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Evening star., 1933-01-15
FIVE PERSONS HURT
IN TWO CRASHES
Auto Victims Near T. B., Nd,
Include Two in Serious
Condition.

Five persons were injured, two critic
ally, in two automobile accidents last
night on the Washington-L -Leonardtown
highway, near T. B., Md.
In one of the mishaps-in which q
coupe left the road. crashed into tree
and overturned-the driver and two
young women companions escaped seri-
Gus injury or possible death by crawl
ing from the wreckage as it burst into
flames.
The injured in the two accidents:
Francis Gates, 1923 Girard street
northeast; Raymond Voorhees,, 1014
Kearney street northeast; Mildred War
rick also of Washington; Herman w.
Lyles, colored, 800 D street southwest,
and Kitty Brooks, also colored, Towson,
Md.
Removed Unconscious.
Gates and Voorhees, were the most
seriously injured, both receiving pos
sible skull fractures when their ma
chimes collided with one driven by
Lyles at T. B. Gates was taken to
Casualty Hospital and voorhees, to
Providence Hospital. Both were pn-
conscious.
Miss Warrick was cut about the neck,
according to Maryland State police,
when an automobile in which she was
riding with her sister Edna and Leland
Whitmir, Naval Air Station, Anacostia,
left the road on the Floral Park curve,
near r. B. She and her companions
crawled through the windows of the
coupe, which was destroyed by fire a
few minutes later. So far as police
could learn, she did not go to q hos
pital.
Lyles and Miss Brooks, one of his
passengers, were cut and bruised when
his car overturned. The other pas
sengers-Thomas Brooks, colored, Tow
son, and William Skinner, colored, also
of the D street address, escaped injury.
Lyles was arrested and held at the
State police substation at Waldorf, Md.
Driver Escapes Train Crash.
Stalled on the Pennsylvania Railroad
tracks at Lanham, Md, an automobile
was demolished when struck by a
freight train as its driver, Howard
Crouch, COL East Wilson boulevard,
Clarendon, Va, leaped to safety.
H. l.. Bankert, watchman at the grade
crossing, said Crouch drove onto the
tracks despite his warning signal. The
train, bound from New York to Wash
ington, was not damaged.
Carl E. Mayfield, TO- was struck by
an automobile near his home, 1853
Princeton place The driver, David
Krupsow, "a, OF the 370o block of Jeni-
fer street, took him to Emergency Hos
pital, where he was treated for cuts and
bruises.
teenth street. was slightly injured when
standing in a downtown filling station
was hit by a car driven by Joseph Ull-
man. She was treated at Emergency.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
LARGER D. C. FUND
ASKED or CONGRESS
Manor Park Citizens Urge Increase
or Corresponding Reduction
in Taxes.

A resolution urging either increased
appropriations for the District or a
corres pc1sGing reduction in taxes has
been sent by the Manor Park Citizens
Association to Chairman Norton of the
House District Committee A letter
signed by John D. Smoot. secretary of
the association, accompanied the reso-
luton
Strong Endorsement of the Norton
resolution proposing study to deter
mine the best form of government for
the District so as to allow the residents
participation also has reached the
House District Committee from the
Law and Legislation Committee of the
Federation Of Citizens Association.
This letter. was signed by George E
Sullivan chairman.
The Norton proposal is for creation
of joint committee to study the laws
and government of the District with q
view to permitting a greater voice in
the affairs and management of the
District by residents. It proposes a re-
view of obsolete or non-enforceable
laws, and seeks to determine the most
appropriate form of government for the
municipality. This resolution is before
the House Judiciary Committee and
Mrs. Norton has been awaiting q hear
ing upon 1t.
The letter from the federation's
committee also expresses grateful an.
rreciation of Mrs. Norton's unselfist
and untiring efforts in behalf of tn,
people OF the District.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
CONFERENCE lMPENDS
ON DEFICIENCY BILL
House Expected to Name Five Con-
ferees Tomorrow-Senate
Group Appointed.

House conferees are to be appointed
tomorrow on the deficiency appropri-
alton bill, which carries the $625, 900 to
provide for unemployment relief in the
District until July /. This item is not
in controversy. as the Senate approved
exactly the same language as was in
the bill as it passed the House.
The House has delayed appointing it's
confereeS until Chairman Byrns of the
Appropriations Committee, who also
heads the subcommittee on the defici-
ency bill, returns from his illness of the
past few days. He is expected back to-
morrow. AS the Senate appointed five
conferees, the House probably will ap-
point the same number.
Extensive conferences or serious dis
agreement is not looked for. The most
important Senate amendments are
those appropriating $150,000 for partici-
patton by the United States in the
Disarmament Conference and SAC, 900 for
inaugural ceremonies at the Capitol
The only other item that is expected
to cause discussion in the conference
is the Mcclellan amendment broadening
the power of the Joint Congressional
Committee in examining Federal tax
refunds.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
NINTH STREET FIRE
CAUSES 8 ALARMS
Two Upper Floors of Century
Bakery Lunch Damaged.
Theater Threatened.

