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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-09
PAYMENT TO CHEST
AGENCIES HALTED.
Street Moves for Release OF
Funds Needed for Desti-
tute Relief.

The Community Chest has been forced
to stop payment of funds to its So men,
her organizations until banks resume
business and contributors resume paw
ments it was announced TODAY by Will
liam j. Father, jr., treasurer OF the
Chest
TIE following statement was sent to
member organizat tons:
The Executive Committee has voted
10 inform the institutional members
that in their opinion no agency should
spend any cash at the present time ex-
cept that which is absolutely necessary
and should enter upon no obligations
which will require cash and which can
be avoided The Community Chest
cannot make any further payments until
funds now in the bank are released.
The institutional members must rely
on their own credit now. The eHpen-
dture of that credit should be con-
trolled and kept down as far as possible
The Community Chest Will resume
payments as soon as funds are avail
able"
Notices to BE Sent.
Contributors who have made pay
ments by check on their pledges since
the banks closed will be sent the fol-
lowing pOSt"l Cdlu ilotl1eS.
Dear Subscriber: Thank you most
heartily for your payment just received
on your pledge to the Community
Chest
We shall be happy to hold this
check and to send it through the clear
ing house for collection when the bank
OF, which it is drawn is ready to pay
in full. 1t will then be credited to your
account.
The Community Chests SO member
organizations must continue their serv-
ices now more than ever. Your help
and your encouragement of others to
pey their pledges either by check or
by cash will be of very real service
Associated Charities Not Affected.
1t was explained today that the Asso-
ciated Charities would not be affected
by the committees decision immedi-
ately. since it issues not cash. but or
ders for fuel and food. This will be
continued. it was said, to the extent
of the Associated Charities credit.
Meanwhile ElWood Street. director of
the Chest. was comforting with officials
of the Washington clearing house in
an effort to secure release of Chest
funds on the ground that they were
needed for relief of destitute persons.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-09

Policeman r. E. Maust, In charge Of
the patrol in which he was taken to
the hospital, witnesses said. At the
hospital. 1t was said, Craig suddenly
renewed his struggles. kicking Rawlin-
son in the stomach and knocking him
from the emergency platform. Over
powered once more. Craig was taken
into the hospital where he collapsed
and died a few minutes later.
Relatives, who came here from
Florida to claim the body, said Craig
had appeared in motion pictures with
Francis X. Bushman and other former
stars. He came here, they said, to
interview a Senator.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-09
Rumanian Depositors Curbed.

BUCHAREST. Rumania, March 9
Rl. THE Banka Moldowa, with a cap
ital of 100000 900 lei and liabilities of
800 lei. today announced limitation
on Withdrawals to 5000 lei tsl8)
pending a settlement with creditors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-09
Districts Heroes
. in the
World War
Compiled by Sergt. L. E. Jacket.

4 S recorded in official citation,
\ Charles B. Drake. brigadier
\ general, United States Army.
\ was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal for exceptionally
ritorious and distinguished services
position Of great responsibility
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-09

40 > ,
an d training OF
the Motor Trans
port erv i C e,
where. by his tire
less energy. devo-
ton to duty and
high military at
tainments, he con-
tributed materially
to the efficiency of
that branch of the
service.
He is retired. and
with the rank of
brigadier general,
resides at 1909 S
stree t northwest,
washington. D. c.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Asparagus Got Huey Long In Trouble,
But Butter Helped Him Slip Out

from ladies as well as GENTLE
men.
sometimes, he would nibble
at a dish and find that it was
not asparagus. Then he would
shove the plate away from him
with a roar of disgust"
Other members of the clubs
staff added details to the Sena'
torial asparagi hunt.
It was II o'clock on Saturday
night eastern Asparagus Time)
that Huey became satiated. His
strong senatorial fingers were
dripping golden butter. He pointed
for the washroom.
Butter His Downfall
Huey prepared to wash his
hands. Perhaps, in the remorse
of a satisfied gourmet, he was
hasty. He buttered the immac'
ulate evening clothes of a young
but husky guest.
The guest charged Huey with
being no gentleman. Huey threw
back one of his notable Kingfish
epigrams.
The gentleman who had been
buttered socked Huey in the eye,
Huey clinched.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
BRIDE To PROBE
BREAD PRICES

