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Evening star., 1934-05-03
NEW CHIEF TALKED
FOR STEEL INSTITUTE
Ry the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 3-Dow. Jones
& Co. said today that plans were un-
der way for the appointment of a
president Of the American Iron &
Steel Institute.
Thus far the matter is in its ini-
tial stage" the agency asserted, but
informal discussions have been held
by some members Of the board of di-
rectors Of the institute looking toward
this end. 1t may be some time before
the matter Is brought out into the
open and selection made"
The institute has been without a
president since the resignation of
Robert A. Lamont. former Secretary
Of Commerce, last September Charles
M, Schwab, chairman of Bethlehem
Steel, is chairman.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
s,e5s, 900 representing the five-week

$48, ,656, 900 representing the five-week
period of March.
A marked increase in private build
ing was noted in April. Contracts let
for apartment houses and hotels,
bank and office buildings, churches,
dwellings and stores, amounted to
S4,517, 900, as compared with $2,964, =
900 in March $2,011 900 in February
and $2,551 900 in January. In the
first four months, general building
awards totaled s12,025 900, as against
$6.066,o0 for the same period in
1888.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
CUSTOMS RECEIPTS
AT BALTIMORE RISE
Special Dispatch to The Star.

BALTIMORE, May 3.-Customs
collections at the port of Baltimore
for the first four months Of this year
show an increase of more than S450.-
900 over the collections for the corre-
spending period of 1898
This figure was revealed this week
at the Office of Gilbert A. Daley, COL
lector of the port. where 1t was re-
ported that the collections for April,
1884. were $545. 1926. as against
s4l5,l05.73 for April, 1888
This increase of approximately
$130,000 is the second largest noted
this year, that of March being larger
by 100000.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. May 3 LP.-Foreign ex.
change steady; Great Britain in dollars
others in cents.
Great Britain-Demsnd 5.12s.: cables
5.1@o4; 60-day bills 5.11ss France-De.
mand e 63; cables. 6 81. Italy-Demand
S.55; cables. S.55.
DEMANDS
abs stsiS@ Sg eS4s NorSsT Germany 3e5s gol
26.46; Denmark 22e1: Finland. 22s;
Switzerland $3.50 Spain 1874; Portu.
gal, 4 466: Greece 95: Poland. 1903:
Czechoslovskia. 4.1a' Yueoslsvia 22ai
Austria, loom: Hungary. 9.s0n: Ru-
mania. 1.o1; ArEent'ne. "a 20n: Brazil
sem: Toxic 1850: Shanghai 1925;
Hongkone. 35.75: Mexico City tsilver
pesol. - q5; Montreal in New York,
l00.31l u; New York in Montreal 99.6s94.
n-NOu1inal
Evening star., 1934-05-03

Beginning last fall, Gulf started series
of tests which lay to rest forever the
theory that there's no difference in
gasolines!"
We journeyed to famous American
hills-from Massachusetts, to South
Carolina. On II mountain grades, we
tested 33 gasolines-including every
well-known brand sold within the area
visited.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
SHARE VALUES DOWN.

NEW YORK, May 3 P).-The value
of shares listed on the New York
Stock Exchange declined approx
mately 267,77o. 900. during April to N
aggregate of s36,432.143,s1s, the ex-
change reported today. The average
market price Of all shares listed on
May was $28.l3 against $28.37 a
month earlier.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
PARIS BANK REPORT.

PARIS, My 3 OP1.-The weekly state
ment of the Bank of France shows the
following chanses in francs: Gold in
creased i25 600 900; sight balances abroad
increased 1000. 900; bills discounted at
home increased 5S6,00G,O0O; bills bought
abroad UNCHANGED; advances decreased
1000 600 circulation increased sos
100000; current accounts increased
6l7 0OO. 600
Rae OF discount. 2 per cent.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
LONDON BANK CHANGES.

LONDON. May 3 OPl.-The weekly state
ment of the Bank Of England shows the
following changes in pounds: Total re-
serv. decreased 4754 900: circulation in
creased S05.000: bullion increased
$1,000: other securities decreased us, 900;
public deposits decreased 1883. 600: other
deposits increased 100000: notes re-
serve decreased 4743.000: government Sc
curlties increased 13 $4,000
The proportion of the banks reserve
20 liability is 1891 per cent, compared
with 81 AZ last week.
Rate OF discount. per cent
Evening star., 1934-05-03
M'Innerney Named
To Directorate of
Goodrich Company
BY the Associated Press.

