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Evening star., 1935-02-06
P.W.A.FRAUD CASE
READY FOR PROBE
Special Grand Jury Quiz of
Texas Deal First of Kind
Since Oil Scandal.

An alleged attempt to use 200 miles
of redwood pipe in $4,853, 900 gravity
irrigation canal in Willacy County,
Tex, today formed the basis of the
first special grand jury investigation
in District Supreme Court since the oil
scandals of the Harding administra-
tion.
The special jury will decide whether
the alleged attempt by Texas State
politicians, public works officials and
contractors to substitute a pressure
project for the planned gravity canal
constituted a conspiracy to defraud
the Government. 1t was emphasized
no national politicians are involved.
Willacy Project Involved.
United States Attorney Leslie c.
Garnett announced the project in
volved in the fraud charges Is the
Willacy County water control and
improvement district No. irrigation
project. The first witness to appear
before the jury, probably tomorrow,
will be H. w. Cole, president OF the
California Redwood Association and
also an official of the Hammond &
Little River Redwood Co. The second
witness will be L. c. Hammond. vice
president of the Hammond Lum-
Der Co.
Other immediate witnesses inclGded
Frank j. BrechenSler, Virgil P. Wall
lace and Chester Kirberg. P. w. A.
investigators. 1t was expected the
testimony of these witnesses will take
about two weeks and that others. in
Guiding several from Texas, will be
called later.
Cole and Hammond will bring with
them all records and correspondence
in their possession relating to the
project.
The original plans called for con-
struction of a gravity canal, but these
plans were changed to provide Tor a
pressure project, calling for installa-
ton of the redwood pipe. 1t is also
alleged an attempt was made by the
contractors. State politicians and P.
w. A. men to fix the price for the
redwood
High -SaIaried Jobs.
1t Is alleged some Government en-
gineers were to have received nigh
salaried jobs with the irrigation prof.
ect if the redwood had been used.
Investigators pointed out that the
project was to have been financed
through a 30-year bond issue, al
though the redwood pipeline would
not have lasted more than Is years.
The pipeline was supposed to carry
water from the Rio Grande through
the Willacy County area lying north
of Brownsville. 1t had been planned
to develop the area for grapefruit
cultivation. The project affected
10000 people and involved $4,000
acres of land.
The alleged fraud was discovered
after money for the project had been
allocated, but before the contract
actually had been let. 1t was said
residents in the vicinity have spent
S1.500,000 for rights of way and in
starting preliminary work.
The evidence will be presented to
the grand jury by Assistant United
States Attorney John w. Fihelly.
Evening star., 1935-02-06
COLLEGES CONQUERING
CRISIS IN FINANCES

American colleges and universities
are "a little less seriously embarrassed
financially" now than they have been
since 1882, the Federal Cfice of Ed
ucation reported today as result of
an extensive survey.
More than 500 institutions of higher
learning reported less than l per cent
change from 1884 to l934-5 in
receipts, expenditures, number of
faculty members, salaries of faculty
members or in tuition rates. Receipts
for education purposes for l93435
are still approximately 10 per cent
less than during the preceding aca-
demic year. Expenditures for all
purposes including capital outlay are
about 80 per cent less.
The total debt of 243 colleges, both
white and colored, was more than
Evening star., 1935-02-06
P0STMISTRESS TO STAY
AT KENSINGTON OFFICE
Mrs. Anna B. Bowie, 16 Years
in Service, Was Named
First by Wilson.

Mrs. Anna B. Bowie, who has been
postmistress at Kensington, Md, for
Is years, today was raappointed for
another term by President Roosevelt.
Mrs. Bowie, who is a Democrat, was
originally appointed by President Will
son and served consecutively through
out the remaining intervening Repub-
lican administrations
At the same time, the President sent
TO the Senate the nominations Of T.
Raymond Burch to be postmaster at
Berwyn, Md: William c. Whitmore, to
be postmaster at Leesburg, Va, and
Thomas E. Frank to be postmaster at
Warrenton, Va. Rosa L. Williams at
Bassetts, John H. Woolwine at Blacks
burg, Bourbon N. Kibler at Luray. Jay
c. Lifts at Norton, Ethel L. Deane at
Windsor and G. B. Cassell, to be post
master at Wytheville, Va.
Evening star., 1935-02-06

