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Evening star., 1932-04-30
Boy Bandit RObs
Hacker of Is Cents
= And Gives 1t Back
Also Presents Toy Pistol
Used in Hold-up to
Victim.

When the hold-up of a taxicab
driver last night netted youthful ban
dit only IS cents, he returned the money
and made the hacker a present of the
pistol" used in staging the robbery,
1t proved to be a toy Of the 10-cent
store variety.
Fred w. Lacey, 81, of TIA G street
northeast, told police he was hired in
the $500 block of Connecticut avenue
and told to drive to an address on
Chesapeake street. The hold-up was
staged en- route. Police believe the ban
dit Is the one who has staged similar
robberies within the last two weeks.
Walter Roy Wilson, 1923 Clifton
street also cab driver, told police he
was robbed of S165 by three colored
fares he had driven to an address on
Neal place early. this morning.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
INDEMNITY COMPANY SUIT
is LOST BY CONTRACTOR
Verdict of $4,932 Against Arthur
2 F. Reany for Injury
of Employe.

The Globe Indemnity Co., which had
made payments under the woTkmen'S
compensation law to Edward M. Blair
for injuries received by him April IL,
1929, has been given a verdict for
1882 II against Arthur P. Reany, the
contractor held responsible for the in
1uries. The verdict was given by a
jury in Circuit Division before Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat.
An employe of Reany, working on the
third floor Ct a building being erected
at Lanier place and Harvard street,
allowed a 50-pound weight TO fall, which
struck and injured Blair. The company
had paid out 81 ,432 IL for compensation
and hospital care. The remainder OF
the jury's award will go TO the injured
workman.
Attorneys Fischer, Bendheim &
Fischer appeared for the indemnity
company.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
BURNED WHILE WORKING
ON AUTO, YOUTH DIES

Robert Davis, colored, II years old,
of the 100 block Nineteenth street,
died at Emergency Hospital yesterday
afternoon from burns suffered earlier
in the day when an automobile under
the Black & White TaXicab Co.'S ga
rage, 1924 TWenty-fourth street.
A fellow worker, Marshall G. Canon,
80 years old, of the first block of K
street, is in a critical condition at the
same institution with second-degree
burns of the body. arms and legs.
The two men. police were told, were
working in a grease pit beneath an
automobile when the machine caught
fire and ignited their clothing. They
were taken to the hospital in a taxi
cab after other employees at the garage
beat out the flames.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
ART TO Be GIVEN
ARLINGTON HOUSE
Four Historical Paintings
Will Be Presented at
Exercises Today.

Assistant Secretary of War Frederick
H. Payne will accept on behalf of Ar
lington House this afternoon four his
torical paintings, the originals of which
are believed to have hung at Mount
Vernon and bequeathed in the will OF
George Washington to his adopted SON.
George Washington Park Gusts, builder
OF Arlington.
The presentation will be made on
behalf Of four patriotic societies al
exercises which will be held on the
porch and lawn of the historic mansion
in which Mary CuStis, daughter of the
former owner, was welded to a young
Army officer, Robert Edward Lee, who
later became the commander of the
Confederate forces. Col. Payne'S ad-
dress will be broadcast about 3:4O
o'clock by WJSV, Mount Vernon Hills
Va.
NOtables to Attend Exercises.
Secretary of War Hurley was to have
made the address of acceptance but is
absent from the city. Many prominent
persons will attend the exercises, among
them George Lylleton Upshur of New
York City, who is said to be the last
member of the Gusts and Lee family
to remember Arlington as it was be-
lore the CIVIL war.
The portraits will be placed inside
the mansion which the Government is
equipping and furnishing so as to dup
licate as nearly as possible its appear
ance during those early days when it
was one of the most hospitable homes
of Old Virginia. Arlington House was
built in 1904.
Earliest Washington Picture.
The paintings are as follows: George
Washington in the uniform of colonel
in the Virginia Militia, the earliest
Washington portrait known. The
original was by Charles Wilson Peale
the copy by Miss Hattie E. Burdette
of Washington. 1t will be presented
by George de Bonneville Kelm of New
York and Washington, governor gen.
eral of the Society of Colonial Wars.
Lafayette, the original by Peale. the
copy by Miss Burdette. The presenta-
ton will be made by Gist Blair OF
Washington on behalf of the Society
of the CINCINNATI.
Eleanor Parke Nelly Custis The
original is by Gilbert Stuart, but the
copy was made from a copy of this
original which hung in Arlington
House and is now the property OF
Gen. Lees granddaughter. 1t will be
presented by Prof. Arthur 4.dams OF
Trinity College. Hartford, Conn. regis
trar general of the Order of Founders
and Patriots of America. The copy
was made by Walter Gilman Page OF
Nantucket, Mass, member of the
order.
The last picture is one of Maj. Gen
Henry Light Horse Harry Lee, father
of Gen. Robert E. Lee, to be presented
by Maj. John Vernon Bouvier, jr.,
general president, Sons of the Revolu-
ton.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
NEED Of S6(O,0DO
RELIEF STRESSED
Reasons for Appropriation
Outlined at Session of
Chamber Committee.

