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Evening star., 1934-03-20
ALLEGED BANK R0BBER
SHOT IN GUN BATTLE
Another Wounded by Police,
Third Escapes and Woman
Companion Is Arrested.

BY the Associated Press.
JENKS, Okla, March 20.-Offcers
shot it out in farm lane near here
early today with three men who, they
said, may have participated in las:
weeks $21.500 Atchison, Kans.. bank
robbery, killing one and wounding
another. The third escaped and their
woman companion was arrested.
Jack johnson was the man killed.
Sprayed with buckshot. Thomas
Whitewater was placed under guard
at a Tulsa hospital. Squads of Off
GERS were seeking Jake Cook. Officers
said the woman was known as Mrs.
johnson and also as Jackie HibbS.
The shooting occurred near the
home of G. v. Evans, a brother-in-law
of Johnson, to which the officers had
been summoned by reports that the
four had terrorized the Evans family
Monday. drinking, allegedly boasting
of Kansas bank robbery and fash
ing rolls of money.
Evening star., 1934-03-20
LIST OF HOARDERS
OF.S|[VER ASKED
Reports of Speculation in
Metal Spurs Senate
Leaders to Action.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Senate today called on Secre-
tary of the Treasury Morgenthau for
list of hoarders OF silver
1t adopted without debate a reso-
luton by Senator Robinson, Repub-
lican, of Indiana, requesting the in
formation if such list was available
and If not incompatible with the
public interest.
The resolution said it had been
currently reported that there had
been speculation in the white metal
and that certain people" were hoard
ing it.
The House approved Dies bill au-
thorizing acceptance of foreign silver
up to Is per cent above the world
price in exchange for domestic farm
products was received in the Senate
today and referred to the Agricul-
ture Committee.
Early Hearing Asked.
Silver advocates said they would
urge an early meeting on the bill.
Should the measure be given a
presidential blessing. administration
chieftains said it would be passed
by the Senate. If left out in the
cold, they held it had small chance
of passage.
Disregarding Republican cries Of
dumping" and fiat money" the bill
was showed along by the House yes
terday, 257 to 1l2. Under it, silver
would be accepted at we'll above the
world price in payment for exported
agricultural surpluSes. Silver certi-
ficates would be issued on the metal
thus obtained.
In any event, it appeared probable
today there would be a break in the
White House silence on the measure
Leaders looked either for an admins
tration statement or for word to be
passed quietly up to the Senate.
Statement Demanded.
The debate in the House yesterday
was punctuated by insistent and re-
peated demands from Republican reg
ulars for a statement of the admins
trations position on the measure
But. the nearest thing to a definite
answer that they received was state
ment by Representative Dies, Demo
crat. of Texas, that Secretary Nor
genthau had not opposed the bill in
committee.
The Dies bill was skillfully drafted
to attract the support Of two strong
House factions-the inflationist bloc
with its group from the silver States,
CONTINUED on Page S. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-20
President Acts
to Consider
Differences.
POWER OF N.R.A.
WITHIN GRASP
Licensing Proviso
May Yet Be
Invoked.
BY the Associated Pres.

BY I1e hSSOCldteu FItS-.
DETROIT. March 20.-A telegram
from President Roosevelt asking that
any strike action in the automobile
industry be deferred until Thursday
was made public here this afternoon
by william Collins. American FEEDER
alton of Labor representative here.
Collins said he would read his reply
at a meeting of union leaders sched-
uled for pm. at Pontiac, Mich.
and declined to say until then what
his reaction to the Presidents request
was.
RoOsevelt's Wire.
The Presidents telegram read:
IN the public interest I am con-
strained to request you to withhold
strike action called for this afternoon
until I can have a conference in
Washington in an effort to reconcile
existing differences. I suggest Thurs
day. viii YOU advise me Immediately?
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT"
While the American Federation of
Lab0r unions awaited the outcome of
National Automobile Chamber of
Commerce conference in New York to
determine whether strikes set tenta-
lively for am. tomorrow in Detroit
Flint. Pontiac and Lansing should be
called the on-af1liated Auto Work
ers' Union announced that its mem-
bers would carry on a strike of their
own.
Many Plants Affected
The membership of the smaller
union is not known, but the an
nouncement said members would
walk out in IS Detroit automotive
plants, among them Chevrolet, Dodge,
Plymouth, Ford the Murray Corpo-
ration of America, the Fisher Body
Co and the Briggs Manufacturing Co.
The final strike call will be pre-
pared at meetings tonight. leaders
Of the union said. and added that the
strike probably would not be called
off even if the National Labor Board
Is successful in smoothing out offer
ences between the manufacturers and
the A. F. Of L. union members.
Evening star., 1934-03-20
REPEAL BILLS PASS

