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Evening star., 1934-12-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, December 15-Mrs.
Wilton Williamson says lone Of the
greatest thrills of a lifetime is to watch
ocean waves. especially when they roll
back and leave perfectly good United
States money shining right in your
face"
The identity of Mrs. Williamson as
the discoverer of the leaking treasure
chest" in the surf at Wrightsville
Beach, N. c., last Summer was made
positive when she disclosed she
was the first to discover the money
revealing tide and that she kept it a
secret long enough to make her trip
profitable.
During her visit to the beach, said
Mrs. Williamson, she found the "pay
dirt" and took only her sister-in-law
into her confidence at first. Later her
husband, on vacation from his work
in Atlanta arrived, and still the secret
was kept.
For days and days, Mrs. Williamson
said, she and her sister-in-law would
plant themselves on the spot and wait
for the tide to change. Then came
pennies. nickels, dimes. quarters, a
few halt douAys. keys, rings-one
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Maryland Acts
To Sare Holly
From, VandaIs
Fine, Imprisonment
Prorided, Asserts
State Forester.
Special Dispatch TO The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The Star
BALTIMORE, December 15.-An
intensive campaign against wanton
destruction of holly in Maryland this
year has been launched by F. W.
Besley, State forester.
Due to vandalism, the supply OF
holly in Maryland is rapidly becom-
ing extinct, he said, and drastic ef-
forts must be made to preserve its
growth in the State.
Vandalism must be stopped" he
said, in asking the cooperation OF
all police officials of the State to pre-
vent this destruction.
There is general law which
makes it misdemeanor punishable
by fine of from SIS to S25 or impris-
onment or both fine and imprison-
ment for any person to remove, take,
cut, break or injure any tree, shrub,
or vine, growing on the land OF an
other, without his written consent or
unless under his personal direction.
All having police authority are en-
joined to enforce this law.
The Forestry Department has for
several years endeavored to enlist the
property owners whose lands grow
holly to not only protect it from wan
ton destruction but to regard it as a
growing crop of value which will help
to pay the taxes and bring an added
income from forest lands.
20
holly has real value and that, with
conservative cutting, it may continue
to produce a money CROP"
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Murray Era in Oklahoma Ends
With Retirement January IA

Governorship next month. Marland,
like Murray, is Democrat.
Despite opposition, however, Gov.
w. H. Murray has accomplished his
goal of reducing home owners taxes
by about so per cent. He has brought
about creation of State Tax Commis-
sion, the legalization of income, sales
and beer taxes and $10,000,000 re-
duction in appropriations. Public
service company valuations have been
increased, personal property assess
ments have been reduced.
Murray first became national fig
ure when he shut down the Oklahoma
City oil field with National Guardsmen
in August, 1881, until overproduction
had ceased and better price for oil
was obtained. The order was modified
the following October.
Alfalfa Bill" again ordered Ma
tional Guardsmen to open new free
State bridges across Red River and
to close parallel toll structures. Toll
bridge companies, claiming the right
to exclusive operation under fran
chises, obtained a Federal District
Court restraining order.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Crumbling and La'c-Breoking
Greet New Y0rk's Sales Levy
Purchases of All Articles for l3 Gents
or More Are Subject to 2 Per Cent
Tar-Merchants Are Troubled.

