Evening star. [volume], November 18, 1938, Page A-4, Image 4

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Case Work Staff Cuts
Barring Aid to Needy,
Says Street Report
Too Few Workers to
Investigate All of
Pleas, He Says
Belief that applicants for relief
are being denied assistance because
the case work stafT, which was dras
tically reduced last July 1 when
Congress limited the direct relief
fund to $900,000, is unable to keep
current with interviews of applicants
was voiced today by the Public As
sistance Division in its report on
October operations.
The report, made public by Wel
fare Director Elwood Street, showed
that there had been a reduction of
44 per cent in the number of general
relief recipients since last January
and of 10 per cent, in the same
period, in the number of aid-to
dependent children cases.
The report stated “the reduction
in general public assistance is due
to the reduced appropriation for
relief. The reduction in aid to de
pendent children is due to the re
duced staff that has slowed up the
approval of categorical assistance.
In neither instance does the reduc
tion necessarily indicate a decrease
in need. '
“The drop in the number of ap
proved A. D. C. cases undoubtedly is
due to the fact that the reduced staff
was unable to make the investigation
necessary to determine if the cases
were legally eligible for aid.”
The division added that the field
staff of caseworkers was reduced to
37 and that “the average case load
per worker was so high that much
necessary work was left undone.” It
said that with a total case load in
October of 6,839, the staff was able
to make field visits or office inter
views totaling only 5,298.
The division said this represented
an average of 143 field visits and
office interviews per worker during
the month, in addition to “planning
for clients, traveling to and from
field visits, reading records, dictating
letters, case recording, pay rolls, sur
plus commodity orders, statistical i
reports, telephoning, meetings and j
conferences with supervisors and the j
many other details that make up the
work of the case worker.” j
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Murder
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apparently demented gunman from
preying on motorists.
The conference was still on be
hind closed doors early this after
noon. It was reported, however,
that a sizable reward will be offered
in an effort to apprehend the slayer.
In Georgetown Hospital today
Mrs. Brown apparently was recover
ing from the effects of her wound.
Her condition was described as not
critical.
Still nervous from her experience
last night, Mrs. Brown was suffering
from a number of bruises and
scratches she received when she fell
out of the car.
“I hear the police have some one,”
she said. "If it's the man who did
the murder, I can identify him,”
she declared. "I thought he was
going to murder me, too.”
Were En Route to Dance.
The attack was made about 9:30 ;
p.m. on Grubb road, an extension
of Beach drive, about one-half mile
south of the East-West highway, j
as the couple were driving through :
the "short cut" en route to a dance
In Silver Spring.
As Mr. Murray drove slowly along
the mud road a colored man leaped
onto the driver's side of the car,
shoved a pistol at him and forced
him to stop.
Mr. Murray complied with the
bandit's demand for his money,
turning over his wallet containing
$5—but then the motorist asked for
his pocketbook back, explaining it
had his driver's permit and personal
cards.
This request and Mrs. Brown's
reply that she had no money enraged
the gunman. Point-blank, he fired
11 shots into the car, six of the slugs
striking the man and one the woman.
Mrs. Brown tumbled from the au
tomobile and lay by the side of the
road while the bandit stood holding
the revolver. He maintained his
menacing pose until the approach
of another machine caused him to
slip into the woods.
The passing motorist, unidentified
MRS. EDNA L. BROWN,
Detective Sergt. Theodore Wollten of the Montgomery County
police, pouring plaster into a footprint, thought by police to
have been made by the sniper-murderer at the scene of the
shooting. —Star Staff Photos.
by police, took Mrs. Brown to
Georgetown Hospital, where she sub
sequently gave detectives the fore
going account of what occurred.
Police Hurry to Scene.
Immediately after learning of the
shooting, all available county police
hurried to the scene, where, under
the glare of powerful searchlights,
they hunted until daylight.
District detectives, still hunting
for the gunman who figured in two
recent sniper shootings of the same
nature, also joined in the search.
About 3 a m., a light-skinned col
ored man answering the description
of the one sought was picked up
at Wisconsin avenue and Albermarle
street and taken to No. 8 precinct
for questioning.
