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Evening star., 1933-06-13
DRY UNIT MERGER
WILL Be DELAYED
Cummings Says Consolida-
tion Plan Will Not Be Carried
Out for Some Time.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Plans for transfer of Prohibition Bu-
reau activities by consolidation under
the Justice Department Bureau of In
vestigation are being formulated, but
Attorney General Cummings said today
there would be some time before COM
pletion.
There is no intention of halting en-
forcement, he told newspaper men, al
though the enforcement bureau as
such Is abolished under the reorgani-
Zation plan sent to Congress and made
public Saturday by President Roose-
welt. That plan has stirred controversy
there, but the administration has shown
no inclination to back down on any
detail.
Agents to Be Dropped.
While q number of agents Of both
the Prohibition and Investigation Bu-
reaus will be dropped under the econ
omy plan, Cummings said, he expected
no decrease in efficiency, because the
elimination of duplicating efforts would
require fewer men.
Many of those now working IN the
Prohibition Bureau, he said, would be
Immediately re-employed after their
present jobs are abolished at the end
OF 90 days.
The Attorney General cited the dis
tinction between the Bureau Of Inves-
tigation and the Prohibition Bureau,
the first being composed largely Of at
torneys and the second of men trained
simply to enforce prohibition.
Whether it is better to attempt to
bring these two groups together in one
organization or keep them as individ-
ual, but closely cooperating, units Is
being worked out, the Attorney Cen
eral said.
New Chief Expected.
Upon this decision also will depend
the curtailment of field offices.
Cummings told newspaper men also
that no thought had been given to q
head Of the new agency. and he would
give no indication whether A. v. Dali
rymple, the prohibition director, or j.
Edgar Hoover, chief of the Bureau of
Investigation, would be retained.
There were general reports in the
Capital, however, that while they might
stay as subordinate heads Of their bu-
reaus neither would be the directing
chief.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
MEYER REVEALED
AS POSTS OWNER
Former Reserve Board Head
Plans Building of Inde-
pendent Newspaper.

Eugene Meyer, former governor OF
the Federal Reserve Board, is the new
owner of the Washington Post.
The paper carried this announcement
in today's issue, following ratification
in District Supreme Court yesterday of
the sale, effected for $825,o00 at auc-
ton, where the bid was entered by
George E. Hamilton, jr., who had with
held the name Of his principal.
Announces Ownership.
In the statement announcing his
ownership Mr.. Meyer said:
"It will be my aim and purpose stead
lily to improve the Post and to make 1t
an even better paper than 1t has been
In the past. It will be conducted as
an independent paper, devoted to the
best interests of the people Of Washing
ton and vicinity and hopes to have their
interest and support.
'I think should, in this connection
make it clear that In purchasing the
Post acted entirely on my own behalf
without suggestion or discussion with
any person, group or oranization."
This latter statement was taken te
answer the oft-recurring rumor that
the paper was to be used as powerful
central Republican party organ. Meyer
has been regarded as Republican
though he entered the Federal service
under Woodrow Wilson and first rose tc
prominence under that Democratic re-
gime.
Mainstay Of Hoover.
He was the mainstay of the financial
policy for the Hoover administration
during the dark days that followed the
1929 collapse and remained at the helm
into the Roosevelt administration.
Meyer inherited wealth and has con-
tinued to build up a great fortune. His
legal home is at Mount Kisco, N. Y, but
his actual principal residence has long
been in washington because OF his con-
tinuing Federal service He was born
in California, where the family fortune
was established in gold-rush days. For
Is years he headed his own banking
firm In New York, Eugene Meyer & Co.,
but in 1917 he went ON the War Indus
Finance Corporation, upon which the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation was
patterned.
In 1927 President Coolidge transfer
red him to the Farm Loan Board to
reorganize the muddled Federal farm
finance. In 1880 President Hoover put
him at the head Of the Reserve Board.
VIII Start Another Paper.
The paper will be published by the
Washington Post Publishing Co., q
newly corporation, chartered
in Delaware, with paid-in capital and
surplus of $1,25O,000 Mr.. Meyer Is
president, Mrs. Meyer vice president
and Floyd R. Harrison, who has been
associated with Mr.. Meyer in the past,
secretary-treasurer.
With the Post gone from the Mclean
family, Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean, es-
tranged wife of the former owner, Ed
ward Beale Mclean, who had fought
to save 1t for their sons, announced
that she would start another morning
paper here-the Enquirer-for the
boys. e: B., jr, and John r. Nc
Evening star., 1933-06-13
PURDUE BANK ROBBED

