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The Washington times., 1934-04-09
SAFETY PARADE

Contingents from each of the
high school cadet corps, and a
combined band will participate in
the School Boy Safety Patro.
parade April 28, school officials
announced today.
The Washington times., 1934-04-09

"How will get there?" "Where will
We 70 over the week-end?" These are
questions hundreds Of people ar asking
every day they can be answered,
and economically. too, by the purchase
Of one Of the good used cars advertised
today in the WANT AID SECTION Of
this Newspaper.
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BLANKETS
CHICAGO

CHICAGO, May 10 G.N.S).
Carried by dry winds from the
blistered plains of the Middle
West, choking, binding clouds of
dust shrouded Chicago today.
Visibility was impaired. Tops of
Loop skyScrapers were almost in
visible.
MILWAUKEE,, May 10 G.N.S0.
A shroud of dust settled over
Milwaukee today as hot winds
swept over this drought-stricken
area. Tops of buildings in the
business section were hidden and
at, tipeS,sthe dust was so thick
adtomoone ngnS 11sso to be
lighted.
Drought relief in many parts of
the nation presents the next
serious problem for the humani-
tartan aspect of the New Deal,
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal Emer.
gency Relief Administrator, told
the, Senate Education and Labor
subcommittee today.
Mr.. Hopkins reported that
$25 100000 already has been spent
by Federal authorities and that
the rainless belt includes all Of
North and South Dakota, Min
nesota and Wisconsin and parts
of Kansas, Colorado, Texas, Okla
homa, Utah and Georgia.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10

to reduce accidents and make
passage Of fire apparatus easier.
It was pointed out at meetings
Of citizens associations tn a t
Washington streets were wide
enough to permit parking, and
that the restriction would clear
the streets during the early morn
ing hours when traffic was neg
ligible.
Garage Cost Cited
The ban, it was brought out at
meetings of the civic groups,
would make it impossible for
many motorists to keep their cars,
due to the high rental of garages.
This, it was said, would clutter up
the used car market and reduce
the sale of new cars appreciably.
An automobile dealer pointed
out that the District would lose
tax revenue on the automobiles,
and revenue from gasoline and
oil taxes which are now used to
pave the streets and highways.
Several Of the citizens aSSocia-
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SPURNED VET SHOOTS WIFE, THEN SELF
Robes Girl
Return
Near

TUCSON, Ariz., May 10 G.N.S).
Contact has been re-established
with the kidnapers of June Robles
and possibly the $4,000 ransom
demanded for her release has
been paid, it was reported on
good authority here today.
Members of the family and au-
thorities declined to discuss the
report but it was understood that
the contact was effected early yes
terday by Fernando Robes, father
of the six-year-old girl who was
abducted April IS while en- route
home from school.
1t was regarded as significant
that Fernando Robles for the first
time omitted his nightly drive to
the desert last night.
District relief officials today re-
ceived a check for 100000 from
the Federal Emergency Relief Ad-
ministration to cover relief ex-
penditures here during the first
half of May.
This money, which has been
promised some time ago by Fed
eral Emergency Relief Admins
traitor Harry l.. Hopkins, does not
include transient relief funds,
which are granted separately and
which average about 100000 a
month.
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MRS. FONTA|NE T
ON WAY HERE

Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Fontaine,
20, sweetheart of the slain gang
ster, William B. Phillips, was
taken from the Delaware County
Hospital at Upper Darby, Pa, at
$3.50 o'clock this morning and
started under heavy Department
Of Justice guard for Washington.
There were several cars in the
motor cavalcade which pulled out
Of the Philadelphia suburb with
the woman who was shot by her
sweetheart's 'pals" to prevent her
from revealing the gangs criminal
activities.
The Department of Justice is be.
lieved to be moving Mrs. Fontaine
to Washington to protect her
from Phillips criminal allies.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Scientists Prove Dragons
Live, and Bring Back 4

