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1,000 10 GET JOBS
IN DISTRICT W. P. A.;
MANY INELIGIBLE
Capital Quota Raised From
6,400 to 7,400—Picket
ing Called Off.
THOSE DROPPED JULY 1
RANKED AS UNQUALIFIED
Increase Still Leaves Need of
$830,000 Supplement Relief
Appropriation.
One thousand additional needy men
and women in the' District will be
given Jobs on the District W. P. A.,
but none of them can be drawn from
the group for which municipal wel
fare leaders asked for a supplemental
relief appropriation of $830,000,
This development stood out today
after representatives of the Workers'
Alliance, Local No. 3, staged a brief
picket about the District Building in
protest against the dismissal a week
ago Friday of 342 men from the Fed
eral W. P. A. project at Bolling Field.
Otto J. Cass, deputy District W. P.
A. administrator, promptly protested
that the 342 men had been dismissed
through a misapprehension that the
past District quota for the W. P. A.
had been reduced.
Gets Word of Increase.
He revealed that just five minutes
before the picket line was established
about the District Building, he had
received an official notice that the
District quota could be increased from
6,400 to 7,400 persons.
David Dixon, described as national
representative of the Workers’ Alli
ance. after hearing the explanation of
the Bolling Field dismissals, withdrew
the pickets. Cass said he had not
learned of the Bolling Field project
dismissals until Monday and that
some 200 of the men since had been
reassigned to other projects.
Cass said the increase in the quota
would not afford aid to those who
were dropped from the District relief
list about 10 months ago, since they
were not certified by relief authori
ties as being in need of relief.
Not More Than 1,000 Certified.
He said there were not more than
1.000 persons already certified for W.
P. A. jobs, by relief officials, who had
been awaiting assignment to jobs.
To be eligible for W. P. A. jobs,
It is necessary first to have been on
relief and to have been certified by
relief officials to the W. P. A. as j
eligible for a job.
The 1.000 to 3,000 persons deemed
In need of direct relief, and for whom j
the supplemental appropriation has
been urged by District officials and
spokesmen for the Council of Social (
Agencies, cannot get on the District j
direct relief roster because the avail- j
able funds are too limited.
The supplemental appropriation of I
$830,000 for these persons, urged by
the Board of Public Welfare, was re
jected at the Budget Bureau. In
passing on that proposal John Keddy,
in charge of District appropriation
matters, suggested that church organi
sations should take care of needy Dis
trict residents beyond the unemploy
ables now on the District relief list.
PARTY DELEGATE
PRIMARY OPPOSED
Glover Park Citizens' Association
Disapproves Copeland
Bill for D. C.
Deciding it provides an expensive
*et-up without getting anywhere, the
Glover Park Citizens' Association last
night disapproved the Copeland bill
to provide District primaries for the
selection of delegates to the political
conventions.
The group, which met in Stoddert
School, favored higher pay and better
working conditions in the District
Jail and other institutions but re
fused to take any action on the reso
lution of the Council of Social Agen
cies for congressional appropriation
to care for the District's 3,000 “un
employed employables.'
Harold Snape, director of the Good
will Industries, spoke briefly before
thf. association, outlining the history 1
of the movement anc explaining how
it took care of 300 employables in the j
District from the income realized
from “reclaimed articles” sold.
The association also heard the pros |
and cons of the President's court |
plan discussed by two members of
the Junior Bar Association. Tilford
Dudley spoke for the plan and Ralph
McElvenny opposed it.
Eighteen new meembers were ad
mitted.
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MASS MEETING BACKS
NATIONAL MEMORIAL
Talks by former Senator Robert L.
Owen of Oklahoma and other speakers
were highlights of a mass meeting
sponsored in the interest of the Na
tional Memorial to the Progress of the
Colored Race in America Thursday
night in Dunbar High School audi
torium.
Others on the program included: Dr.
William J. Thompkins, recorder of
deeds; A. S. Pinkett. secretary. Wash
ington branch of the National Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Col
ored Persons; C. A. Williams, director
for the colored branch of the C. C. C.,
•nd Elder Michaux.
Paintings of the memorial, to be lo
cated on a 575-acre tract, on James
River. Va„ at the spot where slaves
first landed in America, were exhibited
at the meeting. They are the works of
Henri Merz, Swiss artist.
