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Evening star., 1934-04-01
BY GEORGE HoYT SMITH.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
YACKSONVIII,E Fla March

special Dispatch to The Star.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla, March "a.
The Florida State Press As
sociation last week memorial
- lied the Governor of Florida to
restrain the treasury from pay
ing out 100000 to members Of the
association for publication of delin-
quent tax lists made up Of property,
which had aEeady been advertised
previously and certified as sold to the
State. Newspapers in 81 counties, to
which would be assigned publication Of
these lists, under recent act of the
Legislature, declined the $500. 900 in
volved. declaring that it was simply
waste Of public funds. unnecessary and
undesirable. The provision in the tax
law involved which called for re-
advertising the delinquent properties
which were already certificated was
suggested as a mistake and inad-
vertently placed in the statute. The
publishers were congratulated upon
their move by Gov. Sholtz, who added
congratulations to the people In hav-
ing secured this saving Of public
money.
How Florida Is trying to help out
with the market basket Of the country
in Winter, supplying q lot Of fresh
vegetables for places less favored by
the climate. Is shown in a statement
from Flagler Beach, which told Of
shipments from Bon Terra Farms Of
IL tons Of cabbage and 800 dozen
punches Of beets and carrots per day
during the week.
In the Haw Greek section Of Flag
Ter County George Allen reports that
having begun digging his 400-acre po-
tato patch, he finds them almost en-
tirely No. l size. One hundred per
cent No. Is will mean good money
tor Mr.. Allen, and, of course. there are
other farmers in that section also get
ting fine crops. The cabbage crop in
Florida is remarked as double that Of
last year.
Russia, contemplating extensive cul-
tivation Of citrus fruits in the Cau-
casus and along the Black Sea, has
representatives Of the All Union Sub
tropical Committee of the u s. s. R.
in Florida at this time, looking over
the nurseries and experiment stations
where citrus trees are started and
grown to replant. They are now in
Evening star., 1934-04-01
Iowa Sales Tax
Grips Attention
OF Business Men

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DES MONIES, Iowa, March
31.-The manner in which the
new 2 per cent Iowa sales tax
will be applied is holding the at
tention of Iowa business men.
The tax Is to be levied, begin
ming April 1. Under its provi-
sions the retailer Is required, as
far as practicable, to add the
tax to the sale price and is for
hidden to advertise that he is
absorbing the tax.
The principal difficulty Is being
encountered in cases where the
tax, figured exactly, would in
clude fractional cents.
It is expected that the State
Board Of Assessment and Review
will rule that no tax Is to be
paid on purchases under IA
cents: that / cent be paid on
articles costing from IS to IS
cents and 2 cents on articles
costing from 66 to 80 cents.
That Iowa Republicans are
concerned over the 1884 election
was admitted here this week by
Mayor Edwin Manning Of Of
tumwa, speaking before the Polk
County Republican Women's As
sociation.
What is the ordinary Con-
gresham and Republican cam
paign worker going to tell the
once Republican farmer who now
is getting almost monthly checks
from corn, hog and other Gov
ernment schemes?" Manning
asked.
That farmer, he said. twill
receive something over $500 just
a few days before the November
election. I repeat, what are we
going to tell him? How can he
be returned to the ranks?"
Mayor Manning's suggestion
was a thorough organization Of
the Republican party in every
precinct.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
Fiery Cross Atop
Mountain Beacon
For Easter Pageant

