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The Washington times., 1933-07-31
Phantom Fire Escape Seen
By Two Inspectors

The mystery surrounding the
phantom fire escape" which
building inspectors certified had
been erected on building in the
1400 block Eleventh st. N. W.,
three years ago but which ap-
pears never to have been seen
there, deepened today when the
District inspectors office admitted
that the records revealed two in
spections showing the escape to
have been installed.
A complaint was made last
week to the District Commits
sioners by Mrs. Emile Snyder,
owner of the property, to the
effect that a permit had been
obtained three years ago for the
work and the contract let.
A month later, the inspectors
division of the District Govern
ment reported the work satisfac-
torily completed. The bond Of the
contractor, who has since gone
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
TRAINS VICTIM
UNIDENTIFIED

An unidentified man about 65
years old and shabbily dressed
was found dead early today beside
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
tracks at Hyattsville. Police be-
lieve the man was struck by a
train some time during the night.
The only means of identifica-
ton was a laundry mark on his
shirt. A bundle of clothing con-
tanning overalls and shoes, was
found beside the body.
The body was taken to the
Gasch undertaking parlors.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
BONDS OFFERED
To FINANCE
RECOVERY
BY international News Service


In a financial operation to con-
solidate a portion Of the short
term debt and to provide funds
for recovery operations, the
Treasury has offered $5oO,00O, 900
in eight-year 3A per cent bonds,
the first long-term issue since
September, 1881.
It was expected that the
August Is financing, the date Of
the bonds, would exceed $780,
600, 900. In addition to the bonds,
the Treasury offered $350,000, 900
in ia per cent two-year notes.
May Raise Offering
The Treasury reserved the right
to increase the offering Of bonds
by an amount sufficient to allot
in full all subscriptions in pay
ment of which certificates OF
indebtedness maturing September
is are offered in payment.
On August Is $461 100000 in
certificates natures. The Septem-
ber Is maturing is over $4OO,-
100000. The Treasury expressed
the hope that a considerable
amount of the September Is
maturity could be absorbed by
the new bonds.
Broader Credit Sought
In a statement issued from his
Long Island home, Secretary OF
the Treasury Woodin declared
the new bond issue marks
further step in placing Govern
ment finances on a broader and
more stable basis and gives the
public generally a wider oppor-
tunity to participate in the Gov
ernment's recovery program.
The bond issue was the first
1ong-term securities since that Of
September, 1881, when $500, ,402,-
300 was put on the mark That
issue bore 8 per cent interest, is
callable in 1851, and natures in
1855. The offering was 0,000,-
600. It marked one Of the few
times in Government financing
when the amount was barely
oversubscribed.
The proceeds of the August Is
financing will be used to retire
maturing issues and to meet the
demands of the Government for
recovery funds.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
TwO Arrested
In Kidnapping
Of Puppy

BOSTON, July 81 0.N.S0.
kidnapped for $50 ransom, Ra-
mona, six-month-old Boston ter
rier puppy, was back today with
her mistress, Mrs. Helen White,
while her abductors, Two Lex
ington men, faced charges of at
tempted extortion.
The men were Dominick Mo-
donno, 27, and Francis Ray, 20.
They told police they were
"broke" and needed money. Mrs.
White met them at the ap-
pointed place in Bowdoin
Square, handed over an envelope
containing the money, and two
policemen, trailing her, arrested
the men.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
DERN CHEERED
BY GOVERNORS

LOS ANGELES, July 81
(I.N.S.).-''We are all Ameri-
cans, united in the battle to
restore prosperity"
Concluding their visit, Cover.
nors of a dozen States who at
tended the annual Governors
Conference in California today
had applauded that final state
ment here of Secretary of War
George Dern.
Secretary Dern greeted an as
semblage at the Breakfast Club
in behalf Of President Roosevelt
and declared that party lines had
been forgotten during the con-
ference.
He planned to inspect March
Field at Riverside and Boulder
Dam today before continuing to
his home at Salt Lake City. Sew
eral Of the governors planned to
accompany him to the Boulder
Dam site.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
RHchie, Recovered,
Has O. Busy Sunday

OCEAN CITY, Md, July 81.
Gov. Albert =. Ritchie, who suf-
fered a severe nosebleed here Fri.
day night, was fully recovered to-
day and expected to return later
to the State capitol.
The Maryland chief executive
spent busy Sunday interviewing
general assembly and State Dem.
ocratic leaders, but cancelled a
speaking engagement of the Del
marva Press Association at Reho-
both Beach, Del.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
Flag Group to Hear
Racket Prosecutor

