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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
Stained Floors
Impress Mt. Ida
Homestead Group
One of Resettlement Men
Meets Cousin Lost
for Years.

LURAY, Va, October 21.-Mrs.
Fred Seal, a member Of one of the
first six mountain families moved by
the Resettlement Administration into
the Ida Valley homestead area, con-
tinued her study of Federal modernity
today with something akin to Won
derment.
Mozelle Cowden, family selection
specialist, said Mrs. Seal and others
we're very much impressed with the
stained floors and other Improvements
in their new homes.
Withal, everything was on fairly
friendly and cheerful basis around Ida
Valley today. Men took time out from
the details of getting settled to greet
their new neighbors. One Of them
even discovered a first cousin he
hadn't seen in many years was q
neighbor.
That's my cousin sure as I'm liv-
ing" said Bernie Taylor, pointing to
another Mr.. Taylor. MY boy Ivan
was named after him"
Each of the six families, the first Of
ITS to be moved, has house, horse
and Is acres of land. )
When Aubrey Sisk arrives with his
family tomorrow there will be 81
children in the settlement.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
CENTRISTS' PARTY
IN DANZIG CRUSHED
Last Parliamentary Opposition
to Nazis Dissolved
by Police.
By the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
FREE CITY OF DANZIG, October
21.-The Catholic Centrist party, last
parliamentary opposition to the Nazs,
was formally dissolved today by police
on the charge that leading member
had worked against the State. Six
Centrist members of the Lower House
will be accepted into the Nazi party
as guests and will vote with the Nazis.
The other sc seats of the chamber
have been held by Nazis.
Danzig law provides for dissolution
of q political society If member
pursues subversive activities. Police
asserted that search of several homes
of Centrists disclosed discriminating
material.
Nazi District Leader Forster for a
long time had sought dissolution OF
the Centrists. majority of whom
favored the step and cooperation
with Germans rather than Poles.
(The treaty Of Versailles established
the Free City of Danzig out Of what
had been German territory before the
World War. German Nazis have
carried on considerable propaganda for
political control of the Polish terri
tories.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
LOBBYING DEFENDED
AS ESSENTIAL LINK
Real Estate Association Official
Says Agent Can Be of "Tremen-
dous Aid" to Legislators.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH, October 21.-Ray
Hofford of Albany, executive vice
president of the Real Estate Associa-
ton of New York State, defended lob
bying today as AN essential link" in
the American system of Government
He told the secretaries division of
the national real estate convention
that business would be out on a
limb if it did not have its own repre-
sentatives at Washington and State
capitals to follow proposed legislation. +"
Hofford continued
1.-THE honest, well-informed legisla-
tive agent can be of tremendous as
sistance to law makers. 1t is impos-
sible for legislator to personally fol-
low the thousands of bills introduced:
neither can he be familiar with the
technical provisions or possible effects
of proposed measures bearing upon
lines of business foreign to his own"
He urged citizens to study govern
nent and pending legislation, assert
ing:
IF they would take the trouble to
acquaint their Representative in Con-
gress and the State Legislature with
their views we would have better laws"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
SECOND TRIAL SET
FOR HUNTER NOV. 8
U. S. Supreme Court Denies
Writ of Certiorari in
Staying of Wife.
a., STAFF Correspondent of The star.

