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305,175,780 to Lose While
3,911 Win, Postal In
spector Says.
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By the Associated Press.
DENVER, April 20 —A weary post
office Inspector surveyed a column of
figures tonight and concluded that
the mail-jamming “send-a-dime and
redistribute wealth” chain letter
scheme soon may involve every one
who can read and write.
"You carry this thing through 12
turnovers and you have the astound
ing result that the letter will go to
305.175.780 persons, said the inspector,
Roy E. Nelson.
Nelson was called into conference
by Postmaster J. O. Stevie after the
Denver post office was flooded with
the letters. Stevie said the mail rush
was “almost as bad as at Christmas.”
Postal receipts have soared $20,000
in 12 days—and they're still on the
climb.
305,173,780 Will Lose.
“A little figuring showed me that
if the chain is carried through with
out a break only 3.911 persons of the
305.175.780 will receive the reward
that is promised, a cash sum total
ing $1,562.50,” Nelson said.
“The other 305,171,869 persons will
receive nothing.”
The chain letters first began ap
pearing here about a week ago.
They ask the receiver to place his
name on a list inclosed in the letter.
The sender scratches off the top
name and sends a dime to the ad
dress given. The sender's name is
placed at the bottom and he is asked
to copy the letter and the list and to
send it to five friends.
May Get 15,625 Dimes.
When his name reaches the top,
15,625 persons who have received let
ters are supposed to have sent him
a dime each, or a total of $1,562.50 in
return for his dime and five stamps.
Nelson said the scheme was illegal
because it is against the law to so
licit money through the mails and
furthermore that it came under the
classification of a lottery. He had
a hard time convincing those partici
pating.
Stevie said the letters are being
delivered, because they cannot be de
tected. Nelson made no effort to
stop delivery but said he was in
terested in tracking down the
sponsors.
NATURE ASSOCIATION
HEAD HITS DARLING
Pack Answers Non-Support Plea
by Asking "More Stimulant,
Less Dope.”
"More stimulant and less dope" Is
the keynote of a stinging answer
made by Arthur Newton Pack, presi
dent of the American Nature Associa
tion. to complaints of Jay N. Darling,
chief of the United States Bureau of
Biological Survey, that conservation
groups have not been supporting him
with action.
"Those truly interested in wild life
conservation do not know where
Darling stands,” Mr. Pack declared.
“They have been unable to reconcile
ft destructive duck hunting season,
such as the last one. the continuation
of baiting and the use of live decoys,
the wild life poison program of the
bureau, and other policies with true
conservation. Furthermore, he has
not called on the American Nature
Association for specific support. He
has not told us what he wanted us
to do, and now he complains that we
do nothing."
Citing the need of militant leader
ship that "would not reflect the
tongue-in-cheek attitude of so-called
conservation groups of sportsmen who \
want to have their game and kill It, j
too,” Pack continued: "Although the
nearly 6.000.000 hunting licenses per
year reveal an army of killers all out
of proportion to our diminishing wild
life resources, there is a great body of
non-killers that will follow leader
ship”
To his own attack upon Darling,
Pack added one received by him from
Mrs. Halbert Handelan of Chicago,
tenth district conservation chairman
of the Women’s Clubs of Illinois. Mrs.
Handelan accused Darling of cater
ing to “petty politicians” in that dis
trict.
FEDERATION TO DECIDE
POLICY ON RETIREMENT
Federal Employes to Draft Reso
lution to Be Presented at Na
tional Convention.
A definite policy on retirement leg
islation will be decided by the Dis
trict Federation of Federal Employes'
Union Tuesday night, and resolutions
formulated to be presented at the
National Convention of the National
Federation of Federal Employes in
Yellowstone in September.
Ulrey J. Biller, national vice presi
dent and actuarial expert of the fed
eration, will lead the discussion.
Other meetings this week will be:
Tuesday. Adjutant Generals Office
Union: Wednesday. Agriculture
Branch of Local 2 and Navy Yard
Union.
General Accounting Office Branch
of Local 2 will give a bingo party
Saturday night.
Churches to Elect Officers.
