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Evening star., 1934-09-03
new YORK LOTTERY
RELIEF PLAN READY
Big-Salary Officers to Be Chosen
by Lot Under Revised
Scheme.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3-Alder-
man Edward w. Curley announced yes
terday he would formally submit to
the Board of Aldermen today his plan
for creating "the Municipal Supple
mental Relief Association" That is
the plan some persons have called by
a shorter name-lottery.
Curley and other sponsors of the
plan hold it would be legal because
no money would be distributed by lot.
Instead. the officers of the M. S. R. A.
would be chosen by lot-and receive
salaries" of several hundred thou
sand dollars.
THE mayor would appoint II trus-
tees" Curley explained, subject to
Aldermanic confirmation, to admins
ter the association. Tickets probably
would sell at $3.50. Names of holders
would go into wheel and draw
ing would be held.
The winner would become presi-
dent. Choice of other officers would
, be made in similar manner. They
would serve six months.
II believe between $12,000,0 900 and
| 100000 year can be raised. The
winning ticket would get 40 per cent,
the relief fund so per cent"
Evening star., 1934-09-03
LOCAL INSTRUCTOR.
DROWNED IN MAINE.
Carleton Skeggs Sink S
Swimming Ashore After
Boat 0verturns.

Carlton Skeggs, %, Of Mount Airy,
Md, an instructor in the American
ization School here. was drowned
yesterday while canoeing in China
Lake, Me-, an Associated Press dis
patch reported today.
His companion, William Mccarthy
of the Toe H Home, 1924 Eighteenth
street, this city, saved himself by
clinging to the overturned canoe until
it drifted to shore.
The two young men were on week
end visit to a friend in Fairfield, Me-,
and arrived il South China early yes
terday. They decided to go boating
on China Lake. The water was rough
and the light craft capSized about 100
yards off shore.
Mccarthy told DR.. r. L. Mckay
of Augusta, Me, county medical ex-
aminer, that Skeggs started to swim
ashore, returned to the canoe and
then struck out again for shore. He
had gone only about IL feet when he
sank in the cold waters. DR.. Mckay
issued certificate of accidental
drowning.
The bottom Of the lake was dragged
for three hours before the body was
recovered.
Skeggs is survived by his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence L. Skeggs, and
a brother, Gordon SkeggS, all of
Mount Airy.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
FOX HOUND TRIALS
SET OCTOBER 22-26
Maryland Association Will Hold
Meet on Horner's Farm,
Near Rockville.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, September =
The Maryland Foxhunters' Associa-
ton will hold its annual field trials
October % to 26 at Horner's Farm,
near Rockville.
A committee consisting Of z. Nc
Cubbin Waters, Goshen, chairman
Whitney Aitcheson, jr., Laurel, and
Charles F. Haight, Brookeville, is ex-
pected to announce within a few
days the localities where the chases
will be held. Approximately 100 of
the finest hounds of Maryland and
nearby States are expected to par
ticipate in the derby and the all
age stakes.
A bench show for fox hounds also
will be held.
James B. Bland of Washington
and Suitland, Md, is president OF
the association; Charles F. Haight,
Brookeville, vice president, and D.
Edward Clarke, Washington and
Laurel, secretary-treasurer.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
Lost Money Found
By Woman Asking
Name Be UnknO,Un
1880 PIunked DO,Url
on Station House Desk;
Phone Clears Mystery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PORT WASHINGTON, N. Y, Sep
tember 3.-A woman walked into the
police station yesterday, plunked SILL
800 down on the chiefs desk and
walked out without word.
Chief Stephen j. Weber was still
rubbing his eyes and scratching his
head in bewilderment when his tele-
phone rang. A woman's voice told
him she had found the money in a
street, discovered through newspapers
that Mrs. Mary Jankowsy lost it last
Wednesday, and that she preferred to
forego the $500 reward rather than
have her name known.
Weber promised her anonymity.
She agreed to meet him at the Port
Washington National Bank g. Trust
Co. and receive the reward.
Mrs. Jankowsky got her money
back. She said she had carried it on
her person since the death of her hus-
band, q farmer, eight months ago.
She added that her faith in banks
had been restored.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
HOUR Of TAKOMA
VOTING EXPECTED
TO Be ADVANCED
Board to Act on Dry Lead
er'S Request to Open
Polls at 6 Am.
WOULD PERMIT CASTING
OF VOTES BEFORE WORK
License Applicants Counsel Still
Weighs Question of Court
Procedure.

