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The Washington times., 1934-08-23
SAVED.
IN CRASH

Three children narrowly es-
capped death today when a five
ton truck, loaded with sand,
plunged into a small street car
waiting room in which they were
playing, demolishing the struc-
ture and pushing it over a bank.
Although the children were
pinned beneath the wreckage
they escaped without even a
scratch.
The children, Louise Harris, 8;
her sister Edith, 7, and Anna
bella Boeteler, 7, all of Beltsville,
Md, were playing in the waiting
room of the Capital Transit
Company near Beltsville.
The truck sWerved to avoid
striking car which turned sud-
denly then skidded into the light
waiting room.
The driver heard the cries of
the children and released them.
The wheels of the truck had
stopped only a few inches from
the children.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
CHARGES
HOLD 4 MEN

PHIL ADE LIP HIA, Aug. %
GN.SD With the arrests of four
men, one in this city, one in Chi
cago and two in Los Angeles,
postal inspectors today believe they
have frustrated nationwide plot
to Victimize hotels with BAG checks.
The suspect under arrest here
is William A. Taylor. His part in
the scheme, Government agents
charge, was to obtain letterheads
from a Philadelphia electric COM
pany, which was to have served as
an unwilling pawn in the plot.
The other. prisoners are Robert
Lane and Charles Lee, arrested
in Los Angeles, and Frank Bart
lett, arrested in Chicago.
The plot failed, inspectors say,
because the accused forgot that
information could be conveyed by
telegram as we'll as by letter.
Thirty hotels in New York, 20
in Chicago, and 10 in Washing
ton, D. c., were thus contacted,
postal inspectors said.
The plotters failed to consider
the possibility of a hotel man
ager wiring the Philadelphia con-
Germ as was done by the man.
ager of the Bismarck Hotel in
Chicago.
When Bartlett registered at the
Chicago hotel and sought to cash
a check, he was promptly ar
rested.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
A. F.OF |. ACTS
FOR GENERAL
PAY RAISE
Reopening of All Major Codes
to Cut Hours Also De-
manded by Unions
BY EUGENE ]. CADOU
International News Service

Leaders of organized labor TO-
day renewed their campaign to re-
open all major NRA codes with a
view to obtaining shorter hours
and more pay for employees.
Encouraged by the Presidential
order which revised the cotton gar
ment code, thereby granting 200,-
900 workers increases of from 10
to II per cent in pay on the basis
of reducing the week work from
40 to 36 hours, the labor chieftains
demanded additional concessions.
Auto Code Up First
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor,
moved to reopen the important au-
tomobile code, which affects hun
dredS of thousands of workers.
Huge increases in sales of cars by
nearly all manufacturers this year
and the general we'll being of the
industry should pave the way for
concessions in more pay and
shorter hours for the employees, ac-
cording to Mr.. Green.
This demand was backed by
action of the NRA Labor Advisory
Board, which decided to insist
upon its demand for reopening
of the code. 1t was pointed out
that the automotive industry vir-
tually was leading the recovery
parade.
Fight merit Clause"
The labor leaders also will
insist upon removal of the So
called merit clause" from the
automobile code. This clause pro-
vides that section 7 ca of the
National Industrial Recovery act
shall not be so construed as to
prevent an employer from hiring
and discharging workmen on a
merit basis. The laborites main
tain that the merit clause is
merely an evasion of the collec-
tive bargaining insurance in
section 7 (a).
Mr.. Green said:
"Only through reOpening the
codes, shortening the hours of
labor, and increasing pay can
the unemployment of millions
be relieved. Codes to date have
been fearfully inadequate to
employ the jObleSS.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Chinese Bandits
Kill 80 Koreans

HARDIN, Manchukuo, Aug. %
G.N.SO.-A marauding band of
300 Chinese bandits today massa-
cred 33 Korean settlers in the vii
lage of Fang Shut Hotze in Kiren
province. The Chinese gave no
quarter to the despised intruders,
killing women and children alike.
Later, another band wrecked an
eaStbound Japanese troop train
about 80 miles west of Imienpo.
The locomotive and four coaches
fell over an embankment. Casual
ties were not reported.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
BOOTLEG RING.
CHIEF HEAD
Of GANG
officer Went "Bad," Served
Jail Terms; Once Known in
Circles on Long Island

