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Evening star., 1935-04-14
c. O.P. DEMANDING
CONGRESS SPEED
CurtaiIing of Roosevelt's
Program Urged on Fear
Of Long Session.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Contending the first three and a
half months OF the present congress
Sional session have seen only one
really major measure enacted, Senate
Republican leaders asserted yester-
day that unless the administration
program is sharply curtailed, Congress
will be here all Summer.
While the House prepared to vote
this week on administration bill No. Z,
the social security measure, and the
Senate pondered which of three bills
to tackle, Senator McNary, the Re-
publican leader. expressed this view
Congress could quit by mid-June
If all but the social security, N. r. A.
extension, bonus and appropriation
bills were scrapped.
IF this rather hasty outline we're
pursued" the Oregon Senator added.
lit is my Judgment that Congress
can conclude its work by the middle
Of June. What the country needs
more than anything else is rest. re-
assurance and restoration of conf
dence. All would profit by this happy
eventuality, including the adminlstra-
ton"
Democratic leaders reported last
week that President Roosevelt wanted
the remainder Of the program car
ried out, including many measures
not mentioned by McNary. They also
said the Executive was satisfied with
progress to date
Despite these reports. there ap-
peared a rather general feeling en-
Capitol Hill that if only the N. r. A
and social security bills get through
there will be little disappointment
over results among the Democrats
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Woman "InnOcent''
OF Traffic Charge
Takes Jail Term
Says Prison Isn't So Bad
as She Clings to Prin.
cipIe MuOIued.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SALT LAKE CITY, April 13.-Mrs.
Louise D. Wright. who went to Jail
for the week end rather than pay a
$40 fine for traffic violation of which
she declared herself innocent said
today prison life wasn't so unpleasant.
Jail isn't such a bad place, after
ell" she said.
"Of course it's not what I'm used
to-"
Neither was awaking in the early
hours to find herself in a cell with
two other women-not sentenced on
traffic charges.
when I awoke this morning I had
forgotten for the moment where I
was" she said THE first thing I
saw was an old dirty mop in one
corner, rag hanging from wall,
and three other cell hunks. It's a
strange feeling
Mrs. Wright was convicted in Po-
lice Court of ignoring a traffic stop
sign. Two officers halted her and
made the accusation.
Just because I asked policeman
if he thought he was infallible and
offended his dignity, he arrested me"
she explained.
She denied she ignored the sign,
but a city judge assessed the fine.
Mrs. Wright is the wife of an insur-
ance company executive here.
Il can teke it, Mrs. Wright said.
"It's costing the city money to keep
me here. If I had paid fine they
would have made money off me
money they didn't deserve to get be-
cause did not ignorS that stop sign"
Evening star., 1935-04-14
PER CAPITA DEBT
THIRD Of BRITISH
Controller O'Connor Places
Figure at S736, to
S224 in u. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Placing Englands public debt al
S736 per capita, J. F. T. O'Connor
controller of the currency, said last
night the American public debt was
only one-third of that, despite heavy
public expenditures.
In some quarters fear has been ex-
pressed because of rather large ex-
penditures of the Federal Govern
ment." said OConnor in an address
delivered by telephone and radio
cast from San Francisco.
Let us compare the public debt
OF England, France and Italy WITH
that of the United States.
The public debt of England is s33,-
9O4 ,080, 900, or S73637 per capita; in
France it is S2l ,l08,846 900, or s503,7e
per capita, and in Italy. S8.773,229,-
900, or S205.84 per capita. The United
States has public debt of S28,478,-
664 900, or S224.6o per capita.
IN other words, the per capita
public debt of the United States IS
approximately one-third of that of
Englands, one-half of that of France
and about the same as that of Italy.
The Indebtedness of these foreign
countries, mind you, does not include
their war debts"
O'Connor said that as result OF
refunding operations, interest pay
ments on the public debt amount to
S8Ol 900, 600 annually, while in 1925
with an indebtedness of $4,000, ,000,-
900, interest paid amounted to $829,-
100000.
"Our debt has increased s8,000,-
600 900. but at the same time our in
terest charges have decreased $28,-
900 0O0." OConnor said.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
FEDERATION 0. KS
PLAYCROUNDPLAN
Education Committee Re-
port Accepting Program of
Council Approved.

