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Evening star., 1935-02-03
U. S. FUR HUNTERS
HELD DECREASING
Animals Declared Plentiful, but
Trapping Falls Off, Trad
ers Report.

BY the Associated Press.
ST. LOUIS, February 2.-Slowly,
but with a persistence that is alarm
ing traders, professional American fur
hunters are deserting their traps.
Commission men along the st. Louis
river front, where the largest raw fur
market in the world is clustered in q
few decrepit buildings, have just fin
ished another buying season, marked
by a diminishing take" Of valuable
furs. Mink, skunk and raccoon were
short on the market this year, with
trapping in the Northwest virtually
ended for the season.
The drought, the Government farm
policy and a saturated market in fur
coats is blamed by the st. Louis buy
ers for idle traps. Animals are abun-
dant. but the trappers are gone.
Farmers with Government crop
checks laid by for the Winter have
forsaken the trap lines that occupied
them in past Winters.
''The Negro share cropper, with
cotton money in his overalls, lets his
soon dog Sleep" explained M. Lenz,
fur buyer.
The drought left deep mark on
the value of Central and Northwest
ern hides, and trappers let the ami
mails run free rather than bother
with inferior furs. Southern hides
were abundant, but brought only o
nominal price, A.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
JlNGLES AND CARTOONS
FOR USERS OF WATER

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 2.-The Chi
cago Water Bureau wants its CUSTOM
ers to be the happiest water users in
the world.
And to make them so 1t has turned
to, of all things-sonnets and car
toonS.
On the backs Of the February water
bills, said H. l.. Meites, the bureau
superintendent, will appear the fol.
lowing. accompanied by q snappy
illustration:
Maybe your daughter
uses too much water
I'm her bath"
For the past two years, Meites said.
the bureau has been using the backs
of bills to tell the folks not to waste
water "and I think we have succeeded
in making them the happiest water
users on earth"
However, the combination of the
Jingle and cartoon is a new idea, j,lst
something to spread additional Joy,
Meites pointed out.
Meites is the poet laureate OF his
department and several of his bright
young men are illustrating his odes.
Proof of the Joy that has been per-
meated in the past, Meites said, has
been shown In the application OF the
Long Island Water Corp. for pernais-
sion to copy his lyrics.
He is expecting additional appli-
cantS for the LATEST idea.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
PRINTING FOREMAN
ARTIST WITH LEAD
Pictorial Typography" Develop
ed by Columbus, Ohio, News.
paper Employe.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, February
R.-In the leaden type bars and
rules of newspaper composing room,
Carleton C. Berry has found a new
medium for artistic expression.
Berry, composing room foreman for
the Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch, in
shirt sleeves, amid the clatter Of lino-
type machines and under the glare
of a powerful electric light over a
stone" has developed a rare crafts
manship that might be called "cro-
cheting in type"
Artistic individuality.
His art has been put to practical
use on the Columbus newspapers
Sunday society page, where Berry's
small, angular-lined embellishments
give the page artistic individuality.
Berry's hobby began more than
score of years ago when he started his
apprenticeship in the printing trade.
Il used to sneak of after working
hours" he said, "and dig UP initials
and place fancy borders around them
just to see what could be done with
design.
Some of those figures I still have
and even as crude as they are I
treasure them because they bring
back memories of those first days I
spent in the print shop"
Variety of Results.
A few bars of shiny lead, a few
deft manipulationS with a rotary
miterer and a saw, careful assembly
of the loose pieces of lead and then
galley proof and-presto! You have
in printers ink, through the massing
OF lines and white spaces, a candle
stick design, or an Egyptian scarab.
or jardiniere and fern.
Berry has pictured even LANDSCAPES
with his arrangement of type bars
and rules.
The scope of the composing room
foreman's pictorial Typography" is
vast-as diversified as the ideas he
conceives.
First he pictures in his mind the
design and impression he wishes to
create. Then he sets to work. He
seldom has tried drawing the designs
on paper before starting to work them
out in lead.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
BY HEYWOOD BELL,
Associated Press staff Writer.

