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Evening star., 1936-11-29
TWO MORE SOUGHT
IN FORT KIDNAPPING
AND ; H0LD-UPS
W. N. Beck, 21, Indicted in
Abduction and Three
RobberieS.
POLICE SILENT AFTER
QUESTIONING SUSPECT
Pair Linked to Crimes Believed
to Have Fled From City.
G-Men Enter Case.

Detectives, having arrested one
suspect, widened their search yester-
day for two youths indicted in 1882
robbery and wanted for questioning in
the abduction of Fort Myer sentry
and the hold-ups of three couples in
parked cars.
The youth under arrest is William
Nelson Beck, 81, of 939 c street south
west, who was captured by robbery
squad detectives yesterday as he re-
turned to his home after trip out
of the city. The other two are be-
heved to have fed Washington.
The latter pair, Joseph Kurz. 10,
and Paul Berger, l8, were indicted
with Beck Wednesday in connection
with the 1882 robbery of market at
1909 T street fortnight ago.
G-Men Assist d. c. Police.
Justice Department agents are as
sisting local detectives in the case
because the Army sentry was ab-
Quoted from Government reserva-
ton.
Beck was interrogated for several
hours at headquarters in connection
with several holdups, but Inspector
B. w. Thompson, chief of detectives,
declined to say whether he had made
. statement.
All the robberies were committed by
three youths, at least one of whom
wore riding boots. This also was
the case when a Fort Myer sentry,
Frank Ayers, was forced into an au-
tomobile at an isolated post and
dumped out near Chain Bridge on the
night Of November 16. The soldiers
assailants took his automatic pistol,
ammunition and spurs.
Couple Held Up in Park.
Presumably the same automatic was
used when three youths held up Walter
Holt and Miss Virginia Ash on the
following night while they were seated
in an automobile in Rock Greek Park.
Holt was robbed Of $14 and the ban
dits drove of in his automobile with
Miss Ash, who later was released un-
harmed.
Three youths a few nights later
held up two couple near the Mount
Vernon Boulevard and tied them with
their own clothing after robbing them.
They we're Mary and Thelma Shelton
and Gordon Riggles and James C.
Steele. all of Fairfax. Va.
Inspector Thompson said Beck was
not confronted with any of the rob-
berry victims yesterday or last night.
Beck was being held for investiga-
ton, although he Is under indictment.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
TRUCK PASSENGER
INJURED IN CRASH
Alfonzo Toney Suffers Fractured
Skull as Van Hits Parked
Vehicle,

Alfonzo Toney, 27, of 604 Independ-
ence avenue southwest, suffered frac-
tured skull, fractured right hip and
conclusion of the brain when the truck
in which he was riding collided with q
parked truck at the corner of Tenth
and D streets southwest last night. He
was removed to Emergency Hospital
and later transferred to Gallipger.
william G. Triplett, 80, living at
the same address, operator of the NOV
ing truck, was arrested and held at
the fourth precinct pending the out
come of Toney's injuries.
An unidentified colored woman
about So years old and weighing about
300 pounds was seriously injured last
night when struck by an automobile
at South Capitol and M streets south
east. She was taken to Casualty Hos
pital.
The condition Of Mrs. Doshie M.
Ellis, injured yesterday in an auto
mobile collision at Thirteen and q Half
street and Pennsylvania avenue, re-
mained serious late last night. She was
treated at Casualty Hospital for q
fractured skull and cuts about the
head.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
GEN. H|NESPLANS
PENSION PARLEY
Expected to Confer With
Roosevelt on Disability
Payment Boost.

