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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Beach Sandals, Csc
All Manufacturers Samples
Regularly 81 and So

20 Pairs Of Sample Oxords assorted styles and feathers
Size only Regularly S. and S. .se5
40 Pairs Of Pumps and oxfords for Children and growing
Polyanna shoes included in the group Were s250
10 S4 now $1eo
DOWN STAIRS STORE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Mems Cool Union Suits
Specially Priced 2 for 81

200 Nainsook Suits full standard size, web back for
GOODNESS and comfort. Well reinforced for service.
536 Pairs Of Mems Sample Hose in Summer patterns
and weights Rayon and Isle mixtures Sizes 10 TO H.
SO Mems BroadcIoh Under Shorts in stripes and plain
coors. With balloon seat. Assorted sizes. Reduced
10
10 Ties In woollen checks Reduced to........"..lSc
1 Pair of Mems s4s5 Wool Knickers Size 40 .....7Sc
az Pairs of Mems Cotton Golf Sizes 1914 to 1l
Were &c. Now pair
1 Swim Suit all WOOL Was $2.95 Now. ...........H
Pairs Of Pajamas, size A Were $155. Now, pair 75o
4S FuI-cut Shirts neckband and collar attached styles
In the lot. Broken sizes Reduced to......."...SOc
DOWN
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19
Foundation Garments, 55c

Were 81 to $50
IS Garments including garter belts and grdles In assorted
styles and sizes
rs Garments including several styles Of gdes and garter
brasseres. Broken Sizes Were $3.50 to 81.
STORE
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-19

Group Of 90 play suits.
blouses and pajamAS, In
broken sizes.
10 SAX Dresses, for girls
Z TO 10 years. Were
sl.s5 and t2.s5. Now sSc
20 Hats. Soiled and
mussed. Were 7ec and
81. Now. Sc
Evening star., 1934-10-26
HIGHWAY TRANSPORT
GIVES JOBS To MANY
Provides Work for / Of z in Re-
tail, Wholesale and Service
Trades Here.

Automotive, petroleum and other
trades connected with highway trans
portation provide jobs and wages for
one out Of every seven persons en-
ployed in wholesale, retail and service
trades in the District of Columbia, ac-
cordtng to recently completed Census
Bureau figures for the year 1888.
The National Highway Users Con-
ference, in analysis made public to-
day, showed: ..-'
Out of q total of s,sl8 wholesale,
retail and service establishments that
operated in 1888 in the District Of
Columbia, $50, or approximately one
tenth, were wholly dependent on mo-
tor transport.
OF the total pay roll Of $4s,660. 900
for all wholesale, retail and service
trades, $7,o46, 900, or 14.4 per cent,
accrued from automotive, petroleum
and allied trades.
The total volume of sales for all
wholesale, retail and service business
amounted TO $433, ,685, 900, of which
$58, ,328, 900 represented purchases by
motor vehicle owners Of all classes.
In proportion to the total volume Of
sales by all trades, the trades cater
ing to highway transportation pro-
vided more jobs and higher stand
ard Of wages, accounting for las per
cent Of jobs and 14.4 per cent Of pay
rolls, as compared with 1874 per cent
Of sales.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
DIARIES PLANNING
RELIEF MILK DRIVE
City-Wide Campaign With
10.Cent Milk to Test Con.
sumer Demand.