~ ICHMOND, Va, February O.
l. President Roosevelt's social
security sspas - program r. sana. today sP
into the heart of both the
Democratic primary and general elec-
ton campaigns preceding the Novem-
Der voting, when all members of the
Virginia General Assembly are to be
elected.
The first indication that social Sc
curity in all of the aspects now before
Congress. will be injected into the
primary and general election cam
paigns was the recent action of the
Legislative Committee of the Virginia
Federation of Labor. 1t went on rec
ord as favoring old age pensions, un-
employment insurance, wage and
work requirements, care for depend
ents and other features of the pro-
gram.
This was followed today by state
mentS from friends of labor asserting
that it was certain that all candidates
for election to the Virginia Legisla-
ture, both the House and the Senate
would be polled on their social Sc
curity views. Questionnaires are ex-
pected to go out in the late Spring
for candidates for the Democratic pri-
mary nomination and to others soon
after.
Peery Favors Job Insurance.
Gov. Peery has put himself on rec
ord as favoring sound unemploy-
ment insurance with the statement
that there is as much reason for
putting aside funds for taking care of
worn-out workers as there is for put
Evening star., 1935-02-03
FOUNDER OF CLUB
HONORED BY GANG
"Graduates," Who Made Success
full Careers Express Thanks
to Jack Robbins.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 2.-Twenty-
two years ago lonely young man.
graduate of an orphan school, used
to watch the nightly gatherings of
the Boundary Line Gang" around
Taylor street and Ashland avenue, on
Chicago's near West Side.
They were tough kids" averaging
between 13 and Is years, a nuisance
to police and bother to the neigh
borhood.
But, thought Jack Robbins, they
needed only helping hand to swerve
them toward life of usefulness.
So, though jeered and booed at
first as a sissy" he won their con-
fidence after two years and started
a basement club room, financed from
his own rather slim earnings as q
tobacco salesman.
From it has grown the Boys Broth
erhood Club, with 800 members here
and 600 in New York.
This week, on the twentieth an
niversary of the clubs founding, Jack
Robbins original Executive Commit
tee-now outstanding, successful Amer.
ican citizens-gathered at his home to
honor the gray-haired salesman who
helped them OF TO aueeesstul careers,
Evening star., 1935-02-03
THREAT OF STRIKE
CONFRONTS JUR|ST
Signing of Injunction in New
York Seen Signal for
General Tie-up.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 2.-On the
stroke of a jurist's pen, probably
some time next week, hangs the thread
of a serious strike along New York's
water front.
Labor leaders even envision the pos
sible spread of such strike. if called,
throughout the city.
The jurist, Supreme Court Justice
Burt j. Humphrey of Brooklyn, has
indicated he would sign in few days
an injunction against union truckmen
and dock workers and steamship COM
panies.
The Injunction is aimed at forcing
union cargo checkers on the docks to
handle cargo hauled to piers by non
union truckmen.
Ready to Appeal.
Organized labor is prepared to ap-
peal the injunction at once. 1t called
in United States Senator Burton K.
Wheeler of Montana to help fight the
case before Humphrey. With Edward
c. Mcguire, local counsel for the union
interests involved, Senator Wheeler
contended the injunction petition
filed by the Merchants Association of
New York, the Brooklyn Chamber Of
Commerce and other busines organiZa-
sions-should have been brought in the
Federal Court; that the New York
State Court did not have jurisdiction
in such a dispute.
Justice Humphrey, in turning down
the plea, implied he would sign the
injunction order, probably next week.
AS a protest, 10000 union truckmen
staged a one-day strike last week, CIV
ing an example of how water front
traffic could be tied up.
Green Voices Sympathy.
Sympathy with the union cause was
voiced by William Green, president
of the American Federation of Labor.
The background of the controversy
is this:
The International Brotherhood of
Transfers and Chauffeurs, seeking to
strengthen its forces with more men,
bers, enlisted the aid of the Interna-
.ional Longshoremen's Union. Both are
affiliated with the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
BACKFIRE THREATENS
PLAN IN MINNESOTA
Third Party Foundation May CrumbIe in At.
tacks by Senate and House Anti.
Administration Forces.
BY JERRY VESSELS.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


