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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

Belfast May Fight Liquor.
Northern Ireland is considering a
ban on liquor advertisements.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Dogs Prove Tough on Shoes
As Couple ''Mushes'' to Capital

Keeping their dogs in shoes Is one
Of the biggest problems Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Patrick j. Carroll, who arrived
in Washington yesterday after having
"mushed" 5000 miles behind their six
malemutes harnessed to sled
equipped with wheels as we'll as
runners.
Carroll, writer, gold prospector and
guide, said his six huskies wore out
1000 shoes in the months since the
expedition set out southeastward from
Hazelton, in Northern British Colum-
bia, small town not far from the
Pacific Ocean and several hundred
miles south of Alaska.
Part OF the journey was accom-
plished in 40-degree below-zero
weather, and 400 miles of the route
lay across solid ice, Carroll said The
party entered the United States in
Minnesota. The dogs feet got sore
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
FREER COMMERCE
IN WORLD SOUGHT.
Civilization to Go Bankrupt
Unless Flow Is Speeded,
Bankers Hold.
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
I FRENCH LICK, Ind, May 10
Civilization will go completely bank
rupt" unless world trade channels are
cleared for "freer flow of interna-
tional goods" the Bankers Association
for Foreign Trade was told here today
by its president. w. F. Gephart, vice
president of the First National Bank,
st. Louis.
Ernest G, Draper, Assistant Secre-
tary of Commerce, described "invisi-
ble' exports and imports as a sub
stantial part of our normal interna-
tional business"
Tourist Spending Important.
Our most important invisible i'm
port" Draper said in his address,
which was read by an assistant, Amos
E. Taylor, lis the total expenditure of
our tourists abroad.
THE increase in our travel OUTLAWS
abroad from $4O9, 100000 in 1885 to
+ $495, 100000 in 1886 reflects a cor
responding improvement in the in
come of the American people"
Gephart said political and not
economic considerations" have erected
barriers to world commerce.
The most disturbing aspect Of the
present situation" he declared, lis the
mesmeric spell that seems to have
, been cast by dictators and semi-dicta-
tors over their people. Democracy is
, in an eclipse,
Rule by Consent of People.
But dictators, semi-dictators and
even rulers of democracies must in the
end rule by the consent of their peo-
pie and when their people realize more
clearly that their general well-being
is not served by all these restrictions
on international trade. the hypnotic
spell will have been broken, and goods
will flow again in greater volume to
the benefit Of all the people in the
world"
Gephart pointed to European spend
ing for war ornaments as a cloud on
the foreign trade horizon and as
serted that such spending constituted
'uneconomic expenditures, for they
do not permanently contribute to the
well-being of the people"
The association is made up of
American and Canada bankers. Its
sessions will continue through to-
morrow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
To,un Does $4,000
Job; Didn't Cost
Taxpayers AGENT
b. the Associated Press.

b. the Associated Press.
ST. CHARLES, ILL.,, May 13.-Mayor
I. G. Langum examined city finances
today and reported a 100000 bal
ance despite recent outlay of $3.50
for public improvement that didn't
cost the taxpayers a cent"
The improvement is a sewage dis
posal plant built, the mayor said, out
Of a cash surplus amassed from dis
counts given the city for paying its
bills in cash.
Mayor Langum referred to this fis-
cal rarity as trading on the right
side Of the post
1--WE operate on a cash basis strict
~" he explained. When it became
necessary to build the sewage dis
posal plant we had the money to do
it without bond issue or special as
sessments. BY paying cash for all
Its purchases the city receives dis
counts as high as Is per cent and
revenue from the municipal water and
light plants have helped strengthen
our financial position"
st. Charles, in Kane County, has
q population Of 5,400.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

offices at 1929 North Rhodes street,
Colonial Village. Mrs. William II.
Doak Is chairman Of the board, Mrs.
Jonothan M. Wainwright, first vice
chairman; Mrs. Henry P. Ames, sec
ond vice chairman; Mrs. L. N. vii.
nanas. secretary; Mrs. c. L. Ellis,
treasurer, and Mrs. Viola Japhet, ex-
ecutive secretary.
The members of the board are Mrs.
H. L. Brumback, Mrs. T. E. Gilbert,
Mrs. H. B. Torrens, Mrs. Cora E. Miles.
Mrs. J. N. Roberts and Mrs. Katharine
D. Hager.
A meeting will be held Monday
night at 8 o'clock at headquarters.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
When A
Begins 4 A
to
Scratch
YOU OWE HIM This Relief

