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Evening star., 1934-03-18
LAX OPERATIONS
|. Of BUREAU DENIED
Farley Brands as Ground
less Claim JobIess Are
Attracted to City.

Charges that the Public Welfare
Bureau OF Transients is lax in its
operations and has served only to en-
courage jobless men from all parts of
the country to come here and stay
yesterday were branded as groundless
and unwarranted by Capt Guy Ear
ley, supervisor of the Work Division of
the bureau.
In answer to an accusation by Sid
ney F. Taliaferro. former member of
the Board of Public Welfare. that the
bureau has become too attractive to
transients, Capt. Farley cited figures
showing that of the $500 men to come
to the bureau since November only
l 200 are here now.
BY caring for these men, the bureau
has taken load off the Community
Chest, he said and many of the tram
sients who have passed through the
bureau have been put to work
He also refuted the claim that his
charges have not been earning their
maintenance. Pointing out that TRAN
sients are only required to work "a
hours a week. Capt. Farley said there
has been an average of 80 men a day
at work in the District wood yard.
while approximately 100 men a day
make up the rat squad" which is
employed to exterminate rodents in
Government buildings and slum sec
tiOnS.
THE work my men do would not
be done by any other group" he said
in reply to the complaint of certain
labor organizations that the tran
sients are keeping residents of the
District out of work.
The branch of the bureau in the
old fire house at Fourteenth street
and Ohio avenue, to be razed soon,
will be supplanted by more adequate
structure in the block bounded by
C and D, Second and Third streets,
it was said.
The new quarters, housed in a five
story brick building, are being reno
waited by the transientS themselves,
and are expected to be ready for oc-
cupancy in about 10 days, Capt. Ear
ley said
The building will be called the
Young Mems Lodge, and will con-
tain wood and iron work shops.
Through volunteer instructors it is
intended to give basic training in elecA
tricity and automobile mechanics.
Glasses also will be conducted in aca-
demic subjects BY this means Ear
ley hopes to fit many of the tran
sients for jobs.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

Through the intercession of
stranger who prefers to shield her
identity, the body of Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Purdy, 60-year-old prisoner
who died Friday at Gallinger Hos
pital, will be accorded private funeral
rites tomorrow instead of morgue
ritual.
The stranger, woman who has
interested herself in other public
burials because of an apparent aver
sion to ignominious municipal inter-
ments, has arranged with an under
taker to cremate the body, florists to
donate flowers, a cemetery to receive
the ashes and provide chapel for
services, and officials Of the District
Jail to permit Mrs. Purdy's impris-
oned husband to attend the last rites.
Instead of being consigned to the
municipal crematory, the body will be
cremated without charge by Thomas
r. Nally & Son, 522 Eighth street
southeast. An urn has been donated
to receive the ashes.
The funeral services will be held
at 1870 am. tomorrow in the chapel
Of Cedar Hill Cemetery, through the
Evening star., 1934-03-18
UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN ASSURES
PRIE4TE RITES FOR MRS. PURDY

courtesy and cooperation of cemetery
authorities. The husband, DR.. Frank
Purdy, who is awaiting trial on a
swindling charge, will be released for
the rites in company of a guard, by
order of Supt. Rives of the District
Jail.
Arrangements were being made
last night for a clergyman to conduct
a brief service over the ashes. Three
florists have agreed to send floral
pieces.
DR.. and Mrs. Purdy were indicted
on a charge of defrauding Mrs. Flor
ence M. Kay. 1900 block of Mintwood
place, of $4,000 by representing
falsely that they needed the money
to clinch claim on an English estate.
Mrs. Kay was to be reimbursed when
the estate was settled.
DR.. Purdy was arrested in Detroit
and returned here to answer the in
dictment. Mrs. Purdy later also was
found in Detroit and was brought
back on a stretcher, due to illness
from heart trouble.
The trial was delayed by the con-
tinued illness Of Mrs. Purdy.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
HOUSING
PROJECT PLANNED
Private Company to Start
Development Here Cost
ing Quarter Million.

