Evening Star Newspaper, February 7, 1937, Page 2

ROOSEVELT TALKS SHAKE-UP PLANS Sees Congress Aides About Legislative Procedure in Both Houses. President Roosevelt yesterday dis- cussed with Democratic leaders of the Senate and House of Representatives various phases of his recent proposal for reorganization in the executive branch of the Government. The President was particularly anxious at this conference to be ad- vised as to the procedure to be fol- lowed in both houses in the matter of enacting the legislation necessary for him to effect his reorganization plans. No announcement was made following the conference other than that nothing of a definite nature was agreed upon. Attending the conference were Vice President Garner, Speaker of the House Bankhead, Senators Robinson of Arkansas, majority leader of the Senate, and Byrnes of South Caro- lina and Representatives Rayburn of Texas, majority leader in the House, and Buchanan of Texas, chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. With the exception of Vice President Garner and Speaker Bankhead, the others are members of the joint com- mittee on Governmeny organization. It was explained on behelf of the President that while he is anxious not to have the legislation lag, he has no desire to hurry unduly those who are handling it. Senator Robin- son, who has been selected as chair- man of the Senate Special Committee on Reorganization, informed the President that his committee met yes- terday and that a call has been issued for & meeting of the joint committee on reorganization next Tuesday morning. Senator Robinson also announced that Senator Norris of Nebraska, who had been named as a member of the committee, had been excaused from service at his own request. It was explained that while Senator Norris | 15 in entire sympathy with the Presi- | dent’s reorganization plans, he would rather not serve on the committee be- | cause he is busy with other legislative ' matters. PIC RESOURCES TO AT DINNER FRIDAY Possibilities Under Reorganiza- | tion to Be Reviewed by Planning Group. Prederic A. Delano. chairman of the National Capital Parks and Planning Commission, and members of Board of Directors and Advisory Council of the American Planning and Civic Association will be hosts at a dinner for members of the National Resources Committee to be held Fri- day at 7 pm. at the Willard Hotel An after-dinner program will be de- veted to “our national recources un- der reorganization.” Speakers will in- clude Dr. Baldwin M. Woods, chair- man of District No. 10 of the N. R. C.; Dr. Charles E. Merriam, member of the ministrative Management and of the N. R. C, and Charles W. Eliot, 3d, exacutive officer of the N. R. C., who will speak on “What the National Resources Committee Has Done.” Dr. Woods will speak on “Planning on the Pacific Coast” and Dr. Merriam on “Planning Possibilities under the | Lost and found. President’s Committee on Ad- | Readers' Guide and News Summary The Sunday Star, Feb. 7, 1537, PART ONE. Main News Section. FOREIGN. Madrid admits Fascist advance south of capital. Page A-1 NATIONAL. Police order 15,000 questioned in hunt for girl murder clues. Page A-1 Morris L. Cooke resigns unexpectedly as R. E. A. head. Page A-1 Union recognition main bar fo strike peace, Murphy says. Page A-1 Health warnings issued along swollen Mississippi. Page A-1 Supreme Court Justices silent on President’s proposal. Page A-1 Capital sizzles as plans take form on judiciary proposal. Page A-1 Buffalo police study clues to slayer of girl, 18. Page A-1 Freighter in tow, one burns as 5 of crew are saved. Page A-2 Legislators anxious over threatened relief deadlock. Page A-2 Present docket state fails to support plea for change. Page A-4 WASHINGTON AND VICINITY. Installment fine paying proposed by Commissioner. Page A-2 Board of Trade celebrates at speech- less annual dinner. Page B-1 Senate concurrence on auditorium bill likely to be asked. Page B-3 House D. C. Appropriations Commit- tee meets Tuesday. Page B-3 Moore bill held against program plan- ned by Roosevelt. Page B-1 Pederation makes strong protest against racing bill. Page B-1 Rhode Island has unhappy experience with horse racing. Page B-1 ‘Townsend contempt trial is scheduled for tomorrow. Page B-3 Tenants' Council forms to fight ex- orbitant rents. Page B-2 School enrollment reaches total of 91,951, Page B-2 SPORTS. Cunningham again takes mile race, with Venzke second. Page B-7 Maryland scores over Virginia in ring for first time. Page B-7 | Beason’s schedule shows few favors to Washington club, Page B-8 Clarke smashes pin record to capture Campbell Sweepstakes. College net tourney goes back to Mer- ion despite opposition. Page B-10 Derby to be bigger despite flood. s: Louisville Mayor, Page B-11 MISCELLANY. Page A-3 Page A-6 Page A-12 Page B-6 Page B-6 Page B-6 Vital statistics. Obituary. Educational Traffic convictions. | City news in brief. PART TWO. Editorial Section. | Editorial articles. | Editorials and comment. | Civic news. | Women's clubs. | Parent-teacher activities. Military and veterans’ news. Resorts. | Winning contract. | PART THREE. Society Section. | Society news. Pages E-1-9 | Well-known folk. Page E-8 | Barbara Bell pattern, PART FOUR. Feature Sectton. News features. Pages F-1-4 Pages D-6-7 Page D-8 Page D-9 President’s Reorganization Program.” The National Resources Committee | and its Advisory Committee are com- | posed of Secretary of the Interior | Ickes as chairman, Delano as vice chairman, Secretary of War Wood- | ring, Secretary of Agriculture Wal- lace, Secretary of Commerce Roper, Secretary of Labor Perkins, Works Progress Administrator Hopkins, Dr. Merriam, Beardsley Ruml of New York City, and Henry S. Dennison of Framingham, Mass. Invitations have been extended to members of the association and to officials of the many branches of the Government service connected with the development of conservation of Bational resources. Many State Plan- ning Board consultants and district ¢hairmen will attend., BRIDE, 9, AND HUSBAND RECEIVE STAGE OFFERS Mountaineer and Father-in-Law Engage ‘“‘Business Manager” for Couple. By the Assoclated Press. MORRISTOWN, Tenn., February 6. —Charle Johns, 22-year-old moun- taineer, and his 9-year-old bride have received offers to go on the stage. A. T. Drinnon, attorney of Mor= ristown, said Johns and his father- in-law, Lewis Winstead, came here taday by automobile and engaged him | as “personal attorney and business | menager” of the bridal couple. | \“Charlie said he had received hun- | dreds of telegrams offering him stage | cantracts, some as_high as $100 for | each appearance,” Drinnon said. | “Both Charlie and his father-in- | lav pointed out it was against the | mpuntain code to sell pictures or ap- | pear on the stage for money. I told | Charlie I saw no harm in it.” ;Boy, 4, Rouses : 10 in Fire, but : Loses Own Life Alarm Saves Family. Child Is Trapped in Confusion. By the Associated Press. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., February 6.— A 4-year-old boy was burned to death today after giving an alarm that saved the lives of 10 other members of the family when fire destroyed their home on ;the Windsor Highway, five miles east of Binghamton. Kenneth Cole, & twin, saw flames from an oil stove spread through the kitehen, and raced through the house to notify his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Cole, and his eight brothers and sisters. Al of them escaped, but the parents and three of their children suffered burps and injuries in attempting to save some of their possessions. Alice Col¢, 13, suffered a fractured right ankle in jumping from a second-story winglow. In the confusion, deputy sheriffs said, Kenneth was trapped on the first floof. His body was found two hours later near the doorway. 4 John Clagett Proctor. Page F-2 Dick Mansfield. Page F-2 Radio programs. Page F-3 Amusements. Page F-5 Automobiles. Page F-6 Aviation. Page F-6 Children’s. Page F-7 High lights of history. Page PART FIVE. Financial, Classified. Credit chiefs to meet here. Page Trade displays vigor. Page Hopes for higher money rates rise. Page Stocks stage rebound (table). Corporate bonds gain (table). Page Curb list improves (table). Page Cross-word puzzle. Page Classified advertising. Pages G-5-13 Stamps. Page G-14 MAN DIES OF HURTS IN JAN. 20 BEATING Page James Najjun Was Assaulted In Field Near Capitol Heights, Md. James Najjun, 54, of 1809 North Capi- tol street, who was found unconscious and severely beatenr on the night of January 20 in a field near Capitol Heights, Md., died last night in Sib- ley Hospital where he had been | treated once and released. Najjun told his physician, Dr. R. E. Dunkley, he was beaten on the head by an unknown assailant in a house on Maryland avenue south- west and apparently was taken from the house to Capitol Heights. His money and watch, he said, were miss- | ing when he regained consciousness several hours after being found. Dr. Dunkley told police he treated Najjun and had him taken to Sibley Hospital where he was treated for four or five days and released. He was readmitted to the hospital Jan- uary 31 THREE MEN AND WOMAN MISSING IN CABIN BOAT Coast Guard Cutter and Plane Join Fishing Craft in Hunt Off Florida. By the Associated Press. FORT PIERCE, Fla.,, February 6.