SILVER SPRING, Md.. April 20
(Special).—Annual election of officers
will be held Monday night in the two
Episcopal Churches of the community,
Grace Church at Woodside and the
Church of Ascension.
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Town’s Retreat Into Past Told
By Williamsburg Man’s Book
By the Associated Press.
WILLIAMSBURG. Va., April 20.—
The story of a city which has “moved
backward Into the protection of the
past” was told here today by the son
of the parson who first dreamed of
restoring Williamsburg to its Colonial
appearance.
Rutherford Goodwin, the son of Dr.
W. A. R. Goodwin, has written “a
brief and true report for the traveler
concerning Williamsburg in Virginia.”
The compact little volume, richly
antique in appearance, is “written in
the manner of early Virginia his
torians.” The author says it tells the
story of this ancient Colonial me
tropolis from the seventeenth cen
tury days, when as “Middle Planta
tion” it was a "wide-scattered settle
ment in which no man need to be
disturbed by the walling of his neigh
bor's offspring.”
With its hand-set Caslon old-style
type, lamp-black ink and ancient
looking rag paper, the book carries
the reader through two centuries,
telling of the stirring Revolutionary
days and of those in which Williams
burg, "some observers held * • •
fell into a sleep; while others pro
tested that it was not a sleep but e.
soliloquy (which is a talking to one's
self).”
The story ends with a description
of how John D. Rockefeller decideJ
to undertake the fulfillment of Dr.
Goodwin’s plan, "which plan was soon
defined as an endeavor to restore ac
curately and to preserve for all time
the most significant portions of an
historic and Important city of Amer
ica's Colonial period.”
"And this plan and endeavor are
now fulfilled; so that the city which
In the year 1926 looked forward to a
future of little promise has instead
moved backward into the protection
of a past which in the annals of
American history is unexcelled,” the
author says.
JUNE ROBLES CASE
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Only Major Kidnaping Left
Unsolved May Be Put
Before Grand Jury.
By the Associated Press.
TUCSON. Arlz., April 20 —The des
ert mystery kidnaping of little June
Robles may be nearing a solution.
"A number of additional clues” was
the significant development announced
tonight concerning the only major
kidnaping in the United States to re
main unsolved since the Government
began warring on kidnaping.
Clifton Matthews, United States
district attorney for Arizona, said the
clues had been uncovered by Justice
Department agents who have been
working constantly on the case. He
indicated that the new evidence will
be placed before a Federal grand jun
to be Impaneled here probably next
week.
Four days hence, one year will
have elapsed since June, then 6 years
old. was lured into a dilapidated auto
mobile as she was going home from
school. She was whisked away by a
man whose features were partially
concealed by dark glasses.
Nineteen days later. June was found
in a grave-like vermin-infested hole
in the desert 9 miles from here by her
uncle. Carlos Robles, then deputy
county attorney.
The little victim has viewed many
suspects, but never has been able to
recognize any of them. She said she
knew her captors only as ‘'Will” and
“Bill.”
June, who has lived in a more or
less state of fear since she was res
cued. has assumed a more cheerful at
titude of late, her parents said. She
has been attending a parochial school
and is guarded closely.
Tomorrow she will attend Easter
mass, accompanied by her parents and
her grandfather. Bernabe Robles, aged
Spanish land grant cattle baron in the
early days of Southern Arizona.
“It will be a sort of annlversary
mass,” friends said. "June and her
parents attended thanksgiving serv
ices for her safe return last year.”
BRIDLE PATH BRIDGE
BIDS TO BE OPENED
Rock Creek Span at Maryland
D. C. Boundary Part of
Recreation Tie-up.
The pane authorities have decided
that a reinforced concrete bridle path
is to be constructed shortly across
Rock Creek at the boundary line be
tween Maryland and the District. C.
Marshall Finnan, superintendent of
the National Capital Parks, yesterday
announced that on May 1 bids will be
opened in room 1615, Navy Building,
for this work.
The job, Mr. Finnan declared, will
entail 995 cubic feet of stonework,
11.986 pounds of reinforcing steel,
wooden railing, cinder surfacing, wa
terproofing deck, foundation excava
tion, general trading and metal for
expansion rockers.
