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Evening star., 1936-03-08
Chevy Chase Resident
d. Will Visit West Coast
Mrs. Arthur Kidder and Son Edmond Corley
Visit New York Before Latter Takes
San Francisco Trip.

Miss Marjorie Jane Winnings enter
tanned company of eight at an at
tractive luncheon yesterday in the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
L. Paul Winnings.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert F. Whitney,
Miss Mary Whitney and Miss Betty
Cunningham left last Saturday by
motor for Miami, Fla and Clearwater,
Fla. They will be gone two weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark L. Whitney
have gone to st. Marys City. Md,
where they are the guests for week
of Mr.. and Mrs. James S. Carr.
Col. and Mrs. Fred w. FRANKIE were
hosts at buffet supper and bridge
party last evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. George E. Tew were
hosts at an attractive dinner party
followed by bridge, Wednesday eve
ming. The guests we're Mr. and Mrs
Horton McKeever, DR.. and Mrs. D
P. Bush and Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Tew.
Mrs. George Gravatt of Wilmington
Del, formerly of Chevy Chase, Md.
is the house guest of her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Flippc
Gravatt
Mrs. George r. Davis is recuperat-
ing from an illness at the home o1
Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis S. Feeser.
Miss Jacqueline West of Winchester
Mass, has been the guest of hel
grandmother, Mrs William Mann Ir.
vine
Mrs. James F. Davidson will enter.
tain a company of eight at supper
and bridge Tuesday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur T. Daven.
port entertained at dinner and bridg,
a company of eight Tuesday evening
Mrs. John Geisse entertained at
bridge tea on Thursday afternoon.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
University President
To Be Honored

The Faculty Women's Club of George
Washington University will hold its
annual dinner in honor of the Presi-
dent Of the University and Mrs. Cloyd
H. Marvin at the club house of the
American Association of University
Women. 1884 I street. Saturday eve
ming, at o'clock. President Marvin
will be the speaker of the evening.
Mrs. John r. Lapham, president of the
club. will preside. Hospitality will be
IN charge Of Mrs. Richard Norman
Owens, Mrs. Elmer Louis Kayser and
Mrs. Joseph H. Roe.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

Park South of Cairo.
Everglades Park in Florida is 500
miles farther south than Cairo, Egypt.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Mrs. Lewis to Speak
TODemOcratic Club

Mrs. James Hamilton Lewis. who.
with her husband, Senator Lewis of
Illinois, spent last Fall in Russia. will
be the guest speaker at the Woman's
National Democratic Club luncheon
tomorrow. She will give to the club
members and their guests her impress
sions of Russia and observation Of
conditions there. Mrs. Lewis will be
introduced at the luncheon by Mrs
Blair Banister, Assistant Treasurer Of
the United States.
Evening star., 1936-03-08

H. Stanton. Lieut.. Oglesby rnotored
there Saturday, February 20, to spend
the week end.
Mr.. and Mrs. Richard Carter Ken
ney Of Baltimore are receiving con-
gratulatior1s upon the birth of son
Monday in Baltimore. Mrs. Kenney,
who Is frequent visitor to the post.
Is the daughter Of Lieut.. Col. and Mrs.
Henry d. Y. Munnikhuysen. Mrs.
Munnikhuysen is expected to return
from Florida shortly after spending
several weeks at Miami.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Plans Under Way for
u. D. G.. Card Party

Plans are under way for the card
party of the Robert E. Lee Chapter.
United Daughters of the Confederacy.
to be given at Confederate Memorial
Monday, April 6, and active co-opera-
ton was pledge for the division card
party at the Mayf1ower March 20.
Evening star., 1936-03-08
Daughters of Senate
Annual Dinner Dance

The six Senate sons" will pay the
penalty Of leap year, and attend as
"stags" the annual dinner dance of
the Daughters Of the Senate, to be
held Wednesday evening at the Shore
ham. The daughters" will invite
their own escorts, and the company
Evening star., 1936-03-08

will number Is. Miss Katherine Over
ton, daughter of Senator and Mrs.
John H. Overton. is president of the
Daughters of the Senate.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
WHILE PUBLIC
WAS BUYING
HISST0CK
Lobby Group Hears He
Then Invested in
State Bonds
international News Service

