Evening Star Newspaper, August 15, 1935, Page 2

RIP TIDE FORCES INJURE CONGRESS Health Strain Held Due to Conflict Between:Buty and Policy. BY DAVID LAWRENCE. Forty-eight members of the House of Representatives out of 435—this is more than 10 per cent—are said to pe 11l or in delicate health due to tae strain of the present session. On a roll call recently as many as 100 were absent from the city for va- ripus reasons, and illness was a fre- quently stated cause as the absence was recorded. v Never before, certainly not in the 20 years going back to war days, has there been such a strenuous session. And in some respects the strain is even greater today than during the war, because patriotic emotion, unified leadership and a zest for work at a time when all elements of public opinion were working together made toil in the committee room of a dif- ferent sort than today.. Forces Conflict. The strain in the present session comes from the conflicting opinions of constituents and the pressure being rut upon the members of Congress by both the people back home and the administration. No session of Congress in the last 20 years, in fact probably none in his- tory, has been under such constant domination by the executive branch of the Government. The Congress- men feel that they must try to serve two masters—the protesting elements back home and the White House here. The power of the administration to withhold favors either of appoint- ments or public works projects and the political influence the President can wield in throwing his support to a rival candidate in the primaries makes the task of the member of Congress & strenuous one, apart from the usual labor in answering voluminous cor- respondence and attending to chores for constituents in the executive egencies, ‘While several members of Con- gress are not ill in the sense that they are confined to bed or are away from | their duties, the reports are current that several have heart trouble and that their continued stay here during the hot weather involves a serious Tisk. Adjournment Greatly Desired. ‘There is no secret about the way most members of the House feel about the need for prompt adjournment. A bit of this irritation crept out in the speech of Representative John J. O’'Connor, chairman of the House Rules Committee, when he was speaking in eulogy of the late Repre- sentative Truax of Ohio, who dropped dead last week. Said Mr. O'Connor: “On Friday last at 1 o'clock in the afternoon I talked with him. He seemed well, but tired, as many of us are. At 4 o'clock he was dead. It was a shock to us all. The honorable Charles V. Truax was one of the most indefatigable members of the House &t Representatives I have ever known. e gave his all to his office and his uties, with the distressing result for ) t’s What ind N Behind News- In Capital Business Inflation Next Year Now Regarded as Certainty. BY PAUL MALLON. BUSINESS inflation is coming, probably early next year. The sharpest economists here are convinced of it. They are so sure that they speak of it in an off- hand manner as a certainty. In fact, the administration is making some preparations for it in accordance with the bank bill. It will not be the kind thatthe Con- gressmen are talking about—-not Gov- ernment inflation. That has been going on for four years. It started with the first unbalanced budget. The new turn will come when the demand for goods exceeds the supply, thus causing a precipitous rise in prices. There will be a rush for goods which cannot be stopped by ezisting cautious inventories. Prices will be bid up abnormally for whatever stocks exist. With $2,500,000,000 of excess re- serves in Federal Reserve banks (August 9) to finance expansion of activity, you can see that the pos- sibilities are quite lively. A gentle hint of what is coming lies behind the front page announce- ment by General Motors that it is spending $50,000,000 for plant expan- sion. Ford is supposed to be planning a similar expansion. THERE' | S ARAINBOW | INTHE Sky Unfortunately this is not true of all industry, or, in fact, any cther mdus- try at present. be the finale of the gloom era, be- cause this phase of business activity is the single key to the unemploy- ment problem. The bulk of the job- less is in durable goods industries. They are the men who make equip- ment for the manufacturers. They will never get back 1w work until manufacturers find that ¢emand war- | rants expansion. First to Recover. The automobile makers found it out this Summer. Their industry has been the first to recover. The reason is they decided to put out a better product at a cheaper