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Evening star., 1933-08-11
MANY R0BBER|ES
REPORTED TOPOL|CE
Pedestrian Says Three Men
Enticed Him Into Car
and Took S1.80.
Robert Harrison, 81, early today was

Robert Harrison, 81 early today was
men, who struck him on the head and,
after robbing him of ST. 80, put him out
in his stockinged feet
Harrison, who lives in the 1900 block
Of G street, said he was walking near
the Botanic Gardens about O'Clock
when the strangers accosted him, in
viting him to have a drink"
He declined the invitation. he said,
but the men were insistent and he final
ly accepted. As he stepped into their
car, he related, one of them hit him.
Then, he added, they took his pocket
book, removed his shoes and. after push
ing him into the street. drove away.
His family physician treated the wound
on his head.
The robbery was one of several re-
ported during the night, thieves obtain
ing loot with total value of more than
$500. 1.-THE other reports follow:
Joseph J. Berlin, watches worth $212
stolen by robbers who smashed the
window of his jewelry store at 32l9 M
street; Arthur Thompson. also a jew
eler, watches and rings valued at $55
taken from his store at 723 H street
northeast by window-smashers; Helen
Rawlins, 400 block of New Jersey avenue
southeast, SIS stolen from an office in
the Washington Building; Carrie L.
Connor, TOO block of I street, $25
taken from another Office in the same
structure; Elijah T. Bowman, 500
stolen from his home in the 1900 block
of T street; Wallace Henderson, Rock
I-AI 49,
from his machine parked near Fifteenth
and E streets, and Walter Dyson, SIS
taken from his home in the 1700 block
Of T street.
Evening star., 1933-08-11
HAMILTON SOLVES
LEASE PROBLEM
Bank to Take Over Building
of FederaI-American and
Three Branches.

Terms of a lease on the Federal
American Bank g. Trust Co. at Four
teenth and G streets, and three OF its
branches have been agreed to for the
use of these buildings by the Hamll-
ton National Bank, it was announced
today by Edwin c. Graham, president
of the bank.
The headquarters building at Four
teenth and G streets is to be the head
quarters Of the merger, and the other
three branches to be used by the
Hamilton are looted in Brookland at
Twelfth and Newton streets northeast
at du Pont Circle, on Connecticut ave-
nue., and at Pennsylvania avenue and
twentieth street.
Court Must Pass on Lease.
Details of the terms reached were
not disclosed by President Graham
The lease, however, must be approved
by the court as part of the series of
contracts between the Hamilton Bank
and the conservators of the eight banks
comprising the merger.
Twenty-Five employees of the old Fed
eral-American Bank have been taken
over by the Hamilton Bank, Mr.. Gra-
ham said, and are now on the pay
roll for the new merger, working at
headquarters This staff is busy with
numerous details involved in the OPEN
ing of the Hamilton Bank. A date for
the opening has not yet been fixed.
Most of the major obstacles have been
surmounted, however, and what remains
is principally detail work.
Will Lease Other Buildings.
The Hamilton Bank also will lease
five other bank buildings from five
other members of the merger. They are
the Potomac Savings Bank at M street
and Wisconsin avenue in Georgetown;
the Northeast Savings Bank at Eighth
and H streets northeast; the Wood
ridge-Langdon and Commercial Bank,
on Rhode Island avenue in the Wood
ridge section northeast; the Seventh
Street Savings Bank and the United
States Savings Bank at Fourteenth and
U streets.
President Graham was in conference
today with his Executive Committee,
taking up numerous problems concern
ing the opening of the bank. Mr.. Gra-
ham feels progress is now being made
toward an opening date.
Evening star., 1933-08-11

