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Evening star., 1935-06-14
FINNAN READY FOR WORK.
$1,O0O.OOO Fund Allotted and Force
Organized for Parks Jobs.

$1,000 Fund Allotted and Force
Organized for Parks Jobs.
Advised today that the Treasury De-
partment Is issuing a warrant for
81 o0O. 900. recently allotted out of the
old Public Works Administration
funds, c. Marshall Finnan, Superin-
tendent of the National Capital Parks,
announced that on Monday he will
start getting his new organization to-
gether to make Improvements in the
local parks system. AS a maximum.
when the program is going full tilt"
Finnan said that there will be between
$50 and 200 men at work as per diem
workers, taken from the District re-
lief rolls. This will be in addition to
the number of men to be employed
by contractors.
Finnan will build up force Of his
own for some Jobs. such as horticul-
tural work. but sidewalks and other
construction will be by contract.
One of the first allotments from the
fund will be $4,000 for roads in
Union Square. This will involve high
way construction in the line of Sec
ond street, between Pennsylvania and
Maryland avenues, and the continual
ton of the North and South Vista
drives.
Lafayette Square. opposite the White
House; Franklin Park. Marion and
Folger Parks will be among those to
benefit. Sidewalks will be constructed,
soil rehabilitated, new shrubs and
trees planted and grass Sown.
President Roosevelt's executive order
of June 7, extending expenditure of
funds under the $4,000, ,000, 900 P. w. A
funG beyond Sunday, when the ma
tional industrial act expires, clarifies
the situation for the local park fund.
Doubt existed for a time about this
inasmuch as park authorities
could not get it obligated before June
Is. The Chief Executives order makes
the way clear, authorities said today,
to the spending of the $l,000.000 in
the most economical fashion.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
GIRL, 9, BADLY CUT

Doris Hurbert, 8, colored, 800 block
of H street southwest, was In serious
condition in Providence Hospital today
as result of being cut across the
abdomen in her home last night by a
20-year -old colored youth. who slaShed
at q young colored woman, but hit the
child instead. Police broadcast q
lookout for the youth.
Robert Smith, 90, colored, of the
800 block of Elm street, was stabbed
in the lung last night during a fight
which police say took place in q build
ing at Seventeenth and U streets.
Police are seeking his assailant.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
"FAN DANCE" PRISONER
. DEMANDS JURY TRIAL
Policewomen Testify at Arraign-
ment of Two Charged With
Improper Exhibition.

One Of two alleged "fan dancers, F"
arrested last night by Policewomen
Alice Parrish and B. v. Ball, pleaded
not guilty and demanded a jury trial
when arraigned before Judge John p.
Mcmahon in Police Court today on
charges of having given an improper
exhibition.
The one demanding jury trial was
Edith Roden, who was arrested at the
Cotton Club. The others case was
continued until tomorrow. She was
Virginia Brown of the Johnny J..
Jones Exposition.
The policewomen stated that in
both instances the women were prac-
tically without attire except for their
fans.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
Drill Team to Parade.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS, Nd, June IA
(SpeciaD The drill team of the
Ladies Auxiliary Of the Prince Georges
County Volunteer Firemen's Associa-
ton will participate In the parades at
Oakland during the convention o. %
State F1remen's Association, Mrs. May
Baker, drillmistress, announced.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
RETIRED D. c. POLICEMAN
EXPIRES AT LEESBURG
Charles A. McWilliams Was Ap-
pointed in 1o25-Rites to
Be Tomorrow.

Be tomorrow.
Charles A. McWilliams, retired Dis
trict policeman, died Wednesday at
Leesburg, Va, 1t was learned today.
He was born January IL, 1896.
McWilliams was appointed to the
police force mere January /, 1925, and
retired August /, 1881. He began
service with the first precinct and
later was attached to the eighth pre-
cinct.
Funeral services will be held In Ar
lington National Cemetery tomorrow
at IL am.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
HEARING CALLED
TO FIX TAXI RATE
Utilities Commission, Back
ed by New Law, Sets
July 3 for Quiz.

