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Evening star., 1933-12-26
B u Ii { TIN

Three persons were reported
burned to death this afternoon on
a houseboat moored in a creek 10
miles below Accotink, Va.
Reports received at AcCotink, Is
miles below Washington. on the
Richmond Highway, said the dead
were Clarence Haislip, an unidenti-
fed girl and colored man. believed
to be James Blackburn. Haislip
was said to be the nephew Of John
Haislip, former member OF the
Fairfax County School Board.
Sheriff E. P. Kirby and Deputy
Sheriff George McCan Of Fairfax
County accompanied Coroner c. A.
Ransom of Falls Church to the
scene.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
CUBANS CONSIDERING
FREEDOM FOR REBELS
Politics Again in Forefront After
Quiet Christmas in
Havana.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, December 26.-Politics
came back into the forefront of Cuban
life again today after a week end
Christmas arnistice of quiet.
Col. Fulgencio Batista, chief of staff
Of the army, was expected to arrive
shortly at decision on a court order
to 1fberate about 400 former army Of
fcers held in custody for their part in
the National Hotel rebellion.
"Noche buena,D the goodnight OF
Christmas eve. was really good. Not a
single bomb exploded nor were there
any other bombings throughout the
week end.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Cold Snap Heads for Capital
With additional Rain or Sno,v
Temperature of Is Tonight and Lo,0er
Tomorrow Forecast Planes Grounded.
Transportation Slightly Delayed.

A light fall of snow early this morn
ing raised hopes that the Christmas
sleds could be given tryout-hopes
which were quickly dispelled when the
snow changed to sleet and finally to
rain. The snowfall measured inches.
The Weather Bureau, however, sees
more snow in the skies, with forecast
for snow or rain tonight. A cold snap
is headed for Washington. The tenn
perature, the bureau predicts, will drop
as low as 25 tonight and tomorrow
will be even colder.
Slippery streets caused some skid
ding and delayed transportation lines
slightly. Up to noon. however. there
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Traffic Disorganized With 5-Inch Fall
in Morning.

NEW YORK, December 26 R.-A
binding storm covered New York City
with inches of snow in less than four
hours today disorganized traffic, caused
a minor harbor accident and tied up
incoming ships.
The snow began shortly before 7
am. and was driven by 30-mile wind.
1t made walking hazardous, slowed up
motor traffic and held ferry boats be-
hind schedule. The rapid fall, coupled
with the Weather Bureaus forecast of
snow tonight and probably tomorrow,
led observers to predict New York City
would experience its first blizzard in
years.
The accident, without serious conse-
quences, involved the ferry boat Somer-
vile, bound from Jersey City to Man
haitian with 300 passengers. and the
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Evening star., 1933-12-26
SLAIN AS HE KEEPS
DATE WITH MOTHER
Money Lender Returns Home for
Christmas Dinner and Il
Shot on Steps.

BY the Associated Press.
BROOKLYN, N. Y, December 26.-
David Herbst came home for Christmas
dinner Just as he said he would.
At 10 O'Clock last night Mrs. Anna
.Herbst heard her sons key In the lock.
Soon they would sit down together
mother and son.
The noise of the key in the lock
ended suddenly. Sharp explosions were
heard instead.
She ran to the door. Her son was
tlere-four bullets in his head, dead.
Herbst was a money lender. In that,
Police sought clue to his assa s5i,l5.
Evening star., 1933-12-26

was only one traffic accident attended
by injuries.
Two Hurt.
An automobile operated by Eugene
Tucker, %, of Fort Foote, Md, skidded
into a street car on the Eleventh Street
Bridge across the Anacostia River and
then struck another automobile. Tuck
er and Lem Barton, IS, of Fort Foote,
one of his passengers, were slightly in
jured. They were treated by private
physician. Another passenger in the
car. Andrew L. Langley, fuckers step
father, escaped unhurt. The car, which
belonged to Langley, was badly sma3h-
ed up. but neither the street car nor
the other automobile was damaged.
The Districts Street Cleaning De-
partment used $50 of its own men
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Evening star., 1933-12-26
POPE URGES FAITH
Pontif Sees Hope for Recovery in
Christianity.

VATICAN CITY. December 26 (P.-
Pope Plus expressed the hope today that
the coming year would bring an end to
the worlds political and economic trou-
bles, saying the way out of difficulties
could be found through the Christian
faith.
His comment was made to the Noble
Guards. all of whom are members of
the nobility. who visited him in his
throne room, accompanied by the COM
manders of the papal gendarmerie and
the Swiss guards.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
1000 Men to Resume Work.

