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The Washington times., 1933-11-16
BLIND SOCIETY
!. !. ORGANIZES
. =

George Reed. an honor gradu-
ate of Dunbar High School and
now a student at Howard Uni
!: versfty, is president of a dramatic
club composed Of blind young
men and women of the city.
- Other officers are Rosa Plum
*ner, vice president; Florence For
rest, secretary: Esther billiard,
treasurer; Carol Johnson, mana
ger, and Mrs. Irene Broadnick,
= director.
: = Several weeks ago the group,
! yet unorganized, presented wash
! IT," a religious drama, at one Of
= the local churches. Last night
. in the first public appearance.
the group repeated the play at
! the Third Baptist Church.
Z Reed is the first blind ltudent
{ to enter the public schools here
|. and finish the high school
/ course.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
LINER GIVES UP
SEARCH FOR
29 ADR|FT
Berengaria Conducts FruitIess
Hunt for Crew OF Wrecked
Freighter

LONDON, Nov. 16 Q,N.S) I
The transatlantic liner Beren!y
garia, after reaching the spot
where the British freighter
Saxilby last indicated she was in
distress, and conducting lengthy
search for the 20 members of the
steamers crew, abandoned the
rescue attempt today.
Two other ships the British
steamer Manchester Regiment
and the Dutch vessel BoSchdijk-
also arrived on the scene and
likewise were unable to find any
trace Of the men, who had taken
to life boats hours before in
mountainous seas.
Hope for the safety of the Sax
ilby's seamen waned sharply as
this news reached London.
Several other ships reported on
their way to the Saxilby's aid
also were believed to have reached
the location indicated in the sos
calls yesterday, but none reported
any trace of either the Saxilby
or her crew.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
NEW D. c. HEADS
SWORN IN
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to the District officials and en-
ployes. Those in the long queue
were introduced to the new Of
ficials by Major James r. Lusby,
District disbursing officer,
After making the announce.
ment Major Lusby would intro
duce the Commissioners to the
gathering, General Crosby laugh
ingly said:
"And I'm very much inter
ested to know what Major Lusby.
did with my pay check"
General Crosby drew his last
District pay check today.
While the ceremonies we're TAX
ing place, sign painters were chang
ing the names on the doors of the
Commissioners offices. The paint
still was wet when they reached
them.
Mrs. Mary Keane Allen, 27-year'
old wife of the youngest man ever
to be District Commissioner (Mr.
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on her husbands appointment.
Mrs. Hazen, however, wearing a
corsage, was all smiles and said:
''I'm delighted. I am sure
his term will be great if he is as
successful as . Commissioner as
he has been . husband"
Before leaving the District
Building to attend a luncheon
given him by Mr.. Richards. C. B.
Hunt, Maj. Gen. E. M. Markham.
chief of Army engineers; Percy
Crawford, and E. E.~Helm at the
Occidental Hotel, Mr.. HaZen let it
be known that an application had
been received for the position of
District Auditor, now held by
Major Daniel j. Donovan. He
said he had no intention of throw.
ing the District Government en-
ployes into turmoil and he con-
templated no changes at present.
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put them to work on good prof.
ectS.
"Tf we find that the States
and cities and counties are slow
in setting up their projects, we
will allocate the money else
where"
He stated further that no Civil
Works money will be paid out for
States which do not put their un-
employed on relief to Civil Works
projects.
Local Aid to Be Asked
States and localities will be
asked to put up as much money
as they can, but no definite
quotas will be set. he said. He
emphasized, however, that the Fed
eral organization will take into
consideration the degree Of CO.
operation in this respect when it
comes to makinig its anocationS.
StreSsing the fact that general
relief to "unemployables" will con-
tinue, he said that Federal allot-
ments for direct relief will con-
tinue.
The Civil Works administrators
in each State will be regarded as
Federal agents, and all projects
will be approved locally, although
the Federal agency will reserve
! veto power.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
HELP PLEAS UP
Z PER CENT

