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Evening star., 1933-08-19
Woman Fights Purse-Stealing
Suspect in Office Building
Grapples Desperately With Colored Man,
Gets Pocketbook, Then Is Aided in
Capture by Three Youths.

Battling from the ninth to the
seventh floor Of the Investment
Building with suspected thief before
he eluded her this morning, Mrs. May
H. Du Bois. 1923 Newton street. fol-
lowed the man to the street and en-
listed the aid Of three boys, who
caught him after an exciting chase.
As q result Of the woman's efforts
third precinct police are holding Marion
L. White. colored. 30. Of the first block
of G street. for investigation. They
said he would be charged later with
stealing Mrs. Du Bois' pocketbook.
Mrs. Du Bois, secretary to Royal A.
Wray, arrived at her ONCE in the In
vestment Building shortly before 8
O'Clock this morning. A few minutes
Evening star., 1933-08-19
ARGENTINA AND CHILE.
SHUN CANCELLATION.
Expected Not to Participate in
Four.Power Attempt to Estab-
ish Chaco Peace.

BY the Associated Press.
BUENOs AIRES, August 1s.-Ar-
Kentina and Chile, a responsible source
disclosed today, have decided not to
participate In q four-power Cancellation
attempt to effect peace In the dispute
between Bolivia and Paraguay over the
Gran Chaco.
Under A League of Nations mandate
plan. sponsored by Brazil. Argentina,
Brazil, Chile and Peru would seek TO
settle the Chaco warfare. -,
1t was understood that Brazil VIII
continue independent efforts to bring
the belligerents together. Argentine
and Chilean adherence to the MENDOZA
conciliation formula, reached early TINS
year, was said to be the main obstacles
70 participation in the Chaco medaas,on.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
COUzENS PREPARES
NEW REVELATIONS
Senator to Renew "Inside
Story" of Michigan Banks
at Hearing Monday.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DETROIT, August l9.- Senator
James Couzens, who told a grand jury
that high finance and unjustified
loans" caused Michigan to be harder
hit than other States during the bank
ing crisis, today marshalled his memo
rsnda preparatory to resuming his "in-
side story" Monday.
There was no more boom city and
State than Detroit and Michigan" the
Republican Senator yesterday told the
grand jury which is seeking the causes
for the closing Of Detroit's two ma
tional banks.
1--WE had enthusiasm and energy and
we were going along to, degree blind
~, believing IN the abolition of poverty
and perpetual prosperity. We hit a
rock. and those going the fastest took
the worst fall"
Next on the list Of witnesses is the
Rev. Father Charles E. Coughlin, also
an outspoken critic Of banking methods.
The hearing was In recess today.
Whether Senator Couzens would con-
clude In time for Father Coughlin to
take the stand Monday was doubtful.
The, Senator testified that an "orgy
Of pyramiding and the fixing Of fcti-
tious values and earnings" figured in
the Detroit banking debac1e, but that
Federal oflcials also were vulnerable.
They allowed the banks to remain
open. he said. when they knew them
to be unsound, ION the theory that
prosperity was Just around the corner"
Directors Of the First National Bank,
Detroit, were obligated for ga, ,190, 900
when the institution closed. he said,
and added: II understand stenographers
getting from $1,000 to 5000 . year
He said he did not believe moral tur-
pitude" was involved, although he cited
incidents he suggested be examined
for illegality.
Evening star., 1933-08-19

later she went to an adjoining ONCE
to change IS bill. leaving her pocket
book, containing $40, on her desk.
Upon her return, she saw q colored
man walking away from her ofice
toward the stairway. Noticing her
pocketbook was missing, Mrs. Du Bois
ran after the man and caught him at
the top Of the stairway.
you've got my pocketbook." she
cried. The man made no reply, but
tried to push past her. She grabbed
him and screamed for help.
Mrs. Du Bois was determined to pre-
vent the man from escaping, so she paid
little attention to facts in her effort
to secure assistance. First she cried,
"Help!" and then "Murder" This
threw the building into an uproar, but
no one came to her aid. Alone, then,
she grabbed the man around the neck
CONTINUED on Page. 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
CAFE CODE EVASION BY CHARGING
EMPLOYEES FOR MEALS BARRED

