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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-04-23
POISED
ON LEDGE
LED 7 0
SAFETY
Other Roomers Forced
to Flee to Street;
7 Alarms Sounded

Lieut.. John c. Stein Of No. 6
Engine Company was the hero Of
a two alarm fire that ragged in a
rooming house at 937 K st. N. w.
early today.
Seeing two men, trapped by
smoke and flames, poised on a
window ledge on the third floor,
about to Jump, Lieutenant Stein
called to the men to hang on, then
rushed into the place, ran through
the smoke filled Railways and It'd
the men down to safety.
The fire started in a rear room
on the third floor of the building,
and quickly spread to q pent.
house. The first fire companies
to reach the scene turned in a
second alarm as the flames spread.
A number Of roomerS fled to
the street in their night clothes
before the blaze was brought under
control.
One man was painfully burned
in fire at 1925 New York Ave.
N. W., late yesterday.
The victim, Walter Campbell,
colored, of 1908 @ St. N. W., was
burned on the face and hands
when a furnace backfired as he
opened the door. He was treated
at Casualty Hospital.
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7 D. {. MEN
EXECUTED
IN CHAIR
Officials Call System
'Barbarism';; Life in
Prison Is Urged
By CARROLL PEEKE

Two veteran District prison of.
ficials today launched q bitter at
tack on capital punishment as
two colored men were put to
death in the electric chair.
Capt. M. M. Barnard, who re-
tires this week, and who, in the
course of his a. years service, has
seen so men go to their deaths,
declared that in his opinion CAPT
tai punishment failed to act as a
deterrent to killers. =.
And T. M. Rives, superintendent
Of the jail, declared that the an
cient law Of ian eye for an eye.
a tooth for a. tooth and a life for
a life" had failed. e.
Two Walk to Death
But a few minutes later the
District put to death John Homer
Cummings, 80, and Willet Mar
Gus, %, in the electric chair set
up in the prison mess hall, where
a short time later the prisoners
sat down for their noon meal.
This was the first double execu-
ton since 1881. Cummings, the
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there are many needs which have
long gone untitled.
We have here facilities for edu-
cation of the physically and men
tally handicapped, q program of
vocational education and allied
activities, but our field is limited.
Certainly it ought not to be.
Educational opportunities are
provided by our schools for many
types Of handicapped children
the crippled, the blind, the deaf,
the tubercular, the atypical and
others, who are receiving inStruc-
ton especially provided for them.
There are, however, many chill
dren capable Of benefiting from
instruction who cannot. for one
reason or another, attend any Of
CONTINUED on Page "a. Col H.
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Trees Is Adopted
AS Theme SOnq
BUD. A. X.

The D. A. r. Congress today
passed a resolution which will
make Joyce Kilmer's poem,
Trees" (put to music by Oscar
Rasbach) the official theme song
to be used by the organization
at all radio broadcaStS.
Reasons in the resolution
given for the adoption of this
song to open and close all broad
casts are as follows:
Because the daughters are ex-
tending energy and thought
toward the preservation Of his
toric trees and conservation Of
forests.
Because there is q forest in the
Blue Ridge Mountains which has
been dedicated to the memory Of
Joyce Kilmer.
And because Joyce Kilmer lost
CONTINUED on Page 9, Col. 81
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ALUMINIUM
MONOPOLY
CHARGED
Government Demands
Dissolution of Vast
Enterprise AS Trust
International News Service