House Sends Hawaii and Alaska
Measures to Senate.
The House today passed the Sem
ate-approved bills to repeal prohibi-
tion in Hawaii and Alaska.
Congressional action was not COM
pleted because of minor amendments
The bills now go back to the Senate.
Evening star., 1934-03-20
ROOSEVELT ASKS LABOR
TO DELAY AUTO STRIKE:
FIRST N.R.A. SUIT LISTED
Roosevelt Letter
President Stresses Good of
Country in Railway
Labor Dispute.

The text of President Roosevelt S
letter to w. F. Thiehoff, chairman of
the Conference Committee of Railway
Managers, and A. F. Whitney. chair
man of the Railway Labor Executives
Association, follows:
Gentlemen:
Il have been advised of what has
tranSpired at the conferences between
the Conference Committee of Man
ayers, representing the railroads, and
the Railway Labor Executives Associa-
ton. representing the employees, which
have been held in response to my COM
munication of February IA, 1884.
In that communication l expressed
the hope that the railroads and their
employees may be able to agree upon
an extension of the present agreement
for at least six months expressing
also my conviction that such an eX-
tension would be of advantage to those
directly concerned and also to the
country
Expresses Disappointment.
at is a profound disappointment
to learn that no progress toward an
agreement has been made at the
conference. 1 fear that sight is be-
ing lost of the most important factor
of all, the good of the country.
If no agreement is reached, and
in default of arbitration. it may be
necessary for me, with due regard to
the protection of the general public
interest, to appoint a commission to
examine thoroughly into the labor
controversy, covering all classes OF
lContinued on Page 2. Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-20
May Create Position of Di-
rector to Take Charge
of All Units.
NUMBER OF PERSONNEL
SHIFTS CONTEMPLATED
Commissioner Allen to Discuss
Proposal With House Appro-
priations Group.
A general reorganization of the Dis

A general reorganization of the Dis
trict penal system is contemplated
by the Commissioners as a direct re-
suit of the Lorton investigation, it was
learned today at the Capitol.
The plan. it was said, contemplates
a number of personnel changes and
the creation of a new position of di-
rector of penal institutions who would
have complete supervision over the
District Jail. work house and reforma-
tory. The director, under the pro-
posed set-up. would be responsible
only to the director of public welfare
and the Commissioners and not to
the Board of Public Welfare.
The Commissioners. it was declared
are deslrouS of relieving the Welfare
Board of any Jurisdiction over the
penal institutions, but believe the di-
rector of the Welfare Board should
be in close contact with the penal
director.
Plan Reorganizati ton.
The reorganization of the penal
system is said to be one of the plans
under consideration by Commissioner
Allen to relegate the Welfare Board
into mere advisory unit having nc
influence over welfare policies.
The changes would bring about the
abolition of the position of general
superintendent Of penal institutions
now held by Capt. M M. Barnard
who is expected to be retired. Com
missioner Allen is known to have sew
eral candidates under consideration
for the job. One is now connected
with the Department of Justice.
j. E. q. BSchoff, business manager
at LOrton, also is TO be dropped ir
the Shake-up. Commissioner Aller
has decided TO let him go because oi
his outside connections which were
disclosed during the recent Lortor
inquiry.
While Commissioner Allen declined
to comment on the proposed pena
reorganization plan, it is known thai
r intends to discuss it with mem.
bers of the House Subcommittee or
Appropriations during consideration
of the 1885 estimates Of the Welfart
Board.
Appears at Hearing.
The Commissioner appeared before
the subcommittee at its hearing to.
day on the 1885 District budget, bu
the welfare items we're not reached
The estimates of the Fire and Health
Departments were the only ones con.
Sidered.
The director OF penal institutions
according to Commissioner Aliens re-
ported opinion, should be more thar
merely supervisor of the Jail, work
house and reformatory. He is sale
to believe that the director shoulc
function chiefly as a Rehabilitation O.
criminals. The rehabilitation o
criminals, he thinks, not only woulc
benefit society as a whole, but woulC
serve to reduce the cost to Govern.
ment of operating penal institutions
w. w. MILAN. chairman of the com
mittee which conducted the penal in
veStigation, said this morning he ha
prepared the report to the Commits
Sioners on the inquiry and it will b,
presented to his committee for ap
proval this afternoon. If found sat
isfactory it will go to the Distric
heads tomorrow He indicated i
would be in line with his announce
Evening star., 1934-03-20
Injunction in
WeirtOn Case
Is Sought.
RAIL SALARIES
FARLEY URGED
President Hints
PrObers Nav
Air Pay.
BULLETIN.