employment agreement Dr restaurant
operator who had not charged his EN-
ployes for meals prior to June 16, 1888,
to charge for them now."
The modified agreement also provides
that "gratrities shall not be considered
a part Of the remuneration of any en-
ploye."
The wage section Of the agreement
now reads:
'The minimum rates and wages estab-
lished in section shall not be sub
ject to deduction for meals furnished
employees unless such was the practice
in the restaurant prior to June 16, 1888,
and II ruch was the case the charge
shall net exceed IS cents per meal nor
s. total IN auy one weed"
Evening star., 1933-08-19
MACHADO BELIEVED
GOING TO BERMUDA
Exiled President of Cuba Prepares
to Leave Bahama Island Re-
treat Tonight.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NASSAU. New Providence, August 10.
Gerardo Machado. prepared this morn
ing to leave the hotel at which he has
stayed since arriving here last Sunday.
1t was believed he would leave on the
steamship Franconia for Bermuda to-
night
The former Cuban chief executive
paid the hotel charges. He
did not reveal his destination. but the
Bermuda steamer was said to be the
only one leaving the island today.
A voyage to Bermuda had been one
of the plans first considered by Machado
and his party after their arrival at
Nassau Sunday after Q delayed flight
from Havana.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
NAZI TROOPERS BLOW
TO BRING APOLOGY
Leader in Berlin to Call on q. S.
Ambassador for Attack on
DR.. Mulvihill.
BY the Associated Press.

BY The ASs0clateo PfesS
BERLIN, August 19.-Berlin's Nad
group leader, Karl Ernst, announced
today that he would call on United
States Ambassador william E. Dodd
next Tuesday and offer apologies for
the attack by a Na1 storm trooper on
DR.. Daniel Mulvihill of Brooklyn, N. Y.
DR.. Mulvihill was struck in the face
because he failed to salute parading
Nazis last Tuesday night. The trooper
who hit him has been arrested.
Ernst will call on the Ambassador in
the capacity Of a member of the Prus-
sian State Council. He decreed that
any storm trooper who molests foreign
ers will be excluded Immediately from
the Brown Shirt army.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
To block possible evasions Of the
Presidents unemployment agreement,
Gen. johnson today ordered modtfica-
ton of the restaurant industry agree
ment to prohibit owners from charging
employees for meals.
Johnson's order. as given out through
the administration Policy Board, said:
TT has come to the attention of the
Policy Board that charging for meals
was not common practice In the res
turant industry prior to the passage
of the national industrial recovery act.
This being so, We consider 1t an
effort to evade the minimum wage pro-
visions and subterfuge to frustrate the
spirit and intent Of the Presidents re.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
CUBAN ARMY COUP
SURPRISED WELLES
U. S. Envoy Says He Knew
Nothing of Movement Which
Ended Crisis.
BY COL. FREDERICK PALMER.

