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The Washington times., 1934-05-21

Here's a merry answer to
that eternal problem, Where
will I find a desirable place to
live? Well, leave 1t all to me.
I will gladly mail you a list
where you will find just what
you are looking for.
CONNECTICUT AVENUE AT
DUPONT CIRCLE:
When you are looking for an
apartment you have several
things to consider; first. Of
course, your budget: second.
location, and third, convent
ence. This particular apart
ment building has many out
standing advantages. Sun
lighted rooms, maid service II
desired, wood burning fire
places, showers, running ice
water in every bedroom. In the
summer evenings you can en-
Joy the cool, delightful roof
lounge which this building
offers. No service charge for
telephone and free electric cur
rent. And the fact that it is
just a pleasant walk downtown
makes this building very much
in demand. At the present
time there are a few vacancies
consisting Of one room and
bath at $32.50 up to two rooms,
service pantry and bath at
$500 up. Hotel accommoda-
tions are available.
NEAR THE NAVY YARD
700 BLOCK OF A ST. S. E.:
Since Prosperity turned
that corner and so many men
have gone back to work the
Navy Yard is surely doing it's
share. I found a private home
over on A Street S. E. with a
nicely furnished room that
would be fine for a man work
ing in that vicinity as he could
walk back and forth to work.
Use Of telephone and many
other privileges were offered at
the rental price Of $500 for
two persons.
NEAR SIXTEENTH AND
KENYON STREETS:
In lovely Mt. Pleasant, near
Rock Greek Park, is a two
room, dinette, kitchen and bath
apartment which will be avail
able June /. This building
has been commended for its
The Washington times., 1934-05-21

ALL KINDS OF RUGS washed onC
secured by experts. 9x12 or 60 7E
CAPITOL CARPET CLEANING co.
1851 Ward Court N W. MA. 2985
Evening star., 1934-08-17
INSULTS CHARGED
TO SAAR PAPERS
Germany Demands Redress for
"Scurrility" in Note to
Commission.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated HTeSS.
BERLIN, August 17.-Charges of
Outrageous scurrility" against a sec
ton of the Saar region press, and
demands for redress, are raised in a
strongly worded note dispatched by
the German government to the Saar
Commission, it was revealed today.
The note, dated August IA, COM
planned that certain newspapers which
"habitually insult and vilify' Ger
many and its leaders did not stop
their campaign even when President
Paul von Hindenburg died and while
his funeral was being held.
"The government notes with ex-
treme surprise that the Saar Com
mission has done nothing to end such
unparalleled excesses, which violate
international usage as well as the
character of the Saar territory which
is German, and whose inhabitants
are German" the note stated.
THE German government therefore
strongly protests against the COM
missions attitude and expects the
necessary preventive measures against
recurrence shall be taken forthwith. "
AS an example of the type of jour-
nalism against which complaint was
made, a report said to have been pub
lished by the Saar Bruecken Volks-
stimme was cited. The newspaper,
after reporting the burial of Won
Hindenburg, is said to have stated:
I'VE will now dismiss Won Hinden-
burg as a representative of soulless
barbarism and of Germany which
turned its back upon civilization"
Evening star., 1934-08-17
LOW PRICES HOLD
IN D. C. GAS WAR
Local Motorists Benefit From Re
ductions, With More Cuts
Considered.

Washington and nearby Maryland
and Virginia motorists continued to-
day to reap the harvest Of q battle
between independent and chain dis
tributors of gasoline.
There were no additional cuts in
price since yesterday, but further re-
ductions are considered by both
sides.
Meanwhile. the National Petroleum
Board is watching with interest for
any violations of the petroleum code
and, it was learned, is prepared to
take q hand In case either side over
laps the restrictions placed by the
Recovery Administration.
Standard gasoline continued to be
sold at II cents, including the Dis
trict and Federal tax, by the larger
companies. The independent dealers
posted prices of 10, IL and IL cents
for the same grade fuel.
High-test gasoline and the superior
grades were were marketed for Is
cents, including tax.
Because of the code requirement
that new prices must be posted "a
hours before the change, it was ap-
parent early today that the fnde-
pendent dealers will make no further
reductions before tomorrow. The
larger companies, however, may offer
q new quotation late today. Shortly
before noon no decision had been
reached.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
MOTHER IDENTIFIES
BRIDGE LEAP VICTIM
Woman Who Drowned After
Jump From Span Was
Mrs. Frances Allen.

