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Evening star., 1936-08-15

advance the curtailments, so' many
persons lost their homes. Over mil
lion were saved by the H. o. l.. c.,
which purchased and refinanced the
mortgages.
Thus a majority Of homes pur-
chased are financed by one or an
other of its variations of the long
term plans. Embellishments have
been added by its originators, the
building associations, and by in
surance companies, and the Fed
eral Housing Administration. The
F. H. A, created by Congress two
years ago, has done much to popular
ize the long-term, single-mortgage
system of home financing and has
brought about lowering OF interest
Evening star., 1936-08-15

Of miscellaneous plumbing fixtures you
can now follow a scheme of decora-
tion or design as you would IN any
other room in the house. The fixtures
are available in a large number of
different and distinctive styles, with
all necessary elements being made in
each design. The colors have reached
remarkable state Of perfection and
the shading Is marvellous in its wide
range Of colors which are being ap-
piled. Many people enjoy working out
contrasting color schemes with the
tile walls of the bath room, whi,e
others prefer a quiet harmonizing of
the whole arrangement-fxtures, walls,
floor and decoration.
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Wide Closet Doors.

A shallow closet is made much more
usable If 1t has a wide opening. This
can be accomplished by using double
doors instead of a single door. Thus
there are no dead ends in the closet
that are awkward to use, and the
double doors project into the room
only half the distance that single
door would which was made for the
same opening.
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rates. The administration does not
make loans, but insures mortgages of
private institutions that are made on
terms specified by the administra-
tion.
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BUILDING SLUMP
Pittsburgh's Private Construction
Drops Nearly 100 Per Cent.

Drops Nearly 100 Per Cent.
Private building in Pittsburgh dur
ing July totsled $482,000 for a drop
Of nearly 100 per cent from the June
figure Of s953,000. Last months total
also is a decrease from the figures for
the corresponding period of 1895,
when construction in the city was
valued at S836,000. Encouraging in
July's building, however, is the fact
that So residential buildings were
placed under construction.
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Mercury Vapor Lamps.

Small mercury vapor lamps of only
85 watts are now offered. They may
be used for industrial lighting, pho
tographic work and in other fields.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
CHIEF POW WOW
HELD IN GALL|NGER
Man Who Scattered Feath.
ers Over Secretary Wood
ring Under Observation.

Woody Hockaday, who describes
himself as Chief Pow Wow, was under
observation in a psychopathic ward
at Gallinger Hospital today after he
invaded the War Department in
track pants and an Indian war bon
net yesterday and dumped feathers
on the desk and person of Acting Sec
retary Harry H. Woodring.
Chief Pow Wow told police who
caught him after brisk foot race on
Seventeenth street near Constitution
avenue that he threw the feathers to
demonstrate for peace. He shouted
feathers instead of bullets" when he
emptied his bag in Woodring's Office.
Hockaday, former automobile dealer
of Wichita, Kans., was dressed in
conventional attire when he entered
the War Department Building. He
carried his feathers under his arm in
a bag and his war bonnet under his
coat. In a wash room, he changed
into his fantastic garb and dashed
across the corridor, brushing past a
secretary and entering Woodring's
Office.
At headquarters, Hockaday compi-
mented Police Chief Ernest W. Brown
on the fleetness of his officers. He
explained he had considerable expert
ence with police and only Saturday
escaped from an institution in New
Jersey.
Hockaday said that when he gets
out of Gallinger he will go to New
York and other Eastern cities to
scatter feathers and peace propagan-
da. He hopes to be able to scatter
enough to cost $1,000 to clean up"
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Man BADLY BURNED
AS CHAIR is IGNITED
Victim in Critical Condition at
Hospital-Woman Hurt
in Rescue.

Severely burned when the lounge
chair in which he was sleeping caught
fire last night, Edward j. Neugebauer,
%, of 2147 o street was in serious
condition at Emergency Hospital to-
day. A woman was injured in the
rescue.
The door to Neugebauer's apart
ment was opened by Mrs. Jean De-
fourneaut, who struck her forehead
against the door as she dashed in.
She received treatment at Emergency
for lacerations and later was allowed
to go home. Neighbors carried Neuge-
bauer to the street.
Neugebauers wife and child were
absent when the fire broke out It
is believed to have started in a lamp
back of the chair in which he was
sleeping. He was given first aid by
the Emergency rescue squad before
being taken to the hospital.
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Carter Girl Back Home, Still
Determined on independence
Second Disappearance Brief-Hair Is
Dyed in Efforts to Delude Parents.
Mother Recommends AdUentures.