A definite decision that his
office will proceed with the in
vestigation of the bread price
increase in Washington was an
nounced today by Corporation
Counsel William w. Bride.
He made this announcement
after learning that District Attor
ney Leo A. Rover will be out OF
town until after Labor Day and
that Mr.. Rover's office has nc
objection to the inquiry being
undertaken by the Corporation
Counsel.
Mr.. Bride said today:
1--WE will proceed at once in
making the inquiry. We will
report our findings to Senator
King, chairman of the District
Committee, for any hearings
that may be necessary, and if
we find there are any indica-
tiOns of violation of the anti
trust law, we will report that
to the Department Of Justice"
The Department of Justice also
is investigating the latest 1-cent
bread price increase in Washing
ton,
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

NEW YORK, Aug. 80 Q.N.S).
Senator Huey Long, the man who
got slapped, was the victim Of
asparagus.
The big he-man from Louisiana
met his downfall in the wash
room of the fashionable Sands
Point Bath Club, nCI at the fists
of gangsters, but as the result Of
over-indulgence in the tender
succulent shoots.
Fitting from table to table,
Huey imbibed too freely of the
exotic vegetable which he secret
ly loves. And so he got a sock
in the eye for dessert.
This was the latest theory
supplied today by the walters
staff of the Sands Point Club
as to the events leading up to
Huey getting poked.
Says the Head Waiter
John Krull, head waiter at the
club, described how Huey played
an asparagus kibitzer He said:
"He kept gallOping around
the room, butting into people,
sitting at tables with people
who didn't know him. He seized
every plate Of asparagus he
could see. He took them away
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
STREET v D R K
BIDS SOUGHT

Following a month delay. the
Bureau of Public Roads today
advertised for bids for widening
and paving Constitution Avenue
from Virginia Avenue to the Ar
lington Memorial Bridge.
The bids will be opened at the
Bureau in the Winder Building
September Is at IL o'clock.
The work will give employment
to about 100 men for several
months, and will involve an ex-
penditure of approximately $780,
900, which was allocated month
ago to the Arlington Memorial
Bridge Commission by the Board
of Public Works.
The task of widening the ave-
nue. fell to the Bureau of Public
Roads when the Arlington Me-
mortal Bridge Commission was
abolished August 10 by executive
order.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
REPEAL|STS WIN
24TH STATE

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 80
G.N.SO.-Washington's repeal
vote mounted to a 3-to-1 land
slide today as returns from out.
lying precincts were tabulated.
The vote in 1,784 precincts out
of the States 2,446 gave:
For repeal, 311,187.
Against, 131,8O3.
Washington thus became the
twenty-fourth State to repudiate
the Eighteenth Amendment.
The wet vote in Seattle was
almost 4 to /, with complete re-
turns giving:
For repeal, 122,12O.
Against, 33,5O9.
The wet vote in other populouS
centers carried better than to /.
Forty-two of the States 46 dis
tricts reported decisive wet vic
tories, indicating that 81 wet
delegates, six dry and two unre-
ported would be elected to the
States ratification convention
october 3.
The only section to record a
decisive dry vote was in south
eastern washington, a farming
sector,
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
CODE SETS Up
COAL PRICE
CONTROL
Production Curb as Well as
Wage Stability Result Of
Unions Victory
Copyright, 1888, by International
News Service)

The code of fair competition
for the bituminous coal indus
try will involve an effective
form of price and production
control.
This was disclosed today as
operators and National Recovery
Administration officials worked
at high speed to make the code a
reality.
The first step in bringing about
both stabilized production and
price in the bituminous field was
the decision of non-union miners
of the Northern and Southern
Appalachian fields to cooperate
with the Unfeeat Mine WoFkeesaOf
America.
Wage Cutting Ended
Wage-cutting had come to be q
form of competition in the btu
minous industry, helping to beat
prices down. Many big companies
were forced to sell a considerable
part of their product at loss.
The making of an agreement
with the United Mine Workers on
wages, unionizing the important
producing areas, will remove that
form of competition, it was ex-
planned by a high authority.
This is not sufficient, however,
to bring stabilization in the in
dustry, it was explained. There
must be form of price and pro-
duction control or wage levels
cannot be maintained. This prin-
ciple has been agreed on by
recovery officials and operators.
Regions Mapped Out
The present plan to control
prices calls for the formation of
selling agencies. The bituminous
field would be divided into re-
gions for this purpose.
The bituminous field has been
tentatively divided into the North
western, Southwestern, Central
Gncluding Illinois, Indiana and
Ohio, Eastern (including Penn
sylvania, West Virginia, Virginia,
Kentucky and Tennessee), and
Southern regions.
The number of selling con-
troll agencies has not been de-
termined. The tentative plan,
which is being worked out with
recovery administrative officials,
calls for the creation of a central
body to have jurisdiction over
all these groups.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
ACT,
KNEW Of
VICTIMS
HABITS
Benford Newman Fired Five
Shots When Rum-Crazed
Man Threatens His Wife

