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Evening star., 1938-04-26
RAJAH MOUNTS CANNON:
STILL DEFIES ARMY
Rejects All Efforts to Get Him Out
of Stronghold After Revolt
Against Overload.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JAIPUR. India, April 2e.-The en-
battled Rajah Of Sikar. in revolt
against his overlord, the Maharajah Of
Jaipur, today mounted small cannon
on his town gates and continued his
defiance of small besieging army.
All efforts to persuade the rajah to
evacuate his stronghold at Sikar,
walled town Of Northwestern India,
were rejected.
The besiegers. including two train.
loads Of Jaipur state infantry, a squad.
ron OF lancers and 200 military police.
have made no effort to take the town
by storm. However, they mounted
machine guns at points facing the
walls.
Two hundred of the rajah's follow.
ers armed with lathis-long staves-
were seen at approaches to the main
gate, but the rajah was believed to
have thousands of other followers en-
trenched inside the town, the normal
population OF which is about $4,000.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
MANFAC|NG TRIAL,
DRENCHEDBYGA GAS,
| BURNED TO DEATH
Lawyers Aide Accused of
Forgery Is Human Torch
on Rail Siding.
CLOTHING is DESTROYED
BY ROARING FLAMES
Passersby See Victim and Call
Help-Police Believe He Set
Fire Himself.

Shortly before he was to have ap-
peared in District Court in connection
with forgery charge, Robert G.. Tim
berlake, 35, Of l4l5 T street Sc. an
employe in law Office, was burned
to death this morning beside a rail-
road siding just of New Jersey avenue
Sc. The circumstances surrounding
the tragedy led police to believe he
had drenched his clothing with gaso-
line and touched it off with a match.
Undertakes body was a flaming
torch when seen shortly before II
am. by passerby on the sidewalk
above the railroad siding. The mans
clothing fared up while he was in a
clump of bushes between the sidewalk
and railroad tracks.
A mass Of flames, Timberlake rolled
down bank onto level spot beside
the railroad. Passersby saw the
smoke and heard Undertakes
screams. They summoned the help
ers on passing garbage truck, who
spread an old tarpaulin over the man
as he lay writhing on the ground.
The garbage men put out the flames
before the arrival OF the Fire De-
partment.
Scared From Head to Foot.
The victims clothing was virtually
burned from his body when he was
removed to Casualty Hospital, where
he was pronounced dead on arrival.
He had been scared from head to foot
by the gasoline flames.
Timberlake had bought half a gall
Ion Of gasoline about 10 am. from a
filling station at New Jersey avenue
and E street Sc, police learned. The
fuel was in closed tin and shortly
afterward Timberlake returned and
asked that he be given container
with an open top. He told the attend
ant he wished to bend the can into
spout because he could not pour the
gas into the tank of his automobile
from the container. The attendant
then gave Timberlake the gasoline in
an open can.
Police said they could not locate any
automobile which r;mberlake might
have had at the scene.
Indicted in February.
Timberlake was indicted on Febru.
airy IS on a charge Of forging and Ut
tering q check for S362 /. was said
he had Endorsed his attorneys name to
the check and then added his own
name below the Endorsement, and there
was some question whether the case
was misunderstanding or a forgery.
Undertakes bondsman was to
have brought him before Justice
Joseph w. Cox. who wished to learn
II he had an attorney The case was
to have been set for trial next month.
Timberlake was said to have fired a
pistol last February while in the Of
f1ces Of former Judge Gus A. Schuldt
in Police Court. At the time, he paid
SIS fine for discharging firearms and
$40 fine for intoxication.
Police notified his wife, Louise. and
a brother, who identified the body at
the hospital. The coroner's Office is
investigating.
Evening star., 1938-04-26

about to be launched against the re-
covery program" A petition form was
attached to the letter, which, the writer
said, originated in large corporation
in Detroit.
The New York Representative, in
blaming the Works Progress Admins
traitor for pro-pump priming chain let
tiers. said writer's of number Of the
communications he received had
copied the chain" instructions as we'll
as the body of the letter. thus dis
closing what he called their "propa-
ganda" nature.
"On the bottoms of some of the
letters" Representative Taber said
was a line stating make one copy
for your Congressman and send this to
four other persons"
The New Yorker said he also was
getting lot of honest opposition" to
the program.
House committee hearings on the
(See RELIEF, Page A-9D
Evening star., 1938-04-26
SCOTT IS ACQUITTED
OF KIDNAP CHARGE
Aviator Also Freed by Court at
Nassau-Pair Accused by
Formers Ex.Wife,
BY the Associated Press.