price. The way the public gobbled up that product was beyond expectations. Production continued abnormally high into the { Summer season; late orders had to | be rushed through for steel. | Next year the motor men are not They are expanding. A somewhat similar situation de- veloped in Summer clothing. Man- ufacturers underestimated de- mand; failed to manufacture enougfh goods to meet it. That is If it were, it would going to be caught short that way. THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTO MORE SOCIAL AID ROOSEVELT'S AIM President, Signing Security Bill, Sees It Only as Corner Stone. By the Associated Press. President Roosevelt, embarking the Government on the New Deal's vast social security program, foresees fur- ther soclal and economic adjustments to come. When he signed the security bill into law yvestercay, amid formal cere- mony, he said it was a “corner stone in a structure which is being built, but is by no means complete.” The bill, which the President said would apply to 30,000,000 persons, pro- vides for contributory old-age pen- sions, Federal-State pensions for the aged needy, a Federal-State unem- ploym™nt irsurance system, special care for dependent children and mothers. It contains a huge tax pro- gram to raise the funds. About 30 Pens Used. Legislators and high officials . sur- rounded the President in the cabinet room as ne affixed his signature. He spoke into sound cameras recording | the event. A secretary told newsmen the President used “about 30 pens” to sign the bill so numerous requests for souvenirs could be satisfied. There was no definite indication to- day as to when the President will ap- point the board of three members which will administer certain phases | of the program. | Among those invited to yesterday's ceremony were Secretary of Labor Perkins, Chairman Harrison of the Senate Finance Committee, Senator Wagner, Democrat, of New York, Chairman Doughton of the House Ways and Means Committee and Rep- | resentative Lewis, Democrat, of Mary- | land. Th= President's talk was brief. “The measure,” he said, “gives at least some protection to 30,000,000 of } our citizens who will reap' direct bene- Makes Session Historic, He Says. Declaring the bill would make this | session of Congress “historic for all | time,” he added: | of the population against 100 per cent | of the hazards and vicissitudes of life, | but we have tried to frame a law | which will give some measure of pro- | tection to the average citizen and to | his family against the loss of a job and against poverty-stricken old age. “This law, too, represents a corner- stone in a structure which is being | built, but is by no means complete—a | structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administra- | tions of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation.” Board Speculated Upon. “We can never insure 100 per cent | furnish relief to the needy—a law to | Mayor Indicted MIAMI OFFICIAL ACCUSED OF FALSE PRETENSES. Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto. MAYOR A. D. H. FOSSEY. MAYOR INDICTED N WA FRALD Two Other Realty Brokers Accused in City Tax Cer- tificate Scheme. By the Associated Press. MIAMLI, Fla., August 15.—Mayor A. D. H. Fossey of Miami faced an in- dictment today charging that he and two other real estate brokers entered into a scheme of obtaining property | under false pretenses by exchanging | worthless Miami tax certificates for others.of value. The indictment, returned yester- day by the Dade County grand jury, named Fossey, .irman Wall, also known as Herman Wolkowsky, and Herman Jesse. Bond Fixed at $4,000. Wall and Jesse, stockholders in M. B. Properties, Inc., were named in a second indictment, which, like the erty through false pretense. cuit Court fixed $4,500 each as bond for Wall and Jesse. The voluminous one naming Fossey—said M. B. Prop- erties, Inc., in acquiring a tax deed on a property owner’s land, rendered by the city clerk for new ones he issued on the property. Certificates Valued at $3.542. ‘The aggregate face value of the new certificates, covering more than 100 | Before the vast law can swing into | operation, Mr. Roosevelt must name the board of three members to admin- | ister it. Many names have been men- tioned in speculation, including Edwin | A. Witte, secretary of the President’s pieces of property, was $3,542.31, plus | interest. | Only the last paragraph mentions | Fossey, charging he “‘did counsel, hire, | procure and aid” Jesse and Wall in | | the scheme. first, charged they obtained city prop- | Fossey posted a $1,000 bond. Cir- | indictment—the | worthless the tax certificates