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Evening star., 1935-05-14
BUREAU
DIRECTOR RESIGNS
Commissioners Accept Gebhardt
Resignation Submitted
on April %.

Richard Gebhardt, director of the
Transient Bureau of the District, re-
signed today at the request Of Aubrey
williams, assistant to Harry L. Hop
kins, head Of the Federal Emergency
Relief Administration.
officials of the F. E. r. A. declined
to make any statement about the mat
ter and Williams could not be reached.
The resignation was submitted to
the Commissioners April %, but not
disclosed until today.
Pending the selection Of new head
for the bureau the administration will
be placed in the hands of David G.
Linden, who is now superintendent of
lodges.
Gebhardt was brought here from
st. Louis, where he had been in
transient work, and took the place left
by the resignation of Arthur S. Ro-
sichan, who went to/New York to take
charge of Jewish welfare institutions.
Unofficially, it was said, Gebhardt's
resignation hal to do with his pre-
vious work in Missouri.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
GEORGIA PREPARES
FOR DRY LAW VOTE
Twenty. Eight -Year-0ld Statute at
Stake Tomorrow-Both Sides
Claim Victory.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, May 14.-For the first
time since it was adopted, % years
ago, Georgia's bone dry" prohibi-
ton law will be put before the voters
in a referendum tomorrow.
Both repealists and anti-repealists
claim victory.
Prohibitionists predicted a land
slide vote for retention of the dry law.
Repealists maintained a 10000 ma
jority for their cause would come out
Of the 382,650 eligible votes.
Milton L. Fleetwood, director OF the
Georgia Temperance League, said:
1--WE will smash this liquor business
for good" Equal confidence was ex-
pressed by Spence M. Grayson, chair
man of the Georgia Association for
Local Option.
The referendum, a three-sided mat
ter with wine, beer and liquor before
the people. was authorized by the
Legislature in March.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
COL. WADE H. COOPER
COLLAPSES IN COURT
Experiences Painting Spell as
Arguments on Bank Case
Are Begun.

Col. Wade H. Cooper, scheduled for
trial tomorrow on charges of mis-
applying funds of the Commercial
National Bank, collapsed in the Court
of Appeals today and was removed
to Garfield Hospital.
Shortly after his arrival there, at
tendants said his ailment apparently
was nothing more serious than q
fainting spell, and he was responding
to treatment.
Col. Cooper, who had been listen
ing to arguments before the appellate
court in a case in which he was in
terested. was stricken in the court
room.
Court attaches summoned ambu-
lances and the fire rescue squad after
the former bank president was taken
i'll. The rescue squad took him to
the hospital.
Cooper allegedly misapplied more
than s4o0, 900 of Commercial National
Bank funds to give fictitious credits to
the Continental Trust Co., while serv-
ing as president Of both institutions.
In view of the attack today, his trial
in the District Supreme Court on
these charges probably Will be con-
tinued.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
killer HANCSSE[F
IN DEATH CELL
Kaiser Binds Own Hands
Before Stepping Off Cot
in District Jail.

Unable to face the prospect of death
in the electric chair, Harrison Nc
Kinley Kaiser, convicted Of the muir
der of union official during labor
dispute in September. 1882, and sched-
uled to die in the District Jail June II,
early today hanged himself with strips
of torn bedding.
Kaiser's body was found hanging
from the bars of his cell in death row
at GAS o'clock this morning. Before
stepping off his cot. Kaiser had pin
ioned his hands behind his back with
loops of cloth, connected to the same
moose that strangled him, so that any
struggles to escape would only tighten
the loops about his throat.
In farewell letter to his mother.
Mrs. Lucy Kaiser, Of Portsmouth,
Ohio, Kaiser confessed that he was "a
killer of man by nature" and declared
that he never felt remorse for any
thing that he had ever done.
Il go to my long sleep with an un-
troubled mind" he wrote.
Like rams Tor Journey.
He likened his preparations for
death to getting ready to go on a dis
tant journey and described his relief
at the thought of escape in death from
his dreadful dungeon" and from
mans inhumanity to man."
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald. Dis
trict coroner who was summoned by
Thomas M. Rives, superintendent Of
the Jail, issued a certificate of suicide
by strangulation.
KaiSers mother and wife, Mrs. Mae
Kaiser, both of Portsmouth, Ohio,
are at a rooming house at 943 K street.
Last Fall Kaiser went on hunger
strike for more than a week. He
was placed under mental observation
at that time, but was returned to the
death row to await execution.
Hit Prisoner With SIat.
Some time ago Kaiser, during the
course of violent quarrel, tore slat
from his bed in the death cell and
struck a fellow prisoner.
Kaiser last was seen alive at about
$50 this morning, when a guard no
ticed him sitting quietly on his cot.
Passing the cell on another inspection
round at Gas the guard found the
condemned man hanging. He was
dead when cut down. The moose was
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Evening star., 1935-05-14
?. WA. TO SET UP
OFFICES IN STATES
lckes Moves to DecentraIize
Work by Sending Out
Branch Stats.

