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The Washington times., 1936-02-21
URGE CORONER
FOR COUNTY

BETHESDA, Md, Feb. 81.
Stressing the need for a coroner
in Montgomery county, the public
safety committee of the County
Civic Federation last night ap-
pointed a special committee to
confer with the county commits
sionerS, police officials and others
regarding appointment of such
an officer, following a public
meeting held in the county build
ing here.
States Attorney James H. Pugh,
speaking in favor of such a move,
declared that due to the rapid
growth of the county such an
officer is now needed.
DR.. v. L. Elliott, county health
officer, suggested the position be
filled from a list of persons COM
piled and approved by. the
County Medical Association.
Under an act of the legislature
of several years ago, the board
of county commissioners is vested
with authority to appoint a coro-
ner at any time it is deemed
necessary, but no provisions for
salary were made in the annual
budget adopted last July.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
4 Puppies w ant
New Homes, So
GiUe QLOOk!

Only two weeks old, so not
nearly large enough to have
homes of their own, these four
puppies nevertheless are offered
for adoption and will be given
away just as soon as they can be.
A mixture of police and pointer.
three of the litter are males.
They will grow into pretty dogs,
with their black and white and
dark-brown markings.
Mrs. Grace Robert, 1921 r St.
N. W., has the puppies. You'd
better make your bid early If you
would like to nave one.
The Pet Editor of The Times
will help you locate homes for
pets that you would otherwise
have to dispose Of. Telephone or
write to the Pet Editor.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
D. c. Student Honored

FORK UNION, Va, Feb. 81.
Announcement has been made
here Of an award for scholastic ex-
cellerce accorded Cadet L. Ken
meth McInt:re. of Washington.
Cadet Mcintyre is a student at
Fork Union Military Academy
here.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
u. 5. RECOVERY
OF FAAATAXES
HITS SNAG.
International News Service

International News service
Administration experts have en-
countered legal difficulties in
their efforts to draft legislation
to recover s300,OO0,OOO in i'm
pounded and unpaid AAA process
ing taxes.
The money which the Admins
tration is anxious to get into the
Treasury includes about $200,000,-
600 Of taxes impounded in Fed
eral courts and freed by the su'
preme Court decision in the rice
millers' case and in unpaid taxes.
While Administration lawyers
have been trying to draft q retro
active tax bill which would force
professors to pay the money into
the Treasury, congressional lead
ers were informed today they are
not yet sure Of their ground.
Plan Due Next Week
A scheduled conference with
House Ways and Means Commit
tee leaders was postponed by the
Administration because the pro
posed farm tax program Is not
completed.
The present plan Of President
Roosevelt is to lay before Con-
gress q $500, 900, 900 tax program
to finance the new farm program
next week.
Representative Bankhead, of
Alabama, Democratic House lead
er, expects the Administration plan
to be ready after the President
returns from Hyde Park. He in
dicated that the tax program
would be confined to a substitute
for AAA processing taxes.
wider Tax Base Asked
The Administration, it is known,
is considering reenactment of pro
ceSsing taxes with a broadened
base so the rate Of the processing
taxes would be reduced and com.
peting products would share the
burden.
Secretary Of Agriculture Wallace
was reported to be insisting that
a strong effort be made to enact
legislation to recover the 200 mil
lion dollar processing taxes freed
by the Supreme Court.
Wallace, who first called the
return of the taxes a "legalized
steal" modified his statement to
brand the return as a gift" in a
report to Senator Norris (R), of
Nebraska.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Arlington Names Five
On Jury Commission

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE,
Va, Feb. 21.-Five members Of
the Arlington County Jury Com
mission. appointed yesterday by
Circuit Court Judge Walter r.
Mccarthy for a term of one year,
will be sworn in by c. Benjamin
Laycock, clerk of court, tomorrow.
Those appointed were E. j.
Skidnore, George NJ. Cooke. John
F. Cavanagh, B. c. Boree and
B. F. Barnes.
The commission must select q
list Of 800 qualified voters in the
county for jury service during the
coming year. Any qualified voter,
except those who served on juries
last year, will be eligible for the
list.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
HOME PROJECT
WILL Be SOLD