accepted | HURSDAY, U.S. STILL BYYING SILVER: PRICE LAGS Thomas Now Fears Nation Will Hold Bag if More Is Not Purchased. By the Associated Press. Secretary Morgenthau said today the Government was “still buying” silver. ‘That statement at his press confer- ence followed announcement last night that more than 23,500,000 ounces of the white metal, more than the United States’ entire 1934 production, was purchased yesterday in an effort to stem declining prices. Despite heavy buying by the Treasury, the world price continued to decline tod-y, although at a slower pace than yesterday. Meanwhile, Senator Thomas, Dem- ocrat, of Oklahoma, said after a con- ference with Morgenthau on the Na- tion's silver policy that “unless the Government buys sufficient silver in a way that will make & silver dollar ac- tually worth a dollar, the program might as well be abandoned.” Now Fears U. S. Will Hold Bag. “Otherwise the Government will be | left holding a lot of silver and the only ones who will profit will be foreign | speculators,” he added. Thomas intimated he had received | no sympathy for his views that an open markel for silver should be re- established in this country and that the tax on speculative profits should be dropped. Thomas remained silent about his proposal for a congressional investi- gation of the administration's han- dling of the silver purchase act, in- tended to make the white metal one- fourth of the Nation's monetary stock. The Oklahoma Senator sald, how- ever, he planned to make a élate- | | ment in the Senate. He has been urg- | ‘;mg aggressive American buying of | the metal to boost the world price. Speculators Rout U, S. | In London, the Evening Star said that when the United States Govern- ment permitted the price of silver to | fall slightly yesterday, speculators be- | gan pouring in selling orders. By | | fresh buying, the paper continued, | | Washington tried to stem the tide but was routed by the speculators, who caused a slump of three-fourths | of a pence in the price. | In one quarter here, it was esti- mated total acquisitions from all sources exceeded 500,000,000 ounces and that the Treasury's silver supply stood well over a billion ounces. The Treasury’s information, accord- ing to Morgenthau, was that recent world selling had come largely from India and China, traditional store- | | houses of the white metal and cen- ters of world speculation in it. | Heavy American buying began sev- | eral weeks ago after the world price | had dropped abruptly more than 10 cents on a reaction from its Spring ing to Commerce Department figures, | approximated in value $30,000,000, the | | largest monthly total since the pas- | sage of the silver act. BANDITS’ AUTO TRACED AUGUST 15, 1035 Girl Slain in Triangle VIRGINIA SEIGH. Miss Seigh, 23, was shot and killed yesterday by Mrs. Reisman, 35- year-old wife of Miss Seigh’s employer. enraged when her husband Arthur announced he loved the younger woman The shooting occurred in front of the Reisman home in a fashionable Queens section of New York. and desired a divorce. TRANGLE SLAYER MOONEY WTAESS | HAS ONE REGRET Fears Son Will Not Be Told Truth—Refuses to See- Him in Jail. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, August 15.—Mrs. Etta Reisman, who shattered a triangle by killing her husband’s secretary, was quoted today by the Daily News as saying: “I don’t think anything I did was so terribly wrong. In fact, I think I'm glad.” The only regret expressed in jail by the 35-year-old matron, who saw her place being usurped by the youth- ful and pretty Virginia Seigh and therefore shot the girl, was for her son Elias. “He'll be 9 soon,” she explained, “and I am afraid of what he will think | about this—particularly when I am | not there to tell him the truth.” Confident of Freedom. Police offered to bring her son to the Queens County jail today, but her reply was: “I never want him to see me in prison.” Mrs. Reisman expressed confidence she would not remain long in the ja where Ruth Snyder was held until her trial and execution for another tri- angle killing. beauty parlors, had told his wife Tues- day that he wanted a separation. They argued and Reisman went out, returning home early yesterday after | several drinks. He refused to leave his automobile MRS. ETTA REISMAN. The wife told police she became —A. P, and Wide World Photos. . ADWITS DOUBTS Says 1917 Testimony Was | “Framed,” Then Pleads ! Hazy Memory. | | By the Associated Press. A.A. A LIFTS BARS AS PRIGES MOUNT Reduction Plan of New Deal Grain Set-Up Relaxed 10 Per Cent, New Deal crop reduction had turned into upward crop