YORK, Aug. 2 QN.S0.
Workmen were completing the
demolishment of buildings today
behind the home of the late
Henry Clay Frick on Fifth Avenue
and making ready for the con-
struction of an addition which
will throw open to the public
the greatest private collection Of
art ever assembled in this coun-
try.
In the days before the war
Frick, steel and coke baron of
Pittsburgh, actually spent more
than $2O,O0O,OOO for pictures.
Frick died in 1919. His widow
died two years ago. and now the
trustees of his estate are carry
ing out the wish expressed in
his will that the great house be-
come a public museum.
When visitors are admitted
they viii see pictures for which
amazing prices were paid, pic
lures whose Importation to
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
brain TRUST g
HEAD CONFERS
W|THCH|EF
Both Reported to Feel Present
Police Facilities Are Unable
To Control Situation

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 2 Il.
N.SO.-President Roosevelt has
directed Assistant Secretary Of
State Moley to undertake a study
of law-State Federal and foreign
preparing to a drive to eradi-
cate kidnapping and gangSter-rack-
eteering in this country.
This action came after a lengthy
conference with the State Depart
ment assistant chief and expert
economist, followed by long-diS-
tance conversation with Attorney
General Cummings. The latter
requested the study. The PreSi-
dent indicated, after preliminary
survey of existing laws which re-
Vealed dozens Of loopholes through
which the criminal can often es-
cape prosecution.
Keeps State Dept. Post
Moley is expected to take sew
eral weeks for the job. After COM
pletion of this task Mr.. Roose-
welt announced, the economist will
resume his duties as Assistant Sec
retary of State. This post will not
be technically relinquished by
Moley during his crime study.
But he will devote his time ard
energies entirely to the legal sur
. vey for the coming few weeks.
The President indicated work
preparatory to a great campaign
to drive the criminal out of this
country and not yet progressed
yet to the stage of setting up any
special organization devoted en-
tirely to this task. On the other
hand, he would not specifically
deny that some such organization
was not contemplated in the
future.
The idea behind the Moley sur
vey, it was made clear. is to
evolve methods to close up the
loopholes in the law through
which the criminal element now
often is able to escape prosecu-
ton.
The President wants all that
changed. and hopes to build up
a system which not only brings
the criminal to the bar but in
gures speedy justice.
Mr.. Roosevelt feels that Moley's
study is necessary before any real
progress can be made. He is
deeply concerned over the recent
wave of gangsters outrages and
kidnapping. Both are said to feel
present police facilities are un-
able to cope with the situation.
The President is still taking
things easy here, but is in for
considerable work within the next
48 hours. Secretary of State Hull
was expected within the next "a
hours. Whether his report to the
President on the World Economic
Conference in London, from which
he has just returned, would pro-
duce anything concrete for pub
lication, however, was a matter
of doubt.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
D 'CONNEL CASE
GO-BETWEEN
SOUGHT
Albany Police Want to Quiz
John Obey, Beer Runner
Pal of StreWI

ALBANY, Aug. 2 G.N.S) Chief
of Police David Smurl issued an
order this afternoon to his men to
bring in John Obey, beer running
pal of Nanny Strewl. for question
ing in connection with the kidnap-
ing and ransoming of John j.
O'Connell. r., nephew of the po-
litically powerful Dan and Ed
O'Connell, of Albany.
Strewl, alias Stroll, an ex-con-
vict, acted as "go-between" in the
ransom negotiations which re-
suited in the recovery of young
O'Connell. Strewl paid over $40.-
900 to the kidnapers in New York
city last Saturday night.
The police today took Strewl to
New York city to go over the scene
of the crime and to check various
details Of his story.
Served Term Together
Obey was reported to have made
several trips to New York city at
a time when final negotiations
with the kidnapers were in prog
reSs.
strewl and Obey once served a
term together in Atalanta penl-
tentiary for the attempted robbery
of liquor from railroad car in
Albany.
Oley was last heard of in Sara
topa Springs, a resort 80 miles
north Of here.
Double Crossed"
Chances of capturing the kid
napers were frightened when it
was disclosed that the serial num-
bers of the new bills turned over
to the mob in New York city were
known to the authorities.
The kidnapers were double
crossed" after they insisted that
the $4,000 in bills first turned
over to them be changed to new
bills of small denomination.
When the new bills were handed
out by a Manhattan bank, they
were marked, too, by the record
ing of their serial numbers.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Mrs. Costello Takes Stand
Denies Illicit Love Affair

