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AIR HEADS PROJECT
9DO-PLANE FLEET
G. H. q. ''Spearhead" Would
Be Part Of Enlarged Force
in New Program.

A thunderbolt of War-a striking unit
OF 900 or more pursuit, bombardment
and attack airplanes capable of being
sent against any target in the air, on
land, or at sea-will form the spear
head of reorganized and greatly ex-
panded Army Air Corps if Congress
carries out the new f1ve-year construc-
ton program Of the Army general staff
announced yesterday.
The new striking force will be known
as the General Headquarters All
Force" and it will be at the disposal
of the commander in chief of the
Armies for immediate service in any
theater of action. 1t will be an enor--
mously powerful, Well-rounded air COM
bat unit which may be used against any
type of target capable of attack from
the air
The 9O0-plane General Headquarters
Air Force, however, would be only a
part of the general staffs five-year pro-
gram. The new program, excepting
only the original fve-year program, is
regarded as the most important step
in military aviation in the United
States since the close of the World
War.
Approval Forecast.
The first step under the new program
will be to make good the existing de-
hclencles under the first flve-year pro-
gram, as yet uncompleted because of lack
of funds. Remedying Of these deficien-
cies and progress on the new five-year
program will go ahead as rapidly as
funds can be obtained from Congress
or the Public Works Administration, it
was indicated. 1t is regarded in Army
circles as almost certain that Congress
will approve the new program in prin-
clpal. The rate at which funds will
be made available, however, is con-
jectural
To make good the deficiencies in
airplanes under the first five-year pro-
gram necessitates the building up of
the Air Corps to strength of 2,O25
airplanes. it was said by Air Corps
officers. There now are only about 800
serviceable airplaleS in the Air Corps,
according to strength reports.
The original five-year program called
for 1900 ''serviceable" airplanes. This
was interpreted by the Air Corps to
mean 1900 planes actually in flying
condition. apart from airplanes in
depots undergoing routine general
oyerhauls or repairs. Since approx
mately 1912 per cent of all Air Corps
planes are in the shops all the time, a
force of 2,025 airplanes would be re-
quired to maintain 1900 "serviceable"
airplaneS
With this Interpretation, the general
staff concurred in announcing the new
program. After building up to the
original authorization of 2.025 air.
planes, the Air Corps then will begin
the expansion under the new program
to an as yet unannounced total.
400 More Pilots.
Shortages under the present f1ve-year
program will necessitate the addition
to the Air Corps of 400 ofhcer-pilots Cf
the Regular Army and $500 enlisted
men before the new program begins,
the War Department announced.
The new G. H. @. air force probably
will be composed of two full wings,
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GREED HELD CAUSE
OF POOR HOUSING
First Lady Says Aroused
Public "1ini0n Must
Remedy Conditions.

Public opinion directed against the
greed Of property owners is suggested
by Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt as the
most effective means of making slum
clearance and low-cost housing through
out the country a reality
Mrs. Roosevelt and Secretary Ickes,
public works administrator, were the
principal speakers at a luncheon meet
ing yesterday of the National Public
Housing Conference at the Willard
Hotel.
I'VE have at last reached the point"
the First Lady declared. where we
can hopefully look for results and not
merely cling to our aspirations"
She cautioned the conference not to
count wholly upon the Government to
accomplish the aim of Kidding cities
and towns of slum districts
THE economic thing which makes
low-cost housing so difficult" she said,
lis that most people who own property
have looked upon land not as a regu-
lar source of income. but as an invest
ment on which to make a great deal of
money. They have exploited their
property expecting to get out of it
more than they put into it. This situa-
ton will have to change.
bad Citizens"
II feel that it will have to come
about through public opinion. Holders
of property who exploit human beings
must be made to feel that they are bad
citizens in their communities.
"This thing can be done through
awakening the conscience of citizens
who are property owners Through this
means, feel we can bring about in an
orderly manner the thing that in some
places was brought about by revolu-
tion We must dramatize the situation
so that thoughtful public opinion will
put an end to the exploitation of hu-
man beings by the owners of prop
erty."
Mrs. Roosevelt was preceded on the
program by Secretary Ickes who ci-
NAKED his address with the assertion
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Glass Vote Is Negative.