the other emergency repairs which
have been made during these last four
or five years, except for the fact that
both France and England accept the
obviouS-the re-armament OF Ger
many.
Had this been done in October. 1888.
it is likely that the present strained
situation would have been avoided.
X X Il
Outside this. there is little new in
the Franco British understanding.
The so-called air Locarno is only an
other form of a proposed military
alliance between the powers which
surround Germany. Since In a future
war aviation will play an important
role, it is immaterial whether these
powers conclude an air agreement to
support each other against an attack
from an outside power. or whether
they conclude a general military and
naval agreement.
To observers ThO hare foll0Ued
Great Britqin'S policy regarding air
ornaments in the last II months.
this agreement appears to haze
been made merely to appeGSe the
tears OF the British people that they
are not sufficiently protected from
an air attack. The shoe tCas pinch
inc Britain hard. and Britain's
statesmen haze been trying to re-
Here the pressure somephdt.
* X Il
This is especially important now
that a new electoral campaign will
start in the British Isles shortly and
the national cabinet does not want
to 90 before the electorate without
some kind of a platonic achievement
in the field of world peace and secur-
ity. The British taxpayer has to
contribute much more this year for
the national defense. The national
ministry which will have to fight an
unadulterated Labor party in the next
campaign wants to show the British
people that it has left no stone un-
turned to avoid an increased arma-
ment expenditure.
TX 4 n
The main trouble with all these
peace efforts is that they are directed
by politicians who are thinking more
in terms Of an election or their own
maintenance in Office than in actual
terms of international collaboration.
As long as this situation lasts there
is little possibility Of achieving any
thing constructive in the disarmament
field.
The chief peace minstrel, RAM
say Macdonald, is on the Day out
According to reports from London
it is highly doubtful ,Dhether at the
merit election he ,oill be able to carry
eUen his own Scotch constituency.
For this reason, it is believed that
King George will besto,0 upon him
peerage and Ramsay. the first
Socialist Prime Minister in the
United Kingdom, tUiH be kicked up
stairs to the House OF Lords, Where
members are not elected by the
people.
Despite Britain's assurance that 1t
will rush to Frances aid, should she
be attacked by an air army, the French
are careful people and are building
right now their fences. The Italian
French agreement Of last month was
Evening star., 1935-02-06

A MILLION miles on the saw
" dust trail" down which a
~ million sinners have flocked.
4 4 All this lies behind Billy
Sunday. who can't begin to
pull his punches at 10, for the devil
is as tough as ever"
Its too late to compromise now!"
cried Sunday. He struck his familiar
fighting pose for a photographers
benefit-crouched as if to spring, fist
raised high. shouting defiance to the
devil and his works.
Thus came the evangelist yesterday
to city which has seen little of him
since the days when his revival meet
ings. like championship matches, were
held in specially constructed pavilionS
and headlines followed his every move
Sunday slipped into the city with
Mrs. Sunday for a quiet visit with
John S. Bennett, superintendent OF
the Central Union Mission, before de-
parting for Florida to open a two-week
revival meeting at Tampa Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-02-06

a good thing. There is an old custom
in France which demands that when
deal is concluded, the two parties
must have drink. The French gov
ernment is living up to that old tradi-
ton, but instead of offering II Duce
wine or champagne, they are opening
him a substantial credit.
In the same way, the new Franco
Russian entente has been sealed by q
large commercial credit to Moscow.
The Russians can purchase any
thing they want in France, on the
cuff.
Evening star., 1935-02-06
FOUR PLAYS SCHEDULED

Four plays will be presented in the
in the second program Of the pre-
liminaries in the annual one-act-play
tournament Of the Community Center
Department Of the public schools.
The finals will be held February 16.
Groups presenting plays tomorrow
night will be the Takoma Park Little
Theater group, the Musical and
Theatrical Guild Of the Department
OF Agriculture, the Maskers Of Sligo
Park Hills and the Bartfield Players.
Evening star., 1935-02-06
''Deuil Tough as Eper," Declares
Billy Sunday, Here on Visit

Mr.. and Mrs. Billy Sunday
are stopping in Washington
for a te1D days en- route from,
a t1Uo-Deek revival meeting
in .DelaUare to another at
Tampa, Fla. 1t takes more
than 20 gears to slo,D up Sun
day, he said.
Star Staff Photo.
Evening star., 1935-02-06


