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Evening star., 1934-02-02
THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON D.

nent Oak Park, H., man within Q
week after her romance with Count
Giorgio de Giorgio Of Italy was stilled
by his deportation by immigration au-
thorities.
After filing her suit, Mrs. Eiszner
would not say whether she has any
idea of marrying the Count. Her
lawyer, however, quoted her as saying:
II think I'll 60 to Paris. The Count
will be there"
In the complaint she charged her
marriage to Eiszner was performed
without her consent and II she had
known what she was doing she would
not have gone through the ceremony.
In the automobile accident after
the marriage. Eiszner's brother Dom
aid was killed and the couple injured.
Merry was involved in another trag-
edy in 1880. Bruno Schustak, para
chute jumper, fell to his death after
going to her rescue from an airplans
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lininary report Of the commission IN
vestigating the stratosphere tragedy
and was taken from records which
survived the crash OF the gondola In
which the three met their death.
Their bodies were brought to Mos
COW last night for burial today.
The report issued by the commits
sion said available evidence indicated
the sondola had been torn away from
the envelope while still in the air.
dashing the steel spherodd to earth
and instantly killing its occupants.
The exact time of the crash was
judged to be 4:23 pm. on Tuesday.
the hour at which the hands on q
watch worn by one of the men had
stopped. The barograph had ceased
to function two minutes earlief.
at 4:21.
Earlier reports had said the bal
loonists-Pavl Fedoseinko, Audrey
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The figure was revealed In q pre-
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This Is the quality that doesn't
stretch or kink. Formerly sold
for Sc. This special sale gives
you big saving.
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COMMODITY PRICES RISE

Wholesale commodity prices rose
slightly during the week ended Janu-
ary ~. the index reaching 724 per
cent Of the 1925 average, q compared
with 72.S for the previous week.
The Bureau Of Labor Statistics said
yesterday this was the fifth consecu-
tive week the index had advanced.
Prices are now at the highest point
for the two years the bureau has
maintained . weekly wholesale index
and are approximately on the level Of
MAY, 1881,
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We will place on sale 100 Of
these new round type baskets.
IA inches high, 13 inches wide.
They're a big value and will
sell quickly.
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Burns Prove Fatal.

Mrs. Ellen Carson, colored, 90, Of
1910 Capitol avenue northeast, who
was severely burned yesterday morn
ing when her dress ignited in her
home, died at Casualty Hospital late
In the afternoon. A certificate Of &C
cidental death was given.
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Vasenko and Ilya Usyskin-began

vasenko and nya Usyskin-began
their descent at 1850 pm.
The commission, which Is continu-
ing to study al available evidence,
added that the log and the remnants
Of instruments surviving the crash
give possibility Of ascertaining and
profiting from the great scientific
work carried ON by the crew."
In honor Of the stratosphere heroes
the All. Union Civil Aviation Society
decided to erect . monument to them
at Moscow In the Central Aviation
Club,
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BALLOONISTS' FIGURE
SET AT $4,000 FEET
Russians Base New Claim on
Records Found in Crashed
Gondola.
1y the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, February 2.-Fully au-
thenticated records said to show that
the three young Russian balloonists
killed after an ascent to the strato-
sphere had reached a height of 72,I78
feet instead Of 67,585 feet. as previ-
ously reported, were made public
today.
The figure was revealed In q pre-
Evening star., 1934-02-02
HEIRESS DRANK
BLAMED FOR WEDDING
Annulment, She Claims
She Did Not Realize What
Was Happening.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February IA
marriage e-annulment suit was filed
here yesterday by Merry Fahrney
Eiszner, heiress to the Fahrney pat
ent medicine fortune. She said that
because of certain liquids" given her
beforehand she did not realize she
was being wed to Frank Van Sands
Eiszner at Aurora, ILL.,, last Novem-
ber 10.
She eloped with the socially promi-
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from which she had attempted un-
successfully q Jump.
Merry is the granddaughter Of
Peter FAhrney, who made millions In
patent medicine.
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POLICEMAN PROMOTED

