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Evening star., 1934-04-12
WOMAN DISCOVERED
DRUG POISON VICTIM
Found Unconscious in Store at
Closing Time-Police
Are Mystifed.;

Police were mystified today by the
strange case of a woman found un-
conscious in the rest room of a down.
town department store yesterday, ap-
parently suffering from the effects OF
drug.
The woman, who, when she re-
gained consciousness in Emergency
Hospital today, refused to say any,
thing except that her first name is
Alice, was discovered about 2 pm. by
maid.
Thinking the woman asleep, officials
of the store ordered the maid not to
disturb her. When closing time came,
however, the maid tried to awaken
her. but without success. When the
store nurse also failed to arouse the
woman an ambulance was summoned
and she was taken to the hospital,
where physicians said she seemed to
be suffering from drug poisoning.
The woman was described by police
as being about IS years old, feet S
inches tall and weighing about 120
pounds. She has light brown hair and
was wearing printed yellow dress.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
RETAIL AUTOMOBILE
FINANCING GROWS
Substantial Increase in First Two
Months Over Last Year
Reported.

A substantial increase in retail auto
mobile financing in January and Feb
ruary over the same months last year
was reported today in a monthly
statement issued by the Census Bu-
reau and based upon figures supplied
by ass financing organizations for this
year and 282 organizations for both
years.
A similar increase was also shown
in financing resold cars, in which the
sum involved for the two months
jumped from $23 $685. 1896 last year to
$29,618,130 for the first two months
of this year.
Figures for new automobiles for the
comparable periods, supplied by iden-
tical organizations both years, show
a total of 1858, ,764 for January and
February, 1888, and s79,8l4,932 for
the same months of 1884.
In each case, February figures were
larger than those for the preceding
month.
Although the statement was issued
without comment by the Census Bu-
reau, retail automobile financing Is
regarded as valuable index of future
business, since only in more prosper
ous or optimistic times do individuals
contract long time indebtedness.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
MRS. WILEY HEADS
D. c. MILK SURVEY
Accepts Craftsmanship of
Group Probing School
Consumption.

Mrs. Harvey w. Wiley, president Of
the District Federation of Women's
Clubs, has accepted the Craftsmanship
Of a committee which will make a
survey Of milk consumption among
Washington school children under di-
rection of the Agricultural Adjust
ment Administration.
The survey will be one Of so to be
conducted in cities throughout the
country to learn If school children are
receiving the proper amount of milk,
butter and dairy products necessary
for health, it was announced today by
DR.. Fred G. Howe, consumers counsel.
The survey was undertaken at request
Of IL leading women's organizations
in the United States.
The proposal for the inquiry was
made by Mrs. Edward P. Costigan and
Miss Ellis Meredith, representing the
IL organizations.
Among those who joined in re-
questing the survey were: Clara D.
Noyes, American Nurses Association;
Esther P. Lovejoy, American Women's
Hospital Association; Julia K. Jaffray,
General Federation Of Women's Clubs;
Julia West Hamilton, National Asso-
citation Colored Women; Charl Will
liams, National Education Association;
Hortense Lansburgh, National Council
of Jewish Women; Adelaide S. Bay
lor, National Congress of Parents and
Teachers; Louise G. Baldwin, Nation
al League of Women Voters; Izora
Scott, National Woman's Christian
Temperance Union; Mrs. Dorothy
Dunn, business and professional
women; Elizabeth Christman, National
Women's Trade Union League.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
HOME TOUR TO HAVE
NO STARTING POINT
Visitors to II Georgetown Houses
Advised of Location of
Leonard Residence.

Visitors to the II old homes In
Georgetown which will be opened for
inspection tomorrow between 1870 and
3 pm. are reminded by the St. John S
Church Committee. sponsoring the
tour, that there will be no set start
ing point, but 1t is suggested that the
residence Of Maj. and Mrs. Henry
Leonard, at 3038 N street, is located
conveniently near several others on
the list.
The historic house of Mrs. Grace
Dunlop Ecker, at 1887 Thirtieth street,
will be open for inspection Saturday
instead of tomorrow, as previously
announced
Tickets for the visits will be on
sale at all Of the II houses. The
cards have listed on the back the
complete list of homes and their
addresses.
On Saturday a second group OF
residences will be viewed, and the
suggested starting point for that day
is the home of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
lin Mott Gunther at 1912 N street.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
LIQUOR REVENUE
IN MARCH $4,000
District Control Boards Es-
innate Based on Reports
of Dealers.