toned to handling money. But coun-
terfeiting by lithography, or duplicating
the Way bills are made at the Bureau
Of Engraving and Printing. often pro-
duces very dangerous counterfeits, and
is the method usually employed by
gangs working on a large scale.
Even spurious coins can be made to
ring more clearly than the original. In
fact, coins from the mint sometimes
ring DULY. But such accuracy is not
necessary to deceive many persons.
Since 1929 about dozen counterfeit
rings, organized like big business houses,
with separate units for manufacture,
distribution and sale of their products,
have been uncovered by Secret Service
agents. Nearly all of them were in New
York, the source of most of the spurious
money circulated in this country.
A number of counterfeiters, however,
have been caught by the Secret Service,
who worked alone, and took no one into
their confidence. A case of this kind
was uncovered in Washington last Feb
ruary with the arrest of 25-year-old
youth, who, in the darkened receSses of
an apartment room on Twelfth street,
turned out 81, $40 and $40 notes that
only experts could detect as spurious.
In the case of the organized gangs,
capture is made difficult because of the
system used in distributing the spurious
money. Members of the gangs them
selves very seldom attempt to pass the
bogus money, but sell it wholesale in
underworld circles. Last Spring a trio
was arrested in Washington for circu-
Ating spurious IS notes, which, they
admitted, they had purchased in New
York for S225 hundred.
Cocrot Carvira AGENTS however are
making quite record for themselves
in rounding up counterfeiters before
they can spend their spurious money.
In 1881 the arrests totaled 1924, and
the number rose to 2,139 last year. But
the fact that seizures jumped from
$50. 1850 in 1881 to s590,31l in 1882 gives
fIa,,, moro cheer
Evening star., 1933-08-11
SUPPORT OF N. R. A.
EVIDENCED IN COURT
Washington's Aid to Recovery
Act Seen in Boycott
Statement

Concrete evidence that the public In
Washington is supporting President
Roosevelt's recovery program was pre-
sented IN District Supreme Court today
when the present operators of the
Chapman coal and gas business in
formed the court number of their
best customers had threatened to with
draw their patronage unless they signed
the N. R. A. code.
This information came from the COL
lectors of the estate of the late James
Edward Miller Chapman, who operated
large retail coal business and two
gasoline stations. The collectors, An
nette s. Chapman and j. Barrett Car
ter, filed formal request for permis-
sion to sign the code.
I'VE have been notified by some of
our best customers" the request said,
that unless we sign the employment
agreement they will no longer continue
to deal with us.
1.-The signing Of the code will make it
necessary to employ additional help
and we believe it may possibly result,
for a time at least, in operating the
business at loss. We feel, however,
that the loss of business from a refusal
to sign Ypuld be even greater" a
Justice Uoseph W. Cox granted the
request without comment.
Evening star., 1933-08-11
WINTER JOB RELIEF
|. TO REQUIRE BILLION
Unemployed Ito Take Beat
ing" Unless States Supply
Half, Says Hopkins.
BY the Associated Press.


Unless the States and cities equal
the Governments $500, 900 900 contribu-
ton. the jobless are going to take a
beating" during the coming Winter, in
the opinion of Harry L. Hopkins, Fed
eral relief administrator. Mr.. Hopkins
set one billion dollars as the goal for
unemployment relief next Winter.
The youthful boss of Uncle Sans
big relief job expressed the belief that
State and local agencies would come
across" but he warned those adopting
niggardly aid policies that Federal as
sistance would not be forthcoming.
If we don't raise that half billion,
Hopkins told newspaper men, then the
unemployed will lose out. I want the
States and cities to raise it and I think
we will get it."
describing him as hard boiled" and a
tough bird" so far as giving out money
is concerned.
States Must Raise Funds.
IF We can't get the money out of
the States, the unemployed are going
to take q beating" he said. Its no
fun going around threatening States
about spending money"
West Virginia, Texas, Ohio, Kentucky,
Alabama and Michigan, he added, al
ready have been put on notice. to in
crease relief expenditures or else not to
expect any more Federal grants.
Men have been sent into West Vir-
ginia to check up on that States ability
to spend for relief, he said. adding he
nio1e fa leo
$40, 100000 this year if drought and un-
employed victims are to be cared for
adequately.
BY October l, he continued, he ex-
pected all States to be going full speed
with relief work. That Is the date
when all remaining money In the Fed
eral fund may be allotted on the basis
Of need without being matched by the
States
If Ohio comes across at her legisla-
tive session August 49," he asserted,
I'VE will have every State putting up
two-thirds Of the money"
He referred to the requirement in the
law that for every Federal dollar re-
ceived by State it shall have spent
three in the previous three months.
Decline Is Shown.
The relief agency issued its monthly
family relief table yesterday, showing a
drop both in the number of families
receiving aid and expenditures of all
public funds in July compared with
June.
Covering As representative cities, it
showed 1,150,750 families were helped
in July, compared with 1,165,276 in
June, a decline of 1.2 per cent.
Expenditure of Federal, State and
local money amounted to $24,801 ,845,
against $27,087 ,639, decrease of 8.4
per cent.
New York, with .6,631 900. spent the
most, but this compared with $7,629, ,O93
the previous month, decline OF l3.1
per cent.
Families helped increased 10 per cent,
from 208,910 to 229,700, and Hopkins
said this probably was due to private
charities decreasing their activities and
placing a heavier burden on public
agencies.
Chicago. where Hopkins said the Fed
eral Government was furnishing all the
relief, spent $4,280,000 in July, against
$4, 753 900 in June, decrease OF 10 per
cent. while families aided totaled 150,-
600, against 10000, drop Of "a per
copt
Evening star., 1933-08-11
RISE IN D. c. TAXES
IN 1885 IS FEARED
Protective Association Asks
D. C. Heads to Cut Ex-
penses to 1925 Level.