adjustment today as the A. A. A. notified some 600,000 wheat farmers they may plant §5,- 200,000 more acres of grain in 1936 than was planned two weeks ago. Alarmingly rapid increase in food costs led to this unforeseen policy reversal, which cuts wheat acreage reduction requirements for signers of 1936 contracts, which will be put in the maiis within a few weeks, from 15 per cent of the basic acre- age 0 5 per cent. This modified re- duction will be made from 52,000,000 acres potentially productive of wheat which the A. A. A. hopes to place under four-year contracts. Reports that heat and rust have cut the 1935 crop estimate to a total of only 608,000,000 bushels from an earlier estimate of 731,000,000 precipitated the move. Domestic Supply in Danger. “This step is taken primarily to assure domestic consumers of con- tinued ample wheat supply,” Secr tary of Agriculture Wallace said, “and in addition is expected to benefit farmers by placing this country in a strengthened condition in the world export market. This is considered especially important in view of small- er weorld supplies of wheat.” He said there would not be much decrease in benefit payments of farm- ers participating in production control With the Chicago hog price hitting a new high of $29.50 per hundred- weight, it was expected Wallace would | move to increase pork production, too. BALTIMORE, August 15.—John MacDonald, 63-year-old partly par- alyzed man upon whom part of Tom Mooney's hopes for freedom is based, testified today he does not now recall what happened the week after the San Francisco bombings for which | Mconey is serving life in prison. | ~ Earlier, MacDonald, testifying at his hospital here before a special referee of the California Supreme Court, had given a detailed account of his activities during that week. He had said that during it much of his | damaging testimony against Mooney at the latter's trial in 1917 had been “framed” by prosecuting officials in San Francisco. | His account of his activities during the week was given on direct exam- ination by counsel for Mooney. It was on cross-examination that Deputy Attorney General Cleary of Califor- | nia wrung frcm the witness a state- ment that he did not now recall his . | actions during the significant week. Counsel Objects to Questions. John Finerty of Washington, run-up. July silver imports, accord- | Reisman, 43-year-old operator of siX | Mooney counsel, objected strenuously. | contending Cleary was simply at- tempting to confuse the grey-haired MacDonald. Cleary retorted: “I don’t know that MacDonald re- | | members, but I do believe that after However, at his press conference vesterday the Secretary steadfastly in- sisted the adjustment program was keeping the hog price from soaring | higher rather than being the cause for the present value. He maintained the reduction pro- gram conserved the consumption of corn, chief feed crop for hogs, and thus prevented more hogs starving to death during the drought. Amendments Counted On. If the weather in 1936 should play the A. A. A false and produce a bumper crop to depress the market, “Adjustment Administration officials believe adequate powers are contained in the pending amendments to the adjustment act to meet any situa- tion which might arise. The new con- tract provides that adjustment in subsequent years may be as much as 25 per cent of the basic acreage.” At the same time Secretary Wallace was telling the press of his move, his Bureau of Agricultural Economics stated that for the third consecutive | year domestic needs exceed the wheat crop. The agency announced: “The short crops of the last three years, tcgether with other influences have resulted in wheat prices in the United States being maintained at levels unusually high relative to the ‘world market’ price Wheat Prices Held Up. why Fall goods are being adver- | despite the efforts of his wife, his| the ten years in which he has been “Generally speaking, they have | daughter Annette, 23, and her chum worked on by Mooney sympathizers been 20 to 30 cents higher than might of the same age, Miss Seigh. that he really does not know what | have been expected with more nearly ‘The argument grew hotter. | happened.” | normal yields in the United States. “I love Virginia and Virginia loves, George T. Davis, also attorney for | With the return of average or greater Fossey, veteran real estate dealer, | was elected to the City Commission {on July 1, 1933. His fellow commis- sioners chose him mayor last June. Told of the grand jury’s action, which we all grieve today. He never missed a roll call here. He has now answered his