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Evening star., 1934-05-18
P. INSPECTOR GETS
INTERNATIONAL POST
John E. Lamiell to Become Di-
rector of Division of
Mail Service.

John E. Lamiell, post Office in
spector from the Cincinnati Office, to-
Gay was appointed director of the Di-
vision of International Postal Service,
Post Office Department, succeeding
Eugene R. White, who is retiring.
LamieIl is a native of Canton. Ohio,
where he was born in 1872. He en-
tered service in the Canton Post Office
and since 1914 has been post office
inspector.
He is an accomplished linguist and
in 1917 was selected to reorganize the
Haitian postal service. He will take
Office June /.
White is leaving the department
after 80 years service, retiring under
the 30-year optional retirement law.
He recently was injured badly in an
automobile accident which caused the
death of his wife. Whites home Is in
Springfield, Va, near Alexandria.
Ocean mail operation comes under
the international postal service.
Evening star., 1934-05-18

Cross, who reviewed the American
rose annual for 1884, and Niels Han
sen, who discussed the merits of IS
specimens of roses which were ex-
hibited at the meeting.
1t was announced that the society
is contemplating participating in
three garden shows, one at Alexan-
dria, May go; at Georgetown, May
90 and 80, and the Trowell Club
Show at Wesley Heights, next Thurs
day
Evening star., 1934-05-18
ROSE SOCIETY HEARS
MARYLAND U. EXPERT

The use of different roses in gar
dens for decorative purposes and ef-
feet was the subject of an illustrated
lecture by Prof. Walter Raymond Bal
lard of Maryland University at a
meeting of the Potomac Rose Society
last night at the Y. w. c. A
Other speakers were DR.. Whitman
Evening star., 1934-05-18
MISSIONS REPUDIATED
BY IRREGULAR" BAPTISTS
Fundamentals Faction to With
draw Support From Northern
Church Group.

BY the Associated Press.
GARY, Ind. May 18.-The Asso-
citation of Regular Baptists of the
United States, closing its three-day
convention here, voted yesterday to
recommend that all its members with
draw their support from the foreign
missions maintained by the Northern
Baptist con 7ention.
The association, With 200 delegates
representing score of States, repre-
sents the fundamentals school of
thought in the Baptist faith. broken
away from the northern group on the
claim that the latter is dominated by
modernist thought.
The resolution urged support of
fundamentalist mission groups.
Evening star., 1934-05-18
POLL SUPPORTING
NEW DEAL z TO |
Literary Digest Reports on
Partial Returns From
3 Eastern States.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May l8.-Three East
ern industrial States in the Literary
Dlgest's Nationwide poll. have voted
thus far almost to l in support of
policies of the Roosevelt administra-
ton, it was announced last night.
First returns in the $4,000, ,000-bal-
lot straw vote included 44,909 votes
from New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania
OF this amount 2s,724 ballots. or
6619 per cent of the total, were
marked yes" in answer to the ques-
ton: do you approve on the whole
the acts and policies of Roosevelt's
first year?"
Voting no" were 1915 persons,
1881 per cent.
Shifts Disclosed.
An analysis of how the same voters
balloted in 1882 revealed that of those
who voted for Roosevelt then l9 %
per cent now disapprove of his pro-
gram, while 8078 per cent still sup
port him.
OF those who voted for Herbert
Hoover, 4123 per cent affirmed sup
port of the administration in the
straw vote. while So II per cent Of the
Hoover supporters opposed the Roose-
welt policies.
Conclusions Indefinite.
Editorially, the Literary Digest said
sit would be rash to jump to the con-
cluSion that the ultimate verdict OF
the referendum of 100000 ballots,
now in process of distribution over the
entire country, is foreshadowed by
this handful of early returns.
The first returns from the three
States eyes" meaning support of the
Roosevelt program) follow:
Yes. No.
New York ,,,,,...... 26,5O6 1899
New Jersey ....... 2,322 l,132
Pennsylvania ........ 1896 5l4
Evening star., 1934-05-18
FRENCH CRUISER HERE
Jeanne D'Arc Will Make Visit
to ANNAPOLIS,

