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The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Engineers to Fete
JuQOsL0U Minister

DR.. Leonide Pitamic, minister
from Jugoslavia, and Capt. Cor
don Gordon-Smith, attache at the
Jugoslav Legation, will be guests
of honor at a luncheon of the
Washington Post, Society of Amer
ican Military Engineers, at the
Army and Navy Club Monday.
Captain Gordon-Smith will discuss
political and Military Develop
ments in the Balkans from the
Sarajevo Incident to Date"
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
BIGdensburg to Ask
School as Memorial

Defeated in their initial effort
to have the junior high school
at BladenSburg enlarged to a
senior high school, resident Of
the District and members Of the
Parent Teachers Association made
known today that they would
attempt to secure the school as
a memorial to Norman o. Brig
ham, late president of the P. T. A.
Mr.. Brigham died of pneumonia
several weeks ago. He contracted
a severe cold while gathering
signers for a petition for the
school addition.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Cary Harrison
An Honor Student

Miss Sally Cary Fairfax Har-
rison, daughter of the President
of the Southern Railway system,
will graduate at the head Of her
class from the Junior College OF
George Washington University
tomorrow night.
Another student who will grad
uate with honors is Thomas r.
Brooks, of Hyattsville, son Of
Mrs. Nellie S. Brooks. The exer'
cises will be held in Constitution
Hall
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Alexandria to Mark
Washington Birthdau

Tomorrow, February %, will be
observed as a general holiday in
Alexandria although the parade
and reception. which are usually
held by the George Washington
Birthday Association, will be
omitted.
The officers of the Association
and a committee will place a
wreath on the Tomb of George
Washington in accordance with
the custom of past years. All
State and city offices, excepts the
courts, will be closed.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Grand Jurors Call
CUH11nlinQS UrQed

ST. PAUL, Mimi, Feb. 21.
Demand that Attorney General
Cummings come here and testify
before the Grand Jury about
charges that Minneapolis and St.
Paul need to be Cleaned up" was
voiced today by Mayor William
Mahoney,
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
1 MINISTER DOESN'T FORESEE WAR IN EUROPE
Preacher Held
In DOOrROw
Shooting

Hezekiah Sharp, colored
preacher, was held for the
grand jury by the Alexandria
Corporation Court today on
charge of shooting Sarah
Dixon, colored, January 80.
According to the police, the
shooting occurred when the
woman wanted the door to
their apartment house open
and he wanted it shut.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
5000
NOCONFL| IN
FIVE YEARS
Ardent Democrat Expects Big
Change in Germany Within
That Allotted Time

Editors note-Europe has only
an eUen chance to escape another
World War in the near future,
Edudrd BeneS. foreign minister OF
ChechoSloUukia, believes. In the
ninth article of his series, "WM
War Come?", Knickerbocker inter-
OietDS this co-tounder OF the re-
public that came into being at the
end of the last World War.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Restrictions Lifted
On WhiSku Imports

All restrictions on importation
Of American type rye and bourbon
whiSkies have been lifted until
April /.
The purpose is to supply suf-
ficient good liquor to counteract
the efforts of bootleggerS and
SnnuPglerS,
The Washington times., 1934-02-21
Gas Aids Robbers
In JeUeLru Theft

CHICAGO, Feb. 81 G.NSO.
Behind barrage of tear gas
hurled into a jewelry store, five
robbers today raided the estab-
liShment and escaped with
quantity of diamonds, watches
and rings.
The Washington times., 1934-02-21

U. S. EMPLOYEES TO MEET
District Federation Of Federal
Employees Union will meet at 8
O'Clock tonight at ITO Fourteenth
st. N. w,
The Washington times., 1934-02-21

TOMORROW, Knickerbocker inter-
VtetUs King Alexander / OF Jugo-
SIaUtd, tDhom he terms BOSS OF
the Balkans"
Evening star., 1934-01-07
ALEXANDRIA FIGHTS
SCHOOL TERM CUT
Students to Parade in Protest.
Civic Organizations Grid
for Battle.
By a stan Correspondent Of The Star.

