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Evening star., 1934-02-28
Roosevelt Requests Cited.

His previously granted authority to
rule by decree is limited to specific
things and his acts must be submitted
to Parliament
In advocating that Doumergue be
given tariff powers, Lucien Lamoureux
minister of commerce, cited the powers
asked by President Roosevelt in the
United States and Chancellor Hitler's
tariff authority in Germany as ex-
amples of what other countries are
doing.
The real dictatorship Of Papa"
Doumergue lies in his power to dis
solve Parliament when he wishes.
He took Office when blood was fow-
ing in the streets during the recent
riots and when gold was flowing from
the Bank of France.
Immediately. the beloved veteran
applied the gag to his cabinet and
also succeeded in rushing his budget
through the chamber without debate.
Then he sent out word that if he
fails to get prompt action on anything
needed in his program to balance the
budget, protect the franc and restore
political tranquility, he will leave Of
fee at once.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
What's What
BehindNeWS
In Capital
New Deal Just Holds
Own in Struggle
to Aid Trade
BY PAUL MALLON.

TINE Governments own scoring
chart shows the new deal has
had a struggle to keep busi-
L ness at fair levels during the
hard Winter months.
Mr.. Roosevelt has had to be con-
tent with holding his own.
The end of February now finds him
just about where he was In Septem-
ber. That happens to be about the
same general level Of business at this
time two years ago.
There wiu be tull-hearted sigh
OF relief among his economic er-
perts when the ice thaps merit
month and the rivers OF commerce
start fo,Ding again.
While the immediate past was
somewhat cloudy, the immediate fu-
ture March and ApriD is radiant
with prospects. Improvement Is as
certain as anything can be.
What will happen after May l is
anybody's guess.
Chart Shows Conditions.
You can figure out where we have
been and where We now stand from
the accompanying unprejudiced chart
Each figure shows our relation to nor
NAL during the months cited Normal
00o) is the average for the years
1923-25.
Seasonal fluctuations have been
taken out of the calculations, so the
figures represent the clearest possible
unvarnished estimate of our progress
up and down.
The best news in the business box
score is in the first column. 1t shows
industrial production has been pick
ing up slowly for the past -four
months. Factories are getting buster
making products for Spring sales.
Their production has been running
13 to 18 per cent better than last
year and to II per cent better than
two years ago. Last year, at this
time, We were diving for the bottom
so comparisons with last year are
apt to be misleading. The best COM
parison can be obtained from two
years ago.
Evening star., 1934-02-28

Mr.. Roosevelt would be waving his
| hat and cheering from the White
House roof about the industrial pro-
duction figures If it were not for the
fact that employment and wages have
failed to show equal improvement.
Industrial employment has beec
tightening since october. So have
wages. Employment has fallen pei
cent and wages about per cent
(while factory output was increas-
ing). Wages in February are esti-
mated to have been only SO per cent
of normal.
That condition Is bound to i'm
prove almost Immediately. Factories
cannot continue making more and
more goods without putting on addi-
tional men and paying out more
money in wages.
Therefore, the problem is not as
serious as it sounds, but it does show
the new deal has failed as yet to
work any wonders with private in
dustrial employment and private In
dustrial wages.
Anticipated Conditions.
Mr. Roosevelt obviously expected
this, or worse. That is why he created
the C. w. A. to hand out money until
May l.
He also banked rather heavily on the
public works program. 1t has washed
out on him again.
The gods seem to be against the
P. w. A. In December it was really
getting somewhere. During the mild
early Winter weather contracts were
being filed for actual work at the
rate of S2O0,o00,OO0 a month.
Then came such cold weather as
we have not had in 20 to 80 years
in many sections. You cannot pour
concrete or do much other P. w. A
work at freezing temperatures. Con-
tracts fell off during the first two
weeks in February to half the Decem-
ber rate.
But that situation, too, is due for
an almost immediate change. Winter
cannot last much longer. Work will
be offered through the P. w. A. in
strong volume at the first sign OF
Spring.
That is what we have been wait
ing for since Secretary Ickes started
to work on the P. w. A. last July.
The results to date sho1D ho1o
wrong are these Congressmen and
other dgitators uho uant ten and
tuenty billions allotted to public
works, as a sure cure for the de-
preston.
There is so much lost motion in the
public works employment system that
it seems much better to give the
money away through the C. w. A. AT
least you employ people and create
purchasing power that way without
waiting for red tape to unravel or the
ground to thaw.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
E. A. SACKEY STRICKEN
Deputy q. 8. Marshal Rushed to
HOSPITAL After Attack.