the tax would cut seriously into
Christmas shopping seemed dissi-
pated.
Suburban shoppers had q set OF
complications all their own. Pur-
chases made in the city but paid for
out of town are exempt, the con-
trollers office ruled. Consequently,
one woman in a department store
bought three buttons for total of
l9 cents, and to avoid paying the
l-cent tax, ordered them delivered TO
her home in New Jersey. Another
woman, who had just paid SO cents
for a book, overheard that arrange
ment, returned to the book counter
and tried to have the book delivered.
City residents making out-of-town
purchases also were subject to con-
fusing regulations. If a sale orig
mates in the city, tax must be paid,
but If only the purchase originates in
the city, it is exempt. This was in
terpreted as meaning that a city
resident ordering goods from Newark
need pay no tax unless the purchase
wes stimulated by a salesman from
Newark.
Shopkeepers near the ferries to
New Jersey, whose clienteles were
largely made up Of commuters, and
those near the northern boundary
of the city, adjoining Westchester
County. complained that the tax
would drive them out Of business.
One immediate benefit Of the sales
tax lay in the increased burden placed
on the delivery and accounting de-
partments of the large stores, several
establishments finding 1t necessary to
engage extra employees.
The city has forbidden merchants
to absorb the tax, so the circulation
Of pennies was boosted tremendously.
Bartenders found themselves charg-
ing 36 cents and Il cents for drinks.
Popular brands of cigarettes were two
packages for a quarter. plus l cent
tax. Some shopkeepers, wishing to
avoid the difficulties of making change
or to avert the wrath Of customers,
lowered all prices the amount of the
tax
Evening star., 1934-12-16
KANSAS CITY HEARS
SOPRANO THIS WEEK
Marion Talley Will Appear in
Missouri City for First Time
in Seven Years.
Ry the Associated Press.

KANSAS CITY. December 15.-
Kansas City, which sent golden-voiced
Marion Talley to the Metropolitan
and packed her operatic debut with
a trainload of mid-Western worship
ers, will hear her sing again next week
for the first time in seven years.
1t has been almost nine years since
Miss Talley, plump corn-belt girl
with an amazing voice brought down
the house" singing Gilda in Verdi's
Rigoletto and started an operatic ca
reer which ended in 1929 with her
unexpected retirement to Colby,
Kas, wheat farm.
Miss Talley will sing Tuesday with
the Kansas City Philharmonic Or
chestra, giving her services to further
the successes of that organization.
The soprano still maintains her farm
at Colby. This year she reduced the
acreage and accepted a Government
check.
A heralded second operatic debut
with the Chicago Grand Opera Com
pany was cut short early this year
when Miss Talley, alleging the COM
pany had sought to cut her contract
salary, renounced the role Of Gilda
and retired In favor Of another Kan.
sas City girl, Eosemarie 9rancato.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
MORRO CASTLE HULK
is MOVING SEAWARD
Asbury Park Hopes to Get Rid
of Chared Remains, Beached
Three Months.
BY the Associated Press.

ASBURY PARK, N. j., December
15.-Much to the relief of this famous
shore resort, the charred hulk of the
Moro Castle, beached for three
months in the city's front yard, is
moving Seaward slowly.
Each foot it moves-they count
their gains in feet now-is good news
to the city, which is now as anxious
to get rid of the fire-scarred ship
as it once was to rent, buy or borrow
it for museum"
In the holds of the once luxurious
Ward liner, which burned of the
Jersey Coast the morning of Septem-
ber 8, with a loss of 124 lives, are
rotting hides and thousands of gall
Ions of oil. Some Of the hides have
been unloaded and the stencil isn't
quite so disagreeable as it was when
East winds blow. The oil apparently
can do no harm unless the ship
should break up" in which event
Asbury Park fears its beach would be
ruined.
Six heavy cables stretch from
steam winches on the starboard side
of the ship to 7,5O0-pound anchors
1000 feet at sea. When rough seas
latter the hulk the heavy anchors,
each capable of pulling 80 tons, tend
to tug the ship seward. The winches
turn slowly and take up the slack.
so that the advantage gained will
not be lost.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

