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Evening star., 1934-06-18
Light of Longer Wape Length
Found to Hasten Seed CrO,uth
termination Speeded by Treatment.
Sound Reason for Class
Quality Revealed.

genetics laboratory of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington. It may
have had something to do with long
life and resistance against disease.
In a statement issued by the insti-
tuition today DR.. Davenport urges more
consideration of quality" in matri-
! mony, in view of recent animal expert
ments conducted in his laboratory.
1T is through the particular mating
that internal resistance or suscepti-
bility to disease is carried" DIR. Dapen-
port said. This is plainly seen in
the cases Of mice, where the hybrids
between immune and susceptible par
ents are susceptible. 1t is also seen
in the case of goiter where, of the
progeny of a father belonging to a
goitrous fraternity and a mother who
belongs to a fraternity immune to
goiter, some have high susceptibility
to the condition.
II know 1t Is not easy to control
human matings, and yet the recogni-
ton of need of some sort of control
has led to more or less successful at
tempts Of this kind In the past. ]
think especially of the influence
which French parents exercise upon
the mating of their children. think
of the high ideals in mating which
are inculcated in sons and daughters
by parents who recognize the i'm
portance Of what the Southerners call
quality"
"A long experience at the eugenics
record Office of the Carnegie Institu-
ton of Washington convinces me
that many young people think very
deeply upon the consequences of their
mating, especially where some defect
lies in one of the families concerned
During the past 20 years we have re-
ceived thousands of inquiries upon
this subject, and it is fair to say that
without propaganda, but with the
gradual acquisition of knowledge and
by the ordinary processes of educa-
ton, Selective mating will become
more and more wide spread as time
goes on.
Thus the principles of eugenics
may combine with pathology, endo-
crinology and other branches of bio
chemistry in bringing about a race
more resistant to disease and cap
able of a better adjusted. happier,
healthier life
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Card Party Planned.

BERWYN, Md, June 18 Especially
The Sisters of Providence at Mary
hurst Convent, assisted by members
Of the Mothers Club of Holy Re
deemer School, will hold card party
in the school here the night of June
27 at 8 pm, the proceeds of which
will go to the fund being raised to
buy a school bus. There will be prizes
and refreshments. Mrs. Mary Mohun
of Hyattsville is general chairman in
charge Of the function. Donations
will be welcomed.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
YALE GIVES GREEK KEY