Authorization Of the sale OF
the first of 10 rural resettlemsnt
projects to a local nonprofit cor
poration for operation and man.
agement was announced TO-DAY.
The Houston Gardens, q go
acre project near Houston, Tex.
Comprising 100 homesteads, will
be sold to an operating corpora
ton as soon as legal papers are
completed, Administrator ReXford
Guy Tugwell announced.
The corporation will pay the
Government S275,586, over a
period of 40 years, at 3 per cent
interest. The Federal Government
cost Of the project was $289, 900.
The l3,414 difference represents
roads and parkways which the
resettlement administration is
deciding to the state and county.
The local corporation will be
conducted by board Of five mem
bers, three Of whom will be Sc
lected from among the 100 home
steaders. The other two, Tugwell
said, will be Houston business men.
The 100 homesteaders occupying
the gardens are all employed in
Houston. The homesteads consists
Of plots of one to three acres, with
houses. barns. chicken houses, tool
sheds, and other outbuildings.
The Resettlement Administra-
ton also announced plans for de.
velopment of three forest COM
munity projects-Basswood, near
Iron River, Mich; Drummond,
near Drummond, Wis, and Sub
Unity, near London, KY.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Rep. MeGrodrty Guest
Of Honor at Dinner

Representative John Steven Nc
Groarty D.) of California, poet
laureate of that State, will be
honor guest at the One-Act Play
Tournament Dinner to be held at
the Parrott Restaurant, 1701
Twentieth St., at 8 p. M, Sunday.
Denis E. Connell, prominent in
local theatrical circles, will be
toastmaster. "Tournamentitis." a
skit written and directed by j. A.
Bishop, will be a feature.
Reservations for the dinner are
available at the Community Cen
ter Department, sponsors Of the
affair.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Health Group Sells
BUILDING for $4,000

HAGERSTOWN, Md, Feb. 81.
The Washington County Public
Health Association has voted to
accept an offer of $4,000 for its
building located in the heart of
the business section. It was under
stood James Koliopulos, former ho-
tel man of this city, was the pur-
chaser. 1t is said the building will
be restored and again operated as
the Dutch Kitchen.
The building, formerly housing
the Red Cross and various health
services, will be vacated March /,
when the offices are moved to the
washington County Hospital.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
PRIVATE BILL 5
OPPOSED BY
PRESIDENT
RY EARL GOODWIN

Does President Roosevelt ex.
pect to tie or beat the record
held by President Grover Cleve-
land in vetoing private pension
and relief bills? If he does, he will
have to "go some," but at this
session he has already sent back
II bills authorizing expenditure Of
Government money for claims or
special consideration Of indi-
viduals, Army officers, enlisted
men, etc.
Apparently the President has
adopted the policy Of turning
down all special legislation for cor.
porations or individuals He has
been adamant in referring all
claimants to the regularly estab-
liShed authorities.
Army Claim Refused
One Of the vetoes started the
Father Coughlin-R Representative
O'Connor controversy. The bill
authorized payment of a claim
made by q manufacturer who sold
shoes to the American Army in
Siberia during the World War, the
claim being for around 5000, 900,
and was based on the statement
that the Russian rouble had col
lapSed. The President vetoed this
bill, which had passed both houses
without much ado, and added a
slap at the claimants.
Within o few days he vetoed
several more bills and this week
he sent another veto to Congress,
refusing to sign q measure to re-
store certain privileges to .
cavalryman discharged without
honor 80 years ago. This was
veto No. II.
A large number of claims are
being consolidated in the omnibus
claims bill. Possibly there are
claims in that bill which will find
htter reception at the White
HoEse.
Cleveland Holds Record
The President has signed sew
eral private relief bills, which in
dicates bills coming to him with
proper department approval will
be signed. but he will not sign
those which his Cabinet officers
refuse to sanction.
Grover Cleveland holds the all
time record for vetoeS. He sent
back nearly 800 private pension
bills to o Republican Congress at
Q time when there was a vast sur
plus In the Treasury and the G.
A. r. held even greater influence
in politics than the American Le-
gion today.
The situation in Cleveland's
day was something like this: A
high tariff imposed by Republi-
can Congresses and adminiStrar
tionS had piled up the surplus,
and the G. A. r. leaders had
given tremendous support to the
G.. O. P. in return for lavish pen
sion promises. The regular pen
sions met with no administration
opposition, but Cleveland exposed
skullduggery on the part of many
q man who had been kicked out"
Of the Army or who had deserted
and was ineligible for a pension.
However, under the old "log
rolling" process, Congress passed
bill after bill granting special pen
. sionS in many Of these cases.
Cleveland vetoed all Of them.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Bowerman TO Speak
At Branch Library

