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The Washington times., 1935-07-08
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near Corning, warning families
OF approaching torrents. Several
farmers refused to leave their
Revere ride ahead of flood waters
homes and troopers said loss of
life must have been unavoidable
as the water reached depths of
six to seven feet in a few hours.
Valley Is Inundated
Business sections of Utica,
Glens Falls, Rural Grove and
Whitney Point, and residential
sections of Binghamton were re-
ported to be under water.
The entire valley of the Tiogh-
NIGGA River was inundated and
villagers over an area of several
squire miles were forced to second
stories. At Whitney Point resi-
dents fled to the upper floors of
the school building. Half a mile
of the LackaWanna Railroad was
swept away. Scores of buses
and automobiles were marooned.
Earlier this afternoon the known
death toll in the States most dis
astrous flood in generation had
mounted to 10, with unverified re-
ports of a score of additional
fatalities and with more than 100
missing.
Ithaca, with six known dead,
was hardest hit, but thousands
were forced to flee to safety over
wide areas of western. central and
southern New York where cloud.
bursts struck late yesterday and
today in a freakish series and
with deadly effect.
Whole City Imperiled
The entire city of Ithaca was re-
ported in grave peril due to the
weakening of the Acton steel
bridge of the Lackawanna Rail
road on the outskirts. 1t was
feared the bridge might give way
under the battering of Six Mile
Creek and release a wall of water
on the city.
One bank supporting the bridge
was crumbling away. The bridge,
its pillars interlaced with trees
and debris, was reported to be act
ing as a dam, holding back a
great body of water which will
rush on the city as soon as it
goes down.
The floods. resulting from a
rainfall Of 8.12 inches since Satur-
day afternoon-5.46 inches of it
since 8 p. m. yesterday-have
wrought more than three million
dollars damage.
The known dead:
George S. Tarbell, so, promi
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ducing future borrowing and
paying off the public debt. We
should set aside the proceeds OF
these new taxes and safeguard
them as carefully as was the
sterilization fund"
Despite severe Republican ques.
tioning, Mr.. Morgenthau refused
to recommend a definite tax plan
on behalf of the Administration,
He also refused to say how much
revenue is needed to carry out a
budget balancing program.
The tentative rate schedules
submitted to the Treasury by the
ways and means taxation subcom-
mittee were designed to raise from
300 to 500 millions of dollars .
year. 40
Must Reach Small Incomes
While Chairman Doughton CD
of North Carolina vehemently
denied that the committee had
set any goal. Other members
placed 800 millions as the mini
mum.
To accomplish this. the congress
sional tax experts frankly said,
the "soak-the saving" tax policy
outlined in Mr.. RooSevelt's mes
sage, must be broadened. The
sum, they said. can't be obtained
by new taxes on wealth, now
heavily taxed.
While House members talked of
beginning inheritance taxes at
$4,000 and boosting income taxes
on incomes above $4,000 to $780,
900. Senator LaFollette (RD of
Wisconsin had served formal no
tice that he will present pro-
gram boosting income taxes all
along the line. He would cut ex-
emptions for married persons from
$4,000 to $4,000 and for single per-
sons from $1,000 to $500.
Business interests were prenar-
ing to flay the Presidents program
during the House hearings.
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HAZEN HITS OUT
At POLICE

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by the Citizens Crime Commit
tee, appointed by Melvin C. Hazen,
president of the Board of Commits
sioners, the Citizens Crime Com
mittee recommended that the sys-
tenn of police promotion and rat
ing be revised, that a permanent
citizens advisory committee on
crime be selected, that precinct
commanders be instructed to
tighten up" on the enforcement
of law in their own particular baili-
wicks. and that legislation by the
House Crime Committee be pushed
to enactment. Their report was
presented to Commissioner Hazen
last week.
Appointment of a night super
intendent of police, to have full
control in the absepse of the ma
jor and superintendent, is under
consideration by Major Ernest w.
Brown. it was learned today from
one Of his aides. The proposed
plan, which has been tried here
by former police chiefs, contem-
plates the assignment of one of
the inspectors to have charge
from late afternoon until about l
q. m. each night.
Claimed 1t Didn't Work
This system was employed for
periods during the times when
Henry G. Pratt and Pelham
Glassford were superintendent of
police here. Glassford did away
with the plan after trying it, as
serting that it did not work salts
factorily.
Major Brown also is consider
ing reassigning precinct detectives
so that they will be responsible
directly to Frank S. w. Burke,
chief of detectives, instead of to
precinct commanders.
It was the understanding at head
quarters today that nothing will
be done about either of these pro-
posals, nor will any other major
changes in the department be
made until Major Brown returns
at the end of the week from a
police chiefs convention in Allan
tic City.
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MISS COLBERT RALLIES

