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\ STAR, BETTER CONDITIONS i General Improvement in Pub- : , lic Confidence Reported by 7 Newspaper Executives. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, April 26.—A marked improvement in public confidence and in general business conditions was noted yesterday by newspaper publishers from | widespread industrial and agricultural areas. . In the South, Clark Howell of the| Atlanta Constitution said: “The reaction to pending: legislation already has been extremely favorable, as shown in an in- orease of cotton prices of approxi- mately 115 cents a pound.” Mr. Howell said he felt “this is due more to tne inflation program than to Teaction to the farm relief program.” “So long as kept under control, as it can be under pending legislation, I think the effect of inflation will be to increase commodity prices. That is the keystone of returning prosperity.” Confidence Has Improved. Col. Frank Knox of the Chicago Daily News said the action of the stock mar- ket in the last week “is a perfect ex- ample of what happens in a rising mar- ket. This is more fundamentally illus- trated in the commodity market. There has already been a healthy increase in the price of farm commodities, wholly by the expectation of inflation. When inflation actually comes, providing it is controlled, farm prices will go still high- er and by this vacate the necessity for most of the remedies proposed in the pending farm measure.” Chicago, Col. Knox said, “is very PUBLISHERS NOTE | WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, HUMAN BABY FOUN SIMILAR TO MONKEY Anthropoid Features of Child Distinguished From Those of Adult. BY THOMAS R. HENRY. ‘The human child is closer to a monkey than ‘ the adult and passes through various stages of his tree-climbing an- cestors on his way to manhood. This was reported to the National Academy of Sciences yesterday by Dr. | APRIL 26, 1933 Hitler Board Drafts Sterilization Law to Guide Entire Reéich N PROTESTANT UNITY | URGED ON PASTORS Washington Federation of Churches Re-elects Col. Tufts President. azi Doctors’ Proposals for Eugenic Reforms Are Recalled. By the Associated Press. BERLIN, April 26~The Prussian Board of Health has drafted a steriliza- tion law to serve as a model for the » | entire Reich, it was announced semi- | Crealer co-operation and unity among officially today. The details are not |Protestant faiths must come before the | made public. church will reach i+ ultimate useful- | Some sections of Chancellor Adolf | 158 to humanity, Rev. Dr. George A. Hitler's Nazi party have been advocates | Buttrick, pastor of the Madison Avenue | of sterilization of the physically and | presbyterian Church, New York, de- ization. | Times. | Ray, St. | Philadelphia Bulletin; Frederick E. Murphy, | McCormick, Chicago | Springfield Republicar, and L. K. Nicholson, New Orleans Times-Picayune. Officers and directors of the Associated Press, assembled in New York for the annual meeting of the news organ- Seated (left to right): W. H. Cowles, Spokane Spokesman-Review; Elbert H. Baker, Cleveland Plain Dealer; W. J. Pape, Waterbury Republican; Frank B. Noyes (president), The Washington Star, and Adolph 8. Ochs, New York Standing (left to right): J. Randall Youatt, treasurer; Jackson S. Elliott, assistant general manager; E. Lansing Louis Globe Democrat; Kent Cooper, general manager; J. R. Knowland, Oakland Tribune; Robert McLean, ktflneapvll; Tribune; Stuart H. Perry, Adrian Daily Telegraph; Robert R. Tribune; Paul Patterson, Baltimore Sun; George B. Longan, Kansas City Star; Richard Hooker, —A. P. Photo. | Newspapers Asked To Carry Radio News Only as Advertising By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 26.—A reso- lution calling’ upon newspapers to accept radio broadcasting pro- NEWSPAPER GROUP TOLD UNITY NEED PUBLISHER SCORES TAX “EXTORTIONS" {President Davis Reviews Ac- grams as advertising matter only {Robert R. McCormick of the Charles B. Davenport, biologist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington and the conclusion was based on lphysl cal measurements of hundreds of dren. It is well-known, Dr. Davenport said, that before birth the human be- ing “recapitulates” various stages in the evolution of the species. Thus at one time, he has the gill slits of a fish, at another the kidney of an amphibian, and still later a tail. But the big ape stages, through which the immediate ancestors of man must have passed, remain until after birth. At birth, said Dr. Davenport, is an ap- proximately circular cylinder. “This,” he said, “is the generalized, undiffcrentiated form of chest. It is rather characteristic of the adult tree climbers and fits them for the undif- ferentiated movements required in climbing. In running quadrupeds, like the horse, the depth of the chest be- comes greater than the breadth.” Thigh Grows Faster. At first, he pointed out, the upper and lower segments of the human leg are very unequal and the thigh takes the initiative in rapid growth. This appears to be the undifferentiated