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Evening star., 1934-04-04
What's What
BehindNews
In Capital
Johnson Resignation
Rumors Traced to
Higher-Ups.
BY PAUL MALLON.

"HE original idea that Gen.
johnson might quit the N. r. A.
and lead the new building
i program came from higher
up-as a matter of fact, two
higher-ups.
One could be accused of having an
ak to grind. He is against johnson
and would like to see the general get
out and go as far as possible. The
other, however, feels kindly toward
johnson and could not have been
malicious.
Apparently they planted the
story as pointed suggestion.
If johnson took kindly to 1t he
made no effort to give that impression
His friends do not like the idea.
Decision Up 10 President.
The matter has been discussed by
a few of the inner councillors. A final
decision awaits President Roosevelt's
return.
The main reason johnson could not
have left the N. r. A. before Is that
there was no one in the organization
who could have taken his place. That
situation is being rapidly eliminated
by the way his first assistant, W.
Averell Hartman, has taken charge OF
things within the past two weeks.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
CUBAN OFFICIAL DIES
OF BULLET WOUND
Secretary of Justice, Bitter Foe
of Machado. Declared
Suicide.
BY the Associated Press.

HAVANA, April 4.-Col. Roberto
Mendez Penate. secretary of justice in
the Mendieta cabinet, died today Of
bullet wound which, authorities said,
was self-inflicted.
The 62-year-old veteran OF Cuba's
war for independence and bitter foe
of former President Machado died
shortly after he was taken to a hos
pital from his home.
He had been found lying in his pri-
vate Office, bullet wound in his neck.
President Mendieta and other cabi-
net ministers were at the hospital
when he died.
Penate, once a political exile, fol-
lowing an unsuccessful revolt against
Machado, was considered for the pro-
visional presidency when Ramon Grau
San Martin appeared ready to get out.
Shortly after the cabinet member
was found wounded bomb exploded
in downtown Havana, in a manhole.
disrupting telephone service. It was
apparently another act Of violence in
the long labor discord in the Ameri-
can Telephone Co.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
FOREIGN EXCHANGE
PAYMENTS HELD UP
Spanish Bankers See Potential
Danger to Credit and Ex.
portation.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MADRID. April 4.-The government
exchange control bureau issued orders
today holding up foreign exchange
payments.
Bankers asserted they held q po-
tential danger to Spanish credit in
foreign countries and possibly would
affect expectation to Spain.
The bureau informed banks that
immediate payments in foreign money
are henceforth prohibited and per-
sons making such requests must await
their turn.
The ruling affects foreign exporters
who have credit and demand note
rights with Spanish clients for spe
clfic dates. Henceforth payments will
probably be impossible on these dates,
as the Spaniards must await their
turn for foreign money.
Bankers and importers were said to
be protesting the ruling energetically.
because foreign exporters will be un-
able to fix definite prices because Of
the uncertainty surrounding the ex-
change regulation.
It was reported the bureaus action
was taken in an effort to control and
stabilize the exchange by attempting
to eliminate fluctuations through
heavy demand on certain days, which
forces down the peseta's value.
Evening star., 1934-04-04

In times past chairmen of the Rules
Committee have been known to walk
around the Capital with bills in their
pocket. refusing to do anything. and
thus directing the course of legis-
lation.
Bankhead will make his conserva-
tism and his friendship for Roosevelt
felt in that job.
Wirt's Backers Smoker.
The committee for the Nation now
is laughing best, although it may not
laugh last.
1t is croDd of imitation en-
thusiasts, organized for the purpose
OF propdgandizing TOR monetary
imitation. Out of its Writ furry
it has received about million
dollars north OF free advertising
TOR its aide.
Up to the time of the Writ matter,
it had been in hiatus. AS a matter
Of fact, since the dollar was almost
wholly stabilized by the administra-
ton, it has not been able to obtain
any limelight- for its views. It has
been propagandizing just as much as
before, and probably more. but no one
was interested. People were thinking
of other things.
Lately it sent out DR.. Wirts views
in full under the title America Must
Lose" The free handout contained
10000 words, but not more than 1000
Of them concerned the charges that
the brain trust Is fomenting revolu-
ton. The rest were arguments for
the monetary views Of the committee
for the Nation.
Like Lincoln's Trick.
1t is an ole publicity trick. If no
one pays any attention to your argu-
ments. start a fight with people in the
limelight and get the reflected atten-
ton given them. Lincoln did that by
getting the then famous Senator
Douglas into a series Of debates.
This time it happened that sub
terranedn antdgonism to the brain
trusters Dds ready for a public
airing.
The charges we're known to be silly,
but they served the purposes of those
who did not like the way the admin
istration was going. They probably
have been very effective in restraining
the Mugwump element.
The day of reckoning will come
when the charges must be proved.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
HITLER FRIEND OUT
Of HARVARD RITES
<. F. HanfstaengI Unable
to Become Commence
ment Aide.
BY the Associated Press.

