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Evening star., 1935-12-09
RECESSION SEEN
AT STEEL PLANTS
Institute Estimates Weeks
Operations to Average
55.7 Per Cent.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, December S.--The
American Iron g. Steel Institute esti-
mates steel production during the
current week at 55.7 per cent Of ca
pacity, compared with 56.4 per cent
in the preceding week.
A month ago production was at the
rate of 52.6 per cent Of capacity, and
q year ago it was 1927 per cent.
The moderate recession in produc-
ton does not, in the opinion Of steel
trade authorities, point to any i'm
portant change of trend in the in
duStry.
Since early in October, with pro-
duction holding consistently above so
per cent, the industry has experienced
only three minor declines In produc-
ton, including that estimated for the
current week.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

NEW YORK. December R).-Foreisr
EXCHANGES easy; Great Britain in dollars
others IN cents. Great Britain I'm. demand q, %
France demand 65934: cables. 5.59A1i
Italy demand. soon; cables. soon.
Belgium, 1884; Germany free, 1929
reg. tourist 24.26; req. commercial. %. 90;
Holland. 67.71;, Norway. 10: Sweden
Switzerland. 32.41; Spain. 1857; Portugal
44S9s: Greece 94K; Poland. 1885
Czechoslovakia 4.15h: Yugoslavia. 2.29
Austria, ls.S0n; Hungary. 90. 60n: Ru'
mania. so; Argentina 30 SIN; Brazil
S59n: Toxic. 1878: SHANGHAI 29.95;
Hongkons, 1890: Mexico City, 27;s5;
Montreal in New York. 9S.90ss; New York
in Montreal l0l .003s.
Nominal
Evening star., 1935-12-09
SUGAR MELT INCREASES.

NEW YORK, December CP)-
The sugar melt of the 10 United
States refners for the period from
January TO November 30 totaled
3,730.000 long tons against 1896. 900
in the like period of 1884. Deliveries
totaled 3,57O,0OO tons against $685.
600 a year ago.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
U. S. TREASURY POSITION.
BY the Associated Press.

The position of the Treasury on De-
cember D was: Receipts, S14.921 .S7l IL:
expenditures. S26,I52. .433 .03: balance, ST.
4G2. 054. .597 "a: customs receipts for the
month 81 S,943.53.
Receipts for the fiscal year (since July
u S1,54l ,0s5. .5S7 40; expenditures. So
252 .35l .539 so including Sl,45l .3s4, =
452 03 Of emergency expenditures; excess
of expenditures SI,71I265 .952.l0: gross
debt, S29. .6I2. .626, ,337-69. a decrease of
Gold assets. S10,033, 5000 13.
Evening star., 1935-12-09

Dividend rates in dollars based on last
nual rate-plus extra Accumulated divi-
dends q Paid this year. b Paid last year.
q Companies reported IN receivership Of
being reoreaniZed. ePayable in stock.
Plus partial distribution Of assets. ~
dividend
Evening star., 1935-12-09
CURB LIST MOVES
UNEvENLY LOWER
Metal Shares Are Offered
After Reduction in Sil-
Ver Price.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December 9.-Curo
market stocks drifted irregularly
lower today.
Metal shares were in supply follow
Ing a reduction in the price OF bar
silver, most of the utilities were frac-
tionally lower and industrials were
quiet.
There was some demand for scat
tered specialties at gains Of l to 2
or more points.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
MONEY MARKET.

NEW YORK. December 0 LP,.-Call
money steady; "a per cent all day: prime
commercial paper. a per cent, time loans
steady; so days-6 months, per cent
90 ea days. .sels; % so19o S days, l.-H.:
months. A-is; SO months, 3s-is Re-
discount rate. New York Reserve Bank,
Ia per cent.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
Consolidated Gas
Will Redeem Gold
Debenture Issue
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December e.-Consol-
idated Gas Co. of New York will re-
deem on January Is $10.000,00 Of the
$50 1000, 900 S per cent gold debentures
due July IS, 1857, it was announced
today.
The called bonds will be retired at
1903.
Funds for the redemption will come
from payment of loans by one of the
company's subsidiaries.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
0vERC0ATs IN DEMAND.