Fear that there will be rise in taxes
here during the next fiscal year unless
the 1895 budget is predicated upon
real economies, is expressed in q
statement filed with the District Com
misisoners today by E. c. Baltz, chair
man of the board of the Washington
Taxpayers Protective Association.
The body urged that determined
effort be made to reduce District ex-
penses for some time approximately tc
the 1925 level It was argued that while
the District population had increased
only per cent between 1925 and 1888
local government costs payable out Of
general revenues increased from S29,-
100000 to more than $37,000,0O0, or "a
per cent.
Points to Big Cut.
The association, from its current
study of financial conditions of the
District, found that the cut in real and
tangible personal property taxes
amounting to more than $780, 900, was
made possible only because of three
changes. These were listed as the Is
per cent cut in pay of District employees
computed at s3,800,0 ,00o reduction in
capital expenditures, totaling 81 4,222 900;
and discontinuance of automatic pay
increases for firemen, policemen and
teachers. totaling $250,000. The three
savings totaled $8,272 900.
THE above economies obviously are
not permanent" the association de-
clared. THE President on January /
or any six months period thereafter
may restore any or all of the Is per
cent administrative pay cut. The auto
matte discontinuance of pay increases
fny sr
in effect only to June 80, 1884. Prac-
tically no money is being spent for cap
ital expenditures except on streets and
sewers. The money for the schools
that are being erected this year comes
from unused Municipal Center appro-
priationS.
Whether the President restores the
administrative pay cut or not, it is GER
tain that the city cannot continue to
go along for any length of time with
out making larger capital expenditures
than will be made this year.
Sees Danger OF Rise.
"Since our present tax rate depends
upon the unstable economies as out
lined in this letter, it would seem self
evident that there is grave danger, un-
less action is taken to forestall it, of
collections probably will be better dur
ing 1885 than during 1888 and that the
revenue from the sale of hard liquor
will produce a sizeable sum, but at the
present the most we can hope for in
additional revenue for 1885 will not
be over 100000. Even with such
additional revenue, if the pay cut is
restored, a tax rise is probable. Add
to that a normal outlay for capital
expenditures, then under the present
financial set-up, a tax rise would be
inevitable"
Evening star., 1933-08-11
Counterfeiting Breaks Record
As Real Money Cro,vs Scarce
Secret Service Kept Busy
Running DO,Ur Flood
of Bills.
Citizens Believed Robbed
of Several Million
Dollars.

~OUNTERFEITERS are keeping
Secret Service agents on the
jump these days running down
~ spurious notes and coins that
have flooded the country.
Since 1929 more counterfeits have
been passed than in any other period in
history. The exact amount, of course,
is undetermined, but it is believed that
the counterfeiters have robbed the citi-
zens Of several million dollars or more.
The increased activity of the bogus
monaV makers is blamed on the world
wide depression and the consequent
scarcity OF cash. As legal money got
scarcer more people began making their
own.
In 1881, for instance, II new coun-
terfeit notes were circulated. That year
the Secret Service seized $36,572 in
coins.
The next year there were II new
counterfeit notes in circulation. Cur
rency seizures reached $540, ,538 and
coin $40, 9,773.
In 1888 figures will not be made pub
lie until William H. Moran, Secret
Service chief, sends his report to Con-
gress in January. But a proportional
increase has been noted.
Particularly in the West, where most
of the Nations silver is mined, have
Secret Service operatives found rapid
recent rise in the number of counter
felt coins. Some, of course, have been
found in the East, but the West, be-
cause of its greater use of silver, has
been a more fertile field for the opera
tions of the coin counterfeiters.
Most of the counterfeit money, ac-
cording to Secret Service agents, will
not survive the scrutiny of expert
handling. although the unframed eye
and the carelessness of the average per-
son in pocketing change without an ex-
animation, makes it comparatively
simple for the counterfeiter to pass the
bogus notes.
Notes issued by the Government are
gems Of the engraver's art. With the
sole exception of the seal and the serial
number, every bit of the etching is ex-
ecuted with the finest precision ma
chinery and by the most expert en-
gravers
Many counterfeits, however, are pro-
duced by the photo-mechanical process.
the plates being engraved from photo
graphs, but few examples of this method
survive the trained eye Lifting" a
method of raising the face value of the
notes, simply by changing the numerals
from 81 to $40, or from 50 to $40 can
be readily detected by any one accus-
Evening star., 1933-08-11
Another Shower
OF Stars Is Due
To Fall Tonight
From 20 to 80 an Hour
viii Be Visible If
Sky Clear.

