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A—2 w% PROCESSING TAXES| CAUSING CONGERN Federal Officials Worried Over Constitutionality of Program. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Are the processing taxes constitu- tional? This question is worrying Goverrment officials more than they care to admit publicly. ‘The reasoning of the Supreme Court of the United States in its latest de- cision on the delegation of power by the Congress to the executive branch of the Government has been taken to mean that Congress has no right to transfer the taxing power to the Secretary of Agriculture without set- ting up a more or less exact standard or rule to be followed. Today the Secretary of Agriculture can levy taxes on 13 basic commodities and on all commodities which compete or may compete with them. He can, in his own discretion, announce what the taxes shall be. He has arranged for formal hearings, but the deter- mination of what the tax shall be is wholly within his’judgment. ‘The Supreme Court in the oil case pointed out that it was not sufficient Just to make a declaration of a desir- able objective. In the matter of agri- cultural processing taxes, the law states that the aim is to bring about parity as between farm and city prices. But the Supreme Court may look upon this as merely declaratory or introductory. Tax Has Been Continued. As a matter of fact, in one or two commodities the tax has been con- tinued after parity has been reached. There is another ground, too, on which the constitutionality of process- ing taxes may be attacked. It is that the money is collected by the Gov- ernment from one set of citizens and distributed to another class of citi- zens without in any way being related to the general taxing power of the Government as it affects all classes. In presenting his budget to Con- gress, the President lumped all the receipts together, except those from processing taxes, and also showed the amounts that are being disbursed fram the processing tax fund. This would seem to indicate that the New Deal regards the processing tax operation as a separate unit, thus strengthening, perhaps unintentionally, the view that & class tax is being collected and dis- tributed. The method is in contrast with the usual collection of receipts from taxes from all the people and the disbursement of the same to bene- fit all the people. A. A. A. Has Argument. It is argued by the Agricultural Ad- justment Administration that the processing tax is indirectly of ald to the whole country, but the Supreme Court has rather intimated thet de- sirable or beneficial purposes are not to be taken as the criterion and that constitutional processes must be ob- served. Something like $550,000,000 has been collected on processing taxes, and about $500,000,000 has been paid out to farmers. The taxes have been borne by the people generally in the prices they pay for foodstuffs and clothing and other articles of con- sumption. In the case of pork prod- ucts, the processing tax is rather sub- stantial and in the case of bread it adds from a half to 1 cent in the cost of every loaf. In cotton goods & few cents of processing tax money is ab- sorbed in the selling price. The curious part of it all is that: the consumer is being taxed by the Government to collect funds which are used to cut down production so that the cost of living to the city person is increased. The justification of processing taxes from an economic standpoint is not, however, involved in the constitution- ality discussion. Can Congress dele- gate to a cabinet officer the right to levy taxes? If taxes can be imposed by Secretary of Agriculture Wallace on basic commodities of the farm, then Congress can authorize Secre- tary Morgenthau or Secretary Roper to impose processing taxes on shoes, automobiles or dry goods or any other articles of manufacture. Question Not Before Court. The question of delegating the tax- ing power has not yet come up for challenge in the highest court. One lower court has sustained the policy on the cotton processing tax. It seems inevitable that the problem will get to the Supreme Court because many food processors already see re- sentment rising against them for the prices they charge, when, as a matter of fact, the processing taxes are di- rectly and indirectly sending upward the curve in the cost of living. Also, as the prices go higher, the buyers’ strikes develop and this in turn causes & collapse of prices on some articles. ‘The arbitrary taxing power which H What’s What Behind News . In Capital Bonus March Balloon Punctured by Strategy of F. E. R. A, BY PAUL MALLON. OW to handle a bonus march is one of the most important hidden questions of Govern- ment. It has been since Mr. Hoover tried to ease the boys out of Washington