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The Washington times., 1934-02-12
SCORE KILLED
IN AUSTRIAN
REvOLTS
Nationwide Strike Called as
Socialists Oppose Fascist
Bid for Power

VIENNA, Feb. IL 0N.S),
Heavy loss of life occurred today
in a nationwide general strike
against the Dollfuss government,
called by the Socialists in protest
against alleged attempts to con-
vert Austria into a Fascist state
Estimates placed the dead be-
tween 10 and 30.
Strike Failure"
The government, which decreed
martial law in Vienna and other
cities, announced at 4 o'clock this
afternoon that the strike was a
partial failure" and that about
half the factories throughout the
country are operating. An official
communique said:
"The government is in control
of the situation. Negotiations
with all parties except the So
cialiStS and NaziS supporters of
the Incorporation of Austria
within the HitIerized German
Reich) are under way"
TROOPS REFUSED
At the same time Chancellor
Dollfuss announced he had re
jected a demand by the Heimwehr
organization, controlled by Prince
Starhemberg, Austria n Fascist
leG der, that Heimwehr troops be
permitted to occupy the Vienna
city hall and arrest Mayor Seitz
and other Socialist city officials
He said:
"This step will not be taken
unless it is absolutely proved
that the Socialists .IIan an
armed revolutionary COUP"
Rumors were circulated this
afternoon that Germany, Italy
Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia
were concentrating troops on the
Austrian border because of the
critical situation caused by the
strike.
Traffic Halted
Railroad traffic came to a hal
at noon, and electricity service il
Vienna was interrupted. Tie-up
of other utilities were expected
momentarily.
Several were believed killed and
scores seriously wounded in shoot
ing affrays between police and
Socialists at Linz. in upper Aus
tria. Hundreds of arrests were
made.
Local troops were mobiIized
after the battles, which followed
raids on the homes of Socialists
by police searching for arms.
The Socialist Schutzbund or.
dered its members to assemble
and reports Immediately spread
the move was taken for the dis.
tribution of arms.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
Z D. {. BILLS Up
IN HOUSE TODAY.

Today being District day in the
House of Representatives, two bills
were certain to be given consid'
Grafton before adjournment late
today.
The first is the District Of Co.
lumbia banking bill, which would
permit the sale of savings bank
stock without holding purchasers
doubly responsible, as now re-
quired under the act of March 4,
1888. The bill has passed the Sen
ate.
The other measure provides for
increasing the number Of direc-
tors of the washington Home for
Foundlings, now limited to ten,
to make it easier for the board to
obtain quorum at it's meetings.
Favorable action is expected on
both bills.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
SENATE To FEEL
LASH ON CWA
|NPASSE
Administration Drives to Put
Through Added Fund, But
McCarran Shows Fight
BY international News Service


With 100000 workers facing
loss of their jobs because of lack
of CWA funds, Administration
leaders whipped the Senate today
in an effort to force immediate
final enactment of the 950-mil-
lion-dollar appropriation for civil
works and relief.
The CWA funds we're reported
exhausted Saturday. All supply
purchases were suspended last
week. The bill would authorize
$50 million dollars for civil works
projects and 500 million for
direct Government relief meas
ures.
Conference Report Up
A conference report was before
the Senate, with House and Sen
ate in disagreement on but one
phase.
The stumbling block was an
amendment, proposing to make
all State relief directors subject
to Senate confirmation. which
was adopted by the Senate, but
rejected by the House.
Administration leaders hoped
to get the Senate's consent for
dropping the amendment.
McCarran Obdurate
Senator McCarran CD Of
Nevada, author of the amend
ment, said:
81 shall insist on retention
of the amendment. 1 shall
move to refer the bill back to
conference with instructions to
the Senate cOnferees to stand
by the amendment. 1 think
have the votes to do this"
The only other controversial
issue was the Hayden amend
ment, compromised by the con-
ferees. They agreed on new
provision, authorizing payment OF
$500 to dependents of persons
killed or totally incapacitated on
CWA projects, and $25 a month
compensation for injuries.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
DEAN DEFENSE.
WINS BID FOR
RECORDS
Hospital Report Allowed In
Evidence in "Poison
HighbaII" Trial

