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Evening star., 1935-02-10
COMPROMISE ENDS
ROW OVER OIL BILL
House Committee Revamps Con.
nally Measure to Ease Fed.
eral Control.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
After wrangling for days over oil
control legislation, the House Inter-
state Commerce Committee agreed
yesterday on a compromise measure.
Taking up the Connally oil bill,
which passed the Senate, the commit
tee clipped off all but one paragraph
and substituted entirely new pro-
visions. Oil men described these as
providing less stringent Federal con-
troll than the Connally bill.
The committee bill merely would
direct the President to forbid inter-
state transportation of oil and its
products produced or withdrawn from
storage in excess of quotas fixed by
State laws or agencies whenever he
found excess oil was IAN undue bur-
den on interstate commerce by rea-
son of causing lack of parity be-
tween supply and demand"
The COnnally bill, in contrast,
would forbid outright the interstate
movement of oil and derivatives pro-
duced, processed or handled in ex-
cess of amounts stipulated by the
States.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
9 9VALLEELAWYERS
MAP STRATEGEMS
Another Round in Court
Fight Is Scheduled for
Wednesday.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 9.-Nine
lawyers pondered their legal strate-
gems today in anticipation of renewed
hostilities when the battle of the
Rudy Vallees" is due for another
airing in Supreme Court Wednesday.
Plans of the seven attorneys en-
gagged by Mrs Fay Webb Vallee, who
is seeking to set aside a Sl00-a-week
separation agreement with Rudy
Vallee, were kept in the dark and
they declined to discuss them.
Rudy's counsel awaited the decision
of Justice Salvatore A. Costello upon
their motion to dismiss the suit. after
Mrs. Vallee's case was rested without
her appearing on the stand
From the Justices flare-up at Ben
jamin Cohn of Los Angeles, one of
Mrs. Vallee's lawyers, there arose the
possibility that Mrs. Vallee's lawyers
may demand a new trial. One Of her
counsel, however, declared the posi-
Dllity remote.
In the event the court refuses to
dismiss the suit, it was learned VAL
lees lawyers planned to proceed in
an effort to show that Mrs. Vallee
mad been a "disloyal" wife.
Part of their evidence to this effect,
they have declared, consists of phono-
graph records of her allegedly amor
Gus conversations with another man.
LOS ANGELES, February o (P).-
Gary Leon, adagio dancer, whose name
has figured in the marital litigation Of
Rudy Vallee and his estranged wife,
Fay Webb, will be married Sunday at
Aqua Caliente, Mexico, to his dancing
partner, Marcia (Tu1 Mace, Leon
said. He was divorced Wednesday
from Marian Mitchell.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
CLAIMANTS OF GOLD
NARROWED TO FOUR
Boys Who Found $4,000 Hoard
and Landowners Confer on
Settlement.
BY the Associated Press.


