Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1933, Page 5

e ——— STTES ALLDTTED SIBA85 AD R. F. C. Emergency Fund Al-| most Half Used and End of Winter Far Off. | | v | Almost half of the $300,000,000 emer- gency relief fund Congress provided for the Reconstruction Finance Corporation hes been allotted to the various States, with the end of Winter still far off, it| was_announced today. i Gt Thirty-six States and two Territories, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, have been granted supplementary relief funds, amounting to $143.418,355 and otHer demands are still to be met. | Twelve States and Alaska have not asked for any essistance, though indi- | cations are that some of these, espe- | clally New York, may ask aid before many weeks. Gov. Lehman of New York, in his inaugural ad said Federal assistance would be needed., | 12 States Not Applicants. | The States which have not sought atd are New York, Maine, Vermont, Mas- sachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, | New Jersey, Delaware, California, Wyoming, Maryland and Nebraska. The District of Columbia is not included in the law as a potential borrower, and Congress during the_last week took steps to provide from District tax funds $625,000 for relief purposes. | Tllinois and Pennsylvania have re- | ceived a total of $59,198,674. Iilinois was allocated $32,493.228 and Pennsyl- Vvania $26,705,446. The corporation may Dot Joan ‘more than $45,000,000 to any one State. Most of the Tllinois money has been sspent in Chicago. The last loan to Iilinols was divided and $6.770.000 of it made a direct obligation of Chicago. Two Lending Methods. ,,, The relief section of the reconstruc- tion act provides two methods of lend- ing. The first is loans to the Gover- nors of States, to be repaid out of Fed- eral aid highway funds over a period of five vears. The other is lending money direct to counties, cities and ;nhg polmkfnl subdivisions, in most Instances the corporatios i S D n purchasing The loans authorized to date by the corporation include $2,113,206 for Vir- Binia and $4,747,561 for West Virginia, MISS RASKOB TO WED | Democratic Chairman’s Daughter in Romance. PHILADELPHIA, January 9 (P).—A Yomance that began three years ago when Miss Helena Raskob, daughter of John J. Raskob, visited friends in | Swarthmore, Pa., has been revealed with Former announcement of her engagement to | Which has given his associate producers |of the American forces there. The other | Joseph T. Geuting, ir., son of the super~ | end the entire colony much ' concern, | planes were being held at Jacksonville, | intendent of a shoe manufacturing |has completely halted all work on|Fla. because of fog. compeny here. The engagement was anounced at ‘a |actress has never left her husband's | probably will remain here until tomor- Tty given here Saturday night by Mr. skob, former Democratic national | chairman. | Miss Raskob is 23, her fiance, 24. | Since his graduztion from high school, Geuting has been studying the shoe business. He is a nephew of A. H Geuting, head of a shos company Date of the wedding has not been decided. | R | Dies After Regaining Sight. i . SPOKANE, Washington, January 9 | P) —Edward Turner Bates, 87, three | months ago underwent an operation |the cycle began six months ago, was | group headed by Mrs. Henry Albers, THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, JAY, D. C., MONI e (RS 9. 1933. Hollywood Extortion Plot by Parents Unnamed Star’s Life Youngsters Are Unphotographed. BY MOLLIE MERRICK. | HOLLYWOOD, Calif, January 9 | (NAN.A)) —The various forms of ex- tortion from which movie stars suffer begin with the hold-up and go on through all the vaMations of the black- mail racket. Most pathetic of all is the story of a noted star whose name will not enter into this story, by reason of the fact that publicity in the matter has brough her sufficient trouble. Some year and a half ago she adopted a little baby and was photographed | proudly holding the new member of her family. The parents of the child recognized the picture of their baby and laid low for one year, when they suddenly descended on the star and began money demands. She had mean- while become so devoted to the baby that she would rather die than pa with it and her life from the moment o their appearance has been a record of misery and