The Federal Government today
sought an injunction to restrain
the Weirton Steel Co. from viOlat-
ing the collective bargaining Sec
ton of the national recovery act.
Evening star., 1934-03-20

Continued on Page 2, Column T.
Evening star., 1934-03-20
WEATHER.

IU. s. WeaIhtI buItdu FUTeOHS0''
Fair tonight and tomorrow: warmer
tomorrow, lowest temperature tonight
about 20 degrees; gentle winds
Temperatures-Highe 43. at noon
TODAY: lowest, 80, at 1:l5 am. today.
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1934-10-14

If war came to
Toxic. The populace
of the Japanese cap
ital gets a realistic
idea of it as a bomb is
exploded in the city
during air defense
maneuvers.
9 Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1934-10-14

Quiet waters. On the Potomac below Great
Falls Oeft). and on the Monoeacy where it flows
under the old stone viaduct the road from Wash
ington to Frederick Nd OIL Marsten Horydc.ak
Evening star., 1934-10-14

Something new
in flying contrap-
tons. DR.. George
A. Spratt of Coates
vile. Pa. proved
his courage as well
as his inventive
skill by making a
recent fight there
in the tailless won
der.
Q Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
OFFICER Is ACCUSED
BY ARRESTED MAN
0ptometrist, Fined for Speeding,
Says Policeman Making Charge
Was Drinking.

Arraigned in Police Court today on
three traffic counts, DR.. Bernard B.
Hillyard, an optometrist, of ITO Whit
tier street, accused the officer who
arrested him last night of being un-
der the influence of liquor and using
loud and abusive language.
The policeman was in plain clothes
at the time he stopped Hillyard on
Rhode Island avenue northeast, the
optometrist told Judge Isaac r. Hit.
DR.. Hillyard, who was charged with
speeding, driving on the wrong side
Of the street and obstructing traffic,
told the judge he smelled liquor on
the officers breath when he took him
to the first precinct station.
The policeman had pulled up be-
hind him in an automobile when he
stopped on Rhode Island avenue
northeast to pick up a relative, DR..
Hillyard said. When he started up,
DR.. Hillyard continued, the police
man drove ahead and forced him into
the curb. The policeman abused him
in loud tones, Hillyard said.
DR.. Hillyard, whose statements were
corroborated by Alexander Jordan OF
Hyattsville, Md, who was standing
nearby when the doctor was arrested,
was fined SIS on the speeding charge.
His personal bond was taken on the
other two counts.
Judge Hit advised Hillyard that If
he wished to press any charges against
the officer he could take them before
the Police Trial Board.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
NEW RECORD SET
BY CODE SIGNING
More Retail Stores Join Dur.
ing N. R. A. Observance
Than in Similar Period.

After four days celebration of the
Nations Capital Blue Eagle week,
more retail stores that have not here
tofore signed up under the N. R. A.
have accep pied codes than in any sim
liar period since the original Blue
Eagle drive in Washington a year ago,
it was announced today.
Observance of the special week was
planned as an educational and pa
triotic movement and the addition Of
new code members was not seriously
considered before the drive began.
When the special posters designed
for the occasion were circulated, how
ever, the non-members began asking
for them and as a result many stores
are now under codes that had not been
before. No figures on the exact num-
ber, however. were available.
Sylvan King, executive head OF the
campaign, today addressed luncheon
meeting of the Reciprocity Club at
Hamilton Hotel. The Better Business
Bureau also discussed Blue Eagle week
at a luncheon at the Raleigh.
Mr. King announced that the daily
radio talks would continue today and
tomorrow, when the drive ends.
Many visitors were reported today
at the prize winning window displays
selected yesterday by the District Fed
Grafton of Women's Clubs. The first
four windows in the order named are
S. Kann Sons Co., the Hecht Co.,
Lansburgh & Bro. and Woodward &
Lothrop.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
S692,1S RELIEF
GRANT GIVEN D. c.
October F. E. A. Sum Ap-
proximateIy Same as That
for September.