CHICAGO, December 26 @.-The
sanitary district today sent out call
fol- 1000 men to resume work on the
Calumet sewage treatment plant.
Resumption of the work, abandoned
in 1881, was made possible by a
$42, ,169, ,3l5 loan from the Public Works
cministration Four other projects
will be under way shortly, employing
: % mere r-c.,
Evening star., 1933-12-26
SOVIET WILL ALLOCATE
GARDENS TO WORKERS
Government Orders Huge Vacant
Areas Be Made Available 10
100000 Persons.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, December 26.-A Soviet
government decree, ordering the al
lotment Of individual vegetable gardens
for 100000 Soviet workers was made
public today.
The degree, dated December IS, speci-
fles that huge vacant land areas shall
be made available for this purpose
during the coming year, in order to
enable the most deserving workers to
increase their food supply by their
own activities in their spare time.
The plots will range in size from
one-quarter to one-haf acre to each
family. They will be leased from five
to seven years and, provided their cul-
tivation Is not neglected. will be free
from taxes and crop levies.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
BAROGRAPH IMPERILS
AVIATRICES' RECORD
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MIAMI. Fla. December 26.-Baro-
graph trouble today threatened the ef-
forts of Helen Richey and Frances Mar
sails, endurance flyers, as they neared
the seven-day point in their attempt to
break the record of days, hours.
The women did not reveal the exact
nature of their trouble with the instru-
ment in a note they dropped, but air
port officials believed the winding key
had been broken. Flyers said the in
strument might run 48 hours without
reWinding.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
DAUGHTER WAKES FATHER
AT 2 Am. TO MARRY
Floods Delay Arrival of Couple
Motoring to Her Parental
Home in Seattle.

By the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, December 26.-Rev. Hon.
or L. Wilhelm was awakened at am
Christmas day to oficiate at the wed.
ding of his daughter, Margaret, and
her fiance, Donald L. Grippe.
Floods were to blame. The wedding
had been planned for Sunday. Floods
however. held up the two when they
were motoring from Walla Walla. where
Miss Wilhelm was a school teacher.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
Sisters Starve 10 Death.

Two spinster sisters were found ap-
parently starved to death in Rochester
N. Y, Christmas eve.
At least IS of the motor car deaths
occurred in the Midwest. The South
counted 40 dead in accidents Penn
sylvania had II dead in motor acci-
dents on Christmas day alone All
other sections of the country added
to the totals.
A farm home was crushed in an ava
lanche at Clatskanie, Greg, causing
four fatalities.
The worst storm in years was re-
ported sweeping the Aleutian Islands
of Alaska, while volcanic eruption,
typhoon and tidal wave brought death
to nine persons in the Philippine Is
lands. Reports at st. Johns. Newfound-
land, told of the loss of five men when
the schooner Monica Hartery turned
over in rough sea-
SNOW CRIPPLES NEW YORK.
Evening star., 1933-12-26
1S) PERSONS DEAD
IN NACC|DENTS, SNOW
AND ZERO WEATHER
Eastern Half Of Country Is
B|anketed Today by
Heavy Fall.
TERRIFIC GALES SWEEP
OVER ALEUT|AN ISLANDS
Volcanic Eruption, Typhoon and
Tidal Wave Bring Death
in Philippines.
BY the Associated Press.


