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Evening star., 1934-02-22
NEW YORK DIGS OUT.
Storm Is Termed Worst Blizzard
Since 1888"

Storm Is Termed Worst Blizzard
Since 1888"
NEW YORK. February % R).-
Suburban New Workers. who had found
the milk and the morning paper on
their doorsteps for so long they had
come to accept such conveniences as
an act of God" today were still
digging their way out of the worst
blizzard since 1883" with q daSed look
on their faces.
The first shock came Tuesday
morning when they pushed doors open
to find neither papers nor milk in the
snowdrifts outside. BY the time a
wild, windy day had ended they were
still taking it," but beginning to
like it.
Take 1t in Good HumOr.
All the conveniences of metropolitan
life, accepted as a matter of course
these many years, were taken away by
the prolonged blasts of the storm king
He blew down telephone lines, piled
snow and 10 feet high on railroad
tracks and roads and nipped with icy
glee at toes, ears and fingers.
Most SuburbaniteS. suddenly trans
formed into frontiersmen, took it in
good humor, however
One Wall Street customers man who
wouldn't be caught dead without a
gardenia in his buttonhole was content
to wrap his feet in sacks for an Arctic
dash to the grocery store and use
canned milk-bought for the pedigreed
pup-in his coffee.
Russell Owen. the Pulitzer prize
winning reporter with the last Byrd
expedition to the South Pole. made
an attempt to fight his way through
the drifts around his Connecticut
home and then phoned his Office that
Little America was never like this.
Overshoes Are Sold Out.
mo matter how bad it was down
there, a man could get out and walk
around" he said. Here I can't get
100 yards from the house"
OvershoeS and boots. which had
gathered dust on suburban store
shelves for years, were sold out before
the doors had been open five minutes
and woolen mufflers, heavy mittens
and gloves Of any color or shape we're
In hot demand
The huge drifts of snow. cleared
Yesterday from the main highways
but still blocking most side streets,
proved an effective barricade to coal
trucks and it was not an uncommon
sight to see householder borrowing
few scuttles of coal from a neighbor
to keep the fire going
Evening star., 1934-02-22
BODIES OF FOUR TAKEN
FROM TORN MINE SHAFT
90 Others Escape as Blast Wrecks
Part of Shaft in West Vir-
sinia Fields.
pv tha Associ.tad prne,

BY the Associated Press.
CHARLESTON, w. Va. February
22.-Rescue workers today recovered
the bodies of four miners killed last
night in an explosion in the Glen
Rogers Mine in wyoming County. so
miles from Charleston.
Some 100 men were at work at the
time of the explosion. The State
Department of Mines reported all but
the four escaped. First reports were
that only two men were missing. but
rescue crews found bodies of four
Mine inspectors said they believed
the blast, local in nature, originated
from gas. The victims apparently
were burned to death.
Evening star., 1934-02-22

enough to show how the Russo
japanese winds are blowing.
The insurance companies got their
additional relief when the r. F. c..
recently gave $l00, ,000. 900 toward New
York Guaranty mortgage relief.
The House is very Democratic.
Even Speaker Rainey' is forced to
await his turn with ordinary citizens
in riding on the elevators. In the
Senate any Senator can get an ele-
vator Immediately by ringing three
times. The public must wait.
Senatorial leaders have been led to
understand privately that the Pres
ident wants the tax bill passed by
March is, which indicates 1t will not
tarry long in the Senate.
Evening star., 1934-02-22

Those who are investigating the
matter believe the Government
should ask for 80 hours, with . view
to compromising at &c. That would
be one way to accelerate the private
absorption of workers being dropped
from the c. w. A.
The matter is yet to be decided.
Hitler sent a COPY OF his latest
Reichstag speech to epery retDsnlan
in Washington, direct from the
government printing Office in Ber-
lin.
The 1000 planes Russia Is supposed
to have ordered from an American
aviation company turned out to be an
order for 900 planes from Wright
Aeronautical this year. That Is
Evening star., 1934-02-22
1000 STRIKERS RETURN
Chicago Coal Teamsters Ordered
Back by Union Leaders.

