davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1935-11-17
STOCKS MOVE UP
81 TO AROUND So
Average for go Shares Goes
Highest Since 1891 in
Active Trading.
vHAT STOCKS DID,

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 16.-Wall
Street traders scrambled for stocks to-
day, in the most active short session
IN 81 months.
Many issues established new tops
Cor several years. with advances of
to around 3 points, as the Associated
Press average of 60 stocks climbed to a
level last exceeded on September 8,
1881.
The new figure for the 60-stock
compilation was SIS, up 3 of point.
Turnover in the Stock Exchange was
1894 shares. the best volume for
the two-hour market since February
10, 1884, the day On which the Presi-
dent ordered the cancellation of all
air line mail contracts.
Profit taking was apparent in some
sections of the list, especially among
issues which have been particularly
active in the advance recently, but in
most cases it was we'll absorbed and
small gains were registered at the
close.
The list, as a whole, closed at
around the best prices of the day.
Buying was most active in the Steels,
merchandise issues and some indus
Evening star., 1935-11-17
ASSISTANT APPOINTED.

NEW YORK. November Is tP.-
J. Homer Platten, formerly with the
Westinghouse Electric & Manufactur-
ing Co. has been appointed executive
assistant to Charles j. Hardy. preSi-
dent of the American Car & Foun-
dry Co.
Evening star., 1935-11-17
WASHINGTON STOCK EXCHANGE
YEAR 1885

CRepor W. & Building.
SALES ON
Evening star., 1935-11-17

initial dividend paid December, 1884.
+Last payment 20 cents June 80. 1885
Evening star., 1935-11-17

Continued on Page b.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
FREE SOON, SAYS
AUPTMANN

TRENTON, Feb. 20 G.N.SJ.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann is
confident he will be out Of the
death house by Easter. In spite
of the fact that the convicted
slayer of the Lindbergh baby has
but one last hope-the Court Of
Errors and Appeals-hiS guards
declare he is cheerful and con.
stantly mentions his faith in ulti-
mate freedom to other death
house inmates.
Meanwhile it is expected that
difficulties between Hauptmann's
two attorneys, C. Lloyd Fisher, Of
Pennington, and Edward J. Reilly,
of Brooklyn, will be ironed out at
a conference here tomorrow and
both lawyers then will work in
harmony in their efforts to gain
a new trial for the Bronx carpen-
ter.
Hauptmann's execution, sched-
uled for the week of March 18,
was automatically deferred at
least until June, as result of
Supreme Court Justice Thomas
w. Trenchard's order making the
State pay the cost Of printing a
transcript of his trial.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
To SPLIT
WITH j. s,
ISBEL|EF
Union Leaders Assert Workers
Must Fight Own Battles
In Future As in Past
international News Service

Increasing sentiment among
leaders of organized labor for
abandonment of labor's part
nership" with the Government
was reported today.
Fearful of Government dom.
ination, many powerful figures
in the American Federation of
Labor want labor to turn back
to it's old weapons of organiza-
ton and strike to enforce it's
economic demands.
Chairman Connery CD of
Massachusetts, of the House Labor
Committee, confirmed reports of
the widespread fear of labor
leaders of Government domina-
ton. He predicted that unless
labor can have an equal part
nership" in the Government it
will withdraw and fight it's
battles alone.
Ornburn Speaks
The surprising sentiment labor's
leaders was voiced before the
House Labor Committee by I. M.
Ornburn, a leader in the A. F.
of L. and in tobacco unions. He
contended that labor, under the
present NRA Set-up, is being
dominated by industry exercising
the u n ority of government.
Representative Connery said:
II favor giving labor equal
representation on all boards in
the NRA and the Government
dealing with labor. In that
way the partnership can be
real. Unless this is done, labor
is certain to cut loose and
fight its economic battles as It
has in the past. Labor won't
subject itself to the domination
of unfair boards.
II, myself, think that the
partnership with labor under
the NRA has been one sided"
Representative Connery said
labor is planning to abandon the
idea of permitting a labor lead
er to take office in the Gov
ernment and then to be consid-
cred as a spokesman for labor.
Seek to Compromise
Labor leaders VINO take Gov
eminent office, he declares, "are
subject to insidious influences
and soon forget to fight as
labor leaders" Instead, he said,
they seek to compromise all dis
putes with the result that labor
suffers.
Hearings being conducted by
the House body on the Connery
bill to give labor equal repre-
Sentation on all governing boards
have disclosed a real apprehen-
sion among labor leaders that
FasciSm may take root in the
United States,
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Harrison Kaiser's
Fate Goes to Jury