con- dition among mammals. Later the lower mentally unfit for many years. Dr. Martin Staemmier, director of the Pathological Institute at Chemnitz, said in a speech before a group of Nazi phy- sicians in Leipzig more than a year ago that German citizens should be divided into three classes—those to be sterilized, those who would bear misfits and those able to bear healthy children. He recommended sterilization of chil- dren born dumb and blind and of de- fectives in order that the nation might build a physically healthy “Nordic” race. The physician also asserted that women should be taken from their busi- ness occupations and sent back home to discharge the duties of motherhood. The theme of his address and of the talks made by other physicians at the and intelligent. SUPPORT RALWAY INR.F.C. LOANPLEA meeting was that “we must be strong clared last evening at the annual din- ner and meeting of the Washington Federation of Churches, held -t Calvary Baptist Church. He praisc? _he Wash- ington Federation of Chur hes for its work. Discussing the “Marks of a Vital Church,” he outlined the elements nec- essary for a church to dc the most goo-l. Its ministers, he said, must bring a new and adventurous message to the people and must continually be on the} alert for new fields of endeavor. He | advocated the system of & multiple min- istry with different tasks assigned dif- ferent pastors. A vita church, the speaker declared, must h> democratic, useful to its people and be imbued with a reverent spirit. | Col. Tufts Re-elected. | Col. W. O. Tufts, president of the federation, was re-elected and all cther officers recommended by the Nominating | Committee, headed by I¥r. Frederick | Brown Harris of the Foundry Methodist Church, were elected. At the business meeting, -which fol- lowed the dinner. Col. Tufts told the approximately 400 members of the %% A3 For silverware, for works of art, for houschold goods. or furs, rugs, tapestries, SAFE DEPOSITORY for 43 years, Smfl}! m Gompany 1140 Fifteenth St. KEEP COOL! Nothing can take the place of a refreshing shower during the coming Summer cays. Complete shower and bith equipment easily installed by your plumber. E. G. Schafer Co. Display Rooms. 1100 Georgia Ave. N.W. 4th and Telephone DEcatur 3862 EVERY HOUSE NEEDS WESTINGHOUSE The es Westinghouse Duster-Cleaner This new hand vacuum cleaner, operated by eleetricity, is only 13 the weight of ordinary large clean- ers. but has % the power. Dusts and eleans everything. With The Cleaner By Itself Attachments 322‘50 312,50 much in favor of a controlled inflation | in both credit and currency. And we believe the present price level is as | much over-deflated as over-inflated in | was offered before the forty- seventh annual convention of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association today by E. H. Harris, federation attending that the federation has just undergcne one of its most suc- cessful years since its organization in % MUDDIMAN ¢ 911 G St. Nat’l 0140-2622 leg grows rapidly so that it is about 90 per cent as long as the thigh at the eleventh or twelfth year. This condi- complishments at 47th Chicago Tribune Points to 1929.” George B. Longan of the Kansas City Star said he had “no doubt but what the feeling of confidence among the people has improved more than 100 per cent.” Mingled with the comments of the publishers, in New York for meetings of the American Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the Associated Press, was praise of President Roosevelt and expressions of confidence in his ad- ministration. Approve President’s Action. ‘The President was described by the Kansas City publisher as “a man of action who has given us a feeling that we most assuredly are not marking time and who is using every means to get_results.” The published said that “while the Kansas City Star has been an advo- cate of sound money, we are not alarmed over the inflation program. ‘We think that thoughtful people un- derstand that the administration has & strategic plan and only that part will be used that is essential to what we _might term reflation.” Both L. K. Nicholson of the New Orleans Times-Picayune and W. H. Cowles of the Spokane Spokesman-Re- view found favor with the adminis- tration’s handling of the banking sit- uation. “The whole Nation is indebted to Mr. Roosevelt for his courageous and posi- tive work in handling the banking crisis,” said Mr. Cowles, while Mr. Nicholson felt that “one of the essen- tial things for recovery is certainly the getting down to a solid foundation by rebuilding and strengthening our bank- ing structure. And this Mr. Roosevelt is doing " The New Orleans publisher cited that “the President says much of his pro- gram is more or less experimental. We are in strong sympathy with this lead- ership and the people in Louisiana have been quick to respond to the continuous action in Washington.” Helps Lumber Industry. The reaction of the lumber industry in Washington to the administration’s gold embargo was cited by the Spokane publisher. “The results of this embargo in the