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The Washington times., 1933-02-11
Stricken German City a Gruesome Sight,
Women Driven Mad From Shock

The terrible havoc wrought by
the blast can be judged from the
fact that only nine out of the
60 bodies recovered up to noon to-
day could be positively identified
The remainder were so badly
mangled that they may have to
co to unmarked graves.
Among the most pitiful casual
ties were those who escaped un
harmed in body but crippled in
mind. In my tour of the devas
tated area saw five women rem.
dered raving mad by the horror
which they had undergone.
There was great disorder ano
confusion at the Victoria Hospital
The front of the building was
wrecked. Several patients were
hurled from their beds into the
street.
Infant Escapes
There we're few miraculous eS
capeS. One survivor was a siS
months old badly, which I found
lying in the street, stark naked
but uninjured. Where it came
from and how it escaped is a mys
terry. I turned it over to the
police.
Equally fortunate was a pet tom
cat whose mistress, although in
jured, rescued the animal from
the debris of her home. I passed
them in the street as she hastened
to a first-aid station, more con
cerned about the cats, welfare
than her own.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
FIGHT AVERTED
BY MRS,FORD
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vored "abdication" by Congress
Of some Of its authority.

DETROIT, Feb. II GNSD.-A
clash between attendants of Mrs.
Edsel Ford and four constableS
who have been trying for some
time to serve Ford with a sub
poena in a lawsuit, was under
investigation today by the Wayne
county prosecutors office.
Only Mrs. F'ord'S calmneSS pre-
vented a battle between her re-
tainers and the determined con-
stables, Assistant Prosecutor Miles
N. Culehan was told.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
MILLIONS STOLEN FROM PUBLIC, OLSON DECLARES
Puerto Ric0n
Wills Body
To Aimee

TUCSON, Ariz., Feb. II G.N.
SO.-Aimee Semple Mcpherson
Hutton, noted California evan
gelist, now on a world cruise,
will besthe recipient of the body
of Santo Lacroix, devout Puerto
Rican, upon his death, if a self
written will is carried out
Lacroix was arrested for stab
bing Ralph MenteZ.
Lacroix said he had become a
follower of the blonde evangelist
two years ago. The will stated,
in part:
"She will dispose Of my body
in her best possible manner"
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
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benzol plant ignited by the
blast, no one paid attention to
it, bending all their efforts car
ing for the injured and removing
bodies from the wreckage.
Additional help came from all
parts of the Saar basin as word
of the disaster spread. Physi.
clans, nurses, and medical equip
ment were rushed to the scene.
Transportation at first was ham
pered because wreckage was
strewn over nearby railroad
tracks.
Many women and children
were victims of the blast. and
the walls of the injured children
added to the horror Of the night,
through which rescuers worked
with frantic speed.
Messages from Basel, Switzer-
land, said the detonation had
been heard there, $50 miles dis
tant.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

NORMA TAYLOR tor.
HutchinS, whose pupils have
included Joan Crawford, Nancy
Carroll, Ginger Rogers, Jeanne
Aubert, Betty Compton and
numerous other luminaries.
has been overfriendly with the
little blonde dancer since last
June, if you would believe the
wife's affidavit.
She sets forth that the al
legged misconduct occurred re-
peatedly at various times and
places, but usually at the
HutChins studio.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

A m os a n d
An dy, tn e
bla C k f a C e
t e a m o t
radio, from
CONT n III n g
"to hold the
plaintiffs up
to ridic VI e,
shame, scorn,
humilia tion
and degrada-
ton" through
ere m a r k S
W h ich a r e
generally de-
rogatory, de-
f a m a t ory,
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

got back her
famous Duke,
but today it
appeared they
may have just
begun.
After the
dog, a half.
grown Ger
m a n shep-
herd, disap-
peared from
h er mana
gers home in
Long Island
December %.
K a t e made
q; y ! 1- 80
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

q NJ a 0 7 y c. J. COKRELL,
Sland erouS, ANDY
degrading and humilating" to
and of the colored race and
through which "the residents
of Harlem have been irreparab-
ly injured in their regulations
and businesses"
Justice Peter Hating enter
tanned the complaint and
signed an order requiring the
radio blackface team to show
cause next Tuesday why they
should not be restrained from
further attacks on Mr.. HamlI-
tons dignity.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
GARNER VIEWS
BUREAU CUTS

