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SUSPECT MED
Colored Ex-Convict Held in
New York—Watch of
Victim Found.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG. Va., April IS.
—With the arrest last night in Haver
etraw, N. Y., of John Shell, 37, colored
ex-convict, charged with the murder
of Mr. and Mrs. John T. Coleman,
Spotsylvania County officers are con
fident that they have solved the most
brutal crime in the history of the
county.
Joe Jackson, colored, also is under
arrest here, charged with the murders,
having been in custody since Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Coleman, prominent
elderly citizens, were shot and beaten
to death in their farm home 12 miles
from here on the night of April 2.
Their bodies were thrown into a deep
well, where they were discovered the
next morning. The murderers searched
the house, taking a small amount of
money and some jewelry before mak
ing their escape in the Coleman auto
mobile. which was abandoned in Rich
mond the next day.
When arrested last night by Sheriff
M. L. Blaydes and Deputy Walker
Burgess after being trailed through
several cities. Shell had in his posses
sion the gold watch case owned by
Mr. Coleman. The works had been
removed.
Shell refused to return here volun
tarily and immediate request for ex
tradition is to be made to Gov. George
C. Peery.
A reward of $700 is payable for
the arrest of the Coleman murderers.
Shell is said to have served two
terms in the State Penitentiary. He
came to Spotsylvania last year with
l road construction gang but more
recently had been employed at a
Fredericksburg store, having been dis
charged on Saturday night preceding
the crime. He is understood to be a
native of Halifax County.
Jackson, Who comes from Gooch
land County, was employed on road
work in the county last Fall. He had
been given temporary employment
on the Coleman farm shortly be
fore the murders.
It is expected that Judge Frederick
W. Coleman will order a quick trial
Immediately upon the return of Shell
from New York State.
U. S. DUST FUNDS
CHEER ARID REGION
AS WHEAT HITS $1
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Eastern Colorado, the Texas and Ok
lahoma Panhandles and Eastern New
Mexico combined with a Dun & Brad
street prophecy of a sharp business
advance to force May wheat to the
dollar mark in Chicago for the first
time since January 11. San Fran
cisco marked up $1.02.
Food Price Rise Due.
A Minnesota agricultural expert
said anonymously: "If the Southwest
wheat crop is no better than pros
pects indicate, it is certain to have a
stimulating effect on foods. Wheat
will be higher: consequently bread
prices will be higher. In all probabil
ity, meats also will be higher because
of poor grazing conditions.”
R. O. Cromwell, a Chicago expert,
on a tour of Kansas, estimated the
State’s prospective wheat crop at from
3.000.000 to 8,000.000 bushels below
the 78,000,000-bushel Federal report
of April l.
A well-defined line divided the
storm belt area west of Plains, Kans.,
an Associated Press dispatch from
Dodge City reported.
Between Dodge City and Plains
there are thousands of acres of green
wheat fields undamaged. From Plains
through Liberal and into the Pan
handle the dust has covered highways
and, in places, destroyed nearly all
the wheat and blown millions of tons
of top soil away.
Dust Reported Elsewhere.
While soil disturbances subsided in
the affected region, dust clouds were
reported in the East, West and South.
The crew of the German steamship
Vogesen, docking at Beaumont, Tex.,
said the yellow veil enveloped the ship
50 miles at sea. "Muddy rain” fell
in the Clinch Valley area of Vir
ginia. Dust settled at Augusta, Ga.
Arizona also experienced the murky
haze, which lessened visibility and
hampered flyers.
The faith of thousands in a re
vival of the dust-drought area of the
high plains is reflected in the de
termination of Ralph Stapleton, 55
year-old farmer of near Sublette,
Kans. He is going to stick through
another crop season on a farm where
iic nuw nas to scrape 10 nna enougn
feed for three dozen chickens.”
“Something tells my wife and me,”
Stapleton said today, “that this coun
try isn’t going to be a desert. We’ve
seen it produce big crops too many
times.”
“Wheat King” to Stick.
State Senator Simon Fishman of
Greeley County, Kans., once known
as “the wheat king” of his State,
scoffed at those who predict the af
fected areas Is turning slowly into a
desert.
“It has been tough on all of us the
last three years,” he said, “but it will
rain again as it has in the past.
