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Evening star., 1933-04-06
MONAGHAN ARREST
BRINGS APOLOGIES
Police Regret Taking Congress
Member to Station for Sup.
posed Violation.

Motor Cycle Policeman Cleota Lang
don of the Traffic Bureau today apol-
ogized to Representative Monaghan OF
Montana for arresting him Tuesday and
forcing him to ride to the first precinct
station in a patrol wagon.
Mr.. Monaghan said that Police Supt.
Brown also had apologized to him, and
Inspector Lamb of the Traffic Bureau
had given him assurance that the OFF,
Ger would be denoted from mounted
duty and assigned to foot patrol duty
In a precinct. Mr.. Monaghan. however,
said he did not recommend the officers S
demotion.
Mr.. Monaghan was arrested at Four
teenth and H streets after Langdon
had trailed him for several blocks in
an effort to make him pull to the curb
and stop. The policeman said he
thought Monaghan was fleeing from an
accident because Of dent on the
fender of his car.
The assistance Of police reserves was
required before Monaghan was put in
the patrol wagon. At the station house
he was freed when his identity was
established. At the time of the arrest
Mr.. Monaghan's sister and a friend
were with him.
Evening star., 1933-04-06

T UNDREDS of destitute residents
of the District of Columbia are
being forced into a shabby
l. i compromise with starvation be-
cause of what welfare leaders
describe as totally inadequate release
OF public funds to tide private charity
over the depression.
An alarming gap continues to widen
in the District between the funds avail
able for family welfare work and the
demand for this type of assistance.
Private charity is doing its utmost,
officials say. but cannot meet the
demand on fast-dwindling reserves,
even with the help Of the District
emergency relief.
Army Of Outcasts.
Social workers point out the result
is an overflow from all the relief
agencies, growing army of outcasts
cept such substitutes for a livelihood
There are worthy men, women and
children In these ranks-adults who
ask nothing better than chance to
work tor a living, no matter how
meager the wage, and children who
need proper care and schooling If they
are not to become the permanent
charges of society
An already bad situation became
acute last week, according to Leroy
Halbert supervisor of District Emer-
gency Relief. when that organization
was obliged in the name Of economy to
turn away all new applicants, further
limit the list of eligibles and cut the
meager made" work hours doled out
to heads Of needy families by some
Is per cent.
May Close Agencies.
The consequent burden on private
family welfare relief agencies threat
ems to close them entirely by August 1,
in the opinion of E. c. Graham, presi-
dent of the Community Chest, unless
additional sums are made available to
the public agency
All this despite the fact Labor De-
partment statistics show more money
being spent in the District for private,
in relation to public, relief than in any
other large American city. Fully SO
per cent of all relief work in the 100
largest cities in the country is coming
from public appropriations.
On the other hand, tax funds here
In 1882 paid only 324 per cent of the
relief total, while the bulk of the money.
67:6 per cent, was put up by voluntary
subscription.
These figures were contained in a
report issued by the local Community
Chest last month, and were taken from
Department of Labor statistics.
The proportion Of public funds for
Evening star., 1933-04-06
Zoo Reptiles Vie
For Egggg-Laying gg
Records Last Night
Surinam Toad, King
Snake and Iguana Have
Big Carnival.

The reptiles at the Zoo went on an
egg-laying carnival last night.
The Surinam toad, wierdest Of all egg
laying reptiles, deposited several hun
dred some time during the night and
when reptile house attendants arrived
this morning her hack was literally COW
cred with them. It Is the first time on
record that one of these creatures has
laid eggs in captivity.
After the female laid the eggs the
male picked them up, one by one, and
showed them into tiny pockets on her
back where, II all goes well, they will
hatch. Within few weeks the female
may be seen with newly-hatched toads
projecting all over her skin.
After an egg Is placed in one of
these pouches by the father the skin
grows around it and it finally is COW
cred with a horny lid, so that the
Matching eggs are perfectly protected.
The young toad, born in perfect condi-
tfon, must break through this horny lid
just as chicken bursts through an egg
shell.
Some time during the night one Of
the king snakes and one of the iguanas
also laid eggs, which DR.. William M.
Mann, Zoo director, hopes they will be
able to hatch.
Evening star., 1933-04-06

