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Evening star., 1934-04-17

lies in the fact that while cities with
a high rate pay that rate on low
assessed value Of their holdings Wash
ingtonians pay their low rate on an
assessed value which by law is 100 per
cent Of the true value Of the property.
In the resolution which was adopt
ed, the association recommended
that the legal base Of assessment OF
taxable property be reduced to such
level as will produce taxable value
comparable with that of other cities"
The resolution asserted further that
the Forest Hills Citizens Association
suggests" an assessed value Of 66 2-3
per cent Of true value for tax pur-
poses.
The Forest Hills Associations con-
Evening star., 1934-04-17

Weather in Various Cities.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
FOREIGN.
NNOUI' OIttIIW ICII VIIIIt. IOUd3.T
Horta (FayaD, Azores. So Clou
'PAUPER' LEAVES $11,7OO
Landlady Finds Money After
Boarder's Death.

BELLEVILLE, Ill, April II (P).-An
80-year-old "penniless" former coal
miner, John Tobin, left s11 700 in cash
and Liberty bonds. Mrs. Fred H.
Brewer, his landlady for % years,
found.
Several weeks ago Tobin told Mrs.
Brewer he could no longer pay for
his board and room. For years her
husband had given Tobin old clothes,
tobacco and pipes.
The aged man died Sunday night.
Hidden in the lining of an old suit
case belonging to him, Mrs. Brewer
found $4,000 in Liberty bonds. In
closet she found 81 TOO in cash.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Card party. dance, Lebanon Chap
ter. Order of the Eastern Star, main
ball room, Shoreham Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Dance. Indiana State Society. west
ball room. Shoreham Hotel, 8 pm.
Dance. Daughters of the American
Revolution Pages, ball room, May
flower Hotel. 10 pm.
Card party. Mothers Club, benefit
st. James Catholic Church, audi
torium. Thirty-seventh street and
Rhode Island avenue, 8 pm.
Play, keenan, Klub of st. Teresa's
Parish. The Spanish Onion" church
| auditorium, Thirteenth and v streets
southeast. benefit Of church and
school, 8:15 pm.
Card party. Good Will Chapter, No,
| SO, Order of the Eastern Star. 1904
Tenth street northeast, $50 pm.
N. r. A. conference, ginning ma
chinery manufacturers industry. room
l26, Willard Hotel, all day.
Social meeting, Washington Chap
| ter, Catholic Daughters of America,
large ball room, Willard Hotel, 1880
pm.
Meeting, Grace Darling Seibold
Chapter. American Gold Star Moth
ers, Hamilton Hotel, 8 pm.
Meeting. American Veneer Package
Association, Hamilton Hotel, all day
and evening.
Meeting, Anthropological Society of
Washington. National Museum Build
ing, room 43, 8 pm. J. N. B. Hewitt,
| speaker.
Card party. Benedict College Alumni
Club, 1ll4 o street, 8 pm.
Bingo party, B'nai Israel Congrega-
tion. Fourteenth and Emerson streets,
SPIN.
Card party, benefit Immaculate
Conception. School, Eighth and o
streets, S;l5 pm.
Installation meeting, Young Peoples
League, B'nai Israel Congregation,
$50 pm.
Meeting. Lambda Rho Gamma
Round Table, Asbury M. E. Church,
Eleventh and K streets. 8 pm. Rabbi
Solomon H. Metz will speak on
"Fascism in Our Changing World"
TOMORROW.
Luncheon, American Business Club,
! Hay-Adams House, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, University of Missouri
Alumni, University Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Democratic Club, Uni
versity Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Exchange Club, Univer-
sity Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Veterans Administra-
ton, University Club. 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Optimist Club of Wash
ington. Hamilton Hotel, 1890 pm.
i Luncheon, Lions Club, Chinese
room, Maytiower Hotel, 1880 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, large ball
room, Willard Hotel 1890 pm.
Luncheon, D. C. Bankers Associa-
ton, room 101, Willard Hotel, 12:45
pm.
Luncheon, Soroptomist Club, Will
lard room, Willard Hotel, ! pm.
N. r. A. conference. asphalt dis
tributing industry, room l13, Willard
Hotel, all day.
N. r. A. hearing, trucking industry,
gridiron room, Willard Hotel, all day.
Rehearsal, Cherry Blossom Festival,
ball room, Mayflower Hotel, 5 pm.
Dinner, National Association of
Cost Accounting, north room, May
flower Hotel, $50 pm.
Card party, benefit National Capt.
tai Auxiliary, No. 127, Veterans of
Foreign Wars. home of Mrs. Elsie
Miller, 1914 Massachusetts, avenue. 8
pm.
Card party, Federal Chapter, No.
80, Order Of the Eastern Star, lot
Upshur street. $50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Rain tonight,
tomorrow fair; slightly colder tonight
with lowest temperature about 48 de-
grees: moderate northeast winds to-
night, becoming gentle variable to-
morrow.
Maryland and Virginia-Rain to-
night, tomorrow fair; not much
change in temperature.
West Virginia-Cloudy. rain In ex-
treme east portion tonight; tomorrow
fair, not much change in temperature
ReuOrt for Last % HourS
Evening star., 1934-04-17
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned
on one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1934-04-17
Star Contest Endorsed.
RECIPE FOR PROSPERITY
Educator Would Have Women

