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TRUSTEES INDORSE
NEW LIBRARY BIEL
Suggest Proposed Building
Be Made Eligible as
P. W. A. Project.
The Board of Trustees of the Pub
lic Library has approved the Collins
bill for construction of a new main
building for the free library system,
Dr. George F. Bowerman, librarian
and secretary of the board, announced
yesterday, and has sent to Chairman
Norton of the House District Commit
tee a number of amendments which
would alter some of the bill's original
provisions.
The amendments were adopted ten
tatively by the library trustees, sub
ject to approval by Representative Col
lins. author of the measure, and were
finally agreed on and ordered to be
spnt to the House District Committee
after Theodore W. Noyes, president of
the Board of Trustees, and Dr. Bower
man had conferred with Representa
tive Collins and secured his approval
of the proposed amendments.
One of the principal amendments
suggested would make the new build
ing eligible as a. Public Works Admin
istration project by including the pur
chase of a site and construction ot the
building within the provisions of the
act authorizing the Commissioners to
obtain, by grant and loan, up to
$10,750,000 for municipal projects.
Only a. part of this total has been
loaned to the District up to this time.
Specification on Funds.
Another important change in the
bill proposed by the library trustees
was to qualify the authorization of a
$2,500,000 site and building fund by
the words "or so much thereof as may
be necessary" and to specify that the
funds authorized for appropriation
would come out of the revenues of
the District of Columbia "and the
Treasury of the United States." The
change in language would remove any
complications in connection with the
proposal of financing the building, or
a part of it, out of Public Works Ad
ministration funds and of a possible
finding that not so much as the total
appropriation would be necessary to
erect and equip the new building.
In connection with developing plans
and specifications and supervision of
construction of the building, the trus
tees proposed an amendment designed
to meet the requirements of the mu
nicipal architect in the employment
of experts and assistants in this phase
of the work.
Another amendment advocated
would eliminate a section of the bill
providing that the principal reading
room in the new structure should
bear the name of Theodore W. Noyes,
president of the library board. This
was voted, the trustees reported to
Chairman Norton, at the urgent re
quest of Mr. Noyes.
The board also asked Chairman Nor
ton to hold a hearing on the bill at
which the library trustees and the
librarian would outline in detail the
Heed for a new mam library and the
reasons for the enactment of the bill
at this time. Under the measure, the
elte for the building would be located
'-Vest of Sixteenth street and north of
Pennsylvania avenue. All plans and
specifications would be subject to the
approval of the library trustees, the
librarian and the Commissioners.
The bill also provides that, with
the completion and acceptance of the
new building, the present central li
brary on Mount Vernon Square shall
be a branch library to be known as
the Mount Vernon Square branch.
Collins Expresses Approval.
Mr. Collins said yesterday he had
examined the proposed amendments
and they met his unqualified approval.
"The one providing that the $2,500.
000, 'or as much thereof as may be
necessary.’ ” he declared, “is in line
with what's proposed in most bills.
"Another of the proposed amend
ments authorizing a P. W. A. loan, it
seems to me, is a happy way to solve
the problem of financing the library.
“My mam interest is to get the
library erected. I'm not concerned so
deeply about the mechanics involved."
Mr. Collins has repeatedly expressed
his interest in library and school needs
in the District, and has become one of
tbs leading champions of adequate
library expansion. The current Dis
trict bill reflected this Interest in the
provision of sufficient personnel to
permit library service in the central
branch on Fridav afternoons for the
first time since 1930, as well as Satur
day afternoon service In the major
branches. The bill also carried funds
for completion of the Petworth branch
library and for a new branch library
in Southwest Washington in connec
tion with the new Jefferson Memorial
Junior High School.
TRAPPED MINER DEAD,
RESCUE WORKERS FEAR
Btill 18 Feet Away From Man
Entombed in Shaft in
Pennsylvania,
B* the Associated Press,
TAMAQUA, Pa, April 10.—Rescue
squads worked leverishly tonight to
reach Anthony Vinscavage, 48, en
tombed in hi* Independently operated
coal hole. They held little hope that
he was alive.
Vinscavage was trapped by a cave
in as he and a son, John. 19, were
erecting timbers in the mine early
today. The son escaped uninjured.
Rescue workers said tonight they
were 18 feet away from the spot where
the man was trapped.
They received no response to sig
nals tapped on a pipe sunk to the
bottom of the shaft.
The coal hole is located on property
of the Philadelphia & Reading Coal
& Iron Co.
MASSIE AND BRIDE SAIL
Navy Officer to Join Asiatic Fleet
at Manila.
SEATTLE. April 10 OP).—Lieut.
