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Evening star., 1933-07-12
SLEEPER, R0USED,
SHOOTS TIRE THIEF
Rushes From His Apartment
to Chase R0bber at
Parked Truck,

Rushing from his apartment scantily
clad early today when he saw a man
taking tire off truck parked behind
the apartment house, James w. Wyke,
%, Of 1444 w street. shot and seriously
wounded the would-be thief after q
chase of more than block.
The man was identified in Emergency
Hospital as Darwin Corso, 500 block of
Quincy street. The bullet pierced the
lower section of his right lung. Capt.
Edward J. Kelly, third precinct, posted
police guard over him and said he
would be charged with attempted lar
ceny II he RECEIVERS.
Wyke meanwhile is being held pend
ing the outcome Of Corso's injuries. He
said the truck belonged to H. ]. Raley,
1444 w street.
Dressed only in his underwear and
trousers, Wyke ran to the truck, COM
manding Corso to throw up his hands,
he said. Instead, he said, the man ran
through the alley and out onto New
Hampshire avenue. There Wyke fred
one shot which struck Corso.
Wyke hailed q taxicab and took the
wounded man to Emergency Hospital.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
IDENTIFY BODIES
OF DROWNED BOYS
D. c. Relatives View Remains
of Arthur Mccoy and Ed.
ward Nightingale.

The body of Arthur Mccoy. II, Of
1920 Eleventh street, who, with another
Washington boy, was drowned in the
Ohio River last week while hitch hiking
to Louisville, KY, was identified at Iron
ton, Ohio, yesterday by the youths
father, Arthur E. Mccoy, foreman for
the Stuart Motor Co.
Identification of the other body. that
of Edward Nightingale, Is, Mckinley
High School student, was made by the
boys grandmother, Mrs Helen Remund,
with whom he made his home at 1743
F street. The bodies will be returned
here for burial, according to an AssO-
ciated Press dispatch from 1ronton.
Found Fully Clothed.
The two boys left here July 1 to visit
relatives of young Mccoy in Louisville.
Several days later Mrs. Remund re-
ceived a post card from her grandson
from West Virginia, saying everything
was 20. K"
That was the last word received from
the boys until McCcy's body was re-
covered July 5, and Nightingale's two
Gays later Both were good swimmers
and since the bodies were clothed when
recovered. it was thought possible the
boys were pitched into the river by a
cave-in while walking along rain
softened bank.
Nightingale still had $l1 Of $l4 which
he had when he left here, when the
body was found. Authorities notified
parents of the boys here after finding
an identification card in Nightingale's
pocket.
Enthusiastic Travellers.
The pair had been enthusiastic trav-
elers, and on several previous occasions
took holiday and vacation trips together.
Last Summer they hitch-hiked through
Ohio and adjoining States, Mrs. Re
mund said.
When Nightingale was only II years
DID, he made trip alone to Alaska to
visit his father there. He was Boy
Scout and veteran camper and hiker,
his grandmother said.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
FOUR ARRA|GNED
IN BANKS CASES
Plead Not Guilty to Charges
Resulting From Short
Accounts.

Pleas Of not guilty were entered in
District Supreme Court today by four
men indicted recently after an investi-
cation of shortages at the Park Savings
and Mount Vernon Savings Banks.
The men were arraigned before JUS
tice Peyton Gordon, and after entering
their pleas were given 10 days in which
to attack the validity Of the indict-
ments, If they so desire.
Those arraigned were David p Smith
and Benedict NJ Mcneil, indicted in
connection with the Park Savings Bank,
and Samuel Borden and Charles A.
Monroe, indicted in the Mount Vernon
Bank case Smith Is q nephew of
Robert S. Stunz, former vice president
of the Park Savings Bank, who COM
mitted suicide last March. He was
represented by Attorney F. Joseph
Donoghue. Mcneil, former assistant
cashier at the bank, was indicted joint
ly with his father. Alexander Mcneil.
The elder Mcneil is said to be in Nova
Scotia Attorney James T. .-Slattery ap-
peared for the son.
John Cooke GraySon, former Treasury
Department official, was the other man
indicted in the Park Savings case. He
Is reported to be Ill in Charlottesville,
Va, necessitating delay in his ar
raignment.
Borden and Monroe, alleged to have
been responsible for a shortage Of ap-
proximately $4,000 at the Mount Vernon
Bank, were represented by Attorney
Charles E. Ford
Evening star., 1933-07-12
LOW WAGE HEARING
SET FOR TUESDAY
Commissioners to Take Up Com
plaint Against Vocational
School Contractors.