This morning another colored
man, who lives in a Shack near the
scene of the shooting, was arrasted.
Both wore khaki jumpers, a gar
ment similar to that worn by the
fugitive.
Eleven 32-caliber shells were1
picked up beside the death car. It
is believed they tvere fired from an
automatic pistol.
The only clue of any value ap
peared to be three clearly defined
footprints in the soft ground beside
the spot where Mr. Murray was
forced to stop his car. Plaster casts
of the print were made by Detective
Sergt. Theodore Vollten of the
Montgomery county police.
The gunman was described to po
lice as being about 5 feet 10 tall,
weighing about 145 pounds, with
light brown skin and wearing a soft
hat and khaki clothes.
About five hours after the shoot
ing, a man whose description fitted
that of the fugitive was reported
having been seen on the Brookville
road about a mjle from where the
murder took place. He was seen
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who at the time knew nothing of the
shooting.
Father of Contractor.
Mr. Murray was the father of
Frank Murray, 2929 Connecticut
avenue N.W., a District building
contractor.
Detectives today planned to again
question Mrs. Brown if her condi
tion permits. They explained that
the woman was overwrought when
they talked to her last night.
Inspector Bernard W. Thompson
said that the )1 shells found on the
scene of the shooting last night will
be turned over to Lt. John Fowler,
ballistics expert of the Metropolitan
Police Department, who will com
pare them with the shells found at
the two other shootings.
MaJ. Ernest W. Brown conferred
with Inspector Thompson on last
Visiting British Monarchs
To Stay at White House
But Entire Royal Entourage of 40 Can't Be
Housed There, Mrs. Roosevelt Says
BT the Associated Press.
The King and Queen of Great
Britain will be house guests at the
White House when they visit
America next year.
Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt told her
press conference today she and
the President would entertain their
royal visitors and such people in
their party as they deemed neces
sary to have with them, but that
other arrangements would be made
for some members of the royal en
tourage.
Mrs. Roosevelt said she understood
there would be 40 in the party, and
that it would be impossible to have
40 people staying in the White
House.
King George and Queen Elizabeth
will be the first reigning monarchs
to be entertained overnight at the
White House although the late
King Edward VII spent the nigljt
there when he was Prince of Wales.
Mrs. Roosevelt said plans for the
entertainment of their royal majes
ties were incomplete. She under
stood that they were to be at the
World Fair one day.
night’* shooting and outlined a plan
of co-operation between the Wash
ington Police Department and the
Montgomery County authorities. Maj.
Brown said that the situation ap
pears to be serious and he is con
sidering the possibility of having a
Joint reward for the apprehension of
the sniper.
A conference will be held today
at Bethesda, Md„ between Inspector
Thompson. State’s Attorney Pugh
and Maryland police. Inspector
Thompson has already assigned the
entire homicide squad to the case.
Victim to View Suspects.
The colored men arested by the
police will be viewed by Mrs. Edna
L. Brown today in Georgetown Hos
pital if her condition permits. Two
Maryland police were placed" on
guard at the scene of the crime tot
prevent curiosity seekers from
trampling the ground and possibly
destroying some of the clues, and
cancellation of leave for all detec
tives and uniformed officers in the
county was ordered by Police Chief
J. William Garrett.
Inspector Thompson got out of
the sick bed when he received the
call of the shooting. He and 10 de
tectives rushed to the scene and they
stayed there until 4:30 am. today.
Inspector Thompson was ill last
night because of the late hours he
lias been keeping in trying to clear
up the murder in Spring Valley.
The inspector and members of the
Homicide Squad and several men
from other squads have been cruis
ing the parks and streets nightly
till the wee hours of the morning
Col. William L. Peake, Lorton Va.
Reformatory, said this morning that
he had received no request from
Montgomery County authorities or
Washington police for bloodhounds.
Never Drove o Truck
PHILADELPHIA Iff).—Ben Wolf
received a $22 7$. check, from the
State Highway Department, couldn't
recall doing anything for the depart
ment and aent it back.
Back came the check with this
notation: "That's your pay for driv
ing a truck 35 hours at 65 cents an
hour.”