By the Associated Press.
LAWTON, Okla, March 31.-
A blazing cross atop on Oklaho-
ma Mount Calvary beckons thou
sands to witness an Easter sun
rise service from a natural
amphitheater in the Wichita
Mountains, near Medicine Park.
More than 500 persons will take
part In depicting the Life Of
Christ" in IA tableaux.
The service was inaugurated
eight years ago by Rev. A. M.
Wallock, pastor of the Congrega-
tional Church here. He hopes
to develop an American Passion
Play" which will require three
days to present and the partici-
patton Of more than 1000 per-
sons.
Each year the service has ex-
panded and has drawn greater
audiences. Last year. 1t was
estimated more than 10000 per-
Bulls WlttlcbScQ IilC Inb1CouA
presented at that time.
The cross was lighted on Good
Friday. The affairs and shrines
along the path leading upward
to the cross will be lighted In
the early morning.
The first tableau presented
will be a reproduction Of Andrea
Del Sarto's Nativity" by students
of the Fort Sill Indian School.
Then the Madonna and Child
will appear while Holy Night" Is
sung.
Other tableaux will portray
THE Rock Of Ages" Da Vinci's
THE Last Supper" In which a
lighted chalice will indicate the
presence Of the Savior; Christ
at Prayer in the Garden Of Geth-
semane." THE Betrayal" THE
Judgment" THE March to CAL
vary" The Cruciflxion, Burial
and Resurrection Of Christ" and
THE Sermon on the Mount"
Evening star., 1934-04-01
THIRD OF POPULATION
OF TOWN ON SKATES
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
HASTINGS, Nebr.-With about a
third of this towns population on
wheels, merchants are facing a short
age of roller skates.
From first graders to high school
seniors, the public school pupils have
chosen this method Of transportation.
Hastings college students skate to
classes, they skate the mile and a
half from the campus to the business
district and they follow paved high
ways miles into the country.
It all started when Miss Clara Alt
man, dean Of women at the college,
decided to work few skating parties
into the college social program.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
NEWL|NKSF0UND
IN MANS GROWTH
Yale Expeditions Report
Reveals Discoveries in
Northern India.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, March 81
Discovery Of new links in the evolu-
ton of man-links represented by the
fossils of apes believed closer to man
than any previously known-was an
nounced today by Yale University.
The fossils were brought back by
the Yale North India expedition,
which returned recently from a year
in the field under the direction Of
Prof. Hellmut De Terra, research as
sociate in Yale's Peabody Museum Of
Natural History.
Five fossil Jaws, each retaining two
or three teeth, as well as several in
dividual teeth. we're uncovered by
G. Edward Lewis, paleontologist for
the expedition.
New Species Is Found.
Investigation of the antfropoid
fossils" the report said, reveals the
presence of a new species belonging
to a known genus, and three new
genera, two of which probably repre-
sent much closer approximation to
the 'homidae' of the main trunk Of
mans evolution than any other genera
so far recorded"
One OF the new genera was named
"Ramapithecus," after Rama, hero Of
the sanskrit epic, "Ramayana," and
the other "Sugrivapithecus." after
Sugriva, king Of the monkeys in the
Saga
THE jaw of 'Sugrivapithecus' indi-
Gates that the animal had we'll de-
veloped chin, a sign of high evolu-
ton" Lewis said.
THE chin is more like that which
we might expect in a primitive man,
but 1t is not known in any Of the
living great apes. The chin does not
project as it does in man. but Is not
as sloping as that of the forilla or
the chimpanzee.
Tooth Row v-Shaped.
"The upper jaw of 'Ramapithecus'
shows that its tooth row, instead of
being U-shaped. with parallel sides,
as is found in the living great apes,
approaches a rounded v with di-
vergent sides, as is found in man.
The third genus was named
"Bramapithecus," after Brahma, the
first of the Hindu Trinity"
Lewis said these finds tend to con-
firm the theory that higher primates
originated in the section about North
ern India, and from there migrated
into China, Java, Asia Minor, Africa
and Europe. They never have been
found in North or South America.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
Newspapers Reject $5OO,OOO
To Readuertise Levy Lists
Florida State Press association Me.
nOriaIizes Governor of State to With.
hold Payment as "Waste."

Brooksville, and are remarked as hav.
ing already purchased thousands Of
young trees and much budding stock.
Announcement Of plans for con-
struction Of q 100000 resort hotel
In the lower East Coast section Is one
of the echoes of rising prosperity in
Florida. Real estate sales involving
two large apartments in Central Flor
ida suggest increasing activity OF real
estate. Bank clearings for the State,
the Clearing House Association, includ-
ing Jacksonville. Pensacola. Tampa,
Lakeland and Winter Haven, reported
transactions for February as showing
a total OF $55,425, ,769. The clearings
Of February, 1888, amounted to s47.-
764.9227s.
Candidates are popping up all over
the State for the many positions to be
filled this year in the November elec-
ton. The majority Of them are, Of
course, expecting to go before the
Democratic primary in June. 1t seems
probable that there will be half
dozen candidates aspiring to the NOM
ination for United States Senator. the
term Of Senator Trammell expiring
this year. There will also be a num-
Der of contests for seats in the ma
tional House Of Representatives.
The campaign Is now regularly on,
with speech making and canvassing
by various aspirants for State and
county positions. Registration is 60
ing on In the various counties, a new
poll list being made up every two
years.
With $4,000 allotted Fort Pierce
for the construction of new post Of
fee. competition Is now being noted in
an attempt to locate the building, sew
eral offers having been of free sites.
The property offered is estimated in
value from l,500 to $4,000.
Interest Is being directed to the ma
tional amaryllis show of the national
association, to be held in Orlando
April and 4. There will be dis
played exhibits of amaryllis by grow
ers coming from all parts OF the
United States and Hawaii. The United
States Department of Agriculture will
probably have the largest and finest
display yet arranged at any fair. The
annual meeting of the Amaryllis As
ISOLATION of America will hold its an
nual meeting in Orlando. 1t is COM
posed Of hundreds of members in
% States.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
speciai Dispatch to The Star.

