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Evening star., 1935-03-19
DEATH OF GIRL, I,
HELD ACCIDENTAL
Coroner's Jury Exonerates
Driver of Car Which Hit
Student.

A coroner,s jury yesterday held ac-
cidental the death Saturday of Miss
Louise Darcy, II, of 1859 Thirty
fourth street, who was fatally in
jured Wednesday when struck by ar
automobile. in the 1000 block OF
Thirty-fifth street.
The verdict exonerated Charles E
O'Roark, 27, of Arlington, Va, man.
ager of a chain store at Bethesda
Md, driver of the automobile.
Miss Darcy, the daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. Maurice A. Darcy, was a
senior at Trinity High School and
president of her class. She received
an arm and leg fractures and internal
injuries. Four blood transfusions had
been given in Georgetown Hospital in
an effort to save her life.
Aunt Testifies.
Miss Katherine L. Small, 1643 Thir-
ty-fifth street, an aunt of the dead
girl, told at the inquest how Miss
Darcy had called across the street
to her shortly before the accident
The girl was preparing to go to
church services with Miss Small.
In another inquest, coroner's jury
exonerated Special Policeman Paul R
Pearson. 35, of 241 K street northeast
for the fatal shooting Thursday night
of George Adams (alias john. 80
colored, of the 100 block of Pierce
street, in the coal yard near Second
and M streets northeast.
Shooting Held Defense.
The coroner's jury held that Pear
son shot Adams in defenes of his own
life. Adams. it was testified, had at.
tackled the special officer with a knife
after Pearson had placed him under
arrest for stealing COAL
Pearson, who is a special officer fol
five coal companies, testified on the
stand that he previously had arrested
Adams for stealing coal on December
Is, for which the colored man served
time At that time, Pearson said
Adams told him that he would have
to kill him before he ever arrested
him again. This story was corrobor.
ated on the stand by metropolitan po-
lice. Adams died in Casualty Hos
pital Saturday.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Figure Asking Refund Far
Under S843,253 offer
by Capital Transit.
S374.46 REFUND ASKED
ON 1882 PERSONAL TAX
Sums, for Different Purposes,
Cited by 0fficials-Big De-
probation Claimed.

A valuation of $l04,665 was placed
on the busses owned by the Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. in filing claim
for a personal property tax refund to-
day, in contrast to the purchase price
of $843,253 offered for the w. r. T,
Co. by the Capital Transit Co.
Although the larger figure was
never broken down to fix the exact
value of the rolling stock of the COM
pany, District officials asserted that
the buSSes constituted the bulk OF the
value of the Washington Rapid Tran
sit Co.
The greatly reduced valuation was
filed in a request for a refund of
$37446 paid in 1882 as personal tax.
Different Purposes Explained.
Ofhcials explained that the two fig
ures we're arrived at for wholly differ
ent purposes. The smaller valuation
was fixed for the purposes of taxa
tion," whereas the S843 900 valuation,
indirectly sponsored by the W. r. T,
Co., was for the purpose of selling the
bus company outright to the Capital
Transit Co.
Calculations made at the District
Building showed a difference in the
Two valuation claims of S738,588.
Officials recalled that when the
Capital Transit Co., in its move to
buy the bus company, claimed S843,-
900 as a proper value, an agreement
had been reached between the street
car company and the bus company
as to that figure.
Case Appealed to High Court.
The Public Utilities Commission re-
jected that price as the proper value
ana the Capital transit. ". ana a
representative OF the stock oWnersnp p
OF the bus company recently appeaIeu
The decision to Disurlct supreme
Court. IN the bus purchase CaSe
S5l6,U00 was To De the caSn pdy men.
anu aAdeu 10 tIlS NaS W ue caSi.
LQu4uaLlo o. a noVe lor so- ,1o5 % {,
OWED by the puS. concern. Inns SCI
S843,2o5.8i as Ine proposed payment
4or the bus company.
In arguing Ior a personal property
tax refund the w. r. T. Co. stated
that as of July l, 1882, the cost of its
buses was $62l, ,89657, less deprecia-
ton figured at $517,23o91, which
would leave as value for tax basis
S104, 4,665.66.
The District assessors office has ap-
proved the refund of S374.46 and the
District auditor now is considering the
claim.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Hold-Up Asks s45
And Refuses Rest
Of Stores Funds
''That's Enough" He
Tells Victim, Interrupt
ing Count of Money.