The multimillionaire utility
magnate, Henry l.. Doherty, sold
his own company's stock at q
profit of'nearly 18 million dollars
seven months before the 1929
stock market crash, and invested
most of the proceeds in municipal
and State bonds, Senate COM
mittee investigator declared to-
day.
Moreover, at this time. statesmen
for the Doherty concern, the Cit
les Service Company, were selling
stock to the public and to en-
ployes of the far-flung utility en-
pire, it was testified.
Officials on Stand
This was brought out at to-
days session of the Senate Lobby
committee, with committee agents
and officials of subsidiary Do
herty companies on the stand.
Herbert Blomquist, commit
tee investigator declared that he
had gone over the Doherty books.
Here was the story he told:
In March, 1929, seven months
before the crash, Doherty sold
100000 shares of Cities Service
Company stock.
For this stock Doherty received
20,500,000.
For this stock Doherty had paid
$2,751, ,96765.
II Million Profit
These figure showed profit
of $17,748,032.35.
During that same year, Blom'
quiSt went on. Doherty began &C
quiring municipal and State secu'
rites.
Blomquist said that Doherty
acquired that year in the neigh
borhood of nine million dollars of
municipal and State bonds.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
ITALIAN BOMBS
KILL BR|T0N
CONTINUED from Page u

Continued from Page ~
bombed January is in the Waldis
area. when 16 natives we're killed.
Major Burgoyne was not con-
nected with the British Red Cross
unit which came to Ethiopia last
fall.
Adds Ababa was thrown into
panic today when an Italian
trimotored bomber appeared over
the capital and lazily circled for
an hour and a quarter.
When machine guns and anti.
aircraft guns opened fire, the air.
plane flew away, but latter re.
turned at a greater height, making
the fire ineffective.
While hundreds Of her subjects
fled to dugouts in the surrounding
hills, the Empress displayed the
greatest calmness, motoring from
the big palace" to the small
palace"
Emperor Selassie's two Amer
lean advisors are drafting a Ions
report to the world denying al
Italy's recent claims of smashing
victories on the northern front, of
ficials stated today. The Amer
leans are E. A. Colson and DR.
John H. Spencer.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
BIGGER TRAFFIC
COURT OPENS
MONDAY
New Quarters to End
Crowded Condition,
Irksonne Delays

Overcrowded conditions in thO
traffic court-crowdS which have
resulted in number of persons
fainting from foul air in the
packed room-will be alleviated
Monday when the small court
room will be deserted in favor Of
the much larger D. C. courtroom.
This action was decided upon
following a conference Of the four
police judges held yesterday to
consider a change advocated by
Judge John P. Mcmahon, who
now presides over traffic court.
"Stagger System"
Judge Mcmahon also adocated
installation of "stagger system"
with offenders from various pre-
cincts brought in at different
times for hearings. The other
judges and police officials are now
considering this plan to determine
if it can be worked out.
The present traffic court room
will accommodate only about 70
persons, while on Monday morn.
ings there have been as many as
200 offenders attempting to crowd
into the room when the session
opens at 9:30 o'clock.
In addition there are witnesses,
attorneys and the arresting Of.
ficerS, packing the tiny room and
milling about in the halls, at
tempting to force their way in
as their cases are called, the whole
thing leading to scenes Of indes-
cribable confusion.
With the overcrowding in the
room, which has a very low cell.
ing, ventilation is extremely bad,
Judge Mcmahon pointed out in
seeking the change, and number
Of persons have been overcome
from time to time.
On Time Basis
Under the new plan, the District
of Columbia courtroom, which
seats approximately 200 persons.
will take care Of the crowds. That
court, presided over by Judge G. A.
Schuldt, will transfer its activities
upstairs to the jury court room.
while the Jury Court, which has
relatively few cases, will take over
the present Traffic Court room.
The stagger system would make
for greater efficiency in handling
traffic cases, Judge Mcmahon be-
lieveS.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
COhan Backs Writers
LIN Copyright Fight

George M. Cohan, who hi as
crossed a few million in AZ years
of acting and writing songs and
plays, told the House Patent Com
mittee yesterday he was Just "a
hack writer" and a handy man
to have around"
Cohan appeared in behalf Of
the demand of the American So
ciety of Composers, Authors and
Publishers for strong copyright
protection for all products of COM
poserS.
The stages yankee Doodle
Boy" who began glorifying t h e
Stars and Stripes in song and play
at the turn of the century, to-
day was an elderly, white-haired
gentleman, half smiling an d
quietly humorous on the witness
stand.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
Berlin TO New York
In 7 DAYS, Forecast

FRIED RICHSHAFEN, Ger
many. March (U.SD.-Intimat-
ing that the flying time between
Frankfort, Germany, and New
York will be cut to no more than
two days. DR.. Hugo Eckener,
famed director of the Zeppelin
works here, told Universal Serv.
ice tonight that the new giant
dirigible LZ-129 had show n
greater speed than expected in
an eight-hour test flight today.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
Virginia Merchant
Dies in Auto Here

