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The Washington times., 1933-05-22
AUXILIARY FETE

Members of the Ladies' Aux
iliary of Prince Georges County
Volunteer Firemen will celebrate
the third anniversary Of the Or
ganization tomorrow night in the
National Guard Armory at Hy-
attSville.
The Washington times., 1933-05-22
Middies' Food Fund
Held Subject to Cut

In a communication today to
the Secretary Of the Navy, Comp
troller General j. r. McCarl held
that when midShipmen'S rations
are commuted in cash, instead OF
being granted in kind, the cash
allowance is subject to a Is pei
cent reduction under the economy
act.
The Washington times., 1933-05-22
Bethesda Gardeners
To Hear Rose Expert

The regular monthly meeting
Of the Bethesda Community Gar
den Club will be held Wednesday
ut 8 p. m. Prof. David Lumsden,
Of the United States Department
Of Agriculture, will give an illus
trated lecture on Roses"
The Washington times., 1933-05-22
APPEALS FINE

James H. Russ, Of Gathers
burg, Md, has noted an appeal
from the fine Of $40 and costs i'm
posed on him by Judge Donald A.
DeLashmutt in Rockville Police
Court, Saturday, for having i'm
proper markers on his car.
The Washington times., 1933-05-22
BOYS PLAN BAND

A Northeast Boys Club band
is to be organized at a club meet
ing tomorrow night with H. J..
Smith, retired member of the
United States Marine Band, as
instructor.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
DEFENSE CLAIM
GETS SETBACK
|NK|LL|NG
Unfinished Cigarette Found In
Hands of Man Slain BY
His Brother

LURAY, Va, March 28.-Cigar-
ette papers and tobacco found in
the hands of Jack Campbell, shot
and killed by his brother Hiram
last week, upset the self defense
claim of the slayer, county OIL
GERS announced today.
Hiram, indicted by the grand
jury, on a charge of murder, said
he fired the fatal shot after Jack
had attacked him with knife.
Sheriff E. L. Lucas pointed out,
however, that the knife with
which Hiram said the attack was
made was found on the kitchen
table and that an unfinished
cigarette was found in the dead
mans hands.
Sheriff Lucas said the two
brothers had been quarreling
about property settlement, Jack
Campbell being alleged to have
torn up their mothers will leav-
ing the property where the shoot
ing took place to Hiram.
Jack, who was married and the
father of three small children,
had been sought by police for
several months on a charge OF
chicken stealing.
Trial of Hiram on the murder
charge was set for April 10.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
D. K.
INSURANCE BILL

ANNAPOLIS, March 28.-The
House of Delegates last night
passed the administration bill de-
signed to give the State insurance
commissioner dictatorial powers
over all insurance companies in
the State, and sent the measure
to the Senate.
The measure, if adopted, will
remain in effect as long as the
emergency banking laws and
would be rescinded by proclama-
tion of the governor at any time.
Under the provisions of the mea-
sure the commissioner is en-
powered to make, alter and re-
scind regulations governing the
insurance and surety bond bust
ness in the State.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
RUM CURB doom
SEEN IN STATE

ANNAPOLIS! March 28.-De-
feat of the Maryland Statewide
liquor control measure was seen
today following the action of the
house of delegates in voting last
night to send the bill back to
committee.
The bill, however, would have
no effect on the sale of beer,
being designed to take effect on
repeal of the Eighteenth Amend
ment and to guard against the
return of the saloon.
Rejection of the bill came as
surprise, however, as it had
the backing of antiprohibition or
ganizations.
Controversy over a proposal to
charge a State license fee of $3.50
to persons selling beer broke out,
and the Baltimore city council
men were expected in Annapolis
today to appear before the SEN
ate and house of delegates in
protest against such a tax.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
Mid d-City Group Hears
Col. Peak, Jail Head

Abolition of capital punish
ment if there were substituted a
law preventing a convicted slayer
from ever being paroled is favored
by Col. William L. Peak, super
1ntendent of the District Jail.
Colonel Peak revealed this last
night when he addressed the Mid
City Citizens Association at the
Thompson Elementary School.
In his IA years service at the
Jail, 100000 prisoners including
$4,000 women have passed through
his hands, Colonel Peak said.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
ACCOUNT OVER
8-YEAR PERIOD
SHOWN JURY
Defense Move "for MistriaI
Fails; Case Thought to
End This Week

