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Evening star., 1934-08-13
IS Boys and Girls
Assured Vacations
By Social Agencies
Checks Over Week End
StUeH Councils Fund
for Camping to $I3I.

Eighteen boys and girls are assured
of weeks camping, 1t was revealed
today as checks received over the week
end were sifted and found to swell
the Council of Social Agencies vaca-
ton fund to $131.
Miss M. E. Coulson, family welfare
and recreation secretary of the coun-
Gil, predicted the goal-sending to
camp every one of the 20 to 40 boys
and girls in town who have no vaca-
tion in 'sight-win be achieved If the
contributions continue to come in at
the present rate.
A woman, who would not reveal her
identity, left IS with Miss Coulson
yesterday. She had just returned from
her own vacation, the donor said, and
wanted to help send some one less
fortunate. Another woman, after
promising to send 81 check. dou-
bled the amount when given the de-
tails of the vacation fund campaign.
The 18 young people whose vacation
is assured will leave for camp this
week. Their camping will cost 81
a day.
If you are interested in aiding in
the vacation fund, Miss Coulson can
be reached at Metropolitan 2284.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
MORE JOBS Committee
PLANS TO BE EXPLAINED

Sylvan King. prominent merchant,
will explain plans of the More Jobs
Committee of the District to create
work here in a talk over Station
WRC at $50 pm. today, as one of
the series of talks sponsored by the
Merchants and Manufacturers Asso-
citation.
''Washingtonians should realize
that the time has come to buy, sell
and utilize all things connected with
Washington" Mr.. King said yester-
day after a meeting of the commit
tee headed by Commissioner George
E. Allen.
about 10000 families or about
10000 persons" he continued, "are
receiving relief at the present time
from the emergency relief division of
the Department of Public Welfare"
Evening star., 1934-08-13
S3,AQ,ODO IS DUE
f. ON BANKS SHARES
1.343 Stockholders Must
Make One-Fourth Pay
ments Today.

Assessments totaling $3,34O, 600
against 1,343 stockholders OF five in
solvent banks in the District fell due
today, covering one-fourth of the 100
per cent assessment.
Checks in the mail, postmarked up
to midnight, will be accepted by the
two receivers, as paid on time, they
explained, but all payments after that
will carry interest at 6 per cent.
Cary A. Hardee, receiver for the
Federal-American National Bank d
Trust Co., the largest bank in receiV-
ership, stated early today that pay
ments so far had been much more
than had been expected.
In this bank the assessment o!
So 600 900, equal to the. capital STOCK OF
the bank has been levied against o4@
shareholders. The receivership Is To-
Gated at Fifteenth and H streets.
In the case of the next largest panK,
the District National Bank, group OF
67 stockholders holding 2,235 Snares
ont of the total of 10000 shares, less
than one-fourth, has filed suit Tor an
Injunction to prevent collection OF tne
assessment. But payments from otnei
stockholders not fighting the assess
ment have been coming in in quite
number" according to Norman n
Hamilton, receiver Some stocknolo-
ers in the District bank have PAID IN
full. he explained, while others nave
paid the first installment, explaining
that the other three installments Will
be paid when they fau due in Sep
tember, October and November on
the 18th of each month.
There are 325 stockholders IN tnf
District Bank, 67 of whom joined In
the suit filed Saturday. The total
assessment is for S1,000,000 in the
case of this bank.
Other banks against whose stock
holders assessments have been fllec
are in the hands of Receiver Hamil-
ton. These institutions, the amount
of their assessments and number OF
stockholders are as follows:
Potomac Savings Bank, $4,000
against So stockholders; Northeast
Savings Bank, 100000 against 18s
stockholders; Seventh Street Savings
| Bank, 100000 against l23 stock
holders.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
Library Groups to Meet.

MCLEAN, Va, August 13 (Special)-
Mclean Community Library Associa-
ton and Junior Library Association
will meet Jointly tomorrow afternoon
at 2:3o O'Clock at the home of Mrs.
Randolph Lehigh, on Chain Bridge
road. On the following day, at the
same hour, the Community Library
Associations storytelling hour will be
held in Dunham Hall, Lewinsville,
under direction of Miss Catherine
Cunningham.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
YOUTH ENDS LIFE
AFTER AUTO TRIP
Archie Jefferson Ward Dies
sIG0. 1sat - - -s-i-5 !.
at Hospital Following
Shooting.

