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Evening star., 1934-08-10

The Governments silver coup rang
all the bells In the economic carillor
today and echo answered everything
from joy to bewilderment.
President Roosevelt's order taking
possession of silver at price of 50.0l
cents an ounce brought forth such
varying reactions as these:
/. Leaders Of the silver bloc" ex'
pressed qualification. Senator Thomas
Democrat, of Oklahoma. predicted ar
international scramble for silver that
would force q world conference tc
draft q uniform world currency fol-
exchange purposes. He foresaw Q
"new era of prosperity"
2. Stock and commodity markets
sensed imitation. Stocks rose 81 tc
more than So yesterday. The dollar
dropped. Wheat, corn and cotton
rose. Bonds sold of.
Little New Currency.
3. Many observers said that, aside
from its possible implications, the an
nouncement did not mean imitation
Treasury officials pointed out that
silver certificates-for the present al
least-would be issued only against the
actual cost Of the metal to the Gov
ernment, 50.01 cents an ounce. The
amount of new currency turned out
thus would be relatively small. But
estimates Of the amount ranged from
$25, 900, 900 to 500, ,000, 900.
4. That feelings were mixed in Wall
Street was indicated by one promi-
nent banker who called the ma
tionalization" move merely a conces-
sion to the silver crowd" of "no
great importance
5. Around the famous silver lodes
Of the West, there was hope that
silver might go up to its old-time
price Of $1.29. Senator Pittman
Democrat, of Nevada, hailed the
order as a process that will hasten
the complete absorption of the silver
surplus in the world"
6. The first reaction in Jondon's
financial center was puzzlement. This
was shared by the average American
man in the street, to whom details
of monetary theories are largely
Greek. He was speedily assured
though, that he could keep his silver
watch and pocket money and that the
Government had no intention Of buy
ing his wife's spoons.
Morgenthau Is Reserved.
z. Secretary Morgenthau, keeping
his own counsel, said merely: I'VE are
going forward with our program OF
rehabilitation Of silver"
Seizing the silver by the right of
eminent domain, the Government says
that all the metal, except coined and
industrial, must be turned into the
Treasury within 80 days. The price
is about half a cent higher than the
figure quoted in the New York mar
ket yesterday.
1t is a move in the policy, laid down
by the last Congress which says the
Government shall purchase silver until
it reaches ratio Of one to three with
gold in the currency backing. Last
year the Government took over gold.
Senator Thomas prediction of a
world conference brought no comment
from the administration 1t is known,
however. that President Roosevelt has
hoped for an international under
standing on gold and silver.
Senator Thomas, abandoning a
speaking tour in which he planned
to demand further currency imitation,
Continued on Page 4, Column A.
Evening star., 1934-08-10
WEATHER.

fC weather B@Fssu FoseeaSt
Local tflEIndsTshowern this afternoon
Or early tonight. tomorrow generally
fair. not much change In temperature
Tsnperatzsrea-H Hixhest. IS. st noon to-
oay. lowest. -. at , am to-day.
Pull report on Page AZ
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CONTINUED on Page 2 Column 81.
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Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages IL, IL, 1:
Evening star., 1934-03-12
NINE ARE INJURED
IN UTOACC|DENTS
Five Hurt in One Mishap,
When Auto and Trolley
Collide Over Week End.