Dakota legislators will consider estab-
fishing a State police commission,
which would have control, by power
of removal, over local police depart
ments The aim is to check graft.
Numbers of Georgia legislators have
proposed the creation Of State police
force TO curb crime on the highways
and elsewhere. Announcement already
has been made that efforts will be
directed to making kidnapping for ram
som, now punishable with maximum
sentence of 20 years. a capital ofense.
Texas is considering a merger OF
the colorful Texas Rangers. famed
law-enforcement agency, with the
State highway patrol as more effec-
tive means of curbing crime. The
proposal carries with it the establish
ment Of a State bureau of criminal
Identification.
State Police Sought.
In Washington and Oklahoma bills
will be introduced asking establish
ment Of a State police patrol. Wash
ington seeks to have its small patrol
of 76 men tripled. New Mexico seeks
revision of her criminal code, partlcu-
, larly making prosecutions technicality
proof
Utility legislation agitation has been
focused on Tennessee because of the
Tennessee Valley Authority and its
"yardstick power rate" program. The
administration in Tennessee has lndl-
Gated it will force through whatever
| legislation is necessary to obtain the
! f,,ll lyra ~ he
While other States watch the re-
suit of the T. v. A. experiments,
| however, they are not delaying in
| Tightening their own public utility
laws. In New York, where test legis-
lation enacted last year was held con-
stitutional, the Democratic admins
tration plans to ask for more stringent
supervisory laws.
In West Virginia a utility fight in
| the Legislature is sure. One bill TO
be introduced calls for equalization OF
taxation and rate-making valuations
and greater powers for the Public
Service Commission, State rate-fxing
body.
| Texas Enters Utility Field.
In Texas, with the State itself en-
terlng the public utility aeld through
the Colorado River Authority, laws are
planned to make it possible for any
community to acquire and operate its
own utilities in an effort to reduce
excessive rates.
| Nebraska seeks the creation Of
utilities body or Z broadening of the
powers Of the present Railway Com
mission.
Seven States, Nebraska, West Vir-
ginia, South Carolina. South Dakota,
Wyoming. Idaho and Utah, having re-
pealed their State prohibition laws, are
faced with setting up liquor control
regulations.
In other States where control leg
islation is already in effect it will be
up for revision. Pennsylvania, for ex-
ample, will hear criticisms of her State
monopoly set-up, while in Indiana
the package law will be under fire.
Hottest of all the liquor fights, how
ever. is expected in the dry State
of Georgia, where beer is sold openly
in defiance of State laws and bootleg
liquor is plentiful. A number of cities,
by ordinance, have "legalized" the sale
of beer.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, December Is (N.A.
Matchmaking and confusion and
not a little conscious law-breaking
marked inauguration of New York
City's sales tax this week.
All articles, from cigarettes to auto
mobiles, with the exception Of foods
and prescribed medicines, are subject
to a 2 per cent tax, the proceeds OF
which are applied to unemployment
relief. Purchases Of less than l3 cents
are exempt.
All the first day the telephones jan
gled in the Department OF Finance
offices, customers stalked Indignantly
from stores where the tax was de-
manded, and merchants wrestled with
such weighty problems as-is ice cream
soda a food (exempD or a drink
(taxable)? Is matted milk food or
a drink? Should the tax be imposed
on a purchase ordered from outside
the city but delivered within the city
limits?
Large department stores reported
that most customers seemed never to
have heard of the tax, although COL
umns and columns had been printed
about it in the newspapers and long
explanations and arguments filled
the air. Small shop keepers. especial
ly in the foreign sections of the city,
said purchasers fatty refused to pay
the impost, and many merchants dug
into their own pockets for the tax
rather than lose business. In hun
dredS of little stores the proprietors
apparently intended to collect no tax
until they were forced to.
All stores agreed that the new tax
delayed transactions, because of the
time consumed in calculating the tax
from the scale prepared by the city,
writing or stamping the amount of
the tax on sales checks and explain
ing the procedure to customers.
In spite of all these difficulties, the
crowds in the department stores were
as great as last week, and the man
ayers reported business was brisk.
The earlier fear of merchants, that
Evening star., 1934-12-16
u. S. AIRPLANE MAKER
TO SPEAK IN LONDON
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December Is
Donald Wills Douglas, American air.
plane manufacturer, has been chosen
to stand under the original Wright
airplane in the South Kensington
Museum in London and deliver the
1885 Wilbur Wright Memorial lecture
to the Royal Aeronautical Society.
The honor will place Douglas name
in the select list of American and
European aviation leaders who have
been called on to discuss worldwide
flying trends.
For the lecture, which will be de-
livered in May next year, Douglas has
selected as his topic the new high
speed transport airplanes. Many craft
OF this type bearing his name are
now In operation both in the United
States and throughout the world.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OKLAHOMA CITY, December 15.-
An era is ending in Oklahoma.
Alfalfa Bill'' Murray of the droop-
ing mustachios, elected Governor four
years ago after a cheese and crackers"
campaign, will retire January IA.
The picturesque chief executive is
expected to head Southwark in an at
tempt to improve his health. He said
several months ago he would go to
Panama to rest. Later he announced
his intention to visit Mexico. And
still later Murray said he would go to
his native Texas.
Escaping the Winter here, the 65-
year-old Governor will leave behind an
electorate which also has been cold
of late to some of his legislative pro-
posals and to men he selected for State
Office.
Murray was ineligible for re-elec-
ton, but the candidate he supported
to succeed him-Tom Anglin, Speaker
of the House-fared badly in the first
primary last Summer. He withdrew
in favor of E. w. Marland, oil man
subsequently elected to take over he
Evening star., 1934-12-16
RAIL OFFICIALS HAIL
SHIPMENTS INCREASE
Annual Yule Rush, Beginning 10
Days Ahead of Time, May Be
Heaviest in Years.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 15.-Railway
officials today hailed increased freight,
express and mail shipments as har-
bingers of better times ahead.
The annual Christmas rush, they
said, started about 10 days earlier
than usual and promises to be the
liveliest in several years.
Freight engines over the Midwest
last week pulled heavier loads to give
that department seasonal boost, too.
An official Of the Railway Express
said his firms business was running
about 20 per cent ahead Of last year
and that it was experiencing the
sharpest upturn since 1881.
Freight reports showed that the
New York Central last week scored a
gain of about $500 revenue cars over
the same week in 1888. The Balti-
more & Ohio topped 1888 for the
first time in three or four months and
other lines showed corresponding
gains,
Evening star., 1934-12-16
V|RG|N|A'S RETURN
TO DRY LAW SEEN
State Anti.SaIoon League
Head Predicts Vote by
1888 or 1910.
BY the Associated Press.


