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Evening star., 1936-01-12
Eco. VOTESPROBE
Of BR|BE RUM0RS
Internal Strife Reported as
Commission Decides to
Investigate Itself.

BACKGROUND
The Communications Commits
sion, established in 1884 as the
successor to the Radio Commits
sion, set up in 1927, regulates all
United States broddcdSting. One
OF its chief functions is issuance
of licenses to broadcdsting stations.
With number OF DdDe lengths lin
tied, the group must act carefully
on license applications.
BY the Associated Press.
Rumors Of "bribery"-investigated
and reported baseless by Justice De-
partment agents-yesterday led to a
Federal Communications Commission
investigation of itself.
This unprecedented action was
taken amid rumors of sharp internal
conflict in the commission and spec
ulation on whether a congressional
investigation also might be ordered
The commissions move grew out Of
reports of conversation in Wash
ington hotel, said to have been over
heard by Mortimer Prall. son OF
Chairman Aiming s. Prall.
Overheard Bribery" Rumor.
On the motion of Commissioner
Eugene o. Sykes the commission
voted to act as a committee of the
whole to investigate. Sykes and Prall,
by their own requests, will not par
ticipate.
The hotel conversation repeated to
Pran by his son was said to have
involved broadcasting applications
from the upper New York area and
included rumors of bribery" and "in-
f1uence"
Prall turned the report over to
the Justice Department and said later
that Omen" told him there was
absolutely nothing to substantiate
it,
Seeks Speed In Probe.
Declaring reports of the hotel con-
versation "are ugly" Vice Chairman
Irwin Stewart said the F. C. C. in
vestigation has only one aim-to
get the facts"
Stewart, who will direct the inquiry.
said it will take just as long as is
necessary" but that "the sooner we
can get these facts the better"
He declined to say whether the
commission had received any intima-
ton that a congressional investiga-
ton also might be made.
Vote Is Unanimous.
Long-standing reports of tension in
the commission f1ared anew yester-
day and strongly worded arguments
were said to have occurred during a
Evening star., 1936-01-12
FIVE IN FAMILY Die
IN GAS BLAST FIRE
Mother and Four Children Perish
in West Virginia Home.
Two Seriously Burned.
ny the Associated Press.

ny the Associated Press.
WINCHESTER, Va, January IL
Mrs. Thurmond Wolf and four Of her
five children were burned to death
tonight when fire destroyed their home
near Rio, Hampshire County, w. Va.
The fire followed an explosion Of a
gas-generating device in the cellar Of
the home, used to obtain gas for light
ing.
Wolf and a small daughter, Vera,
the surviving child, were rushed to
hospital here suffering from burns and
injuries. Hospital attendants said
their condition was critical.
Reports from the isolated section
said the bodies of the mother and four
children had not been recovered from
the ruins.
Persons five or six miles from the
home said they heard the explosion.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Million BOOkmarks
Being Cut Out of
Stratosphere Bag
BY the Associated Press.


OMAHA. Nebr., January IL
Capt Orvil Anderson, one of the
pilots of the stratosphere balloon.
Explorer Second, said today the
huge bag is being cut up into
about a million pieces to be given
to members of the National Geo.
graphic Society as souvenir book
marks.
He said the official height
reached during last years record
breaking flight was 72,394.795
feet.
Asked why the 1875" Ander-
son replied, well. France once
took the altitude record away
from us by .00205 feet"
Evening star., 1936-01-12

!. HauptmanntS chance for further de-
lay through the courts lay in three
directions: A habeas corpus action
in Federal Court, an appeal for a new
trial to Justice Thomas Trenchard,
the elderly jurist who sat on the
bench during the Pennington trial
at which Hauptmann was convicted;
or 9 new request to the United States
Supreme Court to review the proceed
ings. This was rejected once.
Wife to Continue Fight
AS soon as the courts decision was
announced, Lloyd Fisher of defense
counsel started for the State Prison
to break the news to Hauptmann.
The defense attitude was best voiced
by the prisoners wife, who said:
Il don't know anything about law,
but realize there can't be much left
to fight with now; but We will go on
to the end Of. the road"
She went Immediately to the prison,
sobbing convulsively outside as she
awaited admission. She was told.
however, that she could not see her
husband, as it was after visiting hours.
and that it would also be impossible
for her to see him tomorrow. She
said she would go to New York and re-
turn next week
The courts decision was given In
these words:
The application for clemency Of
Bruno Richard Hauptmann, sentenced
to death for the murder Of Charles
A. Lindbergh, jr., at Hopewell, March
2, 1882, was today denied. (The kid
naping occurred March -
Under the traditional rules of the
Board of Pardons, all members of the
i! board and all those who participated
in the hearing are bound to hold in
confidence all proceedings Of the
board"
This regulation effectively cloaked
the events that took place in the
chambers of the Court of Errors and
Appeals in the State House annex,
where the hearing took place.
1t had been intimated prior to the
hearing that the defense would have
new evidence Of a nature sufficient to
save the 39-year- carpenter. but
there was nothing to indicate that any
such evidence was produced.
Among exhibits studied by the
mercy court were the kidnap ladder,
down which, the State charged,
Hauptmann carried the Lindbergh
(see HAUPTMANN, Page A-45
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Veterans Nav
Have to Wait
Until July.
PLAN DRAWN
TO AVOID VETO
Would Issue Paper
Bearing Small
Interest.
BACKGROUND.

