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Evening star., 1934-12-23

The washington city post ONCE last
night was swamped under the biggest
Christmas mail in the history Of the
service. Both incoming and outgoing
mail, it was reported, is heavier than
ever before.
Outgoing parcel post packages VIII
exceed last year by from 10 to Is per
cent, according to early predictions.
Christmas cards and Christmas
letter mail has been jumping forward
by leaps and bounds. Although final
figures remain to be calculated. one
ofiicial last night made the prophecy
that this year the Christmas cards
and letter mail going out Of Wash
ington probably would exceed last
year by about 1000, 900 pieces.
Between December Is and Christ
mas day 1t was estimated there viii
Evening star., 1934-12-23
SPINSTER RECLUSE
CLUBBED TO DEATH
Body Found in Ancient Mansion
Intruder Seeking Money
Hoard Suspected.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press,
NEW YORK, December 22-With
three ugly wounds in her head. Miss
Victoria Muspratt, 79-year-old Brook
lyn recluse, was found dead tonight
IN her outmoded shore road mansion.
An intruder, most investigators be-
lieve, clubbed her to death-perhaps
with an AK some time last night In
search Of money she was rumored to
have hidden in the urio-crammed
house, but police were unable to de-
termine If anything was missing.
Five years ago, after her sister
Violet was found dead of a heart at
tack in the basement of the weather.
beaten, three-story structure, she re-
fused 100000 for the property.
The spinster's body was found in a
rear room by John Parker, a nephew,
who had gone to the place to cut
wood, as was his Saturday custom.
The house, built a stones throw
from the water front by her sea cap
tain father so he could sight it from
his clipper ships, did not have elec-
tricity, gas or running water.
There was not bed in the house,
the spinster sleeping In an old up
holstered chair in the room where she
was found dead.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
MAIL SWAMPS MANSION

Postmen were busy yesterday haul
ing Christmas gifts and greetings to
the White House for the President and
Mrs. Roosevelt.
More than 5000 packages and cards
were received and clerks estimated
that the volume would increase.
Among the gifts are fruit, ducks,
pheasants, turkeys, buck deer given
by Henry Bridges Of the Woodmont
Rod and Gun Club In Maryland. canes,
dolls, wood carvings, ship models,
prints and the like. ...-.--i
Evening star., 1934-12-23
LOS ANGELES BUILDING
ENDANGERED BY BOMB
Fuse Ignites and Goes Out as
Package Is Opened by Head
of Employment Agency.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, December GA
bomb wrapped in holiday paper and
powerful enough to have wrecked the
downtown building where it was de-
livered, endangered 20 persons today,
but failed to explode when It's fuse
sputtered and went out.
The bomb, addressed to 'Eaddy and
William Jellineck" at the Jellineck
Employment Agency, was contained in
a standard size wooden fruit lug and
weighed about IS pounds.
Wilfred A. Jellineck tore OF the
wrapping. There was snap as a
spring switch closed. A thin wisp OF
smoke arose, and Jellineck shouted:
Everybody get out! It's a bomb" T"
Twenty persons waiting at the
agency for jobs fed. Police started a
search for the messenger who deliv-
cred the package.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
AUD.C. Mail Records Broken
For YuIe Parcels and Letters

have passed through the cancellation
machines at the Post ONCE the amaz-
ing total of $4,000, 900 pieces Of mail.
Last years cancellation machine
total for the December 1925 period
was IL, 100, 900, setting q new record
The only two places open for
mailing packages today viii be the
Main City Post Once, and the Ben
jamin Franklin station, at Twelfth
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Deliveries will be made, however,
today, tomorrow, and Christmas day
on parcels.
Tomorrow all postal stations will
operate on regular time, most OF
them closing at 6 pm. All postal
windows throughout the city, includ-
Ing the Main City Post Once. and
the Benjamin Franklin station, too
win be closed Christmas day,
Evening star., 1934-12-23
Farley Shops Late
After Urging U. S.
To Buy Gifts Early
BY the Associated Press.

by the hssOCldtcu rTcss.
NEW YORK, December a.
Postmaster General James A.
Farley, whose familiar plea has
been to mail your Christmas
packages early" just got around
to some of his own Christmas
shopping today.
Jostled by hundred Of other
hurried shoppers. the genial
Postmaster General was so busy
he didn't even have time to drop
into his Offices at the Biltmore
Hotel.
Christmas sales swept to a new
high for the year, with trans
portation lines crowded and
stores jammed with last-minute
buyers.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
HARASS|NG
CLOSES 4"J|MMY'S"
Plans for New Location Of
Gaming Resort Also
Reported.

