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The Washington times., 1935-11-05

Apparently some Washington
ians still haven't recovered from
the effects Of last weeks earth
quakeS.
Early today an excited local
resident informed The Times that
he had been shaken from his bed
not once but twice during the
night. He ascribed these phe-
nomena to earthquakes.
The first, he said, occurred at
$40 a. m. Hardly had be resumed
his slumbers, the victim" averred,
than a second reverberation at
3:41 a. m. dumped him on the
floor again.
Informed of these alleged
shocks, Father Frederick w.
Sohon, S. j., Georgetown Univer-
sity physicist, looked vainly at
The Washington times., 1935-11-05
AGRICULTURE
HASSTUD|ES
FOR 1900
30 Already B e gin in
Photography; 14th
Annual Session

Sixteen hundred Government
employees have enrolled for winter
study in the Department of Ag-
riculture's Graduate School, regis
tration figures of the department
showed today.
The photography course, in
which 80 have enrolled, began
yesterday. Others of the As
courses available in the school al
ready are under way or will be
opened within a few weeks.
1t is the fourteenth season of
the Graduate School which Con-
gress authorized in 1921 to pro-
mote research work among Gov
ernment employees desiring to
further their knowledge along
particular lines. Each year new
courses have been added and they
now range from classes in
photography and economics to
study of soil and mathematics.
Fees Are $12
Fees are $12, plus cost of ma
terials, for the 80 lectures and
demonstrations in each class.
All classes are conducted in the
Agriculture Department Building.
Of the Graduate School, was for
merly president of the University
Of Maryland for nine years. He
preceded DR.. Raymond Pearson as
head of that institution. Previ-
ously he headed the University Of
Minnesota for Is years.
The Washington times., 1935-11-05

Business transactions Of two
brothers engaged in the broker
age business here were being
scrutinized by police today as the
aftermath of two notes penned
by a 28-year-old widow who COM
mitted suicide by inhaling gas
early Sunday morning.
Irving Lowengrub. 80, and his
brother Perry. "a, were arrested
yesterday and still held today.
No charges were preferred against
them.
They lived. in the 5000 block
Rodman st. N. w., with Mrs.
Leona Epstein, whose body was
found in the apartment follow
ing a gas explosion.
The LowengrubS are invest
ment brokers with offices in the
Shoreham Building. An eight
page letter addressed to the dis.
The Washington times., 1935-11-05
i. ). Bar Association
Picks 4 Aides Here

Four Washington men have
been appointed members of the
American Bar Associations new
resolutions committee, according
to word received here yesterday
from the associations headquar-
ters in New York city. They are
Frank j. Brown, George M. Nor
ris, Solicitor General Stanley Reed
and James Brown Scott.
The Washington times., 1935-11-05
Quake or No Quake.
He Fell Out of Bed!

his seismograph for substantiation
of the report. The university
equipment was in good working
order, but it's automatically ad-
justed recording apparatus re-
vealed only the orderly tracings
Of Mother Earth's customary vi
brations.
Not a tell-tale jolt could be
found.
Father Sohon admitted there
had been a faint rumble in the
"innards" of the earth yesterday,
but so slight was its echo that
neither it's location or duration
could be calculated, he said. The
Georgetown temblor expert COM
mented:
Probably your man heard a
truck go by"
The Washington times., 1935-11-05
Miss Picon, Jewish
Star, Sinqs Tonight

Molly Picon, leading player Of
the Yiddish Theater in the last
decade and who has been fea-
tured on major vaudeville circuits,
will be presented by the National
Forum of the Jewish Community
Center tonight in the Cafritz
auditorium. Her recital will in
clude a varied cycle of character
studies as we'll as a repertoire Of
musical favorites.
The Washington times., 1935-11-05
FAIR WEATHER
BRINGS MANY
T0P0LLS
Alexandria Has Light
Day in BaIIotine;
Fairfax Heavy
(Other election news will be
found on page -


ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, Nov. 5.-Old Man Weather
gave the Republicans in Airing
ton county boost today in their
fight for county offices.
Cloudy skies and misty rain
which welcomed the opening of
the polls at $40 this morning was
changed to clear sunny skies be-
fore noon, bringing out a larger
vote than usual in off years, in
cluding many new residents.
Voting in more than half of the
II precincts in Arlington County
was reported unusually heavy all
morning and through the middle
Of the day. Rosslyn and Claren-
don precincts both piled up a vote
which bids fair to exceed that of
the Hoover-Smith fight in 1928.
Old line Democrats, who now
hold every office in Arlington
county save that of County Judge
Benjamin Mace Hendrick, have
an organization which can assure
full support at the polls. The G.
o. P. depends largely on fair
weather to bring out many of its
indifferent supporters.
Alexandria Vote Light
Over in neighboring Alexandria,
where only one contest is at stake,
voting was reported light in every
precinct.
In Fairfax county, where the
school barn issue controversy has
brought on bitter fight, voting
was reported normal in every pre-
cinct despite the fact that the
Commonwealth attorneys office
is the only contest other than the
school barn issue.
While the Independent candi.
dates bid fair to win at least one
major office, and perhaps two,
the Democratic nominees in Ar
llngton are conceded a substantial
lead over both the Republicans
and independents as a group.
Two Independents expected to
run neck-and-neck with the Dem
ocratic nominee are John A.
Petty, incumbent, and John M.
Stewart, both of whom are in the
race for the elerkship against
BENJAMIN Laycock, the Dem
ocratic nominee, and Joseph L.
May, the Republican nominee.
Race Seen TOSsup
In a 16Inan scramble for the
five seats on the county board,
the successors are considered a
toSs-up.
With only one county office In
Fairfax being contested, that for
Commemorative attorney between
Paul Brown and r. r. Farr, the
majority of the votes here are
being brought out over the pro-
posed $187, 900 school bond issue.
The polls are scheduled to close
at sunset, or 5:03 p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-11-05
Back Bay Association
Meets Here THURSDAY

A meeting Of the Back Bay AS
sociation will be held Thursday
evening at 8 o'clock at 2234 Ca
thedral Ave. N. w.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
Ickes Is Expected
To Get aide at
$4,000 a Year

By the Associated Press.
It looked today as though Secretary
Ickes is going to get that new $4,000
undersecretary he wants.
And if he does, it will be the second
time in recent weeks that he has come
out on top despite congressional foes
who have been shooting at him.
Weeks ago, during the fight over the
$4,88O 100000 work and relief bill,
Congressman who complained that
Ickes had not treated them with due
regard sought to make certain that he
would take a back seat In the works
effort. But the other day he became
member of the drives "big three"
when he was named chairman Of the
allotment board.
Then, when the Interior Depart
ment appropriation bill came up, the
House promptly deleted the under
secretary job asked by the Budget
Bureau and approved by the Appro-
priations Committee.
The Senate put 1t back in, though,
and the conferees of the two Houses
left it in. Today the House ap-
preached vote on the conference re-
port, with the prediction by Chair
man Taylor, Democrat, of Colorado, 1t
would approve the undersecretary.
Even Representative Woodrum, Demo-
crat, of Virginia, an Appropriation
COMMITTEES Democrat who led the fight
against the new post, conceded it prob
ably would go through.
The Republicans, though, were
ready to pounce upon the $4,000
item, possibly forcing record vote.
Taylor praised Ickes and said he
thought 1t was agreed he needed the
undersecretary worse than did other
departments that have such positions.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
ONE DEAD, 5 SHOT
IN BUSINESS FEUD
Texan Is Said to Have Confessed
Firing Shot gun Into
Crowd.
BY the Associated Press

