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Evening star., 1936-05-11
Girl Leader of Cripples Asks
Plan to End Discrimination
League Tired of Stock
Phrases Leading No.
where, She Says.
Members Sick of Idle.
ness or Poor Jobs,
President States.
BY FRANCES LIDE.

Not sympathy-but concrete plan
to end discrimination against employ
ment Of the physically handicapped on
w. P. A. projects-is what Sylvia Flex-
er and "a other cripples from New York
are demanding in Washington.
The 2l-year-old girl president of the
youthful League for the Physically
Handicapped-lame from infantile
paralysis since she was IA months old
is tired of stock phrases which lead
nowhere, she declared today.
She and her companions, who laid
24-hour siege to w. P. A. headquar-
ters Saturday in a successful attempt
to arrange an interview with Admins
traitor Harry L. Hopkins, are sick of
the humiliation of poor jobs at best
often no work at all.
I'VE are looking to the Federal Gov
ernment because we know the States
would turn us over to local agencies
and we'd be right back where we start
ed" she declared.
There are 800 members in the New
York League averaging % years OF age.
Many of them knew each other in
school and their organization last
May, Sylvia declared, was the Climax
to our pent-up emotions"
Not all the IS delegates are jobless.
Sylvia, employed as a $20-a-week
clerk in the Emergency Home Relief
Bureau in New York, is one of about
10 who are working, she said.
But 1 wanted to teach English, or
to be a librarian, until found out I
couldn't get job if were trained for
it, she said.
After I finished high school and a
business course. l worked for seven
months with the Brooklyn Bureau Of
Charities-and averaged So or 81 a
week. The league is responsible for
my present job. It's helped lot OF us
who are now working"
Interviewed in a hotel room pro-
vided by w. P. A officials last night,
Sylvia smiled happily at the remem-
brance of the unexpected pleasure OF
sleeping in real bed again.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
CABDR|VERHELD
FOR GRAND Jury
IN GIRLS DEATH
Carl Loveridge Accused in
Fatal Shooting Of
Jessie Posey.
FATHER OF VICTIM
is CALLED TO STAND
Heard Girl Pleading With Sus.
pect, He Testifes at
Inquest.

Carl Loveridge, 29-year-old taxlcao
driver, was held for the grand jury
at q coroner's inquest today into the
fatal shooting May / of Miss Jessie
Posey, "a.
The girl was slain in front Of her
home at 244 Ninth street southeast
shortly after she returned there with
Howard A. Brooks. Loveridge is al
legged to have warned her against as
sociating with Brooks.
Loveridge, who lives in the 1900
block of N street, was arrested al
Eleventh street and Potomac avenue
southeast. some distance from the
scene of the shooting. He had in hi!
pocket a .32-caliber revolver from
which one shot had been fired.
James Roster, stepfather of the girl
testified he heard her pleading with
the taxi driver shortly before the
shooting. From an upstairs window
he said he heard his stepdaughter say
Carl, please don't do it,"
The girl was running toward the
house from Loveridge's cab when she
cried out, Roster said. As she reached
a gate in front of the house, Mis-.
Posey screamed Mother" the wit.
. ness said, and moment later a shot
rang out.
Previously, Roster said, he had seer
Ioveridge run around the back o.
the cab toward the house Rosiel
said the cab driver seemed about tx
fire again, but that he leaped into
the taxi and fled when he heard hi,
name called by Roster.
The Posey girl died in Casualty
Hospital about Is minutes after the
shooting from a bullet wound in the
head.
Loveridge told police he had beer
drinking heavily since he quarreleo
with Brooks over the girls affections
He said Brooks had once threatened
him with a knife, telling him TO stay
away from Miss Posey.
Brooks, filling station employe
living at 634 Maryland avenue south.
east, said he had been going with
Miss Posey about two years. He de-
MED he had had trouble" with Low.
eridge, but stated, under questioning
. by Coroner A. Magruder Macdonald
that the cab driver had once sho
at him. He said he did not take tha
seriously.
Brooks said he had driven Mis-!
Posey home just before the shooting
but had driven off after letting he
out in front of the house.
Officers who arrested Loveridge saic
he did not appear to be intoxicated
but Detective Sergt. John C. Dalglish
who investigated the case, said tn
taxi driver was extremely nervous tn,
day after the shooting, a condition
that might have been caused by ex
cessive drinking.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
Training School Head Says
18.to.21 Group Would
Be Aided.
JUVENILE COURT BILL
GIVEN ENDORSEMENT
ITO Out of ZOE Boys Paroled Be-
tween 1881 and 1886 Made
Good, House Group Told.
BY JAMES E. CHINN.