"Loyal Service"
Pvt. George c. Deyoe was desig-
mated yesterday by Maj. Ernest W.
Brown, superintendent of police, to be
acting sergeant, as q reward for loyal
and outstanding service" The ap-
pointment was announced by Lieut..
George M. Little. head of the special
liquor squad.
Deyoe is slated to be appointed a
sergeant as soon as there is vacancy.
As acting sergeant he receives no in
crease in pay.
Evening star., 1934-02-16

talked with hundreds Of brave, depreS-
sion-scarred women - teachers - who
are devottng their lives to educating
young America. 7 have heard them
complain that they are being COM
PEELED 70 work for nothing, or for
bootblack's wages, TO provide q dole
for bondholders. Many other people
are going to hear them before the
world settles down to nornalcy.
Hope for National Effort.
II In q simple statement Of fact that
the prosperity we are struggling 30
hard to recapture can never return in
its youthful vigor until these afflicted
creditors either give up or cash in.
Somebody has got to use the credit
currency that this vast investment
used to provide, before we round the
corner.
The present answer given by all
three parties caught in this dead sea
Of real property is that they can only
wait and pin their hopes upon the
great national effort. Fighting and
shifting the titles, lawyers, writS, and
recriminations have all run their
course. But there is a growing con-
viction that the era of unrestrained
haphazard individual development Of
American cities is about over.
Partisan politics and subdivision
campaigns show definite signs Of CIV
ing way TO regional planning. business
administration, or city managers. The
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TEMPERANCE MOVE
REVIEW TO BE GIVEN
Cast of 40, Representing IL Or
ganizations, Will Give Pro-
gram Monday.

A cast Of 40 persons, representing II
organizations, will present a review
Of the temperance movement at q
meeting Monday in the Memorial
Baptist Church, Sixteenth street and
Columbia road. Uncle Sam" and
Miss Columbia" will receive the men,
bers of the pageant. Mrs. N. M. Pol
lock is directing the review.
Among those assisting in the "re-
view will be DR.. F. Scott Mcbride
Mrs. w. H. Wadleigh, DR.. w. S. Aber-
nethy, Mrs. E. L. Eaton, John r. Ma
honey, Charles Williams, John B
Hammond, Edgar Hiatt. Miss Marga-
ret Hiatt, Dr. Lauretta Kress, Rev. C
S. Longacre, Mrs B. ShankS CLANCY
DR.. William S. Chase, Mrs. Harvey w
Wiley. William Neuman, DR.. and Mrs
E. G. Dinwiddie, Harry S. Warner, An
drew H. Wilson, DR.. Everett M. Eli
son and Mrs. Charles T. Windle.
Mrs. Edna Proctor is chairman OF
the Hostess Committee, made up OF
present and past officers of the Wom-
ans Christian Temperance Union:
Mrs. George A. Ross has charge OF
the line Of procession and of the
costumes: Mrs. Charles Williams will
direct the placing of the refreshment
booths; Mrs. w. ]. Peters is chairman
Of the decorations. Mrs. w. F. At
kinSon. assisted by Mrs. Ethel Reed, is
arranging the musical program, which
will include the La vi Da Ra Brass
Quartet from the Washington Mis-
sionary College and the White Ribbon
Quartet, Mrs. Giles Scott Rafter will
make the presentations and Miss Mel!
Grist will impersonate Miss Frances E
Willard.
Costumes Of the past will be worn
TO add to the color and interest of the
occasion.
Evening star., 1934-02-16

bonds are selling at Is cents On the
dollar.
They tell you in Chicago that more
than a third Of the city has changed
hands in a futile endeavor to use
office buildings and stores as money.
In Pittsburgh the most conservative
trustees have q large portion Of their
funds In sound" mortgages; the very
best. The Ynuch-pitied widows and
orphans say their incomes from these
trusts have shFunk 35 per cent.
It really doesn't matter where you
go--the owners Of town and city
Office buildings, stoges, hotels or
whatever-ft-is tell the same story. In
Portland. Greg, the of1ices are third
empty and the tenants who pay any
rent at all select the amount and
time TO suit their fancy. In Cleve-
land there seems considerable ques-
ton whether the total real estate
in the city can meet the municipal
debt.
In Philadelphia recently q morning
paper had six solid pages devoted to
sheriff's sales for taxes and the
principal display on the streets con-
sists Of Ito let" and "for sale" signs.
These to a great extent direct the
curious to a bank or trust company.
This also explains why many banks
pay such slow dividends.
There Is no market for urban real
estate.
But small as It Is compared with
olden times, there Is still some In
come. Where does that go7
It goes toward paying taxes and
insurance.
At the present rate Of business and
prices, even making allowance for the
extraordinary revival already evident,
there is simply not enough income on
improved property to pay the tax bills
and leave anything for the ianitor
and the Insurance agent.
This puts the municipal bond
holders in the depression class, There
are nearly 2,000,000,000 Of these
city and town bonds in default. And
it is apparent that the holders will
never get all their interest until the
expansion Of credit and trade reaches
a higher level than it is now.
Nor Is that all Of 1t. For where
the city bonds are being paid. the
money is not all coming from tax
payers.
In my countrywide tour I have
Evening star., 1934-02-16
BY RALPH w. PAGE.

