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Evening star., 1934-01-10
LABOR GROUP PLANS
PLEA TO ROOSEVELT
Will March on White House to
Ask Clemency for Three Men
Condemned to Die.

Representatives of the International
Labor Defense will march to the White
House tomorrow to present plea for
clemency for three colored men sched-
uled to die in the electric chair here
Friday for the murder of Park Police
man Milo j. Kennedy.
Tentative plans call for mass meet
ing in Logan Circle, scene of the slay-
ing, followed by the march to the Ex-
ecutive Mansion, where an attempt Will
be made to present the plea to President
Roosevelt. Detailed arrangements re-
main to be worked out, however, at a
meeting tonight.
Thus far, according to Inspector
Lewis I. H. Edwards, executive officer
of the Police Department, the organiza-
ton has not applied for permit to
stage the demonstration. Unless per-
NIT is obtained, the inspector added,
the parade o the White House will be
halted by police.
Meanwhile, one of the condemned
men, Ralph E. Holmes, has written to
the President, begging that his sentence
be commuted to life imprisonment. The
letter has not yet come to the atten-
tion of the President or any of his
secretaries, however, It was said at the
Executive Mansion.
The other doomed men are Joseph
j. Jackson and Irwin Murray.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
STRICKEN ON STAND,
DIES, ENDING d. C.. COURT CASE

A trial in District Supreme Court
came to an abrupt end this morning
when the plaintiff, Piney Goldstein,
about so, of 1922 Illinois avenue was
seized with a heart attack while testi-
flying. He died while en- route to Emer-
gency Hospital.
AS he slumped down from the witness
chair, a scream from his wife brought
the court room audience to its feet.
Goldstein was assisted from the court
room by his attorney, Isador Lavine;
the opposing attorney, Edmund Jones,
and Court Stenographer John Rhodes.
Reaching the witness room, Goldstein
tainted. The fire rescue squad was
called, but It's efforts failed to- revive
him. He was dead when he arrived at
the hospital.
The litigation in which Goldstein
was involved was damage suit for
$4,000 against the F. w. Woolworth
Co. Goldstein alleged he was injured
October 20, 1892 when he fell down
a flight of stairs in the company's
store at 300 Seventh street.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
FEDERATION OPENS
ANNUAL SESSIONS
Women's Club Group to Hear
Mrs. Roosevelt at Fri
day Dinner.

The Midwinter meeting of the board
of directors. General Federation of
Women's Clubs, opened a four-day ses-
sion this morning at federation head
quarters, 1874 N street, with 100 mem
bers present.
A high light of the session will be a
dinner at the Mayfiower Hotel Friday
night at which Mrs Franklin D. Roose-
welt will be guest of honor and principal
speaker.
In her report to the directors. Mrs.
Grace Morrison Poole, president of the
federation, stressed the necessity of
continued support for the N. r. A. and
other recovery agencies cf the admin
iStration.
Urges Buyers Strike.
She declared an Intelligent buyers
strike against such economic disin-
tegration" as the sweatshop and child
labor is the only guarantee that these
conditions will never return. She
recommended a systematic study OF
prices with the view of protesting when
they drop too low or mount too high.
session was Clarence Pickett of the Sub
sistence Homestead Division, Interior
Department, who told of the admins
trations program for a planned move
ment of unemployed from large popu-
lation centers to self-supporting farms
or small manufacturing communities.
Mrs. Edward Dexter Knight, chairman
of the board of trustees, reported
Sl21 ,002 has been contributed by the
States to the foundation fund of the
federation.
Tea on Schedule.
Delegates were to be entertained at
tea this afternoon by Miss Helen Norris
Cummings, president of the Cameron
Club of Alexandria, in historic Gadsby s
Tavern, Alexandria.
Tonight the visitors will be guests at
a musicale arranged by the District
Federation of Women's Clubs.
Mrs. Harvey W. Wiley, president OF
the District Federation, will entertain
the delegates at tea in the Woman's
City Club. 736 Jackson place, between
and pm. tomorrow. The session
will adjourn following a business meet
ing Saturday morning.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
ASSOCIATION PLANS
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE
North Cleveland Park Group Seeks
to Enroll Property Owners
in Section.

