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Evening star., 1933-06-18
MATTERN IS STILL
MISSING IN NORTH
Alaskan Airmen, However,
Are Not AIarmed-PersonaI
Representative Optimistic.

NOME, Alaska, June II R).-Jimmie
Mattern, Texas aviator, who left New
York two weeks ago on a solo globe
girdling flight, was still missing today.
somewhere between Khabarovsk, Siberia,
and Nome, his destination when he left
the Siberian town at 2:30 pm. Wednes-
day. Eastern Standard Time.
Failing to receive word Of Mattern,
in the opinion of Alaska airmen. is not
necessarily alarming, as he might have
set his ship down on some island or
some portion Of the Alaskan coast
where communication is difficult. 1t Is
a 2.5OO-mile fight from Khabarovsk TO
Nome 1t was raining here today, some
fog was reported at Dutch Harbor In
the Aleutians and snowfall at Point
Barrow.
NEW YORK, June II CP.-Jack
Clark, personal representative of Jimmie
Mattern, round-the- world flyer, today
said he felt there is better than 5000
chance that Jimmie is safe somewhere
in Alaska"
There were at least eight Landing
fields IN obscure sections OF Alaska that
Jimmie knew about" said Clark. We
feel confident he has landed and Is
unable to communicate his wnere-
abouts. When weather conditions I'M
prove I think some of his pilot frlendS
in Alaska will locate him."
MOSCOW. June II Lp.-Definite in
formation from America that James
Mattern, American flyer, had not been
reported there since he left KhabaroVsk,
Siberia. occasioned serious alarm mere
today.
The Tass (Soviet) News Agency sent
urgent inquiries both to KhabarovSk ana
to Petropavloysk, kamcnatka peninsula
seeking word of the aviator.
At a late hour tonight no repIles 10
these inquiries had been received ans
this accentuated the belief here that
Mattern NAV have been borne down
either in the Sea Of Okhotsk or the
Bering Sea by ice accumulations on
the wings Of his airplane. or at pest
forced down on some Isolated ilano
in the vicinity of Kamchatka.
BY the Associated Press.
Admiral William V. Pratt, chief OF
naval operations. last night ordered all
naval vessels and airplaneS in Alaskan
waters and in the vicinity OF the Aleu-
tian waters to search for Jimmy Mat
tern. round-the-w world flyer. missing on
a hop from Siberia to Alaska.
The Navy Department said the re-
pair ship Argonne. in command OF Capt.
Harry Dact. was in Alaskan waters and
that at least two Navy flyers also were
in the vicinity. They were Ensign Will
liam A. Moffett, jr., son OF the late Ad-
miral Mofett. and Lieut.. John Vest.
A request for the Nays assistance
was made by Representative Thomason
of Texas, a personal friend of Mattern,
whose home is in San Angelo, Tex.
Thomson talked with Rear Admiral
Ernest J. King. chief Of the Bureau OF
Aeronautics, and later with Pratt.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
HARVARD WILL CONFER
DEGREE ON AL SMITH
BY the Associated Pres,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June l7.-Former Gov.
Alfred E. Smith, who many times has
remarked in the presence of distin-
guished educators and scholars that his
first degree was an "F. r. M."-stand-
ing for Fulton Fish Market, in which
he worked as a youths going to re-
ceive a doctor Of laws degree from
Harvard University.
1t was learned at his ONCE today that
he will go to Cambridge, Mass, to have
the honor conferred upon him next
Thursday.
Although the one-time tenement
boys good-natured reference to his
early education has brought innumer-
able smiles, his self-conferred "F. r. NJ"
Is not the only degree to which he has
been able to lay claim.
He holds doctor Of laws degrees from
Dublin University, in Ireland, and CO.
lumbia University, in New York. He
also has doctor of letters degree from
Catholic University. Washington.
The former Governor attended q
parochial school near his Oliver street
home, was four times chief executive
Of his State and in 1928 was the Demo-
cratic candidate for President,
He neve1( went TO collefa,
Evening star., 1933-06-18
RESCUERS AND RESCUED HURT
IN STRING OF THREE ACCIDENTS
Nine Hurt, One Seriously, Car Bearing Crash Victim
ColGdes Second Relief Car Also Wrecked.

