Evening Star Newspaper, December 6, 1936, Page 27

. ACEOF RECOVERY CITEDBY CHAMBER Business Organization Hopes Congress Will Give It Consideration. BY the Associated Press. Discussing the congressional out- look, the Chamber of Commerce of the United States said yesterday: “It is the earnest hope of business that any legislation will give due consideration to the present pace of recovery and to the steady progress toward reabsorp- tion of the unemployed.” In its periodical, Washington Re- view;, the chamber said that reorgan- {zation in the Federal Government’s agencies undoubtedly will sooner or later play an important part in the curtailment of Government expendi- tures. Among legislative proposals which way arise the chamber listed crop in- surance and farm tenancy, public housing, aid for consumers’ co-opera- tives, abolition of the basing point as 2 price adjustment method, modifica- tion of the “long and short haul” clause of the interstate commerce act, food and drug regulation and exten- sion of holding company legislation. In addition, the chamber noted that many present statutes will expire dur- ing the next few months, necessitating' congressional decision regarding their continuance. Comparing Federal expenditures and revenues for the first five months of this fiscal year, the business organ- jzation said that at the present rate of spending the deficit would approach $3.000,000,000 by next July 1. It added, however, that this figure might be reduced by increased revenues un- der the 1936 revenue act. * The question of overlapping taxa- tion also was discussed in the review, which said: “The most obvious and most fre- quently suggested solution of the diffi- culties involved in multiple taxation is that the Federal Government and the States by agreement allot certain taxes exclusively to one agency or the other.” MOTHER AND 7 CHILDREN BURN IN GASOLINE FIRE Man Causes Blast in Shed Near House by Striking Match to Trace Noise. B the Associated Press CHICOUTIMI, Quebec, December 8—The story of the deaths of seven sleeping children and their mother in an explosion and fire which destroyed their home was told in mes- sages reaching here tonight. The explosion occurred last night when one member of the fam:ly lit e match to investigate a noise in a small cookshed. A dog had kaccked over a can of gasoline. Louis Brassard, father of the chil- | dren, hurried to the barn for a horse blanket to smother the flames. Re- turning, he found his wile overcome, | holding their youngest child, 15 days | old, in her arms. Brassard tossed the baby from a window into a deep snowbank. Weax from near-suffocation, ne tried to carry his wife to safety, but his clothes caught fire and he fled. An 18-year-old daughter, Cuprienne, made her escape and rescued the baby | from the snow, but the seven other children were burned to death in their beds. 32 IN C. C. C. ESCAPE DEATH IN EXPLOSION Nitroglycerin Is Uncovered by ‘Workers Who Left 20 Min- utes Before Blast. ES the Assoclated Press. FINDLAY, Ohio, December Thirty-two Civilian Conservation Corps youths escaped injury and pos- sible death today by 20 minutes, when a quart of nitroglycerin, which they had uncovered, exploded after they had gone home. The blast rattled windows more than a mile away. Explosive experts from the Independent Eastern Tor- pedo Co. of Findlay said the sun’s rays had caused the nitroglycerin to explode. ‘W. Albert Hogle of Findlay, United States Agriculture engineer, saia the workers, employed on a drainage project, had evidently uncoversd two quarts of the nitroglycerin wrapped in a burlap sack, but had not :oticed it. The second quart of explosive, found near the scene after the blast, was exploded in an open field by an employe of the torpedo company, who said he could not understand why the first blast had not set it off. INAUGURAL UNIT PICKED Srecial Dispatch to The Star. MOUNT RAINIER, Md., December B8.—Plans to have Chillum District Democratic Club represented in the inaugural parade January 20 were set in motion by Frank B. Smith, club president, yesterday, when he an- ‘nounced the appointment of a special ‘committee to handle arrangements. Wolves Raiding Reindeer, Foiled By Eskimo Trick Hook in Tallow Bait to Enable Herd to Reach Needy. BY the Associated Press. BARROW, Alaska, December 5.