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quarters from the large families who
just can't get by. One writer states
her rent is $40 month alone. Then
we have carfare to work and clothes
for eight children, besides our food" >"
Il am working" she says, without
anything to eat. If any information
is needed about my eating ask the
foreman. He has bought us food for
lunch out of his own money
Another says, sleeping is not SO
good, as it's not room enough with
eight in one room" These are COM
mon pleas for decent living and
enough food to sustain life. The case
workers know all this too well. They
meet it every day, and handle it in
the only way possible. They say to
each man, who goes in w. P. A.
job, Go ahead, take the job, you
must. If it does not work out you can
come back on relief. We will keep
your case open until after your first
nay check" Every man. so statistics
show, wants to work if his family is
not too large. There are still some
$500 families whose relief budgets
are more than the w. P. AS $45 per
month
And so the good and the bad, the
lazy and the industrious pour into
the relief stations with their prob
lens. And the system functions to
care for their needs.
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nclamed in Banks Testifies to Nations Bad Memory

mant accounts. These belong to e.
532, 2,60l depositors. In five years, no
one added money to any account, no
one made a withdrawal.
THE survey. recently completed,
took in all accounts from October
IS, 1929, to october Is, 1888.
While two years have elapsed since
those figures were audited. they are
right up to the minute for the reason
that Treasury officials make such a
survey only once in every five years
and these are the latest figures.
At the Treasury only national banks
dormant accounts are concerned. State
banks also have the same problem,
people forgetting their accounts-and
the. latest estimate is that 1,119,892
depositors have failed to take out $751;
Ia, 900 belonging to them. These fig
ures are from the May, 1885, Federal
Reserve Board bulletin.
Here, then, Uncle Sam through two
of his major financial agencies, ac-
counts for $189,161, 900 in dormant
accounts. With accounts in private
banks, trust companies, and other
financial agencies which have not been
surveyed. chances are there is close
to $500, 100000 claiming no ownership
in the banks Of the Nation.
In the 4,532,601 accounts in the
national banks of the Nation, totaling
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plenty Of grief. His kindliness and
consideration for people in trouble is
we'll known. He has great confidence
in the judgment of the secretaries and
case workers, which makes for CO.
operation upon all sides.
WHEN the cases are accepted they
W go to the registrar, who puts
them on file and takes them to the
case worker supervisor. The case
worker of the District gets the card
There are in each division about IA
case workers and each one has on an
average of about 80 families to visit.
These visits are really the blood
stream of the whole arterial system
All resources are developed. There
the whole family story is spilled out
in one great gesture of frankness.
Always the words. I'm wondering
how can manage" tumble out.
Helping people to help themselves
is the basic hope of all workers. What
the years have done to break down
the morale of employable people no
one but the initiate know! I talked
with one worker who had had great
success in rehabilitating a whole FAM
lily merely through the medium of
sympathetic listening. A dirty house,
eight apathetic children, slovenly
mother and a nervous, discouraged
father, greeted the worker on her first
call. There was no place even to sit
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count so years ago in a Baltimore
bank and remembering it only last
week.
In the Riggs Bank they have
dormant accounts there since 1876
or thereabouts-and some accounts
that date back to Riggs g. Co., sue
cessor to Corcoran & Riggs.
THAT Washingtonians are just as
forgetful about their money as
other persons Is evidenced from these
figures, collected for all banks and
trust companies in the city: At the
present moment Washingtonians have
on deposit in the banks and trust
companies here the sum of s3,553, 900
in dormant accounts.
Perhaps there night be qualiflca-
tion to that. They may not be all
Washingtonians. They may have
come from other cities. these folk
who left a sum totaling more than
$3,000,000 lying idle in the local banks.
Transients have way of doing that
very thing-which accounts, in some
measure, for all the money lying in
banks throughout the country-with
no one to claim 1t.
As one Washington bank official
said. IF you could take the time to
60 through all our accountS-dormant
accounts-you'd find some Of the most
celebrated names in this country
and they date all the way back to
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name of a man who signed himself
F. H. La Guards. Something familiar
about that name, so Mr.. Fleming
wrote to the mayor of New York.
Sure enough, the money belonged to
Foriella H. La Guardia.
It seems that F. H. La Guardia was
in the service of his Uncle Sam during
the World War-and stationed in
Washington. La Guardia opened an
account in the Riggs Bank. Then
he was ordered away from the city,
his mind on military affairs. After
the war he got new start in life
In New York-and came to Washing
ton as Representative. Still he had
forgotten about the bank account at
Riggs. He finished his service here
and took charge of the biggest city
in the world. Preoccupied with all
those fiscal accounts up there, on the
banks of the East and Hudson Rivers,
he failed to remember the La Guardia
account in Washington-until Mr..
Fleming called his attention to the
oversight.
Now. Mayor La Guardia Of New
York has money that had lain dormant
in Washington these Is or 10 years
and only because some clerk recog-
nized his name.
It happens all the time, bank Of
ficials say. One of the vice presidents
of the Metropolitan Bank tells Of his
grandfather having established an ac-
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By John Jay DAILY.