BY Radio to The Star.
HAVANA, August 10 CN.A.NA)-"I
had no communication with any oficer
OF the Cuban army about the army
movement which brought a sudden end
to the crisis here by forcing President
Machado's resignation and had no
intimation that any such action was
contemplated, said Ambassador Sum-
ner Welles in answer to a question I
put in the course Of talk with him.
II knew but one Cuban officer-Gen.
Herrera, the then Cuban secretary Of
war-and him only as a cabinet minis
ter"
The IL hours of sleep the Ambassador
has promised himself when the strain
is over seems to be in sight already,
SO rapidly has comparative tranquility
succeeded turmoil in Havana and
throughout Cuba at the close Of q week
significant not only in the history OF
Cuba. but American diplomacy. Hope
fully the Ambassador Is now looking
forward to a game of tennis. He has
had no exercise or relaxation except
stepping back and forth between his
car and conferences since MS arrival
in Havana on May 3.
when arrived in Cuba the situa-
ton was already appalling" the Ambas-
sador said 1T soon grew into a reign
of terror as President Machado an
swered the bombings and public indig-
nation with more and more repression.
The chiefs of all parties turned to MI
Welles for counsel. "Machado himself
welcomed mediation" Mr.. Welles added.
Played Role Of Friend.
Complicated as the Ambassadors part
was in the confusion Of passionate
cross-currents, he kept it very simple.
His role was that Of q friend and
neighbor who placed his good off1ces
at the service Of the Machado govern
ment and the opposition. The Ameri-
can embassy became clearing mouse
for all plans for relief from a situation
which had become intolerable. After
the tramway workers struck IN sym
pathy with the omnibus walk-out the
people found that though neither OF
these strikes was political, they might
have q political weapon in a political
strike against the army and the police
who were supposedly still loyal to Ma
chado and his armed henchmen.
Finding that further repression did
not break the strike and hoping that
public emotion would wear itself out,
while he faced in swiftly shifting moods
the solid front of the astounding public
siege, Machado evidently tried to play
American mediation as a stop-gap
which would enable him to retain
power.
President Machado talked of count
er proposals" said Ambassador Welles.
But none was ever made. He talked
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1933-08-19
REVISED OIL CODE
NEAR FINAL STAGE
Minor Changes Being Made.
Delivery to Roosevelt
Due Late Today.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A revised code of fair practice for
the big oil industry today headed to-
ward the White House with the ex-
pectation that it would arrive well be-
fore nightfan to find President Roose-
welt prepared for its receipt.
The President already has decided
to name himself head of an organiza-
ton to administer the affairs of the
petroleum industry, along with repre-
sentatives Of the Interior Department
and the Bureau of Mines.
Minor revisions Of the oil trade agree
ment at N. r. A. headquarters today
prevented immediate delivery of the
code, but indications were given that
the redrafting would be completed in
short order
It was understood that one of the
revisions would give the President
broader discretional authority over
prices than was provided in the code
submitted to the oil men Thursday by
Hugh s. johnson, the NJ r. A. admin
istrator Pending approval by the Chief
Executive no official would discuss the
final details.
Price Relationship Kept.
It was said, however, that a section
would remain in the code hitching the
price of crude oil to gasoline at re-
f1nery, SO that as one moved up OF
down the other would follow.
This section stipulates that the cost
Of barrel of crude oil Of 36-36e
gravity shall be 1875 times the average
price Of gallon of gasoline, and pro-
vides that other price relationships shall
be in proportion to these bases accord
ing to gravity. quality and locality OF
origin.
For test period of 80 days, Presi-
dent Roosevelt would be authorized tc
prescribe the base price Of the gallon
of gasoline forming one end of the
ratio and at the end of 80 days he
could revise the formula.
The production control section re-
quests the President to limit imports
Of petroleum for domestic consumption
in proportion to the estimated domestic
production as cVrtailed.
Withdrawals Limited.
Withdrawals of crude oil from storage
are limited to 100000 barrels daily for
the balance Of 1888, with the amount
of future Withdrawals after that period
(Contir,,an a., pooo rOI,,rnn "a
Evening star., 1933-08-19
SLEEPING SICKNESS
| CLAIMS ; MORE
Death Total Reaches Nine
as Epidemic Spreads in
st. Louis.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, August 19-The epidemic
Of sleeping sickness" In st. Louis and
vicinity. which appeared to have been
checked two days ago, has taken a turn
for the worse.
Since July 80 nine persons have died
OF the disease, while approximately
100 others have been hospitalized.
Three of the victims died yesterday.
Dan Osburn, "a, succumbed to the
strange malady shortly before midnight
Earlier in the day Mrs Katie Fisher,
81, Of suburban Dartsdale and william
Polette of Webster Groves died.
The death of Polette was attributed to
. reaction after the virus itself had
passed its active peak.
Seventeen new cases were reported
during the last "a hours. OF these,
II were IN the suburban districts
which has been hit harder than st.
Louis itself
Meanwhile medical experts studying
the outbreak of the disease, medically
known as encephalitis, delve deeper into
their attack against the epidemic. DR..
J. p Leake Of the United States Public
Health Service has been here aiding the
local physicians.
To facilitate control Of the epidemic,
the cause Of which Is unknown to medi-
cal science, q permanent metropolitan
health council has been organized.
SURGEON GENERAL ACTS.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
new WARRANT ASKED
TO ExTRADITE SAPIRO
New York Attorney Reindicted
After Lehman Refuses
First Request.

