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Evening star., 1936-03-20
MARYLAND FLOOD
WORK TO START
Immediate Restoration in ALE.
gany County Arranged
by Agencies.
By 3 Stan Correspondent OF The Star.

By Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ANNAPOLIS, Md, March 20.-The
task of rebuilding roads, bridges and
public buildings wrecked or damaged
during the flood will be undertaken
Immediately by official agencies in
Allegany County, heart Of the stricken
area, with the enactment of two
measures that are being drafted for
introduction in the State Legislature
today.
Authorization for the issuance of
81 900, 900 In bonds to finance the
work Is contained In the bills and an
attempt will be made to have them
passed at once under a suspension of
rules.
Senator Robert B. Kimble of Al
legany County, who earlier in the day
introduced relief measure designed
to appropriate $150,000 to aid the
flood victims, will sponsor one bill
empowering the Mayor and Council
Of Cumberland to float q $500, 900 bond
issue.
The money would be used for the
CONSTRUCTION. reconstruction, repair
Of public roads and bridges, or for
any general purpose due to damage
caused any public building or other
public property by the recent food"
The Allegany County delegation in
the House Is to introduce q measure
authorizing the County Commission
ers Of Allegany to borrow up to $780,
900 for q like purpose.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
FATHER NAMES
SON AS SOLE HEIR
Will of Riggs Bank Vice Presi-
dent Disposes of Estate
of S175.000.

Naming his son as his sole heir, the
will of william j. Flather, vice presi-
dent Of the Riggs National Bank, who
died February 20, was filed for probate
In District Supreme Court today. 1t
disposed Of an estate valued at
$175,0oo. consisting of securities and
cash.
The will, which was dated July 26,
1921, stated that provision already
had been made for Mr.. Fathers
widow, now living in New York City.
A codicil, executed in 1929. con-
firmed Mr.. Fathers intention that
the son should inherit all his prop
erty If he were living at the time
the father died. Provision was made,
however, for disposition of the estate
to the sons wife and others If he
should pre-decease the bank official.
The son, who was named executor,
was represented before the court by
Attorney Arthur HELEN.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
"A. B. c. BOARD QUIZ
'OF ACCOUNT BOOKS
SET FOR MONDAY
Officials Pursue Reports OF
Retailers Being "Carried"
by Firms.
LICENSE REDUCTION
PROPOSAL CONSIDERED
Reasonable" Amount Of Credit
Is Permitted Under District
Regulations.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board today summoned all licensed
liquor wholesalers to bring to the
board for scrutiny all books in its
investigation of reports that some
wholesalers are carrying" retailers
unable to pay bills
Investigation of the records Of the
wholesalers will start at $50 Monday
and will continue to the end of the
month. Five wholesalers a day are
commanded to appear before the board
either with their books or correct
copies of the records.
Investigation Of the extent to which
wholesalers are allowing credit to re.
tailers was initiated by Commissioner
Allen to determine if there is any il-
legal tie-up between the two elements
of the business.
"Tie-up" Is Charged.
He called on the board for the In.
vestigation after spokesman for re.
tailers, at hearing before the Com
missioners Tuesday, stated that some
wholesalers were carrying" hard
pressed TeLdlleTS.
The statement had been made in
support of the recommendation of the
A. B. c. Board that the maximum
number Of class A licenses be reduced
gradually from 400 to 3O0 The point
was that some of the 400 retailers were
having difficulty making enough
money to pay their bills and stay in
business.
The District liquor law allows whole
Salers to extend reasonable" amount
of credit to their retail customers.
Allen emphasized that several actions
had been inserted in the law for the
distinct and deliberate purpose of pre-
venting financial or business tie-up
between wholesalers and retailers.
He declared If an undue amount
of credit is extended it meant de-
velopment of what amounted to the
"tied-house" situation in pre-prohi-
bition days, which caused so much
complaint against the liquor business.
Allen fears undue credit would tend
to increase possibilities Of Develop
ment of a monopoly in the liquor
business.
A. B. c. Board officials said they
now had no information of undue
credit, and issued the summons so
that a close check could be made Of
retailers books.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
H0PS0N APPEALS
TAX ASSESSMENT
Deficiency of $1,515,221 Asked
by Treasury Held Unjust.
Big Penalty Fought.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Howard C. Hopson, handspring Of
the Associated Gas g. Electric Co.,
asked the Board of Tax Appeals today
to redetermine a $l,512,22l Treasury
deficiency assessment for income taxes.
interest and a penalty.
The Internal Revenue Bureau
charged Hopson with income tax de-
fciencies from 1929-1933 inclusive, Of
which S865.958 represented the def
cheney, $434,092 was a penalty and
S215,171 was interest.
Hopson, who was a witness last Fall
before the Senate Lobby Committee,
contended the deficiencies for the first
three years were barred by the statute
of limitations.
His appeal said the bureau had
erroneousy disallowed deductions for
losses he said were incurred in sales
of Associated Gas g. Electric and SUBJ
sidiary company stocks during all the
years in controversy.
Hopsonis company recently appealed
from an asserted deficiency, penalty
and interest charge approximating
s5o,0o0,o00.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