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vored "abdication" by Congress
Of some of it's authority.
Smell for Compromise
Garner insisted the incoming
President must have power to
abolish bureaus and commissions.
Representative Smell of New
York, Republican leader, indi-
Gated he would favor the COM
promise proposal known as the
Huddleston amendment, under
which the President would be
given power to cut expenditures
10 per cent.
This compromise will be placed
before Senate-House conferees on
the Treasury,Post Office bill, con-
tanning the Economy act rider,
next week.
Smell will oppose giving the
President power to abolish bu-
reaus without consent of Con-
gress. He also will oppose weak
ening of the national defense.
The new plan, which would
give the new President far more
power than that voted by the
Senate to reorganize the Govern
ment and cut expenses, will be
presented to both Senate and
House.
Seek Roosevelt Advice
All Congressional leaders have
agreed to give the President broad
power, but find difficulty in draw
ing the line. The President-elect
is expected to be asked for ad-
vice.
The situation growing out of
the proposal is declared by mem
bers to be one of the most amaz-
ing in peace-time history.
While demands have be en-
made outside of Congress for a
dictatorship or a Fascist govern
ment. Congress has thus far
spurned such proposals.
Now, with leading members
frankly declaring Congress can
not combat organized minorities
and relieve the tax burden by
cutting expenses, the proposal is
made to give the President the
emergency power for two years.
HuddlesOn Idea Favored
The compromise plan. based
upon a resolution introduced by
Representative Huddleston CD
of Alabama, found more favor
than the dictatorship" proposal.
Under this plan, the President
would be authorized to reduce
expenditures except contractual
obligations.
A similar resolution, authoriz-
ing a per cent cut, was adopted
by the Senate. An accompanying
resolution, however, prohibited the
reduction of salaries of Govern
ment workers.
The new plan would allow the
President to reduce salaries.
Some constitutional lawyers have
asserted that Congress cannot
delegate power to the President to
decrease grants made to veterans.
Mr.. RooSeVelt'S advisers are said
to have accepted this view.
Vet "BlOc" on Guard
Representative Buchanan CD
of Texas. who outlined the plan
Of House leaders after Speaker
Garner declared in favor of giving
the President unlimited authority
to cut expenditures, indicated the
compromise plan would be urged
by House conferees on the Treas
ury-Postoffice supply bill.
Representative Wood (RO of
Indiana, who represented Presi-
dent Hoover as opposing the die
tatorShip" plan, indicated he
would support the revised plan.
The veterans bloc" was on
guard lest power should be given
to slash veterans benefits without
Congressional sanction. Tho in
flationist group planned to oppose
all extreme economy measures.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
Cashier Describes
Scene of Horror

The horror and suffering t0hich
tolloWed the explosion OF huge
gas tank at Neunkirchen is
graphically described in the fol-
Iot1ing 7tdrrGtiUe from Franz
Puets, one of the SuruivorS OF the
disaster.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

yond condur-
a n e. His
self -Steem IS
unrep a rally
unruptioned.
He is stirred
to the depts
of his sub
consciabili ty.
He has suf-
AC1Cu q COA-
front of his
h n d m o S t
consenSi bill
tiles. In fact
h e c a Mt
stand it any
more.
So by due
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

pealS over the air for its re
turn, and millions of her listen
erS, presumably, turned amateur
sleuths in the quest Of the pup.
Three weeks ago the dog
turned up at the S. P. C. A.
under mysterious circumstances.
After proving ito everybody in
authority in the whole town"
that it was her long lost Duke.
Kate got her dog.
But several other persons
protested to the S. P. C. A. that
the dog was theirs and today
one of them went so far as to
seek legal aid in recovering it.
The claimant was Mrs. Amanda
Plenge, Of the Bronx.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

G. u n a n s
n / g h t club
trou e, as
the girl who
S t oil h e r
husbands af-
fectlonS, Mrs.
Muriel Young
Hutchins has
filed suit for
d i v o r Ce
against John
H u t C h i n S,
we'll = known
d ra m a t ic
coach and
voice inStruc-
The Washington times., 1933-02-11

process of law, the colored
citizen of Harlem has started
a suit ION behalf of himself
and all other residents in the
vicinity of Harlem who are
similarly situated" to enjoin
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
HOME BOMBING UNSoLVED

DANVILLE, Va, Feb. 11.-Po-
lice today are still without a clue
in the bombing of the home of
Lou Petty, colored, with dynamite
Wednesday night. The house was
badly damaged.
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
Former Night Club Girl
Named as Love Thief

