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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
SAFETY LESSONS
GIVEN FIXED BASIS
Teachers Demand Establish
ed Form in School System
for Reducing Accidents.

Lessons in safety have been put on
an established basis in the Washington
public and private schools as result
of the demand by many teachers who
believe safety instruction Is more eff
fective when acquired at an early age,
it was announced yesterday by the Dis
trict Of Columbia division of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association.
The plan was discussed at a recent
conference between Superintendent Of
Schools Frank W. Ballou, Selden M
Ely. supervising principal in charge of
safety and George E. Keneipp, manager
of the District division of the Ameri-
can Automobile Association. School
officials were informed that the local
club was prepared to supply the lessons,
and they requested that they be sent
to teachers throughout the system.
Asked by Teachers.
A trial was given the safety lessons
during the last two months of the
school year which closed in June, and
upon the reopening of the schools,
scores of teachers besieged the Ameri-
can Automobile Association with re-
quests that the work be continued.
The safety lessons do not supplant
any subjects already in the curriculum,
nor do they add to it, They rather
supplement the recognized subjects by
making 1t possible to utilize ordinary
lessons in the teaching of safety.
Material for these lessons is prepared
by professional educator and is then
subjected to the criticism of local
committee Of which Mr. Ely Is chair
man. They are provided each month
and may be used IN connection with
such subjects as arithmetic, drawing,
writing geography civics, reading, his
tory and other subjects into the study
of which they may be easily introduced
Teach by Problems.
An arithmetic lesson is given a safe
ty aspect for example, by proposing a
problem in this form:
I'm the last five years, 2,457 children
were killed and 4,258 were injured
while trespasSing on railroad property.
OF this number; 2,S4O were under IA
years of age. What was the total num-
Der killed and injured? what per
centage was under ii years?"
Preparation for the work of the
school-boy patrol, organized in the ma
jority of the graded schools, is af-
forded by such topic for oral compost
ton as these: What the Patrol Does
for Me-" or Where Should Cross the
Street While on My Way to School"
Colored posters which provide graphic
lessons in safe conduct in traffic also
are prepared by the American Auto
mobile Association and these posters are
being placed at the disposal of Wash
ington teachers They are made timely
and new poster is sent into class
room each month If the teacher desires
it.
Mr.. Ely, who directs the safety work
of the Washington schools, views the
safety work in general as being valuable
educationally and as having worthwhile
civic benefits.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
KLEIN DISCUSSES
LABOR QUESTION
Says Unemployment Caused
by Machinery Taken Up
by Other Industries.


Where does the labor 60 which Is
constantly being thrown out Of en-
ployment by the inventive genius of
today, which is increasing the efficiency
of automatic machines in industry?
DR.. Julius Klein. director of the Bureau
of Foreign and Domestic Commerce,
undertook last night to answer the
question in the course of radio talk.
How tremendous the onrush of the
machines has been in the way of
swapping jobs, DR.. Klein undertook to
describe first, telling of an automatic
machine just introduced, which fills
one great factory building completely,
which takes in strips of steel at one
end and turns out enameled and
finished automobile frames at the other.
1.-THE number Of men employed to
supervise this vast automat is one-fifth
Of the number employed in the semi
automatic plant having the same ca
pacity," he said. productivity per man
in the automobile industry increased
ITO per cent in IL years. A factory
operative now turns out $4,000 razor
blades In the same time he produced
500 in 1913.
Output Increased.
The increase in output per man in q
little more than decade has amounted
to oil per cent in rubber manufacture
ing, SO per cent in petroleum refining
81 per cent in cement making. What
becomes of the displaced shop-worker?
Where does he figure in the advancing
wage scale?
'The answer is that while he has lost
one job in a factory. he has had opened
to him another in manufacturing
service industry, which has grown UP
as a result of the rising comfort Level
and the new wage level. Our factories
have decreased their employees by more
than 100000 since 1920. Efficiency
methods of railroads have released
100000 men from pay rolls in the
same time. If allowed to stand by
themselves, these figures would present
a dark prospect of unemployment and
indeed. among some they do depict
grave hardship which it should be an
imperative concern of all of us to allie
viate. But the higher wages earned
by the workman have stirred Nation
wide demand on automobiles, radios
telephones. moving pictures, cabarets
and countless other contributions to
comfort.
1,2SO,OOO Men Find Work.
more than l 100000 men nave 1ouno
employment since 1920 in driving and
ministering to the automobile. There
has been an increase Of 100, 600 IN the
number of employees attending to cleo
trio refrigerators and oil heaters, and
like household appliances. There are
10000 more life insurance solicitors.
There is a greater insistence upon
education; hence there are $4,000 more
teachers of all sorts today as compared
with 1919.
These examples illustrate the way
in which the new servicing industry
operates to take up good part OF the
slack in the employment through the
machine volutation. There are many
other instances, though one aspect of
the matter, sometimes singularly dis
tressing is when the displaced factory
worker has not succeeded in establish
ing himself anew"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
Communist Youth, Invading War Show
With Pacifst Tracts, Taken In Custody

