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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
British Admiral
Faces Public Trial

LONDON, Feb. 10 u.N.SO.
Rear Admiral s. R. Bailey and
Captains F. T. Tower and H. r.
Sawbridge will be publicly court.
martialled to assess responsibility
for the collision of the British
battleshipS Hood and Renown off
the coast of Spain last month,
the British admiralty announced
today.
The Announcement created a
sensation in naval and shipping
circles. It was pointed out that
only four admirals in all British
history have ben court-martialled
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
MYSTERY SHO 7
WOUNDS POLICE

Victim of a mysterious shooting
in his home, Patrolman James
Paul Day, IS, Of the Twelfth Pre-
cinct, was reported near death in
Sibley Memorial Hospital, where
police were questioning his wife,
Gertrude, Al, in an effort to learn
what happened in the house in the
TOO block First st. N. E.
Day was said to have been shot
early this morning by his own
service pistol, the bullet passing
through his body. Surgeons were
preparing to operate at once, but
it was conceded the officer has a
slight chance to live.
Second precinct police, who
hurried Day and his wife to the
hospital. said they learned the
Days had been separated two
weeks. Mrs. Day, they said, went
to the home this morning for
clothing and a quarrel ensued.
Neighbors who reported hear
ing a shot called police. Squad
members said they found Mrs.
Day calmly waiting, with her
husband dangerously wounded.
The wife was taken to the hos
pital because she said she want
ed to learn her husbands con-
dition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
D. {. SEEKS PNA
COURT FUND

The District Commissioners to.
day approved the draft of a. bill
which would authorize the Dis
trict to borrow funds from the
PWA for the construction of the
court units of the municipal
center building projects.
Under the bill, PWA funds
would be used for construction
of buildings to house the Police
Court, Municipal Court and Juve-
nile Court on Judiciary Square.
The buildings would have to
meet the approval of the Com
r1issioners and the National Cap
ital Parks and Planning Com
mission.
Under present plans, the court
buildings would be built to con-
form in architecture to the Dis
tr1ct Supreme Court building.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
HOLDING FIRMS
ARE ASSA|LED
BY SPLAWN
International News Service

Specific proposals envisaging u1-
innate disintegration of holding
company systems were placed be-
fore the House Interstate Com
merce Committee today by Walter
M. Splawn, a member Of the Inter
state Commerce Commission.
He appeared during hearings on
a bill by Chairman Rayburn CD
Of Texas, which would place pub
lie utility holding com panies
under Federal regulation and
bring about their dissolution in
five years.
Submits Proposals
Mr.. Splawn submitted the fol.
lowing recommendations:
l. Federal regulation of inter-
state commerce in natural gas
by pipeline.
2. Federal regulation of inter.
state commerce in ele ctric
energy.
3. Elimination of the holding
company from the power and
gas industry.
4. Disintegration of "the OBJ
Jectionable and unwieldly so
called holding company system"
should be encouraged by ex-
empting from taxation the is
suance or exchange of securities
incident to an equitable re-
distribution Of equities among
the security holders of existing
corporations.
Suggests Method
Mr.. Splawn told the committee
regulation of electric power rates
is largely a problem for State
governments. While advocating
State compacts to deal with inter.
state aspects Of this problem, he
suggested the Federal Govern.
ment, in the absence of such com.
pactS, can exercise control over
the sale Of power transmitted
across State lines to local dis.
tributing companies by special
commission. He said:
"The greatest concern of the
Federal Government should be
to prevent the organization on
a national scale, through the
use of holding companies, of a
business which by its very
nature is most economically
conducted as a local enterprise.
The development of power COM
panies should be local, or at
most, regional"
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
FLAYS
NRA, CHARGES
FASC|SM

In a vicious attack on the MIRA,
I. M. Ornburn, Of Washington,
president of the International
Cigar Makers Union. today told
the House Labor Committee that
it's trend is toward fascism. He
said:
"The trend is alarmingly sim
liar to the early stages Of
Fascism in Europe when labor
was first baited with promises,
such as the NRA promise, and
then suppressed"
Mr.. Ornburn attacked S. Clay
williams, chairman of the Ma
tional Recovery Board, and a
cigarette manufacturer. He as
sailed Donald r. Richberg, former
general counsel for NRA, and
criticised the White House for it's
attitude on labor demands for a
shorter work week in the cigarette
industry.
NRA Called Failure
Asserting that the White House
accepted a code providing wages
as low as $40 a week and a 40
hour week in the industry, Mr..
Ornburn pointed out that the
President had ordered a study
made Of the cigarette trade.
"But If no greater respect Is
shown the findings Of such q
study than the President paid
to a similar report made on
the automobile industry, labor
knows beforehand what to ex'
pect."
He endorsed the ,Connery bill
pending before the committee,
which provides for equal labor
representation on all Government
boards having to do with labor.
"The NRA, in my judgment,
has failed in its major objective
thai is, in the employment Of
labor"
INFLAMMATION CITED
The cigarette industry, he said,
is being mechanical to such an
extent that it now produces twice
as many cigarettes as in 1919
and with less labor.
The same situation, he said, eX-
lists in the cigar industry.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
Philadelphia Fire
Damage $25O,OOO

