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Evening star., 1937-03-04
PRESIDENTS TALK
MAY TOUCHCOURT
Conference Held With Con-
gress Leaders on "victory
Dinners" Tonight.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Administration officials emphasized
today that President Roosevelt's
speech this evening to Democratic
victory dinners" would be of major
importance and would refer indirectly
to his court reorganization program.
1t will lay the groundwork, these
officials said, for more detailed state
ment of his judiciary and other OBJ
jectives In the "flreside chat" from
the White House next Tuesday.
Mr.. Roosevelt was understood to
have given a rough outline of his din
ner speech at a conference late yester-
day with Vice President Garner,
Speaker Bankhead, Senator Robinson,
Democrat, of Arkansas, and Repre-
sentative Rayburn, Democrat, Of
Texas. Democratic congressional
leaders.
Democrats conversant with the
Presidents intentions said he would
talk in terms of problems more than
remedies, much as he did in his in
augural address. delivered under chill
clouded skies to a solemn crowd at the
Capitol four years ago today.
He was represented by them as still
believing, as he said then, that "our
greatest primary task is to put people
to work.
Estimates Of that day showed about
100000 were unemployed. The
ly numbered the idle at about TO-
100000.
To Raise Party Fund.
The speech this evening will be
broadcast at 1890 o'clock The oc-
casion will be one of frank Democratic
celebration, designed to raise money
to pay of the s43O,00O party deficit.
More than 1900 persons have paid
500 each for tickets to the dinner
Mr. Roosevelt will attend at the May
flower Hotel. All but IS will go to the
party. Some 1,400 more will sit down
to a s10-a-plate dinner of Young
Democrats" several blocks away, at
the Willard Hotel, where Mrs. Roose-
welt will be the guest of honor.
w. Forbes Morgan, party treasurer,
said 1,162 dinners were scheduled in
43 States. Vice President Garner will
be the honor guest at the s50-a-plate
dinner in New York.
There was speculation whether he
would reiterate in effect his view that
labor and agricultural problems can be
met within the Constitution as 1t
stands.
"Our Constitution Is so simple and
practical" he said at the first in
auguration, that it is possible to meet
extraordinary needs by changes in
emphasis and arrangement without
loss of essential FORM"
Some supporters of the President On
the judiciary issue have argued that
the real dispute is over the Roosevelt
(See JUDICIARY, Page A-4)
Evening star., 1937-03-04
GOES
SOUTH MARCH Il.
Abandons Plan for Several
Stops on Way to Warm
Springs, Ga.
cY ]. RUSSELL YOUNG.

President Roosevelt has selected
Thursday as the day of his departure
from Washington for Warm Springs,
Ga, where he has planned to take
brief vacation. He plans to be back
at his desk about March Is.
The President has abandoned his
original plan to make several stops en-
route to Warm Springs, which would
afford him an opportunity to visit
the Governors of South Carolina and
Georgia, as well as some of the his
torical spots in Georgia. He has de-
cided to put of these visits until some
other time.
Mr.. Roosevelt will take along with
him Marvin H. Mcintyre of his secre-
tarial staff, and several stenographers
and clerks of the executive Office. but
it is his purpose to devote less than
half of his time to work. He expects
to have few business callers, but will
be in direct telephone communication
with the White House and Capitol
Hill.
No date has been set by Mr.. Roose-
velt for the fishing trip he is. planning
to take late in April in the waters
of the Gulf of Mexico. It is thought
he will embark on this expedition
about the last week in April and re-
turn to washington some time during
the first week in May. Meantime, the
President Is being swamped with
letters and telegrams from city off,
cials, civic leaders and others to visit
various places along .the Gulf.
During the fishing cruise, the Pres
ident will set up temporary execu-
tive Office, probably in New Orleans,
where Secretary Mcintyre and his as
sistants will be in constant touch with
the President, and with affairs back
in Washington.
The President made few engage
ments today, so as to have as much
(See PRESIDENT. Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-03-04
PARIS EXPECTED
TO END GOLD BAN
Reopening Of Free Market
and Further Cut in
Franc Forecast.
BY the Associated Press.

