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YEARS WEATHER
BREAKS RECORDS
Coolest Winter, Hottest
Summer, Worst Floods
Are Reported.
Rr the Assoclated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A dizzying succession of phenomenal
weather-most of 1t bad-has made
the past IL months one of the most
remarkable periods on the Weather
Bureaus books.
In one part of the country or an
other weather men have recorded the
coldest Winter-the hottest Summer
the worst floods-the most devastating
duststorms and the most severe tor
nadoes and hurricanes in history.
The Central and Eastern portions of
the country recorded the extremes in
low temperatures during the Winter
OF 1856.
AT Devils Lake, N. Dak," bureau
officials said, there was established a
Winter temperature record that prob
ably has no parallel in the weather
history of this country for first
order Weather Bureau station. The
temperature went below freezing on
November 81 and did not rise to the
freezing point until March /, a period
Of 96 days."
Average 13 Degrees Below Zero.
The average temperature for Janu-
ary and February at Devils Lake was
13 degrees below zero.
It is in this same region where rec
ord heat is now being recorded. With
in the past week, a report of liz de-
grees was received from Devils Lake
Kennebec, S. OAK, reported a maxi
mum of 119 degrees.
Temperatures in the Dakotas have
ranged around and over 100 degrees
for more than week.
Record SHOWS fell in the Northern
and Central portions of the country
and in the Far West, during the Win
ter. In March rainstorm moved into
the East from the South, whereupor
Eastern rivers went on a rampage, es-
tablishing records along the Atlantic
Seaboard and bringing about the worst
flood in history in the upper Ohio VAL
ley. Unofficial estimates said ITO per-
sons drowned in the March floods
Floods also struck Texas during May
and June, causing widespread damage
Duststorms Reported.
Bad duststorms on the Northern
Great Plains two years ago moved intt
the Southwest dust bowl" where
earlier this year disastrous winds blew
away the topsoil. However, rains ir
recent weeks brought relief to the dry
Southwestern area.
Heavy loss of life occurred Septem.
Der when a hurricane swept across
the Florida Keys, and two other hur-
ricaneS affected Southern Florida last
month. At the time of the worst tropi-
cal storm the bureau obtained a sea-
level barometer reading of 2635 inches
1.-The lowest of record in the Western
Hemisphere
The bureau reported 179 tornadoe;
in 1885, compared to lat for 1884. Ano
during the week ending April 8, 1886
''some of the most destructive lorna
does of record occurred in parts of the
Southeast, especially at Tupelo, Miss
and Athens, Ga"
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By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, July 9.-Maryland
fish and game ofiicials have made
ARRANGEMENTS to cooperate with the
Federal Government In increasing
wild life on the $500 acres of the
Catoctin recreational area, State
Game Warden Z. Lee Lecompte said
today.
Lecompte and Frank Bentz, chief
clerk of the conservation commission,
returned to their Offices from a trip
into the area near Frederick.
w. P. A. workers are busy In the
area under the direction of the Re
settlement Administration, Lecompte
said.
To Build Six Pools.
The Federal officials, he explained,
agreed to build six circular fish pools
in the area, each 20 feet in dame
ter. The State will use these as nurs-
cry pools, raising fish until they are
big enough to transplant into other
streams in Frederick and Washington
County. The fish, all fresh-water
game species, will be reared from
young ones supplied by the State
hatcheries.
Lecompte said that the circular
pools are an innovation in fish cul-
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the recently signed Sino-G German
trade agreement.
A foreign cf1lce spokesman, however,
asserted Toxic would not act until it
was in possession Of official informa-
ton on the accord.
(The Domei-Japanese News Agency
reported June 81 that Germany would
supply munitions and machinery to
China worth $4,000. 900 and in ex-
change would purchase Chinese
tungsten. oil. peanuts and other arti-
cles.)
The nature Of the agreement is
lacking, 1t was stated, although Toxic
officials hoped Berlin would reveal
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Flowers Cause Art Ban.