CHICAGO, February % P.-The
1000 striking coal teamsters were
ordered back to work yesterday after
two-day walkout. Ofhcers OF the
union said coal deliveries were normal.
The formal order to return to work
was issued by Joseph Anderson, assist
ant secretary of a local teamsters'
union, but none would say on what
terms the dispute was settled. It was
understood, however, that the men
were resuming work under the old
rate of pay. $3.50 per day, and the
former number of hours, 10.
They had sought increase to So in
wages and reduction of hours to eight.
Evening star., 1934-02-22
Linemen Use SnowshOes.
Baden Powell Is ".

LONDON, February % C9-Lord
Baden-Powell, father of the Boy
Scout movement. today celebrated his
seventy-seventh birthday in hospital,
where he Is recovering from serious
illness It also was Lady Baden
Poweus birthday.
Evening star., 1934-02-22
MILK SHORTAGE THREATENED.
Connecticut Cities Fight Effects Of
Blizzard.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, February ~
P).-The threat of a milk shortage
in urban centers spurred Connecticut
last night in its fight to throw off
the paralysis of blizzard that clogged
its avenues of transportation with
snowdrifts 10 to 30 feet high
Plows and shovels dug ceaselessly
into the heaviest snowfall since the
blizzard of 1883 as a force of $4,000
to 10000 men sought to open the
principal highways.
Milk Shortage Reported
Progress against the blockading
mass Of snow was slow and reports
came from Hartford Waterbury DAN
bury and New Britain that a milk
shortage was imminent unless chan
nels to rural areas were speedily
cleared
Without milk since noon Tuesday
when the severe storm showed the
first signs of abating, Undercliff Sana-
torium-perched in the high Meriden
Hills-was reached today by a farmer,
thus dispelling temporarily the danger
of a shortage there. He reached the
State tuberculosis Institution with a
milk-laden tWo-horse sleigh.
Meat also was delivered to Under
cliff. with a sled serving as a shuttle
from a truck at the bottom of the
hill to the institution.
Train service, virtually at a stand
still yesterday. Appropriated nor
malcy. But other forms of transpor-
tation were still semi-paralyzed in
cities and wholly tied up in rural
areas.
Linemen Use Snowshoes.
In lieu Of automobiles, Connecticut
resorted to horses, sleighs, skis and
snowshoes to carry on its most vital
functions. In some of the rural areas
linemen were equipped with snow
shoes as they began the task of re-
pairing wires.
DR.. Herbert Ingram became strand
ed in a snowdrift in Wilton and was
forced to use snowshoes to reach Mrs.
c. Chelminski, an expectant mother
Finding the house in darkness because
of power failure, he delivered a son
by the light of fireplace blaze.
Evening star., 1934-02-22

rate hotels here the Is days residence
required before notice of intention
TO marry may be given.
SWEDEN DISTURBED.
Evening star., 1934-02-22
VICTIM TELLS VIVID
TALE OF METEOR'S
PLUNGE INTO HOME

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Evening star., 1934-02-22
PRINCE WILL MARRY
COMMONER DESPITE
ROYAL ATTITUDE

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Evening star., 1934-02-22
washington IDEAL
|SEEN RULING j. s.
Dern Declares Roosevelt
Returned to Tradition, in
Birthday Speech.

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Evening star., 1934-02-22
Ball Tonight.

The New England State Society
will honor the memory of the First
President with a patriotic program
and ball at the Washington Hotel at
9 pm Speakers will include Mrs.
Magma and DR.. Clifton P. Clark,
II Il - ~.r;n
Evening star., 1934-02-22

The administration has been quiet
ly looking into the possibilities of
starting a drive for a 32-hour week
under the N. r. A. codes
Evening star., 1934-07-25
MAN BROWNS CHILD
TO GET INSURANCE
Father Tells of Killing Mother
less Twin. Aged 4, to Col
lect $400.
Rv the Associated Press.

