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Evening star., 1933-08-27

Calling attention TO the large nHm-
her Of automobile accidents in the Dis
tFfUt Of Columbia during the last year,
IN which 1913 persons were fatally in
jured, the District Commissioners yes
terday issued a proclamation designat-
ing September as Highway Safety
Month"
The proclamation. which calls upon
organizations and individuals to use
care in avoiding accidents, reads as
fellows:
Whereas, throughout the Nation
during the month of September many
States propose to conduct street and
highway safety campaigns in an effort
to reduce the country's annual auto
mobile accident casualty record which
numbered $4,000 deaths and nearly q
million persons injured last year. and
Whereas, more than 5000 automo-
bile accidents occurred within the Dis
trict of Columbia last year in which
1913 persons met death, and nearly 1000
were injured non-fatally, it is highly
desirable that the citizens of the Dis
trict of Columbia should join in the
September effort with many of the
Evening star., 1933-08-27
MARYLAND ROADS
ARE OPENED AGAIN
Emergency Repair Program
Allows Resumption of
Traffic Movement.
BY a Staff Correspondent of The Star.

BY Stdu correspondent OF Inc Star.
BALTIMORE, Md, August 26.-Suc-
cessfully combating the most serious
emergency repair program they have
ever been called upon to face, Mary
lands road forces had restored virtually
normal movement of traffic along every
important highway in the State to-
night.
Two thousand laborers, working night
and day since the storm that swept the
Atlantic Coast struck Wednesday, have
effected temporary repairs and opened
all Of the principal roadways that were
damaged and put out of commission
by the terrific gale and overhowing
stream
Temporary paving of 350-foot
stretch of the Marlboro pike that was
washed away just south of Hills Bridge
when the Patuxent River overf1owed
its banks was completed today and
traffic began to flow once again along
the usual route between Marlboro and
the Southern Maryland bay resorts.
Gravel Vsed In FINS.
Tons upon tons OF gravel are being
dumped into the washed out and up-
dermined stretch of road approaching
Priest Bridge on the Defense Highway
the road was opened to vehicles this
afternoon.
Emergency repairs made to roads and
bridges leading into Ocean City and
Salisbury, where the greatest damage
was wrought by the storm. were COM
pleted this afternoon and traffic moved
again along the usual routes into those
two communities after being routed
over detours since the storm struck.
Temporary bridges have been thrown
up in place of most of the spans on
Southern Maryland roads swept away
during the storm.
On the road from Central avenue tc
Ritchie, Md. however, State Roads
Commission engineers decided not to
erect temporary bridge, but to re-
route traffic over mile of county road
About IS temporary bridges have beer
erected in the past three days on county
roads in Prince Georges, Charles anc
st. Marys Counties.
One of the largest temporary struc.
lures was erected on the Gallant Greer
road, not far from Waldorf.
Detours Made Necessary.
The washouts near Hills Bridge anc
Priests Bridge, resulting from the over.
flowing of the Patuxent forced motorist.
travelling between Southern Maryland
and Washington and Annapolis ane
the District of Columbia to detour b!
way Of Annapolis. Glen Burnie. Dorsey
and the Washington Baltimore boule
ward, while traffic on the Defense High
way was turned off at Collington ans
sent over a gravel road to Bowie ans
Laurel.
A 35O-foot washout occurred on th'
Defense Highway at Priests Bridge
while 1000 feet Of the roadway wa
undermined and the shoulders WASHED
away.
The work of grading and filling il
the damaged roads with gravel wa
started by the State Roads Commission
when the flood waters receded yester
day. Two hundred trucks were pressed
into service hauling gravel to the point
where the highways were damaged.
The heavy rains and high wind com
bined to wash out embankments aloni
many roads in the eastern section o
the State and small gangs have beer
working a@nsst continuously since tn
gale subsidized to put the roads in shap
for heavy week end traffic.
Evening star., 1933-08-27

The fact that Corinne has spent 8
of her 10 years in Children's Hospital
is not the only reason she will be missed
by nurses and tiny patients alike. now
that she has been restored to health
and discharged.
For Corinne. full of ideas and en-
ergy, despite the fact she had a heart
ailment coupled with a tendency to
tuberculosis. made the most OF her time
in the hospital.
1t was Corinne who obtained COM
partment of small drawers and allotted
them to other children of her ward.
She assumed the duty of collecting
the clothing from the laundry and re-
distributing it to the small patients,
keeping the things Of each in drawer
marked with the proper name.
1t was Corinne. too, who noticed that
many of the children did not eat all
their food, and devised scheme to cor
Evening star., 1933-08-27
y. T.. PROCLAINS SAFETY MONTH
TO CURB HIGHWAY TRAGEDIES