A bandit, who wanted only $45 and
no more, held up the Federal Liquor
Store at 1921 Pennsylvania avenue
last night and escaped with the exact
amount he required.
His victim, S. L. Rakusin Of 1905
Decatur street. was alone in the store
at the time. The man came in and
produced gun, saying:
II want $45"
Rakusin counted out the money
from the cash register. When he had
produced the desired amount the
bandit said, That's enough" and
waved him into the back of his store.
The bandit then left. although
Rakusin still had more than Sl00.
Rakusin, a former member of the
Federal narcotic squad, has been in
the liquor business since repeal.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Washington News
Greedy, 81, Feels Grateful
House Votes Award to Explorer Half Cen
tury After Army "Honored" Him
With DemotiOn.
BY REX COLLIER.


YUST a week before his 9lSt
birthday anniversary Maj. Gen.
Adolphus Washington Greely,
~ leader of the tragic Arctic ex-
pedition of 1881 that brought
death to all but of an original band
of IS, was happy as schoolboy today
that his country is not as ungrateful
as it once seemed.
Buoyed by the unexpected action of
the House yesterday in voting him
the Congressional Medal of Honor,
the keen-eyed, still healthy, but some
what enfeebled soldier and explorer,
stroked his bushy whiskers and COM
mented:
I've only a year or so more to
live, and it does me good to know that
my country is not unmindful of the
service rendered her on the battle
field and in the Arctic many years
ago.
Denoted After Expedition.
You know, the only reward I ever
got for representing the Government
in the first international scientific
study and for penetrating farther
North than any other explorer before
me had gone, was demotion.
Yes, sir, when I got back from
that stay on the ice, found the Army
had put another man in my place in
the regiment and had reduced me
several files. That was all the 'recog-
milton I ever got. Medals? Not a
one. If Congress is good enough to
grant me the Medal of Honor, it
will be the first award I have received"
The veteran officer-his active and
retired service in the Army totals "A
years-stretched a leg out gingerly to
make himself more comfortable on a
window bench in his quaint old house
at 3131 o street, Georgetown.
Recalls Suffering in Arctic.
"My joints are giving me trouble" ,"
he said, but otherwise I am in pretty
good shape I have had aches in my
back and knees ever since / lay up
there on the ice so long, waiting for
help"
Pressed for a few "reminiscences OF
that narrowing experience more than
half a century ago, Gen. Greely told
how he and "a men went into the
Far North to make weather obServa-
tions in connection with a "circum-
polar" study joined in by several ma
tions.
For three years they were out oi
touch with civilization They trav-
eled 500 miles from Fort Conger tc
Fort Sabine, where ship was to pick
them up. The vessel was crushed in
the ice, however. Two other ships
failed to reach them.
THAT was long journey to Sa-
bine," Greely mused Some of the
men could not stand it, and died on
the way. Finally We reached our OBJ
jective. but there was no ship there
We had to wait and hope. Our regu-
lar food was gone and finally we lived
on seal thongs, plants and sand fleas u
Lectured to Buoy Spirits.
The venerable explorer paused, with
eyes half closed in reflection.
Each night I talked with the men
to keep their spirits up. I was gooc
on geography and history, and
would give lectures on each of the
States.
IT knew when a man was about tc
die. Always. the night before, he
would start talking out of his head
about his wife or mother or children
When he began that, he didn't realize
the end was near-but I knew he
- L.
longer.
II was so busy trying TO occupy the
minds of my men that I didn't have
Evening star., 1935-03-19
POISON DOSE FATAL

William c. Scrit,:er, 1401 Fairmont
street, died in Gallinger Hospital to-
day from IS poison tablets he took
last FriGay.
His wife, Mrs. Rosie Scribner, found
him In serious condition at
their apartment and had him taken
to Emergency Hospital, where he was
given treatment and later transferred
to Gallinger.. His condition became so
critical that physicians operated on
him in an effort to save his life.
The coroners Office Is investigating
Evening star., 1935-03-19
"HIGH HATING" DENIED

Morgenthau Refutes Suggestion
by Showing Felts Only.
A question at Secretary Morgen-
thau's press conference yesterday as
to whether he was going "high hat"
brought quick denial.
Noticing a hat box of unusual
height, one curious reporter inquired
You're not going high hat on us
are you, Mr.. Secretary?"
"Oh, that" exclaimed Morgenthau
i find no time any more to go hat
shopping. The store sent me a batch
from which to make my selection"
He displayed three soft felts OF
various hues.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
DR.. RUTLAND ENLARGES
STAFF DURING EPIDEMIC
Two Physicians Added to Health
Staff to Cope With Spread
of Scarlet Fever.

