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. Schulte to Demand
Milk Code Equality
For Independents
Indianan Returns
To Appear at Hearing
On U. S. Supervision
Representative Schulte, Democrat,
of Indiana, champion of lower re
tail milk prices in Washington, an
nounced today he would demand
that the Department of Agriculture,
in adopting any milk' marketing
code for the local milkshed, pre
scribe the same treatment for in
dependent producers as for mem
bers of the Maryland-Virginia Milk
Producers’ Association.
Abruptly curtailing a tour of his
congressional district, Mr. Schulte
returned to Washington to appear
at a public hearing called by the
Agriculture Department on the as
sociation’s proposal for re-establish
ment of Federal supervision over
the local milkshed. with a schedule
of minimum prices to be paid by
distributors to producers.
Mr. Schulte, who took a promi
nent part in a congressional inves
1 ttfgation last spring of the District
milk situation, has charged repeat
edly that the Maryland-Virginia
Association, whose members fur
nish more than 80 per cent of
Washington milk supply, has mo
nopolized the local market.
Fears “Squeeze Out.”
“I am afraid the independent pro
ducer may be forgotten in this new
proposal of the Maryland-Virginia
Association,” he said. ”1 am going
to insist that all dairy farmers ship
ping milk into Washington, whether
. they belong to the association or not,
be given equal rights and privileges.
Otherwise, the association would be
in a, jjusiuun w squeeze uui inde
pendents and strengthen its con
trol over the Washington market."
As a result of the congressional
milk investigation. Mr. Schulte in
troduced a bill which now has a
preferred position on the House cal
endar to open the District milk mar
ket to producers outside the local
milkshed. A flood of milk and cream
from the milk-producing areas of
Indiana. Wisconsin and other States,
he contends, would serve to force
dowm the retail price in the District.
Existing law restricts the local sup
ply for fluid consumption to the
present milkshed. which embraces
Maryland. Virginia and small sec
tions of West Virginia and Pennsyl
vania—an area in which District
Health Department inspectors regu
larly check the cattle and dairy
barns of producers who ship to the
Washington market.
Hopes for 11-Cent Price.
“There is no reason whiy the re
tail price of milk in Washington
should not be reduced to 12 and
even 11 cents a quart.” declared Mr.
Schulte. “I fought for a reduction
at the last regular session of Con- '
gress and intend to renew my fight
more vigorously at the coming ses
sion in January.
“I am told that the retail price of
grade A milk—the only grade al
lowed to be sold in Washington for
fluid consumption—was recently re
duced in Baltimore from 14 to 12
cents a quart. Some of the same
farmers supplying the Washington
market ship milk to Baltimore. If
the price can be reduced to 12 cents
In Baltimore, there is no reason why
Washington consumers should be
forced to pay 14 cents.”
Mr. Schulte is one of the ranking
majority members of the House Dis
trict Committee.
Chest
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raised within the 48 hours before the
end of the campaign.
Chest Director Herbert L. Willett,
Jr., told them the funds obtained so
far would permit the Chest's 67
agencies to carry on their services
for only nine months of next year.
“In human needs.” he said, "that
means 51,600 fewer days' care which
■ we can give to children sheltered
within the walls of our eight Chest
supported institutions.
“It means 6.325 fewer days’ care
to the ailing babies and children in
our convalescent homes!
‘‘It means 29.862 fewer visits by
visiting nurses to give care to the
needy sick in their own homes!
“It means 26.660 fewer days of
hospital care can be purchased for
desperately ill needy persons.
“It means that 2,500 more of our
neighbors must have their appeals
for aid rejected when misfortune
strikes.”
Campaign leaders who conferred
with Director Willett and General
Chairman Chauncey G. Parker, jr.
included Gen Prank T. Hines,
Charles B. Dulcan, sr.; Mr. Morgan,
William W. Wheeler, Campaign
Manager Radonlph G. Bishop, Cole
man Jennings, president of the
Chest; Mrs. A. Chambers Oliphant, i
Clifford Folger, Richard H. Wilmer
and Bruce R. Allen.