BY tine Associated Press.
NASSAU, Bahamas, April 2e.-For-
roster Scott, Philadelphia lawyer, and
Stanley Boynton, an aviator, were ac-
quilted by directed verdict today on
charges Of attempted kidnapping.
The two were accused Of attempting
March is to seize Mr.. SCOTS two
daughters. Eve and Zoe, and fly with
them back to the United States. The
children had been brought here by Mr..
Scott's former wife. now Mrs. Harry
Clark Boden
Sir Richard Tute. scarlet-robed pre-
siding justice. directed the acquittal
on the ground that Mrs. Boden's testi-
mony for the prosecution was inad-
missible because British law does not
recognize her Reno divorce. A wife
may not testify against her husband.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
R0BERT.M'LEAN
IS NEW A.P. HEAD
President of Philadelphia
Bulletin Successor to
Frank B. Noyes.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
NEW YORK. April 26.-Robert Nc
Lean. president of the Philadelphia
Bulletin, today was elected president
OF the Associated Press.
He succeeds Frank B. Noyes, presi-
dent Of The Evening Star Newspaper
Co. OF Washington. D. c., who re-
tired yesterday after serving in that
office for 3S years
The Board of Directors elected w.
H. Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman
Review first vice president and Paul
Patterson Of the Baltimore Sun second
vice president.
The other officers, including the
Executive Board. were Reelected
Mr.. Mclean became a member of
the Bulletin staff in 1918, after he was
graduated from Princeton University
with bachelor Of literature degree.
Served in World War.
He worked in the news, circulation
and advertising departments of the
Bulletin to become familiar with the
entire operation Of the paper.
Mr.. Mclean was away from the
paper in 1915 when he served with the
United States Army on the Mexican
border. and again during the World
War. During the war he rose from
second lieutenant to major of
artillery. being attached to the 3llth
Field Artillery of the 10th Division.
Upon the death of his father. the
late William L. Mclean. in 1881 he
became president of the Bulletin. He
has served as director of the Asso-
ciated Press since 1924
For the last year he has been first
vice president of the Associated Press.
Mr.. McLean's father was a director
OF the Associated Press before him.
the elder Mclean having been elected
to that post in 1900. He served until
1924, when his son succeeded him.
The family purchased the Bulletin
in 1895.
Married in Baltimore.
The new president lives in Fort
Washington, Pa, and is a member
OF the Union League, Rittenhouse and
Princeton Clubs in Philadelphia. He
was married to Clare Randolph Goode
in Baltimore on April %, 1919.
Former President Noyes is the only
survivor of the band of three men
who organized the Associated Press at
the turn of the century. He delivered
his va1eSjctorv oddrocc yacfardoy -
lSee ASSOCIATED PRESS, Page A-4J
Evening star., 1938-04-26
CORNER PARKING
RULE MODIFIED
Commissioners Reconsider
Drastic Orders, Retaining
20.F0ot Ban Zone.

After a two-hour conference with
Traffic Director William A. Van Duzer
and Police Supt. E. w. Brown the
Commissioners Laid aside" one of the
two drastic parking orders they had
adopted recently but decided to go
ahead with the other.
The rule finally ordered into effect
will prohibit parking of cars closer
than = point 20 feet back Of the
building line at intersections OF streets.
This carries q proviso that parking
will not be prohibited for more than
so feet back of the intersection of the
curb lines
1t is believed this rule will eliminate
thousands Of parking spaces now used
by motorists who do not have garage
facilities.
Commissioner Hazen announced
that the Commissioners had laid
aside for further study" the other
order recommended by the traffic di-
rector and adopted several weeks ago
by the Commissioners during the ab-
sence from the city of Engineer Com
missioner Dan I. Sultan This would
have forbidden parking Of cars within
100 feet of an intersection on the
approach side. in the case Of inter-
sections controlled by traffic lights.
Further Study Planned.
Commissioner Hazen WAS asked II
the resembling of this order meant
that it had been killed and he said
he did not think 50. that it might
possibly be brought up again for ac-
ton. perhaps in some revised form.
I'VE are going to have 1t studied
further, at any rate" he said.
Meanwhile, Mr.. Van Duzer asked the
Commissioners to approve a long list
of specific orders which would extend
traffic restrictions on sections OF many
streets. Many of the list were sug-
gested as new one-Way streets.
The Commissioners struck numerous
streets off this proposed list and d.
rected Mr.. Van Duzer to revise the
whole proposed order and submit it
again for consideration. The proposed
list was not made public.
Opposes Further Restrictions.
Before today's meeting, George E.
Keneipp, manager of the Keystone
Automobile Club, in commune
cation to the Commissioners said
the Advisory Board of the club op-
posed further parking restrictions at
intersections when they are made
without regard to the different con-
ditions or circumstances which might
obtain at various intersections"
Taking all circumstances into con-
sideration. Mr.. Keneipp said the club
believes the proposed regulations "too
drastic"
Hard to Enforce.
"There Is no evidence" he wrote,
ito show that the present regula-
tion prohibiting parking for a dis
tance of Is feet from intersections
has been adequately enforced. nor is
there any assurance that by increas-
ing the distance to so or 100 feet
there will be better enforcement. Po-
lice personnel is believed too limited"
Evening star., 1938-04-26
FLEEING CONVICT
KILLED BY GUARD
Prisoner Shot to Death at
Great Falls, Va.-Probes
Are Under Way.

