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STORED WHISKY
PROFITS SEEN

A warning voiced last week by
DR.. j. M. Doran, supervisor Of the
distiller's code, concerning the
purchase of whisky warehouse re-
ceipts referred only to "high-pres-
sure statesmen" and not to repu-
table firms, it was pointed out
today. ,
whisky placed in a bonded
warehouse to mature offers a
speculative possibility, investment
brokers declared, and should be
purchased with this in view rather
than the promise of an exorbitant
profit as claimed by some Of the
statesmen.
Receipts covering whisky in
bond have for many years been
considered a standard form of in.
vestment and speculation, it was
pointed out, but care should be
exercised as in any other finan-
cial transaction.
Under Government regulation,
whisky must be kept in a ware
house for four years to be bottled
in bond.
To purchasers of certificates, the
following advice was given today
by a prominent investment firm:
/. Be sure the warehouse re-
ceipts are purchased only
through a reputable source.
2. Know that the quality of
whisky is such it will produce
high-quality product when
aged.
8. Know that the receipt is
legitimate and issued by q dis
tillery of repute.
Whisky in a bonded warehouse
can be withdrawn in bulk only by
distillers, rectifiers, or state dis
pensers, it was pointed out. How.
ever, it can be bottled and with.
drawn by any wholesale or retail
liquor dealer, or by an individual
for his own consumption but not
for sale.
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SURVEY SHOWS
HOW CLERKS
SPEND PAY
Married Women Buy Most
Cigarettes; Movie Bills High,
U. S. Finds
BY ROBERT HAWTHORNE

Many curious facts about the
way Government employees spend
their money will be revealed in
the report now being prepared by
the Department of Labor.
The report is based upon stats
tics gathered by interviewing 489
Federal employees whose question
naireS last December revealed
they had kept accurate expense
accounts between July /, 1882, and
June 30, 1888.
A summary already has been
published, but details of how the
489 employees, each of whom drew
between $1,000 and $4,000 a year,
spent their money have not yet
been revealed.
Wives Smoke Most
One curious thing the forthcom-
ing report will show is that 40 of
81 married women freely admitted
spending an average of $39.79 for
cigarettes, but only Is of rs single
women employees even admitted
they smoked at all. And those who
did spent only $19.41 each.
Airplane travel is a bit too ex-
pensive for employees in the lower
brackets, if one is to Judge by this
survey. Only three persons of the
489 travelled by plane in 1928.
Nor could they buy new automo-
bileS. Gas and oil bills ran rela-
lively high, indicating that many
Government employees were cling
ing to the old family car, but only
two, one man and one woman,
bought new car that year.
Fffty-five employees bought radios
and eight chose secondhand ones.
Upkeep on old ones, however, ran
high.
"a Don't Read Papers
Perhaps it was because they
were worried about additional pay
cut, abolition of their particular
bureau, or some other change in
Administration plans, but, anyway,
all but "a of the 489 revealed they
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handful of non.newspaper readers
were mostly single women.
Movies cost the 76 single women
an average of $40 year, though
10 claimed not to have spent any
thing for cinemas. Forty-four of
the AZ single men ran the average
expenditure Of all up to $2897.
Clothing Bills Studied
Clothes naturally constituted
big item in the budget. Silk hose
predominated, 70 of rs girls
choosing them in preference to
cotton or wool. The average for
all was $11.89. Cleaning bills
averaged $11.51, but evening
dresses only eight were
bought by the 76 - averaged
$27.75.
The report was made under
provisions of the Economy Act
which required that statistics be
prepared showing the cost Of Iv-
ing in Washington.
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Steel Pay Shows
$95,OOO,OOO Gain

NEW YORK. Oct. 10 G.N.SO.
The total wage bill of the steel in
dustry was increased $95, 900
during the first full years opera
ton of the steel code, figures COM
piled by the American Iron &
Steel Institute have disclosed.
Over this period from August,
1888, to September of this year,
$47O 900, 900 was paid to employees.
Fully So per cent of the steel
workers are standing behind their
employe representation plans of
collective bargaining, according to
a survey just completed by the In
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Gunman RObs 4,
SLABS One Victim

