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A.F.OF L. SAYS 10671000 IDLE October Survey Declares Unemployed Ranks Grew Half Million. By the Associated Press. Declaring that unemployment stead- fly is growing worse, the American | Federation of Labor last night, in its monthly survey of business, estimated the jobless in October at 10,671,000, an increase of half a million over the same month last year. The review drew a gloomy picture also for the immediate future of busi- ness and industry. An _earlier announcement by Secretary of Labor Perkins told of a drop in industrial pay rolls in November, but she said this decline was smaller than usual. Rise Seen as Moderate. “Even though the Summer decline| in business ended in September and production of our industries has been rising slowly since then and promises to keep on rising until next Spring, nevertheless, business observers expect this rise to be quite moderate,” the! federation said. | “There is no likelihood that it will 1ift production or employment above the levels of last May, when 10,248,000 were out of work. “Clearly we cannot count on private industry to find productive work for the unemployed in the near future, The recovery program of 1933 lifted production 19 per cent above the low levels of 1932, but we have made little progress since 1933.” The federation declared ployment relief is America's urgent problem today.” Bargaining Groups Cited. The federation questioned whether the slow speed of the industrial ma- chine was not due to a desire by employers to strike against the col-, lective bargaining guarantees of the recovery act. As to why it thought business might otherwise be moving at a slow pace, the federation cited several factors. It said: “Whatever may be the needs of our | population, whatever the number of | persons who want to work and aref denied a chance to produce the needed | goods, actually millions of business men will not increase production un- less they see either a safe chance to make reasonable profits or a fair chance to make very large profits.” HUGE SAVING SEEN IN SEA CHANNEL ‘Washington Oil Distributors Say 24-Foot Depth Would Cut Cost $1,000,000. “‘unem- most, Development of Washington as a port for sea-going commerce would bring a decrease of $1,000,000 a year in transportation costs for Capital oil distributors, the Channel Improve- ment Subcommittee of the Washing- ton Board of Trade’s Rivers and Har- bors Committee was told at a meeting yesterday. The meeting was called by Creed W. Fulton, chairman, to consider a project for deepening Georgetown and Anacostia channels to 24 feet, with corresponding dock and navigatiapal developments. Representatives of a number of large oil companies attended. One of them said tnat a 24-foot channel would mean a saving in transporta- tion costs to his firm of $1.50 a ton on an average yearly business of: 100,000 tons. Projected channel deepening, har- bor improvement and the clearing of Anacostia and Georgetown channels of silt and debris now is being studied by the United States Army Engineers’ Office. UNION MARKET GROUP WILL DISTRIBUTE FOOD Business Men's Association to Give Away 500 Baskets to Needy Today. The Union Market Business Men's Association will distribute 500 baskets of food and fruit to needy persons between 4 and 6 o'clock p.m. today at the Union Market, Fifth street and Florida avenue northeast. The dis- tribution will be made under auspices of the Salvation Army. The baskets will be given away s!‘ a ceremony at the base of a huge Christmas tree in the market grounds. ‘The food stuffs are being supplied by members of the association doing busi- ness at the market. Music will be furnished by the Montgomery County High School Band and Choir, There will be several speakers. The market association will close its holiday festival with a dance and open house next Saturday night at the market. FLORIDA GIRL FEARED KIDNAPED OR SLAIN Young Factory Worker Disap- pears From Home of Em- ployer at Tampa. By the Associated Press. TAMPA, Fla, December 22.—A search was made today for Miss Alaska Guthrie, 17, insecticide factory worker missing since Wednesday, with police saying they believed she had been kid- naped or slain. The girl's disappearance was re- ported by her employer, H. L. Miller, in whose home she resided, and the | search was begun after her father, G. | R. Guthrie, said there was no apparent reason for her disappearance. Detectives quoted Guthrie as saying I the girl had resided at Miller'’s home | for the past two years, working in a small chemical factory at his home. GANG GIRL COMMITTED Marie Conforti, Dillinger Friend, Sent to Alderson, W. Va. MADISON, Wis., December 22 (#).