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Evening star., 1934-12-01
ROOSEVELT READY
FOR DC. TAXSTUDy
Census Bureau Experts
May Be Assigned to Gather
Comparative Figures.
BY a staff Correspondent of The Star

BY Stan correspondent OF Inc star.
WARM SPRINGS, Ga, December
There is a possibility that Presi-
dent Roosevelt may assign expert
statisticians of the Census Bureau,
Department of Commerce. to the
study of taxes in a number of cities
to serve as q guide in determining
whether or not the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia are paying too much
or too little in local taxes.
The President announced this week
that he would institute such a study
of taxes. and mentioned that he
might use tax experts of the Treasury
Department. He will not make a
decision as to what agency of the
Government should be given this task,
however, until after he has talked it
over with Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau, who will arrive here
next Monday.
The President said yesterday after
noon that he planned to look into the
matter of having his tax investigation
conducted by the division of financial
statistics of cities, Census Bureau,
which has been making comparative
studies of tax burdens for many years.
It was said there was possibility OF
the use, at any rate, of statistics al
ready gathered by census officials.
The President seems confident that
a check-up on taxes in other cities in
comparison with those of the District
of Columbia will make it possible to
determine "just how matters stand in
Washington" and help him in bis
announced effort to end the hit or
miss" policy of appropriating for the
District. He will discuss the proposed
survey with Secretary Morgenthau
Monday, but will defer any definite
action until after he returns to Wash
ington Thursday. Soon after Mr..
Roosevelt gets back at the White
House he will know whether or not the
Census Bureau compilation covers the
ground he wants and will otherwise
suit his purpose, and If not, he will
decide just what agency will be given
the job of making the study.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
Winter Rauages Western y. S.
While East Enjoys Mild Ware

City, Okla, in the high panhandle,
reported IA degrees above zero.
A new snowstorm was sweeping the
intermountain country Of the West.
Weather observers said the storm ex-
tended from Granger, Wyo., across
Utah to Elko. New, and north into
Idaho.
On the West coast, violent winds
and rain lashed Southern Oregon.
blocking highways with debris and
disrupting communications. Southern
Idaho highways were clogged with
snow.
In the East the weather was un-
usually mild for December, although
rain prevailed In some sections.
Signs of Spring were evident IN
Maine. Owls Head, N. Y. the "ice
box" of the Northeastern States, en-
joyed balmy weather.
Floods swept away small bridges
and inundated thousands Of acres of
Ilowlands in Eastern North oasolina.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
Rosic1,an's Remoral Reported
Recommended by Investigator

Replacement without prejudice of
Arthur S. Rosichan as director of
transient relief in the District has
been recommended to Commissioner
George E. Allen and Federal Emer-
gency Relief Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins by Daniel Sands, special in
vestigator of the local transient relief
set-up, it was reported today.
Sands, who is the transient relief
director of Illinois, submitted his re-
port to Commissioner Allen yesterday
and eft last night for Chicago. He
handed a copy to Aubrey Williams
deputy administrator of the F. E.
R. A. in the absence of Hopkins. who
is in Warm Springs, Ga, conferring
with President Roosevelt.
No official comment on the report
was forthcoming either from the
District Building or the F. E. r. A.,
however. Commissioner Allen is in
Philadelphia to attend the Army
Navy game. and at the F. E. r. A..
it was said no statement would be
made pending Aliens return.
No action has yet been taken on
Sands report. but from reliable
sources it was learned that Rosichan
will be replaced, probably in the next
week or two.
Richard Gebhardt, director of tran
sient relief In Missouri. has been de-
tailed by Allen to continue the in
quiry begun by Sands. who had to
leave for Chicago before he could
wind up his investigation. 1t was un-
derstood unoficially that Gebhardt
might succeed Rosichan.
Rosichan will not leave the relief
administration, however, unless he
chooses to do SO, it was said, but will
be offered a post, the duties of which
more nearly fit his special qualifications,
it was understood Commissioner Allen
is said to feel that to remove him i'm
mediately would only add to the hue
and cry which has engulfed the tran
Evening star., 1934-12-01

sient relief division in controversy
since a group Of disgruntled transients
demanded Rosichan's removal several
weeks ago.
1t was after a committee of the
transients called on Hopkins and
Allen that Sands was named to con-
duct an investigation into the admin
istration of the transient relief d.
vision
Sands report to Allen was under
stood to state that while Rosichan
is an able welfare worker, he has
had insufficient experience in the
administration of a bureau handling
as many cases as the transient relief
division. This view is understood to
have been concurred in by Allen.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
NEW TREATY LOOMS.
Japan Agrees to Adopt Compromise
Basis.