oy lllC AooUSldtCu ElCSo.
PARIS, March 4.-Deflnite pegging
of the French franc at about % to
the dollar and creation of free gold
market were forecast for this week end
by informed financial quarters today.
This is further devaluation OF
about 2l2 per cent.
Premier Leon Blum is prepared to
set a definite value on the national
currency in a new effort to extricate
his government from current financial
difficulties, these sources said
Official financial circles maintained
silence on the predictions but acknowl-
edged the Socialist premier "has
strong trump up his sleeve which he
expects to pull out at the right
moment"
(The franc is currently quoted at
ASS cents, about 2l12 to the dollar.
At the rate of % to the dollar, the
francs value would approximate 4.54
centS)
Labeyrie May Go.
Among a series of new financial
measures, f1nanciers predicted, would
be one to remove Emile Labeyrie, gov.
ernor OF the reorganized Bank Of
France.
The new franc rate would be within
the three-power currency stabilization
agreement among France. the United
States and Great Britain. This &C
cord, concluded shortly before the
francs devaluation last october, per-
mitted the French currency to fluc-
tuate between 20.15 and 22.96 to the
dollar
That devaluation law reduced the
gold content of the franc from 65.5
milligrams to between 40 and 43 milli-
grams. The exact content in milli-
grams was not specified in the law.
Other Currencies Purchased.
Reports of the imminent financial
action by the Blum government caused
heavy purchases of sterling, dollars
and other foreign exchange at today's
market opening.
The projected measures were in
terpreted in financial circles as lex
tremely conservative and departure
from the present financial policy
which some money experts have de-
clared has driven Frenchnen to in
vesting abroad rather than subscribing
to government loans.
Setting definite value on the franc
and throwing the gold market open to
business at the government-pre
price is intended to entice capital back
to France, the interpreters said.
If such a move were successful, they
declared, the government might be
able to borrow fresh funds at home.
The national treasury is believed to
be almost empty again and the London
loan of last January of FAC, 100000
0,000. .000) is about exhausted.
By pegging the franc, Blum hopes
to eliminate the necessity of the cur
rency stabilization fund set up under
the tri-power accord, it was asserted.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
STEEL PRICE BOOST
IS EXPECTED SOON
New Rates May Be Announced
Tomorrow to Meet Wage
Increases.
By the Associated Press.

6y the Associated PreSS.
PITTSBURGH, March 4.-Steel OBJ
servers looked to an expected steel
price rise tomorrow to provide the ad-
ditional revenues for the industry's
latest wage increases, amounting to
more than 100000 900 a year.
The United States Steel Corp.'s
largest subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois
Steel Corp, will announce its prices
for the second quarter of the year.
Iron Age, journal of the industry, has
predicted hike in the cost of steel
between So and Sc ton.
The wage increases announced this
week are but one factor considered in
the speculations of price gain. The
growing demand for steel, putting the
industry near peak operation, and ad-
vances in the cost of raw materials
are considered by observers as i'm
portant supports for their forecasts
Of higher steel prices.
Heavy melting scrap at Pittsburgh
has gone up SO a ton since .he previous
boost in wages and steel prices an
nounced last November.
Coke advanced 25 cents a ton at
Connellsville recently, and the price
Of pig iron moved up 81 ton.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Pardon and $40
Darcy Gift to
Ohio Fugitive
Governor Talks With
Escaped COnuict
T,uO Hours.
81 the Associated Press.

COLUMBUS, Ohio, March IA
full pardon and $40 from Gov Martin
L. Davey sent Torrance j. Cannon
back to Pittsburgh today, free of the
shadow of prison walls for the first
time in l9 years.
The Governor talked with the big,
38-year-old steel mill foreman for two
hours last night, then granted the
pardon and gave him $40 to pay his
railroad fare home.
Good luck to you, sir" the Gov
ernor said as he shook the steel
workers hand and gave him the
money.
II don't know how to thank you,
Governor" Cannon replied, almost
tearfully. 81 don't think you'll ever
regret this"
Pittsburgh became his home during
his wanderings as a fugitive from the
London, Ohio. prison farm from which
he escaped 16 years ago. He married
a year ago and police Intervention in
a family quarrel led to his identifica-
ton last week.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Sunshine Contrasts January
Inaugural, Puzzli1,g Norris

there was rainfall Of lit inches mixed
with sleet and snow. The temperature
lowered between 80 and Il, and the
Army, Navy and Coast Guard In
the inaugural parade :'oshed for two
hours along wet, comfortfss streets.
President Roosevelt was drenched
and thousands Of spectators looked on
bleakly. Hundreds more huddled in
Union Station, not caring to go out
to see the parade. Raincoats were the
standard garb. but now its the Spring
suit.
The day of the first Franklin Roose-
welt inaugural was raw and windy, md
the parade moved up Pennsylvania
avenue under cloudy skies. Todays
balmy weather Is due to end soon, how
even. Rain and colder Is the .predic-
ton for tomorrow.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Special Dispatch to The Star