After collapsing at the wheel OF
his automobile at Seventh st. and
Constitution Ave. N. w. yesterday,
Thomas B. Howell, ST, Richmond,
Va, prominent hardware mer-
chant, was pronounced dead Of
natural causes at Emergency Hos
pital. Accompanied by his wife,
Mrs. Elizabeth N. Howell, he was
in Washington to attend the in
dependent merchants convention.
He leaves two sons.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
Civil Service WinQ
To Cost S8OO,OOO

Construction of a new five-story
wing which would more than
double the present floor space of
the Civil Service Commission Is
being considered. Plans are now
being studied for the wing, which
would be an addition to the old
Patent Office Building, at Seventh
and F Sts., where the commission
is now housed. Cost of construc-
tion is estimated at 100000.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
HOPE FOR AID
BOOST GONE
(Continued from Page II

(COnt1nue0 from rage ~
to restore the Federation contribu-
ton to $5,700,000 gone, Washing
tonians looked to the Senate for
an adjustment.
Representative Mary T. Norton
CD of New Jersey, chairman OF
the House District Committee,
made a vain attempt late yeSter-
day to amend the bill to increase
the Federal contribution from the
$2,700,000 allowed by the Blanton
subcommittee to $5.700,000 as pro
posed by the budget.
Mrs. Norton Gagged
Although Mrs. Norton'S amend
ment was rejected by a vote of
II to 54, few of the members
realized the issue involved in the
problem. Virtually all conceded
they had not read or attended
the hearings, nor did they pro-
fesS to be experts in District
affairs, but came blindly to sup
port Representative Tom Blanton
CD of Texas, chairman of the
subcommittee in charge of the
bill. Mrs. Norton was not al
lowed to address the House on
her amendment to show the
justification for her proposal. be-
cause of the parliamentary situa-
ton which existed.
Most of the afternoon was
taken up by the playful antics
of Representative Marion A. Zion
check CD of Washington whose
activities at one time nearly
brought him to blows with Rep
resentative Blanton.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
; SH0TS.FIRED
At YUG0SLAV
PREMIER
Bullets Narrowly Miss
u. S. Envoy at Cham
Der Session

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, March
6 0.N.S0. Premier Milan Sto-
jadenovitch narrowly escaped
death today when a Fascist mem
ber arose and fired three pistol
shots in an attempt to aSsassinate
him as he was making an address
in the chamber of deputies.
The aSSasSin's bullets narrowly
missed Charles B. Wilson, United
States Minister to Yugoslavia,
who was sitting in the chamber
gallery.
The sensational attack threw
the chamber into a panic. The
assassin, Damian Arnautovitch,
was nearly lynched by angry fel-
low deputies.
The premier was unhurt, al
though the shots came within a
few inches of his head.
Three deputies were arrested.
It was expected the chamber
would lift members immunity.
and a score more were expected
to be seized tonight.
Arnautovitch explained he had
spent the night drinking in a
Russian restaurant, from which
he had gone directly to the
chamber today.
The parliamentary gendarmes
charged he was intoxicated at
the time of the attack, but the
arrest of other deputies indicated
authorities suspected a possible
plot.
The chamber was adjourned in
confusion for several hours, and
then was convened again, the
premier finishing his interrupted
cnAnch
The Washington times., 1936-03-06

} Chairman Sirovich asked him
how he happened to write "Over
There" He replied:
"If I hadn't written it on
Thursday, someone else would
have on Friday. 1t had to be
written"
When Cohan concluded the
story of his own hardships in
making money on songs before
there was any copyright protec-
ton, Daley CD, of Pennsylvania,
asked:
Didn't you write q song
called Always Leave Them
Laughing When You Say Good.
by'?"
Cohan replied:
THAT sounds like a hint"
He quit the stand leaving the
audience laughing.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06

Reservations for the removal Of
the appendix Of 16-year-old Oleg
Troyanovsky. son of the Soviet
ambassador have been made at
Emergency Hospital, it was learned
today, the operation to be per-
formed on or about March II.
Young Troyanovsky, a spokes-
man at the Russian Embassy said,
has been stricken with abdominal
pains. The operation, not of an
emergency nature, the spokesman
added, has been deemed advisable
by DR.. j. P. Shearer, well-known
Washington surgeon, who has
been consulted by the Soviet rep
resentative, Alexander Antono-
witch Troyanovsky, father of the
boy,
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
Inn Asks $4,000
For College Boycott