“There will again be bountiful
wheat crops and the East will be send
ing out photographers to take pic
tures of immense piles of wheat for
which we have no elevator space.”
"Stick-lt-out” farmers predominated,
but some dissenters, numbering more
than 100 families, already had de
parted from Northwestern Oklahoma,
Union County, New Mexico and a
patch of Western Kansas.
On the road to Dodge City were
numerous trucks loaded with cows,
chickens, horses, furniture, apparently
belonging to farmers leaving the
country.
DUTCH DEMAND INQUIRY
AS JAPANESE TOW SHIP
By the Associated Press.
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands. April 13.
—The Dutch government instructed
its Minister at Tokio today to inquire
of the Japanese government concern
ing the Dutch tanker Juno which was
reported being towed to Takao by a
Japanese cruiser.
The Juno was reported to have
taken refuge in a Japanese fortified
zone off the coast of Formosa dur
ing a severe storm early this week.
The Juno incident recalled similar
circumstances encountered by the
American tanker Elisabeth Kellogg re
cently. The vessel was held in port
at Yokohama by Japanese authorities
for investigation on suspicion of
espionage after she had gone aground
In a fortified zone off the coast of
Japan, near Tokio. The American
tanker was later released.
What’s What
Behind News
In Capital
Roosevelt Inflates Chests
of Politicians by
Silver Move
BY PAUL MALLON.
WHENEVER silver comes in
contact with a politician, a
chemical reaction takes
place in both. The polit
icos here handle gold or
wheat issues as cooly as if they were
handling a sack of potatoes. But,
whenever the silver is rue gets near
them, they are transformed into
whirling prophets of an ecstatic
realm of grotesque exaggerations.
This was what happened again
on the latest silver action by the
Treasury. It was advertised in
some quarters as a step to boost
commodity prices. Also as a move
toward inflation. None of the re
sponsible Government officials said
such things out loud. But they
did drop hints in quarters which
would give these interpretations
the widest circulation.
The simple truth seems to be that
the Treasury had to boost the price
of silver again to keep above the
world price. It was an automatic step,
required when the world price passed
above the domestic price.
And the reason why the domestic
price must mways ue Kept nuuve utc
world price Is that the silver Senators
would raise glory hallelujah if it
wasn't. That is the whole story in a
paragraph. The only commodity
price which will be increased is that
of silver. The only inflation which
will be caused is in the chests of sil
ver Senators and in the pockets of
the speculator who shrewdly have
oeen buying abroad.
Future Probabilities.
Those who are neither politicos nor
silverites now see certain future prob
abilities more clearly.
The most important one is that
the next time the world price goes
above the domestic price. President
Roosevelt will hike the ante again.
When that will be, no one can tell,
except Mr. Roosevelt. He controls
the world price as well as the
domestic price because he is the
biggest purchaser in the urorld
market. It was he who forced
his own hand this time by actively
buying world silver and bidding the
world price up over 64 cents an
ounce. Now he can buy and bid
up the world price again over his
new 71-cent price, hike the domes
tic price again and work himself
up to tl-29 an ounce.
It seems to be a new kind of New
Deal card game, in which Mr. Roose
velt plays all the hands and gets the
only peek at the kitty besides.
From these facts, you may conclude
that the best way to get rich is to take
your relief check and buy silver in
Montreal. It looks like easy money,
but there are several unknown fac
tors. The main one is Mr. Roosevelt.
May Be Long Wait.
While he is committed to a silver
price of $1.29, he can take 50 or 100
years to arrive at it, which would be
too long for most speculators to wait.
During the last 16 months, he has
raised silver from 45 cents to 71 cents,
but you cannot accept that speed as
any indication for the future. Fur
thermore, he could turn around to
morrow and devalue the silver dollar
commensurate with the gold dollar
and cause the world price of silver to
go down. No one expects him to do
that, because he has gone too far to
back out that way profitably.
What the best authorities here guess
is that he may hike the price once
or twice more, possibly sometime next
year, because that is a political cam
paign year. After that, he may not
care what the silver Senators say.
This, of course, is purely an expert
guess, based on the way the thing has
gone this far.
There are other ramifications, ex
tending all the way to China. The
Chinese have suffered from our pur
chases of world silver, which have
depleted their silver currency back
ing. Further purchases will deplete
it still more.
For this reason the insiders here
are now talking again about the
prospects of an International loan to
China.