YOU OWE HIM This Relief
Don't blame animal nature when your
dog begins to scratch and shed his coat 1t
isn't natures way at all. If your skin was
like NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. you couldn't
perspire. the itching would drive you mad
dogs blood is continually infected with
impurities caused by the restraint Of do
mestic life: prepared foods and lack of nat
ural exercise. They set up an intense irri-
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1ul. nervous. He is in torment.
He looks to you for help and you can
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

have little chance Of maturity unless
poison bait and lots Of 1t is used be-
tween now and the LIST Of June" to
kill grasshoppers. The peak of the
1887 hopper will come In about 10
days, he predicted
Speed Work In Iowa.
Iowa Crop Reporter Charles D. Reed
reported farmers were engaged in
blowing the last so per cent of their
land and that unless showers become
too heavy and continuous, corn plant
ing on the average will 5e completed
only little later than the normal
date, May IA.
The oats crop was making good
progress throughout the area due to
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Honest Man Found
By Mutuel Clerk
Without Lantern
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May ia Pim-
leo race track pari-mutuel clerk
has something to tell Diogenes,
that old seeker of honest men.
Several days ago the mutuel
clerk passed out $4O0 to a bettor
whose ticket called for but 5000.
News of the mistake and the fact
that the clerk would have to re-
pay the money or lose his Job,
was printed by local columnist.
The columnist's item indicated
the clerks family would suffer if
he paid the money back. A
couple of days later a man
walked up to the clerks booth at
Pimlico and said:
I'm the fellow who got that
5000. Here it is"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
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c. !. O. PACT CLAIMED

COHOES, N. Y, May 10 R).-
Signing of an agreement recognizing
the Committee for Industrial Organi-
cation as bargaining agent for $500
employees of the Beaunit Weaving
Mills, Inc, in Cohoes and Fort Plain.
N. Y, and Beverley, N. j.. was an
nounced today by John Walsh, district
organizer
Walsh said the terms included wage
increases of from S to 7l2 per cent
and weeks vacation with pay.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
WAR VOLUNTEERS
HOLD 18Th DINNER
Members of Company G Stage
Annual Reunion With
"a Present.

Members of Company G, LIST District
; Of Columbia Volunteers, formerly the
Morton Cadets, famous drill team, held
! their thirty-ninth annual reunion din
: ner last night at Schneider's Restau-
! rant
! Thirty-nine years ago yesterday,
! May II, 1898, Company G marched
! away for war against Spain.
Twenty-four members of the COM
pany, two less than last year, were
I present at the dinner. Maj. Gen.
! Charles Lyman. u S. M. c., who was
corporal in Company G, acted as
POSTMASTER.
Col. j. T. Petty, U. S. A., a corporal
during the Spanish-American War,
came from Indianapolis to attend the
dinner.
Col. Leroy Heron, advertising man
eger Of The Star, who was a second
lieutenant in Company G.. was the
only surviving commissioned officer
in attendance.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

favorable growing conditions.
1t was estimated that about one
fourth Of Missourts corn acreage,
half Of Illinois and practically all in
Eastern Kansas have been planted.
Barley seeding was we'll under way
In areas where this grain is grown.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
CORPSE Of WOMAN
FOUND IN BARREL
Widow of Make Gordon,
Dope Pedd|er, Found Dead
on Bank of East River,