DR.. George F. Bowerman, chief
librarian Of the Public Library.
will speak on THE Library and
the Community" at the North
eastern Branch Library, Seventh
Street and Maryland Avenue
Northeast, February % at 8 p. m.
The meeting also will be ad-
dressed by Mrs. Helen T. Stein.
barger, readers adviser Of the
Georgetown branch, who will dis.
cusS recent fiction.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Ex-Rep. Beedy's Wife in Reno

RENO. New, Feb. 81 G.N.s).
Mrs. Dorothy West Beedy, wife
of Carroll l.. Beedy, former Maine
Congressman, today had taken up
her divorce residence" here,
Mrs. Beedy refused to comment
on her separation and referred
questioners to her attorney.
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Dave German, Of N.Y.,
Store Manager Here

Dave German of New York has
been appointed manager Of the
Washington store of the A. S.
Beck Corporation.
Mr.. German has been associated
with leading shoe concerns for the
past 20 years, and has wide back
The Washington times., 1936-02-21

ground Of experience in all phases
of the trade. He will assume man.
of the F Street store i'm
The Washington times., 1936-02-21
Jacobs to Talk

Granville B. Jacobs, Of New
York city, a graduate of Iowa Uni.
versity in 1922, will address the
dinner meeting of the Iowa Alum
& in observance of National Iowa
ight at Z p. m. Tuesday at the
lyersity Club.
The Washington times., 1936-08-14
10000 CHEER AS KY. HANGMAN
SENDS SLAYER TO DOOM

across the street from the three
acre picnic ground" ran over to
search for out-of-town relatives
and invite them to a "necktie"
breakfast.
Walter Scholz, 10, Dragged that
he and five other lads who &C
companied him from Jacksonville,
Fla, were the farthest travelling
spectators.
BetheaS offense was the rob
berry, assault, and murder of Mrs.
Eliza Edwards, 10, a well-to-do
Owensboro widow.
Kentucky's criminal code pro-
videS for public execution for such
crimes in the county where the
offenSe was committed. Kentucky
has eleCtrocuted her murdererS for
years but electrocution is i'm
practicable in public, in the open.
While Bethea was being brought
from Louisville people were estab-
fishing themselves in trees and on
roofs and telegraph poles. They
crashed through the fence in
tended to keep them clear Of the
gallowS
BOOed as He Prays
The experts fiddled with the
paraphernalia on the platform.
The crowd became fretful. 1t was
eight minutes after sunrise when
Bethea covered ct the feet of the
scaffold and of his confessor. A
healthy-appearing young man, he
wore a pair of black trousers, and
an old blue shirt. He had had
both fried chicken and pork chops
for his final meal and had writ
ten a farewell note to his sister.
He mounted the Scaffold be-
tween two guards. Father Lam
mans following. Little boys and
girls applauded in the same inno-
cent spirit as if we were the man
on the flying trapeze. Their
elders booed him as he prayed for
a moment before starting up the
steps.
People stood on the steps of the
hearse for a better view.
The Washington times., 1936-08-14
Continued from Page u