The bridge is part of the program
to tie up recreational facilities in the
north end of Rock Creek Park with
those being developed by the Mary
land National Capital Park and Plan
ning Commission farther up the
valley.
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Democrats Will Meet.
RIVERDALE. Md., April 20 (Spe
cial).—A meeting of the Democratic
Club of the nineteenth district will
be held Thursday evening in Stephen's
Hall. East. Riverdale. when newly
elected officers, headed by Hansel
Rust, president, will be seated.
EXPORTm
Hao WORLD NEED
Sloan and Swope Say Trade
Recovery Is Essential
to Peace.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 20.—The presi
dents of two of America's largest
corporations—Gerard Swope and Al
fred P. Sloan, jr.,—joined tonight in
a plea for revival of International
trade as a necessary prelude to con
tinued world peace.
‘World trade, American recovery
and world peace are intimately linked
together," said Swope, president of
the General Electric Co. "Peace is
a fundamental of neighborly trade,
domestic trade or world trade."
"It seems clear to me," asserted
Sloan, head of the General Motors :
Corp., "that political disturbances i
within any country or political dif- ;
ferences between countries, resulting
too frequently in armed conflict, de
velop primarily through the urge of
economic necessity.”
Both spoke under the auspices of
the World Peace Foundation and the
National Advisory Council on Radio
in Education over a N. B. C. network.
Discussing obstacles to world trade
recovery, Swope said:
"It is essential that the currency of
foreign exchange we receive should
have the same power as at the time
our goods are sold.
"In this respect the world today is
fearfully upset."
Sloan urged a broader American
outlook on world trade.
"I am satisfied," he continued,
“that looking at this problem from
even the most selfish standpoint, we
cannot adequately capitalize the op
portunities of our great country, and
obtain what we are entitled to. if we
assume a position of isolation.”
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ARMY FINANCE SCHOOL
DIPLOMAS GIVEN 36
Gen. Coleman Addresses Class of
Enlisted Men, 27th to At
tend Course.
Thirty-six members of the twenty
seventh class of enlisted men to at
tend the Finance School of the United
Stater. Army received their diplomas
at commencement exercises in Room
3616, Munitions Building.
Maj. Gen. Frederick W. Coleman,
chief of finance of the Army, was the
speaker and presented the diplomas.
Capt. A. J. Perry, Finance Depart
ment, commandant of the school, pre
sided. The benediction was pro
nounced by Col. Alva J. Brasted, chief
of Army chaplains.
The class included one native of
the District. Corpl. Joseph M. Breen,
now stationed at Fort Myer, Va. Other
members from Army posts in or near
Washington were Corpl. John P.
Kelly, Fort George G. Meade. Md.;
Corpl. Russell V. Ritchey. Fort Bel
voir, Va., and Pvts. (First Class)
Stephen R. Franks, Fort Myer; An
drew Knowles, Fort Belvoir; Ellwood
W. Mumford, Fort Myer. and Steve
J. Sabo, Army Medical Center, Wash
ington.
Hyattsville Party Postponed.
HYATTSVILLE, Md., April 20 (Spe
cial).—The bingo and card party
planned for May 3 at the Olive Street
School by the Motners’ and Teachers’
Club has been postponed until May 10.
Mrs. Hugh McCIay is chairman of the
Arrangements Committee, her assist
ants being Mrs. Warren W. Cole. Mrs.
Arthur L. Stack. Mrs Miriam Brew
ington and Mrs George Huber.
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RELIEF APPEALS
CONTINUETO GAIK
Northumberland County Has
403 Open Cases—$3,000
This Month’s Cost.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
HEATHS VILLE, Va., April 20.—
Relief appeals In Northumberland
County continue on the increase, ac
cording to Mrs. Howard L. Cecil, head
of the Emergency Relief Administra
tion here. There are at present 403
open cases in the county and 220
active cases. Last week 195 persons
were on the pay roll. These come
from families aggregating 995 persons.
There Is an average of six persons
to each white family seeking relief
and seven persons to each colored
family. The local administration is
making a survey of the various occu
pations in the county. Twenty per
sons have been accepted for rehabil
itation work. Forty relief workers
were assigned to fishing crews in
Northumberland County, but owing to
poor fishing conditions they are re
turning home.