HOUSTON, Tex. July 25.-Police
Chief B. w. Payne said yesterday
that E. H. Stuart had admitted, after
persistent questioning, that he drowned
one of his 4-year -old twin daughters,
Dortha. and left her body in lonely
creek bottom, IT miles north OF Hous-
ton. Monday night.
The father confessed. Payne said,
that he took the child under bridge
while she slept and plunged her head
in a pooI Police said a S400 insur-
ance policy on the child was delivered
Yesterday TO Stuart, unemployed
Houstonian.
Detective Lieut.. A c. Thornton
quoted the father as saying he had
decided he had too many children. y
Stuart said. according TO Thornton,
that ne pressed on the little girls
throat so that no water would get
into her lungs.
Search for the girl was started
last night when Stuart informed po-
lice she either had been abducted or
strayed from his parked automobile
in the North Houston. He said he had
taken the child to a show and, while
returning home. had stopped to buy
sandwiches, leaving her asleep in his
car
The child's body was found under
Cypress Greek Bridge. lying in shall
low pool Of water. There were
scratches on her body and her lips
we're bruised Her face was scratched
as if it had been pressed roughly
against gravel
Dortha's mother died last December.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
Gu INNINGS ASKS AID
IN FIGHT ON CRIME
Closer Relationship Between Pub
lie and Justice Department
Declared Vital.
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated FTeSS-
LEAvENwORTH Kans, July 25.-
A closer relationship between the De-
partment of Justice and the American
people is sought by the Government
to aid its war against crime, Homer
s. Cummings, United States Attorney
General, said here yesterday in a
talk before a luncheon attended by
members Of the Chamber of Com
merce.
The Department of Justice now is
faced with new problem-that of
coping with criminals travelling about
the country in high-powered ma
chimes" Mr.. Cummings said.
80 . . am conducting the Office
OF Attorney General on the belief
the American people are friendly to-
ward the department and feel the
department is friendly toward them.
We are attempting to build a closer
relationship between the department
by contracting such bodies as this,
the bar associations and the boards
OF trade"
When Mr.. Cummings visited the
ECuSida ~ AoOl AC SVoppCu lOl q ulO-
ment in front of the cell occupied
by Harvey Bailey, kidnaper and bank
robber. Bailey sat reading a book
He looked up and returned to his
reading. Mr.. Cummings had no COM
ment.
In speech before the bar aSSo-
citation at Kansas City Mr.. Cummings
declared purging of the legal pro-
fession of those members of the bar
who are debauching it would do much
TO aid the Government in its wal
against crime.
Mr.. Cummings said he would sail
from Los Angeles for Hawaii to in
spect prisons there.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
IS ARE MAROONED.
IN GULF HURRICANE.
B0-MiIe Wind Strikes Texas
Coast, Forcing Thousands
to Flee Homes.
r.h.A,sn1ln.ea pr.ts

