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Evening star., 1934-08-28
TWO SHIPS USED
ON COUCH CRUISE
R. F. c. Clerks and Chiefs
MingIe in Farewell Party
on Potomac.

Clerks and stenographers rubbed ell
bows with the heads of the Recon-
struction Finance Corporation last
night as Harvey Couch, hogcaller,
fisherman, flnancier and retiring r,
F. c. director, gave farewell party
aboard the Wilson Line steamer City
Of Washington.
Couch, millionaire Arkansan, in
vited so many people to his good-by
party that he had to charter an extra
steamer to carry them all down the
Potomac on a moonlight cruise.
Heading the list of guests were
Jesse Jones, chairman of the r. F. c.;
Directors Frederic H. Taber and
Charles B. Henderson, Federal Hous-
ing Director James Moffett and host
of other officials. But the pretty
stenographers were the center of at
traction, and Couch got a big hand
from the crowd as he danced with
first one and then another for the
benefit of the cameramen.
Started by Employees.
The farewell party, extraordinary in
the annals of Government employees
outings, happened thus: The Arkan-
sas State Society, anxious to honor
Couch on his f1fty-seventh birthday
a week ago today, started planning a
moonlight excursion on the City OF
Washington. Couch, learning of the
plans, countered with: "I'll give the
party myself and also ask the r
F. c."
The result was two steamer load:
Evening star., 1934-08-28

of guests. And Couch himself was
perhaps the happiest excursionist He
outdid himself in seeing that every
one had a good time. He even ar
ranged a burleSque quartet in which
he and the other three "dignifled" di-
rectors Of the r. F. C. entertained the
crowded steamer with songs" which.
it developed later. were sung by q real
quartet hidden behind q screen.
Refreshments Served.
To assuage parched throats and
healthy appetiteS Director Couch ar
ranged for soda-pop. sandwiches and
ice cream to be served.
He was eulogized by former Arkan-
sas Gov. Charles Hillman Brough,
who also presented him with set Of
Fred w. Allsopps "The Folklore Of
Romantic Arkansas" Mrs. John w.
Rheza of Waldo, Ark, gave him q
memory book signed by more than 500
ArkanSans on the moonlight trip.
Couch responded in a brief speech,
in which he paid eloquent tribute to
the r. F. C. workers and said he was
going home to the only other business
that was just as fne-his own.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
GULE5 HURRICANE
.ABATES IN TEXAS
75-MiIe Gale Drives $500
Population of Freeport
1.a Into interior.
Nv the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
FREEPORT, Tex, August 28.-A
tropical gale which lashed this sec
ton of the Texas Gulf Coast for "a
hours with high winds and torrential
rains abated today. No deaths were
reported.
Shortly after am. Central stand
ard time) the wind had fallen to
about 40 miles an hour and the bar
ometer was rising steadily. The storm
apparently headed inland
From midnight until 3 am. the
wind velocity ranged from 65 to rs
miles, Coast Guardsmen estimated.
Tide Kept at Minimum.
The wind, which blew out of the
North yesterday, shifted to the North
Northeast and blew the water out,
keeping the tide to a minimum
Warned by past storms, Freeport
citizens evacuated the town by special
trains, special busses and by private
cars. Not more than so of the $500
population remained here through the
night, but today others began to re-
turn.
Both Freeport telephone operators
left on the special train yesterday,
but Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Hemmer of
Houston kept the switchboard open
throughout the night Hemmer is a
toll engineer for the Southwestern
Bell Telephone Co. at Houston, and
Mrs. Hemmer formerly operated a
switchboard.
Six on Board Cruiser.
The Hemmers, with their four chill
dren, ranging from l year of age TO 8,
were aboard their 28-foot cabin
cruiser when the storm struck. Their
power failed and the boat started
drifting down the channel toward the
open gulf.
Near the Freeport Sulphur Cos
docks the Coast Guardsmen connected
with the boat and towed 1t to dock
where the Hemmers were landed.
Throughout the night, while Mr.. and
Mrs. Hemmer, clad only in bathing
suits, operated the telephone switch
board, the four children slept in an
adjoining room.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
SPANISH SHIP SINKS
Crew Saved After Steamer Runs
Aground.

