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The Washington times., 1934-06-29
SILVER EXPORT
BANNED BY
TREASURY !: i.

In a vigorous move to prevent
further speculation in silver, Sec
rotary of the Treasury Morgenthau
last night issued an embargo order
forbidding further export Of the
metal except under Treasury
license.
The order was issued under
powers granted the Secretary by
the Dies silver purchase act
Penalties for violation of the act
are a $4,000 fine and 10 years
imprisonment as q maximum.
Silver Coin Exempt
The order exempts silver coins,
fabricated silver or silver present
in relatively small quantities in
ingots of other metals such as
copper.
Under the embargo licenses for
expectation will be issued by the
Secretary only upon presentation
of satisfactory proof that the
silver to be exported is to be used
in fulfilling legitimate obligation
incurred before the embargo was
issued.
Licenses also will be issued
where the silver has been con-
tinEously owned since before the
date of the order by q recognized
foreign government, foreign cen
trail bank, or the Bank for Inter
national Settlements.
ReexpOrt Exemption
Permission for export also will
be granted where it is proved
that the metal was imported for
immediate reexport. or was inn
ported in silver bearing materials
under an agreement to refine
such materials and export the
silver so refined.
. Finally the order will permit
the export Of silver if it is of
fineneSS 8 per cent or less with
the approval of the President, for
other purposes not inconsistent
with the purposes of the act.
The Washington times., 1934-06-29
10000 MILLION
RECORD On HILL
BY 1nterna tional News Service

BY IDternR tiOnRl News Service
The issue of 10,O00,million-dol-
lar Congress is paramount in the
1884 campaign.
It was hurled into the political
arena through report of Repre-
sentative Buchanan CD of Texas,
chairman of the House Appropria-
tions Committee, which revealed
the gross total of appropriations
made during the recently-closed
Seventy-third Congress was &c.
665, 682, 423.
Representative Buchanan, in
making public his report, said the
fiscal problems Of the recent Con-
gress surpassed even those of war
time Congresses.
He pointed out, however, that
the gross total includes a fund
of 1000 millions awarded to the
Secretary of the Treasury to deal
in gold and foreign exchange and
other instruments of credit and
securities, as well as to invest and
reinveSt United States securities.
and also an appropriation of
$l39, 299,357 for payment to the
surplus Of the Federal Reserve
Banks in connection with the
making of industrial and CONNER
cial loans, all Of which may be re-
covered.
The report revealed that more
than half of the net expenditures
were for emergency purposes. The
total for regular" expenses was
$3,62l $50, 1853.
The Washington times., 1934-06-29
May Motor Sales
Higher Than in 1888

Although retail sales of new
passenger automobiles decreased
by more than the usual seasonal
amount last month, they were 81
per cent greater than in May,
1898, and so per cent above the
1882 level. the Commerce Depart.
ment reported yesterday. Sales
for the first five months of 1884
were IS per cent above 1888 and
Al per cent above 1892.
The Washington times., 1934-06-29
Oil Control Probe
Opening Set July 9

A congressional subcommittee
inquiry into needs and methods
for controlling production and
sale Of petroleum will begin July
9. Representative Martin Dies
Cd, Texas. special counsel for
the group. declared the study will
include every phase of the oil in
duStry, and will open at Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
The Washington times., 1934-06-29
Sunday
On Mountain Ton

MIDDLETOWN, Md, June %.
Sunday. July l. will mark the
opening of the nineteenth annual
mountain-top religious service at
Champions Gap, near Gapland,
Washington county. The obser.
vance. founded 19 years ago by
the Rev. Harry c. Erdman, Of
the Burkittsville Lutheran Church,
will continue each Sunday dur
ing July.
The Washington times., 1934-06-29
Gold Firms Issue
Of Stocks Halted

A stop order against security
issues of the Unity Gold Corpo-
ration, Colorado company with
offices in st. Paul, Mimi. sus-
pending the effectiveness of a
registration statement filed under
the terms of the 1888 securities
act. was issued yesterday by the
Federal Trade Commission. The
commission held that the com.
pany'S statement was faulty,
The Washington times., 1934-06-29

principally to study the amount
of infestation in various localities
by the Bureau of Entomology Of
the United States Department Of
Agriculture. which has charge Of
Uncle Sans japanese beetle con.
troll program.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28
Laws Are Prospective