The body Of young woman, which
had lain unidentified at the District
Morgue since she jumped to her death
in the AnacoStia River early Wednes-
day morning, was identified this
morning as that of Mrs. Frances Al
len, 81, of 613 Elliott street northeast.
Bernard j. Mccoy, morgue master,
said the identification was made by
the woman's mother, Mrs. Ruth Till
Pidgeon of 456 M street southwest.
Mccoy said Mrs. Pidgeon stated her
daughter had been Ill for some time
and recently had been extremely de-
pressed.
Hundreds of people had called at
the morgue seeking to identify Mrs.
Allen since she jumped from the Ben
nings Bridge on Wednesday morning.
Her first effort to jump was blocked
by two workmen who seized her as
she stood on the rail and pulled her
back onto the bridge. A few seconds
later she leaped from another section
of the bridge. and was seen struggling
to keep afloat in the swift current
after she struck the water. She
drowned before boats sent out from
shore could reach her.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
HITLER DEFENDS
GRASP OF POWER
Seized Hindenburg's Place
to Thwart Foreign En-
emies, He Says.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAMBURG, Germany, August IT.
Chancellor Adolf Hitler told the
German nation today that foreign
hostility toward the Reich prompted
him to seize quickly the presidential
powers of the late Paul Won Hinden-
burg.
Hitler said he appropriated the au-
thority of President instantly, and
added that his purpose in stepping
into the place left vacant by Won
Hindenburg was to forestall national
calamity.
The address here, heard by the en-
tire nation, was Hitler's first and only
speech before the plebiscite Sunday
in which the German people will be
asked to approve his joining the
Offices of chancellor and Reich
President.
Otherwise We naturally would have
chosen another way-first an appeal
to the people ana then a carrying out
of the peoples decision" Hitler said.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Marguerite WoolleyIs Is Hinted
As Playground Bureau Chief
Prominent W oman Dem.
Ocrat Slated to Succeed
SibyI Baker.

Miss Marguerite Trenholm Woolley,
recreational director and social work.
er, is slated to succeed Miss Sibyl
Baker soon as supervisor of the mu-
nicipal playground department, it
was reliably reported today at the
District Building.
In the presidential campaign of
1928 Miss Woolley was executive sec
retary to the College League sup
porting Alfred E. Smith and worked
with Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt at
national headquarters in New York.
Final approval of Miss Woolley's
appointment has not been made by
the Commissioners, but indications
point to early action.
Miss Woolley Is the daughter Of
Robert w. Woolley of 3401 Prospect
avenue, a former Washington news
paper correspondent, who at one time
was director of the mint and a men,
ber of the Interstate Commerce Com
mission. Later he became promi-
nently identified with the Wilson ad-
and served as a member
of the Democratic National Campaign
Committee in 1916 and 1924.
Woolley also attained national
prominence as one of the directors of
publicity for the Secretary of the
CONTINUED on Page 4, Column 2)
Evening star., 1934-08-17
GEN. JOHNSON TO AID BARBER
PROTESTING NEW JERSEY CODE

some time to confer with. Gov. Moore
in an effort to correlate the State and
National industrial recovery codes.
He has just received Ulran's pro-
test that the code charge of so cents
for hair cuts and 25 cents for shaves
was destroying his business.
My business is falling of so rapidly
that by next week will have to close
my door. and so I pray for your as
sistance." Ulran said.
Recently, in correspondence with
Gov. Moore, johnson said: THE N. r.
A. now has reached the conclusion
that if the maximum benefit is to be
derived from both Federal and State
recovery programs. State codes should
be identical in their provisions with
Federal codes"
N. r. A. officials said that the New
Jersey State code for barber shops
continues price requirements.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Reelected Textile Leader Says Only
Roosevelt Can Stop 1t.