The Federation Of Citizens Asso-
Citations went on record last night as
approving a report of It's Education
Committee, which had accepted the
plan advocated by the Commissioners
Advisory Council on Fairgrounds and
Recreation.
The Education Committee had rec
commended that the Immediate d!rec-
ton OF the recreational activities OF
the city should be placed in the hands
of a single, full-time director of rec
reation. charged solely with the per-
formance OF the necessary duties fol
maintaining a public recreation pro-
gram under supervision OF the recrea-
tional agency created
Such an executive should devote oll
his time and attention TO these du-
ties.
Nine Members Proposed.
Under the plan discussed last night
the federation favored q Recreation
Commission consisting of nine mem
bers, three selected by the Distric,
Commissioners. three by the Board Of
Education and three by the Nationa
Capital Parks Once.
The members to be chosen BY tht
Commissioners to serve on the Rec
reation Commission would be, &C
cording TO the federation's plan, bons
flde residents OF the city for at leas
three years prior to appointment
After the organization period. tht
terms would be for three years.
Copies Of the report Of the Educa
ton Committee will be sent TO tht
chairmen Of the Senate and House
District Committees and to the Dis
trict Commissioners.
Clash on Boards Rights.
Henry I. Quinn, member Of tht
Board of Education and a delegat,
to the federation. clashed severa
times with James N. Stull, chairman
of the committee which submitted
the report, Quinn defending the
rights of the Board Of Education
Earlier, Quinn had said it was "ar
asinine program that would set ur
another department to operate play
grounds which should be operated
by the Board of Education
President James G. Yaden appointed
Capt. Ellis R. King and Chairman
Llewellyn of the Highways, Park:
and waterways Committee. to confer
with Senators Glass and Byrd o1
Virginia, and the Engineer Commis-
sioner of the District, Col. Daniel I
Sultan, next Tuesday about the pro-
posed new bridge over the Potomac
to be erected near the old Chain
Bridge.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
NEUTRALITY BILLS
FACE QUICK ACTION
Pittman Veers From Move,
However, Which Might
EntangIe U. S.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
, Veering away from Q proposal that
he said might raise the League Issue
again, Chairman Pittman Of the SEN
ate Foreign Relations Committee yes
terday predicted speedy approval OF
two other measures intended TO safe
guard American neutrality.
Pittman's committee will take up
this week the Nye and Clark resolu-
tions TO impose Q virtual embargo on
private loans TO warning nations and
to keep American citizens out OF war
affected zones by refusing them pass
ports. Pittman, Democrat, OF Nevada,
saw little to prevent quick and ia
vorable report OF both.
Other legislators. meanwhile, were
preparing measures that would en-
power the President to declare out
right and general embargoes on rnu-
nitions shipments. Among them was
a resolution TO authorize such embar-
goes in agreement with other coun-
tries, directed at "aggressor nations. "
Last Has Little Chance.
Pittman said he saw little possibil-
ity that the latter proposal would be
enacted. He predicted that 1t would
raise once more the whole question
OF the League Of Nations and Of avoid
ance OF foreign entanglements.
Despite direct pressure, Mr.. Roose-
welt was unable to obtain Senate ap-
proval this session for American ad-
herence 10 the World Court.
The Senate Munitions Committee
Of which Nye. Republican, OF North
Dakota, is chairman. and Clark. Dem
ocrat. Of Missouri a member. yester-
day arranged 10 question Ben Smith.
Wall Street operator, tomorrow The
Senate Banking Committee tried un-
successfully for months TO place Smith
or its witness stand when II vas in
veStigating stock market practices.
BY midweek. too, IL the strike a.
the Colts Patent Firearms Co. has
not been settled. Nye intends 10 ask
President Roosevelt If there is any
reason why the committee should no,
proceed with It's investigation o: that
company.
Held Up So Far
Meanwhile, the inquiry has beer
held in abeyance at the request Of
the Chief Executive, who feared that
such an investigation might impede
the efforts OF Federal mediators 10
negotiate a settlement of the strike
1t developed yesterday, too. that the
Munitions Committee has been asked.
and has agreed. to keep hands OF
the neutrality question on the ground
that 1t more properly falls into the
field OF the Foreign Relations Com
mittee.
No difficulty developed in connec-
ton with the request. The Munitions
Committee members readily acQuiesced
and interposed no objection when the
Evening star., 1935-04-14
NAZIS TO SHACkLE
new CREED FOES
Adopt Policy of Showing No
Quarter to Disagreeing
Clergymen.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
MUNICH, Germany, April 13.-A
meeting Of all Nazi department heads
in the famed Brown House" here has
decided that no quarter hencefortil
shall be shown the Nazi church op-
position, it was disclosed authori-
tatively today.
The heavy hand of the Nazi regime
will descend without mercy on the
heads of all clergymen and laymen
who oppose the regime of Reichs-
bishop Ludwig Mueller. Hitler-ap-
pointed dictator of Protestant churches
in Germany
Public Kept in Dark.
This decision, which is being with
held from the German public for the
present, was revealed to the Associated
Press by an unimpeachable authority
Four Hessian and two Saxon clergy
men. who have been taken to con-
centration camps for their activities
against Mueller, not only will not be
released now, but their heads have
been shaved and they have been put
in regular prison garb.
From the little that has leaked out
concerning the Nazi department chiefs
meeting, over which Rudolf Hess,
Hitler's personal representative pre-
sided, DR.. Alfred Rosenberg's radicals
apparently had things all their way.
Decision is Voided.
This was true to such an extent that
although the ministry of the interior
decided April 9 to release the i'm
pFisoned pastors, it has not been able
to put its decision into effect.
A few days previously, it was re-
called. DR.. Paul Joseph Goebbels,
minister of propaganda, prepared the
atmosphere for the new church policy
when he hailed Gen. Erich Ludendorff,
World War hero and professed anti
Christian, as the founder of the new
Weltamschaung (Nazi world concept). J"
Evening star., 1935-04-14