— An all-day search was conducted to- day for three men and & woman who put to sea aboard the cabin boat Nancy on a fishing trip Thursday. A Coast Guard plane, a cutter and a number of fishing boats joined the search. The party, which included Alfred Meyer and Bert Carver of this city and Mr. and Mrs. Tim Lowry, Winter visitors, was last seen Thursday after- noon 15 miles offshore by fishermen. Lowry is a Chicago attorney. Reich Favors Lactic Acid. Lactic acid, made almost entirely from potatoes, is gaining favor in Ger- many as a flavoring material and pre- servative, Page B-9 | THE SUNDAY. STAR, WASHINGTON, b FEBRUARY 2 1937—PART ONE. Senate Leaders Consider Reorganization Proposal of most of their conferees, this While the plan to revamp the judiciary occupied the attention roup of Senators met yesterday to consider President Roosevelt's proposal to reorganize the erecutive branch of the Government. They are (left to right): John G. Townsend, jr., Republican, of Delaware; Charles L. THREATENS RELIEF Dispute Over “Rider” May Delay Measure and Curtail Aid. B the Associated Press. | bill might lead to a suspension of country. The appropriation. a deficiency unemplovment and flood relief, already has passed the Senate and House, but in somewhat différent form in each. Though spokesmen of both cham- bers have reached a compromise. sev- | eral legislators expressed belief the Senate proper would balk at a “rider” which would prohibit the use of regu- lar Federal employes by congressional investigating committees after June 30. Voted Down 32 to 0. By a vote of 72 to 0, the Senate re- | Allen. | | McNary, Republican, of Oregon; of Arkansas; Harry F. Byrd, Dem Democrat, of Mississippi; James Joseph T. Robinson, Democrat, ocrat, of Virginia; Pat Harrison, F. Byrnes, Democrat, of South Carolina and George W. Norris, Independent, of Nebraska. Urged by Commissioner Allen Installment payment of fines for misdemeanors, to avoid imprisonment, would be allowed under a proposal advanced yesterday by Commissioner George E. Allen, primarily as a means | of reducing District prison population. He appointed a committee of four | District officlals to draft proposed legislation for consideration by the Board of Commissioners. The idea is borrowed from practices | of long standing in England, but the Informed legislators expressed anxi- | thought crystalized, Allen said, when ety last night lest a threatened dead-|he found his golf caddy, Bemnrd; lock over a $950,000,000 appropnannn"'n’m"- serving time at the District Jail in default of payment of a $5 fine for disorderly conduct. inspection trip. He paid the balance due on the fine and had the caddy measure which includes $789.000,000 for | Felcased. Bill Probable This Session. The proposal is to be studied by El- wood Street, director of welfare; El- wood Seal, corporation counsel; Paul L. Kirby, acting general superinten- dent of penal insitutions. and Maj. Daniel J. Donovan, auditor. Unless obstacles are encountered, the bill may be sent to Congress for introduction at this session. “Transients, floaters, vagrants and bums would not be eligible,” said “Careful restrictions would cently struck from the original bill a have to be drawn to assure success of House proposal to eliminate the prac- | the plan. But members of a |some misdeed would have to show in- | ability to pay the fine at once, and | tice immediately. Joint Senate-House committee ap- pointed to iron out differences over the measure agreed Friday to recommend the compromise proposal to their re- ! spective houses. Chairman Buchanan of the House Appropriations Committee, one of the conferees, led the fight for the rider, but declined to venture a prediction on the Senate’s attitude. As originally phrased, the rider | would have interfered with activities |of two Senate committees investigat- ing railway financing and allcged vio- lations of civil liberties. Both of these | committees have been using personnel | borrowed from the Works Progress | Commerce Commission. Fight Hinted by Buchanan. Buchanan indicated he would mal a vigorous fight for the rider. althoug emphasizing the need for passage of the bill by Tuesday. “The Tuesday.” he asserted. “Otherwise they will have to begin suspending re- lief payments in many sections of the country.” Meantime the Chamber of Com- merce of the United States said ves- terday that passage of the bill without | rather a favorable augury taxpayer.” The chamber said “many attempts | were made in both Houses to tag the Treasury for this, that and the other additional spending.” 