~ WIG TSSOSldlcu 1853
TYLER. Tex. April 30.-A feud
between rival filling station operators
was blamed today for the fatal shoot
ing of one man and the wounding
of five other persons.
Three loads Of buckshot were fired
into a group gathered last night at a
station operated by H NJ. Ferguson, 4
miles east of here. A short time after
the shooting, Jim Bryant, operator
OF the station across the highway, sur
rendered.
I've just been in a one-sided shoot
Ing" Deputy Sheriff Ross Parker
quoted him as saying. IT did all the
shooting. Lock me up. only wanted
to settle matters with that young one
I'm sorry if I hit any one else"
He did not explain his reference
to the '"young one" Clint Ferguson
Al, died early today. His brother
Ira Ferguson, 80, was shot in the alb
domen and little hope was held fol-
his recovery. The four other per-
sons, including Mrs. H. M. Ferguson
81, mother of the man killed. were
less seriously injured. The elder Fer
guson escaped by falling to the foo,
when the firing started.
I'VE were shot down like pigs" said
Ira Ferguson as he was placed or
the operating table in hospital here
Sher11 Tom Skies said witnesses
to the shooting told him that mem.
bers OF the Ferguson family had beer
blamed by Bryant for the dynamit-
ing OF his station about a year ago
At that time, County Attorney Johr
Lawhon said, Bryant had filed charges
against Clint Ferguson in connection
with the blast.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
DECISION AFFECTS
us. DAM PROJECTS
Lawyers in Congress See
Opening for Court Action
on Other Sites.
BY the Associated Press.

Power and reclamation dams, upon
which millions have been spent by the
Public Works Administration, today
apparently were in precarious posi-
ton as a result of a decision yesterday
by the Supreme Court.
The decision was a refusal to grant
the United States Government an in
junction prohibiting Arizona from
forcibly halting or otherwise interfer-
ing with construction of Parker Dam
on the Colorado River.
The court held construction Of Par
ker Dam had not been authorized by
law.
1t was recalled. however. that the
same procedure was followed in ap-
proving and alloting money for Par
ker Dam as that followed in alloca-
tions made for construction of Grand
Coulee, in Washington, the Bonne-
vile Dam In Oregon. Fort Peck Dam
on the Missouri River in Montana.
and for some of the upper Mississippi
River works.
Court Action Seen.
While no court action has been in
augurated against construction Of the
dams, other than the Parker Dam,
which Is involved in long interstate
feud over use of the waters of the
Colorado, lawyers in Congress said
they believed the decision opened the
way for such action
There was some show of jubilation
on the part of members of the House
Rivers and Harbors Committee, which
lor a time had been stripped of its
control over rivers and harbors i'm
provements by the policy Of the Public
Works Administration.
Parker Dam Is the smallest of these
great barriers. Its estimated cost is
$13 100000. 1t would divert water into
the 5000, ,000, 900 aqueduct of the Met
ropolitan Water District of Southern
California.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
Work Relief Program Diuided
Into Eight General Channels
$50 Million VIII Be Spent for Direct Aid
But Remaining -Four Billion Goes
Into Efforts to Create Jobs.

double the size Of the Civilian ConSer-
vation Corps to care for unemployed
youths and war veterans.
Three hundred and fifty million
dollars to plant forests, improve rivers
and harbors, prevent soil erosion and
duststorms, and provide proper SAN
itation.
Nine hundred million dollars to be
loaned or given to States, territories.
cities and public groups for work
making enterprises.
Roosevelt Gets Power.
President Roosevelt. however, is per-
mitted to use not more than one
fifth of the entire sum to increase the
amount spent in any of the eight
divisions. thus enabling him almost to
double even the largest.
Many projects will be under the
direct supervision of the Government.
Others, including large part of the
road building and grade crossing
elimination program. will be carried
on by the States or cities. Some will
be let out to private contractors.
Oficials acknowledge that their
problem is not where to find projects,
but to choose those which offer the
greatest return in jobs and benefits
for the public.
THE third and last story tomorrow pill
outline the machinery TO administer the
proUrdm.J
Evening star., 1935-04-30

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
The work-relief law provides eight
general channels for the flow of Gov
ernment funds to furnish jobs for per-
sons on relief.
Oficials have estimated that $780,
900 900 will be needed to provide direct
relief until the work program is under
way, and to support those unable to
work
Congress has limited the spending
of the remaining $4,000, 100000 as
follows:
Eight hundred million dollars for
building highways, roads. streets and
elimination of grade crossings.
Five hundred million dollars for wa
ter conservation, irrigation. reclaiming
land, helping impoverished farmers
and moving them to fertile land.
Rural Electrification.
One hundred million dollars for
rural Misunderstanding power
lines to farms.
Four hundred and fifty million dol
lars for building homes and apart
ments.
Three hundred million dollars for
work which educational, professional
and clerical persons can do.
Six hundred million dollars to
Evening star., 1935-04-30
Congress i'm Brief

