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Evening star., 1934-02-04
Guest Speakers for
LOYAL Legion Danes

Brig. Gen. Perry L. Miles, y. s. L..
commanding general Of the 18th Brs-
gade, and Rear Admiral c. H. Wood
ward, U. 8. NJ, member Of the Navy
Board, Navy Department. will b
guest speakers at the annual break
fast, to be held by District Society Of
the Danes Of the Loyal Legion, in
honor of the anniversary Of the birth
of Abraham Lincoln, February IL, at
the Mayf1ower Hotel. Mrs. Miles and
Mrs. Woodward will also be guests.
Evening star., 1934-02-04

the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Goddard Leach.
Mr.. Fay ingalls, and his daughter,
Miss Abbie ingalls,. have returned to
The Yard from . shooting trip in
South Carolina.
The regular Saturday drag Of the
Bath County Hounds, meeting at The
Yard, was followed by q large gallery
Of spectators from the hotel. Among
those who followed by car were Mr..
and Mrs Lewis Jones, Miss Dorothea
Jones, Miss Dorothy Hadley, Miss
Elise Woodward and Mr.. and Mrs.
Vernon B. Miller. After the kill, Mrs.
Fay ingalls,, master, gave an informal
hunt breakfast in the tack room at
The Yard,
Evening star., 1934-02-04
Sand Bars Formed.

Sand bars are being formed which,
1t is believed, will connect the Aleu-
tian Islands with the Alaskan main
land
Evening star., 1934-02-04

Valley, near Alexandria, Va. The
wedding will take place in early
Spring.
Evening star., 1934-02-04
Eneaeements Foretell
Interesting Weddings

Mr.. ana Mrs. Henry U. Milne an
nounce the engagement of their
daughter Dorothy to Mr.. Herbert
William Farmer. son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Samuel T. Farmer. The wedding will
take place in June.
Evening star., 1934-02-04

Mr.. and Mrs. Victor Bernard Deyber
announce the engagement Of their
daughter Virginia Elizabeth to Mr..
Lawrence Dade Shinn, son Of Mr. and
Mrs. Arthur Thornton Shinn Of
Washington The wedding will take
place in the Spring
Evening star., 1934-08-11
REPORTS CLEARED
ON HOMESTEADING
Project for White Families at
Government Farms,
Beltsville.
ny . stafI correspondent Of The SCAR.


BELTSvILLE. Md, August IL
Prince Georges County officials who
feared colored families were to be
established on homesteads at the Gov
enrment farms here were minisformed,
Ben r. Brandon, animal husbandry-
man In charge Of the experiment
farm. declared today.
Brandon said the homestead prof.
ect, which is under the supervision
of the Department Of the Interior, is
intended for white citizens.
This week the first group Of 200
colored men from the District of Co
Mmbia Transient Relief Bureau estab-
hshed preliminary relief work camp
here. unit which is under direction
Of the relief administration, Brandon
explained. County officials got the er-
roneouS impression that the camp was
part of the homestead.
Perhaps this work camp will
hasten making an actuality of the
proposed white homestead for the
colored men will be available for ac-
tual necessary labor They will make
possible the building of better homes
with the allotted money" Brandon
said.
Getting the impression from news
paper articles that the colored men
were homesteaders. both Ormond w.
Phatr. president Of the Board Of
County Commissioners, and Nicholas
Oren, superintendent of schools, an
nounced they would protest to Federal
officials.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
RECORDL|BELS SUM
ISPA|D PRINCESS.
Declared TO Have Collected
S750,0O0 for Rasputin
Motion Picture.
ny u. Aasoeis.so prsss.

