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Evening star., 1934-12-09
PRICE RISE CURBS
AIR FORCE PLANS
N. R. A. Cited as Factor in
Limiting Army Plane
Increase to 300.

By the Associated Press.
A decision to increase the Army's
air fleet by only 300 planes during
1885, instead Of by 500 or more as
recommended by the general staff,
was attributed yesterday by officials
to higher prices caused in part by the
administration recovery program.
Determined to buy as many as pos
Sible however, the Army yesterday
awarded a contract to the Consoli-
dated Aircraft Corp of Buffalo, N. Y,
for so tWo-seater pursuit planes at
cost of S1,996, 700.
Those bids and others for 250 more
planes. to cost roughly $1,000 900, have
furnished proof planes cost more.
Navy Wants 213.
Meanwhile, the Navy reported it is
seeking money to add 273 airplanes to
its sky forces in the next fiscal year
Rear Admiral Ernest j. King, chief
Of the Bureau of AeronautlcS. said
today in his annual report that this
number was needed for the second
year of a five-to-seven-year aviation
construction program. A request for
funds has been put in the 1886 budget.
The Air Corps desired at least 500
new planes to replace obsolete ma
chimes and approach the goal of 2,400
military aircraft recommended by the
Baker Aviation Committee.
A good part of the loss in proposed
added strength resulted from de-
cislon to purchase 8 new bombers,
costing approximately $4,000 each,
instead of 80 primary training planes,
costing between $4,000 and $4,000
each.
Would Modernize Carriers.
Admiral Kings report also recon-
mended modernization of the naval
aircraft carriers Lexington and Sara
toga as to bomb and torpedo storage
and handling.
The aeronautics chief advised that
development of rigid airships be
continued, and that dirigibles be
constructed to replace the Akron, de-
stroyed at sea during a storm, and
the condemned Los Angeles. King
said airships should be used as active
units of the fleet.
The Navy General Board has rec
commended that the only new airship
be the smallest possible craft for
training purposes.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
II MEN DIE, DRINKING
POISONED ALCOHOL
One Near Death and Others III in
Portland's Squalid Rooming
House District.

BY the Associated Press.
PORTLAND, Greg. December g.
Bottled death danced through Port
lands squalid North End rooming
house district today, taking the lives
Of II men and leaving one other dying
and several more critically i'll.
Alcohol denatured with a particu-
larly virulent poison was blamed
Even after the IL bodies had been
recovered and the other victim found,
police continued their search of dingy
rooms.
We are picking them up like fies!"
said one of the emergency hospital
attendants. A canvass of drug stores
was begun Immediately to ascertain
whether the poisonous draughts had
been sold illegally, that is, for bever-
age purposes.
Bottles were found in the pockets
of several victims, but in each case
they were labeled with the warning,
Beware, Poison!"
About half the victims were known
to be confirmed users of denatured
alcohol. For years water front hab-
itues have drunk denatured alcohol,
with only an occasional fatality.
Post-mortem examinations were
ordered. Officers withheld names Of
the victims pending autopsies.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
MA|S IS REPORTED
NEAR BALTIMORE
Escaped Murderer Recog-
nized 40 Miles From City
With Woman Companion.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, December 8.-Robert
Mais, convicted murderer, who shot
his way out of Richmond. Va, Jail
last September. was reported on his
way here tonight with a woman COM
panion.
State police warned local authori-
ties Mais had been recognized by a
filling station attendant near Como
wingo Dam, about 40 miles from here
Mais was reported driving a small
green coupe. The woman was be-
lieved to be Marie McKeever, who
was captured here last June with
Mais and Walter Legenza. Legenza
also escaped in the Richmond Jail
break during which a guard was
killed.
Police who participated in a mar
cotics raid here today had received
information that Mais and Legenza
were at the hotel raided. But the
tip did not materialiZe.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
new COTTON POLICY
FOR U. S. IS URGED
Murchison Urges Maintenance OF
World Market Hold at
Any Price.
Rv the Associated Press.

