Evening Star Newspaper, January 4, 1933, Page 5

~ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO FLODDAREAFAGES 3Com OUTDONE B STCDENTS NS JYANGED THREATS OF RAN TOBOLSTER TRADE Youths Do Their Own Work and Walk o 2 . | Levees Weakened, New Dan- Several Miles to University Andrews Proposes Postal ger Feared Along Mis- Stamp Urging Purchase at Athens. sissippi. of American Goods. * A5 ! updl: Minnesota lawmakers today by|K. K. Solberg. "D, C., WEDNESDAY. JANUARY:4, 1933. Gov. Floyd B. Olson. BEMUBRAIS PUSH. L:ffifl:;%filsfisegg:gfi | u::: ?oi‘, ::u:::"; ;::e ;:ll‘yonhr:.:t‘ FIGHT ON MERGER L] ARREST NO BA! TO{iOB State Power Ownerghip, Unemploy- | e | '&?.Z"."fi?fi“;‘; e .':ES;‘J! | |Hoover Protest Against Ob- struction Vain, as House ment Insurance, Income Tax Are |tw8-vear term. CHICAGO, January 4 (#).—Ah are Moves Are Pranned. ‘The House | Speaker indorsed by The Governor also recommended a'fest or two is no blemish ion one's Asked by Floyd B. Olson. tax on chain stores, to be remitted to, record when applying fqr s policeman’s counties {8 poor relief, after deducting | job, Richard J. Collins, president of the By the Associated Press. administration costs. city Civil Service Commission, said. ST. PAUL, Minn, Januty 4—A| The chief executive is already as-| If it was, he added, it would be dif« legislative program calling for State|sured of a working majority in the | ficult to find candidates for police ownership of facilities for producing | House of Representatives who will favor | for, he said, he has found that and distributing electricity, compulsory | much of 'his program, although the | Chicagoans have been arrested, Speed: T unemployment insurance, an income | conservatives in the State Senate Tues- | ing and disorderly conduct are the tax and greater lenlency to farmers| day took away organization control | common charges, the latter whose property is mortgaged, was urged | from his running mate, Lieut. Gov.| meaning speakeasy fights, he unl“.:w By the Associated Press. | Jacksonville, Fla.; Bill Hunter of Green- ATHENS, Ga., January 4. —Abraham | ville, 8. C.; Jack May of Bogalusa, La.: L'ncoln, glorifier of the American log | Harold Stapler of Louisville, Ky.; Hal cabin, didn’t have to wash his own | Grogan of Sales City, Ga., and Norman January 4.—!dishes as do some self-help students| Sands of West Point, Ga. | the University of Georgia who live| Records show that nearly 50 per cent Three new proposals were made to- | By the Assoctated Press. day by House members to stimulate| The Democrats will business and hasten the return of | steady employment. By the Assoctated Press. S, Tenn., { “Threatening clouds hovered over large | 8% proceed with 8~ | of the students at the University of | Representative A. Piatt Andrew, Re- d . | their plans to block President Hoover's | A Pr Government regrouping program despite | c 4 sections of Mississippi and Arkansas |7, hut and study by firelighi, today as crews fought to strengthen | levees weakened by rushing waters. Additional rain at this stage, engi-| neers say, would add to the danger fac- | Ing levees on the St. Prancis River in Southern Missour!i and Northern | Arkansss. and on the Tallahatchie RIV-I These boys are studying forestry, and | Georgia, the oldest State university in they live in a log cab'n, do their own | America, are going to school by working work and walk several miles to the at odd jobs or on money they bor- university each day. The cabin has| rowed one big room used as a combination Some of the boys pay their board at living room, dining room, l'brary and | a camp near'the school on a co-opera- study. The boys sleep on cots in the | tive plan. Their farmer fathers furnish loft, reached by a ladder. A huge fire- | vegetables and meat for the camp and lace furnishes light and heat. Water | the boys get their board. Other students = furnished by a spring and the stu- | earn money by playing nursemaid for public#n, cof Massachusetts, suggested |the vigorous protests of the Chief that all postmasters throughout the | Executive. country use a cancellation stamp bear- | ing some such slogan as “Buy gwds" The House Expenditures Committee made by our own people,” or “Put Ameri- | meets tomorrow and Chairman Coch-| fnna to work when you buy.” He wrote |ran will seek to have reported out a| o Postmaster General Brown, pointing | resolution he has drawn to kill Mr. out that many other countries ate ; | Sdopting. such methods of stimulating | Hoover's proposals for regrouping 58 er and Cassidy Bayou in the Delta of ¥ Mississippi, which already have over- [denu own one mirror, which is hung flowed much acreage. on the side of the cabin. There they do their shaving and bathing. A minor break in the St. Francis p X s Every now and then they go into Levee ot Bertig, Ark., last night “m'.'