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Evening star., 1934-02-19
HIGH COURT DENIES
NEW RIVER REVIEW
Power Company Must Get
License or Proceed Fur
ther Legally.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
The Supreme Court refused today
to decide whether the Federal Power
Commission has authority to regulate
the operations of hydro-electric power
companies on non-navigable streams
1t announced it would not review
case brought by the Appalachian
Electric Power Co. of Virginia, which
contended the Government had no
right to regulate its huge project on
New Rivers.
Thus If the Appalachian company
builds its hydro plant on the
New River, it must either apply to
the power commission for a major
license comforting full regulatory
power on the Government, or insti-
tute further legal proceedings.
Today's decision had the effect of
throwing the case out of the courts,
as a lower court had held the suit
should be dismissed.
Owns 1850 Acres.
The company owns approximately
1850 acres Of land, and has aowage
rights over approximately 200 more
along the river, approximately 155
miles upstream from the head of navi-
cation on the Kanawha River.
1t claimed to have expended S7O0,-
900 in acquiring the land and rights
for use in water-power development
and over 100000 additional in other
acquisitions, investigations and explor-
ations. The company asserted it was
prevented from financing a s8,000.-
900 loan by the attitude Of the Fed
eral Commission.
The Power Commission holds that
it were not, the project would affect
the interests of interstate or for
eign commerce.
The company challenged the juris-
diction of the commission over the
project, urged it to reconsider and Of
fered to take a license containing
conditions to protect navigation.
License Was Refused.
The Attorney General held the
commission could issue the order the
company declared would be accept
able, but the commission refused to
issue such license, and ordered the
company not to proceed without first
obtaining a standard license.
The company filed suit in the Fed
eral District Court for Western Vir-
giria to challenge the jurisdiction Of
the commission. Virginia entered
the proceedings, also challenging Fed
eral jurisdiction.
The Trial Court sustained the COM
mission. In October, 1888, the Fourth
Circuit Court Of Appeals declared the
Trial Court should not have decided
the case on its merits, but should have
dismissed the suit.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
Former Postmaster General
Valves Immunity-Holds Can
collation. ''Colossal Injustice"
DEFENDS SERVICE EXTENSION
AS GREAT BENEFIT TO NATION
Black Produces $1,000 Check to Show
Business Relations With Bagley
as Early as 1924.
BY the Associated Press.


F. Brown the Hoover admin
srato told investigators today that in awarding do
mes ama contracts every requirement of law was observed
whatever of cousion between the bidders
any appeared
was ever suggested by any one"
Appearing before the Senate Armai investigating Committee
charges that couson and conspiracy had entered into the
awards testified that only three out of "a domestic
tracts let during his term of office.
Holds Cancellation Unjust.
prior his voluntary the former Postmaster
awarding
contracts and saying it was nconcevabe that
velt with all facts before him would sanction such colossal
injustice" the cancellation of all contracts:
thronged the committee
room to hear the controversy which
official Washington for weeks
Evening star., 1934-02-19
Closing N. Y. Markets, Pages IA, 1876
Labor Federation,
Is Pressing ~ r. 4.
For ActiO7, on Ford
Greer. Believes Force Is
Necessary for His
Compliance.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
William Green told the House Labor
Committee today the American Fed
Grafton of Labor is pressing the
N. r. A. every day for action on its
lating the collective bargaining pro-
vision of the codes.
The federation president added he
was convinced Ford never would COM
ply until forced to do so.
The FordN. r. A-labor contro-
Versy was revived while Green was
testifying in behalf of 30-hour- week
legislation. Green also voiced criti-
cism of E. Weir of the Weirton Steel
Co.
One Must Surrender.
There are two, Ford and Weir"
Green said, who either will have to
surrender to the Government or the
Government to them. Weir has as
sumed the position he will not COM
ply with the spirit or the letter of the
N. R. A.
1T is inconceivable any corporation
in the United States could or should
be bigger than the Government. We
are waiting to see whether the Gov
ernment will establish it's supremacy
and authority in dealing with Mr.
Ford and Mr.. Weir.
Cites N. r. A. Provision.
Representative Lesinski Democrat)
of Michigan commented that Ford
sets himself up as czar, not fearing
the Government at all, and it is time
for the Government to do something "
Chairman Connery Oemocra0 of
Massachusetts, cited the N. r. A. pro-
vision for district attorneys to take up
complaints, and asked: Whats the
matter with the United States district
attorney in Michigan in dealing with
Mr.. Ford?"
Evening star., 1934-02-19
GIRL, IA, OF BOSTON
is FOUND MURDERED
lood.Covered Body Discovered
in Parking Space Near
Chinatown.
BY the Associated Press.