Sums around $100,000,000 are being
mentioned, with Great Britain, and
perhaps France, taking a share.
A peculiar angle of this silver busi
ness is that the Treasury recently has
been minting more silver dollars. It
does not need them, because it has
more than $500,000,000 of cartwheels
now in its vaults. Nevertheless, it
minted about $3,500,000 more last
year. Some more were minted the
other day at San Francisco. It is a
very economical pastime, costing only
one cent for each silver dollar.
You may have noticed that the
quarterback handed the labor ball to
the halfback a few days ago—Miss
Perkins. She has been sitting on the
sidelines for many months, while
fullback Richberg has been running
all the labor plays.
The inside on that is that Miss
Perkins took up her benching pri
vately tenth Quarterback Roosevelt
in New York recently. It is
understood that she pointed out
<not, perhaps, in detail) that
Richberg acted as ball carrier on
the automobile code over labor’s
protests, the newspaper code mat
ter before the National Labor Re
lations Board, and the cigarette
code. Miss Perkins was not only
ignored in all these cases, but
actually overruled on the cigarette
code.
This is at least one good reason
why she was given the rubber in
dustry ball on the threatened strike
play.
(Copyright. 1935.)
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C. D. Bainbridge Dies.
ELMIRA, N. Y„ April 13 .—
Clementine Duncan Bainbridge, 83,
one-time member of the Chicago and
Metropolitan Opera Companies and a
well-known dramatic actor during the
80s, died here last night. He retired
from the theater 20 years ago. His
widow and two nephews, including
Bainbridge Colby, former Secretary of
State, survive,
Roosevelt Against Eliminat
ing Unemployment Insur
ance From Bill.
By the Associated Press.
Seeking to ward oft attempts to
dismember or drastically change his
social security plan, President Roose
velt was on record today as strongly
opposed to eliminating unemployment
insurance from the bill.
With tne social security fight In the
House growing hot, It was disclosed
at the President’s press conference late
yesterday that he has informed House
leaders he also is against the idea of
freeing States from contributing a
share to the old age pension plan.
Would Aid Budget.
Both of these segments of the bill,
he suggested, would help toward bal
ancing the budget by reducing the
number of persons drawing relief aid
from the Federal Government. When
the act becomes effective, it was said
at the. White House, relief recipients
who are over 65 will go on the pension
rolls and stop drawing relief money.
The view also was expressed that un
employment insurance would tend to
prevent the relief rolls from swelling
tn the future.
Meanwhile, leaders In the House,
expressing the view that they could
turn back the Townsend drive for $200
a-month pensions, laid plans to permit
it to be brought to a direct vote. Their
view was that the vote would settle the
issue for this session of Congress.
Fears had been expressed by the
Townsendites that when they tried to
tack their plan onto the administra
tion bill the leaders would rule it out
of order.
xjuij oyi ua a uiui
that there would be no attempt to
rule the move was "not germane.”
Will Face Situation.
Another Democratic leader. Chair
man O’Connor of the Rules Commit
tee. said, "We are going to meet that
situation when it arises.” but added
that he, personally, would favor adop
tion of a special resolution making the
Townsend bill in order “so I can vote
against it.”
The intention to eliminate tax-ex
empt securities was brought out by j
Representative Sam B. Hill of Wash- \
ington, ranking Democrat on the
House Ways and Means Committee.
He pointed out that the pay roll
and earnings taxes—raising money to
pay old-age annuities to persons after
they reach 65—would build up a fund
of more than $32,000,000,000 by 1970.
‘‘In time,” he said, "that money
will be used to absorb all outstanding
! Government bonds. The people who
now have that great volume of money
invested in tax-exempt bonds would
not then be so fortunate.”
The present public debt of around
$30,000,000,000 is represented by Gov
ernment bonds or short-term securi
ties. Persons w'ho Invest in them do
not have to pay taxes on the income j
from those bonds. But under the new
j system, the $32,000,000,000 reserve for
! old-age pensions would be used to
j buy the Government bonds, forcing
j present investors to put their money
into something else, probably taxable.
ELECTION DEATH SIXTH
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Kelayres “Massacre” Spectator
One of Score Wounded.