Months Of work remain ahead for the
c. C.. c. companies, the only outside
service now being provided in setting
up the great research center. The
Resettlement Administration well
coined the opportunity to make the
research center one Of the biggest
farms in the East because its lands
almost surround the cherished new
community whose borders it wishes to
protect from the inroads of CONNER
cialism.
On the side of the settlement near
est the District of Columbia line, how
ever. 1t has a tract Of approximately
1,700 acres for which no use has been
determined. 1t is a tangled mass of
forest and underground. without agri-
cultural value. One of the suggestions
being considered is that the tract be
cleared of underbrush and preserved
as future extension of the District
Of Columbia park system.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
D. c. VOTE DENIAL
IS j. S. DISGRACE,
MRS. NORTON SAYS
Trade Meeting Hears King
Hit SeIf-RuIe as Way to
Bring Corruption.
HOUSE CHAIRMAN URGES
PARTY PLATFORM PLANK
District Residents Hang Heads
in Shame for Taxation With
out Voice, She Ayers.

Representation for voteless citizens
of the District of Columbia was upheld
as necessary to remove a national
disgrace" and aSsailed as productive
of possible municipal graft and cor
ruption and destructive Of Federal
security by chairmen of the House
and Senate District Committees at a
Congressional Night" meeting of the
Washington Board of Trade last night
in the Mayfiower Hotel.
Upholding the need for local repre-
sentation in the Senate and the House
and in the electoral college, Chair
man Norton of the House Commit
tee expressed the hope that the
people of the District of Columbia will
awaken to a realization of the advan-
tages they are missing through lack
of a voice IN the affairs of govern
ment and will rise as unified body
to demand representation in the
Senate and House"
1T seems ridiculous" she said, that
you should not have voice in your
own affairs and in the election of the
President"
She promised that if she is given
the opportunity, she will go before
the Democratic National Committee
and endeavor to have plank pro-
posing enfranchisement for citizens of
the District Of Columbia written into
the party platform.
Strange Form of Government.
at is a very strange form of gov
ernment you have here" she said.
"You have no official means of COM
municating your needs and desires to
those who govern you. You have
commissioners but they do not have
the power adequately to represent you.
There are no official channels through
which you can make known your
wants to the Senate and House.
IF you had representatives in the
Senate and House to present your
needs to Congress and to express and
fight for your views, I feel sure that
we could get across the things the
District needs. If you had local rep
resentation, I am sure Washington
would not have to hang its head in
shame as the only people in any free
government in the world who pay
taxes and yet have nothing to say
about their expenditure"
Voicing his opposition to any part
In government for residents of the
District of Columbia, Chairman King
Of the Senate District Committee ex-
ICoa nTSTPTCT po0a Ely
Evening star., 1936-03-20
SUSPENDED PERMITS.

