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Evening star., 1933-01-29
FOOD SENT GARNER
BY BORDER FRIEND
Mexican He Defended as
Lawyer Sorry for Vice Pres
ident Far From Home.

By the Associated Press.
On tortillas and tamales. dried goat
meat and garebanZas that have highest
vitamin content d any beam Speaker
John Garner can now feast to his
hearts content.
All these Texas border delicacies, ani
many more, came to him today from
Juna Mora, 70-year old Mexican, who,
looking at pictures in the paper. had
become much worried over the diet of
the Vice President elect.
Unable to get his gift to its destina-
ton in English, Juan made Sam Robert
son, San Benito, Tex, engineer. his
agent
He brought me picture cut from
q newspaper showing Mrs. Garner
cooking in your Office" Robertson wrote
Garner. He was feeling very sad be-
cause you live so far away among the
Yankees in the snow and ice where
there is nothing fit for brush-raised
Texan to eat.
Defended In Trial.
He said many years ago he was
framed by another Mexican on a goat
stealing charge, and you defended him.
proving his innocence, and that he loves
you as father and many times cooked
4ol yOu OIl lllilllllS anu llSIll1lS U-lpS.
Therefore, he has prepared for you
some Mexican ranch food 1 have been
deviled by him for months to send
these things to you, and finally prom
1sed to do So"
Annotations that would delight an
epicurean. Robertson's translation of
Mora's instructions, accompanied the
big box filled with such odd artices as
shucks to wrap tamales in, cracklins
to make cracklin' bread, camino seed
for flavoring, and peloncilla, a orude
sugar in the form of cone
One read: The raSa tcorn for tor
tillas) was made on a metate (hand
mortar because masa made in tor
tortilla mill is not fit for brush-raised
Texan to eat"
Another: He states fresh meat is
unfit for chill con carne. He butchered
a goat fed on wajia brush, which gives
the goat meat the proper flavor. He
dried it on a wire stretched above
good mesquite Goals and q 'mosca'
(fy) never roasted on it."
Clay "Jarro" for Cooking.
Juan sent along a clay "jarro" in
which to cook the chill, because If it
were cooked in iron it would ruin the
delicate flavor of the wajai brush con-
tained in the meat.
The chill, home grown, was accom-
panied bottle Of green chilli capine
(hot peppers.
For Mrs. Garner, Juan's wife sent
nopales and calavasos tsweetmeats)
and raisins to be stewed with the cone
sugar, which was pronounced much
finer sWeetening than American white
sugar. Mrs. Mora thought Mrs Garner
had been away for so long she might
have forgotten to prepare garlic the
right way, so some Of that came, too.
For smokes, the Speaker was sent
slim cigarettes of corn shuck wrapping,
containing Caballo Negro leaf tobacco
pronounced by Juan the only tobac-
co fit for human to smoke"
But the old Mexican's supreme con-
tribution has not yet arrived.
Robertson related it thus:
He said he had litre of pure San
Carlos mescal for you which has been
for months in the pig skin curing.
told him If I attempted to send it, we
would all find our way to Frank
Browns Jail
He will hold the mescal in the pig
skin until 1t Is no longer 'contrabando'
at which time have promised to for
ward it to you"
Evening star., 1933-01-29
1876 SHIPS DECLARED
NEEDED BY US. NAVY
Estimates Show Fleet Requires
316,530 Tons to Meet London
Treaty Strength.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press
The Navy Department estimated yes
terday that the United States would
have to build 135 ships of 316.530 tons
by December 81, 1886, to bring the
United States up to London treaty
strength.
The estimate was prepared for the
Senate Naval Committee 1t listed the
required construction as follows: Three
aircraft carriers totaling $4,000 tons,
nine cruisers of 87,100 tons, 80 destroy
ers Of 133,500 tons and "a submarines of
40,730 tons.
The pamphlet said Great Britain in
each recent year has had a uniform
building program of three cruisers, nine
destroyers, three submarines and several
miscellaneous craft. The first lord of
the admiralty was quoted as telling Par
lament last March:
I'VE must have the ships which we
are allowed to have by 1886 by our
treaties and there Is no doubt that we
shall have them"
Japan's 1888 program was said to pro-
vide for all authorized requirements
except $500 tons of destroyers that may
be laid down in 1885 and the same
amount in 1886.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
FIREMEN TO CONSIDER
NOTE ON FIRE HOUSE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ARLINGTON, Va, January 28.-Con-
sideration Of ways and means Of meet
Ing the note on the fire house property
Will be the outstanding business of a
meeting Of the Arlington Volunteer Fire
Department to be held Wednesday night
in the engine house.
President John A. Dawkins announces
the appointment of the following stand
ing and special committees: Audit
Committee, George F. Cook, John E.
Bamforth and Rufus Trice; Member
ship, John E. Bamforth, Julian E. Tapp
and Rufus Trice; Social, A. c. Scheffel
Charles L. Shoots, Carl E. Scheffel,
George F. Cook, Joe Doyle and Thomas
]. Shoots; Ways and Means, John A.
Dawkins. Elmer j. Blackmer. John E
Bamforth, Joe Doyle and Frank H
Bailey; and Entertainment. Julian E
Tapp. Carl e. Scheffel and Elmer j.
Blackmer
Evening star., 1933-01-29