— Marie Conforti, 21, of Chicago, an- other of the Dillinger gang girls, was committed to the Alderson, W. Va., prison for a year and a day by Fed- eral Judge Patrick T. Stone today in the same court room where Helen Gillis, widow of “Baby Face” Nelson, was sentenced two weeks ago. . Woman, 82, to Fly. MEMPHIS, Tenn., December 22 (#). —=8he's 82 years old, and she plans to go in for aviation in a big way. Mrs. M. P. Yarris o’ Michie, Tenn., is scheduled to board an American Air- lings plane here tonight, bound for California. It will be her first time in an airplane She will spend the first Christmas in 20 years with her son, O. O, Farris of San Diego, Calif. T What’s What Behind News In Capital New York Municipal Power Threat Called a Political Prank. BY PAUL MALLON. HE merriest political prank of the Christmas season was the one invented by Messrs. Roosevelt and La Guardia on the New York public utility boys. probably was intended as a prank, when the two clever political prank- sters announced they were going to build a public light plant in New York. Unless the New Deal gnomes here miss their guess, no bricks will be laid for that plant. The P. W. A. may allocate some money for it, but, long before any of it is spent for construction, the private utility com- pany is supposed to give in and an- nounce a sharp reduction in rates. In other words, Messrs. Roosevelt and La Guardia are going to fill the public’s stocking with kilowatts gnd gas, just to provide the Christmas spirit. The initial move was acted out realistically by the principals here, except in one particular. They got vague when any one mentioned how much money it would cost. P. W. A.- er Ickes inadvertently let slip the figure $15,000,000. La Guardia in- | definitely said that was only the bitters for the cocktail. The truth is that the Davidson program formulated last year calls for $109,000,000, which around loose. Another suspicious aspect is the way the meeting between President Roosevelt and Mayor La Guardia was arranged. How Mr. Roosevelt Worked It. La Guardia was supposed to officiate at the marriage of a friend in New York on the day he came to the White House. The marriage engage- ment had been made a month before. It was not called off until just after Mr. La Guardia received a hasty summons from the White House and caught the midnight train. There is evidence also that Mr. La Guardia had only a vague understanding of why he was being called to the White House before he arrived there. Apparently the initiative in the ‘move was Mr. Roosevelt’s, although the publicity was handled in such a way as to create the impression that La Guardia came down here demanding money. These two make a hard pair when it comes to playing games, There is another yuletide game going on which has most of the insiders muddled. No one seems to be able to figure out who is putting it over on whom in the deep conflict between the Sen- ate Munitions Investigating Commit- tee and the administration. Baruch Data Timed. There seems to be little ground for the current story that the committee | took that income tax sheet of Mr. | Roosevelt’s friend, Bernard Baruch, merely because Roosevelt and Baruch | took the play away from the commit- tee on curtailing war profits. committee had the data concerning the Baruch income tax (and those of other Democrats) two months ago. It merely selected an opportune time to make the data public. Yet certain New Dealers are boiling. They may or may mnot make public their accusation that the committee did not act entirely in good faith. The Nye committee has or should have (whisper the New Dealers) the reports of revenue agents on Baruch’s income for the missing years 1918 and 1919. These were never destroyed. They show Baruch’s income for the two years was less than $25,000. They show also that all old returns on in- comes of less than $25,000 were de- stroyed_before Mr. Roosevelt became President. No one will say anything about it, but Baruch’s income for the two years is really supposed to show a net loss. That sounds like a fair assumption in view of the fact that he transferred his investments to Liberty bonds for those two years and was