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Evening star., 1936-02-11
TODAY'S BEST BET
AND GREATEST BUY!
For sale EXCLUSIVELY through
ADLAI MANN,


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ADLAI MANN,
Real Estate. Woodward Bldg9
Phones: Once Me 1901. Res. Co. 1017
$14,950-Wesley Heights Corner.
A beautiful home with lovely surround
inss. rooms. ali-masonry. center-hall
lot having well-grown and abundant plant
ing. Sold new for a much higher figure.
$10,950-Near Mass. Ave.
An exceptional conveniently located new
brick home. has large rooms. complete
baths. full attic. furred walls. automatic
heat and an unusually large breakfast
room. Must be seen to be fully appreci-
FRANK 8. PHILLIPS DISTRICT 14I1..
NEAR CATHEDRAL.
. ii fuiissise rooms. % 1 real bed rooms. !
baths, attic. hardwood floors. 2-car built
fn-Garaee. automatic heat. This is q we'll
cpnstructed house and y shows i Price'
PHILLIPS. phone District 1411; evenings.
0alumbis 3079.
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CHEVROLET 1894 master town sedan:
built-in trunk Cars OF same make and
the difference in mechanical condition
tires. upholstery. finish and treatment
received at hands of former owners. We
believe II poor business to buy poor quality
at "cut prices" Our car is AL and is
Honestly Priced at $3.50: liberal General
Motors terms. Owens Motor Co.. 1923
Evening star., 1936-02-11

strator. new-car guarantee; substantial
discount. Torrey Motor Co., 1925 1 St.
Dodge Plymouth. 12s
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WANTED-REAL ESTATE
WANTED-SUBURBAN.

WANT TO RENT FURNISHED CABIN ON
. Cabin John line. Give complete details
H, Address Box 43-R. Star once. 12'
Evening star., 1936-02-11
SALE-AUTOMOBILES.

AUBURN tugs 1891 landau phaston sedan: two;
panels.C white side wall tires powerful
sis Gosn %dnsh
Keep Rollin' With Nolan" I'LL 18th
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.S|MONS, ROBbER
| OF BANKS, CAUGHT
Federal Agents in California
Hold Member of Gang
Which Set Record.
BY REX COLLIER

Avery Simons. member Of the Bentz-
Doll gang Of bank robbers which six
years ago perpetraVed the biggest
bank robbery on record at Lincoln.
Nebr.. is in custody Of the Federal
Bureau Of Investigation at Los Ange-
les. Calf, it was disclosed today.
Simons was arrested last Thursday
night in a secret raid on an apartment
house in the California city. He was
to be arraigned there today, pending
removal TO Vermont for prosecution
on Federal bank robbery charges, ac-
cording to j. Edgar Hoover, director
of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Bentz in Prison Now. -
Eddie Bentz, one of the leaders of
the gang, was captured recently in
Brooklyn, N. Y, by Federal agents, who
found him hiding in a dumbwaiter
shaft. He is in Alcatraz Penitentiary.
Edward Doll, another ringleader.
was arrested in Florida more than
year ago and also is in the peniten-
tiary.
Hoover said Simons has been hiding
part of the time in Bolivia, and that
the bureaus search for him had been
conducted in many parts of the world,
through cooperation of foreign police
agencies.
In the robbery Of the Lincoln Ma
tional Bank on September II, 1880.
the Bentz-Dol gang escape-s
more than $l.000,000 in cash and
bonds, much of which was recovered.
Hoover said Simons is reported to
have been a participant in this rob-
berry, but since the crime occurred
prior to passage of the Federal bank
robbery statute, Simons will be tried
for the robberies in 1884 Of the Gale
donia National Bank in Danville, VT,
in which more than $4,000 was stolen.
and of the First National Bank OF
Brandon, VT, from which 2,400 was
taken.
MutiIated His Fingertips.
Hoover said Simons also has been
identified as one of five men who
committed the $4,000 robbery of the
First National Bank Of Morresville,
N. c., on November %, 1884.
Simons was arrested by special
agents as he emerged from his apart
ment. He surrendered without re-
sistance. 1t was found he had mu-
tilated his fngertips in an effort to
forestall identification, but the prints
were readily identified. regardless.
1 Simons also had undergone an op-
Grafton for removal of tattooed cow
| girl on his left forearm.
Notices bearing his picture and
fngerprints had been circulated
| throughout North America and in So
| foreign countries.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
PENSION CARAVAN
/ ARRIVES IN CITY
so Townsendites to Give
/ 10,581, 900 Signatures
T to Committee.