NEW YORK, August II B.-
Thomas F. Mcmahon, reelected to-
day as president of the United Textile
Workers of America, declared that
only President Roosevelt could avert
a general strike in the cotton textile
industry.
Union conservatives had reelected
Mcmahon and the move first was
interpreted by Francis ]. German,
unanimously reelected first vice
president, as meaning that there
might not be general strike.
McMahon said:
President Roosevelt Is the only
person in Gods green world who can
stop the general strike"
He said that under the mandate
of the convention issued yesterday
there was no doubt Of the strike be-
ing called unless the President forces
the leaders Of the textile industry to
sit down at the conference table with
Continued on Page 2, Column -
Evening star., 1934-08-17
GULF PROSECUTION
FAVORED BY ICKES
Labor Board Had Recommended
Action for Violation of
Code.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Ickes today approved
recommendation of the Petroleum
Labor Policy Board that the Gulf Re
finding Co. be prosecuted on charges
Of violating oil code labor provisions.
The charges. Ickes said, grew out of
a strike called by employees at the
company's Girard Point, Pa, plant
late in June. Employees were dissatis-
fed with. wages and working condi-
tions.
The board told Ickes the company
had won the strike, but in order to
do so had resorted to a violation of
the code
Copies Of the company's pay rolls"
the report said, indicate that after
resuming operation on July II the
company worked substantial num-
Der of its employees throughout the
period to July 81 hours far in excess
of the maximum established in the
code"
The board told Ickes the firm had
discharged all employees, including
many with long years of service, who
had gone on strike and failed to
accept the company's request to go
back to work, and replaced them with
other workerA
Evening star., 1934-08-17
SOCIETY MATRON'S
DEATH IS PR0BED
Attractive Dayton Woman
Found Drowned in Pool
of Exclusive Club.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio, August IT.
County authorities. disclosed today
that Mrs. William H. Neil, socially
prominent matron, was found dead
in the swimming pool of fashionable
Northmoor Country Club shortly be-
fore midnight last night.
The body was nude.
Coroner Maurice Cooper's autopsy
revealed she had drowned. Mrs. Neil
was % years old and unusually at
tractive.
The woman's husband, an insur-
ance company executive, told authori-
ties his wife was in the habit of
wearing Q diamond ring valued al
about $1,000. It was not on Mrs
Neil's finger when her body was
found by Nightwatchman Louis Shy
righ.
Sheriff Eugene Frick said Neil and
his wife had been living apart fol
several years. Neil has been living
in q downtown hotel, and he told
the officer he was unable to state
with whom his wife had been last
night, II any one.
Cooper declined to discuss q theory
of foul play. He said the clothing
of the woman had been found in
q neatly piled heap at the edge OF the
pool, and an empty glass was found
nearby.
Shyrigh said he had made his usual
rounds at the pool at $50 pm. He
said no one was in the pool. The
watchman made the discovery on his
second round of the grounds at mid
night, and notified A. z. Funk, club
manager.
Funk claimed the body and noti-
fed authorities. He said Mrs. Neil
was not a member of the club. Early
inquiry failed to disclose her move
ments on last evening.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Admr. Byrd Prepared to Die,
Expecting Rescuers Too Late
antarctic Explorer Left Note, after 5
Months of Isolation, Telling Relief
Party of Last Letters and Addresses.

that Admiral Byrd has made" said
DR.. Poulter, convinced me that he
has gone through things, particularly
during the first three weeks Of June
and the past two weeks, that must
have been beyond human ability to
Withstand.
HE was convinced he had reached
the limit Of his endurance. He was
true to the polar code and played
the man gallantly.
'As think back see things in
his messages that were put there to
keep us from realizing his condition,
fearing that the trip in an attempt
to reach him would risk the lives of
others.
Although he was up to meet us
on our arrival, he should not have
Continued on Page 3, Column -
Evening star., 1934-08-17
JAIL SENTENCE PLEASES

LOWELL, Mass. August II (P).-
Three colored men expressed their
pleasure at receiving three-year SEN
tences for larceny in District Court
today with broad grins
Two Of them from Baltimore, Md,
and the other from Warrenton, Va,
told police they would be perfectly
willing to go to Jail provided that
they could keep their glad rags"
stolen, police said, yesterday from q
secondhand clothing store.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Mcmahon, Renamed Textile
Leader, States WaIkout
Is Assured.
500,0 900 DUE TO STOP
WORK ON SEPTEMBER |
1000 Employees Quit In Georgia.
Bus Driver Injured
in Chicago.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Thomas F. Mcmahon was re-
elected president Of the United Tex
tile Workers OF America today, and
Immediately declared that only action
by the President can avert a general
strike of half a million workers in
the cotton textile industry.
Orders fixing the walkout by Sep
-temher / we're given by the conven-
ton Of the textile workers to its
executive council yesterday. The
union claims membership of 800, 900,
Charging discrimination, 1000 tex
tile workers struck in Columbus, Ga.
Other thousands are out in Alabama.
Bus Driver Injured.
A bus driver was hurt early today
in what Chicago police listed as the
first violence of the union bus drivers
strike.
No word was Forthcoming about
Federal efforts to settle the alum
mum industry strike. centering at
Pittsburgh, Pa. but from the same
city came defiance of the National
Steel Labor Board. John H. Meek,
counsel for the West Virginia Rail-
way Co., said the firm would resist
with every legal means" the boards
order for an employe election.
The Labor Relations Board ordered
an employe election among Minne-
apolis' truck drivers, hoping determi-
nation of representation would help
settlement of their strike.
KOhler Plan Rejected.
Sharp words few between Walter
J. Kohler, former Governor of Wis
consin, and union leaders after the
latter had rejected as "stinging in
suit" Kohler's plan to end the strike
in the plumbing factory which bears
his name. Kohler limited of a court
fight.
A Federal mediator went to st.
Louis in an effort to settle a wage
controversy and prevent a strike Of
$500 employees of the Mobile 81 Ohio
Railroad.
Crafts unions in Great Falls, Mont,
accepted terms for settlement of their
strike and unions in Butte and Ana
conda were to vote on them today.
Four thousand striking salmon
fishermen and eannery workers went
back to work along the Columbia
River after wage compromise.
MCMAHON SAYS STRIKE CERTAIN.
Evening star., 1934-08-17