bound to have sold many of his investments at a loss when he entered Government service. One thing of which you may be sure is that the scrap is proof of sharp feeling between the Nye committee | and the White House and you have | not yet heard the last of it. Viner Report Omissions. An overlooked fact about the famous Viner report on commercial credit was that it did not touch on the two big subjects which Prof. Viner and his freshman brain trust were commis- sioned to study last Summer. The omitted subjects were the two touchy ones—taxation and banking reform. You cannot find it out officially yet, but there will be no report on those two things until you are getting your old-age pension. There was no political reason for starting & municipal power plant in New York. The voters' registration figures were published on the same day as the Roosevelt-La Guardia move. They showed 1,480,000 regis- tered Democrats and 320,000 Repub- licans. There is a sub brain trust in the New Deal now. It is composed of about 25 thinkers who meet every once in a while to talk thinks over among themselves. So far they have successfully avoided any publicity. A man who might be called a for- mer capitalist observed caustically the other day that his slogan for labor now was, “Let us keep the wolf away from the garage door.” That one reminded an eminent British wit of the story about the wife of the millionaire who was looking at & house for sale and asked the agents: “Where are the chauffeur’s servants quarters?” (Copyright. 1934, by Paul Mallon.) At least it certainly was bright, and | is more than Mr. Ickes has lying | ‘The | MARION ALICE LANCASTER, Nine years old, whose letter won the first prize of $15 in The Star's Christmas essay contest, in which nearly 1,000 letters were entered. Marion, who lives at 2827 Twenty- eighth street, attends the Oyster School, where she is in the fifth grade, MARION LANCASTER, 9, WINS $15 PRIZE FOR SANTA LETTER (Continued From First Page.) knew that there were others who had been forgotten or neglected. There is still time for all who wish to help the unfortunate boys and girlsewho must depend on others for Christmas happiness. The Council of Social Agencies Christmas Planning Committee is receiving thousands of requests for clothing and gifts from poor families, and they are greatly in need of additional contributions if all are to be cared for. These may be brought or sent to the council’s Christmas shop at 1107 Pennsylvania avenue, adjacent to The Star Build- ing. Or a phone call to Sterling 4999 will bring a volunteer worker to any home where there is anything to be given to the poor. The Star heartily congratulates the winners in its contest, and extends its thanks to the many other children who sent in their letters, Prize Winning Letter. Little Miss Lancaster's letter, written in a clear and legible hand, and showing excellent penmanship, with each word and line well spaced, is an example of careful composition for a child of 9, and deserves highest praise. Here is Marion's letter in full: “Most people get a lot of pleasure in doing things for others. They other people know how generous and thoughtful they are and sometimes they want to give gifts to children, but don’t know how to go about it or just what to give. “So there is Santa Claus who is a kind of expert. He listens to the children about what they want and he listens to these generqus people. Then he gets busy and the result is millions of happy hearts on Christ- mas, which might not be happy if there were no Santa Claus who can listen to these generous people and the children, too, and, with his expert knowledge of grown people, gifts and children, get the right gifts to the right children and does not ‘give away' the generous people either. That’s why there is a Santa Claus “MARION ALICE LANCASTER.” Second Prize. This is the letter Wendall Stephen wrote, and which was awarded the second prize. It was neatly bound between red and green covers, fastened with a silken cord: “I know there is a Santa Claus because my Daddy and Mother both say so and what more proof does one want? I know there is a Santa Claus because he leaves me lots of nice presents, candy, nuts and fruit every Christmas morniag, rain, sleet, snow or shine. He is on the job every Christmas and always leaves me nice things. “I put things on the table every Christmas eve for Santa to eat and the next morning they are all gone except