Speeding up P. w. A. procedure
under the new program, Administrator
Ickes today completed plans for the
decentralization of the Public Works
Administration in Washington by ap-
proving the setting up of Offices in
each State, with a director and a
complete staff.
simultaneously. Ickes ordered that
the pending transfer Of approximately
ITS lawyers, engineers and finance
examiners, as well as an undetermined
number Of trained stenographers and
clerks to the State headquarters be
accomplished as quickly as possible.
Selection of the directors Of the vari-
GUS State headquarters will be an
nounced in q few days In some
cases the State engineer will be
named director, he said, but in other
States, where the volume of work is
great, the director will be added to
the staff.
The creation Of these P. w. A. head
quarters in the States. Administrator
Ickes pointed out, does not mean an
enlargement Of P. w. AS staff. De-
Capitalization is to be accomplished
through the transfer of P. w. A. en-
ployes in Washington, not through the
hiring of additional workers. Tenta-
tive arrangements call for the trans
fer from Washington to the States
approximately 100 lawyers, so engi-
neers and IS finance examiners. No
estimate was made Of the number of
clerical workers who may be supplied
from Washington. Ickes Is expected
to approve these final lists with their
new assignments in few days.
To Halt Congestion.
The main effect of decentralization,
he pointed out, will be the removal of
the congestion caused in Washington
by thousands Of applications for loans
and grants descending upon P. w. A. s
central headquarters. Under the new
system the State headquarters will re-
ceive and examine applications and
note their recommendations.
With no trained force available
WIlcu Z. w. n. llTSL was SET Up, LI1S
work, Of necessity, had to be done in
Washington. Hereafter, applications
for projects will be sent to P. w. A..
in Washington with examinations al
ready completed. In Washington
they will be given a final check be-
fore being handed on TO the Division
of Applications and Information, un-
der Frank c. Walker, and from there
to the Advisory Committee on Allot-
ments which Ickes heads.
As Is P. w. A. attorneys are already
in the field, the lawyers sent from
Washington will bring the legal field
force to approximately 1875 men. The
number of lawyers transferred to the
State headquarters will vary in pro-
portion to the size of the non-Federal
applications in the various States.
Every P. w. A. headquarters will
be complete unit on a miniature
scale.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
Paris Scurries to Don Masks
In Fdncied Gas attack by Air

to quench fires supposedly ignited by
incendiary bombs.
The ability of the siren system to
spread an alarm of an approaching
air attack was demonstrated beyond
question. The shrieking horns in the
rehearsal area could be heard through
out the city.
The public was informed that TO-
night it would be expected 70 ex-
tinguish all residential lights In prac-
ticing defense against a night raid.
Future measures for protecting the
civilian population against an attack
from the air will be based on the
results Of today's experiments.
Police were charged with the task
of seeking likely spots for the con-
struction of underground shelters.
One project conkemplates the Use Of
subway tunnels, which would be pro-
vided with gas-tight partitions.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
Woman, "A, Stricken Dumb
Only When Facing Her Father

