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Evening star., 1934-08-14

sorta hankered for my farm, so got
a release.
Stuck to my farming for a coupla
years." Benson went on. But farmin'
out my way got going bad. So when
the House of David team offer came
along last year I got back in the game
to pick me up little money. There
amt no farmin' at all to speak of out
my way now. So I'm figurin' to stick
right along with base ball"
Benson is a stalwart SiX-footer. He
now weighs around 180, but says when
he "toughens into trim" he balances
the scales at 100. He'll be rs years
old the latter part of this month.
81 been playing ball since was 18,"
the bewhiskered one said. "Allus
, pitchin'. Played on the high school
nine at Hurley-that's the South Da-
kota town I was born in and that I
now call homeland had a year at
South Dakota University. Left to
go back to the farm. I like that
farmin'. But the money for farmers
like me is in base ball today"
Came Here From Albany.
Benson came up to the Nationals
yesterday by way Of the Albany club
of the International League. Joe
Cambria, president Of Albany, and
a great friend of Grifhth's, saw the
pitcher beat pro club in night
game at Harrisburg, Pa, last week
and lost no time signing him. He
tipped Grifith to the find yesterday
and the Washington club acquired
Benson.
Benson was asked whether he
would keep those whiskers, now that
he is in the big league. There's been
no bearded player around the majors
since Arlie Latham, who was playing
in the gay 90s.
"Waal, I dunno bout that" he re-
flected They've been botherin' me
lot this hot Summer. But mebbe
I'll save that mustache anyway"
And the nustache is pinker than
any other part of the hirsute adorn-
ment.
Evening star., 1934-08-14

plastered it on the burning parts with
his hands, finally subduing the blaze
He and Detective Sergts. H. D. Secrest
and Hubert Steve" Brodie. who had
been riding with him, then pulled the
two men and two women out of the
car.
Blood was streaming down the faces
Of Truscott and De Ward, and Mrs.
Mansfield and Mrs. Fontaine were
badly bruised and shaken up. The
policewoman's back was wrenched.
Guns were strewn all over the
highway and when a passing woman
driver, who paused out of curiosity
spied them, she shouted, "Gangsters,
and sped away.
Mrs, ,FonEaine was the least serious
" injured OF the four, all Of whom
were taken to the Johnston Willis
Hospital in Richmond Mrs. Mans
field and De Ward were admitted
for treatment and Truscott had siz
stitches taken in his head before
being released.
He brought Mrs. Fontaine back tc
Washington last night, accompanied
by Secrest, Brodie and Nicholson.
The trial to which she had beer
brought to testify-that of Walter
Davis, tri-State gangster, charged
with the murder of a Federal Reserv,
Bank truck driver during a hold-uT
had been postponed a week ant
the Inflated trip had been made il
vain.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
MINIMUM WAGES
URGED FOR RELIEF
EIWood Street to Submit
Plans at Civic Group
Meeting.

When a Civic Committee meets at
the District Building Thursday morn
ing to map plans for finding jobs for
persons on the relief list, a proposal
that minimum wage scales for various
classes of work not covered by the
N. r. A. or other Government codes
will be considered.
Elwood Street, director of public
welfare, who will submit the sugges-
tion to the Civic Committee named
by the Commissioners to promote the
job-finding campaign, said: IT be-
lieve that wages paid should at least
be living wages. Less than that SIM
ply will not achieve the purpose of
making these relief clients self-suS-
tanning"
He said many persons have offered
to give employment to persons on the
relief rolls at wages too low to be
acceptable to the relief and employ
ment officials. He said this was par
ticularly true in the case of domes-
tics. Several have offered to give a
good home" to needy person in re-
turn for their services as domestics.
Various plans for finding jobs for
the unemployed are being drafted
individually by members of the Ex-
ecutive Committee of the civic group.
These are to be submitted and dis
cussed at the Thursday session.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
GYPSY WOMAN HELD
FOR JURY ACTION
Grand Larceny Charged to
Reader" Who Took $1,000
From Handkerchief.