4 IL during the acute money
~ stringency. the depression OF
~ the banks held s3oo.ooo, ,ooo
which no one came to claim
Approximately 100000 Americans
simply forgot they had extra money in
the bank-dormant accounts. This
money is still there.
Uncle Sam, who needs all the money
he can get his hands on, is about to
step in and claim this loose change.
Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Mon.
tana introduced bill at the last ses-
sion of Congress that should cause
people to scurry around attics and old
secretaries looking for lost bank pass
books
In old trunks and desks, in safe de-
posit vaults, in all sorts of places in
houses and apartments are pass books
that would entitle men and women 10
storm their banks and draw out tidy
sums of money-accounts they have
forgotten.
Bankers themselves would like to
have a general house-cleaning, to get
rid of dormant accounts; either that,
or have a service charge placed
against these old accounts. totaling
$500, ,000, ,000-and perhaps more.
Treasury officials going over their
books recently discovered that ma
tional banks have $132,01s.ooo in dor
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the beginning of our bank, which
was almost at the beginning of the
country"
He was asked to name some Of
them.
Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John
G. Calhoun" he replied.
At one time or another men of
fame have left small and large sums
of money on deposit in Washington
banks. Ambassadors from other coun-
tries. Senators and Representatives,
cabinet oficers-all forget. 1t seems
to be an old banking custom.
The other day a boy walked into
one of the local banks and presented
a pass book that formerly belonged
to his grandfather.
''Where did you get this?" the bank
president asked.
Found it in an attic, down in
Virginia-my home"
They looked up the records. The
account was entered in 1871. Not
a penny had been added to it in 28
years.
"Your grandfather can collect this
money by"
"Grandfather's dead" the boy said.
"His estate, then"
1.-THE estate was probated and dis
tributed five years ago."
That meant legal arrangements.
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'Depression's Victims Make Gallant At
tempts to Cooperate in Many Enter
prises Designed to Better Their Condi-
tions Through Self Help Activities.

! Marshall Heights. A few years ago
Mr. Harry Brown advertised widely
he would sell ground there to COLI
ored people for 81 down and 81
month. AS employment had become
scarce at that time laborers could
not pay the landlords of the city.
About 200 families moved out to
Marshall Heights.
They established themselves in a
beautiful, rolling. wooded area It
looks like miniature, fairly crude
subsistence homestead project. Flow
ers and vegetables spill over the front
door steps in the Summer. Air is
abundant and the sun. cheap and
curative the year around. City water
was made possible through the Of
fees of Mrs. Roosevelt. who visited
there about year ago.
Most of the houses are the work Of
their owners hands, or we're completed
with the assistance of neighborS.
Some one at the inception of the ven-
ture obtained an old truck, and when
houses we're wrecked elsewhere, all
kinds of material were carted to
Marshall Heights. Upon close in
spection one can detect berry crate
lumber. beaver boards, old planks,
squares of all kinds of wall papers
fused into home of crazy-quilt pat
! tern
These shelters are by no means
watertight against the storms yet, but
the pride of owning a home one
has bought, or made with ones own
hands is supremely satisfying There
appears to be, from conversations
with residents, a real love of the
country here. OF course, most of
them are on relief.
How far are you away from schools
for your children and work for your
husband?" I asked several.
only a piece down the road of
about mile and a half for my chill
dren, and about four miles for my
man." the old colored woman replied.
They have cooperative feature
under way with sewing rooms, which
draw upon the surplus commodities
warehouse goods. In four tents. al
ready being inclosed against Winter
storms, there are four different re-
ligious denominations.
THEY are courageous, all OF them,
in their back-to-the-land move
ment
Houses from which the Marshall
Heights home owners had flown are,
in most cases. in terrible shape. A
study of conditions makes evident a
glaring need for better homes for the
low-income groups. Many families
join forces and live (if it can be
called living) in old. dilapidated fire.
traps so that they can share the rent.
I went inside one terrible structure
that housed at least eight families,
upstairs and down. Each family, with
several children apiece. live. eat, sleep
and cook in one room apiece. They
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Generally Somber Tone, However, Is
Balanced by Brave Effort of Workers
and Those They Serve to Conquer Host
of Trying Problems. '*
By Della Fl. Pynch0n.