NEW HAVEN, Conn, June Is Up
The final elections to Phi Beta
Kappa from the senior class in Yale
College were announced today.
The selections are based on the
average of the students studies for
four years in college and bring the
total membership in the Honorary
Scholarship Society up to 10 per cent
of the class as registered at the be-
ginning of the senior year.
The latest to be admitted to men,
bership include William Wright Stat
ford of Berea, KY, and William Lewis
Sachese, Santa Barbara, Calf.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
REVIVAL OF FAIR AIM
OF WINCHESTER GROUP
Leasing of Part of Rouss City
Park to Come Before Meet
ing Tonight.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va. June 10
Hopes of reviving the Winchester Fair.
presumed to have been abandoned
when the society's property was sold
under foreclosure a year ago, have
been born anew. A meeting has been
called for tonight to consider leasing
a portion of RouSS City Park for an
agricultural exhibition the week of
September II.
Teachers of agriculture in high
schools Of Frederick and Clarke Coun-
ties and committees of citizens of each
county are to meet with Fred Stine.
Frederick County agent, to discuss a
plan offered by c. B. Ralston, secre-
treasurer of the Virginia Asso-
citation of Fairs. whereby it will be
possible, he indicated, to hold an agri-
cultural and educational fair.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
HITLER AIDE VISITS
HARVARD REUNION
Has No Other Purpose in
U. S.-May Meet
Roosevelt.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, June IS. -
Ernst Franz Sedgewick Hanfstaengl,
adviser to Chancellor Hitler, was just
another old grad today, back at Har-
ward for commencement week.
He announced that his reason for
coming to this country was to join
his classmates at their twenty-fifth
reunion-nothing more.
AS for his homeland, he had one
cryptic remark: THE position of the
Jew in Germany is going to be nor
NAL, quite normal, before long. Every
thing is going to be better
Posters urging make him a master
of torture" which appeared during
the night pasted to the Harvard Yard
fence and to Hollis Hall windows, were
torn down before HanfStaengl arrived.
Some of the placardS read: Make
him a master of sterilization" and
Drive the NaZi butcher OUT
ALI the posters, earmarked posted
by the Boston committee, victims OF
German Fascism," were removed be-
fore the arrival of Hitler's confidential
aide at the yard.
Hanfstaengl attended the Sunday
afternoon memorial service for those
of '09 who have died
He went especially "for Norman
Prince and Nathaniel Simpkins, both
very dear friends and classmates. u
They lost their lives fighting in the
World War-against Germany.
Also Talks With Lowell.
He also had a long talk with A.
Lawrence Lowell, president emeritus
of Harvard - about Bismarck and
Germany and Demosthenes and the
art of public speaking and politics
and Hitler as speaker"
'Hanfy," as he is known to his
classmates, will so to New London
late this week for the Harvard-Yale
boat races. President Roosevelt plans
to be there, too.
Asked if he would take that occa-
sion to see his fellow alumnus, Hanf-
staengl proposed a question of his
own:
What would you do if you were
thirsty and some one put a glass OF
Pilsner in front of you?"
The adviser to the German chan
cellor smiled broadly at the mention
of an anti-Nazi demonstration and
said:
II don't mind those little things. ]
think they are just trying to have
little fun with me-"
Enjoys Visit to New York.
Herr Hanfstaengl wasn't bothered
in the least by the fact that he just
missed an anti-Nazi demonstration in
New York yesterday.
II had a great time in New York, "
he said. Il don't remember when l
enjoyed myself more. There's nothing
like it in Germany"
II have been looking forward for
several years to this occasion, and
trust it will be a memorable one he
declared This is my first visit since
1921. One thing I would like to see
is a good base ball game, and I'm 60
ing to see the Harvard-Yale game at
Soldiers Field. I want to get out and
have a row on the Charles, too"
Hanfstaengl revealed this was his
first vacation in years.
The boss finally let me co. he
said, with a twinkle in his eye.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
|MPROVEDIRETA|L
| CREDIT WELCOMED
Government Survey Shows
Bills Are More Promptly
Paid at Stores.
Customers of the Nations stores are

Customers of the Nations stores are
paying their bills more promptly.
Improved retail credit conditions, as
disclosed by a Department Of Com
merce survey, are characterized by
Government trade observers as one
Of the most encouraging aspects OF
the business situation.
From 1880 to 1888 consumers grad
ually took more and more time in
which to pay their monthly charge
accounts, thus making for lower COL
lection percentages. This trend was
reversed beginning in May year ago
and recent report covering the last
six months of 1888 shows a decided
upturn with both open and INSTALL
ment accounts being paid more
promptly than during the latter hall
of 1882.
Reduction in Time.
The reduction in the average length
of time that accounts receivable were
outstanding amounted to one month
In the case of the inStallment sales
and six days on open-account sales
Installment accounts were outstand-
ing on the average seven and one-halt
months in the July-December period
Of 1888 and eight and one-halt
months for the corresponding period
in 1882.
Regular charge accounts were paid
on the average in 81 days during 1888
as compared with 88 days in the prev
ious year. Coincident with the i'm
provement in retail credit conditions
there was a marked decrease in bad
debt losses.
These defaults of customers, charged
to profit and loss, amounted to 81
per cent Of installment account sales
in 1882 and Al per cent in 1888. The
open account loss was IA per cent IN
1882 and IL per cent last year.
Customers Better Of.
Government specialists attribute
these gains in the credit situation in
part to the improved financial condi-
tions of the consumers and in part tc
the more aggressives policies adopted
by credit managers throughout the
country.
Early reports from the census OF
American business, undertaken the
first of this year by the Bureau of the
Census, indicate substantial gains
during the last year in the number OF
people employed in retail stores. In
Montana, for example. there was an
increase Of 18 per cent in full-time
employment between March and De-
cember, 1898. compared with 7 per
cent during the same period in 1929.
Based on the average number OF
full-time employees. employment in
wholesale establishments in Wisconsin
increased per cent between January
and December Of 1888 and IL per cent
between March and october. AS ex-
pected, there was a large decline in
sales volume, number of full-time en-
ployes and in salaries and wages be-
tween 1929 and 1898.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
ROBBER ON TRIAL TODAY
IN NEW JERSEY. SLAYING
Convicted Burglar Charged With
Killing Socially Prominent
Bradway Brown.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MOUNT HOLLY, N. j.. June 18.-
Adam Szewczak, 24-year-old convicted
robber, goes on trial in Burlington
County Court today, accused of the
Staying of Bradway Brown, socially
prominent young printing company
executive.
Edward Adamski, 20, and Solomon
Lutz. %, the other two men charged
in the Staying, have pleaded nolle
contendere in the case, and have
named Szewszak as the man who fired
the shot which killed Brown outside
the garage to his palatial Cinnamin-
son township home in January, 1888.
Szewczak was indicated in the slay-
ing while serving a term in Eastern
Penitentiary, Philadelphia, for a
$4,000 bond theft.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
PHILIPPINES MAY
USE ARMY POSTS
Nucleus of Defense for Inde-
pendent Islands Already
Considered.

