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Evening star., 1935-02-08
DC. Youths Car, Taken by Pair
After Mississippi Ride, Found

me he was Raymond Hamilton, ac-
coSted me and forced me back into
my car at the point of pistol" Davis
said. He then told of hectic night
as the prisoner of the two men. who,
he said, called each other Jack
and "Al."
At the sheriff's office here. Davis
identified a picture of Hamilton as
Jack"
"They let me out of my car just
after we crossed the Mississippi
Tennessee line near here and told
me I could find my car in New
Orleans Davis said. II couldn't tell
in which direction they drove"
Davis said Hamilton and his COM
panion took $3.50 from him. but
when they released him near here
they returned SO cents.
Davis, 90 a Government employe
from Austin, Tex, started for his
home in the car few days ago. On
leaving, Mrs. Compton, with whom he
makes his home at 300 West Wilson
Boulevard, Clarendon, cautioned him
not to pick up any strangers. He
told her to get in touch with his
Representative. under whose patron
age he holds his Government posi-
ton, if anything happened.
He had been In Washington for
about two years, and was going home
to recuperate from an illness, she
said.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
SOVIET WAR MENACE
FLAUNTED IN JAPAN
Gen. Hayashi Tells House Huge
Appropriation Is Needed to
Counter Arm.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
TOXIC, February 8.-The posi-
bility of war with the Soviet was
Haunted before a House of Repre-
sentatives Committee today in an at
tempt to whip the members into line
in support of proposal for the biggest
army appropriation in Japanese his
tory.
Gen. Senjury Hayashi, minister OF
war, told the committee Soviet mill
tary activities in the Far East compel
Japan to arm, regardless of financial
considerations.
"It is a great mistake" the general
said, ''to think that just because the
Soviet is willing to sell the Chinese
Eastern Railway, she has lost her
hostile intentions in the Orient.
Russia is still increasing her mill
tary establishment along her Far East
ern borders and greatly improving the
Siberian Railway"
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Boundary Study
Is Continued by
Committee Report
Additional Data Needed,
Bill PrOrides Fund
of $4,000.

A favorable report was ordered to-
day on the Smith bill extending for
one year the life of the commission
studying the boundary line between
the District and Virginia. The bill
carries an appropriation of $4,000
for necessary expenses.
The report was ordered by sub
committee of the House Judiciary
Committee presided over by Repre-
sentative Miller of Arkansas.
Members of the commission are
Charles Brough. former Governor of
Arkansas. appointed by the Presi-
dent William c. Cloth. appointed by
the Governor of Virginia, and NAL
colin McConahe, elected by the other
two The commission was to have
expired in March.
Representative Smith explained that
this commission had convinced him it
could not possibly complete its work
and that there was considerable study
yet to be made. He said he believed
the commission was making an honest
effort to finish the job as soon as pos
sible. The bill will be favorably re-
ported at the next meeting of the
judiciary Committee.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
LINER H|TSFERRY;;
100 ARE RESCUED
British Boat Crashes Into
Craft Plying Between Phil
adeIphia and Camden.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA. February 8.-Nine
persons were injured and more than
100 rescued as the London Corpora =
ton of the Furness-W Witty line, COL
lided with the Reading Railroad ferry
boat Cape May in the Delaware River.
A heavy line. thrown Immediately
from the London Corporation. lashed
the two vessels together and prevented
the ferry from sinking.
The British boat struck the ferry
amidships and buried its prov 6
feet into the Cape Mays sides.
The collision occurred as the Cape
May crossed the London Corpora
tfons course on its regular ferry run
from Philadelphia to Camden.
The injured and rescued were taken
from the ferry boat by tugs. which
yards from the Philadelphia side of
the river.
The Wilson line steamer. City of
Wilmington. coming up the river be-
hind the 3.0Q0-ton London Corpora
ton, assisted in the rescue operations.
Tugs towed the ferry boat to shallow
water. The ferry boat was carrying
about 20 automobiles and trucks in
addition to the passengers.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
GLASS ATTACKS
UNNAMED CRITIC
Resents Being CIassed as
Against Banking Bill Be-
fore He Read 1t.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
An attack by Senator Carter Glass
of an unnamed critic and a reply
bv former Senator Robert L. Owen
served today TO keep the debate over
the Treasury's banking bill to the
forefront.
Glass. who had said earlier in the
week that a promise was broken
when the bill was offered on Capitol
Hill without his seeing copy first.
issued a statement last night saying
he resented being clasSed as against
the bill before he had an opportunity
to read it.
He opened fire on a critic who, he
said. had charged him with proceed
ing on "undeserved prestige" With
out mentioning any names, the Vir-
ginian declared:
Il may say that whatever prestige,
If any. 1 may have was not gotten
by using my position as a member
of the Banking and Currency Com
mittee of either House of Congress
to gamble in foreign exchange with a
prISon-convict partner nor in any at
tempt to influence the action of the
Federal Reserve authorities for my
own pecuniary benefit"
Former Senator Owen, now preSi-
dent of the National Monetary Con-
ference, had made a statement on
Tuesday saying Glass was using an
undeserved prestige as an expert in
monetary science against the public
interest"
Last night. after the Glass attack.
Owen issued a further statement, say
ing:
"Of course, I would not charge
Carter Glass with the undeserved
prestige of gambling with prison
convict partner, or, for that matter,
of compounding with the two thieves
upon the cross. to sup with them in
paradise. I hope, however, that para
disc will be his destination There
may be left some shred of charity in
his heart.
But if I have attempted to in
fluence the action of the Federal
Reserve authorities for the restoration
o. property values it was in
behalf of the property of the entire
people of the United States. No one
will accuse Mr.. Glass of such ad-
vocacy."
Owen was a Senator from Okla
homa from 1907 to 1925 and during
part of that period served as chair
man of the Senate Banking and Cur
rency Committee.
Meanwhile, some Senate conServa-
tives were reported authoritatively to
be laying plans for determined drive
70 forestan provisions in the bill which
they contend would concentrate too
much power in Washington over the
Nations currency and credit system.
They objected particularly to sec
ton giving the President power to
remove the governor of the Federal
Reserve Board at will and were under
stood to be prepared also to press
for removal of the Secretary OF the
Treasury from membership on the
board.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
COLL|ERY BOMBED
IN STRIKERS WAR
South WiIkes-Barre ExpIo.
sion Follows Restraining
Order Against Men.
BY the Associated Press.

