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Evening star., 1935-02-05
BOWL PROVES CLUE
IN CHICAGO Staying
Dish From Which Bartender Ate
Studied in Effort to Solve
Mystery.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 5.-A small
brown bowl was the clue investi-
gators hoped today would solve the
Staying Of Louis K. Straub at the
fashionable North Side Saddle and
Cycle Club.
The discovery in the Straub apart
ment of the bowl, from which Straub
had midnight lunches at the club,
was the only development authorities
brought to light in their search for
the person who shot the night bar
tender in the club basement early
Sunday morning.
Police believe the solution Of the
Staying may hinge upon the removal
of the bowl from the club to Straub's
apartment, two blocks away.
Straub's wife. former showgirl.
who has been questioned almost con-
tinually since she reported finding
her husbands body, underwent lie
detector tests yesterday at North
western University, but the findings,
authorities said. would prove of little
value.
Evening star., 1935-02-05

These Hull and Roper proposals are
authentic administration trial bal
looms. The White House is carefully
watching the results Shortly you
will see a strong new administration
program, not based on the theory OF
isolation.
The Potomac Riuer has risen q
foot in the last fortnight from
the tears shed on Mr.. Rooseuelt's
shoulder by Congressman ,uho feel
deeply grieped about the patronage
situation.
Not much about it gets into the
papers. The Congressman always
come out of such White House con-
ferences and say they talked about
shoes, ships. etc. 1t is evident, how
ever, that free-flowing congressional
grief has precipitated a critical party
situation. Mr. Roosevelt has been
touched.
Bureaus to Be Loosened Up.
No announcement will be made, but
he will loosen up several tight bureaus
shortly.
One may be the Farm Credit Ad-
ministration. That is a juicy plum
orchard with 1888 appraisers. Mr.
Morgenthau has kept it away from
the congressional plum connoisseurs
through his friend. Prof. Meyer
Civil service exams now are being
held for the appraisers limited to
those now holding office, most oil
whom are Republican holdovers. II
will be hard to change such plans
but Gen. Farley can do it, if he gets
word from the White House.
Another nksome thing is that
the Home Owners Loan Corp.
hires men here and sends them
into the field, instead OF hiring
good Democratic Doters out in the
home precincts That situation tDiu
certainly be corrected. A third bu-
reau on Which Farley has his eye
is the United States Re-Em-
ploynlent Seruice. 1t is full OF pals
OF q man tUho runs it.
This would be enough to appease
the Congressman for a few weeks.
They would like to get their fingers
into the Treasury and Interior De-
partments. but there is no chance
with Messrs. Ickes and Morgenthau
holding out against them.
The other bureaus have played ball
with Farley and the Congressman
fairly well, especially the r. F. c.,
F. H. A. and, incredible as it may
seem. the A. A. A. Except for the
5000 county agents..
Evening star., 1935-02-05
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congress, after nearly two years OF
playing second fiddle. was stretching
a somewhat hesitant hand toward first
violin today.
A growing tendency, noted by many
observers, to debate, change and, in
one notable case, even to reject the
plans and desires of the Executive is
fast becoming an outstanding phe-
nomenon of this second New Deal
Congress. The first one. with acute
emergencies, passed administration
bills swiftly and without many ques-
tionS.
Two Supreme Court decisions re-
asserting traditional powers of Con-
gress have served to call attention
again to the powerful role assigned to
the legislative branch under the Con-
stitution.
Upholds Senate Power.
The latest was the MscCracken de-
cision yesterday, putting beyond doubt
the Senate's right to Jail a man for
contempt. Senators. notably Wagner,
Democrat, Of New York, looked upon
this as healthy thing" strengthen
ing the Senate's hand in investiga-
tions.
A decision with much bearing on
the relations between the Legislature
and the Executive was the one wiping
the oil clause from n. r. A. as toe
broad a delegation Of authority to the
President.
To the Senate has fallen the lead
ing part in the renaissance Of con-
gressional criticism-f such it should
turn out to be. 1t was that branch
which. against the desires Of the
President, rejected American adher-
ence to the World Court
1t Is In the Senate. too, that the
Evening star., 1935-02-05
GERTRUDE LAWRENCE
FINANCES TROUBLED
Meeting Held by Creditors of
Actress Reported Engaged
to Young Fairbanks.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, February 5-The Express
says Gertrude Lawrence. young
British actress who has often been
rumored engaged to Douglas Fair
banks, jr. is having financial difi-
culties.
Her creditors held private meeting
today. the paper says, at which a
representative of her solicitors said
her liabilities are approximately ELL
900 about s55,00o), plus claims OF
f14,500 for income taxes and super
taxes.
Her assets-jewelry, mink coat. fur
niture-total 1880. plus "a certain
amount Of pawnec jewelry" which has
not been redeemed. the Express says
No action was taken at the meeting.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
PRESIDENT TO BUY
FIRST "BABY BOND"
Measure Signed by Roosevelt and
Plans Made to Launch
Drive for Sales.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt yesterday signed
the baby bond" bill and arranged
to be the first purchaser March Of
the new type of securities.
The Treasury went ahead with
plans to secure wide public partici-
patton in the new issues. The lowest
denomination is S25.
The bonds will be advertised at all
post Offices and other governmental
agencies, which will have them as
merchandise.
Secretary Morgenthau will handle
the initial sale to Mr.. Roosevelt and
the transfer will be conducted with
ceremonies.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
WOMAN, 68, ARRESTED
IN "BABY FARM" RAID
Faces Charges of Illegal Opera.
tion Performance-Man Sought
by Pennsylvania Police.