three years ago with a torch and got slightly scorched himself. Through Mr. Hoover's ex- perience, Mr. Roosevelt found it was no good that way, but he only toyed with the problem when he segregated the bonusites at forts outside town last year where they could be watched. A more definite answer +to it has been found in what has been go- ing on under cove rhere during the last few months. The truth is there has been an un- organized bonus march on Washing- ton for several months. An official authority estimates that veterans have been drifting in here at a rate of 150 to 200 a month for the past year. Recently the influx began to expand. The apparent reason was that an unimportant left wing veterans’ group issued a call for a march January 24. F. E. R. A. Devises System. The Government has said nothing about the matter and will say nothing. But the problem of handling these people has worried every one. The transient relief agencies were over- flowing and the C. C. C. rolls were fille led. Finally the Hopkins outfit (F. E. R. A) hit on a solution by setting up new work camps on the Florida Keys, about 50 miles south of Key ‘West, and at two points in South Carolina, King Tree and North Charleston. It may be denied, but there are good reasons for believing 1,051 veterans have been shipped from here to these three camps in five recent consignments. The next train- | load of about 350 is supposed to leave in January Most of the incoming eg-service men jumped at the chance to go. They have agreed to stay at these camps for three months, are given $30 a month, and board and lodging, which is something of a bonus in itself. The reason the Government has been so quiet about it is that it does not want all the veterans in the country tumbling down on Washington. There is not much money left to continue Mr. Hopkins’ scooter slide system of disposing of the bonus army as it arrives. But neither is there much reason to carry on the ingenious program any longer. Most of those who might come here January 24 and frighten Congress have already come alid gone. Today they are out in the Atlantic Ocean, building a causeway, sprucing up the forests around king tree. or working in the navy yard at Charles- ton, far, far away. They cannot come back until the bonus issue is voted on and disposed of. And yet some people say these New Dealers are dumb. Other Units Opposed. All the regular veterans’ outfits here are against the proposed march, including the American Legion end the V. F. W. They realize a march would just about ruin the bonus cause. It would give the opposition just the excuse needed to stamp out the move- ment. The left wingers are led by one Harold Hickerson, who calls his outfit the rank and file committee. Their opponents say they are radicals and the title of the committee is certainly auburn if nothing else. Government investigators say they have learned that the response to the marching calls has been disappointing. Possibly Mr. Hickerson misaddressed his invitations. He should have sent them down South. Shy Prof. Tugwell was at a tea party not long ago with a group of eminent college authorities, most of whom have resisted the temptation to join the brain trust. Said one of the group to Tugwell: “Rez, you know what your New Deal reminds me of more than anything else?—A sign I saw in Jront of a store the other day in- viting me to come in and buy all can be changed overnight by a cabinet officer is certainly a novel departure from the historic practice of our Gov- ernment, and yet, until the Supreme Court’s decision this week, there was little doubt raised about the right of Congress to delegate the taxing power it it chose. (Copyright. 1935.) — BRAZILIAN FINANCE PARTY SAILS FOR U.S. Will Seek Better Terms on Obli- gations to Foreigners—Seeks Short-Term Loan. By the Associated Press. RIO DE JANEIRO, January 11.— Finance Minister Arthur Souza-Costa and a financial mission of Brazil sailed for New York early today to seek better terms from the nation’s foreign creditors. Souza-Costa will seek revision of the Aranha plan, under which Brazil in 1933 resumed partial service on her $1,500,000,000 foreign debt. The mission also will go to London. A special dispatch to Diario from ‘Washington quoted the Brazilian Am- bassador, Dr. Oswaldo Aranha, as saying Brazil has enough exchange to pay all commercial and debt re- quirements. He also was quoted as saying the Souza-Costa mission will find in the United States a propitious answer to the question of whether Brazilians could float a short-term loan in the United States. —_— SALES ABROAD GAIN NEW YORK, January 11 (P .