The text of the circular is a protest
against all military organizations. in
Guiding the r. o. T. c., C. M. T. c.,
National Guard and State troopers.
Reference is made to the useleSsness of
any and all organizations that oppose
the Soviet Union
Among the boldface type warnings
are: Defend the Soviet Union-Father-
land of all Workers and Oppressed
Peoples" Fight against all military
organizations, Fight for the release of
John Porter" Fight for workers and
farmers government" 1t ends with a
plea to join 1.-The young workers Com
munist) League.
Peltz told Detective Messer he was
a Russian by birth and has never be-
come a citizen of the United States.
He claims to have lived in this city for
the past six years and gives his occu-
patton as an electrician.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
OMITS AMERICAN WORKS
AMONG LITERARY Bibles
Interior Department Bureau of
Education Sponsors Select
List of Authors.

American works are missing from the
list of Literary bibles" that the Bureau
of Education of the Interior Depart
ment has approved in revised reading
course, sponsored by this agency of the
Federal Government.
Explaining that a literary bible" Is
'the embodiment and revelation of the
ideals of a race, an age or civiliSa-
tion," the bureau placed on its select
list the "Illiad" and odyssey" of
Homer, the Divine Comedy" of Dante,
the greater dramas of Shakespeare and
Goethe's Faust" Included in this
super choice category are a Greek, an
Italian. an Englishman and Ger
mantle most modern of whom died
nearly a century ago.
The bureau lauded these literary
bibles" in this language:
They came out of the hearts and
minds of the people for whom their
authors were only spokesman. They
are therefore simple. fundamental and
comprehensive. They appeal to the
hearts and grip the minds of all people
everywhere, young and old, learned and
unlearned. Of whatever race or Greco"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
WOMAN, 65, INJURED
WHEN STRUCK BY CAR
Driver Held Awaiting Outcome of
njuries-Youth Hit
by Auto.

Mrs. Emma Clute, IS, 425 Delafield
place, was knocked down near Twenty
first and K streets last night by an
automobile operated by Sam Wash
ington, colored, %, of 942 Twenty
fourth street. Washington is being
held at the third precinct station to
wait the outcome of Mrs. Clute's in
jurtes.
At Emergency Hospital, she was said
to be suffering from a broken right
ankle, decorations to her scalp and body
and shock.
Morris L. Frank, 10, of Sill Georgia
avenue, sustained minor injuries last
night when he was knocked down at
Georgia and Illinois avenues by an
automobile. He was taken to Walter
Reed Hospital for bruises and abrasions
and was later allowed to return home
The driver of the car gave his Jen1e
TO police as Peter ]. Rosch, IS, Of 322
Douglas street, northeast.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07

His invasion of the enemy camp" re-
suited in the arrest last night at the
Army exposition and carnival at Wash
ington Barracks of Israel Peltz, 81,
1900 Irving street, self-styled Com
munist. He is held for investigation to
await decision of the immigration au-
thorities on his case.
While assigned to the exposition Head
quarters Detective William Messer OBJ
served Peltz handing out circulars.
Messer took one of the circulars, glanced
at it and promptly took the distributor
into custody.
The circular purports to warn per-
sons attending the exposition against
the purpose of what it terms the
"Army's biggest show on earth" It is
headed Fight Against Imperialist Wars;
Fight for Your Own Interest" and is
addressed to soldiers, young workers
and students"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
LECTURES SCHEDULED.
Philosophical Society Season Will
Open Tonight at 8 O'Clock.