Educator Would Have Women
Wear Cotton Stockings.
MACON, Ga, April II CP.-Dr. Ar
thur J. Todd, dean of the department
Of sociology Of Northwestern Univer-
sity, offers this solution Of the coun-
trys problems:
IF women would eat four slices of
white bread daily and wear cotton
stockings, agriculture and industry
would have no further problems OF
consequence.
Evening star., 1934-04-17

Monthly precipitation in inches in
the Capital (current month to date) ::
Evening star., 1934-04-17

Card party. dance. Lebanon Chap
ter. Order of the Eastern Star. main
ball room, Shoreham Hotel, $3.50 pm.
Evening star., 1934-04-17

he Forest Hills Associations con-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26

A recent report by a special in
tra-departmental mn mittee on
communications showed wide sup
port for mergers which would Gre
ate virtual monopoly in each field
of communications, the merged
companies to be under strict feder-
al control.
The President appears to feel
that while further exhaustive stu
dies should be made on such ques-
tiCnS, the government should move
at once toward better regulation Of
communications by unifying the
agencies dealing with them.
Il have long felt for the sake of
clarity and effectiveness" he said
in brief message, The relation-
ship Of the federal government to
certain services known as utilities
should be divided into three fields
transportation, power and COM
municationS."
He pointed out that transporta-
ton is now handled by the &c. c.
and power by the power commits
sion, but that there was no single
agency charged with broad author
ity'' over communications.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
CHALLENGE HOOVER LEADERSHIP
Republican Chiefs Take Steps To Wrest
Control From Ex-President.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. U,P)-
Former President Hoover IS control
over the party of which he is the
nominal head appeared today to be
challenged by a political maneuver
which almost excludes the Hoover
wing of the Republican party from
this years congressional campaign.
BY the same maneuver, house
and senate Republican campaign
managers have made the first real
effort in a decade to WOO progress
sive Republican boilers back into
the party camp. Not much is ex.
pected from this latter gesture but
the mere fact it is being made in
dicates the struggle going on with
In the Republican organization for
control in 1886, when a presidential
rominee is to be selected.
Announcement Of consolidation
of the senate and house campaign
committees under joint board OF
strategy was followed Immediately
here by a dinner Republicans from
both houses sat down with a great
many newspapermen and an unus-
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
FORD PLANS
TO HAVE OWN
STEEL MILLS

DETROIT, Feb. 26. U.Pj an
nouncement that the Ford Motor
company has awarded contracts
for construction Of steel mills and
rumors that General Motors was
considering similar expansion led TO
belief today that the automobile
industry would enter the steel pro-
Fduction field.
Dissatisfaction over rising steel
prices was given in some quarters
as the reason for the expansion.
Ford officials confirmed reports
that the United Engineering and
Foundry company at Pittsburgh
will start work in the near future
on a cold-rolling mill, blooming
mill and hot-sheet mill at the Ford
River Rouge plant. The construc-
ton is part of a $l0,000,000 eXpan-
sion program.
The Ford Motor company, largest
single user of steel in the country,
has operated furnaces and rolling
mills for several years but never
put out. enough steel to meet itG
own demands.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
DIE IN
TRAIN WRECK

DELPHOS, Ohio, Feb. 26 (U.P) -
Three persons were killed and four
other injured when the locomotive
of the FIT. Dearborn No. 73, on the
Pennsylvania railroad, turned over
with seven coaches after collision
with a truck of the Bates Motor
Service of Chicago here early to-
day.
The dead
George Laman, Sd, engineer, and
Andrew Palmer, 80, fireman, both
of Ft. Wayne, Ind, and Philip
Long, 40, truck driver of Chicago.
The express running late from
New York to Chicago, was going at
about 60 miles an hour when it
collided with the truck at cross
ing here The impact threw a num-
ber of passengers from their berths.
The truck piled up on the pilot Of
the locomotive and was carried
more than two blocks before it was
hurled into a ditch. 1t burst into
flames.
Two blocks farther along the
track, the engine turned over. de-
railing seven of the nine coaches.
The engineer and fireman were
crushed beneath the engine.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
FILE ACTION
AGAINST KAHN