active work, a woman at moderately
active work." boy of 13, q girl of
10 and a boy of years.
This makes no allowance for car
fare to take the wage Garner to and
from work, or for rent, fuel, medical
supplies or any necessity except food,
Mr.. Halbert said.
Thus economy in public relief, So
cial workers point out, reduces to this
extremity the families already ur.Ger
care, excluding all others entirely. At
least 30 per cent of those helped never
have applied for public assistance be-
fore.
Relief workers say newcomers to the
agency in increasing numbers are white
collar men, trained men, educated ,men.
They have held out to the last, hoping
to make go of it independent Of pub
lie aid, and In final extremity ask the
privilege of working for living, rather
than receiving outright charity.
The rolls Of the agency, Mr.. Halbert
said, have been closed to single men or
those men who have no dependents,
for some time. They must fare as best
they can.
Family welfare groups supported from
private funds, according to Walter S.
Uford, general secretary Of the Asso-
ciated Charities, cannot accept respon-
sibility for this overflow. The larger
Of these groups already has spent half
Of its annual allowance under the
Community Chest, caring for the needy
during January, February and March.
And the end Is not yet in sight.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
DRIVER ABSOLVED
IN BOYS KILLING
Striking of School Patrolman by
Truck Is Declared
Accidental.

Ellis K. McFadden, colored, As, was
absolved of blame by a coroner'S jury
today in the death Of Robert Edward
Daniels, IL, of 311 N street southwest,
who was killed yesterday when crushed
beneath McFadden's truck at the cor
ner Of -and-a-Half and M streets
southwest.
The jury, which returned verdict
Of accidental death, heard testimony of
panying Robert back to school after
lunch. They said group of four boys
had started to cross M street but, see
ing the truck, two of them turned to
run back. Young Daniels was one Of
the two He ran into the path of the
heavy vehicle loaded with brick.
The left front wheel of the truck
passed over his head. The two boys
who testified were John Lohman, 10,
fourth grade pupil at the S. j.
anS Wer Gne H isss Four and
Half street. also a pupil at the
school. Lohman lives at 1346 -Four
and Half street.
McFadden testified in his own behalf
and said he attempted to stop the truck
when he saw he might strike one Of
the boys. He is assistant pastor of
Lomax M. E. Zion Church, in Arlington
County
Traffic Bureau officials found the
brakes on the truck to be in good
condition, it was testified. Robert was
in the sixth grade and was a member
of the schoolboy patrol of Bowen School.
He had his patrolman badge and belt
in his hand when killed
The body was identified at the
morgue scme time after the accident
by the boys father, Harvey Daniels.
Funeral services for the boy will
be held at $50 am tomorrow at his
home, followed by mass at st. Dominic S
Church at o'clock Burial will be in
Mount Olivet Cemetery.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
"WHITE SLAVE" CHARGES
ARE FILED AGAINST TWO
Pair Held in Connection With AL
legged Indecent Show Are
Facing Count.

After a two-week investigation by
Justice Department agents, warrants
were isued today for Benjamin N. Liv-
fngston and Maurice Musholtz, of Balti-
more, on white slave" charges in con-
nection with an alleged indecent show
In hall at Tenth and K streets.
The men were arrested and were to
appear before United States Com
missioner Needham G. Turnage this
afternoon.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
issued the warrants. He said the two
men brought six girls here from Balti-
more to appear In the show which was
raided by police. He will ask that
they be held under $1,000 bond each
at the commissioners hearing, Mr..
Rover said.
The girls said to have taken part
In the show are being held as Govern
ment witnesses under $4,000 bond each.
They are Mildred Carson, Esther Els
berg. Evelyn Taylor. Marjorie Campbell,
Jane Rogers and Arden Stewart.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
CATHEDRAL AVENUE HOME
LOOTED OF $1,000 GOODS
Night Manager of Hotel Held Up
and Robbed of $76 in Cash.
Tree Marker Stolen.

Approximately $1,000 worth Of valu-
ables were taken early today by burg
lars who entered the home OF Earl
Compton. 1927 Cathedral avenue. and
cut the telephone wires to prevent any
one giving the alarm. A lone bandit
held up Anthony D. Bolts, night man
ager of the Plaza Hotel, and robbed the
cashe register of $76 early this morning.
The articles taken from the Comp
ton home included a $400 fur coat, a
top coat. quantity of silverware and
wrist watch. Entrance to the residence
was gained through rear window.
The bandit who robbed the Plaza
Hotel asked the night manager for 9
mans name, and when Bolts turned
to look 1t up covered him with pistol.
He then forced Bolts to 60 behind a
partition. Bolts gave police de-
scription of the man.
Police today were seeking one or
more persons who broke of and carried
away a bronze Bicentennial marker
from q tree box beside the Library Of
Congress. placed there by the Bicenten-
NAL Chapter of the American War
Mothers. The marker bore the in
scription, In Honor Of George Wash
ington."
Evening star., 1933-04-06
Committee PLANNING
SURVEY OF D. C. AGED
Group Sponsoring Old Age Security
Bill for District Will
Conduct Study.