.
NEW YORK, May 3.-Thomas H.
McInnerney, president Of National
Dairy Products Corporation, and Sir
Walrond A. F. Sinclair, chairman and
managing director of British Good
rich Rubber Co., were elected to the
directorate of B. F. Goodrich Co. yes
terday. Members of the company's
Executive Committee and the officers
were reelected
Evening star., 1934-05-03
Copyright. 1894. by Moody'sD
Com modify Futures.

COMMODITY FUTURES.
New York markets compiled by the
Associated Press:
CoFFEE-spot steady; Rio No. :. 1ol.:
Santos No. 4, lh4-l2. RIO futures closed
quiet; sales. 1000 bags. May, sl5n;
July. soon; September. S36n; December
S.45n: March. S.52n. Santos futures
July. Io;sIn; september. 11.l9n: Decem-
CRUDE RUBBER-Futures closed firm.
9-1S higher; sales No; l standard 926
contracts. May l4l3; July. l43l-34;
September. IA. 4.5S-60; October. IA son;
December. 14.90-95; January. Is 03n;
March. 15.23. Smoked ribbed spot IA 23n
SUGAR-Futures closed steady un-
changed to . higher sales. 17,lO0 tons
May 4Sb, July l.53; September. 100;
December, 1.67; January, l.6Sb; March.
1.12
sILyER-Futures closed steady. 30 to
SO higher: sales, 300 000 ounces. May,
~ COB; July, 43OOb: September. 4334; !;
October 4341ni December 43.75b jan
RAW SILK Futures -ad closed easy. ,a72
d;;at Si6; 30 oetobe5 ssiEs, Open msTEet
steam fliature 7Sfo periplane 20-22s, 80.
Canton double extra "A 14-16s. 90
japanese special crack double extra sIS
seriplane 13-15s. l21i2. "
Bid Nominal
Evening star., 1934-05-03
COAL OUTPUT HIGHER.

NEW YORK. May 3 (P.-The Ma
tonal Coal Association estimates
bituminous production last week at
approximately $500. 900 net tons, COM
pared with 1924 900 a year ago.
Evening star., 1934-05-03

The object Of each test aa5 to find oat
bow far each gasoline ~oald trotsI car
and beaty load up THE grade before the moto,
5talled-and so prove, once and for all,
that there is big difference in the power
of various gasolines.
NOW READ THE STARTLING
RESULTS
Evening star., 1934-05-03
SILVER QUOTATIONS.

NEW YORK. May 8 tp).-Bar sill
yer steady, "a higher at 4234.
Evening star., 1934-05-03
COMMODITY PRICES.

NEW YORK. Nav 3-Index of Is staple
commodity prices December 81, 1881
equals 100; 1925 average equals 23O.5):
Evening star., 1934-05-03
Think THERE'S NO Difference IN GAS0L|NES?

What's the real truth about gasones Is any really uniformly
better than the others? You'll find the frank unvarnshd
these questions in the amazing story famous American hills
with 33 gasolnes
Evening star., 1934-05-03
FOREIGN BONDS.

With warrants.
Xw-Without warrants.
New.
vi-When issued
st fstpD-Stamptd.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
YACHTS ADR|FT 7,
L On BOARD

BOSTON. Nov. "a Q.N.SO.
Lives of eleven persons were at
stake today as Coast Guard YES
sells raced to the aid of two strick'
en- craft, one disabled off Nam
tucket, and the other drifting help
lessly in the Caribbean sea with
two Massachusetts men aboard.
The latter vessel was the treas
ure-hunting yacht White Cloud" "
owned by G.. Proctor Cooper, Sd,
of East Lee. Among those aboard
in addition to Cooper, was Charles
Edward Hill, of Brookline, a Har-
ward student. Others aboard are
college men. Cooper is Yale
graduate.
The other vessel was the schoon-
er Fairway, registered from Hart
ford, Conn, aboard which was at
least one man. The Coast Guard
cutter Galatea was searching the
waters off Nantucket for some
trace of the craft after she was
reported in distress by the S. S.
Maori.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
Yale Head Hits
Present I rend
In Sports