BOSTON, April 4.-Dr. Elliott c.
Cutler, chief marshal to lead Harvard
in this years commencement, today
announced that Ernst F. Hanfstaengl,
intimate friend of Adolph Hitler and
one of the aides selected by DR.. Cut
ler, would be unable to attend the
exercises.
A protest against special honors to
Hanfstaengl at the twenty-fifth an
nual reunion of his class at Harvard
in June was registered last week
by Benjamin Halpern, graduate
student at the university and Jew.
In a letter to the Harvard Grim
son, undergraduate newspaper, Hal
perm said of Hanfstaengl's selection:
There unfortunately will be a
number of groups Of thick-headed
alumni too obtuse to appreciate the
tender sentiment of this gesture"
In his announcement DR.. Cutler said
he had asked Hanfsta :ngl to be one
of the so or more aides who assist
me at the alumni exercises on COM
mencem-c. afternoon. and in his COM
munication to me he regrets being
unable to fill the post.
There has been considerable pub
licity given to the invitation extended
to Hanfstaengl" DR.. Cutler said
some of it unfortunately criticizing
Harvard University authorities. wish
to make it clear that the appointment
of aides at the alumni exercises dur
ing the Harvard commencement is
made by the chief marshal. who is
elected by the directors of the Alumni
Association and not by the univer-
sity authorities.
"In selecting Hanfstaengl for the
post of aide it seemed to me that Har-
ward alumni, who have always stood
for the fundamental principles OF a
university, the right Of free speech
and the liberation of all beliefs. might
properly welcome this graduate back
to his twenty-flfth reunion"
Evening star., 1934-04-04
MOTHER ANDF|VE
MISSING IN FLOOD
Sudden Rush of Water Car.
rieS Away Houses in
Oklahoma.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ELK CITY, Okla, April Mrs. A.
M. Adams and five children were
missing today and believed drowned
in a sudden food Of the Washita
River, which literally washed them
from their home.
When rescuers reached the house.
washed into the side Of bridge, they
found 1t empty.
Bill Bean. a son-in-law of Adams,
rescued a 5-day-old baby from the
mothers arms as the water poured
through the house.
River Torrent.
The Washita, usually a wide ex-
panse of sand. had become a torrent,
washing houses from their founda-
tions and spreading to width Of ! "a
miles in this farming grazing country.
The river crept almost to the edge
OF Harmon, a town of about 500 per-
sons, and many houses on both sides
Of the stream were washed away. The
rise continued.
Indian Family Marooned.
The Indian family of Chief White
shield was marooned on what became
an island in the swollen river.
Rescue efforts were delayed by dam
aged communication lines and muddy
roads. Motor cars from Elk City had
difnculty reaching the scene Of the
disaster.
Oldtimers said the Washita was z
feet higher than at any time in their
memory.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
COSTNER GETS 50
YEARS IN ROBBERY
Judge Ignores GangSter's
Charge That He Was
Promised Immunity.
BY the Associated Press.

by the ASSOCIATED PreSS.
CHARLOTTE, N. c., April 4.-The
heavy hand of the Federal Govern
ment'S drive to clean up the Nation S
gangs fell today on Isaac Costner,
38-year-old Touhy mobster who be-
came too big" for his Tennessee
mountain liquor business.
Convicted of participating in a
sl05,0 mail truck hold-up here last
November IS, Costner was sentenced
to 80 years in the penitentiary at
Atlanta
The defendants plea that he had
been promised immunity for his tes-
timony, by which the State of Illinois
convicted Basil Banghart of kidnap-
ing John Jake the Barber" Factor, was
ignored. Judge E. Yates Webb imposed
sentence with the pronouncement that
These men must be stopped from
their crimes and will be some day If
we have to make it a hanging Of
fense."
The jury's verdict. reached and
sealed after 40 minutes deliberation
yesterday, was read at the opening
OF court today and sentence was
passed Immediately.
After first stating he considered
he had received fair treatment so far
as this court was concerned, despite
failure of Washington and Illinois
officials to intercede for him, Costner
expressed the hope he could make
bond while appealing.
Shortly after sentence was pro-
nnlInHnd Sho yofharal
about her and started back over the
mountains to Tennessee. Through
tear-brimmed eyes, she told of plans
to return to Newport to confer with
her father, Rev. Mckinney Hurst, and
Costners father, Rev. L. F. Costner.
both Baptist ministers.
Then, she said, she must return to
Knoxville. put the children back in
school land take up life as usual
The children are Dorothy, IL; who
is studying to be foreign missionary;
Isaac. jr., 8, and Betty Jean, 6.
Mrs. Costner said none of the fam
lily knew anything about CoStner's
business" except that he conducted
it away from home.
Ike and were boy and girl sweet
hearts in Newport" she said. He is
good to us. I've never seen him
drunk"
Questioned regarding her attitude
toward possible danger from former
gang associates whom Costner ex-
posed, Mrs. Costner turned away and
said nothing.
Costner sat emotionless as the
sentence was read.
His wife and one Of his three
young children sat behind the con-
fessed kidnaper and hold-up man, the
child dry-eyed and uncomprehending
the mother composed, but dabbing at
her eyes with a handkerchief.
Mrs. Costner, Sunday school teacher
at Newport. Tenn, had said before
the trial she could not explain her
husbands actions.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
SPECIALISTS TO TALK