Three thousand dollars have al
ready been approved for relief work
in the county for April.
E. R. Perkins, assignment officer of
the works division, reported 19 ladles
at work in the sewing rooms at
Ophelia and Mlskimon, 58 men at |
work on highways, 15 persons doing |
sanitary work, 10 cutting wood on
almshouse tract, 50 working on |
mosquito control in county, 12 on bus
grounds and garage at Callao High
School, 5 painting Avalon Colored
School, 4 working on poorhouse
grounds, 4 painting Wicomico High
School Auditorium and 11 working
in the offices of the county.
W. C. Blackwell, agricultural field
worker, and Miss Florence Stephen
son. home economist field worker, are
making a survey of the agricultural
conditions.
PLAN NIGHT SERVICE
TO AID TAXPAYERS
Arlington Revenue Commissioner
to Hold First Meeting at Vir
ginia Highlands Tuesday.
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By a Staff Correspondent of The Star.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, Va ,
April 20.—A series of special night
meetings to assist taxpayers In the
preparation of their State and local tax
returns was announced today by Harry
K. Green, commissioner of revenue.
The first of the series will be at Vir
ginia Highlands engine house Tuesday
at 7 p.m.
Green pointed out that all persons
over 21 years of age who were residing
in the State on January 1 must file
returns, also all minors who own auto
mobiles or earn as much as $1,000 a
year if single and $2,000 if married.
EGG HUNT SLATED
Woodside Children to Take Part
in Event Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.
WOODSIDE. Md„ April 50 —Under
the auspices of the Woman's Guild of
Orace Episcopal Church, an old
fashioned egg hunt will be held Mon
day from 11 to 3 o'clock for the chil
dren of the community.
The children will meet at the parish
hall at 11 a.m. and be transported to
Sligo Park If the day Is pleasant.
Otherwise the affair will take place
In the hall. Mrs. Ronald McDonald
is in charge of arrangements.
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Takoma Park Council to Spend
$100 on Portal Beautification
Special Dispatch to The Star.
TAKOMA PARK, Md„ April 20.—
The Town Council has appropriated
the sum of $100 to be expended for
the improvement and beautification
of the Maryland portal to the Piney
Branch road underpass in co opera
tion with the plans of the National
Capital Park and Planning Commis
sion and the Maryland-National Cap
ital Park and Planning Commission.
A similar amount is expected to be
appropriated by the Maryland Com
mission.
Several weeks ago the Takoma Park
Citizens’ Association and the Takoma
Horticultural Club petitioned the
mayor and Town Council In a res
olutlon to appropriate >500 for this
purpose, but the town officials do not
feel that this sum should be appro
priated at this time. The triangular
tract Is located at the Intersections
of Eastern, Chestnut and Takoma
avenues on the Maryland side.
On the District side of the under
pass plans have been approved for
the beautification of the Distrlot por
tal with plants and shrubbery, which
same scheme will be followed by the
Maryland officials. The ground has
been graded and on recommendation
of the Civic Improvement Committee
of the Town Council the planting plan
provides for crab trees, pin oaks and
shrubs. The committee approved the
appropriation.
VIRGINIA TO RUSH
ROADS PROGRAM
Plans $1,000,000 Expen
diture Before U. S. Relief
Funds Arrive in July.
By the Associated Press.
RICHMOND. Va., April 20 —Eager
to get the use of all Federal money
available for the fiscal year that ends
June 30, Highway Commissioner
Henry G. Shirley announced today
that his engineers have been In
structed to rush plans for contem
plated road and bridge projects.
With a million dollars available In
Federal teids. Mr. Shirley said he
wanted to clear the decks and be
ready for new relief funds that are
expected for the fiscal year begin- j
ning July 1.
Construction of a new bridge over j
the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
tracks and the James River bridge
at Buchanan is foremost among the
projects which he expects to let to
contractors within the next 40 days.
Ailington Couple Licensed.
ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE. Va.,
April 20 (Special).—A marriage license
was issued today to Everett Newton
Bauserman, 26, and Jannle Mae Parris,
19, both of Arlington.