~ the Associated Press
LONDON. August ii--An exiied
Russian princess who had. she says.
m unwanted and implied role in the
motion picture "Rasputin and the
Empress. has collected q huge sum
some sources said s75o. .ooO-from tire
producert.
The fortune was paid TO Princess
Trina AIexandrovna Youssoupon by
Metro -Coldwyn-M Mayer as balm for
the fiim's alleged libel of the former
Russian noblevoman
Woman Attorney Handles Case.
Miss Fannie Holtzmann, American
attorney for the princess. said today
the settlement was the largest she
"ever heard Of in a libel case
The company paid the money out
OF court 10 forestall Threatened suits
in q number Of other countries after
Princess Youssoupon won a si27. 900
verdict here.
Miss Holtzmann stoutly declined to
name the amount OF the settlement,
which makes the film one OF the most
costly I'm Hollywood history. But she
said published reports the sum was
$3.50 900 were erroneous.
She had said earlier the Si27,00
award looks sick" when compared TO
the total amount.
The pretty little attorney, who was
IN America while court action was In
progress here, admitted that now the
case ia over her thoughts have turned
10 marriage The man In the case
Is now In Italy. she said ''He is an
American who has long lived In Eng
land"
Represented as Adultress.
Princess Youssoupon, in the sensa-
tional suit, alleged the character
Natasha in the film represented her
rs an adultress.
Prince Felix YouSsoupoh. husband
Of the princess, in a high-light of the
trial, testified he killed Rasputin, Rus
sia's mad monk" for patriotic rea-
sons during the turbulent World War
days
The Youssoupoffs recently have been
the guests Of the King and Queen at
Windsor Castle. She Is the daugh-
ter of Grand Duke Alexander. uncle
OF Czar Nicholas.
Under the agreement the film will
continue TO be shown. but a notice
will be inserted that the character Of
Natasha is fictional one. Some of
England's outstanding legal talent ap-
peared for both sides in the trial.
Victory" Party Held.
A victory" party held in Miss
Holtzmann's fat Thursday night in
celebration of the settlement was at
tended by several Metro-G -Goldwyn-
Mayer officials.
The celebration lasted until break
fast. Princess Youssoupoff wore an
emerand necklace, said to have once
been among the Romanoff jewels.
Among those present were former
Mayor James J. Walker Of New York
and Mrs. Walker. Douglas Fairbanks,
3r.; Gertrude Lawrence. British ac-
tress, and several members Of the Brit
ish nobility.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
RAIL PENSION LAW
|NJUNCT|ONASKE
$50 Large Railroads to File
Suit Here to Prevent
Enforcement.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An injunction to prevent the Rail-
road Retirement Board from enforc-
ing the pension law passed by the
last session Of Congress win be asked
within q few days by $50 large rail-
roads. Suit will be filed, it has been
learned, in District Supreme Court
The Committee of General Counsel
of Railroads headed by r. v. Fletcher,
general counsel for the Association
of Railway Executives, viii file the
action asking the court to eniotn the
board from attempting TO collect as
sessments against the railroads and
their employees and to declare the
law unconstitutional on three points.
The committee includes Jacob
Aronson Of the New York Central
Railroad s. r. Prince of the South
ern Railway, z. S. Jouett of the
Louisville 81 Nashville Railroad, E.
z. McInnis Of the Atchison, Topeka
g. Santa Fe, and B. r. Lyons of the
Northern Pacific.
The statute, which provides for as
sessing employees Of all railroads 2 per
cent of their pay and railroads 4 per
cent of pay rolls, viii be attacked, 1t
was said, on the ground 1t violates the
commerce clause of the Constitution
under which Congress gets its power to
regulate interstate commerce. 1t also
will be called violative Of the fifth
amendment to the Constitution, which
prohibits taking property without due
process of law.
The petition to be presented to the
court will contend that many thou
sands Of employees who would be af-
fected by the law are not engaged in
interstate commerce. Among these,
1t was said, are clerical forces Of the
railroads, attorneys, doctors, as well
as the heads of railroad labor unions
and employees Of the Retirement Board
itself.
The violation of the fifth amend
ment, the action is expected to argue,
and their employees for the benefit of
other carriers and workers.
The railroads, besides attacking the
law on the two constitutional grounds,
are known to feel that the statute
places an undue burden on interstate
commerce.
The suit will be directed at the Re
tirement Board and Its individual
members-Murray Latimer, chairman;
r. e. Williamson, representing the
railroads. and Lee M. Eddy, repre-
senting labor.
Although the board came into ex-
istence on August l, it has not yet
called on the railroads for any money.
although it is understood there have
been informal discussions of an as
sessment of 100000 to meet expenses
of the board.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
PASTOR WHO TOOK SNAKE BITE
TO PROVE FAITH RECOVERING

