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Evening star., 1934-07-24
CAPITAL HAS LEAD
IN FISH SURVEY
90 Pounds Per Capita Of Fresh or
Frozen Product Contrasts 15-
Pound Average in U. s.

WashingtonianS consume IL pounds
more fresh fish per year than the
average American.
According 10 a survey Of the Wash
ington fish market. Just completed by
the United States Bureau of Fish
cries. the per capita consumption OF
fresh and frozen fish in the National
Capital last year was 26 pounds. For
the entire United States the average
was only Is pounds.
Even that mark is not as high as
IL was In 1882, when 16 per cent
more fish was eaten in Washington
than during last year. The figures
do not include canned fish or sea
foods.
In 1888 there were % wholesale
fish firms doing business here. They
employed Ill persons and had a total
pay roll of $4,000.
Receipts of fresh and frozen fishery
products at the municipal wharf
amounted to 9.572,Oo0 pounds. AL
though this was far below the 1882
receipts, it was per cent more than
the average for the past five years.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
REFINERY CLOSED

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. July -
l7l.-Caued out on strike, more than
100 employees at the Wilson & Co.
cottonSeed oil refinery failed to re-
port today and the plant was closed.
The men were allied out on strike
late yesterday after c. F. How. gen.
eral manager of the plant. reported
to a committee of union representa-
tives that he did not have authority
to act on demands for an increase
in pay ranging from 20 TO 80 per
cent
Evening star., 1934-07-24
FARM UNIT SHORT
ONEXPEND|TURES
Audit Shows Sum Is $780,
900, 900 Behind Schedule.
Tax Total 1853, ,048,79
Nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Figures released yesterday by the
Federal Farm Administration show it
has fallen 00000 900 short of its
spending schedule, and officials are
disappointed that they cannot spend
faster the one third of a billion dol
lars paid by American consumers to
finance the reduction of farm acre
ages in the fiscal year just ended.
An audit Of the organizations books
showed collections from processing
and compensating taxes during the
year totaled $353,048, 1876. OF this,
$3l7 PAT, AGA was spent In benefit pay
ments to farmers, removal of sur
pluses and administrative expenses.
leaving $35 ,801, 1892 for the credit side
OF the ledger.
Expense Estimate s542,910,442.
OF the expenditures, $228, ,663. .676
was poured out as rental and benefit
payments in return for the retire
ment Of about 10000. 900 acres from
production. The controllers Office
had estimated that expenditures for
the fiscal year would total $542,910,-
442. 1t figured also that tax collec-
tons would approximate $409 ,0l9, ,450.
This expected tax total, plus the
$37 200. 900 allocated to the A. A. A
from national industrial recovery act
funds last year would have given the
administration $446,0I9.450 with
which to meet the more than half
billion of estimated expenditures.
Thus If 1t had adhered to its spend
ing schedule the administration would
have ended the year with a deficit of
$500, ,961 instead of the balance of
$35. .80l 1892.
Most of the failure to spend as
rapidly as anticipated was attributed
by them to unexpected delays in
drafting and applying the corn-hog
reduction program.
Sl39,525,S59 to Cotton Growers.
On June 80, cotton producers in 1s
States had received $139. .525.359:
wheat growers in 81 States, $68, $685.
433; tobacco growers in % States,
$l2,S6l ,632; with the remainder 60
ing TO corn-hog farmers in Is States.
Payments include Maryland, $685.
500 and Virginia, $1,122.722.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
RETIRED D. c. POLICEMAN
DIES IN NAVAL HOSPITAL
John E. Lightfoot, SO, Had Been
Patrolman in Brightwood
Section.

tired from the Metropolitan Police
force ls years ago died last night in
the Naval Hospital after an illness of
several weeks
Lightfoot. who was a veteran CT the
Spanish-American War, moved from
Washington to Ashburn. Va. upon his
retirement, May !. 1915 His service
was terminated by i'll health. Recently
his wife brought him to Naval Hospital
here and went to Falls Church. Va.
to live. so as to be near her husband
Lightfoot was we'll known in the
Brightwood section. where he was a
patrolman for many years.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
FOES Of LANCER
FIGHT FOR QUORUM
Friends OF Governor Seek
Support to Clear North
Dakotan.
~ the Associated Prsts

