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Evening star., 1935-02-05
CITIZENS SUPPORT
POLICE INCREASE
Growth of City Cited by
Chairman of Takoma
Park Committee.

Increase in the numerical strength
of the Metropolitan Police Force was
urged last night by the Citizens As
sociation Of Takoma. d. c.. at a
meeting in the Takoma Park Branch
Library.
D. Stewart Patterson, chairman OF
the Police and Fire Committee, point
ed out that increased population OF
the Capital has increased responsible
tiles Of the Police Department. He
also emphasized that the increase in
crime called for more adequate pro-
lection and that the increase in traffic
accidents demanded immediate action.
The association appealed to Congress
for prompt action by complying with
the request of Police Supt Ernest w.
Brown for additional men.
George E. Sullivan, chairman Of the
Committee on Laws and Legislation,
called attention to the necessity for
enactment by Congress Of a smoke
prevention law which would prohibit
not only the emission Of dense or
thick black smoke from stationary en-
gines and Office buildings. but private
residences as we'll. The bill, he said,
also should include boats, tugs and
locomotives.
Gambling Denounced.
A joint report of the Committee on
Laws and Legislation and the Police
and Fire Committee deplored as ''un-
worthy Of the serious consideration
of practical and public spirited cit
izens the recent suggestion from Ger
tain quarters that gambling be legal
lied In the District Of Columbia. it
being self-evident that the legalizing
of gambling will increase rather than
decrease the extent thereof and bring
within its vicious circles many per-
sons ashamed or afraid to visit the
secret places where gambling is now
carried on" The committee favored
the strengthening of police authority
in this connection.
The association. through President
Wallace c. Magathan and the Execu-
tive Committee. will appear before the
hearings in Congress and urge con-
struction of the addition to the Paul
Junior High School at a cost of
sl90. 900 and also request the appro-
priation Of $4,000 for the preparation
Of plans for a new senior high school
in the Takoma section. The fire.
proofing of the Takoma Elementary
School was also advocated in the re-
port of Eugene w. Bond, chairman of
the Public Schools Committee.
Express Cars Urged.
Utilization of the Eleventh street
line Of the Capital Transit Co. for
express" cars, switched over from
Fourteenth street and Ninth street for
express" service for cars operating
on Georgia avenue, was indorsed in a
resolution presented by George E.
Sullivan.
The shifting of express" cars from
these two thoroughfares, it was
pointed out, would tend to relieve
some Of the congestion and permit
the continuation of local" service
from the northern section to the CEN
ter of the city. The wishes Of the
association will be presented by Pres
ident Magathan at q meeting to be
held tonight in Petworth on the rail-
way situation. The installation Of q
bus service Is also receiving the at
tention of the Public Utilities Com
mission, the association was advised
last night
Evening star., 1935-02-05
CRUISER REQUEST
TO AID SHIP BIDS
IN BRAZIL Barred
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partment was Gin accord with your
expression Of opinion"
In reply to q committee question on
the Gibson matter, Bardo replied, with
smile:
That's all in the days work"
Barbo was reprimanded by Clark
for failure to respond Immediately to
questions.
You will answer the questions
submitted to you" Clark snapped. his
face growing increasingly red. Lean
ing forward from his seat at table
overlooking the place where the burly
white haired witness sat, Clark con-
tinued:
You will not lecture the committee
on its procedure.
Bardo Protests.
"You are here at the call of the
committee and 1t will conduct its in
vestigation in its own manner"
I'VE are getting nowhere by this
line of questioning" Bardo had pro-
tested when he was pressed to name
dates Of certain activities of the cor
poration's agent in Brazil. He had
declared he was unable to remember
The testimony concerning President
Roosevelt, Farley and Moore was part
verbal and part in the form of letters.
selfish in it."
1T was purely in the public inter-
est" he insisted The shipyards were
already overcapacitated and any addi-
tional capacity meant more Of our
men must be let out"
Bardo frankly conceded he had
sought. in association with officials Of
other major shipbuilding companies.
to prevent granting of a $35 ZOO, 900
Reconstruction Finance Corp loan to
Laurence r. Wilder to finance his Gulf
Industries plant at Pensacola. Fla.
In his appeal to Gov. Moore, Bardo
wrote on June %. 1888:
THE New York Shipbuilding Co.
with plants at Camden) has twice
the capacity that 1t needs. and this is
equally true of the Federal Shipbuild-
ing Co. at Kearney."
He said Gulf Industries had secured
plans preparatory to bidding on the
1888 naval program and may divert
a very substantial part of this business
from New Jersey industries"
1T is important" he added. that
this be prevented If reasonably pos
sible."
Moore Tells Of Reply,
Replying. Gov. Moore said, as pre-
sented to the committee:
II have your letter and shall be glad
to help you in any way you might sug-
gest. I have taken the matter up
directly with Mr.. Farley"
A quick response from Bardo car
ried the statement, in letter Of July
S, saying there is no doubt in my mind
but what this situation will very
largely rest in the Presidents lap be-
fore we get through with II"
Bardo recommended that the Gov
ernor write directly to the President to
protest granting Of the Wilder loan.
He described Wilder as "a pro-
moter pure and simple"
Moore wrote to the President. sub
sequent correspondence disclosed, as
we'll as to Farley.
The latter replied in letter to
Moore on July IS that he had received
comment on the matter from Admiral
H. I. Cone, chairman Of the United
States Shipping Board.
President Roosevelt replied to Gov.
Moore July Is as follows:
Thank you for your letter Of July
Z. appreciate your writing me about
Evening star., 1935-02-05