Representatives and other officials
we're invited"
part of Defense"
"You considered that part of the
national defense scheme" Clark pur-
sued.
1T had a part in it." Parker an
swered, continuing:
1t was the first time many Senators
from the West ever saw big ship"
You think if party is given
Them Clark asked, they will be more
receptive to shipbuilding appropri-
ations."
They would know more about
Ships" Parker said. lighting a cigar
cite.
They certainly would know more
about shipouilders, Clark concluded.
Can you say why the company
hired DENLY for China and the Orient
when it already had two men there?"
asked Senator Clark, Democrat, Of
Missouri, committee member.
Il did not nave anything to do
with that Parker replied.
DENLY Drew S1,5OO Monthly.
DENLY was employed at $500 a
month salary and $1,000 month
travelling expenses. but his total earn
ings, company report disclosed. were
S5,048 from November, 1922, to July,
1923.
He was TO receive per cent COM
mission on net profits for any build
ing business he obtained, but the re-
port commented:
mo commissions were earned or
paid
The corporation meanwhile was ac-
cused of drumming up business in
Brazil despite a State Department
warning that such tactics might lead
ican countries.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, a member Of the committee, said
the company continued its efforts to
promote business in Brazil in 1888 and
1884 after the State Department
warning.
Commenting on testimony that a
company representative demanded the
assistance of Hugh Gibson, United
States Ambassador to Brazil, in get
ting an American cruiser sent to Rio
de Janeiro as a sample, Clark said:
THE company did not hesitate to
attempt to browbeat an Ambassador,
and when they found they could not
get him to ask for a cruiser to come to
Rio de Janeiro at the time of the bid
ding, they told him they would go over
his head
They did go over his head. to the
Navy Department, and two ships were
sent down there"
Meanwhile, the committee waited
for Chairman Nye, Republican, OF
North Dakota, to return to the Cap
ital before passing on the offer OF
Clinton L. Bardo, former president OF
the company. to reply to accusations
made by witnesses in the shipbuilding
study.
The committee delved at length into
Bardo's activities m connection with
Brazilian shipbuilding.
When the witness contended he
could not remember the beginning OF
efforts to get such business. Senator
Clark and he engaged in acrimonious
debate.
Bardo asserted the company had not
pressed for business, but sought only
to share any available. He called at
Evening star., 1935-02-06
This
Changing
World
Leaks of Good Old
Ship "Peace" Again
Being Patched.
BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.

BY CONSTANTINE BROWN.
~HE crew which is manning the
good ship THE Peace Of
Europe" Is making desperate
4 efforts to patch up its leaks
and prevent 1t from sinking.
Like all temporary repairs. they
are hasty and not intended to be last
ing. All that Messrs. Laval, Flandin,
Mussolini and Simon are doing is
to try and get the ship to port,
where it could be dry-docked and
given a complete overhaul.
* \ X X
The latest much-trumpted Franco
British agreement, in which Belgium,
Italy and Germany have been invited
to join is in no way different from
Evening star., 1935-02-06

S77.0O0,O00 last June Colleges en-
rolling white students seemed to
be getting out of debt. while Negro
colleges appear to be getting deeper
into debt
Evening star., 1935-02-06
Machine Shop Started.

Construction of the Marking Gov
ernment's central machine shop in
Shanghai, China, has been started.
Evening star., 1935-02-06
China to Revise Tariff.
China plans to promulgate a revised
tariff program.
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Evening star., 1935-02-06
SHIPBUILDER SAYS
WINE is NECESSARY
ON WARSHIP TRIALS

Continued From First Page)
on Shipping Board vessels, Senators,
Representatives and other officials
we're invited"
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
"Mr. Mae West" Gets
Place in LimeIiqht