matter of increased prices,” Mr. Cowles said, “was of great importance in the Northwest. “The drop in the exchange was of gTea’ consequence because it reduced the ability of Canada and Japan to ship in and undersell American producers. This lowering of the exchange neces sarily affects the lumber industry, which is a very large factor in the Northwest's prosperity. Already, there has been considerable increase in em- ployment and resumption of operation in ‘mills Mr. Cowles said there is not, as far 8s he is able to sense. “a united senti- ment behind the administration’s farm program and the suggestion that the Government enter upon a program of controlling the hours and wages in in- dustry.” An “Ace in the Hole.” In Indiana, Henry W. Marshall of the Lafayette Journal and Courier found that “people have a lot of faith in President Roosevelt and what he is trying to do. Particularly is this true of the farmers.” Mr. Marshall said he found a feeling that “a moderate controlled inflation will be helpful.” Col. Knox, who was a close advisor to former President Hoover, said his “ad- miration for President Roosevelt has been greatly enhanced by his astute preparation for the impending world conference. The power he asks in pend- ing currency legislation may never be used and probably will not be. But this gives him an ace in the hole when they get around the conference table, which may prove immeasurably valuable.” Anxious to break the world's diving record, a vouth of 19 recently jumped 220 feet from the tower of a railway bridge into the River Mass, in the Neth- erlands, and has been arrested near Rotterdam charged with trespassing on the bridge and swimming in torbidden water: I WILL _NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY debts other than those contracted by myself. RAYFIELD A. CAREY, 1004 Col. rd. n.w. ,ONG-DISTANCE MOVING BETWEE Fastern voints. _“Service since 1806, vidson's Tranifer & Storsge Co. 1 st nw.__Nat. 0060. WANT TQ HAUL FULL Xew York. Richmond. wav Boston, Pitts- special rates Al INC.. 1317 Y Nat._1460. _ Local moving_also SWILL PAY CASH REWARD FOR INFORMA- t'nn isadine to the location of Davies & Sons piano No. 11634, removed from either bine: of Belmont st. n.w. or the 1400 rinz rd. n.w. on of about Janu- Notify' CHAS. M. STIEFF, INC., nw W/IT.L PAY CASH REWARD FOR INFORM. \ ‘leadinz to the location of Davies S5ns grand piano No. 220197 removed from ihe 100 block of Tayvior st. Chevy Chase. on out March 1 Notify CYiAS’ M STIEFT. INC. 1330 G st. n.w 1 WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY t o obligation incurred by any one elf. ROBERT JOHN MA- SHAN. Jr. Nebraska avenue n.W.. OF Metropolitan Police, D. C. formerly of 516 Jefferson st nw. sl WE WILL SELL AT EICHBERG'S AUCTION. Ford Fordor Sedan, motor No. A May 13. 193, to cover stora Charges. Keystone Garage, 1615 O st. n.w. That _just melts in your CmY mouth. is homemade He!‘h datly and only costs you 45¢ a pound. No wonder we Are_success Mes, McCarty’s, 1317 E St. Adioining_Lobby of National Theater ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLDERS. on. Washington Permanent Buildins e e the offi 11 be 3. . at 3:30 pm. ‘directors. Polls opsn from 1 am. 1o 2 BIERMANN H. BERGMANN. aiz Becretary. _ J(. EXPERT PURNITURE AND MOVING 5 reasonable. reliable, les. BARRETT TRANS- FER _ME. @ g —properly applied. Our old-fashioned “Tin Boof Paint makes the Invest- ay. Keeps oft rust, lasts for years. ROOPING 933 V 8t. N.-W. COMPANY North 4433 chairman of the organization's Radio Committee. ‘The committee also made five recommendations urging protest against the selling or giving away of news to radio stations in ad- | vance of publication and that | | Annual Session. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, April 26—The main| sessions of the Forty-seventh Annual e bir eas e tavill cots Convention of the American Newspaper | | fow EECERe their proprietary rights in news. | | Publishers’ Association were begun at | s il | the Waldorf-Astoria_today, with How- ard Davis of the New York Herald- wflR'l'H NG'I'UN HUNT believe that never before have we N { needed as we do today the constructive | work being done by the association. | Tribune, president of the association, through its many committees and loyal | welfare. “Throughout the 47 years of our organization's existence,” he said, “I Decreased Incomes. NEW YORK, April 26 (#).