Because several foreign-made art
objects contained decorative motifs
which resembled the japanese i'm
perial crest, they were ordered with
drawn by the police from an eXhibi-
tion in Nihonbashi, Japan. The design
is reported to be similar to the chry-
santhemum which appears on the
crest Included were an Italian cake
tray, a French stein, a set of hair Or
naments and japanese ink set. The
owners of the objects and interested
japanese were summoned to the police
station and compelled to sign an alb
ject apology.
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added. told him there were more
grouse in the Catoctin section than
he thought the land could support.
Lecompte said the breeding season
SO far had been good and that the
supply Of wild fruit was unusually
abundant, promising that much Of
the young game would attain ma
turity.
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the details. The spokesman declined
to predict Tokio's course in that
event.
Native newspapers declared the
japanese government was convinced
the agreement is In violation of Ger
many's Versailles treaty obligations
concerning the supplying of munitions
to other nations and also a menace
to the stability Of peace in the Far
East, field in which Japan consid-
ers herself special guardian.
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years James E. Spencer, 8S-year1atd
veteran of the Civil War, receivedS.a
pension. When he died in Pomona
he bequeathed to the United States
Government s4,5oo in cash, bonds and
real estate.
Evening star., 1936-07-09
JAPAN TO PROTEST
O.GERMAN PACT
Trade Agreement Involving Mu.
nitions Is Held Violation Of
Versailles Treaty.

By the Associated Press.
TOXIC, July 9.-Leading native
newspapers declared today the jap
anese government is preparing to
protest vigorously to Germany against
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Strikes have greatly injured busi-
ness in Spain this year.
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North China Is increasing its acre
age planted in cotton.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
MOTOR CYCLE SKID
CAUSES INJURIES
Girl, 20, in Critical Condition
After Being Thrown
From Seat.

Thrown from the rear seat of a
motor cycle when it failed to make a
turn on Massachusetts avenue early
today, Miss Irene Henry, 20-year- -old
telephone operator, was taken to
Georgetown Hospital in a critical con-
ition.
Miss Henry suffered a fractured collar
bone and may have a fractured skull
and internal injuries. Her face was
badly skinned as she slid on the gravel
on the shoulder Of the road.
The machine, operated by Cecil M.
Stout, 81, Of 2431 Eighteenth street,
skidded about 20 feet before it upset
and rolled about so feet more. Stout's
shoulder was broken and he also was
taken to Georgetown Hospital by a
passing motorist. His condition was
not reported serious. The accident
occurred near Goldsborough road.
A man and boy injured in traffic
accidents were recovering in hospitals
here today
Eugene Whitelow, II, of 11l9 D
street southeast, was in Casualty Hos
pital with his left leg fractured as a
result of freak accident in the 400
block of Twelfth street. He was cross
ing the street when he ran into a
bicycle and was knocked down. Police
listed the bicycle rider as Walter
Watsau, Is, of 1896 K street southeast.
Charles Bancroft, &C., of Burtons-
vile, Md, suffered a fractured left leg
when he was struck at Seventh and E
streets last night by car, police said,
was operated by Milton Rubin, 36, of
1903 Seventh street. He was taken
to Emergency Hospital.
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HIGH PRICES SET
DELAY ALLEY UNIT
II Projects Temporarily
Abandoned for Other Work,
IhIder Reports.