Edward A. Sackey. deputy United
States marshal in District Police and
Supreme Courts for many years. was
taken to Emergency Hospital by the
Fire Rescue Squad today after suffer-
ing what Is believed to have been q
heart attack In his apartment at 402
Sixth street. 4 He u II yeazs old.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
Coon Dog Rescued
From Train Wreck,
Continues Journey
BY the Associated Press.


PITTSBURGH, February 28.-
Mournful whineS attracted
emergency crews as they labored
late yesterday clearing up the
debris Of the Pennsylvania Rail-
road wreck which claimed nine
lives.
Making their way into the
shattered baggage car the men
found a coon dog. shivering In its
crate. and obviously appealing
for aid.
The animal had been shipped
by Howard D. zigler Of Marshall
vile, Ohio, to Harold G. Ben
nette at Portland, Me.
Rail officials placed the dog on
another train to continue its trip
to Maine.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
NOMINATIONS O. KID

The nomination Of George 8. Mes
sersmith Of Delaware as Minister to
Uruguay and j. Butler Wright of
Wyoming as Minister to C1echoslo-
vakia were approved today by the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
Evening star., 1934-02-28

District tax the highest paid any,
where in the country.
j. F. Behler, representing the Dis
trict of Columbia division, A. A. A.,
told the committee that already a
bill has been proposed in the Virginia
Legislature to increase the gasoline
tax In that State to 5la cents. Cor
poration Counsel Bride charged this
is continuation Of the effort started
in 1925 to equalize the District tax
with that Of Maryland and Virginia
and declared he had been informed
each State is ready to again increase
its tax as soon as the District tax
Is brought to parity.
Representative Weideman empha-
sized that Congress legislates for the
District the same as the Virginia
Legislature or Maryland Legislature
does for their respective States.
He pointed out that Missouri, which
also has a 2-cent tax, has no right to
jump across the border line and insist
that the neighboring States with a
6 or cent tax should reduce theirs.
"This committee ought to legislate
solely for the District. If there is now
sufficient revenue from the 2-cent tax
on gasoline we do not need an addl-
tional tax" said Mr. Weideman.
Favors Cut for Recovery.
He pointed out that the automobile
industry is leading in the rehabilita-
ton of the country and that there Is
not a State in the Union from which
this industry does not buy three or
four products. THE sooner that the
automobile industry. which is one OF
the great employing agencies Of the
country, is rehabilitated," he said,
"the sooner the entire recovery pro-
gram will be made successful" He
advocated that instead of raising the
gasoline tax in the District or any
where else 1t should be reduced be-
cause it would speed up recovery and
would really increase revenues.
Mr.. Behler said he appeared for a
non.profit organization including
some 10000 private motor vehicle
owners in the District and represent
ing the stand taken by many civic
and business groups. He pointed out
that the avowed purpose Of the pro-
posed in;rease is an illogical and
unsound. basis for taxation" He de-
clared there is no need for a Accent
gasoline tax in the District and that
gasoline tax which is special levy
on a special class for a specified pur-
pose should not be diverted to gen.
eral usage or to any purpose other
than the construction and mainte-
aence Of streets and highways"
Evening star., 1934-02-28
DEPUTIES FIGHT
I D0UMERCUE RULE
Socialists Ba|k Efforts to
Secure DictatoriaI Tariff ,
Powers.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
PARIS, February 28.- Premier
Doumergue's slow approach to one
man rule in France stirred bitter op-
position in the Chamber of Deputies
today
Two efforts were made to balk his
authority.
Discomfort Of socialists caused the
Chamber to refer back to committee
the 71-year- old premier's plan to get
dictatorial tariff powers.
Then the Chamber, in a rebellious
mood, reinstated the 10 per cent tax
on foreign labor which the govern
ment had opposed as contrary to
treaties.
Taxes Alien Wages.
The tax, once rejected by the Sem
ate on the ground it conflicts with
treaties. would be levied on the wages
Of all foreigners who have lived less
than 10 years in France.
The premier had asked full powers
to change tariffs-an authority similar
to that granted him recently to effect
government economies by decree, with
out obtaining parliamentary approval
Such authority was voted the gov
ernment by the Chambers Tariff
Committee.
Today's moves in the chamber
marked the first real show of opposi-
ton to what many observers have in
terpreted as a quiet movement by
Doumergue toward accumulating die
tatorial powers.
Actually, he exercises a dictatorship
Of Q sort more moral than real.
Evening star., 1934-02-28
GAS TAX INCREASE
VIRTUALLY KILLED
IN HOUSE HEARING