BY stan correspondent OF The star.
ALEXANDRIA. Va, January 6.-As a
result Of the recent move Of the City
School Board to close public schools
here on April "a. high school students
today organized to stage a protest pa
rade Tuesday night, the Alexandria
High School Parent Teacher Association
has called a mass meeting for Monday
night, and several other organizations
have directed committees to investigate
the boards action.
The parade permit was obtained from
City Manager Wallace Lawrence today
by four high school students, three boys
and girl. They represent the students
most affected by the curtailed term,
which jeopardizes the college entrance
qualifications of all local high school
pupils.
BY its acticn in cutting the present
school term from 1870 days to l54, the
board expects to balance its 1894 budg-
ct, which City Council reduced S29,-
600, and to absorb a $4,000 deficit in
CURED in 1888.
Mayor Edmund F. Ticer and two
members of the School Board. who
voted against the early closing, E. E.
Lawler, jr.. and Arthur King, holds that
it was not necessary for the board TO
reduce the present term below $50 days,
the absolute minimum with which a
high school may remain on the ac-
credited list Of the State Board Of Edu-
cation, in order to balance its budget.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
MUTUALIZING ALL
BANKS PROPOSED
Roosevelt Adviser Also Urges Di-
vision Of Banking Into Two
Systems. ~
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, January 6-Mutualiza-
ton Of all banks and the separation Of
banking into two systems-savings
banks and regional banks-was recon-
mended tonight by Prof. A. A. Berle. jr.,
city chamberlain and one Of President
Roosevelts advisers.
Prof. Berle, who teaches railroad law
at Columbia University, spoke over a
National Broadcasting Co. chain.
The GlaSs-Steagall act of 1898, he
said. makes a real advance in that it
segregates investment banking from
commercial banking The combined ac-
tivities of the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation and of the Reconstruction
Finance Corporation, he added. have
tended to unity the banking system.
Under an ideal situation, Prof. Berle
said, it would be advisable to have two
banking systems: The savings bank
system, with a mortgage rediscount
bank at the head of it to provide
liquidity, and large regional banks, with
branches taking in great areas of the
country.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
DAIRY PROGRAM RUSHED.
Farm Administration May Have Plan
Ready Tomorrow.

The Farm Administration worked at
top speed yesterday to shape its new
dairy program for announcement early
this week, probably tomorrow.
While the officials were comforting,
they received reports of violence grow
ing out of the Chicago milk strike De-
that the Chicago situation would have
little immediate effect on the long time
program now being drafted.
Victor A. Christgau, production con-
troll administrator; Chester G. Davis,
farm administrator; DR.. Mordecai
Ezekiel, economic adviser; H. r. Tolley,
economist; J. H. Mason, head of the
dairy section, and others sat in on the
conference to make the final draft of
the program. Its details may be an
nounced tomorrow morning at a press
conference to be held by Secretary Wal
lace and Davis.
Officials said the dairy plan would
softer a chance" for milk producers and
distributors in the Chicago area to set
tie their difficulties if they cared to
take it.
Demands Of the Chicago Pure Milk
Association that the administration set
prices to distributors as we'll as pro-
ducers was not expected to be part
of the plan, however.
Such a guarantee vas part OF the
Chicago milk marketing agreement
which Wallace terminated January at
the request of the Pure Milk Associa-
ton. The guarantee was the chief
cause of friction.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
DEBT MUDDLELA|D
TO MONEY POLICY
Italian Officials Says Solution
Is Impossible Until Ex-
pertinent Ceases.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, January GA solution of the
war debts problem will be impossible
the Chamber OF Deputies was told TO-
day, until the American economic and
financial experiment" has developed
into some definite monetary policy.
Until the experiment is concluded
world monetary stabilization is out OF
the question, said Giuseppe Mazzini, a
member of the Budget Committee who
reported to the Chamber on proposed
finance ministry expenditures.
Security Of the few moneys still on
the gold basis will become more difficult
to maintain" he added, until the Amer
ican situation is solved.
Gold Buying Seen as Menace.
Referring to American purchases oil
gold abroad, he declared that countries
'menaced" by the effect of this policy
on international trade will have to con-
centrate on reducing the cost of pro-
duction SO as to bring down the prices
of their products on the world market
The fuctuation of the dollar has
seriously made worse the already
chaotic world monetary situation.
Mazzini continued.
Italy he said, is firmly determined
to maintain her currency on a stable
basis. He pointed out that gold in the
treasury on November 80, 1888, was
1882 ,000, 900 lire compared with $780,
100000 at the beginning of the year
and that gold coverage, furnished by
gold on hand and credits abroad for al
money in circulation and all obligations
in sight, was 5053 per cent compared
to 4671 per cent.
Seek Export Cost Cut.
One of the first tasks to be intrusteo
to the cooperative or guild system to be
established this month will be that o1
reducing production costs Of Italian
exports
Italys position now, he admitted, was
serious because of price cutting in other
nations which Italians, he said, have
not been able to follow.
A national budget deficit Of about
s250,000,000 for 1934-1e35 was indi-
Gated in the report.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
Scientific Probing Results 4
In Poison Candy Case Arrest
Justice Departments Ne,v Crime Detec.
E tiOn Laboratory Figures in Arrest
Y of Woman in TroysN Y.