— General Motors Corp. sales abroad in 1934 totaled 320,560 units, represent- ing an increase of 81.3 per cent over 1933. Por December, sales were 16,- 425 units, a gain of 80.4 per cent over the same month last year, and the highest December volume recorded @ince 1928. ‘These sales relate to cafs and trucks ©f General Motors manufacture from American, Enpglish and German acurces, g ’ I wanted and pay for it March 15." An impartial and competent finan- cial authority with connections in both Russia and Germany says these dis- quieting stories you have been reading from Moscow and Berlin lately have deep and serious roots. If his data are correct, the Reds and have been required to clean house with a meat ax in order to stop a full-fledged revoit, and the danger is not yet past. The secret undercover opposition to Hitler is being thoroughly organized and Der Furore may have to hold another Roman holiday shortly. Labor Secretary Perkins is boosting the allotment for child and maternal care next year by $28,780. She will have 150 employes in the bureau, which is three times as many as the Consumers’ Council (N. R. A.) has. It costs $16,000,000 a year to oper- ate the Federal courts of the country, but only $9,000,000 to operate the Federal prisons. The care of Indians requires 60 full pages for enumeration in the new budget. No other two government bureaus occupy so much space. Inci- dentally, the amount for Indian care is being boosted 50 per cent to $34,000,000. The softest job under the New Deal has been found. It is the general supervisor of reindeer in Alaska who gets $3,800 per annum. He has six assistants whose salaries, with his, total $18,800 a year. - (Copyright. 1935.) Film Director Dies. HOLLYWOOD, January 11 (#).— Philip Whitman, 42, film writer and a director of comedies,in the hilarious Mack Sennett days, died of a attack here last night. He vas in New York and formerly was NeWSpAper mADs ¢ = R = THE EVENING STAR, 'WASHINGTON, " Millen Jail Break Fails Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. Dedham. Mass. Edward Prye, right, arrested at Dedham, Mass., yesterday after firing a shotgun through a jail window in an attempt to free the convicted murderers, the Millen brothers and Abe Faber. The Millen brothers and the bride of one of them were arrested in Washington and tried at LUGILLE BOYLAN DIES INOHIOHOME ! Prominent Welfare Worker| Was Well Known in Washington. Miss Lucille Boylan, prominent welfare worker, psychologist and re- lief executive, who during her varied career spent some years in Washing- ton, died last night at her home, in Columbus, Ohio, of an unspecified tropical infection contracted last Summer during a tour of the world. Miss Boylan had worked with the American Red Cross here, the Juve- nile Court and, from March to July of last year, served as director of the U street branch of the City Relief Administration. Serves in Europe. At the age of 21, with the degree of M. A. from the University of Ohio and a year of study at the Hospital for the Insane at Vineland, N. J., be- hind her, Miss Boyland went to Eu- rope in 1918 with the National Catho- lic War Council, now the Welfare Conference, doing relief work in France and Belgium. In 1920 she transferred to the Red Cross, with which she remained for & vear. The { next three years she spent studying !in Paris and in Vienna at the school of Sigmund Freud. . She came to Washington in 1925 as a probation officer in the Juvenile Court and the next year was made a member of the Board of Children’s Guardians. From 1927 to 1929 she was on Sir Wilfred Grenfell's staff, doing med- ical relief work at his famous Labra- dor station. Disaster relief for the Red Cross claimed her next, and from 1929 to 1933 she did this work. Her first Government post was as director of relief for St. Josephs County, Ind., with headquarters at Scuth Bend. She was transferred to her post here last March, which she dropped in July to take the world cruise with her sister Margareta, who is a sociologist at the New York branch of the National Catholic Wel- fare Conference. The two arrived in Tokio in time to attend the Fifteenth Woerld Conference of the Red Cross. Already ill. Miss Boylan returned to Columbus early in December. Be- sides her sister Margareta, she is sur- vived by a sister, Marcella of Colum- bus; a brother and a married sister. Funeral arrangements have not yet been completed. SOCIAL SECURITY PLANS CLARIFIED District May Need Special Legis- lation to Qualify Under Program. Judging from the anticipated legis- lative form of President Roosevelt's social security program, special legis- lation probably will have to be passed for the District if the aged, children and other handicapped and unem- ployed persons are to benefit. No direct Federal money, according to the President’s present plan, will be paid out to individuals. Moreover, Fed- eral funds will be granted only to States which have now adequate