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Evening star., 1932-09-09
HEALTH FIR ST ATTITUDE URGED
FOR PARENTS OF YOUNG PUPILS
Children's Bureau Official Declares Econ
omies in Schools Should Not
Curtail Necessary Work.

For information on how to obtain this
diet at minimum cost, she suggested the
Federal Bureau of Home Economics.
1T is highly desirable that at least
one hot dish should be added at school
to the lunch brought from home" was
her third health doctrine.
Cites Des Moines, Iowa.
On the community clothes problem
she suggested cooperation with the
Red Cross, now calling for volunteer
workers to help make the garments
that will enable destitute children to
remain in school.
Miss Lenroot cited Des Moines, Iowa,
as a place where, by careful planning,
school costs had been reduced without
curtailment of services. She added:
"Often, however, the AK has been
used ruthlessly. In some sections last
year schools were open for only three,
four or five months. Every parent is
vitality concerned in the way school
budgets are cut"
She pointed to recent Cincinnati
study to prove 1t improbable to allow
16 and II year old boys and girls to quit
school to look for work OF 100 such
children studied she said, one-fifth had
been continuously unemployed from
three weeks to ten months
Evening star., 1932-09-09
YOUTH CONVICTED
IN GUN BUYING CASE
Gets 80 Days for Giving False In
formation in Seeking to Pur-
chase Pistol.

The first conviction under the new
law governing sales of firearms in the
District was obtained in Police Court
today when Thurman Montgomery COL
ored, %, vas sentenced to 80 days in
jail on charges Of giving false informa-
ton during the purchase of pistol
Montgomery negotiated for the pur-
chase of the gun Saturday night at a
secondhand store in the 300 block of D
street. He furnished the name of T.
Jones and gave the dealer his home
address as the 900 block of Westminster
place
Under the provision Of the new law,
which became effective July /, the
dealer furnished the Police Department
with the name and address of the pros
pective purchaser for verif1cation. The
police learned that no such man lived
at the address given, and Montgomery
was arrested when he returned for the
gun after a lapse of 48 hours, as re-
quired by the new law before the deliv-
cry of the weapon.
On the stand, Montgomery explained
he did not know of the existence of the
law and admitted he lived in the 1000
block of Columbia road He said he
was under the impression he signed his
right name to the application blank.
The court pointed out that the maxi
mum penalty of the new law was a
years imprisonment or a fine of $1,000,
or both, adding the fact that Montgom-
cry had no police record had been taken
into consideration.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
OLIVER ADDRESSES
CAPITAL DEMOCRATS
House Member Says District Resi-
dents Can "Indict Administra-
ton" for Acts.

Washington residents have so suffered
at the hands Of the administration that
they are lin a good position to frame
an Indictment Of the administration, :"
Representative William B. Oliver of
Alabama told a rally at Democratic
headquarters, 1920 G street, last night.
Gov. Roosevelt was praised, both for
his personal qualities and for his ad-
ministrative ability, by close friend
Robert w. Wooley, director of the mint
in the Wilson administration and
publicity chairman of the Democratic
National Committee in the 1916 cam
paign
Other speakers at the rally, which
was attended by several hundred Demo-
Gratis, were Charles Castle, a World
War veteran, living at the Soldiers
Home; Mrs. Eta Taggart, David D.
Maine, former prohibition agent, and
Oscar Click, law student.
The rally was sponsored by the Roose-
velt League of Clubs and was presided
over by John F. Costello, Democratic
national committeeman.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
THIEVES TAKE $500
IN 8 PARKED CARS
Police Stirred by Wave of
Such Robberies-Varied
Articles Stolen.