Nine persons were recovering today
from injuries received in weekend
automobile accidents.
Five persons were injured in one
of the mishaps. in which a machine
collided with street car at Delaware
avenue and C street northeast.
Victims Of the other accidents were:
Doris Davidson, 6. struck near her
home, 643 Raleigh place southeast, by
car driven by Raymond Hawkins,
81, colored. 1900 block of First street.
Edward Disney, 81. of 1923 Massa-
chusetts avenue southeast, injured
when the automobile in which he was
riding collided with another car at
Fourth and B streets southeast
James B. Feagins, 40. colored, AZ
I street, and Lawrence Grice, 40, COL
ored, 1872 Eighth street, struck by a
car on Rhode Island avenue north
east, at the Baltimore g. Ohio viaduct.
The machine, operated by Gilbert c.
Keltonn, 30. skidded on the ice-cov-
cred street, mounted the curb and hit
the men on the sidewalk, police
reported.
Those hurt in the mishap at Della
ware avenue and C street northeast
we're:
Arthur L. Briscoe. 80, colored, 27l3
o street; Leroy Stevenson, %, colored,
Meadows, Md; Marie Stevenson, %,
colored, So G street; Joseph Wright,
81, colored, 1889 w street, and Theo-
dore Herd, "a, colored, ITO Four and
a-half street southwest. Briscoe,
driver of the automobile, in which the
others were passengers, was charged
with reckless driving. Bernie Newton.
1923 Twenty-second street, motor
man of the street car, was unhurt.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
BLIND ARE PERMITTED TO SELL
NEWSPAPERS IN u. S. BUILDINGS

Blind persons will be permitted to
sell newspapers in Government build
ingS not provided with newsstands or
similar concessions, under an author
ization made today by Arno B. Cam
merer, director of the National Parks
Service.
This decision was made after an ap-
peal by Ralph H. Campbell, executive
secretary Of the Columbia Polytechnic
Institute for the Blind, that the open
ing of Government buildings to blind
persons selling papers would take
many of them from the relief rolls
and allow them to support themselves
and families.
In a letter to James F. Gill. chief
of the buildings division, National
Parks Service, Campbell said the plan
to assist in rehabilitation Of blind and
partially blind residents of the District
had been presented to him by F. s.
Hufty and Harry P. Jones Of the Vo-
cational Rehabilitation Service for the
District, Interior Department.
Desire Employment.
I'VE have found many such persons
who are desirous of securing perma-
nent employment" Campbell stated.
I'VE note that in the vestibules or
corridors o6 virtually every Feder'
Evening star., 1934-03-12
AUTO SALESMAN
IS SHOT At HOME
William H. Platt in Serious
Condition at Hospital in
Mystery Affair.

William H Platt, "a. was in a Sc
day, suffering from bullet wounds
received In a mysterious shooting in
his apartment, lis New York avenue,
last night.
Stories of the shooting were at va
rance. police reported, but the one
in which they placed the most Gre
dence. they said went about as
follows:
Platt and his employer. Robert Lee
Edwards. who lives with him, were in
different parts of the suite when some
one knocked on the door. Platt re-
sponded.
When he opened the door a man
stepped forward and asked for Ed
wards. The man attempted to force
his way inside and in the ensuing
scuff1e Platt was shot twice, once
in the left arm and once in the lower
part of his abdomen. The man fled
A short time later police arrested
Gordon Barbee, "a. of the HOO block
of New York avenue. who, they de-
clared, admitted the shooting but re-
fused to give any reason. He was to
be questioned further today.
Edwards also was arrested and
booked for investigation. Police said,
however, that he was held only as a
witness. He is in the secondhand
automobile business.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
ARMY OFFICER SUED
BY VICTIM OF BLOW
]. Earlston Thropp, jr., Asks
$25, 900, Naming Maj. How
ard J. Hutter Defendant.

Maj. Howard J. Hutter, Walter
Reed Hospital, was named defendant
in $25 900 damage suit filed in Dis
trict Supreme Court today by j. Earl
ston Thropp. jr., who accused the
Army officer of punching him. Janu-
ary II. on Connecticut avenue be-
tween Tilden and Sedgwick streets.
The suit. filed through Attorneys
James C. Wilkes and James E. Arts.
alleged that Maj. Hutter struck
Thropp in the face with his fist,
breaking his eyeglasses. The bits of
broken glass caused serious injury to
Thropp's eyes, 1t was charged.
The events preceding the alleged
blow were not described in the suit.
and Maj Hutter could not be reached
at either the hospital or his home,
3726 Connecticut avenue. His wife,
Mrs. Esther Hutter, said, however:
MY husband and I were walking
across the street when Thropp came
along. His automobile struck me.
knocking me down"
ThrOpp, q civil engineer, lives al 400
Elm street, Chevy Chase, Md.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
ORCHESTRA FUND
DRIVE IS PUSHED
$50, 900 More Needed To.
ward GoaI-Campaign
Closes April |.