LAFAYETTE, Ind, June l3 C9.-Ffve
men held up the Purdue State Bank
here today, obtained approximately
50 1000 in cash, forced young man and
woman into their car and escaped.
The young man, c. E. Young. a
Purdue University student, who was in
the bank at the time, and Dorothy
Arneld. employed in the bank, were re-
leased a half mile from Lafayette.
Commencement exercises were In
progress at Purdue University block
away, at the time of the hold-up.
Evening star., 1933-06-13

(From the $50 Edition of Yesterdays Star.)
A RRAIGNED in Police Court today
n on an assault charge placed
II against him by young woman
\ entertainer at Villa Roma, Lieut..
Thomas c. Thomas, U. S. NJ,
pleaded not guilty and requested a jury
trial The court fixed Wednesday. June
81, as the date of the trial, and Thomas
bond of $100 was continued.
The complainant was Mrs. Ivy Nor
wood, who, with her sister, Bernice
Stevens, has a song and dance act In
the floor show at the Maryland road
house.
The warrant was issued yesterday by
Assistant United States Attorney MIL
ford F. Schwartz.
The Stevens sisters told Schwartz
the attack occurred as they were driv-
ing into Washington on Wisconsin ave-
nue. about 2:30 o'clock Thursday morn
ing, and their automobile was in col
lision with another machine operated
by Lieut.. Thomas.
They declared the lieutenant abused
them and then attempted to choke Mrs.
Norwood. Lieut.. Thomas accused
them of having cut their automobile
in front of his machine, they said. ,
Lieut. Thomas brought to Police
Court his two companions in the
automobile, Miss Marion c. Nelson and
Mrs. David Quinn. Both denied abusive
Evening star., 1933-06-13
.SOUTHW|CK BRIGGS,
ENGINEER, SUICIDE
Ends Long, Serious Illness
by Shooting Himself at
Maryland Home.

Southwick Cary Briggs, prominent
mining engineer, real estate developer
and horticulturist, ended serious two
year illness this morning by shooting
himself in the heart at his Glenmont
Md, home.
He had been suffering from heart
trouble and for the past year had been
confined to his home. He was Sc years
old.
DR.. Edward A. Krause of Silver Spring
and Washington, who had been attend
ing Mr.. Briggs during his illness, pro-
nounced him dead and issued a certifi:
cate Of suicide.
Native Of Albany.
A native Of Albany, N. Y, Mr. Briggs
was a descendant Of the prominent
Southwick, Cary and Briggs families
well known for generations in New
York and Connecticut.
AS young man he was superintend-
ent Of mines in Sonora, Mexico, and
once was regarded as one of the fore
most orchid growers in the country.
He married. Alice C. Walbridge OF
washington the daughter of Heman
Walbridge whose family once owned
the greater part Of the real estate in
the Mount Pleasant section. 1t was this
properly wnlcn Mr. Briggs managed ana
developed, amassing a fortune. Finan-
cial reverses In late years wiped out
much of his capital, however,
Son an Inventor.
Besides his widow, Mr.. Briggs leaves
one son, Southwick w. Briggs, well
known inventor, with offices in the
Transportation Building. The son re-
Gently invented an oil filter for air.
planes, which the Aeornautics Bureau
of the Commerce Department now is
testing In an engine at its experimental
station in Arlington County.
Mr.. Briggs was Mason and a men,
ber Of the Metropolitan and Chevy
Chase Clubs His body was taken to a
funeral parlor at Rockville, but no ar
rangements for burial have yet been
completed.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
Builders Try to Take Bridge.

