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Evening star., 1934-02-06

at the foot of the bank.
The wings were taken off the plane
this morning and loaded on truck,
which toWed the unchanged airplane
on its own wheels back to the Ana
costa station.
Ofstie left Anacostia for the Pa
ciflc Coast, where he is stationed, be-
fore noon today to ferry" a new air.
plane to San Diego. -Four other new
planes left at the same time, flying
with him in formation.
Lands in Open Field.
The big transport plane, bound
to Washington from New York, had
just left Baltimore when its chief
pilot, Fred Davis, ran into heavy
snow, which rapidly closed in on all
sides. AS the ground began to fade
from sight and his radio reports
showed bad weather ahead. he de-
cided to get down in hurry and Sc
lected a large open field at the Mary
land Army post. The plane was flown
on to Washington this morning.
Mr. and Mrs. j. T. Moore of Read
ing, Pa. en- route from Reading to
Miami, Fla, in their own plane. ran
into the snow and their carburetor
began to fill with ice as they neared
College Park. They made forced
landing on the Department of Agri-
culture Experimental Farm at Belts
vile, Md, and the plane was taken
in charge by j. Earl Steinhauer Of
College Park Airport.
Two other Navy planes had narrow
escapes a little earlier than Ofstle's
experience and two more turned back
and ran away from the storm. The
first two, bound to Washington from
the north, found the Potomac south
of Washington just after the snow
began falling heavily. They followed
the Maryland bank of the river. as
everything beyond the shores began
blotting out and pulled into the field
just as visibility disappeared.
The other two came in after
Ofstie turned back. one landing at
Baltimore and the other at Richmond
Evening star., 1934-02-06
LOSS Of $1,000 BONDS
IS REPORTED TO POLICE
North Carolina Man Declares
Securities Were Missing
Since Friday.

Loss of bonds valued at $1,000 was
reported to the police last night by
Henry o. Hart, Mount Mourn, N. c..
registered at La Fayette Hotel. There
were IL bonds for $500 each and l
for $1,000 of the Al-Roy Apartments.
Harris Office is in the Shoreham
Building.
Hart told the police the bonds were
missing since Friday last. He said
it was possible that he left them on a
street car or in a taxicab. and it also
was possible that they had been sto-
len. He listed the numbers Of the
bonds with the police.
Hart was the accountant who testi-
fed for G. Bryan Pitts when that
official of the F. H. Smith Co. was on
trial here for conspiring to steal S.
100000 of the company's funds. The
Al.Roy Apartment house was one Of
those financed through the Smith
company.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
S150,000 GRANTED D. C.

District officials were notified yes
terday by Harry Hopkins that grant
Of $150,000 had been made to the Dis
trict Civil Works Administration for
use up to February Is for purchase of
materials and the hire of trucks
needed on projects now under way.
The fund is to be used on both
District and Federal projects here ex-
cept on Federal-controlled parks.
Capt. Howard F. Clark, executive Off
Ger OF the District c. w. A., said no
additional projects could be approved
here until Congress has appropriated
funds for extension of the employ
ment program.
Evening star., 1934-02-06

1HREE airplanes bound for
Washington were forced down,
one making magnihcent stall
i landing in the Mckinley Man.
ual Training High School
Stadium, and two other planes were
forced to turn tail and run when un-
expected snow flurries swept the Cap
ital late yesterday afternoon. None
of the planes or their passengers
was injured.
One of the ships. transport plane
with II passengers aboard. was
landed in a field at Fort George G.
Meade, Md, when the snow became
too thick for the pilot to see through
and the passengers continued their
Journey by rail. The third plane
landed in field near College
Park. Md.
The narroweSt escape was that of
Lieut. Comdr Ralph A. Ofstie. U. S.
N, former chief of the flight test
section at the Anacostia Naval Air
Station. who was ''pinched off" while
attempting to get into the local air
station.
Considered Station Plaza.
AS the air station and Boiling Field
were blotted from sight in a cloud
of snow and fog, Ofstie turned north
and found the ground everywhere
rapidly disappearing. Knowing that
he must land Immediately or be
forced to climb into the inpenetrable
storm and, with his passenger. Avia- :
tion Machinist's Mate J. E. Schnell,
be forced to jump when the gasoline
ran out, he first attempted to land
on Union Station Plaza. Finding the
traffic too heavy. he continued on to
the Mckinley Stadium.
Side-slipping in over the roofs OF
nearby houses, he made splendid
stall landing, with only 200 yards
of open space between his fast-moving
ship and crash into an embank-
ment at the far end of the field.
Jamming on his brakes as hard as he
could without turning the plane over
on its nose, he rolled to stop just
Evening star., 1934-02-06
LIBERIAN CRISIS TOPIC

