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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Chaplain Who Led Rites
For UnknOlUn Soldier Dies
Col. Axiom, Retired, Had
Many Var Service
Distinctions.
u as Natire Of Salt Lake
City, 81, and Serred
as Chief Chaplain.

Col. John T. Axton, retired, for
mer chief Of Army chaplains, who
officiated at the interment of Amer
ica's Unknown Soldier in Arlington
Cemetery on November II. 1921, died
last night at his home, 3l19 Porter
street. after an extended illness. He
was 81 years old.
Entering the Army with the rank
of captain in 1902, Col. Axton served
in the Philippines on two occasions,
spent five years with the troops on
the Mexican border and was promot
ed to the rank of major at outbreak
Of the World War.
Given Many HOnOrS.
He was awarded the Distinguished
Service Medal in 1919, and made a
Chevalier of the Legion of Honor by
France and presented with the Croce
di Guerra by Italy in 1922 for dis
tinguished service in the World War.
He was in general charge Of philan-
thropic. social and religious organiza-
ton work among the American troops
from a headquarters at Hoboken, N.
j., port of embarkation.
Col. Axton has lived in washington
since his retirement in April, 1929
from physical disability incurred in
line of duty. During this period. he
spent some time at Brunswick, N. j.,
as chaplain Of Rutgers University.
He had been in failing health several
years.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
MRS. MARION HARTUNG
WINS RENO DIVORCE
Given Custody of Daughter in
Uncontested Action Based
on Cruelty"

William K. Hartung, member of the
real estate firm of McKeeVer, Hartung
e. Co, has been divorced by Mrs.
Marion E. Hartung in Reno, New, it
was learned today
The suit. filed the same day as the
decree was granted was not contested.
Mrs Hartung. who gave extreme
cruelty as grounds for the action,
was granted custody of the couples
13-year-old daughter Nancy under
jurisdiction of the court, and S75
month alimony.
The couple married in Ellicott City,
Md, September IS, 1915, and, until
their separation, lived in the 1900
block Of Harvard street
According to a statement issued by
Hartung, property settlement was
agreed upon "out of court"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
200, 1000 TRANSMITS
AIDED BY U. S. FUNDS
Government Spends 90 Million
Furnishing Places for High
way Rovers.

Transient camps and city treat
ment centers, which have caused
200 900 rowing Americans to give up
the highway. have cost the Gov
eminent about s20,470, 900 since last
September, Federal Emergency Relief
Administration officials have dis
closed
Each month has shown an increase
of 10000 to 10000 in registrations,
but that does not necessarily mean,
relief workers said. that more Amer
leans are becoming drifters looking
for employment. Rather, in their
opinion, it simply means that more
transients are coming to rest where
clean clothing and 81 a week cash
allowance are available in exchange
for temporary work
Two hundred camps have been set
up in the States, and in addition
there are $50 treatment centers in
cities Federal funds support them
entirely, but the relief programs are
under the direction of State officials
At present large numbers from
the drought areas are going into the
camps. These are mostly farm hands
who find their expected employment
wiped out by soaring winds.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Marshal Refused
Funds Paid for
Guarding of Jury
McCdrI Makes Ruling in
Springfield, Ill.,,
Case.

G. w Cushing, United States mar
shall at Springfield, III, will have TO
get 1882 worth of satisfaction out Of
the justice that was administered, for
Controller General McCarl won't
allow him to be reimbursed for this
amount he expended several months
ago in connection with a kidnapping
case that ended with a group OF Illi-
nois racketeerS getting long prison
terms.
The money represented the payment
Cushing made at Peoria to a bailIn
who. in accordance with the instruc-
tionS of the court, guarded a jury
when it was locked up over Sunday.
However. the judge did not himself
stand by, and the law says no bailif
fees are payable when the presiding
Judge is not in court or in chambers
So McCarl told the marshal: I
would be derelict in the duty imposed
upon ne by the Congress therefore,
were / to sanction or authorize the
violations of the laws II and when the
equities of the case might appeal 10
me"
The controller general added as an
afterthought that both the marshal
and the Judge must be presumed to
have had knowledge Of the statutory
restrictions imposed upon the use OF
public funds appropriated for court
expenses"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
H. OIL. C. PLANNING
REGIONAL OFFICES
Twelve to Be Set Up for Collect
ing Loans Made Up to
June, 1885.