Armed for the first time in several
years with what it considers adequate
legal authority. the Public Utilities
Commission has stepped into Wash
ington's turbulent taxicab muddle and
called public hearing for July to
f1x uniform zones and rates.
Moving boldly where heretofore it
has been hesitant and evasive, the
commission announced the hearing as
soon as President Roosevelt late yes
terday affixed his signature to the 1886
District supply bill, which gives it the
necessary legal power to control cabs
here.
Commission Helpless.
Throughout the recent taxicab strike
The commission was helpless, although
it strove to conceal this fact and ex-
ercise some measure of control to
expedite a return to normal condi-
tons
The appropriations measure con-
tinueS Congress prohibition against
regulations requiring meters, but states
that none of the appropriation may
be used "for or in connection with
the licensing of any vehicle to be
operated as a taxicab except for
operation in accordance with such
system of uniform zones and rates
and regulations applicable thereto as
shall have been prescribed by the
Public Utilities Commission"
Court Ruled Zones Illegal.
Previously, the District Supreme
Court had stated any zone system
would be illegal under the existing
law. This, together with the meter
ban, stripped the commission OF all
power over taxis.
July 3 is the earliest date on which
such a hearing legally can be held
since it is necessary to comply with
certain prescribed periods of notice.
It was impossible today to fore
cast whsther the present standard
rHges will be continued, since mem
bers of the commission are believed
to have no preconceived opinions.
The commission frankly favors q
meter system, but this is made i'm
possible by the stand taken by Con-
areSs.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
Joins State Group.

CAPITOL HEIGHTS. Md, June IA
(SpeciaD The Ladies Auxiliary of
the Capitol Heights Volunteer Fire
Department has joined the Ladies'
Auxiliary of the State Firemen's Asso-
citation, Mrs. Magdalene M. Schmidt,
president of the local outfit, an
nounced.
Evening star., 1935-06-14
TrolIeys Held Safest for Travel TO
Kensingt0n.

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE, June l4.-Claiming it
Is impossible to render safe bus service
to passengers in place of the street
car line between Chevy Chase and
washington, r. H.. Phillips, secretary
of the Kensington Railway Co., yes
terday protested the elimination Of
street car service by the Capital
Transit Co. on the Chevy Chase line.
Phillips based his protest on the
fact that the roadway between Chevy
Chase Lake and Kensington is only
one-half the width of the roadway
from the District line TO Chevy Chase
Evening star., 1935-07-18
Boy Dro,cns in Summing Pool
After Falling Off Spring Board

Terrified, David ran home to tell
his mother. and David's father re-
turned with him to the scene. Mean
while, Mailman Edward Klein Of 6220
Seventh street, found the child float
ing on the water as he passed the
pool on short cut on his route to
another street.
Klein pulled the little body from the
pool, calling to the Gibbs servants to
summon assistance. The rescue squad
and an ambulance from Emergency
Hospital responded. Doctors could de-
tect no spark Of life in the child's
body, but firemen. encouraged by the
fact that John had been In the water
only short time, administered arti-
fetal respiration.
According TO Johns nursemaid.
Fanny Flint. she saw her young
charge playing In his front yard not
more than I'VE miEutes befoR he was
found in the pool shortly Gre 10
o'clock
Evening star., 1935-07-18
Is, 900 Red Cross Aid Stations
To Enter Safety Campaign

way have been asked to cooperate by
carrying first-aid kits and assigning
at least one man trained in first-aid
to each crew. Trucks thus qualified
will bear the Red Cross sign.
Present plans call for permanent
Bureau of Public Safety here to CO.
ordinate the work Of the many CO.
operating organizations. While Red
Cross officials have been working on
the plan for some time, the whole
program is still in the formative stage.
it was said.
Meanwhile, the Census Bureau an
nounced 3 per cent increase in the
automobile death rate during the year
ending July 6 over the preceding II
months.
In the year just closed there were
9,0l3 deaths from automobile acci-
dents, or a rate Of 24.1 per 100 900
Of population, in the Sc cities report
ing. The corresponding period q year
ago showed s,764 deaths, or q rate
of ass.
Camden. N. J., had the highest rate
for the year, with IT'S, compared with
772 q year as when that city also
was high. San Francisco was lowest,
with lo.7. against il.o last year.
Evening star., 1935-07-18

The rescue squad battled for more
than two hours and half this morning
in determined effort to save the life
of 4-year-old John Cutler Of 1922
Blagden avenue, who was found In q
neighbor's swimming pool shortly after
he tumbled from the springboard while
at play with q small companion.
The boy was finally pronounced dead
at noon after the squad had used up
more than FIVE tanks of oxygen in its
resuscitation efforts. Coroner A.
Magruder Macdonald issued GER
tificate Of accidental death.
John, son of Attorney John Ward
Cutler, had gone with his friend
through the hedge which separates his
back yard from that of DR.. M.
r. Gibbs, head of the Peoples
Drug Stores. at 1900 Sixteenth street.
He and the other child, David Shap-
pario, 5, of 4Sll Seventeenth street,
we're playing about the edge Of he
Gibbs pool when John slipped u
the deep water.
Evening star., 1935-07-18
ALCOHOL TAX UNIT
LETS OUT 1856 men
Personnel Numbers ALSO, Slight.
ly Higher Than Before
Forced Examinations.