The fate of Harrison NICK.
Kaiser, on trial in District
Supreme Court for the Staying of
James P. Morgan, Navy Yard
Machinist'S Union official, will be
placed in the hands of the jury
today.
The defense rested late yester-
day after the defendant admitted
under croSs-examination he was
at the home of the slain man on
the night of the killing and re-
membered conversing with him
regarding reinstatement to his
former job. When Mr.. Morgan
refused to aid him, the defendant
declared his mind went blank and
he remembers nothing that fol
lowed.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
FORD NRA FIGHT
W|NSOVERU,S,
international News Service


Henry Ford'S long battle
against the Administrations Blue
Eagle was virtually at an end to-
day with the Detroit motor
magnate finally forcing the Gov.
ernment's capitulation.
Administration spokesmen to
day admitted the Government
has purchased almost 500 Ford
trucks without obtaining a "Ford
signature" to NRA certificate
Of compliance.
The Agriculture Department has
bought 400 trucks, the Interior
Department, IS, while several
other departments have pur.
chased small lots or have enter.
tanned bids from Ford agents.
The Governments capitulation
was presaged last November when
the Interior Department awarded
contract for one Ford truck to
the Northwest Motor Company, a
Ford sales agency. At that time
Frank Sabine signed the certifi
cate Of compliance, in lieu of Ford
factory officials.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
LAID
TOCONV|CTS

OMAHA, Neb. Feb. 20. G.N.sO.
Possibility that escaped Okla
homa convicts were responsible
for the mysterious disappearance
of Mrs. Lloyd Skinner, wife Of a
wealthy Omaha manufacturer,
was suggested today by officials
who pressed their search for the
missing woman.
Police expressed the belief Mrs.
Skinner was a victim Of kidnap-
ers who seized her while she
was driving to Kansas City Mon
day. She was wearing a $4,000
diamond ring.
Escaped Oklahoma State Re-
formatory convicts were suspected
of being at large in southwestern
Iowa and northern Missouri at
the time.
Filling station operators at
Cleamont and Savannah Junction,
Mo-, reported a woman answer.
ing in part descriptions of the
manufacturers wife passe I'd
through those cities Monday.
James Flood, U. s. Department
of Justice agent, entered the case
yesterday.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
RANCE SHUNS
BOND CLAIMS

PARIS, Feb. 20 G.N.S).
French holders of American Fed
eral bonds totalling between $780,
OOO,o 900 and 100000 were in
formed today that the Govern
ment would take no action in sup
porting their claims against the
United States.
Various individual bondholders
applied at different banks regard
ing filing of suits against the
American Government as a result
Of the Supreme Courts gold clause
decisions, but were told they would
have to act Independently.
The French foreign office stated
definitely it does not intend to act
on behalf Of private bondholders
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
[ANSON FACES
NEW ATTACK

SAN JOSE, Cal, Feb. 20 G.N.SO
Among the test tubes and complex
paraphernalia of his laboratory,
DR.. Frederick ProeScher, noted
pathologist and criminologist, to,
day was preparing a new attack to
be launched by the State at the
retrial of David A. Lamson for the
"bathtub murder" of his slender
young wife, Allene.
The scientist was completing ex.
perimentS to account for the blood
spots in the hall adjoining the
bathroom in which Mrs. Lamson's
body was found-the weak spot OF
the States case at the first trial
of the Stanford University press
executive which resulted in his
conviction, sentence of death and
subsequent new trial order by the
State supreme court.
Prosecution attorneys said DR.
ProeScher would testify he had
found indications of blood on
pieces of charred fabric taken
from a bonfire Lamson was tend
ing in his garden the morning
Of the tragedy-the same fire
which produced a piece Of iron
pipe which the State claims was
used to bludgeon the one-time
campus favorite to death.
The fabric, the attorneys said
is assumed to be from rug
which lay in the hall, a rug on
which they will contend Mrs.
IamSon stood when she was hit
the first blow, to be dragged
into the bathroom, struck some
more and then put into the tub
in which she was discovered.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
BABCOCK HITS
HOUSE QUIZZING

