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Evening star., 1934-06-17
CHECK ACTIVITIES
OF JUDGES OF HE'LL
Paris Police Devote Time to Find
ing Perpetrators of Bomb
Terrorism.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, June dissatisfied that
they have checked, for the present at
least, the bomb-mailing activities of
THE Three Judges of He'll" police
today devoted themselves to finding
the person or persons responsible for
the campaign of terrorism.
No new bombs were discovered to-
day, and the alertness of post office
employees was believed to have choked
off that phase of The Three Judges :"
activities. A total of 10 internal ma
chimes addressed to prominent persons
and firms had been discovered, and
two of them exploded.
Fingerprints found on some of the
bombs were being checked with those
OF criminals and former inmates of
hospitals for the insane. Police also
are engaged in a careful check of
laboratories and other possible sources
Of material for the bombs.
The hope of the authorities Is to
catch the terrorist before some new
method of carrying out the sentence
of the Judges" against the French
people Is undertaken.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
WEEvlLS AND RAIN
RUIN GEORGIA CROPS
Whole Areas Laid Waste, With
25 Per Cent of Cotton
Destroyed.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, June 16.-Boll- -weevil
infestation in South Georgia is the
worst since the weevil invaded the
State, with IS per cent of the cotton
crop destroyed by excessive rains, and
the tobacco crop is rotting In the fields
from too much moisture, Commissioner
of Agriculture G. C. Adams said today
after an 800-mile inspection tour Of
80 counties.
Adams said he had wired Federal
authorities asking that the South
Georgia sufferers share in relief along
with the drought area of the West.
Adams met approximately 100 farm
ers at Triton last week in an effort to
solve the problem of the South Georgia
growers.
1T had rained nearly 40 days with
out any opportunity of getting into
the fields for work." he said. I'VE
found about one-third of one county
in almost total ruin.
He said that in other sections of
South Georgia many fields were as
barren as deserts"
1.-THE boil weevil is the worst since
it first came to the State. Very little
cotton we saw anywhere was even up
to normal. I do not think that more
than rs per cent of normal yield Of
cotton is possible"
Evening star., 1934-06-17
ROND ROOK OF FAIRFAX COUNTY,
TAKEN IN CIVIL VAR, RETURNED

Unlike bonds of today which are
executed in favor of the Common
wealth of Virginia, the bonds in this
volume were given to the Gentlemen
Justices of the Court of Fairfax
County, now sitting" Among those
who served as justices during the
term of the bond book were George
Washington, John Colvill, John Car
lyle, William Ramsay, Stephen Lewis,
George William Fairfax, John West,
Bryan Fairfax Gord Fairfax, George
Mason, Daniel McCarty. Charles
Broadwater, Martin Cockburn and
William Payne.
Among the estates on which there
were administrations are included
those of John DeBell, John Gunston,
william Boiling, Thomas Harrison,
jr., Pierce Noland, Stephen Lewis,
Nathaniel Chapman. Christopher
Veale, Joseph Javins, John Hull, late
of Loudoun County, John Ashford,
Micajah Powell. Benz. Wicliff, Ben
jamin Grayson, Edward Davis, VIM.
Sewell, James Turley. Thos. West,
Chas. Carroll, jr., John Mason, Mary
Moore, John Pettuth, Guy Broad
water, Peter Wagner, John Barry.
John Stone, Charles Tyler, Daniel
Mills Ballenger, Moses Simpson,
Phillip Massey, William Strickland,
John Parke Gusts, Verlinda Payne,
John Hollis, William Trammell and
French Mason and others who are
closely identified with the early his
tory of the county.
The volume will be filed along with
the other records Of that period,
Richardson stated.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
DROUGHT THREATENS
GERMAN GRAIN CROPS
Embargo on Wheat Exports May
Help World Situation,
Observers Say.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, June l6.-Revelation Of q
serious seed shortage caused by in
creasingly alarming drought condi-
tions today added new complications
to the German, financial situation
despite official action to protect the
commodities surplus by an embargo
on wheat exports.
The possibility that the embargo
might help the world grain situation
by removing the admittedly inferior
German cereal from the market were
offset domestically by the rise in the
price of oats and of cattle feed due
to the drought.