PHILADE LPHIA, Feb. 10
d.N.S0.-Threatening an entire
city block for a time, a spectacular
three-alarm fire here today
wrecked the huge plant of the La
France textile mills and drove
more than 100 persons from their
homes nearby. Property damage
was estimated to exceed $3.50, 600
and four firemen were injured.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19

Our young should have mentioned this to Mr. Cohan:
No better tobacco grows than is used in Old Geld.
And its pure Eusy both THROAT and NERVES.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
Living Cost Rises
lPer Cent in
January

Living cost Of wage earners
advanced l per cent from De-
cember, 1884, to January, 1885,
according to the monthly index
Of the National Industrial Con-
ference Board.
The rise was said to be greater
than seasonal and resulted
mainly from higher food prices.
The cost of living as a whole
in January was So per cent
higher than in January, 1894,
and 10.7 per cent above the
same month of 1898. It was 1873
per cent lower than January,
1929.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
BYNC RECEIVERS

PASADENA, Cal, Feb. 10
Q.N.S0.-Viscount Julian Byng,
famed English nobleman who
came to California some weeks
ago, today was able to be up
after suffering a severe heart at
tack which for a time threatened
his life.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
DANCE TONIGHT

Employees of the Coast and Geo.
detic Survey will hold a dance to.
night at Wardman Park Hotel.
Meyer Davis music will be sup
piled from 9 p. m. until / a. m.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1935-02-19
Worker Federation
Meets Tomorrow

The District department of the
American Federation of Govern.
ment Employees will hold it's
monthly meeting at 1880 p. m. to-
morrow at 1926 Massachusetts,
Ave. N. w.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
TWO ARMY FLYERS
FUNERALS ARRANGED
Body of Lieut.. Geoffrey to Be
Taken to West Point-That
of Mai. Rice to Texas,

Funeral arrangements for two Army
flyers, killed Wednesday in a plane
crash at Boiling Field, have beer
completed, 1t was announced today
? The body Of Lieut.. Harry H. Goef-
frey, pilot Of the plane, will be taken
Sunday to West Point, N. Y, for
funeral services and burial Monday
afternoon in the Military Academy
Cemetery. Loca. funeral service ar
rangements have been Cancelled.
Lieut.. Geoffrey was the son-in-law
of Mrs. Frederick A. Mertens, 1900
Quebec place. He Is survived by his
widow and a 3-year-old son, Fred
erick Geoffrey.
Maj. George e. Rice, according to
friends here, will be buried in a
private cemetery at San Antonio, Tex.
Mrs. Rice, it was said, will leave New
York Saturday with the body. The
date for the funeral services there
has not been announced. In addi-
tion to his widow, he is survived by two
daughters.
The officers were en- route here
from Mitchell Field, Long Island,
where both were stationed, when their
plane was caught by a gust Of wind
and swept into hillside just as they
were preparing to land.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
DRIVE BY LIQUOR
DEALERS LAUDED
Chairman 0ffutt of A. B. c.
Sees Need of Cleaning
Up Trade.

