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WISE VOIGES PLEA FORJEWISH NATION Demands Britain Fulfill Pledge to Create Hebrew Homeland. - Centering attention on investiga- tion of Arab attacks on Jews in Pales- tine, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise of New York last night demanded that the British government carry out its promise of a national Jewish home- land there. .~ Addressing the annual convention of Junior Hadassah at the Mayflower Hotel, Dr. Wise, who is president of the Zionist Organization of America ahd of the World Jewish Congress, called on members of ail Zionist groups to create public sentiment that will force settlement of problems in Pales- tine. “The Jewish people have made their ease before the British Royal Commis- sion, which is investigating the atroci- ties,” he said. “If the Arabs refuse to testity they ought not to be heard at all. We should make it clear that the Royal Commission dare not hear testimony of Arab leaders in private or secret meetings. If the Arab lead- ers boycott the commission, the com- ission should boycott them.” Declares People Oppressed. . He said the Jewish people who have settled in Palestine have suffered “six months of murder and assassination™ in & manner which should set a world example of Jewish discipline. He described world conditions today as the most tragic which have faced the Jewish people in the past half century. “In Germany the Naszi gov- | ermment day by day is devising new methods of social torture, economic deatruction and political hurt. It will be a wonder if the whole of society will hot suffer as & consequence. “But T am not thinking only of Nasi Germany. Austrisa may be on the verge of moral collapse. And in . Poland, where one-fifth of the Jews of the world abide. has become a land of darkness and horror. The Polish gov- ernment has insinuated, but has not had the courage to declare, that 3. 000,000 Jews there are superfluous population.” Cites American Freedem. In contrast, he said, the Hadassah | order was meeting in the capital of & nation “whose government un- waveringly and unfalteringly had ‘heen dedicated to human freedom and Bhuman justice. ‘““There will be no peace in Pal- mstine,” he asserted, “until the offi- ‘eials and the subofficials there all dea! with the Jewish peoples, not as ¥aders or beggars, but as a people re- turning to their home, as settlers and ®olonists seeking freedom.” Dr. Wise said that in developing & Jewish homeland in Palestine, “the Jews have warred neither on Arab mor Christian” and are building Pal- stine on the “foundations of human Justice and equity.” Pays Tribute to Brandeis. He paid a high tribute to Justice Louis D. Brandeis of the United States Supreme Court as one of the proph- ets of the Zionist movement and to | Arturo Toscanini, who left Italy to| #0 to Palestine to be conductor of a | aymphony orchestra which includes many musieians driven from Ger- many. A thousand delegates and mem- bers of Junior Hadassah attended the maas meeting which was conducted by Miss Mildred F. Murnick of Phila- delphia, president. Mrs, Edward Jacobs of New York, national president of Senior Hadas- sah, gave a review of the influence of Hadassah since its organisation 25 years ago. Delegates to the convention, who tome from 40 States, yesterday vis- ited the While House and held an ©Oneg Shabbat (Joy of the Sabbath) pelebration at the Jewish Commun- Aty Center The convention will close fomorrow with election of officers. HARD TIMES BEMOANED BY CONFIDENCE MAN Swindler Blames Depression for “Wising Up” American People. BY the Amociated Press, TULSA, Okla., December 26.—Take 4% from Paul E. Preacher, a practitioner for 40 years, the confidence game is @getting worse and worse. Preacher, arrested here for fleecing @ traveler in a penny matching racket, told police he had been a “con” man in every major American city. His eareer, however, has been interrupted by four prison terms and between 50 and 60 arrests. Regretfully, he admitted suckers are gesting fewer each year. He blames the depreasion for “wising” them up. Canadian Co-Eds Put $15 on Food, $6.70 on Beauty British Columbia Girls Also Prove Costly to Escorts. 3w the Associatea Press. VANCOUVER, British _Columbia, December 26.—University of British Columbia eo-eds spend more on beauty treatments and less on food and cloth- ing than the average college girl in the United States, a comparative sur- wey showed today. It also costs their masculine com- panions more to squire them on an evening’s entertainment. The average here is $8.53 for corsage, taxi fare, tips and incidentals, against $7.93 noted in | the survey of 24 United States colleges. Perhaps that is why U. B. C. male Most provinelal university students . Yive at home, but those who reported N THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, Rabbi Wise Greets Hadassah Leaders Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, noted Zionist leader, who described himself as the “grandfather” of the young women’s Palestine homeland society, conferred at the mfi/flower.floul last night hclhorl the Junior Hadassah Convention mass meeting with Miss Mildre: 1 president (at left), and Mrs. Edward Jacobs of New York, president of Senior Hadassah. Federal Housing CREMATION IN CELL HELD “ACCIDENTAL Impossible to Determine Fire’s Origin, Coroner Says at Dillwyn. B the Associated Press. DILLWYN, Va., December 26.