« Analysis of Pledges.
Amounts pledged, number of con
tributors and percentage of quota
obtained as reported by solicitation
groups yesterday were as follows:
Governmental Unit — $631,886.38
pledged by 97.451 contributors. This
Is 82.60 per cent of quota. Addi
tional $71,294.13 pledged by 14.078
persons since previous report meet
ing.
^jriuup ouixcicaLiuii uiut —
824.55 in 30.186 pledges. 5,730 new
pledges for total of $35,521.10. 64.2
per cent of quota raised.
Metropolitan Unit — $150,316.32
from 8.380 contributors. 74.7 per cent
oi quota. Represents $14,805.85
pledged by 1,054 persons since last
report
Advance Gifts—$417,843 from 457
contributors. 80.2 per cent of quota.
Additional $48,600 from 23 con
tributors reported yesterday.
Surburban Unit—$24,262.44 from
2.583 contributors. 46.66 per cent of
quota. 922 additional pledges for a
total of $7,163.76 reported yesterday.
Capital Unit—$3,589.37 in 750
pledges, for 44.87 per cent of quota.
Additional 279 pledges for total of
$988.75 reported yesterday.
100 Per Cent or Above.
Government Unit divisions of the
Chest campaign announced yester
day as having made their quotas by
100 per cent or better follow:
Entomology and Plant Quaran
tine, Agriculture Department, H. L.
Elmslie, chairman, 108.78 per cent;
Experiment Stations, Agriculture
Department, Mrs. Daisy K. Murphy,
101.48; Library, Agriculture Depart
ment, Ethel E. Smith, 200.86; Bu
reau of Economic Regulation, Civil
Aeronautics Authority, Fred A.
Toombs, 105.41; Revolving Fund,
Farm Credit Administration, F. C.
Bassen, 141.35; Electric Home and
Farm Authority. Federal Loan
Agency. Carl T. Rose, 105.13; Legal
Division, Federal Home Loan Bank,
J. Francis Moore, 101.51; Executive
Assistant and Budget Officer, Fed
eral Housing Administration, Fed
eral Loan Agency, Edythe Johnson,
103.04; Self-Liquidating Division,
Reconstruction Finance Corp., Fed
eral Loan Agency, F. H. Robert,
103.17; Supervising Engineer, Public
Buildings Administration, Federal
Works Agency, Neal A. Melick,
100.20; Division of Control, Public
Roads Administration, Federal
Works Agency, Violet Griffin, 103.65;
Power Division, Public Works Ad
ministration, Federal Works Agency,
H. G. Tufty, 120.52; Audit Division,
General Accounting Office. W. W.
Richardson, 101.84; Claims Division,
General Accounting Office, E. B.
Smith, 107.01; Bond and Spirits Di
vision, Department of Justice, Ben
jamin H. Pester, 106.16; Bureau of
Prisons, Justice Department, Nina
Kinsella, 102.79; Inspection and Sur
vey, Navy Department, Mrs. Ade
laide V. Ziegler, 108.71; Pan-Amer
ican Union, William V. Griffin,
112.50; Second Assistant Postmaster
General, Post Office Department, J.
W. Cole, 100.27; Fourth Assistant
Postmaster General, Post Office De
partment, F. J. Buckley, 106.28.
Research and Information Serv
ice, Railroad Retirement Board, A.
G. Silverman, 100.12; Labor Rela
tions. Railroad Retirement Board,
T. T. Haley, 116.89; Treasury De
partment, W. A. Julian, 100.21;
Treasury Building, Controller of the
Currency, W. F. OHutt, 101.20; Su
perintendent of Treasury Buildings,
John D. Fox, 150.37; Administrator’s
Office, Veterans’ Administration,
Fred G. Fraser, 100.22; Finance and
Insurance, Veterans’ Administration,
F. W. Kelsey, 100.45; Assistant Sec
retary of War, War Department, Lt.
