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Evening star., 1934-06-02
.LABORERS OUSTED
ON PAY PROTESTS
RETURNED TO Jobs
Commissioners Will Fix
Rate of Wages for Three
Workers.
DEADLOCK CONTINUES
IN ICE CREAM STRIKE
Afidavits From Trio Are Asked
by Senator Walsh in Kick
Back Probe.

Complaints of three laborers to En-
gineer Commissioner Gotwals that
they had been discharged from work
on the new Gallinger Hospital ward
building because they had protested
to District officials that they were be-
ing paid less than the prevailing wage
resulted today in their reinstatement
at wages to be determined by the Com
miSSloners.
This new evidence Of the "kick-
back" racket on Government construc-
ton jobs here came as negotiations
this morning failed to settle the strike
of engineers, flremen and oilers in two
ice cream plants here, anu the gen.
eral strike on three Federal buildings
in the Triangle remained deadlocked.
The complaints of the three dis
charged laborers were laid before Got
walls by Larry Kelly, business agent
for the Washington Branch, Building
Laborers' Union.
Put to Work as Carpenters.
He said five men originally were
emf ployed by the D. M. w Construc-
ton Co. of Brooklyn, N. Y, as COM
mon laborers at IS cents an hour.
Later, he charged. they were assigned
to work as plumbers laborers for
which they should have been paid
6212 cents an hour, and still later
put to work as carpenters, whose rate
of pay is S110.
After three of the five had COM
planned to Assistant Corporation
Counsel w H. Wahly, they were dis
charged, Kelly said.
Under Gotwals' decision, which was
agreed to by the contractors, the men
will return to work, with back pay
and future wages to be decided by the
Engineer Commissioner.
Kelly said Senator Walsh. Demo-
crat. Of Massachusetts. whose Labor
Committee will investigate the kick
back" racket. has requested affidavits
from the three laborers for use in
his inquiry.
Attempted settlement Of the ice
cream strike was made under aus
pices of the Central Labor Union.
Representatives of the manufacturers
and unions involved met in the con-
ference room of the Merchants and
Manufacturers Association. in The
Star Building. and adjourned without
a settlement three hours later An
other conference will be held early
next week, it was said.
Conciliators in Dispute.
Conciliators in the dispute were R.
A. Dickson. president of the Central
Labor Union; Robert Lester, also of
that body, and Howard T. Colvin,
conciliator of the Labor Depart
ment's Cancellation Service. Carry's
Ice Cream Co. is represented by
Walter Carter, Southern Diaries by
Charles Krey, the engineers by
Charles C. Callan, and the fremen
and oilers by Albert Neville.
Meanwhile, efforts were under way,
but making little progress. to bring
together. under auspices of the Ma
tional Labor Board. representatives
of two international unions, the
, Bricklayers and Operative Plasterers,
to iron out the jurisdictional dispute
which has brought general strike
on three buildings in the Federal
| triangle.
A conference has been set for Mon
! day night at the Oyster Building.
Twenty-sixth street and Pennsylvania
! avenue, to settle the strike Of plaster
ers for higher hourly wages and a
! six-hour day.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
Aerial Golf Games
To Feature June
Flying mD.C. Area
Entries to Drop Balls
From Planes and Play
Out Nine Holes.

An aerial golf game in which con-
testants will play nine holes, one at
each of nine different airports in the
Washington area, will be the June
flying event of the Washington Air
Derby Association, it was announced
at a meeting last night in the
Racquet Club. The event will be
held on one of the last two Sundays
in the month, the time to be decided
within a few days.
The aerial golfers will take of, each
with a scorer of the opposite sex as
passenger, and will fly to the first OF
the designated airports, where put
ting green and cup will be located.
The golfer will drop a golf ball at
tached to a small parachute as close
as possible to the cup and then will
land and play the ball from where
it lies. He then will take of for the
second hole. repeat the operation. and
continue on around the course" A
number OF prizes will be awarded to
low-score golfer-ptlots.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
691 P. W. WORKERS
GET RAISE IN PAY
Ickes Says All Employees Are
Due for Increase
in July.