The Nationals defeated the Cleve-
land Indians in the opening game Of
today's double-header at Griffith Sta
dunn.
The game went 10 innings.
The score was 4 to 3.
FIRST INNING.
CLEVELAND-Trav threw out
Galatzer. Knickerbocker singled to
left. Averill walked. Trosky drove
into a double play, Myer to Cronin to
Susko. No runs.
WASHINGTON-Schulte singled to
left. Seeds crossed to short center
for SuSko's high one. Manush flied
to Galatzer. Trosky made a one
hand stop of Cronin's grounder and
stepped on first for the out. No runs.
SECOND INNING.
CLEVELAND-Hale singled to left.
Kamm also singled to left, sending
Hale to third. Schultz came in fast
for Seeds loft. Berg flied to Schultz
and Hale scored. Hildebrand doubled
to right center, scoring Kamm. Myer
threw out Galatzer. Two runs.
WASHINGTON ran far to
his right for a one-hand catch of
Travis drive. Kamm got Myers foul
in front of the Cleveland dugout.
Bolton singled to center. Harris
fouled to Kamm. No runs.
THIRD INNING.
CLEVELAND - Cronin threw out
Knickerbocker. Averill singled to right.
Trosky walked. Hale popped to Susko.
Kamm walked, filling the bases.
Seeds forced Kamm, Myer to Cronin.
No runs.
HING T N-Knickerbocker
threw out Whitehill. Schultz flied to
Averill. Hale went back for Susko's
high one. No runs.
FOURTH INNING.
CLEVELAND-Berg doubled to left.
Whitehill took Hildebrand's bounce
and Berg was run down, Whitehill
to Myer to Cronin to Travis to Bolton
Hildebrand took second on the play
Continued on Page 2. Column 7)
Evening star., 1934-08-17
TOXIC MAY WARN
SOVIET ON PLOTS
Foreign Office Discounts
Threats as Press Predicts
Military Action.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
TOXIC, August 1.-THE japanese
government is considering the pos
sibility of sending a general warning"
to Moscow as the next step in their
gravely strained relationship, a for
eign Office spokesman said today.
The spokesman said the possible
warning would recount many frontier
incidents, including alleged Soviet
plots and provocations.
Settlement of past cases would be
urged with assurances requested
against repetitionS. But such
warning will not necessarily carry
threats" the official asserted.
This spokesman denied the arrest
of II Russian officials and employees
of the Chinese Eastern Railway in
Manchukuo this week or other trou-
bles there were connected with the
deadlock in japanese negotiations for
purchase of the railway from the
Soviet.
'.Manchukuo Affair"
The arrests, in which the Russians
were charged with revolutionary plot
ting against Manchukuo, ARE purely
Manchukuo's affair and Manchukuo
is an independent state" said the Of
fetal.
Concerning the Chinese Eastern
Railway negotiations, We consider
them still in progress and not broken
off"
Referring to Moscow dispatches
charging that Japan is preparing for
forcible seizure of the c. E. R., the
spokesman asserted: This is entirely
an absurd canard. I can guarantee
that Japan is preparing for no for
chile action against the Soviet"
News that a warning to Moscow is
being considered came after Jap
anese newspapers published threats
Of military action against Russia be-
cause of the situation in Manchukuo.
Incidents Frequent.
Troublesome issues between Toxic
and Moscow have been frequent since
Japan took over Manchuria three
years ago and created the "inde-
pendent state" of Manchukuo.
Several japanese newspapers pub
lished anonymous statements, said to
have emanated from the army propa-
ganda bureau, saying the army had
decided to adopt a stronger atti-
tude than before in the event of
future Soviet provocations on the
Russo -Manchukuo frontier"
The Toxic war Office has published
list of Is allegedly provocative Incl
dents on the Observation-Disclosures
border since January /, 1884.
They included Soviet airplane fly
ing over Manchukuo territory, alleged
kidnapingS of Manchukuo citizens
and incidents of red troops crossing
the border.
The Soviet press has been charg-
ing that Japan, through the instru-
mentality of Manchukuo, has been
carrying out systematic arrests and
interference in the lives and work
OF Soviet citizens in Manchukuo in
order to make the Russians relin-
Quish their share of the railway.
Evening star., 1934-08-17
Loses Commanding Position
Held in Wheat-Perma-
nent Loss Is Denied.
RAINFALL IN MIDWEST
TO HELP LATE CROPS
Reaction Against A. A. A. Feared
With Threat of Higher Food
Prices.
BY the Associated Press.
AsSoclated PreSS-
Ravages of the drought received

