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Evening star., 1934-09-18

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McCarl responded: THE architectural
firm was known as Cass Gilbert, Inc,
and Cass Gilbert. who you report as
having recently died, was very we'll
known architect who had designed and
possibly supervised the construction Of
a number Of monumental buildings in
various sections of the United States.
His son, Cass Gilbert, jr., and John r.
Rockart, the other parties to the con-
tract, were not so well known and
had not the reputation Of architects
possessed by the late Cass Gilbert. 1t
is a well-settled principle of law that
in the case Of obligees a contract may
be SO personal in its character as to
preclude survivorship
The promise or obligation of Cass
Gilbert to design and supervise the
construction of the monumental new
Supreme Court Building is as much
personal in character as that of q
painter Of portraits or any other con-
tract where the other party is to pay
for the skill and experience wholly
personal to the individual employed,
and the rule OF law Is that such con-
tracts, whether joint or several, are
terminated with the death of sole
or joint obligee, who is to render such
personal and skillful services"
McCarl held that the contractual
payment should be made as of the
death Of Gilbert, that his associates
should receive a reasonable allow
ance" for their services from that
time until the termination Of the
contract, and that supplemental
contract should be entered into with
these associates, if so desired, at COM
pensation as deemed proper for work
to be completed.
The new building is to be completed
December IA. It will cost within the
allotted sum of s9.740,000 OF this the
architect fees will run about 100000
or little more.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
NEW YORK ADOPTS
LOTTERY IN RELIEF
Aldermen Approve Measure
Designed to Avoid Anti
Gambling Laws.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, September 1S.-The
Board Of Aldermen by a vote Of so to /
today adopted the city lottery plan as
a means of raising relief revenues.
The lottery bill is so drawn as to get
around the anti-gambling laws. In
stead of cash prizes being given out,
memberships in an association are to
be sold and officers of the association
chosen by lot. These officers will be
paid large salaries and will serve" for
a six-months' term, or until the next
drawing.
Business Incomes Taxed.
BY the same vote the board also
passed bill taxing gross incomes of
business concerns at the rate of one
tenth OF ! per cent. An income tax Of
Is per cent of all Federal income taxes
paid in 1884 was approved unani-
mously
Estimates Of the yield from the
three-point plan vary from S200OO.-
600 to $39 600 900. Mayor La Guardia
said it is ANY ones guess what the
yield will be-"
The mayor has said the city would
need at least S50,000000 for its part
in providing for 100000 destitute fam
lilies during the Winter. He wanted
to raise the money by a one-half of
per cent business tax, but business
men raised such protest the Board
Of Aldermen shelved the idea.
Relief Payments Resumed.
The new financing plan was FORM
ulated by the Local Laws Committee
Of the Board of Aldermen yesterday.
On the assurance of the committee
that the plan would be adopted by
the full board today, Welfare Com
missioner William Hodson earlier or
dered resumption of relief payments
suspended last Friday. A total Of
sS22,000 held up by Fridays order
was ready to be paid to heads OF
families today.
The seriousness Of the relief pro-
blem was further accentuated when
Controller Joseph D. McGoldrick dis
closed that various sinking FUNDS had
been overdrawn S4,273428 to make
good relief checks already issued He
is negotiating with bankers today for
loan Of $10,000,000 to replace the
borrowings from the sinking fund.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
LIBERTY IN PERIL,
SAYS REED AT FAIR
Misscurian Speaks on Constitu.
tion as Record Crowd Visits
Chicago Exhibition.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September l8.-Former
Senator James A. Reed of Missouri
told throng attending a Constitution
day ceremony at the Worlds Fair
that "liberty-the spirit of the Con-
stitution-is not safe in this Republic
today"
At midnight, 359,671 persons had
passed through the exposition gates,
passing the former years high of PA
119 on Sunday, August 26, and nearing
the all-time record of 367,004 on
Labor day Of 1884
The trainers of the Constitution
had seen enough of the paternalistic
government" Reed said last night.
They had studied the pages of his
tory-they knew that power feeds on
power, and that when government
once asserts the right to control the
labor, the property or the habits of
the citizen, it has entered upon the
old and bloody road of despotism."
Evening star., 1934-09-18
PUPILS HUNT GUN |.
IN SCHOOL Staying
Telephone Call Clue to
HeadmaSter'S Death
Is Exploded.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MORTIFIED, Mass, September
1s.-AS boys from the Mount Hermon
School began search Of the woods
today in an effort to find the shotgun
used by the slayer of Dr. Elliott Speer,
headmaster of the school, last Friday
night, one Of the latest possible clues
was exploded.
A telephone call to the headmaster's
home 40 minutes after the shooting,
which had puzzled the detectives, was
explained by M. David Birdsall, pur-
chasing agent of the school. Birdsall,
the first person to reach the house
after word had gone out that DR..
Speer had been shot, said the call was
from Dean Thomas Elder Of the
school.
The shooting was at 800 pm. It
was o'clock when Dean Elder called.
He asked to speak to Dr. Speer, ap-
parently, Mr.. Birdsall thought, to talk
about school matters. DR.. H. H. Welles,
Mrs. Speer's father, who answered the
telephone, refrained from saying any
thing about the shooting.
When Dean Elder insisted that he
must speak to the headmaster, DR..
Welles finally intimated that some
thing had happened Shortly after
ward the dean arrived at the head
masters house.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
DROUGHT CATTLE
SHIPPING HALTED
Kentucky Administrator Says
Rains Improved Conditions
in Stricken Area.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOUISVILLE, KY, September 18.-
Announcement that shipments of cat
tie from Northwestern drought States
had been stopped because conditions
had improved was made here today by
Albert NJ. Woody, deputy administrator
of the Kentucky Emergency Relief
Administration.
Recent rains, he said, had made it
cheaper to ship foot to cattle rather
than for farmers to sell stock to the
Government. Hundreds Of thousands
of head Of cattle already have been
shipped into the South to be fattened
in pastures and then processed for
relief purposes. ..f
Kentucky was to have received
100000 head. and $4,000 already were
in the State and about 5000 en- route
when the order came from Washington
today. Woody said those already here
and en- route would be received.
Evening star., 1934-09-18