HAZELTON. Pa., April 13 (/P).—‘The
Kelayres "massacre” of last Novem
ber's election eve claimed its sixth
victim yesterday with the death of :
William J. Jacoby, 32, who was shot |
down in the gunfire that raked a
political parade. Jacoby was a spec- !
tator, and was among the score
wounded.
Seven men, all kinsmen, are in
jail facing murder charges in each
of the five previous deaths.
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THE WEATHER
District of Columbia—Cloudy and
continued cold, probably light frost
with lowest temperature about 38 de
gress tonight: tomorrow fair with
rising temperature: moderate northerly
winds.
Maryland—Partly cloudy and con
tinued cold, probably light frost in
west and central portions tonight:
tomorrow fair with rising temperature.
Virginia—Partly cloudy and con
tinued cold, probably light frost in
north and west portions tonight: to
morrow fair with rising temperature.
West Virginia — Cloudy, slightly
colder in northeast, and probably light
frost in northwest portion tonight:
tomorrow fair with slowly rising tem
perature.
Report for Last 48 Hours.
Temperature. Barometer.
Yesterday— Degrees. Inches.
4 p.m. 46 29 83
8 p.m. 46 29 82
Midnight . 45 29.79
Today—
4 a m. 44 29.76
8 a m. 44 29.79
Noon . 49 29.80
Record for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 49, at noon today. Year
ago, 56.
Lowest, 43, at 5 a.m. today. Year
ago, 36.
Record Temperature* This Year.
Highest, 80, on March 21.
Lowest, —2, on January 28.
Humidity for Last 24 Hours.
(From noon yesterday to noon today.)
Highest, 89 per cent, at noon yes
terday.
Lowest, 72 per cent, at noon today.
Tide Tables.
(Furnished by United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey.)
Today. Tomorrow.
High.4:03 a.m. 4:55 am.
Low .10:49a.m. 11.42a.m.
High. 4:21p.m. 5:12 p.m.
Low.11:09 p.m. 11:58 p.m.
The Sun and Moon.
Rises. Sets.
Sun, today .... 5:36 6:42
Sun, tomorrow... 5:35 6:43
Moon, today.1:59 p.m. 2:56 a.m.
Automobile lights must be turned
on one-half hour after sunset.
Precipitation.
Monthly precipitation in inches in
the Capital (current month to date):
Month 1935 Average Record
January ... 5.27 3.55 7.09 '82
February .. 2.37 3.27 6.84 ’84
March .... 3.39 3.75 8.84 ’91
April . 3.22 3.27 9.13 ’89
May. 3.70 10.69 ’89
June . 4.13 10.94 ’00
July . 1 4.71 10.63 ’86
August .... .... 4.01 14.41 ’28
September. 3.24 17.45 ’34
October ... .... 2.84 8.57 ’85
November.. 2.37 8.69 ’89
December #. 3J3 7.58 mi
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POSH TARIFF PLEA
Cotton Textile Men Fail to
Get Action at White
House.
By the Associated Press.
After being told at the White House
that imports of Japanese textiles are
less than 1 per cent of American pro
duction, New Englanders seeking a
higher tariff and removal of the cot
ton processing tax held conferences
today to determine the next step 1n
their campaign.
Eastern cotton manufacturers con
tend their business is menaced by
Japanese manufactured textiles, which
they say are sold in the United
States at less than the cost of do
mestic production.
One immediate effect of yesterday’s
developments was expected to be a
fresh concentration upon measures
and movements in Congress toward
correction of what the textile group
calls a critical situation. In support
of their stand, they point to the num
ber of cotton mills recently closed.
New Demands Arise.
Meanwhile, new demands for a
higher tariff on cotton products were
raised today with publication of offi
cial reports that imports of cotton
seed oil had jumped 15,000,000 pounds
In one month.
These demands came from Chester
□ray. Washington representative of
the American Farm Bureau Federa
tion. Despite a 3-cent duty, Com
merce Department complications dis
closed that 30,000,000 pounds of cot
tonseed oil had come into this coun
try since November as against no Im
ports last year.
Senators George, Democrat, of
Georgia, and Smith, Democrat, of
of cottonseed oil—used mainly in the
manufacture of compounds and veg
etable shortenings—to the A. A. A.
crop reduction program. They saw
nothing alarming in the situation.
Gray Sees Farm Protest.