the matter, but We have no intention
of acquiring shipyards."
1t was signed Very sincerely yours,
Franklin D. Roosevelt"
The committee had no copy of the
letter from Moore to the President pro-
testing granting of the Wilder loan.
Wilder had testified earlier he was
convinced there was collusion among
the major shipbuilders He had re-
peatedly named Bardo as one of the
participants in conferences he de-
scribed as aimed at sharing the Nays
shipbuilding program among the
larger yards at steadily increasing
prices.
Conflicting testimony given this
week in the committees study of
alleged collusion among shipbuilders
brought a threat of possible perjury
proceedings yesterday from Senator
Vandenberg. Republican. Of Michigan.
He said the committee would meet
soon to decide whether the record
should be turned over to the United
States District attorney.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
Army Officers Designated.

Maj. Carl Spatz and Capt. Charles
M. Cummings. both of whom are now
on duty here in the Office of the chief
of the Army Air Corps. are among II
Air Corps officers designated as STU
dents at the Army Command and Gen.
eral Staff School. Fort Leavenworth
Kans. for the term beginning next
September
Evening star., 1935-02-05
SEEKS
ROOSEVE[T'S AID
Fears Deportation After
Losing Place for Hunger
Strike Protest.

One of the "unhappiest men in the
world" has come to Washington.
He is DR.. Arthur J. I. Kraus, a
German philosopher and teacher OF
philosophy, born in Poland and, like
others who have pursued truth and
struggled for freedom, he has had
plenty of troubles.
Conditions in his native land were
far from ideal before the World War;
they did not improve as much as he
thought they should after the arml-
stice and the establishment Of the
Polish republic. The pressure OF cir
cumStances forced him into position
| of leadership in a minority movement
for more liberal policies. The cam
paign failed and he was obliged to
seek refuge, first at Oxford. England,
and then in America.
In December, 1892. he was employed
as an instructor in philosophy at the
College of the City of New York,
quietly following a routine of teaching
in no way different from that Of his
faculty colleagues. Then came news
of violent clashes between the Polish
student bodies and the Polish police
Friends back home. boys he had
taught, were killed in the fighting. In
an effort to call American attention to
the tragedy, DR.. Kraus followed the
example Of the English suffragettes,
Lord Mayor Terence McSweeney Of
Cork and Mahatma Gandhi and an
nounced a voluntary hunger strike.
The device was a success-it made
the cause of the Polish students a
matter Of news. But 1t cost the philos-
opher his job and his reputation.
Is Dismissed.
DR. Kraus was dismissed from his
position on the charge of being
mentally unstable
No examination was made, no test
given. to prove the allegation. Eminent
psychologists, engaged by his friends.
found him perfectly normal mentally
and emotionally; but it was too late
the damage was done, and DR.. Kraus.
unable to obtain employment, became
liable to deportation. He was arrested
early in 1888 and transferred to Ellis
Island to await expulsion.
But his case appealed to organiza-
tions and individuals concerned for
academic freedom, and on the repre-
sentations of Profs. John Dewey.
George S. Counts, Ernest F. Scott,
Reinhold Niebuhr and others he was
released for six months.
Seeks Roosevelt's Aid.
That period. however. long since
has expired. and Dr. Kraus may be
seized and elected from the United
States any moment. He lives in ter
ror of such a development of his mis-
fortunes, and in quest Of formal per-
mission to remain in America and to
retrieve his lost status in his profess
sion, he has arrived in the Capitol
to solicit the aid Of President Roose-
velt and Secretary Of Labor Perkins.
His sponsor here is Right Rev. James
E. Freeman, Bishop of Washington.
Among the credentials which DR..
Kraus will ask opportunity to submit
to the Chief Executive is a letter from
DR.. Albert Einstein, discoverer of rela-
tivity, which reads: Prof. Kraus, for
merly teacher of philosophy in the
College of the City of New York, has
lost his position there because he had
shown the conscientiousness and the
courage to defend in life the same
principles of justice which it was his
duty to teach"
Bishop Freeman has promised to
intercede for DR.. Kraus in person.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
.CONST|TUT|0NPLEA
VOICED BY GUYER.
New Deal Government Held
Bureaucratic in G. 0. P.
Address.
A plea for continuance of constitu-

