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Evening star., 1934-05-22
NEW RIOTS FLARE
IN TRUCK STRIKE;
45 PERSONS HURT
Minneapolis City Market a
BedIam as Mob Battles
Police.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS. May 22-The city
market was converted into bedlam of
noise, flying missiles and teeming
strikers again today as truck drivers
and their sympathizers rioted in a
two block square area from which As
persons were taken to hospitals.
Eighteen special policemen we're
among those taken to the City Hos
pital in ambulances and police squad
cars. The injured we're bleeding pro-
fusely.
The mob was in riotous control OF
the market place. Police, fighting
desperately. resorted to driving squad
cars and sirens screaming into the
throng.
Crowd Chokes Street
Some lodged. Others did not, or
could not. A few strikers. struck
down by glancing blows from tenders,
were hurt.
First avenue north a block from
the main traffic artery in the heart
of the downtown district. was choked
with persons from Fourth to Seventh
streets.
Some special deputies, in fear of
their lives, ripped their badges off and
handed them to strikers. One special
officer. cornered with a regular police
man, was severely beaten until he sur
rendered his badge.
Rushed to Hospital.
Blood Streamed from the nose and
mouth of another unidentified deputy
as he lay on the Uttered pavement
after being beaten severely. Finally,
room was made in an ambulance and
he was rushed to a hospital.
Every available policeman in the
city was ordered to the market place.
One of the injured, special police
man, whose name was not disclosed.
was unconscious and reported near
death.
With the arrival of regular police
men. brandishing rifles, shotguns and
pistols, the throng that had swept
every one before it to gain control OF
the area quieted and some. in a re-
sponse to a speaker. began to march
out of the distSiet.
Cars Driven Into Mob.
Special deputies were withdrawn as
the screech of ambulances and sirens
on police cars added to the din that
was part of the wild melee in which
an unestimated number of strikers
were injured by police clubs and squad
carS driven into the rOOh
The fighting ragged for less than
half an hour and shortly after noon
the police appeared to be in full con-
troll of the district once more, after
100 firemen from downtown stations
had been thrown into the fray.
Strikers, however, maintained
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Evening star., 1934-05-22
.ROBBER IS SOUGHT
IN VIRGINIA ATTACK
Engaged Couple Beaten Into
UnConSCiouSneSS at
Fredericksburg.
BY a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, May %
"A colored robber was sought today
as the assailant of Milton J. Brown,
"a, and his 2l-year-old fiancee. Miss
Fannie Kurz, who were found beaten
into Inconsistencies yesterday in
gulley near this city's Lovers Lane"
Miss Kurz was reported near death
in the Mary Washington Hospital
here, with numerous injuries about
the head and face. Her fiance, an
employe of a filling station, also was
in a critical condition. but physicians
held some hope for his recovery. Both
had remained unconscious since they
were found by the injured mans
cousin, Howard Brown, after an ex-
tensive search
Pending the arrival of Department
of Justice agents from Washington.
investigation of the case was being
pushed by Sheriff M. L. Blaydes of
Spotsylvania County in cooperation
with P. B. Perry, chief of the Fred
N4NhoDuA5 3 POIISC 4OlIC'
Another Couple Gives Clue.
Until either Brown or his fiancee
wakes up and tells me differently.
said the sheriff, I'm going ahead on
the theory they were beaten by
colored man who attempted to hold
up another couple in an automobile
parked only short distance away.
less than 80 minutes earlier.
Henry PRAISE, an employe of
local creamery. told me a colored
man armed with a sawed-off shotgun
threatened him and a girl friend
while they were parked in a road
near Lovers Lane Sunday night. He
said the man walked up to his car,
opened the door and pushed a sawed
off shotgun toward him and his COM
panion. Just then, he said. another
car approached and the colored man
backed away, warning the couple to
make no outcry or he would shoot
them. Prasse drove away, however"
Wounds on the heads of both
Brown and his f1ancee looked as
though" they had been inflicted with
the stock OF shotgun, the sheriff
said.
Activities Checked.
Admittedly without clues to the
identity of the colored man. Blaydes
was checking on the activities of sew
eral colored residents CT the area in
which both the attempted hold-up
and the assaults occurred.
Prasse, the sheriff declared, was
lContinued on PAGE q Column 81
Evening star., 1934-05-22
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages Is, 1890
City Heads May Ban
Parking on One Side
OF Four Busy Streets

