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have reinforced the gang for this
robbery. are under arrest and indlct-
ment for the crime here.
The gang held up Heurich's Brew
cry here. according to Misunas. as well
as a drug store messenger, who was
carrying cancelled checks. They were
said to have held up q Baltimore
bank, brewery and car barn and xere
blamed for the looting of machine
guns, ammunition and rifles from the
Maryland National Guard Armory 1t
Hyattsville. and the attempted rob-
berry of the bank at Bowie. Md. dur
ing which the bank building caught
fire.
Sergt. Floyd Truscott and several
other Washington headquarters de-
tectives worked on the case constantly
since the gang was first organized.
They got their first real break"
after the shooting of Phillips by
Policeman John Cation at Adams
Mill road and Ontario place last
April.
When the gang fed West following
the shooting, they took along Mrs. Fon-
taine. who was found shot through
the back several weeks later in an
apartment at Upper Darby, Pa. When
Mrs. Fontaine recovered enough to
talk. the police net began to close
about the gang.
Mrs. Fontaine also testified in Rich
mond against Legenza and Mais.
Washington police later brought her
here, and for weeks she spent her
days under the protection of the Po-
lice Department at the Women's Bu-
reau, sewing. reading and trying to
regain control over her shattered
nerves.
Mrs. Fontaine had followed Phil
lips here from her home in Canada
Officials Of the Women's Bureau hoped
she would regain her health SUM-
ciently to return to her home In Can
ada.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
MRS. GAILLARD HUNT,
NATIVE OF D. C., DIES
Was Widow of Wartime Chief
of Passport Division of
State Department.

Mrs. Gaillard Hunt, widow OF the
wartime chief Of the passport divi-
sion of the State Department and
former head of the manuscript divi-
sion of the Library of Congress. died
Wednesday in Georgetown Univer-
sity Hospital after q brief illness.
Funeral services were held yester-
day in ST. Matthews Church, followed
by burial in the cemetery of St.
Johns Church, Forest Glen, Md.
Mrs. Hunt, q lifelong resident of
Washington, was the daughter of the
late Col. Henry Goodfellow of the
Judge Advocate Generals Department.
She Is survived by two daughters,
the Misses Eleanor and Mary Hunt;
two sons. Gaillard. jr., and Henry
G. Hunt; q granddaughter, Jane
Stephenson Hunt, and brother. Col.
John C. Goodfellow. U. S. A.. retired.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Fast Consumption Goods
Industries Approach
1o23-25 Level.
BY PAUL MALLON.

T INDUSTRY is doing nothing worth
talking about, but business gen.
orally is better than you think.
i That paradox is disclosed and
explained by the key figures
which President Roosevelt receives
each month to enable him to keep
track of the changing economic sit
uation.
These figures show that the larger
manufacturers had better hold some
more secret meetings like the recent
one of the Durable Goods Committee
Their business for August was 81 per
cent of normal, while the non durable
goods producers were operating at 90
per cent of normal. That means the
big manufacturers of steel. cement,
metals. lumber. etc. still are bump
ing the depression bottom. while the
makers of on-durables, tobacco
shoes. food. textiles, etc, were nearly
back to the 1923-25 level These are
official figures, and no change in the
situation is evidenced by the inside
estimates for September.
This is not erdctly q ne,u situd-
ton, but IL is like the old sdU
about the rich getting richer and
the poor getting children. The
fast consumption industries are
slo1rly getting better and the heduy
industries are Sloply getting porSe.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
BAND CONCERT,

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band at the bandstand this evening
at $50 o'clock. John S. NJ thinner
mann, bandmaster; Anton Pointer,
associate leader.
March, Long Beach Is Calling"
Herbert Clark
Overture, William Tell" (request),
Rossini
Grand fantasia, "reminiscences of
lrelano" .................G Godfrey
Excerpts from musical comedy, The
Royal Vagabond" ..... Friml
A Southern rhapsody. Virginia"
Woods
Valse petite. "Poupee Valsant," Poldini
Finale, Let Freedom Ring. Goldman
The Star Spangled Banner"
Notice: This will conclude the out
door concerts. Beginning on Monday,
October Is, the indoor orchestral
concerts will be resumed at the Sol
diers' Home Hospital, and at Stanley
Hall each Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday evening at $50 O'Clock.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
Urges S0-Hour Week.

