Evening Star Newspaper, March 9, 1935, Page 5

HOPES ABANDONEDI FOR EARLY RECESS Democratic Leaders Con- cede Session of Congress May Be Prolonged. . By the Associated Press. Democratic party leaders in Con- gress have abandoned all hope for an early adjournment of Congress un- | less the administration is willing to scrap some of its program. Followers of the President con-} ceded the session would be prolonged, despite reports Mr. Roosevelt might soon take steps to spur the dilatory Congress into action. G. O. P. Less Optimistic. Republican leaders were even less optimistic over the adjournment out- look, although they said much of the Roosevelt legislative program might be thrown overboard and would not be missed. Chieftains in both parties said that for the country’s welfare, Government necessity and for political reasqns, the Roosevelt administration wolld | try to get at least half a dozen im- portant matters through to enact- ment. These were listed as: The $4,880,- 000,000 work-relief measure; the so- cial security program: continuation of N. R. A; re-enactment of $420,- 000,000 in nuisance taxes and con- tinuation of the 3-cent intercity postage; passage of the regulation an- nual supply bills and the Rayburn- Wheeler utility holding company measure. Although desired by the administra- tion, it was conceded generally that the proposals for revision of the ship subsidy laws, consolidation of all trans- portation systems under the Interstate Commerce Commission, pure food and drug, railroad labor and changes in the farm administration and Federal Reserve banking laws were not abe solutely necessary to the success of the administration. Enactments Are Few. With Congress well into its third month, thus far its accomplishments in enacting legislation have been few. Outside of continuing the Reconstruc- tion Finance Corp. for two years, the air mail contract law for 13 months. and enacting a “hot oil” measure, it has approved only two regular appro- priation measures. Senator Robinson of Arkansas, Democratic leader, declined to fore- cast when Congress might complete its task. Senator Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina, who is close to the White House, said: “It is too early to predict adjourn- ment. We have not done anything yet on general legislation and it will take a long time.” June 15 Seen. Senator McNary of Oregon, the Re- publican chief, said, “It looks like ad- Jjournment about June 15.” Over on the House side Speaker Byrns said: “These folks who say we will get out of here by the middle of June are highly optimistic. If we do it we'll be lucky.” ATTEMPT TO SOVIETIZE U. S. INDUSTRY CHARGED Socialistic Groups Are Accused by Vice President of Edison Electric Institute. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, March 9.—Bernard F. Weadock, vice president and man- aging director of the Edison Electric Institute, charged Thursday before a meeting of savings bankers that So- cialistic groups are attempting to Sovietize basic industry in America. “Among the more prominent of the organizations constituting an un- ! holy alliance are the Public Owner- ship League of America, the League for Industrial Democracy, the Na- tional Popular Government League, Peoples’ Legislative Service and the Socialist party, * * *” he declared. “They have called meetings of Benators and Representatives in the public office of a United States Sena- tor and there have advanced their scheme and laid out their campaign of attack against the electric light and power industry and for public ownership of private business and of so-called public super-power.” “KIDNAPED” RECORDS OFFERED SCHOOL AT $75 Buperintendent Answers “0. K.” to Ransom Note by Inserting Advertisement. By the Associated Press. MOUND, Minn., March 9.—Mound’s School Board will get bach the school records thieves “kidnapped” & week ago, if they comply with a $75 ran- som demand and are willing to wait until “some time before April 1.” 1 The theft occurred following a school entertainment. A few days later, A. C. Tibbetts, school superin- tendent, gol a ransom note offering “return of the records unharmed if the School Board will make a $75 ransom payment.” Tibbetts inserted, as requested, a reply in a Minneapolis newspaper: *“0. K. Records must be complete. Advise. Tibbetts.” WATCH STEM REMOVED FROM LUNG OF CHILD| XKentucky Boy Reported Improved After Operation—Anesthetic Is Omitted. By the Associated Press. LOUISVILLE, Ky, March 9—A watch stem removed from his lung after an hour’s delicate probing, Joseph Leonard Strange, 6-year-old Campbellsburg, Ky., boy was reported well on the way to recovery at a hospital here last night. Dr. Curt H. Kreiger of Louisville performed the operation. Through a tube contalning a tiny light, placed 1n the boy’s throat, the surgeon probed with forceps until he removed the watch stem from the left lung. No general anesthetic could be used, it was explained, because it would pre- vent breathing. e STUDENT IS INDICTED SEATTLE, March 9 (#)—Gray B. Hilsman, 23, University of Washing- ton law student and son of prom- inent Atlanta, Ga. resident, was in dicted under the Lindbergh law by & Federal grand jury yesterday. He was charged with threatening the life of Elizabeth Case, in attempt- ing to extort $1,500 from her father, Frank E. Case, a family friend. He is being treated at & nearby sana- [ 4 italking box, which operates by elec- Those Unable to BY ROBERT B. PHILLIPS, JR. MOVEMENT is afoot in Wash- ington to give scores of blind persons unable to read braille free access to the literary classics of the world. The method is to be the circula- tion of the new “talking book” ma- chines among those sightiess pe'sons who are unable to purchase the appa- ratus for themselves. 