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Conspiracy
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BY GILBERT SELDES

Only one giant was killed
with a sling shot, and that sling
shot was handled by a poet,
musician, warrior, shepherd and
king.
The Bible tells the story, but
does not say, THE bigger they
are. the harder they fall" Even
David never repeated the expert.
ment, and when he had enemies
to attack, he brought out the
army.
Except for that one time, he
accepted Napoleon's idea that
God is on the side Of the big
battalions.
It is not my job to give ad-
vice to the Republican party. I
am an old-line Democrat, COM
ing to my devotion naturally be-
cause at the age of seven my
aunt was the only Bryanite in a
strongly Republican village.
Bryan cured me Of Bryan. but
a faint prejudice in favor Of the
Democratic party fingers on;
and, besides, I have feeling
that the Republicans-the con-
trolling Republicans more than
the politicians-really stand for
something dangerous to the
prosperity Of this country.
Yet, in the present crisis, I
feel that someone ought to tell
the boys not to start a modern
war with a popgun. Or a Fourth
Of July celebration with wet
firecrackers.
Remember Writ?
I am thinking back to those
days Of long ago when DR.. Writ
was in the headlines. Either his
name or his breath was too short
to ill them for long. Behind
his scareheadS lay a perfectly
sound analysis: that a great
change is coming over this coun-
try and a change even more pro-
found may come. To say this
in the open is a good thing, and
it is good thing to ask whether
we like this change and what we
would like the future to be.
The trouble with DR.. Wirt's
announcement was that Secre-
tary Wallace came before him.
If you read the Secretary's pam
phlet carefully, you will see that
he not only admits all possibili-
ties, but invites America 20
choose it's own future.
Feeble Intrigue
The trouble with the worthy
DR.. Writ was that he brought
into average American politics
a suggestion of the British po-
litical weekend, where a Prime
Minister and a Foreign Diplo-
mat and a Financier and
twenty minor characters all
gathered by a Great Lady and
Events of the First Order are
discussed at Tea. (This is also
the setting for a murder story
and, thank Heaven, the setting
house; you take your pick after
for a good yarn by P. G. Wode-
house; you take your pick after
reading the first chapterJ
That sort of thing doesn't exist
in America. For better or
worse. we are not great in
triguers.
The characters. also, were
not right. The conversation
was not right. The American
type of conspiracy would begin
in a business office, continue in
a Pullman smoker, and per-
hapS end in a small room, half
a dozen men in it, with not
three drinks between them. I
don't say that it would be a
good conspiracy, but it would
be an American one. 1t might
bring a Mussolini, a Stain, or
a Hoover: but it would have a
couple of good statistics, and
it wouldn't fizzle.
AIAlIAI nIIII nIAIn
The Washington times., 1934-04-16
CADET CORPS TROPHY

The Forty and Eight Society of
Alexandria has placed in competi-
tion among cadet corps Of Alexan-
drla and Arlington county
trophy which is to be awarded the
cadet showing the highest military
efficiency.
The Washington times., 1934-04-16
INJUNCTION SOUGHT

An injunction to stop the Vir-
ginia corporation commission from
interfering with hauling Of pas
sengers from Falls Church to
Washington and return will be
sought in Federal court in Alexan-
dria Monday by the Arlington and
Fairfax Transportation Company.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
TWO GIRLS BEATEN
TO DEATH, TWO HURT
Father Sought After Hammer
Attack-Another Child Ex-
pected to Die.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 1.-THE wife
of John IcHale, 31-year-old Bronx
C. w. A. worker. returned home to-
night to find their 4-year-old daugh-
ter Helen lying dead in a blood
stained crib and their other three
children, all girls, lying unconscious In
beds nearby.
Police, summoned by her screams,
called an ambulance and rushed
the three children to a hospital,
where one of them. Agnes, 1S months
old, died a few hours later.
Detectives said the children had
been beaten with a 2-pound car
penter's hammer. They Immediately
began a door -to-door search for NC
Hale in the neighborhood.
They Immediately began a door-to-
door search for McHale in the neigh
borhood.
McHale left the house early in the
evening after an argument with MS
wife, Margaret, after attending a
Saint Patrick's day dance. Mrs.
McHale left shortly afterwards to get
some milk for the children at a
neighborhood store. When she re-
turned she found the children beaten
and Helen dead.
Mrs. McHale told police her hus-
band spent five or six days IN the
hospital for treatment for alcoholic
psychosis about two months ago.
Hospital officials said that Mar
garet, s years old, was expected to
die, while Anna had only fair
chance of recovery.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
DRINKS LEGAL IN KENTUCKY
WHEN HEALTH is INVOLVED