— An old Eskimo trick today helped matives turn back wolf packs which repeatedly stampeded 3,000 reindeer being driven across 500 miles of Arc- tic wasteland to hunger-stricken Bar- ter Island. Chunks of frozen tallow were dropped for the pursuing wolves to ‘snap up,- Inside each chunk the Eski- mos had bent a six-inch piece of ‘whalebone, sharpened to needle point. ‘When the tallow meits, the whale- ‘bone springs open, piercing the wolves’ stomachs—and slow death is their fate. Deer for the Barter Island drive were taken from the Point Barrow herd. Several hundred natives and & few whites were reported near starva- tion in the Barter Island area last (Summer, | Griswald Collins, & veteran game warden sent from Juneau to investi- gate and try to destroy the wolf packs, isaid he believed the Eskimo method of ‘killing wolves would prove effective. A 5—| . Business Side of Ball Lee Stephenson (left) and programs at Beaux Arts ball at the Astor Hotel Friday might. Janet Eakins are shown selling —A. P. Photo. FRAILEY TO ARRANGE OPEN HOUSE AT “Y” | Chairman of Committee for An- nual New Year Day Celebration. Dr. Carson P. Frailey, executive vice president of the American Drug Manufacturers’ Association, has been named chairman of the committee | making arrangements for the annual | New Year's day “open house™ celebra- tion of the Y. M. C. A. Dr. Frailey was in charge of the | celebration last year, when some 3,000 | guests attended. _ C. E. Fleming, service secretary of the “Y,” an- nounced the first meeting of the New Year's Day Committee will be held Thursday at 5 pm. at the central Y. M. C. A. Building, | Eighteenth and G streets, The program for the reception, which is open to member; and their guests, includes musical selec- tions, chess and checker contests, dra- | matic presentations, athletic events, an illustrated lecture on the recent world Sunday school convention in Oslo, Norway; refreshments and a New Year's dance, sponsored by the Y. M. C. A. dormitory council. This reception is the principal social event of the year for the Y. M. C. A,, and Leonard W. DeGast, general secretary of the association, said all facilities of the available to members and their guests for the occasion. BLOODSTAINS TESTED IN TEXAS MYSTERY Coat and Canvas Clues to John and Luther Blanton, Missing on Hunting Trip. B the Assoclated Press. AUSTIN, Tex., December 5.—Inves- tigators in the search for John and Luther Blanton, who vanished after leaving November 19 for a hunting trip on the vast King Ranch in South- ern Texas, disclosed today they were chemically testing stains found on a man'’s coat and pieces of canvas. M. T. Gonzaullas, Intelligence Bu- seau chief in the State Department of Public Safety, said bloodstain tests were being made on the coat and canvas. He would not say where the articles were found or who sent them to Austin. He said the chemical examinations would not be completed before Mon- day or Tuesday. Actual search in the forbidden hunt- ing preserve north of San Perlita was at a standstill. The last officer-led posse had returned empty handed and citizens, despairing of seeing the Blan- tons alive, again, were inactive. GIRL SEEKIN'G SANTA IS KILLED BY AUTO Child Struck Down in Baltimore ‘While on Trip to Store’s Toy Display. BY the Associated Pfess. BALTIMORE, December 5.—Mar- garet Ogle, 5, who went down town today to see a department store Santa Claus and a Christmas toy display, fell beneath the wheels of an auto- mobile and was killed. Miss Mabel Geisinger of Frederick, Md., whom police held pending action of the automobile coroner, said she was backing her car out from the curb, heard a scream and discovered she had struck the little girl JONES ASKS REFUND MACON, Ga., December 5 (F).— Robert Tyre Jones, jr., former “grand slam” golfer, filed suit in Federal Court here today for a $53,338.34 in- come tax refund. His petition asks for return of $27,396.84 paid the Federal Govern- ment in 1931 and $25,942.14 remitted in 1933. He named W. E. Page, collector of internal revenue for Georgia, as de- fengant. . Contested items include sums paid the Jones estate by Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc, for a series of golf shorts made by the “emporor of golf” shortly after he retired in 1930 with the four major tournament titles to his credit. Dr. C. P. Frailey, 1% institution will be | APARTMENT ROBBED OF JEWELS AND CASH | Mrs. Goldnamer Reports Heavy Loss as Shoreham Suite Is Looted. Members