BY 6tdu Correspondent Va Alc oldis
ARLINGTON, Va, October 2f.-
With q writ of certiorari denied him
by the United States Supreme Court
which refused this week to review his
sentence of 20 years in prison for the
murder of his wife, j. Francis Hunter,
faces trial November 8 on second
indictment, which charges he muir
dered Henry E. Corcoran.
The trial date was set by Circuit
Court Justice Walter T Mccarthy at
the opening of the october session Of
the court here.
Hunter was charged with numbering
his wife, Anna Dalmas Hunter, and
her friend, Henry e. Corcoran, at
Hunters home, May 7, 1884. After
the double Staying Hunter is said to
have attempted suicide by firing a
shotgun into his chin.
His attorney, Minitree ]. Fulton Of
Richmond, moved the State Supreme
Court of Appeals for writ of error
citing that the indictment on which
Hunter was convicted did not charge
second-degree murder and there WAS
no malice shown by the defendant
either by evidence at the trial or in
the indictment.
The State Supreme Court rejected
the writ of error and affirmed the
Circuit Courts judgment in the case,
and the application to the United
States Supreme Court for . writ of
certiorari followed.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
FARMERS OF 3 STATES
WANT SPECIAL SESSION
Testimony Before Senate Body
Also Shows They Favor Pope
McGill Bill.
by the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, October al
Testimony given at three-day Senate
Agriculture Subcommittee hearing dis
closed last night a majority Of Me-
braska, South Dakota and Iowa farm
ers wanted the special session of Con-
gress converting next month to enact
a law providing for crop acreage con-
troll and an ever-normal granary.
Sixty-five of 10l witnesses who
voiced their opinions at the hearing
favored principles of the Pope-McGih
bill.
Written briefs filed with the COM
mittee by about hundred additional
persons showed about two-thirds of
them Endorsed the measure written by
two of the subcommittee members,
Senators James P. Pope of Idaho and
George McGill Of Kansas.
The Senators measure provides for
a permanent farm program, soil con-
servation, an ever-normal granary,
commodity loans on basic farm COM
modities, production adjustment and
optional crop insurance.
The committee members, Pope,
McGiu and Senator Lynn j. Frazier
of North Dakota, left for Topeka,
Kans., where tomorrow and Saturday
they will hold the eighth of q series
of hearings.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
HOUSING PROJECTS
TRANSFER IS SET
Straus to Get Control of 81
Enterprises Started
by P. w. A.

An executive order by President
Roosevelt, it was announced today, Will
transfer to Nathan Straus, newly-ap-
pointed administrator of the United
States Housing Authority, the 81 low
cost housing projects inaugurated
under the Public Works Administra-
ton.
This decision, reached after White
House conference, gives Straus nu-
cleus of 500 trained employees with
which to get the Governments greatest
housing program under way with the
least possible delay. About 400 of the
p. w. A. housing employees are sta
toned in Washington.
Before returning to New York to
wind up his business affairs, Straus
will confer with Secretary Of the In
terror Ickes, his immediate superior.
and with Howard A. Gray, who retired
yesterday from the post of director Of
the Housing Division to become assist
ant administrator Of P. w. A. Straus
disclosed he will not actually take
over his new duties until November l.
With a ready-made staff at his dis
posal, the new housing administrator
announced it was only fair to warn
that he does not contemplate engaging
any personnel at this time. He has
been literally swamped with applica-
tons for jobs since his appointment
was made by the President, and Secre-
tary Ickes has had the same expert
ence.
Strauss does not feel, he said, that
the new governmental agency is Grip
pied at the start by legislative restric-
tons.
After receiving his commission from
President Roosevelt, Straus was asked
by reporters what he thought of a
statement by Ickes that even in
the best of circumstances 1t will be
difficult for Housing Authority to
operate under the Wagner Steagan
bill"
Ickes had explained that the act
limits the cost of any project to
81 900 q room (s1,250 room in large
cities); that it requires q contribution
from the city of 10 per cent of the
cost; and that its requirement that
slums must be torn down for every
new housing project built would be
expensive because "slum property is
often highly priced"
Straus declared:
I built my own project, Hillside
Homes, in the Bronx, for $1,045 a
rom Whv shol11dn'T he able tn do
it at s1,250?"
hillside Homes was erected by q
profit corporation financed by a
P. w. A. loan)
The new administrator added he De-
lieves all difficulties can be ironed out
under the Wagner-Steagall law,
which provides for Federal loans and
rental subsidies to municipal housing
projects.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
FAIL IN ATTEMPT
TO KIDNAP CHILD
Two Men Hunted After Failing
to Snatch Son of Rhode
Island Official.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PROVIDENCE, r. T., October al
Police throughout Rhode Island today
sought two men who officials said at
tempted to kidnap the year-and-a-
half-old son Of Secretary of State
Louis w. Cappelli, and made their
escape in a green sedan after failing
to find the boy.
About $50 am. Cappelli said the
two men, one of them brandishing a
gun, drove into the yard Of Cappelli's
home in North Providence and asked
a nurse maid where the boy was. The
nurse was struck and her dress was
torn in a scuffle which ensued. The
men drove away after searching a
baby carriage standing in the yard
at the time.
The boy, John, had been taken out
in another baby carriage for a stroll
shortly before the two men arrived.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
WATER FRONT STRIKE
TRUCE is REACHED
5000 Men Affected by Walkout
That Has Tied Up 80 Ships
in Six Ports.
BY the Associated Press.


