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Evening star., 1935-02-21

Conservatives in the New York
financial district took the gold de-
cision very hard. The sum total OF
their personal expressions was that a
majority of the court is undoubtedly
thinking along New Deal lines. They
say the last possible hope of plutocracy
has vanished.
1t may not be as bad as they think
The next important case to come be-
fore the court probably will be the
railroad retirement legislation Mr.
Roosevelt branded it faulty when he
signed it. Then will come the test
of N. r. A. constitutionality and the
case on appeal from Louisville to de-
termine Mr.. Ickes' right to seize slum
clearance property by eminent domain
New Deal May Be Bumped.
The New Deal is not likely to fare
so we'll in these cases.
Agriculture Secretary Wallace has
been broken up since his A. A. A.
purge. He is a fair-minded man and
did not like the idea of making
Messrs. Frank, Howe and others walk
the plank.
To make amends he recently
called Jerome Frank on the tele-
phone and offered him job as
counsel OF the Bureau OF Wild Life
and Pure Foods. This is the bureau
Which mainly handles birds. 1t
has had more success tDith the lire
ones than NTH the ones in Con-
gress. especially on the pure food
legislation.
Frank said he could qualify for the
food end Of 1t, but did not know
about the other. He also has received
r. F. C., but will probably practice
law.
Certain groups of self f-professed in
tellectualS are taking up Huey Long.
At an important university Of
higher learning, close enough to
Washington to know better. an Every
Man-a-King Club" has been formed,
with Huey as honorary president.
It was formed, not by students, but
by the learned professors. VINO say
they acted more or less in jest. How
ever, they listen to Hueys red-hot
speeches and praise his so-called ora
torical abilities.
How About Crowns?
Their disillusionment may come
when they write to Long and ask him
to send along their crowns.
Other strange recent additions to
the Long encourage are two wealthy
young ex-Harvard men, one modern
artist from San Francisco and the
other an interior decorator from
Cleveland. They are arranging to
circulate a new type Of sound picture
of Huey out through the country. The
pictures will be still slides to be thrown
on the screen, and accompanied by
Huey's speaking voice. The trouble
with it is they cannot get Huey to
remain still long enough for an un-
blurred picture. They may have to
use movies.
There will be more trouble If their
wealthy fathers ever find out about it.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
COUNTY TAX BILL
SIGNED BY NICE
Provides Payment Twice a
Year-PoIice Under
Civil Service.
By a Stan Correspondent of The Star.

By Stan Correspondent OF The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, February 21.-
Gov. Harry w. Nice today signed Sen.
ator Stedman Prescott's bill placing
the Montgomery County police force
under civil service. At the same time
the Governor affixed his signature tc
another Prescott bill which will per-
NIT county residents to pay their
taxes semi-annually.
All day yesterday the Governor re-
ceived kilograms asking him not to
sign the police bill and this morning
shortly before the measure was
brought to his ONCE County Com
missioners King and Coughlin. Fu-
sionists, personally asked him not to
sign it.
Costs Fusionists Patronage.
The effect of the bill will be to
deprive the Fusion party of some of
its patronage. It will require that
appointment to the police force be
made from a list Of persons certified
as qualified by the State Bureau Of
Enjoyment and Registration.
Another feature Of the measure,
which carries an emergency clause
and Is effective Immediately, specifies
that the IS members of the police
force who had the longest record of
service January 1 be retained. or f
they have been dismissed, be restored
to duty.
"a Policemen Required.
The bill further requires that at
least "a policemen be appointed by
the county board and gives it op-
tional authority to name as many
as 80.
The chief Of police Is the only
member of the force exempted from
the civil service requirement and his
salary is reduced to $4,000 under an
amendment which was attached to
the bill in the House.
Senator Prescott and the Montgom-
cry Delegates, who voted unanimously
for the measure. said they had enough
votes to pass it over the Governors
veto If he had refused to sign it.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
MOONEY ASKS MORE AID
FOR WARTIME DISABLED
D. A. v. Commander Urges Presi-
dent to Liberalize Orders
Covering Relief.