~ the Assor4sted PrstH.
BIBMARCK. ~. OAK. july "a
North Dskoiss legislators today sought
a auficisnt ma iority 10 function as
an impeschinF body.
~. hopes of a quorum in the Sen
ate apparently have been abandoned,
although II Vss voted 10 meet once
more today
strengthened ny an opinion by At
tornsy General r o Ssthre that the
House could convene a. an impeach-
ins body only. the determined Rep
resentatives left the statehouse Mon
day intent upon bringing back enough
members TO establish a quorum and
the right 20 vote on resolutions today.
Only So Representatives answered the
roll call Monday. while 81 we're need
ed for a quorum.
Pending concentration OF that
strength, a resolution appointing a
committee 10 investigate the Lndict-
Tnent and conviction OF William Lam
ger. ousted Governor rested inactive
In the files OF the Speaker
The Impeachment proceedings would
serve as the basis for a complete leg
islatYe investigation OF the admin
istration Of Gov LANCER, his conYic-
tion in the Federal court on a charge
OF soliciting funds from relief work
ers, and the method and manner OF
political contributions for campaign
purposes in the State II was noted
by observers that with a friendly
legislature, the LANCER administration
undoubtedly would be given a clean
slate.
A resolution which may be intro
duced in the House today includes
orders 10 air graft charges In State
government made by United States
Senator Gerald p. Nye of North Da-
kota.
LANCER asked for investigation OF
the Nye charges in a statement issued
earlier in the day.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
CHICAGO RACE BOATS
ARRIVE AFTER STORM
First Crosses Finish Line "a
Hours Following Michigan
Contingent.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MACKINAC ISLAND. Mich, July
24,-The Sailboat BimeSa of Toledo,
SAppered by Milton knight, crossed
the line here today. the first of the
contestants in the Chicago to- MacH-
nae sailboat race to finish. She ap-
peared almost "a hours after the first
boats in the Port Huron -Mackinac
contest arrived yesterday, although
both races started simultaneously.
Head winds and heavy seas de-
layed the Chicago contingent.
Behind Bimesa came Lynn Williams
Elizabeth of Chicago and John P. Will
sons Malabar x of Charlevoix. Mich.
Elizabeth was favored to win on cor
rected time over BimeSa.
The last of the Port Huron -Macki-
nae boats arrived late yesterday and
a check Of the sailing time showed
Baccarat of Detroit the winner in
class A, with Trident, Detroit, Sec
ond. Nawanna of Detroit won first
honors on elapsed time in class B.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Marriage Hit Foot Ball Team.

MURRAY, KY. (Pl.-The marriage
bug following the Murray State Col
lege foot ball team has caught up to
Clint Bugg. tackle-he has been mar
ried to the former Miss Ellen Roberts.
Seven other members of the team,
which won the Southern intercol-
legiate championship last year, are
married
Evening star., 1934-07-24
GREGG TO BE SPEAKER

Weather Chief on Cornell Club
Luncheon Program.
Willis r. Gregg. chief OF the
Weather Bureau here, will be guest
speaker at a luncheon of the Cornell
Club of Washington Thursday at
1890 pm. inaugurating a series of
Summer luncheon meetings.
Edward Holmes, president Of the
club. will preside at the luncheon.
which Is to be held at the University
Club
Evening star., 1934-07-24
BROADWAY IDENTIFIES
FUGITIVE AS GANGSTER
Capture of Shooting Suspect
Leads TO Rumors He Is
Dillinger Ally.
BY the Associated Press.

nN INC ANSpNldAEl EAVSS.
NEW YORK. July 24-Theater
crowds on Broadway we're startled last
night by detectives in pursuit of John
Cavagnalo. IS. who vas captured
after the officers had fired two shots
In the air
The fugitive darted into a crowded
restaurant. and the detectives, pistols
in their hands, Strode in after him.
AS they emerged with Cavagnalo.
who was sought on a charge of fe-
lonious assault. rumor spread through
the rapidly growing crowd that Fed
eral agents were on the trail of Du-
linger gangsters.
He was variously identified as John
Hamilton. Baby Face" Nelson and
Homer Van Meter. and as the rumors
spread they became more exaggerated
Cavagnalo is accused OF shooting
Nicholas Malain July during a res
taurant quarrel.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
SIX DIE AS GERMAN
DROUGHT IS BROKEN
Sudden Storms Bring Relief to
Farmers, but Swamp Boats
and Block Roads.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN. July 24-Heavy thunder
storms over the week end ended the
protracted drought in many sections
Of Germany.
Six persons were believed to have
perished as sudden squalls swamped
boats.
While the rain soaked parched
fields. hail in the vicinity of Bacha-
rach, on the Rhine, ruined the vintage
OF many vineyard terraces and caused
numerous landslides which blocked
roads.
A forest fire menacing an extensive
region near Settin was extinguished
by a cloudburst.
A passenger aboard a Rhine River
steamer was swept overheard and
five persons overtaken by the storm
in small boats on Lake Constance
near Lindsu are believed to have
persisted.
In Berlin easements were flooded
and slippery pavements were the
cause of numerous traffic accidents.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Gets 80 Months.

