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Evening star., 1933-02-15
MAN |NMASONCASE
SEIZED BY POLICE
Louis Scharff Tells Police
That He Acted in Self
Defense.

Louis Scharff, 38, who has been the
object of city-wide search since he
was alleged to have shot Gus Mason,
80, during an argument at 903 New
York avenue yesterday morning, was
captured shortly after noon today in
a house at North Carolina avenue and
Second street southeast. Scharff Of
fered no resistance when arrested by
Detective Sergts Michael j. Dowd,
Steve Brodie and Leo Murray, who
went to the house on a tip that he
was hiding there.
Police said Scharff admitted sthe
shooting, but would not discuss the
reason for it. Il shot him in lf-de-
fense" was all he would say. He gave
them a .25-caliber gun with which the
assault was committed, they said.
Mason is in Emergency Hospital in
serious condition with bullet wounds
in his chest and hip. He was shot
yesterday morning after an alteration
which he said started when Scharf
tried to borrow money from him and
was refused a loan. His assailant
escaped by jumping out third-floor
window onto an adjoining roof and
swinging over to a fire escape which
led to the ground.
A lookout was broadcast for Scharff
Immediately after Mason was sent to
the hospital by bystander, who found
him leaning against tree in front Of his
residence. Scharff was slightly in
jured about the head during the strug-
gle which preceded the shooting, and
in addition to his gunshot wounds Ma
son also suffered lacerationS Of the
scalp.
Police went to half dozen different
houses last night acting on information
Scharf would be found there, but missed
him each time. The fugitive told them
today that he was just preparing to give
himself up when they caught him.
Scharff told police he. had been a
base ball umpire in Tennessee before he
came to Washington. He said he used
the Shipman there.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
Kelland Directed
To Pay s3,5O5 Bill
Incurred by Wife
Author Was on Record
Against Letting Women
pile Up Accounts.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, February 15.-Clarence
Buddington Kelland, the author. who
doesn't believe women ought to be al
lowed to pile up bills" when they have
mo cash to pay" was ordered yester-
day to pay s3,505 .68 for goods his wife
bought at dress shop.
Supreme Court Justice John L. Walsh
granted a petition for a judgment
asked by Hattie Carnegie, Inc, women's
apparel shop. The sum was for goods
purchased by Mrs. Kelland during 1881
and 1882 Kelland did not appear in
court to protest the action.
When the action was brought on Oc-
tober last Kelland said he intended to
defend the suit because these people
ought to be discouraged from ptling
bills on women who do not realize,
while they have no cash to pay for 1t,
that they are getting themselves into
deep obligations"
IT allege," he declared at the time,
chat my financial condition at no time
would justify characterization Of hose
at $3.50 a pair, white Panama hat at
$40. cloth coat at $420, dresses at $225
and $3.50 and perfumery at SIS or SIS
as necessaries for my wife"
Herman Carnegie. treasurer OF the
shop, yesterday produced records to
show Mrs. Kelland's purchases.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
Plan Ocean Cruise
ToFinanceNursing
In ''FrOntier" Hills
BY the Associated Press.


