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Evening star., 1935-07-13
INTERIOR WORK
RESUMPTION SEEN
Conciliators Obtain Agreement
Affecting $50 Striking
Workers.

Labor Department conciliators eX-
pressed hope today that work could be
resumed early next week on the In
terror Department Building where $50
building trades workers went on
general strike last Monday against the
employment of non-union electricians
by the Industrial Power & Equipment
Co. of Baltimore.
Howard Colvin. conciliator. said
union officials had accepted terms on
which the men would return to work
and that the agreement had been for
warded to the Baltimore concern for
ratification. No word from the COM
pany has been received yet.
The Baltimore firm was low bidder
on a contract to change the electrical
current in the Interior Building from
direct to alternating. Forty nom
union men reported for work and all
union workers engaged in installing
elevators and ir-conditioning the
building went on a strike in support
of union electricians. Negotiators for
the union insisted the men would not
return until non-union workers were
taken off the job.
Colvin declined to state the condi-
tlons accepted by the union, saying
any announcement at this time might
interfere with early termination Of
the strike. He said he believed. how
ever, the company also would accept
the terms.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
AIR LEAGUE TO SEND
NO FLYERS TO ETHIOPIA

by the Associated freSS-
BARCELONA. July 13.-Clifford B
Harmon, American president of the
International League of Aviators,
made plain today that his organiza-
ton would not cooperate in any way
in the recruiting of aviators for Ethi-
opia.
Reports from Grasse France, yes
terday quoted Hal Duberrier, Ameri-
can aviator who claims to have en-
listed IL flyers to fight for the African
kingdom, as saying that he was nego-
tiating with Harmon for support for
his venture.)
"The league of Aviators is abso-
lutely neutral and takes no sides with
any country" Harmon said. He added
that the league, although it has
branches all over the world, takes no
part whatsoever in political questions.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
HEARING IS CALLED
ON COURT NOMINEES
Senate Subcommittee Considers
Letters Of Protest on Three
Prospects.

The Senate subcommittee handling
the four District judgeship nomina-
tions was to hold a hearing at 2
o'clock this afternoon in the District
Committee room of the Capitol. The
subcommittee consists of Senators
King. Democrat. of Utah and Borah,
Republican, of Idaho.
The subcommittee had expected to
poll the membership of the Judiciary
Committee on reporting the nomina-
tionS, but because of several letters
of protest that have been received, a
hearing was decided on. 1t Is mder-
stood that no protests have come in
regarding the reappointment OF
Judge Nathan Cayton of the Munich
pal Court. The other three nomina-
tions to be considered at the hearing
are:
Reappointment Of Judge George
c. Aukam, of the Municipal Court;
appointment of Miss Ellen K Ready,
to succeed Judge Mary O'Toole in
Municipal Court. and appointment Of
Walter j. Casey to replace Judge
Ralph Given in Police Court.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
BANK GETS $50,387
DEFAULT JUDGMENTS
Federal American Receiver Wins
on Stock Assessment and
Note Suits.

Cary A. Hardee. receiver for the closed
Federal American National Bank &
Trust Co, was awarded default judg-
ments totaling s50.387 in District Su-
preme Court yesterday.
The judgments were awarded be-
cause of faulty answers or a failure
to answer by persons who had been
sued on stock assessments or promis-
sorry notes.
In the largest case, Edward H. Jones
was held to be in default on a SIG, 900
note. Judgments on notes were re-
turned against Albert w. jacobson
for sl,720 and against John w. Glen
non for $6.2472O.
Small judgments were obtained
against Charles B. Stewart, Thomas
j. Gibbons, r. P. Witty, Mrs. Lucy M.
Clarke, Joseph H. Milans, Robert r.
Hotel, Kenneth M. Livingstone, Mrs
Elizabeth Kahn. John B. Flynn, Mrs.
Eleanor Tracy Gardiner, Charles Fac
china. Joseph Perna and Frank Perna.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Barge Sounding Board Ready
For First of Symphony Concerts
Double Shift of Workers Necessary to
Complete Equipment for Opening of
Summer Series on RiUer.