BY the Associated Press.
volney P. Mooney, jr, Of Los
Angeles. national commander of the
Disabled American Veterans, urged
President Roosevelt yesterday to
liberalize executive orders covering
wartime disabled.
Mooney said his suggestions dealt
principally with increasing widows
and orphans pensions, greater benefits
for chronic disabilities and other
technical features Of the orders which
Mooney claimed were not working out
satisfactorily.
He also conferred with Veterans
Administrator Hines and w. Frank
Persons, director Of the Federal EN-
ployment Service.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
MANY DIPLOMATS
R0TAR|AN GUESTS
81 at Weekly Luncheon
Meeting introduced Over
Radio Hook-Up.

One Of the greatest collections of
diplomats ever seen under one roof
assembled at the Willard Hotel yester-
day to participate in the Rotary Clubs
weekly luncheon meeting.
Fifty-one ambassadors, ministers
and secretaries of embassies and le-
cations in the Capital were introduced
over radio hookup that took in the
United States and all the foreign
countries represented.
Rotary Executive Speaks.
DR.. Chester D. Swope, president of
the club, presented the diplomatic
delegation, and then introduced Walter
D. Head, third vice president of
Rotary International, who made the
principal address.
Head discussed international topics
at length and expressed the opinion
that the League of Nations has not
been such a failure as believed to be
in many countries. He pointed to the
leagues efforts to destroy inter-
national drug and white slavery rings.
The principal trouble with efforts
to improve international relations Is
that they have been on too high an
intellectual plane and not emotional
enough, he said.
Assails Reports.
Ignorance, selfishness and propa-
ganda have done much to keep the
countries of the world from being in
harmonious accord, Head declared, in
assailing distorted press reports" of
all countries about affairs of i'm
portance.
The only secure background for
permanent international relations and
international peace, the speaker said.
is found in friendship and under
standing, This is the chief role of
the 3,737 Rotary Clubs in n different
political subdivisions of the globe, he
declared.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
RANDOLPH TO SPEAK

The crime investigation here will
be discussed by Representative RAN
dolph, chairman Of the House Special
Investigating Committee, before the
American University Crime Forum at
1901 F street tomorrow beginning at
$50 pm.
Following the address there will be
an open forum with questions from
the floor.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
What's What
Behind News
In Capital
"Good Neighbors" Cause
u. S. Diplomats to
Throw Up Hands.
BY PAUL MALLON.


TINE disillusionment of the New
Deal in world politics is just
about complete.
L United States diplomats are
now throwing up their hands
in final despair at the subtle way that
the plan for control Of armament
manufacturing and traffic is being
wrecked at Geneva. You may read
more about it in a few days. Our
good neighbors," as President Roose-
velt calls them, have successfully
navigated the plan into the shoals of
European politics. There the uniden-
tifiable waves can be counted on to
do the rest.
What has hurt most is that our
best neighbor, Great Britain. has
been foremost in the plotting. She
has suddenly seized the Wheel by
contending that the plan must
apait general disarmament con-
Dention.
That is just the same as scuttling
the idea directly. Prospects Of
general disarmament convention are
exactly zero.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
Indian Trek Survivor Dies.

ATOKA, Okla, February 81 (P.-
Phyllis Flack, colored, who claimed to
be 116 years old and the last survivor
Of the "Trail of Tears" trek of the
SeminoleS from Mississippi to Indian
Territory in 1884, died here yesterday.
The aged woman was the slave Of an
Indian who settled near Colberts Ferry
100 years ago.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
PRESIDENT TO BE GUEST

Will Attend Founders Dinner at
National Press Club.
President Roosevelt will be honor
guest at the National Press Clubs an
nual founders day dinner to be held
in the club auditorium March 2 at z
pm, it was announced today. The
President is a member of the club.
Attendance will be limited strictly
to members, tickets not being trans
ferable. To prepare for the entrance
of President Roosevelt, it was said, it
will be necessary that members be
in their seats by 7:3o pm. The audi
torium doors will be opened at pm.
Tickets may be obtained tomorrow at
/ pm. at the club ONCE.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
Congress in Brief
BY the Associated Press.
TODAY.