Minnie was born. Sometimes after
that, old residents of College Springs
said, Mrs. Wall would not talk with
her husband for many days.
Mr.. Wall swears it is not "orneri-
ness" that keeps his daughter from
speaking to him.
''She tries, and tries hard" he said.
why, sometimes she'll be right before
my face, tying my necktie, and she'll
smile as loving like and make q kind
of funny noise in her throat. She
tries, I tell ya!"
By telephone MIR. Wall has tried
to break his daughters silence. But
whether he masks his voice or speaks
naturally in telephoning to her she
senses it is he at the first word and
she has never spoken to him on the
telephone.
The apparent inability to talk to
her father once extended to all males,
but after she took job "canvassing"
she talked to men and boys as with
women.
(Copyrieht 1885 by the North American
Nevspaper ANaancA 1ncO
Evening star., 1935-05-14
NEWSPAPER ADS GAIN
2.2 PER CENT FOR APRIL
Printers Ink Lists Most I'm
portant Increase for ANY
1885 Month.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May 14.-Newspaper
advertising in April recorded the most
substantial gain made in any month
so far this year, according to Printers
Ink.
The publications index of news
paper advertising stood at 1877 at the
end of the month compared with
ITO at the end Of March, gain Of
% per cent after adjustments for
seasonal variation.
The April index shows an increase
of IL per cent over the same month
last year, the largest gain recorded
in any month this year over the COM
parable period of the preceding year.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
PHILIPPINES CAST
BIG FREEDOM VOTE
Huge Majority Registered
in Election Unmarried by
Serious Disorder.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA, May IA tremendous
majority for the proposed Philippine
constitution. under which the Philip
pines will be weaned from American
supervision, was shown in early re-
turns tonight from a nation wide
plebiscite.
Twenty-nine Manila precincts voted
5,403 for ratification of the common
wealth charter, to 106 against it. The
vote, cast without a show of the ru-
mored violence from Sakdalista ex-
tremists represented about half the
electorate in the precincts.
Women, voting for the first time
in the history of any Oriental coun-
try, seemed to display much more en-
thusiasm than the men. Although
there were six times as many men
eligible to vote as women, the feml-
nine ballot exceeded the masculine
vote in some Manila precincts.
No Disorder Reported.
Balloting over the thousand-mile
archipelago was completed without
reports of serious disorder.
Authorities, however, maintained
their vigilance after the polls were
closed as it was rumored the ex-
tremists might attempt to destroy the
ballots.
Telephone lines between Santa Rosa
and Cabuyao in Laguna Province, CEN
ter of the May riots, were cut early
in the day, but there was no further
report Of trouble.
Guards were stationed at all polls
and constabulary detachments pa
troled towns where the Sakdals were
believed to be most numerous. In
San Pablo, capital of Laguna Province,
some 200 armed "vigilantes" stood
guard.
The Sakdalistas demand immediate
independence, rather than the 10
year transitional period under the
commonwealth. Nearly 600 of them,
including number of leaders, have
been jailed since the May 2 outbreak.
Election to Be Called.
The next step after the plebiscite
is for the Legislature within 80 days
to canvass and certify the results to
Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy. He is re-
quired by the independence act to cali
an election of officers for the COM
monwealth. to be held in from three
to six months.
The Filipino leaders hope to have
the election in September and be ready
to start the new regime before the
end Of the year.
There will be Filipino president
instead of an American Governor Gen
eral, but an American high commits
sioner and the United States Army
and Navy will remain on the scene
until the arrival of complete independ-
ence.
Manuel Quezon, President of the
Philippine Senate and dominant po-
litical leader. is the outstanding candi-
date for President and hopes to be
unopposed, but Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo,
leader Of the 1899-1900 insurrection,
for weeks has been limiting that his
hat would be in the ring.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch TO The star.
COLLEGE SPRINGS, Iowa, May
IA NA.N.A.).-Never has Miss Min
ME Wall spoken to her father.
Throughout the A years Of her
life she has been utterly silent to him.
She talks normally with others.
Her father. Charles Wall. explains
her apparent inability to talk with
him as a 'birthmark" No psychol-
ogist, psychiatrist, physician or sur
geon ever has had her case.
Neighbors cannot explain it. Miss
Wall cannot either.
MIR. Wall told Of the incident he
believes "birthmarked" his daughter.
He and Mrs. Wall, now dead, were
to 60 away on the cars" but Mrs.
Wall didn't want to make the rail-
road journey. He demonstrated with
her, and they finally started for the
station.
I'VE got about a block from the
depot, and she had been talking and
of a sudden she stopped and st
choked down." he said.
That was . few months before
Evening star., 1935-05-14
FARMERS SESSION
BECOMES JUBILEE
OF A. A. A. PRAISE
Cheers Throw 4,500 at
Meeting Here Into Frenzy
of Enthusiasm.
DELEGATES SCHEDULED
TO VISIT White HOUSE
Wallace Constantly Interrupted
by Admiring Listeners Sound.
ing Hog Calls.
BY BLAIR BOLLES.