6peclal Dl5pdLCn 10 lnc 6tdT.
= y ANSAS CITY. Mo, March 81
" N.A.N.A).-After tJmultu-
n GUS day at the polls, in which
i - four persons were slain and
many others slugged, Tom
Pendergast's Democratic machine re-
mains out In front-but not quite so
far in front as four years ago. when
1t won all eight seats Of the Council
and the mayors Office
The citizens fusion ticket this year
emerged with two Council seats and
Pendergast became openly cognizant
Of the growing rift in his organiza-
ton. One Of the places won by the
fusionists resulted from a knitting" by
the adherents Of Peter J. Kelly. a
Democratic lieutenant, Of rival
lieutenant's candidate.
Much Of the violence at the polls
was attributed 10 rowing bands Of
Italians under the leadership Of Joe
Evening star., 1934-04-01
PENDERCAST KEEPS HOLD
ON KANSAS CITY POLITICS
Democratic Leader Is Facing Fight
as Fusionists Win Two Council
Seats in Turbulent Voting.

Lusco, a Kelly man. Unhampered by
the Pendergast-con police, the
terroriZers rode around in big motor
cars, displaying machine guns and
other firearms.
Contemplates Coalition.
Last Fall Kelly definitely broke OF
mis- alignment with Joseph B. Shan
non, Rabbit" chieftain and Repre-
sentative in Congress. But in this
member Of the Gas" Welch group,
and therein lies the seat Of the entire
internal strife of the Democratic
power house.
WEIGH, unfriendly to both II. F.
McElroy. city manager and storm CEN
ter Of the recent campaign, and Eu-
gene Reppert, director Of police, is
said TO be contemplating a Council
coalition that would oust both. Welch
controls two seats, which. aligned with
the two fusionists, would give him
half the Council votes. Whether he
could obtain another vote Is question:
able.
The campaign Of terrorism by gun
men has aroused great public indigna-
ton. John Lazia, the recognized
North Side leader, said "other Ital-
ians" and not his workers, we're re-
sponsible for the brutality exhibited
around the voting places. He Is
sharp rival of Lusco. his former chief
lieutenant, and is friend Of McElroy
and Reppert.
Park Answers Criticism.
One of the persons slain was a
deputy sheriff and, as a result, Sheriff
Thomas B. Bash has started o clean
up of "all known hoodlums."
I'm a Democrat" the sheriff said,
"but I'll not be Democrat, Repub-
lican or fusionist if the political
parties or groups permit such crimes
to be committed without doing their
best to catch the criminals. We're
going to the bottom of these crimes.
I don't care about politics"
Gov. Park of Missouri, who was
hoisted into Office by the Pendergast
organization a year ago last Fall from
the circuit bench in Platte County,
termed as malicious hbel'' criticism
that he failed to take steps to prevent
the election day disturbances that re-
suited in bloodshed.
Pendergast Faces Fight.
1.-THE truth is did direct the proper
officials to use every precaution and
assembled ample force to see to it that
an honest election, free from dis
turbances, was conducted" the Gov
ernor said. When election officials
selected by the Election Board and
deputy sherifs in the performance Of
their duties are shot down by lawless
bands, an attempt to fix the blame on
those officials or their superiors in
Office is reprehensible."
Pendergast, who controls his ma
chine by personal services in the form
of post-election favors, is facing the
biggest fight of the last eight years.
Whether he can hold his dominant
organization intact in the face of
these setbacks remains to be seen.
Before he has kept his factional
leaders in line with election spoils, but
it Is doubtful If he will continue to
extend a protecting arm to Gas"
WEIGH. WEIGH has been a sort of tail
on the Pendergast kite for years and
by reason Of the hook-up was counted
in under the distribution of two-thirds
of the patronage that goes to that
faction.
(Copyright. 1884, by the North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)
Evening star., 1934-04-01
James Mcneil Whistler's famous