international news SerVteo
Dissolution of the Aluminium
Company of America, on the
grounds that it is a monopoly,
was demanded by the Government
in a suit filed in the Federal Dis
trict Court for the Seventh district
of New York.
The Governments suit clirnaxed
an investigation into the COM
pany's affairs by the Justice De
partment's antitrust division. The
Government commended in its peti-
ton that the coTnpany's property
should be rearranged 50 as to
break its monopolistic control.
Controlled by Mellon
The vast organization, con-
trolled by Andrew Mellon, former
Secretary Of the Treasury, has had
several differences with Govern
ment agencies, one of which was
q brush with the iva years ago
over flood rights.
The action of the company on
March / in advancing the car-lot
price of virgin ingot was cited by
the Government as the most re-
cent act of Oppressive and I'M
reasonable price-fixing."
The Government argued that
the March / price rise was made
in the face Of an increase in earn
ings from $9,571,20 in 1885 to
$40, 1866, 1886 in 1886. This Jump in
income represented an increase IN
common stock earnings from 55
cents per share to $685. per share,
over and above the requirements
for dividends on preferred stock.
Mellon Defendant
The Government suit makes the
company, IS of its subsidiaries and
SO of its officers, directors and
stockholders defendants. Among
the defendants named are AilSa
Mellon Bruce, David K.E. Bruce,
Andrew w. Mellon, Paul Mellon,
Richard K. Mellon, the Union
Trust Company of Pittsburgh as
executors Of the estate Of r. B.
Mellon, Sarah Mellon Seattle and
Paul j. Urquhart.
A tax suit against Andrew Mel
lon involving alleged deficiencies
of more than 100000 on his
1881 income tax is pending before
the United States Board Of Tax
Appeals.
According to the Governments
findings, the Aluminium Company
and its wholly owned subsidiaries
currently manufacture 100 per
cent of the virgin aluminium in the
United States and sell more than
90 per cent of aluminium sheet, and
virtually 100 per cent Of such
structural items as wire, cable,
and tubing made from aluminium.
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Counterman Is Hunted
In Waitress Staying

NEW YORK, April % GNSO.
Police today hunted Louis NThe
Greek" Karas, a restaurant coun-
terman, in connection with the
Staying of Irene Wadas, 30-year-
old waitress stabbed to death yes
terday in the building here. She
was living with another man.
Authorities said they had
learned KaraS, a former sweet
heart of Miss Wadas, had threat
ened to "cut her heart out' il she
continued to repulse him.
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Southwest Residents
Like Dog Food Hash

relief agencies and then add corn
meal, to make sort of a meat
loaf.
Cheapest Sells Best
A check on five grocery stores
between F and K Streets on
Fourth s. W., revealed that these
stores averaged about 1900 one.
pound cans each week. The best
seller, the managers Of the stores
explained, was the five-cent brand,
while some Of the customers call
for 10cent brands.
Contained in the brand that
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Thousands Of pounds of canned
dog meat is being used for human
consumption every week in the
Southwest section Of Washington,
it was revealed today when a check
of the grocery stores in that neigh
borhood was made.
While some of the residents can
take 1t straight" as one con-
sumner explained, most Of them
prefer it mixed into a hash or stew
with potatoes, onions, beans and
corn meal.
Others. it was revealed, mix 1t
half and half with the canned
beef distributed BY the Federal
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HooverSCOres Abuse
Of American Paroles

NEW YORK, April % UN.S)
Abuse Of the parole system is one
of the greatest comforts of the
underworld today. j. Edgar Hoo
yer told the annual sessions Of the
American NewspapI' Publishers
Association and the Bureau Of Ad.
vertising. He declared:
"ParOIe today is becoming
one of the major menaces of
our country. Through its mis-
application, convictS are being
freed with little or no supervis-
ion and often with no sound
reason for release"
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Mrs Doyle Stresses
All to Handicapped

This is the third of a series
of articles on WGshington's
public schools, their needs and
problems, and the dangers con-
fronting them. They are turit-
ten especially for The Wash
i1gton Times and bear the seal
OF accuracy, authenticity and
complete understanding. They
are of compelling interest not
only to educators and pupils but
to all parents and the members
of our Government, national
and local. The Times presents
them as q timely and iptornsG-
the discussion of one of the
most UitGI considerations In the
National Capital.
BY MRS. HENRY GRATTAN
DOYLE,
President Of the Board Of Education
Extensive though our program
of education in Washington Is
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Carnegie Tech in Drive

NEW YORK, April % Q.N.S).
DR.. Robert E. Doherty, president
Of the Carnegie Institute Of T@h-
nology at Pittsburgh, was here to-
day to push a drive to raise
100000 to expand the institu-
tons staff and buildings. He said
that should the funds be collected
by 1916, the Carnegie Corporation
has promised to make another
Sc. 600 900 available.
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TAX PLEA AIMS
AT SMALL PAY
By WILLIAM s. NEAL
International News Service