did Bill think a great deal
Of YOU, Jessie?"
"Yes."
Jessie cried before answering
Did you think q great deal
Of him."
eyes"
"BilI never did anything in
our married life of 10 years to
cause me a tear"
Jessie tn hen n told Of her first
meeting with Edward j. McMa-
hon, the so-called kiss and tell''
cx-policeman. who had testified
that he first met her while on
traffic duty and that their meet
ing resulted in an illicit love af-
fair.
"The first time saw him was
four years ago when he called
at my home selling butter and
eggs"
Last November IS, city election
night in Peabody, she talked with
Mcmahon while he was on duty.
Four other women were in her
car, she said.
Tells Of Meetings
McMahon knew her husband,
Jessie averred, because t h e fire
house was on the bluecoat's beat.
A friendship existed between Nc
Mahon and Costello b efore she
talked with Mcmahon on election
night, it was brought out.
"He went to my Bill and asked
him to speak word for him in
the police department. Bill acted
out of sympathy for him."
She met Mcmahon and said
"hello" in a restaurant in Peabody
after election night, she said. Her
car was in the victory parade on
election night for Mayor j. Leo
Sullivan, and she had stopped in
the parade near where Mcmahon
was doing duty. Mcmahon spoke
up and wanted to get in the car,
Jessie said.
Resuming her story after a
conference at the bench, Mrs.
Costello testified that Mcmahon
sometimes came into her home
and spoke to her when he called
for the car.
Last January IL Mcmahon
went to live at the Costello
home. His wife was confined
in Salem Hospital.
"Q.-HOw did he happen to
come there?" q.
Any bill asked him to-"
Cared for Children
AS a result of talk with her
husband, it was declared that
Jessie should care for McMa-
hons elder child while Mrs.
Mcmahon was in the hospital,
she testified. On January %
McMahon himself became i'll and
went to the Thomas Hospital in
Peabody.
Mrs. Mcmahon stayed at the
Costello house for a week when
she came out of the hospital,
and Jessie cared for the Nc
Mahon children because the
mother was i'll. No money was
paid by thN McMahonS.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02

America caused European parlia-
ments to pass laws against works
of art leaving their countries.
First they will see the set of
ID panels painted by Fragonard
for Madame Du Barry for which
Frick paid the late j. P. Morgan
one and one quarter million dol
lars, the highest price ever paid
for work of art.
They will also see the paint
ings by James MacNeil Whistler,
which once hung in Canfields
gambling house behind Delmon-
ico's.
They will see the picture of
st. Francis by Bellini. Frick
paid $250.0OO for it.
And, just to start the cata-
logue of other pictures, there is
the Philip w." by Velasquez,
the self portrait by Rembrandt.
and portraits Of young women by
Van Dyck and Gainsborough. For
each Of these four pictures Frick
paid 100000.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
P POL|CE WARN
D, {, NUD|STS
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nudists as faddists and declared
that the fad would soon pass.
One eminent psychologist said:
"The human body certainly
cannot be termed beautiful in
the majority of instances.
Therefore people generally will
not exhibit bodies which are
not attractive. Those people
who are included in the mem-
bership of nudist cults are fad
dists and their fad, like all
others, will pass"
Clergymen said that nudism
did not constitute a problem
as they believed it impossible for
American people generally to &C
cept the dictates Of it's advocates.
The Rev. Charles S. Longacre,
Seventh Day Adventist leader,
declared:
81 certainly would not advO-
cate nudism.
"Over in Africa savages go
nude and don't seem to care,
but it would not work in society.
"Over in Africa nudism ap-
parently does not affect morals
but Christians have certain
conventions. Violation of these
conventions would be derimen.
tai to Christian morals.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
MOLEY CHOSEN TO HEAD PRESIDENTS DRIVE AGAINST CRIME
Lion and Girl
In Car Crash,
hjure 3

CHICAGO, Aug. 2 Q.N,So.
Three spectators we're injured
and Miss Marjorie Kemp, 26,
was suffering from shock today
after the automobile she was
plotting with a lion as her
passenger crashed during a per-
formance in the motordrome
at the Worlds Fair
Losing a wheel while circling
the walls at 70 miles an hour
last night, the car hurtled to
the motordrome rim, hit three
spectators, and then crashed
to the pit bottom.
The lion, although uninjured,
became panic-stricken, but was
quieted by Miss Kemp. T n e
girl was shaken up but was
otherwise uninjured.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Nudity Banned
At Big Fairs
Hot Spots