A 23-year-old convict was shot and
killed at the Virginia State prison
camp at Great Falls early today when
he attempted to escape into a nearby
woods.
The prisoner, who was serving a
13-year sentence from Lee County, Va,
on charges of housebreaking and rob-
berry. was listed on the camp rolls as
Bradley Butler.
M l.. Royster. guardian in charge
OF the camp. said Butler, with the
other 63 prison laborers, was being
marched from the camp to nearby
rock quarry when he made a break
for freedom. AS the man was entering
a dense growth of pines Guard Allen
Goodwin opened fire, the shot striking
the fleeing man in the side and back,
Mr.. Royster reported.
Sheriff Eppa P. Kirby of Fairfax
County and Coroner c. A. Ransom
were making an investigation into the
killing. Mr.. Royster said he also is
Investigating. No immediate action
was taken against Mr.. Goodwin.
According to report made to Mai.
r. M. Youell, superintendent Of State
priosns. by Mr.. Royster, the guards
were walking in the rear OF the pris-
oners and Goodwin was about 30 feet
away from Butler when the prisoner
made his break. One shot from the
guards shotgun brought the fleeing
man down. He was dead when ex-
amined by guards, Mr.. Royster said.
Sentenced to serve IL years on a
charge OF robbery and one year for
HOUSEKEEPING. Butler was received
from Lee County December Is, 1887,
according to Maj Youell.
Prisoners at the camp are employed
in building and repairing secondary
roads in Fairfax County, one crew
working in the stone quarry and an
other being employed on about 20
pieces Of road.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
Whitney Gets
Job Cleaning
Prison Floor
Former EXCHANGE
Head May Later
Teach IL, School.
BY the Associated Press.

OSSINING. N. Y, April 26.--Rich-
ard Whitney. ex-broker. graduated
from the rookie class at Sing Sing
prison today to become a full-fedged
convict and got his first job-cleaning
and mopping floors in the ancient cell
block where he is confined.
Whitney, five times president Of the
New York Stock Exchange and now
No. 94S35, entered the prison two
weeks ago to begin serving a 5 to 10
year sentence for grand larceny.
Prison attendants said Whitney, be-
fore his removal today to a new cell
higher in the old block, cleaned and
scrubbed the walls of the cell he has
occupied and did the job with the
thoroughness Of a good porter.
Having graduated from the recep-
ton company he may now have vis-
itors. but officials said they under
stood he did not wish any one to call
on him yet. As tier man. or cleaner
he works with broom. mop and rag
Later he may be assigned to a job
teaching school.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
Germany Asks About Heliun',
Refuses Part in Ne,v York Fair

Dieckhoff said he had hoped Ger
many could have been represented
because Of the advertising value to
German products.
Persons close to the German EN-
bassy said there was no connection
between Germany's refusal to take
part in the World Fair and the hesi-
tation Of the United States to sell
Germany helium. Secretary Of In
terror Ickes Is Withholding his sigma
ture from . contract to sell the helium
until he can devise safeguard against
use Of the gas by Germany for mill
tary purposes.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
PLAN TO MOVE TOWN
THREATENED BY RIVER
Engineers Take Steps to Relocate
Vidalia, La, Before Waters
Engulf Buildings.