Expressing himself as "consid-
erably shocked" at the attitude
and type of questions flung at
him by Representative Frederick
R. Lehlbach (R) of New Jersey
at the recent House subcommit.
tee hearing on the Sirovich
Omnibus" bill, President E.
Claude Babcock, Of the American
Federation of Government EN-
ployes today accused the legis-
lator Of taking him for a ride"
The union leader expressed sur.
prise that Mr.. Lehlbach had asked
him if his organization was obtain
ing members from the National
Federation of Federal Employees, a
rival" union not affiliated with
the American Federation of Labor,
and said Mr.. Lehlbach was ap-
parently Straining to find diff
cultieS with the bill. Mr.. Babcock,
however, admitted the Congress
man found some good ones"
Mr.. Lehlbach today said he had
wished to dispel the impression
that Mr.. Babcock, speaking as
president of the AFGE, repre-.
sented any appreciable portion Of
Federal employees, even those now
organized.
The congressman also reaffirmed
his opposition to the Civil Service
Court Of Appeals planned in the
bill. In addition, he said:
my experience in Congress
has shown me that proponents
of legislation should justify
their proposals and should be
subject to examination as to
their effects"
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
HOUSE REVOLTS
ON|NFLAT|ON
AND BONUS
Drive Starts to Force Vote
On Measures Opposed
BY Administration
International News Service

Bonus, initiation, and labor
forces in the House today an
nounced plan for launching a
big drive for enactment Of far
reaching legislation to which the
Administration is opposed.
The battle will be opened to-
morrow by the filing of petitions
in the House to discharge COM
mittees from consideration of anti
Administration bills. Signatures of
218 members are necessary to
bring bills to the House floor
without committee approval.
Time Limit Up
Under House rules thirty legis.
lative days must pass before pc.
titions can be filed. The time
limit is up tomorrow.
Bills on which petitions will be
filed to force votes include:
The Patman two billion dollar
bill for cash payment of the bonus
by issuance of new currency.
The Lemke bill to refinance eight
billion dollars Of farm mortgages
at 1h per cent interest by iSsu.
ance Of new money. It is esti-
mated three billion dollars new
currency would be needed.
The Lundeen old age pension
and unemployment insurance bill
estimated to cost eleven billion q
year.
Townsend Plan Backed
In addition, leaders in the fight
for the Townsend $200-a-month
old age pension plan hope to file
a petition in the near future.
BackerS Of silver remonetiZa-
tion and other legislation lacking
Administration approval also
were planning to force the issue
in the House.
Although Democratic leaders
earlier in the session amended
the petition rule to require 218
signatures instead Of 145, they
apparently have failed in their
effort to head off anti-Adminis.
tration fights.
Bonus Movement Gains
The soldiers bonus issue bobbed
up again in both branches of Con-
gresS today with some new leaders
to further wrinkled President
Roosevelt'S brow.
Senator Tydings (DO of Mary.
land, a veteran and an AdminiStra.
ton supporter, who never before
had taken any active part in the
bonus battles, introduced a COM
promise measure for immediate
payment.
There are two bonus proposals
pending before the House, one
sponsored by Representative Pat
man to pay-off with "greenbackS," ,"
and the Vinson measure, which
does not specify how the pay
ments shall be financed.
Senators Clark (D) of Mis-
souri, and Bulkley CD0 of Ohio
are considering bonus proposals
of their own, while Senator Ship
stead F.-L.) of Minnesota may
attempt to have the bonus paid
from the four billion dollar fund
the President wants to finance
his public works program.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
CRIME PROBERS BEGIN PARLEYS WITH DISTRICT POLICEMEN
Tax Reports
MASA Aid
To Crime
international News Service

Terming publication of indi.
vidual income tax statements an
aid to criminals, members of Con-
gress today moved to halt the prac-
tice.
The fight in the Senate was led
by Senator Copeland CD of New
York, author of a bill which would
discontinue publication of the re.
ports. Similar bills have been in.
troduced in the House by Repre-.
SentativeS Bell CD of Missouri
and Bacon (R) of New York.
Senator Copeland said:
"Any kidnaper can walk into
any office of collector of
internal revenue and look over
the list for prospective victims.
All the information he needs is
right there"
Representative Bacon said:
"The present law is an invita-
ton to shopping. Specifically,
it suggests kidnapping to many
criminals who would otherwise
not think Of it,"
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
3 Gifts of $4,000
Boost Shrine Fund

The guaranty fund for the 1885
Shrine Committee got off to a fly
ing start yesterday when Francis
G. Addison, chairman of the f.
nance committee, reported three
subscriptions Of $4,000 each had
already been received. The COM
mittee is asking $150,000.
Each subscriber will be given
an insignia to be displayed during
the week of the Shrine conclave,
June 8 to June Is, it was an
nolnced at the finance committee
meeting at the Willard Hotel
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
u. s. PERSIST
|. IN EFFORT To
CURB ARMS
Geneva Proposal on Snag,
Senate Asked to Revise
Old Munitions Ban
International News Service