Called upon by Gen. Frank T. Hines,
veterans administrator, to investigate
poisoned candy mystery at the Coates
vile, Pa, Veterans Hospital, criminolo-
gists of the Justice Departments new
scientific crime detection laboratory
here developed clues which led to the
arrest last night at Troy, N. Y, of the
sister Of one Of several patients poisoned
by the "gift.'
The woman, taken by special agents
of the Division Of Investigation who
flew to Troy yesterday with q secret
indictment, is Mrs. Sarah o. Hobart,
sister of Harrington Fitzgerald. jr.,
World War veteran undergoing treat
ment at the Government hospital. She
is charged with sending poisoned
candy through the mails"
Justice Department oficials, in con-
flrming reports Of the arrest said last
night the box of candy was traced to
the sister through analysis Of type
writing found on the wrapper Of the
box ard by an investigation Of the
source of the tin box used as the
mailing container.
Suspicion first was directed at per-
sons in Troy because of insurance
policies totaling 100000 taken out on
F1tzgerald's life by certain persons
named as benefciaries, Hoover dis
closed.
Chemical examination of the candy
showed it to be heavily poisoned with
arsenic. Microscopic study of the type
written label on the wrapper-addressed
to FtzgeraldLshowed peculiarities Of
the letters that matched exactly the
type on a typewriter which had been
placed in a shop for repairs allegedly
by Mrs. Hobart. The tin box was
traced from a factory to a Troy store.
The collected evidence was presented
secretly to a grand jury in Philadelphia
yesterday, and an indictment was
Evening star., 1934-01-07
ARMS ACCORD HELD
ESSENTIAL T0PEACE.
Sir John Simon Convinced
Franco.German Pact Is Key
to European Situation.
tcopyrisht. 1884 by the Associated press.)