Snow, heavy and driven by a slashins
northeast wind, descended today ovel
most all Of the eastern half of the Ma.
tion.
The storm started in the carly hours
Of the morning. 1t centered its intens.
ity over West Virginia, spread over all
Of the Ohio Valley, reached west beyond
Chicago and 1ashed the Atlantic sea-
board from Maine to North Carolina.
Five Inches Fall in New York.
Five inches Of snow was piled up ir
New York by 1890 am, less than foul
hours after the start Of the storm
Commuters trains were delayed. air
traffic was stopped. Two ferry boat.
brushed with minor damage.
Chicago traffic was slowing In the
face of SO inches Of snow with a tenn.
perature of 10 above at am, and pre-
dictionS of 10 below and continued
snow tonight.
Weather forecasters expected the
storm tc continue unabated through to-
night and tomorrow, possibly, in one
OF the heaviest SHOWS of record.
Conditions over the affected area be-
fore noon were:
Newark. N. J.-Three inches Of snow
and falling at the rate of | inch ar
hour Autos and bus traffic delayed.
Michigan-Whole State snow covered
Cold wave forecast.
Cleveland-Three and a half inche.
Of snow. Temperature. 90
1ndiana-Snow general over State
with depths ranging from INCH in the
southern section to inches in the
northern. Numerous traffic accidents
reported.
St Louis. Mo.-Two inches of snow
Temperature, 22-
Connectlcut-Three to four inches oi
Pennsylvania-Heavy snow general
Portland, Me.-Extremely cold, snow
threatening.
Many Are Killed.
Yuletide and over-the-Week- -end holi-
Gay accidents and the weather com.
bined to cause a heavy loss of life in
the United States, a survey revealed
today.
More than lSO deaths were reported
most of them due to motor car mis-
haps. No section of the country
escaped
A cold blast from the Canadian
Northwest sent temperatures tumbling
to near and below zero in many sec
tions Of the Midwest and was blamed
for at least five deaths due to exposure
-Four Of them were in Chicago, Eleveth
Mimi. had AZ below and Rhinelander
Wis, 81 under the zero mark. Snow
covered Iowa and most of Illinois, thu
Dakotas, Nebraska. Wisconsin, as wei
rs parts of Indiana. Michigan and Mis-.
souri,. One exposure death occurred ir
Iowa.
Among the dead were a blind woman
and her infant daughter. fatally burned
during Christmas celebration in theil
home at Battle Greek, Mich. In Cleve.
land man perished in a fall while
trying to lower a Christmas three from
second-story window.
Evening star., 1933-12-26

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Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
By JOHN A. REICHMANN
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, April 27.-Plans
for new bonus march on the
capital were being pushed today
from a dingy office in a downtown
building as bonus leaders in con-
gress sought to force action for i'm
mediate payment of veterans COM
pensation certificates.
Undismayed by antagonism of
the congressional leadership a tiny
office force was sending out liter
allure encouraging the new demon
stration. In the field, speakers be-
fore veterans organizations in
many sections were urging jobless
ex-soldiers to join in a march to
reach here May II.
Agitation for the drive is direct
ed by the Veterans National LiaSon
committee, composed of men active
in the fruitleSs movement of 1882
which terminated in the veterans
forced eviction from the capital by
United States troops.
Congressional advocates of bonus
payment summoned the committee
to their offices Tuesday and urged
them to call off the march. The
committee refused
Rep. Patman, DEM, Tex, leader
of the house bonus bloc, has OBJ
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
NelU Bankruptcy
Lauu Invoked Here

A petition for an extension of
time in which to pay its debts has
been filed in federal court, Los
Angeles, by the Whistle Bottling
company of Brawley and this petit
ton was approved by the court and
referred to R. B. Whitelaw, referee
in bankruptcy for administration
it was learned here today.
This is the first such case to be
filed by valley concern since the
recent action of congress amend
ing the federal bankruptcy laws.
This amendment went into effect
on March as law giving relief
to debtors by which they might
file their petitions in federal court
stating that they are unable to pay
their debts and wish additional
time in which to liquidate them.
Under the old law the assets of
a bankrupt concern where thrown
into court and sold for the credit
orS at very low rate. Now, &C
cording to the new amendment,
time for payment of these debts
can be extended from time to time
as the court may deem necessary
or advisable, it was pointed out to
a Press representative by local
attorney this morning.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
NEW BONUS ARMY MARCH TO
CAPITAL BEING ORGANIZED

tanned the necessary 25 signatures
to a petition requiring Democrats
to meet in caucus to consider at
taching bonus payment provision
to the pending initiation bill. He
contends payments of the proposed
new currency to veterans would be
the best way to get it into circu-
lation.
Payment of the bonus is not the
only objective OF the committee or
ganizing the march.
Relief for the farmer and the
unemployed, and the restoration of
veterans benefits are demanded
Thus the committe hopes to enlist
many who will lose their benefits
under President Roosevelt'S econo-
my measures.
What reception the marchers
would be given here is uncertain.
Chief of Police Glassford, who be-
friended the former bonus army. is
out of office. His successor, Ernest
w. Brown, has shown little pa
thence with demonstrators and kept
the hunger marchers under close
and uncomfortable surveillance last
fall.
Congressional leaders are said to
be considering an appeal to Presi-
dent Roosevelt to stop the march
should it threaten to assume size
able proportions.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
By w. G. QUISENBERRY
United Press Staff Correspondent