last roll call. “To be near his work, he moved from a hotel in the northwest section tised so early this year, | commission which drew up the law; When industry generally encounters | Jacob “Billikopf, Philadelphia social this situation forces will be gener- | worker, and Miss Josephine Roche, ated to bring on the economic price | Assistant Secretary of the Treasury. Slayers of Marshal in Bank’ Rob- bery Sought in Idaho. Here are the major provisions of the of the city within the shadow of the inflation. The best economists do not | believe the time will come this Fall, Capitol. There his duty lay. There 4 &35 b1 hesrt Bat: liks st o ra | :;x:r.they will bet on ‘t for early next tolled under intolerable conditions. His |~ The tj v e p is now being spréad around office was unventilated, with & temp- | that the stock market has over- erature and humidity of 96, when | anticipated Fall business improvement. another body and every department, permanent or tmporary, saw to it tration magazine this week. that even its janitor's quarters were| The argument was advanced that air-conditioned. Like many of us, he | Fall improvement belongs to a past » | That plaint appeared in an adminis- | | bill, together with the taxes it will impose: | Old-Age Pensions. | | Employers and employes each will pay 1 per - nt on the worker's salary - to $3,000 a year beginning in 1937. | The tax will increase !, per cent for each cvery three years until it reaches the max um of 3 per cent each in had been here continuously, not of his | era when farmers did not receive their | 1949. Agriculture, domestic, casual, own volition, since last December Wwith no vacation, not even week ends.” Correspondence Heavy. It is not generally realized, but | When the House or Senate recess over & week end, several members go away for a rest, but a large number stay here to catch up on their correspond- ence with constituents. The present session will be remem- bered as a grueling ordeal, the value of which in a legislative way is more open to question than any session in history. For the laws proposed and being passed are destructive in the sense that they involve considerable reorganization of the social and eco- nomic structure at a time when the country cannot afford further. de- flation or more unemployment. But the Democrats, who are in the ma- Jority, have been good soldiers and they have determined to follow the Roosevelt leadership into 1936, come what may. Although there have been sporadic | indications of independence, the Dem- | ocrats in Congress for the most part have remained loyal to the President. That's one of the reasons for the strain, physical and mental, which is only just beginning, for members of Congress, because when they get back home they'll have more strain explaining to their constituents what they have done. The Rhode Island election did not subtract anything from the strain. (Copyright. 1935.) _ PENSION ACTION ASKED Congress Urged to Prolong Ses- sion for Rail Bill. An appeal to Congress to stay in session until action is taken on rail- road employe pensions was made yes- terday by Representative Crosser, Democrat, of Ohio. A bill is pending which is aimed to eover sections of the former railroad employe pension measure which the Supreme Court declarsd unconstitu- tional. Crosser said a petition was being circulated in Congress asking mem- bers to promise not to leave Wash- ington before taking up the new pen- sion legislation. More than 80 names are on the petition, he said. WILL FACE CHARGE Upshaw Returns to Florida in $100,000 Larceny Case. BOSTON, August 15 (#).—Bruce Upshaw of Arlington, Mass, was en route to Florida today to face charges of the larceny of $100,000 from Henry C. Wilmot, retired New Jersey sugar merchant. Giving up his fight against extra- dition, Upshaw last night voluntarily accompanied Deputy -Sheriff Joseph R. Chadburn of Volusia County, Fla., on the trip South. Upshaw allegedly persuaded Wilmot fo turn over $100,000 to him on April 23, 1933, on the promise that Upshaw » income until they marketed their | (crops. It is an inconsequential half truth. The great bulk of farm prod- ucts still moves in the Fall, although the New Dealers are passing out con- siderable money ahead of time. Most economic authorities expect a | good Autumn. The activity in ma- | chine tools and in residential con- | A ! atruction is what is encouraging thenrt. | Home Building Active. Residential construction is still on, but increasingly active in every sec- | | tion of the country. For instance, it | was about 34.7 per cent in June, as| compared with 22 last year, 87 in 