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The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Pilot Safe, Mail
Burns in Crash

NEW YORK, Nov. % G.N.S0.
An air mail plane, bound for
Jacksonville, Fla, from Chicago.
crashed near Scottsboro, Ala, and
burst into flames early today,
Eastern Air Lines announced here.
Pilot Robert Chew, "a, of Somer-
Vile, Mass, '::bailed out" a few
minutes before the crash when his
motor stalled. His only injury
was a sprained ankle. Three hun
dred pounds of mail was de-
StroYed.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
COUNTY BOARD
BANS BOXING

The Arlington county board of
supervisors today unanimously
voted to ban boxing in the county.
Deets Pickett, of the Methodist
Board of Temperance and Public
Morals, resident of the county,
appeared before the board and as.
serted that boxing has "demoral-
izing influence"
The Rev. Walter Wolfe, of the
Arlington Presbyterian Church,
appeared as representative of the
County Ministerial Association
and also opposed the move to
allow boxing matches in the
county.
Mrs. Elizabeth B. Magruder,
only wqman member of the
board, introduced the resolution
which was unanimously adopted.
Under Virginia law any county
can legalize boxing. A recent
move was started to erect an
arena in Virginia Highlands, but
with the action of the board to-
day that will now be dropped.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
ELS0N STAYS TWO US. AGENTS
Col. Cooper
Ordered TO
Stand Trial

Justice Oscar R. Luhring to-
day in District Supreme Court,
upheld the indictment charging
Col. Wade H. Cooper, former
president of the Commercial Ma.
tional Bank, with misapplying
bank funds and ruled he must
stand trial.
The indictment was the third
accusation made against Colonel
Cooper. The other two were
dropped. Colonel Cooper at
tackled the present charge on the
ground the indictment was vague
and indefinite, failed to Suffi-
Gently charge commission of a
crime and had been obtained to
damage his reputation in civil
litigation against him.
The charge grew out of the
merger of the Commercial Bank
with the Continental Trust Com
pany in 1881. Colonel Cooper was
president CT the institution at
the time. The Government
charged that funds of the bank
were miSepplied in paying divl-
dends to stockholders in the trust
company. Colonel Cooper attacked
the indictment by demurrer
and motion to quash through
Attorneys William H. Collins, w.
Bissell Thomas and John w.
Staggers. The Government was
by Assistant District
Attorneys John w. Fihelly and
Irwin Goidstein.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Schools Close;
Pupils Glad,
Teachers, Too

School bells were Silenced to-
day for four days as more than
10000 merry children closed
school doors behind them for
the Thanksgiving holiday.
Glasses in all local schools
closed at / p. m. today, not to
be resumed until Monday morn
ing.
Teachers, who ordinarily
would not receive their salary
checks until the first of Decem-
Der were being paid off today at
the Franklin Administration
Building.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Purvis Vows to Get Nelson
Dead or Alive for Staying

CHICAGO, Nov. 2S N.N.SJ.
'Tf it's the last thing 1 do, I'll
get Baby Face NelsOn-dead or
alive"
Melvin E. Purvis, youthful
chief of the Department Of
Justice, here today made this
grim pledge as he viewed the
bodies of Samuel P. Cowley and
Herman E. Hollis, Department OF
Justice agents slain in a gun
battle with Nelson, murderouS
little machine gunner Of the
former John Dillinger gang.
Mr.. Purvis, his face taut with
emotion, Immediately gave orders
for a nationwide search to hunt
down the desperate who took the
lives of his two aides.
It was the consensus OF opinion
among authorities that Nelson had
avenged the killing of Dillinger
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
D. C.. In Holiday Mood
For Thanksgiving

and the Agricultural Adjustment
Administration will remain open
today, but will close for the hol-
iday tomorrow.
Banks, business houses, shops
and department stores will close
tomorrow, as thousands Of Wash
ingtonianS trek to their respective
churches to express appreciation
for the blessings of Providence
during the past year.
Dignitaries of the Catholic
Church and high-ranking diplo-
mats will attend the annual Pan
(continued on Page 4, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

The gratitude of an apprecia-
tive nation will be expressed to.
morrow and Washington today
prepared for the annual Thanks
giving festival as more than 1O0,-
600 employees of the Federal and
District Governments planned to
enjoy an extr@ half holiday today.
All bureaus and departments,
with two exceptions will close
their doors at l p. m. today to
allow workers to prepare for the
annual celebration tomorrow Of
the turkey-day festival.
The Agriculture Department
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
AID
To HOUSING
FORECAST
Response to Pleas of Tardy in
Seeking Loans Held Likely;
Moffett Sees President
By EARL GOODWIN

