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Evening star., 1935-12-15


employed in the following ways:
Exceptions Listed.
1. Agricultural labor.
2. Domestic service in a private
home.
8. Services by officers or crews Of
vessels in United States waters.
4. Services by an individual en-
ployed by member of his own family.
S. Governmental services, national,
State or local
6. Service for non-proflt organiza-
tions devoted to religious, charitable,
scientific, literary or educational
purposes.
There are two other important gen.
eral exceptions. A worker to be ell
gible for unemployment compenSa-
tion must be employed in establish
ments employing eight or more work.
ers. Also he must have been en-
ployed for a certain number Of weeks
during the preceding year.
If all the States participated in the
program, about so per cent of those
employed in this country would be
included. Estimates based on fairly
normal times (the census of 1930)
give the total number Of gainfully
employed as 48,830,000. With the
various exemptions, the net total ELI
gible for unemployment compensa-
ton would be 22,874,000.
The total revenue estimated by re-
searchers for the Kansas Legislative
Council. ranging from the l to the
per cent tax on pay rolls, is from
1884, 100000 in the calendar year
1885 to SCOT 100000 in the calendar
year 1851.
If you are business man and your
annual pay roll Is $4,000, you will
pay 5000 under the per cent tax in
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
PRICE Of FOOD
H|GHERHERE

Washingtonians can read this
and take up another notch in
their belts.
The Bureau Of Labor statistics
of the Labor Department today
reported retail food prices in
Washington continue to increase.
The cost of foodstuffS during
the week ending December 18,
here mounted eighttenths Of
percent, although the average in
all the South Atlantic States, in
which Washington is grouped,
the average increase was only two
tenthS Of l per cent.
Food prices here. according to
the bureaus statement, were II
per cent higher last December
than during the same month in
1888 and 20.1 per cent greater
than in December of 1892.
Despite this increase, prices of
food here are still PAT per cent
lower than in 1929.
The cost of living in Decem-
her in Peoria, ILL.,, decreased 40
per cent. In New Haven a drop
Of 3.5 per cent was reported.
Dallas reported the largest in.
crease. IL per cent.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
IF GOLD
CLAUSE ENDS,
COURT TOLD
BY International News Service

by lntefnhLlOHAl NeW8 SeENACS
Attorney General Homer S
Cummings told the Supreme
Court today that the natior
would be plunged back into
chaos" if the congressional Law
abrogating the gold clause ir
bonds is held unconstitutional.
The Attorney General, tracing
the history of financial and mon
etary legislation since President
Roosevelt's bank holiday, said the
gold cases affect the whole struc.
ture.
He argued that Congress had
ample power to say that bonds
which contained a provision that
they are payable in gold shall be
paid in currency instead.
bad" Effects Listed
The five appeals before the
court contend that Congress VIC
lated the sanctity of contract by
the abrogation. And in two cases
payment of bonds is demanded in
money equivalent to the present
high price Of gold.
Mr.. Cummings listed the follow.
ing effects of a decision holding
the act invalid:
The entire gold clause debt,
public and private, would be
raised $4,000 million dollars.
A total of 1900 million dol
lars would be added to the pub
lie debt.
Government interest charges
would be raised 2,500 million
dollars a year.
He portrayed the result as "a
stupendous catastrophe" All gold
clauses, he said, must fall before
the nations right of self preser.
vation.
For all practical purposes, in.
valuation of the gold clause in
contracts, public and private, by
the Supreme Court would mean
that the major portion of debtors
in the United States, including the
Government, would be forced to
pay $1.7O for every dollar owed.
The mere question of the pay,
ment of debts in physical gold is
inconsequential.
Not Gold Enough
That couldn't be done because
there isn't enough gold in which
to pay, officials say. The present
stocks at the new value amount
to eight billion 254 million dollars
while the outstanding obligations
payable in gold total from 225
billion to $50 billion dollars.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
HEALTH SURVEY
NEW JOB PLAN

white collar" workers would
be employed in a city-wide health
survey to follow up each case of
a reported dangerous disease until
it is cured, under a plan an,
nounced today by Commissioner
George E. Allen.
The project will be discussed by
q work planning committee meet
ing tomorrow to outline work pro-
jects which will fit into the Presi.
dents new policy of Supplanting
direct relief with work relief.
Commissioner Allen pointed out
that there are thousands of per.
sons in washington suffering
from highly infectious diseases
without recourse to proper medi.
cal treatment.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
Bank Robbery Suspect
Held on $25,O0OB Bond
Ernest White Crins
DerisiveIy When
Given Hearing

