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Evening star., 1935-12-13
What's What
Behind News
Il, Capital
Townsend Do octrine
Spread in Chur c h.
Apprehension Grows.
BY PAUL MALLON.
N Ex-MINISTER called on

BY PAUL MALAON.
N Ex-MINISTER called on the
~ head of q ladies' welfare or
a ganization Of a Presbyterian
4 n church In q large Pennsylva-
MIA city a few days back. He an
nounced ne had been sent by the
Townsend people to address that or
ganization. The lady in charge in
formed him that her organization
would not receive Townsend speakers,
After all she had done to build up
a happy morale within her flock, she
would not permit him to start them
of chasing $200-a-month rainbows,
she said.
The good ex-minister insisted. He
pointed out his cause "is the greatest
humanitarian movement since Lin
coins proclamation" He said life
was short and the lady would have q
good deal to answer for If she denied
this boon to her people. The lady
nevertheless decided to run that
chance. Her church later sanctioned
her gamble.
This sub-surtlce incident Is
knotUn to haze been duplicated
daily, NTH opposite results, in
most of the large and small church
communities throughout the coun-
try. 1t is the latest unobseTUed
trend OF TotDnSend organization
tactics. Also It explains tphy po-
Iitico- statesmen heredbout haze be-
come increasingly dpprehenstpe
about it toithin the last teto ,Ueeks.
The Townsend appeal Is clearly
catching on more and more with thu
good quiet people whose hearts arr
larger than their opportunities fol
economic study.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
POLICEMAN KILLED,
WOUNDED IN FIGHT
Assailant, Enraged After Losing
Affections of Girl, Is
Shot Down.

By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURG, Calf, December IS.
One policeman was shot to death
and three other officers we're wounded
in q gun fight today with a man they
declared became enraged after losing
the affections of his girl. The man,
Luciano Garcia Sanchez, was shot
nine times by the officers and was
reported dying.
Policeman John Buckley, SO, was
shot through the heart.
Capt. Dan Mcneil said Sanchez was
embittered because Mary Quesada
had returned to Watsonville, Calf.
Mcneil said the man went to a pool
room on the main street here last
night.
He fred q shot into the floor and
then emerged into the street with
the weapon In his hand.
Ofdcers Buckley and Chris Maze
started in pursuit The shooting be-
gan when they cried for Sanchez
to surrender.
The wounded were:
Deputy Sheriff Sal Jimno, shot In
the left arm; Maze, wounded in the
right arm, and Mcneil, shot through
the right arm.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
ARGENTINE STAND
SENDS WHEAT UP
World Market Leaps on An
nouncement of Fixed
Minimum Price.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Fress.
CHICAGO, December l3.-World
wheat prices shot higher today fol-
lowing announcement that Argentina
had fixed a minimum price for its
grain, 20 cents above the ruling mar
ket. Wheat futures in Chicago jumped
the five cents per bushel limit per-
mitted by trading rules.
Trading at the opening here was
very excited and both December and
May wheat contracts were lifted above
the dollar-a-bushel level for the first
time in recent weeks.
Market Reflects News.
Value. at all international markets
rose swiftly with the opening. Liver
pool reflected the bullish Argentine
news by jumping around five cents.
Winnipeg was up the three cents daily
limit allowable.
The Buenos Aires market scored
one of the sharpest wheat price ad-
vances on record by opening 10 cents
a bushel above the previous close.
The opening price for Chicago De-
cember wheat was $1011z-5s, trading
boiled feverishly and prices clung to
the advance during the first half hour.
All other American markets advanced
with the Chicago price. Trading was
the heaviest in many months.
Falls Like BombsheII.
The Argentine government an
nouncement fixing a minimum price
OF approximately 70 cents per bushel
on the 1885 Argentine crop fell like
a bombshen on the world markets.
Early estimates placed the price at
about 80 cents a bushel.
The immediate effect was that Ar
gentine quotations. were above those
at Winnipeg and near the level in
Chicago. Many traders said that as
result Canada'S huge exportable
wheat surplus, the largest in the
world, was expected to move into
European ports more freely. The
Canadian surplus long has been a
weight on world markets. Only re-
Gently the new Dominion government
announced it would embark on a
policy of hquidating in an orderly
manner.
Argentina, usually competitor with
Canada and the United States, suf-
fered severely from drought this sea-
son and as a result is not expected
to have normal supply Of wheat.
The United States has been on a
wheat import basis most of the year.
ARGENTINA ACTS.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