TAMPA, Fla, October 21-V. e.
Townsend, union spokesman, an
nounced a truce early today in the
water front strike which has tied up
principal southeastern ports for six
days.
Townsend, Southern representative
of the International Longshoremen's
Association, said the truce, effective
some time today" would continue
until November 5 or until operators
reach a final agreement with the
American Federation Of Labor Or
ganization.
Any wage scale agreed upon will
be retroactive to the date of the truce,
he added.
Approximately 5000 men-mostly
stevedores, checkers and warehouse
workers-are on strike in Wilmington.
N. c.; Charleston, N. c.; Savannah,
Ga, and Jacksonville, Miami and
Tampa, Fla. Their walkout tied up
more than 80 steamships Of coastwise
lines.
The men demanded increased pay,
an 8-hour day and a premium for
overtime. There was a difference OF
only cents between the amounts
asked and those offered by operators.
Other points were yet to be settled.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
ROME WILL ACCEPT
BID TO CONFERENCE
Officials Say Favorable Reply"
Will Be Sent to Belgium
on Farley Invitation.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
ROME, October 21.-Ofhcials said
today that Italy would send favor
able reply" to Belgium's invitation TO
attend a nine-power conference seek
ing an "amicable settlement" Of the
Sino-Japanese conflict.
The Fascist press still stuck to
slightly pessimistic tone regarding the
impending conference. Phemier Mus
solini's paper, II Popolo dItalia. of
Milan, compared the attitude of the
United States toward Japan in China
with Great Britain's opposition 10
Italy in the Ethiopian venture.
"A new factor, but not so very new.
would seem to be intervention Of Japan
in China, aggravated this time by the
fact that the United States has as
sumed an attitude toward Japan SINH
lar to that which Britain assumed
toward Italy at the time Of the
Ethiopian War" the paper said in
discussing the nine-power conference.
II Popolo added that President
Roosevelt's Chicago speech gave the
conference impetus.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
PUGH WILL RECALL
FUND QUIZ Jury
Action Follows Conference
With County Board Head
and Auditor.
Bvs STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF The Star.

ROCKVILLE, Md, October al
States Attorney James H. Pugh toda,
said the grand jury will be recalled
within week or 10 days" to consider
additional evidence unearthed by &C.
countants engaged in an exhaustive
audit of Montgomery County finances
The prosecutor declared the juror;
would be reconvened to hear findings
made by the auditors since they sub
mitted a preliminary report last
month. 1t was on the basis of the first
report that four county and former
county employees were indicted for
enlightenment.
Pugh's decision was reached after
he was sloseted with Frank H. Karn
president of the Board of County
Commissioners, and William L. Lampe,
representative of a Baltimore account
ing firm, for more than an hour at
his Office in the courthouse yesterday
afternoon.
10 Sift All Evidence.
1t was stated by the prosecutor that
Karn agreed the investigation should
be carried out until all evidence OF
any irregularities could be sifted.
Previously the Board of County
Commissioners had voted to end the
audit, asserting that it was proving
far more expensive than the commits
sioners had expected when they de-
cided to have it made.
Asked how long the audit would
continue, Pugh said that it "is just
getting a good start and probably will
extend for another so days"
Term Expires November 8.
He AIDED, however, that he wants
"to have the present grand jury re-
turn so that can present for its con-
siderstion the facts found to date"
The term of the present grand jury
does not expire until November and
it may be recalled at any time during
its tenure.
The four embezzlement indictments
it returned at an intermediate session
last month were handed down against
E. j. Gray, former building inspector;
Gerald Warthen, building inspector;
Peyton Mannar, former manager of
the Bethesda liquor dispensary, and P.
Ray Souder, supervisor of county aid.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
PAWTUCKET JOINS
RACE TRACK FEUD
City, Aroused at "Abuse of
Power" May Take Case
to High Court.
BY the Associated Press.