Four persons, three of them GUS
toners, were victims Of a colored
gunman who late yesterday held
up a grocery store at Fourth and
K Streets Northwest. One of the
customers, John Chollas, of the
400 block H st. N. w., was slapped
by the gunman when he was slow
in obeying instructions to raise his
hands.
Mrs. Harry Belsen, wife OF the
proprietor of the store, told po-
lice the man took $25 from the
cash register before forcing the
customers to turn over what
money they had in their pockets.
His total loot was estimated at
SIS.
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No! It's food. Entirely unlike harsh cathar-
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Yes! BY clearing you out "inside," it purihes
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and complexionl Actually, your skin gains
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S. How about frequent Headaches?
Poisons absorbed from the intestines, or (as
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Sanitation Bonds
Sold by Counties

Bonds totaling $250,000 were
sold by the Washington Suburban
Sanitary Commission yesterday to
H. w. Pressprich & Company, of
New York, at 1924, it was an
nounced at the commissions Of
fices today.
The sum received from the sale
Will be used for miscellaneous
water improvements in both Mont
gomery and Prince Georges
counties.
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''Old age" is often due to slow digestive secre-
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intestinal disorders. "XR' Yeast corrects this
condition, removes cause of premature aging
is often beneficial for rheumatism.
Z. Do Colds occur less frequently?
"XR" Yeast combats colds by cleansing the
system-and by supplying the newly added
The Washington times., 1934-10-18
START TO EAT IT NOW

90. cakes day-plain or dissolved in one
third of a glass of INDEPENDENTLY half an
hour before each meal. If you're taking
cathartics, discontinue them gradually. Eat
Fleischmann's ''XR' Yeast regularly and
after you've got quick results until you
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The meeting will begin at 10
a. m, recess for luncheon, and
resume at 2 D. m.
Principal speakers will be Mrs.
F. M. Hoadley, editor of THE
Maryland Clubwoman"; Mis- S
Agnes Duvall, and Miss Charlotte
Wilcox.
Miss Wilcox and Miss Duvall,
both Of the county relief agency,
will present the national and
county relief programs as they
are functioning today.
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Newly added Vtamn "a helps you to combat colds tooD
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,':Acts Quicker!" says Mrs. Kinneer

'It is more eficacious," wrifes Mrs
Mabel Knneer, Staten Island, N. Y.
Several years ago my doctor pre-.
scribed Fleischmann's Yeast to 'regu.
late me ... my improvement at that
time was remarkable. Lately, | felt
sluggish and nervous again. ate the
~ew Fleischmann's 'XR' Yeast. now
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CLUBS HOLD FARLEY

Club women will assemble at
the University Of Maryland Octo.
Der 10 to attend the eighteenth
semi-annual meeting Of the Prince
Georges County Federation OF
Women's Clubs.
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2 RINGS STOLEN

Two rings, one valued at $500
and the other at 500, were stolen
from the home Of Lieut.. Comdr.
Ray w. Hayworth, U. S. n, 800
block Warren st. N. w., it was
reported late yesterday.
The Washington times., 1934-08-18
GASOLINE PRICE
HITS. 8 CENTS

Motorists filling their tanks to-
day preparatory to weekend trips
found gasoline selling as low as
9 cents a gallon in some service
stations as the gas war continued.
The major companies, it was
understood. are going to keep
prices down until the independents
are whipped into line and agree
to higher prices.
It was estimated that the war
will cost the local dealers about
$450,000 a month.
Practically every gasoline dealer
in Alexandria has cut the price
Of gasoline from 4 to cents per
gallon in the price war that is
raging.
An Official of the gasoline deal
ers of Northern Virginia stated
today that gasoline could not be
sold in this section for less than
IL cents without loss.
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Canadian Officials Rap
Labatt Ransom Secrecy
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

LONDON, Ont, Aug. 10 G.N.S),
John S. Labatt, the kidnapped
Canadian brewer who was freed
after being held captive for So
hours, remained ii tssecfdSion again
today while a horde of newspaper
men tried in vain to contact him
or induce high police officials to
discuss the case.
What amounted virtually to a
censorship of news was clamped
down. Mr.. Labatt could not be
seen. His brother, Hugh, avoided
reporters and the police shrouded
:heir movements in secrecy.
Still at Home
A spokesman of the family, the
Hon. ]. C. Elliott, K. c., denied a
report that John Labatt had
slipped out of the home of his
brother on Waterloo street, where
he was supposed to be under the
care of a physician.
Mr.. Elliott was induced to
telephone Attorney General Roe
buck at Toronto at noon today
and ask him to answer questions
submitted by the press.
Mr.. Elliott reported that Mr..
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"STRATO" HOP
ST|RS RADIO
HOAXERS
Fake Air Message Spreads
False Reports; Bag Still
at High Level, Belief