sicians may prescribe without limit
for bona fide patients and any person
over 81 years of age may write his
own prescription for not more than a
quart each seven days or pint each
four days. However, he. or she. must
write on the prescription that Il am
not addicted to the habit of drink and
have not within six months prior
hereto, been convicted of drunken
ness"
The cost of liquor, at drug stores and
any other stores that may obtain per-
mits is expected to come down. since
the new law removes the so cents a
pint tax on medicinal whisky. The
drug store prices for medicinal whisky
have been SITS pint. for the lowest
grade blended" whisky up to 81 .or
the bottled In bond" variety, ccrll-
pared to bootleggers' prices of 81 q
pint and upward. In Louisville and a
number of other cities in the State
some drug stores have been selling
whisky and wines without the formal
ity of prescriptions ever since the
eighteenth amendment was repealed,
but the hotels had held off.
Kentucky is to vote on its own State
amendment at the November. 1888,
election, under resolution adopted
by the 1894 General Assembly which
passed the new liquor control act.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
FIVE HURT AS AUTO
HITS STREET CAR
Car Knocked From Tracks Into
Station, Which Falls on
Three.

Five persons were injured, one Sc
riously, shortly after midnight when
an automobile crashed into a street
car at Sixty-first and Dix streets
northeast, knocking it off the tracks
and into waiting station, which
collapsed on its three occupants.
Chester. Dowell. 10. of 2606 Uni.
versity place, was the most seriously
injured. The others hurt we're Rich
ard Walker, II, of 1883 P street;
Robert Lusby, %. of Suitland, Md;
Dennis Edwards, IA, colored. 100
block of Addison avenue northeast,
and Wilbert Lancaster. II, colored,
Fairmount Heights, Md.
Police were unable to learn imme-
diately who was driving the automo-
bile. They were told, however, that
ITS occupants. Dowell, Walker and
Lusby, were returning from a dance
at Seat Pleasant, Md, at the time
of the crash. The machine, which
the young men had borrowed from
friend. struck the front end of
the street car, sending it spinning
into the waiting station beside the
tracks. Edwards, Lancaster and Ha-
thorne Cave, colored, also of Fair
mount Heights, were in the station
waiting for street car.
II don't know what hit me-" said
Edwards. "All know is that all of
a sudden the station fell in on U.S."
All the injured were taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital, where Dowell was
placed on the operating table imme-
diately. The extent of his injuries
could not be ascertained at once,
however.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
nth ARMY PILOT
KILLED IN CRASH
Lieut.. Richardson, Reserve
Officer, on Test Flight Pre-
viouS to Carrying Mail.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHEYENNE, Wyo., March IT,
Lieut.. r. G. Richardson, Reserve
Corps pilot recently recalled to active
service to fly the airmail, was killed
today in the plunge of his plane from
1000 feet.
Richardson. on a test flight. was
carrying no mail. His death came
as orders went out for resumption
Monday of the Army's airmail service,
This was the eleventh fatality
among Army flyers since the War De-
partment took over transportation Of
the mail less than month ago.
Two Similarly Killed.
Richardson, formerly a co-pilot for
United Air Lines. was reported by
Army officers to be flying a single
motored biplane of the P-38-E type.
Lieuts. Frank L. Howard and Arthur
r. Kerwin, jr., crashed to their deaths
in the same type of ship March 9
near the edge of Cheyenne. They
also were on test flight.
Today's disaster occurred 8 miles
from the airport and about mile
southwest of the Francis E. Warren
Military Reservation. Soldiers from
the post there ran to the plane. but
were prevented by flames from reach
ing the body, which was found in a
sitting posture in the forward cockpit.
The plane burst into flames imme-
diately on striking the ground and
was reduced to a metal skeleton.
Mrs. H. D. Alexander. who saw the
plane fall, said the flyer was about
900 feet in the air when she saw
the ship in what she described as a
queer maneuver."
Mrs. Alexander said the ship was
flying with its tail down and went
into a spin. The pilot. she said,
seemed to be struggling to right the
craft when suddenly, after he had
apparently succeeded, the ship dived
straight down and smashed, nose
first.
Weather Had Cleared.
The weather here, following snow
fiurries and drop in temperature
overnight, had cleared away and the
mercury was rising at the time OF
the crash Iate today.
Lieut.. Richardson had been called
into active service only last Thursday
to augment the staff of Army airmall
pilots stationed at Cheyenne.
former enploye of the United
Air Lines at the Cheyenne airport,
he had been working in a filling sta
ton here since he was recently laid
off by the commercial company.
He is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Dorothy Richardson, who lives here.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
FRANCE REJECTS
REICH ARMS PLAN
Note to Britain Asserts She
Will Not Disarm While
Germany Builds Army.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS. March 17.-France tonight
rejected the latest German proposals
for disarmament and made it clear.
in a note to Great Britain. that she
refuses to disarm in the face of Ger
man rearmament."
The French communication. which
was unanimously approved by the
cabinet and will be presented in Lon
don Monday, demanded as a condition
for reduction in French forces guar
antees of security, chiefly from Eng
land.
That Germany is ready to Con
tract to the farthest conceivable limit
and in no case make an appeal for
force" was set forth in the German
disarmament message to France. 1t
was published here tonight.
Treaty Rejection Stressed.
This note emphasized that Ger
many can no longer accept the arma-
ments level fixed in the postwar
Versailles treaty and declared that
Great Britain and Italy have recog-
ni2ed this point.
French reaction to Chancellor Hit
ler's memorandum brought forth the
Continued on Page 3, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-18
COURT FORBIDS WOMAN
TO SPEND OWN FORTUNE
Daughter-in-Law of Browning
Held to Have Created IRE
vocable Fund.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March 17.-Mrs. Fam
ME Coddington Browning. daughter
in-law of Robert Browning, the poet,
was forbidden to spend the principal
of her own fortune of S325,000 in a
Supreme Court decision handed
down today in Mineola. 1t is in an
irrevocable trust fund, which she
herself created, the court decided, and
she cannot get a cent.
She established the fund on Febru-
ary 7, 1881, but since then, the court
action disclosed. she has changed her
mode of living and old friendships
have been repudiated.
Mrs. Browning, who is II years old
and makes her home in London,
began an action here last year against
Percy S. Weeks of Oyster Bay and
Schuyler M. Meyer of Huntington,
trustees of the trust deed, to get con-
troll of the principal. She said Meyer
had not told her it was irrevocable.
The trustees demanded instruction
from the court, and today's decision
is their answer.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
CAPPER URGES END
OF BUDGET RULE.
Senator Says City Heads
Can Handle Finances.
School Cuts Hit.