Fifteen-year-old Gloria Elaine Car
ter, who experienced nothing but hard
work during her two-month search for
a chance to lead her own life" was
back home today, still set on being in
dependent.
Tired after an all-night drive from
Hickory, N. c., where she was found
yesterday after a brief second dis
appearance, the attractive daughter
of Weldon Carter, director of the
Washington Musical Institute, stayed
in bed late this morning, while her
mother, Mrs. Margaret Carter, re-
counted the girls story of her adven-
lures since running away from her
home June 4.
A trip to beauty parlor is sched-
uled for Gloria this afternoon. The
girl dyed her blond hair red when
she embarked on her second escapade
in Hickory yesterday. En- route home
from Asheville, where she was found
Wednesday, the girl slipped out at
breakfast time from Hickory hotel,
but was found a few hours later in
the home of Holt Millsaps, laborer.
Pretty DisgruntIed."
Gloria is we'll and glad to get home,
but is pretty diSgruntled about
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FORGERY CHARGED
TO HARRY A. KITE, JR.
$2,330 Check Bearing Mothers
Name Said to Have Been Used
in Car Purchase.

A forgery warrant has been issued
and turned over to the police check
squad for service on Harry A. Kite, jr.,
son of a well-known real estate oper-
ator, it was learned today. The war
rant charges Kite bought an automo-
bile with a $2,330 check, which he al
1egedly signed with his mothers name.
The warrant was authorized on COM
plant of Kenneth H. Moore, treasurer
of the Capital Cadillac Co., 1922
Twenty-second street. Moore told the
United States attorneys Office young
Kite bought a new car last Saturday
with check signed Mrs. Claire M.
Kite. president, and Rose L. Schroth,
secretary" of the Harry A. Kite Co.
Moore said Mrs. Kite and Rose
Schroth denied having signed the
check, which was drawn on blanks of
the realty firm and Endorsed by young
Kite.
It was said that Kite received the
new car and $188 in cash in exchange
for the check.
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COURT BUILDING
CONVERSION FOR
POLICE |SSTUD|ED
Hazen Says Old Structure
Might Be Turned Into
Headquarters.
ASKS CITY ARCHITECT
TO CONSIDER PLAN
Agrees With Maj. Brown on Need,
but Fears Funds Are Not
Available.

Pessimistic about being able to find
funds for reconstruction of old pre-
cinct police stations, as urged yester-
day by Police Supt. Ernest w. Brown,
Commissioner Melvin c. Hazen today
studied the possibility of converting
the old Police Court building into q
headquarters for police.
Ha1en, who supervises the Police
Department, said he would ask Munic-
ipal Architect Nathan c. Wyeth to
make a technical study Of the Police
Court building to see if its remodeling
as a police headquarters home would
be advisable.
Police Headquarters. the Detective
Bureau and the Traffic Bureau now
are housed in an old building at 462
Indiana avenue. Quarters there are
congested and at one time flooring
and walls had to be strengthened to
keep them from collapsing when q
heavy safe was moved into the build
ing.
Maj. Brown brought the question
TO the front yesterday when he de-
clared the condition of some of Wash
ington's police precinct stations to be
shameful" and said he would recon-
mend in his annual report, now being
prepared, that steps be taken to re-
place them
Commissioner Hazen agreed with
Maj. Brown that many old buildings
need replacement, but said:
Frankly. I don't know how We
can do it in the near future"
The 1887 District appropriation act
contains an item of S1,000,000 for
starting construction of a new home
for Police Court in Judiciary Square,
the total authorized cost of which 70
$1,500,000. The building is expected
to be finished some time during the
next fiscal year and after it is occu-
pied the old building at Fifth and D
streets will be available for other use.
Since it has structurally sound walls,
Hazen believes it would be a much
better place for police headquarters
than the one now used.
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FOUR HURT IN CAPITAL.
Woman and Infant Knocked Down
Crossing Street.