Brig. Gen. Frank T. Hines, veterans
administrator, is expected to take UP
with President Roosevelt before the
convening Of Congress the question
of increasing the disability pensions
of the enlisted men of the Regular
Army, it was learned yesterday.
The study of a plan suggested by
the War Department has been COM
pleted by the Veterans Administra-
tion and Gen. Hines will call meet
ing of his general staff soon to thrash
out all angles covering the recon-
mendations to be made to the Presi-
dent.
While not indorsing the proposal
prior to the staff conference and the
consultation with the President, Gen.
Hines is thoroughly familiar with the
matter and is inclined personally to
favor some move in this direction.
Before approving a plan officially,
however, he must take into considera-
ton the administrations budget and
the White House requirements in this
direction.
The War Departments plan pro-
poses:
Ito abolish the distinction be-
tween war time and peace-time service
connected pension rates-the wartime
rates range up to 500 a month for
total disability, while the peace-time
rates range up to s45 month for 100
per cent disability.
2-To grant to enlisted men with
more than 10 years service an addi-
tional pension over and above the
amount allowed for their degree of
disability. This additional pension
would be to compensate them for the
loss of their career" in the Army, 1t
being considered that man who has
completed at least 10 years service
intends to make it his lifes work.
Three different plans were advanced
for fixing the additional pension. The
first would give all men with more
than 10 years service an extra pension
equal to 20 per cent of his active pay.
The second would fix the extra pension
by multiplying 2 Y per cent of mans
active duty pay by his total number of
years of service. The third. which the
War Department favored over the
others, would fix the extra pension by
~ per cent of the mans active pay by
the number Of years service Of more
than 10 years.
Copyright. 1896. by the New York
Herald Tribune.)
Evening star., 1936-11-29

BY J. A. FOX.
THIS is the story Of "577-01-
O0O1," who soon will start
weaving through a maze Of
Il keys and ccgs, of indexes and
cross indexes, to emerge at the end
of the trip as qualified candidate for
the Federal old-age benefit rolls.
For the moment, the identity Of
"577-0l -0001" is conjectural A Post
Office Department typist decides 1t.
From then on. the Government will
deal individually with this impersonal
collection of digits and millions others
like it. each of them representing one
of the army of workers-about 26,-
O0O, O,O00-to be regimented under the
pension system.
It so happens that "577-01- -0001"
will be a Washington wage-earner.
The act of creating this human SYM
boil Is simple-a mere matter of rou-
tine. The ultimate placement in the
proper niche of the vast benefits
structure, however, is a triumph for
modern electro devices.
Eight different machines will be re-
quired to make certain that there
will be no slip-up, and that "577-01-
0001," meeting the demands of the
law, will receive payments at the
proper time. These robots, which will
handle the cards. do everything but
think. It is good thing, the opera
tors say, that they can't think, for
then there would be field for error.
Divided Into 720 Areas.
The narrative of "577-01-0O01" starts
properly with the partition of the
United States and territorial possess
sions by the Social Security Board into
720 areas for registering the workers.
There are four Of these in the District
OF Columbia, the numbers running
from SIT to $50. The potential ben
eficiaries filing application in each
area are separated into groups, With q
maximum Of 9,999 members each. The
group numbers run from OF up, and
the listing Of the individuals in each
group from 0001. So, 577-01-0001 is
the first number being assigned mere,
representing the first person enrolled
in the first grouping Of the lowest
numbered area.
These group and serial numbers
are allotted at the 1,072 post Office
tipping centers throughout the coun-
try, of which Washington is one. as
the employe application cards, telling
all about themselves, come in.
From these applications, the typists
compile an Office record on a white
card of approximately the sane di-
mensions as an application for an au-
tomobile tag. Each card gets its
proper number, detachable section.
bearing the same number, is returned
to the employe as an Identification
card, while the office record is sent
on to Baltimore, where, In the division
Of records the account of every worker
Evening star., 1936-11-29
La,c inCupidRole
As Clerk of Court
Weds Miss Baker
Speed Case Recorded by
Christofersen Starts
Romance.

The law played Cupid in the ro-
nance Of Barbara Greer Baker and
Wayne L. Christoffersen. whose en-
gagement was announced yesterday.
Miss Baker, attractive daughter Of
MIR. and Mrs. Reid Baker. appeared in
Police Court six months ago on
charge of speeding. Christoffersen at
the time had just become clerss for
Judge Isaac r. Hit, before whom she
was arraigned. She was fined IS and
1t was Christoffersen who wrote on
the paper IS or S days in jail"
He also made record of her ad-
dress on Locust road and shortly
afterward was formally introduced to
his future bride.
Christodersen is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Nello Christoffersen, who A.
rived In washington last week to -
present when the engagement WI
announced.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
Store Bandit Puts
E in IcebOx and
Escapes With $2O4
Louise Home Market
Robbed by Man in
Dark Glasses.