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, August 2s.-The body
OF the comely young woman found
stuffed in barrel on the rocks beside
East River here yesterday was iden-
tilted today as that of Mrs. Essie
Gordon, widow of Max Conceived
Make Gordon, notorious narcotics
peddler.
Gordon was killed in an automobile
accident near El Paso, Tex. last July
81. He had served one prison term
after being convicted on a narcotics
charge in Boston.
Benjamin Joseph, friend and guest
at the same hotel where Mrs Gordon
resided in New York, led to the
Identification of the body today.
After reading a description of it in
the newspapers, he prevailed upon the
night manager of the hotel to enter
her room. They found that the bed
had not been occupied Joseph then
viewed the body and identified it.
Joseph, according to police, said he
had an engagement with Mrs. Gordon
for Thursday night, but that he was
stood up" He said he did not see
the woman after that.
Detective William Jackson of the
homicide squad made the investigation
which determined that Mrs. Gordon
was the widow of "One-Eyed Make. -
He said he also had learned that she
had been twice married, the first time
to Isadore Mustman, Boston butcher
Tony Casanova, beachcomber
found the barrel in which Mrs. Cor
dons body was stuffed Medical Ex-
aminer Jacob Verne said she had been
stabbed nine times with an ice pick
The point of the instrument was i'm
bedded in her skull and a bullet was
found in her brain
The barrel evidently had been showed
over 15-foot embankment near the
Triborough Bridge with the idea that
it would be taken by the swift-runnine
tides of He'll Gate and be washed out
to sea-
Instead it bounced down to a stony
ledge feet from the waters edge and
clung there. A beachcomber encoun-
tered it in his search for driftwood.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
STUDY EXPEDITED
| ON TAXAVO|DANCE
Congressional Experts Gear
Inquiry With Eye to Spe.
ciaI Session.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Congressional tax experts, exploring
the need for general revision Of the
Nations revenue structure, geared
their inquiry today with an eye to
the possibility of a special session.
Representative Vinson, Democrat,
OF Kentucky chairman of a House
Ways and Means subcommittee as
signed to conduct the investigation,
said the group would return to WASH
ington two or three weeks in advance
Of the next session of Congress.
whether it is called in November or
January.
In the meantime preliminary studies
are being made by Treasury officials
and employees of the Senate House
Joint Committee on Internal Revenue
Taxation
Stresses Inquiry's Aim.
Stressing the inquiry was designed
to eliminate ''inequities and injustices"
from the tax laws, Vinson said he had
mapped its scope in conferences with
Roswell Magill, Assistant Secretary of
the Treasury, and other tax authori-
ties, Ito be sure We will be able to
finish what we start"
The Kentuckian said the subjects
listed for review include the undls-
tributed profits tax, so-called "nui-
sance' taxes, proposed codiflcation OF
the revenue laws, the capital gains
and community property taxes and the
controversy laden subject of reduc-
tions allowed mining and oil COM
panies for depletion.
Vinson explained the subcommittee
sought to determine what, any,
cushions" should be provided under
the undistributed profits tax for firms
desiring to use their surpluses for deb.
payments and plant expansion.
Case of Weaker Corporations.
Particularly in the case of weaker
corporations, such as those Just com.
pleting bankruptcy reorganizations,
there probably ought to be special cor
sideration given he said. Instead of
taxing every dollar, there may have to
be lower rates or other concessions
provided"
Vinson said there had been no pub
lie hearings on nuisance taxes" since
they were revived in 1882.
No public hearings will be held on
the proposed revisions until the sub
committee has presented its recon-
mendations to the full committee, he
said.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
NEW PENS|ON.B|LL
DRIVE PREDICTED
Average 0id-Age Benefits of
$50 to 500 to Be Sought
Next Session.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
Demands for more liberal old-age
pensions may increase the complexi-
ties of the next regular session of
Congress.
Little was heard of the subject dur
ing the recent session, but Represent
ative Crosby, Democrat, of Pennsyl-
vania, chairman Of an unoficial
Steering Committee supporting the So
called general welfare bill-all that
remains Of the Townsend old-age pen
sion plan-said determined drive for
its enactment will be made next year.
During the recess, he said, members
Of the Steering Committee will en-
deavor to stimulate support for the
legislation by speeches in the field.
Also, he said, efforts will be made as
soon as Congress reconvenes to unite
all congressional old-age pension ad-
vocates under one banner.
Crosby said his group has been
promised hearing on the legislation
by the House Ways and Means Com
mittee early next January.
The measure would levy per cent
transactions tax to finance the pen
sions The bill would provide pensions
up to 5000 monthly if sufficient revenue
were derived. Proponents said, how
ever, they believed the benefits would
average closer to $50 or 500 monthly.
Crosby said additional Townsend
clubs are enlisting in support Of the
legislation daily and asserted he con-
sidered this an indication DR.. Francis
E. Townsend, founder of the $200-a-
month pension plan, has lost his in-
huence"
The Pennsylvania said the last ses-
sion of Congress had been "encourag-
ing" to his group because they had
obtained signatures Of 106 House men,
bers to a petition designed to bring
the bill to the floor for debate. The
previous year only 60 signatures were
obtained.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
BIDS FOR TWO VESSELS
TO BE OPENED NOV. II

