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Evening star., 1934-04-14
ARMS CUT DEMAND
GIVEN TO LEAGUE
Sweden, Spain, Switzerland,
Denmark and Norway
Join in Note.
BY the Associated Press.


GENEVA, April l4.-An official de-
mand Cor a real reduction Of arma-
ment as against stabilization at exist
ing levels was filed with the League
of Nations today by Sweden, Spain,
Switzerland, Denmark and Norway.
The nations insisted at the same
time on definite guarantees of security
against war.
The Joint memorandum suggested
there was danger IN the rearmament
of Germany on large scale unless
the powers make a real reduction in
armamentS.
Holland subscribed to the general
tenor of the document, although it
was not one of the five signatories
previously mentioned.
The memorandum says the confer
ence is bound to take into account
1.-The situation resulting from de facto
rearmament, thus alluding to Ger
many.
Emphasizing the dangers of a gen.
eral armaments race, the document
says there are two alternatives: Either
a limited but real reduction accom-
panied by moderate rearmament, or
the limitation of the present arn1a-
ments of the great powers accom-
panied by a rearmament presumably
of Germany on a larger scale.
Said the memorandum: I'VE favor
the first alternative"
Evening star., 1934-04-14
MRS. MARTIN DROPS
FIGHT ON REQUEST
Partially Withdraws Injunction
Against Her Hus-
band.

Mrs. Jane Katherine Martin, %,
yesterday agreed that her husband,
Samuel K. Martin, Sd, who lives on a
200-acre estate in Montgomery Coun-
ty, Md, could have the $4,000 due
him from an inherited trust fund
April l, according to an Associated
Press dispatch from Chicago, where
Mrs. Martin filed suit fortnight ago
Mrs. Martin obtained an injunction
at that time stopping her husbands
income, but her attorney asked that
it be modified yesterday to let the
First National Bank make the April
l payment. Circuit Judge Roman
Posanki agreed.
AS for the next quarterly payment,
however, the attorney said the in
junction would hold against it. Mrs.
Martin, in her, recent request for the
injunction, alleged her husband re-
ceives 100000 to sl25,000 a year
from his grandfather's estate and
squanders it. In the injunction she
asked that a receiver be appointed to
handle the funds, charging violence
and intimacy with other women at
their Miami Beach. Fla, home, where
they have been living since last jan
uary.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
ARLINGTON GATEWAY
FUNDS ARE PROVIDED
Public Works Appropriation Also
Made to Recondition Treasury
Building.

Allotments of s139 500 to complete
the Memorial Entrance to Arlington
National Cemetery and $4,000 for
reconditioning certain portions Of the
Treasury Building were announced
yesterday by the Public Works Admin
iStration.
The Arlington Cemetery allotment
will make possible early completion of
the new main entrance to the ceme-
terry, which will have as its central
feature a fine fountain. The larger
portion of the allotment will be ex-
pended in grading, construction of
walks and the purchase and planting
Of oak trees.
1t also is planned to make additions
to the sculpture of Arlington Me-
mortal Bridge.
Work on the project will start at
once under the supervision of the
National Park Service. 1t is esti-
mated $50 man-months' employment
will result.
The Treasury allotment will be ex-
pended by the procurement division
and will take care of needed improve
ments inside the main building, in
cluding the lavatories.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
THIRD IS INDICTED
IN YEAR-0LD KILLING
New Jersey Detective Believes
Staying of Philadelphian
Is Solved.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. j.. April IA
The relentless pursuit by Ellis Parker,
chief of county detectives, of the slay-
ers of Bradway Brown. Philadelphia
printing company executive and social
registerite, has resulted in the arrest
and indictment of three suspects.
Parker revealed the progress MADE
in the effort to solve the Staying OF
Brown in January. 1888, in his home
in Cinnaminson Township with the
arrest In New York yesterday of Sol
omon Lutz, Bronx barber, indicted as
an accessory.
Indicted as the actual killers, Parker
said, are Adam SzewcZak, serving a
sentence for robbery in Pennsylvania
Eastern Penitentiary, and Edward
Adamski, held in the Mount Holly
Jail on burglary charge.
Parker said he believes Brown sur
prised robbers plundering his home,
was shot down in his garage. but
managed to stagger into his house to
die
Il won't say, for fear of damaging
the commemorative case when it
comes to trial, if there has been q
confession or not" Parker said.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
RA|NEY SEEKING
ACCORD ON SILVER
Promises Action in House
if Proponents Unite
in Plans.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Speaker Rainey has urged divergent
congressional groups seeking action
on silver to unite behind some par
ticular plan and promised his assist
ance in getting it before the House.
An advocate of remonetizing the
white metal since the days of William
Jennings Bryan, Rainey asserted in
formal statement that there was
"an overwhelming sentiment" in the
House for such action. He said 1t re-
flected the views of the country gen.
orally.
Plan Omnibus Measure.
Meanwhile, Senate silverites laid
plans to bring up an omnibus silver
measure carrying three plans for i'm
proving the economic status of the
metal. The measure has been re-
ported to the Senate by the Agricul-
tural Committee, with its approval.
To the Dies bill, passed by the
House, offering to accept payment for
foreign sales Of agricultural surpluses
in silver at above the world price, the
committee added the Thomas silver
naturalization plan and the Wheeler
purchase plan.
The Senate silver group is conf
dent of obtaining passage of one or
another of the three proposals. Tests
this session have shown a steady
trend toward majority for silver aid
An effort to attach the Wheeler pro-
posal to the dollar devaluation bill in
January failed by only a few votes,
Committee will Vote.
The House Banking Committee yes
terday agreed to vote Tuesday on a
bill by GoldSborough OF Maryland
providing for a Federal monetary au-
thority with power over the issuance
of currency. A silver RECOMMENDATION
amendment is attached to the Colds
borough bill.
A close decision was predicted by
committee members, with a distinct
possibility of committee approval.
Secretary Morgenthau has asked the
committee not to approve a perma-
nent monetary policy until the admin
istration can gauge the effectiveness
of its present plans.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
FRANCISCAN MONASTERY
LOSES $3.50 IN ROBBERY
Colored Man Is Sought by Police
in Looting of Box in
Office.