NEW YORK, Feb. II.
Naming Norma Taylor, petite
blonde graduate Of Texas
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
Kate Smith Center
Of Fight Over Dog

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Kate
Smith, of the radio, thought
her dog difficulties were set
tied last Saturday when she
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
PEOPLE
Who Interest
You and
What They
Are Doing
Aroused Harlemite Sues
To Gag Amos n Andy

NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-Sam-
uel Hamilton, of Harlem, Is
requested. He is irrigated be-
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
CONDITION OF TREASURY

Treasury b lance, 1866, ,240,-
866.52; expenditures, $685.
072.36; customs receipts $5,52l,'
1929.
Charlotte ..........$1 ,O44,316.23
Richmond ........o..o(OmltteoA
The Washington times., 1933-02-11
By FRANZ PUETZ
Cashier Of q NeuenkirChen

Banking House
As Told to International News Service
Copyright. 1888, by International
News Service)
Evening star., 1933-10-08
Child, Inuoluing
Diplomatic Ties,
Flies to Father
Girl From South america
Reunited With Parent
in United States.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI, Fla. October 7.--Carrying
a big doll. shy little Venezuelan girl
climbed out of an airplane upon her
arrival here from South America late
Yesterday to make her home with her
American father following a separation
that ended only after three years of
diplomatic negotiations between the
United States and her native country.
She is five-year-old Irma Frances
WEIGH, brown eyed, golden haired
daughter of James E. WEIGH of Shreve-
port. La, who was engaged in the oil
business in Venezuela for years before
he lost custody of his daughter and
then went to Washington to wage q
legal battle through the State Depart
ment for her return.
Irma was born in Ciudad Bolivar,
where she lived with her father and
mother, who was a Venezuelan girl.
child was eight months old and never
returned A year later Irma was placed
IN custody of Domingo Savelli by order
of Venezuelan court.
Because of his difficulties with the
Venezuelan government, it was not pos
sible for Welch to return to that coun-
try. The child was taken to Trinidad,
however, after Secretary Hull directed
that, irrespective of any claim Welch
might have against the Venezuelan
government, immediate consideration
should be given to the restoration OF
the child to her father.
Welch said he had instituted suit OF
$500 900 against the Venezuelan gov
ernment for loss to his property in that
country and that he also had asked
additional damages because his daughter
had been kept from him.
Welch and Irma left here last night
for WashingtonSwhere WEIGH said he
would continue to press his claim
against the Venezuelan government.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
THREAT LETTER GETS
BUS DRIVER ARRESTED
Virginian Charged With Attempt
ing to Extort $1,000 From
State Senator.
BY the Associated Press.

SUFFOLK. Va. october 7.-Archibald
E. Sutton, driver of Peninsula Transit
Corporation bus, which operates through
this city. was arrested yesterday on a
charge of extortion, and last night was
released after his arrest by Chief of
Police Churn of Suffolk. on bond OF
$1,000 with security given by a rela-
tive in West Point, Va.
Col E. E. Holland. State Senator
from this district and president OF the
Farmers Bank of Nansemond. Thurs
day received a typed letter mailed in
the Suffolk post Office, in which his
life was threatened unless he personally
placed in the hands of certain PENN
sula bus driver. at a time and place
specified. an envelope containing $1,000
The matter was taken up with Po-
lice Chief Churn and at the appointed
time, and on once of the streets of Suf-
folk. Col Holland delivered sealed
envelope to Sutton. driver of the bus.
The only address on the envelope
was &C. G. G."
Two passengers. who turned out to
be officers. watched the proceedings and
rode with Sutton to Newport News. At
the end of the run, they called him to
one side and told him of what they
had seen. He claimed he had been
framed" according to the police. and
that some one else would call for the
sealed letter The police stated they
would hang around" until delivery was
made. and until the certain things
which Sutton said would happen came
to pass.
Nothing happened whereupon Sut-
ton was brought to Suffolk Sutton is
about % years old and said he is a
graduate of the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute at Blacksburg.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
FORMER WASHINGFQNlAN
REPORTED DEAD ON CORSI
Joseph H. Hopkins, War Veteran
Was Connected With Post
Office Department.