The high price of property in Wash
ington. even in some of the least de-
sirable areas, was reflected today in
a report by John Ihlder, executive
officer Of the Alley Dwelling Authori-
ty, on the accomplishments of that
agency.
Ihlder revealed that in II alley
squares, after negotiations had been
begun for their purchase as part OF
the authority's slum- clearance pro-
gram, it was found that owners were
demanding too high price 'or that
other obstacles would cause serious
delay"
These projects. therefore. we're set
aside temporarily in favor of others
that promised better and more
prompt results"
Ihlder also observed that in Wash
ington, "overcrowded and busy as il
has been during recent years, values
have not receded as they have in
other cities"
Despite the obstacles of high prices,
the alley agency has succeeded in
obtaining some properties much un-
der their assessed value, Ihlder re-
ported. The 1884 law which created
the agency specifies that not more
than 80 per cent over the assessed
value may be paid.
In connection with the authority:
inability to buy because Of high
prices or other obstacles, Ihlder sale
it must be remembered that his op-
erations are confined to the "old" OF
built-up part of the city and thai
many of the sites which he seeks are
dormant, in the hands of estates or o.
doubtful ownership. Some have beer
tax delinquent for years, he said. Ir
other instances clear title can be Sc
cured only by condemnation suits.
Ihlder revealed that in three in
stances the authority took step:
toward condemnation because of the
price demanded by owners. In two
cases the owners finally met the au.
thority's offer. In the third the suit
was carried through and jury gave
an award substantially under the sum
demanded by the owners.
The authority has until July l, 1914
to complete its goal Of reclaiming al
most 200 inhabited alleys.
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ford had advised them the police
were unable to cope with the situa-
tion alone.
Quit at Interference.
Glassford was appointed to the local
post in the Fall of 1891 and resigned
year later in protest against the re-
fusal of the Commissioners to give him
q free hand in selection and assign
ment of his principal assistants.
After his resignation, Glassford con-
Quoted a personal survey of condi-
tons among young transients Of the
East and South. His report of tragic
conditions in jungles, flop houses and
jails probably helped to bring about
the present c. c. c. and transient re-
lief systems.
For several years past, Glassford has
served as conciliator of labor dis
putes in the Imperial Valley of Cali
fornia, and as chief Of police at Phoe-
nix.
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TWO UNDER $500 BOND
AS MAN LOSES BONUS
Arraigned on Robbery Charge
After Veterans $3.50
Is Taken.

Trouble dogged the footsteps of John
A. Hughes, colored, from the moment
he flashed a roll of bonus money and
treated everybody to drinks in an es-
tablishment at Tenth and U streets
Tuesday, it was brought out in Police
Court today, when two men were ar
raigned on charges of robbery.
Austin Stewart and Theodore Brown,
both colored, were held for the grand
Jury under $500 bond each by Judge
Edward M. Curran. Hughes and three
colored taxicab drivers identified them
as the two men who followed Hughes
from the drinking establishment and
robbed him Of $3.50.
Hughes, who was left unconscious on
o street after allegedly being beaten
by the two men. said he came here
from New Jersey after getting his
bonus.
Policeman Dewey A. Davis, second
precinct, testified one of the men re-
turned $91 Of the bonus money fol-
lowing his arrest and that $61 was
found IN q tar barrel at a house on
Rhode Island avenue.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
TAX COLLECTIONS
FOR AREA GAIN
Internal Revenue Returns
Over S18,OOO,O 900 Above
Previous Year.