Gray took a different view, saying
it appeared to be a "replica'’ of the
wheat, corn, rye and butter export
business, in which foreign products
were creeping in over American tariff
walls. He added:
"The American farmers are not go
ing to give up their foreign markets.”
Mr. Roosevelt and four cabinet
members heard the pleas of three
New England Governors yesterday
and promised further studies but,
in the opinion of textile men, offered
little hope of immediate action.
It was finally decided that confer
ences with Secretary Roper should
continue. However, Mr. Roosevelt
said Japanese imports, based on 1933
production, would be only seven
tenths of 1 per cent of the American
output this year.
The delegation, consisting of Govs.
Curley of Massachusetts. Bridges of
New Hampshire and Brann of Maine,
and Representatives O'Connell and
Citron, representing the Governors of
Rhode Island and Connecticut, pre
sented three specific requests.
Processing Tax Opposed.
These included elimination of the
cotton processing tax. building tariff
walls equal to the cost of American
production, plus 10 per cent, and
equalization of mill wages in North
and South.
"They presented a very interesting
case, but no solution," Secretary Wal
lace commented as he left the White
House.
Wallace, who has aroused the ire
of New England interests by his de
fense of the processing tax, said he
had not altered his position.
In a fdrmal statement left with the
President, the Governors said cotton- i
mill wages in Massachusetts dropped
rrom *115,000.000 in 1923 to *31,000.
000 in 1933. and the number of work
ers fell from 114,000 to 45,000 in the
same 10-year period.
OLD PAR IIE5 REVIVED
HAVANA. April 13.—A decree per
mitting reorganization of old political
parties, such as former President
Gerardo Machado's Liberals, and al
lowing them to participate in forth
coming elections, was approved by the
Cuban cabinet yesterday.
The decree gives the Liberals. Pop
ular and Conservatives, formally dis
solved after the successful revolution
against Machado in August. 1933, the
right to display their historic in
signia and reform the parties on the
old basis.
ress in Brief
TODAY.
Senate:
In recess.
Finance Committee continues N. R. A.
hearings.
House:
Debates social security legislation.
Banking Committee works on omni
bus bank bill.
YESTERDAY.
Senate:
Passed H. O. L. C. bill making $L«
150.000.000 more available to home
owners.
Munitions Committee heeded Presi
dent’s request to withhold inquiry into
Colt Firearms strike.
Finance Committee heard George A.
Sloan urge two-year extension of
N. R. A.
House:
Debated economic security bill.
Interstate Commerce Committee re
vived denial that Treasury stabiliza
tion fund was used to peg utility se
:urities.
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HOOVER AROUSES
RUMORS BY VISIT
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Former President Leaves
Maryland After Meeting
G. 0. P. Stalwarts.
By the Associated Press.
THURMONT, Md., April 13—His
plans cloaked in silence, former Presi
dent Hoover left here today by auto
mobile to “see some friends in West
Virginia" on a swing across the con
tinent to his home in California by
the way of Chicago.
Whatever political significance at
tached to his journey or an “acci
dental" meeting here with Republican
leaders remained hidden. Hoover made
no definite announcement of his
itinerary, but Lawrence Richey, his
former secretary, with whom he visited
here, said he probably "would strike
West Virginia around Wheeling."
Visit Declared Unexpected.
Richey said the former President's
overnight visit to his Catoctin Manor
estate for trout fishing was unexpected
and his meeting here with such party
leaders as Theodore Roosevelt, jr., and
Gov. Harry Nice of Maryland was
“purely accidental.”
Richey had previously Invited the
former President and Roosevelt to
visit him. but said he was told the
trip did not fit into Hoover's plans
However, he had expected Gov. Nice
and a group of his friends and
advisers.
Lawson’s Presence Unexplained.
He gave no explanation of the pres
ence of William P. Lawson, chairman
of the Republican State Central Com
mittee.
All were apparently deeply inter
ested in trout fishing and It was plain
ly stated that “no political signi- ]
ficance” was attached to the meeting. 1
which occurred "purely by accident."
However, Hoover, titular head of
his party, and Gov. Nice spent several
hours together. Nice controls eight
votes in the Republican National Con- j
ventlon. Hoover has been mentioned
as a 1936 presidential possibility.
Since the Governor was elected over !