LONDON, August % P).-Lloyd's
representative at Bilbao reported to-
day that the captain of the Spanish
steamer Flora had wired his owner:
that his crew was saved, but that his
ship sank after it ran aground in q
fog off Cape st. Vincent.
An S o S from the Flora was re-
ported to the Landsend wireless sta
ton by the lighthouse at OShant anC
Cabo Mayor.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
RESERVES TO MEET
Third Corps Air Group to Talk
Resolutions

Third Corps Air Group to Talk
Resolutions.
A special meeting Of the Air Re-
serve Association of the Sd Corps
Area will be held at o'clock tonight
in the Army Air Corps projection room,
Munitions Building, Twentieth street
and Constitution avenue.
Action will be taken on resolutions
and recommendation Of the National
Reserve Association to be considered
at the national convention of the as
sociation to be held at Columbus,
Ohio, in October.
Lieut.. B. H. Merchant, president Of
the Washington Chapter of the asso-
citation, which Is composed of Army
Air Corps Reserve officers. will pre-
side. All Air Reserve officers are
asked to attend.
Evening star., 1934-08-28

An assistant to the United States
District Attorney for the past six
years, has resigned and will retire
from Office September l, it was
learned today. He plans to enter
private law practice. Born in Wash
ington, Gallagher was educated in
the public schools here. In 1925 he
was graduated from Columbus Uni
versity Law School, where he is now
an instructor. He served as secre-
tary to former District Supreme
Court Justice Wendell P. Stafford,
from 1923 to 1928. In the latter
year he was appointed as an assistant
United States Attorney. Since that
time he has been in charge of stock
and bond fraud prosecutions, ad-
miralty suits, extradition proceedings
and libel actions under the food and
drug act.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
FINCH TAKES OFFICE
AS MINE BUREAU HEAD
Informal Induction Ceremony
Held in Office of Secretary
of Interior.

John wellington Finch of Idaho
was sworn in today as the new di-
rector of the Bureau of Mines at an
informal ceremony held in the Office
of the Secretary of the Interior.
The oath was administered by j. D.
Sechrest, chief clerk, in the presence
of Secretary Ickes and officials Of the
Bureau of Mines.
Director Finch, who replaces Scott
Turner, has been director of the Idaho
State Bureau of Mines and Geology
since 1880 and was also dean of the
School of Mines of the University of
Idaho. He was appointed by the
President early this month. .
Evening star., 1934-08-28
SPECIAL NOTICES.

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Evening star., 1934-08-28
Taxi Driver Held Up.

Threatened by colored passenger
armed with blackjack, Otis Motion.
taHics.b driver, of the 900 block of G
street gave the armed man a SIS bill
Motosl told police he was at Fourth
anc, n streets when the passenger dis
played the blackjack and threatened
bodily harm unless he gave him
mOneF.
Evening star., 1934-08-28

81, ,30O-$2,90O, and deputy, sl.440-
81 300.
Details are available at the Com
mission, Seventh and F streets.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
EXAMINATIONS FOR JOBS

Two examinations in the Bureau of
Biological Survey, for which applica-
tions will be received until September
81, were announced today by the Civil
Service Commission.
They are: Game management
agent, with base salary range of
Evening star., 1934-08-28
81 LISTED, IS PLACED
Ci'dl Service Week Leaves S37
on Register.

tIore persons sought work than were
given employment in the week ended
Au gust Is, the report of the Civil
Service Commission, covering its re-
employment register, showed today.
Vile Is were placed in positions,
81 we're enrolled on the register, which
new carries 837 names.
Evening star., 1934-08-28
RACE PILOT HURT

Contestant Seeking Airport Is
Struck by Street Car.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, August % tE)
One contestant was lost to the ma
tional air races today, when Izadore
Graf, 90, of Lemont, Ill. was struck
by a street car in suburban Lakewood
as he sought directions to the airport
Graf was towing his Keith-Ryder
special racing ship on trailer from
his home in Illinois. When he got out
of his automobile to look at sign post.
the street car struck him. He was
taken to a hospital, suffering from a
deep laceration on the scalp and Sc
we're cuts on the neck and shoulders.
His plane was not damaged.
Evening star., 1934-11-04

A drumutic dinner gown Of sapphire
blue transparent velvet is distinguish
ed for its Robespierre collo Of silver
metal cloth. shirred dolmdn sleeves.
dnd back fullness ending in the sus-
picion of q trdin. Misses sizes. $29.75.
Better Dress Shop-Third Floor-The Hecht Co.
Evening star., 1934-11-04

