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Evening star., 1935-01-18

recommended to the President by the
Policy Forming Commission, which
held its final conference at the White
House yesterday. The President is
to submit its report to Congress next
week with a special message.
Weekly Flights Possible.
It was said that If the proposed
American dirigible were operated with
the German line. flights could be
made in each direction at least once
week.
The Aviation Commissions recon-
mendations were described as includ-
ing subsidies to heavier-than-atr
transoceanic service in addition to
payments for mail. Col. Charles A.
recently surveyed route via
Newfoundland but the direction in
which it was said airplane service
would be set up within year Is via
Bermuda and the Azores.
Government aid to tranSoceanic
lines was described the administration
answer to the super" surface liners
the Queen Mary and the Normandie
among others-now building abroad
for the Transatlantic passenger trade.
PACIFIC LINE STARTS SOON.
Evening star., 1935-01-18
EARTH TREMORS FELT
Dishes and Windows Are Ratified
in New Mexico,

in New Mexico.
SOCORRO, N. Mex, January 18
R.-Two distinct earth tremors rat
tied dishes and Jared window panes
here yesterday.
r. H. Reece. professor of physics
and mathematics at the New Mexico
School of Mines here, attributed the
shocks to the settling Of rock layers
in the section.
Evening star., 1935-01-18
APPEAL RULING WAITS
Girl Fights Dismissal Of Jury
Award in Seduction Case.

EDMONTON, Alberta, January 10
R.-The appellate division of the
Supreme Court reserved judgment
yesterday in the appeal Of Vivian
Macmillan and her father, A. d. Mac
MILAN. from a trial judges decision
dismissing their seduction damage
case. A jury had awarded them $15,-
600 against ]. Z. Brownlee. former
premier.
The MacMillans' counsel. Neil Mac.
lean, told the court that If 1t would
permit the girls $4,000 award to
stand he would not object to dismissal
Of the fathers action, in which the
jury awarded $1,000.
Evening star., 1935-01-18
ADMISSION 2 CENTS
Basket Ball Game Prices Set by
Size of Family.

CHERRYVALE, Kans. LP.-Pro-
viding his family isn't too large one
may see basket ball games at the
Cherryvale High School for 2 cents.
The admission price is 80 cents a
family up to Is members.
Evening star., 1935-01-18
SQUIBB
SODIUM BICARB0NATE

Pure. Highly refined. Free
from Objectionable taste,
In q convenient container.
Evening star., 1935-01-18
SQUIBB
EPSON SALT

Free from impurities that
make ordinary EPSON salt
unpleasant to take.
Evening star., 1935-07-01

Mrs. Nina Gore Vidal, now in Reno,
New, where she will become eligible
this week to file suit for divorce from
Eugene L. Vidal, director of air COM
merce. Commerce Department, today
was reported by the Associated Press
to be planning to marry Hugh D.
Auchincloss. Washington investment
broker.
The Associated Press reported that
neither Mrs. Vidal, who is living on
a dude ranch" near Reno, nor Mr..
Auchincloss, said to be visiting at
Lake Tahoe, Calf, could be reached
for comment. 1t was reported at
Reno, however, that they are to be
married soon after Mrs. Vidal obtains
the divorce for which she is expected
to file suit this week.
Mrs. Vidal, the daughter of Senator
Thomas p Gore of Oklahoma, left
Washington May IT for Reno.
Auchincloss. according to the Asso-
ciated Press, is reported to be visiting
at Lake Tahoe with his sister and
ther-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Norman
H. BlitZ of New York. Auchincloss
and the former Maya de Chrapovitsky,
Washington social registerite. were
divorced at Reno In 1882.
Thirteen years ago Vidal was mar
ried to Nina Gore, then one of the
most popular debutantes in Wash
ington. They have one child, a boy.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
TABLE ROCK BLAST
TO MOVE 1000 TONS
200 Dynamite Holes, Each 20
Feet Deep, Are Drilled at
Niagara Falls.

By the Associated Press.
NIAGARA FALLS. Ontario, July I.
Two huge dynamite blasts were set
today to send 1000 tons Of rock hur-
tling into Niagara Gorge from Table
Rock, often called Honeymoon Point"
because of its lure to newlyweds visit
ing the falls.
Two hundred holes have been
drilled 20 feet into the ground to pro-
vide for the charges, but all we're not
expected to be filled with the explosive
today.
The blasting, precautionary meas
ure to prevent slides, follows the ap-
pearance of four-inch crack in the
table for a distance of several hun
dred feet.
When completed. the cleared sec
ton will be opened to the public
again to allow q closeup view Of
Horseshoe Falls, the Canadian cata-
ract which Table Rock adjoins.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
MRS. NORTON H|TS'
At LOAN SHARKS
Denies Representative
Jenckes' Plea for Recon-
siderati0n of Bill.