Demanding judgment that the
defendant is not entitled to the
said office and that he be ousted
tkerefrom," a complaint for a writ
of quo Warranto was filed in supe-
rior court today Dy F. M. Ballou
against A. j. Kalin, director of the
irrigation district.
This complaint, signed by U. S.
Webb as attorney general of the
state, Leon French, deputy attorney
general, and G. E. Brown, attorney
for the relator, claims that the
defendant herein, was not at the
time OF his appointment TO the
board by tie supervisors on Octo-
Der 1S. 1888, and at the time of
his assumption of this office, nor
at any other time or at all since
his said appointment, qualified to
take or fill said office of said d.
rector nor TO perform any of the
duties thereof for the reason
that the said A. j. Kalin or
his name does not appea
on the last preceding equalized as
sessment roll of said district as the
holder of title or evidence Of title
to any real property situate within
the said district"
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
COMMUNICATION CONTROL ASKED
President Urges Congress To Create Fed
eral Commission For Purpose.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. U.P)

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. (U.P) -
President Roosevelt today asked
congress to create a new federal
communications commission to re-
gulate wire, cable and radio COM
municationS systems.
In a special message to congress,
the President asked establishment
of the new commission in order to
centralize federal authority over
communications.
He proposed that the new COM
mission take over the duties of the
federal radio commission and those
functions of the interstate COM
merce commission which deal with
telegraph and telephone regulation.
Mr.. Roosevelt said the new body
should be given full power to in
veStigate and study the business of
existing companies and make re-
concentrations to the congress for
additional legislation at the next
session"
This means that if the President S
desires are carried out, as they un-
doubtedly will be, the question of
communications mergers will go
over for determination next year.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
Veteran Admits
Staying Family

OKLAHOMA CITY, Feb. 26. U.P
John A. Cane, war veteran who
led officers to shallow grave
where he had buried the bodies OF
his wife and three children after
beating them to death with shov-
ell, was closely guarded against pos
sible attempts at suicide here today
While murder charges against the
man were being drafted, medical
authorities said they were prepared
to testify that he is insane.
Discovery of the bodies confirm
ed the story told by Cane when he
was a patient in the psychopathic
ward of the u. S. Veterans hospital
at Little Rock, Ark. A motive was
lacking.
The victims were Mrs. Oracle
Cane, %, the veteran IS wife, and
their children, Edna Merle, six, Le-
roy, four and Johnnie May two
The woman s skull had been
crushed. All had been missing since
last June.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
STARS NAMED
FOR HONORS

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 26. W.P)-
Katharine Hepburn, May Robson
and Diana Wynyard were announc-
ed today as nominees for the Aca-
DENY of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences award for the most out
standing bit of acting among the
film actresses last year.
Leslie Howard, Charles Laughton
and Paul MUM were nominated for
the prize award among the actors.
Awards will be made at banquet
March l6.
Miss Hepburn was nominated in
the primary voting for her work in
Morning Glory" Miss Robson for
Lady For Day., and Miss Wynn
yard for "Cavalcade. -
Howard was picked for his acting
in Berkeley Square,, Laughton
in 1.-The Private Life of Henry the
Eighth, and MUM in ~ Am a
Fugitive from Chain Gang.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
CANCSTER|N IN
CARESS CASE
SURRENDERS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26. U.P)-
George UeS) Bruneman, last of
the Ralph Sheldon gang accused
of the kidnapping three years ago
of E. L. (zeke) Caress, former
Aqua Caliente Handicapped, sur
rendered to police today to face the
kiGnap charge.
Four men already are serving
prison terms-Sheldon, Ray Wag-
ner, Jesse (Cheesy) Orsatti and
Louis Frank. They were the rem
nant of an East st. Louis gang
which came here after the fall
from power of Alfonso Capone.
By previous arrangement, Brun-
eman, who had been hiding in
Canada, met detective lieutenants
Frank Gefty) James and Joe Fill
kas on street corner in Holly
wood, and was Immediately taken
to Lincoln Heights Jail.
Bruneman consistently has de-
MED he was member of the gang
which kidnapped Caress, his wife and
their servant on December 20, 1880.
He insisted he merely had been
chosen as the pay-off' man in
the abduction.
Caress was held for $4,000 ram
som by the gang which engaged in
pitched battle in Long Beach
with officers, while enroute to
gambling ship to cash ransom
checks.
The kidnapped man was betting
commissioner at Aqua Caliente for
several years, and is widely known
in gambling circles here.
Sheldon, Wagner, Frank, Orsatti,
and Bruneman were tried on a
charge of the attempted murder of
Patrolman Ralph Waggoner of
Long Beach, who was seriously
wounded in the gun battle, but
were acquitted.
James (Squealep Doolen, also a
st. Louis mobster turned state S
evidence. however, and aided in
gaining a conviction for the gang.
All were sentenced to from 10
years to life for their part in the
CareSS kidnapping
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
AUSTRIA TO
STAMP OUT
RADICALISM