BOSTON, February 1s.-The body
Of Victoria David. IA. blood covered
and apparently murdered, was found
this morning in a parking space in
the South End. near Boston's China
town. The site Is in the same gen.
eral section of the city in which Ethel
zuckerman, schoolgirl bakery employe,
was slain several weeks ago.
The David girl, who had not been
seen since 9 o'clock yesterday morn
ing, was reported missing by her fam
lily at IL o'clock last night. and the
police we're asked to search for her.
When the body was found this
morning. her brother George was
summoned and made Identification.
Police expressed the opinion she
had been beaten to death.
The mystery closely followed the
unsolved and apparently motiveless
staying of Miss zuckerman in a South
End bakeshop, which occurred while
bakers and other employees were at
work in another section of the bakery
plant.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
BY the Associated Press.


In approving the newspaper pub
fishers code, President Roosevelt has
made request that papers with more
than $1,000 circulation in cities of
100000 or more place their news
staffs Immediately on flve-day, 40
hour basis.
The Presidents executive order re-
quired that study be made within so
days to determine permanent policy
on the employment of children as de-
livery boys and paper statesmen and a
further study to establish hour pro-
visions for the editorial stats of all
newspapers.
In accepting the code, the President
said he was dissatisfied" with its
child labor provisions, which provide
that boys under 16 may sell papers
Evening star., 1934-02-19
Roosevelt Asks 5-Day Ne,cs
Week on Large Newspapers
accompanies Approral of Code With
Request for 4O-Hour Basis-Free.'
dom of Press Clause Remains.

/ out Of school hours. between 7 am.
and pm. in Winter and am. and
pm. in Summer.
The report on both questions will be
made by Administrator Hugh S. John
son rather than independently by the
American Newspaper Publishers As
sociation, proponents of the code
AS for the publishers declaration
for freedom of the press, the Presi-
dent said he was allowing it to re-
main because 'it has no meaning"
and observed that it was pure sur
plusage."
OF the publishers reservation that
they would not accept any modifica-
| ton of the code by the President, he
said that "of course a man does not
consent to what he doesn't consent
Continued ON Page 2, Column So
Evening star., 1934-02-19

DeVelOpmentS OF the cOmmlIleS
hearings have included the sending of
one aviation company official to jail
for contempt of the Senate. William
P. MacCracken, jr., the Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce for Aeronautics
in the Hoover administration, also
faces a To-day Jail sentence for con-
tempt, but he plans to fight 1t in the
courts
Brown said in another statement
read to the committee there was
nothing "clandestine" about the two
meetings of airmail operators and
Post Office officials here May 19 and
June 4, 1880. at which Black has
charged the airmail map was "di-
vided up" and contracts let without
competitive bidding.
Says Service Improved.
"No suggestion of dividing air mail
operations among the companies rep
resented at these meetings was ever
made or contemplated" Brown said.
"and no agreement or understanding
with respect to bidding on airmail con-
tracts or refraining to bid on air
mail contracts by any of the oper-
ators present was made at either Of
those meetings or at any other time"
All of the consultations authorized
by him, he said, were in the public
interest and all resulted in improved
service.
Brown said during his term no con-
tract was awarded to the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad for carrying the mail.
He said he owned 225 shares of Penn
sylvania stock.
Scores differences.
In his statement handed to news
PAPER men just before he took the
witness stand the former Postmaster
General said Senator Blacks "haSty
and unwarranted inferences that the
meeting of air transport operators at
the Post Office Department May 9
and June 4, 1880, were in furtherance
of an illegal scheme to divide airman
contracts among themselves is wholly
unsupported by the facts"
without making any real effort
to ascertain the purpose and proceed
ings of those meetings, or giving the
persons who have first-hand informa-
ton an opportunity to testify" the
statement said, Senator Black passed
his inferences on to the Post Office
Department, which in turn blindly ac-
cepted them without making any in
vestigation whatever or even accord
ing the vitally interested parties
hearing.
Based solely upon Senator Blacks
unsupported and -unjustifiable dictum
that in 1880 the airmail operators
engaged in a conspiracy of collusion.
the Postmaster General has ordered
all domestic airmail contracts an
nulled, and with single stroke of
his pen, if his action is not reconsid-
cred. has destroyed the finest airmail
(Continued on Page 4, Column %
Evening star., 1934-02-19

of the 10Th inst. I cannot complain
about this because I expected and
publicly predicted it when I came
here.
my consolation is that in some
small part have been permitted to
contribute to the Presidents great
effort to make Christmas a little more
cheerful this year for great many
millions of peoples. That Is many
times more than sufficient to assuage
the sting Of all such insect bites as
I have to suffer"
Lesinski, who read that much into
the House Labor Committee record
today, refused to make public the
rest Of the letter, written Decem-
ber %, explaining, "Oh, there's too
much in IT."
Evening star., 1934-02-19
JOHNSON SCRATCHES !STINGINC
REPLY TO CRITICS BITING WORDS