A plea for continuance of constitu-
tional government was made yester-
day afternoon by Representative
Guyer, Republican, of Xansac, in
speaking before a meeting of the Dis
trict Chapter, League Of Republican
Women, at the Mayflower Hotel.
Representative Guyer branded the
present administration as a bureau
cracy and said the United States is
now going through the same political
and economic stage through which
Germany passed prior to the World
War. He exonerated former Presi-
dent Hoover Of any blame for the de-
preston, saying that such a state Of
affairs was inevitable.
Blames Woes on War.
I'VE can blame all our troubles on
one thing-the great war;" the speak
er said. Since that horrible con-
flict the world has not seen one out
standingly good thing accomplished.
We have only to look at our books, our
art, or listen in on our radio to find
to what levels the world has fallen.
Our best selling books are filthy, we
have no such thing as art and we can
not tune in on the radio without hear
ing hodge -podge, represented to us
as music"
Representative Guyer told his listen
ers that he never would utter a dis
paraging word against President
Roosevelt or any other man who had
to undergo the rigors of the White
House. He said he had seen too many
Presidents killed off by the tasks" to
be carried out in the house across
from Lafayette Square"
Il saw President Hoover grow old
within a few months while there" he
said. Uneasy lies the head that is
pillowed in the White House"
Luncheon Precedes Meeting.
Prior to the meeting Mrs. William
Fitch Kelley, president of the chap
ter, entertained at luncheon for a
small group Of prominent Republican
women, including the national COM
mitteewomen from four States and the
District of Columbia. Present at the
luncheon were Mrs. Alvin T. Hert
vice chairman of the National Com
mittee Of the organization: National
Committeewomen Mrs Calvin Gabriel
of Maryland, Mrs. Murray Brocock OF
Virginia. Miss Martha Mcclure OF
Iowa, Mrs. Robert Lincoln Hoyal OF
Arizona and Mrs Virginia White Speel
OF the District. Nine. Julia Dent Can
tacuzene- Grant. Mrs. Lowell Fletcher
Hobart and Mrs. Ellis Yost, former
director of women's work and a vice
president Of the league
Following the talk by Representative
Guyer. the national committeewomen
made brief talks outlining conditions
In their own States.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
State Rejects Child Labor Ban.

SANTA FE, N. Mex, February S
R-New Mexico's House of Repre-
sentatives rejected yesterday by one
vote, "a to %, ratification of the Fed
eral child labor amendment.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
COL. G. E. GRIFFIN BURIED
Funeral for Veterinary Corps Off
Ger Held at Arlington.

