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The Washington times., 1934-11-29

yesterday on the income tax
charges, was present during the
questioning.
Noonan said the gangSter had
not revealed his hiding place.
The gangSter, who Federal
agents say surrendered because of
fear of the shoot to kill" order
en~by the Department of JUS
tice after the Baby Face" Nelson
Staying, even refused to give his
address to Commissioner Hubbard.
Newspapermen sent several
questions-"What do you think
about the sudden death of Baby
Face" Nelson? Police Commis-
sioner Valentine of New York city
says he's sorry you aren't being
brought home in a box. Have
you anything to say"-written on
paper to the prisoner, but he re.
fused to say anything other than:
II won't see anybody"
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
PLAN
BONUS TREK IN
FEBRUARY
BY KARL M. KAHN
Copyright, 1894, by International
NeWs SprviCeN

News Service)
The bonus marcnerS are form
ing their ranks for another tramp,
tramp. tramp to Washington.
Word has gone out over the ex.
service mems grapevine that the
march will be held in February.
Headquarters of the movement
are in Nevada. Far Western State
units will converge there and move
eastward and be joined by other
marchers.
Official Washington hears that
the would-be marchers appear to
be we'll financed. In several East
tern States bonus.payment funds
are being raised by various
methods, mostly by the sale Of
stickers to merchants who would
be patronized by beneficiaries of
bonus payments.
Payment Next Year
Some American Legion depart
ment commanders. who favor the
payment of the bonus but believe
bonus march is not good
means to that end, are quietly
working to forestall a mass move
ment on the Capital.
They are acting on the advice
of congressman who have assured
them that the bonus will be paid
next year.
The lawmakers have pointed out
that a gesture of intimidation
would cost votes, not gain them.
There are many indications on
Capitol Hill that immediate full
payment of the bonus will be voted
by the 74th Congress,
There are many indications that
Congress would override a Presi-
Dental veto of a bonus payment
bill.
Stiff Fight Due
Mr.. Roosevelt vetoed the last
Congress amendment to the def
cheney appropriation bill to lib
eralize veterans provisions.
Both houses of Congress over
rode the Presidents veto.
1t is almost beyond question
that the House in the next Con-
gress would override a Presi-
dental veto of a bonus payment
bill.
Several Senators who voted to
override Mr.. Roosevelt's veto of
the amendment at the last ses-
sion have said they would sustain
veto of a bonus measure because
Of the Government financing that
would be necessitated.
But twice their number, includ.
ing several who voted to sustain
the veto at the last session, have
said they would vote to override
a bonus payment veto.
There is going to be a stiff fight
on the question.
The veterans may get the bonus.
They may not.
But they are going to get more
than they ever got before, that's
as certain as Thanksgiving turkey.
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
Mystery Malady
Threatens u. s.
Physician

Battling physicians Of the
United States Public Health
Service. a mysterious disease,
apparently unlike any known
ailment, has appeared in Wash.
ington.
Ironically, the disease has
struck at one of the worst
enemies of ravaging germs
DR.. Charles Armstrong, a doctor
with the Health Service who
has spent 16 years in research
on the causes and nature Of
various ailments.
DR.. Armstrong is seriously i'll
at Naval Hospital with a skin
eruption that has defied iden-
tification. He is at times IRA
tional, according to his fellow
physicians.
DR.. Armstrong has recently
been seeking a cure for enceph-
alitis, or sleeping sickness,
but Public Health officials stated
that there was no evidence that
he had been experimenting upon
himself, or that the disease has
anything to do with his present
condition.
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
FUND CHANGES
PROBE ASKED