Charges that E. Wade Ball,
former Arlington county treas
urer, now being tried at Arlington
Courthouse for alleged misuse OF
$515,595 Of county funds, main
tanned a personal bank account
in the Potomac Savings Bank OF
Georgetown, and that his ce-
posits in this account averaged
$48,352 a year over an eight-year
period, were made today by Com
monwealth'S Attorney Lawrence
Douglas. &.
The prosecutors st a e m n t
came as he successfully argued a
move to introduce deposit slips
which Ball rendered the bank in
making deposits. Douglas also
charged that the deposits made
by the former treasurer were in
even amounts of currency, such
as $10O. $500, and $1,000.
Questions Bank Account
Douglas also said he intended
to prove that the larger de-
posits in the account were made
In the periods in which tax col
1ections were heaviest. He said:
"How can a man who re-
ceiveS a gross income of about
$4,000 get the currency to de-
post $4,000 a year over
period of years."
Earlier in the days session ef-
forts were made by the defense
to secure a mistrial on grounds
that letter of transmittal sent
with the audi being used as he
basis of the trial against Ball
had improperly been shown to
the jury. Judge Walter Nc
Carthy overruled the motion.
Robert S. Jordon, staff super
visor for the Virginia auditor Of
public accounts, whose testimony
has been injected in a piecemeal
manner through the prosecutions
case, was to resume the stand
again.
Protest by Ball
Jordon has been called and re-
called several times already, and
this has been made point of
protest by Frank L. Ball, brother
of the defendant and his chief
attorney.
The case may close this week,
although there is still a great
deal of testimony to be recorded.
The jury, locked up in custody
of Sheriff Howard B. Fields and
Capt. Archie Richards, his chief
deputy, since inception of the
trial, is the first panel held in
custody since 1922.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
WHATS DOING

Luncheon-Sigma Chi Frater-
nifty, 1890 p. M, University Club.
Dinner-Phi Delta Fraternity,
7:15 p. m, University Club.
Lenten Lecture DIR. Joseph
Sizoo, 1880 a. m, Mayflower
Hotel.
Dinner-Chamber of Commerce,
1880 p. M, MayfloWer Hotel.
Dinner-New Jersey Zinc Com
pany, $50 p. m, MayfloWer Hotel.
Convention - American Chem
ical Society, all day, Willard
Hotel and Raleigh Hotel.
Meeting-Board of Lady Man
ayers of Casualty Hospital, II
a. M, Willard Hotel.
Meeting-Logan-Thomas Circle
Citizens Association, 8 p. M, lee
ture room of .Northminster Pres
byterian Church, Rhode Island
Ave. and Eleventh st. N. w.
Talk Stage Settings and Stage
Lighting" Harold Snyder, before
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
PenlUOn1en Elect
Officers For Year

The District of Columbia
League of American Penwomen
last night elected Azalea Green
Badgley, president for the
coming year.
Frances Moon Butts and Lucia
Hanna Hadley were elected vice
presidents; Anne w. Manchester,
treasurer; Marguerite Merigold,
recording secretary, and Ruth
Wilson Forney, corresponding
secretary. katherine Jacobs was
chosen registrar, Susan Baker,
historian; Dorothy G. Gatchell.
librarian; Jean Stephenson, audi
tor; Agnes G.. Newman, parlia-
mentarian, and Mary M. A.
Moore, legal advisor.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28

Recreation Institute of the Dis
trict of Columbia, 8 p. M, Garnet,
Patterson Community Center
Tenth and U SITS. N. w.
Meeting-Southeast Washing
ton Citizens Association, 8 p. m.
Buchanan Auditorium, Thirteenth
and D SITS. S. E.
Benefit Concert-Sponsored by
the Ten O'Clock Club, $3.50 p. m.
Washington Club, Seventeenth
and K SITS. N. w.
Meeting-Georgia Avenue Busi
ness Mems Association, $3.50 p. M,
at Germans Second and Upshur
SITS. N. w.
Meeting-Silver Spring Lions
Club, 8 p. m, Takoma Inn.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
5000 PROTEST
PERSECUTION
At D. {. RALLY
Senator King Denounces Nazi
Attacks on Jews; All Creeds
Join in Protest