A drive for new members in a COM
prehenSive house-to-house canvass of
property owners and other residents of
the vicinity was planned last night by
the North Cleveland Park Citizens As
sociation, meeting at Window place and
Wisconsin avenue.
A committee headed by Wilbur A.
Callahan will be appointed to push the
drive in an effort to bring out old mem
bers as well as acquire new ones for the
association.
Previous action in approving the
private licensing system of liquor con-
troll in the District was reversed last
night in favor of a dispensary system.
The secretary was instructed to urge
the District Commissioners to expedite
the projected new Woodrow Wilson High
School, a site for which is being
acquired adjacent to the Alice Deal
School.
John A. Bresnahan, local attorney,
presided at the meeting.
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Mrs. Goldstein told court attaches
her husband recovered only recently
from an attack Of grippe.
Goldstein had just started to testify
when he leaned back in his chair,
placed his hand to his head and said
I'm feeling dizzy"
Court attaches had difficulty calming
persons in the court room and keeping
them back from Goldstein while ef-
forts were being made to revive him.
Although Mrs. Goldstein did not know
her husband had died, she became hys-
terical a few moments after his col
lapse and was taken in charge by a
court matron.
Lavine said he expects to go before
Justice Joseph w. Cox. the trial judge,
and ask leave to withdraw the suit un-
less 1t Is found that Goldstein's death
was the result of the injuries he re-
ceived when he fell down the stairs In
the Woolworths Co.'S store.
Justice Cox adjourned court for the
day out of respect for the dead man
Evening star., 1934-01-10
Sergeant's Spine Severely
Hurt When He Leaps
From Window.
FLAMES IN DAVENPORT
QUICKLY EXTINGUISHED
Burning Cigarette or Short Circuit
Blamed for Blaze in Apart
ment.

An Army sergeant and fire chic
were injured today, the former seriously.
during blaze in the noncommissioned
officers quarters at Walter Reed Hos
pital.
Those hurt in the fire, which dam
aged the department building to the
extent Of about $500, are:
Sergt. Fred j. Duncan, 38, who suf-
fered severe injury to his spine when
he leaped from a second-story window,
and E. c. Eglof, chief Of the hospitals
fire department, who was burned on
his hands and cut about the face. Both
were treated at the hospital
The blaze broke out in a davenport
In Duncan's apartment, on the second
floor. Theories as to the cause of the
flames differed, firemen from Engine
Company No. % expressing belief a
short circuit in the electric wiring was
responsible and officials Of the hospital
blamed a Smoldering cigarette butt.
Duncan, who had just returned from
the hospitals linen exchange room. was
in the rear Of the apartment when the
fire broke out. The flames spread
quickly, filling the suite with heavy,
black smoke as they steadily licked their
way toward Duncan.
Unable to get out any other way, the
sergeant opened window and jumped,
but not before the flames had slightly
burned his right hip.
Eggloff, who is 81, was injured while
fighting the blaze before the arrival of
District firemen. An alarm was sent in
from the administration building few
minutes after the flames were discov-
cred.
Lieut. K. L. Hastings, post utility off,
Ger, who assisted in fighting the fire,
vas affected by smoke, but did not re-
quire hospital treatment.
Duncan, physicians said, will be
X-rayed to determine whether his spine
is fractured.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
CHANGES IN POWER
CODE URGED BY D. c.
Utilities Unit Seeks to Amend
Pact to Prevent Rate
Increases.

Important changes in the proposed
N. r. A code for the electric light and
power industry. designed to protect con-
sumers in the District from unwarrant-
ed increases in rates, will be urged at
a hearing before code officials here Fri
day by the District Public Utilities Com
mission, it was stated today by Riley
E. Elgen, acting chairman.
Commissioner Elgen declared he would
seek to amend the code of fair COM
petition, as submitted to Recovery Ad-
ministrator Hugh S. johnson by the
Edison Electric Institute, to preserve the
control the Public Utilities Commission
now has over regulation of the rates OF
the Potomac Electric Power Co.
Fears were voiced that should the
code in its present form be adopted
the higher power rates in vogue in near
by jurisdictions might cause step-ur
in local rates and wreck the present
system of regulation under which each
year some of the excess profits of the
power company here have been re-
turned to consumers in the form OF re-
duced rates.
Hearing Friday.
The code will be discussed at hear
ing beginning at 10 am. Friday at the
Washington Hotel before officials OF
the National Recovery Administration
The District Public Utilities Commis-
sion will be represented by both Com
missioner Elgen and William A. Rob
erts, special assistant corporation
counsel.
The code as it now is proposed was
attacked in numerous instances in a
letter dispatched late yesterday by
Commissioner Elgen to Gen. Johnson.
He declared it was doubtful If a
paragraph in the code relating to fair
competition had any place in the
document because OF the fact that
there are very few members Of the
electric light and power industry which
are in competition with each other,
citing the fact that there is no compe-
tition In the District of Columbia.
"The only way that the trade prac-
tices of one member of the industry
might affect another" he added. "is
embarrassment arising to such other
member from lower rates to the con-
sumers within adjacent territory"
Rates Here Low.
The point here is that rates in th'
District are among the lowest in th'
country for cities having similar con-
ditions, and yet under the consent de-
| cree under which a portion of the ex
cess profits of the Potomac Electric
Power Co. each year are returned Il
consumers the power company herr
has accrued surprising profits, Mr.. Ell
gen explains.
In order to eliminate "any seeming
approval by the Federal Government o.
language which might be construed tt
require consumers rates to be equal
lied because of uniformity Of trad
practices" Commissioner Elgen urget
tnat the trade practices section b.
modified so as to apply only to wage
and working conditions.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
DR.. MACDONALD DIES;
WELL KNOWN DENTIST
Was Prominently Associated With
Masonic Orders
Here.

