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Evening star., 1933-02-14
CINTAS TO SPEAK
AT MAINE RITES
Cuban Ambassador to Address
Spanish War Veterans To-
morrow Afternoon.

Oscar B. Cintas, Cuban Ambassador
to the United States, will be the prin-
cipal speaker at ceremonies to be held
tomorrow in the riding hall Of Fort
Myer by the United Spanish War Vet
Grams to commemorate the thirty-flfth
anniversary of the sinking OF the
United States battleship Maine in the
Havana Harbor
william j. Often, commander In chief
of the United Spanish War Veterans,
also will speak. The exercises will
begin at 80 pm. Preceding the prin-
cipal ceremony, the ladies auxiliary OF
the veterans organizations will place
wreath at the base of the Maine
Monument in Arlington Cemetery at
1915 o'clock.
Patrick j. Callan, commander OF the
District Of Columbia of the veterans,
will be master Of ceremonies. Follow
ing an overture by the United States
Marine Band, Navy color guard will
present the colors and Rev. Ralph c.
Deibert, Army chaplain, will pronounce
the invocation. Music will be fur
nished throughout the rites by the
Marine Band and by Miss Hazel Arth
contralto.
The exercises will be brought to a
close by singing the Star Spangled
Banner" three volleys by detachment
Of Marines, the sounding of Taps,
and benediction by William M. La
Roche, chaplain Of the District Depart
ment OF the Spanish War Veterans.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
SIX men FACE TRIAL
ON MURDER CHARGES
Alleged Participants in Two Slay.
ing Cases in Court To-
morrow,

Two first-degree murder cases will
open in District Supreme Court tomor-
row, with six men on trial for their lives
as the result Of two slayings in recent
robberies here
Four Of the men will be tried for the
killing of Elmer H. Ecklund during an
attempted pay roll robbery at the new
House Office Building on January 90.
Assistant United States Attorney Will
liam H. Collins will call as a witness
Harry Stumm, who now is In Providence
Hospital recovering from bullet wound
received during the hold-up try.
The defendants will be Fewel Work
man and Claude Myers, both colored,
and Everett Lee Blackwell and Albert
Ernest Cash. Justice Daniel w. o.
Donoghue will preside Clyde Temple
ton and Oscar Cash will be tried later
as accessories in the case
The other two men, Joe Goodman and
George Mckinley Pitmond, both colored,
will be tried before Chief Justice Alfred
A. Wheat for the murder on January %
Of william Simms, colored watchman
at the Dickey Bros. Feed Store, during
burglary. Assistant United States At
torney John J. Sirica will prosecute the
case.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
FEDERAL BAR GROUP
TO DINE FRIDAY NIGHT
Herbert +. Goodrich to Be One of
Principal Speakers at
Meeting.

Herbert F. Goodrich, director of pro-
fessional relations for the American
Law Institute, will be one of the prin-
cipal speakers at a dinner of the Fed
eral Bar Association In theOMayfower
Hotel Friday night. DR.. Goodrich is
now dean Of the law school at the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania.
Others scheduled to speak are Assist
ant Attorney General Seth Richardson
and Clarence Martin, newly elected
president Of the American Bar Asso-
ciatton. William r. Valance, presi-
dent OF the association, will preside.
Arrangements for the dinner are be-
ing made by committee headed by
Assistant Attorney General Monte Ap-
pei, chairman; Rowland S. N. Dyer. vice
chairman Ralph C. Cornell, secretary,
and Kenneth H. Bruner, treasurer.
About 200 members of the Federal
bar and guests from the courts and
Congress are expected to attend. Reser-
vations are being made through the
once Of the association In the Hibb's
Building.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
MEDICAL EXAMINERS FEES
FOR PILOTS REDUCED
Announcement Made by Assistant
Secretary of Commerce
for Aeronautics.

