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Methodist District Confer
ence Advocates Retention
of Boundaries.
tcec/tl Dispatch to The Star.
WINCHESTER, Va„ April 9.—In ad
dition to favoring unification of three
large branches of Methodism, the
Winchester District Conference, con
cluding its seventy-first annual session
last night at Middletown, Va., went
on record as advocating retention of
the present lines of the Eastern Pan
handle district in West Virginia and
In favor of the entire Baltimore Con
ference as it now exists being retained
in the northeastern jurisdiction of
the united church.
Eighteen delegates and alternates
were elected to represent the various
charges of the district at the meeting
of the Baltimore annual conference,
to be held in Winchester next Oc
tober.
Reports submitted indicated that
finances of the district are practically
paid in full for the half year. During
the first six months of the church
year there have been nearly 400 ac
cessions. according to the report of
the Rev. W. W. McIntyre, presiding
elder. The 30 charges of the district
also submitted reports, indicating
that the work is going forward with
better speed than for the past five
or six years.
licenses for a number of local
preacher^ were renewed, including
those of Harry C. Balthis and William
P. Cooley. Strasburg, Va.; Fred D.
Futsler, Edinburg, Va.; C. W. Lloyd,
Cedarville, Va.; Harvey W. Ashby, Rec
tortown, Va., and Charles F. Schreder.
The characters of John Knox, Nash
ville, Tenn., and Harvey S. Willey,
Btrasburg. Va.. elders, were passed.
Col. Boggs, principal of Randolph
Macon Academy, Front Royal. Va.,
submitted his report, as did John H.
Rosenberger, Winchester, president of
the district parsonage trustees.
Christian education and training
was discussed by the Rev. Dr. Homer
H. Sherman, Front Royal, Baltimore
Conference departmental secretary;
Miss Elinor Wren, Strasburg, reported
on children’s work; Rev. J. H. Billings
>y, Woodstock. Va., spoke in behalf
of the Baltimore Conference Benevo
lent Society; Rev. W. O. Luttrell,
Berryville, Va., submitted a report on
the general and conference organs,
and Miss Edith Miller, Winchester,
district secretary, reported on activi
ties of the Woman's Missionary So
ciety.
Jesse W. Richards, Marshall, Va.,
district secretary, was directed to send
greetings to Rev. R. N. Wheeler,
Strasburg. Va., probably the oldest
member of the Baltimore Conference.
Superannuates attending the meeting
at Middletown included Rev. W. H.
Ballengee, Strasburg; Rev. James
Hawley, Hamilton, Va., and Rev. W.
O. Talbert, Winchester.
STAMPS ARE BARRED
BERLIN, April 9 i/P).—German
postage stamp dealers and fans were
forbidden today to acquire for their
collections the Danish 15-oere special
stamps bearing a scene of Dueppel,
where the Prussians fought the Danes
In 1864.
“As the net proceeds from this
stamp are intended for purposes inimi
cal to Germany.” a public order de
clared, "all stamp dealers and col
lectors are warned against buying
them.”
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Col. J. S. Fair to Be Retired.
Col. John S. Fair, Cavalry, now on
duty in the National Guard Bureau,
War Department, will be retired from
the Army, April 30, because of dis
ability incident to the service, the War
Department announced today. Col.
Fair is a native of Altoona, Pa.
LOST.
CAT. near Sunset Hall: please be humane;
child loved pet; happiness left home with it.
Curzon Scott. Conduit rd.*
CHANGE PURSE leather, containing fam
ily ring on bus between Central ave. and
Bladensburg rd. to 15th and H car; reward.
Lincoln 2506._
DOG—Brindle scottie: strayed from 6601
Wilson lane. Bethesda. Md. Reward.
Col, 2047._•
DOG male Schnauzer. black and gray. 6
months old: chain-choker collar: lost near
American University. Reward. Call Cleve
1 and 1427._
GERMAN POLICE DOG. black and tan.
vicinity Meridian Park, name “Pal": San
Francisco license. Pot. 1900. Reward._
GERMAN POLICE DOG. named "Prince.”
no collar, vicinity 14th and R. Call Mrs.
