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Evening star., 1938-01-12
COMMERCIAL BRIBERY
BILL SETS PENALTIES
Patman Introduces Measure De-
signed to Help Business Check
Corrupt Practices.

Heavy penalties for persons eneag-
ing in commercial bribery are pro-
vided in a bill introduced today by
Representative Patman. Democrat, of
Texas, with the avowed purpose of
"aiding business to free itself from the
burdens imposed on honest business by
corrupt practices of the dishonest few"
The bill prohibits false receipts and
Invoices and asserts that the claim
of custom" is no defense. 1t grants
immunity for the first person giving
testimony. though he be a party to
the transaction. The penalties for any
one convicted of any violation of pro-
visions of the act are a fine of not
more than $4,000 or imprisonment for
not more than two years. or both.
Individuals in corporations would be
made liable.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
new NORTH CAROLINA
GROUP is FORMED
Congress Secretarial Stats Elect
W. L. Hardin President of
Organization.

Members Of the secretarial stats OF
North Carolina members of Congress
formed permanent organization yes
terday at a luncheon in the House
dining room.
W. L. Hardin, secretary to Repre-
sentative Weaver and a veteran of 20
years service on Capitol Hill, was
elected president; Mrs Frank Capps
of Senator Baileys Office was named
vice president and Miss Jane Pratt,
secretary to Representative Lambeth,
was chosen as secretary.
The Entertainment Committee,
which will report at the next luncheon
on a plan for the secretaries to en-
tertain their employers, is composed
OF Mrs. Leonora Kelly of Representa-
tive Warren's office; Wesley Nc
Donald, secretary to Senator Reynolds
and president of the North Carolina
Democratic Club of Washington; John
Slear of Representative Bulwinkle S
Office. and Mrs. Marion McCanless of
the House Ways and Means Com
mittee.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Business
Continued From First Page)

practices. He said he had referred
to a generic group rather than in
dividuals and that it was not a ques-
tion of 60. 160 or 260 men, but Of 4
handful Of the total.
He also said he did not intend to
make any formal statement on his
electric utility policy, adding that he
thought his position had been made
clear. During the morning, he con-
ferred with three utility executives.
Gov. Frank Murphy of Michigan
talked with Mr. Roosevelt about the
automobile employment situation and
other matters.
Gov. Murphy said the outlook was
good for an upswing in automobile
production this spring. The market
just now. he said. had been oversold
because Of sales technique"
John L. Lewis, chairman Of the
Committee for Industrial Organiza-
ton, came home from an Arizona va
cation. saying he did not know what
Mr.. Roosevelt had In mind to improve
business conditions.
Green Opposes Proposal.
Neither has the President recently
consulted William Green, president Of
the American Federation of Labor.
Mr.. Green has opposed an adminis-
tration proposal for a voluntary build
ing trades wage cut in vast housing
campaign.
Meanwhile, Senator Bailey, Demo-
crat, Of North Carolina, challenging
assertions of Secretary 1ckes and
others that 60 families control the
bulk of American industry, said legis-
lation addressed to the wrongs of 4
mere handful Of business men is not
going to cure this depression"
The answer to present economic
conditions, Senator Bailey added, is
assurance to the American people
that they are not going to have any
collectivist system"
Evening star., 1938-01-12
MOUNTING ORDERS
CHEER PRODUCERS
Business Managers See In.
dications of Mine and
Mill Step-Up.
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Jan. 12.-Business
managers looked over a mounting pile
Of new year orders for raw material,
and goods today on the chance they
may necessitate a step-up in mill and
mine operations and the recall of many
workers laid of In the final months OF
1897.
Suppressed for months while inven-
tories were being reduced. the urge to
buy again has been felt the last few
day in copper, lead, coarse cotton
cloths. hides, rubber and other basic
markets sensitive to changes in un-
derlying business conditions and SEN
timent.
Buying orders in some lines since the
turn of the year have been the heaviest
in months, and have been timely aids
to producers who saw reserve orders
depleted In the virtual cessation of
forward buying in the last six months
of 1897.
Expansion Of Production.
Further broadening Of the revival in
raw materials, business observers said,
probably would signal expansion in
production since factories and mines
were forced to curtail sharply for lack
Of new orders after inventory accumu-
lation ceased last spring and summer
Most observers were cautious in ac-
cepting the new year STRINGS as the
start Of lasting resumption of de-
mand and the precursor of a general
advance in mill activity and pay rolls.
1t was pointed out. however. that these
in the past usually have been the first
to feel a change in the economic cur
rents.
Attracting particular attention has
been a burst of cotton cloth trading
in Worth Street. the textile selling
center, traditionally as keen as Wall
Street in sensing a shift in business
trends. Among the first to seek a
storm cellar last year when speculative
buying for inventories stopped and
commodity prices hit the skids. the
gray goods" market was estimated to
have sold about 100000 yards Of
cloth the past two days.
Speculative Demand.
Speculative demand in anticipation
of increased absorption OF raw ma
terials for armament building, includ-
ing the United States plans for in
creased naval and merchant ship
building, was held partly accountable
for the new year squirt in metals.
Many buyers, it was noted, have
been banking on prospects that
armament expenditures throughout
the world would increase.
Some of the recent buying in raw
materials was attributed to prepara-
tions for spring manufacturing in
shoes and other industries.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
FIVE ARE RESCUED
INJECTING BLAZE
Canary Bird Also Is Saved.
Former Yeomanette
Is Heroine.