able spot of space to see the
hangman, attired in a white
Seersucker suit, spring the trap.
With true Southern chivalry,
Arthur Daredevil Dick" Hasch,
former Louisville policeman, sub
stituted for the lady sheriff, Mrs.
Florence Thompson of DaviesS
county, who had intimated up to
the last minute that she would
be in charge.
The public hanging. social
event such as has never been ex
perienced in DavieSS county in 81
years, had offered the added in.
ducement of a woman sheriff "at
the controls" But the control
exerted by Sheriff Florence
Thompson turned out to be rather
remote after all.
Sheriff Thompson contrived to
set her public agog by coyly init.
mating that she never would
Shirk her duty" after the local
clergy had assured her that If she
were personally to pull the lever
releasing the trap, she would but
be fulfilling her duty. At the last
minute, however, she was sitting
in a parked car beneath the gal,
lows not far from the hearSe which
took Bethea to PotterS Field.
Hasch and his aides worked
under the direction of Uncle
Phir' Hanna, the we'll known con
sultant executioner from White
county, Illinois, who has been. mas,
ter of ceremonies at 70 similar oc,
casionS without ever personally
springing the trap.
About half the 10000 persons
packed in the yard of the county
garage may safely be estimated to
have arrived, by car or mule team,
from some distance away. About
half of the spectators we're chill.
dren, giving an innocent picnic at.
moSphere to the event.
Women trundled baby carriages
usually with two babies, through
the crowd. Old men hawked the
fruit from their orchards.
Mrs. Bess Shacklett, who lives
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Concert
Schedule
TOMORROW,

TOMORROW.
National Symphony Orchestra,
soloist. Sylvia Lent, violinist,
Constitution Hall, 4 pm.
MONDAY.
Candlehght concert. Harrison
Potter, pianist. guest artist,
Phillips Memorial Gallery, $50
pm.
Georgia Hazlett, Martha
Adams, Frances Jackson, Myra
McCathran Myers, in song re-
cital at Arts Club, $50 pm.
Lecture on Modern Music" by
Robert Barrow. Washington Col
lege Of Music, 8 pm.
Recital by pupils of William
Webster, Washington Club, 8:15
pm.
Navy Band, "Hour Of Mem
ories" program, II am.
Army Band, 6 pm.
TUESDAY.
Lecture by Julia Schelling on
Wagner's dusk Of the Gods" and
"Bayreuth Of Today" Washing
ton College OF Music, 8:15 pm.
Navy Band Symphony Or
chestra. 8 pm.
Marine Band, "Shut-Ins Dream
Hour" II am.
Soldiers Home Band Orches-
ira, $50 pm.
WEDNESDAY.
Jose Echaniz, pianist, and
Marta de Ia Tore, violinist, re-
cital, Willard Hotel, 8:45 pm.
Adult Department Chorus Of
Calvary Baptist Church, annual
concert, Woodward Hall, Eighth
and H streets northwest, 8:15 pm.
Navy Band Orchestra, Music
Appreciation Series, I pm.
Army Band, 1880 am.
Marine Band Symphony Or
chestra, 8 pm.
THURSDAY.
National Symphony Orchestra,
soloist, Egon Petri, pianist. Con-
stitution Hall, 4:45 pm.
Navy Band, Patriotic Halt
Hour, 1880 am.
Soldiers Home Band, $3.50 pm.
FRIDAY.
Alice Ehlers, program Of
harpsichord music. Library Of
Congress. AS pm.
Marine Band, 8 pm.
Army Band. 4:l5 pm.
SATURDAY.
Soldiers Home Band orches-
tra, $50 pm.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Chorus in Annual Recital.
THE Adult Department Chorus nj