East Indies, and 300 dragons.
which hunt deer and wild pigs
with incredible speed and eff
cheney, but are harmless to man.
$50 long as they are not cor
nereG," the explorers said.
The GriSwold-Harkness expedi-
tion knew the world would refuse
to believe them, though the ex-
istence of these brutes has been
known since 1919, and through
the present King Leopold of Bel
GUM captured and took one to
Europe in 1881. The canny Ameri.
can scientists pitted goth century
human intelligence against the in
telligence of Saurians, whose
ancestors date back at least five
million years; and goth century
intelligence won.
The dragons attain length of
about sixteen feet. They weigh
about $50 pounds and are for all
the world, Mr.. Griswold explained.
like the pictures Of prehistoric
dinosaurs.
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Bail Slash Refused,
insult Is Remanded
To County Jail

whom were newspaper men and
lawyers.
Son At Hearing
Samuel insult, jr., "a, was the
most noted spectator. He seemed
uninterested once Judge Sparks
had denied the plea.
What further action young IN
Sull and Attorney Thompson will
take was to be determined later
in the day.
After the hearing young insult
left for the county Jail to visit
his father.
insult, when informed at the
county Jail that Judge Sparks
had refused to reduce his bond,
took the matter philosophically.
He said:
swell, 1 have no comment
to make on that.
"As a matter of fact I am
enjoying myself here. I'm get
ting splendid treatment and
have the best Of medical atten-
ton.
"Why should worry?"
The Government was repre-.
sented at the hearing by United
States District Attorney Dwight
H. Green and Special Assistant
United States Attorney General
Forrest Harness.
ENInniaS rhop~0H
Mr.. Harness, who is cooperat.
ing with Mr.. Green, stated that
Insults case involved approx
mately 100 million dollars on one
indictment and more than two
million on another. Mr.. Harness
claimed that the charges against
insult were felonieS, and not by
any stretch of mind merely mis-
demeanors.
Mr.. Green brough out that the
defendant admittedly is in a
position to raise a bond of $100,
600 on the Federal charges and
an additional $4,000 on the two
State indictments.
Mr.. Green asked that the Fed
eral bond be kept at the original
100000 to insure that insult
would not again leave the coun
try before he is brought to trial
He declared that insult had
broken the laws of every civilized
country in evading extradition in
Greece and Turkey,
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BOAT STRIPPED,
z ADMIT GUILT

It was not crime on the high
sease, but charges of grand lar
ceny on a houseboat that brought
William Mozingro and Joseph
Arnold before Judge Gus A.
Schuldt in Police Court today.
The two men, whose unsteady
home is a houseboat at the foot
of One-Half Street Southeast,
were accused of stripping the
floating apartment of Walter
Vessels, of the 47OO block Fifth
st. N. w.
Sailors Mozingro and Arnold
pleaded guilty to stealing anchor,
mastpole and two waterpumps,
valued at 5000, from the Flora
Elsie as she lay in the Eastern
Branch.
The stolen gear, they said. was
sold to a junkman for $1-75
cents in cash, and a pair of
pants.
Judge Schuldt ordered both
held for the Grand Jury under
bonds of $4,000 each.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
FIGHTS
. FOR BANK
-mn
PAY.OFF
Committee Revolt Is Started
! BY Group President Ired
BY Intervention

