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Evening star., 1933-01-20
Eager to Enter Vaudeville

n AGERLY awaiting her first ap-
L. pearance today on the vaudeville
stage, flaming g-haired Mary Gar
IL den, tempestuous prima donna,
predicted that the luck OF operas
golden horseshoe" is certain to fade
unless prices are graded sharply down.
ward in keeping with the times"
II believe the time has come when
the opera must reduce its admission
prices or 60 under" the famous toast
Of two continents" declared as she
fingered a long rope of huge pearls
which cleaned against her simple brown
peg" game to receive her interviewer In
her room at the Washington Hotel.
Miss Garden could speak with some
authority, for she had been not only
diva Of the Chicago Civic Opera Co.,
but also directress-manager Of the COM
pany in the days when Samuel insult
was its chief "angel"
Opera Is Costly Business.
People no longer can afford to pay
81 a seat for the opera" she said. THAT
means $l4 q couple. The cost Of operas
must come down, so that more lovers of
music may patronize them. Radio has
done much to make US Nation of
music lovers
ITS the overhead In opera that
counts. Everytime raised the curtain
to sing in opera it cost $4,000. That
much had to be guaranteed for every
performance before the curtain could go
up. You see, opera is costly business.
and In times like these few can afford
1t at the old scale Of prices"
Miss Garden plainly radiated her en-
thusiasm. She appeared as eager as a
schoolgirl anticipating her debut in the
annual school dramatic production. She
turned to a representative Of the thea
ter and inquired, for what she conceded
was the fortieth time, the hours of her
four stage appearances today. She was
tickled to DEATH she vowed, that a Noel
Coward film was the screen feature.
Il am tremendously happy that I
am to make my vaudeville debut in
Washington" the vivacious diva de-
clared. Let's see, now. The last time
I sang here was three years ago, at
one Of Mrs. Townsend's musicales. My
last opera appearance here was four
or f1ve years ago, I believe when I
sang in Resurrection at the National
Theater. am in love with Washington
and its charming people"
Recovered Quickly.
Miss Garden was prevented from
making her movie theater debut two
weeks ago by an attack Of the FLU"
Il recovered rapidly and am feeling
fine now" she said. Il always take
good care Of myself, you know. am
Evening star., 1933-01-20
TO STOP DEATH AUTO
LAID TO CONFESSING POLICEMAN
Conscience Hurt Him, Says Schlosser, Whose Case Was
Ignored by the Grand Jury.

Policeman William T. Schlosser. whom
the grand jury refused to indict on a
manslaughter charge in the hit-and-
run automobile death Of Mrs. Matilda
King, was charged with failure to stop
after the accident in Police Court today
Notified the hit-and-run charge had
been placed against him, Scll'osser, vino
was suspended after the accident, went
to Police Court and posted $500 bond,
pending arraignment next Tuesday. He
was accompanied by his attorney, James
A. O'Shea.
Mrs. King. 60-year-old cook, was
found lying dead in the street in the
1900 block Of Massachusetts, avenue the
night of November 18.
Schlosser, who lives at 1891 Staples
street northeast, confessed he was the
driver Of the car that struck her after
Evening star., 1933-01-20

working his regular eight-hour trick of
duty in the ninth precinct the follow
ing day.
Returning home from the precinct, he
telephoned Lieut.. D. j. Cullinane, then
acting commander, and informed him
his machine had hit Mrs. King. He had
decided to confess, he explained, be
cause my conscience hurt me-"
A coroner's jury held Schlosser on a
manslaughter charge, but the grand Jury
returned an ignoramus.
Mrs. King, at the time she was killed,
was on her way to the home of Mrs
Sherman Flint, 3041 w street, where
she had been employed about 10 days.
Schlosser, who had been on the force
about eight years, had driven the ninth
precinct patrol for approximately i've
years without serious mishap.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
COLORED MAN DUPES
TWO AUTO statesmen
Gets Change for $50 to make
Down Payment" Then Dis
appears in Apartment