Continued From First Page.)
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Chart Shows New Deal Results


normal 1925 taken
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new RELIEF PLAN
REPLACING c. w. A.
Is REVEALED HERE

Continued From First Page.)
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IS CALLED
| ON PAY DILEMMA
House Democrats to Map
Policy Tonight After Sem
ate Amends Bill.

Continued From First Page.)
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Police of the harbor precinct took
out their big launch yesterday in an
effort to break the ice in the channel,
but heavy going obliged them to turn
back half way between Hams Point
and the Navy Yard. Rammed into
or inches Of solid ice, the bow
Of the boat rose over the sheet, but
would not break through.
officials of the Norfolk Washington
line reported their boats were plying
through ice extending almost to
Chesapeake Bay. Ice on the lower
reaches of the Potomac. however. Is
thinner and the boats are constructed
to combat the worst Winter condi-
tions.
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over that mark all season. He
is a strong hitter with a vicious
wrist snap at the finish Of the
swing and is just as likely to
wallop a ball over the fence as
to pole a long drive down an
alley through the outfielders.
Ryan at .24O
The figures on Ryan were set
forth yesterday in discussing the
shortstops but, for purposes Of
review, Ryan is hitting around
.24O and he has produced fewer
than SO runs for the year. Now
Ryan, for all his fire and snap
and his prophetic kilograms,
does not belong on the same field
with owen over q season Of play.
Remember, however, that in the
series last year, Ryan outhit
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The Ruth scroll, drawn up by
Kirk Miller, Times sports editor,
will be presented to Ruth at Grit
fifth Stadium before the game on
Sunday. If you haven't had a
chance to sign the scroll here, you
will have an opportunity to do so
tomorrow and Sunday. The
parchment will be at the gate,
shaded by that towering elm at
the Georgia Avenue entrance to
the grounds.
Will Start Game
The Babe will be here with the
Yankees and will positively start
Sundays game. There's no guess
about that. Ruth himself cleared
up all doubt on the subject today,
saying:
"Sure III be with the team
on Sunday. And let me tell the
fans Of Washington this: I've
had q lot Of things done for me
when I was on top, smashing
home runs for the boys, but 1
never anticipated anything
quite as much as this. I never
even guessed that had so
many friends in Washington"
The Babe wasn't acting. He's
just that sort of chap all the
time. He is a ball player and
as long as he gave the fans the
best he had he thought it was
all even. He has been an object
Of hero worship through the
years. He never sought the lime
light. He never had to. Wherever
Ruth walked he fought the cal.
cium upon him.
Physicians Shake Heads
The Babe has been proclaimed
through" on several occasions.
He came closest to the end of the
trail in Asheville. N. c., in 1925.
He collapsed in a game down
there and was rushed home in a
private car. Carried from Penn
Station, Ruth was in a bad way.
Physicians shook their heads and
spoke vaguely Of the end Of a
great career. Babe recovered his
Continued On Page 80, Col. s.
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LADY GOLFERS
PLAY RUINED
BY STORM
Continued from Page ~

