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The bank examiners failed to
discover this shortage because a
simple yet extremely clever sys-
tenn had been used to extract the
money without leaving any record
of the looting, it was disclosed.
How System Worked
When a large deposit was made.
it was said, the money was taken
and at the same time the de-
positor's record card was also re-
moved from the files.
So, when the bank examiners
checked oyer the deposits of the
bank and compared them with
the deposit records, there was
perfect balance.
This system Of looting had been
carried on for at least three
years, it was learned from Gov.
ernment officials, without detec-
ton.
Suicide Barred Shortage
1t was only after the bank had
been placed in the hands of a
conservator and the suicide of
Robert Stunz, vice president Of
the institution, that the shortage
was revealed.
The cards which had been re-
moved from the files to cover the
shortages were located, and it was
on totalling these that it was
learned that the shortage is
around the $1,600,000 figure.
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US. JOBS SLASH.
TO BALANCE
BUDGET
Director Douglas Estimates
Is Per Cent Decrease
In Personnel

The sum, variously estimated
from $500,O00,000 to $1,000, ,OOO,-
900, needed to balance the Fed
eral budget, will be obtained
mainly from the payrolls of the
Federal employees, it was learned
today.
An unprecedented slash is ex-
pected when the Director of the
Budget transmits the Independent
Offices Appropriations to Con-
gresS, and departmental appropri-
ations will be subjected to COM
menSurate cuts at the earliest op-
portunity.
Government officials agree that
it will not be possible to ~ssorb
the prospective cuts through ad-
ministrative furloughS. Lay-offs
of 100 days or more a year would
be necessitated, if that procedure
were adopted, and on such a basis
Federal efficiency would be re-
duced to a minimum.
Thousands to Lose Jobs
The alternative, therefore, is
dismissal Of employees. It is esti-
mated that a Is to 20 per cent
cut in personnel will be nesec-
sary throughout the Government
service.
This would mean the dismissal
Of $4,000 workers in Washington,
and perhaps as many as 100000
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Roosevelt to Speak
To L1tin-AmericnnS

President Roosevelt will greet
all Latin-American countries April
IL at II a. M, when he will speak
over the Columbia Broadcasting
System in connection with a
special meeting of the governing
board of the Pan-American Union.
At the meeting the United
States will formally accept a
statue of Francisco Miranda, Ven
ezuelian hero. The presentation
will be made by DR.. Pedro Arcaya,
minister to the United States from
Venezuela. Secretary of State Hull
will accept the statue.
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GRAND JURY HAS
FIVE WOMEN

A new Grand Jury, composed
of five women and 18 men, was
sworn in by Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat in District Supreme
Court today. It will serve during
the next three months.
Benoit D. Dreyfuss, general
manager of a mems furnishing
store, was selected foreman.
Other members of the body are
Miss Mary Louise Stafford,
Mrs. Alva P. Lum, Mrs. Marie
Miller Cannon, Mrs. Opie T. Dent,
Miss M. Frances Butler, Daniel M.
Altman, Henry F.. Bailey, Frank
]. Barry, Ernest E. Brady, Thomas
A. Cannon, William T. Cooper,
Daniel j. Coughlin, Charles DAILY,
jr., Edward j. Geraci, Harry E.
Grier, Herman Hollander, Earl
D. Jacob, Herbert D. Ormsby, John
G. Reynolds, Samuel A. Young,
Robert M. Lavender, and William
P. Harms.
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DANNY
SARAH BUTLER
TALKS HERE

Promising that her organiza-
ton would "disband and go home
to it's knitting" once the purpose
for which it had been organized
had been realized Mrs. Charles
S. Sabin, national chairman Of
the Women's Organization for
National Prohibition Reform, to-
day opened at the Mayflower
Hotel the fourth annual confer
ence Of the group.
Mrs. Sabin congratulated the
delegates on their part in sending
to defeat the bone dry members
Of the Senate and House who had
fought them in past Congresses.
Following Mrs. Sabin on the
platform, Miss Sarah Butler,
daughter of Nicholas Murray But
Ter, wet leader, gave her first
anti-prohibition speech.
She warned the delegates of
the danger that beer might be
used by the drys to defeat COM
plete repeal.
Miss Butler said:
Beer will be an excellent
thing If we regard it as what it
is. . an immediate step to in.
crease revenue and to relieve
unemployment. But it will be
utterly disasterOus if it comes
to be considered as the end of
prohibition and a substitute for
repeal"
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Tydings Forced
To Restrict
Visitors