In the matter Of the naturaliza.
ton of John Sluga, 81 w. L. R.
800, Mr.. Justice Wheat, deliver,
ing the opinion of the court,
said:
Il am advised that this Sec
ton has not heretofore been
construed by any court. Its
language, as 1 read it, is pros
pective, not retrospective, and
was not intended to apply to
declarations which had been
filed before the effective date
of the act. To construe it
otherwise would be to disre-
gard the well established canon
of construction that statutes
are not to be given RETROSPECT
tive application unless the
. words used clearly show that
such was the intention Of the
legislature"
In White vs.. United States, 191
U. S. 545; 48 Law Ed. 295, cited
with favor in the Sluga case,
supra, the court there said, quot,
ing from Cooley Const. Lin. 529.
530-531:
"Where it is claimed that a
law is to have a retrospective
operation, such must be clearly
the intention evidenced in law
and its purposes or the court
will presume that the law-mak-
ing powers were acting for the
future only, and not for the
past, that it is enacting a rule
Of conduct which shall control
the future rights and dealings
Of men rather than review and
affix new obligations to that
which has been done in the
past Retrospective legisla-
ton is not favored"
In U. S. VS.. Cabot 81 w. L. R.
$50, this court said, citing Schwab
VS.. Doyle, 258, U. s. 500:
There is certainly in it TACT
Of September 8, 1916 no decla-
ration Of retrOactivity, clear,
strong and imperative which is
the condition expressed in U. S.
VS.. Heth."
In the case of Title Guaranty
& Surety Company VS.. United
States, 1877 Fed. SO, the court had
under consideration the question
as to whether or not an amend
ment to the Hurd act controlled
the time within which actions
might be brought upon a contract
entered into before the amend
ment was passed. Under the pro-
visions of the act of August 10,
1894, persons furnishing material
and labor to a contractor were au-
thorized to sue the surety upon
the bond but no time limit was
fixed for starting such action.
The amendment to the act ap-
proved February "a, 1905, pro.
vided that all actions for ma.
terials supplied had to be started
within twelve months from the
date of completion and final set
Element. The action in this case
was not brought upon the bond
within the period prescribed by
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28
Older Law Controls

In Sehl VS.. City of Syracuse,
81 N. Y. S. 482, the plaintiff was
injured by falling upon an icy side
walk. At the time of plaintiffs
injury the statute in effect re.
quired notice thereof be given the
city within six months from the
date of the injury. Four days
after the injury to plaintiff, the
law was amended to provide that
the omission of a person to
file claim within three months
shall be bar to an action there
for against the city" The court
held that the notice required was
that in effect at the time of the
injury and not the notice required
under the new statute passed four
days after the injury.
In this case the court said:
IF the injury occurred on the
last day before the statute took
effect, the injured person would
have the full period in which to
give the six months notice:
and, going back, the time to
give requisite notice would be
lessened until the existing right
would be entirely lost"
In Gilbert VS.. Alderman, 159
N. Y. 118; As L. R. A. 1920, the
court said:
"The only restriction upon
the legislature in the enact
ment of statutes Of limitation
is that a reasonable time be
allowed for suits upon cases
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Rights Are Not Lost

If the act does not apply to one
injured more than six months
prior to the passage of the act it
would not apply to one injured one
day prior thereto or two years be-
fore its passage. It was intended
by Congress for the law to apply
either to existing causes of action
or to causes of action growing out
of injuries suffered after the date
Of its passage. In view of the
well-eStablished rule that acts are
construed prospectively and that
a reasonable time must be allowed
within which to start action on ex-
lstlng causes before the bar of
the new statute takes effect, it is
believed that Congress intended to
pass a constitutional act and did
not attempt to unlawfully and ar
bltrarlly extinguish the rights of
persons having valid claims on the
date of the passage of the act.
1t is essential that statutes
shortening periods of limitations
allow a reasonable time after they
take effect for the commencement
Of suits on existing causes Of &C
ton. Terry VS.. Anderson, 95 u. S.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28
ACTIVE SWIM
CARD AHEAD