Two mothers, their three children
and a canary bird emerged unharmed
from the third floor Of a burning
rooming house at 1875 Fourteenth street
NV. late yesterday, with the aid Of a
woman veteran Of the World War.
The fire broke out shortly after dark
in a vacant second-noor apartment
over a restaurant.
Those who escaped were:
Mrs. Mary Dennis, "a, wife of C. j.
Dennis, barber; her daughter, Joyce,
5. and infant son, Buddy, 6l2 months
old.
Mrs. Josephine Thompson. 1922 L
street NV, and her 4-year-old daugh-
ter Stephanie, who had just returned
to the Dennis apartment after walk
through the park with Mrs. Dennis
and her children.
And last but not least, the Dennis
canary, saved by Mrs. Dennis and
none the worse today for his expert
ence.
Former Yeomanette Heroine.
The rescue role was played by Mrs.
Helen Evans O'Neill, As, of 1901 Co
lumbia road NV, yeomanette in the
Navy during the war, twice COM
mander of Atterbury Post, No. 4, Dis
abled American Veterans. and the only
woman commander in the D. A. VS.
history
-Four engine companies, two truck
companies and the fire rescue squad
answered the alarm turned in by a
passerby, while Is officers under 1t.
A. M. Winfree handled traffic jam
and hundreds of spectators attracted
to the scene during the late evening
rush hour
Comdr Evans was in the restaurant
on the first floor of the building when
the fire broke out Cropping her way
through smoke in the second-foor
hallway. she reached the third floor
and helped Mrs. Thompson down.
stairs with Stephanie and the Dennis
children.
Mrs. Dennis remained in her smoke
HlleO apartment Tor few seconds
longer to gather some personal be-
longlngs and the bird cage.
D.. Origin of Flames Unknown.
Origin of the fire. which caused
damage estimated at $1,000, was un-
determined.
Before 1 knew there was fire
] though the maid was burning some
hlack-eyed peas she was cooking in
the Kitchen Mrs. Dennis explained
this morning after an almost sleepless
night. The family did not go to bed
until am.
The smoke became thicker, how
ever she continued, and I ran
out on the back porch to see smoke
pouring up from the back of the
second floor apartment. We just got
out in time"
Evening star., 1938-01-12

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Jan. l2-Helen Hicks.
26-year-old professional golf star, said
today she planned to "tee off, on the
matrimonial fairways on February Is
with Whitney Harb Little Rock, Ark.
business man. as her partner Miss
Hicks said her parents would make a
formal announcement of her engage
ment after February l.
She said of Mr. Harb: Hes fine
golfer. playing in the low 70s. We met
when I was playing in tournament in
Detroit four years ago"
She said she did not plan TO quit golf
and added that she did not believe her
husband-to-be would have to spot her
any handicap in future games to-
gether.
Mr.. Harb. 44-year-old president of
an automobile distributing agency in
Little Rock, planned to meet her par
ents in Punta Gorda, Fla, where they
are due tonight, Miss Hicks said.
Evening star., 1938-01-12