Col. Gerald E. Griffin, Veterinary
Corps. U. S. A. retired, died Satur-
day at Walter Reed Hospital.
Born in Birmingham, England. on
March 18. 1860, he entered the Signal
Corps of the Army in 1883. He re-
ceived the degree of D. V. S. from
American Veterinary College in New
York in 1889 During the World War
he served as lieutenant colonel in the
Veterinary Corps. Appointed colonel
in 1920. he retired two years later.
He is survived by his widow. Mrs
Elizabeth M. Griffin. and daughter,
Miss Martha H. Griffin of the ChaStle-
ton Hotel. Funeral services were
conducted at the grave in Arlington
National Cemetery this morning.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
FUNERAL TOMORROW

Lieut.. John G. Burgess, U. s. N, who
was killed in an airplane accident in
Texas Saturday, will be buried with
full military honors in Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery tomorrow morning,
the Navy Department announced to-
day.
Capt. Sydney K. Evans, chief OF the
Nays corps Of chaplains, will ON
ciate. The escort will form at the
Fort Myer Gate at IL o'clock.
Honorary pallbearers will be Lieuts.
M. E. Arnold, L. K. Rice, T. U. Sisson,
H. B. Temple, G. H. Moffett and Sec
ond Lieut.. e. c. Dyer, U. s. M. C.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
NEXT MACCRACKEN
MOVE NOT DECIDED
Uncertain on Plea to Court
for Reconsideration.
Has rs Days.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The next move in William P. Mac
Crackens long fight to overturn a
Today jail sentence the Senate
imposed on him on charges of con-
tempt remained in doubt today.
MacCracken, former Assistant Sec
retary of Commerce. said he had not
decided whether to ask the court to
reconsider He has Is days in which
to file such plea.
At Liberty Under $1,000 Bond.
Convicted of the charge last year,
after his failure TO produce certain
documents demanded by Senate
committee which investigated airmail
contracts, MacCracken is at liberty
under $4,000 bond. He had acted as
counsel for several persons involved
in the airmail investigation.
He contended that the power to
punish witnesses who defied congress
sional inquiries rested solely with the
courts. That contention was over
thrown by the Supreme Court.
The high courts decision was hailed
by members of the Senate as up
holding its right and capacity to con-
duct full and complete inquiries.
Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New
York termed it healthy thing"
Jurney Is Pleased.
Chesley w. Jurney. Senate SER
geant at arms, who was harried
almost to his wits end when Mac
Cracken first played a game of hide
and seek with him and then. upon
surrendering. insisted upon staying
in his oaptor's home as an unlimited
guest, smiled when told of the de-
ciSion.
He said he probably would call on
MacCracken to surrender and go to
the District of Columbia Jail once
the time for reconsideration is past.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
Fall on Ice Injuries Head.

Slipping on ice while walking in the
1900 block of Juniper street this MORN
ing, Arlin Pennington, rs, A Wells
avenue, Hyattsville, Md, suffered a
severe cut over the right eye and a
possible fracture of the skull. He was
given first aid at Walter Reed Hospital
and then removed to Emergency Hos
pital.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO. February 5.-A maze of
possible motives-fear, revenge or the
lust for power-twisted the investiga-
ton of the gangland-style staying Of
Thomas E. Maloy into a snarl today.
Maloy, the soft-spoken dapper car
of the Moving Picture Machine Opera.
tors Union here, whose stormy 19-year
career kept him frequently in the
limelight, was killed as he drove in
heavy traffic on Chicago's outer drive
yesterday.
Rumors arose that he had talked"
to the Government in the hope Of
gaining consideration at his pending
trial for income tax evasion.
Another theory was that he had re-
Gently boasted he knew the identity
of the kidnaperS who reputedly ex-
torted $4,000 in ransom from him
last october "A.
"A, p. Photo.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
FORMER D. c. WOMAN
SUCCUMBS AT NORFOLK
Miss Pauline Magruder, Native
of Washington, Stricken
or Visit.

Miss Pauline Magruder, 48, former
ly OF Washington, died Sunday night
in Norfolk, Va, hospital, according
to word received here today. She had
been visiting friends in Norfolk when
she became i'll several months ago.
She is the sister of Lieut.. Col.
Lloyd Burns Magruder, U. S. A., Of
28i0 Forty-fourth street After the
death of her father. the late DR..
George Lloyd Magruder, she Travelled
extensively in Europe and the West
with her mother, Mrs. Bell Burns
Magruder. She was born in WASH
ington, but had not lived here since
1913. Her mother and brother sur
vive.
Funeral services will be held at IL
am. tomorrow in st. Paul's Chapel,
Rock Greek Cemetery, followed by
burial there.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
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Evening star., 1935-02-05
EAST SHORE JOB DENIED
Big Hydroelectric Development
Rejected by P. w. A.