GREENWOOD, Miss, Feb. IL
Q.N.S0 Hospital records which
may have an important bearing
on the outcome of the trial of DR..
Sara Ruth Dean, charged with the
Staying of DR.. ]. Preston Kennedy,
were identified in court today
after an about-face on the. part Of
the State, which previously had
contested attempts Of the defense
to view them.
The records were identified by
Miss Ruth Stuckey. record keeper
at the Baptist Hospital in Jack
son, where DR.. Kenne6. died last
summer after allegedly accusing
his pretty young woman associate
of poisoning him by putting bi.
chloride of mercury in a whiskey
highball which she mixed for him.
Studied by Defense
After the 45-page record chart
had been identified, it was turned
over to defense attorneys for ex-
animation. DR.. Dean and her
attorneys, who had made vigor-
Gus fight for the right to view
the chart. and we're frustrated
by the State ON the contention
that it was a privileged COM
munication." examined it closely.
Judge S. F. Davis recessed
court to permit defense examina-
tion.
Defense attorneys assert that
DR.. Kennedy was in stupor on
the night he allegedly made a
deathbed statement accusing DR..
Dean of poisoning him.
The prosecuting attorneys main
tain that Dr.. Kennedy was fully
conscious that night, and they In.
sist the hospital records will bear
them out.
Sensations Loom
Several sensational develop
ments are expected in the next
few days, among them the testi-
mony of Mrs. Bessie Barry Ken
nedy, petite divorced wife of the
dead surgeon.
She is expected to tell of her
separation from her husband and
to fix the blame squarely on the
tall, Sombre woman doctor &C.
cuSed of poisoning him.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
SHARPSHOOT|NG
SPELLS TRIAL

Two colored men "who didn't
know it was loaded" wound up in
court today and were ordered to
pay a fine or go to jail.
Mrs. Gladys LaCodey, of the
600 block Morton st. N. E., said
she heard shots disturbing the
Sabbath calm and saw Melvin
Trewsdale and Joseph Walker on
the latter's porch across the way
on Arlene Place. Trewsdale was
shooting a pistol, she said, and
she thought the bullets were
blanks until her window pane was
smashed and she felt a stinging
pain in her leg. It was only a
piece of broken glass, however.
TrewSdale said he didn't know
the gun was loaded, but couldn't
explain why he kept on firing.
He was fined $25 and Walker,
SIS,
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
PUBLIC To BUY
PNA BONDS
BY international News Service

Facing the prospect Of event"
ually holding 500 million dollars
in securities of municipalities and
other public bodies, the PWA to-
day set up bond,selling machinery
to dispose of some of these issues
to the public.
Secretary of Interior Ickes, while
pointing out the careful selection
of these securities and the tangible
properties back of them, empha-
sized that they were not in any
way guaranteed by the Govern
ment.
He recalled that the Government
had reserved the right to dispose
of these bonds from the beginning
of the public works program.
They are general obligation and
revenue bonds of States, cities,
school districts, counties and other
public bodies offering bonds Sc
cured by various buildings, or
other projects financed by the
Government,
The Washington times., 1934-02-12

not see that he would be any.
thing but a staunch supporter
Of what our President, Frank
lin d. Roosevelt, is doing in
this great emergency.
II doubt whether Lincoln
would move quite so fast to
start corrective measures as
Roosevelt. Lincoln had great
patience. President Roosevelt,
too, has shown a remarkable
patience. The two men are
very comparable in their abiI-
ity to listen, to digest what
they hear and to understand,
Lincoln would be pleased,
just tickled to death, at the
great mechanical advantages we
have made. You know he once
said he thought that some day
we would be able to run pIows
by power"
Sandburg's Opinion
Carl Sandburg:
Abraham Lincoln would
never be the creature of any in.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
K|DNAP Err HUNT
LEADS To IOWA