BACKGROUND
Because it specified no method
OF payment, President Harding
September Is, 1922, Detoed the
first bonus bill. The Coolidge Deto
OF May IS, 1924, Which tDas over-
ridden, tuds giDen Uith statement
the legislation ,Das unnecessary and
unconstitutional. Whether pres
ent immediate payment bill is Ue-
toed successfully or not, payment
OF the adjusted compensation GER
tifcdtes is certain in 1945, 27
years after World Wars close. CiUil
War Ueterans Udited until 1895, 40
gears after peace. to collect a
bonus. tDhich President Grant re-
fused to sanction in 1875.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Readers Guide
PART ONE.
Main Ne1Os Section.

Main Ne1Os Section.
General News-PageS Al, B-6.
Changing World-A-3.
Lost and Found-A-9.
Death NOTES.-The.
Vital StatiSticS-A-9.
Washington Wayside-A-12.
Educational-B-6.
Sports Section-Pages Bill.
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial Articles-Pages D-1-3.
Editorials and Editorial Fea-
tureS-D-2.
Civic News and Comment-D-4.
Veterans Organizations, Nation
al Guard, Organized Re-
serves-D-5-6.
Women's ClubS-D-6.
Serial Story-D-8.
ReSortS-D-8.
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society News and Comment
Pages E-1-10.
Well-Known Folk-E-4.
Barbara Bell Pattern-E-8.
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News Features-Pages F-1-3.
John Clagett Proctor's Article
on Old Washington-F-2.
Those Were the Happy Days"
by Dick Mans1eld-F-2.
BooksAF-4.
Art Notes-F-5.
Stage and Screen-F-7.,
MuSic-F-8.
Radio News and Programs-F-s.
Automobiles-F-f0.
Aviation-F-10.
Crossword Puzzle-F-10.
Children's Page-F-11.
High Lights Of History-F-ll.
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
Financial News and Comment,
Stock, Bond and Curb Sum-
inaries-Pages G-1-4.
Classified Advertising - Pages
G-5-12.
stamps-G-5.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
II Have Always Told Truth" "
Bruno Says When Informed
of Court Action.
HABEAS CORPUS AND TRENCHARD
APPEALS LEFT TO PRISONER
Details Withheld by Pardons Judges
After Secret Deliberation-No News
on Defense's New Evidence.


Three important Nnes
Hauptnann
Hduptanns Bronr house attic finding OF bills Haupann
identification UTing
Experts analysis OF wood and Others handwriting
to these facts
Idoe Fsch While the
appealed Jersey
Court OF Errors Appeals and
before seeking the Of the
Copyright
TRENTON, N j, January 1.-THE
tonight that Bruno Richard Hauptmann
murder.
After anday
Haupmanns application for cemency was today denied"
decision of
carpenter to Friday
prison warden said. He told the
i have always told the truth I tell no other
Bruno Stands Up Well" When Told.
prisoner very said by
his attorneys
His only lies either with Harold
courts and both hopes desperate
The Governor might delay the eerocuon reprof
than 90 this doubted both by the Governor and
attorney
Gov Hoffman would make tonight either the
possibility q
Evening star., 1936-01-12
CRIMES CONFESSIONS
BLOCKED BY DEATH
Wounded Felon Had Promised to
Explain Many Major Po-
lice Mysteries.