Hearings on the code were marked
by skillful legal jousting by Clay Will
liams, representing tobacco manufac-
turers, and Sydney Hillman of the
Labor Advisory Board of N R. A. For
a while there was talk of imposing a
code on the industry. But the to-
bacco men know their way around
Washington too well for that and a
compromise solution is now being
worked out.
N. R. A. is making a point in
the discussions of the fact that
the industry, iphoSe annual profits
are more than 500, 100000, has
1Dage bill of only s35, 900 900. While
the tobacco industry is one OF the
largest in the Nation. it employs
but $4,000 workers at its peak.
Introduction OF labor -Sdping ma
chinery has gone farther in manu-
tdcture of tobacco than in almost
any other industry. A neD ma
chine just put on the market can
turn out 1000 cigarettes minute.
Feed Prices Too High.
Another thing about the drought:
Prices Of feeds have gone much too
high. There is no shortage at all for
two-thirds of the foods we Americans
eat
For most of the remaining foods the
probable shortage will be from to
10 per cent. Only a few foods will
show reduction of over 10 per cent.
If you like cereals, milk, fruit, canned
vegetables or sugar you need not
7orry The drought has not touched
upplies of these foods
Meat consumers will suffer most.
Report any suspicious of price goug-
ing to the Home Economics Division,
Bureau of Agriculture.
All Mr. Roosevelt's personal charm
has failed to make up with Hyde
Park news correspondents for the
fact that the newsmen were misled on
the Eastman, Tugwell and other Hyde
Park pieces.
The newsman closest to Mr.. Roose-
welt is Ernest Lindley of the Repub-
lican New York Herald Tribune.
A high-powered Washington pub
licity man confesses he does not know
his business. Says he: when Mr..
Roosevelt went to the yacht races with
all the swanks, adverse press criticism
was in order. But none came. Ap-
parently Mr.. Roosevelt can do any
thing he pleases and get away with
it."
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Evening star., 1934-09-18
JAPANESE FISHERMEN
ARE SOUGHT IN LUZ0N

By the Associated Press.
MANILA, P. l.. September 18-
Search for the Japanese fishing craft
Hayun Maru. which craft is alleged
to have attacked three Philippine
peace officers, shifted to Northern
LuZon waters today.
Capt. Jose Borbon, constabulary
commander Of the Island of Palawan,
expressed the belief the launch may
have headed back toward Formosa
because of bad weather.
Instructions were promptly dis
patched to authorities of Northern
Luzon Island, nearest Formosa, to be
on the alert for the craft. The cutter
Sandakan continued toward North
Borneo in the quest for the fugitive
launch.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
"KING OF MACEDONIANS
MAY SEEK HAVEN IN U. S.
Ivan Mihailoff, Revolution Chief,
Feels Unsafe in Turkey in
Spite of Guards.