Washington Lodge, Theosophical So
ciety, will open its seasons activities
with lecture tonight at 8 O'Clock at
1916 H street by the president, James
W. MCGUIRE on "Theosophy as Esoteric
Religion"
DR.. Charles H. Gage will speak next
Sunday on Practical Theosophy." On
October 81. the lecture is to be on the
subject of the ancient Hebrew scripture
THE Kabalah," by Edward j. Owen.
Thomas w. Pond of Baltimore will de-
liver the address october %, followed
by Smith Tassin on November 4. Mr..
Mcclure will begin his class on Paul,
The great apostle" and initiate also No
vember 4. The secret doctrine class will
continue as heretofore on Friday eve
ningS,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
Court Separates Bride, Is, and Mate, Is,
Who Hoped to Be Happy in S. Apartment

said she could not cook, she could not
sew and she could not keep house in
the manner prescribed by her mother
Rogers testified he bought the en-
gagement and wedding rings and his
motor car on credit, and that he made
$498 some days and $193 on others.
He is messenger boy and part-time
clerk for a railroad
1--WE rented room for SIS week
where we can live and I'm sure she'll
be happy. and CAN"
But Judge Fischer decided the young
wife should abide by her parents
wishes and wait awhile for her hus-
band.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
BY the ASS lciated Fress.

KANSAS CITY, Kans, october g.
The stern law, in the person of Judge
r. L. Fischer in Wyandotte County
District Court, today denied Chester
Rogers, 10, his 15-year-old bride.
Rogers and Wanda Fern Garman
were married in "Cupid's Parlor" at
Olathe, Kans., September IA. and when
the girls parents learned of it they re-
fused the young husband permission to
see their daughter. He appealed to the
court.
Today In court, the young bride pro-
tested her love for her husband, but she
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07
COURT HOLDS OFFICER
ERRED IN SPEED CASE

lowed to Go Fourth of Mile
4 After Pacing.
Policeman c. A. Wright of the Thir-
tenth precinct was wrong when he
arrested Richard j. Quigley, local at
torney, for speeding. Traffic Court
Judge Isaac r. Hit ruled yesterday in
dismissing the case
The policeman claimed he paced the
lawyer for two blocks, but Quigley con-
tended that the officer had permitted
him to drive nearly a quarter of mile
on Alaska avenue, after the pacing was
over, before stopping him.
Attorney John P. Mullen represented
Quigley.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-10-07

On the reorganization of the medi-
cal department, October 6, 1880. DR..
Craik was appointed the senior Of the
four chief hospital physicians and
surgeons" being the third officer In
rank in the Medical Corps, and upon
the resignation of Director General
Shipper and the promotion of Dr. John
Cochran, chief physician and surgeon
of the Army" he was advanced to the
second place under the latter title
This position he held until mustered
out at the end of the war, in 1888. after
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
SMUGGLING OF
NARCOTICS IS
TO BE STOPPED
Impossible to Wipe Out Habit
Unless Foreign 1mp0rta-
tiOns Are Shut Off

Washington, Feb. 29.-vPJ-Ad-
mittedly up against it in its enforce
ment Of the Harrison narcotic act,
the federal narcotic bureau has
now started an unrelenting drive
against smuggling, which it regards
as virtually the only source Of sup
ply for illicit drugs.
Although federal officials believe
they are holding their own in the
battle against the nationwide drug
ring, they confess that with the
present facilities it will be impos-
sible to wipe out the habit in the
United States unless the foreign inn
porations Of morphine, cocaine, and
opium beyond the legal limit arc
shut off entirely.
Federal Narcoti: Commissioner l..
G. Mutt holds that it is "fruitlcss as
q permanent proposition to proceed
further with curing drug addicts of
their habit unless the source Of sup
ply Of the drugs is eliminated" He
recommends that states take action
to segregate confirmed addicts, which
he believes would prevent the spread
Of the habit.
A national survey recently COM
pleted by the public health service,
the commissioner says, disclosed
100000 addicts in the United States
using about 420, 600 ounces vf drugs
annually. Eighty-fiye per cent of
the drugs arc smuggled through
New York, he declares, although
some slip in through other ports and
across the Mexican border.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
Statement Said TO Have Been
Made by Attorney General
Last Night At Conference
With Friends Of John w.
Carr, m Avowed Candidate
For Governor