The number Of families and
single persons receiving emergency
unemployment relief in the Dis
trict increased 2 per cent from
September to october, according
to preliminary reports, it was an
nounced today by Harry L. Hop
kins, Federal Emergency Relief
Administrator.
In September the number re-
ceivihg relief here was 13,808. It
increased to IA, ,146 in October. Ex-
penditures for the same period in
creased 20 per cent, jumping from
$261, ,405 to $314,882.
The average increase in the
number of families and single per
sons in 141 cities and urban coun-
ties increased less than one-half
Of / per cent, while expenditures
went UP 9 per cent.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
Senators Threaten Clarke
With Conspiracy Charge
BY International News Service

Harley L. Clarke, Chicago utility
magnate, was threatened with
contempt proceedings today for
giving confused testimony at the
Senate banking inquiry.
Clarke told the committee last
week he had no stock interest in
the Nicholas Power Company
when that concern was acquired
by the International Protector
Corporation in 1925. He testified
today he owned all the stock at
that time.
Senator Couzens (R) Of Michi-
gan, said:
"This witness must remem-
ber he Is under oath, and can
be charged with contempt"
"Or with perjury" added
Ferdinand PecOra, Senate cOun-
sci.
Clarke protested he had made
an honest error" in his testi-
mony. He said he misunderstood
the question last week.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
uptown SHOPS
ORGANIZED

Designed to foster and en-
courage business and professional
interest in the territory it serves,
a new organization, the Connec-
ticut Avenue Association, has been
organized.
A constitution has been adopted
and officers elected. Plans have
been started for a membership
campaign.
Those elected were Harold Rus
SEX, president: Louis Massey, first
vice president: Miss Nancy Car
ter Eliason, second vice president;
David S. Haddock, secretary;
Wellstood White. treasurer, and
B. Emile, Charles A. Camalier,
L. S. Ruble and C. A. Martin,
directors.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
AGENCY GIVES
$4,000 JOBS

Harry Greenstein. relief admin
istrator for Maryland, has an.
nounced that $4,000 MarylanderS
have tentatively been given jobs
under the new Civil Works Ad.
ministration.
The program in Maryland will
get under way in Baltimore next
week, Greenstein said, following
an all-day conference of Federal
officials and relief authorities
from various states and cities.
Governor Ritchie was present
at the conference. and Baltimore
was represented by Mayor Jack
son, Bernard L. Crozier, chief
engineer of the city; George Le-
roy Nichols. general superintend-
ent of parks, and j. Warren Bel
cher. jr., director of the Baltimore
emergency relief commission.
Those obtaining employment
under this new Set-up will get at
least IS cents an hour, or $3.50
a week. in contrast to the pres
ent relief system. whereby men
are employed on made-work pro
jects at 80 cents an hour for
sufficient hours each week to
provide the amount relief agen-
cies estimate his family will need
for the week, the average being
about So.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
More Officials Face Custer
In Treasury Shake-up

face value. Woodin has been ana
is a sick man. His doctors in
formed him that unless he re-
linquished his duties and went to
a dryer climate they would no
longer be responsible for his case
He has a chronic throat ailment.
But Washington does not expect
him to return to his duties.
Prior to taking over the reins
tomorrow, Morgenthau would give
no indication of Treasury policies
under his direction. Under the
circumstances, it is hardly neces'
Sary that he do so, since Mr.
Roosevelt has given unmistakable
indications of being his own
Secretary of the Treasury.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
SECRET BOOKS
ARE SOUGHT IN
SHIP PROBE
J. B. Reynolds Data Con-
ceaIed, Says Ex-Aide; PoIiti-
cal Deals Probed
Rx International News Service