BALTIMORE, February 9.-Declar-
ing the treasure trove" case has been
more full of romance" than any in
his recollection. Judge Eugene
ODunne today narrowed the legal
claimants to a $4,000 gold hoard
found buried in cellar here to two
groups-the boy finders and the two
women who owned the land.
Theodore Jones and Henry Grob,
each 16. found the $500 coins in Au-
gust. 1894. They had face value of
about $11,400. but owning to numis-
matte values the coins are said to be
worth nearly $4,000. Owners of the
land are Mrs. Elizabeth H. French
and Miss Mary P. B. Findlay.
The boys claims have not been
ruled upon.
O'Dunne's latest opinion. comparing
the claimants to marathon dance
contestants, ruled out claimants who
said they were entitled to the money
as heirs of the late Andrew j. Sauls-
bury, former city councilman. who
died about 1873 in the house in which
the gold was found.
The remaining claimants, mean
while, have been comforting on pos
sible settlement. O'Dunne has allowed
them additional time.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
GIANT STILL RAIDED
ON TEXAS co. LAND
Huge Plant on Oil Concerns
Property Could Supply Boot
leg to Two States.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
ELIzABETHPORT. N. j., February
"a gigantic Illicit still, described
by Comdr. John D. Pennington, dis
trict superintendent of the Federal
alcohol tax unit, as Large enough to
supply all of New Jersey and most
of New York" with bootleg alcohol.
was raided today by Federal and State
agents.
The still, Pennington said. was on
property of the Texas Oil Co, which
allegedly had been leased to the
Jerome Products Co. of New York
City.
The plant was equipped with a rail-
road siding and a wharfage, so that
raw materials could be brought in
and the finished produce shipped out
by either rail of water.
Six men seized at the scene were
arrested.
Pennington said that while in our
opinion higher-ups in the Texas Co.
may not have known about the still,
the company's employees could not
have helped knowing what was going
on"
Evening star., 1935-02-10
FOSSIL MAN OF CHINA
OUTRIVALS JAVA "LINK"
Dutch Scientist Gives 100000
Years as Age of Recently
Found Sinanthropus.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MANILA. P. l.. February 9.-The
Java ape man. long considered the
original missing link" is apparently
a mere child compared to the recently
discovered China fossil man, DR.. r.
Won Koenigswald. eminent Dutch
paleontologist, told a group of fellow
scientists here today.
DR.. Koenigswald. paleontologist for
the Netherlands East Indies govern
ment. placed the age Of pithecan-
thropus erectus at a mere 250,00O
years. just half the previous scientific
estimate. He expressed the belief the
China fossil man, known as sinan-
thropus, lived 100000 years ago.
From the scant remains of the two
prehistoric creatures. scientists have
placed them both as relatives Of the
ancestors of man, yet neither man
nor ape.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
WINNIE MAE FASTER
WITH STREAMLIN lining
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BURBANK, Calf, February g.
Wiley Post took his improved around
the world plane Winnie Mae up TO-
900 feet today and reported the new
streamlining had enabled him to fly
between Is and. 20 miles faster than
the ship ever had gone before.
The performance, he said, confirms
his belief that he should be able to
hit clip of about $50 miles an hour
on his projected nonstop, substrato-
sphere dash to New York.
A new radio compass. earth in
ductor compass and oxygen generat-
ing equipment remain to be tried out.
Post has been sworn in as an air.
mail pilot for the flight and will
carry $50 pounds of mail.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
WIREPHOTO EXTENDED

NEW YORK, February 9 R.-
Louisville, KY, will be added to the
list of cities on the Associated Press
network, arrangements
having been made today to install
equipment there to serve the Courier
Journal and the Times. This will
make a total of 26 distributing centers
on the wirephoto circuit. It is ex-
pected the Louisville wirephoto ma
chine will be in working order in time
to transmit pictures of the Kentucky
Derby. Nav 4.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
STEAMER is FL0ATED
Apache Pulls Danish Vessel Of
Bar in Chesapeake.