Willing to defy White House
opposition in order to pass legis-
lation which would thaw frozen
assets Of closed banks, a strong
bloc has formed in the House
Banking and Currency Commit
tee.
This group has determined to
fight stubbornly any attempt by
Administration die-hards to kill
the Steagall amendment to the
deposit guarantee bill, as de-
manded by President Roosevelt.
Steagall Under Cross Fire
Indignation at the Presidents
breaking a precedent of long
standing, namely, presidential
noninterference with pending leg.
islation, is the reason for the
committee revolt, it is believed.
The pending fight therefore
places Chairman Henry B. Stea-
gall O) of Alabama, of the
House Banking and Currency
Committee, directly in line OF
fire from both sides.
AS author of the bank relief
amendment, which authorizes. the
Federal Deposit Insurance Cor
poration to make loans to closed
banks on a liberal BASIS of
evaluation, he naturally wants
the committee to report out his
amendment.
BGGnd by Party Loyalty
But as chairman he is bound as
q good Democrat and Administra-
tion leader to obey President
Roosevelt's instructions given to
him personally at the White
House Monday.
The fight will be led by a hand
full Of Republicans and liberal
Democrats who believe the merits
Of bank relief warrant acting in
the face Of White House disap-
proval.
One of the group, Representa-.
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By JAMES L. KILGALLEN

CHICAGO, May 10 U.N.S),
Judge Will M. Sparks of the
United States Circuit Court Of Ap-
peals today, denied the petition
of Samuel insult for a writ of
habeas corpus, and remanded him
in custody of the United States
Marshal.
This means that the court re-
fused to reduce the insult Federal
bond, which has been fixed at
100000 and the former public
utilities king will be required to
raise that sum before he can be
released from the Cook County
Jail.
Appeal Planned
insults attorney, Floyd E.
Thompson, Immediately an
nounced he would appeal the
Judges ruling.
Mr.. Thompson can now take
an appeal to the United States
Circuit Court of Appeals Gudge
Sparks was sitting as a district
judge), and if turned down there
can take +he issue to the United
States Supreme Court.
In making his ruling, Judge
Sparks declared that the main
thing to consider" was the reason
ableness of the bond to insure
insults appearances at his forth
coming trial for alleged misuse of
the mail and alleged violation Of
the national. bankruptcy act in
con11ect1on wTUh TIE collapse of
his 1000 million dollar utilities
empire. The judge said:
What is reasonable in one
mans case may not be reason
able in another. The question
Of bond is not subjected to
hard and fast rules in any com.
munity."
He explained that bond should
in no sense be punishment-it
should simply, reasonably insure
the defendants appearance in
court"
The hearing was attended by
only a small gathering, most of
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
BONUS ARMY
RUNS AFOUL
RED ISSUE
Fright Wing" Vets Boycott
cleft Wing" Group at Fort
Hunt; Fist Fights Threaten
picture On Page 1, Section p

picture On Page 1, Section q
Trouble was brewing in the
ranks of the 1884 bonus army to-
day, as the veterans gradually
sifted into fright wing" and cleft
wing" groups.
The dissension was first evi-
denced when only 200 veterans of
the 1000 estimated to be in Wash
ington registered for the 1884 con-
vention of the veterans Rank and
File Committee which got under
way at the Fort Hunt Camp this
morning.
Fist Fights Averted
The remaining 1900 are said
to be fright wing" veterans who
are refusing to ally themselves
with members of the rank and
file committee, on the grounds
that that group is composed OF
Communists.
Several fist fights we're averted
at the recruiting station, John
Marshall Place and Pennsylvania
Avenue, as members of the So
called cleft wing" attempted to
force veterans to register for the
convention.
Emmanuel Levin, nominal
leader of the cleft wing" forces,
was IN washington and was busy
at the recruiting headquarters at
tempting to organize his own
forces.
Fright Wing" Stands Pat
One member of the right
wing" believed to represent the
sentiments of the veterans who
were members of the original
Bonus Expeditionary Force of
1882, declared:
1--WE will not stand for a
bunch of BOlshevikS and Reds
invading this country and we
will not register for the con-
ventiOn under any such subter-
fuge as they are using"
Although in previous conven-
tions those attending were re-
quired to be World War Veterans,
the only requisite for registra-
ton at the present meeting is
that the men be discharged from
the Army.
Levin Changes Program
Levin called a meeting of his
followers early this afternoon and
at the conclusion of the session
announced that because of the dis
sension in the ranks of the vet
Grams, the convention would stress
only payment of the bonus.
Other issues which were to be
demanded will be kept in the back
ground for the time being. Those
issues include relief for farms and
the unemployed and repeal of the
economy act.
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Rogers
Says:

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10.
In CalifOrnia's primary race
for governor there is the larg-
est entry Of parties ever to go
to the pOSt-DemocratS, Pro-
greSSives, Socialists, Prohibit
tiOniSts, LibertyiteS, TOryites,
and Republicans. These last
two partiC5 are revivalS Of old
time parties that have been
out of existence for years.
On our darkest days there is
a ray Of hope somewhere in
the papers. A gigOlO COM
mitted suicide! 1t may be the
starting of a fad.
Twenty-Five scheming, design
ing American mothers pulled
every political rope possible
this week to get their daugh-
tiers to see the King in Lon
don. He asked to have q look
at Sophie Tucker.
Copyright, 1884. by McNaught
Syndicate. Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
HEAT RETURNS,
SHOWERSDUE

Summer weather returned today
with a rising thermometer, but
showers in the offing were expect
ed to break the heat late today.
After reaching a high of 79 de-
grees yesterday afternoon, the
temperature dropped to 66 dur.
ing the night, then started back.
At 8 o'clock this morning it
stood at 70 degrees, 10 higher
than at the same time yesterday
morning.
At noon the mercury had
reached 83, 4 degrees higher than
the maximum of yesterday, and
was still climbing.
The warm weather will continue
tomorrow, the Weather Cureau
forecast.
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SENATE GIVEN
S37,224,884
D. {. BILL
Appropriations Increased By
Nearly Six Millions Over
House Allowance

Carrying total appropriations of
$37, ,224, ,884.94, the District supply
bill was reported to the Senate by
the Appropriations Committee to-
day.
This is exclusive of the lump
sum contribution the Senate com
mittee increased from $4,365 900,
as passed by the House, to $5,-
100000.
Big Boost Over House
AS reported to the Senate, ap-
preparations are increased over
the amount carried in the House
bill by $4,574,227, exclusive of the
lump-sum increase.
The total provided by the Senate
committee exceeds the estimates
for 1885 by $2,O7O,041, and ex'
ceeds the appropriations for the
current year by $6,849, ,050.94.
The largest part of the in
crease is contained in items for
emergency relief and public
schools, the former item being
swelled by $1,7O0,000, and the
latter by $1,272,221.
Many Small Increases
Other increases are as follows:
Care of the District Building,
$1,458; Alcoholic Beverage Con
troll Board, $27,548: Office OF
Superintendent of Weights, Meas.
ures and Markets, $24,606; Pub
lie Utilities Commission, $37, 322:
Free Public Library, $7,500; Fgg.
istrar of Wills Office, $2,296;
Recorder of Deeds Office, $26,
746; contingent expenses, SIS,
8O6; Bridges, $4,000; Sewers
$4,000.
Collection and disposal of re
fuse, $34,965; Fairgrounds, $4,000;
electrical department, $170,9OO;
Police Department, $3,42O; Fire
Department, $4,000; Health De
partment, $170,106; Juvenile
Court, $1,758; Police Court, S. 900;
Municipal Court, 1851; Supreme
Court, $20,566; Public Welfare
exclusive of emergency relief)
$760,651; militia, $1,000; National
Capitol Parks, $14,880: National
Capitol Park and Planning Com
mission. $2,O96: water service
$174.100.
Several School Buildings
Under the item of schools, in.
creases are made for buildings
and grounds as follows:
Woodrow Wilson High School
100000: Anacostia High School
$180,000; Deal Junior High
School, addition, $166,0OO; Arm.
strong High School, automobile
repair shop and gymnasium
$4,000; Bunker Hill School
addition, $4,000; Phelps School
addition, $65,000; Logan School
$4,000; Phelps Vocational School
additional land, $55, 900; Jefferson
Junior High School. site, $3.50, 900
Approximately 100000 in in.
creases are made for in the school
item for various purposes, includ.
ing equipment, added teachers,
community center department and
other purposes.
OF the Fire Department in.
crease, $4,000 is provided for new
apparatus.
Hygiene and Sanitation
The additional $170,1O6 pro.
posed for the Health Department
includes $67,542 for hygiene and
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WINNIPEG, Manitoba, May 10
G.N.SO.-Far away in the South
Pacific, 1,100 miles south of the
Philippines, is a little island.
Komodo, where the world has
stood still for five million years.
and where the original fiery
dragons of Chinese legend have
successfully halted evolution and
defied extinction.
Today two bronzed and adven-
turous American scientists, Law
renee T. K. Griswold, archaeolo-
gist, of Quincy, Mass, and Will
liam H. Harkness, of New York,
ethnologist, stood among their
Grated dragons and deadly SER
pents in a railway express car
here and told of their adventures.
They brought their four dragons
to Canada aboard the Empress OF
Asia, and are now rushing them
to the New York Zoo.
That little island, 13 by %
miles, has on it a colony of 80 ex-
lied murdererS from the Dutch
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
WOMAN s
CONDITION
CRITICAL,
HIS NOT
John AICorn SurrenderS Gun
To Police After Shooting
In Southeast Section
picture on Page p