his faith made him impervious to fire
and other human tortures. When the
snake bit him he fed screaming from
the pulpit, but regained his composure
q short time later.
His arm sweled. His tongue filled
his mouth. His neck and back were
infamed. But he still held to the
efficacy Of faith as opposed to medical
care.
And today he appeared to be re-
covering.
Cures Of the bite Of the mountain
rattler are not uncommon-when
medical care Is quickly administered.
But seldom does the poison fail to be
deadly il such care is not available
and especially In cases where the bare
flesh Is struck, as vas Testers arm
twice.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
SEES WHEAT PRICE
At S1.5 A BUSHEL
Prominent Montana Grower
Also Predicts Corn to
Sell at ST.
By the Associat ted Press

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, August ll.--Beliei
cash wheat will sell in some of this
country's grain markets for s1.5o @
bushel before another crop is pro-
duced was expressed here today by
Thomas D. Campbell, prominent
Montana wheat grower, after he read
the Government crop report.
He said he believed also corn can
sell easily for 81 q bushel on COM
modify value only and speculation
could easily increase this"
Sees Import Need.
It is obvious, he said, that some
Spring wheat will have to be i'm
ported for mixing and milling pur-
poses before the 1885 crop is har-
vested In this prediction he pointed
out the crop report gave only 10000
900 bushels Of Spring wheat, includ-
ing drum. against a normal average
of 225,o00, 900 bushels, and the an
nual requirement, for mixing pur-
poses, equaling 200. 1000 900 bushels.
Campbell said the Government re-
port is an indication OF seriousness
OF the drought condition In the
United States. There never has been
such q drought in the Middle West,
he said, and few people realize how
serious the condition is unless they
have first hand knowledge. !"
He said he feels there viii be SUM-
cient Winter wheat in this country,
including the crop and surplus, to
provide for domestic requirements. but
he predicted that by July, 1885, the
margin will be small.
Corn More Builish.
The Government corn report of L.
607, 900, 900 bushels he described as
even more bullish and startling" He
said this short crop would be un-
usually serious under normal condi-
tions, but when you realize the same
drought has universally destroyed all
grass feed and other fodder, you can
easily realize the corn situation is
even more bullish than wheat
AS for his own wheat fields in Mon
tana, Campbell said, Well harvest
less than 10000 bushels on the q. .242
acres we will have in crop this year
under the reduced acreage allowable
by the agricultural adjustment act"
Last May" he said, "it looked as II
we might harvest 100000 to 100000
bushels from this same area, but there
were IA days of scorching heat and
withering wind which practically de-
stroyed this crop, as all other crops
and feed in our part of Montana"
Evening star., 1934-08-11
BULLET-RIDDLED CONSTABLE
ESCAPES BURIAL BY ASSASSINS
Shot Fire Times by Gangsters, John Griffin FIees
as -Four Prepare to Dig Grave for Man
They Believed Dead.

