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Evening star., 1934-05-01
BY VINCENT TUTCHING.

Propelled by mounting civic in
dorsements. The Stars 81 900 Better
Homes Contest began to produce tang
ible results today, as applications from
homeowners anxious to win cash
prizes for home improvements piled
up in both citizens associations and
contest headquarters.
With this proof of the growing
popularity in the community of this
movement to help beautify Washing
ton and increase employment. came
word Of a series Of important meet
ings of civic organizations who are
preparing to take action on the Better
Homes Contest.
Primarily a campaign to be fostered
by the citizens themselves. many
groups already have named special
Better Homes" Committees to spon-
sor the movement in each community
end spread the word to "modernize
now"
Montgomery Group Acts.
important among meetings to be
neld for consideration of the cam
paign is that of the Montgomery
County Civic Federation. Robert E,
Bondy, president of the federation.
has called the presidents and dele
gates of the more than two score
organizations affiliated with the body,
to a special meeting FRIDAY night
in the county building at Bethesda.
In a letter to representatives of
each association in the metropolitan
area. Mr.. Bondy said:
The Evening Star, as you prob
ably know. is conducting a Better
Homes Contest and campaign through
out the Greater Washington area. The
Evening star., 1934-05-01


(the management) must have missed
at this party the Weirton Boosters
Club and the high school alumni. who
supplied afidavits that the company
union was fine thing"
Holds Two Passed Out"
Two Of the girls passed out on
whisky" brought by some of the men,
Fly recited from their affidavits. He
said they were urged by Richards re-
peatedly that evening and the follow
ing day to vote for the company
union or it will be just too bad"
The special assistant to the Attor-
ney General added that the mill girls
had never been at the country club
before, it being an exclusive club, not
open to employees Of the company.
Fly asserted John C. Williams, pres
ident Of the defendant company, ex-
ercised undue influence and per-
suasion for the company union and
attacked and opposed the Amalga-
mated Iron and Steel Workers Union.
He quoted extensively from speeches
Williams Is alleged to have made at
a number of mass meetings in No.
vember and December after strikes.
In one of them, Fly said. according
to af1davits of employees present, Will
liams declared that If necessary he
would shut down the Clarksburg, w.
Va, and Steubenville, Ohio, mills OF
the company and bring men from
them who had voted for the company
union, and give them jobs at the
Weirton mills.
Fly also described what he termed
an unprecedented act" of paying the
men who attended Williams mass
meetings full time and presenting
them cigars as they left.
Evening star., 1934-05-01