—Dr. J. E. Haynesworth, Buckingham County coroner, today returned a ver- dict of “accidental death” after his investigation of the burning of John E. Garrett, 58, when flames destroyed the little town lock-up here early Christmas day. Dr. Haynesworth said it was im- possible for him to determine the origin of the blaze that trapped the colored father of nine in the one- story wooden building which is un- attended by jailer or keeper. He sald further his investigation of the blaze, the second fatal jail fire in Virginia during recent weeks, has been completed. “However,” Dr. Haynesworth added, “I feel certain there will be further legal investigation. I acted only from & medical standpoint in my capacity as coroner.” Similar to Recent Fire. ‘The victim of the jail fire here met death in a manner almost identical to that in which John Coates died in the town lock-up at Colonial Beach, Va., on November 7. Garrett was locked in the end oell of the three-room building at 9 p.m. Christmas eve by Town Sergt. P. W. Amiss to “sleep off a drunk.” No charges were placed against him. The officer said there was no fire in the stove, situated in the middle of the three rooms, and before he left Garrett he removed matches from his clothing. At 3 am., John Pendleton, who lives near the jail, saw the building in flames. So far had the fire ad- vanced before it was discovered that | the roof was falling about the caged victim by the time sleepy-eyed citi- zens reached the jail yard. It was impossible to attempt & rescue. Entire Building Abiaze. The entire building was ablaze, but the flames were stronger in the north end, which Amiss said leads to his belief the fire originated in the col- ored man's cell, He said he had let Garrett keep & cigar he had in his pocket, but had searched him carefully for matches. Dr. Haynesworth said the jail was easily approachable from the street and declared it “very likely” some one could have handed Garrett matches through the cell window. The man's brother, Tom Garrett, & saw mill worker, said he had told the town sergeant, who offered to re- lease his brother in his care, “he had better stay where he was until morn- ing if he had enough cover.” Brother to Ask Probe. Tom Garrett added, however, he would ask a full investigation of the case. Meanwhile the State Department of Public Welfare, which has supervisory authority over all town and county lock-ups in Virginia, prepared to con- duct its own investigation and report to the Governor. Welfare Commissioner Arthur W. James, in a report to Gov. Peery after the Colonial Beach fire, termed many of the State lock-ups as “definite fire hazards.” James also attacked the system of leaving jails unattended ‘while in use. —— HURT IN ACCIDENT Prof. Cunningham and Wife and Maid Are in Hospital. IPSWICH, Mass., December 26 (#). —Prof. William J. Cunningham, 61, of Harvard Business School, & nationally known authority on transportation, and Mrs. Cunninghara, were painfully hurt today in an automobile collision on the Newburyport turnpike. A maid, Miss Margaret Peach, who was driving the Cunningham ear, suf- fered critical injuries. Prof. Cunningham’s injuries at first ‘were reported critical, but after ex- amination at a Cambridge hospital 1t ‘was found his injuries were not so se- vere, . EYES PUT IN BELTS Snakeskins Used in Full Width by French Now. PARIS, December 26 (#).—The new- . e | constitute s veritable town, with F. Murnick of Phi phia, —Star Staff Photo. Managers Must Solve Many Problems Knotty Problems in Community Rela- tions Encountered in Supervision of Apartment Projects. BY the Associated Press. Rose bushes and laundry tubs, dark rooms and current event forums, sand piles and rent collections; these are some of the problems that pile down upon managers of Federal housing projects. The rose bushes have to do with| sand piles. The Federal housing proj- | ects are meant for workers who have low wages. And workers with hw‘ ‘wages usually have children. Children | must play. If they don’t havea place to play and some supervision, they | dig up rose bushes and shrubbery and | change grassy terraces into pet caves. So the housing manager must supply | the supervision. Sometimes a man | must be hired for that work. His pay is less than the damage would be. The apartments are equipped with community laundries in the base- ments. When two women set out to wash their dirty linen at the same time in the same tubs, the whole neighborhood may get splashed. Such situations have arisen. And now regu- | lar assignments of hours are worked | out for each family. It saves time and arguments, and maybe a bit of scratching. Forums Held at Hall. With a community hall in which the | tenants are free to gather, words have to be used about something. Some- times they are protests from left wing groups. And these call for replies from the management. An outgrowth fre- quently are forums for the discussion of current events, And when camera clubs are organized, the manager has | to take up the problem of establishing | dark rooms. The rent is set by the cost of opera- tion and maintenance, plus enough to make the interest and amortization | charges on the loan made by the PFederal Government. As a result, three-room