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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
2P0LICENEN.
| INJURED
RESCUING
BOOMERS
Mother, Son and Man
Suffocated in g.
Alarm Blaze

Three persons were killed, five
injured and nearly q score
jumped or were carried down
ladders to safety as fire swept
through a three-Story brick room
ing house at Eleventh and M
Streets Northwest early today.
THE DEAD
Mrs. Florence Bevans, 80.
Charles Beyans, 10, her son.
Raymond GIfnes, ~.
THE INJURED
Policeman J. L. Rinker, Sec
Ond precinct, In Emergency
Hospital, overcome by smoke.
Policeman John w. Hanrahan,
Second precinct, cut face.
Pete COurembis, IS, injured
hip.
Ruth DIETRICH, burns on face
and hands.
Ellis AnadaIe, Colonial Beach,
Va, burned hands.
Three alarms were turned in be-
fore the blaze was brought under
control. The bodies of the three
victims were found huddled in a
bay window on the third floor.
Death was due to suffocation.
The two policemen who were
injured in the blaze we're on patrol
duty and we're about a block
away from the scene at 3 a. m.
when they heard screams.
Woman Leaps
A cab driver who. was passing
saw the flames and turned in an
alarm as the policemen rushed
inside and started carrying the
trapped residents to safety.
The policemen were assisted be-
fore the arrival of firemen by
Perry Wilkins, 1882 Tenth st.
N. W., who was passing by and
rushed in, helping the police to
carry out several persons.
Menaced by the flames, an un-
identified woman leaped from the
second floor. Policeman Hanra-
han attempted to catch her and
was knocked to the pavement.
Despite an injury to his face. he
continued to Renter the place
and assist firemen.
Policeman Rinker also worked
in the blazing building until he
was overcome and taken to the
hospital. where doctors said his
condition is satisfactory.
The first alarm was pulled at
800, and the second at $40 after
the first companies had reported.
Five minutes later the third alarm
was turned in. The blaze was
under control about half an hour
after the first companies arrived.
Pete 'CourembiS, manager Of
the Courembis Grill on the first
floor, was trapped in his room
on the second floor and jumped
(COntinued on Page ;, Col. -
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Message Broadcast Assa1ed by Republican Foes
Todd Case
Perjury
: limited

HOLLYWOOD. Jan. q O.N.S)
The grim ghost Of perjury stalkec
the nations film capital today a.
Los Angeles county officials be
gan the eleventh day Of their in
vestigation of the death Of Thelms
Todd, screen star.
The grand jury has announced
itself convinced some witnesses In
the case have not told the truth
AS the investigation reopened to
day, jurymen vowed to comb the
records in search Of discrepancie:
in testimony.
End Not in Sight
At the same time they admitted
no end Of the investigation was
in sight. They had under sub
poena today many of Hollywood
famous AID obscure, some for new
and some for further examination
Only one conclusion have jury
men drawn so far since the stars
body was found dead behind
closed garage doors December Is.
That Is that Miss Todd did not
meet her death by accident.
OF the only two remaining pos
Sihilities suicide or foul play-it
is thought most Of the jlIrymen
lean toward a murder by mon.
oxide" theory.
Suicide Doubted
George Rochester, foreman. Of
the jury, admitted. nothing had
been found in Miss Todd's ro-
mantle or financial affairs which
could lead them to believe she
would want to take her own life.
Concentrating on this point, jury
men today planned to study, de-
tail by detail, events in the life Of
the actress to see if some still hid
den circumstance may point to q
suicide solution.
3 For this purpose it is expected
many new witnesses, some of
them among Hollywood's greatest
celebrities, and all of them init
mates of the popular dead girl,
will be called before the inquisi-
torial body.
Already slated to appear at to-
days session are such stars as Ida
Lupino, dancer and confidente of
Miss Todd, who will be asked
about a purported new romance
in the girls life; Roland West,
former producer of horror pic
lures" and the man thought to
have known Miss Todd best, and
PasQuale Pat" Di Cicco, former
husband Of the star.
The two men have been re-
called in the hope some unre-
vealed details in Miss Todd'S life
may shed light on the case.
Helen .'Ainsworth, Miss Todd's
modiSte, and Catherine Hunter,
secretary to Charlie Chaplin and
another intimate of Miss Todd,
also will be asked to tell all they
know about the girls life.
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POLITICAL
SCHEME IS
CHARGED
Smell Busy Quietine
Republicans Who
Oppose Plan
BY GEORGE DURNO
international News Service

