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Evening star., 1935-12-16
ROOSEVELT PARES
SO RELIEF BUDGET.
Afternoon Conference Fixes
Tentative SIashes in
Expenditures.
BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt today concen-
trated on slashing that part of the
budget for next year which will deal
with work-relief and unemployment.
The President set aside the greater
part of this afternoon for this task
and summoned group Of his aSso-
ciates who have been assisting him
in working out preliminary figures.
In this group were Secretary of
the Treasury Morgenthau, Daniel Bell,
acting director of the budget; Harry
Hopkins, works progress administra-
tor; Secretary of the Interior Ickes,
public works administrator. Frank
Walker, chairman of the National
Emergency Council, and DR.. Rexford
c. Tugwell, rural resettlement admin
istrator. This Is the first time this
group has been called together to
discuss next years program.
Inquiry Is Sought.
Meanwhile, provision for a sweep
ing investigation of all Federal relief
activities is being written into bill
which Representative Mcleod. Re
publican, of Michigan, a member of
the House Appropriations Committee,
intends to introduce as soon as Con-
greSs meets next month.
Representative Mcleod said today
he expects to hold several conferences
next week with other House members
on the relief situation. He empha-
sized that 1.-The policies of the admin
iStration, whether Intentionally or not,
are creating in the minds of the pub
lie the very definite impression that
the administration is fostering a class
of people who will remain on some
form of relief indefinitely, if not per-
manently.
Mr.. Roosevelt long ago decided re-
duction in next years expenses could
not be effected in estimates for the
old-established departments of the
Government. Therefore, estimates
for work relief and other emergency
expenditures must be slashed as low
as possible.
amount OF Gut Is Secret.
Mr.. Roosevelt has carefully avoided
giving even a hint as to what may be
expected along this line. He has
gone out of his way to discourage
predictions made by others, saying
no one but himself will know what the
completed budget figures will be un-
til his final approval has been given
the printed document just before it
is sent to Congress.
Chairman Buchanan of the House
Appropriations Committee, an ardent
advocate of balancing the budget, has
declared he and his committee will
work earnestly toward large reduc-
ton in the budget, although an &C
tually balanced one cannot be ex-
pected this year.
While, as has been said, the Pres
ident has given no hints to serve as
a basis for calculations, there are
some in the administrations high
command who are expecting at least
a $780, 100000 slash in the relief
and emergency budget. Others are
looking for the President to pare this
part of the budget down to one-half
of what is was for the current year
81 $3.50, ,000, 900.
Mr.. Roosevelt is hopeful of material
reductions because he is satisfied the
depression is over and that conditions
throughout the country generally are
improving and that from now on
business and industry will be absorbing
those o., the unemployed list
Evening star., 1935-12-16
JOB PROMISE CHARGED
IN OHIO LIQUOR FIGHT
House Member Says Davey's Aide,
State Chairman, Defeated Probe
by Strategy.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, December 49,
Charges by blind Representative
George J. Harter of Akron that Fran
els w. Poulson, Gov. Martin L. Davey's
patronage dispenser, offered jobs to
legislators to obtain votes against a
proposed investigation of the State
Liquor Department came before a
grand jury today.
Donald j.. Hoskins, Franklin County
(Columbus) prosecuting attorney, said
Poulson, State Democratic chairman,
requested the inquiry.
Harter has declared himself "ready
to prove" assertions that favoritism
and irregularities prevail in the Liquor
Department.
Harter said Poulson promised Rep
resentative John Hewitt of Youngs-
town jobs in exchange for vote. The
House defeated the resolution.
Evening star., 1935-12-16
MODEL D. c. FIRE
CONTROL ASSURED
III airman 0'Connor OF
House Rules Committee
to Draft Measure.
BY WILL p. KENNEDY.