the crumbs. “Every poor child in Washington should receive gifts this Christmas because times are better, money is more plentiful and more people are loaning Santa a helping hand. Santa’s job is a big one, but he always does it well. With more help, I feel that Santa will leave gifts for every poor child in Washington this Christmas and make them happy. I love him.” WENDALL STEPHEN, Golddale, Va. Third Prize Winner. And here is the letter written by little 5-year-old Francine Louise Mil- ler, which won the third prize. It was printed in large penciled letters between carefully drawn lines: “I know there is a Santa Claus be- cause all little children are told of him and every year he comes.to see me. “Every year I get nice things, so I know there is a Santa Claus. “I think that all little poor chil- dren in Washington should get a present, so that they, too, may know the joy of Christmas. “Very truly yours, “FRANCINE LOUISE MILLER" —_—— GLOVER PARK GROUP RE-ELECTS WALKER Citizens’ Association Also Adopts Resolution Favoring Retention of Bus Line. The Glover Park Citizens’ Associa- tion last night re-elected Myron R. Walker president. Other officers elected were: Irvin Chilcoat, first vice president; F. W. Bright, second vice president; Charles R. Fadeley, secretary; H. Odus Kephart, treas- urer, and H. E. Juenemann, sergeant at arms. Walker and Willlam D. Harris were named delegates to the Federation of Citizens’ Associations. A resolution was adopted favoring the retention of the Trinidad-Glover Park crosstown bus line. The resolu- tion opposed the proposed bus line from Glen Echo through Georgetown to Dupont Circle, contending that such s route would put a hardship upon those who had to transfer at the circle to continue to the business district. A committee to study the need for rpllnmundx in Glover Park was ap- | pointed. H. E. Juenemann and James | J. Walker, joint chairmen of the com- mittee, were also named as |tn the Georgetown Recreational Councike ‘ don't like to come right out and let| | ! T.V. A VIEWHELD RULED BY POWER Baker and Beck Statement of Unconstitutionality Hit by McSwain. By the Assoclated Press. The “power trust” was back of an opinion by Newton' D. Baker and James M. Beck that the Tennessee Valley Authority act is unconstitu- tional, Representative McSwain, Democrat, of South Carolina, said in a statement yesterday. McSwain contended it was a fore- gone conclusion after the Edison Elec- tric Institute engaged Baker, a former Democratic Secretary of War, and Beck, Republican Representative from Pennsylvania, that their conclusion would “be favorable to the interests of the power trust.” Meanwhile, the goal of the Roosevelt power program was described by Frank R. McNinch, chairman of the Fed- eral Power Commission, as a sub- stantial reduction in the country's electrical rates. McSwain said the Baker-Beck argu- ments were predicated on such a strict construction of the Constitu- tion as to paralyze 95 per cent of the functions of the Federal Government. In 1924, McSwain said Baker wrote & member of the House Military Af- fairs Committee that Muscle Shoals, on the Tennessee River, was too important a national asst to be owned privately. “If Mr. Baker was right in 1924 that Muscle Shoals should not fall into the hands of private interests,” said McSwain, “then Congress was right in 1933 when it enacted the Tennessee Valley Authority.” SHIPBUILDING BOOM SEEN BIDING U. S. AID Dollar Fleets’ Chief Asserts Bil- lion Awaiting Definite Policy of Support. By the Assoclated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 22.—A billion-dollar shipbuilding program “will be started in American yards the moment the Government enunciates a definite policy of aid for the Amer- ican merchant marine,” A. F. Haines, ranking operating chief of the Dollar shipping fleets, said today. He made the statement upon his ar- rival at Los Angeles Harbor today after four months in New Yosk and Washington in a survey of shipping matters and as a witness before the Senate committee investigating ocean mail contracts. Haines expressed hope legislation giving direct Federal aid to all Amer- ican offshore shipping, cargo carriers as well as passenger lines, will be spon- sored by the administration at the approaching session of Congress. BRADBURY HEIGHTS TO GET GAS SERVICE Citizens’ Association Announces Mains Will Be Laid in Spring. By a Staft Correspondent of The Star. BRADBURY HEIGHTS, Md. De- cember 22—Gas mains will be in- stalled in this community next Spring, the Bradbury Heights Citizens' As- sociation announced yesterday. Charles Bird, president of the asso- ciation, said the citizens have been assured by the Washington Gas Light Co. that it will run its lines into the | community in the Spring. An appro- priation of $120,000 already has been made for the project by the company, it is reported. For several years the citizens’ as- sociation has sought to have gas serv- ice furnished to Bradbury Heights. JONES OPTIMISTIC R. F. C. Chairman Says Heart Lighter Because of Conditions. HOUSTON, Tex., December 22 (#).