NORFOLK, Va. February 9 R.-
The Coast Guard cutter Apache
fioated the Danish steamer Lifland
this morning.
The Lifland stranded early yester-
day in Chesapeake Bay, two miles
southwest of Sharps Island.
Only the ships bow was grounded.
according to reports received here, and
the Apache, after getting line to
her, pulled the craft into deep water
without srious difficulty.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
SENATE CHANGES
ANGER|NG HOUSE
Upper Branch Faces "Spct"
on S2,1Oo,0OO,0OO Bonus
Payment Issue.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
House Democratic leaders, irked at
the Senate's changes in bills labeled
administration" have decided-as
one Of them put 1t yesterday-to make
the Senate take the rap" on the
2,100, 100000 bonus issue.
They may, too. refuse to apply any
gag" rules to future bills, such as
social security. utilities holding COM
pany and N. r. A. extension.
House to Pick Bill.
AS part of that program the" in
tend to let the House members them
selves, by a direct vote on the floor.
choose between the American Legion
and Patman bills for immediate cash
payment of the bonus. The House
is expected to send one or the other
to the Senate by substantial ma
jority. The two bills, which have
split the House into factions, are
much the same. except that the Pat
man bill would pay the bonus by
issuing greenbackS. The other names
no specific method of payment.
The actions Of Senators on two
major bills this session impelled
House leaders to reach this decision.
In both instances, House Democratic
chiefs asked their followers to stick
by the administration and succeeded
in putting through the desired bills
without change.
The first was the independent Of
fees appropriation bill. A lot Of
House members wanted to restore the
pay cut in that measure, but they
yielded to the pleas of their leaders
The Senate pumped in an amend
ment restoring the per cent pay cut
on April l.
Works Bill Passed.
Next was the s4,ssO 600. 600 public
works bill. II passed the House with
few changes. and under a rule that
forbade amendments to its key sec
tions. The Senate Appropriations
Committee has been giving that meas
ure thorough going over.
The result, House ma jority chief
tains charge. is that the Senators get
credit for being free-minded and lib
eral. while House members are called
rubber stamps
The intention TO let the House
choose between the Patman and Le-
gion bills was disclosed by Chairman
Doughton, Democrat, Of North Caro-
lima, Of the House Ways and Means
Committee, before which both meas
ures are pending.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
MELLON TAX SUIT
OPENS NEXT WEEK
Financier Answers u. s
Charge With Demand
for Rebate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, February 9.-Just
one month under 80, hut with step
still sprightly and eyes still flashing,
Andrew w. Mellon moves into the
national spotlight a week hence as
both plaintiff and defendant in one
of the celebrated income tax suits
of the age.
The fnancier's tax fairs we're to
have been aired at hearing in Pitts
burgh tomorrow, but a poStponement
until February 18 was granted be-
attorneys.
The Government charges the three
time Secretary of the Treasury owes
So 075, 1929 including a so per cent
fraud penalty. for his 1881 income.
1t says. for one thing. that he sold
more than S6,000,000 worth of stock
in the Pittsburgh Coal and Western
Public Service companies to a family
corporation to establish a capital loss
for income deduction.
Mellon Demands Rebate.
"Impertinent. scandalous and i'm
proper" was the answer hurled back
by Mellon, who demanded a sl3e.-
045.l7 rebate from that years taxes.
in counter claim. He said the Tax
Board had refused to allow him de-
ductions for $3,82l 900 in gifts. He
paid S647.559 in 1881.
This claim was made after a grand
jury in Melons home city of Pitts
burgh refused to indict him on Crimi-
nal charges filed by Attorney General
Homer Cummings. At the time, the
former Secretary denounced the move
as an attempt by Democratic oppo-
nents to railroad" him to prison.
A court" of three members of the
Board of Tax Appeals, with Ernest NJ.
van FoSsan, an Ohio Republican. as
chairman, will hear both sides here
in session expected TO last three weeks.
Frank Hogan, noted Washington at
torney, who successfully defended
Henry L. Doheny in the Teapot Dome
scandal case. is chief counsel for Mel
Ion. The assistant chief of the Inter-
nal Revenue Department. Robert H.
jackson. is in charge of the Govern
ment's case.
Attorneys recall that Van Fossan,
appointed to the tax board while Mel
Ion was prominent figure in Presi-
dent Coolidges cabinet. also sat in
the well publicized income tax suit in
which Mellon, as Secretary of Treas
ury, tried to collect more than TO-
100000 from his outspoken senatorial
foe, James Couzens of Michigan.
Couzens was victorious in this case.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
NEEDY MOTHER GIVES UP
FREEDOM TO GO HOME
Confesses Bad Check Charges to
Force Chicago Authorities to
Provide Transportation.