NEW YORK, December 8 CF.-
In mems wear, sales Of overcoats are
now said to be around the peak for
the current season.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
U. s. TREASURY NOTES.
Reported by chas. D; Barney q co:)
CENTRAL TO BUILD TRAIN.

NEW YORK, December 9 (P)-New
York Central Railroad Co. has ar
ranged for the building Of steam
powered streamlined train in its own
shops.
Evening star., 1935-12-09

New York & Richmond Gas Co.
First preferred share earnings, nine
months ended September 80, were
S7.73. VS.. S71a.
Evening star., 1935-12-09

Smith "a. o. Corp.-Company re-
ceived an order from Schlitz (Joseph)
Brewing Co. for 100000 worth Of
Glass-lined beer storage tanks.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
RUBBER FUTURES.

NEW YORK. Decemner g.0oCrude
December. 1310a; March. 13.30b; May,
1344-45. ASKED Bid
Evening star., 1935-12-09

Lane Bryant, Inc.-November sales
we're of per cent; IL months, of
0.5 per cent.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
REPORTS
LOSS IN OCTOBER
Months Deficit of $50, ,924
Compares With Net of
$53,701 Year Ago.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, December 9.-The Pull
man Co., sleeping car affiliate Of Pull
man, Inc, today reported a loss Of
SIS, ,924 during October, compared to
net earnings Of $5s,7ol in the same
month last year.
There was a Continued increase"
in gross revenue, Vice President
George A. Kelly said, but net results
were less favorable due primarily to
continuation of the expanded car
maintenance program and to in
creased pay roll costs following full
restoration of wages " to the pre-
depression level as of April l."
NEW YORK, December 9 P.-
American Car & Foundry Co. and
subsidiaries reported net loss of ST.
731 ,318 for the six months ended Oc-
tober 81 after all charges, compared
with net loss of $330,753 for the like
period last year.
Evening star., 1935-12-09
NEW YORK CURB MARKET

Stock and Sales
Dividend Rate Add 90. High. Low. 2:56.
Teck Hughest40c) 81 ~ "a ~
Tenn EIec Pwr
Evening star., 1935-12-09
FOREIGN BONDS.

Unit Fl 8 rs '0b WV 4Z54 4ZY4 ~
ww-With warrants. xw-Without war
rants. n-New. wi-When issued. S
(stp1-Stamped.
sNesotiability impaired by maturity.
fCompanies reported in receivership.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
Tunnel Cre,cs ''Hole Through, y
Meeting 22F Feet Under Hudson

shore to the west. Sand hogs, who
had worked since last September
under heavy air pressure and in I'M
minent danger of injury or death,
wiped their faces and grinned hap
PLY.
It is only an iron cylinder now,
that bore weighed down by thousands
of tons of muck and water, but in 1S
months more it will be a 2-mile high
way down which sleek cars will glide.
Some facts about the new midtown
Hudson River tunnel:
Estimated cost, $37 800, 900.
Financed by bonds of the Port Of
New York Authority.
Work of tunnel began September
20, 1884.
Average progress each day through
silt was 80 feet.
Tunnel to be completed for use as
ansther link between Manhattan and
New Jersey about January l. 1898.
Jersey terminal Is at Weehawken,
Manhattan terminal is at Thirty.
ninth street and Tenth avenue.
Tunnel Is ~ feet beneath river bed.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
Mrs. Pritchdrd Is Found Dead:
! Dogs HOlUls Lead to Discover,