Planning to make real display of
force before the House Committee in
vestigating old-age pension schemes
when it convenes tomorrow, nearly so
militant supporters of the Townsend
S200-per month program were resting
today after completing e. 3000-mile
automobile trip here from Los Angeles.
Most effective evidence of the plans
popularity, which they expect to submit
to the committee, are three truck-loads
of signatures of Townsend followers.
Leaders of the movement claim the
signatures represent 1851 900 persons.
The motor caravan arrived in Wash
ington yesterday morning and, escorted
by a Metropolitan Police detail, pro-
ceeded at once to the Grant Memorial
at the foot of Capitol Hill. There they
were greeted by congressional dele
cation of four, including Representa-
tive Tolan, Democrat. of California,
and a member of the investigating
committee. Others present were Rep
fesentatives Smith of Washington,
White Of Idaho and Kramer OF Cali
fornia. all Democrats.
Later in the day, the party went
10 Washington Airport to meet DR..
Francis E Townsend. leader of the
movement who was arriving by plane
from the West Coast. On his arrival,
the doctor took time to sign a lease
for Office space for the new national
headquarters of the organization in
Chicago, expressed the hope that
there will be no more delays in the
House committee hearings and then
hurried to his hotel for some rest
I'm ready for the committee and
I hope they're ready for me- he said.
'I don't want any further delays. >
At both the Grant statue and the
airport, photographers and news reel
men took pictures and interviewed
Or. Townsend and caravan leaders.
Miss Lois Jean johnson. leader Of
the Townsend Youth Movement in
San Diego. and Ralph Lepine of Los
Angeles spoke for the travellers. The
party stayed at a nearby tourist
camp.
DR.. Townsend is scheduled TO take
the stand at 10 am. tomorrow with
the understanding being that the
committee will continue its hearings
without further interruption until the
investigation is completed. Other
officials of the Townsend organiza-
ton are scheduled for appearance
Immediately after the doctor.
Evening star., 1936-05-18

CONTINUED From First Page)
66 pages also contains the testimony
of Vernon e. West, acting corporation
counsel, and Judge Nathan Cayton
Of Municipal Court, who were called
before Blanton's subcommittee to
discuss their outside" employment.
Judge Cayton, the report discloses, was
the only District judge who declined
to answer q questionnaire sent out
by Blanton when he was seeking in
formation as to the law classes which
the judges taught at night.
The testimony Of Judge Cayton
showed that he challenged the legality
Of action taken by the House Appro-
priations Subcommittee to limit the
outside employment of District officials
and employees making $2.4oo . year or
more.
do you recognize the fact that Con-
gress has the inherent right to tell you
that outside of your $1,000 salary as
Judge of Municipal Court you shall
not accept outside remunerations?"
Judge Cayton was asked.
II think there Is q serious legal
question oI3kthat,s he replied.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
j. s. TOUR|STSFLEE.
STRIKE IN MEXICO
WaIkout of $4,000 Railroad
Employees Is Planned
Today.
Ry tie Associated Press.

MEXICO CITY. May ls-Hun-
of being stranded, crowded north
bound trains today as 5000 employees
of the Great Mexican National Rail-
ways made ready to strike tonight
for wage increases.
The general exodus of visitors from
the north, making necessary extra
cars on all outgoing trains, started
over the week end, despite general
belief the projected strike would be
officially adjudged Illegal" and work
ers given "a hours to return TO their
jobs.
This belief was strengthened after
the national revolutionary govern
ment party newspaper El Nacional,
in its leading editorial today, declared
fatty the strike call was entirely
illegal" economically unjustified and
an outgrowth of irresponsible" labor
leadership.
Although no government ofhcial
would acknowledge that the editorial
represented the administrators views
on the strike threat, it was limited
strongly such was the case.
II the strike, which would tie up
all except emergency trafic over some
$500 miles of rails out of the capital,
started as scheduled at pm, Eastern
standard time, one well-informed
source predicted, the administration
would follow this procedure:
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Taxes
Continued From First Page.)