RICHMOND, Va, December IS
Rev. Ed j. Richardson. superintendent
of the Anti-Saloon League of Vir-
ginia, today predicted that not later
than 1898 or 1910 Virginia will again
vote for prohibition and by an
astounding majority"
This assertion resulted largely from
the results of a local option election
under the alcoholic beverage control
whelmingly to withdraw from the
privileges of the act, and the indica-
tion that late December elections in
the towns of Abingdon and Narrows
will be the last for a year under the
law which prohibits liquor elections
in years when certain local officers
are elected.
100000 Gallons Sold.
Meanwhile the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board announced today that
in six months of actual operations
the board has sold approximately
three quarters of a million gallons
of hard liquors in Virginia. bearing
out the estimate that the States
gross revenue from liquor for the
first year will be approximately sl2,-
0O0, 900.
York was the second county to de-
nounce the privileges of the A. B. C.
act. Rockingham was first. Besides
these two counties the drys have re-
tanned the towns of Saltville, Pulaski
and Richlands, all located in counties
which voted dry in the referendum
of October, 1888, when the State voted
for repeal and a system of liquor
control by nearly to /, despite the
fact that more than third of the
counties voted dry.
State Store Closed.
The cities of Bristol and Radford
also have voted against the continu-
ance of A. B. c. privileges, and the
State store at Bristol was closed Tues
day, so days after the election there
The A. B. c. Board has opened 81
stores since 1t began functioning In
May. One of these, in Bristol, has
been closed. The Bristol store was
the only one located in locality
which has exercised the right Of local
option, except Danville, where the
people voted for A. B. c. privileges
before the store was opened. The
board has proceeded with caution In
opening stores in communities which
voted against State control in the
referendum.
Evening star., 1934-12-16
SAN QUENTIN "AlUMNl"
IN MANY UNIVERSITIES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN QUENTIN, Calf, December
15.-No foot ball team trots out on
the field here Saturdays to "die for
dear old San Quentin" but the prison
was disclosed today as having within
its gray walls a prep school, that
has put many of its alumni" in the
country's universities.
DR.. H. A. Shuder, director of prison
education. made the disclosure, but
he declined to name any former con-
victs now striving for college degrees
elsewhere. Likewise he refused to
name the universities involved.
Many former San Quentin prison.
ers are continuing on the outside their
educational work begun here" he
said of the self-improvement efforts
Of 5000 of the 5000 men in San
Quentin.
Evening star., 1934-12-16