Word was received here yesterday OF
the death Wednesday at Glendale,
Calf, of Joseph H. Hopkins. 38. World
War veteran and former resident Of the
Capital.
Mr.. Hopkins was connected with the
Post Office Department here for many
years before he was transferred to Price.
Utah, where he became assistant super
intendent In charge Of automobile
Transportation of mail When his
health became bad. he was sent to the
United States Veterans Hospital at
San Fernando, Calf, near Los An
geles.
Mr. Hopkins is survived by his widow,
Mrs. Margaret Whitwell Hopkins whose
father. Sanford NJ Whitwell, was audi
tor for many years for the Washing
ton Gas Light Co. He also leaves two
children, Sanford W., 8. and George
Candy. 9.
Funeral services are to be held here
Thursday with burial in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
SEEKS EXTENSION
OF STOCK INQUIRY
Costigan Moves to ProIong
Probe to Bring About
Wall Street Reforms.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A move to prolong the Senate stock
market investigation in order to bring
about Wall Street reforms. even If
Ferdinand Pecora should resign as
counsel January l, was inaugurated
yesterday by Senator Costigan Of Colo
RADIO, a Democratic member Of the In
quiry Committee.
Under the present plans. the inquiry
would be concluded by the end Of the
year. Since Pecora is running for dis
trict attorney of New York, this would
require him to resign at that time II
elected
In a formal statement yesterday,
however, Costigan called for pushing
the inquiry even If it should be neces-
sary to 60 beyond January in order
to disclose and set up legislative bars
against Wall Street practices that he
said were destructive.
Regrets Possible Resignation.
Costigan. in the statement forwarded
to his Office here from ship carrying
him from Hawaii to San Francisco, ex-
pressed regret at the possibility OF Pc
coras resignation, but said 1t would
merely have the effect Of deepening
the determination of the controlling
votes on the committee to continue to
press the investigation without fear or
favor and with commanding thorough
ness as the public interest unmistakably
requests.
IF that course should prolong the
INQUIRY beyond January l." he added,
the task must none the less be pur-
sued until Wall Street practices which
have largely contributed to the neeo,
less waste Of our Nations wealth. anu
the destruction Of our country's pros,
perity shall have been reVeaieo anu
legislatiyely barred"
Chairman Fletcher has announced
the committee would attempt to con-
ciude hearings by the end OF November
in order to submit report with legls-
latiye recommendations at the opening
of Congress In January.
II is planned to conclude the current
Dillon. Read g. Co. inquiry this week;
with hearings beginning Tuesday. ana
then 20 into operations OF the Chase
Securities Corporation. an animate OF
the Chase National Bank.
No Conflict Between Groups.
After that the committee has planned
Tn make INQUIRIES into the Associated
Gas e. Electric Co. and Stock Exchange
practices and collection OF flnal eN-
dence in the investigation OF j. r. MOI
gan & Co. and Kuhn. Loeb & co.
In a letter to Chairman Fletcher yes
terday Secretary of Commerce Roper
informed him there would be no con-
flict between his committee and the
special group studying Stock Exchange
practices for President Roosevelt.
1T Is the thought Of this committee,
of course" Roper said. that no action
will be taken in the matter OF advising
the President in advance OF the results
which your committee secures and in
advance of any recommendation which
YOU and your committee may make.
Roper said the departmental group
would study the testimony taken by the
Senate Committee. This Is being lo:-
warded to it daily by Chairman
Fletcher.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
us. WHISKY OUTPUT.
MOUNTS IS TIMES.
Commissioner Doran Author
ICES Total of 100000
Gallons This Year.
BY the Associated Press.

