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Evening star., 1934-04-20
PUERTO RICANS APPROVE
FIRST LADYS COMMENT
Purpose in Calling Attention to
tuberculosis Rate Was to
Aid Island, Is View.
sv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
SAN JUAN. Puerto Rico, April 20
Puerto Rican political leaders last
night expressed approval Of the pur-
pose of Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt
in calling attention to the tubercu
losis rate in the island.
Expressing a belief that she is
seeking to aid the native population
they recalled that criticism directed
to her by the Puerto Rican Spanish
League parallels an incident which
occurred when her relative. Theodore
Roosevelt, was governor of Puerto
Rico.
Gov. Roosevelt in appealing for
financial aid to combat tuberculosis
brought from certain business inter-
ests a complaint that he was injuring
island products.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
GIRL FREED IN HOLD-UP

Companion of Slain Texas Bandit
to Return to Mother.
Ell PASO, Tex, April 20 (P.-Mrs.
Virginia Ortez, 18, Dallas, will be re-
leased to her mother, Mrs. Harrison
Emery, Sheriff Chris P. Fox said
yesterday.
The sheriff said an investigation
proved Mrs. Ortez had nothing to do
with the bandit activities of Jimmy
Stinson, who was shot to death here
Tuesday after he had shot four per-
sons in the hold-up Of a clothing store.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
JUNE PROMISES JOBS
Nebraska Students in Application
Line With New Record.

LINCOLN, Nebr., April 20 P).-
June days will bring jobs as we'll as
diplomas to university graduates this
year.
More University of Nebraska seniors
are lining up now for employment
than in several seasons, faculty eX-
ecutives said today
Prospects are the best since the
pharmacy college was started" said
Dean L. B. Lyman.
Reports from the college of agri-
culture, business administration and
teaching also were rosy. Professors
in the law college, engineering col
lege. dental college and school of
journalism saw signs of improvement.
Evening star., 1934-04-20

TO Yuma, Ariz, where he locked her
rangements to marry her. She said
she finally escaped before q ceremony
could be performed by playing sick ="
Mrs. Wellman Is the former wife
Of William Wellrnan, film director.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
Steel Authority Planned.

LONDON, April 20 LP).-Described
as the most important step the iron
and steel industry had ever taken, a
special meeting Of the National Iron
and Steel Federation yesterday over
whelmingly approved establishment Of
central authority to promote eff
cheney and expand export trade.
Evening star., 1934-04-20
ENDEARING LETTERS
MAY SAVE BOWLING
Mrs. Wellman's Correspondence
introduced at Hearing on
kidnapping Charge.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, April 20.-R. c.
Danny Bowling, film actor, saved
the letters he received from Mar
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
RENEWED
FOR SHORT DAY

William Green, American Fed
Grafton of Labor president, was
on record today with another de-
mand for passage of a mandatory
30-hour week bill. This bill for
some time has been soft-pedaled
by trade unions.
Mr.. Green proposed a legisla-
tive program including the out
. lawing of all company unions,
extension of the NRA with re-
tention of the collective bargain
ing guarantee, unemployment in
surance, an old age pension, and
full restoration of Federal pay
January l.
Mr.. Green charged that in
dustrial management has in
creased the unemployed by dis
placing workers through mechan-
ical improvements, adding:
Labor is firmly convinced
that the 3O-hOur week bill is
necessary to economic recovery
and essential as q practical
remedy for unemployment"
The Washington times., 1934-12-13

large garages in central areas
if and providing a parking ban
could be lobbied into existence,
so that their enterprise could be-
come an overnight get-rich-quick
proposition, and it might be
that their fine Italian hand
might be found gently putting
pressure behind the present
move.
Washington needs traffic IA
cilitation rather than parking
reStric ctionS, and any sensible
person can see that our present
Block-and-Stop method of regu-
lation is both ancient and
cumbersome; let US have all
traffic lights on an arterial
highway Syncronized to be all
green at once, succeeded by all
red, and thereafter limit park.
ing bans to such streets, like
U Street between Eighteenth
Northwest and Rhode Island
Avenue, where a moving auto
mobile cannot pass between a
street car and parked car at
the curb.
Income taxes, uncollectable,
and parking bans that are ill-ad-
Vised can be safely forgotten.
ENGINEER.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Plant
Damaged By Fire

