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The Washington times., 1934-08-09
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LAND IN LONDON

LONDON, Aug. 9 d.NS0.
The Transatlantic airplane Trail
of The Caribou" attempting a
nonstop flight from Toronto to
Bagdad, landed at Heston Air
drome, near London, at 6 p. m.
moon, Washington time) today,
according to the Evening Stand
ard.
The f1iers, James Ayling and
Leonard Reid, had left Toronto
at 5:12 a. M, E. D. T., yesterday
intent on establishing new long
distance flight record.
They had not been reported
since setting out over the Allan.
tic yesterday afternoon.
The airmen were reported to
have made a good landing and
taken off again Immediately.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Drought Cattle
Sent to Buffalo

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 UN.SO.
The first shipment Of Western
cattle to be distributed to needy
families in New York State will
arrive today at Buffalo, according
to Samuel B. Barrows, of the
Federal Emergency Relief Admin
istration here. There will be 1000
head in the first shipment, Mr..
BarrowS said. More than 100000
animals, which otherwise would
have starved in the drought areas,
will eventually reach the Eastern
section Of the country.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
METAL BASE.
FOR MONEY
REVISED
0ne-Fourth of Currency to Be
Backed by Seized Stocks;
Price Rise ForeSeen
BY International News Service
President Roosevelt today issued

BY International News Service
President Roosevelt today issued
a proclamation Matchmaking sill.
yer pursuant to the silver pur.
chase act of 1884.
Under this proclamation, the
Government will seize all silver
bullion in the United States at a
price of approximately 49.5 cents
per ounce.
Silver coin or silver enroute to
the United States at this time
was excepted from the proclama-
tion.
New Metal is Higher
The present policy as to the
purchase Of newly-mined silver at
64.5 cents per ounce will be- con-
tinued.
Secretary Morgenthau issued
the following statement:
"The President today issued
q proclamation and an Execu-
tive order which together pro-
vide for the naturalization of
silver pursuant to the provisions
of section seven of the Silver
Purchase act of 1884.
"The proclamation authorizes
the mintS to receive any and
all silver situated in the United
States on August 9, 1884. The
mints are directed to deduct
as seigniOrage, etc., 81 and S-25
per cent of the silver so re-
ceived and to return to the
depOsitOr in standard silver dol.
lars, silver certificates, or other
coin or currency of the United
States an amount equal to the
monetary yaAWe of the balance;
that is, the nintS will return
for each fine troy ounce of
silver so received, an amount
equal to 50.O1 cents q fine troy
ounce.
WILL TAKE ALL SILVER
'The Executive order requires
that all silver situated in the
United States on August 8,
1884, be delivered to the mintS
within 80 days. Certain classes
Of silver are excepted from this
requirement.
sample provision is made for
licenses to cover silver needed
for industrial uses and to full
fill outstanding obligations to
deliver silver. Foreign and do
mestic coins, silver ore, silver
owned by foreign governments
and foreign central banks, and
silver in fabricated articles do
not have to be turned in under
the Executive order issued to-
day. Domestic silver mined
since December FL, 1888, may
still be delivered to the mints
under the proclamation of that
day."
The Washington times., 1934-08-09

Isabel Messmer, alias Ruby
Coleman, petite gun girl" who
has been arrested in connection
with a number of robberies, was
taken into custody here today in
a downtown hotel.
Police found a small automatic
pistol in her room in a hotel in
the 900 block E st. N. w. She
was taken to headquarters, photo
graphed and fingerprinted, and
held for questioning in connection
with a number Of local holdups.
The girl, who is only 19 years
old and S feet inch tall, admitted
that she has been arrested in
pittsburgh and New York for
violation Of the gun laws, detec-
tives said.
She was arrested here July l,
last year, armed with a .38-caliber
automatic pistol, and forfeited $25
collateral, the records disclosed.
She also was arrested in Miami,
Fla, in connection with a robbery.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
MINIS TO Get
SiLuer for
Coinage
By International News Service