appears in Apartment.
A colored swindler who has been
working In Washington in the past
week apparently has found some auto
mobile statesmen rather gullible.
For the second time within a few
days, police received a report yesterday,
the man had approached salesman,
said he wanted to buy a car, but that
he would have to go to an apartment in
the 4500 block of Connecticut avenue,
where his wife worked There, the man
said, he could get money to make a
down payment.
In each case, the automobile sales
man drove his prospective customer to
the apartment house and waited while
he went inside. The man then re-
turned and said he needed change for
$50. The trick worked both times.
Neither salesman ever saw the man
again.
William R. Wolf, of the Wolf Motor
Co., in Silver Spring, Md, was the vic
tim who told police he had been hoaxed
yesterday. The previous case had been
reported Saturday.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Ill WOMAN AMONG
!. FOUR TO ESCAPE
NORTHEAST BLAZE
Three Houses in $500 Block
of Eighth Street Damaged
About $4,000.
SPARK IGNITES ROOF
OF QUIGLEY RESIDENCE
Woman, Husband and Two Daugh-
ters Flee Structure as Neigh.
bors Sound Alarm.

-Four persons, including a 56-year -old
woman. who was Ill in bed, were forced
to flee this morning when fire damaged
three houses in the 5000 block of
Eighth street northeast.
A spark that ignited the shingle roof
of No. 1912, occupied by the sick wom-
an, Mrs. Alice Quigley, and her husband
and two daughters. caused the three
blazes, which broke out while firemen
still were fighting a stubborn fire in
the Rock Creek Golf Club house.
The Eighth street blaze, which dam
aged the three houses to the extent of
about S4,500, was discovered by Mrs.
Quigley about 10 clock, when smoke
began billowing into her second floor
bed room from the attic.
NeighbOrs Sound Alarm.
She summoned her husband, Daniel
F. Quigley. and their daughters. Helen.
10, and Mary, %, who were elsewhere
in the house. They assisted her to the
nome Of a neighbor. while other resi-
dents Of the neighborhood turned in an
alarm.
A high wind carried the flames to
the roofs of 1910 and 1914 and. for a
few minutes, threatened to engulf the
whole row Of residences in flames. The
first fire companies to arrive immedi-
ately sent in a second alarm. Within
IS minutes Engine Companies Nos.
6. IL. IL, II, %, "a and 26 and Truck
Companies Nos. and l3 had ex-
tinguished the smaller blazes and the
adjacent houses and had the main fire
under control.
Only slight damage was done to 1914,
the home of J. R. Powell One corner
Of the roof was destroyed at 1910. the
residence Of T. T. Roddy. The entire
roof. part of the upper story and a
section of the rear wall were burned
away at 1912. Mr.. Quigley said the
damage to house and furnishings was
covered by insurance. The place Is
owned by a local realtor.
Furnace Room Ceiling.
The club house fire broke out in the
ceiling of the furnace room shortly after
8 o'clock Aided by golfers, B. H. Gra-
ham. manager Of the club. made a fu-
tile attempt to extinguish the flames,
then telephoned the Fire Department.
Because hose lines had to be stretched
from Sixteenth street, a distance of
half a mile or more. firemen had some
difficulty extinguishing the blaze, and
two alarms were sounded.
After a two-hour fight. the firemen
were just putting the finishing touches
to their work when the Eighth street
alarms were sounded A small blaze
broke out in the locker room about
noon, but employees extinguished it be-
fore the arrival of firemen.
The house, owned by the District,
is leased by S. G. Loef1ler. No esti-
mate of the damage was obtainable,
but it was confined to the building,
furnishings and other equipment hav-
ing been carried out by club members
when the flames we're discovered.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
FIST BUMPED BY EYE

Hailed into Police Court for punching
another in the eye, Joseph Castor, COL
ored, 35, yesterday offered the excuse
that he poked his arm out and the VIC
tim ran into It,
The story was not successful, how
ever, for Judge Ralph Given found him
guilty of assault and sent him to Jail
to remain for 180 days.
Castor was accused of blacking the
eye Of Roy Wayne, colored, 300 block
of H street southwest. Judge Given
asked Castor to explain. He replied:
He rushed me, judge. stuck out
my arm and his eye ran into it."
Evening star., 1933-01-20