Conference Will Be Held at Col
ored Y. M. Building.
A round table conference, called by
religious leaders, will consider "the
present crisis in Liberia" tomorrow
morning at the Colored Y. M. c. A.
Building on Twelfth street
The sponsors of the conference are
DR.. j. E. East. secretary of the For
eign Mission Board of the National
Baptist Convention, Inc; DR.. ]. L.
Berry. secretary of the Foreign Mis-
sion Board Of the A. M. E. Church;
DR.. H. T. Medford, secretary of the
Foreign Mission Board of the A. M. E.
Zion Church, and DR.. j. H. Randolph
also Of the Foreign Mission Board of
the A. M. E. Zion Church.
The subject of discussion will be the
action of the Republic of Liberia in
rejecting the plan of assistance
adopted by the Council of the League
o; Nations.
Evening star., 1934-02-06

needy, and that any mandatory stipu-
lated rates of payment be omitted.
The trade body voted to change its
constitution to make provision for
junior memberships.
william C. Miller presided over the
meeting and introduced Mrs. Roose-
velt. She was made an honorary
member Of the chamber on motion
of Judge Mary O'Toole.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
SNOW HARASSES BIRDS
" a staft CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Nd, February g.
An appeal to the public to feed the
birds during the present heavy snow
was voiced yesterday by Deputy State
Game Warden James w. Rogers.
The warden is furnishing food for
the feathered folk on the game pre-
serves in Prince Georges County.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
SECOND WOMAN DIES
FROM ATTACK WITH Ak
Man Is Charged With Murder of
Woman and Mother After
Quarrel.

A second colored woman died late
yesterday in Casualty Hospital as the
result of an ak attack in Wylie court
earlier in the day. The first victim
was Clemintine Crew, 90, who was
killed instantly by blow from an AK
police said was welded by Robert F.
Middleton. 81. Lulu Johnson, 60,
mother of the other woman, died
some time later of injuries received
when Middleton ran amuck after a
domestic quarrel
Edith Jones, 26. sister and daugh-
ter of the dead woman. was slightly
injured during the scuffle.
Middleton is held at the ninth pre-
cinct, charged with double murder.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
Jailed for Bigamy.

PHOENIXVILLE, Pa, February
R.-Charged with bigamy. non-sup-
port and desertion, Lewis j. Aikens.
35, formerly of Akron. Ohio, was COM
mitted to Chester County Jail yes
terday after hearing before Squire
H. E. Baker. Mrs. Elizabeth Pufko
Aikens of Phoenixville brought the
charges.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
McCarran and SteiWer Will
Confer With Byrnes on Re-
sumption of Work.
AMENDMENTS TO AID
VETERANS PREPARED
American Legion Program Ex.
pected to Be- Considered by
Subcommittee.

With the Navy Department ap-
preparation bill completed by the
Senate Appropriations Committee to-
day, Senator McCarran. Democrat of
Nevada and Steiwer, Republican of
Oregon, will confer this afternoon with
Senator Byrnes. Democrat of South
Carolina, to find out when work can
be resumed in subcommittee on the
independent Offices bill. involving the
questions of Government pay restora-
ton and veterans allowances.
The independent Offices bill has
been temporarily side tracked since
last Friday to make way for imme-
dlate consideration of tn Navy and
Interior supply bills
Senator Byrnes explained again to-
day that the only purpose in following
this course was to get some of these
non-contraversial appropriation bills
into the Senate so the entire appropri-
alton program would not ;be held I'D
While the controversial issues in the
independent Offices bill are being
settled.
Working on Amendments.
Byrnes said no Senators had talked
with him during the past few days
about the independent Offices bill and
that he did not know when the sub
committee would resume meetings
McCarran and Steiwer are both
working on amendments to liberalize
veterans allowances and the present
outlook is that when the subcommit-
tee meets the questions considered will
include the four-point program Of the
American Legion for World War Vet
Grams. an amendment to rest,re some
Of the benefits taken from Spanish
War veterans and some modification
OF the economy act as it affects emer-
gency officers CT the World War.
The Government pay plan was
agreed upon by the full Appropria-
tons Committee last week before the
bill was postponed on account Of the
veterans amendments. This plan cor =
templates restoration of 5 per cent of
the pay cut for the rest of this fiscal
year. and another 5 per cent on July
l. which leaves the power in the Presi-
dents hands to decide then whether
the remaining per cent should be
restored.
Success Forecast.
Although further efforts will be
| made to require restoration of the
entire IS per cent en- July /. the pro-
gram adopted by the committee has
the best chance Of passage.
As reported from the full COM
mittee today. the Navy supply bill
carried 1884 862 ,684 which is only a
slight increase over the House BILL
which carried s284,747,244. The only
| change made by the Senate Com
mittee was to reduce the item for
the Great Lakes Naval Station and
| increase the allowances for the New
port, R. l., Training Station.
The salary items in the Navy bill
were left as in the House measure,
! namely, providing no change for the
rest of this fiscal year and restora-
ton of only 5 per cent of the pay
cut on July /. The independent
Offices bill has been SO drafted. how
ever, that whatever sums are needed
to take care of the pay restoration
program finally agreed upon by the
! Senate will be made available for
all departments by general pro-
! vision in the independent Offices bill.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
SENATE BODY TO STUDY
BENTLEY NOMINATION
Subcommittee Of Judiciary Com
mittee to Hold Hearing on
Juvenile Court Appointment.

