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The Washington times., 1934-08-07

4ueSe OOJeCG1VeS, sponsors OF
the national housing act hope,
will be accomplished under the
powers given to the Federal
Housing Administration.
Four Major Powers
They include:
l. Power to guarantee to
/ banks, building and loan in
stitutiOnS, personal finance
c0mna and other agencies
approved By tEf a9fministra.
tiOn up to 20 per cent of
loans between 500 and $4,000
they may make to property
owners desirOus of "mOderniz-
ing" their buildings.
Owners of hotels, garages,
farms and other structures be-
sides homes may take advantage
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
WILL ROGERS
Says:

ABOARD S. S. EMPRESS
OF CANADA, Aug. 6.-Get this
calendar mess. Yesterday was
Sunday. We had services on
here and 1 sent a daily wire.
Now last night they informed
us tomorrow morning VIII en-
you get up it won't be Monday,
it will be Tuesday," Now what 1
want to know is did 1 miss Tues
days papers or is this one going
in Tuesday or is it Wednesday?
In fact / am not right sure
about the month. Some man in
a uniform could come up and
announce, eve are skipping
August" and 1 would believe
him. 1 bet the Republicans wish
they could have skipped a year
ago the Fourth of last NOvem-
Der.
Copyright, 1894, by McNauEht
syndicate. Inc.l
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
FAST BUSES
URGED BY
BEELER
High Speed Lines in Northwest
With 10-Cent Fares Among
Traffic Plan Aids
BY EARL GOODWIN

Less trackage, fewer curves and
more fast buses constitute the
central theme of the proposed
speeding-up of WaShington'S
street car traffic, as recommended
today to the Public Utilities Com
mission by John A. Beeler, traffic
engineer who has been studying
every phase of the question Tor
several months.
Elimination of all of the old
competitive four-line tracks in the
downtown section and the crea-
ton of five new high speed eX-
press bus lines from outlying Sec
tions to the heart of the city are
the main proposals; but numer-
Gus details for short new tracks,
and minor traffic changes will
occupy the attention of the Public
Utilities Commission for several
weeks.
Hearing Set for August Is
A preliminary hearing on the
proposed changes is scheduled for
August IS. Full details will be
given the public at that time and
the hearings for detailed discus
sion by the public, the street car
company and the engineers will
be held at various dates beginning
early in September.
Peoples Counsel william A. Rob-
Eefts has called a meeting Of the
committees on public utilities Of
the various citizens associations
for August % at 8 p. m. to con-
slider the report.
Three 1O-Cent Fare Lines
The five new bus routes include
a super-expreSs route from Chevy
Chase Lake to Thirteenth Street
and Pennsylvania Avenue North
west, giving local service north OF
Chevy Chase Circle, and widely
separated express stops south of
the circle. All street cars would
be taken off the line north Of the
circle.
Another new bus line of the
same character would operate
from Takoma via Carroll, Cedar,
Fifth, New Hampshire, Sherman,
Florida, and Ninth Street to Penn
sylvania Avenue.
Another would operate by SINH
lar route from North Capitol and
Kennedy Streets.
Ten-cent fares would be the rule
on these new routes.
A fourth bus line would take the
place of the present LIE Droit
Street car service; a fifth bus line
would serve the Potomac Park
area, Twenty-third and Constitu-
ton to Tenth and Constitution.
These lines would operate at regu-
lar street car fare.
Car, Track Changes
Outlying car tracks to be dis
continued include the Fourteenth
Street line beyond Colorado Ave
nue., the service to be given by
busSes.
The three alternate proposals
for street car track changes are
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AUSTRIA HANGS
FOURTH NAZ|

VIENNA, Aug. 7 GN.S0.
Ernest Feike, only soldier of the
Austrian regular army to partici-
pate in the Nazi putsch of July
Is which resulted in the raid on
the chancellory in Vienna and
the assassination of Chancellor
Dollfuss, died on the gallows at
6 o'clock tonight.
He was the fourth Nazi to be
hanged. Like Otto Planetta, actual
assassin of Dollfuss, and Franz
Holzweber, who were executed 10
days ago, Feike went to his death
with a Nazi salute and the ex-
clamation:
81 die for Germany-heil,
Hitler!"
Feike's counsel, to the last, had
expected a communication of SEN
tence to life imprisonment from
the hands of President Miklas, to
whom an appeal had been ad-
dressed after the 25-year-old youth
had been convicted of high
treason by a military court.
Karl Kolstenig, a Carinthian
Nazi leader, who was sentenced
to hang by a military court at
Klagenfurt at almost the same
moment that Feike was doomed
to die, was notified an hour be-
fore he was to have been led to
the gallows that his death SEN
tence had been commuted by
Miklas to Is years at hard labor.
But Miklas refused clemency in
the case of Feike.
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SpOhrer, Wife Take
Troubles to Court