13, and Robert, 49, and q friend Miss
Margaret Wilson, all were injured. None
was required to remain at the hos
pital, however, except Anderson, who
was said to be suffering from a frac-
tured skull.
The occupants of the other machine,
Helen and Marie Higdon. aged II and
10, respectively, of Herndon. were cut,
but the driver, Lewis A. Bodmer, 519
Third street. escaped injury.
A short time later Bodmer started
for the hospital, in the automobile of
a friend. Sammy Hurst of Vienna. Va,
to see the two girls. At Thirty-fourth
street and Prospect avenue the car COL
lided with another machine, resulting
in injury to Bodmer. who also was ad-
mitted to the hospital.
The driver of the other car. a woman,
failed to stop. according to police
Evening star., 1933-06-18
ROPER STEP RAISES
lob STATUS ISSUE
Removal of ESQ Foreign and
Domestic Employees Civil
Service Problem.
BY the Associated Press.

by the hSSOClaLeQ FTcSs.
A move by Secretary Of Commerce
Roper toward removing from civil serv-
ice approximately $50 jobs in the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
that were "blanketed in" by executive
order of President Hoover yesterday
raised the question Of the future status
Of such positions in all departments.
President Hoover added to the civil
service scope 1,15O Federal positions by
executive order. President Coolidge
added 4,746; President Harding, 344;
President Wilson, 954.
All these positions were "blanketed
in"-that is. simply placed under civil
service classification, incumbent and
all, with the requirement that thence
forth each job when vacant should be
filled by competitive examination.
Often the incumbents were given non
competitive examinations.
Since they were given civil service
status by executive order. they can be
removed from civil service by execu-
tive order, which would put them back
on a patronage basis.
A rumor has been going the rounds
that enough executive orders would be
rescinded so that most of those
"blanketed in" by the last three Re-
publican Presidents would lose their
jobs.
One of the first studies conducted un-
der the new administration was the
compilation, in March, 1888, Of book
let on authority for and development
of the classified civil service"
Since then, various departments have
been compiling lists of the employees
placed under civil service status that
way.
Among those President Hoover added
to civil service were lat Federal en-
ployes in the Philippines as the result
of an inspection trip that showed lack
of close contact with the Civil Service
Commission in island employment; 184
attorneys in the Veterans Administra-
ton; 234 in the Department of Justice
who had been hired under "confiden-
tial' clause protested by the Civil Serv-
ice Commission; 339 in the Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce. the
group now under discussion, and 164
mounted inspectors in the customs
service, removed from examination un-
der Theodore Roosevelt and carried on
the rolls that way until Hoover's time.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
FORMER F0LLIES BEAUTY
VANISHES FROM TRAIN
Helen Lee Worthing Reported
Hissing-Police Make Search
Along Tracks.
}y tba Acenciatad DroSe

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, June 17-Helen Lee
Worthing, once q Follies beauty and
former wife Of DR.. Eugene G. Nelson,
colored physician, was reported today
as missing since Thursday.
Special Agent Fred Phillips Of the
Santa Fe Railroad said Miss Worthing,
who had been Under treatment for a
nervous disorder at Santa Monica rest
home, had boarded . train here Thurs
day for New York. She was missing,
he said, when the train reached Pasa-
dena IS minutes later and her baggage
still was in her compartment.
Police of Los Angeles and Pasadena
were searching arroyos along the rail-
road right Of way, fearing, they said.
Miss Worthing may have leaped or
fallen from the train.
Miss Worthing obtained q divorce
from Dr. Nelson May IS, 1882, but an
annulment was granted last November
l8 which superseded the divorce A few
weeks after the annulment an insanity
complaint was filed against her and Su-
perior Judge Thomas c. Gould commit
ted her TO the rest home in the custody
Of DR.. Nelson.
He was at the train here Thursday
to bid her good-by and was notified to-
day by Phillips that she was missing.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
KING TRIES IN VAIN TO FIND
HULL FOR TALK AT GARDEN FETE
George V Tells Morgenthau He Apprecii-
ates Roosevelts Acceptance of
Partial Debt Payment.