The federation's immediate solution
Of unemployment, Green said. should
be a 30-hour work week. He esti-
mated that the unemployed now num-
Der 100000.
The campaign to free Tom Mooney,
serving a life prison term for the 1916
Preparedness day bombing. was con-
sidered likely to come before the con-
vention.
The building trades group yester-
day reelected its present officers to
q man. except for fifth and sixth vice
presidents. 1t had been charged that
the groups applying for reinstatement
planned to put new leaders in con-
troll
Others reelected besides McDon-
ough we're John J. Hynes, sheet metal
worker, Washington; L. P. Lindelof
painter. Lafayette. Ind; j. P. Nor
rim. iron worker. st. Louis; William
j. McSorley, latherer. Cleveland, first,
second, third and fourth vice presi-
dents. respectively. and William C.
ONeil, plumber. Washington, secre-
tary-treasurer. The new officers were
Joseph A. Mullaney of Elmhurst
N. Y. and Frank Penney. elevator
dispatcher, Philadelphia. fifth and
sixth vice presidents.
Metal Trades Elect.
The metal trades department also
elected officers today. With retire
ment of James O'Connell Of Washing
ton as president. and title of 'presi-
dent emeritus" given him, John P
Frey. Washington, for 80 years secre-
tary-treasurer of the department
moved to the presiding place. Will
liam A. Calvin, Jacksonville. Fla,
boilermaker, is the new secretary
treasurer
Vice presidents in order of sequence
are John Coef1eld, plumber. Washing
ton; j. j. Hynes, sheet metal worker
Washington: w. W. Britton, metal
polisher, Cincinnati; Ray Horne
blacksmith, Chicago: A o. Wharton
machinist, Washington, and Daniel
Tracy. electrical worker.
Matthew Vol, vice president OF
the A. F. of L.. was elected president
of the label trades department. posi-
ton he has filled since the death OF
George w. Perkins.
/ M. Ornburn was reelected secre-
tary-treasurer. Other officers elected
Joseph Obergfell, brewery workers
Cincinnati first vice president; A. A.
Myrup. bakery workers, Chicago sec
ond vice president: Charles P. Howard
Typographical Union, Indianapolis
third vice president; John J. Mara
boot and shoes workers. Boston. fourth
vice president. and T. A. Rickert
united garment workers, Chicago, fifth
vice president.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
| HASTINGS DESPAIRS
| OF TURN TO RIGHT"
Business Can Hope for Nothing
Constructive From N. r. A.,
Republican Senator Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. September 2e.-The Re
publican Senatorial Congressional
Campaign Committee today made pub
lie statement by United States Sem
ator Daniel o. Hastings Of Delaware.
commenting on the reorganization OF
the N. r. A. in which he said there
seemed to be little hope for those who
believed the President will make a
turn to the right before it is too late" :"
''Mr. Donald Richberg," he said.
seems to be the guiding spirit now
and certainly no business man can
hope for anything constructive from
him"
Evening star., 1934-09-29
Estimated
Drought Forces Parity.

The farmers have been bowling
with justification) about the dis
parity between the price of things they
sell and the price of things they buy.
To hear some tell it, that was the
whole farm trouble.
Well, il you break doUn the price
figure, you DiH find that the farm
ers haze Just about reached their
parity In other words, the drought
has accomplished in three months
uI0t all the schemes of GoUern-
ntent Jailed to do in years.
The current index Of farm prices is
around rs, while the index Of all prices
is only 3 points away at 78. For the
week ending September 8, the oficial
figure was 74.3 for farm prices and
778 for all prices.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
WIFE SLAYER GETS LIFE
Insanity Defense Fails in Death
of Woman, Beaten With Bar.

RACINE, Wis, September 29 R.-
Convicted by jury of numbering his
wife, Anna, Nathan Blitstein yester-
day was sentenced by Circuit Judge
e. B. Belden to life imprisonment in
the Waupun State Prison.
Mrs. Blitstein died from the effects
Of being beaten over the head with an
iron bar. Blitstein's original defense
had been insanity. but alienists named
by the court found him sane at the
time of the crime.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
Plane Expert Divorced.

LOS ANGELES, September 2e tP.-
George De Jean Beeson, inventor of
an automatic device for steering air.
planes, yesterday was divorced by Mrs.
Lillian G. Beeson.
Il checked up on him." she testified
IN support Of her cruelty charge. and
found he wasn't spending oil his time
in the laboratory"
Evening star., 1934-09-29
D. c. MAN NAMED EDITOR
Gordon Zimmerman Heads Paper
at Columbia University.