BY the Associated Press.
If Hugh S. johnson, N. R. A. admin
istrator, considers letter from a
member of Congress "scurrilous" and
just an insect bite" he doesn't hesi-
tate to reply to that effect.
Just before Christmas Representative
Lesinski, Democrat, of Michigan, wrote
Johnson complaining about some
things anent the N. r. A. and limiting
Congress night be disposed to look
into them if they we're not remedied.
Here, in part, is what the out
spoken Blue Eagle chief replied:
MY service here is costing me most
of what is left of my private fortune,
my health, and continued exposure to
such scurrilous attacks as your favor
Evening star., 1934-02-19
WOMAN HURT AS BOMB
EXPLODES IN HAVANA
$4,000 Damage Done in Shop
ping District-Citizens
End Carnival.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HAVANA, February ia woman
was seriously wounded last night
when huge bomb exploded, shatter-
ing show windows in considerable
area of the midtown shopping dis
trict.
The police estimated the damage
would run at least $4,000. The
street was strewn with pieces of
broken chinaware, shoes and other
articles
It was relatively quiet during the
day Sunday as residents rested after
a night of joyous. carnival celebra-
ton.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
COMPOSER STILL ILL

LONDON. February 10 lP.-A bull
letin by physicians said today that
the condition of Sir Edward Elgar.
British composer who has been Ill
since an operation in October, was
unchanged. He was reported to be
very weak.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
THREE FREEZE TO DEATH

HAYS, Kans., February 10 R-
Aoam A. Pfeifer, and two young sons,
attempting to reach shelter after
their motor car stalled in a blizzard,
were found frozen to death near here
Sunday.
The sons were William, Is, and Gil
bert. IL
Evening star., 1934-02-19

VIENNA, February 10 CP.-A syn
agogue at Kuenstendil, in Southern
Bulgaria, was dynamited today, said
a telegraph company's report from
Sofia.
One wall was demolished and win
dows of a nearby Jewish school were
shattered, but no one was injured.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
CHOLERA KILLS 800
Disease Broke Out Last Month in
Philippines.

MANILA, p. l., February 10 R.-
Cholera claimed the lives Of 301 per-
sons in i've southern provinces Of
the Philippine Islands during JAM
uary, said . report Of the Bureau Of
Health issued today. Ofncials stated,
hoveTer, that they ~ pot fear :
Evening star., 1934-02-19
JAPANESE CHARGE
LOAN BY j. s. AIDS
.CH|NA'S AIR BASES
Representations to Be Made
on Expansion at Foo
chow and Annoy.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, February 19.-Reports that
portion of Americas $4,000, 900
cotton and wheat loan to China is be-
ing used in the expansion of Chinese
airdromeS at Foochow and Annoy will
be the subject shortly of japanese
diplomatic representations to China,
it was learned today.
A japanese foreign Office spokesman
said Akira Ariyoshi, Minister to China,
had been instructed to seize an early
opportunity to ask the Marking Ma
tionalist government to confirm or
deny the reports
In the event OF confirmation. the
spokesman said, ArlyOShi will warn
China that such use of foreign funds
violates China's pledge not to employ
borrowed money in military establish
ments along the Fukien Province
coast.
Officers Visit Reported.
The spokesman said many reports
concerning Fukien air bases had
reached Toxic from japanese consuls
and agents in other departments of
the japanese government"
One of these, he asserted, was that
Officers of an American gunboat ly-
ing off Foochow during the recent
disturbances Gin Fukien Province
went ashore and inspected proposed
airdrome extension plans.
Another said houses surrounding
the present flying field at Foochow
were being condemned and demolished
to permit the extension" the spokes-
man added
1.-The engagements, in our belief,
exceed purely commercial require
ments," he went on.
Moreover, the establishment of
two big air bases so close together as
Foochow and Annoy supports the sus-
picion that they are intended for
military purposes. This we are unable
Continued on Page 2, Column g.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
Dollfuss Puts Dead at Only 241 In
Vienna Riots,

