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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-04-25
SENATORS MAP
SHIP SUBSIDY
PROGRAM
Hearing to Recess to Give
Time to Study Data on
Merchant Marine


Senate Commerce Committee
members today adopted plan
designed to perfect permanent
Merchant Marine subsidy legisla-
ion.
Continuing hearings begun yes
terday on the tentative draft be.
fore the committee, Senator Cope
land CD of New York, chairman,
announced he would call a recess
at the end of the week to give
committee members a chance to
study the testimony before them.
In this way, said Senator Cope
land, the Senators will have a
chance to go over suggestions Of
the Shipping Board Bureau of the
Department of Commerce and get
a picture of the legislation as 1t
shaped up. After a three or four
day recess beginning with the
weekend, the hearings will be
resumed about the middle of next
week. The Senator said:
cat that time we hope to be
able to get down to brass
tacks. We want permanent
legislation, and we want it to
be as near perfect as we can
get it,"
WITNESS HEARD
The tedious portion of the
work facing committee members
got under way today with Sam
uel Craig Peacock, of the Ship
ping Board Bureau, continuing as
the witness.
Mr.. Peacock made a number
of concrete suggestions. among
them recommendation that the
seamen's training schools which
the bill as drafted authorized,
be expanded to include officer
training. Committee members re-
ceived this suggestion favorably,
but did not act on it today.
The Shipping Board Bureau Of
ficials suggested, too, that insur-
ance be required to protect any
outright advances made by the
Government under the pending
ship subsidy bill. He added that
his bureau intended to recommend
substantial changes in liability
laws.
Mr.. Peacock tentatively suggest
ed that there be incorporated in
the pending bill title as to liza
bility insurance, but some Sen
ators, including Senator Fletcher
CD of Florida, indicated they
would oppose inclusion of such
controversial proposal in the bill
now under consideration. They
made it clear they did not oppose
changes in the liability laws, but
said they saw no reason for in
clusion of these changes as part
of the pending bill.
Transfer of Cash
The witness said that while the
Shipping Board Bureau did not
oppose transfer of the remaining
money of the old Shipping Board
construction fund to the new
maritime authority to be set up
by the pending bill, he did not
believe old notes, debts and
mortgages should come under
the new set-up.
Questions disclosed that 15o
million dollars of the old $50
million-dollar fund had been allo-
Gated in loans, and that of these
loans, approximately ITO millions
was still outstanding. Mr.. Pea
cock said that about 10 loans
were in default at present, but
did not name the companies in
volved, nor the total of the debts
in default. He was asked to
submit these figures later and
promised to do so.
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problem would be created if the
railways plea was allowed. He
recommended the request be
granted.
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DO You Remember!

One month ago the tollo1D-
ing names Were in the head
lines. Can you recall them?
Leroy Johnson
w. Wallace Kellett
Mrs. BENJAMIN BercOvitZ
Michael F. Shannon
Robert A. Edwards
(AnSDerS on Page 81
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MISS MARY ADELINE PRENTICE
GRANDDAUGHTER of John D. Rockefeller, photo
graped she left physicians office in New York where she
is employed as an office at $25 week. She has
summed publicity, but finally caught by photogra
piers Working for living fun, she finds International
Photo
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seized at Sayre, OKLA. 30 miles
away.
With the first blast Of shotgun
fire Peter Jones, aged tower guard,
fell dead at his post, which blocked
the only avenue of escape.
The break began when the
prisoners flashed struggled pistols
and covered a turnkey. Other
guards were rushed in turn and
locked securely ii cells.
Through the visitors room the
felonS fled, forcing several women
and children to accompany them
into the prison yard as shields.
They then killed Jones.
An investigation of her admin
istration was blamed by Mrs. Wa.
tiers for melting the prisoners to
an ugly mood. Charges of alleged
brutality were being aired by the
State prison department. Mrs. Wa
tiers began her regime as warden
in 1927. Prisoners had signed a
petition upholding her admin
istration.
Two and perhaps three "hard-
boiled inmates" led the break, Mrs.
Waters declared. She named Nal.
10y Kuykendall, serving a 75-year.
term for robbery, as the ring
leader. The others were Buster
Nichols and Henry Stewart, both
long term prisoners.
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Guard Slain in Prison
Break; Is Hunted