The "cruel and unjustifiable
persecution" of Jews under the
Hitler regime in Germany is to
be protested to President Roose-
welt, the Secretary of State and
the Ambassador Of Germany
to this country as the result of
mass protest meeting last night
in the Belasco Theater.
Approximately 5000 men and
women of all creeds heard
Senator William H. King CD of
Utah, in a scathing denunciation
of the activities of the Nazis,
urge severance of diplomatic rela-
tions with the Hitler government
unless anti-Semitism ceases.
Charles Edward Russell, author
and lecturer, suggesting several
methods of stopping the "in-
human treatment" of Jews, pro-
posed a boycott of German
merchandise until the persecution
is stopped.
The mass meeting unanimously
adopted a resolution urging the
State Department to make such
representations to the govern
mental authorities of Germany
"as it may deem appropriate and
adequate to bring about a cessa-
ton of this cruel and unjustifiable
persecution"
The assembly also was addressed
by the Right Rev. James E. Free
man, Bishop of washington;
Rabbi Solomon H. Metz. Isidore
Hershfield, chairman of the meet
ing; Bishop William A. Nc
Dowell, of the Methodist Church,
and Representative SABBATH, of
Illinois
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
.EX-POL|CECH|EF
JAILED 75 DAYS
u. &;a@s;;s:a$$$ .%$22a$a Ssss

BALTIMORE, March 28.-Two
law enforcement officers en-
tangled in the workings of the
prohibition laws were in court
here yesterday.
Christopher c. Belts, former
police chief, of Crisfield, Md, was
sent to jail for IS days by United
States Judge Coleman for the
sale of liquor.
Earl Bla ckwell, a Capitol
Heights policeman, drew a sus-
pended sentence.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
MRS, BUBB TO TALK

Mrs. Ralph S. Bubb will be
speaker at the meeting of the
Woodside Woman'S Club tomor-
row at the home of Mrs. G. F.
Hubbard, Oak Drive. The group
will also make dressings for the
Montgomery County General Hos
pital.
The Washington times., 1933-03-28
HOTEL MEN TO MEET

A special meeting of the Hotel
and Restaurant Employers Alli-
ance has been called for 3 p. m.
tomorrow at the organization
headquarters in the 1400 block I
st, N. w,
The Washington times., 1933-10-28

'ferred not to discuss his expert
ence. Of the verdict, however,
he said:
"Of course, I was glad.
Wouldn't you have been?"
Both husband and wife are en-
thusiastic in their praise of De-
partment of Justice agents who
tracked down the kidnaper gang.
Sometime during their stay here
they will visit Edgar Hoover,
chief of the departments bureau
Of investigation, and thank him
in person for his wor.l.
FavOrs Death Penalty
Urschel is, he says, in favor of
the death penalty for kidnapers.
The sentence of life imprison-
ment passed on the leaders of
the gang who kidnapped him will,
he thinks, give gangland a more
healthy" attitude on the sub
ject.
Says Mrs. UrSchel:
"But you won't mention the
school my child is attending
will vOu?"
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
j. s. GOLD PRICE.
UP 6 CENTS

The price of gold was again in
creased today.
The Treasury board announced
the RFC would buy gold at $31.S2
per fine ounce, an increase Of 6
cents over yesterdays price of
$31.76.
It was the fourth successive rise
since the Administration inaugu-
rated its gold-buying, dollar-con-
troll policy last Wednesday. The
initial price on Wednesday was
$31.36.
LONDON, Oct. % G.N.s0.
The London gold price dropped
sharply today, falling one shilling
and six-pence to a quotation of
129 ShillingS and 8 pence per
ounce.
At today's opening rate of
$4.70 to the pound, this was ap-
proximately $30.46 in American
currency, $1.30 below the price
set yesterday in Washington.
The American dollar was
strong, opening higher at $4.70
and closing only slightly down at
$4.71A to the pound. The pound
closed at $3.50 on Montreal and
81 3-16 on Paris.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Grid Teams At Mid-Season
Form in Tits Today

FLANAGAN

'rather than because Of any other
factor.
That we now have achieved
pretty fair balance in the. game
seems we'll established. Offense
and defense have carefully been
weighed and the scales balance
fairly accurately.
Two features of play to date
this season verify evidence offered
last year, and the year before,
that the defensive right half
back, probably for some mechan-
ical reason, is the weak point in
the defense against the forward
pass, and that of all power plays
the most efficacious, the most
trying on defense and the most
destructive physically, as we'll as
mentally, is the off-tackle slant.
Slant Is Best
Spinners and reverses have
their place in the modern game,
as does the end run (sweep), but
the old-fashioned off-tackle slant
remains as the greatest offensive
measure and the most valuable
asset a team may have.
Punting is coming back into
its own, both as an offensive and
a defensive weapon. This come
back of the punt probably is more
or less the result of the Univer-
Sity of Michigan'S remarkable
ability in it's use. The Wolverines
and their young mentor, Harry
Kipke, stick to the punt as a
major weapon of offense and de-
fenSe. Michigan's extraordinary
success on the gridiron clearly
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The Washington times., 1933-10-28