Julia Smith, alias Julia Stevens,
a 24-year-old gypsy, was held for
grand jury action today under $4,000
bond on a grand larceny charge when
she waived preliminary hearing be-
fore Judge Ralph Given in Police
Court.
She was charged specifically with
having mulcted $1,000 from Mrs Mary
E. Tyler, 308 T street.
Mrs. Tyler said the gypsy came to
her home to give reading" and had
coerced Mrs. Tyler into withdrawing
her money from the bank. The
Smith woman then told Mrs. Tyler
she has placed the money in hand
kerchief and told her not to open the
package for a certain period of time
She said when she did open the
handkerchief the money had been
replaced by paper the same size as
the banknotes.
The defendant, who pleaded guilty,
was arrested in Reynoldsbury, Ohio.
August 10 by Deterctive Sergt. Paul
o. Jones after a search which had
extended through several States.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
ROOF PLAYERS TO GIVE
BENEFIT PERFORMANCE

P. T. Barnum's melodrama, THE
Drunkard," will be presented tonight
at 8:45 o'clock by the Roof Players
of Washington, under the direction
of Mrs. Elizabeth Gatlin Pritchard, as
a benefit performance for the Presi-
dents Cup Regatta. The perform
ance will be given on the roof of the
Willard Hotel. The show will be
given again on Thursday and Satur-
day nights of this week.
Community singing will follow the
offering. The numbers include THE
Bowery," Let Me Call You Sweet
heart" After the Ball" In the
Shade of the Old Apple Tree" Lit
tie Annie Rooney" and "Yip-I-addy-
Lay"
Final rehearsals were held at the
Willard last night. The settings
have been devised and painted by
Hugo linden. The Roof Players in
clude members from the Shakespeare
Society, the Washington Readers
Club, the Arts Club, the Washington
Community Players, the Bartfield
Players and others
Evening star., 1934-08-14

Definite steps were taken today by
Police Supt. Brown to find two mates
for the Voice of Safety"
Maj. Brown said the Traffic Bureau
has two cruisers which could be paint
ed white and equipped with loud
speakers for safety patrol work, but he
would rather use two new machines.
AS the department is preparing to
purchase about Is new cars to replace
worn-out equipment, he is hopeful
that two of these can be spared to
assign to the safety patrol.
At any rate, there likely will be
three Voices of Safety" on the streets
before Fall, which will make it pos
sible to cover all sections of the Dis
trict and increase the already marked
effectiveness of the safety crusade,
While the Voice OF Safety" has
aided materially in cutting down the
accident rate, Maj. Brown explained
that several mechanical difficulties
would have to be overcome before the
equipment is 100 per cent efficient.
First, a battery of loud speakers will
have to be used instead of one, as at
present, so that the voice of the Off
Ger in the car can be heard In all di-
rections. Second, better type of
insulation will have to be adopted for
the radio apparatus to prevent rain
from putting 1t out Of commission.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
II GET JOBS THROUGH
SERVICE MEMS HOME

Employment was found for 70 resi-
dents of the Soldiers and Sailors
Home, 921 Pennsylvania avenue
southeast, during the past month, T.
A. Hudlow, superintendent, reported
yesterday to the Board of Public We'll
fare. Some of the jobs were said to
be for short duration.
A total of 22l service men were
cared for at the home last month as
against 279 in July of last year No
definite reason appears for the reduc-
ton in the number of men beyond
the probability that the improvement
in the Federal transient relief pro-
gram and some restriction on travel
by transients has cut the number of
persons applying to the home, the
superintendent said.
The expenses of the home last
month amounted to $l,480. The av-
erage cost per person per day was
$l19.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
Police Chauffeur Saues Liues
Of Gang Witness and 3 Others
Mrs. Fontaine and Officers Trapped in
Blasing Wreck-Nicholson Quells
Fire With Hands and Mud.

A Washington detective, a Federal
postal inspector, a policewoman and
a gangster woman owe their lives to
the quick thinking of a Police De-
partment chauffeur, it was learned
today.
Paul w. Nicholson, the chauffeur,
saved them from burning to death
yesterday when their police car turned
upside down in a ditch and caught
fire on the Richmond highway, about
20 miles outside the Virginia capital.
The three officers, Detective Sergt.
Floyd Truscott, Postal Inspector Leo
A. de Ward and Policewoman Hazel
Mansfield, were taking Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Fontaine, sweetheart of the
slain leader of the notorious tyi-State
gang, to Richmond, when the light
sedan, driven by Truscott, skidded in
a sudden rainstorm, plunged down
an embankment and caught fire.
Nicholson was driving police
escort car. loaded with machine guns,
revoivers and riot guns. Hardly had
he brought his car to a stop before
he leaped out, fire extinguisher In
hand, and ran toward the blazing
machine.
Needless Of his own safety, he stood
beside the car and exhausted the con-
tents of the small extinguisher. But
the fire still blazed, with the fou1
occupants trapped inside, only hall
conscious.
Nicholson then scooped up mud and
Evening star., 1934-08-14
D. c. HEADS AWAIT
ECKES INVITATION
P. W. A. Administrator Ex-
pected to Set Early Date
for Hospital Talk.