A series of parked car robberies were
being investigated today by police fol-
lowing reports that eight automobiles
had been looted of $500 worth of articles
during the past SO hours.
An increase in this type of crime has
been noted recently, apparently caused.
according to police, by the fact that the
law provides a maximum penalty of
only one year in Jail for conviction of
persons caught robbing parked cars.
Efforts were made last year BY the Po-
lice Department to secure legislation
providing for more severe penalties, but
no action was taken by Congress. Under
the present law larceny is the most Sc
we're charge that can be placed against
parked car robbers.
Clothing Largest Haul.
The largest haul was netted by thieves
who robbed the automobile of Jack A.
Sacks, Philadelphia salesman, of $3.50
worth OF clothing while his car was
parked near SiX-and- One-Half and M
streets
Joseph L. England, 400 Decatur street,
reported the theft Of a heart-shaped
ruby pendant valued at SITS from his
macnlne, which was parked in front of
lOuSe In Ine 14UO block OF M street
William Sneider, driver of a sun
shine Laundry truck, advised police his
truck was robbed of three bundles of
laundry, which he estimated to be
worth approximately $40. The truck
was looted in the 1900 block of v
street.
Facial Creams Stolen.
Fifty dollars worth of facial creams
was reported stolen from the car of
Mrs. Margaret C. Stowe, 1927 Sixteenth
street, while it was parked in fr mt of
her home. Other robperies in uded:
Frances w. Picker, Angola. Id, a
$40 fox fur. while her machine was
parked at Ninth street and Constitu-
ton avenue; James S. Adams, 321 e
street northeast, a tire and tube stolen
while car was at 1910 PENNSYLVANIA
avenue; Winfield F. Weitzel' 1885
Iwenty-ninth street, two wheels, with
tires and tubes, set of tools and a
combination clock-mirror, all worth
S33; Lincoln r. Jackson, Columbia,
Mo-, $50 worth of clothing stolen from
car while parked near 3l6 Maryland
avenue, where he is stopping.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
.M'CARL RULES j. s.
MAY CO OUTSIDE
TO GET ARCHITECTS
Treasury Asks for Decision
on Building Under Wagner
Garner Act.
CITIES NOT YET CHOSEN
FOR NEW CONSTRUCTION
Ten Per Cent Reduction Interpre-
tation May Be Appealed, as 1t
Applies to Relief Measure.

While announcement was expected
soon from the White House concern
ing the public building projects to be
undertaken as part of the Wagner
Garner relief act, Controller General
McCarl today made it possible for the
Treasury Department to employ outside
architects for these relief projects.
In a decision to Secretary of the
Treasury Mills McCarl held that the
provision of the public building act
which authorized the use of outside
buildings could be applied to the pro-
gram under the Wagner unemployment
act as well. There had been some
question as to whether this could be
done.
Will Appeal Cut.
Meantime the Treasury continued
with its plan to appeal to McCarl for
reconsideration of his recent decision
that the $100,000,000 appropriation in
the relief act should be cut 10 per cent
through operation of the economy act.
In his original letter to McCarl the
Secretary had maintained the position
that the 10 per cent reduction in the
economy bill should not operate to re-
duce the $100000,000 to 100000, 900.
Under the McCarl decision, however, it
was considered likely that each project
would have to be reduced by one-tenth,
and the question remained as to whether
the S10,000,000 could be used in other
construction or would have to be i'm
pounded. The Treasury may protest
against any cut.
A list of towns and cities is being
prepared at the Treasury Department,
it was understood, for recommendation
to the President as the sites for new
public buildings under the Wagner bill.
When this will be made public depends
on the White House, it was indicated.
May Exempt Sites.
In another decision to the Treasury
Department, McCarl held that in carry
ing out the regular public building pro-
gram the cost of site which had been
previously purchased could be deducted
from the total limit of cost of a build
ing project, prior to making the 10 per
cent reduction mandatory under the
economy act in all projects where no
contract had been let prior to June 80.
McCarl agreed with the Treasury
view that the sole purpose of Congress
in making the 10 per cent cut in the
economy act was to realize the saving
to the Government of economies
brought about by the reduced costs of
labor and material in actual construc-
tion work.
Sites sometimes cost from 80 to 40
per cent Of the total. and if this had
to be figured into the total for pur-
poses of 10 per cent cut, the Treasury
pointed out, it would cause trouble, de-
lay, and changes in plans for buildings,
for which sites already had been pur-
chased, and plans put under way Elm
ination Of the site cost from the total
available for reduction will be big
help in many cities, 1t was explained,
but probably will not apply to any prof.
ects in the District Of Columbia
Evening star., 1932-09-09
GOOD SAMARITAN OUT
5000 ON BONUS SEEKER
Man He Bought $75 Clothes for
Took $3.50 and Vanished, Says
Henry Bess.