The earth is due for another shower
of shooting stars tonight.
Sometime between midnight and
morning it will be passing through the
orbit of the Perseid meteors. From
20 to 80 an hour should be observed If
the skies are clear.
The Perseids are supposed to be
fragments of an ancient comet, moving
in an orbit so vast it takes them 125
years to encircle the sun. Every Au-
gust the earth passes through this
orbit.
They travel at a rate Of about &C
miles q second. They are among the
fastest meteors belonging to the solar
system.
All are believed to be quite minute
and are reduced to ashes by the fric-
tion of the earth's outer atmosphere
long before they have . chance tc
crash upon the surface.
Evening star., 1933-08-11
CODE WOULD CREATE
FOUR OYSTER GROUPS
Plan Submitted by Growers and
Dealers Also Provides for
Uniform Grading.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An oyster marketing agreement and
code of fair dealing, discussed by men,
bers- of the trade with agricultural
Adjustment Administration officials
would divide the oyster producing
States into four groups.
The North Atlantic division would
be composed of Massachusetts,, Rhode
Island, Connecticut, New York. New
Jersey and Delaware; the Middle At
lantic division, Maryland, Virginia and
North Carolina, and the South Atlantic
and Gull States division. South Caro-
lima, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi. Louisiana and Texas. The
three Pacific Coast States would COM
prise the Pacific division.
The proposed code, submitted by the
Oyster Growers and Dealers Associa-
tion of North America, Inc, would
authorize a committee to draw up a
marketing plan, and would establish a
uniform system of grading.
Evening star., 1933-08-11

Before any start is ever made on
building the Calvert Street Bridge, some
thing like S1l4,O0O will have been paid
to architects for competing sets Of
plans. The whole bridge Is estimated
to cost S1,250 1000.
Already $4,000 has been paid. OF
this 81 900 went to Maj. George Oakley
Totten, jr., who drew the first design
for a multiple arch masonry bridge in
1917. The Intervention of the World
War prevented any construction work
at the time, and when the project was
taken up once more recently, the Dis
trict Commissioners paid Modjeski,
Masters & Chase of Philadelphia
$685. 900 to design q single arch, steel
bridge
Controversy soon arose Is 10 the
relative merits Of. the two types Of
Evening star., 1933-08-11
CALVERT STREET BRIDGE PLANS
WILL COST CLOSE TO $114,OOO

bridge, and at its last session Congress
ordered the matter restudied and sub
mitted to the Fine Arts Commission
for a decision. The Fine Arts Com
mission decided in favor of multiple
arch, masonry bridge. similar in con-
ception to Totten's, with special re-
quirement that it be designed so as to
harmonic with the bridgehead OF the
Taft Bridge. ,,.
Modjeski, Masters & Chase have now
been asked to make preliminary study
of q design meeting these conditions. 1t
Is expected that the price Of q new set
OF plans, including all working draw
ings, would be about $4,000. Adding
this to the $4,000 and the $4,000 al
ready spent. gives q total Of $l14, 900,
assuming that the plans are not
changed again.
Evening star., 1933-08-11
MARRIED WHILE DRUNK,
MAN SEEKS ANNULMENT
Declares in Petition at Marlboro
That He and Wife Never
Lived Together.