In line with the gain generally
throughout the country. internal rev.
enue taxes increased in the collection
district of Maryland and the District
from ssO,1lo,82l.4s in the fiscal year
1885. to s7s,762 ,ooe3s for the fiscal
year 1895.
Total internal revenue returns for
the country jumped from s2,773,213,-
21394 in 1885 to s3,448, ,3o2 .870.45 in
1886. a gain of more than s675 00o,-
900.
Increases we're shown for all States
with the single exception of South
Carolina. which dropped from S4,37l. :
| 108.53 in 1885 to $4.280, ,585.22 in 1886.
AS usual, New York led all other
States with a total of s761 OPT GAS. AZ
| in 1896, compared with s6o7, ,712, All ST
in 1885 Pennsylvania was secondinlin
with total internal revenue gilmore than
1926, 100000; North Carolina, with its
tobacco taxes. was next. with more
than s275, 100000 in 1886. and Illi-
nois followed, with more than $271,-
100000
In the Maryland-D c. District,
corporation taxes increased from S13.-
427, 7,63965, in 1885, to S15,326, ,523.79
in 1886; individual income taxes, from
S16,823,371. to s21, 700.19284 dur
ing the same period: excess profits,
from s115,5S0.9e to 1928. .296 So: liquor
taxes, from s15,609,682.10 to s23, ,s40,-
1880
Agricultural adjustment taxes for
this district we're not included as part
of the internal revenue taxes. and the
figures for this district include also
for some reason Puerto Rico and the
Philippines. These taxes for such a
combined Jurisdiction fell off from
1882, 1887 to $2,299 9,563.09. Agri-
cultural adjustment taxes dropped for
the Nation from $526, ,222. .358.24 in
1885 to s71 1,633, ,614e2 in 1886.
Nearby Virginia showed gains in
line with the rest of the country. Cor
poration income taxes jumped from
S7,336,740.12 in 1885 to S8,284, ,529 .88
in 1895; individual income taxes from
3,455, ,46303 to S5,082 ,03162; excess
profits, from 3,09671 to sec, ,429 10;
liquor taxes, from 1922 .983.88 to Sta
291 .38; and all internal revenue taxes,
from s13o.o71, 1892 to $14S,52o,O18.72.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
Classford Seeks House Seat;
To Campaign on Motor Cycle
Former Police Chief
Here announces
in arizona.

Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford, So
former Washington police chief, whose
conciliatory attitude toward the bonus
army forced national political issus
in the Summer of 1882, announced
active plans yesterday to return to
Washington as a Representative from
Arizona
Gen. Glassford was the ninth aspir-
ant to enter the race to succeed Mrs
Isabella Greenway, who will not be a
candidate for reelection, the Asso-
ciated Press reported. The retired
Army officer is a citizen of Arizona
and for years has owned a small farm
in Salt River Valley.
Gen. Glassford plans a campaign
tour of Arizona on his motor cycle, a
conveyance which became familiar to
Washingtonians during the year
which he served as chief of police. He
is a Democrat and will back the New
Deal program.
Opposed Bonus Army Rout.
The former Army officer, who re-
tired in 1881, came into national
prominence when he took issue with
the District Commissioners over the
necessity Of calling on the Army to
evict the bonus army encamped here.
The troops ousted the veterans with
tear gas after two veterans had been
killed and several policemen injured
In ARRAYS.
Gen Glassford had maintained a
friendly attitude toward the bonus
demonstrators during their long occu-
patton of Washington. He fatty de-
MED that there was any need of Army
troops.
Former Commissioners Reichelder-
fer and Crosby were quoted, however,
as saying they requested the troops
of President Hoover after Gen. Glass
Evening star., 1936-07-10
DEFECT POSTPONES
BUS VENTILATION
Enforcement of Regulation
Delayed by Technical
Difficulties.

Regulations for nlodernizing the
ventilating systems for buses of the
Capital Transit Co., originally ordered
to become effective tomorrow, will
be deferred until certain technical
changes can be made, it was ordered
late yesterday by the Public Utilities
Commission.
The new regulations, ordered last
April, are designed to relieve all busses
of fumes from the engine exhaust and
other impurities. and to keep a con-
slant circulation of air within the
vehicles.
Certain technical engineering de-
fects were found in the plans of the
commission, and at the request of the
transit company, concurred in by Util-
tiles Commission engineers, the order
was delayed long enough to permit re-
wording of some sections of the order.
At the same time the commission
ordered Fred A. Sager, chief engineer,
to make a further study of alleged
overcrowding of buses. William A.
Roberts, peoples counsel, recommended
prosecution of the transit company
because one vehicle on the Massachu-
sets avenue line was overloaded last
week.
Sager reported to the commission
that the particular bus involved had
been placed on the line after one of
the regular buses had been halted by
a mechanical breakdown. The relief
bus, he reported, was smaller than the
vehicles ordinarily used by the COM
pany on the Massachusetts, avenue
line.
Richmond 3. Keech, acting chair
man, said the commission will con-
slider the subject of overlooking when
Sager can complete a further study
of the general practices of the COM
pany and submits whatever recon-
mendations he desires to make.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
RESERVE OFFICERS
GET ARMY POSTS
II in District and Nearby
Maryland Assigned to
Active Duty.