Final figures cn c-smissals in the
alcohol tax unit OF the Internal Rev.
enue, because of ''overmanning, u
show 385 men wcIe let out, effective
this week.
This leaves the enforcement per-
sonnel at also, which is ;lightly
higher than it was before the much
discussed McKellar rider forced ex-
aminations, as a Jesuit OF which many
men were eliminated trom the service.
When the examinations depleted the
force below strength, more men were
added; then .hs Treasury Secretary
determined some of those let out by
virtue of the examinations were done
an injustice, and tney. were taken
back.
This double increase. Treasury off,
cials explained, built up the outfit
until it was overlnanred.
Evening star., 1935-07-18

The American Red Cross is laying
plans for countrywide drive against
automobile fatalities this Fall through
establishment OF $4,000 roadside first
aid stations and the training OF vol
urteers to man them.
The huge organization and educa-
tional program was announced today
by Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson.
chairman Of the Red Cross. who said
the 3,700 local chapters win be drawn
on heavily tor the field work.
1t is planned to use existing facili-
ties in locating the first-aid stations
in roadside buildings at strategic
points throughout the country. Man
and woman volunteers win be trained
in first aid work and placed in charge
Of the stations.
In addition to rendering frst aid
at the scene of accidents, the vol
unteers win show motion pictures and
give first aid talks to persons In
terested.
Stations qualified by equipment and
personnel win display oficial Red
Gross frst aid sid
Telephone COM pies whose trucks
and repair crsNV he on every high
Evening star., 1935-07-18
INFORMED.
OF i. S. PEACE AIM
Moral Support for Leagues
Efforts Seen in Phillips
Statement.
BY the Associated Press.