Senator Millard E. Tydings
(DO of Maryland is very busy
man--yes, a very busy man.
So busy that he has had to
limit his callers. Posted on the
door to his office in the Senate
Office Building is the note, in
large type:
"ThiS office receives requests
for 100 interviews daily. 1t re-
ceives over 300 letters daily.
"Due to these conditions, we
will have to ask persons making
calls to come in before 1 p. m.
After that the office will be
closed and all day Saturday.
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JOBLESS CHIEFS
JAILED FOR
SPEECHES
Three Arrested After Making
Demands for Increase
In Relief Dole

Charles Spencer, Sidney Phil
lips and Harold Spencer leaders
of the Washington Unemployed
Council, were arrested today
shortly after Harold Spencer at
tempted to make a speech on the
northwest corner of John Mar
shall Place and c Street North
west.
They had previously appeared
in the office Of Leroy A. Hal
bert, director of emergency relief,
and demanded an increase in the
emergency relief fund, a raising
of the relief standard and the
stoppage Of evictions. Also, they
had asked to be permitted to ad-
dress the unemployed gathered in
the old church at John Marshall
Place and c Street Northwest. Re
fused, they marched outside the
building and across the street,
closely followed by a small army
of plain-clothesmen.
The three men distributed hand
bills, asking that the "black and
white unite-for immediate job
less relief" and making other
pleas.
They demanded:
/. Immediate cash relief Of
IS a week for every jobleSs
family head, with 81 for each
dependent.
2. No evictions.
3. $3.50 weekly relief for each
single person.
4. No discrimination against
colored persons.
Headquarters Of the organi-
Zation is given as the 1900
block Eleventh st. N. w.
The three were charged with
speaking on the public streets
without a permit.
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Supply Bill Stirs
Mrs. Norton's Ire

Complaining that she and the
members of her committee were
completely ignorant of the
District supply bill until it was
reported to the House, Represen.
tative Mary T. Norton DO of
New Jersey, chairman of the
House District Committee, today
demanded the cooperation of the
Appropriations Committee.
She declared that before con.
sideration was given to another
appropriation bill, she would de-
mand that a member of the
District Committee be permitted
to sit in on the deliberations of
the appropriations subcommittee
handling the District supply bill.
Asserting that she felt t. was
perfectly outrageous" that mem.
bers of the legislative committee
know nothing of the supply bill
until it is reported to the House,
she declared:
ut is obvious that the apprO-
priatiOns committee could be
greatly aided by the advice of
the District committee, which
is thoroughly versed in the
needs of the District"
Mrs. Norton said she would
make the necessary arrange
ments for this procedure before
hearings begin on the next %upply
bill.
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Church Aggregation
Considers Charity Aid

Plans for raising funds to pro.
vide for the increasing number
Of families needing aid will be
discussed at a meeting of the
presidents and vice presidents of
"a parish conferences sf the
Society of ST.. Vincent de Paul
tonight at the new headquarters
of the society, 900 block of E,
Street Northwest.
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ENHANCES
CHERRY BUDS

Persons visiting the Tidal Basin
this year to view the cherry
blossoms will be treated to the
most beautiful sight in several
years if they go at night, Albert
Clyde-Burton, assistant park
chief, said today.
The moon will be full next
week, at the same time the bios
SONS reach their peak of beauty.
The blossoms are far prettier by
moonlight than by day, Mr..
Clyde-Burton said, being greatly
enhanced by quivering reflections
on the surface of the moonlit
Tidal Basin.
The blossoms, already partially
in bloom, will be at their best
next Sunday and will continue
until Easter unless heavy winds
blow them from the trees.
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CAPITAL FUNDS
DUE FOR RISE
Of Z MILLION
Gas Tax Use Wins Approval;
Water Revenue Also Likely
To Be Made Available