Seventeen second lieutenants living
in Washington and nearby Maryland
are among the Ill Reserve officers in
the Sd Corps Area who have received
orders assigning them to active duty
with the Regular Army for period of
one year, it was announced today.
At the end of the years training In
nearby Reserve camps, so will be Sc
lected for permanent commissions in
the Regular Army.
Following is a list of local officers
chosen and the camps to which they
were assigned;
Coast Artillery Corps Reserve, Fort
Monroe, Va: Robert A. Dunnigan, 234
Sixth street southeast.
Infantry Reserve. Fort George G.
Newton street.
Infantry Reserve, Fort Washington,
Md: Thaddeus r. Dulin, 3709 1ngo-
mar street; Talbert A. Smith, 808
Maryland avenue northeast; Hule A.
Smith, 1924 Sixteenth street; Ray
mond F. Bartelmes. 3545 Eleventh
street.
Infantry Reserve, Fort Howard, Md:
Ernest r. Eaton, jr., 2l45 G street;
John M. Firmin, 1888 Harvard street;
William A. Hart, 1921 Eleventh street;
Arthur B. House, Princeton avenue,
College Park, Md; Francis D. Shoe
maker, 5400 Edgemoor lane, Bethesda,
Md; Harmon L. Spencer, 5817 Sixth
street.
Field Artillery Reserve, Fort Hoyle,
Md: Elmer B. Kennedy, 4414 @
street; james r. Crawford, 1856 Oak
street.
Field Artillery Reserve, Fort Myer,
Va: Erwin H. Shupp, 4121 Illinois
avenue; John G. Simpson, 1905 Con-
necticut avenue, Chevy Chase, Md.
Cavalry Reserve. Fort Myer, Va:
Robert p. Wilson, 1921 Newark street
Evening star., 1936-07-10
CHEVY CHASE BANK
WILL PAY DIVIDEND

DepoSitors of the closed Chevy
Chase Savings Bank will receive an
other dividend of 20 per cent, prob
ably early next month, to complers
payment of 100 per cent on deposits
in this institution.
Checks for the final payment are
being written in the Office of the re-
ceiver, Cary A. Hardee, but probably
will nto be ready until some time be-
tween August and August Is.
This final dividend was made pos
sible by pledge Of sufficient cash by
stockholders and waiver Of interest
by depositors. When the payment is
completed by the receiver remaining
assets will be turned over to the
Stockholders Committee, headed by
Paul Sleman. for liquidation to re-
imburse them for the sums advanced
to pay depositors tn full.
Evening star., 1936-07-10
SENTENCE TO BE GIVEN
IN BLACKMAIL CASE

Horace W. Richardson, 81, who
pleaded guilty yesterday to seven
counts of an indictment charging
him with blackmailing Rev Raymond
L. Wolyen, canon Of the Washington
Cathedral, was slated to come before
Justice Daniel w. O'Donoghue Of
Evening star., 1936-07-10
DEFACING SENTENCE
OF HOLT is SUSPENDED