Reductions in fees paid to medical
examiners by licensed airplane pilots
and applicants for students permits
were announced today by Col. Clarence
M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Com
merce for AerGautics.
Applicants for transport licenses
hereafter will pay only $40 for medical
examinations instead of SIS. Private
and student pilots were reduced from
$40 to $3.50 A similar reduction ap-
plies to annuel denomination, the fee
for which has been reduced from $40
to $3.50. Midyear checks for transport
and limited commercial pilots will con-
tinue to cost SIS.
Medical examiners are designated by
the aeronautics branch and their fees,
but the money is paid to the physicians
for their services, none of it being re-
ceived by the Federal Government.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
FOOD SHOW RECEPTION
FOR BRIDE AND GROOM
Event Scheduled Tonight at Audi
torium-Wedding Tomorrow
at 8 PM.

A public reception will be staged in
the Washington Auditorium tonight for
the bride and groom to be married at
the United Food Stores Exposition to-
morrow night at o'clock. At the
junction tonight Miss Ruth Odom and
Harold w. Hodges, who were selected
from scores of applicants to be married
at a public ceremony under auspices
OF the sponsors of the show, will re-
celVe the many gifts to be presented
by exhibitors.
Babies between months and / year
old Will vie for honors in the baby con-
test at the afternoon session today The
winner in yesterdays competition, In
which more than a score of babies un-
der months of age participated, was s.
month-old Jean Whyte McRae, daugh-
ter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh McRae of
3201 S street. She was awarded a silver
loving cup.
A couple who have been married Sc
years won first place in contest for the
Oldest married couple which marked
the program last night. They were A.
T. Murphy, 80, and his wife, who Is 76.
They live at 609 Massachusetts, avenue
northeast.
Last nights capital prize, an electric
refrigerator, was won by Sergt John
Cook, attached to Boiling Field.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
Lincoln's Death Leaves Imprint
<THAT fatal day :"
Curious how they recall 1t
one day out of twice ten
L thousand yesterdays.

one day out of twice ten
i thousand yesterdays.
Curious, too, how clearly
1t stands In memories often breaking
with the weight of 80 years and more.
Mrs. Mary Burch, s5 years old today,
took occasion to look back over her
days in Washington. Like many others,
she remembered most distinctly the day
of Lincoln's death.
But Mrs. Burch had added reason
to remember. Her stepbrother, Sam
uel Lomax, then 20, was a victim of
the hysteria which swept Washington
that day.
Young Lomax had come up from
Charles County, Md, riding a fine
three-year-old mare, to visit his elder
sister in Washington.
The visitor from Southern Maryland
arrived late at night and dismounted
before Mrs. Burch's gate, she said.
quite unaware Of the tragedy which had
darkened the city.
Some one-Mrs. Burch never knew
whether they were soldiers, police or
self appointed citizens - seized the
youth and hustled him off to prison,
because they didn't know him." Mrs.
Burch said.
Six months later, Mrs Burch went,
on, young Lomax was released and made
his way back to Charles County, "a
living skeleton"
He wenC I'D to the door, and he
said to his mother, Don't you know
me? Can I have something to eat?'
II don't know you his mother said,
but you can have something to eatr
Prisons now aren't what they used
to be-six months In one OF them, my
Evening star., 1933-02-14
DISTRICT employees .
RELIEVED BY RULING
Pay Increase Ban Will Apply Only
to Automatic Advances, De-
clares Maj. Donovan.

Fears Of employees in the District
service that new section of the 1894
District appropriation bill would deny
salary increases to those promoted in
the current fiscal year were relieved by
an Interpretation today Of Maj. Daniel
J. Donovan, auditor and budget officer.
The bill contains a section forbidding
salary increases in the 1884 fiscal year to
any officer or employe reallocated to a
higher grade since June 80, 1882. Maj.
Donoval said, however, that this provi-
sion applies only to those advanced auto
matically under the reclassification act
and not to employees and officers pro-
NOTED to fill vacancies.
Only few District employees were
promoted during the current fiscal year,
and most of them are in the Police and
Fire Departments. Maj. Ernest w.
Brown, superintendent of police, is one
OF these, having been elevated to sue
ceed Brig Gen. Pelham D. Glassford,
who resigned in October.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
WOMEN'S BUREAU
HEAD PROMOTED
Rhoda J. MiIIiken Is Given
Advance to Rank of Act
ing Captain.