— Jesse H. Jones views “the condition of our country's affairs with a light heart, compared to the way I did a year ago.” The Reconstruction Finance Corp. chairman so expressed himself last night at a banquet in his honor at- tended by several thousand of his fellow townsmen. Gloria With Mother. NEW YORK, December 22 (#).— Little Gloria Vanderbilt, 10-year-old heiress, was delivered today to the home of her mother, Mrs. Gloria Mor- gan Vanderbilt, at 49 East Seventy- second street: She will spend the week end there. “——And I hope old Santa brings you lots of toys! ‘With these words, many children of diplomats, Who extended Christmas greetings to their new friends in America, closed their remarks over a National Broadcasting Co. network yesterday. The young speakers then re- peated their greetings in native tongue for transmission by short wave to far parts of the world. Those who participated in the broadcast arranged by the Greater National Capital Committee, were Pierre De Leusse, French Embassy; Melba De Bayle, Nicaraguan Legation; Peter Daniel Sokolowski, Polish Embassy; (second row), Yvonne Campos Ortiz, Mexican Embassy; Sakiko and Masako Saito, Japanese Embassy; Gonzalo de Lozada, Bolivian Le- gation; Beatrice Recinos, Guatamalan Legation; (third row), Elena Calderon, Spanish Embassy; Radu Florescu, Rumanian Legation; Teresa Arcaya, Venezuelan Legation; Pablo Campos-Ortiz, jr, Mexican Embassy: Charles Curtis Mahoney, Canadian Legation; Mercedes de Urquiza, Argeniine Embassy. 'SUSPECT ACCUSED "IN WIDOW’S SLAYING First - Degree Murder Charge Against Veteran Forecast in Bath, N. Y., Case. By the Assoclated Press. BATH, N. Y., December 22.—After a night of checking the evidence against Joseph Lewandowski, 44, Dis- trict Attorney George W. Pratt an- erans Hospital inmate would be ar- raigned on = first-degree murder charge ‘oday and charged with the bludgeon murder of Mrs. George H. Parker, 72, socially prcminent widow. “We have virtually completed our case against Lewandowski,” Pratt, who promised to reveal some of arraignment. Lewandowski was taken into cus- tody Wednesday night. officers from the widow's parlor, where she was found Monday night blud- geoned to death, to his quarters in the soldiers’ home was not revealed. CONFISCATION SOUGHT Mexican Radical Asks Probe of Revolutionists’” Wealth. MEXICO, D. F.,, December 22 (#).— A demand for the confiscation of all goods and properties acquired by rev- olutionaries during the past 20 years which do not represent “legitimate fruits of their labors for the revolu- tion” was made in the Chamber yes- terday by Deputy Manli Fablo Alta- mirano. Altamirano, radical from Vera Crug, urged that an investigation be made to determine the wealth of govern- ment officials before they entered the revolutionary ranks and their present holdings. No action was taken on the motion. -— FIRM PAYS YULE BONUS First Grant Since Depression Given 19,000 Employes. CANONSBURG, Pa., December 22 (#).—A $40,000 Christmas bonus is going to the 19,000 employes of the Standard Tinplate Co. of Canonsburg, their first since the depression. Company officials said the firm had enjoyed a good year “and we wish to share with our employes from top to bottom.” Life’s Like That BY FRED NEHER. “NOW, DON'T MAKE A SCENE IN PUBLIC!" (Goprright. uou' nounced that the United States Vet- | the details of the State’s case at the | What led_the | N.R. A. Idea Born In Johnson’s Mind Shortly After War Was Sketched in Report Made Then as U. S. Board Member. By the Assoclated Press. More than 10 years before N. R. A. was born Hugh 8. Johnson laid down | the general outline for such an or- ganization. Johnson's final report on the War In- | dustries Board, of which he was a member, was laid before the Senate Munitions Committee. The report was