NEW YORK, February 15.-All
ocean liner will steam out of New
York Harbor February 25 on a
cruise to the West Indies, and
for months thereafter the From
tier Nursing Service hopes. in the
. far-away Kentucky mountains,
nurses who hae to ride horse
back to see their patients will be
spending the profits of the cruise
on medical supplies for sick chill
dren.
The Frontier Nursing Service,
which supplies the nurses, treat
ment, medicines and in many
cases food for sick and under
nourished babies in the mountain
regions far away from doctors
and hospitals. has chartered the
liner Belgenland for the cruise.
1t will receive all the profits.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
LARGEST POST OFFICE
DEDICATED IN CHICAGO
National, State and City Officials
Attend Ceremony at $16,0OO,OOO
Building.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February 15-The worlds
largest post Office, costing $4,000, 600,
was dedicated today.
Dignitaries Of the national, State and
city government aided in the cere-
monies. The building towers high above
the Union Stations maze of railway
tracks at Van Buren street and the
Chicago River.
The building has system of more
than so miles of conveyor belt to carry
mail through the various departments.
Engineers said the sorting system was
a great time and labor saver.
By constructing the post Office over
the railroad tracks, Postmaster Gen
eral Walter F. Brown estimated, the
Government would save half million
dollars yearly.
The city gained the largest post
Office largely because it had the busi-
ness of the largest mail order houses
in the world.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
PROFESSOR ASKS POLICE
TO TRACE DEATH NOTES
Members of One of His Glasses
Demanding Passing Grades Be-
lieved Responsible.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, February IS. - Prof.
Maurice Visscher of the University of
Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago
asked the Secret Six yesterday to in
vestigate death threats made to him,
purportedly by members of his classes.
The professor informed the investiga-
tors he had received three notes in a
week instructing him to grant passing
grades to all students in one of his
classes or suffer the consequences.
Ofhcials of the Secret Six" said Prof.
Visscher had taken his family from
their home to secret residence outside
the city.
The notes threatened, Chief In
veStigator Alexander Jamie of the
Secret Six" said, that Visschers home
would be bombed and himself and his
family slain unless he complied with
the demands
Evening star., 1933-02-15
MANS CHARRED BODY
FOUND IN ANNAPOLIS.
Victim Discovered in Burned Home
Neighbor Reports Hearing
Shots.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

i
ANNAPOLIS, Md, February IS
The charred body Of man believed to
be Howard F. Stonesifer, %, former
Naval Academy watchman, was found
at his home on Lucas avenue early TO-
day when f1remen arrived to extinguish
the flaming dwelling. The firemen
were unable to save the house and the
body was found in the ashes, near what
had been window
Near the body was found a key to
Stonesifer's car and a belt buckle
identified as his by his wife, who lives
some distance away.
According to neighbors, party was
held at the house and lasted until the
early hours In the morning. Mrs. Bland
Spncer, a neighbor, said she heard
three shots about 4 o'clock when the
party was breaking up. Mrs. Bland
turned in the fire alarm at am.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
SIX PUT ON TRIAL
IN MURDER CASES
Four Face First Degree
Charges in Attempted
Pay Roll Robbery.

Six men charged with first-degree
murden went on trial in District Su-
preme Court this morning in two cases
Four of them, two white and two col
ored, are charged with killing Elmer H
Ecklund during an attempted pay roll
robbery at the House Office Building,
January 90 Their trial is before Justice
Daniel w. ODonoghue, in Criminal
Division 2.
In Criminal Division l, two colored
men. are being tried for the murder
January % of William 6imms, colored
watchman, at the Dickey Brothers Feed
Store, Kenilworth avenue, Benning,
during burglary.
The defendants in the Ecklund mur-
der are Fewel Workman and Claude
Myers, both colored, and Everett Lee
Blackwell and Albert Ernest Cash. The
men are being tried jointly. Justice
ODonoghue overruled motions by coun-
sci for each of the four men for sew
erance.
The men being tried in the other
case are Joe Goodman and George Nc
Kinley Pitmond, both colored. They
are represented by Attorneys E. Russell
Kelly and Harry Whalen.
Assistant United States Attorney Will
liam H. Collins is acting as prosecutor
in the Ecklund case. Cash is repre-
sented by Attorneys James A. O'Shea
and Alfred Goldstein, Blackwell by
Archer, Workman by Louis Whitestone
and Myers by AL Philip Kane and
Maurice McInerney.
Jury Is Selected.
The entire morning was spent select
ing jury, and the task was not COM
pleted until 12:45 pm.
Collins told the court he was pre-
pared to call As witnesses to present
the Governments case. Through them
the prosecutor will attempt to show
that Ecklund, foreman for a contractor
on the new House Office Building, was
murdered as a result of the conspiracy
by the four defendants to rob him of a
$4,000 pay roll. Harry Stumnl, who Eek
lund was training in his duties. was
wounded in the attempted robbery. Po-
lice investigating the killing stated at
the time that they had obtained state
ments from all four defendants admit
ting completely in the robbery.
Indicted as Accessories.
Clyde Templeton and Oscar Cash,
brother of one of the defendants, are
under indictment as accessories after
the fact and will be tried later.
In the Simms murder trial a jury
was impaneled after about an hour, and
Assistant United States Attorney Irving
Goldstein made an opening statement
to the Jury He said the two defendants
killed Simns by shooting him in the
groin and hacking his head with a
hatchet while the watchman was at the
feed store during the early morning
hours He informed the court he may
produce "a witnesses to support his
contention.
After Mr. Goldstein's declaration to
the jury, Jelly moved for directed
verdict of not guilty. Chief Justice
Alfred A. Wheat overruled his motion
and presentation of the Governments
case began.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
PLAY is PRESENTED
BY BURLEITH GROUP
Mother Goose Musicale" Includes
Rhythm Dancing and Reading.
Business Follows.