(J. G.) Thomas H. Massie, Navy
officer, and his bride sailed today
aboard the liner President McKinley
for Manila, where Massie will join
the Asiatic fleet.
Massie has been attached to the
Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremer
ton and formerly was in Hawaii,
where his first wife figured in an
attack by several islanders.
SUSPECT MAY BE “JEEP”
CLARKSDALE. Miss, April 10 OP).
—A man booked by Police Chief N. A.
Cajtledge as H. A. Gilbert was arrested
today as the ‘'jeep'‘ who has robbed
30 .Jee boxes of food in Clarksdale.
pie robber was called the "Jeep’’
because he left notes at homes he
robbed signed "The Jeep.”
Read ers' Guide
and
News Summary
The Sunday Star, April 11, 1937.
PART ONE.
Main News Section.
FOREIGN.
Baldwin in retirement speech warns
against fascism. Page A-l
British reported reinforcing navy on
Basque coast. Page A-l
Trotzky, at hearing, denies treason
charges. Page A-2
Political fate of Belgium may hinge
on vote today. Page A-7
NATIONAL
Walsh proposes blacklisting for labor
act violations. Page A-l
Ontario premier refuses to deal with
C. I. O. organizer. Page A-l
Ickes assails "odd man" on Supreme
Court in address. Page A-l
Textile parley will hear Hull and
Wallace. Page A-l
Johnson, Roosevelt court plan backer,
victor in Texas. Page A-l
Police go into huddle on Gedeon slay
ing. Page A-2
Chief Justice Hughes marks his 75th
birthday anniversary. Page A-3
Wagner decision effect on court pro
posal is awaited. Page A-4
Midamerica sale negotiations strike
deadlock. Page A-6
Committee approves five maritime
body appointments. Page A-15
1936 movie salaries top industrial pay
in early reports. Page B-2
WASHINGTON AND VICINITY.
Federation holds $5,000,000 lump sum
inadequate. Page A-l
Collins predicts expansion of size of
the District. Page A-2
“Toots” Juliano and 12 others nabbed
in police raid. Page B-l
Congressmen give views on D. C.
building program. Page B-l
Congress action on District auto in
spection bill foreseen. Page B-l
School Board asks budget restoration
of $300,000 items. Page B-l
D. C. legislation to progress this week
in Senate. Page B-l
Lawyer slated to go to trial tomorrow
on robbery charge. Page B-l
Rivers and Harbors Congress meets in
D. C. this month. Page B-2
Traffic code administration under Are
as arrests mount. Page B-4
SPORTS.
Nationals raliv to score, 8 to 2, over
Chattanooga club. Page B-6
Calumet Dick repeats to take closing
feature at Bowie. Page B-8
Welbourne Jake annexes cup event .in
•Middleburg meet. Page B-7
Maryland wins In track and base ball,
bows in lacrosse. Page B-8
Sailing events boomed by getting good
spot on cup program Page B-9
United States Golf Association is cagey
in naming dates. Page B-lb
Racing outlook in East this season is
unusually bright. Page B-II
MISCELLANY.
Washington Wayside. Page A-2
Lost and found. Page A-3 '
Obituary. Page A-14
Traffic convictions. Page A-17
Service orders PageA-19
Vital statistics. Page A-21
City news in brief. Page A-21
PART TWO.
Editorial Section.
Editorial articles. Pages D-l-3
Editorials and comment. Page D-2
Civic news. Page D-4
Women's clubs Page D-5
Military and veterans'
news. Pages D-6-7
Resorts Page D-8
Educational. Page D-9
Cross-word puzzle. Page D-10
Stamps. Page D-10
PART THREE.
Society Section.
Society news. Pages E-l-9
Well-known folk. Page E-3
Barbara Bell pattern. Page E-9
PART FOUR.
Feature Section.
News features. Pages F-l-4
John Clagett Proctor. Page F-t
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. Page F-7
PART FIVE.
Financial, Classified.
D C. store sales climb. Page G-l
Industrial pace slower. Page G-l
Auto plants face rush. Page G-l
Stocks hesitant (table). Page G-2
U. S. bonds gain (table). Page G-3
Curb list narrows (table). FageG-4
Classified advertising. Pages G-4-I6
C.I.O. SET TO FORM
LOCALS IN A. T. & T.
Weeks of “Missionary’’ Work
Over, Charters Are Ex
pected.
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 10.—James B.
Carey, youthful president of the United
Electrical and Radio Workers of
America, an affiliate of the C. I. O.,
said today the union was ready to
charter eight American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. locals within the next
two weeks.
