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The Washington times., 1935-02-05
In Congress
Today
SENATE

In adjournment until noon
Wednesday.
10 a. m.-Munitions Commit
tee; open hearing, continuance Of
investigation.
1920 a. m.-Banking and Cur
rency Committee; open hearing
on bill to extend the Farm Credit
Administration.
10 a. m.-Judiciary subcommft
tee; oper hearing on the 30-hour
week work bill.
10::30 a. m.-InterState Com
merce Committee; executive ses
sion on nominations of members
of the communications commits
sion.
10 a. m.-Finance Committee;
open hearing on social security
legislation.
10 a. m.-Agriculture Commit,
tee; open hearing on the cotton
export bill.
10 a. m.-District of Columbia
subcommittee; open hearing on
the Mayflower investigation.
1890 a. m.-Naval Affairs Com
mittee; executive session on rou'
tine business.
HOUSE
Meets at noon to begin general
debate on the State, Justice, Com
merce and Labor appropriations
bill.
10 a. m.-Appropriations sub
committees; executive sessions on
the War, Agriculture and Interior
Department appropriations bills
II a. m.-Foreign Affairs Com.
mittee; executive session on the
Mexican claims bill.
1890 a. m.-RuleS Committee;
open hearing on a bill to amend
the House rules relative to make
up of committees.
10 a. m.-Military Affairs Com.
mittee; open hearing, with Gen
eral Macarthur appearing regard
ing investigation Of purchases.
10 a. m.-Agriculture Commit
tee; open hearing on a commo.
dity exchange bill.
10 a. m.-Labor Committee,
open hearing on the workers
bills" concerning old age pension,
unemployment and related legis.
lation.
1920 a. m.-Post Office Com.
mittee; open hearing on air mail
legislation.
10 a. m.-WayS and Means
Committee; open hearing on so
cial security legislation.
10:30 a. m.-Judiciary Commit.
tee; executive session on routine
business.
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'ELOPERS AWAIT
COURT BATTLE

Those irrepressible newlyweds,
George Staunton Scarlette and
the former Jane de Walden
Cooke, Chevy Chase (Md.) society
girl, were in seclusion here today,
reunited after Scarlett's brief So
journ in custody Of the law.
Scarlette, former chauffeur for
the Cooke family, is under 81, 900
bond to appear Thursday in the
Montgomery county police court
at Rockville to answer a charge Of
larceny after trust. All family
pleas to the contrary, Mrs. Howard
De Walden Cooke still insists she
is going to prosecute the charge
that Scarlette took $4,000 worth
Of her jewels when he fled South
with Jane and the latter'S sister,
Anna. %, who was the elopers'
bridesmaid.
Mrs. Cooke defied even the
pleas Of her husband. the wealthy
Howard DE Walden Cooke. that
she forgive Jane and welcome her
Son-in-law. Said she:
II have no Son-in-laW."
Scarlette said:
1--WE are happy and nothing
Mrs. Cooke can do will ever
break us up. AS soon as we get
Strengthened out we are going
to Miami to live"
The couple were returned
here yesterday by Georgia peace
officers.
The honeymooners revealed they
had financed their trip South with
$69.50 They spent most Of the
time on a small island off the
Georgia coast, owned by Mr.. Cooke.
Jane said:
eve went deer hunting, played
tennis and went fishing. We had
. mervelOuS time"
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Johnston to Give
Free Bridge Talk