The District should establish a
modern reformatory for youths from
Is to 2l-the group between the train
ing school and penitentiary age
Claude D. Jones, superintendent of
the National Training School for Boys,
today told special subcommittee OF
the House District Committee conduct
ing hearings on a bill to modernize
Juvenile Court procedure.
Jones Endorsed the bill in general,
describing it as a progressive move, u
but devoted the major portion of his
testimony to describing the activities
at his institution directed at the re-
habilitation of delinquent boys.
So far this year, Jones said, the
Juvenile Court had committed 13s
boys. Altogether, there are 3SS at the
institution-boys from the District as
well as from various sections of the
country.
110 Paroles Made Good.
Jones also brought out that between
January /. 1881. and January /, 1896
202 District boys had been paroleo
from the institution and that ITO had
made good"
Former Municipal Court Judge
James A. Cobb described as danger.
ous' provision in the bill that woulc
exclude the public from Juvenile
Court.
You can't have the confidence oi
the public" he declared, ''if proceed.
ings are carried on behind CLOSED
doors"
Cobb also said he did not believ.
another provision in the measure Il
eliminate jury trials is wise. A jur,
trial, he pointed out. is legally, his.
torically and psychologically impor
tant.
Chairman Nichols Of the subcom.
mittee explained, however, that in q
States operating under a new Juvenil,
Court procedure, jury trials have beer
banned with success.
Il can't see how excluding a curl
osity seeker can do child any harm,
he said.
Public Welfare Question.
Representative Dirksen, Republican
of Illinois, another member of the sub
committee, said exclusion of the publ,
would be justified on the ground o
public welfare.
Former Corporation Counsel E. Bar
rett Prettyman explained the bill II
detail and agreed that its purpose t,
change Juvenile Court procedure from
criminal to a chancery system is /,
step more adapted to the handling o
children.
Juvenile Court statutes should b
revised and brought up to date,
Prettyman declared. "One OF tn
main things needed is an enlarge,
social staff in connection with tn
work of the court"
Evening star., 1936-05-11
PROHIBITION IS DUE
BACK, SAYSBUTLER
viii Return to Stay Within
rs Years, Meeting of
DryS Told.

Prohibition will be back to stay
within IS years, Maj. Gen. Smedley
D. Butler predicted yesterday at a
mass meeting of temperance leaders,
held in Calvary Baptist Church under
the auspices of the United Dry Forces
of the District.
Prohibition will come pack" the
former Marine commandant declared.
1T may be 10 years. 1t may be Is.
But its return is inevitable. And once
it does come back, once the people are
ready for it again, it will stay"
Butler, who was the principal
speaker on a two-hour program, said
he was not total abstainer until he
became public safety commissioner of
Philadelphia several years ago, with
orders to "clean UP" the city.
Corrupt Politicians" Blamed.
Corrupt politicians and dishonest
public officials" were blamed by the
speaker for the failure of prohibition.
I'VE would still have prohibition" he
stated. eff it were not for corruption
among public servants.
Another speaker was Representative
Guyer of Kansas, who briefly outlined
the provisions of his bill which would
bring prohibition back to the Capital.
DR.. E. M. Ellison, president Of the
temperance organization, who pre-
sided and introduced the speakers, also
spoke briefly. Declaring repeal has
increased the number of automobile
accidents and broken up thousands of
homes, he, too, predicted the return
of prohibition as soon as the people
learn to become total abstainers.
Open Drive for Members.
DR.. Ellison assailed liquor adver-
tising.
The meeting launched drive Of the
united dry forces to bring in $4,000
new members.
Discussing the dry meeting in the
interest of return of prohibition to this
city, Capt. w. H. Stayton, head of
Repeal Associates, declared today:
There is real opposition throughout
the country to making the voteless
District the prohibitionists' guinea pig.
Not only do many citizens living in
the States feel that such action would
be unfair and dangerous, but there is,
in the District, a large group Of tax
payers and property owners who op-
pose it,"
Evening star., 1936-05-11
ICKES MAY TESTIFY
INP.W. A. DEFENSE
District Supreme Court Hearings
in 5 Injunction Suits
Reopened.
~ the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
Jerome Frank, general counsel for
the Public Works Administration, said
today Secretary Ickes probably would
testify in District Supreme Court late
this week in defense of activities
of P. w. A. in financing municipal
power projects.
He made the statement as Chief
Justice Alfred A. Wheat reopened
hearings in five injunction suits chal-
lenging the right of P. W. A. to ad-
vance s2,444,00 to 10 cities, located
in Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma and
Iowa. The consolidated cases were
brought by the Alabama Power Co.,
the Texas Utilities Co., the Oklahoma
Utilities Co. and the Iowa Light &
Power Co., now supplying electricity
to these communities.
Dean Acheson, former Undersec-
retary of the Treasury and counsel
for the power companies. said he
would introduce evidence intended to
prove that the p. w. A. was un-
constitutional and that it had no au-
thority to advance money for con-
struction Of municipal power projects.
Acheson said his witnesses also would
testify that p. w. A. was illegally
trying to regulate local power rates
Evening star., 1936-05-11
POSTAL EMPLOYEES
TO PRESENT FLOWERS
President and Legislators Who
Fought to Restore Leave to Be
Thanked by Equipment Personnel.