A survey Of the aged persons OF WASH
ington is to be undertaken by the Citi-
zens' Committee on Old Age Security.
which is sponsoring an old age security
bill for the District.
The survey will be conducted by four
graduate students of the National Cath
olic School Of Social Service, of which
Father Francis j. Haas Is director. Miss
Louise MCGUIRE, associate director of
the school, will be in direct charge. The
four students who will conduct the sur
vey are Ruth Remon, Elizabeth Lavenn,
Rose Marie Kelly and Virginia Foley.
Four sections Of the city will be Sc
lected for the survey, representing, re-
spectively, good white and colored Sec
tions and poor white and colored quar-
ters. The questions attempted to be
answered in the survey are:
Who are the aged people In the Dis
trict? How many Of them are INDECENT?
How did they get to be INDECENT? How
long have they lived In the District?
Are they the responsibility Of the Dis
trict?
The census of 1890 tells the age distri-
button Of the city's population, but
without any reference to their occupa-
tions and income levels.
The bill sponsored by the committee
proposes pensions for persons in need
who are SO years of age or more, who
are citizens Of the United States, and
who have resided In the District for the
last 10 years.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
NAVY YARD TO co
ON 5zz-DAY WEEK
Lengthening of Work Time
Will Be Effective From
April 2.

The 3,700 civilian workmen at the
Washington Navy Yard, in common
with the 5000 throughout the Nation,
will be placed on 512-day work week,
effective Immediately.
In making this known today, the
Navy Department released a dispatch
from Secretary Swanson directing all
naval stations to begin the 5lz-day
week as of Sunday, April 2.
Accompanying this order, Navy De-
partment officials pointed out that by
working 51adays rather than the days
obtaining recently, work will be speedeu
up under the new program. This means,
they said, reduced force at the Ma
the placing Of men on rotative leaves
by some taking days of during week.
Policy's Effect Explained.
The effect of the new policy, officials
explained, Is to bring the navy yarc
workers into line with the employees OF
the Navy Department, who have been
on a 5l2-day week.
Navy yard workers will have half day
of on Saturday without suffering an
additional pay cut, officials asserted,
adding this group will now lose only is
per cent of six days pay.
For Saturday full days pay will be
given. Had the workers been placed on
a f1ve-day week, officials declared, this
would be tantamount to clipping their
pay envelopes approximately 80 per cent
They would lose the benefit of pay for
Saturday, all day, for which they were
paid but did not work, under the fur
Tough plan.
Five Days Work and Pay.
AS the furlough plan was abolished
by law, effective April /, under the new
economy act, civilian workers would
have been given five days pay for five
days work.
No details were available at the navy
yard here today on exactly how many
men might lose their jobs because of the
speeding up of work in a given time
Officials said they were studying the
new order, with view to making it ap-
ply equitably.
Evening star., 1933-04-06

relief has risen as high as 95 per cent
OF 100 cities reporting to the Children's s
January relief budgets, only received
less than rs per cent of their relief
funds from public sources; 80 had
from rs to 80 per cent and So had 95
per cent or more.
Yet the District Emergency Relief,
which operates on appropriated funds.
with the exception of a 100000 emerg-
ency donation last year from the Com
munity Chest, has reduced its weekly
expenditures within the last few days
from SAL 900 to $31 900 in order to re-
main in operation until the close Of the
Federal fiscal year, June 80.
Thus at least 100 new applicants must
be turned away daily, Mr.. Halbert said,
families who came to the District since
July /, 1881, are not carried on the
rolls, and made" work is handed out
on restricted basis.
Get Three Days Work.
In other words, those heads of families
who can qualify for help get only three
days of work every other week under
the new limitations, earning $3.50 for
an eight-hour day.
This represents an income for q
family head Of $4.20 a week.
The Emergency Relief's own budget
for a restricted diet for emergency
use" places the cost of food in Wash
ington at $40 a week for a typical
family, including man at moderately
Evening star., 1933-04-06
SENATE GETS PLAN
FOR 36-HOUR. WEEK
Robinson Proposes Extending 80
Hour Provision in Blacks Meas
ure for u. S. Industries.

