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Evening star., 1934-09-02
Woman Believed
Killed BY Gas From
Refrigerator Coil
Is Found Unconscious
after Icepick Pune
lures Uni..

Refrigerating gas, generally regard
ed as unlikely to cause death, appar-
emily was fatal to Mrs. Margaret
Pyne, IS, when she punctured a
freezing coil in her apartment with an
ice pick yesterday and released the
contents of the entire apartment house
refrigeration system in her kitchen.
DR.. A. Magruder Macdonald, Dis
trict coroner, last night said he was
certain Mrs. Pyne's death was due to
asphyxiation, but said he was awaiting
complete report on the nature of the
poison before issuing q certificate.
The gas generally used as refrig-
Grant in automatic refrigerators like
that in Mrs. Pyne's apartment causes
choking sensation and watering of
the eyes, but is regarded as fairly safe
In homes.
DR.. Macdonald said that he was
informed Mrs. Pyne, in her apart
ment, 2019 I street, had tried to
hasten defrosting of her refrigerator
by removing the ice from the coils with
pick. When the central refriger-
ating system of the house failed, Rob-
ert Evans of Riverdale, Md, refriger-
ator service man, traced the trouble to
Mrs. Pyne's apartment and found
her unconscious.
The Fire Rescue Squad was sum-
moned and tried in vain to revive her.
A physician from Emergency Hos
pital, who also was called, pronounced
Mrs. Pyne dead on his arrival.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
ORDER is SOUGHT
ON DOVER CLAIM
Widow of Goldenberg, Store
Owner, Seeks Share of
Property.

The District Supreme Court has
been asked to assign to Mrs.
Fannie R. Weinberg of Meadowbrook,
Pa, widow of Morton H. Goldenberg,
former proprietor of the Goldenberg
department store on Seventh street,
her dover in real estate valued at
approximately $500,0O0 and held by
Goldenberg when he died in Baltimore
in October, 1890.
The National Savings & Trust Co.
and Ledo Baum, equitors for the
estate, were named defendants. As
an alternative to the dover assign
ment, Mrs. Weinberg told the court
she is willing to take $2,500 month
for life, retroactive to the date of her
former husbands death. The dover
would total approximately $166,000.
Although Mr.. Goldenberg left
personal and real property valued
at more than $1,000,SO0, his debts
totaled about an equal sum and the
equitors have not been able to pay
creditors or to meet requests outlined
in the will, Mrs. Weinberg alleged in
the suit. She said she has received
$42,500 from the estate since her
former husbands death.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BRIDGE TOURNAMENT
DATED NOV. 8 TO 10
D. c. Contract Events With Three
Trophies to Be Held at
Shoreham Hotel.

The District contract bridge cham
pionship tournament will be held in
the Shoreham Hotel. November 8, 8
and 10. Lieut.. Comdr william A
Corley, president of the Washington
Bridge League, announced yesterday.
Baltimore and Washington residents
are eligible for entry.
The three trophies to be awarded
winners are: The Evening Star Tro-
ply, for intermediate players; the
Woodward Cup, and the Eynon Bowl
for mixed fourSome team won last
year by Mr.. and Mrs. j. H. Lemon and
DR.. and Mrs. Llewellyn Lord, winner
Of the national championship in At
lantic City this year.
The Washington Bridge League is
considering the addition of a fourth
event and prize in the District cham
pionship play.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
PRISON HEADS TO STUDY
ACUTE ESCAPE PROBLEM
District of Columbia Speakers In
cluded in Meetings at Houston
September 1921.