A grant of s692,13 for relief activi-
ties in the District during october
was made today by Harry L. Hopkins,
Federal Emergency Relief Administra-
tor. The sum is approximately the
same as that for September.
The grant for this month amounted
to $699, ,695, but included an obliga-
ton of several thousand dollars not
chargeable to September.
The october grant will be supple
mented by the use of s166,666 of Dis
trict relief appropriations. or one
twelfth of the total of the District
funds for the whole year. A similar
sum was used this month.
For direct and work relief projects
and professional relief projects, the
Federal administrator granted $780,
900 for october, the same as for Sep
tember. The grant for transient re-
lief was $6l,00O, as compared with
$4,000 in September; research prof.
ects, S11,826, as compared with $780,
700 this month; educational projects,
$1,000, the same as for September, and
for student aid, S10,4l0, as compared
with So ,420 for this month.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
BLAMED
FOR SEWER DELAY
Piney Branch Job Three
Months Behind Schedule,
Say D. c. Officials.

Construction of the Piney Branch
relief sewer, a public works project,
will require more than three months
more than scheduled time, at the
present rate of progress. Protests from
property owners against night opera
tion are contributing to delay, Dis
trict officials revealed today.
The work was started last January
20 and was to be completed in 800
calendar days. The project now is
about So per cent completed and it is
estimated, at the present rate, COM
pletion will not be reached until late
in April
The sewer is being constructed from
Iowa and Arkansas avenues to Fifth
and Ingraham streets and was de-
signed to halt the repeated flooding
of properties at the latter point and
other intersections during heavy
rains.
The contract, awarded to NJ A.
Cardo Engineering Corporation, New
York City, for $326,020, authorized
the company to conduct work on the
section where the sewer was tunnel
proposition during a 24-hour shift,
provided the peace and quiet" of the
neighborhood was not disturbed.
Last March, however, more than
so residents Of the section complained
to Police Court against construction
noise late at night and the city heads
restricted the contractor to daytime
work. This slowed progress and Con-
troller General McCarl was asked if
the time limit for completion could be
extended. He replied this could be
determined when work is completed. l..
The question of damages for delay in
completion of the work is involved.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
new DEAL PLEDGE
ADOPTED BY G. O.P.
Maryland Republicans Assail
State Democrats in
Platform.
By the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, September 28.-The
Maryland Republican Convention late
yesterday adopted platform contain
ing the claim that its candidates for
State Office would cooperate with
President Roosevelt's recovery pro-
gram more closely than has the
Democratic nominee for reelection,
Gov. Albert C. Ritchie.
The action leaves both major par
ties in the State promising to take
part in the move toward the New
Deal" Last week the Democrats
adopted a platform praising the Presi-
dents emergency efforts and pledging
themselves to follow him.
The Republicans were harshly
critical of the Democratic party's
record in the State during the Is
years of the four Ritchie admins
trations.
Harry w. Nice, formally chosen the
Republican nominee for Governor,
condemned many actions of recent
years and stressed what he called the
State governments careless super
vision of banks. He promised bank
ing investigation if elected.
Acting, as required by law, on the
vote of the recent primary election,
the convention nominated Nice for
Governor; former Senator Joseph I.
France for the United States Senate;
George Henderson for attorney gen.
eral: Frederic P. Adkins for State
controller, and Walter E. Quenstedt
for clerk of the Court of Appeals.
william P. Lawson, the choice Of
Nice, was named State chairman of
the party to replace Galen TAFT, who
has led Maryland Republicans for
20 years.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
OPEN
CONVENTION HERE
Technical Problems Dis.
cussed by Experts of Gov
ernment Agencies.

Appraisal experts of Government
agencies operating in the real estate
field discussed technical problems
this morning at the opening session
at the Raleigh Hotel of a special
conference Of the American Institute
of Real Estate Appraisers.
During an address in which he de-
scribed the varied difficulties con-
fronting his staff, H. Tudor Morsell,
director of land acquisition for the
Housing Division of the Public Works
Administration, termed the Federal
slum clearance and low-cost housing
program lone of the most socially
significant projects undertaken by the
administration.
A. C. Houghton, president OF the
Washington Real Estate Board, well
coined the 2O0-odd delegates to the
city and told them that intelligent
appraisal practice is more badly
needed now that ever before.
Other speakers at the morning ses-
sion included John L. Haynes, valua-
ton engineer for the Securities and
Exchange Commission; Frederick M.
Babcock, chief appraiser for the Fed
eral Housing Administration, and E..
P. Sanders, assistant chief reviewing
appraiser of the Farm Credit Admin
istration.
Those scheduled to speak this after
noon are Philip w. Kniskern, presi-
dent of the institute and appraisal
adviser to the Home Owners Loan
Corporation; DR.. Ernest M. Fisher of
the University of Michigan, economic
adviser for the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration; Cuthbert E. Reeves,
chairman of the Institutes Committee
on Local Chapters, and George H.
Gray.
John H. Fahey, chairman of the
Home Loan Bank Board, will speak
at a dinner tonight. Others who are
to deliver addresses then are Stewart
Mcdonald, special assistant to the ad-
ministrator of the Federal Housing Ad-
ministration. and Maurice F. Reidy Of
Worcester, Mass.
The conference viii close tomorrow
afternoon.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
PROGRESS OF new DEAL
RELATED TO KIWANIANS
Dickinson Says Business Awak-
ening to Public Point of View
Is Most Important.