ceives S14 per month. This includes
| food and rent. disqualification, wood
! and coal, some clothing. sheets and
shirts, the latter made in the sewing
rooms by women on relief, are pro-
vided in addition.
| Almost every. economic problem OF
this modern life rears its head among
these three classes.
The malingerers are there, consti-
tutionally lazy, but distinctly sociable.
A colored woman, looking fat and
we'll fed stated sadly, Il hasn't got
thing to eat" After being told that
her quota for the month was used up,
she sat quite happily all morning visit
ing with friends. Sociability served to
satisfy her. At this point some one
is bound to ask, why spend the tax
payers money to save such people?"
Perhaps it is personal honor or civic
pride or natural responsibility. which
precludes indifference to human souls.
The taxpayers money could not be
better spent than in helping people
of all races over the jumps of extreme
0SSl1IutlOils
Data on the high cost of living
these days were certainly in evidence.
A colored woman very simply stated
a well-known truth when she said,
Looks like you goes to the grocery
store with your dollar and comes back
with nothin' in the hand"
w. P. A. came in for lions share
of maladjustments. Many had taken
Jobs. For one reason or another they
had not lasted. Relief cases had to
be reopened. This takes time. as any
necessarily careful follow-up system
must. w. P. A. pays S45 per month
for unskuled labor regardless OF the
size of the family. Now no man can
support 10 children on S45 a month.
Every one knows that. So the bird
in the hand" of certain relief is worth
any work lin the BUSH of uncertainty
to many a perplexed man.
HOWEVER, most of those on relief
want to work, if possible, and are
in every way encouraged to do so.
The situation is not really so much an
evasion of work as the fear of job in
security. Letters pour into head
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Cd Alley dwellings North Capitol street. (2) A
house built for 81 worth of supplies in Marshall Heights
owned by Mr. and Mrs. E. j. Taylor, 53l5 south
east. (3) Man on relief shown earning his frewood by
aiding neghbor in Marshall Heights ~ and co. Job
less and hungry being fed by the Volunteers of America
at the "soup kitchen" on Pennsylvania between
Fourth and Sixth (5) Miss Alice H director of
the Public Assistance Division Board of Public Welfare
(7) typical of alley dwellings between North Capt.
tol and First streets, and Pierce.
Staff Photos-By Augustus Chinn
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From the reception desk, all new
cases go to the intake secretary. where
a complete interview is given. The
employables must present Govern
ment employment center registration
card. They must give references. if
any, of former employment. They
must show rental receipts to prove
residence in the District. "Are there
any relatives to help them?" What
insurance have they?" All references
are looked up, big task in itself. The
clearing house of the social service
center reaflrms whether any other
relief is forthcoming from other
sources. The secretary, after COM
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down. BY easy stages, through kindly
handling the story came out. Remedies
were suggested, help given. now the
whole family is self-supporting, clean
and ambitious.
This is one instance among many.
1t is question of interpreting to each
person his special situation so that he
will not feel pauperized. but can pull
himself up by his own boot straps.
The insurance department of the
P A. D. has helped many a down and
outer through these last years. Mr..
SwartZ has charge of this service at
general headquarters at Fifth and H
streets. In one year he has handled
$500 cases and made available to
needy individuals in excess of SIPS 900.
1t is an interesting system and
functions in coordination with the
case workers along their well-beaten
road Of daily contacts. Each case
worker asks her new case. Have you
any old insurance policies? If you
have, bring them to U.s."
Vic OAu nOAldll VI DlOOShG OliI OH lACl
personal papers, including her old
love letters. Two old insurance re-
ceipts were tucked away there. She
was the beneficiary for insurance made
out to her by two old boarders who
had died. She received SLOT for these
two forgotten receipts.
Old life insurance policies of these
people. with payments in a price range
of 5 cents to so cents a week, collect
money from the big insurance COM
panies, even when premiums have not
been paid for 10 years or more. All
policies have certain cash-in value
after three years of weekly payments.
The well-known insurance companies
of Nationwide Importance, cooperate
in every way with present day
problems.
CONSERVATIVELY estimated it has
been possible to stave off at
least 100 foreclosures, due to the
cash-in value of supposedly worthless
policies. All sorts of policies have
been unearthed in attics and cellars
that have enabled many an old man
and woman to keep their homes and
die in peace
Out in the Southeast section of
the District is settlement called
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plete information. can accept or reject
a case according to the funds on hand
plus the rates of the P. A. D. govern
ing new cases.
Some cases must be refused for
specific reasons. Three hundred were
rejected in September. Most cases
of refusal proved that the income was
more than the amount of relief to be
given.
Sometimes when applicants have
been refused relief money they rush
quickly to Commissioner Allen with
their complaints. Being relief ad-
ministrator, as well as w. p. A. ad-
ministrator for the District, he has
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deposits of $132.01s, 900, the average
sum tucked away in each passbook
is $29.l3. The range is from Is cents
to as high as $700, and more.
Now $500, 900, 900 in lost or forgotten
accounts is a tidy sum of money, in
anybody's country-but 1t really is a
small sum, compared to the total sum
Of all deposits in American banks to
date. For instance, the total number
OF all depositors in all national banks
on the date the aforementioned survey
was completed was 25,419267. And
here is the wallop: The aggregate Of
all deposits on that same date was
$17,055, 100000. Hence, the number
OF dormant accounts was 1888 per
cent of the total, but the volume Of
these accounts was only three -fourths
Of i per cent.
OFFHAND. it seems kind of silly
that all this money should be
reposing quietly in the national and
State banks Of the country when it
could get so much action out in the
open. As in all things, there is rea-
son. People forget.
It was not long ago, for instance,
Robert Fleming, president of the Riggs
National Bank, saw q memorandum
on his desk. Its message was that
an employe, in going over old de-
counts. found q sum Of money in the
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Guide for Readers
PART FOUR