Gangland's threat to "get"
Charles F. Urshcel, Oklahoma
City millionaire oil man, after
the verdict that sent his kidnap-
ers to the penitentiarv for life,
still hangs like a cloud over the
UrSchel family.
Unafraid, But Cautious
Here to visit their young daugh-
ter, a pupil at 2 fashionable Cap
ital school for girls, Mr.. and Mrs.
Urschel are hiding like fuglGives
from justice. Tney fear both for
themselves and their child the
threat of the jailed kidnape1s.
Urschel, a stalwart, dark eyed
Western, is not afraid. He told
his story grimly on the witness
stand in face of the threats to
put him on the spot" But Mrs.
Urschell is no so courageous. She
refuses to discuss the kidnapping
case, but her eyes, dark like
those of her husbands, dialate
with terror as she glances at her
pretty blond young daughter.
UrSchel said that he, too, pre-
The Washington times., 1933-10-28

, Dressed in the uniform of a
policeman, a man approached the
car, according to the complaint,
and threatened to arrest the pair.
Gormley is alleged to have made
arrangements to bribe the "po-
liceman." In subsequent trans
actions regarding payment of the
"bribe," Miss Maret is alleged to
have lost $4,000. The Government
ment contends the entire Incl
dent was a plot to swindle Miss
Maret.
When informed the case had
been set for trial Thursday, Da-
vid Babp, recently retained by
the countess, intimated he would
seek a continuance. The case will
be prosecuted by Assistant United
States Attorneys John r. Fitz-
patrick and william A. Gallagher.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28

AKRON, Ohio, Oct. %
QN.S. .).-Intent upon making
a record crossing Of the At
lantic, the German dirigible
Graf Zeppelin took off from
the municipal air dock here
for Germany shortly before 9
a. m. today.
The Zeppelin, under the COM
mand Of it's veteran skipper, DR..
Hugo Eckener, circled over down
town Akron in a farewell salute
and then pointed due east for
washington, D. G. DR.. Eckener
said he hoped to fly over the
National Capital this afternoon.
He appeared nervous and anx-
ious to start as he gave the sig
nal to "cast away" The ship
had been towed from the huge
Goodyear hanger two hours be-
fore it finally was released to the
skies.
Capt. Ernst Lehman, second
officer aboard the sky rover, de-
clared DR.. Eckener was intent
upon making the fastest time pos"
sible on the flight between the
United States and Germany.
He declined, however, to refer
to it as a new record attempt,
but admitted that mo time will
be lost" until the ship is once
again docked at its home port.
After flying over washington,
the dirigible is expected to point
due east for Seville, Spain. From
Spain the ship will be flown di-
rectly to its dock in Germany,
DR.. Eckener declared.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
BARCLAY
By HARRY COSTELLO

Today marks the beginning Of
midseason for American college
football.
The day is featured by three
intersectional games between
Alabama and Fordham, in New
York: New York University and
Georgia, in Athens, Ga, and Syra-
cuse and Michigan State, in East
Lansing, Mich.
From a technical standpoint,
Americas two favorite systems"
those credited to the late Knute
K. Rockne and Glenn Scobie
CPop") Warner-are again on
trial. Evidence constituting proof
is added each Saturday to the
mass already available that supe-
rior football material accounts
for superior football teams,
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Separate Trial of Countess
In Fraud Plot, Refused

Motion for separate trials of
Countess Grace de Benque and
George A. Gormley, jointly in
dicted on a $4,000 grand larceny
charge by Miss Louise Maret,
6O-year-old operator of the fash
'nable Maret School for Girls,
was denied today by Justice Jo-
seph w. Cox in District Supreme
Court. Trial was scheduled for
Thursday.
The theft, according to the in
dictment, occurred in october,
1881. Gormley is said to have
made the acquaintance Of Miss
Maret through the countess. He
took --Iiss Maret for a nocturnal
automobile ride in nearby Mary
land, it is alleged, and stopped
the car on a lonely road.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
JOHNSON BANS
M'KEE' s. NRA |
BY International News Service