PAUL. Minn February "A roaring backre started by
the conservative controlled State Legislature not only
doom for the sponsored cooperative common
wealth proposal but also ultimately foundation
tnhers of he marty
Evening star., 1935-02-03

veStigation ostensibly to have him re-
peat his charges.
Would Use Revelation.
Reliable reports state that the anti
administration group in the Senate,
which has refused to confirm the ap-
pointment of Mrs. LIE Sueur and the
two other Olson appointees to the State
School Board, plans to use revelations
of the inquiry as a basis for abolish
ing the board and having administra-
tion of the State school system trans
ferred to the University of Minnesota
Board of Regents.
The Board of Regents, as now con-
stituted, has bare conservative ma
jority, but four new members will be
named by the current Legislature, and
they undoubtedly will be picked by
the anti-Olson faction, all of which
blends into the proposed drastic
change in administering the State
school system.
While the Senate is prying into
secrets of the Farmer-Labor regime,
the conservative House majority is
concentrating on the State relief set
up, inspired partly by the charge by
Mrs. Hannah Kempfer, State Repre-
sentative, that she had been re-
moved from her home county relief
board by E. R. A. officials because
she is not supporting Gov. Olsons
legislative program.
The House will be asked to recon-
mend that State relief be handled
exclusively through county and local
agencies, with the intention of cir
cumventing what it terms Farmer
Labor influence in administering State
and Federal funds for the benefit of
the needy.
Thus enemies Of the Olson ad-
miniStration are dominating legisla-
tive activities on virtually all fronts.
However, the liberals already have ad-
vanced part of their program at least
to the point of getting the bills in
troduced. One section of the public
ownership plan presented in the State
Senate calls for bonding the State
for S50,000,000 to finance a State
owned hydro-electric power system
Evening star., 1935-02-03
j. s. SALES TAX
DIFFERENCES SEEN
Revenue Cut in Some States
Forecast, Excess Money
in Others.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February IA Federal
manufacturers sales tax would cut the
revenue of some States and give others
more than they need, the Interstate
Commission on Conflicting Taxation
asserted today.
The commission analyzed the prob
able results of tax along the lines of
the recently introduced Treadway bill.
A levy of rs per cent was presumed.
"A Federal sales tax to take the
place of existing and prospective State
sales taxes would undoubtedly have
advantages" the report set forth. "On
the other hand, it would tend to upset
State tax systems by reducing revenues
in some States and providing more in
come than is necessary in Others"
Would End Tax Evasion.
1t would end the practice Of tax
evasion by residents of taxing State
who 90 to non-taxing States to make
their purchases, the commission found,
and would halt discriminatory taxes
against resident manufacturers and
merchants in taxing States. 1t
added:
"The commission questions whether
the receipt of revenues not actually
necessary for the operation OF State
governments would not be an unmixed
misfortune because, first, it would de-
moralize the State tax systems; sec
ond, it might promote in a number OF
States unnecessary and extravagant
uses of the excess funds, and, third.
it would introduce large element OF
uncertainty and inelasticity into the
State finance structure.
Would Provide Varying Amounts.
ION any reasonable basis of revenue
distribution, it would fail to replace
the sales tax income now enjoyed by
California, Michigan, Ohio and West
Virginia by an aggregate in excess OF
$50, 900 900. On the other hand 1t
would provide most of the other sales
tax States and all Of the 81 States
which do not now levy the tax with
varying amounts of excess revenue"
The report said the Federal sales
tax would bear heavily on people
with low income" and would doubt
less interfere materially with an in
crease in business activity"
Evening star., 1935-02-03
ELECTORAL COLLEGE
ATTACKED BY OHIO
Petitions Expressing Desire for Change to Popu
lar Election for President and Vice Presi.
dent Sent to Congress.
Special Dispatch to The Star.