tNOuClHueu rTOm f1rSt Fage.D
due profits, the F. A. C. A. will see
that the offending prices are declared
Ineffective" Choate wrote.
"As against profiteering by retailers,
however, if there is any, the F. A. C.
A. has no remedy, and relief can
come only from the States"
Doran said in a statement the solu-
ton to the bootleg problem lay in
providing funds for quickly building
up the unit to enforce the tax laws
and in reducing the taxes to cut
prices.
Doran said that unless there Is q
radical change in the situation, which
can only be brought about by enforce
ment coincident with lowering Of
taxes, domestic and import, the total
legal consumption this year will not
exceed 35.000,000 gallons"
This is only about one-fifth of the
total legal consumption in an average
year prior to prohibition, such as 1912
or 1913" he said. This is doubly
significant when we take into account
the fact that there has been a popu-
lation increase from los, 100000 to
126,o00,0 in that same period OF
time and the territory where liquor
may be legally purchased for beverage
purposes has increased from II States
to 27."
Experiment Threatened"
Capt. W. H. Stayton. managing di-
rector Of Repeal Associates, said
today Choate's statement points out
that the success of the liquor control
experiment, which was launched on
December S last, is being seriously
threatened by the continued large
scale activities of the bootleggers." He
added:
mo statement so compact with
knowledge, courage and constructive
suggestions has ever before been
issued by Government Official whose
duties led him to touch on the liquor
traffic.
1T emphasizes the necessity Of con-
tinued organized effort on the part
OF those who wish to see satisfactory
solution to the liquor traffic problem"
Treasury agents seized 229 stills
and made 235 arrests for the week
ended April % In the Governments
drive against the Illicit liquor busi-
ness.
This compared with 148 stills and
187 arrests the previous week. The
greatest activity was in the district
comprising Georgia, Florida. Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Evening star., 1934-05-01
PROBE OF GIRLS
KIDNAPPING HALTED
Family Requests Delay to
Permit Negotiation on
$4,000 Ransom.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TUCSON, Ariz., May 1.-The kid
napers of 6-year-old June Robles
were free today to negotiate for
$4,000 ransom without interference
from authorities.
Her father. Fernando Robles, issued
an announcement to the kidnapers,
saying he was ready to meet fully
their demands. and that, at the fam
ily's request, ofncial investigation had
been stopped to permit unhampered
negotiations.
Bernabe Robles. reputedly wealthy
grandfather Of the child, returned
from q second trip across the border
to Santa Ana, Sonora, where he told
hotel proprietor he had sought the
advice Of Manual Gamboa, recognized
In that area as q seer.
Baby Reported Safe.
Passing through Nogales on his re-
turn, the pioneer cattleman expressed
hope that this little journey Is going
to lead toward solving of the kidnap-
ing" He did not say what advice, If
any. he had received from the re-
puted seer.
Alphonso Aguirre and Henry Dali
ton, Tucson city councilman, who ac-
companied Bernabe Robles into So
nora. differed. however, on the value
Of Robles' activities below the border.
The baby Is safe" Aguirre said,
but he declined to disclose the source
Of his information.
We have been on a wild goose
chase" said Dalton. There is abso-
lutely no news of June"
The announcement authorities had
withdrawn from the case came after
a conference between them and Fer
nando Robles.
Robles' statement asked the girls
captors to produce a piece of the
child's dress to assure him he was
dealing with the right persons. and
answer a list of questions which would
further establish the fact he was deal
ing with those who held his daugter.
Revenge Motive Seen.
In Glendale, Calf, John Mauler,
automobile repairman and uncle of
June. said the kidnapers had de-
manded by telephone the discontinue
ance of ofhcial search for the girl
pending ransom negotiations. Mauler
said the information was contained in
a telegram from relatives in Tucson
and added June's parents believed the
kidnapping was the work Of some one
seeking revenge against Bernabe
Robles, probably as the result of busi-
ness dealings.
Tucson authorities who had asked
that man named Richard Robles be
located. were infurmed by California
authorities that he was a voluntary
patient In the Stockton, Calf, State
Hospital. The California Bureau OF
Criminal Identification said he was
an uncle Of the kidnapped girl.
San Francisco police Investigated
woman's report that a child answer
ing June's description had been seen
in custody Of three men and two
women in an automobile. The license
number given by the woman was reg
istered to a San Francisco bridge
worker. Police said the woman may
have been mistaken in the number.
Evening star., 1934-05-01
SEARCH FATHERS FARM.
indianapolis Police and U. S. Men
Raid Premises.
3y The Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOORESVILLE, Ind. May L.
More than a score of Indianapolis po-
licemen and Department of justice
agents late today surrounded the farm
home of John Dillinger's father near
here and made a complete search Of
the premises.
They found the elderly farmer busy
repairing fence. There was no trace
of his vanishing desperate son, whose
visit here about three weeks ago was
not known to authorities for days
afterward.
The officers, armed with rifles. re-
volvers and machine guns aid wear
ing bulletproof vests, blockaded State
road 267 near the farm, hating traf-
fic between Mooresville and Plainf1eld
for more than an hour, and also
patrolled the county line road north
of the Dillinger farm.
Source of the information which led
Federal operatives to order the raid
was not revealed. State police did not
participate.
Evening star., 1934-05-01
PRISON FUGITIVE
TRIO IS CORNERED
Convicts Who Scaled Wall
Believed in Swamp.
Roads Guarded.
BY the Associated Press.


COSHOCTON. Ohio, May 1.-The
three convicts who scaled the wall Of
Ohio Penitentiary Sunday afternoon
were believed cornered by a posse in a
swamp near Conesville. IA miles south
of here early today.
All roads in the vicinity were being
closely guarded as the authorities pre-
pared to close in on the heavily
armed desperadoes.
The trio was forced to abandon an
automobile. which they stole from
H. A. Musselman. q farmer Of near
Hebron, last night, because of a
bloekaded wooden bridge.
Police Cars Held Up.
Barricading themselves behind their
automobile at the entrance to the
bridge the three convicts successfully
held up two carloads of Coshocton
County police who had picked up their
trail.
After an exchange Of shots the
three escaped net hastily thrown
around them and made their way
down the river. 1t was believed one
Of the convicts had been wounded in
the exchange.
Ofhcers were unable to get within
close range of the trio because Of lack
Of fortification. For nearly an hour
the two groups exchanged pot shots
Under the cover of darkness the
trio slipped across the bridge, one Of
the longest covered bridges in the
State. 1t was a few minutes before
the officers ascertained that the con-
victs-Rufus "Blinky" Deeds, Arthur
Koontz and Martin Schmidt-had
abandoned their machine and fed.
Fearing an ambush in the bridge,
the officers finally entered the COW
cred structure, only to find the trio
had escaped down the river bank The
officers quickly picked up the trail
which led into the bottom lands"
Eight Shots Exchanged.
Eight shots were exchanged with
the fugitives after the latter had
reached the swamp territory.
Ray w. Dooley, chief of police of
Coshocton, said it would be almost
impossible for any one to escape the
net which has been thrown around
the convicts despite the fact the
isolated and swampy land makes an
ideal hideout.
Beside a score Of armed officers,
farmers in the vicinity were deputized
and they were securing the country
armed with shotguns and hunting
rifles.
In Musselman's auto was found the
automatic pistol which the convicts
used Sunday in effecting their escape
from the penitentiary.
Evening star., 1934-05-01