Nye and Clark resolutions, introduced
earlier last week, were referred TO the
Foreign Relations Committee.
Pittman said yesterday he saw
rothing to prevent a prompt report"
on the resolutions. They are we'll
understood to have the backing of
the White House and State Depart
ment. and to form a part OF recon-
mendations for neutrality recon-
mendations which the latter Is formu-
lating.
Although they touch directly upon
two points which many have con-
tended led TO American participation
In the World War-loans TO bellig-
erentS and the death Of American
citizens in war zones-the subject Of
neutrality goes far beyond them.
The aged and knotty question OF
freedom Of the seas also Is involved.
The State Departments recommended
tionS. 10 be submitted soon 10 the
President, may include proposals that
American ships be forbidden 10 trans
port contrabano TO beliigeTents, and
even that American firms De pro-
hibited from the as.e Of sIcn items
Evening star., 1935-04-14
FURTHER DIVIDEND
|NPARK BANK SEEN
Payment of IS to 20 Per
Cent More Eventually
From Assets Expected.

pepositors of the Park Saving
Bank, who still are fighting in court
TO extract from directors and other
stockholders of the bank as much as
possible of more than $l,600000 loss
in this institution, probably can be
paid eventually from Is to 20 per cent
more out of the assets now in the
bank
This was disclosed yesterday by
John F. Moran, receiver, in his quar-
terly statement of the condition Of the
Park Bank, which included for the
first time an estimate on the remain
ing assets. These assets which are
given a book value Of 81 l,453.ll7.54
are listed at an estimated value OF
S520.000
25 Per Cent Already Paid.
Already depositors have been paid
q dividend of 20 per cent, which up
to March 81, had amounted to $751;
4434l, in addition to an original 3
per cent disbursement, to those per-
sons who had failed to get out their
per cent when the bank was re-
stricted before the Presidents bank
ing holiday in March. 1888. An ad-
ditional Is or 20 per cent would thus
bring the dividends to depositors up
to 40 to As per cent of their total
deposits.
Should the receiver or the depOsi-
tors. or both, succeed in getting more
funds out of the directors or stock
holders. this would increase still fur
Ii,piInnAo oJ-aitnlNlA 6A-
positors. Several suits are pending
in court against the directors and
stockholders.
The bank borrowed from the Re
construction Finance Corp. in order
to pay the 20 per cent dividend a
total of S264,200, the report shows,
but has paid back $l38,5 500 of this,
leaving a debt TO the R. F. c. Of
$l25,700. plus interest.
The bank had a large secured and
preferred liability item. which had 10
be paid in cash. in the sum of $751;
7723 in full,
DepoSitOrS' unsecured liabilities Tor
which receivers certificates have been
issued. total So, 1872 .884 99 but there is
a large item of s2l9.531 4S represent
ing deposits which depositors have not
as vet claimed
The fight over stock assessment
has resulted in small collections from
the 100000 assessment levied against
the directors and stockholders by the
receiver and the Controller of the
Currency. Only $1,000 has been paid,
and the receiver lists the estimated
value of the remaining unpaid stock
assessment at none" for the present.
From the Court of Appeals de-
cision is expected in the case in
which the Treasury Department and
receiver Joined with depositors in at
tempting to hold the directors liable
both as "liquidating trustees" and
"copartners
S1,600,000 Shortages Found.
When the bank failed to reopen
at the close of the bank holiday in
March, 1888, Robert S. Stun. vice
president, committed suicide, and
shortly thereafter shortages of more
than s1,6oo,O0O were discovered.
The Departmental Bank, of which
Moran also is receiver, has paid 80
per cent in five dividends. and may
still be able to pay between s. and 10
per cent more, according to the
quarterly statement of this bank.
Book value of remaining assets are
listed at S356,47l34. but the "esti-
mated value" of these assets is placed
at S55,000.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
MOTHER ARRAIGNED
IN BANK ROBBERY
Bergie Johnson Accused Of Con-
spring With Raymond Hamil.
ton in NississiPp! Job.