STAUNTON. Va, July "a (SpeciaD g..
M. w. YIELDS, arrested in Staunton
last week at request of Winchester
officers. was given a sentence of six
months in peniteniary on each of five
charges of obtaining money on false
pretenSeS running conSecutively. He
will serve two and a half years.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Escaped Deer "Homesick." "

GREENSBURG, Pa. lP).-A doe,
Peggy, which escaped last January
from Idlewild Park, couldn't resist the
temptation to visit home" Park at
taches saw Peggy near the cages,
hobnobbing with the confined deer,
but when they called her, she scamp
cred of into the woods.
Evening star., 1934-07-24
Plans Outing Tomorrow

The Southeast Business Mems As
Socistion will hold its annJsl outing
at Chapel Point Md, tomorrow. when
large group Of persons from that
section Of the city will attend Many
prizes have been arranged for contests.
Evening star., 1934-07-24

is superintendent of Sunday school
at Grandfield Norwegian Lutheran
Church.
The family radio doesn't work, and
rural mail delivery is slow with daily
papers, but Mrs. Olson is sure "Ole
will do the sensible thing-he always
does"
Evening star., 1934-07-24
SPENDING CALLED
KEY TOU.S. RELIEF
Street Says $1,000 FAM
lilies Would Be Aided by
Private Projects.

Fifteen thousand families on the
relief rolls, which have employable
persons among them, could be re-
moved from relief to a large extent
If washingtonians would only spend
what they can spend Director OF
Public Welfare E.vood Street said in
a radio address last night
He said the expenditure should go
in three main ways TO help relieve
unemployment: First. in purchasing
the products of industry and business
through retail stores; second by
building construction. repair and reno
vation, and third by employing do
mestic help and personal services.
1T is quite true" he said, that
these forms of expenditure would cost
money, but they are better than relief.
Relief is costing Washington $4,000 600
this year in taxes. plus whatever pro-
portion of Federal relief funds, which
probably will come somewhere around
Sc 900 900 this year, is paid in taxes
by Washingtonians into the Federal
Treasury.
Jobs Better Than Relief.
Employment also would be better
than relief because of the morale OF
the unemployed. There is no suosti-
tute for work, and relief Is a poor
substitute anyway for the necessities
and comforts of life which are pro-
duced by real jobs. Relief cannot
possibly be adequate.
1T is true that more than II 600
OF those who are now receiving relief
are doing some form of useful work
earnings are limited to what they re-
ceive on their relief budget. Much of
this work, while desirable, Is not
vitality and Immediately necessary, and
the money would not be spent for 1t
If it did not have to be spent in re-
lief anyway"
Street praised the work of the
Emergency Relief Division, and said
that at the moment it is engaged in
a reduction of personnel, which means
$50 employees, largely in the clerical
klOuPs diC bClllS dlOpr)CNs
Discusses Corporation.
Speaking of the new District Re
habilitation Corp, he said: "One of
its purposes is to develop groups OF
people who will carry on useful and
advantageous activities which will
make the relief that is available go
farther than otherwise would be the
case and to help get these people off
the relief lists.
Another purpose of this rehabili-
tation corporation is the development
of rural rehabilitation. I quite
frankly believe many of the people
now receiving relief because of un-
employment in Washington never can
be absorbed into industry. Many peo-
pie have been brought here to work
on various building projects and left
here when the buildings were done.
Washington cannot be expected to
absorb them. We must look forward
to a return of considerable number
of the unemployed, either to their
own homes or communities, or to
other farming developments where
they will be self-sustaining and live
at least more adequately than they
now do under our limited relief
funds"
Evening star., 1934-07-24
1900 ARE JAILED
IN AUSTRIAN PLOT.
Socialists, Communists and
Nazis Said to Have
Merged Forces.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
VIENNA. July 24.-Twelve hundred
Socialists were arrested today and
herded into a former coach building
plant in connection with an alleged
plot to overthrow the Dollfuss govern
ment. 1t was the biggest roundup
Of political prisoners since the bloody
February civil war.
Political police were picking up
threads of evidence which they said
indicated Socialists, Communists and
Nazis had merged into a common
front for campaign of terror against
the Fascist government.
A government spokesman explained
most of the arrests were merely pre-
ventative." pending a search of sus-
poets homeS for explosives and in
eliminating documents.
Those whose connection with a plot
cannot be established will be re-
leased within few days" he said.
Foes Work Together.
This spokesman asserted lines diff
ferentiating Communist, Socialist and
obliterated and they all seem to be
working more or less together"
Government circles also suggested
that the new "terroristic front'has a
common source of money and ex-
plosives in Germany.
Other quarters closely watching the
outcome of the court-martial of three
Socialists recently captured in con-
nection with a railway dynamiting
expressed belief the wholesale arrests
Of Socialists means police are trying
to forestall retaliatory actions by
radicals in case the bombers are
hanged
Seen as Tool Of Nazis.
Government newspapers are sug-
geSting editorially that Socialists no
longer have any reason to oppose the
Dollfuss government, claiming the
February defeat showed such a pro-
cedure to be hopeless and that any
Socialists involved in current diSor-
ders are risking the gallows merely
''as paid agents of Nazi terrorists."
Chancellor Dollfuss recently opened
drive on Nazis. reorganizing the
government to give himself added
military powers. A decree established
the death sentence for possession of
explosives.
Nazis allegedly have carried on a
widespread bombing and sabotage
campaign against the government,
but Socialists have been under cover
since February. when they were
crushed in fighting that cost scores of
lives.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
100000 STILL WORK
ON ROADS PROGRAM
Federal Aid Totals 5000, 900, 600
1856 Projects Now Are
Reported Completed.