Federal Emergency Relief Administra-
ton for Massachusetts,. He has had
more than 20 years experience N well
fare administration and is regarded
as cne Of the leaders in that field.
In announcing the Commissioners
had laid aside the Kelso nomination,
Commissioner Allen said he believed
the best available man could be found
in Washington While he has declined
to make definite statement on the
subject, he is known to favor the ap
pointment of Elwood Street, now
director of the Washington Com
munity Chest. .
Opposes Relief Policy.
Some weeks ago Sidney F. Talia-
ferro, former District Commissioner,
submitted his resignation as a member
of the Welfare Board. He had served
as chairman of its Committee on
Emergency Relief. Taliaferro at the
time gave out a public. statement
voicing disagreement with the policy
of the Commissioners in handling
emergency relief, contending generally
that disbursements were too lavish.
The Commissioners prevailed upon
Taliaferro to stay on for an indefinite
period. After the board had sub
mitted the name of Kelso, however,
Taliaferro again asked that his resig-
nation be accepted and the Commits
sioners acceded to his request. The
commissioners are now looking about
for a successor to Taliaferro.
Members of the Welfare Board
were to meet in special session at 2
pm. today to consider a request by
Commissioner Allen that the board
submit to the city heads 'other
names" for the appointment as well
fare director.
Evening star., 1934-05-01
10-CENT UTILITY BILL
TAX VOTED FOR RELIEF
IS, 900 a Month Expected to Be
Raised for Needy in
Little Rock.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark, May IA
voluntary tax of 10 cents q month,
to be added to each utility bill for
. one-year period, has been voted by
the Little Rock City Council to raise
city relief funds.
The bills of the four utility COM
panies-electric. gas. telephone and
water-will bear a separate notation
on the 10-cent tax.
The ordinance creating the tax pro-
vides no penalty for failure to pay 1t.
Rabbi Ira e. Sanders, chairman of
q special relief commission which rec
commended the plan to the council,
estimated 1t would provide $500 a
month.
The utility companies have agreed
to collect the tax without cost to
the city.
Evening star., 1934-05-01

devious efforts to secure for special
groups special advantages which would
never stand daylight, and If I were to
mention some of the nefarious
'rackets' attempted to be put over on
the N. r. A. Of which even I know.
who have had no special access to such
facts, you would, I'm sure, join me
heartily in saying as I do fervently
say in a time like this: Thank God
for a man like Gen. Johnson" Comp
ton said.
Sees Some Mistakes.
Disclosing that he (Compton) was
shortly leaving N. r. A., Compton said
of Hugh S. johnson, N. r. A. admin
istrator:
"I think he has made some nearly
disastrous mistakes; that he has
acted often impulsively and without
knowledge; arbitrarily and inconsid-
erately.
He does not yet and I think he
never will get the most or the best
out of his subordinates because, al
though he trusts their purposes and
motives, he does not readily bring
himself to trust their judgment.
He regards himself as trustee
of the President of the United States
and accordingly is reluctant to dele
gate that trusteeship.
Slows Down N. r. A.
IT for one regard that, trait as q
net asset, although know that it
has caused the administrator to un-
dertake more responsibilities and
more duties than any one person can
discharge, and that thereby he has
slowed the ". r. A.
IF the principles for which he has
stood and still stands can be firmly
fastened upon N. r. A. there win be
little doubt of the maintenance Of
the opportunity for industrial SELF
governmental we do our part"
Evening star., 1934-05-01