They placed him on the ground As
he lay there, partially conscious, he
heard them discuss plans for dis
posing of his body Finally two of
the gangsters left to find spades pre-
paratory to scooping out a grave.
The other two left on guard relaxed
their vigilance momentarily. Making
a supreme effort, the officer said he
rose and staggered to the automobile.
He pulled himself in and whisked
away. Motorists, attracted by the
zigzag course of the car, overlook 1t
and hurried Griffin to a hospital.
Police captured Michael Rosso. "A,
at his home and reported he had
Grifin's pistol containing five empty
cartridges. They sought the others
and also hunted the man Fat" on
the theory he had put the finger"
on the constable.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
LIVES OF ) HINGE
/. ON STRANGE NOTE
State Claims Missive Was
"PIant" In Murder OF
Mountain Girl.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
wILKESBORO. N. c., August III
The authenticity Of a strange note,
purportedly written by 1s-year-old
Leoda Childress before a rife bullet
ended her life. was projected today as
the erux of her mysterious death, the
solution of which can mean freedom
or the electric chair for fve OF her
foster relatives.
The State sent a procession Of
witnesses to the stand In the trial OF
the mountain family here for murder
and conspiracy In On attempt 10 con-
vince the jury Of farmers that the
defendants plotted the death Of the
girl and left the note as q hoax.
The note described the visit OF q
band Of marauders who threatened to
Kill the girl unless she gave them her
foster fathers treasure box' con-
tanning s6l0, and ended In q hyster-
ical resolution TO "die rather than
tell where the box Is"
After establishing that the note
was not found In the girls pocket
until three days after her death, the
State sought TO prove the epistle was
actually written by Mrs. Luther
T1lley, one of the defendants, and
was planted"
Various testimony has placed Luther
T1lley rabbit-hunting ON the premises
of his fathers home, tn which the
body was found, and w. w. Tilley,
60-year-old patriarch of the family
and his wife at a doctors oface miles
away. and Mrs. Luther Tilley at her
home In the same mountain COM
munity.
The yosfngest defendant, Clyde TIL
ley. 1S-year-old son Of w. w. Tilley,
has not been projected into the States
testimony rebuilding the events Of the
drab afternon last December when
Leoda was killed
Evening star., 1934-08-11
BY the Associat ted Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August l1.-Constable
John Griffin of suburban Bellwood,
shot five times by a quartet of gun
men, escaped from his wouldbe as
sassins early today while they pre-
pared to dig his grave.
The officer gasped out his story
later as he lay in a hospital bed.
-Four men seized him, he related,
as he went to keep an appointment
with a man identified only as Fat. I"
They took his own pistol and fired
point blank One bullet clipped his
left ear, two pierced his abdomen and
two entered his back.
Apparently believing their victim
was dead. the assailants spirited the
constables to a lonely spot on the
banks Of the drainage canal in Cicero
Evening star., 1934-08-11
CHAMBERLAIN DEATH
TO BE INVESTIGATED
Inquest Will Be Held Tonight in
Berwyn-Alleged Driver
Under Arrest.
By a statr CORRESPONDENT of The Star.

BERWYN, Nd, August ll.--An in
quest into the death of Floyd Cham
berlaln. 80, of Dodge Park, who was
run over and killed while standing be-
side a parked truck on the Baltimore
Boulevard at Muirkirk yesterday, win
be held by Judge George S. Phillips
here tonight.
Robert Hecht of Atlanta, Ga, presi-
dent Of the international Cotton Waste
Inter Corp. said to have been the
driver of the car which hit Chamber
lain, was arrested by Corpl. c. W. Cub
bage of the State police force on a
charge of reckless driving He posted
81 600 bond for appearance at the in
quest.
Chamberlain and David W. Gibson
%. 1900 block of Quarles street north
east. employees of an outdoor advertis-
ing concern. were standing beside their
parked truck when the accident oc-
Cured. Gibson was treated at Cas-
ualty Hospital for minor injuries and
went home.
Magistrate Phillips said Hecht was
returning to Atlanta after q 30-week
trip abroad
Evening star., 1934-08-11
FACE ABDUCTION CHARGE

MECHANICSvTLLE, N. Y, August
IL OP.-Boston, Mass, police were
expected here today with warrants for
James Martin, 20 of Portsmouth.
Ohio. and Bernard +. Hill. 26. of East
Weymouth, Mass charging abduc-
tion.
The youths were arrested here
Thursday charged with illegal train
riding. With them were two sisters,
Dora and Rita Rosetti. is and Is. re-
spectively. The girls said the youths
planned TO marry them when they ar
rived in Baltimore, Nd.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
BIDS ARE OPENED
ON SCHOOL PROJECTS
Three Montgomery Contracts
Await Approval of Public
Works Officials.
~ q staf Correspondent Of The Star.