By the Associated Press.
TODAY.
Senate.
Debates anti-lynching bill.
House.
Debates omnibus banking bill.
Merchant Marine Committee opens
hearing on ship subsidy legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate.
On the foor-Motion to take up the
anti-lynching bill, or efforts to get up
soldiers bonus bill.
Commerce Committee-Hearing on
ship subsidies bill
Finance Committee-Executive on
N. r. A. legislation.
Banking Subcommittee-Hearing on
new banking bill
Patents ommittee-Executive meet
ing, routine business.
House.
Continues debate on banking bill.
House District Committee meets at
1890 am. to receive the report OF
the Special Crime Investigating Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
Father Coughlin, Avoid
ing Long, Expected
to Back Roosevelt.
BY PAUL MALLON.


THE lowdown on the peculiar
political antics Of Father
Coughlin has been reported to
Il the powers that be in WASH
ington as follows:
The Coughlin third party idea is
just fine talk. So long as President
Roosevelt shows a disposition to go
along" with the Coughlin principles,
there will be no fight on him. The
reverend political doctor regards the
President as being, at least, as salts
factory as any one else who could
be nominated. He is going into
the organization of the larger States
because he wants to crowd the Pres
ident into adopting his program.
In fact. the silper- -Doiced father
is being quoted on the inside here
fatty as saying that he is not Uery
keen on Mr.. Roosevelt, but prob
ably piH support him as the best
available.
There will be no joining of the
Coughlin and Long forces. The pater S
pals are whispering that he is not
anxious to get mixed up with the
Louisiana whirlwind. Huey's program
in some respects parallels that of the
Detroit radio voice, but lis not SO
specific" (the words are authentic).
Opposition to Long.
The secret of this angle seems to be
that Coughlin's followers do not want
Long. and the priest is too high prin-
cipled to use what his associates cal
"a bad means to his end.
Evening star., 1935-04-30

The forgotten man of the New Deal
(ex-AAA-er Jerome Frank, now with
the R. F. c., is declining to be for
gotten. He has raised on the inside
the puzzling legal question of whether
the R. F. c. is the Government. His
idea, apparently, is that it is not.
Hence. the r. F. C. should try its
own legal cases instead of letting the
Justice Department do it.
The matter is causing quite
Toi0 because there are about 1000
cases pending against the r. F. C.
in District courts.
On Mr.. Roosevelt's desk is Charles
A. Boards new book, THE Open Door
at Home" which advocates a policy
of economic nationalism.
Next Coughlin Meeting.
Coughlin will invite more members
of Congress to attend his next meeting
Those who attended the last included
Senators Nye and Thomas (Oklahoma)
and Representatives Lempke, Connery,
Sweeney and OMalley.
the antl-lynchers have been pass
ing around word in the Senate cloak
rooms that the President has sent
Senator Costigan privately a draft of
an opinion by Attorney General Cum
mings upholding the constitutionality
of the CoStigan bill.
The r. F. c. will open bank May
l in the Virgin Islands to finance q
revival Of the islands rum trade and
other industries, thereby putting the
Government into another business.
Only Chairman Biddle of the
N. r. A. Labor Board ioiu under
stand the iDise crack noU current,
that "Richberg, in his N. r. A. re-
organization fight, is playing both
ends against the Biddle."
The T. v. A. has found a family in
the Norris Dam area which had q
total cash income last year of IS, out
Of which $1.85 was saved. The money
came from the sale of eggs.
Copyright. 1850
Evening star., 1935-04-30
ALASKA COLON|STS
ACCEPT GAMBLE
Everything to Gain and
Nothing to Lose Is Pre-
vaiIing Spirit.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 3O.-An
attitude of everything to gain and
nothing to lose" was expressed here
today by Impoverished Minnesota
farm families en- route to new homes
in a Government-spons Alaskan
colony.
The emigrants, 274 men, women and
children from 81 families were guests
ments while awaiting the sailing to-
morrow of the Army transport St.
Mihiel, which will take them to
Alaska.
Each family will be given 40
acre tract in the valley and the
$4,000 cost may be paid over a 90
year period.
A womans reaction to the adven-
ture came from Madeleine de Foras,
Red Cross nurse accompanying the
colonists.
Il am thrilled at the thought of
pioneering with these families" she
said. 1T is something new and some
thing interesting. But I am no
stranger to pioneer work. I can chop
down trees and split wood if neces-
sary"
The party was given an elaborate
welcome yesterday when the 22-car
train, which brought the group from
st. Paul, Mimi, rolled into the sta
ton here.
A band blared Happy Days Are
Here Again" and the pioneers we're
welcomed by Mayor Angelo Rossi and
others.
The emigrants. many of them
women and tiny babies. were cheer
full despite being told they must live
in tents until homes are built. that
land must be cleared, and that mos
quitoes are very bothersome in
Summer.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
PAXTONNUDEW WINS
CORCORAN PRIZE
Boston Artist First in Pop
uIarity Voting for Fourth
Time.