apartments rent for as little as $16.40 a month, with $5.95 extra for heat, water and lights. A qualification is that the per- son renting the apartment must be living under lower-than-standard con- ditions and must be earning not more than five times the total expense of the apartment. And, also, there must be a vacancy. But all of the dwellers in the hous- | ing project are interested in seeing | that every one else pays the rent be- cause if any one fails to pay, that in- | creases the cost of operation and pushes up the rent for everybody else. 504 Families in Ome Project. Before long the Federal Govern-| ment expects to be landlord to thou- | sands of apartment dwellers. Already | 504 families have moved. into the Techwood project in Atlanta. Sim- flarly, new apartments will be opened early in the year in Montgomery, Ala.; | Miami, Fia, and Cleveland, And by the end of 1937, the Housing Division of the P. W. A. expects 50 Pedenlly-‘ built developments in 35 cities to be | housing 25,000 families. That sounds like a lot of housing. But the Public Works Administration figures there are 8,000,000 slum-dwell- ing families in the country. Which means that lot more housing could be done, And Congress is likely to hear more of the matter soon. In its first housing program the Public Works Administration tried co- operating with private enterprise. It loaned money to corporations, requir- ing them to build according to certain high "standards and to limit their profits so the rent would stay down. ‘The result was seven limited-divi- dend developments, which P. W. A. officials say are working beautifully, except that if they operate to show any profit at all they cannot get rents within the reach of slum dwellers, They hit families a little below middle © in the income scale—but it takes a real bargain to ring the ball for a slum income. $130,000,000 Spent or Obligated. P. W. A. officials say that is why they went into a $130,000,000 program of straight Federal building. That sum is all spent or obligated now. Some of the specifications observed are: Seventy per cent of the develop- ment site to be vacant of buildings to assure adequate grounds; not more than three stories to & building; cross- ventilation in every room; no more than two people per bed room, plus one to be allowed to sleep in the living room; hot and cold water and all mod- ern conveniences in every apartment. ‘The tenants are selected by the local management and an Advisory Commit- tee of local citizens. ‘The 3,000 souls housed in the project streets, sidewalks, acres of grounds, It also ran s three-month school for managers here last Summer. ‘The managers are appointed by Sec- retary Ickes and get their authority directly from him. It is expected that each manager will be local to the city in which he works. “Our whole policy is one of self-rule for the tenants,” says Richard Voell, the cool, gray-eyed young Mid-west- erner who is in charge of the Housing Division’s managament section. “Tenants are not going to be pushed into any organization or activities they don’t want. “We are not going to try to run these people’s lives from Wi Each development must work out its own problems and way of life.” HAGEN MUST PAY WIFE $7,335 TOTAL Back Alimony and Interest Or- dered Against Professional Golf Star. By the Assoclated Press. ST. PETERSBURG. Fla.. December 26.—Circuit Judge John I. Viney to- day ordered Walter Hagen, profes- sional golf star, to pay his estranged wife, Edna C. Hagen, s total of $7,335 in back alimony and interest. ‘The amount represents 37 monthly peyments of $250 -each, due Mrs. Hagen under a modified separation agreement entered into more than three years ago, plus interest of $588. Judge Viney denied a plea of Mrs. Hagen that the settiement be made on a basis of $500 monthly, holding & clause of the modified agreement, which jumped the payments from 3250 to $500 in case of default, was & penalty clause and unenforceable at equity. Under the terms of the original separation agreement, entered into in 1931, Hagen was to pay a flat sum of $500 monthly. Marital difficulties of the goifer have been in court here for two years following Mrs. Hagen's effort to force performance of the contract made Oc- tober 10, 1034, DEPUTY BAGS DEER D. . | willing to care for them. C, DECEMBER 27, JEWISH LEADER WILL VISIT CITY Dr. Weizmann’s Stay in U, S. Includes Part in Parley on January 24, Palestine mandate of the League of Nations. Dr. Weismann is regarded by Jew- ish people throughout the world as their foremost statesman. He was the first witness before the commission and has testified & number of times since. The conference will be held at the Mayflower Hotel and will assemble National Home in Palestine. Dr. Weismann is chairman of the board of governors of Hebrew Univer- sity in Jerusalem, president of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and chairman of the science faculty at the university. S B AGED PAIR ABANDONED Children Leave Destitute Couple in City Streets. SZEGED, Hungary, December 26 (#).