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The Washington times., 1934-07-14
SUES
BANK HERE

Roberta E. Wilson, retired
school teacher of the 1900 block
Columbia Rd. N. W., instituted
suit for $1,000 damages today
against the Mount Vernon Saw
ings Bank, claiming she was
given worthless bonds after seek
ing advice of its cashier on max
ing a safe investment.
Through Attorneys Sylvester j.
Aquino and William B. O'ConneA,
she stated she had $1,000 on
deposit in the bank in June, 1928,
and told an official her desire to
safely invest her money, at the
same time admitting her un-
familiarity with financial invest
mentS.
A short time later she stated,
she received five first mortgage
61a per cent bonds, secured by a
mortgage on the Royalton Apart
ments, Philadelphia. Following a
default in payment on the bonds,
she learned the bonds had been
issued by the F. H. Smith Com
pany. The property was fore.
closed in october, 1892, but she
never learned of this until last
May IS, she related, then dis
covering the bonds were worth
less,
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was all there was to it, and there
was plenty of room for every
body. The press table was at the
extreme eastern end of a corri-
dor which divided this third of
the second floor into two sets
Of rooms. saw only the other
day Robert H. Patchen, now a
vice president of the Grace
Steamship Company and a man
Of big affairs in New York. I
remember him when he was a
17-year-old boy assigned to cover
the White House by The Wash
ington Times, hen under a diff
ferent ownership.
The big wowwow of the
White House staff of CORE
SpondentS was William w. Price,
Of the Star and later of The
Times, q very large man phys
ically as well as one possessed
of a very wide circle of acquaint-
ances and contacts. He lorded
it over the long succession of
kids, usually changing every few
weeks. whom the rival paper
sent to the White House, and
Patchen. although a nicely
groomed young man, well-bred
and refined in manner, was a
particular object of Prices dis
dain.
For the first few days Price
got erything and Patchen
nothing. Any big man who
came out Of the Presidents Of
flee Price saw and controlled the
output. Only people of too small
account for Price to bother with
was Patchen allowed to see.
Finally, the youngster thought
Of a working device for bringing
things into relation. Price did
not like to stir around rapidly.
In consequence, when any man
came out of the Presidents room
whose Importance Price did not
realize, but upon whom Patchen
was willing to take a chance,
he allowed him to go down
the stairs and out the front door
of the White House unmolested.
When about there Patchen
would get up like a fire-engine
horse and race down and over
take the man, knowing that
Price was too heavy to follow
him. Then the material which
he acquired was good trading
stuff, and he soon brought his
elderly contemporary to a work
ing basis.
But I started to tell you about
conditions in the White House.
There was just one telephone
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myself. I walk under ladders,
open umbrellas in the house,
and, as for black cats, / love
'em. I do all these things and
/ am still lucky because Mar.
garet is marrying me-"
The newlyweds met last Jan
uary and have been engaged
since Wednesday. Mr.. Brown
confesses he proposed three
months ago. His luck held good
and Margaret finally said eyes
Tests Her Affection
confidentially, he said: y
II thought if i could get
her to marry me on Friday the
thirteenth in spite of her feel
ings on the subject that would
prove how much she cared.
And it may be the last chance
I'll have to prove who is
boss"
The couple will honeymoon ir
Wilmington, Del, and upon theil
return will make their home ir
the 1900 block of Franklin st
N, E,
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NJ CARL RULING
ON MRS. KIRK
ATTACKED
A. W. HeinmiIIer Named to
New Post in Charge of
Supply Procurement

The Board of Education today
decided to appeal the decision Of
the Comptroller General, who de-
MED the request of the District
Commissioners that Mrs. Page T.
Kirk be restored to the salary
grade in which she was rated be-
fore she retired from service as
teacher at Western High School.
Mrs. Kirk voluntarily retired on
June 80, 1888, because her hus-
band was employed in the Gov
ernment service. She was rein
stated by Presidential order when
students and parents protested
her leaving the service. However,
on reinstatement she was given
only $4,000, or $500 less than
when she retired.
ID. C. Heads Ask Full Pay
Both the Board of Education
and the District Commissioners
recommended that her full salary
be restored, but Comptroller Gen.
eral j. r. McCarl refused the re-
quest, stating that she could be
given only a yearly salary increase
of $10O.
The appeal will take the form
of a request that the comptroller
reopen the case and reconsider his
decision.
The board did not appoint a
successor to Harry o. Hine, as it's
secretary, leaving the office open
until it's next meeting in the fall.
Mr.. Hine will retire at the end of
this month, having reached the
age of 70.
The reason given by the board
for not appointing a successor was
the fact that only five of the nine
members of the board were pres
ent.
Heinmiller Gets Post
Adelbert w. Heinmiller was ap-
pointed to fill the position left
vacant by the death of Assistant
Superintendent of Schools Major
Raymond o. Wilmarth. The
designation Of the position, how
ever, was changed from assistant
superintendent to director of pro-
curement of supplies and equip
ment.
Mr.. Heinmiller, who holds a
master of arts degree from George
Washington University, has spe-
cialized in Government account
ing and commerce. He also has
completed all required work for
the designation of certified public
accountant.
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GAS WAR RACES
IN MARYLAND,
VIRGINIA
"LittIe Fellows" Claim Major
Companies Will squeeze
Them Out" by Price Cuts