Reasons why Congress should appro-
pirate 100000 to be disbursed through
the District Board of Public Welfare
for the relief of want and suffering due
to unemployment, were considered by
the Charities Committee of the Wash
ington Chamber of Commerce, John z.
Walker, chairman, at meeting yester-
day, at which facts and information were
presented by Director Elwood Street of
the Community Chest and L. A Hal
bert, representing the Council Of Social
Agencies.
Street pointed out that the original
agency requests for 1882 we're cut $780,
600 by the Chest Budget Committee and
that the current year Chest campaign
fell $185 900 short of its objective. In
other words, the Chest this year is
faced with a probable deficit in excess
of $500 900. The requested congress
sional appropriations of 100000 would
provide $500 900 for 1882 and a similar
amount for 1888.
Economies Planned.
The chamber committee was anxious
to learn whether or not operating
economies might be effected to make
funds already raised go further. Mr..
Halbert stated that all Chest agencies
had been requested to appoint com-
mittees on economy and efficiency
These committees, he said, are being
sent detailed suggestions for effecting
economies and it is confidently ex-
pected that definite savings will be
effected as the result of this effort.
In view of the fact that the range OF
salaries paid to persons engaged In
social work in the District is lower than
that for comparable grades of profes-
sional work IN the Government service,
not to mention similar salaries paid in
comparable cities, it was the sense of
the chamber committee that any effort
to cut salaries would be unwise and
would tend to impair the efficiency OF
an organization now working under the
highest pressure.
Appropriation Approved.
The committee strongly approved the
action of the Chambers Executive
Committee in indorsing the 0,00C
congressional appropriation. Senator
Hiram Bingham was advised of this
action and will grant the chamber a
hearing when the question comes be-
| fore the Senate Subcommittee on Dis
| trict Appropriations.
The chambers committee agreed that
the chamber should participate in this
hearing, calling attention to the efforts
being made to keep expenses at the
minimum.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
PAY CUTS REFUSED
/. IN BAKERIES HERE
AS STRIKE LOOMS
Almost 1000 Journeymen
and Drivers Affected by
Deadlock.
BOTH SIDES EXPRESS
HOPE FOR COMPROMISE
Union Agents Deny Only 10 Per
Cent Slash Contemplated-Ex-
pect IA Per Cent Reduction.

Proposals by Washington bakeries to
cut salaries of almost 1000 employees
have brought forth threats of strike
unless a compromise is reached
Five hundred bakery wagon drivers
and 365 journeyman bakers are faced
with wage slaShes and are offering
vigorous opposition, it was made known
today by representatives of these groups
Although a bakery official said he
thought there would be only 10 per
cent wage reduction, agents of the two
unions involved said that IA per cent
cut for the drivers and a 20 per cent
cut for the bakers has been proposed
by the owners.
Contracts to Expire.
The contracts the two unions have
with the bakeries expire tomorrow and
must be renewed shortly or new ones
substitute. The wage cut is the erin
cipal change proposed by the bakeries
for incorporation in the new contracts.
All parties concerned expressed the
hope that an amicable adjustment of
their difficulties will be reached, but
union officials said today that they are
determined not to accept the reduction
offered
Robert Lester, head of the Bakery
Statesmen and Drivers Local, No. 80,
declared that any reduction in the
wages of the drivers would work a con-
siderable hardship on them, but inti-
mated that they might accept a COM
promise.
He explained that the drivers now
receive a salary of $38 week, plus a
10 per cent commission on all sales
over $3.50 a week For several years,
he said, sales have been so low that
the commission is not earned except in
rare instances. The $38 wage does not
give a true picture of the situation, he
said, since from this must be deducted
losses incurred by the driver in the
performance Of his work.
Work Few Days Week.
Eighty-five per cent of the Journey
men bakers are now working only
three or four days a week, John Geiger
business representative for the Bakers
Union, No. l18, stated. He said some
work five days a week and a compare
lively small number are employed for
the entire six days.
The present scale, he said, is 81 an
hour for day work and $l20 an hour
for night work.
Geiger said he did not expect the
difficulties Of the bakers would be ad-
justed until after May Z, when their
union meets.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
LABORADOR CURRENT FOUND
TO CHANGE ITS POSITION
Variations IN Gulf Stream Also Are Re-
ported to American Geophysical
Union.