Joseph B. keenan,, special as
sistant attorney general in
charge Of racketeering prosecu-
tions, will address the National
Council Of '76. rime-combatting
unit Of the United States Flag
Association, when that group
meets Wednesday to consider
definite plans for cooperation in
the Govrnment's crime war.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
WOMAN KILLED
IN AUTO CRASH

Mrs. Abula Radice. 26, of the
1900 block Sixteenth Street N w.,
an employe of the Veterans Bu-
reau, was killed yesterday when
the automobile in which she was
riding left the highway and
turned over near Ebensburg, Pa,
her relatives in washington we're
notified today.
The automobile was operated
by Mrs. Imogene T. Herrell. 1000
block Cathedral Avenue N. w.
also a Veterans Bureau employe.
They were en- route from Mrs.
Radice's parents home in PunXS-
utawney, Pa, to Washington.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31

out Of business, has been dis
charged.
Hugh P. Dram, Director Of In
spection for the District, has in
formed Attorney r. A. Harman,
Mrs. Snyder's counsel, that both
inspectors who made the original
reports of satisfactory completion
have since died.
Dram also declined to recon-
mend an extension of time in
which Mrs. Snyder may seek re.
course for failure of the con-
tractor to erect the fire escape.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
Tests Set to Select
4 Md. POStn10sterS

The Civil Service Commission
will hold a competitive examina-
tion for the position of postmas-
ter at Kensington, Md, it mas
just been announced. The job
carries a salary of $1,000.
Other Maryland offices on the
competitive list are Kitzmiller,
with $1,000 salary: Mount
Savage, which pays $500, and
Western Port, with salary of
$2,1OO,
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
BOARD TO MEET

The Board Of Education of the
District of Columbia will hold a
special meeting Wednesday after
noon at $3.50 o'clock at the Frank
lin Administrator Building, Thir-
teenth and K Streets Northwest.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
TWO COUPLES TO WE'D

Marriage licenses have been is
sued at Upper Marlboro to Louis
John Manus, 25, Morgantown, w.
Va, and Lena Frances Erwin, %,
Pullman, Wash, and James
Wister Garrison, Al, and Elsie
Gaerlitz, 25, King George, Va.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
CARNIVAL TO OPEN

The annual carnival Of the
Hyattstown Volunteer Fire De
partment opens Thursday and will
continue through Saturday at
Mountain View Park. -..-
The Washington times., 1933-07-31

II yen have a room. house, apart
ment or automobile to sell or rent
advertise 1t! Use the WANT AID SEC
TION Of this newspaper to reach our
great reader audience. Phone District
$3.50. Ask for ad-taker.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31
GUILD PLANS DINNER

The Women's Guild of Grace
Church, Woodside, will give a
cafeteria dinner Wednesday eve
ming.
The Washington times., 1933-07-31

All cOlar-attached Solid color BroadclOth Shirts
CelOphane wrapped, in white, tan, blue and green.
Other Shirts are seconds Of brOadclOths and woven
fabrics 14-17.
The Hecht Co.-Bargain Annex
The Washington times., 1933-07-31

Reduced from
our higher-pric-
ed lines. All.
wOrsted: Speed
and Suspender
models. 34-46.
The n eeht Co.
BARGAIN Annex
The Washington times., 1933-07-31

An extremely low price for such good shirts
Woven materials. rayOn stripes. white and solid
Sizes 14-17. LIMIT-12 to a Customer.
The Hecht CO.-Bargain Annex
Evening star., 1933-09-10
WEST VIRGINIA PROJECTS
WILL EMPLOY $500 MEN
Work on New Series of Locks and Dams
in Kanawha River Expected to Be
Completed in Two Years.