The District Commissioners today set
1:3O o'clock next Tuesday as the time
for a public hearing to decide whether
to revoke the contract OF Catalano Con-
struction Corporation Of Baltimore on
charges of paying workers less than the
legal rates of pay. The corporation mas
a contract with the District to build
a colored vocational school at twenty
fourth and H streets northeast, and the
work Is already in progress.
Assistant Corporation Counsel Robert
E Lynch, who will conduct the hear
ing, said attention will be directed .prln-
cipally to charges made by Workmen
that they were hired as carpenters
helpers and made to do carpenters work
The rate for carpenters is 81 per hour.
but the carpenters helpers were PAID
so cents, according to aftldavits filed
with Lynch.
Lynch said he understands there is
no such classification as carpenter help
er, and that all of the men did regular
carpenter work. He said complaint
also was filed that the men had been
compelled to work overtime without
being given any extra compensation.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
TWO ANSWER G.P. 0.
LOBBYING CHARGE
Lerch and Gardner Deny
"Secret Pool" Move in
Statements to Carter.

The two suspended employees of the
Government Printing Office, Frank S.
Lerch, SIT Second street northeast, an
assistant foreman and delegate from the
Typographical Union to the Central
Labor Union, and James E. Rennie, a
proofreader, today presented their re-
plies in writing to Public Printer Car
ter's charges at the latter's Office.
This was the last day allowed them
for answering the charges, and at Car
ter's Office it was said he was "out
of town" The charges were that the
two were ring.eaders in collection OF a
secret pool to finance a lobby or
appeal to the Court of Claims to re-
cover more than 100000 which G. P.
O. employees claimed was unjustly taken
from them on earned leave under the
economy act.
Lerch replied in effect that he had
not employed any legislative represen-
tative or attorney, that he had not
collected any funds and that his only
part was to pay his assessment of S21 go
to the Mount Vernon Bank, since
closed
Rennie's answer was filed shortly aft
erward. 1t was he who hired Frank
J. Gardner, $500 Fourteenth street, as
a legal a6vi-or for the interested en-
ployes. and records in the district az
torneys Office show this and that
Gardner received 1920 for his services.
Rennie's answer contended such action
had been approved by the district at
torney
Gardner, who was designated as the
lobbyist" whom Carter charged was
engaged out of the pool, explained to-
day that he is an attorney of 40 years
practice, who was employed to advise
certain men In the Government Print
ing Office.
Il did what was engaged to do and
was paid for it as the record of the case
in the district attorneys office shows, y
he said. Il never, at any time, asked
any member of the House or Senate to
vote for any measure. am in no sense
lobbyist"
Gardner, who does not maintain an
Office, said he Goes not practice before
the District courts. He said he had
satisfied the district attorney that his
actions were strictly ethical and legiti-
mate"
It was recalled today that August F.
Laufer, 514 Tenth street, was discharged
from the Government Printing Office
by Public Printer Carter in 1928 grow
ing out of a somewhat similar collec-
ton of funds. He was interested with
others in collecting contributions to
hire an attorney to fight the wage ques-
tion.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
GLASSFORD URGED
To HEAD VETERANS
Name Suggested to Make Com
bined Appeal to Congress for
Compensation.

Brig. Gen. Pelham D. Glassford. for
mer superintendent Of the washington
Police Department, has been suggested
as head of a proposed coalition OF all
major and minor organizations of war
veterans to demand from Congress this
Winter the compensation they assert is
being taken from them through the
activities of various opposing organiza-
tionS.
A resolution adopted last night BY
Victory Post No. 4. American Legion.
contains a plea to be presented at the
national Legion convention in Chicago
next September, asking that the Legion
sponsor such a coalition movement.
The resolution also asked that this
council be headed by some outstanding
national figure of known and proven
integrity, courage and sympathy for the
veterans, preferably one who Is not
now actively identified with the national
leadership of any veterans organization.
Gen. Glassford was suggested by the
most
Evening star., 1933-07-12
Flock of Egrets
Appears on South
Bank of Potomac
Beautiful Wild Fowl MAY
Be Seen From Mt.
Vernon Drive.