Weeks of "missionary” work among
employes of the Nation’s largest cor
poration have included distribution of
promotional literature and the setting
up of district systems of organization,
Carey said.
He described the literature as made
up of leaflets charging the company
had capitalized on the depression, cut
ting personnel and wages, at the same
time Increasing its dividends.
Arthur W. Page, a vice president of
the company, said he had no com
ment to make on Carey’s remarks.
Carey predicted negotiations between
his union and the General Electric
Co., which began on March 15, would
termmaee Monday in an agreement.
He said he expected the entire electri
cal Industry would engage in collective
bargaining with the union.
TWO DROWN IN CAR
WINTON, N. C.. April 10 (/P).—Two
men were drowned here tonight when
the automobile in which they were
riding plunged off an open draw
bridge.
F. M. Jenkins, operator of a filling
station near the bridge, aaid one of
the men had been Identified as Wil
liam Lassiter, about 35, of Eure, In
Gst*6 County, but that the Identity
of the other man had not been aetab
11s hed.
BIGGER D. C. AREA
Restoration of Original 100
Square Miles in Gener
ation Seen.
Chairman Colllrs of the House Sub
committee on District Appropriations
believes that an Increase in the area
of the District is inevitable—that with
in a generation the original 100 square
miles of the Federal District will be
restored.
"It's not a wild or silly dream,”
Collins declared yesterday, discussing
his theory.
But Collins declined to reveal the
oasis for the prediction or even dis
cuss how such a plan could be carried
out.
Nevertheless, other members of the
House, especially those from Maryland
and Virginia, whose districts would be
affected by the expansion have heard
reports of a movement to bring about
the change—a movement that ap
parently has not yet gone beyond
discussion.
Representative Smith, Democrat, of
Virginia, whose territory embraces
Arlington County, Alexandria, and in
fact the entire area included in the
original District that Congress retro
ceded to Virginia in 1846, is one of
those who has heard the proposition
discussed. But he thinks the plan is
merely "a wild dream.”
It has always been Smith's
philosophy, he says, to keep his "gun
loaded and fire when there is some
thing to fire at.” Thus far, he pointed
out, no definite plan has been de
veloped, so there's nothing to fire at.
Agreement With States.
Under one of the plans discussed
Congress would enter into an agree
ment or compact with Maryland and
Virginia to take over certain areas in
those States contiguous to the District
and include them in the proposed
"Greater Washington.” How these
States would be compensated for giv
ing up such valuable territory is one
question which apparently hasn't been
given serious thought.
Under one proposal, however, Mary
land and Virginia would be given a
percentage of the annual tax collec
tions made in the territory absorbed
by the District.
Like Smith, Representative Kennedy,
Democrat, of Maryland, a member of
the House District Committee, regards
the proposal as ‘'fantastic"—one which
he believes should not even be seriously
considered.
Kennedy pointed out that the voters
of both States as well as the State
legislatures would have to ratify any
plan that Congress might approve to
extend the borders of the District, and
it is very doubtful if that would be
done.
In the first place, Kennedy ex
plained, any extension of the District
into Maryland would rake away from
the State some of its most valuable
territory in Montgomery and Prince
Georges Counties. The Maryland State
Legislature would hardly approve such
a plan, he said, and the voters, espe
cially those in the areas affected, would
rebel against it because they would be
denied the franchise, unless national
representation is granted the District
in the meantime.
The same condition would exist in
Virginia. The area that would be
taken into the District is among the
moet valuable in the State, and is
said to yield more tax revenue per
capita than any section, exclusive of
the cities.
Are* for Worker*.
The idea behind the proposal, Mr.
Collins suggests, is to include in the
greater District the area in which
the people live who work here, and
give them the benefit of a central
government. Maryland and Virginia,
he argues, should not have the right
of taxation and government over
the P’ople who work in Washington.
In thlp connection, he declared Con
gress already has committed itself to
the principle of accepting reeponai
bility for the welfare and happiness of
Federal employes by permitting non
resident children to attend District
school*.
Collins also pointed out that Wash
ington is attained to the bursting
point due to steady enlargement of
the Federal establishment, and cited
the forecast of George McAneny,
chairman of the Jacobs Fiscal Re
lations Advisory Committee, that the
population will reach 1,000,000 in 15
years. It is impossible, he said, to
crowd 1.000,000 persons into the pres
ent area.
As the population grows, Collins
believes, so will the Federal establish
ment, and make more necessary an
increase in the District area. At the
present time, he explained, there is
no available space for the concentra
tion of additional Government build
ings such as exists in so-called tri
angle area, and declared that Con
gress would not agree to scatter new
Federal buildings to be erected in the
future far beyond the existing build
ings and thereby reduce the efficiency
of interdepartmental business.