Appointment of Gordon thinner
man. Washington newspaper man. as
editor of the Skipper, student publica-
ton of Columbus University, was an
nounced today by DR.. John r. Fitz-
patrick. dean of the law school.
Zimmerman. freshman in the
law school. was once editor of the
Diamondback, University Of Mary
land publication. The first issue of
the Skipper will appear October Is.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
Recalls Pledge Word.

ct have pledged my sacred honor, ="
Green declared in his plea before the
building trades meeting, that these
unions will be admitted They have
been admitted. l consider that they
are members of the building trades.
What you have done is illegal. 1t
must not prevail"
The national leader of the far
flung labor organization referred to
the approval by the federation's eX-
ecutive council of applications for
re-admission of the three unions. which
broke with the building trades de-
partment several years ago.
Thanks. Bill. we're glad you came"
was the reply of NJ. j. McDonough of
Washington. D. C, whom the en-
trenched delegates Immediately re-
elected department president after
voting to stand firm against the
ouSted unions.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
GREEN IS DEF|ED
IN A. F. Of |. RIFT
Building Trades Refuse to
Re.admit Boilers for
Convention.

BY the Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO, September %
Internal strife rocked the American
Federation of Labor here today as
leaders strove to restore the solidarity
their national president. William
Green, declared was vital at the
annual convention which will open
Monday.
Must we undergo attacks from
without and then display this weak
ness from within?" Green demanded
as he pleaded for peace.
He intimated that the refusal of
the building trades department to
reconsider the ouSting of delegates OF
the carpenters, bricklayers and cleo
trical workers. will be carried before
the convention.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
GRAND JURY INDICTS
Man Faces First-Degree Assault
and Robbery Charges.

BUFFALO, N. Y, September 29 Lp)
Joseph Pietzak, 38, of Toledo, Ohio,
today faces charges of first-degree as
sault and frst-degree robbery as a
result of indictments returned by the
Erie County grand jury.
Pietzak is accused Of wounding
Detective Edward Backus last June
while the latter was investigating a
hold-up. The robbery charge re-
suited from the hold-up Of Willie
Hampton, colored man.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
Employment Figures.

1t seems strange that the figures on
employment and wages are holding up
so we'll. The Government statisti-
clans explain 1t by saying that the
improvements in consumers goods in
dustries offset the decrease of employ
ment and pay rolls in other lines. An
other explanation is that the figures
on employment and wages include
more consumers goods factories than
does the figure on production.
The best indications are that 4,500.-
900 families tabout 18,000.000 people,
will be on relief rolls this Winter. Re-
lief Administrator Hopkins disputes
the contention of Co-ordinator Rich
berg that there will be 5000 900 FAM
lilies receiving Government assistance.
Hopkins says he is now taking care of
3,630.000 families (about 100000
people,.
(Copvrtpht 1Q2<l
Evening star., 1934-09-29
LABOR DEFENSE OBJECTS
Secretary Perkins Hears Reports
of Textile Strike Injustices.

of Textile Strike Injustices.
The International Labor Defense
yesterday filed protest with Secretary
of Labor Perkins over conditions
which are declared to have followed
in the wake of the textile strike.
Blacklisting of employees and puni-
tive measures are included in the
charges.
Arrest and punishment Of "all those
responsible for the Is murdered dur
ing the three weeks of the strike" was
demanded
Evening star., 1934-09-29

Farm prices have come long way.
In March, last year, they were down
to 4O6. while prices generally were
then 596. That means farm prices
have come up IS points, while all
prices increased but 18 points (half
as much) in a year and a half.
Evening star., 1934-09-29
POLICE HERE AWAIT
TRI-STATE KILLERS;
SCOUT CARS ARMED

, Continued From First Page)
Evening star., 1934-09-23
Joins Chicago Opera Company.

OKLAHOMA CITY, September %
(P).-Joseph Benton, Oklahoma farm
boy, who made good in Italian opera
in Italy-has signed contract to
sing this Winter with the Chicago
Opera Co. His farewell Oklahoma
concert will be here October l.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
PARISH DEMOCRATS
DEFY LONGS ORDER
Committee Refuses Election Call,
Joining Judge in Fight to
Prevent Second Vote.