NEW LONDON, Conn, March
6. - Proprietors Of an inn
which distributed circulars among
college girls advertising sex ap-
peal meals and wonderful beds
opened their $4,000 damage suit
today against officials of the
Connecticut College for Women,
William and Dorothea Detwiler,
owners of the College Inn, con
tended they had lost business be
cause college officials boycotted
their place.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
Col. johnson to Talk

Col. j. Monroe johnson, aSsis-
tant secretary of the Department
of Commerce, will be guest speaker
at a dinner to be given by the
Washington chapter of the Glen.
son Alumni at the University
Club, Tuesday at p. m.
The Washington times., 1936-03-06
High School Congress

HEIDELBERG. G.N.S).-Rep-
resentatives of technical colleges
throughout the world will attend
the international high school
congress at Heidelberg from June
13 to June 16.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
Both Sides Are
Highly Pleased,
State Primaries
r epublicans Take Hope
While Democrats See
Another Victory


WASHINGTON, April 20.-Affirrn-
atoms of encouragement, both
within the New Deal and among
the leading contenders to oppose
President Roosevelt in November,
stood out last Saturday night as
consequences of the Illinois and Me-
braska primaries.
Supporters of Col. Frank Knox bf
Illinois. Gov Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas and United States Senator
William E. Borah of Idaho. said the
Presidential possibilities of their
candidates have been helped H
Roosevelt supporters pointed to
the wide margin of votes he has re-
ceived in all primaries to date, over
the combined votes cast for his Re-
publican potential opponents.
The Republican spokesman denied
these claims. c. Wayland Brooks
Republican gubernatorial nominee
in Illinois, for example. said the
Democratic contest over the guber-
material nomination attracted the
independent voters who will be with
the Republicans in the fall
4 James A. Farley Chairman OF the
Democratic National Committee.
reads victory for the Democrats
and said the. people are stronger
for Roosevelt than in 1882 or 1884.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
RESCUE NEAR
FOR TWO men
Within Mine
McGill Dies During Night
Robertson and Scadding
Still Holding Out

MOOSE RIVER, NJ S., April 20
While rescue crews nearing ex-
haustion picked blindly at under
ground rock in direction they hoped
was right, the man on the surface
promised at two-thirty EST that the
two men imprisoned below ground
could be reached within two hours
time.
DR.. D. E. Robertson, part owner
of the Moose River Gold mine and
Charles Alfred Scadding, timekeep-
er. are still living after eight days
Imprisonment. Robertson's partner,
harmon r. MaGill. died last night.
Nothing has been heard from the
imprisoned men since nine a. m.
when Robertson, talking through a
miniature miscophone lowered to
them through the five-inch passage
drilled over the weekend, reported
they could hold out until rescue.
The three men were caught in a
cave-in 141 feet below the surface
eight days ago. Miners have been
digging through disused tunnel to
reach them.
A heavy dynamite blast yesterday
opened a deeper gap into the mine,
but disappointed rescue workers when
a rock barrier of unknown depth
was exposed as still remaining be-
tween the workers and the shaft
through which they hoped to reach
the 141-foot level.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
Reelection Of
Roosevelt Sure,
Says C. C. Dill
Landon Will Be Top Man
for Republicans -Borah
Has Faded Out

POKANE, Wash, April 90
Former United States Senator C. G.
Dill, of the State of Washington,
predicts the nomination of Gov.
Alfred M Landon of Kansas as the
Republican Presidential candidate.
He also expressed the opinion that
United States Senator William E.
Borah has faded OUT He pointed
to the Illinois and Wisconsin pri-
maries as barometers indicating the
sweeping reelection of President
Roosevelt.
Former Senator Dill is here on a
business trip from Washington,
d. c.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
GREAT BRITAIN, ITALY, NEARING BREAK
Presidents ''NO-Man'', Louis
Ho,ue, Passes A,cay in Sleep
in Hospital; III Ouer ! Year