Playing Good Samaritan to a bonus
marcher cost Henry Bess, retired SOL
dier, nearly 5000, he reported at police
headquarters today.
BeSS made the acquaintance of the
bonus marcher several months ago,
finding him such a good fellow" he
said, that he not only gave the man
lodging at his home in the 200 block of
Indiana avenue, but bought him S75
worth Of clothing.
When Bess awakened this morning,
however. he said, he found the bonus
marcher had gone. taking $3.50 belong
ing to his benefactor.
He left me enough money for break
fast, though" said Bess. so I guess
hes not such a bad fellow, after all"
Evening star., 1932-09-09

James FELTON,, 80, colored, got a
chicken dinner and a supply of cigar
cites by telling police there was a car
load of imported whisky in a freight
yard here, but the officers took the
smokes" away from him when they
found the tip was false. And, they said
with some show of indignation, they'd
have done the same thing with the
meal if FELTON, hadn't had the foresight
to dispose of 1t before they got back
from the freight yards.
FELTON, walked into police headquar-
ters yesterday and, with the air of a
man who knows whereof he speaks.
confided to Detective Guy Rhone that
he had just come to Washington with
carload of liquor. The whisky, he
explained, was being taken to New York
from Florida and the Carolinas.
Recalling that Lieut.. George Little.
head of the liquor squad, had been
trying for weeks TO trace shipments Of
liquor reported to bs moving through
Evening star., 1932-09-09
LIQUOR TIP GETS CHICKEN DINNER.
BUT FURNITURE COSTS CIGARETTES
Colored Man Gives Detectives Bum Steer but Collects
Part of Pay in Advance.

the Capital to New York, Rhone was
grateful for the tip"
So much so, in fact. that he took
FELTON, out and bought him all the
chicken he could eat at one sitting
and all the cigarettes he could smoke
at any number of sittings.
Then he notified Lieut.. Little, who,
in turn, passed the Tip" along to Pro-
hibition Agent w. r. Blanford. After
a series of conferences, including one
with Prohibition Administrator Amos
w. w. Woodcock, it was decided to
raid the freight car and seize its cargo
FELTON, told the raiders the number
of the car and where it could be found,
and police and Federal agents headed
for the freight yards. They had no
difficulty finding the car, which was
exactly where FELTON, had said it was,
but it was loaded with furniture.
Disappointed, they returned to head
quarters and placed FELTON, under ar
rest. And Rhone decided to smoke the
cigarettes himself.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
TWO MAY BE FREED
IN COUNTERFEIT CASE
Men Arrested in Prince Georges
Are Wanted Only "to Clear
Up Some Points"

Two men, taken in custody in Prince
Georges County last night for the
Treasury in the investigation of coun-
terfeit $50 bills which were circulated
in Washington some time ago, proba bly
will be released, Treasury officials an
nounced today.
The men were brought to Washing
ton and questioned lust to cellar up
some points in the matter. and while
they were technically under arrest
will not be charged or held for any
longer time than will be necessary tc
clear up those points," it was stated al
the Treasury.
The men were taken in custody by
Sergt. A. w. Hepburn OF the Prince
Georges County police force and agreed
TO accompany the Federal agents Il
Washington for questioning.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
ALLEGED FIREBUG SENT .
TO GALLINGER HOSPITAL
Colored Man Believed Mentally
Unbalanced-Charged With
Sending in 100 False Alarms.