continued from rage
afternoon. For even a strong sun
late yesterday could not undo the
damage done by the cloudburSt
which struck the players on the
first nine.
Playing conditions were I'M
usually severe. There were mum.
erous spots in the fairways where
the erosion caused by the heavy
September rains left barren spots,
which resulted in frequent bad lies.
Still these conditions brought out
the fundamental differences in
mems championship golf and wom'
ems. For where the men stars can
change their games to adapt them
selves to new conditions and retain
their scoring edge, the women fail
ignobly and skyrocket to unusual
scores.
Time and time again these
faults were shown up glaringly in
the women's play around the
greens. Instead of closing the face
Of the clu.> and playing their ap-
proach shots off the back, the
women persisted in keeping the
club face open and playing the
ball off the front.
Naturally, with the turf as soft
as it was, this resulted in numer-
Gus flubbed shots unworthy of in
ternational competition.
Miss GOurIay Stars
However, Molly Gourlay, No. 2
player of the Britons, was not
one Of those at fault. Playing
her approach on the eighteenth,
she made certain not to commit
the error made a few seconds be-
fore by Miss Glutting, and she
ran the ball to within few feet
of the cup for the shot which
practically assured Britain half
in that particular match.
That Miss Barton, her partner,
missed the putt was no fault of
Miss Gourlay's, although it turned
out that the miss caused no dam
age, for Miss Glutting also failed
to sink hers.
If yesterdays matches were
lacking in skill, they certainly did
not lack in drama. Each of the
three contests was carried to the
closing holes, and the gallery was
more than satisfied although all
wet from its drenching.
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Faiirway
Chips
By GEORGE A. SIMPSON

Milady's finery was washed
when that cloudburst broke over
the Chevy Chase course during
the progress of the women's In
ternational Curtis Cup gol1
matches. indeed, several retired
to nearby homes to change their
garments. the rain didn't do
right by Curtis Lamson, either.
his natty blue tie faded on his
neatly laundered shirt. twas a
real show at that, what with Red
Cross nurses, Marines as gallery
patrols, Montgomery county State
policemen, marshals, officials with
naughty airs, messenger boys
ETC.. Miss Charlotte Cutting
who teamed with Virginia Van
VIE, pronounces her name "Gloot-
ing. and grows furious when
one calls her "Glut-ting" the
crowd, less than a thousand, was
a disappointment. Miss Eliza
beth c. Harris, president of the
Women's District Golf Associa-
ton, was an interested spectator
e. also DR.. John j. Shugrue. =.
and Ralph Beach. the ever'smil-
ing Baltimore pro. Maureen Or
cult holed the longest putt, a
downhill one at the ninth after
the rain had thoroughly drenched
the green. Clarence Charest'
veteran tennis player, was also
among the gallery. "a frenzied
squirrel, trapped on the practice
green, sought the haven OF a
nearby tree. but the spectators
refused to make an opening for
the frightened animal until Bill
Waxter, the Baltimorean, came
along and bowled "Fore!"
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GIANTS FACING
BIC OBSTACLE
IN DODGERS
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEILL
Shades Of 1908!

BY FRANK BUCK" ONEALL
Shades Of 1908!
They talk about the Cards and
cracking under the strain. The
whole country is cracking with
them. Here are the Red Birds,
half a game behind the Giants
with the softest touch in the Ma
tional League on the schedule for
three more games. The Reds, and
in baseball, Reds is q synonym
for push.
The Giants have two with
Brooklyn. On paper that is easy
enough, for Brooklyn has been
easy enough in other days and
other years. But Brooklyn in the
pinch is poison for New York.
Two games; not many when you
say it quick, but one whole vault
full when you want them in a
pinch. And Brooklyn would laugh
from GowanuS to Coney Island
if the Dodgers knocked off the
Giants III these two games that
are so badly needed.
The play-off is set. President
Heydler gave the Cards and
Giants their marching orders for
the three-game tilt with hops
from st. Louis to New York and
back again, or vice versa.
There have been rusheS like
this before. The Braves did it in
1914, and, in 1908, the leaders
of both teams fought it out to
the end. That was the year OF
the "Merkle incident" when hap
less Fred forgot to touch second
base. That was the year the
White Sox fought the Tigers
down to the end but lost in the
last week.
Remember that finish in the
American League that year. You
J don't. How surprising. Well
let's see how it went. Within
two weeks Of the finish Cleve
land, Chicago, st. Louis and De
troit were in a four-cornered due
to the DEATH. Chicago came ur
to tie the Tigers, and in the
last game Of the year Detroit
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Dean Brothers Twirl
Remaining Games
For Cards