A quarter-million dollar housing de-
velopment to provide residential quar-
ters at low rent for families in the
low-income class will be started in the
near future on a site in Northeast
Washington by the Washington Sani-
tary Improvement Co.. limited divi-
dend corporation. according to infor-
nation released by company officials.
Details of the project are to be con-
cluded tomorrow or Tuesday and work
is to be started promptly.
The development will be for white
tenants. Fourteen buildings providing
accommodations for four families each
are to be erected along Trinidad ave-
nue.. Raum street and Simms place
northeast. The land already has been
acquired. Estimates are that the en-
tire development will have a total cost
of $250,000, including the land. Bids
have been received on the construc-
tion work and the contract is to be
awarded soon.
Edison Heads Company.
The president of the company is
John Joy Edison, a member and a past
chairman of the District Board of
Public Welfare, who is expected to re-
sign shortly from that post. The
secretary of the company is George S.
Wilson. director of the Welfare Board
who plans to submit his application
for retirement tomorrow when he will
reach the age of 65
Architectural plans for the develop
ment have been prepared by Apple
ton P. Clark, jr., Washington architect
an official of the company. The build
lngs will be of simple Colonial style.
The development will be in a large
u" shape, with provision in the rear
portion of the site of an acre and
half for a recreation area.
Company Has 500 Tenants.
The buildings will have residential
units of living room. dining alcove.
kitchenette, either one or two bed
rooms and a bath.
The Washington Sanitary Improve
ment Co., organized many years ago,
now has 300 tenants in housing de-
velopments already erected. An Off
cial of the company said yesterday
the assessed value of the properties
of the company now exceeds 81 ,O00.-
600.
The developments of the company
are to be outlined in the final report
to be made by James Ring, rent re-
search assistant to the Public Utili-
ties Commission, on the survey of
rental and housing conditions in the
National Capital made at the request
of the Senate.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
ACCUSED [ORTON
GUARDS TO APPEAR
Aides Charged With Beating
Prisoner Will Testify
Tomorrow.

Guards charged by Representative
Francis H. Shoemaker. of Minnesota
with brutally beating a prisoner at
Lorton Reformatory will be called to
testify tomorrow morning before a
Board of Public Welfare Investigating
Committee.
Unless additional evidence is pre-
sented for inquiry, the session prob
ably will conclude the investigation
which was begun following sensa-
tional allegations by Shoemaker and
Edward Bedell, exconvict.
Meanwhile, recent reports that J. E.
C. Bischoff, business manager of Lor-
ton, would be asked to resign were
confirmed yesterday by authoritative
sources at the District Building. The
hearings have brought out that
Bischoff received fees for work done
during off-duty hours for concerns
doing business with the District.
Barnard Held Safe.
From the same sources the opinion
was elected that Capt. M. M. Barn
ard, veteran superintendent of Dis
trict penal institutions, probably will
come through the investigation with
flying colors"
Besides guards, those who will be
asked to testify tomorrow are DR..
L. c. Edwards of Baltimore, former
Lorton inmate, and Charles Sawyer,
superintendent of the shipyard at the
Occoquan work house
Shoemaker informed the board Ed
wards would tell of having been Of
fered a place on the so-called bank
ers' porch" for Sl00. Sawyer is
charged by Shoemaker with having a
home built for himself in Occoquan
Village of prison bricks transported
there at Government expense.
Prisoner identified.
The prisoner in question, he said,
was Carl Panzram, who was executed
for the murder of guard at Leaven-
worth shortly before Shoemaker was
sent there to serve years sentence.
Panzram was known as the tough
est" prisoner ever housed in the Dis
trict Jail. He was convicted OF house.
breaking. While being held here he
confessed to a number of murders,
telling police he could remember kill
ing about 20 persons and had killed
others whom he could not remember.
He said he hated the entire human
race. Police at first did not believe
his story, but skeletons later were
found where he told them to dig, in
other sections Of the country.
The Minnesota Representative also
read a letter. reputedly from one of
the 100 convicts sent to the Federal
Penitentiary at Atlanta after the re-
formatory' riots last Summer, telling
of being chained nude to the bars of
cell at Lorton and beaten uncon-
scious by guards. The riots were at
tributed in the letter to the prisoners
being deprived OF meal because it
was necessary to clear the dining
room when a guard beat a colored
prisoner there.
The letter bore the signature of
Erasmus Cecil jenkins.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
LIQUOR LABELLING
LAWS IN CONFLICT
Pure Food Regulations Will
Force Change in
Markings.