Page
John Clagett Proctor writes
on Washington's Early
Militia a--F-2
"ThoSe Were the Happy
Days." by Dick Mans
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Continued on Eleventh Page.)
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its somber colors ce s14 month This includes
disqualification wood
O
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
BATTLE CONTINUED
FOR MERIT SYSTEM
Government Employees Hear Plea
by Biller on Fund Raising
Move.

Government employees must win
their battle to safeguard the merit
system in the next Congress" Ulrey j.
Biller, national vice president of the
National Federation of Federal En-
ployes, Friday night told the Board of
Representatives of local No. 2, the
departmental local.
Biller's talk was made as the board
began circulating pledges to raise part
of the 100000 merit system defense
fund to which the federation COM
mitted itself in its recent convention
at Yellowstone Park.
He said he believed one Of the ma
jor parties would include a civil serv-
ice plank in its platform if ne fund
is established Already $4,000 has
been promised toward it
At the meeting something more
than $500 was pledged, and Henry
G. NoIda, secretary-treasurer, said it
was likely $500 would be raised. The
local is seeking 1000 new members.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
LEN|ENCY GIVEN
'D|LL|NGER TRIO"
Doctors in Facet fling Plot
and Attorneys InveSti-
gator in Court.
nv the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 21-The
three men who told the inside story"
of how John Dillinger and Homer
Van Meter had been hidden during
the heat of a Nationwide hunt re-
ceived their royalties today.
1t came in the form of leniency.
They are DR.. Harold Bernard Cassidy
and Dr. Wilhelm Loeser, who admitted
they performed face-lifting operations
on the late public enemies in futile
attempt to hide them from the law,
and Arthur O'Leary, investigator for
Dillinger's attorney.
On Years Probation.
DR.. Cassidy and OLeary were given
suspended sentences Of II months
each and placed on probation for one
year. No new punishment was &C
corded DR.. Loeser, but was ordered
remanded to Leavenworth Penltentiary
MS a parole violator to serve out
sentence imposed for violation of the
narcotics law several years ago.
When the trio appeared before
Judge William H. Holly, Assistant
Attorney General Brien Mcmahon and
Harry Connaughton, assistant district
attorney, explained they had given
valuable testimony in the trials Of
Louis Piquett, Dillinger's lawyer, on
charges of concealing the gangsters.
Convicted of HarbOring.
Piuuett was acquitted in the Dill
finger case, but was convicted of har-
boring Van Meter. His punishment
was fixed at two years Imprisonment
and a $4,000 fine. He is now en-
gagged in perfecting an appeal to the
United States Circuit Court of APP
peals. In recommending leniency to
the Judge, the prosecutors pointed out
the physicians had already spent eight
and half months and OLeary IA
months in Jail.
The physicians and OLeary testi-
fled during the trials that Piquett ar
ranged a hideout for the mobmen and
handled the money involved in the
operations. Piquett, in turn, laid the
blame on O'Leary.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
WATCHMAN TRAPS
TRIO IN LAUNDRY
Youths to Answer Burglary
Charge After Alleged Attempt
TO Take Shirts.