Employees of the Post Office Depart
ment's mail equipment shops planned
today to present flowers this week to
President Roosevelt and members of
Congress who fought successfully for
passage of the bill restoring annual
and sick leave and Saturday pay for
such employees.
The token of gratitude to the Presi-
dent will be accompanied by letter
expressing appreciation for the splen-
did humanitarian act and your CO.
operation in our behalf, thereby re-
investing us with that of which we
were divested."
Recipients Of the flowers will in
clude Senator Murray and Represent
alive Mead, authors Of the bill; SEN
ators Bulow, McKellar, Byrd and
OMahoney, and Representatives Ayres,
Dobbins and O'Day.
The pen which the President used
In signing the bill has been presented
by the employees to J. B. Bady, super
iptendent of the mail equipment shops.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
0PTIMISTS WILL HAVE
CROWDED SESSION HERE
Boy Orator to Represent Organi-
cation at Fort Worth to Be
Named Tomorrow.

A luncheon, selection of a boy
orator to represent the organization
at Fort Worth, Tex, and a banquet
and dance will be highlights of the
annual convention of the Sixteenth
District, Optimist International, to-
morrow at the Mayhower Hotel.
Selection of the orator to represent
the sixteenth district will be made
from Glaston Hathaway, Langley
Junior High School student, and
youths from Richmond and Balu-
more.
A budget for boys work In the
District will be announced at busi-
ness session. Capt. A. E. Nesbitt,
club president, has appointed COM
mittee to confer with officers OF the
Police Boys Club to ascertain their
needs for a permanent library.
A luncheon honoring Walter J. Pray
Of Indianapolis, Ind, international
president, was to be held today.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
BOY LOSES LEFT EYE
WHEN HIT WITH GLASS
Second Youth to Answer Charge
of Causing Injury in Juve-
nile Court.

A colored by was without his left
eye today, and another boy was in
the custody of his guardian pending
Juvenile Court hearing on charges
that he caused the injury.
Police said Frank Hardy. IA, of 534
Twenty-fifth street northeast, was hit
in the eye yesterday with a jagged
fragment of glass hurled by Herbert
M. Smith, 10. Of SGT Twenty-third
place. The Hardy boy was treated
at Casualty Hospital, then taken to
Episcopal Eye, Ear and Throat Hos
pital, where the injured eyeball was re-
moved.
Charged with assault, the Smith
boy was released in the custody Of
Eva G. Fennell, colored.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
CRAWFORD RITES HELD
Victim of Bus Accident Is Buried
at Gaithersburg.
special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
ROCKVILLE. Md, May 11.-Funeral
services for Edward A. Crawford, 66,
Of North Chevy Chase, Md, we're held
here yesterday at the funeral home Of
w. Reuben Pumphrey and interment
was in Forest Oak Cemetery, at CATH
ersburg.
Crawford was fatally injured when
struck by q Capital Transit Co. bus
in Washington on Thursday. The rites
were conducted by Rev. U. s. A.
Heavener. pastor Of st. Paul's Method
ist Church.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
Fall From Auto Fatal.

FRONT ROYAL, Va, May IL R.-
Edward Wesley Kuser, So, died last
night at his home near here from in
juries received when he fell from the
running board of an automobile yes
terday morning.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
Dance by Court Permission.

A new law in the Irish Free State
makes it necessary to obtain the per.
mission of court before q dance can
Hbe held. q
Evening star., 1936-05-11
GREATER CAPITAL BODY
READY FOR FUNDS DRIVE

Contr1 buttons Are Held TO Repre-
sent Investment to Bring
More Business Here.
The Greater National Capital Com
mittee of the Washington Board Of
Trade was to launch its annual drive
for funds to finance its activities at
luncheon meeting in the Willard Hotel
today.
More than 100 persons signifed
their intention Of attending, including
the 30 members of the groups Cam
paign Committee, headed by Fred
erick P. H. SiddonS.
The committee will base its appeal
on the theme that contributions really
represent an investment in an enter
prise to bring more business here.
Evening star., 1936-05-11
MAN SHOT IN VIRGINIA
Wound inflicted by Former Wife
He Tells Police.