Administration leaders chuckleC
today, over Republican irritation
ct President Rcosevelt's coup In
arranging to deliver his annual
message to Congress tomorrow
night when the radio audience
Is at its greatest.
Democratic officials were fully
aware that the Presidents action
in calling for a night session
would be attacked afterward-
but they were content in the
knowledge that Mr.. Roosevelt
would have a greater audience
tomorrow night for his report or
the state of the nation than any
President before him ever en-,
joyed.
Criticism Good Publicity
In fact, the Presidents advisers
were welcoming the advance crit
cism of the opposition on the ele'
mental ground it served only to
stir up interest in what the Chief
Executive will have to say tomor'
row evening when he faces Con
gress.
Senator william E. Borah OF
Idaho, an outstanding candidate
for the Republican nomination
against Mr.. Roosevelt next fall,
slnilingly offered ''no objection
and no criticism" but Represen'
tative Hamilton Fish (R) Of New
York, who has projected himself
as unofficial campaign manager
for Mr.. Borah, Indignantly an
nounced he would not attend to
morrow nights joint session, de
claring:
Gas I have repeatedly said,
we are in the midst Of govern
ment by propaganda from paid
publicity agents, but this limo
walton of the President is the
high wS*ermark Of all prOpa-
ganda.
PURPOSE CHALLENGED
at is perfectly obvious to
every thinking man that the
Q o'clock session was chosen.
mot for the purpose Of present
ing facts to Congress on which
to determine legislation, but to
uphold and defend the New
Deal and to spread ex-parte
propaganda among the people
over . nationwide radio hook
mp"
An official close to the PreSi'
dent insisted that Mr.. Roosevelt
was going to present facts to Con
gresS tomorrow night and added:
at Is strange how the P,'esi-
dents annual message becomes
either q. State paper or pOlit-
ical document, according to who
happens to be in office. OF
course, the two are intertwined
in the case Of a Presidential
Continued on Page S, Col. ~
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Motor Carrier Law
Application Delayed
international News Service

International NeWS SERVICES
The effective date Of the motor
carriers; act was postponed today
by the ICC until April l.. The act
originally was to become effective
last December l. The postpone
ment was in response to numer-
GUS requests from motor carriers
for more time in which to COM
pile tariffs and schedules.
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orchestra, dancing. games, hostess (G9th
season.. 1914 hours to Florida. Lv.
Wash. 6:35 p. m. daily. Atlantic Coast
Line. 1855 18th St. n. w. National 1885.
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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-02
ICY STORM
CRIPPLES
CAPITAL
Boy 7, Crushed Under
Street Car While
Coastine on Hill

Drilling rain falling steadily
at freezing temperatures coated
the District and surrounding ter.
ritory with ice today. slowed auto
mobile. bus and street-car traf.
fic, caused scores Of accidents
and brought the first traffic
fatality Of the, new year.
With the mercury standing
just below the freezing point, the
drizzle turned TO sleet in several
sections of the city. Ice-coatedi
windshields made driving hazard.
Gus and sent hundreds Of cars
skidding off roads and streets. .
More than SO cars and trucks
skidded off the Columbia Pike
in Arlington county.
In Fairfax county it was re-
ported close to 200 machines had
Skidded off the roads and we're
temporarily abandoned.
First Traffic Death
The first traffic death in the
District this year occurred when
7-year-old Donald. Miller, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Miller, .5213
Macomb st. N. w, slid down the
Manning Place hill and was
crushed to death beneath Q
street car. -t
AS the child sped down the hill
into Sherrier Street the motor
man, w. L. Moore, 3415. M st.
N. w.. applied the brakes, but
before he could bring the car to
a stop on the ice-coated tracks the
child was mangled beneath the
wheels.
Bertha .Orme, IT, of Boyds,
Nd. was struck and seriously in
jured today by a Baltimore and
Ohio passenger train while cross
ing the tracks at Rain Road,
Boyds Station, Md. The girl was
taken to Georgetown University
Hospital, where physicians found
it necessary to amputate one of
her legs. She was given a blood
TRANSMISSION.
Today's rain, which started lust
before the early morning traffic
rush, will continue throughout
the night, the Weather Bureau
predicted. Some relief was seen,
however, with rising tempera-
lures. The minimum tonight will
be about IS degrees, three above
the freezing mark, it was fore
cast, with clearing skies tomor-
row.
Buses, Cars Delayed
Bus and street car schedules
were delayed as ice coated the
streets, and thousands of Gov.
eminent workers were late.
Railroad trains were reported
on schedule, but travellers expe-
rienced difficulty in obtaining
cabs to take them from the
Union Station.
President John H. Hanna of the
Capital Transit Company branded
the day as ,"the worst he ever
saw" and said:
The Ice practically disrupted
the bus service and resulted in
delays to street cars. cannot
recall as bad a day in all the
years 1 have been in Washing
ton"
AS the sleet caused ice to form
on the wings Of airplaneS, flights
to the West were cancelled on all
lines. Eastern Air Transport con.
tinued to fly on schedule to the
north and south. the planes flying
high above the storm area and
reporting good conditions above.
Motor buses were reported as
late in arriving at the terminals,
slowed down by the ice on the
roads. In Maryland and Virginia
State road crews were started out
early. sanding the roads to afford
traction. |
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ITALIANS BOMB
DAGGAH BUR

