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The Washington times., 1934-07-30
REDS ARE COUSINS

Hal Schumacher, New York
Giants highlander, looks on the
Cincinnati Reds as real cousins.
Schumacher has been in the Ma
tional League for three seasons
and the Reds have yet to defeat
him, while he has tanned them II
times.
The Washington times., 1934-07-30
OBTAIN TREMARK

Wilkes-Barre has obtained Nick
Tremark, young outfielder, from
the Brooklyn Dodgers on option.
He was originally sent to Albany,
but saw no service there and was
recalled by the Dodgers and re-
assigned to the BaronS.
The Washington times., 1934-07-30
Fishing Captain Complains
Of Unskilled Anglers
By GINO SINH

There are two sides to every question
Every complaints pour in from angler
dissatisfied and often ncensed by treatment accorded then
by fishing boatmen.
The Washington times., 1934-07-30
NETMEN CLASH
TOMORROW

Play-off for the Departmental
Doubles Tennis League cham
pionship begins tomorrow at S
p. m. with Treasury opposing
Patent office on the Henry Park
courts and war Department
meeting Agriculture on the Mon.
umentS courts. The winners meet
in a final match for the cham
pionShip.
Treasury won the Section A
title, while Patent Office was
runner-up in Section B. Agricul-
ture topped Section B, while War
Department placed second in
Section A.
HOLD SWIM PARTY
Maryland Club Gardens will
hold a splash party tonight at
1870 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

BY the Associated Press.
r OS ANGELES, June 23.-How
l would you like to have little
/ oil we'll in your home?
- That question was answered
emphatically in the affirmative
here today by the groceryman, the
baker and others.
In the darkest days of the depres-
sion, it was comforting to have an oil
well pumping away in the yard or
Evening star., 1934-06-24
CAPACITY CROWDS HAIL
OLD DRAMA FAV0RITES
"East Lynne" and "Ten Nights
in a Bar Room" Played in
Tobacco Barn Theater.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, June % @.-
Old dramatic favorites like East
Lynne" and "Ten Nights in q Bar
Room" are drawing capacity audi
ences to an old tobacco barn remod-
eled into a theater on the outskirts of
Nashville.
The playhouse Is operated by Miss
Mary Graham Gloster, former student
under DR.. George Pierce Baker In the
School Of Dramatic Arts at Yale. AS
sisting her is q group Of experienced
amateur dramatists.
The first offering was EAST Lynne"
It was a "sel-out" and the crowd
went wild, alternately weeping at
beautiful Lady Isabel's woes and boo
ing villainous Sir Francis Levison.
All Of the players were in costumes
typical Of a period known to most Of
those in the audience only through
old family picture albums. And long.
studied effort made their manner of
speech In keeping with the days of BIZ
cycle-riding parties and hymn-sing-
ing around the little organ In the
parlor.
The show operates the last three
nights of the week and a different
drama Is presented each time. Under
present plans, all win be Of the old
fashioned. melodramatic sort wherein
distressed ladies cry "Save me, oh
save me from that villain" and the
villain snorts "Cursesl fotled again."
Evening star., 1934-06-24
EXPERTS PONDER
OKLAHOMA VOTE
Calculate Murray's Posi-
biIities of Carrying Home
County.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated fTeSs.
OKLAHOMA CITY, June 23.-The
political dopesters, who are just. as
happy with a sharp pencil and cleo
ton returns as the average citizen Is
with a cane pole, clear stream and a
can of worms, have debunked another
aoage.
Remember that one that goes "A
prophet is not without honor save in
his own country?"
Well, it doesn't apply generally to
candidates for the Governors chair in
Oklahoma.
Only two Oklahoma Governors ever
have suffered the loss of their home
county's votes in general elections.
Never has a Governor lost his
bailiwick in a primary.
Oklahoma's first Governor, C.. N
Haskell, was the first chief to feel his
face get red as the returns came in
from his home county election night.
Haskell lost Muskogee County by 80
votes to his Republican opponent,
Frank FrantZ, October "a, 1907.
More than 1000 votes were cast in
that county in the general election.
Such a situation did not occur again
until November 7, 1922, when Jack
Walton lost Oklahoma County, the
place of his residence, to the Repub-
hcan, John Fields, by 5000 margin.
1t is significant, say the political
seers, that both Haskell and Walton
were defeated in the general elections
which saw them lose the support of
their home counties, although each
later attained the gubernatorial chair
Evening star., 1934-06-24
TENNESSEE WELCOMES
M'GRADY, ONCE 0USTED
Assistant Secretary of Labor Was
"Deported" by self-Appointed
Committee in 1899.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, June 23.-When
Edward F. McGrady came to Ten
nessee In 1929 he was escorted out Of
the State.
He was back in Tennessee this week
after being welcomed to Memphis by
her leading citizens. He accompanied
Gen. Hugh S. johnson, N. r. A. ad-
ministrator, who spoke here.
McGrady recalled the visit he made
in 1929 to Elizabethton, in Eastern
Tennessee, several hundred miles from
Memphis. A strike was on at the
time.
McGrady, now an assistant secretary
OF labor and an assistant N. r. A..
administrator, said he went before a
meeting OF leading citizens to point
out that raising of wages of workers
would benefit the entire community"
AT 2 am, the next morning." he
continued, about 20 gentlemen filed
into my little hotel room. They very
kindly packed my bag for me. They
drove me to the State line near
Bristol, told me that was a foreigner,
that the happiness of the valley did
not depend on my presence there and
that they would bury me on the
mountain side if returned"
McGrady said he later telephoned
his labor friends at Elizabethton and
that he returned there, driving with
them up and down the streets in
automobiles
Evening star., 1934-06-24
lEW RELIEF MEASURES DOOM CITY POOR HOUSES
OIL WELLS WORK AT HOME
AS TRADESMEN TEND SHOP
Many Los Angeles Residents Simply
Turn on Automatic Machinery and
Net $50 Monthly.