An intensive city-wide drive to sell
10-cent milk to relief families will be
undertaken tomorrow by Embassy and
Chestnut Farms-Chevy Chase Diaries.
Both distributors already have made
a partial canvass of the homes of the
relief clients, but lack Of funds pre-
vented purchases. Tomorrow. however,
the families will receive their weekly
checks from the emergency relief divi-
sion and the dairies expect then to
test Commissioner Aliens plan to in
crease milk consumption among the
needy.
Solicitors of the Embassy Dairy, an
Independently owned Washington firm.
made 500 calls and sold Is quarts Of
milk. Virtually all the families re-
ported no funds and in rs per cent Of
the cases the solicitors were told no
milk at all is being consumed.
Chestnut Farms Dairy, a subsidiary
of the National Dairy Products
Corp, said Is per cent of the relief
clients visited by its solicitors ex-
pressed interest in the plan. They
had no money, however.
Families wishing to buy milk will
be sold a strip of tickets for a weeks
supply. If this plan does not prove
feasible, Commissioner Allen said
that after a 30-day trial period the
District government would buy the
tickets direct from the dairy and dis
tribute them among the relief fami-
lies, thus forcing an increase in con-
sumption. Allen has maintained for
some time that the city's needy are
not consuming sufficient quantity Of
this vital food.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
F. H. A. TO MOVE
TO NEW QUARTERS
Division to Occupy Building
Vacated by Justice
Department.
The Federal Housing Administra-

The Federal Housing Administra-
tion soon will occupy the old Justice
Department Building, at Vermont ave-
nue. and K street. it was announced
today by A. E. Demaray, associate
director of the National Park Serv-
ice. who supervises shifts in Govern
ment space here.
The Justice employees will have
moved into their new home, at Tenth
street and Constitution avenue, by the
end of the month. They have evac-
uted offices in the Tower Building and
the Denrike Building and the rest Of
the workers are being moved rapidly
from the old department building.
Demaray said the owners Of the old
department structure will renovate the
building, and this will take a couple
Of months, permitting the housing
administration to move in about the
first of next year.
The present outlook is that the
Labor Department will be in its new
building. at Fourteenth street and
Constitution avenue, around the mid
die Of November. Whether the present
Labor Department building, which is
in private ownership, will continue to
be used by the Government remains
to be determined, Demaray said.
The Board Of Tax Appeals is mov-
ing out of the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau Building into the new Justice
Building. The Treasury will build
new hearing rooms in the Justice
Building to duplicate facilities the
board hitherto has enjoyed. Secretary
Morgenthau requires the space occu-
pied by the board in the Internal
Revenue Bureau for the three units
Of the alcohol tax organization, now
scattered in as many buildings.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
THIEVES AGAIN BREAK
INTO SELINGER STORE

Sidney M Selinger, proprietor of
Selingers, jewelers., 8l8 F street, has
decided thieves like the stores stock.
Last night, for the third time since
early August, the show window was
broken and jewelry stolen-this time
a tray of wedding rings, valued at ap-
proximately $50
On october TO- the window was
smashed and 5000 worth of watches
taken, but the culprit, a coIored man,
was chased several blocks and caught
by a policeman who had heard glass
crashing.
Early last August a thief also made
away with 5000 worth of watches.
Last year a thief smashed the show
window, but ran with the approach
of a policeman aand was caught.
Selinger today was pleased, how
ever, that police had caught tive of
the four robbers.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
FURTHER GAS PRICE
SLASH DELAYED HERE
Independents Temporarily Aban-
don Plan to Make Dras.
tic Cut.

With the major companies sticking
to the same price for the third straight
day, independent gasoline dealers to-
day temporarily abandoned their plan
to cut prices drastically as they had
threatened.
The bigger companies and chain dis
tributors stuck to the price of 121a
cents for straight" gasoline and the
independent dealers continued to offer
their stocks for cent less.
The Independents, however, con-
tinued their conferences today and
spokesmen for them said that If fur
ther cuts were made by the larger
companies they are ready to retaliate
with reductions ranging as high as
cents.
LAS long as they let us alone" one
of them said, there's nothing to gain
in cutting now. We are still a cent
below the advertised stations and that's
all we want. But we are ready, and
our crowd is pretty well organized, to
meet any cut they make, and if they
want to continue the war we will give
them cut that really is a cut"
The spokesman insisted, however,
that the initiative must be taken by
the larger companies, for the handlers
of unbranded gas will not take the
offensive.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Otterback Death Cor Driuer
Ordered Held for Grand Jury
Witness Testifies Auto Which Struck
Banker Vas Travelling on Wrong
Side of Street.