by 4HtcEAhIAOhdA NCnC 'ASO
Naturalization of silver simply
means that the bullion stocks OF
the country amounting to a prob
able maximum of 250,000, 900
ounces will be seized by the Gov
ernment within 80 days.
The Treasury will pay just un-
der so cents an ounce for this
silver.
The bullion will be placed in the
Treasury and the mints. It will be
coined into silver pieces from
dimes to dollars or maintained in
bullion form as the backing for
the issuance of silver certificates
which are now being printed at
the Bureau Of Engraving and
Printing.
Under the silver purchase act
of 1884 the Treasury is required
to set up a monetary system based
on three fourths gold and one
fourth silver. To obtain the
gigantic amount Of silver neces-
sary the Treasury felt it neces-
sary to seize the available stocks.
Coin, fabricated silver, that
owned by foreign governments
and central banks, and certain
other holdings of the metal were
excepted. The order provided
that adequate silver would be
avilable for industrial, art, and
other legitimate purposes. The
Treasury will continue to buy
rewly-mined silver at 6412 cents
an 0I1nca
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
BEELER PLAN
LISTS NEW
CARROUTES !
Report by Engineers Attacks
White House Tunnel As
Costly, Inadequate
BY EARL GOODWIN

Details of the Beeler street car
rerouting plans began to make
their appearance today with the
publication Of the first Of the
three alternative proposals. The
plans as made public today show
a completely new vision of city
transportation in washington, as
if the engineers had designed a
new system for a city that had no
transportation.
The Beeler engineers have no
faith in the proposed underpass
beneath the White House grounds,
which has been worked out, it is
understood, by Leland Bartholo-
NEW of the National Capital Parks
and Planning Commission staff.
Tunnel Held Limited
The Beeler engineers carefully
considered this suggestion, and the
report makes the following COM
ment:
''It is felt that such a cOnnec-
tion could not be used as an
alI-day route. It would have to
be used for cars entering the
city. from Georgetown or Con-
necticut Avenue, and this would
be not only an indirect routing
for these patrons but it would
not provide delivery in the busi-
ness area. Such q connection
would be expensive and Of real
value only about two hours q
day, six days in q week. We do
not consider it feasible st this
time"
The report recommends no
parking for automobiles on all
main street car and bus routes,
at least in rush hours; also Sug-
gests that automobile drivers go
to and from their work on routes
apart from street cars.
Dupont Circle Change
Among the details disclosed to-
day and not hitherto made pub
lie are: .-.
Operating Cabin John, Potomac
Heights, and wisconsin Avenue
cars via wisconsin Avenue, M
Street and Pennsylvania Avenue
and discontinuing all cars on
Dumbarton, Twenty-eighth and F
Streets between Dupont Circle
and Wisconsin Avenue. This in
wolves changing the Dupont Circle
tracks to send the cars around
the east of the circle.
The street car problem in the
Potomac Park section Is looked
on as the most difficult because
Of the day and evening conges-
tion. The Beeler report recon-
mends making Eighteenth Street
a one-way artery, northbound;
and Nineteenth Street one-way
Southbound; extending the car
tracks on Eighteenth Street north
to Pennsylvania Avenue instead
Of Zigzagging on F and Seven
teenth Streets.
This would leave Seventeenth
Street q wide thoroughfare for
automobiles and other vehicles
all the way from Pennsylvania
Avenue to ConstitSSion Avenue.
The plan includes reserving
Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Streets exclusively for street cars
in the rush hours.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
.'AdOO Attorney
Cites Judge in Suit

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9.
Judge Frank G. Collier, who
criticized the attorney for Mrs.
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo for OBJ
tanning a divorce in AZ minutes
from Senator william Gibbs Nc
Adoo, was today named defend
ant in a $4,000 damage suit.
The attorney said that as a
result Of the judges criticism he
had suffered "irreparable damage
to his reputation"
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
New Silver Notes
Circulation

New paper money. backed by
silver and printed under the new
silver purchase act, was moving
into circulation yesterday through
the office Of the Treasurer of the
United States and the Federal Re
serve Banks. The banks will give
the new notes right of way to
get as wide a distribution as pos
sible as a concession to congress
sional Silverites. The new dollar
notes bear the signature of Henry
Morgenthau. jr., Secretary of the
Treasury.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Baltimore Woman
Falls 20 Stories

NEW YORK, Aug. 9 GN.sO
Mrs. Helen Quimby, "a, Of Balti-
more, plunged to her death down
the elevator shaft from the Goth
floor of the Hotel New Yorker
today.
. With her husband, Dudley, a
printer, she was visiting a friend
at the hotel. She got off by
mistake at the goth floor and in
attempting to return to the moving
car, lost her balance and fell.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
.LAFOLLETTE.
FRIEND, SAYS
PRESIDENT
Couples Name With Duffy, But
WithhoIds Endorsement in
Wisconsin Speech
By GEORGE r. HOLMES