MANILA. P. I. R.-The United
acres In military posts when the
Philippines become free about 1945,
under the independence act accepted
by the Legislature on May l.
Maj. Gen. Frank Parker, comman-
dant Of the Department of the Philip
pines, thinks the transfer can be made
with little difficulty.
American forces now include about
$50 officers and 1000 enlisted men,
plus 62 officers and 6,398 soldiers of
the Philippine Scouts, native Filipinos
whose service is restricted to the
islands.
I'VE are not certain that we shall
withdraw gradually or all at once"
he said. But we can do either with
equal ease. Mobilization is an essen
tial attribute of good army"
Islands Might Buy Posts.
Gen. Parker suggested that an inde-
pendent Philippine government might
wish to take over some or all Of the
American equipment, including the
artillery on the island of Corregidor,
the one-time American Gibraltar"
commanding the entrance to Manila
Bay.
The Washington arms treaty of
1922 forbade the further fertilization
Of Corregidor, but it still is rated as
formidable fortress.
Gen. Parker said disposition Of the
Philippine Scouts need not be difficult
because by 1914 practically all will
have been retired on Federal pen
sions."
Others, he said, might be the nu-
cleus for a Philippine army, if one
were decided upon, or incorporated in
the Philippine Constabulary, a mill
tary police force of about 5000 main
tained by the insular government to
keep order in the ar-fung archipelago.
Two score scouts recently were re-
tired with pensions upon ruling of
the District of Columbia Supreme
Court in test case.
Gen. Parker predicted that more
adequate internal policing would be
necessary with the United States out
Of the picture. He admitted the
American Army was not in a position
to defend the islands from a major
external foe, but pointed out "the
world knows there are millions more
where we come from"
Soldiers Spending Missed.
He suggested that the soldiers pay
that has been largely spent in the
Islands, amounting to about $4,000 900
year, will be missed, though the War
Department has made many of its
purchases of supplies from outside the
Philippines.
The 5000 acres of land set aside
for military purposes is contained in
eight posts, flying fields and such
establishments, chief of which are
Fort Santiago, the headquarters, at
Manila; Fort Mills, on Corregidor
Island, where some $500 men are
stationed; Fort Mckinley, near Ma
Mia, manned by 3,l00, and Fort
Stotsenburg. Cavalry post 81 miles
north of Manila, where 2,1oo are
| located.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
MINNEAPOLIS PREPARES
FOR SHRINE CONVENTION
National Officers Discuss Work of
Order on Eve of Annual
Session.