Promotion of Rhoda ]. Milliken, head
Of the Police Departments Women's
Bureau, from q lieutenant to acting
captain was announced today by the
District Commissioners.
Fifteen other promotions in the Po-
lice Department, some to fill vacancies
and others as temporary increases In
rank, also were approved by the Com
missioners.
Text Of Official Order.
The reason for the promotion Of Lieut.
Mtlltken, who succeeded Lieut.. Nina
Van Wrinkle upon the latter's retirement
several months ago. was carried In
the official orders as follows:
Lieut.. Milliken, In charge OF the
Women's Bureau, Is diScharging duties
comparable to those of captain in
the precinct. In addition, she is direc-
tor Of the House of Detention, In which
all female prisoners coming into the
custody Of the Police Department are
confined.
"The duties devolving upon this Of
hcer necessarily are very important, and
it Is felt that Lieut.. Milliken has dis
charged these duties in very efficient
and commendable manner, and that II
she were given additional rank it would
materially aid her in the discharge OF
her duties"
Among other promotions ordered by
the Commissioners was that of Lieut.
Milton j. Smith to captain and assist
ant commander of the Traffic Bureau
Three Sergeants Advanced.
Three sergeants, Albert I. Bullock
John r. Jefferies, Lewis D. Redman
and Detective Sergt. Clarence Talley
all were made heutenants. Pvts. John
e. Scott, Clarence H. Lutz, David Nc
Cutcheon, La fone Starkweather, Mary
G. Gainey (Women's Bureau) and Will
liam j. Lverman were made sergeantS
Precinct Detective Clyde N. Strange
was promoted to headquarters detective
to replace Talley, with the rank and
pay of a sergeant.
Three sergeants were made acting
leutenants, Thomas Mason, jr, who has
charge Of the hack inspection force;
Walter T. Storm, assigned to the Traffic
Bureau, and James l. Kelley, who has
charge Of the radio division Of the de-
partment.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
CHEMICAL THROWN
IN WORKERS EYES
Suspect Questioned and Then
Released When Victim Can't
Identify Him.

His eyes burned by a strong chem.
ical dashed into his face as he stepped
onto the street car platform at Four.
teenth and U streets last evening, Will
liam Hope, So, Of 3517 Holmead place
marble worker, employed at the Sen.
ate Office Building, was recovering ir
Gallinger Hospital today.
Hopes assailaht escaped through the
crowd which gathered about the blind
ed man. Policeman r. T. Conklin
stationed at the street car crossing
summoned a second precinct police car
which took Hope to Freedman's Hos
pital for first aid He later was trans
ferred to Gallinger.
Wife's Friend Questioned.
Last night police took into custody
friend of Hopes estranged wife, Mrs
Mary Hope. 3ss Thirteenth street
northeast, and brought him before
Hope at the hospital. The injured
man, however, was unable to identity
him. He said he did not see his as
sailant's face, but only his general size
and build The man was released
without being booked.
Hope has been separated from hls
wife for five years, he said this morn
ing, and until yesterday had been un-
der order of the Juvenile Court to pay
her a certain sum every two weeks for
the support of two minor children Nv
ing with their mother. Yesterday the
court dismissed the case, relieving Hope
of the necessity of contributing to the
children's support.
Leaving the Senate ONCE Building
where he has been employed for fouI
years, Hope boarded a street car and
transferred at Fourteenth and o
streets.
Sight Unimpaired.
II had just stepped onto the cal
loading platform" Hope explained
"and made half turn to the right
when something was thrown in my
eyes. I think the man must have come
up behind me. I only got glimpse
of him.
THE terrific pain caused me te
scream. After that seemed to be II
daze until I got to the hospital"
Physicians at Gallinger Hospita
today said Hopes vision probably would
not be impaired. Although 1t Is I'm
possible to tell what the chemical was
which was thrown into his eyes, II
was explained, the burns indicate II
was of an alkaline nature.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
MYSTERY SHR0UDS
WOMAN'S INJURY
Mrs. Ethel Hunter Brought to
Hospital After Being
Found on Road.