Secretary Ickes was expected to sign
today an order granting pay raises to
69l employees of his Public Works Ad-
ministration in keeping with new
duties assigned them.
Under the economy act, promotion
pay is prohibited but when employees
are given entirely new duties they are
entitled to receive the pay commen-
surate with such duties.
At special meeting of P. w. A. en-
ployes late yesterday, Secretary Ickes
assured them President Roosevelt
would issue an executive order. effec--
tive July l. restoring per cent OF
their pay cut. p w. A. employees were
denied the pay restoration under a
ruling by Controller General McCarl
when the first per cent restoration
was made some time ago to Federal
employees.
Under the anticipated executive or
der. the p. W. A workers will receive
only the 5 per cent restoration which
is again due all other Federal en-
ployes on July ].
Evening star., 1934-06-02
MONTGOMERY SHOW
WILL OPEN TONIGHT
Suburban Garden Club Event to
Begin at Z PM. and Last
Through Tomorrow.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
SOMERSET. Md. June 2-Garden
clubs and community associations in
MONTGOMERY County will compete for
the prize offered by the Montgomery
Suburban Garden Club at the clubs
annual show. which open tonight at
7 pm, at Somerset School. and will
continue through Sunday. The exhibit
will be judged for artistic arrange
ment as well as for the quality OF
flowers used.
In addition to the club and COM
munity exhibits shown at tonight's
show the Montgomery Club will stage
a number of non-competitive exhibits
of named varieties of blooms designed
to illustrate the best types of such
flowers suitable for growing in this
locality. A collection of more than
100 peonies will be shown by Howard
r. Watkins of Somerset and another
collection of rs blooms including tree
peonies" and rare peony from the
Caucasian Mountains will be displayed
by DR.. Earle B. White of Kensington.
Both Watkins and DR.. White are
nationally known peony growers and
medal awarded by the American
Peony Society. Other non-competi-
tive exhibits arranged for tonight's
show are the exhibit Of delphiniums
grown by Lawrence Smoot of Ken
sington and the exhibit showing the
proper planting of iris and peonies
and the method of treatment Of
disease of each. planned by Mrs. c.
M. Arthur of the Montgomery Club
and the United States Department of
Agriculture.
Another nome competitive exhibit
will be that of DR.. Whitman Cross.
nationally known rose grower of Chevy
Chase. The schedule also includes
classes for ANIMALS and perrenials,
water lilies and Towering shrubs.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
FIVE CHARGES ARE FILED
AGAINST YOUNG DRIVER
Police Recall License Was Re
voked and Capture Boy-Al-
legged Illegal Liquor Found.

Recalling that the drivers permit Of
Joseph Francis Nesline. 81. of the l400
block of North Capitol street, had been
revoked, Sergt. George c. Devoe and
Pvt William E. McEwan of the police
liquor squad called to the youth to
stop his car when they sighted him
near Sixteenth and Rosedale streets
northeast late yesterday.
Nesline stopped the car and at
tempted to run, but was held. In the
car were found more than SIS gallons
of alcohol, said by the police TO have
been imported from Belgium. and a
bottle of fluid used in the preparation
Of synthetic gin.
Nesline was charged with failure to
exhibit a drivers permit. having no
registration card. possession of intoxi-
cants upon which the tax had not
been paid, leaving his car unattended
with the engine running and trans
porting more than IL gallons of in
toxicants without permit. He fur
nished a bond of $1,l00.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
MOTHERS SERVE DINNER
TO JOBS DAUGHTERS