On the basis of purchase reports
submitted to the Alcoholic Beverage
Control Board by District beverage
dealers, it was estimated today the
District may receive liquor taxes total
ing $50,000 on business during March.
This guess of the receipts on last
months beverage business was based
on tabulation showing approximately
lac, 900 wine gallons of beverages were
purchased last month for sale by local
dealers. Officials of the A. B. G. Board
arrived at rough estimate that about
100000 wine gallons Of the total was
taxable.
The A. B. C. Board is preparing to
send orders to rs dealers who did not
submit their sworn purchase reports
before today to appear before mem
ber of the board to explain why they
were delinquent.
While it is expected the board will
show leniency due to confusion this
month over just what reports were re-
quired, officials said if the delinquent
dealers cannot give reasonable excuses
for their delay they would be cited
officially to appear before the full
board Ito show cause why their
licenses should not be revoked"
Evening star., 1934-04-12
CAPITAL STORES
/. SHOW 40.5 GAIN
IN MARCH SALES
Federal Reserve Bank Fig
ures Contrasted With
Month Last Year.
SEASON IS Affected
BY EARLIER EASTER
Bank Holiday Blamed for Pre-
vious Low-Record Here Lower
Than in Nation as Whole.

Department store sales in Washing
ton during March showed a gain of
4O.5 per cent over business in March,
1888. the Federal Reserve Bank of
Richmond announced today in its
monthly report. However, this was
less than the gain for the country as
whole.
Sales In the whole fifth reserve dis
trict averaged So per cent above the
corresponding month last year while
the national average for the IL Fed
eral Reserve districts stood at A per
cent higher than in March q year
ago.
In connection with these astonish-
Ing advances, the Richmond bank
calls attention to the fact that Easter
came earlier this year. bringing much
more shopping into March than a
year ago, and that the bank holiday
occurred during March. 1888. bring
ing business almost to a standstill.
The gains are important, however,
as the advances from February to
March this year were considerably
more than the estimated seasonal
amount, the Federal Reserve Board
states.
The most startling showing in retail
business in the fifth district was re-
ported by Charleston, w. Va, where
retail sales scared 110.1 per cent above
the March, 1888, figures. A group of
nine stores in West Virginia announced
an advance in sales of 116 per cent.
Sales in Baltimore were up 81 per
cent, in Richmond Sc per cent, Norfolk
so per cent and Lynchburg IS per
cent. The report for the fifth district
covers sales in AZ stores in l8 different
cities.
Cumulative sales in Washington In
the first three months of 1884 were
2O.3 per cent ahead of the like period
IN 1888, against an advance for the
whole district of % per cent and for
the United States of q per cent.
Here again, Charleston leads the fifth
district with a gain in the first quarter
of 1884 of 66.3 per cent.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
TRAFFIC TESTS MAY
SOLVE CONGESTION
0ne-Way Signs Being Placed on
Streets Near Interior
Building.

In an effort to relieve traffic con-
gestion in the area about the Interior
Department and number of Govern
ment buildings south of that location
the Traffic Council has adopted a test
plan for one-way traffic in that Sec
ton. Erection of the one-way signs
was expected to be completed by to-
morrow. The marked streets are:
Eighteenth street from Virginia ave-
nue. to Constitution avenue, one way
northbound; Nineteenth street from
Virginia avenue to Constitution ave-
nue., one-way southbound; F street
from Seventeenth street to Virginia
avenue, one-way for eastbound trafhc,
and G street from Seventeenth street
to Virginia avenue, one-way for west
bound traffic.
No specific time has been set for the
trial period. If the test plan proves
satisfactory the streets will be kept
under the one-way regulations, and If
not, will be changed, probably within
a period of several weeks.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
AuthOrities Baffled as Girl
Tells Wild Tale of Adventure
Story of Exile and White Slaue CargOes
Checked as She Smiles at
Further Questions.

somewhere in Africa, but authorities
are still trying to learn If 1t was West
or South Africa.
Her mother died when Dietz was
born, authorities were told, and sew
eral years ago, upon the death Of her
father, she went to Greece, then to
France and later to Newark.
The boat which brought her to
this country was commanded, Dietz
explained, by a desperate known as
the BLACK Devil" This character
smuggled Dietz into the country, au-
thorities were told, along with cargo
Of women, rum and dope.
This story, whether fact or fiction
put authorities to a lot of real in
vestigating, none of which has turned
up any tangible corroboration. The
American consular service in Nigeria
and Natal, at Hamburg and various
other foreign cities, has searched
birth records and such to no avail.
Smiles at Question.
Yesterday Dietz consented to talk
to a reporter. What part of Africa
were you born IMP" she was asked.
DietZ replied with a bland smile
1t was a familiar question and she
usually answered it that way.
WAS your father really exiled?"
Dietz smiled again. For some time
the conversation went on like that
You see." said an official at the
Women's Bureau. by way Of closing
the interview. 'Dietz has already tolc
her story Dietz has lot of imagina.
tion-now haven't you, Dietz?"
AS for Dietz, she only smiled.
Evening star., 1934-04-12