BY the Associated Press.
ERIE, Pa, February 5-A raid on
what police called "baby farm" near
Erie placed 68-year-old Mrs. Minnie
Falkenstein in jail today to face
charges Of performing an illegal op-
Grafton.
After her arrest on the farm yes
terday, District ATTORNEY Mortimer e.
Graham said the woman had been
convicted IS years ago on q similar
charge. She used the name Minnie
Salot at that time, he said.
State Trooper Walter Gibbons, who
assisted In the arrest. said he Is seek
ing man he said paid for the alleged
operation. A young Erie girl. Glib
bons said, Is In q hospital recovering
from the operation and has agreed
to testify.
With Mrs Falkenstein's arrest. Gra-
ham said he had been investigating
for three months, and that another
place" also is under surveillance.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
Congress in Brief
By the Associated Press.
TODAY.


TODAY.
Senate.
In recess until Wednesday.
Farm exports hearing proceeds BE-
fore Agricultural Committee.
Munitions Committee ponders per-
jury probe.
Judiciary Subcommittee scans 80.
hour week proposal.
House.
Debates State, Justice, Labor, Com
merce appropriations.
Military Committee Studies plan t<
increase army strength.
Social security legislation befort
Ways and Means Committee ant
Labor Subcommittee - = :
Evening star., 1935-02-05
WOMAN AVIAT0RS FIND
HOME MORE HAZARDOUS
Folding Bed Injuries One and the
Other Is Hurt While Pick
ing Flowers.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, February Sit
isn't the air that's hazardous two
woman aviators found yesterday.
Mrs. U. G. Mcqueen, president OF
the International Aeronautical Asso-
citation, who made fight from Mex
leo, D. F.. to Juneau. Alaska. without
mishap, is nursing a broken ankle.
She broke it while picking flowers in
her Beverly Hills home garden.
Adoree Neville, stunt f1ver and para
chute jumper. had a broken nose and
lacerated head A folding bed IN
Hollywood hotel collapsed.
Evening star., 1935-02-05

Labor's split with the White House
on the auto code was merely another
incident in the long inside estrange-
ment between the White House and
the A. F. of L. There has never been
any hearty measure of friendship evi-
dent between them from the start
only restrained cooperation. Recently
both sides have been more polite to-
ward each other, but the White House
failed to invite william Green to con-
fer before the auto code was renewed.
The excuse was that Green's views
were known, which was true, but not
convincing.
What is at the bottom of the
situation is that the President Is
embarked on q middle-ot there
course iDhere labor cannot dltDays
tolloD him. Neither can it fight
against him openly. because he has
done much for labor generally,
although not necessarily for the
A. F. OF L.
Absurdity In Government.
The height of absurdity In Govern
ment Is approached as often by the
Income Tax Bureau as any other.
Witness the latest story Of what hap
pened to Thomas Edison, Henry Ford
and Harvey Firestone. The story con-
cerning them was disclosed by COM
petent authority recently as follows:
Edison, Ford and Firestone put up
$25, 900 each q few years ago to dis
cover rubber substitute, at least par
TALLY through patriotic motives. be-
cause the United States was fully at
the mercy of the foreign rubber mon
opoly. They sought to write the money
of on their income tax return as q
gift because at that time no one knew
whether the experiment would ever
produce anything. The Government
refused, saying they could write it Oh
only after the experiment was aban-
doned.
But the experiment succeeded to an
unexpected extent, and, as Edison Is
dead, Ford and Firestone wanted to
make a present Of Edison's discovery
to the Agricultural Department.
The tax collectors not only refuse
to let them write it of now Con the
ground the experiment is an inven-
tion), but are also trying to impose q
gift tax ON them If they give it to thu
Government.
(oopyrisht 1852
Evening star., 1935-02-05
SWIFT WILL FILED