TODAY.
Senate.
Continues debate on work relief bill.
Coal hearing before Interstate Com
merce Subcommittee.
Munitions Committee hears repre-
sentative Of Navy Department explain
ship prices.
House.
Considers War Department appro-
priation bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee
continues hearing on holding COM
pany regulation.
Agriculture Committee considers cot
ton legislation.
Labor Committee hears witnesses
on equal representation for labor on
code authorities.
Ways and Means Committee works
on economic security bill.
YESTERDAY.
Senate.
Debated McCarran amendment to
work relief bill.
Finance Committee concluded So
cial security hearing and approved an
investigation Of N r. A.
Munitions Committee concluded ex-
animation Of Newport News Shipbuild-
ing & Drydock CO.
House.
Received Presidents N. r. A. extern
sion message.
Debated War Department appropria.
ton bill.
Ways and Means Committee ap-
proved pay roll tax to finance unem-
ployment insurance.
immigration Committee approved
nationals voting in future foreign elec-
tions and to deport aliens spread
ing foreign prop Eanda.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
"Gin" Marriage Act Passed.

HELENA, Mont, February 81 R).-
A gin" marriage act requiring among
other things the presentation Of health
certificates before marriage licenses
may be granted was adopted by the
Montana House Of Representatives
last night and sent to the Senate.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
BAND CONCERT.

BY the United States Soldiers Home
Band Orchestra in Stanley Hall this
evening at $50 o'clock. John s. M.
Zimmerman, bandmaster: Anton
Pointner. assistant lesder.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
James Roosevelt in Miami.

MIAMI, Fla, February 81 @.-
James Roosevelt, son Of the Presi-
dent, arrived here last night by train
and was to leave this morning by COM
mercial airline for Nassau, Bahamas,
where he will join his wife.
Evening star., 1935-02-21
Diplomats Gather at Rotary Luncheon Here


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Evening star., 1935-01-15

Potatoes Grow in Hawaii.
Irish potatoes are being grown sue
in Hawaii.
Evening star., 1935-01-15
SUGAR HOLDERS OFFER
"SQUEEZE" EXPLANATION
Long Position Group Blames Bear
Raid-Would Present Charges
to Government.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK, January 15.-The
committee organized to represent
holders OF long positions in the De-
cember, 1884, sugar contract on the
New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange
yesterday offered to appear before re-
Sponsible Government officials to ex-
plain their part in the so-called
squeeze" that has agitated sugar cir
cles for more than a month.
Following adoption of a Senate
resolution calling upon Secretary of
Agriculture Henry A. Wallace to fur
nish all available information con-
cerning the situation, the committee,
headed by Carlos G. Garcia, tele-
graphed the Secretary and Senator
Vandenberg, Republican, of Michigan,
author of the resolution, that it would
voluntarily appear land explain that
the present situation was deliberately
provoked by short sellers in bear
raid"
Evening star., 1935-01-15
Intelligence Test at Fair.

Instead Of fortune telling, games Of
chance and similar attractions usually
found at a fair. those who attended
the recent event of the Institute of
Medical Psychology in London were
gence tests. Any one who cared to
pay Is or go cents was asked to solve
puzzles, distinguish between colors
and answer leading questions. Trained
psychologists then gave candid opin-
ions on ones mental makeup.
Evening star., 1935-01-15
Tax Moratorium Signed.

BOISE, Idaho, January Is (P.-
Gov. G. Ben Ross signed into law to-
day measure providing moratorium
on an estimated S18,0O0,OO0 of back
taxes.
The law fixes a schedule of repay
ment Of delinquencies charged to the
years 1923 to 1893 inclusive.
Evening star., 1935-01-15

State engineer resembles, on a modi-
fled scale, that Of the Tennessee VAL
ley Authority.
First costs Of the project would be
paid by the United States Govern
ment under the national recovery
program. Later. it would become self.
liquidating.
Evening star., 1935-01-15

industries from its share Of Boulder
Dam power were outlined yesterday
to Gov. Richard Kirman, ST., in the
report of an elaborate survey COM
pleted by State Engineer George
Malone.
Ultimate reclamation of $4,000 to
rs, 900 acres of barren desert, provid-
ing homes for 5000 to 10000 home
steaders and employment for an ad-
ditional 10000 in augmented mining
activity, were forecast.
The project programmed by the
Evening star., 1935-01-15
$5OO,OOO Decrease
In Postal Savings
ShO,Un in Capital
Drop ShO,Un in Farley's
Reportto Speakerof
the House.