States IN making every possible effort
to promote safety on the streets and
highways, and
whereas, the rate Of death from
automobile accidents within the Dis
tr1ct of Columbia last year was greatly
in excess Of the rate for the Nation as
a whole. and automobile accidents con-
stituted one of the most serious causes
of death among the people of the Dis
trict of Columbia, as well as of the
respective States Of the Nation. there
fore, the Board Of Commissioners of the
District of Columbia hereby proclaim
the month Of September. One Thousand
Nine Hundred and Th1rty-three. as
Highway Safety month and request that
the various organizations Of the Dis
trict of Columbia take steps to pro-
mote the safe use of the streets and
highways, that all public institutions
assist in the activities so initiated, and
that all persons, pedestrians as well as
motorists, give every consideration to
their manner of using the streets and
highways.
LUTHER H. REICHELDERFER,
HERBERT B. CROSBY,
JOHN C. GOTWALS.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
45.OOO MONTGOMERY
TAX BILLS MAILED OUT
Interest to Be Charged for Sep
tember Where Payments Are
Lacking by the 3Oth.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE, Md, August 26.-The
office of the county treasurer here yes
terday began mailing bills for State
and county taxes for the fiscal year
which began July l, and by the emo
of the next week the entire number
approximately 45,00O-will have been
sent out, County Treasurer j. Forest
Walker stated today.
There will be, according to Treas
urer Walker, no interest charge ON tax
bills paid during September, but on
all bills not paid by September 80, IN
terest from September l will be
charged.
Persons not receiving their bills by
September 10 should, County Treas
urer Walker said today, promptly com
municate the fact to the off1ce OF the
county treasurer, Rockville, and give
their present postoff1ce addresses.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
PAYMENTS HALTED
TO CATALANOF FIRM
Commissioners to Decide To.
morrow Whether to Can
eel Contract.

The District Commissioners yester-
day stopped all payments for work be-
ing done on the Phelps Vocational
School by the Catalano Construction
Corporation, and will decide tomorrow
whether to cancel the building contract
because of failure of the construction
firm to adjust wage dispute with its
workers.
This was another incident in a long
chain of troubles about wages on this
construction job, which started when
complaints were filed June 10 b. two
carpenters who alleged that the Cata-
lano firm was paying them less than
the prevailing wages for carpenters.
Failed to Settle.
Since that time many complaints
have been filed by members Of most
of the building trades. A public hear
ing was held last month. at which
Dominic Catalano, head of the firm,
admitted the low wage scales COM
planned of.
He was then given 10 days by the
Commissioners in which to make up
the shortages. This payment was made
to some workmen, but Catalano claimed
that owing to difficulties with brick
subcontractors he was unable to settle
with the bricklayers in time. He was
given another extension of two weeks
That expired last Friday.
Conference Ordered.
On Thursday, accompanied by Will
liam F. Kelly. lawyer for the bonding
company which underworld the build
ing contract, Catalano asked Assistant
Corporation Counsel Wahly to recon-
mend a compromise under which the
bricklayers could be paid less than the
81 so per hour rate which the Commis-
sioners had ordered. Nothing came OF
this, however. and since that time
the Commissioners have received no
word indicating that the bricklayers
had been paid.
Yesterday Corporation Counsel Will
liam w. Bride recommended that the
Commissioners cancel the contract and
turn the work over to the bonding COM
pany. The Commissioners, however
decided not to do anything until to-
morrow. They ordered Bride to get in
touch with Mr. Kelly and with Albert
Stern, lawyer for a group Of the brick
layers, and will decide on their action
after these three have talked matters
over
Evening star., 1933-08-27
CORINNE, 10, LEAVES HOSPITAL
AFTER EIGHT YEARS AS PATIENT

rect this situation. She asked Miss
Matte Gibson, superintendent, to per
NIT the patients to order their food
every day, and although hospital menus
are necessarily limited, the idea went
over big with the children.
The result was that empty plates
after meals were few, indeed. But
Corinne, who was known as the porch"
patient, because she spent so much time
in the fresh air and sunshine, was ap-
preaching the time when she was to
leave the hospital, wholly cured.
When that occurred yesterday. Corinne
cried bitterly at the thought of leaving
her playmates, although ,she was glad
to be well and able to return to her
mother
As for the other patients, the news
had to be kept from them at first. The
nurses hoped to break it to them gently
this morning, since Cor1nne's absence
will be keenly felt in Ill the wards.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Car Thief at Least
Had Funds for Gas,
Owner Discovers