AS a direct result of President
Roosevet's comment, following the
Post Office Department fire. that
there be better control over fire haz-
ards in the Government buildings.
a model system for the Capital is
to be established, partly through act
of Congress and partly by executive
order, it was learned today.
Chairman O'Connor of the House
Rules Committee is preparing to draft
legislation to carry out the Presi-
dents wishes Backing the move
with him is Chairman Golden of the
Committee on Disposition of Useless
Executive Papers.
Meanwhile Representative Cochran,
Democrat, of Missouri announced he
would confer Wednesday with Public
Works Administrator Ickes to push
his plan for a warehouse to store
Government files now creating a fire
hazard here.
Plan Given Favor.
Cochran said last night a majority
of the Appropriations Committee ia
vors his plan. He declared the
Archives Building would be wholly
inadequate to care for the vast &C
emulation of old records.
The features of the new fire con-
troll system probably will be:
() Establishment of a board Of
inspection with a continuing func-
ton of systematic survey Of fire
hazards in all Government buildings.
This board would include the District
gre marshal. the fire prevention ex-
pert from the Bureau of Standards
and the archivist of the United States.
(2) An inspection plan with ex-
act instructions regarding details and
garding all fire hazards, human
safety and protection of valuable Gov
ernment records.
80 Institution by the board of a
code of safeguards and regular inspec-
ton that must be inforced in all Gov
eminent buildings.
a. Establishment Of a special
wrecking crew, whose duty it would be
to be on hand as promptly as the fire
marshal, including those vino under
stand the value of records, prepared
to wrap up and carry away such rec
ords before they would be damaged
by either fire or water.
Installation of a fire prevention
and detection system, rather than a
fire extinguishing system, known as
the rate of rise" Tin temperature)
system. with half-hourly inspection.
How serious may have been the
damage to Government records in
the Post Office fire has not yet been
1See HAZARDS PAGE 81
Evening star., 1935-12-16
Surgery Preserves
10 Fingerprints of
S.Fingered Man
WhOrls of Digits Lost in
accident Grated
Onto Wrist.
3y the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS, December l6.-
Richard Grove, %, two of whose
fingers were amputated IA years ago,
was arrested on a minor charge-and
provided police Bertillion clerks with
complete set of 10 fingerprints.
A clerk had recorded the amputa-
tions when Grove explained that
didn't mean prints of those fingers
were unavailable.
Grove pointed to the back of his
hand Grated there after a machine
shop accident IA years ago, the skin
of the amputated fingers still thrives
with the two finger whorls up near
the wrist
Evening star., 1935-12-16
FIGHT ON CRITICS
Of PEACE PLAN
MAPPEDBY BRITISH
Emergency Meeting of Cab
met Is Called by
Baldwin.
ETHIOPIAN OFFENSIVE
AWAITED ON FRONT
Italy's Southern Forces on De-
fensive-"S Sanctions" by Ford Hit
by Fascist Leader.

BACKGROUND
Italy, bursting NTH military
might created by MuSSolint, last
Spring determined upon conquest
of Ethiopia as outlet for energy,
field for colonization. october in
uasion brought NoUember rebuke
from League OF Nations, decision
to impose trade bans against ag-
oressor. More recently England
and France submitted proposal for
peace negotiations, suggested land
ceSSions to Italy, aroused storm
OF political protest in oDn coun-
tries and League opposition OF
small nations. In Ethiopia, Itdl-
ian uduance continued Slo1Uly and
pithout outstanding success: ted-
ture of drire has been occasional
air raids By strong aviation units
of MuSsolini.
Evening star., 1935-12-16

Bulgarian Historian Dies.
SOFIA, Bulgaria, December 16 C4P.
Prof. Vassil Clatarski, 10, his
torian, died today.
Evening star., 1935-12-16
U. S. SLAYER CONVICTED

Italy Gives volpe Brothers S1ay-
er 80 Years.
SALERNO, Italy, December 16 up.
Giuseppe big Mike" Spinelli was
sentenced today to 80 years inprison-
ment for "premeditated homicide" in
the Staying of the three Volpe brothers
in Pittsburgh, Pa, in 1882.
Spinelli returned to Italy short
time after the triple killing in Pitts
burgh. His extradition was sought by
the American Embassy, and the Naples
Court of Appeals and the Supreme
Court granted the petition, but the
ministry Of justice refused to accede.
Witnesses against Spinelli, arrested
In the town of Agropoli in 1892, in
cluded the father of the three slain
brothers.
Evening star., 1935-12-16
CLEVELAND SEEMS
LIKELY CHOICE FOR
c. 0.P. CONVENTION
Ohio Representatives Feel
Sure of Winning Over Chi
Cago and Kansas City.
DRIVES FOR CANDIDATES
UNDER WAY AT SESSION
National Committee Elects Mem
bers to Fill Vacancies Caused by
Death and designations.
BULLETIN.

Republicans today chose Cleve-
land for next Springs party con-
vention to nominate a 1886 presi-
Dental candidate.
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WEATHER.