His pasty face wreathed in a
derisive smile, Ernest M. White
22, charged with the robbery 1t
a Riggs National Bank runner at
Union Station, December II, and
the robbery OF a liquor store, was
held unGer $25 900 bond today fol
lowing preliminary hearing be.
fore Judge Gus A. Schuldt in Po.
lice Court.
Judge Schuldt continued, until
January % the hearing on the
Station shooting and robbery be.
cause Frank M La Porte, 53-year-
old bank runner, is still confined
to his home as a result of gun
shot wounds said to have been
inflicted by White when ne
snatched money bag, containing
81 200 from La Porte. Bond in this
case was set at $4,000.
Following a preliminary hear
ing on the robbery of the Atlas
Liquor Company store, in the
first block L Street, Northeast,
December "a, Judge Schuldt held
White for action of the Grand
Jury, under $4,000 bond.
John Caspar. 63-year-old en-
ploye of the store testified the
defendant entered the store
about 1920 a. m, a handker.
chief covering the lower part of
his face and ordered him to get
behind the counter. The defend.
ant had his hand held low and
appeared to have a gun, Mr..
Caspar said. He watched the
man scoop up approximately $40O
from the till and run for the
door, he stated. Mr.. Caspar then
called police who arrested White
on Mr.. CaSpar's description.
Detective Sergeant E. F. Lewis
arrested White January 3 at his
home in the 700 block Fourth st.
N. w., according to his testimony
He stated White told him:
you've got the dope all right,
but won't tell you anything
you can get that in court"
Detective Lewis stated White
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
camp Demolished
With Rate Raise

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
UN.SO O.-Service at the Cotton.
wood transient camp, in the Black
Forest, northwest of here, isn't up
to the standard demanded by the
occupants. When the Government
recently made a new regulation,
OF which they disapproved, they
went on strike and broke up the
establishments supply of crockery.
The objections were aimed at a
change in weekly allowance from
80 cents per week, plus soap and
clothing, to 81 and no extras,
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
| { UE FIGHT
REOPENS IN
SENATE
D. Intsrnational Sew, service

~ AhSOEnAuOna4 news service
The 14-year-old campaign for
American adherence to the Per
manent (World) Court of Inter.
national Justic, which the League
OF Nations established in 1920,
was reopened today when the
senate Foreign Relations Commit
tee met to act on a new resolu.
ton Of entry.
The overwhelming administra.
tion majority on the committee it
was reported. will propose a reso.
luton Of adherence without pro-
tecting the United States against
advisory opinions.
Has Roosevelt o. X.
This procedure was said to have
the approval of President Roose-
welt. It would mean scrapping the
old fifth reservation. Which
blocked American adherence to
the court in 1925 and would con-
stltute a direct change of face on
the part Of the United States.
The old fifth reservation, pro
posed originally by Secretary of
the Navy Claude Swanson while a
member Of the Senate, provided: {:
Nor shall 1t (the COURT with
cut the consent Of the United
States, entertain any request for
IN advisory opinion touching
any dispute or question in which
che United States has or claims
IN interest"
The Senate adopted it in 1926
by a vote of 81 to /,
This reservation, stripping the
court of all power even to ENTER.
tain" an advisory opinion on sub
3ects involving the United States,
was opposed by other signatory
nations. In the end, the American
bid for entry was defeated.
Fight in Senate
The present drive for American
adherence is based on the Root
Hurst formula. This merely would
give the United States the right
to withdraw from the court if it
"entertained" or issued an advis-
OEy opinion on a subject, ODJecCeQ
to by the United States.
It would permit the court to IS
sue such opinions but the United
States could quit the court, with
out any imputation of unfriendli.
ness or unwilingness to cooperate
generally for peace and good will"
This right Of withdrawal, Incl.
dentally, has accrued to every
other Signatory power and has
been exercised by Germany.
Senate irreconcilables will fight
the Scrapping of the old fifth res
ervation, even though they oppose
adherence itself. A major fight un.
doubtedly will be precipitated in
the Senate.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09