DR.. G. B. R. Macdonald, well-known
dentist, died yesterday at his home. 3o6
Longfellow street, after a short illness.
He was graduated from the George
Washington University Dental School
in 1907, and had practiced dentistry
here since that time.
DR.. Macdonald was native of Jamaica,
a son of British army officer stationed
there. He was prominently associated
with the District Dental Society and
Psi Omega Dental Fraternity. He also
was affiliated with the Masonic Order
here.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Myrtle
Macdonald. Funeral services will be held
at Gawler's funeral parlors tomorrow
at 2 pm, with Masonic bodies in
charge.
Honorary pallbearers will be DR.. Hen
ry A. Swanson, DR.. Henry Young, DR..
w. W. Wyman, DR.. M. j. Conley, DR..
Earle Whyte. Dr. Arthur Shea, DR.. Carl
Mess. and Edward BraShearS.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
POLICEMEN TRIED
IN BR|BE CHARGE
Messenger Says Officers
Agreed to clay OFF" Case
if $50 Was Paid.

Officers H. G. Bauer and Rudolph
Schleichert, members of the police
liquor squad, under suspension for al
legedly accepting bribe, went on trial
before the Police Trial Board this
morning on two charges OF conduct
prejudicial to the good of the force.
If found guilty, dismissal is mandatory.
The two are accused of accepting $50
to quash liquor case, and diso5edience
to orders IN refusing to surrender an
envelope containing the money when
they were trapped by police officials.
The men were were ACQUITTED on m an nst1;rt ext9r
Supreme Court in November. The de-
fense contends they were framed by
bootleggers who wanted to destroy their
usefulness as officers.
Officers Finally Seated.
After two delays in starting the trial
board hearing, occasioned by chal-
lenges to the personnel selected for
the board, the three officers finally
seated were Inspector Ogden T. Davis,
chairman, and Inspectors Thaddeus
Bean and James r. Beckett.
Alfred H. Dudley, a bootlegger's mes
senger, who admits he was delivering
half-gallon of whisky when Bauer
tober %, was the first witness called.
He related how he had pleaded with
the two officers to go easy with him
because he was an applicant for job
in the Police Department and had a
wife and child. Dudley said there was
no direct discussion of bribery during
his conversation with the defendants,
but that later he was informed by his
| employer, Henry r. Milton, that the
policemen had agreed to accept $50 to
'lay off the case" in court.
Dudley said he was given the money
| in an envelope by Capt. James E. Bobo,
who with other police officials and then
District Attorney Leo A. Rover had
arranged to set the trap for Bauer and
Schleichert.
Says He Delivered Cash.
Going to Eighth and L streets on
| the morning of october 80, Dudley re-
lated, he saw Bauer and Schleichert IN
| a car, approached them and handed
the envelope to the former, who tossed
| the package over into Schleichert's lap.
Dudley said he then turned and gave
| the signal for the police officials to
step forth and arrest the men.
On cross-examination, Defense Coun-
sci Harry T. Whelan and Joseph Kelly
| stressed Dudley's admission that, after
| he had received the $50 in marked
money In an envelope given him by
Capt. Bobo, he had enclosed that pack
age inside another envelope. At first
he denied there was any reason for
his doing this, but later said he thought
| the two policemen might not accept the
envelope from him if he could see there
was money in it, they had expected
Milton to come down and deal with
them.
He denied fatty, however, Whelan's
suggestion that the envelope was sup
posed to contain information for the
officers regarding other bootleggers,
and that Dudley had put it inside a
second encasement to prevent their see
ing the money and arresting him for
offering bribe.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
TRAINING FOR CHANGE
IN INDUSTRY URGED
U. S. Vocational Worker Toresees
New Type of Employment
for Workers.