Three youths are being held by
police following their capture Friday
night by a colored Waterman. who
surprised them on the second floor of
the Franklin Laundry, 504 Thirteenth
street.
Holding the intruders at pistol
point, Enoch Craig, "a, the Waterman,
made them march down the steps to
the first floor, where he herded them
into the cashiers cage while he
telephoned police.
The three were booked at No.
police station as Paul Mueller, 20, of
Milwaukee; Antonio DomingaS, 20, of
New Bedford, Mass. and Joseph L.
Ryan, 19, Of Fort Worth, Tex
Hearing noise on the second floor
after the three had gained entrance
through q window from a fire escape,
the janitor took off his shoes, drew
his pistol and surprised the youths.
About so shirts had been wrapped
up in pasteboard boxes before the
Waterman found the three, police said
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
JOSIAH MACY SUCCUMBS
AT so IN TENNESSEE
Morristown, N. j., Man Well
Known in Financial Circles
in WASHINGTON.

Josiah Macy of Morristown, N. j.,
well known in Washington, died Fri
day In Memphis, Tenn, according
to word received here by relatives. He
was about So
Mr.. Macy. who was taken suddenly
Ill in Memphis Monday, was well
known in financial circles. He was a
member of the now-defunct firm of
Hamilton g. Co.
Mr.. Macy's wife is the former Eliza
beth Wise, sister of the Duchess de
Richelieu, whose husband Is de-
scendant of the the family of the ia
nous French cardinal She is sis
ter of Col. Frederic May Wise, United
States Marine Corps, retired.
Besides his wife, Mr.. Macy is sur
vived by son, Josiah, jr.; three
daughters, Mrs. Robert Hovey and the
Misses Aline and Ann Macy. The fu-
neral will be held in Morristown.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
RESTAURANTS FACE
LOSS OF LICENSES
Proprietors Are Warned That
They Must Maintain Cleaner
Places.

A warning that restaurant licenses
will be withheld November l from
eating establishments which have a
record for uncleanliness was issued
yesterday by Health Officer George c.
Rutland.
He announced that Chief Food In
spector Reid R. Ashworth and other
assistants are preparing evidence to
show why certain licenses should not
be renewed when existing business
permits run out at the end of October.
The data will go to the District
License Committee unless drastic
changes are made, he said.
Health inspectors last week visited
200 beer selling establishments to
check on failures to sterilize glasses
properly. DR.. Rutland was informed
evidence was gathered for seeking
warrants for prosecution in IL cases,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-09-22
WAREHOUSE IS BURNED.
STOCK OF GOODS LOST
ny the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press
CAMBRIDGE, Md, September al
Destroying large quantity of canned
goods and damaging five trucks, fire
this morning burned the old Woolford
and Smith mill here. The mill had
been converted into a warehouse by
Ionic Slacun.
Slacum estimated damage to the
trucks at between six and seven thou
sand dollars and the damage to the
building about $1,000. His loss is par
TALLY covered by insurance.
Thirty thousand dollars worth OF
canned goods were stored in the build
ing, but the extent of the damage has
not been figured. The loss on the
canned goods is believed to be covered
by insurance. Origin of the fire is
unknown. A