CHICAGO, February 5 R.-The
late Mrs. Hortense Newcomer Swift,
widow of Edward r. Swift, the packer.
left an estate estimated at $400, 900 to
be divided among her three children
and five grandchildren, her will, filed
for probate yesterday. revealed.
The will provided that $4,000 be
placed In trust for each Of the grand
children, the remainder of the estate
to be divided equally among her
daughter and two sons, Mrs. Annie
May Swift Henry, T. Philip Swift and
Edward r. Swift, jr.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
CONVICTED IN HIT-RUN
CASE, MAYOR RESIGNS
San Diego Executive Quits as
Result of Injuries to Sailor
and Wife.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN DIEGO. Calf, February S.
The City Council voted unanimously
yesterday to accept the resignation Of
Mayor Rutherford B. Irones, recently
convicted of hit-run driving. The
charge resulted from an accident in
which George D. Pickett, sailor, and
his wife were injured.
Irones applied for probation and a
hearing has been set for next Sat-
urday.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
LEEDS YACHT LIBELED
Former Officers Messman Seeks

VUIWeT VHCeIS MeSSman Seeks
$10,5OO in Miami Suit.
MIAMI, Fla, February R.-The
trim 175-foot yacht Moana, owned BY
William B. Leeds of Oyster Bay, Long
Island, wealthy maker of tinplate, was
libeled yesterday by Herman Decker
former officers messman.
Decker asked the Federal District
Court to award him judgment of $500
for wages and maintenance from June
Is to December 10. 1884; $1,000 for
injuries he asserted he received while
carrying q steel medicine chest down
a hatch and $1,000 for a severe cold
and pleurisy he claimed to have con-
tracted aboard.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
OIL CONFERENCE CALLED

other Effort to Obtain Pact.
OKLAHOMA CITY, February S
P.-Gov. E. w. Marland of Okla
homa has called an oil States con-
ference to meet in Dallas February Is
to consider an oil States compact.
He acted at the request Of Gov.
James v. Alfred Of Texas. The con-
ference will be the third summoned
by Marland in an effort to obtain
agreement to control production and
settle other controversial matters in
the industry.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
SLAYING CLUE FOUND
Ranch Youth Identifies Pistol In
Death Of Indianan.

PHOENIX, Ariz., February S (R.-
Authorities said yesterday they had
received from Dave Trimble, q ranch
youth near Laveen, the first clue to
the source of the automatic pistol
which killed Eugene Morris, Farm
land. Ind, youth last month.
Trimble identified the weapon as
one stolen from him in December
while he was living near Mesa. Nor
ris' body was found January "a, IL
miles northeast of Scottsdale. The
pistol was buried nearby.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
DI0NNES REACH U. S.

Parents OF Quintuplets Cross Line
En- Route to Chicago.
WINDSOR. Ontario, February
(P.-Mr. and Mrs. Olivia Dionne,
parents of the famous quintuplets,
crossed the international boundary
here today on their trip to Chicago.
Max Halperin, Chicago vaudeville
booking agent, is sponsoring their trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dionne were accom-
panied by Mrs. Joseph Rochon of
North Bay. cousin of the father:
a brother Of Mrs. Dionne and Leo
Kervin, the couples adviser.
Evening star., 1935-02-05
NEUTRALS
ARE HELD VITAL
Dominance of Boards by
A. F. l.. Seen as Power
full Menace.
BY DAVID LAWRENCE.

The development Of national
policy governing labor and employer
relations has come to be the para
mount question Of the hour.
The atta.ks on President Roose-
welt and Donald Richberg because of
the renewal of the automobile code
have accentuated the issue. though 1t
has been lingering in unsettled fash
ion ever since the national industrial
recovery act was adopted by Congress.
The essentials of sound policy are
not difficult to define. They are more
difficult to administer.
The administrations trouble is that
It has attempted tc solve the labor
problem on a political basis; that is,
the theory of group pressure. This
invariably leads to extreme demands
that ultimately cannot be satisfied and
hence today's situation, one in which
the criticism is coming from both
employers and employees at the same
time on different grounds, was newt
able.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-10-06

