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Evening star., 1934-08-21
GAS|NDEPENDENTS
FACE PROSECUTION
Losing Money Tactics and
Back Tactics Stir Ire
of Committee.

A new weapon was brought into
play today in the gasoline price wal
when L. S. Scott, chairman Of the
District of Columbia Petroleum Com
mittee, called upon Secretary lckes,
administrator of the petroleum code,
to prosecute the independent dealers
who are selling gasoline below cost,
and also asked the District Commis-
sioners to prosecute a number of them
for alleged failure to pay their gsSo-
line taxes.
At the same time the price-cutters
refrained from any additional reduc-
ton from the 10-cent price that has
prevailed for several days. The larger
wholesale-retaii distributors and ap-
proxinately $50 independent dealers
selling standard brands of motor fuel
held to their price of IL cents. s.
Furthermore, the chain companies
said they would stick to the 12-cent
price with the view to giving the
smaller dealers enough rope to hang
themselves"
Third Grade Sellers Blamed.
Scott also said that in actuality the
present war is not between the major
companies and the independents, but
Is between the "third-grade" gas deal
ers, numbering not more than 80, who
handle unbranded gasoline, and both
Independents and major companies
that deal in the better grades Of fuel.
II have recommended to the Secre-
tary of the Interior that he institute
immediate prosecution against the 25
or 80 third-grade gasoline dealers
who precipitated the present. price war
for selling gasoline below cost in vio-
lation OF the petroleum CODE" Scott
said. They are not only guilty of
violating the below-cost selling rule
of the code, but many of them are
also guilty of violating the labor and
marketing provisions of the code.
''I have also recommended to the
District Commissioners that they take
steps Immediately to prosecute a num-
Der Of these dealers for failure to pay
gasoline taxes to the District, and I
have also warned the Commissioners
and District tax officials that the pres
ent price war is being financed by
some of these third-grade dealers on
the gasoline taxes due the Govern
ment."
$4,000 Behind on Taxes.
Scott also charged that one of the
price cutting dealers is in arrears now
to the extent Of $4,000, and on the
basis of his present rate of settle
ment "he will be 80 years paying the
Government taxes which should be
paid in 80 days"
The code official also said that he
was told by District tax officials a
warrant has been served on one dealer
for failure to pay taxes.
Scott added that there are close
to 900 retail distributors of gasoline
in the District.
1.-THE committee of which I am
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-08-21
COTTON LOAN BID
TO PEG MARKET
A. A. A. Plans to Use 13 Cents
Level to Offset Strike
Threat.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The A. A. A. planned to submit to
President Roosevelt today a program
for making cotton loans at about the
present market level Of 13 cents a
pound.
The idea was proposed last week by
Senators Bankhead (Democrat) of
Alabama, Smith (Democrat) Of South
Carolina and Thomas Democrat) of
Oklahoma. Approval Of key men in
the Farm Administration has been
obtained. Oficials emphasized that
final decision rests with the President.
In sense the loans would be an
administration answer to the threat
ened textile strike, but what the effect
would be was problematical. Peg
ging" of the price at the loan level
would be result similar to that of
loans a year ago, which fixed the
price at 10 cents a pound.
The trio of cotton Senators" also
sought similar loans for wheat and
corn, but officials intimated that, for
the present at least, action would be
taken only on cotton.
Concerning another proposal Of the
Senators-that processing taxes be
lifted on cotton and wheat during the
marketing season-off1cials are op-
posed. They hold that the taxes are
the heart of the A. A. A. program.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
ABOLITION PUSHED
Catholics and Protestants
in Germany Fear New
Nazi Drives.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, August 21.-Nazi propa.
ganda guns fired an Christianity
barrage today which caused grave
apprehension in Roman Catholic anc
some Protestant circles.
Developments In the troubled church
situation indicated fresh tension, de.
spite Chancellor Hitler's acknowledg-
ment of positive Christianity in a
recent declaration at Hamburg.
Heading the developments was ar
appeal for abolition of Christianity
apparently inspired by Hitler youth
leaders.
Paul Joseph Goebbels, minister OF
propaganda, added to the fears with
veiled threat against Catholics and
a new church drive was announced by
Reichsbishop Ludwig Mueller which
would "cover every city and county
from Autumn until Spring"
Hindenburg Curb Removed.
Another indication of strife was the
hesitancy Of the German Roman
Catholic hierarchy to establish the
status of concordat between Vatican
City and the nation.
The death of the late President Pau
Won Hindenburg, who had admonished
Dr. Mueller ito see to it that Christ
is preached" apparently has removed
curb on the Nazi church expert
mentS.
August Hoppe of the Hitler youth
press department, writing in the cur
rent issue of the Nazi periodical
Nordland, praised DR.. Alfred Rosen-
berg, philosophic dictator of the Third
Reich and leader of the pagan move
ment in the Protestant Church.
The time has come to take up the
fight against Christianity" said
Hoppe. Germans shall and must
realize their conversion to Christianity
was crime against the race and the
people which put them completely at
the mercy of powers outside the state. u
He urged Germans to "liberate
yourselves from the cultures of alien
priests who want to make you the
booty of the Jews"
Discard the last messages of Chris
tian training, so destructive to us
Nordics," Hoppe advised Abandon
the jewish Christian conception OF
sin, pity and loving the enemy"
Hard" Youth Called For.
Calling for youth to be hard" he
said:
PITY and mercy be damned. Praise
that which steels. Christianity's to-
tality claim is a thing of the past"
Expressing amazement at Hopes
step, the Catholic publication Kirch-
enblatt demanded I'VE ask the re-
sponsible authorities of the state how
these utterances of Hitler youth can
possibly be reconciled with assurances
Continued ON Page 2. Column IL
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Bandits Work With Grim and
Clock-like Precision i'm Brook
lyn's Biggest Hold-up.
CROWD WATCHES AS ROBBERS
TOSS MONEY INTO THEIR CARS
$4,000 Left Behind in Hurry to Escape.
7O.Mile.P Per.Hour Pace Eludes
Pursuers.
BY the Associated Press.