Albert C. Ritchie, the State's Demo
cratic standard bearer for 15 years,
formation of “Nice for President
clubs” has been suggested. But Nice
has said “such talk is a little early.”
No statement as to the significance
of the meeting was forthcoming, how
ever. Hoover merely said that he
would "visit friends in West Virginia" j
today.
Nakian's New Deal
“Hall of Fame” to
Be Opened
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Sculptures of President
and Other Leaders in
Corcoran Exhibit.
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The New Deal's “Hall of Fame.”
handiwork of Reuben Nakian, noted
New York sculptor, will be opened to
the public today at 2 p.m. at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Sculptured portraits in plaster of
President Roosevelt, Secretaries Ickes,
Hull and Wallace; Harry Hopklna,
Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, Donald R.
Richberg, Rexford Tugwell and Ed
ward F. McGrady are included in tfee
special exhibition, which will con
tinue through April 28.
Although special invitations to the
opening view today have been issued
to a number of persons interested In
the gallery, those without invitations
also will be admitted this afternoon.
The inspection period today will close
at 5:30 p.m.
The Nakian display Is being held
coincident with the Fourteenth Bien
nial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Oil Paintings, now under
way at the Corcoran Gallery.
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ONE-MAN STRIKE BARS
LOADING OF STEAMER
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Radio Operator Forms ‘‘Picket
Line” and Union Longshoremen
Are Unable to Pass.
By the Associated Press.
LONGVIEW, Wash., April 13.—The |
one-man maritime strike of J. Hens
ley yesterday blocked loading of
the Weyerhaeuser Lumber Co. steam
ship Hanley.
Mr. Hensley, a young radio operator
dissatisfied with wages, posted a sign
yesterday, stating he was on strike.
The burly union longshoremen came
down—five crews of them—to load
the ship. There was a picket line.
It was Mr. Hensley. Union longshore- i
men do not pass picket lines, so they ]
quit trying to load the boat. The
picket line marched up and down all '
day. The ship was not loaded. '■
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Mrs. Magna Has Pre-Con
vention Meeting With
Administration.
With two candidates active in the
field for president-general of the j
Daughters of the American Revolution
at the forty-fourth meeting of the or
ganization opening Monday night,
Mrs. Russell William Magna, retiring
president general, held the last meet
ing of her official administration today
in Memorial Continental Hall.
There a luncheon was given in honor
of the retiring president general in the
banquet hall.
Preliminary functions will inclucje
the National Chairmen's Association
annual breakfast tomorrow at the Wil
lard Hotel and special Palm Sunday
services at 4 p.m. at the National
Cathedral.
Right Rev. James E. Freeman. Bishop
of Washington, has extended a special
invitation to the members of the D.
A. R.
Tomorow night, a meeting of the
Constitution Hall Committee will be
held in the president general's re
ception room in Constitution Hall,
when Mrs. Magna hopes to announce
payment of the debt on the audi
torium.
Meantime, the opposing candidates
for President general, Mrs. William
A. Becker and Dr. Flora Myers Gil
Jentine. continued their campaign, but
met socially yesterday as fellow mem
bers of the "National Officers Club.”
Only those who have been high
D. A. R. officers can belong to this
club, which meets each year in ad
vance of the continental congress
to reminisce and elect directors.
ELECTRICIAN QUELLS j
SCHOOL FILM BLAZE
2,000 Students Unaware of Bad.
Fire as Nix Risks Life
at Eastern High.
More than 2,000 students at Eastern
High School attended classes yesterday
afternoon unaware that the school
electrician, Louis G. Nix, 33, of 1312
Maryland avenue northeast, was risk
ing his life to prevent the spread of a
fire in the motion picture projection
room from spreading to other parts
of the building.
Nix, who was slightly burned or his
face and hands, fought the flames
single-handed when one of the films
caught fire from a lamp and the
blaze spread to numerous other films
in the chamber. He was given first
aid treatment by the school trained
nurse and later taken to Providence
Hospital.
Nix said he was working in the,
projection room testing the film “The ,
Cyclone Kid’’ when flames suddenly
shot up. He attempted to put the
fire out, he said, and being unable to
extinguish the highly inflammable
film, he tried to carry it from the ,
room and away from other films.
Although the other films caught fire, ,
Nix battled the blaze alone and was
able to put it out before arrival of ,
firemen.
