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Evening star., 1934-03-06
$500 IN OLD MISSISSIPPI BONDS
MAY BRING MILLION TO HOLDER

foreigner purchased the whole lot
from King Alfonso for S400.
The purchaser, however. was in the
same position as many other holders;
that is to say, he could not sue Mis-
sissippi before the United States Su-
preme Court because the law provides
that only sovereign state can sue a
state in the Union.
He got in touch with a group in
London known as the Committee Of
Foreign Bondholders and asked their
advice. This committee Is interested
in all kinds of defaulted and uncol-
lectable bonds.
The Prince of Monaco, 1t Is UNDER
stood, became interested in the case
and he instructed the Monaco consul
general in New York to get in touch
with law firm and start proceedings
in the Supreme Court Of the United
States against the State Of Mississippi.
The case was argued yesterday be-
fore Chief Justice Hughes.
The attorneys for the .tate of Mis-
sissippi said that the statute of .imita-
ton should be applied to this case.
Furthermore, they added, the princi-
pality Of Monaco, while an inderen.
dent state oficially is in fact vassal
Continued on Page 2, Column 81
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DILLINGER'S AUTO IN CHICAGO.
Escaped Bandit Is Believed Hiding in
City.

CHICAGO. March 6 (P).-Two fresh
clues pointed today to the probability
that John Oillinger. escaped des-
perado is lurking in Chicago.
The motor car in which he and
colored companion fled after walking
out of the escape proof Jail at
Crown Point, Ind. has been found in
front of q North Side apartment
building.
Also. police disclosed that Dillinger
was sighted here and pursued last
Saturday afternoon. Policeman Lori
mer Hyde said he spotted the gang
leader and a woman riding in the car
through the same North Side district.
Car Watched by Police.
He gave chase, he said, but the car
vanished in the traffic. Later he
sighted 1t again, with the same result.
Dillinger. police believe. parked the
machine outside the apartment Satur-
day night Three squads of police
Continued on Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1934-03-06
SHOEMAKER HIT HIM IN DISPUTE
OVERTRAFFIC, TAXI DRIVER SAYS

A Washington taxicab driver today
sought Police Court warrant against
Representative Francis Shoemaker of
Minnesota for an alleged assault aris-
ing. he said, from Shoemaker's i'm
patience at traffic light.
Assistant United States Attorney
David A. Hart, who said he probably
would issue a warrant later in the
day, sent the cab driver, Charles New
man, to bring in several witnesses to
the alleged assault for more formal
hearing before issuing the paper.
Shoemaker. the only ex-convict in
Congress, has been accused of assault
in several previous instances.
Newman told Hart he was standing
at Florida and Rhode Island avenues
waiting for a traffic light to- change
when his automobile wes struck
forcibly in the rear several times as
the yellow light flashed. He said he
got out of his cab, walked back toward
the other car to ask the driver what
he meant. At this point. Newman
told Hart, the 6-foot Minnesota Rep
resentative got out of the automobile
and struck Newman on the chin with
his fist.
Street car and other trafic was
Evening star., 1934-03-06
FEDERAL HOUSING
UNIT HELD LEGAL
"Excess Powers" in Char.
ter May Cause Amend.
ments, However.
BY the Associated Press.


Constitutionality of the Emergency
Housing Corporation was upheld today
by Attorney General Cummings.
He gave this opinion to Secretary
Ickes. president of the corporation.
He added. however, that its charter
gave it powers in excess of those in
tended by the national industrial re-
covery act.
Ickes asked the opinion as the result
of contention by Controller General
McCarl that the corporation was not
legal in all respects and that he. as
controller general, should have final
control of fund disbursements.
Housing officials said the immediate
effect Of the Attorney Generals opin-
ion would be the filing of an amended
charter in Delaware where the organi-
zation was incorporated.
Housing authorities said they did
not know whether the ruling would
affect the attitude taken by McCarl
1t was remarked that the controller
general still could refuse to honor
requisitions by the corporation. thus
continuing to tie up a S100 900 900
fund allotted by the Public Works
Administration.
Whether the corporation would seek
court action to force the controller
general to honor requisitions has not
been determined.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
"Fair as You Can'' Observance
Of Codes Is Urged by Fulmer
Letter to Lumbermen
Says They Can't Afford
to Pay N. r. A. Wages.