Training workers for new types Of
employment resulting from changed
economic conditions is an important
factor in the program of industrial
recovery, according to DR.. ]. c. Wright,
assistant commissioner for vocational
education in the United States Office
of Education.
In his annual report made public
today DR.. Wright pointed out that
industry cannot resume activities on
the new basis with a labor force un-
trained in the new technics" Indus
trial recovery and elimination of un-
employment, he said, will not be simply
placement procedure Of returning
labor to jobs for which the workmen
are fitted, but a training procedure of
preparing labor for new jobs that have
become available.
vocational education" his report
said, must function effectively as one
social agency of industrial recovery"
Evening star., 1934-01-10
STATION MANAGER TIED
AS BANDITS GET $100
Trio in Conduit Road Hold-up Be-
lieved Responsible for Other
Robberies Here.

Three bandits last night held up the
manager of a filling station at 4812
Conduit road and stole 500 from a
safe.
Claude Will. the manager. told police
the trio bound his hands and feet with
wire and put him in the gas stations
rest room while they looted the
strong box.
Police said Wills description Of the
trio tailed with the Identification of
the three men who have perpetrated a
series of robberies in the past two
weeks.
In other thefts last night, about $40
in cash and jewelry and clothing worth
about SITS was taken.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
WIDOW GIVEN ESTATE

BY the Associated Press.
ROCKVILLE, Nd. January 10.-The
will of John Clyde Austin of Bethesda,
formerly of Hamilton County. Tenn,
was admitted to probate in the Orphans,
Court here yesterday. 1t was executed
February IA, 1880, and bequeaths the
entire estate to the testator's widow,
Mrs Gussie Norton Austin, who is
named executrix. The value of the es-
tate is not indicated.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
ity has never obeyed the prohibition

city has never obeyed the prohibition
laws.
Other State superintendents reported
as to the situations in their territories.
Following the roll call Of States a
drama entitled Convinced" was pre-
sented by S. p. McNaught OF Columbus.
Ohio, with a cast of nine characters.
DR.. Ernest H. Cherrington, head OF
the leagues division of education, con-
Quoted forum on the topic Education
Points the Way"
Evening star., 1934-01-10
MRS. L. w. DRAPER DIES
Mother of Hamline M. E. Pastors
Wife Succumbs at Sibley.

Mrs. Laura Wood Draper, 1905 De-
catur street, mother of Mrs. Harry w.
Burgan, wife of the pastor of the Ham
line M E. Church, died yesterday at
Sibley Hospital
Funeral services will be held tomor-
row at II am, followed by burial In
Baltimore. Rev. Benjamin w. Meeks,
district superintendent of the Method
ist Episcopal Church, will be in charge
of the services. Pallbearers will include
church officials In this section.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
ASSAULT CHARGED

Police Say Man Claims Brass
Knuckles Were Used.
John Lee Wilkinson. As, of 1875
Fourteenth street, was arrested yester-
day on a charge of assaulting Ralph w.
Malone, "a, of the same address, last
Sunday. Malone, who was treated at
Emergency Hospital for fractured jaw,
sid Wilkinson used brass knuckles ac-
cording to the police report
Wilkinson was released under bond OF
81 900 pending trial. About week ago,
wilkinson was tried on warrant
charging threats, but the case was dis
missed in Police Court.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

- ALLINGER HOSPITALS bum
per crop of babies. which for
T months has resulted in serious
~ overcrowding of facilities in
the maternity section of the
hospital. was ended at least temporarily
today with the opening OF new ward
providing so additional beds in a re-
modelled building in the hospital
grounds.
So serious has been the overcrowding
that many of the new mothers have
had to be housed in the hospital corri-
dors, while rooms normally designed for
Evening star., 1934-01-10

two beds have held three and four pa
tientS.
Not only was the overcrowding a
hardship to mothers, babies and hos
pital attendants, but it was always a
potential menace because of the rapidity
with which disease could spread under
such conditions.
Construction Of the new ward, pro-
vided by remodeling of one of the older
buildings in the hospital grounds. was
the result Of long efforts on the part
of Edfar A. Bocock, superintendent Of
Gallinger Hospital.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
WIFE GETS CHILDREN
Mrs. r. MacB. Pennell Claims Hus-
band Deserted Her.

band Deserted Her.
Justice Jennings Bailey in District
Supreme Court yesterday signed de-
cree awarding Mrs. Frances MacBryde
Pennell, 561I Chevy Chase parkway.
permanent maintenance from Clarence
c. Pennell and custody Of their two
minor children.
In her suit, filed through Attorney
Raymond Neudecker, Mrs. Pennel
claimed she was deserted by her hus-
band in February, 1890.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
PRICE TO LEAD SURVEY
OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS
Unemployed Architects Will Work
on C. w. A. Project-Stern
Supervisor for Virginia.