With 100000 already pledged. the
women's committee in charge of rails
ing s60,OO0 sustaining fund for the
National Symphony Orchestra season
of 1934-1935 is making a determined
effort to complete the fund before the
campaign closes April l..
Plans for this series of concerts
will be Cancelled unless the campaign
is successful.
During the past season it cost se2.-
900 to operate the orchestra, and only
100000 of this amount was raised
through the sale of tickets, due large
ly to the fact that the tickets were
priced low for the benefit of school
children and the Washington public.
The balance was met from the sus-
tanning fund and the money being
raised now will be used for the new
season rather than to meet a deficit,
as is the case with many symphony
orchestras.
c. C. Chapel, orchestra manager,
pointed out that the National SYM
phony Orchestra will receive no as
sistance from the Public Works Ad-
ministration in financing the regular
Winter program of concerts, although
there is possibility that c. W. A. aid
may be forthcoming for a Summer
series.
Mrs. Tracy Dows is head of the
women's committee, assisted by Mrs.
Edwin B. Parker and Mrs. James c.
Crawford, vice chairmen, and Mrs.
Walter Bruce Howe, campaign chair
man. Other members of the commit
tee are Mrs. Barton K. Yount, Mrs.
Emory S. Land, Mrs Royal T. Nc
Kenna. Miss Mary L. McQuade. Miss
Esther Behrend, Mrs. Gertrude Lyons,
Mrs. Eugene Byrnes, Mrs. Ralph H.
Couch. Mrs. Walter Tuckerman, Miss
Lucy Brickenstein, Mrs. R. H. Dunlap,
Mrs. Miriam Hilton. Miss N. McMul-
len. Mrs. L. Corrin Strong. Miss Anita
Phipps, Miss Margaret Hanna, Mrs.
Edwin B. Parker, Mrs. Franklin Ellis
and Miss Persis Myers.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
S225 IN PROPERTY
AND CASH STOLEN
Man, Taken Home Sick by
Friends, Reports $222
Missing.

More than 1928 in cash and per-
! sonal property was stolen and a
pocketbook containing 1922 is missing,
according to reports received by police
yesterday.
Samuel Crist of Clarksburg, w. Va.
said jewelry and clothing valued at
5000 was taken from his parked au-
tomobile near Fourteenth and K
streets yesterday. Crist formerly re-
sided in the 1900 block Of Rhode
Island avenue
Liquor thieves entered an estab-
lishment in the 1400 block of Florida
avenue northeast and obtained bot
ties of wine and gin worth $40.
Blanche Harris reported her pock-
etbook containing 81 was snatched
street between Ninth and Tenth
streets.
Joseph C. Kanode, $500 block Of G
street, told police his pocketbook con-
after having been taken home sick
by three friends. The companions
put him to bed, he asserted.
Charlie Chinn Sam was treated at
Freedmens Hospital for scalp in
jury received when struck by an
unidentified colored man he surprised
while robbing his laundry store.
Nothing was stolen, a check-up re-
vealed.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
NOTED SPEAKERS
TO DISCUSS RUSSIA
Varied Points of View Will Be
Given at Economics Acad-
emy Meeting.

