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Evening star., 1935-02-03
BALTIMORE TO GET
"CAT.EYE" ANNIE
Woman With Weakness for
Other Persons Gems Arouses
Judges's Pity.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
AUBURN, N. Y, February 2.-Lil-
liam "Cat-Eye" Annie Mcdowell
whose criminal weakness was jewelry
belonging to other people, tonight
awaited the arrival of police officers
from Baltimore, Md, to take her there
to stand trial for the theft of dia-
monds, pearls, brooches and other
jewels from Nathan F. kaufman or
April IS, 1923.
Brought back home" to Auburn
yesterday from Bedford Hills State
Prison for Women, where she had
been serving 10-year sentence, to
face a charge of unlawful escape in
1926, she pleaded guilty. Appearing
in the County Court of Judge Ken
nard Underwood this morning, she
looked upon the court through tear
filled eyes and heard the judge say:
. Annie, I'm going to suspend SEN
tence in this case, but you know there
are other cities that want your Gus
tody."
Thank you, judge" she said, daub-
ing at her eyes.
I'm very sorry" said the judge.
Baltimore, with priority of claim
upon her custody; Elkins Park, Pa,
next in line, and Columbus, Ohio; St.
Louis, Mo-, and Boston, Mass, were
Informed Of the suspended sentence
and asked if they wished her to be
held for them. All but Boston said
they did.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
.WATER FRONT EMPLOYEES
APPEAL TO MISS PERKINS
Charge International Longshore-
mems Association Is violat-
ing Arbitration Award,
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SEATTLE. February 2.-Charges
that the International Longshore-
man's Association is violating the re-
cent arbitration award by beating
'non-union men and calling strikes
were telegraphed to Secretary Perkins
today by the Seattle Water Front En-
ployers' Association.
The action was part of a coastline
protest from employers who contend
the award agreements are fast being
abrogated, leaders said.
Dewey Bennett, secretary of the
Longshoremen's Association, however.
declared he was surprised to learn of
the employers action.
I'VE haven't authorized eny strikes" :"
he said. But what the men do in
dividually, we can't help
Evening star., 1935-02-03
ICELAND'S LIQUOR
BANS ARE LIFTED
End Of Prohibition Greeted Calm.
ly-Imports Legal Under
Monopoly.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
REYKJAvIK, Iceland, February a.
Prohibition was lifted in Iceland to-
day after 20 years, but this cold little
island preserved its customary glacial
calm about the matter.
Scarcely anybody got drunk. The
wine shops which sprang up like
mushrooms in anticipation Of the
happy event had no difficulty in
handling their business.
The only enthusiastic celebrants
were the old law-abiding fishermen,
who never patronized bootleggers dur
ing the dry spell, and who haven't
tasted legal liquor since 1913, when
the mother country, Denmark, i'm
posed q dry law, ratified two years
later by Iceland's own Parliament.
During the dry years the most prof.
table industry of farmers living near
the capital was the manufacture Of
home brew.
Under repeal imports Of liquor are
legal under q state monopoly, with
some profits going to the government.
Although spirits can be imported, beer
containing more than ~ per cent
alcohol by volume is prohibited.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
'WORK-REL|EF BILL
|SFORUM SUBJECT
Senator James F. Byrnes of
South Carolina Talks
Tomorrow.

President Roosevelt's $4,000 900, ,00C
work relief bill will be the subject Of
an address delivered by Senator
James F. Byrnes of South Carolina
in the National Radio Forum to-
morrow at 1890 pm. The National
Radio Forum is arranged by The
Washington Star and broadcast over
the network Of the National Broad
casting Co.
The work relief bill designed by
the President to make it possible to
take $500, 900 jobless men and women
from relief rolls and put them to
work, has passed the House and will
soon be considered by the Senate
Senator Byrnes, member of the Ap-
preparations Committee and a strong
supporter Of the administration. will
take leading part in the fight to
put the bill through in the shape il
is desired by the White House.
The bill not only provides a huge
sum for work relief, but 1t also gives
extraordinary powers to the President
to be used in the administration OF
the fund.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
Machine Gun Hints
Of Karpis' Flight
To Pacific Coast
Officials Check O,Cner-
ship of Weapon Dropped
Near Reno, Ner.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, February "A
machine gun and 200 rounds of am
munition, believed to have been aban-
doned at the California Nevada bor-
der by gangsters fleeing to California,
was found today in the Truckee River.
near Reno, E. P. Guinane, chief of
the Bureau Of Investigation of the
Department Of Justice, said here to-
night.
Guinane said he knew nothing of
reports the gun was the property of
Alvin Karpis, new public enemy No.
!, who recently shot his way out Of
a police Gordon at Atlantic City.
Evidence that the machine gun had
been abandoned by WeSt-bound
party was seen in the fact 1t was
found only a short distance on the
eastern side of the control station"
at the State line, where all automo-
biles are searched.
The State Department of Criminal
Investigation at Sacramento was at
tempting to trace ownership Of the
gun.
Oficers recalled Baby Face" Mel
son successfully hid in Northern Cali
1ornia several months last year.
Evening star., 1935-02-03