archie Jefferson Ward, 20ytofs 1916
Seventeenth street, died this morning
at Casualty Hospital after shooting
himself through the head, police say,
while in front of filling station at
Pennsylvania avenue and Ninth street
southeast about 2:15 am.
Police were told Ward, manager of
a filling station in the northwest sec
ton, had just returned from an auto
mobile trip to Southern Maryland
with Gilmer Swain, his roommate at
the Seventeenth street address, and
Misses Naomi and Doris Crouch OF
900 Fourteenth street southeast.
Fired During Drive.
Wards companions said that dur
ing the drive he fired two shots at
random from his pistol. When the
party stopped before the filling sta
ton Ward entered a basement room
and remained so long Swain went for
him.
Ward followed his friend upstairs.
police were told, and shot himself
once through the head as he came
out OF the station.
The filling station was the scene
of a hold-up several months ago
during which bandit was shot to
death by Policeman Watson Salkeld
of the first precinct.
Father Notified.
Police notified Wards father, Ed
ward Ward of Lexington. N. c., OF
the shooting.
Another attempted suicide came to
the attention of police early today
when 22-year-old Judson Kingman OF
20 T street northeast walked into
No. precinct with an empty liniment
bottle in his hand and announced he
had swallowed the contents. Police
sent Kingman to Casualty Hospital,
where his condition was not con-
sidered serious.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
$4,000 HERE ENLIST
IN MOVIE CLEANUP
Catholic Legion of Decency Will
Begin Canvass to Complete
Boycott Drive.

The Catholic Legion Of Decency
campaign against Objectionable films
here was near completion today, with
$4,000 persons pledged to boycott the
aters exhibiting Indecent films.
Following meeting yesterday OF
representatives from % parishes at
the Brooks Club, At I street, Mrs.
Harry Kirk, head of the drive, said
final plans called for a house-to-
house canvass for more pledges.
After the schools open next month,
they also will be canvassed
Churches of all denominations
have joined the Legion of Decency
since the drive was started more than
three months ago
Evening star., 1934-08-13
Sight Restored, Girls New Loue of Beauty
Turns Her From Medicine to Career of Art
Blindness attacks Disdp-
pear as MysteriOusly
as They ArriUe.
Victinl Tells Impressions
of T,0O Long Days of
Total Darkness.
By a STAFF Correspondent of The Star.

BY STAFF Correspondent of The Star.
- LARENDON, Va, August 13.-
Blindness - an inexplicable
attack of sightlessness that
~ disappeared as mysteriouSly
as it came-imbued an 18-
year-old Clarendon girl with such a
deep love for the beauties of nature
that she abandoned a lifelong ambi-
ton to become a doctor and took up
art instead.
It was a warm, moonlit night in
September, 1880, that Miss Logs
Blake, IA Pershing drive, experienced
her first attack of blindness. Since
then, she has lost her vision on two
other occasions, but each time it re-
turned with apparently unimpaired
vigor. Between times, she practiced
her art so determinedly that now, at
the age Of %, she is capable OF pro-
ducing oil paintings, pastel portraits,
pen-and-ink drawings and pencil
sketches of a quality that has won
high commendation.
THAT first time I went blind" Miss
Blake said, was the most terrifying
experience or my lie.
She was visiting the home OF
friend in Mclean, she said, when,
suddenly, Everything went black"
I'VE were sitting in the moonlight
she said. "I was patting a white
collie dog that was lying at my feet
All of sudden, it seemed as though
the moon had gone behind cloud.
"I looked at my friend, but he
wasn't there. Then I looked at the
collie, and he was gone. too"
For two days Miss Blake remained
in total darkness. After that her
sight came back slowly, but it was
all of two months before she was
able to see normally.
IT got so I could tell who was In
the room with me-" she said, "just
ike dogs and other animals do-by
scent. I could even tell who was
Evening star., 1934-08-13
RAZOR DUELING PROVES
FATAL TO COLORED MAN

Two colored men fought 1t out with
razors to a fatal conclusion early yes
terday in a basement room at 1884
Kalorama road.
The loser was Francis Albert, so
years old. When police found him his
body bore deep slashes about the
chest, face, left arm and left ear.
Albert was removed to Freedmen's
Hospital, where he died four hours
later. The fight occurred about 2:45
am. Police said Albert was fighting
it out with Edward Talley, 81.
The latter man, who was cut about
the arms in the fight, police said, was
being held for investigation.
Albert's body was removed to the
Morgue, where an inquest will be held
tomorrow or Wednesday.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
$11,500 to Be Paid Farmers.