Lutz Decatur 2666._
GLASSES^—Tortoise shell: between Rialto
Theater and 7th st. Reward. West 2198.
KEYS—Bunch of keys on ring: between
loth and H sts. n.w. and 9th st. and N. Y.
ave. n.w. Reward. Address Box 459-Q,
Star office._
LORGNETTE, small gold eyeglasses in
closed in a white gold locket case. Reward.
Mrs. W. T. Purfee. Wardman Park Hotel.
LOST—Dark brindle toy Boston bull,
weight. 3 2 lbs.. 15 months old. four white
feet and white face; answers to name
"Sparky.” Call Mr. Barlow. Broadmoor
Apts., or Hotel Inn. 610 9th st. n.w._
PIN antique, gold and black enamel. Re
ward. Call Columbia 8051 or return to
3144 17th st. n.w_*
PIN—Gold, fraternity, shape of book and
key: between Georgetown and 9th and F.
April 8._Reward. North 4249-J._•
POCKETBOOK. brown lost Monday eve
ning or Tuesday: initials "L. C. H.” on
sold clasp contained currency, business
cards, also California driver's license and
life membership card in Press Club. Please
Ehone Room 582. Mayflower Hotel, ask for
C. Hammond._10*
POCKETBOOK. black, containing watch,
keys, eyeglasses, glass cigarette case, van
ity case, on 11th st. car or R. I. ave. bus.
Reward. North 3896.
POCKETBOOK. black patent leather, con
taining folding glasses in red leather case,
silver vanity case. Reward. Dist. 2108.
WRIST WATCH, lady's, surrounded by
diamonds, between Manor Club and 1724
Varmim st. n.w. Reward. Adams 7176.
WRIST WATCH, lady’s. Bulova: chain
bracelet: initialed "E B.”: reward. West
1460. APt. 410._
LOST!
On Thursday. April 8. about 2 p.m„ in
vicinity of 22nd and P sts. n.w.. large,
ten tie police dog: tan. with black mark
ings. yellow eyes. Answers to name of
"Nip.” Reward if returned to Dr. Col
lins. 2130 P st. n.w,. or Miss Aminta
Veeder. Greenwich (near Warrenton),
Vft.__11*^
SPECIAL NOTICES.
I WIIL BE RESPONSIBLE ONLY FOR
debts incurred by me personally. W. J.
MILLER. Floodgate Boat House. 14th and
Water atg, s.w.___ 10*
ON AND AFTER THIS DATE I WILL NOT
be responsible lor any accounts unless con
tracted for personally.
J. E HAMPSON. 416-A Warner Bt._
DAILY TRIPS MOVING LOADS AND PART
loads to and from Balto., Phlla and New
York Frequent trips to other Eastern
etties. "Dependable Service Since 1896."
THE DAVIDSON TRANSFER & STORAGE
CO Phone Decatur 2500._
OLD DAGUERREOTYPES. TINTYPES. KO
dak prints or any treasured "keepsake
pictures" restored, improved, copied ED
MONSTON STUDIO 1333 P at. n.w
THE ADJOURNED ANNUAL MEETING OF
the Goodwill Industries of Washington. D.
C.. Inc., will be held at the Willard Hotel.
Pennsylvania ave. and 14th street n.w.. on
April 23. 1937. at 4:46 p.m.. for the elec
tion of officers and the transaction of any
business that may lawfully come before It.
ELIZABETH WHITEFORD MURRAY.
_Secretary.
THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE 6TOCK
holders of the Citisens' Equitable Building
Association of Georgetown. D. C. will be
held at 7 p.m., April 12. 1937. at 1207
Wisconsin ave. n.w.. for the election of
officers and directors for the coming year
and the transaction of such other business
as may rightly come before said meeting.
_H. W. BURNSIDE Secretary.