Charles Hart, principal of the ,
school, said pupils in the school did ,
not know there was a fire until tbe ;
fire engines arrived. i
MARRIAGE BILL DROPPED j
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Canadian Plans to Seek Ban i
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Later on Divorced Persons. j
OTTAWA, April 13 (/P).—A bill to
prevent divorced persons in Canada
from marrying again—except to their
former spouses—was withdrawn yes
terday by Senator J. J. Hughes, Lib
eral party member, but he announces (
he would toss it back in again at the I
next session.
Hughes got his chief support from i
a member of the opposition, George i
P. Graham, Conservative.
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Senate Group Reserves De- !
cision on N. R. A.—Colt ]
Arms Co. Issue.
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th# Associated Press. i
Senate Investigators reserved dec!- I
ion today as to whether Donald R 1
tichberg must appear before them |
'ventually to give his reaction to a i
tatement that he was slow to use an
J. R A. enforcement weapon against '
he Colt Arms Co. 1
At the request of President Roose
elt the Senate Munitions Committee
igreed yesterday not to press for "im
nediate light" regarding the situa
ion developing from a strike of Colt
:ompany employes.
Chairman Nye appeared determined,
lowever, to insist upon a sweeping
public inquiry unless the strike is
settled promptly and in a manner
.hat seems satisfactory to him.
Intervened to Aid Settlement.
Mr. Roosevelt explained at his press
conference late yesterday that he had
ntervened to halt the proposed in
vestigation because of the status of
negotiations for settlement of the
strike. He said he hoped for an early
igreement and that he was willing to
nave a full study of the Colt affair
nade later.
Nye has contended that Richberg
or more than a week pigeon-holed a
notification of withdrawal of the Blue
Eagle from the gun-making company,
rhis notification, he explained, would
prevent the Army and Navy from
making further purchases of machine
guns and other arms from the com
pany.
Turning away—at least temporari
ly—from the Colt Co.'s labor difficul
ties. the Munitions Committee pre
pared to hear testimony Monday from
Ben Smith. Wall Street operator,
whose name was drawn sometime ago
into its investigation of shipbuilding.
Will Explain Partnership.
Thin and weakened by a Jong ill
ness, Smith faces questioning regard
ing operations which gained for him
ind his partner. Tom Bragg, a large
nterest in the New York Shipbuilding
"orp. early in the Roosevelt adminis
ration and shortly before P. W. A.
'unds were put into naval shipbulld
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The committee has heard testimony i
that stock of the shipbuilding com
pany rose from about $3 a share at !
the outset of the Roosevelt adminis
tration to about $22 a share as the i
company prepared to share in the
building program beginning in Au
gust of 1933.
Recently the committee sought to
learn from L. B. Manning, chairman
of the board of Cord Corp., whether
Smith and others had advance in
formation of administration plans to
turn over a quarter billion dollars to
the Navy Department for shipbuild
ing. Advance knowledge of the Gov
ernment's plans was denied.
MORGENTHAU DENIES
SECURITIES RUMOR
Says Use of Stabilization Fund to
Buy Utilities Holdings Would
Violate Law.
Sr the Associated Press.
Secretary Morgenthau denied yes
terday before the House Interstate
Commerce Committee that he had
ised the two-billion-dollar stabiliza
tion fund for buying public utilities
securities.
The Secretary's statement, made
jy telephone to Chairman Rayburn,
yeas requested after Representative
Wolverton, Republican, of New Jersey
cad said during hearings on the hold
ng company regulations bill that
here was a rumor to this effect.
Rayburn communicated with the
Secretary during the noon recess, and
mmediately on opening the afternoon
lession announced:
•‘I just talked to the Secretary of
;he Treasury and he said if he had
lone this it would have been in vio
ation of the law. And, of course, he
lid not do it.”
Utility opponents of the seml-ad
ninistration measure to abolish their
tolding companies have contended
he pending legislation has driven
itllity securities down on the market.
Solicitor Dozier Devane of the Power
Commission opened the rebuttal to
lay with an elaborate presentation of
lgures designed to show that utility
ecurlties hit bottom before the
loosevelt administration, and have
isen in market values since introduc
ion of the controversial bill in
February.
DANCER’S FANSTOLEN
DALLAS, Tex., April 13 OP).—Miss
Jlaudette Graves, Fort Worth, Tex.,
s looking for a very necessary piece
)f professional equipment. While
:hanging to street clothes after giving
l fan dance before an engineering
oelety somebody stole her fan.