"The King and Queen were wonder
full" Mrs. Couzens said later. They
are real people"
1T was all very pleasant and quite
lacking in the stiffness one sometimes
meets in such affairs" said Mr. Nor
rison, Texan member Of the American
delegation.
Guests were served sandwiches, cakes,
strawberries and cream, hot or iced tea,
orange or lemonade, cider, unfermented
wine and ice water The Americans
said nothing alcoholic was served them.
Once rain drove the guests to the
shelter Of pavilions, but the sun quickly
reappeared. The guests enjoyed wan
dering about the grounds and halls of
the famous castle.
Evening star., 1933-06-18

An automobile accident In which one
man was seriously injured in Airing
ton County, Va, early today resulted
in two other mishaps which sent eight
other persons to Georgetown Hospital.
Emmett Anderson, Alexandria, victim
Of the first accident. was the most Sc
riously injured. After his car ran into
a ditch about two miles south of Falls
Church, Va, he hailed a machine
driven by T. E. Ffllingame, 3102 M
street, and asked to be taken to the
hospital. Led by a Falls Church po-
hceman, Fillingame headed for the
hospital, but had not gone very far
when his automobile collided with an
other car on Lee Highway, In Airing
ton County.
Fillingame his wife, Mrs Bessie r.
Ellingame: their two children. Alma,
Evening star., 1933-06-18
FARM
PROGRAM TESTED
President Worked Out Many
Agricultural Problems on
Georgia Estate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
velt's experimental farm-the place
where he went into the business of
practical agriculture to flnd out actual
problems of the man in the fur
rows within a few miles OF Warm
Springs, where the President has a
home.
The Atlanta Constitution. In a copy
righted article today describes the 1000
acres owned by the President as prob
ably the most famous farm in the agri-
cultural history of the Nation" The
Presidents acres constitute q working
mans farm where many Of the agricul-
tural problems Of the Nation were put to
a test. There the President personally
supervised many of the experiments and
with the aid of his overseer. E. B. Doyle,
now a United States marshal, and ex-
pert advice from the Georgia Extension
Service of the State University, other
problems have been worked out.
Started Tests in 1898.
Experiments started in 1925 when the
President acquired q small tract and
employed Doyle to manage it. He grad
ually added to the acreage. The Presi-
OCllt WditCQ q 4dl III tilaS ohy 8ooA AL hASA
might initiate and make a good living
on it and with this in mind he tried
various crops.
There was large peach orchard
but prices were low and 1t cost a great
deal to keep the trees free from disease,
SO several thousand of the trees were
destroyed and the profitable ones left
Cotton, the South's big money crop
was also given its chance. But there
was little profit and so eventually he
turned to beef cattle and today has
herd of about l20. with few of the
original stock Of scrubs, left. Cattle
have been profitable.
Grapes Of the Concord variety have
also shown q profit and there are many
other cash crops, including tomatoes
| from the Roosevelt farm Is sold on the
| local market, for the President believed
in selling at home.
No Expensive Equipment.
Carrying out his idea of an ideal
| farm on which the average farmer
could make good, the President built nc
expensive buildings and bought no ex-
pensive machinery.
He told Mr.. Doyle when the cattle
herd was established:
BE good farmers and good neigh
bors. Let any farmer who wishes help
from us on the cattle question get it
Ask him, however, that in event he
decides to sell that he give US the
option of buying. Write me frequently
| In detail"
Doyle did just that and the President
has followed closely the experiments
which have influenced his national pro-
gram. The article says the President
has been known to prune young pines
himself and about 5000 more trees are
to be planted this Fall.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
CONFERENCE SUGGESTED.
Wholesalers Asked to Meet in Capital
to Fix Control Policy.