Col. E. D. Ellis, 103.61; Division No.
2, Supreme Court of the United
States, 109.59; Alcohol Beverage
Control Board, District of Columbia
Government, Thomas E. Lodge,
113.67; Board of Barber Examiners,
District of Columbia Government,
Tony Durso, 100; Cosmetology Board,
District of Columbia Government
Lillienne Cowan. 105; Vehicles and
Traffic, District of Columbia Gov
ernment, W. A. Van Duzer, 104.71;
Precinct No. 6, Police Department,
Capt. J. w. Pearson, 106.83; Public
Library, Dr. George F. Bowerman,
137.56; Central Library, Ralph L.
Thompson, 135.32; Southeastern
Branch, Public Library, Mathilde D.
Williams, 235.56; Takoma Park and
Subbranches, Public Library, Helen
L. Cavanagh, 151.42; Public Schools,
Dr. Frank Ballou, 100128; Division
1. Public Schools, H, W. Draper,
101.33; Division 3, Public Schools,
Julia Hahn, 108.61; Division 5, Pub
lie schools, Miss A. G. Lind, 10557;
Evening Schools 1-9, Public Schools,
E. J. Lockwood, 12756; Miner
Teachers’ College, Dr. E. A. Clark,
101.32; Science 10-13, Public Schools,
P. J. Rayford, 104.65; Taft Junior
High School, Mrs. M. R. Merritt,
11150; Home for Aged and Infirm,
Board of Public Welfare, Frank B.
Haskell, 103.70; Industrial Home
School, Board of Public Welfare,
Earl W, Cassie, 10153.
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basement of her home, 1519 Underwood street N.W. —Star Staff Photo.
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An Owl Explains a Change
In the Tone of a Doorbell
This is a story' of the mystery of
the doorbell that changed its tone,
or a screech owl in the cellar.
The Sherlock Holmes of the story
is Mrs. James R. Kirkland of 1519
Underwood street N.W., whose hus
band is a former assistant district
attorney and now a professor at
George Washington University.
For several days mysterious things
have been taking place at the
Kirklands' new home. There have
been strange scratching sounds in
the basement. Sometimes late at
night they thought they heard flut
tering of wings, or was it just the
wind blowing the limbs of a tree
against the house?
The plot thickened yesterday when
Mrs. Kirkland short-circuited a door
bell. “Whoo-oo-oo. whoo-oo-ooo,”
she heard.
"Ah,” thought Mrs. Kirkland, “the
doorbell’s changed its voice.”
A little later the mysterv was
cleared up. Mrs. Kirkland had oc
casion to go to the basement. She
was busy with some work when
"I heard this awful fluttering,”
she explained. “It sounded no less
than an eagle.”
It turned out to be considerably
less. A screech owl had found the
Kirkland basement to its liking and
had taken up its abode there.
Thinking more experienced hands
were needed to cope with the in
truder, Mrs. Kirkland telephoned
to the Zoo. In due time Assistant
Headkeeper F. O. Lowe arrived on
the scene.
Mr. Lowe donned some heavy
gloves and entered the basement.
In a quick set-to in which Mr
Lowe used a broom to good ad
vantage the owl was overcome,
screeching loudly.
That screeching. Mrs. Kirkland
said, was what she thought was the
doorbell changing its tone.
Outside Mr. Lowe perched the
owl in a bush. It looked owlishly
about, fluttered its wings and took
off.
“We like to give them their free
dom," the Zoo man explained.
“They catch a lot of mice.”
Milk
(Continued From First Page.)
haven't received ‘it back, although
the price of feed, the cost of labor
and the price of tin (from which most
tools and accessories in the dairy
business are made) have risen as a
result of the war. Mr. Derrick said
that the farmers are getting in
creased prices for other commodi
ties, but not for milk.