1t asserted that successful resistance | to these moves “marks a victory for Ime leaders in both Houses.” WOMAN, 109, EXPIRES “Aunt Mary” Thornton Was Suc- cessful Farmer in Maine. Miss Mary Thornton, 109, believed to died here today after a brief illness. “Aunt Mary,” as she was called by the townsfolk, came to this country from Ireland with her parents 100 years ago. She was a successful farmer and had retained all her fac- ulties up to the time of her illness. She left a nephew, Thomas McEn- aney of South Boston, and two nieces, | Mrs. F. H. Hubbard of Austin. Minn., | and Mrs. Erland Morrison of Dixfield. Senator Thomas to Speak. Senator Thomas, Democrat, of Utah; Representative Scott, Democrat of Cal- ifornia, and Stephen Raushenbush, former chief investigator of the Nye munitions investigation, will address a public meeting sponsored by the Dis- | trict branch of the Women's Interna- | tional League for Peace and Freedom on neutrality tomorrow at 8:15 p.m. at Barker Hall, Seventeenth and K streets. Slain MARY ELLEN BABCOCK. —Copyright, 4. P. Wirephota, RUMFORD, Me., February 6 (#).— have been the oldest person in Maine, | Page E-9 Administration and the Interstate | ment nation. 11 has got to get through by | | sharp increases “in appropriations is | for the | The person convicted of prospects of payment within a reason- able period. “One of the gravest of our prison problems is congestion. We need a new jail and the workhouse and re- formatory are badly crowded. see reasons for permitting many per- sens & chance to avoid mprison- ment by allowing installment pay- ment of fines. But the major pur- pose is to lessen the congestion at the Jail and workhouse. The problem of congestion daily is getting moie acute, U. S. Is “Instaliment Nation.” “Furthermore, this is an install- We buy automobiles, houses, refrigerators on the install- ment basis. Why can't we permit h : Allen found { relief payments in many parts of the the youth there last week during an I can | payment of fines on the same plan? If we can collect a $5 or a $100 fine over a reasonable period, when the circumstances warrant, what is the good in passing up the fine, depriv- ing th¢ man of his liberty, and plac- ing his cost on the taxpayers?” London adopted such a plan in 1914. Welfare Director Street, who toured England last Summer, re- ports that in the fiscal year 1919-1911 London imprisoned 84,000 persons in default of payment of fines levied by the courts there. In 1934 the number imprisoned for the same reason, he has informed Allen, was reduced to 11,128, Costly to District. To show the possible effect here, Street stated that on February 4, there were 166 prisoners at the Dis- trict Jail, out of a total of more than 600, who were imprisoned for default said, ranged from $5 to $250 and of payment of fines. The fines, he totaled $1.465. “In other words.” said Commissioner Allen, “instead of coliecting more than $1400 from these prisoners, the Dis- trict jailed them and the taxpayers are paying the cost of their keep.” At the District Workhouse, at Occo- quan, Va. on February 4, Street said, there were 1,186 prisoners. Of this total, 616, or about 52 per cent, were | imprisoned because they had default- ed in payment of their fines. As the plan is now contemplated, a probation officer, or other agent of the court or the Welfare Board, would investigate applications for install- ment paying of fine. Delinquency Means Jail, Should the guilty one fail to make the payments he would be brought in to serve the prescribed amount of fine. “But, suppesing the prisoner, once released, cut and run?’ Allen was asked. ““Well,” he answered, “he would have to siay away from the District, be- icauu if he came back he would be sent up to serve the time he had avoided. And if some one sentenced or a few days or weeks left town and | ailed to come back, I can't see that much would be lost.” Quiz (Continued From First Page.) torn wool, and a man’s scarf—to work | PRINCESS TO SPEAK IN HEBREW FORUM —A. P. Photo. SUPPLYBLLROW [Tmstallment Pasing of Fines |eREICTER OED IN RAGING SEAS El Occidente Has Broken Rudder—O0ne Ship Burns as 5 Are Saved. | By the Associated Press. NORFOLK, Va., February 6.