LONDON, December l (R.-The
possibility of a new tri-power 10-year
naval treaty was seen today as a result
of new proposals made by Japan.
Ambassador Tsuneo Matsudaira of
Japan told Norman H. Davis, the
American representative to the naval
parley, that Japan was willing to try
to reach an understanding on the
basis of recent British compromise
proposals.
However, the British suggestion that
Japan's right tc equality in theory only
be granted and that equality in fact
be withheld was fatty rejected by the
Japanese.
Consequently, the new japanese
move brought little satisfaction to the
delegates to the conference, since it
was made clear that Toxic insists on
the abolition of the 5-5-3 ratio
! which the United States and Great
Britain are equally determined to
maintain.
All the Japanese are willing to do 1t
was stated, is to try to reach an agree
ment if the British and Americans are
prepared to concede full equality to
Japan.
Evening star., 1934-12-01

water everywhere-rain that had fallen
for 48 hours on admirals and generals
alike. on the Secretaries of War and
Navy, on Government officials of high
and low degree, all part of the 10000
that had taken over the city, jammed
its hotels and tangled its traffic for
the annual climax of the regular foot
ball season.
There wasn't seat to be had in the
huge horseshoe stands, sold out weeks
ago, and, despite the threat of show
ers all day, spectators, with only a
few hundred tickets to start with, COM
manded whatever price they cared to
ask. Bids of $50 for single ticket
were common.
For the first time in years the mid
shipmen from Annapolis, headed by
their brilliant ball carrier, passer and
defensive star, Fred Buzz" Berries of
Louisville, KY, were favored, though
slight as to S. to break the spell the
Army cadets have woven around the
classic since 1921, when Navy last won
one. to 0. in New York In the 10
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Evening star., 1934-12-01
FAMILY FEUD CLUE
IN BABES DEATHS
Brother of Noakes Gives
Possible Explanation
for Flight East.
BY the Associated Press.


CARLISLE. Pa, December IA
new clue to the mysterious deaths OF
Elmo j. Noakes, his niece and three
babes in the woods" cropped up to-
day-a family feud.
There's been trouble in the family
for years." said r. U. Noakes, his
brother, in possible explanation OF
the migration across the continent OF
the five lonely figures, and the tragedy
that befell them.
The American Legion, meanwhile
arranged for burial of the children in
a circular spot of land set aside for
them in the rugged hills. The cere-
mony was one usually reserved for
the Nations hero dead.
The dissension mentioned by the
brother came to the surface again.
Two sisters of Noakes were given
suspended sentences in Roseville last
night after Russell Pierce. brother OF
the 18-year-old niece, Winifred Pierce,
charged them with disturbing the
peace, abusing and cursing' his
mother, Mrs. Pearl Pierce.
The women were ordered not to at
tempt to see Mrs. Pierce again during
80 days of probation.
Noakes' sister, Mrs. Winnie Chafhn
and Mrs. Kate Gibby, said they had
called on Mrs. Pierce to help establish
identification of the dead girl In
Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, December DE
cember arrived today to find Winter
already firmly ensconced in the West
ern United States.
Frigid gales lashed the Northern
tier Of States from the Great Lakes
to the Pacific
Two duck hunters, Harry Hickey
and Roscoe French, were feared
drowned in Lake of the Ozarks, whip
ped by q high wind that brought .
record-breaking snow to the Missouri
hill region.
The storm brought death to two
men In Iowa and one in Minnesota.
Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa rushed
to clear snow-blocked roads in ad-
vance Of an expected new fall. Strong
north winds had piled drifts in the
three States.
Temperatures dropped in the SOUTH
rMesteyp- section: - skies cleared. 1Qial
Evening star., 1934-12-01
AGENTS PUSH HUNT
FOR NELSON WIDOW
Mrs. Gillis Believed Dangerously
Wounded in Battle Costing
Three Lives.
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, December 1.-The Gov
ernment's ace Investigators pushed
their hunt for Mrs. Helen Gillis, young
widow of George (Baby Face) Nelson,
today with renewed intensity.
Their was a growing belief among
some investigators that Mrs. Gillis is
hiding out somewhere in the Chicago
area, possibly dangerously wounded.
This belief was based on the state
ments of some witnesses of last Tues
days battle at Darlington, in which
Nelson and Federal Agents Samuel p
Cowley and Herman E. Hollis were
mortally wounded, that a woman, be-
lieveo to have been Mrs. Gillis, had to
be dragged from ditch at the scene
of the fight and placed in the auto
mobile of the Government agents in
which Nelson's accomplice escaped.
A plea that Mrs. Gillis surrender
rather than face Government bull
let's" was made public by her father,
John Wawrzyniak, last night.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
japanese Finance Monopoly.