BY the Associated Press.
Two letters bearing the signature of
Representative Fulmer CDemocraD OF
South Carolina advising South Caro-
lima Sawmill operators to work on
common sense basis" regardless Of
their N. R. A. code were introduced
today at the N. r. A. small business
hearing.
The letters were presented by C. c.
Sheppard. president of the National
Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Sheppard first told of them last night
and was requested to read them by
Armin w. Riley, divisional admins
traitor
A letter on Fulmer's congressional
stationery. dated January 5, went to
M. R. Hunter Of Bamberg. S. c. 1t
said Hugh S. johnson required COM
pliance only in hours and wages.
Il feel sure" the letter said, 1T will
be impossible for you to pay code
wages and hours because Of timber
prices.
The letter said he would advise op-
erations 'on a common sense basis -
adding he had advised operators in
his district to be "as fair to your
hands as you can" consistent with
the price of lumber.
In another letter purporting to be
from a neighboring operator. Hunter
was represented to be paying wages
of 10 cents an hour. working his en-
ployes seven to eight hours a day,
three to five days a week.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
OIL FIELD EMPLOYEES
PLAN 48.H0UR HOLIDAY
Oklahoma Workers Demand Wage
Increase and End of Com
pany Unions.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEMINOLE, Okla, March 6.-Oil
field workers in the Seminole district
threatened today to go on a 48-hour
holiday" unless oil companies meet
their demands for recognition. wage
increases and abolition of company
unions.
Field workers. machinists and
boilermakers adopted the holiday
plan of action last night, but left the
date to be decided by union repre-
sentatives tomorrow night.
A wage increase Of approximately
40 per cent is demanded.
Union leaders said If the plan Is
carried out $500 oil employees in the
Seminole district and almost as many
more in other Oklahoma fields would
cease work for 48 hours with the in
tention that mot one barrel Of oil nor
one cubic foot of gas be produced until
every company having discharged
members of the union returns men,
bers to work with pay for the time
lost"
w. L. Igo, secretary Of the Seminole
union, said the companies would be
given ample time" for negotiations,
but that the holiday" would be Or
dered probably within week" II the
demands are not met.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

The story of how s400 worth of
useless bonds of the State of Missis-
sippi might be changed into no less
than $1,000 900 real money was told
yesterday before the United States
Supreme Court.
The case was that of the State Of
Monaco, a sovereign principality, ver-
sus the State Of Mississippi and it in
volved bonds issued by Mississippi In
1883 and defaulted by action of the
State Legislature in 1865.
A large number of distinguished
foreigners. including the Ambassador
from Great Britain, Sir Ronald Lind
say, who was given q special seat Of
honor, were in court.
How the Principally Of Monaco be-
came involved in the suit Is more in
teresting than the case itself.
The bonds Of Mississippi were pur-
chased by q number of private indi-
viduals here and abroad. Among the
purchasers was Queen Isabella II Of
Spain, who invested $l,200,000.
These bonds remained with the
royal Spanish family until few
months ago. when an enterpristng
Evening star., 1934-03-06

A letter dated February l6, purport-
ing to be from Fulmer to E. w. Wat
son Of Windsor. s. c.. also was read.
1t was along the same lines as the
o,hcr.
Sheppard said he had te'eg aphed
for others involving other members of
Congress tor pre- entation at the
hearing.
In telling of the letters frcm men,
bers of Congress last night. Sheppard
asserted that. with that sort of thing.
there is not a chance for or code
to survive"
Evening star., 1934-03-06
FARLEY ASKS CUT
FOR RURAL CARRIERS
House Group Told Slash Would
Save Eleven Million
Annually.
BY the Associated Press.