(U s. Weather Bureau ForecastJ
Fair and slightly colder, lowest tenn
perature tonight about 80 degrees; Tues
day increasing cloudiness. Temperatures;
Highest, A, at 1880 am. today; lowest,
, Al, at $50 am. today.
Full report on page A-20.
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(See Staying, Page %
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(See HAZARDS, Page D.
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(See REPUBLICAN. Page 81
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(See CHINA, Page 80
The Washington times., 1935-09-18

cry. But tears squeezed OUT
from under her lids.
She, who had such ideas
about careers, and never marry.
ing unless you could better
yourself, and keep 'em guessing
and don't let them know you
care, until you are sure they do.
Well, he had cared.
He cared-at least enough
to single her out from the
others, the very first time he
saw her.
It was in summer, two years
ago. A picnic at SauSalito.
Jean invited her, the last min
ute, because somebody else
couldn't go. If she'd had any
pride then, she wouldn't have
gone, and then she'd never have
known him. =.
They were having breakfast.
Ma was still at the stove, max
ing buckWheat cakes. It was a
Sunday morning. It was the
first time Jean ever asked her
anywhere, though they kept up
the friendship, with sort of stiff
family calls, after the HarveyS
made that money in stocks and
moved to Piedmont. That was
more than some girls would
have done. You couldn't blame
Jean.
Ma had been a little uppety
about it, though. The usual
family confab before she got off.
She had worn the pink linen
dress that she always liked bet
ter than any dress she ever had,
and it was still damp around
the armholes and neck, because
Ma ironed it while she was
dressing.
She tied a narrow pink ribbon
around her head, with the little
bow on the top, and her hair,
that had been Shampooed the
day before, curled around it,
in little feathery ringlets in the
wind.
So that she felt pretty, and
sure of herself, right from the
start. Jean had been pretty de-
cent, too. Not patronizing the
way she used to pe sometimes.
The others were all nice enough,
too, but after she saw Jamie
she hardly saw the others.
She always thought Of him as
he was the first day, with his
white shirt open at the neck,
and the sun on his light hair,
and his dark, sunburnt skin.
He didn't talk very much. She
didn't either. They just sort Of
gravitated together.
They'd taken a boat and
rowed to a cove. She could re-
member that the tide had been
heavy, that the salt spray stung
their sun-warmed faces and
neckS.
She had flirted, rather out
rageously. Because she wanted
to show Jean that she could
hold her own with the Piedmont
crowd. She didn't know then
that he wasn't part of it, either.
He was a plum they were reach
ing for. His folks had enormous
ranches up around Sacramento.
All the girls were after him. ..
She had been willing enough
to say goodbye after that first
day. She'd never expected to see
him again. He was just some
thing nice that happened, and
would be gone forever. Even
when he kissed her goodbye that
night when he brought her
home, she hadn't expected to
see him again.
But he'd come back, and come
back, all that summer He
must have loved her then! He
couldn't have said the things he
did, kissed her the way he did, if
he hadn't cared.
TO Be COntinued)
The Washington times., 1935-09-18
''LOVe Blind
Beautiful Mary Shannon
Confronted With An
Age-O1d Problem
WHAT HAS HAPPENED

Murv Shannon had been pampered all her life. She
vod haze gone on that aUay had not the sight OF her
qVth the result that she left college and obtained aOork
in the San Francisco office of steamship company.
Mary is in love 1Oith the socially prominent James
"Jqmie" Todd jr. Although he never said he IoOed
her. he implied that some day they aOould marry
Marys superior, Stephen Bennett, is promoted and IS
to 90 to Seattle He aOats Mary to along as has Sec
redru but she does not aUGnt to leave her family That
night Mary learns of "Jumie's" engagement to Nesto
Grniu0er
The Washington times., 1935-09-18