) Glass Vote Is Negative.
The vote in the Senate in support Of
the gold bill was almost as overwhelm-
ing as in the House few days ago,
where only 40 members opposed the
measure. Only two Democrats. Glass
Of Virginia and Gore of Oklahoma,
were openly against the measure. Glass
was the only Democrat voting against
it. and Gore. who was absent, was
paired" against it.
The roll call disclosed that 55 Demo-
Gratis voted for the bill. 10 Republicans
and l Farmer-Labor Senator. Twenty
two Republicans voted against the bill
with the one Democrat
Paired for the bill were Thomas of
Oklahoma. leader of the initiation bloc
in the last session, who was absent on
account of illness, and Bulow of South
Dakota, both Democrats. and Norbeck
of South Dakota, Republican. Those
paired against the bill were Metcalf of
Rhode Island and Hastings of Della
ware, Republicans and Gore.
The silver fight was won by the ad-
ministration only by personal appeals
of the President to some Of the Demo-
cratic Senators. Three or four Of
these who had agreed to vote for the
Wheeler amendment at the eleventh
hour were persuaded to stand by the
administration.
AS a matter of fact, more Democrats
voted for the silver amendment than
against it. The roll call showed 81
Democrats supporting Senator Wheeler,
Democrat, of Montana and % Demo-
Gratis supporting the administration.
Republicans Aid President.
The Presidents victory. therefore,
turned largely upon the IT votes cast
by Republican Senators against the
silver amendment. Eleven Republicans
supported the amendment 1t is clear
that had the Republicans been anxious
merely to put the administration in
hole" they could have done so by
swinging two more votes to the support
of the Wheeler amendment. Repub-
licans from the West. however. said
afterward they were entirely satisfied
to have the vote go as it did. Failure
TO adopt the silver amendment gives
them a good alibi for voting finally
against the passage of the bill, which
some of them did.
A silver amendment offered by Sem
ator Pittman of Nevada, Democrat.
reputed author of the silver agreement
entered into at the London Economic
Conference. was accepted by Senator
Fletcher of Florida, in charge of the
gold bill, and was adopted without a
record vote. This amendment author
izes" the President to cause to be
issued Ito the tenderer of silver for
coinage" silver certificates in lieu of
silver dollars to which the tenderer
would be entitled and also to issue
silver certificates in such denomina-
tions as he may prescribe against any
silver bullion. silver or silver dollars
not at the time held for redemption
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Mary Pickford Scoffs at Gangs
As "HyPnotic Eye" Plot Fails
attempt by Couple to Put
Maid in Trance Re.
realed by Star.

BY the Associated Press.
FALMOUTH, Mass, January 27-
Mary Pickford, motion picture actress
who came here from Boston after she
had been annoyed, she said, by a man
and a woman who sought to interest
her in mysterious documents. today
said she had no fear Of racketeers or
kidnapers.
She said none Of the five or six tele-
phone calls she had received nor either
of two letters could be interpreted as
threat.
She told reporters who interviewed
her at the home of Fulton Oursler,
play wright and magazine editor, that
Il am not afraid of any racketeers or
kidnapers. I have two special guards
with me at all times
Telling of the mysterious documents
and the meeting at her hotel. Miss
Pickford said the man had peculiar
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GIRL STUDENTS FLEE
FIRE OVER R00FT0PS
Two Holton Arms Pupils Chilled
as They Run, scantily Clad, to
Seek Escape,