—The Morgan Line freighter El Occidente, | her rudder broken, was taken in tow | by the Coast Guard cutter Scbago about 50 miles off Cape Henry shortly after 3 pm. today while another cut- ter hurried to the aid of the Norwegian | freighter Rigel, adrift in heavy seas | 300 miles off the North Carolina coast. The steamship Tela took five men | from the burning schooner William A. Morse, off the Charleston, 8. C., coast | and reported the vessel probably would | be a total loss. The Tela continued on to Philadelphia with the schnon-‘ er's crew, | Norfolk Coast Guardsmen said the | | cutter Modoc, dispatched to the us-( sistance of the Rigel, could not reach | the vessel before 9 o'clock tonight. The Rigel also had a broken rudder. Morning Message Last. The division headquarters had re- ceived no me<sege from the freighter | since “a general call for ships to stand by" this morning when she was re- ported “listing heavily.” The Rigel. a vessel of 2.298 tons and 3.828 gross tons. was reported to have | & list of 30 degrees. One lifeboat had | been lost. No other ships were report- ed near the disabled freighter. Coast Guard officers said the shift- ing of the cargo in the heavy seas con- stituted the vessoi's greatest dan The Rigel was en route to New Yor from Imbicuy, reports here said. She was reported at Rosario on January 2. She was built at Copenhagen in 1924 and her home port was listed as Bergen, Norway. Offices of Taylor & Andrews. agents for the Morgen Line, said the El Occi- | dente was on a regular run to New York from Houston and Galveston. | | El Occidente, a steam-powered ves- | sel of 6.008 gross tous, was launch | at Newport News in 1910. She nos maily carries a crew of 32 out of her New York home port. One of Four Rescue Ships. he ship was cne of four rescus ve:sels which went to the aid of tt on as they searched for the slayer who Thoughts About Germany to Be passenger liner Dixie when the latier attacked the girl and left her body in a field last migit The knife was picked up near the body, and the wool fragment was taken from one of the young woman's fingernails. Another possible clue, palice said. was & man's scarf, maroon and white, picked up in the field soon after the body was discovered at noon today. Stabbed in the face, neck, chest and legs, the body lay in a ditch, surrounded by trash. Two frightened 8-year-old boys discovered it while | they were at play and ran home to tell their parents. “Miss Babcock was viciously at- tacked, apparently by a degenerate,’ said Assistant Chief of Detectives Frank J. McCarthy. Innumerable cuts on her hands, | police said, bore witness to her fight against the man, who is believed to | have met her as she walked home from a wake, about 9 o'clock last night. From the fragment in Mary Ellen's fingernail, police hoped to determine the quality and color of the attacker's outer garments. Mary Ellen’s own black fur coat was bloodstained and torn, and cov- ered her head. Bloodstains and bits of fur were found 90 feet away in Legion drive, which runs past the field. In one hand the young womain clutched one of her gloves. The other glove and a pocketbook lay nearby. It was necessary or Mary Ellen to pass the fleld on her way home from the wake. The nearest houses are about a block .way, and her own home, where she lived with her par- | ents, was seven blocks beyond. “Mary Ellen left home last night about 6:30 o'clock,” said Mrs. Egloff, who lives in the upper flat over the Babcock home. “She was to meet Helen Jerge, & friend of about the same age, and they were to attend a wake at a house @ few blocks away. g “She left home in good spirits and said she would be home about 9 o'clock.” Miss Jerge said tonight she and Mary Ellen parted company at the wake and Mary Ellen started home alone. Her family kept an all-night vigil. At 1 o'clock this afternoon p* ar- rived to inform the parents y Ellen had been found dead. Medical Examiner Rocco N. De Dominicis said the girl had not been criminally assaulted. Police messages were sent to eight’ States tonight, advising them to look for a blood-stained automobile and to pick up a man about 25 years old for questioning in connection with the slaying. The message described the man as about five feet seven inches tall, wear- ing a brown leather jacket with brown fur, and driving a dirty, black or brown 1930 model Ford sedan. Police refused to disclose how they obtained the description. Messages were