Washington liquor dealers today
launched o campaign to purify" their
business.
George w. Offutt, chairman Of the
Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
hailed action of the newly organized
Associated Beverage Dealers in voting
to name a vigilance committee to
clean up the alcohol trade as good
thing"
The dealers group, organized 10
days ago, met in the Willard Hotel
last night as United Dry Force speak
ers rallied prohibitionists in a number
Of church talks. Representative Dirk
sen, Republican, Of Illinois, ranking
minority member Of the House Dis
trict Committee, told the vets:
st am unalterably opposed to drying
up the city of Washington. because If
we permit Washington to be dried up,
At will be only the beginning Of drive
for the entire country.
20 Five DistillerieS.
$ II am an interested party. My dis
tict, which includes Peoria, has five
distilleries, three label factories two
cooperage factories and a brewery
Just outside my district is the largest
bottling plant in the United States" "
Albert D. O'Connor, associated Sec
fetary, said the organizations purpose
was to combat dry propaganda, pro-
mote business, maintain high stand
ards, root out improper and unethical
practices and stimulate relations with
allied industries"
: O'Connor was supervisor of the
Brewery Products Distributors Code
Authority until last June, when the
Supreme Courts anti-N. r. A. ruling
removed power from the F. A. c. A.
and made necessary a new type of
Federal liquor trade control.
- Purpose Is Praised.
"They claim they are going to
clarity and clean up the liquor bus
ness" Offutt commented this morn
Eng. "If they stick to that purpose. 1t
will be great.
!, "As I understand it, this Vigilance
Committees job will be to receive
complaints from all liquor dealers and
about all liquor dealers to turn over
to the board when there seems to be
o violation of the law. Then the
complaints will be investigated by our
men"
!. "The formation of this association
is the one thing we've been praying
for since the board was organized,
the A. B. c. chairman told the group
last night.
: ''Ninety-five per cent of the liquor
dealers in the city have co-operateo
completely in obeying the liquor act. u
he added.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
]. H. BELL, RETIRED
! U. S. WORKER, DIES
Rites Will Be Held Tomorrow,
: With Private Burial in Rock
{ Creek Cemetery.

! John H. Bell, 81, retired Pension
ONCE employe, died yesterday at the
home of a daughter, Mrs. Bates War
ren, 2o2s Connecticut avenue.
Funeral services will be held at the
Warren residence at II an. tomor-
row, followed by private burial in Rock
Greek Cemetery.
: Mr.. Bell retired from the Pension
Office IL years ago, after more than
30 years service. He came here from
North Carolina as a young man. His
wife, Mrs. Frances Bell, died many
years ago.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs
Warren; Mrs. Wallace e. Etheridge
Williamsburg, Va; Mrs. Joseph D
Wright, Savannah, Ca, and Mrs
Frederick w. Harvey, Philadelphia
and two sons, David w. and q. Neal
Bell, both Of Washington.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
BURKE'S AIDE ROBBED

CHICAGO, December 8 R.-Miss
Clara Rohlff. Omaha, an employe In
the Office of Senator Burke of Ne
braska, reported to police that non
negotiable stocks worth $4,000 were
stolen from her car last night while
she was en- route to Washington.
Evening star., 1935-12-06
PIECES OF SCALP
THOUGHT EVANS
Hunt for Oklahoma Civic
Leader Spurred by Find
on Bridge.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PAULS VALLEY. Okla, December
6.-Discovery Of fragments Of scalp
and wisps Of sandy red hair on tim
bers Of a bridge near here spurred
searchers anew last night in their
hunt for Ray Evans, missing Shawnee
civic leader, and three other persons,
believed victims Of Chester Conner,
hitch-hiker. Conner died recently Of
Evening star., 1935-12-06
THE EVENING STAR WASHINGTON D. c. FRIDAY DECEMBER g. 1885
a bullet wound indicted by the of,cer

bullet wound inflicted by the oficer
who captured him.
A friend said the hair closely re-
sembled that Of Evans, who disap-
peared November 10. In the scalp
and hair were the first tangible clues
to his fate since discovery Of his aban-
doned car.
The bridge on which the hair was
found is about 200 yards from q pipe
line on which Conner worked year
ago.
Other persons believed victims Of
Conner are L. A. Simpson, Piedmont
farmer; his son, Warren. IL, and Lu-
cille Stevens Conner, second wife Of
Conner.
The bullet-riddled body Of Corners
first wife, the former Elizabeth Chill
ders, was found in Wyandotte County,
Kans, in october, 1884, but was iden-
titled only q few days ago.
Tripoli Fair.
American firms are expected TO ex-
hibit at the 1895 fair in Tripoli.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
LIBERIA FORMALLY
.RECOGN|zEDBYU.S.
Action, Delayed Five Years,
Follows Acceptance of
Barclay Plan.
b. the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Taking an action delayed for i've
years because Of objections 10 slavery
In the Negro republic Of Liberia, Sec
rotary Hull announced yesterday that
the United States has formally recog.
nized the government Of President
Edward Barclay.
Recognition after the long break In
diplomatic relations came in the wake
Of American approval Of the plan for
social and fiscal reforms devised by
President Barclay TO meet criticism by
the League Of Nations and other neu.
trail investigators. :
League Plan Followed.
The Barclay plan. 1t was learned,
follows the general outline OF q pre-
yious plan formulated by the League,
but rejected by Liberia on the ground
1t was an invasion Of its sovereign
rights. 80.
To assist in the financial rehabili-
tation of the country. q rubber COM
pany (Firestone), which made a loan
OF 100000 to Liberia, has liberalized
many provisions of the fiscal agree
ment and reduced the interest rate
from z to per cent. Liberia, in re-
turn. has pledged itself to resume in
terest payments on the loan, which
were suspended In 1882.
Guards Against Slavery.
The Barclay plan seeks to provide
safeguards against the return of slav-
cry or forced labor into the African
republic--founded In 1921 by Ameri-
can Negroes as o home for freed
slaves-and the institution. Of RENE
dial legislation and measures to I'M
prove sanitary and living conditions.
hitherto considered detrimental 70 ad-
tacent countries.
Recognition of the African republic
restores normal diplomatic relations
between the United States and every
country in the world except the jap
anese-sponsored empire of Manchu-
kuo. The United States refused To
recognize the former Manchurian
provinces Of China as a sovereign ma
ton because Of It's establishment by
force in violation Of treaty obliRa-
tons between Japan, the United
States and others powers, and China.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
KlDNAPER, c0NFESSES,
NAMING 10 IN CUBA
House Where 7s-Yesr-old Multi;
millionaire and Employees Were
Reported Held Located.