Government officials were reluctant
to divulge figures showing the extent
of the drought damage, but reports
from the provinces said farmers we're
deeply concerned about their crops
The United States is not materially
affected by the wheat export action
except through any result it might
have on world prices.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
NINE LEAVE P. v. A.
HOUSING DIVISION
Officials and Minor En-
pIoyes Resign or Are Trans
ferred-Inquiry Held.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Nine officials and minor employees
of the Public Works Housing Division
were disclosed authoritatively last
night to have resigned in the past
few days or to have been transferred
to other work.
In addition to Robert D. Kohn,
director, who sent in his resignation
Saturday, the group includes:
Max Dunning, assistant director; r.
K. Chase and C. P. Grimes of the
legal staff; and J. M. Hamilton
Eugene H. Klaber, A. C. Shire, F. L.
Smith and Oliver c. Wilson.
Secretary Ickes has been conduct
ing an investigation into what he has
called loose business methods" and
"inefficiency." Land values approved
in low-cost housing projects Of linn
tied dividend corporations have been
the particular field of inquiry.
Several Lose Power
Several division officials have been
shorn Of their power and salaries in
some instances have been trimmed
sharply in connection with transfers
to new jobs.
Announcement Of the changes was
not made by the Public Works Admin
istration. 1t did announce. however
that Horatio B. Hackett, well known
Chicago architect, had taken the oath
of Office as director of housing and
general manager ot the Public Works
Emergency Housing Corporation. He
has been general manager of the COR
poration since February. The COM
bining of the two jobs was said tc
signify a union of public works hous-
ing functions under one leader.
AS one official put it, Hackett was
brought into the housing division
after "the theoretical school came
to grief when up against the hard
boiled proposition of evaluating land.
Business Judgment Praised
Hackett was described as a mar
of sound business Judgment, who was
formerly job superintendent for one
of the biggest building companies ir
the Midwest. Likewise, he handled
men during the World War.
The investigation of the housing
division, which has been in progress
more than two months, was said re-
liably last night to have disclosed
considerable laxity in record-keeping
Contractors and architects CON-
planned that the division had ap-
proved the selection of men in their
professions without adequate compett-
ton or security of fees.
Ickes has emphasized several times
the personal integrity of members Of
the housing division was not being
questioned and that the only objec-
tions we're to the way the division die
business.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
LIBBY HOLMAN'S
LIFE THREATENED
Justice Department Agent
Reveals Receipt of Ex-
tortion Letters.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, June 16.AThe
Record tonight quoted r. George Har-
vey, chief of the Division of Investi-
cation of the Department of Justice
Bureau here, as saying Libby Holman,
actress and singer of torch songs, "
has received several extortion letters
threatening her life unless she pays
several thousand dollars"
The letters, the Record quotes Har-
vey as saying, were received at the
Montchanin, Del, estate, where the
actress has been living with her IT.
month-old son. The boy was born
in Philadelphia several months after
the actress husband, Smith Reynolds.
tobacco fortune heir, was fatally shot
at his Winston-Sa N. c., estate.
Theater Is Guarded.
As a result of the letters, the Record
says, Harvey has thrown Gordon of
Federal agents about the HedgeroW
Theater, at suburban Rose Valley
where Miss Holman is returning tc
the stage tonight In a minor role in
the drama Spring in Autumn. and
also around the Delaware estate in
fear an attempt might be made tc
reach her infant son.
The letters apparently were written
by some one who was connected with
Miss Holman'S household at one time
the Record quoted Harvey as saying
The date of receipt of the missives
was not disclosed.
MAKES DFRITT IN DRAMA
Evening star., 1934-06-17

versity Hospital, from which she was
graduated in May, 1921. She has
been acclaimed as a teacher and di-
rector Of physical education in Co
lombia and has conducted public
health lectures IN Mexico and the
United States.
She and her brother took an active
part in the 1882 Democratic campaign
in Texas and in Is other States and
Senior Ordenez has written a PAM
phlet describing their experiences in
that campaign. He also has written a
pamphlet on coming pan-American
conferences to be Leld under the
leadership Of President Roosevelt.
In offering her services to the
President, Nine. de Seeley pointed
out she did SO mot only as Colom-
bian, but as the widow Of Capt.
Seeley."