and he bases his recommendation upon
their findings.
OF the plans proposed 80 yeafs ago,
the Grant report has this to say: 1T
appears the Mcmillan plan does not
satisfy the requirements as to engineer
ing and traffic. that the plans of Messrs.
Delano and Olmsted both exceed the
engineering limitations for the stability
of the monument unless it is under
pinned, and that there is divergence
of opinion among qualified authorities
as to the aesthetic character OF all
three plans; therefore, am not able to
recommend at this time any solution to
the problem that entirely satisfies the
v.sSs OF all the authorities involved"
Evening star., 1933-01-20
WHITEHEAD RITES TODAY
Silver Spring Woman Is Buried in
Rock Creek Cemetery.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SILVER SPRING. Md. January 90
Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian r.
Whitehead, who died at Garfield Hos
pital Tuesday, will be held this after
noon at o'clock in Rock Greek Chapel.
Washington, D. C.. Rev. Clyde Brown
of the Pinkney Memorial Church,
Hyattsville, will officiate and burial will
be in Rock Greek Cemetery.
Mrs. Whitehead was the daughter Of
DR.. Lorenzo Russell of Boston and a
member of one of the oldest New Eng
land families. She and her husband
had made their home in Silver Spring
for the past seven years.
Besides her husband, Samuel, she Is
survived by a sister, Mrs. Mary E.
Snowhill, and a brother, Benjamin Rus
sell, both of Washington, D. C.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
HONOR MRS. VAN WINKLE

Resolutions Of regret on the death
of one of its charter members and
officers. Lieut.. Nina C.. Van Wrinkle,
head Of the police department women's
bureau, who died early this week, were
passed at the weekly meeting of the
Soroptomist Club of Washington We'd
nesday at the Washington Hotel.
The club plans to hold q memorial
service about February / for Mrs. Van
Wrinkle, it was said by Nora B. Huff
man, president.
Evening star., 1933-01-20

not one of those opera stars who be-
lieve 1t necessary to attain great girth
in order to sing. Today for lunch I
ate one baked potato and a romaine
salad. And I never take a drink-not
that am prudish about such things,
but liquor is positively poison to me.
don't smoke. either, except on vaca-
ton, because it hurts my voice I can
force myself to eat what is good for
me and forsake things that are not
myself"
Operas darling" has, indeed, taken
good care of herself Long-distance
swims In the Mediterranean and those
much publicized sun baths at her villa
in Monte Carlo have preserved the
svelte figure required by her operate
roles. She will observe her 56th birth
day anniversary on February 20 next
Evening star., 1933-01-20
GAS BILL DISCOUNTS
ORDERED CONTINUED
Utilities Commission Original Order
for 81 Per Cent Allowance
Limited to February 1.

The Public Utilities Commission late
yesterday ordered the 81a per cent dis
count now allowed on all gas bills con-
tinued until June 30 The discount was
to have been allowed until February l
by the terms Of the original order, but
it was extended to cover the period of
the valuation of the Washington &
Georgetown Gas Light Co.'S, public
hearings on which will start next
month.
The companies affected agreed to the
extcn-ion. the commission anpounced.
Evening star., 1933-01-20

fed themselves as Sylvester Leroy
Brown, %, of the 300 block of T street,
and James Edward Quander, 19, of the
1000 block Of Flagler place. Brown
Is said to be under investigation in
connection with serving as a lookout"
from the outside. Quander was cut
about the face in breaking through
q glass door as he ran from the store,
police said. He was caught after a
chase.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
MAN SHOT BY BANDITS
STILL is NEAR DEATH
Delicatessen Owner Fighting for
Life as Police Seek Trace of
Wounded Outlaws.

Arthur A. Berman, 48, wounded in
gun battle with two bandits who at
tempted to hold him up in his deli
catessen at 1929 Georgia avenue early
Yesterday, still was in a critical con-
dition today in Garfield Hospital.
Meanwhile police were checking all
hospitals in an effort to ascertain
whether either Of the hold-up men ap-
piled for treatment for bullet wounds.
Although shot in the chest, Berman
fired five shots at the bandits as they
fled.
His wife and four daughters, ranging
IN age from 4 to II, were asleep in
their living quarters above the store at
the time of the shooting.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Electric Rates Inquiry Ordered.

OKLAHOMA CITY, January 20 up.
"A general investigation of electric
rates charged by all companies in
Oklahoma was ordered yesterday by
the State Corporation Commission.
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Plans Expensive.

The formal or balustrade plan. pre-
pared by William A. Deiano, prominent
New York engineer and a member OF
the National Capital Park and Plan
ming Commission, is estimated to cost
S4 100 900, while the so-called informal
plan, arranged by Messrs. Olmsted and
Hubbard, would cost $4,000, 900, includ-
Ing s600,0OO for underpinning the mon
vment. These two plans we're submit
ted to the colonels engineering advisers
Evening star., 1933-01-20
Store Robbery Falls.