YUKON, Okla, June 13 GR.-Irked
by Canadian Countys failure to pay
for a bridge over the North Canadian
River near here, the Oklahoma City
company which built the span decided
to come and get It. The bridge was
partially dismantled early today before
the sheriff arrived on the scene and
halted the work.
"Now, the bridge Is impossible, the
bridge company has neithtr its pay nor
the bridge. and the county officials are
In q quandayy
Evening star., 1933-06-13

TTOtu okC.I
under direct supervision of the Treas
ury.
Unification Expected.
The idea Is that State banks could
not Withstand the competition of insti-
tutions Offering full insurance on de-
posits when they themselves could not
obtain 1t General admission into the
Reserve System still would leave them
outside the national banking organiza-
ton, but many officials believed the
final unification would follow.
Between January OF next year and
the beginning Of 1886 State banks will
share fully In the insurance pool so
long as they can show the required
soundness From January /, 1884, until
July / Of the same year, insurance
would cover only deposits up to $2,500.
After that date 100 per cent insurance
is to be given all sums up TO $4,000,
with q scale graduated down to so per
cent insurance for amounts exceeding
$4,000.
other provisions Of the bill:
National banks will have power TO
establish branches in States which per-
NIT their own banks to branch.
The Federal Reserve Board will have
power TO prevent use OF its credit IN
speculation.
National banks will have to divorce
security companies within None year.
Private Banks Affected.
Private banks will have to surrender
either investment or deposit business.
Payment of interest on demand de-
posts will be forbidden and interest on
time deposits will be limited by the Re-
serve Board.
Reserve member banks will be pro-
hibited from making loans to their Of
ficers.
Almost one-third of the House mem
bers had signed a pledge to vote against
adjournment until the bank reform
measure was passed, when word was
flashed through the Capitol that at last
the conferees had reached an agree
ment. This virtually assured approval
of the long-studied legislation for which
of the long-studied legislation, for which
been abandoned several days ago.
For four hours, coatless representa-
tives of the two houses had worked in
a hot committee loom yesterday to
compromise differences. Near the end,
they consulted with President Roosevelt
by telephone and a few minutes later
emerged smiling to announce the long
sought understanding.
None of the conferees was happier
than Senator Glass, Democrat. of Viz
ginia, who has labored for two years to
get his bill through. He had given up
hope last week.
Asked if the bill would not result in
a single bank system, the Virginian re-
piled, smiling:
That's the only thing that appeals
to me in the insurance Of deposits pro-
visions"
Evening star., 1933-06-13
Bids on Road Job Examined.

HARRISBURG, Pa, June 13 (P.-
Bates g. Rogers Construction Co.,
Cleveland, Ohio yesterday was low
among 18 bidders with. an. estimate of
SPOT .i52 for relocation of the highway
and railroad across Pymtunilg Dam,
south of Linesville in Crawford County
The Burket Construction Co., Haines-
,,ert. H. j., bid $245.684.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
Fire DESTROYS Mill.

WILMINGTON, Del, June Is R.-
Believed to have been started by light
ming, fire destroyed the -four and feed
mill of j. J. Dayett, at Coochs Bridge,
late last night. Firemen were summoned
from eight communities, including Elk
ton, Md. The loss was estimated at
$4,000. 't
Evening star., 1933-06-13
ADMITS ILLlTERACY
Treasurer of School Board Testifies
He Cannot Read or Write.

SCRANTON, Pa, June 13 R-
Michael Wolohowicz, who has served as
director Of the Dickson City School
Board for II years and who has filled
the Office of board treasurer for a long
time, testified In court yesterday that
he cannot read or write and that he
never went to school a day in his life.
AS treasurer of the board he receives
a salary of $4,000 annually.
Wolohowicz was testifying in the
action begun by taxpayers TO oust six of
the seven members of the Dickson City
Board. He said he could not read a
word Of the school code which he and
other directors are charged with vio-
Eating. y''" s
Evening star., 1933-06-13
WILL CONTINUE TOUR
"Pussyfoot" johnson Speaks Light
ly Of Injuries in Accident.