Found lying severely injured las
night in the center Of the Washington.
Leonardtown Highway, between Gin.
ton and Reds Corner, Mrs. Ethel Hun.
ter, 20, was reported in serious con.
dition in Casualty Hospital today while
veStigation to determine the manner ir
which she was hurt.
Semi conscious and screaming in pain
Mrs. Hunter was picked up about I
o'clock by Prohibition Agents Leon vii.
liams and Herbert Pfof. who took hel
to the hospital
There she was found to have a pos
sible fractured skull, broken jaw and
other injuries, and her condition was
deemed so serious that investigators
were not permitted to question her un-
til this morning.
Took Taxi to Benedict.
Interviewed by Sergt. Arthur W.
Hepburn Of the Prince Georges County
police. Mrs. Hunter said she hailed a
taxicab at Sixth and N streets yesterday
and asked to be driven to Benedict, Md
She made the trip to Benedict. she said
but did not remember leaving there and
had no idea how she was hurt.
Insisting her name was Mrs. Evelyn
Beckett" and that she lived at 1929 N
street, she refused to say why she went
to Benedict or whether she knew the
driver of the cab in which she made
the trip, according to Sergt Hepburn.
At the N street address however,
Mrs. Marie Beckett declared the in
jured woman was her sister-in-law.
"She was here yesterday" Mrs. Beckett
said, "and she told me she was going
to Gallinger Hospital for treatment for
sinus trouble. She was discharged
from there not long ago."
Treated at Gallinger.
Gallinger records disclosed a woman
identifying herself as Mrs. Ethel
Hunter, 1929 N street." has been treat
ed there IA times.
Mrs. Beckett denied her sister in-law
lived with her. Mrs. Hunter, according
to Mrs. Beckett, separated from her
husband some time ago.
Sergt. Hepburn said Mrs. Hunter
would be questioned again later in the
day. "On the basis Of what little she's
told U.S." he said, there's nothing
much we can do to clear up the case. u
Evening star., 1933-02-14
CARPENTER IS SHOT
IN LOAN ARGUMENT
Wounded Man Says AssaiIant
Fired After Money Was
Denied Him.

Gus Mason, 80. a carpenter living at
903 New York avenue, was shot and
critically wounded this morning during
an argument in his apartment. His
assailant escaped by jumping from a
third-floor window in the rear of the
hallway to the roof a few feet below
and swinging across to a fire escape.
Shortly after the shooting police
broadcast lookout for Louis Scharff.
about 40, said to have been named BY
his assailant. The man was believed
to have been slightly injured about the
head in struggle which preceded the
shooting, police said.
After he was shot, Mason staggered
down three flights of stairs to the
street, and was leaning against tree
when Philip De Angelo, barber at
914 New York avenue, saw him and ran
to his aid. He stopped taxicab,
placed the wounded man in 1t and
told the driver to take him to Emer-
gency Hospital. At the hospital, doc
tors found Mason had been shot In
the chest and right hip and his scalp
was lacerated. An emergency operation
was performed a few minutes after
Mason was brought IN for treatment.
Police said Mason told them Scharff
had borrowed money from him several
times recently and came to the apart
ment this morning to borrow more
Mason said he refused the loan and
after an argument the man shot him.
Residents at 904 K street, which is In
the rear of the apartment, said they
saw a man come down the fire escape,
walk past the house and turn up Tenth
street. They said he was wiping blood
from his right temple with handker-
Police found bloody iron bar In Ma
sons apartment after the shooting.
Tony Petrosina IS, who lives in an
apartment next to that In which the
shooting occurred, was held at No. 1
precinct as material witness.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
AID FOR NEEDY BLIND
URGED IN DAVIS BILL
Measure Fixes Maximum Income
With Welfare Board Help at
$1,000 Annually.