Arlington county's chances of
obtaining a Federal grant for
the construction of a new Jail,
remodeling of the court house and
building of a headquarters for the
proposed central library were
ordered investigated by County
Manager Roy S. Braden and Com
monwealth Attorney Lawrence w.
Douglas, by the Arlington County
Board at its meeting yesterday.
The proposal, made by William
E. A. McShea, newest member of
the board, asked that MessrS.
Douglas and Braden confer with
either Federal Relief authorities
Or the Public Works office with a
view to obtaining an outright
grant for these much needed prof.
ectS. Mr.. McShea emphasized he
was not proposing the county bor-
row any money on which it would
have to float another bond issue.
At the same time, Mr.. McShea
requested Mr.. Braden and the
Chester Engineers, contractors of
the $2,500,000 sewer project now
being constructed, submit item
lied reports on all county expen-
ditures to the board at or before
its next session. The request was
also made by Mrs. Elizabeth B.
Magruder.
It was also voted to erect the
street markers which have been
advocated by several board mem
bers and numerous citizens orga.
nizationS for some months.
The pay roll for the month was
$10,951.35, plus an additional ST.
352.65 for sewer pay roll. Total
expenses were $36,198.O1,
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
Va. HOrtiCulturists
Plan Convention

WINCHESTER, Va, Nov. %.
The Virginia State Horticultural
Society will hold its annual con.
vention here on December 1914.
The meeting is expected to attract
600 Virginia and West Virginia
fruit growers.
The convention will open with
an address of welcome by DR.
Charles R. Anderson, mayor. and
an address by E. D. Nininger, of
Charlottesville. president of the
society.
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
Norway. Bank IS
To Be Redeemed

Kingdom of Norway Municipal
tiles Bank has called for redemp-
ton on June /, 1885, all of it's
external per cent sinking fund
bonds, due 1857, at par and in
terest.
There are about $5,9O0,O 900
bonds outstanding in this issue,
guaranteed principal and inter
est by the Kingdom of Norway.
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
Washington Police
Add 10 Radio Cars

Continuing their drive on crime,
officials of the Metropolitan Police
Department have purchased 10
radio cars to be placed on the
streets within the next two weeks.
This increases the number from
80 to 49. Up to now there have
been SO radio cars available to the
precincts, with Is for inspectors
and detectives.
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
New York Passes
2 Pct. Sales Tax

NEW YORK, Nov. 20 Q.N.SO.
The board Of estimate yesterday
passed the per cent sales tax and
sent it to Mayor LaGuardia for
his signature.
Mayor LaGuardia set next
Wednesday for a public hearing,
which he is required by law to
hold before signing the measures.
The Washington times., 1934-11-29

lutions protest
ing any action
by the superin-
t e n d e mt of
schools or the
Board of Edu-
cation W h ich
would deny a
p u pill promo
ton on account
of physical de-
fectS.
1t was stat
that in many
instances the
op ion of
@ c h DOL physi-
clans regarding
The Washington times., 1934-11-29
DOnOghue Ordered
To Traction Strike

The National Labor Relations
Board yesterday ordered P. A.
Donoghue, regional supervisor at
Seattle, to go to Los Angeles and
attempt to settle the Los Angeles
Street railway strike.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
MICHIGAN AUTO TAX
EXCESS is REFUNDED
State Reduces Levy From 50 to IS
Cents Per Hundredweight to
Increase Car Use.

fortnight ago. Many other thousands
of motorists had continued using 1888
plates with the sanction of the sec
retary Of States Office in anticipation
Of reduction.
Tax Often Assailed.
The weight tax is the basis of
license plate levy in Michigan and has
been the subject of considerable ois-
cussion, not only in automotive as
sociation circles, but in various gov
eminent units of the State which
proflted by the return to the counties
of liberal allowance annually from
the funds SO collected.
Automotive associations had cam
paigned vigorously for a reduction of
the tax, claiming it operated as a de-
terrent Of liberal use of motor We
hicles. In this contention they were
Joined by the secretary of State, who
pointed to steady falling off in ag-
gregate Registrations dS one If the
results of what was claimed to be a
high rate of motor car taxation.
Half-year license privileges are be-
ing issued again this year in an ef-
fort to stimulate greater use If auto
mobiles. The licensing of cars for
half year was first tried a year ago.
resulting, State officials said, in keep
ing in operation many vehicles that
otherwise would have been put IN
dead" storage.
Under the half-year license plan
motorists reregister their cars md re-
ceive windshield stickers to validate
the continued use of last years plates.
Under the terms Of the permit the
car owners are required to renew their
plates at the expiration of the first
six-month period. receiving The be-
lated 1884 plates at half Price.
See Car Sales Aided.
In addition to keeping many cars
in operation and replenishing the
State Golfers, the half-year plan,
some of its sponsors held, would stim-
ulate the buying of new motor cars
during the second half Of the year, a
normally declining period in the re-
tail market. With two months of
grace at the beginning of the year,
many car owners, it has been argued.
prefer to license new car for eight
months at half the usual cost than
to buy two sets Of plates within six
months.
The campaign for reduction in
taxation against motor cars has been
confined to no one locality during the
last few years, being more or less gen.
eral with statistics presented by va
rious automotive agencies to show the
levy has grown steadily each year.
The National Automobile Chamber of
ment that taxes against motorists
amount to more than 81 200, 900 a day.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
MISSISSIPPI ROAD
PROJECT DEFEATED
Governor Wins Fight With High.
way Board on P. w. A.
Aid Work.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