A subcommittee of the Senate Judi
ciary Committee will hold a hearing
at 10 am. tomorrow on the nomination
Of Miss Fay L. Bentley to be judge of
the District Juvenile Court. The
meeting will be held in the Senate
District Committee room in the Capt.
tol. with Senator King (Democrat) of
Utah presiding.
Miss Bentley was nominated by
President Roosevelt to succeed Judge
Kathryn Sellers, being given recess
appointment before the Senate con-
vened. Judge Sellers, however, has
continued to serve under provision in
the law that the incumbent holds office
until the successor Is confirmed.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
WILL DISCUSS THEATER
Edward de S. Melcher to Address
Takoma Park Group.

Takoma Park Group.
Edward de S. Melcher, dramatic
critic of The Star, will speak on THE
Little Theater Movement" at a meet
ing of the Little Theater of Takoma
Park, at the Takoma Park, Md,
Drama School. tomorrow at 8 pm.
Following Mr.. Melcher's address, an
open discussion will be held, it was
said. The public is invited.
H. M. Smythe will give reading as
a part of the entertainment program
Widows VEIL" a one-act play will
be presented,
Evening star., 1934-02-06
Clemson Alumni to Dine.

Washington alumni of Clemson Col
lege will hold a dinner meeting this
evening at $50, at the Kennedy-W War
rem. Officers for 1884 will be in
stalled. Edgar Morris, retiring presi-
dent. will preside.
Evening star., 1934-02-06
FIRE.ESCAPE LAW HIT

posed by Senator King.
Revision Of the District f1re-escape
law is proposed in bill introduced
yesterday by Chairman King of the
Senate District Committee, at the re-
quest of District authorities.
One of the main objects is to ex-
empt from the fire-escape requirement
buildings that were erected as private
dwellings, but have been converted to
small apartments, provided they are
not more than a certain height and
do not have more than three apart
ments.
Evening star., 1934-02-18

emerged from o conference with Far.
ley with the statement:
I'VE are no nearer an agreement
than We were before this conference" !"
Senator Dunnigan commented that
the measure. blocked by the Demo-
cratic Assemblymen, including many
members Of Tammany Hall, this week,
could not be enacted unless O COM
promise Is reached.
The leaders agreed to meet again
with Farley tomorrow at $3.50 pm,
at which time another attempt to
evolve either compromise or an
agreement on the bill will be made.
The attitude of the legislative lead
ers toward Fa-ley's Intervention was
indicated as they entered the cor
ference wnen Senator Dunnigan said:
Regardless of any whip cracking,
will remain opposed to the bill, and
this Is the same statement that I
will make when ! conclude my con-
ference with Mr.. Farley today"
He added that IS members of the
Senate were unalterabIy opposed to
| the measure In its present form.
Farley's reaction to the controversy
was:
There appears to be an honest
difference Of opinion among members
Of our party relative to the economy
bill OF course. I am going to do
| everything 7 can and assist in any
way I can in adjusting those differ
enceS."
The Postmaster General became In
Evening star., 1934-02-18
BLEASE CANDIDATE
FORGOVERNORSH|P
Former U. S. Senator Has
Been Running for Office
Since 1892.
BY the Associated Press.