extortion. Orphanages never reveal to the par- ents of the children the identity of the people adopting them. But star pub- licity can do damage—and how! For this reason the new crop of | adopted babies in movieland remains unphotographed for publicity purposes until sufficient time has elapsed for the child to change. When “A Farewell to Arms” was premiered locally there was much en- thusiasm in the audience for members of the cast present who were making public appearances. Loud cries for Gary Cooper brought that handsome lad reluctantly to his feet and brought the | eyes of the entire theater upon him. | eated at his side was the Countess asso, looking a bit stern, it seems. | No sooner had the waves of applause or Gary died down than cries of “Lupe . Lupe” rent the air. It was the psychological follow-up—the association of the two names has gone on for years and years in Hollywood. To every one’s surprise, Lupe Velez rose and took a bow. She was seated not three seats away from Gary Cooper, with Johnny | Weissmuller. They say the Countess | Prasso locked a trifle bored. | Jean Dixon, New York actress, is due | in Hollywood for a part in “Kiss Before | the Mirror,” which Universal is making. | Jean Dixon is the girl who scored so | heavily in “Once in a Lifetime” as the | voice expert. Her slow, ironic reading | of those lines was sensational. She's | good-looking in a very different way | from most stars and should find an in- teresting place for herself in pictures. | Aline MacMahon, who took over Jean Di part in the road show of “Life- has scored one of the greatest | 1 successes of any actress to come | lan t, 1933 paper = by North American News- | to m (Copyright e Alliance, Inc.) | Irving Thalberg's very serious illness, | Norma Shearer's part. The beautiful bedside since he was stricken and her | alarm at his condition is pathstic, ac- | cording to her friends. | That Thalberg may have to retire | from all activity for a_time and seek | the aid of a famous European heart specialist is current rumor. His con- dition has been £o przcarious for several | days now that even the slightest move- | ment of his arms might precipitate an | attack of the heart affection which is the main cause for alarm. | Influenza, which has combed the pro- fessional ranks, lost producers menllyi hundreds of thousands of dollars since | | plexities of our modern social scheme DEMOCRATS FACE TEST ON FINANCES Hope to Baiance Budget, but “Reunion in Vienna,” 1rn ik:s Hollr{wwd Hesitate tO CUt EXpenSeS vers b 1d t re; ic- version, should be one of e great pi or |n0rease TaXES. tures. M. G. M. has Jchn Barrymore for the gay archduke and Diara Wyn- | yard for his exquisite ex-sweetheart. Roland Young will play the part of the fentist-doctor husband—and, by the way, no personality of this type has Balancing the budget has become the touched that role as yet. He will read | paramount test of Democratic cohesion into it something of caustic humor and | and leadership sophisticated resignation to the com-| Although President-elect Roosevelt has given his views to the Dembcratic chieftains in both Houses, the perplex- ities of the revenue situation are such that there is no definite plan in sight in Person of Adopted Baby Makes Miserable, so Rest of BY DAVID LAWRENCE. that few actors could bring to it. One of these days a playwright will do something for Roland Young. Such personality should be capitalized: I al- | a3 yet. ways resent the side issue parts he re- | The estimates of needed revenue are ceives in Hollywood and the amount of | g1l based on the assumpton that ap- Roland Young footage, which falls cn | proximately $300,000,000 will be collect- | the cutting room floor often because the producers know that many of his scenes would detract too much from the star’ glory and bring ebout a temperamental tantrum or two upon their heads. But how he could cerry a picture written just for him! ed from foreign governments when, as a matter of fact, the world situation indicates clearly such payments will not be forthcoming. It is not possible, of course, for Congress cfficiaily to take cognizance of the expected default on debt payments, but for all practical | purpeses the item may be considered Hope to Get Closer., 12 PERSONS INJURED PRCSIATING TR (DR | b oo soen it e hundred million dollars of balancing the budget they will b2 