Mother Goose Musicale" a play by
Mrs. Minnie Frost Rands, was presented
under direction of Mrs. Evelyn Mayors
at the regular meeting last night of
Burleith Citizens Association at Gordon
Junior High School.
Opening with a demonstration of
rhythm by children dancing, the pro-
gram included piano solos by Buddy
Young and Thomas Hickson, and a
reading by Phyllis Frank.
mendation by James G. Yaden, presi-
for increased use Of community centers
was referred to a joint committee on
schools and school houses, and public
welfare.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
Sugar Exports.

NEW YORK, February 15.-Exports
of refined sugar in 1882 totaled 47,567
long tons, compared with 81 ,441 in 1881,
Lamborn & Co., Inc, sugar brokers, esti-
mate. Refined sugar shipments by the
United States reached the peak in 1922
at 836.10e tons Since that time they
have steadily declined.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
SPELLING BEE PRIZE

A special prize to the newcomer"
who remains longest in the regular
meeting and spelling match of the Capt.
tai City Spelling Club at 7:30 tonight
at the Mount Pleasant Branch Library
is being offered by the club as an in
ducement to gain new members.
The words pronounced to contestants
during the first hour of the match
will be from Webster's famous "Old
Blueback" spelling book.
Evening star., 1933-02-15

directors board Of the Federal Bond
d Mortgage Co. and was q member Of
the Committee Of 100, Miami Beach's
millionaire club" and Of the Surf
Club.
Mr.. Masters is survived by the widow
and daughter, Mrs. Boynton Rogers
OF Chicago. who Is visiting here. Fu-
neral arrangements have not been made.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
SAMUEL ]. MASTERS DIES
War President of Security Corpora
ton of Baltimore.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla, February Is
R:-Samuel Jay Masters of Baltimore
and Miami Beach died at his home here
today after a brief illness.
He was prominently identified here
in financial circles and was president
of the Masters Security Corporation of
Baltimore. He was chairman of the
Evening star., 1933-02-15
SEEK CLINIC INCREASE
District Dental Society Plans
Greater Attendance Of Children.

Plans were discussed by the District
Dental Society last night for an in
crease during 1893, in the number OF
children to be treated at the society's
evening dental clinic at Children's Hos
pital. Last year 1,700 young patients
were treated and considerable in
crease during the coming year is an
ticipated
nell and Herman Mast were appointed
to work with the ladies' auxiliary in
connection with the clinic The princi-
pal speaker was DR.. Joseph r. Walsh
of East Orange, N. j.
Evening star., 1933-02-15
THE WEATHER

District of Columbia-Partly cloudy
and colder tonight, minimum tempera-
ture about 25 degrees; tomorrow fair;
moderate northwest winds.
Maryland and Virginia-Partly cloudy
tonight and tomorrow; colder tonight
and in central and east portions tomor-
row.
West Virginia-Fair and colder to-
night; tomorrow partly cloudy.
River Report.
Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers
clear today.
Evening star., 1933-02-15

There have been flower queens" and
fruit queens" aplenty, but the title of
potato queen" belongs to Miss Lelah
Stark Of Oneida County. Wis, by right
of accomplishment. She has succeeded
in making $50 bushels of potatoes grow
to the acre where her male neighbors
raised only SO to 10 bushels in a Like
oroo
Evening star., 1933-02-15
Wheat Supply Decreases.