~OLUMBUS Ohio, February 2-Eforts to abo-
tion the electoral college provide for the more
~ Democratic method of choosing the Vice
President by popular vote have been Ohio when
petitions expressing the desire for such change
methods filed with the House Committee on the Election of
the President Vice President Representatives Congress
Representative Brooks Fletcher is chairman
Evening star., 1935-02-03
Security Plan Destined to Play
Major Role in Virginia Voting
Y. F. of L. Committee Injects Issue
in Campaigns and Governor
AdUOcutes Action.

ting aside funds for depreciation in
machinery.
Apparently no one on the Virginia
Capitol Hill doubts that social Sc
curity will be dealt with by the 1886
General Assembly, but all are puzzled
over the source of necessary funds.
A preliminary consideration Of this
question has developed many ques-
tions. Among the first suggestions
was liquor profits. but the bulk of the
liquor profits for the current BIZ
ennium are already earmarked for
the general fund deficit and a reserve
fund for the Alcoholic Beverage Con-
troll Board. The remainder, under
the law, is to be divided between the
State and the localities.
Highlights of the Week.
Richmond-State Controller E. r.
Combs reports for the first six months
of the fiscal year ended December 81
State revenue amounted to $29,-
83,741. gain of S11 ,646,7 ,733 as COM
pared to collections during the same
months of 1888, while expenditures
went up to $27,773,756 in the same
period, an increase of S7,560,225 over
the outlays in the first half of 1888.
Richmond-Gov. Peery refuses to
commute death sentence for Robert
Mais and declines plea for stay of
execution in the case of Walter
Legenza, gangsters convicted of the
murder of a Richmond Federal Re-
serve bank truck driver.
Richmond-State Supreme Court
grants rehearing on decision in which
it held unconstitutional the Virginia
milk control act providing for price
fixing.
Evening star., 1935-04-24
HORSE SHOW LED
BY EASTER MORN
Wyman Entry Only Double
Victor at Fort Myer as
Indoor Season Ends.

TINE curtain was rung down on
the Capitals indoor horse show
season at Fort Myers new
riding hall last night with an
interesting program that attracted a
gallery Of some 300 spectators.
Lieut.. w. G. Wyman's Easter Morn
was the only double winner Of the
evening, taking blue ribbons in both
the road hack pairs and green or
qualified hunters classes, but was
given a close contest for individual
honors by the mounts Of Fenton Fade
ley and Capt. j. T. Duke
Fadeley's Hunger Marcher, a 6-year-
old chestnut thoroughbred, weIl-known
In both the show ring and hunt field,
won the open jumping class and cap
tured second place in the division
for green or qualified hunters.
Stable Ties for Second.
NLD GOLD and Sandy, both shown
~ by Capt. Duke, tied for second
in the open class over regu-
1ation course, and the latter took the
blue in the open class, shown over
modified international jumps.
Mrs. Forrest P. Sherman. wife OF
Lieut.. Comdr. Sherman, U. S. N, was
paired with Lieut.. Wyman in the road
hack pairs class that drew one Of the
largest entry lists of the show.
1t was announced that Fort Myers
outdoor show season will be inaug-
urated on May 30 with an all-day meet
Evening star., 1935-04-24
LITTLE Wolf Seen
AS A MAT THRILLER
Grappler, Who Will Appear Here
Tomorrow, Rated Far Above
Imported Challengers.
PREDICTION that Chief Little