DICKEYSVILLE, Md, Dec. 13.
Fire late yesterday ragged through
the five-story stone and wood
building of the Kitchen Cabinet
Corporation here, driving 20 en-
ployes to the street and causing
damage estimated at between
$4,000 and 100000.
Firemen answering the five
alarms were hampered by the
heavy smoke and by fumes from
burning paint and YarniSh.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
'TOOthpick' Loot
Awaits Owners

Police are holding property
valued at more than $4,000, the
loot of Washington's "toothpick
burglar" This represents about
40 per cent of the total, the re-
mainder having been claimed by
victims.
Detective Sergt. Thomas Sui.
livan, in charge of the property,
said today the goods would re-
main on display at police head
quarters for several days.
If you wish to know the correct
time of day or night telephone
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
District 1000.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Income Tax and Parking

Income Tax and Parking
To the Editor of the Times:
The recent utterances attribut-
ed to Senator King reviving the
age-old bugaboo of a District
income tax, and the effort of
Commissioners HaZen and Sui
tan to establish a parking ban,
which is only a revival of an at .
tempt by Washington garage
owners to force the District
motorists into their high-priced
establishments, prompts the
writer to ask a pertinent ques-
ton.
Can it be that the moves are
aimed at depopulating the Dis
trict in favor of nearby Mary.
land and Virginia?
1t is plain that the immediate
effect of the income tax enact.
ment, or of the proposed park.
ing ban would be the migration
of as many citizens of the Dis
trict, but within easy access
thereto, and either of the i'll
advised pieces of legislation
would fail of their purpose.
Common sense, of which Com.
missioner Allen seems to have a
monopoly among the servants of
the District. dictates the fact
that the income tax proposition
can be easily evaded by the
very class of people most able
to pay, and that residence in
the District would carry a pen
altyEhat would force those who
were able to pay to spend their
potential taxes for suburban
property, creating a great boom
therein.
Washington seldom has more
than three fair sized snow
storms per winter, wherein suf-
ficient snow falls to justify or
require serious street cleaning,
and to stop the average motor
ist from parking at or near his
home, and forcing him to walk
many blocks in storm and cold
to get home from a garage, pro.
viding he is one of the few that
will find accommodation in
Washington'S limited number of
such places, is to convince him
that his car is a liability rather
than convenience.
It is we'll known that, for sew
eral years, certain groups Of
promoters have planned to build
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
BIadensbury Asks
Flood Control Loan

The Bladensburg Citizens AS
sociation, under Craftsmanship of
Judge Alfred D. Bailey, last night
appointed a committee to seek
PWA funds for flood control in
BladenSburg.
The committee, headed by John
S. White, will ask the support Of
Senator George L. Radcliffe in
obtaining the funds.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Fall From Steps
Fatal to Man, 78

Injured when he fell from the
steps of his home to the sidewalk
late yesterday. Riley w. Heaton,
78. OF the 100 block P st. N. w.,
died today in Emergency Hospital.
The Washington times., 1934-12-13
Letters to the Editor

Letters the Editor should erceed 200 Dord They
be signed the Drter NTH address,
be held confidential initials puba the Der
deond Readers nuited to discuss subject interest
The Washington times., 1934-12-13

We're Always After It
40 the Editor of The Times:
Have not seen anything in re-
gard to return of the last S
per cent for Federal employees
in your paper.
Are you going to give write
ups as you did before the last
8 per cent was given back?
Please do, as the Government
men need every cent returned
with the mounting cost OF
living here in Washington.
With taxes, interest, notes on
homes purchased on the basis
Of salary before the cuts, the
result has been keenly felt, for
in the first place we were just
getting by with the small salary
which is paid most Government
employees.
After bills are paid, such as
gas, electric light, fuel and tele-
phone, none is hardly left for
clothing and the necessities OF
life, as with our family. We
have to buy on credit, other
wise could not buy anything.
Please boost the pay cut re-
turn until the men get their
just pay for work done, value
for value received. For through
such methods buying picks up
and with more purchasing
power industry moves on.
Here's hoping your paper
starts the ball rolling again, for
without your long and steady
efforts behind it and our Con-
gress we never would have had
the cut restored last July l.
MRS. F.. B. H.
P. S.-Since writing this
letter 1 heard your news broad.
caster talk this morning on the
return by the first of 1885.
Keep up the good work.
We're Pleased, Too
To the Editor OF The Times:
I am taking it upon myself
to write you and compliment
you on the efficiency of the
newsboy who delivers your
papers along Cedar Street in
Takoma Park. He is a person
able young chap and the resi-
dents out here are very well
pleased with the service that
he renders.
Trust that this will assist him
In getting ahead.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Living Costs Climb
is Chief Steward Point