but in the event the two nations are
unable to agree concerning any re-
strictions which may be imposed, the
pact may be terminated on 80 days
notice.
One article Of the agreement also
reserves to both governments the con-
troll Of the export Of arms and NUM-
tions.
Another article provides for prefer
entail treatment Of Cuban commerce
by the United States.
Brazil, in the agreement, grants
concessions to American products as
follows:
Import duties are reduced by ap-
proximately rs per cent on 81 items,
and Brazil pledges that it will not
increase duties on 80 items.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
LABOR BARGAINING
VOTE NEARS END
Representatives of 10000 Work.
ers in Auto Industry Choosing
Representatives.
ByAhe Associated Press.

ByHhe Associated Press.
DETROIT, February 2.-The Auto
mobile Labor Board, which expects
to complete recording within the next
two weeks the vote of 10000 workers
in the industry for collective bar
gaining representatives, today gave
out recapitulation of figures based
on elections held in IL plants.
Ballots of 53,771 workers, of which
40,953 denoted at the same time they
had no affiliation with a labor or
ganization, already have been recorded.
The IL plants in which balloting al
ready has been conducted employ
slightly more than 10000 workers, it
added.
The percentage of workers who have
indicated no labor organization affilia-
ton was given as rs. The report
stated that 5,440 or 10 per cent had
indicated their afiliation with an en-
ployes' organization, 1924 or nearly 6
per cent with the Associated Auto
mobile Workers of America, 2,286 or
slightly more than 4 per cent with
the American Federation of Labor,
314 or slightly more than y Of per
cent with the Mechanics Educational
Society, and the remainder were ac-
counted for by five other organiza-
tonS and blank and void ballots.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
ITALY LOANS ALBANIA
FUND TO DEFRAY DEBT
Zog, Voicing Gratitude, Says
Country Recognizes Ties
Binding Two Peoples.

BY the Associated Press.
ROME, February 2.-Italy today
placed 100000 gold francs Zap
proximately $963,000) at Albania S
disposition to help her clean up
some Of her outstanding obligations
and balance the budget.
A message from King Zog OF
Albania to Premier Benito Mussolini
expressed "warmest appreciation" for
the tender of the money, and assured
II Duce of Albania's recognition of
the indissoluble ties" binding the two
countries.
Government circles expressed the
opinion the money might help ease
strained relations between Zog's gov
eminent and Italy of the past two
years that grew out Of an alteration
over the teaching Of Italian in Al
banian schools.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
WALLACE LIVE STOCK
RATE CUT UPHELD
Commission Slash of 20 Pct. Seen
Proper by U. S. Court-$500,-
900 to Be Refunded.
By the Associated Press.