WITH THE AID OF AN ARMORED CAR Conquest
easy for trio of bathing beauties at the San
Diego Calf Fair The car is the latest thing in mechan
lied cavalry 1t has top speed of 10 miles hour and
was Army exhibit at the fair Associated Press Photo
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

EVANSVILLE, Md, June 10.
Through two large unbarred win
dows, Mrs. Marie Bracey can see
the top of a tree and a patch
of sky. It is her "outside world, :"
the world that has taken her
away. in thought and fancy, from
the prison-like walls that have
hemmed her in with her two
children these last two weeks.
She need only turn from the
window to be back again inside
those walls which make up the
women's detention room at the
Hyattsville jail.
Chief State Witness
It is an ordinary-sized room,
with a bed and a chair and a
window ledge for a flower pot.
But it is a small room for an
active 3-year-old girl, Norma
Jeanne, and a 5-week-old baby,
both of whom are in jail with
their mother.
Mrs. Bracey is the States chief
witness to the beating given
Norma Jeanne more than two
months ago by the girls father
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
Four Capital Men
Will Study Flying

Four Washingtonians will re-
port to the Air Corps Primary
Flying School at Randolph Field,
Texas, July 1 to begin the one.
year course of flying instruction,
the War Department announced
yesterday.
Two of the Washington men
are officers in the Army and will
be Immediately transferred to the
Air Corps upon successful compile
ton of the course. They are Sec
ond Lieuts. Stephen o. Fuqua, In
fantry, and Richard T. Coiner,
Cavalry.
The other two are civilians and
will be commissioned second lieu.
tenants in the Air Reserve If they
complete the course successfully.
They are Roy D. Engel and
George M. Pollard.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
GIRL: PERFECT
IN STUDIES

BALLSTON, Va, June ia
new record was established in
Arlington county schools this year
when Miss Sara Ruth Mohundro
completed her four years in the
Westinghouse High School with
an average of 100 per cent in all
studies for the entire four years.
She is II years old.
Her high scholastic standing
won for her a scholarship in the
College of Wooster, musical
school at Wooster, Ohio, where
she will pursue her studies in
piano and violin.
Despite her 100 per cent aver
age while in high school, she
found time to participate
in school sports and was awarded
major WI letter for participa-
ton in swimming, hockey and
basketball on the girls teams.
Miss Mohundro is the daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Otis L. Mohun-
dro, of 1876 South Twenty-fourth
St., Aurora Hills, Va. Mr.. Mo-
hundro is with the Interstate
Commerce Commission.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
Elks Plan Negro
Education Parley

Major educational and economic
problem which affect the Negro
race will be discussed during a
three-day conference being ar
ranged by w. C. Hueston, commits
sioner of the Colored Elks of the
World, to be held here August %.
The conference is to be held
in connection with the tenth an
niversary of the educational de-
partment of the fraternal organi-
cation which three days later will
hold the annual convention of the
grand lodge here with j. Finley
Wilson, grand exalted ruler, pre-
siding.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13

PRINCIPAL business on
hand at their tented city
the first day was registra-
ton and orientation for
members of the Al Club,
converting at the Agricul-
ture Department Camp, on
Pennsylvania Avenue.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
4-H CLUBS OPEN
MEET HERE

Bright lights will never lure
those 224 young men and women
now encamped in the Mall, in the
shadow of the Agriculture Depart
ment Building.
They are youthful farmers,
every one of them. They like
their rural homes, their duties and
life, and they are making it pay.
These 224 are the nations choice
All Club members, here represent
ing nearly a million other young
tillers of the soil at the ninth ma
tional All Club camp.
Tents house the delegates-112
girls and 112 boys. They rise at
reveille every day at o'clock and
retire at the sound of taps at 10
o'clock. Today was the opening
day of the one-Week convention,
and it was busy one.
Following breakfast and flag
raising ceremonies they were ad-
dressed by Secretary of Agricul-
ture Henry A. Wallace. Confer
ences of the State groups followed
and after lunch at noon they
started on a tour of the Agricul-
ture Departments experimental
farm at Beltsville, Md. Tonight
and throughout the remaining
days of the convention there will
be more conferences, tours and
speeches.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
Will Be Heard
On Trolley Charges

