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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-25
MARCEL DUPRE.
ORGAN CONCERT.
PROVIDES THRILL
French Artist UndiSmay,
ed by Hard Stunt
By JAMES Mcdowell

Marcel Dupre, distinguished
French organist, was guest Of the
District of Columbia Chapter Of
the American Guild of OrganiStS
yesterday afternoon at the Shrine
of the Immaculate Conception,
and the public that assembled to
hear him taxes the capacity Of
the auditorium.
The most exciting moment in
the lengthy program came at its
conclusion when M. Dupre impro-
viSed contrapuntal fantasy and
fugue on themes collected from the
audience and quite unknown to
him. Each was one of those un-
melodic sequences that musicians
put together on such occasions
with the obvious purpose Of max
ing the stunt as difficult as posi-
BILE. The celebrated visitor was in
no wise embarrassed. The display
of technical and musical ingenuity
made spontaneously and without
any kind of special preparation
was mastery.
WIFE ASSISTS
These excitments did not make
the listener forget the thrill pro
vided earlier in the concert when
Nine. Dupre took the piano part IN
a set of variations on two themes
composed for her by her husband.
The piano is the more important
instrument in this duo. the organ
playing what was, in all probable
ties, originally an orchestral &C
compartment.
It is q daring modern work,
more interesting in it's rhythmical
inventiveneSs than in its pure
harmonic color. It makes the
gravest technical demands upon
the pianoforte, exhibiting the
capacities of that instrument in
some original lights.
BRILLIANT TECHHCIAN
Nine. Dupre is q brilliant tech
nician and a charming person. So
is her gifted husband, who is I'M
embarrassed by any legitimate diff
ficulty and accepted some illegitt-
mate ones provided by the organ.
He dealt gravely with the G Minor
Fantasy and Fugue of Bach more
alertly with some aggressive Han
del and did his duty by the mod
ems, of whom he is q notable, the
other being Leo Sowerby.
M. Dupre chose from the volu-
minous works of this brilliant
American the overture Comes
Autumn Time" It has been
played by several of the country'S
important orcheStras and should
be played by all. It would be, too,
if Americans conducted them.
M. Dupre separates himself
from the great company Of Euro
pean visitors by this interest in
our music. He remembered, also
Alexander Russell'S tone-poem en-
titled up the Saguenay," a pleas
ant study in the Instruments
color varieties.
FRANK SONATA
A reading og the Frank sonata
for piano and violin, by Alive
Finckel and Frank KneiSel, made
notable the recital given by these
young artists last night at the
Roosevelt Hotel. This is a great
work that keeps it's hold on the
imagination of all music lovers
because it combines romance, myS-
ticiSm and impressioniSm to create
a rare and distinctive beauty.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-25
MOTHERS MEET

Mrs. D. ]. Price, 7O1 Whittier st.
N. W., will be hostess to members
of the Petworth Mothers Club to-
morrow at l p. m. at her home.
Mrs. T. s. Parsons will lead the
group on a discussion of nature.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-25
NEW OFFICERS

Newly elected officers of the
Junior Group of the Marietta Park
Women'S Club who will serve for
the coming year are Jeanne Kiley,
president: Mary Frances Fitz-
gerald, vice president; Patricia
Ann Ritter, secretary; Barbara
HargraveS, treasurer, and Virginia
Cummings, sergeant at arms.
Next Saturday afternoon. fol-
lowing the business session, the
group will hold a Halloween party.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-25
u. S. Naval Academy
Given Flags By OAR.
By MARY PADGETT

As their contribution the Navy Day celebration the
Annapolis Naval Academy Wednesday, the Daughters of the
American Revolution will present complete of State and
tho
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1937-10-25

at q dinner. Mrs. Charles Nc
Grew, 7O5 Dahlia st. N. W., will
be hostess to the gathering.
Evening star., 1937-12-05

Do this. compare Corona point
by point with any portable made
=. for strength, for speed, for COM
pleteness, for good looks and good
looking work. Then find out how
really easy it is to "play Santa Claus
this year and take your Corona
home with you! Any Corona dealer
anywhere. will help you.
Evening star., 1937-12-05

