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Evening star., 1934-03-30
WOMAN'S DRY GROUP
TO CHANGE PURPOSE
Law Enforcement Body Will
Become Political Action So
ciety Under Plans.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Mrs. Henry w. Peabody, chairman
OF "the Woman's National Committee
OF Law Enforcement" yesterday an
swered the question Of what will hap
pen to that dray group whose title was
based on the eighteenth amendment.
Issuing call TO its eleventh annual
meeting to be held at the Dodge Hotel
here on April 10. she said in state
ment mailed from Orlando, Fla. that
the purpose was to change the group
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Mussolini Names Air Chief.

ROME, March 80 R.-Premier
Mussolini has appointed Squadron
Gen. Giuseppe Vale yesterday as chief
of the air force general staff to Sue
ceed Gen. Antonio Bosio, who was re-
lieved OF his post for an unannounced
reason. Gen. Vale has been un-
dersecretary for air and in 1880
was leader of an Italian mass flight
to South America,
Evening star., 1934-03-30

to Q National Society for Political
Action"
more than 20 States are already
organized, and urge national leader
ship which may be effective in the
November elections" she added.
The meeting will discuss the pres.
ent situation and its remedy, which
must be not merely by education, but
by political action"
Mrs. Peabody formerly lived in Mas
sachusetts.
Evening star., 1934-03-30
Named to Brown U. Chair.

PROVIDENCE, r. l.. March 30 LP).
DIR. Robert Pierce Casey of the Uni
versity Of Cincinnati, has been ap-
pointed chairman of the Department
of Biblical Literature at Brown Uni
versity to succeed Prof. Millar Bur-
rows. Prof. Burrows has accepted the
Winkler professorship of Biblical
theology at Yale.
Evening star., 1934-03-30

Attorney of Chicago, charged with
'unprofessional conduct" by Secre
tary OF the Interior Harold Ickes, who
has asked the Illinois Bar Association
for an investigation. Nalmin and At
torney C. w. Larsen, also of Chicago,
are accused by Ickes of making false
attack on his reputation and with
threatening to make the charges
public unless they received Federal
jobs. The pair deny the accusations
which they claim grew out of litiga-
ton concerning an estate in which
Ickes represented the administrator
while practicing law in Chicago in
1929. "A. P. Photo.
Evening star., 1934-09-04
SURVEY SHOWS TEXTILE
STRIKE CALL is IGNORED
BY rs PCT. OF WORKERS
Sloan Sees Quick Strike End,
Declaring Fe,o in Sympathy
President of Cotton Textile Institute
Says Majority of Workers in Ne,o
ENGLAND Intend to Remain on Jobs.

over sin a reasonable time-I can't
say when"
From messages we have received,
public opinion seems very much on
the side of the manufacturer" he
asserted. THE manufacturers are
standing on the code and what has
been accomplished by the code"
He took occasion to answer Francis
j. German, president of the United
Textile Workers and chairman of the
Strike Committee.
THE chairman of the Strike Com
mittee," he said, has chosen to make
the so-called stretch-out system the
principal issue Of the controversy"
Such a situation exists only in the
imagination of the strike chairman.
mo conditions such as he describes
prevail in the industry.
ut is inconceivable that they could,
when the fact Is that the Bruere
board (the Cotton Textile National
Industrial Relations Board, set up
particularly to deal with this very
matter has numbered among its men,
bers from its creation one of the
country's outstanding labor leaders,
Maj. George Berry, ever alert to
protect the workers rights"
Evening star., 1934-09-04
900 Fingerprint Records
Moued by Justice Department

Division of Investigation, and other
officials heaved sighs Of relief when
the last of the Identification records
were housed safely in the new fire.
proof quarters on the top floor of
the new building at Tenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue. Justice au-
thorities had lived in constant fear
of a fire in the old offices of the fin
fierprint unit IN the old Southern
Railway Building.
Many of the records are fireplace
able and a fire could have done ir-
reparable damage to records and to
the Governments campaign to round
up predatory outlaws.
Moving Of the file cases was ac-
complished without a hitch, in ac-
cordance with painstaking plans made
weeks ahead. Every cabinet and desk
had been numbered, and the floor
Of the new quarters had been dia-
grammed with chalk so that every
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Evening star., 1934-09-04

