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Evening star., 1935-02-10

Grafton of Citizens Associations and
others.
The Merchants and Manufacturers,
however, are not content with the SIM
pie Endorsement of the proposal and
want, instead, actual concerted action
to have the Senate write into the Dis
trict appropriation bill an item of suf-
ficient amount to assure the restora-
ton of all men dropped during the
period of economic stress and also to
add a number large enough to care
for the increased demands being made
upon the department.
In reality" Edward D. Shaw, sec
retary, said yesterday, the Washing
ton police force Is no larger, possibly
smaller, than it was 10 years ago.
Within the last 10 years change has
been made to use the personnel Of the
department in three shifts instead Of
two, so that now actually we have a
smaller force on duty than We had
decade ago.
There are two other factors that
are overlooked" Shaw continued. In
the last two years WaShington's pop
ulation has increased close to 10000;
in 10 years close to 10000. That
number of people is fair sized city
in itself. Second, there has been
tremendous increase in the number of
automobiles, and that requires big
ger detail of men for traffic duty,
necessarily removing them from ordi-
nary police duties.
Another difficult situation is the
frequent request for special details Of
men for embassies, the White House,
or greeting some official dignitary.
Washington now has at least five
police departments: the Park Police,
the Capitol Police. the White House
Police, the guards for the public
buildings and the Metropolitan Police
Department. With such an arrange
ment there is necessarily some over
tapping, and efficiency alone would
warrant some change in that kind of
an organization.
Mr.. Kings committee hopes TO i'm
prove that situation; at least, it will
make an honest effort to give Wash
ington an adequate and efficient
police organization"
Trade Sections TO Elect.
Two more trade sections Of the
Merchants and Manufacturers ASsocia-
ton elected their chairman last week
The ice manufacturers elected Harry
Hammond chairman and N. w. Ben
nett secretary, but Hammond asked
that some one else be chosen to serve
on the board of governors in his
stead. William ]. Mcnamara was
chosen for that job.
The fuel oil section selected Lester
S. Scott as chairman and member Of
the board, with Curtis Steuart as vice
chairman.
The department store section viii
meet at luncheon, Wednesday at the
Raleigh Hotel and select its new
officers for the year. Sylvan King is
the present chairman. Irving C. Fox
of the National Retail Dry Goods
Association. will address the meeting
and explain recent N. R. A. code
developments affecting the retail
trade.
100000 See Capital Movie.
More than a half-million people
have paid synthetic visit to WASH
ington through the medium of the
motion pictures Of the National
Capital made and circulated by the
Greater National Capital Committee
of the Washington Board of Trade
during the past year.
The pictures, made by Roy Miller
of the committees staff, and edited
by Curtis Hodges, executive director,
have been so widely distributed that
Evening star., 1935-02-10
News Letter-Refreshing
and Instructive.

T>HE News Letter issued on the
first Of each month by the
voteless District League Of
Women Voters is document well
calculated to instruct and refresh
the members OF that well organized
civic body of wide-awake women.
Just mentioning few of the head
ings of the February number will
give something of an idea Of the
contents and the scope of the work
of the organization. Among these
headings are prisons, parole and
probation; what will become of
the Districts recreation system,
social security, schools and pre-
vention of delinquency, support
of Judge Fay Bentley, Susan B.
Anthony Memorial. old age secu-
rity and unemployment insurance,
nursery schools over the world. citi-
Zens' meeting on national represen-
tation and finally the Roosevelt
luncheon.
Practically all these matters are
under intensive study by the vari-
Gus departments of the league and
are made the subject of illurninat-
ing reports before action by the
entire body, and are then followed
up with vigor to get the desired
results.
The editor, Mrs. S. H. Horne, in
discussing the address by Mrs.
Roosevelt at the luncheon said:
I'VE need all the help from the
outside that we can get to make
Congress realize most Of us have
no vote elsewhere, that the District
affairs are cruelty neglected, and
that we feel wronged because we
are denied the right of citizens to
elect our own representatives and
to indicate through them how we
wish our tax money expended and
what we conceive to be our needs.
After all, vote in distant State
ceases to mean much-it is right
here at home that we need our
vote and interest. An absentee
vote in the State of North Dakota
will avail very little in procuring
schools, libraries, better police
force, a community center, hospi-
talization, housing, and an ade-
quate personnel to enforce our
hour laws in the District"
Mrs. Roosevelt is quoted as say
ing that the league is producing
more thoughtful workers every
where, and that, although women
are harder to convince than men,
they are better and more unselfish
workers when they are converted.
Automobile Liability Bill
Goes to the House Calendar.
IN THURSDAY the House Dis
trict Committee voted to re-
port the automobile liability
bill, which was passed by the
Senate on January 10. The bill
goes to the House calendar for
action the next District day, if the
District Committee is able to get
its day.
This bill has had the united civic
support for a long time and the
civic bodies are hopeful that at
last It Is to become a law.
A bill to change the name Of
Evening star., 1935-02-10
Civic Problems, Civic Bodies
Montgomery Federation Has Heavy Program for
Meeting Tomorrow Night-Pubiic aities
Group of D. c. Federation Criticized.