In the good old days Of the Federal
Reserve Bank stock market imitation,
a New York City capitalist knocked
down his ancestral residence In order
to sell the plot to syndicate to build
o ritzy apartment house.
He was paid with a million-dol
mortgage on the plot and completed
apartment. The builders lost twice
that amount in the healthy Iiuuida-
ton" that followed, threw up the
sponge, and handed the whole thing
back to him.
He Is now advised by financial ex-
perts and lawyers that he must blow
up this modern palace to escape city
taxes and avoid bankruptcy.
1t Is stylish these days to talk In
billions. Well. in New York City alone
there are more than billion dollars
worth Of mortgages In the same fix as
our friends apartment house. Only
few days ago I asked one of the
principal realtors in New York II
there was still foreclosing.
Sell at Fourth of Value.
Foreclosures" he exclaimed; they
come In by the phalanx and tell you
to take the damn place, they don't
want it."
Meantime guaranteed mortgage
Evening star., 1934-02-16
GETS NEW U. S. POST
J. o. Knight Named Assistant to
Fuel Administrator,

BALTIMORE. February Is [P1.-
J. Q. Knight, who has relinQuished
his post as special representative in
Maryland, Delaware and the District
Of Columbia for the Federal Surplus
Relief Corporation, will become an as
sistant to L. A. Snead, national fuel
administrator. in Washington.
The change was announced by
Snead after a conference here We'd
nesday with Miss Anna d. Ward. di-
rector of the Baltimore Emergency
Relief Commission. over the lack Of
harmony between the commission and
Knight.
The commission, through Harry
Greenstein, State relief administra-
tor, last week formally recommended
that knight be removed as special
representative.
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tax assessments are being lowered -
meet a rational world Of facts, and
not legal world of myth. Even ins
surance companies are discovering the
patent truth that the employees Of .
town and the operation Of the essen
tial functions Of safety, health, and
education constitute q lien on the
public income ahead Of bonds or any
other claim.
The peoples necessities have been
discovered to be more urgent than
debts.
(CopyTiSht 1884. By the North Amefiean
Newspaper Alliance Ine.j
Evening star., 1934-02-16
FORMER DIPLOMAT
GETS YALE FELLOWSHIP
Announcement Made Of Appoint
ment of Ferdinand I.
Belin.

Ferdinand L. Belin, who has served as
a diplomat in many countries, has been
appointed to an associate fellowship
Of the Berkeley College Of Yale Uni
versity, according to an announce
ment today by James Rowen Angel.
president.
Belin served as Ambassador to
Poland from November, 1882, to
March. 1888. and was secretary of
the American delegation to the Lon
don Naval Conference. Previously he
was attached to American embassies
in Constanttnople, Peking. Paris and
London. A native Of Scranton, Pa,
he was graduated from Yale in 1901.
His residence in Washington is at
1923 Twenty-eighth street. At pres
ent he is touring the West Indies.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
275 Smelter Workers Raised.

BLACKWELL. Okla. February is
R.-A 10 per cent wage increase for
275 employees, effective today, is an
nounced by r. c. Weisbrod. smelter
superintendent of the Blackwell Zinc
Co.
The increase is the fifth posted by
the company since the smeltsr was
reopened in January. 1888, after being
closed about two years.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
REALTY SITUATION
REACHES A CRISIS
Great National Effort Is Re.
lied Upon to Solve Mort"
gage Problem.