G R AN vt e, Okla, Feb. IS
N.S0.-Armed (ossemen en-
ploying bloodhounds and airplanes
searched the Western Oklahoma
badlands today for 10 felons still
at large after 81 prisoners shot
their way out of the State reform
atory, killing a tower guard who
blocked their path to freedom.
The search centered in the
rugged Wichita mountain terri
tory whenSe the convicts headed
in stolen automobiles.
Two packs of bloodhounds and
a radio and machine gun equipped
police plane joined the search for
the convicts' hideaways.
Woman in Charge
Mrs. George A. Mother" Wa
tiers, reformatory warden whose
administration has been a target
for investigation, was in charge
Of the man hunt. Said to be the
only woman warden of a male
prison in the country, Mrs. Waters
braved the gunfire of the escap-
ing prisoners yesterday afternoon
to try to check the break.
Eight prisoners wounded by
Deputy Warden M. R. Gallon were
in the reformatory hospital today.
Guards captured two others before
they could commander passing
automobiles, and three others were
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BOMB SENT.
OFFICE Of
SEN. LONG
Fails to Explode When Liquid
Escapes From Tube At
tached to Battery

What was taken for a bomb
reached the office of Senator Huey
Long, of Louisiana, today through
the mails.
1t was opened by Earl Christen-
berry, the Senator's secretary.
Upon removing the wrapper,
the package was found to con-
tain a battery, from which a
wire led to q glass tube which
appeared to have contained a
liquid. The liquid had run out.
This circumstance was thought
to account for the fact that the
supposed bomb had not exploded.
Senator Long is not in Washing
ton, and~would not have received
the package in any event, as all
such parcels as we'll as other mail
are opened by members of his Sec
retarial staff.
Postal authorities were imme-
diately notified and rushed to the
Capital to examine the machine.
Secretary ChriStenberry and
other members of the office force
fled the scene when they saw
what the package contained, and
did not touch the apparatus again
until the postal authorities ar
rived.
It was said the package was not
tightly packed, and that it was so
wrapped that the opening of the
wrapper was apparently designed
to set off the explosive" in the
glass tube.
Pending closer examination,
there was speculation at the Cap.
itol as to whether the package
was actually a bomb or a fake, u
intended to scare the Senator,
sent by some practical joker.
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FRAUD,DECE|T
IN NUPT|ALS
CHARGED
Former Cooke Girl Files Plea
for AnnuIment; Refuses to
Join Her Parents

Jane de Walden Cooke Scarlet.
20, Chevy Chase heiress, today
took the first legal step towards
ending her marriage to George
Staunton Scarlet, 81, former
Cooke family chauffeur.
Through her attorney, Alvin
Newmyer, she filed suit in the Dis
trict Supreme Court for annul-
ment, charging that the marriage
was induced by the fraud, coer-
cion and duress practiced upon
her" by young Scarlet.
The brides petition set forth
that as the youngest daughter
of the wealthy Howard De Wal
den Cookies, of Chevy Chase,
Md, she had been reared in
an atmosphere of refinement and
was not accustomed to the COM
pany of young men, nor was
she permitted to engage in social
activities except Under strict
chaperonage of her parents and
that she was unfamiliar and in
experienced with worldly affairs"
Among the Charges
Scarlet, the petition continued,
represented himself as a wel-paid
employe of a railway in his home
city, Winston-Salem, N. c., and
well able to support her in the
manner in which she was reared.
He added, the petition said, that
he was acting as chauffeur for her
father merely while he was enjoy
ing a vacation from his railway
job.
The bride charged that upon
reaching Winston-Salem on their
honeymoon, she learned her hus-
band not only was unable to sup
port her but that he intended
and desired that the plaintiff
should support him from her
means and those of her family"
In defining the "duress" she
charged was exercised upon her,
Mrs. Scarlet said her husband
had threatened to kill her and
then go to the electric chair him.
sell II she refused TO marry MIN.
Staying With Aunt
The Scarletts were married here
on January Is, and a day later
Mrs. Cooke swore to a warrant
charging Scarlet with theft of
$4,000 worth of her jewels.
The charge was dismissed in
Rockville police court a few days
after the honeymooners were re-
turned by Savannah, Ga, police.
They had spent several days driv.
ing about the South and some time
at Scarlett's home in Winston
Salem.
That honeymoon, the petition
set forth, was started on $3S Scar.
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.HAUP MANN
APPEAL OPENS