Working swiftly over the week end
while Federal officers stood guard,
officials of the Justice Departments
Division of Investigation today had
completed removal to the new De-
partment of Justice building Of more
than 100000 criminal fingerprint
records.
1t was the biggest rush order
moving job ever performed in
the Government departments, it was
said, including the transfer since
Saturday afternoon of more than
1000 file cases and hundreds Of desks.
Among the carefully guarded files
were special steel cases containing
classified single fingerprints of more
than 5000 of Americas most notori-
GUS Observation-Disclosures, murderers.
extortionists and other gangsters Of
the rowing type. Gangland would
give a fortune to obtain possession
of these records so that they could be
destroyed.
J. Edgar Hoover, director Of the
Evening star., 1934-09-04
LOAN FOR SEWAGE
PLANT ASSURED
Negotiations for P. W. A.
Funds for Blue Plains Prof.
ect in Final Stage.
After more than two months delay,

After more than two months delay,
negotiations providing for early re-
lease of funds for the Districts sewage
disposal plant at Blue Plains were
entering their final stage today.
The Public Works Administration
was to forward to the District Com
missioners for their signature a for
NAL contract covering the terms on
which the District government is
to borrow 100000 for the sewage
disposal plant, which eventually is in
tended to hook up with prospective
projects in Prince Georges County,
Md, and Arlington County, Va, to
prevent pollution of the Potomac.
This was the first step in the final
negotiations. The contract must be
returned for the signature of Public
Works Administrator Ickes, before it
becomes valid.
The rate of interest, it was under
stood, was fixed at per cent, the
usual rate in P. w. A. contracts.
Whether this rate would apply the
first year was not disclosed, but it is
understood that the contract will fol-
low the general terms laid down by
Congress. These stipulate that inter-
est shall not be applied until after
the third year.
The contract sets up schedule of
payments to P. w. A. and also fixes
the P. w. A. scale of wages in this
zone for workmen employed on the
project.
P. w. A. officials would not disclose
the schedule of payments in advance
of the contract being sent to the Dis
trict Commissioners.
Wage Scale Decided.
In considering the wage scale,
which has been a bone of contention
among legal experts, P. w. A. officials
finally threw out the Bacon-Davis act
as not applying to the Districts sew
age disposal project.
The P w. A. wage scale for the CEN
trail zone. in which Washington is
located, provides $110 per hour for
skilled labor and As cents per hour
for unSkilled labor.
1t is understood the same rates of
wages will be applied on work for the
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-09-04
''Death Casp' of Cosmic Rays
Is Observed Far Under Red Sea