“Other Woman”
Urges Missing
Banker to Return
Promises to Marry Him
if Wife Will Permit
Divorce.
Br the Associated Press.
SEATTLE, April 20.—A promise to
marry Allan P. Hull, missing banker,
if his wife will divorce him, was held
out today by Miss Antoinette Cell in
an appeal that he ‘‘come home” and
face embezzlement charges.
‘‘If your wife still wants you, I'll
quietly step out of the picture,” Prose
cutor Warren G. Magnuson quoted
Miss Cell as saying. “If she doesn’t.
I’m ready to marry you when you
have paid the penalty.”
Hull is sought on a grand larceny
warrant charging embezzlement of
S8.500. He was executive vice pres
ident of the Tower Savings Bank.
On the night of April 11 Miss Cell
said, Hull was at her apartment play
ing cards. She told Magnuson Mrs.
Hull visited them and demanded her
husband "give up” Miss Cell. She
said Hull told his wife he wanted a
divorce. A mild argument ensued and
Hull departed with his wife.
Church Sinner April 24.
FALLS CHURCH, Va, April 20
fSpecial).—The day branch of the
Guild of the Falls Church Episcopal
Church will give their annual dinner
April 24 at the parish house be
tween 6 and 8 o’clock.
Mathers Verdict Involuntary
Manslaughter, With MO
Year Penalty.
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Br the Af*ocl»tei Press.
LEBANON, Ind., April 20.—Twenty
year-old Theodore Mathers, accused
of slaying Rev. Gaylord V. Saunders,
former Wabash, Ind., minister, was
foundy guilty of involuntary manu
slaughter this afternoon by a weary
Jury which began its deliberations
Friday at 4 p.to.
The finding of the Jury calls for a
1 to 10 year imprisonment.
Formal imposition of sentence on
the youth was deferred pending con
sideration by defense counsel as to
whether a new trial will be sought.
Rev. Mr. Saunders, who was pastor
of the Wabash Street Methodist Epis
copal Church, was shot and killed in
Indianapolis the morning of February
2, 1934.
His bod7 was found in an automo
bile parked on a North Side street.
Police called his killing a "ten-dollar
murder’’ when they produced a con
fession from Mathers in which the
lad was quoted as saying he had been
given that sum by Mrs. Neoma Saun
ders, the pastor’s wife, to employ
some one to kill her husband. The
lad said hr used the money to pur
chase a revolver and committed the
murder himself.
P.-T. A. Party Planned.
GLENMONT, Md„ April 20 (Spe
cial).—The Parent-Teacher Associa
tion of the Glenmont School will hold
a bingo and card party at the school
Thursday night at 8 o'clock. Ray
mond Graeves, chairman in charge,
is arranging for prizes and refresh
ments.
DORSCH-MERCHANT PLEA
FOR NEW TRIAL HEARD
Court Resenres Ruling In Bakery
Union Worker*’ Cat* After
Argument.
After hearing arguments on a mo
tion for a new trial for John L. Dorseh
and James C. Merchant, bakery union
members recently convicted of hav
ing placed acid on products of the
Dutch Baker Boy, Inc., a non-union
concern, Judge John P. McMahon in
Police Court yeeterday asserted that
he was convinced no errors had been
made. In view of the Introduction
of an affidavit by the defense, how
ever, he continued final disposition
of the case until next Saturday.
The affidavit asserted that a farmer
employe of the Dutch Baker Boy
claimed to have discovered acid In
milk he was delivering while em
ployed In Lynchburg, Va. The court
asserted that he had received the affi
davit only this morning and had been
given no opportunity for a study to
determine whether it could be used
in the efforts to obtain a new triaL
DINNER MEETING DATED
Special Dispatch to Tha Star.
FRONT ROYAL, Vs., April 1#.—
The annual dinner meeting of the lo
cal Chamber of Commerce will be heid
on the evening of April 30 at 6:30
p.m„ when the annual election of offi
cers will be held.
Dan S. Hollenga, secretary of the
Alexandria Chamber of Commerce, will
be the guest speaker on the occasion.
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