~ ths Associated Press
HOUSTON. Tex July Is Shrek
lns gales lashed the Texas coast early
tollav between Freeport and Port
O'Couuor. on MAtzgorda Bay piling
great combers Of water against the
shoreline and sending residents
tcurrying 70 higher ground.
Sinking harometers last night gave
omen OF the disturbance and storm
warnings we're hoisted from Morgan
City. La. 20 Brownsville. Tex As
Coast Guardmen sped along beaches
warning campers and Summer resi-
dents TO leave.
The gale struck shortly after mid
night and as the high tide swept the
low, western extremity OF Galveston
Island. i8 persons we're marooned IN
the Coast Guard outpost at San Luis
Pass and several guardsmen were
marooned at the station on a sand
spit near Freeport. II vas believed
they were safe. however, as the sta
tions are strongly constructed.
Wind Reaches so vi. r. II.
Increasing suddenly, the wind
reached the hurricane force OF 30
miles an hour at Freeport at IS
am, slowed down TO 90 for time.
then swelled 10 30 miles again at 5
am.
Telephone communication 10 the
Coast Guard stations at Port O'Con-
nor and Arkansas Pass went out at
s am, as the gale increased.
Numerous small fishing boats at
Freeport were smashed and several
schooners we're cut loose from their
moorings, TO prevent them from be-
ing dashed 10 pieces against the piers
by the tide, which reached height
Of feet.
Storm Heads Southwark.
The center of the disturbance ap-
peared to be moving southwark TO
Port O'Connor on Matagorda Bay,
where a small house was blown away
and the barometer dropped to % "a
at 4:45 am. as the wind increased to
80 miles an hour. The barometer
still was sinking
Freeport, at the mouth Of the Brazos
River, and a thriving sulphur mining
city of 1000 inhabitants, was the
scene OF a disastrous hurricane two
years ago which took toll Of so lives.
Residents boarded up their homes last
night and fed TO higher ground.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
GIRL, 20, DODGES GUN;
GIVES BANDIT WARNING
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROLAND. Iowa, July 25.-Twenty-
year old Alice Erickson, bookkeeper in
country bank here, lodged a men
acing shotgun, dashed out the rear
door and sounded an alarm which
frightened away three robbers yes
terday.
Two OF the three men entered the
bank an hour before closing time and
commanded Mss Erickson and Mrs.
Severie Parker. the manager, TO put
up their hands.
"One of them raised his shotgun
and I ducked and ran out the rear
door" the 20-year-old bookkeeper re-
lated.
Slamming Of the door frightened
the would-be robbers and they fed
Il wasn't Scared-I think" Miss
Erickson said She ran across the
street to the telephone Office and
notified the operator, who called the
town marshal and county sheriff.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
MOVE SEEN TO BAR
EASTERN LOCARNO
Polish Foreign Minister Visits
Esthonia-Baltic League
Is Seen Aim.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 25-The current visit
of Foreign Minister Joseph Beck of
Poland to Esthonia has created a stir
extending far beyond the two countries
affected and has led to predictions that
move is underway to checkmate the
French-Soviet plan for an Eastern
European security pact
The visit is being watched closely in
Germany, Russia, France. Sweden.
Latvia and Lithuania. AdviceS in these
countries indicate that Beck, in trying
to organize a sort of League of Baltic
States, with Poland, is throwing OBJ
stacleS in the way of the proposed
Eastern Locarno."
The Nazi press sees the end of the
French proposal in a statement by
Esthonian Foreign Minister Seljama
that he regards the cementing of
friendships by the Baltic states with
Poland as a political necessity.
German papers call especial atten-
tion to the fact that Latvia has in
vited Beck to visit Riga on his return
from Tallinn, seeing an indication tina:
Latvia also would prefer a sort of
Baltic bloc between Russia and Ger
many to a pact which places a num-
Der of European countries at the mercy
OF a FTanco-RuSSian alliance.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
NEWSMEN JAILED
FOR GUARDING TIP
Refuse to Tell Court How They
Learned of Plan to Hang
in Efigy.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
DANVILLE, KY. July 25.-Jack
Durham and Wesley Carly, two local
newspaper men, were sent to Jail to
serve three hours here late yesterday
for refusing to tell where they obtained
advance information that Represen-
tative J. Sterling Towles was to be
hanged in effigy here last week
Durham, city editor of the Danville
Advocate and local correspondent of
the Associate Press, and Carly, local
correspondent for the Louisville
Courier Journal, were fined $40 each
Monday by Police Judge J. W. Har-
Ian, for their refusal to divulge a
newspaper confidence.
They were released on their own
recognizance to return late yesterday
after thinking over the matter. When
they declined to answer they were
ordered to jail and were told to come
back to court today. Refusal again
today to tell the court could result in
another contempt charge and another
jail sentence.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
.SARAzEN Z DOWN
TO YOUNG BARRON
Defending Champion and
Fayorite Forced to Take
73 Strokes.
b. he Associated Press

