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Evening star., 1934-04-09
Money Will Be Used to FL
nance Operations of
Authority.
MERCHANTS TO GET
new N. R. A. INSIGNIA
Fourth of Assessment Goes to Ma
tional Group, With Local
Unit Receiving Rest.

Each Washington retailer must pay
an annual assessment at the rate OF
81 per employe to finance the opera
tions of the National Retail Code Au-
thority and the Retail Code Authority
for the District.
Notice to this effect went out today
from the headquarters of the local
authority at the Merchants and Man.
ufacturers' Association to more than
1000 District establishments in the
retailing business.
The assessment, authorized by the
National Recovery Administration, is
now due. One-fourth of it will 60 to
the national code authority and the
remainder will go into the treasury
of the local authority.
Eligible for Insignia.
As each assessment is paid, the re-
taller will become eligible to receive
an insignia to replace the present
Blue Eagle now being displayed. Upon
issuance of the new insignia by the
N. R. a., paid-up signatories to the
retail code will receive them imme-
diately. AS in the case of the Blue
Eagle, this insignia may be withdrawn
for any code violation.
In form, the new insignia will carry
the familiar Blue Eagle and the
legend, I'VE do our part" as well
as indication of the particular field
of retailing in which the recipient is
engaged. The present type Blue Eagle
will be void after the new one is
available.
The section of the regulations bear
ing on the rate of assessment to
finance the self-government of the
retail trade follows:
Rate of assessment Payment shall
be made according to the number of
workers in each establishment on the
basis of an annual assessment of Is
cents per worker for the necessary
expenses of the National Retail Code
Authority, and such other amount
per worker as may be specified by the
local Retail Code Authority for its
necessary expenses; provided, how
ever, that in no case shall the total
assessment be at a greater rate than
81 for each worker"
Local Levy IS Cents.
The local authority has fixed its
assessment at rs cents.
Employers are required to make
payment for every full-time worker,
including proprietors, employers. ex-
ecutives, managers, ETC., and every
part-time worker employed 60 per
cent of the work week.
In authorizing the assessment, the
National Retail Code Authority
pointed out that leach retail estab-
lishment covered by the code shall
bear its equitable share of the ex-
pense necessary for the enjoyment of
the benefits of the code"
Evening star., 1934-04-09
POLICEMAN'S AUTO
KILLS PEDESTRIAN
Colored Man Said to Have Stepped
in Path of Danger at
Waldorf, Md.
respondent of The Star.

By staff Correspondent of The Star.
WALDORF, Md, April 9.-Struck
by an automobile operated by William
r. Greenfield, Washington policeman
James Fulton, colored. 33, was fatally
injured on the Southern Maryland
pike, near here, yesterday.
State police said that Fulton and
two other colored men were walking
along the highway. Fulton is re-
ported to have stepped suddenly into
the path of Greenf1eld's car.
The policeman took the injured
man to Casualty Hospital, Washing
ton. He was pronounced dead on ar
rival.
An investigation was being con-
Quoted today by State police. who said
an inquest probably would not be
necessary.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
Boy, ~, Couapses
In Church From.
Acute Alcoholism,
Police Probing Today
HO,U Robert Sulliran
Got Some Whisky.

Seventh precinct police were making
an investigation today into the case
of Robert Sullivan, IL, of 1862 JET
ferson street, who was treated for
acute alcoholism at Georgetown Hos
pital last night after he collapsed in
Georgetown Chapel. an interdenomi-
national church at 1907 Wisconsin
avenue.
Revived by hospital physicians. Rob-
ert declared, according to officers
handling the case, that several boys
whom he met on the Virginia side of
Key Bridge had given him some
whisky.
Robert collapsed while attending
church services with his uncle, Elijah
Sullivan, also of the Jefferson street
address. Physicians termed his con-
dition mot serious"
Evening star., 1934-04-09
FIREMEN TO ELECT
Special Dispatch to The Star.

FAIRFAX. Va, April 9.-The Fair
fax Volunteer Fire Department will
hold its annual meeting for the elec-
ton Of officers and directors for the
coming year tonight in the Offices of
Mayor Thomas P. Chapman. A Nom
mating Committee, including Mayor
Chapman. James e. Nickel and L..
M. Coyner will report. The newly
elected officers will be installed i'm
mediately following their election.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
Kensington Tax List Issued.