increased their standards Of living, 50
they could no longer get along on as
little as sac. 900 to $25, 900.
Accordingly. Dewey said, the scale
Of salaries was increased. raising
Mitchell's annual compensation from
SIS, 900 to $4,000. and some Of the
other officers in proportion.
These facts were brought out pur-
suant to the Governments contention
Mitchell received $500, ,66667 from a
management fund" during 1929. In
addition to his regular salary. and
failed to report 1t In making out his
income tax.
tuted in 1921 and consisted Of 20
per cent Of all profits made by the
company after payment Of per cent
on capital stock had been subtracted
from the total.
Amounts to $4,000, 900.
Dewey stated this 20 per cent for
only the first half of 1929 amounted
to approximately $4,000, 900.
He said Mitchell received from this
fund during 1929 . total Of $l,150. 900.
Mitchell was portrayed by the at
torney as climbing to this exalted
financial position unaided from a SIM
pie clerkship with the Western Elec-
tric Co., in 1899. Up to the time Of
his resignation as chairman Of both
the National City Bank and the Ma
tional City Co.. in March, 1888.
Mitchell had long been considered as
one Of the most powerful figures in
the banking world. His resignation
came after sensational disclosures
made during the Senate Banking
Committees Stock Exchange investi-
cation early last year.
Due to the large sum involved, three
members of the Board of Tax Appeals,
instead of the usual one, are sitting
as judges in the Mitchell case. They
are Jed c. Adams, presiding; Ernest
H. Van Fossan and w. c. Lansdon.
Testimony of witnesses is not ex-
pected to begin until tomorrow. Most
OF yesterday was consumed in opening
statements by attorneys and introduc-
ton Of stipulated evidence. Discus
sions Of further stipulations are ex-
pected to take up all Of today's session.
The Government has subpoenaed IS
witnesses, including such prominent
financial figures as Gerard Swope.
president Of General Electric Co.:
Hugh B. Baker, president of National
City Bank, and Garrard B. winston.
former Undersecretary Of the Treas
ury.
Evening star., 1934-05-01

A sharp newsman was sent to
Washington by New York financial
newspaper few days ago and told
to find out what in the deuce is the
basic idea behind the new deal.
He went first to a head farm man
in the A. A. A., who said:
Basic idea, eh? Well. I admit ]
do not always understand the basic
idea among those fellows in the
N. r. A., but down here in the A. A. A.
it's simple. Now purchasing power,
etc. =. Surpluses, etc. ."
And went on like that for an hour.
The neiDsmdn staggered up to
one OF the administrators best
economists and demanded to knoU
in te,D iD0rds Dhdt the ne,p deal
Dos all about. The economist re-
piled:
Just nolr, it's housing"
Still perplexed, the newsman went
on to wise old Washington observer,
who formerly had been a newsman
himself. He replied:
THE psychology of the new deal is
That's the answer.
Silver Cause Injured.
Administration strategists accepted
the disclosure of Father Coughlin' S
indirect marginal purchases of silver
as an anti-climax. They knew it all
along.
Weeks ago Father Coughlin told q
Senator, who asked him about it, that
he had silver stocks. That word went
around the inner circle, although it
could not be published until official
proof existed.
1t may hurt the silver cause, be-
cause much of the popular silver sup
port was based on a belief that the
leading silver agitators were dis
interested and unbiased.
Attacks made on Treasury Secretary
Morgenthau for disclosing the silver
list lack surface substantiation. Mr..
Morgenthau was required to submit
the list by an official demand from
the Senate.
II you dig back under the sur
face, hoUeDer, you 1ciH find that
Mr.. Morgenthdu originated the idea
of getting up list of Siluer
stockholders. Ndipely, he made
that fact public. When Congress
heard about it the resolution de-
n,onding publication OF the list ,0ds
passed.
Few disinterested parties will quar-
rel with Mr.. Morgenthau about that
because all he did was to try to show
who would profit if the Government
helped silver.
Evening star., 1934-05-01
|D|[L|NGER HUNTED
| IN CHICAGO LARS
Desperate Believed to Have
Taken Refuge in Gang
Hideout There.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May Police dug deep
into gangland haunts today to find
John Dillinger.
Convinced the slippery desperado
has taken refuge in one of the numer-
GUS hideouts his gang Is reputed to
have here, the authorities combed the
city. but had found no trace Of him.
Definite identification Of Dillinger
as one of the four gunmen who dis
armed three policemen early yesterday
morning led to the belief that the
notorious outlaw was hiding in Chi
cago.
SHAVED OF Mustache."
I'm sure it was Dillinger," Police
man Harry Wayland, who was slugged
over the head with a machine gun,
said. Hes shaved of his mustache
and appears to be heavier. but I've
studied his photograph enough to
recognize him when see him"
The whereabouts of Dillinger's
diminutive machine cunning pal.
George (Baby Face Nelson. identified
by police as another Of the four, also
was unknown.
One possible clue was being followed
by the Chicago police at the request
Of Melvin H. Purvis, head Of the local
Office of the Federal Bureau OF In
vestigation, and that was the 1929
sedan Nelson is reported to have pur-
chased from a resident Of Wisconsin,
where Nelson eluded posses that tried
to bottle him up last week.
Gun Supply Stopped.
Elsewhere along the "Dillinger front"
developments were few and compare
lively quiet during the past "a hours.
Federal agents said one source Of
machine gun supply for the Dillnger
gang had been stopped in the arrest
of H. s. Lehman, San Antonio. Tex.
gunsmith. who confessed he had dealt
, with Dininger's mob.
A bullet marked car was found near
Chillicothe, III. The authorities sus-
pected it might have some connection
with the Dillinger men.
, In addition there was the usual flow
of tips" to the authorities that Dill
linger had been seen here and there.
One informant said at woodstock,
| Ill, that he had given chase to him
and that he was headed toward
Chicago.
SEARCH FATHERS FARM.
Evening star., 1934-05-01
REVEAL D|LL|NGER
GANG GUN SOURCE
San Antonio Man Admits
Selling Firearms to "Baby
Face" Nelson.
BY the Associated Press.