Frightened when awakened by yells
of Fire" early today, two young
woman students of the exclusive Hol-
ton Arms School. in the 2100 block OF
S street. fled over rooftops of several
adjoining buildings in a futile attempt
to escape through a skylight.
The blaze which broke out on
stage used by the schools amateur
theatrical organization, on the first
floor of the building, was discovered by
the house mother in charge. who spread
the alarm.
Unable to find an unlocked skylight.
the two young women, scantily clad and
chilled by the night air, returned to
the school, where they Joined a dozen
other students, who had been corraled
into another section of the building.
The flames were quickly extinguished.
School officials refused to reveal the
identities of the girls who took to the
rooftops
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AIR CADETS TO WAIT
FOR COMMISSIONS
Graduates at Kelly Field Face
Two.Year Delay Before
Becoming Officers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO. Tex, January 81
An official bombshell exploded on Kelly
Field today in the form of telegram
from Washington directing that fly
ing cadets be sent to duty with tactical
units for one year as cadets and one
year as Reserve officers, in place OF
being commissioned Immediately upon
graduation here.
It was understood the action by the
chief of the Air Corps was partly an
economy measure and also to keep
down loss of life and equipment by
newly graduated Reserve officers. In
0ome instances. it was said here. newly
commissioned officers have displayed a
tendency to "show off," resulting in
accidents in the air.
The next class graduates at the Ad-
vanced Flying School February %. In
this class are student officers and
"a flying cadets. Four, however, have
declined to accept active duty as Ca
diets. They probably will be commits
stoned as second lieutenants in the Air
Corps Reserve and return to their
homes after graduation.
Under the new ruling 1t Is understood
the graduates will be permitted two
Sears active duty in place Of one.
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TWO MEN ARE INJURED
BY FREAK ACCIDENTS
One Thrusts Arm Through Window
in Gesturing-Second Walks
Into Clothes Line.

Freak accidents befell at least two
Washingtonians last night, resulting in
severe injury in one of the cases.
While gesturing as he talked, Carl H.
Smith, 81, thrust an arm through q
window pane IN his home, 900 block of
H street, severing an artery in his
wrist. Smith was hurried to Emergency
Hospital, where he was said to have
lost considerable blood. Smiths in
jury was regarded as not serious.
With his vision obscured by num-
Der Of loaves Of bread ne was carrying,
Edgar Soper, 81, of the 1900 block Of
Thirtieth street southeast, late yester-
day ran into clothes line while de-
livering bread at Silver Hill, Md, and
suffered a broken jaw and other in
juries.
Soper, employe of local bakery. was
taken to Emergency Hospital. where his
condition was believed improved late
last night. In addition to the broken
jaw, soper had cut lip and body
bruises.
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u. S. Viii Finance
Sale of Appliances
TOUse T.V.A. .POlUer
articles Viii Be Made
Specially to Be Sold
at Reduced Prices.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
There will soon be cheap and reliable
electric ranges, refrigerators and hot
water heaters in Dixie, and the Gov
ernment will put up the money.
With power available from the Ten
nessee Valley Authority for seven
Southern States, the problem arose of
getting electrical appliances distributed
to use this power.
Officials of the Electric Home g.
Farm Authority. Inc, said yesterday
plans were nearing completion to put
the Government in the chattel mort
gage business to finance installment
buying of appliances.
Authority engineers had in their
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MANILA, January 81 (P)-Gov. Gen.
Frank Murphy cabled protest tonight
to Secretary of War Dern against the
House Ways and Means Committees
proposal to tax coconut oil 5 cents
pound, virtually double the present
price
Business men said the tax would be
a heavy blow to the industry. upon
which 100000 Filipinos are at least
partially dependent.
Evening star., 1934-01-28
HORSES IN FOX HUNT SHY AND RUN
WHEN THEY SEE OLD.TIME BUGGY