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. IL
G.N.S0.-Secrecy surrounded &C
tivities Of Department of Justice
agents and police today in their
search for the hideout where kid
napers held Edward G. Bremen,
bank president. for three weeks
until 100000 ransom was paid.
The search, it was understood,
was being concentrated in lower
Minnesota and in the Sioux City
area of Iowa.
Mr.. Bremen, who is recovering
at his home from nervousness and
shock, continued to keep in close
touch with Federal Investigators.
Department of Justice investi-
gators and police are giving care
full scrutiny to each bit of infor-
nation that has come their way.
They sent request to Tulsa,
Okla, for the photograph and
fingerprints of Harry Campbell,
sought in recent killing there.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
Mob Mendces Three
Held For Assault

HERNANDO, Miss, Feb. II
QN.S0.-Heavily manacled and
closely guarded by $50 National
Guardsmen, three Memphis Ne
groes charged with criminal at.
tacks on a 17-year-old Holly
Springs, Miss, high school girl
were spirited here early today
from Jackson, Miss, to face trial.
The Negroes. Ernest McGehee,
%; Johnny Jones, %. and Isaac
Howard. 26. will be arraigned this
afternoon before Circuit Judge
John =. Kuykendall.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
Mass Meeting Airs
Race Controversies

Racial controversies in this
country were scored by various
speakers who discussed rectal re-
lations at a meeting at the
Asbury Methodist Episcopal
Church, Eleventh and K Streets
Northwest, last night.
Among the incidents criticized
were the Nazi regime in Ger
many, and the De Priest House
restaurant issue. Among the
speakers were Bishop William
Frazier Mcdowell, retired; DR.. B.
G. Brawley, the Rev. Russell
Clinchy and Rabbi j. T. Loeb.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
McCrOry Creditors
To Get DebentUreS
By international News Service

By International News Service
Creditors of McCrory Stores will
receive new 15-year per cent de-
bentures to the full amount Of
their allowed claims, Charles T..
Green, president, announced after
approval of the reorganization
plan by the company's directors.
After receiving the debentures, the
creditors will have 60 days within
which to accept them or to return
them for payment at so cents on
the dollar.
Other features Of the plan in
clude provision for readjustment
of leases and the raising of two
million dollars through the sale
cf stock.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12

terestS. He would be in touch
with the masses Of the people,
doing things thai they wanted
done.
Eyes, Abe Lincoln grew up
with the people of the country
when prairieS were being turned
into corn lands, forests into
we'll peOpled cities. When rail-
roads were reaching into new
regions. He grew with the times
and he never forgot the people
he grew with"
Senator Royal s Copeland:
eff Lincoln were alive today
his great heart would bleed be-
cause of the sufferingS Of his
fellow citizens. He said in ef-
feet, that God must love the
common people because he
made so many of them. 1t
seems to me he would be in full
approval of the emergency laws
we have passed in a desperate
and honest endeavOr to relieve
human misery"
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
Mrs. Thinner Faces
One to 20 Years in Jail

UPPER SANDUSKY, Ohio,
Feb. IL Q.N.SO.-One to 20
years imprisonment loomed to-
day for Mrs. Eva Thinner, Fern
dale (Mich.) widow, ds result Of
her conviction Saturday midnight
Of manslaughter in the death Of
Robert v, Brown.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
Identified as Thief,
Nan Held For Trial

Identified as one Of two thugs
who held up Charles Mayhem,
1900 block Fifteenth st. N. W.,
Christmas day, Slugging him and
robbing him of $2,83O, John E
Wade was ordered held for the
Grand Jury under SIS, 900 bond fol.
lowing a hearing before Judge
John P. Mcmahon in Police Court
today.
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
TOUHN PAL CONFESSES 100000 N c MAIL TRUCK HOLDU
Who's Arrested
AndBy MOm?
2 AnSwerS
BY International News Service


