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Evening star., 1933-08-06
MILK MARKETING
AGREEMENT SEEKS
NO PRICE CHANGE
Dairy Spokesman Denies |
Cent More Per Pint or
Cream Cut Planned.
NOTHING YET DECIDED
ON ANY ONE PHASE
Friday Meeting May Be Followed
by Another This Week, Says
Interests Lawyer.

Reports that local dairy representa-
tives are considering an agreement
under which the price Of milk sold
here by the pint would be increased l
cent while cream prices would be re-
duced, were denied last night by a
dairy spokesman, who declared the
question OF prices as yet had not been
reached in discussions.
The proposed marketing agreement.
planned to be submitted to the De-
partment of Agriculture for approval,
would leave the retail price CT milk
per quart at the present level of 10
cents, according to reports in certain
quarters.
Roger J. Whiteford. attorney for the
local interests of the National Dairy
Products Corporation, last night con-
flrmed the statement that representatives
of the dairies engaged in milk distribu-
ton in and near Washington met n
conference Friday to duscuss a pro-
posed marketing agreement.
Prices Not Taken Up.
He declared there was 10 considera-
ton at that meeting of the question
of prices to be included in the agree
ment. Such questions, it was pointed
out. would have to be taken up later,
if the local distributors decided upon a
proposed agreement under the new farm
relief act, which would be submitted TO
the Agricultural Adjustment Admins
tration.
The dairy spokesmen said the Admin
istration program contemplated such>ar-
rangementS in its move to better eco
nomic conditions. and that adoption of
milk agreements appeared to be in line
with the general movement He pointed
cut that Chicago, Baltimore. Pittsburgh
and other cities have drafted such
codes.
Whiteford said it wGs likely the dairy
interests here would meet in confer
ence again this week to continue dis
cussions. He said there were numerous
matter 10 be decided before the ques-
tons Of retail prices were considered.
No Phase Decided On.
He said no decision had peen reached
on any phase at the Friday conference.
The matter Of milk marketing
agreement for this area arose July %
when representatives of the Maryland
Virginia Milk Producers Association
asked Chairman King of the Senate
District Committee. which is directing
an investigation INTO milk prices here, If
proposed agreement.
Senator King told the group the in
quiry would be carried through regard
less OF any steps that might be taken
toward preparation of a marketing
agreement or any change in price
schedules.
John McGill, secretary-treasurer of
the producers body. at that time said
he expected conferences would be ar
ranged between producers and dis
tributors to consider terms of tenta-
tive agreement. but that there was no
intention OF submitting an agreement
to the Department of Agriculture until
after the Senate milk hearings were
completed.
The conference of dairy representa-
tives Friday. it Is said, was for con-
sideration of matters from the dis
tributors' viewpoint. and that If the
plan were carried forward any final
plan would be subject to conferences
between distributors and producers
both.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
D. c. GIRL, IS, SHOT;
SLIGHTLY WOUNDED
Helen 0'Brien Victim of Rifle
Said to Be Accidentally
Fired by Youth.

Thirteen-year-old Helen O'Brien,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. william P.
O'Brien, 1000 Massachusetts avenue
northeast, was wounded yesterday by
.22-caliber bullet said to have been
discharged accidentally while she was
at her fathers Summer residence on
Breton Bay, about miles south of
Leonardtown, Md
The bullet was. fired from a rifle in
the hands of youth, who was re-
ported by the st. Mary's Hospital in
Leonardtown, to be the girls brother,
but this was denied here by her father,
who said all her brothers were in
Washington. The girls mother de-
scribed the youth simply as Jack.
After treatment at the ST. Mary's
Hospital for wound under the right
eye and below the left jaw, where the
bullet entered and emerged. the girl
was permitted to return to Washington
DR.. S. H. Camalier, attending ply
Sician. said her condition was not
serious.
The girl was shot as she emerged
from under a boat landing, it was said
The youth holding the gun was firing
across the water
Evening star., 1933-08-06

GERS and men of the division headquar-
ters and staff will be occupied with
theoretical engagement centering around
Gettysburg. Hanover and York, Pa.
The field problem has been prepared
by Maj. L. Med. Sylvester, senior Regu-
lar Army instructor, who has worked
out the smallest details by reconnais-
sance trips over the sceneof operations.
The problem is based on the second
sance trips over the scene Of operations.
at scissors, Chateau-Thierry and
Rheims and its solution probably will
be the first time National Guard !di-
vision has attempted to act in the ca
pacity of an Army corps. Three theo-
retical division and auxiliary troops WILL
be used in the defense and attack.
Mai. Sylvester has prepared map
drawn to scale, showing every detail OF
troop movement and the units taking
part in the engagement.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
LAST MAN GIVES UP
IN K STREET SHOOTING
Henry Cieri Voluntarily Goes to
Police Headquarters-Charged
With Assault.