existence would not have been de-
tected had it not been for the fact
that a painting was made of the
fish by Eli Cheverlange, artist Of the
expedition, as soon as it was dragged
from the depths. The eye fish was OBJ
tanned from depth of between $50
and 300 fathomS. just about on the
borderli.Ie of eternal darkness, where
eyes would not be of service to an
animal. Fishes of the depths, accord
ing to DR.. Myers, have evolved in two
directions-toward enormous eyes and
toward greatly diminished visual Or
gans. The first represents a struggle
to see in the strange abysmal gloom
The second trend denotes a giving UP
of the futile struggle on the part of
the race. This trend is noteworthy
among the fishes of the greater
depths.
The coloring Of the eye fish is an
extremely beautiful orange pink. 1t
came from the red level" Most of
the fishes below the 15O-fathom line
display various shades of red, but at
the greatest depths they are either
black or white.
The eye fish represents the second
member of the family ever found in
the Western World. The other was
Evening star., 1934-04-12
D, c, REPAIR SHOP
HEAD IS SHIFTED
AFTER PROTESTS
Co|ored Delegation Charged
Discrimination to
Warrington.
TROUBLE WITH SCHOOL
HEATING is RECALLED
Gotwals Denies Racial Policy by
Board in Hiring of
Mechanics.

L. c. Wormington will be trans
ferred from his present position as
superintendent of the District repair
shop, partly due to protests against
him by delegation of colored resi-
dents of the District, it was made
known today.
Wormington has been head of the
District repair shop, which is in
charge of repairs to District struc-
lures, including schools, since 1880.
officials of the District Engineer De-
partment said he would be transferred
to an assignment with the municipal
architects Office. He formerly served
as an inspector in that department.
A protest against Wormington was
lodged recently with the Commission
ers by a delegation of colored resi-
dents after the official was reported
the employment of colored mechanics
on repair work.
No Fixed Policy.
Maj John G. Gotwals, Engineer
Commissioner, said there was no
policy of the District Commissioners
dSd1llSG VI SOAOlCo
chanicS. Maj. Gotwals said also If
Wormington had been correctly
quoted, he had not been tactful.
1t was explained that other rea-
sons for Wormington's transfer in
cluded the fact that he had been
in poor health and that he had been
working under great pressure during
recent months due to a $3.50 900 pro-
gram for repairs to District properties
under the civil works program.
Wormington's difficulties over the
colored labor question came when
representative of building trade called
on him to inquire why colored mechan-
les were not employed at least to work
in colored school buildings. Worm
ington was reported in a sworn state
ment to have replied that he did not
believe colored workmen were as eff
cient as white workers and to have
said he rated the comparative eff
cheney of white and colored men at
go to 40.
Heating Trouble Recalled.
The building trade group then called
on the Board of Education to support
it in its demands for Wormington's
withrawal from his position on the
grounds that he Disseminated against
the colored race. The School Board,
however, on motion OF Charles Hous-
ton one Of its three colored members,
confined its action to an expression
of its conviction that there should
be no racial discrimination.
Wormington also got into difficulties
vxIth eahAO1 xx,t,1 L..
quate heat recently forced the clos
ing of the Force School. The school
authorities held that long-delayed re-
pairs to the heating plant affected its
efficiency. while Wormington con-
tended inefficient stoking was respon-
sible. Frequent complaints had been
registered by the school people against
delays in repair work generally.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
PLAYERS CLUB PLANS
WORKSHOP PROGRAM
Central Community Center to
Sponsor Presentation Tomor-
row Night.