CHICAGO, Aug. 2 G.N.SD.-
Bits of flimsy crepe today yelled
the unblushing nudity of comely
dancers at the worlds fair in
compliance with the reform
wave demanded by Mayor Ed
ward Kelly.
Threats Of immediate action
against proprietors of the So
called nude shows in various
concessions followed a visit of
inspection by the mayor.
Performances that were es-
pecially Objectionable. said the
mayor, were the Rhumba and
nude show in the Manhattan
Gardens, the fan dances in the
streets of Paris, and Lady
Godiva On a Camel"
Three of the "Livelier" shows
in the Oriental village we're
closed last night by detectives.
One of these was the "Theater
Comique," which featured men
imperSonating women.
Sally Rand, fan dancer at the
Streets of Paris, reluctantly
adopted a mite of gauze as her
contribution to the reform
movement.
Comparatively heavy drapes
cloaked the nude woman in
Nudity On the Half Shell" in
Paris, while Hot-Cha-San did
her dance in the concession Old
Mexico with a coat of gilt cov-
ering her skin.
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kers, N. Y, and in 1917 came
to Peabody.
Met Him in 1919
She told Of going to work in 6
Peabody bakery after leaving
grammar school - that was ir
1917.
In 1918, she said, she went tt
work in Peabody leather factory
office, operating an adding ma
chine.
A year later she found employ
ment as a clerk in a Peabody cor
set shop.
"When did you meet your
husband?"
Sometime in 1919"
"Where?"
"While 1 was selling pOppies
for the Legion. / went into the
fire station. 1 was introduced
to him."
Their courtship began in 1920
'Bill was my first steady" she
said. They were married or
January 20, 1923.
Costello was Of the Catholic
faith and she of the Protestant
she continued. William j. Cos
tello was a private in the fire
company then and % years old
Earned $35 A Week
Mrs. Costello told of their four
children.
Jessie Burst into tears as she
told of the death of William, jr.,
on February 3, 1880. The child
was their eldest.
Costello was earning $35 q
week and received a small
monthly sum from the Govern
ment. He was a World War
veteran.
After their oldest child died
Costello changed. declared Jessie
"BiIl Costello was never a
fellow who talked or laughed
much, but after that he stopped
altogether"
The Costellos were married in
Bills church.
Jessie told of her husbands long
visits to the church to pray.
She cared for her husbands
father, John j. Costello, when he
was i'll and when he met with two
accidents.
John, jr., her brother-in-law,
brought the 78-year-old man to
her home.
In November, 1925, her husband
was hurt when the fire truck
skidded into a tree. He was
treated for leg injuries, but he
never took any time off duty"
At the mention Of her mothers
death in 1928, Jessie burst into
tears again.
COMPLAINED A LOT
"BilI complained continually
Of his stomach. From the time
of my mothers death he COM
planned. He had been off and
on taking some kind Of a tonic"
Her husband gave her SIS q
week and out Of that IT was ex-
pected to buy the food" Jessie
"eAAS NA% ..I ~--4,. G'-~. sar 4A~na -
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
BIC COMPANIES
TARDY ON CODE
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of assigning hearings, that no
such date has been set and that
it will be set when he announces
it.
Coal operators have been plead
ing to have the hearing date set,
or if it has been set, to step it
up so as to control the situation
in the strike areas.
Even in the textile industry, al
ready under a binding cotN which
is law by Presidential decree, John
son revealed that he has received
numerous complaints of viola
tions.
These include violations of the
stretch-out agreement, infringe
ments of the status Of skilled
workers, who, it is alleged, are
classed as learners" arbitrarily,
in order that they need not be
paid the minimum wages speci-
fled in the code.
Committee to Report.
t. = committee investigating
the stretch-out practice, by
which operators in cotton mills
are assigned extra looms to watch,
will report shortly. Complaints
are being referred to the Plan
ming and Control Committee of
the Textile Industry, on which
the Government is represented.
Johnson said:
"If / find any authenticated
complaints, 1 will take prompt
action. 1 will do this to the
extent Of my authority. First
we ca withdraw the code from
those infringing it. After
that, there is a succession of
things we can do"
He smiled grimly as he de-
livered this last observation.
He expects to have the oil
code before him tonight to pre-
pare it for transmission to the
President.
Sponsors Of the steel code will
be summoned to final confer
ences on this instrument within
five days, a shortening of the
usual interval between hearings
and final adoption.
The Planning and Control
Committee on which the Govern
ment is represented will remain
in the code. johnson emphasized
he would not approve any code
without such a body provided.
Only this way is it possible to
control production and prices,
he said
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
CAVALRY JOINS
ROBBER HUNT

TOPEKA, Kan, Aug. 2 GN.S).
Orders for the mobilization of
Troop B, 114th Cavalry, of the
Kansas State militia. to aid in the
pursuit of five robbers who looted
a bank at Weir, Kan, this morn
ing after terrorizing the town for
four hours and locking up a score
of citizens, we're issued today by
Brig. Gen. Milton r. Mclean.
The robbers were reported to be
surrounded by a posse near Cof-
feyville.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Fog OUer Atlantic
AqQin DeIQys BGLbO

SHOAL HARBOR, Newfound-
land, Aug. 2 G.N.SO Last
minute reports of fog over the
Atlantic Ocean today forced the
italian air armada led by Gen.
Italo Balbo to postpone again
it's nonstop transatlantic hop to
Valentia, Ireland. Decision by
General Balbo to call the flight
off until conditions improved
came after all preparations for
setting off on the next stage Of
the flight back to Italy had been
completed.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Lacaud, Mexican
Banker, Dead at 80