Henry Cieri, 20, sought by police
since the K street gun battle in which
Lewis Tapponnier and John Mitchell
were wounded about two weeks ago,
surrendered at headquarters late yes
terday.
Accompanied by his attorney. Joseph
C. Turco, Cieri gave himself up to De-
tective Sergt. Clyde Strange, who ques-
toned him regarding the shooting.
According to the detective, Cieri ad-
mitted participating in gang fight in
which Tapponnier and Mitchell also
were involved few weeks before the
shooting. On the night of the shoot
ing, which occurred at Nineteenth and
K streets, he and several other men de-
liberately set out to pick fight" he
said. He denied having participated in
the actual shooting, insisting he did not
have q gun.
Tapponnier, who lives at 473 H
street. and Mitchell, whose home is at
1885 K street, are In Gallinger Hos
pital recovering from wounds received
in the battle Seven other men have
been under arrest since shortly after
the shooting All. including Cieri, have
been charged with assault with dan
gerous weapon. Following his sur
render i, cieri was released on $1,000
Evening star., 1933-08-06

TN cheating. as in many other fields
of endeavor, the simplest method
is always the most effective. At
L lease this is true in the fields of
cheating by short measures and
short weights. in the experience OF
George M Roberts, superintendent OF
weights and measures.
The most ingenious cheating device
to come to his attention in recent years,
he said, in recounting the ways in
which the short weight or measure
cheaters work, consisted of a small
leather washer. This was placed over
the air vent in the hose on a gasoline
pump.
When test purchases were made they
revealed a short measure although the
pump was mechanically perfect. 1t
took inspectors quite while to figure
out the washer The secret is this:
When the correctly measured gaso-
line drains cut Of the glass bowl OF
the filling station pump into the car
OF the waiting motorist, some OF II
will stay in the hose unless small
valve is left open to allow the intro
duction of air. Closing off this valve
by means of the washer set up suction
enough to hold back hoseful OF gas
every time the pump was worked. 1t
was quite a profitable operation, until
the operators had to pay $500 in fines.
Economy in Correctness.
As general proposition, Mr.. Rob-
erts said. operators prefer to have their
weighing and measuring appliances
correct. to save the expense Of having
them adjusted or buying new ones II
they are condemned. Cheating Is us
ually done by means of using the in
strlunents wrongly. and imposing on
simple-minded customers.
Thus in selling meat, one Of the most
prolific sources of cheating, the prac-
tice is often to throw the meat on the
scale and read the weight before the
beam has time TO settle. Another Is to
quote prices in odd fractions OF cents,
and to announce the price quickly sew
eral cents in advance OF that shown on
the computing scale. In these cases the
customers. if they chose. could head off
the cheating. by simply observing cor
Evening star., 1933-08-06
LOCAL GUARDSMEN
co TO CAMP TODAY
600 to Entrain for Camp
Ritchie-121st Engineers
Principal Contingent.

District National Guardsmen, 900
strong, will entrain this morning for
their Summer encampment at Cascade,
Md, where they will undergo two weeks
of intensive training.
For several weeks the Guard has
been preparing for its sojourn at Camp
Albert g. Ritchie, putting its equipment
in flrst-class shape and grounding the
men in what they will need to know in
the field work at the encampment
The principal contingent is the 121st
Engineers, with $50 officers and enlisted
men, under command of Col. John w.
Oehmann. who. in civil life, is the Dis
trict building inspector.
Stephan in Command.
With Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan, COM
manding the 29th Division. will go his
staff. drawn from the District, Penn
sylvania, Maryland and Virginia. Col.
John A. Cutchins of Richmond is his
chief of staff Fifty men of the 29th
Military Police Company and go Of
Company A. 372d Infantry, Also will
leave for the camp. The Infantry
CONF any is colored and is commanded
Tie Guardsmen will board a Penn
Sylvania Railroad train at 9:05 am. at
the theatrical siding in Union Station.
From Baltimore the train will go over
the tracks of the Western Maryland
Ran Dad to Cascade, a new route for
the citizen soldiers.
Go mp Ritchie will be ready for them
wher they arrive. shortly after noon.
Maj. William T. Roy. in command of
the special troops of division head
quarters. has been at the camp for sew
eral days making preparations.
Three brigadier generals and their
brigade headquarters troops will be at
the camp with the District soldiers.
They are Brig. Gen. Milton A. Reckord,
commanding general of the Maryland
National Guard; Brig. Gen. S. Gardner
Waller. adjutant general of the Vir-
einia National Guard. and Brig. Gen.
James c. McLanahan, commanding the
54th Field Artillery.
Norfolk Company at Camp.
The 29th Signal Company of Norfolk
Va, under command of Capt. Louis S.
Philhower. also will be with the Dis
trict contingent.
While the Engineers are undergoing
a strenuous training program, the offi-
Evening star., 1933-08-06