A letter was read from Commis
sioner George E. Allen, who signified
his acceptance of membership on the
national board of the memorial.
NOMINATION CONFIRMED
Senate Approves Appointment of
Colored Lawyer.
The Senate confirmed without de
bate yesterday the nomination of
William H. Hastie, 32-year-old colored
lawyer, to be Federal judge for the
Virgin Islands.
Hastie, said by officials to be the
first of his race appointed to the
Federal bench, Is an Interior Depart
ment solicitor.
Book in Pocket Saves Life
As Bandits Shoot D. C. Man
Two alleged bandits were captured
early today, a few minutes after on*
of them fired a bullet through the
overcoat and suit coat of Lester
Monath, 1424 Trinidad avenue north
east, who was saved from injury by a
thick book in which the slug buried
itself.
The gunmen, according to Monath,
forced their way into his car in the
1000 block of Eleventh street, Monath
attempted to put up a fight, he said,
and one of his assailants fired his
pistol. The bandits took him to
Eleventh and P streets, Monath re
ported, and then tossed him out of his
car.
A few minutes after the gunmen had
driven away in Monath’s machine,
Sergt. Roy B. Jenkins and Pvt. Charles
Apfelback, both of the park police,
gave chase to an automobile speeding
across Arlington Memorial Bridge. In
the midst of the pursuit, a police radio
announcement told the officers of the
hold-up and gave the license number
of the stolen car, which tallied with
that of the machine the officers were
pursuing.
When the car doubled back to re
cross the bridge, the police auto drove
up beside it. Apfelbeck stood on the
running-board and waved his revolver
tn a command to halt, which was
obeyed. The policemen took the two
men in the car to the third precinct,
where they gave their names as Robert
Hill and Earl Rowe, both of North
Carolina and both 20. It was just
nine minutes after they had left
Monath, police said.
The North Carolinians were booked
for investigation.
A gunman robbed Sam Abelman
and the cash register in his liquor
store, 1208 Thirteenth street, of $280
last night. The bandit entered, flashed
an automatic, herded Abelman. a
clerk and a customer into a corner,
took his money and left.
Two colored men seized John Dick
erson, 1805 Thirteenth street, as he
walked past an alley on Thirteenth
street between T and U streets last
night and robbed him of $27.
Three housebreakings in which be
longings valued at $403 were stolen
were reported.
LESTER MONATH.
_—Star Staff Photo.
A wave of thievery from parked
automobiles last night cost a Senator
and three out-of-town visitors losses
in clothing and other valuables
amounting to $575.
Thieves took a rug, valued at about
$50, from the ear of Senator Johnson
of California when it was parked in
the 100 block of B street northeast,
his chauffeur, Joseph de Voe, reported.
Personal Belonging Stolen.
Personal belongings, valued at $113,
were taken from the car of Jack
Schlowitz, Brooklyn, N. Y„ while it
was parked in the 1100 block of Elev
enth street. Mrs. W. T. Utley, Detroit,
told police her machine was broken
into while it was parked in the first
blbck of E street and robbed of cloth
ing, a wrist watch and a diamond ring,
all -valued at $247.
Sam Michalove, Asheville, N. C,
told police his car, parked in the 600
block of H street northeast, was robbed
of clothing and 50 women's print
dresses he planned to sell, all valued
at $165.
Potomac Valley Conference
Created to Seek Aid of
U. S. and States.
A permanent Potomac Valley Pollu
tion Conference was created late yes
terday at the conclusion of an all-day
session called by the Washington
Board of Trade to promote a plan of
Federal and interstate co-operation in
abatement of stream pollution within
the 14,000-square-mile area of the
Potomac watershed.
The immediate objective of the new
group, as expressed by formal resolu
tion. is the establishment of the Po
tomac River conservancy district as
proposed by the National Resources
Committee. President Roosevelt and
Congress were requested to take the
initiative in establishing the demon
stration district and provide suffi
cient financial aid to carry out it*
purpose.
That purpose, the resolution stated,
was ‘‘the removal of the present un
desirable, insanitary and dangerous
pollution of the Potomac River, an j
interstate stream, where there now
exists serious dangers to health and 1
life which are rapidly increasing with
the density of population.”