A conflict between Federal liquor
control laws which may result in
widespread confusion was disclosed
yesterday as the result of the seizure
of % cases of allegedly mislabeled
Scotch whisky.
Condemnation proceedings against
the whisky were started in District
Supreme Court Friday. 1t was al
legged that the labels on the bottles
violated the pure food and drug acts
by representing it to be Scotch whisky
when it was actually made in this
country.
Assistant United States Attorney
William A. Gallagher, who is ham
ding the case, announced that the
seized whisky would be returned to
its owners, the Washington Wine Co..
tomorrow upon posting of a $1,000
bond. They will be required to
change the labels to comply with the
food and drugs act.
Labels on a large quantity of
whisky now being offered for sale
here, it was said, have met the re-
uuirements of the Federal Alcohol
Control Board, the Bureau of Inter-
nal Revenue and the Bureau OF In
dustrial Alcohol, but are still in vio-
lation of the food and drugs act.
The determination of officials OF the
Department of Agriculture to enforce
the provisions of the latter act, it
was said, probably will result in the
condemnation of large quantities Of
whisky in this and other jurisdic-
tions.
It was believed the newly created
Federal liquor control agencies, in
preparing their requirements for Ia
beling whisky, overlooked the specifi-
cations of the food and drugs act.
As a result, it was said, the regula-
tions will have to be changed or
large quantities of whisky now on
the market must be condemned and
relabeled.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

w WASHINGTON possesses the
n I tomb of Roman emperor.
wv The strange box-like
stone structure on the lawn
of the Arts and Industries
Building of the National Museum,
which visitors usually pass without
noticing, was the occasion of dra-
matte incident 80 years ago when it
was first brought to Washington
The tomb was secured by Commo-
dore Jesse R. Elliott, commander of
the frigate Constitution, which was
the flagship of the United States
Squadron in the Mediterranean in
1899, from hillside behind the city
of Beirut, Syria. Although the evi-
dence was not such as would satisfy
an archeologist, Elliott believed it was
the tomb of the Roman Emperor Alex
ander Severus. He brought It back
to Washington with him.
Offered to Jackson.
- A few years later Andrew Jackson
was reported dying at the Hermitage,
near Nashville. Elliott had the happy.
or unhappy, inspiration to offer the
tomb to Old Hickory as last resting
place.
Jackson's reply is one of the classics
of American literature:
Although laboring under great de-
bility and aff1iction from a severe at
tack from which I may not recover. "
the dying man wrote the Navy officer,
II raise my pen and endeaver to reply.
The steadiness of my nerves may per-
haps lead you to conclude by strength
is not as great as here expressed.
Strange as it may appear, my nerves
are as steady as they were 40 years
gone by, whilst from debility and
aff1iction I am gasping for breath.
IT cannot consent that my mortal
body shall be laid in depository pre-
pared for an Emperor or a King. My
Republican feelings and principles for
bid it. The simplicity of our system
of government forbids it. Every monu-
ment erected to perpetuate the mem
ory of our heroes and statesmen
ought to bear evidence of the econ
omy and simplicity of our Republican
institutions, and the plainness of our
Republican citizens, who are the SOW
ereigns of our glorious union, and
Evening star., 1934-03-18
HEARING DATE Is SET
Judiciary Group Will Consider
Harlan Bill Tuesday.

The Judiciary Subcommittee Of the
House District Committee will hold
public hearing Tuesday at 1890 am.
on the Harlan bill to authorize build
ing and loan associations to exchange
deeds of trust and mortgages for bonds
of the Home Owners Loan Corpora
ton.
The hearing will be held in the Dis
fee Building with Representative Pal
misano OF Maryland presiding.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
INJURED BY AUTO

Carl Tanksley, z, of 1925 L street
southeast, was seriously injured
yesterday afternoon when struck by
an automobile near the Pennsylvania
Avenue Bridge. He was taken to
Casualty Hospital and treated for a
fracture Of the thigh.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
FALL FATAL TO WOMAN

Mrs. Frances E. Alart, rs, of 1914
Potomac avenue southeast, died in
Gallinger Hospital yesterday from in
juries received Friday when she fell
while dressing in her home. She frac-
tured her hip in the fall.
Evening star., 1934-03-18
Pupils Refuse to Walk.

Children in Troes, Wales. struck re-
Gently when asked to walk two miles
to a school, transportation facilities
having been withdrawn.
Evening star., 1934-03-18

w WASHINGTON possesses the
n I tomb of Roman emperor.
wv The strange boxlike
stone structure on the lawn
Evening star., 1934-05-29
Faking Charged
To Restaurants
On Food Orders
ProprietOrs Told Menu
Must Tell Truth About
What Is Served.