By the Associated Press.
LAKE CHARLES, La, September
22.-Huey Longs plan to hold another
election for an associate justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court today
bumped into more trouble.
Branding Long as a dictator" and
his election proposal as illegal, the
Calcasieu Parish Democratic Executive
Committee here refused to act in call
ing second primary for october 9.
At the same time Judge Thomas F.
Porter Of Lake Charles, anti-Long
candidate for the bench, threw another
legal obstacle in the dictator's path.
Contending he was legally nominated
in the September IL election, Judge
Porter filed a triple-edged suit in
District Judge B. H. Paws court in
Vile Platte
In it Judge Porter seeks to restrain
the Long controlled Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee of the third Su-
preme Court district from conducting
the second election and asks a man
datory writ to compel the committee
to recognize him as the Democratic
nominee.
Meanwhile Long and his candidate
for the high court, Lieut. Gov. John
B. Fournet, prepared stumping tour.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
VATICAN CITY. September %
After a "busman's holiday Pope Plus
drove back to the Vatican today from
his Summer home at Castelgandolfo,
in the Alban Hills. where he spent a
vacation Of seven weeks.
The pontiff seemed in the heartiest
of health when he drove out of the
papal Summer villa at Castelgandolfo
and gave a final blessing to the vii
layers as his large car sped past
Msgr. Cacciadominioni. papal master
of ceremonies, and a dozen ecclesiaSti-
cal and lay members Of the papal
court accompanied him in other cars
AS his car wound through the streets
Of Rome the populace oheered his re-
turn. When he reached Vatican City
the Swiss guards stood at attention
and workmen engaged on construction
work inside the papal city shouted
Viva il Papal'
When the Pope reached his private
library and private apartments he
found them completely renovated
While he was at CaStelgandolfo. a
corps of workmen did over the section
OF the Vatican which is the Pope S
private retreat.
One reason for the pontif's re-
turning at this time was next Mon
days departure Of Cardinal Pacelli,
secretary Of state, for Buenos Aires,
where he will act as papal legate to
the Eucharistic Congress. The Pope
is said to have declared that the Vati-
can could not remain without the
Pope and the cardinal secretary of
state. too
Previous to his departure from Cas-
telgandclfo. the Pope received Cardi-
nal PaceLi in a farewell audience
After he had extended his hand TO
be kissed his holiness delivered a
Evening star., 1934-09-23
Radio Writer Sues Durante.

LOS ANGELES, September % (P).
Suit for $4,000 claimed as back sal
ary was filed today by Bert Levine
against Jimmy Durante, film come
dian. Durante. Levine's complaint
stated, hired him to write the come
dian's radio continuity at a salary of
$500 per week.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
Fair Receipts $75O,000,000
With Several Weeks to Go

Progress and the current Of currency
won't cease until october 81.
BY that time. the association est
mates, S375.00O000 will have come
into the exposition city.
When the 1888 fair closed in No
vember, the association made care
full check of the city, air and rail
lines. hotels, rooming houses, stores
and shops.
This year no such complete and
detailed figures will be available, the
association said, but a tentative esti-
mate has been made already. The
majority Of reporting agencies say
that spending has been less free this
year.
1t was estimated that only about II
per cent of the fair patrons were Chi
cagoans.
AS the fair went into its final
stretch, pointing to the last day on
October 81. Chicago business men
could thank the rest of the Nation
for a 1915, 900 900 boost.
Evening star., 1934-09-23

ne thought Federal aid would enable
he rest to stay.
Fifty thousand dollars has been sent
o Nome by the Government for work
7elief in the stricken town: the Coast
Iuard cutters Northland, Chelan and
Shoshone are standing by and sharing
heir food supply; commercial ships
With more food are on the way; the
Red Cross has granted So 900 and
promised more if necessary, and plans
are going forward rapidly to recon-
struct Government buildings before
ice closes the shipping lanes.
Further. the Federal Housing Ad-
ninistration today telegraphed Grant
R. Jackson, president of the Mer-
chants & Miners Bank of Alaska, at
Nome, advising him that his bank
could qualify under the housing act
to make loans for rebuilding the
burned city.
Jackson was advised to apply for
insurance by wire.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
COTTON ACT WINS
FIGHT TO CONTINUE
Davis Announces Result of
Conference Attended by
Wallace.
nv tho Associated preSs