The plaintive and persistent yelps
of a pet dog led to the discovery this
afternoon of the body of Mrs. Lillian
S. Pritchard, about 10, widow of the
late Jeter Pritchard, former United
States Senator and District Supreme
Court justice.
Mrs. Pritchard apparently had been
dead for two days when her body was
found in her home where she lived
alone at 1917 M street.
The body was fully clothed and
death from natural causes was indi-
Gated, according to members of the
homicide squad, who investigated.
Mrs. Pritchard's pet dog howled and
yeiped IN alarm until the neighbors
finally investigated.
Mrs. John Fowler, 1924 Sixteenth
street, friend, talked with Mrs.
Pritchard on the telephone late Tues
day and said Mrs. Pritchard had told
her she was not feeling well.
A next door neighbor heard the pet
dog barking today and called Mrs.
Fowler who went to the house. When
she got no response to her knocks,
Mrs. Fowler called police. They en-
tered the house and found the body
Mrs. Pritchard served on the Juxy
Commission of the District from JAN
Evening star., 1935-08-02
zENGE, ARRESTED,
DENIES MURGER
Finally Admits Identity, but
DisaV0WS MutiIation of
Ex-FianCee'S Mate.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO. August 2-Mandeville
W. zenge. 26-year -old carpenter. was
apprehended today in connection with
the pen-knife mutilation and Staying
of DR.. Walter ]. Bauer. 38, who, three
weeks ago, was married to Zenges
former sweetheart.
Zenge was seized on a West Side
street by States attorneys police at
$50 am, on information supplied by
an anonymous tip. He denied he
performed the operation on DR.. Bauer,
but refused to make any other state
ment. Capt. Daniel Gilbert of the
States attorneys Office said.
For several hours Zenge denied his
identity and for a time persisted in
his denial. even when confronted by
his father, j. Andy Zenge. retired
dairy farmer of Canton. Mo.
The prisoner admitted he was zenge
only after his father told Capt. Gilbert
he was the man they were seeking.
Talked IrratiOnally.
Harry Hoffman. psychiatrist in
charge of the Cook County Behaviour
Clinic. was called in. Capt. Gilbert
said, because young zenge was talking
irrationally.
The elder Zenge urged his son to
tell the police everything.
If you are innocent of this awful
thing. talk" said the father. I'VE
believe you"
The son. who. in what purported
to be suicide note left at Navy pier
yesterday told of brooding since Louise
Schaffer, night superintendent O:
nurses at a Kirksville. Mo. hospital
married DR.. Bauer, sulked in his chair
Capt. Gilbert disclosed that at mid
night last night he had received u
telephone call informing him that
Zenge was staying at Madison street
flop house and had made a telephone
call from there.
Traced to Cicero.
He hurried there with detectives,
but learned that the suspect had
checked out. A roomer, however, had
heard Zenge make a telephone call
and had written down the number
The call was traced to an address in
the vicinity of Cicero and West Madi-
son street and the detectives went
there and waited.
After several hours of waiting they
spotted zenge on the street and took
him into custody.
He was wearing an old gray tweed
suit and dark cap, which detectives
said he had bought at West Madi-
son street secondhand store. In his
pockets he had 81 and in one shoe
detectives found $50 more. He was
not armed.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
TAX BILL MEETS
c. 0. P. ATTACK IN
LIMITED DEBATE
House Discussion Is Cut
to Six Hours-TreadWay
RapS Morgenthau.
HILL SAYS ORDINARY
BUDGET IS BALANCED
Charge of Subservient Congress
0beying White House Face
Saving Demand Is Hurled.
BY JOHN c. HENRY.