Calvary Baptist Sunday school
will give its seventh annual concert
Wednesday at 8:15 pm. in Woodward
Hall. Greene Memorial Building.
Eighth and H streets northwest. The
concert will be under the direction of
Andrew Clifford Wilkins. with Mrs.
Glen Edgington at the piano.
Howard Mitchell, first cellist of the
National Symphony Orchestra, will be
guest artist. Mr.. Mitchell was the
winner of the national contest for
cellists held by the National Fedora
ton Of Music Clubs In 1929. He was
q member Of the Philadelphia SYM
phony Orchestra before joining the
National Symphony Orchestra about
three years ago. He graduated from
the Curtis Institute Of Music in 1885.
MIR. Mitchell will play two groups Of
solos, accompanied by Sol Sax, pianist
Of the National Symphony Orchestra.
Sixteen sopranos of the senior de-
partment Of the Sunday school will
sing the solos in two Of the selections
on the program. which will consist Of
both sacred and secular selections,
including arrangements for female
and for male voices, In addition to
those for mixed voices.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Miss Moore
In Recital to
Appear Here
Opera Singer Coming
for Constitution Hall
Engagement.

TRACE MOORE, glamorous soprano
star of the Metropolitan Opera.
the concert stage, radio and the
screen. will make one Of her few
personal appearances in recital at
Constitution Hall next Sunday after
noon, March 8, at 4 O'Clock, under the
management Of Dorothy Hodgkin Dor
sey.
A tentative program selected by
Miss Moore for her recital next SUM-
day afternoon indicates that she will
include therein the 'Depuis lie jour-
aria from Louise" the "Air de Lia''
t m Debussy's IL 'Enfant Prologue, N
Bizet's louvre ton coeur," the Arensky-
Koshetz "Valse," DeFall's "Sequidilla, ~
Minis "Pano murciano" and an Eng
lish group that includes There's Not
SWAIN" by Purcell; Cyril SCOTS
"The Unforeseen" James H. Rogers
"Wild Geese" Edward Germans
Who'll Buy My Lavender" and John
Alden Carpenters "Serenade."
Miss Moore's recital was originally
announced for Sunday afternoon
March 20, but owing to certain
changes in the singers plans for a
European concert tour, it became nec-
essary to move the date of the at
traction up to March 8. Accordingly
announcement is made by Mrs. Dor
sey that although all Grace Moore
tickets are marked March 49," they
will be honored at Constitution Hall
only on this afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Cuban Artists Program.

TWO outstanding artists who have
not before been presented here.
Jose Echaniz, pianist. and Marta de
la Tore, violinist, both Of Cuba, will
be heard in concert Wednesday eve
ming at 8:45 o'clock at the Willard
Hotel. In offering the first Of series
Of concerts planned to foster Latin
American music and artists in this
country, Beren-Brook Artists, which
Is making its initial bow in the con-
cert world, has chosen these two
artists who are both already known
in European music centers and IN
New York.
During concert tours as assisting
artists with Tito Schipa. the noted
tenor, Echaniz has acquired . mu-
sical following in this country which
heralds great interest in his coming
debut In the Nations Capital. The
concert viii be given with patronage
Of the Cuban Ambassador, Senor DR..
Guillermo Patterson y de Juaregui.
The Latin American diplomatic set
and resident colony here has mani
tested keen interest In the efforts OF
Beren-Brook Artists to help artists
from their native countries to be pre-
sented in Washington, New York and
other American cities. Further con.
certs are In prospect this Spring. with
q full series locally planned for next
season.
Marta de Ia Torres program We'd
nesday will consist entirely Of works
from Latin composers, featuring the
"El Poema de una Sanluquena." BY
Turina, noted Spanish author. which
she played with the composer In Sc
Vile In its world premiere.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
In Local Music Circles

ment at the school. Those taking part
were: Barbara Frink, Byran Ogden.
Miriam Betlinger, Marcia Myer. Flea
nor and John Hill, Gloria Hysong,
Pattie Rockey, Kittie Claude, Frances
Chynoweth and Lilo Jansen.
Warren F. johnson, organist, will
play Hymn to the Sun" and will O.
the Wisp" from Pieces de Fantaisie"
by Louis vierne. before the evening
service at the Church of the Pilgrims
tomorrow.
Donald Thomas, Washington singer,
was the guest soloist at the Sunday
morning Bible breakfast q the Sloane
House Y. M. G. A. in New York last
Sunday. Mr.. Thomas was accom-
panied by Frank Egan Of Detroit.
Evening star., 1936-02-29
Iturbi With
Philadelphia
Orchestra
Spanish Pianist and
Conductor Has Had
Amazing Success.