KENSINGTON, Md, April (Spe-
ciaD Because of unpaid town taxes
for the current year, II pieces OF Ken
sineton real estate are scheduled for
sale at public auction at the Armory
Building here at $50 o'clock. April
21. the town clerk, Welles Merriam,
announces. The amount due on the
properties is s104.81.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

The Society for Child Research,
which will act as co-ordinating
body for all scientific studies of chill
dren in the United States, has Just
been established in connection with
the National Research Council.
Financed by the general education
board of the Rockefeller Foundation
and headed by Prof r. s. Woodwork
of Columbia University, the new So
ciety will maintain its headquarters
In Washington. Very little is known,
it was pointed out at the organization
meeting, OF the child as a whole-a
living, romping, crying individual.
There have been thousands of spe-
cialized studies, but "the man who
knows all about the child's toes gives
no indication that he even knows the
child has hands"
The welfare of children, it is be-
lieved, has suffered greatly from this
unorganized specialization. It is the
child itself that is important, not its
toes or its reflexes, organizers Of the
new society say. But the specialist
often considers the toes more impor-
tant than the child.
At the Washington Office there will
be q coordination Of the child re-
search activities in widely separated
fields and an effort made to bring
them all together into picture Of
the nature Of q real child-not
robot Of toes, hands. eyes, voice, etc.
;xk *k
Changing Views
Relating to the whole"
The organization Of this group
brings to a head q movement which
has been gathering force for some
years.
Two basic psyche philosophical
principles are at issue. The one re-
CARDS both the living thing and its
behavior as sums" A child-or, for
that matter, an elephant or q louse-
is the result of an additive process.
It is hands, plus feet. plus eyes, plus
heart. plus mind, and so on almost
to indnity. And such . fundamental
bit Of behavior as the perception
Of an object is considered also an
additive process perception Of its
Evening star., 1934-04-09
MERCHANTS WARNED
Penalties Threatened for Rock.
vile License Delinquents.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

speclaI DISPATCH to The Star. .
ROCKVILLE. M, April e.-Clav-
ton e. Watkins, CLERK of the Circuit
Court, has notified merchants throueh-
out the county that their licenses for
the year beginning May l must be,
paid before June to avoid penalties
OF 10 per cent for each month or part
OF q month the licenses remain un-
paid after May 81.
The penalty, Clerk Watkins explains,
Is imposed by the State and he Is
without discretion in its collection.
Licenses may be renewed through the
clerks office either in person or by
mail.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
Virginia Meeting Tonight.

FORESTVHLE, Va, April (Spe-
ciaD "A community meetin. will be
held in the local s-hool tonight at 8
o'clock. under direction. of e. P. Orr,
principal. The Willing Worker Society
of Arnon Church will give program
of entertainment.
Evening star., 1934-04-09
Dance May 2 for School.

SEAT PLEASANT, Nd, April 9
Especially "A dance viii be given for
the benefit of District Line school In
watkins Hall here May 2.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25
France StiU Rocks
 Ouer Great Scandal
(Continued from Page l)