Running into a fiery blast from Rep
resentative Treadway of Massachusetts.
ranking minority member of the House
Ways and Means Committee, House
Democrats today opened their drive
to dispose OF the administration 'aX
bill by tomorrow night.
The assertion that Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau either was
ashamed Of" the S27O 900 900 measur.
or lacked the ability to analyZe it was
made by TreadWay after the House
met at 10 a m. to open debate under
6-hour limitation.
Treadway assailed Morgenthau fol
his refusal yesterday to analvze the
measure before the Senate Finance
Committee, and added:
"Of course. he didn't state his views
He doesn't have any" the New Eng
lander shouted I've never seen any
indication of views on his part"
TreadWay also referred to Senator
Byrd's characterization of the pend
ing bill as a farce"
bNTnS hASteDS Action.
Prior to opening today's session
Speaker Byrns repeated majority de-
termination to finish discussion Of the
bill by tomorrow. If necessary. he
said the House will meet late this
afternoon to dispose of the full six
hours and start on the amendments.
Absence Of a quorum at 10 am.
forced a roll call. with consequent
delay, and it was l0:45 before debate
got under way
Representative Samuel B. Hill, DEM
ocrat. of Washington, opened debate
on the measure. Ranking next to
Chairman Doughton among majority
members of the House WAYS and
Means Committee. Hill announced his
intention of dealing with the techni-
cal features of the legislation. He
opened his remarks, however. by de-
tending majority action in their course
Of drafting the measure.
Hits Secrecy Charge.
TAX and tariff bills are not drawn
opinions of experts on the needs en-
bodied in the legislation he said
Our Republican friends charged We
drew this bill in secret. Well, the ,e-
sponsibility was ours and the practice
is one which has been followed in past
years by Republican majorities.
We have brought in a bill which
We feel We may commend to the House.
We have heard much of the cry
TO balance the budget. The ordinary
budget is balanced now. This issue is
a bogey man."
Hill next outlined the specific pro-
visions of the Il. principally the new
surtaH schedule from the $4,000 net
income bracket, the graduated corpo-
alton levy of 1874 to 14l4 per cent,
the excess profits tax of to 20 per
cent on profits above per cent in
come on adjusted declared value and
the inheritance tax from to IS per
cent
In defense of the innovation of
graduated corporation income tax, Hill
declared the principle is the same as
taxing individual income on basis OF
size.
Hits BigneSs.
THE corporation influences are the
most powerful in the country today"
he said. "and the larger a corpora
tons income the greater its economic
power.
You know. as I know, that the
little stockholder has no voice in di-
rection of the corporation. He is as
(See TAXES, Page -
Evening star., 1935-08-02
800 MORE D. c. Jobs
CUT RELIEF ROLLS
Allen Pushes Employment
on Wide Front With
$45 Wage Paid.

Washington's work-relief drive struck
a new stride today when Commissioner
George E. Allen ordered an additional
800 men put to work at S45 security
wages on widely scattered highway
projects.
These men Joined the .420 laborers
who yesterday initiated the drive to
deplete the local relief rolls by Novem-
Der l.
Encouraged over the success of the
first two days progress in cutting down
the dole by substituting gainful en-
ployment Commissioner Allen esti-
mated the next two weeks would see
3.700 men at work on projects under
municipal supervision.
The Works Progress AdminiStra-
ton expects to provide employment of
l 200 men for next week on improve
ment jobs at Boiling Field and the
Navy Yard. These are Federal prof.
ects on which several hundred men
taken from relief rolls here are al
ready at work.
Some Get Si9 Wage.
While common labor is paid $45 a
month, skilled labor will receive wages
up to $79. the maximum permitted
under the administrations work prog
less program, in this territory.
The work at the navy yard, is was
said. will require the services OF many
skilled craftsmen who will benefit by
the higher wages.
Another force of approximately TOO
men will be taken from the relief
rolls the following week to initiate
rather extensive program of sewer
buildings and improvements.
The Districts planned projects for
sewers failed to receive White House
approval as a separate and distinct
works project. Available relief funds
however, will be used to initiate sewer
work on a smaller scale.
The local Works Progress Admins
tration, of which Commissioner Allen
is the head, meanwhile was working on
other plans to provide future employ
ment as Federal funds become avail
able.
Allen was giving attention to
program to put 5000 domestics into
service. These plans are by no ways
completed. but he expected within the
next month that considerable num-
ber of women would be given instruc-
tions in domestic duties to find private
employment.
Road Jobs to Add Men.
As work continues on the Sc high
way projects which initiated the Wash
ington program, Allen expects to ab-
sorb additional labor from the rellel
rolls from time to time.
The Federal Works Progress Ad-
ministration has approved only 81 1885,
600 in works progress up to this time.
This involves the general highway
projects by which the District can
draw funds as needed. Commissioner
Allen altogether has submitted os
projects Of a general character, total
ing $4,715.722. ssthe Federal admin
istration.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
WHEELER MAY END
UTILITY BILL FIGHT
Senator Hints Cohen Will
Be Barred to "TeSt"
House ConfereeS.
By the Associated Press.