Give a Corona Portable this
Christmas and watch it serve all
the family for years and years.
Secretary daughters, salesman sons,
boys and girls in school or college
writer's, business men, house
wives. in short, all jobholders and
all iobhunters can use Corona with
pleasure and profit.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
STOCKS DECLINE
IN SELLING WAVE
Steel Strike Touches Off
Slide Causing ST to
81 Drop.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, May ia burst OF
selling today knocked down stock
market leaders 81 to more than "a a
share, many to new lows for the year
or longer.
Touching off the slide. brokers said
was the calling Of strike at the
Jones & Laughlin steel plants, the first
major labor controversy in this IT.
dustry in 10 years. Fears we're ex-
pressed other independent steel COM
panies would also be hit by unioniza-
ton drives
The unloading of shares reached
a peak in the second hour. when the
rush was so great the ticker tape
dropped several minutes behind in
recording actual transactions on the
floor of the Stock Exchange
A little buying support appeared
around noon and extreme losses were
reduced moderately.
Prominent in the retreat were United
States Steel, Bethlehem, National
Steel, Republic Steel, General Motors,
Chrysler, United States Rubber, Amer
lean Telephone. Consolidated Edison,
Anaconda, Kennecott, Du Pont, Allied
Chemical, Westinghouse, General Elec-
trio, Santa Fe, New York Central,
Loew's, Douglas Aircraft and Deere.
Bonds and commodities were I'M
even Rubber futures broke sharply
on the imposition Of an import tax
on this staple by Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13

an elderly colored woman who lives
across the street from the plant.
Around Christmas, 1885, McCrae
testified he was called to the office.
When he entered, he said, he gave
Wood a dollar voluntarily and left.
James Wells, another colored COL
lector, told the board he had psr-
chased two chickens at $3.50 apiece
from Wood because saw the other
men do the same thing" and that he
also had dropped money in the Aunt
Mary box on pay day.
William Bullock, also a colored COL
lector, testified he paid 80 cents apiece
for two chickens which he purchased
from Wood, which thought was
too much because they were too
small"
On pay days, Bullock stated, Wood
stood near the cashiers window,
shook the box and said Don't forget
Aunt Mary"
Wood viii testify htse. .... .,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Garbage Men Say Boss Asked
Them to Support AUNT Nary

A board of inquiry met this after
noon at the District garbage plant to
hear complaints of collectors that they
were asked to buy chickens from the
superintendent, William r. Wood, and
contribute to the support of a woman
known as Aunt Mary"
With half a dozen uniformed po-
licemen and detectives scattered about
the plant, the board, composed Of As
sistant Corporation Counsel Stanley
De Neale, j. B. Gordon, director Of
sanitary engineering, and William
Xanten, superintendent OF city refuse,
met in loft while garbage truck
drivers and collectors congregated out
side.
The first witness, Stroley McCrae,
a colored collector, told the board that
on pay days Wood had held box and
told the employees not to forget Aunt
Mary"
McCrea said he had never seen
Aunt Kary," but understood sR1s Wa
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
A 13-month-old dog named Rex,
artfully wagging his bushy tail. lob
bied q bill through House subconl-
mittee today.
The legislation would allow the
Nations railroads to let the trained
canine companions of. the blind &C.
company them free of charge on
coaches.
Rex, abandoning the suave tricks OF
veteran lobbyists, simply stretched
at the feet of his blind master, DR.. H.
E. Claus OF Arlington, Va, fixed a
brown eye on Chairman Bulwinkle,
Democrat, Of North Carolina and
swished his tail across the green plush
committee room carpet.
R. v. Fletcher, counsel for the As
ISOLATION of American Railways, fas-
cinated by the pup on the floor, moved
his chair to get better look.
Representative Smith, Democrat, Of
Washington, author Of the bill, in
terrupted himself with . chuckle as
Rex shattered the dignity Of the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
BLAST IS L|KENED
TO STEAMBOATS,
First Noise of Hindenburg
Crash Held Similar to
That in U. S. Craft.
BACKGROUND