With James A. Moffett, Federal
Housing chief, arriving at the
Little White House" at Warm
Springs, Ca, today to "talk tur.
key" in more ways than one with
President Roosevelt, and Secre-
tary Ickes' $6.50-per-month-per-
room cheap housing project start
ing today in Cleveland, the red
hot days development in housing
lay in the Home Owners Loan
Corporation.
Emergency aid to those in dis
treSS over mortgage payments,
when the HOLC suddenly decided
to quit lending money a few days
ago, is about to receive prompt
and decisive attention from Con-
gress, if present trends are carried
to a conclusion.
Found Near Exhaustion
Letters are going out from the
Hole telling 350,000 applicants
that the HOLC can't take care
of any more distressed home
owners, the reason being that
the 5000 million dollars Congress
gave the HOLC will be used up
when the Hole, gets through
with the present stack Of appli-
cations.
Each of these $4,000 is taking
his protests to his recently elected
of Congress-, and unless
someone higher up in the Admin
istration puts a ban on it, there
is likely to be a demand from
Congress to extend the Govern
(Con 'nued on Page 2, Col. 81
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA, Calf, Nov.
28.-I wrote q little gag" the
other day about appealing to
the President for q guarantee"
and / bet a lot Of you thought
it was just to be writing.
Well, get this, headIined in
the papers today: C. L. BardO,
president of the National ASsO-
citation of Manufacturers, asks
the President the following:
Business must have more
definite ideas as to the direc-
ton in which the Government
is headed"
/ can just see Mr.. Roosevelt
rushing in with q guarantee
reading about as follows: "No-
body guaranteed me anything
when 1 took over this job, no
man CANDLES more than .
President of the United States,
SO you will pardon me if am
not able to guarantee business
that it won't IOse."
Copyright. 1894. by McNauEht
Syndicate, Inc.)
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Ill, Near Death,
Girl Sues Landlady

PITTSBURGH, Nov. % G.N.SO.
Facing death, a 24-year-old girl
sought $4,000 damages today
from the owner of a house in
which she contracted an illness
that is gradually taking her life.
Miss Leona R. Stemer, West New.
ton, filed suit against Mrs. Mar
garet j. Weimer, Pittsburgh, claim
ing leaky roof caused her to
contract pneumonia that later de.
veloped into tuberculosis.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
SUBSTITUTE.
ACT FOR NRA
PREPARED
Incorporation Plan Is Quietly
Arranged for Interstate
Business Regulation
BY International News Service

A Federal incorporation act,
through which interstate business
would be regulated in place Of the
present NRA and other emergency
legislation, has been quietly pre-
pared in Administration sources
and may be recommended to Con-
gress, it became known today.
Important inducements would
oe offered major business organ
izations to obtain charters under
the act, which would thus become
the regulatory law in place of the
National Recovery Act as it now
stands. Concerns which declined
to come under the law would con-
tinue to operate under NRA codes.
and would be subject to continued
assessments, as at present, for ad-
miniStration of the codes.
Possibilities Important
So important are the poSsibili-
ties of the proposed Federal incor-
poration plan considered that
dominant business and manufac-
CuE1uS groups dAE6duy 41dVc OSSA
sounded for their sentiments
These organizations have mani
tested such interest advisers Of
Secretary Of Commerce Roper, re-
garded as the conservative inter.
mediary between business and the
Administration, are going into it
for him.
F. R. Eldridge, chief of the
commercial intelligence division
Of the Commerce Department, one
Of those entrusted with working
up the proposal, has been dele
gated to give the idea it's first
publicity in radio address Fri.
day.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Woman Key Witness
Goes to See Victims

MORRISVILLE, Pa, Nov. %
U.N.SO Mrs. Anna Dill, of Ire
vose, who informed authorities
that three little girls who stayed
at her husbands tourist camp
strongly resembled descriptions of
the three children found slain
near Carlisle last Saturday, left
with her husband today to view
the bodies of the "Babes in the
Wood"
Officials of the State Police sub
station here indicated that after
viewing the bodies of the three
little girls at Carlisle, the Dills
may be taken to DuncanSville to
look at the bodies of man and
woman found dead near there in
q murder-suicide episode.
CARLISLE, Pa, Nov. %.
UN.SO.-By means of three
face cloths of cheap manufacture
and the memories of numerous
(Continued on Page 2, Col. y
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
Choir Will Honor
Veteran Organist