Washington motorists today
watched with interest the raging
battle between Independent gas
oline dealers in nearby Maryland
and Virginia, and the major oil
companies.
Charges were hurled last night
that major oil companies in North
ern Virginia are attempting to
squeeze out independent dealers,
under the cloak Of the petroleum
code. The charges were made by
F. E. Dove, Clarendon, Va, presl-
dent of the Northern Virginia Gas
oline Dealers Association.
Aroused Over Increase
Aroused over the increase which
boosts their price ! cent, and in
some instances 2 cents per gal
lon, many of the independent
dealers in nearby Maryland, prin-
cipally in Montgomery county. TO-
day demanded gasoline COM
panies restore their prices TO
the same level as the metropoli-
tan area, or else remove equip
ment.
One abuse the Maryland deal
ers charge is, an agency Of one
of the largest oil companies To-
Gated near Rockville can sell gaso-
line at any price, while 200 yards
away motorists are forced to pay
eighth-tenths of a cent more for
the same gas.
Backed by Business Men
Dealers of northern Virginia
have been assured the backing
of the Clarendon Business Mems
Association. Efforts are being
made to secure the support Of
all business men in the sections
affected by the war.
It is claimed almost $50 indie
pendent dealers in the northern
district will be put out Of eusi-
ness if the policy of the major
companies is adhered to.
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ing that he had opened the
doors for the President the
night he went to Ford's The
ater. Pender told his story to
everybody with great glee, and
the way he would recite the
words: II was the last one to
let him out alive" had curious
suggestivenesS.
We had some very interesting
colored messengers in those
days, notably Arthur Simmons,
who was quite q character in
his time. He had obtained a
job at the White House as a
dish washer, and when Andrew
jackson became President Of
the United States, and some
what gruffy asked him what he
was doing there, Simmons re-
piled: "Sir, I was born in the
State of North Carolina" He
had heard that the President
was born there and thought
that this tie would hold him on,
his job, as it did.
Simmons had exactly the
point of view of the people de-
scribed in Green Pastures. The
Harrison Administration had
sent him over to Botany Bay, in
the basement of the Treasury.
The second Cleveland Admins
tration bought him back. La
mont was very fond Of the old
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gut Square and ask the Senator
to come directly to the White
House-it was the Executive
Mansion" then - to see the
President.
That was the day that he
rendered Mr.. White a position
as Justice of the Supreme
Court of the United States,
sending in the nomination the
next day, which was immedi-
ately confirmed by the Senate
following its reflections of Horn
blower and Peckam, New York
ers, whom Cleveland had nomi-
mated but whom the Senators
from that State, Hill and Muir
ply, had opposed. Now such
an errand as that would today
be done by telephone. But we
never thought Of doing things
that way then. 1 doubt if Mr..
Cleveland ever spoke over the
telephone so long as he re-
manned President.
We had an extremely small
number of clerks and attend
ants in the White House in
those days. They had mostly
come with the several admins
trations and had remained
there. There was Warren
Young, of Youngstown, Ohio,
who had been brought to Wash
ington by Congressman Gar
field and by him taken to the
White House.
During the Presidents long
illness, the newspapers of that
day record that Warren Young
read the bulletins to all in
quirerS.
Then there was Alice B.
Sanger who retired only last
winter from a long and honor
able service as chief of the per-
sonnel division of the Post Of
flee Department. She had come
to town with President Harri-
son, and was Major Halford's
personal Stenographer and also
assistant to Mr.. E. F. Tibbet,
who was the Presidents per-
sonal stenographer. It was his
place that I took on March 4,
1893. When I resigned the po-
sition on November l, 1895, to
become a correspondent here, I
turned the job over to George
B. Cortelyou, whose subsequent
career has been very distin-
guiShed.
But we had few more people
at the White House in the old
days. There was colonel Crook.
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HOME
IS GUARDED