The automobile which struck ard
fatally injured Maurice Otterback, 72-
year-old Anacostia banker, when he
rescued young woman from its path
Monday night. was passing on the
wrong side of a street car at the time
Of the accident, it was testified at an
inquest today.
This testimony resulted in the
coroner's jury ordering the driver of
the car, Roy Reynolds. As, a carpenter
living at sl0 Twelfth street, held for
grand jury action.
The machine driven by Reynolds
was bearing down upon Miss Eliza
beth Wayland, %, of 157 Todd place
northeast, when the Anacostia Bank
Board chairman showed her aside.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
D. c. MAN BURNED
TO DEATH IN CAR
Body of L. S. Sutherland of
Northeast Motor Co. Found
Near Woodstock.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
WOODSTOCK, Va, october 26.-
Leland Stanford Sutherland, salesman
for the Northeast Motor Co. of Wash
ington, D. c., and former Woodstock
merchant, was burned to death in his
automobile on the Washington Wood
stock road about miles south of here
last night.
The victim was identified when his
20-year-old son, Leland Stanford
Sutherland, jr., drove the engine Of
the Woodstock Fire Department up to
the scene of the tragedy and recog-
nized his fathers automobile.
Made Gasoline Purchase.
Sutherland. who was driving to
Woodstock, stopped at filling station
about 3 miles from the place of his
death and purchased gasoline. Au-
thorities learned he pulled his auto
short time later.
State Policeman L. L. Fuller, who
lives nearby, noticed the flaming car
and attempted to reach the doomed
man, but was driven back by the fire,
which converted the interior of the
automobile into a seething furnace.
He then called the local Fire Depart
ment.
Cause Of Fire Mystery.
The cause of the fire is a mystery to
police. There was no evidence that
Sutherland was seen after leaving the
filling station at Maurertown an hour
before his death. An autopsy made
this morning under direction of DR.. w.
G. Ford, Shenandoah County coroner,
failed to disclose any evidence of foul
play.
Sutherland's watch, glasses and
some silver coins were picked Up in
the car and, despite the badly char
red body, his purse was almost intact,
containing SIS in currency.
Sutherland, who served in the
Army in France during the World
War, is survived by his mother, Mrs.
Benjamin Sutherland, jr.. and two
sisters, Mrs Shields Chapman of
Woodstock, Va, and Mrs. Paul Foltz
of Roanoke, Va.
Mr.. Sutherland lived in the 1400
block of Trinidad avenue northeas..
He vas former automobile dealer of
Hopewell, Va, and was manager of
the used-car department of the
Northeast Motor Co. here the last
four years.
Evening star., 1934-10-26

Mrs. Muriel Elgin, teacher at the
Congress Heights School. who was in
a machine behind the street car when
Mr.. Otterback and Miss Wayland
alighted, testified she saw Reynolds
car pass the street car on the wrong
side at about IS miles an hour.
Funeral services for Mr.. Otterback,
who died Tuesday In Sibley Hospital
from a skull fracture, were to be held
this afternoon at Trinity M. E.
Church, Fifth street and Seward
Square southeast. Burial was to be In
Congressional Cemetery.
Mr.. Otterback Is survived by his
widow, Mrs. Annie A. Otterback, and
a son, Raymond Edwin Otterback.
The family lived at 326 Fifth street
southeast.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Gu innings REFUSES
VOTE SUPERVISION
Reveals Requests From Califor.
MIA, Pennsylvania, New Jersey
and Several Cities.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Attorney General Cummings said
today that requests to supervise next
months elections had been received
from California. Pennsylvania and
New Jersey as well as several munici-
palities and that such requests had
been refused.
He said he had received a telegram
from California charging irregularities
were in prospect and asking that $500
deputies be organized by the Depart
ment Of Justice to Illustrate any ille-
gal acts.
Cummings explained that these re-
quests had been turned down because
of lack of Federal jurisdiction. He
said the Federal statute enabled the
Government to prosecute cases where
it appeared that there had been a
conspiracy to prevent voters from ex-
ercising their franchise.
He added that this statute applied
only to Federal elections and that be-
cause of the intermingling of Federal
and State candidates on the ballots
the Governments general position had
been that such cases should be han
died by the State authorities. He
pointed out that the Government as
well as both Houses of Congress fire.
quently conduct proceedings of a
prospective nature after elections.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
MAY SEIZE
DELINQUENT AUTOS
Improperly Parked Cars to
Be Locked if Merchants
Plan Is Adopted.
DELINQUENT parkers would f,nd their