nection with latitude and directional
effects, demanded existence of
charged particles entering the atmos-
phere with energies greater than
100000, 100000 electron volts. Such
particles, it was estimated, should
make up about IA per cent of the
rays observed at sea level
The second observation was that
cloud chamber Can instrument able
to photograph and measure the ion
lied path of electronic particles) ex-
periments showed few, if any, such
high-power rays
The answer to the puzzle, as out
lined by DR.. Swami in a theory first
promulgated in 1924 and now sup
ported by the Dutch expeditions find
ings, is that rays with energies equal
to 100000, 600, 900 or more volts do
not ionize (produce ions at the rate
Of about so in each centimetre of
their path through the atmosphere) :,
but do collide with atoms and send
Continued on Page Q, Column u
Evening star., 1934-09-04
OTTO IS REPORTED
ENGAGED TO MARIA
Austrian Pretender and
italian Princess Are Ru-
mored Betrothed.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSs.
VIA REGGIO, Italy, September A.
Aristocratic members Of the encourage
Of zita, former Empress of Austria,
said today that an engagement for
the Archduke Otto, pretender to the
throne Of Austria, to marry Princess
Maria of Italy have been definitely
concluded, but that the betrothal will
not be announced officially for some
time.
King Victor Emmanuel and Queen
Elena of Italy came here today with
their daughter. the pretty Princess
Maria, who, many time before, has
been rumored as Otto's intended.
They drove by automobile to the
Villa Pianore, the Bourgan residence
where Zita, the former Empress of
Austria, has been living for the last
month. Their visit had not been an
nounced publicly.
The royal couple and their daughter
left their Summer residence at San
Rossore in closed limousine without
an escort and drove direct to Zita's
villa. They arrived at pm. and re-
ceived a salute by the Hapsburg SER
wants at the gate. Zita welcomed
them Immediately inside the villa.
With the former Empress was her
brother, Prince Felix.
The group went into the villa S
snowy drawing room, where the men,
bers of the party engaged in a rapid
conversation which lasted an hour.
At 4 pm. Victor Emmanuel, Elena
and Maria re-entered their automobile
and drove away as unpretentiously as
they had arrived.
Evening star., 1934-09-04
SPOKANE POLICE READY
FOR VIOLENCE IN STRIKE
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash, September A.
Modified like small army, Spokane's
police force was prepared for any out
breaks of violence that may come
from the resumption Of street car and
bus service today
Commissioner of Safety A. B. Col
burn ordered the mobilization after
he said sympathizers of striking bus
and car operators threatened to stop
the attempt of the Spokane United
Railways to resume service. Violence
interrupted operations last Thursday
night
Police Chief Ira Martin asserted
between $50 and 400 radicals were in
the city prepared to attack the buses
as soon as service started. Few of the
IS strikers have been found to have
been involved in previous trouble.
Heavily armed officers we're ordered
to ride each Of the so or more busses
scheduled to leave the barns for the
day shift.
Evening star., 1934-09-04
Il gent for 400 Homes Offers
To Cut Relief Rents O. Fourth
Bases Reduction on Guarantee-Criti.
cises Emergency Committee for
Policy in Making Payments.

An offer to make a Is per cent
reduction in rent on all properties
under his control that are occupied
by emergency relief clients if the
Emergency Relief Committee will
guarantee payment of the rent from
month to month, was made today by
Herbert A. Simon. veteran real estate
agent and former vice president of
the Washington Housing Corp.
Simon's Office has approximately
400 small dwellings of the class occu-
pied by relief tenants under its
control.
Simon's proposition was intended as
an answer to the recent charges of
the Relief Committee that rentals
paid by some of the relief clients
are excessively high in relation to
the location and condition of the
properties.
Elwood Street, director of public
welfare, said the proposal was well
Evening star., 1934-09-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, September A.
In the death gasp" of the cosmic
rays DR.. w. F. G. Swami, research
physicist, sees an answer to one Of
the countless puzzles of the myste-
rious rays life.
The dying throes of cosmic radia-
ton were observed 1000 feet below
the surface of the Red Sea a year
ago, the Franklin Institutes Bartol
Research Laboratory head says, but
they passed unrecognized.
The rays death came with a squirt
of activity, or ioniZation, as observed
by a. Dutch coSmic ray expedition
headed by a scientist named j. Clay,
DR.. Swami says, and the squirt merely
mystified the expedition.
Actually, the physicist asserts, in
stead of being puzzling the squirt
serves to harmonic two conflicting
observations concerning the cosmic
rays behavior.
The first of these, made In con-
Evening star., 1934-09-04
NEW STOCK BOARD
IN CONTROL OCT. |
Kennedy Tells President De.
tails Will Be Completed
Soon.
BY the Associated Press.


HYDE PARK, N. Y, September A.
Joseph Kennedy, chairman of the new
Federal Stock Exchange Commission,
today reported to President Roosevelt
the commission would take over con-
troll of the vast securities market on
October / ana he added he saw no
harmful effect to legitimate busi-
ness in it.
En- route to Washington to complete
the rules and regulations, Kennedy
said the vital manipulative regula-
tions would be drafted in the next
week or so.
No Bad Effect Seen.
Asked by newspapermen what the
effect of Federal control on the mar
ket would be, Kennedy, who himself
was formerly a trader, said cit may
cut down the manipulative volume,
but can see no effect upon natural
prices and no harm to legitimate
business"
He was asked what the cut in VOL
ume might mean. 1T may mean the
loss of some brokers' fees, that's ALL"
he replied.
Smaller Exchanges.
Kennedy said he discussed with the
President the attitude of the Commits
sion toward the smaller exchanges
throughout the country. These will
be taken care of on their individual
merit" he explained.
He saw no reason why Federal con-
troll would prevent bull or bear"
swings in the market but he believed
the elimination of pools would 60 far
to end manipulation and keep the
swings within natural economic
bounds.
Evening star., 1934-09-04
BY the Associated Press.