BY the Associated Press
CHICAGO, February ga young
destitute mother today sacrificed her
liberty for transportation back
home
Poorly clad and carrying her A.
year-old son James, Mrs. Louise
Grace Freeman, %, appealed to Town
Hall police today to send them to her
mothers farm, near Niles, Mich.
Informed that they had no funds
for such purpose, they quoted her as
saying:
Then you'll have to send me. I
cashed two bad checks for So in Niles
. year ago"
Capt. Patrick O'Connen said Niles
authorities confirmed that a charge
was pending against her, so she was
taken back in custody.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
MOROCCO OIL FINDS
RAISE FRANCES HOPE
National Petroleum Problem Still
Unsolved as Search
Goes On.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, February 9.-Discoveries of
new sources of oil in Morocco today
raised the hopes Of French engineers
that Frances efforts to obtain inde-
pendent supplies may be successful.
Oil was reported found near the
town of Petit Jean. Engineers de-
clared the discovery significant mas
much as it shows Djebel Tselfat and
81 Ameur are not the only oil bear
ing regions in Morocco.
With an oil burning navy and al
most 100000 motor vehicles on her
roads. the problem of oil has worried
the French for the past 20 years and
is still far from solution. British,
American and Dutch companies today
handle 81 per cent of local distribution.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
BILL TO PROPOSE
SMUGGLING CURB
Reciprocal Agreements With
Other Countries Aim of
Measure.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
An administration bill which re-
vealed that the United States plans
TO seek reciprocal agreements with
other countries in an effort to end
liquor and other forms of smuggling
was made public yesterday by the
House Ways and Means Committee.
Chairman Doughton said the bill
submitted by the Treasury proposed
to extend the sea limits over which
the customs service has control to
areas affected by treaties or agree
ments with other countries.
Restrictions Provided.
Looking to the pactS with other
countries for cooperation in ending
smuggling, the new bill prohibits
smuggling offenses against the revenue
laws of foreign countries. 1t also pro-
vides for establishment of customs
enforcement areas adjacent to the
territorial water of the United States
through which the flexible admin
istrative control over the enforce
ment of other anti-smuggling pro-
visions in the bill can be exercised
In these areas
Recalling the I'm Alone case, In
which a vessel sank off the Louisiana
coast was held to have been improp-
erly fired upon, the proposed law
provides for the search" and, where
justified. the seizure and forfeiture
of vessels engaged in the smuggling
trade and lowering off the coas: of
the United States
The development yesterday followed
reports to the House Appropriations
Committee that from $50.000000 to
s60,000,000 a year was being lost in
revenue, particularly in smuggling of
190-proof alcohol.
Coast Guard Allowance.
Admitting it had made a bad guess
a year ago when it cut Coast Guard
appropriations in anticipation Of pro-
hibition repeal stopping the illicit
traffic. the House committee boosted
the 1886 allowance for the Coast
Guard nearly S4,5000O0.
Doughton disclosed the proposed
legislation resulted from studies of
the smuggling question that have
been under way several months.
President Roosevelt said recently
that cooperation with Canada, Mex
leo and other countries had so
affected the liquor smuggling trade
that, even though liquor was still
coming in. he felt the administration
had the "bootlegger" licked.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
SUES FOR PENNY

Attorney Asks Refund of Tax on
ascent Purchase.
JACKSONVILLE, H., February 9
R.-A suit for cent was filed against
a chain store in Justice Court today
by William Hairgrove. an attorney.
Hairgrove seeks refund of penny
he paid as sales tax on a Is cent
purchase. A hearing will be held
February II.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
ST. JOHNS THRIFT SHOP
WILL OPEN ON THURSDAY
Proceeds to Benefit Orphanage
Fund-New and Used Ar
tic1es Offered.

The Thrift Shop of st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, which sell new as well
as old articles for the st. Johns
Orphanage fund, opens Thursday at
821 Sixteenth street.
Merchandise such as antiques, books,
silver, chinaware, glass. blankets, can
dies and many Christmas presents,
still fresh and new. are sold when the
shop opens for one day each month.
Visitors who do not wish to buy are
welcomed.
The orphanage, located at 1922 F
street, takes children from all parishes
and the interest and support it de-
serves should be widespread. the COM
mittee, headed by Mrs. w. A. Hayes,
believes.
The shop has been newly decorated
and will have many new displays at
its opening Thursday.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
80 SCHOOLS APPROVED
Gunston Hall on Accredited List
for Capital.

There are 80 secondary schools and
academies in the District accredited
by the Commission on Secondary
Schools of the Middle Atlantic States
Of Colleges and Secondary Schools
for the year 1885. instead of 90 as
enormously published by The Star
last Sunday.
Gunston Hall School, of which Miss
Mary L. Gildersleeve is a principal,
is also on the list, according to a
letter received by her from E. D.
Grizzell. chairman of the commits
sion. at Philadelphia. Gunston Hall
was not on the list of 20 published
last Sunday.
Evening star., 1935-02-10
January Circulation
Daily .:126,512
Sunday

District OF Columbia, SIS:
s H. KAUFFMANN. Assistant Business
Manager of THE EVENING AND SUNDAY
STAR. does solemnly swear that the ac-
tLal number of copies of the paper named
sold and distributed during the month OF
January, AID. 1895. was as follows:
Evening star., 1935-02-10
WINDOW BREAKER SHOT
Policeman Stays Man Who Got

Empty Liquor Cartons.
CHICAGO, February 9 R.-A
shabbily dressed man gazed at liquor
display in a West Side tavern window
today, then smashed the window,
seized two whisky cartons and fed.
Policeman Theodore Pierce pursued.
An order to halt was ignored. Pierce
fired The man fell dead, a bullet In
his head
On the bottom of the two cartons
was printed: Dummy cartonS-for
window display only"
Evening star., 1935-02-10
MOTOR CRASH FATAL
Capital Youth Injured in Acct
dent Killing Friend.

