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The Washington times., 1933-12-02
Discounting Checks, Does
Land Office Business

long line appeared in front Of the
establishment.
Indignant paSsers-by reported
to police that a profit Of IS cents
was being made on each check
cashed, and Capt. w. E. Holmes,
of the First precinct, responded.
Within the Law
Advising himself on the situa-
ton, Captain Holmes took the
matter up with the Corporation
Counsel and District Attorney, to
be informed that the transactions
were within the law and nothing
could be done.
In the meantime, the check dis
counter, who gave his name as
Martin Jensen, 200 block MaSSa-
chusetts Ave. N. W., suspended his
operations, for the time at least,
while the workers were informed
of merchants who would cash
their checks freA
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
SHANK IN TEARS
FACING DEATH
IN CHAIR
Lawyer Convicted, Doomed to
Die for Poisoning Four of
Family on Auto Trip

BENTON, Ark, Dec. 2 G.N.S0.
Mark H. Shank, .kron (Ohio) at
torney. must pay the extreme
penalty for the poison murders Of
Alvin Colley, Mrs. Colley and their
two small sons.
After celebrating for nine hours
{. jury in Saline county circuit
court last night returned a YER
dict Of guilty against Shank and
fixed the attorneys punishment
t death in the electric chair.
Judge Tom Toler announced he
would hear the motion of defense
counsel for 8 new trial next
7 .Irsday at Malvern.
Tears were streaming down
Shank's cheeks, but he uttered no
sc ind as the court clerk read the
verdict. The defendant, held to
be insane by counsel and defense
alieniStS, leaned heavily on the
arm of his mother.
Mrs. Shank, already in a state
of collapse, tainted at her hus-
bands side in the courtroom and
was carried unconscious to the
office Of the county physician
and there put 70 bed.
In a confession, Shank said he
poisoned the family because he
feared they might reveal his part
in the burglary Of the Wayne
county (Ohio) prosecutors office.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
NO
GOES To HAITI

President Roosevelt has rejected
an appeal from President Stenio
Vincent of Haiti to withdraw
American financial control + r o m
that republic.
This was made known at the
State Department today, where in
formation between Mr.. Roosevelt
and President Vincent was re-
vealed.
A recently concluded treaty with
Haiti provides that the fiscal ad-
ministration of the islands IL
nances shall be continued under
American direction until the
amortization or prior refunding Of
the bond issue floated in hi S
country. It is estimated these
bonds should be completely amor
tized by 1914.
In a letter to Mr.. Roosevelt, the
President of Haiti called attention
to the fact that the outstanding
bonds were small, gave assurance
his republic intended to fulfill its
financial obligations to this coun-
try, and suggested the United
States might renounce financial
control Immediately as a gesture
of goodwill.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02

CWA extended its benefits to
money changers today in an I'M
usual fashion.
Knowing that the workers.
strangers in the city, would have
difficulty through lack of Satisfac-
tory Identification in cashing their
first $3.50 checks at local banks,
an enterprising individual was pre-
pared for the emergency.
Pays Only $13.25
Renting on an hourly basis a
space in a business house in the
400 block of Pennsylvania Ave.
N. w., the financier established
himself with a number Of enve-
lopes containing $13.25 in cash.
Runners stationed at the pay
lines informed the CWA workers
that they could cash their checks
at the Pennsylvania Avenue ad-
dress and within Q short time Q
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
HUEY LONGFOES
GAIN IN FIGHT