ganSett Council,
which includes all
of Rhode Island,
with headquarters
in Providence. Brig
Gen. George Rich
ards. U. S. M. c.,
also will speak.
Other events on
the program in
clude election of
officers and presen-
tation of a Scout
pageant. "Mightier
Than the Sword"
by Troop. No. 8, of
All Souls Church,
Woodley road and
Cathedral avenue.
BEGINNING with
Evening star., 1933-01-29
TWONAT|0NS PROBE
SHIPMENT Of GUNS
Britain and France Inquire
About Story Involving Italy
and Hungary.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, January 28.-Further In
formation was requested by the British
Minister and the French charge DAT
faires today from Chancellor Dollfuss
concerning an alleged shipment of mu-
nitions from Italy across Austria into
Hungary.
About three weeks ago the Arbeiter
Zeitung. official organ of the Social
Democratic party, alleged that 40 car
loads of rifles and machine guns origi-
mating in Italy had passed through Aus
tria to Hungary in period Of three
days.
An official communique from the gov
ernment press bureau at the time de-
MED that anything except some old
Austrian war material" was involved.
Thereupon the newspaper denounced
the communique as false and mislead-
ing. The matter was taken into Parlia-
ment, where Chancellor Dollfuss re-
fused to discuss 1t In a public session.
The Arbeiter Zeitung estimated that
the arms involved approximated 10000
to $4,000 rifles and 200 machine guns,
which, it said, were enough for an en-
tire army corps.
Evening star., 1933-01-29

The new commanding officer of the
4th Regiment, United States Marines,
at Shanghai, China. is Col. Fred D.
Kilgore, who has just been spending
few days in the National Capital.
Marine Corps headquarters here an
nounced yesterday that Col. Kilgore
will sail on the S. S. President Hayes
from San Francisco, Calf, about Feb
ruary II, for Shanghai. Col. Kilgore
replaces the late Col. Richard S.
Hooker, who died just before Christmas
The regiments new commanding Off
Ger was commissioned a colonel only
last July. but he is considered most
capable officer. When President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt was Assistant
Secretary of the Navy. Col. Kilgore
served as his aide from January l to
February Is, 1919, travelling with him
in France, Germany, England and Bel
GUM. The troubled Far East will thus
have as the high-ranking American
Marine in command of the regiment an
officer known personally to the new
President
Evening star., 1933-01-29

monies the night of February 8, Wash
ington Scouts will celebrate Scout
week. with special events scheduled
for New Scout Citizens day" and
Trade and Industries day.
The high spot of the week, which
marks the twenty-third anniversary of
the founding of the organization, will
be a roundup" in Mckinley High
School. at o'clock the night of Feb
ruary IL.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
SCHOOL HONOR SOCIETY
WILL HOLD INITIATION
Thirty-five New Members to Be
Added by Pharos Chapter at
Dodge Hotel Wednesday.