The Players Club Of Washington
will present a workshop program to-
morrow night at Central High School.
under the auspices Of the Central
Community Center. A succession of
brief dramatic skits will be given to
an invited audience.
Among those who will take part
will be Miss Harriet Bryant, Carl
Carlson. Jesse Chain. Miss Helen
Clark, H. E. Eberly. George Earring
ton, Miss Jeanne Guerin. Miss Nancy
Haas, Miss Alice Louise Hunter. Miss
Mary Elizabeth Kunna, william P.
Kilgore, Miss Gertrude Lanman,
Maurice Lanman, Miss Felice Lloyd,
Miss Anne Martin, Mrs. Beulah Raby,
Miss Carolyn Sebastian, Miss Evelyn
Schweizer. Mrs. Mary Walter, Miss
Efie Wade, Robert Walton, George
Wilcox and Miss Louise Wright.
Directors for the program are Miss
Lucy Anne Rogers, Mrs. Gerald p.
Flood, Mr.. Lanman and Mr.. Earring
ton Miss Wright is In charge Of the
stage, Miss Schweizer is chairman of
Arrangements and Mrs. Edith H.
Hunter is sponsor for the Players
Club.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
Three Weird Fish Species
Discovered Off Puerto Rico
Jokmson'Smithsonian Expedition Finds
"Big Eye" ~Armored'' and "Lan-
term Denizens of Deep.

discovered more than half century
ago from a specimen washed on the
beach at Havana. This original spec
linen, now in the National Museum.
still is the only example known. 1t
has been a lost" fish ever since.
Other members Of the family have
been found in Asiatic waters. The
new fish has been named in honor OF
Eldridge r. johnson Of Philadelphia,
the patron of the expedition.
"Armored Fish"
Described BY DIR. Myers.
A second strange denizen of the
depths described by DR.. Myers Is a
queer "armored fish'-one of the few
ocean fishes of this type known. The
shell-growing tendency among fishes
otherwise is largely confined to GER
tain fresh water catfish In South
America.
This creature obviously is a bottom
dweller. Its whole body is armored
with spiny plates which would make
it safe from almost any enemy. Each
PAdIC bCdiS NCly Slidi y oPiiC' dooue
quarter of an inch long. There are
nearly 100 of these on the body of
the creature. 1t would probably be
about the most unappetiZing morsel
any predatory animal ever swallowed.
1t Is bright red In color.
The third new species is an animal
Of the lantern fish" group. They
ora small y,oi,,poulika craoturaS ubo
live only in the open ocean. While
most fishes remain near shore or
within reach of the bottom, the Ian
tern fishes have no such inhibitions.
They live in deep water far from
land and never are found near the
bottom. Most of the millions of them
in the sea doubtless live and die, DR..
Myers says, with no knowledge that
there is such thing as shore. or
even a bottom to the ocean. All have
rows Of luminous spots along their
sides which probably serve as recog-
milton marks in the eternal darkness
Of the ocean depths
Two New Species
OF Sea Lilies Found.
Other new creatures found in the
expeditions collections are two hith-
erto unknown species of sea lilies.
present-day representatives Of the vast
"meat-eating" forests which abounded
in the shallow waters of the earth
$50 100000 years ago.
Although they look like plants, they
really are highly developed animals,
according to Austin H. Clark, Smith
sonian curator of echinoderms. They
can by no means be considered as
forms of life on the dividing line of
the animal and Vegetable kingdoms
In life they are usually brightly
colored. One of the ancient meat
eating forests" must have presented a
very colorful spectacle Of green, pur-
pie, red and yellow blossoms. One Of
the new species found by the expedi-
ton probably was deep red in life.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
POSTPONE COMPETITION

The battalion and band competi-
ton Of the Washington High School
Cadets scheduled for today has been
postponed until April 10 at 2:30 pm.
due to inclement weather, it was an
nounced at Franklin School today.
The competition will be held in Will
son Stadium, Central High School.
Unsuitable weather next week would
cause postponement Of the contest
until April 23, It was said. F
Evening star., 1934-04-12
MRS. THErMA C. GROSS
ASKS ABSOLUTE DIVORCE
Alleges Husband Threw Her Out
Of a Second-Story
Window.

Suit for absolute divorce was filed
in District Supreme Court today by
Mrs. Thelma G. Gross. $500 block of
Beecher street. alleging her husband
threw her out second-story window.
Mrs. Gross told the court she sue
ceeded in avoiding injury by grasping
the window ledge. On another occa-
sion, she stated in the suit, her hus-
band, Francis e. Gross, IA Fourth
street northeast, bound her In a chair
and forced her to remain there all
night. She named correspondent and
accused her husband of misconduct.
They were married in September,
1928. and have on child. The suit was
hled through Attorney Richard J..
HarmAn.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