Consideration is being given by
Commissioner Hazen to propo-
sails for banning parking at any
time on at least one side of a
selected number of Washington's
major thoroughfares, he an
nounced today.
Hazen has turned thumbs
down on a suggestion by Traffic
Director William A. Van Duzer
for a ban on nighttime parking
on streets throughout Washing
ton, but he indicated today a
very limited use of the practice
might be invoked.
The Commissioner said he
would confer with Van Duzer
and other traffic officials on pro-
posals to ban parking on at least
one side of the following streets:
Eleventh, Seventeenth, Twenty
second and I streets.
Definite proposals as to what
parts of these streets might be
involved have not yet been made.
HaZen announced also he is
considering possibility of permit
ting angle parking, instead of
parallel parking, along Constitu-
tion avenue in the downtown
area. This would permit at least
twice as many cars along the
wide thoroughfare. he said.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
BANKERS WILL AID
HOUSING PROGRAM
Robert v. Fleming Expresses
Views Before Senate
Banking Committee.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Cooperation of the American Bank
ers' Association with the administra-
tions housing program was pledged
today to the Senate Banking Commit
tee by one witness. while another
contended some parts of the legisla-
ton offer serious threat" to build
ing and loan associations.
Robert v. Fleming, president of the
Riggs National Bank of Washington
and vice president Of the Bankers As
sociation, said the housing bill was
workable, so far as the credit ma
chinery is concerned"
l. Friedlander Of Houston. Tex. vice
president of the United States Build
ing g. Loan League, told the COM
mittee his organization desires to in
dorse President Roosevelt's message
to Congress and about four-fifths of
this proposed bill"
He contended, though, that Con-
gresS should give serious study to the
proposal for guaranteeing home mort
cages.
If this plan had been in effect
oi1A W4OCly uoCO Nul iiS VAAS RASoCAAt
depression" he added, sit would have
undoubtedly cost the Government
hundreds of millions, if not several
billions. of dollars"
Friedlander recommended an in
crease in the borrowing power OF the
Home Owners Loan Corporation of
$500, ,000 900 to b. advanced to existing
private institutions Tor loans to aid
employment of labor.
The league Endorsed the proposal for
financing home repairs and the in
surance of building and loan associa-
tionS
The bills proposal to create new
Federal mortgage associations was
termed unnecessary.
This type of lending institution has
been proved "unwise and unsuccess-
full" in the past, Friedlander said.
I'VE confidently believe" he added,
that when the insurance of building
and loan shares becomes effective, as
provided in this bill, and the LIBERAL
izing amendments to the Federal
home loan bank act are adopted and
Continued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-05-22

Tonight is expected to bring def
mite relief from the heat wave which
yesterday oduced temperatures
within two degrees of an an-time
record for May and still gripped the
city this morning.
Thundershowers this afternoon or
early tonight will bring sharp mer-
curry drop. the Weather Bureau pre-
dicted, and tomorrow will be fair and
cooler. Today's high was not ex-
pected to exceed 80 degrees. while
yesterday the mercury climbed to 95.
The brief respite from the heat,
following the thunder, hail and
rain storm yesterday afternoon, was
bought at the expense Of damage to
three structures in nearby Maryland
by lighting and injufies to a Univer-
sity of Maryland student hit by
debris falling from one of the light
ning-struck buildings.
Arlington B. Beauchamp, 20, Of
Boonsboro, Md, a freshman at the
university, was caught in a shower
of brick and slate when lightning
struck a corner Of s lvester Hall, as
he was crossing the campus near the
Evening star., 1934-05-22
BYRD, IN y BELOW WEATHER,
EXPECTS TO FACE RECORD COLD