Existence of "two little books"
containing secret transactions Of
James B. Reynolds, former assist
ant treasurer of the Republican
National Committee, was revealed
today before the Senate commit
tee investigating ocean mail con-
tracts.
Reynolds failure to include in
his income tax returns a total of
$50, 1000 received from j. E. Dock
endorff, Of the Black Diamond
Steamship Line, caused an inves-
tigation by the Internal Revenue
Bureau.
Mrs. Jean L. Bennett, Reynolds
Secretary for the past 10 years,
told the Senate committee she
had seen but never examined the
two little books. She said:
"He kept them locked up in
his desk. / never knew what
they contained, except that he
used them for a record of his
personal transactions"
REYNOLDS IN EUROPE
Reynolds, now in Europe, was
described by Mrs. Bennett as an
extremely secretive man."
Mrs. Bennett explained that
Reynolds was connected with Re
publican national headquarters in
the Harding, Coolidge and Hoover
campaigns.
The committee devlved further
into the political ramifications of
the Black Diamond after trac-
ing in detail the record of the
South Atlantic Steamship line
and several affiliated shipping
and stevedoring companies.
Tells of Subsidies
Raymond D. Sullivan, an Off
cial of the South Atlantic, told
how he and associates built a
small, dormant company up to a
strong position with the aid of a
merchant fleet operating con-
tract obtained in 1925 and a
mail subsidy granted by the Gov
ernment two years later.
The South Atlantic line bought
10 shipping board vessels ir
1928 for $234,93O. They had cost
the Government $16,055,000 tc
build.
One Of these ships, the Cold
Water, sank in the Atlantic. The
shipping board collected $4,000
hull insurance on behalf Of the
South Atlantic line, though the
sales price Of the ship was only
$4,000.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
OLDHONORCODE
W|FE'S PLEA
IN Staying
Admitting She Slew Rival in
Husbands Presence, Woman
Faces Texas Trial

DALLAS, Nov. 16 Q.N.S0.
Texas Justice today faced the
task of prosecuting Mrs. L. w.
Boone, 37-year-old mother, who
followed the code of the Old
South by shooting to death her
love rival, Mrs. Pearl Hall, 80,
before her husbands eyes.
Held in Jail without bond on
the charge of Staying the comely
brunette widow, Mrs. Boone ad-
mitted taking Mrs. Hall before
her husband, L. w. DAM Boone,
in their small apartment and
there shooting her the death.
Unwritten Law
Police investigating the shoot
ing said Mrs. Boone indicated she
would base her defense on the
unwritten law. That self-defenSe
might also be her plea was indi-
Gated when Mrs. Boone told in
vestigators she thought Mrs. Hall
was about to attack her.
The preliminary hearing was
set for Saturday before a justice
of the peace.
It was held improbable that
electrocution would be imposed
in this case. Other possible pen
alties are from two years to life
imprisonment or a suspended
sentence.
"She Knows All"
Before sending a bullet from an
automatic pistol through Mrs
Halls chest, Mrs. Boone awakened
her husband.
In a statement to police, the
wife admitted Turing the widow
to the Boone apartment.
During the automobile ride tC
her home, Mrs. Boone said thu
widow, not recognizing her al
Boone's wife, told Of her associa
tions with him during the las
six months.
Taking her love rival into thu
bedroom, she awakened her hus
band, and commanded:
'NOw tell him what you have
been telling me.
"She knows all about US"
Mrs. Hall cried.
AS Boone started toward thu
two women, his wife drew thu
..45-calibre automatic pistol anc
fired, killing her rival almoS
| instantly,
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
STRIFE STIRRED
by SENATE QUIZ
REVELATIONS
Fitzpatrick, Oil .Execu tive,
Seen in for "Firing," Fate
Suffered BY Stewart
BY international News Service