Letter place northwest TO Second
place also was ordered favorabiy
reported.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

Saturday. February 16.
Federation of Citizens Associations,
8 pm, board room, District Building.
Program-Discussion of proposed lu-
macy bill.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
Civic Association Calendar
Three Joint Gatherings Scheduled Among 10
Meetings This Week-Takoma Group to
Hear Talk on Lincoln.

tons for additional police: report on
proposed District legislation before
Congress.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

THE News Letter issued on the
first Of each month by the
voteleSs District League Of
Evening star., 1935-02-10

Society Of Natives of the District,
8 pm, Washington Club Program
Bingo party; musical program; dane
ing.
Evening star., 1935-02-10

w WHENEVER civic leaders are
mentioned the name of
wv John Hadley Doyle, sports
' ' man. philanthropist. and
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
IRON AND STEEL
SEEN RESISTING
D0WNTREND

NEW YORK. Dec. 16.-Demand
for iron and steel is unusually re-
sistant to year-end influences, ac-
cording to the magazine Steel.
In pig iron production, so far
in December, there has been prac-
tically no letdown, while ship
ments are rs per cent over the
comparable period in November,
and smelters' stocks are lower
than they anticipated.
Though steel ingot output has
dropped 21a points to 54l2 per
cent, some leading finishing mills
have actually increased schedules.
Sheet mills are operating at IS to
rs per cent, strip mills at so to
IS, highest this year, and tin
plate manufacture has advanced 5
points to 80 per cent.
Recession Held Inevitable
Some recession, as the inventory
and holiday season approaches,
is considered inevitable. No weak
ness, however, is apparent In the
underlying market situation, and
from present indications the lull
will be of short duration. Many
finishing mills plan to continue
at present levels right up to
Christmas. With few exceptions,
mills have good backlogs for Janu-
ary shipment.
Production of automobile, rail
road and structural steel buying
all show evidence Of expanding.
Output of new models last week
increased about 5000 units to
$500, largest for any week since
their introduction in october.
Scrap Prices Rise
Scrap prices continue moving
upward, contary to the usual
season trend. At Pittsburgh heavy
melting steel has advanced so
cents, from $14 to $14.50. Steel's
scrap composite is up 13 cents to
1929, topping a seven weeks
steady rise with a figure that is
highest since May, 1880. In jan
uary, 1888, this index was 1921.
Steel's iron and steel price COM
posite is up 2 cents to 1882; the
finished steel index unchanged at
$53.70.
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
D. {. BANKERS
WILL ATTEND
PARLEY

/. Bankers from the District of Co
lunnbia and IA States will partici-
pate in the Eastern conference on
banking service, to be held under
the auspices of the American
Bankers Association, in Philadel-
phia, January % and "a, it was
announced in New York yester-
day.
The conference, which will be
D part of a national program Of
banking development inaugurated
by the association, will be held at
the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel, and
Robert v. Fleming, president Of
the association, will be the presid-
ing officer.
The Philadelphia committee
were announced as follows: Gen.
eral chairman, Harry j. Haas,
First National Bank, Philadelphia;
vice chairman, o. Howard Wolfe,
Philadelphia National Bank; reg
iStration committee, Carl H. Chat
fee, First National Bank, chair
man; hotel committee, Austin H.
Davis, First National Bank, chair
man; banquet committee, Norman
T. Hayes, Philadelphia National
Bank, chairman.
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
'BO0TLEGGERS'
TURN