A man who gave his name as Ray
mond Price, 23, Of the 1900 block
Calvert street, was In Gallinger Hos
pital today with q bullet wound in
his thigh, said to have been inflicted
In Charlottesville, Va, late yesterday.
Police said Price told them he was
shot by his former wife, Mrs. Nettie
Simmons Price. He was taken to the
hospital by nth precinct policemen
and q sister,
Evening star., 1936-05-11
Mount Rainier PIT. A. to Meet,

(SpeciaD. The Mount Rainier
Brentwood PIT. A. will meet tonight
at Mount Rainier School. Election OF
officers viii be held. Art exhibit will
be open from to 8 pm. at the school.
St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1936-04-24
MARK GEHAN


Results Count"
CITY ELECTION APRIL %
What Has Been Done
Under Mark Gehan's Admins
tratiOn, the city has
1. Lived within it's income and,
without increasing the city
budget, paid off $2,200,000
in debts left over from the
former administration.
2. Reduced local relief costs
100000 and increased relief
allowances from $24 to $40
a month per case.
8. Eliminated a 4 per cent in
terest charge which city was
paying on borrowed funds.
4. Reduced electric rates.
5. Improved law enforcement.
6. Reduced beer parlors 55 per
cent in number and estab-
ished early closing hour.
z. Saved 100000 for st. Paul
on construction of sewage
plant.
8. Eliminated politics from well
fare board and raised stan
dards of relief.
Mark Your Ballot for Mark
Gehan April % and Help Con-
tinue This Good Work
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Church News
ST. PETER A. M. E. CHURCH

The twentieth anniversary of
preaching the Gospel of our Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ will be
celebrated Sunday, April 26th, by
Rev. Carlyle F. Stewart at the
morning service, which is also his
birthday. The dedication of the
mammoth cleaning and painting
project will also take place. We
are looking forward to a day of
spiritual blessings and thanksgiv-
ing. The Trustees and Stewards
will receive their certificates at this
service. For the evening service
there is a special program pre-
pared. The Young Peoples League
have another service of interest at
six-thirty. Mr.. John Thomas will
be the principal speaker. Others
taking part in the program will be,
June Hawkins, Dorothey Early,
Dorothy Pittman, Alice Gibson,
Esther Jackson, and Juanita Wal
lace.
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DEATH NOTICES

Rev. Ransom Solomon passed
away April 16, 1886. He was the
devoted husband of Mrs. Theresa
Solomon, 1874 Sheridan Street.
Funeral services were held at
$3.50 p. M, Tuesday, April 21st,
from the Pilgrim Baptist Church,
Rev. L. w. Harris officiated. In
torment Forest cemetery. Neal
Funeral Home, Inc, in charge.
Mrs. Matte Stevens passed away
April 18th. She was the wife of
the late George Stevens, and the
mother of Mrs. Carmie Coffey of
Wewoka, Okla. Funeral services
were held at 2:3O p. M, Wednes-
day, April 22nd, from Pilgrim Bap-
list Church, Rev. L. w. Harris Off
ciated. Interment Elmhurst ceme-
terry. Neal Funeral Home, Inc, in
charge.
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BETHESDA BAPTIST

The exaltations of Palm Sunday
and Easter remained with Bethes-
da's congregation last Sunday.
Good audiences listened to our
pastor, Rev. W. E. Warrington, de-
liver his message at both morning
and evening services, with music
by the senior choir. More than
usual interest was shown in the
Sunday school session as the su-
perintendent, in reviewing the les
son, brought a new viewpoint that
awakened a very lively discussion.
Bethesda auxiliaries have many de-
ightful entertainments in store for
members and friends.
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Women and Men Contest