never printed. In it Johnson held that the war ex- perience had developed “a new theory of obtaining the co-operation of | American commerce and industry in a common purpose for the general good” which should be valuable in peace times. “If there is unquestionable advan- tage,” he said, ‘in this Government participation in national business, not as a jealous master and not as an auxiliary bureau, but as a planning and adjusting agency and a point of common contact, a force for co-ordi- nation and co-operation and unifica- tion of American business in an effi- clent national system—then it would be a blunder to let this war experience pass into history with nothing more than a final word of commendation and farewell” 'COUGHLIN LEAGUE PAPERS ARE FILED Articles of Incorporation of Union for Social Justice Set Forth Aims. By the Associated Press. PONTIAC, Mich, December 22.— Articles of incorporation of the Na- tional Union for Social Justice, or- ganized by Rev. Charles E. Coughlin of the Shrine of the Little Flower at Royal Oak, were on file today in the Oakland County clerk’s office. The incorporators are Father Coughlin and the Misses Marie and Dorothy Rhodes. Among the objects listed are: “To extend the knowledge of Amer- jcan principles and ideals and to re- duce these principles and ideals to practice; to uphold and defend the right of private ownership of prop- erty within the United States but al- ways subordinate to the inalienable supremacy of human rights; to pro- tect the United States against greed, discrimination or exploitation by powerful vested interests; to promote the common welfare by securing genuine application of the principle of social justice, and to do any.and all lawful things in furtherance of the above objects and purposes.” $100,000 AUTHORIZED FOR W. AND M. COLLEGE Gymnasium and Educational Building Construction Would Take On 50 Men. A loan and grant of $100,000 to the College of Wiliam and Mary for construction of a two-story gym nasium and educational building af terest. is require eight months and give employ- | 5878 ment to 50 men. Star's Iliness Cancels Play. NEW YORK, December 32 (#)— This was disclosed yesterday when | —Star Staff Photo. QUANT MARRACE CLSTONS ELATED 61/2-Foot Leap to Allow Nias Man to Wed Is Aided by Take-off Stone. Quaint customs of marriage and dress in the Dutch East Indies were described by Burton Holmes, traveler | and lecturer, in an address before | guests of the National Geographic | Society last night. Although interisland and intertribal warfare is prohibited by the Dutch and native constabulary, native men | have suits of tin armor which they | wear during war dances and festivals. The armor is modeled after that worn to the islands by Portuguese explorers | and traders as long ago as the six- teenth century. It affords no protec- tion against bullets and little against spears, Mr. Holmes said. Among the motion pictures which Mr. Holmes showed to ilustrate his lecture were some showing athletic young native men attempting to leap over a 6lz-foot stone. This is a qualification for taking a wife in the small Island of Nias. A little cheat- ing is done by using another stone for a take-off. On the Island of Bali, Mr. Holmes said, there exists another fancy mar- riage custom by which & man is al- lowed to kidnap his future wife, rustle her off to the hills for a few days or weeks and return for the wedding ceremony later. Burials vie with marriages in the line of elaborate ceremonies on the islands, Mr. Holmes explained in de- scribing the ritual followed before the body of a rich old patriarch on the Island of Java was cremated. BABY FINALLY BREATHES Infant Uses Own Lungs After Artificial Start in Life. SEATTLE, December 22 (#).—The baby daughter of Mr. ahd Mrs. Albert Glaser, born Wednesday, used her own tiny lungs for breathing today. Previously, for more than 48 hours, city firemen had kept a spark of life in the little body by feeding air to the infant with inhalators. Dr. O. B. Babcock said the child had sufficient strength to breathe unaided. The physician said her recovery de- spite a weak heart and lungs was unusual. Peemme e FAIR AND COLD YULE FOR D. C. FORECAST BY WEATHER BUREAU (Continued From First Page.) twice & year, March 21 and Septem- ber 23. There are no indications that the Winter will be unusually cold, says J. B. Kincer, climatologist of the Weather Bureau, though this is not an official forecast. We