Apparently enraged because
his wife would have nothing to
do with him, John H. Alcorn, 43,
an ex7service man, today shot and
critically wounded his wife, Mrs.
Margaret E. Alcorn, %, and then
turned the 80 caliber pistol on
himself, inflicting slight wound
in his left arm.
The shooting occurred at the
front steps of the home in which
Mrs. Alcorn roomed, in the 600
block of North Carolina Ave. s. E.
Mrs. Alcorn was rushed to
Casualty Hospital in the Fifth
precinct patrol. She was shot
through the abdomen and physi-
clans held little hope for her
recovery.
Taken to Gallinger
The husband surrendered to
police, admitting shooting Mrs.
Alcorn, and gave up the pistol
without a struggle. He was
taken to the same hospital in
a Fifth precinct scout car. He
later was transferred to CALM
ger Hospital and placed under
police guard.
BY a strange quirk of fate, the
shot that was to have ended his
life, struck a button on his vest,
glanced off and struck him in the
left arm near the wrist.
Policeman B. F. Strong and E.
H. Sennott, Fifth Precinct radio
car patrolmen, we're the first Off.
GERS to reach the scene and said
their investigation disclosed the
husband had arrived in Washing
ton about a week ago from a vet
Grams hospital in North Carolina.
Gave Her S54
Alcorn, according to the police,
went to his wife's rooming house,
but Mrs. Alcorn refused to allow
him to be admitted. At that time,
the police said, Alcorn had ap-
proximately 5000, of which he gave
$54 to Mrs. Alcorn.
The husband, who was living at
the Houston Hotel, it was learned,
appeared at the rooming house
shortly before 10 o'clock today,
rang the bell and was greeted by
Cinderella Rogers, colored maid,
to whom he said:
"TelI my wife Pm going away
and that I want to see her be-
fore I CO."
The message was delivered to
Mrs. Alcorn while the husband
stood on the house steps. She
went to the door and down the
steps.
The maid told police she heard
three shots shortly after Mrs.
Alcorn left the house and she
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TUMBLE
Z To 4PO|NTS

NEW YORK, May 10. Q.N.S0
Touched off by the Treasury's re-
tusal to consider mandatory silver
legislation, successive Sellin g
waves today sent the stock market
tumbling to new lows for the year.
Losses ran from to 4 points
in such favorites as Allied Chem
ical, Chrysler, Union Pacific, Case
Threshing and Atchison.
Steel shares also shared the
weakness, despite U. S. Steels re-
port of big April shipments.
Silver shares cracked wide open
with losses running two points in
the first two hours.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Argument ReOpened
In Phone Rate Case