Who arresetd whom?
Here are two schools OF
thought on that intriguing
question.
Chesley Jurney, Senate Ser.
geant-at-arms:
81 didn't arrest Mr.. Mac
Cracken. He was an unwelcOme
guest in my home. The writ
of .habeas corpus orders me to
produce Mr.. MacCracken in
court. How can 1 when have
never arrested him?"
Frank J. Hogan, Mr.. Mac
Cracken's attorney:
"The writ calls for Mr.. Mac
Crackers release. He already
has been released, and by no
less a person than the Ser
geant-at-Arms of the Senate.
There is nothing to do but to
move the writ be discharged"
The Washington times., 1934-02-12
One Shot, TlDO Held
In Robbery Attem1Dt

One man was shot and his
two companions were arrested
when police yesterday surprised
them in the act of robbing a
store in the 1900 block Seventh
st. N. w.
The man shot is George Spear
man, colored. The other two,
Clarence Williams and James
johnson, both colored, were
arrested in the store.
Evening star., 1934-10-28
GROUP
PROGRAM |SF|XED
Schedule Looks Toward De.
veIopment Of "Profes-
SionaI Consciousness"

A comprehensive program for the
ensuing gear is outlined to members
Of the Education Association Of the
District of Columbia in bulletin is
sued by DR.. Edgar c. Higbie, head
of Wilson Teachers College and pres
ident of the association.
The controlling idea which will per-
meate the years activities was de-
scribed by DR.. Higbie as "the devel-
opment of a professional conscious
ness and solidarity in the interests Of
the enlarging needs of present-day
society"
The work was divided by the presi-
dent among three groups. the admin
istrative and two classifications of
educational committees called "hori-
xontal" and vertical"
Meeting Set December 7.
The horizontal educational commit
tees will concern themselves with the
tendencies, problems and needs OF
their respective educational fields IN
the District, and will be responsible
for the program of the associations S
meeting December 7 and for a re-
port of activities to appear in the
February issue of the association S
journal.
The vertical educational commit
tees will formulate and evaluate signi-
ficant national trends. lelate these
trends to the situation in Washington
with the idea of comparing local with
national trends, and relate particular
= fields to the total local education
effort.
These vertical COMMITTEES are COM
posed as follows: Character Education
Miss BERTHE Backus, Miss Jeannette
Speiden and Mrs. E. R. Seal. Amer
icanization-Miss Maude Alton, Mrs.
G. M. S. McClintock, Mrs. N. M. Ryan,
Mrs. H. K. Vasa, Mrs. J. o. Powers
and Miss G.. M. Janney. Music-Dr.
E. N. C. Barnes, Miss Lucy Lynch,
Mrs. Emeline Burgess, Mrs. Helen
Bellman, Mrs. Laura Ward and DR..
Hans Kinder. Health and Physical
Education-Dr. Rebecca Stoneroad,
Miss Augusta Kriener, Isaac Simon
and Miss Elizabeth Molster. Research
Miss Jessie La Sale Libraries-Dr.
@. F. Bowerman, Miss Sabra W.
Vought. S. A. Dulany Hunter, Miss E.
S. Dessez and Miss A. Haddow. Visual
Education-Miss Elizabeth Dyer, Mrs.
Ruth Webb, Miss Katherine Sunny,
Samuel ]. Bryan and Miss katherine
Follin.
DIR. Morgan to Preside.
The next association meeting will be
in the Roosevelt High School Deem
ber 7. DR.. Joy Elmer Morgan of the
National Education Association staff,
will preside.
Committee forums will be held in
various auditoriums throughout the
city on a date in January to be an
nounced later.
The annual mid-Winter dinner is
to be held in the Mayfower Hotel
February 9. DR.. Frank W. Ballou, su-
perintendent of schools, will speak.
The Spring luncheon will be in
April. On that occasion final reports
will be heard and new officers elected.
Evening star., 1934-10-28