strange" object also. and headed in
the opposite direction in no uncertain
way. A third horse became so panicky
he fell down and rolled over in his
haste to escape.
The owners of the three hunters
admitted afterwards that probably none
of the horses ever had seen a buggy
before.
Some one suggested there should be
an ordinance passed similar to the one
which forbade automobile drivers years
ago to scare horses. intimidated by the
strange spectacle Of the gasoline buggy.
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Now there will have to be law to
protect horses from being frightened
by the sight OF buggy.
The necessity was proven yesterday
afternoon when the Riding and Hunt
Club foxhunt was afield near Potomac.
Md. Pausing for minute in road
way while the pack drew a covert, the
riders were approached by an old col
ored man driving a buggy. AS the
vehicle drew near, q horse suddenly
snorted. SHE'D and attempted to run
away. Another looked about, saw the
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Voyager Stabbed "a Times.

SAN FRANCISCO. January 81 (P)-
Following a shipboard fight in which
John Cabral, "a, suffered "a knife
wounds, Henry G. Goldstein. q, Of
Philadelphia, was removed from the
Matson freighter Mauna Ala here today
by police and lodged in the city prison.
Cabral was placed in Santa Barbara
Hospital. Goldstein told police Cabral
had been aggressor.
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10. B. WeAtner bureau rUreCHsIJ
Mostly cloudy with mild temperature to-
day. colder tonight; tomorrow fair, much
colder tomorrow and tomorrow night.
Temperatures-Highe so, at pm.
yesterday; lowest, 35, at 80 am. yes
terday. Full report on page AT.
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MURPHY PROTESTS TAX

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Deaths

Lem B. siebenthal. II. Of 1909 Beeoher,
Anna Dalciene Herider. 81, of 1919 HOyt,
influenza.
James H. watts. 40. city hospital. acute
James 3. Nixon. 10. OF sOs North Luett.
uremia.
George 5 South. AZ. of 243O West wal
nut, looar pneumonia.
Albert Springer, "a, OF 2i57 North Penn
sylvanla. cerebral hemorrhage.
o Brouhard. IS. Methodist hospital,
fractured skull.
Cora Garden. %. city hospital, meninso-
encephalitis.
Claude Kirkmsn. a. Long hospital
chronic nephritis.
Lula Ditto. ii. of $40 West North.
coronary thrombosis.
Ruby Charlotte Harris. 8 months. city
hospital. toxic dehydratlon.
Nancy Cottingham. II. Methodist hos
pital. mitral insuflciency.
Charles n. RugenStIen. "a, of 22712 East
Ohio. chronic interstltial nephritis.
Edward Hall. 60. city hospital, broneho
pneumonia.
Lula Heating. 40. city hospital, general
peritonitis.
Josephine Moore. 81. GIT South Capitol,
acute cardiac dilatation.
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VITAL STATISTICS
Marriage Licenses