tcopyright. 1894. BY the Associated Press.)
LONDON, January 6.-The convic-
ton that the peace of Europe depends
on the settlement Of q Franco German
arms controversy was brought back
from conferences with continental
statesmen by Foreign Secretary Sir
John Simon tonight
IT trust and believe the conversa-
tions in which took part in Paris and
Rome" he said, may prove a useful
contribution to the cause of a Euro
pean agreement, which is essential to
the peace and security of all of u.s."
Asked whether the prospects of the
United States returning actively to the
disarmament conference and negotia-
tionS in Geneva were affected by his
talks with the French foreign minister,
Joseph Paul-Boncour, and Premier
MuSsolini this week, he declared
Il cannot say anything about that
matter"
Definite British Policy Seen.
Meanwhile, the projection Of a def
mite British policy concerning both the
League of Nations, which Premier Mus
solini wants changed, and the diSarma-
ment deadlock-for the first time since
Germany withdrew frem Geneva in
mid-October-was anticipated in in
formed quarters as a result of the for
eign secretary's return.
The British stand that a disarma-
ment agreement must come first and
that any steps to reform the league
must be postponed at least for several
months vas regarded here as having
clearly prevailed in conversations with
Mussolini.
Particular courses of action on these
points, 1t was said. may be recommend
ed by Great Britain after Sir John talks
with Prime Minister Ramsay Macdonald
on Monday and the cabinet conferS
later in the week.
Germany Seeks 800, 1000 Army.
Germany seeks arms equality with an
army of 100000, it has been reported: !:
France is said to be willing to allow
the Reich an army Of 200 1000 with two
international arms control periods, and
in the Rome conversations it was con-
cluded that arms proposals capable of
immediate Inauguration we're preferable
to "Utopian' efforts at agreement.
The three continental powers have
indicated their desires but Britains Is
enigmatic position has given rise to the
impression in some quarters that she
herself did not know what she wanted
to do.
1t was believed in well informed quar-
ters that Britain's anxiety for some sort
OF armaments pact as soon as possible
indicates that proposals for a restricted
rearmament of Germany may likely win
at last.
Semi-oficial circles here believed that
doubling the manpower Of the German
standing army and granting Germany
certain defensive weapons-even, per-
haps, a revision Of the French supervi-
sion scheme-may be the basis of the
arms agreement.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
GRAN CHACO FORCE.
AWAITS ZERO HOUR
Truce End at Midnight Finds
Armies Ready for Renewal
OF Conflict.
BY the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
BUENOS AIRES, January 6.-Para-
quay and Bolivia were ready tonight to
resume their age-old conflict over the
Gran Chaco in the belief that an 1s-
day armistice would not be extended.
Soldiers stood to their arms prepared
to reopen hostilities interrupted De-
cember 19 by truce obtained through
mediation efforts of the Pan-American
Conference and a League of Nations
Cancellation Commission.
The commission, seeing no hope for
effecting another delay, began consider
ing ways of continuing peace negotia-
tions after the renewal Of fighting.
The truce was declared up to mid
night tonight and Paraguayan soldiers,
along a 25O-mile front, were poised for
resuming a drive which carried them
more than so miles into vital enemy
territory in the Fort Munoz sector the
week preceding the armistice.
Rain May Halt Strife.
The actual resumption of fighting,
however. was made dific dlt in some re-
gions by fortnight OF heavy rain, the
harbinger of the real season Of down.
pours which begins late in January and
lasts three months.
The Bolivians, who claimed for the
third time today that Paraguayan
detachment attacked Fort Esteros at
midnight Thursday, killing six Bo-
livians. awaited the renewal Of military
operations with equal confidence. A
defeatist element which Gen. Hans Ku-
not. German leader of Bolivian forces.
assailed before a La PaZ crowd three
months ago, apparently had virtually
disappeared.
Negotiations of the League of Nations
Committee faced an obstacle almost
from the start because Of fundamental
disagreement as TO what portion Of the
Committee Is Encouraged.
The committee, however, was en-
couraged to continue its efforts by the
Paraguayan argument that converse
tionS would te facilitated during the
fighting by the absence of complaints
regarding alleged truce violations.
Pan-American neutral nations, which
staked the success or failure Of the
Montevideo conference in its closing
days upon the ability to effect a per-
manent armistice and settlement Of the
old Chaco quarrel, regarded the prepa-
rations for resuming the conflict sor-
rowfully.
They did not contemplate their own
peace overtures until the League Com
mittee exhausts its resources.
Chile Favors Sanctions.
Chile favors helping the League ap-
ply sanctions against the belligerents-
which Argentina and Peru indicated
they might support-but the United
States and Brazil were said to feel they
would be unable to assist In enforcing
such a move in view Of their non mem
bership in the League.
Secretary Of State Cordell Hull, who
left for Valparaiso, Chile, today, said
that he felt the Chaco was the gravest
immediate pan-American problem and
that he expected to discuss it with rep
resentatives Of Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador,
Colombia and Panama on his way
home from the pan-American confer
ence.
Dispatches from Santiago Chile said
the steamer Santa Barbara, which is
taking Mr.. Hull northward, landed a
cargo of Bolivian munitions at Mol
lendo on its downward trip.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
BY REX COLLIER.