Evening star., 1934-06-17
PAL OF DEAD AIR PILOT CASTS
CRASH VICTIMS ASHES TO WINDS

the veterans. All American Airway
stations were to observe three
minute tribute when the ship
reaches that city.
There Squabby was to take the con-
trolls again, the privacy of their leave
taking unmarried.
Along the Nashville Memphis air
lane will be strewn the ashes of Bar
ron. his old friends final gesture.
Squabby Vines was not his usually
cheerful self when he took of today.
But there were no tears nor were
there ostentations.
Just Pat and Squabby going South.
Squabby had nothing at all to say.
But Pats sister, in Memphis waited
at the other end for the special plane.
without q co-pilot.
That's the way Pat wanted to Co."
she said.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
SAILOR, BLOOD DONOR
IS REWARDED FOR ACT
Receives Medal, Gift of Four Mil
lion Italians in q. S., for
Saving Life of Child.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, June 16.-Four mil
lion Italian citizens of the United
States expressed their gratitude to-
day to Second-Clas Seaman Melville
F. Alexander of the U. S. S. Penn
sylvania for his sacrifice of blood to
save the life of one of their number.
A medal bearing the inscription,
"Unselflsh Sacrifice In Saving the
Life of a Child" was presented to
Alexander by Comdr. Clemente Gig
lilo, president of the Sons and Daugh-
tiers of Italy in the United States, for
donating blood to 3-year-old Frank
Catanio, who was dying of a rare
blood malady.
Lined behind Alexander on the
quarterback of the Pennsylvania were
the % shipmates who had volun-
teered with Alexander to give their
blood.
The presentation followed an ad-
dress by Capt. Frank H. Sadler, COM
mander of the Pennsylvania, in which
he commended not only Alexander
but all who volunteered.
Alexander is 81, over feet tall and
comes from Mound City, S. Oak.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
LABOR BILL SENT ~
TO WHITE HOUSE
ON SENATE VOTE

Continued From First Page.)
vote on the Wagner bill itself, the
stocky New Yorker. declaring it the
most embarrassing moment of my
whole political career" requested La
Toilette to Withdraw his motion. La
Toilette withdrew It with the expla-
nation that it was not because of
concern over embarrassment of any
Senator, but because the author of the
measure requested it.
Wagner, IN an extemporaneouS talk,
made a plea for the spirit of the labor
provisions of the industrial recovery
act, under whatever bill it was pro-
vided.
Merely Wants Rights.
Told by Senator Tydings, Democrat,
of Maryland, that some workers had
complained they were being coerced
by unions into joining against their
will, Wagner said:
Il don't want to see anybody
coerced; I simply want to see these
men get their rights
He mentioned the strikes and quar-
rels between employer and employe,
the controversies over collective BAR
gaining and added:
IT wouldn't want to buy peace at
the price of slavery"
Both the Wagner bill and the sub
stitute measure had been aimed at
correctinf conflict over the intent of
section IA of the Industrial Recovery
act, a section construed by its pro-
ponents to mean the definite right OF
workers to select their own represent
atives for collective bargaining and
likewise to mean that employees must
negotiate with them.
Recognized by Wagner
Wagner took cognizance Of this to
say:
1.-The uncertainty about section IA
has caused flashes of industrial dis
content that threatened conhagration.
No matter in which direction we look,
we see the same signs.
"I do not claim the employees are
justified in all of these cases. do
not know whether they are justified
even in a majority of them. But I
do know that employers, employees
and the general public are entitled
to a clearly stated law accompanied
by adequate agencies for enforce
ment"
Wagner said that while he believed
the original labor disputes act should
be passed; I'VE cannot afford to neg
lect entirely the industrial problems
that must be met at once"
"The substitute measure which the
President has proposed is designed
simply to meet the most serious and
immediate difficulty" Wagner said.
This has been the interference with
the right of employees to select rep
resentation of their own choosing by
means of an election conducted by
some board appointed by the Presi-
dent"
Evening star., 1934-06-17
WARN Of SCANDAL
IN ARMY INQUIRY
Representatives Forecast
Probability of Penitentiary
Terms for Officials.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A scandal" that lin all probability
will open the doors of penitentiaries
to Government officials" was predicted
in the House yesterday as it voted
$4,000 more for a War Department
investigation.