The thief who stole the auto
mobile Of Silas Goodall yesterday
has the owners gratitude.
Emerging from his home at
412 Oakdale street, Goodall dis
covered his car had been moved
from its parking place a few
doors away. He Immediately re-
ported the theft to second pre-
cinct police.
Leaving his home half an hour
later for a long trek downtown.
Goodall rounded the corner at
Fourth and w streets only to find
his car there. To complete his
surprise, it contained five gallons
more OF gasoline than when he
last drove It.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
G0BER DEATH PLUNGE
HELD TO BE ACCIDENT
Mississippi Attorney Victim of
Fall at Wardman Park Hotel,
Coroner's Verdict.

The death Of Oscar P. Gober "a
year-old Jackson, Miss, attorney, who
fell from the sixth-floor balcony Of his
room at the Wardman Park Hotel early
yesterday. was accidental, Acting Cor
oner A. Magruder Macdonald ruled last
night.
Dr. Macdonald issue certificate of
accidental death following an investi-
CATION by headquarters detectives.
Gober fell to the lawn beside the east
wing of the hotel Indications were
that he toppled over the balcony railing
after going out for air.
Gober, a World War veteran, was an
associate for former Gov. Theodore
Bilbo of Mississippi and had come to
Washington to seek a Federal Job. He
attend the University Of Mississippi,
where he was an outstanding foot bail
player.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Commission Count
Shows Nickel Bus
Rides Go Begging

Apparently the public is pay
ing little attention to the nickel
bus lines ordered into operation
by the Public Utilities Commits
sion between the shopping dis
trict and Fourteenth and Water
streets southwest.
Counts made by commission
officials slCwed that Thursday
II passengers roGe northbound
and two southbound on the
busses between 1910 and l pm.
Friday. II passengers rode north
and three south in the same
period.
No count has yet been made of
those who take advantage Of the
nickel fares on the Washington
Railway & Electric Co. street
cars during rush hours. The
busses furnish only non-rush
hour service.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
MAN HELD IN SHOOTING
INVESTIGATION is FREE
Suspect in Wounding of Two Chill
dren at Beaver Heights Re-
moved From Bond.

BY stan Correspondent Of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, August
26.-Thomas Hutchinson, 5000 block Of
Quarles street, Beaver Heights, Md,
held for investigation in connection
with the shooting of two children Aug
ust 8, was removed from bond yesterday
as the man was scheduled to appear
for preliminary hearing before Justice
of Peace Thomas D. Griffith.
Hutchinson was arrested after two
colored children, Mildred and Sebrina
Green, had been wounded while pick
ing apples near the mans home. The
girls were not seriously hurt.
Deputy Sheriff Thomas H. Garrison
said that the evidence which he has
been able TO collect in the case VIII b
presente6lto the October grand tur3a
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Plans Benefit Dance.

GAITHERSBURG, August 26 (Spe.
ciaD The Alumnae Association of the
Gaithersburg High School will hold a
benefit dance in the high school here
Wednesday evening. Mrs. Robert Ward,
president, who heads the General Com
mittee on Arrangements. will be as
sisted by Misses Alice Walker, Janet
Walker. George Ward and Robert Ward.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
ENGINEER'S FUNERAL HELD.
Arthur BFyde Buried In Cupeper, Va,
Cemetery.

Special Dispatch 70 The Star.
CULPEPER, Va, August 26.-Burial
of the Crescent Limited, who lost his
life when his train plunged into the
Eastern Branch. near Washington. early
Thursday morning, were held here yes
terday with interment in FairvieW Gem
etery, where the committal service was
conducted by Rev. M. F. Draper of the
Culpeper Methodist Church. The widow
of the dead engineer was Miss Olive
Maddux of Culpeper. the daughter Of
the late Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Maddux,
ST., and has q wide connection in this
county. Accompanying Mrs. Bryde and
her four children from Alexandra,
where they now make their home. were
q number Of friends and relatives.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
GARDEN CLUB TO MEET

Special Dispatch to The Star.
LYON PARK, Va. August 26.-The
Neighborhood Garden Club of Arling-
ton County will meet Monday evening
at o'clock at the home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. H. B. Hartung, 429 Washington
avenue, Lyon Park, Va. Capt. Merle
H. Davis of Arlington County will be
the guest speaker of the evening. He
will talk on the culture of the gladioli
and the best varieties to grow.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
milk PR0BERS SEEK
BALTIMORE ANGLE
Relationship in Marketing in
Two Cities Justifies Course,
King Says.