Emphasizing the American Govern.
ment's desire for a peaceful settlement
of the Italo-Ethiopian crisis, William
Phillips, acting Secretary of State, re.
vealed today that all American ENJOYS
abroad have been authorized to in
form other powers of the United
States attitude.
Phillips statement, coinciding with
announcement in Geneva that the
League of Nations would convene aext
week in an attempt to achieve a peace
fui settlement of the African dispute
was interpreted by some observers as
lending moral support to the Leagues
efforts.
This country will not be represent
ed by an observer at the League ses-
sion, Phillips said, because the Italo.
Ethiopian controversy is considered oi
chief concern to European nations.
ENJOYS Are Informed.
American Ambassadors and Min
listers in European countries, however
have been advised of this Nations
stand, he added, and are keeping in
close touch with the governments to
which they are accredited concerning
all developments.
Phillips said Secretary Hull had in
vited the Italian, British and French
Ambassadors to the State Department
to obtain their views of the situation
and to clarity their Government S
position.
Phillips revealed for the first time,
officially, that Hull had diplomatically
notified Agusto RoSso, the Italian en-
voy, that the United States would
view hostilities in Africa with deep
concern and sincerely hoped that o
peaceful settlement would be achieved
without recourse to arms.
Observance of War Planned.
If and when war drums sound ir
Africa, United States Army officers
will be close students of equipment
tactics and any new developments in
the art of warfare.
However, War Department officials
declined any comment today on what
plans the United States might have
for observing hostilities in the event
Italy and Ethiopia go to war.
Until after a formal declaration OF
war. they have no Official cognizance'
of threatening hostilities.
May Be Asked to Watch.
Col. Jerome G. Pillow, Cavalry, Is
military attache at Rome, and Lieut.
Thomas White, Air Corps, is assistant
attache for air. Their normal duties
include the gathering Of all Legitimate
information concerning the italian
Army. In the event of actual fighting
they might be invited to observe &C.
ton from the Italian lines.
The United States has no military
attache at Adds Ababa, but officers
now attached to American embassies
in Paris, London or some other Eu.
ropean power might be assigned as
observers with Emperor Halle Selas-
sizes mountain fighters.
Evening star., 1935-07-18
WAR ON POLITICAL
CATHOLICS OPENED
Goering Warns They Must
Give Way to Positive
Nazi Beliefs.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BERLIN July 18-Gen Hermann
Wilhelm Goering, minister of avia-
ton and commander of Germany S
secret police, today issued an order to
criminal prosecution authorities to
enforce strictly the existing DEGREES
against political catholicism"
Goering said this catholicism 'mllst
be overcome by positive national So
cialism."
Foreshadowing the end of al
Catholic youth organizations, hs
stressed the important task which ths
! Hitler youth movement faces in the
present clash between the PHILOSOPHERS
of life
Cultural Fight Rejected.
Today's decree said:
The minister emphatically de-
mands that all authorities promote
the Hitler youth organization II
continued with a claim that Goering
now as before, rejects the idea Of a
cultural fight against the Roman
Catholic Church, but said, "All means
will be invoked against those Catholic
priests who misuse their religious au-
thority."
The order follows shortly after g
bitter protest by the Catholic Church
against the sterilization law, the re-
striction of Catholic youth arganiza-
tions, and the use of Rosenberg's
paganistic book, THE Mystery of the
Twentieth Century" as often causing
a violation of the concordat with the
Vatican.
Catholic priests who are religious
teachers will be tolerated. il the
future. under the terms OF the order
only if they change into Nazi propa-
gandiStS.
Must support Ngxis.
at must be demanded" said the
| decree, that Catholic priests refrain
from expressing negative attitude
toward national socialism. but express
their unlimited support of Nazi ideas. .
At another point the decree stated
eff the Catholic movements do moi
| fundamentally change their attitude
they will be regarded as political or
ganizations and will be forbidden"
Today, just as suddenly as the Nazi
storm troopers were ordered, after
Mondays anti-Jewish riots in the
Kurfuerstendamm, to wear their uni
forms, local storm troop command
ers rescinded that order.
Storm troop. men," said the an
nouncement, you proved fully that
you are ready to do your bit.
The dark figures of wirepullers are
known to you. They will ever find us
ready. The storm troops are watch
ing"
The propaganda ministry interpret
ed the resembling order as positive
proof that normal conditions had been
re-established and that no recurrence
of anti-Jewish riots need be feared.
Nevertheless, anti-Semitic propa-
ganda continued and automobiles of
officials of the labor recreation organ
.ization known as Power Through
Evening star., 1935-07-18
$50 to Share Bonus
Of $4,000 as Mill
Prosperity Revives
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROSSVILLE, Ga, July ia
bonus of SIS, 900 to $4,000 will
be distributed this week end to
$50 employees of Peerless Woolen
Mills. one of the oldest plants of
its kind in Georgia.
Suspended during the depres-
sion, the bonus payment previ-
ously had been paid for many
years.
An official of the mill was
asked today If the payment was
indicative of improved business
in woolen generally. He replied:
Il don't know about that. but
it might be indicative of better
business with U.s."
Evening star., 1935-07-18
COST RULING WON
BY POWER BOARD
May Cut S3,70O,000 Of
Alabama Company's
Claims on Dam.
BY J. A. FOX.

In a case viewed as having vital
bearing on the administration Of the
water power act. the Federal Power
Commission today won the opening
skirmish in a long fight to knock of
more than So, TOO, 900 from the original
costs claimed by the Alabama Power
Co for the huge Mitchell Dam hydro
electric project.
Justice Jennings Bailey in District
Supreme Court, who handed down the
decision, said: The plaintiff volun-
tarily accepted a license from the
Government and is bound by its con-
ditions"
The Alabama company had chai-
lenged the right of the commission to
Ak costs and the amount set in this
determination.
The importance OF ihe original costs
on a hydroelectr;c project lies in the
fact that on 1t must be based rates,
issuance of securities and recapture-
cost to Government or State il the
right to take over the project ID exer-
cised at the termination of the So
year leasehold At tho commission it
was said that tne same question de-
cided by Justice Ba,.ey is tied UP in
projects totaling some s750, 100000
Supreme Court Ruling Cited
In his decision Justice Bailey based
action on the Supreme Court ruling
on the celebrated case of the Clarion
River Power Co. opsi ator of A prof.
ect on Clarion River, Pa. This prop
erty is one belonging tn the Associated
Gas g. Electric Co., row figuring in
the utilities lobbying inquiry, and
on the issues involved the court held
the Power Commission has the right
to determine the o.IeInat costs. CO.
incidentally. the Alabama Power Co.
is one of the properties Of Common
wealth Southern, one of the opponents
Of the Tennessee Valley development.
Deciding the Alabama case, Justice
Bailey said:
Section 4F of the Federal water
power act empowers the commission
to prescribe rules and regulations for
the establishment OF a system Of ac-
counts and for the maintenance
thereof by licenses hereunder.
Following the reasoning of the
Supreme Court in constituting similar
provisions applying to the Interstate
Commerce Commission, think that
the defendant commission has the
power to require the amount found by
is as the cost of the plaintiffs prof.
ect to be carried as that cost on the
latters books of accounts.
Action Held Not Arbitrary.
"The only question that remains is
whether the order of the commission
has been arbitrary is contrary to the
undisputed character of the evidence
and wholly without support In such
evidence The plaintiff was accorded
q full hearing by the commission, ana
while the court might not agree In
toto with its findings, I do not think
that 1t follows that the action OF the
commission was arbitrary. ! find that
there was substantial evidence to sup
port these findings and that conse-
quently it is not for the court to set
them aside. Apparently the only loss
to the defendant that may result from
the order of the commission Is the
cost Of keeping books in the manner
prescribed by the commission. The
plaintiff voluntarily accepted a license
from the Government and is bound by
its conditions
"The bill should be dismissed with
costs"
Evening star., 1935-07-18
KING CALLS ETHIOPIANS
TO ARMS AGAINST ITALY:
WILL LEAD OWN TROOPS
Small States Hold
.LeagueI Is Guardian
Of Ethiopia Rights
Integrity of Nation Must
Be Preserved, Group
to Insist.
BY the Associated Press.