the police picked him up to find out if he knew who murdered the late Albert Prince, chief magistrate : in the prosecutors office.
 The baron easily proved an iron- clad alibi. His two companions Carbone, lord of the Marseilles un- derworld, and Spirito, his chief lieutenant, also had alibis, and were released, to return to Mar seilles and triumphant welcome from the teeming underworld of the wickedest city in Europe.
 The police had figured the baron might easily have killed Judge Prince. The judge had important Information regarding the opera tions of Stavisky. The baron was co-worker in the devious plots of Stavisky and a friend of certain high officials. When the judges body was found, after having been tied to the railroad tracks near Di. jon and run over, suspicion fell on those closest to the suicide-banker Among those shady figures, none was closer than the Baron Gaetan PHerbon de Lussats.
 De Lussats originated in the small principality of Monaco. where there are many barons, real and otherwise. He appeared in Paris, having conveniently lost his family, and struck out for himself in the jungles of Montmartre. His com pany were apaches and over the more brutal of the lot he ruled by virtue of a quick wit. imagination and certain easy manner. He surrounded himself with gamblers, swindlers, tricksters and strong arm men.
 At 19, he served 13 months for theft. At 20, he wandered to Eng land and was sent to prison for IS months. In 1915, he was in the trenches, but not caring for a sol- dier's life he succeeded in malin- gering, as war-maniac, and as result escaped further military duty.
 At this point his big opportunity came-eXactly as it had come in the case of Serge Alexandre Stav- isly, who stayed home and made love to the women and took their money away from them while their husbands were in the trenches.
 The 'baron's speciality was run ming illicit gambling houses where lonesome women might have a fiutter when they chose. Stavisky, on the other hand, took beautiful Arlette Simon as a mistress and capitalized on her lovely personal ity. The baron never became en- tangled in any such alliance.
 "An operator who allows himself to see the same woman too often." he used to say, inevitably turns up at Devils island"
 In 1922. the baron was barred from all recognized gambling houses in Paris and along the Ri- yiera and did q little time in the clink for dope-peddling. Out of this trouble, thanks to men in high places whom he had captivated, he installed himself in a palatial apartment in a bourgeouis section of Montmartre. He went in for sblackmail and dope-smuggling in a large way. With less power than Etavisky, he found it profitable to follow the successful Serge and an alliance was formed that lasted un- til Stavisky. at bay in the Alps. turned revolver on himself.
 De Lussats was one of the de-
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tectives. patroIling the underworlds of every large niddle-west city.
 Increasing volume of rumors. many based on pure fear. forced an extension of operations to hun dreds of square miles of new ter- ritory. One section of the Diilin- ger gang was hunted in Ohio. An other was tracked in the cold, snow w-covered and desolate reaches of northern Minnesota.
 Sitting the Clues
 Madison, Wis, April 25 = (uP) - Department of Justice agents to- day sifted tips and clues in their hunt for John DiIlinger and his gang of desperadoes.
 Seeking to avengc the outlaws brazen defiance of the law, the federal agents questioned three women. whom the gang deserted after the battle with agents near Eagle River, Wis, Sunday night.
 Agents drew story from one of the girls of a broken honeymoon which she said she was spending at ,the norther.l Wisconsin lake re- sort where two men were killed and four wounded in the fighting.
 The girls gave their names as Marian Marr, Ann Southern and Rose Ancker, all of Chicago. Miss Marr said she had been married Il few days ago to one of the gang sters but refused tg reveal which one.
 Chicago authorities said they be- lieved the names fictitious. They warned police to be on the look out for Dillinger. John Hamilton. Homer Van Meter, George Nelson, and Tommy Carroll. The first three are former Indiana convicts. Nelson is an escaped Illinois bank robber and Touhy gangster and Carroll is a So Paul gangster.
 The federal men held theli plans as possible discoveries in great secrecy, but Wisconsin, Min nesota and Indiana authorities responded to new tips with fever ish searching activities.
 Seek the Hide-Out
 Parties of heavily armed men searched the northern Wisconsin lake region near Eagle River for the possible hiding-places of the gang, which they believed has separated.
 The hunt for a dark maroon col ored sedan in which Dillinger and at least two of his followers were believed to have escaped from the federal trap was conducted in In- diana as the result of reports it had been sighted at Muncie. Sheriff O. c. Snodgrass of Mun- cie said two travelling salesmen saw an automobile with men answering the desperadoes' descriptions. Richard R. Beckwith and John Miller. Milwaukee. Wis. street car motormen. reported seeing such an
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25