NEW HAVEN, Conn.,, Nov. "a
G.N.SO.- Commercialism in col
lege athletics was roundly con-
demned today by President
James Rowland Angel, of Yale
University. writing in the Off
cial Yale-Harvard football pro-
gram distributed prior to today's
game.
President Angel advocated con-
tinuance of the present high
standards set by leading Ameri-
can universities" or else going
the whole way and completing
commercializing of sports. In
answer to this alternative he
pointed out that in three-quar-
ters of century of intercol-
legiate sports, colleges have de-
veloped such regulations as now
exist "for their own good and
that of the sports" He declared:
"The young man who wishes
to give all his time and energy
to sports is cutie entitled to
do 50, but he has no place in
a really reputable college where
intellectual development Is the
primary concern.
"A collegiate institution of
which this is not true Is
traitor to its trust"
The Washington times., 1934-11-24

corridors and storage rooms. Dig
nified White House doormen
whose lives had been spent ush-
ering ambassadors, generals and
potentateS found their gates
crashed by politicians, messengers,
reporters. photographers an d
Workmen.
But now this confusion is
about to end. The desks are be-
ing moved and the clerks will
soon take up their duties in the
new offices. When President
Roosevelt returns December S he
will find his desk in a spacious
oval room with large windows
overlooking the spacious south
grounds. BY a trick of architec'
ture there is more office space,
but the building is no larger.
There are rooms downstairs and
a sort Of second story penthouse
has been added.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
DIRECT RELIEF
DUE To END

CHICAGO, Nov. "a G.N.S9.
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Relief
Administrator, intimated to the
United States Mayors Conference
today the next Congress will be
asked to establish new program
of unemployment relief, setting
up widespread job project and
such single day longer"
II feel very strongly that the
present method is not the way
to care for II million destitute
people. A new way can and
must be found in the near fu-
ture."
Mr.. Hopkins said he did not see
"why we should continue relief as
such single day longer"
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
One-Tirne GOOdfellOW
Now Needs He'll

Once "E. M. R." belonged to
The washington Times Goodfel-
low Club.
Now she is writing the Goodfel-
lows asking that someone will
help her to give her two little
boys, aged II and 3, a happy
Christmas. She writes:
eve have been on the relief
rolls for over three years. All
of us have been i'll and there
is no hope of any Christmas un-
less someone gives it to us. The
boys need clothes. We haven't
bed clothing. We haven't any
thing, in fact, as everything has
gone during these past bad years.
A TYPICAL LETTER
'T know of the GOOdfeIIOw
work because before 1 was mar
ried, when l had a position in
the War Department, was
privileged to help bring some
Christmas joy to several fami-
lies"
Mrs. RS letter is typical of the
kind received by The Washing
ton Times.
The work of the Goodfellows,
oldest of the Christmas giving
units in the District. has been ex-
panded this year into The Wash
ington Times Christmas Cheer
Club.
The club plans to continue the
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
Boy ArsOnist, 18,
Cites Witch Threat

| WESTMINSTER, Md, Nov. "a.
George Miller, Is. who claimed
he acted under a threat by his
half-siSter to "beWitch' him, yes
terday began serving a four-year
sentence for arson in the Mary
land House of Correction follow
ing his conviction on a charge OF
setting fire to the barn of his
cousin. He signed confession
but later repudiated it, asserting
that his half-sister threatened to
"bewitch" him if he did not burn
the barn.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
HARVARD SNUBS
MELLON OFFER

\PITTSBURGH, Nov. "a 0N.S.)
The House of Mellon" was
rocked today by DR.. James
Bryant Conant, president of Har-
ward University, who rejected a
$500 scholarship offered by
Matthew T. Mellon to finance a
years study by a student in
Germany.
Mr.. Mellon. son of w. L. Mel.
lon and a student in the Harvard
graduate school of arts and sci,
ences, said DR.. Conant was un-
fair and gave him "a slap in
the face by rejecting the scholar
ship offer.
Young Mellon is grand
nephew of former Secretary of
the Treasury Andrew W. Mellon.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24

Goodfellows Club but will enlarge
it's activities to carry the Christ
mas spirit into hundreds Of
homes.
Recent volunteers in the Christ
mas Cheer campaign include the
volunteer fire departments at
Manassas, Va, Clarendon. Va,
and Riverdale, Md.
Also the Capital View Citizens
Association, the Seventh Street
Business Mems Association, the
Citizens Association of Chevy
Chase, D. c., the U. S. S. Jacob
Jones Post, No. 2, American Le-
gion, and the S. E. House Com
munity Center Council, American
Legion.
Big Willard Ball
The Christmas Cheer campaign
opened this week and will con-
tinue, cooperating with the Good
fellows Club, until the day before
Christmas.
The big day will be December Is,
when LoeW's Fox Theater will hold
in the morning special show, all
proceeds of which will 60 to the
Christmas Cheer fund.
That evening there will be a
ball at the Willard Hotel. And
every penny collected will go to the
fund.
Both events are open to anyone
wishing to help with the cam
Daipn.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
White House Offices
Are Ready Today