Talks by three eminent specialists
will feature the symposium on mental
hygiene to be presented by the section
of nervous and mental diseases Of the
Medical Society of the District tomor-
row at 8 pm. at 1718 M street.
Mental Hygiene Through Child
Guidance Clinics will be the subject
of q talk by DR.. Paul j. Ewerhardt.
DR.. Loren B. T. Johnson will speak
on 1.-THE Roles Of the Pediatrician and
the Children's Hospital in Mental
-Tygiene," while DR.. Ralph p. Truitt
of Baltimore will discuss 1.-THE Mental
Hygiene Program in Operation" DR..
william A. White will open discussion.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
'|NSULL PINS HOPE
0NLAWYERS' MOVE
Fugitive In Good Health c"
Turkey Plans to Ex-
tradite Him.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ISTANBUL, April 4.-Reduced to
munching peanuts in a Turkish house
Of detention-unable even to obtain
his personal baggage from the vessel
upon which he was seized-Samuel
insult awaited today efforts by newly
acquired British lawyers to delay his
extradition to the United States.
The elderly fugitive sent one Of his
wardens out today for a bag of pea
nuts. Then. while hundreds of curl
GUS pedestrians gazed up at his little
room, he walked up and down before
the window eating.
insult was in good health and ap-
peared less depressed after talking
with the lawyers trying to find some
loophole in the Turkish governments
ruling that he must be handed over
to the United States for trial on lar
ceny and fraud charges.
Seeking Baggage.
His immediate interest was centered
on obtaining small valise from his
chartered Greek freighter, the Maiotis,
lying in Istanbul Harbor The valise
was reported to contain important
documents.
Undaunted by the final character
Of the decision of the Turkish minis
terial council for insults extradition,
Alexander Mango. British barrister,
sped final efforts to save insult from
extradition with hopes Of at least de-
laying the final action of handing
insult over.
There still was no indication as to
when insult will be extradited. An
American boat sails April 10. how
ever, and insult may be placed board
If cxtradition proceedings are COM
pleted.
Notice Not Received.
insults lawyer declared he had not
received notice of the court Of ces-
sation's ruling yesterday that there
could be no appeal.
Turkish legal authorities explained
the court ruling Sunday upon which
the decision that insult could legally
be extradited was based constituted
merely a statement of fact-not a
verdict. For this reason, they ex-
planned, 1t was not subject to appeal.
Upon receipt Of notice Of rejection
Of the appeal. expected today, the
lawyer planned further appeal
against the refusal of the Third Penal
Tribunal of Istanbul to consider the
original petition.
The Associated Press learned insult
has not renounced his American ma
tionality. as reported in some quarters
yesterday.
The report was based on the fact
his lawyers were considering arguing
that insults American citizenship was
lost with the withdrawal of his pass
port and other papers. The argument
was that insult would thereby auto
matically regain his English national-
ity.
No HOPE IN ENCIAND
Evening star., 1934-04-04
HELD IN EXTORTION CASE
Filipino Is Placed Under $25 900
Bond Awaiting Grand Jury.

ST. LOUIS. April 4 tP.-George
Cubano, %, Filipino, was ordered held
for a Federal grand jury under $4,000
bond yesterday after a preliminary
hearing on a charge Of attempting to
extort $1,000 from Louis A. Hager, jr.
Manuel c. Lopez, another Filipino
and former chauffeur for Hager, a
son-in-law of the late August A.
Busch, brewer, was the only witness.
A third Filipino, Andrew Haime,
police said. has confessed participa-
ton In the plot. Lopez and Haim0
were arrested in New Orleans and re.
turned to st. Louis,
Evening star., 1934-04-04
TWO DAMS WASHED OUT.
Flood Sweeps Away Bridge and Tres
tie in Wisconsin.