About 100000 men are still en-
ployed on road, street and highway
improvements of every description
made under Federal loans and grants
Of nearly 100000 to municipali-
ties throughout the country, it was
announced yesterday. During the en-
tire period of construction to date, a
great many more men have found a
lvlihood.
indicative of the vast amount of
employment and activity created in
the heavy industries by the Govern
ment road-building program alone is
the report of the Bureau of Labor
Statistics of the Labor Department
showing that 27,525, 900 worth of
materials had been purchased ND TO
July IS. The bureaus figures, it was
said, includes only materials for in
Stallation in roads and does not !ndi-
cate the amount of indirect and in
dustrial employment created by pur-
chases of machinery or by transporta-
ton of materials.
Under the supervision of the Bureau
OF Public Roads, the Government Is
building $400,000,00O worth of main
highways and feeder roads that are
q part of the Federal aid system OF
good roads, $15,0o0,00O worth of roads
in national parks and S5,000.OCO
worth on public lands. On August
18, latest available date, 267 ,227 mer
were directly employed on 3,944 prof.
ectS at an estimated cost of $248 GEO.
600 for the 1000 miles under COLI
struction. 1t was also reported that
1856 projects had been completed al
a cost of approximately $I40 ,0O0. 900
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Mar, Shot Refusing
Beer After 2 Am.
VIII Lose License
Revocation Is Ordered
by City Heads on s-
A. B. c. Charge.
ORGANIZED LABOR AND Fl

Although he suffered a gunshot
wound in the arm recently for refus-
ing to sell beer to customer after the
legal closing hour, Abraham Lipshutz,
200 block of Fourth street southwest,
must give up his license for violating
the closing hour rule.
The Commissioners yesterday or
dered the revocation of the 80 beer
license held by Lipshutz, on a charge
that he had sold beer after 2 am.
The complaint was made early last
month by the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board. Notice was served on the
lunch room proprietor. After 2 am
August Is, a colored bandit entered
the place, demanding drink, and
when Lipshutz refused to sell to him,
pulled out a pistol and started shoot
ing. A bullet struck Lipshutz in the
arm.
The city heads ordered the permit
revoked, however, because of the ear
lier violation.
The Commissioners yesterday up
held the action of the A. B. C. Board
in revoking the "on sale" liquor license
of Henry Kallinsky, 300 block of
Fourteenth street southwest, who was
charged with selling after legal hours,
selling on Sunday and selling liquor
to be taken from the place by pur-
chasers.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
ADMIR-. R. H. LEIGH
RETIRED BY ILLNESS
Chief of Staff for Navy in World
War Ends Al Years
of Service.