The 1884 District supply bill
is expected to pass the House
today with an increase of ap-
proximately 100000 over the
Budget Bureau estimates.
Practically half of the bill was
taken up at yesterdays session
and during consideration Repre-,
sentative James P. Buchanan
CD of Texas, chairman of the
House Appropriations Committee,
put through an amendment
which gives the Commissioners
the right to use $1,040,000 of
gasoline tax funds in an emer-
gency, providing the President
concurs.
Water Fund Use Due
Another committee amendment
authorizing use of $635,00 Of
water revenues for improvement
of the water supply system i: ex-
pected to be introduced today.
Buchanan's amendment was
the only one which passed the
House during yesterdays discus
sion. Efforts of Representative
Paul Kvale (F.-L0 of Minnesota,
to stave off drastic cuts in ap-
preparations for public schools
went for naught.
Representative Howard w. Smith
CD of Virginia also offered sew
eral amendments, but in each in.
stance was defeated or ruled out
of order.
True to Form
Representative Thomas L. Blan-
ton CD of Texas is taking the
same position on the District sup
ply bill he took when he caused
the defeat of the original measure
in the last Congress.
Blanton objected to every amend
ment offered yesterday except that
sponsored by Buchanan.
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Visiting Lecturer
To AdresS Students

DR.. Philip David Bookstaber,
lecturer and author of Harris
burg. Pa, will speak tomorrow
night at the Marjorie Webster
School.
He is here to take charge of
DR.. Abram Simon's confirmation
class,
The Washington times., 1933-04-05
Park Savings Bank Shortage
ESCAPED Examiners

National bank examiners went
over the books of the Park Saw
ings Bank last January and found
the affairs of the institution in
good" condition. it was learned
today, despite the fact that there
was really a shortage Of about
$1.60O,00O.
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PRESIDENT or the united states says
"it puts the burden of telling the
whole truth on the seller" he means
exactly what he says. I also think
that this is a revolutionary sugges-
tion more far-reaching than pro-
claiming bank holiday and perhaps
more important than a system of
farm allotments. It happens that
these words occurred in a message
about selling securities, and as few
of us are in that particular business,
we let them slide over our heads;
comparatively few of us, for that
matter, are in the business of buying
securities. According to a calcula-
tion I made a few months ago only
one in fifty, perhaps one in a hun
JroI of ,,e 11,o,.o IN tho c%ooIy m q ,.Lo
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Tea, Linen ShOIUer,
Plan for HOSDital

The annual tea and linen shower
of the Woman's Guild of Sibley
Memorial Hospital will be held
Friday from 8 p. m. to 10 at Rust
Hall. Mrs. Samuel A. Mooers,
president, is general chairman of
the committee arranging the
event.
The Washington times., 1933-04-05
SEEKS CHARITY FUND SLICE

Samuel Meyer of the Berwyn
Welfare Association yesterday re-
quested a portion of the $4,000
charity fund, obtained at the
Laurel races, for distribution.
The Washington times., 1933-04-05

and 1 know that members of
the committee want to be bet
ter acquainted with the people
of the District"
The Washington times., 1933-04-05
Beer, Rents, Taxes
TODicS of Discussion

The Burroughs Citizens Asso-
citation will meet at the John
Burroughs School tomorrow night
to discuss beer legislation, rent
reductions and the decrease in
real estate taxes.
The Washington times., 1933-04-05
HYATTSVILLE DANCE

The Hyattsville volunteer fire
department will hold a dance May
IL at the Beaver Dam Country
Club, Noble F. Rushe, chief, said
today.
The Washington times., 1933-04-05
True to Type
WOOL WILL BE WOOL
IF NEW IDEA
GAINS
By GILBERT SELDES