A three-alarm fire Of unknown origin
last night burned out the two upper
floors Of the three-story building of the
Century Bakery Lunch, 300 Ninth
street.
Starting apparently on the second
floor Of the building, the blaze made
considerable headway before the first
alarm was turned in by Charles
Galeano. IT, Of 1905 Shadyside avenue,
Boulevard Heights, Md, who saw the
smoke from across the street.
Fear that the fire might spread into
the Palace Smoking Theater, BOT Ninth
street. next door, and into the film ex-
change of the Sidney Lust Theatel
Corporations, above the theater, where
large quantity of highly infiamable
film was stored, led to the sending OF
the second and third alarms.
Dense clouds of smoke from the
burning building. visible from all over
downtown Washington, attracted 9
crowd estimated at more than 5000
persons. Despite the smoke which
seeped into the theater. however, the
patrons, after two of their number had
looked over the blaze next door. de-
cided to sit out the remainder of the
show.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
FOUR TO ADDRESS
RELIEF BANQUET
37th Annual Dinner of Mon.
day Evening Club SChed-
uIed Tomorrow.

The thirty-seventh annual dinner Of
the Monday Evening Club will be held
tomorrow at $50 pm. in the Young
Women's Christian Association Build
ing. The general theme of the meet
ing will be "Washingtons Human Chal-
lenge for 1888"
Four addresses are scheduled, pre-
senting various angles of the problem
Rev. Dr. John OGrady, director OF
Catholic Charities of the District, will
present the point of view of a social
worker Arthur Moses, president OF
the Travellers Aid Society, will speak
as a board member The view point
of citizen will be given by Mrs
Eleanor Patterson editor of the Wash
ington Herald, and Allen T. Burns, di-
rector of the Association of Community
Chests and Councils, of New York City
will speak on How Other Cities are
Meeting the Human Challenge OF
1888"
President Leifur Magnusson will pre-.
side. The invocation will be by Rev
DR.. w. L. Darby. executive secretary OF
the Washington Federation of Churches
Committee chairmen then will be in
troduced and the POSTMASTER, Elwood
Street, director of the Community
Chest, will be presented
The dinner will close with general
discussion, which is expected to include
remarks by specially invited guests
The guests are to include Senators Co.'S
tigan, Capper and La Toilette; Repre-
Sentatives La Guardia and Mary T
Norton; Dr. Luther H. Reichelderfer
president of the Board of District
Commissioners; Maj. Gen. Herbert B
Crosby, District Commissioner, anc
George S. Wilson, head of the Board
of Public Welfare.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
POLICE RAID ALLEGED SpEAKEASY
NEXT TO WHERE LINCOLN DIED
Cut Way Through Barred Doors on Tenth Street.
Two Arrests Are Made

Smashing their way through several
barred doors, combination Federal
and police liquor squad raided an al
legged speakeasy at 518 Tenth street
late yesterday and, after seizing guam
tity Of alleged beer and whisky, arrest
ed two men found working behind a
50-foot bar.
Accompanied by William Blandford,
who is in charge OF the Federal pro.
hibition unit in this area, Lieut.. George
Little, head of the police liquor squad,
led eight officers into the place as the
last door fell before the raiders axes.
The establishment, hidden behind q
sea food restaurant formerly known
as Havana Joe's," was In fun operation
when the raiders entered. Nearly q
score of customers found In the place
were permitted to leave when the raid
ers ascertained the proprietor was not
among them.
The men arrested identified them
selves as Patrick James OMalley, as,
who gave the establishment as his
home address, and Johnny Jones, 80,
colored, 14o0 block of Corcoran street.
Charges Of possession were placed
against both men and they were taken
to the first precinct.
Ten barrels Of alleged beer were
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Evening star., 1933-01-15
WMAL TRANSFER
APPROVAL SEEN
Radio Commission Expected to Act
This Week on N. B. c.
Contract.