THE popular Spanish pianist and
conductor, Jose Iturbi, will be
heard here on March IL, when the
Philadelphia Orchestra plays its third
concert at Constitution Hall.
Iturbi was born in Valencia, where
the oranges ripen for Christmas and
where the Saracenic tiles recall the
days of Moorish kings. Jose was a
child prodigy. At little "Pepe," as
he was called, was studying and teach
ing pupils three and four times his
age and giving concerts before amazed
Spanish audiences. In Valencia the
boy studied at the local conservatory
and later was sent to Barcelona to
work under Joaquin Malats.
The people interested in his career
sent him to Paris. Those were hard
Gays for Iturbi. He studied at the
conservatory all day and played in the
cafes OF the bouleyards at night for
his room and food But at II he was
graduated with first honors.
While playing at a fashionable hotel
under an assumed name, he was
called to the telephone by one who
had followed his career, and to his
great surprise was offered the posi-
tion as head of the music department
OF the Conservatory at Geneva, the
post once held by List. After a stay
OF four years in Switzerland, Iturbi
left to embark on his chosen life
that Of virtuoSo.
The Spanish pianist arrived in
America for the first time in October.
1929, and since then he has returned
every season to sensational career.
He has played more concerts in this
country during this time than any
other pianist since Padereweski.
The program will be the Beethoven
Concerto in c Minor (No. 3D." for
piano and orchestra: the Weber over
ture. "Oberon": Warmers Funeral
March" from "Gotterdammerung"
and 'Liebestad" from Tristan und
Isolde" After that will be heard
1.-TWO Nocturnes," by Debussy, and
as a finale, De Falias three dances
from THE Three Cornered Hat
Tickets are on sale at the T. Arthur
Smith Concert Bureau. 9l0 G street
northwest.
Evening star., 1936-02-29

AtCOncert
Tomorrow
Four Americans Are
on Program They
Will Attend.

-FOUR contemporary American COM
posers, all of them widely known,
contribute works to the concert which
the National Symphony Orchestra
plays at 4 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
in Constitution Hall. All of these
composers are expected to attend this
program In which their works will be
played in the National Capital for
the first time.
One of the writer's. Edward Potter,
Is Washington man. Another. John
Powell Of Richmond, Va, has been
here on many occasions as pianist,
as well as q composer. and is a pop
ular musical figure in the Capital.
Franz Bornschein Of Baltimore. the
third composer. is also widely known
in Washington The fourth, Bernard
Wagenaar Of New York, who has
made his name familiar wherever
contemporary music is discussed, will
have one Of his compositions played
by the National Symphony for the
first time.
Hans KINDER, whose efforts IN be-
half of the American composer have
been steadfast since he became con-
ductor of the National Symphony.
will devote the first half of the pro-
gram to these American works.
The concert also presents Sylvia
Lent, noted woman violinist, who has
appeared so brilliantly with the Or
chestra before. She will play one Of
the most famous of Max Bruchs
ompositions-the &c Minor Con-
certo" for violin and orchestra DR..
Kinder has also announced a Brahms
Hungarian dance, and waltzes by two
Johann Strausses.
The concert will be played as fol-
lows:
Elesiac overture: ,".chatterton" Potter
Green willow" from "A SET Of Three.'
Powell
"Divertimento'' --------------Wa -Wasenaar
Cortege.
Paspay.
Pastorale.
Rondo.
"censsrto in G Minor for Orchestra s.,ns and
sylvia Lent.
Hungarian Dance No. 1"-------Brahms
Two polka ka-mazurk9si s.,.r., father,
I'm Praise Of Women
"A Woman's Heart"
johann Strauss tson)