Long-distance moving.
iAll points. 2.000 miles full and part
oads NAT DEL. ASSOC.. INC. Natioial
,460. Padded vans. 1317 N. Y. ave. -
Baby Abandoned in Hotel
Woman Disappears Leaving Note Asking
Care of Infant.
Little “Davie Linden” shoxvn in the arms of Nurse Lxicille
Dilday, at Gallinger Hospital. —Star Staff Photo.
TINY 3-week-old baby, wrapped
in a blue blanket and crying
lustily for a good square meal,
was found in a downtown
hotel room yesterday. A note pinned
to his pillow was his only pedigree.
The baby was taken to the hotel
at 608 Nirgh street about 4:30 am.
yesterday by a stout, middle-aged
woman, who registered as "Mrs. Lee
Barnes, Pittsburgh.” The woman had
no baggage—just the baby, the blan
ket and a partly filled nursing bottle.
"How old is your baby?” the night
clerk, F. M. Murray, inquired.
“Three months, but he's awfully
tiny,” the woman replied.
Shown to her room, she returned a
moment later to heat the milk bottle
on a small oil-burner in the lobby.
Murray went over to help her and
found the milk was sour. The bottle
was refilled with fresh milk.
She returned to her room and re
mained until noon, when she walked
up to the desk, paid her bill and an
nounced she was “going out to get
something to eat.”
The shrill crying from her room
soon became so insistent that A. C.
Earps, who had relieved Murray, dis
patched a housekeeper to see what
she could do toward quieting the In
fant.
She found the baby red-faced and
wailing lustily, lying beside a note
which read:
"Please take care of little Davie
Linden. I have no home. He is of
good blood.”
There was no meal ticket, however,
and that’s w'hat Davie semed more in
terested in at the moment. He con
tinued to bawl.
Police took the infant to Gallinger
Hospital, where he was given a square
meal, apparently his first in some
time.
He weighed only 5 pounds, and Dr.
Jeannette Heghinian. resident chil
dren’s ward physician, termed him un
dernourished.
I
STILLJSJLUSIVE
Police Continue to Run Down
Reports Without Estab
lishing Clue.
Er the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. April 9.—A will-o'
the-wisp today led the triple murder
mystery of Beekman Hill toward its
thirteenth day along as fantastic a
trail as ever was followed by the New
York homicide squad.
Robert Irwin, eccentric 29-year-old
sculptor and former divinity student,
on whom investigators centered their
interest when the swashbuckling little
father of beautiful "Ronnie” Gedeon
was eliminated as a suspect, continued
to elude an eight-State police alarm.
“Seen” in Various Places.
As reports placing Irwin—or some
one resembling him—in various parts
of the country flowed across his desk,
Police Commissioner Lewis J. Valen
tine predicted he would be "caught
within a reasonable time.”
Valentine’s investigators want to ask
the talented young sculptor what he
knows—if anything—about the throt
tling of Miss Gedeon and her mother
and the stabbing of their lodger,
Frank Byrnes, in their Beekman Hill
apartment some time before the dawn
of Easter Sunday.
Although the head of St. Lawrence
University, where Irwin was a divinity
student for a few weeks, declared the
missing youth was being "damned
without evidence,” Assistant Chief In
spector John A. Lyons insisted he had
secret evidence tending to link Irwin
with the crime.
Other “Suspect*” Fade.
With Irwin occupying the full spot
light, other picturesque characters
that had been churned up in the vor
tex of a bizarre series of clues and
pseudo-clues retired to the obscurity
whence they came.
Among these were the impetuous,
garrulous little Joseph Gedeon, hus
band and father of the two women
victims, who returned to his upholstery
business, his beer drinking and his
bowling, and the equally loquacious
Georges (Frenchy) Gueret, who con
tinued to return to the police station
long after he was told he no longer
was wanted.
The missing Irwin, meanwhile, was
reported seen in such widely separated
places as Stroudsburg, Pa.; Battle
Creek, Mich.; Pleasantville, N. Y., and
Kenosha, Wis,
LECTURE ON NORWAY
Mrs. Petch to Speak Wednesday
in Departmental Auditorium.