Prof. R. j. Daniels, veteran local
colored teacher of music, will be
given a testimonial by the choir
and members of the Zion Baptist
Church, Third and F Streets
Southwest on next Monday even
ing. Prof. Daniels has been organ
ist at the church for the last AZ
years.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28

'''This tragic event is an
other illustration of the ruth
less challenge of the under.
world with which our people
are confronted"
The Attorney General said
further that the situation was
such at the present time that
he could not say anything else
on the department s activities.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
U. S. AVIATOR KILLED

SHANGHAI, Nov. % G.N.SD,
Lieut.. Edward Dorney, American
flier, was killed at the Sungjao
air field this afternoon in the
crash of a new American-made
fighting plane he was demon
Strating to government officials.
The Washington times., 1934-11-28
WASHINGTON FORECAST

Rain tonight and Thursday.
MEAN TEMPERATURES
Evening star., 1934-03-26

picked up a vase that happened to
be handy. and with unerring aim
tossed it at Foster. It bounced off
the newcomers head and shattered
on the floor
By this time the other church.
goers decided they might as we'll get
into it, too. They swarmed out of
their pews and joined the melee, some
taking sides with the pastor and
others throwing their lot in with
Foster.
Pretty soon, however, an agreement
was reached-not to stop the battle
royal, but to move it outside, where
everybody would have more room.
But some resident of the neighbor-
hood didn't like the idea and tele-
phoned the fifth precinct police sta
ton. A few minutes later a squad
of policemen showed up and the fight
ing ceased quickly.
Foster, his wife and Rev. Moore
were taken to Gallinger Hospital,
where all were treated for minor in
juries. Then Mrs. Foster and Rev.
Moore were permitted to return to
their respective homes, 635 Acker place
northeast and 288 Tenth street south
east.
1t didn't occur to Foster to ask
the names OF the two officers who
arrested him, but one Of them was
L. G. Scripture
Evening star., 1934-03-26
WORK OF WOMEN
LAWYERS UPHELD
M. Pearl Mccall Hits Criticism
of Prosecutors Eff
cheney.

Miss Pearl Mccall, former assistant
United States attorney, yesterday took
issue with statement criticizing the
efficiency Of women prosecutors.
which, she said, was made by United
States Attorney Leslie C. Garnett.
The controversy over women pros
ecutors has grown out of the fact
that Garnett accepted designations
from Miss Mccall and Rebekah
Greathouse, who were assistant dis
trict attorneys under Leo A. Rover,
and has not added any women to his
staff.
Miss McCall's statement discussed
at considerable length her own record
in the district attorneys Office.
In particular, she cited her efforts
in cleaning up fake universities in
Washington; the conviction of
woman alleged to have performed 13
illegal operations which resulted
fatally; the conviction of a chiroprac-
tor on similar charge; the success
full prosecution of a woman for oper-
ating a disorderly house and in Sc
curing the dismissal of State De-
partment employe accused of a stat
utory offense. She also related in
detail her work under the pure food
and drugs act, which, she contended,
Garnett had belittled.
Garnett said he had no comment
to make in reply to her statement.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
0'HEARNE SEEKS
LIBERTY ON WRIT
Washington's Last Prohlbi-
ton VioIator Contends
Sentence Is Invalid.
CROWD OF $500 JoURNI