to be turned loose, like the well known rolling stone, to go out and gather moss. Not the moss of idle ness but in this case, the moss that means added dollars. The more that is spent in purchasing, the more the wheels of industry will keep moving at rapid rate.
 The press" has been knocked out of depression, everyone con- cedes by now. In order to clear away, all signs of the hard times lowering about all of us for the last four years, we've got to follow the advice of the leaders of the county. Buy! Buy! Buy! that is the slogan. That will keep our fac- tory smoke stacks smoking and our weekly envelopes regular.
 Don't forget that the trolley and bus companies are offering free rides to everyone going to Ex- change place between the hours of 9:30 and II o'clock. Maybe you need only a small item or two. All right. Hop on a trolley or bus and come down to buy 1t. Maybe when you make few trips around to other stores, you will find things you wanted to buy heretofore, at the price you hoped it would be of- fered for sale. That isn't by far a wild suggestion. In fact everything offered on Waterbury, Day is price, lowered. It's up to you now. The merchants, the newspapers, the Chamber of Commerce, the bus and trolley companies and numerous other agencies and individuals have all done their share. Are you going to be cooperating, too?
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25
ODer EiUe Thousand
 Pursue DilLinger
tt,ontlnusd from Paee n

automobile with men and pistoA and machine guns in the car.
 In Minnesota, investigators went to Rochester, where Sheriff George Gelatt held Lincoln automobile which he said two men and wo- man had stored in a private gar- age. Gelatt believed the automo- bile had been planted" by DiI- Ianger for use in the event he needed to change automobiles. Tho car had been stolen in Chicago.
 Some RumOrs
 Minneapolis. April 25.-(UP).- Twin City police and deputy sher- ifs today closed in on two automo- piles, one of them answering the description of the Ford sedan talk en by Dillinger gangsters at South st. Paul Monday. according to po- : lice radio bulletins here.
 A concentration of police squad cars was ordered. Two St. Paul squads were ordered to the scene in addition to the Minneapolis squad cars.
 Elk River. Minn.. April 25.--- (UP). Four or five men and two women in a mud spattered, black sedan held up August Obert. a farmer. near here today and escap- ed toward the Twin Cities after taking an undetermined amount Of money.
 Authorities at Elk River noti- fled police at Minneapolis and squad cars were dispatched to guard roads to the Twin Cities.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25
Hartford Will Hear
 Bay State Governor
Honorable Joseph B. Ely to Address State Chamber of
 Commerce Annual Meeting May "A

A native of Westfield, Mass, Gov ernor Ely received his elementary education in the public schools of that town, in 1902 he was grad uated from Williams College and in 1905, from Harvard Law school. In 1881 he received from Williams College the honarary degree of LID.
 Governor Ely began his law practice in Westfield in the firm of Ely and Ely, later having an office in Springfield as well, fol- lowed by association with Ropes, Grey, Boyden and Perkins of Bos- ton. In 1915 he was appointed by Governor David I. Walsh to be dis trict attorney for Berkshire and Hampden Counties to which office in 1916 he was elected to serve again. He now is serving his sec- ond term as governor of Massachu- setts having been first elected in November, 1880.
 Prominent in the affairs of state and national government, Governor Ely, it will be recalled, recently at- tracted nationwide attention when he publicly announced that he "did not wish to criticize the program (NRA) stating that with much of 1t am in hearty accord. as a1: emergency program" but that he felt that business conditions soon will warrant, if they do not to-day, the rather complete abandon ment" of National Recovery pro- gram, further adding that he was not lone of those who feels that where so many measures are being tried it is unpatriotic to suggest and criticize. or that 1t is even a personal attack upon the president and his advisors to do so.''
 During the afternoon of May 24th, there will be held the annual statewide membership business session to receivJ the reports of the officers and to elect eleven Girec- tors to serve for two years-one each to represent the basic groups of agriculture, banking. industry. insurance, public utility, and. trade and commerce.; and five to repre- sent the state at large.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25