Two additional physicians will be
employed for a temporary period to
assist the District Health Office in the
handling of the scarlet fever epidemic.
Maj. Daniel j. Donovan, auditor,
has informed DR.. George C. Rutland,
health officer, he will find funds for
payment Of the two extra physicians,
who will be employed to make exami-
nations of persons suspected of hav-
ing contracted scarletina.
Fifteen new cases of the ailment
were reported to the Health Office
yesterday. bringing the total since the
first of the year to 648.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
RANGER STILL IN PORT

NORFOLK, Va, March 10 R.-
The airplane carrier Ranger was still
in port today, receiving adjustments
to her anchor windlass before putting
to sea for a short shake-down cruise
following her recent conditioning.
1t is probable that she will sail. for
the West Coast on March 80, officers
said Yesterday.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
PLAN JOINT PROGRAM
Washington Composers Club and
Gardiner Dancers to Meet.

The Washington Composers Club
and the Lisa Gardiner Dancers will
present a joint program under the
auspices of the Community Center De-
partment at Mckinley High School
on the night of April 3, it was an
nounced today.
The program will be made up of
original compositions by the club
members to be interpreted by the
dancers.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
DR.. RUTLAND TO SPEAK
Health officer Will Address E. v
Brown Association.

Brown Association.
DR.. George C. Rutland, the new
District health officer, will be prin-
cipal speaker before the monthly meet
ing of the e. ". Brown Home and
School Association Thursday night at
7:30 o'clock at the school.
DIR. Ruhland is expected to discuss
the recent mild epidemic of scarlet
fever among children of school age
IN the Chevy Chase district. So,
Evening star., 1935-03-19
D. C. AWARDED GRANT
Sum of $322, 500 for Relief An
nounced by Hopkins.

nounced by Hopkins.
The District was notified today by
Harry L. Hopkins, Federal relief ad-
ministrator, Of a grant of $322,5O
for the last half of March.
Previously the Commissioners had
received for local relief and work
relief needs this month a grant Of
$407,500. This makes the total Fed
eral aid for March s730,000. To this
is added s166,666 out of the District
appropriation of $4,000, 900 which was
appropriated for the whole present
fiscal year.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Dern Leaves for Florida.

Secretary of War Dern left last
night for Miami Beach, Fla, where
he will make an address tonight at
the annual dinner at the Surf Club
Of the Committee Qf One Hundred.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
MEAT DEALER FINED
Shortweight Guilt Plea Nets $3.50
Assessment.

Assessment.
One Of four merchants who last
week entered pleas of guilty to charges
of short weights in the sale Of meats,
Harry Clayman, 140o block p street,
today was fined total of $3.50 by
Judge Ralph Given in Police Court.
Clayman, according to information
furnished by the Office OF the corpora
ton counsel, made three sales Of meat
to officials of the Department of
Weights and Measures. with an aver
age of a quarter of a pound shortage
on each sale. The fines were recon-
mended by Assistant Corporation
Counsel Edward M. welliver.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
Glass Meeting Postponed.

DR.. Abram Simon, who has been
conducting a cultural class at the
W'ardman Park Hotel on Wednesday
mornings. will postpone tomorrow'a
meeting until next week. It was an
nounced today.
Evening star., 1935-03-19
MONDAY DISTRICT DAY
House Date Definitely Provided.