—Col Robert R. McCormick, publisher of the Chicago Tribune, criticised today what he called “exhorbitant taxation.” In a talk at a Bond Club luncheon, he said: “Incomes have greatly decreased and many of them have ceased. Incomes can no longer bear the extorticns that have crippled them and the industries which produced them. “The World War changed the entire scale of national income and natiohal expenditures. “The habit of exuberant and exorbi- tant taxation continued and was borne by a people who had been taught to telling the members the organization was never before so necessary to their members, and the protection that comes to our industry through the close co-operation engendered by member- ship in an association organized for | the purpose of bringing into accord the | divergent viewpoints on management | and operation of a large number of List of Saturday’s Steeple- chasers Reads Like Amer- tion is characteristic of tree climbers. Later the thigh again forges ahead, typical human condition. The develop- ment of the long thigh takes the ado- lescent boy or girl out of the class of climbing jumping and romping animals into that of walkers and runners. “The human foot,” Dr. Davenport said, “shows remarkable adaptations for distributing the great weight of the body to the whole foot in the most effi- cient fashion. But the adaptive changes are completed only as adolescence ap- pears. The infant his an instep rather like the anthropoid apes. This instep increases to adolescence and gives a val- uable resilience to the step. “The human fet:1 foot is at first long. as compared with the lower leg, just as in the anthropoid ape. This may be regarded as a generalized condition. In later months this foot index diminishes while it remains high in the adult | bear it under the stress of national gorilla and chimpanzee. A long heel necessity. The nceds to re-establishiis a human characteristic. The foetus ourselves in civil life diverted our at- tention from the corruption of our poli- | dition thit is retained by the adult ties. The vast, if temporary, pros-| chimpanzee and the orang-utan, but perity which flowed from our post-war | the human heel bone increases vigor concealed the extent to which we | childhood up to adolesence.” has a relatively short heel bone, a con-, in! D. C. Business Interests Fa- vor $425,000 for Chesa- peake Beach Co. Washington business interests have | thrown their support behind efforts of |the Chesapeake Beach Railway Co. to secure a $425,000 loan from the Recon- struction Finance Corporation to aid in the establishment of a ferry across { Chesapeake Bay from Chesapeake Beach to Hudson, Md., on the Eastern Shore. Approved by L C. C. The project has been approved by the ! Interstate Commerce Commission, both from the standpoint of public conven tence and necessity and through recom- mendation that the loan be made by the R. F. C. In addition, it has the support of the Chamber of Commerce, the Board of Trade, the Merchants and Manufacturers’ Association, the Amer- ican Automobile Association and many March, 1920. Mrs. H. Wellen Pisher, president of the Woman's Council, an | integral part of the federation, made a | similar report for her organization. Col. Tufts introduced Rev. Dr. Roy B. | Guild of New York City, who came to Washington 14 years ago and spent a | year here organizing the federation. | Dr. Guild congratulated the federation | on its growth to its present strength of | 116 churches in 20 denominations ana | on the spirit it has shown in religicus | | work in the face of present adverse con- ditions. | Addresses encouraging the members | were made by Rev. Dr. W. S. Abernethy and Bishop W. F. McDowell, retired. They urged more generous financial cupport of the federation's program. | Besides Col. Tufts the newly elected | officers of the federation are: { Rev. C. C. Rasmussen, Rev. B. W. | Meeks and Henry Brewood, vice presi- ]denu: S. Merton Chipley | Horace L. Stevenson, assistant treas- urer. | Representatives Chosen. | Chosen as denominational represent- treasurer, and | atives to the federation were Dr. Aber- ican Blue Book. daily newspaper publishers for their general welfare.” | More than a dozen committees, which have studied the various mechanical and economic phases of the newspaper business, delivered their reports. | BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. Reading like the 1933 American | blue book of amateur steeplechasing, | SRRt TV T | the entry list for the fortieth Mary- |land Hunt Cup, to be run Saturday afternoon in Worthington Valley, was | TEXAS I.EG'SI.ATORS | announced yesterday by a committee PROBE “OIL LOBBY,yzor sportsmen directing this season’s meeting. Almost_every first-class timber horse Stir Created by Fight in Hotel as in training hereabouts for the cross- country sport is included in the group Seven Companies Post 10-Cents- ’ of 16 nominated by stables from half | a dozen States for the Maryland classic. Two past winners are among those | named. They are Alligator, 1929 vic- | tor, owned by Mrs. S. Bryce Wing of | | Harford County, Md., and Brose Hover, | the 1930 winner, from the stable of Eenjamin Leslie Behr of Chicago. Brose Hover missed by inches win- a-Barrel Prices. By the Associated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., April 26.