NEW YORK. April "a (I.N.SO.
The life of Frank Wallace, alias
"Mr. Mae West" was filled to
the brim today.
The obscure song-and-dance
performer who was catapulted
into the national limelight by his
admission that he was the ex-
husband of the movie star found
there was much ado about his
present and future.
Offers for his appearance in
the theatrical field were being re-
ceived by his agent. One offer
named 5000 a week for a vaude-
vile tour. The agent was hold
ing out for $1,000 a week.
Newspaper reporters, photog-
raphers and newsreel outfits
were besieging the footsteps of
the mild-mannered Wallace.
Even the autograph hunters
began working on him.
Trixie La May. who has been
Wallace'S dancing partner for six
years, says Wallacs is ~ years old
and Mae is two years younger.
Trixie declared her partner had
often talked of Miss West and
their marriage. She said:
"He wouldn't spill it because
he was still loyal to Mae West.
But he always went to see her
in her pictures and said he
wished her luck and that she
had improved a lot in her
technique over the days when
they used to work an act to-
gether."
Miss La May said her partners
real name was Shotkus.
There was a report Miss West
was coming to New York next
week to act as mistress of cere-
monies in a theater.
Jack Cornell, agent for Wallace,
said:
"If she does, shall feature
Wallace in a theater on the
other side of Broadway"
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
DUE
IN AUTO STRIKE

TOLEDO, Ohio, April "a
G.N.SD. While pickets contin-
ued patroling the strike-closed
Chevrolet Motors Corporation
plant here today, organized labor
and the automotive industry ap-
peared locked in a struggle that
threatened a final showdown on
the union recognition and closed
shop questions.
Although the strike involves ap-
proximately 1900 employees, the
actual United Automobile Work
ers' Federal Union strength in
the plant was unknown. Hun
dreds walked out and non-strik-
ers were told to leave the plant
by company officials who said
they would not attempt to con-
tinue operations.
The union is demanding a mini
mum wage of 10 cents an hour,
seniority right, a 5 per cent gen.
eral wage increase, abolition of
the speed-up system and no dis
elimination against union men,
bers, but observers believe the
dispute boils down to the closed
shop question.
Officials of the General Motors
Corporation said the company
had made counter proposals which
the strike committee refused to
submit to the union membership
for vote.
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
i. S. Officials Refute
immortality S1ur

ebefore the committee, members
of the committee revealed that
they were stirred by Mr.. Bah
cocks statement.
BabcOck Recalled
They recalled Mr.. Babcock to
the stand, and Representative
Ramspeck made inquiry as to
the number of specific cases of
this sort to which Mr.. Babcock
could refer. He answered:
II have the specific names Of
nine Government couples who
have been living together with
out the benefit of marriage
simply because they feared the
consequences of Section 212 if
! they got married"
, Representative Ramspeck point
ed out that the reason he had asked
for this information was that he
didn't think Mr.. Babcock's state
ment of yesterday should be per-
mitted to be in the record "un-
less it is an absolute fact, and
proof can be furnished"
Law Stirs Perjury
Mr.. Babcock emphasized that
he does not believe these couples
are ANY more immoral or less
moral than any other couples" !"
but added that they fear the
economic consequences" Of mar
riage as long as Section 213 re-
mains. Representative Ramspeck
commented:
mine is a small number Of
cases, considering the large
number of people working in
Washington for the Govern
ment."
Representative Joe starnes
(D). of Alabama, interjected:
IL think marital relations
mean something more than
merely living together. 1t is
rearing children and founding
q home"
Nevertheless, suggested Repre-
sentative Aubert c. Dunn (D0
of Mississippi:
"This law has tended to bring
abOlt perjury in cases where
the truth is most sacred"
He added that despite the at
titude apparently taken by the
chairman that nine is a COM
paratively small number of cases
of this sort out of all the Gov
ernment people in Washington,
"one case of it would be enough"
to indicate to him that Section
213 should be eliminated.
Questioned by Representative
StarneS, Mrs. Edwina Avery, repre-
senting the women's bar associa-
tion, expressed the view that "this
law has tostered illicit relations" :"
Mr.. Starnes replied:
IF we haven't found more
than nine cases, think it is a
tribute to the employees in the
Government service"
He suggested the belief that
illicit relationships are also to be
found outside of the Government
service and that whether or not
Section 213 existed there probably
would be some gases anyway"
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
(COntinued from Page y