Jamestown N. D., Feb. 29.-(AP)
Statement that he il not . candi-
date for the governorship Is said to
have been made by Attorney General
George F. Shafer here last night at
. conference with friends Of John w.
Carr. Carr, who was speaker Of the
house 1t the last session Of the legis-
lature, is an avowed candidate for
the gubernatorial endorsement at the
state convention Of the Independent
Voters association to be held here
March z.
Skaters statement Is expected TO
clear the political atmosphere Of the
state, which has been befogged by
m apparently well planned cam
paign to draft" him to run for
governor.
The move Of the self-styled draft
COMMITTEES" was started after Shafer
announced his candidacy for the Re-
publican senatorial endorsement, and
according to those at last nights
conference, is for the purpose Of
shelving both the senatorial aspira.
tions Of Shafer and those Of Carr
for the governorship.
Carr, who has the unique distinc-
tion Of having been unanimously
elected speaker Of the state house
Of representatives at . recent spe-
cial session, has been active in civic
affairs for more than . quarter GEN.
tury apd has gained . wide reputa-
tion for fairness in dealing with
members Of both factions in state
politics.
The fact that Carr had the sup
port Of both Nonpartisans and lnde-
pendents in the legislature 10 IN in
dication, according to his friends,
that he would receive thousands Of
Nonpartisan League votes as a
gubernatorial candidate.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
PROHIBITION IS
MADE ISSUE OF
NEXT CAMPAIGN
Drys Demand That Both Con
ventiOns Declare For Rigid
Enforcement
ANOTHER MEET SUNDAY
Candidacy of AL Smith Fol-
Democratic Nomination to
Be Discussed
ANOTHER MEET SUNDAY

Washington, Feb. 29.-tRf-Pro.
hibition has been thrust with re.
newed vigor into the coming presi.
dental campaign by the insistance
OF q group of militant drys that both
the Republican and Democratic par.
ties meet the issue squarely.
Representatives Of thirty-odd ma.
tional temperance organizations, ii
q conference here which terminated
last night, drafted formal demands
that the two national political con.
ventions not only declare for rigid
dry enforcement, but consider as
presidential timber only men whose
stand on prohibition is not to be
questioned.
In addition, plans are on foot for
a meeting in Florida next week by
dry leaders from southern states, at
which it is predicted ways and means
Of nipping the presidential ambi.
tions of Governor Smith of New
York will be discussed.
The Florida conference will get
under way Sunday at st. Peters
burg. 1t will be under the auspices
Of the Anti-Saloon league, and
friends Of prohibition in nine states
south of the Potomac and Ohio and
east of the Mississippi are expected
to attend.
It's Main Purpose
The main purpose Of the meeting
is to canvass the prohibition situa-
ton in southeastern states, but those
in charge of arrangements predict
that the candidacy Of the New York
governor for the Democratic nomi-
nation, in particular. and the possi-
bility also that first place on the
ticket might go to Governor Richie
of Maryland, or Senator Reed of
Missouri, both of whom are also
looked up with disfaronby the Anti
Saloon league, will be considered.
During the conference here yes
terday the name of Governor Smith
OH several occasions crept into the
discussion, although for the most
part speakers refrained from re-
ferring to him or any others mem
toned for the nomination.
The conference adopted resolu-
tions calling on both the major po-
litical parties to Lut dry law enforce
ment planks in their platforms and
to consider for the presidential and
vice presidential nominations only
men whose acts and utterances show
them to be true friends of the prohi-
bition amendment.
Arrangements were made to have
a committee, to be made up of repre-
sentatives of all the organizations
participating in the conference,
present arguments in behalf Of dry
law declarations to the resolutions
committee at both the June national
conventions.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
DI0GENES MAY
CEASE SEARCH
Honest Man. Is Jobless New
Yorker Who Returns $751;
900 Found in Gutter