Forcing six employees and customer
into an ice box q gunman last night
robbed the cash register at Louises
Home Market, 1913 M street, of the
days receipts, totaling $204. and es-
saped.
L. r. Watkins, 40, of $40 Thirty
erst street, manager Of the store, de-
Gcribed the hold-up man as about 35
years old and weighing about las
pounds. He wore dark overcoat and
dark glasses, the manager said.
Wilfred Miller, Silver Spring, Md,
who was in the store at the time, was
forced with Watkins and five employees
10 enter q large meat cooler. All were
warned to stay there until the robber
had left. They stayed in the ice box
about i've minutes.
Evening star., 1936-11-29

is being set up under the number as
signed.
Turned over in this division to the
receiving and control section in
huge patches. the office records are
checked in. Next, the information on
them is coded by another unit. Then,
the machines come into the picture.
Data Reproduced in Code.
First of all, the Office record card
Of "577-01 -0001" finds its way to q
punching machine, where the data
it contains are reproduced - also
in code II on q thin, orange
tinted card of 3A by 7A inches.
through the medium of series Of
perforations in rows of code num-
bers. This results in a product look
ing like a section of player
piano roll.
This orange card is known as the
"employe master card" It is the
key to the whole system of book
keeping necessary to keep a check on
the wages earned by "577-01-0001,"
and until time takes that individual
out of the ranks of workers that card
will be responsible for recording every.
cent "577-01 -0001" earns, its perfora-
tions actuating the machinery Of the
successive devices through which it
passes.
The next step is to put the master
card through another machine-a
new one called an alphabetical inter-
prefer that is being used for the first
time. In the recesses of this ma
chine the coded information is re-
translated and typed out along the
top of the card.
Next the job becomes one for men
rather than machines, as the punched
cards are compared with the indiviu-
ual Office records to insure complete
accuracy before further machine work
Is necessary. Two persons perform
this task, one reading and the other
checking.
Duplicate Card Turned Out.
Then the master card of "577-01-
000l" begins to spawn additional rec
ords. It passes through another ma
chine-the reproducer-where . du-
plicate is turned out in green. These
orange-and-green cards now in diff
ferent directions.
/ The first Is used to compile two
reports. One of these Is complete
record in q straight numerical Sc
ouence; the other is the all-important
,.S~.. ,t,oat ~, uhich the Wapo ar.
count of "577-01-0001" will be kept
The green card goes into another NJ
chime sorter-and here u .Oc<A
out an alphabetical record.
Once again the human factor CONS
into the picture as these several rec
ords are filed away, the various proc
esses 30 dovetailed that any one al
Ways can be located without difnculty.
This. generally speaking. Is the nrst
Evening star., 1936-11-29
TRIO ROB GAS MAN
Escape Toward D. c. After Tying
Richmond Victim to Tree.

RICHMOND. Va. November %
R.-F. L. Long. Richmond filling sta
ton operator, told police tonight three
men had held him up. robbed him of
s25, forced him to drive them 3 miles
north of Asland, then tied him to a
tree and drove away toward Wash
ington in his car
Long said the trio commanded him
to get in his car with them. They
made him stop before leaving town.
and one of the men went to a house
and returned with two suitcases. After
passing Ashland, about IL miles from
Richmond, they took him to a lonely
wood of the road and tied him to q
tree. His cries brought aid.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
COUNCIL OF SOCIAL
AGENCIES WILL MEET
Dr.. Evan Clague of Social Sc
curity Board to Address
Session Tomorrow.

The Washington Council of Social
Agencies will hold its November-De-
cember meeting tomorrow at 1890
pm. in the Y. w. c. A., Seventeenth
ard K streets.
DR.. Evan Clague, assistant director
Of the Bureau of Research and Statis-
tics of the Social Security Board, will
speak on 1.-THE Place of Research and
It's Interpretation in q Community
Program"
The Council Research Committee,
Of which Willard c. Smith Is chair
man, is sponsoring the meeting.
Evening star., 1936-11-29
TO GET
.PRE-YULE CHECKS.
.0F CLOSED BANKS
S1,500,C00 Dividend Will BE
Paid Out by Receiver
After Dec. 10.
DISTRICT, NORTHEAST
INSTITUTIONS INVOLVED
Federal-American Certificate Offer
of 40 Pct. of Balance Continued
by Lester Dutt.