Confronted with new era of prison
riots and breaks, the American Prison
Association will hold its sixty-fourth
annual congress at Houston, Tex,
September 1921, and devote special
attention to problems of prevention
and reduction of crime. Calvin Der
rick, superintendent of the New Jersey
State Home for Boys at Jamesburg, is
president of the association.
Speakers from IS States and the
District of Columbia will take part
in the deliberations. More than 500
delegates, with some from Canada
and Mexico, will attend. Among the
speakers scheduled are: Sanford Bates,
director of the United States Bureau
of Prisons; Judge Arthur D. Wood,
chairman Of the United States Board
of Parole, and Miss Katherine Len
root, acting chief of the United States
Children's Bureau.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
10 D. C. TAXI DRIVERS
HELD In VIRGINIA
Colored Men Face Charge of
Hauling Passengers in Improp-
erly Licensed. Vehicles.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
FREDERICKSBURG Va, Septem-
Der 1.--Ten Washington colored taxi
cab drivers today filled to capacity
the little brick jail at Spotsylvania
County Court House awaiting trial on
Tuesday on charges of hauling pas
sengers in Virginia in improperly L.
censed vehicles.
They were arrested early last night
by three State patrolmen as they
were transporting to Washington for
the Labor day holiday so colored for
estry workers stationed in the c. C. C.
Camp at Charlottesville. The work.
ers, whose homes are in Washington,
had pooled their resources to pay for
the transportation.
One of the drivers, Thaddeus Lark,
with five passengers, left the county
through a by-road, but was inter-
cepted in Alexandria. He was returned
here last night.
The drivers, in addition to Lark, are
Milton Johnson, James Lee Kinney,
Marine Bruce, George Thomas, Clifton
Reeder, Wilbert j. Dyson, James B.
Green. Robert I. Fitz and Clyde
jackson.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
CHAIRMEN ARE NAMED
New Real Estate Institute Officers
Appointed.

Howard Z. Haynie, Chicago, pred-
dent of the Institute of Real Estate
Management of the National Asso-
citation of Real Estate Boards, an
nounces the appointment Of the fol-
lowing important committee chairmen
of the new institute:
Paul G. Caspers, Chicago, Admis-
sions Committee; Delbert s. Wenzlick,
st. Louis, Experience Exchange Com
mittee Robert A Cline, Cincinnati,
Legislative Committee; Henry Bee
man, Chicago, Local Chapters Com
mittee; L. v. Du Bots, Cincinnati,
chairman of Forms Committee; Ed
ward F. Hacker of Lansing, Mich.
Membership Committee; James @
Downs, jr., Publications Committee;
William I. Mirkil, Philadelphia, head
of Inspection and Ethics Committee,
and Arthur s. Kirk of Des Moines,
chairman of Auditing Committee.
The institute will hold the quar-
terly meeting of its governing coun-
ell in Chicago some time early In
the Fail.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
CITY HEADS ARGUE
UTILITIES COUNSEL
CHANGE THIS WEEK
Board Believed to Favor Ap-
pointment of Own
Adviser.
PLAN KING PROPOSED
COMING UP SOON
Opponents Fear Complications
Might Arise Over Dual Ca
pacity" of Official.

The District Commissioners this
week will take up for consideration
the proposal, originally advanced by
Chairman King of the Senate District
Committee, that the peoples counsel
take over the duties of legal adviser
to the Public Utilities Commission.
Involved in this plan is the sug-
gestion that two assistants be pro-
vided the peoples counsel from the
$1,000 available for the old job Of
special assistant corporation counsel,
commission, it was revealed yesterday.
Position Of Board.
The utilities commission is under
stood to favor the appointment of a
special counsel as assistant to the
corporation counsel so that the COM
mission may have its own adviser.
The ability of William A. Roberts,
peoples counsel, as a utilities lawyer
is praised by all, but the utilities
body is reported opposed to the prin-
ciple of one official acting as both
peoples counsel and commission ad-
wiser at the same time and possibly
in the same case.
On the other hand, one prominent
District official is said to have urged
the designation of Roberts as counsel
to the utilities body because of his
recognized ability. Under this plan,
it is said, the peoples counsel would
handle public hearings and litigation
for the commission.
Official Adviser.
Under the utilities act, the District
corporation counsel is officially the
legal adviser to the Utilities Commits
sion, but as a practical matter he is
personally unable to handle utility
matters because of the amount of
other duties with, which he is charged.
Roberts served for several years as
special assistant to the corporation
counsel on utility matters before he
was appointed peoples counsel early
this Summer.
Those opposed to the dual post plan
fear complications would arise if in
o given case the advice Of the peoples
counsel, acting as commission counsel,
was rejected by the commission.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
LOCAL MAN NAMED
BY ELECTRICAL BODY
H. A. Friede Becomes Vice Presi-
dent of Municipal Workers.
Meet Next in Miami.