rectly what is before their own eyes.
but they seldom do SO. The result of
these practices is short-weight selling,
even with perfect scales. In one re-
cent case a grocer was fined $500 and
given in addition suspended 9O-day
iail sentence for these very practices.
Most of the scales and other devices
confiscated and there is half room
full of them at the weights and meas
ureS Office, are suffering from old age.
1t is very unusual 20 have a scale de-
libertely fixed so as to measure wrong.
When a scale Is inaccurate, and in the
opinion of the weights and measures
inspectors is beyond repair, then 1t is
confiscated Otherwise it is condemned
pending repairs.
Other Devices Tested.
Many measuring devices, other than
scales, come in for attention from the
department. One thing that means a
lot of work is the inspection of milk
bottles. A teaspoon of milk short in
each quart bottle would cost milk con-
sumers thousands of dollars a year. So
all milk dealers are required to report
receipts of bottles. and sample bottles
are tested by inspectors. If the bottles
are short they are broken. Several car
loads of bottles were destroyed by in
spectors when the milk bottle inspec-
tion was first started, but more recently
most of the bottles shipped into Wash
ington have been correct in measure
In no case Mr.. Roberts said, has he
encountered milk bottles which would
hold appreciably more than they are
supposed to.
Last year. in addition to inspecting
1,448,629 milk bottles. the department
inspectors also checked 10,022 spring
scales, 6,970 computing scales, 1922
counter scales and 1889 gasoline pumps
Where there are only trifing defects,
a warning from the inspector is usually
enough to bring about a correction. In
serious cases. however, the offender is
taken to Police Court, and he has small
chance of escaping. Last fiscal year
there were 80 cases taken to court
Every case resulted in a conviction
The department has only lost three
cases in the last five years.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
SERIOUSLY HURT
WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO

Mrs. Mary Gaskins. 78. of 9o9 Crit
tenden street. was seriously injured late
Yesterday when struck by an automobile
at Georgia avenue and QuackenboS
street as she walked from the curb to
hail a street car. She was treated at
Garfield Hospital for fractures OF the
arm and leg and cuts.
John Kennedy, 81, of the 1900 block
of L street, said by police to have been
driving the automobile, was arrested
on a charge Of reckless driving
Daniel Frye. Al, colored, Knox sta
ton, Va, received a serious head In
jury yesterday when knocked down by
an automobile in the 1900 block Of
Wisconsin avenue He was treated at
Georgetown Hospital. Solomon Gary.
AZ, colored. McClellantown. Pa, driver
of the automobile, was charged with
reckless driving.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
RENOWNED HOME
TO BE DISPLAYED
Full-Time Exhibition Of Model
House Planned This Week by
Trade Board Committee.

The Board Of Trades Renovize Cam
paigr Committee expects to put on full
time display this week the little mod
ernized house at Fourteenth street and
Pennsylvania avenue, now rapidly ap-
preaching completion as a central DEM
onstration of the campaign.
Only the finishing touches Of interior
decoration. IN charge of Miss Genevieve
Hendricks. and the furnishing of the
dwelling remain to be done before it
Is opened for public exhibition.
Preparations are being made under
the direction of Arthur B. Heaton gen.
eral campaign chairman. and E j.
Murphy vice chairman, for a formal
opening ceremony at which District
government officials and leading citi-
Zens will be guests.
While the method of disposing of the
structure has not been determined. it
has been so constructed that it will be
possible to remove it in two sections.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
Cipl War Vet, ga, Just Barely
Persuaded Against Flying Here
Expense, Not Fear, Factor
in Elderly Mans Trip
From, Coast.
Sees No Use Wasting
Nine Days Crossing
Continent.