PROVIDENCE, r. l., October I'll
Aroused by declaration of martial law
at the Narragansett race track, adj
joining Pawtucket prepared today to
carry its fight against Gov. Robert
E. Quinn's fragrant and dictatorial
abuse of power" to the United States
Supreme Court if necessary.
A short time after the executive,
in radio address, declared he ordered
martial law at the Pawtucket racing
plant as the only way left to me to
preserve the honor and dignity of the
State" the Board of Aldermen and
Common Council acted.
1t named a special committee, head
ed by Mayor Thomas P. Mccoy, to
protect the rights, lives and liberty"
of Pawtucket residents and voted it
unlimited funds to engage counsel to
carry its fight, if necessary, to the
Nations highest court.
O'Hara Held for Grand Jury.
Meanwhile, Judge Maurice Robin
son held Walter E. O'Hara, Narragan-
sett race track chief, for the grand
jury on a charge Of libeling William
E. Beeham, Larchmont, N. Y, adver-
Using man.
Judge Robinson continued in effect
the $1,000 bond which was furnished
by Mayor Mccoy when Mr.. O'Hara
was arrested September 9.
OHara was charged specifically
with calling Beeham "briber" for the
General outdoor Advertising Co. in an
extra edition of the Providence Star
Tribune on September 8.
Assistant Attorney General John
H. Nolan introduced stenographer,
who testified OHara, at racing COM
mission hearing on September iden-
titled himself as sole owner" Of the
Star-Tribune.
Other witnesses we're introduced by
the State to identify the paper and
to testify it was purchased at news
stands.
The grand jury will meet Monday,
December 6. The maximum penalty
for the offense with which OHara is
charged is 10 years imprisonment or
a $4,000 fine.
Governors Action Criticized.
In a resolution, the Board of Alder
men criticized Quinn's action Of last
Saturday in sending the National
Guard to the racing plant and asserted
it had deprived thousands of residents
of the city of Pawtucket of the right
and liberty" guaranteed to them by
Federal and State constitutions.
Mr.. Mccoy is a political and per-
sonal friend of Mr.. O'Hara, managing
director of the race track. and lost the
Democratic gubernatorial nomination
last year to Quinn.
National Guardsmen began another
days vigil at the virtually deserted
track, where racing meet was sched-
uled to begin Monday.
The Governor declared martial law
little more than a day after the State
Supreme Court set aside racing
commission order suspending the
tracks license and ordering O'Hara's
removal The high court also has
thrown out commission order GUST
ing O'Hara as track official.
Racing Secretary Pat Horgan can
ceIed today's program this morning,
but said entries would be accepted for
tomorrow. This procedure has been
followed since Monday, when the Fall
meeting was scheduled to open.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
RAIL QUIZ CHARGES
|. EVASION OF LAWS
Senator Says Van SWerin-
gems Used Holding Firms
to Get Around Statutes.
BY the Associated Press.


Senator Truman, Democrat, of Mis-
souri,, acting chairman of the Senate
Railroad Finance Committee, charged
today that the late Van Sweringen
brothers had made use Of holding COM
panies in building their $4,000 100000
railroad empire principally" to evade
State and Federal regulations.
Humans charge followed discovery
by committee investigators of new
top holding company superimposed on
the giant Van Sweringen holdings in
1880.
"These holding companies have been
used principally for getting around the
laws of States and as far as they could
to- get around the laws of the United
States, and that's exactly what they
did" Truman asserted.
John P. Murphy, general counsel
for Allegheny Corp, the top holding
company in the Van Sweringen Sys-
tenn. was on the stand when Truman
made the charge. He denied the hold
ing company structure was developed
to evade State or Federal regulations.
I'VE couldn't have the business We
have in this country without corpora
TONS" he told Truman.
do you think these holding COM
panies on top of holding companies did
any good for the public or investors?"
Truman asked.
The Van Sweringen's mild-manner-
ed legal advisor replied, Eyes, GER
tainly"
Truman then asserted that by use Of
holding companies to acquire con-
troll of the Missouri Pacific Railroad
System in 1880 the Van Sweringens
had been able to "avoid Missouri law"
The law to which he referred required
that corporation obtain consent Of
the Missouri Public Service Commits
sion to purchase more than 10 per cent
of the voting stock a utility COM
pany. The railroad was chartered in
that State.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
GUON SURRENDERS
TO FRANCO ARMY
Hundreds of Government
Troops Lay Down Arms
as Defense Crumbles.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
IRUN, Spain, october 21.-Hun.
dreds of war-weary government troops
beaten back to the sea by insurgent
Generalissimo Francisco Frances re-
lentless army, laid down their arms
to surrender the port city of Gijon al
noon today.
News that this last important gov
ernment-held city in all of Northwest
Spain had capitulated spread quickly
through government forces in other
sectors of Asturias Province and squads
of Asturian miners, who had been
besieging nearby Oviedo for more
than year, marched north to throw
themselves at the mercy Of the in
surgents.
(The miners army for more than
year had laid siege to Oviedo, held
grimly by an insurgent garrison.)
Expect Mass Surrender.
Frances officers here declared they
expected mass surrender of remaining
government forces in the north within
a few days.
Insurgent control of Gijon left the
Valencia government troops holding
only a tiny bit of Bay of Biscay
coastline from Gijon west to few
miles the other side of Aviles.
(Border reports were confusing re-
garding the situation in Gijon itself.
Officers of six government planes
which landed at Biarritz yesterday
said Bssques and ASturias fought in
the streets before the city's surren-
der. Belarmino Tomas, Anarchist
Governor of Gijon, was reported to
have fled to France.)
A score of Spanish government
trawlers tied up at Saint Jean de Luz
and Bayonne, French ports, put out to
sea shortly before noon with the in
tention of trying to rescue as many
government supporters as possible
from Gijon.
Most Lack Radio Equipment.
But, as most of these vessels lacked
radio equipment Spanieds here feared
they would fall into the hands of
the insurgents before they learned
Gijon had surrendered.
Insurgent officers announced that
Naison had been established between
Gen. Frances troops in Gijon and
the beleaguered garrison at Oviedo.
This announcement was interpreted
as meaning that government troops
which had been besieging Oviedo since
the start of the civil war Is months
ago had abandoned their efforts to
capture it upon learning that Gijon
had fallen.
Although the mass entry of in
surgents into Gijon was not expected
until tomorrow morning. officers said
it was possible for the advance guard
to penetrate the city tonight.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
HUNT FOR BOY, 3,
. PUSHED BY POLICE
Mother Tours Suburb With
AmpIifier, Pleading
"Come Home"