SALEM, Oreg., June 13 P).-Speak-
ing lightly Of three broken ribs he suf-
fered in a motor car smash-up near
Philomath Sunday, w. s. (Pussyfoot)
johnson said he will AL his remaining
speaking engagements in Oregon.
''I've been in a number Of automobile
accidents" the 71-year-old prohibition
crusader laughed, 'but none was fatal"
The ribs were broken when the ma
chine in which johnson was a passen-
ger crashed into . dtfh.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
CAPITOL THREATENED
Guardsmen Placed About Building
After Communist Protest.

ATLANTA, June 13 (R.-Two Ma
the receipt of threats to blow up the
building because of a prison sentence
given Angelo Herndon, colored Com
munist, of Cincinnati
Tom Linder, executive secretary to
Gov. Talmadge, said numerous threats
had been received in connection with
the conviction of the colored man on
charges of attempting to incite insur-
rection by distributing Communistic
literature.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
CHAC0 TRUCE REJECTED
Paraguay Refuses to Accept League
of Nations Plan.

ASUNCION, Paraguay June 13 R-
Paraguay, at war with Bolivia over the
accept the latest arbitration proposals
of the League Of Nations, it became
known yesterday.
The governments reply to the League
of Nations will be made public today.
It states: Paraguay maintains its
diplomatic position, refusing to accept
the basis for arbitral compromise while
the war goes on, and Paraguay finds
itself disposed to accept q cessation Of
hostilities with full guarantees as q
previous condition to the negotiation Of
peace"
Evening star., 1933-06-13
Girl Located in Miami.

MIAMI, Fla, June IL R.-Helen
Talman, 19, Of Asheville. N. c.. reported
to have disappeared from the Florida
State College for Women at Tallahassee.
was located in tha Y. w. O. A. here
last night.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
Graf Drops Mail at Seville.

SEVILLE. Spain, June 13 (R.-The
Graf Zeppelin passed over Seville yes
terday. dropped mail by parachute. and
headed toward Germany on its return
flight from South Africa.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
SLAYER REPRIEVED
Governor Postpones Execution to
Hear Communication Plea.

Hear Communication Plea.
SACRAMENTO, Calf, June Is CP).-
Claude Forbes, sentenced to be hanged
at San Quentin Prison for killing Harry
Nelson. deputy assessor in Alwyeda
County, was granted reprieve by Gov.
Rolph yesterday from June 80 to Sep
tember 90 The State Supreme Court
recommended the action to permit con-
sideration of Forbes communication ap-
plication.
Forbes and Mrs Nelson wife Of the
slain man. were convicted Of murder,
and the woman is serving life SEN
tence in San Quentin.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
HONORS HISTORIAN

Lehigh University Gives Degree TO
James Truslow Adams.
BETHLEHEM, Pa, June 13 CP.-Le-
high University today conferred the
honorary degree of doctor Of humane
letters on James Truslow Adams, his
torian, of Washington.
The degree of doctor Of engineering
was conferred on Frank A. Merrick Of
Pittsburgh. president Of the Westing-
house Electric 6 Manufacturing Co.,
and David c. Kerr of New York, first
vice president of the Bethlehem Steel
Corporation.
Evening star., 1933-06-13
COMPROMISE BANK
MEASURE REPORT.
ADOPTED BY HOUSE

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Evening star., 1933-07-26
BOLT KILLS GRAVE DIGGER
Philadelphian Victim of Lightning
and City Hall Is Damaged.

PHILADELPHIA, July 26 CP.-Oscar
Brown. At, was killed by a bolt Of
lightning yesterday while digging
grave in an Ardmore cemetery.
Lightning also damaged the city hall
slightly and seriously injured a golf
player at the Merton Cricket Club
Thousands of homebound Office work
ers were soaked in the accompanying
rainstorm
Evening star., 1933-07-26