New York, Feb. 29.-tP-Jobless
for several weeks, Alexander Lu.
bowsky, 4O-year-old painter, found
4 seek containing $4,000 lying in q
gutter in Brooklyn and returned il
10 it, owners.
Today he has q first class rcpu-
tation for honesty, still no job. and
no definite prospect Of reward.
The United States Trucking cor
poration, from whose armored car
the bag containing the money was
lost, said the matter Of q reward
had not been officially considered
pending inquiry. The Bowery and
Eas* River National Bank had
turned the money over to the truck.
ing company to deliver to the Fed
eral Reserve Bank.
The bag contained bundles Of S.,
so and $50 bills.
Just how the bag happened to be
lost from the Armored truck was
stM = mystery today. The reason
listed On tho police blotter was
vibration"
There was more than $1,000, ,O00
IN the car at the time.
1ubewSky is married and has two
chil6ren. Z daughter, 19. who works
in = needle factory and is the only
member of the family employed,
and = son, 10, who is going to gram
mAE school.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
KINDNESS GETS
CONFESSION IN
TRAIN ROBBERY
Wife of-One Of Men Arrested
Tells Of Overhearing Gang
Lay Plans

Chicago. Feb. 29.-R)-A police
officer last night offered to take
care Of Mrs. Katherine Cleaver's
canaries and, her dog while she is
detained in the. Evergreen Park
mail train robbery Investigation.
Seventeen minutes later she had
given him details on which . Fed
eral grand. jury indicted her hus-
band. Charles (Limpy) Cleaver.
William Donovan and Frank (Bozo)
Meccia.
II was kind to her. That's how
I got Katherine Cleaver's confes-
sion." said Lieut.. Michael Naugh-
ton.
'.She reminded me, as sat there,
Of my own mother. ! wouldn't want
to know she was lying. ] told Mrs.
! Cleaver so. Then she began to cry.
"'You are very kind, she said.
Then she told her story"
Mrs. Cleaver's story was that she
overheard Cleaver, Donovan, Meccia
and three others, whose names have
been withheld, plotting on the night
Of February 20. The night before
the robbery another conference was
held ct the Cleaver home, she said,
.at which details were completed.
Meccia, she said, brought along
tho two sticks Of dynamite used IN
blowing the safe Of the Grand Trunk
mail car. Cleaver furnished dis
guises- hunting suits and masks,
she said.
Got Breakfast for Men
At 2 o'clock on the morning Of
the robbery-Februsry 25-Mrs.
Cleaver said she got breakfast for
the men. Her statement related
that she made pancakes and, in
preparing them, scraped the bottom
Of her flour bin. Il was in this bin
20 hours later that police found
4l7,l25 in cash and Z 5000 bond,
presumably loot from the mail rob-
Mrs. Cleaver told the officers
that Dohovan's wife "gave the gang
away" BY calling the Cleayer home
few hours after the holdup and
expressing delight over the BIG
"haul" that had been made. The
Cleaver telephone wires had been
tapped b. police. 81.
'sCharley '(Cleaver) went wild
when ! told him she had called =
Mrs. Cleaver said. ''Hs tslephoned
Donovan. and ! euess the police
heard, that. too, Tor they began
pouring into the house : little lat
er."
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
REED CLAIMS
CONFESSION
WAS FORCED
Says Statement Was Given to
States Attorney Under
Coercion

Ottawa, ILL.,. Feb. 29.-R-Hiram
Reed took the witness stand at his
trial here today to convince the
court that his confession Of dyna-
hitting the Pleasant Valley school
house was obtained under coercion
and through Misrepresentation Of
the states attorney.
The, bushy haired young farmer
was unpertsirbed. Stepping slowly
to the witness chair hs did not
glance at his former sweetheart,
Miss lola Bridford, who was near
ly killed when the school stove ex-
ploded. She, however, stared coldly
at him as he testified.
"When you signed that confession
the morning Of December 2 what
did the states attorney tell you?"
asked Attorney George Sprenger.
"He said that II / married lola
Bradford she could not testify
against me-" young Reed replied
quietly.
The defense attorney then turned
his attention to the much discussed
immunity clause.
The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-02-29
Earthquake Shakes
Bakersfield, Calf.

Bakersfield, CAL, Feb. 29.-R)-
The oil field area Of Kern county
today was recovering from an earth.
quake scare caused by. , series Of
temblors last night.
The quakes were felt on the out
skirts Of Bakersfield at z o'clock
last night. Although no damage was
reported, the shocks caused consid-
erable excitement.
There were eight or nine shocks
st 0ildale and Oil Center. They be.
esu with the rafting Of doors and
tie intensity increased until the
sound rsssmbled q violent wind
storm. The final shock was ac-
eompanied b. Z roar resembling IN
explosion.
a stock also was felt 1t Cal:e en.e
and Weodford, several miles dis
tant.