Removal of District estimates from
the Jurisdiction of the Federal Budget
Bureau was urged last night by SEN
ator Capper of Kansas in radio
speech in which he deplored the
cutting down of school building ap-
preparations in recent years, and de-
clared local officials are in a better
position than Federal authorities TO
know the city's needs.
The Kansan. who has been an ac-
tive member of the Senate District
Committee for more than q decade,
painted vivid picture of children
being taught in buildings recon-
mended for abandonment rs years
rary portables of diversified classes and
part-time schedules.
His plea for return Of more ade-
quate annual allotments for school
buildings was a timely one. since the
District Subcommittee Of the House
Appropriations Committee is IN the
midst of framing the supply bill for
the next fiscal year The Senator
spoke from Station WJSV.
Difficult to Get Funds.
After giving detailed figures on the
Present classroom shortage in ele-
mentary. junior and senior high
schools, Senator Capper concluded:
Il believe that it will be very diff
cult, if not impossible, to obtain ade-
quate appropriations for school con-
struction unless the District budget Is
removed from the consideration Of
the Budget Bureau and submitted di-
rectly to Congress by the Conmis-
siolerS."
The Senator emphasized that the
District finances its own government
Continued ON Page Column II
Evening star., 1934-03-18
BY the Associated Press
FRANKFORT XIV