At least 100000 gallons of whisky
will be made by American distilleries
this year. in contrast to an annual out
put of 100000 gallons for the last
four years.
The current year began with an al
lotment of 100000 gallons, which was
increased two months ago to ii ,OOOOOO
Yesterday Dr. James M. Doran, com
missioner of industrial alcohol, added
another 100000 to the years author
lied production
He explained his action was not die
tated by the possibility of early repeal
but by the rapidity with which stocks
of aged domestic liquor were being re-
duced through drug store sales.
Until last Spring physicians were
sharply limited in the amount of alco-
holic liquors they could prescribe within
a given period The Celler law en-
acted at the last session of Congress
removed these restrictions, and ply
scians are now authorized to prescribe
any quantity they believe patient
needs.
Drug Store Sales.
Prior to the passage of this measure
liquor sales through the drug stores
were little less than million gallons
a year. 1t was with this rate OF con-
sumption in mind that the million
gallon quota was authorized through
four successive years.
But. under the Cellar law, basing
their figures on warehouse Withdrawals,
otfic. ais estimate consumption Is now
about 100000 gallons annually.
Aged stocks now aggregate from A.
600 900 to 4.50OO00 gallons. lncludlng
1925 million-galio output. WHISKY
must be four years old before 1t can be
sold. .,,,
Distilleries have been running at tull
speed all wear Should the l8,0oo.uou-
gallon quota be exhausted before jan
uarv |. DR.. Doran indicated that fur-
ther extension might be granted.
Importation Considered.
The commissioner and his advisers
ere giving consideration to the pos
sibilitv of authorizing liquor imports
to increase further the stocks on hand.
The division has received many ap-
plications for permission to import,
based on the contention that repeal
is inevitable and that the available sup
ply wcuh prove to be only small per-
centage of the demand that would fol-
low. In 1917. the last full pre-prohip..
ton year. whisky consumption totaleo
167O1o,O0O gallons.
Dr.. Doran alre2Cy mas autnorlZeu lIe
importation of a small quantity OF
brandy. which he said was to meet
shortage of such liquor for use in hos
pitals. The shipment arrived at New
York a few days ago.
Imported liquors are being assessed
q tariff of SIS a g'llon. In the event OF
repeal, the internal revenue tax of Sl.l0
would be added. making total levy OF
$50 gallon.
Domestic distillers have raised their
prices to such peak in the last few
months that officials of the division
have estimated that the importers could
match domestic prices even after pay
ing these levies.
Evening star., 1933-10-08
J|BE At DUTCHMAN
ENLNENS HEARING
Reference to Van der Lubbe
as Idiot Gets Laugh at
Arson Trial.
By the Associated Press.

LEIPZIG. Germany october T.
The court pounded away today in an
attempt to learn whether the three
Bulgarian defendants in the Reichstag
fire trial were linked with the German
Communists. but all stCutly denied it
in testimony also designed to prove
they could not have set the blaze
One of the three. the outspokcn
Georgi Dimitrof. who was ousted from
the court room Yesterday, after tan
Cling with the judges. made his peace
with Wilhelm Buenger. the presiding
Justice, at the start of the session, but
it did not last Before the day was out
he ran afoul of the judges again and
was warned he had better behave.
This rerrimand followed suggest. .on
that the police, one of whom :l5 clIei
a liar yesterday had juggled SINE OF
the trial exhibits. He said the officers
might Intentionally have removed sCnle
of the cards to leave only those of the
imperial palace and the Reichstag
Building SO as to incriminate him.
Spectators Get Laugh.
One Of the belligerent sallies OF
Dimitroff drew a laugh from the spec
tators Buenger was questioning
Marinus van der Lubbe. young Dutch
man, who has confessed firing the Par
lament Building. concerning testimony
of a waiter that he had been seen In
a Berlin restaurant with Dimitrof
Blagoi Popoff and Wassil Taneff, the
Bulgarians.
After Van der Lubbe had denied it.
Dimitroff broke in with the suggestion
Jacobus Eossner an Austrian writer
might have been the man instead OF the
Dutchman.
Buenger asked Van der Lubbe to
hold his head up to show whether he
bore a likeness to the Austrian. The
Dutctman paid no heed to the de-
mand. whereupon Dimitroff, with a
contemptous gesture. said:
When I lock at this idiot
The rest of the remark was lost in the
laughter of the spectators.
Tell About Movements.
Dinitroff. Popoff and Tanef gave de-
tailed accounts of their movements on
the night of the fire in attempts to cs-
tabalish alibis, but the court announced
this did not end the matter
When the hearing is resumed Tues
day in Berlin, it was announced, they
will be confronted with witnesses VIII
the prosecution claims will testify they
were seen in the neighborho9d of the
Reichstag.
All the Bulgarians denied the testi-
mony CT witnesses in the preliminary
examinations that they had gathered
with a group of Communists in the
home of the former Communist Reich
stag member. Willy Muenzenberg, on the
day Chancellor Hitler swept into office
Dimitrof said he merely knew" Muen-
zenberg from Moscow" and that "thi:
was the first time I have heard of that
meeting"
Dimitroff said he was in the Reich
stag Building only one time, and that ir
1921, and that the first he knew of the
fire was when he read newspapers while
en- route to Berlin on train from
Munich.
Asked what his impressions were wher
he read Of the blaze. he replied: 81
thought it was the act of either provoc-
ateurS or madmen."
Popof testified he had never been ir
the Reichstag Building and joined with
Tareff in declaring they spent the night
of the fire at motion picture theatel
and in cafes.