Alleged to have turned in 120 false
alarms during the last year, william E.
Foreman, colored, was brought into Po-
lice Court today and committed to Gal
linger Hospital on the recommendation
of his attorney. who expressed the opin-
ion that Foreman was the victim of
some strange mental quirk.
Judge Gus A. Schuldt concurred in
this opinion to the extent of sending
Foreman to the hospital for treatment
and mental observation. Foreman was
trapped several days ago by telephone
operator of the Fire Department. who
recognized his voice, obtained the num-
Der of the telephone from which he
was calling and dispatched firemen to
the scene.
Foreman was arrested as he stepped
from the telephone booth at a drug
store at M street and Wisconsin avenue
All the false alarms charged to Fore
man were sent in from Georgetown.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
CLERK NEAR DEATH
IN NFOUR-STORY FALL
F ROM APARTMENT
Daniel Nicholson of Property
Custodian's Office Suffers
Fractured Skull.
TRIED TO FIX AWNING,
INVESTIGATORS BELIEVE
Came Back Tired Out" From Triu
to West Virginia Yesterday,
Friends Say.

Daniel Nicholson. %, clerk in the
Alien Property Custodian'S Office and
son OF Frederick Nicholson, former off,
c1al OF Cabell County, w. Va, was in
critical condition in Emergency Hos
pital today, suffering from a fractured
skull and other injuries received when
he plunged from fourth-story window
OF an apartment house at 1874 Seven
teenth street last night.
NICHOLSON, according to headquarters
detectives investigating the case, drop
ped from window of the apartment
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis H Barnes, with
whom he was spending the night.
Tired Out From Trip.
Mrs. Barnes. resident manager of the
apartment house, told investigators
Nicholson retired after complaining he
was tired out" from a trip from his
home town, Huntington. w. Va. Some
time later, she said, she heard a noise
in his bed room and decided to investi-
gate.
Unable to find him, she continued,
she ran to an open window and saw
him lying in the concrete court below.
He apparently had lost his balance, de-
tectives said after a preliminary in
vestigation, while attempting to lower
an awning. So far as investigators
could learn, Mr.. and Mrs. Barnes and
their daughter, Mildred, "a, were the
only persons in the apartment at the
time.
Returned to City.
Nicholson returned to Washington
yesterday from vacation in Hunting
ton and went directly to the Barnes
apartment from his place of employ
ment. Although he had been regis
tered at a downtown hotel for some
time, he had not occupied the room, 1t
was learned.
Nicholson is former George Wash
ington University law student. He
planned to resume his studies with the
opening of the Fall term, friends told
investigators. His father was expected
here today.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
WOUNDED MAN LEAPS
FROM HOSPITAL WINDOW
Victim of Policeman's Bullet Es-
capes Third Story While Pris-
oner at Gallinger.

Wallace Taylor, As, colored, 2300
block of Anger place southeast. jumped
from a third-f1oor window today at
Gallinger Hospital, where he was under
treatment for bullet wounds inflicted by
police several days ago while he was
being arrested for assault with dan
gerous weapon.
Several of Taylor's ribs were broken,
serious
Taylor was shot three times by
Policeman C. w. Sine when he threat
ened Policeman Henry Mazurski with
an ak. Mazurski and Sine had been
sent to the Anger place house on a
complaint that the colored man was
attacking his wife with an ak. He was
wounded in the right shoulder, left up
per chest, right arm and neck by the
bullets fired by Sine
Evening star., 1932-09-09
ARMY BAND TO PRESENT
LATIN AMERICAN MUSIC
Concert Monday Night to Be Car
ried to Southern Nations in
Radio Broadcast.