Their meetings are not nationally
observed. People identified with them
seldom have national regulations
which attract national dramatic in
terest. The class involved is not
basically that which formed the bulk
of the Long share-the-wealth idea
the Utopian, Epic or Coughlin move
ments, but rather the kind of vel
fare-minded persons who put over
prohibition.
National Religious Zeal.
They have built up something ap-
proximating a non-sectarian national
religious zeal. The timid politicians
are scared stiff. Sincere statesmen
also seem to be doubtful about how
to face a growing onrush Of such q
noble but impractical purpose.
The basis for the zeal appears tc
be plausible but careless Townsend
arithmetic. A printed circular of Town
send Club No. |, Peoria, Ill, Is the
same as used nationally.
Upon figures cited there, the Peoria
club claims to represent one out oi
every three citizens of the city
Claimed membership is above 10000
The 1880 census showed Peoria'i
population to be 100000. 1t has In
creased considerably since.
The circular tells the people Of
Peoria that DR.. Tot0nSerd Udnts
5000 a month for each OF 5000 900
persons eper so. The cost, it says,
wiH be 1850, ,000, 900 month.
This is to be raised by sales tar
OF 2-3 per cent on $1,300,0o0.-
000, 900, which is specified as the
"Sdles turnover OF 1929" The tar
Is computed at $4,000, 900, 900 q
year, the pension need at $1s,2Oo.-
000, 900.
Thus Dr.. Townsend is able to show
a paper excess of $500, 100000 above
his needs.
Oficial 1890 census bureau figures
show 0,385, 900 persons then over so
years of age, instead Of 100000. The
number has grown since probably to
II, 600. 900. The census also. showed
that 4,156, 900 Of those over go were
then gainfully employed. They were
supporting themselves. This number
has probably decreased. How many
were being cared for by sons and
daughters, or, like J. d. Rockefeller
ST, living from their own income, the
figures do not show.
A liberal assumption would be that
there are no more than two million in
theoretical need of public assistance
and none not now receiving it.
Deception in Figures.
That is only the initial error Of DR.
Townsends charitable purpose. Hit
total sales" figure is not q sales
figure at all. It is based on the bank
turnover in 1929, estimated by the
Federal Reserve Board ct $1,000, 900,
10000 for 268 cities. DR.. Townsend
has added 10 per cent for other cities,
10 per cent for cash, and apparently
another billion for good luck. That Is
how he gets his $1,000, 0,o0o, 900 900
which really should be nearer 81, l,20o,-
000, 900 900.
His figures, therefore, are not based
on q sales tax proposition. If they
were, he would not be within reach
Of the astronomical revenue he "a
talking about raising. His tax is q
transactions tax, meaning it is Q
pyramided tax.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

THE petite post, established in Paris
In 1858, seems to have been the
iorerunner Of our modern system, be-
cause wrappers for mail were sold in
advance to pay for the delivery.
Previous to that time persons wishing
10 send or receive mail had to 60 to o
post ofice Belgium was one OF the
first countries to set up tl84s) the
pillar type Of mail box that Is now
common in Europe. Paris established
the tirst one, shown here, In 1850.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Kansas City Market un.