HAVERFORD, Pa, Aug. 7 GIN.
S)-Al Spohrer, baseball star who
once climbed into the ring with
Arthur ("The Great) Shires, was
in another tilt today.
The Boston Braves catcher
found himself trading verbal blows
with his estranged wife and "the
other man" in a court of law, in
stead of the roped arena, after his
37-year-old wife, Elizabeth, and a
saxaphone player, Edward j. Fa-
gan, 81, had been arrested on a
warrant charging misconduct.
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of this concerted national at
tempt to loosen private credit
for the benefit of a distressed
building industry, the welfare Of
the individual property owner,
and general prosperity.
Rules and regulations for this
phase of the program are ex-
pected to make public shortly
by Federal Housing Administrator
James A. Moffett. President
Roosevelt has declared:
"The protection Of the health
and safety of the people de-
mandS that this renOviZing and
building be done speedily"
2. Power to insure the full
amount of mortgages to be ne
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2 Holdup Men Ambushed,
Slain by Vigilantes

CARBONDALE, Kan, Aug. z
QN.S0. Two would-be holdup
men were slain and a deputy
sheriff was wounded in a gun
battle following an attempt to
rob a garage here early today.
The slain men were Herbert
Otto and Harold Otto, brothers,
of Topeka.
A telephone operator who
noticed the two men go into the
garage notified Sheriff w. j.
Jones at Lyndon and spread an
alarm Summoning a citizens vigi-
lante group, all heavily armed.
The vigilantes surrounded the
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MARRIAGE MILL
PARSON FINED

Hagerstown, Md, does not in
tend to countenance any mar
riage rackets.
That was made plain today
when the Rev. Peter Charles
Hoffman was fined $50 for pay
ing a taxicab driver for bringing
prospective bridal couples to him.
Suspicion was aroused when
the Rev. Hoffman, who has no
church in Hagerstown, performed
10 marriages in June and July.
Investigation disclosed that the
cleric was paying taxi drivers to
bring him customers.
The fine was suspended on con.
dition he refrains from perform
ing marriages, and he told the
court he would return to his
former home in Harrisburg, Pa.
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Rep. Shoemaker
Ordered to Jail

MINNEAPOLIS, Aug. Fail
ure of Rep. Francis Shoemaker to
appear in court yesterday to pay a
fine of $75 for "hit-and-run" auto
mobile driving, resulted in court
order sending him to the local
workhouse for 80 days. Armed
with the order the sheriff vainly
sought Representative Shoemaker
at his hotel here,
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garage. When Sheriff Jones and
his deputy, o. c. Drummolld, ar.
rived, the sheriff went to one door
of the building and Officer Drum
mond to another door and called
on the brothers to surrender,
The pair dashed from the
garage shooting. Deputy Drum
mond returned the fire, instantly
killing Harold. Herbert managed
to run free of the mob and fled
to the outskirts of town where he
was tracked down and SubSe.
quently slain.
Deputy Drummond was Seri-
ously wounded in the exchange Of
shots with Harold.
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HITLER LEADS
IN SERVICE
FOR HERO
Final Salute of PruSSian Kings
Accorded Dead President
As He Is Laid to Rest
By H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
Copyright. 1884, by International
News Service)