NEW YORK, Aug, % 0N.S0.
The New York Evening Journal
today said that acting on leads
furnished by its staff, police had
set off on the trail Of former
Army captain gone bad-one-time
chief of Long Islands smartest
bootleg ring-in connection with
the $427,C00 Brooklyn armored
car robbery.
Definite information pointing to
the completely of the ex-officer
and his gang, the Journal added,
came less than 48 hours after the
robbery. Witnesses were to be
called today to examine pictures
of at least three suspects.
Has Police Record
Police were quoted to the effect
that the former officer, whose
name was withheld, has a crimi-
nal record of three convictions
and is now out on probation.
He was described as an ex-
captain of the Army signal corps,
an expert radio operator, a high
powered rum runner and an able
seaman. His convictions include
smuggling liquor and operating
an illegal radio station.
The Journal said police have a
picture Of the former officer and
two members of his gang
Mob Had Yacht
1t was pointed out that for five
or six weeks prior to the holdup,
the mob had made its head
quarters on a palatial yacht in
Sheepshead Bay. From this point.
a speedboat could quickly round
Coney Island and make contact
with the pier at the foot of Bay
Thirty-fifth Street, where the
thugs took to the water with their
huge haul last Tuesday.
At the same time the hunt, on
other clues, turned to New Jersey
and Pennsylvania.
Somewhere in those two States
we're two powerful automobiles
manned by swarthy complexioned
men and containing money bags
marked with the prints Of the
Federal Reserve bank.
Three fashiona bly-dressed girls
accompanied the occupants OF one
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The Washington times., 1934-08-23
NRA BREWING
TROUBLEFOR
PRESIDENT
Must Arbitrate Differences
Among Gen. Johnson, Miss
Perkins and RiChberg
BY International News Service

A showdown which is expected
to determine the future organiza-
ton and goal of the NRA-and
the future as we'll of Gen. Hugh
S. johnson, it's dynamic director
is expected swiftly to follow PreSi-
dent Roosevelt's return to Wash
ington late today.
The 48 hours that Mr.. Roosevelt
will spend in Washington before
departing for Hyde Park will be
filled with conferences, in which
the President will essay the role
of mediator between the factions
that are now at loggerheadS over
NRA's future.
johnson Shifts Stand
General Johnson may go, or he
may stay, but there was little to
indicate in washington today
which it will be. That, according
to the best information, is up to
President Roosevelt.
Gen. johnson has blown hot and
cold recently upon his continu-
ance in the NRA picture. A few
weeks ago he said publicly that he
felt his work was about finished,
and that from now on it was a
question of administration of codes
and of consolidation, a task he felt
could be left to others.
A few days ago, after comforting
with Mr.. Roosevelt at the White
House, he said he was going to
stay, that the President had in
sisted upon it.
Opinions Are Divided
Later, in conferences wi h
Donald r. Richberg and Secretary
of Labor Perkins and others diff
ferences of opinion cropped up aS
to the reorganized Set-up of the
NRA, and the result has been con-
siderable confusion concerning
Gen. Johnson's future status. This
uncertainty is expected to be
cleared up before President Roose-
welt leaves for Hyde Park.
Mr.. Richberg and Miss Perkins
are mum about their differences
with General. Johnson.
While Miss Perkins has ap-
peared only in the background in
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The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Soviet Debt Rift
In New Deadlock
BY International News Service

BY International News Service
A new deadlock developed TO-
day in the negotiations for settle
ment of the Russian debt to the
United States, following submi5-
sion of a new proposal from Mos
COW.
The proposal was outlined
verbally to Assistant Secretary Of
State Moore by the Russian Am
baSSador, Alexander Troyanovsky,
who said he would deliver it in
form tomorrow. The
proposal is such that no early
settlement now seems possible.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
SMALL FIRE At
WHITE HOUSE

Thirteen pieces Of fire appa-
ratus rushed to the White House
this afternoon, sirens screaming,
when a fire alarm came from the
executive offices.
BY the time they arrived, how
ever, the small blaze was under
control and no damage was done.
The fire started from a gasoline
engine operating a saw used to
cut lumber for the new executive
offices now under construction.
Workmen extinguished the
blaze with sand and with two
small extinguishers before the fire
companies arrived
The President was not at home,
being due back late this after
noon.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Tunney Hints NRA
Offers Him a Post