BY the Associated Press.
Ravages of the drought received
new emphasis today when it became
apparent that the United States will
surrender all its wheat markets
abroad in 1895.
Department of Agriculture officials
acknowledged that the exports of
America, which have held a COM
manding position since 1890, will
total zero next year. They were quick
to add that the United States expects
to reclaim its share of world marts
when the situation returns to normal
Crop curtailment, put into effect
before the drought, helped reduce the
American farm supply, but officials
say the drought would have hit the
farmer much harder if it were not
for the benefit payments resulting
from the A. A A
Other drought aspects:
i. sixth of all cattle in the
country and / out of every 10 sheep
will go into little tin cans to be
passed out by the Government to the
needy next Winter.
Rain Helps Little.
2. Secretary Wallace's suggestion OF
an lever normal granary" seemed
likely to emerge as one prime result
of the farm rehabilitation drive. 1t
would seek to equalize the supply
over years of scarcity and abundance
3. Rain, which almost reached
cloudburst proportions in some parts
Of the Midwest yesterday, will benefit
some later crops and renew some
pastures, officials said. But on much
of the land where the scourge of
aridity hit hardest. plants are burned
beyond redemption.
4. The effects of the disaster will
reverberate into next Spring. Just
now farmers are selling to the Gov
ernment only cattle which face i'm
mediate starvation. As Winter wears
on. officials said, feed supplies will
dwindle rapidly and the Government
will have to go on buying for months.
5. Secretary Wallace geared his
drought machine to the expectation
that the chief problem is feeding ami
mails, not people. The only incon-
venience human beings face, he in
dicated, will be shift in diet from
scarce food to abundant ones. Some
meats are expected to be relatively
scarce.
Wheat Advance Checked.
6. Prices rose yesterday in Chicago
to a point at which packers costs
were the highest since 1880. But new
advances in grain virtually were can
ce1led on reports the Government
might move. against speculation.
When the world wheat situation re-
turns to normal, officials hope Amer
lea can sell abroad about $4,000. 600
bushels a year-somewhere between
10 and 20 per cent Of the total yield
Some farm leaders fear the with
drawal from world markets, which
began last year, might result in
much damage If the country encoun-
tered difficulty in getting back into
the trade later. Government men
assure them, however, that the world
business goes to the lowest bidder,
and that the United States can get
back into the picture promptly when
the time comes.
Up to 1888 American wheat sales
abroad ranged from $4,000, ,00O
bushels in 1914 to low Of 100000
Continued on Page 3, Column l.)
Evening star., 1934-08-17
SAFECRACKERS' VANISHING ACT
PUZZLES OFFICIALS AT LORTON

all. Col. william L. Peake, superin-
tendent. ordered out the bloodhounds.
Weaver had been at Lorton only
few months. At the time of his ar
rest police recovered a varied assort-
ment of cracksmen's tools said to have
been employed by Weaver and at least
one other companion. now under ar
rest, in a series of safebreakings.
Detectives said Weaver would be a
hard man to hold If he proved as
clever at breaking prison as he was
at breaking safes. They added that
not a single meat" job has been
pulled since Weaver went away.
Evening star., 1934-08-17

Maybe fellow prisoner in the bar
Der shop at Lorton rubbed vanishing
cream on Curtis F. Weaver, who up
until yesterday afternoon was serving
two years for housebreaking and
larceny.
At any rate. when Weaver disap-
peared he didn't leave the sort Of
tracks a bloodhound can sniff, nor
was his going apparent to the guards
in the watchtowers which flank the
reformatory reservation.
One minute the guards saw Weaver
working IN the prisons barber shop
and the next they couldn't see him at