A concert of Latin American music
will be presented Monday night by the
United States Army Band, Capt w. ].
Stannard directing, on the esplanade
of the Pan-American Union Building
Beginning at 8 pm. the program will
be broadcast on the N. B. C. radio
network and relayed to Latin America
over the international General Elec-
trio station, WGY.
Assisting artists will be Yolanda
Norrisa, Brazilian soprano, and Leo
poldo Gutierrez, Chilean baritone.
The entertainment will continue until
1920, and will include songs of Brazil,
Guatemala, Dominican Republic. Mex
leo. Venezuela, Costa Rica, Panama,
Peru, Argentina. Chile, Colombia, Cuba,
Honduras and Nicaragua.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
G. w. BAND TO MEET

The first Fall meeting of the George
Washington University Band. organized
last year, will be held Monday night
to prepare specially numbers for the
foot ball season, Louis Malkus, direc-
tor of the student organization, said
today.
The band this year probably will
start off with so pieces. Its first ap-
pearance will be at Lexington, Va, on
September "a, when the G. w. grid
men play Washington and Lee, and
it will appear in Washington for the
first time on September 80. when the
school meets Catawba in night game
The band will meet in the old West
ern Presbyterian Church. where last
years rehearsals were held.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Parents should not economic on
Jimmy's teeth and little Mary's tonsils.
Schools should not apply the ex-
pense- reducing ak to the school term.
Children of IS to II should not quit
school to look for jobs
Those were just a few of the tenets
set forth today by Katherine F. Len
root, assistant chief of the Children's
Bureau, in a f1rst-of-school message to
mothers.
Urges Health First"
This Fall, more than any other
within our memory, will be Fall OF
careful, anxious planning for parents,
schools and communities said Miss
Lenroot in urging a "health-first"
viewpoint.
Children need to have teeth and
tonsils, heart and lungs, nutrition and
development checked over at least
once a year." she said.
To those unable to afford this Serv-
ice, she advised seeking free clinics and
public health nurses.
Every child every day needs from
one and one-half pintS to one quart
of milk, vegetables or fruit, and plenty
of bread, cereals, and other energy and
body building foods" she added.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
RED CROSS FACES
BIC RELIEF BURDEN
Busiest Winter Since War Is
ExpeCted-AppeaI for
Roll Call Made.

Judge John Barton Payne, chairman
OF the American Red Cross, said today
that the organization, which is charged
with distributing Federal -four and cot
ton clothing as well as its own wide
spread activities. is facing the busiest
Winter since the World War. To &C
complish all this work the Red Cross
is recruiting both financial resources
and large corps of volunteer workers.
Never was 1t more important, Chair
man Payne said, for the people of the
United States to respond to the annual
Red Cross roll call membership rally,
which opens Armistice day and closes
Thanksgiving day.
Flour to Last Through Winter.
Payne predicted that with wise use
the present supply of -four would last
the coming Winter.
Only yesterday, he said, he called for
the last 100000 bushels of the first
100000 bushels of Government-o owned
wheat voted by Congress for feeding the
distressed.
THAT leaves us the entire 45,000,0 900
bushels voted in the second wheat bill
to take care of the needs Of the coming
Winter" he said.
With volunteer woman garment
makers reducing the cotton clothing dis
tribution costs to the actual expense of
purchasing the yard goods. the Red
Cross executive added, the 100000 bales
OF Federal-owned cotton will have maxi
mum effect in meeting the emergency.
In distributing the cotton and -four,
he said, the Red Cross would use half
million dollars of its own funds.
Mining Families Aided.
In addition, the organization has
given relief, up to the present, to 10000
mining families in 143 counties, at a
total cost of S522, 900.
It has distributed $4,000 four-p pound
packages of garden seeds, each package
intended to plant one-fourth of an acre
of ground.
A total of 223,0O0 tons of stock feed
was given to $4,000 owners in Middle
and Far Western States.
The $1,000 families suffering from
the 1881 drought in North and South
Dakota, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa and
Washington were cared for by the Red
Cross during the past Winter.
But in spite of heavy drains of the
last year and hard Winter ahead,
Payne expressed hope that with the i'm
petuS of the roll call the organization
could meet successfully the demands of
the busiest Winter since the World
War"
Evening star., 1932-09-09
MAN WHO SHOT HIMSELF
IN CRITICAL CONDITION
John H. Morris Was in Poor
Health, Note Written Before
Suicide Attempt Indicates.