KANSAS CITY, December Is CP).-
Wheat futures on the Kansas City
grain market responded to q SEN
sational hike in prices at Buenos Aires
today and scared to the maximum s.
cent increase permitted before react
ing.
December deliveries sold up to $l.01
here early in the session but profit
taking caused some reaction later.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

sends plan would be to drive most
of the niddlemen Of all businesses
out into the cold. Practical business
men would Immediately begin to cut
down on transactions In order to avoid
taxes, and DR.. Townsend would have
to look elsewhere to make up this
deficit In anticipated revenue.
Likewise It 10 reasonable to expect
that the effect on all prices would be
incalculahly heavy, that the entire
existing business system would have
TO be upset and reoryanised.
(ccpsriehl. 1882
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Confess Before Execution.

TUCKER PRISON FARM, Ark, De-
cember 13 UP.-Confessing their guilt,
Bennie II. Awkins and Mack Nelson,
colored, of Mississippi County, were
executed in the Arkansas electric chair
today for the robbery Staying of q
colored couple near Blytheville two
months ago.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
ARGENTINA ACTS,
Authorizes Wheat Purchases at In
creased Prices.

Authorizes Wheat Purchases at In
creased Prices.
BUENOS AIRES, December 13 C4O.
"A government decree authorizing
the Federal Grain Board to purchase
new crop wheat coming up in jan
uary at a rate of 10 pesos a quintal
rallied the grain trade here today.
The new price, more than so per cent
over the $50 pesos quotation fixed a
year ago, is equal to approximately rs
American cents per bushel at the off,
cial exchange rate. or 70 American
cents per bushel at the open exchange
rate.
BY miscalculation, the American
equivalent Of the price previously was
given as 80 cents a bushel
The order, which also fixed fax
seed at IA pesos per quintal, was is
sued after officials declared q IS per
cent reduction in Argentine wheat
acreage was in line with world re-
duction."
Evening star., 1935-12-13
FALL RALLIES

Former Cabinet Member Believed
Recovering From Pneumonia.
Ell PASO, Tex, December Is F9.-
Members of the family of Albert B.
Fall expressed belief today the former
Secretary of Interior was staging a
successful fight against an attack,1of
pneumonia. t
Congestion in Falls lungs appar-
emily had cleared, the family reported,
and the aging former cabinet member
was able to discuss current events.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

rlS1Hg, NE EdlI
sinking beneath
them, no rescue
craft in sight.
Situation seems
to call for pro-
fessions Of faith.
But nobody can
quote from the
Scriptures, no.
body can sing a
hymn, n o b o d y
even knows q
prayer. Desper-
ately, the mate
speaks up: Men,
mia 0atta da
somethin' pious
Evening star., 1935-12-13
"REDS" ABANDON RANCH
Mexican Federalists Find Crops
Destroyed-Two Men Held.

destroy yeQ-4WO Men de1Q.
MEXICO CITY, December 13 OP.-
Two hundred CommuniStic agrarians
who seized the Manila ranch, In the
States of Puebla, on Monday. aban-
doned it yesterday as Federal troop:
closed in.
The agrarians offered no resistance,
but fed as the Federals approached
and escaped capture.
An inspection of the property re-
vealed they had destroyed all the
crops and sacked the buildings, over
which they had raised the red flag.
Two Communist leaders were ar
rested in Atlixco, nearby textile center,
accused Of responsibility for the as
sault.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
FEW COMMUNICATES
DECLARED WORSHIPERS
Bishop Henry W. Hobson Says
Only one-Third Are Regu-
lar Attendants.

lar Attendants.
BY the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, December l3.-
Bishop Henry w. Hohson of the
Southern Ohio diocese of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church said only one
third of its communicates today wor.
ship regularly.
And contributors to work OF the
church outside their own parishes are
limited to the same group, he told the
Church Club Of Philadelphia, O lay.
mems organization.
The church stands today like an
army called upon to go over the top"
Bishop Hobson, chairman Of the Epis.
copalian forward movement, said.
THE attack has started. One-third
of the men have gone and two-thirdS
are Shirking, back in the departure
trench, afraid or unwilling to CO."
Evening star., 1935-12-13
KILLED BY BOULDER
Watchman Gets in Path of Rock
Plunged Down Mountain.