Two great-grandchildren, Allen
Clark and Donald Minnix, also sur
vive. A photograph of Mrs. Edmon-
ston was displayed last Mothers Day
as that Of one of the oldest mothers
in Washington by local Photographic
concern.
Funeral services were to be held at
Chambers funeral parlors, Fourteenth
and Chaplin streets NV, at 2 pm
today, followed by burial in Glenwood
Cemetery. The Rev. DR.. Harry Bergen
pastor Of Hamline M. E. Church, will
officiate.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
MARRIAGE MILLS
DOOMED BY COURT
Indiana's Highest Tribunal
Attacks Divorce Evil in
Decision.
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 12.-An In.
diana Supreme Court decision brand.
Ing loose marriage and divorce laws
as zone Of the greatest evils in the
country" halted operation Of the
States horder-county marriage mills"
today.
The decision upheld the validity Of
an 1852 State law which requires that
marriage license be purchased In
the county in which the prospective
bride resides.
Some cities within driving distance
OF Illinois had done a land office"
business since that State enacted a
law requiring medical examinations
before the issuance Of marriage
licenses.
"T'he State of Indiana should not
assist parties from other States to
evade laws oftheir respective States"
the decision, written by Judge James
P. Hughes and handed down late yes
terday, stated. This Is precisely what
is done when marriage licenses are
issued to parties from other States
when they come within our jurisdic-
ton to evade the marriage laws Of
their respective States"
The ruling specifically affirmed an
injunction prohibiting DR.. George w.
Sweigart, Lake County clerk, from is
SUNG marriage licenses TO out-of State
residents.
Prasing provisions of the 1852 act,
the decision said: One of the main
purposes was to prevent hasty and
secret marriages, and emphasized that
1T cannot be doubted that such mar
riages are often entered into ILL
advisedly and to the great harm Of
the marriage relation, which the State
has an interest in upholding."
Evening star., 1938-01-12

zen, Mrs. Charles B. Henderson, Mrs.
Thomas Holcomb, Mrs. William D.
Leahy. Mrs. Henry Leonard, Mrs. Will
liam B. Mason. Mrs. Henry L. Roose-
velt. Mrs. Anson Phelps Stokes. Mrs
Dan I. Sultan, Mrs. Charles Warren,
Mrs. Owen j. Roberts, Mrs. George
Pettingil and Mrs. Jonathan M. VAIN
wright.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Directors Named.

ROCKVILLE. Md, Jan. IL (Spe-
ciaD.-Montgomery County members
of the Maryland Virginia Milk Pro-
ducers Association have selected Doug
las Diamond, L. r. Sabine, Bowie F.
Waters and F. Malcolm White to rep
resent the county on the Board OF
Directors of the organization.
Evening star., 1938-01-12

staff, were named as the society's
representatives On the board OF trustees
Of the Community Chest.
Besides those mentioned, members
present included Mrs. Leonard A..
Block, Miss Virginia Hunt, Mar: Lans-
burgh, John Ihlder, Mrs. William Mar
bury, Harold N. Marsh, George Hewitt
Myers. Mrs. John Jay O'Connor. Mrs.
John M. Sternhagen, Mrs. B. w.
Thoron. Mrs. J. w. Turrentine and
Mrs. John Marvin Wright.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
APPOINTED L|EUTENANTS

Three Washingtonians Accept Or
ganized Reserves Places.
Appointment of three Washington
applicants as second lieutenants in the
Organized Reserves was announced
today by the War Department.
They are James J. Adams, 1921 Co.
lumbia road NV. commissioned in
the Quartermaster Reserve; Allen Ben
nett, POLL F street NV, Coast Ar
tlllery Reserve, and Samuel j. Ringel,
1921 Calvert street NV, Chemical
Warfare Reserve. All have accepted
appointment, it was announced.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
DR.. Rawlins to Address PIT. A.

DR.. g. M. Rawlins, jr., in charge
Of vertical direction Of general SCI
snce from kindergarten through high
school in the Districs public schools,
will address members of the Powell
Junior High School Parent-Teacher
at o'clock tonight =
the school auditorium. His subject
will Be Science as Taught In Our
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Oehmann to Address Club.

Building Operations in the Dis
trict. During the Past Year and for
the Coming Year" will be the sub
ject of a talk by John w. Oehmann,
District building inspector, at a meet
ing of the Cosmopolitan Club at 1890
pm. tomorrow.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
maintenance ARREARS
SEND ATTORNEY TO JAIL
Bart C1ines Committed for 80
Days on Wife's Plea He Be Held
in Contempt of Court.

Justice Jennings Bailey in District
Court yesterday ordered Bart Clines,
local attorney, committed to Jail for
80 days for contempt Of court for al
legedly failing to keep up maintenance
payments to his wife and five children.
Last July the court ordered Clines
to pay Mrs. Edna c. Clines, 1919
Thirty-fifth street NV, $25 weekly.
Last December 3. she informed the
court. he was $201 in arrears and
asked that he be adjudged in con-
tempt. She was represented by At
torney Irving B. Yochelson.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
FREE PHILIPPINES
SOON Seen UNLIKELY
Roosevelt Statement Implies Early
Independence for Islands
Is Doubtful.
BY the Associated Press,