under the kitchen floor, these persons
who own one declared.
Ever since e. L. Doheny, who helped
to make oil history, saw a colored
man hauling a wagon load Of tar
chunks for fuel in 1892, this city has
had scores of wells within short walk
ing distance Of the city hall and CEN
trail business district
Doheny knew oil might be found
near the place the tar was found. He
leased vacant lot nearby, on Patton
street, a short distance from the
present site of Aimee Semple Nc
Pherson's temple. Digging down 225
feet, Doheny found oil in paying
quantities. The boom was on.
Derricks Dot City.
More than 5000 wells were sunk by
Doheny and others from Patton
street to Western avenue, about four
miles to the west, including property
on which today are some Of the most
exclusive homes and apartment
houses in the city.
AS property values scared, the field
dwindled until only about 200 wells
remain today, all in a crowded
neighborhood near the city hall.
These, however, are being pumped
continuously. Some Of these wells,
which average 1000 feet in depth.
are under homes, one derrick being
built through the side Of house.
Earnings average from SIS to $50 net
a month per well.
Before going to their grocery stores,
bakeries and other businesses, where
the remainder of their living is
earned, the well owners, most of
whom have only one well each,
merely have to look out Of their home
windows to see if the pumps are
going. for the wells are almost self
operating.
Gas Runs Machinery.
Enough gas is produced to run
pumping machinery and to supply
owners Of the property and their
neighbors with all they can use,
In what was swamp and wild
duck hunting ground 80 years ago,
nine miles west on Beverly boule-
ward from the city hall, remain six
of several hundred wells. One of
these is in the center of picturesque
La Cienega boulevard, which runs to-
ward the mountains, site OF many
beautiful mansions. Electric lights
flash all night to warn motorists Of
the huge derrick in the center of
the thoroughfare. Several more wells
are a few miles to the west, within
stones throw of one OF the major film
studios.
Millions Versus Beauty.
The average citizen may denounce
the well machinery and equipment as
eve sores, but owners have taken mil
lions of dollars worth Of petroleum
from them and the asphalt pits OF
this oil region. near La Brea and
Wiltshire boulevard, have preserved
priceless scientific data.
During pliocene times huge ami
mails and birds fell into these asphalt
death traps, to be preserved until
today. Scientists have found here
complete skeletons Of prehistoric
camels, sloths, gigantic condors and
other birds and large saber-tooth
tigers, many Of whose tuSkS were nine
inches long.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Corn-Hog Checks Pay Taxes
And Debts; Luxuries Are Out
Io,oa Store Manager Expected to Sell
Some Radios, but Not One Vas Pur-
chased With n. Il. A. Money.