NORFOLK, Va. May 18 (P)-The
French cruiser Jeanne D'Arc passed
through the Virginia Capes yesterday
From Navy sources it was learned the
ship was bound for Annapolis but
no other information was available.
In naval quarters it was said the
cruiser probably was paying cour-
tesy visit to the Naval Academy in
connection with a training cruise.
Evening star., 1934-05-18

"HE liquor stamps they
press Engraving Printing
by District officials Left to right George W. ofu and Mrs Will
i Alcohol Beverage
Alvin W. Hall director Of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing!
A.
Others present Commissioner Allen Maj Daniel Donovan District
his assistant Arthur Pkerton
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Commissioners ordered 3450000
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Evening star., 1934-03-06
BLUEGE MOTHER-IN-LAW,
DESPONDENT, KILLSSELF
Mrs. Mary Emily Heilig, Mother
Of Ball Players Wife, Feared
Dependant Old Age.

Unwilling to face a dependent old
age, Mrs. Mary Emily Hellig, GA,
mother -in-law of Ossie Bluege, vet
eran third baseman for the Washing
ton base ball team, ended her life
by gas light night in the kitchen of
her daughters home, SOL Thirty,
ninth street.
Mrs. Margaret Bluege. her daugh-
ter, discovered the body when she
went to investigate the gas leakage.
All jets of the gas stove had been
turned on.
A note left by Mrs. Heilig read:
This is good-by, my child. Here
tofore, each storm, and there have
been many. came on my horizon and
found me ready to fight to the best
of my ability, and 1t seems strange
that I can't play the game. Facing
dependent old age with infirmities is
my Waterloo"
Mrs. Heilig was pronounced dead
by q private physician. Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald issued a cer-
tidcate Of suicide.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
LIQUOR LICENSING
SCORED BY GROUP
Forest Hills Association in
Doubt o: Adequate
Protection.

The outlook for adequate protection
OF residential sections against on-sale
dispensing Of hard liquor by the pres
ent Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
was described as ''pessimistic" by
members of the Forest Hills Citizens
Association. meeting last night at the
Ben w. Murch School.
Association delegates to hearings on
protested licenses at the District
Building late yesterday afternoon re-
ported on their efforts to halt the
granting Of a license for the sale Of
hard liquor to a barbecue shop in the
1900 block of Connecticut avenue.
L. A. Carruthers and George 3.
Potter were the leaders in the discus
sion. They charged:
1T seems to be the attitude OF the
Liquor Control Board to grant every
license applied for unless the law spe-
cifically forbids 1t by its limitations. :"
The Control Board, they pointed
out, has discretion in the matter OF
license granting, and yet it has con-
sistently refused to exercise its powers
to refuse licenses in the face Of citi-
zens' protests.
Fear Of Hard Drinks.
Members of the association agreed
that If the proprietor Of the barbecue
shop had been reasonable" and had
applied for a license to sell the new
higher-powered beer and light wines
they would not have protested. But.
they said, to seek a license to sell
hard liquor drinks in an establish
ment which has dance hall attached
to it and draws q transient "automo-
bile" clientele was more than any
self-respecting citizens wanted in i'm
mediate proximity to their homes"
Mrs. Leslie Boudinot Wright, secre-
tary Of the association, made . brief
but spirited attack on DR.. Frank w.
Ballou, superintendent of schools, for
what she contended was his failure to
ask for new school-house construction
before its need became alarmingly
imperative.
"Dr. Ballou," Mrs. Wright said,
knows the needs of the District, but
he won't ask for buildings until the
schools are so crowded that he can't
help himself. And then q long time
intervenes before the schools can be
built, and the children suffer. think
the trouble is that he has no real in
tereSt in the children of the District"
Question Of Blame.
Mr.. Carruthers, however, said that
as long as blame was being heaped on
DR.. Ballou, 1t might be well to re.
member that most of our trouble lies
right there in our District Building
and up there in the Federal Bureau
of the Budget"
If the Commissioners refuse to
spend the money that Ballou fights
for" he said, 1T is easy to see where
Congress gets its attitude. There's
the case of the Junior high school for
Anacostia. Funds were appropriated
and the Commissioners were author
lied to 60 ahead and let the contract
to begin the construction. Then the
Commissioners say they haven't 20
enough to finish out . years work,
and the Budget Bureau won't give any
more because the money already made
available wasn't spent. Then don't
forget our own Woodrow Wilson High
School-20 months gone and the con.
tract not let yeti"
The Forest Hills Association elected
nve persons to membership.
Evening star., 1934-03-06