News Service)
TANNENBERG, Germany, Aug.
7 G.N.S0.-They placed President
Hindenburg in his grave today to
the quick, bright tune Of the
old Third Footguards Parade
March," and that was the saddest
thing of all.
For that was Lieutenant Hin
denburg's regiment and that was
the tune to which the young lieu
tenant marched 70 years ago.
They put him in a vault, and
84-year-old Field Marshal Won
Mackensen was the first to enter
it. He took off his plumed he'll
met, and his white hair shone in
the sun.
GrandchiId There
The little Hindenburg 6-year-old
grandchild crept in after Won
Mackensen. Reichsleader Ritter
kissed the hands of the linden
burg daughters. A last cannon
doomed. Sharp commands brought
the army to attention. They
goose-stepped out. The ground
shook under thousands of feet.
The funeral of Hindenburg was
over.
Smoke plumes rose from the
eight towers of Tannenberg. They
were the funeral pyres for Hin
denburg. A sharp wind whipped
down long black Smudges in the
sunny skies. Sunshine in East
Prussia is rare, but the burial day
was brilliant. The Hindenburg fu'
neral was the most impressive OF
modern times.
Thousands Attend
Around the Tannenberg Monu-
ment were assembled a multitude
impossible to count, but numbered
certainly at 100000. AS far as
the eye could see, men, women and
children sat or lay on the ground
watching the smoke rise to heaven.
For the most of them, that was all
they saw of the ceremonies.
Thousands of Hitler'S guards stood
in line criSs-croSs lines holding
them back.
Eighteen special trains brought
5000 invited guests and 400 cor
respondents who occupied a full
train. BY automobile, bicycle,
horSe-drawn vehicles and afoot,
tens of thousands of other pill.
grims travelled all night to get
there.
Of all the multitude only a small
section could enter the memorial.
They sat in a circular tribune,
ambassadors in one section, gen.
erals Of the old army in another,
and storm stroop leaders in an
other.
In the center rose huge cross
surrounded by a hundred WreathS
from kings, presidents and prime
ministers of every country in the
world. In front of the cross rose
the catafalque. Before the cata-
fgalque stood Hitler, speaking di-
rectly to Hindenburg. Facing Hit
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Probe of Walker
Income Goes On

NEW YORK, Aug. 7 GN.SO.
The John Doe inquiry into the
income of former Mayor James
j. Walker, now in its fifteenth
month, has been proceeding
quietly without interruption be-
fore successive federal grand
juries, it was learned today.
AS recently as last Tuesday,
Russell T. Sherwood, former
financial aide to the expatriate
ex-mayor, was called again to
testify. There was a report that
the investigation, directed by
Assistant United States Attorney
James J. Walsh, would terminate
soon.
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took over the State House a few
weeks ago, was among the State
officials who welcomed the PreSi-
dent here. Ex-Gov. William
LANCER, under prison sentence,
was not among those present.
A battalion Of the North Da-
kota National Guard, modified
during the war" between the
governors, did the military hon.
orS.
See Desert Restored
North Dakota is one of the
States hardest hit by drought, and
Mr.. Roosevelt spent the day tray
cling 1t from west to east, pausing
en- route to take a look at DEVILS
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Gov. Olson Leads Dakotans
In Welcoming President

DEVILS LAKE, N. D., Aug. 7
G.N.S0.-Drawn by the magnet
of a first presidential visit to
Devils Lake, thousands Of per-
sons gathered here today and
accorded President and Mrs.
Roosevelt an enthusiastic wei
come.
The presidential special pulled
into DEVILS Lake soon after 8
a. M, and shortly thereafter the
President was taken on a 150-
mile motor tour about the sur
rounding countryside to get a
first-hand view of what the
drought has done to this parched
State. The weather was not
hot, but the roads were dusty.
Acting Governor Olson, who
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
By JOHN DEAN MILL1GAN

Americas march toward prosperity, far the Govern
ments housing program is concerned roughly along
two paths.
One is the Immediate awakening Of the giant building in
dustry dormant for five years. by encouraging private capital
grant small loans to property for repairs and
prOvements to their holdings.
The other longrange program, falling into two cassif
cations The first calls for Tightening the load of home
burdened with the heavy expenses of first and second
cages by making possible for them to renance their trusts
with mortgage probably costing less in interest and
other charges and amortized longer period.
The second part of the scheme includes the
erection of dwellings, including Individual homes resi-
dences designed for more than four families and low
cost housing to suppant sums provide suitable
the needs and purses of less fortunate families.
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ABOOsts Wages
Of 14D.C. Workers

Fourteen employees of District
firms were granted wage adjust
ments by the local compliance
division of the NRA during the
last two weeks of last month.
according to a national summary
Of such complaints announced
today. The total amount of
wages involved was $189.42.
The report showed that State
NRA directors throughout the
country adjusted complaints and
that wage restitution totalled
$106,732.
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
Movie Producer
Flies to I'll Wife

PARIS, Aug. 7 G.N.SO.-Louis
B. Mayer, prominent Hollywood
producer, rushed to Paris by air
from London today to go to the
bedside of his wife, ill in the
American Hospital. Mrs. Mayer
went to the hospital several days
ago. It was reported she was not
fully recovered from an operation
performed a year ago.
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
SailbOat
Recovered on Bay