HOLLYWOOD, July 8 G.N.s).
Claudette Colbert, film star, was
improving today from a severe
case of influenza.
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
POLICEMAN DIES
IN CLASH

REGINA, Saskatchewan, July
"a policeman was killed and
several persons were hurt in en-
counters between police and re-
lief strikers here.
The riot broke out when Prime
Minister Richard B. Bennett or
dered dispersal of the 1000 re-
lief strikers and directed police to
prevent them from moving on
Ottawa.
The strikers had demanded an
increase from the 20 cents a day
allowed in relief camps.
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15Dead, Toll Mounting
In New York Flood

nent Ithaca attorney and for.
mer police commissioner, dead
from exposure and overexeftion
at his flooded Lake Cayuga cot
tage.
John Solomon, his two sons
and a nephew, John Isaacs,
killed when bridge on which
they were standing in Meyers,
Ithaca suburb. collapsed.
Robert Bronson, II, Bingham
ton. drowned when he drove his
automobile off an inundated
road into the old Chenago
Canal, near Norwich.
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MA TCH.
IS OFFERED To
HELEN JACOBS
Mrs. Moody FaVorS Playing
Contest at Forest Hills;
Praises Tennis Foe

LONDON. July 8 G.N.S).
Mrs. Helen Wills Moody intends
to give Helen Jacobs another op-
portunity to score the victory
Miss Jacobs was so near achiev-
ing Saturday when she reached
match point at Wimbledon and
saw triumph slip from her grasp.
The disappointed Miss Jacobs.
who says "the day must come
when I can beat Mrs. Moody"
expects to have that chance
either at Forest Hills q. - this
summer, or at Wimbledon next
year.
High Praise For Rival
Mrs. Moody told International
News Service today from her
rural seclusion far from the mad.
dening Wimbledon crowd:
Saturdays was a match that
will have to be repeated.
Forest Hills is my next
plan."
Mrs. Moody thinks that her
fellow Californian and rival of
long standing may have a good
chance to win when next they
glare at each other across the
nets. She said:
"MiSs Jacobs has shown amaz.
ing improvement. used to
think she had all the shots in
the game, but Saturday she ap-
peared to have even more.
was lucky to win-I think 1t
was the hardest fight 1 ever
had"
Her back, injury to which
caused her to default to Miss
Jacobs two years ago at Forest
Hills, stood Saturdays strain we'll
and she had no i'll effects to re-
port.
She emerged from her country
retirement long enough to appear
in series of exhibition matches
at the home in Highgate of Sir
Arthur and Lady Crosfield, for
charity.
IL is expected CndC MIS-. Moody
will sail for the United States this
week, but Miss Jacobs plans are
not complete yet.
Miss Jacobs, thrice barred by
Mrs. Moody from the Wimbledon
championships, expects to try
again next year, whether Mrs.
Moody defends her title of not.
Miss Jacobs said:
NATURALLY I'm disappointed
that lost. Things may be bet
ter at Forest Hills, and I'm
going to try Wimbledon again.
This was my fourth attempt
in the finals at Wimbledon, but
I'm not folding up. I feel that
some day 1 shall beat Mrs.
Moody"
The Washington times., 1935-07-08
3 From D. G.. Win
Esperanto Posts

Three Washingtonians won Of
fees in the Esperanto Association
of North America in elections held
at its annual congress in New
York, according to word received
here today.
The WaShingtonians are Joseph
Leahy. general secretary; Gerald
r. Small, assistant secretary, and
Josephine Aminda Kruda, treas.
urer. Ms&sAnS
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DANGEROUS ACE
FOR DRIVERS
20 YEARS
Youngsters Figure in Most
Accidents; 100000 Permits
Here Set Record