MONTREAL, Quebec, Aug. %
G.N.SD Gene Tunney, retired
heavyweight champion, intimated
here today that he had been Of
fered an appointment by Gen.
Hugh S. Johnson in connection
with the NRA. He said he had
taken the offer under advisement.
He denied he was interested in
Canadian business enterprises. He
returns tonight to his summer
home in Maine where he will take
part in the Democratic primaries.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Donovan Case Gives
Labor New Weapon

held with the employe is felt by
officials of organized labor to be
complete vindication of the
principles for which the workers
are contending on a nationwide
scale.
Has National Effects
The case has tremendous ma.
tional significance in the view of
labor. Since labor won a COM
plete victory in the case, it nat.
urally will seek to capitalize that
victory.
Organization efforts of the
American Federation of Labor
will be speeded up with the de-
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The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Four Suits Seek
$4,000 Damages

Four suits for a total of $4,000
damages we're filed by Morris
Starbecker, 45O0 block Georgia
Ave. N. w., in District Supreme
Court today against Phillip Baker,
1900 block Spring Rd., and Harry
Singer, 1900 block Fifth st. N. E.,
as the result of a collision be-
tween an automobile and a truck
at New Jersey and New York
Avenues Northwest, November 26,
1882.
Two of the suits, each for
$4,000, were filed on behalf of
the plaintiffs daughter, Helen
Starbecker, who was hurt. The
other two asked for $4,000 each
from the defendants to reimburse
the father for medical expenses.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Sheriff Captures
2 Texas Outlaws

RATION. N. M, Aug. % G.N.SD.
Ed "Perchmouth" Stanton and
Andrew H. Nelson, notorious
Texas outlaws, we're arrested at
Therma. N. NJ, early today by a
sheriff's posse.
They escaped from the Lub-
book. (Texas) Jail on June "a.
Stanton was a condemned muir
derer awaiting execution. Sheriff
E. H. Fletcher captured the two
without firing a shot. Seach was
being conducted for William E.
Doupe, a third fugitive.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Catcher Hemsley
Has Night in Jail

ELPHIA, Aug. %
After spending the
night in Jail on charges of being
drunk and disorderly, Rolley
Hemsley, catcher for the st. Louis
Browns and alleged Peck's Bad
Boy of baseball, was released with
a warning by a police magistrate
this morning.
Catcher Hemsley was arrested
in the Reading Railroad Terminal
last night. An officer charged
that the ball player attacked him
after he told Hemsley to keep
moving. The Browns are in Phila-
delphia for a series with the Ath.
leticS.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Sister Identifies
Slain Hitch-Hiker

GREENFIELD, Ind. Aug. %
G.N.SD.-The body of a hitch
hiker who was killed by an auto
mobile here, has been identified as
that of Charles E. Artrup So, Of
Cincinnati. DR.. Oscar Heller,
coroner, said here today.
The Identification of the hitch
hiker, who carried almost $500 in
his pockets when killed, was made
by his sister, Mrs. C. H. Coster, of
Cincinnati,
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Will Rogers
Says:

IRKUTSK, Aug. 22.-Pine
trees, low mountains, beautiful
valleys today. Distances are far
here and names have to be long
to reach the next town; PetrOV-
skyisavOd and VerhnducinSk. A
mess of natiOnalities on this
train, English, German, Russian,
Swiss, Czecks, American In.
dianS, japanese, and the smart
est Of all is a Chinese, a noted
authority on Far Eastern af-
fairs. Nothing in the worlds
smarter than one Chinaman and
nothing dumber than two.
Mr.. Roosevelt told me to scout
him some new brain material
/ am signing this bird up.
Copyright, 1894, by McNaH&tt
Syndicate, Ine.)
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Youthful NaZis Get
Two DAYS Holiday

BERLIN, Aug. % GN.SD.-TWo
days holiday, with full pay, for
the youth of Germany, has been
ordered by ReichSleader Adolf
Hitler for the coming Nazi party
congress at Nuremburg Septem'
ber to 9.
All employers have been ordered
to give the members of the Nazi
party in their establishments Fri
day and Saturday off at the end
of the first week in September in
the name of der fuehrer.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
YOUTH HELD
IN SLAY|NG
Of COED
1e-Year-0Id Girls Body Found
in CorntieId With Throat
SIashed Twice