BY the Associated Press
A. decision between a 30-hour and q
36-hour restriction faced the Senate to-
day as 1t neared final vote on meas
ure which would shorten the work week
in industry SO as to spread employ
ment.
Senator Robinson Of Arkansas, the
Democratic leader. proposed changing
the limit in the bill sponsored by Sen
ator Black, Democrat, of Alabama, from
80 to SO hours. He said he thought it
would be acceptable to President Roose-
welt.
But he stirred up opposition and
there was no indication as to which
restriction might prevail. The Black
measure would prohibit the movement
in interstate commerce of mine and
factory products on which labor was
employed more than five days week or
six hours a day.
Speaker Rainey said the House would
not consider the revolutionary proposal
unless it were made a part of the
Roosevelt program. Black, who has
discussed it with the President, said: "I
am confident the House will consider
the bill"
Evening star., 1933-04-06
200 Depositors Get Program
to Strengthen Institutions
Capital Structure.
SERIES OF MEETINGS
WILL BEGIN MONDAY
Stockholders Will Be Asked tc
o. K. Project Tonight-Controller
Of Currency Approves.

Beginning Monday night a series of
meetings of invited groups of depositors
of the Northeast Savings Bank will be
held at the bank to forward plans for
reopening the institution, following the
first of such meetings last night, when
the program was formally presented for
the first time, by George F. Hoover,
vice president and conservator.
Tonight meeting Of stockholders of
the bank will be asked to approve the
plan, which already has the approval
of the Treasury Department and the
bank directors.
Gratified at Reception.
Of6cials of the bank today expressed
qualification at the reception given the
new plan last night by the group of
about 200 depositors. There was large
response, they said, to the stock Offering
under the new plan to strengthen the
capital structure of the institution, and
a similar response is expected by the
officers to be shown at future meetings
of depositors.
Generally speaking the new program
provides for tie-tn of depositors with
the bank in the capacity of stockholders,
with consequent raising of funds to
strengthen the capital structure.
The plan calls for depositors to apply
rs per cent of their deposits in the
bank March 8, toward purchase of new
stock in the bank at the rate Of $25
share.
Under the plan, the stock would have
a par value of $40 a share, the other
SIS going to build up reserves and wipe
rorraoiofinY1 in, hn uo
of securities in the banks portfolio.
The new stock is to be sold in the
amount Of 10000 shares, thus provid-
ing total of S250,000 OF this, $780,
900 is to become new capital stock.
doubling the present capital stock Of
the bank to total of 100000. The
surplus and undivided profits item
would stand at about 100000.
Approved by Controller.
The plan now offered to depositors
Of the bank has received the approval
of the controller of the currency, it was
explained, and the bank now will push
forward to complete all the require
quirements are met the bank again will
60 before the controller for final au-
thority to reopen 100 per cent.
At the meeting last night Mr.. Hoover
gave to depositors a complete history
of the banks operations. He explained
that the only losses had been in de-
probation of the value of securities
due to the falling security prices dur
ing depression. The bank, he said, was
sound, and the new plan would
strengthen the capital structure so that
the institution could resume full and
complete banking facilities. When the
bank can reopen depends on the prog
ress OF the new plan, and final approval
of the controller.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
MEANS FACES NEW.
GRAND JURY PROBE
He and Whitaker Accused of
Trying to Get $4,000
From Mrs. Mclean.

The District grand jury will begin
an investigation Tuesday of the alleged
attempt Of CASTOR B. Means, former
Department Of Justice agent, and Nor
man T. Whitaker to obtain $35 900
from Mrs. Evalyn Walsh Mclean dur
ing negotiations for return of the Lind
bergh baby.
Means has been sentenced to is
years imprisonment upon conviction of
larcency of $104,0 from Mrs. Mclean,
wife of Edward B. Mclean, former
publisher Of the Washington Post.
Whitaker is in the District Jail await
ing trial on charge that he conspired
with Means to steal the $104,000.
The additional $4,000 is alleged to
have been sought by Means and Whit
taker to replace $4,000 in marked
money they said had been paid as
ransom to men in Chicago They are
said to have told Mrs. Mclean the
persons to whom the $4,000 was paid
were afraid to use 1t and would not
give up the Lindbergh baby until 1t
had been replaced by unmarked money.
United States Attorney Leo A. Rover
said he has been informed Mrs. Nc
Lean considered giving the $3S, 1000 to
Means and Whitaker, but finally de-
cided against it. She already had
given Means 100000 for ransom
money and $4,000 for expenses.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
Repave Alta Vista Street.