val and annual Homecoming to
which all Community Chest contri-
butrs and particularly those who
designated Neighborhood House last
year are inyited.
One of the big features Of the pro-
gram will be county fair, with side
shows, "barkers," exhibition dances
and various other features that go to
lend the atmosphere OF the real fair.
At the same time the regular work
carried on daily in the house will be
demonstrated by the various classes.
There will be a sale Of articles
made In the arts and crafts classes
and these will be found suitable for
Christmas gifts. Lunch will be served
Evening star., 1934-10-28

Druggists Will Meet.
British druggists will hold Their
in Belfast next year.
Evening star., 1934-10-28

proximately 1000 leaders of the paint
industry will attend.
Albert L. Deane. assistant admin
istrator of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration, in charge of modernizing
activities, will be one of the principal
speakers, together with John H. Fahey
of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board
and president Of the Home Owners
Loan Association. Hugh Smith, gen.
eral manager of the Philadelphia Bet
ter Business Bureau. Is another fea-
tured speaker.
The social program will be climaxed
by a masked Halloween dance In the
ball room Of the Mayfiower Wednesday.
Evening star., 1934-10-28

sissippi and had assisted in the organ
ization of the Texas Relief Admins
tration as an officer of the American
Public Welfare Association.
On Thursday, DR.. Esther L. Rich
ards of Johns Hopkins Hospital will
give her third lecture in which she
will discuss social case work. Two
other addresses will be given before
the course closes on November 8. The
speakers will be DR.. David c. Adie,
Commissioner of Social Welfare of the
State of New York, and Miss Claire
Towsley of New York City.
Evening star., 1934-10-28
2.YEAR.0 HERO

SALT LAKE CITY CP.-Marlin
Fairbourn is only years old, but al
ready he's something Of hero.
He was playing with his cousin,
Clayton Fairbourn, 3 years old. when
Clayton tumbled into an irrigation
ditch. Marlin toddled home and
communicated in his childish way
word of what had happened.
Mrs. w. r. Fairbourn hurried to
the ditch, pulled out her unconscious
baoy and called two other sons. who
applied artificial respiration success
fully.
Evening star., 1934-10-28

relief administra-
tor a year ago
when the Civil
Works Admins
tration was be-
gun. He came
to Washington
from the South,
where he had
been field repre-
sentative of the
F. E. r. A. for
the Southwest.
Before that time
he had organized
and conducted
the relief admin
irAnnAion LIZ AHin
Evening star., 1934-10-28
FEDERAL HOUSING PLAN
PAINT CONVENTION TOPIC
900 Leaders in Industry Due to
Attend Meeting Opening
Here Wednesday.

ModerniZation activities Of the Fed
eral Housing Administration will be
a major topic of discussion at the
convention of the National Paint, Var
nish and Lacquer Association. opening
Wednesday and continuing through
Friday at the Mayfower Hotel. Ap-
Evening star., 1934-10-28
HUMAN RELATIONS
is TOPIC OF SPEECH
Aubrey Williams of F. E. r. A
Will Address Social Agencies
Council Tomorrow.

Aubrey Williams, assistant admins
traitor Of the F. E. r. A., will give the
fifth lecture in the Course of Human
Relations, sponsored by the Washing
ton Council of Social Agencies, to-
morrow at II am. in the United
States Chamber of Commerce His
subject will be THE Federal Program
for Social Security"
Mr.. Williams. who will discuss the
Evening star., 1934-10-28
Forum Plans Session.