JAMESTOWN, N. Y, october al
With every available contrivance, po-
lice sought today to pierce the mys-
terry blanketing the whereabouts of
Timothy Michael Heer, infant son of a
furniture dealer, who disappeared two
days ago.
Mrs. Leo ]. Heer last night made a
motor tour of the fashionable suburb
where the family lives, imploring her
3-year-old son over police patrol car
amplifier to come home to mother"
Later, Police Chief Charles A. Sand
berg said he had rounded up about
dozen degenerates for questioning
in connection with the tow-headed
child's disappearance.
Timothy Michaels father, secretary
of the jamestown Furniture Market
Association, described the boy as
friendly with everybody" He ex-
pressed doubt that his son had either
drowned or been kidnapped.
Sheriff Roy Chadwick said the boys
doctor had told him the youngster
had been i'll and could not have
walked more than mile" In connec-
ton with kidnapping and abduction
speculation, Police Capt Edward N.Y.
holm reported a degenerate recently
accosted an 8-year-old girl and at
tempted to assault her.
On uninterrupted Lake Chautauqua,
State police divers went down to ex-
plore holes and snags in the lake bot
tom. Firemen in boats have already
dragged much of the water adjacent
to suburban Lakewood,
A seaplane idled on the wind-swept
lake, waiting for clear weather to
take Deputy Sheriff Arthur Wheelock
on a scouting excursion over the roll
ing countryside.
On land force estimated by Chad
wick at 1900 peace officers, Boy Scouts,
American Legionnaires and volunteer
neighbors pushed q highly organized
hunt.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
HOUSE MEMBERS SEE
NEUTRALITY ACTS END
Bernard and o'Connell, in Madrid,
Inspect Front Under Guild
ance of Gen. Miaja.

Ry the Associated Press.
MADRID, October 21.-Two United
States Representatives predicted last
night the early scrapping of the
American neutrality act and promised
they would try TO persuade Congress
to grant TO the Spanish people the aid
they justly are entitled to by interna-
tionaI law"
Representative John T. Bernard, Min
nesota Farmer and Repre-
sentative Jerry ]. O'Connell, Montana
Democrat, made the statement after
inspecting the Madrid front under the
guidance Of Gen Jose Miaja, head of
the city's defense junta.
The only American Congressman to
visit Spain since the outbreak of the
civil war, they told Miaja they would
tell President Roosevelt their impress
sions and the real truth" about
Spain.
O'Connell expressed he belief that
the Spanish government would defeat
Insurgent Generalissimo Francisco
FRANCOIS insurgent forces and win the
war.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-10-21
Health Parade Held.

Under the sponsorship of the Red
Cross the people of Potchefstroom,
South Africa. held health parade"
In which scores of floats we're entered.
The event climaxed in q big way
Health week." during which there
we're lectures, moving pictures Of an
instructive character and special dis
plays In store windows.