Police today were investigating sev-
eral robbery cases reported overnight.
A colored man is believed to have
robbed q metal box in the office OF
the Franciscan Monastery, Fourteenth
and Quincy streets northeast, of about
$3.50 yesterday afternoon. 1t was said
the man was seen leaving the office
furtively shortly before the theft was
discovered. It was the third robbery
at the monastery in several weeks.
A diamond ring worth $100, wrist
watch valued at $50 and two rings
worth about $40 were reported stolen
from the home Of Nettie Howard, l02
Fourth street southeast.
william Keahy, 1882 Taylor street,
told police he hired q taxicab at Thir-
teenth and E streets about 3:15 this
morning to drive him home and was
robbed of $11 by the two men in the
front seat both wearing chauffeur
caps.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
World N. r. A. PLAN SUGGESTED
BY BRITON AS BOON FOR LABOR

international control Of capital in
vestment and international agree
ments between producers of different
countries about total production and
markets.
Discussing adoption Of these two
steps, Richardson said: Care must
be taken that backward countries
are not starved Of capital and kept in
q state of economic tutelage by the
creditor powers. But there are strong
reasons for their advance being regu-
lated to the productive capacity of
countries already industrialized.
THE rate of their advance should
be planned to permit a systematic
transfer Of capital and labor in the
older industrial countries to other
lines of production, thus avoiding
severe unemployment and stress"
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Pittsburgh Train
Crash Seen Caused
By'Dead' Engineer
Bureau Says Pilot
Must Haze Been
Unconscious.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Possibility that dead man was at
the throttle Of the engine OF the
Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train
which plunged off a viaduct in Pitts
burgh February 26, carrying II persons
to their deaths, was suggested today
by the Interstate Commerce Commis-
sion's Safety Bureau.
Excessive speed on a curve was
blamed by the bureau Tor the wreck,
in which IL persons were killed and
46 were injured.
The train did the last "a miles Of
its run, including one stop, in 26 min
utes.
The speed Of trains on this curve
under the rules was supposed to be
not over IS miles an hour.
In view of the circumstances" the
bureau said, lit appears that En-
gineman Shaw must have been either
dead or so incapacitated as to pre-
vent him from taking the proper steps
to bring his train under control"
Evening star., 1934-04-14
FLOODS KILL TRIO
IN new ENGLAND
Rains Swell Rivers Dangerously.
Streets of Cities Covered
by Water.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
BOSTON; April 14-Three lives
were taken by New England's rivers
as they continued to swell to danger
GUS proportions last night in Western
Massachusetts, and Southern New
Hampshire.
The relief which came to residents
along the northern extensions of the
streams as the rivers swept toward the
sea was matched by the anxiety of
those living downstream.
The Connecticut in Western Massa-
chuSetts and the MerIimack In New
Hampshire swelled hourly. 1t was the
Connecticut that held the secret of
one death, while the Merrimack rose
to such proportions that five families
in the lowlands Of Concord, N. H.,
were ordered from their homes.
A body believed to have been that
Of woman was tossed about tree
trunk in the Connecticut at Turner's
Falls for 10 hours and just as 1t was
about to be pulled out, swept away.
Another death was reported from
Littleton, N. H., where Herman Nor
rill, 10. drowned while trying to take
up foot bridge before it could be
swept away. At Newton, Mass, Robert
Martinez, S, fell into the Charles
River and drowned yesterday.
At Concord the Merrimack rolled
8,4 feet high over the f1ashboards Of
dam. 1t flooded streets and side
walks. Further down the stream, at
Lawrence. Mass, the river was within
little more than a foot Of the danger
line Of overfowing. Between Concord
and Lawrence, at Manchester, N. H.,
workmen In q section of the Arnod
Mills worked with hip boots in 20
inches Of water which covered the
floor.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Chicago and State
Argue Witnesses
"Whoopee'' Bill
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HICAG April IA
"whoopee" bill of over 5000 was
outstanding today. and the Police
Department and States attorneys
Office were arguing who, If either,
should pay 1t.
It came about when three wit
nesses in a murder trial, Mrs.
Mary Regan, her sister, Mrs. Elsie
Buckhein, and her mother, Mrs.
May Watley, were given board
and lodging in hotel by the
States attorneys ONCE, which
also furnished a guard.
The hotel bill was ST., but
there were incidental items, in
cluding cigarettes, whisky, COS
metics, cigars, magazine and sun
dry drug store articles which
totaled an additional 5000.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
FRIDAY 18TH BIRTHDAY
BRINGS VIDAL H0NORS
Officials Remember Associate on
His seth, Three Times IS,
Anniversary.