Thirty-five new members Of the
Pharos Chapter of the National Honor
Society OF Secondary Schools will be
initiated at meeting Wednesday at 8
pm. at the Dodge Hotel.
The new members are as follows
Nancy Opperman. Thelma Pickett,
Margaret Sniffen, Frank Brooke, Made
line Notter, Nina OHare, Josephine
Stoulil Marie Ward, Margaret War
then. Marie Herbert, Joseph Lam,
Harry Langford. Paul Finzel, William
Bailey, Ruth Ellis, Doris Hall. Kathryn
Hite, Maynard Eicher, Walten May,
Phillip Martin. Norman Freeman, Lu-
cllle Profe, Miriam Ray. Abigail Veer-
hoff, Janice Wilson, Francis Bower,
Thomas Grant, Malcolm Lamborne
John Brumbaugh. Berry Simpson, Mark
Lepper, Robert Teates. Eugene Draley
Eugene Herr and Doris Goss
Evening star., 1933-01-29
HARRINGTON INVITED

Efforts are being made to have Booth
Harrington, famous Hoosier author,
present at the buffet supper to be held
by the Indiana State Society February
8 at the Shoreham Hotel.
Indiana Senators and Representatives
will be in the receiving line at recep-
tion to precede the supper The In
diana inaugural ball will be held
March 3.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
Black Magic Aired
In Poison Murder
Trial of 2 Women
Priest Defines "Holy
Water" Involved in Testi.
mony on Boys Death.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, January 28.-Testi-
mony of subtle poisons and their analy-
sis and a weird account of spells" and
"black magic" will be continued when
the murder t-ial of Mrs Mary Chalfa
and Mrs. Anna Alias is resumed in
Criminal Court.
The women are accused of poisoning
Steve Alias. IL, stepson of the Alias
woman, and his brother Andrew, 16.
The State contends the women
poisoned the boys after insuring their
lives.
Father Hrtanek. pastor of st. Anne
Catholic Church, Homestead, defined
holy water" which has been mentioned
repeatedly in the testimony.
He said: Holy water is pure drink
ing water that has been blessed by a
priest and any one can obtain 1t at
the church any time"
Prosecution witnesses have testified
they saw Mrs. Chalfa and Mrs Alias
give Stephen and Andrew water they
said was holy water" just before the
boys died.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
PUBLIC IS INVITED
TO DAY Of PRAYER
Federation of Churches An.
nounces Schedule for
Meditation Tuesday.

I'm mankinds belief In God lies the
solution of all economical, political and
social problems facing the world today"
That will be the keynote of day Of
united intercession and meditation,
sponsored by the Federation of Church.
es, to be held at the Church Of the
Epiphany, 1917 G street, from $50 am.
to $50 pm on Tuesday.
Washingtonians unemployed and
employed, rich and poor-are urged to
attend this meeting to put the uni
verse back on its feet" Many prom
Evening star., 1933-01-29
BUDAPEST INQUIRIES FAIL.
French and British Ministers Ask About
Arms ShiDment.

BUDAPEST, Hungary, January % (A).
The French Minister called on Actink
Foreign Minister Khuen- -Hedervary this
afternoon and requested calculations
regarding shipments of arms from Italy
to the Hirtenberg arms and munitions
factory in Austria
The acting minister informed the
French representative that the govern
ment had no direct information regard
ing the affair. A similar step was taken
by the British Minister, who received
the same reply.
Evening star., 1933-01-29
SCOUT COUNCIL HOLDS
SESSION ON TUESDAY
]. Harold Williams and Marine
Gen. Richards to Address
Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the District
Boy Scout Council, in the Willard
Hotel. at o'clock Tuesday evening,
VIII be addressed by j. Harold Will
liams, Scout executive of the Nara
Evening star., 1933-01-29

Only works of women artists were
permitted In an exhibition held recently
in Glasgow, Scotland.
Evening star., 1933-01-29

Radios are being sold In Britain by
aid Of a coin operated timing device 70
collect the installments. q
Evening star., 1933-01-29

Soviet Russia claims to own the
worlds most important resources of
magneSite.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
COTTON GOODS
RISE DEFENDED

Increase in prices of cotton
goods ranging from 10 to 20 per
cent is juStifiable under the in
creased expenses to manufacturers
brought about under the NRA.
This was brought to the atten-
ton of the consuming public today
in statement issued on behalf of
the merchants of the District,
with the approval of DR.. Frederick
c. Howe, consumers counsel for
the Agricultural Adjustment Ad-
ministration
Other increases have been i'm
posed, ranging from 80 to IS per
cent, and these are being con-
tested by the merchants as unrea-
Sonable.
The cotton processing tax is a
negligible item, the merchants
pointed out, and has been alb
sorbed by them and is not re-
Elected in their retail prices.
Cooperating with the NRA,
local stores have added hundreds
Of employees to eaeir payrolls, but
this, too, is not reflected in the
retail prices.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
.LORTON RUSHES
D. {. AUTO TAGS