this Fall, and If the Government de-
mands shorter work days and weeks OF
the contractors, more will be given
jobs.
This is expected to bring the State
an initial $l,000,000 Of beer tax reve-
nues. and counties and cities, each
privileged to make additional tax levies
will collect as much as the State.
Gov. Ferguson has said the Sl.50 per
barrel State tax on beer. previously
levied. should be increased.
The Legislature will have before 1t
the entire subject of taxation, and a
general retail sales tax measure. advo-
Gated by the Governor, will be offered
form to be used in paying of a State
bond issue. An amendment authoriz-
ing the Legislature to issue up to
100000 Of State bonds for public
works. was approved at an election Au-
gust 26. and will be promulgated Mon
day. One of the first acts of the Legis-
lature will be to issue $5,00O.000 to
$40 900 900 Of these bonds, and then to
consider the sales tax or other revenue
measures to meet their maturities.
Roeser Protested.
Attorney General James, v. Alfred
and the Texas Railroad Commission
telegraphed protests to the Federal
Oil Administration against appointing
Charles F. Roeser. Texas independent
on the National Petroleum Control
Committee Roeser was appointed any
way. He had lobbied during the regu-
lar session here for separate oil. and
gas commission.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
KENTUCKY WORRIES
over UNEMPLOYED
ArmY of 800 Invades Houses
and Calls on Gov
ernOr.
BY HARRY BLOOM.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special DlSpdlCN 10 Lie StdI
LOUISVILLE, KY, September g.
While the Legislature wrestled incon-
clusively with the problem of raising
relief revenues. a jobless army gave the
lawmakers new worries. From Northern
Kentucky the army Of unemployed
tramped. hitch-hiked and rode the rods
to Frankfort, swarmed down on the
House of Representatives and obtained
an audience with Gov. Ruby Laffoon.
The jobyess army Of 300 proved to
be of a good temper and thanked the
Governor for his hospitality. The pre-
vious night before he had arranged for
housing and feeding them in ware
house opposite the reformatory and in
the basement of the capitol. When
they heard that the International
Union of Tobacco Workers had.a dele
CATION in Frankfort to take possession
of the House gallery in protest against
proposed cigarette tax to be levied
for relief, they hastened to the capitol
and beat the tobacco workers to the
seats They looked on with mixed
emotions as the cigarette tax went
down in defeat.
In session its fourth week, the Legis-
lature hasn't approved a single revenue
bill, despite the warning from WASH
ington that not another cent will be
forthcoming until Kentucky raises
$3,000,000. The defeat of the cigarette
tax followed Gov. Laffoon's appearance
before the House to denounce the meas
ure and plead that the beer tax, which
appears certain of enactment, be ap-
propriated in the manner he requested
The Governor wants half of it to be
earmarked for a sinking fund to re-
tire outstanding warrants. The Joint
Committee of the House and Senate
to relief.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
TEXAS TO SPEED
RECOVERY WORK
Special Session to Consider
Sales Levy for Rev.
enueS.
BY S. RAYMOND BROOKS