oy the ASSOCldLeo EreSS.
COLUMBIA, s. c., February IT.
Cole L. Blease, former United States
Senator and Governor, is among the
quadriennial host of political aspi-
rants tuning vocal cords for a whirl-
wind tour Of the 46 county seats.
Seven already have announced for
the Governorship, the post he seeks.
Blease has missed few campaigns
since Ben Tillman's fight for a State
primary to help the common man"
wrest control from the 'aristocratic
| oligarchy." Blease was elected Gov
ernor in 1910 and 1912 after two un-
successful attempts. An early ally of
T1llman. he had been running for Of
flee since 1892, when he was elected
to the House.
Now, when his foes say his star is
growing dim, he has abandoned ef-
forts to regain his Senate seat, won
by James F. Byrnes in 1890, and Is
| trying to come back through the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Sought Senate in 1914.
He first ran for the Senate in 1914
and lost. In 1915 he ran for Cover
nor again unsuccessfully. In 1918 he
was defeated anew for the Senate. In
1922 he lost his race for Governor.
but two years later was elected Sen
ator
After his defeat by Senator Byrnes
he sought the seat of Senator E. D.
Cotton Ed" Smith has held for five
terms, and after his setback there an
nounced he would enter the 1884 race
for Governor.
While Blease usually can count on
10000 to 10000 votes, observers view
the present race as wide open be-
cause OF others claims to the cot
ton mill vote, which previously has
been Blease's. The claimants include
Olm D. Johnston of Spartanburg. who
was narrowly defeated by Gov. Ibra
c. Blackwood four years ago, and C.
z. Mountain Lion" Sloan, picturesque
State Senator from the industrial
mountain county Of Greenville.
Debates Popular.
Campaigns here usually include
banter and personalities, defenses and
crltlclSms. Appeals are made to Vot-
ers gathered at the county court
houses from miles around.
Just after its inception In 1888
the practice of joint debates was con-
sidered to have filled a need in rural
life after the decline of the camp
meeting and before the automobile.
But the passing years have not great
ly diminished attendance
Country people still turn out at
these "one-ring circuses," as they are
sometimes called, to meet face to face
the men from whom they are to Sc
lect their Governor.
Hundreds Of townSpeople and rural
folk crowd the spacious, tree-studded
court house lawns to hiss or applaud
the debates, and when there is prom
lse OF unusually vigorous words or
possibly a fist fight the crowd of
10 runs into the thousands.
South Carolina is a one-party State
and there are rarely well defined is
sues in the campaigns. This year it
is generally believed the liquor con-
troll question will be eliminated by
the Legislature with submission of the
issue directly to the people.
Evening star., 1934-02-18

mind about where I stand with Gov.
Lehman, let me say that I am for
Lehman"
Lehman's Good Record"
A broad smile crossing his face. the
Postmaster General added:
Gov. Lehman has o good record
and I predict that he viii be re-
elected by as great q majority a
when he entered the governorship."
Political observers Immediately
pointed out that Farley's potential
candidacy originally had not been con-
templated for this coming Fall.
Il has been repeatedly reported in
apparently reliable quarters that Far.
ley might become candidate In
Ie36-after Gov. Lehman had an op-
portunity to serve two terms.
Farley, these leaders said, woult
prefer to run in 1es6-if at all-be-
cause In that campaign his chief
President Roosevelt. is expected to be
the Democratic party's candidate fol
reelection.
But Farley's drive to whip into line
the legislative leaders for Mayor La
Guardia,s bill-the measure designed
to give him power to slash municipal
expenditures-was not Immediately
successful.
StiH at Odds.
Senator John J. Dunnigan, Senate
majority leader, and ASsemblymar
Irwin Steingut, the lower House leader
Evening star., 1934-02-18
RECOVERY POLICIES
SCORED BY REED
Pennsylvania Declares S
New Deal Is Retarding
and Not Helping.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Senator Reed Of Pennsylvania, in a
radio address last night, gave Re-
publican view of the administration 8
accomplishments with the round as
sertion that prosperity will come
again. . " . We are delaying 1t and
not helping it by these policies Of the
New Deal"
The Pennsylvania said criticisms
had been withheld during the past
year, since We all have felt that the
Democrats should be given q chance
to develop their policies"
But he declared lit is time now
that the attention of the American
people should be drawn To the other
side of the picture"
"More Fair" Than Democrats.
He said he would be more fair
than Democrats in their criticism of
President Hoover by confining his
attacks to policies, and said fatty
that Canada and the countries of
Western Europe have come further In
recovery than we have, and they have
done it not by casting to the winds
the experience of the past, but by ad-
herring to the methods that have been
tried before and have been effective
! to restore industry and commerce"
Taking up point after point of the
Democratic platform which he said
had been violated by the administra-
tion, Reed ended his summary with
the declaration that for the young
nannln -
the present course means that we will
leave to them burden of debt that
will absorb most of their earnings
and will weigh heavily against their
ambition and their welfare"
This Nation" he said. 'had its
origin in the courageous fight waged
by our ancestors against the efforts
OF George III to tax them without
representation.
Are We going to sit humbly by and
allow the Secretary of Agriculture to
be substituted for George III?"
Offering an alternative to "this
patchwork of bureaucracy" Reed
turned to other countries.
Not Spending MadIy."
Instead of spending madly," he
said, these countries have econo-
mized and have really balanced their
budgets. They have kept faith with
their own citizens, and today they
have more nearly returned to normal
than We have. Recovery is under
way all over the world, and I believe
that If Americans are given a chance
to work out of their own difficulties,
free from excessive governmental in
reference, they will show the same
ability to come back that other Amer
leans showed in past depressionS.
Understand me clearly, I am not
objecting to the appropriations for the
relief of human suffering They are
relatively small compared to the ex-
travagances that have no relation to
relief of distress.
i object, for example, to huge ap-
preparations for irrigation projects in
the far West. intended to create new
farm lands, for which we have not
the slightest need at a time when
we are paying farmers not to use the
land that they already have.
"Extravagances like that do not re-
lieve suffering. they merely make
spectators and contractors rich. They
should be stopped and stopped now" !"
Reed is candidate for reelection
this year.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
ID ARE GRADUATED
AT HYGIENE SCHOOL
Mabel Boardman Awards Certifi-
Gates at Red Cross Ex.
ercises.