BY the Associated Press.
MINNEAPOLIS, June ia gayly
decked city put the finishing dabs of
preparation yesterday to its expansive
program for entertaining the sixtieth
annual national convention of the
Shrine which starts tomorrow.
Several thousand persons heard
three speakers, among them Imperial
Potentate John N. Sebrell of Norfolk,
Va, outline Shrine objectives and dis
cuss its work in behalf of crippled
children.
Sebrell said $18,OOO,000 has been
spent in establishment and mainte-
nance of hospitals for 10000 children
in II years.
Another speaker was James H
Price of Richmond, Va, imperial re-
corder.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
/ HELD IN FAKE
MURDER RACKET
Tomato KetChup Served as
Blood in Extortion
Plots.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, June 18.-Eleven per-
sons were under arrest today in a po-
lice roundup of an alleged extortion
gang which specialized in staging
fake murders-using tomato ketchup
to represent blood.
Nine men and two women were be-
ing held as investigation was made of
the gangs activities in New York
Philadelphia and New Jersey. The
police said the group had collected
more than 100000 in the last year
by wide variety Of plots
The arrests followed a complaint
by Dominick Zerbonio, a junk dealer,
who said he had paid $4,000 after he
had been made the victim in a fake
murder plot. He told police he had
been approached several months ago
by two men who demanded monthly
sum for the protection" of his busi-
ness. When he refused the pair took
him to an East Side tenement to talk
to the boss"
"Shot" Follows Argument.
As he talked to the Boss" Ter
bonio said, an argument started and
somebody fired shot" The boss"
fell to the ground and when others
turned him over his face was covered
with what seemed to be blood and
there was a crimson spot on the
ground. Soon afterward two men
displaying badges came up to the
scene and Zerbonio was pointed to as
the murderer"
zerbonio said the men with badges
told him they would set him free if
he laid $4,000. He managed to pay
So 1000, but when the detectives" de-
manded more, Zerbonio went to the
police A trap was laid, under which
Zerbonio continued to bargain with
the pair, and yesterday two men were
arrested. Later the police took four
other men and two women into Gus
tody and arrested three more men
today.
Body Shown in Coffin.
Police said the fake murder was
staged by means Of a blank cartridge
and a bottle of ketchup. They said
that in another plot when the victim
was not convinced a murder" had
taken place, members of the gang
took him to a room where the muir
dered" man was lying in a coffin.
Those held said they were Pietro
Niccolato, 35; Giuseppe Perrone, So;
James Longo, 80; his wife Lucy, 90;
Mrs. Alvira Bove, "a; Amelio Locardo,
As; Jack Rosenberg, 81; Joseph Boni-
giano, 27; Sebastian de Losare, 40;
Carmello Scuddere, 80, all of New
York, and Luca Canale, 81, Of Port
Washington, N. Y.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Library Delegate Chosen.

SILVER SPRING. Md, June 18
(SpeciaD Mrs. Lloyd Y. Beers, presi-
dent Of the Silver Spring Library AS
sociation, has been appointed by Gov.
Albert C. Ritchie a delegate to repre-
sent the tate of Maryland at the
forthy-sixth annual Conference of the
American Library Association, which
meets at Montreal, Canada, from June
Is to 80.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
OFFICERS ELECTED
Mrs. G. II. Post Made President of
Montgomery Club.

BY Stan Correspondent of The Star.
CHEVY CHASE, Md, June 16.-
Mrs. George H. Post has been elected
president of the Montgomery Club of
Chevy Chase for the insuing year,
with Mrs. D. r. Macleod, vice presi-
dent: Mrs. j. E. Monroe, treasurer,
and Mrs. Warren H. Parker, secretary.
The club approved the ALLEGATIONS
Of $50 to the Montgomery County So
cial Service League, $40 to the Chevy
Chase NJ E. Church and $40 to the
Newcomb Club Library. 1t was an
nounced set of encyclopedias were
purchased this year for the Chevy
Chase Elementary School.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
East Falls Church Dance.

FALLS CHURCH, Va, June 10 (Spe-
ciaD Acacia Chapter, o. E. S., will
give a dance at the new Masonic Hall
at East Falls Church tomorrow from
to IL. Tickets will be rs cents per
couple or SO cents singly. Northrup
Church's Orchestra will furnish the
music. The hall is air cooled. "a
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Game Society to Meet.

LEESBURG, Va, June 18 (Spe-
ciaD The annual meeting of the
Game and Fish Protective Association
will be held tonight at O'Clock in
the Loudoun National Bank. OFF,
GERS for the coming year will be
elected and program for the activi-
ties of the organization mapped out.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Jewish Policemen
Assigned to Guard
Nazi Harvard Grad
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOSTON, June 19.-Two stall
wart Jewish policemen, members
of the civilian-g -garbed radical
squad, today were assigned to
guard DR.. Ernst Hanfstaengl
during his visit here.
DR.. HanfStaengl, lieutenant Of
Chancellor Hitler, arrived to at
tend the reunion of his class,
Harvard '09, today. Officers Ben
jamin Goodman and William
Collision accompanied him
everywhere on his round of
visits, to protect him against any
possible anti-Nazi annoyances.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
League to Hear Willett.

ROCKVILLE, Md, June 18 (Spe-
ciaD Herbert L. Willett, director Of
the Washington Community Chest,
will address the Montgomery County
Social Service League at its annual
dinner meeting at the Manor Club,
Norbeck, tomorrow.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Dog Mothers Seven Pigs.