Health Departments to Aid.
The health departments of Mary
land. Virginia, West Virginia and
Pennsylvania, with the co-operation of
the District, will exert their influence
to bring about, the remedial measure.
An Executive Committee was ap
pointed yesterday to effect the details
of organizing the new Potomac Valley
Conference, membership in which will
be open to all persons interested in
pollution control. Original members !
comprise the State delegates attend- j
ing yesterday’s session.
Dr. R. H. Reilly, Maryland State!
director of health was name chair
man of the Executive Committee. The :
other members include George L. Hall, |
acting chief engineer of the Maryland
Health Department; Morton Waller
stein, chairman of the Virgin!.- State
Planning Board; E. S. Tisdale, chief
sanitary health engineer of West Vir
ginia; J. B. Gordon, director of sani
tary engineering in the District of
Columbia; M. O. Leighton, local con
sulting engineer; C. J. Bruce of Cum
berland, Md„ and Prof. W. B. Holton
of American University, representing
the Izaac Walton League.
The conference will meet again on
call.
Pollution problems in the four States
and the District were discussed by
speakers yesterday afternoon, follow
ing a luncheon in honor of the Na
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission.
Plant in Operation Soon.
The sewer disposal plant i Wash
ington will be placed in operation in
a few months, Gordon said, in report
ing on sanitary matters in the Dis
trict. This will provide for the re
moval of 50 per cent of solids and 33
per cent of biochemical oxygen de
mand, he said, the plant being built
so as to provide more complete treat
ment when needed.
Gordon said that with the ultimate
consummation of various intercepting
and relief sewer systems under con
struction, pollution in Rock Creek
will be restricted to an occasional
highly-diluted overflow.
The State of Maryland, according
to Mr. Hall, chief health engineer,
has estimated sewage-treatment proj
ects above Washington costing $3,800,
000. Projects are completed, he said,
at Cumberland, Brunswick, Williams
port, Emmitsburg, Frederick and West
minster. As a result, he pointed out,
the estimated sewered population has
been increased by 181,000.
The cost of industrial waste plants
to correct serious pollution from mines
and factories above Washington would
be $1,750,000, he suggested.
URGES MOVIE PROBE
i
Alabama Lawmaker Would Inves
tigate Industry.
Representative Hobbs of Alabama
yesterday proposed an investigation
of the motion picture industry with
a view to determining whether the
producers violate the anti-trust laws.
His bill particularly called for an
inquiry into the set-up of the Motion
Picture Producers & Distributors of
America, Inc.
D. C. SUPPLY Bill
*
Committee’s Report to
House Now Probable
on March 29.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.
The 1938 District appropriation bill,
carrying, in addition to funds to oper
ate the municipal government for an
other year, the fate of the Jacobs
three-point fiscal relations plan, prob
ably will be reported to the House
March 29, as a result of sudden al
teration today in the legislative pro
gram of the House for the coming j
week.
Plans had been made by Chairman
Collins of the subcommittee on ap
propriations in charge of the measure
to present the bill to the House Thurs
day. House leaders, however, made
other arrangements, and told him a
delay would be necessary. Collins took i
advantage of the postponement and
left Washington for a w'eek's vacation, i
t® recover, he said, from the "ordeal” I
he underwent in connection with the 1
recent hearings on the 1938 budget
estimates and the study of the Jacobs I
fiscal relations formula.
Study Broadens.
In the meantime, leading members
of the District legislative committee
of the House went ahead with plans
for resuming the investigation of the
Jacobs plan on a broader scale than
originally proposed. Aside from the
fiscal relations study, the committee
is expected to authorize an exhaus
tive survey designed to bring about
a thorough reorganization of the mu
nicipal government in the interest of
efficiency and economy.
Definite plans for reviving the
study will be made at a meeting of
the District committee Wednesday.
At that time Chairman Norton and
Representatives Kennedy of Mary
land and Nichols of Oklahoma, both
Democrats, intend to have a detailed
program prepared for consideration
of the committee.
Another Subcommittee Likely.
Kennedy was chairman of one of
the two subcommittees created some
time ago to analyze the Jacobs plan
and Nichols headed the other. These
two subcommittees halted their work,
however, fearing they were working
at "cross purposes.” Another sub
committee of three members is ex
pected to be appointed to take over
the work of the two subcommittees as
well as study plans for reorganizing
the District government.