More than half of the people
of Washington hold automobile
drivers licenses.
Those 20 years of age are the
most dangerous" drivers, accord
ing to the Traffic Bureau.
Traffic Director William Van
Duzer, revealing today that more
than $4,000 persons in the Dis
trict have Washington drivers
licenses. declared this is the
greatest number which ever have
been outstanding at one time
here and probably the highest
percentage of any city in the
country.
At the same time he made
public the results of a recent
survey which showed that only
about 10 per cent of those own
ing licenses have had accidents.
OIdSters Good Drivers
This same survey disclosed that
no one over the age of IS now
holding a permit has had an
accident in the city, despite the
fact that two persons 80 years of
age. IL of 81 years and 16 OF 80
years of age have drivers
licenses.
1t is in the younger years, &C.
cording to the survey, when most
people have automobile accidents.
The figures show that persons
having licenses at 16 years of age
represent 1.42 per cent of the num-
Der of drivers here, and were par
ties to .43 per cent Of the acct
dents.
20 Dangerous Age
Those 18 years old represent
2.72 per cent of drivers and were
parties to 1872 per cent of the
accidents.
In the 2O-year-old class are only
rs per cent of the number of
operators, but they we're in 1882
per cent of the accidents.
Four and fourteenth per cent OF
the accidents found drivers of "a
years of age mixed up in them,
but this age group represents ass
per cent of the number of drivers.
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NEW INVENTION

NEW YORK, July (SpeciaD.
Nikola Tesla, inven to r and
physicist, will announce Wednes-
day what he has called his great
est discovery. On that day he will
be 70 years old.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
ENGINEERS TO PLAN
AID FOR ROOSEVELT
Council to Open Annual Session
Thursday--Meetings Last
Until Saturday.

The American Engineering Council
will open it's annual meeting Thurs
day to map out plan of co-opera-
tion Of engineers in the broad work
program announced by President
Roosevelt in his message to Congress.
The program has been divided into
several headings to cover the major
work items, such as highways. hous-
ing. grade-crossing eliminations, re-
forestration and other projects. The
opening session will convene at the
MayfoWer Hotel at 10 am, Thursday
and the meetings will end Saturday.
The situation as concerns P. w. A.
construction will be presented by Maj.
P. B Fleming. deputy administrator
of public works. Relationships be-
tween private and public construction
will be discussed by Col. D. H. Sawyer,
director of the Federal Employment
Sterilization Board. Relief, in its
various construction phases, will be
outlined by Jacob Baker, assistant ad-
ministrator in charge of the work
division of F. E. R. A. and Thomas
Hibben, chief engineer of F. E. R. A.
Other speakers include C. C. An
thony, assistant administrator of the
Federal Housing Administration; DR..
H. S. Person, director of the Water
Resources Division of the National
Resources Board; Capt. r. S. Patton,
director of the United States Coast &
Geodetic Survey; DR.. ISador Lubin,
commissioner of labor statistics; Will
liam p Witherow. vice chairman Of
the Industrial Advisory Board of N.
r. A.; r. E. w. Harrison of the Bu-
reau of Foreign and Domestic Com
merce.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
FOG ALTERS PLANS
TO TRAIL TRUC.
Union Bakers Defer Picket
Program Against Firms I'm
til Tomorrow.

Plans Of two bakers union loca
to trail all non-union delivery true,
of the Barker Bakeries, Inc, and the
Sunrise Bakery, Inc, we're thwarted
temporarily today by the heavy fog.
which. officials decided, would maxi
the trucks too hard to follow as well
as create a traffic hazard.
Nearly a score of automobile loads
of union bakers assembled this morn
ing. as scheduled. at Georgia avenue
and w street. to begin trailing the
trucks, but the plan was called off
until tomorrow morning when the fog
failed to show signs of clearing up.
Meanwhile, Inspector Frank S. W.
Burke, chief of detectives, had in
structed police to be on the alert to
avert trouble. Unless the law actually
is violated, however, Burke said. po-
lice do not expect to take hand.
Evening star., 1935-01-07

acter. So firmly did he believe in
equality for women with men in this
respect, Richberg said, that in this
matter am perhaps more of fanatic
than an economist"
Then you have not much author
ity in N. r. A.?" asked Mrs. Rogers,
while the audience laughed and
cheered.
THAT I always have admitted"
Richberg replied. smiling.
In response to a written question
propounded by an Unidentified mem
Der of the audience as to whether 1t
is not true N. r. A. has contributed
to the concentration Of wealth, Rich
berg replied that it IS his opinion
that not only has N. r. A. not con-
tributed to such q concentration but
that it has served as a retarding ef-
feet on the amassing Of material pos
sessions by the few.
DR.. Edmund A. Walsh, S. j., vice
president Of Georgetown University.
presided
Evening star., 1935-01-07
Police Find HO,U
To Turn slough"
Boy From Crime
Reference to Parents
ThrOiUs Hard.BOiled
Youth Into Tears.