CkGROUND-
Soon after the Zeppelin Hinden-
burg exploded, sending IS persons
to their death ueek ago, De-
partment OF Commerce Board of
inquiry started to work to deter
mine the cause OF the disaster. Thus
far incendiarism, sparks OF static
electricity or some defect uithin the
craft haze all been advanced as
cause theories.
By the Associated Press.
LAKEHURST, N. j., May IA
survivor of the disaster to the Amer
lean Navy dirigible Shenandoah told
a Commerce Department investigat-
ing board today the first noise he
heard when the destruction of the
German Zeppelin Hindenburg be-
gan was much like that on the Shen-
andoah when her hull collapsed.
The witness, Chief BoatsWains Mate
F. J. Tobin, was so feet from the
point where the Shenandoah broke in
two when it was hit by a line squall
over Ohio in 1925, he testified. Four
teen members of her crew died
Describing the beginning of the end
OF the Hindenburg, a week ago to-
night with the loss of IS lives, Tobin
said:
There burst out OF the tail OF the
ship burst of smoke and fame &C
companied by noise that I likened
to breaking wires"
He was asked whether the noise
resembled that of the Shenandoah
when it broke in two.
ut brought to my mind that Incl
dent" Tobin replied.
Before Tobin was called, Lieut.. r.
S. Andrews of the Naval Air Station
here testified he saw sparks in the
exhaust stream of the Hindenburg
before she burst into flames.
AS the inquiry went forward, dis
cussion elsewhere was aroused by
the remark of Clarence Chamberlain,
transatlantic flyer. at Spartanburg,
S. c., that snipe"s bullet might
explain the Hindenburg disaster.
Chamberlin referred specifically to
two planes landing recently at Ben
dix, in Northern New Jersey, with
bullet holes in their fuselage. His
comment recalled also to those at the
Naval Air Station that a sniper once
fired on the dirigible Los Angeles,
since decommissioned, and that the
all-metal Navy blimp ZMC-2 had
been shot at and hit by snipers on
three occasions.
Bits of broken propeller found in
side the twisted wreckage of the
dirigible also held the attention of in
vestigators as they studied the theory
that shattered blade sent the airship
to her doom.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Dog Ways Tail and Lobbies
Bill Through Subcommittee

committee room by rolling on his
back.
DR.. Claus was the only witness.
Explaining that Rex was one of the
famous seeing dogs, trained at
Morristown, N. j., to lead the blind,
he said most railroads allow the dog
to travel in his compartment.
But once" said DR.. Claus. his voice
rising, they wouldn't allow it,
The dog stiffened at the change in
his masters tone.
REX and l." said the blind man,
rode in the baggage car that day"
None Of the railroad attorneys pres
ent opposed the bill, although Fletcher
suggested the regulations could be
worked out without legislation.
Adjourning the hearing, Bulwinkle
walked over and eased into chair
before the dog A moment later Rex
had his paws in the chairman's lap.
"Oh, yes" announced the law
maker. "the subcommittee will favor
ably report this bill to the House Inter-
state ana Foreign Commerce Com
mittee."
Thus ended the hrst dog lobby.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
SENDER OF THREAT
TO PRESIDENT HELD
Waynesboro. Pa, Man Is Ar
rested by Secret Service
Agents.
BY the Associated Press,

Ey tDe Associated PreSS.
HARRISBURG. Pa, May 10
Secret service agents arrested man
docketed as William S. Anderson, SO.
OF Waynesboro Pa, on a charge of
sending two threatening letters to
President Roosevelt.
The agents took ANDERSON into
custody yesterday in Waynesboro on
warrant issued by United States
Commissioner Sidney Friedman of
Harrisburg
Arraigned before United States
Commissioner S. J. larger Of Waynes-
boro, Anderson was released under
$4,000 bond for hearing May 10.
The Government agents said Amber
son first wrote letters to Gov Earle
and other State officials asking their
assistance in an automobile trans
action in which he felt he had been
defrauded Of $50. The State officials
took no action.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
EVIDENCE BATTLE
MARKS STOCK CASE
S. E. c. Counsel Claims Matter
Hearsay in Hutton Co.
Hearings.
b. the Associated Press