An attempt to open safe in q Sani-
tary grocery store in the 100 block
of Vermont avenue was frustrated last
night by police called by q passerby
who saw colored men in the store.
Police placed under arrest a youth
and man. both colored, whom they
boc,.ed for investigation. They identi-
The daily worker., 1933-07-25

has made necessary the organizing
of new militant unions the use of
racketeers has reached its worst
stage.
McGrady Cannot Make It Stick.
Now comes this McGrady, whose
whole career is inextricably bound up
with the labor racketeers, the agents
of the employers and the tools Of the
Roosevelt hunger government, and
tells us that he will war on labor
racketeers. But this is only the cloak
he uses to wage war on the militant
unions and the rank and file opposi-
ton within the old line unions-the
only force in the labor movement that
has tradition of relentless and i'm
placable struggle against racketeers.
1t is indicative Of the Roosevelt poll
cies as carried on by McGrady that
those who are consulted as repre-
senting labor in the discussions on
the industrial codes" are these same
labor racketeers, while the unions af-
filiated to the Trade Union Unity
League are vigorously excluded.
But if McGrady, in his attempts
as an agent Of the government, thinks
he can forward the Roosevelt hunger
program and proceed to regiment
workers for industrial conscription as
part OF the imperialist war prepara-
tions, he is mistaken. He will not be
able to get away with it. His whole
record and that Of his associates will
be laid bare and his hypocritical
mask ripped off and thrown back
into hts brazen face.
The workers, employed and un-
employed. natiye-born and foreign
born, organized and unorganized, Ne
gro and white, men, women and
youth will, as they increasingly re-
sist the blows OF the employers and
their government, develop rank and
file committees Of action, rank and
file leadership that will beat back
these attacks.
The best reply to the hooligans,
hired by the bosses and the labor
takers who try to beat UP workers in
demonstrations. In the shops and on
the picket lines. is the building Of
workers self-defense corps and the
mobilization of the membership Of all
labor organizations and their sympa-
thizers for mass struggle against
gangs.
1t is not the government or the
bosses who will smash racketeering
in the labor movement, but the work
ers themselves by their own might
as an integral part Of the struggle
against the capitalist offensive.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
BY H. M. WICKS

War on gangsterism and racketeer-
ing is proclaimed as part of the pol
icy of the Roosevelt administration.
Business must be freed of the racke-
teer, say the prophets of the New
Deal" For weeks on end we have
heard this refrain But the rackets
remain as powerful as ever and no
attempt is made to eliminate them
because they are an integral part of
decay.
But behind this pretended war on
the whole system Of capitalism in
racketeers Is further assault upon
the toiling masses in pursuit of beat
ing down to still lower levels our
standards Of life.
Mr.. McGrady On the Job
What form this new attack, coin
Gliding with the introduction of the
New DEAL is taking, is indicated by
the activities of Mr.. Edward P. Nc
Grady, former legislative agent of
the American Federation of Labor,
and now assistant to Miss Frances
Perkins, the Secretary of Labor in
Roosevelt's cabinet. McGrady an
nounces that he will lead the attack
on racketeering in the labor move
ment. That is the only concrete
statement on the great moral cam
paign" to come from any member Of
the Roosevelt administration. If Nc
Grady were really to attack the
racketeers in the labor movement he
would have to open fire on his life
long associates at the head of the
A. F. Of L. But he doesn't intend to
attack these people. His aim Is di-
rected at those who have always
fought against racketeering in the
labor movement, namely, the Red
unions and the militant oppositions
inside the A. F. Of L.
The Origin Of Labor" Racketeering
With the building up of big trusts
at the close Of the last century and
their rapid growth and the revolt of
labor against their tyranny the en-
ployers, in addition to the regular
police forces, began to recruit pro-
fessional strike-breakers. Special
private detective agencies, such as
Pinkertons, Baldwin, Burns,
Sherman, ETC., went into the business
OF supplying private armies of thugs,
and specially selected armed thugs as
scabs. 1t was TO combat these ele-
n1ents that there fret baOan IN do
velop in the American labor move
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
N.A.A.C.P. TRIES
TO DODGE BLAME
IN PETERSON CASE
Protests Continue to
Condemn Betrayal of
Negro Veteran