.owr. for & tub bath. The boys keep sheets of water into lowlands for "m;house and plan their own meals. Oat- | bables, tending horses, selling peanuts | Of course, they deliver handbills, collect accounts, keep books, wash dishes, jerk soda and act as chauffeurs. | 'Last year a boy slept in a barn to and serving as housemalds and butlers. | square miles, but engineers sald the flood waters wouid not get out of the lowlands. Workmen hoped to repair the crevasse today. Drainage Ditch Dammed. South of Kennett. Mo., more than 250 men, under the direction of Federal engineers, were piling sandbags cn Jevees, and to the north a drainage ditch was being dammed in three places ' to hold St. Francis backwaters. The | river lapped at the tops of the levees. | Engineers are hoping there will be no | further rain in that territory. Big Lake, near Blytheville, Ark. al-| ways & flood threat. was the scene of activity today as officials sent workers to throw up sandbag embankments to | take care of further rises. In Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou rose nearly 2 inches last night, sending | streams of water into Glendora, scene of a terrific battle a year ago, and into Swan Lake, as well as Webb and Sum- | ner, where some business houses are al- ready under water. Rise Is Foot an Hour. The Mississippi. headed for a flood tage of 35 feet here January 13, reached stage of 27.6 fect today, & rise of about ! a foot in 24 hours. ‘The Tennessee River reached 20.4 feet, 2.4 feet above flood stage at Flor- ence, Ala, today and was expected to begin falling during the afternoon. Only minor damage has been reported. | Alabama’s swollen rivers were settling | toward normalcy, although the Cocsa at | Gadsden stood at 30 feet, 10 feet above | flood stage, and had fallen only .2 feet | since yesterday. Coosa Falls in Georgia. The sharpest drops were recorded on the Tallapoosa and Alabzma Rivers, the former falling 7.6 fest at Milstad to reach a level of 9.9 feet, and the Al2-| bama receding 2.4 feet at Montgomery | to 41.5 feet. At Rome, Ga., the Coosa fell 2.2 feet during the night, and the same stream | dropped 1.8 feet at Wetumpka to 40.2 | feet. The Alabama st Se'ma was stand- ing at 48.6 feet today, after dropping 1.4 feet last night. | P. H. Smyth, United States observer here, said the rivers would continue to fall at their steady rate. | Rl HUNT FOR M’COIN LEADS INTO HILLS i AT i ] Attempt to Trace - Bloodstained | Handkerchief Found by Youth. By the Associated Press. HAGERSTOWN, Md., January 4— Hunt for the body of R. 8. McCoin, missing North Carolira attorney, was renewed today as E. Linthicum, nephew of McCoin, led a group of farm- ers into the mountains near Indian Springs, 15 miles west of here, where a bioodstained handkerchief was found by a vouth. The handkerchief was being examined by a local chemist to whom it had been given by the State police for an analysis. Merle Garmong, Indian Springs youth, brought the handkerchief to State po- lice here yesterday, saying he found it Dear the ashes of a campfire. Garmong said he saw an autcmobile, which he described as similar to the ane owned by McCoin when the attorney disappeared shortly before Christmas, parked on a mountainside road more than a week ago and a campfire in the woods. Yesterday he went to the place to look over the scene. Near the ashes of the fire he found the handkerchief, stained with blood. For more than a week theé search for McCoin’s body has been carried on along the National Pike to the west of Hagerstown. An anonymous letter from 8 “boy In distzess” to a North Carolina judge raid the body, after McCoin had been killed in Virginia, had been buried near Hagerstown. HURT BY COFFEE URN, GIRL DEMANDS-$25,000' | Trial Begun at Boston in Case of | Miss Maas, Col- lege Student. Teachers’ By the Associated Press. BOSTON, January 4.—Trial opened in Federal Court yesterday in the! 23,000 damage suit of Miss Dorothy | Helen Maas, 2), Teachers' College student at Milwaukee, Wis., against the Reed & Barton Corporation of Taunton for injuries allegedly suffered in the collspse of a coffee urn. Miss Maas testified she was badly burned by hot cofice vhen the contents of the urn spilled at a s function She said she was in a hospital eght days and that she was confined to bed six_weeks The action was brought by the girl's father, Erank A. Maas, Milwaukee edu- cator, because the girl was a minor The Reed & Barton Corporation was named as the manufacturer of the cof- fee urn fered at Milwaukee in September, 1931 ACTRESS MAY SETTLE Eleanor Boardman's Suit Against Vidor Dropped. January 4 (P).