Mrs. Gladys M. Petch of England
will lecture on “New^Glimpses of Sun
lit Norway,” undei^the auspices of the
National Park Service, Wednesday at
8 p.m. in the Departmental Audito
rium.
Mrs. Petch has lived in Norway for
many years and is thoroughly ac
quainted with the life of the people
there. She was the first woman to
speak across the Atlantic by radio.
She takes the story of American na
tional parks to Norway and brings the
tale of the Norwegian parks to this
country.
Bill Sent Roosevelt
Would Let Brazil
Decorate His Son
Constitutional Barrier Is
Met by Congress
Approval.
Congress has completed action on a
measure designed to legalize bestowal
of the Order of the Southern Cross of
Brazil on Lieut. Col. James Roosevelt,
U. S. M. C. Reserve, who acted as his
father’s aide on President Roosevelt’s
recent South American trip. The bill
is being sent to the White House for
presidential approval, officials said to
day.
A prohibition is contained in the
Constitution barring officials of this
Government from accepting foreign
decorations without the consent of
Congress.
Capt. John D. Blanchard, U. S. M.
C„ who commanded the Marine guard
aboard the cruiser Indianapolis, on
which President Roosevelt made the
trip, also acted as his aide. He, too,
has been given the Order of the South
ern Cross of Brazil.
Col, Roosevelt last November ac
cepted a commission in the Marines
and his first duty was to act as his
father’s aide on the South American
cruise. The commission was handled
quietly and only when the colonel
went ashore at Trinidad in his uni
form did it become generally known.
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BASSO SERVED IN SUIT
SAN FRANCISCO, April 9 OP).—
Ezio Pinza, operatic basso, today had
10 days to answer Superior Judge T.
I. Fitzpatrick’s ruling that an amended
complaint by Miss Octavia Picchioni,
San Francisco, charging breach of
promise, was sufficient.
Pinza quashed the original com
plaint with a demurrer. Miss Picchi
oni asks $200,000.
Zoning Change Approved.
RIVERDALE, Md., April 9 (Spe
cial).—The Riverdale Town Council
has approved the application of O.
B. Zantzinger, Jr., for change of zon
ing on his property at 737 Jefferson
avenue here from residential A to resi
dential C.
The change was requested to permit
remodeling the one-family dwelling
into a four-family apartment.
Cartridges and Gas
In Cash Bag Set Off
By Revolving Door
By the Assoelatea Press.
BALTIMORE, April 9.—The
next time James Scroggs, a hotel
porter, carries his patented
money bag through a revolving
door he will be careful.
Scroggs and his bag, designed
to discourage hold-up men with a
cloud of gas and two .45-caliber
cartridges, got mixed up in a
revolving door yesterday as he
was leaving a bank.
The cartridges banged and the
gas filled the door chamber. Bank
officials jumped and tellers
reached for alarm buttons.
Scroggs emerged, gasping, but
still with the satchel.
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9,773,000 MESS.
SIIVEK DISCLOSES
Figure Shows Almost 3,
000,000 Cut From Ranks
of Idle Since 1933.
W the Associated Press.
A survey made for Secretary Wallace
estimated today that 9,773,000 persons
were unemployed or were on relief
Jobs at the start of this year, com
pared with 12,838,000 Idle In 1933.
The Commerce Department said,
meanwhile, business showed “marked
improvement" during the first quar
ter of 1937.
Industrial production was one-flfth
greater than for the comparative
period last year, the department said,
with slight advances in January and
February being extended in March.
The department said cash farm in
come during the quarter was "consid
erably larger” than in the 4936
period because of higher prices, while
factory pay rolls and employment also
turned upward.
Discussing prices, the department
reported rapid advances of recent
weeks were "an extension of a general
rise in prices dating from the final
quarter of 1936.’’
Louis H. Bean, one of Wallace's
economic advisers, reported that po
tential gainful workers, excluding
those engaged in agriculture, num
bered 40,027,000 at the start of 1937,
and that about one in four of these
was unemployed or on relief.