of the police robbery squad | were summoned to the Shoreham | Hotel shortly before midnight last | night after Mrs. Marc S. Goldnamer | reported that her five-room apart- | | ment had been broken into during | | her absence and a large sum of money and jewelry valued at several thou- sand dollars stolen. Mrs. Goldnamer, wife of an official of a jewelry company here, said that when she returned to the hotel at about 11 p.m., she found the apart- ment had been ransacked, apparently by a person who gained entrance with a duplicate key. Her husband is in Hollywood, Fla., police were told. Detectives, after a cursory investi- gation, said they believed the robbery was the work of an amateur. They planned to search the seventh-floor apartment for fingerprints today, M |ILLNESS OF GILLETTE CALLED NOT SERIOUS but Blood Transfusion Given, Actor Is Recuperating, Physician Says. | P the Associated Press. HARTFORD, Conn., December 5.— William Gillette, 81, distinguished American actor, is a patient in the lHar:rord Hospital, it was disclosed today, recuperating from what his physician said was a bad cold. Dr. John A. Wentworth, who is at- tending Gillette, said a blood trans- fusion had been administered but his condition was not serious. At Gillette’s show-place home in Hadlyme, where he has lived in vire tual seclusion for some time, his sec- | retary said he had been ill for more than two months. “He has had a bad cold in the tubes leading from the lungs for some time and was taken to the hospital merely to give him a rest and build him up,” the secretary said. “I under- stand that he is coming back slowly. His condition is not critical.” The actor, who gained fame first in his portrayal of Sherlock Holmes, was taken to the hospital Monday. He appeared last Winter in a revival of “Three Wise Fools.” MOVE JAILED PICKETS FROM CROWDED CELLS Reading Officials Take 63 Pris- oners to Quarters in Neigh- boring Counties. Bs the Associated Press. READING, Pa, December 5.— Sheriff John C. Cook and deputies escorted 63 prisoners today from the overcrowded Berks County Jail to new quarters in neighboring counties. State Welfare Department agents negotiated the transfers to relieve the overcrowded conditions at the Jail, which resulted from daily ar- rests of “lie-down” pickets at the Berkshire Knitting Mills durmng the past week. Police arrested 147 pickets, includ~ ing 43 women. They were sentenced to 30-day jail terms after refusing to pay fines on charges of obstruct- ing the sidewalks. The pickets blocked the main entrance to the mill by ly- ing down in front of the gate. Warden George S. Miller of the Berks County Jail said 43 women had been sentenced, and the jail had ac- D. C, DECEMBER 6, 1936—PART O SON OF FINANCIER| Women Besieging Council Gayer as Support Arrives WOUNDED BY CHUM Arthur Barnes, 12, Shot Ac- cidentally by William Bissell, 12. BY the Associated Press, WESTBURY, N, Y., December 5.— Arthur Barnes, 12-year-old son of & New York financier, was in critical condition tonight from a bullet wound received when a pistol in the hands of William Bissell, 12, son of the multi-millionaire carpet sweeper man- ufacturer, was accidentally discharged. A single bullet from an old single- action weapon entered the voungster's upper abdomen below the heart and passed through the liver. He was operated upon tonight at North County Community Hospital, Glen Cove. His condition was described as “critical.” The accident occurred, police said, in the gun room of the Karl Bissell mansion at Old Westbury, Long Island. The boys were classmetes at the Friends Academy, Locust Valley. ‘The wounded boy is a son of Arthur S. Barnes of the Locusts, Roslyn Estates, Long Island. ROBBER SLAIN IN STORE Grocer Helps Detective Capture Second Bandit in Hold-Up. PHILAADELPHIA, December § (®).—A city detective shot and killed a robber tonight while a grocery-store owner helped him capture another in an attempted hold-up. Detective Sergt. Bart Gorman said he shot John Collins, 30, colored, as the robber used the grocer, Harry Shapiro, 42, as a human shield in a pistol battle, and John Henderson, 17, also colored, and Collins’ alleged ac-!| complice, tried to prevent the officer | from firing. Gorman said he surprised the two men in the store after they had held up, Shapiro’s wife, Ethel, 36, and taken $35 from the cash register. 