The International Association of
Municipal Electricians wound up its
convention yesterday by projecting a
series of studies looking to improve
ments and economies in this field of
public service for consideration at the
next meeting.
Miami, Fla, was selected as the next
meeting place. The convention will
be held in October, with important de-
velopments in street lighting and fire
and police alarm technique scheduled
for discussion.
The convention yesterday voted to
change the name of the organization
to the International Association of
Municipal Engineers. In formally
ratifying the election. of officers, it
chose H A. Friede, superintendent of
the Washington fire alarm system. as
first vice president, after E. L. Layme
of Denver declined the post.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
BURGLARS ARE F0ILED
IN THEFT AT HOSPITAL
Drop Microscope in Yard After
Engineer Discovers
Them,

Two colored men broke into the
Homeopathic Hospital last night,
took a microscope and dropped it in
their flight after being surprised by
the hospital engineer.
The valuable instrument fell on a
grassy spot in the yard and was un-
damaged, A drawer in the Office of
the hospital laundry was found ran
sacked, but nothing was believed to
be missing. The microscope was
taken from the laboratory in the
basement.
w. H. McKenney, 40 New York
avenue, the engineer, pursued the
two burglars through the basement
and across the rear yard before they
outdistanced him.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
THUG GAGS CLERK,
TAKESAWAY CASH
Armed Man Holds Up Wom-
an in Laundry Branch.
Binds Arms and Legs.
An armed bandit held up the Palace

An armed bandit held up the Palace
Laundry branch ut Fourteenth and, /
streets lastnnight, bound and gagged
the woman cIerk with adhesive tape
ana escaped with ths entire contents
ssf the sregisters s.1Ss'st,ss 80
The bandit walked into the laundry
about 2 PM, while Mrs. Margaret
Hayes of 1o25 Fifteenth street was
searching for package of laundry.
Her back was turned to the hold-up
man and 1t was not until he walked
up behind her, gun in hands and said
Get in that room," motioning toward
a lavatory and cloak room, that she
knew any one was in the branch Of
fee, Mrs. Hayes told officers.
StroIls Out With Cash.
As soon as she stepped into the back
room, the man clapped his hand over
her month, plastering it shut with
the adhesivel tape. Then, pocketing
his pistol, he pinned her arms behind
her, bound them securely and laid her
on the floor. After taping her legs
together, he strolled out into the Of
fee, rif1ed the cash register and
walked out Of the store.
About half hour later Carl Poe and
j. w. Galloway of 1445 N street en-
tered the laundry. Several other GUS
toners were standing In front of the
counter and after few moments, Poe
and Galloway became rather inquisi-
tive about why they had not been
waited upon.
Means Reveal Captive.
Just then they heard muf1ed means
coming from the back room and, in
veStigating, found Mrs. Hayes, only
about half-consciouS, stretched out on
the floor. Police were called and Mrs.
Hayes, after recovering from the
fright, gave them partial description
of the robber.
She said he was about 5 feet 10
inches tall, 35 to 40 years old, of
medium build and dressed in dark
clothes, with straw hat.
She could not estimate the amount
of money stolen, pending a check-up
Evening star., 1934-09-02
C0RN-HOG PRODUCERS
RECEIVE 55 MILLION
Farm Adjustment Unit Makes
Payments in 566, ,5S7 Checks.
More Pacts Signed.
BY the Associated Press

by I1e ASSOCIATED RreSS.
First installment payments to pro-
ducers participating in the Farm Ad-
juStment Administrations corn-hog
program were reported yesterday by DR..
A. G.. Black, chief of the corn-hog
section, to exceed $4,000, 900 to date.
The disbursements represent close
to one-half of the $133, 900 900 which
the farm administration has estimated
will be paid out to producers as first
installment benefits. The payments
have been made in 566,587 checks.
More than 100000 contracts now
are being received each week by the
rental benefit audit section. In all,
657.790 contracts have been received
and released for payment up to Au-
gust 80, representing approximately SIS
per cent of the 100000 contracts
signed by corn-hog producers.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
PLANS SPEEDED
ON SANATOR|UM
Working Drawings Pushed
on New Glenn Dale
Construction.