Bids for the construction of de-
stroyer tender and a seaplane tender
will be opened November II, it was
announced yesterday by the Navy
Department, which explained that
building funds we're made available
in the third deficiency appropriation
act.
Contract plans and specifications
for these two auxiliary naval vessels
now are practically ready, it was
said. Advertisements inviting bids
from private shipbuilders will be
issued next month. Under the leg
islation authorizing the craft at least
one of the vessels must be built in
Government navy yard.
George Pollock Co., Sacramento,
Calf, yesterday was awarded q con-
tract for $2,790,875 for a new dry
dock at the Mare Island Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
President Taft
Still Retains
Travel Record
Roosevelt Still 10, 900
Miles Shy OF "While
in Office" Mark.

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelt, who travels
much and likes it, was still nearly
10000 miles shy today Of equaling
William Howard Taft's 1l4,000 mile
age while in office" record.
But he has invitations pending
which, partially accepted, would carry
him far beyond Taft's total.
The late President and Chief Jus
tice. however, chalked up his ll4,ooo
miles in four years, from 1909 to 1918.
Mr.. Roosevelt is approaching the end
Of his fifth year in the White House.
Before leaving for his Hyde Park,
N. Y, home this week the President
had Travelled 104,271 miles by land
and water since March 4, 1888 He
covered 96,838 miles up to 1887 for an
average of almost $4,000 year. Since
January last he has gone 7,433 miles.
The Presidents current trip to Hyde
Park is his fourth there this year. He
has invitations of long standing to
visit the West Coast of South America,
the Philippines, the West Coast Of the
United States and many points In the
interior.
Evening star., 1937-08-28

by those who have been driven mildly
hysterical listening to those wild-eyed
adventure stories put on the air for
"the children's hour"
This grandmother listened to
shrieks, groans, rockets bursting in
midair and other cheerful diversions
OF the young until she could stand it
no longer. Then she plotted escape.
Now each evening when the time
comes for one Of the more vociferous
programs to be turned on by her
grandchildren she goes to work at her
electric sewing machine. Says the
ru has worked, too. The interfer-
-ence finally convinced the youngsters
that ut twilight young people should
be standing outside watching for the
first lightning bug, not sitting around
the house getting the stats scared out
Of 'em.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
U. S. TO CONTINUE
TWO MELLON SUITS
Financier's Death Won't Affect
100000 Income Case or
Aluminium Litigation.

BY the Associated Press.
Officials said yesterday the death
of Andrew w. Mellon would have no
effect on the Governments $4,000, 900
tax suit against him nor on its anti
trust suit against the Aluminium Co.
of America
Mellon, as one of the principal
stockholders, was named by the Gov
ernment last April among 36 de-
PENDANTS in the Aluminium Co. case.
The Justice Department charged that
the firm was engaging in monopolistic
practices, and sought to have it dis
solved. The suit is awaiting trial in
New York.
The Treasury's tax claim against its
one-time chief is based on his 1881
income tax return. It is pending be-
fore the Board Of Tax Appeals. Treas
ury oficials said any judgment the
Government may win would be ap-
plicable against Melons estate.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
HUNT FOR FLYERS
TURNS NORTHWARD
Pilots Convinced Levaneffsky and
Companions Never Reached
Alaska.
R the Associated Press.