SIT-DOWN PRISONERS
TO BE TRANSFERRED
Florida Officials Flan to Scatter
Them Among Other
Hoad Camps,
ay the Associated Press.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 10.—
State prison bureau officials said to
day 21 white convicts who staged a
sit-down strike at a camp near Jas
per Thursday and Friday probably
would be scattered among other road
camps.
There was no violence during the
strike. The prisoners merely quit
work, demanded removal of Capt. A.
(Buddy) Coursey and declared they
would not return to their tasks until
a new captain took charge of the
camp. They did not say why they
wanted Coursey removed.
Nathan Mayo, State commissioner
of agriculture and head of the prison
system, said Coursey was a good
captain and would remain at the
camp.
Guards were told to let the con
victs "sit it out” without food or
water. The prisoners obtained water
by digging a hole but went without
food for two days. Last night they
capitulated.
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Aranha to Return Here.
RIO DE JANEIRO, April 10 OF).—
Oswaldo Aranha, Brazilian Ambas
sador to the United States, arranged
today to leave by airplane Monday
to return to Washington after spend
ing five months in political activity
in Brasil. Hie wife will accompany
him.
Wife Pickets Plant
Arriving at her estranged husband's Neiuark, N. J., button
factory in an expensive limousine, Mrs. H. Johanna Christensen
took a sign and joined striking employes in picketing yesterday.
Mrs. Christensen's divorce suit, in which she named a New York
model and listed her husband's wealth, was reported to have
precipitated the ivalkout. —Copyright, A. P. Wirephoto.
Federation
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action on this question cut about $50,
000 from the appropriation approved
by the Budget Bureau. The federa
tion merely recommended that the
sum suggested by the Budget Bureau
should not be increased.
The body took no direct action on
the eight new’ tax measures now before
the House District Committee, which
are calculated to raise from $11,000.
000 to $13,000,000 in additional rev
enue, if all are adopted. It will adopt
recommendations on those questions
later. These bills, laid before Congress
after formation of the proposed 1938
budget, showed there was an antici
pated deficit of $6,100,000.
The federation, however, took an in
direct slap at proposed diversion of the
special gasoline tax revenues to sup
port District functions not restricted
to road improvements and repair when
it protested that the gas tax fund 1
should not be put to any use which
might deprive the District, of grants |
under the Havden-Cartwnght Federal ,
road-aid act for highway improve
ments here.
$600,000 a Tear in Plan.
This Federal road aid act provides
that a portion of Federal grant* shall ;
be withheld if local gas funds are :
spent for other than highway pur- |
poses. Under the King bill passed |
by the Senate the Diatrict would be :
placed on parity with the States for ,
Federal road grant* It is figured the
District should receive some $600,000 .
per year for this purpose.
Contrary to this position was the
action of the House in making charges
against the District's gas tax fund
about half the expenses of the Traffic
Department, the whole cost of the
Department of Trees and Parkings
and the cost of sidewalk and alley
Improvements.
The proposal to Congress that the
District Government take over the
bonding in criminal cases before the
court* provoked heated debate, but
the federation finally held that an
item of $13,000 for creation of the
office of bonding commissioner should
not be appropriated until legislation
covering the proposed activity had
been presented to Congress and pub
lic hearings held.
Split Developeg on Question.
The body was split over the question,
some leaders claiming it would open
the door to entrance of the municipal
government into many fields of private
business and others charging that the
bonding ' racket'’ must be broken up.
There was a charge also that if the
District refused to grant bond to a
prisoner, the proposal might be found
unconstitutional since it would de
prive the prisoner of his right to
release.
Several speakers Insisted that If
there are abuses In the present pri
vate bonding business, this should be
met by proper regulation. Others re
sponded that several attempts have
been, made at regulation and that
they had failed of success.
There was agreement, however, that
creation of an office of bonding com
missioner should not be provided in
an appropriation item until Congress
had considered basic legislation which
would show the scope and intent of the
business of such office. The mere in
sertion of the appropriation item, with
a promise of a legislative action later.
was termed bv some speakers as "a
pig in s poke.”
Hospital Shift Weighed.
The proposed transfer of control of
Gallinger Hospital and the District’*
tuberculosis sanatoria from the Board
of Public Welfare to the Health De
partment, the federation held, should
not be provided in a shift of appro
priations. but should be considered
only as a legislative matter on which
public hearings should be held. The
transfer was provided in the supply
bill as reported by the House District
subcommittee on appropriations, but
is was knocked out on a point of
order as the bill was passed by the
House.