Chairman Norton discussed the
plans at a conference yesterday with
Nichols. She also conferred with J.
L. Jacobs, Chicago efficiency engineer
who directed the fiscal relations study
on which the three-point formula is
predicated, but did not disclose the
purpose of the conference.
Fidelity
J
(Continued From First Page.)
proved by the Federal Home Loan
Bank Board, which has the right to
reject any officers proposed for man
agement of the institution. The ques
tion of management of these new
Federal savings and loan associations
Is said to be vital.
The Horne Loan Bank Board will
have a financial interest in the in
stitution, it is understood, because it
is expected the Home Owners’ Loan
Corp. will invest in certain shares of
the new institution. But in no case
will this investment i authorize more
than 50 votes by the board.
The reorganization of the old Fidel
ity will be an innovation among closed
institutions of this city for another
reason. Under the new plan, the as
sets of the old Fidelity will be sold
outright on the basis of 85 per cent to
the new association. All of the assets
of the old outfit go Into the new one.
There will be no leftover assets to be
put in the hands of a receiver or a
liquidating trust to be liquidated, as
has happened in the case of nearly all
other closed financial institutions in
Washington.
Senator Bankhead Expected.
Senator Bankhead’s office said today
the Alabama Democrat would arrivt
here tomorrow from Arizona, where
he has been recuperating from an ill
ness.
SITE WAS CHOSEN
Great-Great-Grandson Ap
pears at Fine Arts andi
Park Body Meeting.
UNIVERSITY ROTUNDA
BASED ON PANTHEON
Memorial Commission of 1901
First Chose Spot for Memo
rial, He Says.
Hollins N. Randolph, great-great
grandson of President Jefferson and a
member of the Thomas Jefferson Me
morial Commission, appeared before a
joint meeting of the Fine Arts Com
mission and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission today and
explained how the Congressional group
reached its unanimous decision to es
tablish the memorial at the south side
of the Tidal Basin, in West Potomac
park.
Randolph, a Charlottesville (Va.i
attorney, pointed out that the last
building Jefferson built was the rotunda
of the University of Virginia, based on
the Pantheon at Rome. The design
for the memorial here, executed by the
New York architect, John Russell Pope,
is based on the Pantheon, the two com
missioners were informed.
Another great-great-grandson of
Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Jefferson
Coolldge, also is a member of the
Memorial Commission, and he added
his vote to the unanimous result for
the Pope design at the Tidal Basin |
site.
The commission was guided in its
decision, Randolph said, by the fact
the commisison of 1901 had provided
for a monumental memorial at the
Tidal Basin site. Under authority of
Congress, the Memorial Commission
fixed the site, selected Pope as the
architect and then adopted his design.
President Roosevelt approved the
dsign and location before the com
misison made them public, the two
commissions were informed.
Pope and his staff also were present
at the meeting of the two commis
sions today. He declared that on the
basis of borings made by the United
States Engineer Office, construction
of the memorial at the Tidal Basin
site is physically possible and that
solid rock will be reached about 80
feet down.
Problems Under Discussion.
Flood control problems at the site;
highway connections, including the
planned extension ol Fifteenth and
Seventeenth streets, as well as ap- I
proaches to the Highway Bridge, as
well as the design for the memorial,
are being discussed exhaustively.
The commissions have the benefit
of a flood-control study, just made
by the United States Engineer Office,
under the direction of Maj. Walter
D. Luplow, district engineer for the
War Department for the Washington
area. E. A. Schmitt, senior engineer i
in the major s office, has explained !
tentative plans for a levee, running !
from the Lincoln Memorial to the ;
Railroad Bridge. This may be achieved i
by raising the elevation of the high- I
way that runs along the Potomac
River in Potomac Park or by the
placing of a levee, either immediately 1
west or east of that highway. Final
plans for the flood-control program
have not yet been adopted.
NEW PARKING BANS
DUE IN FEW DAYS
Sections of Nine Streets Included
in Limits Approved
by Hazen.
Extension of parking restrictions on
sections of nine highways and the
creation of one additional one-way
street, have been approved by Com
missioner Hazen, on recommendation
by Traffic Director William A. Van
Duzer. The changes are expected to
be made official in a few days by ac
tion of the Board of Commissioners.