BY the Associated Press.
President Roosevelts disclosure of
an intention to extend trade preference
to the Philippines until 1860 indicated
anew today that the administration
has no intention Of Fastening Ameri-
can withdrawal from the islands.
The inference generally drawn from
his remarks at a press conference
yesterday was that Commonwealth
President Manuel Quezons plea for
independence in 1888 or 1889 had
been turned down.
The proposal under consideration to
extend trade preference is based. Mr.
Roosevelt said. on continuation of the
Tydings-McDuff1e independence Act,
which provides for complete political
freedom for the $4,000 900 Filipinos in
l946.
President Quezon has criticized as
unworkable the proposal to impose
eradually-increasing export taxes on
Philippine products shipped to the
United States during the l94l-l946
period.
Evening star., 1938-01-12

MANILA. Jan. IL (P.-Common-
wealth President Manuel Quezon ex-
pressed qualification today at President
Roosevelt's announcement his admin
istration is thinking of granting the
Philippines preferential trade priv
ileges until about 1860.
1T shows once more the deep re-
gard President Roosevelt has for the
welfare and stability Of the Philip
pines, even after the United States has
relinquished sovereignty over this ma
ton. We are very grateful to President
Roosevelt for his policy" Queen said.
Evening star., 1938-01-12
Help Nature to Reduce
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Evening star., 1938-01-12
COL. W. B. GORDON, 81,
ARMY OFFICER, DIES
Was Retired in 1917 After serv-
ing 16 Years at West Point.
Sons Live Here,

By the Associated Press.
WINTER HAVEN, Fla, Jan. IA
Col. William B. Gordon. "a. retired
Army officer, died here yesterday. He
had retired from active service in
1917, after serving Is years on the
faculty of the Military Academy.
Survivors include a daughter, Mrs.
G. G. Bartlerr of Fair Haven, Mass,
and two sons, Col. William w. Gordon
and Maj. Philip Gordon, both of
Washington.
Burial will be at West Point. N. Y,
Evening star., 1938-01-12

Col. William W. Gordon is stationed
at the Army War College here. Maj.
Philip G., Gordon. who is retired from
the Army, lives at 3l10 Thirty-fourth
street NV.
The Washington times., 1938-09-08
5 COP LEADERS
PLAN AIR TALKS

Five acknowledgement Republi.
can speakers will speak from five
cities over a Columbia broadcast
ing system network from 9:45 to
1890 p. m, September II. as the
party celebrates Constitution Day.
Washington Republicans will
hold their Constitution Day dinner
at the Willard Hotel at 8 o'clock.
Clyde D. Garrett, chairman of the
District of Columbia Constitution
Day committee, said arrangements
would probably" be made for the
diners to hear the radio addresses.
Speakers at the Washington din
ner have not yet been announced.
Chairman John D. M. Hamilton
Of the Republican National Com
mittee will speak from the net
works Washington studios, intro.
ducing the other speakers.
Representative Bruce Barton of
New York will speak from Boston.
Robert A. Taft, son of former
President William Howard Taft,
will speak from Cincinnati. Sena'
tor Arthur Capper will speak from
Topeka, Kan, and Senator Charles
L. McNary of Oregon from Ia
coma, Wash,
The Washington times., 1938-09-08
LADY WARWICK
A BRIDE AGAIN

CONTINUED from Page ~
with the heir to the banking for
tune.
WAS LOOKING FOR JOB
In fact, after the first decree
had been granted, the countess
came to New York and announced
that she was looking for a job,
preferably as a Photographic
model.
Lady Rose is the former Rose
Bingham, the toast Of the British
stage before her marriage to the
Earl in 1888.
Financial troubles were believed
back of the separation of the Earl
and his Countess, and last year
he left England for Hollywood in
quest of some of the fabulous sums
paid screen stars.
LACKED THE MONEY
The young nobleman, heir to
one of the oldest titles in Great
Britain, admitted freely that he
didn't have the money to live in
the style to which he was accus-
toned.
It cost about 100000 a year to
maintain Warwick Castle and en-
tertain there as a peer is expected
to entertain-and he didn't have
the money.
So he went to Hollywood, where
he adopted the name Of Michael
Brooke and embarked on a career
which as yet has not produced
the fortune he wanted.
But he has been very popular
among the stars, and has beer
royalty entertained. OF late it ha!
been noted that his companion
on most parties is the glamorou'
Marlene.
The Washington times., 1938-09-08