By he Associated Press.
BUFFALO. July 25.-Gene sarazen.
the defending champion and bet
ting odds favorite. stood ? down 70
young Herman Barron Of New YORK
a. the halfway post OF their 3s-hole
match today in the first round Of
the Professional Golfers Association
championship.
Barron covered the sun-baked
course in II blows to 73 for Sara
zen. The young New Yorker stood
up at the turn and increased his ad
vantage 70 two holes with a win at
the eighteenth.
Sarszen. a 6 to betting choice
ran up lead OF two holes on Barron
after the first three. They both
bagged brides on the par = first and
Sarazen hit a long No. 3 iron to
within feet Of the second pin for
birdie and a win. Barron strayed of
the fairway twice on the third. losing
It to Sarazen. who kept straight down
the middle to go 2 up.
Barron, winner of the Philadelphia
open last month wiped out Sarazen' S
lead by winning the fourth and fifth
end they halved the sixth. On the
fourth. Barron dropped his second 3
feet from the cup and holed out easily
for birdie win.
Sarazens tee shot on the short
fifth bounced of the green and he
Clipped far past the cup. requiring
two puts for while Barron got
a regulation to square the match
After halving the seventh and
eighth in par, Barron went into the
lead in the ninth with a birdie 4.
while Sarazen WAS just on the edge in
and required two puts.
KY Laffoon OF Denver, who has a
strain of Cherokee Indian in him.
rolled up a lead of seven holes on
Horton Smith of Chicago. Laffoon
regarded by his older competitors as
Little Poison took SO, three under
par. while Smith took rs strokes.
Both of them playing the best golf
of the morning round, Denny Shute
of Philadelphia led Walter Hagen, five
times champion, up at the end of 18
holes. Shute carded a 81, five under
par, while Hagen was one stroke
higher.
The cards:
Sarazen, out .....,434 444 435-35
Barron. out ut.........445 334 434-34
Standings at the end of the first 18
holes:
Herman Barrow, up on Gene
Sarazen.
AL. Watrous, up on Frank Ball.
KY Laffoon. Denver, up on Hor-
ton Smith. Chicago.
Denny Shute, Philadelphia, up on
Walter Hagen, Detroit.
AL Houghton, Washington, D. c.,
up on George Christ, Rochester, N. Y.
Fay Coleman, Culver City, Calf,
up on Leo Diegel, Philadelphia.
Dick Metz, Chicago, l up on Joe
Paletti, Chicago.
Tommy Armour, Chicago, l up on
Al Nelson, Yardley, Pa.
Victor Ghezzi, Deal, N. J., and Bill
Burke, Cleveland all even.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
TO SEE
FAMED VOLCANO
Result of Sword Fishing Ex-
pedition Secret-Will
Visit Naval Base.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ABOARD CRUISER HOUSTON
WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
OFF HAWAII ISLAND, July 25.--
After day of fishing for giant sword
fish under a tropical sun, President
Roosevelt cruised around the Island
of Hawaii this morning on his way to
visit famed Kilauea Volcano.
The Houston will stop at Hilo, on
the other side of the island from the
swordfishing expedition on Makalaw-
ena Banks, while the first President
to visit the territory makes hur-
ried motor trip to the volcano.
With its surrounding tropical jungles
and its fire pit of Halemaumau, the
House of Everlasting Fire" the active
volcano is center OF Hawaiian
legends. 1t is here that the fire god
dess, Pele, most feared of native
Hawaiian deities is supposed to dwell.
President Roosevelt looked forward
eagerly to his visit to Kilauea, at
present quiescent, and a parade at
Hilo upon his return from the noun
taintop.
The President boarded the Houston
at sunset last night after spending
the day fishing with his son John and
his naval aide, Capt. Wilson Brown.
What success they met with was not
disclosed.
Although he had not touched
Hawaiian soil when the cruiser headed
for Hilo, the President is giving every
consideration to his study of this
mid-Paciflc territory. He will leave
tonight for Honolulu and an inSpec-
ton of the Pearl Harbor Naval Base
on Oahu Island.
Evening star., 1934-07-25
FIVE j. s. AGENCIES
Join MILK PROBE
Federal Trade Commission
Aided by Four Units in
Investigation.
b. N. Associated Press.