BY the Associated Press.
SHAKOPEE, Mimi, January IL
Death came to James Lyons, fugitive
felon, Thursday, flve minutes too
soon" to clear up 40 or II major
crimes" Detective Sergeant Harry G.
Gershaw of Detroit said today.
Police bullets ended Lyons life at
South Bend, Ind. He died as an ON
Ger was on the way to take a prom
ised confession from him, Gershaw
said, quoting Sheriff Roy Wolf of St.
Joe County, Ind.
Gershaw arrived here to question
Lyons widow, alias Mary Roche Moore.
who told prison authorities her late
husband had confided to her he killed
Gerald Buckley, Detroit radio COM
mentator on politics In 1880. Mrs.
Lyons il serving q sentence here for
bank robbery.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

PONCE, Puerto Rico. January II
R.-Several persons were killed and
some wounded seriously today as dis
turbances continued to follow upon
electoral registration proceedings. Au-
thorities called out $50 special police
men.
Evening star., 1936-01-12
RlCKCR0TJND-

BACkChOUND-
Limitation on the freedom of the
seas Das so thorough bet,Deen De-
cember %, 1907 and February 2S,
1909, that no. ship except coasttng
uessels tDas permitted by lato to
leaue U. S. port. This Das an
effort to cripple France and Eng
land, tnlpressing U. s.. seanpes the
better to fight their long sDdr. Re-
suit OF this and subsequent n,odi-
fed embargo tuas -,DithdratoGl
OF Massachusetts, from, the Union,
huge loss OF money and the tDGr
OF 1872. In June, 1917, freedom
OF the seas iDas limited again BY
l1D banning ercess food shipments
to neutral nations, tDhich mere re-
selling commodities to central
potDeTs.
BY the Associated Press.
A freedom of -the-seas bloc within
the Senate Foreign Relations Com.
mittee. was reported holding out .asi
night against any abandonment ni
traditional American trading rights
under the pending neutrality legisia.
tion.
The committee was reported tied
up for the moment at least by the in-
sistence of a group, which numbers
Senator Borah, Republican, Of idaho
Evening star., 1936-01-12
RICE MILLS RULING
BY COURT AWAITED
Processing Tax Refund of
ST, ,2O0,0 100000 May Hinge
on New Decision.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
By implication the Supreme
Court held Monday the amend
m1ents to the A. A. A. act, under
which the rice millers sued, are in
palid because they amend an un-
constitutional lcp. Point inUoIued
in the case notD Is ualidity OF tares
collected during operation OF in
ualiddted legislation.
Aid to navigation and promo
tton of food control are chief pur-
poses of the Tennessee Valley act
as set forth in its preamble. At
tack on its constituttonality tn0olUes
question of whether po1Der gener-
dted incidental to the central pro-
gram can be sold in competition
Utth privdte enterprise.
The Bdnkhedd act, passed a year
after A. A. A. was launched. had
for its purpose forcing co-opera-
tion OF cotton farmers With adjust
ment program by imposing GIN
ming tar on cotton marketed in
ercess OF quota.
BY the Associated Press.
Government experts puzzling ovel
the vast financial problems createe
by A. A. AS invalidation, are looking
toward the Supreme Court for guild
ance in a ruling possible tomorrow
The high tribunals opinion in {
case involving Louisiana rice miller!
Is generally expected to throw ..Sh
on whether sl,200,0o0,000 may bs
open to refund to those who have
paid the outlawed processing take.
since 1888.
This decision also may be one of ths
principal factors in determining
whether the Roosevelt administration
will have to request new taxes from
Congress in the face of the 1886 presi.
Dental campaign.
In addition, the court is looked to
for a ruling tomorrow on cases In.
volving constitutionality Of the New
Deals electric power "yardstick" pro-
gram under the Tennessee Valley act
as well as the Bankhead cotton pro-
duction control law. Most observers
believe the Bankhead legislation was
doomed by the A. A. A. opinion.
Millers Contend for Ruling.
The question of processing tax re-
payment was presented by Louisiana
rice millers, who contended they were
entitled to an injunction against tax
collection because they could not meet
a requirement of the A. A. A. amend
ments that they must prove the levies
had not been shifted to others be-
fore they could sue for recovery on
the grouna the taxes were unconstitu-
tional.
Government attorneys say that II
this provision is held invalid, those
who paid the taxes can sue to re-
(See COURT, Page A-10)
Evening star., 1936-01-12

(See F. c. c., Page l0.)
Evening star., 1936-01-12
Killed in Puerto Rico Riots.

(See BONUS, Page A-13.0
Evening star., 1936-01-12
WEATHER.

% g. Weather Bureau Forecast
Fair today and tonight, colder tonight;
tomorrow cloudy with slowly rising tenn
perature, rain tomorrow afternoon. Tenn
peratures-Highest, Il, at 8 pm. yester-
day; lowest, 80, at $50 am. yesterday.
Full report on page A-9,
Evening star., 1936-01-12

(See COURT, Page A-10.)
Evening star., 1936-01-12

Full Associated Press
News and Wirephotos
Sunday Morning and
Every Afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-01-12

(See CROSBY, Page 10o
Evening star., 1936-02-21
TREASURY AGENTS
MERGER ADVANCES
Investigative Agencies to Be
United in Secret Service
Division.