ANNAPOLIS, March 4.-The Fed
eral Government is seriously consider
ing the purchase of huge acreage Of
land in Anne Arundel. Prince Georges
and Montgomery Counties for the pur-
pose of establishing national forest
and park, it was disclosed here today
from an unimpeachable source.
The park would be part of the
United States Governments plan to
beautify the area adjacent to the Ma
tional Capital, according to plans
which will be recommended today at
q meeting Of engineering officials to
be held in the Municipal Building In
Baltimore.
It is proposed that the park would
begin on the begks Of the Severn River
Evening star., 1937-03-04
U.S.. May Buy Huge acreage
For Park in Nearby Maryland

near Annapolis and extend through
three counties in the direction Of
Washington. Alongside the park and
through 1t would be dual scenic high
way running from Annapolis to WASH
ington.
Earl Draper, who was one of the
leading engineers in the Tennessee
Valley Authority program, has spent
months here making survey with
Clarence P. Taylor, New England road
expert. They state that most Of the
land to be purchased would be sub
marginal land on which persons can
barely exc out an existence. The sur
vey allegedly shows that the taxes the
counties would lose because Of farms
being taken over by the Government
Evening star., 1937-03-04
picture on Page BIZ

Sunbeams danced before the desk
of Senator Norris today and made
him wonder what the weather man
was thinking Of.
Senator Norris was the eloquent and
successful advocate Of changing the
inaugural date from March 4 to jan
uary 20. He said he had it from the
Weather Bureau that the average jan
uary 20 was . much more pleasant
day than the average March 4.
Today, however, the sun shone
brightly and the temperature was due
to climb to so. The season Is still
Winter. but it felt like Spring on
Pennsylvania avenue, where inaugural
parades are held.
Forty-three days ago, JanuaK 40.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Officials Dissatisfied With
MiIIer'S Statement in
ChIoroform Case.
WILL SEEK INDICTMENT
ON CHARGE OF MURDER
Commonwealth Attorney to Fight
Any Move for Bond as He
Continues Probe.
BY IRVING F. LASH,

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, March
4.-Dissatisfied with the statement of
DR.. Richard G. Miller, that Cleo
Sprouse was an accidental victim of
chloroform, Commonwealth Attorney
w. o. Fife announced this afternoon
he would seek murder indictment
for the 53-year-old dentist.
Fife disclosed DR.. Miller, arrested
last night on murder warrant, had
expressed the hope on arrival in the
Richmond Jail for "a quick trial.
The case may be presented to spe-
eial grand jury here this month, Fife
declared, but it is probable it will not
be considered before the April session.
Any attempt on the part of DR.. Mil
Ter to seek bond at this time will be
vigorously opposed by the Common
wealth attorneys Office, it was re-
vealed.
Declines to Reveal Statement.
Declining to make known the full
contents of a very brief" statement
he said DIR. Miller made today, after
he was taken to the Henrico Jail, in
Richmond, Fife said Were not even
sure it will be used as evidence against
him"
I'VE are not putting much stock in
Miller's story at this time" Fife
added I'VE are still checking his
movements on the night in question,
in the hope something new will de-
velop."
Cleo, pretty 18-year-old high school
student, was found dead Tuesday in
q strip of woods adjacent to the Uni
versity of Virginia Cemetery.
In the statement DR.. Miller, So
year-old local dentist, was quoted as
having confessed he administered
chloroform to Miss Sprouse as he pre-
pared to perform an illegal operation
on her in an automobile.
DR.. Miller, first in a verbal state
ment en- route to Richmond and then
in written form after questioning st
the jail, is alleged to have said he kept
the girls body in the car until dark,
when he deposited the Ifeless form
alongside the University of Virginia
Cemetery.
Students Find Body.
The dentiSt-married and widely
known here-denied he was responsible
for the 18-year-old girls condition.
He was quoted as declaring Cleo, a
dental patient, informed him she was
to become mother and appealed to
him to aid her
The girls body was found Tuesday
by two college students. Cotton was
wedged in her mouth, a towel was
stretched across her face and an empty
chloroform can was balanced so that
the opening would drain the contents
onto the cotton. Nearby were the girls
undergarments.
DR.. Miller, according to the authori-
ties, said he became frantic when he
found the girl had stopped breathing
as he made ready to perform an opera
tion, waited on lonely road until
night, drove to the cemetery and at
tempted to leave the body in a posi-
ton that would indicate suicide. He
also left the undergarments, which the
girl had removed in preparation for
the operation, it was alleged
The alleged incriminating statement
was in the hands of Commonwealth s
Attorney w. o. Fife, who directed the
questioning of the dentist following his
arrest late yesterday in his Office here.
Detective B. A. Shipp waited for DR..
(See CHLOROFORM, Page A-50
Evening star., 1937-03-04
PARENTS STORM SCHOOL
Beat Teachers Who Refused to
Prepare Pupils Meals.