With loud cheers and handclaps
4,5O0 farmers, tanned and excited,
jammed Constitution Hall this morn
ing and shouted for the New Deal
and the A. A. A.
At the appearance Of every speaker,
with Secretary Wallace at the head
of the program list, the holiday crowd
stood on its feet, waved hats high,
screamed prepared yells and sang
snatches of songs. At S o'clock this
afternoon the farmers will troup into
the rear grounds of the White House
to be addressed by the President.
The meeting in Constitution Hall
this morning was constantly inter-
rupted by shouts from the audience
as the farmer delegates, feeling free
to express their own minds, injected
amendments and additions to the for
NAL speeches.
Farm Bloc Cheered.
bama whipped the men into frenzy
of loud excitement when he intro
iuced from the stage Senators and
Representatives interested in the agri-
culture program.
Senator Bilbo of Mississippi, wear
ing the blue lapel ribbon carried by
the 200 Mississippi delegates to the
conference, made his bow in a midst
of long applause. The hundreds Of
cotton farmers present cheered for
five minutes at the appearance of
Senator Bankhead. co-author of the
cotton control act. Representative
Lindsay Warren's l.500 tobacco-grow-
ing constituents from North Carolina
whistled, stamped the floor, hit their
neighborS on the back and set up an
endless racket when he made his
bow from the speakers platform.
When Representative Kerr. also of
North Carolina, author Of the tobacco
control bill, was introduced, a bull
voiced tobacco grower in the audience
yelled:
why. there's that rascal"
Hog-CaIls Greet Iowan.
Loud hog-calls came from every
part of the auditorium when Earl
Dean of Mason City, Iowa. got up to
explain the corn-hog program and
tell the farmers what benefits it had
brought them.
Deems trouble in getting his speech
finished reached its height when $50
Texas farmers, delayed in transit from
st. Louis, swarmed into the meeting
hall, singing loudly:
THE eyes of Texas are upon you,
All the livelong day.
The eyes of Texas are upon you,
You cannot get away"
Louisianans Cheer for Tax.
The Louisiana delegation, 800
strong, entered the auditorium shout
ing their cheer:
The tax, the tax,
We've got it.
Lets keep it.
Don't lose it."
Wallace brought forth loud cheers
practically every time he finished a
sentence. After constant Interrupt
tions from the excited audience who
gave him eager support, he admon-
ished his hearers to be serious and
listen to him explain the economics
behind the farm program. But before
he could get much further florid-
faced w. A. Shiver, q haired
CONTINUED on Page 8, Column %
Evening star., 1935-05-14
LYPREPARED,
l. DUCE DECLARES
Assures France and England
Country Can Meet "Any
EventuaIity."
BY the Associated Press.


ROME, May 14-Premier Benito
Mussolini, in an unexpected speech
before the Senate on the Ethiopian
crisis this afternoon, declared this ma
ton ready for any eventuality."
Great Britain and France, Italy's
good friends, need have no fear lest
the steady stream of troops pouring
into Africa weaken the country, he
said, since with three classes under
arms and a fourth in readiness Italy
Is ready for any eventuality."
Even as II Duce spoke thousands
more young Italians, members OF the
class Of 1912, were receiving orders
for mobilization. 1t was indicated
Italy would have close to 100000
men. under arms by Friday.
A tremendous ovation preceded and
followed Mussolini's brief, impromptu
address, which came Just after Un-
dersecretary of Colonies Alessandro
Lessona told the Senate it could be
certain the Fiscist government will
carry out its duty" in the Ethiopian
crisis.
Ethiopia Blamed.
In Mussolini's presence LesSona re-
peated the charge that Emperor Halle
Selassie of the African empire had
modified his troops in the regions
fronting Eritrea and Italian Somali-
land
This the Ethiopian King of Kings
stoutly denied in the latest of his
several appeals for League of Ma
tions action in the border controversy.
"A grave problem is growing worse
by treason Of Ethiopian anarchy" J"
Lessona said, in reviewing Italo-
Ethiopian relations to prove his con-
tention that Ethiopia had repulsed
all Italy's efforts toward economic and
political cooperation.
Engiand's Stand Criticized.
Meanwhile, it was learned British
pressure to force conciliation and pre-
vent the issue from embarrassing the
League Of Nations Council was far
from pleasing to Premier Mussolini,
but that he finally acceded to the con-
ciliation proposals, when France
backed them.
The British were said to have made
it clear that every possible move
should be made to avert an open clash
at Geneva or any action in Africa
which might lead to hostilities.
The action of Great Britain ana
France drew a sharply critical re-
Spouse from the semi-official press.
The Giornale D'1talia asserted 1t
would be contrary not only to the
legitimate right to defend her menaceo
interests, but also to the purpose OF
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Evening star., 1935-05-14
Posse Hunts Escaped Patient.