This Is the ttDelfth In a series
OF daily articles By Ralph W. Page,
economist and tUrtteT, t1ho toured
the country to discover t1hat it's
people think OF the national re-
coOery program, and has put his
findings into tDritin0.
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SIMMS RITES PLANNED
Fairfax County Man to Be Buried
From Franeonia Church.

By STAFF Correspondent OF The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, February 49,
Funeral services for Frank Lee Simms,
SO, who died Tuesday at his home in
Franconia, Fairfax County, are to be
held at o'clock this afternoon
at the Beulah Baptist Church at
Franconia.
The deceased had been employed In
the signal department of the Rich
mond, Fredericksburg g. Potomac
Railway for the past q years. In
addition to his widow, Mrs. Nettie v.
SimnlS, he leaves. five brothers and
four sisters. Bu4Af will be at Fran
coma.
Evening star., 1934-02-16
italian Jobless Increase.

ROME, February Is OP.-Unem-
ployment increased by 26,l61 persons
during January, bringing the total
number Of persons out Of work to
1.l58,4le. an ofncial announcement
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-20
OFFICERS CHOSEN
BY NAVY LEAGUE
Nelson Macy Is Elected Presi,
dent-0gden Reid Among
Vice Presidents.

The Navy League Of the United
States today had a new president in
Nelson Macy OF Greenwich. Conn.
elected at a meeting held in New
York City yesterday. which chose
Ogden Reid. publisher Of the New
York Herald Tribune; John Constable
Moore. Mrs, Robert w Kelley and
Nicholas Roosevelt as vice presidents
Harold c. Washourn is executive
secretary of the orgsniza ton. main
tanning offices at 30 Rockefeller
plaza. New York City
Mr.. Macy succeeds N. NJ, Hubbard
who Was president Of the organiEa
ton until the annual meeting held
on May Is and Is still a director.
officialS at the Navy Leagues head
quarters here. l749 & street. said
that Washington officeS would be
continued, as the group owns that
building
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RAIN MAY BREAK
HEAT WAVE TODAY
Continued Hot Weather Ex-
peCted for Week End,
However.

Local Lhundershowers today NAV
bring Washington temporary relief
from its latest heat wave, still moving
eastward after sending the mercury
skyrocketing to new highs in the
West and Southwest.
The Weather Bul>su expects tenn
peratures here to be in the COS this
afternoon. with the possibility that If
the skies clear for any length of time
they will reach the high COS" The
week end probably will find ''con-
tinued warm" weather
After one of the hottest nights of
the year, when the wind gauges at
the bureau recorded almost a dead
calm from midnight on, the mercury
started its climb early today as the
enormous mass of hot air continued
to move in from the West.
Last nights minimum was rs de-
grees, far above normal. and at am.
the thermometer read 81, with a
humidity recording of 70 per cent.
At 8 am. the temperature was "a.
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farmers STICK TO Dry AREAS,
DESPITE F. E. r. Il. AID TO MOVE

Unlike the tenant farmer eff the
South, thousands Of whom are being
assisted to independence in the rural
rehabilitation program, these people
own their OWL homes. They are de-
scendantS OF the pioneers who braved
the rigors Of the West to settle it.
They cling TO the ancestral land.
Mach laad has been declared by
agricultural experts to be 1T only
for grazing In the face of the re-
fuSal to move. WeStbrook said, the
problem now has resolved itself largely
into enc Of helping the people where
they are instead of transplanting
them. Either way. he said. the cost
would be about the same
Efforts are being made to increase
water supplies by building wells and
dams to conserve rainfall. 1t may be
two or three years, Westbrook indi-
Gated. before there will be enough
moisture 10 undo even part of the
drought damage.
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80 DIE AS BRIDGE
FALLS IN POLAND
Death List Mounts as Floods
Sweep Vistula Basin-Cattle
Are Lost.
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
WARSAW. July 20-Thirty or
forty more persons were believed to
have been drowned in floods today
when a bridge over which many per-
sons we're passing collapsed at
Sandomir.
Eleven members of q military en-
cheering squad were reported among
the victims.
Soldiers plunged into the Vistula
River. spanned by the bridge. to save
peasants struggling in the swirling
water
Many Of the farmers were drowned
it was said. because they persisted
i'll trying to save hive stock in the
stream.
Airplanes were delivering food and
mail TO the southern mountainous
region. where devastating floods were
receding. after more than 100 lives
had been lost.
The total dead was not yet known.
Bodies were still being taken from
the torrent. which was rushing down
the Vistula basin. Authorities esti-
mated only 10 per cent OF the cattle
IN the stricken section survived.
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Action of City Heads Giving Up
Sanatorir,m Site Mystif ying
Ickes Has "Open Mind" on Glenn Dale
Location and Medical Authorities Say
Place Satisfactory for Treatment.