VIENNA, Austria, Feb. 26. UP)-
The Austrian government intends
to stamp out Nazi, Communistic or
Socialist movements in any form,
Emil Fey, vice chancellor and the
power behind Chancellor Engelbert
Dollfuss, proclaimed today.
Fey, astride his favorite Steed, a
milk white stallion, reviewed an
impressive parade of 5000 members
of the Schutzcorps or national
guard. Later he addressed them in
City Hall square.
The government" he said, us
determined to eXterminate through
out Austria, Bolshevism in all its
forms, whether red (Communism
or brown (NazD.
The government in authority is
the best friend of the workers. No
body bears a grudge toward those
misguided citizens who have stray
ed so far toward MarXism or Ma
ZiSm.
I'VE welcome them if they return
to loyalty, but we will crush most
energetically any who continue to
follow false prophets and attempt to
disturb the law and order of the
state
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
BODIES Of EIGHT PASSENGERS
DISCOVERED IN LOST A|RPLANE
Searching Party Which Located Missing
Liner Finds Evidence Indicating That All
On Board Died Instantly.

pilots of the plane had stopped at
3:05 p. m, indicating that the
plane had crashed shortly after
taking off. The last word received
by radio from the Inflated plane
was when pilot Lloyd Anderson sig
nelled "all okay' 20 minutes af-
ter the departure.
When the plane did not arrive
at Cheyenne on schedule, an i'm
mediate search was started.
All day Saturday planes droned
over the route the missing craft
might have followed, while from
United Airlines offices here tele-
phone calls were made to all points
in the vicinity None of the ef-
forts brought any definite trace of
the lost plane. H. D. T. Lewis. chief
pilot of the United Airlines at Chi
cago, arrived Sunday to take
charge. Eight planes were sent up,
, two from Rock Springs, Wyo., and
six from Salt Lake.
! Lewis decided that the search
should be concentrated in the rug
ged mountains only a short dis
tance from the valley where lies
Salt Lake.
Guesses Right
That plane is not more than so
miles from here" he said.
He was right.
Don Broughton and Ed Greer,
United Airlines pilots, flew over the
| area known as Parley'S Canyon.
They were flying close to the
ground following the beacon lights
that mark te heastward route. Sud-
denly they sighted the plane, nose
! down, nearly buried in the deep
snow on the side of the canyon.
The nose was between two giant
pine trees which stood on either
side of the plane, almost hiding it
from sight.
Broughton radioed the airline
headquarters at Salt Lake. He re-
ported that there was no sign of
life.
A motor caravan was organized
here Members OF the caravan Wad-
ed through snow four feet deep for
four miles to reach the place
Broughton and Greer had desig-
mated, Irwin L. Davis, United Press
correspondent, was among the first
! to reach the plane.
Although his feet we're so badly
frozen that he collapsed, he man.
aged to telephone to his office here
the first definite word of the fate
CT the passengers and crew.
Leon d. Cuddeback, assistant tC
| Lewis, was the first company Off
cial to arrive. He reported that the
plane was Wedged between the trees
in such a position that it was al
most vertical.
Due to the darkness it was i'm
possible to determine whether the
plane had collided with some object
prior to striking the ground Cud-
deback said
The plane had not caught fire.
1t struck with a force that threw
the contents of the ship violently
forward. The passengers were kill
ed instantly
The first body was removed at
9:10 p. m. Some difficulty was eX-
perienced in eXtricating the bodies
of the five passengers and steward
ess. The bodies of the pilot and CO.
pilot were even more difficult to
remove. The body of co-pilOt Dan
ielsCn was not removed until later.
The remaining seven were brought
down together.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26