TRENTON, N. j., Feb. 10 (IN.S0
The first move in the campaign of
his lawyers to free Bruno Richard
Hauptmann, convicted slayer OF
the Lindbergh baby, from the
shadow of the electric chair in all
probability will be made today
when Justice Thomas w. Trench
ard is petitioned to order the
State to pay the costs of print
ing a transcript of Hauptmann'S
trial.
If Justice Trenchard grants the
petition notice of appeal will be
filed Immediately.
Prisoner PenniIeSS
According to Frederick A. Pope,
Of Hauptmann's legal staff, the
former Bronx carpenter is penni-
less and will be unable to appeal
his conviction if the State does
not bear the cost of printing the
transcript.
Meanwhile Hauptmann was be-
coming acclimatized in his new
quarters in the death house of the
State prison here.
Acting Warden George L. Selby
said he had no report to make on
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PERIL
CITED BY ACE

Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, noted
flier, told a House District sub
committee today Washington air,
port is one of the most hazardous
in the country and immediate
steps should be taken for its i'm
provement.
Captain Rickenbacker objected
to Gravelly Point as a suitable site
for a commercial airport for Wash
ington unless Washington airport
is included in dual airport pro.
gram. He said:
"WaShingtOn airport is one of
the most hazardous sites in the
country, and it is truly remark
able that there has not been
q serious accident there.
"Our primary consideration
here is to determine what can
be done for the present.
"WaShingtOn airport can be
improved to take care of traffic
for at least a period of three
to five years."
Captain Rickenbacker said
Washington should have two air
ports in drawing up a long-term
program. One would be used for
commercial purposes and the
other for private use, he ex
planned.
Washington airport could be
improved within six months at q
cost of 100000 to 100000, he
said.
Clarence A. Miller, of the Wash.
ington Board Of Trade, testified
his organization favors a Federal
grant for an airport at Gravelly
Point with interest paid for the
loan.
James E. Condor, president of
Central Air Lines, prefers Wash.
ington airport to the Gravelly
Point site on the ground the
former location would require less
money for improvements,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-18
Stocks Soar
In Wave of
Buying

NEW YORK, Feb. 10 GN.SD.
Stocks skyrocketed today as the
result of the United States SUI
preme Courts decision upholding
the Government in the gold cases.
Gains ran to SIS a share in
Homestake Mining, with a long
list of stocks scoring advances
of 81 and So a share. Atchison
was up $40.
The wave of buying had not
been seen in Wall Street in more
than a year with the high-speed
ticker falling several minutes be.
hind.
Gains nearly as sweeping oc.
CURED on the bond market where
depressed speculative issues, partic-
ularly in the rails, turned buoyant.
The curb followed the pattern
of the big board, with mining
shares and high-priced Specialities
rising easily.
Cotton BOOmS
The foreign exchange market
Joined the upward movement after
earlier weakness.
At 1892 the stock tape was II
minutes late.
The volume of trading in the
cotton market was the heaviest
in months. Buying orders came
from practically every source.
Leaping three and four points at
a time, cotton futures ran up to
gains of $1.25 a bale.
The tidal wave of buying put
the ticker five minutes behind.
Wheat and corn futures shot up
Immediately after the decisions
were reported and showed signs of
advancing further when tenn
porary suspension of trading was
announced by the Chicago Board
Of Trade.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-18
NAZ|S BEHEAD
2 WOMEN
ASSP|ES
One of Victims Is Former Wife
of Son of Noted General
Won FaIkenhayn
BY WALTER DIETZEL