By the Associated Press.
The Bankhead cotton control act
went on trial for its life yesterday and
the verdict was acquittal.
The act will not be suspended y
said Chester c. Davis, A. A. A. ad-
miniStratOr. after a conference in
which Secretary Wallace and mem
bers of Congress from the Cotton
States participated. Wallace said
virtually the same thing.
To help small farmers. who COM
planned against the measure. their al
lotments under it will be increased 10
per cent.
The Bankhead law. passed largely
through the efforts of Senator Bank
head, Democrat, of Alabama, who
participated in the discussion yester-
day, places a tax of Sig cents a lint
pound on all cotton sold from this
years crop in excess of 0,460, PSI
bales.
First Control Measure.
The measure was the first COM
pulsory crop control legislation and
President Roosevelt had to approve it
publicly before it was passed by Con-
greSS.
Primarily because of drought, the
production of cotton this year is eSti-
mated at only 9,252 GOO bales-more
than a million bales below the Bank
head quota. Nevertheless. many farm
erS east of the Mississippi River and
some elsewhere, will have to pay the
levy. Their production has exceeded,
or will exceed, the allotment assigned
them under the measure. This. COM
bined with delay and administrative
difficulties, led to an outcry for out
right suspension of the law. The idea
was abandoned, so far as the Farm
Administration is concerned, at yes
terday'S conference.
We reserved 10 per cent OF the al
iotment to handle cases where there
may be injustices and inequities, -
Wallace said, but I think this fact
has not been generally recognized and
that this 10 per cent will take care of
the situation
Would End Injustices.
Everybody present said they hoped
so, but Senator Russell (DemocraD of
Georgia interpoSed:
Il don't want to be bound. If the
small farmers are taken care Of, l
have no objection to continuance of
the bill but if present injustices con-
tinue, l want the bill suspended
That is my position said both
Senator George (Democrat) OF Georgia
and Representative Brown Demo
crat) of Georgia.
The delegation which visited Secre-
tary Wallace was divided on contin-
uance or suspension of the control
measure. Most of the group from
west of the Mississippi, among them
being Chairman Jones of the House
Agriculture Committee. opposed SuS-
pension because, in their view, it
would be an injustice to farmers who
DO not raise the allotment given them.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
Days of Usefulness
Over BankerLeaps
To Death i'm River
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, September
PA man described by police
as S. P. Fortune. vice president
of a Memphis bank, leaped to
his death in the Mississippi River
here today.
In an automobile from which
the man alighted just before
climbing on the railing of the
Harahan Bridge for the fatal
plunge, passersby found a note
which read
Il am honest, but my days of
usefulness are over. S. P. For
tune
Mr.. Fortune was about SIS
years old.
License numbers on the auto
mobile indicated the machine was
owned by Mr.. Fortune, whose
address was given as an exclusive
country club.
Mr.. Fortune was a bachelor.
Evening star., 1934-09-23
NOME OLD TIMER
PLEADS AID HERE
GIamorous City of Old Re-
called by Carl Lomer in
Telling Fire Havoc.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Glamorous ghosts of the city that
used to be, haunted Carl Lomen as
he trampcd the marble halls of
Washington in quest of quick aid for
fire-Swept Nome, Alaska.
The memories of the reindeer raiser
and eX-prospector were as sharp and
clear as the priceless Arctic photo
graphs he lost in the blaze.
He remembered a Spring night "a
years ago, when SO vessels rode the
open sea beside the newborn city Ci
gold and thousands of sports" and
miners roamed its muddy streets
He remembered a dull Winter day
at the old Nevada saloon, when the
boys" dragged in every passerby,
handcuffed him to the bar ana threw
the keys away. 1t was midnight be-
fore the village blacksmith filed them
free.
He remembered the "Eni" club
"Eni'' for igloo-built Of LOGS from
the States, where officers o. the I'M
perial Russian navy were entertained
No woman was allowed inside for
many years. The chief steward there
one year, he said. was the brother
of a premier of Japan.
SpIendor of Eagles Hall.
He remembered the splendor of the
Eagles Hail. which cost 5000 ana
boasted a hardwood floor big enough
for an indoor base ball game. Two
hundred miners and merchants bought
life memberships at Sl00 apiece.
But best of all he remembered the
big-hearted way of the place.
Let me tell you" he said. "hoW
the town shelled out when the quake
hit San Francisco. Little old Nome
dropped $4,000 into the hat in less
than an hour.
And that isn't all. Nome went
over the top in the third Liberty loan
drive one minute after it started. The
town always did things that way
They told him at Coast Guard head
quarters yesterday that ships would
oe available to take the homeless out
ot Nome if Winter defeated their
race to rebuild.
They don't want that" he said
firmly. What could they do in the
States? They're pioneers. Colds up
from less than 500 IN ounce to more
han s35. They don't want charity
they just want help"
He said some of the women and
children might spend the Winter in
The States as result of the fire, but
Evening star., 1934-09-23
Pope Plus, Back at Vatican,
Finds apartments Renovated

little speech in which he said he
wished the Eucharistic delegates mot
only a happy voyage, but also all
the graces which the Lord will give
the mission which you, Cardinal Pa
celli are taking"
You are going under the guide
most qualified and to us most dear" p"
said the Pope. We renew what
Tobias said, that the Lord be on
your path and the angel of the Lord
accompany you"
Pope Plus has given evidence the
last few weeks that he has thoroughly
enjoyed his vacation-but only for
the reason that it wasn't really a
vacation
Seventy-Seven years old, the Pope
worked practically as hard as he
works in the Vatican.