doing a better job than their Republican colleagues, who have got no clcser than a billion a year. Already the cry has gone up from | Senator King (Democrat, of Utah) and | others that " the campsign pledge for o » | Teduction in expenditures is ng aban- Ontario, January | goneg The Democratic national plat- 9—Three passexger cars of a Canadian | form promised a 25' per cent reduction Pacific Raiway train rolled down a|in the Pederal budget. This cannot : = possibly be accomplished without heavy ¢ embankment between Calumet, | Sl J,n"the Velerans’ Bureau as well Quebec, and Pointe aux Chenes yester- | ; e A reOnEiNtonE ' for “DUBHE day afternoon, causing minor injuries | We:ie and public: roads and. the pa- to 12 persons tional defense. The train ran fnto a broken rail. The | 108 - S locomotive, tender and baggege car ML ol anodinen. thie piadfom e g° car Y- | peldge somewhat in one of his cam- e e K o) 1C whree | paign specches by declaring he wil seek Tolled down the bank and were wrecked, | & 25 PEr cent cut in the current opera- ALl 17 passengers were shaken up and | tion of Government. This was taken to | less than $3,000,000,000. ‘The present | reduction cf half a billion dollars. eterans’ Administration as deeply Three Passenger Cars Leave Track and Roll Down 75-Foot Em%ankment. By the Associated Press. HAWKESBURY, . mean the one-fourth horizontal reduc- more or less bruised. tion will be applied upon a budget of E PLANES ARRIVE ; Congress has before it recommendations | from Mr. Hoover which call for a net Five Reach -Charleston—Others | Prefer to “Pass Buck.” Held by Fog at Jacksonville, | _Congress, however, is not ready to cut the Vi CHARLESTON, 8. C., January 9 () —Five amphibian planes, part of the flying force which has been on duty in Nicaragua with the United States Ma- Tines, arrived here late yesterday from Jacksonville, Fla. The group is commanded by Capt. Harold C. Major. Its personnel includes five officers and eight enlisted men. Twenty-two planes make up the Marine flying force which is being with- drawn from Nicaragua with evacuation as wou'd be necessary to achieve a bil- lion dollars a year reduction. There is talk of a grant of blanket authority to Mr. Roosevelt to suspend Federal ap- propriations at will when he becomes President, but there is some doubt as to the constitutionality of this prcposal It is clear that Congress would prefer to have Mr. Roosevelt carve out various items in the expenditures of the Vet- erans’ Administration and also other apprcpriations which are surrounded with political hazards are in a mood “to pass the buck” to their new leader on almost everything, but he is showing an intimation to | pass it right back to them. The an- | nouncement of a plan to broaden the EVENS HONORED | income tax base has sent a chill up and down the country and Mr. Rootevelt | was quick to say that the idea was not | his, but that of congressional leaders. He recognizes that nobody who spon- Aid Is Guest at Luncheon. | sors an increase in taxes is going to be | popular. Members of Congress feel that Mrs. Cabot Stevens, who resigned in |two years hence they will encounter dif- December as president of the Garfield | ficulties in retaining their seats if they Hospital Ladics’ Aid, was given a testi- | will have spread taxation to include monial luncheon Saturday at the Shore- | many people not now taxed, ham. The luncheon was arranged by a Reduction Also Difficult. The alternative, namely, a consider- The ships under Capt. Major | row, he said. MRS. ST Retiring Head of Garfield Ladies’ that restored his eyesight after 20 years | the beginning of Irving Thalberg’s sick- | Mrs, Henry A. Willard, Mrs. Clyde B. |able reduction in Government expenses, of H blindness. Yesterday he died of * pneumonia. | ness. Sam Goldwyn is Il with the flu | at the present tim: | Aitchison, Mrs. Richard Hexle and Mrs. | also is painful to Congress because po- Louis Weller. litical groups ready with their ax: Extra protection against winter Pepsodent Antiseptic makes $1 equal $3 in fighting colds PEPSODENT ANTISEPTIC is 3 times as powerful as other leading mouth antiseptics. Hence it goes 3 times as far. And whether you buy the 25¢, 50c, or $1 size, you still get 3 times as much for your money. FEWER colds this year—quicker relief from those you catch—and money saved besides. That's the