— i ttlement out of court alimony controversy between Boardman, film actress, and Vidor, screen director, arose yesterday when a petition was called in Buperior Court and it was stricken from the calendar Attorneys said the couple was trying reach an agreement. Miss Board- man had asked an allowance of $4,113 monthly for the support of herself and iwo children pending trial of a suit for separate maintenance in which she charged cruelty and named Betty Hill & corespondent HOOVER WRITES CHILD NAIGLER, Nebr, Ja ) Jennetie Haviik, § years oia. io” the proudest girl in town, She 'recently Teceived a ietter from President Hoover Jenneite was an ardent supporter of Mr. Hoover for re-election. letter, in part, read . “Your mother has told me of your 4nterest in the recent ca and I A mm_pmdw TTALY TRIES 0UT {by the Italian Share Institute, which | Verdict The alleged injuries were suf- | a- meal and prunes are breakfast favorites save room rent. He also tended the and vegetables are served for supper. | cavalry horses. ‘They take lunch in town. | The university even has scme stu- The boys who are roughing it for | dents who serve as professional pall- an education include Emory Shelter of ' bearers. SEEKS NEW TRIAL Man Sentenced to Die as Slayer to Fight for Life. | GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., January 4 | UP)—Ccunsel for Walter Jones of Flint, Mich., under death sentence for the | murder of Hartford Johnson, Pough- | keepsie, N. Y., yesterday filed & motion for a new trial. Johnson was killed with an iron bar as he, Jones, and Monrad J. Nelson of Badger, Minn., were stealing a ride on a freight train. Nelson was convicted as an accomplice in the murder and re- ceived a life sentence. His attorney said he had received “as light a sen- tence as collld be expected,” and that | no retrial would be sought. | TOBACCO OFFICIAL DIES OF INFLUENZA ATTACK | Joseph C. Widmer, Liggett & Myers Director, Expires at Age of 74. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, January 4.—Jgseph C. ‘Widmer, 74, manager of the purchasing department of Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. and a directpr of the company, died last night of influenza. Widmer, a native of Pennsylvania, |began his career with the National Tobacco Co. at Louisvile, Ky., of which he became manager. Later he was with | the American Cigar Co. as purchasing agent. He was purchasing agent also for the Amsterdam Supply Co., leaving that | firm in 1911 to fill the same position | for Liggett & Myers Co. IVESTG SCHENE National - Investment Trust Formed to Save Indus- tries and Banks. By Cable to The Star. ROME, January 4—Fascism has just performed a successful transfusion of capital from swollen bank accounts of timid investors into the anemic veins of industry—one of the most difficult and most desperately needed operations which political surgery can attempt on any industriel national economy today. This transfusion indicates that Fas- clsm’s for controlling industry through capital may safely be pushed further ‘The operation, an experiment, con- sisted of the public offering of bonds has been entirely subscribed by indi- vidpal investors. The amount is small —only $5,000,000, but it is important because of the possibilities it shows and the advance it constitutes over pre- vious methods for achleving the same purpose. May Offer Much More. ‘The institute may be expected, when market conditions warrant, to offer $100,000,000 or $150,000,000 worth of bonds to the public. ‘The $5,000,000 raised by the present offering will be loaned to industries to consolidate their short-term debts on 1 long-term basis at lower interest rates, putting banks, which have been financ- ing them, in & more liquid position. The institute is in effect a govern- ment investment trust. The principle of its operations is to issue its own securi- ties backed by the government's pres- tige and in some cases by the govern- ment’s own credit. The present $5,000,000 bond issue is backed not only by first mortgages on property of companies to which the money will be loaned, but also by notes given by the government to these com- panies in “payment” for goods and services. The institute was formed in order to take over securities held by the Banca Commerciale Italiana, constituting one- tenth of all corporate stocks in Italy and representing the control of one- third of all Itallan industry. The agonizing decline of these stocks farther and farther below the values at which the Banca Commerciale was carrying them on its books was forcing the bank to catastrophe not only for itself, but also quite likely for all Italian industry and finance as well. Formed Holding Company. The government stepped in, took over the Banca Commercial's holdings