by the Associated HEeSS.
NEW ORLEANS, December 8-Dr.
Claudius T. Murchison, director of the
Federal Bureau of Foreign and Do
mestic Commerce, declared here the
United States Government is ready to
act to halt heavy losses in this coun-
try's world cotton exports
He expressed the belief Federal leg
islation soon will be enacted TO pro-
vide clean-cut cotton policy which
will serve notice to the world as to
where We stand in this respect, and
pledged every power al my command
to influence this policy
DR.. Murchison said that through
newly-created 1nterdepartmentalC Com
mittee the Government VI Il Geek to
learn what price We is a Nation will
have to pay to sustain and how We
may maintain our cotton export
dominance"
L feel he said, that any price
will not be an unreasonable price. We
have all the advantages in this field,
and to sit by and maintain an artifi-
cial price and fill our warehouses with
stocks while Egypt, India. Brazil and
other countries increase their cotton
acreage is, to my mind, anti-Ameri-
can and antl-social."
Evening star., 1934-12-09
TROOPS ON DUTY
IN HARLAN AREA
Guardsmen Called to Pre-.
vent Clash With Mine Union
Organizers.
BY the Associated Press,

by the Associated PfeSS.
LOUISVILLE, KY. December g.
National Guardsmen were called out
in Harlan, KY, tonight TO prevent pos
sible clashes between union organizers
and an opposing group.
Adjt Gen. Henry H. Dennardt con-
ferred with Gov. Ruby Laffoon and
assigned Capt. Diamond E. Perkins
and Company A. the Harlan guard
unit. to go on duty Immediately in
the Southeastern Kentucky coal center
Gen. Denhardt said he was informed
there would be "bloodshed" if troop
protection we're not offered officers Of
the United Mine Workers of America
who were in the LeWallen Hotel at
Harlan.
Dale Stapleton. an officer of the
U. NJ. w A, said he and other officers
Of the union were not leaving the
hotel, because to do so would not be
healthy" Stapleton said about 20
armed men were deployed in and
about the hotel
Stapleton said he and the other
union representatives had no inten-
ton of leaving and that they were
there TO organize the field" and to
carry out our contracts"
Stapleton said the union representa-
tives, on arriving today, were followed
by armed men. They had been under
surveillance the entire day he said.
and added that what appeared to be
shell was exploded in the hotel this
afternoon.
Sheriff E. c. Middleton said he
understood the troops had been called
to escort the union representatives
safely out of the county.
Capt. Perkins is said to have re-
ported to Gen. Denhardt that 1T looks
rather bad"
Evening star., 1934-12-09
MIDWESTERN FARMERS
SAIL FOR NATIVE LAND
Group Astonished by New York
Bustle as They Leave for
Balkans.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 8.-Aston-
ished by the rush and hustle Of Man.
haitian. sturdy group of Midwestern
farmers was whisked by taxicab to a
Hudson River pier today to sail on
the liner Champlain for their native
lands in the Balkans.
- They were going back from the
prairies they had titled for many
years to the villages in Czechoslovakia
and Rumania they left to seek for
tunes in America. Some we're re-
turning to Poland.
Among the group, 35 in number,
were Frank Vavra and John Pliva,
cousins, who, 2l years ago, started
farming the wheat lands of Mime
sofa Until week ago, although they
lived but 160 miles apart. they had
not seen each other, nor had they
communicated
They had sold their land, ravaged
by the drought. Vavra is So: PIiva,
SO. Each had buried his wife in a
prairie cemetery. Alone they were re-
turning to the "old country" with
only faint memories of the land they
left in 1898.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
COST|GAN OFFERS
RECOVERY PLAN.
Public Works Heads a.
Point Program Designed
for Liberals.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A 14-point recovery program headed
by a greatly expanded and much
more rapidly prosecuted" public works
project was advanced today by Sena-
tor Costigan, Democrat, OF Colorado
as rallying point for Senate liberals
of all parties this Winter.
Deferring specific proposals, pend
ing conferences with associates, the
Colorado progressive outlined the
broad phases of legislative agenda
which he expects to appeal strongly
to a large group in Democratic ranks,
and to members like Senator Lafol-
lette, Progressive, of Wisconsin, and
Cutting, Republican, of New Mexico.
Public Works Urged.
Costigan proposed a larger and
higher speed public works drive
against unemployment, with perhaps
100000 900 alone for grade crossing
elimination Another public works
pl Osl an dPPdL NLll1 10 NOiltShiPAoheA
by the Administration, but the Colo
RADIO Senator also listed the following
as measures to be expected" from
the coming session of Congress:
Social security legislation, includ-
Ing Federal assistance in promoting
old age pensions.
"Enactments tending to curb the
growth of monopolieS.
Legislation designed to assure gen.
uine collective bargaining.
Further helpful consideration of
the needs of World War veterans.
Money Bills Planned.
Submission to the States of a
constitutional amendment eliminat ting
taX-eXempt securities.
constructive efforts to assure in
creased Government control of credit
and currency.
Legislation to curb excessive serv-
ice charges by private electric power
interests and Strengthening Federal
and municipality operated power
projects.
Speeding the prosperity of the
metal mining industry with improved
national prices, through more effect
i've purchases and increased use Of
gold and silver
Restoration of Federal wage cuts
to meet advancing living costs
More scientific and effective gift,
estate and income tax legislation.
Arms Curb Advocated.
Adequate appropriations for the
Federal campaign against crime, in
which must be included lynching
Legislative efforts to subject our
munitions industry to Federal regu-
lation and to inaugurate steps for
effective international supervision of
the industry.
Legislation designed to establish
and improve national and interna-
tional means for averting threatening
world wars"
The Coloradan said he believed the
chances better now for passage of the
Federal anti-lynching bill he and
Senator Wagner, Democrat. New York
proposed last session, despite the like
lihood of a filibuster from Southern
members.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
GRID PLAYER FORGETS
NAME AND RESIDENCE
Amnesia Victim Found Here
Remembers Being Hurt
Playing Foot Ball.