sent to New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Ohilo and Michigan. | Topic of Helga Maria Loew- | enstein Tonight. | Princess Helga Maria Loewenstein, | who two years ago was exiled from Nazi Germany with her husband, will address the National Temple Forum of the Washing- ton Hebrew Con- gregation at 8:30 o'clock tonight. Her subject will be “A Few Thoughts About Germany.” The princess former head of the Catholic Cen- ter party, are in this country campaigning for funds to support two organizations dedicated to nourishing Ger- man arts and letters among exiles | from Germany. The organizations are the American Guild for German Cultural Freedom and the proposed German Academy of Arts and Letters. The princess was dubbed “the shooting princess” by the German press when, two years ago, she is said | Princess Loewenstein. | routing Nazis who attempted to take | a black-gold-red flag from the radio- | tor of her automobile as she was driv- | ing through Innsbruck, Austria. Sweet Briar Alumnae to Meet. Delegates from five States were rep- resented at the Midwinter council meeting of the Sweet Briar Alumnae | Association yesterday at the Wardman Park Hotel. Mrs. Frederick Valen- | tine of Richmond, Va,, president, pre- sided. and her husband, | | to have fired her revolver into the air, | Barkley Forum Speaker grounded south of Miami, Fla., in Sep- | tember, 1935. | | A mescaze from the steamer Tela | said the schooner William A. Morse. believed to be a comparatively small boat. posibly & member of a coast fishing fleet, was left burning in lati- tude 31.17 and longitude 79.04 after the crew was removed The Coast Guard cutter Colfax put out from Charleston, S. C., to sink the | | wreckage. The cause of the fire aboard the | schooner was mnot given. Her home | port was given as St. Thomas, Virgin | Islands. | | WASHlNGTONBOCIETY | TO INSTALL OFFICERS i | Representative Martin Smith to | Become President of State Group Feb. 18. Representative Martin Smith of | Washington will be installed as presi- | | dent of the Washington State and | | Alaska Society at a dinner dance | | Pebruary 18 at the Lee House, Fif- | teenth and L streets. | At the same time Representatives Wallgren and Hill will take office as vice presidents from Western and Eastern Washington, respectively. | Delia Bogue is chairman of the Program Committee, aided by Ruby L. | Bakken and William P. Taylor. Serv- | ing on the General Arrangements Committee are Mary F. Kerby, Thelma | Mogaard, Ethel B. Clein, Eleanor | M. Stephenson, Kathleen Bland, Lu- ella K. McFaddin, Adeline Fern, D.| Harold McGrath, Earl S. Haseltin, | P. F. Snyder and Emmett R. Carroll. Reservations are to be made with| | Miss Bakken, 1703 New Hampshire avenue. ENATOR ALBEN W. BARKLEY of Kentucky will deliver an ad- ! dress on the flood situation in | the Ohio and Mississippi valley | in the National Radio Forum tomorrow at 10:30 pm. The Forum i8 arranged by the Washington Star and broad- cast over the network of the National Broadcasting Co. Senator Barkley, whose home is in Paducah, which was almost completely flooded, will discuss the problem of rehabilitatich and the problem of flood control. The Kentucky Senator in the past has given much study to the ques- tion of flood prevention, How far the Federal Government shall go in the matter of rehabilitation in the flood ares is “to be deter- mined. It has never before granted money for the rebuiffiing of private homes and other private property, (o KENTUCKY SENATOR TO DISCUSS FLOOD TOMORROW NIGHT. | SENATOR BARKLEY. { Little Things That Make a World 13 Teeth Missing After Friendly Scuffle; Stray Cats Routed. CARESS. AKOSPALOTA, Hungary (). —Francis Desi, explaining things to a judge, said there had been a friendly scuffie in the course of which he had given Francis Revesz a light tap on the cheek. ‘Whereupon Revesz produced what seemed to be a necklace. Neatly strung on a cord were 13 teeth, which, he testified, had popped out in con- sequence of Desi’s little caress. The judge passed sentence on Desi. ok x % h z CATS. LONDON (®).—Slum clearance schemes are having their effect on London’s 7,000,000 cats. In the new tenement homes now being érected it is forbidden to keep cats and dogs. Last year the collectors of our dumb animal league rounded up and destroyed no less than 100,000 cats and dogs as a consequence of the mew order as regards modern tenement houses. Fears have been expressed that rats and mice may become increas= ingly bold. £ x k% HAPSBURG. UDAPEST (#).