Eiooo sweeps Away Bridge and Tres
tie in Wisconsin.
HUDSON. Wis, April 4 R.-Two
dams. a 150-foot highway bridge and
2oo-foot railway trestle were
washed out early today under pres
sure from flood waters, adding an es-
tlmated $500,000 damage to the loss
from the torrential rains of Monday
night.
The middle dam Of the Willow
River Power Co., about 4 miles
east OF here, gave way about mid
night, releasing q 50-foot wall of
water.
The torrent hurled buildings, trees
and debris against bridge between
huoSon and North Hudson and
pounded it to pieces.
Trestle CoIlapses.
Next the Chicago. st. Paul, Mime.
apolls q Omaha Railway trestle col.
lapsed before the smashing flood.
another dam, known as the st.
Croix power dam at the mouth of
tne Willow River, also was torn away.
In the rush downstream, the wall of
wafer carried away many Summer
cottages and completely wiped out the
trout brook fish hatchery, two miles
east Of here.
The Hood broke the main gas line
connecting Hudson with saltwater,
MINI. leaving the city Of Hudson
with only q limited amount Of gas. It
also smashed the North Hudson water
connections. Thus North Hudson has
no water supply other than that avail
able from wells and springs and
health authorities fear they may have
been contaminated.
It was near here that q freight train
was wrecked by washout early yes
terday, killing three trainmen.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
ROOSEVELT'S SON FLIES

Elliott Roosevelt, second son Of the
President. who left the presidential
party aboard the Astor yacht Nour-
mahal yesterday, is to arrive at WASH
tngton Airport at 5 O'Clock this after
noon as a passenger aboard an East
ern Air Transport plane which left
Miami this morning.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
Son Born to Actor

HOLLYWOOD. April R.-Mis-
cha Auer. stage and screen character
actor. formerly Of New York, an
nounced yesterday the birth of a son,
Anthony. Mrs. Auer and baby were
reported doing nicely" at q hospital
here.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
Social Leader Divorced.

RENO, New, April I @.-A charge
Of extreme cruelty won . divorce here
yesterday for Mrs. Dorothea Mulhern
Taylor from Oliver Forester Taylor,
New York social registerite. They
married May a., 1924, at Media, Del
Evening star., 1934-04-04
II you look into the forthcoming
public ,Dorks appropriation bin you
may find 1t there. At least near
insiders at the Ndudl Department
hare been making preparations
along that line.

The mystery of who has been block
ing the Thorp confirmation as head of
the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic
Commerce gets deeper and deeper.
Both Mr.. Roosevelt and Commerce
Secretary Roper wrote unpublished
letters to Chairman Stephens Of the
Senate Committee and still the nomi-
nation was not reported out. It will
be.
(copyright 1o3l.l g.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
Hen Rescued From Well.

A bantam hen which fell into q
74-foot well near Durant, Okla, was
rescued after doundering around In
the deep water for two days.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
RAIN BRINGS COOLER
WEATHER TO CAPITAL
Showers Tonight and Tomorrow
to Keep Temperature go De-
grees Below Yesterday.

Rain caused the temperature to drop
about 20 degrees today and brought an
end to the Capitals premature Sum-
mer.
The mercury climbed to "A at $50
pm yesterday. 1t was 48 at Z am.
this morning and at noon 1t was
about 81
Rain tonight and tomorrow, with
not much change in temperature, is
the forecast.
Evening star., 1934-04-04

The same publicity theory did not
work as well when that Labor Depart
ment councillor resigned and attacked
Miss Perkins, although there Is like
wise considerable underlying dissatis-
faction with the Labor Secretary
among Democrats in Congress. It is
based largely on the fact Miss Perkins
has not treated them all with the con-
sideration they are accustomed tc
getting from cabinet members.
Money for the napdl building
program t0iH not be as long coming
as you haze been led to beliepe.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
ROGERS SISTER ILL
Crisis Near in Malady of Humor-
lists Relative.