Heavens, Jean it's nothing to
me. Why should you feel funny
about it? Of course, I've al
ways liked Jamie, and I GER
tainly hope they'll be happy. =.
No, I don't believe he ever did
happen to show it to me, though
I may have forgotten, he
showed me so many of his girls
pictures. OF course he did,.
Jamie Todd? He had mil
lions of girls. Well, of course
for a little while I did like him,
but. No, I don't know who
the girls were. I'm not inter-
ested in Jamie Todd's girls. :.
She's not pretty? She isn't?
Then why do you suppose.
Jean you always did have an
evil mind! Well, it's nothing
to me. I hope he's happy,
that's all. yes, see you soon."
Mary hung up the telephone.
She was shaking all over. The
telephone, the oldfashioned wall
kind, was right next to the front
door. She opened the door, and
the cool night wind, soft with
the fragrance Of wet leaves,
Sprouting green things, steadied
her. Perhaps she wouldn't be
Ill, after all.
what did Jean say?" Ma
called down the hall from the
kitchen.
Mary shut the front door,
turned to the three who now
stood in the kitchen door, Ma
first, holding a dish-cloth, Aunt
Willie peeling an orange, Pa and
his newspaper just behind.
"She says this Miss Vesta
Granger, or whatever her name
Is, was down here last week. He
seems to have taken her every
where but here. Nobody likes
her. She's kind of funny look
ing, Jean says. Jean says she
can't understand why he's marry
ing her. : told her it was moth
ing to me-and it isn't. And
now I'm going to bed-to catch
up my beauty Sleep"
There's some hot water.
Babe. I can heat more for your
bath in just'a few minutes"
mo. thanks. Tired. No bath.
Tn going to sleep!"
So she was alone, when she'd
closed the bedroom door behind
her. Alone to sleeper cry.
quietly, so they couldn't hear
her through the door.
It was good to get her clothes
off-to slip into a nightie, and
crawl into bed, in the incurious
dark, away from prying eyes.
She tried to go over it, fairly
as if it were someone else, not
herself. Had she had the right
to think he cared? Or was she
just goopy, imagining things
that had never been?
Way back in her childhood
she seemed to remember Aunt
Willie, who had been pretty
then, in a plump, dark way
carrying on about someone who
got married. And Ma telling Pa
- "Why, he just took her out
once, and came here once. How
can she think he had serious
1ntentions?"
Maybe she was just another
Aunt Willie, imagining that be-
cause boy says a few things,
and kisses you a few times. :.
But they were good friends.
Couldn't she have been told,
even il he didn't love her, and
never had? Why must she be
the last one to know-to have
to get it from an old newspaper,
when Jean Harvey knew, and
everyone else, and probably
everybody saying. Poor Mary"
She didn't cry. She wouldn't
The Washington times., 1935-09-18
NOW READ ON

Hello JeanV
They heard Mary's voice, clear and high and gay.
Dora Shannon compressed her lips nodded meanngy at
her husband.
He said what did tell you? She didn't give hoot for
him.
Ma said "sh-h-"
Marys voice again. "oh nothing. That's nice Fine!
How yours? L know. We did intend getting over to the
dance but when you're out Of college and in business things
come up Oh how is Jamie?. No, him any
more When you of college, and in business-what?
No. thew didnt-or if they did, we weren't home them.
The Washington times., 1935-09-18

The three pirates were fighting In the water,
and Marks was clinging to the bit Of wreckage.
The fishermen rescued the four. Marks explained
the situation, begged for q rowboat in which to
continue toward Shore
The Washington times., 1935-09-18

1t was Blackbeard's red cloak, swung wildly
through the air by Marks, the Charleston ner.
chant, as he was being pushed OF his tiny raft by
one Of Backbeard's distressed pirates. The fishing
boat drew alongside.
Evening star., 1935-03-24

Still Life" by Arnold Witt, all of
which, with possibly the exception OF
the last, are essentially illustrative
fsctual.
The factual is also evident In the
more broadly and loosely painted
canvases of certain painters who have
taken as themes coarse and vulgar
aspects of contemporary life such as
GlackenS, Miller, Nordfelt, Marsh and
others. 1t takes a Rembrandt or a
Daumier to exalt such Scenes-and
clever as these painters may be they
fall far short in this particular Of
greatness. They offer no compensa-
ton for the offenSe.
The first prize and Corcoran Gold
Medal went this year to painting of
a blacksmith, Red Moore" by Eu-
gene Speicher. than whom none
stands higher today among American
figure painters nor has eXerted
stronger influence upon contemporary
art. But this is not one of his best
works-not comparable, for example,
with his portrait of the actress, Kath-
arine Cornell, or his Mile. Jeanne
Balzac," in the Cleveland Museum.
1t is a portrait of a workingman,
painted we'll enough, but without the
least spark of inspiration-nothing
which recalls the eye or stirs the
emotion. Perhaps the change is in
the times Blacksmithing is by no
means the important, lucrative work
it once was A somewhat similar
portrait study of a workingman by
Arnold Blanch hangs in another gal
lery, and the dreariness of the theme
finds repetition in Alexander j. Kos
fellows large canvas. End of Frazier
Street" which impreSSively sets forth
three very weary, poverty stricken per-
Continued on Page 10, Column H.
Evening star., 1935-03-24