By the Associated Press
ISTANBUL, September 18-"King"
Ivan Mihailoff, erstwhile leader of
Bulgaria's Macedonian revolutionaries,
said yesterday he might seek haven in
the United States.
Asserting he did not feel safe in
Turkey despite the constant guard of
detectives assigned him, Mihailoff,
who reached Istanbul Saturday after
escaping across the Bulgarian border
with his wife, said he was consider
ing four places Of refuge-Italy, Swift
zerland, Great Britain and the United
States.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
ALLEN SUGGESTS
LOTTERY FOR CITY
Would Finance Public Prof.
ects Without Raising
Tax Rate.
Continued From First Page. }

tSOtlJlllucu TTOul r uSG 1dSe.J
would not be surprised If some one
had suggested that bull fighting be
legalized.
Il am opposed to bull fights like
they have in Mexico" interrupted Al
len. Neither the horse nor a bull
has a chance in that game"
Tucker appeared as representative
Of his own organization, the Monday
Evening Club, the board of directors
of Casualty Hospital and the Commit
tee Of 100 of the American Civic Asso-
citation He specifically requested that
the 1886 budget recommendation Of
both the Board of Education and the
trustees of the Public Library be ap-
proved. In addition, he urged in
clusion of a new estimate to provide
added facilities for Eastern High
School, which he said is greatly over
crowded. and an increase from $25 900
to s45 900 in an item for the care of
INDECENT patients at Casualty Hospital.
Questioned on Revenue.
When Tucker finished his testimony
Commissioner Hazen questioned him
as to his plans for raising sufficient
revenue to provide some of the recon-
mended projects that cannot be met
in the coming fiscal year on the basis
of estimated income.
Tucker at the outset said the Fed
eral contribution to the expenses of the
District should be increased to fair
and just basis.
If we find We can't take any more
money from the Federal Government
what would you do?' asked Commis-
Sioner Hazen Would you favor an
increase in the present real estate
tax?"
Tucker declared an increase in the
tax rate would place heavy burden
on the taxpayers, especially small
home owners. He said, however, an
income tax as substitute for the
present tax on intangibles might
throw the burden on a class better
able to stand it.
"A man will fight for his home, but
he won't fight for a boarding house, ~
interrupted Commissioner Allen.
Engineer Commissioner Sultan then
remarked he had been impressed re-
Gently with an argument that people
should be made tax conscious that
they be made to pay some form of tax
irrespective of the amount. The point
was made, Commissioner Sultan said,
that tax conscious" public would be
more careful in urging improvements
that it had to finance directly.
Turning to Maj. Daniel ]. Donovan,
auditor and budget officer. Commis-
sioner Sultan asked:
How many people in the District
pay direct tax?"
Roughly" Donovan replied, "be-
tween 100000 and 100000"
Commissioner Hazen then resumed
Evening star., 1934-09-18
SECOND WILL FILED
Widow Presents Testament of
Iamalar Girri, liar All

Widow Presents Testament Of
Jeweler, Giving Her All.
MIAMI, Fla, September 18 (P-
A second will was introduced in Pro-
bate Court yesterday as the last"
testament Of Vernon Dewitt Carleton,
66, retired West Haven. Conn, jeweler,
who died here September of what
was recorded as self inflicted bullet
wound in his head.
The widow, Mrs. Carolyn Richard
son Carleton, formerly of Barre, VT,
filed a testament, dated August IA,
1880, in which the entire estate, val
ued at more than $4,000 in cash
and property, was bequeathed to her.
The first will entered for probate
was dated June IL, 1884.
Evening star., 1934-09-18