bS LIlt ASSOClhleO EEeSS-
WILKES BARRE. Pa. February g.
A dynamite bomb smashed windows
of the fan house of the Glen Alden
Coal Co.'S South Wilkes-Barre COL
liery today as a strike of the miners
entered its fifth day.
The explosion occurred about 3 am,
when the yard of the colliery. scene
of several skirnishes, was practically
deserted. No one was injured. police
said Two men were reported seen
in the vicinity.
The dynamiting followed 0y few
hours far-reaching restraining order
issued against the United Anthracite
Miners of Pennsylvania, who issued
the strike call to force recognition of
their union by the operators.
In the decision handed down yes
terday Judge w. Alfred Valentine held
that the strike was IAN unlawful act
and issued an order restraining officers
and members of the union from in
ducing employees to leave their work,
from interfering with men now work.
ing or looking for work and from
trespassing on property of the COM
pany.
Minor disorders have been reported
every day since the strike began and
yesterday Wilkes Barre policemen
opened fire on an automobile contain
ing men said to be striking pickets.
The United Anthracite Miners of
Pennsylvania have been struggling for
supremacy with the United Mine
Workers of America, an older union.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
BY the Associated Press.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, February "a
new automobile in which a George
Washington University student and
A. A. A. worker was taken on wild
ride through Mississippi by two men,
one of whom he described as Ray
mond Hamilton. Texas desperate, was
found abandoned on a highway near
here today.
Recovery of the automobile by po-
lice was announced by Sheriff w. j.
Bacon. who communicated the good
news to Edward Hewett Davis, 20
who had been stranded in Memphis.
Il don't believe Hamilton had any
part in this affair" Sheriff Bacon
said. 81 imagine that Davis was a
victim Of two crooks of less reputa-
ton. Hamilton would have bumped
him off. Certainly, he would not have
left his victim within walking distance
of a telephone.
Stranded in Memphis, Davis waited
for funds to return to Washington
D. c., where he is an audit clerk for
the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration and law student at George
Washington University.
Davis said he was driving to Austin
Tex. to visit his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. E. J. Davis, when he stopped in
Gulfport, Miss, Wednesday night tc
ask the direction to New Orleans.
1.-TWO men, one of whom later told
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Expectation Based on N. R.
A. Report, Painting Dark
Picture.
PRESIDENT AWAITING
BROADER AUTHORITY
Production Demands Are Found
Raised by Capability of Men
to Produce.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Expectation that the controvertet
automobile code would be reopeneC
near its expiration date on June II
was disclosed todaY among President
Roosevelt's N. R. A advisers
This belief was based on the rather
dark picture Of the industry painted
in N. r. A. research report and or
the general opinion that new weapons
to make stronger labor codes would bt
welded into the new recovery legisla-
ton.
Although the President overruleo
both the N. r. A. Research and Plan
ming Division and the National Re-
covery Board in renewing the code
with but one of N r. AS recon-
mended changes for helping labor
some officials said they believed he
still intended to adopt some of those
other proposals.
ReOpening Date Not Set.
The date of the reopening has moi
been set. The President extended
the code to June Is, and this may
preclude change prior to that time.
The President was represented BY
his advisers as wishing to avoid con-
troversy with the powerful automobile
industry until he has new powers ex-
pected in the revised recovery statute
New labor legislation would moi
necessarily involve change of Sector
IA. which guarantees the right oi