An earlier hour for opening the
polls for the wet-dry referendum in
Takoma, D. c., on September IL Is
expected to be fixed by the Board Of
Electors tomorrow.
The original set of rules to govern
the balloting fixes the voting hours
at from s am. to 8 pm. Dry leaders
of the community have requested that
the polls open at am, pointing out
that the present plan would not give
much time to those who want to vote
before going to work in the morning.
Prettyman to Meet Board.
Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman, chairman Of the Election
Board, will meet with the board to-
morrow morning to act on the ques-
tion. Mr.. Prettyman agreed today
there is merit in the contention that
8 o'clock does not leave sufficient time
for voting before working hours. There
were some indications the opening
time may be fixed at o'clock, but
decision will not be made until to-
morrow.
George e. Sullivan, one of the dry
leaders in Takoma. said today he
thought 6 am. would be a reasonable
opening hour. Pointing out that the
election rules allow each voter maxi
mum of three minutes for marking q
ballot, Mr.. Sullivan said the o'clock
opening time would allow only linn
tied number to vote before starting to
work, even though the maximum time
would not be needed by each voter.
Challenges End Tomorrow.
Meanwhile the time limit for chal-
lenging names on the registration
lists now posted in the four polling
places ends tomorrow. Challenges
may be filed with the election board
at the District Building up to closing
time tomorrow. The board, consisting
of Mr. Prettyman, Capt. Hugh P.
Dram and George w. Offutt, chair
man of the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board, will be in session at the
Takoma School Friday and Saturday
to act on all contested cases.
Attorney william E. Leahy, repre-
senting license applicants, was still
weighing the question today Of
whether to institute court proceedings
to challenge the authority of District
officials to hold the referendum. He
said this morning he has not yet
reached a decision, but expected to
give further study to the matter
during the day.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
Legionnaires Shirk
Pedcetin,e Duties,
DOnOudn Believes
Veterans Must Defend
Constitution, War Hero
Tells Convention.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PEORIA, Ill, September 3.-Col
William j. Donovan, New York, World
War hero and former Assistant At
torney General of the United States,
told Illinois Legionnaires they were
shirking their peacetime responsible
ties.
Speaking before the State Legion
Convention last night, Donovan said
change of spirit" by Americans i'm
mediately after the war was respon-
sible for present conditions and he
asserted that the soldiers soon sur
rendered to the same spirit"
Charging that Americans had been
thinking only how they can help
themselves" Donovan told the Le-
gionnaires that 'it is not enough that
we serve our country to the best of
our ability during the war. There is
no reason to suppose that we can
shirk our duty now"
Donovan said it is mot too late TO
act now," asserting 'the Legion Is
needed to defend the Constitution. I"
Evening star., 1934-09-03
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Swanson might be con-
sidered the cabinet authority on the
pleasures of the past two Presidents.
This Summer the Navy Department
head and Mrs. Swanson have occupied
the Hoover Camp on the Rapidan and
have spent several week ends sailing
the Roosevelt yacht Sequoia.
Now they're settling back into their
Washington home, versed in both the
mountaineering and the sea-going
ways of Chief Executives.
BY happy chance of position, the
Swansons were especially eligible to
both enjoyments. When the President
left, he quite naturally turned his
yacht over to his Navy Secretary.
AS the Virginian of the cabinet,
Swanson was logical interim resi-
dent" of Rapidan during its progress
from State to national park status.
In January, 1888, President Hoover
decided picturesque Camp Rapidan.
made historic by visits Of many ia
nous persons, to the United States
in trust with the State Of Virginia.
w. E. Carson, chairman Of the
State Conservation Committee is the
trustee. He gave Secretary Swanson
permission to take refuge there from
Washington's heat.
The Federal Government has not
yet accepted the Rapidan deed and
viii not until two things have been
Evening star., 1934-09-03
ONE DIES, 10 HURT
IN CAR CRASHES IN
CAPITAL VICINITY
Baltimore Man Is Burned to
Death in Triple Mishap
Yesterday.
CORONER'S JURY HOLDS
ACCIDENT UNAVOIDABLE
Washingtonian Suffers Fractured
Skull as Auto 0verturns at
Soldiers Home.