Delinquent parkers would find their
automobiles under lock and key when
they returned for them, if proposal
made late yesterday by the Merchants
and Manufacturers Association board
Of governors were put into effect.
The association urged O municipal
regulation to impound automobiles
violating traffic rules, on the ground
that such step would greatly al
leviate the downtown traffic problem.
The TRAFFIC Committee of the WASH
ington Board Of Trade originated the
impounding plan, which was adopted
by the parent body. Other organiza-
tions were asked to give their views
on the proposal. The Board of Trade
had urged that policemen be in
structed to lock the wheels Of illegally
parked cars.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, the first to indorse the
general idea of the Board of Trade
proposal, did not specify the method
Of impcunding. In some cities, L.
legally parked cars are hauled OF the
streets.
The associations board also voted
to ask the Traffic Bureau to mark
more clearly the street car loading
zones in the business section, since
motorists are said to be parking op-
posite these zones In violation Of regu-
lations.
The Board Of Trades Traffic Com
mittee at q luncheon meeting yester-
day recommended that hours for Gov
ernment and downtown business en-
ployes be staggered to relieve trafic
congestion. The directors of the board
must act on this proposal before 1t
will bear the Endorsement of the trade
body.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
SCHOOL CROWD|NG
MAY COMPEL USE
|. Of F0LDPORTABLES
4,004 More Pupils Are Reg
iStered Than This Time
Last Year.
POWELL JUNIOR HIGH
ESPECIALLY HARD HIT
Officials Are Making Studies Of
Serious Problem to Offer
Solution.

The possibility Of a step backward
through the use Of additional portables
threatens the overcrowded District
public schools, officials admitted today.
With approximately 4,O04 more
pupils registered than in October, 1888,
many buildings throughout the city
are seriously congested. This con-
gestion is expected to be aggravated
in February, particularly in the junior
high schools, where the incoming class
easily exceeds the outgoing.
Foremost among the oyercrowded
schools is the Powell Junior High.
located at Hyatt place and Lamont
street in the heart Of populous Mount
Pleasant. DR.. Stephen e. Kramer,
first assistant superintendent of
schools said something probably will
have to be done to relieve conditions
there at the beginning Of the Febru-
ary term.
Problem Being Studied.
School officials now are studying the
problem, but no decision has yet been
made, he declared, suggesting. how
ever, it may be necessary to care for
the excess pupils by use of portable
buildings.
Portables have not been used ct the
Powell since three years ago. when
the addition to the building was
opened.
Although the Powell Junior High
School has taken over the building of
the johnson Elementary School, which
Is across the street from it, conges-
ton is greater there than at any other
junior high school in the city, &C
cording to DR.. Kramer.
He said it is not practicable to in
augurate double or staggered shifts in
junior high schools, as is now used in
two of Washington's senior high
schools, Eastern and Western. The
remedy, therefore, is thought to lie
either in additional facilities or in
placing some of the Powell pupils in
some other sections.
The school population in the Mount
Pleasant section has increased rapidly
in the past few years, due, DR.. Kra-
mer thinks, to the moving Of many
families from houses to apartments.
The Powell Junior High was over
crowded last year, figures show, and
its attendance Of 1854 at that time
has been increased by las this year.
Fifteen PortabIes in Use.
During the past decade the use of
portable school buildings has grad
ually been decreased in the District.
There are now only Is occupied by
students, and Of these, 10 are at coll
ored schools. Institutions now using
portables are: Armstrong High School,
S: Randall Junior High School, 8:
Eliot Junior High School, /; Bates
Roard Elementary School, 2; Fillmore
School, 2, and the BenningS and
Ketcham Schools, each. Armstrong,
Bates road and Randall are colored.
Some relief next year from over
crowding is expected with the opening
Of the Woodrow Wilson High School
on Reno road and the Anacostia
Junior High School. The institution
in Anacostia. officials say, will do
much to relieve the pressure at East
ern High School, and the Woodrow
Wilson will care for many students
who otherwise would go to Western.
Shifts and the opening of new
classes have been necessary to meet
overcrowding in half a dozen elemen-
tary schools.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
JOHN J. PRELLER, II,
JEWELER, EXPIRES
One Of Oldest Manufacturers in
City-Came Here From Bal
timore in 1861.