Woman and Infant Knocked Down
Crossing Street.
There were no serious accidents in
Washington during the 24-hour Pc
riod, although young woman carry-|
ing baby was knocked down by al
taXicab last night while crossing Mas
sachusetts avenue between Third and
Fourth streets. Neither was badly
hurt.
Police said the woman was Gladys
M. Riggs, %, of 308 H street. The
baby's name was given as Joan Smith
and the cab drivers as George NJ.
Woods, "a, of the 1900 block of Mary
land avenue northeast. The woman
and child were treated at Emergency
Hospital for scalp cuts and bruises.
Two colored boys were injured in
other mishapS. John Jones, 9, of
124 Tenth street southeast fell from
the rear of an automobile and was
treated at Casualty Hospital for
brain conclusion. Horace Butler, Is.
Of 435 Hollige court was knocked
from his bicycle by a hit-and-run de-
livery truck. Butler was treated at
Freedmen's Hospital for abrasions.
Police are seeking the truck driver.
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BAKERY'S TRUCKS
GET PROTECTION
Police Ordered to Prevent
Interference With Drivers
During Strike.

District police were under orders
from headquarters today to permit no
disturbance in connection with oper-
alton of trucks of the Dutch Baker
Boy, Inc, 807 Monroe street north
east, where a number of drivers went
out on strike Thursday.
The order related only to the right
Of the trucks to operate unmolested
and made no reference whatever to
the announced intention of strikers to
picket by following in automobiles.
A detail of patrolmen from Nos. l.,
2 and 9 precincts and two motor
cycle officers was on duty at the
bakery during the early morning
hours. when trucks are loaded for
the days deliveries. No disturbance
was reported. They we're relieved
at 6 am.
This action by the District followed
closely upon the arrest of 20 strikers
at Cherrydale, Va. Arlington County,
yesterday afternoon, on charges Of
disorderly conduct for alleged inter-
ference with a driver who was making
deliveries for the firm in that Sec
ton. The defendants are scheduled
to appear ir County Court there Mon
day at 10 a. m.
The strike started Thursday with
the demanr for drivers of $38 weekly
minimum wage and a nine-hour day.
Robert Lester, business agent of the
bakery drivers local union. claimed %
Of the company's 81 drivers were out
on strike.
Officers James Scott and Harvey
Barnett, ~ho arrested the strikers in
Arlington County, said they admitted
having followed the bakery truck in
three cars. When the driver stopped,
they assembled around his machine and
prevented him from making prompt
deliveries, the officers said. Herbert
K. Oehne, Washingto driver of the
truck, asserted he could not have
made one-half of his deliveries for
the day with the interference he was
receiving. Police were called to the
truck by a housewife.
William M. Edwards, president Of
the bakery, said he expected deliv-
cries to continue without interruption.
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DERN IS PREPARING
HIS ANNUAL REPORT
Secretary, Still in Hospital, De.
clared to Be Showing Grad.
ual Improvement.