GALWAY, Irish Free State, March
4 R.-Fifty parents stormed a school
house on the island of Achill today
as the upshot of pupils strike. beat
ing the teachers and two constables
who tried to stop them.
Police reinforcements finally scat
tered the parents. The children have
been striking of and on for 10 weeks
because the teachers refused to pre-
pare their peonday meals.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
CHILD SAVED FROM ICE
Aviation Field Lieutenant Hero
in Human Chain Feat.

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich, March
1 R.-Second Lieut.. Marion Malcolm
of Selfridge Field swan through slush
ice yesterday to rescue the 4-year-old
daughter of Capt. Leo H. Dawson. The
child, Joanne, had broken through
the ice while playing 80 feet of shore
in Anchor Bay.
Other Selfridge Field men formed
a human chain to assist the girl and
her rescuer in reaching shore
Evening star., 1937-03-04
Summary of Today's Star

FOREIGN.
Blockade against arms and men to
Spain delayed. Page AS
Fascist council acts to boost birth rate
in Italy. Page A-l7
British labor seizes rearming program
to press demands. Page ALT
NATIONAL.
President plans to leave for South
next Thursday. Page Al
1886 political campaigns cost $23, ,973,-
329, report shows. Page Al
Judiciary implications expected in
Roosevelt talk tonight. Page Al
c. I. o. fights on. ignoring A. F. of L.
threat Page Az
Sloan outlines General Motors labor
policy. Page Az
McReynoios sees house disagreement
with neutrality bill. Page Az
Two lives were lost and II persons hurt
in New York fire. Page Az
Leo J. Flynn. former I. G. c. examiner.
dies in West. Page A-12
Coroner's inquest into Mrs. Traders
deatn poStponeo- FaSe A-AS
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Justice says big fellows" in numbers
racket are screened" Page Al
Huge U. S. park planned in nearby
Maryland area. Page Al
Committees cut $7S0,050 from Mary
land budget. Page As
Cantrel would place Montgomery en-
ployes on merit system. PAGE Al
Negotiations under way In Arlington
school land mix-up. Page As
Nice denies all charges pertaining to
him IN police inquiry. Page AS
Clarendon man sentenced to peniten-
tiary in fatal trafic case. Page ALA
Alexandria police say death Of boy will
60 unsolved. Page Ais
Ballou indicates settlement Of marriage
clause controversy. 4 Page B-l
Evening star., 1937-03-04
RADIO STORY REAL
Mother and Daughter Who Won
$50 Prize Found Dead.

$50 Prize Found Dead.
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, March Mrs. Mar
garet Aerill Ramsey, SIS, and her
daughter, Alice Dean, 20, won a $50
prize on a radio program for telling
"the most heart-rending personal ex-
perience of the week."
They told how they had gone down
to the East River, overcome by poverty
and loneliness, with the intent of "end-
ing 1t ALL" but had been encouraged
to go on living by a policeman.
On Monday their bodies were found
in 'gas-filled attic room, for which
they had paid their last So. A penny
was found in the girls purse.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
MRS. ROOSEVELT SIGNS
Will Begin 13-Week Radio Talks
on Commercial PROGRAM.

White House sources said today Mrs.
Franklin D. Roosevelt will begin IN
mid-April 13-week series Of talks on
commercial radio program.
Her compensation, these sources
said, will be paid directly to the Ameri-
can Friends Service Committee, q
charitable organization with head
quarters at Philadelphia. The re-
muneration was not announced.
Evening star., 1937-03-04
BATHING BEAUTY KILLED
Miss Los Angeles of 1925 Dies in
Movie Stunt Crash.