The proposed changes would affect
the following streets:
Florida avenue, from Seventh street
northeast to Eighth street northeast,
no parking at any time.
K street from Twelfth to Four
teenth streets, no parking on the north
side between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m.
McKinley street, between Connecti- .
cut avenue and Chevy Chase park
way, no parking on north side at any
time.
North Capitol street, between Mas
sachusetts avenue and G street, no
parking on east side from 4 to 6 p.m. j
and no parking on west side from 7 to
9:30 a.m., with 30-minute parking
permitted on both sides between 9:30
a.m. and 4 p.m.
North Capitol street from G to M
streets, no parking on west side from
7 to 9:30 a.m., and no _>arking on east
side from 4 to 6 p.m., with one-hour
parking permitted on both sides from
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
North Capitol street from M street
to Rhode Island avenue, no pai ng on
west side from 7 to 9:30 a.m. and
no parking on east side from 4 to 6
p.m.
Pennsylvania avenue, from Jackson
place to Seventeenth street, no park
ing on the north side at any time.
Reno road, from Huntington street
to Military road, no parking on the
east side from 8 to 9:30 a.m. or from
4 to 6 p.m.
Fourth street, from McMillan Res
ervoir to Florida avenue, no parking on
west side at any time.
Seventeenth street, from Pennsyl
vania avenue to the south curb of G
street, no parking on either side at any
time. From G street south to New
York avenue there will be no parking
on either side from 7 to 9:30 a.m. or
from 4 to 6 p.m., with one-hour park
ing permitted in this section from
9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Twenty-ninth street, from K to M
streets, no parking on the east side
at any time; from M street to the
C. & O. Canal, no parking on the west
side at any time, and from the C. <& O.
Canal to K street, no parking on the
west side from 7 to 9:30 a.m. or from
4 to 6 p.m.
L street, from Fifth street to New
Jersey avenue, would be designated a
one-way street for eastbound traffic.
85 College Girl* Here.
Eighty-five seniors from the Georgia
State College for Women arrived here
yesterday for a week end visit. They
plan to return to Milledgeville, Ga.,
Monday.
Gable Watched the Raiders Perform
The Hollywood atmosphere” shown on the wall of an alleged gambling establishment at 1717
Jc street was the only thing in the way of “life" that police found when they raided the place yes
terday A complicated arrangement of telephones, including a “Chinese puzzle” switchboard
made it evident, the raiders said, that horses also figured prominently among the favorite vas
times of the occupants of the apartment. _star Staff Photo
Roosevelt Appeals for Coun
selors With “Sense
of Public Good.”
A plea from President Roosevelt for
lawyers to develop a broadened view
point was read today at Catholic Uni
versity to the law students and teach
ers here for the third annual Easter
Law Students’ Conference.
The letter, dated January 27. was '
addressed to the Rev. W Brooke 1
Stabler, chaplain of the University of
Pennsylvania, who presided at this
morning’s session of the conference.
The letter said in part:
"I believe it to be of great present
importance that the viewpoint of our
lawyers should be broadened, so that
there may be a more adequate under
standing of their duties and functions
in the situation to which the forces of
modern life have brough us.
“Both with respect to the interests
of their clients and to those of the
public as well, lawyers should not be
mere advocates, but wise and intelli- !
gent counselors with a real sense of
the ultimate public good.
"One of the great masters calls them
“members of another priesthood." For
them to be honest and ethical in their
personal dealings is not enough. It is
essential that they should have a
vision of moral and spiritual value in
terms of the society in which they
live."
The sessions opened at 10 am. in
the Music Building auditorium with
an address of welcome on behalf of
the Catholic University Law School
delivered by its dean, Dr. James J
Hayden. John S Bradway, execu
tive secretary of the American Legal
Aid Society and professor of law at
Duke University, was to speak on
"Justice for the Poor." and Joseph
H. Beale of the Harvard Law School
was to discuss "How Judges and
Lawyers Retained Their Traditional
Prestige."
James M. Landis, recently appoint
ed dean of the Harvard Law School
and at present chairman of the Se
curities and Exchange Commission, is
to speak on "The Law School, the
Young Lawyer and Government" at
a dinner meeting tonight in McMa
hon Hall auditorium.