A miniature "seadrome." in q basin
of water, marked from Harold
Ickes"; rubber dagger from the
Army general staff" a water pistol
from "the Navy" and other perculiar
gifts featured a surprise birthday
party for Eugene L. Vidal, director
OF aeronautics, Department of Com
merce, at his office yesterday.
1t was pointed out to Vidal that
his birthday fell on Friday, the 18th
and that he was 80 years old-three
times 13-and it was fitting that some
observance of the day should be held.
The party was given under direction
of his secretary, Miss Estelle Tinney,
by employees of the Aeronautics
Branch. j. Carroll Gone, assistant di-
rector, was master Of ceremonies.
After receiving the gifts" most Of
which travestied activities of the
branch, Vidal, In an impromptu
speech, assured his employees that
''the Department of Commerce did
not cancel the airmail contracts"
Evening star., 1934-04-14
TWO CHILDREN HURT

Two small children were injured
late yesterday when supposedly
empty gasoline drum exploded in a
barn at the home of Walter S. Phelps,
28o6 Thirtieth street northeast. One
OF the children dropped a match in
the 5o-gallon barrel, according to
police.
The youngsters, Nelson Bond Phelps,
8, and the child of a neighbor, Vir-
ginia May O'Dell, 5, of $500 Thirtieth
street northeast, were burned and in
jured by pieces of shattered metal
from the bursted drum. They were
treated at Sibley Hospital and re-
turned to their homes.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Cop. ASKS FUSION
TO SAVE LIBERTY
Minnesota Party Invites
Democrats to Help Fight
"Sovietism."
Ry the Associated Press.


MINNEAPOLIS, April 14-Fore-
seeing what is believed will be a
fight between "Sovietism and Ameri-
canism," the State Republican con-
vention yesterday left open the way
for a fusion with Democrats in the
next election. 1t refused to indorse
any one for United States Senator,
and picked Martin Nelson, Austin, as
gubernatorial candidate.
The Farmer-Labor party has ad-
vocated a sweeping program of pub
lie ownership.
The convention adopted a resolu-
ton declaring mot since the Civil
War days have the citizens of Mime
sofa been brought face TO face with
more serious situation that con-
fronts US today"
Policy Differs.
1.-TWO great parties in the United
States, the Republicans and the
Democrats, now furnish the vehicles
for expression Of the peoples will" 4"
the resolution said They have Diff
fered in matters of policy upon eco
nonic and other similar uqetsions,
but they have never differed IN their
devotion to American institutions,
American liberty and ideals, and when
these are threatened patriotic citizens
OF all parties can and should join
hands against the common menace
Our system Of State government
has been challenged by a far-reach-
ing philosophy of life which means
the entire subordination Of the rights
Of the individual to a socialized and
sovietized dictatorship, involves the
ownership of the home. the farm and
of small business, threatens our
school system, seeks to impose COL
lectivism upon all our industries and
would result in the enslavement of
labor"
Definite Step Later.
Delegates will defer until later
definite step toward fusion with the
State Democratic party.
The convention urged organiza ton
of voters into groups throughout the
State, regardless of party Affiliations.
by the signing Of petitions against
the Farmer-Labor platform.
An effort was made to include in
the platform demands for repeal of
the national economy act and request
for immediate payment of the SOL
diers' bonus, but these were rejected
by the Resolutions Committee.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
SMALL LENDERS
LICENSES URGED
Senator Reynolds Con.
cIudes Hearings on
Usury Laws Here.