"Russia" will furnish the topic for
discussion when statesmen, author
tiles on economics and observers as
semble in the Shoreham Hotel next
Sunday night for the seventh meet
ing of the Academy of World Eco
nomics.
Senator F. Ryan Duffy of Wiscon-
sin will preside. He is a member OF
the Senate Committee on Foreign Re-
lations. Survey of Journalist" will
be given by H. " Kaltenborn, radio
news commentator. as the meeting is
opened.
Then follows Analysis of an Econo-
mist" by Arthur Feiler, professor
New School Of Social Research, New
York, and author of THE Russian
Experiment William R. Castle, jr.,
former Undersecretary of State. will
furnish Conclusions of Statesman,
while Rev. Peter v, Masterson, head
Of the Department Of History and
Government, Georgetown University,
will talk on Reflections Of Political
Scientist"
Evening star., 1934-03-12
Considering Indictments of
Six or Seven in Connection
With Graft Inquiry.
GARNETT IS PLANNING
| PRESENTMENT TO COURT
Fate of Silverman and American
Legion Notables to Be
Decided On.

The grand jury today was taking a
final vote on the question of indicting
six or seven persons named as prin-
cipals in two alleged plots to defraud
the Government in connection with
War Department procurement con-
tracts.
While the Government publicly has
designated but one man, Joseph Sill
verman. jr. as the object of special
attention by the grand jury, it is said
that among others whose fate was
being pondered are several men who
have been prominent nationally in
American Legion circles.
Silverman Is Defendant.
Silverman, New York dealer in sur
plus war clothing, who moved to
Washington some time ago to pursue
negotiations for Army contracts, is
cited in court house records as de-
fendant. with Others" in the grand
jury proceedings now approaching a
climax.
Names of the other possible de-
PENDANTS have not been made public
by Department of Justice or court
house officials, but the list is said
by reliable observers to be an i'm
posing one.
1t is reported the grand jury will
ballot on the advisability of indicting
half dozen men involved in allegedly
improper negotiations for motor truck
awards and about half that number
in a proposed trade of Army sup
plies for privately -owned clothing
The persons involved in the latter
deal also are said to have been named
as participants in the motor truck
negotiations.
If indictments are agreed upon.
United States Attorney Leslie c. Gar
nett and his assistants will begin at
once the task of drawing up the
formal presentment to the District
port will be special one and prob
ably will be given to the court Wed.
nesday or Thursday of this week.
To Close Hearings.
The grand jury decided to close its
hearings without waiting further for
the appearance of Frank E. Speicher.
tire company agent. for whom the
~ Phi eAAiNAtS VA odoSASS SOiAd0NVSo
a Nation wide hunt A subpoena for
Speicher was issued early in the in
quiry. but deputy marshals who
sought to serve the summons found
that Speicher had left for points un-
known.
The search for Speicher will be
continued, however, in line with the
determination Of the Department of
Justice to continue its general in
vestigation of alleged irregularities in
War Department contract negotia-
tions. The search for Speicher is
centering in New York City, where
the tire firm he represented has its
headquarters.
Altogether the grand jury has heard
more than 40 witnesses, whose testi-
mony fills IS typewriter volumes of
evidence. Among the more promi-
nent witnesses were Assistant Secre-
tary of War Harry H. Woodring. for
mer Assistant Secretary of War
Frederick H. Payne, Gen. Douglas
Macarthur. chief of staff; and large
number of high Army officers and
civilians.
The proceedings have been con-
Quoted under the personal supervision
of David Pine, assistant United States
attorney.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
DISTRICT BUDGET
HEARINGS PUT OFF
Soldiers Bonus Bill Calls Several
Members to House
Sessions.

Hearings on the 1885 District budget
estimates were postponed today by
the House Subcommittee on Appro-
priationS because of a desire of sew
eral members to be present in the
House during consideration of the
soldiers bonus bill.
The subcommittee will resume hear
ings at 10:30 am. tomorrow and take
up the estimates OF the Public Library.
DR.. George F. Bowerman, librarian,
will be the principal witness.
Marked progress has been made by
the subcommittee in the first four
days of the hearings in going over
the budget estimates and, in all prob
ability. it will complete its work by
the end of this week. The subcom-
Inittee then will mark up the appro-
priation bill. which is expected to be
reported to the House not later than
March 20.
Evening star., 1934-03-12