GROWING STATE DEFICITS
GREET NEW LAWMAKERS
LEGISLATION Tasks Include Criminal
Code Revision and More Stringent
Utility Control.

he Asso
NEW YORK December 15-The finances of recovery are
causing newly elected State legislators their seVeres
they for the next
two
steadily growing deficit that combined is than
half billion dollars greeS them Stupendous problem in Itself
bold background to the pubicS camor Tor
criminal codes stringent public utility control and
workable liquor laws.
Inseparabe from the financial problem, questions Of social
legislation demand their answers Advocates OF unempoymen
and insurance to
add of millions OF dollars to already burdened BUDGETS
Evening star., 1934-12-16
DKIE'S MORALEBOOSTED
BYFARM PRICE INCREASE
Southern Commissioners ofAgriculture
Report Marked Improvement in
Financial Condition.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


NEW ORLEANS December 15-Farmes in the Southland
rapidly coming doldums if commissioners ag
culture of the Dixie competent judges.
Meeting here recently consider farmers problems Southern
commissioners of agriculture reported marked Improvement in the
Better prices for farm commodities assigned by
msSonerS for improvement the agricultural outlook.
oton agrcutural commissioner for Mississippi reported that
the
half the crops G. c. Adams Georgia
commissioner asserted that his States crop this year
three of 1892
Evening star., 1934-12-16

A precedent was set in California
legal circles when two alternate jurors
in a Los Angeles criminal trial were
locked up with the regular II. but
they were instructed to take no part
in the deliberations.
The Washington times., 1934-08-15
s LEAD.
CROWS IN OHIO

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Aug. Is q.
N.SD.-Far out in front and going
strong, former Gov. Vic Donahey,
nominated by Ohio Democrats to
oppose Republican Senator Sim
con D. Tess, in the November cleo
ton, pushed his own plurality
over Gov. George white and
Representative harles West,
above the $4,000 mark in latest
returns tabulated today.
Mr.. Donahey's vote from 1868
of Ohio'S 1852 precincts stood at
231,101, while Governor White and
Representative west ran neck and
neck, the former polling 146,224
and the latter 146,801.
Republican voters registered
their approval of Senator Simeon
D. FeSS, severe critic Of the
Roosevelt recovery program, by
renominating him by a margin
of 10000 votes over his nearest
opponent, Judge Walter Wana-
maker, Of Akron.
MaTCln u. DdVey, henC, former
Representative, appeared to have
the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination clinched. His total
from 1868 precincts stood at 1907
238, as compared with 1882 for
Lieutenant Governor Charles Saw
yer. Cincinnati, and 1926 for
William G. Pickrel, Dayton.
Clarence Brown, former Secre-
tary of State, far outstripped
field of six opponents for the Re
publican gubernatorial nomina-
ton. Mr.. Browns vote from 7,774
precincts was 309,137, while Daniel
E. Morgan, former Cleveland city
manager. in second place, had
only 1914.
The Washington times., 1934-08-15
DONOVAN CASE
NEARDEC|S|ON

With the statement of Recov-
cry Administrator Hugh S. John
son having been accepted by the
National Labor Relations Board
in connection with the Donovan
case, all testimony has been COM
pleted and a decision is expected
within a week.
Final decision by the board has
been awaiting the outcome of the
dispute between General John
son and the board as to whether
or not the Recovery chief would
have to make a personal appear.
pearance for cross-eXamination.
Yesterday announcement was
made by the board that, since Mr..
Donovan's attorney was willing to
permit the Johnson statement to
be placed in the record, the board
would accept it in lieu of a per-
Sonal appearance by the General,
General johnson reiterated that
Mr.. Donovan, who was president
of the NRA employees union, was
discharged because of "unfitness"
and improper conduct" in office.
He indicated that he would not
agree to reinstating the NRA
union head if such a course were
by the board.