A Fairfax county police
court judge today dismissed a
technical charge of murder
against Benford Newman, %,
who last night shot and killed
his father. In dismissing the
charge, Judge Paul E. Brown
said:
The father forced his son back
to the wall of the dining room,
and the son called out:
"Stand back or I'll shoot"
TWICE IN THE HEART
The father, however, took
another step, still brandishing the
razor end Benford shot five times.
The father was struck twice in
the heart, twice in the shoulder
and once in the neck.
Benford did not testify. At the
conclusion of the family testimony
and routine testimony of police,
Judge Brown dismissed the charge,
adding that Newman had, to his
knowledge, drunk practically all
of the seven years he had lived in
Fairfax county.
Five Bullet Wounds
Police found the body of the
dead man, a war veteran, lying
on the floor with five bullet
wounds in his body. Nearby stood
his slayer, dazed and shaking
with the death gun still clutched
in his hand.
NeWman's wife was seated at q
table nearby with her head in her
hands crying. Six other children
stood nearby.
Newman, according to police,
had been drinking since he re-
ceiVed his pension check late Sat
urday. Sunday, he took his gun
and threatened the lives of all Of
the family. He was finally quieted
and went to bed. While he was
asleep Benford took the gun from
under his pillow and hid it.
Some two years ago, according
to police, Newman fired several
shots at one son, William, 18, dur
ing a drunken rage. He was
quieted down at that time and the
gun taken from him. Sheriff
Kirby said:
Newman was war veteran
and got pension. Every time
he received his check he would
go on a tear and start fighting
with his family"
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
more News Of Huey on Page 3
RIGID CRIMINAL
LAWS URGED

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Aug.
80 Q.N.SO.-Declaring that Amer.
lea is afflicted with "a lawless
condition far worse than has ever
existed in any country at any
time" Clarence E. Martin, presi-
dent of the American Bar Associa-
ton, today proposed to the bar
convention a drastic revision of
criminal law.
Highlights of his remarks on
crime included:
"It has reached the point
where candOr cOmpeIs the admiS-
sion that America is a crime
breeding and crime-prOtecting
nation"
"Save in capital cases, the
vote of nine of the jury should
acquit or convict"
"If safeguarding the law-abid-
ing citizens were given the same
attention that has been be-
slowed ON safeguarding the law
less element from conviction,
there would be a different as
pect in the realm Of criminal
procedure"
"AbOve all, second offenders
ought never to be parOled."
Persons convicted Of a third
felony should be removed from
society during the remainder OF
their lives"
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

Jack Curley. wrestling and
fighting promoter. was present
He said:
cit was a very poor clinch.
Huey was grOggy."
OF course, Huey, at the apex
of an attack of aSparaguStitus
was groggy.
OF course, it was a shoddy
clinch, Huey's fingers still oily
with butter. He couldn't even
throw over a clean punch.
What to do?
Slips Away Like Eel.
Huey did it. He slipped like a
buttered eel through his assailant
to a doctor and out to Milwaukee
He had had a nice evening. just
a sock in the eye and lots and
lots of asparagus.
Apparently Huey has turned
thumbs down on the ruffian
metropolis, his former favorite
playground.
The New Yorker Hotel. where
Huey always stops on his visit
to New York, today received
orders to forward his baggage to
New Orleans.
additional Huey News on Page 81
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
}erle Raped In Sugar Hearing Uproar
Freak ShOw
MdkesHuey
Fat Offer