Depositors of the District National
Bank and Northeast Savings BanF
welcomed with holiday enthusiasm
last night the announcement that the
two banks will pay out before Christ
mas a total of 81 500 900 in additional
dividends.
The announcement came from JUS
tus S. Warden, receiver, who said he
Evening star., 1936-11-29

expected to pay,
some time be-
tween December
10 and Is, a div
idend of Is per
cent from the
District National
Bank and a divi-
dend Of 10 per
cent from the
Northeast S ".
ings Bank.
Meantime a n
agent, Lester Dutt,
con t in ued the
same offer made
recently to buy
receivers certif-
Evening star., 1936-11-29

who was cast for the part of DURAN
in "Wingless Victory" has been in
Washington with the company and
at the theater, too, preparing for her
work, which begins in New York this
week. But whether Claire Howard
was understanding Helen Magma, or
Helen Magma understanding Claire
Howard, was something of a mystery.
One child can look pretty much like
another-the art of makeup being
what it Is.
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BRITISH PRESS TO
"WAR" ON LINDBERGH
CONTINUED from page hnel

CONTINUED from mage onal
to establish transatlantic air
line.
"When | told Col. Lindbergh
there were reports he might give
up his American citizenship" sad
Gregory, che brushed my remark
aside with a laugh. He also
laughed, but made no comment
when | told him it was understood
that Betty Cow was going to work
for him again"
Gregory was asked whether Col.
Lindbcrgh received threats againSc
members of his family before he
left the United States.
"That's absolutely a personal
matter with the Colonel, don't you
Think" he replied.
British neWspapermcn complain
ed bitterly to Gregory about Lind
bergh's refusal to be interviewed
and told him the Colonel either
must be an exceedingly shy man
or was using some subtle means
of obtaining publicity.
'If you knew Col. Lindbergh,
YOU would know that. that's not
the case" Gregory said angrily.
"He has given no interviews n
seven years. It's just a principle
with him. It's not true either that
Col. Lindbergh has contempt for
the public.N
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POLITICAL WAR IS
SEEN IN CAPITAL
Continued from para cne)

the old order, the people will
back him 100 per cent.
"He's lost some ground, sure.
But in the % states I've visited,
| found the opposition to the New
Deal and Mr.. Roosevelt vas due
to misrepresentation. If he'll fight
we'll be back Of him to the
end"
Representative Wright Fatman,
Democrat, of Texas, author Of the
perennial soldier bonus bill, also
conferred with the president. He
hurried away from the White
House refusing to discuss the na-
ture of his conversations, how
ever, it was learned later that he
had reviewed with the chief cx-
ecutive the possibilities of a
compromise" bonus bill.
The house bonus steering COM
mittee meets tonight to outline
strategy in the fight ahead.
Reports that ReXford G. Tug
well, rural resettlement admins
traitor, and FERA Administrators
Harry L. Hopkins had offered to
resign to save the administration
possible embarrassment in the
coming campaign were denied by
Marvin Mcintyre, a White House
secretary. Mcintyre said MIR.
Roosevelt regards the reports as
Sewing circle gossip"
Tugwel's reply was:
Il haven't seen the president
in 10 days
Meantime, Senator w. Warren
Barbour, Republican, eff New
Jersey, in a statement last night
demanded that the administration
give a complete accounting of
funds on hand and the. manner
in which billions were spent be-
fore another penny is appropriate
ed by congress.
"The days of hippety-hop ex-
travagances in this country must
end before we destroy our people
whom we are trying to restore to
secure employment" Barbour
said.
Senator Carl Hayden, Demo-
crat, of Arizona, countered with
a statement that the New Deal
deficit is on a par with the last
of Herbert Hoover's deficits. Hay
den attacked the "insincerity Of
the old guard rabble rousers who
assail an administration conscien-
tiously performing public duties
which they themselves fumbled or
ignored.
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on administration Of government.
The senate has agreed to con-
slider early in January the 81
C00,OO0,000 Patman bonus bill,
which would raise the required
sum by printing new money. Tn
Frazier-i emke bill to reflGancc
farm mo. tGageS by printing So
000,090,G0G new money re-
mains an active and unpredictable
issue in the house. Borah sponsor
ed both Of those bills during the
closing days Of the last session.
Silver states are eager for a
free silver market, but would be
content with price fixing legiSla-
ton which would peg silver at 70
cents or more and guarantee that
it would remain there for some
years. Cotton state senators and
congressman were rot satisfied
with the compromise cotton loan
announced as congress drew to a
close last summer. That issue may
be raised again in proposals that
the government lend more to cot
ton farmers.
The senate passed and the
house now has custody of the
Bankhead bill to create a $l,0C0,-
100000 corporation to purchase
farms for share-croppers and ten
ant farmers.
A 3O-hour work week bill will
command large support in both
houses this session if leaders are
unable to avoid a vote. The
Roosevelt food and drug bill, con-
siderably modified, awaits con-
gressional approval. The New
Deal ship subsidy bill also is a
hold-over from last session. There
is pending a bill which would re-
quire companies bidding for gov
eminent contracts to maintain
certain wage and hour standards
for labor.
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StanforPs Indians Beat Southern
Methodist 20 In Rose Bowl Game;
Cling Desperately to Slim Margin
DEATH PROBE
MORE MUDDLED