James Mcneil Whistler's famous
painting, arrangement in Gray
and Bldck"-familiarly knoDn as
1.-THE Portrait OF My Mother"-
iDtH be used on the Mothers day
stamps Which ,riH 90 on sale on
May I. The original nop hangs
in the LOUVRE in Paris. 1t yas not
placed in the museum, hoWeUer,
until 1924-10 years after the date
on Which it Uds due to haze been
hung there under the terms OF its
sale to the French government.
Wilbur Forrest, pho in 1924 was
the New York Herald Tribune's
Paris correspondent. tells in the
JolloDing article hoD France broke
its promise to the artist and later
gaze his picture prominent place
in its greatest museum.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
MICHIGAN LIQUOR
SALEPROF|T HUGE
Commission Has Turned
Over $500, 900 to Be Lent
Needy School Districts.
BY r. P. HUBBART.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the ASSOClateo FIess
DETROIT, March 31.-Having sold
100000 bottles Of liquor and wine In
its first two months of operation. with
total receipts of $1.226 900, the Mich
igan Liquor Control Commission be-
lieves 1t can lay claim to operating
one of the States biggest businesses.
Furthermore, the commission has
on hand merchandise with a whole
sale value of $2,so7 800, which it ex-
poets to retail for s3,sOO,0o0. 1t owes
to distillers and wholesalers s2,4oo,-
900. due to its policy. as explained by
Chairman Frank A. Picard, of buying
on the cuff and selling for cash."
Net profits during the first two
months of operation are given in the
commissions initial financial report
as $65l BOT, including license fees for
liquor by the glass establishments
and beer gardens and taxes on beer.
The profits from liquor sales aggre-
gated s25l 300.
Net Profits 20 Per Cent.
The report stated net profits were
20 per cent and overhead costs 10
per cent, but State Auditor John K.
Stack, jr., at whose request the flnan-
cial statement was drafted, announced
he was far from satisfied with the
figures supplied.
He asked particularly that the re-
ceipt figures be broken down to show
the volume of sales at retail and the
sales at wholesale to license holders,
who are required to make their pur-
chases through the commission.
The Liquor Commission thus far
has turned s500,000 over to the State.
to be lent needy school districts. and
Stack said this was far less than had
been expected.
Stores Being Added.
During the legislative discussion
preceding enactment of the liquor
control law, 1t was predicted the
Liquor Commission would turn ST.
100000 a month over to schools. Pic
ard, however, has said the commits
sion had no more than IS stores in
operation during the first two months
and that the estimated receipts were
based upon a system Of 100 stores
that will eventually be in operation.
Stores are being added at the rate of
one or more a week.
The liquor control law provides
profits of the commission shall be
made available to needy school dis
tricts as loans. to be repaid when the
districts are able. When, and If, the
loans are repaid and the school dis
tricts no longer are in need, the
liquor proceeds are to 60 into an old
age pension fund.
Picard has announced the commits
sion is carrying 400 brands of wine
and SIS brands of Scotch whisky.
Since it is impossible to have such q
varied stock on hand in any one
liquor store, he has proposed the es-
tablishment of a mail-order system
for the benefit Of patrons desiring
brands not carried in their closest re-
tail stores.
This plan, however. ran afoul Of a
Post ONCE Department prohibition
and an effort is now being made to
iron out the difficulty.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
Stun, Clearance
Projects to Start
Soon in atlanta
Actual Construction to
Begin Within 90 Days
on Program.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ATLANTA. Ga, March 31.-Withln
60 days, actual construction opera
tions will be under way on two huge
housing projects in Atlanta that will
involve an expenditure of s5,100,00o
of Federal funds and give employment
to more than 5000 workmen for al
most year.
The operations will consist of the
razing of two large slum districts near
major institutions of higher educa-
tion, and the replacing of shabby
shacks with clean, sanitary apartment
units which will be rented at low
price.
The projects have been greeted with
widely differing reactions from At
property have protested against the
scheme with the argument that the
city is already overbuilt, and land
lords, who have suffered severely in
recent years, will undergo still further
losses. Others hail the plan as civic
blessing as we'll as the means of
livelihood for artisans who have been
out of work for three years.
will Be National Pattern.
The national aspect of the projects
is that when completed the so-called
fleetwood and University develop
ments will serve as patterns for SINH
lar Federal enterprises in many parts
of the United States.
When first formulated, the projects
were to be executed under private
ownership and control, with P. w. A.
funds. The program was guided
through the initial stages by trustees
Of fleetwood, Inc, and University
Housing, Inc, who were Atlanta in
vestors and business men. Last week,
however, the plan was absorbed by the
Federal Emergency Housing Corpora
ton and the former trustees will func-
ton only in an advisory capacity.
H. Tudor Morsell, who has been
affiliated with Federic Delano in
similar developments in Washington,
will begin Immediately buying the
land for the projects. Options have
been taken on practically all of the
needed ground.
M. d. Carrel in Charge.
M. Drew Carrel Of Washington, re-
gional projects manager for the
F. E. H. c.. will be in general charge.
He has had international experience
which includes the rebuilding Of the
water system Of Athens, Greece, when
the ancient Hadrian viaduct was re-
placed, and the rebuilding Of several
war-destroyed towns in Poland.
The fleetwood project is In the.
neighborhood of the great Georgia
School of Technology with its 1000
students. 1t is planned there to build
300 housing units, dormitory that
will accommodate $50 students, and
three public parks.
The university project is in the vi
cinity of Spelman Seminary and At
lanta University, colleges for Negroes,
which are richly endowed and well
equipped, but are situated in squalid
environment.
approximately rs per cent Of the
$S.00o.0 900 to be put into the two
developments will &C for labor and
materials, it is estimated.
Evening star., 1934-04-01
BY WILBUR FORREST.