money was noticeable in other depart
ments, too. We sold clothing. kitchen
tables, odd chairs and kitchen uten-
sils. We expected to sell some radios.
We didn't sell one. Some farmers
paid three-year -old bills.
H. L. johnson, Monroe, farmer
happened to be well situated finan-
cially. so didn't have to use my corn
hog check right away.
F. H. McCarl, Newton, Jasper
County treasurer-More than $4,000
has come into the office here in taxes
as direct result of corn-hog checks.
j. L Go1, Knoxville, farmer-when
my check arrives I suppose part Of 1t
will go toward squaring accounts and
the remainder for general living ex-
penses at home. may have to use
part Of it for buying feed.
Maynard Lust, Newton, farmer-I
suppose my check will be used for
general expenses. One good thing
about the whole program has been
the corn sealing (the Government
loan on corn). Many more persons
than there are would be desperate for
feed right now II that corn had not
been kept on the farms through the
Winter.
Horace Smith, Knoxville, farmer
About half of my $3.50 check went for
taxes, some Of it for old bills and
the rest just went, anyway. It's all
gone and I'm ready for another one.
Emory Krebs, Colfax, farmer-My
check will square me all up with my
creditors. will pay the last in
stallment on some farm machinery
and for some feed I'm throwing to
the hogs. I wish Wallace would crack
the whip over the packers. Recent
actions of the hog market indicate
some fishy rhanipulations, but how to
prove it Is the question. If the A A. A.
can tell a hatcheryman not to sell
chicks under cost Of production, why
can't it tell a farmer not to sell
eggs under a certain price or sell hogs
under cost Of production? This pro-
gram is lopsided, but 1t is a start.
F. F. Failor, ST., Newton, seedman-
have sold hundreds of bushels of
forage crop seeds since those checks
arrived. I sold one man some red
clover seed which he expects to hold
until next Spring, when he antici-
pateS shortage Of clover.
Copyright. 1894. by the North American
Newspaper Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Permanent C. C. C.
URGED BY OHIOAN
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, June ga
permanent Civilian Conservation
Corps is proposed by Alexander Thom-
son, president of the Ohio State
Chamber Of Commerce.
Eve must devise plan to publicly
employ on o permanent basis a corps
Of men who viii be engaged in con-
servation work Of high character and
who will be able to provide a civic
and honorable service while being
spared from the cauldron of unem-
ployment," Thomson advocates.
He believes career service" In
small units under Government direc-
ton would be an ideal way of ham
ding future conservation work.
He warns that any future conser-
vation program must not be per-
mitted to decrease the value and
productivity of a watershed.
'Let us not forget" he says, that
every cubic yard Of silt IN the Mis-
sissippi River Delta at one time was
bottom land on some farmside.
Further, this silt usually is symbolical
of'a graveyard of farm on the side
Of some hill. This is q sorry COM
mentary on the economic cost Of ero-
sion caused by the stripping Of our
forest growth" -
Evening star., 1934-06-24
HUGE AQUEDUCT
BEATS SCHEDULE
rs Miles of Tunnel Bored
on Colorado River
Project.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, June 23.-Driving
immense tunnels through heavy rock
formations at the rate of IS to 2s
feet a day. a construction army of
some 4,40o workers is progressing well
ahead of schedule in cutting a river
size aqueduct through 241 miles of
mountains and desert.
More than Is miles Of the 81 miles
Of tunnel, mostly Is feet in diameter,
have been bored. With the crews
working "a hours a day, Southern
California's dream off tapping the
Colorado River should be realized
within about four and half years.
The Governments underwriting of
the 1920, 100000 project assured the
financing. Arizona's opposition to
diversion Of water may present legal
obstacles for later court adjudication,
but the possibilities Of interruption of
the actual building Of the vast water
system are regarded by Californian in
terests as remote.
NCAt AuPO1 Idub uulL 10 DC uIlu6T"
taken will be construction of the Par
ker Diversion Dam, 16 miles upstream
from Parker, Ariz. It will cost $13,-
000, 900 and will create lake SO miles
long. 1t is one of three dams in the
Colorado River development program,
which, including the Boulder Canyon
Dam and appurtenances and the ALL
American Canal, involves q total ex-
penditure of about S418, 900 900.
Gov. B. B. Moeur Of Arizona sent
National Guardsmen to the Arizona
side Of the Parker Dam site to safe
guard the States interests. The work
then underway was completed with