BY Jne hSSOCldLeQ fTeSS.
NEW YORK, September 4.-George
A. Sloan president of the Cotton Tex
tile Institute, today said that on the
basis of kilograms it was evident "the
majority of New England workers are
not in sympathy with the strike move
ment and intend to remain by thar
jobs
Sloan said he had heard from mills
employing l25,000 of the $50 600 New
England textile workers. Of this
number, mills employing 100000 were
open and running full time. Sloan
said.
He added only $4,000 employees of
mills heard from are out on strike.
These mills are located in New Bed
ford, Mass, where 18 are shut down
and only 3 operating, Sloan said the
messages informed him.
I'm the first day of strike which
reflects the attitude of the workers" ="
Sloan said, figures to us indicate that
the majority of New England work.
ers are not in sympathy with the
strike movement and intend to re-
main by tl4eir jobs"
Sloan predicted the strike would be
Evening star., 1934-09-04

worth considering" provided, of
course, the rents are low enough. He
declared the department appreciated
some of the difficulties in collecting
rents from persons on relief rolls who
have been put on budgets and fire.
quently spend the money allotted for
rents for other purposes. The relief
committee is paying rents for about
5000 families.
Simon declared owners of the
properties occupied by those on the
relief rolls actually lose money be-
cause of the inability of the agents
to collect the rentals.
IF the relief committee really
wants reduction in rents, I sug-
gest they ask the owners or agents of
the property occupied by the teuhnt
to take Is per cent reduction In
present rentals if they will guarantee
the payments of rents from month
Continued on Page 3, Column A.
Evening star., 1934-09-04
CODE HEAD BRANDS.
STRIKE A FAILURE.
Peter Van Horn Finds Ma.
jority of Mills Are in
Operation.
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, September 4.-Peter
Van Horn, chairman of the Silk Code
Authority. said today that survey
of the textile strike as applied to silk,
rayon and synthetic fabric industries
showed the strike was almost a COM
plete failure"
Van Horn said that the "entire
South is operating normally" and said
that the survey did not show "a single
mill shut down in that district"
Reports from New Jersey, he said,
disclosed that the strike was a "com-
plete failure" with all mills under
operation.
Few Mills Declared Closed.
No mills were shut down in New
York State, he said, while the survey
in Pennsylvania showed less than
per cent of the workers responded to
the strike call.
Van Horn said that the trouble in
Pennsylvania, which constitutes about
one-half of the entire industry, up
until noon was limited to three out of
the States 400 mills.
Al NCW GiASld ld1lO, 1lC odAO llC ICeTilcu
approximately 10 per cent of the
operations were down.
1T is evident" Van Horn said
that less than per cent of the total
industry has been affected to date
and that the strike call has been q
failure as it applies to the silk, rayon
and other synthetic fabric manu-
facturers under 5he silk code au-
thority.
Lack of Sympathy Seen.
Even in the few districts where
mills closed the workers are not SYM
pathetic to the call of the general
strike. This further shows that the
workers operating in mills under the
silk code, Notwithstanding the extrav-
agant statement to the contrary made
by the strike leaders, appreciate that
fair wages are paid and are satisfied
by the treatment by their employers
and feel that they should not be made
a part of the difficulty between the
labor leaders and the cotton industry >
Evening star., 1934-09-04
P0DERJAY ExTRADITION
NEGOTIATIONS STARTED
Assistant District Attorney of
New York Reaches Vienna
in Tufverson Case.
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA, September 4.-Vincent r.
Impelliteri, assistant district attorney
Of New York, arrived today and began
negotiations with the Austrian gov
eminent for extradition of ivan Poder-
jay, Yugoslav subject, on q charge of
perjury In connection with his mar
riage to and the subsequent disappear
ance Of Agnes Tufverson, New York
attorney.
No obstacles to the extradition were
expected.
The Vienna police announced that
Susanne Ferrand, who has been living
In Vienna as Poderjay's wife, will be
released from prison since authorities
have found no evidence to connect her
with the Tufverson case.
Evening star., 1934-09-04
NEWTAXAT|ONLAW
WILL Be SOUGHT
Need of Additional Revenue
Emphasized in Resigna-
tion. of Douglas.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A $500, 200, 900 tax bill is one of the
chores to be assigned to Congress In
January.
Also. it was reported today, the ad-
ministration is planning to ask for
substantial amounts for relief and
other purposes.
The latter information came from
friend of Lewis w. Douglas, who has
resigned as director of the budget. It
was said Douglas, former Repre-
sentative from Arizona, opposed this
action.
Douglas was represented as resign
ing his post because of conflict in
views with President Roosevelt over
the administration financial program.
The Arizonan, however, was said to
maintain his high personal regard for
Mr.. Roosevelt. He has offered to help
his successor familiariZe himself with
his duties.
Tax legislation will be necessary be-
cause of the expiration on July 1, 1895,
Of levies turning half-billion dollars
into the Treasury.
General Sales Tax Proposed.
Some members of Congress would
like to impose general sales tax to
provide revenue, but leaders believe it
would be defeated unless recommended
by the administration. 1t already has
been rejected by Congress.
Among the taxes to expire under
present law are the manufacturers
excise, the 1-cent-a-gallon levy on
gasoline and imposts on lubricating oil,
electrical energy, automobiles and
parts, communications systems and
admissions.
Declining to be quoted, Douglas
friend said it had been an open secret
around the Treasury and among
members of Congress that Douglas
did not approve Of the Presidents s
financial program. Douglas, he ex-
planned, felt he could not conform
his principles and policies of govern
ment to those of the Chief Executive
and that 1t would be better for all
concerned to step aside to allow the
President to pick man who could
work in harmony with him. 1t was
said that his resignation came as a
surprise to Mr.. Roosevelt. 1t was
intimated that Mr.. Roosevelt asked
Douglas to remain in office until after
the November elections.
However, because the drafting Of
the budget gets under way this month,
Douglas was said to feel that he could
not go along and prepare a budget
he could not conscientiously advo-
cate.
Balanced Budget Advocate.
It was pointed ,out that when Doug
las left his Arizona seat in the house
to accept the budget post, he declared
CONTINUED on Page 2, Column ~
Evening star., 1934-09-04
i. S. Firm Head Bares Pact
With Vickers-Zaharoff Given
ssCut" on Spanish Business.
GERMAN ''U'' BOATS WERE BUILT
ON AMERICAN PATENTS, HE SAYS
$l7 100000 Claimed After War for In
fringement-Foreign Governments
Paid Royalties for Designs.
BY the Associated Press.