GOLDEN, Colo, December IL (Pp.-
A three-ton boulder, rumbling down
a n1ountainside, killed watchman
yesterday stationed to warn passers-
by Of that danger.
Sheriff Vern Dowling said he be-
Ieved the victim, James North, SIS,
Of Denver, heard the great rock as
1t plunged 1000 feet but became
paralyzed with fear. ...-... ........
Workmen have been loosening
threatening boulders on the steep
slopes Of Mount Zion with dynamite.
Evening star., 1935-12-13

I read that antique wheeze and in q
flash the puzzle was solved. Now
know where they got the original idea
those economic wizards in and out
of Congress, who, in times like these.
bob up with various theories, but all
aimed at the same purpose; namely,
that financial security can be restored
not by giving industry chance TO
recuperate, but by taking away the
previous fruits 6f industry.
(oopyYight. 1885. hy the Moth American
Newspsper Alliance. tne1
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Christmas Seals
Why / Buy Them-A State.
ment by Fire Chief
Schronn.

tuberculosis germs, like hidden
sparks, smolder unheeded until, witsl-
out warning, they break out In q ter
rfble conAagration that consumes the
victim. Christmas Seals, like frenens
fight to control this consuming hre." "
FIRE CHEF CHARLES E. sCHROM.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Irwin S. Cobb
Says:
Taking Away Fruits of
Industry Started by
Passing of Hat.

CULVER CITY, Calf. December H.
Il ran across it yesterday-thls
ancient one:
shipwrecked mariners IN crisis. Sea
Evening star., 1935-12-13
HOSPITAL PLAN OPPOSED
Columbia Not to Become Adjunct
of GallinRer.

The Commissioners today oficially
rejected the proposal of the Board
Of Public Welfare for legislation for
the District to take over Columbia
Hospital as an adjunct of Gallinger
Hospital and Use it only for INDECENT
obstetrical cases.
Commissioner Allen already had
promised directors of Columbia that
no steps would be taken at this time
for the proposed trensfer.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
JURORS CONVICT
HOEPPEL AND SON
Representative Faces Jail
Sentence-Weeps When
Verdict Is Read.

BACKGROUND
One of priced political privileges
Uested In members OF Congress is
that OF naming Gppointees to
United States Military and Navdl
Academies. Last Spring accusation
t0Gs made by former Olympic Gth-
Iete, IUes, that Representative
Hoeppel, California Democrat, had
attempted to sell appointment for
$1,000. Representative and SON
subsequently indicted, brought to
trial this ioeek before jury of 10
men. pomen. AltDayS proud of
his graduation from university OF
hard knocks" Hoeppel received
one of hardest last night Dhen jury
returned Uerdtct OF guilty for both
father and son.
Evening star., 1935-12-13
Neutrality

Continued From First Pase.)
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
FEDERAL AGENT TELLS
Of TRACING MONEY
To DEFENDANT
BY JAMES L. KILGALLEN

By JAMES L. KILGALLEN
COURTROOM, FLEMINGTON, NJ J., Jan.
IL (I.N.S.).-Bruno Richard Hauptmann was
the writer of the Lindbergh ransom notes, in
the opinion of Albert Osborn, of New York,
noted handwriting expert, as expressed from
the witness stand today at the Hauptmann
murder trial.
Mr. Osborn testified he had studied specimens of
Hauptmanns penmanship and also the writing of the
ransom notes. His study close and so exhaustive
ne felt he could form definite conclusion.
What your conclusion based your examination and
comparison of these pecmens? asked Assistant Attorney
General Joseph Langan of the prosecution legal battery
MY opinion replied Mr. Osborn lis that the notes
were all written by the hand that wrote various papers
signed Richard Hauptmann!"
Mr. Osborn, large man. with slvery gray hair gray
ache and glasses qualified expert in handwriting He
said he had been testyng for the past yearsn
SO States in Canada London and Porto Rico.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
Art Instructor
Clears Condor
On Symbols