FRANKFORT, KY, March IL
The old saying that the Kentucky
colonel had to have his toddy for his
health's sake was written into law
today, and he can now get it by the
glass in his hotel, restaurant and
club. or buy 1t at his drug store.
The State prohibition amendment,
modelled after the famous eighteenth
amendment, still stands, but 1t excepts
medicinal liquor, and the law that
Gov. Ruby Laffoon signed today, per-
mits the sale under permit Of:
ANY liquor containing any per
cent of alcohol which is used as a
curative. alternative or palliative for
bodily disorders or bodily pain, or as
a tonic or stimulant for nervous or
mental fatigue, or other necessities OF
the human body"
The permits for sale by the glass
and in 'lnbroken packages are yet to
be printed, but whisky went on sale
in several hotels in Louisville and
other cities in the State today at 80
to 40 cents a drink, as the proprietors
hastily got permits by wire. Chair
man John B. Lewis Of the State Tax
Commission said the printed forms
for the permits will be ready next
week.
Meanwhile under the new law phy-
Evening star., 1934-03-18
LEGISLATOR TRIES ANEW
TO GET EXPENSE MONEY
Beaten in First Two Maneuvers,
Davis Attempts a Third in
West Virginia.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va, March II.
The Legislature has ground along
for 116 trying days and Uncle Abe"
Davis. one of the weary members. is
positive it's about time the State
furnished some eating money beyond
the annual $500 pay.
Today he got his colleagues to
petition Gov. Kump to hand each
legislator $500 from special fund.
It's the thir6 time Davis, a veteran
of many sessions, has tried to get ex-
pense money for himself and the rest
of the lawmakers.
First he put through resolution
calling for payment of extra mileage.
The State auditor wouldn't stand for
it. Then he drew a resolution max
ing the House a committee to investi-
gate something or other and collect
expenses. The auditor wouldn't stand
for that either. Now Davis has tried
another course.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
EX-SENATOR PINE
OUT FOR GOVERNOR
Oklahoman's Platform Honest,
Intelligent, Aggressive, Eco
nomic Government
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKMULGEE, Okla, March Nv.
B. Pine, former United States Senator,
today announced his candidacy as a
Republican for Governor on a plat
.orm of honest, intelligent, aggressive,
economical government"
The Okmulgee oil mans announce
nent apparently definitely removed
conjecture that Lew Wentz, former
millionaire highway commissioner OF
Ponca City, might make the race. Pine
was the first Republican to place his
name on the gubernatorial ticket. and
political observers considered he would
have the support of the party's State
organization.
A host of Democratic candidates
already is in the field to supplant
William H. (Alfalfa) Murray, who
cannot succeed himself, under the
constitution. However, Murray has
picked Tom Anglin. Speaker of the
House, to succeed him. He will be
opposed by J. C. tJack) Walton, oust-
ed as Governor 10 years ago and now
corporation commissioner; Represen-
tative E. w. Marland, Lieut.. Gov. Rob-
ert Burns, and others.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Green Warns
Auto Firms
to Act.
PEACE is HELD
UP TO MAKERS
100000 Wait Walk.
out Order on
Wednesday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Responsibility for deciding whether
the workers of the automobile in
dustry-an estimated hundred thou
sand of them-shall go on strike this
week was described by the American
Federation of Labor last night as
resting with the manufacturers.
Awaiting the results Of a meeting
of employers representatives in New
York tomorrow, William Green
president of the federation. issued a
statement asserting the trouble which
threatens the industry is directly
traceable to the attempt of the manu-
factuers to impose company unions
upon their workers"
Watch n. A. C. c. Action.
Green said of the automobile con-
troversy:
We shall do all we can to avert
the strike because We do not wish to
see The Presidents recovery program
hindered or halted by an industrial
disturbance of such far-reaching pro-
portions.
The American Federation of Labor
will await with increasing interest the
decision of the Automobile Chamber
of Commerce, a self constituted Or
ganization of automobile manufac-
turerS. as to whether or not there
shall be peace or industrial strife and
struggle in the automobile industry
The workers ask. he said. that they
be permitted to elect their own rep
reSentativeS for collective bargaining
by secret ballot and the reinstatement
of all workers who have been dis
charged, dismissed and Disseminated
against" because Of membership in a
federation union.
Concurrence Withheld.
Hugh S. johnson, national recovery
administrator. has proposed the es-
tabhshment of a mediation commit
tee for the industry as a compromise
plan for solution of the controversy
The manufacturers spokesman. who
conferred with johnson, declined to
make any promises to the NJ R. A
chief until the New York conferences
had been held
Green outlined the demands Of the
workers without mentioning the John.
son proposal. and added:
1T is difficult to understand how
the automobile manufacturers can de-
.fend themselves at the bar Of public
opinion If they refuse to concede these
requests of their employees. The
American Federation of Labor, con-
scious Of its responsibility, is exercis-
ing every effort possible to prevent q
strike and to bring about settlement
of the controversy"
johnson Cancelled week -end trip
to New York to apply himself to the
President Watches Results.
President Roosevelt himself, while
he kept in close touch with develop
ments in the automobile industria
trouble, was described as leaving al
decisions TO johnson.
The latter informed the Chief Ex.
ecutive by telephone that he hoped te
solve the automobile problem.
What shape the automobile dispute
will take is expected by N. r. A
officials to be revealed in develop
ments outside of the Capital in tn,
next few days For the workers part
mass meetings in the Michigan auto
mobile centers today will decide theil
collective reaction to the proposal b.
Johnson for a mediation committee ir
the industry.
The manufacturers at New Yorl
will consider Johnson's offer Theil
CContinued on Page a Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Train Kills Boy
Waiting for Food
Tossed by Cre,c
Children Playing Horse
on Tracks Fail to See
Fast Freight.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
GREENUP. KY, March l7.-Albert
Stapleton. II. Is dead, killed by a
train while waiting for food members
of its crew tossed to him each day as
they thundered past his home.
The youngster and his brother
George, IL, went down to the tracks
early to await the train and the food
They played horse" with wornout
brooms. A slow freight came by. and
they tried a new game-holding the
brushy ends of the brooms on the
rails to feel the wheels thump, thump,
over them.
So interested were the boys that
Continued on Page 2, Column ID
Evening star., 1934-03-18
ROOSEVELT BACKS
Ne " INDUSTRIAL
| LOANS PROPOSAL
Gov. Black of Federal Re-
serve Submits Idea to
Leaders in Congress.
By the Associated Press.