Engulf Buildings.
BY the Associated Press.
VIDAL1A, La, April 26.-Govern-
ment engineers plan to move this
whole township Of 1000 population
about half a mile inland before the
Mississippi River makes good its
threat to swamp the buildings.
The construction of cutoffs, princi-
pally one through Giles Bend, which
juts out into the river right above
Vidalia from the Mississippi side, has
piled water dangerously high against
the towns barriers, Government ex-
perts believe.
Although no emergency Is felt at
present, they are anxious to get the
removal under way so the old levee
can be abandoned and a new one
constructed farther back-to relieve
pressure by widening the river-by
the end Of summer.
So the engineers have drawn up
specifications for transplanting the en-
tire community - churches, business
houses, railways, homes and other
components Of this Concordia Parish
seat.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
MONEY IS BEQUEATHED
TO U. S. TO GET BONDS
Historian and Writer Wills Sum
to Government to Redeem
1918 Liberty Issues.

1918 Liberty Issues.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, N. Y, April 26.-The
United States Of America, in care Of
Attorney General Homer s. Cum
mings, Washington, receives 20-63ds
Of the residue Of the estate Of James
Reuel Smith, Yonkers, N. Y, historian
and writer, which was appraised here
this morning for transfer tax pur-
poses at $328,383 net. In his will
Mr.. Smith. who died in Yonkers, No.
vember II, 1885, directed that the
money be applied Ito the redemption
Of Liberty bonds issued in 1918"
The United States Government also
receives his books, valued at $139,
which the will stipulated must be dis
tributed among the lighthouse keepers
in the United States service. As q
residuary legatee the United States
Government will also receive a propor-
tional share Of an additional thirty
seven parts Of the residue, which are
undistributed because the beneficiaries
predeceased the testator. Specific
cash bequests totalsd 10000.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
PRESIDENT DISCUSSES
RAIL AID WITH JONES
r. F. G. Favors Action, but Doubts
If It Can Be Taken During
Present Session,

By the Associated Press.
Jesse H. Jones, chairman of the
Reconstruction Finance Corp. dis
cussed with President Roosevelt today
the question of whether some legisla-
ton to aid railroads could be passed
at this session.
The conference was preliminary to
one later in the day between Mr.. Jones
and representatives Of railroad man
agement and labor.
Il favor doing something for the
railroads this session." the r. F. C..
head said. What can be done don't
know"
Mr.. Jones expressed doubt, however,
that any major legislation could be
passed before adjournment Of Con-
gress.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
German Ambassador Hans Dieck-
hon informed Undersecretary Welles
this morning that Germany would not
take part in the World Fair In New
York next year.
The Ambassador also asked what
the United States intended to do about
the sale Of helium to Germany.
Dieckhoff told Welles Germany was
unable to be represented at the fair
because of the large amount Of foreign
currency involved In erecting . pa
villion and In making the necessary
financial guarantees.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
FOUR KILLED, Nine HURT
IN SCHOOL BUS CRASH
W. P. A: Workers in Truck in
Collision With Childrens
Auto in Arkansas,
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
NEWPORT, Ark. April 2s.-Four
persons were killed and nine others
injured when school bus and truck
loaded with w. p A. laborers collided
on a bridge near Weldon, IL miles
south Of here, today.
The dead were: Fannie Lou Torian,
is. Weldon; Billy Torian, 10, Weldon;
Tom Odom, IS. Auvergne; Tobe Rob-
inson, 40. Midtown. Most serious
ly injured were: Joe Mcdonald,
jr, II. Weldon, head and spine in
juries. condition critical; Betty Lou
Frady, 13, Weldon, fractured hip and
internal injuries, condition critical.
A colored w. P. A. worker named
Perkins, internal injuries.
Witnesses said the vehicles met
on the bridge and side-swiped.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
SUFFRAGE VOTE
BOARD IS NAMED
Supervisors Are Appointed
to Conduct Referendum
This Saturday.