With the tar-reachlng American
plan for control of international
armament running into a snag of
European political entanglements
at Geneva, the State Department
has decided to seek action on a
smaller measure for control Of
traffic in arms.
This became known today with
the disclosure that an Administra-
ton drive was under way to seek
Senate ratification in an accepta-
BILE form of the 1925 Geneva arms
treaty.
Licensing of Arms
This treaty would turn the glare
of world public opinion on inter
national traffic in arms. 1t would
provide shipment for establish.
ment of an export license system
to cover the shipment Of arms
and munitions between nations.
The licenses would be made public.
The treaty has been ratified by
but two or three Of the nations in
the world. It was ratified by the
Senate last June, but with a reser-
vation recognizing PerSia'S SOW
ereignity over the Persian Gulf.
Persia never has been conceded
sovereignty over the Persian Gulf,
and several powers have notified
this Government they would not
accept the American reservation.
Ask Reconsideration
The State Department feels if
the Persian reservation were elimi-
mated from the American ratifica-
ton it might be possible to put
the treaty into effect within a
short time and thus accomplish
at least a first step toward con-
troll of the international traffic in
the implements of war.
At the instance of the State De-
partment, the Senate Foreign Re
1ations Committee has requested
the President to send the arms
treaty back to it for reconsidera.
ton.
Word has reached the State De-
partment that Great Britain is
blocking at Geneva the American
plan for control of manufacture
and traffic in arms.
Adoption Periled
The British want to split up
the American plan and place that
part of it which provides for in
ternationaI supervision into a gen.
eral disarmament treaty. Their
stand threatens the chances of
getting the American plan
adopted.
It already has caused dissension
by France. Although willing to
support the American plan,
France has taken the position that
II the supervision feature is in
c1uded in a general disarmament
treaty, the parts governing control
Of arms manufacture must like
wise be included.
Hopes Fade
| Little hope is held that Europe
will agree on a general disarma-
ment treaty in the near future
and it was this conviction which
led this Government to propose a.
separate pact to control war imple.
mentS.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20

THE first Dodge car ever built had
L an all-steel body. 1t wasn't chance
it wasn't "climbing on a band
wagon" that led Dodge to the safety
Of the all-steel body. 1t was Progres-
Sive engineering, the urge to pioneer,
to lead and not follow in vital, i'm
portant automobile improvements.
These Dodge bodies have been tested
and proved by owners for over 2oyears,
everywhere, in constant daily use.
Dodge not only pioneered the all-steel
body but has constantly perfected it
over the years.
So, too, with hydraulic brakes. First
introduced by Dodge many years ago.
Dodge has constantly developed them.
Today, Dodge gives you hydraulic
brakes that are long past the expert
mental stage. For in Dodge you get
perfected, dual-cylinder hydraulic
brakes-safer, more dependable, more
economical than other types.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
GOUG|NC, WASTE
IN WAR Barred

NEW YORK, Feb. 2o.-"What
price unpreparedness!"
Col. Joseph w. Kruger, who, as
aide to General John J. Pershing
directed the purchases of supplies
for the American Armies In
France, gave some first hand in
formation on unpreparedness in a
radio address yesterday.
The address was one in the
series Of wake up America" pro
grams, given in connection with
National Defense Week and spon
sored by the Reserve Officers AS
sociation. Colonel Kruger said;
"T recall the endless confusion
1 found. when I was called to
France by General Pershing to
put some sort of system into the
outfit which was making needed
purchases for our soldiers.
eve had to 60 into the mar.
kets of France and England to
buy what we needed. Millions
of dollars were spent there. We
paid millions Of dollars more for
what we got than we should
have paid. 1t was a terrible
situation, but the emergency
was there and we had to meet
it, regardless of cost.
I'm spite Of our experiences
in the World War, are we to
continue to follow a policy of
just letting the matter drift
along, while we dwell in a fools
paradiSe?"
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
i. S. Clerk Unions
To Meet Tonight

District of Columbia units of
both Federal employe unions, the
NFFE and AFGE, will hold BIZ
monthly meetings tonight. The
District department of the AFGE
will convene at 7:30 p. m. at the
Thomas Circle Club, 1925 Massa-
chusetts Ave. N. w., while the D.
c. Federation of Federal Employees
meets an hour later at ITO Four
teenth st. N. w.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
January Relief
Cost $97O,816

Expending $970,816.53 for relief
purposes during January, the
Public Assistance Division, form
erly known as the Emergency Re-
lief Division, last month supported
from 22,571 to 22,778 families, it
was reported to the Board Of Pub
lie Welfare today.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
Great Britain Hopes
To Improve" Arms Plan