The Mothers Club OF Jobs Daugh-
ters, Bethel No 2, of Brightwood last
night rendered a chicken dinner to
the girls and their fathers in the
Stansbury Masonic Temple. Mrs. Paul
H. Brattain is president of the club
and was assisted by the mothers. A
number of invited guests also were
present.
At a meeting later in the evening
the following officers were elected:
Mary Virginia Conway, queen; Betty
Nevius, senior princess; Dorothy
Smith, junior princess; Doris Brattain,
guide. and Helen Voght, marshal.
One candidate was initiated. Herbert
B. Nevius is daddy and Mrs. G. K.
Maholm is mother of the bethel.
There will be one more meeting be-
fore the Summer recess.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
EX-SOLD|ER HELD
IN TRUNK SLAY|NG
OF STEPMOTHER
Hoge Says Abuse of Sister
Forced Him to Kill
Woman.
POLICE BELIEVE LOVE
! TRIANGLE MAIN CAUSE
Former Fort Myer Artilleryman
Captured Here and Returned
to Philadelphia.

Joseph Martin Hoge, 23-year-old
former Fort Myer artilleryman, who
is said to have confessed killing his
stepmother and stufting her body into
a trunk on May 10. was taken to
Philadelphia early today to face
prosecution on a murder charge.
Hoge, who was arrested at Ninth
street and Pennsylvania avenue last
night by Detective Sergt. Michael J
quarters driver, admitted using a
chisel and a butcher knife to slay
his stepmother, Mrs. Mary Hoge, ac-
cording to Inspector Frank S. w
Burke, chief of detectives.
After the killing, Burke quoted the
former soldier as saying he wrapped
the womans body in blanket ano
stuffed it into a trunk. The Staying
occurred, Burke said, in the home OF
Philadelphia, month after the young
mans discharge from the Army.
SIdlHlS hUuoc " SlStcIs
Although Hoge declared he killed
his stepmother because she abused
his l0-year- sister, Philadelphia
B police are said to have attributed the
Staying to a triangle that included
the ex-soldier, his father, Jacob Hoge
and the stepmother, who was many
years younger than her husband
Hoge, prior to his arrest, was the
object of an intensive police hunt
throughout the East. After the slay-
ing, police reported, he waited for his
father to return home, then sat on
the lid of the locked trunk and
calmly discussed his stepmother' S
absence When his father showed
signs of unusual concern over the
woman's failure to return home, how
ever, Hoge became alarmed and fled
according to police.
Lived in Mission.
From Philadelphia he is said to
have gone to Wilmington, Del, where
he was arrested by railroad police
He convinced them, however, that he
was en- route to Fort Myer to re-enlist
in the Army, and they released him.
Then, police said, he came tt
Washington and found a home in a
mission, where he tended the boiler
in exchange for lodging and food.
Burke learned yesterday that Hogt
was in Washington, and he immedi
ately assigned Dowd and several othel
detectives to conduct search for him
Armed with photographs of the ex
soldier, the detectives patrolled tht
Ninth street area, knowing it is fire
quented by soldiers on furlough from
Fort Myer and thinking Hoge nigh
seek to meet some of his forme
'buddieS" there.
Dowd recognized Hoge from tn
photograph and placed him under ar
rest. He readily acknowledged hi
identity and, after making a complete
confession of the killing, expressed
willingness to return to Philadelphia
to face prosecution. Accompanied b.
Philadelphia detectives. he began tn
return trip about 4 am.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
FUGITIVE IS HELD
IN TWO S[AY|NGS
Police Question Youth in
Golf Course and "Lov-
erS' Lane" Murders.