1929 | and 126 in 1927 (the peak). ‘The administration is going to play up this phase of activity shortly. A stimulating ballyhoo will be made out of it. That is why Treasury Secre- tary Morgenthau recently brought down his friend Peter Grimm, New York real estate expert, to co-ordinate the various New Deal housing units. The important hidden question behind the mew bank bill is: Who is President Roosevelt going to ap- point to the new Federal Reserve Board? No one has an inkling. It is a certainty that there will be at least three new members. As there are no restrictions on the President, the identity of the men means far more than the new bank bill itself. He could appoint Semator Thomas or J. P. Morgan and give the bill one meaning or the opposite one. Last Monday the lethargic cabinet Textile Committee, which has been sleeping for weeks, was hastily called into session. Next day a second ses- sion was held. There is no question that the New Dealers read the Rhode Island election results. (Copyright. 1935.) WIFE GRANTED DIVORCE FROM LAURENCE TODD Russian News Agency Represent- ative Here Charged With Cruelty in Reno Suit. Special Dispatch to The Star. 3 RENO, Nev., August 15.—Mrs. Con- stance Leupp Todd was granted a di- vorce yesterday from Laurence Todd, Washington correspondent of a Rus- sian news agency. The charge was 17. Mrs. Todd is the daughter of the late Francis E. Leupp, for many years correspondent of the New York Eve- governmental and charity workers are excluded. Beginning in 1942, the Govern- ment wl pay out of the fund ac- cumulated by the-~ taxes pensions ranging from $10 to ¢85 a month to retired * “orkers 65 years of age covered by the plan. Pensions will be based on total wages received dfiring oper- ation of tr law; *~* no one will be eligible who has not worked part of | at least five years. Eventually, it is es*’ ated the pen- sion plan will cover about 25,000,000 workers, the taxes will amount to al- most $2,000,000,000 a year and the fund will accumulate by 1980 nearly $50,000,000,000. Old-Age Grants. ‘To supplement the pension system, the Government will offer, beginning immediately, grants up to $15 a month, to be matched by the States,] for needy aged above 65 years. Similar grants will be offered to needy blind of all ages. Unemployment Insurance. Employers of eight or more persons, except agricultural, domestic, Gov- ernmental or charity workers, will be subject to a pay roll tax of 1 per cent on this year's wages. The tax will be ircreased to 2 per cent in 1937 and 3 per cent in 1938. Designed to en- courage States to set up unemploy- ment reserve systems, 90 per cent of the tax will be remitted to employers who pay that much into State funds. Benefits will be left to State law. Millions of dollars will be appropri- ated annually to be matched or tripled by the States for aid to dependent children, maternal and child health, crippled children, child welfare, voca- tional rehabilitation and public health. RITES TO BE HELD Mrs. Oscar Stuart Heizer to Be Buried in Iowa. Funeral services for Mrs. Oscar Stu- art Heizer, who died Tuesday at her home, 4404 Stanford street, Chevy Chase, Md,, will be held Monday at her birthplace in Corning, Iowa. Mrs. Heizer, who was 65, had been ill for four months before her death. She was the wife of the former American consul general at Algiers. After her. mariage in Iowa 35 years ago, she lived abroad most of her life. Debates tax bill. 3 Lobby Committee awaits opportu- nity to question Howard C. Hopson; House: Considers miscellaneous legislation. TOMORROW. Senate: Will continue to debate the tax bill. all about. I am not guilty of any wrongdoing.” —_— Spanish Flyer Sails for U. S. GIBRALTAR, August 15 (#).—Col. | Ramon Franco, Spain’s premier flyer, | sailed on the S. 8. Roma today for the United States to take up his post as aviation attache of the Spanish Embassy in Washington. WO of the three owners of “Paper Brothers’ Circus” were on hand this morning looking for pointers when the Hagen- beck-Wallace and 4 Paw-Sells Bros. Circus pulled in on the Baltimore & Ohio siding near Pifth street and Florida avenue northeast at dawn. To the uninitiated, let it be kn at the start that “Paper Brothers” :s a mythical organization, the resuit of years of study by a small group of those irrepressible spirits who call themselves members of the Circus Fans' Association. Out of comfortable beds got Melvin Hildreth, local law- yer, and Harry Allen, real estate mar, about 4:30 , president and general agent, respectively, of “Paper Broth- ers,” to watch the unloading. As the routine wizardy of pitching tents and establishing the circus city went forward with amazing speed, Hildreth and Allen compared the process with the way it should be done as exemplified by “Paper Brothers.” Fossey said: “I don't know what it's| ROSALIA, Wash., August 15 (P).