by Ille Associated treSS.
CHICAGO, February 2-The action
Of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace in
ordering a 20 per cent reduction in
live stock commission rates was up
held today in Federal Court.
Sitting en- banc, Judges Samuel AL
schuler, James H. Wilkerson and John
P. Barnes, ordered the dismissal of a
suit filed by 157 live stock commission
houses, attacking the order of Secre-
tary Wallace as arbitrary and con-
fiscatory.
The court dissolved temporary in
junction under which the difference
between the higher commission rates
previously charged and the lower rates
of Secretary Wallace was impounded
with the District Court clerk.
Approximately $50o,000 has been
impounded since last April. The
money will be refunded to live stock
shippers.
Judges Alschuler and Barnes ruled
there was substantial evidence to JUS
tify the action of the Secretary Of
Agriculture in ordering reduction.
The Secretary's ruling was reasonable
and not arbitrary, and did not con-
Stitute the taking away of the plain
tiffs' property without due process of
law, the two judges declared.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
|. y. A. INJUNCTION
REMAINS IN EFFECT
Cities Restrained From Get.
ting P. w. A. Loans for
Power Plants.
Ry the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, February a.
An injunction, restraining IA North
Alabama municipalities from obtain
ing loans from p. w. A. to construct
electric distribution systems today
was left in status quo" by Judge
w. T. Grubb in United States Dis
trict Court.
In leaving the temporary restrain
ing order in effect, Judge Grubb in
dicated he would rule on the ques-
tion February II, when the Ten
nessee Valley Authority offers its
defense against another restraining
order aimed at halting its North
Alabama electrification program.
The ruling came after nearly three
hours of arguments by attorneys on
q motion to dissolve temporary in
junction granted on the petition of IA
preferred shareholders in the Alabama
Power Co., who alleged the loans con-
stituted an illegal diversion of public
funds.
Franchise Expired.
w. H. Mitchell, city attorney for
Florence, offered the motion to dis
miss the order. citing that the utility
franchise had expired in Florence,
Tuscumbia and Sheffield.
Savings under application of yard
stick" rates of the T. v. A., Mitchell
told the court, would amount to $685.
600 annually to consumers and also
would save the city government a
substantial sum.
THE Tri-Cities," Mitchell said, "de-
sire to engage in the power business,
and they have right to do that"
Mitchell further argued that munic-
ipalities had the right to finance
themselves through the P. w. A., the
same as through bank or trust COM
pany.
Forney Johnston, chief of counsel for
the shareholders, told the court the
loans were illegal and for an illegal
purpose, that Of furthering the lille
gal" objectives of the T. v. A. through
installing the "yardstick rates."
Johnston devoted most of his ar
gument to the Decatur loan, where
the Alabama Power Co. franchise does
not expire until 1949, where he said
the Inauguration Of the T. v. A.
rates would drive the utility from the
field through illegal competition"
Evening star., 1935-02-03

to be appointed for terms Of 10 years
each; another for a seyen-member
commission to be appointed for z
year terms.
In view of the Importance placed
by the Federal Aviation Commission
in its proposals for the new Air Com
merce Commission, 1t Is considered
that the President in opposing the
plan has jeopardized the whole policy
recommendations Of the commission.
The doubt as to the fact Of the
commissions recommendations ex-
tends not only to all Of the air COM
merce policies but also to other poll
cies which have no bearing On the
proposed commission.
There Is q growing tendency, Il Is
said, to regard the commissions re-
port, as the President has suggested,
chiefly rs % source Of information
and advice concerning transporta-
ton by air."
Evening star., 1935-02-03

Included In the American products
granted duty reductions are the fol-
lowing:
twenty-five per cent reductions on
tires and tubes, colored upper leather,
certain paints, radio apparatus, gaso-
line pumps, steel files, rubber hose
and tubes and oatmeal; 20 per cent
on automobiles, trucks, automotive
parts, canned fruit. canned vege-
tables Except asparagus). common
soap and surgical gauze; 37l2 per cent
on patent leather: go per cent on
canned salmon and chewing gum; so
per cent on canned asparagus, steel
furniture and lacquers; IS per cent on
oilcloth. certain varnishes and radio
tubes,
Evening star., 1935-02-03
MUNITIONS PROBE
SPEED-UP SOUGHT
Senators Call Witness lust
Out of Hospital to Ses-
sion Tomorrow.
BY the Associated Press.