Frank A. Anderson, 1928 I street,
80 days.
Andrew L. Andrewles. 514 Second
street, 80 days.
George Armaly, 3o1s Rodman street.
IS days.
Norman r. Baesell, Cavalier Hotel,
second offense, 80 days.
Raymond NJ. Beck, 4541 Boyard
Boulevard. Friendship Heights, D. C.,
80 days.
Martin J. Berghers, 3122 Rhode
Island avenue northeast, Is days.
Julius r. Beuchert. 1888 Seventh
street, 80 days.
Outline M. Boydstun, 25l4 Four
teenth street, 80 days.
Albert D. Burr. Chevy Chase, Nd.
80 days.
Howard s. Cash, Takoma Park, Nd,
Is days. .
Earl w. Cassie, 2453 Wisconsin ave-
nue., IS days.
Lee A. Christian. 2227 Twentieth
street, 30 days.
Warner o. Clements, 726 Third
street northeast, 30 days. -.
vero r. Corso. sac Quincy street,
80 days.
Richard s. crawley, 331s o street.
30 days.
Aylmer T. Criclrner, Takoma Park,
Nd, Is days. i.
Leo q. Cyr. 1908 Sixteenth street.
Is days.
Joseph p. Francavilla, 51s Tenth
street. revoked.
Thomas s. Monsen, sl4 Eighteenth
street. Is days,
Gerhard Reeves, 3si9 Military road,
second offense, revoked.
Margaret A. Roche, 723 Fern place,
second offense, so days.
Kenneth r. Rose, 3709 Fourteenth
street, Is days.
Phillip !. Rosen. 4425 Third street,
Is days.
Paul T. Rosser, s27 New York ave-
nue. IS days.
Charles c. Thorne, 1s17 q street
southeast, 80 days.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

-SLdT SLdU FROLO.
"I was thinking of doing some ad-
vertising," says the captain, but now
with an eye to the publicity his trip
was netting) I don't think I'll have
to. I wish you'd say that We got real
old-time Pocomoke oysters"
What are you trying to do. Austin
climb the fence?" jeered an associate
dropping by and pointing to the
Josephine D riding almost flush with
a railing ordinarily high out Of the
water.
The captain only grinned.
Recalls Former Floods.
G. H. Sanford, veteran marketman
who has been around the water front
81 years and recalls padding a boat
right through old Center Market on
Seventh street and into Pennsylvania
avenue" in the flood Of 1889, said
conditions are worse than at any time
since 1918, although the water was
about as high as it is now for few
hours in August two years ago. as
the result of a tidal wave.
Sanford figured that probably 500
canoes and sailboats were torn loose
from their moorings in the George
town area and smashed to pieces
against bridge piers, but thought
that the power boat losses would be
light in comparison, though he said
reports were that number were
gone.
Enos Shreve of the Flood Gate Boat
House, at Fourteenth and Water streets
southwest, said as soon as the water
started rising about 800 engined craft
were pulled out from docks and an.
chored In the middle of Washington
Channel to keep from being beached
as the food recedes, and unless a
blow comes up, they are safe.
As long as drifting boats are In
the harbor. from Georgetown to Alex
andria, they are turned over, to the
Police Department when picked UP
Outside these boundary lines, however
they are subject to salvage laws, be-
come the prize Of the finders. and the
court fixes the price at which they
are reclaimed.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