-
Slashes in the salaries Of rural mail
carriers. which he estimated would
save more than $11, 100000 a year.
we're recommended to the House Post
Office Committee today by Postmaster
General Farley.
Pointing out reduced appropriations
compelled savings, such as the day.
a-month furlough recently ordered for
all employees, Farley asked permission
to pare the pay of the approximately
$4,000 rural carriers in preference to
pressing the program of consolidating
routes and thereby having to drop
some 5000 carriers.
The Postmaster General said the
salaries of rural carriers were excess
sive compared with other postal en-
ployes.
The bill by Representative Dock
weller, Democrat, of California, which
the committee Is studying, would cut
the basic pay Of rural carriers from
81 800 for 24-mile routes, and $50 a
mile over that, to 81 300 for 30-mile
routes covered six days a week, and
$40 mile above that.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
FLORENCE E. ALLEN
NAMED u. S. JUDGE
Roosevelt Breaks Another Prece-
dent in Appointing Cleve-
land Woman.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt today broke an
other precedent in naming Florence E.
Allen of Cleveland to the Federal
Circuit Court of Appeals judgeship.
Miss Allen, now on the Ohio Su-
preme Court, is the first woman to be
made Federal judge.
The Circuit Court Of Appeals Is the
highest court aside from the Supreme
Court of the United States.
Judge Allen bore the Endorsement
Of Senator Bulkley (DemocraD OF
Ohio.
The President also appointed Mrs.
Bernice Pyke Of Cleveland as collector
of customs at that city, and Frank
p. Corrigan, also Of Cleveland. was
named Minister to FL Salvador.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
Attacked by Python,
Missionary Rolls
Into Fire and Dies
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BOGOTA, Colombia. March 6.
The death of a missionary in
a battle with a python was told
today in dispatches from the vii
lage of Sincelejo, Department of
Bolivar.
The missionary, a Seventh-Day
Adventist whose name was not
contained in the first meager ac-
counts. was just outside the vii
lage when the python caught him
in its coils.
A brush fire was burning at the
scene. The struggling man and
his reptile captor rolled into the
flames. Both were burned to
death while they fought.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
Sixteen Strikers Arrested.

MILWAUKEE,, March 6 P.-SiX-
teen men and a woman were arrested
today after an encounter between 90
policemen and strikers at the main
entrance to the Seaman Body Cor.
poration. Badges were snatched from
the police and clothing was torn as
about $50 pickets formed a human
blockade at the gate when nom
strikers arrived in automobiles to start
work
Evening star., 1934-03-06

held up for few minutes when the
Representative got out of his car to
strike him. Newman said. A street
car conductor. irate at the delay. is
said to have told him to move on, that
he was tying up traffic.
Il am a Congressman, and can
tie up traffic for an hour If want
to" Shoemaker was quoted as saying.
Then. Newman said, the legislator
got back in his car and drove of.
Newman followed him for several
blocks. he continued, finally folcing
him to stop at the curb near Ninth
and U streets. When he got out of
the car, Shoemaker again struck him,
knocking him to the street. he said.
About that time Ohicer Joseph S.
Cooke Of the Trafic Bureau walked
up and Newman demanded that Shoe
maker be arrested
Shoemaker protested he was q
Representative, saying. You can't ar
rest me-" according to Newman. The
officer did not make the arrest.
Representative Shoemaker said to-
day he was in no way guilty of "as-
sault and battery He explained
that while driving home from the
Capitol he was blocked near Florida
CONTINUED on Page I, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-06
JUDGE URGES BAN
0NMARC|N TRADES
Morgan Firm Member to Be
Quizzed on Sales of
Air Stock.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Outlawing of all marginal trading
ard placing stock exchanges on a
cash basis was advocated today be-
fore the Senate Banking Committee
by FEDERAL Judge William Clark of
New Jersey. who contended margins
lead in IAN unconscionable number of
cases to either death, dishonor or
distress"
Earlier the committee said a men,
Der Of J. P. Morgan g. Co. would be
called for questioning on the sale of
$500 shares of United Aircraft stock
shortly before cancellation OF the
airmail contracts by the Government.
Ferdinand Pecora, committee coun.
sci, said he would call the Morgan
partner responsible for O., the sale to
find out what caused the decision, al
though he did not yet know which
one had charge of the transaction.
At the same time. the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee heard As
sistant Secretary of Commerce John
Dickinson testify that only the Fed
eral Government could regulate stock
exchanges on account of their inter-
state character.
Defiation Warning Sounded.
Dickinson added that the Fletcher
Rayburn exchange control bill, with
its rigid margin requirements, would
result in the liquidation Of vast
amounts of securities with the most
detiationary consequences"
Regulation of the exchanges. Dick
inson said. lis not only desirable but
necessary" adding that conditions
illustrate the need to protect the pub
lie and the general economic health
Of the Nation
While he said he would not vouch
for the constitutionality of all the
provisions In the pending measure, he
contended there is no doubt in my
mind about the constitutionality" of
the right Of Congress to enact such
regulatory legislation.
Clark, who attracted Nation wide
attention early in 1881 by declaring
the eighteenth amendment invalid
was the first witness to urge strength
ening of the marginal provisions of
the Fletcher-Rayburn market control
bill.
In colorful language the Federal
Judge cited his experiences on the
Continued on Page s. Column AZ
Evening star., 1934-03-06
Hold Up Sioux Falls Bank
and Seize Employees to
Cover Escape.
POLICEMAN is WOUNDED:
SCORES WATCH ROBBERY
Release Hostages Amid Fusilade
of Bullets Checking Pursuit
CT Officers.
BULLETIN.