Distribution of 1884 automobile
licenses for the District apparently
will begin on time this year, de-
spite earlier fears that a delay
would result from inability to OBJ
tain sufficient steel for making
the tags.
j. E. C. Bischoff, business mana
ger of District penal institutions,
said today that the shop at Lor-
ton Reformatory has completed
$4,000 sets of tags. The estimated
total need for the year is 10000,
while previous experience indi-
Gates that 10000 will be needed
the first of the year, BiSchoff said.
Fear of a delay was expressed
by District officials two weeks
ago when it was found that part
of the steel for the tags was de-
fectiVe
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
500 Pieces of Art Handcraft Go on Display
Tomorrow at Corcoran Gallery; First
Showing of Kind in Washington

} area known as the Southern
Highlands, that part of the Ap-
palachian Range south of the
Mason and Dixon Line. The
handicrafts in this region are
important, not only to thou
sands of mountain families to
whom the making and market
ing of these things determine
largely their standard of living,
but also to countless consumers
who find here many useful and
decorative objects"
Mr.. Eaton explained that many
families in the highlands depend
entirely on their handicrafts for
food and clothing. Bartering
with tourists through the region
has been the only outlet fol
their work in the past, he pointed
out, and for that reason an ex
hibition was arranged for its dis
play in Washington. He added
II am endeavOring now to
interest government officials in
the work of these people in
the hopes of creating some sort
of market for their creative
industry"
Edwin o. Christensen, repre-.
sentative of the American Fedora
ton of Arts, will be in charge
of the exhibition.
Mr.. Christensen said duplicate
pieces of those on display can be
purchased,
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
CRASH EXPOSES
STOLEN AUTO

Crashing into a police car at
Fifth and L Streets N. E. today
caused the arrest of a colored
rum running suspect and the re-
covery of a car stolen last July.
The car, containing two colored
men sped out of an alley and
struck a. police car operated by
Detective Sergeants Jacob Wolfe
and Hugh Robey.
The colored men jumped from
their car and fled, the officers
in pursuit. One of them, Charles
Sims, 80, Of the 900 block French
st. N. w., was captured and
booked for investigation.
The car was equipped with a
smoke screen and quart Of
liquor was found in the rear.
Investigation showed that the
vehicle had been stolen last July
from Curtis Martin, of the 5000
block Patterson st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
.SHAF 7 REPAIRS
WAIT ON EXPERT

Sadly in need Of repair follow,
ing decades of exposure to all
kinds Of weather, the Washing.
ton Monument must get along
without reconditioning until Viii,
liam Gregg, local masonry expert,
returns from Europe.
Such is the plight of the monu-
ment, despite a recent allotment
of 100000 by the Public Works
Administration for its immediate
repair.
For years, chunks of marble
have worked loose and fallen, to
menace persons near the base of
the shaft. Falling fragments be-
came such a menace last year
engineers had to move public
benches away from the base.
Major D. H. Gillette, then
assistant director of public build
ings and parks, made a prelimi-
nary study of the monument with
the aid Of Gregg, who supervised
stonework on Arlington Memorial
Bridge and is an outstanding
authority on marble. Gillette is
at the Army Staff and General
Command School in Kansas.
Gregg, discharged in the interest
of economy, will be hired on his
return from Europe.
The Interior Department has
no one else available to supervise
the work.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
2 BOYS SOUGHT
BY POLICE

Two boys, one 9 and the other
12, are objects of police search
today. Both were reported miss
ing from their homes.
Ralph Brensinger, 9, of the 100
block Eleventh st. S. E., left his
nome late yesterday. He has light
hair and blue eyes, and was
wearing a red and white striped
shirt, brown trousers and tennis
shoes.
Phillip Adams, IL, left his home
an wilson Boulevard, Lyon Park,
va. yesterday on his bicycle and
has failed to return. He has
brown, curly hair, and wore tan
jInickerbockers, blue shirt and
tennis shoes.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13