Cap'n Austin Daley of the Josephine
D is in from Tangier with load of
fish and oysters and b of trip
it was. says he.
Bucking the roaring Potomac for 81
hours to make trip that generally
takes about Is. Cap'n Daley and his
"crew"-Milborn .Crockett-laid the
50-foot Josephine D of the fish wharf
late yesterday afternoon, right glad to
find safe harbor.
I'VE saw everything but a pocket
book floating down that river" says
the skipper impressively; yessir, every
thing but q pocketbook. and told
the boy If we see pocketbook, we're
sure going to try to pick it up.
You should have seen the fine fur
niture that was going down. Lots OF
it. / certainly would liked to have
had some of them lovely chairs. ]
could have picked up thousand dol
lars worth of furniture If I could have
got to it. but if I had tried to turn
around, I'd a'been 2 miles away from
where started the current was so
strong. As it was, part of the time we
was going backwards instead of ahead.
If anybody had told me how bad it
was, wouldn't believed it,"
Passes Dancing Pavilion.
Between Fort Washington and Mar
shall Hall. the Josephine D. passed a
125-foot dancing pavilion that had
been torn loose from its moorings
somewhere up the river, and was 60
ing aground. Two men were just
boarding it from a skiff, Daley said,
presumably to see what they could
find. Further along, they encountered
small yacht, virtually cut in two,
and the wreckage Of half . dozen
other craft also was sighted.
The Josephine D is one of halt
dozen Commercial boats lying OF the
fish wharf, unable to dispose of their
cargoes of fish and oysters because the
flood prevents them from docking.
With an average load worth about
s4o0. this runs into money. Daley had
been caught in the ice here and only
got away week ago for the Tangier
trip
Evening star., 1936-03-20
MILLIONAIRE" ACCUSED
IN LIQUOR RING CASE
Californian Sought as Leader
After Arrest of 90 in Cali.
fornia as Smugglers.

BY the Associated Press.
LOS ANGELES, March 20.-Sher-
wood Johnston. described by Federal
authorities as millionaire with an
estate on Long Island, N. Y, was an
nounced yesterday as the accused
leader Of gigantic liquor smuggling
ring, % of whose members we're re-
ported under arrest.
Deputy United States Attorney John
Powell said Johnston, who also owns
sugar distillery in Los Machos, near
Mazatlan, Mexico, was sought as the
ring leader and was reported making
arrangements In Ensenada, Mexico,
for his surrender.
Ten men and O woman were ar
rested and warrants are out for the
arrest Of an additional 80, Federal
men said.
Powell said Sherwood Johnston was
q millionaire San Francisco and Bur-
lingame society man.
Those arrested yesterday included
Carl Spooner, prominent San Luis
Obispo. Calf, rancher and political
figure.
Customs agents estimated alcohol
valued at between 5000, 900 and slo,-
o0o. 900 was smugsled into the United
states from Mexico By the @ns.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
SLAYER EXECUTED
IN ELECTRIC CHAIR
Preston Dies for Murder After
Quarrel Over $1.50
Gambling Debt.

Albert Preston, 80, colored, died in
the electric chair at the District jail
today for the murder of Clarence E
Yancey, colored, after quarrel over a
$3.50 gambling debt.
Preston had been reprieved six
times, his electrocution first having
been set for May %, 1885.
The condemned man walked rapidly
from his cell and sat in the chair a
few minutes after 10 am. The cur
rent was turned on at 1905, and at
1910 DR.. w. K. Angevine, Jail ply
sician, pronounced him dead.
Rev. James L. Pinn and Rev. Burl
H. Perry. colored preachers, accom-
panied Preston into the electrocution
chamber, Pinn singing Il Will Follow
Where He Leads"
Pinn and Mother" Alice Washing
ton we're with Preston from Z am.
until he was taken from his cell. They
reported he had been in good shape"
mentally and had joined them in sing
ing hymns. His wife visited him at
the Jail this morning.
Preston shot Yancey February 2,
1885. Yancey died the following day.
Preston was sentenced to death April
8, 1895.
Evening star., 1936-03-20

For years the Beltsville station was
a relatively small farm maintained
by the Bureau of Dairy Industry and
the Bureau Of Animal Husbandry
where animals used in experiments
were housed and pastured. The big
change came with the advent of the
Public Works Administration early in
the New Deal. The building program
called for the erection of sheep and
goat barns, quarters for horses to be
used in experiments. laboratory for
the horticultural division, quarters for
the Bureau of Entomology and the
Food and Drug Administration. The
laboratories were the latest word in
such establishments. The nutrition
laboratory alone cost more than
100000. It now Is being used for
finely controlled experiments on ami
NAL feeding.
Much of the task has been that Of
hewing farm out Of the wilderness.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
.12COMPENSAT|0N
POSITIONS FILLED
Appointments Ordered After
Civil Service Approves
Classification.