NEW YORK, June II @.-Flint
Garrison, director of the Wholesale
Dry Goods Institute, has suggested to
associations representing wholesalers in
10 other industries that conference
be held in Washington to formulate
statement of the wholesalers case In
regard to the new national industrial
recovery act.
Letters suggesting the conference
were sent to organizations representing
wholesale druggists. grocers, jewelers.
and dealers in millinery, shoes, hard
ware, electrical goods, toys. mems fur
niShings and wall paper. Replies ap-
proving the plan have already been
received from the grocers, jewellers and
shoe dealers.
The purpose of the meeting would
be to obtain ofdcial recognition "of the
function OF wholesaling" and a state
ment Of the wholesalers case would be
presented Ito the proper agency" in
washington.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
QUARRIEs BACK CONTROL.
Indiana Limestone Industry Approves
New National Act.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind, June II LF1.
The Bloomington Evening World said
today that the $1e0,000,000 Indiana
limestone industry was swung into line
almost 100 per cent with President
Roosevelt's national recovery program.
A code Of ethics, the newspaper said.
conforming to provisions of the new
national industrial recovery act has
been drawn up, signed by practically
every operator in the oolitic belt and
the code the operators pledge them
selves to abide by the minimum wage
scale and maximum schedule of hours
to be set by the Government and to
refrain from bidding on contracts at
prices under the cost of production.
Approximately 80 companies will be
bound by the terms of the industrial
control act.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
WALLACE POSTPONES
ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT
COTTON CUT PROGRAM
CONTINUED From First Page.)

Continued From First Page.)
Peek, chief administrator, went to Chi
cago to confer informally with repre-
sentatives Of the corn and hog indus
try there over the week end.
Smith said Peek and the other de-
partmental officials had informed
Southern members that $50, ,000, 600 of
the s100, ,000, 900 provided for leasing
land had been used to pay equities held
by others in cotton taken over by the
Government at various times since the
Farm Board began stabilization oper-
ations.
Wants 10000, ,ooo Acres Retired.
The departmental officials, Smith
said, told the conference there would
not be sufficient cash to pay rental on
the amount of land they wanted taken
out of production Of cotton.
The department, Smith said, thought
that at least 10000 900 acres should be
retired from production out of the ap-
proximately $4,000, 900 acres total cot
ton area
Smith contended that by taking the
$50 0,000, 900 and using the cotton owned
by the Government, which could be re-
sold to the farmer at s cents q pound,
100000 acres could be retired The
$4,000 900 fund would be used to give
the farmer rental payment equal to
the expense to which he had been put
up to the time the acreage was aban-
doned.
Everybody knows that the farmer is
going to pay this processing tax" Smith
said. The farmer has no control over
the price"
Senator Thomas, Democrat. of Okla
homa, in letters to Wallace today, pro-
tested against levying a processing tax
on cotton. He wrote:
1T Is my Interpretation that any
processing tax assessed on cotton will
come directly out of the farmers pocket
II the tax should be 4 cents per bound
then the levying of such tax is q direct
levy OF $40 per bale against the cotton
farmers OF the South. In addition to
forcing the cotton farmers to pay this
direct tax, he Is required to pay pro-
portionately higher price for the finished
and manufactured products from cot
ton.
Unwilling to Indorse Plan.
Representing State which produces
approximately 100000 bales of cot
ton annually, am unwilling to indorse
a program which assesses such a tax
against the cotton planters Of Okla
homa. Likewise, I am unwilling to in
dorse project which, In addition to
assessing this exorbitant tax against the
cotton farmer, compels him to pay his
proportionate share Of the higher price
to the consumer.
The assessing Of . processing tax
instead Of helping the farmer, will al
most, If not wholly destroy him. Since
practically every other industry Is re-
ceiving direct subsidies from the Fed
eral Treasury, and inasmuch As the
Congress has provided a direct subsidy
for financing a reduction of acreage
program, as the representative of a cot
ton State must protest the assess
ment Of such tax"
Evening star., 1933-06-18