Chairman Wheeler, Democrat, OF
the utility bill indicated today he
might agree to leave Benjamin Cohen
out of the conference councils as a
test of the good faith" of the House
members
Wheeler said he would meet Sen
ate conferees Monday to discuss
whether they might recede from their
insistence that Cohen, P. w. A. at
torney, be present in the conference
chamber while the bill is under dis
cuSSion.
His announcement followed action
of the House yesterday in voting, 1873
to l72, support of its confereeS in in
sisting that none but members of Con-
gress be present at the conference ses-
sions on the hotly- bill
Il think the action taken on the
part of the House conferees was un-
precedented in the annals of confer
ences between the House and the Sem
ate" Wheeler said, but nevertheless
l am anxious to see good bill passed.
Would Test Good Faith"
IF we yielded on Cohen it would
test the good faith of the House con-
ferees as to whether or not they want
bill with teeth in it which would
eliminate unnecessary holding COM
panies"
Meanwhile, some legislators pre-
dicted the utility bill may now die
in conference.
On the other hand, some saw a
possibility of a compromise to settle
the angry quarrel about compulsory
dissolution of holding companies
called unnecessary"
A chasm wider than ever separates
the Senate and House conferees on
the measure as the result of the
House action yesterday.
After a debate broken by shouts.
jeers and applause. that chamber
again voted down compulsory aboli-
tion, 210 to l55.
Representative Rayburn, Democrat.
OF Texas, a leader in the struggle for
(See UTILITIES, Page 81
Evening star., 1935-08-02

uary /, 1929, to May 20, 1881.
Her house had been sold at auction
few weeks ago, police said.
Mrs. Pritchard was the former Lii
lian E. Saum of this city. The couple
was married November IA, 1903.
Justice Pritchard served on the Dis
trict Supreme Court bench for less
than year. being appointed in No
vember. 1908, after serving as United
States Senator from North Carolina
from 1894 to 1908.
He died in 1921 after q noted politi-
cal and judicial career He had teen
member of the North Carolina
State Legislature, candidate for ;ieu-
tenant governor, delegate-at-large to
the Republican National Convention
and presiding Judge Of the fourth
Circuit Court of Appeals.
He was an intimate friend of Pres
idents Mckinley and Roosevelt.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
ROOsereIt Decides
To Drop Slur on
Sanity by Cramer
Criminal ActiOn Held
Possible for Witness
in Senate Quiz.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The White House indicated today
no action would be taken against E.
P. Cramer, Plainfield, N. j.. advertis-
ing man, who testified yesterday to
the Senate Lobby Committee thai he
had suggested a whispering cam
paign" that President Roosevelt was
insane.
The President himself has taken no
recognition of the testimony.
Legal experts believe criminal ac-
ton could be instituted under the
libel law, but apparently this is not
going to be done.
1t was indicated the matter would
be dropped
Cramer testified he was ashamed
of what he had done and had no basis
for any belief that the President was
insane.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
BY the Associated Press.