—Turbulent were being bled. “The propagandists found new euphe- misms for public expenditures in civil life to take the place of patriotism and self-sacrifice for unnecessary wasteful- ness in war time. war thefts of public funds have been camouflaged indispensible services. “One weapon of the peace-time propagandists has been to direct the public attitude toward war-time prof- iteering, for which they were largely responsible, against necessary peace- time industries. There was a natural antipathy toward the men who got rich frcm war necessities. Progressive taxa- tion was imposed no more to provide revenue than to punish the profiteers.” The greatest post- | s desirable projects for | i The strange parallelism between the | development of the individual and the | development of the species, Dr. Daven- port said, is clearly due to the fact that the higher forms pass through the | same early stages that the lower forms do, but go beyond the point at which the less evolved species stop their de- | velopment. Watch Dogs of Blood Stream. \ The actual effect of the recently dis- | covered chemical substance secreted from the cortex of the adrenal gland.| absence of which is fatal, was explained by Dr. W. W. Swingle of Prince Uni- versity. Experimenting with dogs from whom the adren:l gland had been re- moved, Dr. Swingle found evidence that {the volume of blood decreased steadily | {to the death point. The animals had | no ability to make use of watcr to add to the plisma base of the blood which was lost through the capillary walls, Cells which serve as watch dogs of individual citizens. A statement issued today by the Washington Chamber of Commerce pointed out that a ferry at Chesapeake Beach would give Washington motorists direct access to the lower Eastern Shore of Maryland, enabling them to cnut off from 24 to 54 miles from the distance to points ir. this territory by routes now available. Washington, for instance, it is emphasized, would be 24 miles closer to Salisbury and Ocean City by way of v than by the Annapolis-Clai- borne fer: It was emphasized also that the fer- ries it is contemplated putting in service on the proposed new line would cover the 15 miles between Chesapeake Beach whereas the schedule between Annapol and Claiborne is from an hour and & i half to two hours, with infrequent serv 1 ice. H Eastern Shore Held Rich. It was further pointed out that the d Hudson, Md., in less than an hour, | affairs of the big East Texas oil field, | “bad boy” of the oil industry and most productive petroleum area in the United States, took the attention today of a committee composed of members of both houses in the Texas Legislature, bent on investigating activities of an alleged “oil lobby.” ‘While this committee called witnesses to testify concerning a fight at a hotel in which a legislator and a prominent oil man were injured, seven purchasing companies in the field had posted prices of 10 cents a barrel for Fast Texas crude and many independent oil land- | owners of the area were considering | closing their wells voluntarily, to protect their investment in oil now in storage. | The Legislative Committee began work immediately after the lawmakers Jearned yesterday Representative Gor- | don Burns of Huntsville was injured in a fight in a hotel corridor with Charles F. Roeser, president of the | Texas Oil and Gas Conservation Asso- | ciation. Burns was in a hospital. Burns had opposed the passage of a bill designed to strip the Texas Rail- road Commission of its oil regulatory powers. | MARIE DRESSLER SPIKES | RUMOR OF RETIREMENT| Announces “Man Hunt” for Person | Who Began Report When Questioned. By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, April 26. — Marle | Dressler, veteran screen star, an-| nounced a “man hunt” when she was questioned last night about her rumcred | retirement from pictures after com- | pleting her current film. “I'm looking for the man who| storted that rumor,” she declared. “I have no more intention of retiring than I have of riding a bicycle down Holly- wood boulevard in shorts. “What would I retire from, and where would I retire? Work always has been my entire life. Retirement | and quiet, little cottages, dogs and cats | and parrots, are all right for folks| who like them, but not for me, after almost a half a century in the fun and | excitement of stage and screen.” The ‘“retirement” rumors were at- tributed to “intimate friends” of Miss | Dressler. SINGER WINS DIVORCE Marion Campbell Gets Decree From Nip Strongheart. LOS ANGELES, April 25 (@).—A divorce was granted yesterday to Mrs. Marion Strongheart, known on the opera | stage as Marion Campbell, from Nip| Strongheart. Indian author and lecturer. The case was contested. and both principals charged cruelty. Mrs. Strong- heart charged her husband_ associated with other women, and Strongheart brought the name of Samuel Insull, fugitive Chicago utilities magnate, into the case with the assertion his wife corresponded with Insull and once sent him roses when he left for Europe. LEBEC COMING HERE Chief Inspector of French Ministry to ‘Arrive by Plane. The chief inspector of the Ministry of France, J. Lebec, whose office is equivalent to that of Undersecretary of the Treasury in this country, will fly to Washington tomorrow afternoon from New York. Arriving in New York from Prance tomorrow, M. Lebec will be taken im- mediately to Newark Airport to board an Eastern Air Transport plane leav- ing at 3:40 p. m. for Washington. Hc is