The Civic National Forum will hold
a public symposium on Ethics in
Business" at the Peoples Congrega-
tional Church, 624 M street, tonight
at $50 o'clock. Mrs, G. B. Reid,
w. H. c. Brown and H. E. Battle are
to be guest speakers. A program of
music will be given by the Young
Peoples Society.
Evening star., 1934-10-28
Silent for 100 Years,

Having been mute for more than 100
years the great organ of the Church
of st. John Lateran, at Rome, Italy,
is being reconstructed for use IN the
next church festival.
Evening star., 1934-10-28

rom l2 to 2 and supper from to 2
o'clock In order that every one who
wishes to spend the entire day may
do so.
Evening star., 1934-10-28

A. F. G. E. Group to Take Hike.
Members of N. r. A. Lodge, No. 81,
American Federation of Government
Employees. will hike to Great Falls, Va,
today, meeting at 10 am. at the home
of Joel Barrall, 1855 New Hampshire
avenue. Hikers are requested to bring
lunches.
Evening star., 1934-10-28
NEIGHB0RH00D HOUSE
PLANS FOUNDERS DAY"
"Open House" Will Be Held on
Monday, November 5, From
10 AM. to 10 PM.

Neighborhood House, the social
service settlement. located at 470 N
street southwest. will celebrate
Founders day" Monday. November 5.
with an "open house" from 10 am.
to 10 O'Clock pm. The celebration
will take the form of harvest testi-
Evening star., 1934-04-27
SOmers Glee Club Heard
In Its Annual Concert
Mary Burnett Leads Organic ton, Which Is
Assisted by Two Artists, Pianist and
Contralto-Features of Program

made up of the best musical examples
to carry out the idea.
Miss Apple was heard in two
groups OF songs, singing Ronald's S
Down in the Forest" Manning s
In the Luxembourg Gardens" and
Brewster's Fairy Pipers' as her first
Offering and Gauls Eye Hath Not
Seen" and Bizet's Agnes Del" as
the second. Miss Apples sweet con-
tralto voice is especially pleasing in
the informal atmosphere in which
the program was presented, and her
singing added greatly to the enjoy
ment of the evening concert.
A special feature of the entertain
ment was group Of Brahms
"Waltzes," played by Mrs Edwin B.
Parker, who has been actively asso-
ciated with the organization and sup
port Of the glee club. She selected
numbers which fitted in unusually
well with the entire. plan of the
program, and she played them with
delicate, warm feeling that evoked
enthusiastic applause The large au-
Uence whicA had gathered in the
Beautifully arranged rooms of the
Somers residence enjoyed the de-
parture from a formal concert at
mosphere. which was the keynote
of the entire evenings entertain
ment.
Evening star., 1934-04-27
BY ALICE EVERSMAN.

The Elizabeth Somers Glee Club
gave its annual concert last evening
at the Elizabeth SomerS residence on
M street under the leadership of Mary
Burnett The club had as assisting
artists, Mrs. Edwin B. Parker, pianist.
and Mary Apple, contralto, accom-
panied by Edith L Dawson.
The arrangement Of the program
was based on the idea Of DR.. Richard
C. Cabot's book, What Men Live BY,
and the numbers were chosen to ex-
press the four elements, Work,
Play" Love" and Worship" An
English folk song, The Jolly Miller"
a Russian folk song, The Little
were illustrative Of the Joy of work,
while the Flemish folk song. Rosa, "
Come, Let Us to the Bagpipes
Sound from Bach's Peasant Can
tata," and Handels Let Us Dance"
represented play. Three love songs by
Brahms and Schumann's In the
Garden" and the song of worship, "In
Josephs Lovely Garden by Dickinson,
with solo by Mary Apple, the Cru
sader's Hymn" Fleming's 'Tis Not
by Night" finished the program.
The members of the glee club sing
in fresh, natural fashion with careful
attention to small details that add
greatly to the charm of their work.
They entered into the spirit of the
four subjects to be expressed and
caught the proper manner of delivery
for each Miss Burnett deserves great
credit for the excellent program ar
ranged, not too heavy in character but