The $4,000 was granted the Mill
tary Affairs Committee after Repre-
sentative Cochran, Democrat, of
Missouri, said its investigation, for
which $4,000 already had been ap-
propriated, undoubtedly" will result
in q scandal that will arouse the peo-
pie of the country"
A few minutes later bill by Rep
resentative Vinson, Democrat, of
Georgia, was called up. 1t would have
let the Secretary of the Interior, in
settling claims Of war materials pro-
ducers. consider about 81 ,250, 900 in in
terest the producers paid on borrowed
capital.
Postponement Asked.
No sooner had that been presented
than the Military Affairs Committee
jumped it. Chairman McSwain, Demo-
crat, of South Carolina, asked post
ponement of the Winston bill, remark
ing that when the Military Subcom-
mittee headed by Representative
Rogers, Democrat, of New Hampshire,
submits its forthcoming report your
eyes will be opened to conditions that
have been permitted in one of the
departments of the Government"
The report, being drafted by Rogers,
will be made public this week. Dis
cussing the investigation, Represent
ative Goss. Republican, of Connecti-
cut, a Military Committee member,
said it had been found that some firms
had paid Government agents "a few
hundred dollars a month in addition
to a lump sum to lobby these bills
through Congress"
Claims Checks Found.
Representative James, Republican,
of Michigan, chimed in with the re-
mark that 1--WE have found Cancelled
check after Cancelled check that one
man who was supposed to look after
the Governments interests had re-
ceived from one firm" The commit
tee, he said. now has an investigator
working on the problem in New York
City.
Vinson and Repre- sentative Cox,
Democrat, Of Georgia, withdrew the
war minerals bill, expressing the hope
that the Military Committee would
pursue its investigation. Vinson said,
however, that he knew nothing Of a
vicious lobby"
Evening star., 1934-06-17
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSoclaLeu freSs
CLEVELAND June 16.-Squabby
Vines and Pat Barron ploughed south
through the commercial air lines to-
day on their last fight together.
The veteran Squabby was at the
controls of the American Air Liner
that lifted from Cleveland Airport at
1885 pm, Eastern standard time,
Nashville and Memphis bound.
1t was the parting of death
they took it side by side-pilot and CO.
pilot, just as they had flown so many
scores of times between Memphis and
Cleveland.
Barron's ashes were in the cockpit
He was killed in the wreck of pas
senger plane near Livingstone, Manor,
N. Y, few days ago on his first
trip as co-pilot on the Chicago-New-
ark run.
At Nashville special plane awaited
Evening star., 1934-06-17
INQUIRY CLOSED;
LONG INDICATED.
Senate Resolution Holds
Evidence for Custer Is
insufficient.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The extended fight OF the anti-Long
political faction in Louisiana to have
Huey P. Long and John H. Overton
ouSted from the Senate ended yester-
day with the Senate voting to termi-
nate all further inquiry into charges
that Overton, with the support OF
Long, was fraudulently elected.
A resolution submitted by Senator
George CD, Georgia, chairman of the
Elections Committee, stating that pc
titioners seeking the clusters had
failed to bring evidence to justify con-
tinuance Of the investigation, was
adopted without debate Both Long
and Overton were pleased. but declined
to comment.
Prior to this Senate action, Long in
dicated his Summer would be spent
quietly so far as political activities
were concerned. His primary interest
at present is to have the State Legis-
lature adopt the state administration
tax program. He planned to depart
for Louisiana as soon as Congress ad-
journed.
Silent on Rum0rs
Rumors that he would be a candi-
date for another term as Governor,
through which his opponents say he
hopes to ''recoup' his political organi-
cation, have brought no comment.
Photographers urging him to pose
for a picture with his railroad ticket
in his hand were told:
mo, don't want any picture taken
I don't need any more publicity, be-
cause I'm not coming back"
Long also denied reports he would
stump Mississippi in behalf of the
candidacy of Representative Ross Col
lins, seeking the seat of Senator
Stephens, close friend Of Senator Har-
rison. and with whom Long has had
verbal tits on the Senate floor.
The Senate's adoption of the Elec-
tions Committee resolution ended
more than two years of effort of
Louisiana petitioners to have Long
ousted. Subsequently charges were
brought against both him and Over
ton.
Petitions Long Buried.