street. i%aborer. and Eileen Thurston. IS,
Of 1924 South Kealing street, housekeper.
switchma man and Mary is5mocEk. 81. Of 1929
West Eleventh street, beauty operator.
Odon knight, 81. Boulder, Colo instruc-
tor, and Jean ,McColgin. %. of 364l Win
Charles Maddux 50, Of 1921 Lawrence
street. electrician and Marie Koerner, rs,
of 1926 wSqsdHlawn avenue, Ipsos9akkeeepeT;
avenue. pressman, and Bessie Harper. II.
Of 1l06 Madison avenue, housekeeper.
of I'LL Spruce street, clerk.
ohn Sulbeck. "a, of 1874 Arsenal ave-
nJune3, m9chinisti. and Mary Fox; IL. OF
Roland Pluto %. of 1853 West twenty
sixth street. porter, and Hattie Franklin.
%, Of sos West Twenty-eighth street,
Joseph Land, 21, o. "a South Dearborn
" Robert 81 4t'O sh hsftaH0 a. s's Of ca aPrSi County.
farmer. and Wilma Ridenour. 81. of 1927
Meridian street. housekeeper.
%. Of 1856 West Michigan Street, nurse.
Walter Boles, %, of r, R; IS. Box %,
horns fa@Gs'& 81. Of 9YN SEA Rad eru street ttit'1 Bakery,
Ralph Demaree. %. of R. R. 2. Green
wood, farmer and Hannah Benge, l9.
soW%tihiiRi am b 6SHSn6fep?aEsj e. of ssos English
avenue, iaborer. and Mary Alsman, 81, of
1903 English avenue. bakery emmpl9ye, .,o
str SSI,eS CLERK drG' 'a and MiarSue7ite johnson, II,
Albert TregeeieT, 80, Of 1900 south NERD
of 1880 South East street. cashier.
Edwin Richardson, IS. OF 323 North
Peck, Is. of 1913 North Delaware street.
hOuSekeeper.
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in value. and with other valuable
awards the officials are seeking to
gain some national figures in the
golf world to enter the play.
THE final round OF the Indian
Il apolis Dental Society Golf As
ISOLATION 36-hole championship tour
nament will be played at Highland
Golf and Country Club tomorrow
afternoon.
The molar extractors do not use
handicaps, but have their field Of
forty players divided into four
classes according 10 the caliber Of
the games they have been playing
all season.
DR.. II. G. Percival, secretary, states
that DR.. Harry Leer gained a one
stroke lead on the players in Class
A in the first round at Broadmooor
last Wednesday with a 70. DR.. r.
L. Cooper was second with 70; DR..
z. G. Gilchrist third with 81. and
DR.. H. J. Silver fourth with 80.
Following the windup at High
land the players and members who
belong to the association but do not
play golf or enter the tournament
will enjoy a dinner, entertainment
and witness awarding of prizes in
the Highland clubhouse. Importance
has been added to the dinner meet
ing in the form of an amendment to
the bylaws which will be voted
uDOn.
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the favorites. Try to get the big,
lazy, fat ones that flourish at about
this time Of year.
HOOK them through the hard
IL shell back of the head, using a
small hook and a light line and
leader. Float them down into a pool
on a twig or leaf and see if some
hungry bass isn't intrigued. Crick-
cts are a prize bluegill bait. Just
why this is no one seems to know,
as the crickets seldom get out into
gill territory in any normal man
ner.
Grubs, catalpa worms and helgra-
mites just about wind up the list
Of popular live bats. OF course if
you can't get anything else, use any
small animal, or insect. Fish have
been caught on such strange bats
as small snakes. caterpillars, mice.
toads, spiders and small soft-Shell
turtles, and there is one well au-
thenticated tale Of a monster brook
trout that lived in a mill pond for
years, sneering at all lures, natural
and artificial, that was finally fooled
by a baby duck.
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Births

Kenneth n Essie Crawford, 1923
Harley and Marie G%reathouse. 633
Charles and Ernestine Peck, IS Greeley.
William and Molly Gebhart. 1902 Eng
Andrew and Roxie Alexander, S62 West
Ninth.
Cleveland and Josie Brown. 2l52 North
Thomas and Louise Coleman, 1929 Co
Noah and Olive Hutchinson, 44s1a West
Sixteenth place.
Sherman drive.
Louis and Esther Trefry. 1866 Villa.
Fred and Christina Ward. city hospital.
Seddie and Fannie Denzio, city hospital.
Jesse and Eva Kerr, city hospital.
Charles and Opal Long. city hospital.
Harold and Grace Hopwood, city hos
pital.
Everett and Alma Hacker, city hospital.
Charles and Yvonne Bever, city hospital.
Ralph and Irma Caudell. 956 Sumner.
George. and Penelope Skoulos. st.
Francis hospital.
John and Mary Mafreda. st. Francis
Iswrencs and Nellie Johantsen' St
Aiphonse and Mary Tietz, st. Francis
hospital.
Walter and Virginia Hensel. 1912
Henry and Fannie Havlin, 462 North
William and Viola Myers. 242 North
De Witt and Dolores Traylor, 1901
Arrow.
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Jordan Named to
Head A.A.U. Body
Executive Staff Elected in
Meeting Here.