: Luther C.. Stewards case
against further imposition Of the
Federal pay cut, presented at
.yesterday's hearing before the
senate subcommittee on the in
dependent offices appropriation
bill, rested largely on the proba-
:bility that living costs will rise
sharply to a marked degree.
! The living costs adjustment in
any event should not be one
sided, he said, contending that
the President should be empow-
-ered to increase salaries above
:the base scale as well as to cut
them below it He also pointed
.out that administrative furloughS
have made the pay cut in some
instances not Is per cent but SO
per cent.
Special hardships, he said, were
undergone by those employees who
receive part of their pay in quar-
tiers, subsistence and laundry,
isince the Government cuts their
whole pay but makes no reduc-
-tion in the charges for these
services. .,...
: He pointed out further that in
.many offices some employees are
required to work overtime while
.SurloughS are in effect for others.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
GETS
PUG. BOOST

Appointment of W. W. Ar
buckle, of Lewisburg, w. Va, as
chairman of the Public Utilities
Commission, was urged on Post
master General James A. Farley,
chief patronage dispenser, by the
West Virginia delegation in Con-
greSS today.
The congressional leaders are
anxious to keep the Public Utilities
Commission Craftsmanship in West
Virginia, pointing out that Gen.
Mason M. Patrick, who recently
resigned from that post was from
Lewisburg, too. General Patrick
was a Republican, and Arbuckle,
who teaches in the Friends School
here, is a Democrat.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
BANKER TAKES
MILLION 'LOSS,' ;
EVADES TAX
Senate Probers Told of Sale
Of Guardian Shares to
Bank Vice President
BY International News Service

Charles s. Mott, Of Flint,
Mich, lost a million dollars in
selling his stock in the Guardian
Detroit Union group, he testi-
fled before the Senate Banking
Committee today.
But in selling the 10000 shares
to Harry s. Covington, a vice
president of the group, Mott
evaded q large income tax by
deducting his loss, he admitted
to Ferdinand Pecora, committee
counsel.
Mott also poured in two and
one half million dollars into the
tottering Detroit bank, he testi-
fled.
Covington testified that his
optimism had caused him to buy
the stock in December IA, 1882.
Only 60 days before the bank
crashed.
He gave a note for $4,000 to
Mott but paid none Of the prin-
cipal or interest
Despite the fact that Covington
owed thousands of dollars, he said
he thought the investment was
wise. He said:
81 saw Mr.. Mott putting in
two million five hundred thou.
sand dollars and Mr.. Ford in
vesting, and everyone said the
depression was over"
Mott was asked by Pecora
whether he had sold the stock to
escape the Michigan double liabil-
ity for stockholders in banks. He
replied:
'NO indeed. I already had
loaned the group two and one
half millions which was more
than any possible double liabil-
ity,
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
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suited in regard with District ap-
pointmentS, it was recalled.
At his office in the National
Press Building, Costello said:
$50 far as / am concerned the
matter Is closed. / do not in
tend to discuss it further"
Asked If he had any legal cases
in Government departments, or
would take such cases, he said:
'T have no cases in the Gov
ernment departments. I seldom
ever had any there"
A graduate of Georgetown Law
School, Costello was admitted to
practice before the District Su-
preme Court in 1908.
No Affair Of His
John B. Colpoys, chairman Of
the Democratic Central Commit
tee for the District, was another
who refused to discuss the case,
saying:
'It is no affair Of mine. I
don't know anything about 1t.
I haven't even read the news
papers, and don't care to COM
ment on the subject"
Other Democratic leaders we're
reticent to talk of the case. Most
of them, it seemed, were out
of the city, or in conference, or
unavailable.
While the Postmaster General
also { I'd away from the shake
up, it was learned from sources
close to him that he believes the
party has no authority to ask
the resignation of the committee
members since they are elective
rather than appointive. In the
case of Costello, however, there
is some difference, the District
being without the franchise.
Noel Backs Move
In spite of the reported re-
fusal of the Postmaster General
to resign his craftsmanship, it
was rumored that party leaders
are attempting to decide on a
successor, and that when this is
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