Intensive investigation of the Balti-
more milk market in so far as it affects
the District Of Columbia will be begun
this week by Elwood H. Seal, assistant
corporation counsel and special attorney
for the Senate District Committee
which has been holding hearings on the
milk situation in the National Capital
This special study is to be made by
direction of Senator King of Utah
chairman of the Senate Investigating
Committee. The hearings, when re-
sumed in the latter part Of September
however will be held in Washington
Senator King emphasized. with leaders
in the Baltimore milk business called to
the Capital as witnesses.
Relationship Shown.
Testimony already taken" said Sen
ator King, indicates quite clearly
there is a rather close relationship be
tween the distributors in the Washing
ton area and those In Baltimore." He
said the testimony showed that tie
Maryland and Virginia Milk Producers
Association and the Maryland Dairy
mems Association in Baltimore N,e1e
united to form the Eastern States Milk
Marketing Association, with Isaac W
Heaps as manager of the Maryland
Dafrymen's Association and also presi-
dent OF the super reorganization. Senator
King also pointed out that Charles Bow
man OF Baltimore is the head of the
National Diaries Products Corporations S
subsidiary In Baltimore, which controls
almost 80 per cent of the milk supply
in Baltimore, while the National Dairfes
subsidiaries in Washington, Chestnut
Farms and Chevy Chase Daries, supply
about go per cent in Washington.
Since these facts have been developed
during the hearings at the Capitol
Senator King argued, there seems to
be ample authority and Justification
under the Senate's resolution of inquiry
to make study of the milk situation in
Baltimore because Of this close relation
ship OF interests.
Sees Dominance of Firm.
"The National Diaries Products Cor
poration, Senator King emphasized
through its subsidiaries in Baltimore
and in washington, seems to have .
rather dominating influence on both
markets. At the least there is showr
to be cooperation between the princi.
pal distributors in both cities. The same
trlumvirate who we're forced to admit,
during the recent hearings that They
flx the price Of milk in Washington alsc
seem to fix it in Baltimore"
Among those who are expected to be
recalled as witnesses in the resumed
hearings after Mr. Seal has made hi.
investigation in the Baltimore field arr
Charles r. Bowman and Isaac w
Heaps.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Road Open for Traffic.

CALVERT BEACH. Md. August 26-
Promptly restoring this community to
normal after last weeks severe storm,
the developers of Calvert Beach an
nounced tonight that the water system
there had been repaired after brief
interruption q eervice, apd tha3 the
roads are IN excellent shape.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Will Speak at Leesburg.

LEESBURG. Va, August 26 (Spe-
ciaD Rev. DR.. W., S. Hess, Presbyte.
rian minister of Hagerstown, Nd. Will
be the speaker tomorrow night at the
final open air services of the season,
held in the court house yard at Lees
burg.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
WIFE SAVED FROM GAS
Lester Sneed Detects Fumes, Call:
Police to Effect Rescue.

Mrs. Bertha Sneed SO. of 121 Second
street, was overcome by Illuminating
gas yesterday in ground floor room of
her home Her husband Lester Sneed,
detected the odor of escaping gas and
hurried to her assistance
Police forced entrance to the gas
filled room. Mrs. Sneed was not seri-
ously affected and did not require hos
pital treatment
which Mrs. Sneed had made upon her
life In the past two months.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Emergency Crews Working
Day and Night to Open Up
Main Line to D. c.
WORKMAN is CRUSHED
BENEATH FALLING POLE
Mishaps Continue to Hamper Re
building of Structure and
Removal of Cars.