A movement to impose new
taxes immediately-esp ally
upon the low income groups, which
thus far have escaped the new tax
lawS-developed in Congress to-
day among blocs demanding that
Federal relief be maintained at
present levels.
Leaders in the movement were
ready to accept the Administra-
ton demand for early balancing
Of the Federal budget, but de-
manded that it be balanced by
new tax levies instead of by reduc-
ing relief costs to $1,500, 000, 1000
for the next year.
A Treasury alternate to the cor.
porate surplus tax bill, submitted
to Congress last year, was seized
upon by many hackers of a relief
fund ranging from $4,000 900 900
to 50, SOC, 900, 900.
The alternate plan called for re-
duction in personal income tax ex.
emptions for single persons from
$1,000 to $500, and for married per-
sons from $4,000 to $4,000, with an
increase in the normal income tax
rate from four to six per cent and
commencement of SurtaxeS at
three instead of four per cent. The
plan would yield from SITS 900 900
to $500, 000, 900 a year.
Meanwhile Senator Byrnes CD
of South Carolina submitted q
twopoint plan for balacing the
1888 budget by sharing relief
spending with the States and i'm
posing a 10 per cent cut in all
Federal department appropriation
bills.
House Republicans planned to
introduce a formal resolution to-
day providing for a horizontal 10
per cent cut in all appropriations
"a total Of about 100000, 900.
The House was slated to pass
the 1927. 100000 annual agricul.
tural supply bill in virtually the
same form as reported by the APP
preparations Committee, which cut
100000 from budget estimates.
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None Lost Yet---But
Hospital Fits Ward
For Expecfanf Papas

CHATTANOOGA. Tenn, April
% QN.S0.-An expectant fathers
ward, complete with lounge chairs,
consoling periodicals and a pacing
runway, was being fitted out today
in Children,s Hospital
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Gold Shipped to Fort

PHILADELPHIA, April %
UN.S0. During the last II
weeks, 40 carloads of gold have
been shipped from the Philadel-
phia mint to Uncle Sans new
strong box at Fort Knox. KY,
Postmaster Joseph F. Gallagher
revealed today. The gold weighed
2,6l6,810 troy ounces.
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100000 Executed
By LOyaliStS,
Says Franco

Halt a million men, Uomen
and children haze been killed
or Dounded since outbreak of
SrGin'S ciUI iuGr, Gen. Fran
cisco Franco, leader of the in
SHrgeRt forces, disclosed in his
interutetD Nth H. r. KnicEer-
booker, ace foreign correspond
e71t of international Net0S Scrip
ice. The second and concluding
irStGIIment OF this interUielO,
the first Franco has granted
since GUGdGlGjGrG, follot0S.
BY H. r. KNICKERBOCKER
SALAMANCA, Spain, April %,
The horrifying panorama of
SPANS civil war was outlined in
the brutal forcefulneSs Of actual
Continued ON Page 6, Col. 81
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CANADA STRIKE
PACT UP TODAY

STOCKTON, Cal, April 20
(I.N.S.).-RiOting broke out in
the Stockton cannery strike to-
day when a mob of picketS at
tempted to Overturn the first
trucks that arrived from the
fields.
Deputy sheriffs rushed from
the barbed-wire barricades at
the plant and engaged the strik-
ers in pitched battle. Several
vOIIeys of tear gas were lOOsed
as the strikers welded baseball
bats against pick handles of the
deputies.
OSHAWA, Ontario, April %
G.N.SO.-The agreement to end
the strike Of 3,7O0 workers at the
General Motors plant here, signed
in Premier Mitchell Hepburn's Of.
flee at Toronto late yesterday by
negotiators for the company and
the strikers, was scheduled to be
ratified today at a mass meeting
Of the strikers here.
Although one faction of the
strikers was diSpleased because
specific recognition Of the C. I. o.
or the U. A. w. A. as an inter
national union was withheld. &C
ton of 300 shop stewards in
unanimously accepting the terms
last night indicated the pact would
be approved.
Company officials said the plant
would be reopened Monday morn.
CONTINUED on Page IA, Col. II
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WASHINGTON FORECAST

Generally fair tonight, followed by showers
late tomorrow; slowly rising temperature;
gentle to moderate Winds mostly southeast.
Highest temperature last "a hours, rs; low
est. 43.
weather Details on Page 20)
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PERSONAL
PARAGRAPHS

Mr.. and Mrs. William Garland,
Jr., of Emlenton, Pa. are at the
home of Mrs. j. NJ. Waldrop for a
short stay while here on business.
They are en- route home from MI
ami. Fla.
Miss Anne Weeks is spending
this week in Hickory with Mr.. and
Mrs. Frederick w. Streetman.
She plans to go to Winston-Salem
on Saturday for the weekend
with Miss Sara Erckman. Mr..
Weeks accompanied her to Hick-
DRY yesterday just for the day.
Mrs. W. B. Smith, nee Meta
Bude, leaves tomorrow after an
extended visit TO her. mother, Mrs.
Charles French Toms. She will
sail on the S. S. Lurline for Hon.
olulu to join Mr.. Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Leonard Lewis
have returned home after de-
lightful visit to the latter's par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Feldstein, in
Birmingham, Ala.
Mrs. Paul j. Peyton and daugh-
ter, Anna, are guests at the Hen
Jacksonville Inn for awhile before
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Virginia Girl, IA,
AT Home After
Marriage lnN.C.