Adds ABABA, Jan. 2 0.N.SO .
Four italian planes heavily
bombed Daggah Bur, south of
Jijiga, today. There were no vic
tins, and many of the bombs
failed to explode, according to Of
fetal advices received here.
DESSYE, Ethiopia, Jan. 2
ON.S0.-An Ethiopian rifleman
brought down an Italian war
plane near Makale Tuesday. and
its two occupants we're killed in
the crash, it was announced Of
ficially here today.
LONDON, Jan. 2 Q.N.SJ.
Cries of revenge on Italy!" and
down with MuSsoliniw still rang
in the streets of Stockholm today,
the italian legation there was
under special police guard, and q
Continued on Page 2, Col. -
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Rain tonight, probably ending tomorrop
morning; slightly warmer tonight, Lowest
temperature about IS.
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American Water Works

NEW YORK, Jan. output Of
electric energy of the electric prop
critics of the American Water
Works & Electric Co. for the week
ended December 20, totaled &c.
2OT, 900 1kilowatt hours,
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Harry Smith, Famous
Librettist, Dies at IS

ATLANTIC CITY, N. j.. Jan.
2 G.N.S.l-Funeral services were
being arranged here today for
Harry B. Smith, rs, beloved mu-
steal comedy and operetta nbret.
fist of the Gay NinetieS."
Smith, a native of Buffalo.
N. Y, was q leading author in
the closing years of the last
century. Survivors include his
widow. the former Miss Irene
Bentley, Of Baltimore, one-time
musical comedy actress.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-15
DUKE PWA SUIT
RENANDED BY
HIGH COURT

The supreme Court yesterday
remanded to South Carolina Fed
eral courts for retrial the Duke
Power Company's attack on Public
Works Administration loans and
grants for hydroelectric plants, ex
pressly abstaining from a decision
on the constttutionality Of this
phase of New Deal power policies
This action in the New Deal-util.
ity fight put the case where 1t
started and seemed likely to to pre-
vent test Of the law at this term.
The high tribunal complained Of
numerous irregularities" in pro-
cedure in the lower courts.
50 Other Jobs Halted
In addition to delaying action
for several months on the PWA
loan and grant of $2,852,000 to
Greenwood county, S. c., for a gen
Grating plant at BuzZard'S Roosst
on the Saluda River, PWA Ad-
ministrator Harold l.. Ickes said
the decision would hold up 50
similar PWA loans and grants
under challenge.
The days actions also included:
ONE-Dismissal Of a suit by the
Associated Press against radio
station KVOS at Bellingham,
wash, for an injunction to pre-
vent broadcaSting Of Associated
Press news. The Supreme Court
held that Federal courts had no
Jurisdiction in the case because
1t did not involve $4,000 or more.
NY. Wage Appeal
TWO-Receipt Of a request by New
York manufacturers challeng-
ing the constitutionality Of the
States minimum wage law for q
rehearing Of the case before a
nine-man bench. The law was
upheld recently by 4-to-4 de-
cision-made possible by the ILL
Z ness Of Justice Harlan Fiske
stone-which allowed the deciS-
ion Of New York States highest
court to stand.
THREE Receipt Of a request
from Texas for determination
Of o fight between four States
over authority to tax the vast
estate of Edward H. r. Green,
son Of Hetty Green. In addi-
ton TO Texas, New York, Massa-
chusetts and Florida claim Green
as q resident at the time of
his death and seek to tax the
estate, estimated as worth so to
. 80 million dollars.
FOUR-Granted q review to the
Ohio Bell Telephone Company
Of a decision Of the State Su-
preme Court, ordering a refund
Of $780, 64 to phone con-
sumers. The case now will be
set for oral argument before a
decision is rendered.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-15
BLIND OFFER
HANDICRAFT