— Search for three desperadoes whu: me,” Reisman finally said. At this, Mrs. Reisman dashed into Mooney, charges “that is simply blus- than average yields in the United ter for the record,” and asked that States in 1936 or later, there would killed Marshal Bert Lemley in rob- 'the house and got her husband's re- bing the Bank of Rosalia of $5,000 'volver. Raising it with both hands. centered yesterday in the vicinity of she fired a single shot into her rival's Sanders, Idaho, about 35 miles east of | heart. Annette, her stepdaughter, was here. The maroon sedan bearirig the |shot in the hand in a scuffie for the three was reported seen near there. |gun. Lemiey, firing at the robbers inside | Mrs. Reisman, near collapse, re- the bank, was shot down by a man in | quired medical attention after her ar- woman's garb who was sitting across raignment. She later recovered her | the street in a motor car. e TS composure. “Paper Brothers” Give Circus Once Over Mythical Washington Organization on Hand at Dawn to Watch Tent City Grow. A recent addition to the Hagenbeck-Wallace and 4 Paw-Sells Bros’ Circus. W. H. Blackburn and Dr. William Mann of the Washington Zoo look over “Chester,” the 5-day-old, 60-pound hippo born in Chester, Pa. Dr. Mann appeared to think “Chester” might make a good addition to his mythical “Paper Bros.' Circus.” —Star Staff Photo. could be improved,” explained Hil- creth, “so we began to plan a show of our own. Since it existed only on paper we called it ‘Paper Bros.’ Cir- cus’ But I don’t want you to think it’s just an impractical dream. We've planned it down to the last rope and stake, and even John Ringling has approved it, although he said our tent didn’t have a large enough seating. capacity. “Circuses really haven’t changed very much since George Washington saw the old Ricketts Show back in 1793. ‘Why shouldn't modern meth- ods be used in a circus as well as in other businesses’ we asked ourselves. ‘Paper Brothers’ then began to take form. “We decided we would empha- size beauty and uniqueness of presen- tation and comfort for the spectators. There probably isn’t any amusement in this country accompanied by so much discomfort as & circus.” Favor Semi-Oval Tent. The trio began with a new form of tent, built in a semi-oval, to replace the present oval type. Behind the performers would be settings which could be changed to suit the various ‘acts. Comfortable seats replace hard board benches; tents would be air-conditioned; there would be double > All presentation methods would be new. For instance: Swinging ladders would be bordered with Neon electric tubes, ponies would be equipped with radiant harness and wild animal cages would appear as pictures in painted settings. Such, a plan could be expected to meet the ridicule from the old-time troupers of the Hagenbeck-Wallace show, but such isn't the case. Sam Stratton, publicity man, thought it a good idea and said John Ringling be- lieved such a show could make a profit. The side show at Fifth street and Florida avenue opened at 11 o'clock this morning, and performances un- der the big top were scheduled for 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. today and tomorrow.. In the big show there is Bert Nelson, who succeeds the famed Clyde Beatty, and his big group of junge-bred lions and tigers; Marle Rasputin, wild ani- mal trainer, who is billed as the daughter of the Russian monk; the Christiani family, somersaulting bare- back riders; “Cheerful” Gardner, and five herds of performing elephants; Rudynoff and his educated horses; the Merkels, upside-down mirror walk- ers; Maximo, slack-wire comedian; the Flying Codonas in the Aerial Hills; Jeanette May and Vera Bruce, famed Scotchmen trapeze artists, and many others, a Referee A. E. Shaw order Cleary’s re- mark stricken from the record. Shaw replied that the remark al- ready was in the record and that if it were stricken out “we also would | have to cut out much of your tesu- mony.” Asked If Memory Clear. Cleary again asked MacDonald if his memory was clear on the subject. | MacDonald replied: | “No, sir.” | The Deputy Attorney General, turn- ing toward Finerty, said: “There’s your answer.” Finerty shouted in reply: “It's not the truth.” Referee Shaw then remarked to Finerty: “Well, he is your witness." —_— MAN HELD IN SLAYINGS Has Also Confessed Five Rob- beries, California Police Say. SAN FRANCISCO, August 15 (£).