NORFOLK, Va, Feb. Is. (uP)
Mrs. Alice Marian Hewitt Steel,
ID, and her 29-year-old husband,
the Rev. Frederick Steel, returned
to their home at Matewan, w:
Va. last night before news OF
their marriage leaked out.
The couple was married IN
Elizabeth City, N. c., last Friday
because Virginia laws prevent the
marriage of girls under the age
of Is years. The brides parents
gave their consent.
Alice had wanted to get mar
ried on her 14th birthday last
July so she could leave school
where she said the girls used lip
stick and rouge, smoked cigarets
and cursed. But her parents for
babe the ceremony.
Finally. after months of per-
suasion, Mr.. and Mrs. c. c. Hew-
lit of Norview. consented to the
marriage of their pretty, brunette
daughter.
Steel came to Norfolk when he
was six years old and lived here
until he began preaching as pas
tor of the Pentecostal Church of
Christ at Matewan. The Steel
family had known the Hewitts
since before Alice was born.
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SOUL CHRISTIAN
SCIENTIST THEME

Soul" was the subject Of the
lesson-sermon in all churches and
societies Of Christ, Scientist, on
Sunday, February Ia. .-
The golden text was from
Psalms 62:l. "Truly my soul wait
eth upon God: from him cometh
my salvation"
Among the citations which COM
priscd the lcsson-sermon was the
following from the Billie: MANY
there be which say Of my soul,
There is no help for him in God.
But thou, o Lord, are q shield for
me; my glory and the litter up OF
mine head" Psalms 3:2,3)
The lesson.sermon also includ-
ed the following passage from the
Christian Scienct textbook, "Sci.
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures" by Mary Baker Eddy.
"Soul changeth not. We are com.
monty taught that there is q hu.
man soul which sins and Is spir.
itually lost,--that soul may be
lost, and yet be immortal. II soul
could sin, spirit, soul, would be
flesh instead of spirit. II is the
belief of the flesh and Of material
sense which sins. II soul sinned,
soul would die. Sin is the element
of self-destruction. and spiritual
death is oblivion. II there was sin
in soul, the humiliation Of spirit
would be inevitable. The only life
is spirit, and If spirit should lose
life as God, good, then spirit,
which has no other existence,
would. be annihilated." Up. 310)
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MORE u. S. WEATHER RECORDS
BROKEN THIS YEAR THAN IN
ANY SIMILAR PERIOD, IS SAID

dicated that contour cultivation,
strip cropping, and farm check
dams effectively controlled erosion
and reduced the amount Of run
off water by 70 per cent. !.
BY widespread application and
combination Of proper land man:
aeement and of upstream and
downstream engineering work, we
can confidently expect not only to
reduce substantially the volume
and the velocity of run-off water
from the land, but to control the
waters more effectively after they
have accumulated in the stream
channels" Bennett said.
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''DC" Relieves
Headaches
lnAHurry

Pa you have a headache you
2 'eLsi, and want it quickly.
I The Be Way"
= readily relieves not only
~ due TO headache, but also
pa, muscular aches, pain
eSontort due 10 simple head
il. nervous tension. "BC"
"a several widely-prescribed,
't ,gretientS. none of which
N4n or any of it's deriva-
tNAsn md great comfort in
z &c" a; the irving time of
aaila, Tor headache and back
pans due to functional dis
F..;ss. Give "BC" a trial and
l. ! doesn't relieve you in
: 'eN minutes. Convenient
az &c sizes, or by the dose
-lAlns, (adv)
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A Three Days Cough
Is Your Danger Signal