—A Hapsburg who studied the humbler side of life, Archduke Joseph Francis, has just told the world what he discovered, in 200 pages of poems. The aristocratic author is the son of Archduke Joseph, generally known as the “Hungarian Hapsburz” His | family frequently has been at odds | with Al n Hapsburgs A play by Archduke Joseph Francis, “Columbr scored a notable success several years ago. * x X X HUSBAND. A (P —Alfred Schwaitzleft fe, Riki, because she was VXEN his too smar Frau Schwartz came here one day to find a note from Alfred, a Dook- keeper, saymng: “Goodbye, you are too intelligent for me.” From London, Alfred wrote a let- ter. later produced in court. “I had to flee,” he said. “I mar ried my wife because I fell in love with her suddenly. But soon I learned she places great stress on intelligence. She is a philosopher. I hate philosophers. Her talk made me so nervous I had to consult a physician. So I had to leave, and 1t is my fault.” The court didn't agree. Frau Schwartz got a divorce and $60 a month alimon" DINGWALL. Scotland (#) — Acnid the grandeur of Buckingham Palace’ Queen Elizabeth will be at- tended by the simple Scottish maid who has served her for 25 years. Catherine Maclean, daughter of a Dinguall builder, jaithjully worked for her mistress when she was Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon and later as Duchess of York, but she feared she would mnever be sufficiently skilled to wait upon a@ Queen. “If you cannot do it for me, Catherine.” cried her majesty, “who can? I cannot do without you mow.” “With that” wrote Catherine Maclean to a Dingwall friend, “her majesty threw her arms around my neck and kissed me, saying: ‘I shall try to make Buck- ingham Palace as bright, cheerful and homey as 145 Piccadilly.” * x ox x MEMORIAL. ]' ONDON (#)—Just 15 centuries < after the Romans left Britain, Lonidon has placed in her streets the first memorial to an official of the occupation. Near Tower Hill, where a large frag- ment of the town hall planned and built by the Romans has been un- earthed, a Latin epitaph has been affixed to the wall. It reads (transiated): “In memory of Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus of the Fabian tribe. Pro- curator of the Province of Britain; his wife, Julia Pacata. daughter of Julius Indus, set this up.” The epitaph is copied from an orig- inal stone recovered on the same site and now placed in the British Museum. Julius Classicianus, who as procurat tor was receiver of the Roman im- perial revenues in Britain, achieved fame in A. D. 61 by defending the Britons against fierce reprisals by the Roman military governor of London after Boadicea's revolt. DOCK WORKERS IN RIOT New Orleans Outbreak Follows Resumption of Shipping. NEW ORLEANS, February 6 (#).— Rioting broke out on the New Orleans waterfront today when intercoastal shipping operations were resumed after a lapse of three months because of the maritime strike. Between 200 and 300 members of | the two “old” Longshoremen’s Unions, which prior to the strike were employed by the intercoastal lines. here stormed a wharf where the Luckenbach Gulf Steamship Co. was discharging the S. S. Florence Luck- enbach with members of the Interna- tional Longshoremen'’s Association. $1,000,000 Planes Sold. NEW YORK, February 6 (#).—Sales from the floor at the National Avia- tion Show, closing here tonight, were said by Managing Director G. A. Pal sons to have )assed $1,000,000, & record total. Attendance at the ex- hibition was put by its officials at around 350,000, | HUNDREDS VIGTIMS OF RUSSIAN PURGE Communist Party ‘Cleansed’ in Greatest Upheaval in 10 Years. BACKGROUND— Conflict in communistic interpre= tations of objectives has brought interparty upheavals almost ane nually to Russia since revolution= ary days of 1918. Advent of Joseph Stalin as dictator in 1927 brought ezile of Trotzky, co-founder with Lenin of Soviet regime. World revolution versus success of social= ism has been main issue in inter= ! party disputes. Last year 16 Ruse sian leaders were executed after confessing plot to overthrow Stalin. Thirteen more were killed and four imprisoned ajter similar trial recently. By the Associated Press, MOSCOW, February 6.