The elder financiers in Wall Street
do not like the idea. They (the
Morgans, for instance) are taking no
part in it. They are sensible enough
to realize that the New Deal is here
for a good long while; that there is
nothing constructive they can do
about it, and, if they want to make
money, they had better adjust them
selves to the unpleasant for them
requirements of the existing situation
The young Turks of the financial
district think differently. Their
names are we'll known among the
Treasury insiders.
Coolidge Sent to New York.
The Treasury got so excited about
the situation last week that Mr.. Nor
genthau sent to New York his able
emissary, Undersecretary Thomas JET
ferson Coolidge.
Mr.. Coolidge made the rounds
OF suspected Short-SellerS, telling
them that they are making mis-
take if they think they can profit
bg selling the NelD Deal short in
the Government bond market.
Mr.. Morgenthau also has pressed
into similar Serr;ce @ NctU Yorker
Uith Dhom he is closely acquainted.
They tUere put TO Uork When Mr..
MOIQenthGu heard that Ne1U
York crolUd dumped some fifteen
millions of Governments on the
market in the middle OF his re-
financing program.
The conspirators do not realize it
but their tactics cannot be anything
more than annoying The upshot OF
it probably will be that they will lose
|! money in fruitless endeavor to en-
barrass the Government
However. you cannot tell them that
They think they will put the New
Deal on the run.
Drought Held Exaggerated.
There have been a lot of exaggera-
tions about the drought. 1t was very
Dad, but not as bad as it was pictured
AS far as national purchasing power
is concerned, its effects certainly have
been overemphasized
Mail-order sales picked up nearly
IS per cent in August over July. They
have their roots in drought years
Department store sales either held
their own or improved. The conclu-
sion from the figures is inescapable
that the drought area (bolstered with
Government handouts) has a pur-
chasing power stronger than last year
The Federal Reserue figures shop
the inder OF department store sales
increased from So to 81 during All
gust in the Chicago district That
may haze been the result of pay
ing of the teachers.
Minneapolis jumped from 81 to
rs, undoubtedly as result OF the
strike settlement
But the others are susceptible to nc
other explanation than generally i'm
proved conditions: Dallas. up from
78; Atlanta, up from 83; Cleveland
up from 60; San Francisco, up
from rs; Philadelphia, up from SO;
New York, up from rs.
"Gentlemen's Agreement" Seen.
A "gentlemen,s agreement" is ex-
pected by inner N R. A. circles to be
the outcome of the pending controversy
over the tobacco code. The code pre-
sented by this billion-dollar industry
has been privately held to be unac-
ceptable because of its failure to pro-
vide for a code authority, low-wage
provisions and lack of mandatory fea-
lures.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
Bicycle Built for T,uo Carries
Baltimore Couple to Altar

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, September 18.-On a
bicycle built for two, a young Balti-
more couple today rode to the church
to become one.
and his bride-to-be, Miss Frances
Boarman, rode to church on a tandem
bicycle to get married.
Not only that-the whole wedding
party pedaled along with them.
1t all started because the groom
Evening star., 1934-09-18

and his best man, Walter Iglehart.
are avid cycling fans. Nothing would
do but that they stage at least a
part Of the wedding on wheels.
Iglehart already had a tandem for
himself and his wife, who is the
matron Of honor, SO out went Pref
singer to get another tandem.
The ceremony was performed at
8 am. in st. Pauls Catholic Church.
There was no hitch in the grange
ments. A group Of bicyclists ac-
companied the party to the church.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
Boat Reported Aground.

SAN FRANCISCO, September 1S
R.-The fishing boat Ohio Number
Three was reported aground near
Pigeon Point, IS miles south Of San
Francisco, In dispatches to the marine
department Of the Chamber of Com
merce here early today. It was pre-
sumed two or three men were aboard.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
New York Bankers Sell
ing u. S. Bonds to
Scare New Dealers.
BY PAUL MALLON.

No one can prove it, but every
financial insider knows that a certain
group of bankers is trying forcibly
and dangerously to show President
Roosevelt the error of his spending
ways.
They are the ones who are selling
Government bonds in large and small
quantities Their purpose is to scare
the New Dealers about their financing
and convince them that they had
better get conservative
Evening star., 1934-09-18
Army Officers Wife Dies.

SAN DIEGO, Calf, September 18
P).-Mrs. Katherine Ballentine, 80,
wife CT Col. Arthur T. Ballentine,
U. S. A., retired, died yesterday at her
home here. She had lived in San
Diego "a years. Surviving are son,
Thomas, 1r,, and a daughter, Kath-
crime.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
Envoy Named to Mexico.

LONDON, September 18 (P.-Jchl
Murray, counselor in the British En-
bassy at Rome, has been named Min
lister to Mexico.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
BANDIT RAIDS REPORTED
Manchurian Dispatch Says IS
Slain by Brigands.