CHELSEA, Okla, April P.-
Doctors attending Mrs. Tom McSpad-
den. sister Of Will Rogers, who Is i'll
with pneumonia, said last night she
had not yet passed the crisis, which is
expected within the next day or two.
Mrs. McSpadden is the only sister
Of the humorist. Mrs. Rogers and
other relatives have been summoned
to the bedside, but Rogers still Is In
California.
Evening star., 1934-04-04
AIDE OF DILLINGER
CAPTURED IN RAID;
CRITICALLY INJURED

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-04-04
JOHNSON TAKES LEAD
IN BUILDING DRIVE
TO AID EMPLOYMENT 7

(Continued From First Page.)
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MASTERS TOUCH MISSING

A Nicholson apprentice must
have written that Oklahoma City
sentence which said all Senators
and Representatives from that
state have been among the strong
est supporters of the President S
policies"
True, Senator Elmer Thomas has
supported Roosevelt recommended
lions, but he still wants to go
much more to the left than does
the President. Senator Thomas Gore
has sided SO often against the New
Deal" enactments that he is men
toned in the same breath with
Carter Glass of Virginia as CON
sentative"
1t may be that such matters are
of small moment to the expansive
Mr.. Farley, that all Democrats
look alike to him. Or it may be
that it is all but a part of the
great game of politics.
The fact remains, however, that
the Master Nicholson touch seems
to be missing for the time.
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ing. In the dressing room, on the
field. he impressed on them the
conviction they were a great team,
a team that could win the pen
nant.
Coming into a fashionable Wash
ington hotel where the team stayed
one morning recently, Cochrane
found four Tigers in the dining
room wearing rather disreputable
sweaters. He said nothing, but lat
er, In the dressing room:
This is the first time I ever
heard of ball players belonging to
a first place team going into a
dining room wearing dirty sweaters
That sort Of stuff belongs to a
Glass B outfit. From now on look
like champions off the field as
well as on. Pay more attention to
your appearance and that means
wear coat. Make people respect
you outside the park as well as IN
side. Don't ever forget you are the
top club in the American leaguel'
Could they ever forget with Mick
ey around?
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w. A. HOLZHEIMER AND
LIEUT.. S. GREGORY
LEAVE FOR KETCHIKAN

To attend to duties in connec-
ton with the U. S. District Court,
now in session in Ketchikan, Unit
ed States Attorney William A.
Holzheimer left for that city on
the motorship Northland, this noon.
He expects to conclude the bust
ness as quickly as possible and
will probably return to Juneau in
/ a week or ten days.
Lieutenant Samuel Gregory, who
with his wife and daughters, have
been visiting here for the last two
weeks, accompanied his father-in-
law to Ketchikan and will stop
off there for several days on his
way to Bremerton, Wash, where he
will report for duty October 8. Mrs.
Gregory and their daughters, Mary
and Gloria, plan to remain here
for about two more weeks before
Joining 1t Gregory.
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N0RTHLAND ON
WAY SOUTH AT
NOON TODAY

This morning, shortly after 10
O'Clock, the motorship Northland,
Capt. L. Williams, commander and
Harold Knight, purser locked here
from Sitka and sailed at noon for
Seattle and way points.
Those leaving here on the North
land were, for Petersburg, Mr.. and
Mrs. Bert Elstad and children,
John A S, Jr.; for Wrangell,
Mrs. Mamie Knudsen; for Ketchi-
kan, Judge William A. Holzheimer,
Lieut.. Samuel Gregory, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. G. Andrews; for Seattle,
Mrs. Fred Henning and baby; Mrs.
H. Hansen, Paul Hansen, Mrs.
Edith Manners, Miss Marian Man
ners, Patricia Oldenburg, Mr.. and
Mrs. Jacob Bass, Mrs. Anna Sim
onarsen, George Beckett, Dave
Walker, Charles Michelotte, r. ].
Lind, Mrs. Vera Spencer, Erick
Kvamme, S. Grotten, C. A. james,
Sam Tulsa, S. Full, Henry Wood
and Max Scriber.
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MASTER TOUCH,
OLD CAMP AICNS,
IS MISSING NOW
Ghost Writing Of Charlie
Nicholson Seems to Be
Wanting Somehow
BY HERBERT PLUMMER

WASHINGTON, Oct. IA lit
tered cubby-hole at Democratic
headquarters here enshrines the
memory of a famous political art
1t is the ghost writing" Charlie
Nicholson did for the Democrats
during the Hoover administration
and later for the Roosevelt Presi-
dental campaign.
In those days, for month on
month, the former New York World
news writer turned out pieces be-
laboring Republicans which found
their way with monotonous regular
ity to newspaper offices. Uniform
ly virile~ and original, each bore the
signature of first one Democratic
member of Congress and then an
other.
Even before the 80 Presidential
campaign was on responsible Re-
publicans were attributing to him
perhaps more than was his due
credit or discredit for the changing
sentiments of the time.