Today the White House staff
takes over the new executive
offices just rebuilt on a $318,757
PWA contract.
The old executive offices,
built under the regime of Presi
dent Theodore Roosevelt, long
ago became too cramped to care
for the present volume of bust
ness. The vast amount of mail
forced a great increase in the
clerical force until typists were
sitting in the basement answer,
ing the letters which poured in
at the rate of 10, 20 and 10000
a day.
The work of rebuilding started
August /. All the desks, records
and the staff were transferred to
the White House proper, where
they were scattered all over the
first floor and downstairs into
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
Federal, State Aid
OF Hospitals Asked

SALISBURY, Md, Nov. "a.
Seeking more financial aid from
the Federal and State govern
ments for the care of free patients,
representatives of five Eastern
Shore county hospitals will meet
here next Wednesday to discuss
plans of procedure.
1t is reported a similar move
will be started in Southern and
Western Maryland.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
DesertiOn Charged
In3Decree Suits

Three divorce suits. all charg-
ing desertion, were filed in the
Prince Georges County Circuit
Court at Upper Marlboro yester-
day.
Declaring Thelma T. Henson,
of Bowie, left him six months
after their marriage, Charles Hen
son asks an absolute divorce and
custody of their seven-year-old
child, Clarence.
Edith E. Healy, of Hyattsville.
is seeking an absolute divorce
from Edward S. Healy, charging
desertion after being married nine
years. Both suits were filed by
Ryon and Hassall, of HyattSvine.
Ann M. Krebs, of Edmonton, Is
charging Norman B. Krebs, of
Riverdale, with deserting her after
being married nine months. The
suit was filed by John S. White.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24

teenth Amendment to the Consti-
tuition which abolished slavery.
The HenderSons were married
June 25, 1868, went to st. Louis.
There, through his brilliance as a
lawyer and keen business sense,
Senator H nderS son amaSsed
millions.
One Son Born
There was born to the Hender-
sons one son, John Brooks Hen
derson, whose impulsiveness was
to bring grief to his mother years
after his death.
After a dozen years or more
in Missouri, the lure of Washing
tons social life brought the Hen
derSons back to the city. Up
went the castle and then started
an unbroken chain of events that
kept the place and its occupants
almost constantly in the lime
light.
With virtually unlimited wealth
at her command, Mrs. Hender-
son dominated official and social
life here. She gathered about
her the diplomats, artists and So
cially elite of three continents.
Presidents came to her home.
She was proud of the fact that
she was reputed to be the only
woman who was on friendly
terms with Is Presidents: Lin
coin, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Gar.
field, Arthur, Cleveland, Harri-
son, Mckinley. Roosevelt, Taft,
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and
Hoover.
Then she conceived the ambi-
tiouS plan to make Sixteenth
Street "the Avenue of Presidents. ."
She paid exorbitant prices for
lots on the street to keep out
hotels and apartment buildings.
She built costly mansions and
persuaded the ENJOYS of other
nations to purchase them or at
least use them as their embas-
sizes or legations.
ECT NGlSH complete
She convinced Congress that q
park should be established across
Sixteenth Street from the castle,
and magnificent Meridian Hill
Park came into being. She
fought the District to keep a
fire-engine house out of the dis
trict. She feted the proper Off
cialS, broWbeat and cajoled them
into line.
She wrote book called THE
AriStocracy of HEALTH" in which
she assailed meat-eating, liquor
drinking and excesses in other
forms. The book converted WI
Ting Fang, then Chinese minister
to Washington. to vegetarianiSm.
1t is said he even quit drinking
wine at the authors behest. Mrs.
Henderson led women in their
fight for equal suffrage.
Throughout these years the el-
der Mrs. Henderson continued &C
tive life. She fought the buses
on Sixteenth Street on the ground
they permitted passengers to peep
into the boudoirS of the diplomatic
homes. She emptied the Castles
wine cellar of her husbands stock
of rare liquors and sent a small
fortune cascading down into the
sewers of Sixteenth Street.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
j. s. BUYS MORE
FOREST LAND
By International News Service

By International News service
Purchase of more than 100000
acres of land at a cost of $8,427,-
663, to be added to the national
forests in the Eastern half of the
United States has been approved
by the National Forest Reserva-
ton Commission, the War Depart
ment announced today.
Representing the largest single
purchase approval made by the
commission, the new lands will
bring forest land purchases in the
East for the last IA months to
about 100000 acres.
More than 100000 acres were
approved for purchase in Texas,
nearly 100000 in the Ozarks re-
gion of Missouri, and 588,882 acres
in the national forests and pur-
chase units in the lake States.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
YULE LANE DELAYED