By the Associated Press.
HAVANA, June 12.-Sources close
to the army intelligence service said
today ct least one OF the suspects ar
rested In the Antonio San Miguel kid
mapping case had confessed, naming 10
other persons as associates in the
crime
This information was said TO have
enabled police to find. the house In
Guanabacoa where the Te-year -old
multi-millionair and four employees
were believed to have been held after
their abduction last Wednesday night.
Police also found San Miguel's miss
ing automobile parked In Vedsdo sub
urb. The machine was the one In
which the wealthy financier and his
companions were riding at the time
Of the kidnapping.
Those under arrest for participation
In the crime included o former police
man, his wife and her mother and
uncle. The former policeman, Ramon
Suarez, was captured near Quivican
after authorities surrounded his farm.
Suarez fed toward cane field, firing
q revolver as he ran. but the police
overlook him.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
S90,0()O IN NAVY
WORKS APPROVED
New Projects at Yard, OBJ
seryatory and Labora-
tory Included.

Approval Of S750,000 In allotments
for new work by the Navy Department
here has been given by the Advisory
Committee on Allotments for the
works program, and the items for
warded to the White House for ap-
proval of President Roosevelt.
Included in the projects are new
work at the Navy Yard, Naval OBJ
servatory, the research laboratory ut
Bellevue and at Anacostia.
A total of $4,000 was asked for
administrative expense.
The projects follow:
Repair and improvement Of paving,
roads, walks and ground, at the Navy
Yard, $4,000.
Foundation explorations and sub
surface surveys at the Navy Yard,
sac. 200.
Construction Of new lunch room in
west yard of the Navy Yard, $4,000.
Repair and improvement Of build
ings, structural improvements and
painting, general repairs and extern
sion Of truck garage at Navy Yard.
$4,000.
Repair and Improvement Of rail-
road tracks at Navy Yard, $4,000.
Repair and improvement of paving.
roads, walks and grounds ct Naval
Observatory, 5000.
Similar improvements at the Naval
Research Laboratory, Bellevue. $50. 600.
Similar improvements ct the Naval
Air Station at Anacostia. $4,000.
Foundation explorations and sub
surface surveys at the Naval Magazine,
Bellevue, $4,000.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
Human Blood Injections Held
''Cure'' for Infantile Paralysis
Ne,o Orleans Physician Announces He
Has Treated Is Patients With
Complete Success Since 1892.

The doctor also told Of Touring
Malvin Ladner, IA. of Violet. La.
"Malvin was badly paralyzed In No
vember. when he was brought to my
ward at Charity Hospital" he said.
Injections. Of his aunt's blood were
put into the muscles of his back. 1t
was fascinating to me to watch his
gradual reactions. First he could move
one toe, then his foot, finally his ankle.
Then hi. walked.
THE only other method used thereto
is to inject q serum from O GONZALES
cent person into the victim. This Ii
unsuccessful. The only successful
method Is the one which I have been
using"
Dr. Stub said he had used his treat
ment with complete success on Is
patients since 1882. d.
He said the treatment was. likely to
prove effective In all cases In which
the limbs OF patients had not afro
phied, or shrunk. .-e. -
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
|eTRAFFIC
~ TIPS
SyAe NEnoNAL sAffTY COUNCIL