President is working on a speech
at the White House there is
considerable of an air Of secrecy
or mystery.
PULLED HIS PUNCHES
As to the speech which was
said to be written by Mr.. Corcoran
and which the Presidents aides
defend from the charge Of being
ghost written, observers with the
President on recent Speech-making
occasions declare the President
pulled his punches" on the East
ern Shore because he was aware
of the fact the folks thereabout
are not given to demonstrative'
ness. Down in Georgia, on the
other hand, the President knows
those Southerners like oratory,
punch and gestures. And he gave
them all while handling the sub
ject Of Senator Georges attempts
at denomination.
The Washington times., 1938-09-08
SECRET REPORTS
BEFORE SENATE
CAMP PAICN QUIZ
Charges From Many
States to Be Sifted
By WILLIAM s. NEAL

UN.S0 Secret reports of inves.
legations into widely varied
charges Of irregularities in pri.
mary campaigns were thrust be-
fore the Senate Campaign Funds
Investigating Committee today.
The committee was under heavy
pressure to crack down upon al.
legged violators of Federal law, par.
ticularly in reference to charges
and counter-charges in Maryland
and Georgia.
EXPECT REPORTS
In addition to reports on Mary.
land and Georgia, where Senators
Tydings and George are fighting
against an Administration attempt
to purge them in the Democratic
primary, investigators were to re.
port on inquiries in California,
Pennsylvania. Tennessee, Illinois,
Kentucky and Arkansas.
Reports on inquiries into Mary.
land and Georgia were expected
to be made public by the commit.
tee. Sheppard said:
II think some points in the
Maryland inquiry will be cleared
up before the primary next
week."
CITES DISMISSAL,
A charge by Senator George
that Edgar Dunlap was removed
as an RFC official in Georgia
probably for the sole reason that
he intends to vote for me" was
expected to be acted upon,
WPA Administrator Harry L.
Hopkins was studying the new
charges filed by Senator George
L. Berry that the WPA was used
to defeat him in Tennessee, Shep-
pard said.
Other matters before the com.
mittee included alleged shaking
down" of Federal workers in Cali
fornia in behalf of Senator Mo.
Adoo, letter by Senator Guffey
Cd, Pennsylvania, urging contri.
buttons by pay roll workers and
alleged misuse Of Illinois highway
funds.
The Washington times., 1938-09-08
HO0Ce To BE
American, NeeI,
College Course

SOUTH ORANGE, N. j., Sept. 8
QN.S0.-How to be an American
will become full. four-year course
at Seton Hall College when the
fall term starts this year, the Rev.
James F. Kelly, president of the
Catholic school, declared today.
Father Kelley believes that
young Americans reaching the age
where they go out to carve their
mark in the world face "insidious
propaganda and allurements OF
subversive doctrines" and need a
solid. foundation Of American be.
! lief to combat this force.
The Washington times., 1938-09-08

The whole business brings up
the subject of Tommy" Corcoran's
odd relationship to the White
House. He is one of the kind
the President undoubtedly would
choose as one more aide If Con.
gress had passed the reorganiza-
ton bill or that part Of it which
provided the President with the
half-dozen he asked for "Six
silent men Of great physical en-
durance and passion for anony.
nifty 80.
SHUNS PUBLICITY
Tommy" does not seek publicity;
apparently he does not give a hoot
whether he is in the papers or
not-but there's one thing certain
about him. He has rarely eX-
pressed to any newspaper writer
any of the stuff he and the Presi-
dent have been mulling over.
The Corcoran forte in politics
just now is exuberant, enthusiastic
and youthful extremes in the lib
eral area. There is no doubt Of
his ability; he Is credited with
planning some Of the fastest work
the Administration has done in
legal matters and in legiSla-
tive matters. Whether or not he
planned all of the late lamented
campaign Of young William Dodd
against Representative Howard
Smith in Virginia, the young adore
ing New Dealers used the CorcoranI
name as authority for many of
their plays-and miSplays.
HE'S A MYSTERY
Tommy" sees the President on
things no one knows about, ex-
cept the two men involved; for
that reason he is sought after
even among Cabinet officers. It
certainly would not be odd II he
gave the President considerable
help in speech-writing; but those
who know how the President
works understand that the Presi.
dent takes masses Of material and
suggestions from. advisers and
helpers on occasion-and then
works out his own pattern.
He likes to get a lot Of words
and thoughts down on q long
sheet of paper and 60 to work
on 1t with a pencil-as If he were
a proofreader or an editor going
over a galley proof. But when the
The Washington times., 1938-09-08
Massachusetts, BUYS
Weight-Graded Eggs

BOSTON, Sept. 8 Q.N.S0.
Dame Massachusetts, today knew
the exact weight of the eggs she
bought. Under a new State law
eggs sold at retail must be graded
and weigh as follows: Large eggs
"a ounces a dozen; medium, 81
ounces, and pullet, 18 ounces.