When Henry ]. Lyons. 94-year-old
Civil War veteran. decided to give up
his home N Los Angeles and come to
live with his daughter. Mrs. H. D. Chap
man, 1882 Twenty-nirth street, Mount
Rainier, Nd. he was all for making the
3,000-mile trip by airplane.
Il had all could do to talk him out
Of it." says his daughter He hates
to ride on trains and he thinks auto
mobiles aIe too SLOW. He didn't see any
sense in wasting nine days on trip
that could be made in 18 hours by air
I had to do lot of arguing to con-
vince him flying was too dangerous for
a man of his years"
The air-minded nonagenarian's ex-
planation of why he abandoned the pro-
posed flight is somewhat different
however.
The only thing that stopped me-"
he says. was the fact that the trip
would have cost $3.50 each-s450 for
my daughter. my grandson and me.
Making the trip by automobile was
much cheaper"
Not Afraid of Planes.
The danger, he makes it plain. had
nothing to do with 1t. After all. a man
who has lain on a battlefield for eight
days after one of his legs has been
shot of below the knee. and who has
suffered the indescribable anguish of
having the limb amputated three times
without an anesthetic. isn't likely to
be afraid of an airplane-even though
he hasn't been up in one before
Mr.. Lyons was wounded in skirmish
at Peachtree Greek. near Atlanta, dur
ing Sherman's historic march through
uo ha ~, f,-oy
the very beginning. starting as drum
mer boy and rising to the rank of first
sergeant. and had fought in many OF
the most important battles.
After he was wounded. the doctors
tried to save as much of his leg as pos
sible by taking off little bit at time.
but the series OF amputations left onty
a few inches of the limb. Since then
he has had an artificial leg and he says
the loss OF his limb had proved only
slight handicap.
I've always been able to get around
all right, with the aid OF cane" he
says.
Now Stands Erect.
Even now. he stands and walks as
erect as man many years younger.
His health is perfect-he hasn't been
W d uOCtOF SuiCe ne uUCeTWeIlL al
operation in Garfield Hospital Is years
ago-and he can eat whatever he likes,
without thought as to what the con-
sequences may be. There are few
wrinkles in his face and his eyesight is
so good that he uses glasses only when
he reads.
Mr.. Lyons, a native of New York. is
retired Government employe, having
worked in both the Agriculture Depart
ment and the Pension Office. He was
retired at the age of 80 and about four
years later moved to Los Angeles,
where his son. H. Judson Lyons, is
manager of a chain store
His wife died in June, 1882. however.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
TO CLOSE DOOR
TO QUALIFY FOR BEER PERMIT

One of the twin front doors Of
delicatessen will be closed permanently
in move by the proprietor to regain
license to dispense beer. the District
Beverage Permits Board was informed
yesterday.
The store Is that operated by Charles
Vlahos at the southeast corner OF
Mount Pleasant street and Park road,
where the beverage has been sold under
d temporary permit for some time.
Last week. however, this was revoked
during consideration of an annual
license. when a check-up showed one
Of the doors Of the main entrance was
Evening star., 1933-08-06

and since then. he says, he has been
kind of restless" She was 80 and
they had lived together 81 years. "She
was the best wife in the world" he
says.
Induced Him to Come East.
Mrs Chapman, whose husband is an
employe of the Veterans Bureau, went
to Los Angeles about two weeks before
her mother died After the funeral.
she stayed on with her father, finally
inducing him to give up his home and
live with her Her son Robert drove
the 5000 miles from Los Angeles to
Mount Rainier.
L enjoyed the trip all right" says
Mr.. Lyons, but they seemed to think I
couldn't stand much, because they in
sisted on stopping long before it got
dark. I didn't see any reason Why we
couldn't keep right on going. at least
until it was time to go to bed"
The party reached Mount Rainier on
July IS, and. since then Mr.. Lyons
hasn't been doing anything much ex-
cept Just sitting around" He's seen
the Washington base ball team in ac-
tion twice, however, and he says. he's
going to see them as many times as he
can before the season is over
BE careful what you write about
me-" he told the reporter MY names
never been in the paper before"
Evening star., 1933-08-06
BOY SENT TO HOSPITAL,
HIT-AND-RUN VICTIM
Blue Seds. Traced to Mechanics
Vile Owner After Striking
Robert Shepherd.

Robert Shepherd. H. of Ala Tenth
street northeast, was injured last night
when struck by hit-and-run automo-
bile at Ninth and D streets northeast
He was taken to Casualty Hospital
where physicians said he was suffering
from severe injuries and possible rib
fractures.
The hit-and-run car a blue sedan
was listed to man living in Me-
chanfcsville Md.
Police said the machine was driven
by heavy-set white man wearing eye
glasses.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
POLICEMEN IN BATHING SUITS
RAID SPEAKEASY ON POTOMAC