AS a. result of two extortion
threats against George N. Ever
EFT, second vice president of the
Woodward & Lothrop depart
ment store, police today con-
tinued to maintain a guard at
his home, 300 block Ellicott
st. N. w.
A guard of detectives is being
augmented by uniformed men,
Capt. B. w. Thompson, assistant
detective chief, said. The house
is being covered" "a hours a
day.
A trap" the nature of which
Captain Thompson would not re-
veal, last week failed to catch
the author of notes threatening
to blow up" the Everett home
if Mr.. Everett refused to comply
with a demand for $4,000.
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ALL FOOD FOUND
POISON CAUSE

One week after so men were
poisoned at the Districts tran
sient shelter, John Marshall
Place and C SITS. N. W., the Dis
trict health authorities today
concluded any one Of the items
on the menu last Saturday night
could have accounted for the
poisoning.
Heavy bacteria count was re-
ported from the sausages and
especially the potato salad.
At the same time, it was
pointed out by DR.. William C..
Fowler, District Health Officer,
the samples of food sent to the
District laboratories had been
taken from garbage cans, and
may have become contaminated
there.
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Band Concert Slated
At TakOn1a MOndaH

The second in a series of five
band concerts given by the Re-
view and Herald Publishing Com
pany band under the direction Of
Prof. Victor Johnson, will be held
at Spring Park, Takoma Park,
Md, Monday at 8 p. m.
Mayor Frederick L. Lewton and
members of the Takoma' town
council voted an appropriation
some time ago to help defray the
expenses of the concerts.
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before 9 in the morning or after
in the afternoon.
Those were the working
hours of that era. Once in a
great while Mrs. Cleveland
would send for me and ask me
to telephone somebody for her,
but the instrument was in those
days more or less of an emer.
gency signaling device rather
than for conversation. I always
remember the Sunday that Mr..
Cleveland asked me to go over
to see Senator White Of Louis
lana edward DouglasS) who
then lived in a house in Farra-
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BY RILLA SCHROEDER

Dan Cupid was hiding in the
corridors of the Rockville court
house yesterday making faces at
OF Man Superstition as Margaret
Virginia Lunce eford, Is, and
Chester Brown, %, both of Vir-
ginia, applied for a marriage IL
cenSe.
The license was the only one is.
sued during the day at the Mont
gomery county Gretna Green.
Even the license clerk tried to
persuade the youthful couple to
postpone the ceremony until to.
day. n
4Bystanders warned them:
Friday the thirteenth is In-
lucky. You Oughtn't take such
chances
Bride Is SuperstitiOus
The bride candidly admitted
she was superStitious, but said
her bridegroom had urged her to
take the chance and show her
confidence in him.
Mr.. Brown said:
81 am not a bit SuperstitiOuS
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D. C.. Nursery Schools
ReODen for Summer

Nursery schools of the District
were reinStated on a full-time
schedule yesterday with FERA
funds. They are to continue on
full schedule until at. least Sep
tember 30. = -. '-
With a monthly allotment Of
5000 to cover all emergency edu-
cational activities, the nurseries
are now open six days a week for
six hours q day. The children
are fed twice daily and are taught
handcraft, drawing and other
children's activities.
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Rescue Squad Man
Injured in Crash

Richard r. Murphy, 80, a
member of the BladenSburg CMdD
Fire Rescue Squad, is in seri-
Gus condition at Casualty Hos
pital as the result of injuries
received in an automobile crash
today on River Road, near
BladenSburg.
The operator of the car which
collided with Mr.. Murphy's ma
chine gave his name to police as
Leroy SchnoopS, of Mt. Rainier.
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j. s. employees
To GET BOOST
MONDAY
Local Purses to Be SWeIIed
BY $650,00O as Second
5 Per Cent Is Added

About $650,OOO more cash will
be in circulation here next Mon
day than was circulating at the
same time a year ago.
The reason is that Federal and
District Government employees
will receive, with their first
checks of the current fiscal year,
the additional "five and five" pay
restoration.
Fifteen Millions a Year
The total annual increase in the
purchasing power of the $500
Federal workers in Washington
and the 5000 District employees
will be about SIS, 400, 900, it has
been estimated.
Such is the result of the long
and bitter fight waged in the last
Congress to obtain a square deal"
for Uncle Sans personnel.
Although Federal employees
usually are given their checks on
Saturday if the regular payday
falls on Sunday, on this particular
occasion the "ghost will walk" on
Monday rather than today.
Extra Work Entailed
This situation has been caused
by the tremendous amount Of ac.
counting and auditing forced on
the Treasury Department in ap-
plying the extra per cent effec-
tive as of July / to the $4,000
checks to be distributed here.
With Mondays pay, the salaries
of Government workers will be 95
per cent of the level applying
when the first slash of 8 1-3 per
cent went into effect on July i,
1882.
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Friendly Glass May
Cost Beer License