collective bargaining, but might give
the President unquestionable anc
elaborate authority to impose labor
&C deS.
The N r. A. Research and Plan
ming Divisions report criticized labor
conditions in the auto industry.
Spies Watch Workers.
1t said the Speed-up had raised
production demands beyond human
capability to produce day after day
that spies keep watch on workers
day and night" and that men are
virtually forced to quit work at the
age of 40.
Labor unrest exists to a higher de-
gree than warranted by the depreS-
sion" the report added. ~'The unrest
flows from insecurity, low annual
earnings. inequitable hiring and re-
hiring methods. espionage Speed-up
and displacement of workers at ar
extremely early age
The long awaited report. signed by
Leon Henderson, recommended a
maximum 40-hour week, with a 48-
hour maximum permitted for not
more than eight weeks in a year
and time -and-a-half pay for all work
over 40 hours.
The code, as amended and extended
by the President, provides for time
and half for all work over 48 hours
1t retains the clause saying the work
week shall average no more than 40
hours through the year.
Improving Board Urged.
The National Industrial Recovery
Board. in a letter transmitting the
report. recommended a more COM
prehensive Labor Board than the
present one headed by DR.. Leo VOL
man. The President continued the
present board.
On an idea for spreading work he
and the N. R. A. officials were in
accord He amended the code to pro-
vide for bringing out new motor car
models in the Fall rather than in the
Winter.
The code renewal brought a break
between the American Federation OF
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Evening star., 1935-02-08
q FACE ARREST
IN WHISKY PROBE
Moonshine Ring Charges in
Virginia Include County
Attorney.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROCKY MOUNT. Va. February 8.
"A squad of Federal agents who
combed the mountains of Franklin
County to gather evidence of gigantic
moonShine ring re-entered those
mountains today temporarily clothed
with the authority of United States
deputy marshals.
They seek to serve capiaSes issued
| yesterday against "a individuals and
a corporation in the county charging
conspiracy to violate various sections
of the internal revenue laws relating
to the diStillation of whisky.
Their prisoners will be brought be-
fore a United States commissioner
here. who will set bail for their ap-
pearance before Federal Judge John
Paul of the Western Virginia district
on March A. In addition to the "a
principal eonspirators, the document
returned by Federal grand jury in
Harrisonburg. Va. yesterday named
55 persons as co-conspirators.
Ends Probe Lasting Year.
The indictments ended more than a
year of investigation by agents OF the
alcohol tax division and nearly five
months of study by a grand jury
formed of residents of the Upper
Shenandoah Valley country. The case
was taken over 100 miles from Frank
lin in order that any opportunity for
influencing the jury would be elm
mated
Among those indicted were Charles
Carter Lee, commemorative attorney
of the county and member of a family
long prominent in Virginia. He IS
accused of having received protection
money. a charge he denied.
The indictment charges 68 overt
acts on the part of the persons listed.
Among them are:
Sheriff Indicted.
That Sheriff D. Wilson Hodges had
protected rum runners for money con-
sideration and had sold untaxed spirits
seized by county officers.
That county officers had removed
olockades so that carrying auto
mobiles could get safely through.
That the sheriff had directed his
deputies not to serve warrants on
liquor law violators.
That members of the business house
listed in the indictment had guaran-
5eed protection to distillers and rum
runners if their supplies were pur-
chased through the firm in question.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
MENINGITIS DEATH
SPURS OFFICIALS
City and Federal Authorities
Act to Prevent Spread
Among TranSientS.