A Baltimore man was burned to
death after a triple automobile ac-
cident north of Laurel yesterday. Ten
other persons were injured, one seri-
ously. in week end crashes in and
near the Capital.
Jack Kessler, 81, Of Baltimore, lost
his life when his car burst into
flames after hitting the rear Of another
machine and careening into a third
on the Baltimore Boulevard.
State police said Kessler's auto
mobile punctured the gas tank OF a
car operated by John Turner of Elk
ridge, and then swerved across the
road and collided head-on with a
machine driven by Odie Griggs OF
Kreskill, N. j.
Car Burst Into Flames.
After the second collision Kressler's
car burst into flames and he died
before passing motorists could remove
him. A coroner's jury under Justice
of Peace Howard U. GoSnell later
held the accident unavoidable.
Turner escaped injury but Griggs
and his wife, Marie, and Thomas and
Edward Dady of Long Island, N. Y,
were treated for cuts by a Laurel
physician. The Dadys were passen-
gers in Grigg's car.
Sergt. A. E. Markley, commander
Of the State police here, investigated.
Auto Runs OFF Road.
Francis Mcdonald, 10, of 2403
Huidekoper place, received frac-
tured skull when the automobile in
which he was riding ran off the road
and overturned after striking a cul-
vert in the Soldiers Home grounds.
He was taken to Garfield Hospital.
Police said the machine was driven
by John E. Lynch, 1118 Monroe street.
Lynch was treated for slight injuries
to the face.
Raymond L. wolven, 48, of 1900
Hawthorne street, had his arm broken
when the automobile he was driving
collided with a parked machine in
the 1900 block of Wisconsin avenue.
He was treated at Georgetown Hos
pital and later was charged with
reckless driving.
Legs Hurt i'm Crash.
Richard Powell, 18, and Bessie
Contee, %, both colered, were treated
at Casualty Hospital for leg injuries
received when the automobile in which
they were riding was in collision with
another car in the 1900 block Of
Bennings road northeast.
Wilson Buchanan, 40, of the 4600
block of Hayes street northeast; Ed
ward Williams, 90, of the 1700 block
of Corcoran street. and Ethel Brown,
20, of the 2100 block of Stevens court,
all colored, were hurt when their car
failed to make turn on Scott Circle
and crashed into lamp post. Bu-
chanan has conclusion, Williams was
cut about the face and the Brown
woman has a possible fractured jaw.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
Fiue Wasl'ingtonians Rescued
From Riuer IN Yacht Crash
Party on Sunkeu Cruiser
Saued by Other Boat
in Collision.
T,UO Men Are Injured;
Cause of accident
Mystery.

Five Washingtonians were rescued
from a sinking boat which had been
rammed by yacht in the Potomac
River off Colonial Beach Saturday
night. Two of them sustained injuries
in the crash.
The injured are H. T. Casey Of the
Personnel Department, Federal Hous-
ing Administration, two of whose ribs
were broken, and Roy Bachelor of the
Department of Commerce, who leg
was bruised.
George j. Lockwood of the admin
istration staff, financial survey Of
urban housing; Daniel Casey, chief
of real property inventory, Bureau of
Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and
George w. Boyd, retired Washington
detective, were rescued uninjured by
the yacht, which Is said to have
rammed the craft on which they were
cruising.
Boyd, owner of the Magdalena.
which sank, said it was struck by the
Maybenot, yacht belonging to DR..
r. Lyman Sexton, commodore of the
Corinthian Yacht Club.
Immediately after the crash the
Maybenot's lifeboat was launched and
took Boyd, Bachelor and Daniel
Casey from the Magdalena. H. T.
Casey fell into the water before the
Evening star., 1934-09-03
FAIRFAX TO START
SANITARY PROJECT
County Will Furnish Labor in
Individual Improvement
Jobs.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FAIRFAX, Va, September S.-A
countrywide sanitation project ex-
pected to give work to about IS work.
ers throughout the Winter, will start
this week, it was announced today
by r. J. White, Fairfax County sani-
tary officer, who will be the local su-
pervisor.
Financed by the Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administration, the pro-
ject is designed to furnish certain
sanitary improvements for residents
unable to finance the work. Under
the arrangement, White says those in
need of such work, and who can fur
nish necessary material, will be fur
nished labor free. The work will be
done under county health regulations,
with the sanitary inspector passing
on each project.
A similar project was launched last
Winter under the civil works program,
and when civil works activities were
suspended the local health office had
a number of requests on file. Since
then more requests have been re-
ceived, White asserts.
Work will be done chiefly in Mount
Vernon, Lee and Centreville mag
isterial districts. In Providence, Falls
Church and DranesviIle districts, ap-
proximately 95 per cent of the homes
have approved sanitary arrangements
already, White said.
Residents who are interested in the
plan or desire further information,
are requested by the sanitary officer
to communicate with him, and a
prompt survey of the project will be
made, he advises.
Only local men will be employed
on the project. The weekly time al
lotted to each will be governed by the
number of dependents. Thirty hours
a week, however, will be the maximum.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
c. 0. P. CUNNING
FOR BIG Shots
Strategy of Minority Lead
ers Centered on individuals
on Democratic Tickets.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