—Reports poured in from all parts of far-flung Soviet Russia today of the greatest Communist party purge since 1927. In an aftermath of Trotzky conspir= acy confessions and convictions, the party rolls are being purified of hune dreds of names, the advices indicated. It is the most thorough *cleansing” since Leon Trotzky and hundreds of his followers were read out of the party 10 years ago. Already arrested and charged with taking part in the so-called “Trotzkist wrecking conspiracy,” hundreds of influential Soviet citizens are said to be among the victims of the purge, Party Demands Met. Close on the heels of the trial and conviction of 17 confessed plotters, in- cluding the noted Soviet commentator Karl Radek, came demands from party ranks that others implicated in trial testimony be brought swiftly to trial, and the party be purged or “rightist” elements. Alexander Georgivich Belaborodoff, reputed executioner of the Czar and his family: Nicolai Bukharin, former editor of the government newspaper | Izvestia, and Alexis Rykoff, former Soviet premier, are among the once- powerful Russians expected to be tried. | Death to Belaborodoff Urged. Workers in Southern Russia have | demanded the death penalty for Bela« | borodofl, former president of the | Orenburg Soviet, said by some to have | been one of the four who fired a fatal fusillade that killed the Czar and his family July 16, 1918, in an Ekaterine | burg cellar. Belaborodoff was arrested at Rose | toff-on-Don, southern industrial city, recently. During the trial of the 17 alleged Trotzkyists in Moscow, he was named by M. S. Boguslavsky, a de fendant, as a participant in a plot to overthrow the Soviet government in Busk, Siberia, in 1928. | | PHOTOGRAPHIC SHOW ' JUDGES ARE CHOSEN E. M. Benson, Harry Goodwin and Walker Evans Named | for Contest March 7 to 21. E. M. Benson of the American Magazine of Art, Harry Goodwin, vice president >f the Washington Picto= rialists, and Walker Evans of the Ree settlement Administration _will be judges in its second annual Washinge ton photographic show, the Juniof League announced today. The show, which will be held March 7 through 21, at 2001 Massachusetts avenue, will be governed by the follows ing rules: 1. Photographs must be delivered to the Junior Leazue of Washington, 2001 | Massachusets avenue, not later than March 1. 2. Each exhibitor may submit four prints. 3. Prints must be mounted on piain white matboard, 14'¢ by 19'¢ or 18 by 20 inches. 4. Title of print, name and address of photographer and type of camera used must appear on the back of each mat in the upper left-hand corner 5. Exhibits must be called promptly when the show is over. for Mint Employe Is Urged for $15,000 Reward O’Connell Kidnap Ar- rests Held Due to Denver Tip. | By the Associated Press. DENVER, February 6.—District Ate torney John A. Carroll said tonight he would recommend that Joseph L. Schnurr, Denver mint employe, re- ceive a $15.000 reward for information leading to the arrest of four suspects’ in the John J. O'Connell kidnaping. “Schnurr gave us the information which led to the arrest of a man we've identified as Francis Leo Oley and subsequently to the arrest of three men in New York." Carroll said. “He's entitled to the reward, and will get it if I can get it for him “We're investigating the possibility {Oley may have been here to ‘case’ | the mint with a view to holding it up, but we doubt whether he’d be rash | enough to attempt a job of that size.” | carroll said Schnurr and J. C. Stortz, jr., another mint employe, rece ognized the description of Oley in & detective story magazine as that of a man they knew as Frank O'Neil Schnurr communicated the informae tion to a district attorney’s investie gator. Three men—John Oley. who, Carroll said, is a brother of the man arrested here; Percy “Angel Face” Geary and | Harold “Red” Crowley—are under ar- | rest in Brooklyn, N. Y., on charges of | violating the Lindbergh kidnap law. Federal officials assert the three and the man “inder arrest here engineered the kidnaping of O'Connell of Albany, N. Y. in 1933 and collected $40,000 ransom from his uncles, Daniel and Edward O'Connell, Democratic leaders, Mark A. Skinner, mint superinten~ | dent, derided the possibility of any | one holding up the Denver mint. “How would they get inside the mint?” Skinner asked. “And if they got inside, what good would it do them? We're equipped with tear gas apparatus, we have armed guards see creted all over the place, we have bur- | glar alarms, everything ingenuity can contrive to safeguard the mint. “The mere idea is ridiculous. And besides, we keep about as much cur- “ency on hand as the average grocery | store. We have plenty of gold bule lion, but any one who succeeded in stealing it would have a hard time dis- posing of it.” '