"Neue Frei Presse," a powerful
newspaper in Vienna. He said he
will include in his book and in his
articles how commendable he
thinks William Randolph HearSt's
campaign to keep America out of
the League of Nations really Is.
And also he will write in the pub
lisher's drive against racketeering
and prohibition.
Opposes EntanglementS
America, he said, has no bust
T. s in becoming entangled in
European affairs. He added:
"America has plenty to do In
running her own business"
Prohibition has no place in the
United States, and with a smile.
he said:
II think your American beer
is splendid! really like it bet
ter than English beer and just
about as well as German beer.
You may think I'm-er-Screwy
but that's the-well-dOpe."
A year ago the prince came
here as captain Of the Austrian
Olympic team. He thinks the
next games should not be held in
Berlin because Of the opposition
voiced there against participation
Of Jews. He said he believes the
Germans have taken an attitude
too strong and he is fearful that
the Jews would not be treated
fairly in competition.
Likes Movie Stars
Out in Hollywood the prince
met many movie stars and thinks
they are "swell." His choice?
Well, John Barrymore and
Durante. among the actors, and
the actresses, Greta Garbo.
One of the things which have
impressed the prince most in the
United States is slang. He likes
it and thinks it is an improve
ment in the English language.
And he's a scholar.
And before he left, he said:
81 think slang is one of the
niftiest wrinkles that ever came
down the pike. I study 1t.
That's no bunk. So, come up
and see me sometime"
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Climb Staged
Bu Dollar in London

LONDON, Jan. 18 Q.N.S0.-m
sharp contradiction to the accepted
rules governing currency fluctua-
tions, the American dollar scared
on the London Exchange today de-
spite the devaluation moves set in
motion by President Roosevelt. For
the first time in weeks, the pound
sterling dropped below the SIS
mark, and at 2 p. m, the dollar
sold at 4.9712 to the pound, a
gain of seven cents over the OPEN
ing price.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Mullen Angered, Declares
He Will Not Quit Post

OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 18 GN.S0.
Arthur F. Mullen will neither re-
sign as Democratic National Com
mitteeman from Nebraska nor
discontinue his law practice in
Washington.
He made that plain in a some
what heated statement issued to-
day following President RooSe-
velt's censure of lawyer-politicians
who have been lobbying before
Federal departments and bureaus.
He said:
81 don't know why I should
even be questioned about this.
My law practice in Washington
is ethical in every respect and
I have nothing to explain or
apologize for to anyone"
Mullen also vigorously denied
that President Roosevelt had
broken" with him.
Mullen denied that he had
opened his Washington law office
since the present Administration
went into effect. He said:
''My law office was open in
Washington long before the last
election and feel pretty sure
It will be there when the present
Administration is gone"
Mullen said he had refused
tempting offers to represent clients
who were opposed to national
legislation put into effect by the
present Administration.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

>agreed upon pressure Will be
brought to force him out.
F. Regis Noel, newly elected
president of the District Bar
Association, said today that he
agrees with the Presidents atti'
tude as to certain individuals
who have been attempting to
exert political influence through
their positions.
Commenting on the matter, Mr.
Noel said:
II stated in my speech be-
fore the Bar Association Tues
day night, prior to the PreSi-
dents declaration, that If shy
SterS-pOliticianS in the guiSe
of lawyerS-and downright
lobbyists are annoying public
officials by methods approach
ing bribery, even the Bar AsSO-
citation would join in an out
ragged cry to throw them out"
NORRIS TAKES STAND
The Shake-up follows closely a
suggestion Of Senator Norris R.)
Of Nebraska, who recently sug
geSted that Postmaster General
Farley resign either as Postmas
ter General or chairman Of the
national committee.
The Senator said he did not
believe it proper that the chair
man Of the committee, among
whose duties is that of raising
party funds, occupy an important
Cabinet post.
The four members Of the com.
mittee who have resigned are
Robert Jackson, Of New Hamp'
shire, secretary f the committee:
Frank c. Walker, Of New York,
treasurer; J. Bruce Kremer, OF
Montana; and former Governor
o. Max Gardner, Of North Caro-
lima.
Governor Gardner was com.
mended warmly by the President
for his action in sending in his
resignation ct The time he an,
nounced he intended starting to
practice law here, explaining that
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
Three Women Aboard Vessel Smashed By
Heavy Seas Off Barnegat Light on
Cruise to West Indies