Among the speakers this after
noon is Joseph Keenan, assistant at
torney general, whose topic is, "Crime
Prevention and Legal Ethics.”
$288,429 PLANNED
FOR D. C. SCHOOLS
Share of Federal Aid Allotment
Revealed by Report
on Bill.
Washington would be entitled to
$288,429 for school purposes next year
as its share of the $100,000,000 for
Federal aid to education throughout
the country under the Harrison-Black
bill, it became known today. Senator
Black. Democrat of Alabama, filed a
favorable report from the Education
and Labor Committee on the measure
yesterday.
The bill contemplates a gradual in
crease in the total authorization until,
\n the fifth year, the maximum of
$300,000,000 would be reached. The
allotments would be made on a popu
lation basis, and the committee report
shows Washington's quota for the
succeeding four years would be as
follows:
Second year. $432,644; third year.
$576,858; fourth year, $721,073, and
fifth year $865,287. The District fig
ures are based on an estimated popu
lation of 113,100 between the ages of
5 and 20 years.
The report points out that the Fed
eral aid would be expended in ac
cordance with State constitutions and
statutes, retaining State and local con
trol of educational processes. No defi
nite time has been fixed for considera
tion of the measure in the Senate.
FILES DIVORCE SUIT
Mrs. James W. Hancock Takes
Action in Reno.
Mrs. Ruth Ritchie Hancock filed
suit for divorce in Reno yesterday
against James W. Hancock, 1736 G
street, the Associated Press reported.
Mrs. Hancock charged cruelty. The
couple were married in Toronto, Can
ada, July 18, 1931.
10 Drown in Bus Upset.
LIMA, Peru, March 20 (TP).—Ten
persons drowned and four escaped
when a bus fell into the Vtlcanota
River yesterday, the newspaper El
Oomercio reported in a dispatch from
Cusoo.
Crash Victims
MISS KATHLEEN DAY.
(Killed.)
MISS LOUISE TOBEY.
(Injured.)
—Brooks and Harris-Ewing
Photos.
I
Miss Louise Tobey, Daugh- j
ter of Legislator, in Hos
pital in Pennsylvania.
Miss Louise Tobey. English teacher
at National Park Seminary and daugh
ter of Representative Tobey of New
Hampshire, was recovering in Chester '
County Hospital at West Chester, Pa.,
today from injuries suffered in an
automobile accident Thursday night, j
in which another seminary teacher
was killed.
Representative Tobey and his wife
were at their daughter's bedside, while
Charles W. Tobey, jr., brother of the
injured teacher, and his wife returned
here last night after a visit to the
hospital.
Miss Kathleen Day, 40, died within |
five minutes after reaching the hos- |
pital. She, Miss Tobey and thr^e
other seminary teachers were motoring
to New York for the Easter holidays
when their car crashed into a tele
phone pole on Federal Highway, No. 1.
Mrs. Margaret Hobart. Miss Esther
Hughes and Mias Linda Lamberti, the
others, escaped injury.
Miss Day was a native of Halifax,
Nova Scotia, and came here last Oc
tober to teach at the seminary. She
was a daughter of Mrs. Stuart T, Day
of Halifax, who has been spending
the Winter in New York. Miss Day
was on her way to see her mother
when the accident occurred. Her body
will be sent to Halifax for burial.
Miss Lombardy, the driver, told
police she was crowded to the side of |
the road by a truck.
Miss Tobey suffered lacerations ol
the face and body bruises. Her brother
said today, however, that her condition
was improved. The Tobeys are from
Temple, N. H.
$8,000 VERDICT GIVEN
Mrs. Laura E. Dixon of Anacostia
was awarded $8,000 damages late yes
terday by a District Court jury to
compensate for injuries sustained
January 7, 1935, when a taxicab in
which she was riding was in collision
with another car at South Capitol and
C streets.
The Keystone Cab Co. was named
defendant. Mrs. Dixon told the jury
she was injured internally. She was
represented by Attorneys Max Tend
ler, William J. Hower and Walter E.
Holmes.
Witnesses Told They Must
Cease Being Evasive
in Answers.