BATON ROUGE, La, Dec. 2
N.SO.-Opposiion to the politi.
cal dominance of Senator Huey
P. Long, which has flared into
violence, spread today in the sixth
congressional district with anti
Long forces moving to prevent a
special election scheduled for next
Tuesday.
Ballots bearing the name Of
Mrs. Bolivar Kemp, nominated by
a Long-controlled Democratic ex'
ecutive committee for the Con.
gressional post left vacant by the
death of her husband, were
burned in front of the courthouse
at st. Francisville yesterday in
protest against a coup designed to
eliminate a primary and elect a
hand-picked candidate.
The anti-Long organization,
which already had moved to hold
"citizens election" December q
to nominate a Democratic candi-
date for the post. today counted
more than half of the dozen par
ishes in the district as officially
opposing the Long maneuver.
Seven parishes have lined up
with the anti-Long organization
by openly announcing that they
will not pay election officials to
serve in Tuesdays election,
The Washington times., 1933-12-02

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 2 Q.N.S).
Lillian Harvey, English born and
German trained film actress, was
in an open break with the Fox
Film Corporation today.
Her artistic reputation in Eu-
rope would be ruined if dubbed
in" German and French versions
of her English speaking pictures
are distributed abroad she charged
in a suit to restrain Fox from
compelling her to make sound
records in French and German
to be used in films in which she
is featured.
Clubbing in" is a Hollywood
method of preparing pictures for
foreign distribution. The English
sound track is cut away from the
film and new sound, with French
or German dialogue, attached,
conversation being cued to the
action.
Difference between American
and European acting, tempo, geS-
ture and pronunciation would
make it impossible for her to
make French and German YER
sions of her pictures through
sound tricks" the pretty actress
averred.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02

"Tannenbaum had gone
across the street and was stand
ing near one Of the towns
funny cops. Those police didn't
lift . hand to help any Of the
reporters and this one was no
exception.
INTO THE RIVER
"While Tannenbaum was
standing on the corner. q red
haired boy led the mob to the
garage and, while / was talking
to my New York office on the
telephone, saw the truck being
pushed down the street. Tan.
nenbaum ran in and said:
They've got the truck and,
it's going in the river
Several persons threatened
US and we ran into the court
house, seeking refuge in the
SneF11IS Office.
I'VE won't say who it was who
spirited us out Of there, put us
in an automobile and took us
at 70 miles an hour out Of that
GOd-fOrsaken town. We stayed
in EastOn for . couple of days
and yesterday got the truck out
Of the river, and it's now on the
way to New York. 1t is practi.
cally ruined, the delicate sound
equipment being waterSOaked."
Zone Of the mob must have
stolen my new OvercOat from
the truck before they showed
it overheard. We searched the
truck and dragged the river
bottom for it, but there was
no trace Of it to be found"
It was this truck and anothe
that a Washington Times re
porter and photographer drov
so hard to save. They missed
the truck because of their unfs
miliarity with back roads connect
ing Route 213, the one used b,
the Times men, and United State
Route 10, over which the trucl
Travelled.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
CLAMOR5
To SECEDE
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publisher Of the Eastern Shore
Times at Berlin.
Holcombe, who heads a group
Of leading citizens back of the
move to form a new State, as
serted every newspaper on the
Shore would support the action.
Members of the legislature from
the Shore, who are bitter in their
feeling toward Governor Ritchie
for sending the soldiers, will be
consulted by leaders Of the Seces-
sion movement in an effort to
formulate a plan for immediate
action.
Residents At Fever Heat
Meanwhile feelings of the
Shore residents are still at fever
heat. Plans were being made for
a mass meeting at Princess Anne
next week when Governor Ritchie
will be burned in iffigy.
Threats were voiced that it will
be "too bad" for any State police
man to come here and give testi-
mony before the grand jury
against the mob's ringleaders.
States Attorney John Robins,
who will direct the grand jury
probe, announced, however, he will
demand that Attorney General
William Preston Lane, jr., and all
the officers appear before the
grand jury and give the evidence
which led them to send militia
men to make the arrests.
Informed of this, Lane said he
has not yet determined if he will
go to Princess Anne.
No Legal Precedent
Lane was one of the leaders Of
the military expedition which led
to the arrest of the four men
with the subsequent riot at Sails
bury last Tuesday, and he was
manhandled by the crowd and his
car stoned.
Informed Of the secession
threat, Lane said he knew Of no
legal precedent for such a move,
adding significantly:
South Carolina tried to Sc
cede. The Civil War followed"
Governor Ritchie was assailed
editorially in the Eastern Shore
newspapers published yesterday.
State Senator David j. Ward
of Wicomico county announced
he will call for a Statewide pro-
test against the military die
tatorship Of the governor.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
JURY SELECTED.
To TRY NORRIS
At DECATUR
Second Trial Gets Under Way
as Haywood Patterson
Is Found Guilty