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. %
(I.N.SD.-A warrant f form y
charging Harry Taylor, son OF an
Alabama state official, with the
murder of Faye New, Howard Col
lege coed, will be issued immed-
lately, it was announced TO-DAY oV
Police Chief Luther Hollums.
The girls body was found in a
cornfield outside the city, after
hundreds of searchers had looked
for it throughout the day. Miss
News throat had been cut in two
places. Bruises on the body showed
that she had engaged in a valiant
struggle before being slain.
She was never seen alive after
going for an automobile ride with
Mr.. Taylor Monday night. But
the youth after, SO hours of police
questioning, still insists that the
girl left his car at midnight Mon
day, saying that she would walk
home.
Sweetheart Freed
A. B. Cain, sweetheart of the
girl, was also grilled but was re-
leased.
Young Cain was with Miss New
and Mr.. Taylor just before they
started on their automobile ride.
He said he followed the couple to
the city limits of Birmingham.
then returned to his job at a
filling station.
Both men were taken. heavily
Shackled, to see the girls mutt
lated body.
Young Taylor regarded it Stoic-
ally, a 1t hough perSpiratlon
Streamed down his face He said:
"It is terrible. am sorry"
A few moments later young
Cain was brought to the spot. His
reactions were quite different. He
said:
81 didn't kill her! didn't
kill herr"
AS he struggled to place his
handcuffed hands in front OF his
eyes, a moment later he collapsed,
and officers were forced to carry
him from the cornfield.
Mother ColIapses
The girls mother, Mrs. Lon
New, collapsed when she learned
her daughters fate. Her hus-
band, who recently suffered
stroke of paralysis was more calm.
Faye was their only child.
She was a senior at Howard Col
1ege, took an active interest in
athletics, and made excellent
grades. She intended studying
medicine following her gradu-
alton. it was said.
Police made careful examina-
ton yesterday of tracks in the
soft earth surrounding the body.
Rains, however, had done much
to obliterate them. The section
is in an area of abandoned mines.
and is a checkerboard of small
fields, negro cabins, and brush
clumps.
The body was found face up in
a ditch. The girls throat had
been cut twice with a keen-edged
blade, and either wound would
have caused death, an autopsy re-
Vealed late yesterday.
Faye and woman friend met
young Taylor, Monday afternoon
at filling station where they had
gone to get tire fixed.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Ford Plant Orders
A 100000 Mill

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio, Aug.
% GN.SO.-An order for a $4O0,-
900 cold strip mill has been re-
ceived from the Ford Motor Com
pany by the youngstown plant
of the United Engineering and
Foundry Company, it was learned
today.
The order. it was said, was OBJ
tained by the company's Pitts
burgh office. Officials here said
work on the order will keep the
local plant in full operation with
500 men working until January
81. the date specified for the de-
livery of the mill. Details of the
project were lacking here.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
eiver, amounted to SSl,

as receiver, amounted to $751;
031.93.
Totaling $5,3O7,782.o8, approxi.
mately 1850 claims were filed
The largest claim was made bv
the SWartzell, Rheem & Hensev
Co., $321,706.89. upon which ST.
1872 will be paid.
The report stated that $3O,253..
IS was left of the assets after
various fees. expenses of the
bankruptcy and payment of pre-
ferred claims.
William E. Richardson, attorney
for Mr.. Shinn in the receivership
and trusteeship. will be paid ST..
500 for his services.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Photo by International.
By FRANKLIN G. sARTWELL

Organized labor's hand in the
New Deal has been strengthened
immensely by the decision of the
National Labor Relations Board
in the John Donovan-Hugh John
son case.
And the New Deals hand with
labor likewise has been
strengthened by the decision.
The comparatively minor affair
of a minor employe of the Ma
tional Recovery Administration
engaging in a controversy with
his chief has become a national
"cause celebre," and the fact that
the newly created labor board
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Rheem Creditors Get
81 Cents on $1OO

Payment at the rate of 81 cents
per 500 will be made to creditors
of Edmund D. Rheem, former
head of the defunct Swartzell,
Rheem & Hensey Company, Sc
curities house, now serving a
prison term in the District Re
formatory at Lorton, under an
order isgned today in District
Supreme Court by Justice Joseph
w. Cox.
The court ratified final report
in Rheem's bankruptcy submitted
by George Curtis Shinn, trustee,
and Referee Fred j. Eden. Total
assets of the bankrupt estate real
lied by Mr.. Shinn, who also acted
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Volunteer Aides
In Housing Named
BY International News Service

by 1nItFnaIIOnHI News HPFVIC6
Appointment by the American
Bankers Association and various
groups of manufacturers of liaison
officers in every State and region
to cooperate with the Federal
Housing Administration has been
followed by similar appointments
of volunteer assistants in all parts
of the country, FILA announced
today.
The work of these volunteers
will be to cooperate with the State
and regional directors of the bet
ter housing program, already
named by the National Emer-
gency Council.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
IckeS Orders Cut
In Oil Production
BY International News Service