GREEN BAY, Wis, Aug.
'U.N.SO President Roosevelt
came into the politically turbu
lent and progressive State OF WIS
consin today with a message that
the New Deal" is here to stay
and that there will be no return
to the "Old Deal"
Confidence, he said, is return
ing to every legitimate line OF
business.
Wealth For All to Share
Those who lack that conf
dence, he asserted, are those who
profited unjustly under the OLD
order, "the old law Of the tooth
and claw" He explained:
'"This Government intends no
injury to honest business. The
processes we follow in seeking
social Justice do not in adding
20 general prosperity take from
one and give to another. In
the modern world, the spread
ing out Of opportunity ought
not to consist of rObbing Peter
to pay Paul.
eve are concerned with more
than mere substractiOn and
addition. We are concerned
with the multiplication Of
wealth through cooperative &C
ton; wealth in which all can
share"
The President spoke to an
audience of thousands gathered
to commemorate WiSconsiI1'S ter:
centenary.
Lauds Both Senators
He carefully avoided any refer
ence to the States red-hot SEN
atorial campaign in which young
Bob" La Toilette is running as
an independent, although he did
speak his gratitude to "your two
Senators" for aiding the Admin
istration program. La Toilette
bolted Hoover in 1882 to support
Roosevelt.
Mr.. Roosevelt's speech, in whole,
was a vigorous defense OF the
New Deal policies and challenge
to those who have criticized them.
He said that before he left on
his present trip he had received
letters from two important men,
asking that he do something to
"restore confidence" To them
both, he said, he replied by ask
ing:
"What would you like mo
Say?"
One Of them did not reply, he
stated, while the other
"WrOte me frankly that the
way to restore confidence was
(COntinued on Page S, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Bill
Goes to Lehman

ALBANY. Aug. 9 G.N.SO.-By
a vote Of 80 to 8, the Senate to-
day passed the Ives bill requiring
every teacher in public and pri-
vate schools to swear allegiance
to the Federal and State constitu.
tions. The bill previously had been
passed by the assembly and now
goes to Governor Lehman. He
vetoed a similar bill last spring.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Midshipman Flies
Sea to I'll Father

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. 9.-Mid-
Shipman Wilson G. Reifenrath,
member Of the senior class and
varsity football star at the Naval
Academy is expected to arrive
here today by airplane from the
battleship Wyoming, lying off the
Virginia Capes.
The plane left here yesterday
on a special trip ordered by the
Navy Department to speed him
on the first stage of a journey to
Helena, Mont, where his father
is seriously ill.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
No Politics inNavy,
So Ban Is Unlikely

The ban on politics within Gov
ernment departments, which has
caused such a furore in the
Treasury Department, will leave
the Navy Department unscathed.
Acting Secretary of the Navy
Henry l.. Roosevelt announced
today that there isn't the remot-
est possibility of a ban such as
ordered by Secretary Of the
Treasury Henry Morgenthau, de-
claring:
eve haven't any politics in
the Navy Department, anyway;
so there isn't any need to issue
an order"
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
By JOHN DEAN MILLIGAN

Tomorrow the great Condemnation drive of the Federal
Housing Administration begins.
At that time there will made public the rules and regula
ons by which private financial institutions like banks may
make loans to property for the repairing altering
improving of homes business buildings and other property
pressing need without being in danger of losing cenfor
guarantees the lending agency to 20 cent
of all "modernization" loans it may provide.
Since the Governments liability is limited to OO0O O0O
private capital may safely lend $1,000O0O,OOO.
The idea make characer" loans-unsecured by col
lateral mortgage any other securityo responsible prop
erty
The property owner may be corporation, q laborer, a
business man. And the property to be modernzed may be
home garage hotel apartment house. any other form OF
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Tobacco Growers
Will Hold Parley

Tobacco growers of Prince
Georges county will meet at the
Fair Grounds at Upper Marlboro
Thursday, August %, to inspect
experiments in tobacco growing
that are now being carried on
there.
Many varieties of tobacco have
been planted under different con-
ditions, some in potash plots and
some in weed plots. The resulting
growth Of the plants is expected
to prove highly instructive.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
New York Banker
Gets Housing Job
BIZ International News Service

By 1MUcTmHC1U1TsSE
Roger Stefan, of New York,
today was appointed director Of
modernization credits of the Fed
eral Housing Administration. He
will handle that work under the
immediate direction of Deputy Ad-
ministrator Albert L. Deane. He
has been loaned to FIA by the
National City Bank of New York.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09