1t is estimated oniy one-quarter of the blind men and women in the United States make practical use of braille books. For the other three- quarters, the “talking book” is the greatest educational and entertain- ment boon contrived by modern science. A combination phonograph and radio, the “talking book” enables the victim ot blindness to play records of books read by expert readers. There are two types of the ma- chines, one the combination radio and tricity. There are controls to modu~ late the tone of the reading voice or the radio, and headphones for use of | for the Blind and Conservation of | ceived by A. H. Lawson of the Wash- THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, Blind to Get Talking Books Circulating “Machines” Planned for Buy Equipment. those who wish to avold “disturbing others by the reading. The second type is a headphone machine which operates on spring power, with one winding sufficient to play an entire side of a large disc. The records are available without cost through 26 branch libraries in the United States, esch of which has six copies of the volume now recorded. In Washington there are two of these distributing bases, each equipped with discs of four ShakespeareAn dramas, of P. G. Wodehouse's “Very Good Jeeves,” the “Patriotic Series,” includ- ing readings of the Declaration of In- dependence, the Constitution, Wash- ington’s Farewell Address, Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, etc.; Kipling’s verse, some readings from Dickens and other items. Each year about 25 new titles are added to this collection. It is not the acquisition of records which worries the local philanthropists interested in helping the blind, how- ever, even though the current demand is always far'in excess of the supply. The greatest need, they feel, is for purchase of a group of the talking machines to be circulated among those who cannot afford to buy them. For this purpose an appeal for funds has been made by Walter K. Handy, chairman of the Committee for Work Sight of the Washington Lions Club. Subscriptions to the cause will be re- ington Loan & Trust Co., who is treas- urer of all the talking book funds. The subscriptions marked for the “cir- culating raachine” enterprise will be so employed. FEDERAL RESERVE DEPOSTS 0P Eccles Reports Increase of $6,700,000,000 Bring To- tal to $33,850,000,000. By the Associated Press. Marriner S. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, reported to- day an increase of $6,700,000,000 in | member bank deposits in 1934, bring- | ing the total to $33,850,000,000. These figures, Eccles said, included interbank and Government deposits, | which if deducted, would leave a lo- | cal customer balance of about $25. | 000.000.000, or about $4,000,000.000 more than the previous year. This !level was about $5,000,000,000 shy of the 1929 figure, however, he observed. Country Banks Gain. Eccles said the largest proportion- | ate increase had been reported by | the so-called country banks which {had profited from funds expended by | | the Government for farm relief. | Eccles added that the heavy re- | serve balances maintained at the Fed- eral Reserve Banks by members were also largely” chargeable to the coun- try banks which did not have ready access to the short-term paper mar- ket and, therefore, kept their surplus funds with regional institutions until they could be employed profitably in long-term paper. Reserve balances of members were set at about $2,300,- 000,000 in excess of legal require- ment. Replies to Critics. Replying to critics of the American banking structure who seek to draw unfavorable comparisons with Great Britain, Eccles said only 39 per cent of total American bank resources were invested in Government bonds, com- pared to 40 per cent in Great Britain. “The frequent declarations that 45 per cent of United States Govern- ment securities are in the hands of American banks as compared with only 15 per cent similarly placed in Great Britain, does not present the entire picture,” he said. “As a mat- ter of fact American and British banks hold about the same propor- tion of their resources in the form of government securities.” EDITORIAL WRITER DIES Official of Columbus Dispatch Vic- tim of Septicemia. COLUMBUS, Ohio, March 9 (#).— John H. Galbraith, 76, an editorial writer for the Columbus Djspatch for 14 years and an authority on Ohio history, died last night from septi- cemia after a two months’ illness. Galbraith, who was born in a log cabin near Columbus, entered news- paper work after being graduated from Ohio State University in 1883. Surviving are his widow and three sons, Malcolm E. Galbraith of Co- lumbus, Lieut. William H. Galbraith, ASSASSIN PLOT GUN GIRL SOUGHT Capture of Mystery Figure in Alexander’s Death Is Demanded. By the Associated Press. MARSEILLE, Prance, March 9.