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 2 G.N.SO.
Mexican financial circles mourned
today for Raoul Amilien Lacaud,
one of the best-known bankers in
the country, who died at the age
of 80. A native Of France, he
founded the financial newspaper
Boletin Financiero Y Minero De
Mexico and also the Journal
Francois Du Mexique. His widow,
the former Louise Rood, is an
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Peggy Joyce Suffers
TOnSiLitiS Attack

CHICAGO, Aug. 2 0.N.SO.-
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, the much
stage and screen actress,
was taken to Michael Reese Hos
pital today suffering from a Sc
we're attack of tonsilitis. Miss
Joyce became i'll after her ap-
pearance at a theater last night.
The Washington times., 1933-08-02

and fifty million dollars worth
of bonds, and before it had
reached the ham and eggs the
bonds were all sold.
That means sold and paid for
and salted away-not part paid
for and the rest on margins
until you sold 'em over the
ticker to someone else.
If industry could interest
some permanent buyers like
Roosevelt can in his business,
then the business leaders could
truly call themselves indus
trialists.
As it is now, they are just
for Wall Street to shoot craps
ing a pair to keep.
Osa Sy McNsuRA. ayna,oaAsa
The Washington times., 1933-08-02

Uice By AdeLG Rogers st. Johns,
the famous noDeliSt and motion
picture tDriter, author of "A Free
Soul" "The Single Standard"
and what Price Hollywood.
BY ADELA ROGERS ST. JOHNS
Copyright, 1898, by International
News Service.)
COURTHOUSE, SALEM. Mass,
Aug. 2 0NS0.-JeSsie Costello
took the stand today and swore
upon the soul Of her little dead
baby that she did not murder
that child's father.
You won't find those words in
the transcript of the murder trial
in which the beautiful young
widow stands accused Of giving
the borgia cup to the man she
still calls my Bill"
But that's what it meant
that's what it really was.
She Remembers Baby
For just a moment, moment
that took Jessie Costello by the
throat and held her voiceless, that
twisted her face into a flushed
agony. the ghost of that little boy
walked softly into the courtroom
and his mother remembered
you could see that she remem-
bered.
For Just that moment she for
got that she was on trial for
murder, that she had been
branded an adulteress by
creature who calls himself q man,
that upon the words she speaks
and the impression she makes
depends her very life.
And she just remembered the
hours when that little life went
out-and she and Bill, the dead
man, stood beside him and COM
forted each other.
A Complete Denial
And from that moment she
went on to begin her long denial
Of the things they claim she did
the poison they claim she fed
her husband. Ruthlessly and in
cold blood. for the sake of
guilty passion or the greed for
money.
There was a long, breathless
pause after the black-robed
Judge took his seat upon the
bench. A breathless pause while
the packed courtroom waited for
a first word direct from the
woman who has sat silent for
days and listened to others tell
the story of those last moments
OF Bill Costello's life and of
the things that happened after
ward.
Her Eyes Flash
Then Jessie Costello, martyr
or murderess. walked across the
courtroom and faced a jury of
her peers to tell at last her own
Story-her own story Of her hus-
bands death, her own story of
her relations with Policeman Nc
Mahon, who Swore he was her
lover.
She wore black. a widows
black, with a nun-like touch of
white at the throat. Her great
dark eyes. set with the slightest
tilt at the corners, were des-
perately alive.
The face was mass of strange
contradictions, with it's delicate
aristocratic little nose, it's heavy
black brows that almost meet
above tits wide mouth that
fixed itself in a hard line, then
swiftly changed to one of the
loveliest smiles have ever seen.
They Show Torment
She was not afraid. And only
the long. tortured breaths, that
were like the hot breaths an ex-
hausted athlete draws, showed
the torment of her spirit.
Her hands, large capable hands,
hands which it is easy to see doing
all the housework of that small
home, holding babies comfortably,
cooking. carrying food down to
the firehouse. do not seem to be-
long to the rest Of her. They are
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The Washington times., 1933-08-02
Germany to Send
NadOLny to Russia

BERLIN, Aug. 2 uN.SO.
Chancellor Hitler has approved
appointment of Rudolph Nadolny,
who represented Germany in the
disarmament conference, as am
basSador to Moscow it was rs-
ported today,
The Washington times., 1933-08-02
WILL ROGERS Savs:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Aug 2.-Before breakfast
the United States Treasury offered eight hundred
The Washington times., 1933-08-02

manufacturing dice for Wall Street to she
with. Nobody is buying a pair to keep.
Copyright 1854 Sy MoxsusA. syudsOaAsa