Jack OHearne, Washington's last
and best known prohibition prisoner,
today launched his final attack on the
Volstead act.
He is serving a 10-month sentence
in the District Jail for contempt OF
court in violating an order of the Dis
trict Supreme Court restraining him
from operating speakeasies. The
sentence was imposed last November
13 by Justice Jennings Bailey. who
also decreed O'Hearne should pay a
fine of $1,000.
In asking for his release today on
writ of habeas corpus. O'Hearne
contended that his sentence, in view of
the repeal cf the eighteenth amend
ment, is invalid. Although sentenced
for contempt of court rather than a
specific liquor law violation, he is ex-
pected to contend his sentence arose
cut of the Volstead act and is there
fore OF no legal effect now
Argument on his petition, which was
filed through Attorney William B.
OConnell, will be heard Wednesday
by Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue.
Last week Justice O'Dohoghue Or
dered the release of Harry T. johnson,
convicted bootlegger, in a similar
proceeding. johnson had pleaded
guilty to the illegal transportation of
liquor and was sentenced before the
repeal Of the amendment on Decem-
Der S. In announcing his decision,
Justice ODonoghue held any jail
sentence for violating the prohibition
laws which continued in effect after
December was unenforceable.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
PRETTYMAN HOLDS
COVENANTS NOT
PREVENT LICENSES
Rules Liquor Permits May
Be Granted Despite
Bans.
HELD UP TO APPLICANT
TO TAKE THAT CHANCE
Corporation Counsel Orders B.
& o. to Pay Half Costs of
Subway.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board may legally grant liquor sales
licenses to establishments on property
carrying a covenant prohibiting the
sale of alcoholic drinks, it was decided
by Corporation Counsel E. Barrett
Prettyman in one of the first five
opinions to be written by him since
he took Office.
The question of the right to license
places on covenant-bound property
came before the A. B. c. Board turing
hearings on applications. In his
opinion, received today by the Com
nlssioners. Prettyman held that while
the liquor board may grant licenses,
the license in such case, has no pro-
lection against any court action Whlcn
may be taken against him II ne ac-
tually sells liquor.
If the applicant wants to take
that chance" Mr.. Prettyman said
today. that's up to him. But so far
as the A. B. c. Board is concerned. 1t
can issue license to man on prop
erty bound by covenant which for
bids the sale Of liquor"
Other opinions handed down in his
first group included one which holds
that the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
must pay one-half the total cost OF
the Piney Branch subway. The rail-
way had contended that its response
bil1ty was limited to half of the actual
right of way itself and not the entire
structure.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
CHURCH SERVICE ENDS IN MELEE
AS INTRUDER SHOOTS At WIFE

If Rev. Paul L. Moore, colored, still
wants to finish his Palm Sunday SER
mon he can do it in Safety today
because the man who interrupted him
by firing a couple of shots that set
off an old-fashioned battle royal in
his church yesterday is now lodged
behind the bars of police station
cell, charged with assault with dead
ly weapon.
Rev. Moore was in the midst of his
sermon when the interruption came.
Into the East Calvary Methodist
Episcopal Church, 1401 B street
southeast, strode William Foster. IS.
colored, armed With .32-caliber re-
volver and looking for his wife.
Mrs. Viola Foster, %, had a sus-
picion her husband was hunting for
her when a bullet whizzed over her
head and splintered the pulpit, from
which Rev. Moore was staring at the
addition to his flock. Her suspicion
was confirmed when, according to po-
lice, her husband suddenly lowered
above her, swinging the butt of his
gun against her head. He had re-
versed the weapon, police said, after
something had gone wrong with it,
causing his second shot to pun
harmlessly out of the barrel and drop
to the floor.
Resenting the Intrusion, Rev. Moore
Evening star., 1934-03-26
S,Uat the Startling
Slogan Is Offered
Along With Recipe
Rat Trap Snags Nine of
Pests in Three Hours
for Hunter.

swat the startling" is the slogan
of w. H. Turney. 14o0 block of G
street southeast, who not only swats
but eats the pests This is how Tur-
ney handled his startling problem:
II put out a spring rat trap baita1
and got nine starlings in three hours.
I cleaned them, put them in salt
water overnight and then parboiled
and fried them.
When I catch my next mess Of
:tarlings I expect to try them baked
only use one trap. On the build
ings uptown people would have to
use traps with strings tied to them
to prevent them from falling into
the street"
Turney signs his post card to The
Star with the slogan-"SWat the
starting; it will be good for the rat
trap business" Turney didn't say if
it also would be good for the di-
gestion.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
AUTOIST DECLARED
SHOT AT BY POLICE
Pistol Reported Used When
Traffic Detour Is
Ignored.

A notorist who ignored g signal
the 900 block of Ninth street about
2 a m. today was fired upon by an
report to police headquarters
Pointing out that policemen are
authorized to use their guns only when
a felony has been committed, or when
they have reason to believe their lives
or the lives of others are in danger,
Inspector Lewis l. H. Edwards, eXecu-
tive officer of the Police Department.
Immediately ordered an investigation.
Meanwhile, police were checking
hospitals and physicians Offices to
learn whether the shot, said to have
been fired by Officer C. r. Burnett,
first precinct, had taken effect.
The blaze. in the basement of a
lunch room at 907 Ninth street, re-
quired the attention of firenTen for
about 2 hours. While the firemen
were at work, policemen were sta
toned at both ends of the block to
prevent motorists from entering.
The motorist at whom Burnett is
reported to have fired drove past
Off1cer S. F. Smith, who signaled for
him to detour into I street The
driver continued up Ninth street, how
ever, passing Acting Sergt. C. w.
Masenheimer, who was on duty in
the middle Of the block
Burnett, stationed at New York
avenue, attempted to stop the motor
ist, it was said, and fired at the auto
mobile.
With the license number of the car
known, police began a search for the
driver.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
FUNERAL SERVICES HELD
FOR COL. R. R. RALSTON
Burial in Arlington-Late Officer
Commanded 3O6th Engineers
During War.