ALLENTOWN. Pa. February Cp)
james Hayden. 81, of Allentown
was killed and a friend, Walter Nor
mile Of Washington. D. c.. was seri-
ously injured today when Hayden's
automobile plunged through an ele-
vator shaft in a public garage from
the third floor to the basement.
Ncrmile suffered a fractured skull
and other injuries.
Walter Normile, 81 years old, who
lives at 1912 Park road, was on a
business trip to the Pennsylvania city.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Michael
Normile.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Voice of Safety to Be Raised
On Spacious Mt. Vernon Road

center lanes, leaving the outer lanes
for more leisurely traffic.
Officials will ask Arthur Godfrey.
radio announcer, to start the cam
paign of by urging drivers to keep
to the side lanes. The greatest traf-
fic hazard on the highway is caused
by drivers pulling in toward the CEN
ter, Mr.. Finnan said.
The voice Of safety" is being set
I'D on an ordinary park police cruiser.
It will not be painted white, as was
that employed by the metropolitan
police In Washington recently.
Secretary Ickes wants the park au-
thorities to screen out with planting
the railroad yards at Alexandria, Va,
and 90 Finnan's forces will shortly
be engaged In this work on the west
side Of the boulevard.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Continued on Page 4, Colu

Efforts to bring about control Of
traffic on the Mount Vernon Memo
rial Highway through q voice OF
safety" campaign will be started by
park officials at 4 pm. Tuesday in an
attempt to clear up q menacing sit
uation.
Meanwhile, Secretary Ickes is con-
sidering minimum speed limit on
the highway.
With the increasing use Of the high
way and the opening Of the tourist
season, every effort will be made to
reduce accidents. G. Marshall Finnan.
superintendent OF the National Cap
ital parks. said. The maximum speed
limit on the drive now Is Is miles
an hour. With the four-lane trafiic.
drivers desiring TO make good head
way can travel at this rate on the
Evening star., 1935-03-10
OLD PIERCE MILL
SOON TO RUN AGAIN
Bread Firms Offer Grain and
Labor in Restored Rock
Creek Plant.

The restored Pierce Mill in Rock
Greek Park will be finished by early
Summer, c. Marshall Finnan, super
intendent of the National Capital
Parks, yesterday announced, and al
ready the authorities have received
offers from bread firms to supply the
grain, grind it and furnish help if
they are only allowed to advertise the
fact for their loaves. But the park
superintendent is highly dubious if
such procedure will be permitted
At the present time Pennsylvania
firm is designing the machinery that
will duplicate that originally found
in Pierce Mill and is also designing
the water wheel that will be made of
wood. When the plans are in hand
the iron machinery will be fashioned
and the wooden mill wheel con-
structed and installed in the venerable
mill here.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
SCHOOL CHANGES STATUS

NEW YORK, March 9 R.-The
School Of Journalism of Columbia
University will become exclusively a
graduate school in September, Dean
Carl w. Ackerman announced today.
Until now an undergraduate school
with professional courses also for
graduates, it was founded in 1912.
Joseph Pulitzer was its sponsor.
The school will be known as the
Columbia University Graduate School
of Journalism.
Evening star., 1935-03-10
Federal Tobacco
Inspector Urged
In Ne,C Measure
"COrernment Graded"
May Replace FlOwery
Phrases in Future Ads.

BY the Associated Press.
Two prosaic words-"Go"ernment
graded"-may replace the flowery
phrases now used in cigarette adver-
tising to describe the choice tobaccos.
In fact, Government graded" may
become 10 the cigarette what bottled
in bond" means to whisky. And such
symbols as BAL" or xii" may be-
come the Xxx" of tobacco.
For under a bill introduced in the
House and conceded a good chance of
passage. a Federal tobacco inspections
and grading service would be estab-
Ished.
Hearings now are in progress before
House Agricultural Subcommittee on
the measure introduced by Representa-
tive Flanagan of tobacco-growing
Virginia.
II would be unlawful to use the
words Government graded if the
tobacco was not ore of the grades ac-
cording to Federal standards.
So far reaction to the proposal has
been mixed at hearings on the bill.
but the subcommittee which will COM
plete hearings tomorrow night, has
indicated its approval.