CHICAGO, August 10 [R.-Assistant
States Attorney James v. Cunningham
went to Springfield today to obtain a
new extradition warrant for Aaron
Sapiro, New York attorney. charged
with Al Capone and az others with
conspiracy in labor racketeering.
The grand jury reindicted Sapiro
yesterday after Gov. Lehman of New
York had refused to permit Sapiro's
extradition on the ground that he de-
MED being In Chicago on May 80, 1882,
the date specified in the first indict-
ment.
The new indictment sets the date at
May 18, 1892.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
GARMENT WORKERS
STRIKE IS SETTLED
$1,000 TO RETURN
N. R. A. Mediates Row Based
on Employees Charge Of
Sweatshop Conditions.
SHOPS IN FOUR STATES
WILL REOPEN MONDAY
35-Hour Week and Right to Bar.
gain Collectively Il Granted
by Arbitrators.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August ia settle
ment Of the strike Of $4,000 dressmak-
ers, which had tied up the vast industry
in the metropolitan area since Wednes-
day, was announced at dawn today by
Grover A. Whalen. N. r. A. mediator.
Whalen said the workers, who walked
out from hundreds Of shops in New
York City. New Jersey, Connecticut and
Pennsylvania, In what they called .
protest against "sweatshop conditions" !"
would begin returning to work Monday
An-Night Meeting.
Wage scales were threshed out In an
all-night meeting and an accord was
announced, the complicated scale gen.
orally representing q compromise be-
tween union demands and employer
offers.
The union workers won the right Of
collective bargaining, one of the chief
points Of contention, as well as . 35-
hour week. The agreement places re-
sponsibility on jobbers for payment Of
minimum wage scales and the main
tenance of the code for the industry
when it Is adopted at Washington.
Contractors, who operate shops and
produce goods on contract for jobbers,
had complained in some instances that
they could not pay higher wages until
the iobhers Maid them more
Declared Great Victory.
81 think this is q great victory for
the N. r. A." Whalen said. This
agreement has been arrived at in quicker
time than in any other industry. /
think you will find these prices to be
the highest ones adopted by any IN
dustry"
He referred to the wage scales. Guar
anteed minimum wages for work on
dresses selling for s3.75 or less. as
agreed upon by the conferees. follow:
Cutters. SIS . week: operators. IS
cents an hour in New York City: IS
cents an hour outside New York City:
examiners, $40 q week In New York
City, and SIT week outside.
Other Scaless ~
Pressers, IS cents in New York City.
10 cents an hour outside; fnishers. $40
a week in New York City, SIT outside;
cleavers, SIS q week throughout the
territory, that being the minimum wage
under the national recovery act; sample
makers, $50 q week throughout the ter
ritory.
In the area outside New York City o
differential Of 10 per cent was allowed
in the wage scales Of those mantfactur-
ing dresses selling at wholesale for more
than $375 A provision will be inserted
in the agreement, Whalen said. that the
differential shall remain unless the in
vestigation which both sides are max
ing proves 1t is not equitable.
SHIRT STRIKE ENDED.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
SURGEON GENERAL ACTS.
Authorizes Purchase Of Monkeys for
Experiments In ST. Louis.

BY the Associated Press
Surgeon General Hugh M. Cumming
by long distance telephone, today au-
thorized DR.. James p Leake in St. Louis
to purchase monkeys for laboratory ex-
periments In encephalitis, the strange
sleeping sickness" which is prevalent
there
The Surgeon General gave his at
tention to the st. Louis epidemic Of
sleeping sickness" which took a turn
for the worst in the past "a hours.
He called In his laboratory experts
with a view to taking further steps
to aid in. and find out about, this
strange disease whose cause is still
baf1ing to medical science.
At the first report Of the outbreak
the Public Health Service sent DR.. ]. p.
Leake to st. Louis.
After considering the St. Louis Sit
uation. DR.. Cumming planned to leave
today for Hamilton, Mont, to speed
construction of the new Rocky Noun
tain spotted fever laboratory there.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
Cuggenheim Honor
Is Sidetracked by
Flight of Machado
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
There Is q decoration awaiting
former Ambassador Guggenheim
at the Cuban embassy, but he
probably will never receive it.
It was sent by Gen. Gerardo
Machado, who until last Satur-
day was President Of Cuba. It
arrived yesterday and was placed
In the hands Of Charge d'Affaires
Jose Baron, whose allegiance
now Is to the government which
sent Machado fleeing for his life.
There appeared only scant
possibility that the new A:nbas-
sador soon to present his creden-
tials, DR.. Carlos Marquee Sterling.
would care to hold q ceremony
In honor of the man favored by
the ousted dictator.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
consul's wife Kill, Self.

MEXICO, d. F., August 10 R.-Mrs
Yngro Tholsson, wife of the Swedish
consul general, ended her life yesterday
by shootipg herself through the heart
with . revolver. She was said 70 have
been IN III health for some time.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
SHIRT STRIKE ENDED.
Pottsville, Pa, Workers Go Back to
Affected Firms August 81.

BY the Associated Press.
The National Labor Board announced
today that the H. D. Bob Co. had sign-
ed an agreement to end the shirt
makers strike at Pottsville, Pa.
The Philip Jones Co., the other firm
affected by the strike, signed an agree
ment yesterday. The workers are to
go back to their jobs August 81. Both
agreements were similar to the pact
which ended the Reading hosiery strike.
Evening star., 1933-08-19
NEED MORE SPACE
FOR PUBLIC WORKS
Officials Say Functions Of
Body Are Hampered by
Cramped Quarters.