The Manchoukuan government,
which governs the state Japan Gre
ated in China two years ago, an
nounced about five months ago that
commercial sales of petroleum would
be handled in the future by ma
tional monopoly. The monopoly was
to be assigned to the Manchoukuo
Oil Co., concern financed chiefly
by Japanese capital
Because of British, American and
Dutch oil company operations in the
same territory, Great Britain and the
United States objected that such a
monopoly was in violation of the
nine-power pact under which the sig
natory nations concerned had guar
anteed the open door" of China.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
RISING POTOMAC
PER|LS PROPERTY
National Highway West of
MiddIetoWn Blocked by
Monocacy Flood.

The Potomac River was rising rap
idly above Washington today after
four days of torrential rains which
aggregated nearly inches in parts
of the Upper Shenandoah Valley
Some flood damage is feared along
the upper river
Reports from Hagerstown, Md. said
the national highway west of Middle
town was blocked when Little Monoc-
acy Greek left its banks. State police
men were stationed at the bridge and
scores of cars were held up, it was
reported
At Chain Bridge the river was only
3 or feet above normal at mid
morning, but was rising rapidly. In
Washington, Harbor Precinct reported,
the river was about normal" The
Shenandoah and Upper Potomac Riv-
ers were out of their banks in places,
with flood stage of 14.2 feet at River
ton and 10 feet at Harper's Ferry, and
the water still rising.
Much Cooler Forecast.
The Weather Bureau today forecast
a breaking up of the abnormal wealth.
er of the last few days during this
afternoon, with much cooler" wealth.
er tonight and tomorrow There will
be nothing even approximating a
cold wave" however, it was fore
cast, and the temperatures probably
will not be down to the average for
early December. The lowest tempera-
ture tonight probably will be about
38 degrees.
Although the heavy rain OF the last
few days apparently has let up, there
may be another shower today, clearer
weather tomorrow, and more rain
Monday, it was forecast.
During the three-day storm which
began to break up this morning,
Washington had 3.74 inches of rain,
according to Weather Bureau read
ings. This brought the total for
inches, this figure being subject to
final correction, exceeding the normal
rainfall for the month by nearly 2
inches. Since midnight there has
been g inch of rain here.
The Weather Bureau river observa-
tory reported that the Potomac above
Harpers Ferry was bank full and
spreading out over its lower banks
and that this height probably would
be reached below Harpers Ferry today
and tomorrow. 1t usually takes two
or three days for high water at
Harpers Ferry to reach Washington,
it was said, and with let-up of the
heavy rains of the last few days,
this probably will be sufficient to
prevent any serious damage.
Small Streams Flooded.
At Winchester, Va, small streams
were out of their banks after 3.5
inches of rain since last night Low
lands were flooded and numbers of
secondary roads were impossible. Fruit
growers and farmers welcomed the
end of a drought that had assumed
menacing proportions.
The November rainfall of nearly z
inches was the heaviest since records
were begun by the Virginia Research
Laboratory at Winchester more than
20 years ago.
At Hagerstown inches of rain
fell from sundown yesterday to 8
am. today and the Potomac at
Williamsport was rising inches an
hour. Martinsburg, w. Va, reported
that Back Greek, Mill Greek, Tusca-
rora and other smaller streams were
all out of bank and the heaviest
property damage in that region was
expected along these streams.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
FIVE KILLED BY P0MAKS
Bulgarian Guards Fired On While
Pursuing Families.