Silver "'bootleggers" are the
latest source of worry heaped on
the silver-troubled Treasury, it
was learned yesterday.
Reports that silver in bullion is
being smuggled from Mexico into
old Southwestern mines and then
sold to the Government at the
high price of 77.57 cents an ounce
with the world price around so
centS-have reached Secretary
Morgenthau'S department.
A secret investigation is being
made into reports that dead
mines" in Arizona and Nevada
have suddenly reopened and have
become "big producers" Of the
metal.
The Treasury is trying to locate
the mines. The Denver and San
Francisco mintS have been eau
toned to check the source Of do
mestically mined silver delivered
at the premium price" set under
the Administration silver pur-
chasing program.
Since the purchasing program
was inaugurated the Treasury
has bought about 81 million
ounces of domeStically mined sill
yer at prices higher than the
world quotation.
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
SWIFT REPORTS
BETTER YEAR

NEW YORK, Dec. 16. Earn
ings of Swift & Company, for the
fiscal year ended October 26 last,
amount to $14,767.302 after taxes
and charges, equal to $3.50 a
share on common stock, against
$6.131,579 or $1.97 in the preced-
ing fiscal year.
G. F. Swift, president, in the
annual report to stockholders,
predicted that the year 1896
should show no greater change in
the meat supply than was seen
in the current year, but that the
supply after next year should be-
gin to grow larger.
The company's sales for the
year ended october 26 last totaled
$767, ,227 900, and of the net in
come of $14,767, 1902, the amount
of $6,000,000 was appropriated to
a reserve for inventory price de-
clines, leaving a balance of $8,-
767 900 which carried to surplus.
OF sales and the meat outlook,
Smith said:
II am glad to report that in
spite of the great decrease in meat
production our sales for the year
amounted to $767 900 900, and our
volume was only 3.9 percent less
than in the record year 1884. The
incrN1Se in our dollar sales was
due largely to the rise in livestock
and meat prices, but it was due
also to our effort to maintain
volume"
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
COTTON PRICES
FALL AGAIN

NEW YORK, Dec. 16 UN.S0.
A rally in cotton futures after the
sharp break at the opening, failed
to take hold and prices dipped to
their lows of the day again as
selling on a weak Liverpool mar
ket and over the Supreme Court
decisions due soon on the AAA
and the Bankhead Act, continued.
. Rather heavy commission house
liquidation featured the early
minutes of trading
Towards noon the market held
steady at prices slightly above
lows of the day. A further widen.
ing of the premium at which old
crop months are selling over the
distant deliveries was evident.
December was quoted at 11.37 off
10, March I'LL off IL, May 1923
off 10, and July 1887 off IA
points,
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
WHEAT ERASES
EARLY GAINS

CHICAGO, Dec. 16 UN.S0
Wheat prices fell moderately be-
low the previous close today after
advancing nearly a cent.
Disappointing action of the
Winnipeg market caused the re-
action here and offset the in
Nuence of strength at Liverpool
Near mid-session wheat here
was 1s to "a cent off, corn 8
to u cent off, oats unchanged to
1s cent UP and rye 1s cent down
to cent up.
May wheat here advanced S
cent to 991a and then reacted to
around 1894. December moved up
7S cent to $1.02 and then reacted
TO $1.01, down 1s cent from Satur-
Gav.
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
687 Stocks Lower
On n. Y. Excnanoe

Index of 687 stocks listed on
the New York Stock Exchange
showed an average price of $31. .68
as of the close last Saturday,
compared with an average price
of $3198 the previous week, &C.
cording to Hamershlag, Borg g
Company.
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
Washington Stocks

SALES
Potomac Electric 51as pfd, SO
114b.
Riggs Bank common, 1@209,
4@209, 50@210.
AFTER CALL
Potomac Electric IS pfd, SOIL.
Capital Traction SIS, $1,000@94,
S1,000@94, $500@94.
Washington Gas SIS, 1860, $500
l@118, $500@118.
City and Suburban IS, $4,000
@89.
Washington Gas IS B, $1,000
l02A.
Public Utility Bonds Bid Ask
The Washington times., 1935-12-16
'%=y NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE 12:45 P M PRICES
Volume Saturday
666, $50 Shares

-ie35- Name Net
High Low Dividend Low l2:IS
Evening star., 1935-12-31
REFERENDA PLAN !.
"a
HIT BY CITIZENS
Logan Thomas Circle Group
Considers Allen Proposal
Too Expensive.