"Jimmy's Place" apparently had
closed down last night under the fire
of the police drive to wipe out the
numbers racket and other gaming, but
rumors sprang up Immediately among
the gambling fraternity that the king
pin operators intended to set up In a
new location over the line in Mary
land.
There was virtually no activity yes
terday and last night at the Bladens-
burg road gambling resort and Lieut..
George Little, head Of the police vice
squad, reported to Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police, that
the chieftains of Jimmy's had quit en-
tirely the handling Of numbers bets.
Little said later he had been told all
gambling operations at Jimmys had
ceased and that the operators had de-
cided to move to spot where the Dis
trict police could no longer interfere
with business.
Success Seen in Move.
In Little's opinion, the move was an
indication of the success of Mai.
Browns "harassment campaign. :"
which eliminated Friday in the arrest
OF eight alleged numbers runners, four
OF whom are under bond pending their
arraignment in Police Court next week.
Where Jimmy and his henchmen
might move is not known. The old
Haroway,' notorious gambling house
OF pre-depression days near Suit
land. Md, was torn down more than
a year ago.
Reports of the inactivity at Jim
mys place came as Chairman King
Of the Senate District Committee re-
iterated his intention to introduce a
bill at the first opportunity in the
forthcoming session of Congress to
put teeth" in the District gambling
law.
Pledge Early Introduction.
Il will introduce the bill the very
first day, or at least the very first
day on which the introduction of bills
Is permitted" Senator King said.
Then. if possible, I will call a meet
Ing Of my committee that day, report
out the bill and press for its passage
by the end Of the first week of the
session"
The bill, which was prepared by
Corporation Counsel z. Barrett Pret-
lyman. is similar to one introduced
by King at the last session and
passed by the Senate, but which
failed to be reported out by the House
District Committee. However, at this
session, Prettyman said he had been
assured by Chairman Norton that the
House District Committee would ap-
prove the bill Immediately and seek
its passage at the first opportunity.
Lack of teeth" in the gambling law
has hampered seriously the efforts of
police to curb the spread of the num-
bers racket here. The four scheduled
for arraignment in Police Court have
been charged by police with operating
lottery, an accusation brought out
after numerous failures to obtain in
dictments on charges of setting up q
gaming table, accepting bets, etc.
Continuation Of the cases against
the four, all of whom were said to
have possessed numbers slips, was
asked by Assistant United States At
torney Karl Kindleberger, who told
the court he wanted more time in
which to complete the Governments
investigation.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
ARMY INADEQUATE
TODEFEND NATION,
M'ARTHUR WARNS
Next Conflict Will Be
Speedy, Deadly, Chief of
Staff Says.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A warning to be prepared for war
of deadly speed and destruction in
the future was sounded yesterday by
Gen. Douglas Macarthur, chief of
staff.
Visualizing the next war as one
fought by highly trained men with
faster and deadlier tools of destruc-
tion," Macarthur, in his annual re-
port, recommended that this Nation
maintain a moderate-siZed, highly
efficient force mounted and armed
with the latest and most powerful
machines and weapons of warfare.
President Roosevelt retained Mac
Arthur as chief of staff to handle
War Department legislation before
the coming session Of Congress.
The skeletonized, partially equipped
Army Of today, Macarthur declared,
is not strong enough to guarantee
the Nations defense.
Even with full accomplishment Of
the present program "of military prep
aration scaled to the minimum level
.
able security" he reported. the United
States would rank sixteenth among
the worlds armies.
Machines Powerful.
Men will remain the backbone of
the army, Macarthur asserts, but they
will need speedy machines to cover
the wide front on which wars will
be fought; weapons that shoot faster,
farther, and with more deadly ac-
curacy, and airplanes and other i'm
plements of increased mobility and
scientific annihilation.
To meet the menace of "the next
war" Macarthur specifically recon-
mended:
Man-power: Regular Army of 1885,
900; National Guard of 100000;
trained enlisted reserve of 10000;
officers reserve of 10000 instead OF
the army of 118,750 and National
Guard of $4,000 now maintained.
Air armada: 1920 planes, including
speedy general headquarters ali
force of 900 planes, ready to fly at any
minute to the defense Of any zone OF
the frontier. Steady progress is being
made in building up the Air Corps
he reported, and "our latest models in
some types of fighting planes are bet.
ter than any others known to exist
More, however, are needed.
Anti-aircraft weapons: 1--WE are woe
fully behind the times" Eleven million
dollars is needed fully to equip and
Continued on Page S, Column %
Evening star., 1934-12-23
CHECK TAX TO STOP
Levy Will Automatically Halt on
January /.