Charges that loan sharks are max
ing determined efforts to kill bill on
the House calendar for regulation OF
the small loan business were made to-
day by Chairman Norton Of the House
District Committee.
Mrs. Norton fired the blast at the
loan sharks after receiving q letter
from Representative Jenckes, Demo-
crat, of Indiana, q member of the Dis
trict Committee, urging that the small
loan bill be withdrawn from the cad-
endar for reconsideration. The Dis
trict Committee favorably reported
the bill last Thursday.
II regret that Mrs. Jenckes evident
ly has been approached by the loan
sharks to kill this BILL" declared Mrs.
Norton II certainly will not ask the
committee to reconsider 1t. If Mrs.
Jenckes had made study Of the legis-
lation in Congress for the last seven
years she would know this Is q good
bill.
AT the present time some of Wash
ington's loan sharks are charging in
terest at the rate of so per cent
year. The small loan bill will limit
the interest rate to 2 per cent month
"a rate that ! have been convinced
is fair"
Mrs. Jenckes, however, described
the bill as vicious" and declared it
saddles exorbitant rates on citizens
who are in desperate circumstances
and who are compelled to make small
loans"
She also insisted that the loan shark
lobby is supporting the bill rather
than opposing it.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
DAY DELAY GIVEN
TOQUESENBERRY
Lack of TaIesmen HaItS
Trial of Mountaineer in
Police Killing.
BY BLAIR BOLLES,
STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

LEESBURG, Va, July 1.-The case
of the Commonwealth of Virginia
versus one-eyed Thomas Quesenberry
was postponed soon after noon today
until $50 am. tomorrow.
Lack of available talesmen for the
jury caused Judge J. r. H. Alexander
to halt proceedings against the noun
taineer moonshiner. charged with
murder in the first degree of an Alex
andria policeman. Quesenberry had
pleaded not guilty.
A panel of 20 jurors must be had
before the selection of the final IL
men can begin.
OF 26 prospective jurors called this
morning, only II were chosen. Nine
more must be named.
Judge j. r. H. Alexander denied
plea of abatement offered by Stillson
H Hall, chief of counsel for Quesen-
berry.
The somber Quesenberry sat quietly
while his attorney. Hall, petitioned
dismissal of the case in a 12-point
plea in abatement in which he charged
that one of the grand jurors who re-
turned the indictment in the case had
testified against the defendant.
Hall first told Judge j. r. H. Alex
ander, presiding, that "the alleged
indictment does not follow the form
set out in the 1890 code of Virginia" !"
Then he startled the spectators by
stating:
Juror and Witness"
"At least one of the grand jurors,
who on the tenth day Of June, 1885,
returned the alleged indictment "
had previously consulted with counsel
for the accused, had been summoned
and had testified as a witness in the
same case under another alleged in
dictment which was quashed on the
twenty-ninth day of April, 1885"
The plea continued
'The defendant prays that the al
legged Indictment against him be
quashed, and that this proceeding
against him be dismissed for the rea-
son hereinbefore set out"
Quesenberry marched across the
greensward that leads from the an
cient Jail to the old red brick court
house at a few minutes after 10
o'clock this morning.
Quesenberry, the Commonwealth OF
Virginia says. murdered Policeman
McClary on the night of March II
with a 80 .30-caliber rifle supposedly
shot from the hip.
Shooting Followed Search.
The shooting climaxed search for
the old man made by sea, by land and
by air as agents of the Internal Rev.
enue Bureau attempted to close in on
him to arrest him for manufacturing
liquor, without license, in his own
back yard.
The gun battle occurred at Ever
green Mills, which Is about Z
miles from this old colonial town, and
during 1t George Kirkpatrick. revenue
agent, was shot in the breast.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
POTATO WAR BRINGS
CODE AND 81 PRICE
Virginia Growers May Ship To-
day, if Merchants Agree to
Paw Fixed Rate.