District residents will be given
opportunity to state their views on
the proposal to abandon the Con-
necticut Avenue street car line
above Calvert Street at a hearing
10 o'clock tomorrow morning be-
fore the Public Utilities Commits.
sion.
John H. Hanna, president of the
Capital Transit Company, has
asked the commission to permit
substitution of bus service:
A similar request was made Of
the Maryland Public Service Com
mission for the area beyond Chevy
Chase Circle.
Abandonment of the car line
would save the company large
sum of money in repairs to the
six miles of tracks along upper
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
3O-DAY LEAVE
BILL SLATED
FORO,K
House Committee To Be Called
Today to Take Up
Pending Measure

Hope for restoration of preecon-
omy act leave for Government EN-.
ployes grew substantially today
with the announcement that the
House Civil Service Committee is
expected to be called together to-
morrow to approve bills for this
purpose.
Representative Robert Rams.
peck Cd, of Georgia. chairman
of the committee, said today he
hopes to have an executive meet.
ing of his committee tomorrow,
and that he believes his group
will act favorahly on the bills.
3O-Day Leave Sought
The proposals would provide 80
days annual leave for all Govern.
ment employees and is days year
sick leave which could be accunu-
lated up to 100 days.
The Georgia representative said
he knows of practically no oppo-
sition in the House to the legis-
lation, and believes that that body
will unhesitatingly approve it, and
send it to the Senate.
While there has been little con-
sideration given the proposals by
the upper house, it is thought
that that body will act faVorably
on them, too.
Little Extra Cost
Mr.. Ramspeck pointed out that
enactment of the bills will cost
the Government practically moth
ing in expenditures since the
leave is usually granted only when
the employe can be spared from
his work. He added that as a
matter of common practice no adj
ditional employees are needed to
carry on the work of those on va
cation.
In his opinion, the Government
would profit by granting the leave,
since by permitting the employees
to have a vacation the workers
obtain the rest and relaxation
necessary to put their best efforts
into their work.
The moral inspiration that the
leave gives the employees also is a
factor which makes enactment of
the bills beneficial to both the en-
ployes and the Government, he
added,
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
Tail Window a World:
ToMother, 2Babies

Robert Green, who is being held
at the Upper Marlboro jail in de-
fault of a $4,000 bond.
The mother has been unable to
post $500 bond. The State needs
her to clinch it's case against
Green, accused of assault with in,
tent to kill little Norma Jeanne
with a belt strap one night at
their Ardmore, Md. home.
Get Special Food
She and the children are re,
ceiving special foods, not the ordi'
nary prison fare, from the county
says Miss Agnes Duvall, county
social work director.
She said that after a confer.
ence among defense counsel, the
circuit court and States Attorney
Alan Bowie, she may gain custody
of Mrs. Bracey and put her in a
private home until the trial comes
up in october.
On the other hand, a court
hearing may be held sooner and
the case disposed of.
Green has asked a lawyer to
see him tomorrow about defend
ing him.
The Washington times., 1935-06-13
DIVIDENDS HIT.
22K PER CENT
FOR YEAR
Earnings on Stock In Last
d Years Average 18 Per Cent,
P. U. C. Discovers

Lean years of the business slump
had little effect on the earnings
of the Washington and George
town Gas Light companies, it was
revealed today by Byers Bachman,
Public Utilities Commission &C.
countant, at gas rate hearings by
the commission.
Profits of the concerns, as shown
through the gross corporate in.
come of the Washington company,
which holds all the stock of the
Georgetown company, last year
exceeded earnings of the two years
preceding and were sufficient to
provide a 221a per cent dividend
to holders of the capital stock of
the concern.
Banks Get Huge Profits
A bankers syndicate holds 81
per cent of the capital stock. In
addition to receiving the lions
share of dividend, the syndicate
made an average of 100000
year for the last four years on
loans to the companies, the report
showed.
Outstanding capital stock Of
the company represents $780,
900, and the average dividend de.
clared in the last four years was
18 per cent, Mr.. Bachman re.
ported.
Income Near 100000
It was disclosed that the profits
of the Washington company last
year totalled $7,868,694 and that
$585,0O0 of this sum was paid out
in dividends, approximately $780,.
600 paid as interest, and $426,447
held as surplus.
Total earnings of the Washing
ton company during the last four
years were $7,413,163.
The commission accountant tes-
titled that the cost to the gas com.
panies to produce 1000 cubic feet
of gas is 27.165 cents.
The figure does not include the
cost of transmission of gas to
District homes nor does it include
servicing.
Washington householders are
charged 9112 cents on the first
1000 cubic feet of gas used in any
month and must pay SO cents for
the next 1000 cubic feet used in o
month. All gas in excess of 5000
cubic feet is sold at II cents for
1000 cubic feet.