Commissioner George E. Aliens pro-
posal for advisory referenda for the
District met with cold reception at
the Logan-Thomas Circle Citizens =
Association meeting last night, the
organization voting to report its dis
approval to the Federation Of Citi-
zens' Associations.
The bill was opposed on grounds
that the election machinery it pro-
poses to establish would be too ex-
pensive, inaSmuch as referenda re-
suits need not be accepted. Exist
ing citizens associations serve the
same purpose contemplated by the
bill, it was contended.
The organization adopted a motion
to call official attention to lack Of
enforcement Of the law requiring
property owners to clear their side-
walks Of snow within "a hours after
the end of snowfall. ~
M. M. Fulton reported on his tes-
timony before the recent transporta-
ton hearing. His opposition to the
building of subways, which he said
would be unsatisfactory for local serv--
ice, was supported by other men,
bers. NJ A. Robbins said a subway
system would be too costly and prob
ably unnecessary" .
Evening star., 1935-12-31

not get clear impression of the
strength of any political trends repre-
sented. A Senator. deluged with let
ters asking passage of the bonus or
the Townsend plan, naturally comes
to the conclusion that large element
of his constituents favorS these meas
ureS. But, DR.. Roos showed, he might
be entirely wrong and might save him
self a lot of needless worry.
Letters Become Invaluable.
Her Sampling formula, while i'm
pressively mathematical on its face
with Greek letter symbols. etc, is
nevertheless simple enough to be mas
tered in short time by the intelligent
congressional secretary. Once mastered
the letters become invaluable instead
of nuisance.
The formula, DR.. RooS said, makes
1t possible to break down the total
mass of letter mail into its constituent
elements, to locate real and spurious
trends of public opinion. to evaluate
properly such communications as have
been inspired by an organized propa-
ganda, and in some cases to locate the
centers of graft in a district.
While the most direct application of
this mathematical thermometer is IN
the field of politics, Mrs. RooS said, it
also may prove of value in responses
to advertising and to special campaigns
of all sorts. While not difficult to mas
ter for one with an elementary knowl-
edge of statistics, the formula involves
so many special symbols that it could
not be reproduced in ordinary type.
Sweetest Thing" Found.
DR.. Albert S. Blakeslee, world-famous
geneticist of the Carnegie Institution
of Washington, reported here today
that he has found the sweetest thing
in the world"
1t is 1000 times sweeter than cane
sugar and more than eight times
sweeter than saccharine. An amount as
big as the head of pin would make
coffee sweeter than several Jumps Of
sugar.
This material is known as anti
parilla -aldoxine. 1t recently was iso-
lated by japanese chemists from some
plant material but its source remains
vague to American chemists and only
a very minute amount has been
brought to this country.
DR.. Blakeslee reported that his ex-
periments throw grave doubts on one
of the established dictums of pSychol-
ogy-that different tastes such as bit
ter, sweet and sour are experienced
on fixed areas of the mouth and
tongue. He found that some persons
taste "bitter" way down in the throat
while for others the bitter area seems
to be barely inside the lips. He
found evidence that the locations Of
these taste areas shift from time to
time.
Time Stands Still Years.
The wierd story of man for whom
time stood still more than three years
was reported here today.
1t was told to psychologists attend
ing sessions Of the association by DR..
Hans Syz, the New York physician
who attended the victim of this
strange mind jam and eventually re-
stored him to normal, largely by
means of hypnosis.
This was a case of amnesia in re-
verse, the second of its kind in med
ical records. The man fell, striking
the back of his head, while shoveling
snow, and suffered brain conclusion.
Thenceforth he could remember
nothing that happened after the acci-
dent although his memory was as
clear as ever for all the events of his
life before he fell. He was well
Evening star., 1935-12-31
ANGINA PECTOR|S
CURE IS CLAIMED.
Dr.. John C. Krantz, Jr., M. U.
Scientist, Reports Use
of Drug as Snuff.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, December 31.-In-
stantaneous relief for the pain Of an
gina pectoris and complete cure for the
disease itself was claimed today by DIR.
John C. Krantz. jr., Of the Univer-
sity Of Maryland. in a report which
he read to the American Association