tion platform, watched them walk
across the street and saw them direct
Nash to get in the front seat OF the
motor car. Some of the officers on
each side Of the car. The two carry
ing sawedoff shotguns leaned these
guns against the left-hand fender Of
the car
Just at that time a large man, who
would weigh about 200 pounds, stepped
out from behind the lamp post beside
the concrete bus landing. He was carry
ing one of these guns with a cylinder
on top of it. He started shooting right
into the backs of the two officers.
AT about the same time two men
stepped out from behind my autonlo-
bile, which was parked little west
Of the officers car and facing north
Both were small men. One had what
appeared to be a shotgun and the other
a machine gun They started shooting
at the other officers. The officers fell
to the ground. except one on the east
side of the car in which Nash was
sitting.
Sisters Warned to Flee.
He started shooting at the two men
back OF my car. He was shooting right
by Nash and 1 believe he shot Nash
There were six Catholic sisters on
the platform. I called to them to run
inside out Of danger. Four did, the
other two stood still.
When I looked again I saw Mike
flaming motor cycle patrolman as
signed to the station, running through
the station doors.
There he is, Mike, get him."
shouted pointing to the big gunman.
flaming started shooting, firing three
shots. The big man dropped to the
ground and I thought he was hit.
ran back into the station then and did
not see how the killers escaped
RELENTLESS SEARCH ORDERED.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
BEER is SEIZED
Canadian Customs Regulations Are
Declared Violated.

sARNIA, Ontario, June IT R.-Two
motor trucks. 500 cases of beer and the
Courtright. Ontario-St. Clair, Mich,
motor ferry are under seizure here by
Royal Canadian Mounted Police for al
legged violation of Canadian Gus
toms regulations, it was learned today.
Some time ago permission was re-
ceived for the removal. Of beer from q
brewery here to the United States and
subsequently the beer was taken tc
Courtright. It Is understood customs,
stAnpG WeGa not aaaxod
Evening star., 1933-06-18
Garner on Wav
Home, to Remain
Until First of Year
Vice President Refuses to
Talk Politics, and Says
He Likes Job.
By the Associated Press.

by the hSSOClaleO FreSS.
ST. LOUIS, June Unwilling to dis
cuss chickens. vegetables and grapes, but
stunning the subject Of politics, Vice
President and Mrs. John Nance Garner
passed through ST Louis tonight en-
route home to Uvalde, Tex.
Politically speaking, I've been deaf.
dumb and blind ever since March A."
chuckled the Vice President. "All I
want to do is just to hibernate in the
bushes for while-become q modern
Rip Van Wrinkle" he explained.
He did comment that he had discov-
cred his tenure as Speaker of the House
gave him more power than he exercises
as Vice President.
I've had very pleasant 100 days as
Vice President and anyway all that
any of us care about is helping out
President Roosevelt any way We can"
he concluded
The Garners expect to remain in
Texas until January !.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
INVITES FLYERS TO FAIR
Chicago Newspaper Awaits Official
Acceptance From Spanish Premier.

CHICAGO, June II (P.-The Chicago
Tribune said yesterday 1t awaited oficial
acceptance from Premier Azana OF
Spain. of its invitation to two Spaniards
who last week crossed the Atlantic to
visit Chicago and the Century OF Prog
ress Exposition.
The newspaper said it had rendered
an offer TO Capt Mariana Barberan and
Lieut.. Joaquin Collar shortly after their
landing In Cuba and had sent sec
ono and formal invitation to Premier
AZana.
At Madrid yesterday, the premier said
he might possibly authorize the trip.
The Tribune. with Century OF Prog
ress offciais offered to defray the flyers
expenses to Chicago.
Evening star., 1933-06-18
CAR SEWERS MANS LEGS
Vireinian in Search of Work Dies
in Covington Hospital.