Abandonment of the Receiving
Home for Children and transfer of
its wards to boarding homes, as pro
vided in the House action on the
budget measure, met with disapproval
of the federation. It held conditions
of the home could be improved.
The body asked that appropriation
items for salaries for the staff of the
Traffic Department and for provision
of automobile tags be restored to their
regular places in the budget, meaning
they should be continued as charges
against general tax revenues. These
two items were stricken from the bill
in the House on points of order which
were raised because the items had been
transferred to make them charges
against the special gas tax fund.
The federation also asked restoration
to the bill of an item for the salary
of a people* counsel. That office ha*
been vacant since the resignation last
November of William A. Roberts and
the salary item was dropped by the
House.
Fight Over Playgrounds.
There was a long fight over the pro
posed transfer of control over numer
ous playground activities from the
Municipal Playground Department to
the Community Center Department of
the public school system. H. C.
Phillips, chairman of the Education
Committee, propoeed that the federa
tion approve changes to give the Com
munity Center Department control
over school grounds now operated after
school hours and during the Summer
by the Playground Department. He
opposed, however, the transfer of play
grounds not Immediately adjoining
school buildings.
Mrs. Horace J. Phelps, in a minority
report, urged that appropriation items
transfered in the bill be restored to
the Playground Department. By a
vote of 24 to 20, the federation dis
approved the shifting of the appro
priations, upholding Mra. Fhelpe’
recommendations.
The federation urged the Senate
Appropriation Committee to reinstate
in the supply bill the following items:
For construction of a new Bunker Hill
School. $115,000; completion of the
Anacostia Junior-Senior High School,
$70,000, and a second-story addition to
the Crosby Noyes School, $60,000.
Persons under 18 would be deprived
of their right to obtain automobile
operator permits under another feder
ation action. The present minimum
age limit is 16. The body also urged
that the Traffic Department be made
the depository of records of liens
against automobiles and held that
filing of liens be made mandatory.
Vote Loyalty to King.
OTTAWA, Ontario. April 10 (Cana
dian Press).—Both houses of Parlia
ment adopted an address of loyalty to
King George VI today, written in
observance of his coronation next
month.
Senator Lewis to Speak
ILLINOISAN TO TALK TOMORROW IN NATIONAL RADIO FORUM.
Foreign affairs, particularly as they
touch the United States, will be the
subject of an address by Senator James
Hamilton Lewis of Illinois in the Na
tional Radio Forum tomorrow at 10:30
p.m.
The National Radio Forum is ar
ranged by The Washington Star and
broadcast over the network of the
National Broadcasting Co.
Senator Lewis, a member of the Sen
ate Foreign Relations Committee and
Democratic whip of the Upper House,
is in constant touch with European
and Far Eastern problems.
Much of his knowledge of foreign
affairs has been gained by personal
observations during numerous trips
abroad, where he is known almost as
widely as he is in this country. He has
been knighted by the Kings of Bel
gium and Greece and was made a
member of the Knights of the Round
Table at ceremonies in London, pre
sided over by the British sovereign.
Senator Lewis could have been in
America's diplomatic service had he
chosen, but he elected to remain at
home. He declined an offer by Presi
dent Wilson to appoint him as Am
bassador to Belgium.
On a recent trip to Soviet Russia
SENATOR LEWIS.
—
Senator Lewis was stricken seriously
111 in Moscow. Hs has completely re
covered his health, however, and Is ss
active as ever at the Oapltol.
POLICE IN HUDDLE
_ E
Detectives Continue Hunt for
Sculptor in All Room
ing Houses.
BACKGROUND—
Veronica Gideon, model: her
mother, and Frank Byrnes, a lodg
er, were slain Easter Sunday in
their New York roominy house.
The women were strangled and the
male roomer stabbed,
Several suspects have been ques
tioned in the case and released.
BULLETIN.
UTICA. N. Y„ April 11 (Sun
day).—A suicide note signed "Rob
ert George Irwin” was handed to
a traffic officer tonight by an un
identified woman who said she
found it in the street.
New Yorlc police requested the
note be sent to them for comparison
with handwriting.
rry the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 10—Three of
the highest police officials Investigat
ing the Gedeon murder mystery went
into a huddle to “go over the details
of the case” today as efforts to locate
Robert Irwin, fugitive sculptor, con
tinued unsuccessful.
The officials attending the parley
were Chief Inspector John A. Lyons,
Deputy Chief Inspector Francis J.
Kear and Acting Capt. Edward Mul
lins, who is in charge of the homicide
squad.
Have Many Lend* to Follow.