The loans will range from $1O0
to $4,000, and will be less expen-
sive than any other short-term
small loans ever made available
on a character" basis, according
to officials of the Federal Housing
Administration.
Need Is Widespread
The need for this opportunity is
great-not only to relieve unenl-
ployment but to make more com.
Portable, safe, and up-to-date many
The Washington times., 1934-08-09

millions of buildings. President
Roosevelt has stated:
MANY of our homes are in
decadent condition, and not fit
for human habitatiOn. They need
repairing and mOdernizing to
bring them up to the standard
of the times"
More than Is per cent Of 1,811,'
426 dwelling units in So cities in
spected during a Civil Works Ad'
Continued on Page 13, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Alarm at Bank
Proves to Be False

A burglar alarm from the Amer.
lean Security and Trust Company
Bank, Fifteenth and New York
Avenue Northwest, brought two
scout cars and headquarters de.
tectives to the scene today only
to find that someone had stepped
on the wires.
Several hundred curious motor.
lists and pedestrians blocked traf.
fic near the bank for several min.
uteS.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Norfolk Bather
browns in Surf

NORFOLK, Va. Aug. 9.-with
his mother, father. sweetheart
and cousin looking on, George Will
son, 81, son Of Lieut.. George Will
son. Of the Norfolk police depart
ment, was drowned at Ocean View
last night in about four feet Of
water.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
County Gets Cows
From Arid Sectors

Montgomery county today re-
ceived the first portion Of its $500
cattle from the midwest drought
area when four carloads arrived.
A fifth is due late today.
Two of the carloads were taken
to Browns Station near Gathers
burg, Md, with the remainder
going to Barnesville farmers.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
2 in Montgomery
File For Office

Two Montgomery county Demo-
Gratis today filed as candidates.
They are T. Yellot Candy, Of
Colesville, running for the Mary
land House Of Delegates. and
Robert Peter, jr., of Rockville, for
the Democratic State Central
Committee.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
Observation-Disclosures
Is Step in Revision of
U.S.MOnetQru SuStenl

BY International News Service
Naturalization of silver in the
United States, proclaimed today
by President Roosevelt, is another
step in the Governments program
to carry out the law providing for
Continued on Pae -, Col. 4,
Second Section)
The Washington times., 1934-08-09
j, s. TAKES OVER ALL SILVER BULLION
Drive
Of u. S. Housing Unit
Opens Tomorrow

This is the fourth of series of articles the Federal
Housing Administration The Washington Times is the
only newspaper IN the United States giving first and
plete information this project.
The Washington times., 1934-08-09

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Local thundershOwers this afternoon or to-
night; tomorrow fair. "Details on Page 81.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
By HUDSON HAWLEY

LONDON, July ~ Q.N.S0.
Tension over the Austrian situa-
ton relaxed noticably today,
despite the masSing Of troops on
the Trenite border and con.
tinued fighting in the Austrian
provinces.
The possibility that Austrian
government troops, pursuing flee
ing NaziS, might clash with Jugo-
border patrols was not over
looked but the provisional regime
set up under Prince Won Starhem-
berg after Chancellor Dollfuss'
assassination is expected to crush
the Nazi rebellion within a short
time.
ALI information reaching British
official quarters today was that
the Austrian government appears
to have the situation well in
hand.
Orders to Sir Eric Drummond,
British ambassador to Rome, and
Sir Eric Phipps, ambassador to
Berlin, to return to their posts
were cancelled and they will con-
tinue their vacations in London.
The Washington times., 1934-07-27


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The Washington times., 1934-07-27
MORE CAS- USED,
REPORT SHOWS

The ordinarily dull figures of a
nas company's report to the Public
Utilities Commission today reflect
Cd a sharp increase in Washing
tons employment situation and
purchasing power, and possibly an
increase in population; certainly
an increase in the number Of users
Of gas and gas appliances.
The Washington Gaslight Com
pany experienced net increase Of
S216,304 for the first six months
of 1884 over the same months Of
1888. The net operating revenue
for that period was $1,192 $50, an
increase of $96, ,149.
In explanation Of this increase
o gas company official said today:
"'It is due to more people in
more homes using more gas. We
believe the increased number OF
Government employees and their
increased pay has much to do
with it. 1t certainly denotes an
increased purchasing power in
Washington"
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
u. s. To EXTEND
CATTLE BUYS