COVINGTON. Va, June IT R.-
Wilson Bradley, 80, of Buena Vista. died
in a Covington hospital today several
hours after fiat car had rolled over
both legs.
Bradley, who was searching for work.
was said to have drawn under a fiat car
on the yards of paper mill where he
went TO sleep. Both Of his legs were
mangled when a shifter pushed other
cars into the yards, hitting the one un-
der which be was sleeptk.
Evening star., 1933-06-18

be accomplished as soon as possible be-
cause "the industry is in an emergency;
it is losing staggering amounts and tt
would be unwarranted to delay any
longer"
Evening star., 1933-06-18
PRODUCERS OF OIL
VOTE PRICE FIXING
IN RECOVERY PLAN

CONTINUED From First Page.)
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
MAYTAG BEGINS
UNIQUE PLAN

The Maytag Sales and Service
Company have just inaugurated
a novel service to residents Of
apartment houses. The first
installations are now in service
in the Broadmoor, Alban Towers
and Sedwick Gardens.
It's a washing machine service
operated on a coin system, tie
installation and operating cots
are paid for by the Maytag Sales
Company so that this modern
equipment costs the owner Of the
apartment house absolutely moth
ing and gives to the residents tie
use Of the equipment at a min
imum cost, eliminating the
necessity Of purchasing such
equipment. .
C. H. Hoffman, manager Of
the Maytag Sales and Service
Company who are the originators
Of the apartment rental system
say this service is now available
upon request by apartment
houses owners. New Maytag
machines are furnished in num-
bers depending upon the size Of
the apartment house or the num-
ber of occupants.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
FETE DUE |CKES
BYFRATERN|TY

The Secretary Of the Interior,
Harold L. Ickes. will be the guest
Of honor at a dinner Wednesday.
April 26 at the Carlton Hotel by
the international and legal fra
ternity Of Phi Delta Phi.
Col. Walter c. Clephane will
be toastmaster.
Among distinguished guests to
attend are Chief Justice Of the
District Supreme Court Alfred A.
Wheat, Associate Justices Jen.
nings Bailey and F. Dickinson
Let's, Senator Nathan L. Back.
man Of Tennessee, Horace M. AL
bright. director Of the National
Park Service, and Merle Thorpe,
editor Of Nations Business.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
HOW SHELOST 18
POUNDS OF FAT
For Less Than $1.OO

"Win say in regards to KruSchen: /
took 1t to reduce. I lost 18 pounds
after using one bottle and feel fine;
Just bought one moro bottle today and
weigh 14S and feel fine" Mrs. Harry
Robinson. Akron. Ohio (Jan. 8, 1889.
Once a day take Kruschen Salts-one
half teaspoonful in a glass Of hot water
pastry and fatty meats. go light on
potatoes. butter. cream and sugar. Be
sides losing ugly fat SAFELY you'll
gain in health and physical attractive;
ness-constipation, gas and acidity will
cease to bother-youll feel younger
more active-full Of ambition-clear
skin-sparklinE eyes.
A jar that lasts weeks costs but
a. trifle at any drugstore in the
world-but demand and get Kru-
schen and if one bottle doesn't JOY
fully please You-money back.
The Washington times., 1933-04-17

ADVERTIsEME EMIT
The Washington times., 1933-04-17
SEN. LOGAN TO SPEAK
CLAIRE WINDSOR

Senator Marvel M. Logan of
Kentucky will be guest speaker
at the annual banquet of the
Mems Club of All Saints Epis-
copal Church, Chevy Chase,
Thursday evening, it has been an
nounced. Judge Ralph Given
will preside.