SIOUX FALLS. S. Oak, March
6 R).-Four woman employees,
seized as hostages in the hold-up
OF the Security National Bank
today, were released miles
south of the city. They were
unharmed.
BY the Associated Press.
SIOUX FALLS, S. OAK. March s.
Six daring daylight bandits headed
by man thought by some to be John
Dillinger, held up the Security Ma
tional Bank e. Trust Co. today,
wounded patrolman. seized four girl
bank employees as hostages and fed.
Armed with machine guns. the
bandits, fleeing southwark drove off
pursuers with a volley over the heads
of the girl hostages.
C. r. Clarke, president of the bank,
and R. j. Dargan, teller. believed Dill
linger the leader of the gang after
viewing pictures of the bandit who
escaped from Jail at Crown Point,
Ind. last week Other bank employees.
however, were doubtful.
Many Watch HoId-Up.
Scores watched the robbery from
the street. perched on automobile
bumpers and from windows of nearby
buildings
Several police. who drove up to the
bank. were halted with a burst CT
machine gun fire. forced to leave their
car and disarmed by the men On
guard.
Hale Keith. motor cycle officer. was
shot from inside the bank, one of the
robbers firing through the window as
the officer stood on the sidewalk.
First reports said he was shot in the
back and arm.
Pursued to point about 2 miles
south of the city, the robbers halted
their car forced girl employees from
the bank whom they had carried away
with them to stand about as shields
while they drove back the three pur-
suing machines with machine gun
fire.
Tires Punctured.
The pursuing cars. one Of which
contained Sheriff Melvin Sells and
deputies. were disabled by punctured
tires caused by roofing nails which the
robbers left strewn over the highway
About 4 miles south of the city the
men abandoned their car which was
reported to have had several bullet
holes IN the hood. leading to the be-
lief it might have been used in an
other hold-up
After abandoning their car the
bandits held-up Alfred Musch on the
highway, seized his Dodge sedan and
continued their fight.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
ORDERED STERILIZED

Berlin Eugenic Court Finds
"Convictions" in Three Cases.
BERLIN, March R.-The Ger
man capitals newly inaugurated eu-
genics court got of to speedy start
by ordering three persons sterilized
at its first session yesterday.
Judge Hans Joachim Matzner pre-
sided. In accordance with the ster-
ilization laws secrecy clause. the pub
lie was barred from the court room
and the details of the cases and the
names OF the defendants" were not
made public.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
TREASURY BACKS
HOUSE TAX BILL
Morgenthau Tells Senate
Committee Measure Is
Regarded Equitable.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Secretary Morgenthau told the Sem
ate Finance Committee today the
Treasury had approved the s258,000,-
900 House tax bill with the exception
of some minor matters"
The first Senate witness on the
measure. which tightens income tax
loopholes. Morgenthau testified it was
''the best judgment of the Treasury
that the bill finally adopted should
provide for at least as much revenue
as it is estimated the pending bill
will yield"
During the proposed changes as
whole" the Secretary said. II believe
that the bill will yield the additional
revenue which the President desires,
primarily by the elimination OF the
serious loopholes which our experience
has shown to exist in the present in
come tax law.
Regarded Equitable,
mo taxpayer can legitimately COM
plain of these changes. since they re-
suit in a more equitable distribution
of the tax burden over those persons
who are best able to sustain it.
THE Treasury Department. there
fore, approves the pending bill as a
whole with the exception Of some
minor matters which the department
will be glad to discuss with the COM
mittee at its convenience.
Coming before the committee at
Chairman Harrison's invitation. Nor
genthau undertook to state the gen.
eral attitude of the Treasury. He
said:
In his budget message. the Presi-
dent stated that he expected the
budget estimates of receipts to be
increased by an additional $l50,000,-
900 to be obtained from the revision
of the income tax. estate tax and
miscellaneous tax laws.
The President did not at that
time recommend the imposition OF
any specific new taxes, or the elimi-
nation Of any taxes now in force.
The budget estimate is, however,
framed on the basis that any revenue
revision should provide for the amount
OF reCe1pCS eSClmaLeo 10 pe Oplduleo
from the existing tax laws. plus at
least $l50,000.000 additional.
Estimated Revenue.
1T Is estimated by the Committee
on Ways and Means that the revenue
bill now pending before this commit
tee will produce approximately $685.
900 900 additional revenue in a full
year of operation dncluding $05,OOO,-
900 to be obtained from changes In
the administration of the depreciation
allowances).
1T should be noted, however, that
most of this additional revenue will
not be collected until 1895; and that
revenue estimates in respect to tech
nical changes are difficult to make
since they depend upon a number OF
uncertain factors, the most important
of which is future business profits.
1T is, therefore. the best judgment
of the Treasury that the bill finally
adopted should provide for at least as
much revenue as it is estimated the
pending bill will yield"
Evening star., 1934-03-06
CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING
Where Big Values Are
Obtained for Little Cost.