ROCKVILLE. Md. August IL
Bids on three additional 1884 Mont
gomery County school construction
projects were opened by the. Board
Of Education here yesterday after
noon with Morrison Bros. of Be-
theSda submitting the low bids on
each OF the three items.
The Bethesda firm submitted q bid
Of s.e8S for the four-room addition
to Sherwood High School at Sandy
Spring; a quotation Of $50, $50 for a
similar addition at Rockville and a
bid of $26.930 for a four-room addi-
ton at Damascus
The bids viii be submitted to State
headquarters of the Public Works Ad-
ministration for approval before con-
tracts are awarded, II was announced.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
MINE PROFIT PRoBLEMATICAL.
Silver Produced Now Is Mostly BY
Product of Other Workings.

Silver Produced Now Is Mostly BY
Product Of Other Workings.
SAN FRANCISCO, August IL Up.
With Americas silver mines almost
nonexistent, Walter Bradley, chief of
the California Division of Mines, said
today there are widely differing views
as to the metals future in connection
with its naturalization.
Americas supply of silver for nearly
quarter of a century has come al
most wholly as a by-product Of other
ores. Idaho has one or two straight
silver producers, as do Utah and other
scattered States. But almost all of
Americas silver comes from mines
which derive rs to 95 per cent of
their revenue from other metals.
In Montana these ores are copper
and zinc; in Arizona, copper; in Ida
no, lead. zinc and copper; In Califor-
mia, lead and some copper; in Nevada,
chiefly copper, and in Colorado, gold.
In all these States, principal silver
producers of the United States, gold is
generally found in association with
silver.
In the Cour D'Alenes of Idaho, pro-
duction is ordinarily about 160 pounds
of lead and four ounces of silver to
the ton. A drop Of a cent or two a
pound in the price of lead would wipe
out the profit from silver If its price
were doubled or tripled Approx
mately the same conditions exist in
other metal mines.
Despite the waning Of its pure silver
properties, America has for 80 years
ranked as the worlds second largest
producer, with about 20 per cent of
the worlds supply. Mexico has pro-
duced approximately 35 per cent.
Climbing silver prices, however,
must inevitably lead to mining de-
velopments. Bradley believes, and
since the coinage act Of last December
In effect gave mining men 641s cents
an ounce for their silver. reopening
of old mines has been under way.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
REGISTER OPPOSITION
TO STAGGER PAY DAYS
Federation of Federal Employees
and American Federation
Groups Score Plan.

Another group OF, Government EN-
ployes' organizations last night reg
istered opposition TO the proposal to
stagger pay days in the Federal serv-
ice. These include Local No. 2 Of the
Federation Of Federal Employees, the
Executive Committee of the District
Federation Of Federal Employees, Fed
eral Employees Local No. II and Labor
Department Lodge No. II Of the
American Federation Of Government
Employees.
Several Of the organizations sug-
gested resumption Of payments IN
cash instead Of checks as q real solu-
ton to the payday problem.
The staggered payday plan, how
ever. has been indorsed by the Society
Of Federal Translators Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Government EN-
ployes.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
In Earnest About Divorce

KENOSHA, Wis. OP.-"Five times
and out" is the rule Mrs. Minnie
Hinz has adopted for her marital
game.
Since her marriage to Willard Hinz,
in 1905, she has withdrawn her di-
vorce complaint three times and the
fourth time the decree was set aside
four months after being granted.
But this time, Mrs. Hinz AYERS,
she's going through with it, charg-
ing cruelty.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
Keeps Bad News From Hogs.