BY the Associated Press.
PASADENA, Calf, March MAR
celia Arnold, Miss Los Angeles" of
1926, was killed instantly in a movie
automobile accident here last night.
Gordon Carveth, ace stunt driver,
and Loretta Rush. third occupant of
the car, we're injured slightly.
Two hundred spectators, attracted
to Oak Grove Park by the sight OF
movie lights, saw the car lurch from
the road and turn completely over.
swapping Miss Arnold's neck.
Evening star., 1937-03-04

have small numbers gambler such as
this man brought in while the men be-
hind the scenes keep out of trouble"
Beach replied that he was "a little
(see NUMBERS, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-03-04

(See RELIEF, Page A-3.)
Evening star., 1937-03-04

(See FIDELITY, Page A-9.)
Evening star., 1937-03-04

(See PRESIDENT, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-03-04

(see PARK, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1937-03-04

(See CHLOROFORM, Page A-5.)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-30
Your Children
By OLIVE ROBERTS BARTON

| After a few years she was dis
heartened to find that she was just
about where she started. Experience
had taught each child some much
needed lessons, and they were i'm
proved Somewhat. But. she knew
that at heart each child was really
little changed.
Why had she failed? Why did
she lie awake nights and whisper
into the darkness that her children
were a disappointment?
If Mrs. Wilson had learned one
thing years ago, she might not be
suffering SO now, or be so d1Scour-
aged.
Facing Character Facts
All she needed was to admit the
truth, which was something like
this: albert has villainouS tenn
per. Betty is over-sensitive and
sulker. Charlie is lacking in feeling
and the fine perceptions. There
they are. I cannot make them over,
any more than I can change ma
hogany into pine, or yellow maple
into satin-wood. I must work with
what I have. I can help them all.
can discipline them morally,
service and honor as wei las their
natures will permit or understand.
1t is the best I can do"
Most mothers cringe from ac-
cepting facts Of character makeup
in children. They set too-perfect
standard and expect to realize 1t.
Pre-school years are the most
plastic ones. Unfortunate traits
have more chance now of being
changed. But even so, all chill
dren are different. The most we
can expect is to help them as best
we may, by example, percept, and
wisdom, and not expect miracles
that won't happen.
Copyright, 1887, NEA Service, Inc)
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-30

AOAs Juot SAV SuA16
for the family lunch or supper when
the grip Of winter is chilling bodies
and building appetites:
Onion Dumpllnas
cups sifted -four: 2 teaspoons
double.acting baking powder; /
teaspoon salt; " cup butter or
other shortening; Y cup milk
(about).
8 medium white onions, boiled: 1
cup chopped cooked bacon or sau.
sage; dash Of pepper.
Sift -four once, measure, add bak.
ing powder and salt. and sift again.
Cut in shortening. Add milk gradtls
ally. stirring until soft dough 10
formed. Turn out on slightly Toured
board and knead 30 seconds; or
enough to shape. Roll " inch thick
and cut in 6.inch circles. Place /
onion on each circle. add meat and
pepper. Bring dough up over onion,
pressing edges together. Place close
together in creased baking dish.
with Joined edges underneath.
Brush tops with butter. Bake IN hot
oven (450s F. 20 to Is minutes, or
until done. Serve with cheese sauce
or ketchup and horse.radish sauce.
Serves a /,
The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1937-01-30
Make Your Next Party Hum
With These Stunts

Musical Partners is the game
that's making Ronnie's party sound
like a swing band gone mad.
Write duplicate slips each bear
ing the name of familiar tune
and put in separate baskets for
men and girls to draw from. Each
goes about humming or whistling
the tune on his slip, trying to find
partner with the same air. Words
are not sung.
ThereIl be no ice left, to thaw
when Sweet Adeline, Old. Man
River. You're the. Top, Lost-find
mates.
When the party shows signs of
tagging, try Scent" Fill identical
bottles with liquids Of definite odor
peppermint. vanilla, kerosene -
not forgetting plain water. Each
guest gets one Whit Of each bottle
and writes down his guess. The re-
suits are side4splitting.
Our 32-page booklet is full of
clever ice-breakers, stunts, games,
contests to make your parties sue
cessful.
Send 1Oc for your copy of
GROWN-UP PARTY FUN to the
waterbury Democrat Home Service,
635 Sixth Ave-, New York, N. Y.
Be sure to write plainly your NAME
ADDRESS,. and the NAME of book
let.