The huge sounding board. which to-
morrow night will watt the music Of
the National Symphony Orchestra out
over the Potomac River in the first
of series Of Summer concerts near
the Arlington Memorial Bridge. was to
be put in its place aboard Navy barge
this afternoon
The sounding board. or shell. was
made by relief workers furnished by
Commissioner George E. Allen. A
double shift of workers was needed to
finish the job in time for the concerts.
The concert. beginning at pm. to-
morrow, will open with literal bang
as DR.. Hans Kinder raises his baton
on the first crashing notes of Wagner's
Die Meistersinger."
New Musical Era.
The opening also will mark the be-
ginning of new era in musical
presentations ir Washington, being the
first Summer concert series by the Ma
tional Symphony and the first time
that a concert has been attempted
from water to land. The orchestra
will be stationed on the Navy barge
while the audience will be seated on
the terrace Of the huge water gate Of
the bridge, which forms natural am
phitheater seating arrangement.
Although there is no gauge Of at
tendance at such a program. G. c.
Cappel, business manager of the or
chestrs. said he expected larger
crowd at the open-air performance
than has yet attended the indoor
Winter concerts. These expects tions
are based on advance ticket sales.
Both the singles and season tickets
have met with brisk demand since
they were put on sale at Garfinckel's
Evening star., 1935-07-13
FRIES IS SPEAKER
AT FORT STEVENS
Battle Anniversary Observ.
ed-CiviIization Credited
to Fighting Spirit.

1t is automatic that civilization
came to mankind through the ability
and willingness of certain races to
fight, Maj. Gen. Amos A. Fries. U. 6.
A., retired, declared last night at
exercises commemorating the seventy
first anniversary of the Battle OF Fort
Stevens.
He spoke from the parapet Of the
fort. where President Lincoln stood
July II, 1864. The ceremony was
under auspices Of the Department of
the Potomac, Ladies of the Grand
Army Of the Republic, and the Fort
Stevens Post, No. 80, of the American
Legion. Gen Fries is a past COM
mander of the Legion's District de-
partment
The speaker lauded Lincoln and
told of the battle. He said, capture
of Washington by Gen. Jubal Early,
seriously threatened at Fort Stevens,
would not have saved the Confeder-
acy, but would have been a terrible
blow to the North.
Gen. Fries said the man who stands
by and says nothing when the peril
OF his Government is discussed, can
not be misunderstood, and, If not
hindered. is sure to help the enemy.
Seated on either side of Gen. Fries
during his address at the base of the
big stone memorial boulder, erected by
the Associated Survivors of the 9Th
Army Corps, were Maj. Edward r.
Campbell and Vice Comdr. John T.
Ryan of Kit Carson Post, No. 2, G. A.
r., both veterans of the Civil War.
Maj. Campbell, now in his 93d year,
is one of two survivors of the Battle
of Fort Stevens and it was his regi-
ment that built the fort where the
exercises were held.
The assemblage was called to order
by Miss Emma F. Hayward, president
OF the Department of the Potomac,
Ladies of the c. A. R. This was fol-
lowed by prayer by Miss Olive Van
Wagner of William Beck Circle, No.
4, and Assembly by Richard H.
Viancour of Fort Stevens Post Drum
and Bugle Corps. Massing of the
colors of the various organizations
followed in front Of the monument: ::
Pledge to the Flag and the reading
of a letter from John M. Kline, de-
rartment commander, G. A. R., who
was unable to attend, by R. j. F.
McElroy, past commander of the
Department of Maryland, Sons of
Union Veterans.
The singing Of America" followed,
accompanied by the Fort Stevens Post
Drum and Bugle Corps; recitation of
L!ncoln's Gettysburg address by
Comdr. John F. Houck, Department
of Maryland, Sons of Union Veterans,
and brief remarks by Post Comdr.
William H. Hargrave, Fort Stevens
Post, No. 80, the American Legion.
A wreath was. then placed on the
monument by Miss Hayward and
Taps" sounded by the drum and
bugle corps. The boulder marking
the spot where President Lincoln
stood was selected by the late Lewis
Cass White, a pioneer resident of
Rrightwood, who raised and lowered
the flag at Fort Stevens during his
lifetime on all public occasions.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
VALUATION REVIEW
ASKED Of COURT
BY GAS UTILITIES
D. c. Supreme Bench Told
Figures Unreasonable
and Dangerous
ROBERTS HAS DRAFTED
APPEAL OF HIS OWN
Will Tell Court Commission Erred
in Some Cases to Favor
Companies.