BY the Associated PreSS.
PAINTER, Va, July IA theoreti-
cal price of 50 per barrel and strict
code regulating shipments went into
effect here today as the Eastern Shore
potato growers shipping strike entered
its second week.
Since the farmers met last We'd
nesday no potatoes have been shipped
from Accomac and Northampton
Counties, Virginia's great potato
producing area. Today, operating
under an agreement reached Satur-
day, growers may ship the tubers at
50 per barrel. provided the price is
specified by the commission mer-
chant in writing in advance.
Independent truckmen may buy po-
tatoes at $1.90 and will be allowed
to haul them across the State line
if they can show pass signed by a
postmaster, bank cashier or notary
public specifying the agreed price.
Pickets continued their patrol.
Evening star., 1935-07-01

What the New Dealers apparently
have in the back of their heads are
further, stronger steps in a long-range
venture to eliminate bigneSS, not only
among men, but corporations.
II you get them off In a corner
they Diu concede the repenue-
raising features OF the proposed
plan 1Cere almost f71consequentidI,
or at least secondary; that the
notwithstanding claims made for it
Dere largely political ballyhoo.
What they really panted, they
iChiSper, Das to establish q tar
basis for q social policy to be ad-
justed and reddjusted in coming
years until all the big ones are
made oper into little ones. They
did not dare to 90 any further for
a starter.
Now some Of this talk may be an
excuse for the deficiency of the pro-
gram. Some of it may be designed to
hearten the doubling wealth -sharers
like Huey.
But, make no mistake about it,
there are many New Dealers super
charged with the Brandeis- -Frankfurter
philosophy sincerely and non-politi-
cally, apparently including one in the
White House.
Tax to Curtail Dividends.
Tax students now are Just about
agreed that the proposed tax increases
on large corporations will probably
not drive them out of business or
break them up.
You can see just how hard it will
hit three of the largest corporations
in the country by the following table
1888 Taxes Proposed
cFfpSfeF0n ns95e siss65 RNS sassso !aSss
ssns5at stand d Motors 5000 9oo 12eoo 1890
Last three ciphers omitted.
These figures suggest that the new
taxes will sharply curtail dividends
but are not necessarily confiscatory
The increase per share of General
Motors would be roughly Al cents
A. T. & T, Is cents.
To give you an idea how easy II
would be for the administration to
take further steps: The privilege OF
filing consolidated returns is as i'm
portant as rates. Under this privilege
the profits of one subsidiary may be
Offset by the losses of another for the
purposes of taxation.
The Treasury has placed pen
atty on the use of the consolidated
return, and it is not much of q
help to a middle sized firm, but it
still helps the big felloUs pery
much.
Another thing which Mr.. Roosevelt
hinted at in his message was a tax
on dividends collected by corporations
BY such a tax all holding companies
could be ruined.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
SILVER STAR HOME
VISITED BY 5000
House in Chevy Chase Will Be
Open to Public 80 Days, In.
cluding Thursday.

More than 5000 persons visited the
Silver Star Home at 1859 Quesada
street, Chevy Chase, yesterday, the
first day it was open for public
inspection.
The crowd that streamed through
the attractive Cape Cod colonial
dwelling during the day was said to
be one of the largest to see a model
home in Washington this year. The
house will be open for 80 days from
10 am. until 9 pm, including Thurs
day. Independence day.
Built by Paul T. Stone, Inc, the
house is presented by J. Wesley
Buchanan, Inc, under sponsorship of
The Star. 1t is located at Broad
Branch road and Quesada street in
Stones new development of Wren
wood, and Is the third house to re-
ceive the Silver Star award for merit
in building this year.
1t has been we'll furnished and
draped by Hutchison's, Inc, and John
F. Ligon. 1t may best be reached via
Connecticut avenue to Chevy Chase
Circle, and east on Western avenue a
half block to Quesada street. The
house is located two blocks from the
intersection of Western avenue and
Quesada.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
BARTENDER WINS
GUZZLING CONTEST
Quaffs Half Gallon of Beer in "a
Seconds in Milwaukee
Competition.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
MILWAUKEE, July Floyd We
rette, 310-pound bartender, quaffed a
half gallon of brew in the amazing
time of "a seconds yesterday-and
won the Milwaukee beer guzzling
contest, bottoms up.
While a crowd looked on in mingled
awe and envy, the capacious red head
drank seven contenders under the Ia
BILE in the final round of the foaming
tournament.
The Fond Du Lac Avenue Advance
ment Association, sponsors of the tip
pling bout in this center Of the brew
ing industry, Immediately claimed a
world record for the new champion.
He clipped three seconds from the
mark he established Saturday in
gulping his way into the lead over a
field of 100 thirsty contestants.
AS a reward for his efforts-or
pleasure. as the case may be-Ve-
rette was presented with silver low
ing cup. 1t measured half gallon, Of
course.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
SO WEEK END DEATHS.
New York and Ohio Lead List With
Seven Each.