ual experiment in congressional
campaign strategy was on. Hith-
erto throughout the Republican
party's long history the house and
senate have campaigned separately.
Senators Hiram w. Johnson
(Rep) California, Bronson Cutting
(RepD New Mexico, and Robert NJ.
LaFollette (Rep) Wisconsin, three
notable proteStantS against Repub-
lican policy, were "expected at
the dinner by Senator Daniel o.
Hastings Rep) Delaware, the Of
ficial host. They did not come.
The suggestion they would be well
come indicates a change in the
state of mind of the Republican high
command.
johnson has obtained admins
tration support for his California
reelection campaign this year. Both
LaFollette and Cutting RnaiouSly
await similar aid. All three sup
ported Mr.. Roosevelt in 1882.
The real campaign drive is point
ed to 1886 when President Roose-
velt must submit his administration
to the people.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
SAYS BROWN
IN SCHEME
Airmail Witness Claims Former
Postmaster General Tried To
Iniure Him.
BY RONALD G. VAN TINE
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. &c. U.P -
Clifford Ball, McKeesport, Pa, air.
line operator, charged today before
the senate air mail committee that
Waiter F. Brown, former postmaSt-
er general, and officials Of the
Pittsburgh Aviation Industries, Inc,
participated in "a we'll planned
scheme to defame" his character
in 1890
The alleged scheme" Ball said
involved charges by Brown thar
Ball had mailed heavy articles
ever his lines in order to collect
substantial mail pay from the gov
ernment.
Brown testified last week that
Ball rad been fined $4,000 on one
/ occasion for carrying unlawful
mail
The Pennsylvania operator told
the committee:
Il never mailed or caused to be
mailed any objects or articles in
order to collect pay on them.
This accusation was made by
Postmaster General Brown in pub
lished items in public speeches and
was offered in his testimony in thic
hearing. This accusation was
made to me directly and circulated
among friends and acquaintanceS
by George r. Ham and Richard
w. Robbins of Pittsburgh Aviation
Industries.
1T was a portion of a we'll plan
ned scheme to defame my char
acter and ruin my reputation in
order to carry out their plan OF
transferring my mail contract from
myself to Pittsburgh Aviation In
duStries."
Quotes Statement
Ball said that although Hann'S
company did not operate an air
line, Ham was present at Browns
famous 1880 conference with the
operators.
We're going to get our share
of the air mail dollar" Ball said
Ham told Kim.
The witness said Ham added:
1--WE have influence with Sena-
tor David A. Reed tRep) Penn
sylvania, and two cabinet officers
and will go into the White House
if we have to-"
Balls apparent uncertainty about
details of the conference resulted
in another debate between COM
mittee members. Senator Warren
r. Austin (Rep0, Vermont, said
that Chairman Hugo l.. Black was
putting words into the witness
mouth"
Why didn't you think of that
when you were examining Mr..
BroWn?" Black asked angrily.
Mr.. Brown isn't here now,
Austin retorted. THE point is I'd
like to get some evidence into the
record instead of the witness con-
clusionS as to what he thought
happened"
We've got the evidence" Black
replied, resuming the examining.
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
BY GEORGE ID. CRISSEY
United Press Staff Correspondent


SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Feb. 26
The bodies of seven men and one
girl lay in the morgue here today
victims of the crash of giant
United Airplanes plane into a
mcuntainside 35 miles from Salt
Lake City.
The dead:
Lloyd Anderson, Cheyenne, Wyo.
pilot.
Eric G.. Danielson, Cheyenne
Wyo., co-pilot.
Mary Carter, Salt Lake City, for
merly of Chattanooga, Tenn, stew
ardess.
E. l. Walker Rock Springs, Wyo.,
automobile dealer.
j. j. Sterling, mayor of Benton
Harbor, Mich.
w. B. Bergland, Boone, Iowa.
Marcellus Zinmaster, Des MoineS
Iowa.
Bert Mclaughlin, Perry, Iowa.
Searching parties found h g
bodies piled on top of one another
in the wrecked plane last night al
the head of Parley's Canyon, just
35 miles east of Salt Lake City.
1t was believed that the eight
occupants of the passenger craft
had been killed outright when the
huge ship struck the mountainside
during storm Friday afternoon
shortly after their departure from
the airport here at 2 p. m.
Wrist watches on the arms of the
Imperial Valley press., 1934-02-26
Victims OF Fire
May Not Collect

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 26. U,P) -
Relatives of men burned to death in
the Griffith PARK holocaust of last
October may not be able to collect
damages from the county, 1t ap-
peared today.
A supreme court decision received
here today held that in the case oil
Alton r. McBurney, of Monrovia,
county welfare worker, he could not
hold the county responsible for ar
injured ankle suffered in the line OF
work. In a sense, the court held,
McBurney was a ward of the coun-
ty, and not a worker in the legal
sense applying to compensation.
All the Griffith Park victims were
in the same sense wards" OF the
county attorneys believed.