Flocks of egrets, considered among
the most beautiful of native American
wild fowl, now are making their home
on the south bank Of the Potomac
River in full view of motorists on the
Mount Vernon Memorial Highway.
There are approximately so in the
flock at Four Mile Run and smaller
groups are frequenting other marshy
spots along the road.
They wade in the shallow waters OF
the lagoons and on the shores of the
Potomac while feeding, and roost in
the trees at the waters edge.
The Office of Public Buildings and
Public Parks pointed out that the ap-
pearance Of these birds here has
strengthened their efforts to create a
wild bird sanctuary along the Mount
Vernon Highway.
Nearly 200 species Of bird Life are
found along the highway, park author
tiles explained. These include gulls
and terms. ducks, herons. marsh birds,
hawks. vultures, woodpeckers, fly
catchers and many perching varieties.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
SEAL TO Interview
VIRGINIA FARMERS
Assistant Corporation Counsel to
Investigate Diaries at Orange
and Richmond.

Assistant Corporation Counsel Ell
wood H. Seal will go to Orange and
Richmond, Va, tomorrow to interview
dairy farmers in that section who are
members of the Maryland Virginia Milk
Producers Association.
The association furnishes most OF the
milk consumed in Washington, and Seal
is preparing data on milk prices here
for presentation to q Senate committee
which is looking into the question OF
local milk prices.
Seal will take an auditor with him
and examine accounts of the producers
One of the things Seal will look into
during this trip will be the financial
status Of the association and how 1t has
invested its surplus or S470,000.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
BREAD PRICE PROBE
LAUNCHED IN D. c.
BY JUSTICE AGENTS
Action Seen as "Big Stick"
to ForestaII Unreasonable
Advances in Cost.
INVESTIGATIONS ORDERED
IN OTHER LARGE CITIES
Baking Industry Resentful, One
Official Branding Inquiry
Unnecessary.

The Department of Justice today be-
gan an investigation Of bread prices in
the District of Columbia.
The inquiry was ordered late yester-
day by Attorney General Cummings
after information had been received in
dicating bakers serving the local stores
were preparing to boost bread costs as
q result of the wheat processing tax.
The probe was ordered despite the
lack Of any apparent price increases by
''big stick to forestall unreasonable
advances in cost of the staff Of life"
Special agents Of the United States
Bureau of Investigation, detective arm
Of the Department of Justice, were COL
lecting evidence today as to prevailing
bread prices in the Capital and pre-
sumably were authorized to ascertain
cost of baking and delivering bread In
this area.
Prosecutions May Follow.
If the inquiry discloses that present
prices are too high, prosecutions may
be ordered under the antitrust laws:
In any event, the data will be on hand
for consideration if bread prices rise
here.
Similar investigations have been or
dered in a number of other large cities
where bread prices already have gone
up, the Attorney General announced.
Reports from farm administrators In
many sections where prices are alleged
to have scared to "unJustif1able" levels
have been turned over to the Justice
authorities.
Secretary of Agriculture Wallace has
branded as unjustifiable any increase OF
more than IA cents per loaf, claiming
that the processing tax, together WIN
increased costs of wheat, lard, milk ana
other ingredients, do not warrant z, s
and cent increases reported In some
localities.
Baking Industry ResentfuL
The baking industry here appeared
rescntful today of the move by the De
nartment of Justice to investigate the
local bread situation.
Il haven't heard of any price IN,
creases in Washington" one onclaI
said today. This sort of thing Is
lust stirring up trouble. There is no
reason for an investigation.
The Agricultural Adjustment ADMIN
ict-ation also is studying bread prices
here and in other cities, under dlrec-
ton of DR.. Frederic c. Howe, con-
sumers' counsel. DR.. Howe also is
concerned over the shrinkage in the
size Of loaves. He has an exhibit OF
bread wrappers showing the reduction
in loaf sizes effected by one large
baking concern.
Evening star., 1933-07-12

To show what a memory Soko has
Mr. Blackburne advanced to the cage
and gave the ape look at two per-
sonal adornments which never have
failed to interest the animal-Mr.
Blackburne's glasses and gold watch
chain. with its large fob.
A hairy paw shot between the bars.
but drew back from the bright OBJ
jects without word from Mr.. Black
burne.
1T was more than IS years ago."
Mr.. Blackburne said, when 1 told him,
pointing to glasses and watch chain.
never to touch them. I have never
repeated that order and Soko has never
given me occasion to repeat it,
Soko, however, on privileged occa-
sions is allowed to play with Mr. Black
burne's large watch. He listens to the
ticks with every show of interest and
never fails to wind the watch.
Soko does not wind the watch too
tightly. because he invariably twists
the stem backward.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
y. e. AMNESIA VICTIM IN SOUTH
REGAINS MEMORY ON PAINTING
Mrs. Billie Woods Broom Recovering in Hospital
Following Attack on Streets of Macon.
Dispatch to The Star,