progress of the New Deal' was the
subject of an address yesterday by
Assistant Secretary. of Commerce
Dickinson before a meeting of the
Kiwanis Club in the Mayflower Hotel.
He said the most important thing the
N. r. A. has done in the past year
has been to awaken business to a
public point of view.
Supt. of Police Ernest w. Brown
was commended by Capt. James
Walker, police chief of Bridgeport,
Conn, for the courtesy extended vis-
iting chiefs in the convention OF the
International Association Of Chiefs Of
Police here this week.
A golf tournament at the Congress
sional Club October 10 was announced
by Lewis T. Breuninger, president of
the club.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
GAS VICTIM RECOVERING
Two Stove jets Found Open Near
Woman, Aged "a.

Mrs. Catherine Miller, "a, was re-
vived by the fire rescue squad this
morning after she was found uncon-
scious in the gas-f1lled kitchen of her
home, at 1907 B street southeast, by
her son, Mathew Miller. Two Jets in
a stove beside Mrs. Miller were open,
police reported.
The son told investigators he be-
lieved his mother had become cold
during the night and had gone to
light the stove. He detected the odor
of escaping gas and found his mother
about $50 O'Clock. Mrs. Miller was
removed to Casualty Hospital and
later transferred to Gallinger Hospital.
Physicians said she was expected to
recover.
Evening star., 1934-09-28
FIVE ARE CHARGED
IN STILL SHOOTING
Sixth Suspect in Wounding
of U. S. Agent Arrested.
Victim May Die.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, Nd, September 28-
Five men, arraigned before United
States Commissioner j. Frank Sup
plee here this afternoon on charges
of assaulting Revenue Agent Cyrus
Thomas near Forestville Tuesday,
were ordered held under bond of S10,-
900 each for a hearing October II.
Thomas was shot and critically
wounded in the stomach and groin
while he and another agent were
raiding a still At Providence Hospi-
.tal in Washington it was said late
today he might not live. Blood poi
soning has set in.
Sixth Is Arrested.
Federal Prosecutor Bernard J.
Flynn informed the commissioner
that sixth man, Dominic Proctor,
colored, would be arraigned later on
the same charge.
Flynn named Proctor as the man
who actually fired the shotgun, and
asked the commissioner to hold the
colored man without bail because
Thomas condition Is so critical that
it is not known now what further
charges might be lodged against him.
The five arraigned are Wallace j.
Armstrong, said by the Government
to be the owner Of the still which
was being raided by Thomas and an
other agent; l.. j. Nay, and Forrest
Smith, both white, and three colored
brothers, Julius, Edward and Kelly
Barnes.
All, including Proctor, who was ar
rested in Washington last night, were
rounded up by the Federal agents in
one of the most thorough man hunts
ever conducted in Southern Maryland.
Washington detectives. State and
county police aided the Federal agents
operating under the leadership of w.
A. Heddins, supervisor of all Internal
Revenue agents in the Eastern area.
Wanted Here.
Police in Washington, meanwhile,
are understood to want Proctor for
questioning in connection with the
shooting the same day of Motor Cycle
Policeman S. T. Creech. Creech was
wounded in the left shoulder during a
running gun battle on Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, while pursuing a
car occupied by two colored men whom
he had sought to stop on speeding
charge. A detective is expected to be
sent to Baltimore to attend the ar
raignment and to question Proctor,
who thus far has maintained inno-
cence.
Proctor was taken in custody in
Northeast Washington by Federal
agents and whisked to Upper Marl-
boro after he waived extradition. Ar
rested with him were several members
of colored family, who were released
after questioning.