ATHENS, December l @.-Five
men were killed today when Bulgarian
frontier guards, pursuing number of
Pomak families bulgarian Moslems)
who were attempting to reach the
Greek town of Drama, opened fire.
Several women were wounded be-
fore the guards succeeded in confining
the Pomaks to Bulgarian territory.
An inquiry will be made into the
charge that the killings occurred on
the Greek side of the border.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
IL Macedonians to Die.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, December / P).-
In a determined drive to wipe out the
Imro, the international Macedonian
revolutionary organization, a military
court today sentenced IL Macedonian
revolutionaries to death for numerous
assassinations committed during re-
cent years.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December l.
Army and Navy, brothers in defense of
national security, turned on each other
in play today and Franklin Field
shared with the country, with ships at
sea from China to Suez. with every
soldier outposts from Alaska to Hawaii
the excitement and glamour of the
thirty fifth foot ball duel of the
services.
If there was anything in signs, it
was a day for Navy, for there was
Evening star., 1934-12-01
THREE HURT IN WRECK

ANKENY, Iowa, December R.-
A northbound Chicago & Northwest
ern freight train crashed head-on into
standing freight train, injuring three
trainmen, as binding snowstorm
obscured all signals and the track
ahaod he1e, nestagdaR < ~
Evening star., 1934-12-01
Nauy Fauored to Defeat Army
On Muddy Philadelphia Field
10000 S,oomP Pennsylvania City for
Service Game-Borries Is Nucleus
of attack by Admirals.

FRANKLIN FIELD, Philadel-
phia, December l @.-A terrific
downpour of rain swept the battle
ground for the Army-Navy foot
ball game today and drenched
most of the capacity crowd of
10000 spectators huddled in the
University of Pennsylvania Sta
dium. The clouds unloaded
wind-swept torrent less than an
hour before the kickoff was
scheduled and turned the gridiron
into a quagmire.
Evening star., 1934-12-01
FIRST LADY RETURNS
Mrs. Roosevelt Back to Do Pre-
Christmas Work.

Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt returned
to the White House today after spend
ing Thanksgiving with the President
at Warm Springs. Ga.
She arrived a few days ahead of Mr..
Roosevelt, who will not return until
December S. Mrs. Roosevelt had some
Christmas work to be done.
Evening star., 1934-12-01

WEATHER.
co. 8. Weather Bureau Forecasto
Fair and much colder with lowest tenn
perature about 38 degrees tonight; to-
morrow fair; Monday rain.
Temperatures-Highe 60, at 10 am.
today; lowest, Sc, at noon today.
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1934-06-03

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Evening star., 1934-04-15
Reporter Causes
Ire When He Calls
Visit a "Junket''

NEW YORK, April 14.-What-
ever Congress as whole thinks
Of New York, the 100 members
of the House who came here on a
visit" did not award 1t the palm.
We say visit" advisedly, for a
reporter, who reads his news
paper editorials, innocently asked
about the "junket."
With Representatives that is a
fighting word, and Representa-
tive Summers went through the
roof.
"Junket?" he demanded. "Ill
tell you how much of a junket it
is. We're paying $3.50 for the
round trip. I could break that
young whippersnapper's heck"
The party was entertained at
luncheon, taken in cars around
the city and shown the sights,
preparatory TO a motor trip to
West Point.
If the city wants to entertain
US a little, that is a different
matter" said Representative Sum
mers.
Representative Sol Bloom of
New York, who played host, was
diSconsolate.
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Backyard Contest
Viii Be ReneiUed
In Los angeles
Playground Increment
Was Launched to End
Motor Fatalities.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LOS ANGELES, April 14-Mount-
ing traffic fatalities among children
here in recent years caused the insti-
tuition of the annual backyard play
ground contest, now celebrating its
second anniversary.
Parent teacher association officials
started the campaign when they be-
came alarmed at the mounting death
rate which continued despite scores Of
public Fairgrounds and parks.
Zest was added to the campaign
through awarding ribbons and certifi-
Gates to winners. First division en-
tries are not permitted to spend any,
thing on their home Fairgrounds. Sec
ond division entries may spend up to
SIS, third division contestants can
spend to SIS and the fourth division
is unlimited in expenditures.
An award also is made to the family
demonstrating the best spirit of
friendship in construction and utiliza-
ton of its backyard recreation center.
The first contest brought out hun
dreds of new miniature Fairgrounds,
and this year, although competition
is not in full swing yet, the results
are expected by officials to surpasS all
expectations.
You'd be surprised at the jngeni-
Gus contraptions backyard playground
builders devise" said George Jelte,
superintendent Of the playground de-
partment. They hang volley ball
nets from clotheslines, build swings
out of castoff automobile tires, con-
struct teeter-totters from discarded
fence boards, build slides down their
back steps and convert old bath tubs
into wading pools.
ut Is too early to say whether we
have achieved our objective OF de-
creasing child traffic deaths, but we
are convinced three or four backyard
Fairgrounds in every block will keep
the children in that neighborhood
off the streets, and it naturally fol-
lows there will be fewer traffic acci-
dents involving them"
Evening star., 1934-04-15
Charleston Street
MinStreIs Facing
Ban of Officials
Police Act as Singers
and Dancers Degenerate
Into BeggdrS.