PHILADELPHIA, Jan. II Il.
N.S.O.-That he and not DR..
John F. "Jafsie" Condor signed
for a book of German symbols
in the New York public library
a few weeks before the Lind
bergh baby was kidnapped and
killed, was the revelation made
here today by John Condax, e.
year-old art instructor.
Condax made this statement
after returning from Trenton,
where last night he conferred
with Attorney General David T.
Wilentz, heading the prosecution
in the trial of Bruno Richard
Haugtmann, charged with mur-
dering the kidnapped Lindbergh
child.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
SOCIAL AID PLAN
IS DRAF TED

AS the Presidents. social se.
curity~ program began. to take
definite form today, it became
apparent that Congress will have
to pass a separate set Of laws
for the District of Columbia COW
ering sions and insurance
funds for the aged, handicapped
and unemployed.
The President held a confer
ence today on the social security
message which he will send Con-
gress, it is presumed, sometime
next week. Present at this con.
ference were Secretary of Labor
Frances Perkins, Speaker Joseph
Byrns (D0, of Tennessee; Sena-
tor Robert Wagner Cd, of New
York, and Representative David
Lewis CD of Maryland, the lat
ter two being charged with re-
sponsibility for introducing the
legislation.
The conference developed the
fact that the Presidents program
will cover aid to dependent chill
dren, handicapped citizens of all
ages, those dependent because of
old age and unemployed.
There will also be Federal help
for maternity cases under a spe.
cial Setup.
There will be no direct Federal
money paid out to individuals;
the plan appears to grant Federal
aid and make contributions to the
States which have adequate laws
for dispensing pensions for these
dependent classes.
Since the plan contemplates no
Federal aid to States without or.
CARNATIONS and laws for social Sc
curity, it is apparent that such
legislation must be passed for
Washington if the Capital is to
benefit under the plan.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
FAHNESTOCKS
SETTLE ROW
/ OVER GIRLS
Court Approves Joint Custody
Pending Disposition of
Wife'S Divorce Suit

Bubbling over with excitement
and happiness, Mrs. Snowden A.
Fahnestock, socially prominent in
Washington and Newport, today
was perhaps the happiest mother
In the city.
Most mothers do not have to
get court permission to see their
children. Mrs. Fahnestock had to
do it. The District Supreme Court
today gave her that permission.
She spent the entire morning
showing her 6-year-old daughter,
Mary Lee, the many sights In the
Zoo. It was the first time since
her husband took the children
away from her that she spent
any time with them.
One Daughter Ill
This afternoon, still excited
over her victory which gives her
Joint, custody of her two daugh-
ters pending settlement of divorce
action in Newport. she plans to
visit her other child, 7-year-old
Clara, who is i'll in her grand.
mothers home, where she was
taken by her father.
The children's father removed
his two daughters from a train IN
Union Station while they were en-
route from Aiken, S. c., to attend
o school in New York. Since that
time the children have been in the
home of his socially prominent
mother, Mrs. Carolyn Fahnestock,
in the $500 block Massachusetts
Ave. N. w.
Given Joint Custody
Following settlement of the
ease, Mrs. Fahnestock, jr., issued a
statement in which she said:
"The entire litigation in Wash
ingtOn concerning the custody
of the FahnestOck children has
been settled to our complete
satisfaction through the entry
of an order upon consent award
ing the custody of the children
Jointly to both parents"
The younger Mrs. Fahnestock
said that the terms of the joint
custody agreement have not yet
been worked out, but that she is
permitted to see the children when
ever and wherever she pleases.
An amicable settlement termi-
mated the bitter fight between
Colonel Fahnestock and his wife
over the custody Of their two
Gordon in District Supreme Court.
Rival attorneys appeared before
the justice and presented a con-
sent decree, which was signed and
provides the children are to remain
in the District under joint custody
of both parents pending disposi-
tion of a divorce suit filed in New
port by Mrs. Fahnestock.
Takes Children
The battle between parents
started last week after Colonel
Fahnestock removed his two
daughters from a train in Union
Station while they were en- route
from Aiken, 5. G., to attend school
in New York. He took the chill
dren to the home of his socially
renowned mother, Mrs. Carolyn
Fahnestock, 2300 block of MaSsa-
chusettS Ave. N. w.
When Mrs. FahneStock learned
Of this, she came to Washington
from New York and, unable to
see her children. sued for a writ
(COntinued on Page 2, Col. ~
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
N 'LEOD BILL
On FULL PAY
DELAYED
House Turns Down Measure
on Point of Order; Would
Restore Salaries Jan. |