The Federal Radio Commission is ex-
pected to approve this week the contract
under which the National Broadcasting
Co. would take over management and
operation of Station WMAL, beginning
February i.
The contract was signed yesterday
by M. A. Leese, owner Of WMAI, and
Frank M. Russell, vice president OF
N. B. C. in Washington. 1t leases
WMAL to N. B. C. for five years.
Plans have been made by N. B. G.
to add WMAL to the blue" network,
which would bring into Washington
such programs as concerts Of the BoS-
ton Symphony Orchestra, Lowell Thom-
as daily news reviews, Phillips Lord
new Country Doctor" sketches, and
various other commercial features which
washington listeners have been forced
to pick up through WBAL in Baltimore,
WIZ in New York or KDKA in Pitts
burgh.
The first change as result OF nego-
tiations will put Amos n Andy" on
WMAL tomorrow night instead of
WRC. This famous radio team was the
only "blue" network attraction carried
regularly by WRC, which is a link in
the red" network.
Evening star., 1933-01-15

the others in the basement of the five
story building. which contains a dance
hall and dining room on the second
floor
According to Lieut.. Little, a purchase
was made in the establishment Friday
by Policeman r. e. Black. Armed with
q warrant, Black attempted to gain en-
trance to the place yesterday, but was
recognized as a member of the liquor
squad. It was then that the raiders
went into action with their axes.
The raiders found q list of customers,
including the names Of a few prominent
business and professional men. A sack
full Of alleged whisky, labeled Golden
Wedding" also was found.
The building Is next door to the old
house In which Lincoln died and across
the street from the theater in which
he was shot.
Another liquor raid-made on a
house In the TOO block Of Sixth street
resulted In the arrest Of Fred Taggert,
29, and N. H. Smith, "a, both Of the
1900 block of X street They were
charged with possession
Arrested by Policeman s. r. Creech,
Philip Spiwak, Il, Of the 1900 block
Of Taylor street. was charged with pos
session. transportation and failure TO
exhibit an automobile registration card.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Ex-MARINE, A SUICIDE,
TO REST IN ARLINGTON
Killed Himself After Failing to
Effect Reconciliation With
Estranged Wife.

John Harmon, 27-year-old former
Marine, who shot himself to death
Thursday night in front of the home of
his estranged wife, will be buried in
Arlington National Cemetery at 2:30
pm. Tuesday.
Harmon killed himself after failing to
erect a reconciliation with his wife, Mrs.
Margaret Harmon, %. With a shotgun
beside his body, he was found dead on
the sidewalk in front of 1916 I street
southeast, where his wife and two small
children had been living since their
separation about a month ago. A 16-
page letter found in his pocket said he
was ending his life ''to make my wife
happy"
Evening star., 1933-01-15
MAN FOUND INJURED
Hit-and-Run Auto Thought Cause
of Walter Burns Condition.

Mystery surrounded the injury of
Walter Burns, 43, found lying uncon-
scious in the street at Fourteenth street
and Constitution avenue last night.
He was found by Richard Eberhardt.
a motorist. who took him to Emergency
Hospital, where he was found to be suf-
fering from a severe head injury and
cuts and bruises about the body.
Police are working on the theory
Burns, who lives at $40 Sixth street
southwest, was the victim of hit-and-
run driver.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
FIRE DESTROYS LAUNCH

Fire destroyed a small launch moored
at the foot of Sixth street southwest
yesterday afternoon when sparks ig-
nited some of the gasoline when the
owners were filing the tank. District
Fire Tug No. responded to the call
The launch was the property Of j.
II. Ahearn, 2122 Blair road, and j. w.
Tanner, SIT Eighth street southwest
Some of the ignited gasoline seeped into
the hold of the craft. No one was in
jured. The loss was estimated at $1O0.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
COMMUNION SERVICE
More Than 1000 Expected a
Epiphany Church Feb. 22.

The annual corporate communion
service for men and boys of the Diocese
of washington will be held in Epiphany
Church on Washington's birthday under
auspices of the Potomac Assembly of
the Brotherhood of st. Andrew, it has
been announced by H. Lawrence Choate
of st. Adams Parish, former national
president of the brotherhood. Bishop
James E. Freeman viii celebrate the
communion, assisted by Rev. ze Barney
T. Phillips, rector of Epiphany and
chaplain Of the Senate
A fellowship breakfast, with Bishop
Freeman and another notable speaker
slated to talk, win follow. Last year
800 men and boys attended the event
and preparations are being made for
more than 1000 this year.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
WORKERS TO BE HON0RED
Phone Company viii Give 22
Awards for Long Service.