behind the long fangs. I hung on
and We struggled until my brother
rode up"
Catches Wolf Alive.
Abernathy still bears the scars of
that encounter, but he caught the
wolf alive, and it taught him a trick
which made him famous and enabled
him to capture more than 900 wolves
in the last 40 years, a fairly profitable
accomplishment. Abernathy said. He
sold the animals to ZOOS throughout
the country.
In April of 1905 President Theo-
dore Roosevelt went to Frederick,
Okla, for a hunt and there, learning
of Abernathys proves as a wolf
catcher, accompanied him on an ex-
pedition. Abernathy, he said, caught
several big loboes, to the amazement
and admiration of the hard-riding
President.
AS a law-enforcement officer for
more than Is years, Abernathy had
many brushes with bad men, but one
Of his narroWeSt escapes occurred
after his retirement in 1880, while he
was directing operations at an oil we'll
The swaber cable broke" Aber-
nathy said, "and wrapped around my
body The men thought I was dead.
I believe I must have been dead
myself. They sent 30 miles to Austin
for the morgue wagon and nv body
was loaded inside after the doctor
pronounced me dead.
Mrs. Abernathy came to the wagon
as it drew into town She refused to
believe me dead and gave me a tea
spoonful of water. 1t choked me a
little. although I couldn't move.
She cried:
"'Oh, he isn't dead! Driver, take
him to the best hospital in Austinr"
The experience converted Alternately
to the church. II believe I was ac-
tually converted in hellI'' he declared.
I've had quite a few narrow escapes
in my So years" Abernathy said, but
that automobile accident taught me
lot
Evening star., 1934-03-12
POWERCOMPAN|ES'
MERGER IS UPHELD
Supreme Court 0verruIes
Federal Trade Body in
Connecticut Case.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The right of two Connecticut COM
panies to merge in declared effort to
give the public lower costs and tc
maintain employment was upheld to-
day by the Supreme Court.
The Arrow-Hart & Eegeman Elec-
trio Co. appealed from a Federal
Trade Commission order refusing
them permission to unite Lower
courts held the merger was an illegal
consolidation of two competing COM
panies.
The decision was to 4. The opin-
ion was handed down by Justice Rob-
erts. with Chief Justice Hughes and
Justices Brandeis, Stone and Cardozo
dissenting.
The commission ruled the conSoli-
dation of the Arrow Electric Co. and
the Hart & Hegeman Manufacturing
Co. violated the Clayton antitrust
act.
It took the position the two COM
panies before the merger had been
active competitors, and that the con-
solidation had resulted in substantially
lessening competition.
The new company contended the
merger was legal, asserted there had
been no lessening of competition and
declared it was in the interest of in
dustrial recovery, improving employ
ment conditions and giving the pub
lie lower prices.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
DRUGGIST is CLEARED

block of Pennsylvania avenue south
east, today was found not guilty by
a Police Court jury of selling liquor
without permit and was discharged.
Judge John P. Mcmahon ruled,
during trial of the case, that United
States medicinal liquor permits, is
sued before repeal, entitled druggists
holding them to dispense liquor by
prescription for go days after repeal
of prohibition.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
Caught Wolues With Hands
But Auto Nearly Killed Him
OklahOman, Friend OF
T. r., Also Surviued
Badmen's Shots.