The adoption of the milk-market
ing agreement and order would do
away with the flat rate for milk
which Washington dairies now pay
for milk from farmers who are not
members of the association. .The
association includes about 1,400
farmers and supplies more than 80
per cent of the milk sold in the
Washington area, comprising sec
tions of Prince Georges and Mont
gomery Counties. Md„ near Wash
ington. The agreement’s purpose is '
to stabilize the market.
Minimum Prices.
If the Secretary of Agriculture is
impressed by the arguments in the j
record in favor of the agreement j
that its adoption would improve!
marketing conditions here without
hurting the consumer, it is likely
that he will approve it. The pro
posed agreement sets minimum
prices for class 1. fluid milk, $3.17 a
hundredweight in Washington. $2.71
in Maryland; class 2, cream, cottage
cheese, etc., $1.98 a hundredweight,
and class 3, milk for ice cream, price
related to the varying butter price. \
Another jfrovision provides for
$2.71 for class 1 milk to be dis
tributed througn the co-operation of
the Washington government and the
Agritulture Department to relief
clients and low-income groups at a
specially low retail price. Mr. Der
rick said that this provision would
mean increased consumption of milk
in Washington, but one of his mem
bers stated that he favored the relief
price only if surplus milk were used.
The Washington Consumers’ Milk
Committee will present a program
of radio talks today on its inter- !
pretation of the meaning of the *
proposed agreement for the people
of the District. The program begins
at 9:15 pjn. over Station WOL. The
speakers will be Mrs. Simon M,
Newman, chairman of the commit
tee: Mrs. M. O. Lorenz, Miss Helen
Schufert of the Family Service and
Mrs. Beatrice Schalet.
Haverford Resident to Retire
HAVERFORD, Pa., Nov. 21 (JP>.—
Retirement of Dr. William Wistar
Comfort as president of Haverford
College was announced yesterday
He has been president since 1917
and is now 65.
Morris E. Leeds, president of the
college Board of Trustees, said the
retirement would be effective in
June, 1940.
Police Shotgun Fires
Through Window
By the Associated Press.
INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 21.—Six
shotgun pellets crashed through the
plate-glass window of an automo
bile salesroom and showered Sales
men C. E. McAree and Michael
Sculley with glass splinters.
They looked out and saw a parked
police car.
Two policemen in the car ex
plained their shotgun, laid across
the dashboard, had gone off acci
dentally. They apologized.
Highway Hunters
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pedestrian as a neckpiece.
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Kuhns hit an animal. Mr. Kuhn l
stopped the car and picked up a
red fox. His wife is having it made
into a neckpiece.
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Perl Sector, Ending
35-Hour Calm
Luxembourg Corner
Under Heavy Fire,
Germans Report
By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, Nov. 21.—French artil
lery abruptly ended a 35-hour silence
on the western front today with
heavy shelling in the Perl sector, at
the junction of the German, French
and Luxembourg borders, the official
German news agency reported.
The agency, DNB, said the rest of
the 100-mile western front sector
between the Moselle and the Rhine
Rivers was quiet.
On the Upper Rhine front, French
searchlight batteries were active
during the night at several points.
DNB interpreted this as due to "the
enemy's nervousness.”
The agency said that there was
heavier rifle and anti-tank fire here,
and that floods had forced the
French to clear out of some bunkers.
Reconnaissance flights of the Ger
man air force over France and
England during the past few days
have yielded “important results,”
DNB said. The agency reported
“ineffectiveness" of French anti
aircraft fire and said that British
chasers southeast of London did not
hamper German reconnaissance.
DNB said the enemy did little
reconnoitering yesterday, as Ger
man pursuit planes met no enemy
planes over German territory.
German submarines, co-operating
with the Nazi airforce in the Baltic
and North Seas, have compelled 127
merchant ships to enter German
harbors for search since the begin
ning of the war. DNB reported.
Tonnage of the vessels searched,
it was said, totaled 245.455. Because
the ships or their cargoes were not
subject to seizure under prize laws,
they were discharged, DNB stated.