For long service with the Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co., % employees
will receive awards this month.
Twenty-Five year emblems viii be
given e. D. Kilton and e. G. Rollins
Of the plant department, both having
been with the company since January,
1908. G. Boiling, w. e. Grillbortzer and
Mime A. Soanes viii receive emblens
for 20 years service.
Others to receive emblems are: IS
years service, Mrs. O. @. Visel. Pauline
M. Loveday, Alma M. Mcclure and
Nadene A. Lugenbeel: 10 years, w. B.
Trussell, e. d. Williamson, ]. Gerhardt.
r. r. Daily, William x. Norwood,
Catherine L. Wiley, Eileen =. Brinley,
Dorothea A. Keifer, Anna O. Nichols.
Margaret A. Frazier, Ada L. Meade and
! As!sstls !t Z sAl|sdS
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Will Discuss Hoover Dam.

DR.. Elwood Mead, commissioner OF
reclamation of the Interior Department,
will address a meeting Of the Washing
ton Society of Engineers, Wednesday
at 3:15 pm, at the Cosmos Club. His
topic will be Construction Progress on
Hoover Dam" The talk will be illus
trated.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
Iowa Society to Hold Dance.

The Iowa Society viii hold dance
and card party next Saturday night
at the Willard Hotel. The State dis
at the affair viii be awarded q silver
cup. The entire congressional delega-
tion from Iowa is expected 10 attend.
Miss Gertrude Louis and Miss Maud
Phillips ore conducting ARRANGEMENTS
Evening star., 1933-01-15
DATE TO BE OBSERVED
January 27 Thirtieth Anniver-
sary of Order of st. Luke.

The 30th anniversary of the organi-
zation of the Independent Order of St.
Luke, a fraternal body, will be OBJ
served January 81 at the Phyllis
Wheatley Building, Ninth and Rhode
Island avenue. by members of the So
ciety.
The speakers are to include Rev. j.
Green, Mrs. E. B. White, M. M. Peace,
Mrs. M j. Smith, Mrs. M. E. Camp
bell and Mrs. Julia West Hamilton.
Mrs. Maggie l.. Walker, right worthy
grand secretary-treasurer Of the In
dependent Order of st. Luke, is ex-
pected to attend.
Evening star., 1933-01-15
HEARING ON AIRPORT
Senate Subcommittee to Hear
Amelia Earhart.

The Subcommittee on Parks and
Highways Of the Senate District Com
mittee will hold hearing at 1890 am.
tomorrow on the Bingham bill to au-
thorize leasing by the Commerce De-
partment Of Washington Airport and
Hoover Field, with the option Of pur-
chase, for use as commercial airport
for the District.
Amelia Earhart Putnam, noted wom-
an flyer. Is one of the witnesses scheu-
uled TO be heard The subcommittee
viii be presided over by Senator Glenn
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Evening star., 1933-01-15
Train Kills Section Foreman.

MCKINNEY. Va, January IA CP.-
After ordering his five associates to
Jump to safety, A. E. Williams, Seaboard
killed instantly this afternoon when his
section car and q through freight met
!n 9 hsad-on collision, ......-- .--.-.-
Evening star., 1933-01-15
DivOrcee to Be Bride
MRS HUME GRANDDAUGHTER OF MARK HANNA TO WE'D
CHARLOTTE
Y RS. CHARLOTTE HANNA
1 HUME, 23-year-old grand
l daughter Of Mark Hanna, will
be married to John w. Merritt,

be married to John W. Merritt,
26-year-old son of Washing
ton physician, tomorrow afternoon. The
ceremony will take place at the home
of the prospective groom's father, DR..
E. A. Merritt, In the Woods, North
Chevy Chase. Nd, it was announced
last night Mr.. Merritt obtained the
license yesterday in Rockville.
Mrs. Hume, who recently obtained a
divorce in Reno from Richard Hume,
lives at 1000 Cathedral avenue. She
was only 16 years old and was ac-
claimed the prettiest debutante in New
York's -Four Hundred when she
eloped with Hume in 1927.
A year ago she and her husband
adopted a child and established their
home in Wesley Heights. A few months
later, however, they separated, and last
October Mrs. Hume went to Reno for
her divorce, which she sought on the
ground of cruelty.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-15
Democratic Trend
 Sweeping Nation
St Louis Goes Democratic for First Time in Twenty
 four Years With Majority of 10000