FAIRFAX, Va, August 13 (SpeciaD
$1f,500 is to be DIS
tributed at once among local farmers
who are participating in the local corn
and hog control program. Fairfax
County Agricultural Agent H. B. Derr
has announced. OF this amount,
$1,258.70 will go to farmers who have
reduced their corn acreage, with the
remaining $10,214 to be shared by
signers of the hog reduction program.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
HOTEL PLUNGE KILLS
FEDERAL EMPL0YE
G. H. McGrath, Georgetown Grad
uate and Interior Worker,
Dies in Texas.
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
TYLER, Tex, August 13.-G. Hal
lie McGrath, 40, a brother OF Dan
McGrath, assistant United States
Attorney General, was killed here
last night in a fall from the fifth
story of his hotel
A special agent for the Department
of Interior, McGrath had been here
for several months checking enforce
ment of Federal oil production rules
in the East Texas field.
T He was not married.
G. Halle McGrath graduated from
Georgetown University Law School
shortly after the war. He was en-
ployed in the Oil Enforcement Ad-
ministration, Division of Investiga-
tions, the Interior Department, said
today, but he never worked here.
His brother, Assistant United
States Attorney General Dan Nc
Grath, who lives here at the LaSalle
Apartments, arranged to leave today
for Texas. He also is graduate OF
Georgetown Law School.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
Will Receive Bids.

ARLINGTON COURT HOUSE, va,
August Is (SpeciaD Bids for the in
stallation Of street markers through
out the county viii be received tomor-
row at the regular semi-monthly
meeting of the Arlington County
Board, County Manager Roy o.
Braden announced today.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
BOY, 9, MISSING
Police Seek Robert Croft, Who
DISAPPEARED Saturday Morning.

Robert Croft, 9, who lives with his
sister, Mrs. Catherine Wells, at 206
Upshur street, disappeared Saturday
morning and has not been seen since,
Mrs. Wells has reported to police.
Police are being set to search the
Soldiers Home grounds and Rock
Greek Park where the boy often plays.
Robert Is about 4 feet tall, with
fair complexion. When last seen, he
was wearing brown overalls and black
and white tennis shoes.
Evening star., 1934-08-13
and-run automobile at Pennsylvania
avenue and Eleventh street southeast.
SAILOR FATALLY HURT.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
BALTIMORE, August 13.-Paul c.
Russell, a sailor attached to the
Washington Navy Yard, was fatally
injured early today when the auto
mobile in which he was riding was
sideswiped by truck on the Wash
ington-Baltimore Boulevard near
Harwood, Md. Two woman compan-
ions also were hurt.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

BY FREDERICK C. RUSSELL.
HITTING it up on the open road
is one way to turn your motoring
into q closed book.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Breathing Spell Urged.

A vigorous campaign has been
launched by one of the oil companies
to persuade all motorists on extended
trips to adopt the army marching
custom of halting for a "breather"
for five minutes in each hour Of trav-
el. The practice is put forward as a
step in combating the effects of car
bon monoxide gas.
Within the past four months three
State governments, a prominent in
surance company and many auto
mobile associations throughout the
country have officially stated that the
effect of carbon monoxide gas in
dulling a drivers sense of co-ordina-
ion has been responsible for many of
the hitherto ''ineXplicable" highway
accidents The current plan of halt
ing with silent motor for minutes
out of each 60 IS indorsed as a def
mite precaution against the accumula-
ton of harmful quantities of the gas
in the interior of the car.
Extensive tests on cars picked at
random on New England highways
proved beyond doubt that 62 per cent
of all automobiles contained carbon
monixide in measurable quantities
and that the content in approx
mately 10 per cent was sufficiently
high to endanger the required mental
alertness of the operator.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
CAMP STAY-AT-HOME
TO OPEN AT Y. W. C. A.
Monday Date for Senior High
School Girls and Tuesday
for Juniors.