An active swimming program is
ahead for local tank addicts, meets
of all types due to make the sum-
mer season a busy one.
The first meet will take place
on July 4 at the Maryland Club
Gardens when an open meet com,
posed of four events for men and
women will be staged.
The following week the District
A. A. U. will hold its annual high.
board championships at Glen Echo
which will feature the renewal
of a rivalry between Bob Knight
indoor champion, and Johnny
Broaddus, outdoor title-holder.
In the women's events of this
same meet, Marie Duval and Ona.
lene Lawrence will compete. Miss
Duval was fourth place winner in
the Junior Indoor Diving Meet,
while Miss Lawrence won the title
in 1882.
Following is list of other
events during the summer:
July 14-Junior meet at Maryland
Club Gardens (tentative); Is. Washing
ton Canoe Club 44O-yard open swim for
men; IS, District A. A. U. outdoor cham
pionships, Takoma Pool
August 6-Junior National mems div
ing championships and District A. A. U.
22O-yard championships, Glen Echo; II,
Canoe Clubs 1mile swim; %, Canoe
Clubs annual Presidents Cup Smile
swim (team title now held by N. Y.
A. C.; individual by Ray Ruddy, N. Y.
A. C.
September 20-Opening event of Presl-
dent Cup three day carnival in form OF
swimming meet at Shoreham Pool.
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LEGAL NEWS---RECENT COURT RULING
Statute Shortening Period of Limitation, Is Denied
Retroactive Effect By Judicial Decision

1928; "a Law Ed. 365. Wilson VS..
Iseminger, 1876 U. S. IS; As Law
Ed. 804. Upton VS.. Smith, z l..
r. A. IN. S. 714 GA Ark. 1922.
In Terry VS.. Anderson, 95 U. S.
628, the third section of the
statute in question, passed March
6, 1869, recited as follows:
"That action on bonds or
other instruments under seal,
and all suits for the enfOrc.
ment Of rights accruing to in.
dividuals or corporations under
the statute, or acts of incOrpOra.
ton, or in any way by the Op-
Grafton of law which accrued
prior to June /, 1865, not now
barred, shall be brought by
January l, 1870, or the right of
the party, plaintiff, or claimant,
and all rights Of action for its
enforcement shall be forever
barred"
In this case the status granted
claimants whose cause of action
accrued prior to June l, 1865,
nearly 10 months after the pas
sage of the statute of March 6,
1869, within which to bring their
actions,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28

Well, it is just beyond Solo,
mons Island and is a spot where
George King and Ralph Murdoch
(get the label now?) are pulling
il nifty hauls of trout while less
knowing anglers have to be sat-
isfied with hardheadS.
A few days ago George and
Ralph pulled in % of the slim
beauties and few days before
they returned with Is.
other fishermen on this side
of the bay, and the other side,
too, as far as that goes, consid.
cred themselves fortunate when
they catch three or four trout.
The two trout-chaserS are get.
ting reckless, too. They are bet
ting that the next time they go
out they are going to bring back
so fighting finsters. CThe allit-
Grafton is ours)
Trout in Potomac
Fred Wasserman reports that
trout are also putting in appear
ance in the lower Potomac. A
trip to Piney Point Sunday Melted
Is of them and 81 hardheadS for
Fred and several friends, includ-
ing "Porky" and Willie Krause,
and Edgar Mason. They still
fished from Smiths Greek to
Point Lookout.
A group of G.. P. o. anglers,
headed by Marty Sommerseld,
picked up around 40 hardheads
and a dozen trout, the largest
weighing four pounds, fishing in
the mouth of the Choptank, Sat-
urday. Those in the party were
Joe Dinkin, Pete Peterson, Bill
Kirby, Fred Nobel, Watson Hill.
Owen Bradshaw, Bill NIGHTS and
John DeSSebaugh. They claim
the boat captain wasted their bait
unnecessarily so that he could
return to shore for another party.
Bag IS Hardheads
Frank Davis and Richard Blunt
bagged IS large hardheads at
Solomons Saturday.
Bubbles" Cahoon, Charlie San.
ford and Larry Homan found the
water around Broomes swarming
with eels and toadfish Monday
but pulled in IS hardheads. They
used shrimp for bait which helped
to attract the pests.
Sunday Homan and Ed Jameson
landed A better than pan7sized
hardheadS off North Beach Park,
in about five feet of water. They
caught the whole A on II blood
worms! Sounds like Scotch hard
heads.
Bass and catfish are being
caught around Cline's Boat House
on the Virginia side of Great
Falls.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28
INSECT LEAGUE
LISTS 5 CANES