All possible speed will be made in
drafting working drawings for the
adult tuberculosis sanatorium to be
built at Glenn Dale, Md, under the
$1,500,o0 public works fund, Mai.
Paul A. Hodgson, assistant Engineer
Commissioner, declared yesterday.
He said the District has authority
to employe sufficient number of de-
signers and engineers to push the work
rapidly, but emphasized that in de-
signing such special purpose build
ing much thought must be given to
arranging facilities properly.
officials have estimated six months
would be required to complete the
plans. Maj. Hodgson, who is in
charge of the Office of the municipal
architect, said the work would not
necessarily take that long if experts
who must be consulted do not find
need to change the original ideas Of
the architects.
Board of Advisers Named.
The Commissioners have named a
board of six District officials to ad-
wise the architects in their work.
Maj. Hodgson was named chairman.
Other members are: Health Officer
William c. Fowler, Nathan C. Wyeth,
municipal architect; DR.. Joseph w.
Peabody, general superintendent of
tuberculosis hospitals; DR.. Daniel
Finucane, head of the Childrens Tu-
berculosis Sanatorium, and Charles
B. McGrew of the municipal archi-
tect's Office.
The plans must pass muster before
this group, the Board of Public We'll
fare and the Commissioners. In addi-
ton, special medical consultants are
to be called into service, and most
likely the plans will be submitted for
the approval of the Fine Arts Com
mission and the National Capital Park
and Planning Commission, even
though the site of the building is IA
miles from the city.
Maj Hodgson said less than six
months might prove sufficient If the
architect captures the correct idea for
the building at once and If this and
the structural. equipment and medical
facilities quickly win approval of ex-
pert counsel.
Time Needed for Plans.
A period of months is necessary to
draw detailed plans for such build
ing, he said, because of the multitude
OF questions that must be solved to
{ meet all the technical needs of a
special type of hospital.
Ten months were required for
| drafting plans for the Children's
Sanatorium, a smaller building, be-
cause of difficulties of all experts to
agree on some details of the plans,
1t was explained.
The staff Of the municipal archi-
tect's office, now numbering 40 per-
sons, recently was more than doubled
to meet this and other project needs.
More help may be hired if necessary,
Maj. Hodgson said. He said not all
Of this staff is now assigned to the
hospital work, since their services are
not needed until sketches of the
building are approved.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
D. c. DEPARTMENTS
TO ASK 80 MILLION
FOR Ne " BUDGET
Slashes Expected to Be
Made Before Estimates
Are Approved.
PLANS ARE BEING MADE
FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS
Details of Proposed Expenditures
Will Be Published by
Auditor Soon.

Department heads of the District
are requesting appropriations for the
next fiscal year totaling more than
$50 100000 it was revealed yesterday
as preparations were made for public
hearings on the estimates which will
be started soon.
Funds provided in the 1885 supply
act amounted to $35, All 900. The ap-
preparations recommended by the de-
partment heads thus amount to
approximately 43 per cent more than
those approved by Congress in the
1885 act.
This is the rather customary situa-
ton each year since the division
heads normally include in their origi-
nal estimates most of the items they
regard as needed to give proper serv-
ice. Each year the District budget
officials or the Commissioners make
heavy slashes in these estimates be-
fore the tentative District budget is
formulated by the city heads.
Welfare Outlays Heavy.
Indications are this practice will
be followed again this year by the
new Board of Commissioners, par
ticularly because of expected neces-
sary heavy outlays for welfare and
school activities.
Public hearings on the estimates as
submitted by the department heads
now are scheduled to be started Sep
tember 10. That date was set some
time ago, tentatively. Since public
hearings on plans for rerouting of
street car lines are scheduled to begin
on the same date, it is expected some
change may be made.
The city heads have decided to
publish details of the estimates prior
to the holding of public hearings.
These documents now are in the
hands of Maj. Daniel j. Donovan,
District auditor and budget officer.
He plans to make these public, a
group at time, beginning early this
week.
Hearings Planned.
Expectations are that hearings on
the budget estimates will be held
soon, however, since the Commits
Sioners are required to place their
proposed 1885 budget before the
Budget Bureau not later than Octo-
Der H.,
Publication Of the estimates of the
department heads, and public hearings
on their requests, were ordered this
year by the Commissioners in a move
to give the public an opportunity to
suggest necessary changes before the
budget is sent to Congress for action.
The city heads explain that they
cannot announce the budget they agree
upon and forward to the Budget Bu-
xeau.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Convention Rejects 0lt.

ST. LOUIS, September P.-Dean
Russell Olt of Anderson Qnd) College
was reelected president today at the
closing session of the International
Young Peoples Convention Of the
Church of God.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
Folger Library 0pen.

The Folger Shakesperian Library
announced yesterday it would be open
Labor day during the usual hours
8 am. to 4:40 pm.
Evening star., 1934-09-02
PRINCE NICOLAS ILL
Father of Princess Marina of
Greece to Go Under Knife.