Vienna Riots.
VIENNA, February 10 [P).-An Eu-
rope wondered today just how macy
men, women and children-workers,
police and soldiers-died In Austria s
civil war last week.
Chancellor Dollfuss declared in an
international broadcast Sunday that
PAL were slain before the four-day
Socialist rebellion was put down.
To this number, however, can be
added without argument five Social
lists who, government communique
said, were slain by Heimwehr (home
guarO bayonets yesterday, and seven
Socialists hanged for insurrectionary
activities.
Counting those, the official death
list may be set at 253, but here the
argument begins.
Various Estimates.
Socialist fugitives in Bratislava,
Czechoslovakia, told the Associated
Press that at least $500 were killed.
Czechoslovakian newspapers hit upon
the same estimate and Chancellor
Adolf Hitler of Germany said IN an
interview the dead would reach 1900.
The Associated Press estimated Feb
ruary IS, safter conversations with
(oouEinued On Page . Column -
Evening star., 1934-02-19
WEATHER.

%. 8. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair and colder with a cold wave to-
night; tomorrow fair and colder, lowest
temperature tonight about 10 degrees.
Temperatures-Highest, AZ, at 8 pm.
yesterday; lowest, 81, at /: 80 am. today.
Full report on page A-9.
Evening star., 1934-02-19
SYNAGOGUE DYNAMITED

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column A.
Evening star., 1934-02-19

CASUALTIES ARE DISPUTED.
Evening star., 1934-02-19

CONTINUED on Page 4. Column q.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
NEW DEAL TEST
WITHIN YEAR SEEN
Baldwin Locomotive Presi.
dent Says Showdown
Coming on Policies.
BY the Associated Pres

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND. May l5.-A group OF
men who are not in sympathy with
much that we hold sacred to our
capitalistic system declares George
H. Houston, president of the Baldwin
Locomotive Works. are determining
"the national policies of this country
Houston, who is chairman of the
heavy goods industry advising N. R
A., spoke at a banquet of the Ma
chinery and Allied Products Institute
last night, adding that Il don't be-
lieve that the two plans can live
side by side.
Either they are totally wrong OIL
We are"
The next II months he told $50
executives present, will prove whether
the administration is right or wrong
Unless the Government sanctions
wage and working schedules permit
ting the durable goods industry to in
duce purchases on reasonable sched-
ule of prices, he predicted these in
dustries will cease to exist and the
100000 there employed will be
forced to seek employment elsewhere.
The report of his N r. A. Advisory
Committee, Houston said. has been
handed in and will be made public
within few days.
The institute named Is to its Ex-
ecutive Committee and elected IL to
the code authority for the machinery
and allied industries group.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
SEEK $50,ODDFUND.
TO PROMOTE CITY
Greater National Capital
Workers Start Inten-
sive Campaign.

An army of campaign workers was
on the job today to raise $4,000 OF
mL-e to promote the Nations Capital
Of the country.
At an enthusiastic luncheon meet.
ing yesterday, more than 40 prominent
Washington business leaders launched
the annual drive of the Greater Ma
tional Capital Committee of the Wash
ington Board of Trade for funds to
operate the committee.
The meeting was presided over by
Lloyd B. Wilson, president Of the
Chesapeake g. Potomac Telephone Co
and chairman of the Campaign Com
mittee.
Makes Vital Place.
1.-THE Greater National Capital
Committee" Mr. Wilson said, sis now
entering its fourth year. 1t has made
for itself a place that is vital to the
business interests of the city. ! dc
not believe any business man can fail
to see the need of keeping this city
promotion work going"
Robert v. Fleming. president OF
the Board of Trade, said that with
out any doubt the work of the Great
er National Capital Committee should
be continued. He said it is vital to
the business interests Of the city.
Other Speakers Heard.
Others who spoke were George e
Keneipp. Claude w. Owen. former
president of the Board of Trade; A.
C. Case, one of the founders of the
Greater National Capital Committee.
and George Vass. president of the
District Bankers Association, who is
Evening star., 1934-05-15
OFFICERS RECAPTURE
MAN SOUGHT IN KILLING
Alleged Slayer Found at Farm
After Escaping Police Moving
Him to Avoid Mob.