With epidemic spinal meningitis
diagnosed as the cause Of death of
one of the transient relief lodge resi-
dents here. the District and Federal
Governments swung into action today
to prevent a general outbreak among
LOO of the 1000 transients on relief
rolls.
Shortly after the death last night
of James Ophinger. %. of Shick-
shinny. Pa. quarantine was ordered
for two of the lodges and a police
guard posted to prevent any one
leaving the buildings.
The quarantine will remain in effect
as long as there is any danger of the
disease spreading, according to Acting
Health Officer James Cumming.
General Conference Called.
Meanwhile, a conference was ar
ranged for this afternoon in the Office
of Deputy Federal Relief Administra-
tor Aubrey Williams, at which an i'm
mediate program of action will be
decided upon to curb the possibility
of a general outbreak throughout the
city.
Six transients now are in GalllngeI
Hospital. four of them known to be
suffering from the dread disease and
two others suspected of having it
the hospital after the death OF
Ophinger. who succumbed shortly
after seeking hospital treatment.
Those known to be afflicted are
Harvey Bouton. %: Cleo Richardson
l6; Oscar Mcdaniel. 20. and James
King. 20. The suspected cases are
Charles WEIGH. %, and young man
as vet identified only as Haynes
Dr. Cumming. the Health Depart
ments expert on contagious diseases
who is acting health officer in the
absence of DR. Edward J. Schwartz
took immediate command of the sit
uation, and after conferences this
morning with Ross Haworth. admin
istrative assistant to Commissioner
Allen, who is out of town, he said a
modified plan for decentralization OF
the transients would be undertaken.
This plan is expected to be the
crux of the conference this afternoon
in Williams Office. Among those who
will attend are DR. Cumming, Ha-
worth. District Auditor Daniel j. Don
ovan, DR.. C. E. Waller, Public Health
Service, who is medical adviser to the
F. E. R. A.. and Transient Relief Dl-
rector Richard Gebhardt.
Division of Control
An important question expected tC
come before the conference is the di-
vision of control over the situation
All expenses of the Transient Relief
Bureau are borne by the Fedora
Government. However, it was point.
ed out, the District health officer ha:
a definite duty under the law to pro.
tect the health of the citizens o1
Washington, and DR.. Cumming sale
he did not intend to agree to any
plan not in keeping with that duty.
But we must work without delay,
Haworth said. There is danger of 6
general outbreak and we must act i'm
mediately to curb it,
1t was expected Williams would au-
thorize the expenditure of additiona
funds to obtain more and smaller
quarters. Gebhardt now has his
assistants securing the city for avail
able buildings. Probably from 20 tc
25 men will be housed together. Under
present arrangements hundreds are
living under the same roof.
Suggestions that the transients be
moved to Fort Hunt, Va, close to
Alexandria, met with protests by civic
leaders of that city today.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
CHACO FORT DOOMED
Paraguayan Army Closes Ring