Rear Admiral Richard H. Leigh,
who held three of the highest offices
in the Navy during a career of Al
years on land and sea, was retired
yesterday for physical disability. He
left his home in Washington a few
weeks ago and is now residing in
Chicago.
Admiral Leigh, a noted authority on
naval armaments, has been in i'll
health for some time and was due,
in a few years, for statutory retire
ment. During the World War he
served as chief of staff for Admiral
Sims; received the Distinguished Serv-
ice Medal, and was decorated by the
British and Belgian governments.
The retiring admiral saw active
service aboard the Princeton during
the Spanish War and par
ticipated in the Philippine, Cuban
and Boxer troubles. At the outbreak
Of the World War he was in command
of the first feet of submarine chasers
built to combat the German sub
marine menace
At various times since he has served
as chief of staff of the Battle Force,
chief of the Bureau of Navigation and
has commanded the battleships of the
Battle Force He also served as chair
man of the Navy's General Board.
Admiral Leigh is native of Pa
nola County, Miss, and was born
August IL, 1870. He graduated from
the Naval Academy in 1891 and from
the Naval War College in 1925.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
DISTRICT PLANTS
ONLY 6,669 TREES
Fewer Are Set Out Along Capt.
tails Streets During Past
Year.

Only $500 trees were planted in
permanent positions along Washing
tons streets during the year ended
June 80, Clifford Lanham, superin-
tendent Of trees and parkingS, ad-
vises the Commissioners in his an
nual report.
Comparative figures were not
listed, but in years before the de-
preston the total planted each year
was much greater and at times some
trees had to be purchased from pri-
vate nurseries because the Districts
nursery stock was exhausted.
In contrast to this, Lanham reports
that the Fort Dupont and Poplar
Point nurseries Of the District now
are well stocked after meeting de-
mands of the past year.
On June 80 there were 1852
trees in the established lines along
the streets, a net increase of 4,845
over the total of the preceding June
80.
Civil works employees last Spring
were assigned to the digging Of 4.997
tree holes for the department in con-
nection with its tree-planting pro-
gram.
During the year 2,225 trees were
removed. OF these 428 we're de-
stroyed by storms, 81 by automobiles,
80 were killed by escaping illumi-
mating gas, 129 by drought, 80 by
abnormal moisture and % by sewer
gas.
Tree surgery was resorted to by the
department to save Al trees, at a cost
Of $l,987.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
SIGHTSEEING TRIP
COSTS BOYS LIFE
,Youngster Falls From Truck.
:. :. .eeHs -,isss iSAsss
Girl Killed on HomeWard
Journey.

The body of Newotn Bell, 9-year-old
son of Joseph D. Bell, of Philadelphia
who was killed yesterday when he
plunged through hole in the floor OF
his fathers moving van, was sent to
his home last night for burial Tues
day, while that of 11-year-old Peggy
Detweiler, killed about the same time
in an automobile accident on the Red
land-Norbeck pike, in nearby Mont
gomery County, was scheduled for re-
moval tomorrow to Easton, Pa.
Newton was killed instantly at Sixth
and Massachusetts, avenue northeast
when he stepped or fell into a hole
in the rear of the truck, and was
caught by the wheels and dragged.
He had left his seat to get a better
view of a statue in Stanton Park.
On Sightseeing Trip.
With his father, Joseph D. Bell, SO,
5136 Market street, and a year older
brother, Harold, he had been riding
about town sightseeing. They had re-
Gently delivered a load of furniture in
the city and planned spending an hour
before returning home.
Notified of the tragedy by phone,
the boys mother tainted.
The hole had been covered by heavy
canvas, but during the unloading had
been pushed aside.
Unnerved by the accident, the
father could not drive back to Phila-
delphia and it was necessary for his
brother, Thomas Bell, to come here
by train.
The young girls body was to be
sent to the home of relatives in
Easton for burial, it was said. Peggy's
home was at Bell Harbor, Long Island.
Starting Back Home.
With the two brothers, Albert, 9,
and Perry, IL, Peggy had spent her
vacation on the farm of Mrs. Dora
Bradley, near Gaithersburg, Md, who
was driving them to the railroad sta
ton for the return trip home when
the car careened of the highway,
striking tree. Peggy's skull was frac-
tured, resulting in her death in the
Montgomery County Hospital while
other occupants of the car were
treated for minor hurts.
Mrs. Bradley told police apparently
something went wrong with the steer
ing apparatus.
Montgomery County police said a
nearing was expected to be held later.