DECATUR, Ala, Dec. 2 G.NSO.
Death was the answer, thrice re-
peated, of the State Of Alabama
today to the racial challenge
hurled in the tempestuous Scots
boro case.
Haywood Patterson, young negro
hobo, twice convicted and SEN
fenced to death for participating
in mass attacks on two white girls,
again is doomed to die in the
electric chair.
The jury in whose hands on
Thanksgiving Day was placed the
life of the 21-year-old Chatta-
nooga youth at $40 p. m. yester-
day decreed there should be no
change from the fate decreed by
two earlier juries.
Norris Jury Picked
Even as the death verdict was
decided, a second jury was COM
pleted to weigh the evidence
against Clarence Norris, second
defendant in the third series OF
Scottsboro trials, and today the
State moved swiftly ahead with
its case.
Five more young negro hotoeS,
after Norris fate is determined,
must be retired for the part the
State charged they had in the
ravishment of Victoria Price and
Ruby Bates in the gondola car Of
a freight train as it rumbled
through the north Alabama hills
on March IS, 1881.
To Appeal Again
The mass assault is alleged to
have occurred when the two
Huntsville (Ala) girls were re-
turning from an overnight hobo
trip to Chattanooga, Tenn, with
two boy friends.
Death is the possible penalty
for each of the negro defendants.
While the International Labor
Defense, radical group which has
espoused the cause of the negroes,
pushed its defense of Norris TO-
day, through Chief Defense Coun-
sci Samuel S. LeiboWitZ, Of New
York, fight began to carry Pat
terson's conviction to the United
States Supreme Court in an at
tempt to have the verdict set aside
for the third time.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
PRESIDENT AIMS
At STOCK RULE
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initiated by the Senate Banking
and Currency Committee.
An independent effort to pre-
vet further tax-dodging by Amer
ica'S multimillionaireS will be
made concurrently by the House
Ways and Means Committee, CO
operating both with the Senate
Banking Committee and the Joint
Congressional Committee on In
ternal Revenue Taxation.
The latter committee, headed
by Senator Harrison CD of Mis-
sissippl, will meet with the House
! committee Monday to begin con-
sideration of measure closing
all loopholes in the Federal tax
laws.
Tax EvasiOns Barred
The Senate inquiry revealed a
number Of tax-dodging schemes.
Partners in j. P. Morgan and
Company were discovered to have
avoided Federal taxes by dealing
in securities through family
trusts and by selling securities
to members of their own families,
! Other rich men, like Albert H
Wiggin, former head Of the Chase
National Bank, operated at times
through Canadian corporations
which sharply reduced their
American taxes.
The congressional committees
will endeavor to plug these loop.
holes.
The Brandeis brief, circulated
among members Of the Senate
committee, showed the way to
Federal control of the New York
Stock Market, following the fam.
Gus Pujo money trust" investi.
CATION Of 1912. Brandeis said:
Congress has ample power
to impose such prohibitions
Federal regulatiOnS) upon
practically all corporations, in.
Guiding State banks, trust com.
panies, and life insurance COM
panies, and evasion may be
made impossible.
INDIRECT CONTROL
"WhiIe Congress has not
been granted power to regN-
late directly State banks and
trust companies or life insur-
ance companies, or railroads,
public service, and industrial
corporations, except in respect
to interstate commerce. it may
do so indirectly by virtue either
of its control of the mail priv
lege or through the taxing
power.
Practically no business in
the United States can be con-
Quoted without use Of the
mails: and Congress may in its
reasonable discretion deny the
use of the mails to any bust
ness which is conducted under
conditions deemed by Congress
to be injurious to the public
welfare.
Gas such exercise Of congress
siOnal power has been common
for at least half a century,
Congress should not hesitate
to employ it where its exercise
is urgently needed" =
BrandeiS was. writing in rela-
ton to control Of national banks.
His words apply as well to fegu.
lation Of exchanges.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
Salisbury (Md.) Adventure Full Of Narrow
Escapes for Paramount Men Who Fail
To Interpret Warming Of Reporters