to arrive at Washington-Hoover Air- port at 5:50 p. m. ning again last year, but was nosed | “ N u-“-]E out in the final strides by Mrs. T. H. | Sommerville’s Troublemaker, which the Dblood stream, removing bacteria | jiwer Eastern Shore is a rich and 5 : pro- {;lom fl‘le circulation and destroying | ductive country, with a population of em. were described by Peyton Rouse | more than 200,000 persons, with a pros- | the Carolina Cup at Camden in March, | handled then and again Saturday finished standing up in the 1933 Eng- lish Grand National this Spring. Trou blemaker will not return from England | in time to prepare for the Maryland. In the 21 years the Ross Whistler | Challenge Cup has stood as symbol of | victory in the Maryland no owner has | been able to gain three victories and | retire it. | Mr. Behr has won it twice, in 1925 |and 1930. C. L. A. Heiser, on Whose es- | tate and the adjoining property of J. W. Y. Martin the hunt cup course is | laid, also holds two legs on the trophy, | but there will be no entry to carry his | colors this year. | In 1932, approximately 25000 spec- | tators braved a drizzling rain to watch | a brilliant field sweep over the four miles of turf and 22 post and xail fences in quest of the most coveted victory in American amateur horse racing. In| view of the ever increasing popularity | | of steeplechase meets in the area and the extraordirary caliber of the starters Saturday, it is probable last year's at tendance records will be shattered. Line-up of Entries. | The entries line-up as follows: Benja- min Leslie Behr has named Royal Play. | Sir John L. and Brose Hover. All prob- | ably wili start, as the Illinois sportsman naturally is anxious to increase his| chances of retiring the Whistler cup. | Frank Bonsal, jr, will have the leg up | on Brose Hover; John Pearson on Sir | John L. and the tider of Royal Play has not yet been named. | Richard K. Mellon of Pennsylvania will place in competition & strong pair, Comea and Pink Tipped. Comea fell while among the front runners in this race last year, and recently showed & creditable effort in the Middleburg Cup. James Ryan will ride. Pink Tipped won has started but once since and fell that time. The jockey will be Jack Skinner. Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Durant of Vir- ginia and New York have a husband against wife entry in Fugitive and Row- land. Fugitive scored several impressive victories for Mrs. Durant last Ytlbl' v | Randolph Duffey of Middleburg. rider has been named for Mr. Durant’s | Rowland. Jumping Jack, owned by Mrs. Francis | P. Garvan of New York, won My Lady's | Manor point to point by 10 lengths in| 2 hand gallop two weeks ago. Crawford Burton will be in the saddle. Hubar, winner of the 1933 New Jersey Cup, comes from the stable of Howard Bruce, the Maryland s‘mmmln who won “this race with Billy Barton in 1926. With Raymond Woolf up, the Bruce stable is out to write its name on_the Whistler Cup again. Ready Wit and Capt. Kettle. from the string of jumpers owned by Charles S. Cheston of Philadelphia, have made past history in Maryland race meets. Their riders will be Stuart Janney, Jr., and Charles White, respectively. From Same Stable. Starlite, from the same stable which sent Grubstake to win the Maryland little Grand National in Green Spring Valley last Saturday, captured the Glenwood timber race at Middleburg on the second day of the recent meeting there. James McCormick, who was in the saddle that day, will again ride for Mrs. Raymond Beimont. Albert Ober, jr., brought D. K. E. Bruce's Bill Clark across the finish line Jast Saturday in the Grand National. Bill Clark was fourth, but at least-was one of the few entries to escape the fall. Ober will ride this one again in the Hunt cup. B_OF. Randolph’s Lipan Lad, from his Millwood, Va., stable, has been in the money in past meets. Stuart Rose will ride. Mrs. Frank M. Gould’s Ostend, eon- sidered one of the most likely horses in the Virginia trained contingent, was scratcl today. Conditions of the race call for an im- post of 165 pounds on all horses, ex- cept 5-year-olds, which are allowed 5 pounds, and 4-year-olds, sllowed 15. Overweight is alloweds ) VSTE@//( San You, Dr. Fordney is professor of crimi- nology at a famous university. His advice is often sought by the police of many cities when confronted with partic- ularly baffing cases. This problem has been taken from his casebook covering hundreds of criminal investigations. Try vour wits on it! TE to read! ry to its solution are there is only f—and one_answer. you? | Gang Massacre. BY H. A. RIPLEY. ITH a sigh Prof. Fordney con- tinued his examination of the bullets. That morning the most horrible gang mas- sacre in American histcry had been perpetrated. Eight men had been lined up in a garage and mowed down with machine gun, revolver bullets and shotgun slugs. Only one person had been found who knew anything about it—a thor- oughly reliable woman. She in- fcrmed the police that she had seen a car with four men draw up to the : garage opposite her N house. Three