The Girl Reserve Camp Stay-at-
Home opens at the Y w. G. A., Sew
enteenth and K streets, Monday at
$50 am. for senior high school girls
and Tuesday at $50 am for junior
high school girls. Any girl between
the ages of II and 18 is invited to join
and see what real fun can be found
in vacation in town.
The Senior High School Girl Re-
serve Conference at Arlington Hall. at
Ballston, Va, will open June %, with
and Washington attending.
A special opportunity is being given
to friends and patrons of the Y. w.
c. A. to see Kamp Kahlert dressed up
for its Summer occupants and to par
take of chicken and sea food dinner
June % at $50 pm. This dinner is
being sponsored by the Kamp Kahlert
Committee, Mrs. A. Montague Ferry,
chairman. The proceeds will go into
the painting fund for the buildings.
Reservations must be made by June
26 at Seventeenth and K streets.
A historic valley trip to Natural
Bridge, Va, is being sponsored by the
industrial and educational depart
ments June 80. The bus leaves the
Y. w. c. A. at 1880 pm. Saturday,
going via Fairfax, Staunton and Lex
ington and returning via Charlottes-
vile, Orange and Fredericksburg.
The first all-expense conducted tour
OF the Y. w. c. A. to Chicago to the
Century of Progress Exposition will
leave July 81 by way of the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad. Circulars and full
information may be obtained from the
Y. w. C. A.
The Y. w. C. A. Bible Study Club
o: GA E street will meet today at
7:30 pm. Miss Amy Putnam will con-
duct review of the poems studied
during the month and DR.. S. Chris
tian Anderson will give review of the
book of Daniel.
The Wednesday Afternoon Women's
Club will meet June 81 at 614 z street.
when plans will be made for an out
door picnic.
The Music Study Club of 614 z
street will meet Thursday at 1 o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Iustment, following q change In

readjustment, following o change In
the cars diet. -
One reason why women have more
trouble shifting gears Is because they
Usually do not press the clutch pedal
far enough to the floor when trying
to go from one gear combination to
another. This is particularly true of
pulling the lever up out Of low. Un-
less the clutch Is fully disengaged, it
will cause a drag on the gears.
The weeks safety pointer Is some
thing you may have occasion to con-
slider many times in your Summer
touring. Don't try to pass another
car on a railroad grade crossing. In
fact, always wait until the other car
is safely across.
This is a short story about four
women In q small car, three Of whom
we're good drivers. Starting on a
400-mile trip. they made their des-
tination in a day, arriving without
fatigue. The secret lay in their plan
of shifting drivers every so miles. BY
starting early, and having their routes
well in mind, they did not need to
drive fast. Speed, you may have
discovered, Is firing.
Safety advocates are naturally ad-
vancing the argument that the faster
one drives the higher the gasoline
consumption. That is true enough,
but it is frequently stated that at so
miles per hour a car consumes much
more gas than at 80. That is not
necessarily true Of all cars. Some
cars are quite economical at so.
Maximum and minimum fuel con-
sumption varies for different cars un-
der different driving conditions. The
minimum consumption is 20 miles per
hour for one 12-cylinder car. That
is much too low a speed for best re-
suits for number Of other makes.
Where a car is equipped with a
dashboard adjustment of the braking
power it is good plan to use the
more powerful adjustment If wearing
fine shoes. This means less pressing
against the pedal and less pushing
the shoes out of shape.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
New Roadside Play.
4 S THEIR second production of

As THEIR second production of the
Summer season, the Roadside
Theater will offer "The Mad Hopes, :"
by Romney Brent, opening Tuesday.
July 8, for five-night run, through
Saturday, July 7. This play will in
troduce the other half of the double
barreled" stock company, including
Jane Plummer Rice, Virginia Rand,
Marvin Beers, Arthur Westover.
Walter Pick, Leslie Orleans, Helena
Cook. Evelyn Drayton, Joseph Haiti
gan and Allen Fisher. Arthur Rhodes,
the director, will also play. A comedy
of the ridiculous antics of an Ameri-
can family living on the Riviera, the
play opened In Summer theater at
Magnolia, Mass, and went on to q
successful Broadway run. It has
never been presented In Washington.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
More Stage Stars.

CEVERAL Broadway brilliants re-
Gently have affixed their names
to R-K-O Radio picture contracts
calling for one or more films. Those
who succumbed to the lures Of Holly
wood we're Fred Astaire, popular
dancing comedian; Violet Kemble-
Cooper, long known on the boards;
Barbara Robbins, young dramatic
star; John Beal, young conner, and
Theima White, fresh from the "Follies.
Astaire is under contract for two pic
lures, with options. His first, which
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Helpful Hints Cleaned
For Milady's Motoring
Prior Use Of Car to Purchase Can Be Noted
by Fleckine Of of Paint
on Manifold.