To the Editor of The Times:
With the help Of your valu-
able papers and patriotic citi-
zens we can make our Capital
a smokeless and prosperous city
by getting a bill passed by Con-
greSs to permit a municipality
owned hydroelectric plant. The
water power of the Potomac
River and its branches could be
developed and with the i'm
proved machines the electric
current can be developed at 4
mills per kilowattrhour and sold
at about 6 mills per kilowatt
to heat and light all of our
city.
A low rate for. current would
attract manufacturers. We
must try to prevent land specu.
lation in the southeastern Sec
tion along the Potomac River
to GeiSboro Point and in the
Loughboro section in the west,
which would be suitable for
manufacturing centers. With an
increased pay roll Of so per
cent it would add greatly to
the prosperity of our city and
do away with the large number
of unemployed.
We should epdeavor to get
Col. Harold IckeS. Secretary of
the Interior, to purchase the
assets of the Chesapeake and
Ohio canal and build a national
boulevard from the Capital Of
our Nation to Cumberland, Md,
making a direct route to the
West.
It has been the talk along
'little Wall Street" Fifteenth
Street, that certain interests
have always opposed the plans
with great energy and with sue
cess. So, let all good citizens
give q push and have a clean
and prosperous city for the
Capital of the greatest Nation
the sun ever shone on.
L. C. ENGLE.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
Headache Caused
BY Shrapnel Bit

MUNICH, 0.N.SO.-Jacob Kup-
per. Of Eppenbrunn, southern
Bavaria. a World War veteran,
was operated on in the local clinic
for persistent headache. Surgeons
found shrapnel splinter an inch
and a half long in the
back Of his head. Kupper while
fighting with Bavarian regiment
in Rumania in 1915 was slightly
wounded. He refused to leave his
post for what he regarded as only
q scratch.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
CCC Revolt Ended,
113 Back in Camp

WEST ORANGE, N. j., Jan. 9
G.N.S).-The revolt in the CCC
camp on Orange Mountain here,
which started when 125 workers
marched out of camp because of
alleged grievances, today had
ended with the reinstatement of
113 workers, after they had been
fined So each, and the dismissal
of II others, alleged to have been
the ringleaders
The principal grievance Of the
strikers was against the rule
which requires each worker to be
in his bunk at II p. m.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
Relief Waste
To the Editor of The Times:

To the Editor OF The Times:
Referring to your story in Fri
days Times on President Roose.
velt's determination to end the
dole, think that every taxpayer
in the United States feels the
same way.
l have found that a large per
centage of relief cases land I
would not dare say how large a
percentage) don't want to work.
Being out Of work may impair a
mans morale-but being on the
relief saps him of any ambition
he might have possessed.
Mind you, am not referring
to men too sick to work. or
women with babies to feed, but
men who managed to keep the
wolf from the door before relief
was even suggested. Men who
have no incentive to work be.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
Needy as Police
To the Editor of The Times:

4O L6AO GOAGO1 VI 44AC 4A4ACCs
Within our District we have a
great shortage of that which is
of the most Importance to the
good and welfare of this COM
munity-policemen.
The New Deal as now revised
will take off thousands of those
on relief, with or without work.
Why not take 5000 of those who
are eXmarineS, exsoldiers and
sailors who would make real pro-
tectors for the defencelesS and
place them on the roll (not dole)
as policemen.
There are so many holdups
every day that are not captured
on account of that police short
age. So get busy "brain-trus-
ters" and efficiency men and
especially Harry L. Hopkins, Le-
roy H. Halbert, Elwood Street
and show us what you can really
do. WILLIAM WAUDBY.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09

cause they know their rent will
be paid and their larders sup
piled with food. Men who spend
more energy trying not to work
than it would cost them if they
held down a job.
We have spent millions on re-
ief-and. in my experience, rs
per cent Of that money was
thrown away AMERICAN.
A BackSlapper
To the Editor of The Times:
Washington may have more
automobile accidents and kill
and MAIN more of it's citizens
in reckless disregard of traffic
rules and regulation than any
city in the world, but I think we
deserve a pat on the back for
behaving ourselves rather well
during the holidays.
Although we have just passed
through the first Christmas and
New Year holiday season since
repeal Of prohibition, there
was comparatively little dis
order when you consider that
we have what you might call a
floating population" of almost
100000 persons, brought here
by temporary jobs with emer.
gency agencies of the Govern
ment.
Most Of us when away from
home, especially during a
season when the "bridle" is
more or less off, are disposed to
frolic a little more and kick up
our heels a little higher than
we do when under the critical
eyes of the folks we have to live
with all the time.
Consequently, I think 1t Is
particularly commendable that
with this vast temporary popu.
lation in our midst, there was
so little trouble of a serious
nature. HOPEFUL.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09

had not yet been charged with the
shooting of Mr.. La Porte, but a
charge Of assault with a deadly
weapon would be placed against
him following the hearing before
the Grand Jury on the robbery
charge.
The Washington times., 1935-01-09
Letters to the Editor

Letters the Editor should 200
signed by the Driter Uth address,
confidential publication
deonGe nDited
Evening star., 1935-05-11
Plenty Of Shooting at
Earle Theater This Week
Machine Guns, Gangsters and Department of
Justice Men Make Things Lively for the
Customers Stage Show.