of their book value, formed the institution as a holding company for them and saved the situation. Notes given in payment for the great- er part of these shares will be paid by issuing securities of the institute itself. When this process is completed, the Italian investing public will indirectly own and the Itallan government will control one-third of all the industry in the country. ‘Thereafter, if the government chooses to do so, it may acquire a larger and | larger control of national industry by selling more and more of its own securi- | ties to the public, using the proceeds to buy vp corporate stock | Pacism thereby would do much to create what outsiders would call state socialism, but which the Facists them- selves prefer to name the “corporative state.” MAID'S DEATH SUICIDE Whose Savings from former prices. Exonerates Man Pistol Was Used. CALUMET CITY, Ind., January 4 (#).—A coroner's jury decided yesterday that Pearl Ross, 21-year-old housemaid, committed suicide. | ‘The verdict exonerated Walter Arm- | strong, 36. widowed father of three| children. He had been held after police | identified the pistol with which Miss Ross shot herself as his. She was found dead in the living room of her parents’ home Monday right. She had been employed by Armstrong's mothe. Armsirong said che appared in good spirits when he | saw her Monday night INSTRUCTOR BADLY HURT | Malcolm L. Wilber of Wisconsin University Injured in Auto Crash. | BOUND BROOK. N. J, January 4 (P).—Malcom L. Wilber, 31. of Madi- | |son, Wis., instructor at the University | {ol Wisccnsin, was critically injured | when his auto siruck a truck on State , h'ghway, route 29, neer here last night Riding with Wilter was Philip Lange, | 123, of Madison, Wis,, a stucent at the | | university. Langs was less seriously | hur.. Both were taken to the Bound | Brook Hospi! “chiwren's Colds Yield quicker to double ‘action of 85 VIGHS | SR NrID Fine Quality English Wool Hose i Piped Broadcloth Pajamas_._$1.65 | trade, industry and employment. | | Andrew argued that such a_drive | | should be very helpful toward relief of | the American working man. He told | | the Postmaster General that if neces- | sary, he believes legislative authority for | such a concellation stamp could be had, but hopes it will be possible to avoid | the delay by administrative order. | Contending the 3-cent postal rate is sentative Ludlow, Democrat, of Indiana, introduced a bill directing a return to the 2-cent rate on first-class mail. “If it could be proven that 3-cent postage has increased the Government revenue at a time when income | sorely nceded,” Ludlow said. would be one argument for its con- tinuance, though T doubt whether it should be controlling. But * * * there |is the unchallenged testimony of hun- | dreds of Indiana business concerns 1lhnL tell of the blighting effect of 3- | cent postage on business and how | tends to dwarf Government revenue. | A measure to levy additional tariff ciated currencies was introduced by Representative Hill, Democrat of Wash- ington, a member of the Ways and Means Committee. The tax would become effective if the articles came from a country whose currency was 5 per cent below its par value. “The levy would begin at 1 per | cent of the dollar value of the im- | ported article and would increase in | proportion to the currency depreciation. | P SLAIN BANDIT IDENTIFIED Fingerprints Lead to Discovery in Government Bureau Here. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., January 4 (#). —The Government Fingerprint Bureau in Washington last night advised de- tective headquarters here that a bandit, shot to death during an attempted hold-up Saturday night, was identified as James B. 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Later the Democratic leadership will, move to give President-elect Roosevelt much greater powers to reorganize the Federal Government in the interests of | economy. Mr. Roosevelt has said he | would accept such a responsibility. Returning from a Southern fishing |trip yesterday, President Hoover called | n newspaper men and told them that | |1t any reorganization is to be more than | “make belleve,” Congress either must | ust give the incoming Chief Executive vir- | | tually a free rein. Mr. Hoover termed ! the opposition to his plan a “backward | step.” Soon after the President sent his recommendations to Congress December 9 in a special message, opposition from | Democrats and Republicans alike gave | | notice that Congress probably would never approve them. Cochran sald yesterday it would be | “unjust and most unfair” to Mr, Roose~ | velt to make so many changes only a |few weeks before he takes office March 4. 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