CHARLESTON, S. c., April IA I'D,
Police are threatening to stamp ont
Charleston's street minstrels, once
colorful elements of the city's quaint
HE, because the singers and dancers
nave degenerated into ordinary beg
garS.
Most of the entertainers are colored
children, and there was a time thev
put on an excellent show for the
nlckles and dimes of generous tourists
Ihey would dance in groups and
sing all about the story Of the
Charleston fire" OF course. few could
understand the wordS-for the singing
was IN the strange language of the
Gullah Negroes. But the melody made
up for all of that.
When the tourist had enough and
moved on. the show moved. too. And
1t never ended until the coins stopned
falling. -0
Within recent years, though. little
OF that has been practiced. One bv
one the separate bands hushed their
singing and stilled their dancing feet
Inc children had learned that a
s1ght-seer more often than not tossed
out coins for the asking. And thev
came to see no reason for exerttne
themselves in songs and dances If a
supplication would serve the same
purpose.
Consequently the syncopated "story
OF the Charleston fire" gave way to a
practiced whine, please, mister.
gimme Ill extra penny"
The custom wasn't long in becoming
nuisance, particularly around steam
ship docks and railway stations.
Travellers disembarking often found
themselves surrounded by so MANY
little beggars they couldn't walk.
But they are becoming few in num-
Der, now that police have arrested
several and brought them before
Juvenile Court. Of course, the court
is very lenient, usually letting the
children of with a reprimand.
But even that has far-reaching
effect, for Gullahs, large and small
have deep respect for "de laws brass
buttons"
Evening star., 1934-04-15
BY W. A. WELLS.

PALO ALTO, Calf. tP).-Although
maintaining for more than year the
self lf-impoSed silence which he set for
himself upon leaving the presidency,
there are few private citizens in
America who keep in closer touch
with national and world events than
former President Herbert Hoover.
His recent swing through the West
by rail ard motor, although ostensibly
a pleasure trip" is an indication of
his interest.
Once again the picture of rugged
health and good spirits, America S
only living ex-President holds almost
daily telephone conversations with his
former private secretary, Larry
Richey, or others in Washington and
New York: his home on San Juan
Hill is the mecca for virtually all the
chieftains of his party who may by
chance or otherwise travel to the
Coast; he receives more than 80 news
papers, and mis- daily mail is as volum-
inous as that of the head of a large
corporation.
Day Starts at 6.
With the energy that Is the despair
Of friends and associates endeavoring
to keep pace, the former President ad-
heres to regimen that begins at in
the morning and, by midafternoon, he
has disposed of a mass of work that
would exhaust one less actively dis
posed.
For him, however, frequently the
day has but started and long hours
of reading, study and writing may fol-
low.
Days of strenuous work often are
punctuated with business or pleasure
trips and, now and then, with fish,
ing expedition, such as those to the
high Sierras and the waters of Lower
California.
When longer trips are not in order
his favorite relaxation Is motoring,
oftentimes at the wheel, and he has
travelled by auto many thousands OF
miles since leaving the White House.
He has revisited nearly all of his
old mining haunts in the mother lode