A plan for extending aid to needy
blind persons in Washington, through
the Board Of Public Welfare, Is pro-
posed in bill introduced yesterday by
Senator Davis, Republican, of Pennsyl-
vania, and referred to the District
Committee for report. The measure
would apply to those who cannot be
rehabilitated for self-support through
the Federal Board for Vocational Edu-
cation.
come Of such q person from all sources,
together with the aid granted by the
Welfare Board, could not exceed 81, 200.
1t also would prohibit begging by per-
sons receiving this aid. The bill would
authorize an appropriation of $4,000
to establish this new relief work.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
NEGRO HISTORY WEEK
First Of Four Special Programs
Held Last Night.

The first OF four special programs
commemorating Negro History week was
held last night at Birney Community
Center, Nichols avenue and Howard
;treet southeast. Others will be held
throughout the week in the various COL
ored community centers.
Representative Oscar DePriest, Re-
publican, colored. of Illinois, delivered
the principal address. H. G. Brown,
colored, president Of thf Industrial Saw
ings Bank, also spoke.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
Meeting POSTPONED
Only One Report Ready for House
District Committee.

There will be no meeting of the
House District Committee tomorrow
since there Is only one minor bill ready
to be reported by subcommittee.
be better not to call the 81 members
together until the next regular meeting
day, when more measures will be ready
which can be brought up in the House
on unanimous consent during the clos
ings days OF this session.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
Missing Man, 72, Hunted.

Police today were searching for
James P. Riley 72, reported missing
from his home in the 1900 block Of
Fourteenth street southeast. Riley, ac-
cording to relatives, left home about
10 o'clock yesterday morning and failed
to return home last night.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
Hit-and-Run Driver Sought.

Police are seeking a hit-and-run
driver whose automobile last night
struck and injured Annie Anderson, 81,
colored. 1900 block Of Benning road
northeast. while she was walking on
being treated e Caiualty hospita.
Evening star., 1933-02-14
Boy Scouts Elect Leaders.

HERNDON, Va, February IA (Spe-
ciaD The Herndon Boy Scouts elected
the following patrol leaders: Freddie
MCCARTHY, Gordon Patton, Howard
Hunt aEnith and Rsx Jonea,
Evening star., 1933-02-14
Houses Fall in Quake.

BOGOTA, Colombia. February IA CP}.
Several ho1ses collapsed. but no one
was hurt, yesterday when earthquakes
shook the village Of Altaquer In Narino
department. The quakcs led to 70.
newed activity Of Galeras vpacano.
Evening star., 1933-02-14

brother served, and his own mother
didn't know him.
Mrs. Burchs daughter, with whom
she lives at 736 Tenth street southeast,
felt her mother had talked as much
as her strength warranted.
THAT day." Mrs. Burch repeated
G. it might have been yesterday
My brother never got over 1t. He died
In few months. My family couldn't
even get his horse back!'
The Washington times., 1933-07-25

teachers salaries. DR.. Smart
said:
Failure to collect taxes 10
calIy, as a result of which SO
many school districts are Suf-
fering, is merely a symptom of
disease in the larger structure
Of taxation and governmental
finance.
STATE SUPPORT NEEDED
Far reaching developments
in State support for schools
and the reorganization of the
financing of the taxation pro-
gram to relieve the prOpery tax
is essential to the equalization
of educational opportunity and
to the continued health and
efficiency Of the publit schools
in all types Of communities.
National support on a wide
scale is necessary because even
after the States have cleaned
house and have carried out to
the fullest what could be ex-
pected Of them, differences of
five to one would still remain
in the adequacy of minimum
educ atiOnal opportunities
among the States"
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
7 OWN RETAINS
'28 TAX BASIS