The Mcleod amendment to
the Independent Offices Supply
Bill, calling for restoration of the
basic pay of Government, en-
plOyes, was rejected by the
House today on a point of order.
Favorable action by the Senate
Civil Service Committee on the
proposal to eliminate the Govern.
ment paycut Immediately was vir-
tually assured today with seven
of the 10 committee members hav"
ing given an indication that they
will vote to approve the measure.
Senator William j. Bulow DO,
of South Dakota, chairman of the
committee, has definitely com.
mitted himself as a proponent of
the bill which was introduced by
Senator Pat McCarran (D0, Of
Nevada, and Senators M. M.
Nicely CD, of West Virginia, and
M. M. Logan CD, of Kentucky,
have said they believe the wage
cut should be Immediately elimi'
mated.
Inclined to Favor
Senator wallace White (R). of
Maine, asserted that he is very
much inclined to be in favor of
the proposal, also.
Three other members Of the
committee, while not having ex-
pressed themselves since this ses-
sion of Congress started, showed
their sentiments on the legiSla-
ton during the last session when
they voted in the Senate to
adopt the proposal of Senator
McCarran to restore full pay
last year. They were Senators
Walter F.. George CD of Georgia,
Ernest R. Gibson (R) of Yer.
mont and Lynn J. Frazier (RJ
of North Dakota. The latter
two are not in the Capital at
present.
The approving votes Of these
seven Senators when the bill
comes to vote in committee
would send the measure to the
Senate calendar with the indorse'
ment of the committee.
See Passage Sure
Sponsors of the legislation feel
exceedingly optimistic over this
situation, and express the belief
that with the measure having the
approval of the committee, the
Senate certainly will pass the
bill.
Meanwhile, Senator Bulow is
planning a meeting of his COM
mittee for next week when time
will be set for the beginning of
hearings on the bill.
Senator Bulow said he is anx-
ious to get the hearings started
on the measure as soon as pos.
sible so that committee action on
the bill can be expedited and the
legislation sent to the Senate for
disposal.
The Washington times., 1935-01-11
Rogers
Says:

SANTA MONICA, CAL, Jan.
11.-Dispatch in paper today,
Ford Employs 10000 More
Men, Highest Since the Peak
of 49," And the auto show
here and in New York was
booming. Now how does It
come that auto industry don't
just sit still and hOlIer.
eve could recover If the
Government would just lay
off us awhile" No industry
is restricted and taxed more
than autos, so the Govern
ment certainly amt laying
off them"
Say, see where the Supreme
Court is about to put the gold
back in the dollar, 1 didn't
know it had been out there
till went to Europe, where
1 didn't have any business
anyhow. Anyhow, we are
living during an exciting week.
Copyright, 1885. McNaught
Syndicate, 1Dc.)
(Will Rogers now appearing in
''The County Chairman" at LOew's
FOY ThRafaF1