WASHINGTON, April 20.-Louis
McHenry Howe, longtime political
adviser to President Franklin D..
Roosevelt, died last Saturday night
at 11:10 O'Clock.
Howe, who was also Secretary to
the President, died peacefully in
his sleep at the Naval Hospital
after having been Ill for more than
a year. Death was caused by heart
and chest complications.
The President was informed of
Howe's death and returned to the
White House from the annual Grid
iron dinner.
Mrs. Roosevelt telephoned Mrs.
Howe who was at the Howe's Fall
River, Massachusetts,, home, shortly
after midnight.
Howe's death was announced by
the White House Secretary an hour
after it had occurred.
Absorbing Problem
For quarter of a century the
future of Franklin D. Roosevelt was
Louis McHenry Howe's one abb
sorbing problem.
In all the annals of the White
House there probably never has
been a Presidential Secretary with
his record of devotion and astute
political counsel. Unparalleled also
was the close political partnership
and personal friendship with a
Chief Executive enjoyed by that
little wrath of a man who wore
baggy clothes and high. shiny
collar of the type fashionable in
Americas bicycling era.
A shy, self-effacing man who APP
parently cared nothing for personal
preferment, Colonel Howe managed
to keep clear of much of the White
House limelight despite the fact
that his extraordinary position in
the Presidents confidence and his
as master political
strategist made him an important
figure in the administration.
Presidents mo- Man
While the names of brain trust
ers such as Professors Moley and
and of New Dealers such
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
SOVIET PLANS
CONSTITUTION,
SECRET BALLOT
Democracy Sweeping Into
Communistic System in
Russia, Magazine Says
DECLARED PURPOSE
TO GUST BUREACRACY
Stain Says Vote Will Serve
as Whip in Hands
of People

q MOSCOW. April 20.-That the So
Wet state must for the time. being
carry on with certain traditions in
herited from the bourgeoise was
among important announcements
contained in a statement on govern
mental social development of Soviet
Russia published Sunday. The state
ment made plain among other things
that the time has not yet arrived
to abandon the principal practice OF
compulsion to offset inequality Of in
come, therefore the distribution of
the material comforts of life must
continue in the transition period un-
der the protective guidance of the
state.
characterization
The statement said further demo-
cratization of the Soviet system I'M
der new constitution now being
formulated will not lead to the crea-
ton of political parties or any or
ganizatio opposed to the Commun-
ist party.
These explanations were printed in
tle magazine Bolshevik, official or
gan of the Central Committee of the
Communist party.
Equal Vote
The new constitution now under
study will grant the right of equal
vote to all Soviet citizens except those
disenfranchised by the courts. Glass
and origin of citizens will not be ia
ken into account in voting which will
be direct and secret and, according
to Joseph Stain, Soviet leader, as
quoted in the magazine, will serve
as "a whip in the hands of the peo-
pie against the badly working organs
of the state"
The magazine explained our sys-
tenn must be devoted solely to GUST
ing bureaucrats and other unworth-
les by the election of the best indi-
viduals to office"
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
TOWNSENDITES
PLAN FIGHT ON
COM. MEMBERS
Out to Get Investigators, Is
Claim Made by Chair
man Bell

WASHINGTON, April 20. = The
statement that the Townsend Old
Age Pension organizations are out
to get members of the special House
Committee making an investigation
of the movement. is made by Chair
man Bells office. 1t is said cor
respondence has been received since
the inquiry started indicated that
despite the fact the Townsend
leaders claim they do not need a
political organization, they are out
to get members of. the committee. F."
Probe Shifts to West
Representatives Gavagan and Col
Inns are attracting attention now
in Los Angeles where they are max
ing inquiries. The investigation has
now shifted west.
Committee members said secret
poll of Townsend clubs brought out
unanimous refutation of the charg-
es that poor people have been de-
luded out of their nickles and dimes.
T0lan's Statement
Representative Tolan of Califor-
mia, said affidavits have already been
received from 1913 clubs in as states
and these proved their participa-
ton in this great movement has
been purely voluntary and there is
not single member indicating be-
ing forced to contribute a dime. >
Tolan said these affidavits will be
introduced before the committee.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20


as General johnson and Donald
Richberg, were being flashed in the
headlines as the Presidents No. 2
or No. 3 men, Howe quietly went
about his business in the inner
sanctum carrying the job he HIM
self had once described as being
'Franklin's Norman"
Not only was it said that his
astute political counsel and I'M
tagging devotion did more to de-
velop THE Boss" into Presidential
material than anything else ex-
cepting Mr.. Roosevelts own efforts,
but his position in the household
had been for many years something
like that of wise and beloved old
uncle.
When Mrs. Roosevelt was puzzled
about something. it was to Louie
Continued on page y
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1936-04-20
New Tax Bill
Gets Approval,
Subcommittee

WASHINGTON, April 20-Demo-
Gratis of the House Ways and
Means Tax Subcommittee last Sat-
urday afternoon gave final approval
to the new tax bill but it still lack
ed complete estimates as to its pros
pective yield.
Administration leaders are pre-
pared to speed early passage of the
bill to facilitate plans for final
adjournment of Congress.
Speaker Byrns said Wednesday is
being held open for a general de-
bate in the House. Arguments are
expected to last for the remainder
of the week.