Looking ahead TO the time when II
must abandon all its State Offices, now
engaged in making loans to distressed
home owners, the Home Owners Loan
Corporation has well under way
program of setting up regional Offices
in several sections of the country to
carry forward the permanent work.
1t is expected eventually u of these
Offices will be set up, the chief func-
ton of them to be collecting the loans
which are being made up to June.
1886, and retiring the bonds OF the
corporation.
The corporation. officials said, ex-
poets to have a million accounts by
the time it reaches the maximum of
It's lOaning capacity. In conducting
this huge mortgage business. the cor
poration will have to follow estab-
lished business procedure, foreclosing
in cases of default, bidding at auction
for foreclosed properties, and dispos-
ing Of them as best it can
The policy throughout, 1t was en-
phasized, will be to compete with pri-
vate business as little as possible
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
$3.50, 900 SET ASIDE
FOR NEW PARKWAY
Ickes Allocates Fund for Potomac
Drive Before Starting
Vacation.

Before leaving last night on his first
vacation since taking over a cabinet
post, Secretary Ickes allocated $780,
900 for construction of a riverside
driveway on the Virginia side of the
Potomac River, between the Arlington
Memorial and Key Bridges in the
George Washington Memorial Park.
Previously, when the Secretary made
other allotments for Washington from
this fund, he decided he would with
hold the $280.O00 until he had OPP
portunity to make a personal inspec-
ton of what was proposed This he
was able to do before he closed his
desk for his holidays, according to A.
E. Demaray, acting director of the
National Park Service.
The area between the Arlington
Memorial and Key Bridges will be
developed as directed by plans of the
National Capital Park and Planning
Commission, which is purchasing the
land.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
MONUMENT REPAIR
WORK BEGINS SOON
Low Bidder Fails to Qualify for
WeatherproOfng to Be
Undertaken.

After many delays. Improvement
work on the Washington Monument
IS about to start
Alexander HOWE, Inc, Of Cleye-
land, will get the Job Of erecting scat
folding around the monument, John
l. Naple. National Park Service engi-
neer said today. because the Archer
Iron Works of Chicago. the proSpec-
tive contractor and lowest bidder
failed to send to Washington within
10 DAYS the executed contract as
specifications required. The Archer
bid was S49,876. while the HOWE bid
was $4,000
The HOWE concern also was award
cd the contract for the cleaning and
pointing work en- the Monument 70
make 1t weatherproof, and for this
the Government has screed 10 pay
Sl380l. SO. i is expected to do the
repair work also A 2 W A. grant
O. 100000 was made for the work
last September.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
N.R.A. WOmen Deny
Protesting Shorts
For Male " Orkers
EmplOye Comes 10 " Ork
Today in Trousers,
HOuerer.

Apparently there's nothing to the
rumor that women employees circulated
a petition OF protest after a man. clad
In shorts. reported for work yesterday
at an n. r. A division in the Invest
ment Building
Mercy, no!' exclaimed one girl
when questioned concerning the
rumor. If the fellow can keep cooler
in shorts, why should we stop him in
weather like this2 l never heard OF
such a petition
Neither. It appeared had several
others.
However. the young man came 70
work today in regulation length
trousers. hot as it was.
He explained that he would be glad
TO have his picture taken for the
newspapers but for the fact that he
was leaving town very shortly"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Merchant of Silver Spring Is
Jailed on Charge Of
Drunk Driving.
CYCLISTS WERE ON WAY
TO OUTING AT FREDERICK
Accused Motorist Is Released on
Personal Bond to Appear in
Court Friday.