The Labrador current, enormous
river of ice-cold water which sweeps out
of the Arctic Ocean into the No-th At
lantic through Davis Strait west of
Greenland and which may have pro-
found effect on weather, will not keep
its place.
The vagaries of this ocean river were
reported to the American GeophySical
Union yesterday by Comdr. Edward H.
Smith Of the United States Coast
Guard and the scientific society will re-
quest the Government to continue OBJ
servations of this phenomenon.
1t brings down the icebergs Obserya-
tionS have shown that its behavior from
year to year may affect the weather
over much of the Atlantic sector of the
Northern Hemisphere. The ice melts as
the great ocean river penetrates into
warmer water. The cold water from
the melting ice mixes with the Gulf
Stream and cools it. This may result
in cold and storms over Northern
Europe
Coast Guard Observations
The Coast Guard observations have
established, Comdr. Smith said, that
the discharge of the cold currents into
the North Atlantic has approximately
10 times the cooling effect possessed
by the annual melting of the Arctic
ice and exercises the major control over
the thermal state of the ocean. Thus,
he said undue significance has been
given TO the number of icebergs report
ed from the North Atlantic The great
ice invasions and abnorn1ally great cold
currents do not always come down
together.
Not only does the Labrador current
vary in position from year to year, he
said, but varies enormously in volume
ranging from 100000 tons of water
per second to less than 0,000 tons,
according to year and season. The
Evening star., 1932-04-30

Coast Guard observers also have found
short, irregular pulsations of cold water
from the Arctic.
Or an average he said, the Labra-
dor current pours approximately 3,O00,-
600 tons Of water second into the
Gulf Stream, with a mean temperature
slightly above the freezing point.
1t was recommended that study of
these ocean current vagaries be made
one Of the objectives to be studied dur
ing the International Polar year, start
ing this Summer when simultaneous
observations can be taken the world
over.
Gulf Stream Also Changes.
The Gulf Stream itself greatest of
all ocean rivers, which brings millions
Of tons of warm water a second out of
the tropics into the North Atlantic. is
subject to great variations, according
to observations reported to the Geo
physical Union by DR.. P. E. Church of
Clark University.
A straight line from New York to
Bermuda through the Atlantic, he said
cuts through five temperature areas
rather sharply defined The most not
able Of these is the Gulf Stream itself
ribbon of hot water about so miles
wide. During the colder half of the
year, when the northern waters present
the sharpest temperature contrasts to
the Gulf Stream, offshootS of the warm
tropical water appear to detach them
selves slowly from the parent mass
and move as eddies into the colder
water of the north
Church described a cold WALL of
water that seems to form the northern
edge Of the Gulf Stream. 'FrCm time
to time" he said, "one hears of re-
markably great contrasts in tempera-
ture within a short distance along the
northern edge of the Gulf Stream
Sometimes this will amount to as much
as 80 degrees within or 10 miles"
Evening star., 1932-04-30
BOY FOUND UNCONSCIOUS

Cornelius Manihan. IL years old, of
the 100 block of Seventeenth street,
believed by police to be the victim Of
a hit-and-run motorist, was recovering
at Children's Hospital from fractured
skull today.
The boy was found lying in the road
way at Seventeenth and I streets in an
unconscious condition by a patrolman
last night. The youngster, while i'm
proved. has not recovered sufficiently
to be questioned regarding the manner
In which he was injured
Evening star., 1932-04-30
JOB[ESS RELIEF
IN CONGRESS SEEN
David J. Lewis Says Organ
.izationS Can Obtain Action
at This Session.