progress in his studies of Antarctic
weather. despite the difficulties occa-
stoned by freezing instruments.
A holiday was declared at Little
America yesterday in celebration of
the end of a week of intense activity
in which the struggle against Winter
has been almost won. Four Of the
five tractors have been driven down
the snow ramp into the dugout garage
One of the tractors burst into
flames. The heat from blow torch
used to warm the engine shattered
the glass gasoline filter and blazing
gasoline poured over the engine. Ber-
nard Skinner, tractor driver, crawled
under the machine and with Cloved
hands ripped loose the blazing line,
saving the machine for Spring@opera-
tions.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
BRITISH PROPOSAL
H|NTEDAS
SENTIMENT SH|F is
Firm Demand That U. S.
Outline Acceptable Plan
Wanes.
MESSAGE TO CONGRESS
is SEEN AS FACTOR
Ambassador Lindsay's Reports to
Whitehall Closely Guarded
by Government Heads.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, May 22.-1ndications
were seen in circles closely in contact
with the war debts controversy today
that the British government may be
planning a new approach to the prob
lem in the June inStallment due the
United States.
Any such move, it was plainly seem
however, is contingent partially upon
President Roosevelt's Forthcoming
message to Congress on the SUBJECT
of debts.
Should the British take such action
as Is indicated, it would represent a
drastic change in the policy manifest
in recent days.
Until today, official circles stoutly
maintained that the first move in the
debt situation must come from Mr..
Roosevelt.
Now the same quarters hint strongly
that there has been a relaxation OF
this attitude over the WhitSuntide
holidays, leading to a strong belief
that Great Britain may be formulat-
ing a new plan for submission to
Washington.
Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay has
reported his latest talks in Wash
ington to Whitehall, but the reports
have been held in closest secrecy while
the Government heads ponder over
them.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
SHOWERS TONIGHT TO BRING
DEFINITE RELIEF FROM HEAT

building. His injuries were not seri-
GUS.
The bolt destroyed a chimney,
damaged the roof of the dormitory
and shattered windows.
Another bolt struck the Takoma
Park, Md, School and set one room
afire, causing about 5000 damage.
Chief Leo B. Moffett of the Ia
koma Park Volunteer Fire Depart
ment and his men we're on duty at
the fire house and saw the lightning
strike the school.
Responding to an alarm, they
found a cloak room in the second
floor in flames. The flremen re-
moved books to places of safety and
quickly extinguished the blaze.
The residence of Judge A. L. Will
son, IS Sycamore avenue, Takoma
Park. also was hit by lightning and
slightly damaged. Shingles were
torn of the roof and heavy beams
split by the bolt.
Playing golf in Potomac Park un-
der the torrid mid-afternoon sun
yesterday, George Locke. 90. of 1924
S street was prostrated. He went
home after treatm ht at Emergency
Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
FURIOUS SIGHTING
RAGING IN CHACO
BollVlanS Attempt to Draw
Paraguayans Into Pre-
mature Offensive.
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
ASUNCION, Paraguay, May 22.-
Furious fighting ragged today along
scattered sections of the Chaco front
as Bolivian forces maneuvered in an
attempt to draw the Paraguayan
army into premature offensive upon
Fort Bailivian.
An advance Of the Paraguayan left
wing to the north was reported, but
the minister of defense in Asuncion
said word from the battle zones indi-
Gated the Paraguayan command was
not ready to launch its general ad-
vance.
Dangers Considered.
The delay in opening the offensive
against the fort, Bolivias most impor-
tant stronghold, indicated that Gen
Jose Estigarribia is taking fully into
consideration the dangers that await
his troops IN what probably will be
the decisive battle Of the Gran Chaco
warfare.
Between the Paraguayan army and
the fort lies mile-wide plain Be-
Bolivian troops-though smaller in
numbers-are strongly entrenched.
Paraguay has 10000 men concen-
trated along a 25-mile front: Bolivia
$4,000 in and before the fort.
Casualties Heavy.
The first partial and tentative
Paraguayan offensive against Fort
Bailivian's outposts resulted IN dis
aster. A Paraguayan division was al
lowed to advance for some distance.
Then, drawn away from the main
army, it was dealt a crushing defeat
with heavy loss of life.
This reverse explains Gen. Estigar-
ribia's caution and the Bolivian hurry
to precipitate Paraguayan offensive.
While watching both armies prepare
for the critical conflict Paraguayan
circles claimed Paraguay was surprised
by the war and poorly equipped to
fight.
Equipment Claimed Inadequate.
These sources said that at the start
Of the conflict Paraguay had only
10000 rifles. 36 field guns. 500 ma
chine guns, II old fighting planes and
antiquated communication means for
its army of 5000 men.
Bolivia. they claimed, before at
tacking the first Paraguayan fort, had
accumulated 10000 rifles, 400 field
guns, 800 machine guns, Is rapid fire
rifles, IS planes, 20 armored tanks and
complete and modern transportation
and communication equipment.
However. Paraguay has captured
27.000 rifles, so field guns. 1000 ma
chine guns, 35 mortars, a quantity
of munitions, a score of trucks and
one plane, the Paraguayans here said.
At the same time, they added. Para
quay has captured 1000 non-commis-
stoned officers. 400 officers and 14,500
soldiers, while, they claimed Bolivia
has captured approximately 300 Para
guayans.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
Machado Found by Reporter;
Tells of Fight on anarchy
Former Cuban President, Suspicious of
Stranger, Contends He Vas Victim
and Not Beast of Prey.