take lessons IN advanced wrestling.
Then, after your muscles are in order,
and you are some sort of an edition
of Mr. Lionel Stronghold. you may go
out in the world prepared to deal with
the country's public enemies.
This, Cagney does with a right
good will-although he is shorter in
size than perhaps the department
would have him, carrot-headed and
not tn. type of man who would SEEM
ingly be able to floor Capone. Never
knowledge of the criminal grey-matter
profound, and he winds up his case
with road-house battles and suchlike
which could easily put Bull Run out
of the running.
Through the plot of this exciting
narrative. Cagney is heckled by Robert
Armstrong, loved by Ann Dvorak tal-
though he doesn't know it, and even
tually walked off with by Margaret
Lindsay. Collins. chief gangster, is
we'll played by Barton MacLane, and
assistant toughieS are handled excel
lently by Russell Hopton, William
aarTledn, regis 4ooHiey anu OItielS'
The stage show includes a little
bit of everything and nothing very
much. with such performers as Fred
Sanborn and his xylophone, the Three
Little Words, Ross, Pierce and Schus
ter (they get big hand, Barr and
Estes and the Lucky Boys featured.
Yesterdays afternoon audience went
crazy over all of them. All, we'll!
E. de S. M.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
PIANO RECITAL.

Helen Spasoff was presented In a
piano recital last evening by Felicia
Rybier She played trying pi iogram
before a large audience at the Wash
ington Club. Miss Spasoff has
gracious manner and plays with a
singing tone of unusual volume for so
young a pianist. Her work in the 80
variations of Beethoven, with which
she opened the program, was excel
lent, her scales, arpeggios and cadenzas
being clean and clear and the crisp
ness of her chords refreshing. This
same clarity and exactnesS was out
standing in her playing of Prokofief's
''Marche" toward the close of the
program. Her singing tone and legato
made the Brahms "Intermezzo in c
Major" and the Debussy Clair de
Lune" stand out on program which
left the listener almost breathless from
the velocity of the more brilliant COM
positions and the ponderousness of
the others.
Miss Spasoff obtained remarkable
results from a piano with a tone more
brilliant than warm, though in her
effort for velocity she lost the clarity
which was noticeable in the Beethoven
variations and her too generous use
of the sustaining pedal marred many
of the more fiorid passages. Her ar
tistic shading and phrasing IS out
standing. K. 3.
Evening star., 1935-05-11

MEN" the new Warner
Brothers picture at the
Earle, is a fast-moving
story of banditry, law and
order. exciting, rough and
occasionally amusing. Set against a
background of most of the famous
gankster escapades of the past few
years, it Smooths out its troubles
through the weather eye of the De-
partment of Justice-and is never so
happy as when the chief G man
James Cagney) is taking a pot-shot
at public enemy.
Although it is rumored that the
Justice boys do not care for the fact
that their men are shown continually
embroiled with machinG-gun desper-
adoS, there is no denying that Holly
wood has picked out some Of the better
fights with which to point its moral.
Certainly the major criminal flsticuff
encounters, merged into single hours
entertainment, make for handsome
entertainment-and If you jump out
of your seat every time pistol is
cracked, you will spend your afternoon
or evening jumping.
James Cagney. the young man whose
friend has been unceremoniously
bumped off by the badmen, turns to
the Justice Department after realizing
that his law practice will not help him
to avenge his crony. In washington
he finds that in order to be G man
you must first swing from parallel bars,
punch your neighbor in the jaw and
Evening star., 1935-05-11
FUN ON STAGE
AND SCREEN is
THE FOX IDEA
Feature Picture Is a Bur.
lesque, and Carroll
Revue Ranks High.