Postmaster General James A. Far
ley late yesterday announced the
Mothers day postage stamp, to be
issued about May /. will represent
James Abbott Macneill Whistler's
celebrated Portrait of My Mother" :"
In conference with Mrs. w. e.
Ochiltree, Mrs. H. C. Boone and Mrs.
H. H. McCluer, officers Of the Amer
ican War Mothers, original sponsors
Of the stamp, Mr.. Farley chose the
famous painters concept Of universal
motherhood as the central motif Of
the design.
President Roosevelt, it Is under
stood, was the first to make the sug-
gestion The idea was tndorsed by
editorial comment in the daily and
philatelic press.
Mrs. Whistler was a beautiful
Southern woman, born Anna Mac
neill or Mcneil. and her gifted son
was the first of her four children
The canvass in which she is por-
trayed was completed in London in
1871 or 1872, and was exhibited at
the Royal Academy in the latter
year From the time Of the subjects
death, in 1881, it remained in the
artists studio where he could see
it every day."
Evening star., 1934-03-06

Shown In New York, Philadelphia
and Chicago, 1t eventually was offered
for sale at only $1,000. but no pur-
chaser could be found. The British
government declined an opportunity
to acquire it. Finally, after long ne
gotiations. the French government, at
the suggestion Of Georges Clemenceau,
bought 1t for 1000 francs. It was
hung in the Luxembourg Museum un-
til 1926, when 1t was transferred to
the Louvre. the first American work
to be admitted there Now on tour
in the United States as gesture Of
international courtesy. 1t is insured
for approximately $4,000, 900.
The stamp Is to be a national trib-
ute to mothers. and Alvin W. Hall,
director Of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. has joined with Mr.. Far
ley in prophesying that 1T should
prove the most popular stamp brought
out in the United States since the
beginning Of the century"
Mrs. Ochiltree has announced that
the American War Mothers are ar
ranging a special cachet for first-day
covers. The stamp probably will 60
on initial sale in Washington.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
CAPPER WOULD GIVE
ROOSEVELT POWERS
Favors Right to Negotiate Trade
Pact and Revise Tariff
Schedules.

Senator Capper, Republican, OF
Kansas, came out today in favor of
granting President Roosevelt author
ity to negotiate trade agreements
with other nations and to change
tariff schedules to effect such agree
Ments.
However, the Kansas Senator made
Il plain in a radio address, delivered
over a Nationwide hook-up, that he
did not believe the President should
have such unlimited powers as would
be conferred upon him in the bill now
pending before the House.
This power. Capper said, should be
limited as to the time such agreements
should be effective, and some measure
should be retained by the legislative
branch to revoke or modify such
agreements If need should arise" He
added,
But I do believe the emergency
justifies the granting of some such
powers. And my own policy
will be to grant such powers as seem
necessary, under such limitations as
also seem necessary"
Evening star., 1934-03-06
EMBALM|NG SUIT /.
WILL CO TO Jury
Judge Refuses to Dismiss
Case of District Widow
Against Undertaken.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

0pcCldl DlopabCu W 4uo 6LhGs
ATLANTIC CITY. N. j., March 6.
Judge Wilfred H. Jayne. in Attain
tic City Circuit Court. today refused
to dismiss . $4,000 damage suit In
which q Catholic widow charged that
premature embalming of her hus-
bands body violated her religious
rights.
Unable to find precedent In long
search Of the laws, the jurist left the
merits Of the case to a jury to decide.
probably next Fall.
The sum is asked by Mrs. Mary c.
Fleming Of Washington, D. c., whose
husband, Karl A., died on the beach
here from a heart attack July 25,
1881. The defendant. J. Bunker
Plum, Atlantic City undertaken. is
accused of injecting preserving fluid
within q half-hour after the death.
It was explained at the first hearing
last October that In the Catholic
Church last rites may be given within
an hour after death, but not after
embalming.
Mrs. Fleming charged Plum knew
the body was her husbands and
that he was a Catholic, and knew
where to reach her by telephone.
Plum denied all such knowledge, as
serted he acted in good faith in TAX
ing the usual steps. and asked that
the complaint be dismissed.
The particular religious faith, Judge
Jayne held, is not essential. He cited
that "the right to the custody of
corpse for burial and the right to pre-
serve the remains after burial are
recognized.
Certainly the surviving spouse has
the right to direct and control the
manner In which the body is to be
disposed Of or preserved. The unlaw-
full and unauthorized invasion of this
right gives rise to cause of action.
1T may we'll be that the defendant
at the trial will be able to justify his
act or reduce his liability. If any, to
merely nominal damages"
Judge Jayne found no exact prece-
dent, even in Cid English common
law. His search revealing that such
matters in the past had been left en-
tirely to ecclesiastical courts.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
DRAMA COMPETITION
PLANS WILL BE LAID
Meeting Tonight Will Consider
Rules for Religious Play
Contest.