Five games are carded in the
District Independent Insect
League tomorrow.
Merrick Boys Club VS.. Star
Radio on the South Ellipse at /
o'clock and Joe Kuhel plays
Neighborhood House on the North
Ellipse at the same hour.
R Street Sluggers meet Boys
Club Police No. on the South
Ellipse, Hemlock A. C. clashes
with Northeast Eagles on the East
Ellipse, and Lou Gehrigs and A
and P Cleaners mix it up on the
North Ellipse. These three games
start at II o'clock.
The following teams are after
games:
Crimson Midgets at North 1871.
Washington Al-States for Saturday and
Sunday at District 1925. Washington A.
c. Juniors for Sunday, Call Georgia
AIS. Mt Rainier Grays for the Fourth.
Adams 1895. Woodmen of the World
for Sunday, call Atlantic 26OS.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28
HELEN JACOBS
BEATS ANDRUS
IN ENGLAND
BY CHARLES A. SMITH


WIMBLEDON, Eng, June 28.-
Playing on the famous center
court today, Helen Jacobs, rank
ing woman player of the United
States, dressed in shorts, easily
eliminated her Skirted country
woman, Dorothy Andrus, of Con-
necticut, 60, 81, in the Sec
ond round of the All-England
tennis championships.
Miss Andrus apparently had
strained the muscles of her legs
and was not able to afford Miss
Jacobs much opposition. The
husky Californian mixed clever
drop shots with occasional Siz-
zling services and was in COM
mand all the way.
German Scores
The first match of the third
round brought together Mrs.
Hide Sperling, the great German
star, and Mrs. S. K. Edwards, of
England, the former winning,
60, Ga, by a brilliant display
of forehand driving to the cor
ners of the court.
Carolin Babcock, California,
eliminated the experienced Mrs.
A. H. Mellows, of England, 6-1,
6-3. Carolin was in excellent
form and dominated the match
from beginning to end. Her drop
shots were particularly puzzling
to her outclassed and unsteady
opponent.
Nine. Simone Matthew, who for
several years has been the No. /
player of France, met a tartar in
Mrs. Harry C. Hopman, of Aus
tralia, but managed to come
through after a hard fight, So,
6-l, 6-3. Frank Shields, of New
York, passed into the fourth
round of the mems singles when
his opponent, H. c. Fisher, of
Switzerland, defaulted.
Trims Countrywoman
Dorothy Round. England's ace,
trimmed her countrywoman Mary
Heeley, a member of the Wight
man Cup team, 6-3, 60. Spec
tators today were counting on
Miss Round to reach the final
against Helen Jacobs.
Fraulein Gill Aussem, of Ger
many, breezed through the third
round match against Errnyntrude
Harvey, of England, 6-1, 60.
Sidney Wood, the slender blond
from New York, handed H. G. N.
Cooper, one of the finest players
in England, fine trimming,
As, 60. 90, 81.
Lester Stoffen, the giant Cali.
forian, defeated Marcel Bernard,
Frances left handed ace, "a,
Ga, 6-3. They put on bril-
liant display of tennis with the
big American scoring often off
Bernard's backhand.
Fred Perry, who is generally
looked upon as the worlds great
est player, had to call on all his
esources to overcome young
Roderick Mcneil, the czech,
whose speciality is knocking over
champions.
Perry won, 0-6, 6-3, ST,
60.
David N. Jones, American cap
tain of the Cambridge University
tennis team, eliminated Josef
Sisa, member of the Czechoslova-
khan Davis Cup team, As, As,
54, 6+3.
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HUN 7 UPSE is
Ed SUFFER-

HAvERFORD. Pa, June %.
Gilbert Agnew Hunt, the 18-year-
old M. I. T. student from Wash
ington, D. c.. who is apparently
getting stronger as the National
intercollegiate Tennis Tourna-
ment at Merton Cricket Club
progresses, is given a chance to
beat the defending champion,
Jack Tidball. University of Cali
fornia, by observers here. Hunt
meets Tidball today in the fea-
ture match.
Yesterday the Washington
youth, who had been playing in
his bare feet, doomed socks and
shoe in Difference to a heel
blister, and defeated Edward
Eutter, Of Tulane, brother of the
famous Cliff Suffer, Go. 6-3.
Another Washington star, Don
Morrison, of University of Vir-
ginia, played yesterday in the
doubles with Jack Taylor. but
iost to McGill UniverSity's Watt
and Murray, IS, 8-6.
Tidball defeated Gene Smith,
University of California, Ga,
Ga. and Gene Mako, of Uni
versity Of Southern California,
another favorite, downed George
Stevens, Yale, 60, 6-3.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28