Maxwell Johnston will give a
free lecture on contract bridge
at lexington Community Center,
in Langley Junior High School, to-
morrow at 8 p. M, Mrs. D. E.
Middleton, secretary, announced
yesterday. Mr.. Johnston is giving
a class for beginners and for ad-
vanced players at Central Commu-
nifty Center each Monday and
ThurSdaY night.
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DALLAS, Tex, Feb. 5 0.N.S).
Ray Hamilton, Texas public en-
emy, fugitive from death cell at
State Prison, and his brother,
Floyd, were objects of a search to.
day by State and Federal officers
after a running gun battle last
night in the city's outskirts.
Despite the fact that one Of
the fugitives fled in a bright red
service car of the Dallas Gas Com
pany, the night swallowed both
within Is minutes, while dozen
police squad cars secured adjacent
highways. The other escaped on
foot.
Detective J. F. Daniels was shot
in the finger when one of the
deSperadoes returned his fire. OF
ficerS believed one or both rub
bers were wounded.
Six detectives, acting on a tip
from an undiScloSed source, ap'
peared suddenly at a duplex apart
ment on the East Side. They sur
prised Mrs. Mildred Hamilton.
wife of Floyd, and another
woman. The detectives secreted
themselves about the small resi-
dnce.
A roughly dressed man later ap-
peared at a side window. De-
tectives ordered him to surrender.
Instead, he began firing. AS he
backed away, Ray Hamilton go5
out of a car at the curb and
joined the flight down an alley.
At the corner the two brothers
separated and vanished.
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A55A|LS
GRAIN PLAN
International News Service


Federal regulation Of commod-
ity exchanges ultimately will
result in a low grain price struc-
ture, Arthur R. Boylan, president
of the Chicago Board Of Trade,
today told the House Agriculture
Committee.
He appeared before the com.
mittee in opposition to a bill by
Chairman Jones (DO of Texas,
which empowers the Secretary
of Agriculture to supervise activi-
ties Of the exchanges and license
floor brokers and commission
merchants. Mr.. Boylan said:
eff this bill passes in its
present form and you return
to a normal crop, the Specu-
lator who carries the farmers
grain all through its various
stages will disappear from the
market, thereby leaving a low
price structure. The bill in
its present form will not work."
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Smith Named Head
OF Service Clubs

Arthur Clarendon Smith last
night was elected president Of
the Federation Of Civic Service
Clubs at the organizations annual
meeting at the University Club.
Other officers elected were George
Fraser, Capt. A. E. Nesbitt and
AShby Leeth, vice presidents; E.
Francis McDevitt, secretary; L. H.
Brodie, treasurer, and John Ro-
land, James Smythe and L. E.
George, directors,
The Washington times., 1935-02-05
Books and Liquor
Mix, Board Rules

Books and alcohol can mix with
out harm the Alcohol Beverage
Control Board ruled yesterday
when it overrode the protests of
trustees of the Public Library and
granted a liquor license to a res
taurant in the 800 block of K st.
N. w. DR.. George F. Bowerman,
librarian, opposed the sale of
drinks so close to the institution,
fearing the library reading rooms
would be clustered with intoxi.
Gated persons.
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Boulder DamReady
Far Ahead of Time
international News Service

Two years and a half ahead
Of time, Boulder Dam, the
$94, 100000 public works project,
has begun it's functions, Public
Works Administrator Ickes an.
nounced today.
At the rate of 5000 cubic feet
a second, water is being stored
in the huge 115.mile reservoir
to provide irrigation for thou
sands Of acres Of land, to pre-
vent disastrous floods in the
Imperial Valley and to provide
power for the Southwest.
The Washington times., 1935-02-05
Studio Girls Given
Guard After Threat

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. S GN.s).
Police guards today watched at
the film studios here as Rosemary
Smith, %, and Robin Annesley,
also %, went to work in pictures.
The police guard was called be.
cause the girls reported receiving
a note threatening them with
death if they had not "perma-
nently vacated Los Angeles" be.
fore nightfall of February 6.
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MISS FARRELL ILL

HOLLYWOOD, Feb. S G.N.s),
The germs Of influenza just will
not let the celebrities of movie
land alone, and Glenda Farrell,
screen star, today was the latest
victim of the epidemic. She Is
confined to her home but not
seriously i'll, it was reported.
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Source Is Sought
OF Poison Liquor