Innocent patrons may be Just as
happy with the substitute, but restau-
rants should quit serving lambs liver
when the menu says calves liver"
There Is too much Of such CHI
canery in Washington, according to
statement yesterday by J. Allen
Preather, president Of the Washington
Restaurant Association
Mr.. Praether started out by COM
plimenting restaurant men upon their
ability to cater to the tastes of Wash
ington's many visitors, and ended up
by taking them to task for "sys-
tematic substitution.
He declared that the practice Of
serving cheaper products instead of
the ones advertised on the menu"
should be controlled, and added:
There is entirely too much of this
substituting lambs liver for calves
liver, of selling haddock for filet of
sole, of putting roast pork in so-called
chicken salad
'As for chicken croquettes. the same
goes double. 1t isn't fair either to
the customers or to the restaurants
that stick to the straight and narrow
path Of the strict truth.
These dishes may be tasty and
wholesome, but they should be sold
for just what they are or described
by some fair name. such as mock
chicken salad which would describe
the taste, but not mislead the Gus
toner"
Mr.. Praether is convinced that
Evening star., 1934-05-29
SENATE APPROVES
INDIAN AID BILL
Measure Authorizes Exchange of
Land Reserved for Seminoles
in Florida.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
The Senate yesterday passed and
sent to the House bill authorizing
the exchange of lands reserved for
the Seminole Indians in Florida for
other lands on which the Indians are
now living or will make use of.
The bill was recommended by Sec
retary 1ckes, who said in view of the
reluctance of the Indians to move to
the lands set aside for them by Exec
utive order, sit does not appear that
1t would be practicable to try to re-
move them at this time to the areas
reserved for them"
so long as they are now living on
reserved land" Ickes said, this de-
partment cannot use funds appro-
priated for Indian purposes in i'm
proving their homes or aiding them
IN other ways to improve their
methods Of living.
If the proposed legislation is en-
acted it is hoped that lands can be
acquired which will be used by the
Indians for homes, gardens, farming
and stock raising, and the Indian
Service will then be in a position to
extend much more help and protec-
ton to them"
Evening star., 1934-05-29
$4,000 TO MARCH
| |NBA[T|MOREL LINE
Pope's Blessing to Be Sent
to Monumental City Ter
centenary Throng.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, May 29.-The Most
Rev. Amleto Giovanni Cicognani,
apostolic delegate to the United States,
will bring the blessing Of Pope Plus XI
to the large celebration to be held in
the Baltimore Stadium tomorrow in
commemoration Of the 300th ami
versary Of the founding of the Cath
ole Church in Maryland.
A message from President Roosevelt
also will be read.
Following a parade. in which
$4,000 persons are expected to take
part, the marchers will pass a review
ing stand into the stadium. In the
stand will be members of the Catholic
hierarchy and State officials
Field Mass on Program.
A solemn pontifical military field
mass will be sung by Archbishop
Michael j. Curley, assisted by the
Very Rev. Edward G. Phillips, provin-
cial of the Jesuit Order in the prov
ince which includes the Middle and
South Atlantic States. Other officials
will be priests of Baltimore.
Rev. DR.. Peter Guilday, professor
Of church history of Catholic Univer-
sity and the author Of many his
torical volumes, will preach.
During the ceremony Archbishop
Curley will wear a cross which was
the property Of Bishop John Carroll.
the first bishop of the church in this
country. The tabernacle on the altar
in the stadium is said to be the one
used by Father Andrew White in the
first mass celebrated on Maryland soil
on March IS, 1884.
More than $4,000 people. including
about $4,000 from Washington, are
expected to attend the service. A
choir of 1000 children will sing the
music of the mass.
Multiple Celebration.
The celebration also will commem-
crate the Tooth anniversary of the
birth of the late James Cardinal Glib
bons and the Goth anniversary of the
conservation Of Archbishop Curley.
Among the members Of the hi
Evening star., 1934-05-29