Special Dispatch to The Star
AUSTIN, Tex, September 9.-The
Texas Legislature, to convene next
week in special session, will speed re-
covery and relief work and shape Texas
law for the fullest response to the ma
tional recovery program.
The constitutional amendment to
legalize the sale Of beer, recently
adopted, will be promulgated Monday
A State enabling act was passed at the
previous session Of the Legislature, and
the legal sale Of beer under 1t will be
started September Is.
Work viii BE Pushed.
Ordinarily the jobs would require
three years for completion, but be-
cause OF the emergency, work will be
pushed and the probability is that ii
will be completed in two years. Due to
the mild climate of this section, the
job can go on all Winter.
Two dams, one at London and one at
Marmet, east of Charleston, already are
under construction and the money FOL
their completion was authorized sew
erI months ago. The recently author
i,ed projects include two more dams
one at Winfield, Putnam County, q
miles west of Charleston, and the other
in the Ohio River at Gallipolis. The
Marmet and London locks and dams
when completed, will have cost s6,700.-
600. The project at Winfield will cost
S4,923,OO0 and the one at Gallipolis will
cost $7,276,000.
Completion Of a nine-foot channel
for the Kanawha will give the great
Appalachian, New River and Winding
Cult coal fields hook-up with $500
miles of nine-foot waterways, reaching
to tidewater at New Orleans, to the
Great Lakes at Chicago. to Omaha
Nebr., to the Twin Cities of the North
west, st. Paul and Minneapolis, and uE
the Ohio to Pittsburgh.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
.L0U|S|AN|ANS IN
NATIONS SPOTLIGHT
WedeII Sets New Pace for
Land Planes, Breaking
World Record.
LONG CUTS LOOSE AGAIN
Latest Esoapade Of King Fish"
Brings Attack of Woman's
Committee.
LONG CUTS LOOSE AGAIN
BY GEORGE HEALY. JR.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW ORLEANS, September 9.-Two
Louisianians were in the national spot
light during the past week. and the &C
tivities which brought notoriety to one
Of them still are causing pronounced
political repercussions at home and
abroad"
James R. ("Jimmy') Wedell, record
breaking flyer who occupies small cot
tage on the outskirts Of New Orleans,
gained recognition for Louisiana at the
International Air Races in Chicago as
the producer of the worlds fastest land
planes.
Senator Huey p Long, whose Audubon
boulevard mansion Is one OF New Or
leans show places, turned national at
tention toward Louisiana through his
wash room escapade at the Sands Point
Bath Club on Long Island and through
his denunciation of the Roosevelt ad-
ministration and the Nations press at
the Veterans of Foreign Wars Conven-
ton in Milwaukee.
their praise Of Wedells feat in estab-
fishing a new speed record for flight in
a land plane. Many Of the States citi-
zens are outspoken in their criticism Of
Senator Longs recent activities and
outbursts.
Emphasizing, as 1t did plainly the
Senator's lack of influence with the ad-
ministration at Washington. the speech
which the Louisiana political leader de-
livered at Milwaukee has had the effect
of accellerating organization work by
opponents of the Long political ma
chine
The "who- o-hit-Huey" game, played so
enthusiastically by New Workers, gave
national notice to the fact that Senator
Longs opponents include the Woman S
Committee of Louisiana, an organiza-
tion formed principally by New Orleans
social and civic leaders with the OBJ
jective of removing Senator Long from
public life
Mrs Hilda Phelps Hammond. chair
man of the Woman's Committee, has
received hundreds Of letters and con-
tributions from other States since the
sponsor Of a movement to present a
medal to the mysterious man who hit
Huey" announced that oversubscription
Of the medal fund would be placed at
the disposal Of the anti-Long COM
mittee.
Leaders Of organizations opposed to
the Senator's machine, including the
Women's Committee. are looking for
ward to the resumption Of public hear
ings here October 16 by the special
senatorial committee investigating the
1882 Broussard Overton primary elec-
ton. Senator John H. Overton. who
defeated former Senator Edwin S.
Broussard for the Democratic nomina-
ton, received the full support in the
primary campaign of the Long machine.
Although Jimmy" Wedell's con-
quests at Chicago and Senator Long S
activities at Sands Point and Milwau-
kee have been the favored subjects Of
Louisianians' conversation In the past
seven days, other developments within
the State have received recognition
which their Importance merited.
Reports from al parts Of Louisiana
indicate that response to the Blue Eagle
consumers campaign was more en-
thusiastic than had been anticipated
by persons directing the drive.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
FL LORIDA REPEAL ELECTION
HAS ONLY IL CONTESTANTS
Voting October 10, However, Expected
to Find Full Quota of Repealists
and Ants in Race.

The contract for the first unit. an
elaborate new passenger terminal
building, has been awarded to a Miami
contractor and will be completed by
December Is The project Is providing
employment for hundreds of laborers
and skilled workmen. Included in the
general development will be a marine
base purchase of additional acreage,
large expenditures for flying equipment,
including six large super-clipper flying
boats. landscaping Of property with rare
tropical plants and royal palms, reno
vation of buildings now standing and
other improvements.
When completed, the air depot with
all of its facilities, will be the largest
and most modern marine air terminal
in the world. providing accommodation
facilities for 500 air passengers a day
and for the simultaneous loading and
unloading Of four large air liners.
the Miami base, with its connections
with South America and the West In
dies, leads all ports in the United
States for the number Of persons enter
, ing from foreign countries. Air pas
senger traffic in and out Of Miami at
the present time averages 1000 a
month, mostly to and from Latin.
American countries.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
BY GEORGE HOYT SMITH.
Special Dispatch to The Star