ALTA VISTA, Nd, April (SpeciaD.
"A two-mile stretch along Cedar lane
is being improved with macadam sur
face by county road workers under the
direction OF Road Supervisor A. B.
Magruder.
The lane, which is a cinder road at
present. is being resurfaced from the
Rockville pike to the old Georgetown
road and from that point to the Bap-
tist Home for Children near here.
Evening star., 1933-04-06
JAMES C. DAVENPORT
SUCCUMBS AT HOME HERE
Alabama Native Was Investigator
in the Office of Controller
General.

James c. Davenport, an investigator
in the controller generals office, died
yesterday at his home, 540O Thirty
second street.
A native of Jacksonville, Ala. where
he was born December 10, 1882, Mr..
Davenport had been in the Govern
ment service here since 1910, working
in the general land Office before going
into the Office of the controller general
He was an active member of the
United Brethren Church here, and was
affiliated with Masonic bodies in Kinks
Grove. Ala. where he lived many years.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Martha N. Davenport, and two daugh-
ters. Martha Lynn and Alice Nell
Davenport.
Funeral services will be held at 8
o'clock tonight at the home, and the
body will be taken to Kinks Grove to-
morrow afternoon for burial Rev. S.
B. Daugherty will oficiate at tonight's
services.
Evening star., 1933-04-06

Dor, in the Philippines, at Vicksburg,
Miss; in France, in Seattle, Wash; at
Fort Humphreys, Va, and in the Canal
Zone.
Honored for Service.
He has been particularly interested
in the forestry service of the Army
Engineers, and holds the Distinguished
Service Medal for this work, the cita-
ton for which follows:
For exceptionally meritorious and
distinguished services. He organized
and commanded the 10th Forestry En-
gineers with marked ability. In spite
OF the difficult situation confronting
him he developed the forestry service
to a marked degree of excellence. By
his great energy and devotion to duty
he rendered service of the highest
character to the Government"
Evening star., 1933-04-06
SUBURBAN PUPILS
GET }CENT FARE
Utilities Commission Action
Affects Cars Running Be-
yond D. c. Line.

The Public Utilities Commission de-
cided today that pupils Of private
schools in the suburban Maryland COM
munities who use District street cars
going to and from school shall not be
charged more than the three-cent fare
established for District children.
The commission reached this con-
clusion In adopting an opinion from the
corporation counsel as prepared by Will
liam A. Roberts, special counsel to the
commission. 1t Is an Interpretation of
the act of Congress which set the fare
for school children at three cents. The
commission later will send an order to
this effect to both the Washington Rail-
way & Electric Co. and the Capital
Traction Co.
Adventists' School Case.
The question arose in a case affecting
q private school beyond the District
line and operated by Seventh-day Ad-
ventists Previously the commission
had held that the three-cent fare for
school children applied to public schools
beyond the District line.
At its session today the commission
also drafted letters to Interstate Com
merce Committees of the Senate and
House asking that the commission be
given opportunity to express its views
regarding the pending proposals con-
corning interstate utility matters which
might affect the local work Of the COM
mission.
One of these proposals would give to
the States jurisdiction over certain
questions regarding operation Of motor
bus and truck transportation. Another
concerns proposals for consolidation of
control over communications services.
Proposal Of Hearings.
Commission members are interested
to know If such proposals would either
extend or limit the present powers of
the local Commission as to regulation
of the business of interstate utilities
engaged also ip local operation. For this
reason they ask that the congressional
committees inform the Commission of
proposals made and any action taken
on them and that at the proper time,
they be given hearings.
The Commission also decided that
taxicabs operating on a meter basis
establish better Identification of that
system than now exists, to distinguish
them from the larger number of cabs
which use the fiat rate system. This
action was urged by Richmond B.
keech, peoples counsel
Evening star., 1933-04-06
MRS. NELLIE LEWIS DIES

Mrs. Nellie Trabue Lewis, 66, wife of
Charles M. Lewis, for many years
Washington representative of the Ma
tional Distillers' Association and the
United States Brewers Association, died
yesterday at her home, IL Drummond
lane, Chevy Chase, Md.
Mrs. Lewis was a native of Glasgow,
KY. She and Mr.. Lewis had spent their
Winters ip Washington for the last
20 years.
Burial will be held tomorrow at
Shelbyville, KY, where they made their
Summer home. The body will leave
here this evening at o'clock.