NEW YORK, May ia sharp
fight over evidence admitted yester.
day marked the Security and Elk.
change Commission hearing today in
its action against the New York Stock
Exchange firm of w. E. Hutton & Co.,
and others.
The S. E. c. has charged the Hut
ton firm and others manipulated the
stock Of Atlas Tack Corp. Today was
the second session of the respondents
defense.
The conflict conferred on evidence
admitted yesterday by Edward c.
johnson, trial examiner.
Jacob Gruber, counsel for the COM
mission, charged statements and docu-
ments submitted as evidence by
Franklin Lincoln, counsel for the
respondent. were "hearsay, and in
some instances, second hearsay"
Furthermore, Gruber said, the doc
uments and statements were irrele.
want. The statements we're unsworn.
he added, and gave S. E. C. counsel no
chance for cross examination.
David w. Peck, chief of counsel for
the respondent, termed this 1.-The most
amazing statement yet made by the
S. E. C.. You can't question the origin
Of q Western Union money order" he
said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
FOES Of ABATT0|R
PLAN NEW ATTACK
Recover From Rough-and-
Tumble Session to Start
Again Today.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Request of meat dcking firm for
permit to erect slaughter house in
Benning area precipitated storm, of
controversy last Fall. Commission
ers rejected application and set
rigid standards for esta bhshment OF
such an enterprise in District. Re
rising their plans to meet stand
ards, company uas granted permit.
At same time, legislation Cas in
troduced in Congress for regulation
OF such industries in District. Sec
rotary Ickes and District Commits
s1oners have led support OF meas
ure in Senate hearings nou under
1Udy.
Supporters Of the King bill designed
to ban from Washington such NUS
ance- making industries as the pro-
posed Gobel slaughter house in Ben
ming had recovered sufficiently from
the surprises Of yesterdays rough and
tumble session with the special Sen
ate District subcommittee to plan a
counter offensive when the hearing is
resumed this afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Taking stock Of a situation forced
into the open by Senator Willard E.
Tydings of Maryland, a subcommittee
member who claimed compensation
for Adolf Gobel, Inc. if it is pre-
vented from operating its plant, pro-
ponents of the new zoning legislation
were satisfied they had scored at least
one important point.
This was when ElWood H. Seal,
Corporation Counsel for the District,
knocked the props from under the
contention of Gobel spokesman that
the company was entitled to compen-
sation from the local taxpayers in an
amount considerably in excess of
81 100000 If deprived of the right to
establish its slaughter house near the
Benning viaduct. D. Edward Clark,
Gobel attorney, who was supported
throughout the hearing by Senator
Tydings, claimed the packing firm
had paid sl,400000 "for the plant and
property and the right to do business. ~
Seal Hits Abattoir Figures.
Seal who had earlier protested such
claim as excessive, called for the
records of the assessors Office and
proceeded to break down the skillfully
built-up case. The property and land
at Benning acquired by the Gobel Co.
(See ABATTOIR, Page A-e)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
c. A. 0. T0DROP 800
EMPLOYEES SOON
Majority to Go June 30.
Emergency Workers Plan
Fight for Jobs.

Between $50 and 300 emergency
employees are to be dropped by the
General Accounting Ofhce-the ma
jority on June 30-it was made known
today
Lack Of funds is forcing this &C
ton. officials said, explaining that a
few dismissals are being made now
and that others will follow after the
end of the fiscal year.
At present the General Accounting
Office is employing about 2,700 emer-
gency workers in Is buildings in
Washington and one in Alexandria.
In reducing the force, officials are
taking cognizance of efficiency and the
need for work, principally. In in
stances, too, it was said. where cou-
pie is employed in the Government
and the total salary reaches an ap-
preciable figure, the marital status
law also is being invoked.
The General Accounting Office is the
third establishment to announce a
large lay-off since the current econ
omy wave in the Government began
to operate. The Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration was first. and
then Public Works announced that a
huge slash was impending because of
lowered appropriations.
In the meantime, emergency en-
ployes are preparing to unite in an
effort to save what jobs they can.
In pushing this program, which is
declared to have Democratic backing
at the Capitol. the newly organized
Association of Classified Workers
is meeting tonight at the Willard
Hotel. Several members of Congress
are listed for speeches, among. them
being Chairman Ramspeck, Demo
crat, of Georgia of the House Civil
Service Committee.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
SHIP GOES ON REEF;
SK|PPERENDSL|FE
Captain Found Dead as
Coast Guard Tries to Pull
VESSEL OFF.
By the Associated Press.