promise Pepsodent Antiseptic makes you. Mil- lions by experience can tell you it's true. Pepsodent Antiseptic is different from other leading mouth antiseptics. $1 does the work of $3 Pepsodent is 3 times more powerful in killing germs~—it goes 3 times as far— gives you 3 times as much for your money and gives you extra protect sore throat colds. In fighting stubborn colds, remember there reallyare only two leading kinds of mouth antiseptics on the ion against Don'’t fool yourself It is bad enough to pay the extra cost of using antiseptics that must be used full strength . . . it’s worse to dilute them and fail to kill the germs . . . so choose the antiseptic that kills the germs even when it is diluted. Insist on Pepsodent Antiseptic—and be safe. Pepsodent Antiseptic market. In one group is the mouth anti- septic that must be used full strength to be effective. In the other group is Pepsodent Antiseptic, absolutely safe when used full strength, yet powerful enough to be diluted with two parts of water and st// kill germs in less than 10 seconds! IMPURE BREATH (Halitosis) The amaring results of Pepsodent Antiseptic in fighting sore throat colds prove its effectiveness in checking Bad Breath (Halitosis). Remember, Pepsodent is 3 times more powerful in killing germs than other leading mouth antiscptics. Remember, even when diluted with water it still kills gorms. Some of the SO different uses for this modern’antiseptic Sore Throat Colds Cuts and Head Colds Abrasions Smoker's Throat After Shaving Bad Chapped Hands Dandruft Skin Irritations Checks Under-Arm Perspiration Odor “Athlete's Foot” Irritations of the Gums After Extractions Tired, Aching Feet TWO FAMOUS RADIO PROGRAMS Amos 'n’ Andy . . . The Goldbergs Every night exceptSaturday and Sunday, ovesN.B.C as doubtful from an income standpoint. | As a matter of fact, the Democrats | IFire Chief’s Strategy Wards Off Blast Of Gasoline Car Pours Water Into Tank, Cutting Off Flow of Fuel in Leaky Valve. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, January 9.—Because Fire Chief Michael Mahoney kpew water 15 heavier then gasoline, a | country club_apartment district here | was extinguished with slight loss today. A railway tank car containing 16,000 | gallons of gasoline was enveloped in flames after two garage workers started | draining_the contents into a storagze | tank. The valve at the bottom of the car struck, allowing gasoline to flow along the ground to embers of a fire started by a nignt watchman. | Fire spread along the trickle of gaso- line. Chemicals and heses failed to halt the blaze, Then the chief arrived and noticed the manhole at the top of the tank car | was open. He instructed firemen to | climb atop the nearby gerage and aim | about 250 gallons of water from their 1 hose into the hole. | The water soon sank below the gaso- line in the tank and water instead of gasoline_sprayed from the defective valve. The gasoline previously freed soon burned out. Then the valve was closed. Damage was estimated by Chief Mahoney as ap- proximately $1,000. ELECTED TO NINTH TERM J. Enos Ray Installed as Chillum Castle Masonic Treasurer. Special Dispatch to The Star. CHILLUM, Md., January 9.—J. Enos Ray, chairman of the Maryland Demo- cratic Committee and president of the Prince Georges Bank & Trust Co. has been installed as treasuret of Chil- lum_ Castle Lodge, No. 186, A. F. & A. M., having been re-elected for a ninth term. Other newly installed officers are: Joseph H. Austin, worshipful master; Robert H. McCallum, Oliver W. Youngblood, junior warden; Past Master John R. Adams, secretary (re-elected fourth term); Carl Rus: con; Past Master Jesse L. Gladmon, mashal; Herbert W. Blandy. chaplain (renamed third term); Walter P. Laughton, senior ; John A. Ridgewa; ; James A. Charles, tiler (re-elected ninth_term), and Finis D. Morris, trustee (re-elected). —_— if the appropriations vital to them are reduced or eliminated. ‘Thus, for example, men constitute a very powerful political force. So Congress and the President- elect will find they have to make a choice between political groups, and that is why it was a matter of great ence with Mr. Roosevelt with a plan to tax people with small income. This has been advocated as a logical step by stu- ously opposed as bad politics by mem- bers of Congress for a decade. Within the next 10 days the Demo- crats will be compelled to come to some agreement among themselves on their tax plan, for the Nation now waits upon the Democrats to balance the budget and cut it down, as they promised in the last election. (Copyright. 