NEW YORK, February Is (P).-The
visible supply of American grain shows
the following changes in bushels: Wheat
decreased 1,686,O00; corn decreased
427,000; oats decreased 1000; rye de-
creased $4,000; barley decreased $4,000.
Evening star., 1933-02-15

Economists In Italy believe that price
bottoms have been reached In many in
dustries and that the recent increases
will be maintained.
Evening star., 1933-02-15

"TAKE my advice and stay under the
l. speed limit. Take it easy. Don't try to
be mile-a-minute man..
"But use the oil that can do I0O-miles-
an-hour-Culf Supreme! Why? That's
simple...
''For the oil that is good at 1OO-miles-
an.hour is doubly good at lower speeds!
It's better, safer oil. 1t has extra resist
Evening star., 1933-02-15

twice the heat ofthe ormalspeeding motor.
So on August 8, 1882, Supreme was put
to a sitter test than it could get in any
car on the roads! Under Official AAA
supervision, it successfully fabricated a
roaring Duesenberg gracer-hashingaround
the Indianapolis Speedway at speeds
which reached almost t,Uo miles minute!
An average for the one-hour, nonstop
Evening star., 1933-02-15

Monthly precipitation in inches in the
Capital (current month to datel:
Evening star., 1933-02-15

ira ability to halt wear and
keep repair bills down."
Why do we call Gulf Su-
preme the "lOO.mile-an-hou
motor oil?" Here's Why.
Tests made in the Gulf lab
oratories showed that Gulf
Supreme could stand almost
Evening star., 1933-02-15
The Sun and Moon.
Precipitation.

Automobile lights must be turned on
one-half hour after sunset.
Evening star., 1933-02-15

run OF more Lndn lUU.mlIcS.
an-hour!
Switch to Gulf Supreme
notU. There's a grade for
every climate. 1t can take
super-punishment. Give
better fabrication. Cut oil
costs. And minimize repairs!
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Insurance Workers
Protest Bad Food

NEW YORK.--Nearly 1000 en-
ployes of the Mutual Life Insurance
Co, "a Nassau Street, are expected
to strike today against the poor
quality and insufficient quantity of
food given them in the company's
free lunch-room. 1--WE are not going
up to the Mnchroom tomorrow" is
the slogan which spread like Wild
fire throughout the company's office
yesterday after the workers left the
lunchroom completely disguised with
another one Of the connpany's meals.
The Office Workers Union called
on the workers OF the Mutual Life
Insurance Co. yesterday to organize
department committees to draw UP
demands covering the most imme-
diate grievances Of the workers and
present them to the company in an
organized manner While the strike
against rotten food will show the
bosses that the workers are pre-
pared to fight for better conditions,
it should be the means Of organizing
them for a struggle against other
grievances as well, the Union points
out. The Office Workers Union has
its offices at ia w. 14th st., and
offers It's support to the workers.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

the fur lining manufacturers, signed
by Mr.. Wood, chairman Of the com
pliance board, which stated: This
action Of union men refusing to
work with q non-union man Is
against the spirit Of recovery, is
against the employment program
Of President Roosevelt, and a union
that advocates this is not in line
with the spirit Of the N. r. A. and
you are justified In refusing to deal
with such a union"
Fail to Break Union
This was done In order to give the
manufacturers an opportunity to
break the agreement with the union,
because the fur-liners were the first
to win so per cent increases. They
inspired the leather workers and
others with the brave struggle that
they conducted last summer under
the leadership Of the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union. The
manufacturers did not dare to break
the agreement. They know that the
victorious leather workers who have
Just won their strike will stand be-
hind the fur-liners to defend them
against any attacks. The fur Lining
manufacturers. therefore. were COM
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Socialists Seek To
Block United Front
at Student Meeting
N atom al Studen t
League in Call
for Unity