Twelve officials and employees of the
staff Of the District Unemployment
Compensation Board took Office today
when the board ordered appointments
after the Civil Service Commission had
approved proposed classification.
Many of those named had strong
political backing, but John A. Marshall
director, has declined to reveal what
members Of Congress sponsored the job
candidates.
Marshall, for the past two years
superintendent of insurance, was sworn
In as director of the board. J. Balch
Moor of Bonham, Tex, who had some
service here with the now disbanded
N. r. A., has been designated as
Marshalrs successor as insurance
superintendent and will be sworn In
within few days.
Son-in-Law Of Legislator.
Marshall is the son-in-law of Rep
resentative Parks Of Arkansas, who is
credited with having obtained his
appointment in the insurance depart
ment post. Among Marshall's unem-
ployment compensation staff is John
L. Bischoff, an assistant attorney.
Bischof is the son of Mrs Parks by
q former marriage.
Robert E. Doyle, son of the late
District police captain, was appointed
auditor and deputy director at SAL
ary of $500 per year. Thomas S.
jackson was made chief field exam
liner. Karl Won Lewinski. son of the
former German consul general. was
made a field examiner, and winston
r. Renshaw also was made field
examiner.
Other appointees were for clerical
and messenger service.
Gets Check for Expenses.
The board today received check
for sI2,239 from the Federal Social
Security Board for administrative ex-
penses for the remainder of this fiscal
year. Marshall reported he had COL
lected to date from District employers
subject to the act total of $228,828.
The board plans to appoint gen.
eral counsel at S., 900 a year. Assistant
Corporation Counsel Elwood Seal is
considered for the post. The board re-
quested that the Commissioners
authorize the corporation counsel to
have members of his staff aid attor-
neys Of the Compensation Board.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
SENATE EXECUTIVE
HEARINGS OPEN ON
D. c. BILL MONDAY
Commissioners to Be First
Witnesses Before Com.
mittee.
LOCAL GROUPS SEEK
FAIRER BASIS FUNDS
Restoration Of Operating Items
Reduced by House to Be
Urged by Officials.
BY ]. A. O'LEARY,

Senate executive hearings on the
District appropriation bill for the year
beginning July will open at 1890
am. Monday, with the Commissioners
as the first witnesses.
Senator Thomas. Democrat. of Okla
homa, chairman of the subcommittee
on District appropriations, made this
announcement this afternoon as soon
as the Appropriations Committee had
completed work on the agricultural
supply bill. which has occupied the
attention Of the committee during the
last week.
Fairer Basis Sought.
Interest in the local supply bill CEN
ters chiefly in the effort which local
organizations will make to have the
total apportioned on a fairer basis as
between the Federal Government and
the local community. AS it came
from the House, the bill called for
s42,57s. .283, toward which the Federal
share was cut to s2.700,000, or only
about 6 per cent Of the total.
The Budget Bureau had recon-
mended continuation of the present
Federal payment of s5.7OO,O0O. The
general expectation is that the Senate
following its long g-standing custom OF
advocating the more equitable fi.cal
relations policy, will raise the Federal
share.
Local officials laso will ask the Sem
ate committee to restore the variety Of
operating expenses which were ap-
proved by the Budget Bureau, but re-
duced in the House. These include a
number Of essential public health and
hospital items
An interesting feature Of the bill is
a provision inserted by the House ap-
propriating s250,00O to begin work on
a new superstructure for Chain Bridge.
The ultimate cost was fixed by the
House at s350,00o. While the House
appropriation does not contemplate
complete replacement of the bridge,
it would allow for whatever work
might be found necessary on portions
OF the substructure as well as q new
superstructure. The bill also contains
$25,000 to prepare plans for a new
Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge over the
Anacostia River southeast.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
ROCKVILLE HEARING
FOR PETER DELAYED
Police Court Judge H. c. Smith
Fails to Set New Date in
Embezzling Case.