Groups interested in the coming re-
1igious drama contest which will be
held shortly after Eeater under aus
piceS OF the Religious Drama Com
n1ittee Of the Washington Federation
of Churches, will meet tonight at the
Foundry Methodist Church Educa-
tional Building, Sixteenth and P
streets.
Consideration will be given to the
rules for the proposed contest, which
is open to all groups desiring to enter
one-act religious dramas. The COM
mittee which has prepared the tenta-
tive rules is composed of Miss Rhoda
Watkins, Miss Nell Burghaut and
Francis Hoffheins. Miss Katherine
Wilfey Is chairman of the Commit
tee on Religious Drama of the Wash
ington Federation of Churches. All
groups which wish to enter the tour
nament are invited to send a repre-
sentative to the meeting tonight.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
TAXI DRIVER COMPLAINS
SHOEMAKER HIT HIM
IN TRAFFIC ARGUMENT
Continued From First Page J

and New Jersey avenues by taxicab.
the driver Of which was blowing his
horn and lettering along trying to
pick up fares on the sidewalk. After
blowing his horn several times when
the taxi driver refused to proceed,
Il pushed him with my bumper to
the curb, got out and took his num-
ber and then proceeded on my way
said Shoemaker.
According to Shoemaker's account
OF the disagreement. the taxicab
driver then followed him for several
blocks and forced him into the curb.
Il did not hit him, although I
probably would have when he came
at me-" said Shoemaker, but then q
policeman stepped in. The policeman
sought to detain me, but told him.
No. I am going home and eat and
that's exactly what I did.
Il am amazed to hear that a war
rant has been issued because there
are no grounds for such action"
Less than a year ago Shoemaker
was accused in Police Court of an
attack on Theodore Cohen OF the
Chastleton Hotel. Shoemaker said he
hit Cohen, occupant of an adjoining
apartment, because he was tired of
hearing Sweet Adeline" sung by
members Of a party in Cohens rooms
and when he went there to ask them
to stop. Cohen came toward him in q
threatening manner.
Cohen's version Of the affair was
that Shoemaker called on the tele-
phone and said "cut of that radio or
I'll break your necks. I'm the only
ex-convict in Congress and I'm hard
boiled. I'm another Hitler" Later
the Representative came down and,
when told to leave, hit him. Cohen
said.
After the case had been continued
in Police Court several times, Cohen
finally dropped the charges.
A few months later q similar COM
plant was made against Shoemaker
in Minneapolis. This time it was
men working at night welding street
car rails who aroused his ire.
I'll fight the whole bunch of you,"
Shoemaker shouted to the two.man
crew.
Rushing to the street In his night
he picked up red lantern,
whirled it around his head and let it
fly. The lantern smashed on the
pavement and went out. Shoemaker
then grabbed up five others and gave
them the treatment.
A policeman came along Just as
Shoemaker ran out Of lanterns. He
took the Representative to the police
station. After a talk with the SER
geant, he was allowed to return home.
The workmen, their lights useless, quit
the job for the night.
Evening star., 1934-03-06