Six members OF Washington
motor cycle caravan bound for an out
ing az Frederick narrowly escaped
death or serious injury last night
when an automobile said by Mont
gomery County police to have been
driven by a drunken driver crashed
into them at Jamestown. nine miles
north of Rockville.
The party was made up OF 81 Capt.
tai residents riding in tandem style,
but those in the rear Of the process
sion succeeded In swer-ing to avoid
the wreckage after the three motor
cycles leading the party were struck
by the car, operated, police say, by
Albert Buehler, so. prominent Silver
Spring merchant.
On Way TO WeIner Roast.
Police said that the caravan. made
up Of members of the National Capt.
tai Motor Cycle Club and the District
Of Columbia Ramblers, was passing
through Dagnestown on its way to a
weiner roast at Frederick when
Buehler's machine, travelling I'm the
opposite direction. crashed into them.
Joseph Gardner. %, Of the 1000
block OF Fourth street northeast and
Miss Naomi Sawyer. 10. OF the first
block of Third street southeast. who
were riding on the first motor cycle.
were bowled over the former suffer
ing a broken left foot and cuts OF the
arm and neck and Miss Sawyer re-
ceiving cuts of the scalp and left
ankle.
Unable to halt in time to avoid the
wreckage the second motor cycle.
operated by J. c. Knuckles. 81. 1900
block of North Capitol street, piled
into the car and lead cycle Knuckles
suffered cuts of the left arm and his
companion. Miss Sallie Jennings. IT.
800 block B street northeast. sustained
scratches, bruises and brush burns.
Third Vehicle Piles in.
The third motor cycle suffered
like fate and its occupants Willard
Brock. 27, 340O block OF N street,
and Miss Edith Harrison 49, 500
block Columbia road also we're hurt.
Brock received broken left leg and
Miss Harrison a fractured left ankle,
cuts of the mouth and the loss of a
tooth.
Buehler, who is president Of the
Montgomery County Grocers' Asso-
citation, member Of the Montgomery
County Grocers' Code Committee and
proprietor of large meat provision
establishment in Silver Spring. was
arrested by Policeman Windsor Poole
on a charge Of driving while drunk
after the injured we're removed to
the Georgetown University Hospital
by the Rockville Fire Rescue Squad
He was released on personal bond
for appearance in the Montgomery
County Police Court next Friday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
DONOVAN CASE IS SET
TENTATIVELY AUGUST 6
Date Is Nearest on Which Labor
Board Can Hear n r, A.
Dismissal.

John Finerty attorney fer John I.
Donovan. dismissed president OF
n. r. 4. Lodge. No. 81. American Fed
Grafton Of Gover0mcnt Employees.
probably viii present the case for
mediation before the National Labor
Relations Board on August 6.
The case was presented 10 the beard
for the second time yesterday and
the August date was suggested as the
nearest on which the board could take
M the case because OF the present
contested docket.
The American Federation OF Gov
eminent EUr.olCs insisted that the
hearing DC pU5uC. buy until repre-
sentauon can &c made bv the Na-
tlonal Recovery Administration no
Gehnite decision VIII he made
Donovan seeks reinstatement on the
ground he was discharged for union
activity
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
u. S. WILL ACCEPT
BRIDLE-PATH BRIDGE
New Span in Rock Creek Park Is
One of Requirements
From Past Winter.

The Federal Government expected
today to accept the newly-construeted
bride path bridge over Rock Greek
near the Shoreham Hotel, after an
inspection by John L. Maggie. engi-
neer Of the National Park Service
Suggestions have been made that
the bridge is more elaborate than
need be. because California redwood
is used for the ratings, but Maggie said
the lowest responsible bidder got the
job and the ratings were selected be-
cause they harmonic with the rustic
appearance Of the park.
The new bridge. which is one Of
series being constructed in Rock
Creek Valley to replace bridges swept
away in storms OF last year, viii be
turned over TO the National Capital
Parks Office
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
MYERS, CANISTER
WANTEDHERE:, DIES
Bullet Wound Received in
New York Trap Fatal r
to Man.

Herbert Myers. 80. widely sought
member OF the notorious 'Trt-State
gang, died in New York hospital
early today of a bullet wound re-
ceived Thursday when investigators
trapped him in the apartment of his
estranged wife, according to an As
ISOLATED Press dispatch.
Myers. shot in the abdomen when
he attempted to draw a knife on De
tective Lieut.. Frank O'Neill of New
York. died without giving police the
information they wanted regarding
the activities of the gang, the dis
patch stated.
Myers yesterday was cleared Of one
of the many crimes OF which he had
been suspected.
He was seen in the prison ward Of
Fordham Hospital by a detective who
sought to identify him as the aSSailant
of another officer in a sensational gun
battle in New York last April.
That's not the man" said the de-
tectiye, who also was wounded in the
fight.
Refused TRANSMISSION.
Myers, although on the verge Of
death, then refused a blood transfu-
sion, according to information re-
ceived at police headquarters here
He was shot by Detective ONeill
who, with Detective Sergt Floyd Trus-
colt and Post Office Inspector Leo
De Ward, both of Washington,
trapped him
Myers, who escaped from the Mary
land Penitentiary in 1924. while serv-
ing a 10-year sentence, was wanted
here for participation in the Union
Station mail hold up of last De-
cember He also was wanted for
murders in Richmond and Baltimore.
Arthur Misanas, 81, Is the only
member of the gang still at liberty.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