Contending the recent valuation Of
their properties by the Public Utilities
Commission was unfair and made
quate, the Washington and George
town Gas Light Companies today
asked the District Supreme Court 10
review the findings of the commission.
The value of the Georgetown Co.
was fixed by the commission at ST.
954 900, while that of the Washington
Co. was valued at sl5,039,OO0. The
companies say these findings we're con-
trary TO the evidence, unreasonable
and inadequate 1t Is claimed they
will serve as dangerous precedent II
allowed to stand.
The commissions valuation will
face a double -barreled attack. since
Peoples Counsel William A. Roberts
has prepared an appeal of his own. tn
be filed promptly in the event the gas
companies appeal.
Testimony Held Not Followed.
Roberts. however, is not joining
hands with the companies. since he
will tell the court the commission
erred in some instances in favor of
the companies. He also will complain
that the commission in some instances
did not follow testimony as to facts
submitted by its own staff.
Marcy L. Sperry, president OF the
companies, stated:
In filing the appeals We are
simply preserving our statutory rights
under the acts of Congress establish
ing the Public Utilities Commission.
which require thai such appeals TO the
Supreme Court be taken within l20
days from the GATE OF the commits
Sion's decision. This move is not to
be construed as contrary to my re-
Gently expressed Lesirt to cooperate
with the commission and the peoples
counsel in bringing about settlement
Of these expensive and long pending
proceedings"
Roberts. a few days ago, proposed
that the valuation and rate cases be
abandoned and that the companies
and the commission accept proposed
agreement on rates which, he said. he
was ready to submit He did not then
nor has he since announced his pro.
posed rate cut.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Checks Start Hunt for Girl
Kn0,Cn as Headache to Police

Sure enough, the pretty girl who
issued all those elegant checks seems
to have been Isabelle Lorraine Mess
mer, the perennial headache Of the
Metropolitan Police Department.
The department suspected as much
in the first place. It had saved Isa-
bellies photograph and autograph for
Just such an eventuality.
That's the GIRL" said clerks at a
fashionable hotel, where Isabelle had
been living In luxury. Her picture
was recognized also by officials of a
leading bank where she had deposited
500, and by department store en-
ployes who cashed $400 worth of her
checks.
Isabelle herself, after stretching
all that rubber, bounced out Of town
on a bus. The department today
broadcast q lookout for her.
The department had to 60 into
some detail, as Isabelle Is known In
Evening star., 1935-07-13
CAPT. G. H. MILH0LlAND
IS DESIGNATED AT POST

Capt. George H. Milholland, Sd Cav
airy, was designated today by Col.
Kenyon Joyce. commanding oficer at
Fort Myer, Va, as public relations
officer Of the post, effective Monday.
Capt Milholland will succeed Capt.
Frank A. Allen. jr.. who has been or
dered to Fort Leavenworth, Kans.. to
attend the Command and General
Staff School. Capt. Allen first will
take 30 days leave and visit Estes
Park, Colo, reporting at the Kansas
post about August 10.
Capt. Milholland came to Fort Myer
on June / after completing q tour Of
duty with the Pennsylvania National
Guard at Tyrone, Pa.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
S61,24O D. c. ITEM
UP TO COMMITTEE
Senate Considers Proposed
Health Fund in Second
Deficiency Bill.

The Senate Appropriations Com
to act on the second deficiency bill,
including the plea of Chairman King
of the Senate District Committee for
the urgently needed l,24O for the
District Health Department.
Senator King several days ago took
the initiative in trying to have this
supplemental item added to the def
cheney bill. He obtained the approval
of the District Committee before hav-
ing his proposed amendment sent TO
the appropriations group.
Need Of Health Funds.
The District Commissioners came
to the support of Health Officer Ruh-
land when he called attention several
weeks ago to the necessity for this
additional fund if the Health Depart
ment is not to be handicapped in safe
guarding the health of the city during
the coming year.
The Commissioners submitted to the
Budget Bureau a request for a supple
mental estimate for the Health De-
partment, and while the Budget Bu-
reau has not transmitted the esti-
mate to Congress. Senator King is
hopeful of being able to convince the
Senate Of the need for adopting the
amendment.
The Senate indorsed the proposed
health program earlier in the session
when it increased Tive health items in
the regular District appropriation bill,
but in conference with the House the
Senate had to yield un nearly all of
the health increases. The pending
amendment to the deficiency bill
covers in general those same items.
Estimate ior Pumps.
There is also 1enoing in the Ap-
preparations Committee a budget esti-
mate of $15000O TO come from the
Water Department funds to replace
old pumps at one of the filtration
plants
Another impoi itant issue to be de-
cided today is how to provide better
Office accommodation for the General
Accounting Office. The House bill
provided for enlargtng the old Pension
Building in Judiciary Square, but the
Senate Committee Is considering the
advisability of ordering a new building
elsewhere as a substitute.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
SHORES PROPERTY
TO Be SOLDBY j. s.
Claim Against Former Lor-
ton Prisoner Totals More
Than $26O,OOO.