BROOKLYN N Y, August 21-A band of at least dozen
robbers armed with half dozen Submachne today
held armoed truck of the most daring robbes in
Brookyn history and escaped with estimated $427OOO
The robbers cleaned the truck three minutes
only bag containing $4,000 in the truck they sped away
in two automobiles.
The robbery place in front of the plant
Nineteenth street between CropSey and Bath avenues
Bandits Dressed Laborers
The armored truck, guards,
front Of the plant its collecting and Of the
guards William Lntha stepped from the truck to enter the
Rubel offices.
AS he left the truck two dressed aborerS who had
been standing beside ice truck lifted old automobile
from the of the truck machine which
pointed directly the
Say word and this sp of bandits Joseph
Allen driver, and John Wilson, the other guard.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
THOMAS Elevated
ON RESERVE BOARD
Named by White House as Vice
Governor; Miller Reappointed
for 12-Year Term.

President Roosevelt today desig-
mated J. j.. Thomas Of the tenth
Federal reserve district TO be vice
governor of the Federal Reserve
Board, and at the same time reap
pointed Adolph Miller to a term of
IL years on the board.
In making the announcement at
the White House 1t was explained
that Mr.. Miller, who has been MEM
Der of the board for 20 years, has
given up his California residence and
that his new reappointment assigns
him from the fifth Federal reserve
district, which includes the District
of Columbia.
It was said that no consideration
has been given yet to the appointment
Of a successor to Eugene Black as
governor of the board.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
HOME SHAKENBY
MYSTERY BLAST
81-Year-0Id Man, Blind Wife
and Housekeeper Escape
Injury.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LURAY, Va, August Ala man
and his blind wife and their 22-year-
old housekeeper narrowly escaped
death early today when two mysterious
dynamite explosions demolished part
Of the home of Silas Rosser and shook
buildings for several miles around.
The explosions were attributed by
authorities to some one attempting to
frighten away the housekeeper, Miss
Mae Smith. A printed noted, Leave
town or No. will red hot the town
of Luray," was sent to her following
minor blast near the Rosser home
last Monday. The first explosion
caused no damage, however.
Explosion Mysterious.
Police and Miss Smith are mystified
by the explosions. The housekeeper
told authorities she knows of no one
with any reason to want her to leave
Luray. No one has been seen in the
vicinity of the Rosser home at the
time of the blasts.
Rosser, whov is 81; his blind wife,
Mrs. Kate Rcsser, 80, and Miss Smith
were asleep in the house, about 2:30
o'clock this morning when a terrific
blast shook the house and awakened
them. The explosion blew up the
fence around the home.
Second Blast in Rear.
Less than 10 minutes later, while
Rosser was preparing to summon
police, second blast, set off in the
rear yard, demolished a portion of
the kitchen, above which is the bed
room of the Smith girl.
The second explosion was heard by
residents living as far as two miles
from the Rosser home, while a num-
ber Of buildings were shakened by its
force.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
BODIES OF IL AMERICAN
DOUGHBOYS START HOME
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, August 21.-The bodies OF
II American Doughboys, killed in
Archangel, Russia, were on the way
today from Leningrad to Detroit for
burial. Seven other bodies are being
brought to France to be inferred.
Col Clifford Corbin, who led the
American graves registration party to
Leningrad to exhume the bodies, re-
turned here to say that the IL over
seas fighters would be buried by their
comrades of "The Polar Bear Associa-
ton" in Detroit. The remaining seven
will be taken to the American Gene
terry at Romagne-Sous-Mo -Montfaucon
August 80.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
WOOL MILL TO CLOSE