final decision on this question. should
receive sympathetic consideration.
In view OF the arguments We pre-
sented in 1916 by which We succeeded
in preventing the CmasCulaJIon OF
the library board of its essential
powers and in view of our showing
Of the continued widespread support
Of the plan retaining library boards
with administrative powers. we re-
specially urge that in any new
legislation affecting the Government
of the District of Columbia. the
powers now given to the Board OF
Library Trustees under the library'S
organic law be continued undimln-
iShed
On behalf Of the Board Of Library
Trustees.
THEODORE W MOVES,
President Board Of Library Trustees.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
CHILD LABOR SHIFT
TO HOMES IS SEEN
Girls, Barred From Mills by
Codes, Get Jobs as
Servants.
Bv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
A large scale shift in child labor
from factory to home has prompted
the children's bureau to start an in
vestigation.
N. r. A. codes stopped young girls
from working long hours in the mills,
officials said today. but large num-
bers have taken jobs as domestic serv-
ants under conditions often worse
than in factories.
Codes Accelerate Trend.
Employment of girls from II to is
years old as servants grew by leaps
and bounds in depression days when
housewives found themselves unable
to pay adult maids wages. Officials
feel the trend was accelerated by the
codes, particularly in Eastern clothing
manufacturing centers
Often the girl-servsnts' pay is only
a hall room cot and what is left from
the family meal, bureau workers point
out. At best, they say, it is only a
few dollars a week
Oftimes they must move heavy fur
niture and carry babies which weigh
so much that the girls suffer physical
harm. Their hours often are long.
Instances are cited where girls of II
and 10 have been kept awake most
of the night by apartment gin parties.
Child labor in homes, on farms and
on streets, with some industrial home
work, have become the bureaus chief
problem along that line since most
factories barred children under IS.
Children Work in Fields.
Truck farms often employ whole
families to pick vegetables. paying
them by the buShel. Children barely
OF school age sometimes work in the
fields from Sun-up to sunset, officials
declare. Crops on which child labor
is used extensively are said 70 include
cotton. tobacco, beets, berries and
small fruit.
House to- house selling, usually with
a hard-luck story as sales talk, also
is being pursued by a growing number
OF children.
The bureau says there has been
a lull in sentiment for legislation. be-
cause of the virtual elimination of in-
dustrial child labor by the codes. Only
two States enacted major child labor
laws last Winter.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21

Col. Axton served as chief of Army
chaplains. with the rank of colonel,
from 1920 until the time of his re-
tirement. A native Of Salt Lake City.
he was educated in the Salt Lake
public schools. Prior to entering the
Army he was general secretary Of the
Y. w. c. A. In 1891 he married Miss
Jane Bean of Salt Lake City. who,
with three children, survives him.
The latter are Chaplain John T.
Axiom. jr., now stationed at an Army
post in the Middle West; Mrs. r. d.
Daugherity and Mrs. Frederick r.
Pitts, both wives of Army officers.
Col Axton will be buried in Airing
ton National Cemetery at pm. Mon
day with full military honors. Flu
neral services will be held at the
grave
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
tuberculosis Committee
Joins Fight Against
Mountain Spot.
PR0HIBITIVE EXPENSE
or SERVICES SEEN
Ickcs and D c. Commissioners
Back Hospital Location
20 Miles Away.