To satisfy. partially at least,
claim for non-payment of more than
s260.000 in income taxes against
Frank Shore. who once served term
at Lorton for smuggling liquor, the
Government disclosed today it will
sell at public auction August prop
erty seized from Shore at 1928 New
York avenue.
The taxes which Shore did not pay.
according to Government officials. are
for the years from 1921 20 1929, as
disclosed in the record of liens filed
with the recorder of deeds and the
clerk Of the District Supreme Court.
With interest brought up to August
6. the total claim by the Government
amounts to 1852 ,122. 80.
Official notice of the auctioneer's
sale Of the property was advertised
today by Lewis M. Milbourne, acting
collector of internal revenue for this
district.
The auction sale will take place at
1880 am. Terms of the sale will be
$500 cash at the time of sale and the
balance in 80 days. Additional in
formation concerning the property,
Melbourne announced, may be had
from Clarence C. Keiser, acting as
sistant chief field deputy, Room 100,
Internal Revenue Building.
Shore was sentenced in District
Supreme Court on January 9, 1880, to
pay fine of $1,000 and to serve a
year and a day for smuggling liquor
into the United States" The Court
of Appeals sustained the sentence
February "a, 1882, when he began
serving his sentence at Lorton. He
was paroled September % of the same
year and released from parole Decen1-
ber II. 1882.
Another case in which Shore was
indicted for violating the national
prohibition act December 3, 1929, was
nolle pressed in March, 1880.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

various corners of the United States
as Ruby Coleman, Jerry O'Conner.
Dorothy McNally, Joyce Palmer and
Joyce Larimore. incidentally, the
hotel here thought she was Shirley
Ann Hoffman.
In addition to all those names,
Isabelle travels as girl or boy, &C
cordlng to whim or the expediency Of
the moment. When she came to
Washington q year or so ago the
police at first thought she was a boy.
At that time Isabelle was dressed
in trousers, her dark hair was cropped
short and she had masculine-look-
ing gun in her possession. Her fem
inine costume included blond wig
and all the embellishments.
Early this Summer she turned up
briefly, then dropped from sight. The
police hope to see her again soon, at
which time she may become q semi
permanent residenA
Evening star., 1935-07-13
Woman Is Fined
For Taking Wheel
In Taricab Ride
Also Held in $500 Bond
on Drunkenness Charge
and DriUer Is Fined.

Mrs May O'Neil of Benning. Md,
insisted on taking the wheel Of the
taxicab she had hired yesterday. and
today she landed up in Traf1ic Court.
Both Mrs. ONeill and Clarence B.
Rose, the cab driver, appeared before
Judge Gus A. Schuldt. The woman
was charged with driving while drunk
and operating without a permit and
the man with permitting an unauthor-
lied person to operate the cab. Mrs.
O,Neill was fined $25 on the permit
charge and held under $500 bond for
jury trial on the driving while drunk
charge. Rose was fined $25.
Testimony was to the effect the
woman had insisted on operating the
cab when she went yesterday to meet
her husband at the Government Print
ing Office.
In pronouncing sentence upon Rose
Judge Schuldt said that, since taxicabs
are classed as public utilities, it was
just as much of an oifense for a cab
driver to allow any one else to operate
the cab as it would be for a motor
man on street car to yield the con-
trolls to some one else.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
P STREET BRIDGE
TO OPEN JULY ~
Ceremonies to Be Under Auspices
of Georgetown and Dupont
Circle Associations.

The new P Street Bridge across
Rock Creek will be opened to traffic
July % with ceremonies under the
direction of the Georgetown and
Dupont Circle Citizens Associations,
in cooperation with District officials.
At the same time, street, which
has been closed for repaving, will be
opened from Twenty-second to
Twenty-eighth street, the western
boundary of the section under i'm
provement The section from Twenty
second street east to Dupont Circle
is scheduled to be completed by
August /.
The bridge, which cost about $780,
600, now is finished except for some
final cleaning operations. It has a
stone face with granite trim, with
rubble masonry spandrels. The span
has a 40-foot roadway. with 10
foot sidewalk on either side. It car
ries no street car tracks, since the P
street line has been supplanted by
bus service.
Evening star., 1935-07-13