Copyright, 1893, by United Press
LONDON, April 27-High British
financial circles believed today that
the proposed Anglo-French none
tary alliance would save" the
franc, keep France on the gold stan
dard and insure the maintenance
of the British pound at level Of
comfortable depreciation compared
to the American dollar.
The agreement, believed to be al
most completed after three days of
feverish negotiation, was regarded
as the most effective possible
counterstroke against Americas
abandonment of the gold standard.
If it succeeds in reestablisning the
dollar at the level it occupied be-
fore the gold standard was aban-
doned, observers pointed out, all
the advantages both in foreign
trade and in bargaining position at
the world economic conference
which dollar depreciation might
have given the American would be
lost.
The plan amounts to an agree
ment for the Bank of England tc
lend the French government francs
purchased with its equalization fund
as q measure OF exchange stabiliza-
ton.
This would prevent a flight Of
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
KHAN RAIDERS
GET LIBERTY

LOS ANGELES, April 81. GU.P)-
Fifteen men sentenced to serve six
months each in the county Jail on
conviction Oh an asserted Ku Klux
Khan night raid in Long Beach were
on parole today after having served
but II days of their sentence.
The men paroled were:
Charles H. Brooks, Samuel j.
Sampson, Owen j. Stems, Ernest
A. Buttramm, James Henry Russell,
Dale H. Elliott, A. B. Tyler, Andrew
L. jerks, Homer D. Turner, Charles
H. Clark, Clyde Dunn, Walter R.
Brooks, Earl Amos, John Lind
bergh and Waldo King.
The Is men were convicted Of
an alleged raid on the home of Da-
vid Milder, Long Beach tailor, on
Nov. ID, 1882. Milder charged that
he and his family and guests were
beaten with rubber hose and clubs
by the might riders" and that dur
ing the melee, fiery cross was
set afire on a nearby garage.
The parole order was approved by
Superior Judge Robert N. Scott,
sentencing jurist, District Attorney
Buron Fits, and Undersheriff A.
C. Jewell in addition to the coun-
ty parole board.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
ANGLO-FRENCH MONEY PACT
AIMED AT AMERICAN DOLLAR

gold from the French treasury, as
heretofore the Bank of England has
converted its francs into gold, and
thus would help France stay on the
gold standard. 1t would allow a
concentration of the British equal
ization fund, which Neville Cham
berlain. chancellor of the eXchequer,
announced would be enlarged, to
the business of maintaining the
value of the dollar and thus keep
ing the pound deprecated.
Despite the opinions of high au-
thorities that Britain would not
stabilize the pound Immediately,
reports persisted that return to
the gold standard was imminent.
The finance expert of The Daily
Herald interpreted the Bank of
England's withdrawal of earmarked
gold from America as step toward
resumption of the gold standard.
Financial experts thought the
firm "anchoring" of France to the
gold standard was of major impor-
lance because it would allow the
United States and Britain to deal
with the question of stabilizing their
currencies without the situation be-
ing further clouded by an unstable
franc, and would tend to prevent
race by the nations To see which
could depress its currency farthest
in search Of trade advantages.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
WOMAN FACES
ARSON CHARGE

LOS ANGELES, April 81. tU.PN-
Mrs. Louise Newman, SO, said to be
a member of a family once pro-
minent in Omaha, Neb., was held
in the restraining tank" of the
county Jail today while deputy
sheriffs sought complaint charg-
ing her with arson.
Mrs. Newman was arrested yes
terday shortly after fire of incen-
diary origin threatened the home
of her stepmother, Mrs. Dora Berg
quist.
She was placed in the tank after
she fought arresting officers and
refused to don Jail garb, according
to Deputy Sheriff Roy Rankin.
The fire, started on the front
porch of the Bergquist home with
kerosene, was extinguished by Mrs.
Bergquist and Mrs. Leta Gather
wood, "a, of Omaha, her daughter,
who recently came here as the for
mers companion.
Mrs. Newman was given 30
day suspended sentence in West
Hollywood justice court last March
for malicious mischief in attempt
ing to set fire to a tree at her STEP
mothers home, records disclosed.
Numerous threatening letters,
unsigned, have been received by
Mrs. Bergquist in recent months,
Rankin said.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
Bad Quake
Hits Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 81.
W.P)-Property damage was esti-
mated in thousands of dollars to-
day in the wake of a series of earth
shocks which rocked Alaska late
yesterday.
o No casualties were reported.
Fear stricken residents fled their
homes at Anchorage Seward and
Cordova, $50 miles east of here, as
the temblor toppled chimneys from
housetops. The heaviest shocks in
history were reported at Seward,
ia miles south of Anchorage.
All communication lines with the
outside world were cut off last
night, except radio station KFQD,
whose antenna towers withstood the
shocks.
The tremors lasted Is minutes at
Anchorage. The main water line to
the Eklutna power plant was brok-
en- but service soon was restored
Windows were broken and mer-
chandise tumbled from store shelves.
A few light dwellings were shaken
from their foundations.
Mt. Katmai, active volcano on
the Aleutian peninsula ITO miles to
the southwest, was reported quiet.
No information was available con-
corning Shishaldon volcano on
Unimak Island, whose eruptions
rocked the Aleutian peninsula in
February 1882.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
WOLL OBJECTS
To WAGE PLAN