The Tuberculosis Committee ~ the
District OF Columbia Medical Society
81 = meeting last night decided 70
Join in The campaign for adherence 20
the original plans to build the adult
tuberculosis sauator1um on the site
ncw owned by the District at Glenn
Dale. Md
Taking coFn.zauce Of the present
agitation for The purchase of another
mountain site some 10 miles from
Washington. which now seems 10
have the approval 81 tho District
Commissioner and OF Public Works
Administrator IcKCs. thc committee
decided TO throw its weight into the
battle for sticking 70 the original re-
port Of tuberculosis experts IN favor
Of locating the sanatorIum at Glenn
Dale
See No Reason for Change.
mot only do We see no reason for
n change in the plans now said Or.
John Minor. chairman Of the commit
tee, today. but We see every reason
for adhering to the plans and develop
ing center for the treatment Of
tuberculosis at Glenn Dale where the
start has already been made on the
Childrcn's sanatorium.
The committee viii prepare and re-
lease a formal statement later IN sup
port OF its views Meanwhile, mem
bers viii interview all officials who
have anything TO do with selecting the
site and urge them 20 place the sana-
forum at Glenn Dale
Some two years ago the Medical So
eioty held that even Glenn Dale, Is
miles from the District, was too far
for the District physicians who will
volunteer their services to travel To
nut the sanatorium 70 miles from the
District. they feel. would make the
cost of their free services prohlbitlpe.
Last Winter, however the society
formally Endorsed the site.
Have Land Necessary.
The Commissioners. authorized to
do so by Congress, have asked lckcs
for an allotment of Sl,500000 for the
construction Of the sanatorium. They
have the land necessary at Glenn
Dale as ZIG acres was purchased
there at the time Of the construction
Of the childrcns sanatorium purposely
to provide enough room for the con-
struction Of a sanatorium for adults
later
Ickes. however, has said he thinks
the sanatorium should be built on
some mountain site, and following
this edict the Commissioners have
appointed a committee to so out and
look over all mountain sites offered.
This committee win begin locking
early next week.
Members Of the Medical Society's
Committee on tuberculosis, in ad-
dition to DR.. Rogers, are DR.. P. A.
McLendon. Or. Montgomery Blair, Jr,
and DR.. Charles r. L. HALEY
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
WOMAN HURT IN FALL
REPORTED "IMPR0VED"
Plunged From ThId-Tloor Win.
dow While TrylnE TO Ad-
Just Screen.

Mrs Ethel Pullman KIlhuru. 80.
who was injured IN a .aL from a
window Of q third-foor apartment at
1910 New Hampshire avenue early
yesterday. was reported II an i'm
proved" condition to-day III Emergency
Hospital
Mrs. Kilburn. wife Of Capt Charles
l. Kilburn, T. S. A retired. and
prominent in society. fell while trying
10 adjust a screen. according TO her
sister. Mrs. Gertrude Pullman Evans,
with whom she lives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Stab Wound Is Fatal.

A stab wound. received in a fight at
Virginia avenue and Second streets
southwest a week ago proved fatal
early today in Emergency Hospital TO
Robert Matthews 81, colored, "a Won
der court southwest Aiphonzo Cart
well, 43. colored, S14 G street south
west, Is held.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
URGES TRANSIT PROBE
william A. Roberts Charges Spe-
cial Fare Privileges.

William A. Roberts, peoples coun-
sci, yesterday urged the Public UtIh-
ties Commission to make an investl
CATION Of special fare privileges which
he said are being given by the Capt.
tai Transit Co. to employees Of the
Potomac Electric Power Co.
Roberts said the power company
employees are not entitled to special
privileges.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-07-21
Retention of Library Control
By Trustees FarOred in Letter
Board Submits Reasons for Preserving
Present System to Insure CrO'rth
and Usefulness.

The public library system should
bo kept oqt II politics and free from
political control ~ ITS appointments
AS partisan patronage. the Board Of
Library Trustees declared today, Urg-
ing continuation ~ the powers now
gwen the board under the libgarys
organic Law
On behalf cf the Board q Library
Trustee. Thcodorc ". Eoves. presl-
dent. SAID freedom from such poilii-
cal pressure Is assured under the
present system ~ administration but
might not bc under proposed change
Opposition 70 a series Of suggested
changes in the system was outlined
IN = letter 20 william A. Roberts, peo-
pies counsel. who is member Of the
committee named by the Senate Dis
trict Committee 20 study rcorganiza-
ton Il tnc District government. The
statement was IN response 10 2 re-
quest by Roberts for comment on the
proposals