The bad habit of believing what read has led into
enough trouble, but fundamentally born believer
and in spite of long experience listening to the words of
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ing secretaries solely was a means
of permitting him to remember the
identity of applicants in case a call
came for a secretary.
Names, he says, are difficult to
remember, but faces-that's differ
ent! All he has to do now is to open
his drawer, gaze on the countenance
of man or woman, and he knows
right away whether it's the one he
has in mind.
Eventually it developed that new
members seeking secretaries are
given peek, too.
Its natural" contends Trimble,
that a member should want to
know what his secretary will look
like. Some, you know, are very par
ticular'
Then Trimble mentioned a certain
secretary whom he had suggested to
new member as being particularly
qualified, and, by coincidence, she
proved to be one of the most beau
tiful girls in the house office build
ing. Trimble, it appears, is not
one who holds that brains do not
accompany beauty.
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country, we must remember that
we are supposing not merely
different form of exchange, but
also an entirely different form of
civilization" he continued.
Business in the United States
today is suffering from a contrac-
ton in the volume and, more
especially, the effective use of its
money.
Bank deposits, which represent
the chief money of the nation,
have shrunk some Is per cent and
their use has suffered CORE
spending shrinkage.
Barter has sprung up as
means of meeting this temporary
condition. 1t is entirely reason
able to suppose that with the ar
rival of business recovery, barter
methods will vanish as magically
as they have appeared"
II +
A N interesting picture of the
L N business side of barter is
given by DR.. Arthur E. Morgan,
president of Ohio'S Antioch college
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dashed
BY ROBINSON
FOR DEFAULT
Indiana Senator Demands
Retaliation, in Passage
of JohnSon'S Bill.
BY WALKER STONE
Times Staff Writer

WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Sen-
ator Arthur R. Robinson of In
diana Friday delivered a philippe
against the republic of France for
failing to meet her last debt pay
ment to the United States, and
called for enactment of Senator Hi
ram Johnson's bill to prohibit de-
faulting nations from selling their
securities in American markets.
Senator Robinson is a member OF
the judiciary subcommittee, which
recently studied the Californian
bill and recommended its pas
sage.
"A man who refuses to pay his
honest debts is without standing,
esteem or respect in the commu-
nifty" said the Hoosier senator.
France and other defaulters have
placed themselves in this category in
world opinion.
France Called Worst
Indeed, the behavior of France
is far worse than that of any other
nation, for she freely admitted her.
capacity to pay, and at the same
moment when she violated her OBJ
legation to the United States, had
| the audacity to extend credit to
Austria in a sum practically as
great as the installment due the
United States which she had re-
fused to pay"
1.-THE international bankers" said
Senator Robinson, continue cease
lessly to spread the propaganda
that these debts should be cam
celled for the good of Europe and
transferred to the backs of our own
overbTdened people.
"Of course, they have a selfish
interest in the matter. They have
loaned hundreds of millions of dol
lars privately to these governments
and their people, and they believe
their chances for receiving pay
ment of these private loans will be
enhanced if the taxpayers of Amer
lea can be sacrificed.
money Their God"
mot only that, but these same
organized financial interests in this
country are the largest holders of
the taX-exempt bonds of the United
States, SO they wocld gather in the
gold, going or coming.
"One thing is certain" said the
senator, 1.-THE republic of France is
entitled to no consideration from
us. The paltry amount of the de-
faulted inStallment due us is only a
fraction Of / per cent of her ma
tional income, nor more than pei
cent Of her annual budget and per-
haps not more than 7 per cent OF
the amount she spends annually for
ornaments.
I'm fact, she authorized the con-
Struction Of one warship in the last
few days, The cost of which will run
to more than six million dollars
above the defaulted lnstallment of
her debt to this country"
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appreciably shortened anybody's
life.
The fact that millions of peo-
pie throughout the world are ac-
customed, both in their religious
and social habits, to drink wine
with their meals should prove
this to any one.
THERE is, furthermore, little if
Il any evidence that such
drinking leads to chronic alcohol
ism. Doctor Lyman feels that the
ranks of the chronic drinkers are
commonly recruited from inferior
and psychopathic persons.
On the other hand, DR.. Horatio
M. Pollock found, in examining a
considerable number of mental
d electives who also were
alcoholics, that the habits of
drinking we're formed very early
in life and that in only small
percentage of the cases did an abb
normal mental condition precede
the excessive use of alcoholic
beverages.
The vast majority of people do
not have any real knowledge of
the effects of alcohol on the body,
but do have a tremendous number
of superstitions.
Practically all of the widely adj
vertised remedies for female COM,
plants contain considerable
amounts of alcohol.
The alcohol does not have any
direct effect on the org ans con-
cerned, but acts wholly on the
mind of the person who takes the
remedy.
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at Yellow Springs. His Antioch
faculty is making an interesting
experiment there.
The well-stocked Yellow Springs
Exchange, resembling a general
store, swaps not only farm prod
ucts for manufactured goods, but
also will swap anything from a
cord of fireWood cut by jobleSS
men to piano lessons given by
jobless music teacher. Scrip is
the medium.
DR.. Morgan, the engineer who
bossed the job of building Day.
tons flood prevention system, adj
mits the limitations and difficult
ties of barter, but views it as
economic insurance"
Nobody knows what the flu
ture will bring" he said. Eng
land has been on the dole for ten
years now and may be on it for
another ten. We are entering on
the fourth year of our depression,
and the end is not in sight.
Even if industry got back to
1929 production tomorrow, tech
biological Improvements still would
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TRADE COMMISSION
CHOICE is IMPORTANT
RooseveIt's Selection to Show Lib
eral or Conservative Trend.