BOOKS OF THE EARLY SPRING
Lessons in History From Farewell to Revolution Harry
A. Franck Goes Vasabondng Again-"A Man Called
Cervantes," by Bruno Frank

found other workers no less willing to
talk, unsolicited, to tourists about their
discomforts and grievances, when they
were at safe distance from official
ears. A "wonderful'' factory kitchen.
where workers meals were prepared in
quantity. he considered better than
anything Russia had under the tzars,
but no better in its equipment than
similar places in the United States
decade ago. He was impressed by the
Seven-story building in Moscow occu-
pied by the American Embassy and
Consulate and by the "swarms of
Uncle Sans minions there" suggest
ing no worry on the part of the tax
payer at home. The equality OF the
sexes, which Is boaSted of as SO COM
plete in the Soviet Union, he found
as advertised, but, being old-fashioned,
wondered about the advantage to
women in being on an equality with
men in shoveling sand. digging sub
ways, carrying building stones, run
ming tractors and carrying countless
other jobs imposing heavy physical
strain. He admits, however. that the
Russian women he saw, the young
ones, looked robust, If not beautiful,
as if they throve under manual labor.
He doesn't mention seeing any happy,
healthy old people. AS for sanitary
conditions, If cleanliness is next to
godliness, the U. S. S. r. is indeed
we'll on the way to goddess society,""
Evening star., 1935-03-24

One of the strongest and best
portraits in this exhibition is that
of Dean William Marshall Warren
Of Boston University by Edmund C.
Tarbell. a recent work. in which one
finds all those qualities which set
apart and distinguish the works of
the masters, including apparent ease
in execution. Mr.. Tarbell also con-
tributes a large pictorial canvas of
his grandson, little Edmund on His
Pony" which will undoubtedly make
strong appeal. From Jean MacLane
comes an excellent portrait of her
painter husband, John c. Johansen,
who shows himself a portrait of
Three Sisters" lent by Mr.. and
Mrs. John Spalding Flannery of this
city. which is quite in the traditional
manner.
OF special interest are other por-
traits OF artists. Wayman Adams
contributes a small double portrait
Of Jonas Lie and his daughter, rich
in color and tone, excellent in like
ness, and larger, but more sketchily
rendered canvas of his late colleague,
John Noble. Sidney E. Dickinson
contributes portrait Of Harry Wa
trous. one time president of the Ma
tional Academy of Design and painter
of a remarkable still life-a renaiS-
Sance statue of the virgin, Marie
de ourgogne"-included in this ex-
hibition and given a place of honor.
Daniel CARRIER, who is best known
as a landscape painter or for his
interiors, is represented here by
ee-quarter-length portrait of Will
liam L. Lathrop, painted in a mod
ern manner. suggesting animation,
but of pronounced strength. On the
other hand, Garber's landscape, In
Wood" and Lathrop's "Moorland" are
both in much more reticent mood.
There are number of self portraits
by artists. some none too f1attering,
among which one by a painter of
Japanese birth and name, K. Inukai,
entitled "As Is" is outstanding.
In these later days the tendency
in art has been to suggest rather than
finish, but in some instances the pen
dulum seems now to have swung
sharply in the opposite direction.
Charles Hopkinson, oddly enough,
shows works in both manners-one of
a little granddaughter in Winter
cloak and cap, rosy cheeks and lips,
very simply rendered, and the other
a portrait of Horatio Gates Lloyd,
carried in detail to the utmost COM
pletion. Eugen Weisz of this city
shows a self lf-portrait painted in the
former manner, very directly, very
simply, which cannot fail to bring
him honor; but likewise notable is a
more traditional portrait by another |
local artist, Bjorn Egeli, of jeremiah |
O'Connor of the staff of the Corcoran
Gallery of Art.
Harking back still further to the
days of Holbein, such painters as
Trocolli, Sarah D. November, Maria |
Silvette, Abram Poole and Emil Bist- |
tram show us how altogether charm
ing may be portraits and figures
painted fatty, smoothly and exquis-
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itely, in some instances on wood rather
than canvas.
This brings TO attention the matter
of texture, very important matter
which of late has had too little at
tention among the painters. One Of
the most offensive characteristics Of
the works by the So-called modernistS
has been that there has been no rem
dering of textures, and the surfaces
on their canvases have in this particu-
lar repelled rather than attracted the
sense Of touch. This is true Of
good many paintings in this exhibi-
ton. There is a tendency TO render
all surfaces the same-rough or
smooth, woolly or hard-regardless Of
actuality and still more Of charm.
There is also a strange revision to
realism-the pendulum is seen TO
swing from the abstract puzzle
pictures of Karl Knaths, Olive Rush,
Charles Demuth, Conrad Kramer,
Stuart Davis, to paintings such as
Road to the Beach" by Roy Hilton;
Winter and Roses" by Hobson Pitt
man; "Riderless Racers" by Clar-
ence M. Carter; "Drought-Stricken
Area" by Andre Hogue; Choir Prac-
tice," by Lauren Ford, and Western