Ralph W. Mize, ls-year- old fugitive
from the National Training School for
Boys. vas held by police today for
questioning in connection with two
major crimes-the Staying Of A Paul
Rice, whose body was found in a
ravine near the Anscostia golf course
on May 20. and the killing of Miss
Fannie KurZ, 81, one Of the two VIC
tins of the Fredericksburg Lovers
Lane" assault case.
Although local police were inter-
ested primarily in the Rice murder
they acknowledged that Mize also
would be questioned extensively re-
garding the other crime. and that
agents of the Justice Department
also would be given ample oppor-
tunity to interrogate the youth.
Brown Improving.
Meanwhile, Miss Kurz's fiance. Mil
ton j. Brown. "a. who was found
beaten into Inconsistencies with her
on May 81, the day after Rice's body
was discovered, was reported gaining
strength rapidly In the Mary Wash
ington Hospital in Fredericksburg
Dispatches from the Virginia city
stated, however. that the young filling
station attendant still was too weak to
give a coherent account of the attack
Federal operatives still were check
ing names mentioned by Brown in hi:
occasional moments of apparent con-
sciousness, it was said. but many o.
them have proved fictitious.
Arrested in North Carolina.
Arrested in Lexington, N. c.. Mize
was brought back to Washington last
night by Detective Sergt. John w
Wise, who previously had obtained q
warrant from United States Commits.
sioner Needham c. Turnage, charging
the youth with the Rice murder.
Tired out after the long trip. Mize
a pale. slight youth. was locked W
without questioning He was expected
10 be taken to police headquarters
some time today. however, for an ex.
tensive grilling by Inspector Frank S
w. Burke, chief Of detectives, anc
Detective Sergt. George E. Darnall
chief of the homicide squad.
Similarity of the Rice Staying ane
the Lovers Lane" assault Is what
first linked the two cases, according
to police.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
HEUR|CH ROBBERY
SUSPECT IS JAILED
Baltimore Police Take Man
Believed Member of "Tri-
State" Gang.

A hitherto unnamed suspected
member of the so-called "Tri-State"
gang was under arrest in Baltimore
today in connection with the sl,640
hold-up OF the Offices of the Heurich
brewery last October S.
Meanwhile. police were continuing
their hunt for the seven members of
the gang named on circulars issued
by the Post Office Department sew
eral days ago. Three Of them were
reported seen in Washington during
the last few days.
The man held in Baltimore was
Samuel c. Berlin, who, with William
Davis and Arthur Misanas. two of the
gang members named on the Post
Office circular, had been sought since
the Heurich hold-up.
Detectives to Be Sent.
Berlin was arrested in Baltimore
yesterday by Deputy Marshal Michael
Gilease and 1t was expected Wash
ington detectives would be sent to the
Maryland city to question him some
time today.
-Four armed bandits participated in
the Heurich robbery, walking into the
Office shortly before closing time and
forcing four employees to lie on the
floor while they helped themselves to
the money, which Charles R. Streeks.
auditor, had just finished preparing
for collection by an armored truck
from a detective agency.
Both MiSanas and John Kendrick,
another member Of the gang. were re-
ported seen here yesterday, but a
city-wide search failed to reveal any
clues to their hide-out. Later a man
answering the description of Kendrick
was reported to have been seen going
through Williamsburg, Va, evidently
headed for Richmond.
Woman Taken in Philadelphia.
Others named on the Post Office
circular, besides Kendrick, Misanas
and Davis, were Herbert Myers,
Robert Mais, Marie McKeever and
Hendricks wife. Barbara. Mrs Ken
drick was arrested in Philadelphia a
few days ago and brought here for
questioning. A reward of $4,000 was
offered for information leading to the
arrest of the persons named on the
circular
Members of the gang. it was said,
are wanted for numerous crimes, in
Guiding the Union Station mail rob-
berry and shooting of December 5, as
we'll as hold-ups in Baltimore, Rich
mond and philadelpl1ia and the
shooting of Mrs Mary Elizabeth Fon-
taine in Upper Darby. Pa, several
weeks ago.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
ANTI-CRIME BILLS
PASSED BY SENATE
One Measure Authorizes Posting
of $25,0 Reward for
Criminals.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The House bill to authorize posting
of rewards up to s25,000 for the cap
ture of criminals was passed yester-
day by the Senate and sent back to
the House for action on amendments
The Senate also passed and sent to
the White House another bill to
strengthen the Government in its wal
on organized crime. The latter would
permit any two or more States to en-
ter into compacts for cooperative ef-
forts to prevent crime.
The first bill would permit the At
torney General to post rewards up to
$4,000 for the capture of criminals
or for information leading to their
arrest.
1t is aimed at the capture of John
Dillinger and similar criminals.
The Senate struck out of the bill
language authorizing the Attorney
General to designate such criminals al
public enemies.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
W.P. JOHNSON, JR.,
AND GIRL ELOPE
Secret Marriage of Former
Pitching Aces Son and
Senior Is Revealed.