While postal savings were increas-
Ing nationally, they showed a de-
crease Of more than $5O0,OO0 in
} Washington in the fiscal year 1884, as
compared with 1888, it was shown
today when the annual report of
Postmaster General Farley, as chair
man of the Board of Trustees for the
I postal savings system, submitted to
the Speaker Of the House, was made
public today.
On June 30 last. there were 81, ,103
] depositors here with total deposit OF
$7,141,179 for an average of $338.40
each.
On June 80, 1888, there were 17,441
depositors with total deposits Of
$780,, ,739 for an average of $439.35.
, Total deposits over the country on
June 80 last were $1,197 ,920, ,188
which was an increase OF $10,733, $3.50
Farley said the system which has
always been self-supporting showed q
net profit in 1884 of $3,985, ,834.48.
Postal savings certificates bear per
cent interest and are exchangeable on
January l and July of each year for
postal savings bonds for az per cent.
Evening star., 1935-01-15
Relief Head Resigns,

SANTA FE, N. Mex, January IS up.
Miss Margaret Reeves, New Mexico
director Of the Federal Emergency Re
lief Administration and director Of the
State Welfare Bureau, resigned both
Offices last night, effective January 16,
saying she was bowling to the wishes
of Gov. Clyde Tingley.
Evening star., 1935-01-15
CANN|BA[|SM SEEN
AS KILLING MOTIVE
Human Flesh Found Sailed
and Cured at Home of
Big CoIored Man.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
JACKSON, Miss, January Is
Cannibalism took front place today in
the investigation of James H. Coyner,
huge colored grave robber, charged
with the brutal double Staying in
Cleveland, Miss, in December OF
Aurelius B. Turner and his wife.
Startling charges were made by
County Attorney E. H. Green of Boil
var County which, he said, tended to
link the 6-foot 4-inch, 240-pound
colored man with the fiendish slay-
ings and furnished the basis for his
"cannibalism" charge.
Portions of human flesh," said
Attorney Green, "salted and cured,
and with what appeared to be teeth
marks, have been found at Coyners
home"
Discovery Follows Questioning.
Announcement of the weird dis
covery was made following gruelling
questioning of the man in his cell in
the mob-proof Kinds County Jail,
where he was rushed after his arrest
in Cleveland Saturday, and after Boil
ivar County authorities had filed for
NAL request for an order permitting
exhumation of the Turner's bodies to
compare missing portions with the
flesh asSertedly found in Coyners
home.
The bodies of Turner and his wife,
an expectant mother, were found hor-
ribly mutilated in their small Bolivar
County home the night of December
8. One of the slain couples children
was struck over the head and appar-
emily left for dead, while another,
sleeping in crib, was unharmed.
County Attorney Green said ques-
tioning of the prisoner proved futile.
I'VE might as well have been talking
to q post" he said, but we've got the
man we want"
Questioned About Trunk.
Green said Coyner had been ques-
toned concerning the unsolved mys-
terry surrounding the discovery of the
heads of four women in a trunk at
Ferndale. Mich, eight years ago.
The prisoner acknowledged serving
q term in the Indiana Penitentiary for
grave robbing. He was convicted in
1927 and paroled last June.
Coyner's arrest prompted Pontiac,
Mich, authorities to reopen the case
involving the finding of the women's
heads. They informed Mississippi
officers that the trunk in which the
heads were found was traced to Coy
ner, who acknowledge ownership, but
denied any knowledge of the crime.
Coyner was questioned about the
Ferndale case while serving the SEN
tence for grave robbing in the In
diana Penitentiary. and Michigan au-
thorities quoted him as declaring that
II could tell you a lot of things you'd
like to know, lot of things about
murders and murderers, but I'll die
first"
Evening star., 1935-01-15
Beer Drinker Scored.

Because he spent his wages for beer
and left his children hungry, man in
Hoyerswerda, Silesia, was paraded
through the town with a sign around
his neck reading Il have swilled all
my wages"
Evening star., 1935-01-15
NEVADA PLANS TO USE
POWER FOR INDUSTRIES
State Engineer Reports Project
to Duplicate T.-V. A. on
Small Scale.