thai, the bill which passed the House.
In addition the boost in the individual
income rate was considered sure to
meet fiery opposition in Congress,
where many members are looking
ahead to contests in the coming elec-
tons.
Several members Of the committee
are looking with increased favor on
an earlier suggestion for COM
promise. Under this program corpor-
ations would pay fat tax OF Is or
Is Der cent on income, plus a surtax
ranging up to perhaps 40 per cent on
the percentage withheld from divi-
dend distribution. No change would
be made in individual income taxes.
There was no apparent abatement
Of the committees hostility to the
tax bill as it passed the House. This
bill. representing notifications Of
President Roosevelt's suggestion for q
graduated levy on undistributed prof.
its. would have assessed graduated
rates ranging up to 42l2 per cent on
corporation net income, depending
,Ipon how much of the income was
retained by the concerns.
Among some New Deal officials
there was discussion today of the idea
of giving preferred tax treatment to
such public utility holding companies
as would consent to register with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
The holding company act. which
aims to eliminate unnecessary" util-
ity holding companies, split up some
others and regulate the concerns,
provides for registration as the first
step in administration of the law.
But few large holding companies have
registered; many of them are fighting
the act on the ground 1t Is uncon-
stitutional.
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(Continued From First Page)
former Johns Hopkins University
Olympic athlete, in return for grant,
ing him an appointment to the mill
tary academy.
The defendants attorneys raised
FIVE points in their appeal. The first
was that no conspiracy was proved.
The appellate court found, however,
that the evidence, although largely
circumstantial, disclosed conduct and
statements of the defendants CO.
operating together to an unlawful end,
inconsistent with any reasonable
hypothesis of innocence"
Extent of Law Decided.
AS to the point that the statute
under which the father and son were
prosecuted referred only to appoint
ments to civil Offices, the court de-
cided the law clearly covered mill
tary posts as well.
The defense contention that West
Point cadetshp was not an appointive
Office within the meaning of the law
was turned down by the court, which
referred to several prior decisions
saying q cadet is such an officer.
Much was made by defense
counsel during and after the trial to
a statement to the jury by Pine in
which he called the elder Hoeppel "a
monumental liar and perjurer of the
first order" The Court OF Appeals
decided that, although this statement
may have been unnecessary, any
prejudice it created in the minds Of
the jurors was quickly corrected by
Justice ODonoghue's instructions.
Holding against the defendants in
their last contention, the court said
that acts and declarations of either OF
the defendants were rightly consid-
cred by the jury as evidence against
the other defendant.
Hoeppel Plans New Appeal.
Shortly after receiving word that
the court had refused to reverse his
conviction, Representative Hoeppel is
sued the following statement:
Due to the failure of the United
States Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict Of Columbia to decide upon the
questions raised in my appeal, it prob
ably will be necessary to file motion
for rehearing in an attempt to
secure definite rulings on my assign
ments of error.
"Under any circumstances I shall
appeal the case to the United States
: Supreme Court SO that may be able
TO secure rulings on all errors alleged
by my attorneys.
= II am candidate for reelection
and will be proud to take my record
before the voters who have shown
their confidence in me in the past"
:. The Californian did not specify as
TO the points on which the court neg
slectd to rule.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Congress in Brief

TO-DAY.
Senate:
Debates Philippine currency bill.
Finance Committee weighs revenue
bill.
Appropriations Committee gets eyi-
dence on $2,364,22s,712 deficiency
bill.
House:
Considers minor legislation.
TOMORROW.
Senate:
Is slated to take up omnibus flood
control bill.
Finance Committee, executive, On
tax bill.
Appropriations Committee. execu-
tive, on work relief and deficiency
bill.
House:
Considers private calendar.
Subcommittee on Labor meets 1880
am.
Bell Committee resumes investiga-
ton of old-age pension plan ct 10
am.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
BRITISH AND SOVIET CONFER.
Naval Agreements to Be Discussed In
London Soon.


London Soon.
LONDON. May 18 (P)-Representa-
tives of Great Britain and Soviet Rus
sia will confer here this week on a
possible naval agreement.
The conferees for Great Britain will
be representatives of the foreign Of
fee and the admiralty. Ambassador
Ivan M. Maisky and his naval attache.
Antipoff -Chikunsky will represent
Russia.
An authoritative source indicated
there were hopes for a special agree
ment limiting size of warships of the
two nations and that if the Anglo
Antipoff -Chikunsky, will represent
similar negotiations would open be-
tween Great Britain and Germany.
The aim is eventually to make the
recent London naval treaty between
Britain. the United States and France
applicable to all the chief naval
powers.
The accomplishment Of this, how
ever, Is admittedly difficult. Japan
and Italy. which participated in the
London five-po naval talks, did
not accept the treaty. Japan declined
to negotiate and Italy would not &C
cept anything while League Of Ma
tions' sanctions were imposed.
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Repaid With Interest.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kans. (P.-Six
years ago Ray Seeley lent So to
strange Mexican railway worker, who
said he had been robbed. The rail-
roads pay day arrived, the Mexican
did not show up. Seeley charged it TO
experience.
Recently q well-dressed Mexican
stopped at Seeley's store. peeled u
from huge roll and would accept
10 change. p,
Evening star., 1936-05-18