Led by two officers in bathing suits,
the police liquor squad late yesterday
raided a house boat anchored in the
Potomac River near Chain Bridge, and
arrested two men on charges OF sale
and possession of liquor.
The men arrested identified them
selves as Walter L. Hilleary, Fort Myer
Heights, Va, and Charles r. Parnell,
who said he lived on the boat.
The boat, according to Lieut.. George
Little, chief of the squad, had been un-
der surveillance some time.
A few days ago, he said, two members
of the squad donned bathing suits and
padded to the boat, which was moored
about so feet of the Virginia shore. The
boat, he explained, had been catering to
canoeists and swimmers all Summer, do
Evening star., 1933-08-06

ing particular heavy week end
business.
After making a purchase. the officers
obtained q warrant and the raid was
planned. They padded to the boat
yesterday, made another buy, then sat
around and waited for the other mem
bers of the squad to arrive. The raid
was made by Detectives George Deyoe
and william McEwen. assisted by j. E.
Beckett, a Federal agent They made
the trip to the alleged floating spsakeasy
in a harbor police launch.
After arresting Hilleary and Parnell
and seizing a dozen quarts Of alleged
whisky, the officers towed the boat to
the harbor precinct. The two men were
locked up at the seventh precinct and
bond was set at $1,000 each.
Evening star., 1933-08-06

lust within 200 feet of the Sacred
Heart Parochial School on Park road.
Under District regulations stores
within 200 feet of a school may not be
licensed
The proprietor has informed the
Beverage Board that he finds that the
second of the two doors at the store
entrance is just a bit more than 200
feet from the school. The District sur
veyor's Office, it is said, was called upon
to take the mea asurements.
After the door nearest the school has
been sealed up the Beverage Board ex-
poets to receive a new application 1or
an annual license.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
COLORED MAN STABBED
Arrest Follows Fight and Removal
of Victim to Hospital.

Henry Cobb. %. colorea, 2000 block
of Sheridan road southeast, received
two serious stab wounds in the chest
late last night in fight at Sheridan
and Pomeroy roads southeast. At Cas-
ualty Hospital it was said he might not
recover.
Police later arrested James w. Rich
ards, colored. 2300 block of Pomeroy
road southeast. for investigation in con-
nection with the stabbing.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
Chest Clinics to Be Held.

ROCKVILLE, Md, August (Spe-
ciaD Under auspices of the Maryland
tuberculosis Association, chest clinics
will be held at the Damascus High
School on August Is and at the Offices
of the County Health Department,
Rockville, August Is, each beginning at
10 o'clock am. DR.. Leo Schneider of
Baltimore will be in charge.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
TRAFFIC LIGHTS OFF

Zone Signals Will Go
On at 10 O'Clock Today.
Traffic lights in the downtown section
will not be turned on until 10 am. on
Sundays, beginning today, Inspector B.
A. Lamb, in charge of the Traffic Bu-
reau, announced last night. In the
past, traffic lights in zone /, comprising
the downtown area, have been turned
on at Z am. on Sundays as'iwell as
on week days.
The zone affected is bounded by
Pennsylvania avenue, Fifteenth street,
K street and Seventh street.
Evening star., 1933-08-06
CLUBBED BY POLICEMAN
Nan Treated at Hospital After Al
legged Attack on Officer

Robert Carl, Sc. first block of street.
was treated at Emergency Hospital last
night for head bruises said to have been
inflicted by Policeman C A. Williams
after Carl is allegeI 70 have grabbed
the policeman's baton and struck him
with 1t.
Williams reported that after being
struck he succeeded in getting the
baton from Carl and In turn struck
him with it. Carr was booked on .
charge of drunkenness.
Imperial Valley press., 1933-01-09

west and one car peas west on jan
uary 7; 81 cars lettuce east, two
west, three cars carrots east and
one car grapefruit east on jan
uary g.
EUCALYPTUS Wood-All lengths. Ed
Royce, phone 1913. m,w,f-tf
To San Quentin Undersheriff
Rodney Clarke and Dick Owens
left here yesterday morning to
transport j. A. Porras Rivers to
San Quentin prison To serve a
term for burglary.
DR.. r. C. Clemons, dentist. Pro-
fessional building. Phone 215.
5tf m W +
In Police Court-Judge Lee Nuff-
er of the Ell Centro police court
this morning sentenced Frank
Clements, AT, to 80 days in the
county Jail for petty theft of
vacuum tank from an automo-
bile.
Birth Announcement = Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Tyler jr., are rejoicing
in the birth of 10 pound 612 ounce
son, w. H. Tyler, III, born yester-
day at La Solana hospital. Both
the baby and his mother are do
ing nicely.
Marriage License A marriage
license was issued at the county
clerks office today to Doris Bess,
81, and Anna May Kilgore, 20, Ne
groes.