Here is the story Of Harry Tug
ander. staff cameraman for Para
Sound News, whose truck,
valued at $4,000, was showed into
the Wicomico River at Salisbury
by the mob-mad Eastern Shore.
men:
eve followed route 4O4 and
United States Route Is from
the Mattapeake ferry to Sails
bury.
"On the way we saw the eight
buses of troops rushing to Bal.
timOre and behind them we saw
a photographer we knew. AS he
passed us he waved his hand,
but we didn't know whether he
was trying to stop us or was
saying hello.
I'VE KNOW NOW"
Behind him was a sedan
filled with four tough looking
men. We know now they were
mObsterS.
I'VE continued on to Salisbury
and pulled up in front Of the
hotel and stopped for q red
light. The mob was chasing
some one down the street, buS
we still didn't know they were
after photographers and report
erS.
"A Western Union messenger
came up on one side of the
truck and a reporter for q local
newspaper on the other. Both
said:
"Get that truck out of sight
Your lives aren't worth q
nickel
There was a garage about
half a block away and we made
for that. Harold Tannenbaum,
the sound technician who was
driving. put the truck in the
garage, way in the back.
BURN PRESS CAR
"Tannenbaum and 1 got out
and walked back to the corner.
The mob then was burning q
roadster belonging to one Of
the reporters. ut was the car
belonging to George Waters Of
the Washington HeraId.)
II asked some man what the
trouble was and he didn't an
Swer: just looked at me.
Another man gave me a once
over and said looked like one
of those damned picture men
and hanging was too good for
us.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
CODE To RAISE
RUN|MPORTS
IS SIGNED
Roosevelt Approves Measure
Fixing Hard Liquor Quota
at 1000, 900 Gallons

WARM SPRINGS, Ca, Dec. 2
G.N.sD.-President Roosevelt to.
day signed an MIRA code for
liquor importations which will
allow approximately 100000
gallons Of hard liquor and T.
100000 gallons of wine to flow
into this country annually from
abroad.
The regulatory pact sets up a
preliminary permit period, and
establishes a definite permit
system. It will be administered
by the Federal Alcohol Control
Administration, which also hand
les the domestic liquor code, and
which is headed by Joseph H
Choate, jr., of New York.
The code limits importations
to estimated needs of the coun
try, based on a so-called mini
mum of the 191O-1914 average
This average is, roughly, about
100000 gallons of hard liquors
and 100000 gallons OF wines
and liquors annually.
Follows Home Plan
President Roosevelt explained
that the new code follows SUBJ
stantially the lines of the domes-
tic liquor code, which gives the
industry itself considerable au-
thority for self-regulation, but
leaves the final say in the hands
of the Administration.
The importing code was drafted
to bridge the gap between the
effective date of repeal and en-
actment of a permanent system
by Congress. AS explained, it
appeared that the So-called pre-
liminary permit period would ex-
tend from effective repeal until
Congress, and that after that
unless Congress changed the code,
the definite permit system would
become operative.
President Rests
The President today adhered
strictly to a vacation program, pre-
paratory to leaving here tomorrow
for his return to Washington.
Mrs. Roosevelt, who came down
for Thanksgiving dinner, planned
to return north with her husband
and Joined him in his recreation
program for the day.
The President has been giving
some time to the writing of a
speech he will make over a nation.
wide radio hookup Wednesday
night, dedicated to the Federal
Council of Churches. Reports
have circulated widely that the
Executive planned to take advan.
tage of this opportunity to voice a
defense of his monetary policy,
but there were no indications here
he would do so.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
TlUO Hurt in Crash
Laid to Bees STING