After the conference, which lasted
an hour, Lyons said:
"The conference was called pri
marily to go over details of the case.
We have many leads to work on, but
nothing new ha* developed."
The meeting was held at a down
town police station, several miles from
the Beekman Hill neighborhood where
Veronica Gedeon, 20-year-old artists’
model; her mother and FYank Byrnes,
a roomer, were slain Easter morning.
Detective* continued a systematic
but fruitless canvass of all rooming
house* In their search for the sculptor,
described by Lyons as dangerously
Insane.
Two large cardboard cartons con
taining all the evidence gathered in
the slayings were taken from the
Fifty-first street police station to the
property clerk at police headquarters.
Third Degree Charged.
The New York committee of the
American Civil Liberties Union
charged that JoseDh Gedeon, father
of the slain model, had been sub
jected to "third-degree inquisition”
last week when he was held for ques
tioning. and asked Commissioner
Lewis J. Valentine to dismiss the po
licemen Involved.
The committee said in a letter to
Valentine that a physician s report
showed Gedeon. who was exonerated,
had received numerous abrasions and
bruises while In custody.
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HIT-AND-RUN DRIVER
BELIEVED IN WRECK
Pedwtrian May Have Fractured
Skull—License Number Taken
by Witnei*.
The driver of an automobile who
struck and aeverely injured a pedes
trian and who was reported to have
been in a collision with another car
after leaving the scene was being
sought by police early today.
Viva Reihm, 60, Beltsviile. Md . may
have suffered a skull fracture when
struck by the car at Thirteenth street
and Pennsylvania avenue last night.
Police said the driver stopped momen
tarily and that a bystander got the
license number and description of the
ear.
A short time later, police said, a car
answering the same description col
lided with another machine in the
4500 block of Bowen street. The victim
in the first case was treated at
Casualty Hospital.
Robert Dosslemyer, 6, of 907 Thir
teenth street, received a broken left
leg when struck by a car at Eleventh
and I streets last night. He was
treated at Emergency Hospital. Police
said the driver of the car was Maurice
E. Miller, 69. of 3600 Edmunds street.
TAILOR BEATEN HERE
AND ROBBED OF $153
Morris A. Katz Is Victim in Hold
Up—Two Girls Lose $20
to Gunman.
Morris A. Kats, 926 G place, was
robbed of *153 last night by a man
who assaulted him as he was walking
in the 200 block of Hamilton street.
Kata, a tailor, told police his assail
ant also took a brief case which con
tained some documents of the United
Garment Workers of America. Kats
was found lying on the sidewalk by a
passer-by, but did not require hes
, pital treatment.
Betty Steiner and Mildred Parker,
both of Maryland Park, Md., were
robbed of *20 by an armed colored
man who slapped one of them and
then seised both their purses as they
were walking on Eastern avenue near
the District line last night.
CRASH INJURY FATAL
TO CUMBERLAND MAN
Charles P. Tee, Jr., Succumbs.
Parents Were Injured aa
Car Hit Wall.
BT th* Associated Press.
HARRISBURG. Pa, April 10 —
Charles P. Tee. jr., 21, of Cumber
land, Md., Injured In the crash of
an automobile into a wall near Dills
burg today, died tonight of a fractured
skull and Internal injuries.
Tee's father, Carl Edward Tee, suf
fered concussion of the brain and a
fractured rib, and his mother, brain
concussion and a fractured leg.
The driver, Carroll Silvus. 21. of
Cumberland, was cut on the hesd
and right leg.
Corpl. C. C. Naddo of the State
highway patrol Investigated.
Four Arabs Shot.
JERUSALEM, Palestine, April 10
(TP).—Four Arabs were shot and
wounded critically today as they left
the vicinity of the Omar Mosque.
They were fired on from ambush
by snippers m what police said was a
feud among Arabs.
A Jewish woman was killed near
Tel Aviv by shots fired by two Arabs
who escaped.
W ashington
Wayside
Tales
Random Observations
of Interesting Events
and Things.
SWAN SONG.
BECAUSE It is composed in the
profound spirit of the obituary
writer, we print, unaltered
and unsung, this touching
little tale of death in the afternoon:
‘‘Hawkshaw is dead.
‘•Fastidious to the end, he solemnly
washed his last supper of bread In a
pan of water before eating it, preened
himself in an imaginative mirror as
though preparing to saunter forth be
fore an admiring world, and strode the
“last mile” to the execution block with
the poise and resolution of a Sidney
Carton.
‘ Hawkshaw was a gray goose.