A youth. about 19, who remembers
only that he came here from small
town three days ago and that he
played end on some college foot
ball team was being treated at
Emergency Hospital last night for
amnesia.
He is feet, II inches tall, weighs
ITS pounds. has brown eyes, dark hair
and a small scar on his forehead.
He was picked up in the tenth precinct
wearing black shoes. a gray suit, gray
overcoat and no hat. He told police
his first name is Jack, but that he
cannot remember his last name or
his address.
While playing foot ball this sea-
son. the youth claims to have been
injured and to have spent some time
in a hospital. He did not remem-
Der the name of the hospital, but says
he remembers coming here by bus.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Toy Will Bring Happiness
To Needy on Christmas Day
The Star.Warner Bros. Offer Oppor.
tunity to Keep Faith With Unfor.
tundte Hu Capital.

letter, by phone call am by visits to
the councils headquarters.
You can prevent these Christmas
tragedies by your simple aid. The
Evening Star, with the cooperation
Of Warner Bros. offers you an easy
and certain opportunity.
Next Saturday, December IS. Christ
mas toy matinees will be held in II
theaters in all parts of Washington
You are asked to attend. and TO bring
with you a new toy or new article OF
clothing as your sole price Of admis-
sion. These will be collected by the
Council Of Social Agencies and dis
tributed to the needy families oi
Washington for Christmas.
1t is no harder than that Your
effort ceases when you leave your gift
in the .theater lobby And in addi-
ton to the great satisfaction you will
have Of knowing that you have
brought Christmas joy TO some poor
child, you will be rewarded with a
splendid entertainment. For in all
these theaters. programs have been
arranged which include the finest fea-
ture pictures, comedies. short subjects
and supplementary attractions.
Ready to Receive Gifts.
One new gift will admit you. but
you may bring as many as you care
to. The theaters are prepared to
receive as many as you choose to con-
tribute. And you need not wait until
the day of the performance. you can
bring or send your contribution now
for there are hampers in the lobbies
Of these theaters which are being
filled with toys for the needy every
day.
You can add greatly to your own
Christmas happiness by this one little
act of kindness. Do not disappoint
that poor boy or girl who is depend
ing on you to fulfill his or her hopes
Think of them. Plan for them. Let
there be no forgotten child in Wash
ington this Christmas.
Choose the program that appeals to
you, or the theater you wish to attend,
and bring a new toy or new article
VI clolnlnB as your price OF ADMISSION.
Theaters Cooperating.
You will be royalty entertained at
any one Of the theaters where The
Star-Warner Bros toy matinees will
be held. Here is the full list:
TIVOLI-Shirley Temple in Baby
Takes Bow" Laurel and Hardy
comedy. Busy Bodies; 1.-THE Night
Before Christmas" and THE Man on
the Flying Trapeze." Popeye
comedy.
AMBASSADOR-Jackie Cooper and
Wallace Beery in Treasure Island"
The Shanty Where Santa Claus
Lives" and Can You Take It?" a
Popeye comedy.
sAVOY-Joe E. Brown in "The Cir
Gus Clown" Bedtime Worries" an
Our Gang comedy; Touchdown
Mickey" Mickey Mouse comedy,
and Lets You and Him Fight"
Popeye comedy.
COLONY-Shirley Temple in Lit
tie Miss Marker" wild Poses," an
Our Gang comedy, and "The Night
Before Christmas" a Silly Symphony.
YORK-Joe E. Brown in "Son of a
Sailor" DIRTY Work." a Laurel and
Evening star., 1934-12-09
M0RR0 INSURANCE
HELD ABOVE VALUE
Quarter of Million More Than
Listed Figure Reported
Paid in Disaster.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Testimony that owners OF the
burned Moro Castle received a quar-
ter of a million more insurance than
the listed value of the ship at the
time it was destroyed went into the
records of the Post Office Depart
ment's ocean mail hearings yesterday.
The evidence presented said that
the A. G. W. l. Navigation Co. was
paid $4200.000 insurance on the
hull and machinery of the ship. The
original value of the ship was listed
as s4,874230, but by the time the
disaster occurred this had shrunk
to SO 923 1000
The company carried 81 100000 in
demnity insurance to settle the claims
Of the shippers and passengers.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
PLANE KILLS M0T0RIST