John J. Preller, veteran jewelry
craftsman, died last night at his home,
I22 Todd place northeast. Born in
Baltimore, he had lived in Washington
ever since he was brought here In 1861
at the age of 4.
He began his work with I. H. Johan-
mes & Co, well known makers Of
fine jeweiry, and remained there until
Mr.. Johannes died, about eight years
ago. Since then Mr.. Preller had been
with the firm of Won STEINER g.
Baumgartner. At his death he was
one of the oldest manufacturing
jewellers in the city.
He Is survived by his widow, Mrs.
Katherine D. Preller; four sons,
Clement, John j., Walter and Francis,
and three daughters, Mrs. Lena Will
liams, Mrs. Mary Kramer and Miss
Margaret Preller. He leaves also four
grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the
home Monday at $50 am, followed
by requiem mass at st. Martins
Church, North Capitol and T streets,
Of which Mr.. Preller was a member.
Burial will be in st. Mary's Cemetery.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
en- because of the former Presidents
friendship and interest in naval de-
velopment.
PROGRAM AT ALEXANDRIA.
Torpedo Launching to Be Shown;
Meeting Is Arranged.
BY a Staff Correspondent Of The Star.

BY a Stan Correspondent Of The Star.
ALEXANDRIA, Va, October 90
Navy day will be observed here to-
morrow with exhibits at the Alexan-
dria Naval Torpedo Station during
the day and a public meeting at his
toric Gadsbys Tavern at 8:15 tomor-
row night.
The destroyer Cormorant win be
docked at the torpedo plant wharf for
public inspection from 8 am. to 4 pm.
Exhibits of torpedo launching will be
staged each hour at the plant. which
will also be open to the public. An
exhibit of IS Colonial nags has also
been arranged.
Admiral Joseph K. Taussig. assist
ant chief Of naval operations, viii be
the speaker at a public meeting to be
held by the Alexandria American
Legion Post tomorrow night. Other
naval officials expected include Admiral
Claude C. Bloch. judge advocate Of the
United States Navy; Comdr. Spencer
s. Lewis of the Bureau Of Operations,
and Lieut.. Comdr. Forrest B. Royal,
aide to Admiral Taussig.
Everett A. Hellmuth, commander OF
the post, will preside.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Bloodhound Lost
While Mates Get
Lorton Prisoner

Three bloodhounds we're set on
the trail of a prisoner who es-
capped from the Lorton Reforma-
tory Wednesday night, with the
result that they got their man,
but one of the dogs was lost.
This is Beau, a prize of Capt.
M. M. Barnard, general superin-
tendent of District penal institu-
tions. The dog is a thoroughbred,
valued at $3.50, and is male,
with a reddish brown coloring.
The man was recaptured near
Manassas, Va, and Capt. Bar
nard believes the dog may have
been found by a farmer near
there. He appealed today for the
dogs return.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
DR.. ZOOK TO SPEAK