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IS STRIKE HOPE
i/liss Perkins Prepares for
New Round of Rubber
Dispute Parleys.
ijr the Associated Prm
Hope that the threatened Akron,
Dhio, rubber strike would be called off
>y nightfall was expressed today by
Secretary Perkins.
Preparing for a new round of con
ferences with Goodyear. Goodrich and
Firestone executives and American
Federation of Labor officials, the La
sor Department chief said, however,
she thought the parleys should not be
■hustled.”
As an indication of how far she
thought the negotiations had pro
gressed, Miss Perkins disclosed that
she had called off a proposed trip to a
Middleburg, Va., race meet today, but
was sorry she had-declined a dinner
invitation.
The federation has threatened to
lall the strike in protest against the
3oodrich and Firestone Cos.’ refusal
to allow Labor Relations Board elec
tions in their plants.
Arguments Monday.
After the board ordered the elec
ions, the companies carried the orders
to the Circuit Court of Appeals for re
dew. Argument on the motion to re
Win- ir ♦/-. kn »<-i tfnn/in i. in Pin.
:innatl. The Goodyear Co. also Is In
volved in the strike threat proceedings.
What proposals the manufacturers
idvanced and how much of them the
ederation accepted at yesterday * and
ast night's conferences with the Sec
etary had not been disclosed this
norning.
One question being discussed, how
!ver, Miss Perkins said, was whether
■lections should be held with the com
>any going ahead with its court
iction.
There were many “ifs” involved, she
idded. One of these was whether the
-*bor Relations Board should super
vise the elections if they w ere held.
President Roosevelt and William
Jreen. president of the American Fed
ration of Labor, kept in close touch
vith the negotiations. Secretary Per
:ins conferred with Mr. Roosevelt yes
erday both by telephone and at the
abinet meeting. Green was consulted
>y phone. Coleman Claherty, federa
ion organizer at Akron, spoke for the
ederation at the parleys. With him
vere the presidents of the union locals
it the three plants.
last Side Consulted.
The labor side was the last con
sulted in the conferences, which were
prolonged through last night into the
?arly morning. At midnight. Miss
Perkins advised the manufacturers to
?o to bed. and returned to the office of
"harles Wyzanski. department solici
;or. where she. Wyzanski and Edward
P. McGrady, Assistant Secretary, had
valked with the union officials from
■arly evening.
That conference lasted until early
:his morning. Claherty told news
paper men he had no statement.
Miss Perkins sat in with the manu
facturers twice during yesterday, the
first time before noon and again late
in the afternoon. At this second con
ference. they submitted the proposals
which Miss Perkins carried to tlie
’ederation officials last night.
Between the employer conference?
Miss Perkins talked with Claherty in
McGrady’s office.
Passing reporters in the hall outside
her office after the manufacturers'
proposals were submitted, she turned,
smiled and said:
"Now we’re eettine somewhere."
MOTORIST IS KILLED
AT B. & 0. CROSSING
West Virginia Insurance Man's
Car Hit by Passenger
Train.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
MARTINSBURG, W. Va., April 13.
—Carl Liller. 42, assistant district
superintendent of a Washington life
Insurance company, residing here,
where he had headquarters, was killed
about 7 o’clock last night when a
Baltimore & Ohio passenger tram
struck an automobile in which he
was riding with a companion, G. W.
Pritz of Berkeley Springs, W. Va„ |
on a grade crossing in the town of
Paw Paw, Morgan County, SO miles
west of here.
Liller died while being brought
by train to this city. Pritz, 33, rep
resentative of the same company, is
at a local hospital. This morning
attendants said he appeared to be
suffering principally from shock.
No decision had been made this
morning as to an inquest pending
further investigation.
Liller had been residing here five j
years. He was a native and former
resident of Kitz Miller. Md. The
body will be taken there for buriai.
Surviving are the widow and three
children.
Sobers Up Past in Jail.
PORTLAND, Oreg.. April 13 ’
Fred Wentzel asked to be placed in jail
for 10 days to "sober up.” The Judge
was obliging.
After a night in jail, he appeared
before the judge, saying:
"I think I can make it now."
He was given a chance to see if he
could.
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