LYNCHBURG, Va, Dec. a.
Losing control Of his car after
being stung by a bee while driving
near here yesterday, c. H. Arthur,
Of Hyattsville, Md, suffered in
juries as the machine crashed into
an embankment.
Arthur's arm was fractured and
his wife suffered scalp decorations.
They were taken to the Virginia
Baptist Hospital.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
Hearings Scheduled
On Fisheries Code

A national code for the fish
cries industry is scheduled for
hearing before the Agricultural
Adjustment Administration mere
December II, it was announced
today. Up to the present more
than 100 codes covering various
phases of this industry have
been submitted, and the current
draft has been developed after
conferences over several weeks
The Washington times., 1933-12-02

everybody is on IL.
If you are on the gold
and the rest of the boys
are not you change your
money into theirs, then
demand it in gold.
Now France is on the
gold and is cuckoo. She
reads every morning how
many millions in gold
were shipped out the day
before Gust like we used
to do before we went off
the gOld) and it's grad
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
GLASS STRUGGLE TOPIC

The Socialist Labor Party will
present a lecture, THE Class
Struggle Today" at 8 p. m. to-
night at Musicians Hall, HOS Six
teenth st. N. w. Ward Beckwith,
of Philadelphia, will be the prin-
cipal speaker. Admission Is free
and questions from the floor are
invited,
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
The Weather

For the District of Columbia-Partly
cloudy with rising temperature tonight
and Sunday. probably followed by rain
Sunday; minimum temperature tonight
about SS degrees: moderate southwest
winds.
For Maryland and Virglnia-Partly
oIordv not so cold tonight; Sunday
cloudy and warmer. probably followed
by rain.
LOCAL TEMPERATURES
Yesterday Today
n. m....... 20 a. m........ II
3 D. m... ~ a. m........ 30
Midnight ...... Ss Noon .......... -
DEPARTURES FROM NORMAL
Accumulated excess Of temperature
since January I. 1888, 1853.
Excess Of temperature since December
Accumulated excess Of precipitation
since January I, 1898. ITO.
Deficiency Of precipitation since De-
cember /, 1888. COS.
TIDE TABLES
Today-High tides SOC a. m. and
see p. m; low tides 2:39 a. m. and
2:41 p. m.
Tomorrow-High tides s:4S a. m. and
9:O2 p. M. low tides S:22 a. m. and
1921 p. m.
SUN AND MOON
The sun rises today 1908 a. m.
and sets 4:4S p. m.
The sun rises tomorrow 1909 q. m.
and sets 4:B ., N.
The moon rises today 4:Ss ,. a.
and sets 7:SS a. m.
The moon rises tom arrow S:l8
p. m. and sets S4S a. m.
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
NAVAL GUN INSPECTION

Navy reserve officers in the Dis.
trict will be taken on a tour of
inspection through the naval gun
factory next Thursday afternoon.
The officers are requested to as
semble at the Naval Reserve Ar
mory, 1921 Eleventh st. s. E., at
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
WILL ROGERS Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, CAL, Dec. 2.-This
staying on the gold is tough job, unless
The Washington times., 1933-12-02
vILL ROGERS

uaIIy driving her nuts"
So it looks at though everybody HI
either got to be on it, or off it. You can
play solo.
COUyrasAA AssA ~ AanausAA Svuds.AN
Evening star., 1933-11-09
DAUGHTERS OF ISABELLA
GROUP WILL INSTALL
District Circle No. 17S Annual
Banquet to Be Held at 1880
O'Clock Tonight.