— |San Francisco police today held | Charles E. Ross, alias Norman Pea- | cock, for Cincinnati authorities in connection with two slayings there, which Police Inspector William Mc- Mahon said Ross confessed. McMahon said Ross admitted he ishflt and killed Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hockfeld during a robbery of their rested early yesterday. McMahon said he confessed five robberies since he came here a few weeks ago. Ross had a comparatively fresh bul- let wound in his left leg. McMahon said Ross explained he inadvertently shot himself. Ownm.s-s_ujgery By Man Mystifies| Hospital Staff |Crude,butEffectiveW ork to Obtain Relief Per- | formed by Oil Driller. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, August 15.—A 40- year-old Trinidad oil driller, who per- formed a sinus operation on himself a year ago without an anesthetic and then came here to have American doc- tors do a “real job of it,” couldn't understand last night why hospital attendants were a bit bewildered at the success of his crude but effective method. He is Charles Eggert, 250 pounder, who said he is anxious to “get back to my string of tools” in Port of Spain now that he has “got the sinus troubie licked.” The left side of his face puffed out | with surgical dressing and a silver tube buried in his nose, Eggert said he had pushed a silver tube up his nose and through the nostril bone| into the left antrum of his face to re- lease the pressure of an infection that had formed in that lower cavity of his skull. He said the reason he didn’t come to New York for the original opera- tion was that he was to busy drilling an ol well. He said the crude operaticn re- quired about 30 minutes, and added that “you'd do the same thing, too, if shoe store last February. He was ar- | be an export surplus, and prices would have to adjust toward an export basis unless preventative measures were taken.” Comment of George E. Farrell, di- rector of the Division of Grains of the A. A. A, was “The fact that the Spring wheat !area has suffered severe rust losses this year makes it advisable to use the flexibility of the agricultural ad- justment act at this time to provide for somewhat larger production to assure adequate supplies of all types | of milling wheat.” e L 'DROP IN PARALYSIS SHOWN IN VIRGINIA { New York and Two New England States, However, Report Cases Increasing. By the Associated Press. The Public Health Service reported yesterday that nfantile paralysis de- | creased last week in Virginia and | North Carolina, but showed a decided increase in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Reports showed 68 new cases in Vir- ginia for the week ended August 10 as compared with 100 for the week ended Avgust 3; 26 cases in North Carolina for the week ended August 10 and 40 | for the week ended August 3. ‘The public health service attributed [the increase in New York and New England to the cusfomary seasonal progress of the diseAse and not to spread there from North Carolina and Virginia. Jews | | (Continued From Pirst Page.) where literature on the'race question can be had.” ‘This was Streicher’s second appear- ance in the capital. He addressed a small gathering on the outskirts shortly after the July disturbances in the Kurfurstendam, but since that time has won a large and articulate fol- lowing through vigor of his proposals. Meanwhile measures against Jews. which are gradually eliminating them from business, piled up. The princi+ pal Jewish paper, Israelitische Amile fenblatt, was ordered suppressed until November 10. . Four Jewish-owned theaters in Han- over were closed by the police after a street demonstration against them. Order Against Pawnshops. ‘The mayor of Dortmund issued an order forbidding the Jews either to patronize the municipal pawnshop or attend its auctions. Pawn checks purchased from Jews will be neither renewed nor redeemed, the order pro- vides. Middlemen acting for Jews will also be barred from the auction sales. The first “state enemy” arrest in the Saar was reported when a Jewish haberdasher was taken into “protec- tive custody” for alleged illicit rela- tions with an Aryan woman. The Catholic youth societies also felt Nazi strictures. Four units were dis- solved in Wurtemburg districts and the property confiscated. They were charged with being public nuisances. Price increases that have accom- panied the religious strife engaged Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, “economic dictator” of the Third Reich. He established [ had been driving you crazy.” [ 3 offices to prevent every “unjustified Tise.” = & i