Seven Each.
BY the Associated Press.
Automobile and motor cycle acci-
dents took at least So lives during
the week end. New York and Ohio
led the States with seven fatalities.
Two young men and a girl were
killed and two other young men were
injured seriously when their automo-
bile crashed into the side Of freight
train near Reed City, Mich.
At Akron, Ohio, Robert Hinkle, As,
was killed after he stopped to aid a
driver in a ditched auto. A second
car stopped and a third struck it.
Hinkle being crushed against his own
auto.
A 17-year-old girl perished in the
flames of burning auto after car
collided with q truck at Hammond,
Ind.
Joseph Stevenson, 13. died several
hours after he was hit by a car in
Philadelphia and dragged 80 feet.
The driver was held by police.
1uIUWH 1IOIu ohAuoiAS HioVoi
cycle. Miss Jay Boland, 19, was fatally
injured in the Bronx, New York City.
A passenger bus and truck loaded
with chickens collided at Petersburg,
Va. The truck driver was killed.
Deputy Sheriff Sam Tidwell was
killed at Dallas. Tex, when his motor
cycle collided with an automobile.
Fatalities by States:
Alabama, 2; California, 4; Florida,
1; Georgia, 3: Illinois, 4; Indiana, !
Kentucky. /; Massachusetts,, 2;
Michigan, 3: Minnesota, /; Missouri,
2; Nebraska, /; New York, 2; Ohio,
z; Oklahoma, 2; Pennsylvania, 3;
South Carolina, 3; Texas, 2; Vir-
ginia. /; Washington, 2. and Wiscon-
sin, l.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
STEPHEN FOSTER HOME
DEDICATION JULY 4
Ford Invites Relatives of Ameri-
can Composer to Shrine Cere-
mony at Dearborn.

by the Associated freSS.
DETROIT, July 1.-The homestead
of Stephen C. Foster, American COM
poser, purchased recently. by Henry
Ford and brought to Dearborn, will
be dedicated July as a shrine in
memory Of the composer Of "Old Folks
at Home"
Ford has invited relatives Of Foster
from all parts of the United States
to come to Dearborn on the 109th
anniversary Of Fosters birth to par
ticipate in dedication exercises, after
which the home, in surroundings
approximating those in which it orig
inally stood, will be opened to the
public.
Among the descendants Of Foster
invited are the composers only child
and daughter, Mrs. Marian Foster
Welch of Pittsburgh, now "a years old;
Mrs. Alexander Dallas Rose Of Pitts
burgh. a granddaughter, and Stephen
Foster Rose and Miss Dorothy Rose,
great-grandchildren. Approximately
two score other known descendants
also have been invited.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
FEDERAL AGENTS
ESCAPE GANG GUNS
Justice Department Reports No
Violent Deaths in 6 Months
of 1885.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
At this half-year mark the Justice
Department reported yesterday that
"G-men" have escaped gangster bull
lets and violent death while on duty
during 1885.
That held true, too, for the last
month of 1884. but in the preceding
seven months three of the 600 special
agents of the Federal Bureau Of In
vestigation were moved down by guns
of public enemies.
A bronze memorial tablet In the
outer Office of Director j. Edgar
Hoover lists eight agents who paid
with their lives in the national battle
against crime.
Inspector Samuel P. Cowley and
Agent Herman E. Hollis were the
last names placed on the memorial.
They died in the bloody encounter at
harrington, Ill, November 81 last
year with Baby Face" Nelson, whose
bullet-riddled body was found later.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
GUFFEY COAL BILL
REPORT DUE SOON
With Strike Delayed, Quick
Action Is Sought on
MittIe N. R. A."
BY the Associated Press.

With a strike call to bituminous
coal miners postponed for another 80
days, hackers of the Guffey bill de-
voted themselves today to obtaining
quick action on this measure. to regu-
late the industry with q little
N r. A"
The bill is expected to emerge from
the House Ways and Means Commit
tee some time this week. Senator
Guffey. Democrat, Of Pennsylvania
said that as soon as the House takes
action he will call the measure up for
debate in the Senate.
The United Mine Workers are eager
to see the bill pass. The union con-
tends it would stabilize the industry
and permit employers to comply with
the U. M. w. demands for a 30-hour
week and 10 per cent pay rise. One
large group of operators supports the
bill. On the other hand. another
segment of the industry, mostly
Southern operators, opposes 1t strenu-
ousiy. These operators contend il
would mean loss of business and en-
ployment because prices to the con-
sumner would increase to the point Of
discouraging purchases.
John L. Lewis, president of the
union, called off a strike scheduled
for this morning. Lewis had ISSUED
the strike call Saturday, but when
the Government intervened he post
poned it 80 days, offering to extend
present wages and hours for that
period.
Though the operators have not YET
accepted this truce, persons familiar
with the industry predicted they
would do so.
The Guffey measure is on the
must" list of legislation favored by
President Roosevelt. Opponents plan
to challenge its constitutionality
quickly if it is passed.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
S3,490,0()D ASKED
FOR HEALTH STUDY
Inventory of Chronic Dis
eases in so Cities Planned
by Health Service.