PHILADE ELP HIA, Feb. 5
Q.N.S).-Police were engaged in
a search for the source of poison
Gus liquor here today as wood
alcohol-fraudulently sold as State
stores goods-claimed the life of
another Philadelphian. Howard
Watson, 20, was pronounced the
victim Of alcohol poisoning follow.
ing the similar death of Stanley
Nautilus, 81, unemployed. Analysis
Of the liquor disclosed it was al.
most 100 per cent wood alcohol.
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lis BLOCKED RFC LOAN TO SHPYARD, SENATE IS TOLD
World News
AUSTRIA

NINA, Feb. 5 I.N.S),
Another famine has descended
upon wide areas in Russia, and
millions of gaunt peasants whose
meager crops have been wrested
from them by forced State collec.
tionS today face starvation,
according to a manifesto issued
by Cardinal Innitzer, of Vienna,
head of the Interconfessional
International Famine Relief Com.
mittee for the Soviet union.
American and other foreign
travellers were cited as saying
that harveStS had been cut down
by drought, and the Soviet
government was said to have
a d mi tied that elementary
distress" existed in many sections.
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PARLEY TO MAP
POWER TRUST
A 7 7 A OK
Leaders Meet at White House
To Discuss Remedies for
Holding Company Evils
BY EARL GOODWIN

President Roosevelt's fight on
the Power Trust, specifically his
attempts to remedy what he has
termed 1.-The evil features of hold.
ing companies" is the subject
Of a conference today at the
White House.
Attending the meeting will be
the men on whom the Admins.
tration depends for legislation
which either will regulate or pro.
hibit those vast legal entities
such as the late "Insull Empire, !"
which have been the subject of
attack in Congress by liberals
and progressives.
Heading the Congressional del.
egation will be Senator George
w. Norris (R) of Nebraska,
recognized as the pioneer leader
in the fight for Government
ownership or control of vast
power resources; Senator Burton
K. Wheeler (D) of Montana
and Representative Sam Rayburn
CD of Texas, chairman Of the
House Committee on Interstate
and Foreign Commerce, who will
have charge of the legislation in
the House.
Power Heads There
There will also be Chairman
Frank McNinch and Vice Chair
man Basil Manly, of the Federal
Power Commission, Secretary of
the Treasury Morganthau and At
torney General Cummings. Ex-
perts from the Federal Power
Commission will attend the discus
sion, it is understood.
Whatever this council of war
decides to do will be the subject
of attack from the deeply en-
trenched power interests, whose
representatives already are said to
be in Washington to stave off any
Congressional effort to regulate
or prohibit Utility operations.
The fact that Secretary Morgan
thau is to be consulted today in
dicates that the method to be
adopted against the holding COM
panies is the imposition of heavy
taxes which will make it unprofit-
able for a holding company to
milk operating companies Of their
dividends. This is a feature not
yet decided upon, but it has been
discussed widely among Admins
tration leaders.
Low Cost Plan
The prime object of the Ad-
ministration's policy with respect
to the power trust is to supply
electricity to small home owners,
particularly in the rural districts,
with electricity at a figure low
enough to encourage the wide use
Of this type of power for home
and farm appliances.
It is understood that before
the Administration can act
through Congress, representatives
Of large holding companies will
offer to invest at least 1000 mil
lion dollars in large privately
operated projects that will parallel
the Tennessee Valley Authority
in extent.
There is a possibility of a diff
ference of opinion among Congress
sional leaders as to whether the
holding company "evil features"
should be wiped out suddenly or
permitted to dissolve.
Administration leaders indicate
that a majority Of leaders want
drastic action, but will take no
steps which will depreciate the
value of holding company securi-
ties now held largely by insurance
companies, savings banks, and like
financial institutions.
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FARLEY ASKED
To OPPOSE
REQUEST
Letter to President Also Cited
In Fight on U. S. Aid
To Pensacola Firm
international News Service