Any one with half an eye can see
seat is pretty wide and the blond is
petite and If the truth were told, the
car is only about one-third full.
EDUCATED.
A senior at local college Uas
filling out information demanded
By the institutions authorities in
connection NTH graduation. Shdr-
ing his room at the time ,Das q
freshman friend.
The senior ,orote doDn everything
NTH dlGcrity until he came to q
certain point. After studying d
moment, obviously puzzled, he
turned to the freshman.
Hon." he asked. do you spell
'diploma'?"
ESSAY.
ONE of the secretaries on Capitol
Hill is convinced that brevity Is
the soul Of wit. The young niece of
a friend Of his. whose schooling began
not so very long ago. was recently
assigned ANTS" as the subject for
a theme.
The young lady went to work and
handed this in to the teacher:
MY subjek Is Ants. Ants Is Of Z
kinds: Insects and Lady Uncles
Sometimes they live In holes and
they crawl into the sugar
bowl and sometimes they live with
their married sisters. That Is all I
know about ants"
Evening star., 1936-05-18

JUN1LE NIL e.
THE next time a group Of Wash
ington students attend So
called Jungle dance they will wear
more clothes than Halle Selassie.
In order to provide a realistic jun
gle atmosphere for the affair the
committee in charge of arrangements
secured the woods and fields in nearby
Maryland and Virginia for tree limbs,
weeds, wild moss and anything else
that might be found that would pro-
vide a proper setting. The commit
tee. however, gathered some things
that are not even found in jungle.
In this particular classification were
poison ivy vines.
Anyhow, the collection OF shrubs,
tree limbs, wild moss and everything
else was used for decorative pur-
poses in the dance hall. The thinly
clad jungle dancers" failed to rec
ognize the poison ivy.
Now at least so of them are treating
the rash that results from close con-
tact with the poisonous weed.
LOVE LOCKED OUT.
WHY did John Boles, romantic
w singing star of the stage and
screen leave out his middle name, for
public purposes? Contrary to the
practice of certain flamboyant movie
celebrities in adopting fancy monikers,
modest Boles, who is on both the
screen and stage of local picture
emporium. kept his own name but
deliberately eliminated his middle
name, a perfectly good old family
name, too. In Greenville, Tex, where
he came from, the name stands for
the finest in gentlemanliness and
gentle womanhood of the old South.
His complete name Is really John
Love Boles.
X
SIGN.
A BLOND driving roadster around
town these gold and blue days
has taken a leaf rather literally from
the books of the traction companies,
perhaps as a protection or maybe
just as an expression of disdain.
At any rate. prominently attached
to the windshield of the car is one
of those street car signs which reads
Car Full"
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Ickcs

Continued From First Pase)
funds with which to carry out some
5000 approved projects might be
found in this manner.
Explains Limit Set.
HAYDEN explained that present
statutes limit the revolving fund to
$3.50, 900 900, with the Reconstruction
Corporation acting as selling agent OF
P. w. A. securities.
The Arizonan. who advocated an
amendment to the bill to give 1ckes
s7OO 900 900, said this revolving fund
is used for loans. The suggestion be-
fore the subcommittee, he said, was
to permit its use for grants as well.
In addition. he said 1ckes had about
$50 900 900 worth of securities which
he is not precluded from giving to the
R. F. C. 10 sell.
Hayden said the law might be re-
laxed TO permit this being added 10
the revolving fund. He added that no
conclusion had been reached as TO
how much of the suggested 100000
600 fund might be used for grants
and how much for loans but said the
grant aspect Of it would be tanta-
mount to an appropriation.
Ickes was closeted with the COM
mittee for an hour and half.
Neither he nor committee members
would comment on the ruling OF the
District of Columbia Court of Ap-
peals.
The s70o .00o. 600 suggestion was put
forward at a time when 1t appeared
that Ickes' P. W. A. would get none
Of the 5000 900 and was headed
for oblivion next year.
Later, however, President Roosevelt
said P. w. A and Rexford G. Tug
wells Resettlement Administration
would be continued in curtailed form
with funds furnished by Hopkins
This brought the fire Of Republicans
on the Appropriations Committee.
Steiwer Issues Challenge.
Senator Steiwer of Oregon con-
tended the President would have no
authority to make P. w. A. alot-
ments from this fund. He said that
if the Chief Executive had that au-
thority he might also continue work
on the Passamaquoddy tidal power
project in Maine and the Florida
ship canal.
Steiwer and other Republicans dis
cussed the question Of asking Con-
troller General McCarl for an inter
pretation of the relief measure as 1t
passed the House.
A.F. of L. Hits Business.
Another development connected
with the problem of relief was Q reit-
Grafton from the American Federation
of Labor that unemployment Is not
keeping UP with recovery and an ex-
pression of concern over 1.-The exceed
tngly serious Unemployment short
age"
The A. F. of L. said the increases
in the earnings of large corporations
far exceeded the gains in production.
In its monthly survey the federation
asked:
IF we cannot count on business.
without control, to put the unem-
ployed to work, how then can place
be found for them in Americas work
shop, where they may produce wealth
and earn the income necessary for a
good life?"
BY March, 1886" the survey said,
business had Travelled "a per cent of
the way back to normal, but only as
per cent of the depression unemployed
had gone back to work"
Unemployed in March. the survey
| said, totaled l2,l84 900.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
M0VEME MENT OF GOLD
TO U. S. RESUMED
$780, 900, 900 Imported From Mid.
April to May S-Bulk
From France. IN
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A resumption of the gold move
ment toward American shores, with
imports from mid-April to May to-
falling s150,000,000, was disclosed to-
day by the Federal Reserve Board.
OF the total. s125, ,ooo, 900 came from
France, the board reported. adding
that the trend was the result mainly
Of reduction in the volume Of Euro
pean short-term balances held in the
American market.
Evening star., 1936-05-18