— Police questioned three terrorists to- day in efforts to track down the mys- terious blonde “gun girl” sought as & | conspirator in the assassination of | King Alexander of Yugoslavia. ! Joseph Paul-Boncour, fiery former | premier, who will represent the | monarch’s widow in the trial of the | terrorists, demanded the authorities find Maria Vondraceck, the missing | blonde. | Aides Deny Existence. | The three confessed aides of the | King's assassin, awaiting trial in a | Marseille jail, deny she ever existed. | As the legend of her activities now | stands, she is patently an extraordi- nt woman, described variously as “strikingly beautiful,” ristocratic,” | “elegant” and “gorgeous.” She is | credited with taking four suitcases loaded with automatic pistols and bombs through the customs lines of four nations without being detected. Only About 24, A composite reconstruction of her, based on testimony of many inn- keepers, waiters, porters and taxicab drivers who assert they served her, makes her a blonde about 24 years old, about five feet tall, and speaking English, Italian, Russian, Croatian, German and French. The first evidence of a gun-girl came from a hotel keeper at Aix-en- Provence, near here. Police searched her room and found two high-powered automatic pistols and a bomb stuffed between the springs and the mat- tress of her bed. e POST MAY TAKE OFF ON FLIGHT TOMORROW Announces Plane in Good Shape to Make Stratosphere Hop to New York. By the Assoclated Press. Post, noted around-the-world avis tor, said yesterday he might take off tomorrow morning, if weather con- ditions are favorable, for a non-stop | flight to New York in his repaired ship, the Winnie Mae, | As another step in getting ready | for the fight, which he proposes to make at an altitude of between 30,000 and 40,000 feet and at a speed of approximately 6 miles a minute, the aviator yesterday took his ship aloft | on an hour’s trial fiight. Post pronounced the ship in good condition. He said some further work U. S. N, Honolulu, T. H, and Ken- neth H. Galbraith of Utica, N. Y. WOODWARD W™ F axp G Srraxvs Cut, your household ex- penses at the same time Let us give you the facts about the new Bettendorf Automatic Oil Burner. Let us tell you about their ex- tremely low prices—the remarkable fuel con- omy and the utter quietness - of this ad- vanced and improved oil burner.” When you con- sider the saving in time —Ilabor—cleaning and doctor bills and the ad- On. Burnees, Frrre FLOOR. HEATING CHORES remains to be done on the controll- ble pitch propeller. & Lorngop Prone ded joy of Winter liv- ing, you can ill afford to be without Bettendorf 0il Heat in your home. Fits any heating plant. We will gladly make a Heating Survey to determine your require- ments—and at no cost to you. Convenient terms may be-arranged. Bettendorf D. C., SATURDAY, - MARCH 9, 1935. Almost as deeply rooted a custom as the wedding ceremony itself, is the coming to Woodward & Lothrop for the trousseau. Our Wedding Service, of tried assistance, an authority both on unalterable traditions and on the subtle distinctions of fashion that give wedding clothes the certain chic of the new season, will “marry you off perfectly.” For instance, you may choose the most glamorous of wedding gowns—satin, clouded in a veil of sheerest net. But for the bridesmaids, not so much cautious pastel —instead, we consider gray net, (with the bridesmaids carrying great, long-stemmed American beauty roses) the new- est and smartest suggestion. Or, if you are to be married in a suit, obviously a perfect costume for a practically-minded, mod- ern bride, here are the smartest of these—for your wedding— the wedding trip, and afterwards as well. Wedding Gowns, $29.75 up AtHendants' Gowns, $16.95 to $69.75 Costume Suits, $29.75 to $135 ‘WebDING SERVICE, WALNUT RooM, THIRD FLOOR. .+« . of almost equal importance . . . —the exquisite bridal lingerie. Tradi- tional in white satin with the most be- guiling ruffies of lace, finely pleated. The flattering, off-the-shoulder gown Sl e matching dance set, brief. pan ind bra, $5.95; and costume slip, $7.95. Other— ' Gowns, from $5.95 _ Slips, from $3.95 Dance Sets, from $3.95 Snx Linceris, Tamp FLook. « « . thering —may be a circle of platinum and diss monds, exquisitely set in the marquise. baguette or channel design. Here you may choose from s distinguished col- lection beginning at— $37.50 to $465 PFiee Jewreiry, Fst Froor. . « . to request the honor of your pl’esence ¥ 3 —our Wedding Engraving Section offers. its excellent—its correct service. Here is the complete ensemble of invitation, reception, at home and church card— and particularly new,| the small tinted ivory sheet that slips unfolded into the large envelope—"“Windsor,” a new style of Engraving is especially recommended. : We will also take care of all de- of addressing and posting for an additional charge. ENGRAVING, FIRsT FLOOR. « « . the vel —may be a cloud of tulle caught with a wreath of blossoms—a very modern, shoulder or waist-length thing—or merely a cap of exquisite lace. But it will be distinguished—individual, if it is designed here. $15 uwp WeopinG: VeiLs, Trmp FLOOR. WoobwaRD & LoTHROP . O™U™F a0 O StrasTs