No matter how many medicines
you have tried for your cough, chest
cold or bronchial irritation, you can
get relief now with Circumcision.
Serious trouble may be brewing and
you cannot afford to take chance
with anything less than Creomul-
sion. which goes right to the seat
Of the trouble to aid nature TO
soothe and heal the inflamed MEM
braneS as the germ-laden phlegm
is loosened and expelled. -.
Even If other remedies have
failed. don't be discouraged, your
druggist is authorized to guarantee
Creomulsion and to refund your
money II you are not satisfied with
results from the very first bottle.
Get Creomulsion right now. (Adv0
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INQUEST SET
IN AUTO FIRE
CONTINUED from page ~

CONTINUED from page -
of the collision, the party could
not make efforts to save them
selves and were burned to death.
So badly were the bodies
charred, Identification virtually
was impossible. John Flowers,
husband Of the mother who was
killed, came here from Moultrie,
however, and with L. l.. Killman
of Moultrie, brother-in-law of
May, established identity of the
victims.
Mrs. Nav was sister Of Flow
ers. The two families were en-
route to Miami where they had
planned q winter visit to Mr., and
Mrs. Wylie Flowers, parents OF
Mrs. May and of Flowers.
Flowers, however, did not ac-
company the families on the trip,
and is the only surviving imme-
date member Of either family.
Police ordered Howard, driver
of the truck, held pending cor
oner's inquest. set for Tuesday
morning.
Bodies of the victims were sent
to Moultrie for burial.
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Chief Federal Forecaster
Doesn't Know What
to Expect Now .
Bv FRED o. BAILEY
United Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Feb. Is. (UP)
The weather this year already has
broken moro records than in any
similar length Of time in the his
tory OF the 4. S. Weather Bureau,
according to J. B. Kincer, chief
fOrccaStor.
January was woodworking
month for moisture, heat, cold,
drouth, Kinccr said. II. was a
month Of extreme contrasts.
Floods Inundated parts of the Mis-
sissippi and Ohio valleys, while the
northwestern plans states suffered
from drouth.
with this as n starter, it is
hard to tell what to expect for the
remainder of the year. kincer
said. Beneficial moisture has fall
en- over large sections Of the 1886
drouth belt, but others still are
abnormally dry
FRUIT CROPS SUFFER
Fruit crops have suffered from
too much warmth in Florida and
too much cold in California. I'M
usually warm weather in the
southeastern states caused many
fruit trees to bloom in January.
Freezes not known for many
years caused heavy damage to
California fruit and vegetables.
In the Ohio valley 60,000,0O
600 tons of water, enough to GOV.
or the entire area to a depth OF
more than 16 inches, fell during
the first three weeks of January,
Kincer estimated. This was half
the normal rainfall for the year
and an all-time record for n like
period.
The flood caused official atten-
ton to center on two related prob
lcms-hood control and sol! con.
servation. H. H. Bennett, chief of
the soil conservation service, estl.
mated 800, 100000. tons Of topsoil
were carried away by the flood in
the Ohio drainage basin.
Bennett said that on cultivated
land of average slope, 95 per cent
of January rainfall ran off. On
grass land only rs per cent OF the
water ran off. The 27,000,000,-
acre Ohio drainage basin, once SO
per cent forest, now is only 81 per
cent forested.
HUGE LOSS OF SOIL
Bennett estimated approximate
ly Go per cent Of the area is mod
erately eroded. Four per cent, oil
more than 100000 acres, is Sc
verely eroded, and only % pei
cent is not eroded, he said. Loss
of topsoil during the January
floods was as high as 10 tons to
the acre on many farms not COW
cred by the water.
Arguing the benefits of terrac,
ing. Bennett said department OF
agriculture near Hamilton, o., in
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u. S. WOULD BRING
FOREIGN WEALTH
UNDER CONTROL
CONTINUED from naxa one)

Continued from paRa one)
of the Hitler regime in Germany"
the association asserted.
Current armament programs
are based almost universarry on
the assumption that war is an i'm
minent possibility"
The report showed that approx
mately so per cent of the worlds
armament bill is being paid for by
Europe where 1886 expenditures
totalled $S,S79,000 900 in 1886 as
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the former opens The Jefferson.
They have spent the winter IN
South Carolina with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Otis Powers and
family and "Uncle Dave" Howard
spent yesterday in Greensboro,
where they went to see Miss Alice
Louise Powers at VIC. of U.N:C.
Miss Mayme Long, Of Sylvia,
spent the weekend with her sis
ter, Mrs. Harry Buchanan.