laws for dealing with pensions for these de- pendent classes. Those States which do not have proper organization or sufficient laws on the subject of social security will not receive any Federal financial assistance. ‘This was revealed after a conference at the White House today attended by Secretary of Labor Perkins, Speaker of the House Byrns, Senator Wagner of New York and Representative Lewis jof Maryland. The latter two will handle the administration’s social se- curity legislation. This conference developed that the program of the administration will | cover aid to dependent children, handicapped citizens of all ages and unemployed. Aid for maternity cases also is provided under a special set-up. Although details regarding the pro- visions for old age insurance were not made known, it was explained by See- retary Perkins that the ased will be helped in two ways, by vensions and by some form of ce. President Roosevelt said today he probably would submit the social se- curity program to Congress in a spe- cial mesage next week, and Senator ‘Wagner added he would introduce the legislation. Administration leaders intend to g:lv-p the various proposals into one 1 Author Is Divorced. ST. LOUIS, ‘January 11 (#).—Mrs. Prancis B. M¢Kinley was granted a djvorce yesterday from Silas Bent McKinley, author, and former profes- sor at Vanderbilt University. Mrs. general indignities and testified her husband suggested she obtain & divorce, ROOSEVELT POWER POLICY UNSHAKEN Report Shows Insurance Firms and Banks Hold Few Utility Securities. BY J. RUSSELL YOUNG. President Roosevelt is going ahead with his announced policy to bring about lower power rates throughout the country, feeling confident holders of life insurance policies and savings bank deposits invested in public util- ities will have no cause for concern. The President’s confidence has been strengthened by a report made at his request by the Federal Power Commis- sion after a study of public utility securitdes held by life insurance com- panies and savings banks. The commission’s report was made public. It shows the amount of money 50 invested is trivial compared to other mvestments. Mr. Roosevelt re- called that his announced determina- tion to bring about cheaper power was followed by statements from utility sources to the effect that many widows and orphans and others would be ruined financially as a result. Declines to Comment. The President gave out the report without comment, but he took occa- sion to emphasize the importance of certain sections. He pointed out the report showed | the utility investments of standard life insurence companies and savings banks are almost exclusively in the bonds of operating companies and that they hold few preferred stocks and practically no common stocks. They also have almost no holding company securities of any kind. In this con- nection the report explained that this is in accordance with State laws which impose strict limitations upon the in- vestments of such institutions, pre- scribing as legal only those regarded as safe and conservative. ‘l'he_ report then went on to give some idea of the extent of these in- vestments by saying they examined security portfolios of six large life insurance companies in New York State, having total admitted assets of $8,518,000,000, which showed that in 1933 they had invested in public utility bonds $720,000,000, or only 8.4 per cent of their total assets. They have only $81,000,000 invested in public utility preferred stocks, or less than 1 per cent of their total assets. Few Utility Stocks. ‘The report furnished figures from 15 large insurance companies in other States with total admitted assets of $7,871,000,000, which have $753,000,- 000, or 9.5 per cent in public utility bonds and only $64,000,000, or .8 per cent, in public utility preferred stocks. ‘To give some idea of just what this means the report pointed out that these 21 companies combined repre- sent 79 per cent of the admitted as- sets of all the life insurance com- panies in the United States. [ Oupprighs, 88, by Fred Neber) | “CUT IT! * ® * YOURE MAKIN' ME -~ (Copyright. 1635.) Al ‘ {CASHIER 15 SAID T0 ADMIT GUILT Herndon Bank. President Declares Aide Told of Pilfering. By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. HERNDON, Va., Jenuary 11.