Of action heretofore existing"
In the case of United States
VS.. Heth, 3 Cranch, Alb, 2 Law
Ed. 479-483, the court said:
words in a statute ought
not to have q retrospective
operation unless they are so
clear, strong and imperative
that no other meaning can be
annexed to them, or unless the
intention Of the legislature can.
not be otherwise satisfied"
This rule ought especially TO
be adhered to when such a con.
struction will alter the preexist-
ing situation of parties, or will
affect or interfere with their
antecedent rights. services, and
remuneration; which is so OBJ
viously improper that nothing
ought to uphold and indicate
the Interpretation but the un.
equivocal and inflexible import
of the terms and the manifest in.
tention of the legislature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1934-06-28
Law Sets Time Limit

The act of Congress, in ques'
ton, approved February %, 1888,
Public No. 385, Seventy7second
Congress Oh. R. 1850 provides:
"That no action shall be
maintained against the District
OF Columbia for unliquidated
damages to person or property
unless the claimant within six
months after the injury or
damage was sustained, he, his
agent or attorney gave notice
in writing to the Commission
ers of the District of Columbia
of the approximate time, place.
and circumstances Of such in
jury or damage; Provided, how
ever, that a report in writing
BY the Metropolitan Police De-
partment, in regular course OF
duty, shall be regarded as a
sufficient notice under the
above provision"
In view of the many decisions
of the courts to the effect that
statutes shortening the period OF
limitations must allow a reason
able time for filing existing claims
before the bar of the new statute
takes effect; and in view OF the
further well-eStablished and fun
Gamental rule that statutes are
construed prospectively and not
letroactively, Congress must have
passed this act with the intent
that all persons thereafter in.
jured must give the required
notice. In view of the foregoing
well-established rules, it is incon-
ceivable that Congress intended
to attempt to extinguish the
rights of persons injured prior
to the passage of the act.
The general rule of construction
of statutes is that they take effect
from and after the date of their
passage. Gilbert VS.. Alderman
159 N. Y. 118: 4. L. r. A. 118. I'm
der this general rule. persons in
jured on or after February %, 1888
the effective date of said act, are
required to file notice of claim
within the prescribed period; those
injured prior to the act are not
required to give the notice. II
this construction is incorrect, the
act is unconstitutional, for the
right of action, however just
would be extinguiShed. A person
seriously injured as a direct result
of negligence on the part of the
District of Columbia, whose claim
was valid on February 81, 1888,
and who had been injured more
than six months prior thereto
could not maintain an action If
the statute is retroactive, unless he
had been fortunate enough to have
started his action in court prior
thereto. His vested right of &C
ton would thereby be extinguished
This would not be a statute of linn
itations but an unlawful attempt
to extinguish his rights.
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District Lawyers Club Holds
Its Outing Today

It has been several months
since the Barristers Club has had
good play, and they have set
today aside for that purpose.
Early this morning those who
chose golf journed to Annapolis
Roads and INDUCED their favorite
pastime in the cool of the day,
then awaited the arrival of others
whose inclinationS are for other
forms of amusement requiring less
exertion and at the same time
furnishing possibly more enjoy
ment.
The group will sit down to an
elaborate spread on the terrace
later in the evening after the
swimming and tennis. A dinner
on the terrace will wind up the
official entertainment program.
Robert F. Cogswell, president of
the club, was absent from the city
for the two weeks next preced-
ing" the outing, but he had a
good committee to arrange things
in his absence.
Kenneth Parkinson. vice pres
ident of the club; John F. Rich
ter, and Charles E. Pledger, will
accept responsibility for the out
ing.
Judge George Aukum and his
good ship have weighed anchor
for other parts and that is why
the judge may seem a little pre-
occupied when the afternoons
get real hot.
The judge, always an ardent
yachtsman, several years ago
found the wide reaches Of the
Potomac made him feel a little