"Buenos dias." was his greeting as he
walked across the room. There was
no handshaking. The general stood
six feet away, his hand resting on the
back of a heavy chair.
Il have" he began slowly, II have
statement vindicating my regime"
The general, without taking his
eyes from his visitor. drew forth
sheaf of papers, handed them to the
reporter, bowed and smiled and said
"AdloS."
The Statement" is the five articles
telling in detail his side of the story
during the last days of his regime
in Havana.
In the first article he wrote of
leaving the presidential palace last
August IL after Withdrawing from the
presidency.
I did not know that a few hours
later / was to leave Cuba in haste"
he said. nor did imagine :he bloody
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Evening star., 1934-05-22
Setting of Maximum Price at
so Gents an Ounce Also
Is Requested.
TO NATIONALIZE
METAL If NECESSARY SOUGHT
Power to Regulate Imports and Ex-
ports as Well as Other Dealings
Desired.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN.

President Roosevelt called
silver bill which would declare policy of maintaining
cent of the value of the metallic base back
currency in silver.
The President in his message to the Senate and House.
that the Executive be authorized and directed
to this objective.
He asked further that he be
present silver stocks in this country cents
and If circumstances should warrant naonaize
silver take all that required Industrial
payment just compensation and to regulate
exports and other dealings in silver
In order to prevent huge profits from dealings silver
made possible through the adoption of the
policy white metal proposed
tax of least should profits accrung
from dealing in silver 0
Evening star., 1934-05-22
BY the Associated Press.

by lHe hSSOCldltu PIeSs.
NEW YORK, May 22.-The New
York Post today said it had located
and interviewed Gen. Gerardo Ma
chado, former President of Cuba, in
New York, and at the same time print
ed the first of a series of copyrighted
articles obtained from the Cuban fugi-
tive.
Machado is sought on Federal
warrant charging him with murder
and embezzlement in Cuba.
The Post said its representative,
through a friendly intermediary, To-
Gated and interviewed Machado, but
that this newspaper has no knowl-
edge of Gen. Machado's present where
abouts."
The meeting was effected yesterday
morning lin midtown" New York City.
Hands Over Statement.
Machado looked tired and distressed
when he walked into the room.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
FARMER SLAIN BY WIFE