had & warm Autumn, which often has been the harbinger of a warm Winter. Actually there are two “Winters.” ‘The one starting today is the astron- omical Winter. It will end March 22. The other is the Weather Bureau Winter, which begins December 1 and ends March 1, for greater con- venience in keeping data. ‘The Weather Bureau Winter, three weeks old already, has started mildly for the most part. The Eastern States have been cold, but it has been warm in the Western two-thirds of the country. December has been mostly wet, following the trend of the Autumn. This wetness may be a sign of a change of climate that is expected sooner or later for the United States, Kincer. Z For 25 years the country has been OPTICAL ILLUSION SEEN IN AIR CRASH Pilot Brought “Flying Hetel” Down in Morass, Ex- perts Reveal, By the Associated Press. BAGHDAD, Ireq, December 22— An error in selection of a spot for an emergency landing was blamed today for the deaths of seven and destruction of Holland's American- built “flying hotel.” Experts said the terrain Chief Pilot M. Beeknan chose for his landing was little better than a morass. The mistake was a natural one, the investigators said, for from the air, the section of the Syrian Desert in which the disaster occurred would have appeared reasonably flat. Apparently, aviation experts said, the pilot decided to attempt a land- ing in view of the severity of the desert thunderstorm. The plane may have somersaulted. It subsequently caught fire. —_— CATHOLIC CHURCHES REPORTED BURNED Inhabitants of Japanese Island Held Incensed by Espionage Rumor. By the Associated Press. TOKIO, December 22-—Incited by rumors of en alleged case of inter- national espionage for which Catho- lic fathers were blamed, several hun- dred inhabitants of the Island of Amamioshima destroyed several churches on the island, the newspaper Kokumin Shimbun said today. The newspaper said a boycott had been started against Catholics, and added that foreign Catholic priests and missionaries were evacuating the island for safety. Confirmation of the reported vio- lence was not obtainable. There are 15 Catholic churches on the island and also a number of Canadian Catholics. Amamioshima is a large Japanese island 200 miles southeast of Kyushu. TWO BANKS ROBBED IN OKLAHOMA TOWN Loot Approximates $18,000—13 Employes Bound and Gagged as Trios Clean Vaults, By the Associated Press. OKEMAH, Okla, December 22— Both banks in Okemah, the Pirst Na- tional and the Okemah National, were robbed today and first reports were that the loot approximated $18,000 Six men entered the banks before dawn and captured employes as they came to work, With 13 employes bound and gag- ged, three men in each bank cleaned out the vaults when the time locks opened at 9 a.m. Authorities knew nothing of the robbery until the men had fled At Oklahoma City, Sheriff Stanley Rogers awaited a description of the bandit car before sending his airplane patrol into the sky. NICE FRAM”&G BILL FOR STATE SALES TAX Governor-Elect to Introduce Measure Day After He Takes Office. By the Assoclated Press. BALTIMORE, December 22.—Harry ‘W. Nic2, Republican Governor-elect, said today he will present a general sales tax bill to the State Legislature. The details of the proposed bill have not been worked out, Nice ex- plained, but added the bill would be ready for the Legislature January 10, the day after he takes office. The Governor-elect said the levy is to be the first recourse of his admin- istration for raising $10,000,000 in ad- ditional funds which. he said, the State must have next year. FARMER SLAYS THREE Shoots Wife and Man, Then Kills Himself. TOLEDO, December 22 (#)—Leslie Schadd, 45, tenant farmer, today shot and killed his wife, 45, and Loyal Barnhart, 40, of Liberty Center, Ohio, and then turned the gun on himself. All three are dead. The Barnhart children, Dorothy, 15, and a son, 12 witnessed the shooting, which they said followed an argument. CORRECTION. In an account of an attempted rob- bery of John V. Turley, 33, taxicab operator, 303 D street, The Evening Star on Wednesday mistakenly de- scribed Mr. Turley as colored. The error occurred through an incorrect police report. Merrie Englond hod fun under the mis- tletoe on Christmas os we do fodoy shopping days to Chrisfst 2 The Saxons gave to the “heal- all” of the Celts the pretty name of mistletoe, or mistletan, meaning that mistletoe possesses any medice inal qualities. (1