KAW CITY, Okla. CP)-Bill Coyle,
farmer, whose acres have been de-
spoiled by the drought, says he's
going to keep his hogs shut up in the
barn.
"If they could see how little they're
going to have to eat next Winter"
he explains, they'd just lie down and
die"
Evening star., 1934-08-11
BY the Associated Press.


SYLVIA. N. c., August ll.-Credu-
lous residents of the Balsam Mountain
faStneSseS watched with awe today
the workings of the faith cure" on
Albert Teester. S9-year-old Holiness
preacher who braved a rattlesnake's
fangs to prove his divine faith.
God viii take care of it." the
writhing Teester told his backwoods
flock after the reptile struck him twice
Sunday night as he held it alcft in
his pulpit.
Spurning medical care, as did his
wife when she died Of child birth sew
eral years ago, Teester said he handled
the snake because Christ, as quoted in
Luke xvi, said Thou shalt take up
serpents."
For years Teester had told his flock
Evening star., 1934-08-11
AVIATRIX SETS RECORD
French Girl Covers 444.261 Kilos
at 276 Miles an Hour.

ISTREA, France, August IL RD.-
A new flying speed record for women,
which will be submitted to the Inter-
national Aeronautical Federation, was
computed today for Mile Helen
Boucher at 444.261 kilometers
(276.0504 mileS) an hour.
The first unofficial computations OF
her speed, made over a local course
set the time at 438 kilometers an
hour, but the official announcement
corrected that figure,
Evening star., 1934-08-11
SILVER CURRENCY
EXPANSION PLAN
AGAIN BROADENED
Continued From First Page.)

tOOHtlnueQ rIOiu FiTSt rage
toward the exchange parley was not
disclosed.
Morgenthau. declining to discuss his
parley with hts chief, indicated the
Chief Executive would shape future
policies in the purchase program to
make silver IS per cent Of the Ma
tons monetary base
Soon after his visit to the White
House the Treasury Secretary left for
New York.
Meanwhile, appearance OF a Sc
136,42l "seigniorage" item in the
Treasury's ordinary receipts. with a
corresponding gain In the value of
silver bullion carried In the general
fund, caused speculation.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
German BOYS at Rugby.

Twenty German boys from a pri-
vate school near Frankfort have Just
spent three weeks at Rugby School
in England, which will send 20 boys
to the German school in January.
Evening star., 1934-08-11
RAP SALACI0US FILMS

OIutI UI 1ldB 1G5 11CIG dLCa 60 14CG
on Resolution.
CINCINNATI, August II (R.-Dele-
gates to the Grand Aerie of the Fra
terpal Order of Eagles today win act
on q resolution criticizing salacious
motion pictures. Its approval was
forecast.
Also due for consideration Is reso-
luton seeking to condemn statutes
and industrial practices, which Eagles
contend are enforced in many States,
discriminating against workers when
they reach the age of 40.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1934-02-10
Animal Heads For
Exhibit Burned

WASHINGTON Feb. TO-
Members of the senate committee
for the conservation of wild life
were wearing long faces yester-
day because they had received
word that the truck from Ashe-
vile. loaded with wild animal
heads and included in which
were some of the hest specimens
in America, was completely de-
stroyed by fire at Fredericksburg
yesterday morning.
This collection had been donat-
ed to the committee for display
in its palatial committee room at
the capitol. Senator Bailey had
accepted the collection for the
committee from Randall Everett,
Brevard. The senior North Caro-
lima senator and other members
of the committee were keenly dis
appointed when informed that the
collection, which was insured for
1000, but valued at many times
that amount, had been destroyed.
A car ran into the back of the
truck and both burned to the
ground before they could be pull
ed apart. Thad Bailey, Senator
Bailey's secretary. stated. Many
of the specimens in the collection
were from the rugged mountain
sections of Western North Caro-
lima.