TOXIC, September 18 (R).-At
least l8 persons have been killed in
new outbreaks of banditry in South
eastern Manchuria, it was stated by
a Rengo (Japanese) news agency
dispatch from Mukden today.
Five hundred brigands, operating
like military unit, attacked 20
heavily guarded trucks between Tung-
hua in Southeastern Fengtein province
and Shanchengchen on the Mukden-
Kirin Railway. Two Japanese police
officers and II others were reported
killed.
Evening star., 1934-09-18
SAYS CODE LACKS
PRESIDENTS NAME
AND IS INOPERATIVE

Continued From First Page.)
Evening star., 1934-09-18
U. S. CONTRACT HELD
TERMINATED BY DEATH
OF NOTED ARCHITECT

(Continued From First Page.)
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
New Cork Drama
In Third Big Week
AT Artef Theatre

NEW YORK.-In the play "Yegor
Bulitehev," the mastery hand OF
Maxim Cork has painted the pic
ture Of the class struggle on the
historic border-line between two
epochs in the history Of the Rus
sian ReYolution-1sli.
The play is filed with the intri-
cate and distressing struggle around
the sickness Of the merchant Yegor
Bulitchev. This determines the
dominant tone Of the whole play,
but this Is not q family drama
based on the problems Of everyday
life; it is not a drama on the "eter-
nal shadows" Of life and death. Il
is a vivid social drama Of the ReVo-
luton whose main characteristic is
the fact that the Revolution is
shown from the point OF view Of
bourgeois mentslity-frorn the point
Of view OF the bourgeois attitude
towards Il.
If you have not as yet seen this
master drama, We urge you 10 see
it at the Artef Theatre, Heckscher
Foundation, Fifth Ave, corner OF
l04th st., Saturday and Sunday
evenings at 8:45.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
Western Theatre
Festival to TGke
Place IN Portland

PORTLAND, Oregon.-The West
ern District of the League of Work
ers Theatres will hold a theatre
festival and conference during In
ternational Theatre Week. The af-
fair will be held for two days, Satur-
day and Sunday, Feb. II and 10. On
Saturday a theatre competition will
be held. It will consist of one act
plays, Is minutes being allotted to
each group for preparation Of stage
presentation OF play, and clearing of
stage. The winning groups will be
sent to Chicago to participate in the
National Workers Theatre Festival.
On Sunday, Feb. IS, a conference
will be held. 1t viii start at 10
q. M. and last through the afternoon.
The agenda will follow the lines laid
out for the national affair during
the Eastern Regional Conference,
held Aug. and 6, 1898.
Two delegates from each dramatic
group on the West Coast have been
invited, and one from each writer's,
musicians, artists, and dancers group.
Also one from each mass organiza-
ton.
Dramatic groups from Portland.
Seattle, ana San Francisco have been
invited to participate in the COM
petition. Due to the lack OF prepare
ton, the Portland and Seattle groups
will be unable to take part. Dele
gates to the Conference have been
promised however.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-01-19
LENIN ON CULTURE.,By Clara zefkin

nay arst visit to Lenin's family
w strengthened the impression 1 had
received at the Party conference, and
which in frequent conversations with
him since then, has seen deepened.
It is true that Lenin lived in the
Kremlin, the former tsariSt fortress.
and that one had to pass many guards
before reaching him-a regulation
justified by the counter-revolutionary
attempts on the leaders of the revolu-
ton which were still being made at
that time.
Lenin also received visitors, when it
was necessary, in the State apart
ment. But his private dwelling was
OF the utmost simplicity and unpre-
tentiousness. I have been in more
than one workers home furnished
much more richly than that of the
"al-pOwerful Muscovite dictator" I
found Lenin's wife and sister at sup
per, which I was Immediately and
heartily asked to share. 1t was sim
pie meal, as the hard times de-
manded; tea, black bread, butter.
cheese. Later the sister tried to find
something sweet" for the guest of
honor" and discovered a small jar of
preserves. 1t was well known that the
peasants provided their Ilyitch" with
gifts Of white -four, bacon, eggs, fruit.
etc; but it was also well known that
nothing remained in Lenin's house
hold. Everything found its way to the
hospitals and children's homes:
Lenins family held strictly to the
principle Of not living better than the
others, that is, than the working
masses.
| HAD not seen Comrade Krupskaya,
Lenin's wife, since the Interna-
tional Socialist Women's Conference
at Berne in March, 1915. Her kind
face with its warm, friendly eyes, bore
ineradicable signs OF the malignant
disease which was eating her away
But apart from that, she, too, had re-
manned the same, the embodiment of
sincerity and modesty, of an almost
Puritan simplicity. With her hair
smoothly combed back and tied in an
inartistic knot at the back, in her ILL
fitting dress, one could have taken
her for a fiurried housewife whose
only worry is to save time, to gain
time. The first lady Of the Great
Russian Empire" to bour-
geois ideas and phraseology-is un-
doubtedly the first in willing forget
fulness Of self, in sacrifices for the
cause of the toilers and the oppressed.
The closest community of ideas and
work in life bound her to Ianin.
Impossible to speak of him. without
thinking Of her She was "Lenin's
right hand" his first and best Sec