He may have been a Baby Face,
but he was no Baby Face Nelson or
a Dillinger either.
But the boy was tough-looking for
all his tender years. He was over 6
feet tall, and he talked like a hard
guy.
Detective Henry NJ Jett brought
him to headquarters this morning on
a joyriding charge. At II. he had
felt the need to start a career of
crime.
The late Nelson and the late Dill
linger were his ideals. Jett felt the
boy needed advice and turned him
over to Inspector Frank S. W. Burke.
1t was Dutch uncle" lecture, but
the boys bravado almost carried him
through.
Nov what would your mother, what
would your father think if they knew
their boy was a punk, bum, a
rat 2"
The tough guy winked and blinked.
but the tears rolled out just the same:
"You didn't you didn't have
to bring that up!" he finally blurted,
and wept like kid instead of a
gangster.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
WHOLESALE DISMISSALS
OF ARCHITECTS is SEEN
Federation Serves Notice Of Pro-
test Meeting to Be Held
Wednesday Evening.

Contending that wholesale dis
missals are again impending" for
architects and engineers of the Treas
ury Department and that overtime
work without pay is cutting down
the available jobs, an announcement
today from the Federation of Archi-
tects. Engineers. Chemists and Tech
nicians gave notice of protest meet
ing, to be held on Wednesday eve
ming at 8 o'clock at the Y. M. c. A.,
1875 g street.
The federation is insisting that pro-
vision be made for compensation for
overtime, that the fastened curtail-
ment Of employment due to Sweat
shop" practices be stopped imme-
diately, that an enlarged staff be en-
ployed SUFFICIENT for completing prof.
ects on the basis of the 3o-hour week,
that funds be made available to pro-
vide for the continuation Of approved
projects and that the program OF
public works. be enlarged.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
C0LORED BANDITS
HOLD Up 2STORES
Chain Groceries Looted in
Rapid Succession-FIee
With S135 in Cash.

A pair Of colored bandits staged
bold, daylight robberies in rapid sue
cession this morning on two groceries
of the same chain, the first at 1906
Fourth street and the second at Elev-
enth and N streets. They escaped
in a sedan with S135.
The pair entered quietly at the
Fourth street store Suddenly they
both produced guns and lined the
employees. c. Geist, Edward Connard
and Tracy Brown. against the wall.
The robbers took S65.39 from the cash
register and fled.
A few minutes later pair believed
to be the same men double-parked an
automobile outside the N street store
and strolled inside. The small man
stood near the door and the larger
made his way to the rear.
Both pulled guns at the same time.
Six clerks and two customers-a man
and woman-were in the store at the
time
One bandit, who stood over 6 feet,
forced the manager, Richard Comp
ton. 603 K street northeast. to open
small safe containing $50. At
least $40 more was taken from a
cash register.
The bandits baked efforts of clerks
to slip through the front and back
doors. After taking all the money
they could find, the pair re-entered
their car and drove away. Police
were given the license number.
While no one at the Fourth street
store saw them enter a car, the
bandits presumably drove down n
street the half a dozen blocks to the
second store. Police said they prob
ably are operating in stolen car.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
Black Maria Fan
May Haze q Ride
Simply for Asking
Police Seeking Stranger
Who Took Joyride
in T,UO.

If the stranger with a weakness for
black marias will step up, the Police
Department will give him a ride in
one and furnish the chauffeur.
The stranger appropriated two of
these vehicles early yesterday for joy
rides. The first he took from in front
of No. precinct while the driver was
inside subduing an unruly prisoner.
Whereupon. the whole department
went on a still hunt for the vanished
wagon" Scout cars, patrolmen and
sleuths were notified. Several hours
later the vehicle was found at Twen-
ty-eighth and o streets.
Then the other wagon" disap-
peared. This time from q garage in
the rear of No. precinct.
Another successful hunt was
launched. After an hour No. 3's
black maria was found in the 2l00
block Of l. street.
OF course, it was all in fun-the
prank Of some college boy, perhaps,
and the department can take q joke,
ha, ha.
Nevertheless, a number of police
men are anxious to give the black
maria fan a long ride In his favorite
conveyance.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
SITE IS SELECTED
FOR NEW FEDERAL.
RESERVE BUILDING.
Home Will Be Erected at
Constitution Avenue and
21st Street.
COST WILL BE BORNE
OUT OF OWN FUNDS
Land Now Owned by Government.
Transfer of Title Is Ex-
pected Soon.