4
Impatient of delays caused by all
mentS reported by witnesses, the Sem
ate Munitions Committee yesterday
asked one man--tust out of hos
pital-to appear tomorrow and told a
physician to bring another in as soon
as possible.
The committee is anxious to find
out the truth of charges that large
shipbuilding companies were in COL
lusion on bids for naval contracts.
Similarly, the investigators are sift-
ing accusations that political pressure
and the use OF "flXer" influenced
awards.
Ernest I. CornbrookS of Ceilings
wood, N. j., former plant manager Of
the New York Shipbuilding Corp,
who was confined in a hospital two
weeks ago when the committee sought
to question him, indicated he would
be on hand Monday.
Homer Will Testify.
A. H. Homer, Washington marine
mittee physician to be able to testify
within a week or 10 days" The
witness, described as shipbuilders'
agent with White House contacts,
said he was "eager to come as soon
| as my physician permits it"
Homer was named last week by a
J committee witness as the recipient of
$4,000 in fees from the Bath Iron
Works of Bath, Me, for aiding in Sc
curing destroyer contracts. He agreed
| today with company statement that
he had asked for the money, but had
not been paid.
Homer added that he had turned
the case over to his attorneys.
Refuses to Comment.
Asked about a diary read before
1, the committee in which investigators
said he kept a daily account of his
activities in securing contracts fol
the Bath company, Homer said:
Il don't care to make any state
ments until get on the stand
Around the architect circled tes-
timony last week which described
what was termed collusion among
shipbuilders that had increased cruis-
er costs from S8,300,00O to about s16,-
100000 in little more than q year
! Homer denied accusations that he
was ''fixer" who used influence to
affect shipbuilding contracts for q
consideration" of $250,000.
Cornbrooks Key" Figure.
Cornbrooks was described by COM
mittee members as a "key witness
in the inquiry which has resulted in
evidence that cruiser contract costs
had in one instance climbed about
S4,000,000 during a period over which
labor and material costs of the job
advanced only 100000.
He was named by investigators as
a participant in a midnight confer
ence of big shipbuilders in July OF
1888 in Washington. Committee mem
bers have contended that the 27-shir
program financed by public works
funds was virtually apportioned among
the shipyards at this meeting by ar
agreement for accommodation bids,
insuring each q share in the work
Evening star., 1935-02-03
VIOLENCE FLARES
IN FARM DISPUTE
Two Beaten in Share
Cropper War-Woman
Ends Inquiry.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, February a.
Bitterness in the East Arkansas share
cropper war increased today as two
young organizers for the Southern
Tenant Farmers Union told of hav-
ing been beaten with pistol butts last
night. when they were taken from a
sharecroppers' mass meeting at Gil
more, Ark, across the river from
Memphis.
As Lucien Koch, director of Com
monwealth College. Mena, Ark, and
Bob Reed, commonwealth student
and a member of the International
Labor Defense, told Of the assault
Mrs. Mary Conner Myers, A. A. A. at
torney, concluded her investigation
into alleged violations by planters o1
their acreage reduction contracts and
prepared to leave tomorrow by plane
for Washington.
Investigator Is Silent.
Her brief cases were filled with
eviction notices received by share.
croppers. along with affidavits from
them, and reports Of the controversy
as outlined by planters. She declined
to comment on her investigation, but
was quoted by the Press -Scimitar a.
saying that her inquiry into alleged
Illegal eVctionS had brought to nght
evidence in support Of other viola.
tons. The Tenant Farmers Unions
complaint to Department of Agricul.
ture officials led to Mrs. Myers in.
vestigation.
While I was speaking at the Gil
more meeting" Koch said today, "s
man who evidently had been drink
ing-he was a plantation riding bos'
came In and asked what wa.
talking about. I told him the South
ern Tenant Farmers Union. He wen
out.
Companion Also Beaten.
''He came back later with foul
more men. They grabbed me Just a.
I finished my speech and hustled m,
out to q car, beating me and kickin,
me. On the way, Bob Reed came
out to see me, and they grabbed him.
Sheriff Howard Curlin said he wa.
investigating the beatings. He addee
it was up to Koch and Reed to prefel
charges.
Constable H. L. Dickson of Turrel
brought them into Marion" the sher.
III said. They were not hurt.
questioned them"
Sharecroppers have complained thai
parity payments from the Govern.
ment for land taken out Of produc.
ton have been withheld from them
Evening star., 1935-02-03
TOY PISTOLS FORBIDDEN

INDIANAPOLIS, February 2 Cp.-
A statute forbidding the manufacture,
sale or exposure for sale of toy pistols
has been found on the Indiana stat
utes by Attorney General Philip Lutz,
jr.
The law was passed in 1905, the
attorney general found when he looked
up the matter in response to q query
from o business concern.
Evening star., 1935-02-03

a .3S-caliber pistol on q .45-caliber
stock lying in the Slush on the bridge
and turned it over to Policeman w. B.
Hopkins, who took it to No. 8 pre-
clint Just as McGinniS and Moore
were being booked for investigation.
Meanwhile, Bowling had been taken
to Georgetown Hospital, where his
wounds were described as not serious.
He appeared more worried over his
wife, who he said was i'll at home
with influenza, than over his wounds.
The couple has no children.
The bandit, In his haste to try to
make getaway, overlooked SO In bills
that Bowling carried.
Police said they expected to make
use of the passengers in the street
car to help identify the robber. One
of the passengers was James M. Grif-
fifth of the 100 block Of Fourth street.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
ACCUSES EX-FIANCEE
Capt. Michael Paul Answers Suit
for $15O,0OO Heart Balm.