ANNAPOLIS, Md, Aug. THE
sailing sloop, Dusty Weather,
owned by Robert Welch, of Mil
lersville, Nd, which capsized off
Bloody Point Sunday, was found
today still floating on the bay
near Tilghman'S Island. There
were four persons on the boat
when the accident occurred. They
were rescued by fishermen,
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LOST,
Ill MANY
MONTHS
"Czar's" Rise Was Quick; Fall
, Followed Refusal of Senate
H.. to Seat Him

ATLANTIC City, N. j., Aug Z
W.N.SO-William S. ("BoSS BillD
Ware is dead.
The white-haired political chief
tain who for generation exerted
an iron sway over the public af-
fairs of Philadelphia and whose
influence was potent throughout
the Republican Party of Pennsyl-
vania and the nation, quietly sue
cumbed to an acute heart attack
in his summer home in Ventnor
shortly before noon today.
Last of the Bosses"
His passing marked the end of
q career identified with the color
full and turbulent days when
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
Farley Adds 1885
Postal EMPLOYEES
nv International Nova service

By International News Service
Postmaster General Farley to-
day announced the appointment
of 1885 additional regular en-
ployes in the larger post offices
throughout the country.
He said this move was made to
provide satisfactory postal facili-
ties. The appointments become
effective August Is.
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Plumber Stricken
At His Work, Dies

Stricken with a heart attack
while at work, Jack Beckwith,
80, a plumber of the 1000 block
Georgia Ave. N. w., collapsed to-
day and died before the arrival
of a Casualty Hospital ambu-
lance.
The Washington times., 1934-08-07
Hockey
Player, Drowned

WINNIPEG, Aug. Z G.N.SO.
The body of Jack Leswick, mem
ber of the Chicago Blackhawks
team of the National Hockey
League, was found today in the
Red River here.
The Washington times., 1934-08-07

Housing Army to Push
Prosperity Fight
On Two Fronts

Housing Administration The Washington Times is the only
newspaper the United States giving first and complete
Information on this project. >.l IA
The Washington times., 1934-08-07

American politics were guided by
a handful of strong men," He
was one of the last surviving
"bosseS" on the American scene.
The aged chieftain was 81 years
old.
For week and a half he had
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Weaver Takes
Mound for
GriHmen

GRIFFITH STADIUM, Aug. Z.
About 10000 fans turned out this
afternoon for the double-header
between the Yankees and the
Griffmen.
Johnny Murphy, the former
Fordham University pitching ace,
was on the mound for New York,
while Prof. Monte Weaver pitched
for the home team. Among the
crowd was AL Lang, of st. Peters
burg, Fla, who is the baseball am
baSSador of the Sunshine City.
He conferred with Clark Griffith
with the possibility of the local
club training in Florida this
winter.
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WASHINGTON FORECAST
Cloudy, with showers late tonight or early
Wednesday; slightly warmer tonight
MEAN TEMPERATURES
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02

construction of hulls From keel to topsail
the ships built of inf1ammable materials,
because it was believed that only q wooden
ship could float. Fireproofing was impossible
until the metal ship was evolved and only
in recent years has the cheap steel manufacture
ing method made it possible to build all types
of ships of metal.
No one has wanted more To make ships fire.
proof than the shipping industry, judged by
its own actions. Through International agree
ments. regulations have been set up to insure
protection of both passengers and crews rigid
standards of equipment and training of seamen
making every possible provision for the safety
of all on board. Almost without exception
ship operators have gone beyond the legal re-
qurements for fire protection. Methods of fire
prevention and detection developed on land have
been promptly adapted by marine architects to
the needs of ships
The actual fireprooing of vessels has Jagged
behind because of structural factors involved,
according to marine architects. 1t isn't as
simple to fireproof ship a building that is
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02
Explanation

Mayor never saw the park Uttered 30 with
paper As it Is this morning. How do you &C.
count for It?
Superintendent-The park commissioner haA
leaflets distributed yesterday asking people noe
to throw paper about.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02