Extension of cattle purchases
to other parts of the country be
sides drought territory is planned
as part of the nationwide surplus
removal program, Secretary Of
Agriculture Wallace said today.
Slaughter of cattle from drought
areas is to be stepped up to
ESQ, 900 head per week as fast as
new facilities can be developed, !,
Mr.. Wallace said. The present
rate is 10000 head, and every
existing plant and canning factory
is taxed to the limit.
The increased weekly quota is
necessary, Mr.. Wallace said, to
keep pace with a slaughter sched-
ule which eventually will take off
at least 100000 head Of cattle
and may reach 100000. At the
increased weekly average, this
will require six months, it is
estimated.
Purchases were temporarily
halted early in the week, due to
congestion of all available facili-
ties. When resumed, they will
be geared to the capacity of these
plants, and only increased as
facilities are added. Some plants
already are working on a 24-hour
schedule,
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
Speeding Auto
Nearly Hits
Traffic Spy

The Washington Ogpu-
Major Browns secret 100 traf-
fic spieS-almost lost a mem
ber.
No. 18 was standing in q
traffic zone, he reported today,
when a car sped through and
he was forced to leap for his
life.
The Ogpu reported IS traf-
fic violations today-which
shows that Washington drivers
are very careful or that the
secret police are falling down
on the job.
Among the violations report
ed were four for passing a
red light, four for driving on
the wrong side of the street,
two for failing to observe a
stop sign and one for speeding.
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
Bobby COnnOr Home
In Normal Health

NEW YORK, July 27.-Robert
Connor, 21-month-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Connor of Harts-
dale Manor, N. Y, who was lost
five days in the woods near his
home while police searched for
supposed kidnapers, went home
today from White Plains Hospital,
apparently none the worse for his
illness from exposure and near
starvation.
Miss Elizabeth Russell, super
lntendent of the hospital, said the
child'S condition was normal, that
he weighs % pounds, and is in
perfect health.
The child was not called for by
his parents, Miss Russell said, but
by a woman friend of the family,
who motored him to his home.
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
Tension in Britain Relaxes,
Vienna Nazis Seen Beaten

The foreign office denied Italy
had approached Great Britain
with. the proposal that q joint
protest be addressed to Germany
and it was added that the British
government did not think the
time opportune for such a move.
Sir Walford Selby, British min
lister to Vienna, who is now in
England on leave, will represent
King George at the DollfusS
funeral tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1934-07-27

Dublin for a six weeks visit. Also
on his way to Dublin by another
route was John Farrow, film
writer, her fiance. Whether they
would be married in Ireland or
return to Hollywood for the cere.
mony remained secret.
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
Miss CULLen's Body
Sent to BROOKLYN

The body of Miss Margaret Cul-
len, IS, local resident for the past
30 years, was sent to Brooklyn,
N. Y, for burial, following funeral
services in st. Matthews Roman
Catholic Church today.
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
21 Colleagues Offer
Blood to Policeman

BALTIM July 27.
today offered their blood for
TRANSMISSION to Millard F. Wat
kins, oldest member in point of
service in the Police department.,
who is i'll at Johns Hopkins Hos
pital,
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
Irish Star Sailing
To Visit Homeland

HOLLYWOOD, July 27 GN.SO.
After three years in Hollywood,
Maureen O'Sulivan, film actress,
today was en- route to her home in
The Washington times., 1934-07-27
TIUO Couples Sought
In False Fire Alarm

Two young colored men and
their girl companions are sought
by police as the early morning
revelers who turned in a false
alarm at Eighteenth and Kenyon
Streets Northwest early today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-26
FATHER CT BUTLER
COACH DIES AT 70
Former Commission Firm
Head Passes.

Funeral services for Hugh Mid
ellsworth, 2424 N. New Jersey-st,
who died yesterday in his home after
an illness of two weeks, will be held
at 2 Friday in the residence. Burial
will be in Crown Hill.
Mr.. Middlesworth, who was 70,
was the father of Hugh Walden
Middlesworth, city recreation di-
rector and football coach at Butler
University, and William c. Mindless
worth City Board of Health in
spector.
He formerly operated the Mindless
worth Commission Co., which was
founded at the Indianapolis Stock
Yards by his father, William Mid
ellsworth.
Mr.. Middlesworth had lived in In
dianapolis since 1888. He retired
from active business in 1929. He was
a member of Pentalpha Lodge 564,
Free and Accepted Masons, and at
tended Broadway Methodist Episco-
pal Church.
Surviving are the two sons and a
sister, Mrs. Belle Hice, Indianapolis.