"Get the big shots!''-that's the
slogan and strategy of the Republican
congressional campaign which IS fairly
well started-rather than a general
offensive to get back at the November
elections large block of House seats.
On the other hand the Democrats
are planning to make fight for every
seat-although admitting it is unrea-
sonable to expect the party now in
power can hold the unprecedented ma
jority it had in the last Congress.
E. j. Mcmillan, a former secretary to
Attorney General Homer Cummings,
has been selected to organize the
speakers bureau for both the sena-
torial and congressional campaigns.
Rainey Campaign Fails.
The death of Speaker Rainey gave
the Republican congressional cam
paign strategists their first stunning
blow-they had intended to make the
veteran Illinois member their par
ticular shining mark. 1t is reported
that Mrs. Ruth Hanna Mccormick
Simms, former House member, was to
nave been the "angel" Of the campaign
against Mr.. Rainey to the extent OF
some $4,000.
Now a vigorous fight is being engi-
neered against Representative Nell G.
Underwood of Ohio, who has served
consecutively for IL years and is
chairman of the Committee on Invalid
Pensions. r. w. Dunlap, former As
sistant Secretary of Agriculture, is
heading an energetic forensic cam
paign with Senator Simeon D. Fess
as a generaliSSimo of the attack. 1t
is reported that the Republican cam
paign Golfers have been opened gener-
ously to finance this offensive.
Two Notable Defeats.
While the Democrats. have already
lost a number of veteran members who
sat in the last Congress, through vol
untary retirement or the preference
expressed by the voters in the pri-
maries, those who are directing the
campaign throughout the States from
the Washington Offices of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee en-
phasize that there were only two de-
feats north of the Mason and Dixon
line in straight scraps. This is dis
tinguished from where several mem
bers contested for the same seat. The
two notable defeats were:
That of Representative Walter
Nesbit, at large from Illinois, who was
serving his first term and never had
a chance to show much in the House.
Nesbit was miner for 20 years and
later an officer in labor organizations,
as well as an active Red Cross worker
and member of the United States
Labor Board during the World War.
He fell before a veteran politician
Michael C. Igoe, former Democratic
national committeeman from Illinois,
who was recently slated for appoint
ment as Public Printer.
The one defeat that the leaders
here have not been able to satisfac-
torily explain is that for Representa-
tive Ashton c. Schallenberger of Ne
braska, a former Governor of that
State who had served in eight
Congresses.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
BLIND MEN" RACKET
CONFESSED IN COURT
New York Subways Worked by
Crew of Seven to Extort
Funds.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 3.-A beg
ging racket in which the leader hired
seven men at SO a day to pose as
blind men and beg for coins on care
fully selected subway routes was dis
closed last night in Night Court.
This is some racket" said Magis-
trate Benjamin E. Greenspan as he
held Joseph Stantini, 80, of Workers
without bail for further investigation.
Stantini, his faxed blindness ex-
posed, related in court he and six
others worked for a man he knew
only John" who met them every
morning, gave them instructions for
the day, manipulated their eyelids so
they appeared permanently closed
and drove them to their stations in
an automobile.
John" paid them SO a day regard
less of how much they collected
Stantini said he had taken in So
today in five hours. He carried a tin
cup and a cane and wore q badge
wE.ch read: Il am blind from the
war of 1917, U. S. A."
Evening star., 1934-09-03
START LONG FLIGHT

LOS ANGELES, September 8 R.-
George r. Hutchinson, first to at
tempt an ocean flight with his family,
and Dan Beard, veteran pilot, hoped
of here yesterday for Cleveland on
the first lap Of a projected fight to
London to enter the Melbourne
4
Trophy race.
They said they planned an over
night stop at Cleveland, whence they
would proceed to New York and New
foundland to start the trans Atlantic
flight.
Evening star., 1934-09-03

lifeboat came alongside, but was
picked up.
There was not enough room in the
lifeboat for Lockwood, who donned a
life preserver and jumped into the
water, where he floated for while
until the boat discharged its first
cargo of survivors.
Mystery surrounded the cause Of
the collision. Boyd said he was asleep
when the crash occurred and did not
know how it happened. DR.. Sexton
had not returned to Washington
today.
Several weeks ago Edward T. Harvey,
lieutenant of the harbor police, disap-
peared from the Magdalena while
taking a short cruise as Boyd's guest.
His body was found few days later.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
SWANSONS ENJOY
HOOVER CAMP, ROOSEVELT SHIP

accomplished: The Attorney General
must say title is clear to the park
area of which it will be part; the
mountain people must be provided
for elsewhere.
President Hoover expressed the wish
that his beautiful camp, with its
charming and comfortable native wood
houses nesting under trees beside a
waterfall, be used by succeeding Presi-
dents. But he made no legal stipula-
ton for such use.
The Roosevelt family has made no
use of the camp thus far.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
N. w. SAUNDERS DIES
Potomac Residents Services viii