set on fixed foundation, and the liners OF
today are veritable floating skyscrapers-the
new Queen Mary being tall from keel to
tunnels as 25-story building.
The ship rests fluid, moving foundation.
1t is subject to stresses and strains that never
occur on land. If vessel is topheavy because
of excess weight above the water line, it be-
comes an unstable craft, unsafe in the frequent
storms at Until very recent years it has
been impossible to put available freprooflng
materials into ship because they had to be
used where they would make the vessel top
heavy-in the superstructure.
The demand for safety on land however. is
making it possible to fireproof ships economi-
cally and safely. Light and inexpensive mate
rails that can replace the traditional vanished
wood partitions in the superstructure have been
developed-rock wool asbestos blocks and
sheets Illuminated bakelite panels and metal
covered wood are some of them. Which is the
most feasible to use in the construction of
liners tests still must determine.
4 hARINE disasters are the milestones that
wi mark the development of safety for pas
sengers. The MORO Castle disaster will cause
q more efficient of the freprevention and
extinguishing apparatus with which all mod
ern vessels are equipped.
AS a matter of fact only the fireproof office
building affords greater measure of safety than
stances. The equipment provided for the
detection. prevention and extinguishing Of
flames puts to shame the equipment on land.
On land. fire detection generally is left to
chance Only few buildings equipped
with thermostatc alarms Yet on the new
liner Normandie. every state room will be pro-
vided with an indicator connected with the
bridge
The fire watch is the full time job of special
detail of seamen working under supervision
of the safety officer. They not only watch the
detection apparatus "a hours day. but SUPER
wise the maintenance of the fire-hghting ap-
paratus
In the frewatch room a large liner. two
men are constantly duty. They watch q
strange instrument resembling pipe organ with
transparent. lighted pipes. That is the smoke
indicator so sensitive it will reveal the presence
of a seaman smoking a forbidden cigarette In
the hold.
Every part of the ship is connected to the
indicator. fan sucks air through the pipes.
Five seconds after smoke first appears any
where it makes itself known by couding the
lighted pipe.
The man who observes the smoke In the
indicator also extinguish the fire without
moving from his post. In front Of him, and
below each indicator revealing the existence Of
fire, Is q handle that can release thousands
of cubic feet Of carbon dioxide under pressure:
no flames will continue to burn more than .
few seconds in the gas-laden air. the fire Ii
smothered.
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passed there is a reasonable expectancy that
ships of the future repetition of the MORO
Castle tragedy will be impossible.
Although no existing huge liner is COM
pletely freproof, several of them already have
public rooms in which walls and equipment
are fireproof Some of the vessels that offer
limited passenger accommodations, however,
have provided completely ireproof state rooms
and public rooms.
IN THE S. S. Scanyark and the sister ship
~ Scanstates, for instance, the cabins all are
paneed in -inflammable bakete and
equipped with metal furniture. Thus, If bedding
should catch fire. there is nothing to feed the
flames after it has been consumed, and the fire
dies.
Something of the same sort can be expected
in ships still to be built.
Why has it taken 5000 years to evolve the
fireproof ship?
About 1900 years Of this period are &C.
counted for by the fact that until about 100
years ago timber was used exclusively in the
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History proves that marine
disasters are the miIestones
that mark the development Of
safety for passengers and the
Moro Castle tragedy brings
nearer the Mreproof ship

fighters in charge Of an Off
Ger trained by the Paris Fire
Department.
With such precedent to
follow, shipping men expect
competitors to adopt similar
precautions for the safety of
passengers, SO that whether
or not laws making fire.
proofing m andat ory are
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-12-02
BY GEORGE 4. WIED4.

. OR 5000 years men who have built and
operated ships sought to unlock the
secret of keeping passengers and crews
safe from the horror of fire at sea. The
Phoenicians, whose daring seamanship
brought the first ocean-borne traffic
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-07-06
Acreage Inspectors
Begin in Burleigh

Wheat allotment inspectors, selected
on the basis Of examinations conduct
ed last week, met In the offices Of the
county agent Thursday and received
instructions on how to measure acres
from Leslie Howard. engineer IN
charge Of this area.
Howard will begin ct once hts work
Of determining whether or not the
farmers are living up to their federal
contracts, with the assistance Of the
county men.
The 20 inspectors named by the
Fargo office last week are v. L. Ander-
son. Wilton: John q. Bailey, Wing; @.
F. Buck, Braddock: 8. =. Clisbe. Nc
Kenzie; John NJ. Craven, Menoken;
Cecil Elkins. Regain; Harold N. Fal-
coner. Bismarck: A. B. JOHNSON, VIII
ton: Alex Mclean, Peter Mihm and
Lynn w. sperry. Bismarck; John A.
Olsen, Menoken: I. B. Olson, Driscoll:
J. ]. Scallon, Wing: Alfred =. Slovarp.
Mckenzie: B. O. Strand. Regain: Rob-
ert NJ. WEIGH, Menoken: =. N. Whit
eaker, Motif: J. =. Wildfang, Nc
Kenzie; and Henry h. Thor. Wilton.