Skimming the peaks.
A United States Navy
seaplane flying above a
cloud-piercing volcano of
the Aleutian Islands dur
ing the recent Alaskan
air survey. 0 A. P. Photo.
Evening star., 1934-11-04

Their big chance. Five beauty
winners in a Nationwide snap
shot contest arrive in Hollywood
to appear in a movie. Left to
right: Anne Kasper of Easton,
Conn.,; Anne Johnston of New
York, Harriet de BuSsman of
Kansas City, Mo-; Nell Roads of
Amarillo, Tex, and Madelyn
Earle of Salley, s. c.
Wide World Photos.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
ATTEMPTS TO KILL SELF,
WOMAN ADMITS SLAYING
Mrs. Dorothy Elweu Confesses
She Shot Husband to
Death in Chicago.

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 15.-A wom-
an who attempted to commit suicide
by asphyxiation in an apartment here
Tuesday told detectives last night
she is Mrs Dorothy Elwell, %, and
that she shot and killed her husband
James ElweI, 41-year-old printing
company manager, at Chicago Febru-
airy Is.
She had been taken to City Hos
pital here in a critical condition after
the suicide attempt In her room
where she was listed as Elsie Blake,
police found $500 in an envelope ad-
dressed to my sister" in Chicago
Last night she told detectives her
sister was Bertha C. Vogeltanz and
that her two children were staying
there.
At a coroner's inquest following FL
wells deati in Chicago, Mrs. Elwell
testified her husband had been drink
ing and threatened to kill her with a
knife, whereupon she seized a pistol
Evening star., 1934-03-15
NOTED PHYSICIST DIES

Augustus Throwbridge Once
Princeton Graduate Dean.
PRINCETON, N. j., March Is (R.-
Word Of the death yesterday in Sicily
of Augustus Throwbridge, noted physi-
cist and former dean Of the Graduate
School of Princeton University. was
received here. Prof. Throwbridge, who
headed the Graduate School from
1928 until 1888, when i'll health forced
him to resign, was "a years old.
He had been an instructor In
physics at the University Of Michigan,
and later, from 1900 to 1908, he
taught physics at the University of
Wisconsin. He came to Princeton in
1906.
He served in the World War as a
lieutenant colonel in the Intelligence
Department. He was decorated for
distinguished service.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
S9O,0OO BANK LOOT
BURIED ON FARM
U. S. Agents Tell of Recov-
cry in South Carolina
and Arrest of Four.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
How special agents Of the division
of investigation of the Department of
Justice solved the Greenville, S. c..
National Bank robbery within a week,
conducting a treasure hunt on a
nearby farm that ended in recovery
of the missing $4,000 and arrest of
four persons, was revealed today at
the department.
Under arrest in the case were Hugh
White. bookkeeper of the bank: OFF,
GERS John CCrea and Jorn Lindsay of
the Greenville Police Department and
Robert Willomen, gasoline service
station operator Justice investigators
said White confessed that the pur-
ported robbery was premediated by
himself" and three others.
Registered Package Taken.
The alleged robbery took place
March 8, when White reported he had
been robbed on his way to the bank
from the post Office with a registered
package containing S50,000.
"On the following day information
was obtained by special agents OF
this division to the effect that White
was himself implicated in this rob-
berry the division of investigation
said
After White had made his confess
sion and implicated the other parties,
they were Immediately taken into
custody, but the latter were released
on $4,000 bonds before an opportu-
nifty had been afforded special agents
of the division to question him.
After Robert -Villomen, whose
father owns a 1,200-acre farm near
Greenville, S. c., was released, in
vestigation disclosed that he proceeded
to his fathers farm and solicited the
assistance of a colored employe. who.
together with Willomen, unearthed
the S50,000 and cached it in another
location on the Willomen farm.
Colored EmpIoye Questioned.
"As a result, the colored employe
was thoroughly questioned, and later
directed agents to the spot where the
money was hidden, which has since
been returned to the bank officials.
Wlllomen has been rearrested and is
now being questioned by division
agents. The bonds made by the two
police officers were later found to be
faulty and they have also been taken
into custody and will be thoroughly
questioned"
Evening star., 1934-03-15