BLED, Yugcslavia, September !
R.-Prince Nicolas, father of Prin-
cess Marina Of Greece, will be oper-
ated upon here for appendicitis
shortly, it was learned tonight.
Princess Marina and Prince George
of England, to whom she is engaged
probably will delay their departure
for London week or more.
King Alexander of Yugoslavia will
undergo X-ray treatments at the
same hospital for an ailment, ths
nature of which was not made known
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AN DIT 20 RI AL

an examination of the imperialist possessions of
Wall Street was his signal for the unleashing of a
governmental war against the Communist Party
Johnson, Roosevelt's personal enlissary to the
strike area calls for Fascist, chsuvinist
against all foreign-born workers Inciting chau-
whist hatred against the foregnbor in precisely
the same way as Hitler incites the masses against
the Jews and non aryans," Johnson calls for the
deportation of all foreignborn ito provide jobs for
Americans This is typical Fascist strategy for
dividing the working class against itself This is
the prelude to the nation wide Indictment
against the Communist Party as an allen Party
This means rising ant-semitism, lynching bees
against the foregn-born and the Negro masses
This call by Rooseyets personal representative in
in the n. R. A. mears that race hatred and chau-
vnism will figure ever more prominently as the
policy Of the Roosevelt government.
The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-07-23
NRA Failed to End
Sweatshops, Says
Research Worker

NEW YORK.-That sweatshops
continue despite N. r. A. codes is
shown in evidence submitted by
Grace Hutchins of the Labor Re-
search Association in a letter to
Nathan Straus, Jr.. state director of
the National Emergency Council
under N. R. A. Mr.. Straus had
called on Miss Hutchins to give him
the facts in specific cases bearing
out the statements made in her re-
cent book, Women Who Work, F"
that sweatshops for women survive
under N. r. A. codes.
mot only have sweatshop condi-
lions continued under N. R. A., but
The recovery act itself tends to re-
duce wages to the lowest possible
minimum, declares Miss Hutchins,
in citing typical cases in this state.
Investigation of a large number of
shops in different industries reveals
that the minimum wage established
bv the code becomes in effect the
maximum. Wage provisions of the
codes are almost universally APP
piled in such way that the lowest
rates set forth are the highest rates
paid"
Wages under N. R. A. codes are
stabilized at the low level of $1,000,
as in the Presidents Blanket code
lust revived, or at $12 or $13 for a
full-time week, she points out, but
there is no guarantee that the
worker will have a full weeks work.
Violations of the code regulations,
moreover. a-e now so common that
workers do rot even earn the low
wage stipulated
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A SYSTEMATIC, sustained campaign of
IA terrorism against strikes, trade unions,
and above all, against the Communist
Party is now the central tactics of the
bosses and their government.
The 500 Communists and militant
strike leaders flung into jail, the wrecked
union halls, the blood of the Minneapolis workers
still wet the streets the brutal proof of this
Every worker, every member of trade union
workers organization, must face this brutal fact
that from now the speed with which the
Roosevelt government is moving along the road to
Fascist reaction will be accelerated.
Violence, gang raids secret police activities,
arrests and beatings, attacks against the foreign
born with new wave of Palmer deportation raids
are becoming the daily method of the Roosevelt
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attack on Communists Menaces the Entire Working Class

Continuing the attack against the Communist
Party Secretary Perkins brazeny pledges to the
secret service thugs and the police of California
cooperation to the full extent of the law" in an
organized man-hunt for all militant workers on
strike who happen to have been born abroad.
From now on" proclsims the corrupt Mayor
Rossi of San Francisco the running out of Reds
will be a continuous policy"
The New York Times bares the brutality that
lies behind its suavity, its leading editorial today
declares full support of the Fascist mob rule of the
shipowners that now RACES on the Coast against the
Communist Party. The Times declares:
Doubtless there must be hopping
up in other cities before troubles over"
THESE brutal pledges of rising violence against the
working class and its most militant leaders con-
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released Immediately; that you an
nounce and vigorously carry out a
policy to prevent immigration off
Gals in your department from be-
ing used by employers against
workers, as vigilantes and officials
have been used"
The committee issued state
ment condemning the reign Of ter
ror on the Coast as designed to
prosecute strike leaders and mill
tant workers for their activity in
the strike.
The 1. L. D. announced yester-
day that it is organizing the en-
tire organization in protest action
against mass terror in the San
Francisco strike. Protest wires
from branches all over the coun-
try have been sent to Perkins,
Roosevelt and officials in San
Francisco. Attorneys Leo Gallagher
and johnson of Los Angeles and
Irving Goodman of Portland we're
instructed to proceed to San Fran
cisco at once.
Protest against terror used by
government officials and "vigi-
lantes" in California continued 20
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