w YITH Is Government build
Y n ings in downtown Wash
wv ington now receiving heat
from the Governments new
central heating plant, work
is being rushed on the steam dis
tribution system, with prospects that
the present contracts will be finished
within 40 days, and many more build
ings cut into the system, including
the White House
Eventually between 40 and so build
ings will be heated through the CEN
trail plant and its network Of tunnels
and steam pipes.
Many individual heating plants and
several furnishing steam to groups Of
buildings have been or will be put
out of commission by the new system.
The largest of these plants was in the
Bureau Of Engraving and Printing.
The second in size was in the Depart
ment of Agriculture. the third at Nine
teenth street and Constitution avenue.
and the fourth at the Department of
Commerce. Most of these will be kept
as auxiliary plants for emergency serv-
ice. but the old plant at Nineteenth
street and Constitution avenue is to
be abandoned and demolished.
The heating plant has been turned
over by the contractor to the Treasury
Department, which supervised con-
struction and is still supervising its
operation through Alex B. Eadie, the
superintendent
The steam distribution system was
put in by two different firms, the east
ern section, east of Eighteenth street,
by the Northeastern Piping & Construc-
tion Corporation of North Tonawadna,
N. Y, and the western extension"
to carry heat to all Federal buildings
from that point to the Potomac River.
except the present Naval Hospital, by
Peter and A. j. Ellis Of this city. Lines
in the western extension" have been
tested by hydrostatic pressure, but not
yet by steam.
Completion Of the steam distribution
system is under supervision now of
Herman j. Bounds. inspection engineer
for the Treasury Department andsJohn
w. Shorrock. assistant inspection en-
gineer. ''
Evening star., 1934-03-06
NEW DEAL CHECK
. BY VOTERS ASKED
Kansas Republican Pleads
for Party Victory to
Curb Relationship"
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LANCASTER. Ohio, March g.
Likening the Roosevelt program to
the philosophy of Stain and Marx" ="
Representative Harold McGugin, Re-
publican. Of Kansas today uttered a
plea for the election of "at least
enough Republican congressman to
check this headlong plunge into q
new experiment"
Speaking before the Fairfield
County Lincoln Republican Club,
Representative McGugin charged the
Democratic party has been unable
to function in a constitutional manner
in control of legislation" and con-
tended that a virtual dictatorship on
the part of the President is in
eScapable."
Whatever may be said for the new
DEAL" McGugin said, this much is
certain. We are not getting it for
nothing. One of the prices which
We are paying is that the pages Of
history are being turned back over
$50 years and the peoples liberties
are being daily transferred from their
chosen representatives of the execu-
tive department of the Government.
Practically every piece Of legislation
which is a part of the new deal has
carried with it a reputation of some
section of the Constitution"
Trained Criticizer."
The Democratic party. he claimed,
has become "a criticizer par excell-
ence," due to its long experience as q
minority party.
THE principal accomplishments of
the Roosevelt administration, he
asserted, have grown out of an un-
paralleled expenditure Of public
money. For the relief measures
1t has given us We are paying the
price of having gone in debt an ad-
ditional $58 for each man, woman and
child. For the recovery measures
which 1t has put into effect we must
pay the price of giving up liberties
and rights which were obtained in the
first instance at an awful price and
which for generation after genera
ton, we have cherished dearly"
McGugin charged that the IN. r.
A. is playing into the hands of
monopoly and giving advantage to
the large institutions, all to the detri-
ment of the smaller institutions"
Charge A. A. A. Monopoly.
He contended the "A. A. A. is
monopolizing agriculture. 1t is CIV
ing benefits to the large producers
while it is collecting professors
taxes from the products of the smaller
producers. This program" he
asserted. 'is not in keeping with the
free. independent American program
We have known. It is more in keep
ing with the philosophy of Stain
and Marx"
An increase in the Republican
membership in Congress sufficient
"for the minority to be able to make
itself felt" ne said, would be a most
stabilizing influence at time when
we are moving too rapidly into new
and uncharted seas"
Evening star., 1934-03-06
K. c. CHAPLAIN NAMED

Right Rev. Msgr. Eugene j. Con-
nelly was appointed chaplain Of the
Knights of Columbus in the District
at q recent meeting Of local State
officers, succeeding Rev. Francis x.
Cavanagh, who died in December
from injuries received in an auto
mobile accident
Msgr. Connolly Is pastor of St.
Peters Church, at Second and G
streets southeast, and one Of the out
standing priests of the archdiocese.
He is q regional director Of the Arch
diocesan Union, Holy Name Society,
and . member Of the administrative
council of the archdiocese. He has
been identified with knights Of Co
lumbus work for many ysars.