states two largest cities ln addition to the Rovernorship and legislature.
 'There Is no doubt that Presi- dent Ro0sevelt's prompt redemp- tion of his party's pledge to legal ize beer influenced sentiment in st Louis, a large brewing center. nor that the administrations viz orous action in tackling the many grave problems with which the na- ton is confronted helped the demo- cratic cause. Though 1t is never easy to determine to what extent national issues enter into such con- tests, there was convincing evi- dence that they did have certain weight in the St Louis election"
 The St Louis Post-Dispatch fin its judgment of the outcome be- lieves:
 "Yesterday'g vote showed that the great tidal wave of last Mo- vember, which carried MT Roose- velt into the White House and up- set such traditional office holders as Senators Shoot, Moses and Wat son, has not spent itself. The democrats are everywhere in the saddle. In St Louis, to which they restored beer, they are invincible. Sss As
 "We think the significance of the election is clear. For St Louis. nor mally a republican city, to elect a democratic mayor is a symptom of the troubled times through which we are passing. The people want change. They want new leaders. Insofar as they can get them at the ballot box. they have done 50. It Is up to the new leaders not to disappoint the great expectations that have been vested in them"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-15
FOLLlE GIRL
 WAS KIDNAPPED
 THREE MONTHS
Ethel ROben COval Was Held in Farm House in Paris - French Police Rescued Her

Paris. April 16-CUP)-Ethel Roben Coval, once Ziegfelde eFollies girl was guarded in an obscure Paris hotel today by French police who rescued her from a walled-in farmhouse where she said she had been held in captivity for three months.
 Police went to a squalid farm in the woods near Lagny, 20 miles northeast of Paris, at the request of the American consulate, which had received Q cable from Charles k. Coval, New York. her divorced husband. Coval had received Q frantic, pleading letter from her.
 They found Mrs Coval scrubbing a floor. She was in rags. Her el- bows and knees were bruised. Her hands were rough from heavy lab- or.
 She said that Rene Petitjean, a Frenchman whom she met in New York, promised her marriage and my idyllic life in Q French cha teau. Instead he took her to a three-room shack enclosed within a high wall, took away her money, clothes, and jewels, forced her to wear rags and do manual labor, refused to allow her to learn French or visit French neighh3rs, and beat her when she complained or tried to escape.
 Police questioned Petitjean, who denied all allegations of cruelty. Mrs Coval refused to sign com- plaint and he was released after he restored her property.
 Mrs Coval expected remit tance from her former husband and will return to America when 1t arrives. Petitjean was former ly an agent for French silks in New York.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-15
Soviets Accused Of
 Framing Englishmen
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you cannot make general declara- tions. You have defense lawyers for that"
 Unperturbed by this reprimand, Monkhouse shot back:
 "As understand law, have the right to make a statement"
 Patiently, Ulrich explained:
 "When your turn comes to testi- fy you will have ample opportun- ity to make any declarations you wish. The present order offpro- ceedings was fixed on the opening day and 1t cannot be altered . please. be seated"
 Sukhoruchkin, once q powerful Soviet engineer. now ono of the de- fcndants, testified yesterday that the six Englishmen had schemed to paralyze the Soviet power system in case of war.
 Monkhousc silenced, Michael D. Krasheninnikov, chief engineer of Moges, Moscow electrical trust) one of the Russian defendants who pleaded guilty, was called from the prisoners enclosure.
 Young, dappcr, he faced the microphones and told story of sabotage similar to the stories re- lated by other Russians. He said he had been seduced by the Eng lishmen with money and promises.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-04-15
Bale of Cotton
 Acre of Land
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man who learned the ways of the west as 6 cowboy on the Lazy S'' but now heads an insurance com pany, told the United Press today of his plan to distribute the prop erty, most of which is without inn provemcnts. t7ts
 He is writing contracts with farmers to buy the land in tracts of 16O acres each, with payment to be made in cotton. A bale for each acre is all he asks, with 1G years to pay if desired. Slaughter even will accept in feed crops half the equivalent of any annual cot ton payment if drought or pestil- ence ruins tho cotton.
 Applications for the land have swamped him since he announced his plan and he said he expected the entire 18,000 acres would be "sold" within week.
 The principal requirements made in the contracts are that 100 acres of each 160-acre tract be planted annually to cotton and that the farmer pay taxes yearly regardless of state or national tax morator- ium.s
 The remainder of each tract may be planted in anything the farmer desires. The minimum cotton pay ment asked yearly Is ten 500- pound bales of seven-eights inch staple. If desired. the purchaser may pay for his farm in one year by turning over to Slaughter 160 bales of cotton.
 Estimates are that the poorest tracts will produce one-fourth of q bale per acre yearly, with yields of one bale per acre not improb- able on some.
 Colonel Slaughter was the frsi male white child born in the repub. lie of Texas.