into q pole after Kittlemann, who was
driving, was shot in the head.
Both victims were found lying on
the ground near the wrecked car.
The authorities said that a pistol
from which a bullet had been fired
was found near the woman's right
hand.
Due to the woman's condition the
authorities were unable to question
her Immediately to determine who
fired the fatal shot.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
EXPEDITION TO STUDY
PEOPLES OF NEAR EAST
Field Museum Party Will Com
plete Anthropometric Survey
About August l.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, March 15.-A new an
thropological expedition to the Near
East was announced yesterday as
ready to begin work late this month
on behalf of the Field Museum OF
Natural History.
1t will be led by Henry Field, as
sistant curator of physical anthropol-
ogy, and backed by Marshall Field of
New York, trustee of the museum.
Henry Field, now visiting relatives
Evening star., 1934-03-15

in England. will leave shortly for
Bagdad.
The principal task will be an an
thropometric survey Of the Kurd, Arab
and Bedouin peoples Of Iraq and
Persia, with some attention also paid
to the YeNdis and Chaldeans.
The work will begin in the Mosul
area, continue at Rowanduz for COL
lation Of prehistoric rock inscriptions
there, and finish up in Tiflis, Teheran
and Rhages. 1t will be concluded
about August /.
Evening star., 1934-03-15

and shot him three times. She was
recommended held to a grand jury on
murder charges, but that body subse-
quently voted mo bill" Elwells moth
er and sister. who had been guests at
the home during the quarrel, came to
the widows defense and testified for
her.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
Follows Old Ceremony.

Following an ancient ceremony Rev.
H. T. Swingler, at Blidworth, Eng
land, Church rocked a baby in a
cradle decorated with candles to SYM
bolize the presentation of the Child
Christ in the Temple.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
POLICEMAN IS SLAIN;
MATRON NEAR DEATH
Two Are Found In Automobile in
Illinois Under Mysterious
Circumstances.

BY the Associated Press.
WAUKEGAN, H.. March 15.-Paul
Kittlemann, Milwaukee policeman, was
shot and killed and his companion,
Lillian Echlbrecht, Milwaukee police
matron, was in a serious condition,
as the result Of mysterious shooting
and accident near Waukegan early
this morning. Miss Echlbrecht,
authorities said they believed, suffered
her injury when their car crashed
Evening star., 1934-03-15
Drivers Accusers Pay.

For saying you're absolutely drunk
and not fit to drive bus" three
women in Cork, Irish Free State, were
compelled to pay w. D. Renehen, bus
driver, $50 damages and $50 court
costs and apologize to Renehen.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
JOHN D. IMPROVING
Special Sun Porch Used by Pa.
tient at Daytona Beach.

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla, March
is CP).-Rested after several weeks of
sunshine and salt air, John D. Rookie
feller, ST., is making satisfactory prog
reSS toward recovery from illness that
kept him at his Northern home at
Pocantico Hills, N V, until last
month, members of his household an
nounced yesterday.
Mr.. Rockefeller, who is "a, almost
daily sits on a specially constructed
sun porch equipped with glass that
allows violet rays to penetrate, and he
has enjoyed a number of automobile
rides about the quiet country side Of
Ormond Beach.
Evening star., 1934-03-15
Sunday Flying Scored.

Taxpayers and church workers Of
Edinburgh, Scotland, recently held a
mass meeting to protest against Sum-
day and low flying.
Evening star., 1934-11-11

not among those who considered war
was imminent, but said it was lurking
in the path along which humanity
has got to tread" and intimated that
1t would be impossible to get insur-
ance against war occurring within 10
years.
Lloyd George, his bushy white hair
tossing, put a warlike Interpretation
on Prime Minister Ramsay MacDon-
AIDS speech last night at the Guild
Hall, in which he said disarmament
never could be accomplished by ex-
ample.
Personally" said Lloyd George, Il
am assured by his promise that he
and Sir John Simon will do their
best. But there you have the fero-
cious grin of war just above the no.
rizon."
He raped Sir Johns criticism of his
war memoirs, saying that when the
foreign secretary comes to write his
biography, the more he congresses it,
the better it will be for him."
He warned that children will be
in the front lines next time-they
are liable to be killed by the same
bombs, the same explosives, the same
poisonous fumes as their parents"
The statesman said familiarity with
the horrors of war was the most ef-
fective antitoxin for the war spirit.
Evening star., 1934-11-11