Handicraft articles made by
sightless residents Of Washington
are to be offered for sale, begin
ming today, in the rooms Of the
Washington League for the Hard
of-Hearing at 1116 Vermont Ave.
It was announced that the Co
lumbia Polytechnic Institute for
the Blind will have charge Of the
exhibit.
Refreshments will also be sold
during the hours the rooms are
open, from 10 in the morning until
10 at night.
Articles suitable for gifts, to be
placed on exhibit, include hand
hemmed towels and handkerchiefs,
handmade leather goods and sim.
liar handicraft.
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Gets Life in Prison
For 0ccoqudn Death

ALEXANDRIA, Va, Dec. 15.-Al
phone Branch, 81, colored, was
sentenced to life imprisonment yes
terday by Judge Luther B. Way
in United States District Court for
the murder Of Pete Smith, 80,
colored, at Occoquan Work House,
on February "a last.
Branch, who pleaded guilty to
a charge Of second degree murder,
admitted stabbing his fellow pris-
oner during an alteration. Judge
Way gave the maximum penalty,
requested by the prosecution, de-
claring that the defendants Grim
inal record and his "callouSneSs"
merited the severe penalty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-15
CONTRIBUTIONS
TO CAMP |GN

International NeWS service
Further data on contributions
to the Democratic and Republican
campaigns were made public yes
terday by the Senate Campaign
Expenditures Committee. They in
cluded:
To the DemocratS-CurtiS Box,
Philadelphia, $25 900: J. M. Patter-
son, New York, $24,100, including
contributions to campaigns Of Sen
ator Norris of Nebraska Qndepend-
ent), Governor Lehman of New
York, and Frank Murphy of Mich
igan.
To the Republicans H. Wor-
cester, Chicago, $4,000; Henry W.
Putnam, New Yrk, $4,000; Mrs
John D. Rockefeller, jr., New York,
$4,000; Miss Mary T. Cudahy, Chi
cago, $1,000; Mrs. Joseph M. Cud-
ahy, Chicago, $500; Mrs. Joseph
M. Cudahy, Lake Forest, Ill,
$1,500; Miss Claire A. Cudahy, Chi
cago, $1,000; Joseph M. Cudahy,
Chicago, $4,000. ,.. >-
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-15
OMAN DENIES
TERRORISM

CAPE MAY, N. j., Dec. IS Q.N.
s).-With the resumption Of the
investigation into charges Of fraud
ulent voting in Cape May county at
the election last month, Earl L.
Richmond, special agent in charge
of the Federal Bureau of investi-
CATION at Trenton, today issued a
general denial that Omen had ter
rorized witnesses in the inquiry
!, The charges were made Sunday
at the court house by Andrew O..
, Wittreich, chief counsel for Will
liam c. Hunt, Republican candi-
date for State senator from Cape
May county. Hunts apparent vic
tory over Jesse D. Ludlam, Demo
cratic candidate, is being contested
on the grounds Of Illegal voting.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-15
Students to Aid
Relief Drive
By Dance

COLLEGE PARK, Nd, Dec. IS.
Miss Jean Barnsley, Rockville,
Md, president of the Women'S
Student Government Association
at the University Of Maryland, will
sponsor the dance Friday evening
to climax the annual relief drive
staged by the students Of the
Maryland campus this week. Mr..
Thomas Birmingham, president Of
the Student Government Associa-
ton, will serve as general chair
man of the drive.
The price of admission to the
dance, which will follow the
Maryland-Baltimo univ ersity
basketball game, will be one ar
ticle of clothing, non-periShable
food or cash. The goods and
funds raised during the drive are
to be turned over to various social
service and charitable organiza-
tions in College Park for diStribu-
ton among the needy families Of
that vicinity.
In addition to the produce col
lected at the dance, further con-
tributionS will be solicited by
members of q committee Of
campus leaders appointed by Mr..
Birmingham. Members Of the
committee will be Miss Florence
Hill, Laurel, Md, president Of the
Pan-Hellenic Council; Dale Patter.
son, Indian Head, Md, president
of the Interfraternity Council;
Michael Lombardo, Newark, N. j.,
president Of the Mems League;
Dorothy Hobbs, Linden, Md; Ruth
Kreiter, 1921 Thirty-third Pl. N.
W.; Geraldine Schulz, Chevy
Chase. Md
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-12-15
Four on Team

=. -Four players made Walter
Camps All-America teams four
years in succeSsion-Marshall
Newell, Of Harvard; Truxton
Hare, of Pennsylvania, and Frank
Hinkey and Gordon Brown, of
Yale.
Evening star., 1936-09-13
Keystone La,o
Breach IN KnO1
SpeechCharged
Prosecution Is Hinted
in Demand for
RetractiOn.
srecial Dispatch to The Star.