—A peasant cart pulled up to the main square. Andras Rosss, 96, and his wife, 91, both half starved, were helped out and left in the square. | Police helped them to the alms house. The poor couple, who had celebrated their seventy-fifth wedding anniversary, were left in the city by their children, who were no longer The same afternoon a 90-year-old man was left in the square under the | same oconditions, Japan Plans Consulates. Consulates will be established by Jupan in & number of “South Sea"” nations, including Siam, Prench Indo- China and the Netherlands Indis. AFTER 20-MINUTE HUNT |, Animal Found With Leg Broken From Fall Over Dam Near Austin, Tex. AUSTIN, Tex., December 26 (#).— Deputy Sheriff Sam Rogers claims the season's record for bagging & deer in the shortest time. He got one 20 min- utes after leaving the court house. Here's how: The Game Department telephoned the sheriff’s office & deer had fallen over the municipal dam s mile from town and broken a leg. Rogers went out and shot the deer and turned it over to the SBalvation Army. RS i Overseas Calls Increase. NEW YORK, December 26 (#).— Nearly twice as many.overseas tele- phone calls were made this Ohrist- mas day and eve as on those two days any previous year. There were 672 conversations between North America and other parts of the world on Christmas day and 283 on the previous day. Previous peaks were established last year with 360 calls Christmas day and 148 on Christmas eve. Browning Was Man Of Few Words, Says His Former Butler Poet Described as Hard Worker and Obsery- « ing Strict Habits. BS the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, December 26.— William Thomas, 82, who says he was butler in Robert Browning’s London home for five years, recalled today the renowned English poet “was & man of few words, hard work and striet was not & tall man—in his study evening aitire for his visitors.” 1936—PART O Once “Uncrowned Empress” i 4 In Mariazeli, monastery village in Styria, Katharina Schrati—once known as Emperor Franz Josel's “umcrowned empress”—is spending the holidays. Now in her 80s, “Kathi” is still the idol of bzgfarl in the she has dispensed alms so long. Schoenbrunn district, to whom Of her and the Emperor Franz Josef the Historian Karl Tschuppik said: “She was his news- paper. From her he learned more, and matters of great interest, than from all his ministers put together.” —A. P. Photo. HELD IN MURDER Stepdaughter Arrested in Myste- rious Death of War Veteran. OZARK, Ark., December 26 (#).— Sheriff Champ Crawford announced the arrest today of Luna Kate Cagle, ! 18-year-old stepdaughter of Monroe | Larrimore, in the mysterious death of | the 44-year-old World War veteran ‘Wednesday night at a country dance. Sheriff Crawford said a charge of ac- cessory to murder would be filed against the girl, the fourth person un- der arrest in the investigation. The officer said two of the others had con- | fessed to placing poison in liquor given Larrimore. | NOT MISSING HEIRESS Turns Out Valueless. HILLSIDE, N. J.,, December 26 (#). —Police Capt. Paul Korlesky said to- night a luncheon waitress here was not the missing Minneapolis heiress, Elizabeth Butterfield. Korlesky interviewed the waitress after a Westfleld man had reported a resemblance between her and a broadcast description of the missing girl. Miss Butterfield was last seen in Greenwich, Conn. Korlesky said the waitress, Mrs. Betty Wilson, lived in Newark. THREE POLICEMEN FACE NEW CHARGE Howard County Considers Criminal Action Against Acquitted Trio. B the Assoctated Press. BALTIMORE, December 26.—Howe ard County authorities today consid~ ered the possibllity of criminal action in the cases of three State policemen acquitted of extortion charges. State Employment Commissioner Harry C. Jones found the men innoe cent after reviewing testimony on the charges brought by Masj. Enoch B. Garey, State police superintendent. State's Attorney C. Perdinand Sy- bert of Howard County said today, however, he planned a study of the cases to determine whether criminal action was justified. “I have been promised a transcript of the testimony at the be- fore Commissioner Jones.” he said. “When it reaches me I intend to give the transcript a very thorough study to determine whether criminal charges in the jurisdiction of Howard County would be justified. “I expect the transcript within a few days. My course will be deter~ mined entirely by what I find in the transcript.” In his decision acquitting the offi- cers and restoring them to duty, Com- missioner Jones had referred to the Ppossibility of criminal action. Maj. Carey had accused the men, all attached to the Laurel substation, of accepting fees from John N. Her- bert, Washington Boulevard garage proprietor, in return for business they allegedly directed to his place. The officers accused were Sergt, Al- bert E. Markley, Corpl. J. E. Wheeler and Patrolman J. J. Thompeon. Com. missioner Jones ordered the men re- turned to the force but Markley and Wheeler were demoted in rank. PROGRAM IS TOUGH | Tobacco Spitters Are Baffled by Clue Involving Jersey Waitress | New Tubular Receivers. AUSTIN, Tex., December 26 (#).— Progress has wrecked the fine art of tobacco spitting in the State Capitol here. Texas statesmen-marksmen former- ly could teeter the low old-fashioned cuspidors with a perfect arc of plug cut shot from a distance of 10 paces. Now the cuspidors have been re- placed by tall tubular receivers filled with white sand. They baffie the most expert marksman because he finds the “angle of incidence” much smaller. There is also less protection from ricocheting.