men, two in police uni- form, entered it— the fourth remain- ing at the wheel. In a few seconds a number of shots were heard and in less than 2 minutes the 3 came out and drove off. They all wore overcoats. Fordney had arrived with the polict and after carefully inspecting the grue- some scene accompanied the ccroner to the morgue, where the bullets and slugs were extracted from the bodies and turned over to him. Each of the victims had 3 or 4 revolver and many machine gun bullets, as well as a number of shotgun slugs in them. They had been literally riddled! ‘Here's how it must have happened, Joe,” said Inspector Kelley, later recon- structing the crime “Those 3 men bluffed the gangsters that they were police—lined them up and gave them the works! Afterwards—" “Come now, Jim,” interrupted the professor. “Think for a moment.” “Why—by d, Joe, you're right!” exploded the tor. “Why didn't I see it before? I'll change our whole in- vestigation at once! HOW DID FORDNEY KNOW KEL- LEY'S RECONSTRUCTION WAS WRONG? Perhaps you have a story or problem you would like to submit to Prof. ney. If so, send it to him in care of this paper._He will be delighted to receive it. (For Solution See Page A-9.) FOOD AND DRUG PARLEY Tugwell Conference to Consider Revision of Act. Revision of the food and drugs act will-be considered tomorrow, Friday and Saturday at the Agriculture Department at a conference called by Assistant Sec- retary Tugwell. Those invited to the conference include representatives of the food and drug trade. ‘Tugwell has been delegated by Presi- dent Roosevelt to make a study of the act, which is enforced by his depart- ment. A large number of suggestions {m-n‘lmpmin: 1t had been submitted to fi jand J. W. Beard of the Rockefeller In- stitute for Medical Research. They also particles of matter which get into the blood stream. Hitherto these cells have been inaccessible to direct study. Rouse and Beard were able to obtain them mals by injecting particles of a highly magnetic iron preparation into the blood stream and then drawing them from the liver with a magnet. The cells b came susceptible to the magnet when they absorbed the iron particles. They bave been able to keep some of these cells alive outside the bod: hyde in primitive plants, indicating that it may play a prominent part in for- mation of food from the soil by plants, was reported by Dr. Fred Allison of the Alabama Polytechnic Institute through the use of the celebrated magnetic-opti cal method of analysis which can de- tect the presence of substances in pro- lion. He found the formaldehyde in the cells of algae. It is probable that its formation is one step in the little un- derstood process by which plants manu- i the soil. !DEPOSITORS TO RECEIVE 50 CENTS ON DOLLAR | First Payment by Closed Harriman »\Nntion&l Bank Believed Likely Next Week. |- By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK, April 26—The Herald- iclosed Harriman National Bank & ! of 50 cents on the dollar probably early next week, but that legal obstacles have arisen in the way of the full payment forecast by Secretary of the Treasury ‘Woodin two weeks ago. Secretary Woodin, after a conference |at his home here April 9, announced Ithlt the Manufacturers’ Trust Co. had {been designated liquidator and that “the assets and claims of the Harriman | National Bank & Trust Co. are ade- quate to meet its liabilities. | _One of the claims was against the Clearing House Associtaion for a $6, 200,000 shortage in the Harriman Bank’s deposits. It had been planned to borrow against the claims from the Reconstruction ~Finance Corporation, but the Herald-Tribune says the Re. construction Pinance Corporation can- not advance the full amount of the deposits because the claim on the clearing house does not meet the stand- rd as loan collateral. OFFERS HOUSE PRAYER Rev. John Compton Ball Takes Place of Rev. J. 8. Montgomery. Rev. John Compton Ball, pastor of the Metropolitan Baptist Church for more than 30 years and dean of pastors in Washington, offered prayer at the opening of the House session yesterday, substituting for the regular chaplain, ‘Rev. James Shera Montgomery. Dr. Ball is the only man living who has offered prayer in the House under six Speakers. CHURCH PLAY FRIDAY Founrdry Methodist Epworth League to Give Three-Act Comedy. ‘The worth League of Foundry Meshndk?chmh will present a three- 11, Church m&u. Friday night. e ed toward Manchuria. remove damaged blood corpuscles and | alive from some deeply anesthetized ani- | Discovery of the presence of formalde- | portions as small as one part in a mil- | facture carbohydrates out of minerals in Tribune says the 6,500 depositors in the ' Trust Co. will receive a first payment | | perous fishing, oyster and crab industry | There also is heavy production in the area of vegetables and other produce, which, at present, is deflected by the nztural water barrier, not so much to Baltimore, as to Wilmington, Philadel- cities in New Jersey and New York. t is an artifiicial situation which loses for Washington a great deal of business right at its own door” the statement declared. “The local community,” it continued, “has, so far, received nothing from thg Reconstruction Finance Corporation ex: cept loans to banks on good collateral.” S R THREE ARE MISSING AFTER TEXAS STORM Washed From Stalled Car Bridge at Dallas—Many Families Homeless. on By the Associated Press. DALLAS, Tex., April 26.