Congress will pass an unemployment
relief measure during the present ses-
sion if organizations interested in re-
lief through direct appropriation and
public works will press their demands
Representative David J. Lewis, Demo
crat, of Maryland, told the Joint Com
mittee on Unemployment today.
The committee, representing II ma
tional organizations, opened an all-day
conference at the Ambassador Hote
this morning. 1t is considering a FIVE
point program embracing relief, public
works construction, unemployment in
Surance, limitation of the hours OF
labor and old age pensions. Reports
were received on unemployment and
want in industrial centers throughout
the country. Congress was denounced
for its manner of handling the unem-
ployment problem.
Attacks Secretary Mills.
A message from Prof. John Dewey
chairman of the comnitte read al
the opening of the session, charged
Secretary Of the Treasury Mills with
'mccking the millions of homes in
which budgets will not balance, in
talking about confidence and credit -
Warning that unless the City of New
York is assisted by the State or Fed
eral Government, the vast army of un-
employed in New York will suffer des-
titution and starvation, and it is not
likely that they will suffer any longer
in silence DR.. Sidney E. Goldstein,
chairman on unemployment of the
New York City Affairs Committee, out
lined conditions there
"At least $11 1000, 900 a month is
needed to care for the 100000 utterly
destitute families in New York" he
said, and the board of estimate has
just appropriated S5,000,000 for two
months. Private charity cannot give
much more"
Father Ryan Sees Disgrace.
Rev. John A. Ryan of the National
Catholic Welfare Council, Washington,
in luncheon address broadcast over
the N. B. C. hook-up, said:
THE suffering that millions of Amer
leans endured for the last year is a
disgrace to our country, yet our ma
tional administration remains inert and
Congress has refused to do anything
about it. Employment cannot be in
creased nor business improved until the
sale of goods is increased, yet leaders
Of both parties favor a sales tax.
Congress has entered upon a So
called economy path of disaster, and
has refused to heed the misery of the
unemployed. Its economy program will
magnify. the depression, and on the
budget it has been stamped by a slo-
gan-a balancing act"
DR. Edward L. Israel of Baltimore
chairman of the Social Justice Com
mission, Central Conference of Ameri-
can Rabbis, and DR.. Goldstein also
spoke at the luncheon meeting
Conferences beginning at O'Clock
this afternoon and O'Clock tonight
will end the session.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
BOXING AND WRESTLING

Program at Jewish Community
Center Tonight.
Boxing and wrestling exhibitions will
feature an entertainment program ar
ranged by the fellowcraft team of Har-
mony Lodge, No. II, F. A A M, to be
presented tonight at the Jewish Com
munity Center, Sixteenth and @ streets.
The Arrangements Committee is COM
posed of H. K. Troutman, chairman; !;
r. T. Harrell, NJ. A. Lett, D. B. Horne,
c. c. Pidgeon and R. w. Lanman. Nick
Altrock and Al Schacht, clowns of the
Washington Base Ball Club, will be on
the program Members of the ball club
are expected to attend.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
POLICE LOOK FOR GIRL
MISSING FROM HOME
City-wide Search Made for Child
Who Disappeared Yes
terdaY

Police were conducting a city-wide
search today for Isabella Wolfe, IL
years old, who has been missing from
her home at 1921 Fourth street since
early yesterday afternoon.
The childs mother, Mrs. Esther H.
Julia. called police headquarters last
night and asked that a lookout be
kept for her daughter She said the
girl left home shortly after lunch.
Mrs. Julia described her daughter as
being feet tall, weighing lis pounds,
with black hair and black eyes. When
last seen she was wearing a brown
dress, brown shoes and stockings.
Mrs. Julia said the girl is child by
a former marriage. Her first husband
is dead.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
EARLY SEX EDUCATION
URGED BY DR.. WILZBACH
Should Begin in Childhood, He
Tells Group of Parents in
Y. M. C. A. Address.

Sex education should begin during
early childhood, Dr. Carl A. Wilzbach,
executive secretary of the Cincinnati
Social Hygiene Society, told a group of
parents yesterday afternoon at the Cen
trail Young Mems Christian Association.
DR.. Wilzbach deplored the reluctant
attitude" of many parents toward dis
cu5sion of sex problems with their
children.
DR.. Wilzbach also discussed sex be-
fore groups of students yesterday. He
addressed pupils of the Woodward
School and members of the Hi-Y clubs
of the various high schools.
The lectures were arranged by the
department of physical education of the
Washington Y M. c. A., of which Ralph
W Foster is director.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
500 JEWELLERS TO MEET
District-Ma -Maryland-Virginia Con
vention Opens Monday.

More than 500 jewelers. are expected
to attend the joint convention of the
Maryland. Delaware and District of Co.
lumbia Jewellers Association and the
Virginia Retail jewelers. Association
tomorrow, Monday and Tuesday in the
Mayfiower Hotel.
DR.. Thomas H. Healy, assistant dean
of the George Washington University
School of Foreign Service, will address
the meeting tomorrow night at O'Clock
Registration will begin at 2 pm, with
a buffet supper at pm.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
PUPILS GIVE PROGRAM

A George Washington Bicentennial
entertainment was presented by pupils
Of Fillmore School yesterday afternoon
before large and appreciative audi
ence in Gordon Junior High School
auditorium.
The program included a variety of
dances, sketches and songs by the chill
dren of Fillmore, attractively dressed
IN Colonial costumes.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
DEATH HELD ACCIDENTAL
Boy Killed by Gasoline Blast While
Building Fire.