LAWRENCE, Mass, August 81 (P).
The American .Woolen Co.'S wool
worsted mill, employing $4,000 per-
sons, here will close for a two-week
period from September 7 to IA, owing
to textile conditions, the resident man
ager, Walter M. Lamont announced
today.
He added that all other plants Of
the American Woolen Co. would be
closed during that time. other woolen
mills here did not anticipate any shut
down.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
WIFE KNOCKED OUT BY HUSBAND
AS SHE PLAYS TOWN GHOST ROLE

The chief said he expected a solu-
ton of the ghost" scare would come
within the next "a hours and that the
ghost" is not a practical joker He
added. however. that many of its
appearances" were believed the work
of jokers. He warned that practical
joking of that sort might end in some
person being seriously hurt.
Last night the village was in a
state of nervous tension. Doors were
securely bolted and porch lights left
burning Dozens of men afoot and in
automobiles patrolled the streets, but
the apparition, variously described as
huge man-like being with long
white hair and a large white beard
with head like that Of a gorilla, was
not seen.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
PRIEST FOUND DEAD.
OPEN PURSE NEARBY
Wounds on Head and Face Lead
Police to Lay Blame on
Bandit.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
DEDHAM, Mass, August 21.-The
body of Rev. william P. brennan,
about so, parish priest at Our Lady
of Grace Church, Chelsea, was found
today under a tree on the grounds of
the Ames Junior High School here.
Police said they were unsatisfied
he was not the victim of foul play,
as sharp indentation was found on
the left side Of the head and bruises
on the left side of the face.
Beside him was found on empty,
open pocketbook, and a 81 bill was
on the grass nearby.
Police said the priest apparently
had been dead but short time, and
that it appeared he had been beaten
and robbed.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
BAN ON NEW RUM
LICENSES SOUGHT
Retailers Ask Fall Restric.
ton to Block Temporary
Stores in Holidays.

A demand that the Commissioner
suppress the issuance of any more
licenses for the sale of bottled liquor
during october, November. December
and January was filed with the city
heads today by the District of Colum.
bia Exclusive Retail Liquor Dealers
Association.
Spokesman for the association con.
tended that the District already ha:
far more liquor selling stores than
actually needed to meet the demand:
Of the retail liquor trade, and con-
tended that many outsiders would
flock here late in the year TO get
liquor selling licenses in order to cash
in ON an expected big Thanksgiving
Christmas and New Year business
and then drop out.
The point was made that liquor
license fees are charged on the pro-
portion Of the year remaining to run
under the license.
Hazen sympathetic.
After hearing arguments of the
dealers association spokesmen, Com
missioner HaZen said he was very
sympathetic" but could not say just
what action the Commissioner would
take. He did predict there would be
scrutiny designed to keep all but
bona fide Washington dealers from
flooding the market.
There are now 325 licenses for
stores to sell bottled hard liquor.
The retail dealers were represented
by Oscar Selker, Nathan N. Wal
lack, william Stein and Manuel j.
Davis They contended that the
feared invasion of temporary liquor
dealers during the holiday seasons
would bring in liquor from other juris-
dictions which would not be revenue
producing to Washington, and there
by hurt the employment situation
here.
Act On Illegal Services.
Meanwhile the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board took steps today to
prevent manufacturers and whole
salers of beer from giving services to
retailers which are barred by the Dis
trict liquor act.
1t is charged that some manufac-
turers and wholesalers have been
cleaning and repairing retailers beer
coils in violation of the liquor law.
Warnings that such operations are
illegal were sent today to the follow
ing: Christian Heurich Brewing Co.
and Abner Drury Co., manufacturers,
and the following wholesalers: Ace
Distributing Co., American Brewery,
Inc; American Sales Co., Anheuser
Busch, Inc; Capitol Beverage Co.,
Inc; Carver Co., District Beverages,
Inc; Gunther Brewing Co., Inc;
Virgil E. Killeen National Brewing
Co., O'Connor & Spaulding, Charles
T. Smith, Elliott w. Spicer and the
Terminal Pre- Cooling Co.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
MAN ESCAPES AS MURDER SQUAD
CHASES HIM TO POLICE STATION