BERLIN, Feb. Is G.N.S0.-The
headsman'S axe descended today
upon the neckS of two beautiful
German noblewomen-put to
death for espionage activities
against the Nazi regime.
The aristocrats, who sold their
hirthright and lives by divulging
military secrets to a foreign
power, were executed at dawn
after a years Imprisonment.
The victims were the beautiful
blond Baroness Bonita Won Berg,
former wife of Baron Won Falken'
hayn, son Of a German World War
general, and Baroness Renate Won
Matzmer.
Capt. U1rich Won Sosnowsy,
Polish nobleman and leader Of the
spy ring, was sentenced to life
imprisonment at hard labor, to-
gether with Frau Irene Won jena.
Execution Barred
A brief official announcement
by the government revealing the
executions said:
National Socialist state
brushes espionage.
"The divorce, Bonita Won
Falkenhayn, nee Won ZOllikOfer-
Alt EnkIingen, and Renate Won
MatZmer, both of Berlin, SEN
fenced to death by the Peoples
Court on February 16, were exc
cuted at dawn today after
Reichsfuehrer Hitler failed to
apply the right of pardon.
"Capt. Olrich Won SOSnOwsky
and Frau Irene Won Jena were
sentenced to life Imprisonment"
Announcement of the execu
ton was deferred for almost eight
hours by the ministry OF propa'
ganda.
Linked to NObleman
The women were tried and con.
Victed by the dread peoples tri'
bunal in connection with the al
legged espionage activities of Capt,
Ulrich Won Sosnowsky, a dashing
Polish nobleman.
News that the death sentences
had been handed down leaked out
on Saturday, but until official an
nouncement of their beheading
was made this afternoon, no word
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This d e cision practically
drove the holders of Liberty
bonds out of court, since it ex-
pressed doubt that they ever
could show any material loss
in a suit in the Court of Claims.
Veteran attorneys held that
the decision had the same effect
on Liberty bond holders as if
the Supreme Court had held the
law constitutional as it affected
them.
PrecedentS Shattered
The court shattered all pre-
cedent and custom by the manner
in which it handed down the de-
cisionS.
Chief Justice Hughes announced
the findings of the court in four
separate cases soon after mount
ing the bench, and then began
reading the lengthy opinions to
support them.
This was in exactly reverse or
der to the usual procedure, which
starts with the reading of the
opinion, with a decision at the
end.
The first decision rendered was
on the issue of private bonds, of
which there were two cases before
the court, one involving only
$3.50 on a railroad bond.
Power Sustained
1t was that Congress was within
its constitutional power in abro.
eating the gold clause contract in
such bonds, because of its inner
emily constitutional power to regu.
late money and currency.
This meant that the holders Of
private bonds can be paid off in
paper dollars (devalued dollars at
present. and that they cannot col.
lect in gold or its new equivalent.
This decision was rendered in
the case of Norman C. Norman, a
New York jeweler, against the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad. Mr..
Norman held a gold clause bond,
which called for the payment Of
$3.50 interest from the railroad.
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2 Slain, 4 Injured
In Strike RiOting

Ell CENTRIC, Calf, Feb. 10
Q.N.SO.-Two men were dead
here today and four persons were
suffering from serious injuries as
a result of a wild riot between 500
striking lettuce workers and strike
breakers.
Paul knight, %, and E. K. Ham
maker, 81, strikers, were shot to
death as hundreds of laborerS at
tempted to seize the lettuce pack
ing shed of Martin Wahl. Five
hundred shots were fired during
the melee.
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Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA, Cal, Feb.
18.-See that Mr.. Townsend ap-
peared before the Senate COM
mittee and they had a lot Of
fun and laughter at his plan.
Well, they can have some fun
with the amount, but they can't
have much fun with the idea Of
paying a pension.
You see it's not just some
idealiStic cranks, or BOlsheviki
idea. All the rest of the world
are doing it but us. We thought
we had a better idea. We called
it a poor farm" and everybody
that could afford it, or had any
political influence, put their old
relatives there.
Now Townsend may have to
take only rs or Is per cent Of
his original idea, but the Sena-
tors are not going to laugh
themselves out of paying an old
age pension.
Copyright, 1888, Mcknight syndicate.)
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Samoan Chief
COngreSSmen)S
Friend, Dies

Official Washington was mott
fled by naval radio today of the
death in American Samoa of
High Chief Manga, first of the
original signerS of the deed of
ceSSion of the island of Tutuila
to the United States.
In recent years, Chief Manga
acted as governor Of the eastern
district of Tutuila.
Four years after the deed Of
cession was signed April /, 1900,
President Theodore Roosevelt
acknowledged the act by send
ing the chief watch, a medal,
and a diploma. Many Congress
men were entertained by the
chief during visits by a congress
Sional commission to American
Samoa in 1890.
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Hoover Indicted
Into Order of
Has Beens'