Chairman Receivers.
Next Monday will be District day
in the House if Chairman Norton of
the District Committee, who has been
Ill, is sufficiently recovered, Speaker
Byrns announced today.
Even if important general legisla-
ton is pending, the District will not
be deprived of its day, Byrns said,
pointing out that Mrs. Norton had
stepped aside last District day to allow
the pink slip measure to be acted upon.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
Labor Heads Fight Reds
In Minneapolis Unions

Minneapolis (ILNS) Immediate
overhauling of local labor unions sus-
pected of communistic activities was
announced as the first move in the
A. F. Of LIS anti-red campaign
A. F. of L. international officers
will investigate all unions in Mime
apolis The campaign eventually will
be extended to other major cities.
Myer Lewis, representative of Pres
ident Green, who was sent here to in
vestigate the labor situation, met
with temporary committee in charge
of the campaign. Members are /. r..
Cunningham, president of the Mime
sofa Federation of Labor; George
Lawson, secretary treasurer of the
state labor group, and Roy Weir, or
ganizer for the Central Labor Union
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08

is the longest any Of them can stand
it. This terrific grind wears out their
nerves, and they are nervous wrecks
at the end Of that time, he said.
Nov we believe that the Wagner
labor act, giving the girls and the
other employees of the company a
chance for their lives if they organ
ize," said Powers, may offer a way
to break up this vicious and incessant
demand for speed, and more speed"
That the doing Of this will bring
the smashing of the AWUE is one
Of the hopes of Mr.. Powers and Of
the GTUA.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
Telegraphers' Head UrgesW.U Employees
ToThrow Off Yoke Of Company Unionism

Chicago (ILNS) Flinging defiance
lat the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, Frank B. Powers, president of
the Commercial Telegraphers' Union,
declared that "the Wagner labor act
will make it possible to throw off the
yoke of that unspeakable travesty of
the sacred name of labor union, the
Association of Western Union En-
ployes," sometimes known as the
AWUE.
At the sixteenth convention Of the
Commercial Telegraphers, President
Powers declared that for Is years
now the AWUE officers have played
the game of keeping the Western
Union employees under submission. He
said that AWUE was one of the first
Of the company unions to be organ
lied; that its first convention was
paid for by the Western Union Com
pany; that its delegates were hand
picked by the company officials; that
their salaries and expenses were paid
for, and that their constitution was
furnished by the office Of the West
ern Union Company's attorney.
Powers said that refusal or failure
to join AWUE was considered suf-
ficient evidence of membership in the
CTU, and discharge would follow.
All of this information had
been placed in the record of the
1884 NRA hearing on the COM
munication code, and before the
communications commission as
we'll, where it was received with
out word of denial or possible
refutation.
At a recent alleged convention of
AWUE held at Denver, there were 80
delegates present to represent the 3d.
600 employees of the Western Union
Telegraph Company. The only prod
uct of that convention is the setting
Of an annual memorial service for
Newcomb Charlton, who established
AWUE.
The speed-up system Of the West
ern Union requires a uniform speed
of SO words per minute of the girls
who operate their machines, said Mr.
Powers, and their labor turnover is
100 per cent every three years. That
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
BOATMENS' STRIKE
Ties Up Gulf Coast Shrimp
Trade

Mobile, Ala. (ILNS)-The gulf
coast shrimping industry has been
almost completely shut down, with ap-
proximately 1000 persons involved, as
boatmen in Alabama and Mississippi
waters seek $3.50 per barrel for their
shrimp, an increase of so cents.
Involved in the shutdown are two
plants at Bayou LaBatre, Ala; 10 in
Biloxi, one in Gulfport, one in Ocean
Springs, two in Pass Christian and
two in Bay st. Louis In Biloxi were
1000 boatmen, refusing to operate
500 boats, and thus affecting another
1000 pickers in the packing plants.
In Bayou Labatre 500 boatmen and
600 packers were affected.
Other Mississippi towns had 1000
boatmen and 1000 pickers out, only
one plant in the entire area being
operated. This plant, at Bayou La
Batre, has company union organi-
zation and its boatmen continued to
arrive with catches and pickers con-
tinued to work.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08