Disregarding preferences of pro-
fessional jury, the public has selected
a nude. Nellie Looks Down on
Phryne," by William M. Paxton, Bos-
ton artist. as the most popular pic
ture in the Fourteenth Biennial Ex-
hibition of Contemporary American
Oil Paintings at the Corcoran Gallery
of Art.
This is the fourth time in the his
tory of these exhibitions that Paxton
has won the 5000 prize awarded by
the gallery to the picture receiving
the most votes in popular refer
endum of visitors. A total OF 259
votes was cast for his picture. More
over, another painting by Paxton.
Mrs. Guido Perara," q portrait OF the
daughter of Rev. Ze Barney T, Phil
lips, rector of Epiphany Episcopal
Church, won second place in the bal
loting this year, with 100 votes.
Third place went to Phyllis" a
painting by Richard S. Meryman,
principal of the Corcoran School of
Art. phyllis" received 1913 votes.
STRIKER" Is Fourth.
Fourth place was given Julius
Bioch's THE Striker" the painting
which attracted attention of Pres
ident and Mrs. Roosevelt and which
has been purchased by the Corcoran
Gallery for its permanent collection.
This painting received 112 votes.
The balloting began Easter Mon
day and continued through last Sun
day. During that period, 8,610 per-
sons visited the show and were given
ballots. The total number of ballots
marked was not available today.
In announcing the results of the
voting, c. Powell Minnigerode, di-
rector of the gallery. said:
"Mr. Paxton rarely fails to produce q
painting which makes strong popu-
lar appeal. His figures are always
we'll drawn. In his particular field
he is one of the outstanding Amer
ican painters
Winner Is Striking.
The Paxton painting is striking
study of a young woman gazing medi-
tatively at q small statuette held at
arms length. Paxton first won the
popular prize at the seventh biennial
show in 1920 with his Girl Sewing.
He won again at the eighth exhibit
tion in 1922 with Girl Arranging
and at the twelfth exhibition in 1880
with a nude, 1.-TWO Models"
Minnigerode disclosed that Eugene
Speicher's painting of blacksmith,
Red Moore" chosen by q jury Of dis
tinguished artists for the first w. A.
Clark prize of $4,000, received 80 votes
in the popular referendum. F. c,
Frieseke's Girl at Piano." winner of
second Clark prize, received Z votes
from the public. Henry e. Mattson's
THE Beacon" third choice Of the
jury, received 10 votes and Kenneth
M. Adams "New Mexico Landscape,
the jury's fourth selection, got only
one vote in the referendum.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
DIR. SIZOO TO SPEAK

Dr. Joseph R. Sizoo will be the
speaker at the evening session of the
all-day classis of the Reformed Church
being held at the Firs: Reformed
Church, Thirteenth and Monroe
streets, today.
Representatives from Baltimore and
Washington are attending the classis.
Delegates this morning heard Miss
Selma Grether, and this afternoon
were to be entertained with musical
program at the church.
Evening star., 1935-04-30
Special Dispatch to The Star.

(This Is the second OF three stories
on the A. B, c OF the 1880, 900. 900
Work relief pToQram.)
Evening star., 1935-04-30
Final Dance Slated.

CLARENDON, Va, April 80 (Spe-
ciaD.-The last welfare dance Of the
season viii be given by the Arlington
Post, American Legion, Saturday night
in. Odd Fellows. Hall here. II. j.
Odenthal is chairman of the Pro-
gram Committee.