Jack Abernathy, former United
States marshal of Oklahoma, whose
trick of catching wolves with his bare
hands won the admiration of the late
Theodore Roosevelt, can't close the
book of his life until he writes some
thing about the hazards Of modern
motor traffic into the chapter en-
titled miraculous Escapes
Bad men have shot at him, wolves
and bears have marked his body
with fang and claw, but an auto
mobile accident brought him nearer
to death on a Georgia highway last
Saturday than did lifetime of &C
ton on the Western plains.
Abernathy, en- route with his wife
and j. B. Thoburn, Oklahoma State
historian. to New York to arrange for
the publication of his autobiography
felt that his time had come when his
automobile was forced of the high
way by truck. rolled over twice and
pinned them beneath the Wreckage.
The top was smashed in" Aber-
nathy said, land couldn't move. NV
wife had been driving and the fact
that she turned of the ignition prob
ably saved us all from being burned.
Mrs. Abernathy was able, with some
effort, to crawl from under the wreck
age. She and passing motorists freed
Mr.. Thoburn and myself"
Mrs. Abernathy Hurt.
Strangely enough, Mrs. Alternately
was the only one hurt, She had a
slight cut across the instep. and re-
manned with friends in South Caro-
lima, while Abernathy and Thoburn
went on to New York by train.
Abernathy. stopping of in Wash
ington to see an old friend, Oliver
Owen Kuhn, managing editor of The
Star. remained long enough to recall
some of his earlier brushes with death
The first Of these was at the age of
5. In 1882, that was" Abernathy
said, back in SWeetwater. Tex"
Il was playing a piano in a saloon
when a free-for- all gun fight broke
out. Five bullets hit the piano. but
the juvenile musician escaped. :
No, 1t wasn't my music that started
the fight.
Five years later l saw a lightning
bolt strike a range boss dead from
his horse within arms length of me.
Il was just IS years old when a
wolf almost got me-a big lobo-
'loafers we called them. l was herd
ing cattle when a pair of young grey
hounds I owned brought a 125-pound
loafer to bay.
THE swapping OF that VOLTS Jaws
sent chills down my spine. but he was
killing my dogs. 1 couldn't stand
that jumped from my horse and
went to help the dogs, and the wolf
lunged at my throat. I swung up my
right arm and the wolf snapped down
on my hand. Luckily. my hand was
Evening star., 1934-03-12
ICKES MAY SAVE HOLLY
NOW 200 YEARS OLD
Considers Transplanting Tree
Threatened by Boiling Field
Excavations.

A 200-year-old holly tree, doomed
by excavations being made in connec-
ton with the Boiling Field improve
ment program. may be saved by
Secretary Of the Interior Ickes.
The tree, which had long supplied
residents of the section with holly
for Christmas decorations, is As feet
tall and has a base circumference
Of more than S feet. 1t stands
directly opposite Hains Point. Al
ready, the c. w. A. workers assigned
to the Improvement project have car
ried their excavations to within 20
feet of the giant holly.
When Secretary Ickes learned Of
the trees plight. he decided he would
like to have it transplanted to one
of the parks. Negotiations were ini-
tiated Immediately with Army author
tiles, with view to having the tree
turned over to Ickes.
Evening star., 1934-03-12
FINED FOR HITTING GIRL
GOING THROUGH POCKETS
Judge Advises Colored Man to
Settle Affairs More
Peacefully.

It cost Leroy Davis, colored, OF
Wonders court southwest, IS to
smack down. his niece, Matte Mills,
last week.
Leroy explained it to Judge Isaac
Hit in Police Court today as follows:
II woke up one day week or so
ago and she was going through my
pockets. I told her then I'd smack
her down If she didn't quit. Then
Saturday morning I woke up and she
was doing 1t again. So I smacked her
down"
Judge Hit pointed out to Leroy the
error of adjusting his family and
financial affairs by physical force and
fined him S..
Evening star., 1934-03-12
$120, 600, 900 is SAVED
BY ELECTRIC RATE CUTS
Federal Trade Commission Shows
General Reductions in Past
Four Years.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Pointing 10 known savings of nearly
$120.000.0 900 to the American public
in the past four years as the result of
electric rate reductions, the Federal
Trade Commission, in a statement re-
leased for publication today. attrib-
uted a large part to its fve-year in
quiry into public utilities.
Based on a survey of statistics in
an electric trade journal, the COM
mission disclosed that electric COM
panies cut rates at least $118,747, ,654
from 1880 through 1888, and said
$66, ,454,2 ,240 of this was accounted for
by companies under examination by
the commission. For some cuts the
amounts involved were not known.
The Trade Commission launched its
inquiry in 1928 under Senate reso-
luton and since then rates have
steadily dectAlsed. the statement said.