Washington, D. C. (ILNS)--Real
unionism won a smashing victory in
the first election for employe repre-
sentation in an industrial plant to be
held under the direction of the Ma
tional Labor Relations Board and also
the first one under the Wagner ma
tional labor disputes act.
The result was announced by the
National Labor Relations Board
which reported that in secfet ballot
ing among the production workers in
the plant of the Simmons Company,
furniture makers Of San Francisco
408 workers selected the Furniture
Workers Local Union Isl, an Amer
lean Federation of Labor affiliate, as
their representative in collective bar
operative Union, an employe plant
organization, received SO votes. One
vote was voided and one challenged
The telegram to the board an
nouncing the result of the vote said
the company had signifed its will
ingness to negotiate with the success
full union as the sole bargaining
agency of its employees.
The election terminated six
weeks strike by the workers, whose
walkout. on September 9 completely
shut down the plant until October 25.
The strike had been called to win
recognition for the Furniture Work
ers' Union. Under the former National
Labor Relations Board, which expired
with NRA, an order for an election
in the Simmons plant for June had
not been carried out because of COM
pany refusal.
AS further result of the election,
the company has agreed to arbitrate
all disputed items within 80 days.
R. Gordon Wagenet, regional direc-
tor at San Francisco for the National
Labor Relations Board, and Philip G.
Phillips, regional attorney there, con-
Quoted negotiations for the board
with the Simmons company.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
UNION
LONCSHOREMEN
Protest Use Of ERA Men On
Dock Work

Boston (ILNS)-In behalf Of the
New Bedford, Mass, local of the m
ternational Longshoremen's Associa-
ton, Daniel j. Donovan, Of Boston,
an international vice president Of the
l. L. A., has protested to Washing
ton against the use of ERA workers
in unloading a steamer at a New Bed
ford dock recently. Mr. Donovan says
the men were obtained through the
Y. S. Employment Service,
When the steamer locked, Donovan
led a delegation from the local to the
pier, to interview Captain L. Roberts,
Of the New Bedford stevedore Cor
poration. However, a squad of police
made their appearance and barred the
way for the union delegation and a
request for an interview with the head
of the New Bedford Stevedore Cor
poration was refused. The police
kept all but the non union longshore-
men and officials of the stevedoring
firm off the dock About so men were
used in the unloading work
Donovan Immediately wired his pro
test to the ERA headquarters il
Washington. He said the lockout
might result in shipping at the ports
of Boston and New York beine
affected
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
Italy Following Example
of Britain, Laborite Says

London (ILNs)- In the fifty
years Of Queen Victoria's reign, Great
Britain indulged in 32 wars, large
and small" Jock McGovern, Glasgow
left wing labor party member, de-
clared during the debate in the house
Of commons on the governments pol
icy in the Italian Ethiopian war.
"Mussolini," he continued, lis now
play ing the self same game that Brit
ain had played. If Italian workers
had the intelligence to use their ma
chine guns on Mussolini and the Ital-
ion ruling class, it would be a more
intelligent thing than going out to
Africa and slaughtering poor natives
there"
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
GOVERNMENT BAN
On Eagle Picher Lead Co.
Products May Be Sought
By Labor

The long strike of around 1000 men
employed by the Eagle Picher Lead
Company for recognition of the union
and improved working conditions was
referred to the executive council of
the American Federation of Labor by
the 1885 convention of the federation
with instructions to endeavor to per-
suade the government of the United
States to refuse to purchase "any ma
terials containing in whole or in part
the products of the company
According to information present
ed to the convention by delegates of
the international Union of Mine, Mill
and Smelter Workers, around 4,00G
mine, mill and smelter workers of the
Tri- State district of Oklhoma, Kansas
and Missouri who are members of the
international union and employees of
the Eagle Picher Company walked
out because Of the company's refusal
to deal with the union and improve
work conditions.
The resolution introduced by the
delegates and adopted by the conven-
ton declared the methods and tactics
used by the company to break the
strike "are savage, brutal and un-
American and that violence and
bloodshed' have been used to keep
the workers unorganized.
Delegate Paul NJ. Peterson, of the
Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers In
ion, said that the 1000 men who are
on strike received only 80 cents for a
10-hour day before they were organ
lied.
The Butler County press. [volume] (Hamilton, Ohio) 1900-1946, 1935-11-08
AFL Urges Continuance
of NRA Code Principles

Reaffrming the belief Of the Amer
lean Federation Of Labor IN the prin-
ciple of MIRA legislation the 1885
convention of the federation called for
the widest study to determine the
extent to which former code labor pro-
visions have been and are being de-
stFoyeda and pledged the assistance
of the federation to the permanent
continuation by federal legislation of
the principles Of the MIRA, with ade-
quate labor participation in code MAX
ms, code administration and code
reformation.n