A friendly glass of beer sold to
a policeman by George Matosian,
who conducts a food shop in the
1000 block of Rhode Island Ave.
N. E., may cost him his beer IL
cense.
The Alcoholic Beverage Control
Board is considering the revoca"
ton of Matosian's permit because.
it was charged, that he sold beer
by the glass to policeman, when
he has a license to sell only in
bottles to be taken out of the shop.
Matosian'S attorney declared it
was "a friendly act and not a busi"
ness transaction.
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Parkway Allotted
S2,OOO,OOO More

Allotment of an additional ST.
100000 for the Great Smoky Ma
tional Parkway, extending from
the Shenandoah National Park in
Virginia to the Great Smoky Ma
tional Park in Tennessee, and
North Carolina was announced
today by Secretary of the In
terror Ickes. The project had
previously been granted $4,000, 900.
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Telegraph Workers
Hold Annual Outinq

The Association of Western
Union Employees will hold their
annual outing at Morgantown,
Md, tomorrow. Clarence Lime
rick. local president, and Jerry
Eldridge, vice president, have
provided entertainment for the
500 members expected to attend.
The winner Of the bathing
beauty contest this year will re-
ceive a silver trophy.
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Thunder ShOlUers
Seen for Weekend

Occasional thunder showers will
mar the weekend, the Weather
Bureau forecast today as the mer-
curry continued to rise following
the cool spell.
There will be showers this after
noon, it was predicted and prob
ably tomorrow afternoon. The
mercury is expected to pass yes
terday's mark, when 86 was re-
corded.
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D. C.-tO-MGryLGnd
Road Contract Let

The Union Paving Company was
today award ! contract for road
construction work from the upper
end of Sixteenth st. N. w., to
the Prince Georges County line.
The company's bid was $92,6O0.
Work will begin immedis 1ely,
officials of the Maryland State
Roads Commission said today. The
two and one-half mile strip of
concrete road will require about
127 working days.
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Parade Will Open
Church Carnival

Ten floats, six bands and a
number of marching units will be
featured in a parade July %,
marking the opening of a two
weeks carnival at the Holy Com
forter Church, at Fifteenth and
East Capitol streets.
Floats will be entered by the
Holy Name Society, Sodality and
Knights of st. John organizations
of the church.
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W no h a d
been a police
man on the
groun ds in
the Lincoln
ad m i n iStra-
t n. There
was a man
at the front
door named
P e nder, I
think, whose
ch i e t boast
was that he
waS tho Last
one to "let
Lincoln ou t
alive, :" mean.
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Dog Bites Woman
In Front of Home

Mrs. Mary G. Murray, Sc, first
block Seaton Pl. N. w., is recover
ing at her home today from in
jurieS received when she was at
tackled by a dog in front of her
home late yesterday. The dog was
taken to the pound for examina"
ton.
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Mans Hip Broken
In FnLL From Tree

John B. Eckenrude, 5000 block,
Colesville Park, Silver Springs, is
in the Washington Sanitarium,
Takoma Park, with a fractured
hip suffered in a fall from lad
der while trimming a fruit tree
at his home late yesterday. He
was taken to the Sanitarium by
the Silver Spring rescue squad.
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S3,393 for Marble
At AmDhitheQteT

A contract at $3,393 has been
awarded Cyril P. Dickson of this
city to clean the marblework at
Arlington Cemetery Memorial
Amphitheater by the quarter
master general of the Army.
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there, No. 8.
We had no
exchanges in
those d a y S.
Washing t o n
was all one ex-
change. The
White House
had only one
tie ! e p h o n e
a n d t h a t
hung up on
the wall in
W h a t W a S
known as the
t el e gra p h
room. It was
not answered
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Amber Will Warn
Of UnLiQhted Ports

Amber course lights on Depart
ment of Commerce airways
throughout the country will in
form airmen of the presence of
unlighted airports. When there
are no airports near the course
lights will be red.
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Man Shot to Death
At Home of Sister