AHGeRuht1OMaA NeWB SeEV1o0
Rival shipbuilders, fighting to
block efforts Of Laurence R. Wilder
to get an RFC loan to set up a
Shipbuilding plant at Pensacola,
Fla, went to high political quarters
for help, testimony before the
Senate munitions committee re-
vealed today.
Several letters of protest were
even sent to President Roosevelt in
connection with the fight against
Mr.. Wilder, the evidence showed.
Mr.. Wilder, chairman of the
board of Gulf Industries Corpora
ton, Of Pensacola, was seeking
$35, 100000 RFC loan in the sum-
Mer Of 1898.
c. L. Bardo, then president of
the New York Shipbutlding Cor
poration, wrote Gov. A. Harry
Moore, protesting the move, &C.
cording to a correspondence placed
in the record.
Raps Promotion"
Mr.. Bardo, in his letter to
Governor Moore, characterized Mr..
Wilder as a promoter, pure and
simple" and warned that unless
the Wilder loan was blocked, the
Gulf Industries Corporation might
rob the Northern ship yards,
mostly in New Jersey, of consid-
cradle business,
Governor Moore promised to
help, and Immediately notified
Mr.. Bardo he had taken the mat
ter up with Postmaster General
James A. Farley. Replying to Mr..
Bardo's request for aid in fight
ing the Wilder loan request, he
said:
II have your letter and shall
be glad to help you in any way
you might suggest.
II have taken the matter up
directly with Mr.. Farley. If
there is anything further I can
do, let me know"
Mr.. Farley, replying to Cover
nor Moore, said simply that his
letter had been received, called to
the attention Of shipping board OF.
ficials, and that reply from the
latter was enclosed.
Wrote to Cone
The correspondence showed
that Mr.. Farley, after receiving a
letter from Governor Moore, wrote
to H. I. Cone, chairman of the
Shipping Board. The reply Of Mr..
Cone, enclosed by Mr.. Farley in a
letter to Governor Moore, follows,
in part:
I'm my opinion, it is always
undesirable to use Government
money to build up competition
with legitimate vested interests,
and from my observation in
handling the Government loan
fund for building ships, unless
great care is used in thoroughly
investigating all the projects
proposed, injustice will be done
to establish industries in the
same line Of business"
The RFC loan sought by Mr..
Wilder was never made.
Governor Moore wrote to Presi-
dent Roosevelt at the request of
Mr.. Bardo, later correspondence
revealed. The President merely
acknowledged the letter in the fol.
lowing words:
"My Dear Governor:
Thank you for your letter Of
July seventh. 1 appreciate your
writing me about the matter but
we have no intention Of acquir.
ing ShipyardS.
Every sincerely yours,
"FRANKLIN d. ROOSEVELT"
Mr.. Bardo, on the stand today,
said he believed 'then-and now
that he had every justification for
opposing the FRC loan to Mr..
Wilder.
ARrr~ an PNRYY YnR~ Az
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GERMANY

BERLIN, Feb. 5 G.N.S0.-Ger.
many is willing to risk the birth
of few harmless maniacS to
produce some geniuses. too, the
heredity court at Frankforton-
Main indicated today in declining
to order a musician of extraordi.
nary ability to be sterilized. The
man. member of a family Of musi.
clans, suffers from a heredity all
ment causing fits of melancholia.
Between 10000 and 100000
persons have SO far been Sterilized
in Germany, a superior court
judge estimated in a magazine
article,
The Washington times., 1935-02-05
Civil War Society
Will Hear Walsh

Senator David I. Walsh, Of
Massachusetts,, will be the guest
speaker, February IL, at a meet
ing of Lincoln Camp, Friends Of
Union Veterans of the Civil War.
The meeting will be in celebration
of Lincoln's Birthday and will be
held at the Congregational Church,
Tenth and G SITS. N. w., at 8 p. m.
Music will be furnished by the
United States Marine Band.
The Washington times., 1935-02-05
MEXICO

MEXICO CITY, Feb. 5 U.N.SO.
American oil interests watched
with anxiety today as the British.
owned Mexican Eagle Oil Com
pany prepared to fight a decree
by President Cardenas depriving
the company of it's tremendously
valuable concessions in six States.
The concessions, granted in
1906, were ruled void as "prej-
judicial to the public interest" I"
and unconstitutional because a
monopoly acquired in evident
prominence over other COM
panies."
The Mexican Eagle concern,
largest oil producer in this coun.
try, has recently had considerable
labor trouble.
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MEET ON THURSDAY.