All concerns engaged in the small
loan business in the District should
be required to take out licenses, in
the opinion of Senator Reynolds,
Democrat of North Carolina, who
concluded subcommittee hearings yes
terday on proposed changes in the
laws relating to usury and small loans
here. Decision will be reached next
week on the form of legislation to
be suggested to the Senate District
Committee.
Consider Fee Reduction.
1t was brought out during the hear
ings that there is an existing law
requiring all persons or firms making
loans with a greater rate of interest
than per cent year to obtain a
license costing $500 a year. There
was also discussion yesterday OF the
advisability Of reducing the license fee
to obtain only sufficient revenue to
cover the cost of inspection and super
vision.
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman said he does not see any
reason why all those making loans of
the kind covered by the existing law
should not be required to take out
licenses, adding that If the license fee
is too high Congress could consider
that question.
Senator Reynolds suggested a $3.50
license fee might be sufficient, and
Mr.. Prettyman said he would not OBJ
ject to a change in the amount. As
sistant Corporation Counsel Roberts
said the Commissioners could change
the size of the license under the gen.
eral licensing law of year ago. but
they would not have authority with
out action by Congress to make the
proceeds available for direct use in
the inspection and supervision Of loan
companies.
The present small loans law fixes an
interest rate Of l per cent month
on small loans, and Frank A. Hamp-
ton urged the subcommittee again
yesterday not to increase that rate.
Bride Recommendations.
FOIneE corporation COunSel Will
liam w. Bride, representing several
small-loan companies. has suggested
amendments which would make the
rate slightly more than 2 per cent a
month, contending that many of the
States allow a rate of 3 or 3l2 per
cent.
The King bill, on which the sub
committee began the hearings, dealt
only with maximum interest rates
and charges that would be legal un-
der the usury statue Mr.. Bride
has asked the subcommittee to revise
the small-loans law at the same
time. Assistant Corporation Counsel
Roberts. who prepared the suggested
limitations to go into the uSury sta
tute, does not believe the rates sug-
gested for the usury statute should
be written into the small-loans law.
He points out that the definitions
contained in the usury statute are
intended to govern loans of any size,
whereas the other sections of the
code deal only with loans of small
amount,
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Money Short on Friday, 18th.

TACOMA, Wash. R).-"You'll have
to count those pennies yourselves, to
make sure there are 450 of them,''
Deputy Auditor Arnold Schrup in
formed Jack F. Cook and M. Estella
Reeves, who chose Friday the 18th on
which to purchase marriage license
with pennies they had saved. The
couple counted. recounted and counted
again, blushed and felt in their
pockets. No more pennies were forth
coming. "We're 13 cents Short" they
admitted Excuse us while we go get
the shortage" They returned little
later with the necessary coins.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
ALUMNI NAME LARKIN

George Larkin Of the University of
Cincinnati was elected president OF
the Washington Alumni Chapter of
Delta Tau Delta Fraternity at a meet
ing Thursday night at George Wash
ington University Chapter House, 1924
K street.
Other officers elected were Raymond
Taylor of G. w., vice president, and
e. Gable. also Of G. W., secre-
tary-treasurer. Members Of the board
Of governors chosen were Loren
Chester, University of Illinois; George
Segnan, G. W.; Camden McAtee,
University of Illinois; Robert B. Mont
eomery. Lafayette College, and =. II.
Morhart, Lehigh University.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
TIRE PRICE WAR
HELD DISASTROUS
Head of Charlotte Concern
Says Manufacturers Were
Hard Hit.
BY the Associated Press.