Fourteen graduates Of q class In
home hygiene and care Of the sick
conducted by the District Chapter,
American Red Cross, received certi-
ficates Friday from Miss Mabel T.
Boardman at exercises in the chapter
house. The graduates were in
structed by Mrs. H. G. Woods. Mem
bers of the class eventua>ss will be
assigned as volunteer health aides In
civilian hospitals.
Those who received certificates in
clude Mrs. Gladys Buck, Mrs. Anna
Calvert, Mrs. Annie Colbeck, Miss
Sonia COoperSmith, Mrs. Laura COrso,
Miss Blanch Fletcher, Mrs. L. B.
Hubbs, Mrs. Gladys Hyland, Mrs.
Una Isham, Mrs. Margaret Mulligan,
Mrs. Florence Parker, Mrs. Ollie May
Robin, Mrs. Abbie Ridgeway and
Mrs. Gladys Wright.
Mrs. Howard Krimbill has been ap-
pointed chairman of the District
Chapter, American Red Cross Motor
Corps, to succeed Mrs. C. Mont
gomery. Mrs. Montgomery resigned,
but will remain a member of the
corps.
Evening star., 1934-02-18

volved IN the fight over the bin after
reports that Gov. Lehman was angry
with him for not swinging into line
the iegislative votes controlled by his
political intimate, Secretary Of State
Edward J. Flynn, Bronx County
leader.
La Guardia's entire fusion admins
tration-inaugurated January has
centered about the economy bill. It
Is the mayors weapon for Kidding the
city's pay roll Of Tarnmanyites, slash
ing expenditures, eliminating depart
ments and balancing the budget.
The mayor has repeatedly indi-
Gated that it is his belief that little
can be done to administer properly
the city's complicated government
unless he has the power asked in the
bill Accordingly his program for re-
organization and reform Is being held
In abeyance.
Evening star., 1934-02-18
FARLEY D|SAVOWS
| RACE IN NEW YORK
Postmaster General Will
Support Lehman for
Governorship.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 17.-Post-
master General James A. Farley today
disavowed any desire TO become q
candidate for Governor Of the EN-
pire State in 1884.
He definitely swept aside reports he
might be q candidate against Gov.
Herbert H. Lehman, close personal
friend Of President Roosevelt.
Coming to Manhattan to whip into
line" Democratic legislative leaders
who have persistently thwarted Gov.
Lehman's attempt to force enactment
of Mayor Fiorello II. La Guardia's
bill. Farley said:
hIf there Is any doubt In any ones
Evening star., 1934-02-18
c. 0. P. IS ADVISED
TO AID NEW DEAL
Vandenberg Praises Roose'
welt, but Says Republic
ans Must Be VigiIant.

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-02-18
PLUNGE KILLS FLYER.

SAN MATEo. Calf, February II
P.-Raymond Martinez. IS, amateur
aviator. plunged to his death after he
jumped with a parachute from his
spinning plane near here today.
Witnesses said Martinez "bailed
out" when the plane, whirIing down
from an altitude Of about 1000 feet,
was less than 100 feet from the
ground. The parachute failed to
omen.