Although Public Works Admins
traitor Ickes will confer with the Dis
trict Commissioners as soon as pos
Sible on selection of a site for the
proposed District tuberculosis hos
pital, he has not had time since
his return to the city to make a
definite appointment.
The Commissioners are expected to
advise the administrator of the opin-
ions submitted to them recently by
a large number of medical authori-
ties, approving erection of the build
ing on the site already owned by the
District at Glenn Dale, Md, where
the city already has erected a chill
dren'S tuberculosis hospital.
This site was purchased for the
tuberculosis development, but the
Commissioners recently designated a
committee to make survey Of noun
tain locations, following indications
that public works officials were not
in favor of the Glenn Dale site. Ickes
a short time ago made known that
he still had an open mind on the
question.
While the Commissioners were
awaiting today an invitation from the
public works administrator to dis
cuss funds for the sanatorium, they
reviewed the matter with DR.. William
Gerry Morgan, chairman of the COM
mittee of medical authorities who ad-
vised the city heads that the Glenn
Dale site was satisfactory.
Commissioner Hazen said DR.. Nor
gan was asked to submit to him an
outline of the findings of the COM
mittee The Commissioners had
planned to take the committee of
medical authorities with them to their
requested conference with the admin
iStrator.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
"VOICE OF SAFETY" MATES
SOUGHT BY TRAFFIC BUREAU

Twice during recent transforms the
voice of the Voice of Safety" was
stilled by water, and it required several
hours work to put the apparatus back
In commission.
Another difficulty that has de-
veloped is the interference between
the loud speaking equipment and the
short wave radio receiver in the car.
Operators of the "Voice of Safety
have reported that at times they can
not hear distinctly the messages
broadcast by the departments sta
ton WPDW.
Maj. Brown thinks it is vitally i'm
portant that all of these mechanical
difficulties be corrected to increase
the efficiency of the Voice of Safety"
and has turned the problems over to
the departments radio engineers. He
hopes they can be solved before the
two new Voices of Safety" are put
into commission"
Reports to Maj. Brown show that
the Voice of Safety" has covered an
average of $50 miles a week ever since
its debut in Washington, August l..
While the car has concentrated its
activities in the downtown congested
area, it has made number Of side
excursions into the outlying sections,
particularly along the main trafhc
arteries.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
Rule Scale at Wilson School
Shall Be $3.50 Instead
of S1.10 an Hour.
ACTION TAKEN AFTER
WORKERS GO ON STRIKE
Subcontractor Announces He Will
Appeal to Labor Depart
ment Board.

Acting promptly in the hope of set
Ting Washington's newest labor diff
Wulty arising over a contested wage
scale, the District Commissioners
ruled today that a scale of $3.50 in
stead of s1.10 per hour must be paid
stone masons employed in the con-
struction of the new Woodrow Wilson
Senior High School.
Action was taken on recommended
tion of Engineer Commissioner John
c. Gotwals after the city heads we're
informed the stone masons had gone
on strike because a subcontractor,
Louis Perna, had been paying S1.10
an hour instead of the $3.50 rate
prescribed under the Bacon Davis
wage law.
Decision to Be Appealed.
A representative of Perna stated
later the decision would be appealed to
the Labor Department Board of Con-
ciliators. The subcontractor claimed
the men were engaged for the setting
of rubble masonry and not for the
handling of ordinary cut stone work,
which would entitle them to the 81 so
rate
The strike was called after repre-
sentativeS of the Building Trades
Council and Capt. Howard D. Clark,
chairman of the District Wage Com
pliance Board, inspected pay en-
velopes last Saturday and ascertained
that the $1.10 rate was being paid.
Maj. Gotwals decided today the work
called for the $3.50 rate, and Com
missioner Hazen agreed with the de-
cision.
Perna Demands Hearing.
Perna complained that he had not
been given an opportunity to argue
his side of the case and would carry
the contest to the Federal Govern
ment. 1t was said the union men will
stay on strike until the subcontractor
accepts the Commissioners decision.
Complaint of the union was filed
with the Walsh Committee of the
Senate which is investigating VIOLA
tions of the wage law, rather than
with the District Commissioners, be-
cause labor has no confidence in
Chairman Clark of the Compliance
Board, according to John Locher,
Building Trades Council secretary.
District officials, however, had made
check of the matter last Saturday.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
TEXAN MAY HEAD
RESERVE SYSTEM
Mckinney Is Prominently Men
toned as Successor to Black,
Who Is Anxious to Quit.
nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
B. A. Mckinney of Dallas, Tex. is
mentioned as leading possibility for
the governorship of the Federal Re-
serve System,
Eugene r. Black. the present gov
ernor, was reported by friend yes
terday as hoping to leave his post
within few hours to go back to the
job of governor of the Atlanta Fed
eral Reserve Bank.
After a conference with President
Roosevelt, Black denied a report that
his resignation had been submitted,
effective Sunday. 1t is known, now
ever, that he desires to leave speedily.
William M Martin of st. Louis also
Is mentioned prominently as a candi-
date.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
COUPLE INJURED
IN TRAFFIC CRASH
Mrs. Lena Christie Serious
" Hurt as Car CoIIides
With Trolley.