The figuring was all right, but—
Ben's an artist, he didn't drive a
highway truck, and he can't find the
Ben Wolf who did.
Tentatively, It is planned that
the King will occupy a suite of
rooms on the northeast corner of
the second floor and that the Queen
will have the suite across the hall.
Under that arrangement they would
share the Monroe room as a sitting
room and that end of the floor
could be shut off from the remainder
of the house.
The suite being considered for the
King includes what is called the
pink room, a smaller bedroom and
a bath.
The Queen’s bedroom would be
the Lincoln study, which at one
time was President Lincoln’s office
and later served other Presidents
in the capacity before President
Hoover furnished it as a bedroom.
The sitting room under discussion
is at the top of the marble steps
leading up from the main floor. In its
marble fireplace is an inscription
explaining that the room was first
used for meeting of the cabinet
during the administration of Presi
dent Johnson.
Dieckhoff
(Continued From First Page.)_
New York of Hugh R. Wilson, Amer
ican Ambassador to Berlin.
Mr. Wilson was called back to the
United States by President Roosevelt
for “report and consultation’’ fol
lowing Germany’s campaign against
the Jews.
Thomsen to Be in Charge.
Dr. Hans Thomsen, embassy coun
selor. will be in charge during
Dieckhoff s absence. The embassy
secretary said he had no idea how
long that would be.
Embassy attaches said Dieckhoffs
recall orders were received by cable
early this morning. He was told to
come home at once for "consulta
tion.”
"Apparently he is being recalled
for exactly the saix)e reason that
Ambassador Wilson has been called
home,” an Embassy official stated.
Dieckhoff was in retirement today
and would make no statement. To
day’s instructions from Berlin were
the first official word he had received
since Mr. Wilson's recall was an
nounced and President Roosevelt
condemned developments in Ger
many in strong language in a White
I House press statement.
Before he leaves, it was an
: nounced, Dieckhoff will call on Sec
S retary Hull. Mrs. Dieckhoff will not
accompany her husband home, but
probably will leave about Decem
1 ber 6 to spend Christmas with her
husband in Germany. It was un
derstood the wife of Ambassador
Wilson has similar plans to spend
Christmas with her husband In the
United States.
Dieckhoff was last at the State
Department on Saturday when Sec
retary Hull told him that full pre
cautions had been taken here and
throughout the United States, wher
ever there were German consulates,
to protect both the property*arid
personnel against any demonstra
tion or attempted violence. Imme
diately after that police guards ap
peared at the embassy here.
Reporters and photographers who
appeared at Dieckhoff's residence
this morning were ordered away by
private guards, "in the name of the
German government.”
"This is German property,” they
were told.
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Brings Added
Sentence
A 29-year-old man was sentenced
to pay $20 or serve 20 days in Jail
today for contempt of court when
he called Judge Edward M. Cur
ran an insulting name after being
convicted on a charge of intoxica
tion.
The defendant, William Moore of
no fixed address, was heard to mut
ter the term as he passed by Officer
J. R. Jenkins, in charge of the
cell block.
Moore was brought back inVo the
court and asked what it was he
said. The defendant replied that
he thought he was dealt with un
fairly.
On the drunk charge Moore will
serve 30 days.
Hampshire Heights Citizens
Form Association
A new civic unit, the Hampshire
Heights Citizens’ Association, was
organized last night at a meeting
of 30 members in the Barnard
School. It will serve citizens living
in the territory bounded by Rock
Creek Church road and Buchanan,
Fifth and Ingraham streets N.W.
H. D. Johnson was elected tem
porary president, J. Leon Bord, tem
porary vice president, and George
W. Fessenden, temporary secretary.
Permanent officers will be named
as soon as the constitution and by
laws, which were presented last
night, can be adopted at the next
meeting of the group, Tuesday,
December 6.
In accepting the temporary presi
dency, Mr. Johnson, who has been
one of the leaders In the movement
to found the new unit, forecast suc
cess for the association. In the last
six months he has done much of the
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work preliminary to organization. Ia
that time a petition calling for the
new group was circulated and over
200 residents signed it.
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