Byron Spicer. Sc, was found shot
to death shortly before noon to-
day in the rear Of his home in
the 1900 block Wisconsin Ave. N.
w. A gun was lying at his side.
Mr.. Spicer had been in i'll health
for many years according to his
sister, Mrs. M. Mckee, of the same
address.
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the w h ! te
House offices,
I W as re-
minded Of the
primitive con-
di on in
which we lived
and worked
there 40 years
ago.
The White
House offices
occupied the
space on the
second floor
directly over
he E a S t
Rn0m THAT.
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Scheduled AirLineS
CGrru IS, ,89S in MGv

Scheduled airlineS operating in
the United States carried $500
passengers in May. it was re-
ported today by the Department
Of Commerce. Their planes flew
2,699,S42 miles and carried 153-
S31 pounds Of express.
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Robert L. .O'Brien Cites
Days When White House
Had Only One Phone
Bv HELEN ESSARY

Mr. Robert President Roosevelt tell over
the radio the enlGong the executive offices Mr.
oBen chairman OF the Tariff Commission 0aS once per-
sonGl Steno0rGpher to President CLeuelGnd.
In this entertaining article about the primitive White House OF
20 pears he owS that the Gay Nees ere not very daring
tn Washington.
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When heard the President
In his last talk over the radio,
tell Of the plans for enlarging
Evening star., 1934-05-07

tion Of an old lamplighter who for
IS years carried around his poles
lighting and extinguishing 90 gas
lights seven nights a week. It re-
quired 100000 operations with the
thumb. the physician reckoned. to
turn on all those lights. and twice
as many to turn them on
In view of these 5000, 900 opera
tions it was little wonder, concluded
the physician, that the old lamp
lighter should show the stamp Of his
profession on his thumbs"
To confirm his findings. another
lamplighter-a comparative voungster
who had been in the turning on and
turning off business only 26 years
was examined. He, too, had deformed
thumbs with "the epidermis thick
ened to form q callOsity about the
size Of q dime"
Evening star., 1934-05-07
WEEK END PLANE
ACCIDENTS KILL Il
Woman and Three Men Die
in Midnight Crash in
Texas.
~ the Associated Press.

By inc Associated PRESS.
Week end airplane wrecks took a
death toll of II.
A midnight flight at Houston, Tex,
carried a woman and three men to
their deaths. The bodies of Bob Glyn.
81, pilot; Miss Gladys Wood, 20; Fred
Burnett, %, and Leroy Grandy, %,
we're found at dawn Sunday in the
wreckage OF a private plane mile
from the airport from which they had
taken off at II pm Saturday.
Two women-Miss Elva Carr and
Mrs. Lottie Wright-found the wreck
age after a frantic all-night search.
Alarmed when the plane carrying
their friends did not come back. the
two set out to find it. Miss Carr and
Mrs, Wright had expected to go up
when the plane returned to the air
port. where they waited.
A woman and two men died in
flames at a Fulton N Y, airport
when their plane fell 800 feet and
caught fire The victims were Leon
w Holly of Fulton. owner and pilot
of the plane: Miss Irene Clark 20. of
Oswego, N Y. and John Parsons, q.
Of Fairhaven. N Y.
Lowell Markwith. 80, Newark flyer.
and George J. Kuntz. "a, a student
pilot. were killed near New Market.
N. j.. when their ship nose-dived into
a marshy field after losing a wing in
midair.
Mrs. Arthur johnson, 18. was
drowned in San Francisco Bay when
the plane piloted by Harold Christ
man, 81. dropped into the water. Her
husband and Christman were rescued
by a launch
w. A. George was injured fatally at
Soda Springs, Idaho, in a take-off
crash
Evening star., 1934-05-07
BRUNT OF SUMMERS PREVIEW
BORNE BY MIDWESTERN STATES

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, May IA merciless
sun, beating down on the parched
prairies of the North Central States.
gave no prospect of relief to the
drought t-stricken areas today.
Only some moderation In the high
temperatures Of Sunday was predicted
High temperatures ruled the Ma
ton generally yesterday. with the
Central West taking the brunt Of
Summers preview BY midafternoon
they had scared 10 100 degrees at
Sioux City. Iowa, breaking all records
for May
In Chicago the mercury jumped to
Sal. smashing the al-time heat record
for May 9. The previous high was S6.
One death was indirectly attributed
to the heat.
Hot kinds swept parts of Nebraska,
adding to the drought peril. Kansas,
Missouri, Wisconsin and Minnesota re-
manned rainle.s, and the moisture de-