Potomac Residents Services Will
Be Held Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
POTOMAC, Md, September s.
Nathan w. Saunders, 30, one of Po-
tomac districts best-known citizens
and a lifelong resident, died Sunday
morning after an illness of two
months.
He is survived by two sons and five
daughters-Robert L. Saunders, Poto-
mac; Harry Saunders, Silver Spring;
Mrs. Frank Hale, Mrs. Evelyn Fulton
and Miss Cora Saunders, Washington;
Mrs. Chester Clagett, Glen, Md,
and Mrs. Thomas ]. TreadweIl.
Gaithersburg.
The funeral will be held at 2:3O pm.
Tuesday from the funeral home of w.
Reuben Pumphrey, Rockville. Burial
will be in the Potomac Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
State Sunday Celebrated.

VALLEY FORGE, Pa, September
3 P).-MinneSota State Sunday was
celebrated at Washington Memorial
Chapel yesterday under auspices of
the Minnesota State Society Daughters
of the American Revolution. Rev. w.
w. Taylor Of Norristown, Pa, made
the addreSR
Evening star., 1934-09-03
Music Ends Arguments.

MINNEAPOLIS (P.-MemberS OF
the w. C. T. u, Minnesota depart
ment, have discovered that music
soothes." They became embroiled in
an argument during their annual con-
vention over payment of registration
fees, but Mrs. Harriet G. Northfleld,
president, suggested singing q hymn
and smiles replaced scowls.
Evening star., 1934-09-03
PUPILS TO REGISTER
Friday Set Aside for New Stu
dents at Hyattsville.
By a STAFF Correspondent to The Star.

BY staf Correspondent to The Star.
HYATTSVILLE, Md, September 3.
New pupils for the Hyattsville High
School will be registered Friday, Prin-
cipal J. A. Miller announced today.
School opens September IL.
Mr.. Miller said registration would
be held from 9 am. to 4 pm.
During the Summer four class
rooms were added to the building in
remodeling of the third floor. A new
stairway also has been built to the
third floor. previously considered q
fire trap by the Hyattsville Volunteer
Fire Department..
Evening star., 1934-09-03
VALLEY FAIR OPENS
Exhibitions at Staunton Viii
Continue Through Week.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
STAUNTON, Va, September s.
The twenty-Second annual Shenan-
doah Valley Fair opened today, to
continue through the week Staun-
tons 20-acre fairgrounds will be filled
with exhibits and other attractions.
Outstanding will be the horse show,
expected to be the finest ever held
by this organization. Cattle entries
have been made from all parts of
Virginia and West Virginia.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-11
Offers to Perform
Magic Rope Trick
For Sun, of S275,OOO
Indian Psychiatrist IN
forms London Society
He viii Do Feat.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. June 1l.-For $275, 900,
a psychiatrist here from India says
he will do the magic rope trick in
Albert Hall, but so far he has no
takers.
The Magic Circle, n so1,ety that
investigates phony mysticism, recently
offered $4,000 reward to airy one
who would do a. genuine magic rope
trick. At that time Lord Ampthill.
an expert on magic. said the reward
might just as well be $3.50 900. be-
cause no one could do tie trick.
His announcement brought from
DR. Alexander Cannon, the osychi-
artist, an offer. The doctor says he
can do the trick for the original
reward with the $3.50, 900 added to
cover expenses. He needs that much
money, he said in a letter to the
Magic Circle, because ne would have
to import Yogis and their assistants
from India, bring over special sand
and heat Albert Hall to the tempera-
ture of the tropics. He would also
need special lighting effects
Interested, the Magic Circle wrote
DIR. Cannon and asked him if he
would return the $250.0O0 ii the trick
failed. He replied no" The circle
appeared ready to let the matter drop
then, but the doctor wrote again and
repeated his offer.
In the magic rope trick a fakair
throws the end of rope into the
air where it appears to become
anchored to nothing. Then a boy
climbs I'D.