Sharp warning to witnesses appear
ing before the National Labor Rela
tions Board in the Willard Hotel case
that they must cease being evasive
and answer all questions frankly and
fully was voice today bv Edwin S.
Smith, a member of the board, as
hearing in the case continued.
Angela Harrison, waitress at the
hotel coffe shop, was on the stand
when Smith said:
"I have the impression this morning
and I had it yesterday that some of
the witnesses are being evasive. The
Government is hearing this case for
the purpose of finding out all the
facts. For you to testify in such a way
as to protect your group or your em
ployer would obviously be wiong. I !
want you to answer these questions 1
frankly and fully."
The hearing is being held on com
plaint of the board that Mrs. Mabel
Norman, former waitress in the coffee
shop, was discharged because of testi
mony against the management in a
prior Labor Board case.
Miss Harrison, who was placed on
the stand by the defendant, told the
board that on several occasions Mrs.
Norman was “cocky" toward shop
hostesses and other waitresses. Mrs.
Norman was shop steward for the
waitresses belonging to local 781 of
the Hotel and Restaurant Workers’
Alliance.
During yesterday’s afternoon ses
sion. the defendant placed two co
workers of Mrs. Norman's on the
stand, both contending that the atti
tude and activities of the dismissed
waitress had split the rest of the group
into cliques, disrupted the service of
the shop and finally caused one girl
to resign her job.
Mrs. Norman was discharged on
February 28, the action beng one of
the factors leading to the strike called
by the alliance
The board was also told yesterday
by one of the defendants's witnesses.
Miss Sally Josephine Mulvey. that Miss
Buelah Carter, organizer for the union,
had cautioned her to attend union
meetings if she valued her job.
MADARIAGA TO TALK
BEFORE TOWN HALL
"Future of Liberty" to Be Subject
of Former Delegate of Spain
to League.
Salvador de Madariaga, who last
Summer resigned his post as Spain's
permanent delegate to the League of
Nations, will be the principal speaker
before the Town Hall of Washington
tomorrow night at the Shoreham Ho
tel. His subject will be "The Future
of Liberty.”
De Madariaga was formerly Spain's
Ambassador to this country and ;
France and was chief of the disarms- I
ment section of the League of Nations ■
from 1922 to 1927.
When he resigned as Spain’s perma
nent league delegate he characterized
the league as "the sole form of in
ternational association that can save
the world from catastrophe." He
said he was "merely renouncing the
honor of serving Spain.”
He was chairman of the Committee
of Five appointed in the Summer of !
1935 to deal with the Italo-Ethiopian
dispute. He is author of a number
of books, including “Disarmament,”
“Spain” and “The Genius of Spain
and Other Contemporary Spanish
Literature.”
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SUSPENDED SENTENCE
FOR ASSAULTER OF WIFE
“Thank God!” She Exclaims as
Court Puts Husband
on Probation.
Carl King, 23, whose young wife
refused to prosecute him. although he I
cut her hand Thanksgiving day and
then fired through a locked door
when police arrived, was placed on j
probation today by Justice James M.
Proctor of District Court.
Mrs. Ruby King, who has professed
her continuing love for him and
pleaded for mercy, exclaimed “Oh, j
thank God!” when the sentence was ;
pronounced.
She fainted two weeks ago when
King pleaded guilty to assault with a
dangerous weapon.
At the time of the assault the Kfngs
lived at a rooming house in the 200
block of L street. Justice Proctor im
posed a suspended sentence of two to
four years.
Police Activity in Last Two
Weeks Creates Too
Much Static.
WOMAN IS ARRESTED
ON CONSPIRACY COUNT
Two Establishments Entered by
Officers and Quantities of
Evidence Seized.
Static created by the police raiding
squads has convinced the operators of
one of the country's best known dis
pensers of raring information that
the Capital s climate is too warm for
good reception.
So the Teleflash Corp , which ceased
operations last Tuesday, was dis
mantling its broadcasting equipment
today in the suite of offices it has
maintained in the 1300 block of G
street.
The move follows a series of raids
during the past two weeks, in which
Leonard Matusky. an alleged official
of the corporation, was arrested and
j charged with conspiracy to violate the
| gaming laws.
| An employe at the corporation's
| headquarters said over the telephone
today that the decision to "close shop"
| here was reached after New York offi
cials came to Washington to get some
first-hand information on the police
harassment campaign.