Three weird creatures, hitherto un-
known to science, have been found
among the fishes obtained from the
deep waters of the Atlantic of Puerto
Rico by the Johnson Smithsonian
deep-sea expedition last Winter. They
have just been described by DR..
George s. Myers of the National Mu-
scum.
The first is the big eye" fish. Each
eye Is about a fifth as long as the
diameter of the body. A mans eye,
in the same ratio. would be about a
foot long and about inches high. In
addition. this creature has two false
eyes on its sides. near the tail. They
constitute a feature hitherto unknown
in the fish world OF the same size
and approximately the same pattern
as the true eyes. they are probably
indistinguishable from them by other
fishes. The false eyes are, however.
only color spots and have no visual
function whatever.
The purpose of the false eyes is
unknown. unless they are intended to
Evening star., 1934-04-12
DURANTE RETURNS KEY TO CITY
HA CHA! HE MADE 1T HIMSELF

ing. He returned 1t to Aliens ofice.
A diplomatic crisis appeared immi-
nent.
Inasmuch as no one asked him.
Commissioner Allen did not say
whether he intended to dispatch q
note Of reprimand to the Durante
legation.
Durante, also uninterviewed, Is re-
ported to have remarked "Hot cha
cha"
At noon rumors were rife that
stooges in both camps were secreting
munitions in their Joke books.
Pacifsts take the position the key
will be useful when other celebrities
call on the Commissioner.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
ASKS $4,000 DAMAGES
Man Charges Meridian Mansions
Manager Beat Him.

Alleging he was assaulted by the
manager of the Meridian Mansions,
2400 Sixteenth street, while attending
a New Year celebration there, Nathan
Herson, 1706 Seventh street, filed suit
for $4,000 damages in District Su-
preme Court today against Weaver
Bros. Inc, operators of the apart
ment house.
Herson said he dined at Meridian
Mansions and that p j. Kohlhammer.
general manager, informed him his
check was for higher amount than
he claimed was owing for food and
entertainment. When he refused to
pay, he said, the manager beat him.
The suit was filed through Attor-
neys Michael F. Keogh and Lenard
A. Block.
Evening star., 1934-04-12

Jimmie "Schnozzle" Durante now
may be known as the man who ac-
cepted the keys to the city of Wash
ington-and then threw them away.
Durante came to the Office of Com
missioner George E. Allen the other
day armed with a ready-made key to
the city. He explained he wanted to
be sure he got one, so he made 1t him.
self. He handed it to Commissioner
Allen, who with great ceremony hand
ed it back to him.
The comedian and his stooges de-
parted. and apparently the incident
was closed.
This morning, however. watchman
discovered the large. yellow key lying
on the first fioor Of the District Build
Evening star., 1934-04-12
PIT. A. HEARS PASTOR
,pecial Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ACCOKEEK, Md, April 11.-Rev.
Robert j. Gibson spoke on the i'm
portance of early training for the
child at the last Accokeek Parent
Teacher Association meeting.
Miss Jennie DeWilde announced
that a new flag pole. some play
ground equipment and furniture had
been secured through the efforts Of
the organization.
Evening star., 1934-04-12
QUILTS TO BE EXHIBITED
One 200 Years Old Included by
Quaker Dorcas Society.

A display Of quilts Is to be held
tomorrow by the Quaker Dorcas So
ciety in its meeting house, at Thin
teenth and Irving streets, from 10
am. to 10 pm.
One quilt, more than 200 years old,
will be displayed, as well as many
other ones Of new ana old design.
Some Of the Dorcas members will be
busy quilting to show how 1t is done.
Tea will be served.
Evening star., 1934-04-12

immigration authorities and the
State Department have a sort of semi
permanent, faxen-haired enigma in
Dietz Won Teller, the girl from no.
body knows where.
Dietz, as she is known at the House
of Detention, her residence for the last
four months, would be deported to her
native land If authorities could locate
that country. whether Nigeria, Natal,
Greece, France or Germany.
AS for Dietz, who is about 20, she's
told her story, q Voltairian epic OF
exile and Africa, white-slave cargoes
and adventure on the high seas
Meanwhile she smiles and gazes in a
n-committal manner upon further
questioners while two branches of the
Federal Government check her story
in the far corners of the world.
Picked Up In Newark.
Dietz was first picked up in Newark
and held for immigration authorities,
who relinquished their charge after
checking and double checking her
story. Newark lost an unsolved riddle
and Washington gained one when
Dietz came on here last November.
She went to local police with Q
story about a Turk defrauding hel
of money. The police turned Dietl
over to immigration officials shortly
after she described the manner of hel
arrival from Africa.
Roughly, it seemed that Dietz was
the daughter of an exiled German
army captain and his French wife
She was born, as Dietz explained