eTaI OF OOHStENdtiNC AAChus
BIZ Scripps-Hoicdrd Newspaper Alliance
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-Presi-
dent Elect Roosevelt's choice of
i>sn to serve on the federal trade
Commission. filling the vacancy left
by c. w. Hunts resignation, is be-
Ec awaited with interest second
,nlv to that manifest in cabinet APP
continents.
To business the appointment is of
more importance than any of the
cabinet posts, except treasury Sec
rotary and encouragement. Sc
lection of a conservative or a lib
eral will determine TO great ex-
tent what the attitude of the new
administration is to be in regard to
control of business practices.
It has been indicated that the
Roosevelt administration may at
tempt to restore the trade commits
sion to the position of Importance
il was intended to occupy as protec-
tor of the interests of consumers
when it was created in the Wilson
administration.
With the appointment of new
Demoerat to the commission, Presi-
dent Elect Roosevelt's party will
assume control at once, and If Tur-
Their reorganization is necessary, two
more vacancies viii occur during
President Elect Roosevelt's four year
term Of Office.
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CHECK, PHONE,
THEATER TAXES
RULED EXEMPT
Club Dues, Other Items Can
Be Deducted on Income
Return, Is Decree.

BIZ United Press
WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.-The in
ternal revenue bureau ruled today
that taxes paid by the consumer on
electricity, telephone and telegraph
messages, checks, theater and other
admissions, safety deposit boxes and
club dues are deductable from per-
sonal income taxes.
The ruling also stated that man.
ufacturers excise taxes under the
1882 revenue act are imposed by the
law on the manufacturer and paid
by him to the collector Of internal
revenue.
These "are not regarded as taxes
paid by the consumer of the article,
even though they may be passed on
to him in whole or in part" the bu-
reau ruled.
Accordingly. the bureau stated,
taxes paid on cigarets, gasoline. lu-
bricating oil, tires and automobile
accessories, firearms, matches, candy,
chewing gum, soft drinks, jewelry
and cosmetics ARE not items which
the consumer may deduct from his
income"
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effect of alcohol on the mind.
Since it breaks down the higher
inhibitions in the brain, it sweeps
aside barriers to extraordinary sex
conduct.
Doctor Hyman says, "There is
no pharmacologic evidence to con-
firm the belief that moderate,
non-toxic doses of alcohol, taken
daily by the normal individuals,
are deleterious either to him or
to his progeny"
In other words, there is no
scientific evidence to prove that
alcohol taken in moderation ever
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stimulate the secretion both of
mucus and of gastric juice; as
we'll as of saliva.
Much depends on the nature of
the contents of the drink in which
the alcohol is taken. : If there are
bitters, these serve to stimulate
the appetite.
Taken after meal in the form
of a liqueur, there usually are
such substances as peppermint or
various aromatics which have a
carminative effect.
Il
THE effects of alcohol on the
Il sex reactions are not direct,
but have to do wholly with the