Funeral services with full military
honors were held today in Arlington
National Cemetery for Col Robert r.
Ralston, U. S. A., who died en- route
to New York March 20 aboard the
transport Republic.
Col. RalSton was graduated from
the Military Academy in 1902 and
entered the Engineers Corps. He
commanded the 3O6th Engineers dur
ing the World War and also acted
as division engineer of 81st Division.
He served as chief engineer of the
4th Army Corps in France and Ger
many. The colonel had been re-
tired from active service February
28, 1884
Honorary pallbearers today in
cluded Brig. Gen. George B. Pills
bury, Col. w. c. Fraser, Lieut.. Coils.
T. NJ. Spalding, w. A. Mccain, B. F.
Miller and Francis B. Wilby.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
D. C. OFFICIALS VISIT
SOUTHWEST MARKET
Hazen Heads Group Studying
Ways to Improve Conditions
Following Protests.

Headed by Commissioner Melvin C.
Hazen, group Of District officials
today visited the Southwest Farmers
Market with view to determining
ways and means of improving that es-
tablishment.
The officers accompanying Commis-
sioner Hazen included Mai. Daniel
Donovan, District auditor; George M.
Roberts, superintendent Of weights
and measures, and Capt. H. G. White
hurst, director of highways.
Commissioner Hazen explained that
conditions at the market were pro-
tested by group Of the farmers at
hearing before the subcommittee Of
the House Appropriations Committee.
Many of the conditions at the market,
he said, were described as very bad,
and he and other District officers
were anxious to learn at first hand
Just how they might be improved.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
MAN HURT IN FIGHT
DIES IN GA[[|NGER
Death Is Laid to Fractured
Skull Caused by Bottle.
MiIkman Held.

Richard winstead, 20, of 1850 Avon
place, died in Gallinger Hospital to-
day Of a fractured skull alleged to
have been received when a milkman
struck him with bottle on March ID.
The milkman, Harold Miller, 1928
Bunker Hill road northeast, was ar
rested by Detective Sergt. John w.
Wise, assigned to the case by De-
tectlve Sergt. George E. Darnall, chief
of the homicide squad. and taken to
police headquarters for questioning.
Miller Tells of Attack.
Miller. according to information
given Wise and Darnall, welded the
bottle during an early-morning alter
cation, inf1icting a wound above Win
stead's left eye.
Miller told the detectives, they said,
that Winstead attacked him while he
was delivering milk in the 400 block
Of Maryland avenue southwest.
WinStead. who was Intoxicated, had
just been ushered out of a house. &C
cording to Miller. He approached the
truck, Miller said. and after asking
for bottle of milk, broke both head
lights with his fists.
He turned back to me then" Mil
Ter was quoted as saying. land swung
at me. I picked up an empty bottle
and hit him. l didn't think the blow
was hard enough TO hurt him badly"
Taken to Police Station.
Winstead was taken to Providence
Hospital, where physicians decided his
condition was not serious. From there
he was transferred to the fourth
precinct police station and charged
with being drunk and disorderly.
That afternoon, however, ne COM
planned of pains in his head, and po-
lice took him to Gallinger, where his
condition was at first listed as ''un-
determined" Later it was found he
had a fractured skull and he was kept
at the institution.
Evening star., 1934-03-26
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Some random notes on the weeks
flood of patents issued here as, for bet
ter or worse, the life of the world is
tossed helplessly on the tide of mech
anization:
A patent was granted to DR.. Robert
H. Goddard for a device for utilizing
the heat of the sun and translating it
into energy.
DIR. Goddard is the Clark University
physics professor whose experiments
with the so-called "moon-rocket"-by
which he hoped to send a projectile
into the extreme upper limits OF the
earth's atmosphere-have attracted
worldwide attention during the past
decade.
His instrument for capturing solar
energy is one of many devised in the
effort to solve one of the most faSci-
mating problems confronting the in
ventor. All the earth's energy comes
from the sun. 1t is stored in forests,
coal beds, oil wells and waterfalls. Man
must get it secondhand to run his
furnaces automobiles and factories.
Goddard claims means OF heating
a fluid directly by sun heat. keeping it
at a constant and predictable temper
ature, overcoming the cooling effect OF
the passage of clouds, and discharging
the material either as liquid or a
Vapor. The sun is focused upon the
apparatus by means of focusing mir
rors which keep automatically turned
toward the sun,