opcCidl 0icpdtSh " 4hc otaA'
JACKSON. Miss, March 31.-Gov.
Conner and the Mississippi Ctate
Highway Commission, at odds over
control of the department, broke even
in Legislature when the House of Rep
resentatives upheld his veto on the
$10,0O0,000 P. w. A. aid project for
highway construction in the State.
Recently Gov. Conner suffered a
reverse in his plan for a State con-
stitutional convention. The bill pro-
viding for the convention and backed
by the Governor failed to pass.
When the measure for providing
$4,000, 1000 from United States Gov
erlment funds for road building was
passed by the Legislature the Cover
nor vetoed 1t as a bill. A strong ef-
fort to override his veto was made,
but failed.
The fight developed over the con-
troll of the State Highway Depart
ment when Gov. Conner went into
office. So far he has been unable to
get control of the department and q
political war between him and the
present commissioners has been waged
through both sessions of Legislature.
Control remains with the anti-Con-
ner faction.
The two hard liquor" bills in the
Legislature have little chance to be
passed this session, since the Senate
indefinitely postponed both bills,
which would provide for q vote by the
people on the question.
Theodore G. Bilbo, former Cover
nor and lately Of the A. A. A. in
Washington, has not formally an
nounced for United States Senator
against Senator Hubert Stephens. It
Is expected that he will announce
shortly. 4
Evening star., 1934-04-01
u. S. Fleet Making Ready
For Greatest of Maneurers
Sea Forces Var Games Viii Garry
Them From Vest Coast to Panama
and Virgin Islands.

days or so in the Caribbean Sea. In
fleet parlance this is known as
Problem XIV That means it is the
the annual grand maneuvers.
In fighting forces of the air for
this maneuver will be the dirigible
Macon. greatest ship of the skies.
together with some 40 of the Nays
newest flying boats of the type that
recently cruised from the East Coast
down to the Canal, up the West
Coast to San Diego. thence to San
Francisco and across to Hawaii.
Macon to Fly Over Florida.
The Macon will make her first
eastbound transcontinental trip leav-
ing a couple of weeks or so after the
fleets go to sea. It will fly over Flor
ida and down to the Caribbean to
be a participant in the May 5-l0
grand battle
A thousand or so Marines will move
down the East Coast in naval trans
ports in time to. reach the Canal
to join for their first expeditionary
force maneuver as a unit of the
United States Fleet.
Some $4,000 men will be engaged
in the sky, sea and submarine ac-
tivities.
The high chiefs Of the Navy at
sea will put into practice the new
lessons they have learned in the
past year.
Then, after the 80 days Of war Is
over and a critique is held, liberty
given and necessary repairs and over
haul are completed, the United States
Fleet will move up the East Coast,
to reach New York waters by the
end Of May and be reviewed by
President Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
BY WALTER B. CLAUSEN.
BY the Associated Press.