Ds tHc hSSOSldIcu EIcSs.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, May 1.-The
sale Of machine guns and other
weapons to the John Dillinger gang Of
desperadoes was confessed here yester-
day by H. S. Lehman, %, a gun shop
proprietor.
In a written statement to Depart
ment Of Justice agents, Lehman told
Of selling firearms to George Baby
Face" Nelson, reputed to be Dillinger's s
chief machine-gunner. Lehman posi-
lively identified a photograph of Nell
son as that Of man to whom he had
made sales.
Released on $2,eoO Bond.
Gus Jones. Department of Justice
agent, disclosed Lehman had been
under rrest since Saturday. He was
arraigned today before Paul A. Lock-
hart, United States commissioner, on
charges Of receiving. concealing and
retaining a stolen Government pistol,
and was released under $4,000 tempo
rary bond, returnable at 10 am. today
Agents said the stolen pistol was
found wired to a work bench in Leb-
mans shop. where it sllegedly was be-
ing converted into a weapon with the
characteristics of a machine gun.
Sold Five to Williams.
The statement quoted Lehman as
saying he sold five such machine guns
to Jimmie Williams and delivered
them in St. Paul, MINI.
Williams, although not known to
Federal agents. was known to have
been in San Antonio last Fall with
Tommy Carroll. alleged slayer Of City
Detective H. c. Perrow here last De-
cember.
Carroll. charged here with murder
under the name of j. c. McLarkin, is
reputedly a Dillinger henchman.
Evening star., 1934-05-01

dressed to stations on routes on which
the Post Ofice Department received
lower bids than those submitted by
American Airlines. These routes ex-
tend into all parts of the country.
I'VE will not be responsible for the
kind of operations which must be
carried on in the interest of public
safety on the basis of revenues We now
are receiving" Seymour said. Moth
ing but haphazard, transforming
service, dangerous to the public and
damaging to the future of air trans
portation can result under the ridicu-
lously low bids which have been sub
mitted to the Post ONCE Depart
ment."
The bids submitted by American
> Airlines, underbid on every route on
which it had any competition, Sey-
mour said, were based on economic
necessity.
Covered Only Expenses.
"The bids we submitted were not
moneymaking bids" Seymour said
They were the minimum bids we
could submit and continue in opera
ton. They covered only expenses. We
feel that we must protect our stock
holders and that it no longer is pos
sible to continue operations at a loss"
The routes on which AmericankAir-
lines was underbid and which face
closing are those from New York to
Los Angeles, New York to New Or
leans. Washington to Detroit, Boston
to Fort Worth, Tex: Chicago to jack
sonville, Fla; New York to Boston and
Amarillo to Brownsville. Tex. The
bid on all these routes by American
Airlines was 39.5 cents per airplane
mile.
The only route on which American
Airlines is likely to receive a contract
is from Fort Worth to Los Angeles.
on which it submitted a bid of 395
cents per airplane mile and on which
1t had no opposition.