ST. LOUIS, Sept. 28.-The
destiny of the st. Louis Cardi-
mails, who are racing neck and
neck with the New York Giants,
today was placed in the big
hands Of the two pitching
Deans. Manager Frisch says:
II am pitching the Deans
from now on until the pennant
is either cIinched or lost"
With an opportunity to tie
the Giants for the National
League lead, Frisch is sending
''Dizzy" Dean to the mound
against the Reds today. ''Dazzy"
Dean will pitch tomorrow and
Dizzy on Sunday.
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Marvin Owen, third baseman Of the Tigers,
best young ball players in the American
League and in baseball. If he plays his
normal game, unaffected by the pressure
Of the series and the Importance of every
play, he should be standout.
He is better third baseman than Travis
Jackson, who is a fine infielder regardless
of where he may be stationed. Owen out
classes John "Blondy" Ryan 40 ways from
the jack. His marked superiority over any
player the Giants may station at the turn
for home is so great that he swings an in
field edge to the Tigers.
Owen has been an outstanding player in
the American League throughout the season
Most of the year he batted in sixth position
and his dynamite drives in that slot carried
on many rally for the Tigers when four
run innings on Navin field were SO frequent
as to cause little comment. Owen has driven
more than 80 runs, topping the tally pro-
duction of every other third sacker in the
American League.
He is hitting well over the 300 mark, and hal
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Oh! For the Luxuries
Of a Tent and Nice
Bath in a Greek
By KIRK MILLER
T;noeo GnnrTe EHifor

Now isn't it too bad newspaper amt Siamese twin
rples Or quntupets There is much luxury
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The asparagus lido you like
asparagus, because If you don't
we have spinach) is grown un-
der water in mOist-prOOf glass
containers which permit the
infra-red rays of the sun to
penetrate their tiny roots, there
by giving added vitamins. Yet
the glass casket is perfectly OBJ
liviOus to the beams of the
moon, thus eliminating all posi-
bility Of insanity Detailing the
consumer.
"The Srinach-we spoke Of
it abOve-is of the Japanese
Gulf Stream variety and is de-
velOped by the constant ca
resses of gold fish darting in
and about among its leaves, thus
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American League. "Buck" ONeW
He hitting well over the 300 mark and has hit consistently
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Griffs- Yanks Down
For Two Games
TOMORROW

Idle since Tuesday, when a
double.header was played with the
Boston Red Sox at Boston the
Griffmen today awaited their final
series of the 1884 campaign
against the New York Yankees at
Griffith Stadium. A double-hea
beginning at lis p. m, is sched-
uled tomorrow and a single game
Sunday. AL Schacht will be act
ing manager for the final three
games, isnce Joe Cronin and his
wife, the former Mildred Robert
son. are honeymooning.
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Superiority of Owen
Swqys Scale to
Tiger hfeld
Bv FRANK "BUCK" ON
Times Staff Writer

Marvin Owen third baseman Of the Tigers is Of the two
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Babe Ruth Testimonial Embraced by Cty's Officials

This is a full-rate
Telegram or Cable
gram unless Its de-
ferred character Is I'M
dicated by a suitable
sign above or preeed.
ing the address.
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90 bad newspaper man amt Siamese twins
ven quintuplets. There is so much luxury to
be enjoyed at so many sports spots this
country over that ones invitations almost
overwhelm one.
For instance, Detroit's hotels are flood
ing the bona fide baseball experts with bids
to loiter in their refined acoustics, inhale
their imported cooking, sleep on their down
mattresses from the breasts Of the African
ju-ju birds and sober up in their air-cooled
turkish baths.
For instance, from the Bid-A-Wee Hotel,
corner of Ford Avenue and Dearborn
Street. comes this fascinating overture:
The world series is upon us. The first
time in quarter of a century. Your stay
in Detroit will not be complete unless you
let us reserve for you one of our communi-
eating suites, embracing parlor, bathroom
and flop with dumb waiter to cafeteria
which in pinch will sleep an extra guest.
Our steaks are cut from the uttermost
quarters of steers handled from infancy
on a bottle pasteuriZed in our spacious
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Babe Ruth Guarantees
He'll Appear With
Yankees Sundov
By FRANK BUCK" o'NEILL

Babe Ruths friends eons Of them representing Washing
tons fando have signed the Babe Ruth Testimonial Scroll
drawn honor of the great athlete who bids farewell to
and the diamond here Sunday
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meadows atop the hotel roof and contented they can
sleep peacefully despite the night club orchestra playing one
story down until o'clock in the morning.