Special Dispatch to The Star.
DUBLIN, Ca, July 12.-Completely
recovering her memory following a
fainting spell last night at the home
of her brother here Mrs. Billie Woods
Broom, 1000 block of Connecticut
avenue, Washington, D. c., formerly a
stage dancer, was recovering today
from the effects of an attack of amnesia
which she suffered in Macon last Sat-
urday.
Mrs. Broom was taken to a hospital
last night for rest and recuperation. She
was in a highly nervous condition,
physicians said, but they expected her
to have recovered completely within
two or three days.
When Mrs Broom regained conscious
ness following the fainting spell, she
recalled reaching Macon, about so miles
from here, on the train. She remem-
Evening star., 1933-07-12
HURT IN BICYCLE FALL

Two 11-year -old boys were injured
yesterday at Connecticut avenue and
Ingomar street when they either fell or
were knocked by an automobile from
a bicycle on which they were riding
double.
The boys are Marbury r. Stamp,
1902 Ingomar street. treated at George
town Hospital for severe body bruises,
a cut on the chin and an injury to
the nose, and Evan G. Hanson. 37H
Ingomar street, treated at Children's
Hospital for cut on the lip and
bruises.
Both boys were knocked unconscious
and were unable to tell whether the
bicycle had slipped from under them
or whether it had been hit by car
which failed to stop.
Evening star., 1933-07-12

bered going to a bus station, purchas-
ing a ticket and deciding to take a
walk In the business section of the city,
and it was while on the walk that she
had the attack.
Two Macon men saw her faint and
she was carried to the Macon Hospital,
where she lay unidentified until early
yesterday. L. D. Woods, local railroad
official, suspected that the amnesia
victim might be his sister. because
newspaper descriptions Tailed with the
description of his sister and he was
expecting her from Washington because
of the serious illness of his wife.
Mrs. Broom recognized her brother
when he reached the hospital, but she
did not fully recover her memory until
after the fainting spell last night.
Mrs. Broom Is the wife Of A. D.
Broom of Washington, D. @. She was
known on the stage as June Woods.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
GREENLEE new DIRECTOR
OF NAVAL LABORATORY
Captain, Now Stationed at Annap-
oils, Will Take Over Duties
Here September !.

Cant. Halford I. Greenlee will be the
new director of the Naval Research
Laboratory at Bellevue, D. c., 1t was
announced today at the Navy Depart
ment. :,
Capt. Greenlee, now serving as di-
rector of the Navy engineering expert.
ment station at Annapolis, Nd. Will
take over his new duties about Sep
tember /. He will relieve Comdr. E. D.
Almv. who has gone on duty to Mare
Island, Calf. Relieving Capt. Greenlee
at Annapolis will be Capt. Ormond l..
Cox, now naval inspector Of machinery
at the plant of the New York Ship
building Co. at Camden, N. ]. Capt. Cox
will 60 to Annapolis about August rs.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
SCHOOL GIVES PARTY

Summer students at George Wash
ington University will be guests of the
university at a school party tonight
in the university yard. Dr. Robert Whit
ney Bolwell, dean of the Simmer ses-
sions, and other members of the Sum-
mer faculty will receive.
A concert by the University Band and
numbers by a quartet from the Glee
Club will be followed by dancing. More
than 100 universities and colleges
throughout the country are represented
In the George Washington Summer ses-
sions
Evening star., 1933-07-12
ONLY 5S3 OF 1000 D. C. TAXICABS
MAY OPERATE AFTER SATURDAY
Others Fail to Stand Mechanical Tests Renew Licenses
for New Fiscal Year.