Paraguayan Army Closes Ring
Around Last Bolivian Base.
BUENOS AIRES, February tP).-
The Paraguayan Army appeared to be
Tightening its grip today on Villa
Monies, last of Bolivias great Chaco
strongholds.
Paraguayan sources said Gen. Jose
Estigarribia, with 10000 troops at his
command, was gradually encircling
the fortified position by his time-tried
tactics of capturing first one Bolivian
OUTPOST and then another.
The fall of Villa Monies is regarded
as inevitable by many military OBJ
servers.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Prison Surgeon Reveals Aid
Giren Medical Science by Mais

was successful and the gangster re-
covered.
A few weeks later when the police
man was discovered to have a ma
lignant lung tumor, physicians i'm
mediately raised the point whether
it was possible to transmit disease
of this kind through the blood stream.
If Mais had shown any sign of can
Ger, it was pointed out, the method
of examining prospective blood donors
would have to be altered.
DR.. Mann said, however, that an
examination showed Mais to be en-
tirely healthy although no autopsy
was made on orders of the gangster's
mother.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
REFUGEES PLAN RETURN
TO FLOOD-SWEPT AREA
800 Families in Southern Cali
fornia Cheered by Forecasts
of Clearing Weather.

BY the Associated Press.
LONG BEACH, Calf. February g.
Refugees of Southern California; S
severest flood of the year saw a
figurative rainbow in weather fore
casts today and prepared to return to
their homes.
A lake half a mile across and so
deep in places it reached the roofs
and covered parts of the State street
area during the storm, which began
early this week.
More than 300 families we're driven
from their homes.
The Weather Bureau forecast partly
cloudy skies today.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
RAKOSI GIVEN LIFE
IN HUNGARIAN PLOT
Communist Charged With q
Homicides to Be Exchanged
With Russia.
Ev the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Pfess.
BUDAPEST, Hungary, February 8.
Matthias Rakosi, peoples commisSar
In Hungary's short-lived Communist
regime in 1919, was sentenced today
to life imprisonment.
RakoSi was brought to trial after
16 years Of investigation, the last nine
of which he has spent in prison. The
charges against him included high
treason, 81 cases of homicide and 489
other offenses. He denied he had
been an active leader in the Bella Kun
regime. asserting he was only an in
tellectual revolutionary.
Throughout his two weeks trial
RakoSi maintained a stoical calm.
It was learned authoritatively that
instead of being imprisoned to serve
his sentence. Rakosi will be sent to
Russia In exchange for Hungarian
officers the Soviet is holding as host
ages.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
LEO J. KEENA CHOSEN
HONDURAS MINISTER
Consul General at Paris Is Nomi-
mated by Roosevelt-Sur-
vey Posts Filled.

President Roosevelt today nomi-
mated Leo J. Keena of Michigan to
be Minister to Honduras. Mr.. Keena
has been In the foreign service for
a number of years and is consul
general at Paris.
At the same time the President
sent the following nominations in the
Coast and Geodetic Survey: Walter
H. cambridge Of Texas, now Junior
photographic and geodetic engineer,
to be photographic engineer; Edward
Bunyan Brown, jr., of South Caro-
lima, to be junior photographic and
geodetic engineer; william N Martin
of Oklahoma, now q deck officer, to
be an aide.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
BYRD PASSES INLET

Exploration Party Takes Final
Leave of Antarctics.
S. S. JACOB RUPERT, EN- ROUTE
TO DUNEDIN, New Zealand, February
8 (via Mackay Radio (F1.-Rear Ad-
miral Richard E. Byrd and his second
Antarctic expedition steamed through
the mouth of Discovery Inlet at 2;55
am today. taking leave of the Antarc-
tic continent
Both the Rupert and the Bear OF
Oakland passed through the inlet dur
ing a dense fog.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
EARL OF DEVON DIES

Henry Hugh Courtenay, 81, Held
One of Oldest Titles.
EXETER, England, February 8 LP.
Henry Hugh Courtenay, So, the Earl
of Devon, holder of one of the oldest
titles among all of England's peers,
died today after three-week illness.
The earl, whose home here was
Powderham Castle, was a clergyman,
serving as rector of Powderdam for
% years until his retirement in 1927.
He was widely known as hunting
enthusiast and attended many meets.
Evening star., 1935-02-08
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
RICHMOND, Va, February $50
ciety erased Robert MaiS, but tie III
State gangster before his death made
a contribution to medical science by
indicating that cancer cannot be
transmitted through the blood stream,
DR.. Herbert Mann, prison surgeon,
said today.
Eight months before his electrocu-
ton, Mais was shot six times as he
attempted to escape from Baltimore
police. He was dying when officers
in the raiding party volunteered sew
eral pints of blood: The TRANSMISSION
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Saw Couple i'm
Car, Claims
Neighbor.
STATE BEGINS
IT'S REBUTTAL
Lumbermen Last
TO Appear for
Hauptmann.

(copyright. 1898. by the Associated Press)
PENNINGTON, N. j., February g.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann today
rested his defense against the charges
that would send him to the electric
chair for the kidnapping and murder
of Baby Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr.
The defense case ended at 12:lC
pm. after sensational testimony de-
signed to place the Lindbergh kidnar
ladder in the possession Of a man
other than Hauptmann 20 hours be-
fore the crime.
The defense also used two practicaI
lumber men to dispute the testimony
of a State wood expert that part CI
the kidnap ladder came from faupt-
nlann'S Bronx attic.
One of these was the last defense
witness. Edward J. Reilly. chef de-
fense counsel waited for the polling
of the jury after brief recess, then
announced loudly:
The defense rests"
Evening star., 1935-02-08
Kulak Given Death Sentence.

KOSYN, U. S. S. R., February 8 (P).
-Andrey Kulaokoff, a Kulak, was
sentenced to death today and three
associates were given long prison
sentences for the murder of 15-year-
old Nikita Senin. who had informed
authorities of their anti-Soviet activi-
ties