A happy New Year, in at least one
sense, awaits the Nations bankers and
writer's of some 2,250, 900 900 checks
annually, for on January the 2-cent
bank check tax automatically dies.
Probably only the Treasury will re-
gret to see it 60. 1t will lose around
$45, 900 900 year in revenue.
The bank check tax was one OF about
two dozen so-called nuisance taxes
imposed in the revenue bill of 1892. It
was supposed to last only a year, but
was continued with the proviso that
1t would automatically lapse on Janu-
ary /, 1885.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
PLANE CRASH VICTIMS
DIED OF CONCLUSION
Post-Mortem Reveals Cause of
Death of Seven Passengers
in Iraq Desert.

By the Associated Press.
BAGHDAD, Iraq, December 22.-A
post-mortem here today revealed that
the seven victims of the crash of the
Flying Hotel in an Iraq desert died Of
conclusion. All of them probably
were dead before the big Dutch plane
burned, physicians said.
The funeral of the three passengers
and four members Of the crew, whose
bodies were brought to Baghdad to-
day, will be held tomorrow. The
bodies will be buried in the British
cemetery here. Members of the dip
lomatic corps will attend the funeral.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
San Diego Magistrate Charged as
Hit-Run Driver.

SAN DIEGO, Calf. December "a
R.-Rutherford B. Irones, San
Diego's mayor, was accused today of
being a hit-and-run driver. His pre-
liminary hearing was set for January
4. George Dewey Pickett, Navy ma
chinists' mate, charged his wife was
injured seriously November % when
their car was sideswiped by Q heavy
sedan he identified as the mayors car
Evening star., 1934-12-23
Brazil to Balance Budget.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Decem-
Der % @.-The Chamber of Deputies
today voted, 120 to 16, to empower
President Getulio Vargas to create
credits UP to 100000 contos (about
$24 ,000, ,000D In order TO balance the
budget. issuing promissory notes sub
ject to rediscount at the Bank Of
Brazil.
Evening star., 1934-12-23

ShootIng IN new YORK Leads Police
to Investigate.
NEW YORK, December % P).-
The possibility of a flare-up among
policy racketeers was being investigat-
ed tonight by police after the shooting
to death in Lower Manhattan OF
Thomas ". Adobody, 81, one time
inmate Of Elmira Reformatory.
Acting Capt. Thomas r. Murray
said that while nothing linked Adobody
with the policy racket, there was a
possibility Of such a connection.
Adobody was shot from q passing
car as he stepped from another
machine to the street.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
AUTO FALLS 4 STORIES
Mechanic Injured a. Runaway
Car Breaks Elevator Door.

CHICAGO, December "a R.-A
runaway auto, with Mechanic Frank
Martin at the wheel, plunged through
q garage elevator door today and fell
four stories to the basement.
Martin was catapulted through the
auto top by the impact. Conscious
when firemsn rescued him, he was
rushed to q hospital for emergency
treatment.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
BELGRANO PREDICTS PAYMENT.
Legion Head Predicts Settlement in
Full This Winter.

SAN FRANCISCO, December %
R.-Frank Belgrano, jr, national
commander of the American Legion,
returned to his home today with the
promise World War veterans will get
their bonus in full this Winter"
Now, if ever, is the time to pay the
debt" he said. Relief should be made
veterans"
Evening star., 1934-12-23

1t is possible. however, that you may
have assumed that Gen. Johnson's
statements can be relied upon and
can be supported by evidence which
would be given credence in a court.
"On the other hand, many of the
charges which Gen. johnson has
loosely made in private conversation
Continued on Page 4, Column o.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
SPINSTER FOUND DEAD
Nephew Finds Body With Her
Throat Slashed.

Throat Slashed.
NEW YORK, December % R.-
The body of Miss Victoria Muspratt,
79, spinster descendant of an old and
wealthy Brooklyn family, was found
tonight in her home in an exclusive
Brooklyn residential district. Her
throat had been slashed.
The body, lying in the kitchen of
the house where Miss Muspratt lived
a secluded existence, was found by q
nephew, John Parker.
Evening star., 1934-12-23

POLICY FLARE-UP SEEN.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
WEATHER.