Mrs. Annie Wall viii be installed as
regent Of the District Circle, No. 178,
of the National Circle, Daughters of
Isabella, at the annual banquet of the
organization at 7:30 o'clock tonight at
the Mayfiower Hotel.
The installing officer will be Mrs.
James X. Haskell, State regent Other
officers to be installed include Mrs.
Annie A. Bourke, vice regent Miss M
Wolfe, treasurer; Miss Mary Manning,
financial secretary; Mrs. Frederick
Whelton, corresponding secretary; Miss
Ann Ferguson, custodian; Mrs. Mabel
Burke, chancellor; Mrs. M. Bailey and
Mrs. Mary A. Ritter, guides; Mrs.
Nora Tappen, monitor; Mrs. Katherine
REM, inner guard; Mrs. Margaret Belt,
outer guard Mrs. Mary Jane Tavenner,
banner bearer; Mrs. M. J. Sullivan, or
ganist; Mrs. n. S. Newman, trustee;
Miss Beatrice E. Deeds, scribe
Miss Ethel Roddy, chairman Of the
banquet, has arranged program to in
clude vocal numbers by Thomas A.
Cantwen, George O'Connor, Frederick
Nolan and Mrs. James Hanley; piano
numbers by DR.. Edward p. Donovan and
Matt Horne: reading by Miss Agnes
Walters. and other. entertainment.
Evening star., 1933-11-09
BRIDGE TOURNEY
PLAY IS STARTED
Strong Field Is Entered for
Pair and Other Cham
pionships.

With Mrs. z. B. Swanson and Mrs
II. c. Given, 1881 District pair cham
pions, and Mrs. Ralph Emery and Mrs.
Pierce Marston, the Baltimore pair who
won in 1882, heading the list, a strong
field began bridge play at the Shore
ham Hotel this afternoon for the 1888
pair championship and the priced
Woodward Cup.
A strong male contingent also has
entered, including Col. A. S. Perkins
and Maj. e. B. Gray, recent United
States Bridge Association winners; !. H.
York and H. T. Wensel, present and last
years president, respectively. Of the
Federal Bridge League, and DR.. e. B.
Conally, A. P. Stockvis and Roy Thur
tell Of the 1881 champion team.
Prominent among the mixed pairs
are the national auction champions,
Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Lemon; Capt. and
Mrs. DietZ, just announced as seasons
winners in two of the important dupI-
cate games, and Mr.. and Mrs. V. A.
Clarke.
Team Championship Tonight.
The team championship starts this
evening at $3.50 with the Army and
Navy Club fighting in defense of the
Eynon Bowl. Though the composition
of this team has been materially
changed since last year. it has already
proved itself The 1881 championship
team also has been split up. with A. P.
Stockvis and Roy Thurtell playing on
Mayfair Club team, and w. r. Lewis
and DR.. Conally representing the Veazey
street Saturday night sessions, Some
20 other teams are expected, including
the National Press Club champion four
and teams from Manor, Columbia,
woodmont and the Washington Golf
and Country Club.
The new intermediate event for The
Evening Star Trophy, in many ways the
most interesting event Of the tourna-
ment, also will start at $50.
The fact the names of the winners
will be the first to appear on the new
cup adds zest to the contest Miss Helen
Freeman, Walter Baumfort, Mrs. Wei
merit, Carl Turner, DR.. James H Taylor
and Frank w. Weida head the list of
entries.
Finals Saturday.
In all three of these events all en-
trants will play today and tomorrow for
places In the finals, to be held Saturday
However, scores made in these earlier
sessions are carried forward and counted
in determining winners. Open games
are also scheduled each afternoon and
evening for the convenience of those
unable to participate in the main con-
tests. Russell j. Baldwin of Cleveland,
treasurer and official scorer of the
American Bridge League, is the tourna-
ment director.