The progress Of the public works pro-
gram is being held up by lack Of ade-
quate ONCE space here, Secretary Of the
Interior Ickes has informed Senator
Connally, Democrat, Of Texas, chair
man of the Public Buildings Commis-
sion.
The Public Works Administration ex-
poets to take on some 1000 new en-
ployes here, 80 the engineering and
fiscal aspects of new projects may be
examined adequately. This new force
will have to be housed with the existing
personnel under one roof to secure the
most efncient administration. It was
learned today that the public works
administrator believes q minimum Of
$4,000 square feet is the present re-
quirement for efficient working of that
newly-organized agency of Government,
but it now occupies far less than that.
being housed In the Interior Depart
ment.
May Get Whole Building.
q proposal to move the Interior Depart
ment out of the present building at
Eighteenth and e streets, turning over
the structure entirely 10 the require
ments of the Public Works Administra-
ton Should this plan be carried out,
as 1t has been discussed by Govern
ment oficials, the Interior Department
would occupy the building, now being
completed at Twelfth street and Con-
stitution avenue, for the Interstate
Commerce Commission. Plastering and
other work Is now being done In that
building and 1t is not expected to be
ready for occupancy sooner than jan
uary at the earliest, unless some method
is found to speed up construction. ON
cials of the supervising architects ONCE
of the Treasury Department are at work
on q program to rig up temporary
heating arrangement, 80 that the build
ing may be At for occupancy during
the cold weather.
Government authorities say that %
great Is the pressure for space from
the manifold agencies Of the Govern
ment that Uncle Sam might well use
all the space he new utiltxes, Is well
as that to be f,ynished when the new
public buildings In the triangle are
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Corporation, given some additional du-
ties in the last Congress, Is another
group that desires additional space and
as the various other recovery agencies
grow In importance, the officials FORE
see increasing space demands.
May Move Others.
The Federal Employment stabilixa-
ton Board and the Tennessee Valley
Authority are settling In new quarters,
after eviction from the Interior Depart
ment, In Government-owned space. A
proposal has been put forward to have
the Office Of education. an Interior De-
partment Bureau. moved out Of that
building.
Where to md the needed additional
space and how to make the moves
economically Is q perplexing problem
for Government authorities, these days
In view of the expanding activities Of
the administrators program. II the
public buildings, now under construc-
ton in the triangle, were fnished, It
would aid immeasurahly, the authorities
say, but they must waik for month"; Jet.
Evening star., 1933-08-19

Wages Above 40 Cents.
"Wages-General increase of IS per
cent has been made since July l. Min
lmum wages fixed in code are esti-
mated by Steel companies to exceed an
average of 40 cents per hour. (This
results from facts that higher minimum
wages than those fixed in the code are
paid to large groups of common labor. -
Cooe administration and trial period
Code to be effective for 80 days as a
trial period to determine effect. Pro-
VISION Tor three representatives of
N. Il. A. to receive full information,
with access to necessary records. q
meet with board of directors of Ir0
and Steel Institute upon administ1 3
ton of code and advise the PreSid11 z
so as to provide assurance that {
code operation is in full compl q
With the law, providing adequate pr
tlon OF public interests and furnish
the basis for recommendations to IL
PRESIDENT as to continuation or noo1s
ncatton OF code after 80 days period q
trial and determination of results"
Workers Right Safeguarded.
The text Of the revised code its q
was not made public Immediately, her
it could not be ascertained who H.
yielded on what. But the code still Cd
tanned a provision giving employees /
right to organize in any manner IL
chose. and without restraint. III
though, had not been a recent point Il
controversy.
Putting oils completed code in
Presidents hands was regarded d
as matter of time measured by
necessity Of minor revisions in
bulky text. The Chief Executive h
self will direct the Federal group
ministering affairs for this industr
Kenneth M. Simpson, deputy adm
istrator, said today he doubted whe
completed coal code would 60 to
White House before President Roose1
leaves tonight. His scheduled com
ence with the bituminous operators
set back from this morning until
ernoon because of other business
manding the attention of N. R.
chieftains
Simpson said Gen. johnson wanted
talk to the coal men and that an
pointment at the White House wd
make that impossible this morn
johnson went to the White House,
sumably to discuss the coal code
President Roosevelt.
Recovery officials reflected the
Continued on Page 8, Column
Evening star., 1933-08-19
SACK. TO BE ENVOY.
Capital Newspaper Man Named
Minister to Costa Rica.

Leo r. Sack, Washington newspaper
man, is to be named Minister to Costa
Rica