his automobile over a zig-zag course
at high speed.
He headed for the Deering station,
his assailantS directing a constant
fire at him and never more than q
half block away. They were close
behind when he drew up before police
headquarters. The final fusillade was
fired as he Sprinted for the station
door.
Officers later found the trail over
which Dugan had raced strewn with
empty cartridges.
Dugan was questioned yesterday
in . connection with the death Of
Thompson, slain Sunday. Authorities
attributed that killing and the recent
assassination of Michael Bulbs" Quin-
Ian to litigation over control Of the
union.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
EFFORT FOR QUOTA
ON WHEAT CEASES
Unrestrained Shipping by All
Nations Is Assured Till
November.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, August 21.-Attempts to
agree on export quotas were definitely
abandoned today by the World Wheat
Conference, in session for a week.
Unrestrained shipping of wheat by
all countries is assured, at least until
November.
This means the first "open season.
in wheat shipping since the 1884
wheat agreement was signed last
August, although during the year
Russia refused to accept her quota
and Argentina exceeded her allotment
when negotiations for an increase fell
through.
The refusal of Argentina to accept
less than 10000, 900 bushels, coupled
with favorable world wheat situa-
ton because of the drought, led the
conference to abandon a plan for
establishing annual quotas during this
session. A discussion of the allotment
was postponed until November.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, August 2l.-James Du-
gan, business agent for the Painters
Union, early today won a wild race
for his life against a machine gun
murder squad which pursued him
right up to the door of the Deering
police station.
Dugan was driving home from the
wake Of Roy Thompson, delegate
of the labor organization and the
second recent victim of strife over
control of the Painters Union, when
the gun crew drew alongside his car.
A stream of bullets was loosed.
Dugan hunched over the wheel of
his machine and opened the throttle.
Slugs whistled past him as he sent
Evening star., 1934-08-21
BY the Associated Press


WATERDOWN, Ontario, August 81
The Waterdown ghost" was credited
today with its first victim and a
woman who sought to scare her hus-
band nursed very sore head.
Chief of Police Lovejoy said late
last night scream Of terror broke the
silence of the village, setting jittery
citizens a-twitter Investigation by
officers showed a farmer had gone to
his pump to get water and that his
wife. seeking to amuse herself at his
expense, had garbed herself in sheep
skin and yelled boo" at him as he
passed in the dark. The farmer
promptly felled his spouse with a milk
bottle he was carrying. She was not
seriously hurt.
Evening star., 1934-08-21

Representative W.. A. Ayres, Demo-
crat, Of the fifth Kansas district, to-
day accepted President Roosevelt's
appointment to the Federal Trade
Commission and resigned as men,
Der of Congress.
Ayres conferred with the President
today and accepted the appointment.
He Immediately sent his resignation
as Representative to the Governor Of
Kansas and to the clerk of the House
of Representatives.
Ayres will be sworn in as a mem-
ber of the Trade Commission Thurs
day.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
DEPUTY SHERIFF SLAIN

GOODWILL, W. Va, August n
R).-Deputy Sheriff K. C. Peterfish
was slain today in a skirmish between
strikers and non-strikers at the Good
will mine of the Winding Gulf Col
liery.
Earl Overstreet, a union mine
worker, was shot in the neck and Is
in a hospital in serious condition.
w. S. Reynolds, justice of the peace
of Goodwill, in Mercer County, said
the shooting began after a group of
striking members of the United Mine
Workers Of America tried to prevent
non-union men from entering the
mine.
Evening star., 1934-08-21