DR.. George F. Zook, director of the
American Council on Education and
former commissioner of education,
will be the principal speaker at a
banquet to be held by Phi Delta
Kappa National Educational Fra
ternity tomorrow at $50 pm, at the
Iron Gate Inn, 1874 N street.
He will discuss national planning
in education.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
C0L0RED SCOUTS MEET
% Awards of High Rank to Be
Made Tonight.

A court Of awards for the Sixth
Division, made up of colored Boy
Scouts Of America, will be held at
7:30 o'clock tonight In the Garnet
Patterson Junior High School, Tenth
and U streets. Col e. L. Mattice, as
sistant Scout executive, will present
20 awards Of high rank.
Eugene Kinckle. Jones, director of
Negro economics, Department of Com
merce; DR.. Paul Bartsch, first vice
president Of the District of Columbia
Council and chairman of the Court
of Honor Committee, and Linn c.
Drake, Scout executive, will deliver
short addresses.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
LECTURE TO BE SUNDAY
Bicknell Young, Chicago, to Speak
on Christian Science,

Bicknell Young of Chicago will lee
ture Sunday in Constitution Hall on
Christian Science Universally Avail
able He will be introduced by Ed
win J. Grayson.
The lecture, to be heard at $50
pm, is under the auspices of the
First, Second, Third and Fourth
Churches of Christ Scientist in Wash
ington.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
MAN, So, DIES In FALL
John E. Hill Stumbles in Area

John E. Hill Stumbles in Area
way at Home.
A fall down the areaway steps Of
his home last night proved fatal to
John Z. Hill, 68, of LA Eleventh street
southeast. He was treated at Casualty
Hospital and later transferred to Gal
linger Hospital where he died early
today of a skull fracture.
Hill, who usually walked with the
assistance Of a cane, police were told
fell when he attempted to descend the
steps without the stick. He was found
lying in the areaway by his niece,
Juanita Gordon, 1414 Pennsylvania
avenue southeast, who summoned aid.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
MRS. MAGGIE {. HUGHES
DIES AT AGE OF 81
Widow of White House Guard
During Lincoln Administration
Was Native of Delaware.

Mrs. Maggie e. Hughes, 50, widow
Of william e. Hughes, q White House
guard during the Lincoln admtnistra-
ton, died yesterday at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. L. Ferber, 1923 Neal
street northeast, with whom she had
been living since her husbands death
last May.
Mrs. Hughes, born in Wilmington,
Del, celebrated her golden wedding
anniversary in July, 1882, as well as
the fiftieth anniversary of her coming
to Washington.
She Is survived by q brother,
George Cleayes, Kennel Square, Pa.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
Alumni to Give Dance.

GAITHERSBURG, Md, october 26
fSpeciaI The Alumni Association
Of the high school will sponsor dance
in the school here this evening.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
SLUM FOE TO SPEAK
Pioneer in Movement Addresses
Services Tonight.

SoANAScs 6ASs
The second of q series Of Friday
night evangelistic services viii be held
tonight at 8 O'Clock, In the Salvation
Army Temple, Sixth and z streets.
Mrs. T. M. Hyslop of Cleveland, q
pioneer In slum work during the early
days Of the movement, will 'e the
guest speaker. These FridGv night
services will continue until the first
Of the year, with special speakers and
singers for each program.
Evening star., 1934-10-26
PERIT0NITIS FATAL
Miss Mary Louise Cooksey Dies at
Siblev HOSPITAL.

Miss Mary Louise Cooksey, IS,
daughter of Walter J. Cooksey and
Mrs. Mary Higdon Cooksey. died in
Sibley Hospital yesterday Of peritonitis.
Police of the homicide squad are
conducting an investigation.