b tire Assoc srsc P-.ss.
PRENTIss, Miss, April !3-Seek-
ing 70 prove that Bergie johnson. AZ
year-old mother. conspired with the
desperado, RAYMOND Hamilton, 10
rob the Bank Of Blountville, az Prem
tiss on March 20. the State today
arraigned the woman on charges Of
robbery with firearms"
Mrs. Johnson, whose turbulent life
reads like a chapter from a novel,
pleaded mot guilty" The offense
could bring q death sentence in the
event Of her conviction before jury
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Traction Workers to Strike.

OMAHA, Nebr., April 13 (P).-Union
employees of the Omaha & Council
Bluffs Street Railway Co. voted 377
to IL in favor Of a strike, effective
am. Tuesday, R. V. Armstrong,
international union representative,
announced late today. H. NJ Nelson,
president Of the local tram workers
union, asserted approximately 600 en-
ployeS would be affected
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Gassaway Adopts
Bodyguard of Boys,
|''Out.Hooeying' Long
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Representative GassaWay. for
mer cowboy from Oklahoma, who
says he has been trying to out
hooey" Senator Long of Louisiana,
appeared yesterday with a body
guard" Of four small boys armed
with cap pistols.
Trying a take-off on Longs
bodyguard, Gassaway performed
today for caEaersmen by walking
down the Capitol steps sur
rounded by his four protectors.
He stopped and remarked:
Now that I've started this
fight against Senator Long and
Wall Street. how about trying out
our guns7"
The quartet-averaging all Of
10 years OF age-fiipped out long.
blue-barreled cap pistols and
popped away.
Gassaway had enlisted his son
Jim, one Of the youngsters OF Rep
resentatiye Sweeney Of Ohio, and
q couple Of House pages.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
SO PER LANDING
Flyer Settles for Coming Down
in Wheat Field.

SHELTON, Nebr, April 10 R.-
The fee for emergency landings on
John Stocks wheat field is So.
Melvin Scroggins OF Chicago, pi-
loting the plane of w. L. Spaulding Of
Salt Lake City. ran out Of gas and
had to set the ship down on the
Stock field, Stock appeared shortly,
with a couple Of officers to back him
up, and demanded damages. He set
tied for So.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
BY the Associated Press.


CHICAGO, April l3,-FOur million
children have been forced into a life
of idle loafing and are becoming a
menace TO society which only radi-
cal moderniZation Of the Nations high
schools can correct, President H. l.,
Smith Of the National Education As
sociation, dean of education at 1ndi-
ana University, said today.
Six million children are enrolled IN
$4,000 secondary schools, but If the
100000 made idle by the economic
situation are to avoid mental and
moral degeneracy,' Dr.. Smith said,
there is no notwithstanding
education must be provided for TO-
100000 youth"
We were not alarmed or disturbed
over the situation while machine
absorbed those on the lower economic
level" he told the North Central AS
sociation of Colleges and Secondary
Schools.
Now this large section of our
Evening star., 1935-04-14
ROOM FOR CHILDREN

An easy way to keep the children
at home, happy, content and free
from dangers incurred in playing in
the streets, is to furnish them with
a play room all their own. where
they can romp and. play to their
hearts content without disturbing
other members Of the family.
Unused space commonly found In
the basement or attic of the average
home may be converted into q rec
reation room for ta children at little
expense.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
One Killed in French Wreck

BORDEAUX, France. April IA
Sunday Hl-One person vas killed
and Eve we're seriously injured in the
deya.imen, % miles south Of mere
early today 2. the Par!s-Pvrenees
Express Emergency crews we're sem
10 the scene from Bordeaux.
Evening star., 1935-04-14
Texans Elect Roosevelt's Son.