One sure way Of collecting murder
Gus glances from pedestrians. frequent
" accompanied by sizzling epithets. Is
to come to q, stop out over the inter-
section crosswalk.
Such action stamps the rnctorist 90
either selfish, Indifferent or incom-
petent. He blocks the pedestrian hew
and by his example invites other driv-
ers 20 creep up even with him.
To get by him pedestrians must
either pass In front or behind. II they
pass in front. they endanger them
selves BY getting out into the inter-
secting trafic. II they 60 around be-.
hind, the driver who has edged over
the line may suddenly decide to back
up.
When pressed for an alibi, the line
crowder usually claims he couldn't
stop In time, which, OF course. is no
excuse whatever. He was either going
too fast or his brakes were defective
or else he Just didn't care.
The motorist who can't estimate
speed and distance isn't qualif1ed TO
drive. II his brakes are weak he should
heed the warning and have them adj
5lstsd prs . serious crash seHalth
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
|a75,0)0,O(O TAX
| BILL IN congress
Second Measure Likely to.
FolloW-Extensions OF I
Two Years Asked.

- the Associated rgess.s Il
At President Roossvelt.s request,
House Democratic leaders have start
ed n CATS 600. 900 tar bill on its way
through Congress and today said an
other probably" would follow In It's
wake.
The first was requested In the
Presidents budget message at the
opening of the session. It Is resolu-
ton extending for two years . number
Of taxes. among them the scent
postage and the l-cent-a-gallon
Federal gasoline charge.
The second, according to Chairman
Samuel B. Hill Of the House Ways
and Means Tax subcommittee, would
be drawn TO plug loopholes in exist
ing tax laws and to adjust present
rates found to be uncomfortable or
unproductive.
Deadlines Just Ahead.
All of the $475, 5000 900 in taxes
would 90 out Of existence on or before
July 81 II Congress did not extend
them. Most Of them expire on June
80, and the plan Is to rush through
the extension resolution before then.
The committee seems to have the
idea that we viii probably have TO
take up some other things at later
date" Hill said after his subcommit-
tee approved the simple extension
resolution. e.~
He added, however, that he had a.
yet heard no specific suggestion from
the President or the administration
for the imposition Of new inheritance
and heavier gift taxes Authoritative,
but private. word was that Mr.. Roose-
welt was 'stil considering that sug-
sestion.
An informant remarked that there
was no rush about decision because
the second tax bill was In the offing,
and because Democratic leaders pre-
dicted an Interchangeable tax meas
ure would sweep through the House.
Nuisance Group Included.
The taxes In the simple resolution
which leaders hope to put through
the House early next week-fall into
three classes: Postage, nuisance"
and import duties. The 1-cent in
crease above normal 2-cent postage
would bring In around $75,00O. 900 for
the fiscal year ending June 30; the
nuisance taxes about $3.50 900 900 and
the import duties about Sill 900 900.
Speaker Byrns said yesterday he
believed any inheritance tax program
on . reasonable" basis would meet
cordial reception" In the House.
He contended inheritances and gifts
must be taxed ut virtually the same
rates to keep holders Of huge fortunes
from giving away their money before
death.
Another who said House approval
would be certain" was Representa-
tive SABBATH Of Illinois, chairman OF
the unofiiciAl Democratic Steering
Committee. 'tt
But" SABBATH added. ''h such bill
does come along. I hope 1t viii not
only tax inheritances and gifts, but
also increase the taxes on bigger IN
come brackets and tax chain stores"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-06-12
MURDER OF FARMER
CHARGED TO THREE
Mother, Son and Physician Ac'
cused Of Staying to Col
lect Insurance.
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo-, June Ia
Murder charges were on file here
today against Lloyd Robinson, l8; his
mother, and their family physician In
connection with the staying June 3
of the youths father. Robert Robinson.
Homer chafhn, Webster County
prosecutor, said Lloyd had confessed
the staying to collect $4,000 insurance
and named MRS. Mary Robinson, 20,
and DR.. r. w. Schlicht, S.. Niangua.
Mo-, Is authors Of the death plot
against the 50.year-old farmer.
The trio were held in the county Jail
at Marshneld pending arraignment
June 20.
Authorities said residents Of Web
ster County had been stirred" by the
staying and that they were prepared
to remove the prisoners TO another jail
In event Of possible mob action.
Chafin said the motive for the
staying apparently was to get money
to pay an $1,000 mortgage which was
to have been foreclosed June or 8
on the Robinson farm.