—Audi- tors for the Federal Deposit Insui- ance Corp. today went ahead with their study of accounts im the closed Herndon National Bank, preparatory to paying off within the next few days of depositors, protected under the de- posit guavantee law up to $5,000. Asa Bradshaw, cashier of the bank, who is sald to have confessed to taking about $60,000 of the bank's funds, was still in a critical condition at his home today, suffering from a nervous collapse. The bank was closed by its direc- tors Wednesday night, after national bank examiners said they had found & shortage of approximately $70,000 in its accounts. President Also Il Bradshaw's reputed confession was disclosed by Dr. Ernest Robey, presi- dent of the closed institution, who said the cashier told him of it last Priday. Bradshaw has been confired to his home with iliness for a week or more, and yesterday Dr. Robey, too, was ill. Residents of Herndon and vicinity were shocked at the disclosure of Bradshaw's confession. The 44-year- old cashier always has been regarded as one of Herndon's leading citizens, and the bank as most secure, accord- ing to residents. Depositers Protected, All depositors in the closed bank are protected by the F. D. I. C. up to $5,000, and it was said by offi- clals of that agency in Washington yesterday the accounts probably will be paid off within 10 days. In his confession, Bradshaw is re- ported to have said he had taken the money from the bank since 1918, and all of it has been used to maintain | his home. The bank was opened for business 25 years ago, and was capitalized for $25,000. Bradshaw entered its em- ploy some 20 years ago, and in two years had been made cashier, a posi- tion he has held since. |PLANS ARE PUSHED ON ARLINGTON SPAN Government Arranges to Sign Contract for Ornamental Work on West End. ‘The Government pushed ahead today with plans for completing in the near future the west end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge develop- ment, and arranged to sign contracts for ornamental gates and fence, for the protection of models of eagles that will stand in stone there, and for granite carving. C. Marshall Finnan, superintendent of the National Capital Parks, pre- pared to sign a contract with Edward Ardolino, Inc., of New York City for $10.000 for the granite carving work. The job of installing ornamental gates and fence will go to C. E. Halback & Co., of Brooklyn, N. Y. This firm will furnish wrought-iron gates and fences to complete the ornamenta- tion at the west end of the develop- | ment. C. P. Jennewein, artist, of Bronx, N. Y., will enter into a contract for $1.200 for furnishing models of four eagles which later will be placed at the entrance to Arlington National Cemetery, where the bridge project ends. In addition, Mr. Pinnan has signed a contract for $4.472 with Charles G. Burton & Sons of Cottage City. Md., for furnishing white oak along Memo- rial avenue, leading from the Bound- ary Channel Bridge to the east gate of Arlington National Cemetery, an- other phase of the bridge program. The firm will furnish 67 white oaks 6 inches in diameter and 111 which are 5 inches in diameter. LEO FRANK LAWYER DIES John Lewis Tye, Jr., Passes Away at Age of 75. ATLANTA, January 11 (#).—John Lewis Tye, sr., 75, the Atlanta lawyer, who was defense attorney in the fa- mous Leo Frank case a number of years ago, died at his home here yesterday after an illness of five months. ‘Tye was senior member of the law firm of Tye, Thomson and Tye. At one time he was vice president of the American Bar Association. Although he defended Frank, who was taken from the State Prison farm at Milledgeville and lynched in Mari- etta by a mob after having been given & prison sentence, Tye primarily was & corporation lawyer. DIZZY!‘U" o D. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1935. Mary Pickford on Stand Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MARY PICKFORD, Screen star, shown as she testified yesterdsy in Judge Ben B. Lindsey's court at Los Angeles. A few minutes later she was granted a divorce from Douglas Fairbanks, actor. Mary Pickford, in Tears, - Granted 3-Minute Decree By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, January 11— Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pick- ford were a world apart today, their mearriage of 14 years dissolved. The swashbuckling screen hero, whose desire to travel was onme of the reasons his actress wife gave in asking the divorce which she obtained here yesterday, was in St. Moritz, Switzerland. He was there when Miss Pick- ago. Also there on both occasions was Ladly Ashley of the English stage, whose husband recently divorced her, naming the actor as corespondent. they would marry again. From London, where Buddy Rogers, former orchestra leader, is making a motion picture, possible romance between him and Miss Pickford. Suit Is Uncontested. Fairbanks did not contest his wife’s suit, which was called for hearing without prfor court announcement. Superior Judge Ben B. Lindsey, for- mer juvenile and domestic relations jurist of Denver, who had just taken office here, disposed of the case in three minutes. Appearing in a gray dress, gray fur coat, black pumps and a small gray hat with a red feather perched jauntily on