GENEVA, July l8.-League Of Ma.
tions circles said today that smaller
States would demand that the Council,
to deal with the Italo- Ethiopian crisis,
protect the integrity of Ethiopia-to
which Italy, England and France are
committed by the treaty of 1906.
These sources said the League,
facing its sternest test since Japan's
withdrawal, in bringing the East
African controversy "out into the
open," will concentrate its strength in
an effort to prevent an outbreak OF
hostilities.
The League Council must meet
automatically about July IS unless
arbitration of the dispute is resumed
or the conciliation commission asks
for more time Council members al
ready have been asked to stand by for
a call to Geneva.
Since Italy accepted the May reso-
luton providing for conciliation, its
representatives were expected to at
tend the projected session.
Evening star., 1935-07-18
Italy Is Ready.
MussOlini
Asserts.
PATH OF ARMY
NOW CLEARED
Atrocities Charged
to Ethiopians
in Report.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, July l9.-Premier Musso-
lini informed his nation today that
Italys military preparations in her
colony Of Eritrea, east of Ethiopia,
are in excellent shape.
This announcement was contained
In a telegram he sent Gen. Debono,
high commissioner Of Eritrea.
After receiving reports from De-
bono, Mussolini telegraphed:
Il wish to inform the country the
works of the high commissioner have
been developed in all fields with in
tense and ceaseless rhythm so as to
ent and future tasks.
Everything in Readiness.
"All that is necessary for the life
of a population 10 times increased and
of the metropolitan and native army
roads. water. foodStuffs. barracks.
communications, hospitals. and an
infinite number of other necessities
have been provided for despite the
difficulties which. for various reasons,
principally that of great distance, have
been immense
The congestion at the port of Mas
saua, which gave us lively anxiety, is
about to cease. Fascist faith and will
has bent the opposition.
In regard to military services, much
remains to do. but I believe the most
difficult period has passed"
Ambassador Sugimura Of Japan
confirmed today the official Italian
version of representations he made to
Mussolini that Japan has no political
interests in Ethiopia.
He said this assurance was in accord
with general instructions he received
at the time he came to Rome last
December.
Atrocities Charged.
Italy charged Ethiopian tribesmen
today with ''mutilating numerous
children" in a mass attack on de-
fenseless natives of Eritrean Dancal.
Widespread indignation was aroused
as the full details of the alleged raid
on the Italian colony May 81, charged
in propaganda ministry COM
munique, we're published for the first
time today.
MuSSolini's own newspaper. Popolo
DItalia, reviewing the Italo-E Ethiopian
crisis in an article believed to have
been written or at least inspired by
II Duce himself, asserted:
"A. duel opened with arms cannot
be resolved except by arms"
A government spokesman gave as
surance that Italy watched develop
ments toward Ethiopian mobilization
and a special session of the League
of Nations Council. confident of its
own preparedness and the justif1ca-
ton of its cause.
He said that Italy was keenly aware
of Ethiopian military preparations, in
dicating it would not be caught nap
ping by an imminent Ethiopian decla-
ration of general mobilization.
He insisted that Italy was sure
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