for the Advancement Of Science.
The cure, he said, is drug called
trichlorethylene, one cubic centimeter
of which Is Snuffed into the nose
when the pains and heart compression
of angina pectoris begin. 1t gives re-
lief within one second.
Used to date on 20 human patients,
DR.. Krantz said it had given perma-
nent relief to 18 of them He ex-
planned that these 18 were apparently
completely cured, with no other treat
ment. The other two cases failed to
benefit, he said.
The treatment, DR.. Krantz said, is
still somewhat mysterious in its mech
anism, but it apparently acts to clear
distractions in the coronary blood
vessels which feed the heart. In an
gina pectoris, he explained, these
coronary vessels lose tone" and de-
crease the supply of oxygen being car
ried to the heart in blood pumped
to it.
Pancreas Extract Aids.
DR.. James C. Munich of the Sharpe
& Dohme Co., Philadelphia, Pa, an
nounced in an interview at the meet
ing that he also had obtained favorable
results in treatment of angina pectoris
and high blood pressure with a sub
stance taken from the pancreas, a
gland in the abdomen.
Suspected of being a hormone, it is
extracted from the pancreas after the
inSulin, hormone secreted in the pam
creaS which is used in the treatment
Of diabetes, is removed, he explained.
According to statistics of the Met
ropolitan Life Insurance Co, the oc-
currence of angina pectorts in the
United States has been growing rap
idly. In 1915 the death rate was only
IS persons per 100000 population. In
1880 the rate had climbed to 80, and
b. 1885 it reached 100. 1t is more
frequent among men than among
women.
Asthma Aid Found.
A new medical treatment for
bronchial asthma, which stops the
strangling paroxysms of this common
malady by an upside-down position
in coughing, was reported.
The coughing is preceded by reme-
dies to loosen the lung and bronchial
passages. The treatment was de-
scribed by Noel F. Shambaugh, M. D :,
assistant clinical professor Of medicine.
University OF Southern California.
The position, which roughly initiates
a monkey hanging by its tail. was sug-
gested by laboratory studies of the
nature of this disease. 1t was found
that an internal sweeping out, like
busting a room, was likely to relieve
most of the trouble.
The internal dust" is made up Of
products of chronic inflammation in
volving lungs, air passages and lymph
| glands.
Coughing upside down furnishes the
broom" effect on these internal dusts
Before the coughing begins, DR..
Shambaugh said, the internal parti-
cles are loosened up by taking either
terpent hydrate, iodides, guiacol am
monium chloride or compound tincture
Of benzon by steam inhalation.
Evening star., 1935-12-31
SILENCE HAMPERS
PR|GNANO PROBE
Auto Salesman Refuses Po-
lice Data on Car Aban-
/, doned in Killing.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 31.-Blank
walls of silence such as usually con-
fronted the police in the Chicago
gang slayings of prohibition days
hampered their efforts today TO trace
the killer trio who shot down State
Representative Albert J. Prignano
Sunday night in the old bloody twen-
tieth" ward.
Angelo Lazzia, an automobile sales
man, from whom Police Capt. John
Norton sought to learn about the
ownership of car abandoned by the
killers, refused to talk.
Deals Made by Lazzia.
Police quoted Daniel Mulcahy, Laz-
zia's employer, as saying his agency
purchased the car July 90 from one
Joe Monica and sold it September 18
to a Sam Lapicola, Lazzia handling
both deals.
At rooming house where Lapicola' s
State certificate of title to the car
was mailed the police were told he
was not known.
A police squad shot off Lazzia's hat
last night at his home as he tried to
escape. In the home a revolver was
found of the same caliber as the one
which killed Prignano. The gun was
given to ballistics experts for study.
At Lazzia's residence police found a
car belonging To Mike Russo friend
of the salesman. Russo said he gave
it TO Lazzia month ago to sell and
had not seen LaZzia since. Russo was
held for further questioning.
Politics Thought Involved.
The police. although regarding the
robbery motive as possibility,
worked on the theory the Staying
actually was inspired by politics of
the ward, which was favorite battle
ground of, the prohibition gangs.
Prignano was a Democrat, but DO
lice said ward politics had been BIZ
partisan and that he and Alderman
William v. Pacelli, Republican leader
OF the district, had not interfered with
each others political maneuvers since
1884, when Prignano was elected.
Pacelli underwent an operation two
months ago and went to Florida to
recuperate.