Mrs. Lena Christie, %, was seri-
ously injured early today and her
husband, William Albert Christie, 36,
suffered lesser hurts when their auto
mobile was in collision with a street
car a short distance from their home,
SIG H street.
Christie, who held a learners driv-
ing permit, police reported, was driv-
ing west on H street when the acci-
dent occurred at the intersection of
Seventh street Christie's automobile
was hurled across the street and into
a police patrol box, which snapped off
at the ground.
The injured couple was taken to
Emergency Hospital in a taxicab
operated by Elwood Chitels, 606 Fifth
street
Mrs. Christie was treated for severe
cuts and bruises about the body, head
and thigh. Her condition was de-
scribed as undetermined.
Car Badly Damaged.s
Christie was discharged after treat
ment for cuts about the scalp and
forehead. His automobile was SO
badly damaged police could not make
a brake test.
The street car was operated by
Motorman w. T Morris, As, of 629
Seventh street northeast.
Police today continued their efforts
to locate the driver Of hit-and-run
automobile which killed Frederick w
Geare, so, of Baltimore, on Key
Bridge early yesterday.
Investigators were convinced that
Geare was run down by an automo-
bile when they found broken glass on
the bridge near the body and learned
that a witness said a machine sped
from the scene just before the body
was discovered.
Jury Sworn In.
The glass found had broken from
an automobile door window. A coro-
ner's jury was sworn in over the body,
which was released for burial in Balti-
more. An inquest will be held when
police complete their investigation.
Two additional inquests in traffic
deaths are scheduled at the District
Morgue Thursday morning. One in
wolves the death Sunday afternoon of
Mrs Delaphine Dorsey, 70, of 3239 P
street.
Mrs. Dorsey was buried in Holy
Rood Cemetery In Georgetown this
morning, following requiem mass in
Holy Trinity Church. She is sur
vived by a brother, Andrew ]. Sulli-
van.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
FOUR MORE OF eleven
ESCAPED BOYS CAUGHT
Two From National Training
School Still Missing After
Break.

-Four more Of the IL youths who
escaped from the National Training
School for Boys on Sunday were re-
turned to the home last night, and
now there are only two young fugi-
tives missing, James Heaton, 18, and
Paul Yountz, 10.
The four captured yesterday were
found walking along the railroad
tracks near Baltimore by detectives.
Five others were caught shortly
after their escape by Bladensburg,
Nd, constable.
The nine boys returned so far have
been deprived of special privileges,
including motion pictures, base ball,
visitors and ice cream.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
PRETZEL CODE APPROVED

Pretzels will have a Blue Eagle
twist from now on.
N. r. A. announced approval of a
coGe for this side partner of beer. It
was code No. sos.
The code prescribes a 4o-hour work
week and minimum wages of 40 cents
an hour for machine operators and
oven men. The hand twisters, if men,
get 3212 cents an hour, and if wom-
IN, 80 cents.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
AGREES TO ACCEPT
BRIEF Of JOHNSON
IN DONOVAN CASE
Labor Relations Board Had
Rejected Statement
Previously.
RECORD CORROB0RATI0N
ONLY TO BE CONSIDERED
N. R. A. Head Is Held Too Busy
to Attend Dismissal
Hearing.