10. 3. Weather Bureau Forecast.)
Fair today, followed by rain tonight or
tomorrow; colder tomorrow afternoon;
gentle variable winds, becoming south.
observation-disclosures, 48 at pm.
yesterday: lowest, 81 at am. yesterday.
Full report on page AS.
Evening star., 1934-12-23
MAYOR is ACCUSED

Continued on Page 3, Column H.
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Continued on Page Q, Column Sd
Evening star., 1934-12-23

The Star is delivered every evening and
Sunday morning to city and suburban
homes by The Stars exclusive carrier serv-
ice. Phone National 5000 to start delivery.
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Evening star., 1934-07-15
ELIGIBLE VOTER LIST
$4,000 MORE THAN '32
State and National Tickets Carry Names of
DO Aspirants-28 Democrats and
Is G. o. p. Candidates.
BY T. VI. METZGER,

ELENA, Mont, July AMontanas reaction to the new
policies and will be written next tuesday
1 | T. possibly record primary vote
figures alone the vote
easily urpass previous primary for there nearly
lists than 1882 The total
or nnIctrn nis nrn
Evening star., 1934-07-15
Golden Gate Bridge to Rest
On Worlds Largest Support
Pillar Half an Average City Block in
Size Placed on Bottom, of Bay
by Ne,o Method.

AGO feet. the 100000 pounds of rein
forcing steel and 165, 900 cubic yards
of concrete will constitute a weight
which will anchor in midday the
suspension cables holding up the two
2.3l0-foot long bridge spans crossing
the channel from the San Francisco
side TO Yerba Buena Island. This
anchorage pier thus cuts in half the
tension on the cables from which the
double deck will be suspended.
Honey Comb Shape.
During construction the huge pier
resembled from above an immense
honey comb, except the wells" were
round. These wells of heavy steel
we're capped with domes and were
kept af1oat by compressed air while
concrete was poured into the inter
vening space surrounding them. When
the concrete pouring was finished, the
air was released and the caisson sank
slowly until the top of the caisSon
was almost even with the water. 1t
was then built up 20 feet at time,
more concrete poured. and sunk sec
ton by section, until bed rock was
reached.
Finally the domes were removed for
the last time and concrete poured into
the dredging wells after the bedrock
had been cleaned by high pressure
streams of water.
The anchorage pier extends from
bedrock to a few feet above the high
water mark and will be built up 280
feet more.
From an engineering standpoint it
is the distinctive feature of the cros-
sing of the deep water channel.
Evening star., 1934-07-15