Continued from page one)
garage that the actress was found
in her automobile, dead of carbon
monoXide gas.
Helen Ainsworth, another close
friend, to whom the actress said,
'Tm going to puil oct Of this. -
On the theory that she rcfcrre d
to the business relationship with
West. the jury also planned to
question West on this statement.
Ray Hayes, Miss Todd,s form
er business manager. The n&-
ture of his Testimony was I'M
known.
Pas,male (PaD III Cjcco, dash
inc eX-husband Il the actress,
BROUGHT here from New York to
maxi = bricf and uUc2ltghtenn&
appearance before the Jury. may
DC summoned to testify again to-
morrow.
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NEW YORK PAPER SAYS
FIFE COURTS PUBLICITY

NEW YORK, Jan. 2. (UP).-
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is invlt-
ing publicity by being so secrctlve
about his affairs, the Herald Tri-
bune and Daily News said edl-
torially yesterday.
owe would like to pass along a
goodbye to Mr.. Lindbergh," said
the Daily News. THE tip is that
he is asking for publicity in Eng
land in the same way he asked for
it here. and that he can expect to
get publicity in England by those
methods just as he got it here.
The reason why the public and
papers pestered him here was that
he acted like hero, like prima
donna on parade. The rest of
the top notch fiiers were always
good fellows with the crowds.
They smiled, bowed, accepted the
cheers and backslaps in the spirit
in which they were intended,
yelled greetings to personal friends
out in the mob - and the MOB
didn't bother them" Zee.
Had there been less secrecy
about the Liverpool landing, there
would have been much less noto-
riety," the Herald Tribune said
"And had Colonel Lindbergh not
been so obstinately reticent about
his private affairs here there
would have been less curiosity
about them"
The Washington Post in front
page box said yesterday it would
not publish any more news about
the personal affairs of the Lind
berghs, but would continue to re-
port their activities as scientists,
aviators and writer's.
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Plan Examination
For Applicants
For IVA Work

ASHEVILLE, Jan. 2.-EXam-
nations for persons seeking JOBS
on the IVA construction OF the
Chickamauga and Guntersville,
dams on the Tennessee river and
the Hiawassee river dam near
Murphy will be held during Feb
ruary and March, it was learned
here yesterday.
Persons wishing. to take these
examinations have been notified
to contact civil service boards and
postmasters. Examinations will be
for the positions as skilled work
men, helpers and laborers, and
will consist Of tests Of mechanical
skill and ability to perform SIM
pie tasks.
Applications for examinations
may be obtained from civil ser
vice secretaries or postmasters IN
the vicinity of the three projects.
They must be mailed to the IVA
at Knoxville not later than jan
uary 25, 1886.
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SEEK FAT RELIEF

SUPERIOR, Wis. (UP).-Har-
assed by a troublesome horde Of
rats estimated to number 100000.
this city appealed to the works
progress administration for an
eradication project. The pests
thrive on the bay front where they
cause great damage in the grain
elevators.
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GRAPHIC STORY OF
BOMBING is TOLD

Continued from page one)
Cross today sent condolences to
Prince Charles, donor Of the hos
pital and chief Of the Swedish Red
Cross. He asked aid in stopping
such murders" Herouy also ap-
pealed to the International Red
Cross:
o.. 81 beg urgently that you halt
these barbarous acts and appea!
to the conscience of humanity to
force cessation Of these savage
killings" .-
DECAPITATION STORY
is NOW DENIED
An official .communique denied
that an Italian aviator had been
decapitated by the Philippians, as
charged by Gen. GRAHAM.
"The decapitation of an Italian
officer alluded to by Gen. GRAHAM
to justify the bombardment is an
odious lie designed to cover an
act of veritable piracy" the COM
munique said.
Nevertheless, the decapitation
was unofficially confirmed by reii-
able press reports. An Ethiopian,
in attacking, swings a five-foot
sword in an arc of steel and does
not care what part Of the enemy's
body it strikes, his chief idea be-
ing to kill the foe.