4 JACKSONVILLE, Fla, September
9.-Thus far only about a dozen
candidates have qualified for the
Florida repeal election to be held
~ october 10. but before the time
for qualifying passes, which will
be 20 days before the election, the full
repealists and anti-repealists will have
qualified, 1t is thought.
Only 81 candidates can be elected,
the repeal candidates coming first on
the ballot and the anti-repeal candi-
dates following. It will cost a candi-
date $25 to get his or her name on the
ballot and q petition signed by 500
qualified electors will have to accom-
pany the application for q position on
the ballot.
The 81 successful candidates will
meet in convention at Tallahassee. the
capital, Tuesday, November a. They
will then ratify or reject the proposed
amendment to the Constitution of the
United States according to the results
Of the election.
Little interest is being manifested
in the election at this time, but both
the repealists and anti.repealists are
busy 1t Is predicted the State will go
for repeal by a safe majority of at
least 2 to /. The repeal forces have
opened campaign headquarters in
Jacksonville and are getting busy, while
the drys are holding meetings and are
organizing in all parts of the State.
Pan-American Airways has an
nounced $5,000000 expansion pro-
gram for its International air transport
depot at Miami.
Evening star., 1933-09-10
Indiana H0N0RS
C[ARK'S EXPLOIT
Monument Commemorating
Virginian Dedicated at
vincennes.
BY HAROLD c. FEIGHTNER.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, September AL
though HooSiers are busily trying to ad-
just themselves to N. r. A. codes and
whiting down taxes, they found time
this week to commemorate an important
historical epoch when they dedicated q
monument at Vincennes to Gen. George
Rogers Clark on the 150th anniversary
of the signing Of the Peace of Paris
which ended the Revolutionary War.
The belated tribute to Gen. Clark
who, by his daring expedition across
the lowlands of Illinois, captured Fort
Sackville and added the Northwest Ter
rtory to the Union. was made possible
through the cooperation of the Federal
Government, Indiana, Knox County
above the Wabash River, on the site
originally occupied by the frontier fort,
the pillared edif1ce is built of enduring
marble.
Designed to harmonic with the
structure is bridge crossing the
Wabash River at the point where
Abraham Lincoln left the scenes of
his Indiana boyhood for his rise to
fame in Illinois. This structure, held
to be one of the most beautiful bridges
In the country, was constructed by the
States Of Indiana and Illinois, both of
which were carved out of the old North
west Territory.
The celebration of the treaty of Paris
at Vincennes brought to a close the
sesquicentennials commemorating i'm
portant points Of the Revolution which
began with the repetition of the Paul
Revere ride at Boston on April 10,
1925. on through the Kings Mountain
celebration and the CORVALLIS sur
render at Yorktown
Evening star., 1933-09-10
PATRONAGE MAP
MOVES new MEXICO
State Democratic Leaders Irked as
Grouping Puts State
in South.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SANTA FE, N. Mex, September O.
New Mexico seems to be going South, T"
or being sent there by Washington off,
cial circles, and Democratic leaders Of
this State are growing irritated.
Heretofore New Mexico has regarded
itself as q part Of the Rocky Mountain
region, or the West. However, In hand
ing out appointments those who have
the patronage In charge have for the
most part pe-sistently grouped New
Mexico with the South It appears that
somebody In washington has been look
ing at q map.
New Mexico has been tied up with
Texas and Louisiana as q public works
region, Texan being placed at the
head Of 1t.
It has been transferred to the Texas
prohibition district, having previously
been under the direction Of the Denver,
Colo, Office.
Only one of the three members ap-
pointed on the special veterans rating
board Is able to qualify, and he is an
Fl Pasoan. This Is true also Of the
alteruates. Il
Evening star., 1933-09-10
North Carolina
State Joins Neighbors in
Tobacco Acreage Reduc.
tion Program.
BY ROBERT E. WILLIAMS.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
nALEIGH, N. c., September 9.-With
X tobacco warehouses still closed and
~ no market for the crop available,
an acreage reduction campaign for 1884
and 1885 is now in progress In North
Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia,
with assurances Of assistance by the
Federal Government in securing par
ity" prices for the crop when the mar
kets are reopened at the conclusion OF
the campaign.
With his State most affected because
it produces three-fourths Of the total
flue-cured tobacco, Gov. j. c. B. Ehr-
inghaus, North Carolina. took the lead
in negotiations in Washington and be-
tween the three States. Virginia mar
kets have not yet opened, and Gov.
Irba c. Blackwood of South Carolina
followed the North Carolina executive
in closing the markets in his State.
In the conferences at washington
this week the Federal officials decided
1t was not too late, as they had thought
to do something about the 1888 crop
kets being closed presented an oppor-
tune time for the campaign for acreage
reductions.
The 1892 crop was sold at an average
price of II cents a pound, and the
parity" provided for in the agricultural
adjustment act amounted to IS cents a
pound. A processing tax representing
that difference of cents will be ap-
piled, effective October l, and the $l0,-
600, 900 which it will raise annually will
be used to pay benefits to the farmers
who sign, that number being expected
to include practically all those in the
areas where the markets are now
closed.
The parity price for this year will
be the 1873 cents of last years price
at parity, plus the rise in commodity
prices since last year. That calcula-
ton has not yet been made, but is
expected to be close to 20 cents a
pound. Based on the latest available
figures, it is 18 cents for the entire belt
and 10 cents for North Carolina.