ORANGEBURGH, N. Y, May IA
P.-A large posse of State troopers,
local police and citizens searched the
countryside today for an escaped men,
tai patient believed to have started
several fires in this vicinity.
Since the patient disappeared from
the Rockland State Hospital 48 hours
ago, several barns have been burned,
apparently by an incendiarist.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
Chaliapin Leaves Hospital.

PARIS, May IA P.-Feodor Chal-
iapin, noted singer, left the American
Hospital here today after physicians
pronounced him completely cured"
of an attack Of grippe he suffered
while en- route from the United States
to France recently.
Nine. Chaliapin. who was con-
stantly at his bedside during the ILL
ness, said he plans to rest indefinitely
at his Paris apartment.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
By the Associated Press.


PARIS, May 14.-Screaming sirens
sent rescuers with gas masks speed
ing to the scene Of . fancied air at
tack by enemy" airplanes today as
Paris held its first AFRAID drill.
Residents and Office workers in the
district around Carrefour de L'Odeon
donned the masks and matched steel
helmeted and masked flremen ex-
tinguish hypothetical blazes. Some
were carried OF in ambulances after
they had been wounded"
Police cleared all thoroughfares
leading to the areas for the exclusive
use Of firemen in speeding motor
cycles and the doctors and nurses in
The firemen Aurried about by
threes In motor cycles with sidecars
Evening star., 1935-05-14
Man Seeking Divorce
Asks Custody of Dog
And Sewing Machine
BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY. KanS., May IA.

Charles Moore's divorce petit
ton, on file in Wyandotte County
District Court today, asks not only
severance of the martial ties but
custody of the family dog and
permanent possession Of the sew
ing machine.
Moore declares he had the dog
before he married his wife in
1925, but that she took it with
her when they separated last
November. The sewing machine,
he says, is an heirloom.
Evening star., 1935-05-14
Time Cut BY Airline.

CHICAGO. May IA R.-Trans-
continental & Western Air, Inc,
yesterday announced second 8 hour
So minute fight schedule 4 New York.
the plane to leave here atsEp.m. (Cen-
tral standard time) daily.
Evening star., 1935-05-14

BULLETIN.
Cash bonus leaders in Congress
decided suddenly today against
sending the Patman currency
bonus bill to President Roosevelt
yet, because we're not ready to
have it vetoed" Just when it
would go was undetermined.
Evening star., 1935-05-14

Continued on Page S, Column 10
Evening star., 1935-05-14
WEATHER.

10. .. WtdIHef BurtHu FUTeCast5
Showers and cooler tonight. tomorrow
probably fair; gentle shifting winds, be-
coming northerly tonight. Temperatures
Highest, 70, at noon today; lowest, So,
at $50 am. today.
Full report on page AT.
Evening star., 1935-05-14

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Evening star., 1935-05-14

CONTINUED on Page 3, Column g.
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ReinerSVille

Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Hill Of Co
lumbus were week end visitors with
Reinersville friends. Mrs. Gusta
Geiger and daughter Thelma of Ma
rietta were visitors Sunday at Il .
Mrs. w. p. Smith home here, and
with other Reinersville friends
A daughter named Marlene Nova.
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Homer
Lautzenheiser few days ago.--Mr.
and Mrs. Perley Hastings of Colum-
bus were recent visitors at the
c. S. Rowland home in Sharon
township. Gregg Sealock of Lowell
was a visitor at the home of his
grandmother. Mrs. Kathryn Sea-
lock in Reinersville, the first of the
week.--A IL pound son, dead at
birth, was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Bernard Boyd (Thelma Walters) at
their home in Sharon, Thursday
morning. The mother is reported to
be getting along fine.--Mr and Mrs.
Stafford Hamer and daughter Betty
and Mr.. and Mrs. Walburn and two
children of Wellston, were visitors
Sunday at the Mrs. Margaret Combs
home in Reinersville Mrs. Hamer
is daughter of the late Mr.. and
Mrs. John Drake and a granddaugh-
ter of Burr H. and Sarah Combs,
who were formerly residents of up
per Manchester township. John
brakes parents, DR.. and Mrs. Drake
and family were residents of Wood
grove about so years ago. In the