"Last January, M. J. Berry, hook
and-ladder expert at the Congress
Heights Fire Department spent his
vacation at Point Lookout on the
Chesapeake. He saw the handsome
gander strutting among his harem and
claimed him with the intention of
fattening the bird for an Easter feast.
“Snatched unceremoniously from
his familiar aquatic surroundings and
Imprisoned in a barnyard "cell" with
a flock of doomed chickens, Hawkshaw
never forgot his breeding. At meal
time the squawking, greedily clucking
hens never perturbed him. Every
morsel that gained Ingress to his pa
trician stomach was first and always
washed. Friends and doubting stran
gers from miles around came to wit
ness the phenomenon. Hawkshaw
never failed them.
Then Berry discovered his fastidi
ous prize could ferret out hidden bits
of food. His snooping propensities
earned him the name of the famous
sleuth.
"But Easter came and with it the end
of 40 days' fasting. Berry, looking at
his 18-pound beauty, became acutely
aware of the bird's raison d'etre.
"Now Hawkshaw s gray goose quills
flutter aimlessly in the barnyard dust.
It is hoped that with Berry's sigh of
gourmet relish therp was mingled a
note of something akin to re'erer.ce.
NAMESAKE.
Wayside contributors may or may
not be interested to know there is
a town named Wayside, which our
geographic expert located in North
ern Nebraska, not jar jrom the
Wyoming line. It is also only a
bit south oj the jamous Black
Hills, near the South Dakota
Nebraska border.
We remember another hamlet
named Wayside, too, somewhere
down in Virginia but near what
corners, borders and hills ice could
not recall in a coon's age Any
suggestions'’
MONNIKER.
T^tRS. JEAN MEIGS of Bradley
Hills received a beautiful Sia
mese cat as a present recently. She
wanted to attach a really appropriate
handle to this fine feline specimen,
and not knowing the right words
called up the Siamese Legation to
ask what cats were called in Siamese.
‘ Cats?" said the voice on the tele
phone. "We call 'em 'meyow.' "
Mrs. Meigs wasn't satisfied with
that and finally persuaded the Lega
tion to promise her a list of splendid
Oriental monmkers. Meanwhile they
railed the puss Pinkie, because of
her eyes (which may have been that
way because of a Siamese hangover).
When the Legation's names finally
arrived, Mrs. Meigs couldn't get very
far with pronouncing anything ex
cept the word "dara.” which means
“sweetheart" or something like that.
What to do, what to do, mused Mrs.
Meigs, until she hit upon a scheme.
She christened the cat Pinki-dara,
which sounds mighty Siamese to us.
* * * *
PERENNIALS.
pOR months now we haven't heard
axiy of those persistent legends
that roam the drawing rooms of the
city at indiscriminate intervals. You
know the sort—the stories about
t things that happened to a friend of a
friend of a friend of the narrator.
A few samples:
The tale about the tramp who
mooched a nickel from a lady in La
fayette Park and then spent it to
buy a sack of peanuts for the pigeons.
The horror yam of the poison dress.
Ditto the one about the girl who was
in the theater and some one stuck
a hypodermic needle in hei* arm and
tried to whisk her away to be sold
into slavery in Hindustan. (Those two
aren't dead—just resting up, we feel
sure.)
Story about the man who went into
a restaurant out West and found he
was the only customer. Couldn't get
any service, because the two waiters
were quarreling between themselves.
Finally the proprietor appeared and
said. “What's the matter with you
tuys? Can't you wait on one lousy
rustomer?”
* * * *
BULL’S-EYE.
Answering questions lor the pub
lic at large is only one of the
tribulations of a city editor. Nine
times out of ten the question is
inspired by alcohol, a bet, or fust
plain lack of sufficient energy to go
look up the answer.
Latest gripe came from a fellow
who seemed to be slightly whoozy
and using the telephone in a cock
tail room, at that. He wanted to
know the correct spelling of
“chinkapin.’’ The city editor let
the paper run itself for a few min
utes, went to the dictionary and
looked it up.
When the gent was satisfied and
hung up, the operator called back.
"What is a chinkapin?" said she.
“That guy was one," snapped the
eity editor.
“Oh," said the operator, quietly.
-Is tt really a nuf?"
Announces Imminent Retire
ment, but Sets No Date.
Chamberlain Favored.
Bi the Associated Preen, '
WORCESTER, England, April 10 —
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the
sturdy cornerstone of British conserv
atism, warned his people earnestly
away from either communism or
fascism today in a homely speech that
sounded like a swansong.
He announced his imminent retire
ment. but set no date for it. He has
been prime minister three times.