1933.) “MADA senior warden; | senior deacon; Roy P. Frye, junior dea- | the ex-service | surprise here to find the Democratic | leaders coming back from their confer- | | dents of taxation, but it has been vigor- | Phone Potomac 0040 “FARMPARITY" BILL - FAGING DIFFIULTY ! [ |Passage Likely Despite Mis- | givings, but Two-thirds “ Support Doubtful. BY MARK SULLLIVAN. A f2ir summary of the debate in the House on the emergency “farm parity” bill would say that the opponents have the apeparance of winning the argument, in the conse of creating an atmosphere in_which the bill is on the defensive. T some truth in the asser- tion mads by Representative Michener | of Michigan, that “I have not talked with a member of the House, but who has miszivings about the efficacy of this ular bill.” his statement comes from an | nt cf the bi'l, it depicts accurate- thz mood in which the bill is being urged. Nevertheless, a fair summary of the parliamentary prospects of the | measure would say it is likely to pass | the Hoéuse this week and to pass the Senate whenever the latter body con- siders it. It is likely to pass, however, only by majorities. It will hardly have in either branch the two-thirds support which would be necess: to enact th2 bill over a veto by the President in the event that Mr. Hoover should disap- prove it | If the bill should come to end, as respects the present session, in a veto by the President and failure of the bill's supporters to_overcome the veto, it is asssumed the Democrats will again press it in the special session of the new Congress which it is now taken for | granted must be called soon after | March 4. Since the new Congress will | be heavily Democratic, since this bill | is a Democratic party measure, and since farm relief in this general spirit promised by Mr. R velt during he campaign, it is widely accepted that the measure will be enacted during the Spring. threatering oil blaze in the fashionable | | Subject to Qualifications. [ While all this remains the prospect | as of today, it is subject to qualification. | The advocates of the measure are in- | creasingly distrubed by difficulties and objections, which have emerged as the | bill has come under the scrutiny of | debate and of opposition from interests | adversely affected. Also, the present | form of the bill, after changes through which it has gone, is not identical with | the form in which Mr. Roosevelt and | other early supporters originally en- | dorsed it. "It is possible the measure | may be materially modified, or even | that some other form of farm relief may be brought forward to fulfill the deter- mination of the Democrats to do some- thing about the farm situation. | The bill, described roughly, takes the 1914 pre-war prices of farm crops as a base and as an aspiration. It under- takes to insure these prices to raisers of five crops to the extent that these crops arc sold in America, which is estimated at about 70 per cent of the | total crops. This is accomplished by laying a tax on the American pur- chasers, the millers of wheat, the spin- ners of cotton and the other “proces- so1 The tax thus raised is to be| paid by the Government to farmers| raising these crops. The subsidy is only | paid to farmers who reduce their acre- | | age by 20 per cent. | | “The bill in its original form applied | to wheat, cotton, tobacco and hogs. ;onp of the consequences of the intro- | duction of the bill was pressure from | A—5 | 34 Wait in Vain, 1 ThenRecallClosing | | Of Famous Hotel By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, January 9.