Dy IhC hSoOClALeQ Press.
TWENTY-FIVE FEET UNDER
HUDSON RIVER BED, MIDTOWN
TUNNEL, NEW YORK, August O.
New York's new midtown tunnel to
the New Jersey shore, a cylinder of
steel more than a mile long, was holed
through early this afternoon.
In the damp GOODNESS of the caisson
of the Thirty-ninth Street Pier the
sand hogs" came through with picks
and shovels while two small armies OF
spectators. on either side of the wall
OF muck, cheered themselves hoarse.
As the hole widened enough to per =
init man to get from the New Jersey
SIDE OF the bore to the Manhattan
side, marking another step in the con-
quest Of man against nature, Harry
Spritling of Elmsford. N. Y, master
mechanic and veteran sand hogger,
squirmed his way through.
Next came Ben r. Jacoben, super
vising engineer for the p w. A.
bediam broke loose as the way was
opened for a vehicular passage-way
under the Hudson from water-bound
Manhattan Islend to the New Jersey
Evening star., 1935-08-02
Jury HOLDS CLERK
IN COURT PROBE
indictment Accuses c. B.
Sherwood of II En-
bezZIementS.

Clinton B. Sherwood. allegedly ST.
go short in his accounts as financial
clerk of Police Court, was indicted to-
day on charge OF embezzling. money
from the District.
At the same time. Assistant United
States Attorney Henry L. Schwein-
haut, who presented Sherwood's case
TO the grand jury, said he does not
expect any more indictments based
or. reported irregularities in the Po-
ice Court. An investigation, he said
has convinced him the Irregularities
are not OF e nature justifying criminal
prosecutions.
Sherwood, who has been replaced
as financial clerk. was charged with
IL specific embezzlements totaling
s505. The Government contends,
however. that he took money on Al
other occasions. The thefts charged
IN the indictment allegedly occurred
from January /, 1884, to October 8,
1894.
PrObed by Department.
The charge against Sherwood re-
suited from an investigation of Po-
lice Court administration by Depart
ment OF Justice agents.
Grand larceny charges against three
servants, alleged to have taken So 600
from the fireplace of the home of
sylvia Weinstein, 280l Bellevue ter
race, were ignored by the grand jury.
The money, which had been con-
cealed in the fireplace. belonged to
Sylvia, Max and Meyer Weinstein.
Police recovered $4.700. The servants
exonerated are Esther Berger, Annie
E. Berger and Lonnie Jones.
Others Are Indicted.
Others indicted are:
James Alvin German, Tilman Bos-
tic and Roy Lee Glover, non-support;
James E. Boland, James Tolliver, Le-
roy Norris. Ulysses Smith, Hawthorne
Smith and John Henry Smith, joy
riding; Hawthorne Smith, Ulysses
Smith. John Henry Smith. Thomas
Edward Sheehan, Jacob G. GriSSo,
Ethel Douglas, Henry Small, Miles Du
Bose and George Simpson. robbery;
James Ray Roderick, Robert Martin
and Betty Martin, violating white
slave traffic act; Harry Henry Hester,
pandering; Carrie Anderson. Mildred
Beatrice Gales and Thomas Newman.
assault with a dangerous weapon;
Judson F. Thomson, violating section
S51-b. District of Columbia Code:
James Harris. Edward P. Thomas and
Richard Turner. grand larceny; John
Burns. George Woods, James Foster
and Alfred Penn, housebreaking and
larceny. and Alphonso Young. house
breaking.
Nine Are Exonerated.
Others exonerated by the jury are:
Fred Ratliff, Jerry Funk and Marie
E. Funk. assault with a dangerous
weapon; James Marshall, violating sec
ton 85l-b, District of Columbia
Code; Jerry Murray and Gladys
Frances Smith, grand larceny; James
Henry Steele, receiving stolen prop
erty; Fitch Diggs, robbery, and Eliza
beth Rella Clagett, homicide.
Evening star., 1935-08-02
NAVY MACHINIST'S MATE
KILLED IN PLANE CRASH
George A. Reese Dies When Ship
Goes Into Spin Near Ocean
View, Calf.

By the Associated Press.
The Navy Department announced
today that Aviation Chief Machinists
Mate George A. Reese of San Diego,
Calf. was killed yesterday in the
crash of his plane near Ocean View,
Calf.
A report on the death said Reese,
whose address was listed as 1928
Thirty-thfrd street, San Diego, went
into q spin.
He was alone in the plane and
was killed instantly. The body was
badly. burned. He is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Frances Reese.