Justice Jesse c. Adkins IN Dis
trict Supreme Court tomorrow will
hear reopening arguments in the
telephone rate case at the request
of George P. Hoover, attorney for
the Chesapeake and Potomac
Telephone. He asked an oppor-
tunity to discuss the recent deci'
Sions of the United States Su-
preme Court in the Illinois Bell
Telephone Company case and the
Ohio power case.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
u. S. Steel Reports
Record Shipn1entS

NEW YORK, May 10 Q.N.S0
Further improvement in United
States Steel Corporations business
was reported today when it was
announced shipments last month
jumped $4,000 tons to 643,O09,
topping the 6OO,OO0-ton mark for
the first time since last Decem-
ber. The rise marks a steady
monthly advance from the low
point of recent months of 331, TIT
tons set in the first month of
this year. At the same time it
compares with 335,321 tons in the
comparable period last year.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Night Parking Ban Unlikely
AS Protests Grow

Proposals for a ban on night
parking in the District seemed
doomed to failure today with civic
organizations registering vigorous
protests, and individuals voicing
objections to the Traffic Director,
Police Department and news
papers.
The additional parking restric-
ton suggested by Traffic Director
William A. Van Duzer was said
by him to be for the purpose of
clearing the streets at night so as
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
SUGAR Control Plan
Drafted bY Wallace

BY International News Service
Sugar beet and sugar cane
crop control, as authorized by
the Costigan-JCnes act, is being
drafted today by Secretary Of Ag-
riculture Wallace.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Reuenue Act
Signed BY
President
By International News Service

By InternntIOnaI News Service
President Roosevelt today signed
the $417,000,000 revenue bill with
members of House and Senate FL
nance Committees in attendance.
Later Mr.. Roosevelt will send
to Congress a message expressing
disapproval of the provision i'm
posing 3-cent-per-pound import
t~x on coconut oil. The President
considers this unfair to the Philip
pines and will probably ask that
it be removed in the future.
The revenue measure carries
new income tax schedules and a
number of provisions designed to
plug loopholeS in present law.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Pacific Coast Strike
CripDLes Shipping

SAN FRANCISCO, May 10
G.N.SO.-More than 10000 long
shoremen were on strike in Pa
cific Coast ports today for 81 an
hour pay and a 3O-hour week.
The strike extended from San
Diego to Seattle, with shipping
virtually at a standstill in all
harbors, including the large ones
here and at Los Angeles.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Sec. Swanson Denies
Macon Is Failure
By international News Service

Dy IHUcTMHTIUHdI 1N0"B SoEVIVO
Secretary of the Navy Swanson
today issued formal statement
denying reports that the U. S. S.
Macon had failed in its mission
during the present naval war
maneuvers in the Caribbean. He
pointed out that, although the
ship was theoretically" destroyed
by the enemy, it had performed
it's mission by reporting the posi-
ton of the enemy before being
"deStroyed,"
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Sen. Thdyer Admits
SuppOrt of Utilities

. ALBANY. N. Y, May 10 G.N.S).
Senator Warren T. Thayer. Re
publican whip, frankly admitted
today that he had killed bills in
the Senate Public Service Com
mittee which he considered detri-
mental to utilities and he de-
clared he would do it all over
again. Senator Thayer is on trial
before the Senate Judiciary Com
mittee on a charge of official mis-
conduct for his alleged lobbying
activities in behalf of the Associ-
ated Gas and Electric Company.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10
Exchange Seat
Price DrODs $4,000

NEW YORK, May 10 G.N.S).
Values of New York stock ex-
change seats dropped $4,000
today as hope for modification of
the. Fletcher-Rayburn exchange
control bill waned, transfer of a
membership for $4,000 being
announced.
The Washington times., 1934-05-10

WEATHER FORECAST
Fair tonight, Friday; probably thundershOwers;
cooler tonight, Friday. "Details on Pg. 5, Sec. y
The Washington times., 1934-05-10

MEAN TEMPERATURE