Details of the proposed consolida-
ton OF Treasury Department investi-
gative agencies into the Secret Serv-
ice Division are being worked out in
conferences at the Treasury, the State
Department and the Capitol.
Objections to a bill providing for
the merger were raised by officials
and organizations interested In inter-
national control Of opium smuggling,
but Treasury representatives said to-
day revisions had been agreed on that
were satisfactory to all concerned.
Narcotics Bureau Affected.
The State Departments interest in
the proposed consolidation arose out
Of its interest in international drug
treaties adopted at Geneva. The bill
provides for reorganization of the Bu-
reau of Narcotics into the Narcotics
Section" of the Secret Service Division.
Since the Bureau of Narcotics was
established under international treaties
the State Department was consulted
regarding effect of the proposed merger
on international agreements. Certain
notifications have been made in the
bill so as to avoid any conflict with the
treaties.
Other Sections Planned.
Other sections of the new division
would be the customs agency section,
having to do with investigation of
smuggling; the counterfeiting section,
taking over functions of the present
Secret Service; the liquor enforcement
section, now known as the Alcohol Tax
Unit, and the personnel section, han
ding personnel and administrative in
vestigations now conducted by the In
telligence Unit.
Present heads of the various agen-
cies would remain in charge, under
general director of the Secret Service
Division, to be appointed.
The bill now is being considered by
the House Ways and Means Committee.
Evening star., 1936-02-21
MRS. VANDERBILT
APPEALS CUSTODY
Begins Supreme Court Attempt
to Regain Care of Heiress
Daughter.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. February 21.-Mrs.
Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt sought the
cid of the United States Supreme
Court today in defense of what she
called her constitutional right to have
custody of her 12-year-old daughter,
Gloria Laura.
The young millionairess celebrated
her 18th birthday yesterday at the
old Westbury estate of her aunt, Mrs.
Harry Payne Whitney, while her
mother started a last fight to regain
her custody Her estate recently was
valued at $2,667 ,844.79.
The appellate division ordered the
county clerk to unseal the record of
the case to certify it for presentation
to the high court in Washington.
Mrs. Whitney was awarded principal
custody of the child in November,
1894, after little Gloria was adjudged
q ward of the Supreme Court.
Mrs. Vanderbilt's appeals to higher
courts in New York State have been
refused and her present action made
good her statement that she would
appeal to the highest court to win
back her daughter.
The widow of Reginald Vanderbilt
Is allowed to have their child with
her over week ends and for one month
in the Summer.
Evening star., 1936-02-21
Woman Who Sprned Emperor
Is Saued From Pauper's Craze

salesman. He accepted the under
takers offer.
DR.. Davenport, who talked IA
miliarly Of her friendships with
Franz Liszt, Sarah Bernhardt, Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson. Admiral Dewey
and others, liked best to tell how
she spurned the illustrious head Of
the House Of Hapsburg.
She rejected his offer Of NOR
ganatic marriage, she said, by telling
him, my people were princes when
yours were still peasants" As she
told the story. the Emperor had moth
ing to say to this reply because it
was the truth and he knew it."
In her lectures and interviews, DR..
Davenport said she was born in 1924,
the daughter Of the Russian Prince
Pazkoff.
Evening star., 1936-02-21
By the Associated Press.

81 the Associated PreSS.
ST. LOUIS. February 21.-Dr.
Marie Charlotte de Goliere Daven-
port, 111-year health lecturer who
once said she refused an offer to
become the moyganatic wife Of En-
peror Franz Josef of Austria, has been
saved from a pauper's grave.
An undertaken volunteered to fur
nish funeral services and q grave
without charge for the aged woman,
daughter of Russian prince, who
died Wednesday night at a hospital
after an operation for q stomach all
ment.
Although she had said she was the
mother Of II sons. no survivors were
known to hospital officials except her
third husband, William Davenport, 65,
a penniless house-to-house hosiery
Evening star., 1936-02-21
JAPANESE AUTHOR SHOT

Book Advanced Theory Ruler Is
Organ of the State.
TOXIC, February 81 P).-Dr Tat
sukichi Minobe, Japanese author, was
shot in the right foot at his home
today. His assailant was arrested.
DR.. Minobe, in book widely read in
Japan for many years, advanced the
theory that the Emperor is an organ
of the state. The government holds
the position that the Emperor's rule
is divinely ordained.
The controversy around DR.. Minobe
created a political sensation in 1895
which rocked the cabinet of Premier
Keisuke Okada.
Evening star., 1936-02-21