BRUSSELS, Aug. Is GN.SO.
Prof. Max Cosyns, Belgian sci
enlist, and his Dutch aide, DR..
Neree van der Elst, were some
where over Continental Europe in
a Stratosphere flight today, their
whereabouts unreported for more
than five hours.
While Prof. Cosyns' radio was
silent and the world was waiting
for word of the flight, faxed
radio message, purporting to
come from the stratosphere bal
loon, reported a record altitude
of $4,000 m eters h d bee n
reached.
HOaxed by Radio
The message was received by
the federation here directing the
Cosyns flight and was given out
to the press in good faith. Later
it was discovered a secret code
keyword, which Prof. Cosyns was
to have inserted in his messages,
was missing, and the federation
announced it had been hoaXed.
The message had said the bag
was over Czechoslovakia. The
last authentic word placed it over
the Saar Basin.
LONDON, Aug. 10 GN.s),
After reporting that the strato
sphere balloon of Prof. Max
Cosyns had descended at Saar.
brucke11 today, the Reuters News
Agency quoted the Saarhrucken
police as saying the balloon had
not come down there. The later
dispatch said the balloon was be
lieved to be still in the air.
BERLIN, Aug. 18 G.N.SO.-The
Cosyns shakespeare balloon was
sighted over Salzburg. Austria, at
Ais p. m. today, drifting at a
high altitude toward Ischel, &C
cording to report here.
PRAGUE, Aug. 18 GN.SD.-Two
amateur radio engineers, one living
at Planan and the other at Bud
weis, reported that they heard a
distress signal at 2::2O this after.
noon 1920 a. m. Wash. tine)
which they believed came from
the stratosphere balloon of Prof
Max Cosyns.
BRUSSELS, Aug. 10 G.Ns),
Prof. Max Cosyn's shakespeare
balloon was sighted at Bad Aus
see, near Illsch, on the Austrian
Czechoslovakian border at 4:45
this afternoon Q0:45 a. m,
Washington time), according to
a Vienna dispatch received here
this evening. The balloon at that
time was at an altitude of only
1000 meters and was believed to
be descending.
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NAZ| RAID CHIEF
To Be SHOT

VIENNA, Aug. 18 G.N.sD.-Jo,
ham Domes, leader of the Nazi
group which seized the Central
Vienna Radio Station on July 25,
and issued the fake announce
ment that a Nazi regime was Iii
crontrol of Austria, was sentenced
to death by a military court today.
Twelve other Nazis who accom-
panied him on the daring raid
and held off government machine
gunners for several hours, were
sentenced to life imprisonment.
At the same time two Tyrolean
Nazi leaders, Josef Aberger and
Bruno Agen, were sentenced to
death, accused of having Struggled
huge quantities of ammunition
into the Tyrol from Germany.
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KILLING ADDS
To LABATT
MYSTERY
Brewery EmpIoye Found in
Street by Taxi Driver;
Victim of Violence

LONDON, ontario, Aug. 10
NI.N.S.).-With his skull crushed
in some unexplained manner,
Gordon Mckenzie, %, an en-
ploye of the John Labatt brew
cries, was found on the streets
by a taxi driver during last
night. He died in Victoria Hos
pital today, leaving the cause OF
his killing mystery.
Detectives launched a probe
as Coroner J. C. Wilson received
a hospital report that the man
had died of violence.
His skull was fractured and
his neck may have been broken.
DR.. Annett, who attended him,
said there was evidence of a Sc
we're cerebral hemorrhage as from
a violent blow.
Mckenzie, son of Finlay Nc
Kenzie, was born in London and
worked for some time for the
Labatt Company, his sister said.
Miss Mckenzie said the posi-
bility of any connection with the
Labatt kidnapping had not &C.
Cured to the family.
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TRUCK STRIKE
NEARS END

MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, Aug. IL
G.N.SD.-Plans for employe cleo
tions designed to open a way to
ward settlement of the month
long truck drivers strike were be-
ing drafted today under the direc
ton of Patrick A. Donoghue
Regional Labor Relations Board
staff member.
Pay roll lists of the 1866 EN-
ployer firm were being turned
over to Mr.. Donoghue and the
Federal mediators in the contro
VerSy, the Rev. Francis j. Haas
and E. H. Dunnigan. The pay
rolls submitted were for July Is
the day before the strike began
The election, it was indicated,
will be held Tuesday and Wednes,
day. Its purpose is to decide
whether the employees prefer rep,
resentati ton through Truck Drivers
Union No. STA.
National Guardsmen modified
under the martial law decree of
Gov. Floyd Olson were attempt,
ing to learn the identity of a
group of men who yesterday
hauled John Eckes from his laun.
dry truck and beat him severely.
He suffered a fractured skull.
Gen. E. A. Walsh, in command
of the military forces, announced
that, effective Tuesday night, the
number of National Guardsmen
on duty will be reuced from 1900
to 600 or Whereabouts.
Designated trucks today were
operating under 48-hour military
permits.
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DRUG FORCED.
ON V|CT|MBY
CAPTORS
Aimee McPhersonA Aide Brought
to D. C. During Captivity
of Five DAYS

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 10
G.N.SD. - Kidnapped, he said,
while answering a call for mercy,
the Rev. R. H. Askew, 28-year-old
-Four Square" gospel evangelist,
of Goldsboro, N. c., walked into
the Nashville police station today,
five days after he disappeared
from his Carolina home.
Bearded and unkempt, clad in a
pair of new overalls, the slim
young preacher told police he had
been abducted in Raleigh, N. c.,
held captive during a ride that
took him to Richmond, Washing,
ton, and Knoxville, and then
pushed from his abductors' auto
mobile this morning 10 miles
south of Nashville.
He hitch-hiked into Nashville,
he said.
Life Threatened
After holding him for $4,000
ransom and repeatedly threaten
ing his life, his three captors re-
leased him when they became
convinced he was penniless, Mr..
Askew told Police Lieutenant w.
A. Gibbons.
The evangelist said he was
hailed while driving on the high
way between Goldsboro and
Smithfield last Tuesday by a man
who pleaded with him to take him
to Raleigh hospital where his
daughter was desperately ill.
Mr.. Askey said he had left
Goldsboro to drive to Smithfield
to buy some bricks for a new
tabernacle he is building. He said:
II took the man into Raleigh.
We walked up the street toward
the hospital. Suddenly I felt
pistol in my back and the man
commanded me to get into a
large black sedan parked at the
curb. There were two other
men in the automobile.
II demonstrated, but they
threatened to kill me unless I
Obeyed."
PLEADED POVERTY
Mr.. Askew said they drove out
of town and the men questioned
him about his possessions. He
said:
II told them I had no money
or property and neither did my
wife.
"Then they forced me to swal-
low some tablets, and lost con-
seriousness"
Mr.. AskeW said he awakened in
Richmond. He said his captors
bought him hot dog at a road
side stand for breakfast. Then
they made him take more tablets
and he again fell asleep, awaken
ing in Washington.
Wife Got Demand
From Washington, Mr.. AskeW'S
50-year-old wife yesterday had re-
ceived a telegram instructing her
to have the money ready Satur-
day."
An anonymous letter Wednes-
day, mailed in Goldsboro the
night Mr.. AskeW disappeared, de-
manded $4,000 ransom under
threats of death to the preacher
unless it was paid.
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TALK SICKNESS
VICTIM GAINS

MT. GILEAD, Ohio, Aug. Is
G.N.SD.-As Donald L. Campbell,
32-year-old truck driver entered the
thirteenth day of his involuntary
talking marathon, DR.. C. S. Jack
son, the attending physician, TO-
day announced the talking sick
ness" victim would recover.
He cited two other cases at Co.
lumbus during the past 20 years,
where a 16-year-old girl talked for
seven months, and an adult man
spoke necessarily for II days. Both
completely recovered, he said.
DR.. Jackson believed it would
be only a matter of time until
Campbell dropped off into a sleep
from which he would awaken
cured. Campbell is believed to be
suffering from a fractured skull,
which has temporarily severed the
coordination between his brain
and tongue.
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To CUT
LOCAL TAXES
FORESEEN
Administration Maps Cam
paign to Justify Higher
Federal Levies
BY FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL


The Federal Government is
casting about for some means of
reducing State and local taxes
and, according to present indica-
tons, will be ready to announce a
program shortly after the congress
sional elections in November.
The Administration is con.
fronted with delicate problem in
interfering itself into the local
tax field, but it realizes that with
the prospect of an increase in Fed
eral taxes it will be compelled to
follow such a course.
So delicate is the problem that
all efforts toward cutting the
local tax burden have been post
pOned until after the elections
for fear of the effect they
might have upon local political
organizations and consequently
upon the effort of those Organi-
cations in the forthcoming cam"
paign.
STUDIES UNDER WAY
Nevertheless, studies are now
being made of the total tax bur
den, including Federal, State
and local taxes.
They will show, of course, that
the burden is heavy because of
tremendous local taxes. They will
show that the Federal Govern
ment is virtually a petty offender
when it comes to taking away the
citizens dollar.
These studies will have to show
that Uncle Sam is almost inno-
cent in tax collections in order
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nal syndicalism, was guarded by
authorities today as evidence for
presentation at pending trial Of
IT Communists charged with
criminal syndicalism, a felony Of
Tense.
Letters found in the personal
effects of Miss Decker, who served
as secretary of the radical Can
merry and Industrial Workers
Union, involved the names of Ella
Winter, of Carmel, wife of Lin
coin Steffens, the author; James
Cagney, Hollywood actor, and a
mysterious woman named Mary"
whose identity was being sought
by officers.
Friendship Admitted
Reports from Hollywood said
that while Mr.. Cagney admitted
he was a close friend and admirer
of Mr.. Steffens, he most emphati-
cally denied sharing his friends
The Washington times., 1934-08-18
Aimee Sees Kidnapping
As Proof of Faith

CANTON, Ohio, Aug. 10
G.N.SO Aimee Semple McPher-
son, noted Los Angeles evangelist,
today declared she would not pay
ransom to any kidnaper, even if
abducted, but that she would
place my faith in God"
She cited the kidnapping and
release of the Rev. r. H. AskeW,
28-year-old "four-square" gospel
evangelist from North Carolina,
as moral to preach the word
of God. She said:
"This proves that no threats,
no kidnapings, no power of
feeble men can ever overthrow
the church of God. which is
built on solid rock"
The Washington times., 1934-08-18
Telephone
Probe to Dig Deep

>tions. Most of the data will be
presented on or before September
/. The remainder a month later.
Monopoly Charged
During the probe, the A. T. and
T. must answer charges that it
maintains a virtual monopoly"
that it has watered it's stock, and
that it has set off exorbitant de-
probation allowances made by
Representative Rayburn CD OF
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Blaze
Ruins Residence

PRINCE FREDERICK, Md,
Aug. 18.-County authorities to-
day are investigating a fire, be-
lieved to have been of incendiary
origin, which early yesterday de-
stroyed the combined store and
residence of Daniel Barrett, at
Appeal, Calvert county, after two
mysterious calls had failed to per-
suade the owner to open his store
in the night.
The Washington times., 1934-08-18
State Legislator
Injured in Fight

CONVICTION, KY, Aug. IL
GN.SD.-State Senator John Tom
Murphy, firebrand Kentucky legis'
lator, was treated at Covington
Hospital here today as a result
of an alleged attack upon him
by Attorney Ben CaStleman.
Mr.. Castleman declared that
the State senator attempted to
draw a gun from his pocket dur
ing a quarrel. Mr.. Murphy, how
ever, denied the allegation and
obtained a warrant for the attor-
ney's arrest on a charge of as
sault with intent to kill,
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James Cagney, Actor,
Linked to 'Reds''
In California

views and ever contributing or Of
fering to contribute money to the
Communistic cause.
Four of the letters seized and
made public through Chief If
Police William Mailman were re,
plete with references to the we'll
known film actor.
Here is a series of excerpts from
the letters, some of which were ad,
dressed to Mary" Others to Ella
Winter and still others of which
were addressed to Miss Decker
purportedly from Ella Winter.
IS. .Cagney was fine this
time and is going to bring up
other stars to talk to SWEET
about Communism. E"
SCREEN REBELLION
"Cagney said several stars are
asking about Communism now.
He wrote a piece for N. M.
on the screen actors view, which
is, as you know, employees rebel
lion against the producers"
IS. All, well, perhaps it's
worth while. If one needs
Jimmy Cagney, who offers to
go ones cash bail regardless of
the amount. Nice, huh? And
he'd better get a nice lump sum
ready"
There was also a reference in
one of the letters to the effect
that "Cagney has offered to send
The Washington times., 1934-08-18
2 Killed, 2 Injured
AS Trucks Collide

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 10 Il
N.SO.-Two truck drivers were in
stantly killed and their helpers Sc
riously injured today in a head-on
collision at Bay Village, a suburb
here.
Police said the dead were
Charles j. Able, of 353 Comstock
St., Akron, Ohio, and John H. Ber-
nard, of townsville, Ind. H. S.
Dyer, IS, of Whiteland. Ind, and
Arthur Letto, of Cleveland were
injured.