SUMTER, S. c.. May % LP.-Mrs.
Henry Britton shot and killed her
husband, Sumter County farmer. at
their home early today after. she told
officers, he had threatened to kill her.
The death weapon was a pistol.
Mrs. Britton remained at her home
under technical arrest. Coroner J. S.
Cain called an inquest for tomorrow.
The Britton family long has been
prominent in this section. j. B. Brit
ton, brother of the slain man, IS
a member of the State House of Rep
resentatives from Sumter County.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
DOHERTY PICTURED
CONTROLLING FIRM
Head of Cities Service Has
29.6 Vote, Board Is
Told.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Henry L. Doherty, owner of less
than one-thirtieth of the capital
stock of Cities Service, was described
before the Federal Trade Commission
today as in practical control of
that billion-dollar corporation.
Robert E. Healy, commission coun-
sci. introduced summary of studies
by commission utility investigators
which said Doherty personally held
29.6 per cent of the voting strength.
Only two others of some $4,000
stockholders. it was said, held more
than l per cent.
In 1881, it was explained, there
were 34,172,158 shares of voting capi-
tai stocks. OF this. however, 90 per
cent carried but one-twentieth of a
vote per share.
Owns Million Shares.
In addition to other holdings. the
summary said, Doherty owned all of
100000 shares of S per cent cumu-
lative stock with stated value of
81 share, each share having one
vote.
The summary also purported to
show the company in the period from
1910-1930 wrote up valuations of its
plant and investment by S70.020, ,529
The evidence held this was mot
eliminated in the consolidated bal
ance sheet of the company" and lis
approximately per cent of the plant
and investment account contained in
the company's published financial re-
ports" as of December 81, 1880.
In a statement to the press. Rob-
ert Burns. Cities Service counsel, said
''the continuous support of the man
agement by the stockholders over a
period of "a years is conclusively evi-
denced by the practically unanimous
Endorsement invariably given at stock
holders meetings"
Pays All Obligations.
Burns also noted that the company
has paid every debt obligation it has
incurred, irrespective of business con-
ditions prevailing at the time of its
maturity"
Regarding the alleged per cent
write-up, Burns charged the claimed
write-ups are "pyramided and duph-
Gated in the commissions report from
company to company, so that the
total arrived at bears no relation
whatever to the investment account
reported by the company in its con-
solidated statements.
There is no net write-up in the
consolidated investment accounts in
the Cities Service Co.'S published
statements" he said. "On the con-
trary, there is a write-down of many
million dollars"
Evening star., 1934-05-22
u. S. APPEALS COURT
UPHOLDS OIL CODE
Texas Injunctions Against En-
forcement by Government
Ordered Dismissed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, May 22.-Regula-
ton of oil production under the ma
tional industrial recovery act was held
constitutional in an opinion handed
down here today by the United States
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Injunctions granted in the Eastern
Texas District Court restraining Fed
eral officers from inforcing certain
portions of the N. I. r. A. and the
code for the petroleum industry were
ordered dismissed by the Circuit Court.
The court described the petroleum
code as a novelty in legislation" but
said it saw no reason to upset laws
and regulations which are generally
useful and necessary in public busi-
ness"
Evening star., 1934-05-22
BY the Associated Press.

by Jne hSSOCldJeu FIeSS
LITTLE AMERICA, Antarctica, May
2" (via Mackay Radio).-The un-
enviable distinction of living in the
coolest spot ever inhabited by man was
in prospect today for Rear Admiral
Richard E. Byrd
He had predicted before he iso-
lated himself at camo 130 miles by
trail from the main base of the ex-
pedition for a Winter of meteorolog-
ical studies tina. the outpost might
prove to be the coolest place ever in
habited.
Comdr. Byrd reported temperature
of 72 degrees below zero yesterday
and the coolest periods of the Wintex
darkness are yet to come. =
Nevertheless, his reports indicated
Evening star., 1934-05-22
GROWS TEETH AT SO

GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia, May %
P.-Several nights ago Mrs. Elizabeth
Osborne. SO, experienced soreness in
her upper gum. Today she awakened
find herself the amazed possessor of
three new front teeth.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
Court Held in Auto Mishap.

PONTOISE. France, May % R.-
Count Guillaume de Segur, husband
of the noted French comedienne,
Cecile Sorel, was held today for in
vestigation in connection with the
death of a woman who had been
struck by an automobile.
He declared he knew not ling about
the accident.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
LEVY UPON BUSINESS
SIGNED BY LA GUARDIA
Brokerage Incomes Also Subject
to Tax-$15,OOO Exemp-
tions Allowed.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 22.-Mayor La
Guardia today signed the latest meas
ure designed to bring additional tax
revenues to the city's coffers-a gen.
eral levy against business and broker
age incomes.
The business tax amounts to one
twentieth of per cent on gross
incomes on corporations and other
bu5inesses in the city, and one-tenth
of l per cent in brokerage commits
sions. A $4,000 exemption is al
lowed.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
Quake Recorded Here.

GEORGETOWN University's seismograph
recorded moderate earthquake,
about 1000 miles away in an unde-
termined direction. starting at GIL
a In. today. reaching its maximum at
6:19 and ending at z.
Evening star., 1934-05-22

The Presidents silDer message
'OiH be found On Page A.
Evening star., 1934-05-22
WEATHER..

u. 5. weather Bureau ForecastJ
Thunderstorm this afternoon or
early tonight; cooler tonight; tomorrow
fair and cooler; moderate southwest
winds. emperatureS-Highest, 95, at
$40 pm. yesterday; lowest. SO, at am.
today. Full report on page B-l4.
Evening star., 1934-05-22

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