Financial war between John D.
Rockefeller, jr., and Harry F, Sin
clair, associates now in the Con-
Ipolidated Oil Companies, -loomed
to-day as a result of q clash be-
tween their subordinateS at the
Senate banking inquiry.
# Rockefeller follows the pre-
Z cedent he set in ousting Robert
Nv. Stewart from the Standard
Oil Company of Indiana, he must
A:"fire' william s. Fitzpatrick as
Nice chairman Of the Consolidated.
He can do that only by depoSing
Sinclair, who controls Con-
aRolidated. .-... ...
a. Question Of Veracity
The clash came when FitZ-
patrick, a Rockefeller official for
rs years before he Joined Sin
clair, questioned the veracity Of
Bertram Cutler, Rockefeller's
A3inancial adviser, on the issue Of
- mysterious $4,000 gift in
1928. E.
= Fitzpatrick said Cutler promised
him a bonus, though not $449, 900,
for his long service with the
aRockefellers. He said he believed
ethe fortune paid him by Blair &
Company really came from the
,s:Rockefellers. .
): Cutler, regarded as one Of the
E most influential men on Wall
Street in his role as Rockefeller's
spokesman. fatty. contradicted
this story.
: He. said he had agreed only
that Fitzpatrick should buy some
s.of Rockefeller's Prairie Oil stock,
then being sold through Blair &
Company. He denied promising
Fitzpatrick any gift and denied
!: knowing anything about the
.money actually paid him.
- ~ "Lie" Passed
= In addition, he, condemned
revelations that 100000 Of the
gift came from a Sinclair oil
syndicate.
- This contradiction made Fftz-
patrick literally pass the lie"
to Cutler. He said he had told
Cutler about the 100000 and that
Cutler had advised him to say
nothing of it. $500; ......
a. "A mass of contradictions en-
1veloped this gift. Elisha Walker,
president of Blair. & Company
when the gift was paid, told a
story different from Fitzpatrick
and Cutler. -
: He said the banking firm paid
It to gain Fftzpatrick's good
will" since the bank was buying
the Rockefeller stock in a COM
pa1y of which Fitzpatrick was
then president. He said Cutler
knew Of it.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
GOAT FARM PAYS

BUFFALO,-Woman Of Polish
birth, who reached this country
as an immigrant after the war,
appears to have found the
solution of her economic prob
lem by developing, on a farm a
few miles outside this city, one OF
the largest goat ranches in New
York State,
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
LOCAL TEMPERATURES

DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Atcumulative excess of temperature
since January 1, 1898, 723.
Deficiency of temperature since No
vember 1, 1898, AZ.
/. Accomplished excess of precipitation
since January 1. 1898, s,S2.
Deficiency of precipitation since No
vember 1, 1888. SO.
Today-High tides, 6:2s a. m. and
S:56 p. m. Low tides. 100 a. m. and
1;90 p. m.
Tomorrow-High tides, 7:1s Il. m. and
7:43 p. m. Low tides, 1:4S a. m. and
SUN AND MOON
The sun rose today, $3.50 a. m.
and sets 4:54 p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow. $50 a. m.
and sets 4: :s4 p. m.
The moon rose today, $40 a. IN.
and sets S:49 2. m,
The moon rises tomorrow. S;5S a. n,
and sets 4:S2 p. m.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
NeLU Bureaus Aid
=. Farmers in Debt
By International News Service

State farm debt adjustment
committees which will direct ef-
forts to equitably adjust or ex-
tend agreements between farmers
excessively in debt. and their
creditors, have been appointed
! by governors in more than half
the States, the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration announced today.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
REV. REARDON TO TALK

Turkey night meeting Of
Spalding Council, Knights of Co.
lumbus. will be held tonight at
it's Tenth Street club house. The
Rev. Michael j. Reardon. pastor
Of St. Martins Church. will
speak on his travels in the United
States and Spain.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
% Killed in Spain
In PLNnae of Bus

PAZA, GRANADA, Spain, Nov.
16 G.N.S).-Twenty-three men,
all Socialists returning from a
political meeting, were killed to-
day when a huge NOTORIOUS
crashed through the railings of q
bridge near here.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16