Climaxing a high school romance
which had its inception year ago,
Walter P. johnson, jr., 2l-year-old
son OF the Washington base bal
clubs former pitching ace and man
ager. and Miss Jean w. Duvall. 1s
of Kensington, Md. were married at
Ellicott City on May II, it was
learned today.
The newlyweds had been hoping
to keep their marriage a secret until
Mrs. johnson, a senior at Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School, is gradu-
ated next week. They have been
maintaining separate residences. but
their wedding was disclosed today in
a news dispatch from the Maryland
town.
Johnson With Government.
Young johnson, who left George
Washington University in February
to become a clerk in the Bureau OF
Investigation at the Department of
Justice. is living at the Annapolis
Hotel while his wife is living with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. C. F. Du-
vail, until she completes school. when
they will establish residence in Wash
ington.
Miss Duvall and johnson became
acquainted while attending Bethesda
Chevy Chase High School and the
courtship, eliminated by their mar
riage before Rev. Harry D. Stewart
of the Emory M E. Church, began
a year ago. johnson said today.
Graduated Last June.
The young couple drove to Ellicott
City with Herman Tickel, a clerk at
the Bureau of Investigation, obtained
a license from Benjamin Mellor, jr.,
clerk of the Howard County Circuit
Court, and returned to Washington
after the ceremony at the erectory.
Johnson was graduated from
Bethesda Chevy Chase High last JUNE
following a brilliant athletic career
and enrolled at George Washington
University. He starred with the fresh.
man basket ball team and was ex-
pected to follow in his fathers foot
steps and shine on the mound for the
freshman base ball nine. but he left
school in February to enter Govern
ment service.
johnson has been living in Wash.
ington since last Winter. Prior tc
that he resided at his fathers home II
Alta Vista, Md.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
DRIVER IS ARRESTED
IN DEATH OF GIRL
Two Other Colored Youths in
Truck Are Held as Ma
terial Witnesses.

Mildred Diggins, colored, S, of the
1,100 block of Second street southeast
was killed by truck in the 100 block
of Francis street southeast last
evening. The vehicle was driven
away from the scene, and police later
arrested William Washington. colored
10, 300 block of o street southwest
who, it was said, admitted he was
driving the truck.
Police said Washington did not
have a drivers permit and was oper-
ating the car without permission OF
its owner.
Two other colored youths, George
Taylor, Is, Of the first block Of N street
southeast, and De Witt Haynie, 10
of the 1900 block of First street
southeast, were arrested as materia
witnesses when police were informed
they were riding with washington.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
BARBECUE BANDIT
VICTIM SUCCUMBS
John T. Geary Dies as Police
Seek Colored Man Who Took
Officers Auto.
BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