the crown “America’s sweetheart” kept her emotions under control until Judge Lindsey, looking up over his spectacles, said clearly: “Gentlemen, I have read the com- plaint and a decree will be granted.” Mary gave a little start, and then, as she left the court room flanked by her attorney, Lloyd Wright, and her public relations director, her eyes filled and she choked as she attempted to answer questions of newspaper men. “Has a fair, just and equitable property settlement been made?” asked Wright. GIRL IS ABSOLVED IN COLLISION PROBE Coroner’s Jury Exonerates Her of Blame in Accident Caus- ing Two Deaths. Miss Gamaris E. Smith, 20-year-old | student at American University, who was the driver of an automobile which collided with another car at the in- tersection of Forty-first and Harrison streets October 5, when two persons received injuries causing their deaths, was exonerated today of blame for the accident by a coroner’s jury. Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Pogue of 247 Ethan Allen street, Takoma Park, Md., occupants of the other car, died in Emergency Hospital from injuries sustained in the accident. Both Miss Smith and her sister, Miss Katharine H. Smith, who reside at 3825 Livingston street, were unable to give any testimany at the 3 Witnesses testified that Mr. Pogue’s automobile failed to stop at a returned negligence of Mr. Pogue.” MARRIED IN JAIL Special Dispatch to The Star. FRONT ROYAL, Va,, January 11— “Yes,” Miss Pickford’s voice was low. “Have you read the complaint?” It charged mental cruelty, indifference and neglect. “Yes.” “Are the charges true?” “Yes.” Her eyes were lowered as if to avold the curious glances of the few present in the court room. The marriage, which Hollywood for ford filed suit in December a year |a long time had regarded as ideal, began with a secret ceremony here on March 28, 1920. Miss Pickford had Just obtained a Nevada divorce from Owen Moore of the screen. A year Each has declined to say whether | before Fairbanks and Ann Sully had been divorced. Pickfair, the Beverly Hills mansion where the wealthiest of film couples came reports of a|entertained many prominent persons, among them Prince George of Eng- land and Prince William of Sweden, becomes the property of Miss Pickford. They have disposed of their holdings in the United Artists Studio Corp. and their only joint interest is understood to be in the acreage on which the studio is located. REPORTS SURPRISE ROGERS. “Glad Divorce Is Straightened Out,” Says Film Actor. LONDON, January 11 (#).—Charles (Buddy) Rogers, American film actor, said today that reports he would marry Mary Pickford now that she has obtained her divorce from Doug- las Fairbanks were “all news to me.” Rogers, who is making a film in Elstree, North London, said he had not previously been aware that Miss Pickford had been granted her decree. “That’s fine,” he said. “T'm glad things are straightened out for her now. She's a wonderful girl and we are great friends, but there’s nothing serious between us. I am not in love TRAFFIC CAMPAIGN SHOWING RESULTS Decline in Fines and Forfei- tures Since Monday From $1,393 to $775. If the money collected in Police Court from fines and forfeitures of traffic violators means anything, the Police Department's drive is at last getting results. The income from this source has gradually waned, with $1,393 colleated Monday, $1,261 and $1,052 collected the two succeeding days, and oniy $775 yesterday. Sixty-five charges were listed on the Traffic Court’s collateral sheet today ' against 55 persons, with an additional eight persons locked up on various charges. Nineteen speeding cases were listed, 23 parking cases, two for passing red lights and three for failing to obey stop signs. The additional number was brought up to the total figure with such charges as loitering, fallure to change permit addresses and improper lighting of automobiles. There were also two cases of failing to keep to the right of the street. Five Suspended Sentences. Judge Isaac R. Hitt, presiding, gave suspended sentences to five persons on various charges, mostly speeding, and four personal bonds to other persons, with good reasons for their violations. Dr. Howard L. Smith was given & $10 suspended sentence for speeding when he told Judge Hitt he was an- swering an emergency call. Roy 8. Page received a similar sentence on the same charge and was placed on Eix months' probation. Alfred F. Corfield, Benjamin Rountree and Harry Bur- bank were also given $10 suspended sentences for speeding. Judge Hitt fined Max Yumkers $2 for driving on the wrong side of the street and took his personal bond on a charge of pass= ing a red light. He also took the pere sonal bond of Rowland Lyorr and Ray- mond E. Chapman, b of Maryland, on speeding charg