Secretary of the Interior IckeS,
as Oil Administrator, today or
dered a reduction of 1900 bar
rels daily in September oil pro-
duction. The national allowable
production was fixed at 2,341 ZOO
barrels daily in September as COM
pared with 2,449,300 for August.
The reduction order was at
tributed to a normal seasonal de-
cline in gasoline production and
effects of the drought. Mr.. Ickes
also said there was a necessity for
reducing excessive gasoline inven-
tories.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Revenue Collector
Resigns His Berth

David L. Lawrence, collector Of
internal Revenue at Pittsburgh,
has submitted his resignation to
President Roosevelt through Sec
retary Morgenthau. it was learned
today. Mr.. Lawrence, who is
Democratic State chairman in
Pennsylvania, desired to retain his
political connection.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23

not be able to sell a residence
constructed under the mutual
mortgage plan" and, even though
its erection put men to work and
benefited the building trades, the
house would be a drug on the
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The Washington times., 1934-08-23
EX.ARMY MAN HUNTED IN $4,000 HAUL
Mutual Mortgages
Unlikely to Help
Spectators

Tbs Is another of series Of ARTICLES on the Federd
Housing Administration. The Washington Times is tn
oy newspaper IN the United States giving complete in
formation about this project
The Washington times., 1934-08-23

The reason That those who
engage in home building as
business will probably be ex-
Guided is that it was not the
primary purpose of the sponsors
of the national housing act to
encourage speculation.
A professional builder might
The Washington times., 1934-08-23
Bv JOHN DEAN MILLIGAN

MANY basic policies to be followed by the Federal Housing
Administration directing the mutual mortgage PLAN have
yet been developed and will not be for several months
Among the important of the points remaining to be
determined the question of whether not real estate
broker builder erecting homes in the hope of selling
them will be enabled to obtain cash for the through
mutual mortgage"
The national housing act does not specifically prohibit this
in fact governmental and private corporations
enabled under its provisions insurance whatever
up to $lOOOOOOO they may expend on any
cost housing project.
1t than probable however that the Federal Housing
Administration will limit the benefits Of the mutual mort
PLAN to individual citizens who desire either to get
rid of e1orbtant existing first and second trusts to
sruct homes.
The Washington times., 1934-08-23

WASHINGTON FORECAST
Mostly cloudy tonight and Friday; showers Fri
day; not much change in temperature. Full
weather report page Is.
Mean Tnrrnn afInras
The Washington times., 1934-04-04

(AbOus) No MORE BACK SEAT BOUNCING. You
can read a newspaper at 20 miles an hour. write
letter. Bad roads mean nothing to you any more.
CLeft) THE AIRFLow DE SOTO is built in oNR
PIECE frame and body forming one al-steel unit.'D
10 times more rigid than ordinary construction.
MODELS: 4-Door 6.Passenger Sedan; the 4.Door
6-Passenger Town Sedan; the 2.Door 6-PaSSenEer
BrouGham; the 3-PasSenSer Coupe with enclosed
Rumble Seats. You can have Duplate Safety Plate
Glass throughout at very slight extra cost.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
NEWS|ES VISIT.
LEE GRAVE

Fifty-two Washington Times
Herald newsboys yesterday spent
the second day of their scheduled
four-day vacation in Virginia as
guests of L. Lee Davis, president
of the Natural Bridge Association.
Today they will visit the graves
of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson at Lexington. Colonel
M. Cooper, Of the Virginia Mill
tary Institute, will address them
upon the advantages of a military
education.
During the trip they will see
Monticello, home of Thomas JET
ferSon, and Staunton, birthplace
of woodrow Wilson.
The Washington times., 1934-04-04
LEAP DEATH A SUICIDE

A certificate of suicide was Is
sued last night by DR.. A. Magruder
Macdonald, coroner, following an
investigation Of the death Of AL
vim L. Dunlop, 80, a patient at st.
Elizabeths Hospital. Mr.. Dunlop
Jumped three floors from a fire
escape there yesterday.