WASHINGTON, April 81. <U.P}-
The proposed 30-hour week bill
would make serfs of American
workers through it's minimum wage
provisions, Matthew Woll, vice
president of the American Fedora
ton of Labor asserted in testimony
today before the house labor COM
mittee. ~
He said he favored the five-day
week and the six-hour day. But he
denounced bitterly Secretary of La
Dor Perkins proposal to establish
a national minimum wage level
Vol said such provision would:
l. Deny the workers the right to
strike.
2. Force American labor into the
political and revolutionary fields.
3. Make the low wages of unor-
ganized workers the maximum wa
ges of all workers.
A. Place in the hands of the sec
Rotary of labor the authority to
socialize all American industry.
He suggested the licensing of
manufacturers engaged in inter-
state trade, refusing licenses to
those who do not pay good salaries
to their workers.
VOL stressed his belief that news
papers and periodicals should be
forced to operate under the 30-hour
week bill if it becomes law.
Il don't see why newspapers
should be excluded" he said, in de-
nouncing a proposal that the bill
except them. Union men work for
newspapers. If all other industry is
on a 80 hour basis why should not
newspapers be on the same basis?
There's no reason why news
papers should be exempted. If they
are, the printing trade unions will
be at the mercy of the secretary of
labor. They will be unable to BAR
gain collectively"
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
BY THOMAS b. MALARKEY
United Press Staff Correspondent


SACRAMENTO, April 81. A
bitter and stubborn budget battle
doomed in the senate today after
the senate finance committee sub
mitted a budget measure increasing
the assembly's figmes by well over
100000.
An aggressive committee minor
ity was ready to lead the senate
floor fight against the upward re-
vision.
The amended bill increased the
assembly's budget for the forth
coming biennium from $241 DOL, :
417.22 to $246,057.19, an increase OF
SIS, 722, 62997 Most state Depart
housekeeping social welfare,
which has been cut SIT per cent
under it's current biennium allow
ance-were raised.
-Four members of the committee
Senators r. r. IngelS, Ukiah;
John L. Moran, Corning; w. P.
Rich, Marysville, and Ray Hays.
Fresno-submitted a minority re-
port disappearing the increases.
Meantime the legislature was still
far from devising new system of
taxation that will remove the eX-
pected deficit of $50,000,000 for the
next two years and, simultaneously,
bring needed relief to real proper
ty..
The amended Stewart plan
Imperial Valley press., 1933-04-27
Mrs. Olson VIII
Be GiUen Estate

LOS ANGELES, April 81. U.P)-
Mrs. Libbie Olson, once convicted
and later acquitted on new trial of
a charge of Staying Charles Henry
Scull, wealthy engraver, will be paid
$4,000 in an out of court settle
ment of Scull S 100000 estate, it
was announced today.
The balance of the estate will go
to Clarence William Scull, brother
of the dead man.
Under terms of Scull S will, l.
Albert Olson, co-defendant with
Mrs. Olson in the murder trial, was
to receive $4,000, and Soul IS broth
er $1,000, the remainder to go to
Mrs. Olson.
Mrs Olson and her husband were
accused of Staying Scull in the fear
that he was to marry another
woman and thus remove Mrs. Oh
son from his will. They were con-
victed by Judge Isaac Pacht on cir
cumstantial evidence, but at later
jury trial were acquitted.