For a time the petitions lay buried
in the Senate Judiciary Committee,
from which they were reported out
this session after Louisiana women
became active in the fight against
the two Senators.
The petition filed by former Gov.
John NJ. Parker was held by the
Judiciary Committee to have been
unprivileged and was discarded.
The Elections Committee then held
hearings on petitions filed by Mrs.
Hilda Phelps Hammond, chairman of
the Louisiana Women's Committee,
and Mrs. Ruffin G. Pleasant, wife of
a former Governor.
Testimony Discarded.
However, testimony offered at these
hearings was held by the committee
in its report today to have been ac-
cumulative and not relevant. The
committee report held the evidence
was similar to that taken by the
Special Senate committee which held
hearings a year ago in New Orleans,
investigating Overton's campaign ex-
penditures.
The latter committee reported early
this session, aSSailing election prac-
tices in Louisiana, but was without
authority under the testimony it had
recorded to pass upon .Oyerton's right
to his seat.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
MAKES DEBUT IN DRAMA.
Miss Holman Appears as Maid in Play
at Hedger0W.


ROSE VALLEY. Pa, June 16 Up
Before an audience that sparkled with
Broadway celebrities, the curtain in
tiny Hedgerow Theater rose tonight
on a new chapter of Libby Holman's
career
Realizing a desire that has been
hers since she first appeared in COL
lege theatricals in her home town,
Cincinnati, she made her debut as a
serious dramatic actress. 1t was in
an obscure role, that of a maid. in
Martinez Sierras drama, Spring in
Autumn" presented by Jasper Deeter' S
stock company.
1t was not extensive enough role
for the critics to judge Miss Folman's
abilities as a straight actress. 1t
must be accepted simply as new
gesture in her some times glamorous,
some times tragic history.
Guarded From Visitors.
Although she has been seen at a
number Of Broadway first nights in
recent months, the occasion marked
Miss Holman's first professional ap-
pearance since she played opposite
Clifton Webb in the musical revue,
''Three's a Crowd"
While rehearSing here in this rural
countryside, near Philadelphia, she
has remained in mysterious seclusion
At the theater she has been guarded
from all visitors, and her fellow &C.
tors refused absolutely to discuss her
activities. -'
This iItcf fY,o -
legitimate actress indicates that this
erstwhile fearful chanteuse Is saying
good-by to her part-to the ups and
downs Of her chorus girl days, to the
romantic adventures of her role as a
singing star, to the tragedy and mys-
terry OF her marriage to the Reynolds
tobacco heir.
Sought Dramatic Roles.
Despite her remarkable success as a
singer OF blues songs such as "Moanin'
Low" and Body and Soul" it has
always been the ambition of Miss Hol-
man to be a dramatic actress. In
deed, she was being coached by
Blanche Yurka, well known interpre-
ter of Ibsen, when, just two years ago
at Winston Salem, N c., her 2O-year-
old husband, Smith Reynolds, was IA
tally shot.
Miss Holman and young Alb Walker
Reynolds best friend, were indicted by
grand jury, but the case was later
nolle pressed by the prosecutor s
Office.
After her baby was born, Miss Hol-
man again took up her dramatic
studies, this time under the tutelage
of Jasper Deeter. Daily she COM
muted from the home of her close
friend, Mrs. Louisa Dupont Jenney, at
Montchanin, Del, to the tiny theater
in Rose Valley, Moylan, Pa, where
Deeter has graduated a number of
well known stars. Probably his most
famous pupil is Ann Harding, who
sometimes deserts her movie roles to
return to Hedgerow as a guest star
for her old teacher.
Evening star., 1934-06-17
CUBAN OFFICER SLAIN
Five Others Wounded as Riot
Causes Panic in Capital.

HAVANA, June 16 CP).-A special
policeman was killed late tonight and
five persons were wounded by rifle
and machine-gun fire directed at
bombers seeking to disrupt the A. B. C.
Society festival.
A fire bomb was thrown against an
arch erected in Central Park for the
celebration. A. B. c. guards opened
fire on the bombers and were joined
by soldiers and sailors. Rapid-flre
weapons were quickly brought into
play and the huge crowds around the
scene fled in panic. Ambulance sirens
screamed through the streets as mobs
stormed the doors of stores and pub
lie buildings, seeking shelter.