EMPORIA, Kan, Feb. 18.
Former President Herbert HOO
yer awoke today, in the home
of william Allen White, pub
Usher, past master of the Has
Been Society,""
Politics were barred at the
induction into the society, but
the program included the wig
Cling of the old-f aShioned
"Ouija Board" a fireside talk
of the past when the Repub.
licanS were in power and a din
ner Of spoon bread, Kentucky
ham, Kansas capon, and straw.
berry short cake.
Arriving with his son, Allen,
Mr.. Hoover decided to be an
overnight rather than a din.
ner guest. Other guests in
cluded former Senator Allen,
former Representative Scott,
former Secretary of Agriculture
Hyde, and Dan Easement,
formerly connected with the
Bull Moose Party.
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Bus, Truck Collide,
s Persons Injured

NATICK, Mass, Feb. 10
UN.SD-Eight persons were in
jured and nine others shaken up
today when a New York-to- Boston
motor bus collided with a truck
on Snow-bound Worcester turn
pike.
Taken to Leonard Morse Hos
pital were: Mrs. Mary Lamb, 81,
Dorchester; John S. Lennie, De-
troit, Mich; Mrs. Josephine Rob-
bins, Boston; Bryon Carhart,
Albany, N. Y; Nicholas Scinnevci,
Buffalo, N. Y; Joannes Deulshel,
DETROIT, Mich. Myron ]. Kiser, of
AiSomont, N. Y. and Benjamin
Dirdius, Of Bridgeport, Conn,
operators of the bus and truck,
respectively, also were injured,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-18
NEWS PHONED
PRESIDENT
International News Service

President Roosevelt hung on
the end of a special telephone
line at the White House today,
keeping himself constantly ad-
vised on the Supreme Court de-
cisions in the gold cases.
AS soon as the flash came that
the court had started reading its
opinions the President went to the
Cabinet room Of the White House,
where special arrangements had
been made, and with Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau, re-
ceived the news.
Who was on the Capitol end of
the line the White House did not
saw,
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-18
Man HurlS Bomb
Back at Vandals

CLEVELAND, Ohio, Feb. 10
uNS0.-A 37-year-old grocer to.
day fought a battle with vandals,
grabbing their Sputtering bomb
from the floor of his store, hurl.
ing it back at them. and firing
four shots.
The bomb exploded, shattering
windows in seven stores in the
vicinity, but the vandals escaped
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-18
BILLIONS IN PREMIUMS
ON BONDS BARRED BY
SUPREME COURT
international News Service

The United States Government won
series of sweeping victories today in the ia
nous gold cases. affecting approximately
100000 million dollars in private and Gov
eminent bonds.
The abrogaton of the gold clause in private bonds of
which there are estimated to be some $4,000 million
dollars outstanding, held constitutional.
The Supreme Court held unconstitutional the gold clause
abrogation affects Liberty bonds but the holders
bonds denied relief the ground suffered no loss
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Girl, Il, Mother
OF 4-POund BABY

OAKLAND, Cal, Feb. 10 G.N.SD =.
A l4-year-old unwed mother and
her four-pound baby, born prema-
turely, were reported in a critical
condition at the County Hospital
today. Condition of the girl was
not suspected by her parents, her
teachers in ninth-grade school, or
even her playmates. The girl
said she was the victim of a
criminal attack.
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ELEANOR HANLEY
HAILED as an exceed
ingly lucky person when
she won $4,000 on the
Irish sweepstakes two
years ago, this New Jer-
sey woman has been
bounded since by, gang
sters and is now in an
asylum. Doctors hold
she is unable to manage
her own affairs. Inter-
national Photo.
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weather Details on Page 2O
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A WOm1anS Viewpoint
by MRS. WALTER FERGUSON

fades out of sight on the northern
horizon?
If by unselfshness, cooperation,
loving kindness we can make Christ
mas such happy, prosperous r.
riod. wouldn't it be a very sensi-
bic move to have the feeling per-
manent2
p. least it is not forbidden us to
prophesy. When we succeed in
making glow, ever so feebly, the re
Of brOtherly love which flames so
brightly within us at the end of
each year. we can achieve social JUS
tice.
And social justice is more to be
desired than visits from Santa
Claus.