John H. Morris, Sc, who shot himself
in the head yesterday at his home, 25O6
Thirty-third street southeast, still was
In a critical condition in Casualty Hos
pital today
Morris, an employe of the Street
Cleaning Department. fired a .38-caliber
bullet into his temple while his wife,
Mrs. Mamie Morris, and their daughter,
Lillian. 10, were in the kitchen prepar-
ing breakfast. Hearing the shot, they
ran into his room and found him lying
in the bed, the gun beside his body.
A note, scrawled on the back of
rent receipt, indicated poor health was
responsible for his act,
Evening star., 1932-09-09
TELLS OF INDIANA POET

Friend of James Whitcomb Riley
Addresses Cosmopolitan Club.
The early life of James Whitcomb
Riley was discussed before a meeting of
the Cosmopolitan Club yesterday in the
Carlton Hotel by an intimate friend of
the Indiana poet, Judge Richard Nash
Elliott, assistant controller general and
a former Representative from Indiana.
The speaker was introduced by
William Mccarthy. The club will hold
a stag party Thursday night at the
Washington Country Club, it was an
nounced by the chairman Of the COM
mittee in charge. Gordon Bonnette.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
MONUMENT. KILLS BIRDS
200 Migrating Gold Finches Crash
Into Shaft During Storm.

Two hundred goldfinches, apparently
migrating southwark, were killed during
Monday nights storm, when they
few into the Washington Monument.
officials Of the parks division of the
once of Public Buildings and Parks
reported today. They said a bushel
basket full of the dead birds have been
gathered up by workmen.
The birds few into the north and
west sides " the Monument, which is
lighted up until midnight to aid night
flying airmen. The birds were gathered
up and buried in the vicinity of the
Sylvan Theater,
Evening star., 1932-09-09
N. L. BURCHELL FUNERAL
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Prominent Grocer Will Be Buried
in Oak Hill After Rites at
st. Johns Church.

Funeral services for N. L. Burchell,
prominent Washington grocer, who died
yesterday at Blue Ridge Summit, Pa,
where he was vacationing, will be held
at pm. tomorrow at st. Johns Epis-
copal Church, Sixteenth and H streets.
Burial will be in Oak Hill Cemetery.
Mr.. Burchell, who died on the Mon
terey golf course while golfing with his
daughter Charlotte, was SO. He was
a graduate Of George Washington Uni
versity and member of the District
bar
He Is survived by his widow and two
daughters, Charlotte and Leslie.
Evening star., 1932-09-09
ESTATES VALUE $32,5
Miss Emma Gelston's Will Is Filed
for Probate.

Miss Emma Gelston, $50 East Capitol
street, who died August 8, left an es-
tate valued at $32, 500, according to the
petition for the probate of her will
filed today by Attorney Robert E. Lynch
She owned real estate valued at $27 900
and had personal property worth $500.
BY the terms of her will 81 900 in
cash and her jewelry are given to her
adopted daughter, Bessie Gelston. The
remaining estate is to be distributed
equally between the adopted daughter,
a sister and four brothers Of the de-
ceased. D. ----.-.-
Evening star., 1932-09-09
0PTIMISTS TO PICNIC

The Optirnist Club of Washington will
hold its annual family picnic tomorrow
at Arundel-on-the-Bay, with races and
other events scheduled as features.
Approximately 100 members of the
club and their families are expected to
WILDE. will be made 1,,U1. by Anthony Ludwig and