In a spirited session last night,
the common council of Capitol
Heights threw out the report of
the 1888 board of assessors and
voted to retain the 1928 level Of
property valuations.
The move followed an extensive
hearing of complaints about
raised assessments from citizens.
The reassessing is ordered every
five years.
The move, made by Council
man Joseph Mulitz, and Sec
onded by Councilman Harry
Evans, postpones further the set
ting of the tax rate and may
forestall a Is per cent cut in
the rate, which, it was said at
the meeting, would be impossible
with the old assessments. The
1928 assessments totaled $507,-
937.
A resolution was adopted ask
ing the Prince Georges board Of
county commissioners for the
proceeds of the dog tax fund
in the Capitol Heights district,
and a report was asked for the
next meeting Of campaign to
license all businesses in the
town,
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
Educator Asks u. S. Help
For School System

CHICAGO, July as Immedi-
ate Federal aid for education,
including a nationwide building
program to replace inadequate
rural schools at national expense,
is needed if American schools are
to emerge uninjured from the
critical condition in which they
find themselves today, DR.. Paul
r. Mort, director of the school
of education at Teachers college,
Columbia University, declared in
an address before the Interna-
tional Congress of Women.
Wants Taxes ReOrganized
In addition DR.. Mort suggested
q serious nationwide considera-
tion and planning by the heads
of the States of the problems
Of reorganizing State school fl
nance and taxation within the
States"
Moreover, he urged a thor
ough-going consideration of the
economic and social position
which the American people wish
their teachers to have" This
last could be accomplished, he
said, by giving consideration to
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
COUNTY NAMES
a TEACHERS

Fourteen new teachers will be
added to the Prince Georges
county schools at the beginning Of
the fall term in September. Mich
olas Orem, county superintend-
ent, has announced. The teach
ing staff will total 381, of which
294 will teach in schools for white
children.
The new teachers will replace
others who left the ranks in June,
he said, there being the same mum.
ber employed for the next year.
No additions will be made until
next year unless enrolment is
larger than anticipated in Septem-
ber. It was said that applications
for jobs this year have been
heavier than ever, making it pos
sible to make up the list early.
The additions are: Miss Mar
jorie Gwynn, Cottage City; Eu-
nice Burdette, Marlboro; Iva M.
Plummer, Surrattsville; Leila Har-
desty. Laurel; Catherine Bill
brough, Hyattsville; Mrs. Miriam
K. Gilbert, Edmonston: Edna p.
Nolan, Brentwood; Ruth K. Yates,
Ruth E. Gary, Mount Rainier;
Dorothy Weaver, Takoma Park:
Dorothy Jump, University Park;
Louise r. Colip, Berwyn; Robert
B. Wilson, Bladensburg, and j. A.
Miller, HyattSville.
The Washington times., 1933-07-25
MARYLAND COP
HOPEFUL

Hope that the Republican party
in Maryland would soon reign SUI
preme was expressed in a talk
by Wendell D. Allen, chairman OF
the Republican city committee OF
Baltimore, yesterday before a
quarterly meeting of the State
Federation of Republican Women
of Maryland, at the Chevy Chase
Md, home of Mr.. and Mrs. Galen
L. TAFT.
He said:
"The minority party, always
a stabilizing influence in our
form of government, has gained
almost enough strength to
overthrow the monarchy that
has ruled Maryland for the
last IA years."
He attacked the proposed
"superhighway" around Balti
more, saying it is not a direct
route, and that the first unit
will be useless until the entire
project IS completed. A shorter
line, he declared, lies to the
southeast of the plan now pro
posed. More than 200 women
attended.