Persistent reports that the Public
Works Administration is considering
huge hydro-electric development or
the Eastern Shore of Maryland were
denied today by Secretary Ickes.
He said an application had beer
received some time ago to finance ar
eight or nine million dollar Summer
resort project, but it had been re.
turned as impracticable.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-09-14
Ickes, Sidetracked in Latest
Roosevelt Order, Refus-
es To Affirm Or
Deny Story
PRESENT q BILLIONS
ON TEMPORARY JOBS
Most of 1t Allotted for That
Purpose Under Direction
of Harry Hopkins; Public
Housing Would Share
Heavily in New Funds If
Goven by Congress

Washington Sept 14.-(AP)- A
possibility that President Roosevelt
will ask the next Congress to ap-
propriate more millions for perma-
nent public works was discussed in
informed circles today.
Neither a confirmation nor a de-
nial that had been assured the Presi-
dent would follow such a course coulo
be obtained from ecretary Ickes, the
public works administrator.
But other officials, striving to read
between the lines of the presidential
order setting aside the bulk of the
remaining work relief fund for tenn
porary work under Harry L. Hopkins
Jurisdiction, thought it highly prob
able that Congress would be asked
for more money to salvage some per-
manent PWA projects.
1t was pointed out that since the
$4,000, ,OOO.O works program was an
nounced last winter, many communi-
ties had been asked to develop PWA
projects, which now have little appar-
ent chance to qualify for any of the
81 OOO,OOO,0O0.
One type of public works mention
ed particularly as likely to be includ-
ed in any new appropriation was pub
lie housing The original work relief
allotment for this purpose was. cut
500 1000, by the President yestel-
dav. this amount being made avail
able instead Of other PWA projects
which can be started by December 10.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-09-14
McGrady Brings Roosevelt S
Approval of Plan After
Conferring at Hyde
Park Home
TRY TO STAVE OFF
INDUSTRIAL STRIFE
Soft Coal Business Is Only
Bad Spot in Country, and
That Ought To Be Over
come, Negotiators in Wash
ington Are Told; New
Scale Would Date Back

Washington, Sept. 14.-(AP)-Thro-
ugh Edward F. McGrady, assistant
secretary of labor, President Roosc-
welt today tried to stop the threaten
ed soft coal strike by giving his ap-
proval to the United Mine Workers
proposal for a 15-day extension OF
present wages and hours, with any
agreement to be retroactive.
McGrady strobe into the Appala-
chain joint wage conference and out
off strike speeches by union leaders,
The conference was at a standstill
on negotiations toward a new con-
tract to succeed the agreement ex-
piring Sunday night.
Surely to God we're not going to
allow this industrial warfare to take
place because of retroactive clause"
McGrady roared.
He told the conference that he had
spent most of yesterday with Mr.,
Roosevelt at Hyde Park, N. Y, going
over the industrial situation
"The only bad spot in the country
he said is the soft coal industry and
we believe this spot ought to be over
come"
A1tef McGrauy lett, Fnlllp Murray
union vice-president, offered a motion
that a 15-day extension with retro
active clause be approved
Hence, if a new agreement negotiat-
ed within the next Is days contains
wage increases, the miners would be
paid at the ne wrate for the period
of the extension.
The conference recessed for a few
minutes after Murray's motion was
offered to allow the operators time
to consider it.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1935-09-14
Death of Actress
Seeming Suicide,
Prints Indicate

Chester, Pa, Sept. ID (AP)-Chas.
Dunlap, bertilon expert of the Ches-
ter police department, announced to-
day that two fingerprints are on the
revolver found near the body Of
Evelyn Hoey, New York musical COM
edy singer, and both are those of the
dead girl.
His announcement supports the ex-
pressed belief of William E. Parke,
Chester county district attorney, that
the girl, found dead in the rural home
of Henry H. Rogers, Jr., took her
own life.
Dunlap said one print was made by
the ring finger, and the other by the
middle finger, both of the right hand.
Chester, where Dunlap is employ
ed, is an adjoining Delaware county.
The scene of the shooting is in
Chester county.