~, Cal., NOV. 10.-IhOse TWO
friendly gentlemen are at it
again. Germany voted conf
dence in their man. France
had no election billed, but she
got up in the middle of the night
to vote confidence in hers.
Germany wants to talk it
over. France says not without
the League being present. Ger
many says she will arm; France
says she shouldn It, that France
will keep the peace for her.
Now for once in our lives,
let's hope. we'll just let those
two old tom cats whose tails are
tied over the fence alone and try
S we got from the last time we
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
RED CROSS AIDE
CRASH VICTIM

Ira Lee Law, 30, White House
policeman and a director Of life
saving at the American Red
Cross, is in the Emergency Hos
pital recovering from serious in
juries received Saturday night In
an automobile accident, it was
learned today.
He was a passenger in an auto
mobile driven by his brother,
Preston E. Law, which crashed at
the College Lane and Riggs Road,
College Park. Preston and his
wife, Mrs. Maxine Law, also were
treated at Emergency Hospital,
but later went home.
The Law family lives in the
900 block Hamline st. N. E.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
PYTHIANS TO DANCE

Grand Lodge of the Knights Of
Pythias will climax its member
ship drive Saturday night with
an informal dance and entertain
ment in Pythian Temple, 1000
block Ninth St. N. w. Leon
Katz will be master Of cere-
monies.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16

carrying instructions for operat-
ing the new program as laid down
at a mass meeting yesterday.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
The Weather

FORECASTS
District of Columbia-Fair and con-
tinued cold with lowest temperature
about 20 degrees tonight; Friday fair
with rising temperatures: warmer Fri
day night and Saturday: gentle to
moderate northwest and west winds.
becoming southerly Friday.
- Maryland and Virginia - Fair and
continued cold tonight; Friday fair
with rising Temperatures; warmer Fri
day night and Saturday
The Washington times., 1933-11-16

to cure the scratches we got from the last t
tried to unite 'em.
Copyright 1888, the McNausht syndlcate)
The Washington times., 1933-11-16

CONDITION OF TREASURY
By International News Service
Treasury balance, $1,000, ,647.-
302.38; miscellaneous internal
revenue, $1,356,513.87; customs
receipts, $l3,136,531.93.
The Washington times., 1933-11-16
WILL ROGERS Savs:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Nov 16-Those two
Evening star., 1933-01-08
FREE HAND is URGED
FOR DRY LAW FOES
Former Publisher Advises Prohibi-
tionists to Spend Funds for
Warning Campaign.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., January z.
james Schermerhorn, former publish
er of the Detroit Times, in an address
today before group of prohibitionists
urged that opponents of the law be
given a free hand to solve the liquor
question.
''The money that an organized dry
fight would require might better be
devoted to a national campaign of
warning among the Nations youth that
because thing is sanctioned by their
Government it does not follow that it
is to their moral or bodily benefit to
become consumer of it," Schermer-
horn said.
1t is his personal conviction, he said,
that it is the part of wisdom and
patriotism for the drys to acquiesce for
the time being in the wet interpreta-
tion of the November ballot and to do
so in a spirit of sportsmanship.
Schermerhorn spoke at the close of
three-day conference. The sessions
were presided over by Dr. John R.
Mott of New York, president of the
International Missionary Conference,
and were attended by about so friends
of prohibition from all parts of the
country.
The findings of the conference will
be released in statement by DR.. Mott
in New York tomorrow.
Evening star., 1933-01-08
FUGITIVE FROM ROAD GANG
HELD FOR 17-YEAR-OLD CRIME
Prosperous Cleveland Music Publisher,
Now Married, Blames Woman
for Early Blunder