n YEW YORK, March 31.-Seldom
nj does an American tourist visit
| " France and fail to spend some
4 time at the museum of the
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-01
EDITORIAL

The Bethlehem factory and the estates
Friedensbolg, BethIehem and Jealousy
have been bought by the United States
Government This is the last unit of
the West Indian Sugar Factory's pre-.
pertes, otherwise known as the Bethle-
hem concern The other estates were
previously cold. the largest group.k nown
as the Bartram Bros. group having been
bought by the La Grange Sugar Factory
and several others were sold to IndIVl.
dual owners.
Recently the Public Works Admins
tration at Washington made available
81 900, 900 for the purchase OF land and
sugar mills in the Virgin Islands with
the main purpose of helping to develop
the rum industry. The properties thus
acquired, according to the present plans
will be leased to the Virgin Islands Com.
pany. which Company will be permitted
to borrow money from other Federal
funds for operating expenses.
The estates now purchased comprise
about 2, 600 acres of land. most of which
was in sugar cane cultivation when the
West Indian Sugar Company was oper-
atjng. This land will again be planted
with sugar cane.
1t was originally proposed to grant the
Virgin Islands Company the right to en-
ter every line of business and to grant
it extensive powers through legislative
action. The wide powers asked for and
the apparent desire to control all fields
of business led to strong protests in this
Island from those who thought that the
Company should stick to the major in
dustries only.
The fact that persons acquainted with
local conditions have been chosen to
s direct the policy of the Company should
be step towards success.
Governor Pearson is the President OF
the Company. He has friends in the Vir-
DIN ISLANDS and heshas his enemies here.
An undertaking of such gigantic
scope needs full measure of public &C.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-01
Virgin Islands Natives
Curse, Praise Pearson
HARLEM MASS MEETING ATTRACTS
AUDIENCE OF FIVE THOUSAND
By G, JAMES FLEMING

NEW YORK. Two thousand Virgir
Islanders sat and stood through five
hour mass meeting here last Sunday
when members of the Colonial Councils
of the islands. judge. and others inter-
ested in the islands welfare. spoke here
under the auspices of the Virgin Islands
Congressional Council and allied socie.
ties.
The meeting was held in the auditu-
rum of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Ju-
Nor High School. 135th Street and
Edgecombe Avenue which filled to ca
pacity and over.
St. Croix tribune. [volume] (Christiansted, St. Croix, V.I.) 1922-1937, 1934-06-01

operation. Genuine cooperation cannot be
commando cred. ~ ither can II be bought.
Ii must be merited. Some of Cove rnor
Pearson friends may not know this.
but the Governor is aware that he IS
engaged 10 an undertaking that needs
the good will of the people.