NEW YORK, Aug. 80 Il. N.
S0.-Huey Long can have a
new job if he wants it.
Declaring the flame-thatched
Senator from Louisiana by vir-
tue of his recent puglistic ac-
tivities" may claim to be "the
most picturesque man in Amer
ica," the management Of Coney
Islands Luna Park today sent
a Telegram to Huey offering him
$1,000 nightly ito appear as a
freak attraction at Lune Park"
Bert Nevins, spokesman for
the park management, declared
the offer was made in good
faith. He said:
eve believe, not as people
concerned with color but as
business men concerned with
profitable exploitation, that
Huey Long, if exhibited, would
more than pay any cOmpenSa-
ton that we would hand him."
Following is the text of the
telegram sent the 'Kingfish:"
"YOu have made yourself the
greatest attraction in America.
Have, been authorized to offer
you $1,000 nightly to appear
as . feak attraction at Luna
Park, COney Island. Wire ac-
ceptance or rejection immedi-
ately."
more News Of Huey on Page g.,
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
j. s. ADVISER
DENOUNCED
ASUNFA|R
Counsel for Domestic Group
Demands "Brain Trust"
Members Custer
By International News Service


Hearings on a supplement
tary sugar marketing agree
ment for domestic refiners
were thrown into an uproar
today by a bitter verbal at
tack started by Wilbur Cum
mings, legal adviser to the
domestic sugar men, against a
member Of President Roose-
velt's so-called "brain trust. y
Cummings demanded that Prof.
Adolf A. Berle, jr., legal adviser
to the Farm Adjustment Admin
istration and a member of the
"brain trust" be ousted from the
hearing. 49,
--... Heariug. Room. in Upraar
With the hearing room in an
uproar he repeated his demands
after being overruled by the chair
man. He shouted:
''We have been treated like
Englishmen in a Soviet court.
We have been attacked and
counter attacked in an attempt
by a handful of Cuban re-
finers to scuttle this agree
ment."
Thomas Woodward, Farm Ad-
ministration attorney, presiding
at the hearing, attempted to
halt Cummings. He cried:
'eYOu are out Of Order-we
will hear no more Of that kind
Of talk"
But Cummings continued. He
declared the domestic refiners
had obtained the cooperation
from "all but the Cubans." He
added:
eve should not be required
to submit our case to a preju-
diced court"
WANTS FAIR COMMISSION"
Replying to a statement made
earlier by Berle, that domestic
sugar refiners had withdrawn OBJ
iections originally made against
his appointment, Cummings as
serted:
"It is not a fact that we
knew a member of this sugar
committee had interests con-
trary to our own. Such a state
ment is prepOSterOuS. We want
to appeal to the Secretary of
Agriculture to appoint a fair
commission to hear this case.
We ask for a continuance until
then"
Cummings verbal indictment
of Berle followed a written pro-
test filed by the domestic cane
sugar refiners, in which it was
charged that the Brain Trust
member is serving as counsel for
Charles w. Taussig, a Cuban su-
gar manufacturer.
BerIe Asks COrrObOratiOn
Berle appealed to Ellsworth
Bunker, president of the National
Refining Company, to verify his
statement that domestic refiners
had withdrawn objections to his
appointment as a member OF the
commission to work out market
ing agreements for the industry
Bunker stated objections were
raised and later withdrawn be-
cause "the refinerS had had con
fidence in his fairness"
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
NRA SEEN AS
DANGER To
REPUBLIC
Martin, Head of U. S. Bar,
Says Loss of State Rights
Is Changing Government