The bill of fare at Loew's Fox this
week is dedicated to laughs and, we
are happy to report, more laughs.
On the stage the wizards of F street
have mustered one of the funniest
revues seen about this city in many
a moon, while the screen divertise-
ment is a little nifty entitled Baby
Face Harrington" burlesquing the
gangster flickers, Caspar Milquetoast,
Charlie Butterworth and even itself
now and then.
All those anti-vaudeville fiends who
have been sulking in corner for the
last six months will have to break
down and repent after trip to the
Earl Carroll revue this week. Staged
with the usual pulchritudinous pre-
tensions, this show is at its best In
waggish moments, presenting Mitchell
and Durant, the Three Samuel Broth
ers, whose dancing is trimmed in
comedy, and Helen Charleston, a
mimic and songbird Of the first order.
Rosie Moran, Barbara Snyder and
Donald Burr also contribute bits and.
as the advertisements promise. you
may look upon the most beautiful
girls in the world-or at least in any
local stage show between Friday, May
10 and May II.
The Mitchell and Durant team, a
blithe combination, has been stopping
as many shows as the law allows
since the opening of the Carroll unit
here Their humor is lily-like 1T COM
parison to some of the wicked jests
invented by Mr. CAROLS iibrettist,
but they are far out in front in the
race for laughs.
Charles Butterworth and Una Mer-
KEEL have stolen so many pictures
betwixt them that M-G-M decided at
last to give these cheerful people a
little cinema all their own. That
gift to the Butterworth-M -Merkle fans
devotes itself to the vacuous whimsies
Of MI Butterworth, the man who
could never be the life of the party,
and to Miss Merkel's trials and tribu-
lations as his ambitious spouse Poor
Willie. beset by the small devils OF
despair at every turn. finally succeeds
in being great success as Public
Enemy No. 2, after a news-arid city
room invents him for the amusement
of its readers. All the laughs in
Baby Face Harrington" 1manate
from slender sources, but handled by
two such accomplished fun-n1akers,
the dizzy tale wears the air of sure
fire comedy.
The Fox program also includes an
other comedy, not so funny, and some
short subjects. Phil Lampkln has
consecrated his overture to Mothers
day. r. B. P Jr.
Evening star., 1935-05-11
BY ALICE EvERSMAN.

N Artist Program of Music
n for the VIOLIN" presented by
"A pupils of Josef Kaspar last
4 \ evening at Barker Hall. add
ed another brilliant achieve
ment to the many similar events
given during the long and successful
career of this veteran master teacher.
All participants showed well-de-
yeloped mechanism of both finger
technique and bow arm and played
with thorough understanding and
security.
The first number scheduled was
the Handel Sonata in E Major" for
two violins and piano, played by Mary
Park Clements, Helen Foster and Lucy
Brickenstein. This was followed by
the first movement of the Viotti's
Concerto in A Minor" by Evelyn
Scott, and the Paganini Concerto in
D Major" played by Albert Parga-
ment, together with the Bach Suite
No. 3 in D Major" for a 17-piece
orchestra, which two numbers closed
the progam, can be considered the
high lights of the evening.
AlIIIOuBIl MIDI OCOII 10 OAiAy q AS
cent addition to the KaSpar ranks,
having already enjoyed a reputation
as a soloist, she showed marked prog
ress and played with new vibrancy
and fulness of tone, as well as a
rounded finger technique. Mr.. Par
gament has also made great strides
since his last Springs appearance. To
play Paganini is a feat In itself, and
Mr.. Pargament acquitted himself with
honors. 1t is to be regretted. however,
that his vibrato has acquired a new
tremololike quality which often mars
the beauty Of tone, but this may
have been due. in part. to a natural
excitement.
OF the youthful performers, Helen
Wooten showed much promise in "The
Russian Airs" by De Beriot, and Jo-
sephine Cole was heard to good ad-
vantage in the Vieuxtemps' Concerto
in F Sharp Minor" Gerald Rodisky's
performance of the first part Of the
Mendelssohn Concerto in E Minor"
was a confirmation of the solidity OF
his technical foundation and good
Evening star., 1935-05-11
SCHOOL CONCERT.

National Music week was celebrated
by the Chevy Chase School of Music
and Dance with an intimate concert
in the Elizabeth v. Brown School.
The concert was under the direction
Of Prof. A. Nimmerrichter, who was
assisted by Nine Nimmerrichter and
Gustav Heintze. The concert was well
attended and talent was displayed by
several Of the youngsters. Five-year-
old Dicky Barthelmess, at the piano,
played Sweet Dreams"
Others who participated in the con-
cert were Jean Redmiles, Jane and
Robin Livesay. Harvey Blumenthal,
Jasmine Armstrong, Frances Becker,
Nancy Ann Jones, Jean Finch, Ken
meth De Witt, Alice and Robert Davey.
Doris, Beverly and Richard Baker,
Charles Maidens, Edith Breeze, Jean
Maiden, Guin Cardwell, Maryan
Parks, Robert Huey. Mildred Whit
low, Marcia Erskine, Betty June
Sanders, Mary v. Shumate, Mary
Becker, Charles Clayton. Raymond
Catlin, David Hawkins, Emmy Lou
Ehlman, Florence Sarah Gwin, Mar
garet Ehlman, Charles Fowler, John
White, Jean Meiners, Lee Benjamin,
Marjory Higgins, Carol Howard. Billy
Hall, Ralph Sherwood, Hilda and
Ruth Wilson. Erna Mollori and
Frances Erwin.