a forward step, since today you need
to watch speed more than ever before
and must be able to read accurately
at a glance.
There's no copyright on the plan
one woman used in selecting her new
car. She simply browsed around the
service station to see what was hap
pening to cars of the same make and
year as her old one. 1t didn't take
her long to discover just how much
more it would cost her to keep the
old car another year. OF course one
has to be fair about the matter. Not
every job being performed on other
cars would necessarily be demanded
of the car about to be trade in, but
it Is an easy matter to strike an
average and form a fairly accurate
picture of the situation ahead.
Service men tell me that, contrary
to popular belief, they do not dislike
hearing the grief which women mo-
torist pour out when they come into
the shop for attention. asked one
OF them why. He explained that
women have a way of being critical
of little things and that through try
ing to detect the causes of such
troubles more intimate knowledge of
the car is gained. Women seem to
be particularly prompt to note the
tendency of a motor to knock. and
since most of this sort of knocking to-
day is due to timing and fuel condi-
tions service men are having a merry
time of it learning how to make the
most skillful, accurate adjustments.
Logically following the thought in
the preceding paragraph is the fact
that If you switch from one kind OF
fuel to another it may be necessary
to have the spark timing changed a
little. Previously service men spoke
only Of a possible need for carburetor
Evening star., 1934-06-24

is to go into production Immediately,
is to be a screen version of his inter-
national hit show, THE Gay Di-
vorce." Vivacious Ginger Rogers is
to be his leading lady.
Violet Kemble Cooper is to appear
with Ann Harding in an adaptation
of Charles Morgan's celebrated book.
THE Fountain" She will interpret
the principal character role, that of
the baroness. Miss Robbins already
is at work, co-featured with Ricardo
Cortez and John Beal in q screen
version of Wilhelm Speyer's play.
HAT, Coat and Glove" which was
produced successfully in Europe and
In New York
Evening star., 1934-06-24

Following are tax collections for
1888 by States:
Evening star., 1934-06-24

: forward step, since today you need
to watch speed more than ever before
and must be able to read accurately
at glance.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

If your new car carries a motor
painted with aluminium. or If the ex-
haust manifold is given this treatment,
consider 1t protection and not merely
frill. Under the automobile code a
car cannot be used unless the speed
ometer Is connected If your new car
had been used for demonstrating, the
paint on the manifold would be fiecked
OF by heat A demonstrator, of course,
can be sold by the dealer at a discount,
but only after 1t has been used as
such for two month.
Some of the Improvements in con-
vertible roadsters are certain to please
milady this Summer. She will find
that 1t Is now possible to fold the
windshield forward just as in the case
Of the smarter roadsters of the past
few years. Ventilating wings, perma-
nently built into the doors, are also
noteworthy since they put an end
to the former annoyance of having
Sits in the fronts of the windows
through which the cold air and rain
blew in when the glass was lowered.
It's Just detail, but the idea of paint
ing tenders to match the lighter hue
OF the cars body eliminates a lot Of
busting.
In fact, many of the lesser praised
features of the new models carry the
greatest appeal. There are the steel
spoke wheels, for example These are
easy to keep clean, yet do not have
the cookie" appearance Of the former
disc wheels. Many cars feature the
new tire caps which combine the small
and large caps into one for the sake
OF convenience and speed in imitation.
! Large dial speedometers have also been
Evening star., 1934-06-24
Sunday Motoring Marred
: By Lack of Consideration
Attitude of Drivers Heads List of Things
That Go to Make Sabbath Trips
Most Unpleasant
BY G. ADAMS HOWARD.

~ Spring and Summer when almost seems to be
. out on the highways 1t Is at its worst however on
- narrow curving roads where many motorists entirely
devoid any consideration for the other fellow.
Unfortunately except the broad Washington Baltimore
Boulevard this situation exists many places around the National
Capital The Richmond highway showing rapidly of i'm
being eliminated
widening of the roadway is being pushed along.
the north of Washington the highways being
wide but luckily enough there is not great flow of traffic
especially
during bathing and fishing weather The celebration st
Marys last week surely told story of congestion.
Evening star., 1934-06-24

1857. The amount Used Tor purposes
other than highways was nearly
100000 more than in 1882.
State collections increased $5,148,-
473, with only one increase in tax
rates as the result of strengthening
tax laws and providing more COM
plete collection and more rigid en-
forcement. The effect of better laws
and enforcement is seen as all the
more striking in view of the fact
that consumption of taxed gasoline
declined $25,852,026 gallons.
State Tax Collections.
Evening star., 1934-06-24
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