Postponement of hearing on en-
bezzlement charges against Edward
Peter, ousted attorney to the Mont
gomery County commissioners, was
ordered by Police Court Judge Har-
old G. Smith. at Rockville this morn
ing No date was set for the hearing.
The postponement was agreed to
at an informal conference yesterday
at the request Of the defense. It
was opposed by States Attorney
James H. Pugh.
Peter Is at liberty under $4,000
bond on charge Of embezsling $4,000
In county funds.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
~ TRAFFIC 9a
49, CONVICTIONS i IA
SECoND-oFFENsE SPEEDING.

SECOND-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Richard c. Myers, $50 Emerson
street, SIS.
FIRST-OFFENSE SPEEDING.
Frederic Richmond, 1910 Wisconsin
avenue, $40.
Henry G. Nightingale, 301 Todd
place northeast, $40.
William B. Burleigh, 2l24 I street,
$40.
John 3. M. Goetz, 1000 Cathedral
avenue, IS.
George Y. waddy. 171s Coreoran
street, $40.
William T. Wilson. 1908 Twenty
second street southeast, $40.
Roland c. Barrett, Virginia, $40.
Marvin L. Parler. Virginia. $40.
William c. Lyles, Maryland, $40.
Allen E. Gregory, jr., Maryland, $40.
Martin j. Cook, jr.. 1884 Thirty
ninth street, SIS.
Samuel A. Coates, 1742 Rhode Island
avenue, $15.'
Haywood D. Drove, 302 Ninth street
northeast, $40.
Adron Marshall, 129 P street, $40.
g. Kinsey Owens, Maryland, $40.
Harry e. Grier. 2523 Palmer place
southeast, $40.
Jasper w. Yeager, II Ninth street
southeast, $40.
Jerome s. Murray, 452s South Da-
kota avenue northeast, $40
Charles w. Keys, 1850 Morse street
northeast, $40.
Louis @. Polikoff, Maryland, $40.
Melvin L. Locks, l124 Howard road
southeast, $40.
Oliver w. Durity, SAT Fifteenth
street northeast, $40.
Myrtle B. Hahn, Maryland, $40.
Perry M. Tancill. 900 Massac achusetts
avenue, $40.
Morton S. wasserman, 1854 Colum-
bia road, $40.
Frank E. Neiss, 5312 Fourth street,
$40.
Allen z. williams, 5ll Twenty third
street northeast, $40.
Robert Z. Cox. 12l7Ha G street north
east. $40. b
Evening star., 1936-03-20
BOY, 2, BADLY SCALDED
ABOUT BACK AND LEGS

ALEXANDRIA. Va, March 90
Severely burned on the back and legs
by hot water at his home late yes
terday, 2-year-old John Franklin
Thompson. jr., son Of Mr. and Mrs.
John F. Thompson of Vienna; was
reported in a serious condition today
ut the Alexandria Hospital.
Hospital attaches said the boy sus-
tained first and second degree burns
when he fell over a pan Of boiling
water on the floor Of his home.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
BECK AGREES HE OWES
S1,432 ON 1892 INCOME
Former Solicitor General Reaches
Compromise With Internal
Revenue Bureau.
BY the Associated Press.

BY Ch6 ASSOCIdCtu FIeSS,
James M. Beck, former solicitor
general, agreed with the Government
today he owed additional income taxes
Of 1882 for 1882.
Beck was charged by the Internal
Revenue Bureau with a deficiency of
$2,465. The basis of the compromise
was not disclosed.
The deficiency was levied on the
basis Of sale by Beck Of 600 shares Of
stock of the Chase National Bank of
New York. He claimed he purchased
a part of the stock at q higher figure
than asserted by the bureau.
Evening star., 1936-03-20
Cross Sold.

A professional silver cross brought
from Abyssinia by Sir Robert Napier's
expedition In 1867 was sold for 500
In London. q