Maj Harry B. Price has been ap-
pointed local supervisor of the C. w. A.
survey of historic buildings in the Dis
trict of Columbia and part Of Maryland.
Secretary Ickes announced yesterday.
Philip N. Stern of Fredericksburg
will be supervisor of the nearby Vir-
ginia survey.
The surveys are to be conducted un-
der the civil works program for pre-
serving the Nations historic buildings.
Unemployed architects will be put to
work on the project
Evening star., 1934-01-10
Colvin Run Meeting Tonight.

COLvIN RUN, Va, January 10 (Spe-
ciaD The local citizens association
will meet in community hall here to-
night at o'clock.
Evening star., 1934-01-10
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF.
TODAY.

Meeting, Italy = America Society,
Chinese room, Mayfower Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting, Powell Junior High School
Parent Teacher Association, Powell
School auditorium, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Address, DR.. Harry E. Woolever
who Is The State'?" before class in
contemporary world events of the
Graduate School of American Univer-
sity, 1901 F street, 8 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Meeting, Capitol Lodge, No. 3, Order
of Shepherds of Bethlehem, Masonic
Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast,
pm
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Meeting, National League of Commits
sion Merchants, garden, Mayfower
Hotel, $3.50 am.
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Meeting, Dahlgren Terrace Citizens
Association, Crosby Noyes School, Tenth
and Franklin streets northeast, pm.
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MeeClng, Italy = AIHeTlCd COClely,
Chinese room, Mayfower Hotel, 9 pm.
Meeting, Powell Junior High School
Parent = Teacher Association, Powell
School auditorium, pm.
Address, DR.. Harry E. Woolever,
"who Is The State'?' before class in
contemporary world events of the
Graduate School of American Univer-
sity, 1901 F street, pm.
Meeting, Capitol Lodge, No. 3, Order
of Shepherds of Bethlehem, Masonic
Temple, Eighth and F streets northeast,
pm.
Meeting, Dahlgren Terrace Citizens
Association. Crosby Noyes School, Tenth
and Franklin streets northeast, pm.
Banquet-meeting. Ladies' Bible Glass,
First Reformed Church, Thirteenth and
Monroe streets, Kennedy Warren Hotel,
7pm.
Dinner, soroptonaist Club, Willard
Hotel, pm.
Meeting, Epsilon Chapter, ri Omicron
National Sorority. university guild room,
Willard Hotel, 7:30 pm.
Lecture, Arthur Sired, auspices OF
National Bureau of Dietetics, 1414 Six
teenth street, 8:l5 pm.
TOMORROW.
Luncheon. Kiwanis Club ball room,
Mayflower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon. Military Order of the
World War, Chinese room, Mayfiower
Hotel 1880 pm.
Meeting, National League Of Commis-
sion Merchants, garden, Mayhower
Hotel, $3.50 am.
Luncheon, Central Union Mission, JEFF
ferson room, Mayhower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Phi Gamma Delta Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
Luncheon, Cornell Club. University
Club, 1880 pm.
Luncheon, Rotary Club, University
Club, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Banquet-meeting, Ladies' Bible Class,
First Reformed Church, Thirteenth and
Monroe streets, Kennedy-Warren Hotel,
Z pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Luncheon, Central Union Mission. JEFF
ferson room, Mayhower Hotel, II 80 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Lecture, Arthur Sired, auspices Of
National Bureau of Dietetics, 1414 Six
teenth street, 8:l5 pm.
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Meeting EnSilon Chanter. Pi Omicr

Dinner, Soroptonist Club, Willard
Hotel, pm.
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Cites Repeal Experience.

Leon W. Sloan, superintendent Of the
league in Louisiana, said yesterday aft
ernoon "the only kick New Orleans got
ort of repeal was that most of the boot
Ierrers took out licenses when beer be-
came legal on April IS last and they
moved up out of the cellars and back
alleys and rented buildings on the ave-
nues and have brazenly continued to
sell hard liquors under cover OF the beer
license"
New Orleans made no special ado
over repeal, he explained. because the
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Luncheon, Military Order Of the
World War, Chinese room, Maydower
Hotel 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Luncheon, Phi Gamma Delta Fra
ternity, University Club, 1890 pm.
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TOMORROW

Luncheon. Kiwanis Club, ball room,
Mayflower Hotel, 1890 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

National Sorority. university guild room,
Willard Hotel, 7:3O pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Luncheon, Cornell Club, University
Club. 1880 pm.
Evening star., 1934-01-10

Luncheon, Rotary Club, University
Club, 1890 pm.