A health inventory in SO cities to
enable the Public Health Service TO
extend its fight against chronic dis
eases and physical impairments will
be undertaken, provided approval is
obtained for a s3,45000 allotment of
work-relief funds requested today of
the Division of Applications and In
formation.
The survey would be conducted in
metropolitan areas to be selected in
the event the application is approved.
1t Is directed mainly at an inventory
OF infantile paralysis, arthritis, deaf
ness, blindness, Bright's disease and
other maladies incapacitating persons
for employment
The extent and severity OF chronic
diseases, the Public Health Service
stated, Is a phase of public health
upon which little information is avail
able, but which entails each year q
great economic loss in employment.
The problem is becoming increas-
ingly important with the gradual in
crease in the percentage Of the popu-
lation over go years of age. 1t is essen
tial that data on large numbers of
persons be collected, it was said, if
reliable information is to be obtained
as TO geographic differences and varia-
tions with respect to age, sex and
occupation. OF prime importance are
the data that would be assembled on
the extent of illness of a duration
of three months or longer
The study would include house.
toulouse canvass to obtain records,
physical examinations, a survey Of
medical facilities and fourth phase
contemplated as q part of the regu-
lar research Of the Public Health
Service, including an extensive study
extending over several years of the
effect Of given chronic ailments on the
capacity Of the patient and family TO
remain self-supporting.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
N.R.A. PLAN DRAWN
BY ROPER COUNCIL
Merger of Recovery Group
With U. S. Trade Body
Is Its Basis.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A definite plan for blending N. r. A.
and the Federal Trade Commission
through new legislation today was re-
ported drafted by Secretary Ropers
Business Advisory Council.
1t was said to be similar to that
under study by an administration
group, despite White House statements
that while the door was not closed,
new N. r. A. recommendations were
not now planned for the present ses-
sion.
Would Unite Two Units.
The business groups plan would
coalesce the two units by putting N.
r. A. under the commission. It's
principal points:
Increase the commission from its
present five members to nine
Combine much Of the present N. r.
A. organization with the commission.
Divide the commission into two Sec
tions-one for investigation and one
to make codes.
Such codes would be voluntary in
nature. but subscribers to them would
be bound under a contractual ar
rangement. The codes would contain
labor provisions.
Hope Of getting most business units
into such codes would rest on certain
reprieves from the antitrust laws, but
action under codes could not be
monopolistic.
Would Use N. r. A. Personnel.
The division of functions within the
commission was designed to meet OBJ
jections that the commission cannot
cooperate and prosecute at the same
time. Use Of N. r. A. personnel would
furnish experienced help and preserve
the continuity of experience.
Along with the voluntary agree
ments there probably would be an
insignia, to be used as a badge of
merit. It might be withdrawn for
nom compliance with labor standards,
but publicity would not be given such
withdrawal.
Evening star., 1935-07-01
BROTHER OF SLAYER
THREATENED BY MOB
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PEORIA, H., July IA threaten
ing crowd of $50 persons gathered yes
terday as Victor Thompson, %. BROTH
er of the confessed slayer of a 1s-
year-old girl, was arrested on charges
involving an 8-year-old boy.
A detective squad escorted him
through the ill-humored group Of
neighbcrs to the Jail, where his
brother, Gerald Thompson, IS, has
been held since he confessed he at
tackled and slew pretty Mildred Hall
mark.
Parents of the boy swore out the
warrant after, they informed police,
the youngster told them Victor
Thompson coaxed him into Thomp-
sons house with the promise of Civ
ing him a nickel.
Four detectives rushed to the home
where Victor lives with his grand
parents. The crowd had already as
sembled there.
He was taken to the city jail and
booked and then taken to the county
Jail, where his brother is awaiting
trial.
Thompson was asleep when the
squad arrived. He was awakened and
informed Of the charge. r,