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-The ma
tional convention of the League for
Industrial Democracy student council,
reformist student organization, which
is now meeting at the Friends House
here, is already becoming q battle
ground for three distinct currents.
There is firstly the status quo group,
who wish to keep the council as is,
without much definite program and
with mild socialistic laenings. Then
there are the Young Peoples Socialist
League elements, who are attending
the convention with the conscious
purpose Of ''recapturingn the L. I.
D. placing 1t under the direct control
Of the Socialist Party. This group
wants 20 prevent the L. I. D. and its
student councils from entering any
United Front actions against fascist
trends in this country and abroad.
Finally, there are the Left Wing ele-
ments, who favor q program Of unity
with the National Student League,
militant student group.
As an indication of this clash, the
first point on the agenda is Shall
the L. I. D. intercollegiate Student
Council be reorganized?" The Ma
tional Student League, through the
columns of its organ, the Student
Review" has made the offer of unity
and united action to the L. I. D. con-
vention, leading up to the formation
OF one united student organization.
based on militant, fighting program.
A fraternal delegation from the N.
S. L. will bring these proposals direct
ly before the convention.
Numerous rank and file delegates,
arriving from various cities, have al
ready expressed themselves in favor
Of the unity program, while sharp OPP
position is expected from the Socialist
right-wing groups.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Walters Officials
Negotiate Deal with
NRA To Stop Strike
Forced To Talk Strike
as Men Demand Fight
for More Pay

NEW YORK-Negotiat between
the N.R.A. and the officials of the
A. F., OF l.. Hotel and RESTAURANT En-
ployes Alliance continued today while
at the same time officials were COM
PEELED to announce the continuation
Of their plans for a strike due to the
indignation of the rank and file
against the MIRA. code.
A. F. of L. officials declared yester-
day that they would carry their OBJ
jecticns to the White House unless
the code is changed" This action was
announced for the purpose OF STAY
ing off the demands of the workers
for strike by promising that the
workers will get some results from
Roosevelt if the NRA. does not act.
Rank and file waters point out that
this deception will merely defeat the
detectives of the walters and calls on
the workers not to be fooled by the
A. F. of L. officials mareuvers with
the MA. and with Roosevelt, who
recently vested full power III the Ma
tional Labor Board. The rank and
file walters are calling for unity Of
the unions in the industry, which in
clude the AInalgamated Food Work
ers, the Food Workers Industrial
Union and the 4. r. of L. locals In
joint strike action for meetings to
make immediate preparations in the
locals for the strike.
To discourage the union workers,
the hotel companies put forward
their company union, the Hotel Guild,
as having agreed to call off the strike.
The Hotel Guild includes workers Of
the high class hotels and restaurants
which are coInplely under the domi-
nation of company agents who run
the Guild which would oppose a
strike. The so-called agreement made
with the Hotel Assoc. by this company
union provides for drastic reduction
in the wages of the walters and vir-
tually the same wage provisions as the
N.RA code, which the walters are
prepared to strike against. The agree
ment Is obviously o. fraud"
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29

These complaints we're filed by the
workers with the compliance board OF
the N. r. A. before the workers were
organized. But the complaints were
never attended to. However, some
thing happened recently which
made the compliance board act very
promptly.
One worker by the name of Mr..
Garfield, who is known as a disrup-
tive element and a brother to the
notorious strike-b breaker, Garfield,
was working in the Horowitz fur
shop, which is organized in the Fur
Workers Union of Fulton County
affiliated with the Needle Trades
Workers Industrial Union. This
Garfield, like his brother, came to
the shop one morning in a drunken
state. He tore up his union card,
insulted his fellow workers an6 be-
came an ardent fighter for 100 per
cent Americanism" This worker was
hated by the workers in the shop be-
cause Of his disruptive work, They
refused to work with him.
Garfield reported to the N, r. A.
and, Of course, the local compliance
board was on the job Immediately.
The N. r. A. board sent letter to
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1933-12-29
Gouesvile Leather Workers See MIRA Menacinp Their Union

places, a compliance board of the N.
r. A. is In existence. The workers,
through their bitter experience about
it during the early part of the strike
OF the 1000 leather workers, when
this board came to interfere and was
Immediately identified with the tan
ners against the workers. Many
complaints were filed by the workers
with this compliance board during
the early stages of the N. r. A.,
when the workers still had some faith
and illusions about the N. r. A.
For instance: In the tannery OF
Martin and Lutele, workers were
compelled to work IA hours day,
whereas the code calls for only eight
hours. The workers received $2.75 a
day for IA hours, while the code
called for 1920 for eight hours. In
Woodside, worker was fired be-
cause he did not work overtime. In
Karg Bros, leather worker was
fired because of his union activity,
which consisted OF passing out APP
plication cards for workers to join
the union. In the tannery of Fear
and White, girls were paid 32t2 cents
an hour instead of IS cents an hour,
which the code called for,