A tent colony went up yesterday near
the scene of the wreck Of the Crescent
Limited, to house the wrecking crews
which are removing the remains OF the
crack train from the main line tracks
of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
Every effort is being made by the
railroad to clear up the wreckage and
restore service into washington over
the main right Of way. The wrecking
crews are working day and night to
complete the work.
Mishaps Hamper Work.
Several of the steel Pullmans Of the
10-car train already have been re-
moved from the wreckage, but the
workmen have been handicapped by a
series of mishaps which have served to
delay the reconstruction work.
First, two Of the cars toppled into the
Eastern Branch when the flood weak
ened bridge gave way under their
weight, and early yesterday. a pile
driver plunged into the stream and
nearly carried with 1t a score of work.
men. The men leaped to safety, how
ever
Railroad officials believe it will take
five days or more to clear away the
wreckage and re-establish service over
the main line
A few hours before the pile driver
fell into the stream. Basil Fox. 40-year-
old lineman, was killed near the bridge
when a pole on which he was stripping
a telegraph wire, snapped of at the
base. crushing him beneath it. Law
renee Peregory, 81, another lineman
was on the pole with Fox, but managed
to leap clear. He suffered severe in
juries. but physicians at Casualty Hos
pital last night said his condition had
improved.
Swano Leaves Hospital.
Anthony Swano Of Philadelphia, one
Of the 13 men injured in the wreck,
was released yesterday from Casualty
Hospital. leaving only three Of the vic
Tins still under treatment. BENJAMIN
johnson. assistant Pennsylvania Rail-
road foreman, the most seriously in
jured, Is reported to be suffering acute
ly. but physicians expect him TO
recover
The wreck claimed one more cas-
ualty last night when heavy timber
fell and crushed the foot Of viii Car
rington, colored, 80, of Baltimore, q
workman who was unloading material
from a fiat car to be used in the sal
vaging He was treated at Casualty
Hospital.
coroner's inquest, at which an at
tempt will be made to fix responsibility
FOR the wreck will be held Thursday at
the District Morgue. Railroad officials
and some Of the passengers will be
called as witnesses.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
Old Church Rebuilt.

After being closed for several years
as being unsafe, st. James Church in
Pentonville, England. built in 1778, has
Just been rebuilt and reopened.
Evening star., 1933-08-27
REPAIRS UNDER WAY.
Virginia Calls Out All Its Workers on
Roads.

With every available man Of the
State Highway Commissions road forces
having been pressed into service, the
task Of effecting immediate repairs
needed on Virginia roads as q result Of
washouts and other damage caused by
Wednesdays storm was under way to-
day. Cost Of the immediate repair
Evening star., 1933-08-27

CONTINUED on Page 2, Column So
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
AUGUST BOOSTS
SECURITIES

Resuming the rise interrupted
in July, stocks recovered lost
ground in August and recorded a
net advance averaging 1875 per
cent, according to an appraisal of
100 representative issues compiled
by Frazier Jelke & Co.
The months increase of 1882
$4,000 lifted the index above the
June 80 total, the previous high
for the year, and the August 81
total of $15,327,815,0 900 compared
with the years low of $7,35O,394,-
600, an appreciation Of 100 per
cent. Stocks customarily rise in
August.
Whereas railroad equipment
shares advanced 23.9 per cent and
building industry stocks rose 22.1
per cent, utilities were lower by
1.3 per cent. Chemical oil and
automobile groups moved forward
substantially with percentage
gains of ola, 1875 and 1913, reSpec-
lively.
On a dollar basis the months
largest appreciation was $464 ,048,-
900 in the oil group, which lost
the greatest amount in July,
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
25-Cent Gasoline
Seen for AUtOiStS

Twenty-Five cents a gallon for
gasoline at the service station
within the next six months is pre-
dicted in the current T. S. Hose
review of the petroleum situation,
which declares that this price will
be necessary to meet the condi-
tions of the NRA oil code and
provide the taxes now levied by
States and National Government.
Despite this high price the re-
finer will receive just about half
Of what he did for his product
in 1925. it is said, but due to
taxes that have been imposed
since that date the public will
pay almost the same as it did in
that wear.
The Washington times., 1933-09-01
Sugar Distribution
Gains in z Months

Distribution of sugar in the
United States during the first
seven months of 1888 January to
July inclusive>, according to a pre-
liminary calculation by Lamborn
& Co., Inc, amounted to 1898. .062
long tons, raw sugar value. This
compares with 3.393,34O tons dis.
tributed during the similar period
of last year, an increase of 12s,722
tons, or approximately 3.8 per
cent.
Beet sugar distribution totaled
742,451 long tons. raw sugar value,
as against 728.992 tons during the
same period last year, an increase
of 13,459 tons, or approximately
1.9 per cent. Cane sugar distribu'
ton amounted to 2,780,611 tons
as compared with 2,664,348 tons
last year, an increase Of 1928
tons, or "A per cent.