that Mr.. Ickes was responsible for the
decision to choose a site elsewhere
and the Commissioners yesterday ap-
pointed committee Of municipal off,
cials to choose site. 1t has also been
limited that President Roosevelt de-
sires the change, but the President
has publicly expressed no opinion in
the matter.
The reason mentioned for the pro-
posed change has been that q site in
the mountains would be, as Secretary
Ickes said, more socially desirable
than the site at Glenn Dale
But in interviews with The Star
today, competent medical authorities
in the District, including Surgeon Gen.
Cumming of the Public Health Serv-
Ice. said they saw no compelling rea-
son for abandoning the site at Glenn
Dale, Md, in favor of another one.
Some medical authorities see some
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Mystery deepened today as to why
the Commissioners have apparently
decided to abandon the site at Glenn
Dale, Md.-bought and paid for by
District taxpayers-as the location for
the proposed new adult tuberculosis
hospital, thus necessitating additional
investment in land and equipment
and increased maintenance costs for
the future tuberculosis treatment
center
Secretary of Interior Ickes said yes
terday that he had an open mind"
on the subject and denied having
adopted any arbitrary views as to To-
cation of the new hospital-which will
be built If the Public Works Admins
tration grants loan to the District
for the purpose.
Heretofore, at the District Build
ing, word has been passed around
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DRY STATES FIGHT
JUS. ENFORCEMENT
Georgia Apathetic-ReSiSt.
anCe Encountered in
Florida by Agents.
BY REX COLLIER

Dry states that do not want to be
dry are complicating the Federal
Governments effort to abide by the
repeal mandate of protecting arid ter
ritory from liquor leakage.
In trying to live up to their obli-
CATION toward so-called anti-repeal
States. Treasury enforcement agents
have run up against an apathetic citi-
zenry and officialdom-and in at least
one State have encountered actual re-
siStance, it was learned at the Treas
ury today.
Florida and Georgia were cited as
States which have indicated they de-
sire no help from the Federal Govern
ment in remaining dry. while Maine
by its liberal attitude toward medicinal
liquor. also presents q problem fol-
Government enforcement officers.
While the general policy adopted
by the Alcohol Tax Unit OF the In
ternal Revenue Bureau is to help only
those States that want to be helped
in the case of Florida the Treasury
has decided to enforce rigidly the
smuggling laws whether Florida
likes 1t or not.
Smugglers Are Warned.
That some officials in Florida don't
like this anti-smuggling campaign was
brought forcibly to the notice of the
Government recently when a certain
local police officer, according to a
Treasury official, rode a motor cycle
up and down the street warning SNUG
glers that the Federal men were
coming"
This official said the Government
has taken no action to prosecute the
officer for obstructing justice because
the Treasury feared this would arouse
resentment against the Federal agents
akin to that which haraSsed the work
OF prohibition agents.
The Florida coast line has become
the chief mecca of liquor smugglerS
since repeal, it was declared. Vir-
tually all the smuggled stuff Is alco-
hol, destined for illicit rectifying and
mixing plants. In these plants the
alcohol Is transformed into aged
whisky" by coloring it with caramel
or with white oak Shavings and dilut-
ing 1t with water. Plain oak shavings
produce light amber whisky" while
toasted shavings produce a deep
"aeed-in-wood" shade, Treasury chem
lists have found.
Despite the cooperation and
resistance" of local authorities in
Florida, the Government is raising an
effective blockade against the snug
gled alcohol trade.
Protect U. s. Laws.
In Georgia the Federal agents are
making no effort to impose their aid
on the State. but they are seeing to
it that the Federal revenue laws are
not violated either by mOonshiners
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