Appointment Of SO Of the So pre-
cinct chairmen for the District suf-
frage referendum Saturday was an
nounced today at headquarters of the
Citizens Conference for District Sut-
frage.
The others will be named shortly by
the Elections Committee, headed by
William H. Mondell and Harry N.
Stull
These chairmen will have charge Of
the precincts and voting places. The
ballot boxes will be located in school,
houses in the SO precincts into which
the city IS divided.
The vote question is being discussed
at public meetings of all kinds, and
residents of this city over q years of
age are being urged by civic leaders to
get out and vote between 8 am and
pm. on the two questions-national
representation and local suffrage.
Ruling on Employees Awaited.
Meantime, the United Federal Work.
ers Of America. an affiliate Of the
Committee for Industrial Organization,
today awaited with eagerness the ruling
Of President Harry Mitchell of the
Civil Service Commission on the status
OF Federal employees in connection
with the referendum.
Leaders of the plebiscite movement
have insisted that Federal workers
may vote in the referendum Saturday
without having the least effect on
their rights as absentee voters in their
home States.
Wilbur S. Finch. president, and
Mr.. Stull, who is vice president of the
District Of Columbia Suffrage Asso-
citation, feel confident that Washing
tonians will roll up huge vote in the
referendum Saturday in favor of both
national representation and local suf-
frage.
Mrs. Patterson Speaks.
Mrs. Eleanor Patterson, editor and
publisher of the Washington Herald
and Washington Times, yesterday de-
livered radio address in which she
attacked those who she said were rails
ing false racial issue"
She traced to prejudice the recon-
struction days following the Civil War.
the whisper which she said had spread
through Washington. do you want
a Negro mayor in the Capital Of the
Nation?" No facts exist, she said, to
substantiate such an implication.
While declaring she believed per-
sonally in the right Of every citizen
Of the United States to vote, she en-
phasized that she believed in demo-
cratic self-determination Of peoples"
adding, Il believe in votes for Wash
ington."
And on the record, I challenge
Evening star., 1938-04-26
MAYOR CHARGES 25c
FOR TALK ON COUNCIL
Official in Dispute Over Conduct
of City's Affairs Is Forum
Speaker.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
NORTH TONAwANDA, N. Y. April
26.-Charging his listeners Is cents
apiece, Mayor Myles w. Joyce last
night attacked the City Council and
explained his views on city govern
ment in a forum talk. More than
$50 paid to hear him.
The Mayor has been at odds with
his Council and recently moved out
OF the City Hall Mayors ONCE In
his speech he charged wholesale ir-
regularities were being permitted tn
the city.
While Mayor Joyce was talking the
City Council was busy overriding
three Of his fecent vetoes.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
CRASH KILLS WOMAN
Auto Leaps Fifth Avenue Curb,
Runs Into Store Front

Runs Into Store Front.
NEW YORK, April 26 (P).-A wom-
an was killed and two other persons
were injured today when an automo-
bile jumped curb on Fifth avenue
and crashed into store front, shat
tering big glass window.
Mrs. Margaret Abrams, %, wife of
James Abrams, an executive of bond
brokerage firm, was thrown from the
car and fatally injured.
Alexis Dawydoff, IS, a magazine edi-
tor who was driving the car, and Mrs.
Zinovia Manning, SO, the other pas
senger, were cut and bruised
Mr.. Dawydod was arrested on q
technical homicide charge.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
TITLE FIGHT JUNE 22
Joe Louis Will Defend Crown
Against Max Schmeling.

NEW YORK, April 26 P).-Joe
Louis will defend his heavyweight
championship against Max Schmeling
in the Yankee Stadium Wednesday
night, June %, Promoter Mike Jacobs
announced today.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
CONFEREES AGREE
ON $5,3DQ,0DQ,O)O
'38 REVENUE ACT
Important Notifications in
Present Tax Laws Are
Decided Upon.
SENATE TO CONSIDER
MEASURE THIS WEEK
Action Is Hailed as Forward Step
by Harrison in Aiding
in Recovery.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Important notifications OF tar
ldUs are contained in Reuenue Act
notD pending before House and Sen
ate conterees. Question of tdring
exempt securities ,pas precipitated
BY Senate adoption OF Borah
amendment dealing with Federal
bonds only. Yesterday President
Roosevelt asked like treatment BY
legislation for all exempt securities
and salaries.
Evening star., 1938-04-26
By the Asse c!ated Press

BY the Asso ciated Press.
Representative Taber, Republican, of
New York accused Harry L. Hopkins
today of inspiring "chain-letter prop
aganda" in favor of President Roose-
velt's pump-priming program.
Mr.. Taber's statement to newsmen
came while House members had before
them an anonymous letter to President
Roosevelt telling of new propaganda
Evening star., 1938-04-26
Pump-Prin'ing Propaganda
Held Inspired by Hopkins
Representative Taber accuses Relief
Administrator as Committee Is
Ciuen Letter to President.
BACKGROUND

BACKGROUND
Desire OF many members otCon-
gress to earmdrk money sought by
President Roosevelt in new pump.
printing" adventure has delayed en-
dctment OF legislation to make the
new billions available. Although
passage eventually seems assured,
fear has been expressed New Deal
may use the money indirectly to
further its political ends in FORTH
coming elections.