b. me Associated Press
Five Federal agencies Joined today
to see what ails the mix business.
The Federal Trade Commission re-
ceived the solid backing Of four other
branches Of the Government as it
started to sift accusations ranging
from monopoly to racketeering.
The Farm Administration, Labor
Department. Public Health Service
and Justice Department plan to pour
data into the Trade Commission S
records.
Trade Commissioner Charles H.
March sent six Investigators, headed
by Prof Paul D. Converse Of the Uni
yersity Of Illinois and A. H Tackett
of the commissions legal staff, TO New
England to open the inquiry.
March said a second group would
60 70 Chicago later.
The Justice Department Is expected
TO follow the investigation closely for
evidence of law breaking.
Resolution Made Public.
March made public copies OF COM
mission resolution showing the inquiry
would delve into virtually every aspect
of the industry. from prices through
investigation of charges of racketeer-
ing and even gangSteriSm.
The investigation was ordered in a
congressional resolution which said
monopolistic efforts had been shown
in the District of Columbia and else
where. and that while large milk
companies we're making substantial
profits, farmers suffered severe hard
ships.
The likelihood that the commission
would inquire into racketeering and
gangsterism was disclosed by the
prosaic phrase, Trade practices
which may amount to unfair methods
of competition" Trade practices
NAV include anything from price
cutting TO intimidation OF compeu-
tors.
The commissions resolution said
the scope of the inquiry would in
clude the study of supply and de-
mand. costs, prices, acquisitions and
mergers, concentration of control of
markets. and other factors which
may restrain trade or tend to create
a monopoly in purchasing, assem-
bling, processing, sale and distribu-
ton of milk and milk products"
The Senate resolution authorizing
the investigation reported that dis
tributors in four of the largest milk
sheds made a net profit Of 25.7l per
cent on their net plant investment in
the five years ended December 81, 1888.
30.76 Per Cent in Philadelphia.
In Philadelphia, the resolution said,
the profit was BOTS per cent; in Bos-
ton, 22.45; st. Louis, 1854; Chicago,
25.8. while during the same period the
wholesale price of milk sold by
farmers declined by so per cent. re-
sulting in severe hardships to milk
producers throughout the United
| States and strikes and violence in
many rural and metropolitan centers. -
The resolution cited the investigation
in the District Of Columbia, which re
vealed testimony which abundantly
sustains the contention that over a
period of years large milk distributors
have attempted to Great monopoly In
the District of Columbia" and that tes-
| timony at the same hearings tends to
prove that similar monopolistic efforts
likewise exist in other milksheds."
Oficials said they did not contem-
plate any open hearings Immediately
Evening star., 1934-07-25
CULT HEAD Is DENIED
AIM TO LIVE FOREVER
Brother Isaiah's" Boast of I'm
mortality Unavailing-Had
Large Following.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW ORLEANS, July 25.-Once-
ardent disciples yesterday were advised
of the death in Oroville, Calf, Of
Brother Isaiah" Cudney, who told his
numerous followers here more than a
decade ago he would never die.
Mystic head of a mystic cult,
Brother Isaiah" patriarch with a
long white biblical beard, first earned
national notoriety in New Orleans
where his laying on Of hands became a
major police problem. He lived in q
shabby houseboat tied up in the Mis-
sissippi during his stay Of nearly a
year here, and his claim of divine
power in restoring sight to the blind,
hearing to the deaf and health to the
sick drew thousands to the levee.
His following was drawn from every
walk of life.