Classified advertising in the
Washington newspapers Sunday.
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The constant lead Of The Star
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success of its classified advertise
ments in producing results. -.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
German Bishop Appointed.

BERLIN. March R.-Reichs-
bishop Ludwig Mueller appointed
Bishop Heinrich Oberheid as his chief
Of staff yesterday.
Evening star., 1934-03-06
.10PCT. LIMIT SET
FOR RNAW PROFITS
Senate Fixes Maximum on
Ship and AirpIane
Contracts.
By the Associated Press.

The Senate today adopted an
amendment to the naval construction
bill limiting profits on all ship and
airplane contracts involving $4,000
or more to not more than 10 per cent.
The amendment was proposed by
Chairman Trammell of the Naval
Committee in lieu Of House pro-
vision restricting profits on all con-
tracts to 10 per cent.
Under the House language 1t vas
claimed contractors would see to it
that profits would always be 10 per
cent.
The amendment was adopted with
out record vote, the membership ap-
parently being unanimous against
continuing present practices of allow
ing huge profits on war equipment.
All contractors would be required to
report net profits under oath to the
Treasury Department. and profits in
excess of 10 per cent would become
the property of the Government.
The naval construction bill ran
into little Navy" opposition today,
Senator Nye, Republican, North Da-
kota, calling it clustering and
bullying bill" and measure "for the
relief of munitions makers"
Working under prior agreement
limiting debate, the Senate was due
to vote at pm. today on the bill.
The House-approved measure pro-
vides for about 100 new destroyers
and submarines, one aircraft carrier
and more than 1000 new airplanes.
All would be constructed In the next
five years to bring the combined
fleets up to the full strength allowed
by the Washington and London
treaties.
Called Wasteful.
Nye said ultimately the legislation
would cost in the neighborhood of a
billion dollars and that it was
Congress doesn't bat an eye" when
asked to appropriate large sums for
war preparation. at the same time
that it is refusing aid for veterans,
Nye continued.
To keep America out Of foreign
wars, Nye urged cash and carry
plan, by which belligerent nations
would be required to send their own
ships for supplies purchased in
America"
During the debate on the bill yes
terday, Senator Borah of Idaho as
sailed armament manufacturers, say
ing they are as bloodthirsty as Ca
pone and Dillinger."
They are selling munitions In the
Orient, he said, and in the event OF
war with Japan, American soldiers
would be torn limb from limb and
disemboweled" by weapons made In
America.
Borah. a strong disarmament advo-
cate, made one Of the most vigorous
speeches of his long career.
Evening star., 1934-03-06

Continued on Page 2, Column 81
Evening star., 1934-03-06
WEATHER.

70. 8. Weather Bureau ForecaNJ
Fair tonight and tomorrow; slightly
colder tonight, lowest temperature about
36 degrees; gentle to moderate winds,
mostly westerly Temperatures-High-
est. 10, at 4 pm yesterday; lowest. AZ, at
7 am. today. Full report on page A-s.
Evening star., 1934-03-06

CONTINUED on Page I, Column 81
The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-03-13
COLORED WOMEN
AND MAN Held
RELEASED LATER UNDER
BOND PENDING HEARING
BEFORE PEACE JUSTICE

Zola Braxton, Ida Johnson and
Charles Patterson, all coIored,
were arrested yesterday after
noon by Chief Deputy Clements
Jaycocks and Peace Justice Ro-
CELLO Gomez.
They were in car when ar
rested and approximately five
gallons of Aguardiente and Ron
Negrita were captured at the same
time. The car is. also in custody
of the sheriff.
Last year the Braxton woman
was arrested on a like charge, the
court records show. bat there
was not sufficient evidence to Sc
cure a conviction and she was re-
leased.
Those arrested were later re-
leased under bond for their ap-
pearance A. a hearing This after
noon in the court 81 Peace Jus
tice Gomez