/
FAIRBANKS, Alaska, August 2s.-
Pacific Alaska Airways pilots said yes
terday they were convinced Sigismund
Levanefsky and his five Soviet COM
panions never reached Alaska on their
attempted transpolar flight from
Moscow to Oakland, Calf, by way
Of Fairbanks. The flyers have been
missing two weeks
Three P. A. A. planes have covered
100000 miles of Northern Alaska ter
rltory without finding a trace of the
missing plane.
Sir Hubert wilkins noted explorer,
carrying on the search in a Russian
owned l7-ton flying boat, expressed
belief the Levaneffsky plane was down
somewhere 500 miles on the North
American side Of the North Pole.
While Wilkins refueled at Copper
mine, N. w. T, for third long
distance Arctic flight, three Soviet
planes were at Anderma, in Northern
Russia.
! The Soviet airmen planned to fly
abreast Is miles apart over the North
Pole to Alaska along the route be-
lieved to have been taken by the
vanished flyers.
American Alrman Jimmie Mattern,
who withdrew from the search, said
he planned to remain in Alaska for
the duration of the hunt.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
PLANS BAPTISM

The House Of Prayer for All Peo-
pie, SOL M street, will hold . baptism
tomorrow morning and . religious
parade in the afternoon. The bap-
tism will take place between am.
and noon ut the Francis Junior High
School pool. The parade will start
at 230 pm. at Sixth and N streets,
go out N to S, thence to Eighteenth
street and back to N The House
of Prayer was founded by Bishop
c. M. Grace.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
OVERTIME WORKED
BY Fills COUNCIL
Crowded Calendar Keeps Members
Busy-Green Reports Lewis
Group Failures.
FL the Associated Press.

IF the ASkCClale0 fleSh.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j., August
2s.-The American Federation of
Labor's Executive Council worked
overtime today on its crowded CAL
endar.
Ordinarily, the council works only
five days a week, its members advo-
cate fve-day week and believe in
practicing what they preach.
Since several members have Labor
day speaking engagements and must
leave the seashore by next Friday at
the latest, however, the council de-
cided to meet this afternoon to work
on report to the Denver convention.
President William Green reported
to the council yesterday that hun
dreds Of textile workers were turning
thumbs down" on the c. l. o. organi-
zation campaign and joining A. F.
OF l.. unions.
Green presented reports from both
Southern and New England organizers
showing Is locals had been organized
recently and several more likely would
be brought into the A. F. Of L. fold
soon.
Evening star., 1937-08-28
GUN VICTIM FOUND
NEAR HOME AF|RE.
Police Unable to
Learn How Woman Was
Wounded or Blaze Started.
By the Associated Press.

6S tne associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md, August 28.-
Neighbors found Mrs. Sarah Staub
63-year-old Daysville farm woman
lying groaning in muddy lane neal
her blazing home early yesterday
suffering from abullet wound inflicted
under strange circumstances.
A bullet had been fired through hel
body, entering the abdomen and COM
ing out at the back. Her home, where
she lived with her 4O-year-old son
Guy F. Staub, LewistoWn bartender
was in flames when the. neighbors
found her about S am
Sheriff Roy M. Hiltner said durine
the day he had been unable to fine
out who fired the bullet or how the
fire started in the rock and frame
cabin
Officers Quiz Kin.
The sheriff said Mrs Staub, hurried
to the Frederick County Emergency
Hospital, in a critical condition. re.
fused at first to make any statement
murmuring only:
Where's Guy? Where's Guy?"
The officers questioned her son anc
her estrsnged husband, William D
Staub, about 10, for several hours
but they were unable to throw any
light on the mystery.
Guy Staub, the son, told his ques.
honers rain-swept roads had pre-.
vented him from following his custom
OF spending the night at his mothers
home. He was surprised and shocked
at the tragedy, he explained.
To Continue Probe.
The woman's husband, formerly {
resident of the Bethel section, hac
been living recently near Mountain.
dale. Only a short time ago he los
his Mountaindale property through {
debt judgment.
States Attorney Sherman P. Bowers
announced a searching investigation
would be continued. He did not dis.
close whether he was pursuing {
suicide or attempted murder theory O.
some other angle.
So far the officers have been unable
10 find the weapon with which Mrs
6taub was wounded Sheriff Hiltnel
and Deputy Denver j. Shook plan tt
search the ruins of the Mrs Staub,
home as soon as they cool sufficiently
A young son of Mr.. and Mrs. Ear
Harp discovered Mrs. Staub in ths
lane near her home. The boy hac
gone to the home with his parent.
who were awakened In the earl,
morning by the fire.