For the first time in the memory OF
Federal law enforcement oficials, the
Department of Justice frankly has is
sued orders for the capture dead or
alive" of a fugitive from justice.
The man accorded this unwelcome at
tention from the United States Gov
ernment is a tall, middle aged, mild
hammered, bespectacled gentleman of
the underworld christened Richard
Tallman Galatas, but known to police
of the Southwest by string Of
aliases"
In other words. Uncle Sans own
machine gunners of the Division of In
yestigation have been instructed to put
Dick Galatas ION the spot" without
hesitation--unless he surrenders with
Ire white flag flying plainly and sin
cerely. The Federal agents will take
no chances.
Galatas-suave "con man" known to
police throughout the West in connec-
ton with clever swindling operations
over a long period Of years-is the last
important fugitive wanted by the Fed
eral Government as a result OF the
massacre at Kansas City last June Of
Federal Agent Raymond Caffrey and
four other men.
"Tip-off" Man.
Dick, with such aliases as Gladis,
Galatis, Galates and Sheridan, has been
branded by j. Edgar Hoover, director
of the Division of Investigation of the
Department of Justice as the "tip-off"
man in the ambush which cost the
lives of a Federal agent, three local
officers and their prisoner, the notorious
Frank Nash.
All other major figures sought in the
massacre have been captured or killed
and this within a period Of approx
mately six months from the day Of the
slayings in front of the Kansas City
Union Station on June II last.
Here is the list:
Harvey Bailey, captured by Federal
agents on the Shannon farm near
Paradise, Tex, and now serving life
sentence In Leavenworth Penitentiary
for the kidnapping of Charles F.
Urschel.
Wilbur Underhill, co-leader with
Bailey of the Memorial day prison
gang of machine gunners at Kansas
City, now dying in Oklahoma from ma
chine gun bullets inflicted by Federal
agents in a recent gun battle at
Shawnee, Okla.
Verne Miller, identified as operator
of a machine gun in the massacre and
found murdered near Detroit several
weeks ago, a few days after he had shot
his way out of a Federal trap in his
hotel Miller had been injured by Fed
eral bullets and agents were about to
close in on his hiding place when
gangsters eliminated him from the
fugitive list.
Brady In Prison.
Robert G. Brady, Southwestern des-
perado who twice had escaped from
prison-the last time in company with
Bailey and Underhill on Memorial day
OF last year-shot and captured in
Tucumcari, N. Mex, last october and
now back in Lansing Prison.
Jim Clark, companion of Brady in
Evening star., 1934-01-07
CHICAGO MENACED
BYFAMINE IN MILK
1900 Embattied Farmers
Block All Highways to Dump
Supply for City.
Ey the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, January GA milk en-
barge, marked by violence and threat
ening the city's comfort and health,
frightened around Chicago tonight as
and defied their neighbors attempts to
deliver milk.
Chicago and scores of towns sur
rounding it within radius of 100 miles
we're menaced with a milk shortage by
Monday.
Thousands of gallons Of milk were
dumped on highways. and countless
farmers in Illinois, Wisconsin and In
diana refrained from marketing their
milk, or were restrained by neighbors.
Drives Strike Looms.
An added complication came In an
announcement that the Milk Wagon
Drivers Union of Chicago might call
a strike against wage cuts of from IS
to $3.50 week demanded by the big
dairies A strike vote will be taken
Wednesday.
Leslie G. Goudie, negotiating with
the dairies for the union, said he be-
lieved the companies had been unfair
to both the farmers and the drivers,
that the farmers had been willing to
accept cut in their price, but that
the diaries wanted them to assume too
much of the burden in reducing prices.
priNa rllttinC hU the in6anoniartS
according to Don N. Geyer, general
manager of the association, forced the
P. NJ. A. to withdraw from the agree-
ment to save the market from nom
member producers and wildcat" dis
tributors.
The real purpose of the strike, p M.
A. officials indicated, was to obtain
enactment of a milk code which would
license all dealers and force them to
pay minimum prices, probably S2.l
hundred pounds. to farmers.
Four Arrests Made.
The first arrests in the strike came
when four men, said by police to be
farmer members of the P. M. A, were
seized after they had dumped a load
of milk. There were so farmers in a
band which dumped about 4,500 pounds
of milk on Higgins road on the north
west edge of the city, but only four
were apprehended
More than 100000 pounds was re-
ported dumped in the district sur
rounding Elgin, III.
Milk was dumped also in Lake
County, Ill, and Waukegan, city of
5000 in that county was threatened
with shortage.
Stations likewise we're closed through
out the Southern Wisconsin district
which sends milk to Chicago.
An Official of the P. M. a. said that
mot one drop Of milk from Wisconsin"
entered Chicago today.
Evening star., 1934-01-07
WOULD TAX co-oPERATIvEs.
Virginian to File Suit to Collect
Sl,500,0

RICHMOND, Va, January 6 (P).-
Alleging that it is unconstitutional to
exempt cooperative marketing associa-
ttons from taxation, and that the State
nue. because of this exemption, j. N.
Lehman of Richmond has served notice
on three State officials that on Thurs
day he will petition the Virginia Su-
preme Court of Appeals for a writ of
rnandamus directing the collection Of
the 81 100000 in question from the as
sociations.
Evening star., 1934-01-07

handed down Immediately, naming
Mrs. Hobart as the sender of the
poisoned candy. Mrs. Hobart refused
to make statement when arrested.
When the attractively-wrapp box
arrived by parcel post at the hospital,
Fitzgerald opened 1t up, ate some Of the
candy and passed the box around to
his roommates. Within half an hour
Fitzgerald and several other patients
were taken desperately Ill. Physicians
diagnosed the attacks as food poisoning
and pumped out the stomachs of the
ailing men. Hospital officials said that
prompt action probably saved the lives
of those who had eaten the sweets.
Mrs. Hobart Is being taken to Phila-
delphia to answer the indictment.