Man Who Wrote "Free Zion
check" on Hospital Sign
Pays Repainting Bill.
Clarence Holt, "a, who painted the
words Free Zioncheck" on Gallinger
Hospital sign, was given a suspended
sentence of $40 or 20 days in jail for
defacing public property when it was
shown in Police Court today he already
had paid $3.50 for repainting the
damaged sign.
Holt, who lives in the first block Of
Eighteenth street southeast, pleaded
guilty when arraigned before Judge
Walter I. Casey earlier this week.
Judge Casey withheld sentence at the
time to permit restitution.
The zioncheck "sympathizer" did
his work just one week after dismissal
from the Gallinger Hospital mental
observation ward. where the Washing
ton Representative was a patient for
several weekA
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-21

tersection of said margin of said
street with the North margin OF
Fifth Avenue East land being the
northwest corner of the c. Few
building which occupies the lot
herein described) and runs thence
with the outside margin of the
north wall of said building North
80 deg. East 70 feet to the north
east corner of said building;
thence same course 80 feet to &
stake in the western margin OTIS
20-foot alley (now known as Ed
wards ST.; thence with the ives,
tern margin of said street or A.
ley South 10 deg. East 81 feet to
stake in the line Of lot for
merly owned by l.. J. Pace; thence
with the line of said lot South w
deg. West 100 feet to a stake in
the eastern margin of North Main
St., thence with said margin: OF
North Main street North 10 deg.
West SO feet to the Beginning,
and being the same land described
in the aforesaid deed Of trust:
This the 2lst day of September,
1886. -.
J. FOY JUSTICE and =
ROBERT f. HENLEY.
9-2l -Mon-4t trustees.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-21
Lettuce Pickers
Strike On Wane
Truce to Last Until Farley
Held on Tuesday

SALINAS, Cal, Sept. 81. (UP)
Lettuce trucks today moved thru
the streets without guards for the
first time since a lettuce pickers'
strike began Sept. A.
Armed men, however, still stood
watch at the Salinas Valley Ice
company plant where the lettuce
was prepared for market.
The truce is expected to last at
least until after a governors con-
ference tomorrow in Sacramento
at which representatives of the
Grower-Shippers association and
of the State Federation Of Labor
will attempt to reach a settlement
of the strike. The conference was
arranged by Gov. Frank F. Mer-
riam after a hasty trip to the
strike area to confer with employ
ers.
Each side will have five repre-
sentatives at the parley, but none
of the labor delegates so far
named is a direct representative
of the Fruit and Vegetable Work
ers' Union, the organization which
called the strike.
The principal issue the peace
conference will have to settle is a
question of preferential hiring for
union members. The growers alb
solutely refuse to make this con-
cession while the union forces in
sist they need the guarantee to
protect them and their jobs from
imported transient. labor.
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will receive favorable

undoubtedly will receive favorable
action.
No agitatino for veterans pen
sion laws is evident. Satisfaction
with payment of the bonus, which
made possible the trip to Cleve-
land for many, was advanced as
the reason.
Resolutions designed to intensi-
fly Legion activity against Nazi-
ism, Fascism. ana Communism are
certain of enthusiastic approval,
Murphy said.
Hotel lobby talk made Harry
w. Colemry, Topeka, Kan, attor-
ney, the favorite in the race for
new national commander. Quinby
Melton, of Griffin, Ga, was said
to offer Colmery some opposition.
No opposition was seen to the
election of Mrs. O. w. Hahn, of
Lincolen, Neb., to succeed Mrs.
Melville Mucklestone as national
president of the American Legion
Auxiliary. The auxiliary's conyen-
ton, the largest gathering Of wo-
men any place in the world this
year, will open in Masonic Audi
forum this afternoon.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1936-09-21
VIGOROUS PEACE IS
URGED ON LEGION

Continued from page one)
attended any previous Legion
mteting. A housing shortage al
ready has sent thousands to the
suburbs and to towns 20 and 30
miles away for lodgings.
Much of the convention legisla-
ton will be directed down the ave-
nues of peace. Murphy annOunc-
ed Legion power and prestige
again will be thrown toward en-
actmcnt of federal laws to ode
profitize" war by conscripting in
dustry as we'll as men in wartime.
Of 700 resolutions presented in
advance of the convention, many
are intended to broaden the Le-
gion's programs of Americaniza-
ton. community service and youth
advancement. Murphy, Iowa COM
missioner of insurance, said they