(continued from Page 1.)
 Chinese end of the railway that runs from Mukden, Manchukuo. into China, and also demanding establishment of a customs service on the frontier. Such action would amount to recognition of Manchu- kuo, and would emasculate foreign efforts to aid China in it's fight to prevent world recognition of the new state.
 It was reported at London that the government might delay open- ing of trade negotiations with Japan because of the Far Eastern declaration.
 Tn Washington, some circles sus- pected that the Japanese declara- ton was made to coincide with the movement of the United States battle fleet from the Pacific to the Atlantic. It was pointed out that two days after a muting in the British. fleet off Scotland in 1881 Japan invaded Manchuria. Washington, Apr. 25-CUP)- By adroft diplomatic feints Great Britain and the United States to- day had Japan on the defensive concerning her unofficially an.. nounced hands off' China policy. | The stand of the two western powers, taken separately but in so similar manner that 1t appeared almost to be joint action, gave to the Japanese government the re- | sponsibility and moral obligation of justifying her proposed policy for Asia.
 | Great Britain dispatched a note to Tokio requesting the Japanese government of "clarify" the situa- tion, and the United States, through Acting Secretary of State William Phillips, called in the Japanese ambassador here for some information" concerning his governments proposed policies.
 The official and simultaneous inquiries of the United States and Great Britain for Information" raised the status of Japan's pro- Eouncement from an unofficial to an official plane. Upon the basis of the information for which Phillips asked Ambassador Kirosi it's next step.
 Phillips declined to comment upon his conference with Saito. The latter said, following the in terview, that he had informed Phillips that press accounts of Japan's "hand-off China" policy substantially rejected the funda- mentals upon which Japan was prepared to stand. He assured Phillips that Japan had no inten- ton or desire to violate her ob- legations under the nine power treaty, nor to "close entirely the so-called "open door" in China. He said he had told Phillips substantially what he had told newspaper interviewers previously that Japan objected to the grant of loans to China by foreign pow CTS if such loans might eventually find their way into the hands of Chinese militarists and thus be used against Japan. He claimed for Japan the right to be consult ed by foreign governments or | commercial concerns contemplat- ing loans to the Chinese govern ment, he intimated, those grant ing the loans might not get their money back.
 In authoritative quarters it was indicated the United States does not recognize that Japan has any such right to , be consulted, and that for Japan to attempt to put into execution her unofficially proclaimed Monroe Doctrine" for Asia would be a violation of al- most every article of the nine power treaty.
 Further action by this govern
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25

(continued from Page l.) already examined, Coroner Mon- zani has several more to question before he completes his probe. Yesterdays resumption of the in- quest found a dozen witnesses giv- ing testimony to the coroner in a formal hearing in the juvenile court room.
 Made Formal Statement
 Benson himself gave a formal statement to the coroner of his ac- ton on last Thursday afternoon. the time when 10-yeor old John Rowland was fatally injured by a hit-and-run driver as he played in front of his Columbia boulevard home. Witnesses examined yester- day were neighbors, employees of the Kingsbury hotel, where Ben- son had been living, and workers at the Exchange place garage, where he kept his car. Among those giving testimony was Thom- as Moore, secretary of the board of park commissioners.
 With several other witnesses scheduled to be heard, no definite time for a further continuance of the inquest had been set up to the early afternoon hours.
 Yesterdays hearing places on formal record the testimony of those previously questioned by po- lice in their investigation of the fatal accident.
 Police reiterated today their be- lief that they have a very strong case against Benson as the driver of the machine which careened down Columbia boulevard after fatally injuring young Rowland as he piled leaves on to a bonfire in front of his home.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25
NEW RACKET IS
 INTERRUPTED

Bridgeport, Conn, April 25. (UP) What authorities termed a "top- coat racket" was revealed here in the arrest of two New Workers on complaint of salesman in a local clothing store.
 James McKenna, 22, and James Thornton, 25, were identified by James Georgas as two of four men who took two coats from his establishment earlier in the day, leaving behind them two old coats they had worn into the place.
 Police said the pair confused the clerk and substituted the coats before leaving the store after de- ciding against a purchase. They were held on technical breach of peace charges.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-04-25

ment, however, will probably a. wait the receipt of more complete information regarding Japanese policy.
 Saito indicated that Foreign Minister Koki Hirota might make an official statement giving this information, or, lacking this, that Hirota would make public speech on May 4 giving all details of Japanese policy toward China.
 Friendly Gesture.
 Tokio, Apr. 25-(UP)-Foreign Minister Koki. Hirota today dis missed imperturbably as "a friend ly inquiry" Great Britain's request today-for information regarding Japans startling declar- ation of Far Eastern policy.
 At the same time, Hirota said Japan did not expect to receive representations from the United States because Ambassador Hirosi Saito at Washington, had lex plained everything" in an informal chat with Acting Secretary of State William Phillips.