After Gen. Hugh S. Johnson, N. r.
A. head. declined to appear in person
before the National Labor Relations
Board to testify in the John Donovan
dismissal hearing, the board today
agreed to accept his written state
ment that was rejected last Friday.
It was explained that the statement
will 4be considered only in so far as
1t corroborates testimony already in
the record. The action was taken
after john L. Finerty, counsel for
Donovan, agreed to permit the state
ment to be filed.
Cross Examination Prevented.
Objection was raised to the written
statement during the oral hearing on
the ground that Donovan's counsel
was denied the opportunity to cross
examine Gen. johnson.
johnson charged Donovan was dis
charged from his N. R. A. job because
of inefficiency and insubordination.
Donovan, who was president of N. r.
A. Lodge, No. 81, of American Fed
Va A1AAlR4OySo,
claimed he was dismissed for his ac-
tivities in behalf of the union.
In announcing the decision to ac-
cept JohnSon's written statement, the
board issued the following statement:
"The National Labor Relations
Board is receiving a written state
ment from Gen. Hugh S. johnson
in the Donovan case. The board un-
derstands that the statement merely
corroborates other testimony already
in the record. and Donovan's counsel
has consented to its being made q
part of the record for that purpose" !"
Finerty also issued statement, eX-
planning Donovans attitude toward
the written statement. He said:
Gen. Hugh johnson has declined
to testify before the National Labor
Relations Board concerning his rea-
sons for discharging John L. Donovan.
He insists on filing written state
ment, thus depriving Donevan's coun-
sci Of opportunity for cross -examina-
ton.
Arbitration Violation Seen.
"Since the board is acting merely as
arbitrator, it is without power to COM
pei Gen. johnson to testify. Dono-
vans counsel consider Gen. Johnson's
refusal to appear before the board and
to submit to cross-examination vio-
lation of the written agreement of ar
bitration.
Although the terms of arbitration
provide only for oral testimony, Dono-
vans counsel have consented that the
board shall accept Gen. Johnson's
statement in so far as it is merely rep
etitious of the testimony of Gen. john
sons witnesses now in the record,
since counsel consider that testimony
and therefore Gen. Johnson's state
ment already discredited."
Garrett Scott, attorney for Gen.
johnson, pleaded that the admins
traitor was too busy with other official
matters to appear before the Labor
Relations Board.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
BANK OPENING DELAYED
Industrial Savings Not to Resume
Business Until Monday.

Opening the Industrial Savings
Bank, originally scheduled for tomor-
row, has been postponed until next
Monday, Conservator w. H. c. Brown
announced today.
The bank, the only colored savings
institution in the city, located at
Eleventh and U streets, has been
closed since the banking holiday.
Arrangements for the banks open.
ing have not been completed, Brown
said, In making known the postpone
ment.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
BY ]. B. KELLER.

BY J. B. KELLER.
~ ECAUSE of the drought that
- has desolated Midwestern ag-
ricultural areas, Washington S
IL base ball club gets a new
pitcher-the only one in the
national pastime with full-blown
whiskers.
When the pastures on his little
stock farm in South Dakota withereo
and his herds decreased, Allen Wilbur
Benson decided to take up base bal
seriously. This he did as a pitcher
with the House of David team, Ben
ton Harbor, Mich, organization thai
insists its players be bearded. His
great success with the bewhiskered
gentry has landed him job with the
Nationals.
Benson was at the ball yard or
Georgia avenue this afternoon tt
show his stock in trade to President
Clark Griffith and Manager Joe Gro
min of the Washington club. Anc
to listen to them that stock consists
of more, much more, than the gor-
geous pink facial adornment that
waves across his countenance with
each pitch.
Early Mt Stadium.
So eager to impress those in charge
of the Washington club with his
pitching ability was Benson that lie
arrived at Grifith Stadium long be-
fore noon today to don a uniform
and get to work.
II been pitchin' plenty this year
with the House of David team,
drawled the South Dakota farmer
Eighteen games win for them. Only
lose five. Reckon that kind of pitchin
will do up here" If confidence means
anything, Benson should get some
where in his chosen profession.
You know, this amt my first ex-
perience in pro base ball." he revealed
Il was with Akron, in the Central
League, in '28 and '29. Then I was
with Minneapolis in the American
Association for a spell in 90. But
Evening star., 1934-08-14
INJURED IN CRASH
Two Members of The Star Staff
in Traffic Accident.

III
Philip H. Love and Burton Hawkins
of The Star news staff were injured
early today when a car in which they
were riding collided with beer laden
truck on the Washington Richmond
highway near Fort Humphreys, Va.
The truck was operated by E. L. Dur
ham of Burgaw, N. C.
Love and Hawkins were returning
from an assignment in Fredericksburg,
Va, at the time of the accident.
Physicians at Fort Humphreys rem
dered first aid and they were later
removed to Providence Hospital for
treatment. Love has compound frac-
ture Of the left arm and minor cuts.
Hawkins was cut about the face and
head.
Evening star., 1934-08-14
OUTING OF EMPLOYERS
SET FOR SEPTEMBER IS
Building Trade Association Sc
lects Skinkers Camp for An
nual Summer Picnic.

The annual outing of the Building
Trades Employers Association will be
held September is, at Skinkers Camp,
High Island, Md.
E. j. Murphy, chairman, announced
that invitations have been sent to
the District Commissioners and off,
cials of the Building Department of
the Government. Members of the
Washington chapter Of the Architects
also will join the outing.