A certificate of accidental death was
issued at the coroner's Office today in
the case of Charles Mcdonald, 16 years
old, of the 5000 block Twelfth street
northeast, who died at Garfield Hospital
last night from burns suffered on
April IA.
The boy was burned when a can of
gasoline exploded as he attempted to
build fire in the furnace at his home
He used the gasoline when a stubborn
fire refused to ignite.
Charles is the second member of his
family to succumb to burns. A sister
died some time ago when her dress
caught fire from a gas stove.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
TELEPHONE CABLE LAID

The laying of new submarine cable
around the draw of the historic High
way Bridge, which spans the Potomac
River and connects Washington on the
south, has just been completed by the
Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co.
The new cable is a part of a con-
Struction project to provide additional
telephone facilities between Washing
ton and nearby Virginia 1t carries 204
19-gauge copper wires and will furnish
l02 circuits.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
WRITER TO LECTURE
Charles Edward Russell to Give
-Vivisection Talk.

Charles Edward Russell, writer and
economist, will give an -vivisection
lecture at pm. Monday at Barker
Hall, Y. w. c. A.
The lecture will be preceded by musi-
cal numbers by Mrs. Helen Fowler, So
prano Soloist of St. Pauls Lutheran
Church, and Eugene L. Dahl, tenor Of
the National Capital Choir.
DR.. C. Ernest Smith, rector Of st.
Thomas Church and president of the
International Conference for the In
vestigation Of Vivisection, which Is
sponsoring the lecture, will preside.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
Four Named on Symphony Group

:. G. Neal, vice president of the Po-
tomac Electric Power Co.; Horace
Browning of the American Business
Club Right Rev. Mgr Edward l..
Buckley and John Chevalier have been
appointed members of the General
Civic Committee oS the National Sym
phony Orchestra, -.-
Evening star., 1932-04-30
$1,272 IN GEMS LOST

Police Search for Pocketbook Left
in Taxi.
Mrs. Emma H. Stevens Of Darien
Conn, a guest at the Wardman Park
Hotel, appealed to police yesterday aft
ernoon to search for a pocketbook con-
tanning $1,272 worth of jewelry, which
she declares was left in taxicab after
riding from the hotel to Union Station
Evening star., 1932-04-30
FOUR CAMERAS STOLEN
Apparatus Valued at ST. 900 Taken

Four cameras, valued at more than
$1,000, were stolen from the Depart
ment of Commerce Building, at Four
teenth and E streets, yesterday after
noon E. w. Libbey, chief clerk of the
department, reported the robbery to po-
lice.
Evening star., 1932-04-30
SERVICES AT MIDNIGHT
Easter Program to Be Held at Rus
sian Orthodox Church.

The congregation Of the Russian
Orthodox St Nicholas Church will hold
Easter midnight services tonight at
1870 O'Clock at st. Thomas Episcopal
Church, Eighteenth and Church streets.
Rev. Father John Dorosh, rector, will
lead the services. The Kedroh Quartet
will sing.
Divine services we're held this morn
tng at 10 o'clock at the st. Nicholas
Ehapsls 1a14 Riggs place. .-l--.
Evening star., 1932-10-24
FORMER EMPLOYE
IN SENATE DEAD
Waldorf, Who Served as Enrolling
Clerk, Had Written for News
papers in 46 States.

Capitol employees learned today Of the
death in San Francisco yesterday Of
one of the most picturesque characters
who have been about the Senate in the
last quarter Of a century, John Taylor
Waldorf, 62, who became enrolling clerk
after conducting successful campaign
for the late United States Senator
James D. Phelan of California.
In personal appearance as well as In
"reminiscences of days when The West
was young, Waldorf attracted attention,
and as a newspaper man achieved the
record of having been employed on the
leading papers in 46 States. One of
his proudest recollections was that he
worked all night completing the clerical
task of preparing the declaration that
put the United States into the World
War.
Born in Hilldale, Mich, Waldorf went
West to Virginia City, New, at an early
age. His father, Jacob "Ophir Jake"
Waldorf, was a colorful figure In the
early Nevada mining camps. himself a
miner and a Nevada State legislator
Waldorf ran away from Virginia City
with a circus more than 40 years ago
and later became a tramp printer.
Finally. ON the old San Jose Mercury,
he began his editorial career.
His last post was with the New York
Evening Journal, which he recently left
to return to his home in Los Angeles
when health failed.
Surviving him are his widow and
three children.