in the House for
13 years and is
recognized as one
of the tax author
tiles in that body.
was chairman of
the subcommittee
of the Ways and
Means Commit
tee, which framed
the special tax re-
form bill calling
for a revolution
AIRY basis of corr
porate taxation,
which recently
passed he House.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Norway Celebrates.

oSLOw, Norway, May ls' R.-
King Haakon stood on q balcony OF
the palace for two hours yesterday
to review a mammoth procession as
Norway celebrated Independence day
In brilliant Summer weather.
Crown Prince Olaf sent greetings
to all United States citizens of Nor
wegian origin In O radio broadcast.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
LATE FILM STARS CAR
GIVEN TO CHAUFFEUR
Marlene Dietrich Presents Auto
of Friend to His Former
Chauffeur. -

BY the Associated Press.
HOLLYWOOD, May ia small
automobile owned by the late John
Gilbert, screen star, now is the prop
erty of his former chauffeur. AL
Roelof-the gift Of Marlene Dietrich,
close friend Of the actor.
Miss Dietrich was the highest bidder
when the car was offered for sale.
records in Probate Court disclosed
today. She bid $500 more than the
listed market value.
The chauffeur had expressed q
sentimental attachment to Gilbert's
car.
Before his death Gilbert was a fire.
ouent escort Of the German actress.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
HILL is APPOINTED
} T0U. S. TAX BOARD
Representative Was Head Of
House Group Framing Re.
form Measure.

President Roosevelt today appointed
Representative Samuel B. Hill of
Washington to be a member of the
Board of Tax Appeals for term of
~ years, beginning June 2.
Representative Hill, who has been
Evening star., 1936-05-18

time, the President sent to the Senate
the name of David E. Lilenthal of
Wisconsin for reappointment as a
member of the board of directors OF
the Tennessee Valley Authority for a
term expiring nine years after May 10
next.
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Fire Destroys Farm Homes.

MOSCOW May 18 @.-A group
Of 11s houses Of collective farmers
was destroyed yesterday by IRE
started when q samovar overturned
in the home Of an aged farmer in
the Sarayevsky district Of Moscow
Province.
The farmer, v. M. Kusnetzoff, who
was taking nap. was burned to
des*h. N
Evening star., 1936-05-18

on this vital matter. The defeat Of the bill in
Congress by no means purges the country Of in
dation sentiment. The success in the Ohio pri-
maries of the House candidates indorsed by the
Union for Social Justice showed the power of
Father Coughlin, whose strength Is based on
his demand to start the printing presses to
pay the debts
Mr.. Landon's policy of silence, broken only
by an occasional generalization, is beginning to
work against him. There Is already . good
deal of talk of who wants to buy pig in the
poke Right now the booms of other candidates
are looking up.
We are going into the home stretch before
Evening star., 1936-05-18
Arms
Continued From First Page,)

Committee that the organization would
not support an attempt to bring lib
erty to our brothers in Germany and
Italy on the points of our bayonets."
Demands for a general amnesty to
political prisoners convicted of anti
militarjst and anti-imperialist propa-
ganda were agreed upon by the parlia-
mentary section of the Communist
party at a meeting in the Chamber
of Deputies.
BRITISH AND SOVIET CONFER.
Evening star., 1936-05-18

the convention. Passing the three-quarter
form doesn't look as good as it did at the barrie
tcopyrtEht. 1850