LONDON, Feb. 20 G.N.S)-Ex-
planning Great Britain's objections
to the American arms traffic regu-
lation plan as presented at &C.
neva, Sir John Simon, foreign
minister, told the House of Com
mons today Britain hopes to i'm
prove" on it.
The British government, Mr..
Simon said in answer to ques.
tions regarding the objections,
wants to simplify the machinery
for supervision Of the worlds arms
traffic.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
2QUESTI0NED z
BY COMMITTEE
INVESTIGATOR
BroderiCk and 0gIe Quizzed
On Vice Conditions;
Hearings Deferred

The first of a series Of confer.
ences with District policemen
began today when two members
of the Metropolitan police force
were questioned by counsel for the
special House subcommittee in
vestigating crime conditions in
Washington.
jeremiah C. Broderick, a uni
formed policeman attached to No.
6 precinct, and Detective Sergeant
Howard E. Ogle were being queS-
toned secretly today by DR.. John
R. Fitzpatrick, counsel for the
committee.
Both men formerly were at
tached to the vice squad and it
was the hope of the committee
they would be able to shed light
on vice conditions.
Hearings Deferred
The hearings probably will not
be resumed before next week, in
view Of the weekend recess Of
Congress and the holiday on Fri.
day, Washington's birthday. Rep
resentative Jennings Randolph
(R.) Of West Virginia, committee
chairman, has not announced the
next witness.
The hearings were adjourned
temporarily yesterday when Dis
trici, Attorney Leslie c. Garnett,
after two days on the witness
stand, had completed his teSti-
monN.
Target Of a hundred questions
fired at him in rapid succession by
the committees counsel, DR.. Fitz-
patrick, Mr.. Garnett was viSibly
shaken as he fenced with his in
quisitors.
PrOberS Amazed
Mr.. Garnett's testimony in
cluded everything from personnel
matters in his office to his views
of probation and the local parole
system. Frank admissions by Mr..
Garnett that he was not aware Of
legal procedure in the lower
courts here elected signs of amaze
ment from members OF the COM
mittee.
Frequently the District attorney
refused to discuss details of his
testimony with the sharp reminder
to his probers that information
requested from him had no con.
nection with the crime situation
in Washington. Briefly stated,
his testimony developed:
(D-That he did not know
Of legal procedure in, the lower
courts in Washington.
(2)-That he was party to a
deal with an agency that fur
nished information to gamblers
that he would not prosecute If
they left the jurisdiction Of local
courts.
(3)-That he has personally
participated in only two GRIM
inal cases since assuming office.
The General News Company,
which he said furnished race
track information to gamblers,
came to him with an offer to leave
Washington if they were not
prosecuted, Mr.. Garnett told
members of the committee. He
agreed with the proposition"
after a conference with officials
of the Department of Justice, the
District attorney testified.
What legislation, if any, will re-
suit from the current hearings is
a matter of conjecture. Commit
tee members have evidenced deep
interest in the testimony unfolded
before them, with particular atten-
ton being paid matters involving
gambling and prostitution.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
THEY'RE SAFE-IN
AN ALL-STEEL BODY
"a feature Of the big, rugged New-vaIue Dodge

Now Dodge pioneers again the "Air.
glide Ride, in which you speed
smoothly along with new comfort,
skimming over bumps without a
tremor or jar, taking the curves safely,
without sidesway. Another new con-
tribution to motoring ease is s"Synchro-
matte Control, which makes driving
unbelievably easy and eHortIess.
You'll recognize this Dodge as a
prize beauty the minute you see it.
But you must drive it to see how far
ahead Of others it is in power and
speed, comfort and economy, safety
and performance.
CHRYSL oToRS
DODGE DIVISION
This advertisement en- dorsed by the Depart
ment Of Engineering-Chrysle Motors
NEW VALUE DODGE: S645 to $3.50.
"AH prices f. o. b. factory, Detroit, subject
to change without notice. Special equip
ment extra. Time payments to fit your
budget Ask for the official ChrysIer Motors
Commercial Credit Plan.
The Washington times., 1935-02-20
DOCTOR TELLS STORY

SAL1DA, Col. Q.NSO-Twenty
years ago DR.. L. E. Thompson,
local practitioner, explains, the
12-year-old daughter of Mrs. F. E.
Swanson, of Salida, stuck a bean
in her ear. When she had be.
come a woman of 80, the seed
began to Sprout. It was removed
successfully,