BY the Associated Press.
CARSON CITY, New, January Is
Nevada's expectations of reaping $25,-
100000 to $50,O00,000 worth of new
Evening star., 1935-01-15
Alpine Shows Heavy

Unusually heavy snow has fallen in
the Alps of Switzerland this Winter.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
CorneIia Otis Skinner Will
Offer One Character Play
"Mansion on the Hudson"
BY ANDREW R. KELLEY

In the of the Senate last night Will Rogers
in The County Chairman did his stuff for the
soons.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11

Boston, but scheduled for a
weeks engagement beginning jan
uary %.
Cornelia Otis Skinner has COM
pleted the writing of her fourth
play for a single actress, which
she will present in the National
Theater Monday night, January
%, for the first time on any stage.
Miss SINNERS new play is en-.
titled Mansion on the Hudson"
and is in six scenes, covering a
span of 81 years in American
social and economic annals and
depicting not only the disntegra.
ton of a proud and wealthy family
but also the strange turns of fate
endured by the house itself.
Mansion on the Hudson" begins
in the summer of 1880, with Miss
Skinner depicting the role of Mrs.
Stanley Rowland, mistress of Tall
Trees, as the estate has been
known since Dutch days. Sue
ceeding scenes afford glimpses of
the HoWland family and it's sue
ceSSors in June, 1898, during the
The Washington times., 1935-01-11

WanderingS around Hollywood
:. Slightly out of the ordinary is
the casting of Ralph Forbes to
featured lead with Kay Francis
and George Brent in THE Goose
and the Gander" at Warmers.
Both Ralph and George are ex-
husbands of Ruth Chatterton.
But this is the first time they
have ever landed in the same movie
E. The film career of Polly Wal
ters has been a series of disap-
pointments. Some cinematic sea.
sons ago, Polly was typed" as the
blonde telephone operator with a
sing-Song voice. She skipped off
to New York and became hit in
the stage show of "She Loves Me
Not" and that got her a Universal
contract-but that ended without
an appearance on the screen.
Again she hit the trail for Broad
way and was brought back by
Paramount for a role in Stolen
Harmony" Arriving here, she
looked at the role and grabbed
another train for the big town.
Such a life!...
On the Gabby side of the
street. "Pinky" C'The Object of
My Affections") Tomlin will
make his movie debut, playing
himself, in Times Square Lady"
for M.-G.-M. Howard Esta-
brook has moved his typewriter
to Fox to write a story under a
title Winchell can take a bow
on, "Orchids to YOU. Clarence
Brown is testing Laddy Darcy,
thespian of Australia, for the
lead in "Ah, Wilderness Gene
Ahern says M.-G.-M.'s theme
song for Garbo should be Stay
The Washington times., 1935-01-11

Hdience in the proper mood tor'
the more serious turn of events to
follow, building up to a climax un-
sensed in earlier moments of the
play.
O'Casey has taken the economic
struggle of Ireland in the days of
1922 and shown its effects upon
one family; using that family as
q mirror to reflect the internal
and external strife of a people
ever given to quick laughter and
tears.
The entire cast is excellent and
quite the most natural group Of
players seen in repertory. Eileen
Grove and Barry Fitzgerald as
Mr.. and Mrs. Boyle, the principals
of the title, offer superb charac-
terizations. Other members of the
cast include Aileen O'Connor and
Arthur Shields as the daughter
and son; F. j. Mccormick, Maui
reen Delany, U. Wright, May
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
"Juno and the Paycock" By the Irish Players

"Shure he sthruts himself about
like q paycock," says Juno, and
we are off on as fine a piece of
drama as has graced the boards
of the National Theatre this sea-
son.
The Abbey Players (and please
Mr.. Cochran, bring them back
again and again and againD pre-
sented last evening Juno and the
Paycock," another of the Sean
O'Casey' plays which has so much
Of laughter and yet so much Of
emotional tenseness.
This is the story of a single
family with a shiftless but anus.
ing father who shirked his re-
sponsibilities and who placed up
on the dropping shoulders of his
hard-working wife all care of his
small household.
There is much Of the natural
wit and good humor of the Irish
people in this play and in the
first act the author puts his au-
The Washington times., 1935-01-11

ICraig, P. ]. Carolan, Michael j.
Dolan and Denis O'Dea.
Tonight the Players present q
double program, "The Coiner"
and 1.-THE Playboy of the West
ern World" for Saturday matinee
there is "The Whiteheaded Boy"
and Saturday night they close
their brief Washington season
with "The Plough and the Stars" {"
BY all means make an effort to
see one of the remaining plays!
K, Y.