Fourteen persons, one Of them
a Washington youth, were res
cued last night from q yacht
sinking in a terrific gale off
Barnegat Light.
The local youth, who cheated
death when the auxiliary schooner
opened her seams in the huge
seas and floundered, is Ernest
Robbins, who lived here at the
Roosevelt Hotel.
With another classmate from
the Gilman Country School of
Baltimore, James E. Hewes, jr.,
young Robbins started on cruise
to the West Indies last Tuesday
on the 80-foot yacht Alamyth.
Pounded by a terrific gale, the
yacht started leaking badly, and
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
NEW INSURANCE.
IN RHETA DEATH
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Continued from Page ~
man G. Brown, followed Miss
English to the stand to tell now
still another application for insur-
ance had been made in the mid
die Of August and denied on
october IS.
For "SOme Friend'
DR.. Wynekoop, who was paying
life insurance premiums for John
Van Pelt, the handy man in the
Wynekoop home whose friend
Simmons had been the mysterious
figure in the case, asked Brown
to look up rates on a $4,000 pol
icy for "some friend" Brown said
he came back later and made out
an application for Rheta Wyne-
kcop. Nothing more was said
about the friend"
For the next eight weeks, DR..
Wynekoop asked Brown every
week if the policy had come, said
Brown, a little reluctant to attest
the elderly physicians eagernesS
to know about the policy.
When he told her the policy had
been denied, Brown said she de-
manded "why?" and he told her
to get in touch with the medical
officer Of his home office for in
formation.
The only point Brown made
which seemed to cheer the defense
at all-life insurance being the
motive the State ascribes for the
murder-was that DR.. Wynekoop
mentioned the robbery in her Of,
flee to the insurance agent.
She said she did not want to-
pay the premiums monthly be-
cause she h ted keeping cash
around the office since someone
had broken in there a short time
before.
Blamed For Crime
The mysterious intruder is the
defense explanation of the crime.
A fourth insurance agent, Nor
gan A. Hickey, next told much
the same story as Brown. He, too,
made out an application for $10,.
600 insurance for Rheta, without
seeing Rheta or discussing the
question Of beneficiary with her,
but accepting Dr.. Wynekoop'S
money and her assertion the sig.
nature was Rheta's. This policy,
like Browns was denied.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
MAIL 'RAKE-OFF'
CHARGE DENIED
RH international Nawn aerrloa

BY International News Service
An emphatic denial that he
sought S per cent "rake-off" for
securing a southwestern air mail
contract sought by Major William
B. Robertson, backer Of the Lind
bergh Paris flight, was made be-
fore the Senate air mail invest
igating committee today by VIII
liam Sacks, Of st. Louis.
The witness, Republican State
boss, fatty contradicted testimony
given by Robertson.
Sacks said in reply to questions
by Senator Black (D) Of Ala
bama, the committee chairman,
that he knew former Attorney
General Harry Daugherty and
Jake Hamon, the Oklahoma oil
millionaire, who was slain in q
'love nest" tragedy.
He denied he was connected
with post office leasing negotia-
tions in Missouri under the regime
Of Walter F. Brown as postmaster
general.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18

as the pumps were unable to
keep the craft afloat, Capt. John
Metsal sent out a radio cali for
help.
AS three Coast Guard cutters
started to the rescue, the oil
tanker Gulfland picked up the
distress call and reached the sink.
ing schooner just before dark.
Despite the heavy seas, which
smashed one Of the tanker's life
boats when it was lowered to
effect the rescue, the II men and
three women on the yacht were
transferred. The cutter ThetiS
took them on board early today
and is taking them to New York.
Among the rescued was Mrs.
Frank Kobbe, a bride Of two
weeks, on her honeymoon.
The Washington times., 1934-01-18
U. S. Pay Cut Hampers
Trade, Say Merchants

Center Market merchants feel
that the continuance Of the Fed
eral pay cut is hampering trade
in this city to marked degree.
These merchants sell staples,
necessities of life, and, although
they discern distinct upward
trend in conditions, they feel that
locally this is slowed up by fail"
ure to restore Government pay.
Lowe Counselman, meat dealer,
said restoration of salaries in the
Federal service would bring prompt
improvements in trade conditions.
: Ludwig Drieffer said trade had
increased, but that if normal Gov
ernment salaries were in effect It
would have gained much more
rapidly.
{; Similar views were generally ex-
pressed by dealers at the market.