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STUBBORN RHEUMATISM When your stubborn rheumatism, neuri| r rheumatic gout is caused |or ageravated by excess uric acid— and most cases are—one swift power- ful safe formula is Allenru Capsules— often the terrible pain and agony g0 in 48 hours—ask any live drugsist in | America for Allenru Capsules—you won't_be_ disappointed. e BY the Associated Press. PLEASANTVILLE, N. J., December 5.—The militant band of seamstresses who “captured” the city council's chambers last Tuesday, when the city sbandoned the W. P. A. project on which they worked, maintained their siege tonight and denied any loss of enthusiasm. As they had done on four previous nights, the 88 women sat on the hard benches, knitted, embroidered doilies, crocheted lace, read love stories and talked gleefully of the manner in which they had put city officials “on the spog.” They boasted of having already closed up three “horse joints"—places where they said bets on horse races were openly taken, and announced in- tention of getting after a half a dozen “number racketeers,” beginning Monday. City officials contend they cannot raise $9,440 necessary to buy materials for the sewing project during the coming year. This amounted to $7 a month for each of the women em- ployed. The Federal Government paid the women $58 to $66 a month. Mrs. Ann McArdle, a leader of the women, said one business man had promised to buy a pair of shoes for each of the women if they kept up their fight, and she reported merchants were still contributing an abundance of food. ‘The women got their last pay check from the W. P. A, today. Most checks called for $27.15, and the atmosphere of the council room was gayer than usual. Many of them went to a “five- and-dime” store around the corner on Main street for bags of candy. ‘There was evidence of the Christmas spirit. The City Hall was trimmed in holly. Many of the women were making dainty table scarfs and doilies for gifts. The proprietor of an ap- parent cigar store being picketed by girls with placards complaining about “dice and cards” came out on the sidewalk, not to berate the girls, but to bring them paper cups full of coffee and ask them, “Howarya doin’.?” JUDGE CASEY SETS JURY CASE RECORD 289 Actions Disposed Of in 24 Trial Days—154 Pleas of Guilty Entered. A record was made by Judge Walter J. Casey in the jury branch of Police Court during his term from November 2 to December 4, when he disposed of 289 cases. . In the 24 trial days of that month 154 pleas of guilty were entered, 68 cases were nolle prossed, 14 were dis- missed, while 8 withdrew their de- | mands for a jury trial. Verdicts of | guilty were returned by juries in 25| cases, verdicts of not guilty in 18 cases, and 2 resulted in mistrial. At the beginning of the term there | were 400 jury trial cases on the docket, | and Judge Casey set out to cut down | this total. However, there were nearly | 200 other cases sent to the jury court | | from the other branches during the | month, leaving about 300 cases now | pending, according to William A. | Norgren, acting clerk of the court. | BRADEN TO SPEAK Greenbelt Official Will Address Prince Georges Democrats. COLLEGE PARK, Md., December 5—Roy Braden, Greenbelt official, will be the guest speaker at the| monthly meeting of the Young Men's Democratic Club of Prince Genrges‘ County December 10 at the Lord Calvert Inn here at 8 pm. Nomina- tions for club officers for 1937 will| be made. R. Nelson Snouffer, jr., first vice president of the club, is in charge of arrangements for the meeting. ER OIL FOUR MEN INJURED IN 2 AIR ACCIDENTS Coast Guard Cutter Adrift on At- lantic—Second Crashes With Sick Passengers. BY the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., December 5.—At least four men were injured and one planc was adrift on the Atlantic to- night because of accidents involving two Coast Guard planes from Cape May, N. J. The names of those in the planes, except for the two commanding of- ficers, were not known to Coast Guard headquarters here. The C. G. piane V-125 was sent from Cape May to remove a sick man from the tanker George G. Black off Assateague on the Virginia Coasf, late today. When the craft arrived it was found the sea was too rough to make the contact. The plane, in command of Lieut. L. H. Seegar, broke a wing in landing on the sea and became helpless. 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