the streams flow on-cotton, artificial
silks, bicycles, toys, etc.
Much of the industrial success is
due to the starvation wages for long
hours paid to the children of bankrupt
peasants. Part of it is due to the in
f1ation of the currency.
This economic power, arming her
self with submarines and tanks,
marches forward to the conquest of
the whole Pacific region. If a treaty
obstructs its path, it is ruthlessly torn
up. If the League of Nations embar-
rasses it, it quits the League. Inter-
national treaties have for Japan a
meaning as long as they do not inter-
fere with her expansionist policy.
Nazis Censor Dances.
Dancing is more popular than ever
in Germany now that mass celebra-
tions and festivals are a feature of
daily life.
But even dancing is controlled by
board which decides what is per-
missible according to the national
good taste and in conformity with the
Nazis' doctrines.
The board after most serious study
has decided to modify the one-step
dance to a "march-dance," which may
not, however, be danced to the mill
tary marches connected with special
regiments.
The board has banned tho tango,
but approves Of the old-fashioned
waltz, new polka, the old Rhine
lander" and most Of the other German
folk dances.
Evening star., 1934-11-11
.RE|CH'S us. DEBTS.
SEEN SOON vO|DED.
Hitler Policies Declared
Headed for Crisis if Trade
Not Expanded.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Foreign Policy Association stated
today that under the present Hitler
foreign debts and commercial policies
there existed q real possibility that
Germany eventually would repudiate
her debts, much of which are owed to
American bondholders.
The report on "Germany's trend
toward economic isolation" was writ
ten by John c. De Wilde. He contended
Germany's economic relations with
foreign countries now were in a
critical stage as the result of Nazi
measures to regiment imports, and
saw a serious economic crisis ahead
If Germany continued present policies
Of achieving the greatest possible self
sufficiency.
Such a policy, De Wilde reported,
would involve indefinite extension of
the present debt transfer moratorium,
perhaps eliminating in tacit or open
reputation.
The alternative course would be
gradual trade expansion based on
reciprocity with foreign countries
which would entail gradual resumption
of the debt service.
De Wilde said there were many in
dications Germany had chosen the
course toward sufficiency, but con-
ceded the evidence was confused and
contradictory.
He declared the Reich was not likely
to relax or abandon existing import
restrictions unless foreign governments
agree in return to create a definitely
larger market for German products.
German efforts to draw a new COM
mercial treaty with the United States
thus far have not been successful.
Evening star., 1934-11-11

by the fifth grade pupils of the public
schools of Long Beach.
At the Capitol, where the American
War Mothers will hold their annual
observance. Gen. Amos A. Fries will
deliver the principal address after
Mrs. Estelle Ochiltree, national presi-
dent, and her grandson, James Henry
Ochiltree, unfurl the national service
flag below the Stars and Stripes on
the building.
Staff Sergt. Frank Witchey, U. S.
M c., who sounded Taps" when the
Unknown Soldier was buried at Ar
lington. will again sound the call to
the accompaniment of Army and Navy
representatives. Miss Dorothy Red
dish, accompanied by members of the
United States Marine Band, will sing
America" and The Star Spangler
Banner"
Special Church Service.
In the evening at 8 o'clock a special
church service will be held at the
Metropolitan Baptist Church, Sixth
and A streets northeast, at which Mrs.
Ochiltree and Dr. John Compton Ball,
pastor, will be the chief speakers.
Late in the afternoon Comdr. Bel
grano, accompanied by Dept. Comdr.
Roberts, Col John Thomas Taylor,
Maj. Watson Miller and other Legion
leaders, will attend the memorial serv-
ices to President Wilson. Canon G.
Freeland Peter of Washington Ca
thedral will offer the prayer and Rev.
DR.. James A. Taylor. pastor of the
Central Presbyterian Church, of which
the President was member, will de-
liver the memorial address.
Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Wilson are
expected to be present Francis B.
Sayre. Assistant Secretary of State
and a son-in-law of the wartime
Chief Executive, will deliver an ad-
dress also.
Last night the Veterans of Foreign
Wars held their annual Armistice day
ball at the Willard Hotel, and the
Jewish War Veterans held their year.
ly observance at the Jewish Commu-
nifty Center, when Col Alva j. Bras
ted, chief of chaplains, United States
Army, delivered the principal address.
Comdr. Belgrano's and Assistant
Secretary Woodring's addresses are to
be broadcast over the two major radio
chains.