Organized employees stationed
at BeltSville, Md, composing
Lodge 125 Of the AFGE, will hold
a business meeting Thursday at
the Beltsville SchoolhouSe.
The Washington times., 1935-02-05
TREASURY CONDITION

Treasury balance as Of Feb
ruary 2-$2,298, ,940,241.70; internal
revenue, $7,974,909.27; customs
receipts, $1,906,518.27.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-24
Christian Science

mind" is the subject Of the lesson
sermon in all the Churches of Christ
Scientist, tomorrow. The Golden Text
is from I Corinthians. 2:l6: who
hath known the mind Of the Lord.
that he may instruct him? But we
have the mind of Christ"
Among the citations which comprise
the lesson-sermon Is the following
from the Bible: IF any man speak,
let him speak as the oracles Of God:
If any man minister. let him do 1t as
of the ability which God giveth" Il
Peter, AND. The lesson-sermon also
includes the following passage from
the Christian Science text book,
Science and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy:
THE human capacities are enlarged
and perfected in proportion as hu-
mainly gains the true conception OF
man and God" page $3.50.
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MOTHER BROWNS
THREE CHILDREN
Throws Them Down Well,
Then Commits Suicide by
Leaping in After Them.
~ the Associated Press.

Hy the Associated Press.
MONROE, Mich, August 24.-Henry
Vereecke, 50-year-old farmer. found
the bodies of his wife and three chill
dren drowned in IL feet Of water at
the bottom Of q 50-foot well last
night. Coroner Ernest Durell said the
woman had drowned the children and
then threw herself into the well.
The victims were Mrs. Gulma
vereecke, Donald, IA; Ralph, 8. and
Patricia, 5.
Coroner Durell said he learned
through questioning Vereecke that
Mrs. Vereecke had been Ill and the
family had feared she was developing
an unsound mental condition,
Vereecke told the coroner and Sher-
III Joseph Barley that he had spent
the day helping a neighbor to thresh
grain and discovered that the top had
been removed from the well when he
took his horses out to water.
Neighbors he summoned to his aid
descended to the water level by ladder
and brought up the bodies. They
were piled one on top OF the other,
Donald's body being found at the
bottom.
Coroner Durell said the positions OF
the children's bodies indicated Mrs
Vereecke threw them into the well In
the order of their ages.
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F. H. A. AID SPURS
REALTY FINANCING
Mortgage Money Beginning
to Flow Back Into Nor
NAL Channels.
Nv the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 24.-This de-
preston will be over when mortgage
money really loosens up, In the opin-
ion of a number Of economists ana
bankers, and. molasses-1ike, it is be-
ginning to flow.
In Wall Street the credit for grad
ual thawing of the real estate funds
market is bestowed in generous meas
ure on the Federal Housing Admins
tration, supervising the modernization
and long-term mortgage loans pro-
vided under the national housing act
Of 1894.
Private Groups Help.
A relatively small group OF bank
ing and insurance men who have. IN
private and in cooperation with the
Government, actively striven to re-
direct the flow of capital into building
and real property. is also assigned a
good slice Of praise for its efforts.
Loans under the F. H. A. to August
II have amounted to 1854, 900, 900, with
financial institutions providing the
later to be replaced by mutual guar
antee fund to be created out OF extra
annual charges assessed against the
loans. and paid like yearly interest.
But much remains to be done, real
estate men feel, to perfect the lending
mechanisms provided for under the
act.
Some Wall Street men say the most
disappointing feature of the law as it
has worked out in practice has been
the device of forming national mort
gage associations, which was intended
to make it easy for large blocks OF
capital to participate in loans on real
property and construction.
Profit Margin Too Small.
Not one of these associations pro-
vided for in the housing act has been
privately formed to date, and none
usually well-informed bankers say. Is
being contemplated by large Wall
Street banking interests at present
despite recurring rumors to the con-
trary.
The associations, In effect large
mortgage pools issuing their own de-
bentures, backed by mortgages guar
anteed at first by the F. H. A. and
later self-insured, provide too slim a
margin of profit to attract capital,
bankers say.
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.|ND|ANA'S FLAG
TO Be PRESENTED
Ceremony Arranged for To-
morrow Afternoon at
National Cathedral.