n YAVAL BASE, SAN PEDRO,
nj Calf. March 3l-The United
" States Fleet, bulk of America S
4 sea power, is making ready
to fight its way through 1000
miles of enemy infested" seas.
1t will use everything it has in
the way of offense and defense, ex-
cept powder and shell. in a sensa-
tional series of battle maneuvers ex-
tending from April 9 to May 10.
Down the West Coast $500 miles
to the Panama Canal and then
through the Caribbean Sea some
800 miles to Puerto Rico or the
Virgin Islands, the hundred-odd ships
of war and some 300. naval aircraft
will engage almost constantly in a
theoretical state of war.
Nothing so comprehensive in the
way of tactical and strategic exer-
cises has ever been devised for such
a large force Of American naval pow
er, say the officers who are arranging
for the movement of the battle and
scouting fleets from the Southern
California bases to the East Coast.
Many Ships Employed.
There will be II dreadnaughts, 8
heavy cruisers, 8 light cruisers, As
destroyers, IL submarines, aircraft
carriers and a dozen or more other
war craft in the mighty force that
moves down the coast.
All manner of opposing fleets will
be organized during the 80 days 1t
will be virtually a month of naval
warfare in the elements of strategy
The climax of these eventful weeks
will be a grand maneuver of five
Evening star., 1934-04-01
WOMAN DIRECTS
M|NNESOTAREL|EF
Mrs. Annie 0Iesen Wins Ma
tional Attention-RefuseS
to Run for Governor.
BY the Associated Press.

by L1e hSScCldJeu rItSS.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, March 81.
Included among women President
Roosevelt has placed in the front
ranks of his New Deal army is Mrs.
Annie Dickie Olesen, Minnesota di-
rector of the National Emergency Re-
lief Council.
OF % State directors who act as
personal representatives of the Pres
ident in administration OF his legis-
lation, she is the only woman. Yet
in the brief time she has held Office
sne has won national attention.
To say Mrs. Oleson is a command
ing figure is something of a paradox,
for she is scarcely feet tall But
once she mounts the speakers plat
form she commands all within hear
ing until the last forceful order is
given.
To Stick to Job.
Minnesota Democratic women, and
many men, too, are urging her to be-
come a candidate for Governor, but
she is turning deaf ear to ttieir en-
treaties.
"The President has given me job
of work, and I'm going to see it
through" she says.
AS an orator it is conceded Mrs.
Olesen is one of the best in the coun-
try. From the time she first took an
active interest in politics, campaign
ing for woman suffrage, she has used
the force and wisdom of her gifts in
furtherance of the Democratic cause.
After the cause Of woman suffrage
had been won, Mrs. Olesen entered
actively into her first presidential
campaign, and strangely enough it
was in behalf of Franklin D. Roose-
welt, who later was to recognize her
along with Frances Perkins, Nellie
Tayloe Ross, Ruth Bryan Owen and
others. The occasion was the Cox
Roosevelt campaign in 1920.
In 1922 she was the Democratic
nominee for United States Senator in
Minnesota in a three-cornered fight
with Henrik Shipstead, Farmer-La-
Dor, and Frank B. Kellogg, later
Secretary of State and Ambassador to
Great Britain. The result was sur
prisingly close in an rch-Republican
State.
At the beginning Of the present ad-
ministration, Mrs. Olesen and her
husband, Peter Olesen, a member Of
the faculty at Carleton College, North
field, Mimi, were scheduled to 60 to
the Virgin Islands to direct the United
States affairs at that outpost.
However, President Roosevelt first
wanted the N. r. A. to become ef-
fectively established in Minnesota, and
Mrs. Olesen was called upon to direct
the work.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
GRAIN MENACED
BY CH|NCH BUGS
Four States Aroused as
Combat Weapons Are
Considered in Iowa.
BY the Associated Press.