Addressing his constituents, he
warned Britain against "mass con
sciousness” and "the virus of either
communism or fascism." And then
the 69-year-old government leader
declared of himself:
“It is far better to go when the ,
people may still think of you as per
haps not incompetent than to stay
until perhaps they know before you
do that you are becoming incompe
tent.”
The Conservatives of the Bewdley
division, whom he addressed, ap
pointed a committee to select a candi
date for his House of Commons seat
and adopted a resolution expressing
appreciation of his services.
Chamberlain Favored.
Political observers generally agreed
Neville Chamberlain, who is a year
and a half younger than Baldwin,
would be his successor in the prime
ministership.
Baldwin’s withdrawal has long been
taken for granted, and some observ
ers have predicted he will be made a .
lord. It is generally believed he will
quit soon after the Imperial confer
ence which has been called immedi
ately following King George* coro
nation May 12.
The stocky prime minister minced
no words in warning against Britain's
adoption of ‘ ideas alien to the Ideas
which we hold In this country."
"They are the Ideas of communism
and differing forms of fascism,” he
said. "Ideas that can do nothing to
help our country In solving our own
constitutional problem*.
"I don’t think thl* country is m
danger of having mas* consciousne?..
But don’t let us, in our happy-go
lucky wav. think that suoh a thing
cannot come to Great Britain—there
Is nothing more important than to
keep ourselves immune from the virus
of either communism or fascism."
Fear* Rapid Chang*.
Citing the vast speed-up In trans
portation since he was first elected
to the House of Commons as an ex
ample of the changing times, Bald
win said:
"Today you may drive with safety
on roads 60 miles an hour. But if this
country ever tries to travel In a
constitutional change at 60 mile* an
hour the constitution will be wrecked,
and it will be wrecked as It always
has been in these rapid changes—m
disaster and in bloodshed."
Concerning his forthcoming res
ignation, the prime minister told the
Conservative meeting:
"I am quite clear in my own mind
that while I believe my judgment to
be as good—If It has been good—as
it has ever been, I am conscious that
the vitality is to a certain extent
sapped, and that one needs more rest
and one gets more tired
"But if that be the case In days
like this, was right has one to go on
j wuth the risk that one may get much
[ more tired and really impair the
| work of the government of which one
is the head?"
"When I retire," Baldwin once *ald,
: "you will never hear of me again. I
want to go back to Worcester, read
books, live a decent life and keep
: Pigs "
LOYALIST DECREE
WOOS INSURGENTS
Fair Treatment. Opportunity for
Career Offered Those Who
Surrender.
Fernando de los Rios. Spanish Am
bassador to the United States, an
nounced yesterday that his govern
ment has informed him that it has
issued a decree guaranteeing fair
treatment and the opportunity for
future careers to rebels who volun
tarily surrender.
The Spanish Ambassador said that
the decree was issued at the present
moment because the Spanish govern
1 ment believes this to be the turning
point of the war. It is convinced, hi
said, that thousands of persons ort
the rebel side wish to lay down their
arms, and will do so. if assured of
fair treatment by the government.
The decree, signed Manuel Azans,
president of the Spanish Republic,
contains two main provisions:
“Article 1—That the lives of retH
combatants, whether citizens or for
eigners, who fall prisoner, will be re
spected and without ioas of time thev
will be delivered to competent au
thorities, and no proceeding will be
instituted without consent of the cab
inet of ministers.
“Article 2—Rebel combatants who
voluntarily enter our ranks will not
only have their lives spared, but In
vestigation will be made and. if ad
herence to the republic is proven, they
shall have the pc*ts, positions and pre
eminences to which they are entitled
in civil as well as military life."
In answer to questions, the Spanish
Ambassador refused to predict how
much longer the civil war will en
dure, but said that If the proposal to
withdraw all foreign elements from
both sides were accepted the war
would be over in two months. He
said his government had informed him
that 90 per cent of the rebel troopa
on the Guadalajara and Madrid fronts
are foreigners, including Moors, and
that 60 per cent of the rebel troops In
the south are foreign. Asked why
the percentage of foreign troops
higher around Madrid, he said he was
informed it was because the Italians
had insisted upon having the glory
of capturing Madrid and had taken
that sector out of the hands of Gen.
Francisco Franco, the rebel leader.
He said that he had no information
concerning the reported replacement,
by Spanish troops of the defeated and
demoralized Italian divisions on tha
Guadalajara front.
-# ■ —„ ,
Jack Pearl Recovering:.
NEW YORK, April 10 OP).—Jack
Pearl, radio comedian, was recov
ering at a hospital tonight from aa
operation he underwent earlier In thi
day for an Intestinal ailment.