Lovely silk crepe dresses in
smart Spring styles and COL
ors, outstanding because of
the different sleeve and neck
line treatments so important
this season.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15
No One Can Be CHARMING
Without Simplicity And
Exercising Good Taste

absolutely essential if you are to
be we'll dressed" Well, this is
true also of everything about you.
You cannot be truly charming,
either, without exercising good
taste in everything manners,
morals, social relations, family
relations, business relations-your
entire life!
There are two kinds of courage
moral courage and physical
courage. Physical courage is the
more spectacular gets more
headlines in the papers, more
mention in the history books,
more medals and more applause
from the multitude. But 1 think
that moral courage is the greater
of the two. 1t is much more diff
cult to be morally courageous
than physically.
For example, Orry-Kelly is fos-
tering a new trend which he be-
lieves will be outstanding-it's
the Persian influence. This Per-
sian mode, he states, will be in
terpreted both through the line
and cut of gowns, and through
the medium of typically Persian
fabrics. At no time, however, will
he descend to the use of Oriental
trousers, since despite the rise
and ylane of extreme fads year
after year, he still believes that
adherence to subtlety, modifica-
tion and moderation are the only
ways to achieve true smartness.
"Wound turbans for afternoon,
dinner, and evening wear, will be
another important branch of the
Persian mode" he continues.
"They are becoming to almost
everyone, and 1 expect them to
create a definite vogue.
Then, taking the place of gar
denias and other ornaments. in
the hair, we shall have a whole
array of little, brightly colored,
som etimes jeweled, Oriental
combs, for evening events.
Women will wear four or five of
them at time, often doing their
hair with an elaborateness that
rivals a Chinese wedding cake.
This is another style to be well
coined, for we have had no new
hair ornaments in well over a
year"
So, you see, he has the courage
to try the new, but the good
taste to temper it with his ideas
of what Occidental fashions
should be.
He uses both courage and re-
straint. So should you.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15
Menu Of The Week
BY Joan Andrews

IA /HEN it comes to the years
Wv Big Feast we none of us
like to diverge too far from the
traditional menu. But a little
variation is always welcome. To-
days Thanksgiving menu is
both distinctive and traditional.
PerSinumon, avocado, and
grapefruit cocktail
Tomato broth
Roast chicken loith
oyster dressing
Baked suDeet potatoes
Broccoli toith cheese
Cranberry sauce
Mired green salad
Steamed fig pudding
Fodm,y sauce
Coffee
Today's cocktail is made by
combining avocado cubes and
grapefruit segments with tart
cocktail sauce and garnishing
with thin slices of persimmon.
To make oyster dressing, just
add California or Olympia oys-
ters, and little oyster liquor, to
well-seasoned bread and cracker
crumb dressing.
Broccoli with cheese: place
drained, cooked broccoli in a shall
low baking dish, sprinkle with
grated American cheese and but
tered crumbs and brown under
the broiler.
Here is a good recipe for
steamed fig pudding. Cream 4
cup butter and slowly add l cup
sugar and then l beaten egg.
Sift together 2 cups -four, 4 tea
spoons baking powder, 4 tea
spoon salt, and add alternately
with l cup milk. Add u teaspoon
vanilla and ~ cups chopped,
dried figs. Pour into a creased
pudding mold. Cover tightly and
steam for 2 hours.
Foamy sauce is made this way:
Cream 6 tablespoons of butter.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15

ing plumes ape the three feathers
worn to court. Other slender
types often poised on twists of
colored velvet recall the splendor
of the Moors and til enchant-
ment of the Arabian Nights.
The long-sleeved dinner gown
is a fashion of gracious charm.
1t is particularly well illustrated
by the o.acA crepe with a dar-
ingly low square decolletage pho
tographed here. In search of such
simple, lovley lines, the design
ers have turned toward the past.
In the mode of the French en-
pire they present that simplicity
which molds the figure, that dis
penses with detail, that is besides
a marvellous foil for jewels.
Imperial Valley press., 1936-11-15
eonAmes b. |. Magnln ard COMPANY

Necklaces wrought as finely as
jewelers. pieces are now being
chosen to complete the chic of
such gowns as this. The metal is
golden in hue, the jewels multi
color, or sometimes combined
with brilliants. The woman of
fashion has no prejudice against
such beautifully made costume
jewelry, and revels in rhinestone
necklaces that sparkle and CLINT
with all the authority of diamonds
worth princes ransom.
RICTURED with the black
crepe with its startling high
shouldered line, is shown a dinner
dress Of sapphire blue satin. The
rich hues of jewels are particu-