out hindrance from the Guardsmen.
Whether more material opposition
will be offered when the work of
anchoring the dam to the Arizona
shore begins, remains to be seen. The
structure will be built by the United
States Reclamation Service, for the
metropolitan water district, comprised
of IS Southern California communities
which eventually will supply the
money.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
OLD.ACE PENSIONS, HOME
INSURANCE OPEN NEW ERA
Admissions to New York's Home for
Civil War, Despite Depression.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PoorhouSeS are passing away
" in this country and a new
L type of hospital is appearing
in their stead intended only
for the INDECENT whose infrmities re-
Quire institutional care A striking
instance of this trend in the first
social survey of New Yorks City
Home for the Aged and Infirm being
made under the direction of DR.. S. S
Goldwater commissioner of hospitals
Admissions to the institution are at
time since the Civil War, despite the
vast increase of population and re-
cent adverse conditions.
The facts being cleaned by the new
superintendent of the City Home,
Maxwell Lewis, a sociological expert,
are being analyZed They indicate
that the decline in the number of in
mates has been due to many causes.
Chief among those are old-age pen
sions and systems of home relief un-
known when the outmoded aims
houses were established
A croSs-Section of American life
and conditions for a hundred years is
presented in the City Home today.
Its Oldest inmate is a year beyond the
century mark In the home and in
the affiliated farm colony on Staten
Island are several other centenarians.
Many other inmates are older than
80. A census shows that the dweller
there longest arrived in 1876.
Some Sheltered Half Century.
Others admitted back in the '8Os
have passed half a century and more
IN helplessness. The memories of most
OF these aged men and women are
clear and they are able to tell the
circumstances which made them de-
pendent Their stories are being writ
ten up by the Social Service division
to CLEAN all the facts possible on the
causes Of poverty.
Financial and economic recessions
affecting the Nation as a whole figure
extensively. The curve of the yearly
admissions to the City Home, once
the almShouSe, is virtually a history
of these disturbances, once called
panics. The Civil War and the years
in which the Nation struggled for
reconstruction were marked with deeu
distress. The admission to the City
Home in 1867 were about 5000. There
was a slight drop and then an increase
from the BLACK Friday" of 1869 and
again from the panic of 1873.
Hard times came again p'84 and
'89; things were going badly in the
troubled days of 1893 and '97. The
present century opened with a depres-
sion and in 1907 came another panic.
Lack of employment and a high cost
of living ensued, and in 1912 and. '13
more of the dependent poor than
ever before were taken to the shelter
on Welfare Island. The peak, 1900
admissions, was reached; then the
census was reduced somewhat by
transfers to the Farm Colony on
Staten Island
Tide Turned in 1929.
The admissions in 1929 rose and
then, though want stalked the land,
came a sharp drop. Admissions this
year up to June 10 were only 1,049,
and there is every indication that they
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
~ ES MONIES, Iowa, June %
(NANA). - First benefit
checks in the Governments
- corn-hog reduction program
are beginning to trickle into
the corn belt. Approximately $4,000
900 of the $4,000, 900 scheduled to
come into Iowa this year has been re-
ceived.
Although s6o, ,0oo, 900 was loaned by
the Government to Iowa farmers
earlier this year on corn at IS cents a
bushel, the present benefit checks are
the first outright payments for land
leased by the Government and for hog
reduction. Corn is now selling above
the loan figure. Processing taxes COL
lected by the Government since last
November will meet the costs Of the
benefit checks.
Interviews Made.
To ascertain effects Of the checks
on business and farmers, reporters
were sent into Jasper and Marion
Counties for random interviews. Some
of the interviews follow:
o. L. Karsten, First National Bank,
Newton-We have found that larger
percentage of the corn-hog checks
apparently were used to pay OF obli-
cations and taxes. In no instance
have we noted evidence of luxury
buying. purchases largely being simple
necessities.
Walton Conover, Sully, farmer-We
are using our checks largely to pay
bills.
Sam Figelman, Newton, store man
ager-When the checks arrived we
had q real run on hog wire here. The
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Lake Boats Lure
Chicago Visitors
With Darkey Songs