American Merchant Marine. His in
terest in extending the foreign trade
Of America into all parts of the world
Is more to him than one Of the facets
Of his cabinet job.
Miss Roper obtained a job with the
United States Tariff Commission after
she had earned her bachelor of arts
degree at Vassar College. She spe-
cializes in Canadian tariffs, which ex-
plains the choice Of her thesis subject.
Mrs. Roper, whose cake-baking pro-
f1ciency has planted much enthusiasm
for domestic science knowledge among
young women, approves of her daugh-
ter's career. The mother believes the
time was well spent by Miss Roper in
her studies and that when the time
comes for her daughter to bake cake
she will be able to master its technique
all the more quickly because of her
trained mind
Evening star., 1934-05-29

and Rheem Of the firm Of Swartzell,
Rheem & Hensey in January, 1928.
The compliments said that the can
collation. Of the Stern deed had oc-
CURED without notice to them and
without payment Of their notes Sc
cured by that deed They asked for
the reinstatement Of the Stern deed
Of trust and the subordination Of the
insurance company deed to their
claims.
Both the District Supreme Court
and the Court of Appeals had held
against the noteholders, and the
highest court declined to disturb the
decisions below.
The Supreme Court refused to pass
upon the validity Of 100 per cent
assessment against the stockholders
of the insolvent Departmental Bank,
which had been contested by the
Evening star., 1934-05-29
DEED CANCEL|NG
UPHELD BY COURT
SWartzeII, Rheem & Hensey
NotehoIders Lose in High
est Tribunal.

In one Of four decisions affecting
the District Of Columbia, the Su-
preme. Court Of the United States
yesterday permitted to stand undis-
turbed a cancellation of Swartzell,
Rheem & Hensey deeds Of trust.
Minnie E. Simpson and SIS other
owners Of notes totaling $1o8,350,
complained that a deed of trust for
$3.50. 600 had been illegally Cancelled
when the New York Life Insurance
Co. reflnanced a loan to build an
apartment on property owned by Alb
ner Drury Co. The original deed Of
trust. which was Cancelled in favor Of
the insurance company deed, was
made BY David L. Stern to SXartzell
Evening star., 1934-05-29

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Evening star., 1934-05-29

Washington Loan g. Trust Co. as
trustee of the estate Of BENJAMIN
Pickman Mann. The District Court
of Appeals had sustained the assess
ment Under the laws Of Arizona,
whe.e the bank was chartered.
The court also declined to pass upon
the eligibility of a prisoner convicted
In the District to parole from q prison
elsewhere. Henry Davis, convicted
here and serving time In Atlanta,
claimed a parole under District reg
ulations, but 1t was denied since he
was not serving his sentence here.
The Washington Gas Light Co. was
denied a review Of q judgment OF
$4,000 against 1t In favor Of the estate
OF Wallace Dunn, based on q contract
for services In securing an offer from
the Charlestown Heat & Light Co.,
Of Charlestown, w. Va.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
DAUGHTER OF ROPER FOLLOWS
HIS STEPS, EARNING NJ. 4. DECREE

Secretary of Commerce Daniel c.
Roper has a deep feeling that the in
herent charm and grace Of womanhood
lie in that old nursery rhyme. Can
she sweep a room and bake a cherry
pie, Billy Boy?" But he will realize
more than ever on June 4 next that
he mas definitely joined that increasing
brigade of American fathers whose
daughters are following their foot
steps instead of those of their mothers.
On that date at 1890 am, at the
graduation exercises OF American Uni
versity, Miss Grace Roper will be
awarded degree of master of arts for
a thesis on the subject of Imperial
Preference in the British Empire With
Particular Relation to the United
Kingdom and Canada"
In his recent speeches Mr. Roper has
become a strong advocate of larger
Evening star., 1934-05-29

Washington restaurants will be a
model for the rest Of the country
when the associations recommended
tions are carried out, including the
modernization of restaurant regula-
tions enacted in 1918.
The association Executive Commit
tee entertained Corporation Counsel
J. Barrett Prettyman at a luncheon
at the Madrillion Restaurant today.
and the association will hold a get
together meeting tomorrow night at
the United States Chamber of Com
merce Building.
Evening star., 1934-05-29
FAIL TO FIND BLUE TIGER

New York sportsman and Wife
Quit Fukien Province.
FOOCHOW, China, May 29 Up
Henry Clay Foster, New York sports
man and editor, and his wife arrived
today from the mountains Of West
ern Fukien Province, where they
sought in vain to photograph or shoot
the rare Fukien blue tiger.
The Fosters overcame bandit dan
gers, but failed to find the elusive
monarch of the F'ukienese wilds. They
are proceeding to Indo- China in
search of 1.-The yellow terror" as
tigers Of those tropical jungles are
called.