Testimony that Sir Basil European man of mystery
received commissions from American building
which had agreed with British division of the
world submarine building put before committee
today in it's munitions inquiry
Henry R. CarSe president of
Conn., said his had paid amounting
$4,000 business between 1919 $780,
official said Zaharof Span
ish business" - " r
The committee also told that the "U" boats
the world war had been built patent
CarSe testified his had agreement with Vickers
Ltd of England for the foreign gov
enments by which the trading territory divided.
Patents Held Infrnged.
He said the German "U" built through an
patents through an Austrian
with which Electric Boat had a contract
Electric Boat claimed for nfringement of the
tract he said, but had not received anything
Evening star., 1934-09-04
ARRIVE IN SIBERIA
American Postal and Air Com

American Postal and Air Com
pany officials at East Cape.
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, September 4
O0.-Over the route of the contem-
plated Siberian United States Airmail
Service, a party of American Postal
and Air Co. officials few today toward
Anadyr, Siberia, to confer with Soviet
officials.
Wireless advices received here said
the party arrived at East Cape, Siberia,
from Nome Sunday The group in
cludes Harllee Branch, Second Assist
ant Postmaster General; Robert
Thach, Pan-American Anyways vice
president and Lyman Peck, general
manager of Pacific Alaska Airways
They are being flown by Joe Crosson,
veteran Alaskan pilot.