—Thirty- ‘ four intended patrons of the Blackstone Hotel glided up to the entrance yesterday and waited— waited for something that didn't happen. No liveried footmen ap- peared to assist them out of their motors. After a moment or two of amazement they suddenly remem- bered the Blackstone was closed. That instead of the well trained and alert staff, a deputy sheriff was in charge of the famous Michigan avenue hostelry. The last 89 guests checked out Saturday night, after which the lights were extinguished—prob- ably for the first time in the 22 years of the hotel. The next step will be a receiver's sale. raisers of other crops to be included in its benefits. Accompanying this pres- sure was the threat, direct or tacit, to oppose the bill unless dairy products, potatoes, rice, peanuts and other crops | are included. One crop, rice, has been added, presumably to guarantee for the bill a sufficient number of votes in Con- gress to pass it. | The outstanding quality of the at- mosphere in which the bill is pressed is a recognition of the distress of agri- culture, couplad with recognition of the effect of depressed farming on the coun- | try’s whole business structure. This condition is universally admitted, uni- versally deplored. As a result there is a spirit of “we must do something.” | This spirit is shared by some heads of manufacturing indusiries. There is more pressure for this bill by business | interests than for any other farm bill cver censidered. Their theory is that the depression is a vicious circle, and that it may be broken by deliberately | putting into the pockets of farmers an increased purchasing power, which, | when spent by the farmers, may start | the business spiral upward. A metaphor frequently used by business advocates | of the measure is that the machinery of business is halted on a “dead center.” From this it is argued that some hun- | dreds of millions of dollars added to the purchasing power of farmers may act as a “primer” to start the whole national mechanism of business going | again. - EINSTEIN TRIP LH(ENED TO CURVATURE OF SPACE | Completing Third Journey From Berlin to Pasadena as Ship Is Due. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 9—Prof. | Albert Einstein was today completing | his third “curvature of space” Journey from Berlin to Pasadena, being due to | land here from the steamer Oakland | direct from Bremen. Relativity and its complice¢ed appli- sations to mathematical physics was th: main purpose of his two previous visits, which were research investigations be- | ing financed by the California Instituts | of Technology at Pasadena. | “German-American relations” com- | bines with mathematical equations in | his thoughts on this third visit, which is | financed by fRe Oberlaender trust of the Carl Schurz Foundation of Phila- delphia, for the purpose of propagating good will toward Germany. HERE IS A VERY IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT CONCERNING YOUR LAUNDRY PROBLEMS” HORNER BECOMES ILLINCIS GOVERNOR Former Probate Judge Urges State Sales Tax and Simpli- fication of Government. By the Associated Press. SPRINGFIELD, Ill, January 0.— Henry Horner became Governor of Illinois today with a plea for a common front in “the war against economic un- happiness and suffering.” In‘his inaugural address the former probate judge declared restoration of cconomic prosperity to be the greatest problem in the State’s history and urged upon the Legislature immediate enact- ment of a State sales tax, calling of a constitutional convention to simplify and improve government and reduction of taxes. “Working together,” he said, “I be- lieve we can place Illinols in the leader- ship of our American commonwealths, the home again of a happy, contented, prosperous and united citizenship.” Repea! of the State search and seizure act, correlation of the work of unem- ployment relief agencies. reapporticn- ment of the State, simplification of the election system, regulation of banking and protection of the public from in- vestment failures wers some of the measures he favors. All of them, he said, would work either toward betterment of government or the return of prosperity—and in most cases both. The State’s usual grand inaugural re- ception was abandoned in the interests of economy. Regarding taxation, Gov. Horner said he believed a sales tax was essential, but admonished the State officials to neglect no opportunity for reducing ex- penditures. Rhode Island Ranks High. Although the smallest State in the Union, Rhode Island ranks thirteenth among the forty-eight in total resources of banking institutions. FOR REN 3 front rooms on first Le Droit Blds., 8th and F ving a frontage on suitable f y_business. W/ i a3 entirety or in part. ~Reasonable rent, J. B. STEIN 482 Ind. Ave. NEW YORK $4.25 CHICAGO $13 RICHMOND _$2—PHILADELPHIA $2.50 PITISBURGH $5.30—ST. 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