4 PREDICTION that Chief Little
~ Wolf will prove the most sensa-
tional and popular raSsling star
to invade the Washington Auditorium
since he began promoting half q dozen
years ago today was made by Promoter
Joe Turner, who will sic the sawed
of Indian on Gino Garibaldi tomor-
row.
Turner, who secuted the Redskin
before signing to bring him here, rates
the chunky challenger to Jim Londos'
title claims as a far more sensational
performer than any Of the long, line
of importations, which began with
Ferenc Holuban, the neckless Hum
garian and included Sergio Kalmikoff,
Leo Pinetzki, and, more recently,
Danno O'Mahoney.
Little Wolf, who began his mat
career seven years ago as Ben Tenario
and lost so many matches that he
considered forsaking the game, bears q
strong physical resemblance to the
man who is accused Of running out"
on him last February, Londos.
The Indian stands only 5 feet 6
inches, but weighs 210 pounds and is
said to be one of the strongest hefties
in the game. He can point to vic
tories over Dick Shikat, Gus Sonnen-
berg, Man Mountain Dean, George
Zaharias, Ray Steele, Sammy Stein,
Jim Mcmillan, Ernie Dusek, Joe Sa-
voldi and virtually every other ranking
raSSler in the country. His recent win
over Shikat in IA minutes is considered
his best performance.
Evening star., 1935-04-24
FROM THE PRESS BOX
Little Wolf Won't Diyulge 'Death Trap"
Secret Until He Gets Jim Londos' Title
BY John LARDNER.

when they sold it for s24 net, had
been dumb like foxes.
In re Manhattan Island" he wired
home to the chief. would estimate
present value at $13.85 including in
habitantS. Am now concentrating on
Londos"
Many people have had a chance to
see the secret of the Indian death
trap by this time, but it still remains
secret. Little Wolf having used it
with success on a number of the good
white boys in this section. plans to
trap Jim Londos and hustle back to
his tribe with the title. In other
words. the Indian death trap is the
biggest thing in wrestling right now.
He Won't Divulge Secret.
I tried to coax the secret from
Little Wolf. but he held firm.
Exclusive stuff" apologized the
young warrior. Wait till after the
Londos match, when am champion
Then will explain the whole thing
in about $500 words"
Unable to wait. went up to circus
clue from one of the Indian per-
formers in the Wild West division. I
spotted a couple of distinguished
Sioux whom I knew by sight, Sitting
Bull, jr., and Long Time Sleep.
Hey, Chickpaw," said to
Sitting Bull. jr.. that being
Sioux for Hello, my very good
friend"
There was no answer for five min
untes. so I tried again. This time
the silence lasted 10 minutes. Then
Long Time Sleep removed q tooth
pick from his mouth and spoke.
THE son of Sitting Bull is deaf
and dumb" he said.
oh" said your correspondent.
"Well, do you know the secret of the
Indian death trap as practiced by
the prominent Navajo. Little Wolff"
Nope" said Long Time Sleep.
That's as far as I've been able to
get yet. The death trap as practiced
by Little Wolf remains secret. It
looks like glorifled scissors hold with
extra pressure on the throat Of the
victim. but there must be more to it
than that
Anyway, you know now why Little
Wolf is pursuing Londos and why he
is SO Indifferent to money that he
sometimes throws it away dime at
a time. There will be no more data
on this inspired aboriginal until he
hands it out himself.
(Copyright 1885. by North American
Newspaper Alliance. Inc)
Evening star., 1935-04-24
Fights Last Night

By the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND.-Pau1 Pirrone, 158,
Cleveland, knocked out Benny Levine,
157, Newark %. Henry Palmieri,
178, Cleveland, knocked out Billy
Trieste. 172, Chicago (3). Hilliard
Fam, 159. Cleveland, outpointed Joe
Spiegel, 152, Uniontown, Pa. (6). Car
men Barth, 1853, Cleveland, outpointed
Chuck Heffner, 1852, Denver CO..
SEATTLE, Wash.-Freddie Steele.
1861, Tacoma, Wash, knocked out
Sammy O'Dell. 154s4. Akron. Ohio
%.
STOCKTON. Calif.-Charley Retz-
laff. 200. Duluth, Mimi, knocked out
Jack Roper, 1913, Hollywood, Calf.
%; Barney Durant, 12l, Pittsburgh,
outpointed Jimmy Cordova. 100,
Stockton.
LOS ANGELES.-Oscar Rankin,
166, Los Angeles, outpointed Milford
"Swede" Berglund, 1852 Q0); Fred
die Main, 142, Long Beach, Calf,
outpointed Glen Lee. 145, Edison,
Nebr.
Evening star., 1935-04-24
Makes One of eede Jumps Up Pugisc Ladder History
Mat Matches