BY Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, August
11.-Declaring he was under the in
fluence of liquor and acted only on the
suggestions and promptings of other
persons" when he was married at Bel
Air, Md, June %, Lionel G. Anglers yes
terday asked the Circuit Court to an
null his marriage to Margaret Costello
Anglers, 1900 block of Twelfth place
northeast, Washington.
After the ceremony, the bill states,
Anglers returned to Washington where,
because of his Intoxicated condition,
he remained overnight with a friend"
Anglers declares in the bill that he and
his wife never lived together.
Attorney Isidor Lavine appears for
the husband,
Evening star., 1933-08-11
HEART ATTACK SUFFERER. KEPT
ALIVE BY OXYGEN, IS IMPROVED

tanning only 9 cubic feet of oxygen, but
Romans condition was so critical when
they began administering to him, they
explained, that they decided to use
larger tanks, each containing 220 cubic
feet, or 1000 pounds. Five tanks have
been used in all, they said.
The battle to save Margaret began
about 2:30 pm. yesterday, the flremen
using 9-cubic foot tanks. Thus far,
they have used only two Of the smaller
tanks.
The firemen will continue to ad-
minister oxygen to both Roman and
Margaret until they are definitely out
of danger, 1t was said,
Evening star., 1933-08-11

Louis Roman, So. kept alive by oxy-
gen since he suffered a heart attack
last Monday. was reported in an i'm
proved condition today as members
of Fire Rescue Squad No. continued
their battle to save his life.
Meanwhile, members of Rescue Squad
No. were waging q similar fight to
prevent Margaret Whaley, 10, Of 635
Emerson street, from succumbing to
bronchial pneumonia.
Altogether, firemen have given
Roman, who lives at 731 Princeton
place, approximately 10000 pounds OF
Usually the dremen use tanks con-
Evening star., 1933-08-11
CARNIVAL TO OPEN
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BLADENSBURG, Md, August Ii
Plans for the carnival of the Bladens-
burg Volunteer Fire Department, start
ing tomorrow night and continuing one
week, were completed last night. The
affair will be held on the property
opposite the Memorial Cross here. Many
attractions are planned. Andrew Gasch,
chief of the department and chairman
Of it's Entertainment Committee, Is in
general charge of arrangements.
Evening star., 1933-08-11
GIVES BROAD POWERS
Farm Administrators Delegate

3 al m ADMINISTRATORS Oc1SS aIC
Work to County Wheat Units.
BY the Associated Press.
Farm administrators today delegated
broad powers to county wheat control
associations, key units in the program
for curtailing the Nations wheat pro-
duction, through which 10000, 900 is
to be distributed to growers this Fall
Articles of association were mailed to
county agents establishing the methods
OF organizing the county groups, de-
failing their exact powers. and paving
the way for establishing the individual
allotments of farmers on which benefit
payments will be made.
Evening star., 1933-08-11
Community League to Meet.

POTOMAC, Md, August II (SpeciaD
"A meeting of the Bradley Hills Com
munity League will be held in the
Potomac School at 8 o'clock tonight.
Evening star., 1933-08-11

~OUNTERFEITERS are keeping
Secret Service agents on the
jump these days running dowr
~ spurious notes and coins that
have flooded the country
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1933-11-18

The newcomers say they are satisfied and
happy. The old-timerS in the hills don't believe
they will stick it out-think they will leave when
better times come. Well, they are there now and
are making living. They say they like it. And
new families are moving to the Ozarks every day.
It doesn't take much money to get start in
the Ozarks. A few hundred dollars will take
care of hard-working family for year. A
thousand dollars is fortune. People are turn
ing to the land, hoping great things from it.
Most of the Ozark land will provide a Iive-
hood. Some of it will do more than that With
few hundreds for a start and determination to
work hard, the Ozarks offer a new way toward
independence.
Two million acres of land have changed
hands in the Ozarks since the latter part of 1882
and few of the buyers were local investors.
There are no vacant log cabins in the hills today
and hundreds Of new ones are springing up on
the less important roads. Few new cabins are
found along the main highways because this
land is too priced to attract the class of set
tiers who are reaching the Ozarks today.
THE histories Of these people are much alike
and they are all interesting, and vital to the
development of America. A few city people,
family or a couple-come to the Ozarks with a
few hundred dollars. They buy land and, if they
are lucky, they find good spring water. They
build q cabin or add to the cabin they find on
the land. Land and lumber are both cheap and
people in the Ozarks know how to build tight,
ivable cabins.
They plant corn, cowpeaS peas and tomatoes,
the newcomers doing all Of their own farm work
hnt the blowing. They buy few pigs. COW O.