Rain last night forced postpone
ment of the Santa Claus Lane pa
rade of the Columbia Heights
Business Mems Association. The
program will be presented Monday
night. In event of inclement
weather Monday. the parade will
be held the next night.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
MARRIAGE LICENSES

Marriage licenses have been is
sued at Upper Marlboro to Roy
H. Lester, 25, indianapolis, Ind,
and Virginia E. Hulfish, %, Upper
Marlboro; Gilbert o. Wright, 25,
of the 200 block Twelfth Pl. N. E.,
and Mary F.. Pearrell, Is, of the
700 block A st. S. E.
The Washington times., 1934-11-24
HanfstaengI ReneWS
Attack on COnant

BERLIN, Nov. "a G.N.SO.-Dr
Ernst Hanfstaengl, personal aide
to Adolf Hitler and Harvard
graduate, today renewed his feud
with DR.. James B. Conant, Har
ward president. Taking the occa
sion of Harvard's refusal of a
$500 travelling scholarship in
Germany, offered by DR.. Matthew
T. Mellon, to air his views. Mr.
Hanfstaengl declared:
The perSiStency of DIR. Con-
ant and Green Jerome ID.
Green, secretary of the Harvard
COrpOratiOn) In refusing scholar
ships in German universities is
extremely difficult to under
stand unless there are reasons
which they have not avowed."
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10
Contract Bridge

primary tricks, but, in addition, it
must be rich in tenace positions,
and tOday's hand has no tenace
positions.
THE reason you should not bid
Il more than one spade is because
you need assistance from your
partner to make game, and if he has
the assistance, he will keep the bid
ding open with a chance-giving
bid. OF course he hasn't, and he
properly passes.
You must lose three hearts, a
diamond. and a spade, and all you
can make with this fine big hand
is twC-odd at spades.
This hand came up in a recent
tournament, and 1 was surprised to
find that so per cent of the pairs
in the room opened the bidding
with an original forcing two bid.
The original forcing two bid is
the most abused bid in contract
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10

There numerous legends OF what finally became OF the famous
old AayoWer.
that
Bucknghamshre England London
used in slave by Spanish.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10
Solution to PFeUjOus
Contract Problem
BY w. f. MKENNEY,
Secretary American Bridge League

Secretary American Bridge League
WHY Will some players permit
W preponderance Of high cards
to ruin them? I wish I could i'm
press you with a remark I often
have heard made by P Hal Sims.
Don't let high cards ruin YOU
make them work for you"
There is no question that we all
want to hold high cards, but when
you get a handful Of them, stop to
think. Perhaps your partner has
nothing You have more than your
share; therefore, he has less than
his. Count up your losing cards
and see just what you need in his
hand to help you before you can
make a forcing bid.
Some persons are under the i'm
preston that. in the Sims system,
just because YOU hold a great num-
Der of high card tricks. you can
open with one no trump. That is
wrong.
An original bid of one no-trump
shows at least three and one-half
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10
Todav,s Contract Problem

TOday's Contract Problem
Would you open the follow
ing hand with a two-bid. if
you were the dealer? If not,
and your original bid were
one spade. West overcalled
with two clubs and the others
passed, what would be your
next bid?
SOUTH
AAKQJ6
@A53
. A KQ
%K3
Solution in next issue.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10

today. Every authority will tell you
that few real two bids come up in
7 weeks play.
.CnnHrIeht. 1924. hu NEA Serrice Incl
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10

The three Arabs halted before La and Ibn
Dammuk the sheykh's son, addressed her. His
voice was soft and oily but it did not deceive her
La eyed him haughtily. She did not understand
him and she did not wish to- for the message she
read in his eyes repelled ner
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10
Williams
BY BlOSSer

With a gaspng scream he slumped to the
ground With flaming eyes and bloody KNIFE the
high priestess Of Opar stood above her XII while
Abu Batn and other Arabs attracted by the
death cry Of the stricken man ran hurriedly to-
ward the little group.
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10

She shook her head to signify that she did not
understand and turned away to indicate chat the
interview had terminated, but Ibn Dammuk
stepped closer and laid hand familiarly UPON her
smooth white shoulder. Her eyes famed with
anger
The Indianapolis times., 1934-03-10

Her hand moved to the hilt of her dagger. 1bn
Dammuk stepped back but one of his men leaped
forward TO seize her. Misguided fool! Like a
tigress she was upon hun, and before his friends
could intervene. the sharp blade Of the knife had
sunk thrice into bis breast