LOS ANGELES, February 2 Op.-
Capt. Michael Paul, former Russian
Army officer, In an answer today to
the $15o.000 breach-of-promise suit
brought against him by Miss Cora
Irene Sund, said she was found in q
compromising situation with another
man on the eve of Paul's scheduled
marriage to her. His document de-
clared Miss Sund and a man identi-
fed as Mitchell G. R. Dressner were
found by his sister in New York
hotel room. He asserted their en-
gagement was broken by mutual
consent.
Evening star., 1935-02-03

Brazil also pledges itself against
increasing the duty on long list Of
articles including fresh fruit duty
free), agricultural machinery includ-
ing tractors duty free). refrigerators.
motor cycles. sewing machines, auto
matte scales, cash registers, type
writer's, calculating machines, type
setting machines, heavy radio, tele-
phone and telegraph equipment and
motion picture films.
In terms Of trade value the duty
reductions granted by Brazil affect
approximately 238 per cent Of Ameri-
can trade with Brazil, and it has
pledged no advance in duties on ap-
proximately rs per cent Of total
American exports to that country.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
MASS FINGERPRINTING
New York C. of C. Members Will
Give Impressions.

NEW YORK, February 2 R.--
Members of the Chamber of Com
merce of the State of New York will
be fingerprinted Thursday and the
impressions filed with the Depart
ment of Justice at Washington.
The fingerprinting will follow an
address on Crime Prevention" by
J. Edgar Hoover, director Of the d.
vision Of investigation. at the cham
ber's monthly meeting.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
TRADE AGREEMENT
SIGNED By BRAZIL
AND UNITED STATES
(Continued From First Page.)

other quantitative restrictions on each
others products except such restric-
tions as may be necessary for the
control Of production, market supply
or prices of domestic articles, such
as are provided for in the national
industrial recovery act and the agri-
cultural adjustment act.
The agreement may be ended after
two years upon six months notice,
Evening star., 1935-02-03
Killer in Death Cell.

JOLIET, III. February 2 R.-Fred
Blink. 43. under sentence to die by
electrocution February "a, arrived at
the State penitentiary here yesterday.
He was convicted by q Jury OF the
murder Of i've persons when he went
beserk during an argument.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
BLASTS ROCK VILLAGE
Woman Burns to Death in Two
Story Structure.

HOOSICK FALLS, N. Y, February
2 R.-Flames which followed two ex-
plosions that shook this village early
tonight razed q two-story structure.
wrecked another and killed Mrs. Jane
Carr Burke, 80.
Her son, Frank Carr, so, worked
desperately to save his mother, but
was forced to plunge through flames
from a second-story window to save
his own life.
The Cars lived on the second floor
OF the razed frame structure. The
first floor was occupied by a stove
store, where the fire is believed to have
originated.
Evening star., 1935-02-03
STREET CAR OPERATOR
WOUNDED IN H0LD.UP;
POLICE CAPTURE PAIR

Continued From First Page.)
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
Industry BeSet By Ignorance?

ME whole industry knows that certain lines have
suffered from executive trouble ever since lin
Farleys grand gesture forced them to Dust their
original staffs and accept men with little or no
aviation knowledge" Mrs. Dion continues when
the swivel chair gentlemen got too big for their hats
and they and their public relations bureaus started
tamperlng with operations things began to happen
Wnen complacent ignoramuses in the drivers seats
tel the poor devils in the operations department
tnat they have to live up to all the poppycock it's
ume something was done about it,
Inc cherished radio beam is case in noint
NO one can deny that it is improvement over dead
reckoning, but some radio beacons are known In
Genect as much as so degrees from true direction
1here is only one device that is 100 per cent accu
TaCe out only mlllionaireS can afford it. The in
Ventor would tell you that it could be made avail
able to every line in the country if he could oct
square deal from certain bureaucrats in Wash
ingtOn" " "'ii-
so she says flying is the safest mode of travel
ouC some Oh the ships are too old and the Industry
III general Is beSet by executive ignorance and
bureaucratic vlllainy which prevent the General
aaoptlon OF homing device which is 100 per cent
eInclent-all to the peril of the passengers and
crews. anu
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-20
And Here's His Remedy

A MODERN passenger airplane should among
n other things" says Gen. Mitchell be
equipped with:
i. Diesel non-inflammable engines
y Automatic gyroscopic pilots that work
3. Resonance altimeters that tell how far the
ground is underneath. not the column of air over
head.
4. Cabin parachutes that will take all the
passengers at once when necessary.
IS. Defrosting equipment
IS. Landing sticks 30 feet long that will land the
ship when they touch the ground
Y. Wholly designed ships that are sound aero
dramatically and operationally which none of the
present ones are
THE trouble here is that all matters relating to
air are controlled by Notifying outfits and that
the air profiteers with their money control to
great extent the press and able through their
Hobbies to get next to Washington"
Copyright 1895. BY United Syndicate IncD