A plan, approved by President
Roosevelt. for extending longtime
Government credit to private industry
was submitted to congressional leaders
yesterday with word that tomorrow
President Roosevelt will formally rec
ommend its enactment.
Regional banks would be set up in
each Federal Reserve district, capi-
talized by the Government at $140,-
100000. for loans direct to industry
or through banks, with the latter
guaranteeing 20 per cent of them.
Gov Black of the Federal Reserve
Board submitted the plan in tentative
form yesterday to Chairmen Fletcher
and Steagall of the Senate and House
Banking Committees. Only a few
hours earlier the Senate Committee
had held up action on an alternative
plan submitted by the Reconstruc-
ton Corporation.
Fletcher said Black was confident
$500, 100000 could be pumped into
industry almost Immediately under
the plan. 1t could be put into opera
ton, he added, as soon as Congress
gave the word.
New Industries Predicted.
He predicted, Fletcher told news
paper men, that the proposal would
start a number of new industries
credit and would give a lot of new
employment"
Original capital for the banks
would be furnished by the Treasury.
Fletcher said, out of the profits from
gold devaluation. The banks would
have authority. however. to issue de-
bentures to obtain additional capital
1t was to await submission of this
plan, that the Senate Committee ear
lier in the day held up action on the
private credit plan submitted by the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation.
Asked if the r. F. c. proposal was
in conflict with his. Black said:
Il don't know anything about that
plan. The Secretary of the Treasury
has approved what We are doing"
The Senate Committee also held up
action on the R. F. c. plan to finance
foreign trade, but approved the re-
mainder of the corporations recon-
IneIlQdClOIlS IOI eAUeIlOulS lIS PO"Ci III
other directions, including authority
to compromise claims to speed the re-
organization of railroads.
Measure Divided.
Despite a two-hour session with
Jesse H Jones' chairman of the Re
construction Finance Corporation. the
committee decided to make two bills
out of the omnibus measure submitted
by the r. F. c. Thursday. approving
the non controversial items in one,
and leaving the others for future con-
sideration in another.
Jones contended there was 10 con-
flict between his and the Reserve
Board plans for loans to industry. and
that it was only a clarification of the
R. F. C's present power. The COM
mittee, however, decided to wait for
submission of the Reserve Board plan.
Jones told newspaper men afterward
the bill would only permit the R. F. c.
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-18
TWO KILLED INSTANTLY
IN AUTOMOBILE CRASH
Car Crashes Into Concrete Adult
ment on Highway 5 Miles
From Petersburg.

BY the Associated Press
RICHMOND, Va, March 1.-TWO
men were instantly killed early this
morning when the car in which they
were riding crashed into a concrete
abutment on the Petersburg turnpike,
about 5 miles from Petersburg. They
we're: D. F. Tyler, so, Norfolk. and
Thomas w. White, IS, Forest Hills,
N. Y.
They were discovered by w. D.
Whitaker of Richmond, who passed
the scene a short while later. Whit
aker notified Colonial Heights police.
Police found the car. which was
headed south, completely demolished,
and both men dead.
The accident occurred within a
short distance of the spot where John
H. Hayes. jr., of Richmond. was killed
in an automobile accident last SUM-
day