The raiders continued their activi- '
| ties yesterday, breaking into two
alleged gambling establishments seis
ing a quantity of equipment and
arresting one person, a woman.
While the woman, Miss Mary Agnes
Gerardi, 30, was being arraigned be
fore United States Commissioner
Needham C. Turnage today on a
charge of conspiracy to violate the
gambling laws. Henry Carter, named
in the warrant on which police made
the raid, surrendered. He. too. was
I charged with conspiracy and. with the
| w-oman, was released on $2,000 bond.
The woman was taken into custody
| when a picked squad, led by Lieut.
John Fowler, broke into a flat in the
3500 block of New Hampshire avenue
with the warrant naming Henry. '
Two telephones with eight connections
for taking phone service calls were
confiscated. While tearing out the
evidence the officers said they re
ceived calls from persons wanting to
make be us.
The other raid was conducted on
an apartment at 1717 R street by
another squad headed by Detective
Chief Bernard W Thompson and
Chief Deputy United States Marshal
Thomas Ott. No one was found in
the apartment after the door was
battered in. but police said they did
find two adjoining roll-top desks,
each equipped with a switchboard, a
telephone, racing form charts, a sound
amplifier, notepads, pencils and rub
ber stamps. One telephone had a cut
out.
RARE ARAB PHOTOS
SHOWN BY HELFRITZ
National Geographic Society Sees
Pictures Taken by German at
Risk of Death.
Rare pictures taken in a land where
plowing is done with a crooked stick
in fields outside a city with 12-storv
skyscrapers made of dried mud bricks
were she n to members of the Na
tional Geographic Society at Consti
tution Hall last night by Hans Hel
fritz, German explorer and camera
man. who penetrated the depths of
the Rub al Khali Desert in southern
Arabia for his material.
Other pictures shown included
those of Moslems kneeling in prayer
Had he been caught taking the pic
, tures of the religious ceremonies, Hel
; fritz said, he undoubtedly would have
been killed by fanatical worshipers
He took the pictures from a window
in a nearby building.
Helfritz said a great majority of
the people in the arid land had never
seen the face of a w’hite man. Most
of them, he said, were hostile, al
though he suffered no bodily harm
during his trip.
The speaker said he found build
ings from 6 to 12 stories high in
Mukalla. a city on the Indian Ocean
shore. Prayer temples over 100 feet
high were still standing, although
erected before American Colonial day*.
Sewage in the large apartment build
ings is disposed of through wooden
pipes, he said.
JOSEPH D. WOODCOCK
DEAD OF PNEUMONIA
Joseph D. Woodcock, 80. of 3813
tngomar street, a retired health in*
spector of Lawrence, Mass., died yes
terday of pneumonia in Garfield Hos
pital.
Mr. Woodcock had been a Washington
resident since 1921. He is survived by
his widow, Mrs. Martha Woodcock,
four daughters. Miss Edith G., Miss
Mildred C. and Miss Gladys H Wood
cock, all of this city, and Mrs. Otto &.
Taylor. Summit, N. J.; a son, Charles
M. Woodcock, Holyoke, Mass.; four
grandchildren and two sisters. Mts.
John S. Towell and Mrs. Laurence
Sugden. both of Lawrence. Mass [,
The body will be taken to Lafr -.
rence for funeral services and burial.
Details of the funeral arrangements
were to be completed later.
BAND CONCERT.
Bv the Soldiers’ Home Band in
Stanley Hall at 5:30 p.m. today. John
S. M. Zimmermann, bandmaster; An
ton Pointner, assistant.
Program.
March, "The Victorious Phalanx.” ,
Morse
Overture, "Light Cavalry” Von Suppe
Suite romance, “A Romance to
Zamora" _ _ _ m Gounod
(a) "Barcarolle,” (b) "Spanish
Dance,” (c) "Danse des Polntes,'1
(a) "Dance Italiene.”
Excerpts from musical comedy,
“Sweet Adeline” __Kern
Air de ballet, “Valse Bluette” Drlgn
Fox trot, popular, "Fashionette,”
Ologau
(Specialty for piano and xyiophone.)
Finale, "A Trip to Sunset Valley.”
Robert!
"The Star Spangled Banner.”