At the outdoor evensong service at
the Peace Cross on Mount st. Alban
tomorrow at 4 o'clock the of1cial nag
Of Indiana viii be presented TO
Washington Cathedral by Robert Van
der Hoff Alderman, son Of Dean Carl
w. Alderman Of the Columbia School
Of Journalism in New York City.
Through Representative Louis Ludlow,
q special invitation has been extended
to officers and members Of the In
diana State Society in the District
Of Columbia.
Honors Grandparent.
Mr.. Alderman Is making this gift
in honor of his grandparents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Frederick Alderman Of
Richmond, Ind. He himself was bap-
tized in the Bethlehem Chapel Of the
Cathedral in 1915, and his father Is
member Of the Cathedral Council
which meets twice year to consider
all phases Of the Cathedral Founda-
tons work. Dean-and Mrs. AckeTman
are motoring from their Summer home
in Lambertville, N. j., to be present at
the service.
In the absence Of Bishop James e.
Freeman, the flag will be received by
the dean Of the Cathedral, Very Rev.
G. c. F. Bratenahl, who will offer
prayer for its dedication. The sermon
will be delivered by Canon Raymond
L. Wolven, chaplain to the Bishop of
Washington. Music will be furnished
by group of men and boys from the
Cathedral choir, assisted by Q brass
quartet.
Dean BratenahI Preacher.
Dean Bratenahl will be the preacher
at the celebration Of the holy COM
munion in the Bethlehem Chapel at
II am. tomorrow. There will be the
usual early celebration Of the holy
communion at 7:30 am.
Immediately following the II am.
and 4 pm. services, q pilgrimage will
be conducted through the crypt
chapels for the benefit Of residents of
Indiana and other out-of-town Wor-
shippers.
Steady progress Is being made In
erecting the great reredos behind the
high altar in the sanctuary and in
resuming construction on the south
transept walls above the pilgrim steps.
The Cathedral authorities hope to
reopen the Great Choir for public
worship in October.
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POSTAL WORKERS ELECT

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, August "a
LP).-The National Alliance of Postal
Employees, composed of colored post
Office workers all over the country,
closed its eighth biennial session here
yesterday after choosing Philadelphia
as the 1887 convention city.
New officers of the organization are
Jerry o. Gillian, Norfolk, Va, presi-
dent; Lafayette F. Ford, St. Louis. vice
president; S. M. Jackson. Washing
ton, secretary; r. E. L. Hutton, treas
urer, and Percy r. Hines, Chicago
editor of the alliance magazine.
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st. Paul A. M r.

DR.. G. Oliver Wing will preach at
II am. the last of a series Of ser
mons. Subject: "Paul's Thorn in the
Flesh and What 1t Is" Choir No. 2
will render music. On September /,
quarterly meeting. Sermon at IL am.
by DR.. c. H. Wesley Of Potomac dis
trict. The Friends Club will meet to-
morrow at $50 pm. at 1902 Carol
burg street southwest. Mrs. Nocy Cox
Is president.