SANTIAGO, Chile, December 8 (41.
An automobile driver was killed here
today when an airplane, swooping
low during an air show, struck his
head.
The planes pilot was trying to
bomb" the automobile with a sack
filled with -four in competition de-
signed to test the aerial marksman-
ship Of flyers, when the accident oc-
Cured.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
U. S. TO DEPORT CHINESE
Six Seamen Accused of Entering
America Illegally.

NEW YORK, December 8 CP).-Six
Chinese were ordered deported today
after Federal authorities held they
had entered America Illegally.
They were arrested in a drive start
ed by Police Commissioner Lewis j.
Valentine following upon the fatal
shooting Of three Chinese yesterday.
Ofhcials feared the killings might
start tong war.
Those to be deported are seamen.
A seventh will be given . hearing
later.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Strange Malady Fatal.

SHAMROCK, Tex, December 8 LP,.
The eighth member of the A. J..
Baker family to die from effects of a
strange malady Tahlman Baker. 12,
was buried today. His father A. ].
Baker, and another son. Hoyt Baker.
remained critically i'll with the disease,
which has been diagnosed by doctors
as an unusual form of influenza.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
D. c. Federal Pay Roll
May Top 1888 Total
| About $4O.OOO.OOO

The 1884 Government pay roll
for civil and military employees
residing in Washington may ex-
ceed the 1888 total of 5000 900, 900
by $40,000,000, it was estimated
yesterday unofflcially by the
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce of the Commerce De-
partment.
This sum will represent close to
16 per cent of the total Federal
pay roll The number of employees
in washington is approximately
10 per cent Of the total.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Dakota Gets Sunday Films.

BISMARCK, N. Oak, December s
P.-Sunday movies will be shown
legally throughout North Dakota to-
morrow for the first time in the his
tory Of the State Motion picture
owners in practically every commu-
nifty in the State planned to take ad-
vantage of a new law, making Sunday
movies lawful which was passed at
the November election.
Evening star., 1934-12-09

Der IA.
Backward turn backward. then time in
Make me a child asain just for to-
night :"
VOW many of us have not re-
called these lines on Christ
mas eve when the happiness
l. i of children around us re-
minded us of our own Joy on
this night Of nights For this is the
one night in all the year when our
thoughts turn to the boys and girls
who in full childish faith depend
upon US to fulfill the promises We
have made. Some Of us might like
to change places with them. We too
might wish that We could have that
faith again. that assurance that the
morrow would bring gladness. when
Christmas dreams come true
We who are fortunate plan care
fully for our own children at Christ
mas time. We take great pains to
make sure that they will not be left
disappointed. We try to learn what
they want. And we try our best to
give them all that we can. We realize
clearly what Christmas means to
them. and in the fulflllment of their
dreams lies our happiness.
Citizens Must Help.
All Of us can realize the anguish
of the mother and father unable,
through want or privation to provide
this happiness for their children. And
all of us know, too, the sad awakening
that awaits their little ones when on
Christmas morning they find their
stockings empty, their dreams shat
tered, their homes a place Of tears.
And there will be such homes in
Washington this Christmas unless you
who can will come to the aid of those
less fortunate.
There will be broken hearts. There
will be tears. There will be children
neglected and forgotten if you fail to
do your share.
Make me child again just for
tonight :" Let your thoughts
carry you into one of these unfortunate
homes. Change places with one of
these needy boys or girls. and perhaps
you will better understand how they
count on you.
Change places with 5-year- old Mary
]. . She was brought into the
Christmas toy shop at 1107 Pennsyl-
vania avenue, of the Council of Social
Agencies, which is cooperating with
the Star-Warner Bros. Christmas
matinee plan, by kind neighbor yes
terday afternoon. She was pathetic
little creature, poorly dressed with an
appealing look in her eyes which took
in the dolls and toys on the shelves
about her The neighbor asked if she
could get toy for Christmas. Her
mother is in the hospital, she said.
Her father Is out of work. There
would be no Christmas for her unless
some one helped. The neighbor ex-
planned that she, too, was on the relief
roll and needed help for her own child.
Yet she plodded all the way downtown
with this little one that something
might be done for her.
Opportunity Offered.
Change places with Johnny K.
aged 6, who also came to the shop
Did Santa Claus bring all these things
here? VIII he bring something for
me?" he wanted to know. He has
no father. His mother was poor. Yet
he went home-assured that Santa
would not forget him.
There are countless other children
for whom appeals have been made, by
Evening star., 1934-12-09
Actress Dies at 76.