Department Store several weeks ago,
Cappel said.
When the orchestra gathers for its
first concert one familiar face will be
missing. II will be that Of Emil Spit
zer. diminutive oboeist. whose dis
puted place in the personnel for a
time threatened cancellation Of the
whole Summer series. After weeks OF
wrangling between the orchestra man
agement and the local Musicians
Protective Union, Splitter was finally
given an addition as mediation
measure and was found competent.
with the understanding that he was
to be given the place.
Decision of Management.
The demand of the musicians local
was that local man should lie en-
ployed in preference 10 an out-of-
town player. The orchestra manage
ment accepted the findings of the
mediator, but decided on William
Schnabel of Baltimore, who also is a
member of the Washington local.
Splitter still is on the F. E. r. A. relief
rolls and works part time as clerk
The program for tomorrow night
follows:
Overture to Die Meistersinger."
Wagner
Symphony in d Minor Franck
Lento-Allegro non troppo.
Allegretto.
Allegro non troppo.
UntermisSion)
Voices of Spring" Strauss
"Perpetuum Mobile" a musical
witticism) Strauss
"Wiegenlied' -------Br Brahms
Overture. "Solenueile 1872"
Tschaikovsky
Evening star., 1935-07-13
D. {. RELIEF LOAD
DROPS TAPER CENT
Decrease for 140 Large
Cities Totals 3.3 Per
Cent in Month.

Washington ranks eighteenth on
list of 140 large cities showing a de-
crease in the number of emergency
relief cases cared for in June from
public funds. according to figures made
public today at F.. E. r. A. head
quarters. The total decrease in urban
relief population amounted to 249, ,897,
or 33 per cent, relief expenditures
decreasing by $4,450,459.
A decline of IA per cent in the relief
load of the District was shown, the
total of cases amounting to 17,702 in
June, as compared with 20, ,482 in May.
At the same time, there was a re-
duction of 20 per cent in relief costs.
The relief decline in Washington
was exceeded by only two industrial
centers, Atlanta, Ga, and Flint,
Mich, and by Is much smaller cities
in various sections, such as Charlotte,
N. c.; Oklahoma City, Augusta, Ca,
and Duluth, MINI.
Baltimore, the only Maryland city
cited in the study, showed II de-
cline in relief rolls and 21.2 per cent
in obligations incurred
Three Virginia cities were included
in the survey. Norfolk, with a drop
of less than half Of per cent in
the number of cases, had its relief
cost reduced by 20 per cent.
Richmond showed a 4 per cent de-
cline, but an increase of / per cent
in relief cost, while Roanoke with a
decline Of Z per cent on relief rolls,
experienced q % per cent drop in
cost during June.
The figures showed a Sc per cent
decline in expenditures-from 2,070,-
$40 families and single persons in
May to 2,003,073 in June, and from
$67, 84,249 to $62,933, 100.
OF the 140 cities, 123 were reported
to have shown declines in the number
of cases.
Evening star., 1935-07-13
ANACOST|A JUNIOR.
HIGH TO Be READY.
FOR FALL SESSION
Sultan Says Building May
Be Occupied by End
of October.
ORGANIZATION OF STAFF
is BEING UNDERTAKEN
Seventh and Eighth Grade Glasses
to Be Held in Elementary
School Until Completion.

Assured by Engineer Commissioner
Sultan that the Anacostia Junior
High School Building will be complet-
ed by October l, school officials today
turned thier attention to organiza-
ton of the institutions staff in time
for opening this Fall
1t had been feared that construction
delays would prevent completion of
the structure before November, there
by making impractical the schools
opening before the February term.
DR.. Stephen E. Kramer, first assist
ant superintendent of schools, said the
new completion date would permit use
of the building for the Fall term.
Seventh and eighth grade classes
will be organized in Anacostia ele-
mentary schools on q junior high
school basis when they open in Sep
tember and only their physical trans
fer we'll be necessary when the new
building is made available.
Exact Date Uncertain.
The exact date ;or opening of the
school cannot be determined at this
time, since equipment must be in
stalled and other preparations made
after the building is turned over TO
the school authorities by the District
Engineering Department, but 1t prob
ably will be before the end Of October
if construction actually Is completed
by the first of tnat Eionth.
Col. Sultan said it Is difficult to
forecast definitely when any construc-
ton job will be completed, but. on
present indications. the Anacostia
School should be finished by Octo-
Der l
Considerable difficulties were expert
enced with the foundations of the
school and work was thrown back
more than a month Since then, how
ever. the contractor has rushed oper-
ations.
Schools Overcrowded.
In a recent report Assistant Super
intendent OF Schools Jere j. Crane,
business manager for the system,
charged Engineering Department Off
cials with failing to hurry the con-
struction work and with manifesting
little interest in the needs of the
schools.
The Anacostia Junior High is gen.
ereally conceded to be sorely needed.
since schools in that section of the
city are badly overcrowded.
At the same time he notified school
authorities of the Anacostia School
completion date, Col. Sultan said the
new Woodrow Wilson Senior High
School in Chevy Chase will be ready
September l, which will give sufficient
time for its opening in the middle of
that month.