Paul R. Jordan, indianapolis, to-
day headed the Indiana-Kentucky
A. A. u. following his reelection
as president at a meeting here.
j. E. Clemens, Major ]. F. Grant,
Emil Rath, Paul D. Hinkle and DR..
Carl Spurth, were named vice-pres-
idents, and Mrs. Harold Human
was reelected secretary. Randle
Willis was selected as her assist
ant.
Other persons elected included:
Chester Romine, registration chair
man; Harold Human and Bob
Goodwin, assistants; Heze Clark and
Mrs. Thelma Darby Willis, handi-
cappers; Harold Ross, publicity
chairman; Hermon Phillips, track
chairman; Richard o. Papenguth,
Hordan, Clemens, Romine, Human
and D. Melville Carr, delegates to
the national A. A. U. convention at
Miami, Fla, Dec. 1873, and Mrs.
Willis, Mrs. j. E. Clemens, H.
Rhoustong, Major Grant, B. B. Har-
vey and Goodwin, alternates.
The annual Indiana-Kentucky A.
A. u. basketball tournament was
awarded to South Bend.
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Tigers Need
Six Wins to
Clinch Title
500 Ball Will Put BengalS
'0ver the Hump in
Final Drive.
By United Press

By United Press
NEW YORK, Sept. 18.-The De-
troit Tigers need play only 500
baseball during their remaining
twelve games to coast into the
American League pennant. Even if
the runner-up Yankees win all their
eleven remaining contests.
Detroit gained this happy
status yesterday by banking the
Yanks, 3 to 0, in the opening game
Of their allegedly crucial series"
When ancient General Alvin
Crowder, reputedly washed up long
ago, limited the New York batsmen
to six futile safeties, Mickey Coch-
rane's Tigers stretched their lead to
six and a half games over the
Yanks.
Crowder's mates found the great
Lefty Gomez and Fordham Johnny
Murphy for nine hits, which were
converted into single TALES in the
first, third and sixth. White,
Gehringer and Goslin headed the
attack with two hits each.
Washington downed Cleveland, Is
to 6, after pounding Hildebrand,
Weiland, Bean and Clint Brown for
twenty-one safeties. Rookie Reese
Digs, up from Baltimore, made his
major league debut by holding
Cleveland to eight hits. The Tribe
contributed four errors. Weiland
and Averill made Cleveland homers.
Eric McNair led the Athletics to a
ga victory over Chicago's tail-end
White SoX. McNair smashed out
home runs in the first and ninth
frames. Two men were aboard each
time. Boston's Red Sox frightened
their grip on fourth place by blank
ing st. Louis, 3 to 0. Rookie George
Hockette, from Kansas City in the
American Association, allowed the
Browns only two hits.
All National League games were
washed out.
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WILLARD'POUNDS WAY
TO WIN OVER PURVIS
By Times Special

By Times Special
MUNCIE, Sept. 18.-Jackie Purvis
of indianapolis, substituting for
Simon Nebolsky Of Cincinnati, was
defeated by Willard Brown of Indi-
annapolis in the ten-round main
event of a boxing show here at the
armory last night.
Brown, just returning from a long
campaign in Texas, showed i'm
proved hitting power, and Slugged
with the veteran Purvis toe to toe
at times.
The Muncie promoters will ask
the state boxing commission to suS-
pend NebolSky for nonappearance.
Complete results:
Willard Brown, Indianapolis. defeated
Jackie Purvis, indianapolis, ten rounds;
Jimmie Fox, Indianapolis, and Jackie
Collins. Muncie. drew in six rounds;
Young Baltamero, Cincinnati, knocked
out Jackie Fields, Indianapolis. three
rounds; welterS.
Pete Huber, Cincinnati, defeated Jackie
Cooper, Muncie, four rounds; bantams.
indianapolis, drew in four rounds; light
weights.
1t was announced that weekly
shows will be presented at the
Armory through the indoor season.