The Progressive and Literary
club of Bethesda Baptist church
proved beyond doubt it's ability to
provide entertainment for its
members and friends in the excit-
ing debate held in the church audi
forum Tuesday night. The sub
ject of the discussion, Resolved,
that women are more useful to the
church than men," Yet, and this
is one for Ripley's "Believe It or
Not" the audience decided the de-
bate in favor of the men. Mrs.
Mae Marshall was the unbiased
chairman of the meeting. Mrs.
Fern Helm, Mrs. Dessa Gresham
and Floyd Maxey upheld the af-
firmative, and were disputed by
Mrs. Estella Sims, Mrs. Ruby
Craig, and W. M. Smith.
After the debate, luncheon was
served by the ladies, who proved
that in this field, at least, they
still held superiority.
The men of Bethesda are pre-
pairing to clinch still further the
decision of Tuesday. On April 20
they are putting on an all-men en-
tertainment. They sing, recite, and
otherwise provide the program,
and in addition will clean the
church, cook and serve the dinner,
and wash the dishes afterwards.
All the women will be permitted
to do is to come, be entertained
and fed. The night is Wednesday.
And the women say they wouldn't
miss it for pay.
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SERVICES AT WAYMAN
A. M. E. CHURCH

537 James Ave. North
Sunday school $3.50 a. m.
Junior church 1O:45 a. m.
Sermon at II a. m.
This Sunday, April 26th, is Way
mans Rally Day. The Captains
will report morning and evening.
There will be no afternoon serv-
ice.
Rev. J. Claybourne will preach at
7:45 p. m.
The annual sermon for the
Twentieth Century club of Way
man, preached by Rev. Fl. Red
dick, was high class, and the choir,
assisted by members of the Mems
club of Zion Baptist church, d.
rected by Mr.. B. L. Greer, de-
lighted the hearts of all with fine
music.
Thank you for your Kindness
T. B. S.
ST. THOMAS CHURCH
Our Rector, Father J. Howard
Thompson. Sunday school 9:55
- ~ No,r,s,oo. 11Sx,soo - 11~1..1-
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ZION BAPTIST

lions Sunday school attendance
fiuctuates with the weather, now
running up, next going down. Last
Sunday it was down to SO. But we
enjoyed having with US Miss Helen
O'Neil, st. Paul representative
from the Baptist Young Peoples
Council. She remained for the
B. Y. P. U. session where Mrs. A.
B. Lewis, president, is trying hard,
with the help of the faithful, to
introduce a program that will sat-
isfy and hold the young people. W.
M. Smith of the Spokesman, al
ways a welcome visitor at Zion,
was with us in the B. Y. P. u.
service and gave some suggestions
looking toward the objective
sought by Mrs. Lewis. The pas
tor, H. w. Bolts, was called away
from the morning service. The pull
pit was filled by the assistant Rev.
H. C. White. In the evening,
Rev. Bolts had returned and
preached as usual.
Pilgrim Baptist Church Notes
Watch for the spring activities
of Pilgrims B. Y. P. u. The reg
ular Sunday night B. Y. P. U.
services are poisoning out with
the spring. Come out and enjoy
an evening filed with peace, song
and conservation.
Sunday, April &c, the discussion
topic will be Method of Growth
in Christian Life" There will be
special music. $50 p. m. is the
time.
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BORDER BRIEFS"

Because of the suspension of
services last Sunday, many of the
members of Border took advantage
of the opportunity to worship with
their many Christian friends of the
other churches in the city. Due to
the delayed return of Rev. and Mrs.
D. P. Young from Chicago, where
they are attending the annual ses-
sions of the Lexington Conference,
there is no report to be presented
in this issue of the SPOKESMAN.
Next week, however, complete re-
view of the proceedings will be
forthcoming.
The Boys Club, an outgrowth of
the Epworth League, adopted the
name of "Gladiators" at a recent
meeting. Despite the fact that the
basketball season has been closed
for several weeks, the young men
continue to maintain an excellent
interest in and are an integral part
of the church. At this writing they
are formulating plans for the COM
ing diamondball season, and it is
sincerely wished that they repeat
the success they enjoyed in the
North Side Y. M. C. A. Church
Athletic Association basketball
campaign, which saw them
crowned champions. For the bene-
fit of those who have not already
seen the beautiful trophy en-
blematic of the North Side cham
pionship, it is on display at the
Sumner Sweet Shop, GAP 9Th Ave-
nue. N.
Sunday morning, April 26th,
services will be held as usual at
HOO a. M, with Rev. Young de-
ivering his initial sermon of the
new Conference Year in his own
distinctive style. It is hoped that
a large number of friends and all
members will be present to well
come Rev. and Mrs. D. P. Young
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ST. THOMAS CHURCH

Our Rector, Father J. Howard
Thompson. Sunday school 9:55
a. m. Morning service II o'clock.
We wish to express to Mr.. and
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Mrs. W. Squire Neal and Mr.. D.
C. Dowdy our grateful apprecia-
ton for the beautiful palms that
so enhanced the beauty of our
church on Palm Sunday and Eas-
ter. Try to come out and enjoy our
services.