I'll flght-no I'll go out to Colorado
with my partner, George A. Bronson.
He'll tell the Governor about my nine
good years in Cleveland, about my wife
and child; I'll ask pardon"
And Colorado officials wired back that
If Stanley were coming out, eXtradition
papers would not be necessary.
But today St. Louis looked up the
records, and so did Detroit and Denver.
They showed a series of previous
charges.
George Bronson, the partner, sat in
the office of Stanley's lawyer here today
and told what he said was the story of
Stanley's life.
Bronson related that he and Stanley
had come up together in small un-
named Michigan town; that Stanley
in reality Smeerman-had got in bad
early in life.
Then came an older woman, serious
crime, and the life of a fugitive. But
Bronson insisted Stanley Rad gone
straight since he had attained majority,
although Denver prison records showed
him to be 26 years old in 1917. Smeer-
man lied about his age in Colorado,
Bronson explained.
Evening star., 1933-01-08
CHANGES FOUGHT
IN FARM AID BILL
Democratic Sponsors Hoping
to Prevent Extension of
Provisions.
BY the Associated Press.


Staving off a host of amendments
that would seek to throw nearly every
ma jor agricultural commodity within
the covers of their emergency farm bill
was the big job to which its Democratic
sponsors last night looked forward
Chairman Jones promised a last
ditch fight on the House floor against
"wrecking" the bill his Agriculture
Committee reported, by overlooking it
with amendments. Still confident of
passage, Jones said he wanted it to
go to the Senate las nearly intact as
possible" The measure embodies the
domestic allotment plan.
Roosevelt Stand Seen.
Some members felt that If the House
seems inclined toward much addition
or subtraction before a final vote, the
farm bill will lose the support-now
generally credited to tt-of President
elect Roosevelt.
The bill came from committee con-
tanning wheat, cotton, tobacco and
hogs, the four commodities agreed upon
at a conference of farm leaders at
tended by Henry Morgenthau, jr, a
Roosevelt adviser. Later the committee
authorized Representative Glover, Dem
ocrat, Arkansas, to offer rice as a
committee amendment.
But already strong movement sup
ported by the National COOPERATIVE
Milk Producers Federation is urging
the inclusion of dairy products When
the amendment stage of the bills con-
is reached tomorrow, Repre-
sentative Andersen, Republican, Min
nesota, will propose 5-cent-a-pound
bounty on butterfat.
Favors Rice Amendment.
Others among the numerous amend
mentS planned would add peanuts and
potatoes to the bill, and a motion will
be made to eliminate hogs, or, failing
that, to levy the same processing tax
on cattle and sheep.
All except the rice amendment will
be fought by Jones, who contends the
plan does not readily lend itself to
commodities not on large export basis.
The whole principle of the allot-
ment plan depends upon a world price
level to prevent professors from taking
the producers fee out of the producers
price. Where there is foreign buying
competition for export, we believe a
world price will be sustained, enabling
the farmer to receive bounty without
any lowering of his actual market price
But, without a world market, there
Is some question Of doubt on this point"
Evening star., 1933-01-08
CLOSE US. CONTACT
PLAN FOR STATES
Pollard Studies Situation Aft
er Conference Committee
BalIoting.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va, January with
the outcome Of the balloting for new
members Of the National Governors
Conference Executive Committee, Of
which he Is the only veteran, made
known today, Gov. Pollard turned his
thoughts to ways in which State gov
ernmentS might work more closely with
the Federal Government.
The importance of the subject has
been amplifled during the last week
by the announcement by President
elect Roosevelt, who just retired from
the committee, soliciting a closer con-
tact between the State executives and
the President, especially in the mat
ter Of overlapping taxation.
During the day former Gov. Cary
A. Hardee, of Florida, secretary of the
conference, telegraphed the Virginia
Governor that the ballots from all of
the Governors had elected to the COM
mittee Gov. Martin Conner of Missis-
sippi, Gov. George White of Ohio, Gov.
James Rolph of California and Gov.
j. @. Winant of New Hampshire. Cows.
Conner and White are Democrats, and
Cows. Rolph and Winant are Repub-
licanS