TRUCTON, Colo, R.-Although a
female police dog at the John Copper
farm near here had six puppies of
her own she took seven motherless
pigs literally to her breast when their
mother died. The little pigs are
swiftly developing into good prospects
for the butcher.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
PRINCESS is NAMED
Miss Mildred Preston Selected
for Culpeper Festival.

for Culpeper Festival.
BY Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va.
June 18.-The appointment of Miss
Mildred Preston, 229 Marion avenue
Clarendon, as Princess Arlington" in
the Culpeper Tri-Festival, which is
to be held August 2, 3 and 4, was
announced today by Delegate William
D. Medley.
Miss Preston, who is secretary of
the Arlington County Young Demo-
crat Club, will be member of Queen
Culpepers" court at the celebration.
Evening star., 1934-06-18
SPECIAL NOTICES,

THE PARTNERSHIP OF RUMMEL {
Shaffer. ,4224 Fessenden st; NV, has been
dissolved as Of June l. 1884. The under
rior decorating painting and paperhang-
ing at the same address, and will discharge
all liabilities and collect all moneys owing
to said firm.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF
the Comptroller of the Currency, Wash
tngton, D. c.. May pa. 1934.-Notice is
hereby given to all persons who may have
claims against Chevy Chase Savings
Bank" Washington. District of Columbia.
that the same must be presented TO Cary
A. Hardee Receiver. with the legal proof
thereof. within three months from this
date or they may be disallowed.
j. T. F. O'CONNOR.
Of ha
Evening star., 1934-06-18
Real Basis Discovered
For Belief in Class Quality.

The old Southern expression, quail
ty folks" may have had sounder
reason behind it than ''snobbishness." :"
Such, at least, is the belief of DR..
Charles B. Davenport, head of the
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-30
HOLMER WAVES HEARINC; HELD WITHOUT BAIL
Charles Holmer, Slayer of Two, Is Bound Over
 on Murder Charge

Charles Holmer, slayer of his estranged wife, Mrs. Mary Holmer, and Alan A. Miller of Ketchikan, here early last Saturday morning, was today bound over to the Fed- eral Grand Jury without bail on 8 charge of murder in the first de- gree, by Judge J. F. Mullen. Holmer, represented by George B. Grigsby, appeared before Judge Mullen in the United States Commissioners Court at 2 pm. today and waived the usual preliminary hearing, con- senting to a bindover without evil dence.
 To prevent any effort on his part to take his own life, special guards were put over Holmer by the Mar shals office last Saturday. These were still on duty today. He is said to have intimated he would commit suicide if he were given an opportunity.
 In the presence of a large num- Der of e-witnesses, Holmer shot Mrs. Holmer, from whom he had been separated for six months, and Miller on Front Street in front of the Juneau Drug Company. He shot Miller first, firing two shots into him from the rear. He fired eight shots into Mrs. Holmer's right breast. She died in about 30 minutes. Miller lived some four hours after the shooting.
 Mrs. Holmer and Miller had at- tended the dance at the Mandarin Ball Room. That ended at l am. and they left with the rest of the crowd. Holmer had been in the same room watching them and fol- lowed them down the street. He overlook them just as they turned into Front Street from Seward and immediately began firing.
 He was overpowered by two sail ors from the submarine division in port and his gun, a .32 auto matic knocked from his hand. De- putty Marshal John Mccormick and City Patrolman Ken Junge placed him under arrest.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-30
ORDERS" ARE ISSUED ON
 Z MINE FIRMS
Government to Probe AL legged Misstatements-
 Seattle Concern Cited

WASHINGTON, July 30. - The Federal Trade Commission an- nounced today it has issued stop orders" against the proposed se- curity issues of two western gold mining companies and referred the papers on them to the Department of Justice for possible criminal action.
 The "stop orders were issued against the Abba Gold Mining Corporation of Carson City, Me- vada and Los Angeles, and against the Caribou King Gold, Incor- porated, of Seattle, Wash.
 The Abba case was referred to the Justice Department to delib- crate. Misstatements are charged.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1934-07-30
ONE BILLION DOLLAR SUIT
 STARTED NOW

NEW YORK, July BOA dam age suit asking one billion, one hundred twenty nine and one half million dollars and additional res titution of five millions has be- gun in the District Court against the Grand Stabilization Corpora tion and thirty-two other cor porate and individual defendants in behalf of A. Gilchrest, grain broker.
 The complaint charges that through chicanery and hypotheca- ton the Federal Farm Board and Government cheated, swindled and defrauded.'