He said this compared with 38,946,
000 workers in 1933, when one out of
three persons was idle or on relief.
Estimate Before Depression.
The economist estimated gainful
workers at 38,023^000 before the de
pression in 1929 and the unemployed
at 1,847,000, or about one in nineteen.
He estimated the average annual
wage for employed workers was $1,180
last year, compared with a low of $933
in 1933 and a peak of $1,388 in 1929.
Bean contended living costs for the
unemployed group were lower in rela
tion to average income last year than
in 1929.
When (he large mass of unem
ployed, relief and other workers was
included, he added, "the average per
capita real income of all available
workers does not compare favorably
writh predepression income.’’
Food Cost Increase.
Bean contended the increase in
food costs since 1933 had directly
benefitted industrial workers in cities
more than it had increased their food
bills.
Higher food prices, he said, had in
creased purchasing power in rural
areas for industrial goods and this had
caused an increase in both numbers
and wages of employed urban workers.
Bean said the food cost for an aver
age family was $363 last year, com
pared to $294 in 1933 and 463 in 1929,
As a result, he said, the average work
er had $925 remaining for other needs
in 1929, $699 in 1933 and $817 last
year.
Spanish
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only 2 or 3 miles at each end of a 30
mile stretch of the Cordoba City
Penarroya highway to complete bot
tling up Franco's army, which was put
to rout less than a fortnight ago at
Pozoblanco, gateway to one of the
world's richest mercury mining re
gions.
Various Objectives.
The towns of Villaharta, at the
southeastern end of the highway
front; Penarroya, on the northwestern
tip, and Fuenteovejuna, about 8 miles
southwest of Penarroya, were the im
mediate government objectives.
Capture of these towns would leave
the insurgents no route of escape un
less they scattered into the mountains
south of the highway. A dispatch to
the newspaper Claridad said the
Madrid-Valencia forces already had
occupied Villaharta. It was recalled,
however, that the town was reported
erroneously to have fallen last week.
Villaharta’s capitulation would
sever the insurgent supply line from
Cordoba City, 28 miles southeast.
While the government army ham
mered on this broad front, already
having executed a junction with Bada
joz Province forces to the northwest,
these were other fresh developments
in the 8-month-old civil war;
Government Planes Active.
Government aviation lashed out at
Malaga, on the southern Mediter
ranean coast, which fell to the in
surgents two months ago. Three
bombing planes scored direct hits on
the railway station there yesterday.
They also bombed the harbor where
several insurgent seaplanes were at
anchor.
Reports from Bilbao, capital of the
Basque government in Northern Spain,
asserted the Basques had started
counter-attacks on the mountain-land
offensive of the Gen. Emilio Mola's
insurgent army. There were no fur
ther details.
Headquarters of Franco announced
today an advance column of his north
ern army had entered the suburbs of
Durango, I mile from Bilbao.
A communique received from Sala
manca said Basque government troops
defending Durango were evacuating
the town.
Franco’s headquarters reported a
column operating in the Barazar Pass
sector had pushed into the outlying
sections of Durango—his arm’s imme
diate objective in the drive on Bilbao.
The main body of Franco’s army was
reported concentrated 5 miles south of
Durango.
Gen. Jose Miaja, government com
mander-in-chief on the central front,
broadcast a radio appeal to the Basque
defenders to redouble their effort to
turn the tide against the attackers.
The government, from its temporary
seat at Valencia, decreed leniency for
insurgent soldiers who would come
over to the government forces. Many
were enlisted by the insurgents, the
decree charged, under “methods of
brutality and terror.”
Government air attacks were ex
tended to Valladolid, an insurgent base
about 100 miles northwest of Madrid;
on Toledo, 40 miles southwest, and
against the fortress-like sanctuary of
the Virgin de la Cabez in Jaen
Province in Southern Spain.
Pour 500-pound bombs were dropped
on the insurgent fortifications on the
mountain-top sanctuary. Fifteen
hundred men, women and children
have been reported slowly starving
there, kept from surrender by an
insurgent reign of terror.