PRIEST BRIDGE, Md. June q
John T. Geary, 43, who was shot dur
ing a hold-up and robbery of his
service station and barbecue stand at
the Grain and Defense highways Tues
day night, died in Casualty Hospital
in Washington early today.
Police are convinced that the same
colored bandits who held up Town
Policeman Lawrence Dayton of Bla-
densburg, and robbed him of his auto
mobile, police equipment and money
last week. are responsible for Geary's
death.
Both the police force and sheriff S
Office intensified their efforts to ap-
prehend the gunmen after Geary ex-
pired
States Attorney Alan Bowie said
he would order an inquest.
Geary was shot down in cold blood
by one of two colored men who en-
tered the barbecue stand Tuesday
night and held up every one inside.
Police said the proprietor was shot
without provocation and left to lie on
the floor while the bandits robbed
the cash register and patron of $40.
The robbers fled in car which, po-
lice were told, belonged to Dayton.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
HACKER PROVES FARE
WAS PERSONAL FRIEND
Capital Driver Dismissed in Marl-
boro in Maryland Liabil-
ity Case.
By q stan Correspondent of The Star.

BY staf Correspondent of The Star.
UPPER MARLBORO, Md, June 2.
Charles Lee Boteler, Washington
taxicab driver, of the. 500 block of
Twelfth street southeast, who claimed
the young woman in his cab was a
personal friend and not a fare, when
arrested several weeks ago, was ac-
quilted of charges of violating Mary
land liability laws yesterday.
In dismissing the charges. Police
Court Judge Waldo Burnside said he
was not ruling on any principle in
volved, but passing judgment solely
on the evidence in Boteler's case.
Under a new Maryland law, COM
mercial vehicles engaged in hauling
passengers or freight for hire are re-
quired t. caxYy liability insurance.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
BATHTUB DEATH HELD
ACCIDENTAL DROWNING
Coroner Will Not Close Case. Off,
cially, However, Until Chem
ist Reports.

The death of Mrs. Charlotte Dodds,
48. whose body was found Tuesday
night in an overflowing bathtub in
her apartment in the Westchester,
was the result of accidental drown
ing" Coroner A. Magruder Mac
Donald said today.
Although a certificate was issued
yesterday, DR.. Macdonald said he
would not consider the case def
nitely closed" until he received a de-
tailed report from District Chemist
E. r. Donaldson, who is making
analysis of the contents of Mrs.
Dodds' stomach and specimens Of her
blood. An autopsy by Deputy Cor
oner C. j. Murphy indicated, how
ever. death was due to "asphyxia, in
duced by drowning" DR.. Macdonald
added.
Mrs Dodds was the wife of Charles
B. Dodds, newspaper correspondent.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
B. F. ADAMS APPOINTED
CLERK OF ASSESSMENTS
Former Member of Board Is Well
Known in Washington
Business Circles.

Benjamin F. Adams today was ap-
pointed special assessment clerk in
the Office of William P. Richards, tax
assessor, to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent death of Foster Causey.
Adams served for a number Of
years as a member of the board Of
assessors of the District and is we'll
known in Washington business circles.
After leaving the District service in
1920. he engaged in finance and real
estate business.
The appointment was made by the
Commissioners upon recommendation
by Assessor Richards.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
FREED AND REARRESTED

A few minutes after he had re-
ceived a suspended sentence on a
charge Of passing worthless check
for $37 on a New York hotel, Rex
Farmer, 90, of Montreal, Canada,
was rearrested in New York yester-
day as a fugitive from Washington,
according to an Associated Press dis
patch.
Farmer, police said is wanted here
on false pretense charges in connec-
ton with the passage of a worthless
check for SAT on the Mayfiower
Hotel last March. Detective Ches-
ter C. Stepp has left for New York to
bring Farmer here.
Evening star., 1934-06-02
TWO WOMEN DIE IN FIRE
Norfolk Apartment Blaze Fatal as
They Seek to Escape.

NORFOLK, Va, June 2 (P)-Two
women were burned to death in a
fire that early last night badly dam
aged an eight-family apartment build
ing.
The dead are Mrs. Alice M. Sadler
SO. and Mrs. Maggie o. Graoehall, 81,
mother and mother-in-law of Rudolph
Sadler, with whom they were residing.
The two women were alone in the
apartment at the time and their
bodies. badly charred. were found in
the hall outside the apartment door.