GRAND RAPIDS, Mic h.,
Aug. 80 I.N.S. "A definite
plan" to end the sovereign
powers of the States and
thereby "destroy the republic
and substitute a social democ-
racy" was charged today by
Clarence E. Martin, president
of the American Bar Associa-
tion.
In one of the most startling mes
sages ever delivered to the Bar
Association by one of it's presi-
dents, Martin warned that Amer
lea as we know it is on the de-
cline because of a growing ten
dency to delegate powers to Wash
ington.
Sees Danger in NRA
On these grounds he condemned
the child labor anaendn1em6saBxsa
communiStic effort to nationalize
children"
He warned against Federal en-
forcement of the general criminal
laws as "the final act in a ma
tion's tragedy"
And he saw possibility of grave
danger in the National Recovery
Act and kindred legislation, unless
regarded solely as a temporary
emergency expedient.
Martins address opened the
fifty-six annual meeting of the
bar association. Declaring that
defense of States rights and
proper distribution of power is
the duty of the hour" he
warned that "the rights of States
are waning so rapidly that legal
writer's are beginning to assert
that they will soon be reduced to
administrative districts. He said:
eff that statement is true,
our republic form Of govern
ment is tOttering and social
democracy is in the Offing."
Swinging into a discussion Of
the emergency legislation passed
by the last Congress, Martin said
the banking legislation was Gin
tended to eliminate the State
Banking Systems"
The economic measures relat-
ing to railroads, agriculture, and
industry" he said, should have
the support Of the bar association
"as a temporary expedient."
He warned bluntly, however,
that "this character of legislation
as a legal fixture would reverse the
American method of legal think
ing, destroy individual initiative,
and completely destroy the funda-
mental rights reserved to the
States"
Choosing it as an example, Mar
tin lashed the Child Labor Amend
ment. He said:
"It is the brOadest grant of
power ever attempted to be
given to the Federal Govern
ment. 1t is a COmmunistic ef-
fort to natiOnalize children,
making them primarily response
BILE to the Government instead
of to their parents. 1t strikes a
blow at the home. 1t appears
to be part of a definite posi-
tive plan to destroy the Republic
and substitute social demOc-
racy."
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
POLiceman'S Killer
Must Die in Chair

CHICAGO, Aug. 80 G.N.SO.
John Scheck, who shot a police
man dead in criminal court with
a smuggled gun, was under sem
tence today to die in the elec-
trio chair after the jury re-
turned its death verdict in %
minutes. 1t was the fastest
death verdict ever reached in a
Cook county court. Sheck shot
and killed Policeman John Sevick
with Smuggled pistol in vain
attempt to escape from the Grim
inal Courts Building.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Need
~ States
To Win
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
RepealiSts were two-thirds of
the way to victory today as
Washington State joined Ore
gon and California in present.
ing a solid wet front on the
Pacific Coast.
Repeal by the New Year ap-
peared more than a battle cry
as there still are 16 States to
vote this year, with the vets
needing IL more States to
nullify the Eighteenth Amend
ment.
BY carrying the Northwestern
State, repealists wrested vic
tory in the eleventh State long
classed as arid territory by
dry leaders.
Other States classed as dry
bulwarks which preceded Wash
ington in joining the wet parade
were: Texas, Iowa, Indiana, Ar
Kansas, Alabama, Tennessee,
Michigan, West Virginia, New
Hampshire and Delaware.
The sixteen States where legis-
Iatures have fixed the time for
decision on the question in
clude: Vermont, Maine, Colo
RADIO, Maryland, Minnesota,
Idaho, New Mexico, Florida,
North and South Carolina
Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia,
Nebraska, South Dakota and
Ohio.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Gen. Johnson GiUen
Boston Air Escort

BOSTON, Aug. 80 Q.N.SO-
Escorted by three formations of
military airplanes, General Hugh
S. johnson, commanding officer
In the battle against depression
and unemploymet, came to New
England this afternoon to give
added inspiration to the NRA
flight of the Blue Eagle. General
johnson landed at East Boston
airport from Washington, was
greeted hurriedly by a reception
committee, and then was whisked
to q downtown hotel by a special
escort of 10 State and local mo-
Aorcycle police
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
ItaLO-SOUiet Pact
To Be Signed Soon

LONDON. Aug. 80 QN.S0.-A
political and economic agreement
between Italy and Soviet Russia
has been completed and will be
signed within a few days, it was
stated in a Central News dispatch
from Rome today.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Indiana andArkQnsQS
In Auto License War

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Aug. 80
U.N.S0.-A State automobile
license war that may seriously
interfere with the nations tourist
traffic was underway today be-
tween Indiana and Arkansas.
Orders were dispatched to all
Indiana State police officers to
arrest the driver of every motor
vehicle bearing an Arkansas
license and impound the vehicle
until an Indiana license is pur-
chased.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Farley Sees Every
State VOtinQ RepeQL
Rv international News seryl

BY International News Service
With the State of Washington
marking the twenty-fourth State
to vote for repeal of the Eight
eenth Amendment, Postmaster
General Farley said today he did
not know of a single State which
will vote against repeal.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30
Navy Yard Is Under
Ban on Double Jobs

Laborers and mechanics at the
Navy Yard have been forbidden
by executive order from accept
ing any State, county or munic-
ipal jobs in addition to their
duties at the yard.
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

Spend a Dollar and Make a Job
The Washington times., 1933-08-30

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