The junction of two southern gov
ernment forces, the Cordoba Province
army and troops operating in Badajoz
Province, closed a gap yesterday and
now threaten Seville, a major insur
gent base, about 70 miles south of the
Junction point. ^
Auto Ruins Police Box
The remains of what was a police call box are shown alter be
ing struck by an automobile at Seventh street and Constitution
avenue today. The driver, a woman, and a passenger were
slightly injured._—Star Staff Photo.
GERMANY REJECTS
II. $. CLAIM PACT
Black Tom-Kingsland Sabo
tage Cases Thrown Back
to Commission.
By Associated Press.
Proposals for settlement of the long
pending Black Tom-Kingsland sabot
age cases exploded today in the face
of the German-American Mixed Claims
Commission with a suddenness remi
niscent of the wartime munitions blasts
which started the international claims
controversy.
German officials here disclosed that
their government definitely has decided
not to ratify a tentative agreement to
pay $22,474,763 to corporations claim
ing damages as a result of the destruc
tion of their New Jersey arms plants
in 1916 and 1917, allegedly by German
agents.
Spokesmen at the German Embassy
said the agreement had been worked
out "provisionally and conditionally"
as "the first step in an energetic effort
to improve German-American rela
tions” and under the impression that
Germany would receive beneficial con
cessions.
Objectives Not Reached.
Since the agreement was signed in
Munich last July, they added, it has
become apparent that those objectives
would not be reached. A German
agent, it was said, will renew opposi
tion before the Mixed Claims Commis
sion to the 153 claims resulting from
the explosions.
Under the Munich agreement, the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, an agency
of the Canadian Car and Foundry; the
Bethlehem Steel Co. and 100 insurance
underwriters would have received 50
per cent of the face value of their
claims, with interest at 5 per cent.
Officials said last night that, as a
result of German's decision, it would
be necessary to resume hearings be
fore the Claims Commission. The
hearings, in progress last year, were
suspended to permit Robert W. Bo
nynge, the American agent, to go to
Germany to participate in the negotia-<
tions which resulted in the now voided
agreement.
U. S. Firms Opposed.
A group of American firms which
have received awards from the com
mission on other claims against Ger
many opposed the agreement. In a
brief filed recently, they alleged Ger
many had agreed to the 50 per cent
payments with the understanding that
"the Harrison resolution” would be
repealed or modified, and that German
nationals would receive some of their
property still held by the Alien Prop
erty Custodian Bureau.
The Harrison resolution, enacted in
1934, prohibits German nationals hold
ing awards from the commission from
receiving approximately $11,000,000 of
German funds on deposit in the Treas
ury, or from obtaining property es
timated to be worth $5,000,000 held by
the alien property custodian.
It was passed as retaliation against
Germany's default in payments on
Army of Occupation costs, now es
timated at $72,000,000. Congress
specified it should remain in force
until arrears payments had been made.
GAMBLING CHARGED
RUSSELLVILLE, Ark., April S
UP).—The Pope County grand jury in
dicted J. S. Sandusky, father-in-law of
Paul Dean, pitcher for the St. Louis
Cardinals, on a charge of operating a
gambling house here yesterday.
Sheriff Dave Bewley, who arrested
Sandusky, said the timberman was
accused of accepting bets on horse
races at a club he operates here. San
dusky posted $500 bond for appearance
at the November term of court.
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George S. Kaufman in Hollywood.
HOLLYWOOD. April 9 (IP).—George
S. Kaufman, playwright who figured
in the Mary Astor diary case, was here
today to collaborate with Moss Hart
on a play soon to be produced on
Broadway.
Loss of Pay Check
And Auto Is News
To Startled Owner
B7 the Associated Press.
SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 9.
—John Shock, Mishawaka fac
tory worker, doesn't know what
to make of it.
Police informed him his auto
mobile had been recovered before
he knew it had been stolen.