In addition, the report said, several
hundred other merchantmen were
halted on the high seas for searcn,
but released immediately.
Eleven Plants Admit
Wage Law Violations
By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Nov. 21.—Eleven of
the country's major knitted garment
manufacturers and sellers acknowl
edged in Federal Court today that
they had violated the wage and
hour law.
As a result. 10.000 home workers
will receive approximately $250,000
in wage arrears.
The companies consented to the
entry of a permanent injunction
restraining them from any further
violations of the law, either directly
or by subterfuge.
Officials Here Dismiss Report
Of Crew Battle Aboard Flint
The story of a City of Flint seaman
that the crew of the American
freighter fought a hand-to-hand
battle—with its German captors to
retake the vessel before Norwegian
officials forced its release was dis
missed with a laugh by officials
here today.
The fight between the American
sailors and the German prize crew
was reported by John Edward
Webb, 25, a member of the City of
Flint crew, in a letter to his mother
at Norfolk, Va., acording to an As
sociated Press dispatch.
“That’s one for the book," com
mented an official here with access
to the official reports on the City
of Flint case, including an affidavit
by the vessel’s skipper, Capt. Joseph
A. Gaihard.
There has been no hint in the
official reports of any fight, it was
emphasized. The official version is
that Norwegian authorities released
the ship to its American crew after
its German captors had violated
Norwegian neutrality regulations by
anchoring in Norwegian territorial
waters.
“We took the ship away from the
Germans ourselves,” Mr. Webb wrote
his mother, adding:
“I got a big black eye out of it,
but I do not care; that was one
hell of a fight. We had nothing but
fire axes and clubs where they had
guns. One of the fellows got shot
in the leg, and then and there a
free-for-all began.”
In another letter, this one from
Junior Third Mate Carl Ellis of
Newtonville, Mass., to Robert Black
er in Baltimore, the German captors
were described as a “swell bunch of
fellows,” but "suspicious of every
thing.” Also, they made a lot of
noise traveling up and down the
decks in hobnailed boots, the letter
said.
“The Germans were suspicious of
everything," Mr. Ellis wrote. “If I
stood on the deck and stared at the
horizon for any length of time one
of them would come over with
glasses and stare, too. One of the
first things they did was to take all
our cameras and expose the films'’
The 22-year-old officer, who com
manded one of the lifeboats that
rescued survivors from the sunken 1
British liner Athenia, said the crew
was unable to ascertain where they
were going and what would become
of them.
Solution of Shipping
Problem Sought by
Inter-American Unit
Information Asked
On Action Taken
At Guatemala City
A subcommittee of the Inter
American Economic Committee to
day sought a solution to the problem
| of maintaining adequate shipping
services to the Latin American coun
tries which have suffered as a result
of effects of the European war.
The problem was referred to the
subcommittee on “problems of an
individual and urgent character”
after preliminary discussion at a
meeting of the full committee yes
terday.
The committee announced it had
sent a cablegram to the Inter
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j ing that information be forwarded
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Police today launched an investi
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ing the accidental shooting last
night of Sunny Vivian Hoath, 30
year-old hospital technician.
Miss Hoath was in Emergency
Hospital with a bullet wound in her
thigh, and Detective Sergt. Eugene
Lambert said he planned to question
her on some aspects of the shooting
which puzzled him.
She was removed to the hospital
last night from the apartment of a
friend, Mrs. Mildred Roberts. 2901
Connecticut avenue N.W., where the
shooting occurred.
Miss Hoath told police she had
found a gun in her automobile when
she had arrived at her friend’s
home. She did not know how it had
gotten in the car, but pul/ it in her
pocketbook.
A few minutes after entering the
apartment she was in the kitchen
and dropped the purse. The gun,
a .32-caliber Spanish automatic,
went off, the bullet striking her In
the hip, she said. A private physi
cian was summoned and gave her
first-aid treatment. She was then
sent to Emergency Hospital.
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