BY the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS-Ji londos, 203,
st. Louis, defeated Chief Chewchki,
241, Ardmore, Okla, straight falls.
ST. PAUL-Cliff Olson, Baudette,
Mimi, won from Lou Plummer, South
Bend, Ind, on foul.
NEW HAVEN, Conn.-Steve Passas,
100. Hartford, defeated Johnny
Iovanna, ITS, Boston, two falls to one.
ALBANY, N. Y.-Chief Little Wolf,
22C, Colorado, defeated Rube Wright,
230, Texas, straight falls.
PORTLAND, Me.-Jack Burns, 178.
Chicago, threw Chuck Montana, IT'S,
Detroit, 26:49.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Jim Browning.
235, Verona, Mo-, defeated Man
Mountain Dean, BIT, Norcross, Ga,
1000: Nick Lutte, 210, Venice, Calf,
beat DR.. Freddie Meyers, 200, New
York, 32:0O: Casey Kazanjian, 205,
Stanford, and Bob Russell, 2l2, Bos-
ton, drew, $1,000.
SPOKANE, Wash.-Earl McCready,
243, Montreal, won over Ted Cox, 225,
Lodi, Calf, when latter disqualified;
Jack Washburn, 245, Boston, de-
feated Jules Strongbow, 280, Ponca
City, Okla, in straight falls.
SAN DIEGO, Calif.-vincent Lopez,
ZIG, Idaho, pinned Pat Fraley, 2l4,
Boston, two out Of three falls.
Evening star., 1935-04-24
Louis Still Shy
Favor of ". B. A.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., April "a L4P.
I Joe Louis, Detroit Negro
heavyweight, will get "due
recognition from the National
Boxing Association as soon as We
feel he has earned It," Edward c.
Foster, president Of the N. B. A.,
said in answer to criticism directed
at him by various Midwestern Joe
Louis boosters.
II never have seen Louis per-
FORM" Foster said. $50 far as I
can learn he has engaged in some
20 professional fights. He will re-
ceive recognition, and as my
Western critics term it, 'ballyhoo.'
from the N. B. A. when and il we
feel he has earned 1t. We don't
feel that he has earned IL YET"
Evening star., 1935-04-24

seven rounds, Jabbing and back ped
aling. Louis caught up with him in
the eighth, and, after Ramage had
been hoored four times, towel was
thrown in from his corner.
The victory over Ramage definitely
established Louis as a heavyweight
threat. Since then he has beaten Patsy
Perroni, Hans Birkie, Ramage again,
Red Barry, Matte Brown, Ray Lazer,
and Biff Bennett, the latter as recently
as last Monday, in one minute and IS
seconds of the first round.
Four of his 10 opponents have been
on their feet at the finish-Kranz,
Waiter. Perroni and Brown. Louis had
each of them on the floor, but could
not keep them there. In each case,
his margin of superiority was unques-
toned and the decision in his favor
unchallenged.
Louis was born in Montgomery, Ala,
May 13, 1914. After the death of his
father, when Joe was a small boy, his
mother moved to Detroit. He attended
school here and started fighting in the
amateur tournaments of the city.
Now on Exhibition Tour.
r OU1S now is on an exhibition tour.
l. He will have no engagements Of
importance until he faces Car
nera In the Yankee Stadium, June Is.
What does he think of his chances
against the big Italian?
II think I'll knock him out in less
than five rounds" said Louis.
Explaining that he never had seen
Camera in action, Louis said he was
basing his opinion on the motion pic
lures of the Carnera-Ba bout.
II don't think the pictures were
faxed" he grinned, "and Carnera
surely gives you plenty to hit"
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Newspaper Alliance. Inc.)