Then a tavern owner called him
to inform him his week’s salary
check had been found. Shock
looked In his wallet and found out
for the first time the check was
missing.
Meanwhile, John Leathead, 21,
and Marvin Baxter, 19, both of
North Jackson, Mich., were ar
rested in connection with the
car's theft and bound over to Cir
cuit Court.
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GROUP HITS COST
OFVIRGINISLANDS
U. S. Made Expensive Pur
chase, Members of Senate
Territories Unit Say.
BJ the Associated Press.
The United States made a costly
bargain, some members of the Senate
Territories Committee declared today,
when it paid Denmark $25,000,000 for
the Virgin Islands in 1917.
Since then, committee records
showed, the Treasury has contributed
millions toward their administration.
The outlay last year was *1,769.803,
plus some unestimated items.
The one return, said Gov. Lawrence
W. Cramer, has been in national de
fense. This was the motive for
acquiring the Caribbean isles at a
time when it was feared they might
be used as a base for German sub
marines.
Several Senators expressed their
views at a heated session yesterday
on the confirmation of Cramer's nom
ination.
"Isn't there any hope of giving these
islands away?” inquired Senator Bone,
Democrat, of Washington.
' National defense covers a multitude
of sins,” commented Senator King,
Democrat, of Utah. ‘ In the face of
this evidence of expense and the im
mense outlays we have made to take
care of Puerto Rico, we seem to be
exploring and annexing every little
rock we can find in the Pacific.”
Cramer said in response to questions
from Senator Reynolds, Democrat, of
North Carolina:
"There Is no sentiment for inde
pendence and the Virgin Islanders,
who are American citizens, would be
distressed by any such proposal.”
Combining their administration with
that of nearby Puerto Rico, he said,
might have money for the Treasury,
but ‘‘the islanders would be very seri
ously upset by any such arrangement.”
The Governor held out hope that
direct Federal contributions might be
reduced soon below the present $330,
000 a year—aside from relief and other
outlays—but he added:
"We can't expect to do better than
the Danes, who had to pay about
$135,000 a year ”
W. K. PH DIES
Pennsylvanian Year’s 39th
Traffic Victim—Four Hurt
in Accidents.
Injured in a street car-automobile
collision last Sunday, William K. Price,
35, of Chester County, Pa., died yes
terday in Casualty Hospital. He was
the District’s thirty-ninth traffic vic
tim of 1937.
Automobile mishaps today resulted
in injuries for three persons, while
one serious traffic injury was re
ported last night. Mrs. Jesse Knott,
44, of 5619 Eighth street, possibly re
ceived a fracture of the spine and ribs
when struck by an automobile driven
by Robert P. McDermott, 19, of 5019
Fourth street, as she was crossing at
Arkansas avenue and Sixteenth street.
Price, who died in Casualty Hospital
of a fractured skull, was a passenger
In a car driven by Miss Betty Peal,
27, of Oxford, Pa., when it crashed
into the rear of a street car at Six
teenth street and Rhode Lsland avenue I
northeast. Police today were seeking
to notify Miss Peal, who is reported
to have left the city Sunday night 1
after receiving treatment for minor
Injuries.
winner R. Cooksey, 37, of 325 U 1
street northeast, was the operator of j
the street car, police said.
Among those injured today was Jos- i
ephine Embrey, 20, of 1022 Eighth'
street, whose automobile collided with
another at Seventh street and Con
stitution avenue, crashed into a police
call box and then struck a wooden
fence. She was treated at Emergency
Hospital for rib injuries. Edward
Melenson, 28, Port Washington, Md„
a passenger in her car, was treated for
shock. The other automobile was
driven by John Verautsos, 38, of 3810
Seventh street.
Zula Davis, 32, colored. 1102 Sixth
street, suffered a severe knee injury
and a broken finger in a three-car
collision at Seventh street and Jeffer
son drive. Her husband, George Davis,
was driving one of the cars, while the
others were operated, police said, by
Morris Abraham, 36. of 633 H street
northeast, and Samuel M. Parley, 27,
of Baltimore.
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