—Three wom- en were believed drowned and dozens of families were homeless as result of a hail and rain storm that struck here last night. Miss Sybil Compton and Miss Clara Cambridge. both 30, were missing. The two women and Miss Irma Eicks, 29, a companion, were washed from their stalled motor car on a bridge over a creek made turbulent by rising water. A colored woman, Alice Berry, 40, lost her life when the flood waters washed her against a fence. Miss Hicks was rescued by police and 'men from the branches of a tree on the creek bank, 30 feet downstream from the bridge. Hailstones measuring one inch or more in diameter accompanied the downpour. Several persons were bruised by the pellets and windows in build- | ings, trolley cars and motor cars were broken. City officials estimated the damage may exceed $100,000. NAVY BAND HONORS SECRETARY WOODIN Presents Program Devoted Exclu- sively to His Works—Distin- guished Audience Present. ‘The United States Navy Band honored Secretary of the Treasury Woodin last nignt in & program given at the navy. yard and devoted exclusively to his worke. Mr. Woodin was not able to attend, due to a severe cold. A distinguished audience was at hand, however, includ- ing members of the diplomatic corps and friends of Mr. Woodin associated Wi;nh‘ him in the Tr;lls;l)ry program, which was arranged and sponsored by Lieut. Charles Benter, leader of the Navy Band, in- cluded the new march by Mr. Woodin, called “Franklin Delano Roosevelt”; a symphonic suite, “The Covered Wagon,' in which a solo was played by Musician Charles Brendler; a “Valse de Concert,” which is dedicated to Mrs. Woodin, and other well known works by Mr. Woodin, including “The Police Parade” march, which has been dedicated to the New York City Pblice Department. . Typhoid Epidemic Kills 400. MANCHULI, Manchuria, April 26 (). —Four hundred persons have died in a typhoid epidemic in Siberian regiorfs contiguous to the Manchurian border. The disease was srd to be spreading Manchukuan au- thorities have quarantined the frontier. nethy and R. L. Haycock, Baptist; Rev. Homer A. Kent, Brethren: Rev. F. F. Holsopple, Church of the Brethren; J. D. Walcott, Congregational; Rev. M. Elmer Turner and C. L. Dalrymple, Disciples; Rev. ZeBarney T. Phillips | and Newbold Noyes, Episcopa E. Schnabel, Evangelical; H. | horst, Evangelical Synod of N. A.; L. D. | Clark, Friends; Rev. John Weidley and |H Homer,' United Lutheran; Rev. | | H. W. Burgan and Edward Dice, Meth- odist Episcopal; Rev. E. C. Beery and B. J. Hamm, Methodist Episcopal , South: Rev. G. E. McDorman and Jul- ian P. Dodge, Methodist Protestant; . F. S. Niles and Homer A. A. Smith, ian; W. L. Fulton, Presbyte- . S. (Southern); Rev. Paul | Speery, New Church: Rev. H. H. Ranck Reformed; Staff Capt. Herbert Bartlett’ Salvation Army; Rev. S. B. Daugherty, United Brethren: Rev. C. E. Hawthorne, United Presbyterian. and E. L. Blom- quist, Community Church. The fcllowing committee chairmen were elected: Roy W. Prince, civic affairs; Rev. Frederick Brown Harris, comity; R. Spencer Palmer, employment: Rev. C. H. Jope, evangelism; Rev. Joseph R. Sizoo, international good will; Norton M. Little, music and radio: Rev. E. O. Clark, publicity; Rev. R. Y. Nicholson, public meetivgs: Rev. D. Butler Pratt, | race relations: Miss Katherine Wilfley, religious drana: J. Noffsinger, re- ligious education; Rev. Harvey Baker Smith, social service; Dr. Stewart Pat- terson, young people’s work. Officers of the Woman's elected were: Mrs. H. Wellen Fisher, | president; Mrs. H. M. Kendrick, Mrs. W. R. Rhoades, Mrs. Thomas E. Robert son, Mrs. A. A. Stockdale, Mrs. David W. Lumm, Mrs. Harvey Baker Smith | and Mrs. Frank E. Edgington, vice presidents: Mrs. George A. Ross, corre- sponding secretary; Mrs. G. W. Irish, | corresponding _ secretary; Mrs. E. C.| Dinwiddie, treasurer, and Mrs. J.| Claude Keiper, chairman of denomi- | national representatives. New department chairmen ar Everett M. Ellison, juvenile court; William M. Darby, missionary; Mrs. E. E Danly, law and legislation; Mrs. {E. F. Parsons. world friendship and goodwill, and Mrs. Ralph B. Kennard, foreign 'students. { i Mrs. Mrs. TORRENCE UNDER KNIFE Star Undergoes Operation for Im- testinal Trouble. NEW YORK, April 26 (#).—Ernest Torrence, the motion picture actor, un- derwent an operation yesterday for in- testinal trouble and gall stones. He was stricken a week ago en route | from Hollywood to his native Scotland with Mrs. Torrence for an extended vacation and removed to a hospital from the Empress of Britain. At that time his illness was reported as muscular rheumatism in his back. . Bicyclist Severely Injured. 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