SACRAMENTO, Calf December 8
R.-FranceS Field, rs, once leading
woman for Frederick Warde, noted
actor. died here today. A native of
Louisiana, she began her career 43
years ago in Warde's company and
also played with w. E. Sheridan,
Thomas Keane and Edmond Collier.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
$50 IN PRIZES FOR WASHINGTON
BOYS AND GIRLS.

Now Is the time boys and girls
there
receive gifts Christmas" DON'T
Santa Claus Editor of The
best letter and maybe little brother little sister will the
other awards.
Don't forget than u old write
letter
a prize prize the
third prize is IS.
letter than mid
night Saturday December Is OF the winners with
their letters will be made week later.
write side Of the paper only. and te,
n early
Evening star., 1934-12-09
.|TALO-ETH|OP|AN
CLASH DISPUTED
Officials at Adds Ababa and
Rome Mutually Deny
Blame.
BY the As sociated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Adds ABABA, Ethiopia. Decem-
Der s.-The Ethiopian government
today denied Rome reports that
armed Ethiopians attacked an Italian
outpost Wednesday, asserted the
Italians took the initiative and ordered
its charge daffaires at Rome to file
vigorous protest.
Native forces from Italian Somali-
land started the clash, Emperor
Halle Selassie's government charged,
adding that these forces now have
advanced rs miles into Ethiopian
territory.
The official version here was the
italian forces, armed with tanks.
artillery and planes. attached them
selves to Abyssinian forces escorting
joint British -Abyssinian commission
engaged in surveying grazing land.
After the battle which resulted. it
was charged, the Italians pushed still
further into Ethiopian territory.
The frontiers between Abyssinia
and the adjacent Italian colonies of
Eritrea and Somaliland have yet TO
be defined
REPORTS TERMED FALSE,
Evening star., 1934-12-09
MURRAY HITS SEAL SALE
Oklahoma Governor Rebukes Tu-
berculosis Society.

OKLAHOMA CITY, December t4o)
The tuberculosis Society mailed
Gov. William H. Murray a letter con-
tanning 200 Christmas seals with the
customary invitation to aid the work
by buying the seals for 81.
The society received its reply today:
i do not permit any person OF
group, except the Government, to
assess money.
Murray"
The appeal was similar to $4,000
others sent out in the county.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
ELECTION CONTEST HIT
Gov. Olson Issues Statement Be.

Gov. Olson Issues Statement Be-
fore Going to Hospital.
ST. PAUL, December LA9.-Gov.
Floyd B. Olson, Farmer -Laborite. to-
night issued a statement attacking the
motives behind the bringing of an
action in County District Court at
Minneapolis, contesting his reelection
to third term.
The Governor made his comment as
he prepared to 60 to a Minneapolis
hospital tomorrow for an operation for
hernia.
The election suit was brought by a
group Of Minneapolis citizens, who
claimed the corrupt practices act Of
the State was violated during the
recent campaign.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
November Circulation
Daily y..121,621
Sunday

District of Columbia. IS:
FLEMING NEWBOLD. Business Man
aeer of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY
STAR. does solemnly swear that the ac-
tual number of copies of the paper named
sold and distributed during the month Of
November, AID. 1894 was as follows.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
CLUB HEARS DR.. BORN
Professor Speaks on Erasmus
and His Political TheorieS.V

and His Political Theories"
DR.. Lester Kruger Born, head of the
Department of Classical Languages
and Literature of George Washington
University, spoke before the Classical
Club yesterday in the Raltieh Hotel.
His subject was "ErasnIas and His
Political Theories"
DR.. Charles Sidney Smith, professor
emeritus of classical languages at
George Washington, presided and in
troduced the speaker. DR.. Born came
to the local institution this Fall from
Western Reserve University to succeed
DR.. Smith upon his retirement.
Evening star., 1934-12-09
WARD LINER IN DISTRESS
Ship Reports Propeller Lost Off
Florida Coast.

NEW YORK, December (P).-
The ward liner Cauto reported in a
message received by Radio Corp of
America tonight that she had lost
her propeller off the east coast of
Florida
The liner asked for Coast Guard as
sistance. She gave her position as
about 200 miles of Daytona Beach.
The Cauto cleared New York last
Wednesday for Tampico. She car
ried a general cargo.