BY tie Associated Press.
War Department officials said yes
terday that Secretary Dern, despite his
illness, has started work on the COM
pilation of his annual report.
Dern has been in Walter Reed Hos
pital several weeks recovering from
influenza contracted on an inspection
trip. While his condition has been
reported as serious, officials said he
was showing gradual improvement.
Gen. Malin Craig, chief of staff,
conferred with the Secretary for
nearly an hour on Army questions
before his departure to attend the
Army maneuvers at Fort Knox, KY.
Hearings for the War Department
are now in progress before the Budget
Bureau and Dern was said to be espe-
cially interested in airplane procure
ment and Army housing questions.
The Secretary's annual report is
scheduled to be in the hands of the
public printer by November Is and
before then Dern must write a review
of the years activities and draft his
recommendations for the next fiscal
year.
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ROBINSON Is REFUSED
TRANSFER TO ASYLUM
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Justice Department officials said
yesterday efforts to transfer Thomas
H. Robinson, jr., serving life prison
term for the kidnapping of Mrs. Alice
Speed Stoll Of Louisville, to a private
asylum for treatment of mental dis
orders would be futile.
They explained there is a Federal
prison hospital at Springfield, Mo-, to
which mental cases are transferred.
Glen w. Higgins, attorney who sue
cessfully defended Robinson's father
and wife on charges of completely in
the Stoll kidnapping, said Thursday at
Louisville he would attempt to COM
pei the Government by court proceed
ings to transfer Robinson to a private
asylum. The Justice Department said
he is now at Leavenworth Penitentiary.
Department attorneys said the
courts did not have the authority to
order prison officials to make such
transferA
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~ Shirley Schwartz became the
~ happiest girl in town.
4 \ There was no doubt about it
To prove that her happiness surpassed
all other feminine JOY in Washington
Shirley had tears of delight in her
eyes, a smile on her face that spread
goodwill upon all within range. a
crown upon her head and a ribbon
draped from her shoulder which pro-
claimed her Miss Capital of 1886.
She was so thrilled by it all she
couldn't talk. When asked how it
felt to be nominated to the top beauty
ranking in the Nations Capital Shir-
ley had TO say, Il don't know -.
can't tell yet it's marvellous,
though .. :" Then she asked for her
mother. Congratulations of no one
else meant quite so much.
If Shirley was too excited even to
speak, Helen Clum, pretty winner OF
last years contest to choose Miss
Washington, on hand at Chevy Chase
Lake to congratulate this years win
ner, was not.
Good Times Forecast.
She'll have swell time in Atlantic
City" Helen said. Every one will
treat her wonderfully. And she will
get cheek-ache"
"Cheek-ache?" Helen was asked
What might that be?"
Just cheek-ache, said Helen
pointing toward her face You get il
from smiling all the time"
Shirley, who will receive gifts OF
sports outfits. an evening gown, an
evening wrap, a bicycle and other
things, almost did not enter the Miss
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everything in general" her mother
said.
"She wants to get job, and that's
what we are going to let her do"
Mrs. Carter explained. She said
Gloria may take an office job in the
musical institute.
Gloria, an accomplished musician
and dancer, has been taking music
lessons for years, but disliked classical
compositions.
A desire to play jazz music and q
distaste for her work in junior high
school were factors in Glorias de-
cision to run away. Mrs. Carter said
her daughter had never been allowed
to play popular music.
The mother said Gloria had been
planning to run away since August,
1885. Piece by piece, she slipped
dresses, blouses and other clothes to
Gordon Junior High School.
Before starting on the first step of
her adventure-a bus ride to Winston
Salem, N. C-the girl had a friend
pawn three of her rings, two Clipped
diamond and one opal ring.
Work lawfully Hard"
At Winson- Salem, she secured the
first of four waitress jobs she was to
get during her adventure. She found
this work "awfully hard" Mrs. Garter
said. One week she played a piano
y, E-ond-10.ranf Cha EYaH
that, but it was only temporary.
From Winston-Salem she moved to
Asheville and more waitress jobs.
Sometimes she got SIS week and her
meals. Once she lived two days with
nothing to eat except chocolate
bar. She was able to buy one new
dress.
Gloria secured the dye in Hickory
Thursday evening, when she secured
her parents permission to go to a
drug store on the pretext of getting
some cough medicine.
Yesterday morning, while the three
were eating breakfast, Gloria said
she was going to her room, but she
didn't return. Later it was discov-
cred she fled through a rear entrance,
ran to a gasoline filling station and
there dyed her hair.
Her greeting to her parents in
Asheville last Wednesday was: We'll,
now you see can take care of my
SELF
She won't have to go back to junior
high school this Fall, Mrs. Carter
said. Instead she will receive tutor
ing at home.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
FEDERAL WORKERS
WIN SCHOLARSHIPS
Strayer Business College Is Donor
of Awards-Three Get
Special Honors.

One employe each from 26 Govern
ment agencies and three others Sc
lected from among the various de-
partments for good rating, have been
awarded scholarships by Strayer Busi-
ness College.
OF the total, three scholarships for
$500 each, or $100 annually for three
Labor Department, who scored the
highest grade; Douglas M. Dunn OF
the Securities and Exchange Commits
sion, second, and James F. Wingrove,
Agriculture Department, third
The other 26 we're awarded scholar
ships of S10O each. They are as
follows:
Hannah Stoler, District government;
Lloyd A. Porter, Labor; Helen M A.
Doyle, Agriculture; Philip j. Amato,
Government Printing Office; S. M.
Koenigsberger, Legislature; j. Ashby
Mason, Treasury; Isadore Bohrer,
Commerce; Gertrude E. Forester,
Farm Credit; Charlotte j. Bowman,
Home Owners Loan; Celia L. Car
penter, Civil Service Commission; Saul
Drimmer, Railroad Retirement Board;
Walter E. Knowles, Interior; Edward
j. Foley, Veterans Administration;
Arthur L. Stewartson, Federal Power;
Christopher M. Whitaker, Justice;
Ranald M. Briggs, Navy Department;
Angeline Ave, Social Security Board;
Frances Veit. Communications; Henry
H. Savage, Works Progress; Clifford
E. Fulton. Federal Housing; Thomas
E. Gavigan, Interstate Commerce;
John F. Gill, Resettlement; Charles
Goldfarb, Employees Compensation
Commission; Raymond G. Hensrud,
Post Office Department; Minor S.
Jameson. Federal Trade Commission; !;
Richard w. Meadows, War Depart
ment.
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Capital competition. She hadn't
planned to. but Al Stern. the promoter
of the local contest, called her on the
telephone the other day because she
had been one of the beauties who
competed for the title last year.
So Shirley went to Chevy Chase
Lake, not expecting, and hardly
hoping, she says, that her smile
would captivate the judges and she
would be chosen to participate in the
ceremonies to take place next Friday
when LoeW'S Fox Theater becomes
Loew's Capitol, that she would have a
chance to sing in the Going Native"
revue at the Capitol, and that she
would have an opportunity to COM
pete for the Miss America title
Beauty Weighs 110 Pounds.
Shirley says the beauty that made
her Miss Capital is unprecedented
and lust came from the family" If
you're interested in statistics, Miss
Schwartz, who lives at 724 Taylor
street, has brown hair and brown
eyes. is S feet 21a inches tall, weighs
ITO pounds and is IS years old.
But those cold figures don't tell
about her smile and they don't tell
about the way she sings song, both
of which will mean something when
she goes to Atlantic City next month
to represent Washington in the annual
beauty pageant.
Second place in the Miss Capital
contest went to Miss Ethel Zepp of
1926 F street, and third place was
allotted Katherine Heaton, 1918 N
street. Judges were Gene Ford, An
drew r. Kelley. Nelson Bell, Don
Craig. Dorsey Doniphan and Emile
Beauvais
Evening star., 1936-08-08
W.P.A. MAY HELP
D|PHTHER|A FIGHT
Considers Proposal to Ap.
prove $4,000 Project in
Works Program.