d the same in the case of Harry W. Culburtt of Vir ginia, when he told of rushing home for the first time after a serious illness. Louis F. Carmedella was fined $100 or sentenced to 30 days by Judge Hitt yesterday on a charge of reckless driv- ing. Carmedella pleaded not guilty, and after imposition of the sentence his lawyer announced intention of filing motion for a new trial. Jury Trial Demanded. Charged with driving while under the influence of liquor, Stephen P. O'Connor, 1016 Sixteenth street, pleaded not guilty and demanded a jury trial He was released on $500 bond. Isadore Romanov, charged with col- liding, was released on $100 bond pending continuance of his case until January 22. Only one recommendation came from the corporation counsel's office today in traffic cases. The office rec- ommended a forfeiture of $1 in each of two charges against Dock Isler for failing to show his registration cer tificate and automobile permit. The case of James A. They of Bur- kinsville, Md., and Nancy Sparks of Bethesda, both charged with reckless driving after an accident, was nolle prossed when they refused to testify in the case. Donald W. Wooster, 3701 Sixteenth street, demanded a jury trial on & reckless driving charge. Simon Kessler, 414 Kentucky avenue southeast, and Ralph Larner, 613 E street southeast, were fined $25 each on a second offense speeding charge. | Richard V. Clazeloux, 1232 Randolph street northeast, received the same fine on a similar charge. Oscar Maynard forfeited $25 on a first offense | speeding charge and $2 for failing to | show his registration certificate. Released on $200. Russell Davis, 64 Massachusetts ave- nue, demanded a jury trial on & charge of reckless driving and was released on $200 bond. Arrested recently for speeding, Wil= liam L. Henderson, colored, was served with a warrant charging reckless driv- ing dated May, 1934. He paid $10 on the speeding charge and was re- leased on $300 bond pending a jury trial in the reckless driving case. Charged with driving 40 miles an hour in & 2!:-ton truck, Thomas P. Lee, colored, was fined $20. Eugene A. McFall of Virginia was fined $15 for driving withcut a permit. Eldon A. Tomlinson was fined $10 in each of two charges of driving with im- proper tags in violation of the District hacking law. Charley R. Smith was fined $5 for passing a red light and $10 for violation of the hacking law. Charles P. Heisman was fined $10, $5 und $2, respectively, on charges of speeding, passing a stop sign and failing to change his automobile per- with any girl just at present. fact, I am looking for an English girl.” MOB KILLS SLAYER IN PRISON CELL Convicted Colored Man Shot and Body Is Dumped Along Roadside. By the Associated Press. FRANKLINGTON, La,, January 11.— Jerome Wilson, 30-year-old colored man, convicted of the slaying of Delos C. Wood, chief deputy criminal sheriff of Washington Parish, was seized by a mob of citizens ea:ly today, shot to death in his cell and his body was taken from the jail and dumped on the road three miles north of the town. The slaying of Officer Wood occur- red in a general shooting last July 22 between colored men and officers at the home of Wilson, where the officers had gone to investigate a live stock inspection. NOTED ENGINEER DEAD N. Banks Cregier Invented Police and Fire Alarms, CHICAGO, January 11 (P—N. Kansas Gallows Bill Favored. ‘TOPEKA, Kans., January 11 ().— Judiciary Comniittee rec- mit address. For driving with more than two persons in the front seat of his automobile, Harold S. Weaver for- feited $5 When they testified their automo- bile accelerators became out of order and fed too much gas, causing their autmobiles to speed, Judge Hitt levied $5 fines on Emma V. Beall and Horace Sprague, colored. Sidney G. May- hugh and Robert F. Case were given a similar fine on speeding charges. Others Are Fined. Fined $10 for speeding were Rob- ert F. Bradford, Andrew J. Tillman, Alton M. Mize, who was also fined $2 for failing to change his permit ad- dress; John W. Baxter, Allie Green, colored; James R. Conard, Alfred H. Marks, Charlie W. Childress, Clyde Miller, Cassie C. Proctor, colored, who was also fined $5 for driving on the wrong side of the street; Prank Rein- hart, Irvin H. Payne, James E. Smith, William Phares, Bernardine A. Bron- zonie, all of the District; William T. Keese, Alfred FP. King and Samuel Dyer, colored, all of Maryland, and James V. Dyson of Virginia, who for- feited a similar amount on the charge. City Gas Burners Tap Pipe Line Connected With Wells in Texas By the Assoclated Press. A housewife in the Nation's Capital may cook her husband’s House today one company owns half interest in & pipe line from the Panhandle to Indiana, where with the system lines natural gas is dis- cities on the Atlantic