The Federal Reserve Board tenta-
lively has selected a site bounded by
Constitution avenue, Twentieth street,
Twenty-first street and C street as the
site for it's new building, construction
of which has been authorized by Con-
gress, it was learned today.
Officials of the board declined to
discuss the site or plans and officials
of other Government branches like
wise were non-commlttal, but it was
learned from an authoritative source
that this site is now favored.
Congress. by special act, authorized
the Federal Reserve Board to use its
own funds for purchase of land and
construction of its new home.
The location, consisting of an entire
square, is the last remaining available
building site on Constitution avenue
between Capitol Hill and the Potomac
River The new Federal Reserve
Board Building will be located between
the new marble home of the United
States Public Health Service on the
east and the Academy of Arts and
Sciences on the west. 1t will be con-
structed with money which does not
need to be appropriated by Congress.
The board is a quasi-governmental
':gency, of which the Secretary Of the
Treasury is an important official, but
1t controls its own money. accruing
from earnings OF the Federal Reserve
banks.
The land in this area is now owned
by the Government, but can be pur-
chased by the board and it is under
stood that before long the title will be
transferred.
The board since its beginning had
been housed in the Treasury Depart
nent Building until recently, when it
moved to rented quarters in the
Washington Building.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
COURT TO REVIEW
ARSON DECISION
Will Consider Reversal of
Verdict Convicting Pair
in Sigma Chi Fire.

The District Court Of Appeals to-
day took under consideration the re-
quest from Attorney General Cum
mings that it reverse the conviction
for arson of the District Supreme
Court against Edward J. PARTON and
Hazel Albert Smith. former George
Washington University students.
Attorney Percy Marshall, repre-
senting the two defendants, informed
the court the Attorney General had
filed a confession of error In the case
and stated "he had no desire to argue
against this position of the Govern
ment"
Assistant United States Attorney
David A. Pine also stated the confess
sion of error had been filed and asked
the appellate court to review the mat
ter on this basis.
Court to Review Case.
Chief Justice Martin then an
nounced the court would take the
matter under consideration" A &C.
cision will be announced after the
court has had opportunity to review
the records in the case.
Smith and PARTON, the former
president and the latter a pledge ct
the George Washington Chapter OF
Sigma Chi Fraternity, were adjudged
guilty in the lower court of delib-
erately setting fire to the fraternity
house in the Summer of 1898. They
took an appeal and United States
Attorney Leslie C. Garnett nled a
brief contending the conviction was
justified by the evidence and asking
the Appellate Court to affirm it. Last
week, however, Attorney General
Cummings submitted his confession
Of error. in which he expressed the
belief the young men are innocen,
of the crime and asked the court to
ignore the recommendation of the dis
trict attorney and set aside the con-
viction.
Evening star., 1935-01-07
TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS
INJURE THREE HERE
0xon Hill Man Seriously Hurt
When Auto Collides With
Street Car.

Three persons were injured in traf-
flc accidents in the last "a hours, one
of them seriously.
Joseph Marosey, As, OXon Hill, Md,
suffered a skull fracture, cuts and
bruises when his automobile collided
with one-man street car shortly after
10 pm. yesterday in the $500 block of
Nichols avenue southeast. He was
taken to Casualty Hospital, where his
condition today was said to be critical
The street car was operated by Ernest
Stewart, SO, of the 5000 block of Ell
lott street.
Helen Proctor, 81, colored, of the
2100 block of N street. was the victim
of a freak accident when knocked by
one automobile into the path of a
second machine, whose driver failed to
stop. She was treated at Freedmen's
Hospital for fractures of the collar
bone and leg.
The first car was operated by Willie
Miles, 28 colored. He was not held.
The accident occurred in the 1400
of T street.
Frederick Burgess. SO, 1913 G street
southeast, received a leg injury when
struck by a hit-and-run automobile
at Naylor and Good Hope roads SOUTH
east. He was taken to Casualty Hos
pital.