BIRMINGHAM, Ala, July ga
statement repudiating the mass de-
fense Of Willie Peterson, framed Ne
gro veteran, issued by Walter S.
Smith, National Association for the
Advancement of Colored Peoples at
torney, in Petersons name has ar
oused such fury of mass protest
against the NAA.C.P. leadership
that the Association is seeking to
dissociate itself from the case.
Statements issued in regard to the
case are now issued from a defense
committee or from the lawyers, and
the N.A.A.CP. is not mentioned in
them. Previously, the N.AA.C.P. had
boasted both locally and nationally
of its defense of the Peterson case.
A number of local Negro printers,
infuriated by the NAA.C.P. betray-
al, and seeing in the LID. the only
hope for saving Peterson, have Of
fered to print any LID. leaflets on
the case free of charge.
Meanwhile, it was revealed that
John w. Altman, who with Smith, is
engaged by the N.A.A.C.P. to "de-
fend' Peterson, is one of the Bir-
mingham landlords particularly vi
cious in he eviction of Negro tenants.
A copy OF an eviction notice sin
favor of John w. Altman" signed by
Sheriff Hawkins, and served on
John Bell, Negro worker, of 1888
18th ST., North, Birmingham, has
been turned over to the LID. by
the recipient.
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Thousands More Use City
Clinics AS Poverty Grows
irth Clinics Handled 5,0O0So Far This Year;
Economy" Closes Food Handlers Clinics

tendance at our baby health stations
has already exceeded 345,o00."
During the three years 1e27-2o the
tuberculosis clinics handled over S.
900 patients, in 1882 attendance rose
to over $4,000. The first six months
of this year saw 81 900 use the facili-
ties.
The venereal disease clinics han
died $4,000 patients, an increase of
$4,000 patients over the 1927-2e level.
The first six months of 1883 $4,000
men and women used the clinics.
AS an economy" measure, the
Food Handlers clinics were for the
most part discontinued, turning the
work over to private physicians.
In summarizing, DR.. wynne reports,
Altogether the clinics and stations
mentioned dealt with an attendance
of $4,000 In 1927-2s and face a load
of 1,06l 900 during 1888 an in
crease in the load of over A per cent"
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
IF McGrady Were Really Attack the Labor
Movement He would Have to Open Fire His Lifelong
Associates at the Head of the A. F. of L.

ment the practice of using specially
selected individuals to defeat these
private armies.
The bureaucracy seized upon this
opportunity to substitute the action of
individuals or groups of individuals
for collective struggle. These off,
cials, no less than the employers,
feared the initiative of the member
ship in labor struggles. Hence they
did everything to stifle it and the
use of professional gangsters was one
of their methods. Those who OBJ
jected to such procedure and urged
mass action instead, were intimidated
b y the officials and the gangsters
they hired. The whole policy even
tually came to be aimed at reducing
the membership to a condition where
they did not rely upon their OWN.
power but upon the intrigues Of their
paid officials.
Rich Source of Graft
In the present anti-racketeering
campaign the known record Of the
origin Of gangsterism is distorted to
prove that it sprang from organized
labor when, as matter of fact, it
was the traitors to organized labor,
the bureaucrats, who adopted tried
and approved methods of capitalist
gangsterism, first against scabs, and
finally against their own member
ship even in protection of scabs. 1t
is a known fact that gangsters work
hand in hand with the police and
political machines. The use of gang
sters required also pay for police pro-
lection Of the gangsters. This proved
rich source Of graft for union Off
cials besides furnishing them a direct
link with the police, the courts, the
jailers. In short, they became part
Of the corrupt political machines-in
New York the Tammany machine, in
Philadelphia the Ware machine, in
Pittsburgh the Mellon machine, etc.
The graft for the union officials con-
sisted In the fact that they handled
huge sums Of money collected from
their members under the pretense of
paying it to gangsters and police Of
ficials. Sometimes they paid the 10
cal gang leader to take care" OF
the local police, to "fix' judges, and
Tor other expenses incidental 10
racketeering. In such transactions
The daily worker., 1933-07-25
Protest Frees Four
Held in Eviction

CLEVELAND, O.-Four workers ar
rested here while attempting to re-
place the furniture in the home Of
an evicted worker were released with
in two hours, without charges, when
the International Labor Defense or
ganized protest telephone calls and
sent committee to Chief OF Police
Matowitz demanding their release.
The protest against the eviction, in
which 1000 workers participated, re-
suited from the activities Of the
Small Home and Land Owners Fed
GRAFTON. The International Labor
Defense here has pledged its support
In all their struggles.