A large percentage of Washington's
4, 1000 taxicabs cannot be operated legally
after Saturday night, unless some ex-
traordinary action is taken in the mean
time. because of failure of their owners
to renew their hacker licenses, the Pub
lie Utilities Commission announced to-
day.
To date only 583 taxis had been
granted licenses for the new fiscal year
beginning July l, after passing mechani-
cal inspection before agents Of the COM
mission. Since it is estimated the COM
mission staff cannot inspect and license
many more than 200 . day, more than
Evening star., 1933-07-12

until it occurred to the ape that some
Of them were laughing at him.
"Once when we passed family" Mr..
Blackburne said, they lined up on
bridge and laughed at Soko-father,
mother and children. That made Soko
furious. and it was all could do with
the help of a keeper to hold him.
Before that had been taking Soko
for walk. but that day found Soko
was taking me for walk, and what
a walk it was-the last for Soko and
me-"
The ape later learned at meal time
to take pencil and write out" an
order, after scanning a menu. He
would sit up in his highchair to
table spread with a cloth and eat ba-
nanas with a knife and fork, drinking
from glass Of milk which he filled
himself
Soko never forgets and Mr.. Black
burne is convinced he has lost none
Of his table etiquette, although, in his
later years, he prefers simple manners:
Evening star., 1933-07-12
HELD IN MAIL CHARGE
$500 Bond Set for Alleged Tamper
ing With Special Deliveries.

Arrested while allegedly tampering
with special delivery mail in a mail
car in the financial district, Paul Will
kins, %, colored, 1900 block of G street,
was arraigned today before United
States Commissioner Needham c. Turn
age and held under $500 bond for grand
jury action.
Motorcycle Policeman ]. E. Bennett
arrested Wilkins, he said, when he found
him inside the delivery car. The driver,
Bertram L. Biggs, Camp Springs, Md,
was in the Union Trust Building max
ing a delivery at the time. Wilkins was
charged with attempt to commit lar
ceny
Evening star., 1933-07-12
POLICEMAN BURNED

Policeman George Reid, No. pre-
cinct, was treated at Pro idence Hos
pital yesterday for slight burns re-
ceived when a pot of water, setting on
q stove in a yard. was knocked over
while he was pursuing colored man in
rear of the 400 block of Eighth street
southwest
The colored man, Hector Nixon, %,
of the 900 block Of Desmonds court
southwest, was charged with breaking
glass in the street.
Evening star., 1933-07-12

half Of the cabs will be barred from
operation after midnight Saturday, OFF,
cials say.
The old licenses expired June 80 and
the commission extended the deadline
for renewals to July Is. Maj Gen. Ma
son M. Patrick, commission chairman,
declared today a further extension
would not be given, since ample warning
had been given.
Taxi drivers are to be prosecuted If
they operate on dead licenses. The only
alternative would be for a delinquent
hacker to stop operation until his cab
passes. inspection and . new license
issued.
Evening star., 1933-07-12

he did not know whether the boy had
been holding to the running board and
fallea off or had run under the mov-
tIIg vehicle.
The child was taken to Casualty Hos
pital by a passing motorist, Lawrence
Waple, 635 Massachusetts, avenue north
east. He was pronounced dead on ar
rival from a fractured skull, cuts about
the head and body and internal injuries
The truck stopped almost Immediately
after the rear wheel struck the lad.
Policemen said they would take Long
est to the Ninth precinct, where he
probably would be released for appear
ance at a coroner's inquest.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
OFFICERS ARE ELECTED
George E. Warren Heads Govern
ment Employees Lodge.

George A. Warren was elected presi-
dent Of Lodge IS of the American
Federation of Government EMPLOYEES
(Interior Department branch) at the
annual meeting yesterday. Other
officers named we're: Neil F. Stull, flrst
vice president; Roscoe w. Ross, second
vice president; Miss Dorothy Dow, sec
retary; Mrs. Lura e. Turley, treasurer,
and John I. Boone, sergeant at arms.
A membership and legislative committee
was also elected.
Evening star., 1933-07-12
SEEKS $50, 900 DAMAGES
Motor Company and Driver Sued
by Injured Pedestrian.

Suit for 5000 damages allegedly
received in an automobile accident was
filed yesterday in District Supreme
Court by Stephen E. Delauney, 1900
block of Massachusetts, avenue, against
Frank Justice, trading as the Justice
Motor Co., and Charles H. Mason, 600
block of L street.
Through Attorney Herbert 8. Ward,
the plaintiff said an automobile owned
by the motor company and driven by
Mason ran him down ct Eighth and K
streets. ..-....-.--.-.-
Evening star., 1933-07-12

-YEAR-OLD Edward Joseph
~ Passero was instantly killed
about noon today when crushed
beneath the rear wheels of q
loaded ice truck, which was just
starting up after having delivered ice
at his home, 618la Fourth street north
east
The lad had been playing in the
street, it was said, although Joseph c.
Longest 145 C street northeast, owner
and driver of the truck, could not ex-
plain how he came to be under the
wheels. There were no witnesses. and
Edwards father, Anthony Passero, said