District w. P. A. officials today
were considering proposal by Health
Officer George C. Rutland for expan-
sion of the campaign against diph-
liberia by approval of a $4,000 project
as part of the works program to pro-
vide 20 to Is additional workers on a
temporary basis.
The additional staff members would
be employed in widespread adoption
of immunization methods, preparation
of case records, Identification of
healthy carriers and a public cam
paign of education about the disease.
Increase in Disease.
During the first seven months of
this year there were 428 cases of diph-
liberia. an increase of ITO over the
same period of last year, and 81 deaths
as against IL through July Of last
year. DR.. Rutland has reports of 200
healthy carriers here this year as
against 1913 up to August of last year.
The health officer plans an extern
sive program before Fall to advise
parents all children should be i'm
munized between the ages Of 6
months and 6 years. He has de
clared Washington's present mortality
rate from the disease-the highest in
the country for cities of this size-a
disgrace.
Seeks PART Time Physicians.
His plan contemplates the employ
ment of about eight part-time physi-
clans and group of nurses and clerks
to aid in the program. The group
would make possible an increase in
the services of the District clinics.
Free treatment would be available to
parents not financially able to en-
ploy private physician.
The program is being mapped out
by DR.. Rutland in conference with
DR.. James G. Cumming, assistant
health officer in charge of conmuni-
cable diseases. Contacts also are be-
ing made with school officials, parent
teacher groups and medical society
leaders.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
POLITICS HANDICAP
TO SOVIET ARMY
View Expressed by Former Gar.
ist Officer, Gen, Golovine, in
U S. Infantry Journal.
the Associated presS.

Ey the Associated Press.
Belief that political generals" will
cripple Soviet Russia's huge army in
the next war" was expressed by
Gen. Nicholas N. Golovine, former
Czarist officer. in an article appearing
today in the Infantry Journal.
The Journal, which explained that
Gen. Golovine was a professor in Rus
sias Imperial War College and now is
professor of military history at the
Russian Historico-Philosophical Col
lege in Paris, is the publication Of
active and retired officers belonging
to the United States Military Asso-
citation.
Lieut.. Col. E. F. Harding, editor,
emphasized that the opinions ex-
pressed were not the United States
Army's.
Golovine asserted the Soviet Army
now boasts 100000 men and is grow
ing yearly through the incorporation
of $4,000 trained reserves. He said
the objective is force Of $4,000, 900.
all selected on the basis Of their po-
htical beliefs.
Evening star., 1936-08-08
2HURT IN PLANE CRASH

HUNDRED, w. Va, August 8 R).-
A new 14-passenger airplane crashed
yesterday injuring two men severely.
The injured are Charles Gehrin OF
Columbus, Ohio, pilot, and John Dex-
ter of Wheeling, passenger.
Witnesses said the plane tumbled
over while landing on new airfield
and plunged down 100-foot embank-
ment.
The plane recently had been pur-
chased by Erwin Saltsgaber Of Co.
lumbus, who remained on the ground
during the short fight. He estimated
the damage to the plane st $4,000.