: At this point two automobiles, which
apparently had been following the
armored car, screeched to a stop. Five
TO dozen men, witnesses we're uncer-
tain Of the exact number, jumped
from the two cars with sub-ma-
chine guns.
One of the robbers walked to the
door of the Rubel office, reaching 1t
just as Lillienthal opened the door.
He jammed the muzzle into Lillien-
thal's back.
Phone Warning Foiled.
An employe in the ice company Of
counter. The robber grasped 1t and
yanked 1t of the wire.
He turned to Lillienthal reached
into his arm holster and dls&rmed the
guard. The robber then ordered LIZ
lienthal to march out"
Meanwhile, the rest Of the robber
band had surrounded the armored
truck, training machine guns on 1t.
Four men pushed into the truck,
showing Allen ahead Of them.
Then the robbers began the trans
fer OF the money bags to their own
cars.
The transfer took about three min
utes, the robbers working precisely
and speedily. They found the money
bags, which contained coin and cur
rency, so heavy, however, that IN their
hurry, they left one containing
$29, 900.
Fire on Bandits.
The robbers leaped into their cars
and roared away. The truck started
pursuit Immediately.
One of the gangsters dropped his
machine gun. Lllienthal picked it
up, firing several blasts at the fast
disappearing bandit car.
The bandits drove Their automobiles
at such a mad pace that about cne
mile from the scene of the hold-up
they had shaken of their pursuers.
Police headquarters was flooded
with alarms and shortly after the
robbery all available squad cars con-
verged at full speed on the scene.
The robbery was in the Bensonhurst
section, a thickly settled residential
outlying district less than q mile from
Gravesend Bay on one side, and one
Of the elevated lines to Coney Island
on the other.
The last stop made by the truck
before the robbery was at the Bank
OF Manhattan branch at Eighty-sixth
street and Twentieth avenue.
Had the bandits waited for the truck
to pick up consignment of money
from the ice company they would have
obtained an additional $25,000.
Shoot to Kill.
A complete Gordon was thrown by
police around the borough. Shoot
to kill were the instructions given
the policemen.
Officers said they were convinced
that two. or possibly more cars had
followed the truck on its collections
round all morning. The ice company
stop was the last collection for the
truck
Inspector Edward M. Shelby. in
command Of the uniformed force Of
the Bath Beach district, ordered
Continued on Page 2, Column S.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
OCEAN FLIGHT STARTS
Grierson, British Pilot, Hops Of

UrIerson, brltIsn Plot, Hops on
for Angmagsalik, Iceland.
REYKJAVIK, Iceland, August 81
R.-John Grierson, British flyer, on
his second attempt to fly the Atlantic
westward by the northern route, took
of at 11:l0 am. 7:10 am, E. S. T.)
for AngmagsaIk on the east coast
Of Greenland.
Grierson intends to end his flight
in Ottawa.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
Yesterdays Advertising

The steady growth of The
Stars circulation, both eve
ming and Sunday, is more
than keeping up with the in
creased population of this
prosperous market.
Evening star., 1934-08-21
New Washingtonians

Due to the increase of
Federal activities centered
here, there are 10000 new
residents in Washington.
These newcomers, follow
ing the general habit of
Washingtonians, are turning
to the advertising news in
The Star for guidance in
their purchases for them
selves and their homes.
Yesterdays Advertising
Local Display.
The Evening Star. 1880
I'd newspaper .-.-. 6,072
Sd newspaper -. ~. 4,543
4th newspaper -. ~. 3,234
5th newspaper -. 1888
Total Nevspaeers { 91ase 1862
Star Excess 3,148
Evening star., 1934-08-21
WEATHER.

20. g. Weather Bureau Forecast)
Fair and not quite so cool tonight; to-
morrow showers and slightly warmer;
gentle to moderate northerly winds.
Temperatures-High SO. at $50
pm. yesterday; lowest, so, at $50 am.
today. Full report on page A-9.
Evening star., 1934-08-21

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
The border vidette., 1934-05-12
ABANDONING RA,lROAp
MILEAGE

According to G. .. Morris, of
the Western Railways. Commit
tee 90 Public Relations, 1928
miles Of railroad were abandon
ed 10 the United States in 1882
and 1888.
That is more than the total
railway mileage of any one of
13 OF the 48 states.
The mileage abandoned 10
1888 alone was equal to the total
abandonment during 1926. 1927
and 1928. It was greater than
the mileage abandoned in any
year 10 history prior TO 1892,
with single exception.
A certsin amount of the
abandon ment was due to the
elimination Of obsolete and IN
necessary lines. But q very
large part OF il resulted not
from that. bnt from the burning
need OF the railroads to pxre
operating expeDSe-tO COmpen.
sate for business lost to other
carries. And the result. SO Mr..
Morris says, Is that large nun
Der of com mrnities have been
deprived OF transportation ser
vice, that thousands OF railroad
men have lost their jobs, and
that the tax revenues received
by governmental units have
been permanently reduced ,neces
sitating higher taxes On other
property.
This is ono more example Of
the gravity Of ihe railroad prob
lem. The solution, in MIR. Nor
ris' view, must begin with pas.
sage of two bills now before
ConRress-the Rayburn bill, to
provide coordirated federal reg
ulation OF ell forms Of trans,
port, and the Pettengi!l bill, to
repeal certain ineq uitable 'snd
outmodeG sections OF the Inter.
state Commerce Act Neither
os xhese bills would givs shs raii