(~0nxHnUe@ from rage -
innocent of knowledge of such q
situation. Mr.. Baity said:
"Of course there are Occa-
SiOnal rumOrS of such things,
but there is never definite proof.
The worst thing about Section
213, to my mind, is that some
young folks have had to give
up homes after paying on them
for several years"
NEVER HEARD OF 1T
Mr.. Yates, assistant to Comp
troller ]. r. McCarl, declared:
We do not snoop into the
private lives of employees unless
the efficiency of the office is
impaired. But I never heard of
such thing"
At the Department of Agricul,
ture and Agricultural Adjustment
Administration, where thousands
of permanent and temporary work
ers are employed, the case was
the same. DR.. C. B. Baldwin, as
Sistant to the Secretary of Agri
culture, said:
I'm such large force as the
Government service here, there
may be quite a few cases where
people Intentionally hide the
fact that they are married, but
no instance of them overlooking
wedlOck has come to my atten-
ton"
T. Weed Harvey, AAA admins
trative assistant, had much the
same opinion, but admitted that
at least one case had been dis
covered, last fall, wherein couple
had concealed their marriage. He
said, in regard to the testimony
that Mr.. Babcock semed to have
stretched his point a trifle far.
Same View Here
McEwen, of National Recovery
Another personnel officer, J. H
Administration, said:
I'VE have found no case
among our workers that could
be traced to immortality or
termed such. Although we are
not under Section 213 strictly,
we try to carry out the spirit
of the law, but so far we haven't
even discovered any secret mar
riageS."
And thus it went, with the
State Department, Interstate Com
merce Commission. and Civil Ser
vice Commission chiefs. and those
of other agencies, holding the
same views.
Meanwhile Representative Rob
ert RamSpeck CD of Georgia
chairman of the House Civil Ser
vice Committee. expressed the
opinion today that the married
persons" clause merely furnishes
an excuse" for couples employed
in the Government to live to-
gether without the benefit oi
marriage when they happen tc
want to do so.
| AS the hearings on the proposal
to repeal the clause were resumed
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
Will Rogers
Says:

BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, April
24.-Here is the latest racket if
you are SO rich you don't know
what to do with your money.
They are putting it in annuities
in England. They feel it's safer
there.
Then they wonder how it is
that England RECEIVERS. 1t re-
covers because you couldn't in a
hundred years get an English
man to do what these folks are
doing. England will bet you on
England to their last penny. In
England they invest most of
their money in income tax.
Read what their rate is.
With this money invested
over there it's not hard to see
where all the influence comes
from to get us to keep joining
something over there.
| Copyright. McNaught Syndicate
The Washington times., 1935-04-24
To TAKE
NEW RAP At
FOES TODAY
Robinson, "Kingtish" to Clash
: In Senate; Both Waiting
Farm Bill Passage
BY WILLIAM X. HUTCHINSON
international News Service


The picturesque Senator Huey
P. Long, chief critic of President
Roosevelt, and Senator Joe T. Rob
inson, Democratic leader, were pre-
pared today to stage q furious
Senate debate over New Deal is.
sues.
Both Senators were waiting to
gain the floor as soon as passage
of the pending Bankhead farm
home loan bill restores unlimited
debate. Since Monday noon the
Senate has acted under a gag
rule in an effort to expedite pass.
age of the farm bill.
Senators Ready
Irked by the limitation, Sena.
tor Long gathered data to con-
tinue his assault on Secretary of
the Interior Harold L. Ickes, Re-
lief Administrator Harry Hopkins
and the President. Senator Rob
inson meanwhile collected ma
terial for a furious attack on
Huey'S own administration of the
State government in Louisiana
and his opposition to Roosevelt
policies.
While Long and Robinson pre-
pared for the verbal fray, con-
servatives in both parties fought
gamely but futilely to prevent
passage Of the Bankhead bill,
which would create 1,050-million.
dollar Farmers Home Loan Cor
poration to aid farm tenants in
purchasing farm homes.
Administration forces defeated
another effort in the Senate to.
day to reduce the proposed 1850
million-dollar bond issue to 100
millions was beaten by a vote of
"a to 80. Party lines were shat
tered on the vote, even the Pro
greSsive Republicans dividing. Pre-
viously, Senator Bailey charged
the bill was designed to rescue
owners of farm lands from the
payment of State and Federal
taxes.
In the background, advocates of
the Wagner-CoStigan anti-lynching
bill were waiting an opportunity
to move its consideration. This
motion, to be made by Senator
Costigan (DD Of Colorado, will be
the signal for a vicious filibuster
by Southern Democrats against
enactment of the bill.
Administration leaders privately
opposed consideration of the anti
lynching bill at the present time.
They realized a prolonged South.
ern filibuster against it would
wreck the Presidents program.