CHICAGO, June % @.-The
song Of darkies on the levee en-
tertains Chicago-for a price.
Strollers across Michigan
Boulevard Bridge can lean on
the rail and absorb Southern
atmosphere" coming from rival
speed boat operators who in
augurated the ballyhoo to entice
customers for dashes around in
Lake Michigan.
1t started last year when the
original concessionaire intro
duced free entertainment to lure
passengers on warm evenings.
With the aid of a megaphone,
a tin pan drummer and dusky
male dancer, he soon had the
bridge lined with spectators, while
across the river a rival went
begging for business.
But this year all has been
changed. Besides singing and
dancing, the rival now has a
water bicycle artist who per-
forms on his" half Of the river
and all but has the bridge sag
ging with onlookers.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Ballot Is Second
In South Carolina
On Liquor Issue
august % Referendum,
to SerUe as RecOmme1,-
datiOn to Legislature.

COLUMBIA, S. c., June 3d.
A referendum August 28-the second
in 10 months-will ascertain whether
the winds of popular sentiment are
blowing to or from legal liquor in
South Carolina.
Not fully satisfied with the repeal
referendum last November, in which
State-w wide prohibition was main
tanned by a narrow margin, the re-
cent session of the Legislature voted
to submit the issue again In the DEM
ocratic primary of late Summer.
The forthcoming balloting is de-
signed to serve only as a "recommen-
dation" to the next General Assem-
bly-and therefore it lacks the teeth
of a mandate.
Test Sentiment Strong.
Strong sentiment for another test
was shown when the vote counters
had barely completed their task last
November. Some legislators cited
prohibitions slim majority of only
5000 votes and made much ado over
the fact the total number of ballots
cast in the referendum was less than
10000.
A demand arose for a test in the
Democratic primary, where the re-
quirements for voting are less Strin-
gent and the normal ballot totals
more than 250,000. Moreover this is
election year for legislators and State
officers, and some of the political
leaders obviously preferred putting
the question up to the voters rather
than have them hoist it in the midst
Of the campaign.
Dry spokesmen protested second
battle on the same issue within 10
months was "unsportsmanlike and
unfair" Nevertheless, the Legisla-
ture provided machinery for the
primary referendum but specified it
was to be regarded only as recon-
nendation."
Meantime Republicans protested
they and others outside the Demo-
cratic fold might be barred from ex-
pressing themselves. They argued
that ruthless injustice" would be
done unless Democratic party rules
were waived to permit all parties and
factions to participate in the refer
endum.
They challenged the attorney gen.
eral of the State, a Democrat, to make
ruling as to whether the people
or only the Democrats could vote on
'this important ISSUE"
Dallas A. Gardner, State chairman
and j. G. Hambright, national COM
mitteeman, were spokesmen for the
Republican party. And although
their challenge was couched in strong
Language, the Democrats thus far
have ignored 1t.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
MONTANA TO TEST
NEW DEAL IN JULY
G. O. p. Candidate for Sen
ate Challenges Democrats
"UnWavering" Support.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
HELENA, Mont, June 23.-Mon-
tana will be a testing ground for the
Roosevelt administration next month
In a typically eloquent announce
ment, George M. Bourquin, Repub-
lican. former Federal district Judge,
brought the new deal" issue into the
Montana primary of July II by de-
claring he is for it, but only after
it is put through the furnace of the
Constitution, the Stag of mis-deal and
raw-deal run off, and the recovery of
any pure metal of the square deal OF
Theodore Roosevelt"
It was challenge to Senators Bur-
ton K. Wheeler and John E. Erickson
whose allegiance to President Roose-
velt and his theories has been un-
wavering.
Bourquin, who retired in June after
more than 20 years on the Federal
bench, will seek the Republican nomi-
nation for the United State Senate
for the long term. Senator Wheeler,
a Democrat, as candidate for re-
election, will seek the nomination to
oppose the 70-year-old Bourquin,
whose decisions, handed down from
Federal benches is as widely separ-
ated States as New Jersey and Cali
fornia, have attracted Nationwide at
tention.
Government by the peoples laws
and not by various mems uncertain
wills must be maintained" Bourquin
said.
Il am for preservation of the Con-
stitution at any cost
Montana, normally Democratic, add
ed a flood of ballots to the heavy
Democratic majorities in the last gen.
eral election.
Bourquin will be opposed in the
Republican primary by o. H. P. Shell
ley, publisher of Red Lodge. Sena-
tor Wheeler will be in the Democratic
contest against Bert Replogle, State
Representative from Ievistoun