FORT WORTH, Tex, April 13 (PD.-
Elliott Roosevelt son of President
Roosevelt, was elected vice president
of the Young Democratic Clubs of
Texas today by the Executive Com
nittee of that body.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

develop the eastern half Of Ethiopia had been
granted to Standard Oil interests. The name
of the corporation to which the concession was
granted was the African Development and Ex-
ploration Co.
This company had been formed by the
Standard Vacuum Oil Co. The Standard
Vacuum. in turn, is jointly owned by the
Socony Vacuum Co. and the Standard Oil Co.
of New Jersey, two of the largest units in the
great Standard Oil chain.
But could you find an official Of either Of
these companies who had so much as heard Of
the deal? You could not. President John A.
Brown and Vice President Harold F. Sheets Of
Socony-Vacuum declared that Socony-Vacuum
had nothing to do with the concession. Similar
denials came from w. S. Parish, chairman Of
the board of Standard Oil Of New Jersey, and
E ]. Sadler, vice president.
These denials were broadcast between the
time that the concession was announced and
the time that it was-at Secretary of State
Hulls request-dropped.
Those few days made up an uneasy period
for American citizens Here was this Ethiopian
mess, away off on the other side Of the world,
which had begun as a colonial quarrel and now
seemed likely to engender a frst-rate Euro
pean war; into it, just at The moment we were
all thanking Heaven that we couldn't get mixed
up in it. came the news of this concession,
which had the effect of putting us into it
right up to our ears.
The American people wanted to know all
about it. They had an indisputable right to
know. And the high officials Of the two
Standard Oil concerns which owned the COM
pany which held the concession were blandly
DENYING that they had ever heard of it,
That pretense soon collapsed, OF course. But
it is something to remember just the same
Keeping the public in the dark about the
private concerns Of a business enterprise is one
thing; doing it about a matter which directly
and inescapably concerns the whole nation is
quite another.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10
MYSTERY THAT WON'T DOWN

1T is hardly surprising to find New Yorks
l. famous Crater mystery popping into the
news again, in back-handed way-this time
through the medium of a Hollywood divorce
suit in which husband asserts that his wife
knows all about the famous vanishing act.
Whether this be sober fact or utter moon
shine. it is just a sample of the sort OF thing
that will be getting space in the newspapers
every so often Tor years to come. The Crater
case is just naturally one of those weird and
inexplicable mysteries that are bound to come
to the surface again every now and then.
This Judge Crater, you remember got into
a taxicab one day, drove away-and was never
seen or heard of again. A mystery like that
is too fascinating to be forgotten. You can
expect to find hints of it in such unlikely al
fairs as this Hollywood divorce case for the
next 20 years.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-10

/ both Republican presidential timber
possibilities, hail from spud-growing
states. They were in the vanguard
in sponsoring potato control. We
have here the cue, as to what
lengths the Republicans will go in
office, in regard to forcing the
country to submit to a scarcity
economy.
This law is unconstitutional be-
cause Congress has no power over
interstate commerce. Spud- growing
as purely local matter whether it
be done in Idaho, Michigan or In
diana.
The shipment Of potatoes may be
controlled by Congress if it be in
terstate commerce" provided some
measure Of public" protection is
necessary in selling Spuds or trans
porting them.
However, this law is not for the
protection of the consuming public,
but is an attempt to legalize an out
rageOuS racket. Our Congress has
shown itself as wholly incompetent
to deal with matters Of our economy
in an intelligent manner. Since the
only program they have is to destroy
things SO people may not obtain an
adequate quantity to use, we may
expect the next session to prepare
for the destruction of shoes, cloth
ing, fuel, buildings, dwellings, auto
mobiles, farm machinery and who
knows what not some imbecile may
suggest, maybe destroy the unem-
ployed because we have too many.
Congress is about as competent
to solve our economic riddle as
mule. Forcing scarcity is the work
of nit-Wits. Here is a sample Of
congressional sanction of sabotage.
Rome at its palmiest had not SUI
periors in this exhibition of crude
ness. Spud bootlegging will GUST
Borah, the law, and put potatoes in
the flower beds.