Handicraft art works of South
ern mountaineerS will be seen in
Washington tomorrow under the
sponsorship Of Mrs. Roosevelt,
Mrs. Calvin Coolidge and Mrs.
Herbert Hoover. 1t will mark the
first public exhibit in Washing
ton of work of this kind.
Opening in the Corcoran Gal
lery Of Arts, with Mrs. Roosevelt
expected to attend, the exhibit
will remain until November 26.
Mrs. Coolidge and Mrs. Hoover
have expressed hope that they
will be able to visit the exhibit
before it closes.
Over 500 pieces of needle work,
carving, weaving and forged
pieces will be on display.
- The exhibit was collected by AL.
len E. Eaton, representative of the
Russell Sage Foundation, of New
York, who spent nine months in
the southern mountains among
the natives. It was brought to
washington by the American Fed
GRAFTON of Arts, an organization
formed several years ago for the
cultivation of arts.
Mr.. Eaton said:
The purpose Of this exhibi-
ton is to suggest to the people
Of our more civilized cOmmuni-
ties the quantity, quality and va
riety Of hand work done in the
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
DISPUTE
END DEMANDED
Of A.F.OF |.
Associated Contractors to Ap-
peal to NRA If Action
Is Not Taken

Members of the Associated
General Contractors of America
Inc, in a resolution presented to-
day to the convention of the
American Federation of Labor
demand the Federation act to
prevent jurisdictional disputes in
the building trades, which several
times stopped work on building
projects in Washington and else
where.
Work on the Interstate Com
merce-Labor Department build
ings has been halted for more
than a month as the result Of q
jurisdictional dispute involving
carpenters and ironworkers, and
as yet there are no signs Of set
tlement.
The resolution given to William
Green, president of the Fedora
ton, points out that jurisdictions
al disputes stop work on many
projects, with resulting loss Of
wages and delay in work. These
disputes, the resolution holds, are
contrary to the spirit Of the Ma
tional Recovery Act and are lead
ing to unemployment. The reso-
luton conveys threat to the
effect that if the federation takes
no definite action, the matter will
be carried to the NRA.
There apparently was some
feeling among building trades
union officials at today's session
that the matter should have been
taken up with the Building Trades
Department rather than with
Green. M. j. McDonoUgh, presi-
dent of the Building Trades De-
partment, insisted that the hold
ing up of work on local projects
is due to a lockout, and said the
ironworkers are ready to go back
Immediately if the contractor will
give the word.
The carpenters union, he said,
although affiliated with the A.
F.. of L., is not included in the
building trades department, or
the matter could be adjusted
promptly and the men sent back
to work. He said a dispute in
volving boilermakers at the Cen
eral Supply Office had been set
tied overnight.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
ARRANGING EXHIBIT
BREWERY WINS
PERMIT 7 FIGHT

Following a series Of spirited
sessions over the proposed .erec-
ton Of a brewery near Kenil,
worth, a rezoning petition of the
Kenilworth Brewery Company
stood approved today by the
Maryland National Capital Park
and Planning Commission.
At previous meetings residents
of the community and sponsors
of the brewery could not agree.
It was pointed out that part
Of the land selected for the
brewery site had been rezoned
under commercial classification
several years ago, but three of
the lots were residential. With
approval of the commission, only
sanction of the Prince Georges
county commissioners is now re-
quired. Robert w. Mccullough
represented the brewery interests.
The Washington times., 1933-10-13
FORMER PIT IS
AIDE HELD FOR
BAD CHECK
Henry o. Hart, Accountant,
Pleads Not Guilty; Case
Continued One Week

Henry o. Hart, so, who Sprang
into the spotlight a few years
ago doing the prosecution Of F.
H. Smith Compan,' officials, ap-
peared in Police Court to-day to
answer a charge of obtaining
$100 through false pretenseS.
Hart, former Smith Company
accountant, was charged with
passing a worthless check for
$100 on a local business man.
The check was drawn on a
Davidson IN. Co. bank and the
alleged offense occurred Septem-
ber 81.
Pleads Not Guilty
Judge John P. Mcmahon, be-
fore whom Hart appeared, con-
tinued the hearing until next
Friday in order to allow Hart
to bring. witnesses here from
North Carolina. He pleaded not
guilty. Bond was set at $500,
which he furnished.
Hart gave his address as Mount
Moore, N. c., but has been stay
ing here at the Shoreham Hotel.
It was Hart, a certified pub
lie accountant, who was arrested
by agents of the Bureau of In
ternal Revenue at Atlantic City
while he had securities and
jewels valued at $645, 900 in his
possession.
Indicted as Perjurer
They were said to be the prop
erty of Mrs. G. Bryan Pitts,
whose husband, president of the
Smith Company. now is serving
a 14-year sentence for embezzle-
ment.
Later, Hart and Miss Helen
L. Schneider, private secretary to
Pitts, were indicted for perjury
in connection with the alleged
Justification Of records used by
the defense in Pitts trial.