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idea of a code for the Government
workers has opposition in an influential
quarter. Gen Hugh S. johnson. inous-
trial administrator, to whom the CUES
ton was broache6 at press confer
ence Yesterday afternoon, expressed
himself as against it,
Advised that group OF workers.
Federation of Government Employees
had stated that a code was TO be pre-
sented. he asked Why should hold
a hearing on it?" and added:
The law says it applies to trades,
industries and subdivisions thereof
johnson on Subject.
Asked II there were any plans afoot
to reduce Government working hours,
he answered:
You heard what the President said
Monday night; IN order that any Of
those recovery plans can continue to
have any effect that you can rely on,
the credit Of the United States must be
maint aimed. This administration entered
this situation with recurring yearly
expenditure SO high. out Of all reason,
there was no method Of coming any,
where near q balanced budget without
reducing the expenditures very, very
heavily There is only one way to re-
duce expenditures; most Of it goes out
to personnel Now it was kind of case
where you could not do anything If you
did not do that. 1t was different from
any other employment or situation the
country faced, because the whole re-
covery program is dependent on that,
and it is still dependent on it. Now We
are proceeding with these various groups
TO give employment. and the question
is-should We defeat the plan because
We have what appears to be an incon-
SiStency In this Government situation?
OF course, there is only one answer TO
It. That Is one of those hard cases in
this connection. Everything has been
done that can be done to absorb these
cases, as far as you can, but unless you
are going to start out and say we can
not do anything about a four billion
dollar expenditure that means you can
not do anything within reason. You
have to go right straight ahead with
this economy program"
Draft Reply to Mead.
Another angle of the Government en-
ployment situation was under considera-
ton today. Post ONCE Department off,
cials being engaged in drafting a reply
to Chairman Mead Of the House Post
ONCE Committee. who yesterday laid
before Postmaster General Farley COM
plants from postal workers concerning
administration of the nine-day furlough
in the first quarter OF the present fiscal
year
it was reported that the postal service
is not overmanned and that between
furlough and pay. cut. the employees
figure their salary Is down 235 per cent
This appears to be inconsistent with
the administration move to raise wages,
Mr.. Mead said.
Evening star., 1933-07-26
ROOSEVELT SEES
RECOVERY SUCCESS
Enthused by Pledges of Sup.
port Pouring In From
Entire U. S.
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fears by assuring them that the indus
trial laws guarantee Of right to organize
could not be modified by any code, that
companies would not be permitted to
prescribe unions limited to their plants
and that it was only just. now that
concerns may bind themselves In in
dustrial groups. that their workers
should likewise organize throughout
each trade.
This was regarded as Of particular i'm
portance, since the steel indust-ys code,
due q hearing next week, proposes to
prescribe company union organization
with final appeals In disputes decided
by the head Of the firm, and the major
code submitted by the coal industry Is
expected 10 Go likewise.
Johnson's speech last night In the
National Radio Forum bubbled over
with assurance:
Nothing will even hamper the
Presidents program! The power OF
this people once aroused and united IN
a fixed purpose Is the most irresistible
force in the world"
That power, he maintained Is def
nitelV aroused. He spoke In plain terms
against merchants making profiteering
price advances:
TT is lot easier to secure profits
through bigger business than it is
through higher price. In spite of the
very best the President may be able
to plan and his men to carry out his
plans. If we dent get purchasing power
to the proper level and do it now, there
isn't going to be any bigger business.
There Is going to be less business.
Killing the Goose.
Speculative price advances are the
best way to kill the goose that lays
the golden egg, and as most business
men will agree, that is pretty sickly
locking goose right now"
But he recognized that eventually the
public will have to pay for the increased
labor expenditures:
"All the President asks of you is that
YOU lean over backward not to make up
prices / cent further or faster than
you have to. to absorb these actual
increased costs"
In today's new hearing for the cloth
Evening star., 1933-07-26

lishment Of new units in States which
have never had national forests-Illi-
nois and Missouri New units are also
planned in two States-Mississippi and
Alabama-which already have other
national forests.
The purchases will have a place in
the unemployment relief program. Pur-
chased land will become Immediately
available for improvement work by men
In the Civilian Conservation Corps.
In June approval of purchases Of
about 7OO,0 acres from other funds
was given by the National Forest
Reservation Commission, Government
agency. That purchase was part of a
program for acquiring about 900 900
acres in the Eastern, Southern and Lake
States.