BY tne Associated Press.
DES MONIES, Iowa, March 81
Million of chinch bugs threaten corn
and small grain in several Midwest
States this Spring, entomologists
agreed today.
Large numbers of the insects have
wintered in two tiers of Southern Iowa
counties stretching the 300-mile width
of the State, DR.. C. j. Drake of Iowa
State College said
w. P. Flint of the University Of Il
linois entomology division estimated
the invasion will be heavier and more
widespread in Illinois.
Missouri entomologists saw danger
to three-fourths of the State and
feared an especially large infestation
in the 100-mile area across Northern
Missouri. The situation is deemed
more acute than in so years.
Lesser invasions are expected in
parts of Kansas, Nebraska, Indiana
and Ohio. The bugs will attack corn,
wheat, barley, rye, oats and timothy
fields.
Weapons to Be Chosen.
So ominous is the threat of the tiny
insects. which last year did great
damage in Southern Iowa and North
ern Missouri, that State entomologists
will meet in Iowa late this month to
choose. weapons of combat.
The date will depend somewhat on
the weather. The conference prob
ably will be held the last week of
April, just before the warm days of
Spring that mark the chinch bug
Matching season.
The warm Fall and Winter were ex-
tremely favorable for the bugs, DR..
Drake said. The bugs, only one-sixth
of an inch long when mature, hiber-
nate in prairie grasses and sometimes
burrow into roots 2l2 inches under
ground
DIR. Drake has found as many as
245 Of them per 2-inch clump of
timothy grass in four Southern Iowa
counties recently. 1t Is not uncom-
mon to find 1000 to 5000 bugs in a
single clump, he said.
Lazy fellows, the chinches move only
between 10 am. and pm. They
sink their beaks into grain stalks until
Ine grain is starved OF lJS sap ana
shriveled, then leave in their wake
fetid odor and barren fields and move
on to another crop.
Heavy rains are the chief hope
against the invaders, but the rains
must come during the May Matching
season to be effective
The remedy devised by entomolo-
gists is to spread 1-inch strips of
heavy road oil around an infested
field. At intervals of 80 feet along
the oil border, post holes are dug.
When the chinch starts the march
from the field he encounters the
oil, which cuts of air. The bugs are
stifled. topple into the holes and are
covered with more oil.
Last years invasion In Southern
Iowa was termed the worst in Is
years.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
LAFAYETTE PAPERS
FOUND IN LIBRARY

LEXINGTON, KY. R.-Transyl-
vania College, located in Lexington,
was one of six American schools to
confer honorary degrees on Gen. La
fayette when he visited the United
States in 1925, it was learned re-
Gently.
The disclosure was made by the
Huntington Library in California,
which found manuscript of the ad-
dress the general made in accepting
the degree. A photostatic copy has
been obtained by the college.
Other colleges that honored La
fayette were Bowdoin, Princeton
Pennsylvania, Harvard and William
and Mary. 4
Evening star., 1934-04-01
REPUBLICANS WOO
IN
NEWMEX|COF|GH
Cutting Faction Extends
Olive Branch to In
surgents.
BY A. N. MORGAN.

opcCihl DispaICu 10 Inc 5IdI.
SANTE FE, N. Mex, March 81
The olive branch has been held out by
the Republican party to the prodigal
Progressives. headed by Senator Bron-
son Cutting.
A widespread desire for peace was
given definite form by the G. o. P.
State Central Committee, which at a
meeting n Albuquerque invited the
Progressive faction back into the fold,
increasing the committee membership
by 80 and agreeing to let the Pro-
gressives fill them. The committees
personnel heretofore numbered 160.
Harmony Desire Indicated.
There was opposition on the part
Of the so-called old guard faction,
headed by former Senator Holm o.
Bursum. but the peace offer was put
across by vote Of Sc to 81.
That the bulk of the G. o. P. wants
harmony is indicated by the fact that
the committee making the offer was
the creature of the old guards. There
were no Progressives on it. This
committee was named by the 1882
Republican State convention after
Cutting had resigned as national
committeeman and walked out of the
convention. followed by his delega-
tions, as the result Of the conventions s
refusal to seat them
The slogan then was BEAT Cutting" :"
Now. except for smattering of the
die-hard old guard group, this re-
frain is as dead as the popular hits
of the Floradora sextet.
Has Huge Following.
In the meantime the Democrats
also are making efforts to get Cut
ting to run on their ticket next Fall.
1t appears that if Cutting wishes to
remain in the Senate he will have
his choice of tickets. He has a tre-
mendous following in both of the old
parties.
The G. o. P.'s pacific overture was
to a large extent the result of the
work of former Gov. R. c. Dillon.
He was the candidate for Governor in
1882 whom Cutting opposed.
Within the last few months, how
ever, he has been going about the
State making soothing speeches. His
theme was that unless the Republican
party wishes to become as important
in New Mexico as it was in Mississippi
it had to make peace with the Pro-
gressive element.