The State and national tickets
clone have attracted field OF as
aSpirants-28 Democrats and ID Re
publicans.
Senators Campaigning.
Carrying the aims and achieve
r1entS Of the national administration
to Montana voters are the Democratic
Senators Burton X. Wheeler and
John E. Erickson. Senator Wheeler
opposed for his party's nomination
only by State Representative Bert
Replogle of LewistoWn. seeks to succeed
himself for the regular six-year term.
Senator Erickson. former Montana
Governor, hopes 10 fill out the re-
naming two years Of the tenure Of
the late Senator Thomas J. Walsh,
His opponents are James F. O'Connor
of Livingston. John A. Lovelace Of
Bozeman. James E. Murray Of Butte
State Senator L. p Donovan OF
Shelby and Mrs. w w Hamilton Of
Dodson, former member Of the Legis-
lature.
The Republican six-yesr Senate
contest centers on one of the States
most colorful figures, George M.
Buurquin, former Federal judge,
whose outspokenness has been noted
everywhere he has campaigned, and
o. H. p Shelley. Red Lodge pub
Usher.
-Four Republican aspirants for the
two-year Senate term include Scott
Leavitt of Great Falls. who served his
State five successive terms in Con-
eress; James A. Jergensen, State
Senator, of Whitehall; Leonard c.
Young of Hobson and Wellington D.
Rankin of Helena. Young is now on
the Railroad Commission and Rankin
is a former United States district at
torney.
Monaghan Remains Here.
Representative Joseph P Monaghan
has elected to remain In Washington,
working on matters of vital interest
to Montana He will be opposed for
the Democratic animation by Dennis
A. Dellwo of Charlo, Speaker of the
Montana House, and John NJ. Evans
of Missoula, former Representative.
The Republican list includes Sherman
D. D. Bob Evans.
Representative Roy Ayers. Demo-
cratic Representative of the second
district, is unoppoSed. T. S. Stockdal,
Stanley E. Felt and Julius J. Wuerth-
ner seek the Republican nomination.
Evening star., 1934-07-15
MuddLed Political
Conditions Exist
In Ne,U Mexico
Failure to IndOrSe Send.
tor Cutting for Re-eIec-
ton Brings Fight.
epecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch 10 Inc star,
SANTA FE. N. Mex, July IA
The Democrats have come and gone
and the political situation remains
Just as mudded as ever in New Mex
Eco. They had a State Central Com
mittee meeting here July to elect
State chairman to succeed Ed. B.
Swope. who has gone to Mcneil Island
Wash. as warden They elected
chairman. John E. Miles but took no
action that would clarity the situa-
ton.
1t was commented after the meet
ing that they had failed TO indorse
Senator Bronson Cutting for re-elec-
ton. Afterward some of the lead
ers expressed disappointment. They
claimed that it could have been put
over The only reason 1t wasn't at
tempted. said they. was fear that 1t
would provoke a family row on the
part of the anti-Cutting Democrats.
Since then Democrats over the State
have been forming Cutting clubs
Among those coming out for his re-
election is J d, Lamb. Democratic
member of the State Corporation
Commission
The next development Will be the
meeting Of the Progressive State Gen.
tral Committee. to be held here July
90 This Is Cuttings party. The
chief thing before them will be a pro-
poSsl from the Republicans, looking
TO the reunion Of the proereSsiveS and
the G O P
The Democratic meeting was con-
trolled by Representative Dennis Cha
Vez. He Is said to have aspirations
70 run against Cutting
Evening star., 1934-07-15
DriUe to Increase
MIX Use Planned
ByNelU York State
Farmers, Dealers and
Legislators Cooperate
in Move.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ALBANY, N. Y, July i4.-New
York, first State to take control Of
its dairy industry, is ready TO launch
a second business experiment.
modern advertising campaign to in
crease the use of milk.
Farmers, milk dealers and the Leg
islature co-operated 10 set up a State
Milk Advertising Bureau which hopes
to increase milk sales by $3.000.000
before next Summer. The advertis-
ing bureau is working in close con-
junction with the Milk Control
Bureau, which took charge Of the
industry early in 1888 when dairy
men we're threatened with financial
ruin.
The experiment will cost $500, 900,
and If it Is successful the practice
of State milk advertising probably Will
be continued The Legislature ad-
vanced the money. Farmers and
dealers are contributing one-half
cent each on every 100 pounds of
milk al quarts they sell. The
State collects this tax and lets ad-
IllSlIlB CuuLIdClS.
"Milk-the perfect food" will be the
keynote of the campaign. Newspapers
Will be the chief advertising medium.
Commissioner of Agriculture Charles
H. Baldwin was one of the first to
advocate advertising as a means of
bringing the milk industry out OF
its slump. He studied the situation
and obtained reports such as these:
The American Sugar Institute
boosted consumption Of sugar 10 per
cent by advertising.
The California Citrus Fruit Grow
ers in 30-year advertising campaign
stabilized the citrus industry and
created an increasing demand for
oranges, lemons and lines.
West Coast salmon packers, carry
ing a huge surplus OF their product,
employed advertising and reduced the
surplus within six months.
Milk consumption in New York be-
gan to slump in 1929 when house
for economy.
The State is not fixing a goal in
its advertising experiment. 1t looks
for a substantial increase in the num-
Der Of persons drinking milk in city
homes, restaurants and even on the
farms
Commissioner Baldwin told farmers
they could not hope TO recover their
market unless they impress upon
the public the knowledge that milk
is a highly nourShing and relatively
economical food.
Evening star., 1934-07-15
EVEN THE CACTUS DIED
IN 1900 TEXAS DROUGHT

RIO GRANDE CITY, Tex tP).-
Early-day residents Of Starr County
reading reports Of drought in various
sections Of the country. can recall
one which was more severe, although
less Widespread
In 1900 there was no cotton, no
corn, no toodStuf for man or beast
grown in Starr and ZapAta Counties.
It was 50 dry the cactus and mesquite
died.
Some 1000 or 5000 persons were
moved out Of the section TO other
parts of the State wheer they could
fin6 work. Judge F. W, Seaoury OF
Brownsville who headed the relief
committee. recalled. Railroads ran
special trains hauling hundreds TO
Northeast Texas, where they picked
cotton.