BY International NeWS SefV1c0
Recovery Administrato Hugh S.
Johnson today notified Joseph +.
Mckee, New York maroralty can
didate, that he cannot use NRA
insignia in connection with his
campaign against Mayor O'Brien
and Fiorello H. Laguardia.
Johnson's telegram to Mckee
read:
"Use of NRA insignia or let
ters on a political poster in such
manner as to tend to identify 1t
with a particular political fac
ton is unauthorized and con-
trary to NRA Circular No. 1, in
depreciation Of September n,
Executive order of October IL.
and regulations Of October H."
Johnson's notice followed re-
ceipt Of a telegram from La
Guardia, in which the Fusion
candidate charged that McKee's
supporters were unlawfully using
the Blue Eagle.
LaGuardia also sent a telegram
to Louis M. Howe, presidential
secretary. LaGuardia said he pro-
tested against the use Of the Ma
tional Recovery Act symbol and
the patent attempt to mislead the
people by inferring that the Ma
tional Recovery Administration is
linked with the Recovery party"
Mckee is running as a RE
covery party" candidate. The pro-
test was specifically aimed at a
pamphlet printed in red, white,
and blue, which grouped the Blue
Eagle and the initials NRA over
a caption which read.
"NOw is the time for all good
citizens to stand by President
Roosevelt, Lehman, Mckee, and
the flag"
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Speech by Bomber
Of Exchange Barred

NEW YORK, Oct. % GN.SO.
Eugene S. Daniel, jr., the young
Harvard graduate charged with
the tear gas bombing of the Stock
Exchange in August. was barred
today by the police from making
further speeches from soap box
across the street from the ex-
change. Daniel is at liberty in
$4,000 bail. Since then he has
made a dozen speeches without
police interference at the corner
of Broad and Wall.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
DENIES CODES
HAVE HURT
INDUSTRY
r.
Recovery Chief, Preparing Re-
ply to Dig at NRA, Says Gen.
eraI Trend Is Upward

NRA and Agricultural Ad-
justment Administration Of
ficials today were assembling
statistics for use as a counter
blast against the Federal Re
serve bulletin charge that pro-
cessing taxes and codes have
recently caused a "marked
decline" in industrial activity.
Recovery Administrator Hugh
g. Johnson was angry at E. A.
Goldenweiser, editor of the Fed
eral Reserve Bulletin and dl-
rector of the Reserve Boards re-
search and statistics division.
NlaA Industries Off
The bulletin, issued last night,
contained the following para
graph: -
activity during the past two
months has come, in large
measure, in the industries IN
which expansion had pre-
viously been most rapid. 1t has
been marked in industries in
which processing taxes or
codes have become effective re-
Gently"
When informed that the bull
letin contained these assertions,
johnson got Goldenweiser on the
telephone and gave him "a piece
Of his mind" After the CONVEX
sation johnson said Golden
weiser admitted the assertions
had been "inadvertent."
Denies He ApOlOgized
Goldenweiser later refused to
admit he had apologized for the
paragraph. He said he had stated
mere facts.
johnson, however, said:
practically every major in
dustry has been operating un-
der q code since last August.
Those not operating under codes
have been operating under Presi-
Dental unemployment agree
ments in which the provisions
were usually much Stricter than
the codes. And yet, with the
exception of the steel industry,
every report we have received
from major industries shows a
definite upward trend"
Federal Reserve Board records
for the past few weeks belle this
statement, Goldenweiser retorted.
other Government statistical
agencies also confirmed the report
Of a slump in production for many
Industries operating under codes.
Wallace Admits Slump
Secretary of Agriculture Wal
lace admitted a slump in flour
and cotton textile production. He
said:
"The situation is that in ef-
forts to anticipate processing
taxes so as to avoid payment
while possible, mills in both
flour and textile industries enOr-
mOusIy increased their activity
before wheat and cotton taxes
and the increased wage scales
under NRA went into effect.
"Then, when the taxes and
higher wages became effective,
mills slowed down and in some
instances blamed the processing
taxes for inactivity really due
to their efforts to beat the tax"
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Petroleum Tariff
Tonic of NOU. I3 Meet
Bv International News servic,

BY International News Service
A tariff on crude petroleum is
an important feature of the legis-
lative program which the Inde-
pendent Petroleum Association
will consider at it's annual meeting
at Tulsa, Okla, November 13, for
later presentation to Congress.
Other matters to be considered
will be possible increase and ex.
tension of present excise taxes
and reduction of the Federal gaso-
line tax.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Youth Gets 30 Days
For StOckinQ Theft

Harold Sweeney, %, of Kansas
City, Mo-, was sentenced to serve
80 days in jail when arraigned
before Judge John P. Mcmahon
in Police Court on a charge of
larceny today.
Sweeney was accused Of the
theft of 20 pairs of stockings
from a local department store.
The Washington times., 1933-10-28
Maureen O'SuLLiUan
Mau We'd Novelist

HOLLYWOOD, Oct. % G.N.S.)
Maureen O'Sullivan, pretty Irish
society girl who became a film
star, today was wearing a large
new diamond ring given her by
John Farrow, novelist and see
mario writer, but they decline to
make ANY definite announce
ment" about marriage plans.