BY the Associated Press.
STREATOR. ILL.,, May 15.-Vincent
Okaren, 20, alleged slayer, who eluded
officers while being transferred from
Minonk, Ill, to Ottawa, Ill, TO escape
lynching threat, was captured yes
terday at a farm 3 miles northwest
of here.
Chief Of Police Harry Reynolds Of
Streator sighted Okaren as he emerged
from a farm house basement, where
Evening star., 1934-05-15
HOPEWELL MAYOR
AND WIFE INDICTED
80 Other Residents of Virginia
Town Also Accused in Slot
Machine Probe.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HOPEWELL, Va, May 15-Dr. D.
Lane Elder, mayor of Hopewell, his
wife, Mrs. j. N. Elder, and 80 other
Hopewen residents were under indict-
ment yesterday as result of grand
jury investigations of slot machine
operation here. True bills we're found
by the jury in seven other cases in
volving card games.
In addition to the mayor and his
wife, joint operators of Elders drug
store, bills named Fred L. Davis. city
councilman; j. o. Bayne, superin-
tendent of streets, and many local
merchants in whose stores the ma
chimes are alleged to have been oper-
-ated.
All are charged with permitting the
operation of slot machines. Under
a provision of the Hopeweu charter
the bills are returnable in Hopewell
Police Court where Justice T. j.
Blankenship presides.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
CH|LDREN'S HOME
TERRACES OPENED
Indoor Exercises Dedicate
Fairgrounds Given by
Edwin Gould.

Three playground terraces at the
Episcopal Home for Children, Me-
braska avenue and Rock Creek Ford
road, were dedicated yesterday after
noon.
The ceremonies, planned on the
rear lawn, were forced indoors by
showers just after 64 of the 70 chill
dren at the home had started a series
of exercises around a central fiagpole
on the grounds.
The children seemed to enjoy their
drills, stunts and dances, which in
cluded the old-fashioned Virginia reel
and a Maypole dance, just as much
as If they had not been confined to
the somewhat cramped quarters of
the gymnasium.
The playground terraces had been
recently completed and equipped. The
land was part of the nine-acre tract
donated by the late Edwin Gould,
New York philanthropist, in 1926 as
site for the home, and the play
space was named the Edwin Gould
Terrace" in his hol.or.
Playhouse on Terrace.
The first terrace is equipped with
f1agpole, slides, swings, a "teeter-
bal game, tennis court, a ferris
wheel and playhouse. On the Sec
ond terrace is a base ball diamond
ana room for several more tennis
courts. The third terrace is called
NO Mans Land and is set aside tor
the children to use as they like, dig
slng caves or building playhouses.
Inc prayer CT dedication was given
by DR.. Ze Barney Phillips, rector of
the Church of the Epiphanv and
chaplain of the Senate. He faced a
window. opening toward the play
ground, as he spoke.
The exercises began with marching
by the children, clad in vari-hued cos
tunes and red, white and blue caps.
They ended their maneuvers by form
ing the initials e H. c."
Maypole Dance.
After singing The Star Spangled
Banner" the larger girls danced
around Maypole The smaller girls
went through the routine of colorful
ribbon dance, and then Virginia reel
by girls IN country dress and boys in
overalls brought applause from the
spectators who had gathered for the
ceremonies.
A team of small boys. clad in ap-
propriate costumes. went through a
flremen'S drill and then simulated the
rescue of child, carrying him from
the room on a stretcher.
The ceremonies were under the di-
rection of Mrs. David Meade Lea.
president of the Board of Lady Man
ayers. Mrs, Lila P. Du Val is super
intendent of the home.
Evening star., 1934-05-15
SEEKS MORE ALIMONY
Ex-Wife of Film Writer Cites
Medical Needs of Children.

LOS ANGELES, May Is P).-Tes-
tifying their two children recently
needed costly medical attention, Mrs.
Nancy H. Wilson yesterday went to
court seeking an increase in her al
lowance from her former husband,
Carey Wilson, film writer, who has
just returned from his yacht honey
moon with Carmelita Geraghty, mo-
ton picture actress
Mrs. Wilson asserted her $3.50 a
month allowance was insufficient to
meet medical and other bills for the
children, Nancy Hope. 13, and Carey,
Jr.. Z, and asks for $1,000 a month
The screen writer, who married
Miss Gerahty a few days ago, said he
now earns $1,000 a week from Metro
Goldwyr- Mayer Studio.
Evening star., 1934-05-15

he had hidden after his escape mile
away. He was badly scratched by
barbed wire and underground through
which he plunged In his flight.
Supposedly handcuffed to two ac-
completes. accused with him of the
Staying of John A. Ball, grocer,
in an attempted hold-up at Dana, Ill,
Saturday night, Okaren was being
transferred to Ottawa after a mob
threatened to lynch them in Dana.