Dy INC ASsOCldIeQ FTcSS.
Price wars climaxed by Slashes a
year ago were described Yesterday as
having pretty nearly ruined so Der
cent Of the manufacturers in the rub
Der tire industry"
At a Federal Trade Commission
hearing on its citation of the Good
year Tire & Rubber Co. Irving Els
brough, president Of the McClaren
Rubber Co. Of Charlotte, N. c., tes-
titled 1t cost his concern more than
$l94, 200 from 1881 to date this year
in rebates to dealers to enable them
TO meet competition.
Blames Sears, Roebuck.
Eisbrough declared the price struc-
ture in the industry began going
down" In 1927 when, he said, 1t was
reported Goodyear contracted to make
so-called special brand" tires for
Sears, Roebuck g. Co. He largely
blamed reduced prices by Sears for
the price wars.
1t is on charge that Goodyear al
lowed Sears a rs per cent price dis
elimination and secret rebates that
the Trade Commission has based its
citation for alleged violation of the
Clayton antitrust act.
II Sears, Roebuck," said E:sbrough.
rs allowed to continue to purchase
tires from Goodyear with the prestige
OF Goodyear behind that product with
prices as I understand from this in
vestigation, it could only result In our
company passing out Of business"
Truce Now in Effect.
He added he didn't believe "any
other independent manufacturer of
similar size can stand the price COM
petition much longer than we can"
Eisbrough started to tell of mem
bers of the industry being summoned
here last month by Recovery Admin
istrator Hugh S. johnson as a result
Of the latest price war, but Goodyear
counsel interrupted and his statement
was stricken from the record.
A truce now is in effect, and while
the Trade Commissions hearing was
in progress, independent and large
dealers were comforting over code
for retail tire dealers to be inserted
in the rubber tire code. 1t was un-
destood rough draft had been agreed
upon. but its provisions were kept
secret.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April 14-Some-
thing in the nature Of an ''interna-
tional N. r. A. program" was sug-
gested today by British professor as
a possible remedy for the worlds ills.
Admitting that "the problem Of
securing international labor agree
ments is much more difficult than
regulation Of labor standards within
a single country" J. Henry Richard
son Of the University OF Leeds, said
that already q number Of such con-
ventions have been adopted" He
cited one on hours of work in Euro
pean coal mines.
Other remedies which he suggested
in a paper prepared for delivery be-
fore the American Academy of Polit-
ical and Social Science today were
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Dead" Man Proves Self Alive.

DENVER (R.-Rev. Val Higgins of
Denver has convinced an Albany, N.
Y, court and an insurance. firm that
he is not dead. Two years ago Mr.
Higgins sister, Miss Kate Higgins, died
at Albany and left a small estate.
When efforts to locate the minister
failed his relatives had him declared
legally dead and the estate was divided
among them. They also collected his
insurance, the minister said. He
learned about it and then went to
Albany, where he proved himself alive,
and the relatives paid back the in
surance. The minister lost track of
his family n years ago, but was re-
united with the survivors In Albany.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
HIS FORTUNE GONE,
MAN IS FOUND DEAD
James Martin, Son of Late Rep
resentative, Quoted as Threat
ening Suicide.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 14-His $50, 900
fortune wiped out by bank failures,
the body of James Martin, As, son of
the late Representative Charles Mar
tin of the fourth district, was found
shot to death in his home.
The widow told police Martin had
been respondent since loss of his for
tune, had been for a time a South
Park policeman, but recently had been
without employment.
He threatened to kill himself when
I came home" she said. Il made
him promise not to do so, then fell
asleep"
Evening star., 1934-04-14
Blind Misleads Blind,
So Musician Gets a
Divorce From Wife

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, April 14.-It was,
explained Claude E. Judge, blind
musician, a case of the blind
misleading the blind.
He obtained a divorce from his
wife, Mildred, also blind, who
aided him in a stage act, stating
that she ran away with James
Loves, also blind.
Judges attorney said the blind
musician planned to marry Miss
Jane williams, blind singer, as
soon as the decree was signed.
Evening star., 1934-04-14
CLARK GETS POU POST
Colleague Made Member of House
Rules Committee.

Representative Clark, Democrat, OF
North Carolina, was selected today to
succeed his late colleague, Representa-
tive Pou, Democrat, of North Carolina,
as a member of the important House
Rules Committee.
To accept the Rules post, Clark
must give up all other committee as
signments, including the Craftsmanship
of Elections No. 1, which probably will
fall to Representative Parker, DEM
ocrat, of Georgia, under the seniority
custom.
Pou was chairman of the Rules
Committee. Representative Bankhead,
Democrat, Of Alabama, succeeded him
as chairman.