Erectal D1Spatch TO Inc star.
HARRISBURG, Pa, September IL.
The prospect of Democratic SUBJ
poena server chasing Col. Frank Knox
Republican vice presidential candi-
date, across country during the cam
paign, RECALLED Pennsylvania voters
this week.
The hint of a prosecution came
from DR.. Luther A. Harr, secretary
of banking in the Democratic State
administration, who announced Col.
Knox in his address at Allentown
last Saturday made an "actionable
statement" when he said:
THE present administration has
been for four years giving lip service
to security and welfare, and today
no life insurance policy Is secure; no
savings account Is safe"
In a letter to Knox, Harr said
State law makes it a punishable mis-
demeanor to utter, circulate, to trans
NIT false or deroeatory statements af-
fecting the standing Of any bank or
financial institution operating in this
Commonwealth. Your statement Is so
sweeping as to include every bank and
savings institution in the State"
Calling upon the vice presidential
nominee to furnish proof that at least
one Pennsylvania bank Is unsafe or
to make "a complete retraction," /"
Harr added:
IF do not hear from you within
q reasonable time, I will refer this
matter to the Attorney General for
such action q IL warranted"
Evening star., 1936-09-13
REPUBLICANS INSIST
DELAWARE IS THEIRS
Declare They Will Win State, in
Spite of Detection by Inde-
pendent Group.
BY CHARLES E. GRAY,
Special Correspondent of The Star


WILMINGTON, Del, September
Irregular Republican leaders, al
though admitting the political situa-
ton is not as good as it might be,
owing to the Independent Republican
party putting complete ticket in the
field. still assert Delaware will be
found in the Republican column when
the votes are counted in November.
Regular leaders point out that none
of the men nominated by insurgents
this week has large following. Ad-
mitting that Robert G. Houston. can
didate for United States Senator was
once power in Sussex County, they
contend he has few followers now.
He was strongest when he was in Of
flee and had many political jobs to
dispense.
The same applies to Gen. j. Aus
tin Ellison. candidate for Repre-
sentative. At one time he was leader
OF the organization In the upper part
Of the State. He and the leaders fell
out and, despite his boasted follow
ing, Ellison was gradually shorn of
all prestige he formerly enjoyed.
l. D. Short, candidate for Governor.
who led Republican boilers, has the
strongest following of any of the men
named. The other men nominated
for the two places on the State ticket
are almost unknown.
New-party candidates will be
stronger in Kent and Sussex Counties
than In Wilmington and rural New
Castle County. Republicans of all
factions are heartened by the indie
pendent party electors being pledged
to Landon.
Evening star., 1936-09-13
Ne,c York Primary Is Watched
For Hint of Tannn,any Choice
State Likely for G. 0. P. if apathy Is
Shocn by Organization in November.
PriaI Race Is Test.

ganization, and for these reasons his
race is a real test for the Democratic
organization.
If the organization functions in its
normal way. like an irresistible tide,
even Mr.. Prial, with all Of his support
from municipal employees. will be
showed under. However, If there Is
much friction in the machine, and
many we'll informed persons here be-
lieve there is a plethora of it, he
stands a good chance of winning. The
tip-of1, however. is that he can't win
unless the machine functions badly
and if it is not hitting properly in
the primary the chances are it will
not produce in November.
Another primary race of interest i;
that Of Judge Jonah j. Goldstein. who
is seeking nomination for judge OF
General Sessions. Judge Goldsteir
was appointed by Gov. Lehman to the
General Sessions bench to finish the
term Of the late Judge Otto A. Ro-
salsky. Tammany refused to nominate
him for the full term, and Gov. Leh-
man has come out strongly for him
1t is sharp fight in the Manhattan
organiza ton. whEh certainly does
not point toward harmony in the
gubernatorial and presidential elec-
tions.