JACKSONVILLE, Fla, May l3-
Coast Guard headquarters reported to-
day Capt. Otto Liebert OF the Ger
man steamship Wiegand died of a self
inflicted bullet wound today after his
vessel ran hard aground in clear
weather on coral reef IS miles south
of Miami
The cutter Pandora, which had tried
for hours to float the ship, took the
masters body to Miami. Guardsmen
said the Pandora investigated only to
ascertain that there had been no crime
committed in United States territorial
waters
Ship German Soil.
The Wiegand is considered German
soil and any detailed investigation
will have to be made by the German
consul. L. Kurz, German consul at
Jacksonville, said the Miami area was
under the New Orleans consulate. He
had telegraphed the nations repre-
sentative there, he stated. and would
take further action only by request
Coast Guardsmen said the Pandora
arrived beside the Wiegand early yes
terday after she had run aground
Tuesday night. The patrol boat
passed line and attempted to get
the craft back into deep water, but
the hawser broke
Another line was passed and eff
forts continued unsuccessfully. Last
night the Coast Guard vessel pulled
at full power for three hours without
result. Capt. Liebert directed the
efforts from the deck Of the Wiegand,
and when once more the attempt at
relocating was halted, he went to his
cabin.
Shooting Then Reported.
A short time later the crew signaled
the Pandora Capt. Liebert was
wounded. When Coast Guard officers
arrived he was dead.
Several letters we're found, Consul
Kurz said, but until they could be
examined, the exact reason for the
mans action could not be established.
A commercial tug was sent today
from Key West to assist further re-
floating attempts. The Wiegand Is
owned by the North German Lloyd
Lines.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
W|NDS0RDEMANDS
ROYAL H|GHNESS
TITLE FOR BRIDE.
Not Content to Have Mrs.
WarfieId Become Plain
Duchess.
MINISTERS STAND PAT
AGAINST AIMS OF DUKE
Secret ENJOYS From Government
Have Found Ex-King Firm
in 1nsistence.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
King EdWard VIII, succeeding
his father. King George v, as ruler
OF the British empire more than q
year ago, abdicated last December
in order to marry Mrs. Wallis War
field, to Whom the British cabinet
and church objected as possible
Queen OF England.
After abdication the former Kino.
no1D the Duke OF Windsor, secluded
hlmself in Austria until late last
month, ,Chen divorce of his fancee
became fnal His brother, the for
ner Duke OF York. uas croUned
yesterday as King George VI.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON. May l3.-The Duke O,
Windsor's pre-nuptial struggle with
the British government, authoritative
sources disclosed today, is for
recognition OF Mrs. Wallis Warfield
his bride-to-be, as Her Royal High
ness, the Duchess of Windsor"
The Duke, it was learned, will not
even be content to have Mrs. Warfeld
become 1.-The Duchess of Windsor"
So heated has the dispute between
the former monarch and the govern
ment become that Prime Minister
Stanley Baldwin's cabinet today re-
viewed the whole question.
Having yielded to Windsors de-
mands that Mrs. Warfleld become a
duchess. the ministers stood pat
against allowing her to be addressed
Her Royal Higrness,' it was re-
ported
Windsor Is Insistent.
a source close to the government
disclosed that negotiations have been
going on for some time in an effort
to bring both adamant sides to a
compromise. But Windsor, they said
Is lnsEtent that his bride be called
her royal highness";; the govern
ment that she not be so titled.
Secret ambassadors from the gov
eminent, these sources said, have
argued and pleaded with the duke
but have been unable to convince him
that he alone is entitled to the dis.
tinction OF being royal highness'
because Of his royal blood.
Mrs. Warfield. they are said to have
commended. has no such claim because
she is a commoner and has not the
faintest hope for succession to the
(See WINDSOR, Page A-4.)
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
CURLEY'S SON QUITS
HARVARD OVER "SLUR"
Former Governor of Massachu-
sets Declares Remark Was Re-
Fiction Upon His Reputation.

Ey the Associated Press.
CAMBRIDGE. Mass, May ia
"slur' former Gov. James M. Curley
said professor cast upon his reputa-
ton cost Harvard Law School stu
dent today, Curley's son, Leo Francis
Curley.
The former Governor, thrice Mayor
of Boston, explained his son resigned
after the incident and I advised him
to do So
Curley said the "slur' occurred dur
ing class discussion of a former Mid
western Mayor He said the professor,
unnamed, told his class that the
Mayor in question was corrupt, but
nevertheless the people kept electing
him, and is said to have declared "in
much the same fashion the people
would elect Curley Mayor of Boston"
The former Governor said the pro-
fessor apologized to his son afterward.
Leo Curley was graduated from
Georgetown University last year and
was flrst-year student at the school.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Col. Lindbergh
Declined Bid
To Coronation
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, May l3-Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh. it was learned today.
declined an invitation to attend the
coronation OF King George vi yes
terday at Westminster Abbey.
The noted aviator, friends said. was
extended one OF the invitations which
thousands of personages had sought
in vain, but decided to stay at his
home in Kent He listened to the
broadcast of the ceremony.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1937-05-13
Butcher Knives Deter Gunman

GOWANDA, N. Y. May 10 P.-
The sight of L. C. Bowen brandish-
ing two butcher knives was too much
for a gunman who attempted to hold
up Bowen in his store.
Get out Of here" Owen threat
ened, waving the knives when the
hold-up man pointed a gun at him.
The intruder fed.